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North Sandusky Campground COE
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Recent Rate: $8 5/2013
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Date of Stay: May, 2013 - $8.00
Our rate reflects the golden access discount. This is a popular campground with many retirees staying the full 14 days. Some of the sites are waterfront, and reserved well in advance. There are 2 shower houses, the one closest to the fee booth is the one we used, and very modern, clean and immaculate. We checked out the other one and it was rather skanky. We really enjoyed riding the bike trail-- rode down to the South Sandusky Campground, the beach and the marina. The bike trail wound through the woods on nice new, smooth cement. We enjoyed our stay immensely and will return. We camped at North Sandusky Campground COE in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: May, 2012 - $24.00
Several lake front sites available; near a large, beautiful public beach. If staying in the Hickory or White Oak sections, beware that the main bathroom facilities are over a mile away. Excellent biking trail to South Sandusky Campground and on down to the beach. Make reservations well ahead of time for weekends, many sites will fill up with campers and boats / boat trailers for the water recreation. We camped at North Sandusky Campground COE in a Travel Trailer.
Date of Stay: May, 2011 - $12.00
Park shows signs of wear and not as well kept as we have experienced at other COE grounds. Restroom very dated, no lighting, excessive leaves, limbs, muddy entrance to site. Probably a result of the stormy spring but still on the edge as far as being an attractive place to camp. Won't return. Plenty of shade and nice lakeside view. Full hookup @ $12 with/Golden Age access was hard to beat. Tried to get a site w/SW clearance for satellite. The lady assigning sites said she did not know South from East. Only here two days, so ended up with no satellite. Dinner at Windows restaurant at the State Park Lodge was a very good meal. We camped at North Sandusky Campground COE in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: September, 2005 - $16.00
Rend lake is the first Corps of Engineer campground that we have stayed in. Our site was right on the lake and it was beautiful. This was a very well-maintained campground. It has a very nice bike trail (paved) that was completed in 2005. We would definitely stay here again if we are in the area. We camped at North Sandusky Campground COE in a Fifth Wheel.
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Demonstration of a quasi-scalar angular Goos–Hänchen effect
Optics Letters, Vol. 35, Issue 21, pp. 3562-3564 (2010)
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We show experimentally that the angular Goos–Hänchen (GH) effect can be easily observed, also without employing its resonant enhancement at Brewster incidence. An s-polarized beam was used to decouple the polarization from the propagation dynamics of the beam. We found that, in this case, the angular GH effect can be strongly enhanced by increasing the angular aperture of the Gaussian beam. Our experiments suggest a route toward observing the angular GH effect for true scalar waves, such as acoustic waves and quantum matter waves.
© 2010 Optical Society of America
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(260.5430) Physical optics : Polarization
(240.3695) Optics at surfaces : Linear and nonlinear light scattering from surfaces
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Physical Optics
Original Manuscript: July 8, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: August 9, 2010
Published: October 19, 2010
M. Merano, N. Hermosa, A. Aiello, and J. P. Woerdman, "Demonstration of a quasi-scalar angular Goos-Hänchen effect," Opt. Lett. 35, 3562-3564 (2010)
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Green Bay - The sequence was comical, 10 minutes of mostly nothingness. At the NFL combine, Ted Thompson wouldn't get into specifics about anything.
Matt Flynn. This year's draft class. His philosophy.
The Green Bay Packer general manager was clear as static and made no apologies.
"In settings like this, I try to be informative, but I'm honest when I say I'm not going to tell any trade secrets up here while I'm here," Thompson said.
"It's just not going to happen. I'm not going to lie. I guess you could go the route and be like 'Opposite George' on 'Seinfeld.' You know, say whatever's the opposite."
Maybe George Costanza picked up a girl at the coffee shop by boasting that he's unemployed and lives with his parents. Just don't expect Thompson to broadcast his master plan for April 26-28.
But if he did? If "Opposite Ted" did take the podium? Well, who knows, maybe the general manager would have talked about trading up in this year's draft.
It makes sense for the Packers to be aggressive this April.
In 2009, Thompson unloaded one second- and two third-round picks to the New England Patriots to draft Clay Matthews. It was his boldest decision this side of stonewalling Brett Favre.
In 2012, he should consider doing it again. The defense is thirsting for another pass rusher and Green Bay's roster is already stocked with promising, young talent in other areas.
No question, he's smart to accumulate as many darts as possible in the draft. That's how this team ascended to the league's elite. In seven years, he has drafted 68 players.
But at outside linebacker - a position already crowded with undrafted youth - why not take a chance? The Packers need some bite opposite Matthews.
If Alabama's Courtney Upshaw or South Carolina's Melvin Ingram begin to slip, Thompson could trade up. For now, both players project as top 15 picks and have far fewer question marks than the OLB prospects likely to fall to Green Bay at No. 28.
The 264-pound Ingram is one of this year's film-room marvels - a freak athlete who once took a fake punt 68 yards for a touchdown.
In high school, he was the point guard on the basketball team and a running back on the football team. Now, Ingram is training with Von Miller in California.
"We just try to compete against each other every day," Ingram said. "Obviously, he's the defensive rookie of the year. So I just try to pattern myself after him because I feel like he's had a lot of success in the NFL."
Upshaw isn't as athletic, but hits with a vengeance. He plays mean, the kind of player that would probably make Kevin Greene go hoarse in training camp.
"Being physical, being tough" is what Upshaw said he does best. LSU crossed the 50-yard line just once in the BCS title game and Upshaw was the biggest reason why.
The 272-pounder says he looks up to LaMarr Woodley, James Harrison and Ray Lewis. They play his way.
"It's a mind thing with me," Upshaw said. "Growing up, playing football, I always wanted to be physical. As a young guy, I was always going in, throwing my shoulder.
"That was the fun part to me. Just going out and being tough and physical is something I love to do."
Even if the cost is steep, trading up would hardly put a dent in Thompson's draft-and-develop cycle.
At season's end, 41 players on the Packer roster were 25 years or younger. Ten rookies made the 53-man roster a year ago. Each position has a project worth monitoring. There's not much dead weight.
Still, there's some strange urgency this off-season for a 15-2 team. The Packers are probably hunting for new starters at defensive end, outside linebacker and safety this off-season.
Another pass-rushing threat doesn't cure all ills, but it'd certainly make life easier for everyone else. For Tramon Williams on No. 1 wide receivers. For Matthews on the edge. For Dom Capers in the booth.
Opposing quarterbacks were far too comfortable a year ago.
If Thompson believes in Upshaw, Ingram, or somebody else, he should pull the trigger without hesitation.
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I had to reinstall firefox, somehow the old one was set to +2 zoom with all web pages, for some reason this newer version won't save my preference and every time i go to a new page, I'm on the size that's too small for me to read. How do I adjust firefox to automatically make all pages +2 zoom?
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Firefox on Windows is now following display scaling options which may render text larger on high resolution displays. You can adjust your screen resolution. To modify it do the following:
- Type about:config into the Firefox address bar and tap on the Enter key.
- If the warning This might void your warranty appears, click I'll be careful, I promise.
- Search for layout.css.devPixelsPerPx
- Double-click on layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to modify its value. The default is -1.0 in Firefox 22 and above. Change it to 1.0 to make it work like in previous Firefox versions.
If necessary, further adjust the value in 0.1 or 0.05 steps. Use values between 1.0 and about 0.5 to reduce elements in size. Use values greater than 1.0 to increase size. For example, a value of 1.25 will increase font size to 125% to accommodate the default DPI setting in Windows 8. Double check the value that you enter. Setting a too small value will make everything disappear and a too large value will blow things up.
If web pages still need to be adjusted then you can look at the Default FullZoom Level or NoSquint extension.
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Free computers for low income families, free used and recycled computers, used computer hardware, free PC's, computers for the classroom, free computers for the disabled and so on is a post I started in 2008. Because I understand not everyone can afford to buy a computer. Computers have also become an important part of education and society making them essential for a household to have one. Because of this there are many organizations that now offer free computers for low income families and to people with disabilities. For most programs like these you must first qualify by proving your income and other requested paper work as well as what the computer is for.
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Since these programs are not just offered up to people with low income, and it's seems to be some big secret that many people don't know about. I decided to search high and low to find all the resources I can to help families in need to obtain a computer for their household. Programs likes these should not be kept a secret.
Please take a look at the list below and let me know if any links are not working so I can be sure to fix them. Do you know of any places that give computers to schools, families with low income, non profit organizations and people with disabilities? If so please share below and I would be happy to add it to my list. I will continue my search regularly and add more as I find them. Nationwide:
With Causes recycles, refurbishes, and fixes computer equipment for reuse to benefit many families in need, nonprofits and educational causes. Click here to request help. DO NOT CALL!
FreeCycle is an online network an nonprofit movement of people who are giving and getting stuff for free in their own town! This would be a great way to get a free computer for your family. Membership is free. Sign up by finding your community. www.freecycle.org
Komputers 4 R Kids has many volunteers helping to build no longer wanted and broken computers. That then turns around and donates them. www.komputers4rkids.com
CFY.org offers a Digital Learning Program that provides those who are eligible with training for teachers, students and their parents along with a free broadband-ready home computer loaded with educational software and 24×7 bilingual help desk support. National nonprofit organization cfy.org.
Computers With Causes goal is to provide refurbished computers for an educational, or future learning program. Apply Now or donate today. They ask that you please DO NOT call them , just simply fill out the application, as their phone lines are dedicated to "accepting" donations. Please respect this request. www.computerswithcauses.org
Recycle The World allows you to take freely or give freely. You can share items you no longer need with people who need them. This site lets you shop for a free computer or others goods you may need. Just head on over to their site and make sure to register and they will email you a password. Next sign in with your password and from there you can post items you no longer need and find the ones you do. If there is an item in particular you really need or want, just post about it in their wanted items section. This program seems to be every state. www.recycletheworld.org
World Computer Exchange donates used refurbished computers to groups who have become their Partners. Partners can be NGOs, government ministries, schools, orphanages, libraries, youth centres, telecentres, universities & entrepreneurs. Computers from World Computer Exchange are only for public settings to help connect more youth in developing countries to the Internet at low cost. www.worldcomputerexchange.org
Computers For Learning (for schools and nonprofit ONLY) transfers excess Federal computer equipment to schools and educational nonprofit organizations, giving special consideration to those with the greatest need. computersforlearning.gov
Accelerated Schools has no link to click instead a number to call. Accelerated Schools has a computer loan program for families. Which means you CAN'T keep the computer, but instead they will loan it to your family. But first you must summit a $100 deposit that they will return to you once you return the computer. This program may or may not be nationwide. For more information about this computer loan program you can call 1-800-SCHOOL3 or call 1-800-724-6653.
Technology Assisting People In Need offers free computers to economically disadvantaged or disabled people. This is an Ohio program. This program may or may not be nationwide. For more information on this program click here www.tapin.org.
Computers For Classrooms provides working computers to only families who can't afford one. This can be determined by whether they receive any of the following: Medicaid, Free or Reduced lunch, Financial Aid Recipients, persons receiving disaster assistance through the Red Cross, Section 8 Housing and more. For qualifying families they also give a free checkup to computers you already have. This program may only be for California residents. www.computersforclassrooms.org
Computers 4 Kids California – I am not sure if this is part of the other programs for C4K. This one is for the California area www.c4kca.org.
Computers 4 Kids California – Again I am not sure if this is part of the other program for C4K, but this one is for California also www.c4konline.org.
Computer Recycling Center donates refurbished computers to qualified programs serving the community with social justice and public benefit such as: C.A.S.A, Foster Youth, Health and Human Services disabled home-bound elderly, and Public School Teachers for their classrooms. California area. Click here to find out how to apply www.crc.org/apply.
Adaptive.org offers qualifying residents in San Diego County who are low income and disabled or seniors (65+) with free computers. This is a California program. www.adaptive.org.
Computers for Classrooms and Families Program– students, parents, community members are welcome to come earn a FREE computer from Computers for Classrooms, Inc. To earn a computer they must be willing to work 50 hours helping to refurbish computers. This is a great way to learn more about how computers work and earn your own computer at the same time. This program is based in California. Click here to read all about the program www.chicousd.org.
Alachua FreeNet Recycling Program redistributes used and refurbished computers to organizations and individuals with special needs who have no other access to computer resources and the internet. This is a Florida program. www.afn.org
Computer Banc offers cheap refurbished computers from $60 to $120 to Illinois residents. Find out more here computerbanc.org.
Computers 4 Kids Kentucky – I am not sure if this is part of the same program above but here is this one located in the Kentucky area www.connectkentucky.org/what_we_do/computers_4_kids/.
Computers for Louisiana's Families Program offers low-cost refurbished computers with a Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System and additional software pre-installed. If you qualify for our CLF program, the Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council can help! www.computersforfamilies.org
PC's For People has locations in multiple cities in Minnesota and each office distributes computers differently. Cities are: St. Paul, Mankato, Grand Rapids and International Falls. They provide personal computers and education to people who have limited experience with technology due to social, physical and/or economic circumstances. www.pcsforpeople.com
WherEverGodWills.org offers free computers to students in 5th grade through College who are unable to buy a computer and need one. To qualify they must work 10 hours of Service to their community. Grand Rapids Area West Michigan area. www.wherevergodwills.org/free_computers
WITS offers free electronics and school supplies, also available on a first come first serve basis on Saturday's. They offer also Desktop computers starting at $50 with Windows & Open Office. Laptops computers starting at $100 with Windows & Open Office. Computer/Laptop Repair Starts $30. For more information call 314-382-165. www.witsinc.org
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Computers for Children offers Buffalo City Mission area low cost reconditioned computers from $99 and up in their thrift stores. This helps give computers to children. www.computersforchildren.com.
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Micrecycle Rochester New York offers free and low cost refurbished through Micrecycle Computers for Education Back-To-School Promotion. For more information email: email@example.com
GE Elfun Computer Rehab of Schenectady Inc (for schools and nonprofit ONLY) donates free computers to schools and nonprofit organizations who cannot afford to buy new equipment. Schenectady New York area only. www.computerrehab.org
Free Geek is a Portland Ohio based program that offers free computers to volunteers and through their Hardware Grants Program. This program is in the Portland area. www.freegeek.org
Computers 4 Kids Tennessee – I am not sure if this is part of the other programs above for C4K, but this one is for the Tennessee area www.connectednation.org/computers-4-kids
Computers 4 Kids Virginia –Charlottesville and Albemarle students in grades 7 through 12, who qualify for the federal school lunch program, are eligible to join their program. They emphasizes one-on-one mentoring and developing in-depth technology skills through project based learning and creative exploration. When students are not meeting with their mentor, they can access Computers 4 Kids's after-school learning lab 5 days a week for homework support, educational workshops, and other structured activities. All students in the program are eligible to earn a free home computer system. www.computers4kids.net. This program is in the Charlottesville, Virginia area.
Computers For Families each school year distributes 600 computers in 28 South Coast elementary schools. Visitors are welcome to attend and share in the excitement as students and families receive their computers. http://sbceo.org/~sbceocff/
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Should YOU record phone calls with your bank? Steps to document dealings with companies that could win a dispute
The days are long gone when every interaction with a bank, utility company, retailer or insurer would be documented in writing.
Now, instead of corresponding by letter, we're more likely to 'call customer services', email companies, Tweet customer relations, or respond to a 'can we help you' prompt on companies' websites to start an online chat.
But while the myriad methods make it easier than ever to resolve problems and queries or make changes to accounts, it can create a huge gap in our records.
Keeping a record: Detailed notes will make it easier to make your case in the event of a dispute
How could we ever prove what 'Claire in customer services' promised us over the phone if it is the company and not we who have a recording of the conversation?
Or once we've clicked the 'X' at the top right hand corner of an online chat to close it, how can we show that it ever happened?
We asked the Financial Ombudsman Service and Information Commissioner's Office for advice on what evidence is needed to make a case in the event of a dispute – and the best ways of collating it.
How do I keep a record of an online chat?
Many companies that offer chat facilities offer to send you an email of the transcript at the end of the conversation.
Always say yes to this so that you have a copy for your records. If this is not offered, taking a screen grab of the online chat is probably the next best thing. (Most keyboards will have a button that says something like 'Print Scrn', which allows you to take a picture of your full screen and then paste it into a word document for your records).
A spokesperson for the Financial Ombudsman confirmed: 'We would definitely look at a screenshot as evidence, provided it's not been doctored! We could always ask the business to provide a copy of a conversation to back this up if we were unsure.
'Our banking team say they've not actually seen this used in a complaint before, but we agreed that even just a screenshot is something we'd consider as evidence and as online banking facilities evolve it is likely to become more common.'
How do I keep a watertight record of a phone call?
The more detail you can write down at the time, the better. It is best if you can write down the date and time of the phone call, the person to whom you spoke and their job title or department. Then just note a brief outline of what was said or decided.
The ombudsman spokesperson added: 'We look at each individual case on its own merits and common sense says the more factual evidence available in a complaint the better, and this applies to both the business and consumer.
For training and monitoring purposes: Your calls are often recorded by banks, insurers and retailers - so can you record them too?
'In regards to taking notes, we'd certainly look at this as evidence and would advise consumers to keep a record of conversations they have with businesses. It isn't always the case but there may be other evidence that will back up what the consumer has written in their notes i.e. the businesses own call notes, call scripts or a follow up letter confirming what was discussed.'
Can I record phone conversations with my bank or a retailer or is it against the law?
More often than not when we phone a company we are told that 'calls may be recorded'. But this means that only they have a record of any conversations. We would hope that they would provide these as evidence if necessary, but we have no guarantee.
If you're in the middle of a dispute with a company and want to ensure you have absolute proof of what is said over the phone, recording the phone call is one option.
The Information Commissioner's Office confirmed that these types of recordings would not be covered by the Data Protection Act, since they would only be for domestic use and not intended to be shared with a third party.
Even if you eventually end up passing on the recording to the ombudsman in the case of a dispute, this would still be exempt from the Data Protection regulations, under section 36.
You could tell the person on the other end of the line that you were recording the conversation – however, you wouldn't be obliged to if the purpose of recording was domestic use only.
What about evidence from social media?
If you've interacted with a company or bank through social media, you should have records of this in your account, whether this is via Facebook or Twitter.
The Financial Ombudsman Service highly recommends voicing your complaints in this way. As many as 80 per cent of banks around the world said they used Facebook to monitor and respond to customer comments, according to a survey from the Global Retail Banking Digital Marketing Report last year.
A spokesperson added: 'In most occasions, complaints made via social media receive a quicker response from businesses, sometimes in minutes.
'However, if you plan to use social media, make sure your complaint is clear and succinct and never reveals personal details such as account or reference numbers in a public message.'
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Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan
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Hi, I've seen a couple of posts on here recently from composers offering their music to game makers. I'd like to do the same. I'll keep it brief here as info and music links are all on my website:www.darkvillager.comI've produced and released 4 electronic albums and several soundscape / ambient / cinematic pieces as well, some silly and some plain crazy but quite a few 'proper' tracks as well. (international radio play and BBC radio etc)I've not produced specifically for games before but would love to do it. Anyone like what I do and interested please give me a shout ( you can contact me through my website )thanks for your time-ant ( DV)
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- Structure-Based Selection of Small Molecules to Alter Allele-Specific MHC Class II Antigen Presentation
Structure-Based Selection of Small Molecules to Alter Allele-Specific MHC Class II Antigen Presentation
- By Jefferson Adams
- Published 12/5/2011
- Celiac Disease & Gluten Intolerance Research
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Jefferson Adams
Jefferson Adams is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. His poems, essays and photographs have appeared in Antioch Review, Blue Mesa Review, CALIBAN, Hayden's Ferry Review, Huffington Post, the Mississippi Review, and Slate among others.
He is a member of both the National Writers Union, the International Federation of Journalists, and covers San Francisco Health News for Examiner.com.
View all articles by Jefferson AdamsA team of researchers recently set out to investigate structure-based selection of small molecules to alter allele-specific MHC Class II antigen presentation
The research team included Aaron W. Michels, David A. Ostrov, Li Zhang, Maki Nakayama, Masanori Fuse, Kristen McDaniel, Bart O. Roep, Peter A. Gottlieb, Mark A. Atkinson, and George S. Eisenbarth.
They are variously affiliated with the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes at the University of Colorado Denver, the Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, in Gainesville, FL, and with the Department of Immunohaematology and Blood Transfusion at Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden, The Netherlands.
In the NOD mouse model of spontaneous autoimmune diabetes, Human DQ8 and I-Ag7 imparts diabetes risk by modulating presentation of specific islet peptides in the thymus and surrounding area.
To define small molecules that could live in specific structural pockets along the I-Ag7 binding groove, the research team made use of an in-silico molecular docking program to review a vast "drug-like" chemical library.
They were hoping to either promote or inhibit presentation to T cells of the autoantigen insulin B chain peptide, which consists of amino acids 9–23.
By making use of both murine and human cells, the team's results show that small molecules can in fact influence specific TCR signals in the presence of cognate target peptides, based upon the targeted structural pocket.
The effect of a compound on TCR response varied among targeted pockets, with pocket 1 and 6 compounds inhibiting TCR response, and molecules targeted at pocket 9 promoting peptide responses.
It takes just nanomolar levels of the inhibitory molecules to block the insulin B chain peptide, which consists of amino acids 9–23, endogenous insulin, and islet-stimulated T cell responses.
At concentrations as low as 10 nM, Glyphosine, a pocket 9 compound, enhances insulin peptide presentation to T cells, upregulates IL-10 secretion, and prevents diabetes in NOD mice.
These studies offer a new way to identify small molecules that can both stimulate and inhibit T cell responses, thus offering a potential for future therapeutic treatment options.
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Hello. My name is Adeline. I want to know how to help my best friend, Joey. I'm afraid he's suicidal. Joey is such an amazing guy, he really does not deserve what he's going through and what he has gone through. Joey is bisexual and it's the one year anniversary of his lover's death next week. Joey ran away about a month or so after Mike(his boyfriend) died because of Mike's death, the bullying he was getting at school, and Jonathan(his father) was remarrying his mother after abandoning them when Joey was nine. I met him after he ran away one night while I was walking my dog. Joey will randomly say things that suggest suicide to me. He tells me that he doesn't want to do it anymore and says he'd do anything to be with Mike again. I think he's cutting himself, too. I never met Mike, but from what I've gotten Joey to tell me, they were friends for a really long time and that Mike was there for him before they became lovers. I'm so worried about Joey. I don't know what to do. He needs help, but I don't know how or where or anything. I don't want Joey to kill himself, but how can I prevent that? Thank you for your time.
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Open Positions
Remote Material Deposition Installation
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Depth Modulations 2
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Complex Timber Structures 2
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Robotic Metal Aggregations
Shifted Frames 2
Design of Robotic Fabricated High Rises 1
Shifted Frames 1
Spatial Aggregations 2
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Robotic Clay Molding
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Procedural Landscapes 2
Procedural Landscapes 1
Curved Folding
The Interlocking 2
The Interlocking 1
The Sequential Structure 2
The Sequential Structure 1
Explicit Bricks
The Programmed Column 2
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Open Air Theater
Voxels 2
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The Stacked Pavilion
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The Foam
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The Sequential Structure 2, ETH Zurich, 2010
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The findings of the course "The Sequential Structure 1" led to the development of a temporary installation in public space at the ETH Zurich within a 4 week workshop. The students task included the design and fabrication of a timber pavilon to shade a sun exposed terrace. Studies of physical hanging chain models and their simultaneous simulation with digital tools provided the base for an iterative form finding process. The structure consists of 26 individual elements, joined into 11 arches and mounted on site without any use of heavy machinery. The layering of the slats in a diagonal grid allows for a multidirectional transfer of loads, thus supporting shell action of the structure. The parametric framework adapts to structural requirements with gradual change in effective depth. The additional rotation and variation of slat lengths is driven by local sun irradiation and allows for a specific control of the shadowing effect of the structure.
The project was conducted in collaboration with the BLOCK Research Group - Assistant chair of Building Structure Philippe Block.
Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
ALBANY -- Binghamton spoiled the University at Albany's senior day on Saturday.
The Great Danes will get a chance to extract some revenge, in the America East tournament, in just four days.
The Bearcats got two home runs from Jake Thomas, to post a 10-3 victory over the Great Danes in the regular season finale.
UAlbany was led offensively by the trio if Greg Muller, Josh Nethaway and Luke Burns, who all finished with two hits.
High Schools -- Baseball
Notre Dame (Utica) 3, Albany Academy 2: Keith Lubey picked up the win on the mound throwing six solid innings, as the Jugglers (8-8) jumped out early scoring two runs in the top of the first to secure the non-league victory.
Nolan Duda and Connor Morgan each recorded an RBI while Jake Mayette chipped in with two hits for Academy (11-9).
Boys Lacrosse
Troy 6, Amsterdam 5: The Flying Horses made the first-round of sectionals a little dramatic, as Tyler Littlejohn scored the game-winning goal to keep the Troy season alive.
The ninth seeded Troy squad keeps the 2013 season alive with the victory. The Horses advance to face off against No. 1 Niskayuna on Tuesday at 4:15 p.m.
Bethlehem 11, Schenectady 3: The No. 7 seed Eagles scored eight goals in the third quarter to runaway from the Patriots in a first round Class A matchup, led by Brad Bettinger who found the back of net three times and dished out three assists.
Joe Verstandig and Tyler BugBee each recorded two goals and one assist to pace Bethlehem's balanced attack.
James Schnepf made 21 saves in goal and three players each recorded a goal for No. 10 seed Schenectady in the defeat.
Berlin 20, Rensselaer: Brianna Broomhower stroked a triple and three singles, driving in four runs, to lead the Mountaineers to the Central Hudson Valley League victory.
Kaitlyn Morris added a double, two singles, three runs and three RBI to the Berlin (6-10, 7-13) attack and Kaitlyn Goodermote had three hits and three runs.
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Unified Parallel C
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Paradigm | parallel, message passing, imperative (procedural), structured | ||||
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Unified Parallel C (UPC) is an extension of the C programming language designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, including those with a common global address space (SMP and NUMA) and those with distributed memory (e.g. clusters). The programmer is presented with a single shared, partitioned address space, where variables may be directly read and written by any processor, but each variable is physically associated with a single processor. UPC uses a Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) model of computation in which the amount of parallelism is fixed at program startup time, typically with a single thread of execution per processor.
In order to express parallelism, UPC extends ISO C 99 with the following constructs:
- An explicitly parallel execution model
- A shared address space
- Synchronization primitives and a memory consistency model
- Explicit communication primitives, e.g. upc_memput
- Memory management primitives
The UPC language evolved from experiences with three other earlier languages that proposed parallel extensions to ISO C 99: AC, Split-C, and Parallel C Preprocessor (PCP). UPC is not a superset of these three languages, but rather an attempt to distill the best characteristics of each. UPC combines the programmability advantages of the shared memory programming paradigm and the control over data layout and performance of the message passing programming paradigm.
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- Cilk
- Co-array Fortran
- Chapel
- High Performance Fortran
- OpenMP
- Partitioned global address space
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plau|ditsPronunciation: /ˈplɔːdɪts/
Definition of plaudits in English:
plural noun
1Praise: the network has received plaudits for its sports coverage
More example sentences
- He earned a berth on the World team in the All-Star Game and received the ultimate plaudit from coach Darryl Sutter, who appraised Nabokov's play by admitting that, 'I don't worry about our goaltending.'
- But teasing from team-mates is as much a backhanded plaudit as jeers from opposition supporters, which is why both the ribbing and the heckling have been gathering momentum the older this season gets.
- The film smoothly rides on its success, earning the plaudit of being one of the highest-ever grossers in the Malayalam film industry.
praise, acclaim, acclamation, commendation, congratulations, encomiums, approval, approbation, accolades, compliments, cheers, tributes, salutes, bouquets;
a pat on the back, kudos, good press;
applause, a round of applause, a standing ovation
informal a (big) hand
rare laudation
1.1The applause of an audience: the plaudits for the winner died down
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- While Martinez got the plaudits she deserved, Navratilova was given the longest standing ovation Centre Court has ever seen.
- All the plaudits that came Clarke's way and the ovations of the galleries were richly deserved.
Early 17th century: plaudit shortened from Latin plaudite 'applaud!' (said by Roman actors at the end of a play), imperative plural of plaudere.
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- All told, SmartGridCity included automating three substations, laying 200 miles of fiber-optic cable and installing 4,600 residential and small business transformers and 16,000 smart meters.
- SmartGridCity™ integrated intelligent sensors, distributed communications and analytical control applications from the substation to the customer premise, enabling a host of high value applications. These applications are expected to provide significant utility and customer benefits including improved service reliability, reduced operations and maintenance costs, optimized system losses, reduced capital costs, better managed renewable energy resources, and reduced customer energy demand.
- Boulder, Colorado was the guinea pig because it is the right size (population of approximately 100,000 people), the home to the University of Colorado and also the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is already involved in the project, and several other federal agencies.
- Plans are to spend $100 million to build a "smart-grid city" that will become a test bed for emerging power technologies.
- As of mid July, 15,000 smart meters have been installed in Boulder with another 10,000 planned. A web portal that shows consumers with smart meters their usage in 15 minute increments should be rolled out soon. A key element of the pilot is to understand if and how consumers with smart meters change usage relative to those without such information, as the success of the smart grid is "totally about behavior change.
- Members of the SmartGridCity Consortium include Xcel Energy, Accenture, Current Group, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Ventyx, GridPoint, and OSI Soft. There are several other public and private collaborators including SmartSynch and Landis+Gyr.
2. Acronyms/Definitions
- Analysis Portal - Gives secure access to usage information, billing history and means for interactively helping customers discover how to best use energy taking into consideration both price and environmental impacts.
- Control Portal - Gives customers the opportunity to set energy use preferences for major appliances and a limited number of household outlets.
- Information Portal - Educates customers about how their energy is produced, and offer tips for reducing costs and lowering their carbon footprint.
- Smart Substations - Infrastructure upgrades will create more sophisticated intelligence in the substation, which will allow the utility to better monitor and adapt to customer needs, while making real-time decisions based on current grid conditions.
- Smart Feeders - The feeder distribution system will consist of communication-enabled smart reclosers and switches as well as smart feeder assets to provide power system information and perform automated functions. These assets will allow Xcel Energy to monitor power flow, outages, and overall asset device health.
- Smart Distribution System - Power analyzers will be installed at each distribution transformer and incorporated into smart meters to provide real-time data on power consumption, outages, restorations, and fault locations.
- Phase I: March 2008 - August 2008
- Included full-system automation, monitoring and smart meters for the first group of SmartGridCity customers. Involves upgrades to two substations, five feeders and nearly 15,000 meters (representing both residential, commercial and light industrial customers) in Boulder.
- Web portal provided consumers with insight into their energy use and information for better home energy management.
- Some customers could choose to have in-home automation tools, allowing increased control over home energy use and costs.
- Phase II: September 2008 - December 2009 - Xcel Energy, along with its partners, will have a field crew of up to 115 people dedicated to the deployment and build out of SmartGridCity. By the end of Phase II deployment, Xcel Energy expects the approximate size of the SmartGridCity™ customer base to grow to 50,000 residential, business and light industrial customers. Eligible customers can opt to participate at any level they choose.
- Complete the installation of a distribution and communication network for remaining areas within Boulder (an additional two substations, 20 feeders and smart meters for an additional 35,000 premises). The city would be outfitted with infrastructure to support renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.
- Expanded in-home automation installations. Xcel plans to install in-home control devices in the smart-grid city to automate home energy use in 1,200 homes. As of November 2010, it was on standby until security issues can be worked out. But, as Greentechgrid put it, at the cost of $2,173 per location, it's hard to imagine that any results from the pilot will sway public opinion, unless home automation includes a free 3D television.
- Enable Web portal access to all SmartGridCity customers.
- Begin initial integration of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, solar and wind co-generation sources onto the grid in Boulder. The city will feature plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles that charge and discharge to the grid.
- Dynamic Pricing Pilot
- In fall 2009, Xcel Energy filed for an electricity pilot pricing program with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to coincide with implementation of SmartGridCity™ in Boulder, Colo. The pilot will include no more than 2,000 customers and is designed to provide customers with better price signals so they can make informed decisions about their energy use. The program is expected to produce reductions in consumption during on-peak periods or to shift some consumption to off-peak periods. Residential customers in Boulder who have a smart meter can choose to participate in the pilot, which will run until Dec. 31, 2011.
- In February 2011, a flier sent to thousands of randomly selected Boulder residents by Xcel Energy appears to force the recipients to sign up for a pilot pricing program, causing outrage among some customers. The SmartGridCity pilot pricing program charges participants, who must have smart meters, more than they are paying now during periods of peak electricity demand -- from 2 to 8 p.m. -- and slightly less than they are paying now during the rest of the day.
Phase one of the pilot plan began in Fall 2010 with 1,249 volunteers. But phase two of the plan, scheduled to begin in 2011 seeks 5,000 randomly selected volunteers.
In February thousands of Xcel customers in Boulder began receiving letters from the utility that say, in bold, "You have been selected as one of the participants for this mandatory program. Your response is required to select your top two choices by March 1st." The outside of the flier says, "Your response is required" inside a red box. In fact, customers who do not respond to the mailing at all will continue to be charged the standard rate, according to paperwork filed by Xcel at the Public Utilities Commission in December. And customers who do respond can choose from four pricing options, one of which would make no change to the way they are now charged for electricity.
But the fact that this information cannot be found anywhere on the flier -- which also invites customers to attend one of five informational meetings next week -- angered some recipients.
- Some Boulder residents, including City Councilman Matt Appelbaum, say the design of the pricing pilot is flawed and that Xcel hasn't given customers the tools they need to actually track their own energy use and, therefore, figure out how to shift use away from peak hours. Appelbaum said two of the most important tools that are now lacking are the ability for a customer to see his or her energy use in real time and the ability for a customer to program use -- potentially turning on some appliances in the middle of the night instead of during peak hours. Now, a customer with a smart meter can only view yesterday's energy use at 15-minute intervals.
- Xcel said in a filing with the CPUC that they expect residents who sign up for the time-of-use pricing categories in the pilot to save customers between $37 and $47 per year. But that might not be enough of an incentive.
- Regulatory Rate Case - In December 2009 the Colorado PUC approved an $11 million rate hike to cover additional costs (among other things) but told Xcel it now needed to go through the process of filing a ordered the utility to file a "Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity" and it needed to prove why it needed to increase rates. The rate increase and the details of the request for CPCN, are what has been leaking out all these ugly details and media coverage of the mismanagement in this smart grid saga.
In November 2010, the Colorado Public Utility Commission recommended to allow Xcel Energy to recoup nearly $45 million in costs across across 1.4 million ratepayers, not just Boulder. The total cost is estimated at $100 million plus. The decision by Administrative Law Judge G. Harris Adams found that the investment is "prudent" and that there is benefit for ratepayers "directly through the technology deployment and learning process occurring within the pilot."
The decision was favorable to the utility, as it approves a figure that is three times higher than Xcel's original estimates on cost recovery, and which has already been opposed by Colorado's Office of Consumer Counsel and two of the state's largest industrial electricity consumers.
The CPUC rendered its verbal decision on cost recovery on Jan 5, 2011 and its written decision on Feb 8, 2011 overruling the Administrative Law Judge and whacked 38% from the $13 million a year the utility charges customers to pay for the SmartGridCity pilot project. That means Xcel can include about two-thirds of the $44.5 million total cost of the project in its rate base, according to a Denver Post news article. Xcel won't be able to get its hands on the rest, about $16.6 million, until it can demonstrate the project's benefits to consumers.
When an Xcel executive told the CPUC in these hearings that the utility would never have begun the project if a cost cap was imposed, Commissioner Tarpey retorted that the message he was hearing from Xcel was "yeah, we really want to do it, but not with our money."
The CPUC had allowed Xcel to retroactively file a certificate of public need and convenience, or CPCN, for its high-end estimate of costs, so the utility has been recovering costs from ratepayers since January 2010. In 2011, that charge on ratepayers' bills was reduced to reflect cost recovery of $27.9 million—the amount that Colorado's Office of Consumer Counsel (OCC) had pegged as reasonable.
On Feb 28, 2011, Xcel filed a 19-page application for an RRR (rehearing, reargument and reconsideration of the CPUC's decision) Xcel's logic was that the CPUC looked back over the project's evolution to justify withholding part of the requested cost recovery, while not looking forward to pending results on the project's various value propositions—including how SmartGridCity innovations might be applied elsewhere in Xcel's multi-state service territory.
A month later, the CPUC simply said "no" to the RRR request. "Public Service (aka Xcel) has the opportunity to be granted recovery of the remaining investment costs in a future adjudicated proceeding, if indeed Public Service shows it is warranted," the commissioners wrote.
On Jun 27, 2011, the CPUC again rejected Xcel's latest effort to claw back more cost recovery on its SmartGridCity project. The CPUC also decided that Colorado's regulated utilities should file periodic plans relating to smart grid generally and, specifically, that applications should be filed for smart meter proposals. And the CPUC wants details: the number of meters, quantified impacts on resulting energy usage, peak load, demand side management participation, cost/benefit analyses, a detailed consumer outreach/education plan with a completed customer segmentation study and an impact assessment on low-income or other vulnerable groups.
Further, the CPUC found that one of smart meters' primary benefits is as a platform for dynamic pricing and that "system-wide smart meter implementation concurrently with system-wide changes in rate design is likely to elicit negative customer reactions" regardless of customer outreach and education. That conclusion was informed by the CPUC's discovery that "the residential customer class is far from homogeneous in terms of usage, attitudes, values and interest level" in their energy service needs.
The commission goes on to suggest that any smart meter rollouts in Colorado be opt-in and target the most receptive residential customers first, which limits its system benefits but aids long-term acceptance; and that customer segmentation (using third-party help if necessary) should be applied to achieve this; that a default rate be offered in the near-term. The idea is that Dynamic pricing can't be forced on customers, and spending a lot of money on interval meters makes no sense without some form of time-based pricing. Now at least Colorado has a framework for evaluating smart grid projects and the regulated utilities under its oversight know their obligations.
- Xcel has said that its actual data collection, commenced in Fall 2010 will be complete in 2011 and we await its report on the project's value propositions. Certainly Xcel will seek to demonstrate statewide ratepayer value, as $16.6 million rides on it.
- On May 21, 2013 the Colorado Public Utilities Commission ruled that Xcel Energy will not be able to collect the $16.6 million balance it says it is owed for work performed on the SmartGridCity project in Boulder. The ruling is in line with an earlier decision by an administrative law judge that the utility should not be allowed to collect the remaining $16.6 million in costs it incurred in the project because it had not met established criteria demonstrating customer benefits, according to a story in the Boulder County Business Report.
The PUC in early 2011 allowed Xcel to recover $27.9 million in program costs from customer rates, but withheld the remaining $16.6 million until the utility could demonstrate benefits to customers, and provide a comprehensive plan. - The SmartGridCity project began in 2008 with a lot of optimism, but along the way Xcel had to deal with unanticipated difficulties and issues that bumped the total project cost to $44.5 million, well above the initial numbers. There has been enough dissatisfaction among Boulder residents and officials with the project that the city council is expected to vote in April 2013 on splitting from Xcel and developing its own municipal utility.
- Peak Demand Reductions - Significant decreases in residential peak demand energy consumption achieved by providing real-time price and environmental signals in conjunction with advanced in-home technologies. Empowering customers with tools and energy management information will enhance Xcel Energy's ability to manage costs by managing demand. Information about on-peak and off-peak usage with emphasis on energy cost and the reduction of emissions will encourage customers to use energy in a more price responsive, environmentally sustainable way, including the options of using distributed energy resources such as PHEVs, solar, wind turbine, vertical wind turbine, batteries, geothermal, biomass, fuel cells, micro turbine (10k RPM spinning device with harmonics) and stored energy systems.
- Carbon Footprint Reduction - A result of lowered residential peak demand and energy consumption, improved distribution losses and increased conservation options. . A decrease in electricity usage by 2.5 percent could cut Xcel Energy's CO2 emissions by over one million tons annually.
- Capital Savings - Expected deferral of capital spend for distribution and transmission projects based on improved load estimates and reduction in peak load from enhanced demand management.
- Operating Savings - Potential utility cost savings from remote and automated disconnects/ reconnects, elimination of unneeded field trips and reduced customer outage and high-bill calls through home automation.
- Reduce Customer Minutes Out - By reducing customer minutes out through fault switching, automatic outage notifications proactive asset replacement, Xcel Energy expects to improve SAIDI by 10 percent. Transformer overloading outages were reduced by 25 percent in Boulder in 2009 due to the monitoring equipment installed as part of the project.
- Improved Reliability - Phase I results released in early September 2009 showed customer complaints about voltage fluctuations had dropped to ero from about 60 a couple of years earlier and there weren't any unplanned transformer failures compared with six in 2007.
Customers calling to complain about power quality dropped to just over 1 percent in 2009, down from more than 8 percent of total complaint calls in 2007.
Preventing customer outages is a critical factor affecting customer satisfaction. A smart grid will proactively identify devices approaching imminent failure. It will also more quickly identify current outages, nested outages, and the locations that need to be attended to most quickly to remedy those outages. The use of advanced metering applications will eliminate costly "okay on arrival" situations by being able to determine if a customer is out. Providing crews with access to this information while they are in the field will vastly improve outage restoration performance by having faster, prioritized responses. Xcel Energy's smart grid will use the following methods to reduce customer minutes out. - System reconfiguration using intelligent automated switches coordinated with substation intelligence
- Remote identification of faults
- Remote, real-time identification of outage size and location
- Remote control and aggregation of demand response and distributed energy resources
- Remote outage and restoration detection
- Customer Empowerment - Real-time pricing programs help manage demand by raising the retail price when our energy cost is high and lowering the retail price when our costs are low. However, these programs have previously been unpopular with customers because they have been complex and inconvenient. A system that automates customer energy consumption based on customer-selected preferences against both price and environmental signals would alleviate both the complexity and inconvenience. A system that enables customers to optimize energy consumption based on emissions reductions would encourage customers to leverage low emissions generation from renewable sources.
- Reduced Billing and Customer Service Related Costs - Advanced metering applications will enable automated meter reads, assist with revenue assurance, and improve call center performance. Xcel Energy anticipates this could lead to:
- Reduced costs associated with improved meter reading efficiency – representing 50% in potential operational savings over manually and interval read meters.
- Reduced O&M impacts associated with call center –representing $1 million in annual operational savings
- Recovery of lost revenue and reduced costs associated with theft investigation – representing up to $10 to $20 million in annual savings and recovery
- Remote Disconnects/Reconnects – representing up to $5 to $10 million in annual savings from not sending a technician.
- Reduced System Losses - A decrease in distribution losses by 20 percent could cut Xcel Energy's CO2 emissions by 500,000 tons annually - Transmission and Distribution losses, caused by impedances in conductors and compounded by inefficient grid operation, are currently between 4 percent and 8 percent. By reducing these losses, utilities can lower power generation outputs and thus reduce emissions. A smart grid enables calculation and minimization of line losses by redistributing power flow and balancing current to maintain optimal balance between voltage, frequency, and reactive power. A decrease in distribution losses by 20 percent could cut Xcel Energy's CO2 emissions by 500,000 tons annually. The smart grid will use the following methods to reduce system losses via:
- Remote operation of capacitor banks to reduce the current needed to provide reactive power
- Remote sensing of customer power factor at distribution transformer
- Distribution automation to provide load balancing
- Control and aggregation of distributed generation/distributed energy resources
- Asset Optimization - Xcel Energy posits the operational savings resulting from reduced capital investment in distribution and substation system infrastructure—up to $1,200,000 in annual savings. - The smart grid will provide awareness of the health, reliability, and functional constraints of the system. Data collection and communication will create a system capable of making automated decisions that will preserve and optimize asset utilization by:
- Avoiding failures by proactively replacing cables, substation equipment and distribution transformers
- Dynamically rating transformers to help defer capital investments
- Extending generation asset life that avoids capital investments for generation capacity requirements.
- Approval Process
- Xcel didn't file a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) before the project started in 2008 because they didn't think they needed to for what they deemed a research project. In its pre-filed testimony, Public Service contended that SmartGridCity does not require a CPCN because it is an investment in the distribution system. Ms. Karen Hyde testified that "SmartGridCity is a distribution project and does not include any transmission or generating capacity. Under Rule 3207, construction or expansion of the distribution system is deemed to be in the ordinary course of business and does not require a CPCN." In addition, Mr. Randy Huston testified that "to the extent the project ties to any particular portion of our system, it is distribution related…much of our SmartGridCity project consists of software, which is general plant, not generation or transmission plant.
- Without a CPCN there was no opportunity for the PUC or other interested parties to consider capping costs to protect ratepayers
- A traditional cost-benefit analysis wasn't performed prior commencing the project
- Xcel asked the PUC in 2009 to OK a rate increase to recoup some of its project costs. That's when the commission decided Xcel needed a CPCN to prove the project is prudent and in the public interest
- There was no process in place to address and redress all the commonplace issues that occur in such a project because the project is outside the normal regulatory process mainstream. Without a method to gracefully handle the issues, all the usual suspects (nay-sayers, utility "watchdogs," etc) have plenty to complain about.
- Poor Project Management - From understanding the requirements and due diligence to building an accurate business case with reliable cost/benefit analyses, the expectation setting was diametrically opposed to the actual delivery. Accurate expectation setting, quality project management and reliable cost/benefit/schedule estimations could have avoided this pain.
- Unclear Project Goals - The controllable loads weren't in place for it to be a test of demand response. A distribution automation test wouldn't require smart meters in 43% of homes. Was it just an automated meter exercise? Utilities have been quietly doing that for years. Were most of the cost overruns related to laying the fiber cable? Did they have ulterior motives for not using existing communication infrastructure? Was it a PR exercise? Was it an attempt to head off the political controversy that has exploded anyway over whether Boulder should renew Xcel's franchise? In addition to other possible goals it undoubtedly was a research project whose costs got out of hand. This highlights the importance of having clearly stated goals from the outset.
- Poor Municipal Relations - The city of Boulder has been unhappy with Exel for years and has been contemplating municipalizing their system during much of that time. The city of Boulder had no idea SmartGridCity was coming until the day before the announcement! There was no prior planning or collaboration. Maybe SmartGridCity was a bone that Exel was throwing at Boulder in an effort to dissuade further discussions about parting ways with them. In Fall 2010, Boulder voted to not renew Xcel's franchise to serve the city and it is exploring alternatives such as becoming a municipal utility
- Expensive Fiber Optics - According to Xcel, it was the cost of building the fiber optic network that serves as the backbone of SmartGridCity's communications, a task that was given to consortium partner Current Group, that was the main culprits responsible for the ballooning cost. Not only did the utility need far more underground fiber than it originally anticipated, it also faced other unexpected costs, such as using diamond-tipped drill bits to tear through granite and bringing in cranes and dump trucks to remove boulders, the utility reported in a May 2009 document. The lesson learned is don't blast through rock to run fibre optics. Let other people do that. Use existing fibre, wireless and your own power lines (broadband over power line outside, ITU G.hn / IEEE P1901 inside) to get as many bits back and forth on the last mile as you can, wholesale. Don't reserve megabits of data connection for some vague future use, lease it off immediately for a share of the revenue from ISPs, voice and TV providers who can't penetrate the last mile without your help. Set up closets for them everywhere so the average home sees many times more data, voice and TV providers than they have ever seen before - something you get credit for.
- Investment Risk - One of the questions with such a large, long-term project is: where will the money come from? SmartGridCity has an at-risk funding model. Without this model, the culture of the industry is that money can't be spent without the confidence that that money is going to produce value, and hence focus is limited to things that will work for sure. Because only exploring things that are certain to work are explored, the opportunity to give a different view of the model is bypassed.
The investment did not go through the normal regulated process which allowed the study the margin to fail. Xcel has taken the risk, along with its partners, to fund Boulder in the validation of value that will come back to the customer, ultimately, in the system.
Because the cost of Boulder was more than Xcel Energy was willing to put at risk, the company solicited partners for at-kind investment. The result of this is that the majority of the project is funded by Xcel Energy's partners: Current Group, Accenture, GridPoint, Ventyx, OSIsoft and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. The expectation is that pieces of the program will demonstrate themselves and be eligible for that recovery.
- Cost Overruns - Rumor was that the initial budget for SmartGridCity was $100M but it ended up costing them $200M. According to a February 6 story in the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper, SmartGridCity has seen capital costs balloon from an initially projected $15.3 million to a new estimate of $42.1 million, and that doesn't include operations and maintenance. "The company had to install far more underground fiber than initially projected, substantially increasing the cost ..." Xcel officials wrote in a document filed with the utilities commission last May. "We also ran into unexpected construction conditions such as having to drill through granite with diamond-tipped drill bits and remove large boulders with cranes and dump trucks ... ."
The whole affair brings into question whether smart grid services alone can justify the cost of building out a fiber optic network. While many utilities have fiber optic networks installed, they're usually limited to major transmission lines and end at big substations, rarely venturing out into neighborhood distribution grids.
- Potential for Partner Conflict - With so many companies involved, there could be a possibility for conflict. However, no one company has a full solution – so the need to bring this various expertise together is key.
- Data Privacy (See my Smart Meter Data Management and Security Blog Article)
- Interoperability - Lack of standards for smart meter technology (See my Standards for Standards Blog Article)
- Xcel Energy, Minneapolis, MN (NYSE: XEL) - A major U.S. electricity and natural gas company with regulated operations in eight Western and Midwestern states. Xcel Energy provides a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3.3 million electricity customers and 1.8 million natural gas customers through its regulated operating companies.
- Accenture , Much of the work will be done in Bangalore, India -(NYSE:ACN) – A global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company; it collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses. Accenture's role with SmartGridCity is to project manage the integration and management of data flow, including automating processes, transmission and distribution of electricity.
- To develop the smart grid, Accenture will integrate diagnostic software, intelligent distribution assets and outage management systems into Xcel Energy's existing IT infrastructure and will be building a lab-like environment for testing power outages, reliability and potential impacts to the smart grid.
- Accenture is helping define additional requirements for SmartGridCity and is specifically responsible for integrating data flows and grid system analytics that will enhance Xcel Energy's ability to deliver electricity and serve its customers.
- The patent-pending Accenture Intelligent Network Data Enterprise solution set comprises a number of assets and methods, including comprehensive reference architecture, open standards-based data transport and storage architecture assets, end user transactional analytics, and a process and blueprint for smart grid development.
- Current Group, Germantown, MD – Offers broadband internet over powerlines. John Malone's Liberty Media is a large investor in Current. Current also provides sensing, monitoring and other communications technologies over power lines. SmartGridCity will be utilizing the fully integrated CURRENT OpenGrid™ Smart Grid solution that combines advanced sensing technology, two-way high-speed communications, 24/7 monitoring and enterprise analysis software and related services to provide location-specific, real-time data about the status of the electric grid. The solution also provides consumers information and control over their energy usage and enables the widespread deployment of renewable energy sources. Current Group, has provided the infrastructure and applications to enable Xcel Energy's vision, including:
- A robust, two-way, low latency communications network that incorporates fiber optics, 3G cellular wireless, MV/LV broadband over power lines and DSL to provide connectivity throughout the distribution system to approximately 45,000 premises in Boulder, Colorado
- Intelligent voltage and current sensors located at distribution transformers that provide the edge analytics for the distribution system
- OpenGrid™, CURRENT's standards-based open software platform, manages the communications network and provides standard interfaces to utility devices and utility back office systems with a robust relational and spatial database to enable high valued analytical and control applications
- Automated Metering
- Integration with a number of Demand Response technologies
- Analytical and control applications including:
- Incipient Transformer Failure Detection
- Transient Voltage Disturbance Analysis
- Voltage Imbalance Analysis
- Transformer Overload Detection
- Remote URD Fault Indication
- Outage & Restoration Detection
- Integrated Volt/VAR Control
- Instant Meter Reading
- Daily Meter Collection
- Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Pullman, WA – SEL's work in SmartGridCity will focus on the "smart substation" effort with sensing, control, communications, analytics, and automation solutions. SEL Invented the world's first digital distance relay 25 years ago, improving how the power system provides electric power. SEL also provides solutions for Xcel Energy's Merriam Park "smart substation" project in Minneapolis, Minn. Founded in 1984, SEL introduced the world's first digital protective relay, revolutionizing the electric power industry by fault location and other features for a fraction of the cost of earlier systems.
- Ventyx, Atlanta, GA - The world's largest software provider to the utility industry, with more than 900 customers around the world. with approximately 1,200 employees in more than 20 locations worldwide. Ventyx will support SmartGridCity by providing:
- Work management solutions for deploying smart grid technologies
- MRO management for work and service requests triggered by the smart grid; and
- Planning and analytics for price and load forecasts and decision support for connecting customer actions to trading and investment decisions in real time.
- Energy analytics
- GridPoint, Arlington VA - A pioneer of an innovative smart grid platform that aligns the interests of electric utilities, consumers and the environment through an intelligent network of distributed energy resources that controls load, stores energy and produces power. GridPoint, Inc. received $15 million of VC funding in 2008 for their management of distributed storage, renewable generation, and load, bringing the firm's total funding to over $100 million.
- SmartGridCity will use Gridpoint's SmartGrid Platform™ to apply information technology to the electric grid to provide an intelligent network of distributed energy resources that controls load, stores energy and produces power. The platform enables Xcel Energy to evaluate technology and system capabilities such as advanced demand management, supply management, solar photovoltaic integration, PHEV smart charging, online energy management, instant backup power, performance monitoring and customer support.
- The platform applies information technology to the electric grid to enable distributed energy resources to perform the same as central-station generation. During peak periods, utilities efficiently balance supply and demand by discharging stored power from distributed generation assets or reducing customers' non-essential loads through demand response programs.
- For consumers, the platform provides protection from power outages, increases energy efficiency through online energy management and integrates renewable energy, paving the way for the commercial success of solar and wind energy sources.
- OSI Soft, San Leandro, CA - A privately-held company founded in 1980. Their PI System software provides the infrastructure for collection and management of time series data required to monitor and implement the SmartGridCity concept. A global base of more than 14,000 installations across energy, utilities, manufacturing, life sciences, data centers and process industries relies upon the OSIsoft PI System for similar data-collection and management functions to manage assets, mitigate risks, improve processes, drive innovation, make business decisions in real time, and identify competitive business and market opportunities.
- SmartSynch, Jackson, MS - A global leader in public wireless smart metering technology. Will provide smart metering, energy management, demand response and carbon monitoring solutions to commercial and industrial (C&I) customers for the SmartGridCity initiative. The SmartSynch solution will be deployed on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, and on municipal buildings and select commercial and industrial buildings throughout the city. The C&I solutions, provided by SmartSynch via the AT&T Wireless network, will enable Xcel Energy to partner with its commercial and industrial customers in new ways by:
- Mapping their energy usage trends to optimize consumption
- Providing demand response programs offering incentives for business owners who curtail their facility's energy use during times of peak demand
- Helping them capture tax incentives by reducing their carbon footprint
- Supporting large-scale intermittent renewable generation initiatives (e.g., solar panels)
- Facilitating real-time notifications of power outages to Xcel Energy dispatch teams to ensure on-site power quality
- Landis+Gyr - Zug, Switzerland –The largest global player in electricity metering with one of the broadest portfolios of products and services is privately held. It has a preeminent position in advanced or "smart metering systems" Over 5,000 employees, 600 full-time professionals dedicated to R&D, and operations in 30 countries across five continents.
Supplied ~15,000 smart meters, which will be installed by August 2008. In June, crews will begin installing them, at approximately 2,500 meters each week. The new smart meters provide detailed usage history and automated meter reading. The meter installation will be at no charge to the customer.
- IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge Boulder Report - June 2011 - "Current SGC infrastructure provides significant value to Boulder. The deployment of a high-bandwidth communication medium, thousands of sensors, smart transformers, and smarter meters has transformed Boulder's electrical grid. SGC allows for effective 2-way communications, sensing and monitoring performance, remote control and automation and 24-hour delay reporting. To consume and utilize the exponential increase in data that SGC produces, Xcel Energy has also had to transform its grid operations, back office infrastructure and applications.
These enhancements to the electrical grid infrastructure provide significant value, improving transmission and distribution reliability and stability. These advances can also reduce utility operating costs.
However, the SGC project has yet to provide direct, visible customer value. When the project was initiated, SGC was advertised as providing customers with significant benefits including in-home real-time information access. This is now being piloted on a limited basis. This mismatch in expectations has been a source of friction between the utility, the City and its citizens."
- Green Tech Media - Xcel Sought Millions from Start-Ups For SmartGridCity - Pay $5 million and be in the pilot, said the utility. No thanks, said prospective partners. January, 2010
- EnergyBiz Magazine - Beyond Boulder - Implications of Grid Experiment - Gargi Chakrabargy - November/December 2009
- Smart Grid City Web Site
- City of Boulder – Customer Products and Solutions (pdf) – Levels 1 through 6
- Excel - Smart Grid White Paper (pdf)
- Excel - SmartGridCity News
- Next Generation Power & Energy Magazine– SmartGridCity


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Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty Andrew Bolton, Tim Blanks, Susannah Frankel, Solve Sundsbo
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Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) was one of the most influential, imaginative and inspirational designers at the turn of the millennium. His fashions both challenged and expanded the conventional parameters of clothing beyond utility to a compelling expression of culture, politics and identity. Focusing on the most iconic and acclaimed designs of his prolific career, this stunning book examines McQueen's inimitable technical virtuosity and its subversion of traditional tailoring and dressmaking practices. This book also focuses on the highly sophisticated narrative structures found in McQueen's collections and in his astonishing and extravagant runway presentations, which suggested the most avant-garde installation and performance art.
Intended as an assessment of Alexander McQueen's entire career, this book includes in-depth studies of six collections that illustrate and encapsulate thematic chapters as well as an interview with Sarah Burton, the new creative director of Alexander McQueen who had been the designer's right-hand design aide since 1996.
A tour of the Savage Beauty exhibition with curator and author Andrew Bolton
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• Winner of the 2012 San Francisco Book Festival Photography/Art Book Award
• Winner of the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award in the Most Outstanding Design category
Andrew Bolton is Curator of The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tim Blanks is contributing editor of Style.com and Susannah Frankel is fashion editor of The Independent newspaper.
"An authoritative and moving insight into the legacy of the British designer."—Carola Long, The Financial Times
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"A stunning overview of the work of Britain's favourite designer."—Observer Magazine
"A captivating tribute to the designer's most radical and beautiful creations… I love all the detail shots which highlight the sheer intricacy of his work."—Claire Brayford, Daily Express
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"Alexander McQueen, famed for his astonishing and extravagant runaway presentations on the catwalk is revealed extensively in this remarkable book… This goldmine book available in hardcover with lenticular image is a must-have addition to your library and a way of keeping the memory and work of Alexander McQueen alive."—Bite Magazine
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