Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
UGANDA DAILY MONITOR – Several questions came to mind. Had the land experts done research on the impacts of taxation on idle land? How long should an undeveloped piece of land be considered idle? What type of development should be on land to be designated developed; a forest, a building or agriculture? What about leaving
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
BBC – Jean-Jacques Dordain, the boss of the European Space Agency (Esa), could be heading for another period in office. It is understood both Germany and France, the organisation’s leading member-states, are proposing he should carry on in the post beyond 2010. The Frenchman assumed the role of director general in 2003, and is coming
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
GERMAN GOV – The report provides an overview of the economic performance and relevance of the environmental industry in Germany. Nearly 1.8 million people are employed in the environmental sector in Germany. The world market for environmental technology is predicted to more than double by 2020. In particular, the renewable energy, resource and energy efficiency,
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
ITAR TASS – Russia will develop a Glonass/GPS navigation set for vehicles by the end of this year, Almaz-Antei general designer of navigation gadgets Valery Babakov told a Tuesday press conference. “The recently developed Glonass/GPS navigation chip will be installed in car systems and become available to users in the end of this year,” Babakov
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
STOCKHOLM NEWS – They want to extend the metro in Stockholm from Kungsträdgården to Nacka and from Odenplan to the new city district that is built between Birkastan and Solna, around the new Karolinska University Hospital. They also want to build several metro shortcuts in order to connect the different metro lines with each other
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
One of the challenges in working with Depiction is finding data and formatting data you have to use in your files. This session will help users overcome that challenge. Read More
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
CSIRO – The researchers behind the study are urging members of the public to supply critical information that may help prevent today’s common bird species from becoming threatened. Co-author of the study, senior CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship researcher, Dr Richard Fuller, said scientists involved in investigating and predicting critical changes in biodiversity tend to study
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Asian countries should focus on connecting with one another through pan-Asian infrastructure systems to create more benefits for their populations, the Asian Development Bank and ADB Institute has suggested. The inadequacies of Asia’s infrastructure networks are a bottleneck to growth, a threat to competitiveness and an obstacle to poverty reduction, said an ADB-funded study entitled
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
The contract is for the supply and installation of a 110/13.8 kV Gas-insulated Substation (GIS) at Knowledge Economic City in Madinah, western Saudi Arabia, which will power a newly developed luxury residential area. The order is scheduled for completion in 2012.Knowledge Economic City is intended to usher in a significant transformation of the regional economic
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
After five years of testing, the U.S. Navy is finally entering the digital age for navigation. Five years ago, the first all digital navigation system was installed, in the USS Cape St. George (a cruiser). Called the Voyage Management System (VMS), this version used 29 CDs containing the 12,000 paper nautical charts that were stored in
