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Waves impact offshore structures, submarine navigation, moreScientists at the University of Rhode Island are gaining new insight into the mechanisms that generate huge, steep underwater waves that occur between layers of warm and cold water in coastal regions of the world's oceans.David Farmer, a physical oceanographer and dean of the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, together with student Qiang Li, said that large amplitude, nonlinear internal waves can reach heights of 150 meters or more...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac; NYSE: AGM and AGM.A) today reported that it has raised additional capital in a private offering of shares of non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock of Farmer Mac II LLC, a recently organized Delaware limited liability company in which Farmer Mac owns all of the common equity. Farmer Mac II LLC is now operating the Farmer Mac II business that has operated since 1992 purchasing and...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac, NYSE: AGM and AGM.A) announced today the completion of a private offering of securities consisting of $250 million aggregate face amount of Farm Asset Linked Capital Securities (the "FALConS") issued by FALConS Trust I, a newly formed Delaware statutory trust (the "Trust"). The FALConS represent undivided beneficial ownership interests in 250,000 shares of NonCumulative Perpetual...

Scientists have discovered that air flows in one direction as it loops through the lungs of alligators, just as it does in birds.The results, published in this week's issue of the journal Science, suggest that this breathing method may have helped dinosaurs' ancestors dominate Earth after the planet's worst mass extinction 251 million years ago.Before and until about 20 million years after the extinction--called "the Great Dying" or the Permian-Triassic extinction--mammal-like...

BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Northwest Biotherapeutics, Inc. ("NWBT" or the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: NWBO) announced today that Robert A. Farmer has joined the company's Board of Directors. Mr. Farmer, a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, currently serves on six other corporate boards. Mr. Farmer served as the national treasurer of four presidential campaigns, including those of John Kerry, Bill Clinton, Michael Dukakis and John Glenn. In...

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 8, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Corn and soybean harvest results for 2009 confirm that Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) seed products maintained a significant yield advantage compared with competitors, and new technologies such as Genuity(TM) SmartStax corn and Genuity(TM) Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans are delivering a step change in performance. Dr. Ted Crosbie, Monsanto Vice President Breeding, shared this year's yield trial results conducted throughout the Corn Belt with...

PEMBERVILLE, Ohio, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert M. McClelland (Rob) joins Farmer + Yoakam advertising agency ltd., Pemberville, Ohio, as President. McClelland teams up as a managing partner of the fast growing agency with fellow partners, Phillip Farmer and Jason Yoakam. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091111/CL09023 ) In making the announcement, Ohio-native McClelland says: "The decision to join this dynamic new agency was an easy one. Since founding in 2006, Phil and...

Fed Up Captains of Hemp Industry Plant Hemp Seed on DEA's Lawn With Ceremonial Shovels DEA's Continued Blockade of State Industrial Hemp Programs Violates Common Sense as Well as Obama's Presidential Directive to Federal Agencies to Respect States' Rights WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At approximately 10 a.m. this morning, North Dakota farmer Wayne Hauge, Vermont farmer Will Allen, and fed up American entrepreneurs, who have dedicated their livelihoods to developing and...

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- For the last five years, Madison County farmer Mike Shuter has maintained the same crop rotation on his farm of two-thirds of his fields in corn and one-third in soybeans. He hasn't seen the need to increase his corn acres even with the evolution of the biofuels industry and its need for corn. This seems to be the trend across the state. Indiana farmers planted 5.7 million acres of corn in both 2008 and 2009, down from 6.5 million acres in 2007. The...

Farm visits are dispelling children's deep ignorance about where the food they eat comes from and helping teachers deliver a wide spectrum of the national curriculum, a new study has shown. The trips, set up as part of the Government's Educational Access scheme, challenge many children's belief that milk comes from bottles and that bread comes from a packet  "“ something even those from rural areas struggle with. But despite campaigns to encourage primary school visits to farms, trips...