Slideshow: 20 worst states for roads

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Slideshow: 20 worst states for roads | Photo gallery: 25 "impressive" engineering feats across the globe | A tale of 2 multimillion-dollar observation wheels in Las Vegas Created for profjorge.entrep@gmail.com |  Web Version July 5, 2013 News for and about concrete professionals SIGN UP | FORWARD | ARCHIVE | ADVERTISE Industry News Sponsored By Slideshow: 20 worst states for roads Twenty of the "worst-performing state highway systems" in the U.S. have been named by the Reason Foundation in its annual study that measures each state's highway conditions and expenditures. Alaska was the worst-performing system in overall efficiency and performance, followed by Rhode Island and Hawaii. North Dakota was the best. "A focus on early maintenance," can help improve the states' highways, said David Hartgen, emeritus transportation professor at UNC Charlotte in North Carolina and author of the report. The Huffington Post (7/3), The Trucker (7/2), Rhode Island Public Radio (7/3), Omaha World-Herald (Neb.) (7/5) Share:      Photo gallery: 25 "impressive" engineering feats across the globe CNN highlights 25 of the "most impressive engineering/construction achievements to date" from across the globe. Photos show the structures that made the list, including the Grand Canyon Skywalk in Arizona, Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. CNN (7/5) Share:      A tale of 2 multimillion-dollar observation wheels in Las Vegas There are two observation wheels under construction in Las Vegas, a 500-foot, $300 million SkyVue project being developed by Howard Bulloch, and the $550 million Linq, a 550-foot wheel being developed by Caesars Entertainment. Work on the Linq is advancing, with its wheel taking shape and retail and dining tenants booked, while work has been stalled on the SkyVue project -- with its "history of rocky financing" -- since September 2012. SkyVue project officials say work will continue, but some wonder whether the city needs two Ferris wheels. VegasInc.com (Las Vegas) (7/3) Share:      Concrete serves as art medium for Canadian contractor The Edmonton Journal (Alberta) (7/4) Share:      Concrete a "noble building material" for French architect Auguste Perret The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (7/4) Share:      CSO Insights: 2013 SPO Sales Execution Analysis It is one thing to plan the work and another to work the plan. In this topical report, see how well other companies perform as they navigate prospects through the sell cycle. Learn how your sales team can leverage best practices from best-in-class performing organizations highlighted in this study. Download this free report now. 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"In an agency environment, it tends to be, 'What else can you do for us?' Now it's more, 'What else can we do for the business?' " Defren says. Fast Company online (7/1) Share:      Policy Watch House proposal could remove guest-worker cap on construction industry The immigration bill passed by the Senate limits the number of guest workers in construction and other sectors to 15,000 a year. However, that cap could be removed when the House of Representatives takes up the immigration issue. "We're cautiously optimistic that there won't be any carve-outs in it," said James Young, a congressional relations director for the Associated General Contractors of America. Labor groups support a cap on guest workers. Engineering News-Record (7/8) Share:      Anthony Foxx sworn in as 17th U.S. transportation secretary Anthony Foxx on Tuesday was sworn in as the 17th secretary of the Department of Transportation. "Safety will remain our top priority at DOT," he said. 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Sugar based plastic

Repost from fnq

The solution to recycling lies in sugar.  Sugar from corn (or sugar cane ) can be processed to produce, carbon the building block of plastic.  Corn sugar produces PLA polylactide, which becomes carbon to produce various plastic products:    bags, fibers,  and fabrics in plants in HK, Japan, USA and marketed under the brand "Ingeo" meaning things of the earth.

Plastics from sugar takes only one month to degrade compared to decades for traditional plastics

I am kind of  late learning this.  I learned this at Al Jazeera which featured Italian efforts on sugar plastics.  This article means it has been around a decade ago (2003)

Doug Engelbart, inventor or mouse dies at 88

From the Guardian | July 4, 2013

Doug Engelbart, the recognized inventor of the mouse, died at 88.  He was known to be have invented a long of things which made the use of computer friendlier and utilitarian like word processing and teleconferencing, the windows.  He did not profit much from the mouse because it took look for people to recognize its value after its patent expired and passed on to public domain.  It was rumored that Apple bought the invention  for Apple computer for a song from Xerox.

He was born in Portland, Oregon;  took up electrical engineering at Oregon State U;  and later worked for US Navy and worked as radar technician assigned in the PHL.  He worked at NACA, the predecessor of NASA.  He took up PhD at U of California and Berkeley and was discouraged to work there because of his many "wild ideas" and thus eventually joined SRI (Stanford Research Institute)  (It seems t me that Stanford produced many great discoveries and even fueled the electronics and computer revolution in US