Thanks to its commitment to renewable energy, Hawaii is now also becoming something of a test bed for renewable energy technologies, from the study of various geothermal and algae-based biofuel technologies happening at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority on the Big Island to smart grid experiments the state is conducting along with representatives from Japan and China.

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As you know, the State Department is conducting its assessment, as appropriate and as has been standard over the years, on behalf of the federal government, and I don't want to get ahead of that process.

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Police in every state will be out in full force conducting sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols to catch drunk drivers, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association, which represents state highway safety offices.

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Although he has not been suspended, the New York State Racing and Wagering Board is conducting an investigation.

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The U.S. has now excluded two of Iran's biggest state-owned banks, Saderat and Sepah, from conducting U.S.-dollar transactions.

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The musical director of the Vienna State Opera was treated in hospital after collapsing with back pain while conducting a Wagner opera on Sunday.

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He is also accused of committed a breach of the peace on 17 April 2005 at 12 Cleghorn Street Dundee, by conducting himself in a disorderly manner and by shouting and swearing and placing Jennifer Findlay in a state of fear and alarm.

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