Ten U.S. retail employees will have a chance to make their dreams a reality through a program announced between the NRF Foundation and the University of Phoenix. The Dream BIG scholarship will award 10 current retail employees with full ...
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The 31st Bienniel Western Coatings Symposium (WCS), which will be held October 20-23, 2013 at the Paris Hotel is Las Vegas, Nevada has issued a call for papers and academic posters. The WCS Committee is seeking technical presentations ...
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From March 21st-23rd, 2013 Michigan State University's School of Packaging will be hosting the 28th annual Student Packaging Jamboree. The Jamboree will provide an opportunity for Packaging students throughout the nation and Canada to unite ...
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The morning workshop entitled "Finance and Advice support for lighting manufacturers in respect of R&D, lighting refurbishment and exporting" comprised of four presentations given by: Geoff Smyth from the Carbon Trust, Nicola O'Connell - ...
Tags: Lighting, website, Rune Marki of OSRAM Ltd
Gillinder Glass is celebrating 100 years in Port Jervis in 2013, and to commemorate this milestone, wants to produce a very special sun catcher — "one that honors our area volunteers or service people." To do this, the glassmaker is ...
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New laws coming into effect this year will ban employers from demanding access to prospective and current employee social networking accounts. Facebook had announced in March 2012 that it was receiving a "distressing increase in reports" ...
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The annual CES trade show in Las Vegas gets under way this weekend with big announcements from gadget makers keen to wow and convince us they have the next big thing. But it's worth remembering that some of the promises and predictions made ...
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A jury in Pennsylvania has ordered chip maker Marvell Technology to pay $1.17 billion for patent infringement in one of the largest awards of its kind. The jury found that Marvell infringed two patents related to hard disk drive ...
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IDG News Service-Anyone even loosely following SAP lately should know that the company's goal is to reorient its entire product family around the HANA in-memory database,which first became generally available last year.According to SAP,HANA ...
The NRF Foundation and American Express announced the winners of their annual Aspire2Retail Intercollegiate Challenge, which is designed to increase understanding of diverse career paths in retail by engaging university students in a ...
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The American Association of Textile Chemical and Colorists has organised a Materials Research Poster Competition. Winning entries in each area, whether submitted by an individual or a team, will be awarded. First Place: US$1,000 Second ...
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Computerworld - A Danish graduate student said he was searching for research material on an IEEE FTP server last week when he stumbled upon the usernames and passwords of about 100,000 members of the professional association. In a blog ...
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Two starkly different views of rural America and U.S.agriculture emerged in recent weeks—one hopeful and optimistic,the other discouraging and maybe even a bit cynical. Starting with the bad news,USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced ...
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IDG News Service - The first week of class at Washington State University has been a tumultuous one for students and parents who depend on financial aid, due to a software glitch in a recently installed Oracle PeopleSoft system. Hundreds ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft has announced the consumer and small-business prices for the new Office suite, which will be sold both via traditional single-device, perpetual licenses and via a new annual, multi-device cloud subscription. ...
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