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20 hrs ago | WBIR-TV

More East Tennessee buildings going green

More and more buildings are going green in East Tennessee and earning LEED Certification.

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Related Topix: Energy, Construction, Maryville, TN, Knoxville, TN, Knoxville Metro

Yesterday | The Morning News

at the Helm: Tyson Names New Ceo

Thursday morning, Tyson's board of directors named Smith, a 29-year company veteran, as its next president and chief executive off cer.

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Related Topix: Tyson Foods, Food, Springdale, AR

Thu Nov 19, 2009

GlobeNewswire

Tyson Foods Names New CEO

Chairman of the Board John Tyson, of Tyson Foods, Inc. , announced today that the Board of Directors of Tyson Foods has chosen Donnie Smith, currently senior group vice president of Poultry and Prepared Foods, to be the company's president and chief executive officer, effective immediately.

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Related Topix: Tyson Foods, Food, Fayetteville Metro, Springdale, AR

Electronic Engineering Times Asia

Tesla GPUs enable low-cost parallel computing

Nvidia Corp. launches the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing market.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, CPU, Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, Cloud Computing, Computers

Wed Nov 18, 2009

The Tennessean

Lane Kiffin hopeful Janzen Jackson can return

KNOXVILLE - The University of Tennessee Athletics Department is apparently holding out hope that charges against freshman safety Janzen Jackson will be reduced or dropped, which could lead to his return to the football field.

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Murfreesboro Post

Ex-tennis star encourages students not to drink, drive

Former tennis phenomenon Blake McMeans, who lost his tennis career and almost his life when he crashed his car after a night of drinking with fraternity brothers, will offer students of Middle Tennessee State University a lesson he learned the hard way when he speaks on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Middle Tennessee State University, Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

WHNT-TV Huntsville

University of Tennessee fraternity sanctioned for freshman drinking incident

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has sanctioned a fraternity after a freshman drank too much and had to be taken to the hospital.

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Related Topix: Student Society, Phi Gamma Delta, Fraternities

Tue Nov 17, 2009

ExtremeTech

AMD Tops Supercomputer Race, But Intel Powers Most

A supercomputer built on microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices topped the semiannual TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, but others built on Intel 's technology dominated the rest of the list.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, CPU, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices, Department of Energy

US News & World Report

Fastest Supercomputer in the World is Devoted to Solving its Problems

At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet - climate change, renewable energy, new medicines - rather than advances in nuclear weapons that might blow it up.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, CPU, Computers, Cray, IBM

The Knoxville News Sentinel

UT fraternity sanctioned

The University of Tennessee has sanctioned a fraternity after a freshman drank too much Oct.

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Related Topix: Student Society, Phi Gamma Delta, Fraternities, Knoxville, TN, Knoxville Metro, Business News

Mon Nov 16, 2009

CIO Today

AMD Powers Cray To Fastest Supercomputer Title

AMD six-core Opteron processors powered Cray Systems' Jaguar supercomputer to score tops among the world's fastest 500 machines.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices

EurekAlert!

UT's Kraken named world's third fastest computer, ORNL's Jaguar is No. 1

The University of Tennessee's Kraken supercomputer, pictured here, has been announced as the world's third most powerful computer overall, and is also the world's most powerful academic computer.

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Related Topix: Computers, Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, Science, Computer Science, CPU

Internet News

AMD Scores Supercomputing Points

AMD Scores Supercomputing Points Even while going through some tough times, AMD holds its own in the supercomputing world.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, CPU, Computers, IBM, Marketing

Sun Nov 15, 2009

WATE-TV Knoxville

Nashville murder suspect jumps to his death in Knoxville

A man wanted in connection with a Nashville murder has died after jumping from his Knoxville hotel balcony during an arrest attempt.

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Related Topix: Nashville Metro, Nashville, TN, Knoxville, TN, Knoxville Metro

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Houstonpress.com

Game Time: Bad Boys, What'cha Gonna Do

That noise you hear is Florida coach Urban Meyer laughing his ass off. In case you missed it, news broke this morning that three University of Tennessee Volunteer football players -- freshman defensive backs Janzen Jackson and Mike Edwards, as well as freshman running back Nu'Keese Richardson -- have been arrested for attempted armed robbery.

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Related Topix: Tennessee, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Games, Blackjack

Southwest Farm Press

Helping developing nations improve their agricultures

Nov 12, 2009 9:58 AM, By Daryll E. Ray, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Much of the time this column focuses on current issues in US agricultural policy: food safety rules, farm program payments, crop insurance, ethanol, and CAFOs, among others.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Marketing

New York Times

More Than Ever, You Can Say That on Television

On many nights this fall, it has been possible to tune in to broadcast network television during prime time and hear a character call someone else a "douche." In just the last several weeks, it has happened on CBS 's "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and the CW's "The Vampire Diaries," which are broadcast at 8 p.m., during what used to be known ...

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Drama, Florida State University, Business News

Fri Nov 13, 2009

The Knoxville News Sentinel

Suspect out of hospital, in jail after police shooting

A man shot after police say he tried to run down a Knoxville Police Department officer is out of the hospital and in jail, according to KPD spokesman Darrell DeBusk.

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Related Topix: Knoxville, TN, Knoxville Metro, Business News

WREG

UT Players Won't Play Ole Miss

Three University of Tennessee freshmen players charged with attempted armed robbery will not play with the Volunteers at Mississippi.

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Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi

GoVolsXtra.com

Victim says he was 'shocked' to learn suspects are Vols

WVLT Video Screenshot Screenshot of WVLT VolunteerTV exclusive video of the arrests early Thursday morning.

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Related Topix: Maryville, TN

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