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Review: TAKE3 heats up Burlington Memorial Auditorium Civic Music's first concert of 2021 warms hearts and minds with popped-up classics. Bob Saar for The Hawk Eye The future came to Burlington Saturday night when Civic Music heralded the beginning of the end of endless coronavirus quarantines. BCM president Barbara McRoberts welcomed the 200-plus crowd of eager music lovers and introduced SCC President Michael Ash, who was cheered when he said, "We'll be having a facemask-burning event soon." TAKE3 is violinist Lindsay Deutsch, cellist Mikala Schmitz and pianist Jason Stoll, Californians all...

GISuser.com Fugro’s virtual 3D network model helps keep powerlines safe in Tasmania February 9, 2021 By Editor TasNetworks has awarded Fugro a new contract to deliver a 3D virtual network model and associated analytics for their power distribution network in Tasmania, Australia. Fugro started the project to acquire data in December 2020 and delivered the first datasets to TasNetworks last month. Fugro will create a ‘digital twin’ of the distribution network by capturing aerial lidar and imagery data and processing it using cutting-edge machine-learning and cloud-compu...

February 5, 2021 West Burlington, Ia- For the first time in its history, the Iowa Community College Online Consortium (ICCOC) will add a 4-year university to its membership. Iowa Wesleyan University will become part of the ICCOC as a Tier 4 partner beginning in the summer of 2021. As a Tier 4 partner, Iowa Wesleyan will share the ICCOC LMS, Canvas by Instructure, and many of the additional resources available to all ICCOC partner colleges. Seven Iowa community colleges joined together to form the ICCOC in 1999 as a way to provide online learning opportunities to community college students...

smoke stacks AMHERST, Mass. – Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) today published the latest editions of its lists of the top corporate air and water polluters and top greenhouse gas emitters in the United States, based on the most recent data available from the Environmental Protection Agency. The Toxic 100 Air and Toxic 100 Water Indexes rank U.S. industrial polluters using the EPA Toxics Release Inventory, and the Greenhouse 100 Index ranks U.S. companies by their emissions responsible for global climate change according to t...

Southeastern Community College to add Loop Road to West Burlington campus WEST BURLINGTON — Southeastern Community College will have an additional roadway on its West Burlington campus before summer.  As its name suggests, Residence Hall New Loop Road will loop around the Blackhawk Towers residence hall to connect the roadway off of the West Agency Street campus entrance to the parking lot and roadway located on the west side of the residence hall. Loop Road will not provide the campus with an additional exit or entryway, but it will allow drivers to travel to either the 406th Road or Gea...