Snowmass, Colorado (PRWEB) June 27, 2013
Rocky Mountain Institute is pleased to announce its listing on the Basic Solutions Administration (GSA) federal schedule beneath Facilities ManagementEnergy Consulting Solutions (GS-21F-0130Y), enabling the organization to
Hoboken, N.J. (PRWEB) July 01, 2013
Stevens Institute of Technologies launched TRACES, a new educational service and web site on environmental spill forecasting in and about the port of New York and New Jersey waters. In coordination with personnel from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Office of Response and Restoration (NOAA OR&R) and the United States Coast Guard (USCG), Dr. Nickitas Georgas, Investigation Assistant Professor, and Dr. Alan Blumberg, Director of the Davidson Laboratory/Center for Maritime Systems (CMS), have combined the genuine-time extensive forecast model of ocean currents they have developed with the Common NOAA Operational Modeling Atmosphere (GNOME) to track the movement and fate of waterborne pollution, such as an oil spill.

The Emergency Response Division of NOAA OR&R and the USCG Workplace of Search & Rescue (USCG/SAR) have been utilizing Stevens New York Harbor Observing and Prediction Technique (NYHOPS) forecasts of ocean currents for drift simulations in assistance of pollutant tracking and search and rescue organizing, respectively, because 2006. The NYHOPS model that Georgas and Blumberg developed at CMS forecasts the evolution of the ocean current fields 72 hours in advance, subject to tides, atmospheric climate, and river and urban watershed discharges. The forecast currents are input into the NOAA GNOME software exactly where spill scenarios can be set up to:

Predict how currents and other processes may well move and spread oil spilled on the waters of the New York/New Jersey Harbor and surrounding ocean over the next two to three days
Discover how these predictions of exactly where and how oil may move are impacted by uncertainty in the NYHOPS forecasts for ocean currents and wind
See how spilled oil is anticipated to modify chemically and physically although it remains on the water surface (a process recognized as weathering).
Georgas and Dave Runnels, Senior Analysis Engineer at CMS, developed the new TRACES internet site, which includes how to motion pictures, that now allows anybody to:

Download GNOME
Download the latest NYHOPS model predictions for currents more than the next couple of days, and input them in GNOME
Describe a spill scenario by getting into data into GNOME.
GNOME then creates and displays an oil spill film displaying the predicted trajectory of the oil spilled in the scenario. In addition to this animation, GNOME estimates the amount of oil beached, nevertheless floating, or evaporated, at particular times. 1 can even use NYHOPS in GNOME to backtrack exactly where waterborne particles may have originated from, or forecast the transport of conservative substances such as floatable trash and other passive buoyant articles drifting with the surface currents.

Over the past a number of years, we and our colleagues have used GNOME and NYHOPS forecasts to inform occasion response in many occasions, mentioned Georgas. We are now opening up the service to any person interested, including 1st responders, NGOs, Riverkeepers and the basic public. Reports that have turn into obtainable in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy speak of over 450,000 gallons of oil from numerous concurrent oil spills, three.5 billion gallons of untreated sewage, and an huge amount of floatable trash and marine debris entering our waters as a direct outcome of the storm. Gaining understanding of environmental processes to be prepared for future environmental cleanup efforts is one particular significant aim of this service.

NYHOPS TRACES is offered at http://www.stevens.edu/TRACES.

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Stevens Institute of Technologies, The Innovation University
Chicago, Illinois (PRWEB) July 03, 2013
Late Tuesday afternoon, the Obama administration announced it was delaying till 2015 the mandate that employers give insurance coverage beneath Obamacare. Beneath the mandate, employers with a lot more than 50 workers would be fined as significantly as $ three,000 per employee if they didnt provide cost-effective insurance starting in 2014.

The following statements from wellness care policy experts at The Heartland Institute a totally free-market think tank could be used for attribution. For much more comments, refer to the make contact with information below. To book a Heartland guest on your plan, please get in touch with Director of Communications Jim Lakely at jlakely(at)heartland(dot)org and 312/377-4000 or (cell) 312/731-9364.

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If President Obama actually plans to delay the employer mandate, in a tactical attempt to prevent the implementation of his signature domestic policy until after the midterms, it is absolutely nothing more than a craven admission that he knows how unworkable his health policy overhaul is he just doesnt want to endure the political consequences for it whilst in workplace.

Congress passed the employer mandate into law, and the executive branch is now refusing to enforce it. This is nothing far more than rule by regulators attempting to slow the train wreck till theyre out of energy and dont have to answer for their bureaucratic mismanagement.

Benjamin Domenech
Research Fellow, The Heartland Institute
Managing Editor, Overall health Care News
bdomenech(at)heartland(dot)org
703/509-1741

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In the midst of a multi-million-dollar marketing campaign touting the supposed benefits of this law, it is intriguing that the administration desires to delay it. It was rammed via Congress as if it had been an emergency. Three years later, the emergency is its destructive influence on business and employment. Delay will not fix its impossible complexity or the uncertainty companies face about the cost of hiring much more workers. The administration is violating the clear provisions of the law that state it shall go into impact in the months following December 2013. What the White House should do is get out of the way and let Congress implement the will of the American individuals to repeal the monster.

Jane M. Orient, M.D.
Executive Director
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
janeorientmd(at)gmail(dot)com
520/323-3110

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With the delay of the Obamacare employer mandate, the Obama administration itself is admitting that Obamacare is unworkable despite years of preparing for implementation. But where is the legal authority for the delay? President Obama does not have the authority to rewrite the legislation on his personal. His only selection is to implement the proposal as written, or scrap it if he even has the authority to scrap it. (The presidents oath, and duty below the Constitution is to take care that the law is faithfully executed.) If they dont implement Obamacare in 2014 as supplied in law, how and where do they have the authority to implement it in 2015? The legislation says 2014.

Peter Ferrara
Senior Fellow for Entitlement and Budget Policy
The Heartland Institute
pferrara(at)heartland(dot)org
703/582-8466
Mr. Ferrara is the author of The Obamacare Disaster (2009)

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The Obama administrations announcement that it will delay until 2015 Obamacares employer mandate to offer inexpensive insurance or be fined as a lot as $ 3,000 per employee wins a political Triple Crown: politically cynical, Machiavellianly brilliant, and constitutionally suspect.

It is cynical, first, because it implicitly acknowledges that Nancy Pelosi was lying when she mentioned not too long ago that the implementation of this is fabulous and that Democratic Sen. Max Baucus was right in calling it a train wreck. But this news comes on the eve of the Independence Day holiday when most observers will pay it small interest.

It is brilliant since it postpones the pain and the cost of the impending train wreck until after the 2014 midterm elections, for which the administration and its allies have transparently gone all-in to make certain a Democratic takeover of the Home of Representatives.

And it is suspect due to the fact after once again the former lecturer in constitutional law who presently occupies the White Home refuses to execute what the legislature has passed, however suspect each the ends and the signifies of enacting that legislation.

In brief, its a really sad way to celebrate Independence Day.

David L. Applegate
Policy Advisor, Legal Affairs
The Heartland Institute
media(at)heartland(dot)org
312/377-4000

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The political implications of this choice are evident: Obama and his advisors foresee the Democrats obtaining killed in next years elections. They are taking this extraordinary step in hopes of limiting the disaster, but my guess is that couple of folks will be fooled by such an apparent political maneuver.

S.T. Karnick
Director of Study
The Heartland Institute
skarnick(at)heartland(dot)org
312/377-4000

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The announcement that the employer mandate will be delayed till 2015 is just the most recent instance of the failure of Congress and the Obama administration to comprehend what they were passing and what implementation would entail. This comes on the heels of numerous other setbacks for the Inexpensive Care Act, like the cancelling of the long-term care plan, the striking down of mandated state Medicaid expansion, the delay in totally opening the little-company exchanges, the doubling or tripling of premiums for numerous young and healthier persons, a developing realization the tax on healthcare devices is a job- and innovation-killer, and revelations that many moderate-income Americans who have been expecting subsidies wont get any subsidies to purchase coverage.

The administration had three years to write the regulations required to enforce this mandate and nevertheless could not get it done. This does not bode properly for the opening of the exchanges in October, now significantly less than 90 days away and still facing significant implementation challenges according to the Government Accountability Workplace.

Whilst the mandate was in no way most likely to decrease the number of uninsured Americans, this lengthy string of failures strongly suggests that far more issues and shortcomings stay lurking in the specifics of a bill we had been told needed to be passed so we could locate out what is in it.

Sean Parnell
Policy Advisor
The Heartland Institute
sean(at)impactpolicymanagement(dot)com
312/377-4000

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The choice by the administration to delay implementation of the misnamed Cost-effective Care Act coincides with the reality that the well being care overhaul is a slow motion train wreck that will eat up the economy and produce another leftist administrative-state slush fund in which to park political operatives in between elections.

Delaying the consequences of the ACA is a bow to what is left of government strategies to deceive the electorate, a move to cut the short-term losses and negative public reactions to loss of coverage and sticker shock. The administration is hoping to win the midterms just before bringing the hammer down and the delay is a likelihood to sque
Oklahoma City, OK (PRWEB) July 02, 2013
The program at the Rose State College campus will offer participants with an opportunity to investigate careers and educational paths supporting today’s transportation market.

The Institute is sponsored by the Oklahoma Division of Transportation and Rose State College, and funded via a grant from the Federal Highway Administration. The totally free system supplies an active, day-extended, lunch-included experiential opportunity for interested higher college students to explore transportation careers and the complex transportation technique upon which the country relies. All through the entire institute, students discover the many modes of transportation (air, water, highway, rail, transit), examine how the method is developed, built and maintained by way of field trips, interactive labs and activities presented by guest speakers on the topic of transportation.

Students will:
Understand about planes, trains, ships, and automobiles through cool hands-on activities and group projects.
Tour the Port of Catoosa with the U.S. Coast Guard and get behind-the-scenes info about the operations of Oklahomas inland port.
Travel Kansas City, Missouri, to Johnson Community College’s National Academy of Railway Science (NARS).
Check out a highway building website.
Operate with flight simulators at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the Air National Guard.
Devote time with other sensible students in a vibrant college setting.
This year the students will receive a stipend of $ one hundred upon completion of the institute. This plan is a extremely competitive scholarship plan, which provides higher school students with an chance to investigate careers and educational paths supporting todays transportation business. Space is limited. Students must fill out an application for consideration. Applications have to be received by June 25 for consideration. Go to http://www.rose.edu/nsti for a lot more details and to download an application, or make contact with Regina Scott at (405) 733-7450 fax (405) 736-0349 or e-mail, rscott(at)rose(dot)edu.

Rose State College in Oklahoma City is a two-year-degree granting institution, positioned east of downtown Oklahoma City, just off Interstate 40 and Hudiburg Drive.





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Austin, TX (Vocus) June 11, 2009
With the Mortgage Bankers Associations (MBA) current release of its National Delinquency Survey, the Distressed House Institute sees continued difficulty for the residential genuine estate market.

Regardless of the greatest efforts of bank and government initiatives, the reality is that an increasing quantity of homeowners are going into foreclosure, said Alex Charfen, co-founder and CEO of the Distressed Property Institute, a premier real estate education organization education genuine estate experts how to deal with distressed properties. Were seeing record increases reported in foreclosures and delinquencies across the country.

The MBA survey reported that the combined percentage of loans in foreclosure and at least one particular payment previous due, meaning the percentage of mortgage holders not current on their mortgages, was 12.07 percent on a non-seasonally adjusted basis. In addition, the seasonally adjusted delinquency and foreclosure price for subprime loans was reported to be 39.29 percent.

Distressed properties are no longer a niche within the market today they are the marketplace, Charfen mentioned. The figures published by the MBA show continuing challenges across all mortgage categories, not merely the subprime. These statistics, combined with a climbing unemployment rate, make a powerful argument for a continuing, growing trend in delinquencies and foreclosures.

To stem the suffering and curb this foreclosure crisis, there simply must be far more true estate specialists educated in quick sales and the other options available to distressed property owners, and the Distressed House Institute is on the forefront of education actual estate pros to give home owners with solutions.

Every single month we expect to train more than 800 brokers and agents, as effectively as attorneys, title representatives, accountants and other individuals, to aid the growing number of distressed homeowners steer clear of disaster.

Graduates of the Institutes instruction get the Certified Distressed Home Expert
Orlando, Florida (PRWEB) July 02, 2013
The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (EI) awarded Raman P. Rama, CHA, with the title of CHA Emeritus throughout the Stars of the Sector Luncheon June 19 at the American Hotel & Lodging Association Summer Summit in Denver.

The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute recognizes the achievements of these leaders whose extended-term dedication and commitment to excellence and further education have shaped and inspired our sector. The CHA Emeritus is awarded to a Certified Hotel Administrator in recognition of his or her long and illustrious career in the hospitality business. This is not an annual award it is bestowed only when EI’s Certification Commission and Board of Trustees finds a candidate who has shaped the industry by way of leadership, education, and service. The career of an Emeritus is marked by distinguished achievement in all facets of the sector, signifying a commitment to the previous, present, and future of the hospitality atmosphere. Those so honored have played a special function in shaping the industrys existing atmosphere and are broadly recognized as part models by their sector peers.

The Educational Institute is proud to recognize Raman P. Rama as a single of those uncommon leaders whose long-term dedication and commitment to excellence and further education have shaped and inspired our industry, said Robert L. Steele III, CHA, president and COO of EI. Those who earn the title of CHA Emeritus have created considerable contributions to the hospitality market by way of leadership, education, and specialist involvement. The Emeritus honor is presented only to select folks following a career of distinguished contributions and we are pleased to add Mr. Ramas name to this distinguished list.

I am really humbled to accept this award, and to be recognized with other industry leaders in this way is an honor, mentioned Mr. Rama. I am privileged to be a portion of such a respected group consisting of and recipients of this award: Myron Levy (Roosevelt University in Chicago) Gene Rupnik (Rupnik Hospitality Management, Caroline Cooper (Alan Shawn Feinstein Graduate College), Pedro Mandoki (Mandoki Hospitality, Inc), Richard C. Nelson (Hyatt Hotels), Paul O’Neil (Kerzner International), Tony Farris (Quorum Hotels & Resorts).” Raman P. Rama, B. Com., CHA, CHTP, CHAE, is a principal and vice president and chief technology officer/chief data officer for JHM Hotels in Greenville, South Carolina. He is 1 of 5 brothers who own JHM Hotels, which operates much more than 40 properties in the United States and India. He is accountable for managing the companys IT infrastructure and arranging, as nicely as establishing the companys technologies initiatives. Rama at the moment serves as the global president of Hospitality Economic and Technology Professionals (HFTP), and holds each the Certified Hospitality Accountant Executive and Certified Hospitality Technologies Specialist certifications in addition to the CHA.

His leadership efforts as Worldwide President of HFTP have incorporated partnering with hospitality associations in the U.K., India, China, and the U.S. to share resources and generate educational conferences. In addition, he has led the association on creating the International Hospitality Accounting Requirements Guide and Typical Practices. The Rama family also has a private university in IndiaAuro Universitythat gives students with education in hospitality and company management.

About the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute
Established in 1953 as a nonprofit educational foundation of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, the Educational Institutes mission is to continue being the preferred provider to the lodging sector, hospitality schools, and associated hospitality industries by establishing and providing top quality sources to train, educate, and certify hospitality professionals worldwide.

About JHM Hotels: 
JHM Hotels, a premier lodging firm, based in Greenville SC, has developed, acquired, owned, and operated hotels throughout the United States for 40 years. The organization presently owns and operates 41 hotels with over 7300 guestrooms, located in the United States and India, operating below such effectively-known brands as Hyatt, Marriott, Hilton and Starwood. For far more data, check out our internet web site at http://www.jhmhotels.com.





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Austin, Texas (Vocus) December eight, 2009
In assistance of the Austin community and its aim to give real options to property owners nationwide, the Distressed Property Institute, LLC announced these days its partnership with Austin Habitat for Humanity and assistance of an Austin Habitat home build. The Institute trains genuine estate experts in the tools and solutions offered to homeowners facing foreclosure, such as quick sales, and confers the Certified Distressed Home Expert
Austin, Texas (Vocus) January 14, 2010
The Distressed House Institute, LLC announced it will commence construction of its initial residence with Austin Habitat for Humanity in the Meadow Lake neighborhood of Austin, Texas, January 23, 2010. This house will be the first construct of 2010 for Austin Habitat for Humanity, and marks a continuation of the Institutes community outreach plan.

Habitat reports that there are far more than 60,000 Austinites living in overcrowded, unsafe and expense-burdened circumstances. These families are hoping for a brighter future for themselves and their youngsters.

We want to help a family members build their future by helping to build their residence, Alex Charfen, co-founder and CEO of the Institute, said.

The Institute trains real estate professionals in the tools and solutions offered to home owners facing foreclosure, and confers the CDPE
Austin, Texas (Vocus) January 25, 2010
The Distressed House Institute, LLC broke ground on building nowadays for its very first residence with Austin Habitat for Humanity in the Meadow Lake community of Austin, Texas. The house, the very first develop of 2010 for Austin Habitat, will supply a fresh commence for Austin resident Jaylandra Fitzgerald and her household.

Our membership of true estate agents across the nation is assisting home owners regain their stability, and providing hope when faced with the possibility of foreclosure. We want to continue this mission and have an quick influence on a member of our community, Alex Charfen, Institute co-founder and CEO, said.

The Institute, which confers the CDPE
Wallington, Surrey, UK (PRWEB UK) 16 June 2013
CareerBuilder released a national study in May that identified that 41% of people have gained weight at their jobs and you are most most likely to have higher prices of weight gain if you sit at a desk all day or have high anxiety levels.

Administrative assistants, engineers, teachers, nurse practitioners, IT managers, legal experts, production workers and scientists were amongst professions that had the highest reports of weight acquire, according to the CareerBuilder survey.

Nevertheless, the Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy believes that, even though a sedentary career adds additional pressure on the waistline, by utilizing hypnotherapy for weight loss it is far from a lost lead to. Physical exercise is important for health but it has really small to do with weight management. A sedentary job can be countered really effortlessly by standing up at work a couple of hours a day, for example when on the telephone. Merely by standing up for a couple of hours a day you can burn calories equivalent of an hour exercise in the fitness center.

The CareerBuilder survey, carried out online Feb. 11 to March six by Harris Interactive, factored in responses from more than three,600 complete-time workers, who stated that the most widespread causes of workplace weight obtain had been a sedentary all-day desk life-style, anxiety eating and meals located at the workplace, including celebrations and treats provided by co-workers.

Paul White, the behavioural change specialist at the Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Chairman of the National Council for Hypnotherapy, stated By replacing unhelpful patterns of behaviour with far more proper ones, even clientele with a sedentary profession can start to see adjustments with consuming habits and improvements in handle of their weight. 1 of the behaviours that we may target would be the want to boost exercise. When you enhance want, reaching the end outcome does not look like difficult perform.

White continued In our technological age a lot more and more people have not only a sedentary career but their entire lifestyle can be very low in activities that raise our heart rate sufficient to maintain our fitness levels up. But when customers use hypnotherapy to shed weight they uncover that their activity level appears to rise naturally, and the far more weight loss they obtain, the larger that activity level rises.

At the Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy in Surrey they seek to alter their customers relationship with meals. The hypnotherapist will work with the client to alter the way they view meals, even the way they consider about food, so the client eats to live, rather than lives to consume. By performing so they take away the guilt, reduce consumption and feel happier about food.

Paul White has been Chairman of the National Council for Hypnotherapy for five years. He has been a Director of The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy for 11 years. He has a unique interest in weight handle and difficulty behaviours (addictions).





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