Archive for September, 2009

NetDimensions Hosts User Event for Clients Representing Over 1 Million Active Users

More than 150 participants attended the NetDimensions EKP User Days at the Chicago Police Academy in Chicago and at the Institute of Directors in London , on September 9th and 17th.

Medicare is focus on Day 2 of negotiations

Slogging through a second day of work on legislation intended to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, the Senate Finance Committee wrestled Wednesday with politically volatile proposals to squeeze money out of Medicare.

Solel Awarded $2.6 Million Grant From Spanish Government for Solar Manufacturing Facility

Solel Solar Systems, Ltd. announced today it has received a 1.8 million grant from the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Enterprise of the Andalusian Region of Spain to be used for the construction and development of a facility to build solar fields components.

Competitive Enterprise Institute Protests World Car-Free Day

Life without a car? That’s the goal of Tuesday’s World Car-Free Day . The Euro-eco group’s goal is a simple one: Once you step out of your car, throw away the keys.

The Week: September 21-24, 2009

Autumn officially opens this week with a healthy mix of words and tunes. The calendar includes: talks by S. Craig Watkins, William Kent Krueger, Elizabeth Streb, and Michael Pollan; and, music by Brandi Carlile, Fishtank Ensemble, Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles , The Rainman Suite, Weedeater, Richard Lloyd, Chairlift with The Soft Pack, and …

Father of US neoconservatism Irving Kristol dies

The conservative US political commentator Irving Kristol has died at the age of 89.

Suit seeks larger Congress

Clarion-Ledger Correspondent OXFORD – If a federal complaint filed here on Thursday is successful, the U.S. House of Representatives could drastically increase to give Mississippi and other states more representation, but at a cost of millions of dollars to taxpayers.

Man to speak about survival as POW at annual Riverside event.

Lester Tenney says he was a Japanese prisoner of war for 50 years. An Army staff sergeant and tank commander in the Philippines, Tenney was among 75,000 troops, 12,000 of them Americans, who surrendered to Japanese forces April 9, 1942 at Bataan.

USU ranked fifth in the West for graduation rate

USU has a 45 percent graduation rate, which puts the university in the top five for graduation rate in the West for noncompetitive category.

Senate to consider limits on carbon dioxide emissions

Reporting from Washington – While healthcare dominates the headlines, the Senate is preparing to consider a bill that could dramatically reshape the economy by setting the nation’s first-ever limits on carbon dioxide emissions.