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California's focus on getting more of its power from the sun, the wind and other renewable sources is getting the attention of big construction companies.
"The market has grown dramatically for contractors, engineers, consultants," said George Hershman, a vice president for the renewable energy group of Swinerton, the state's oldest contractor.
"As we saw that projects started to grow, they started to attract firms of our size," he said last week while speaking tothe Society for Marketing Professional Services, a group of construction industry marketing specialists.
Swinerton builds about $2 billion worth of projects a year.
The company saw the coming boom and began preparing, Hershman said.
To learn how to build big solar farms, the kind that utilities are looking for to generate hundreds of megawatts, Swinerton took on installation of a 1.14 megawatt project on the Rincon Indian Reservation.
The project, completed a year ago, produces power for the tribally owned Harrah's casino. Its panels turn to follow the sun.
Figuring out how to build such an installation is key if the contractor is to go for bigger projects, Hershman said.
"How are we going to deploy 10-megawatt projects, 50 megawatt projects?" he asked.
And a key thing is not just the construction know-how, but the contracting, financing and technology.
This is not the construction project of old, where the big focus was on labor and materials.
"This industry is all technology driven," he said.
Components make up two-thirds of the cost of a project. And warranties are a much bigger issue when customers are looking for a return on their investment based on how much power a project produces, as opposed to how much rent they can charge for a building.
The growth in renewables gives companies like Swinerton an opportunity to work with longtime clients on new kinds of projects.
His firm will soon finish a solar installation for Kaiser Permanente, and is working with big landlord The Irvine Co. on power production as a way to lower operating costs on its buildings.
"There's a lot of developers in this industry that are looking to strong host clients that have long-term power needs and long-term facility holdings," he said.
Developers often enter into deals, called power-purchase agreements, where they own and operate power systems and sell the electricity to building occupants or owners.
It's hard to come up with hard and fast numbers for how many jobs will be added through these types of construction projects.
However, a study compiled last month by the San Diego Foundation estimated that investments in renewable energy projects, including solar and biofuels, had brought in $1 billion in investments to the region and future investments would result in 5,400 to 27,000 more jobs.
Those jobs will help those who work for contractors, said Micah Mitrosky, an organizer with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
"The new renewable energy economy holds a lot of promise to put local unemployed electrical workers back to work and help reduce our dependence on polluting fossil fuels," she said Monday.
"The key challenge is ensuring these new green jobs, whether it is installing solar panels, doing electric vehicle charging station installations or building a wind farm, offer the same high-quality, skilled careers as other sectors of the construction industry in San Diego and Imperial Counties," Mitrosky said
She noted how Imperial County, which has the potential for thousands of megawatts of solar, wind and geothermal projects, also has a 30 percent unemployment rate.


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Lieberman also carried out extensive research on the mechanical processes associated with barefoot running, an activity in which participants wear light thin-soled shoes or forgo shoes altogether. In a 2010 paper on his research, he reported that barefoot runners often strike the ground first with the ball of the foot or the flat of the foot. The collisional forces thus generated are much less...
Cursorial ( running) vertebrates are characterized by short, muscular upper legs and thin, elongated lower legs. This adaptation decreases the duration of the retractive–protractive cycle, thereby increasing the animal's speed. Because the leg's cycle is analogous to the swing of a pendulum, reduction of weight at the end of the leg increases its speed of oscillation. Cursorial mammals...
Mammals modified for running are termed cursorial. The stance of cursorial species may be digitigrade (the complete digits contacting the ground, as in dogs) or unguligrade (only tips of digits contacting the ground, as in horses). In advanced groups limb movement is forward and backward in a single plane.

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For such a loaded question, they sure relied heavily on the smug-white-Louisianian demographic. You'd think they'd find at least one Lebanese student or something. At least then, the editor-in-chief would have to find more creative ways to inject himself into the paper's coverage.
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For such a loaded question, they sure relied heavily on the smug-white-Louisianian demographic. You'd think they'd find at least one Lebanese student or something. At least then, the editor-in-chief would have to find more creative ways to inject himself into the paper's coverage.
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- Cajun Tiger said...
Don't get upset just b/c you are in a VERY small minority on this issue.
- Ian McGibboney said...
This isn't about what I think. It's about a school with a significantly diverse population (even in the summer semester) being represented by five identical (and not all that informed) views. When I was a journalism student, I was told to redo stories where all of the sources expressed the same view.
Anyway, if everyone's in lock-step support of this issue, then why even ask the question?
It's coverage such as this--on a higher level, of course--that leads people into thinking that everyone thinks alike. Groupthink is a force that should not be overlooked.
- Robert Taylor said...
You're absolutely right Ian. Anyone with a brain knows that it's not who controls the answers but who controls the questions that can affect people's thinkingr.
- Hillary For President said...
Ian is rite. look, it simpel, 99.9999999% of reasonable smart, patriot American's know how rong rong rong Israel is. I don't know why it so harde what find someone with the rite point off view. I meen, if you get desperate just find a Mislam (be very polite, remember to pay you're tribute) and ask. You will get turth.
- Cajun Tiger said...
Well, if they are forced to only express one view, then that is just plain wrong and I'd support your outrage. Welcome to my world having to put up with only CNN and the NY Times until we finally got other options.
Not saying those organizations forced only one view, but their groupthink assumed everyone thought as they did and thus only expressed that view.
Too true, Tiger. It's about time the Left swallows some of its own medicine.
- Ian McGibboney said...
CT, the media is supposed to be unbiased. I would respect Fox News and the Washington Times a lot more if they'd said, "The media is too leftist. Let's do it the correct way, with unbiased reporting." But they didn't. They decided to overcompensate with right-wing bias, and by catering to the editorial whims of the Republican Party. That doesn't solve the problem; it just reaffirms its existence in a self-fulfilling way.
FWIW, though, I suspect that most non-Murdoch/Moonie media outlets aren't so much left-biased as their viewers are right-biased. In other words, if the GOP does something foolish and the media reports on it, that's supposedly evidence of Democratic bias. But really, that says more about the administration and their followers than it says about the coverage. Hell, I see slams against Democrats and liberals all the time on EVERY channel, whereas Bush can do no wrong on some channels.
News coverage is supposed to be about the whole story, not grabbing for ratings and demographics and giving differing beliefs "a taste of their own medicine." How petty and vindictive is that? Grow up.
You're right; the news IS supposed to be the whole story. Sadly, though, you and your pals in the left wing mainstream media haven't been keeping up with that idealism outside of paying it lip service. Grow up? Pointing out justice is immature to you? Get used to it.
- Ian McGibboney said...
What justice? All I see is vindictiveness. Fox News, the Washington Times and their equally warped brethren exist not to fix the perceived wrongs in the media, but to do the same thing to better suit their point of view. And boy, have they raised the bar!
I'm sorry if you feel like your beloved leaders have been beaten upon by the mainstream media. Maybe it's because they deserve the same degree of grilling that they gave to Clinton and everyone before him.
- Cajun Tiger said...
Let's play a game called count the "bias". Name the number of liberals that are anchors/hosts/panelist on Fox and then name the number of conservatives that are the same on CNN and MSNBC combined. It isn't even close. You can deny it all you want, but Fox is way more balanced in giving both sides of the story than the others hands down.
The reason MSNBC hired me was b/c they recogized their groupthink was way to one sided and proceded to work on being more balanced. When I worked there I was one of less than 10-15 conservative of over 500 people. CNN's problem is they don't think they have a problem just like the rest of the MSM.
Exactly, Tiger. The ratio of left-wing bias to right-wing bias is about 1000:1, yet whiny liberals like Ian still can't stand it when someone else's point of view gets out. I guess the 1st Amendment is only supposed to apply to the Left.
- Ian McGibboney said...
Yeah, jester, I hate free speech. Good point, and well-made on this blog where I don't tolerate the flood of right-wing argument I've been getting for the past week. Chubby Checker has nothing on you when it comes to twisting things.
Just because you disagree with most mainstream media doesn't mean it has a liberal agenda. You're just so far to the right that you can't see straight. And frankly, I find it sad that either one of you thinks that Fox News and the like are good ideas because they're more friendly to the conservative point of view. News isn't supposed to be friendly to anyone; it's supposed to report. If you want to talk about editorials, that's different; but editorialism is harder and harder to set apart from legit news, and that's what misleads people.
Going back to the original point of this post: do you agree that a newspaper, representing a diverse college population, should ask a question of loaded world significance to five people of the same background, and be satisfied when the answers are identical? Would you support that if all five people had been international students telling Isreal to bug off? Or would that be wrong because it doesn't fit your bias? I'm arguing for balance and fairer coverage.
Ok, ok. I'll settle down. By the way, I'm partial to Chubby Checker, so thank you for that.
Ahem. I disagree with the mainstream media precisely BECAUSE it has a liberal agenda. Secondly, just because Foxnews features conservative commentators in their op/ed section doesn't mean they're right-wing. The fact of the matter is that they, like all other big news agencies, get their info feeds directly from the left-wing AP group.
And NO, I don't think it's right to run loaded polls on a college population or on any other. HOWEVER, your leftist media has been doing so for years without a peep from you or any other liberal. Two wrongs don't make a right, but enough is enough.
Right-wing bias is the only defense conservatives have against the daily overwhelming onslaught of the leftist B.S. we're force-fed every day by the MSM. At least we admit our bias instead of hiding behind a facade of "balance".
- Ian McGibboney said...
Jester, I've worked in the so-called "mainstream media," for a variety of newspaper in different markets over several years. I assure you, the only agenda newspapers have is a corporate one. Six corporations own almost all of the national media, and virtually all newspapers are owned by large chains. Not offending the advertisers is the number-one priority (which I know from firsthand experience). What about any of that screams, "liberal agenda"? And no, citing articles that rightfully criticize Republicans does not count.
Loaded polls deserve no space in a paper, period. Just because you disagree with polls in the past doesn't mean that flawed research YOU like should be printed as compensation.
I take it from the rest of your comment that you concede that Fox News, et al. are right-leaning outfits. If that is the case, then tell me exactly how they are working to equalize bias in the media. And why I shouldn't condemn that bias any more than you condemn the "bias" of the mainstream media.
Wow. That's not exactly what I would call a representative choice or a relevant question. This so-called journalist sure has got a sense of debate that I don't understand. Unfortunately, I cannot really pretend that medias here (in France) are doing much better -they would just probably interview a Lebanese student, a pacifist Muslim, and a guy from the French and Jewish Union For Peace.


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Up to 25 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are caused by deforestation, and Indonesia is the third largest emitter worldwide due to land use change and deforestation. On the island of Sulawesi in the vicinity of the Lore Lindu National Park, smallholders contribute to conversion processes at the forest margin as a result of their agricultural practices. Specifically the area dedicated to cocoa plantations has increased from zero in 1979 to nearly 18,000 hectares in 2001. Some of these plots have been established inside the 220,000 hectares of the National Park. An intensification process is observed with a consequent reduction of the shade tree density. This study focuses on the impact of carbon sequestration payments for forest management systems on smallholder households. The level of incentives is determined which motivates farmers to desist from further deforestation and land use intensification activities. Household behaviour and resource allocation is analysed with a comparative static linear programming model. As these models prove to be a reliable tool for policy analysis, the output can indicate the adjustments in resource allocation and land use shifts when introducing compensation payments. The data was collected in a household survey in six villages around the Lore Lindu National Park. Four household categories were identified according to their dominant agroforestry systems. With carbon credit prices up to €32 tCO2e-1 an incentive can be provided for the majority of the households to adopt the more sustainable shade intensive agroforestry systems. The results show that with current carbon prices the deforestation activities of the majority of households could be stopped. A win-win situation seems to appear, whereby, when targeting only the shade intensive agroforestry systems with carbon payments, the poorest households economically benefit the most, the vicious circle of deforestation can be interrupted and land use systems with high environmental benefits are promoted.
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#1 Thanksgiving jihad? Butterball sells sharia friendly halal turkeys11-23-2011, 12:45 AMMichael Stone
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Thanksgiving is turkey time, yet many Americans are unaware that the turkey on the menu may be halal, meaning it is slaughtered according to the dictates of sharia, the religious law of Islam.
On Monday, reports began circulating around the web that one of Americas largest producers of thanksgiving turkeys, Butterball, slaughters turkeys according to the dictates of sharia law. And apparently Butterball has confirmed the rumor: all Butterball whole turkeys sold in the U.S. are slaughtered in accord with sharia, Islamic religious law.
Halal is a term designating any object or an action which is permissible to use or engage in, according to Islamic law. The term is used to designate food seen as permissible according to Islamic law.
Halal slaughter is considered by many to be a barbaric and inhumane practice. Others object to the religious aspect - the offering of prayers to Allah as the animal is slaughtered.
The halal sanctioned method of slaughtering animals consists of using a well sharpened knife to make a swift, deep incision that cuts the front of the throat, the carotid artery, wind pipe and jugular veins but leaves the spinal cord intact, and the animal suffering. In addition, a prayer is said over tha animal as it suffers an agonizing death: "Bismillah allahu akbar" -- in the name of Allah the greatest.
Some concerned citizens are now boycotting Butterball turkeys - some because of the connection with Islam and sharia - others because of the brutal and inhumane method of slaughter.
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Well I won't be buying Butterball if this is true. Why let the those animals suffer in such a manner?
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My local grocery store has a large Kosher section. This type of thing isn't something to get mad about, who cares?
I can still get everything I want at the grocery store, so what's the problem?Originally Posted by Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations
Jew-haters post almost exactly the same kind of stuff about kosher slaughtering, personally I don't give a rat's ass about either one, as long as the meat isn't screwed up. They can chase the fuckers down with chainsaws, as long as they aim well and don't mess up the white meat.
I kinda like the bacon-wrapping ideas, for reasons totally unrelated to tolerating Islam.
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There are two aspects to kosher/halal procedure: one is the mechanics of the kill and the other is the prayers required at the time of the kill. For some, the method of killing (for both kosher and halal procedures) seems more barbaric and hurtful to the animal than more modern methods, but that is not the only issue in this thread. A real sticking point is the prayer over the dying animal. In order to be halal, the name of God (Allah) must be pronounced over every dying animal.
If you are a true Christian who believes in the power of prayer and the energetic force of properly performed ritual, then having a food item where that power has been applied by a rival religion with a rival god is a spiritual wrong, especially when that god has been invoked against you and your country in deadly attacks.
If you're an atheist or agnostic, Butterball could pray over the turkey to any entity and it would be meaningless, since you would believe that no entity was around to hear the prayer and receive the energy of the ritual.
Kosher food is acceptable to many Christians because it is the same God (Yahweh) to whom the prayers and ritual would be offered. Halal food is not because Yahweh is not identified with Allah.
The woman who wrote the original article, Pamela Geller, is Jewish and her reasons may be the same as that of Christians, although one might also see her having antipathy towards Islamic nations that dispute Israel's right to exist. I am not sure where she is coming from; just offering that as a possibility.
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Funcom has updated the official Anarchy Online site with a preview of the 17.7 content update.
The Dust Brigade Threat
High Level players will be tasked with investigating how the Dust Brigade seem to have acquired ancient Xan technology. Increased activity by this militant group is concerning the leadership on both sides of the factional divide. Why are they seemingly intent on digging up ancient sites across Rubi-ka? What exactly might they be up to?
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Watch Whoopi Goldberg give Fox host serious side-eye for claiming fair coverage of racism
Fox News host Jedediah Bila stunned The View host Whoopi Goldberg on Thursday by claiming that the conservative network fairly covered the issue of racism.
After D.L. Hughley told Fox News host Megyn Kelly that her network behaved as if racism did not exist on Wednesday night, Goldberg brought up the topic on Thursday's episode of The View.
Bila, who co-hosts The View and Fox's Outnumbered, argued that Hughley's remarks were unfair to the network.
"I've hosted a bunch of shows there, we talk about issues of race all the time," she insisted. "I mean, I'm on with Juan Williams all the time. These are serious issues that we delve into. So, it felt like he was labeling the whole network as not willing to accept that racism is something that exists in this country."
Bila suggested that Fox News personalities were hesitant to ascribe racial motives to incidents out of a journalistic responsibility not to "shape the narrative."
"When you have stories coming out where you have white on black crime, before we figure out what actually happened, a lot of people in media jump to conclusions or we surmise or we guess," she explained. "And it shapes the narrative of how the public hears that. And it's really hard then when facts emerge to go back and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, maybe in this particular case, this wasn't about racism.'"
"Are you saying Fox does that on a regular basis?" Goldberg stuttered, momentarily at a loss for words.
"That's why everybody wants cameras on everything," she said after taking a breath. "So when you see something as horrendous as what we saw on Monday [when police killed Philando Castile] play out… where the officer has shot her boyfriend, it's kind of hard not to see what that was."
"Maybe the cop was nervous but what you see is what you see," Goldberg remarked. "And when you look at Eric Garner, what you see is what you see. And what shapes the narrative oftentimes is a disregard for the fact that we do have a racial issue, we do have an issue between how police are sometimes and how people of color are sometimes, and that's the discussion we don't have."
Even conservative co-host Candace Cameron-Bure agreed that Hughley had a point.
"I watch Fox News, I'm a Fox News supporter," Cameron-Bure declared. "But I agree with you. I don't feel like they are inclusive of all minority groups as much as they should be. Because conservatives aren't just white rich men or women."
"And Fox I don't feel always represents that point of view," she observed. "I thought Megyn Kelly was great but I really appreciated everything that D.L. said as well."
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From Proteopedia
Tetragonal thermolysin in the presence of sarcosine
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[THER_BACTH] Extracellular zinc metalloprotease.
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Both crystallization and cryoprotection are often bottlenecks for high-resolution X-ray structure determination of macromolecules. Methylamine osmolytes are known stabilizers of protein structure. One such osmolyte, trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), has seen occasional use as an additive to improve macromolecular crystal quality and has recently been shown to be an effective cryoprotective agent for low-temperature data collection. Here, TMAO and the related osmolytes sarcosine and betaine are investigated as primary precipitating agents for protein crystal growth. Crystallization experiments were undertaken with 14 proteins. Using TMAO, seven proteins crystallized in a total of 13 crystal forms, including a new tetragonal crystal form of trypsin. The crystals diffracted well, and eight of the 13 crystal forms could be effectively cryocooled as grown with TMAO as an in situ cryoprotective agent. Sarcosine and betaine produced crystals of four and two of the 14 proteins, respectively. In addition to TMAO, sarcosine and betaine were effective post-crystallization cryoprotective agents for two different crystal forms of thermolysin. Precipitation reactions of TMAO with several transition-metal ions (Fe(3+), Co(2+), Cu(2+) and Zn(2+)) did not occur with sarcosine or betaine and were inhibited for TMAO at lower pH. Structures of proteins from TMAO-grown crystals and from crystals soaked in TMAO, sarcosine or betaine were determined, showing osmolyte binding in five of the 12 crystals tested. When an osmolyte was shown to bind, it did so near the protein surface, interacting with water molecules, side chains and backbone atoms, often at crystal contacts.
The use of trimethylamine N-oxide as a primary precipitating agent and related methylamine osmolytes as cryoprotective agents for macromolecular crystallography.,Marshall H, Venkat M, Hti Lar Seng NS, Cahn J, Juers DH Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2012 Jan;68(Pt 1):69-81. Epub 2011, Dec 9. PMID:22194335[1]
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A NORTH-EAST security boss masqueraded as a fugitive from the Congo so he could get refugee status in the UK, a court was told.
But Casmir Ekwuhga, 43, said the man pictured in the false documents was not him.
Mr Ekwuhga, was arrested in his home at Hope Gardens, Stockton, last December.
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Nigeria born Mr Ekwugha is believed to have come to the UK in 2000 on a temporary visa. He joined Armour Security in Woolwich, London, a company run by self-styled Nigerian Prince Yilkyse Bala, of Beckenham, Kent, and his wife Faith. Mr Bala, 53, also faces the first two charges and his wife the second. All charges are denied.
Mr Ekwuhga,who runs the Stockton based firm Lion Security, started as a guard with Mr Bala's company and rose through the ranks, ending up as a controller responsible for 170 employees guarding major sites around London.
Simon Farrell, QC, prosecuting at Canterbury Crown Court, said a corrupt Home Office official fed Armour Securities refugee passports.
Mr Ekwuhga surfaced as Casmir Naguenga from the Congo.
Mr Farrell said :"He says it is not him but he has the same first name, the same telephone number and the same sponsor and both men worked for Armour Security.
"He's trusted. He is one of the inner circle. He's directing security guards.They even used the same email address.You can see it's the same man. It's inconceivable that they could be separate identities."
He added: "Not only were people working illegally for Armour Security but they changed their identities while working there.
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Tweets are as close as your PC or mobile phone. Unless they're 25 million light years away.
In one of the coolest, literally out of this world uses of technology, a UC Berkeley astronomer was able to track a supernova -- a stellar explosion- because he got word of it from a tweet.
As Alex Filippenko, lead astronomer for the UC Berkeley team says about the lucky scientific break, "This is the first time we've been alerted via a tweet." Love it.
As it turns out, timing is crucial for spotting celestial activity, and the big-time astronomers were alerted by an amateur. Amedee Riou was the first spotter. The initial images started to circulate online, Twitter sped things up, and then things got into the scopes of the pros.
The ability to see an exploding supernova, we're told, is an extremely rare event. Thanks to a high tech boost here on the ground, we now know a little more about what's going on up in space.


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The Minnesota Orchestra today announced a $40 million facelift and expansion for Orchestra Hall. Orchestra leaders say the project will improve every aspect of a visitors experience.
Orchestra Hall is a Minneapolis modernist landmark. It has a reputation in the classical music world for having some of the best acoustics in the business.
But orchestra managers say the building needs a makeover for a couple of reasons. First of all, it's 35 years old and modern materials and building techniques could make it better.
Second of all, the original designers appropriately put most of their resources into the hall itself and skimped on the lobby. Orchestra President and CEO Michael Henson said it has only about a third of the capacity of the hall itself. He said visitors often have to wade through crowds and stand in long lines.
"On a very pragmatic level we need to expand the physical size of the lobby," he said. "On a grander, more imaginative scale, we wish also to expand our audiences experience with us, and have opportunities for gathering before and after concerts [and] opportunities to engage with the orchestra's history, learn about music, and connect with a vibrant downtown community outside."
Henson said the way people are using lobbies and box offices are changing, and the orchestra will develop a flexible space which can keep adapting.
Inside the hall the renovation will refurbish and modernize the fixtures. It will also work on the touchy issue of on-stage acoustics. While audiences rave about Orchestra Hall's sound, some musicians complain it's hard to hear each other on stage. Henson said the work will be done carefully, with the audience foremost in mind.
"As part of our renovation we will work with professional acousticians to ensure we absolutely preserve this exceptional attribute of the hall," Henson said.
The renovation will also modernize backstage facilities.
The project is half the cost of the renovation the Orchestra originally proposed a couple of years ago, before the economic downturn. Orchestra management describe it as a being a right-sized project for the times.
The Orchestra has chosen Toronto-based KPMB Architects for the design. The firm specializes in renovations of existing performance venues. One of their major projects was updating Chicago's Goodman Theater.
Marianne McKenna, a KPMB partner said people will notice a change in the exterior of Orchestra Hall. Gone will be the plastic film images currently on the exterior. This will allow people to see out and see in.
New techniques will allow for a larger panes of glass.
McKenna said they will also be talking with the City of Minneapolis about including the adjoining Peavey Plaza in the project. It is also a downtown landmark, with its tiered concrete structure and fountains. But McKenna said it too would benefit from being updated.
"It was built in a time when it was very popular to drop the level down below sidewalk level," McKenna said. "We are in a time when actually you elevate people where you lift them up and make them part of that public realm, part of that streetscape which is where things are exciting."
McKenna said even if there are no changes in Peavey Plaza the Orchestra Hall redesign will encourage interaction between the hall and the park.
She said preliminary designs should be available in December, with construction probably beginning in early 2011, and completed in 2012. There will likely be some disruption of schedules, but orchestra managers say they will follow the model used by the Walker Art center during its expansion, and make use of outside venues.
The Orchestra also announced it has raised $14 million of the $40 million cost of the project. It will ask the state to provide a further $14 million through bonding next year, then make up the rest of the cost through public donations.
DFL Sen. Richard Cohen of St. Paul chairs the Senate Finance Committee. He said the earlier renovation proposal won legislative support, although it was vetoed by Gov. Pawlenty.
Cohen said if the city of Minneapolis gets behind the new proposal he thinks there is a good chance it will get legislative support.
"And there is certainly a lot of lead time to work with the governor and get his support as well," Cohen said.
The bonding request for the Orchestra Hall renovation will go to the legislature during the next session.


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I have all 3 of these cards. Can I clone the SD in my wii and then use the other 2 cards to put the homebrew channel on my friends wii and then put the cloned card in the SD slot for a quick and easy set-up?
I guess what it all comes down to is this. Are the files and folders on the SD card that must be left in the Wii installed on the Wii hardware, or are they installed on the card?
I am a long time gamer and computer geek, but a total Noob to wii mods. Any help greatly appreciated.
Yes you can do this. Once you are done softmodding and you guys are running the same programs like wiiflow you can swap the SD cards.


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The Birth of a New, Still Faceless, Middle East
No, it was not like the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall fell because of a process of inner maturation, not an external invasion. The Berlin Wall fell in the wake of a quiet civic revolution, and not a smoky, violent war. October 1989 opened the way for a rapid process full of hope for the integration of Eastern Europe into the West; while April 2003 opens the way for an unclear Middle East process, ripe with evident dangers.
Nonetheless, the comparison between the toppling of Saddam's statue in Baghdad on Wednesday afternoon and the fall of the Soviet monuments of 13 years ago is not entirely superficial. Both cases constitute historic moments. Both events are the noisy collapse of a tyranny, seemingly incomprehensible moments of mass liberation.
This is not only about Iraq, of course. It's not only about Saddam and his regime. It's about the entire region. This time it's for real, and not a fiction: What was born this week in Baghdad was a new Middle East.
Nobody yet knows what it will look like; nobody yet knows what demons could erupt from within it; but one thing is clear: It won't be what it has been for the last 50 years. It won't be a region ruled by a series of petrified and corrupt tyrannies. What had existed here for the last 50 years won't be here anymore.
The chill of anxiety crept down the spine of every Arab dictator this week; and it was a justified chill. The persons who conceived and planned and executed the war for Iraqi freedom - a pretentious term that suddenly doesn't sound so ridiculous - are very serious Americans. They are merciless, ruthless and unsentimental. They are convinced that their life's mission is to save the West, and they do not mean to fail in their efforts.
Damascus is in line; so is Riyadh, perhaps even Cairo; and the turn of the Yesha Council is sure to come too. The entire Middle East is now on the Americans' operating table. The entire Middle East is now going to feel the surgical scalpel of Washington's neo-conservatives.
Everything is still wide open and the possibility of Iraq descending into chaos and anarchy still exists. The Anglo-American occupation could yet turn sour and go wrong. However, after the fall of Baghdad, all one can do is tip one's cap to the gang of denigrated cowboys sitting in the White House and Pentagon. One must pay homage to the small band of determined people that toppled the Soviet empire of evil in the 1980s and is now grappling with the current axis of evil; and one must hold in high regard the American simplicity and its tendency to see everything in black and white, as good or bad and not to hesitate wrestling with evil and declaring war on it.
Now, everything depends on the Arab societies; everything rests on the Arab public - the Arab demos, liberated during the last few weeks in Iraq by the U.S. Marines. The Marines granted the Arab world an opportunity they have never before been given.
Thus, what began this week puts not only 24 million Iraqis to the test, but 250 million other Arabs too. Will they manage to form free societies? Will they manage to run their lives in a democratic and rational manner?
For the sake of the Iraqis, the Arabs and also the Israelis, one must hope they will pass this test. It should be hoped that the moment of the collapse of the Saddam monument in Baghdad this week was also the moment of the birth of a new regional order and not the creation of unprecedented disorder.
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Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khwaja Salman Rafique on Saturday directed district authorities on Saturday to complete forecasting annual procurement requirements to ensure the availability of all essential medicines across health facilities.
Rafique gave out the directive while chairing a monthly meeting of EDOs at the Health Services Directorate General. Taking notice of reporting issues regarding e-vaccinations, he directed officials to ensure strict compliance. Rafique also directed the EDOs to initiate disciplinary proceedings in case of further negligence. He also instructed the officials to devote special attention to cleanliness standards across hospitals and unexplained absences.
Officials affiliated with the Chief Minister's Health Reforms Roadmap presented a data analysis of key performance indicators on the occasion. Primary and Secondary Healthcare Secretary Ali Jan Khan said the department may look into devolving power to facilitate greater accountability and improve performance across the division-level.
Health Services DG Mukhtar Hussain Syed directed the EDOs to complete and present lists of paramedics and allied staff for rationalisation of promotions in accordance with procedures. He said his office had formulated a disease calendar to forecast and prepare beforehand in case of any untoward situation. He asked the officials to plan their operations on a monthly basis. Syed also instructed them to share data regarding general practitioners to facilitate regular sharing on alerts with them.
Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) Director Munir Ahmed directed the Lahore, Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Rahim Yar Khan, Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur, Rawalpindi and Bahawalpur to finalise preparations with regard to the Sub-National Immunisation Day set to commence on February 15. Officials posted in districts showing marked discrepancies between the first dose (BCG) and measles-1 were instructed to improve performance standards there. Ahmed said the nation was at the cusp of getting rid of maternal and neonatal tetanus. He said international experts were slated to look into this in April.
Ahmed said there was a dire need of improving measles reporting. He said steps should be taken across districts with large numbers of high-risk gypsies to improve their registration.
Officials associated with the Dengue Control Programme presented a data analysis from various cities. They said attention had to be focused on areas where dengue was repeatedly reported. The officials said medics trained to treat dengue should be specially employed for the dengue unit.
The state of swine flu across the province was also reviewed on the occasion. The health secretary told officials that an adequate amount of Tamiflu tablets was available. He directed the EDOs to ensure that all those employed across health facilities were vaccinated against H1N1.
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to Mrs. Jones, with the promise of
$25 more per month- for the duration
of the children's dependency.
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every child's education, owe an "even
greater duty to the child -in supply
ing life necessities?" he asked.
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would do this. But in many states
the mothers' pension laws provide
only for widowed mothers and not
for deserted or divorced mothers. Un
til the mothers' pension system is
improved to include the latter, Amer
ica will see many a repetition of just
such tragic cases as this!"
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text: What a remarkable pitcher. Clemens is now 19-1 (which hasn't been done since 1912) and is a mind-boggling 29-3 since coming off the DL last June. He should get his sixth Cy Young award this year, and I think he stands a chance of becoming the first player unanimously voted to the Hall of Fame. (And Randy Johnson could be the second.) Having said that, I hope Seattle torches Clemens in the playoffs. ------------------ Home Theater Pictures


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"Tamales" street seller in the central place of small city of Pisco (Peru).
The seller is screaming "tamales" to sell them to the walker passing by. (Tamales is a king of corn-cake in a corn leave).
Road circulation, cars and horn in background.
Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41&CCM8;
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MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
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MIAMI – The Mets will return home battered, bruised, bleeding, and unbowed, although you wonder if the people who will fill Shea Stadium across the next seven days and nights can even tolerate solid food now after what their eyes and their stomachs have endured across the last seven.
In a week of bizarre, surreal, and altogether peculiar baseball, a week in which they started to share paragraphs and sentences with the 1964 Phillies, the Mets somehow found a way to escape Dolphins Stadium with a 7-6 victory over the Marlins, with a magic number reduced to five, with a loss-column lead in the NL East bulked up to three.
"Obviously, the baseball gods are making us pay a little bit," Willie Randolph said when the game was over, almost four full hours after it began. "I told you guys all along it's not going to be easy. We're going to have to earn it, and that's what we're doing."
In their final road game of the regular season, the Mets beat the Marlins because most of their stars played like stars, and because the ones who didn't were picked up by the unlikeliest rescue squad possible.
Carlos Delgado, who earlier in the weekend suggested the Mets might have spent much of the season playing "bored" baseball, hit a majestic three-run home run. Moises Alou, looking like the smartest offseason addition of Omar Minaya's life, had two more hits, broke the Mets' team hitting streak record, and gunned out a runner at home plate. David Wright drove in the winning run; Jose Reyes scored it.
Scrappy teams are nice. Star-studded teams are better. It's taken a while for the Mets to embrace this, to put a product on the field as strong as the one on paper. Yet even when Billy Wagner faltered on his return from back spasms, Dan Uggla hitting a ninth-inning, game-tying home run that landed in Pensacola, he was backed up by – are you ready for this? – Aaron Sele and Scott Schoeneweis.
"It's that time of the year and a win is a win," Randolph said. "This game was a whole smorgasbord of things like that. But the bottom line is we got that W."
So the Mets ended the road trip 4-3, when it seemed they might well end it in pennant-race purgatory. They staved off a grim greeting from their fans tonight at Shea, and you know how nervous an asylum that would've been if this had ended differently.
And yet … it's impossible not to wonder how many more of these games the Mets can absorb before they simply suffer a bad case of spontaneous combustion, before they simply disappear before our eyes and fade off into the dust.
The Mets were life and death with a Florida Marlins team that only seems partially interested in playing out its schedule. They were life and death with them after holding a 6-3 lead in the eighth inning, with the score from Washington, D.C. – Nationals 5, Phillies 3 – already posted.
They were life and death because Aaron Heilman was terrible in the eighth inning one day after he was asked to pitch the ninth inning of a blowout. They were life and death because Wagner couldn't keep Uggla in the ballpark.
And they were life and death because for the fourth time on this seven-game road trip they tried their level best to give away a game they led handily against teams with nothing – zero – to play for, in front of an empathetic crowd in an empty building.
The fact that they survived is a testament to how bad the Marlins are, and how much talent the Mets have. And even in their winning rally, the Mets tried mightily to sabotage themselves, scoring only once despite having a second man on third with a run already in and nobody out.
That they were rescued by two of the most maligned members of their roster – Sele and Schoeneweis have spent most of the year adjoining Guillermo Mota on the Unholy Trinity for Mets fans – is just a reminder of the vagaries of the sport, even now. Saturday, Willie Randolph had said, "every win at this time of the year feels like three."
In the 11th, it seemed every out felt like six.
"We knocked another day off the schedule," Willie Randolph said. Soon enough, that won't be enough. For one day, it was.


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We maintain an investment portfolio of various holdings, types, and maturities. See Note 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. As of July 26, 2008, these securities are classified as available-for-sale and consequently are recorded in the Consolidated Balance Sheets at fair value with unrealized gains or losses, to the extent unhedged, reported as a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive income, net of tax.
We consider various factors in determining whether we should recognize an impairment charge for our fixed income securities and equity securities, including the length of time and extent to which the fair value has been less than our cost basis, the financial condition and near-term prospects of the investee, and our intent and ability to hold the investment for a period of time sufficient to allow for any anticipated recovery in market value.
Fixed Income Securities
At any time, a sharp rise in interest rates or credit spreads could have a material adverse impact on the fair value of our fixed income investment portfolio. Conversely, declines in interest rates, including the impact from lower credit spreads, could have a material adverse impact on interest income from our investment portfolio. Our fixed income instruments are not leveraged as of July 26, 2008 and are held for purposes other than trading. We monitor our interest rate and credit risks, including our credit exposures to specific rating categories and to individual issuers. There were no impairment charges on our investments in fixed income securities in fiscal 2008, 2007, or 2006.
The following tables present the hypothetical fair values of fixed income securities, including the effects of the interest rate swaps discussed further under "Interest Rate Derivatives" below, as a result of selected potential market decreases and increases in interest rates. Market changes reflect immediate hypothetical parallel shifts in the yield curve of plus or minus 50 basis points ("BPS"), 100 BPS, and 150 BPS. The hypothetical fair values as of July 26, 2008 and July 28, 2007 are as follows (in millions):
Publicly Traded Equity Securities
The values of our equity investments in several publicly traded companies are subject to market price volatility. The following tables present the hypothetical fair values of publicly traded equity securities as a result of selected potential decreases and increases in the price of each equity security in the portfolio, excluding hedged equity securities. Potential fluctuations in the price of each equity security in the portfolio of plus or minus 10%, 20%, and 30% were selected based on potential near-term changes in those security prices. The hypothetical fair values as of July 26, 2008 and July 28, 2007 are as follows (in millions):
Our equity portfolio consists of securities with characteristics that most closely match the Standard & Poor's 500 Index or NASDAQ Composite Index. These equity securities are held for purposes other than trading. There were no impairment charges on publicly traded equity securities in fiscal 2008, 2007, or 2006.
Investments in Privately Held Companies
We have invested in privately held companies, some of which are in the startup or development stages. These investments are inherently risky because the markets for the technologies or products these companies are developing are typically in the early stages and may never materialize. We could lose our entire investment in these companies. These investments are primarily carried at cost, which as of July 26, 2008 was $706 million, compared with $643 million at July 28, 2007, and are recorded in other assets. Our impairment charges on investments in privately held companies were not material during fiscal 2008, 2007, or 2006.
Our evaluation of investments in private companies is based on the fundamentals of the businesses, including, among other factors, the nature of their technologies and potential for financial return.
Long-Term Debt
During fiscal 2008, we terminated $6.0 billion of interest rate swaps that we had entered into in connection with the issuance of our 2011 Notes and 2016 Notes. Prior to their termination, these swaps had the effect of converting the fixed-rate interest expense on our long-term debt to floating-rate interest expense based on LIBOR. Following the termination of the interest rate swaps, the fair value of the long-term debt effectively became subject to market interest rate volatility. As of July 26, 2008, we had $6.0 billion in principal amount of fixed-rate long-term debt outstanding, with a carrying amount of $6.4 billion and a fair value of $6.1 billion, which fair value is based on market prices. A hypothetical 50 BPS increase or decrease in interest rates would decrease or increase, respectively, the fair value of the fixed-rate debt as of July 26, 2008 by approximately $120 million. However, this hypothetical change in interest rates would not impact the interest expense on the fixed-rate debt. A sharp change in rates would not have a material impact on the fair value of our $500 million variable-rate debt.
Derivative Instruments
Foreign Currency Derivatives
Our foreign exchange forward and option contracts are summarized as follows (in millions):
We conduct business globally in numerous currencies. The direct effect of foreign currency fluctuations on sales has not been material because our sales are primarily denominated in U.S. dollars. Foreign currency fluctuations, net of hedging, increased total research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses by approximately 2.5% in fiscal 2008 compared with fiscal 2007. Approximately 70% of our operating expenses are U.S.-dollar denominated. To reduce variability in operating expenses caused by non-U.S.-dollar denominated operating expenses, we hedge certain foreign currency forecasted transactions with currency options and forward contracts. These hedging programs are not designed to provide foreign currency protection over long time horizons. In designing a specific hedging approach, we consider several factors, including offsetting exposures, significance of exposures, costs associated with entering into a particular hedge instrument, and potential effectiveness of the hedge. The gains and losses on foreign exchange contracts mitigate the effect on our operating expenses of currency movements.
We also enter into foreign exchange forward contracts to reduce the short-term effects of foreign currency fluctuations on receivables, investments, and payables, primarily denominated in Australian, Canadian, Japanese, and several European currencies, including the euro and British pound. Our market risks associated with our foreign currency receivables, investments, and payables relate primarily to variances from our forecasted foreign currency transactions and balances. Our forward and option contracts generally have the following maturities:
We do not enter into foreign exchange forward or option contracts for trading purposes.
Interest Rate Derivatives
Our interest rate derivatives are summarized as follows (in millions):
Our primary objective for holding fixed income securities is to achieve an appropriate investment return consistent with preserving principal and managing risk. To realize these objectives, we may utilize interest rate swaps or other derivatives designated as fair value or cash flow hedges.
Interest Rate Swaps, Investments
We have entered into $1.0 billion of interest rate swaps designated as fair value hedges of our investment portfolio. Under these interest rate swap contracts, we make fixed-rate interest payments and receive interest payments based on LIBOR. The effect of these swaps is to convert fixed-rate returns to floating-rate returns based on LIBOR for a portion of our fixed income portfolio. The gains and losses related to changes in the value of the interest rate swaps are included in other income (loss), net, and offset the changes in fair value of the underlying hedged investment. The fair values of the interest rate swaps designated as hedges of our investments are reflected in prepaid expenses and other current assets or other current liabilities.
Interest Rate Swaps, Long-Term Debt
In conjunction with our issuance of fixed-rate senior notes in February 2006, we entered into $6.0 billion of interest rate swaps designated as fair value hedges of the fixed-rate debt. The effect of these swaps was to convert fixed-rate interest expense to floating-rate interest expense based on LIBOR. During the third quarter of fiscal 2008, we terminated these interest rate swaps and received proceeds of $432 million, net of accrued interest, which was recorded as a hedge accounting adjustment to the carrying amount of the fixed-rate debt and is being amortized as a reduction of interest expense over the remaining terms of the fixed-rate notes. While such interest rate swaps were in effect, their fair values were reflected in other assets or other long-term liabilities, and prior to their termination, the gains and losses related to changes in the value of such interest rate swaps were included in other income (loss), net, and offset the changes in fair value of the underlying debt.
Equity Derivatives
Our equity derivatives are summarized as follows (in millions):
We maintain a portfolio of publicly traded equity securities that are subject to price risk. We may hold equity securities for strategic purposes or to diversify our overall investment portfolio. To manage our exposure to changes in the fair value of certain equity securities, we may enter into equity derivatives, including forward sale and option agreements. As of July 26, 2008, we have entered into forward sale agreements on certain publicly traded equity securities designated as fair value hedges. The gains and losses due to changes in the value of the hedging instruments are included in other income (loss), net, and offset the change in the fair value of the underlying hedged investment. The fair values of the equity derivatives are reflected in prepaid expenses and other current assets and other current liabilities.


text: Matt Walsh joined CP+B at the end of 2005 to introduce the fields of interaction and experience design to the agency. Five years later, the department now includes 25 designers and focuses on conceptualizing and designing out integrated digital initiatives and ecosystems across a variety of platforms: including the web, mobile, tablet, networked gaming systems, interactive digital signage, retail environments, and beyond. Prior to joining CP+B, Matt designed digital experiences for R/GA, including NikeID.com, NikeGridiron.com and NikeRunning.com. During his career, his work has been recognized by all the major award shows, including Cannes, the Clios, LIAA, and the One Show.


text: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:30, Tejun Heo <tj kernel org> wrote: > Does your kernel have preemption enabled? CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set > If not, does the following patch fix the problem? Yep, looks good so far (at least in my virtualized test environment): 2.6.39-rc4 with your patch applied survived 100 suspend/resume cycles w/o locking up. Just out of curiosity: Was this a new issue in 2.6.39-rc4 ord could this fix be backported to 2.6.38? Thanks, Thilo


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Radio AAC activate?
what Audials version do you have installed ? .... demo ? standard ? special ?
look under Audials > Options > General > Product activation to see what version you have installed
this is important because in the demo, standard, special there are some features that are not activated ... there are available only in the full versionHope it helps
I got the same message for a particular radio station and am wondering if it's also why that station only plays for 18 seconds and then stops, every time. It's the same piece of music that plays every time too.
I have Radiotracker Platinum.
I had a few attempts before I could get the error message to appear again, but I finally got it to appear and was able to check the 'enable permanent...' box and it has now solved the problems I was having in general
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Read all about it – pupils in Oak Class at Mendlesham Primary School have been trying their hands at newspaper reporting.
On the back of a project about World War Two, the enthusiasic youngsters from Years 3 and 4 donned their reporting hats to write stories about evacuees in wartime Britain.
Pupils took part in role- playing interviews with those escaping the blitz before writing articles on their experiences.
Class teacher Tom Singleton said the chldren enjoyed taking on the role of reporter.He said: "We created a front page with the name of their newspaper, headlines, pictures and their reports.
"They really got into it."