People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are dying, ‘We
are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is
money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.’ Gretha Thunberg
The above quote is what this young girl said in her speech on Climate
Change at the UN. Do they sound familiar? Anyone can relate to her words
about economic growth? Who does not
A new hands-on project at Alfred State College’s Wellsville campus has students really thinking outside the container.
This semester, students in various majors began working on several shipping containers as part of a “reuse/repurpose/recycle” initiative that incorporates sustainable and green-building practices, according to Jack Jones, chair of the Building Trades Department. The purpose of the project, Jones said, is to determine if shipping containers can be repurposed into high-efficiency housing or office units, and also to provide students with a new form of applied learning.
One of the main goals of this project is to create a zero-energy facility, which means it produces at least as much energy as it consumes.
“This project aligns with the governor’s new energy initiatives, which aim to drive New York’s energy consumption to renewable sources,” explained Jones. “The home will be outfitted with a powerful photovoltaic system and a solar water heater.”
High-efficiency fixtures and appliances, Jones said, will be used throughout.
“We are designing the home with a battery bank for off-grid operation,” he said. “However, we will also include a utility connection for selling excess power generation and for a back-up power supply.”
With the project being so new and so different from what has been done before, Jones noted, “We’re just trying to learn what works, what doesn’t work, what we can do in the future, and what really doesn’t make sense to do. It’s really a research project on our part to determine whether this is a viable option for housing or not, and whether it fits into our educational program.”
The project involves the talents of students in several different majors, including building trades: building construction; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning; and electrical construction and maintenance electrician. Supporters so far include the State University of New York (SUNY), which is funding the project; SUNY Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson; the Educational Foundation of Alfred, Inc., which has postponed other construction projects to accommodate this one; and Mach Architecture, which has assisted with the design and engineering of the project.
“I am so proud of the students and faculty at Alfred State for conceiving a creative project that combines applied learning and sustainability,” said SUNY Chancellor Johnson. “It’s more proof that, each and every day, SUNY is helping lead the way toward a more sustainable, energy-efficient world, while also providing the types of hands-on learning experiences that lead to higher-paying jobs for our students.”
Another big supporter is Alfred State President Dr. Skip Sullivan, who said, “This project offers Alfred State students an incredible and unique opportunity for hands-on learning. We are grateful to SUNY, Chancellor Johnson, the Educational Foundation, Mach Architecture, and so many others who have shown their support and enthusiasm for this project. We can’t wait to see the finished product!”
One of the most appealing aspects of the project, Jones said, is its unconventional nature. While students are still gaining traditional real-world skills working on houses for the Wellsville community, this project gives them a chance to broaden their horizons.
“They get to use tools they wouldn’t normally use, they get to work with materials they wouldn’t normally use,” Jones said. “They’ll be doing a little more welding here than what we usually have in our program, a lot more metal-cutting, and just experiencing a different way that systems go together. This job will be more commercial application, so a lot more metal work, steel studs, that sort of thing. It’s a really good supplement to what we already do.”
Students are understandably very excited about the project. Nathan Hayes, a building trades: building construction major from Bath, said, “My favorite part is getting an idea of how you can take everyday items, repurpose them, upcycle them, and turn them into something very useful that’s going to leave a lasting impression on the campus. It’s something you can look back on and be really proud of your craftsmanship.”
Courtney DeRusha, a masonry student from Corning, said, “One of the really exciting things about this project is that it’s been developed by a team of experts, engineers, and architects, but there’s a lot of innovation, there’s a lot of experimentation. We don’t know exactly how we’re going to tackle every problem, and to have all of these brains talking about that together with the help of our really knowledgeable instructors is exciting.”
The containers are presently located in the 35,000-square-foot Workforce Development Center, which serves as the home of the building trades: building construction program. Currently, the college has four shipping containers for students to work on, three of which are 20 feet long and one that is 40 feet long.
“Altogether, with the enclosed space in the middle, we’ll have about a 1,200-square-foot building when we’re done,” Jones said. “This is really a larger and more complex home than you would typically consider for containers. We hope to learn lessons that can be applied to temporary housing, disaster relief shelters, and housing in developing countries.”
The end goal for this project, Jones said, is to convert the containers into a new demonstration home and welcome center on the Alfred campus. The project should take one academic year to complete.
“I think it’s a really cool project. It’s something that’s out of the ordinary,” said Jones, who added, “It’s a really good option for us to really just stretch the students and make them think about why systems have to work the way they do.”
ALFRED STATION, NY – Today, Rep. Tom Reed announced a $38,855 grant to provide the Alfred Station Fire Company with funding to enrich recruitment and information efforts. The grant will be used to provide an electronic sign to inform the community of company events and programs – including recruitment and outreach programs.
“We care about ensuring our fire stations are fully staffed,” Tom said. “This grant provides funding to help the Alfred Station Fire Company inform the public of recruitment opportunities and other outreach activities. We will continue to support our first responders and these important initiatives going forward.”
“Effective communication is critical as a community-service organization.” said President Keith Stanley. “In this digital age, an electronic sign will allow us to share programs and messages with a wider community audience in a timely manner. This will greatly enhance our ability to reach and recruit new members as well as keep the community better informed.”
The Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Grants program, a Federal Emergency Management Agency initiative, was created to directly provide funds to fire departments and volunteer firefighter organizations to help recruit members and maintain their current staffing levels. For more information, visit www.fema.gov.
Florida Senator Rick Scott Warns Media About Mitt Romney: ‘He Doesn’t Speak For All Republicans’Florida Senator Rick Scott Warns Media About Mitt Romney: ‘He Doesn’t Speak For All Republicans’ Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) ripped into Mitt Romney for going wobbly on Trump’s impeachment. Scott tore into Romney for giving life to the Democrats effort to take down Trump based on a phone call with Ukraine President Vlodomyr Zelensky.
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The Democrats have the votes to impeach in the House and need 20 GOP Senators to vote with them and Trump is gone.
No one believes there are 20 GOP Senators who will take this extraordinary step, but remember, the GOP establishment led by Mitt and friends don’t like Trump because he exposed them all as the worst kind of frauds.
From The Daily Wire:
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“My reaction was the same as I had a view days ago, which is this remains deeply troubling and we’ll see where it leads. The first reaction is troubling,” Romney said in response to the released transcript of Trump’s phone call with Ukraine. “I don’t know if I’d focus so much on the quid pro quo element as perhaps some do. I’ve said this in my first reaction, if the President of the United States asks or presses the leader of a foreign country to carry out an investigation of a political nature, that’s troubling. Clearly, if there were a quid pro quo that would take it to an entirely more extreme level.”
Sen. Romney’s anti-Trump rhetoric has been steadily consistent throughout the former real estate mogul’s tenure as president, beginning with the scathing op-ed he penned for the Washington Post earlier this year in which he said that President Trump had not risen to the level of his office.
“To a great degree, a presidency shapes the public character of the nation,” Romney said at the time. “A president should unite us and inspire us to follow ‘our better angels.’ A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity, and elevate the national discourse with comity and mutual respect.”
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Lou Dobbs ripped into Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi as the impeachment inquiry heats up.
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Trump has been besieged by leakers since day 1 – yes every president fights leakers with few going as far as Obama did to quash them, but no one has been leaked on like Trump.
The leaks continue in an almost daily drip of mostly inconsequential news at this point – have you noticed that all the recent bombshells by the media were admitted to by team Trump months ago in the media.
They were never hiding – they were doing this stuff in the open so what is different now?
The Dems smell blood in the water that’s what and think they finally have Trump – they will lose in the Senate making this more Kabuki theater but so it goes with the left.
Enter Lou Dobbs. From the Washington Examiner: Fox Business host Lou Dobbs took aim at Democrats over their impeachment inquiry into President Trump, saying they were acting as an “enemy of the state.”
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“Really? Nancy, Chuck get real; You’re behaving as an enemy of the state and then you want to play like you’re going to make a deal with the president?”
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The rant came as Dobbs had a panel on to take on the whistleblower complaint that fueled the start of an impeachment inquiry into Trump. Dobbs, 74, claimed, “Obviously it’s what they want” after a panelist asked if the CIA wanted to be “overturning elections.” (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
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Devin Nunes is a staunch supporter of President Trump’s and he does not waver like many in the GOP when the media attacks him for his beliefs.
Instead, he fights back. Nunes took issue with an article in Esquire magazine by a CNN contributor Ryan Lizza.
Nunes says Lizza concocted a “hit piece” on his family and him that Lizza spread through the social media landscape with alarming speed by using co-conspirators.
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From Courthousenews: California Representative Devin Nunes asked a federal court in Iowa Monday to award him $75 million in damages in a defamation and common law conspiracy suit against reporter Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines.
The House Republican and ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence claims in the suit that Lizza defamed him in a Sept. 30, 2018, article he wrote for Esquire titled “Devin Nunes’s Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret.”
The article focuses on Lizza’s investigation into Nunes’s family’s dairy in Sibley, Iowa. In the piece, Lizza, who is now Politico’s chief Washington correspondent and an analyst for CNN, asks why the Nuneses and others would “conspire to hide the fact” that the family had sold its farm in California and moved to Iowa. The reporter also describes being followed by members of Nunes’s family and says two sources told him that the dairy – called NuStar Farms – relied partly upon undocumented labor.
Nunes, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, refers to the article throughout his complaint as the “Lizza Hit Piece.” The congressman claims the article was an attempt to target him ahead of the 2018 Congressional election, to retaliate against him for “exposing corruption, including the DNC/Clinton campaign’s role in funding the salacious ‘Steele dossier,’” and to “interfere with his official duties as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election.”
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); “The Lizza Hit Piece ascribes and imputes to Plaintiff conduct, characteristics and conditions, including dishonesty, deception, lying, conspiracy, corruption, bias, lack of integrity and ethics, that would adversely affect his fitness to be a United States Congressman and/or businessperson,” the 25-page complaint states. “The strong defamatory gist and false implication from the Lizza Hit Piece is that Plaintiff was involved in, covered-up, used his office to cover up, conspired with others to conceal, or was aware of criminal wrongdoing.”
Nunes is also suing Lizza and Hearst, which publishes Esquire, for common law conspiracy. He claims Lizza conspired with members of the media, including his girlfriend Olivia Nuzzi – who is New York Magazine’s Washington correspondent – to promote and republish the article on Twitter and elsewhere.
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“In furtherance of the conspiracy and preconceived plan, Lizza engaged in a joint scheme with others the unlawful purpose of which was to injure Plaintiff’s personal and professional reputations, advance the left-wing goals of Nuzzi and Hearst, interfere with Plaintiff’s duties as a United States Congressman, and influence the outcome of the 2018 Congressional election,” the complaint states.
Nunes says Lizza’s claim that he conspired with his family, Representative Steve King, R-Iowa, and an Iowa dairy publication to “‘hide’ his family’s ‘secret’ move to Iowa is utterly unsupported by any evidence.”
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