JOB Growth Fastest in February
WASHINGTON – The unemployment rate dropped to 8.9% for February, which is the lowest in 2 years and hires were at the quickest rate in nearly 12 months. The net result of the February job report was 192,000 new jobs. The four employment sectors that had positive job increases in February were: healthcare, services, factory [...]
How To Leave Nuclear Energy Behind
GERMANY- Due to the underlying hazard, the globes 4th biggest economic country, Germany, is the only industrialized country to choose to end its use of nuclear energy. Because of the lessons learned from the nuclear tragedy in Japan the gradual 25 year transition plan to leave nuclear energy by Germany is being accelerated. Germany has [...]
TARP Successes and Failures
WASHINGTON-The TARP program which was designed to save the fragile US financial structure was overall a great success and will cost far less than initially thought. This is mainly due to success of the investments in businesses, both automotive and financial. The government also had a major failure in that the prevention of foreclosure programs [...]
Resolution Slashes Environmental Funding
The recently passed House resolution to reduce the current Federal budget by $60 billion is a mixture of budget philosophy and political rhetoric. The impact on environmental funding is overwhelming. Environmental funding for regulation measures was the focus of a major portion of the proposed $60 billion reduction in the budget. There was an equal [...]
Current ADHA Treatment May Be Wrong
You may have been advised that your children have attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHA or ADD), if they are overactive, jerking, disinterested or erratic. Your children may be part of approximately eight (8) million in the US. Children that have been diagnosed with ADHA or ADD are regularly uneasy and hard to care for. Children [...]
Blink Your Eye To Control Your Laptop
A Swedish company has developed the first computer laptop that you can control with a blink of your eye. This is a step into the future after such devises as keyboards, mouse, touch screen and motion control have been used to send commands to our computers. The Swedish company Tobii, developed the tracking and control [...]
Business
JOB Growth Fastest in February
WASHINGTON – The unemployment rate dropped to 8.9% for February, which is the lowest in 2 years and hires were at the quickest rate in nearly 12 months. The net result of the February job report was 192,000 new jobs. The four employment sectors that had positive job increases in February were: healthcare, services, factory [...]
Nokia and Microsoft To Partner On Smartphones
The company that makes the most mobile phones in the world, Nokia is planning a partnership for mobile phone software with Microsoft, to compete with Apple and Google mobile phones. The partnership is because the Nokia software has stumbled in the market. The increased growth of the Android and iPhone vendors has presented a huge [...]
Smartphones Sales Up 74%
The demand for smartphones has set new records. IDC’s Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker reported that in just the last quarter of 2010 100.9 million smartphones were shipped. For all of 2010, the shipment of smartphones worldwide was 302.6 million which is a 74.4% increase over 2009. For the last quarter of 2010 the percentage increase [...]
Acquisition to Create the Largest Power Company
NEW YORK – Duke Energy Corp is close to a $13.1 billion acquisition to obtain Progress Energy Inc, an action that will result in the largest US power company. Duke and Progress are both based in North Carolina and provide services mainly to clients in North and South Carolina. In addition, Duke serves some clients [...]
End of Over Fishing Has a Business Impact
One of the US top fishery scientists reports that US fishermen will not overfish this year, this has not happened for a century. The expected end has happened in a troubled fishing year that has included fishermen in the New England area changing to a very different fish management system. Steve Murawski, a noted fishery [...]
Recovery of Auto Industry Supported By Canadian Bank
Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) has purchased Chrysler Financial for $6.3 billion and this will result in the Canadian bank becoming one of North America’s biggest auto lenders. TD Bank’s purchase of Chrysler Financial opens a new path of financing for US dealers and can support the development of continued recovery for auto sales. This investment indicates [...]
Health
Current ADHA Treatment May Be Wrong
You may have been advised that your children have attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHA or ADD), if they are overactive, jerking, disinterested or erratic. Your children may be part of approximately eight (8) million in the US. Children that have been diagnosed with ADHA or ADD are regularly uneasy and hard to care for. Children [...]
First New Drug For Lupus In 50 Years
The FDA, approved a drug for patients with lupus, the first drug approved in more than 50 years and should open the door for the development of other related drugs. Lupus is a little known and sometimes fatal disease where the body turns on the tissues and organs of the body, this new drug named [...]
New Mammogram Technology Improves Diagnosis
One of the best medical devices used to detect breast cancer is the mammogram. For women in the US about 20 million will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Now breast cancer determination has made medical history through the use of a 3-D technological procedure. The new procedure has been named tomosynthesis. The [...]
Home Based Medicaid Clients Get Grant Funding
WASHINGTON – Thirteen states just provided grants totaling $45 million to support continued implementation of the health reform legislation to relocate Medicaid clients to home based health solutions. The grants are to provide funding for health care being provided in an environment that is based on the home or community settings rather than higher cost [...]
Eliminate Pounds and Cure Diabetes
Two studies report that the best weight loss surgery is gastric bypass and you can also eliminate or dramatically improve type two diabetes. In the US the most popular weight loss surgeries are gastric bypass and lap banding. With gastric bypass you eat less because you get filled quicker because the stomach is stapled so [...]
Drug Developed That Stops Prostrate Cancer
Many men receive excessive treatment for small risk cancer in the early stages, but a new report states that may not be necessary. In place of treatment there is a new drug that reduces the expansion of any tumors with basic monitoring. This strict study is the first to verify that a drug used to [...]
