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One of this week's more intriguing (and controversial) rumors in the IT industry was about Apple's possible interest in acquiring Twitter.
I was planning to use my next blog-post to give an overview of my new MBA course ("Founders' Dilemmas: Money and Power in Entrepreneurial Ventures"), followed by posts on its individual case studies. However, given the Apple-Twitter rumors, I decided to jump the gun regarding two individual cases.
As it turns out, the course's introductory case is about the early founding fireworks at Apple, and the middle of the semester features a case looking at Evan Williams' approaches to founding Blogger and to founding Odeo (which evolved into Twitter). If anyone is interested in seeing those cases, they're available on the HBS Publishing site, with "Apple's Core" here and "Evan Williams: From Blogger to Odeo" here.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- John Smirnow, vice president of trade and competitiveness at the Solar Energy Industries Association® (SEIA®), has been designated chairman of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee (RE&EEAC). The re-charted committee was launched in recent days by U.S. Commerce Deputy Secretary Rebecca Blank.
APS sets record in 2012 for solar power installation
Arizona Public Service Co. set a record last year for the amount of solar power installed throughout its service territory, accounting for about 21 percent of the total installed across the state.
Concentrated Solar Power Tower Technology Hits Milestone
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR), a rocket-engine manufacturer based in Los Angeles, Calif., has marked a major milestone in technology that will provide reliable solar energy on demand – even when the sun isn't shining.
An electric car – with a side of solar panels
Marrying electric cars with solar panels is a good way of enticing people into buying electric cars, new research shows. Joint efforts from automakers and green energy providers could expand interest in electric cars, Ingram writes.
Army to Issue $7 billion RFP for Solar, Renewables
The U.S. Army is surging forward in its push for green energy. Today (August 7) the Army held a media roundtable discussing its plans to issue request for proposals (RFP) for a multi-award task order contract (MATOC) for 1 gigawatt of renewable and alternative energy within the next 30 days. It plans to close the RFP roughly 30 days after that.
A Mirror a Minute: The Ivanpah Solar Farm Kicks Into High Gear
About 45 minutes south of Las Vegas on Interstate 15 — past miles of sprawling desert, a few aging casinos, and the Nevada, California border — sits an engineering and technology marvel that is months from offering a very real solution to helping fight climate change. This is Ivanpah, one of the largest solar thermal farms in the world, which when switched on in 2013, will use 170,000 mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto three massive towers to produce solar electricity.
Alternate energy producers fear loss of incentives
If oil and gas companies receive federal subsidies, so should renewable energy projects, said wind, geothermal and solar power supporters at Tuesday's fifth-annual National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas.
Obama Administration Announces Seven Major Renewable Energy Projects to be Expedited
Today, as a part of his We Can't Wait initiative, President Obama announced that seven nationally and regionally significant solar and wind energy projects will be expedited, including projects in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Wyoming.
Solar, Wind Power Get Pentagon Boost
The U.S. Defense Department will encourage companies to build solar power plants and wind farms on 16 million acres of open land surrounding military bases, making each base less dependent on the nation's aging electricity grid.

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22 You gave them the land that you swore with an oath to give their ancestors, the land flowing with milk and honey. | 22 You gave them this land you had sworn to give their forefathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. |
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The great flood in Loveland has passed. Driving to Estes Park and returning through Drake makes me sad. That area will never be the same.
The flood covered nine counties, if my memory serves. One area that took a hit is the vicinity of First Street and Taft Avenue in Loveland. The ball fields look good but there is still a lot of debris to the west.
A week or so ago, I had to go to the Comcast office on First Street to get an upgraded DVR. I was surprised to find that the building that housed Comcast is fenced off. They are operating out of a modular building next door. A worker told me that the brick building got knocked off its foundation and is condemned.
A few days later, I was contacted by a friend who owns what used to be the KLOV building. If you have been in Loveland for a while, you remember that there used to be a local (really local) radio station.
This building felt the flood too but has been repaired and remodeled. The owner wants to turned it into an office building. If you are wanting office space in southwest Loveland, let me know.
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Summer Traffic Problems On Monmouth Roads Start Weekend
A car fire on the Garden State Parkway and an truck that blew a tire on Route 18 caused major traffic issues in Monmouth County.
A car fire on the Garden State Parkway and an truck that blew a tire on Route 18 caused major traffic issues in Monmouth County.
Two serious accidents ended the weekend for those heading home from the Jersey Shore leaving one person dead and more than a dozen people injured.
The return ride from the shore points is a long and heavy one.
If you are hitting the road this upcoming holiday weekend, you may want to give yourself some extra time and pack your patience with you.
Neptune Police have released a photo of the suspect who pulled a gun on a convenience store clerk in Neptune as they continue their search in the Wall & Neptune areas.
Route 9 in Toms River is reopened as police finish their initial investigation into an early morning head-on crash.
The New Jersey Department of Transportation has announced no additional red light cameras will be added to the state's red light camera program.
In what was surely a bizarre scene for the patrolman who made the bust, a man wearing a full Easter Bunny costume, including a view-obstructing rabbit head, was stopped by the California Highway Patrol for driving without a helmet on Saturday.
If you drive anywhere in the Garden State, you'll notice many highways look like the surface of the moon, littered with potholes.
Construction on the 12.5 mile stretch of Route 35 through Ocean County will be done with every effort to not inconvenience drivers too much. But Joe Dee, spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Transportation reminds drivers this won't be a "normal summer."
A car that went off Interstate 195 in Jackson and flew over an off-ramp has killed an Oakhurst man.
A car that flipped over on Interstate 195 in Jackson has been cleared.


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A Lady Mustang Bas-ketball Camp for students completing grades 1-7 will be held June 6-9 at the Sweetwater Middle School gym. Times for the camp are from 9-11:30 a.m. all four days. The cost will be $35 and pre-registration is greatly appreciated. A concession stand will be available. The goal of the camp is to improve playersŌĆÖ skills in basketball through instruction in individual skills and fun team competitions.
District MVP ŌĆö Sydney Laws, Brownwood. Newcomer of the Year ŌĆö Adrianna Hernandez, Snyder. Co-Offensive MVPs ŌĆö Sydnie Darden, Brownwood; Makenley Lunsford, Wylie. Defensive MVP ŌĆö Angelina Castillo, Big Spring. Coach of the Year ŌĆö Amanda Bludworth, Brownwood. FIRST TEAM Pitcher ŌĆö Taylor McKoy, Sweetwater. Catcher ŌĆö Cassie Cummings, Wylie. Infielders ŌĆö Nat Delatorre, Brownwood; Larisa Salazar, Brownwood; Ashtin Hand, Snyder; Mackenzie Stone, Big Spring; Alicia Finn, Sweetwater; Chelsea Contreras, Wylie.
Three Sweetwater players have been named to the all-District 5-3A softball team announced recently, while three others made the second team and one player received all-district honorable mention. Junior infielder Alicia Finn was a first-team selec-tion for the second consecutive year. Joining her on the first team were senior pitcher Taylor McKoy and sophomore outfielder Kendra Crosson.
At Mike A. Myers Stadium University of Texas-Austin (Nolan County athletes are in parentheses) TODAY Field Events 9 a.m. ŌĆö Girls: 3A Long Jump; 1A Pole Vault; Boys: 3A Discus; 3A Long Jump; 1A Pole Vault 10 a.m. ŌĆö Boys: 3A High Jump 10:30 a.m. ŌĆö Girls: 3A Discus; 4A Long Jump; Boys: 4A Long Jump Noon ŌĆö Girls: 4A Discus; 1A Long Jump; 3A Pole Vault; Boys: 1A Long Jump; 3A Pole Vault 12:10 p.m. ŌĆö Girls: 3A High Jump 1:30 p.m. ŌĆö Girls: 2A Long Jump; Boys: 4A Discus; 2A Long Jump 2 p.m. ŌĆö Boys: 4A High Jump
AUSTIN ŌĆö Ryan Mercer of Sweetwater shot a 2-over 73 on Thursday to enter todayŌĆÖs final round in a tie for fourth place in the boys individual stand-ings at the Class 3A state boys golf tournament. Mercer, a junior who is making his first state appearance, trails first-round leader Sean Romero of Texarkana Pleasant Grove by just two strokes. He was scheduled to tee off for his final round at 8:10 a.m. today. Mercer began his first round on the 17th hole as part of a shotgun start after a six-hour rain delay.
When Caden Smith of Roscoe competes in the Class 1A boys discus Friday, he will be one of the most experienced athletes in the state track and field meet. Smith, a senior who also competes in the shot put on Saturday, also qualified in the discus and shot put when he was a sophomore and junior. He actually went to state twice his sophomore year, when Roscoe won its first Class 1A basketball title with the 6-3, 250-pound Smith playing a major role in leading the Plowboys to the championship.
On Friday, SweetwaterŌĆÖs Jayci Shelton has two chan-ces to end her high school career with a gold medal at the 3A state track meet. ThatŌĆÖs twice as many as a year ago when Shelton made her first trip to Austin and had a fifth-place finish in her only event, the girls 300-meter hurdles. A higher finish this year seems likely, because Shelton has yet to lose a race in the 300 hurdles, and her only runnerup finish was in the 100 hurdles two weeks ago at a regional qualifiers meet held in Lubbock where Shelton was just .03 seconds behind the winner.
Ryan Mercer of Sweetwa-ter will be competing in the Class 3A boys state golf tournament as a medalist starting at 9:55 a.m. Thursday at the Roy Kizer Golf Course in Austin. The 36-hole tourna-ment wraps up Friday. Mercer is making his first trip to state after finish-ing as the No. 2 medalist earlier this month at the Region I-3A tournament in Lubbock. He had the lowest score of any regional medalist who was not on one of the top two teams.
The state meet in Austin represents the pinnacle for high school track and field athletes. And for Callie Sandusky of Highland, it will be a chance to end her two-sport career by bringing home a state medal. Sandusky, a senior, will be making her first state appearance when she com-petes in the Class 1A girls high jump at 6 p.m. Friday. She qualified with a second-place jump of 5-4 at regionals, a personal best effort that tied HighlandŌĆÖs school record set in 1984 by Brandye (Owens) Wilson, now a teacher at Highland.
First there was Shane, then Brittany. And starting Thursday, yet another Mer-cer sibling from Sweetwater High School will be compe-ting in the Class 3A state golf tournament in Austin.


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Trying to figure out if I can get away with not terracing my back-yard and still have a good veggie garden. You can't tell very well by the picture, but a few feet down from the existing garden, the yard starts to slope slightly downward. |
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- Posted by desertdance So.CA LowDesert (My Page) on Wed, Aug 8, 12 at 11:54
That looks like a gentle slope. I wouldn't terrace it. Suzi |
cut your rows along the contour lines of the slope, not in a straight line. That way each row will be level and hold water. |
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Though they probably made it difficult for j-school students to score juicy interviews, recent revelations of superpower editors in the media have made us feel that we're not sure the days of the shy and retiring redliner RIP, William Shawn were so bad after all. In today's Independent, New Yorker editor David Remnick rapidly reduces our opinion of him as he tells us that he went to a fancy college "God knows why" his worst trait as a journalist is his "lack of concentration," Iraq is "so depressing," and though he doesn't "write so much," as the editor, he gets to be himself "with all its grave limitations." False modesty is all very well, but Remnick's ruminations about himself as a child make us worry that some of those grave limitations have totally carried over into the magazine's present incarnation. Remembering his own precocious youth, Remnick confesses: "If I come across a kid who's 12 or 13, who seems a little pretentious and doesn't really quite know what he or she is talking about, I think that's OK. It means they're interested." Ladies and gentleman, you heard it here. The mystery of Adam Gopnik's ascendance at the mag … SOLVED.
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OK so highschool lasts maybe 4 years give or take a few years (depending on what country you're from and how well you can do in school.) In highschool there are two types of people. Those who stay true and those who don't (as you so kindly stated).
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Natasha Zvereva, or Zverava, (born Natalla Marataŭna Zvierava; Belarusian: Наталля Маратаўна Зверава; 16 April 1971) is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings. The team of Zvereva and Gigi Fernández won more women's doubles titles and Grand Slam women's doubles championships (18) than any other team since the team of Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver. Navratilova, speaking of the abilities of the two teams, said that she and Shriver were better, but "We were power. They are finesse. It would have been close."
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Dream Teachers. Jamie's Dream School. Основателят на Coursera за предстоящата революция в образованието. The Flipped Classroom Infographic. So, after all these weeks and months seeing people talk about the 'flipped' classroom I can finally say I am beginning to understand a little about it … thanks mainly to this infographic.
Thanks for Sue Beckingham (@suebecks) for showing me infographic. Click to view: What is a flipped classroom — and why now? The Key to Media's Hidden Codes. Виолетова Жаба » Blog Archive » Ролята на йога в образованието. Personal Learning. » What I've Learned About Learning. 'We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.'
~Lloyd Alexander Post written by Leo Babauta. I am a teacher and an avid learner, and I'm passionate about both. I'm a teacher because I help Eva homeschool our kids — OK, she does most of the work, but I do help, mostly with math but with everything else too. I also teach habits, writing/blogging, simplicity and other fun topics in online courses. Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education.
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Android 4 Schools. Top 100 Education Blogs. Education blogs are becoming a means for educators, students, and education administrators to interact more effectively than ever before.
They are also a great resource for those searching for the best online education programs to jumpstart their teaching careers. Technorati currently tracks 63.1 million blogs. More than 5,000 of them are about education. It is likely that there are hundreds, if not thousands, more education-related blogs on the Web. (UPDATE: There are over 30,000 blogs hosted at edublogs.org alone. Education. Didaque Ministries. Unschooling. Свобода в образованието. Chapters International - Workshop. Lester Laminack Digging Into DetailsWe often hear ourselves suggesting to young writers, "add some details".
That suggestion may lead to a loss of focus or confusion. I've been taken by the way children are using details. It seems that children are thinking of detail as a way to make their writing longer or that more is better. Chapters International - Workshop. Lester Laminack Making Every Read Aloud an Intentional and PurposefulTogether we will explore the art and function of read-aloud experiences in the elementary classroom.
We will consider three broad intentions and six specific purposes for making read aloud an essential part of every day. Lester will demonstrate the art of reading aloud well with specific attention to tone, intensity, pacing and mood. We will explore how read-alouds can be a powerful tool in building language and literacy concepts. We will study how a set of thoughtfully selected and intentionally used picture books can be the scaffold to strengthen topic-specific teaching and learning. Come explore how a well-chosen text set can be organized to include read aloud, literature circles, and independent reading that will layer in vocabulary, scaffold concepts and help students visualize what they are reading in content area materials.


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Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association presents the first public museum exhibition of architectural drawings from the private collection of the noted educator Alvin Boyarsky. Amassed during Boyarsky's tenure as chairman of the Architectural Association (AA) in London from 1971 until his death in 1990, the collection features early drawings by some of the most prominent architects practicing today—Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas, and Bernard Tschumi, among many others. Through a selection of approximately forty prints and drawings that constitutes the bulk of this collection, as well as nine limited-edition folios published by the AA—including works by Peter Cook, Coop Himmelblau, and Peter Eisenman—Drawing Ambience offers a rare glimpse into a pivotal moment in architectural history and the imaginative spirit of drawing that was and continues to be instrumental to the development of the field.
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