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Teenage phenom Davies opened the scoring with his third goal of the tournament in the 26th minute for Canada.
Teenage phenom Davies opened the scoring with his third goal of the tournament in the 26th minute for Canada who are the surprise co-leaders atop Group A after beating French Guiana 4-2 in their opener.
The 16-year-old Davies used his blazing speed to race past the Costa Rica defence and hammer a cross to the near post. Davies scored two goals against French Guiana in his Gold Cup debut on Friday.
Davies almost scored again in the 36th minute as he slipped around a defender and picked up the ball but fell before he could get a shot off at the BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, Texas.
Davies left the game after rolling his right ankle early in the second half. At that point the complexion of Canada's attack changed. Without their offensive threat, Canada had to sit back and rely on their defence to preserved the tie.
Goalkeeper Borjan did his part, becoming their best player as he came up with several diving saves to keep the score level with Costa Rica threatening on almost every corner kick.
Francisco Calvo tied it off a corner in the 42nd minute, outleaping a Canadian defender and redirecting the ball past Borjan, who had suffered a nasty black eye in Friday's 4-2 win over French Guiana.
The majority of Costa Rica's scoring chances in the second half came off corners as the Canadians were guilty of mental lapses on defence and had to be rescued time and time again by Borjan.
The draw means Canada is tied for first place in Group A at four points with Costa Rica who recorded their first ever win over Honduras in their opening game.


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On Friday, February 10, Rhodes' women's a capella group, Lipstick on Your Collar, will sing the national anthem at the Memphis Grizzlies game. The game, which begins at 7 p.m. at the FedEx Forum, is against the Golden State Warriors.
Avani Alapati '19, a second-year member of the group, says, "This opportunity is amazing and it is the coolest gig we've gotten since I've been a member. I can't wait to do more with the group, because everyone is so talented. We're just getting closer and closer with every song we learn."
"It's amazing that the Memphis community is recognizing Rhodes as an institution that can produce such a talented group of people," adds Alapati. "Lipstick on Your Collar has worked hard to get to where we are, and it is incredible that we get to represent our amazing school at an NBA game."
The group performs on campus at multiple events each year, and holds its own concerts each semester. Besides rehearsing for their appearance at Friday's game, the group is also practicing for their Valengram week, a fund-raising event where students can pay to have Valentine-themed songs sung to their loved ones on campus.
In addition to Alapati, members of Lipstick on Your Collar include Rosalia Preiss '17, president, Emily Adams '18, vice president, and Claire Barkley '20, Sarah Barnes '17, Micah Crawford '18, Ashley Dill '17, Mckenzie Dorris '20, Clare Edgar '19, Lauren Hamm '19, Natey Kinzounza '17, Sam Lamy '18, Diana Parsley '19, Alyssa Vaccaro '19, Gillian Wenhold '18.
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Florida Senator Marco Rubio suspended his campaign for president in a speech in Miami, FL on Tuesday.
Rubio began by congratulating fellow candidate Donald Trump for his win in Florida and thanking his team and voters, Rubio said, "America is in the middle of a real political storm, a real tsunami, and we should have seen this coming. Look, people are angry, and people are very frustrated."
After a heckler interrupted, Rubio quipped that he wouldn't get beaten up at this event.
He later added, "[T]he easiest thing to have done in this campaign is to jump on all those anxieties I just talked about, to make people angry, or make people more frustrated, but I chose a different route, and I'm proud of that. That would've been — that — in a year like this, that would've been the easiest way to win. but that is not what's best for America. The politics of resentment against other people will not just leave us a fractured party, they're going to leave us a fractured nation. They're going to leave us as a nation where people literally hate each other, because they have different political opinions. … I know that after eight years of Barack Obama, this nation needs a vibrant and growing conservative movement, and it needs a strong Republican Party, to change the direction now of this country, or many of the things that are going wrong in America will become permanent."
Rubio later said, after arguing the country also needs a new political establishment, and criticized the establishment for looking down on people outside of DC and criticizing conservatives, "I take great comfort in the ancient words, which teaches us, that in their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps. And so yet, while this may not have been the year for a hopeful and optimistic message about our future, I still remain hopeful and optimistic about America. And how can I not? My mother was one of seven girls born to a poor family. … I consider my parents to be very successful people, because in this country, working hard as a bartender and a maid, they owned a home, and they retired with dignity. In this country, they lived to see all four of their children live better off than themselves. And in this country, on this day, my mother, who's now 85 years old, was able to cast a ballot for her son to be the president of the United States of America."
Rubio concluded, "And so, while it is not God's plan that I be president in 2016, or maybe ever. And while today my campaign is suspended, the fact that I've even come this far is evidence of how special America truly is, and all the reason more why we must do all we can to ensure that this nation remains a special place. I ask the American people, do not to give in to the fear. Do not give in to the frustration. We can disagree about public policy, we can disagree about it vibrantly, passionately, but we are hopeful people, and we have every right to be hopeful. For we in this nation are the descendants of go-getters. In our veins, runs the blood of people who gave it all up, so we would have the chances they never did. We are all the descendants of someone who made our future the purpose of their lives. We are the descendants of Pilgrims. We are the descendants of settlers. We are the descendants of men and women that headed westward in the Great Plains, not knowing what awaited them. We are the descendants of slaves, who overcame that horrible institution to stake their claim in the American Dream. We are the descendants of immigrants and exiles, who knew and believed that they were destined for more, and that there was only one place on earth where that was possible. This is who we are. And let us fight to ensure this is who we remain. For if we lose that about our country, we'll still be rich, and we'll still be powerful, but we will no longer be special."
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On Tuesday, February 22, 2011, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., VEF will hold a talk show entitled "How to Prepare for Success in Graduate Studies in the United States". VEF Fellow, Nguyen Minh Anh, who received the VEF Fellowship in 2007 to pursue Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), will lead the show. From his personal experiences of over four years studying at UIUC, Minh Anh will share his observations on strengths and weaknesses of Vietnamese students in the U.S. academic environment, information about the U.S. graduate education system as well as his recommendations to prepare and strike for international scholarships. The talk show will give useful tips to address two questions 1) how to gain admission to the top U.S. schools, and 2) how to be successful in the U.S. academic environment.
Time: 10:00-11:30am, Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Venue: Conference Room, 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
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This is the standard of care at The Biting Edge Family Dentistry and hopefully someday it will be the standard in all dental practices."
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Dr. Michael Smith, of The Biting Edge Family Dentistry (http://www.thebitingedge.com), in Phoenix, Arizona, continues to change the way dentistry is done in Arizona and North America through a course called Systematic Steps in JVA and T-Scan: Integration, Utilization and Execution. Dr. Michael Smith presented a two-day, hands on lecture and workshop, in southern California, for dentists and team members. By bringing proper diagnosis to the forefront of dentistry, dentists are able to increase treatment efficacy and achieve predictable success in outcomes with fewer unexplained dental failures. From a simple crown and bridge or implant case to a full mouth rehabilitation, objective instrumentation takes all the guesswork out and guides the skilled dentist to the correct dental treatment plan.
BioJVA (Joint Vibration Analysis) is an objective, noninvasive, quick in office screening tool to determine the health and stability of the TMJ (temporomandibular joints). The T-Scan III is a digital occlusal analysis system that creates a movie of the force, timing and balance of tooth contacts. Dr. Michael Smith has been using both BioJVA and T-Scan III, as advanced diagnostic and treatment tools, at The Biting Edge Family Dentistry for many years. "I would not practice without them," says Dr. Michael Smith. "This is the standard of care at The Biting Edge Family Dentistry and hopefully someday it will be the standard in all dental practices."
Dr. Michael Smith encourages both dentists and team members to attend upcoming courses to advance their diagnostic and treatment skills and get the whole team involved. These courses will provide up to 16 hours of continuing dental education to participants and will involve both informative lecture and hands on components, as well as dental case presentations. Visit the BioResearch website (http://www.biojva.com) for course dates and locations across the United States.
Dr. Michael Smith graduated from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry and has continued to pursue extensive post graduate education in dental rehabilitation in the fields of occlusion, full mouth rehabilitation, TMJ disorders, sleep disordered breathing and conscious sedation. Dr. Smith's practice, The Biting Edge Family Dentistry, in Phoenix, Arizona, is dedicated to aesthetic, contemporary restorative and cosmetic rehabilitation. He is actively involved in numerous dental organizations and associations, both in Arizona and nationally, and maintains a rigorous lecture schedule. Dr. Michael Smith is actively teaching classes for BioResearch, Inc., T-Scan, Clinical Mastery, and TMJ Therapy International. He is dedicated to providing patients with extraordinary dental care.


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Have you always wanted to experience the Grocery Store & play with all the items on the shelves, aisles, and in the fridge?
Now you can with My Pretend Grocery Store - Supermarket Learning Games for Kids!
Play in a Pretend Grocery store & pick up items, and place them on the Cash Register belt, and hear them get scanned! Tap the pretend Register to open it up, and close it again!
Tap the doors, lights, fans, and more! Everything in Pretend Grocery store is available for little hands to interact with!
Role play, and drop characters into each scene, then drag items to their hands.
Play with a ton of items including fresh fruit & veggies, produce, greeting cards, ice cream, popsicles, coffee, and espresso, balloons, flowers, shopping baskets and more!
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Would it be possible to check the cache for an existing file? With that, we could make things like loading screens while loading a file, or something of that nature. My first thought was for sounds, and would go something like this (in pseudocode):
If it was doable it would have to be as a /client proc, because file availability isn't global.
In general I don't see how this can be reconciled to our cache system because DD will try to send resources whenever it can unless it's under strict orders not to. If a custom loading screen is all that you want, that's really more a subject for a different feature request (a request for that already exists) and overall is probably easier to implement. If you want more fine control over how resources are sent out, I believe there's already a request for that as well.
The idea wasn't only for a loading screen, that was just an example. It's just one of the only applications I could think of. My reasoning was so you could not have to load all of the resources when the client logs in, and if you have a game that has area-based progression, you could make sure you only load the resources for that area, to cut down on lag. I guess I don't really know where that falls, so I made this.


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Jim Andrews has hired ex-offenders for years at his West Side paper business and hopes to expand soon by opening Felony Franks, a hot dog stand he expects to open in a few weeks on the Near West Side.Jim Andrews, left, and Brian Erwin clean up the sidewalk today as they prepare to open a new hot dog stand called Felony Franks at Western Avenue and Jackson Boulevard in Chicago. Ald. Bob Fioretti opposes the name of a hot dog stand which owner Andrews says would employ ex-offenders. (Tribune/Zbigniew Bzdak)
Ald. Bob Fioretti -- whose 2nd Ward includes the site of the proposed restaurant at 229 S. Western Ave., and who has worked to get jobs for ex-offenders in his ward -- says he can't keep Felony Franks from opening. But he won't make it easy.
"You know what, I don't find this humorous," Fioretti said. "Maybe I don't have a sense of humor when it comes to repairing people's lives."


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Heidi Klum: 'Project Runway' Returns July 28!
Heidi Klum looks pretty and polished as she heads back to her hotel on Thursday (July 7) in downtown New York City.
The 38-year-old model and host of Project Runway wore a pair of nude peep toe Louboutin heels and carried a black python "Gia" satchel from the Michael Kors Pre-Fall 2011 collection.
PICS: Heidi Klum Covers 'Glamour' August 2011
Once she got home, Heidi was greeted by her sons, Johan and Henry!
Project Runway will return on July 28 and will air on Lifetime. Make it work!!


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Hardcore Gamer: Although Hohokum hasn't been getting a ton of buzz, we have a feeling that will change come Tuesday. And you're going to want to snatch up its vinyl release before that happens.
Man, I love when my two biggest passions in life intersect: gaming and vinyl collecting. Suffice it to say, ordered. This WILL sell out.
Interesting. I contacted Ghostly about the quantity, and was told only 3000 will be pressed. Pre-Order? Check!


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When thinking holistically about sustainability in buildings, "green cleaning" should be included along with your energy and carbon management programs. This article discusses the history of "green cleaning" and key success elements for facilities, the procurement and verification process.
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Peek through the window of a San Diego State University (SDSU) classroom and you might see something that resembles a sports bar rather than a place of learning. But look closer and you'll see the HDTVs lining the room display instructional videos. Waist-high tables are on wheels and there is no fixed front of the room. The space is malleable and morphs to support independent study or collaborative learning. Professors can distribute learning materials wirelessly from their handheld devices or computers. A ceiling-mounted document camera projects instructional information to all.
This is one of SDSU's "learning research studios" — a space for active learning, visualized and built by Dr. Frazee and his Instructional Technology Services (ITS) team. Dr. Frazee is a busy man, overseeing the university's physical and virtual learning environments, including distance and hybrid courses, Web conferencing, video streaming, lecture capture, video production and graphic design — both at the main campus and the satellite branch in rural Imperial Valley, Calif.
Reinventing and improving the teaching and learning experience through technology is Dr. Frazee's passion. He believes the right kind of classroom space can spur a professor to transform the structure of his or her instructional design. He says, "We have a laser focus on helping faculty use technologies for teaching — to leverage what we know about how people learn and take advantage of mature and emerging technologies."
Dr. Frazee's team supports professors and students engaged in distance learning with Learning Glass technology, which allows faculty to work on what looks like a transparent whiteboard while facing a camera. Dr. Frazee's team built the world's first one-button Learning Glass studio, which is situated within an active learning classroom. The one-button studio is a place for professors to interact with students and record, as well as live-stream the session to remote learners. Students have the opportunity to come up to the board and work in small groups, among other interactive formats. In essence, it's a real TV studio, but one that is operationally simple for faculty use.
"The idea is that a faculty member can walk in with a thumb drive, plug it in, literally press one button and record their Learning Glass session with or without a live studio audience — then press stop and walk away with the session on the thumb drive," says Dr. Frazee. He freely shares the technical specifications for Learning Glass on the SDSU website. Today, at least half of the University of California campuses have similar setups, with others soon to follow.
In addition to his ITS responsibilities, Dr. Frazee teaches graduate-level educational technology courses for SDSU and the University of San Diego, where he earned his joint doctoral degree in educational technology. He also writes and presents frequently on topics related to technology and curriculum reform. In 2011, he was awarded the Outstanding Service Award for his role as president and conference chair of the Directors of Educational Technology/California Higher Education (DET/CHE).
Dr. Frazee stresses that to advance new technological ideas on campus, a champion is necessary. "You need someone to be a sounding board in thinking about new directions," he says. "You also need faculty who can talk to other faculty — to inspire them about new active learning strategies and show how technologies can enable these things. But remember that, in the end, it's not the technology that's important. It's not the classroom. It's the design of the course itself. That's really where the magic happens."


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Alternate Library for REXX on zSeries
The Alternate Library for REXX on zSeries enables users who do not have the Library for REXX on zSeries installed to run compiled REXX programs. It contains a language processor that transforms the compiled programs and runs them with the REXX interpreter, which is shipped as part of the OS/390, z/OS, and z/VM operating systems.
You can download the Alternate Library for REXX on z/OS and the Alternate Library for REXX on z/VM for free.
Software developers can distribute the Alternate Library, free of charge, with their compiled REXX programs. This allows customers who have the REXX Library installed to gain the performance benefits of running the compiled REXX programs, and also allows customers who don't have the REXX Library to still run the programs (as interpreted).
By including the Alternate Library in their program packages, software developers gain the benefits of shipping compiled REXX programs without the source code:
Maintenance of the program is simplified since the code can not be modified inadvertantly.
Compiled programs can be shipped in load module format, simplifying packaging and installation.
Note that when using the Alternate Library, the performance of compiled REXX programs is similar to that of interpreted programs. The performance benefits of compiled REXX are only available when the REXX Library is installed.
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June 29, 2018 05:23 am by JAMES BROOKS
Alaskans in 170 communities may have a more expensive power bill as a result.
The Rural Power System Upgrade program distributed $192 million in grants between 2001 and 2015, but funding for the effort has been slashed by the Alaska Legislature and the federal Denali Commission, which is funded by Congress and charged with supporting rural development.
The tentative solution: Transforming the program into a system of matching grants and state-backed loans. That switch means small communities will now be asked to (at least partially) pay for something they now receive for free. The costs will be passed to customers.
"I'm hoping there won't be too many people who want to burn the house down when we go out with this regulation," Katie Conway, AEA's government relations specialist, said during Thursday's board meeting. More
By Elizabeth Jenkins, Alaska's Energy Desk May 2, 2018
The state wants feedback on how to allocate millions of dollars of settlement money from the car company Volkswagen.
Between 2009 and 2016, the company sold vehicles that were equipped with so-called "defeat devices," which illegally masked the cars' actual pollution during emissions tests.
Alaska will receive $8 million as part of Volkswagen's settlement with a federal agency. Last year, the governor appointed the Alaska Energy Authority to help manage the funds.
Spokesperson Katie Conway said the public has until July 1 to weigh in.
"I think the highlight here is that we've been hearing about this case for a really long time, and now it's Alaska's opportunity to figure out the best use of the funding that we get as a state for what Volkswagen did," Conway said.
The legal settlement defined the type of projects that could receive funding, including investments in electric vehicle infrastructure or upgrades to diesel-powered transportation, like ferries and buses. The energy authority wants public input on what to prioritize.
Based on those comments, the agency hopes to finalize a plan this summer and start accepting proposals by August.
Awards could be announced later this fall. More
Work on a $46 million project to expand the state's largest hydroelectric facility is set to begin Thursday. The Battle Creek Project as it's known will increase the Bradley Lake hydro facility's production by about 10 percent.
The facility, which sits about 30 miles northeast of Homer at the head of Kachemak Bay, supplies wholesale power to six electric utilities throughout the Rail Belt.
The project will divert glacial runoff via a 1.7-mile-long pipeline to the Bradley Lake Dam. Alaska Energy Authority manages the state-owned facility. AEA spokesperson Katie Conway said the project will produce an additional 37,000 megawatt hours per year.
"If you use an average consumption of about 600 kilowatt hours per month, per household, [it] would be enough power for a community roughly the size of the City of Homer for a year," Conway explained.
The two-year project does require a road to be built along the pipeline. Conway said crews will begin blasting away rock along the route this week. AEA expects the road to be completed in October.
"This construction season is about building the road. Next year, a water line goes in and the project is to be completed in about August of 2020," Conway said. More
Alan Bailey - Petroleum News April 15, 2018
On April 5 the House Special Committee on Energy heard further testimony on issues surrounding efforts to adopt a more unified approach to the management and operation of the electricity supply system that serves consumers in the Alaska Railbelt. As reported previously in Petroleum News, the committee is considering House Bill 382, introduced by committee chair Rep. Adam Wool, D-Fairbanks, that would mandate the formation of a Railbelt Electrical System Authority for overseeing the system.
Currently the fragmented management of the system, with six independent utilities owning and operating different sectors, leads to inefficiencies in the manner in which the system operates. The belief is that, through a more unified management approach under some form of unified system operator, the cost of electricity for consumers could be reduced without sacrificing supply reliability. Proponents of renewable energy also say that the balkanized system management acts as an obstacle to the viable implementation of renewable energy generation.
The authority proposed in HB 382 would steer the system in the direction of implementing economic dispatch across the Railbelt, an arrangement in which maximum use would continuously be made of the most efficient power generation facilities. The authority would also establish a universal transmission tariff and nondiscriminatory access to the transmission system. More
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Governor Bill Walker spoke at the Alaska Rural Energy Conference this morning at the Westmark, as well as City Mayor Jim Matherly and Borough Mayor Karl Kassel.
Energy stakeholders from around the state came to share ideas and information about new technologies and energy needs for Alaska's remote communities.
Katie Luper Reports.
Katie Luper; Reporting>>: This year's Rural Energy Conference is built around 'innovation, inspiration and opportunity.'
They want to build a better future for today's young people.
When the energy comity for the conference thought about their theme, they decided to get help from students in Alaska.
Katie Conway; Alaska Energy Authority>>: "We decided to put out a call to students to answer a question, 'What do you want your community's energy system to look like when you're 50 years old?' And what they ended up producing was an incredible vision of what Alaska's energy future can look like."
Katie Luper; Reporting>>: All of the drawings incorporated themes of renewable energies, using local resources and eliminating dependence on fossil fuels. From that, organizers based the three day forum on environmental sustainability, economic development and energy security.
Karl Kassel; FNSB Mayor>>: "Well energy is one of the most important topics in our community, both from a cost perspective and an environmental perspective. And so looking at all the opportunities we have in front of us is very important. Fairbanks is really a hot bed of innovation and development because of our, not only our high costs but our high use of energy in our cold climate. And so we're really a focal point at look at different solutions to energy issues here in Fairbanks."
Katie Luper; Reporting>>: Mayor Kassel and other energy stakeholders heard from experts. It's not too late to join the conference to learn about energy technology and innovation.
Karl Kassel; FNSB Mayor>>: "People should definitely be here and understand what opportunities are available and who in Fairbanks is working on these different projects. It'll save them money and open a lot of doors and improve our communities all across Alaska."
Katie Luper; Reporting>>: Reporting from the Alaska Rural Energy Conference, I'm Katie Luper.
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Posted May 6, 2018 By BEN BOETTGER Peninsula Clarion
Of the attendees who drove from the central Kenai Peninsula to Homer for Homer Electric Association's annual member meeting on Thursday, at least two made the trip in electric cars.
HEA information service analyst Joe Halstead was behind the wheel of the cooperative's 2018 Chevrolet Volt, which HEA recently purchased as a practical test of how electric vehicles perform in local conditions.
"We're going to use data from this car, so we can say 'this is what we like, this is what we don't like, this is what it's costing us,' things like that," Halstead said.
Kenai surgeon Henry Krull also drove his Tesla electric car to Homer for HEA members to see alongside the cooperative-owned Volt. The owners of an electric BWM also displayed their vehicle at the meeting.
Electric vehicles are becoming popular in Southeast Alaska communities like Juneau. The southeast has an abundance of cheap hydro-electricity and relatively short road distances, but electric drivers on the Kenai Peninsula are in a different environment, both in geography and electricity costs. More
Galena saved more than a half-million dollars last year because a biomass-burning boiler and upgrades to its district heating system reduced diesel consumption by more than half.
Kotzebue cut the cost of heating its hospital by more than $40,000 dollars last year by using wind energy to displace diesel.
And 11 other communities in northwestern Alaska used solar energy to save more than a $190,000 that otherwise would've gone to buying the fossil fuel.
"Any and every community that's paying a lot for diesel-generated electricity has a significant interest in this," says renewable-energy expert Brian Hirsch. He says residents of those remote communities increasingly are embracing alternative sources of energy to offset the high cost of fuel that must be brought in by barge or air. More
April 10, 2018 by Gary Hennigh, King Cove, Alaska
Editor's Note: This article is a follow-up to the 2015 article "Doubling Down on Small-Scale Hydro - Government that Works"
No matter where you are as you read this, or what the view is out your window, chances are good that water matters to you. Water irrigates, water transports, water cools us and heats us and sometimes, it washes away the bad parts of a day. It comprises 60 percent(1) of the human body and from its depths, more than 3.5 billion people around the world are fed.(2) And in King Cove, Alaska, where I've had the privilege of being City Administrator for almost 30 years, if all goes as we have dreamed it, planned for it and gone deeply into debt over it, water will provide the light by which our city's grandchildren will read their children to sleep. And, best of all, it will do so at a fraction of the cost and diesel exhaust that was otherwise guaranteed to be their future.
Dug in between volcanic mountains and the sea, the land holds in reverence the bones of King Cove's Aleut ancestors; the indigenous Alaskan natives that have a 4,000-year-old(3) history with this place. If you have Native Americans among your constituencies, then you know that they bring a responsibility for their heritage to every meeting at which decisions about the future will be made. It may also sound familiar that they wear their survival skills as a second skin, so in tune are they to the truth that the future is only ever claimed by the risk-takers, in partnership with those who persevere and possess an ability to learn from their mistakes.
King Cove (pop. 900.) is a place that could be used to illustrate the dictionary meaning of rural, rugged, wind-swept and fog-shrouded. Its very geography demands a respect for the forces of nature and yet that same geography is paying big dividends to the residents, and with some foresight and upkeep, will continue to do so for decades to come. As one of the largest Aleut communities in Alaska, it is not surprising that its history is measured in millennia. As one of the few communities that enjoys 75 percent of its electricity from a renewable source, it is also likely to be here millennia from now. More
About 400 people from around Alaska and elsewhere converged on the Westmark Fairbanks Hotel and Conference Center this week to talk about how residents of the state's rural and remote communities can reduce high energy costs during the 20th Rural Energy Conference.
Organizers say turnout for this year's conference is good and interest is keen in finding solutions to the growing problem of sky-high energy costs in Alaskan communities located far off the grid.
Gwen Holdmann is the director of the Alaska Center for Energy and Power at UAF, which helps the Alaska Energy Authority organize the biennial conference.
"What this conference is really about is it's about bringing people together to share experiences, share stories on what works, what doesn't work, what direction they're going," Holdmann said. More


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RJT Compuquest, Inc., a leading ERP management consulting services firm and SAP master value-added reseller, announced today that they will continue to expand their SAP Extended Business Member (EBM) program after establishing successful EBM partnerships in 2012. This program allows select organizations to partner with RJT and become part of an SAP Master VAR ecosystem. Joining the SAP Extended Business program allows companies that regularly recommend, implement, or develop solutions to benefit from a closer relationship with a highly successful SAP partner – and become more closely aligned with SAP. RJT will make this opportunity available to potential EBM partners that can complement and extend their capabilities.
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On the bad days, when nothing–not even crappy writing– makes it onto the page, I take consolation in the thought of someday telling the hilarious story of taking ten years to write my first novel, and making countless hung-up writers feel better by comparison. There are no ifs, I tell myself, only when. Every day is an act of suspending my own disbelief.
To those writers who think finishing/publishing a book will vanquish their beasts for once and for all, I'm sorry to tell you that my doubts and self-sabotage still circle and growl. But I'm better at taming them. I can't always make them go away, but I can usually make them sit and lie down.
Here are some things to help you tame your beasts:
Humor: The Twelve Types of Procrastinators by Angela Liao of 20px
I'm a chronic List Maker, a hopeless Side Tracker, a compulsive Social Sharer, and a dedicated Internet Researcher — what about you?
Habit: Content, Creativity, and the Role of Habit by Jason Konopinski
Familiar advice about cultivating good creative habits, but I need reminding over and over again. As the world's slowest writer, I was especially comforted by this anecdote:
James Joyce famously labored over every single word, sentence, and punctuation mark. It was a process that took days. In an oft-repeated story, Joyce encountered a friend on the street who asked him if he'd had a productive writing day, to which he happily replied, "Yes, I wrote three sentences today."
I wrote three sentences yesterday afternoon. It took me only two hours, but then, I'm not writing Ulysses.
Journaling: A New Way to Think About Journaling by Karen Walrond
My friend Karen showed me her "global capture" approach to keeping a journal during break between sessions at a writer's conference where we were presenters a few years back. It was a game changer–like installing an overflow valve for my brain. I've adapted the practice to suit myself (including a switch from an unruled Moleskine to a similar notebook with heavier paper, so marker ink doesn't bleed through), but the basic concept of putting it all between the covers remains the same. It's sort of like dumping your handbag out so you can sort the trash from the useful things you carry around all day.
Endurance: Surviving the Myths of a Writer's Life
This is a wrap-up of a talk I gave last month to creative writing students at the University of Central Arkansas. I was surprised and happy to be asked to give a craft workshop, but a little perplexed about what to teach, since I've never actually been in a writing workshop myself. I thought about what would have been most useful to me as a young writer starting out, and decided to leave the teaching of writing to the writing teachers, and pass along some endurance skills instead — approaches that have helped me navigate the personal hazards of creative work.
This far, anyway.
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So, about the economy ...
You all have any thoughts about what is going on right now?
Re: So, about the economy ...
Printing of greenbacks and taxing people like you and me (to the tune of 700 billion dollars) to pay for risky investments not made on my behalf.
So ... yeah.
what the fuck
Re: So, about the economy ...
I have a feeling Bush & Co are going to push this thing through without a proper vote now. Much like he did with the war in Iraq. Congressional vote? Not needed if it doesn't go our way.
Re: So, about the economy ...
Well I think part of the problem is that a lot of these banks and investment places that are tanking are either multinational companies OR they have a lot of their (by their I mean our) money tied up in foreign investments. This is what I think is causing a global domino effect to some extent.
Re: So, about the economy ...
If the banks dont lend you dont have interest hence you have no bonds no stocks no loans no mortgages and hence no western lifestyle of affluence!. Why is the average Middle class yank so stupid they just dont get it!. Their to take responsbility for their spending and borrowing they expect to much comfort!.
Re: So, about the economy ...
However good to see someone is standing up for the banks and rich white guys who run the world! :cool:
Re: So, about the economy ...
next youll be posting a call for all bankers to be shot or gased!!.
They had a job they did it they respond to the supply and demand of greedy people so they did their jobs. However some fools just dont pay their bills with interest on time or at all!.
Re: So, about the economy ...
I hope this helps ;)
Re: So, about the economy ...
The irony of your counter culture symbol & fabian overtones has never escaped my attention. Meaning whatever revolution your after is not what I am after at all dear.
You under estimate my intelligence and my esoteric knowledge. Still if your serious about this 21st century Monarch Project (cc) then i really dont see you as crafty at all just very stale and having too many acid flashbacks.:cool:
Re: So, about the economy ...
Buck up, be a man and move on.
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - NASA's Kepler mission has been named winner of the 2012 Aviation Week Laureate Award in the Space category, announced last night at the 55th annual black-tie awards dinner in Washington, D.C.
Accepting the award on behalf of the Kepler mission team were Roger Hunter, Kepler program manager of NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and James Fanson, who was the Kepler project manager during mission development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
"With nearly 1,000 scientists throughout the world actively engaged in investigating the bounty of Kepler data, the team is honored to marshal in a new age of planetary discovery," said William Borucki, Kepler principal investigator at Ames. "We are delighted by the results and of the promise of Kepler's most profound discoveries that await."
Aviation Week's annual Laureate Awards recognizes individuals and teams for their extraordinary accomplishments. Their achievements embody the spirit of exploration, innovation, vision or any combination of these attributes that inspire others to strive for significant, broad-reaching progress in aviation and aerospace.
Previous winners in the Space category include the Radar Imaging Commercialization Team; the International Space Station program managers; Elon Musk; and Yoshisada Takizawa, Selene project manager, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Launched on March 6, 2009, the Kepler spacecraft has detected more than 2,300 planet candidates and confirmed 61 as planets. The early findings contain well over 200 Earth-size planet candidates and more than 900 that are smaller than twice Earth-size. Of the 46 planet candidates found in the habitable zone, the region in the planetary system where liquid water could exist, ten of these candidates are smaller than twice the size of Earth.
Kepler is a space observatory trailing Earth in orbit around the sun currently at a distance of more than 30 million miles. Kepler's task is to measure the change in brightness of more than 150,000 stars looking for the telltale signature of a planet passing, or transiting, in front of its host star. Three transits are required to verify a signal as a planet.
Ames Research Center manages Kepler's ground system development, mission operations and science data analysis. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory managed the Kepler mission's development.
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo., developed the Kepler flight system and supports mission operations with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore archives, hosts and distributes Kepler science data. Kepler is NASA's 10th Discovery Mission and is funded by NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington.
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