Bakken Formation

The 4th Armored Brigade Combat Team (4ABCT) proud tradition of excellence throughout its history took a turn for the worse with its recent deployment and redeployment issues from Afghanistan. An organizational change within 4ABCT is paramount in order to return to its storied heritage of excellence by being a contributing member of the division. In order to complete the change from its current state to a well-respected unit, I would execute a blended version of the seven-step vision process…

Over the last 1.5 years, the 4th Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) has undergone significant change. Following a nine month deployment to Afghanistan, the Brigade appears to be overcome by stress, fatigue, leadership, and ethics issues. While many might categorize these as normal post deployment occurrences, they appear to run much deeper. The events of the previous deployment coupled with the death of the Brigade Commander, Brigade Sergeant Major and a Battalion Commander appear to be the…

A federal appeals court has ordered a temporary halt to construction of the $3.8 billion Bakken pipeline after protests turned violent in southern North Dakota. As reported by the Chicago Tribune, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said that it needs more time to consider the emergency injunction. Prior to this announcement, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg confirmed that the pipeline construction was lawful and rejected the Standing Rock…

Anthropology, the study of humankind, has four main branches: Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistic Anthropology and Physical Anthropology (Larsen 2014). Physical Anthropology focuses mainly on uncovering the mysteries of human evolution by studying fossilized bones of ancient humans and primates to determine their place in our family tree and study what circumstances led to the evolution of the modern human (Larsen 2014). There is a specialty within Physical Anthropology called…

When the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining, natural gas is widely proclaimed as the new partner of renewable energy. A supposedly “clean” energy, natural gas, has been used to power trucks and heat homes. Inexpensive natural gas is transforming the way our energy is harnessed. With increasingly better technology, many forms of alternative energy are being supplied. Hydraulic fracturing to obtain energy is one such field that has been explored in the last 50 years. Although some may…

Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, is a type of drilling that uses water, sand and chemicals, shot at high pressure, to release energy resources trapped inside rocks. This recently new technology for drilling allows areas that were previously inaccessible for drilling, like very concentrated rocky areas, to now be opened up through fracking to obtain natural gases and oil. The water solution used with this drilling technique produces almost the same amount of “sludge” as an after…

Bakken at Klampenborg, north of Copenhagen, Denmark, opened in 1583. A wave of advancement in the 1860s and 1870s made mechanical rides, for example, the steam-controlled merry go round (assembled by Thomas Bradshaw, at the Aylsham Fair), and its subordinates…