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Smart Infrastructure Asset Management
Optimizing infrastructure performance through data-driven maintenance. Infrastructure asset management has evolved from an accounting function, tracking what infrastructure an organization owns and what it costs, into one of the most technically sophisticated disciplines in the public and utility sectors.
Digital Twin Technology for Infrastructure
Every piece of infrastructure has a physical reality and an information reality. The physical reality is the bridge, the water main, the transit station—tangible, subject to wear, visible to inspection. The information reality is what engineers and operators know about that asset: its design specifications, its construction history, its current condition, and its performance under load.
Holiday Hiring Hacks: 5 Ways to Maintain Recruiting Success
Reading Time: 4 minutes As the holiday season rolls in, it’s hard to ignore the telltale signs: indulgent treats start appearing around the office, colleagues begin using up their vacation days, and company leaders get wrapped up in end-of-year budget discussions. For many, this signals a much-needed break—but for recruiters, it usually means one thing: a slower pace in hiring. But just because the hustle and bustle of hiring slows down doesn’t mean it’s time to coast until the new year.
Building a Strong Employer Brand: The Role of Marketing and Culture in Recruiting
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the biggest challenges in recruitment is convincing top talent that your organization is a great place to work. With highly skilled candidates having many options, differentiating your organization as a preferred employer is critical. This process should begin long before you post a job or conduct interviews.
Why a nemesis is one of life’s greatest gifts
A few years ago, I woke cotton-mouthed and clammy from a dream about a woman I used to know.
What Can Americans Agree On? Wolves.
For generations, America waged a war against the wolf; now with the animals repopulating the Mountain West, the wolf war has taken on a new shape: pitting neighbors against neighbors as they fight over how to manage wolves. Environmentalists believe that wolves not only deserve a place in the environment but also can help repair it, while livestock producers often feel they shoulder too many costs of living alongside an animal that city dwellers simply want to gawk at.
Wolfish by Erica Berry
Berry draws on a huge, rich depository of lupine literature. Wolfish is more than just an interesting exercise in cultural anthropology, though. The book's most obvious ancestor is Helen Macdonald's megahit of 2014, H Is for Hawk; it has that same intellectual range and a prose style that pushes [. . .] towards the poetic - Sunday Times A singular book.
What To Read When: You Want To Think Kaleidoscopically About Place
What to Read When: You Want to Think Kaleidoscopically About Place I wrote the first sentences that appear in Wolfish almost ten years ago, during the summer of 2013. I was about to be a senior in college, and I was doing my best to blink away the pending maw of where-to-go, of what-comes-next. I had left my family in Oregon to attend a college in Maine. It was there that I learned who Joan Didion was, and about how it had taken her living in New York City to turn her gaze back home.
This History of the Conservation Movement Couldn’t Be More Timely
In physics, the Doppler effect describes how a noise like a coming train will always sound different when it approaches than when it recedes. The noise itself is the same, but your perspective changes, and with it, the pitch enters a new frequency. Reading about history can ignite a similar feeling, showing how, say, social battles that once seemed futile were actually progressing all along.
Everything Bright Is Something Burned
Air pollution is not light pollution, but in polluted air, you see light differently. Sunsets look bloodier. Human-made aerosols in the air scatter radiation from the sun, removing blues and violets from the sky and enhancing the red. In general, the particulates in the air reflect light differently—they make it thicker. The effect can be very beautiful. Scientists are now examining the smudgy orange paintings Monet made of London sunsets between 1899 and 1901 as early records of Victorian smog.
The Everyday Madness of Teaching Under Lockdown in America
At first it did not occur to me that anything was wrong. I was walking the perimeter of the school, trying one door after another, wondering why my lanyard wouldn’t let me in. It was a gray Monday in November, and I was three months into a yearlong fellowship teaching creative writing to high schoolers in northern Michigan. For the first time all year, I had left the building for lunch, but now my 30-minute break was over, and students were gathering in the classroom.
Actually, Ice Cream Is Better in Winter
Welcome to Actually, a safe space for us to share our deeply-held but likely-unpopular opinions about food and drinks. It’s deep February now, which means that as of last week, 80 percent of you have abandoned your New Year’s resolutions and accepted that you are, more or less, the same person you were in December.
Readers’ foreign travel tales
Winners of the High Country News essay contest for our annual travel issue. High Country News Essay April 13, 2015 From the print edition Like Tweet Email Print Subscribe Donate Now We asked our intrepid readers to send us stories about ways the West can feel foreign. What follows are the editors’ picks. THE GUIDE INSIDE By Erica Berry – winner Bryce Gladfelter Anna’s braces fell off after breakfast on the fifth day.
Letter of Recommendation: Asteroid Day
Every few weeks, I wake up clammy from a dream in which I have failed to prepare myself for calamity. A frequent one has me flying down the freeway on cruise control when, out of nowhere, I decide to crawl into the back seat to grab something. I realize my mistake only as I feel the car begin to drift toward the median, but when I try to return to the front seat, my legs go limp. I always wake up before the crash.
Letter From Minneapolis, Minnesota: Investing in the Muslim Community With Microloans
The city prides itself on working with those who are "un-bankable," and on evaluating loans based on individual stories instead of automated credit scores. In August of 2017, a middle-aged white woman walked up to Balqiis Hersi's Minneapolis boutique and started banging on the glass door. Hersi's shop is on Lake Street, a once-derelict avenue south of downtown that has, in the last few decades, been revived by the entrepreneurship of primarily immigrant business-owners.
Why Do We Fear Wolves?
Yolande Waddington walked to the Six Bells Pub for a pack of cigarettes around 10 p.m., slipping in before last call. It was Friday, the week before Halloween, 1966. Outside, the moon was a fat pearl. Inside, drinkers sipped pints at the polished wood bar. The village parish of Beenham is located some 50 miles southwest of London, surrounded by sheep-freckled fields and stands of skeletal hawthorne trees.
Pacific Standard
Meet the Somali-American women who are fearlessly leading their communities at a time when their religious identities are under threat. Two days before the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump stepped out of his personal jet and into a hangar at the Minneapolis–St. Paul airport to promise a crowd of more than 9,000 supporters that, if elected, he would halt arrivals of Somali refugees.
The Country's First Somali-American Legislator and Her Politics of Inclusivity
Two days before the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump stepped out of his personal jet and into a hangar at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport to promise a crowd of more than 9,000 supporters that, if elected, he would halt arrivals of Somali refugees. Minnesota has the largest Somali population in America—estimated to be around 46,000—as well as comparatively large populations of Ethiopians, Liberians, and Nigerians.
Reality Scooped: Talking with Tony Tulathimutte | The Rumpus.net
Tony Tulathimutte’s first novel, Private Citizens, came out February 2016 from HarperCollins. Lauded as a “brilliant debut” by BuzzFeed, “terrifyingly smart” by Lit Hub, and “an eloquent social novel bristling with logic” by Nell Zink, Private Citizens was named a “best of 2016” book by the Guardian, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic, among others.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat - Food and Environment Reporting Network
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn’t go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. “It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands,” he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat
The first time Somali-American chef Jamal Hashi put camel meat on his menu in Minneapolis, it didn't go well. He tried grinding it into a burger and using chunks of it in a spicy stew, but no matter, the texture was bad and the sales were worse. "It was like chewing on a patty of rubber bands," he said of the burger. At its best, camel meat tastes much like lean beef. But certain cuts can be tough, and if the meat comes from an old camel, it can also taste gamey.
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