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Are you detail-oriented? Would you like a career where you create precise technical drawings using advanced science and technology? Perhaps you would be interested in a career in drafting. Drafters create technical drawings that communicate specifications for disciplines such as engineering, plumbing, and architecture. Most drafters use software like CADD, Computer Aided Draft Design. In order to become a drafter, you'll need an education from a one of the best drafting schools, and this essay will give you a road map of how to find the best drafting schools. To begin with, you'll need to know which field you want to enter, what kind of skills and education prospective employers are looking for, and what the schools themselves are going to be like.
Start out by making a long list of all the drafting schools in your area. You'll find mostly technical schools and community colleges on the list. Now, you'll want to narrow the list down. The first thing you need to think about is what kind of drafting would you like to do. Think about your interests. If you enjoy watching episodes of Wings, maybe you'll want a career in aeronautical drafting. If you are fascinated by the construction of bridges and roads, perhaps you'll want to be a civil drafter. Once you have decided which field of drafting you would like to enter, narrow the list down to the schools that carry courses and certifications in your specialty.
To further shorten your list, look for engineering firms or departments that specialize in your chosen field, and find out which schools they prefer to recruit from. You want to go to a drafting school that's going to take you to your next job, so its a good idea to start scouting in that general direction. Also, this will be a good way of networking with potential employers for the first time. The 2008-2009 Occupational Outlook Handbook reads that employers want drafters who: can create drafts and mechanical drawings, have a knowledge of drafting standards, are skilled in math and science, understand the technology used in engineering, and can use CADD. Keep these in mind as you narrow down your list, and when you decide on your courses later on.
Your list should be narrowed down to the best drafting schools in your region. Now it's time to find the best drafting school for you. Visit each of the schools on your list. Take the grand tour, and hang out in the cafeteria. Write down how comfortable you feel at each school. Look inside drafting classrooms and see the condition of the equipment. Most importantly, talk to the faculty and students about their opinions of each school. This is going to give you an idea of which school will be the most productive learning environment for you.
Now you understand the process behind finding the best drafting schools. Remember these steps, decide on your field of study, talk to potential employers, and find out what going to these drafting schools will be like. Keep these things in mind as you go forward into a great drafting career.
Did you know:
According to US News and World Reports the following are the top 2010 National Schools offering Art majors
1. Yale University – New Haven, CT
2. University of Chicago – Chicago, IL
3. Northwestern University – Evanston, IL
4. Brown University – Providence, RI
5. Rice University – Houston, TX
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Video Capture
Main Menu: File >
Acquire > Start Video Capture
Toolbar button:
Note: To capture Video Microsoft Direct X 8 (or later) and Direct Show compatible equipment is required
The video feed can be seen on the video capture window or on an image window, in order to perform measurements on the live video feed and/or add frames to the database.
Start video capturing by clicking the Video Capture button :
Select the Video Source and Mode to see the live video feed in the Video Capture window. The Dialogs list menu, in the Settings tab, allows adjusting the video brightness and other Video Source settings, like the Video Crossbar that is used to select which video input is going to be used (when more than a single input pin is available).
That is the only configuration you need to perform, if a video source is attached to your computer you will see the video in the Capture window.
From there you can save frames as still images or record the video as a movie.
Click the button to switch the video feed to an image window when you can perform measurements, if that is required.
Notice the Stop and Pause buttons at the top left in the image below. At any moment you can stop the live video feed to measure objects or save frames as still images.
Also, it is easy adding captured image frames to the active database.
Video Capture window commands
Besides the Settings tab, there are two tabs more, Grid & Guides and Adjustments
Grid & Guides is related to the View > Grid and View > Guides menus (described below) and is used to configure the Grid and Guides.
Adjustments has three sliders to change the Brightness, Contrast and Gamma value of the image. These adjustments also will affect all captured still images, but not captured video. Adjusting Brightness, Contrast and Gamma is very useful for improving image display quality.
Settings > Load Grid, Guides & Image Mask Settings
Settings > Save Grid, Guides & Image Mask Settings
These menu command Load or Save the Grid spacing and color, the Guides placement and color and the Image Mask selection and placement.
Capture Frames >
Captures the current Video Frame to screen, opening a new image window in Bersoft Image Measurement.
Take care of not opening too many windows to avoid running out of RAM and so hanging the software.
Capture to Video File
Opens the Video Capture configuration screen, where capturing options as well as video format, compression and location are selected, previous to start the capture.
After capturing to a Video File, still images can be extracted from the video file, in order to measure them, by opening the file with Bersoft Image Measurement and extracting from it the desired frames.
Capture Frames >
Opens a Save Image As Dialog to select where to save the captured frame.
Capture Frames >
Opens the Automatic Capture Settings windows where you can set how many frames, and with which interval you want to capture automatically, as well as where to save the still image files and under which names and image format.
When capturing to still images some frames may be dropped (lost) if the capture interval is very small (like 1 or 2 frames). Use Capture to Video File to avoid losing frames
Live Capture
Shows the video feed on a new image window, where it can be measured, paused and worked on as any other image.
This menu has rotation and flip effects. Effects will be applied to the captured still images as well to the screen, but when capturing video, it will be saved without any effects.
The Zoom setting reduces or enlarges the image. The captured video and still images, will always appear at 100% zoom.
The Stretch Filter submenu includes five different stretch filters:
The default filter is Nearest. When Zoom is 100% no stretch filter will be applied.
When selecting different stretch filters the image quality will change, either subtly or markedly.
The selected stretch filter only will affect the image as seen on the screen, the captured images will not be affected by it.
The stretch filter choice depends on the computer power, frame grabber and video characteristics.
View >
Use this command in case the video is not showing, to refresh the screen and force the video to appear.
View > Grid
View > Guides
The menu commands show or hide the Grid and the Guides by selecting or deselecting the corresponding menu check boxes.
To configure the Grid and the Guides click on the Grid & Guides tab. From there the grid spacing can be set at any size. You can also change its color at any time.
The Guides color also can be set in the Settings tab. To add Guides select either the Add/Remove Vertical Guide or Add/Remove Vertical Guide check boxes and then click on the video image where you want to place the Guide.
To remove a Guide, click on the guide or select the Guide coordinate in the Vertical or Horizontal lists on the right of the Settings Tab and then click the Clear button besides the list.
Selected Guides can also be adjusted pixel y pixel by using the arrow buttons.
Several guides can be selected at once in the guides list.
See also the Settings menu description above.
View > Load Image Mask
View >View Image Mask
View >Clear Image Mask
View >Move Image Mask
Image Masks are images saved as Windows Bitmap (.BMP) files and are used to superpose drawings (lines, angles, circles or any image) to the live video images.
The Load Image Mask menu loads and shows an image on the video image. All white pixels in the Image Mask image will become transparent when it is superposed on the live video.
The Image Mask location (which is centered by default) can be adjusted by using the View >Move Image Mask menu.
See also the Settings menu description above.
Some video cameras may distort images, please see Lens Calibration to know how to correct lens distortions.

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1. You don't have to listen to lame, pseudo intelligent, meaningless artwank lyrics.
Fuck yeah, I think I just coined the term "artwank".
You guys know exactly what I mean too, don't you. I love music like I love eating food, I don't give a flying fuck about how it's presented. It's the act of absorbing it that feels so good.
I'm sick and tired of bands that concentrate on making songs with pretentious, sooky lyrics trying to come across deep and important. I don't give a fuck about your inner anguish or interpretation of heroin addiction. I want to nod my head like it's a bobble head on a Hummers dashboard in Afganistan. By the way, the next person I hear describing a band, or any art for that matter, as "important" I will swiftly reply to with Deadly Face Fist of Judah. Road safety and good nutrition is important, bands are not fucking important.
Rammstein have solved this problem with extreme ingenuity; they sing in German so I have no fucking clue what they're on about anyway. Even if you are German, you still don't understand them because Till Lindemann just sounds like a grizzly bear eating a chainsaw and you're too busy putting the flames out on your girlfriend's face because you were too close to the stage.
2. Your band doesn't shoot flames out of their face and deploy fireworks at the crowd.
Like I need to expand on this. Flames. Out of their faces. Can your band do this?
3. Best name, ever.
I can't think of anything that is better than having the words "stein" and "ram" in your name. Are they named after the act of forcibly cramming a huge mug of beer down your throat? Probably not, but who cares! I like to think they are. Even saying it makes me happy. LDLDLDLDLDLAAAHM SHTEEEEYYYN.
4. They can be ironic without trying to be.
Arty faggots love irony. It's the unoriginal artist's emergency imagination. The only time irony is cool in any artform and especially music, is when it's not forced. What the fuck am I on about?
Stay with me.
I watched Rammstein live the other night. They came on stage for an hour, and in that hour they managed to shoot flames out of every place possible including their face, play drums using explosions, wheel a huge cauldron on stage wearing a chefs hat and apron smeared in blood then shot flames at it, shoot pyrotechnics at the crowd, then at themselves, induce nightmares in the mind of every sleeping child within a 50 kilometre radius, appease Satan, ride a giant penis around the stage shooting paper jizz all over the crowd…
and then bowed ever so politely to the crowd and in a nice little voice said "Danke shoen" then left.
That ass fucked my mind.
5. Pure, unadulterated entertainment.
Rammstein don't just punch out their best tunes with amazing fidelity, you can feel the heat from the flame throwers, you can see the firworks and stage antics, you can smell burning fuel, and when a cloud of confetti begins to float toward the ground after being shot off stage… you can reach out and touch it. It is truly an immersion of the senses.
Tool came on stage directly after Rammstein finished and immediately disappointed me. Now, Tool and disappointment are not two things that often go together. I love Tool, as do millions upon millions of people across the globe. But what they did, I can experience by putting my iPod in my ears. In better quality sound, too.
Tool, like many other bands, go on stage and just sing their songs and then leave. You quickly get over the wow factor that your favourite band is right there in front of you, then it's time to add more to your senses what the album you just bought already has. Many like to defend this behaviour, especially Tool, with "it's all about the music, not the band."
This is a cop out. Let me fucking tell you something.
It's not about either, it's about the fans. The people who buy your albums, who pay over-inflated ticket prices to see you live, who supply you with a huge income and opportunity to live out your dream lifestyle making and sharing music with others. We bought your fucking album and know what it sounds like, and now we've paid 10 times the price to come see you live. Make with the witty stories, theatrics and fireworks you fucking smug human dukebox because you're being left behind by people who can't even speak English.
6. Your band doesn't shoot flames out of their face and deploy fireworks at the crowd.
Flames. FLAMES OUT OF THEIR FUCKING FACES.
7. Rammstein teaches bogans culture and how to speak German.
Now we all know how stupid bogans are. They are the people who have just discovered Facebook and change their status each day to something about fighting someone, people who think Kirk Cobain was a hero for blowing his head apart with a shot gun because he was a drug riddled emo, people who wear clothing that advertises cars like Ford, Holden and other cars that can't turn a corner doing more than 30km/h.
People who think bourbon tastes good.
Rammstein has the benefit of appealing to bogans due to the lead singer's voice sounding like a Tyrannosaurus Rex fucking a Harley Davidson. Thankfully, it suits the music they do perfectly which means smart people like you and me like it too. Bogans also have a curious need to make meaning out of every song's lyrics so they can make learned conversation over dinner at the pub. To do this with Rammstein means to sit for hours on Google Translate, systematically going through each line of each song and then deciphering it into something that makes sense. Here's the funny bit though, hardly any of it does. Sucked in, bogans.
8. Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons has banned their latest album.
In Germany you can show porn to kids, they allow women to grow hair anywhere on the body below their neck, you can buy a beer in Mc Donalds, but Rammstein's album is banned. This is fucking hardcore.
Other things that are dangerous to children include nuclear testing, knife fighting, heroin injections and pools filled with razorblades.
But your favourite band is probably on my grandmother's iPod.
9. The guitarist's name is Paul Landers.
His last name is really fucking Landers. That's so fucking rockstar that it makes Freddie Mercury look gay, and Freddie Mercury IS gay.
10. This.


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Address: W19069 1st Street Aniwa, WI 54408
Phone: (715) 449-3919
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Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Co-Chairs: Tucker Balch and Karen Haigh
We hope to attract robots of all kinds. We would like to expose the AI community to as much variety as possible. We encourage outdoor robots such as helicopters and autonomous vehicles, and all forms of indoor robots including snakes, manipulators, and bipeds. Robots that interact with crowds are also encouraged. If it proves impossible to send your actual robot, please submit a video or a poster. Feel free to send a video as well as a robot!
Commercial exhibitors are encouraged to contribute to the student travel fund. Contact the organizers for more information.
If think you would like to participate, please register your interest. Exhibitors who register early will be given the greatest consideration, but we will do our best to accomodate late submissions as well.
Information on Video Proceedings: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~aaai98/exhibition/video.html
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text: The City of Brossard has everything you need to stay in shape. In both quality and quantity, our range of indoor and outdoor sports and recreation facilities is second to none! You can exercise to your heart's content. Take advantage of the facilities, pools and skating rinks available to you throughout the year and start planning your next physical activity today. What could be better than getting healthy in the fresh air? The facilities and equipment are managed by the City of Brossard's Service du loisir, de la culture et de la vie communautaire. See the right-hand margin for contact information. Le Loisard, published twice a year, is packed with information (schedules, fees, etc.) on the seasonal leisure activities and facilities that the City offers to residents.


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Onstream Group (Instrument Commissioning Engineer)
Onstream Group - With more than three decades of global industry experience, the company is now structured as a group of business units, each with its own specialisations. Through these units, the Group can provide tailored services to address the needs of our clients worldwide in the most effective and competitive manner. The Onstream Group constantly searches for new solutions for our clients, adapting to current needs and changing industry trends, staying competitive globally and gaining market share.
Job Title: Instrument Commissioning Engineer (Expats)
Commissioning preparation Phase:
Commissioning Execution Phase:
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Closing Date
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Job Title: Instrument Commissioning Engineer (Expats)
Commissioning preparation Phase:
- He will directly assist the Lead ICSS/Instrument Commissioning Engineer in the definition of instrument pre-commissioning and commissioning scope within the sub-systems.
- He will participate in follow-up with Instrumentation Engineering and Construction related activities, to ensure that all activities related to Instrumentation (including packages interfaces) commissioning are defined correctly.
- He will follow up and intervene in contractor's preparation for pre-commissioning and commissioning scope for both onshore and offshore related to all field instrumentation and related control equipment.
- He will directly participate in the follow up of contractor's FAT activities at supplier premises, when required.
- He will review to ensure contractors PTW and instrument isolation procedures and practices are in line with Company expectations.
- He will participate in review contractors system commissioning procedures (e.g. Loop testing procedures) and Operational Test Procedures, instrument OTPs and the instrument content of other OTPs.
- He will review for approval of contractor's pre-commissioning and commissioning dossiers.
Commissioning Execution Phase:
- He will directly assist the Lead ICSS/Instrument Commissioning Engineer to organize, prepare and supervise the safe execution of the instrumentation commissioning activities.
- He will participate in witnessing contractor's performance of pre-commissioning to achieve mechanical Completion on a sub-system basis.
- He will witness contractor's performance of commissioning execution to achieve RFSU on system and sub-system basis for all instrumentation related equipment.
- He will participate in follow-up of contractor's punch list activities and control of punch list items including sign-off of punch list items.
- He will provide assistance and contractor follow up during off-shore installation, hook-up and commissioning and production start-up. Progress reporting and planning.
- He will directly be responsible to ensure Contractor and Package Vendors assistance during start-up of all field instruments and instrument packages on offshore in Nigeria.
- He will follow-up with assistance to start-up team, in order to ensure proper hand-over of Instrumentation related items to Field Operations and Maintenance teams.
- Appropriate instrument engineering qualification.
- Expert knowledge and experience of field instrumentation and Package Control systems (PLC) Commissioning & Start-up work on FPSOs: Preparing commissioning strategy, developing network planning, coordinating integrated plan, contractor follow up and supervision during pre-commissioning and commissioning execution, management of systems handover process and integration with FPSO operations teams.
- Good experience in ICSS (preferably Honeywell), PSS, PCS, ESD and F&G systems, is expected.
- Good knowledge of OPERCOM methodology and ICAPS software.
- Supervisory experiences and ability to manage the works of multi engineering teams simultaneously.
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
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For the love of beer: Friends and Allies Brewing awarded for outstanding business growth| Oct 02, 2017
Membership, Chamber Print Article
Austin has a long-standing history with malted barley and hops.
On any given day, it's pretty common to see Austinite's dressed in casual attire with an ice cold brewski in one hand. From ales, lagers, stouts, porters (and even cider), you could say Austin beer is synonymous to tailgates and good old fashion BBQ. For one company, this eclectic atmosphere sparked the humble beginnings of a one-of-a-kind brewery that has since earned recognition for excellence.
Friends and Allies Brewing received the Dell Technologies First-Time Entrepreneur Award from the Austin Chamber. The award, a category of the Greater Austin Business Awards program, recognizes a first-time entrepreneur that launched a consumer-focused business. Doug Driskell, an executive of Dell Technologies and Chair of the Opportunity Austin Air Service Task Force, presented the award to co-founders Devon Ponds and Ben Sabin. Dell also sweetened the honor by providing the company with a new Dell Inspiron 11 with a touch convertible tablet.
First-Time Entrepreneur Award
"This award means a lot to us," said Friends and Allies Brewing founders Devon Ponds and Ben Sabin. "Being recognized not only as a first-time entrepreneur but as a community focused businesses is really remarkable. We are so proud to be a part of the Austin community. This is a humbling experience."
Founded in 2015, Friends and Allies Brewing proudly self-distributes its entire product in Austin. Created by Devon Ponds and Ben Sabin, the brewery combines west coast brewing techniques and practices to deliver fresh and high-quality beers that connoisseurs can enjoy. Conveniently located next to Austin Eastciders on 979 Springdale Road, the facility offers a large patio, food trucks, a tasting room with taps, and a beer garden that serves draft and canned craft beer made on-site.
Recently, Friends and Allies Brewing in partnership with J.Black's Feel Good Kitchen & Lounge, Yardbird Music Studio, and S.D. Bosque Music Firm held an all-day happy hour to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Harvey. Proceeds from the event benefited the You Caring Houston Flood Relief Fund, created by Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt.
For more information on Friends and Allies Brewing, visit here.
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The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce focuses on how the Austin region works. We serve as the voice of business for our member organizations and their employees throughout Central Texas. Our mission is to provide leadership that facilitates the creation of a prosperous regional economy and effective advocacy for members.


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Sounds like: Lukewarm worship rock; compare to Chris Tomlin, Casting Crowns, Mark Schultz
Top tracks: "Give My Life Away," "Different Light," "Love Come to Life"
The worship rockers Big Daddy Weave have settled into a nice comfortable groove over the course of a decade-long career. Their albums come out like clockwork, and the music on them fall into a niche of adult contemporary pop with few frills and fewer surprises. Their new disc follows this template to the letter, fluttering along in the background with piano-driven balladry and mid-tempo barroom stompers. Were it not for an inspiring heart that urges themselves and their listeners to move their lives forward in the light of the Lord, this album would have little to recommend it.1


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My first book, Tex, the Witch Boy, is now available as a trade paperback! Now why is this exciting news, you ask? Why should you be thrilled that my rollicking YA mystery, paranormal, comedy, romance, thriller, kitchen-sink catch-all has made the transition onto paper? Glad you asked!
1) If you'd like to play along at home, it's much cooler to practice Tex's witchcraft spells while holding an actual book as opposed to an E-Reader. Just something old-school witchiness about it.
2) The cover's had an over-haul! Say goodbye to "Tex, the Twenty-Something, Kinda' Creepy Male Model Who Still Hangs Around High Schools." No offense to my marvelous cover artist, Charlie Volnek (who actually also did the great new cover), but this really isn't Tex, not the Tex I'd always envisioned. Anyone who's read the book can attest to that.
Say hello to the new boss!
This new cover captures the content of the tale much better: Mysterious, dangerous, forboding, BOOYAH! Charlie knocked it out of the park.
Here! First reveal:
That's what I'm talkin' about!
3) Finally, it recently came to my attention that YA readers (teenagers, early 20's) don't read e-books! GASP! Shocker, I know. Usually, every teen I know has their nose buried in some electronic gadget 24-7. You practically have to set yourself on fire to grab their attention and then it's only for a fleeting moment. (Just pray they're interested enough to call the Fire Department).
But, this is especially important as the theme of the book is about anti-bullying, a powerful message that I'd like to see reach the proper audience. Now the book has a chance of getting into libraries and, ultimately, teens' hands.
So, if you know a teen who's being bullied, buy the book for them. If you want teens to know they're not alone, that they have options, let 'em read this book. The books doesn't preach or talk down, nothing but the sometimes harsh truth. I should know. All bullying incidents detailed within either happened to me or a friend of mine.
Available now: Tex, the Witch Boy


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Well muscled and fleshy--what a great combination! Kaleesy is a happy happy birthday to us all.
Ah the elusive butterfly, oh how magnificent! Thank you Kaleesy for sharing this all too rare glimpse of a woman's beauty.
My thoughts also go to how delicious that perfectly shucked clam must taste with that salt water washing over...mmm
Nice job by Fabrice. Shooting against a bright sky background and Kaleesy isn't obscured by light haze. Nice, sharp photos.
I'm thinking a beach in warmer climate would of been a bit more enjoyable....................
A classic set. Beautiful.
Beach -- wasted set.
Image 64 - how nice is that!
Fabulous shot -- wrong background!
Happy Birthday to me!
Happy birthday, Whew :-)
Whew! Happy birthday.
Oooh, I love how Kaleesy's pretty hooded cover-up melted away in shot after shot, first opening a little wider, then getting a little more see-through as it got wet. Beautiful. How is it possible for her to be so adorable and so seductive at the same time? Gawd I love her.
Once everything black - photos of Nimfa. Here everything white- photos of Kaleesy. But one thing is the same for both photosets. The beauty and purity of the models.
Kaleesy on a sandy beach, everything is bright and friendly. A white transparent dress wraps the fabulous body. Nevertheless it does not cover everything, the wonderful fullmoon is as well to see as the well-formed breasts.
The wet dress then covers much less, now everything is actually to be seen, and my mouth becomes me watery. A body that is so erotic, dark nipples shimmer through the wet fabric, that my body beginns to swing.
Highlight for me is # 63 the beautiful pussy with the open wings. What is more humid? Kaleesy in the sea or the inside of her pink pussy?
Perfection. Kaleesy is like a fine wine and getting better with age. Those butterfly wings are the thing of fantasies. 8)
I misread the photoset name 'pechy' as 'peachy' because Kaleesy really is a peach of a girl, delicious and very tempting. What a luscious, golden girl! Frolicking in the water with her could definitely lead to a Deborah Kerr-Burt Lancaster "From Here To Eternity" type encounter :-)
By the way I just posted a very naughty new confession on our free fiction site MyErotica.com. It's called "Panties around my ankles..." Hope you enjoy ;-)
I would have dearly loved to see Deborah Kerr like this, she is one of my favorite stars-even as a nun.
Kaleesy, Lovely!
I thought so too, but I thought it might have had something to do with the shape of her bottom. ;)


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Valdosta, April 3, 2017 — On March 27, 2017, the Lowndes County Democratic Committee (LCDC) approved a new resolution against Sabal Trail methane pipeline and for solar power, going beyond the old ones it passed in March 2014, this time calling for financial divestment from companies that support the pipeline, including calling on local and state elected officials to divest and not to accept any campaign finance funds from the same. The new LCDC resolution includes a quote agreeing that Sabal Trail is a threat to our drinking water in the Florida Aquifer, from a resolution of February 2017 by the Orange County, Florida Democratic Executive Committee (DEC); several other Florida county DECs have since also passed such resolutions.
The LCDC WHEREASes cite economics, damage Sabal Trail has already caused to our environment including Withlacoochee River, eminent domain for private company is not equal justice under the law, public safety and welfare, the lack of need for the pipeline now that Florida Power and Light has admitted Florida needs no new electricity until 2024, the economic victory of solar power, Floridians' vote last year for solar power, and education, since Sabal Trail goes barely a mile from Clyattville Elementary School in Lowndes County.
This resolution will be discussed 6PM tonight at the Lowndes County Democratic Party (LCDP) at Mama Junes restaurant in Valdosta, along with new signs to Support Our Teachers.
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An Oprah retrospective
May 24 - A look back at Oprah Winfrey's television career. Kathi Urban reports.
America's most famous chat-show queen will bring her quarter-century reign on U.S. national television to an end. Oprah's last ever show will air on Wednesday, May 25. She's one of the most influential and richest women in the world. Her media empire spans television, films, radio, magazines and even her own book club. But Winfrey had humble beginnings, growing up in poverty in Mississippi and raised by her grandmother and later by her teenage single mother. After rising through the ranks as a news reporter, her eventual breakthrough came when she was offered her own talk show in Chicago in January 1984. The chat show has since become one of the longest-running programmes on daytime TV and covers topics ranging from spiritual to social issues. She has also interviewed some of the world's most high profile celebrities, who have, sometimes on more than one occasion sat on her couch and poured their hearts out. Even U.S. President Barack Obama, who she supported through his 2008 election campaign, has appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show", discussing why he decided to release a long form version of his birth certificate. Apart from her TV credentials, Oprah is also credited for her humanitarian work. In 2007 she opened a 40 million USD school for disadvantaged South African girls which she paid for out of her own pocket. SOUNDBITE: U.S. Talk Show Host Oprah Winfrey, saying (English): "I wanted to educate girls because I was a poor girl, a poor girl who grew up with my grandmother as so many of these girls because of Aids, are now left to be raised by their grandmother. And as I was raised by my grandmother, without running water and no electricity, but given the kind of support, and given the desire to have an education by my grandmother who believed that education was everything, so I wanted to be able to give back to African girls what I've been given." Oprah is also a successful producer on a Broadway show and owns her own cable channel. She is now planning to dedicate more time and energy to The Oprah Winfrey Network, otherwise known as "OWN". Oprah's star-studded guests in her final send off will feature Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Will Smith amongst the line-up. Kathi Urban, Reuters


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Nine MBA students are on their way to Warsaw, Poland, to begin a 17-day tour which will take them to 6 cities in Poland and where they will participate in 8 performances.
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Today the group left the MBA studios headed for O'Hare airport in Chicago. They will fly overnight to London and arrive in Warsaw mid-day on Friday the 13th (an auspicious day...). They will stay the night in Warsaw and then travel to Siedlce on Saturday where they will have their first european performance at 7PM.
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Publicado: 13:30 25/11/2007 · Etiquetas: Cave, Story, Pixel, Doukutsu, Monogatary · Categorías: Desarrollo Indie
¿Que no sabes que es Cave Story? ¡Fuera de aquí, bastardo! Bueno, bueno, mejor quedate y yo te lo explico.
Cave Story es un juego desarrollado únicamente por una persona: Pixel. El juego es una obra maestra, una joyita del desarrollo indie. A Pixel le costó unos 5 años desarrollarlo y tenerlo a punto, cuando el juego fué lanzado al internet (obviamente es freeware) se armó un buen revuelo en torno a cuestionar la labor de desarrolladoras serias, como Nintendo, Konami, Capcom, Sony, etc... Puesto que pese a que los gráficos de Cave Story son arcaicos, es un juego muy bien construido en todos sus aspectos (y no hay que olvidar que ha sido desarrollado por solo una persona).
Sin mas os dejo con la entrevista, que es bastante vieja, pero que tenía ganas de ponerla en alguna entrada. Al final tenéis un enlace a otra entrada que hice sobre Cave Story, con enlaces para descargarlo. Las imágenes también al final.
TIGSource: Pixel, many of our readers are interested in your background - age, occupation, hobbies, etc. Can you tell us a little about yourself personally?
What is a typical day like for you?
Pixel: At the time I started work on Cave Story, I was a student, but now I'm an office worker. My entire life had changed by the time this game was finished.
I commute to and from work by bicycle. I work as a software developer, but not with anything that has to do with games. At home, I help with household duties and child care. Any personal software development of mine takes place primarily late at night.
TIGSource: How long did you spend developing Doukutsu?
Pixel: It's been five years since I first thought to myself, "Hey, why not try making a game?" I developed Cave Story at my own pace, taking my time, and while doing so I released a few other smaller games as well.
TIGSource: How much of the game did you plan beforehand, and how much did you create as you went along? How much does the final game resemble your initial design?
Pixel: Before I started, I wrote the theme music (the Plantation theme), but other than that almost nothing was set in place, because even if I decide on something beforehand, I'm never able to realize it as I imagined.
Just about everything in the game was made up as I went along. Thanks in no small part to support from my friends, the scale of the game grew larger and the level of polish grew higher than I'd ever imagined.
TIGSource: What inspired you to create such a game? Was it simply to make a good game and entertain players, or something more?
Pixel: When I was little, the video games I played made me want to try making my own. I've been influenced by several games that are already out there, as I'm sure players have noticed.
TIGSource: The story of Doukutsu only hints at the world in which the game takes place. How much of this world have you created that we don't see in the game? Will we get to see more of it later on?
Pixel: Nothing of that world exists beyond what you see in the game, as I don't have the skills to construct anything further. I leave the details of Cave Story's world to the player's imagination.
TIGSource: The characters in Doukutsu are very memorable. Are any of them inspired by real life people?
Pixel: No, none.
TIGSource: By the way, what is Balrog, exactly? And what is his relation to Pooh Black, since they look so similar?
Pixel: I leave that to the player's imagination.
TIGSource: What kind of coverage has Doukutsu gotten from the game media in Japan?
Pixel: It has appeared in several magazines, with more on the way, I gather, but none of them have had a page focused on Cave Story in particular. Rather, it's been mixed in on pages with lots of other freeware titles.
TIGSource: Were you surprised by the game's success?
Pixel: I slaved away for long hours just for the joyous moment of completion, but the period I finally finished it in was such a hectic one that joy took a back seat to simple relief. Something like, "That's the last time I'll ever work on something that's such a pain..."
TIGSource: What were the easiest parts of developing Doukutsu? What were the hardest parts?
Pixel: Oh, it was a world of trouble. Thinking up each new development was fun, but making it all cohere took far too much doing.
TIGSource: What have you learned from making this game?
Pixel: I learned a number of things from certain anonymous coders who cheered on my work. I'm not good at looking things up, so it was a great boon to me.
TIGSource: Is there anything you would have done differently?
Pixel: As it turned out, the game reached completion successfully, and I'm quite satisfied with that. However, were I ever to make another game, I would hope that I'd be more earnest with the construction of things like the map editor and the various specialized data-management tools. (My work on those this time was a bit slapdash, and that led to problems down the line...)
TIGSource: Have you worked in the commercial games industry before? What are your thoughts about it?
Pixel: I've never worked in the game industry. I don't know much about the current state of the industry, but I gather that they're making lots of amazing games that would've been unthinkable in the old days. If I can ever spare the time I'd love to sit down and give them a good solid play.
TIGSource: Since releasing Doukutsu, have you received any requests to develop games commercially? Would you ever consider it?
Pixel: Some people say they'd like to see Cave Story come out on household gaming devices, but I'm not sure how to go about that. If I were to get into commercial development, I worry that I might not be able to create things the way I want to, so...
TIGSource: Do you prefer to work alone? Would you ever consider working with other people on games?
Pixel: I've worked with others on projects. It was quite fun. However, when you carry out the planning and creation as a group, my impression is that you lose a lot of flexibility and have to take on all kinds of new troublesome issues. That kind of situation is for the pros (the ones who make games as a job), and I don't see a great deal of merit in it for individuals.
TIGSource: Do you play games often? What are your favorite games?
Pixel: I think I used to play an inordinate amount of games. Ever since I decided to make my own, though, my play time has dropped dramatically, and these days I haven't had any time for games.
I think anyone who plays Cave Story will figure out which games are my favorites.
TIGSource: Your artwork, both pixel and traditional, is also very good. Who are your artistic influences?
Pixel: I've always liked pixel art. I've been influenced by all the different pixel art I've seen in games through the years.
TIGSource: How did you create the music for the game? Any musical influences?
Pixel: I don't know all that much about music, as I'm not a terribly good student. But what I do is put some notes together, give them a listen, and decide if they sound good or bad. If they sound bad I erase them, and if they sound good I keep them. Then, repeat.
TIGSource: Do you have any plans for future games?
Pixel: No, none.
TIGSource: Any plans for non-game development?
Pixel: I'm working on a music-writing tool.
TIGSource: Will there ever be a sequel to Doukutsu?
Pixel: I have no plans to make a sequel.
TIGSource: Will your games continue to be free to play?
Pixel: If the benefits of going shareware were to outweigh the benefits of freeware, I'd go with shareware. Right now, though, I don't see much point in shareware...
TIGSource: What is your favorite food? We must know!
Pixel: While there are countless flavors of onigiri (Japanese rice balls), I find that just freshly cooked rice, sprinkled with salt and wrapped in a sheet of nori (seaweed), is the most delicious.
TIGSource: In closing, is there anything that you would like to say to your fans?
Pixel: Thank you very much for playing Cave Story. If I ever work on a game in the future, I hope you will play it as well.
TIGSource: Thanks very much!
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14:02 25/11/2007
El juego es fantástico, pero no veo porque hay que cuestionar el trabajo de grandes compañías de videojuegos por ello.
Hay muchos juegos excelentes programados por dos o tres personas en la era 8-bits, los equipos grandes se generan para agilizar, controlar, ordenar y especializar labores, y me sigue pareciendo de largo la mejor forma de trabajar. De hecho la única, a no ser que tengas una inmensa cantidad de talento en múltiples facetas, devoción por lo que haces y más moral que el alcoyano.
14:21 25/11/2007
Me encanta Cave Story, pero hay mucho alarmista suelto para un clon de Metroid. Pixel no podría hacer un SOTC, un Okami o un Zelda en 5 años él solo.
14:58 25/11/2007
Desdeluego hay que tenerlos muy cuadrados para dedicarse a hacer un juego completo durante 5 años y además que te salga algo como Cave Story.
Obviamente, una persona solo, es imposible que haga algo como SOTC, Okami o Zelda. Supongo que en el caso de Pixel se creó demasiado revuelo puesto que era algo hecho por una persona sin ningún presupuesto. Yo, obviamente no voy a dejar de jugar a ICO o a Mario Galaxy solo por este juego xD. Pero si es un juego que me ha encantado desde que me lo pasé por primera vez, y no deja de sorprenderme lo que ha conseguido Pixel en sus ratos libres. Sobretodo viendo que no todo son SOTC, Okamis y Zeldas en el mundillo, también hay juegos con un presupuesto y equipos de varias personas que hacen truños descomunales.
15:56 25/11/2007
A mi me encanto,pero no llegué a terminarlo,creo que existe una version freeware para psp pero no logro encontrarla :(
Si la encontrara mañana ya tendría el juego al 100%!xD
16:38 25/11/2007
Es lo que tiene trabajar en equipos grandes, que si el productor/supervisor no sabe prefectamente lo que quiere (o no tiene muchas luces), se pierde por completo la perspectiva y una buena idea se puede ir al garete.
17:37 25/11/2007
Cave Story mola mucho más que el Shadow of the Colossus, clarísimamente xd
A mí me pareció bestial :P
20:54 25/11/2007
Cave Story no es que mole más que SotC. Colossus es una obra de arte a su modo. Yo valoro a Cave Story por lo que logró hacer Pixel. Porque es una muestra de que se pueden crear cosas enormes con algo de esfuerzo y si de verdad crees en ellas. Si Cave Story estubiese programado por una desarrolladora como Capcom o cualquier otra, para mí no habría significado lo mismo, puesto que veo a esas desarrolladoras mucho más capaces de hacer un juego de esas proporciones.
Es una idea un poco romantica-idiota, pero es lo que pienso :P
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I hope you all have a great weekend
On the Big Screen
Is anyone going to see that facebook movie?
Any other good movies opening this weekend?
On the Tube
Of the new shows on tv this season, which shows are you checking out?
I started watching Undercovers, The Event andChase.
Undercovers- Boris' acting needs an upgrade but other than that I think the show has potential.
The Event- I was so hoping that it would be more than aliens.....sigh
Chase- I like this show, each week another nutty criminal gives Chase a run for her money. So far we have seen two episodes and I enjoyed them both.


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In my last blog about New Years resolutions I made it simple...
Eat less
Write more.
But in my experience it takes a few weeks into the New Year, after the holiday settles, to reflect and consider the challenges of the coming weeks and months. For example I am still eating more because we have been on vacation. Writing less with the same excuse...vacation time.
However upon further reflection I realize I forgot to add, "Read More" to my list of resolutions. BUT does reading count as writing time? Probably, if it is for research but then the definition of research can be broad...is just reading in the genre for which I am writing count as research? Possibly.
Another resolution I have considered adding to the short list is: LESS FACE BOOK time. While reading FB is well...yes...reading, it is also huge time suck thus detracting from writing time.
The only reason I joined FB in the first place, 4 years ago was to keep track of my last born who was off to India. He setup the account for me suggesting this was the best way to see his photographs. In the end he was never near an internet that allowed for him to post photographs and I ended up with...well let me check....166 friends by current count. I mean I had to friend my other three children, daughter-in-laws, real friends, distant relatives, virtual friends. After that things got out of control.
The real problem is that I spend and average of 23 1/2 minutes of valuable writing time stalking my son. Recently his posts do not automatically show up on my newsfeed. This is alarming because I suspect he may have changed his settings to eliminate his mother from his private life...or is this just the result of all the new FB formatting? Add several minutes of nervous reflection since I must consider, whether ANYONE is receiving or reading MY posts. A writer is supposed to have many friends reading and responding to posts which in theory should make said writer rich and famous.
I feel the need to check up on my youngest daily because once in a while he implies he has no friends which leads me to believe he may be unhappy or somehow maladjusted...so I check his wall. He has 524 friends and there are 967 photos of him. This looks pretty good to me so I can relax...except there are people out there with say 1070 friends. Still in my mind there is a problem with too many friends so I'm OK with this. He must at least be average on the friends scale. He has after all more friends that his mom has.
But then I can't ignore that fact that there are many comments on FB referring to my son as Party Dad. What does THIS mean? Should I worry? I spend too much writing time trying to find out if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
On the other hand I note many pithy posts referring and sending the reader to obscure memes (I learned this word from my son... while stalking him on FB). I feel like this is a good thing putting him on the intellectual scale above much of the FB posts I see out there.
Still...I must worry about his time management skills. Would he be less anxiety ridden about the upcoming finals if he spent less time ranting about how he hates pennies and posting articles about discontinuing the penny. I might agree with this but wonder what will bring good luck if we get rid of pennies...and perhaps I should pay more attention because I do not think anyone has written a children's book or a poem about the demise of the penny.
So....in 2012 I still resolve to Eat Less and Write More. I hope to read more too. FACE BOOK? Unfriend everyone or make new friends? My son is off to New Zealand, you can bet I will have to stalk him down under..and maybe write that book about pennies. A word to all his friends...watch what you post in the New Year.


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Underground music alive in Shanghai, despite watchful government
SHANGHAI — Some places don't want to be found. Just past the commuters at the Caoyang Road railway station and around the corner from the cafes, banks and clothing stores of Lanxi road, there's a hidden alley neighborhood with a dusty sign identifying it as one of Shanghai's model communities.
The address of the rehearsal space called Red Rock is straightforward enough — 21 Lanxi Lu, Nong No. 12 — but getting there isn't easy It's underneath a high-rise with laundry hanging from its windows, down a dimly lit staircase into a basement that stinks of toilets.
On a cold night in Shanghai, that was where to find The Mushrooms, a ragtag bunch of 20-somethings who might be the first Shanghai that's band good enough to force this city of nearly 20 million to take underground music seriously.
"It's a really, really good thing to play music," said Yu Xuhao, 25, the band's lead singer. "It's nothing about politics. It's nothing about the government. It's about the love of it."
The Mushrooms' struggle is twofold: against a government that's at best ambivalent about their style of music, and, perhaps worse for them, against a public that's indifferent, even in a city that celebrates an aging jazz band that's long been playing decadent pre-revolutionary tunes at the Peace Hotel.
The authorities seem to regard punk as a greater counterrevolutionary threat than Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman are: When the legendary Shanghai punk band Top Floor Circus wrote a song ripping into the city's world expo, suspicious Chinese authorities demanded that the group stop performing the song and removed videos and MP3s posted online. The group now is banned from performing in the city until the expo concludes in late October.
Then there are the fickle tastes of Chinese youth.
"Unless your name is Beyonce, you can't get a gig in China," said Maxime Lenik, a Parisian transplant who serves as the artistic director for LOgO, a hipster hot spot in the French Concession, formerly a trade area for French businesspeople in Shanghai.
For now, being a musician isn't a viable career choice for young Shanghainese such as Yu and his fellow Mushrooms. The band has a bassist, a drummer, a singer and two guitarists, but its members also call themselves a chef, a laborer, a student and two graphic designers.
The band members make more than half their money from their outside jobs, Yu said, but music is his primary focus and his passion.
"It's our dream," Yu said. "We will not be too hungry."
The Mushrooms' situation — Beijing gigs and parents who heartily support their children's musicianship — is far from the norm. In Shanghai, bands often come and go, marked with an expiration date: a time to settle down, get "real" jobs and start families.
That has some in the Shanghai scene worried about how China will deal with competition for expo performers.
Policing venues and canceling concerts for six months could prove disastrous to Shanghai's musicians, said Jake Newby, the associate editor of the weekend guide Time Out Shanghai and half of the team behind the Shanghai music blog Kungfuology.
Though it might not prove to be the death knell for popular Shanghai venues such as Yuyintang, Live Bar and MAO Livehouse, a drop in the number of places to perform could shorten the shelf life of Shanghai bands that already are lucky to last more than a few years.
"If you shut down for six months, bands are going to break up, because if they're not going to be playing gigs, it's not worth their while," Newby said. "If (the venues) could hold out, then they'll still be the center . . . of the live music scene when it comes back. But how many bands will be left standing to play there?"
Newby and his Kungfuology colleague, Andy Best, British expatriates, say they were troubled by a string of incidents in the buildup to May 1 — the expo's opening day — in which the Chinese authorities appeared to be flexing their muscle, but both men agreed that the government fracas surrounding Top Floor Circus' song "Shanghai Doesn't Welcome You" was the most disturbing.
The group is known for its wild stage antics. MAO Livehouse manager Yang Yan, 27, recalls a time when the band's lead singer "took off his pants and showed people his ass." However, even an avant-garde group such as Top Floor Circus rarely enters the realm of the political; it's just not done in China.
"Shanghai Doesn't Welcome You," a parody of the 2008 Beijing Olympics anthem that skewers the expo as too commercial and global-minded, is one of those rare times, however. The song gained popularity in a string of Top Floor Circus gigs last fall, but it didn't catch the government's eye until a fan posted a video on Youku, the Chinese equivalent of Youtube, that went viral.
Best said the government canceled the next round of Top Floor Circus appearances and told the band to remove the song from its website and from Youku. When a few months had passed and the band inquired about playing a special Yuyintang show, the government told the group that the ban had been extended through the end of the expo.
For the musicians involved, the next step was an easy choice.
"We will never perform this song again," Top Floor Circus drummer Ling Jiaqin, 25, said matter-of-factly.
For others, the incident is more evidence that China's communist government can't decide where it stands on underground music, with its undertones of rebellion and independence.
Yang said Shanghai authorities had asked MAO Livehouse to write an informational report on live music, tracing its history through Europe, the United States, Japan, Beijing and Shanghai.
"China has a big population and only has one party in charge. They are afraid of their authority threatened by the people or other parties or other societies," said Yang, a slight 27-year-old. "They just want the people to know what they should know. It's easy to control the people to make the society more stable. This is what they think."
Not everyone in the scene supports Top Floor Circus, though. Folk musician Liu Jian, 31, criticized the band for focusing only on "protesting something . . . knocking something down."
Accepting government intervention is par for the course of being an artist in China, said Liu, who runs Shanghai East District Power, a folk collective. However distasteful he finds the idea of the government shutting venues and canceling concerts during the expo, he said, the city's musicians will find a way to survive.
"The government is using a gun to shoot a mosquito. If it happens, we'll just sing in our homes or in the subway," he said. "If they're spending that much energy on music, the music must be really good."
Some of the scene's most prominent players aren't worried about the expo.
Archie Hamilton, the managing director of a music promoter called Split Works that's based in Shanghai and Beijing, believes in putting things in context. For starters, that means recognizing that the Chinese music scene has experienced massive growth in the last decade.
"We're all aware of the restrictions that we're working within. We live in China," he said. "It's come on phenomenally. Sure, the government's shaky and gets stressed from time to time . . . but largely they leave it alone."
The problem, as Newby sees it, is that there's no road map for how the expo will affect the city's fledgling underground scene. The best anyone can do, he said, is to keep playing and hope for the best.
"If the government wants to shut you down, they'll shut you down regardless of what license you've got. And if they want to turn a blind eye, they'll turn a blind eye," he said. "You just have to keep going until you're told to stop."
(Weisler, a student at Penn State University, reported this article from Shanghai for a class in international journalism.)
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The man who directs resource planning for Black Hills Corp., the owner of two wind farms in Wyoming and the winner of a huge contract to provide power for Microsoft's Cheyenne data center, told Data Center Knowledge that there will be cost savings for Microsoft in adopting renewable power. . . down the road a bit, but still along the way.
"I think this new structure between ourselves and Microsoft, where we're able to leverage their generating units behind the meter — ultimately, long-term, that's going to be a lower cost than normal in today's market," said Black Hills' Chris Kilpatrick.
Two wind farms — Black Hills' Happy Jack and Silver Sage projects — are involved in this deal. Black Hills serves some 1.2 million natural gas and electricity customers in eight states, as far north as Montana and as far south as Arkansas, from its home base in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Behind the Meter
When any new customer enters Black Hills' service territory, Kilpatrick said, it's his firm's obligation to provide energy. Regardless of which customer that may be, it may need to build new generation facilities to serve the load, or enter into a long-term power purchase agreements (PPA).
As part of the Microsoft deal, he explained, the data center provider has agreed to supply generation behind the meter — meaning, backing up what wind power may not consistently be able to provide, with supplemental power, in this case from natural gas generators. Not having to build that backup power supply not only saves Microsoft, said Kilpatrick, but also saves other customers in the area, by not having to bolster transmission capabilities with supplemental construction that could impact service.
In a corporate blog post Monday, Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith explained, "Unlike traditional backup generators that run on diesel fuel, these natural gas turbines offer a more efficient solution and, more importantly, ensure the utility avoids building a new power plant. This is a small step toward a future where other customer-sited resources may help make the grid more efficient, reliable and capable of integrating intermittent energy sources like wind and solar. And as we recently demonstrated in our pilot with Agder Energi in Norway, this future will be enabled by the application of cloud technologies that enable utilities to visualize and optimize resources, providing the foundation for a low carbon energy future."
That's suggesting that Microsoft may be adding some intelligence on its end of the bargain — again, behind the meter. That Agder Energi project to which Smith referred is an agreement with the Norway-based renewable energy provider to use resources hosted on Azure to develop new, real-time models for situational awareness on the power grid.
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All this is not to say this energy deal is ready to go the moment Microsoft flips the switch. Black Hills has already constructed one new power substation, though Kilpatrick told us another is in the works, possibly costing some $15 million. Improvements to some transmission lines will also be necessary, at a cost of about $5 million.
There's also this: jEvery time a new customer enters the grid with a power draw that could peak at 237 MW — which is the number being touted by Microsoft on Monday — the strategy for serving the entire West Coast must be adjusted.
"It's another piece of the puzzle that they certainly have to take into account, absolutely," said Black Hills' Kilpatrick.
"We have an electric industry of schedulers that work on the western half of the United States grid, basically scheduling energy through specific transmission lines to make sure that you don't oversubscribe transmission lines, and make sure that you have enough capacity and enough space in those lines to allow energy to flow through."
Black Hills utilizes such a group for its customers in Wyoming, South Dakota, and Colorado, to make certain the infrastructure is capable of supplying those three states.
Perhaps Microsoft could use a bit of that situational awareness today. Kilpatrick, who told us he's worked with Microsoft in planning energy consumption at its Cheyenne data center for about four years, admitted that facility does not consume anything close to 200 MW of power today.
A back-of-the-matchbook estimate for how much power the western U.S. power grid provides, he told us, is about 40,000 MW — making the Cheyenne DC, at peak consumption, about one half of one percent of the total draw. Still, that's astonishingly sizable.
"Part of what we do, when we're figuring out how to serve our customers — especially large ones — is to work extensively with our regional transmission group," he added. "We do regional transmission planning to make sure there's enough transmission for the whole region. We don't just look physically only at Cheyenne, or only at Wyoming. It's a bigger piece of the pie. We do studies with partners in the region as well, to make sure we're not upsetting the apple cart."
Today's agreement marks the fourth renewable PPA for Microsoft in the U.S. The first, signed in November 2013, was a 20-year PPA with the Keechi Wind Project, led by RES Americas, a Texas-based wind power supplier. That was followed in July 2014 with an agreement with EDF Renewable Energy, to purchase power from the Pilot Hill Wind Project, a 175 MW facility some 60 miles north of Chicago. The third and latest PPA, signed last March, involved boosting solar power to the Virginia region by some 20 MW.


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