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Hamburg, Germany
|Tønder, Denmark
|Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
|Hamburg West
|Hamburg East
Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and its inhabitants claim it's the greatest one. It is split between two graticules.
Both graticules cover the independent city Hamburg as well as the "Länder" Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
West (latitude 53, longitude 9)[edit]
The graticule is split by the river Elbe. Except by boat or swimming you can only cross it via bridges or tunnels located in Hamburg. In the north is Schleswig-Holstein, south the river is Niedersachsen. In Niedersachsen there is the "Wildpark Lüneburger Heide", a nice national park. You can view the graticule with all Geohashes visited in Google Maps.
According to Land usage, the chance for your hash to fall into one of the following areas is:
74.21% Fields 6.58% Roads 5.95% Forests 4.51% Natural reserves 3.42% Settlements 3.38% Water 1.95% Highways
East (latitude 53, longitude 10)[edit]
This graticule contains the eastern half of Hamburg, as well as the city "Lübeck", parts of Schleswig-Holstein and Niedersachsen and a small corner of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
According to Land usage, the chance for your hash to fall into one of the following areas is:
53.00% Fields 16.95% Natural reserves 15.04% Forests 5.90% Roads 3.95% Settlements 3.63% Highways 1.52% Water
Local Geohashers[edit]
- Hermann is bike powered, living in the west-end. Will try to reach every hash between the river Elbe and "Pinneberg".
- Arnew is bike/hvv powered, living central. Will try to reach at least one hash ;).
- Knuff is hvv/feet powered, living cental, not being gps-powered at the moment, will trying to be... somewhere, someday :)
- Pne is HVV powered, living in Harburg, has only visited one hash so far, is unlikely to be very active. Possibly only Saturday meetups.
- Wluut is car/hvv powered, living in Harburg, will try to reach hashes, if not too busy.
- TheXenoreal are actually two people who are car/bike/feet powered.
- Bierhefe is bike/feet/HVV/car powered, now living in Buchholz.
- mtu is a HVV/bike powered student of physics living in Hamburg enthusiastic about geohashing.
- areghoi is a HVV/feet/"Friends with Cars" powered hasher from West-Hamburg and just did his first geohash!!!
- Hascha is a HVV/feet/Bike/Car powered hasher living in Elmshorn and has just discovered Geohashing (haven't done any yet)
- Koryu lives in Hamburg, will also geohash in the graticules in Schleswig-Holstein. Car available.
- Karl_77 is HVV/feet/bike powered. He moved here from the southof Germany and is looking for fellow Geohashers for expeditions near Hamburg.
Planned Geohashes[edit]
- 2017-06-09 Wulf4096 will try to be there at 17:00 local time.
Reached Geohashes[edit]
-most recent on top-
- 2018-08-05 Fippe went to an apple plantation near Stade.
- 2017-05-21 GeorgDerReisende went to a yard of a company in southwestern Garstedt.
- 2017-04-30 Fippe went to Brockel.
- 2017-04-30 Fippe went to Bad Bevensen.
- 2016-12-21 GeorgDerReisende went to Schwanheide.
- 2016-09-22 GeorgDerReisende went to Beimoorweg and Kornkamp in Ahrensburg.
- 2016-09-12 GeorgDerReisende went to Oststeinbek.
- 2016-05-28 GeorgDerReisende went to a meadow near the village Steinbek.
- 2016-02-03 ZettS Stopped by on the way to Hamburg, between Groß Schenkenberg and Trenthorst
- 2015-12-13 GeorgDerReisende went to the Tonradsmoor in Hamburg-Volksdorf.
- 2015-11-13 OtherJack got close but it was behind the nursery-school fence, in Farmsen.
- 2015-08-22 Compound around the Marseille-Kaserne near the Uetersen Airport. Hermann flew there.
- 2014-12-04 on a meadow near Quickborn. Koryu passed there by car in the dark.
- 2014-12-01 at Thörl's Park in Hamburg-Hamm. Near U Burgstraße. 16:00. GeorgDerReisende was there.
- 2014-04-25 GeorgDerReisende went to a forest south of Fredeburg.
- 2014-04-23 GeorgDerReisende went to a small forest in Hamburg-Rissen.
- 2013-11-17 GeorgDerReisende and Wulf4096 went to the northern edge of the building O38 (Laborzentrum) in the area of the university medical centre of Hamburg-Eppendorf at different times
- 2013-11-16 GeorgDerReisende went to a meadow in Hamburg-Volksdorf.
- 2013-09-16 Hermann took photos of an awesome rainbow at a repurposed gravel quarry.
- 2013-08-14 GeorgDerReisende made a walk to the Zentralfriedhof at Lüneburg.
- 2013-07-19 GeorgDerReisende visited a path in the fields near Fischerhude.
- 2013-04-07 - Bierhefe did not reach the coordinates.
- 2012-07-11 Bierhefe aborted the expedition due to weather conditions. Coordinates not reached!
- 2012-07-02 Situated in a building near "Eppendorfer Park", Breitenfelder Straße 90. Koryu went there Tron-style including raptors and police(wo)men.
- 2012-06-21 Koryu went to this nice geohash situated on the bank of Kiel Canal near a raspberry farm.
- 2012-06-15 Koryu was there and found a postcard sent by air balloon.
- 2012-06-04 Koryu attempted this hash, but couldn't reach it because of a fence.
- 2012-01-11 Next to a street in Hamburg's northeast. ilpadre's first expedition in that graticule.
- 2011-12-30 Bierhefe and wife reached it.
- 2011-09-10 areghoi had a nice walk in the Forrest. Pictures following.
- 2011-08-02 Bierhefe reached this hash after a lot of cycling.
- 2011-06-01 Bierhefe did not reach the coordinates. No trespassing.
- 2011-05-10 Bierhefe reached this hash together with his wife.
- 2011-03-03 Bierhefe didn't reach todays coordinates, even though he tried VERY hard.
- 2011-02-11 Bierhefe took the train on his way home and made a little detour to reach this hash.
- 2011-02-10 Pne can hardly avoid the hashpoint: it's on the campus of his daughter's school.
- 2011-01-28 Hermann and mtu went to a tree nursery north of "Holm".
- 2011-01-27 Hermann bicycled to an apple farm near "Wedel".
- 2011-01-21 Hermann puppet-mastered a fellow student to take a photo of the hash.
- 2010-11-24 Bierhefe bicycled there.
- 2010-11-19 Pne drove past the hashpoint right by a road in Ellerau.
- 2010-11-01 mtu dragged his girlfriend along to an easy hash in Lüneburg.
- 2010-10-17 mtu and seamus_d attempting a Consecutive Geohash, episode 2
- 2010-10-16 mtu and seamus_d attempting a Consecutive Geohash, episode 1
- 2010-09-17 mtu travelled to the remote village "Handeloh" with two friends.
- 2010-09-13 Pne rode his bike to a field just outside the Hamburg city border.
- 2010-08-10 Hermann rode his bike into the forest "Klövensteen".
- 2010-06-09 Hermann went to the shore at the river Elbe.
- 2010-06-05 Pne went to his first ever Saturday meetup, on a field part of the former concentration camp Neuengamme.
- 2010-04-23 Hermann visited a shared backyard in "Hamburg-Eidelstedt".
- 2010-04-21 Hermann and Matthias found a pair of shoes on the dike in "Wedel".
- 2010-04-04 Sarah visited the Adolf-Jäger-Arena.
- 2009-10-20 Hermann went to the botanical garden.
- 2009-10-10 TheXenoreal visited the Sachsenwald near Dassendorf.
- 2009-10-09 ilpadre down in town.
- 2009-10-01 TheXenoreal visited a field north of Luhmühlen near Lüneburg.
- 2009-09-28 TheXenoreal visited a field at Krapphof near Hamburg Bergedorf.
- 2009-09-26 TheXenoreal visited a field south of Mechow.
- 2009-09-22 TheXenoreal visited the "Fruchtquell Getränkeindustrie & Co. KG" in Dodow.
- 2009-05-18 Hermann tried to gain permisson to take a photo of a backyard in "Wedel".
- 2009-05-15 Hermann couldn't access a field near the "Zeiss Vogelstation" near "Wedel".
- 2009-05-12 Hermann had visited a paddock near "Hamburg-Sülldorf".
- 2009-05-07 Hermann and Matthias went to a churchyard.
- 2009-04-26 Hermann and Matthias biked through the forest.
- 2009-03-08 Hermann was downtown.
- 2009-02-03 Hermann and Matthias were there.
- 2009-01-09 Hermann went to the shore.
- 2008-12-15 Hermann and Felix dragged Matthias and Cornelius to the dike.
- 2008-09-27 Somebody earns the Coffin Potato Achievement.
- 2008-09-20 Hermann was there.
- 2008-08-16 53,9 and 53,10: relet visited both graticules on his MONSTER hash.
- 2008-08-06 Hermann bicycled there.
- 2008-07-05 Wluut went here.
- 2008-06-29 Hermann bicycled there.
- 2008-06-24 Hermann and Felix bicycled there.
- 2008-06-03 Hermann and Felix bicycled there.
- 2008-05-26 was reached by Hermann. Probably the first reached hash in this graticule and possibly the first successful documented geohash in Germany.
Special Hashpoints[edit]
The 2009-01-09 hashpoint (west) can bee watched live via webcam!


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Administrate Your Gentoo System
How to administer your Gentoo system
This document is not meant to become a generic Gentoo administration guide, but more to collect a few tricks specific to the usage of the distribution on a Kurobox. For a more general documentation, please refer to the official documentation, in particular:
- Part II of the Gentoo Handbook
- The excellent Gentoo security guide
- The Gentoo Samba howto, and many other specific guides.
- 1 How to administer your Gentoo system
- 2 Environmental files
- 3 How to install binary packages
- 4 The power/reset buttons explained
- 5 Keep your box on time
- 6 Some system packages you should really install
- 7 Kernel modules
Environmental files
Now is a good time to set up your ~/.bashrc (configuration for shell) file. Every administrator has their own preferencies, but at a very minimum, I'd suggest the following:
export EDITOR=vi export CVS_RSH=ssh export TERM=vt100 alias ls="ls -hqp --color" alias c=clear alias r="fc -e - "
vi to your prefered editor. You might want to change
TERM, too. The
ls alias line produces a more readable output (and coloured, too). You can use
fc -l to list recent commands and
r to repeat them (
r repeats the last,
r foo repeats the last command beginning
foo and
r nnn repeats command number
nnn from the
fc -l output).
c clears the terminal window.
How to install binary packages
The Gentoo/Kuro project will try to provide up-to-date binary packages for some commonly used applications that take much time to compile on a Kurobox (like apache, mysql, etc.) Using binary packages may seems unusual on a Gentoo system, but is actually really easy. In /etc/make.conf, declare the hosts of binaries you want to use:
Then, when you want "emerge" to fetch a binary package instead of compiling, use the -g option. For instance:
# emerge -g mysql
If no suitable binary is found, emerge will fallback to an usual from-sources installation. If you want to accept only binary package, then use -G instead of -g. Finally, if you want emerge to always try to get a binary prior to compiling, then you can add getbinpkg to your FEATURES in /etc/make.conf.
[TODO: pros and cons of binary packages, relation to USE flags, etc.]
Your Gentoo system has a special setup for the power (the one in front of the box) and reset (the small one on the back) buttons:
- to shut down your box, press the front button for ~6 seconds. That will do a "shutdown -h now".
- to reset your box, push the front button twice in less than 3 seconds. This will do a "shutdown -r now".
- to reset your box in EM mode (in case of troubles), press the back button for ~6 seconds.
For technical details about this feature, check the Survive without ppc_uartd page.
Keep your box on time
The first thing to do if the clock of your box is important to you is to set its timezone (yeah, that could have been in the install guide, i forgot). It is as simple as creating the right symlink at the right place:
# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris /etc/localtime # ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime
Using ntp
Ntp is a protocol that permits syncing time with other servers. Once configured, your box will always stay perfectly on time, and can also be turned into a time server for the other machines of your LAN.
A net-misc/ntp binary package is available, so you can
emerge -g it.
For the configuration, I suggest you read the Howto NTP from the Gentoo Wiki.
Some system packages you should really install
Right after the installation, your system is really minimalistic. Here are a few packages that you probably should install:
A log daemon
Possible choices are:
app-admin/syslog app-admin/metalog app-admin/syslog-ng
I personally prefer syslog-ng, thus that's the one i provide as binary package. But metalog also worths a try, feel free to compile it. And once you've installed and configured one, remember to add it to the default runlevel:
# rc-update add syslog-ng default
A cron daemon
I suggest you try
sys-apps/fcron: it can understand traditional crontabs (à la vixie-cron and friends), but adds many other useful features (daily/weekly/etc. targets, cpu load control, per-user crontabs, etc.). It is available as binary package. Oh, and that also should be added to the default runlevel.
That's the complement of your logger daemon, to avoid having your /var/log growing again and again.
emerge logrotate, configure it, and check it is in your cron jobs.
Just like logrotate, you probably want that to keep your /tmp size under control.
emerge tmpreaper.
Kernel modules
Depending if you are using a Kuro or a Kuro/HG, the compiled kernel modules are in two different packages:
sys-kernel/modules-kurobox sys-kernel/modules-kurobox-hg
You probably want to install one of this package. I've not much looked at the old Kuro ones, but the HG ones for instance add the generic scsi driver (which i think is required for mounting usb devices), more filesystems, more NLS encodings, etc. If there are there some modules you want loaded on boot, add them to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4, and run

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One fateful night, the mischievous thief Esta sets out to rob yet another unsuspecting nobleman of his riches. However, the mansion she targets turns out to be completely abandoned except for the, in her words, whiny and incompetent Yoru. Nevertheless, to her annoyance, she ends up having to take this young man along on her adventures. But despite his appearance, he might be more involved in the town's upsets than she realizes...
Firefly is a kinetic novel, which means there are no choices or multiple endings to unlock. In return though, the game should take about nine hours to finish. All art is done in 1280x720, and all backgrounds, sprites, CGs and music are custom-made. The game engine is also custom-made and includes features found in most other VNs and more.
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David J. Johns Named Executive Director of the National Black Justice Coalition
The leadership of the National Black Justice Coalition announced today that David J. Johns has assumed the role of Executive Director as of September 1, 2017. Headquartered in Washington, DC, the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) is a civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS. NBJC's mission is to end racism, homophobia, and LGBTQ bias and stigma.
"Growing up as a little Black boy in Inglewood, California, I did not meet or see people who showed up in the world like me-strong Black men who are equally proud about their Blackness as they are about being same gender loving (SGL)," stated David J. Johns. "I want people to see me, to know that I exist -- that we, as a community, refuse to hide or check parts of who we are at the door, shrink or otherwise fail to show up in our fullness -- knowing who we are and whose we are. I assume this responsibility, in part, because it's important for me to show up for younger people the way I wish adults had shown up for me -- fully, honestly and without apology."
In 2013, Johns was appointed as the first executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans by President Barack H. Obama and served until the last day of the Obama Administration in January, 2017. The Initiative worked across federal agencies, and with partners and communities nationwide, to produce a more effective continuum of education and workforce development programs for African American students of all ages.
Prior to his White House appointment, Johns was a senior education and workforce development policy advisor to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) under the leadership of U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). Before working for the Senate HELP Committee, under the leadership of Tom Harkin, Johns served under the leadership of the late U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA).
In addition, Johns has been a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Fellow in the office of Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY). Johns has worked on issues affecting low-income and minority students, neglected youth, early childhood and k-12 education, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) among others. His research as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow served as a catalyst to identify, disrupt and supplant negative perceptions of black males-both within academia and society.
Johns has been featured as an influential politico and advocate by several publications and outlets, including TheRoot.com, CNN, NBC, BET, EBONY and The Washington Post.
"During my tenure, I plan to focus deeply on the empowerment of the Black family, which includes the families we are born into as well as those we create -- while honoring the opportunity to remain a central repository for advocating for and responding to the needs of Black LGBTQ/SGL individuals and communities. Critical to this work is engaging all Black people in transformative dialogues that honor the diversity of Black families and the roles that Black LGBTQ/SGL people continue to play-in both family and community-and advancing policies that ensure civil rights for Black LGBTQ/SGL people," Johns continued.
Johns succeeds Sharon J. Lettman-Hicks, who led NBJC for eight years. Lettman-Hicks will continue her role as the Chief Executive Officer of NBJC and focus on board development, infrastructure and long-term sustainability.
"I had the pleasure of working directly with David Johns when I was appointed to serve on the Commission of the White House Initiative on Education Excellence for African Americans, where David served as the Executive Director," Lettman-Hicks said. "David's mere presence fills a room. His intellectual prowess, compassionate heart, and deeply-rooted knowledge of public policy and the plight of underserved and marginalized communities -- especially the African American experience -- gives me more than hope for our work and future leadership in Black America. He defines excellence and leaves no challenge unanswered. Johns is exactly the right person to articulate our needs and understand our connectedness to our families."
Johns added, "As the Executive Director of NBJC, I will lead aggressive campaigns that disrupt and supplant deleterious stereotypes about Black LGBTQ and same gender loving people. These campaigns and related activations will, among other things, highlight more of the diversity that exists within and makes our community strong."
For more information, visit http://nbjc.org


text: There have been numerous stories about what Sean Salisbury's been up to since his unfortunate dismissal from ESPN last winter: He's been sulking quietly at home; he's been popping up at random football camps; he's just been hanging out doing his Salisbury-thing, embracing his new found freedom to cavort with the ladies and be a gadfly without ESPN management scolding him. Unfortunately, none of the stories ever included new-found employment. But we can all breathe a little easier because it appears Sean can finally stop using ESPN's Cobra benefits:"Sean Salisbury has teamed up with OPEN Sports for daily blogs and video. "Salisbury's Take" offers hard-hitting analysis for the NFL and college games all season long." Oh boy.Surprisingly, OPEN Sports is not an online gambling site based in Antigua. No, according to its "About" page, it is here to "super serve you with a next-generation, sports experience guided by a user-first philosophy, deep content and new and innovative applications. We will empower you to make OPEN Sports YOUR personal sports site." And what better to compliment YOUR site than a hot splash of Salisbury during the NFL season? Here's his first "take": Click to view Brilliant. Now, just so you know, I have put in a request for an interview via the Open Sports pr machine. So far the response has been positive (through them) but they are aware of Sean's inextricable ties to Deadspin and have said they're "waiting to hear back" as to whether he'll actually consider it. I've expressed my hopes that both he and I could both put our pasts behind us and we can move on to a more open and honest relationship from here on out. Does that sound sincere enough? Hope so. Salisbury's Take [Open Sports]


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A further point to note is that even if you have enough participants, you need to make sure that they're classified correctly, and put into the right experimental group. Carrying out a study on bilinguals and monolinguals would of course be hampered if it came to light that some participants spoke one more (or less) languages than their grouping would suggest.classified
This is particularly pertinent in studies examining different mental disorders, in which the grouping definition could be unclear. For example, studies of anxiety may need to differentiate between participants who have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, or those who suffer from panic attacks, and even if participants exhibit subclinical / prodromal symptoms.
Ensuring that the sample is well-defined, and well characterized, before beginning the study will therefore ensure that the findings are relevant to the group of interest.Picking cherries, dredging data
While most of the selection biases occur before the data has been collected, there are several steps that occur post-hoc which are open to erroneous distortion. These steps instead to relate to how the data, rather than the sample, is selected.
Cherry-picking is undoubtedly a good way to prepare a pie, but is also the phrase given to the act of only selecting data that conforms with what the experimenter is expecting, or hoping, to see.Cherry-picking
This can occur due to malpractice , or perhaps wishful thinking on behalf of the investigator. Ultimately though, this leads to bad science either way. The investigator must remain open-minded to the contents of the data, and question how they are interpreting things. It may also help if several people (ideally independent) check the data of the study.
Similar to the above, data-dredging (also known as fishing for data, or p-hacking ) is the practice of only considering the data that is significant after the experiment, and inventing post-hoc conclusions for why that emerged. This usually arises when a large number of variables investigated, and spurious results can appear significant.data-dredging
By taking only significant variables from a dataset, this is essentially the same as running the same experiment multiple times, and publishing the one occurrence in which significant differences were found.
Experimental reproducibility is a particularly important tenet of science that should be maintained when there is a possibility of data-dredging. With enough replications , the research will be shown to be true or false.Trick splits
Finally, in a similar way to misclassifying the participants before the experiment, their data can be misclassified after the fact. Incorrect partitioning of data is a way of dividing, or not using, certain parts of the data based on false assumptions.
For months now, restaurant industry insiders have been muttering darkly about an impending apocalypse, presaging truly dark times ahead as a perfect storm of socioeconomic, political, and self-inflicted Brexit-shaped headwinds bears down on an independent sector already threatened by rent hikes and mega chain monopolisation .
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Latin Patriarch's Easter Homily: Security Cannot Be Achieved by Inflicting Insecurity on Others
"For the people and for all our political leaders, the situation has become deadlocked, or still worse, a routine of death that the latter think they must only govern without ever giving it life. The recent events of these past few weeks, Gaza, the murder at the yeshiva in Jerusalem, the young people killed in Bethlehem, and many others, are no more than sterile repetitions of the events of all the past years. And we will not stop repeating that security cannot be achieved by inflicting insecurity on others. New means must be found…" READ MORE >
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Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the End of the Way of the Cross
"Dear friends: After having lived together the passion of Jesus, let us this night allow his sacrifice on the cross to question us. Let us permit him to challenge our human certainties. Let us open our hearts. Jesus is the truth that makes us free to love. Let us not be afraid: upon dying, the Lord destroyed sin and saved sinners, that is, all of us. The Apostle Peter writes: 'He himself bore our sins in his body upon the cross, so that, free from sin, we might live for righteousness' (1 Peter 2:24). This is the truth of Good Friday: On the cross, the Redeemer has made us adoptive sons of God who he created in his image and likeness. Let us remain, then, in adoration before the cross." READ MORE >
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"'Jesus died in utter agony but also with total acceptance of the will of his Father: 'Father, into your hands I commend my spirit,' he said. Such trust and belief is hard to understand, but it lies at the heart of what faith is about.' ... Suffering and doubt is part of what it is to be human, but Jesus rising from the dead shows us that [it] is not the end of the story." ... But today it is enough to be humble and to share that sense of pain and desolation, wherever we know it to be and which many of us experience from time to time and pray that the darkness and despair will turn to hope and to light." READ MORE >
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For centuries... many stations were crowded with Roman soldiers and jeering or appalled onlookers, perhaps set against someone's impression of first-century Jerusalem. Eric Gill's 1918 stations, carved in shallow relief for Westminster Cathedral in London, pointed in a new direction. The figures were few and without background; the compositions were simple and formal, not theatrical. Rather than dictating an emotional response, the stone panels left space for the devotee's own thoughts... Don Meserve, a fervent admirer of Gill, works within this contemporary current...'What strikes one from the outset is the absence of the figure of Christ — the perplexing absence of the protagonist himself.'" READ MORE >
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Bearing the Silence of God: The image of Christ in the persecuted church
"…The greatest glory Jesus brought to God was not when he walked on the water or prayed for long hours, but when he cried in agony in the garden of Gethsemane and still continued to follow God's will, even though it meant isolation, darkness, and the silence of God. Thus, we know that when everything around us fails, when we are destroyed and abandoned, our tears, blood, and dead corpses are the greatest worship songs we have ever sung. The dead body is not the end of the story. The one who sacrificed his life is also the one who has been glorified: 'because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence' (2 Cor. 4:14)." READ MORE >
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The last rendezvous with Arthur C. Clarke
"…Clarke, who is credited in real life with being the first to come up with the idea of an 'artificial satellite' that could 'broadcast to half the globe,' was nothing if not prescient. Two years before I was born, he had already grasped the inevitable, unstoppable business model of on-demand-sex-flicks in the privacy of your own living room [and] I mean, come on -- in 1960, Clarke had already sketched out 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.' Were there no limits to his imagination!?" READ MORE >
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Rated G for Glorious
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Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
"Far from pushing boundaries, or the church's buttons, Rice's portrayal of Jesus as the son of God and the savior of humankind is theologically sound. At the same time, he's also very human, with needs and cares readers can relate to. 'It's an attempt to get close to him and what he experienced, to make it historically exciting and historically correct,' she said. Writing the books 'has made me conscious of what (Jesus) suffered in the way of derision and dismissal … Just like today -- people go around making jokes about him. But he goes right on winning souls no matter what anybody does. We've come 2,000 years, and you can still sit at his feet and hear him speak and feel his hand, maybe, touch your shoulder. He survives it all.'" READ MORE >
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Apocalypse Now?
"On a recent Saturday night, I went to the movies. Walking past the theater showing 'I Am Legend' (plague kills most of humanity), I opted to watch 'Cloverfield' (inexplicably angry alien destroys Manhattan) instead. After sitting through back-to-back previews for 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army' (ancient truce between Hell and Earth is revoked, resulting in mass destruction) and 'Doomsday' (lethal virus ravages England, a disease-ridden cinematic cousin to '28 Days Later' and 'Children of Men'), I found myself disturbed. The End of Days suddenly seemed imminent. Should I cancel my post-movie dinner reservation? What's with all this apocalyptic entertainment, I wondered, and what does it say about those of us who are filling the theater seats?" READ MORE >
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The People's Poetry Gathering was co-founded by Poets House and City Lore in 1999 and co-produced in 1999, 2001, and 2003. Poets House is pleased to co-sponsor this year's keynote address. See www.peoplespoetry.org for a full schedule.
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The 25 Greatest Moments in Camp Randall History is a book documenting many memorable moments in the University of Wisconsin football stadium. The Wisconsin football season slogan, Celebrate the Legacy, is exactly what author Mike Lucas does as he takes an inside look at the players, coaches and teams who make up The 25 Greatest Moments in Camp Randall History. Lucas painstakingly researched each of the greatest moments and has ranked them in order of their importance and impact on the UW program. Read firsthand accounts from the players and coaches who helped make Camp Randall one of the most difficult places for opponents to play and the # 4-rated college football venue according to a 2004 ESPN ranking. This book promises to be a cherished keepsake for Wisconsin fans everywhere.


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Tim Saternow, a Chelsea-based artist (and Emmy-nominated art director for television), spent the last two years painting the High Line from the street and surrounding buildings. The resulting series of simultaneously luminous and somber watercolor, The High Line Series, is on display at the George Billis Gallery all month, with an opening this Thursday.
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Good afternoon everyone, and welcome to the Chancellor's Convocation 2011. Thank you to Morris Palter and Ensemble 64.8 for getting us started today.
One of my graduate school professors suggested that to really understand the meaning of a word, you needed to look at its root, and see what other words are associated with it. "Convocation" comes from an indo-European root meaning "to call," or "to call together" with associated words of "evoke," "invoke," and "provoke." "Chancellor" is based on a late Latin word meaning "door-keeper." So my role today is to open doors, to call you together, and to provoke you to action.
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- College of Natural Science and Mathematics Dean Paul Layer
- Library Dean Bella Gerlich
- Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Scott Bell
- Associate Vice Chancellors for Research Dan White and Nettie La Belle-Hamer
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- UAF Community and Technical College Dean Susan Whitener
- School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences Dean Mike Castellini
- Associate Vice Chancellor for Financial Services Raaj Kurapati
- Vice Chancellor for Research Mark Myers
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We also have new faculty, staff and students at all UAF locations. Please stand and let us welcome you to UAF!
Today's convocation is a little longer than usual. It ends with my thoughts on the path toward our centennial in 2017. And our staff knows we need to keep the ice cream cold until I've finished.
Looking back, I am impressed by how much you have accomplished for UAF. The passion and talent of people at UAF are impressive. Let me share just a few highlights of the past year.
- The work of Sustainability Director Michele Hebert. Michele, her students, and countless others on campus, helped UAF receive a Gold rating for sustainability efforts on campus by the Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment and Rating Systems, or STARS. We're one of 23 institutions in the entire country, and the only one in Alaska, to have a Gold rating.
- This last winter was a brutal one for Interior Alaska, and for several of our rural sites. We had the ice-pocalypse in November and the massive snowstorms in March. Our facilities services team worked around the clock to make the Fairbanks campus accessible and safe. Bear Edson and the facilities team are doing a wonderful job keeping our academic homes operating.
- UAF awarded 46 PhDs, a new record, and has 432 PhD students enrolled. Thanks go to all the faculty members who are involved in graduate education, serving on committees, and mentoring the next generation of the academy. And to Larry Duffy, thank you for your interim leadership of the Graduate School for the past several years.
- This summer brought UAF's Fairbanks campus the busiest construction season in recent times. The shining star, the Life Sciences Facility, has emerged with amazing speed. Construction project manager Cameron Wohlford and other members of the design and construction team have provided superb work on this facility. Thank you for making UAF a better place for those who teach, work, and learn here.
- On the research front, a newly excavated archaeological site in Alaska contained the cremated remains of one of the earliest inhabitants of North America. The site may provide rare insights into the burial practices of Ice Age people and shed new light on their daily lives. UAF archaeologists Ben Potter and Joel Irish and three colleagues published their discovery in the Feb. 25 edition of the journal Science, and the discovery earned national and international media coverage.
- Rose Meier and the Council of Yup'ik elders integrated traditional Yup'ik knowledge in the creation of a new textbook on ethnobotany under the direction of Kuskokwim Campus Director Mary Pete. Classes in ethnobotany were offered in both Bethel and Kotzebue, where students learned about Yup'ik and Inupiaq uses of Alaska plants.
- Our engineering programs continue to grow to meet the system goals; we now have over 700 undergraduate engineering students, we graduated 87 engineers this year toward a goal of 100 annually, and retained 83 percent of freshmen engineers, all new highs for the college. Thank you,engineering faculty, and kudos to the steel bridge team.
Now please keep in mind -- this is just a small subset of highlights from the past year. It would take hours to give appropriate accolades to all of the incredible work that is going on at UAF. I thank you all for your part in all of our successes.
In four years we will mark the centennial of laying the cornerstone for our university. In six years we will celebrate its founding. Today I want to talk about the planning efforts underway that will lead us forward, boldly and confidently, to our 100th anniversaries.
Here is University of Alaska President Pat Gamble on UA's strategic direction.
VIDEO: Pat Gamble
Working within the President's vision, UAF -- the flagship campus of the system -- will plan for a future that will excite and serve the students who learn here, the faculty and staff who work here, and the communities that depend on us.
As we approach our centennial, we want to communicate what a treasure UAF is. Our strategic marketing committee will help improve UAF's brand, image, and communications to external audiences.
Across the UA system, we worked on, and the Board of Regents adopted, a system Academic Master Plan. Here is Provost Susan Henrichs, one of the key architects of that plan:
VIDEO: Susan Henrichs
Institutional accreditation is critical for us as a university. It assures students and parents that we are a good choice. It assures the federal government that UAF meets standards expected of a university:
- We understand our mission and have clear goals for how to meet that mission;
- We measure our progress;
- We offer a quality academic experience;
- We appropriately treat students and their records; and
- We have sound fiscal status and management.
The process of periodic accreditation benefits the university by requiring us to examine our standards and performance, enabling us to identify our strengths as well as any areas of weakness, and to improve where needed. Our comprehensive self-evaluation report was sent to the evaluators in August.
Look for the report, and more information on the process at www.uaf.edu/accreditation . I encourage you to read it, especially in your areas of interest. Vice Provost and Accreditation Liaison Officer Dana Thomas led the process. Faculty member Glenn Juday wrote an accolade to Dana that I would like to quote:
"The accreditation report presents a clear, accurate, penetrating, accessible, and informative view of UAF, a sprawling and multifaceted institution in a large and diverse state. These documents have set a new standard, and are themselves an indication of the quality of the institution. In my experience, few institutions are capable of this sort of judicious self-analysis. In my more than 30 years at UAF I cannot recall anything that even comes close.
The reason this difficult assignment was successfully carried out, was due in no small part to your leadership - a mixture of in-depth knowledge, collegiality, determination, and steady commitment to the larger goal."
Thank you, Dana, and everyone who worked with Dana on this critical task.
Next on the docket is a visit from the evaluation team October 3rd through 5th here in Fairbanks. The site reviewers volunteer their time to help assess and improve higher education. They will speak with faculty, staff and students prior to and during the visit, so please encourage others to read and be prepared for a phone call or visit. The chair of the evaluation team will deliver closing remarks at a public presentation from 9:30-10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 5, right here in the Davis Concert Hall and via audio conference.
What have we learned from the process so far? The good news is…quite a bit. Here are some samples of how we measure progress on our five core themes:
- In Educate: we learned that our retention rate of first-time, full-time freshman degree-seeking students increased to an all time high of nearly 70 percent.
- In Discover: we learned that while research expenditures per faculty member were in the $90 to $100,000 range at our peer institutions, here at UAF our faculty members generate more than double that amount, at $195 to $223,000 dollars.
- In Prepare: we learned that 94.8 percent of students who took programmatic certification or qualifying exams passed those tests. In most categories, a larger percentage than the national average passed, and two-thirds of the tests reported 100 percent pass rates.
- In Connect: we learned that of 62 reported partnerships with communities, businesses, and state and local government agencies, one third have endured for more than a decade. This speaks to partner satisfaction and continuing value.
- In Engage we learned that in 2010 we offered a total of 588 distinct workshops at 91 locations across Alaska, with an attendance of over 17,000 participants.
These achievements are a tribute to the work of UAF's faculty, staff, and students, and demonstrate our reach throughout Alaska.
Our mission statement and strategic plan are now seven years old. We need to update both for the next accreditation cycle. The first report is due next fall - which will require that we revisit our themes, objectives and indicators of achievement.
One thing that won't change is the value of a liberal education, now and tomorrow. Universities are not just job factories. At UAF we need to teach students to think, adapt, and use logic. They need to be able to research, write, compute and communicate. They need to be engaged in civic life, and understand our role in the global environment. A college education means delivering quality in all of those areas, as well as workforce development and career enhancement.
That means work on our core curriculum. It was adopted in 1991, and doesn't fully reflect the world of the 21st century. The current core has a substantial focus on subject area knowledge: science, math, writing, speaking, social sciences, and humanities. We need to recognize the interdisciplinary nature of solutions to today's problems, including civic engagement, sustainability, globalization and indigenous knowledge, and the value of internship experiences in the core.
From the first incoming class on the Fairbanks campus, to today's diverse student body across our community campuses, one thing remains constant: Students are our reason for being and the focus of our work. Strategically building enrollment is a fundamental component of a rich and vibrant UAF.
Here is Vice Chancellor for Students Mike Sfraga on current enrollment planning.
VIDEO: Mike Sfraga
Those enrollment-planning efforts that Mike talked about have already been paying off. Final numbers won't be available until later this semester, but fall enrollments show an increase in both the number of students and student credit hours. My thanks to the faculty, admissions staff, academic advisors, and recruitment professionals who worked hard to make these gains possible.
I am pleased to report a nearly 50 percent increase in the number of First Time Freshman from Anchorage, Mat-Su, Kenai and Soldotna. We want to be the institution of first choice for college-bound Alaskans.
To accentuate this point -- just last week I welcomed to UAF 190 new UA Scholars. They are the largest incoming class of Scholars in the program's history. They know what we know -- this is the place to be!
A vibrant and responsive 21st century university must celebrate other cultures and perspectives. I want our university community to benefit from students and scholars from other countries -- creating an international experience that enhances our learning and living environment.
So I've challenged the Office of International Programs and Initiatives to increase the number of students and scholars coming to UAF from abroad, building upon several strategic initiatives already in place --in China, India, throughout the Americas, and yes, even Mongolia. And we'll continue to take advantage of our special role in the University of the Arctic.
Our campuses must continue to change and adapt -- because our students are far different than those of just a decade ago.
Technology, online learning, and economic realities are just a few of the issues guiding us to rethink the way we teach -- and learn. Offering classes and programs via e-Learning is no longer an interesting option; it's a necessity. Enrollments in the Center for Distance Education continue to surge, with e-Learning a critical component of many students' graduation strategies.
Let me shift to the UAF student experience. Our students demand more out-of-class activities and programs -- so we will continue to respond to this challenge. In the past two years staff have dramatically increased the number and type of programs taking place on the Fairbanks campus -- and they've done a great job.
We have new wellness and fitness programs that take advantage of our unique campus and northern landscape. Just last month we completed the construction of the UAF Outdoor Education Center -- a combined rock and ice climbing wall that will serve as an instructional and recreational facility. The Center will enable us to increase the number of outdoor education courses, intramural and residence life programs, and youth camps. Thanks to Mark Oldmixon for your leadership, and to the facilities crew, and risk management for making this happen. And that's not all.
We challenged the staff of the new Department of Recreation, Adventure and Wellness, which includes the Student Rec Center, Outdoor Adventures, the Outdoor Ed Center, and still-evolving Nanook Terrain Park to develop a new, comprehensive wellness, fitness, and recreation experience for students, faculty, and staff.
A crucial part of our long-term plan is the strategy for UAF research. Here is Vice Chancellor for Research Mark Myers:
Central to our research planning is a focus on research and development relevant to the State of Alaska, its communities, and its people. A strong partnership with the state is going to be essential. We're fortunate right now to have Lt. Governor Mead Treadwell as one of our supporters. He has background in research and truly understands the importance of what we are doing. Here is a brief video clip where he speaks to the state/university connection:
Recent research initiatives that will strengthen our relationships include areas such as oil spill response, climate change, oil production, ocean acidification, earthquake and volcanoes, and rare earth minerals. We look forward to working with Governor Sean Parnell and the State Legislature on ways UAF research can bring value to these areas so critical to the future of our state.
Research relevant to Alaska isn't limited to the sciences. The work at the Alaska Native Language Center to update the state's Alaska Native Language Map contributes to Alaskan understanding. The collaboration between the arts and biology that resulted in the live stage production of In a Time of Change: Envisioning the Future brought together scientists and artists to share their ideas surrounding climate change and the future.
Most importantly, as Alaska's research university, we need to strengthen that connection between our research endeavors and the student experience. I am pleased that Barbara Taylor stepped up to direct URSA, the office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity. URSA's mission is to support, develop and institutionalize UAF's diverse and robust programs of student-faculty collaboration in the creation of discipline-specific knowledge.
To address academic, student, and research planning, we need adequate facilities. Here is Rich Boone, co-chair of the Campus Master Planning Committee:
In addition to his Master Planning efforts, Rich is UAF's lead as dean of graduate studies for the University of the Arctic, and will be spending the next year on loan to the National Science Foundation. And I should note that community campus master planning is underway this year, so we will have master plans for all our campuses.
I know this summer has been challenging for those who work, play or study near our construction zones. We've got a lot going on. In addition to Life Sciences, other projects include:
- Labs both here in Fairbanks and at the Kuskokwim Campus for the Center for Alaska Native Health Research
- A replacement greenhouse for the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences
- The renovation of the third floor of the UAF Community and Technical College for information technology, drafting, and construction management programs
- High bay labs for the Alaska Center for Energy and Power
- Electrical, switchgear, and heating plant upgrades
We're reducing the backlog in deferred maintenance, and making technology improvements such as smart classroom upgrades and the Voice Over Internet Protocol, or VOIP conversion.
Just as students expect more e-Learning opportunities, they also want their residence hall experience to reflect current trends. We have started aSustainable Village partnership with the Cold Climate Housing Research Center, which will create innovative, arctic-appropriate student housing. We plan to use a public/private partnership to construct a dining facility addition to Wood Center, and suite-style housing with up to 250 beds for upper division and graduate students. If all goes well, we expect both the new dining and housing to be ready for use in 2013.
It's great to have growth, but new facilities need heat and lights. That brings me to the most significant construction project facing us: a replacement for the aging Atkinson Heat and Power Plant.
We have $3 million for permitting and preliminary design work needed to complete the permitting process this year. We requested $22 million for next year, most of which would be used for actual design of what is likely to be a nearly $200 million project.
Replacement now, rather than renewal of the existing plant, is the best option in terms of efficiency, fiscal accountability, and environmental responsibility.
A combined heat and power plant is the most efficient way to provide energy the Fairbanks campus needs - to get the maximum energy from the fuel we use. When heat and power are generated separately, they operate at about 52 percent efficiency, but when combined, they operate at 65 to 70 percent efficiency
Replacement now, rather than renewal, is a fiscally accountable choice. With just the information we have now, we know without a new plant we will need to spend over $40 million cobbling together temporary, expensive patches to a system nearing the end of its useful life over the next several years.
Replacement now, rather than renewal, is an environmentally responsible choice. A new plant will reduce overall emissions compared to the current plant - the current one burns coal, oil, and a little natural gas, while the new energy portfolio includes coal, biofuels, gas/propane, wind, and waste energy.
Now I know some don't want coal on campus - but we have examined every alternative. There is no other cost-effective way to heat the Fairbanks campus. Heating with oil would cost us an additional $26 million per year, on top of the $8 million we now spend on fuel. That would be 20 percent of our total state funding. We do have alternatives for electricity, but without coal, we will either freeze in the dark, or freeze with the lights on.
This will be a monumental project, but among the most important as we approach our centennial. Just like Life Sciences, it is going to take all of us within the university as well as our community supporters, to advocate for its necessity. That worked with Life Sciences, and it will work for the combined heat and power plant.
Other significant construction projects on the horizon are a new engineering facility, a new fire hall and emergency and firefighter training center, and revitalization of the Kuskokwim Campus and West Ridge. We will talk more about these projects in the months and years to come.
Each year we say farewell to members of the UAF family. Pictures of a few of those who died in the past year are on the screen behind me. I ask you to join me for a moment of silence to remember those whose lives we lost and who made a difference to us, and whom we will miss.
Before I conclude today's convocation with an outline of 2017, I want to call all of you to actions that will enhance our future.
The first is on giving. Last year we saw an increase in individual and alumni giving to UAF, with nearly 250 new donors, a 7 percent increase over last year. Thank you to all who contributed. This year, I again ask you to join Sherry and me in giving back to our university.
The UAF United Way Campaign will also soon kick off. Mark and Lael Oldmixon are spearheading our efforts this year. UAF shows we are a part of the community by our participation; the community shows its recognition of us by its support for our efforts. Mark and Lael will be at the doors as you leave today to hand you more information on how to give to United Way.
The second call is to be healthy. Yes, be healthy. We are all aware and frustrated with health care costs, and the effects on university health care plans. One of the ways each of us can make a difference is by leading a healthy lifestyle. And it doesn't hurt to have a little fun at the same time.
So we're embarking on a Healthy Challenge between UAF and Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. We've competed for several years on the Heart Walk, raising funds and awareness for heart health. Now we're upping our competition.
The Healthy Challenge will be in three phases. First, a competition between Fairbanks Memorial Hospital CEO Mike Powers and me. Second, a Healthy Challenge competition between my UAF cabinet members and the FMH administrative team. And finally, a Healthy Challenge competition in early 2012 will be between all UAF employees and all FMH employees. Look for details in the near future.
FMH CEO - and member of the University of Alaska Board of Regents - Mike Powers is here in the audience today, and I would like to ask him to stand be recognized for partnering with us in this endeavor. Oh, and Mike? One more thing. We are in this to win. So let me offer you an extra scoop of ice cream to start the competition.
A second healthy initiative addresses a frequent request - for university staff to have wider use of the Student Recreation Center. Look for an announcement shortly of expanded staff access, supported by university resources.
In the feedback from prior convocations, there were several comments asking that I lay out my vision for UAF. I chose not to do so in prior years, in part because my view of leadership is that setting the vision is a collaborative process, born in the shared governance tradition of the academy. And leadership at a campus, or at an institution like UAF that has many campuses, means orchestrating the process, working to include all stakeholders and to bring them together as a team to carry out the vision.
We face some challenges in the coming years:
- Economic Challenges: With the current state of the economy, state and federal revenue pressures are likely to persist;
- Market Challenges: Students and the public may be unwilling to pay the increased costs of higher education;
- Student Challenges: Many students look at higher education more as a commodity than as an intellectual, personal, and career advancement opportunity;
- Delivery Model Challenges: Consumer driven demands of the student population may conflict with a system vested in tradition;
- Public Challenges: How do we remain a relevant, top priority in a community struggling with the high costs of energy just to get by?
- Administrative and Management Challenges: How do we efficiently provide quality services, focusing our resources on mission delivery?
That said, I do have a vision for how UAF will change and adapt to the realities of 2017. It's made up of initiatives that come from you, the faculty and staff of UAF, our students, our alumni and friends. It will require that we reflect on the necessity of change to meet the challenges, and that we work together to identify needed actions.
When I started working on this section of the speech, I found it went on and on. You and I have big dreams for this university. I'm going to note a few of the top goals, but the work won't be done until you've had the chance to add, delete, markup and comment during the upcoming planning processes.
- UAF in 2017 will be the institution of choice for Alaska's best and brightest students.
- More of our students will graduate, and more will graduate within four or five years.
- Every student will have first-rate academic advising throughout his or her academic career.
- Program review will lead to improvements to underperforming degree programs and the retirement of programs that are no longer needed.
- We will create new degree programs that take advantage of new research capacity and meet student and societal needs.
- Undergraduate research will be an important component of undergraduate baccalaureate degrees, and part of most UAF researchers' work.
- Our faculty research efforts will be recognized as central to the future of Alaska, the development of its economy, the advancement of its communities, and the preservation of its cultures.
- Interdisciplinary research will be the core of our enterprise, and our graduates will be best at solving the complex multi-dimensional challenges facing us now and in the future.
- UAF's rural campuses will be seen as key partners by the UAF research community.
- There will be increased research collaboration among the sciences and engineering, and the social sciences and humanities.
- UAF students will lead the nation in documenting the dynamic change in rural Alaska and the impacts such changes are having on traditional life.
- Faculty at our community campuses will deliver more culturally and environmentally relevant courses and programs to students on the Fairbanks campus.
- UAF will be a model for a sustainable university in an extreme environment.
- Alaska Native students will be participating and graduating at the same rate as all other students.
- Our workforce will be more diverse, reflecting the variety of Alaska's people. Our campuses will be welcoming to all, where people of color, LGBT individuals, religious and cultural minorities feel welcome and appreciated.
- UAF faculty-developed intellectual property will lead to more patents, licenses, and commercial opportunities.
- Through community campuses, Cooperative Extension Service, the Marine Advisory Program, and other engagement efforts, UAF will be recognized as Alaska's University, a key underpinning of Alaska's future success
- We will be concluding the Cornerstone Campaign, UAF's first major multi-purpose capital and operating fundraising campaign. We will see alumni and individual giving reach new highs, supporting initiatives like library expansion, Troth Yedd'ha Park, student scholarships and program support.
I could say a lot more about UAF in 2017. But what's really needed is that you say a lot more. The next year will include a conversation about our mission, and where we want to go in the next six years. That's a conversation, not a convocation speech. I look forward to hearing from you. Let's listen to what some of our students think UAF should look like in 2017.
As part of the conversation I'll continue to hold at least two open forums each semester, one in Fairbanks and one by audio for rural sites. I think the question and answer format works better in the smaller, open forum environment. In the meantime, ask questions via the Grapevine, and we'll answer as quickly as possible. I want to close with a thank you to all of you for what you do to make the university a great one.
Now, let's go have some ice cream!


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A wintry system that will make a cross-country tour beginning this weekend has the potential to develop into a major storm along the East Coast next week.
The storm is cruising northern Pacific waters to close out this week and will push into the Pacific Northwest this weekend with a modest dose of rain and mountain snow.
In fact, most of the life of this storm as it traverses the Northwest (March 2-3), then the northern Rockies and central Plains into early next week (March 3-4) will not be blockbusting news. Through this point, the storm will tend to bring travel disruptions typical of the winter months with a swath of light to moderate snow. (States in the path of the modest storm to this point include, but are not limited to, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri).
However, toward the middle of next week (March 4-5), as this storm crosses the Mississippi River, changes taking place in the upper atmosphere will favor gradual strengthening to the Atlantic coast. Moisture will begin to feed into the storm from the Gulf of Mexico, and we are likely to start to see heavier precipitation in the form of snow, rain and thunderstorms from the Ohio Valley states to parts of the South and the mid-Atlantic. (States likely to be most involved at this point include Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia).
Once the storm reaches the Atlantic coast Wednesday into Thursday (March 6-7), conditions at most levels in the nearby atmosphere and well away from the storm throughout North America will favor explosive development.
The track of this atmospheric bomb will determine whether or not portions of the mid-Atlantic have a foot or more of windswept snow, travel mayhem, power outages and the whole nine yards with a storm hugging the coast or another non-event with the storm heading out to sea. (States on the bubble for a major storm or a near-miss include Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, as well as the District of Columbia).
At this point, it is certainly not worth altering plans, but rather something to keep an eye on and perhaps come up with "Plan B" in case a major blizzard unfolds and wallops areas from Richmond and Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia and New York City Wednesday into Thursday.
As the track develops over land this weekend, we will have more information to pass along to followers on AccuWeather.com related to the timing of the precipitation and amount of snow and severity of any rain, thunderstorms and coastal flooding.
Some of the early weather-related problems with the storm in the Northwest this weekend will be drenching rain along the coast and snow dipping to pass levels. As with many storms that bring snow to the high country in the Northwest, there is a risk of avalanches.
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Millions of us live in period properties and one of the joys of doing so is being able to admire their original features.
Features such as fireplaces, stained glass, floorboards and sash windows not only make your home more aesthetically pleasing and architecturally interesting, they also add value when you come to sell.
But original features haven't always been so valued - it wasn't that long ago that people routinely ripped them out and chucked them in skips.
A quick and easy way to give a room more character is to fit a decorative ceiling rose, particularly if it already has coving or cornicing.
There are lots of different ceiling-rose designs, so it's important to get one that matches the period of your home and the style of the light fitting. You probably don't want an intricate Victorian-style rose with a contemporary ceiling light, for example.
You also need to consider the proportions of the room and the style of the coving or cornicing already there, or that you plan to fit.
Plain coving obviously goes best with a plain ceiling rose, such as one with concentric circles, and more elaborate designs suit each other.
Ceiling roses are available in different materials, so that's another important consideration when buying one.
By far the easiest type of rose to fit is an expanded polystyrene one because it will be extremely lightweight - all you need is suitable adhesive.
Polystyrene roses come in a fairly limited range of designs, though, so for more choice, you need to go for a heavier material. Roses were traditionally made of plaster, and modern replicas of original designs are available, but like anything made of plaster, they're very heavy.
Plaster roses are so heavy, it pays to get a professional to put them up.
If you want to fit the rose yourself, and have a wide range of designs to choose from, the best option is a material that's in between very lightweight and very heavy, such as hard cellular resin or polyurethane. These roses come in all shapes and sizes (although the largest roses tend to only be available in plaster) and are straightforward to fit. They can be glued with suitable adhesive, or glued and screwed, which is the most secure method.
Screwing the rose into the ceiling joists above (the screws can be countersunk and filled over for a neat finish) gives the most secure fixing and allows the adhesive to set properly, but it is more complicated than just sticking the rose in place.
Some decorative ceiling roses can be fitted over the white plastic rose that conceals the electrical connections on the ceiling, which makes the job easier to do.
However, fitting many decorative roses involves removing the white plastic rose and doing some basic electrical work. If you're not confident, get a qualified electrician in.