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And a basketball season begins Friday night.

That sometimes joyous, sometimes frustrating, sometimes heartbreaking and always fun journey that is a basketball season will tip off Friday night when UTEP takes on Washington State in the Don Haskins Center. It is the first step in a long journey that will wind into March.

UTEP was 23-11 a year ago and Washington State was 10-21. The Miners defeated the Cougars 64-51 last December in Pullman. But the visitors have a new head coach, three returning starters and some talented additions. And, as every sports fan knows, this is not last year.

Ernie Kent, former head coach at St. Mary's and at Oregon, has taken over the Washington State program. He took Oregon to five NCAA Tournament appearances and reached the rarified air of the Elite Eight in 2002 and 2007.

"We'd like to think Ernie will run what he ran at Oregon," UTEP coach Tim Floyd said. "But who knows? It's been five years. But he is a terrific coach."

Floyd will begin his fifth season at UTEP and has an overall record of 409-232 in stops at Idaho, New Orleans, Iowa State and USC. He faced Kent a number of times when he was at USC and Kent was at Oregon. Floyd, the former Don Haskins assistant, is 81-52 after four seasons at UTEP. He has had 18 winning seasons in his 20 as a head coach.

Hopes are high this season for Floyd and these Miners. They received a trickling of votes in the Top 25 pre-season polls. The reality of it all begins Friday night.

"We know Washington State has a couple of all-league caliber guards and some strong inside play," Floyd said. "It's exciting for us to have a Pac-12 opponent here to open our season."

The Miners have a veteran team ... but a veteran team that will rely on an infusion of youth. A trio of seniors C.J. Cooper, Cedrick Lang and Julian Washburn are ready to begin their final season.

"My last first game," Cooper said, shaking his head and smiling. "It's gone by really fast. I remember my freshman year, getting ready to play my first game. I was a little nervous. But I was more excited than anything ... just excited to play my first college game."

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Infrastructure upgrades, including a $2 million heating and cooling system, are among future plans Columbia State Community College officials presented to the Columbia City Council Thursday.

These improvements and the colleges accomplishments in the past year were the focus of a presentation given by president Janet Smith at Thursdays regular meeting of Columbia City Council.

The college has undergone heavy renovations and improvements over the past year and Smith said it is eying next to install a complete HVAC update to the Warf building, which is currently in the planning stage and will cost $2 million.

It has been three years in the process of obtaining the funds, well, its been longer than that so now we have enough to do the whole project and we will start as soon as we can get folks out after graduation, she said. And they will have to work very hard because weve got to get back in there in August for all of the new students that we expect.

Other projects the college is hoping to tackle in the next year include renovations of the library, Walters building and health services building. It also hopes to construct a new health sciences building.

Smith delved into other various campus programs, improvements and upgrades to facilities, including a $45,000 renovation to the Cherry Theatre, $133,000 renovation to Ledbetter Auditorium and a $2 million project to renovate Jones Student Center, which will have a ribbon cutting in the next few weeks.

Statues donated from former president Rebecca Hawkins have been another way Columbia State has worked to upgrade the look of the campus.

The key is a symbol the college has been using as a motivation point to students and the community as being vital to its development, Smith said.

We are a key to the lives of many individuals, we are a key to where they are going, were a key to our communities and to the economic development. We are also a key to the state achieving its goal and to increase the education level throughout the state, Smith said.

Smith also paid focus to the various clubs, organizations and civic groups that she said have helped encourage not only student involvement, but involvement from the community as well.

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A startup in Germany reckons it's found a, how can we put this, courageous way to merge cloud computing with staying warm at home this winter.

Rather than throw another log on the fire, you can install one of its toasty server cabinets in your basement. Assuming you have a spare ten grand and a 50Mbps pipe to the internet.

Cloud&Heat emerged this week to suggest homeowners and businesses can use hot racks to heat their buildings. For 12,000 euros (9,500), the company will install a large fireproof and tamper-resistant housing containing a load of compute systems.

The secured cabinet is then hooked up to heat reservoirs and tanks to warm water and air. Extra heating is vented outside the building when not needed.

The company said for smaller buildings the system could provide all the heating needed, while larger buildings could use the system just to heat water or air in combination with boilers and radiators. Once the installation fee is paid, Cloud&Heat covers all electric, data and maintenance costs (including replacing the server hardware every three to five years) for a period of fifteen years.

Buildings are also required to meet a minimum set of power requirements and the ability to run a 50Mbps connection into the server cabinet. Building owners do not have direct access to the servers in order to maintain security protections, assuming they don't smash open the cabinets for whatever reason.

By dotting its servers around Germany, Cloud&Heat believes it can save on data center facility and cooling costs. There's also a potential indirect benefit for the environment as the hot air is being put to practical use rather than carried off by a cooling system.

One wonder what happens during the summer months, though.

Additionally, because the service is only offered to buildings in Germany the company can claim all data is stored within the borders ie: not the US and NSA and servers can be maintained and audited.

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Robert Castellino has worn a lot of hats over the last 20 years he ran the ski-racing program at Eldora in the early 80s, worked in telecommunications, founded his own greeting card company, supported adolescents as a youth minister and, as a lifelong photographer, has authored five photographic story and guide books about Boulder, Denver and Colorado at large.

Now hes donned another hat environmental activist.

Ive always had a passion for the environment and the books Ive written in the past have always had a component about the ecology of commerce and our place in relationship to nature in Colorado, Castellino says. Nature has always driven my experience in Colorado and everything I know about the land and how it defines us. So thats been at the core of my passion as a photographer, being in touch with nature, the land, the diversity of the landscape and the people in it, how we celebrate it in our everyday lives. Thats why so many of us come here, to be connected with the outdoors and enjoy this amazing lifestyle we have.

A little more than two years ago, Castellino decided he needed to take action to save the natural beauty that has inspired him throughout his life. On Nov. 15 and 16, the result of Castellinos decision will culminate in the Colorado Climate Summit, a conference that Castellino says will move attendees past the conversation about the global climate crisis and toward solving the problem.

There will be some of the usual conference trappings keynote speakers will kickoff the event: Alison Holloran, executive director at Audubon Rockies; Mario Molina, strategist and department director with the Climate Reality Projects Climate Leadership Corps; and Coreina Chan, manager in the Rocky Mountain Institutes buildings practice division.

But after a series of presentations with experts, the conference will get hands-on. Attendees will break out into teams, based on geography and expertise, and work with presenters to solve a series of real-world problems facing Coloradans, from glacial melt to drought to beetle kill to fire, in hopes of not only addressing the ecological effects but the economic bearing as well.

Here is the major deal the Switch 2020 contract, says Castellino. We are requesting that every person who participates ... sign their own contract, a checklist based on how far down the road they are, what they are going to do to make the switch to renewable energy by 2020 and reduce their water footprint by 50 percent by 2025. Accountability is part of the process.

Castellino says even those who cant attend the summit will still be able to create their own Switch 2020 contract by reaching out to summit participants who live near them. Castellino plans to work with other summit organizers to create an online map of participants, allowing people around the state to find someone in their community who can share the knowledge they gleaned from the conference.

That notion of community is the driver here, says Castellino. How can we reach 64 counties and make a difference on the ground there are seven regions in our state and we have different cultural interests based on where we live in Colorado. How can we reach out across these cultural barriers, geographically and demographically, bringing together people who arent just activists but who are doing things?

Castellino says that diversity is key to addressing the climate change crisis, and hes got the numbers to back up that belief. Census data shows that Latinos make up approximately 21 percent of the states population, and according to projections from the State Demography Office, Latinos will make up one-third of Colorados population by 2040. To address the states fastest growing demographic, the Colorado Climate Summit partnered with the Americas Latino Eco-Festival. ALEF Executive Director Irene Vilar will present at the summit.

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