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DATE: 01−29−2012HEADLINE: Vidant health care leader visits PCC campus

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Vidant health care leader visits PCC campus

Sunday, January 29, 2012

WINTERVILLE " Dr. David C. Herman, president and chief operating officer of Vidant Health Care, touredPitt Community College this month to see firsthand some of programs and services the school has to offer.

PCC President G. Dennis Massey and Donna Neal, dean of the college (TM)s Health Sciences Division,showed Herman around campus during his visit. The tour included stops in the Craig F. Goess Student Centerand several classroom facilities, including the William E. Fulford and Herman Simon buildings, which arehome to PCC (TM)s health sciences curricula.

"Dr. Herman is new to Pitt County, as of last summer, and I wanted to make sure he knows as much aspossible about Pitt Community College, which is an important Vidant partner, " Massey said. "I stressed tohim the importance of PCC (TM)s partnership with Vidant and the ways we are using the resources providedby Vidant and others, such as Cape Fear Valley Health System, for our students. "

A native of International Falls, Minn., Herman joined Vidant last summer, previously having served as aphysician leader with the Mayo Clinic.

On Jan. 13, Herman chaired a health care reform symposium that Massey and Neal attended.

"We learned much about how the health care system is evolving to provide better patient access and to reducecosts, " Massey said, adding that "Pitt is a true partner in these changes. "

PCC in cloud computing project

PCC has been selected to participate in a virtual computing environment (VCE) project developed by NorthCarolina State University in partnership with the N.C. Community College System.

VCE is a remote access service hosted by MCNC, a nonprofit organization located in Research Triangle Park.Through the project, which utilizes cloud computing technology, students and faculty at participatingcommunity colleges can request or reserve a computer with a desired set of applications and remotely accessit over the Internet.

VCE helps students save money by providing them with online access to advanced software applications. Italso helps participating colleges reduce the cost of information technology support and hardware for computerlabs.

PCC is one of 17 North Carolina community colleges taking part in the VCE project. Participating schoolsreceive training, assistance and VCE capacity to support two courses. The N.C. Community College SystemOffice provides the services through a pre−existing contract with N.C. State.

Training for faculty and project administrators is provided at no cost to the colleges, which are required tocomplete VCE administrator, faculty and student evaluations in order to provide qualitative feedback on theproject.

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Colleges also must provide either an enterprise license or sufficient licenses for a limited number ofconcurrent users for each software application used through the VCE, unless the software is open source.

The VCE Pilot initially was a research and development initiative started in 2008 to explore efficient andeffective virtual computing modalities for online access to applications and services. The initiative focused ondeveloping and piloting solutions to address the growing demand for student access to advanced computingapplication and software services at a lower cost to the colleges and/or students.

SACS officials to visit PCC

Barry Goldstein, vice president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (TM) Commission onColleges (SACS−COC), will be on the PCC campus this week to assist with the college (TM)sre−accreditation bid.

Every 10 years, PCC must demonstrate that it continues to meet the Commission (TM)s standards for highereducation. Without accreditation, the college could no longer receive state funding (70 percent of its currentbudget revenue) and students could not apply for federal financial aid.

Accreditation also ensures that the courses PCC students complete and the degrees they attain are recognizedby other educational institutions.

According to Larry Dendy, PCC (TM)s Assistant Vice President of Planning and Research, Goldstein will beon campus Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 to provide employees with an opportunity to explore issues, questions andtopics of interest pertaining to the reaffirmation process and any other aspect of the Commission on Colleges.

Goldstein, Dendy said, will meet with specific groups on campus important to the re−accreditation process,including student leaders. He also will give a presentation to faculty and staff on the accreditation process andanswer questions they may have, he said.

After submitting a comprehensive compliance certification report to SACS−COC in March, Pitt will continuepreparations for an on−site visit from the organization that is scheduled to take place on Sept. 18−20. Asecond document " called a Quality Enhancement Plan " is also under development and must be completedand submitted to SACS−COC by July 31.

At the conclusion of their visit to PCC, members of the SACS−COC visitation committee will provide writtenadvice to Pitt administrators, develop a consensus of their findings and complete a draft report. They also willpresent an oral summary during an exit report to PCC President G. Dennis Massey and invited collegeofficials on the final day of their visit.

Following the visit, SACS−COC members will review all of the steps Pitt has taken toward re−accreditationand either affirm or deny accreditation status.

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February 01, 2012 By: NCTechNews Category: Broadband, Government

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is the digitalhighway allowing many North Carolinians to thrive in today’s globally interconnected society. The currentexpansion of connectivity and services on NCREN will benefit almost every citizen in every communitythroughout the entire state. Two federal Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grantstotalling $104 million awarded in 2010 represent the largest known single investments in “middle-mile”broadband infrastructure in North Carolina history. The BTOP grants are funded through the AmericanRecovery and Reinvestment Act, passed by Congress on Feb. 13, 2009 at the urging of President Obama,who signed it into law four days later. A direct response to the economic crisis, the Recovery Act had threeimmediate goals: create new jobs and save existing ones; spur economic activity and invest in long-termgrowth; and foster unprecedented levels of accountability and transparency in government spending. TheCongressional Budget Office estimates that the long-term effects of the act are dire, with results that include along-term 0.2 percent reduction in the GDP, an increase in budget deficits by about $825 billion through2019, and “no long-term effects on unemployment.” MCNC officials have stated the design, construction,and operation of the broadband network being built via these federal taxpayer dollars could create more than1,000 engineering/construction jobs.

These awards will help MCNC bridge this digital gap by delivering critical middle-mile infrastructure anddirect fiber connections to universities, community colleges, schools, health care facilities, public healthorganizations, public safety facilities, libraries, and many other community anchor institutions throughout thestate. This fiber will significantly add to the capacity of NCREN, and allow NCREN services to be madeavailable to these institutions at fixed costs for the foreseeable future.

MCNC’s two BTOP awards were matched by $40 million in privately-raised funds representing a $144million investment in broadband infrastructure in rural North Carolina spanning 69 counties withapproximately 67 of those counties deemed underserved by federal standards. The Golden LEAF Foundationcontributed $24 million of the matching funds, thus the effort has been dubbed the Golden LEAF RuralBroadband Initiative (GLRBI). MCNC also contributed $8 million from its own endowment to help fund theproject.

The first phase of the project is near completion – well ahead of the completion date required by the BTOP

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grant. The Round 1 build encompasses 37 counties located in southeastern and western North Carolina. Themileage breakdown has finalized as the following: 414 miles of new build; 291 miles of acquisition; and 197miles of upgraded fiber.

Before funding MCNC, NCREN delivered speeds of 1gbps or faster to only 12 out of 100 counties in NorthCarolina. Through the GLRBI, MCNC will expand that number to 83 counties – nearly a 600 percentincrease in statewide broadband capabilities.

Virtually all the conduit has been placed in the Round 1 project. Mostly couplings of finalized conduit remainto be completed. Approximately 303 miles of fiber has been put into place and fiber placement continuesdaily. All conduit and fiber should be in place by the end of January. The routes from Rocky Mount toGreenville and Winston Salem to Asheville already have been placed into service, and the increasedbandwidth is benefitting the users of NCREN. Other sections are being placed into service each month, andby March, all sections of Round 1 fiber should be operational.

The Round 2 project is three-times the size of Round 1 and is complex because of the areas traversed.Construction on the second phase of the GLRBI began in July 2011, and has seen a number of re-routes toaccommodate the original project plan. The project coverage currently stands at 1,331 miles of new build;302 miles of acquisition; and 60 miles of upgraded fiber for a total of 1,693 project miles (estimates aresubject change during the build).

The progress on conduit placement between Charlotte and Wilmington remains swift, with more than 85percent of the 256 miles now in place. Approximately 36 miles of fiber also has been deployed along thatroute. Construction between Rocky Mount and Williamston is drawing toward completion, and work hascommenced on the first planned telecommunication huts in Polkton at South Piedmont Community College.Next year will be a big year for Round 2. To start the year, crews will begin in earnest on construction of thesegment from Hamlet to Sanford as well as further the activities in the northeast while finishing up work inthe south-central portion of the network.

To track the progress, MCNC is pleased to offer a new interactive map. On this map, you can use the dropdown menu to see the status of the NCREN backbone as it existed in 2008 prior to the BTOP projects, andrepresentative views of progress on the project to date. Or, you can watch a time-lapse view of progress onthe build, and even get more information about a specific network segment, and in some cases, video of thesegment’s construction.

NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling of the U.S. Department of Commerce said before funding MCNC,NCREN delivered speeds of 1gbps or faster to only 12 out of 100 counties in North Carolina. Through theGLRBI, he noted, MCNC will expand that number to 83 counties – nearly a 600 percent increase in statewidebroadband capabilities. “This will not only improve education and other public services, but it can also spuradditional private-sector investment,” he added.

Approximately 99.3 percent of the $144 million total project value will be spent in the private-sector. MCNCwill help create public/private partnerships to enable private-sector broadband providers to reach underservedcitizens and businesses. This approach benefits every citizen in the state.

To track progress, view the MCNC BTOPinteractive map.

The main goal is to meet the bandwidth needs of the users of NCREN in a cost-efficient manner. The GLRBIwill allow the institutions served by NCREN to increase their use of Intranet and Internet resources and thusthe need for bandwidth at the current rate (doubling every two to three years) while keeping costs stable attoday’s rates. Another goal is to increase the availability of affordable broadband service for consumers,


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businesses, and community institutions not served by NCREN in rural North Carolina. The GLRBI will giveNCREN the capacity to serve commercial needs through for-profit cable and telecommunications companies,telephone cooperatives, electric membership cooperatives, independent telecommunications, and cablecompanies. MCNC will not provide this service directly, but is required by the terms of the BTOP grant, tomake fiber available at market-disrupting prices to the private, for-profit providers.

In 2012, MCNC will begin using this high-capacity/high-speed network that will result of the GLRBI tobenefit communities and maximize private-sector opportunity to deliver emerging shared/cloud services toNCREN customers. When a network has huge pipes, it’s easier to aggregate demand for applications, tools,and services for network customers and deliver them in a cloud-based model. MCNC also is working to forgekey partnerships in rural North Carolina that will utilize the GLRBI fiber to offer more affordable broadbandservice to citizens, businesses, and community institutions with an eye toward creating opportunities for thefor-profit telecommunications and cable operators in the state.

ECC Technologies of Wake Forest, N.C., and Penfield, N.Y., will oversee commercial broadbandopportunities as the project’s fiber marketing partner. ECC is working with MCNC on extensive outreach togroups of leaders in areas of the GLRBI build. Groups of advocates, such as Northeast Rural BroadbandPartnership, have already begun to formulate their strategies for leveraging the GLRBI fiber to expand“last-mile” broadband options for businesses and consumers in their respective regions.

All construction on the GLRBI must be completed in accordance to federal guidelines and finished by Jan.31, 2013 to allow MCNC time to equip and place fiber into service on or before July 31, 2013. This expansionwill be a great enhancement to the capabilities of NCREN, and has the potential to reduce the costs ofdelivering broadband services to consumers and small businesses in regions of the state where affordablebroadband currently isn’t available.

It’s been a great year for the NCREN community, and 2012 already is shaping up to be even better.

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U.S. troop level decreases and shrinking armed forces budgets will lead to increasedcompetition and a change in business operations for military contractors in NorthCarolina and throughout the nation, according to defense industry contracting expertLea Strickland, requiring a more strategic and tactical approach to developingprofessional, properly-designed bid proposals.

Innovative concept-to-marketplace product design and development firm MontieDesign is holding a Winter 2012 Student Design Contest for aspiring productdesigners in community colleges, four-year colleges, or high schools from NorthCarolina and Virginia, starting February 1.

The leader in analytical instrumentation for the pharma manufacturing industry hasnamed a new COO responsible for manufacturing, engineering, softwaredevelopment, and project management for hardware and software products such asthe VTT-1000 multi-variant testing device, breaking down barriers to speeding-up thedrug manufacturing pipeline and cutting-down on drug shortages.

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A new supercomputer just over the stateline could help tidy up the archives of datastreamed down from satellites circling theglobe and stored in Asheville.

The National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration is installing a new climateresearch supercomputer at Oak RidgeNational Laboratory in Tennessee to helpreseachers model and understand changesto the Earth’s climate.

With the potential to perform 1,100 trillioncalculations per second, the Cray XE6supercomputer will draw on data stored atAsheville’s National Climactic Data Center.

“It’s exciting that NOAA has just set up thissystem that’s going to help us understandthe long-term predictions of how theclimate is changing, not only on a globalscale, but trying to get down to the regionalscale,” said Scott Hausman, the director ofsupport services at NCDC. “We need to getdown to the level where we know whathappening in North Carolina and theSoutheast.”

While NOAA researchers can use the OakRidge supercomputers for long-rangemodeling, the scientists at NCDC focus on

archiving historic weather data and theongoing download of information fromweather satellites.

NCDC hopes to expand its broadbandpipeline in coming years toward Knoxville,Tenn., to better access the supercomputerand improve its data sets, Hauswman said.

Satellite data often come with systematicerrors from the sensors, which need to becleaned up for greater accuracy. “But thesatellite data sets are very, very large, andyou need a lot of computing power toreprocess that data,” Hausman said.

The broadband access between Ashevilleand Knoxville should see improvementsstarting this year as federal stimulus moneygoes to extend fiberoptic network in thewestern part of the state, said HunterGoosmann, director of ERC Broadband,which provides high-speed Internet serviceto NCDC and the federal building.

ERC is partnering with MCNC, the nonprofitthat operates the state’s educational

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Internet network, to extend service in morerural areas.

MCNC has won $144 million in two roundsto extend the state’s broadbandinfrastructure, serving public schools,government, libraries, hospitals and others.

“NCDC will be able to connect faster to OakRidge at less cost and support theexchange of that data,” Goosmann said.

The new Cray supercomputer, nicknamed“Gaea” or “Mother Earth,” is the thirdsupercomputer housed at Oak Ridge. Theothers are “Jaguar,” currently the world’sthird-fastest machine, and “Kraken,” whichbelongs to the National Science Foundationand University of Tennessee.

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