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Utah Water Quality Board upholds issuance of permit for oil sands mine in Utah

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The Utah Water Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah.

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US BLM issues draft PEIS for oil shale and oil sands; significantly scales back public land available for commercial leasing

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The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has published the Notice of Availability (NOA) of the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) and Possible Land Use Amendments for Allocation of Oil Shale and Tar Sands Resources on Lands Administered by the BLM in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. or oil sands development.

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Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Mazda, Volvo and home dealerships promote

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The Colorado dealership has persisted to promote unused Buicks, however best future stock lasts. The area is referred to as the “Four Corners,” the place Unused Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah meet. As of Friday, it used to be ill to only two unused Buicks, Webb II mentioned. Webb II is its broker primary.

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Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards

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Exascale refers to high-performance computing systems capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second, or a factor of 50 to 100 times faster than the nation’s most powerful supercomputers in use today. The awards, totaling $39.8

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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As for the future impact of PARC research—the sky’s the limit. One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories. The originator of that phrase is unclear.

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U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Comes Closer

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Stephen Cass: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future , an IEEE Spectrum podcast where we look at concrete solutions to tough problems. That’s now been in operations in two distribution centers here, one in Utah and one in Arkansas ever since. In the industry referred to as a fixed-wing aircraft. And so it’s way up there.

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The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

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References I first came across the Boston Arm when I was researching Norbert Wiener’s “hearing glove,” a device to help people who are deaf and hard of hearing interpret sound waves. The Boston Arm, in turn, influenced the Utah Artificial Arm , developed by Stephen Jacobsen , who had completed his Ph.D. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.,

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