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Sincerely, The Baton Rouge Area Foundation is a community foundation that takes advantage of opportunities to improve the quality of life in South Louisiana. We Matthew G. McKay do so by providing two essential functions. One, the Foundation connects philanthropists with capable nonprofits to make sure the needs of our communities are met. For example, our donors support the Shaw Center for the Arts and buy eyeglasses for needy children. Two, the Foundation invests in and manages pivotal projects to improve the region. Our Plan Baton Rouge initiative spearheaded the downtown revitalization plan and now is working to revive Old South Baton Rouge. For more information, contact Mukul Verma at [email protected].
Currents is published four times a year by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, 402 N. Fourth Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802. If you would like to be added to our distribution list, please contact us at 225.387.6126 or email the Foundation at [email protected]. MN A SHIP THEATRE 2011-2012 SEASON
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Coming soon to the Shaw Center for the Arts is a marquee entrance on North Boulevard to give a venue of the Hartley/Vey Theatre its own identity.
Manship upgrade Shaw Center for the Arts. “Programming in these spaces will include concerts by regional and local They were barely noticed. But with improvements, touring bands, cabaret shows, big band dance shows, including $450,000 from the Rick Hartley and David contemporary dance concerts, film and comedy Vey Fund at the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, the nights.” black box venues at the Manship Theatre are ready for their arrival. BP grants made Rebranded as the Hartley/Vey Theatres at the The Gulf Coast Restoration and Protection Shaw Center for the Arts, the venues had improved Foundation completed a second round of grants to lighting and studio sound installed last year. With ad- workers affected by the deepwater drilling morato- ditional improvements this year, the theaters will rium in the Gulf of Mexico last year. stand on their own, allowing for more performances. A supporting nonprofit of the Baton Rouge Area Each of the venues will have marquee entrances, Foundation, the GCRPF granted $5.5 million in the with the larger theater’s door opening onto the new North Boulevard town square, allowing for more mu- sic, comedy, cabaret and dance to be booked there. The smaller venue will be combined with the bigger one for larger events, while also serving as a practice stage. A reconfigured, full-service bar will serve all 35 the theaters. Percentage of people without “The current phase of renovations will make these a high school diploma who spaces thrive as individual performance venues, giv- are not in the labor force, ing downtown Baton Rouge a more varied and dy- compared to 10% for those with namic arts scene for all ages,” says Renée Chatelain, a college degree.
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8 second round to 391 who directly support deepwa- that thousands of workers would be laid off due to ter rigs, such as boat captains and crews. More than the drilling halt, which was imposed after the Gulf of 1,100 people started grant applications, but less than Mexico Deepwater Horizon well blowout. But most 40% completed the process. The average second- drilling companies and support firms kept their em- round grant was $14,257. ployees, who were put to work in other ways, such as In the first round last year, the GCRPF provided upgrading and maintainingrigs. $5.5 million in grants to workers on the deepwater After expenses and grants, the GCRPF has about rigs. $84 million available. Under the donation agreement After the moratorium was imposed by the fed- with BP, the money will be deposited into a charitable eral government last year, BP donated $100 million fund at the Baton Rouge Area Foundation for grants to provide the grants. At the time, it was expected to benefit the people and wildlife of the Gulf Coast.
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otice the renderings here for the ramps But Baton Rouge Green is no longer managing where I-10 meets Dalrymple Drive at beautification projects, which are now under con- N our city’s lakes, where thousands gather trol of the parish Department of Public Works. weekly for recreation. Put an X through most Greg Bivin of DPW says there isn’t enough of the plan, for local government says there isn’t money to implement the design, so only some of the lights under the bridge—favored by Mayor enough money for the project. Kip Holden—will be put in place. “The mayor Baton Rouge Green was managing the re- seemed to like the lighting better, it was easier to making of the exit along with other beautifica- maintain.” tion projects, which made up a tiny sum of the The project has not been bid, and there is no hundreds of millions the parish is spending on schedule to get it under way. The students appar- roads, such as the concrete expressway that is now ently were too ambitious in dollars for the city- Perkins Road with sidewalks. parish. “We gave the students a $50,000 budget Last year, the nonprofit picked a design by LSU and the project was considerably more than that, students Andrea Galinsky and Mary Martinich so we value-engineered it down,” Bivin said. He for land around the Dalrymple exits, which are didn’t have an estimate on how much the LSU a gateway to LSU and City Park. The sweep- design would cost, but said it was several times ing westbound exit would have been planted with the amount. Japanese black pine and blue sedge, a grass that So for now, the area used by thousands—and requires little maintenance. Along the lakes, the a reflection of the city to visitors—will remain designers proposed Louisiana iris, cattails, button mostly unchanged. bush and other plants. Lighting under the bridge would reflect the health of the lake. baton rougefoundation area . braf.org
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8,167 N umber of clean-economy jobs in Baton Rouge, ranking the metro area No. 63 out of 100 largest metro areas with such jobs. A Brooks Institution report says the Baton Rouge metro area has grown by 1,472 clean-economy jobs since 2003, rising by a rate of nearly 3% per year. Nationwide, the green economy employs about 2.7 million workers, about 2% of all jobs. The growth rate nationwide for green jobs was 3.4% per year since 2003.
Children’s museum New housing in OSBR gets pledges Development continues in Old South Baton Rouge, Organizers of a children’s museum proposed at the neighborhoods between LSU and downtown that City Park have raised more than $4.5 million—$3 are targeted by a Foundation recovery project. The million from the local parks system and the rest from Michaels Organization, a nonprofit developer, wants private donations, including some from charitable to build a 152-unit apartment complex with a court- funds located at the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. yard and greenspace where a small school now stands. They need $6 million for the 30,000-square-foot The site is 6.5 acres at the corner of West McKinley building and $4.5 million for the exhibits. The mu- and Vermont streets, a block from Nicholson Drive.Cutline.... seum leaders will target business sponsors to pay for At the location, Charity Christian Academy now exhibits. If fund-raising goals are met, construction stands. To build the project, the developer would could begin next year. need a rezoning from single family housing to small Leaders of the project and BREC representatives planned unit development. Moreno Properties, which also have chosen Portico Group to design the mu- has bought and razed homes on Nicholson Drive seum for a hilltop overlooking Dalrymple Drive and across from and around Magnolia Mound Plantation, City Park Golf Course. Portico, of Portland, Ore., is said to be partnering on the project with The Michaels Organization. If built, the project would add to the growing housing base in OSBR, where two condo devel- opments on Nicholson and two apartment proj- ects on Highland Road have been constructed in the past decade. currents quarter . third twenty-eleven A children’s museum with a view. 10 has already worked in Baton Rouge, hav- ing designed the LSU AgCenter’s Burden Research Center. Kid’s Quest Children’s Museum in Bellevue, Wash., and Kidspace Museum in Pasadena, Calif., are Portico designed. Knock Knock has 20 of 30 found- ing members to help pay for the build- ing with donations of $50,000 or more. Founding members will be prominently recognized at the museum. “The prospect of a children’s mu- seum in Baton Rouge that engages youth in learning, creativity, the arts, play and cultural exposure is very excit- ing,” say founding members Catherine and Matthew Saurage in a release from Knock Knock. “This requires a lot of work and the support of visionary lead- ers, private and public entities and the genuine passion of a handful of in- dividuals to keep this project mov- ing forward. We applaud the progress made to date and are pleased to dem- onstrate our support with a financial pledge.” Brian Baiamonte Other founding members are Albemarle Corp. & Foundation, All Blake Williams, 11, cares for sunflowers in Old South Baton Rouge, where three Star Automotive Group, Amedisys, a organizations and residents planted three abandoned lots in a pilot project. The flowers were harvested in July and sold at the Red Stick Farmer’s Market. Friend of Knock Knock, Baton Rouge Planting abandoned lots improves the look of neighborhoods and provides a Coca-Cola Bottling Co., The Boo revenue source and teaching opportunities. Grigsby Foundation, BREC, Capital Area United Way, The City of Baton Rouge, Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation, Bloom in OSBR The Douglas L. Gordon Family, The Irene W. and In a pilot program this April, three vacant lots in C.B. Pennington Foundation, The Johnson Family, Old South Baton Rouge were transformed through Lamar Advertising Co., Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry, colorful sunflower plantings. This community revi- Richard Manship, The McMains Foundation, The talization tool was implemented in a partnership of Mary Charlotte and Lloyd Collette Fund, Mary Kay the Center for Planning Excellence, the East Baton and Terrell Brown and Kate and Tee Brown, and Rouge Redevelopment Authority and Baton Rouge Kathy and Mike Worley. Green. The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation, All The GROW Sunflower Project aims to enhance Star Automotive and the Mary Charlotte and Lloyd community engagement, to put vacant land in use Collette Fund are housed at the Baton Rouge Area and to beautify the streetscape. The three lots are Foundation. near the Lincoln Theater: one fronts Myrtle Walk at Eddie Robinson Sr. Drive and the other two are along
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during a five-minute battle. You have Katherine Andreeff, center, adjusts the pick-up arm on the robot, Swine just five days to create this device, but first Flew, as she participates in a NuVu studio program at Episcopal School. must learn about voltage, servo motors and NuVu provides students the opportunity to work collaboratively with an open source prototyping platform named academic and professional experts to solve real-world problems in an intensive and fun studio environment. “arduino.” You and your teammates are middle- and high-school students, and your competition includes some of your teachers. The setting for your showdown is a makeshift arena at Episcopal School. Under this scenario, the team of Elizabeth Andreeff, Darby Huye and Aidan Reilly zagged. Knowing the limits of their robot, the trio schemed to win the design competition in- stead. What emerged from their minds was “Swine Flew,” a robot pig festooned with pink fuzz, colored feathers, pictures of sweet corn and a duct tape arm for snagging those ping pong balls.
The gambit worked; the team shared vic- tim mueller tory in the design category. A common lesson came to them as well. “We learned to work as Aidan Reilly, 11, tests a robot’s circuit as he participates in a NuVu studio program at Episcopal School. a team,” Huye said. Over three weeks in the summer, more than 36 schoolchildren and teachers learned how to work together, as well as other lessons that By the end of the week, the participants had built were not as apparent. Instructing them were tech wiz- game-playing robots, but the real goal was to teach ards from NuVu, which Episcopal recruited because them to think creatively, which is necessary to nav- the young nonprofit teaches using the studio model, igate life. They also gained specific skills, including which is popular among architecture schools. how to present. While other robot-building programs offer lock- Episcopal expects to incorporate NuVu in its cur- step training, NuVu is more free form. The instruc- riculum for the upcoming school year. • tors offer bits of knowledge as needed, then send the students off to start building whatever they can dream up, said Jewel Reuter, Episcopal’s dean of curriculum and instruction. currents quarter . third twenty-eleven
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September 21 | McCoy Tyner Quartet January 12 | diane schuur Eight time Grammy award winning & NEA Jazz Master pianist Two time Grammy award winning jazz singer and pianist
April 26 | terence blanchard October 13 | John Pizzarelli & Poncho Sanchez World-renowned jazz guitarist and singer Cubano Be! Cubano Bop! Tribute to Chano Pozo & Dizzy Gillespie
October 20 | Joe Lovano US5 May 17 | Patti Austin Grammy-winning saxophonist/composer featuring James Grammy-award-winning jazz vocalist Weidman, Esperanza Spalding, Francisco Mela & Otis Brown III
All Jazz Masters events are at 7pm & 9pm | Ticket prices are $45 & $25. MANSHIP THEATRE | Downtown Baton Rouge | 225.344.0334 | manshiptheatre.org
Special thanks to the River City Jazz Masters Series sponsors:
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The River City Jazz Coalition thanks: Verge and Cheri Ausberry, C.J. Blache and Sherri McConnell, Allison Chauvin, Gary and Joyce Dennis, Maria and Brian Despinasse II, Leo and Gwendolyn Hamilton, Tim and Stacia Hardy, Dr. Antoine Keller, Cornelius and Karen Lewis, Ronald and Belinda Mason, The John and Virginia Noland Fund, Albert and Roberta Sam and The Josef Sternberg Memorial Fund. 16
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baton rouge area foundation . braf.org 17 Impacts of Climate Change Climate change is apparent now across our nation. Trends observed in recent decades include rising temperatures, increasing heavy downpours, rising sea level, longer growing seasons, reductions in snow and ice, and changes in the amounts and timing of river flows. These trends are projected to continue, with larger changes resulting from higher amounts of heat-trapping gas emissions, and smaller changes from lower amounts of these emissions. The observed changes in climate are already causing a wide range of impacts, and these impacts are expected to grow. Select examples follow. Heavy Downpours More rain is already coming in very heavy events, and this Coastal Communities Sea-level rise and storm surge Sea Ice and Permafrost trend is projected to increase Risks and costs in Alaska increase as across the nation. Such events will increase threats to homes thawing of permafrost damages roads, are harmful to transportation and infrastructure including buildings, and forests, and declining sea ice infrastructure, agriculture, water water, sewer, transportation, and communication systems. increases coastal erosion and threatens quality, and human health. ©iStockphotos.com/JeremyWedel the existence of some communities. Many barrier islands and coastal marshes that protect the coastline and support healthy ecosystems will be lost. “copyright”©1993WarrenFaidley/weatherstock Forests Forest growth is generally projected to Agriculture increase in much of the East, but decrease Increasing heat, pests, in much of the West as water becomes even floods, weeds, and water Heat Waves scarcer. Major shifts in species are expected, stress will present increasing Heat waves will become more such as maple-beech-birch forests being challenges for crop and frequent and intense, increasing replaced by oak-hickory in the Northeast. livestock production. threats to human health and quality Insect infestations and wildfires are projected of life, especially in cities.
to increase as warming progresses. ©iStockphotos.com/David Parsons Water and Energy Interactions Coldwater Fish As warming increases Salmon, trout, and other competition for water, the coldwater fish will face energy sector will be strongly Energy Supply affected because power Warming will decrease additional stresses as water Interacting Stresses temperatures rise and plants require large amounts demand for heating energy Population shifts and development choices of water for cooling. in winter and increase summer streamflows decline. are making more Americans vulnerable to Ecosystems and the tourism demand for cooling energy the impacts of climate change. An aging in summer. The latter will and recreation they support populace and continued population shifts to will be adversely affected. result in significant increases the Southeast, Southwest, and coastal cities in electricity use and higher Water Supply amplify risks associated with extreme heat, peak demand in most regions. sea-level rise, storm surge, and increasing Water supplies in the rapidly growing water scarcity in some regions. Southwest will become increasingly scarce, calling for difficult trade-offs Coral Reefs among competing uses. Rising water temperatures and ocean acidification threaten coral reefs and the rich ecosystems they support. These and other climate- related impacts on coastal and Responding to Climate Change marine ecosystems will have major Responses to climate change fall into two major categories. “Mitigation” focuses on reducing emissions of implications for tourism and fisheries. heat-trapping gases or increasing their uptake to reduce the amount and speed of climate change. “Adaptation” refers to changes made to better respond to present or future climate conditions in order to reduce harm or take advantage of opportunities. Both are necessary elements of a comprehensive response strategy. Impacts of Climate Change Climate change is apparent now across our nation. Trends observed in recent decades include rising temperatures, increasing heavy downpours, rising sea level, longer growing seasons, reductions in snow and ice, and changes in the amounts and timing of river flows. These trends are projected to continue, with larger changes resulting from higher amounts of heat-trapping gas emissions, and smaller changes from lower amounts of these emissions. The observed changes in climate are already causing a wide range of impacts, and these impacts are expected to grow. Select examples follow. Heavy Downpours More rain is already coming in very heavy events, and this Coastal Communities Sea-level rise and storm surge Sea Ice and Permafrost trend is projected to increase Risks and costs in Alaska increase as across the nation. Such events will increase threats to homes thawing of permafrost damages roads, are harmful to transportation and infrastructure including buildings, and forests, and declining sea ice infrastructure, agriculture, water water, sewer, transportation, and communication systems. increases coastal erosion and threatens quality, and human health. ©iStockphotos.com/JeremyWedel the existence of some communities. Many barrier islands and coastal marshes that protect the coastline and support healthy ecosystems will be lost. “copyright”©1993WarrenFaidley/weatherstock Forests Forest growth is generally projected to Agriculture increase in much of the East, but decrease Increasing heat, pests, in much of the West as water becomes even floods, weeds, and water Heat Waves scarcer. Major shifts in species are expected, stress will present increasing Heat waves will become more such as maple-beech-birch forests being challenges for crop and frequent and intense, increasing replaced by oak-hickory in the Northeast. livestock production. threats to human health and quality Insect infestations and wildfires are projected of life, especially in cities. to increase as warming progresses. ©iStockphotos.com/David Parsons Water and Energy Interactions Coldwater Fish As warming increases Salmon, trout, and other competition for water, the coldwater fish will face energy sector will be strongly Energy Supply affected because power Warming will decrease additional stresses as water Interacting Stresses temperatures rise and plants require large amounts demand for heating energy Population shifts and development choices of water for cooling. in winter and increase summer streamflows decline. are making more Americans vulnerable to Ecosystems and the tourism demand for cooling energy the impacts of climate change. An aging in summer. The latter will and recreation they support populace and continued population shifts to will be adversely affected. result in significant increases the Southeast, Southwest, and coastal cities in electricity use and higher Water Supply amplify risks associated with extreme heat, peak demand in most regions. sea-level rise, storm surge, and increasing Water supplies in the rapidly growing water scarcity in some regions. Southwest will become increasingly scarce, calling for difficult trade-offs Coral Reefs among competing uses. Rising water temperatures and ocean acidification threaten coral reefs and the rich ecosystems they support. These and other climate- related impacts on coastal and Responding to Climate Change marine ecosystems will have major Responses to climate change fall into two major categories. “Mitigation” focuses on reducing emissions of implications for tourism and fisheries. heat-trapping gases or increasing their uptake to reduce the amount and speed of climate change. “Adaptation” refers to changes made to better respond to present or future climate conditions in order to reduce harm or take advantage of opportunities. Both are necessary elements of a comprehensive response strategy.
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currents . third quarter twenty-eleven ideas about the arts isreally spectacular.” are a lot of familiar names out there from Louisiana, Louisiana, from out there names alot of familiar are “There he says. community,” agiven in arts ditional showcases. these during exposure gain will musicians, zydeco and jazz blues, especially artists, Louisiana expects Gordon town. down- around locations other in and Vey Theatres Hartley/ atthe showcases independent feature also fabulous.” really who is onto someoneundiscovered stumble even sometimes and shows great up-and-comers, see can “You he says. season,” next their down nail to have at once. genres several public. the to open and free are and Theatre Manship at the place take will shows The event. the to prior of applicants apool from organizers conference by selected are showcases juried These shows. 20-minute back-to-back present will U.S. the throughout from known. best is event the for which showcases live independent and juried it’s the Exchange, Arts Performing of the components sponsorship. corporate maintain and on how attract to discussion apanel includes ference con- year, the this and lineup, educational of the part abig always is Fundraising accountability. fiscal and risk managing venues, and promote acts to media cial “South Arts has long had a commitment to the tra- the to acommitment had long has Arts “South will Exchange Arts Wednesday, Performing On the presenters opportunities earliest “It’s one of the see to opportunity it’s unbeatable says an Gordon performers evenings, Friday and Thursday On fundamental are workshops and exhibits But while of so- use the include likely will topics says Combs and the opportunity to share party, we celebrate with music, are. We love food,we love to “Hospitality iscore to who we —Derek
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Arts Council’s 2011–12 Listening Room Series
November 19 Charlie Hunter American guitarist, composer & band leader (Main stage)
December 15 Hilary Kole OF GREATER BATON ROUGE Jazz vocalist All Listening Room events are at 7:00pm and 9:00pm. February 23 Robert Glasper For reservations contact the wa lter blanding jr. Jazz/Hip-Hop pianist Arts Council at 225-344-8558.
March 23 Tineke Postma Jazz saxophonist
April 13 Walter Blanding Jr. Tenor saxophonist
April 25 Vanessa Rubin cri ha l e hunter ro bert glasper Vanes s a Rubin American jazz vocalist Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald’s birthday
May 4 The Bad Plus Jazz trio
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monitor briefs Alarming sea rise cientists predict sea level rise. A This upward revision should alarm couple of years later, they are proven Louisiana, where unprotected coastal to be too cautious. Newer evidence areas would either wash away or turn to reveals seas are rising faster than soft mud under such a rise. With a higher expected. water table, land also would flood more often. Untold billions in investments— This predict-revise cycle popped up again roads, homes, businesses—would in spring, when scientists working for disappear. the international Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program reported glaciers As a response, the Baton Rouge Area and ice caps are melting at an accelerating Foundation, on a request by U.S. Sen. rate. Mary Landrieu, is creating a model for an organization that would provide Coupled with other factors, such as knowledge and guidance to coexist with expanding oceans under warmer rising seas around the world. Our work climates, AMAP researchers predict seas has been guided by state and worldwide will rise by 35 to 63 inches by the end of leaders, both scientists and elected the century. Four years ago, the U.N.’s officials. We expect to deliver a plan scientific panel on climate change had before the end of the year. (For a story estimated the rise would be 7 to 23 inches. about the Water Institute, see 2Q Currents at BRAF.org under the News navigation.)
Look in here
Google StreetView is going inside.
Providing panoramic images of U.S. streets, the service has started to 235.39 venture inside buildings, showing what it’s like, for T otal tons recycled instance, in museums. by LSU in April. The Users click on the door of a university recycled building to step inside. 57% of its waste, Google used cameras with 110 tons in mounted on cars to cardboard/paper, document street views. plastic containers and The same technology— multiple cameras catching aluminum cans. overlapping images that Top: Rembrandt's painting The Night are stitched together by Watch in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam computer—is being used to Bottom: The Coronation Room of the deliver images of interiors. Palace of Versailles, France currents quarter . third twenty-eleven
52 Money in brine
Albemarle Corp., based in downtown Baton Rouge, has created a technology for extracting valuable lithium from brine, playing into the shift toward more gadgets—cars even—using the chemical for batteries.
Albemarle says the market for lithium chemicals is expected to grow to $1.2 billion annually by Fission friction mid-decade. The firm is in excellent position, as some of its plants produce brine. Nuclear power is promoted as a clean alternative to coal. Not in Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel Using this new technology and brine from its released a proposal to replace all 22 of the country’s bromine production facility, the company has power plants with renewable energy by 2022. successfully produced lithium carbonate in a lab setting and is currently operating a pilot plant to The government estimates consumers would spend about optimize the process. Commercial production $50 more per year because of the switch, but doesn’t could begin as early as 2013. include its own cost of transitioning. The plants produce 11% of the country’s energy. “Over 70% of the U.S. demand for lithium is currently met by imports,” said Sharon McGee, With subsidies, Germans have been among the most Albemarle VP of performance chemicals. aggressive in deploying solar energy. Wind power, solar “There is certainly a need for more domestic power and energy efficiency are expected to bridge the production with the growing market demand transition from nuclear. The country shut down eight of and Albemarle is encouraged that we will be its oldest reactors after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. able to meet that need.”
Cool jacket
Leaving India’s blistering summers Vistakula deployed many Peltier plates should be a small cause for celebration. within lightweight plastic tiles to heat But not when the destination is or cool the jacket, depending on the Massachusetts’ teeth-chattering winters. direction of the current across the plates. Suffering these extremes, MIT foreign The outerwear weighs a little more than student Kranthi Vistakula has invented one pound and operates up to eight a lightweight air-conditioned jacket. hours on a battery charge.
His breakthrough and award-winning Returning to India, the inventor technology uses Peltier plates, which established a company to produce the turn cool on one side and warm on the jackets, which are in testing with the other when an electrical charge is forced Indian Army in harsh environments across the junction of two different metals. Because of like the Siachen glacier, the world’s highest battlefield. this effect, a Peltier plate can double as the basis of a heat Vistakula has integrated the technology into helmets, pump. gloves, wraps, car seats and shoes. Sales are about to begin at http://www.dhamainnovations.com. baton rougefoundation area . braf.org
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A radical idea received the green light in spring, setting up the possible reinvention of the rocket engine.
Approved for funding by the European Space Agency in June, the Skylon could become a replacement for the retiring U.S. Space Shuttle. The key difference among them is the engine.
Skylon doesn’t need the shuttle’s enormous fuel tanks filled with liquid hydrogen and oxygen. Instead, the engine would extract oxygen from the atmospheric gases, then compress and burn it.
With the technology, the aircraft becomes significantly lighter and, more important, has fewer parts, reducing the chance of failure. Rocket revolution The reusable Skylon would be cheaper to operate and reduce the cost of hauling space cargo. When the space plane will fly is not known. Test engines are under development.
Murderous maps
In some municipalities, the cops make their information difficult to use, giving up only the bare minimum under state laws. Trulia.com is letting the sun shine in.
On the web, the firm that provides house information to prospective buyers and window shoppers has begun to publish crime data, beginning with 50 cities that include New Orleans, the only Louisiana city so far.
Trulia.com makes it easy to see types of crimes and where they are committed. Users can search down to an address. The company wants people to know before they buy a home, which could cause a stir among real estate dangerous intersections and offers times when crimes agents and elected officials, who may ultimately hear it most often occur. Armed robberies, for example, happen from property owners if house values drop. most frequently around 10 p.m., while reports of property theft spike at 6 p.m. when people return from work and Trulia gathers its data from existing sources, find their homes have been burgled. CrimeReports.com, EveryBlock.com and SpotCrime. com. By dropping it on a map, Trulia identifies the most currents quarter . third twenty-eleven
54 Affirming the technology Sanofi, a multinational drug company, and venture in this syndicate, particularly Sanofi, is a significant capital funds that include the Baton Rouge Area accomplishment for Esperance and speaks to the Foundation have invested in a Baton Rouge-based firm strength of the growing biotech community in this that has a promising cancer drug in human clinical region.” trials. EP-100, the lead drug candidate, is currently in a Esperance Pharmaceuticals, located in the new Phase 1 study in patients with advanced solid tumors to Louisiana Emerging Technology Center at LSU, has determine toxicity at different doses. In addition to EP- received $7.5 million to support 100, Esperance has other drug further clinical development of candidates in preclinical stages a drug that seeks and latches based on its technology, which onto cancer cells and kills them offers a mechanism whereby with a piggybacking poison. drugs bind to surface antigens or Sanofi put up $4.5 million; the receptors that are only found in rest of the funding was from cancer cells, then unleash toxins Louisiana Fund 1, Themelios to implode them. Ventures, Research Corporation Dr. William Hansel of the Technologies and Advantage Pennington Biomedical Capital Partners/Louisiana Research Center came up with Technology Fund, as well as the idea for the technology and private investors. worked with scientists at LSU to develop it. If drugs “Esperance has made great strides over the last few from the technology reach the large market for cancer years building an impressive, proprietary technology treatment, LSU would get significant royalties, though platform with broad-based application and bringing the parties have not revealed potential amounts. forth strong therapeutic candidates to its pipeline,” The Foundation was an early investor in venture said Joseph F. Lovett, Esperance chairman and capital funds that have invested in promising Louisiana managing general partner at Louisiana Fund 1. “I am technology firms. pleased to continue to be part of the progress moving forward and I believe the caliber of investors involved
App for the OCD You can track your every move using an application Seeing its clever appeal among navel gazers, Facebook created by Nicholas Feltron, an exceptional graphic purchased Daytum. Feltron, meanwhile, is a bit designer who has reported minute details about his life wealthier but less forthcoming, at least about his work in annual reports. with Facebook.
Working with Ryan Case, another designer, Feltron (Feltron.com) created Daytum and a related website that lets you input just about every detail of your life: How much coffee you drank each morning; which books you read during a week; how many tomatoes you harvested from the backyard garden. Data can be produced as infographics to chart life. baton rougefoundation area . braf.org
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Solar works
In our last issue, we wrote about Adam Knapp’s our old house before installation and were surprised to solar installation in his Garden District home. Eighty find that we had also saved significantly on our total percent of the system’s $37,000 cost was picked up as bill, including gas, which we use for heating. We’ve tax credits by federal and state governments. So how’s saved an average of 73% on the combined bill. We it working out for him? used 85% less gas during January through March.
“On the electric portion of our bill, we have saved “If these savings rates hold fairly constant, the 93% on average for the first three months since payback period from the savings on our total bill installing solar,” says Knapp, who is CEO of the should take five years for the costs of both solar and Baton Rouge Area Chamber. “Interestingly, we had energy efficiency improvements.” put a number of energy efficiency improvements into
A mobile application that requires little effort can be used to target potholes.
Bump and Developed by the city of Boston, Street Bump collects pothole data from smartphones. Sensing a jolt while send motoring, the app uses GPS to mark the spot as a potential pothole and transmits the information to the department of public works. DPW waits for additional verification from other Smart Bump users before sending crews to confirm the existence of a pothole. A previous app required users to photograph the pothole and send the image to the city.
To improve the Smart Bump app, the city is offering a $25,000 reward through Innocentive.com, a marketplace for crowdsourcing innovation.
Boston has an active civic app program. Residents can report graffiti and other nuisances using smartphones. currents quarter . third twenty-eleven
56 Warren Smith is 65 years old. He’ll tell you that he’s been a dairy farmer for every day of those years. Until last month, when an explosion shut down his family’s Smith Creamery.
Because of two charitable funds at the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, we were able to raise thousands of dollars from generous people and grant it quickly to the Smiths. They know that starting almost from scratch won’t be easy. But the family from Mount Hermon wants to return to the Red Stick Farmers Market, where they sold their very first gallon of milk, where they met so many people who now call them Warren and Sandra.
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