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The Brotherhood accuses TOC of “astroturfing” to support Yong Vui Kong’s caseThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:22AMGood Afternoon all, If you wish to support a cause. Do it for the right and not the wrong reasons. Firstly, if you go to TOC and read most of the comments posted concerning Vui Kong. You will notice one glaring inconsistency – absolutely no intelligent comments from those who may see the need to keep the [...]

New training programs help ease serious staffing crisis in hospital laboratoryThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:20AMImagine needing a critical test at your local hospital, but having to wait days to be tested because there was no laboratory professional available to run the tests. This scene seems unimaginable, but with the federal government estimating that nearly 140,000 new medical lab professionals are needed by 2012 and only 50,000 are expected to be trained on time, this scenario is a reality in some ...

The Children's Hospital constructs new LEED-certified patient towerThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:20AMThe Children's Hospital has begun the construction of a 10-story, 350,000-square-foot addition. The $230 million expansion of a new patient tower initially will have 124 beds, with two floors of shelled space for additional future beds, bringing the total number of patient beds at Children's to around 500 upon full completion. The expansion also is expected to bring approximately 500 new jobs to ...

Foxconn to cut Shenzhen workforceThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:17AMTAIPEI, Taiwan - The world's biggest electronics contractor, Foxconn, will cut its workforce in the southern Chinese city Shenzhen by three-quarters and move most of its manufacturing base inland, a Hong Kong newspaper reported yesterday.

Government to axe fixed retirement ageThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:16AMLONDON (SHARECAST) - Britain’s default retirement age (DRA) will be scrapped by October next year if the government gets its way after it published proposals for consultation today.

County unemployment shoots up to 9.7%Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:15AMA month after seeing the unemployment rate drop to its lowest point in more than a year, Webster County got bad news in the latest employment data from the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC).

UAE retail sector to spend heavily on Enterprise Application Software by 2013, says Sage SoftwareThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:14AMUAE retail sector will spend heavily on Enterprise Application Software, according to Sage Software, the leading global supplier of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and (Human Resource Management) HRM solutions to medium and large organisations, as increasing competition in the retail sector will lead to a rollout of heavy EAS investment by 2013 ...

Renewable-power luminaries rooting for a senator who shares their visionThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:14AMRenewable energy is often touted as Nevada’s last chance at greatness. It could diversify the economy, bring much-needed jobs and provide a vastly important resource to the rest of the country.

FCS Financial Saves Ten Percent On Loan Processing Costs Using eCopy ShareScan From NuanceThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:14AMNuance Communications, Inc., a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, recently announced FCS Financial uses Nuance eCopy ShareScan to automate their loan processing documents, utilizing the solution to automatically turn paper into digital information.