By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. MIT researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second. That’s fast enough[Read More…]
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Central African Republic Mortality Rate Reaches Emergency Levels
MSF Calls For National and International Response to Crisis New York–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011—The Central African Republic (CAR) is in the grips of a chronic medical emergency, according to a report released today by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) . Four mortality studies carried out[Read More…]
Energy Department Awards More Than $7 Million for Innovative Hydrogen Storage Technologies in Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. The U.S. Department of Energy yesterday announced more than $7 million to fund four projects in California, Washington and Oregon to advance hydrogen storage technologies to be used in fuel cell electric vehicles. The 3-year projects will help lower the costs and increase the performance of[Read More…]
Chicago Teachers Union Organizes Parents Against CPS ‘School Actions’
Candlelight Vigil, Other Protests Planned CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 12, 2011. Arbitrary school closings, turnarounds, consolidations, phase-outs and other drastic “school action” reform measures will not reduce the achievement gap among Chicago Public School students. Ignoring poverty, income disparities and racial inequities within the city’s school district only deepens the education divide. This[Read More…]
Occupy Chicago Joins Chicago Teachers Union For Overnight Vigil & CPS Board Meeting to Stop School Closings
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. Tuesday, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is calling for Chicagoans to join them in a vigil to commemorate school closings at 6pm outside the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Central Administration building, 125 S. Clark. They will stay overnight in order to secure speaking tickets for Wednesday’s Chicago[Read More…]
Job Openings at 3.3 Million in October, Trending Upward in 2011
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 13, 2011. There were 3.3 million job openings on the last business day of October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The hires rate (3.1 percent) and separations rate (3.0 percent) were little changed over the month. The job openings rate has trended upward since the[Read More…]
A Twist on Gift-giving This Season Could Change Hearts
Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. Many a stumped adult searching for the perfect gift to give a loved one this holiday season is finding help from the national Million Hearts initiative. Whether someone is pinching pennies or the sky is the limit, good health is the one thing everyone appreciates. In[Read More…]
Lake Tahoe Pesticide “Ban” Overturned by Local Water Control Board
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. Despite opposition from Lake Tahoe water providers and environmental groups, the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board (LRWQCB) voted last week to allow the use of pesticides to control invasive species like Asian clams and the underwater plants Eurasian watermilfoil and curly leaf pondweed. For years,[Read More…]
FBI: Fountain County Man Sentenced to More Than Six Years for Traveling Out of the State to Meet Minor for Sex
INDIANAPOLIS, IN-(ENEWSPF)- Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney, announced that Erik S. Epperson, 22, Veedersburg, Indiana, was sentenced to 78 months in prison by U.S. District Judge William T. Lawrence following his guilty plea to traveling to meet a minor for sex. This case was the result of an investigation[Read More…]
Early Black Holes Grew Big Eating Cold, Fast Food
The large scale cosmological mass distribution in the simulation volume of the MassiveBlack. The projected gas density over the whole volume (‘unwrapped’ into 2D) is shown in the large scale (background) image. The two images on top show two zoom-in of increasing factor of 10, of the regions where the[Read More…]
