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(Directions Magazine) East View Cartographic (EVC) has entered into an exclusive distributorship license with UT-Battelle for an award winning population distribution database. The LandScan High Resolution Global Population Data Set, developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has already seen success in a number of research, educational, humanitarian and corporate applications...7/29
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(Knoxville News Sentinel) Titan, which is supposed to replace Jaguar as Oak Ridge National Laboratory's next great supercomputer, could be even better than advertised — if there's enough money to support it. The Cray supercomputer has been under development for the past couple of years, using a hybrid design that incorporates Nvidia's GPUs (graphics processing units) to boost efficiency and power for doing super-challenging science research...8/1
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) A fishkill in the upper stretches of East Fork Poplar Creek — inside the boundaries of the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant — is under investigation, and a Y-12 spokeswoman said there could be multiple causes...About 650 dead fish, as well as crayfish and clams, were found by Oak Ridge National Laboratory biologists during a three-day survey of the creek, she said...8/1
State & Regional
(WATE) Gov. Bill Haslam says Tennessee is seeking a waiver to use its revamped education standards to measure schools instead of those mandated by No Child Left Behind...7/29
(Tennessean) At a time when General Motors teetered on the brink of collapse nearly three years ago, the automaker received nearly $17 million in job-training grants from the state of Tennessee, according to a published report...7/31
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National
(New York Times) President Obama and Congressional leaders of both parties said late Sunday that they had agreed to a framework for a budget deal that would cut trillions of dollars in federal spending over the next decade and clear the way for an increase in the government’s borrowing limit...7/31
(USA Today) It's official: July was a scorcher. High temperatures in communities across the USA broke or tied records 2,676 times, almost double the number (1,444) of a year ago, the National Weather Service reports...7/31
(Forbes) Global markets breathed a sign of relief as news emerged on Monday that a deal had been struck by U.S. lawmakers to avert the nation’s first-ever financial default...8/1
(Christian Science Monitor) Saying the US government “has not inspired confidence or trust” in nuclear waste management, a presidential commission recommended Friday the creation of a new federal corporation to spearhead a “consent-based” approach to finding sites to store highly radioactive spent fuel and military waste...7/29
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GM Collected $17 Million From TN For Jobs, Then Left
How to store nuclear waste? Panel slams US and urges new approach.
Apple Now Has More Cash Than The U.S. Government