Los Angeles Times | Scientists discuss rover's upcoming mountain climb on Mars Los Angeles Times Ken Edgett: If you're interested in these questions about water and lakes and life and all of that, go to Eberswalde [a crater containing a delta]. If you want to know about Mars and its history, go to Gale, because nowhere else do you get 5 kilometers ... |
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Scientists discuss rover's upcoming mountain climb on Mars - Los Angeles Times
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Nathan Littauer plans $3.1M ER renovation; fed funding possible - Houston Business Journal:
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The Gloversville hospital filed a certificate of need applicatio with the state Health Department earliedr this month seeking approval forthe $3.1 million plan. At about the same time, U.S. Rep. Paul Tonkoi and Sen. Charles Schumer introducesd appropriations bills in their respective housesseeking $1 million to help financde the project. Laurence Kelly, CEO of Nathan Littauer, said the projecg does not hinge on thefederal funding—the hospitalk recently completed a $4 millionj capital campaign—but “it would be nice.” The plan calls for the ER to be renovatexd and enlarged, from 5,000 square feet to aboutf 10,000 square feet.
Kelly said the department seesaboutg 25,000 people a year, and was built in 1983 “fo r probably half that.” The department has 13 patien rooms. This will be increased to 17, but some of the roomsa will be large enough to accommodate two patientasif necessary. Kelly said this should allow all patients to move to a room immediately afterbeing triaged. The patienr rooms will be equippeed with televisions to ease the The project also includes anew nurses’ station with four times the spaced as the current, “really congested,” station.
The computer system alreadt has been upgraded and medical records are Nathan Littauer, which has about $50 million in assets, had net incomwe of about $2.1 million on revenues of $78 million in 2008. That representd an operating marginof 2.8 Other area hospitals, including , and have upgrade their ERs in the past five
The Gloversville hospital filed a certificate of need applicatio with the state Health Department earliedr this month seeking approval forthe $3.1 million plan. At about the same time, U.S. Rep. Paul Tonkoi and Sen. Charles Schumer introducesd appropriations bills in their respective housesseeking $1 million to help financde the project. Laurence Kelly, CEO of Nathan Littauer, said the projecg does not hinge on thefederal funding—the hospitalk recently completed a $4 millionj capital campaign—but “it would be nice.” The plan calls for the ER to be renovatexd and enlarged, from 5,000 square feet to aboutf 10,000 square feet.
Kelly said the department seesaboutg 25,000 people a year, and was built in 1983 “fo r probably half that.” The department has 13 patien rooms. This will be increased to 17, but some of the roomsa will be large enough to accommodate two patientasif necessary. Kelly said this should allow all patients to move to a room immediately afterbeing triaged. The patienr rooms will be equippeed with televisions to ease the The project also includes anew nurses’ station with four times the spaced as the current, “really congested,” station.
The computer system alreadt has been upgraded and medical records are Nathan Littauer, which has about $50 million in assets, had net incomwe of about $2.1 million on revenues of $78 million in 2008. That representd an operating marginof 2.8 Other area hospitals, including , and have upgrade their ERs in the past five
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
Nosbusch: Government aid needed to improve U.S. manufacturing - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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Nosbusch, speaking at The National a gathering hosted by the Detroigt Economic Club to promotw actions toimprove America’s manufacturing competitiveness in the global said such "smart factories" are the best way to createe higher-paying, long-term manufacturing jobs in the Unitedf States. “The public and private sectors need to investt in advanced technology that will lower increase productivity, and make U.S. manufacturint competitive globally,” said Nosbusch. “This investmenf is the best way tocreater enduring, higher-wage manufacturing jobs that can competd against other economies with lower costs of doing business.
” Nosbusch also called for a renewed U.S. industriapl policy that includes federal stimuluxs and research and development on industrialp automation andinformation technology, to keep U.S. manufacturing competitive globally. Most Americanz responding to a recent surveh say the government should offer incentivesz for companies to invest inadvanced “A $50 billion investment in retooling factoriesw would create 250,000 direct manufacturinhg jobs in the U.S.
, suppor an additional 725,000 indirect jobs, and generat e up to $120 billion in revenue resulting from increasef demand for products,” said Nosbusch, citing a study by the , a business-labor coalition focused on job Nosbusch called for the Obama administration to doublew research and development for manufacturing innovation to bring it back to 1970’ss funding levels. “If you really want to investt in long-term, high-quality job you have to investin innovation,” he said.
Nosbuschu said that improved educationin science, engineering and mathematics is necessary to trainb workers to operate in the smart Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) is a global manufacturer of industriap automation systems and controls.
Nosbusch, speaking at The National a gathering hosted by the Detroigt Economic Club to promotw actions toimprove America’s manufacturing competitiveness in the global said such "smart factories" are the best way to createe higher-paying, long-term manufacturing jobs in the Unitedf States. “The public and private sectors need to investt in advanced technology that will lower increase productivity, and make U.S. manufacturint competitive globally,” said Nosbusch. “This investmenf is the best way tocreater enduring, higher-wage manufacturing jobs that can competd against other economies with lower costs of doing business.
” Nosbusch also called for a renewed U.S. industriapl policy that includes federal stimuluxs and research and development on industrialp automation andinformation technology, to keep U.S. manufacturing competitive globally. Most Americanz responding to a recent surveh say the government should offer incentivesz for companies to invest inadvanced “A $50 billion investment in retooling factoriesw would create 250,000 direct manufacturinhg jobs in the U.S.
, suppor an additional 725,000 indirect jobs, and generat e up to $120 billion in revenue resulting from increasef demand for products,” said Nosbusch, citing a study by the , a business-labor coalition focused on job Nosbusch called for the Obama administration to doublew research and development for manufacturing innovation to bring it back to 1970’ss funding levels. “If you really want to investt in long-term, high-quality job you have to investin innovation,” he said.
Nosbuschu said that improved educationin science, engineering and mathematics is necessary to trainb workers to operate in the smart Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) is a global manufacturer of industriap automation systems and controls.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Gov. Rendell: Alternative energy to aid recovery - Austin Business Journal:
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“I believe that over the next five years, the developmentf of the green-energy economy can drive this nation’s comeback,” the Democrativc governor said at the generao session of PV which is being held at the Pennsylvania Conventiobn Center in Philadelphiathrough Wednesday. The conferencd is the first by the to focus solelhy on photovoltaicsolar energy, which comes from photovoltaic panelws that convert sunlight into It’s being held in conjunction with the IEEE’s 34th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference at the Philadelphiwa Marriott Downtown, which is adjacen to the convention center, from Sunda y through Friday.
(IEEE used to stand for , but the nonprofiyt now just refers to itself by its acronym because it has so many members from othereengineering fields.) About 3,000 peoplr are attending the conferences, the SEIA and IEEE said. Part of Rendell’z message was similar to the messag e delivered by SEIA President and CEO Rhonre Resch later inthe session: When they go the people at the conference should promote solafr energy’s virtues to everyone from their neighbors to thei municipal, state and federal electee officials. “You have to roll up your sleevese andbe advocates,” Rendell said.
Both Rendell and Resch praised President Obama for his efforts on behalfg of renewableenergy — “President Obama is becoming the solard president,” Resch said — but they said they’ed like the federal government to do more. Rendel l said federal legislators should dotwo things: Make renewable-energyt tax credits permanent, rather than reauthorizing them every few and create a federal alternative portfolio standard that mandates that a specified portion of energ y sold in the country be createfd from alternative energy sources. Twenty eightr states, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the District of Columbiwa have alternativeportfolio standards.
Rendell said he’f like the federal standard to have minimuj figures that states could exceeed ontheir own. “If we do those things I think there’s no reason that Americwa can’t be the dominant nation in solar energgy forthe world,” he said. Rendel said alternative energy will drivethe U.S. economy for the next 25 yeares just asthe information-technologyh and life sciences industries have drivebn it for the last 25. Under his Pennsylvania has moved to capitalize onthat shift. In it established an alternative portfolio standare that requires 18 percent of energy sold in Pennsylvaniza to come from alternative sources of energyby 2020.
Last Pennsylvania created a $650 millioh renewable energy fund. Of that $180 million is to go to solar consistingof $100 million for loans, grantx and rebates to cover up to 35 percent of the costs incurred by home and small-business owners who install solar energy and $80 million for grants and loan for solar economic-development projects. More than 300 applications forsolar economic-development projects were receivexd by the deadline last week, Rendell said. Philadelphiq also has gotten in onthe renewable-energ y act. Mayor Michael Nutter in April by 2015. The city is one of 25 takiny part in the federal Departmentof Energy’s Solae America Cities initiative.
As part of that, it’es developing a plan to generate 2.3 megawatts of solar electricity by 2011and 57.8 megawattsx by 2021, which is its sharse of the state of Pennsylvania’zs solar installation goal. To help it meet those goals, Nutted said Monday, the city is lookinh to replace the roof at its fleeyt workshop with a roof that produces solar energy and has formulatedd plans forbuilding large-scale soladr arrays at Philadelphia Water Department locations.
“I believe that over the next five years, the developmentf of the green-energy economy can drive this nation’s comeback,” the Democrativc governor said at the generao session of PV which is being held at the Pennsylvania Conventiobn Center in Philadelphiathrough Wednesday. The conferencd is the first by the to focus solelhy on photovoltaicsolar energy, which comes from photovoltaic panelws that convert sunlight into It’s being held in conjunction with the IEEE’s 34th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference at the Philadelphiwa Marriott Downtown, which is adjacen to the convention center, from Sunda y through Friday.
(IEEE used to stand for , but the nonprofiyt now just refers to itself by its acronym because it has so many members from othereengineering fields.) About 3,000 peoplr are attending the conferences, the SEIA and IEEE said. Part of Rendell’z message was similar to the messag e delivered by SEIA President and CEO Rhonre Resch later inthe session: When they go the people at the conference should promote solafr energy’s virtues to everyone from their neighbors to thei municipal, state and federal electee officials. “You have to roll up your sleevese andbe advocates,” Rendell said.
Both Rendell and Resch praised President Obama for his efforts on behalfg of renewableenergy — “President Obama is becoming the solard president,” Resch said — but they said they’ed like the federal government to do more. Rendel l said federal legislators should dotwo things: Make renewable-energyt tax credits permanent, rather than reauthorizing them every few and create a federal alternative portfolio standard that mandates that a specified portion of energ y sold in the country be createfd from alternative energy sources. Twenty eightr states, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the District of Columbiwa have alternativeportfolio standards.
Rendell said he’f like the federal standard to have minimuj figures that states could exceeed ontheir own. “If we do those things I think there’s no reason that Americwa can’t be the dominant nation in solar energgy forthe world,” he said. Rendel said alternative energy will drivethe U.S. economy for the next 25 yeares just asthe information-technologyh and life sciences industries have drivebn it for the last 25. Under his Pennsylvania has moved to capitalize onthat shift. In it established an alternative portfolio standare that requires 18 percent of energy sold in Pennsylvaniza to come from alternative sources of energyby 2020.
Last Pennsylvania created a $650 millioh renewable energy fund. Of that $180 million is to go to solar consistingof $100 million for loans, grantx and rebates to cover up to 35 percent of the costs incurred by home and small-business owners who install solar energy and $80 million for grants and loan for solar economic-development projects. More than 300 applications forsolar economic-development projects were receivexd by the deadline last week, Rendell said. Philadelphiq also has gotten in onthe renewable-energ y act. Mayor Michael Nutter in April by 2015. The city is one of 25 takiny part in the federal Departmentof Energy’s Solae America Cities initiative.
As part of that, it’es developing a plan to generate 2.3 megawatts of solar electricity by 2011and 57.8 megawattsx by 2021, which is its sharse of the state of Pennsylvania’zs solar installation goal. To help it meet those goals, Nutted said Monday, the city is lookinh to replace the roof at its fleeyt workshop with a roof that produces solar energy and has formulatedd plans forbuilding large-scale soladr arrays at Philadelphia Water Department locations.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Airman Surprises Children With Early Return - KKTV 11 News
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Airman Surprises Children With Early Return KKTV 11 News We will review any reported comments promptly. by Jason Location: Security on May 4, 2012 at 12:05 AM @protocol, Yes it is correct to call an Air Force MSgt an Airman. KKTV was not addressing him by rank, in the Air Force we are Airman as soldiers are ... |
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
AIIM and Industry Thought Leaders Articulate the Impact of Consumerization of ... - MarketWatch (press release)
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AIIM and Industry Thought Leaders Articulate the Impact of Consumerization of ... MarketWatch (press release) SILVER SPRING, MD, May 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- AIIM, the global community of information professionals, today announced the formation of the new Executive Leadership Council to examine the consumerization of IT from the vantage point of the ... |
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