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J-2X engine tests at Stennis Space Center highlighted in NASA video

Ross Reily — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:50:54 +0000

Engineers are installing the J-2X engine E10002 in the A-1 test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The installation is in preparation for a new series of tests, where the engine will be gimbaled, or pivoted, during test firings. Gimbal tests are an important part of the design process. When [...]

(BUSINESS VIDEO) Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market

Ross Reily — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:33:27 +0000

Plenty of people need jobs with very flexible hours — but it’s difficult for those people to connect with the employers who need them. Wingham Rowan is working on that. In this Ted Talk, we explains how the same technology that powers modern financial markets can help employers book workers for slivers of time. Wingham [...]

Teens migrating to Twitter tell researchers there are too many adults, too much drama on Facebook

Ross Reily — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:44:42 +0000

WASHINGTON — Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations. Teens told [...]

(BUSINESS VIDEO) Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation

Ross Reily — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:53:01 +0000

In this Ted Talk, career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward. Bidding adieu to his last “real job” as Al Gore’s speechwriter, [...]

Final mission planned for Mississippi Gulf Coast Honor Flight

Stephen McDill — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:32:33 +0000

It will be wheels up for the last time this October when the Mississippi Gulf Coast Honor Flight holds its final flight to honor World War II veterans. The organization announced that Honor Flight VI will depart from Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport on Tuesday, October 1, 2013. The flight gives World II veterans from Mississippi a chance [...]

Michigan’s Debbie Stabenow speaks as Delta State hosts 78th annual Delta Council

Ross Reily — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:27:11 +0000

CLEVELAND, Mississippi — Politics, agriculture, and the economy were the hot topics on a rainy Delta morning as hundreds gathered for the 78th annual meeting of Delta Council, Friday, May 17, on the campus of Delta State University. The event kicked off in the Bologna Performing Arts Center with a presentation by political analyst Stu [...]

(VIDEO) Lessons in business management — from prison

Ross Reily — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:50:11 +0000

Jeff Smith spent a year in prison. But what he discovered inside wasn’t what he expected — he saw in his fellow inmates boundless ingenuity and business savvy. He asks: Why don’t we tap this entrepreneurial potential to help ex-prisoners contribute to society once they’re back outside? (From the TED Talent Search event TED@NewYork.) In [...]

Don’t miss a pitch at MSU games; order concessions from your smart phone

Frank Brown — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:39:50 +0000

Two recent Mississippi State graduates have found a way to “keep fans in the game” so they don’t miss crucial moments of play while waiting in concession lines. This baseball season at the university’s Dudy Noble Field/Polk-Dement Stadium has been the inaugural season for SportSnax, a company that claims “waiting in line is old school.” [...]

CRAWFORD: Is a taint of tyranny infecting our Medicaid standoff?

Ross Reily — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:57:18 +0000

The dictionary defines “tyranny” as oppressive power exerted by government. Founder Thomas Jefferson warned “Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” Is a taint of tyranny infecting our Medicaid standoff? Compare the Senate’s actions with those [...]

Attorney General Jim Hood warns consumers of recent e-mail scam

Ross Reily — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:34:12 +0000

JACKSON, Mississippi — Attorney General Jim Hood is warning consumers and businesses to be aware of a recent email scam purporting to help overseas military personnel with packages in the U.S.. The unsolicited email suggests that the sender is a military officer who has two military trunk boxes that just arrived in the U.S.A. and [...]