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Released in time for the World Series of Poker, this Pro Player-recommended app teaches players how to manage their heart rates and keep that perfect poker face while under pressure. Montreal, Quebec (PRWEB) June 08, 2012 BluffCam (http://www.bluff-cam.com) is a first-of-its-kind poker app that measures the heart rate of poker players, helping them achieve that perfect poker face. The app uses cutting edge Vital Signs Camera technology to detect micro-changes in the color of a player’s...
Highlights ____________________________________________________________________ |(in millions of dollars, | | | | YTD | YTD | | |except per share data) | Q2-12 |Q2-11 | % | Q2-12 | Q2-11 | % | |_________________________|_______|______|____|________|________|____| |Revenues | $529.4|$498.7| 6%|$1,025.3|$1,013.5| 1%| |_________________________|_______|______|____|________|________|____| |Adjusted operating...
SALT LAKE CITY, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Members of the United Steelworkers (USW) employed in the United States who mine the metal used in Olympic medals are expressing their solidarity with locked-out Quebec workers. USW Local 392 wants Rio Tinto "Off the Podium" for this summer's London 2012 Olympics. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) USW Local 392 represents the workers at Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott Utah Copper's operations in Utah...
Listing (TSXV = LO Frankfurt = LE2A) ROUYN-NORANDA, QC, June 6, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - LOUNOR EXPLORATION INC. (TSXV: LO) (FSE: LE2A) is pleased to announce the closing of a private financing by convertible debenture of $50,000 with a private investor. The interest rate of the convertible debenture is of 3% annually and the conversion price is of $0.10 per share for a period of 12 months. The proceeds for this placement will be allotted to the working capital of the Company....
TORONTO, June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovation Metals Corp. ("IMC") today announced the selection of an industrial park in Quebec as the future home of the world's first independent, centralized rare-earth element separation facilities, with a focus on the production of heavy rare earths. The Becancour Waterfront Industrial Park, located in Becancour, Quebec and operated by the Province of Quebec, is situated on a major highway on the southern shore of the St. Lawrence River....
TSX-V: AWS Highlights: -- Magnometry, geochemistry sampling and reconnaissance exploration program to cover key magnetic anomalies identified in the centre of the tenements located about 40km northwest of Kangirsuk and 1,647 km north of Montreal, Quebec. -- The Roberts Lake property is composed of 128 claims in the Ungava Bay iron formation. Property in the area has been drilled in 1970 and again in...
MONTREAL, May 25, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Media representatives are invited to attend a press conference on Monday, May 28, 2012 at which an important announcement will be made concerning the Quebec life sciences sector. Participants include representatives from Teralys Capital, TVM Capital, Eli Lilly and Company and BDC. The conference will be held at 10:30 a.m. at the Sofitel Montréal. Who: Jacques Bernier, Managing Partner, Teralys Capital Jean-René...
Transaction to acquire Québec's leading media company supports Bell's broadband investment strategy, levels competitive field in Québec media MONTREAL, May 24, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - BCE Inc. (Bell) welcomed the decision by Astral Media Inc. (Astral) shareholders to approve Bell's acquisition of the leading Québec media company at a special Astral shareholders meeting held here in Montréal today. "We are very pleased that Astral shareholders have overwhelmingly decided to...
Highlights -- Study results show a strongly positive cash flow from a 4,000 tonne per day open-pit operation at Ashram with a 25-year mine life, a pre-tax and pre-finance Net Present Value (NPV) at a 10% discount rate of $2.32 billion, a pre-tax/pre-finance Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 44% and a pre-tax/pre-finance payback period of 2.25 years. -- SGS's economic evaluation was based on the March 6,...
TORONTO, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Alexandria Minerals Corporation (TSX-V: AZX) (Frankfurt: A9D) (US: ALXDF) reported today that it has deepened its high grade gold deposit at Akasaba in Val d'Or, Quebec, by an additional 100 m below its recently announced National instrument 43-101 Current Resource, with a drill hole intersection of 5.59 g/t Au over 24.00 m (11.59 m True Width, "TW" ), including 12.48 g/t over 8.20 m (3.96 m TW). Assay results from diamond drill hole IAX-12-195...
Latest Quebec Reference Libraries
Symbol: CRSU2 Group: Dicot Family: Rosaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Tree Shrub Native Status: L48 N CAN N Synonyms: CRCH80 Crataegus champlainensis Sarg. Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:NY, WI Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed...
Symbol: CAQU4 Group: Monocot Family: Cyperaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Graminoid Native Status: CAN N Distribution: Carex×quebecensisLepage [bigelowii × saxatilis] distribution:CAN(QC) Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class ...
The Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus), or Red-back Salamander, is a small, hardy woodland salamander. It inhabits wooded slopes in Eastern North America, west to Missouri, south to North Carolina, and north from southern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces in Canada to Minnesota. salamander. It is also known as the Northern Redback Salamander to distinguish it from the Southern Redback Salamander (P. serratus). The Red-backed Salamander is found mostly in two color variations: the...
Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis, synomym B. lutea), is a species of birch native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and southern Quebec west to Minnesota, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia. It is the Provincial tree of Quebec and the name reflects the color of the tree's bark. This medium-sized deciduous tree reaches 20 m tall (exceptionally to 30 m) with a trunk up to 80 cm diameter. The bark is smooth, yellow-bronze, flaking in fine...
Comptonia is a genus of a single species, Comptonia peregrina, in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales. This shrub is native to eastern North America, from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia, and west to Minnesota. The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not a fern. Several fossil species have been discovered, showing that the genus once had a much wider distribution throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
