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Auction highlights mismanagement at Silver State: AINonline

The state of the assets of bankrupt Silver State Helicopters is providing clues about how the troubled company was run before its shutdown and Chapter 7 (liquidation) bankruptcy filing in February. At the time of its closing, Silver State was the largest civilian helicopter school in the U.S., with 2,400 students and more than 700 employees distributed among 33 locations. Former employees and students have charged the school and Silver State-approved student loan originators with various financial improprieties, and several states attorneys general are investigating the circumstances surrounding the bankruptcy.

New York State Will Award 150 Million CPU Hours to Industry, Academia and Government Organizations

The New York State Office of the Chief Information Officer and Office for Technology (CIO/OFT) and the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) today announced that public and private researchers and businesses in New York state have nearly 150 million CPU hours on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. Over the next three years businesses, universities and state agencies can apply for time on the supercomputer located at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI).

Pongo(TM) Resume Partners with State of Texas to Provide Online Job Search Tools to Unemployed Texans

NORTHBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2008--Pongo(tm)Resume, the premier full-service online resume-building resource that provides a suite of online tools to help job seekers market and manage their career, today announced it has entered into a licensing agreement with the State of Texas to deliver online resume and letter building tools to be used by people seeking employment opportunities in that state. The agreement is the first of its kind with any state organization to deliver this type of strategic online initiative for the unemployed. This initiative is indicative of the demands being placed upon state governments to do more for its citizens with less funding and tighter budgets.

California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL

beezzie writes "Last week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered a pay cut, to minimum wage of $6.55/hr,, for 200,000 state workers because a state budget hadn't been approved yet. The state controller, who has opposed the pay cut on principle and legal grounds, now says the pay cut isn't even feasible because the state's payroll systems are so antiquated. He says it would take 6 months to go to minimum wage, and 9 months more to restore salaries once a budget is passed. The system is based on COBOL, according to the Sacramento Bee, and the state hasn't yet found the funds or resources, in 10 years of trying, to upgrade it." The article quotes a consultant on how hard it is to find COBOL programmers; he says you usually have to draw them out of retirement.

State provides $981K to train workers in nanotech, health care, energy

Businesses in the Albany, N.Y., region got a slice of state aid on Monday to fund their employee training and internship programs. Most of the $981,000 in state funds supports regional efforts to attract and train skilled workers in "emerging industries" including health care, nanotechnology, energy and advanced manufacturing. The remaining $430,000 was set aside to support worker training programs and internships at businesses. Statewide, the Department of Labor announced $26 million in similar investments. Patricia Smith, the state's labor commissioner, also touted federal tax credits for employers who hire young employees, including teenagers, who live in certain eligible areas. "We have to get a digitally prepared work force ... especially if AMD moves into town," said Dan Gentile, an area work force official with the New York Associa

IBM, New York State to Invest in Nano-Chip Technologies

New York Gov. David A. Paterson on Tuesday announced significant new investments by IBM and New York state, accelerating New York state's international leadership in nanotechnology research and development and creating up to 1,000 new high-tech jobs Upstate. The state will provide a total of $140 million in economic development grants, leveraging more than a 10-to-one private investment of $1.5 billion from IBM.

Local Officials Move Toward Monitoring Nanotechnologies

State and local officials have taken steps to begin monitoring the manufacture and storage of nanomaterials, a major step for a cutting-edge technology that has yet to be regulated by the federal government. On July 28, 2008, the Cambridge, Mass., Public Health Department recommended to the city manager that Cambridge take several steps to gain a better understanding of the nature and extent of nanotechnology-related activities now under way within the city. In addition, news outlets are reporting that a key member of California State Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials is holding meetings around the state in advance of introducing legislation next year that may grant state regulators landmark oversight of nanomaterials.

'Online photo print' service in Jammu

SRINAGAR, July 18.The Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir today demanded that before elections the State government should immediately issue an SRO to reserve at least 21 constituencies of State Assembly and 10 seats in upper house for Scheduled Tribe communities as it was already done in case of "Scheduled Castes". In this connection a delegation of Gujjars called on Governor N.N Vohra, here at summer capital. The delegation was led by Ashfaq-ur-Rehman Poswal, State President of Akhil Bharatiya Gujjar Mahasabha, who met the Governor and apprised him about the problems and difficulties being faced by the tribal population of the State because of lack of a Political voice. He urged the Governor to issue an SRO for "Political Reservation to ST" Communities including Gujjars.

State Govt Amalgamates Public Libraries with Art & Culture Directorate

Panaji Jul 19: In a major decision state Government has de-linked all public libraries in the state of Goa including Central Library from Directorate of School Education and amalgamate the same with Directorate of Art & Culture along with assets and liabilities.

N.C. State employees fired for porn, other illegal downloads

A North Carolina State University employee was fired, according to a state audit report released Tuesday, though the employee's name has not yet been released.

Florida State U. grad student, Geological Science Department get growth spurt

An international team of researchers, headed by Florida State University geologist Yang Wang, has unearthed evidence of a recent and rapid increase in elevation of the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, a vast region in Central Asia about three miles high that occupies nearly four times the area of the state of Texas. Their findings run counter to the established history of the plateau's rise to its towering present-day stature, carrying implications for global climate change in the recent geologic past.

From the BIO floor: Bay State touts patents, NIH funding

The Bay State life sciences industry is ranked first in some federal funding categories and leads the nation in patents per capita, according to a report to be released by Massachusetts state officials at the BIO 2008 conference. California and other states, meanwhile continue to lead in other key areas, such as total federal dollars attracted.

The Research Foundation of State University of New York and Sigrity Filed Patent...

The Research Foundation of State University of New York and Sigrity Filed Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Ansoft/ANSYS SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)-- Sigrity, Inc., known for its power integrity and signal integrity software solutions for integrated circuits, IC packages and printed circuit boards, announced today that it filed a lawsuit with The Research Foundation of State University of New York against Ansoft Corp. and ANSYS, Inc. for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,504,423 ("the '423 patent"), titled "Method for Modeling Interactions in Multilayered Electronic Packaging Structures." The Research Foundation is the owner and Sigrity is the exclusive licensee of the '423 patent. The suit, pending in United States District Court in Albany New York, was filed on July 21, 2008 against Ansoft and alleges that Ansoft's products,

Va. agency starts blog on paying for college: Find details on spending less to go out of state or attending a private school

Jul. 14--So you'd really like to go out of state for college but can only afford in-state tuition. There's a way, if you know about the Academic Common Market.

State-by-state map

Bankrate.com researchers gathered closing cost information from 50 states and the District of Columbia. In California, Illinois and New York researchers also collected data from multiple markets where there was a presumed disparity.

State-by-state closing costs map

Bankrate.com researchers gathered closing cost information from 50 states and the District of Columbia. In California, Illinois and New York researchers also collected data from multiple markets where there was a presumed disparity.

Illinois State U.: Illinois State U. blocks illegal peer-to-peer file sharing

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PowerBuilder Editorial: The State of the State

Back in 2002, Sybase announced their four-phase approach toward adding .NET support to PowerBuilder. Phase 1 was the implementation of web services in PB9 and Phase 2 was the release of DataWindow.NET, which was packaged with PB 10. Phases 3 and 4 were the more significant phases. In Phase 3, Sybase added a number of .NET target types to PowerBuilder 11 and added support for calling non-visual .NET assemblies from PowerScript. The 4th phase will be completed in PowerBuilder 12 and involves “...support for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) ... as well as full support for visual controls and drag-and-drop programming with .NET within the IDE�.1 We’re at the mid-point between the release of PowerBuilder 11 (phase III) and the release of PowerBuilder 12 (phase IV, which should complete .

Now Naxals have a blog too!

The Naxal discourse of the State has found new space in blogosphere. Titled www.rcpkarnataka.blogspot.com, the blog presents details about the evolution of Maoist movement in the State, its strategies and split in the movement. Though there are a number of blogs on Maoist struggle across the world, rcpkarnataka is the first blog which is dedicated for discussion about the movement in the State.

Researchers Pave Way For Compressor-Free Refrigeration

Hugh Pickens brings news that scientists from Penn State have developed a new method for heat-transfer that may replace the common compressor-based system used in household appliances. Quoting: "Zhang's approach uses the change from disorganized to organized that occurs in some polarpolymers when placed in an electric field. The natural state of these materials is disorganized with the various molecules randomly positioned. When electricity is applied, the molecules become highly ordered and the material gives off heat and becomes colder. When the electricity is turned off, the material reverts to its disordered state and absorbs heat. The researchers report a change in temperature for the material of about 22.6 degrees Fahrenheit... Repeated randomizing and ordering of the material combined with an appropriate heat exchanger could provid

Minnesota Pays Video Game Industry $65K In Fees

I Said More Ham writes "Minnesota's attorney general will drop the state's efforts to fine underage buyers of violent videogames after a high court struck down a state law as unconstitutional. The Entertainment Software Association, one of the plaintiffs in the case, announced Monday that the state paid $65,000 in attorney's fees and expenses."

IBM will make $1.5 billion nanotechnology investment in New York

(Nanowerk News) Governor David A. Paterson today announced significant new investments by IBM and New York State, accelerating New York State's international leadership in nanotechnology research and development and creating up to 1,000 new high-tech jobs Upstate. The State will provide a total of $140 million in economic development grants, leveraging more than a ten-to-one private investment of $1.5 billion from IBM.

Flaws In a BSA Software Piracy Report?

Ian Lamont writes "The Business Software Alliance has just released its state piracy study (full PDF also available). The BSA says that one in five pieces of software in use in the United States is unlicensed, and notes that piracy rates are highest in Ohio (27%). However, as noted by the Industry Standard, there are problems with the state study, and the way the BSA is presenting the data: the study only includes eight states, and it is making some questionable connections, including the claim that lost state and local tax revenue from piracy would have been enough to 'hire nearly 25,000 experienced police officers.'"

Why You Can Patent Business Decisions

Business methods used to not be patentable. At least that's what people thought before the 1998 State Street Decision. The court case, State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group Inc., opened the floodgates to the patenting of business methods, especially in industries where a significant portion of the business is transaction or service-oriented like online businesses, financial services and insurance firms, and software companies. Read a copy of the State Street Decision here.

Episode 17: Maine has privacy concerns with Real ID

At least 12 states have passed legislation saying they won't comply with Real ID, the federal mandate to secure state-issues IDs and driver licenses. Lawmakers in Main have been particularly outspoken regarding the law. Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin speaks with Maine State Sen. Phil Bartlett about the law and why the state has some concerns.

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