Newstream.com Digest: Safe Trailering, New Literacy Initiative Launched by Build-A-Bear Workshop and First Book, Inside Innovation At Xerox
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Safe Trailering
'Tis the season to go camping and boating, and that means people are hooking up very large trailers to the back of their personal vehicles pulling out on the highway. Here's more on "safe trailering."
A report from General Motors .
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Inside Innovation At Xerox: A Periodic Glimpse At Work In Progress
Current self-diagnosing machines measure discrete events: It's on. It's off. It's broken. It's fixed. A machine cycle completed on time or it didn't. Why not measure the actual analog conditions behind these events, like how much wear a part has experienced? That would allow technicians to determine when a part is about to fail. Then the service engineer could arrive just before the product stopped working.
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El Salvador Unveils First Ever Promotional Campaign to Attract
Foreign Investment
PROESA, El Salvador's investment agency, launched a campaign today to promote El Salvador abroad and attract direct foreign investment into the country. It will be the first international promotional effort in the nation's history.
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Build-A-Bear Workshop(R) Continues Year-Long Teddy Bear
Centennial(TM) Celebration With Launch of New Literacy Initiatives
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Teddy Bear, Build-A-Bear Workshop(R) is giving back to the guests who have made them so successful ... the children. The interactive retail entertainment company today announced its latest literacy initiatives in partnership with First Book (www.firstbook.org), a national non-profit literacy organization. Build-A-Bear Workshop is unveiling a bear that will raise money for underserved children, as well as launching a book club to encourage reading among all children.
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Transparent Networks Moves to a New Custom-Built Facility Located
Next to its MEMS Foundry
Transparent Networks Inc., developer of intelligent photonic switching systems, today announced the expansion and relocation of company headquarters from Santa Clara to Milpitas, Calif. The new offices more than double the previous office capacity and quadruples the R&D lab and assembly areas, including the state-of-the-art optical clean room.
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New Drug Discoveries Threatened
A debate on Capitol Hill could affect anyone who takes a prescription drug.
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3D Systems Names Grant Flaharty President and Chief Operating Officer
3D Systems Corp. Chairman of the Board G. Walter Loewenbaum II today announced that the company's board of directors has named Grant R. Flaharty president and chief operating officer.
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Ken Glass Named CEO of First Tennessee National Corp.
After almost 30 years in senior management with the company, Ken Glass has been named CEO of First Tennessee National Corp. . Glass's election to the position by the First Tennessee board of directors was announced by Ralph Horn, who has been First Tennessee's CEO for more than eight years and who will continue as chairman of the First Tennessee board. Horn will also continue to chair the board's executive committee.
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