http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/project/ en-us Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:35:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352582/posts Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and timber giant Sierra Pacific Industries on Wednesday evening announced the nation's largest forest carbon-offset project, meant to keep millions of tons of climate-warming gases out of the atmosphere over the next century. Forestry and some conservation groups said the deal shows the state's new rules on forest offsets, adopted last week by the Air Resources Board, will be attractive to landowners. But some environmental advocates said it's a sign that the timber industry is poised to capitalize on a provision that allows clear-cutting on land enrolled in carbon-offset programs. "This is the thing we were worried... Sac Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352582/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:35:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327490/posts FALLUJAH — A 132-kilovolt substation, projected for completion in October, will result in more consistent and stable electricity for residents here. The $14.8 million project is being managed by the Gulf Region Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Iraq, and funded by the Iraqi Relief and Reconstruction Fund. The substation was damaged in a fire caused by circuit breaker failure in January 2005, and was identified by the Division’s Gulf Region District as a significant capacity-building project for the city. Maj. Joseph Geary, the officer in charge of the District’s Fallujah resident office, praised the team for working steadfastly... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327490/posts#comment Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:51:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321639/posts ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Aug. 21, 2009 – An Army National Guard colonel who led a brigade in Iraq and a Vietnam veteran who retired from the Guard as a brigadier general recently helped New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine launch an oral history project to preserve the Garden State’s military legacy. New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, right, talks with Army Col. Steven Ferrari on Aug, 17, 2009, about his experiences in Iraq commanding the New Jersey Army National Guard’s 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Robert Neill  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Army Col. Steven Ferrari... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321639/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:20:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303167/posts Iraqi construction workers place new sections of pipe for a sewer network in the Salhiyah neighborhood of northwest Baghdad, recently. The project was funded by Coalition forces, but the plan and execution were in the hands of local Iraqi government officials. Photo courtesy of 1st Infantry Division. BAGHDAD — The effort to restore essential services in Baghdad has seen a significant increase as security improves throughout the Iraqi capital.  One example of this is the competition of a major sewer network project for the residents of Karkh. "I was pleased to see this sewage project in our area," said Mobarak,... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303167/posts#comment Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:35:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251424/posts During the 2008 presidential campaign, Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama met with ACORN leaders and reminded them of his history with ACORN and his work in Project Vote! In 1992, while he was working as a community organizer in Chicago, Obama headed the Chicago operations of Project Vote!, an ACORN effort to register voters nationally. "I came out of a grassroots organizing background," Obama bragged on his campaign website "Fight the Smears," in a section that apparently has been removed. "That's what I did for three and a half years before I went to law school. That's the reason I... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251424/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 10:22:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233826/posts NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 20, 2009 – Joined by government and local leaders, the provincial reconstruction team here celebrated the completion of the Grand Canal repair project during an April 12 ribbon-cutting ceremony in Jalalabad. Gov. Gul Agha Sherzai of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province and Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team commander Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Cabosky take turns cutting the ribbon for the Grand Canal repair project during a ceremony in Jalalabad, April 12, 2009. U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Dustin Hart  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The repairs took about nine months to complete and cost $2.8... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233826/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:40:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2231896/posts BISBEE — Seventeen-year-old Andrew “Andy” Laborin has nearly achieved a project of upgrading Memory Gardens Cemetery on Highway 92. At 10 a.m. Saturday, community members will dedicate the refurbished memorial area. “I found a lot of veterans in there,” the Bisbee High School senior said, describing his Eagle Scout project with Troop 1. The pinnacle of his good turn was the installation of a 30-foot-tall illuminated flagpole at the cemetery. To do that, Laborin rallied community support. Jim’s Electric, located on Naco Highway across from Bisbee’s Safeway, donated half of the cost of the $1,400 flagpole and provided all the... Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2231896/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:37:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206089/posts Shake the cobwebs out of your brain! Come join the REVOLUTION! Welcome to the GLENN BECK LIVE television thread! All posters and lurkers are WELCOME!! Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206089/posts#comment Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:29:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2158550/posts My middle school son has a project due which requires a survey about gun ownership. He has a survey up here: Survey MonkeyThere are only 3 or 4 questions. You have to have a legit email address in case the teacher checks the link, but you can certainly use a fake name. If you have a throwaway email and would like to help him out we would greatly appreciate it. He needs a dozen or so more responses and has run out of people to ask, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2158550/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:11:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145840/posts CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, TIKRIT — As security in the Salah ad Din province continues to improve and people return to their normal way of life, boosting the economy through more job opportunities is at the top of the to-do-list for cities in the region. And that means starting and growing businesses. Joe Pinon, a member of the Salah ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team, Lt. Col. David Hodne, battalion commander, 3rd Squadron 4th Calvary Regiment, along with key staff members of 3-4 CAV visited the Balad Canning Factory, Nov. 24, to assess the operational status and economic possibilities the factory... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145840/posts#comment Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:38:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141760/posts BAGHDAD, Dec. 2, 2008 – Iraqi civilian and military dignitaries broke ground on the Army Canal Rehabilitation Project in Baghdad’s Sadr City district yesterday. Gen. Abud Kanbar-Hashim, commander of Iraqi Operation Baghdad, shovels the first bits of dirt Dec. 1, 2008, to mark the beginning of a project to dredge and refurbish the Iraqi capital’s Army Canal. U.S. Army photo by Scott Flenner  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The ceremonial groundbreaking marked the beginning of a commitment by the Iraqi government to spend $50 million during the next three years in reconstruction efforts along the al-Kanat Road and... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141760/posts#comment Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:52:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112895/posts BAGHDAD, Oct. 22, 2008 – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working with Iraqi officials to shore up construction on new piers and a seawall in Iraq’s southern province of Basra in the first Foreign Military Sales project for USACE in Iraq. With construction scheduled to begin at the end of the year at Umm Qasr, leaders from the Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division and the Iraqi navy and Defense Ministry, along with contractors and support staff, met Oct. 16 to discuss the new conceptual design for the project. Foreign Military Sales is a program that allows the... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112895/posts#comment Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:41:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061284/posts MEIENDORF CASTLE, Russia, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Russia's foreign minister said on Wednesday the United States had to choose between partnership with Moscow and the Georgian leadership which he described as a "virtual project". "We understand that this current Georgian leadership is a special project of the United States, but one day the United States will have to choose between defending its prestige over a virtual project or real partnership which requires joint action," Sergei Lavrov told reporters. U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday demanded Russia resolve a crisis with Georgia and said he would dispatch U.S. military aircraft... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061284/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:27:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009983/posts Eight New Human Genome Projects Offer Large-scale Picture Of Genetic Difference ScienceDaily (May 2, 2008) — A nationwide consortium led by the University of Washington in Seattle has completed the first sequence-based map of structural variations in the human genome, giving scientists an overall picture of the large-scale differences in DNA between individuals. The project gives researchers a guide for further research into these structural differences, which are believed to play an important role in human health and disease. The results appear in the May 1 issue of the journal Nature. The project involved sequencing the genomes of eight people... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009983/posts#comment Thu, 1 May 2008 23:56:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998487/posts Enron was allowed to fail, thank God. But some airlines are like the living dead! And guess who's forced to feed the zombies? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vesSL0M-Fu8 ridleyreport.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998487/posts#comment Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:19:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991853/posts Can the blogosphere [And Freerepublic] really do things big media can’t? Let’s find out. I have a project I think is perfect for just the sort of folks who read The Corner and other political blogs. This project is way too big for me to do all by myself. What’s needed to make it work is an informal alliance of local bloggers, student newspapers, and concerned citizens across the country. Through Freedom of Information Act requests and discussions with officials at the Department of Education, I recently obtained a comprehensive list of large gifts to American universities originating in foreign... The Corner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991853/posts#comment Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:58:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962274/posts BASRA, Iraq, Jan. 30, 2008 – The Basra Children’s Hospital project can get its hooks into people. Workers take a lunch break while others work at the Basra Children’s Hospital, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project in Iraq’s Basra province. Photo by Mohammed Aliwi  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Take Army Lt. Col. Kenneth McDonald, for example. He’s an area deputy commander in the Gulf Region Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and he leads the Basra Area Office in the division’s southern district. Part of his job is overseeing the Basra Children’s Hospital project,... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962274/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:42:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948519/posts 1/4/2008 - LAGHMAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- A recently-approved $300,000 construction contract promises economic growth for Afghans here, according to the Airman leading engineering efforts for the Mehtar Lam Provincial Reconstruction Team. The contract for the construction of four new agricultural buildings in the Mehtar Lam agricultural compound was signed Dec. 30, according to PRT engineer, Capt. Peter Joo. One of the agricultural buildings will be for farm equipment storage and maintenance, the second building will be for general purpose storage (to include feed and fertilizer) and the third and fourth, smaller buildings will be used for cool storage. "The... Air Force Link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948519/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jan 2008 00:34:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947944/posts BAGHDAD, Jan. 3, 2008 – Thousands of families in eastern Baghdad soon will have their neighborhoods free of raw sewage in the streets. Kamaliya’s new sewage system in eastern Baghdad nears completion. The improvement connects homes in eight neighborhoods to a functioning network for the first time. The Iraqi construction crew has installed pump stations, trunk lines, manholes and laterals to homes and businesses. More than 150 workers have been on the crew since the project started in 2005. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Iraqi construction workers are completing a $30 million sewer project in... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947944/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jan 2008 23:15:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943860/posts CAMP AL TAQADDUM — The Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1, currently deployed to several locations in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Micronesia, recently made the final concrete placement marking the completion of an overhaul of the runway system at Camp Al Taqaddum. Already one of the largest logistics hubs in the region, the airfield transfers passengers and millions of pounds of cargo daily. Upon completion of the project, Camp al Taqaddum’s airfield will be fully-operational for the first time since the Coalition air strikes of Operation Desert Storm. NMCB 1 is the fifth battalion to tackle the... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943860/posts#comment Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:55:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941425/posts BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 18, 2007 – Cradled in his hands, Hamzah Zayd Kazim held the promise of a new beginning. The plastic bottle held nothing more than water drawn from a small hole tunneling more than 30 feet underground. But to the people living around the Iraqi village of Sedamine, the bottle held much more than just water. It meant regaining their livelihood and independence. Villagers build a fence for protection around newly dug wells, while U.S. forces talk with a volunteer helping to provide drinking water to more than 5,000 people around the Iraqi village of Sedamine, Dec.... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941425/posts#comment Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:58:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940047/posts WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2007 – Staten Island residents are getting a little help sending mail to servicemembers these days thanks to a local troop-support group. Staten Island Project Homefront Inc. in the New York City borough has set up a “Postage Due” account for those sending mail to troops from the community’s main post office, its executive director said. “Our main effort is to send items to our military,” John T. Semich said. “We also help families by supplying postage (for Staten Island residents to send packages) to the combat zones.” The project’s volunteers focus on packing up special-request... America Supports You http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940047/posts#comment Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:19:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929918/posts DUHOK — The Duhok-Aqra 132kV overhead line was handed over to the Ministry of Electricity here recently, with one circuit fully energized to supply a mobile substation at Aqra. In an area of northern Iraq with historically low electrical availability and capability, the new overhead line significantly and immediately benefits people in more than (100) Kurdish villages in and around the Aqra area. “For many years, the people here have depended on diesel generator sets, receiving commercial power less than two hours per day,” said Gary York, resident engineer at the Duhok and the Erbil Resident Offices of the U.S.... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929918/posts#comment Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:34:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929309/posts Attention MSTies! The original cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is back together again to produce new shows where they riff on bad movies just like they did on the Satellite of Love! Joel Hodgson has the site up and running but they have yet to produce any episodes. Click here for the website. At the website, you can sign up for a newsletter that will keep you informed of their progress! Sounds exciting guys! Cinematic Titanic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929309/posts#comment Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:14:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907402/posts The organization was supposed to make him a better man. Instead, his parents say, it made him a dead one. The ManKind Project offers trainings which support men in developing lives of integrity, accountability and connection to feeling." — From The ManKind Project Web site "They had three naked men bring out two chickens that they hit with a ­hammer." — Michael Scinto in a letter to a ­Madison County sheriff's deputy. Michael Scinto was literally scared to death. On an isolated 11-acre compound down a winding, country dirt road 110 miles north of Houston, Scinto watched as the leader... The Houston Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907402/posts#comment Sat, 6 Oct 2007 12:53:22 GMT