Bookmarks for December 28th

Dec 28, 2009

When I'm not blogging, I'm browsing. Here are sites and pages that I bookmarked on December 28th:

Swiss test solar-power aircraft for night flight: The prototype of an aircraft, to be propelled entirely by solar power even at night, has already been successfully tested for a 'flea hop' or a short flight. Scientists and engineers are working full-steam to fly the aircraft around the world for 36 hours.
U.S. EPA Releases Annual Enforcement Results and Mapping Tool: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has developed a new Web-based tool and interactive map that allows the public to get detailed information by location about the enforcement actions taken at approximately 4,600 facilities.
Maui divers wage war on predatory fish: The fish was introduced to Hawaiian waters in the 1950s to boost declining fish stocks. Its population exploded as did its appetite. On a tiny section of coral off the Kona coast, roi consume eight million reef fish a year. On Maui, divers are waging war on roi.
Kamakura Ranked First in Both Asset and Liability Management and Liquidity Risk Management: Honolulu-based Kamakura Corporation announced Tuesday that the company was ranked first world-wide for both asset and liability management software and liquidity risk management software in the RISK Magazine 2009 Technology Rankings.
Best go digital in a pandemic: Getting medication rapidly to everyone who needs it during a major disease outbreak could be carried out more effectively using a prescription system based on personal digital assistants, or similar portable devices, rather than pen and paper.
Healthcare industry and UH Manoa create Hawaii Nursing Simulation Center: Four of Hawaii’s healthcare industry leaders joined officials and students at UH Mānoa’s School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene today to celebrate $1,050,000 in initial gifts to support the development of the Hawaii Nursing Simulation Center at Webster Hall.
Pentagon spending bill includes Inouye earmarks: A new defense appropriations bill includes several targeted spending provisions championed by Sen. Inouye that will benefit companies whose officers have contributed to his re-election campaigns.
Sensors seek out lightning throughout world: A global network of sensors to detect lightning has been developed based on research by a UH meteorologist. The data potentially could be used to identify thunderstorms, forecast hurricanes and other weather phenomena.
Keck Telescopes Gaze into Young Star’s “Life Zone”: For the first time, astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have measured the properties of a young solar system at distances closer to the star than Venus is from our sun.
Work starts on expanded H-Power plant: The $302 million project will expand the waste-to-energy plant’s capacity by 50 percent to handle an added 300,000 tons of garbage a year at the Campbell Industrial Park facility.