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Originally Posted by Mario'sworld
At first I was thinking I write with U.S., now I have a feeling half germany lives in the States
Mixed bag of all sorts of Nationalities and communities. Gotta get back to work...have fun and stay out of trouble.
Politicians need to be changed like diapers, and for the same reason.
Mark Twain
Originally Posted by Gib's Son
Mixed bag of all sorts of Nationalities and communities. Gotta get back to work...have fun and stay out of trouble.
Here it is already evening, and today we have a national holiday.
Have a nice day and good luck.
I can speak a lil bit...not fluently though.
Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And its no longer the sideshow, its the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and were dealing only with the freaks. - Jonathan Winters
Originally Posted by coolwhip
I can speak a lil bit...not fluently though.
Ok, let me test:
Servus, Wie geht es dir? :-)
Guys, I wish you a nice evening and weekend.
Good night from Germany.
See you soon
Im doing fine Mario, thank you for asking.
Achten Sie darauf, mein Freund, hoffe, dass Sie häufig besuchen.
Ich würde mit Peitsche einverstanden sein.
damn i feel like I'm in a room with my mom n oma .. i only know phrases & how to yell at my kids in German because that's what i was always yelled at in. "Wass hast du gemacht?"
Hello Guys,
good morning from Germany.
I wish you all a happy Easter!
At first, I thought I wrote the United States, and now I have a feeling, half German living in the United States
Originally Posted by coolwhip
Mom is from Austria, Dad from Stuttgart...I was born here in the States in a place called Ohio. Moved North to Michigan in the early 70's. Keep them Turks in line over there will ya?
Are you in the UP? I am.
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Naw man...Im in the SE part...North of De-toilet.....white suburbia I guess you can call it. Luv the U.P. though, hiked the Porkies and Superior Trail many times. Would like to live up there, but am afraid of becoming an alcoholic and not making enough potatoes.
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Aust aim to take down Fed Cup champs
Czech captain Petr Pala is wary of the impact a relaxed Samantha Stosur can have in this weekend's Fed Cup tie in Ostrava.
Stosur endured another miserable domestic summer campaign, crashing out in the second round of the Australian Open and losing her first match at the Sydney and Brisbane internationals.
The Queenslander will headline an Australian team also including Casey Dellacqua, Jarmila Gajdosova and Ashleigh Barty in the World Group first-round tie against the two-time defending Fed Cup champions.
"I think Samantha Stosur, when she plays in Australia, she's under pressure and everyone expects her to win, which is very difficult to deal with," Pala said.
"She's a great Fed Cup player, hasn't lost last year and she's not going to be under pressure for this tie much.
"I think she's going to be playing better than she played at the beginning of the year."
Stosur said the Australian team were excited by the appointment of Alicia Molik as captain, having replaced Stosur's personal coach David Taylor.
"Obviously it's a little bit different for her - she's never done this before - and a big change for the rest of the team, but it's going really well so far and I'm sure we can have success with Alicia," said Stosur.
"Obviously she doesn't have as much coaching experience as what Dave does, but I'm sure she's learning and we're really excited to have her here."
Australia will start as underdogs in the February 9-10 tie against a powerhouse Czech team headed by world No.8 Petra Kvitova who, like Stosur, struggled in the first grand slam tournament of the year.
Pala said his team of Kvitova, Lucie Safarova, Lucie Hradecka and Andrea Hlavackova would be the ones feeling the pressure.
"It's never easy after winning - everyone is expecting you to win again.
"It's not easy, we are facing a great team from Australia and we have to be really ready for it on the weekend."
The two nations have not met in the Fed Cup since 1992 and the Czech team lead the head-to-head 4-3.
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Discussion in 'Star Trek Movies I-X' started by CaptainBearclaw, Jul 19, 2013.
Wow, never in 30 years did I see that still before of Saavik/David!
Terrell's got two phasers - one in his hand and another on his belt. Plus there's the one Chekov has, which makes three. Now one is presumably the one Kirk drops in the fight with with David, so maybe the others were surrendered by McCoy and Saavik, and picked up by Terrell and Chekov when Jedda was distracted by David and Kirk? I can't tell if Jedda has one when Terrell vaporises him. It's not really clear in the finished scene as you say.
I bought the set on Ebay. When I'll get it, I'll do better scans of the interesting cards.
Wow, i've seen the movie so many times and never realized that Chekov and Terrell were armed BEFORE the scuffle!
But for sure in the workprint Terrell disarms Jedda and brandishes that phaser.
To complicate matters, neither appears to be armed when they enter the transporter room in Regula 1! In the final cut you don't see either of them until Terrell pulls the phaser on Kirk.
Probably their weapons were hidden prior as they wouldn't seem too much like 'discarded hostages' in Kirk's eyes, if Khan had left them with their phasers!
Or after Jedda ordered them "Phasers down" Chekov and Terrell picked up Saavik/McCoys phasers as they were distracted by the Kirk/David fight.
I love this thread! I am working on a very in-depth project with deleted Star Wars material. But seeing so much Trek material coming together in such a great thread is really exciting. I hope you get your own site up and running. It would be an invaluable resource!
Yeah that's what I said above. Seems to make sense!
Yeah you did!! I read it wrong at first. I think that must have been what happened.
Any of this SW stuff unseen ILM footage? I've been messing with a script about the formation of ILM for just short of forever, based on a huge article I did back in the 90s, only half of which got published.
Glad to hear you're enjoying yourself darth_ender. You might want to check out my thread about the various recuts of the Cage in the TOS section.
Also, as soon as I figure out BLOGSPOT that site should be up.
I think many here are also interested in Star Wars deleted materials (I certainly am), so let us know when your project is released.
Yes, I'm just very interested in cut scenes in general. of course divide that by my extreme love of Star Trek and you get this thread.
@Bearclaw, I'm looking forward to your blog! I'll check out your other thread.
@Maab and Bearclaw, I probably should say my project is veryinclusive rather than in-depth. If you've ever seen Jambe Davdar's documentaries, those are excellent and I highly recommend them. Mine is more comprehensive in terms of material, but I'm not particularly skilled at video editing. I'm just putting clips together with a little exposition, and I'm including several slideshows showing off deleted scenes or alternate takes--I literally have over 1,000 pictures. I would be happy to make it available to anyone here who is interested.
Do you happen to be on ORIGINALTRILOGY.com, ender?
Indeed I am Are you?
Yes i am user Tack. I only wondered because your project sounds eerily familiar.
BTW. My username is indeed based off the main character from The Thief and the Cobbler, my 3rd favorite movie.
Workprint version, of course.
Ah, Tack. You're pretty new there, it seems. I only seem to have seen you there in the past couple of weeks or so. Well, glad to have you there as well. Here is the thread. It hasn't gotten a lot of attention, probably because it's not as exciting to most people as it is to me, and maybe because I haven't proved myself as well as others.
Yes, now looking, here is the thread where I first noticed you.
Sorry, I don't mean to hijack this thread too much with my personal plugs. If anyone wants to continue discussing it, maybe it would be best to do so at originaltrilogy so as not to clog up this very nice Trek thread. Keep up the good work here, and I'll try to interact with you a bit more over there (though I've not been participating quite as much lately there either).
Oh, but before I stop talking about my own project, trevanian asked a question I forgot to reply to. Unfortunately I'm not sure what he's referring to. Which ILM footage is that? If you're referring to behind the scenes stuff, I'm trying to avoid that, as there are many great documentaries. However, if the BTS stuff includes deleted material in some form, even if it's only like a brief shot of someone wearing a costume, then I figured it would be good to include. As an example, until recently this was the only known image of the "Light Man" from Return of the Jedi.
However, on the BDs there is a documentary that shows like 2 seconds of the Light Man in costume just walking in what appears to be a dressing room. It's not a deleted scene, but it's a reference to a deleted character, so I'm choosing to include it.
Anyway, sorry, I'm longwinded as it is, and I'm taking up too much space in a Star Trek forum. *Ahem* as I was saying, this is such a cool thread!
I apologize if this is a little off topic...
Wow darth_ender, the work you are doing is enormous! You must have downloaded at least 10,000 pictures! That's something I'd like to see! I don't think so much pictures exist for all the 79 episodes of the original Star Trek series! I look forward to your release.
P.S. I've sent you a private message.
Ah friend, I'm afraid I miscommunicated. My project is a Star Wars project, not Star Trek. I brought it up to explain my interest in this thread, as I love Star Wars and Star Trek, and I love deleted material. As I am working on a Star Wars project, I am happy to see a similar Star Trek project being worked on. Sorry to disappoint.
The work I am doing is indeed enormous, and if you count all the duplicates and trash pictures I've downloaded, I have indeed far exceeded 10,000 downloads. There are Facebook pages that thousands of photos, most of which were not what I was looking for, but also including so many that were useful that I used an album downloader to grab the whole bunch. But then I've spent hours upon hours deleting those I don't want and organizing those I do. It's very time consuming for probably the part of my project that will interest the fewest people. What I have left are, and I do not exaggerate, at least 2,000 pictures a piece for A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. That said, I still have duplicates and I'm trying to sort out the best version of each. It's a lot of work, but I'm sorry it's not relevant to this Star Trek project.
In any case, if you or anyone is truly interested in discussing my project further, I started a thread in the sci-fi forum so I don't get this thread off topic any more. My apologies to all.
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After serving on the staff of Senator James Abourezk, Daschle was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978, serving eight years. He is one of the first Members of Congress to serve in a Democratic Leadership position in his first term of office as a Regional Whip.
In 1986, he was elected to the U.S. Senate and two years later, became the first Co-Chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee and the first South Dakotan to be elected to a leadership position in the U.S. Congress. In 1994, Senator Daschle was elected by his colleagues as their Democratic Leader. Only Lyndon Johnson served fewer years in the Senate before being elected to the position. Senator Daschle is one of the longest serving Senate Democratic Leaders in history and the only one to serve twice as both Majority and Minority Leader. During his tenure as Leader, Senator Daschle comanaged only the second impeachment trial of a U.S. President, led the Senate in response to the attacks of September 11th, 2001 and the anthrax attack on his office one month later.
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He has published articles in numerous newspapers and periodicals and is the author of the book, Like No Other Time. He holds a number of honorary doctorate degrees.
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John F. Elter, Ph.D., joined Plug Power Inc. in March 2001 as Vice President of Research and System Architecture and was appointed Chief Technology Officer in May 2004. Since joining Plug Power, Dr. Elter has directed the development of advanced fuel cell systems as well as fuel cell technologies that drive overall product development. He also has managed the company's Center of Excellence and is currently chairman of the Plug Power Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Elter is responsible for the identification of emerging transformational technologies, which support the company's multi-generational product strategy.
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Carol Folt
Carol L. Folt is dean of the faculty at Dartmouth College, associate director of the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Research Program, and holder of the Dartmouth Professorship in Biological Sciences. She and her colleagues pioneered new isotope technologies to follow mercury through aquatic food webs and to identify genes to detect low levels of toxic metals in lakes. They publish extensively in environmental science, limnology and salmon conservation and are part of Dartmouth's longest standing interdisciplinary program project which is supported by the NIEHS Basic Superfund Research Program. She enjoys working within a strong, multidisciplinary team to solve complex environmental problems. She has been an elected officer and board member in the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and the Ecological Society of America and served on numerous national science review panels and editorial boards. Awarded the John M. Manley Huntington Award for Teaching in 1991, she has advised more than 100 undergraduate and graduate students and is one of the original faculty involved in Dartmouth's Women-In-Science program. As Dean of Faculty she is committed to seeing Dartmouth continue to be a national environmental leader both in and out of the classroom and to developing programs that unite the professional and graduate schools with Arts & Sciences. She came to Dartmouth in 1983 after receiving her PhD from the University of California, Davis. She served as the Dean of Graduate Studies from 2001 to 2004 and co-founded Dartmouth's first interdisciplinary graduate program, the Earth, Ecosystem, and Ecological Sciences, Program, in 1993 with Andrew Friedland.
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Mary Gorman was appointed Associate Provost and Executive Officer at Dartmouth in 2002. She is the principal adviser to the Provost on facilities and financial matters, and she is responsible for the Provost Division financial and operational issues. In addition, she oversees the Office of Planning, Design and Construction; Community Relations; and the Sustainability Coordinator. Mary works closely with the Boards and Directors/Deans of the Hood Museum, the Hopkins Center, and the Tucker Foundation. Mary has a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from Yale University. Prior to Dartmouth, Mary spent 14 years as the Director of Financial Planning at Phillips Exeter Academy.
Jason Grumet
Jason Grumet is the founder and President of the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). Led by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell, the BPC seeks to develop and promote solutions that attract the broad public support and political momentum to achieve real progress. The BPC currently hosts initiatives in the fields of Energy Policy, Health Care, Agricultural Policy, Transportation Policy, and National Security. In addition to advancing specific proposals, the BPC also is broadcasting a different type of policy discourse that seeks to unite the constructive center in the pursuit of common goals. Jason oversees the organization's strategic direction, technical analysis, policy development and advocacy. In addition, Jason leads the day to day activities of the National Commission on Energy Policy. In December 2004, after more than two years of research and debate, the eighteen member Commission released its long-term energy strategy, Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America's Energy Challenges. The Commission released updated recommendations earlier this year and continues to actively advocate for its policy recommendations in Congress and with the Administration. In this capacity, Jason is a frequent witness at Congressional hearings. Prior to joining the Commission, Jason worked for NESCAUM which represents the Northeast Governors on Environmental Matters. He received a B.A. from Brown University and a J.D. from Harvard University. Jason lives with his wife, Stephanie, and daughters, Isabella and Julia, in Washington, D.C.
Robert Hansen
Robert Hansen is Senior Associate Dean and Norman W. Martin 1925 Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School, where he has been on the faculty since 1983. As Senior Associate Dean he is responsible for all faculty and research matters, and he also assists and advises the Dean on general school issues and special projects. From 1995-98 Professor Hansen served as Associate Dean of Tuck, with primary responsibility for the MBA program. He became Faculty Director, Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship in July 2004.
While at Tuck, Professor Hansen's teaching has been in the economics and finance areas. He teaches the core MBA course Managerial Economics as well as a second year elective on game theory. Over the years he has also taught courses on environmental economics, securities markets and investment banking, investments, and public policy.
Joseph Helble
Joseph Helble is currently Dean of Thayer School of Engineering and Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth. He previously was Professor of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut, conducting research in the areas of aerosol science, air pollution, and ceramic nanoparticle technology. From 1987-1995, he was a research scientist at Physical Sciences Inc., a small research organization in Andover, MA, and in 1993 served as an environmental fellow with the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC. In 1995, he joined the faculty at Connecticut, serving as Graduate Program Chair from 1996-1999 and as Department Head from 1999-2004.
Helble was named the 2004-2005 Roger Revelle Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, allowing him to spend the 2004-2005 academic year addressing technology and environmental policy initiatives in the U.S. Senate. Dean Helble is a member of the editorial boards of Environmental Engineering Science and Fuel Processing Technology. He is the author of 100 publications in the areas of aerosols and air quality, and 3 U.S. patents related to nanoscale powder production. He was a recipient of a young faculty Career Award from NSF, an outstanding young faculty award from the University of Connecticut School of Engineering, the first Environmental Leadership Award for the University of Connecticut, the Barnard Award from AAAS, and is an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.
Richard Howarth
Richard Howarth is an economist who studies the theory of environmental policy analysis with applications to issues such as energy use, climate change, and ecological conservation. Professor Howarth was educated at Cornell, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Program. He has held appointments at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and is currently the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth.
Ruth Hupart
Ruth Hupart is a Dartmouth undergraduate in her senior year who intends to receive her B.A. in Environmental Studies this June. She focuses on conservation of biodiversity and is especially interested in implications for public policy. In the fall of 2006 Ruth participated in the Environmental Studies department's foreign study program in South Africa, Namibia, and Swaziland. Prior to resuming classes on campus this autumn she worked on an organic farm in West Cork, Ireland, and in a Dartmouth ecology lab. Ruth was on the student search committee for the College's first sustainability coordinator two and a half years ago and has since been active in student environmentalism. She helped establish Sustainable Dartmouth, the Sustainable Move-In Sale, and the Dartmouth Animal Welfare Group. She is currently co-chair of Sustainable Dartmouth and often publishes articles in the Green Magazine and the Dartmouth Free Press.
Eric Ingersol
As CEO and Chairman of Mechanology, Eric has developed and executed the strategy for the company, positioning the company as a technology leader in the key clean energy segments of dispatchable wind, dispatchable wave, cogeneration/power recovery, and natural gas compression services. In developing this strategy, Eric did all the application engineering for the company, and is the named inventor on numerous patents-in-process. Two of his areas of invention have resulted in companies that have spun out of Mechanology. To spin out General Compression, the dispatchable wind company, Eric also recruited two highly successful entrepreneurs, who are two of the most successful wind investors in the US to run the company and managed the first raise of $8M. General Compression is expecting to close on a 1,600MW PPA for its first project to provide peak power in California within the next couple of months. In addition to the above, Eric has personally managed all fundraising, licensing, new company creation, intellectual property strategy, financial planning, hiring, and business development.
He is currently on the board of the Clean Air Task Force, a member of the investment committee of the Commonwealth School (in Boston), and a board member of a vertically integrated solar company building the largest solar manufacturing facility in the world. Because of his unique combination of business and technical expertise, Eric is a sought after advisor to numerous energy technology companies.
Prior to joining Mechanology as CEO, Eric had completed over 30 turnaround/interim management engagements with new technology firms. Eric has also worked with leading investors, venture capital firms, and Fortune 500 firms to accelerate the process of technology venture development. Projects included advising KPMG, Lotus, IBM/Lotus Labs on spin outs and developing venture acceleration programs for Atlas Venture and the Internet Capital Group.
His energy utility clients have included: Enron, PacificCorp, Green Mountain Energy Resources, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, Northeast Utilities, and New England Electric. He was a commercialization advisor to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and has advised the California Energy Commission, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, the United Nations Development Program, the Energy and Transport Directorate of the European Commission, as well as numerous other regional energy policy organizations on energy market transformation and commercialization of new energy technologies.
He has developed green corporate strategies for companies in the consumer products (Church & Dwight), chemicals (Dow Brands), forestry, and building materials industries. He has advised the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and numerous other foundations on market-based approaches to resource conservation, and his team wrote the business plan for the first environmental venture capital fund created by the World Bank/IFC.
In addition to his consulting and business advisory work, Eric has published research on venture development (Paths to Value, PricewaterhouseCoopers 2002), policy papers on market-based approaches to commercializing new technologies, and presentations at numerous conferences, and developed training materials for the advanced management program at Harvard Business School on the environmental challenges faced by managers of energy companies. He majored in Economic Development Studies at UC Berkeley.
Lee Lynd
Lee Rybeck Lynd is a Professor of Engineering and an Adjunct Professor of Biology at Dartmouth, where he has been on the faculty since 1987, and Professor Extraordinary of Microbiology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer for Mascoma Corp., a cellulosic ethanol start-up. Dr. Lynd holds a B.S. degree in biology from Bates College, an M.S. degree in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin, and masters and doctoral degrees in engineering from Dartmouth. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, two-time recipient of the Charles A. Lindbergh Award in recognition of efforts to promote a balance between environmental preservation and technological advancement, recipient of the Charles D. Scott Award for distinguished contributions to the field of biotechnology for fuels and chemicals, and the inaugural recipient of the Lemelson-MIT sustainability award.
Professor Lynd is an expert on utilization of plant biomass for production of energy. His contributions span the science, technology, and policy domains, and include leading research on fundamental and biotechnological aspects of microbial cellulose utilization. Topics addressed in over 70 archival publications, several comprehensive reviews, book chapters, and patents include fundamentals and applications of microbial cellulose utilization, use of recombinant DNA technology to develop advanced biocatalysts for biofuel production, kinetics and design of bioreactors for lignocellulose conversion, design and evaluation of industrial processes for bioenergy production, and envisioning the role of biomass in a sustainable world.
Professional activities include serving as the biofuels industry representative on a committee advisory to the Executive Office of President Clinton on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Personal Vehicles; Associate Editor of Biotechnology and Bioengineering; Organizing Committee Member, Annual Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals; Manager, Link Foundation Energy Fellowship Program; Member and R&D Area Coordinator, Biomass and Agriculture Working Group of the Energy Future Coalition; Advisory Committee Member, "Ethanol from Biomass: America's 21st Century Transportation Fuel" sponsored by the Governor's Ethanol Coalition and the Hewlett Foundation; Organizing Committee Member, American Academy of Microbiology Symposium on Microbial Energy Production; Chair, Cellulose Ethanol Summit Technical Briefing.
Lisa Margonelli
Lisa Margonelli is an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation, and was the recipient of a Sundance Institute Fellowship and an excellence in journalism award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. She has been published in the The New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, Business 2.0, Discover, and Jane.
Patrick Parenteau
Patrick A. Parenteau is Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic at Vermont Law School. He previously served as Director of the Environmental Law Center at VLS from 1993-1999. Professor Parenteau also teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College.
Professor Parenteau has an extensive background in environmental and natural resources law. His previous positions include Vice President for Conservation with the National Wildlife Federation in Washington, DC (1976-1984); General Counsel to the New England Regional Office of the EPA in Boston (1984-1987); Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (1987-1989); and Of Counsel with the Perkins Coie law firm in Portland, Oregon (1989-1993).
Professor Parenteau is a nationally recognized expert on the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and other environmental laws. He has been involved in drafting, litigating, implementing, teaching, and writing about these laws for over 30 years. He is a recipient of the National Wildlife Federation's Conservation Achievement Award for 2005 in recognition of his contributions to wildlife conservation and environmental education.
Professor Parenteau holds a B.S. from Regis University, a J.D. from Creighton University, and an LLM in Environmental Law from the George Washington University.
Dan Reicher
Dan W. Reicher has over 20 years of experience in business, government and non-governmental organizations focused on energy and environmental technology, policy, finance and law. He recently joined Google where he serves as Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives for the company's new venture called Google.org. Google.org has been capitalized with more than $1 billion of Google stock to make investments and advance policy in the areas of climate change and energy, global poverty, and global health.
Prior to his recent position at Google, Mr. Reicher served as President and Co-Founder of New Energy Capital Corp., a New England-based company that develops, invests in, owns and operates renewable energy and distributed generation projects. Mr. Reicher is also a member of General Electric's Ecomagination Advisory Board.
From 1997-2001, Mr. Reicher was Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). As Assistant Secretary, he directed annually more than $1 billion in investments in energy research, development and deployment related to renewable energy, distributed generation and energy efficiency. Prior to that position, Mr. Reicher was DOE Chief of Staff (1996-97), Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy (Acting) (1995-1996), and Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Secretary (1993-1995). He was also a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Climate Change Negotiations, Co-Chair of the U.S. Biomass Research and Development Board, and a member of the board of the government-industry Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles. After leaving the Clinton Administration in 2001 he was a consultant to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and a Visiting Fellow at the World Resources Institute.
In 2002, Mr. Reicher became Executive Vice President of Northern Power Systems, a venture capital-backed renewable energy and distributed generation engineering, services and technology company with installations in more than forty-five countries. Mr. Reicher led the renewable energy sales group at Northern and also was actively involved with the company's project finance, government relations and public affairs initiatives. He also played a significant role in the successful sale of the company to Proton Energy Systems, a leading hydrogen company, and the simultaneous creation of Distributed Energy Systems, a new NASDAQ-listed holding company that now owns both Northern Power and Proton Energy.
Prior to his roles at the Department of Energy and in the business community, Mr. Reicher was a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council where he focused on the federal government's energy and nuclear programs as well as environmental law and policy issues in the former Soviet Union. He was also previously Assistant Attorney General for Environmental Protection in Massachusetts, a law clerk to a federal district court judge in Boston, a legal assistant in the Hazardous Waste Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, and a staff member of President Carter's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island.
Mr. Reicher currently is co-chairman of the advisory board of the American Council on Renewable Energy and a member of the boards of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, the Keystone Center's Energy Program, and Circus Smirkus. He was also recently a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Alternatives to Indian Point for Meeting Energy Needs.
Mr. Reicher also recently served as an adjunct professor at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Vermont Law School. He holds a B.A. in Biology from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. He also studied at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Mr. Reicher was a member of a National Geographic-sponsored expedition that was the first on record to navigate the entire 1888 mile Rio Grande and was also a member of the first group on record to kayak the Yangtze River in China.
Mr. Reicher is married to Carole Parker, who headed the Office of Pollution Prevention at the U.S. Department of Defense from 1994 to 1999. Carole and Dan have three children and live in Norwich Vermont. The family will be relocating to California in August 2007.
Marc Rosenbaum
Marc Rosenbaum, P.E. uses an integrated systems design approach to help people create buildings and communities which connect us to the natural world, and support both personal and planetary health. He brings this vision, experience and commitment to a collaborative design process, with the goal of profoundly understanding the interconnections between people, place, and systems that generate the best solution for each unique project. Design practiced at its highest level goes beyond efficiency and conservation to create places that regenerate and nurture the natural world and all of its inhabitants.
Realizing that the barriers to high performance buildings and communities are neither technical nor economic, his work scope has expanded to assist clients design the process that is necessary to create these high performance projects.
His work has been recognized nationally by ASHRAE, AIA, EEBA, and NESEA.
Charles Sullivan
Charles R. Sullivan is Associate Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. His research presently focuses on reducing cost and improving efficiency of magnetic components used in power electronic circuits for efficiency and new energy applications. He teaches in electronics, systems, and energy, and advises the Dartmouth hybrid-electric race car team. He holds a B.S. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include over 80 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications and eight US patents. Awards include a National Science Foundation CAREER award and a Power Electronics Society Prize Paper Award. Professional activities include serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and consulting for the semiconductor industry.
David Wells
David joined the Greentech investing team at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in early 2006. Responsibilities include knowledge mapping and opportunity sourcing across the entire landscape of Green technologies. Building relationships with scientists and entrepreneurs throughout the US and Europe, David has helped bring many ventures through the KP investment process including due diligence, team building, goal setting and deal structuring.
Beginning with a collaboration with KP partner Bill Joy in 2004, David has built a detailed and diverse base of Greentech knowledge across multiple energy technologies and scientific disciplines, together with a matching knowledge base of resources, markets and incumbents. Every aspect of energy and water production, transport and use, including emissions impacts, has been studied in detail and mapped to target recognition of disruptive order-of-magnitude and tipping-point innovations.
David's background includes eight years building a nation-wide business in Japan, three years of business consulting, and ten years of technical experience in marine engineering.
Rob Wills
Dr. Robert Wills received his Doctor of Engineering from Thayer in 1987. He was the first student in the CRREL/Thayer graduate program. A native of Melbourne, Australia, he has worked in the solar-energy business for the last 25 years, specializing in power electronics and control. He is currently CTO of Citizenre Corporation, a startup solar business that plans to build a gigawatt solar plant in the Northeastern USA.
Dorothy M. Wolfe
Ms. Wolfe is President and Co-founder of groSolar (Global Resource Options, Inc.). She is in charge of financial operations of the national company, headquartered in White River Junction, VT. She has met aggressive goals for growth in the distribution and installation business operations. Ms. Wolfe was central to implementation of the NetSuite ERP system now used at GRO for accounting, CRM, and inventory control. Ms. Wolfe also works with the sales department on non-standard applications, and oversees the incentive and permit application processes.
Prior to founding groSolar, Ms. Wolfe was a consulting engineer. She was involved with over 1,000,000 square feet of construction. Major projects include laboratories, hospitals, dormitories, art museums, offices, and cogeneration and chilled water plants. She has strong expertise in conceptualization and implementation of complex systems, renewable power systems, energy conservation and recovery, and control systems. Ms. Wolfe is skilled in design and specification of systems.


text: Hi all, I really need advise on the mental or confidence for my son. He is 12 years old and playing now not too bad, but when he is playing in tournament it is like he is playing only at 40% 4 double faults in the row, easy ball smashed, ... and he has been playing tournament already 1.5 years, he started 2 years ago. It seems that he cannot let down this stress sentiment. I made an experience on him. Yesterday, we meet people on court and he play with them, and no problem he play as usual. After that i want him to not do a double fault so i make him make his second serve, which is not bad, he miss some but it is acceptable (on about 10 serves 1 is out). Then i told him every 10 serves, you can only miss 1, and if you miss you will have to write 20 times "I cannot miss my serve" x number of miss out of 10 => I know I am bad, but i want him to feel that in this game he have something to loose. then he made 4 double faults in a row, success 1 and then again double fault multiple time, just like in tournament. I wanted to stress him to the equivalent of a tournament. Am I in a right track to help him suppress that anxiety or should I stop to do that stupid thing ? What is your experience. He is my little one so as all of you we like to see our little to succeed, not forcibly win a match, but just play freely and most importantly play his best. Thanks


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Jill Tarter at the Toronto Science Festival
August 02, 2013
SEPTEMBER 27, 28 and 29, 2013
The first annual Toronto Science Festival brings together scientists from the University of Toronto and around the world to celebrate the best way we have of understanding the Universe: science.
This year, we explore the theme of Life in the Universe through an array of public talks, panels, performances, films and events.
Learn more at http://tsf.utoronto.ca/program/


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WATCH: Behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy's 2012 White House visit
WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, March 26, President Obama will welcome the Major League Soccer champion LA Galaxy and the Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings to the White House to honor their 2012 championship seasons in a ceremony at the White House. This visit will also continue the tradition begun by President Obama of honoring sports teams for their efforts to give back to communities as part of their trip to Washington.
READ: Arena and Magee discuss the LA Galaxy's upcoming trip to the White House
PHOTOS: Galaxy visit the White House in 2012
After the ceremony, the teams will host a Let's Move! clinic on the South Lawn of the White House for youth sport participants from across the country. The clinic is supported by MLS WORKS, MLS's community outreach initiative that promotes the importance of living a healthy lifestyle, and the Kings Care Foundation, the club's community outreach initiative that is focused on providing and enhancing educational, recreational, and health-related programs for the youth of Los Angeles. The children participating in the clinic come from the U.S. Soccer Foundation's Soccer for Success program in Philadelphia, America SCORES programs in Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland and Washington, D.C. and NHL's Hockey is for Everyone programs in Washington, D.C., Columbus, Detroit and Philadelphia.
READ: Arena: Galaxy planning on Donovan attending White House visit
Background information on youth sports programs participating:
MLS WORKS is Major League Soccer's community outreach initiative dedicated to addressing important social issues and serves as a platform for both League and club philanthropic programs. MLS WORKS seeks to establish Major League Soccer as a leader for improving the lives of people through sport.
LA Galaxy Foundation
The LA Galaxy Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to helping children through educational, health and soccer based initiatives and programs. LA Galaxy Foundation will continue to support organizations and activities dedicated to encouraging, educating and empowering the children in our community.
Kings Care Foundation
The Kings Care Foundation is the award-winning, non-profit children's charity of the Los Angeles Kings. Formed in 1996, the Kings Care Foundation is dedicated to providing children in the Greater Los Angeles area with educational and recreational opportunities and has donated nearly $8 million in monetary and in-kind donations. The Kings Care Foundation is proud to support the local community by making a direct impact on the lives of nearly one million children throughout Southern California each year.
Soccer for Success
The U.S. Soccer Foundation, the major charitable arm of soccer in the United States, runs the national after-school program Soccer for Success. Soccer for Success provides children in urban underserved areas with structured physical activity, nutrition education and mentorship, for 90 minutes a day, three times per week for 24 weeks per year, at no cost to their families. Soccer for Success ensures that children in under-resourced communities have easy and affordable access to a high quality out-of-school program that supports their physical and personal development. The children participating in the event are from a Better Tomorrows community in Philadelphia, where the U.S. Soccer Foundation partners with the JT Dorsey Foundation to implement the program.
America SCORES
America SCORES provides innovative afterschool and summer programming which combine soccer, poetry and spoken word, and service-learning every day for over 24 weeks each year. America SCORES participants receive ten times more exercise than the national average and lower their BMI by 2% by the end of each season. Using soccer as a tool to encourage fitness, sportsmanship, and leadership, America SCORES inspires the life-long appreciation of sports and health-enhancing behaviors like choosing to eat more fruit and vegetables, participating in organized sports and spending less time watching television and playing video games. Each year, America SCORES serves 8,000 students at 150 schools through fourteen affiliates located in major urban centers across the United States.
NHL's Hockey is for Everyone
Hockey is for Everyone™ (HIFE) is the National Hockey League's official youth development program. HIFE provides support and unique programing to non-profit youth hockey organizations across North America that are committed to offering children of all backgrounds opportunities to play hockey. The HIFE initiative leverages the sport of hockey as a catalyst to help children learn essential life skills, education and the core values of hockey: commitment, perseverance, and teamwork.
TUESDAY, March 26, 2013
10:35 AM PDT: The President's Remarks Honoring the MLS Cup Champion LA Galaxy and Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings
11:30 AM PDT: Let's Move! Clinic with the LA Galaxy and Los Angeles Kings


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It's time that you became familiar with the names of Tommy Tedesco, Don Randi, Carol Kaye, Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer, Plas Johnson, Glen Campbell (before he became a singer), Al Casey, and many others by watching a movie called "The Wrecking Crew".
As the film showed, even the musicians had conflicting numbers as to how many peers were in the group. What is indisputable, is the staggering amount of hits these 20 (or so) guitarists, drummers, keyboardists, and wind players recorded in the 60's and 70's. Hits by The Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, Phil Spector, Simon and Garfunkel, Sonny and Cher, Frank Sinatra, The Byrds, The Association, Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass, Dean Martin, The Fifth Dimension, The Captain And Tennille, The Partridge Family, The Monkees, The Righteous Brothers, Nancy Sinatra, and so many more.
The music throughout the 99 minute film was so familiar for everyone in attendance, with hit after hit after hit. And it was great to see the late Dick Clark on screen talking about the importance of The Wrecking Crew in an interview Danny filmed prior to Dick's stroke in 2004. (God bless you Danny for getting so much of this recorded while the artists were still with us!) The movie covered the soundtrack of an entire generation, and it was apparent the crowd soaked it up like the warmth of a perfect summer day. But the film, which was completed in 2008 and has won over 50 awards at various film festivals around the world, isn't available to see, except at special screenings. Nor is it available on DVD.
First an explanation of why The Wrecking Crew story needed to be told. This was a group of those (mostly) unknown session musicians, who played on hit sessions for the big hit making names we heard on the radio for well over a decade.
KOOL FM Interview with The Wrecking Crew Part 1
The movie is their story of these session musicians who made the music, but didn't get the credit. It was an obvious labor of love for producer/director Denny Tedesco, who's father was legendary session guitarist Tommy Tedesco. When Tommy was diagnosed with cancer in 1996 the impetus for the film began.
KOOL FM Interview with The Wrecking Crew Part 2
As Danny told the crowd:
"A few months later I thought, you know what, I should do something and put together a round table between him and Hal Blaine, Plias Johnson, and Carol Kaye, and they say around a round table in the studio. I call it the quartet without instruments. It was based on a little of Barry Levinson's Diner, and Woody Allen's Danny Rose. My favorite movies are when people just sit around and banter."
KOOL FM Interview with The Wrecking Crew Part 3
Stu Evans asked them about The Monkeys and we got an earful. The Wrecking Crew made their records!
KOOL FM Interview with The Wrecking Crew Part 4
The Wrecking Crew's Drummer, Hal Blaine on Elvis:
"Elvis was a great guy… There is so much more to tell, I guess. People ask, How could you let that happen to Elvis. It happens. There's nothing you could do about. Elvis was the King and was treated like it."
KOOL FM Interview with The Wrecking Crew Part 5
– Steve Goddard and Jason Pawlik, 94.5 KOOL FM


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In just a few short days Skylanders Giants, the sequel to the best-selling kids title in 2011 and best-selling game of 2012 year-to-date, will be released, introducing a new, giant adventure to fans everywhere.
Poised to prove that "bigger really is better", Skylanders Giants features 16 new characters, led by eight Giant Skylanders, who are twice the size of their comrades and have the powers and abilities to match.
"It's really gratifying that in less than a year, we've seen Skylanders go from being an intriguing untested new IP to becoming one of the hottest kids franchises in the world. And it has been universally acclaimed by parents, kids and critics alike," said Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg. "Skylanders is more than just a new piece of interactive entertainment, but a genuinely new kind of thinking in interactive entertainment."
"The response of the fans has been incredible, and the only way we can return the favor is with a sequel like Skylanders Giants," he added. "This game is all about big: big creatures, big worlds, bigger ideas. We're very excited to see Skylanders Giants finally hit the shelves."
Joining the Giants are eight new Skylanders who also feature never-before-seen powers. Introduced in Skylanders Giants are the new LightCore Skylanders that glow when on or near the Portal of Power. The original characters from Skylanders Spyro's Adventure return with all-new "Wow Pow" upgrade powes as well as the choice of more than one upgrade path. All of the characters from the original game are 100% compatible with Skylanders Giants.
Additionally, Skylanders GIants will make its debut on the Wii U when Nintendo's new console launches on November 18, 2012. The Wii U version utilizes the system's motion and touchscreen controller. Meanwhile, the 3DS version will include a new adventure —exclusive to Nintendo's handheld — featuring Flynn, Hugo, Cali, and introduces the villainous Captain Frightbeard. Are you excited for the October 21, 2012 release of Skylanders Giants?
Skylanders Giants has received endorsements from Toys "R" Us Holiday Hot Toy List, the Toy Insider "Hot 20 Toys for the Holidays" and Time to Play's "Holiday 2012 Most Wanted List". It is set to release on October 21, 2012.


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AFSCME Election Rules Eastern Region Committee Meeting
Event Details
Saturday, March 03, 2012
Crowne Plaza Downtown
1800 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
At the 40th International Union Convention being held June 18-22 in Los Angeles, Calif., elections will be held for all of the International Union's leadership posts — International President, International Secretary-Treasurer and 35 International Vice Presidents.
At the year-end International Executive Board meeting in December, and with unanimous consent by members of the Board, President McEntee appointed a Committee to review our rules and procedures for electing International officers and vice presidents. These have been in place for many years and have served us well, but a periodic review is appropriate, especially at this important time in our union's history.
The review is being undertaken by a three member committee chaired by IVP Joe Rugola (Ohio). The other members are IVP Sal Luciano (Connecticut) and IVP Sherryl Gordon (New Jersey).
The committee is seeking input and recommendations from all AFSCME Local Unions, Councils, and Retiree Chapters.
Locals, councils, and retiree chapters are requested to attend the meeting in their region and also are requested to use the enclosed response form so that we can arrange meeting room space sufficient to accommodate all those intending to make presentations to the committee.
In the alternative, your local, council, or retiree chapter may submit written presentations. These should be mailed to the following address:
Election Rules Review Committee
c/o International President's Office
1625 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
International President McEntee, International Secretary-Treasurer Saunders and the entire International Executive Board encourage your participation in this review.
Download the registration form and return it to:
AFSCME, Conference & Travel Services
1625 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-5687
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Fax: 202-452-4026


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A total of 38 foreign language students from Fayette County High, Sandy Creek High, Starr's Mill High and Whitewater High schools competed in the annual Foreign Language Association of Georgia (FLAG) Spoken Language Contest at Decatur High School.
Students competed in the areas of French, German and Spanish and brought home 22 Superior, nine Excellent and seven Notable awards based on their level of competency in conversing in their target language.
Judges rated students on language fluency as well as comprehension, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar/syntax.


text: AirAsia Japan Launches International Flights to Korea Fly from Narita to Seoul from as low as KRW2,000 one way Tokyo, 10 October 2012 AirAsia Japan, an affiliate of the world's best low cost carrier for four consecutive years is set to strengthen its position as an industry leader with the announcement of its international route to Seoul (Incheon), Korea. In conjunction with the international flight debut celebration, AirAsia Japan is having a special promotion with seats from as low as KRW2,000* up for grabs. The Narita to Seoul (Incheon) route will begin operations on October 28th 2012 with daily flights operating from Narita International Airport. Seats between the Narita – Seoul (Incheon) route are from as low as KRW30,000 one way, inclusive of airport tax and fees. Guests are able to grab the special promotional fares exclusively at www.airasia.com beginning 10pm (GMT+8) on 10 October till 17 October 2012 for the travel period from 28th October - 30th March 2013. The new route announcement was made simultaneously by AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes in Seoul and AirAsia Japan CEO Kazuyuki Iwakata in Tokyo. Tony said, "This is a great day for all of us, and an even greater day for the consumers & air travelers in Korea. With AirAsia's low fare, everyone can now travel to more places more often. AirAsia Japan's announcement of this international route today is a dream come true for us, and I am looking forward to see the Narita – Incheon flights begin operations. Congratulations to Kazuyuki and his team for making Japanese and Korean skies friendlier and more affordable." Kazuyuki said, "We are extremely happy and proud to enable so many guests to fly and enjoy the AirAsia experience since we started operations about three months ago. The announcement of our new international routes to Korea gives me much pleasure as AirAsia Japan can now further expand the AirAsia Group's existing extensive route network, connecting Japan and other countries in Asia. It makes much sense to begin our international flights to Korea, our next-door neighbor and I am sure that this will further enable and inspire more people to travel to international destinations as the flights take only about 2 hours from Narita to Incheon. AirAsia Japan's international flights will also be operated on Airbus A320 aircraft with a capacity of 180 seats, similar to its domestic flights. Follow AirAsia on social media via Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/AirAsiaKorea) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/airasiakr) for latest updates, promotions, activities and more. *KRW2,000 base fare is not inclusive of airport tax and fees. Tokyo(Narita)⇒Seoul(Incheon) Flight No. 10/28~3/30 ETD ETA JW 0893 14:15 17:00 Seoul(Incheon)⇒Tokyo(Narita) Flight No. 10/28~3/30 ETD ETA JW 0892 17.45 20:00