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(Knoxville News Sentinel) As part of the announcement back in September that the lab was looking to cut up to 350 jobs to prepare for budget shortfalls and perceived tight budgets in the future, ORNL Director Thom Mason said management would also be evaluating changes in employees as a way to reduce costs....11/15 |
 (Knoxville News Sentinel) The newest TOP500 list, of which UT's Jack Dongarra is a key formulator, was released this week in conjunction with the SC11 conference being held in Seattle, and ORNL's Jaguar (which is being transformed into a 10-petaflops-or-better machine known as Titan) is still No. 3 on the list....11/15
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) As part of the U.S. Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced up to $7 million to reduce the non-hardware costs of residential and commercial solar energy installations....11/15
(Washington Post) The Obama administration, which gave the solar company Solyndra a half-billion-dollar loan to help create jobs, asked the company to delay announcing it would lay off workers until after the hotly contested November 2010 midterm elections that imperiled Democratic control of Congress....11/15
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National
(Christian Science Monitor) The deficit-reduction 'super committee' has nine days to get the nation's fiscal house in order. The closed-door sessions have produced a surprise – the revival of a nearly defunct bipartisan center....11/15
State & Regional
(Tennessean) The fate of about $242 million in federal dollars that the state health department depends upon could be in jeopardy if a special deficit committee in Washington proposes drastic cuts....11/16
(Tennessean) Electricity-generating power plants in Tennessee and elsewhere put a burden on freshwater rivers, streams and underground waters that could only grow worse as droughts hit and populations increase....11/16 |
(Science Daily) The first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions has found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic and extreme, with significant fluctuations in sunshine and rainfall affecting more than a third of the planet....11/15