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His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament:
Dear Vincent,
I am feeling pretty sad, because it looks like I won't be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot.. I know if you were here my troubles would be over.. I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me, like in the old days.
Love, Papa
A few days later he received a letter from his son.
Dear Pop,
Don't dig up that garden. That's where the bodies are buried.
Love, Vinnie
At 4 a.m. the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son.
Dear Pop,
Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances.
Love you, Vinnie
Monday, June 29, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
From Vincent Atchity's doctordogbrother
Posted: 18 Jun 2009 06:22 AM PDT
"Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm
Invades us to the skin: so 'tis to thee;
But where the greater malady is fix'd,
The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'ldst shun a bear;
But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea,
Thou'ldst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the
mind's free,
The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind
Doth from my senses take all feeling else
Save what beats there."
–Shakespeare, King Lear, III.iv.
While untroubled souls seek refuge from the storm, Lear seeks refuge right out in the open heart of it: "Blow winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!" When we awake to the flash of lightning and crash of nearby thunder, perhaps in an unfamiliar room far from home, we may experience a peculiarly heightened sense of comfort. However distracted, dislocated, or out of sorts, our perspective with regard to our internal state is shifted by the fury of the heavens. If nothing else, in our upset state we may feel, for once, that we are at least matched by the cosmic clamor: shudder for shudder, it's as if we and the heavens were each other's mirror. There is a companionship in this, a sense of tangible reciprocity. Calm weather, by comparison, is cold and existentially heartless from the perspective of a soul in any kind of turmoil: it stands as a reminder that the heavens are indifferent to us, that there is no correspondence, no relation.
If we are calm ourselves, the raging weather outside only heightens our snug sense of comfort. We certainly feel no obligation to accompany the heavens in their fury–but we are possessed not by indifference, but by gratitude: our recognition of the modest comforts of this unfamiliar room far from home is heightened, the lightning's white flashes etch humble details in memory.
Memory links to memory: this morning's Georgetown storm carries me back to storms in other faraway places, even to storms of childhood. I can still smell the summer rain coming across the dry plains of Castilla, can still remember showering naked in the night beneath the falling sky of Vieques, hunkering in a dry spot beneath a boulder in the Laguna Salada wilderness.
The heavens do not mirror the mind's tossings and tempests with anything like sufficient frequency. Our flight, we may feel, does lie "toward the raging sea"–that's the anxiety of our mortality–and more often than not we have no bear to turn to face instead, but only the plodding calm of indifferent days, uncounted and unremembered. We do well, then, perhaps, to take a lesson from these cosmic proportions and trust that the raging sea ahead is more likely an expanse of unremarkable calm into which all of our own tempests will subside. Embrace, then, every bit of the tossing–inside or out–it is the thunder crash and lightning of our brief vitality.
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Posted: 04 Jun 2009 08:56 AM PDT Next on the top shelf: The Poetical Works of Chaucer, edited by F.W. Robinson and published by the Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston in 1933. My father gave this volume to me when I was in college, though it's not the book I used there. My memory retains the first several lines of the General Prologue, and my mouth still forms the sounds of this Middle English (as rendered on the tapes I studied in my college Chaucer class). Foreign and familiar: Chaucer's stories and language are traces of a lost world. I remember, particularly, the "verray, parfit gentil knyght" who "wered a gypon al bismotered with his habergeon." Bismotered is the word, of all of Chaucer, that has stuck with me…along with its subversive tainting of this image of chivalric perfection. Bismotered. I say it to myself with fair regularity…it's become part of my private lexicon, the language that I speak in my head and that no other understands completely. An important aspect of wholeness is the dream of perfect understanding: we may yearn for some recognition of our every lilt and nuance of personal significance. We may dream of one who will make us whole, who will get us completely, and not be deaf or uncomprehending in the face of our private vocabularies, the words we repeat to ourselves, mantra-like, as we shape our days. Chaucer's pilgrims, all pilgrims, travel in pursuit of this wholeness. In this yearning for completion, for comprehension, we find that we are already one. All languages, ancient and emergent, are the tentacles of our feeling for completion. |
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JIM WHITE'S GREAT GRANDFATHER'S $49-BILLION DOLLAR INVENTION [via Jim White]
Well, that's $49 billion in today's currency, based on compounded interest at seven percent.
What General Motors actually paid my great-grandfather, Louis Henry Perlman, was $3 million for his invention, at a time before there was any income tax.
Had Louis taken the money and left it in the bank (a stable, reliable one, at that) it would have propelled his heirs – me included – into the stratosphere of wealth shared by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. $49 billion is a lot of cash.
The invention that made Louis Henry Perlman wealthy?
Believe it or not: the spare tire.
Or the "demountable rim for motor-car wheels," as it was called in 1906, when my great-grandfather filed his application with the US Patent Office.
Until Louis Perlman invented the spare tire, early motorists had to pry a punctured, deflated tire off the fixed rim of a car wheel, replacing it with a new pneumatic tube. They then had to huff and puff, and inflate the new tire on the spot. The whole process was laborious and dirty.
Louis Henry Perlman, inventor, journalist, photographer – and my great-grandfather.
Perlman's invention permitted motorists to carry a spare rim on their car, with tire affixed and already inflated. My great-grandfather's invention enabled drivers, for the first-time ever, to take the wheel off the axle by removing a few bolts. How ingenious. How simple. How quickly stolen by several manufacturing companies. More about this saga in a minute. First, the family lore.
Louis Perlman was a kindly man, according to stories my mother told. But also an eccentric man, a wealthy man, and in the end, a destitute man.
Louis H. Perlman, my mother, Anne, on the left, and her sister, Grace, at Montrose, NY, circa 1925 or 1926.
I was inculcated with family lore about Louis Perlman whenever we visited the property in Montrose NY, which he had owned and which my grandfather maintained through the 1960s.
Montrose was a wooded, 55-acre estate which Perlman bought from former Secretary of State William Seward's family with the cash that he made selling his demountable rim to General Motors in 1904. My family said that they first put it on their car, called a Welch, in 1906.
In addition to getting $3 million in un-taxed cash and GM stock, Perlman was also promised one new GM car each year for the rest of his life, without having to return any of the previous year's cars.
I vividly recall the barn extension at Montrose, which workmen added to annually, to cover each new car, which my great-grandfather was given. There were dozens of one-year-driven models, lined up side by side, in the long barn extension, with an overhanging roof to keep the cars dry and clean.
My mother (left) and her older sister, Grace, at Montrose, NY, in front of one of their grandfather's GM cars.
Along the way, family lore seems to have covered up some of Perlman's strengths and weaknesses, as evidenced by some recently discovered historical material.
Lore may also have mis-attributed the source of Perlman's wealth. It may not have come directly from General Motors, as my family said, but there sure as hell was major GM money in Perlman's life; by 1916, my great-grandfather was president of the Perlman Rim Corporation, capitalized with $10 million of private money.
One of Perlman's business partners was W. C. Durant, president of General Motors. Although they headquartered Perlman Rim Corp. in New York, the firm built the largest – and only exclusive – demountable rim plant in the world, in Jackson, Michigan. The plant, covering five acres, produced 5,000 sets of demountable rims every day, according to an out-of-print Who's Who of American Industrialists. Enough rims to equip 1.5 million cars annually.
Louis H. Perlman and my mother, Anne, at the family home in Montrose, NY, beside the barn.
Had great-grandfather Perlman just socked the dough away that he made for his heirs, of whom I am one, the family fortune today would dwarf the wealth of many of today's Forbes-listed billionaires. But fate wasn't kind to grand-pappy Perlman; he lost most of his wealth in the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing years of the depression and my grandfather was still paying off Louis' debts in the 1950s, as my mother used to tell me.
But, oh! Was my great-grandfather colorful. Certainly as memorable as a Diamond Jim Brady, or an early Rockefeller, though Perlman's story, unlike theirs, has been lost in space and time.
Perhaps a few highlights of his career need to be added here, simply to set the record straight. (And to tease any would-be movie producers looking for a good story for the Big Screen; be sure to call napaman for the screen rights!)
My great-grandfather was born November 26, 1861, in Kovno, Russia. Louis was one of three children born to Lesser and Celia Perlman. Lesser, his dad, was a rabbi, who deeming it essential to seek a better life for his family, emigrated to America in 1862, several years ahead of the rest of the family.
Once landing in the US, Lesser moved across the face of the nation, a virtual serial spiritual seeker. He found or started new congregations in Cincinnati, then in St. Louis and then in Charleston, SC. Within two years Lesser had saved enough funds to bring his family to America. They moved to Utica, NY, where Lesser found a newer, larger congregation.
In his father's snaking spiritual shadow, young Louis also lived in Providence, RI and New York City.
The younger Perlman, my future great-grandfather, completed his elementary education at Christie Street Public School No. 7 at the age of 15 and then enrolled in the College of the City of New York, where he majored in stenography, bookkeeping and accounting.
Perlman's skills in stenography led him to a career in journalism and photography (I appear to have his journalist's DNA and his entrepreneurial spirit… just not his money…).
Perlman was a co-founder of the Pictorial Associated Press, the first-ever agency to syndicate images and photos to newspapers across the country. My great-grandfather even took and sold the first half-tone illustration ever published in the New York Sun – a portrait of congressman Holman of Indiana.
While the idea of a demountable rim came quickly to my great-grandfather, the financial windfall from it did not. Family lore has it that Perlman got his cash up front from GM in one fell swoop. According to records, which have recently come to light, this was not the case.
In fact, Perlman had to litigate and scrape his way through appellate courts for years to get what was rightfully his from the start.
Although Perlman's patent application for the demountable rim was dated May 21, 1906, a number of manufacturing firms began to infringe on the application. Records indicate that Perlman was (you should pardon the term) tireless in his pursuit of justice; he defended his patent application in court after court and after seven long, wearying years, at the appeals circuit level, he was finally granted, on February 4, 1913, US Patent 1,052,270 for "the demountable automobile rim."
In October of the same year, after months of trying to persuade large manufacturers who were making demountable rims, and infringing on his patent rights, granddaddy Perlman sued the Standard Welding Company of Cleveland, Ohio, the nation's leading maker of demountable rims in the US District Court of New York.
Back into the courts, Perlman waited for a verdict; it came two years later, in August, 1915, when the court ruled that Standard Welding had indeed infringed on the patent. Standard appealed the case but an appeals court, in 1916, ruled in favor, yet again, of Perlman and ordered Standard Welding to pay my great-grandfather millions of dollars in back royalties.
With his earnings, Perlman decided that it was time to by a suitable, sizable tract of land. He chose Montrose, NY, a tiny hamlet that is actually within the jurisdiction of Cortlandt, a small town located, for those without access to Google Maps, near Croton-on-Hudson, in Westchester County. Now do you picture it?
Montrose had been owned in succession by two Sewards. First, by William H. Seward (1801-1872), who had been Secretary of State for Abraham Lincoln. Then by his son, Frederick Seward (1830-1915).
For the record: Seward the Elder was responsible for purchasing Alaska from Russia for $7 million. At the time, the seemingly goofy acquisition was called "Seward's Folly," or "Seward's Icebox."
William Seward, former Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln.
Frederick, the son, was a journalist and diplomat. Like his dad, he became politically active and was named Assistant Secretary of State, working under – who else? -- his father. Long live nepotism!
When Seward the Younger died, the estate was put up for sale. Along came my great-grandfather.
According to Wikipedia, the Seward Estate covered 30 acres, though I remember my parents telling me that it was a 55-acre estate. It had a stately, rolling, verdant, manicured front lawn that swaled from the huge main house down to the gray waters of the Hudson River, which lapped at the foot of the property.
The mansion, in which I spent summers with my own cousins and an uncle who was one year older than me, had a large dining room, and an adjacent restaurant-sized kitchen. Oh, and let's not forget what else it had: that barn out back with the added-on-extensions to cover all of Louis Perlman's General Motor cars.
Louis was a reasonably private person and does not appear to have had many close friends. My mother always told the story that before he lost all his money in the Depression, Louis would go to New York City, hire a huge ballroom at the Essex Hotel, and invite upwards of 2,000 people off the street to join him for a festive party in the hotel. These were complete strangers.
I can't determine whether this is strictly family folklore, but I can attest that it was told to me -- it's what my family recounted when I was a boy.
Louis went on to lose everything in the stock market crash, and left family, not funds, as his only legacy. He had a daughter, Grace Helen Perlman, who was my mother's mother, and he had a son, Jesse Burke Perlman, who was an ensign in the US Navy.
I remember my mother recounting stories about Jesse's skills at playing cards, especially bridge and canasta. About the rest of the family, or Louis' wife, I know very little.
What any of this has to do with Napa Valley, I haven't a clue. Except, perhaps, that I am the multi-generational byproduct of Louis Perlman and I live in Napa Valley… and as I have no other place to tell this story, so it will be told here.


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Apparently when you eat food in the dark, your remaining senses are heightened to savour the smell and taste of food, however the meal was somewhat disappointing and the simple act of locating the food on your plate is laborious and consuming, adding to that, the setting can be scary to some new to the concept.
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A merry mix with something for everyone – that's the best way to sum up the trio of Environment Design projects done for EY. The projects became a reflection of the urban Indian mindset, with a mash-up of popular Indian culture and global references. The content research was possibly the best part of it, with some unexpected findings. For example, did you know that Tim Burton has a deep connection with our very own Aryabhatta!
On the Music panel, you will find Ilaiyaraaja next to Dylan and Baez, laid over a tabla beat.
The Sports panel accommodated a vernacular Scrabble and 70s Bollywood songs featuring Badminton along with Quidditch.
The Board Room installation is a tribute to Indian classical music.
The following double-panels are from a series featuring Indian Achievers, ranging from Amrita Shergill to Amartya Sen. The installations for this facility were driven by the theme of knowledge and the spirit of achievement.
This panel from the Mumbai series had type composed out of used tea leaves and discarded tea packaging.


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To be fair, a couple of the village idiots on UT boards called him a thug. Most of the posts on those boards were Vol fans condemning those thug posts. Every message board has a couple of idiots.
Most of the people on those boards are much more concerned about why that incomptent orange pant wearing loser is still coaching the football team.
concerning Dooley - do you think he will be fired this year?? I thought this year Vols would be good b/c of the talent coming back??? maybe i was wrong but he had good recruiting classes last couple years...no?? big time decision for AD coming up.
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Melissa Lee is the host of CNBC's "Fast Money" (airing Monday-Thursday, 5 p.m.-6 p.m. ET; Friday, 5 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET), which originates from the Nasdaq's MarketSite studio in New York's Times Square. "Fast Money" gives you the information normally reserved for the Wall Street trading floor, enabling you to make decisions that can make you money.
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Lee has reported one-hour documentaries for the network, including "Rise of the Machines (2013)," "Code Wars: America's Cyber Threat"(2011), "Coca-Cola: The Real Story Behind the Real Thing" (2009) and "Porn: Business of Pleasure" (2009). In 2008, Lee reported and anchored a one-hour documentary, "Made in China: People's Republic of Profit," from Beijing and Shanghai. She reported extensively for the network on China from the country's growth to its challenges to the opportunities for U.S. businesses.
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The main remaining bug with the latest revision of jquery is the teaser splitter behaviour being broken on Safari 2. (there's a couple of very minor bugs in opera as well although they also seemt to differ between Opera 9.25 and Opera 9.5b.

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*Jian Ghomeshi interviews E.L. James.
*But not everyone is a fan: 50 Shades pulled from some American libraries. (I thought I found an article that didn't use the term "mommy p0rn" but I was wrong.)
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If you've ever wrangled a user interface, you've probably heard of Fitts' Law. It's pretty simple -- the larger an item is, and the closer it is to your cursor, the easier it is to click on. Kevin Hale put together a great visual summary of Fitts' Law, so rather than over-explain it, I'll refer you there.
The short version of Fitts' law, to save you all that tedious reading, is this:
I know, it's very simple, almost too simple, but humor me by following along with some thought exercises. Imagine yourself trying to click on ...
Fitts' Law is mostly common sense, and enjoys enough currency with UI designers that they're likely to know about it even if they don't follow it as religiously as they should. Unfortunately, I've found that designers are much less likely to consider the opposite of Fitts' Law, which is arguably just as important.
If we should make UI elements we want users to click on large, and ideally place them at corners or edges for maximum clickability -- what should we do with UI elements we don't want users to click on? Like, say, the "delete all my work" button?
Alan Cooper, in About Face 3, calls this the ejector seat lever.
In the cockpit of every jet fighter is a brightly painted lever that, when pulled, fires a small rocket engine underneath the pilot's seat, blowing the pilot, still in his seat, out of the aircraft to parachute safely to earth. Ejector seat levers can only be used once, and their consequences are significant and irreversible.Applications must have ejector seat levers so that users can—occasionally—move persistent objects in the interface, or dramatically (sometimes irreversibly) alter the function or behavior of the application. The one thing that must never happen is accidental deployment of the ejector seat.
The interface design must assure that a user can never inadvertently fire the ejector seat when all he wants to do is make some minor adjustment to the program.
I can think of a half-dozen applications I regularly use where the ejector seat button is inexplicably placed right next to the cabin lights button. Let's take a look at our old friend GMail, for example:
I can tell what you're thinking. Did he click Send or Save Now? Well, to tell you the truth, in all the excitement of composing that angry email, I kind of lost track myself. Good thing we can easily undo a sent mail! Oh wait, we totally can't. Consider my seat, or at least that particular rash email, ejected.
It's even worse when I'm archiving emails.
While there were at least 10 pixels between the buttons in the previous example, here there are all of ... three. Every few days I accidentally click Report Spam when I really meant to click Archive. Now, to Google's credit, they do offer a simple, obvious undo path for these accidental clicks. But I can't help wondering why it is, exactly, that these two buttons with such radically different functionality just have to be right next to each other.
Undo is powerful stuff, but wouldn't it be better still if I wasn't pulling the darn ejector seat lever all the time? Wouldn't it make more sense to put that risky ejector seat lever in a different location, and make it smaller? Consider the WordPress post editor.
Here, the common Update operation is large and obviously a button -- it's easy to see and easy to click on. The less common Move to Trash operation is smaller, presented as a vanilla hyperlink, and placed well away from Update.
The next time you're constructing a user interface, you should absolutely follow Fitts' law. It just makes sense. But don't forget to follow the opposite of Fitts' law, too -- uncommon or dangerous UI items should be difficult to click on!
For any "dangerous" button, wherever it is placed, what about an extended click:
Keep it pressed for a little while, say 300ms, before release or move away from it before the mouseup?
can you tell us...
For any "dangerous" button I suggest an extended click:
Keep the button pressed for a little while, say 300 ms, before the mouseup or move away from it before releasing the mouse button.
My favourite application of the inverse Fitts' Law is Debian's apt-get: if you're about to do something potentially stupid like uninstall your kernel, it requires you to confirm by typing the phrase "Yes, do as I say!"
mattwestcott on March 29, 2010 2:16 PMHoping this will evoke a new dawn for the much maligned 1 pixel animated delete button.
Paulgeraghty on March 30, 2010 7:37 AM@Roygbiv
There is a book with plenty of examples and information on UI and usability that i can recommend to you:
Don't make me think, a common sense approach to web usability By Steve Krug.
You can read a sample chapter Here
Shmulevich on March 30, 2010 9:52 AM@Roygbiv,
Sorry, somehow the link didn't pass.
Shmulevich on March 30, 2010 9:55 AMMy favorite example is from Sybase's old PowerDynamo web framework. Long before Django or Rails, Sybase had this database-driven web framework, programmable in server-side Javascript.
Administration was done via a client application rather than a web interface. Normally, you'd right-click on a site's icon in a list view and choose "Connect to...", then do what work you need to do, then right-click on the site icon and choose "Disconnect from site".
The only problem was that, in a misguided attempt at logical arrangement, the context menu was ordered alphabetically. That meant "Delete site" was located just before "Disconnect from site".
Fortunately, there was an "are you sure?" confirmation dialog that came up first.
Unfortunately, they used almost-identical confirmation dialogs for both "delete" and "disconnect"...
Yes, indeed, I did once kill a production website.
Tim Lesher on March 30, 2010 5:30 PM@Jespetersen: Two possibilities:
1) It's a guide dog. It looks like a labrador, and the heavy dog collar looks like one associated with a harness.
2) "Dog is my co-pilot".
I feel that pressing the wrong button isn't the issue, but irreversibility is. I wish rm was reversible: instead I have to fire up a GUI and delete it using point and click.
Andrewjgrimm.wordpress.com on March 30, 2010 6:53 PMOMG! That's why the Quit dialog in Mac editing programs looks like:
Don't Save Cancel Save
Account Deleted on March 31, 2010 4:45 AMOMG! That's why the Quit menu in all Mac editing programs looks like:
Don't Save...............[long space]................Cancel...Save
I wish there was the ability to have to hold down a shortcut (certain key or mouse button) to move a mouse from monitor to monitor. Then the natural screen edges would remain.
[ICR] on March 31, 2010 9:22 AMIf you are an experienced programmer, or a regular user of Google Docs, the [TAB] keystroke is very near in mind for indenting lists etc.
However, a [TAB] keystroke followed by a [RETURN] keystroke could be _fatal_ since it sends the email without any prompt.
Jwandborg on March 31, 2010 9:51 AMI use for COPY and for PASTE. Works for me in all Windows apps, and most things in UBUNTU.
David Kra on March 31, 2010 2:48 PMA large insurance company implemented a LIGHTS OUT Datacenter in the 1980's. All staff worked outside the room. Tapes were robotic. Printers were outside. They really ran it with the lights completely out.
An authorized person opened the door, entered and flicked the switch next to the door to turn on the lights. What was actually flicked was the EMERGENCY POWER OFF for the data center. Two water cooled mainframes, coolant distribution units, A/C units, all the minis, all disks, communications controllers, modems.....
Coming back up took a few hours.
At least the HALON manual immediate dump switch hadn't been flicked.
David Kra on March 31, 2010 2:57 PMWhat if we created a mud fence around the Eject button? That is, what if the area surrounding the button (say a 10px radius) caused the user's cursor to move at 50-70% it's regular speed. So to mouse over the eject button would require a little bit more force than mousing over more desirable actions. It'd work a little like the protective cap on real jet eject buttons, but w/o the distracting visual drama.www.brandonbrown.org
Brandon Brown on April 7, 2010 12:44 PMSo I just spent a few minutes looking for it without success, but I feel *sure* Jakob Nielsen wrote an Alertbox article about how modern machines have no excuse for "are you sure" prompts when we have all the makings needed for unlimited "undo" of any action. The gist was that if you pop up a confirmation dialog when the user tries to e.g. delete a file, all you train them to do is mentally map the "delete" action to "hit the delete key, then the enter key", buying yourself nothing. It's a bit like Jeff's own post here.
I would contend that the Anti-Fitt's Law is a lot less important than universal Undo. The Gmail thing should leave Labs and be a default-on option for everybody. If I hit Send accidentally, give me 5-10 seconds to say "Undo". If I "delete all" in my word processor, give me robust Undo. If I hit the ejector seat, a pleasant voice should tell me I will eject in 5 seconds unless I hit the NO WAIT ONLY KIDDING button.
James B on April 22, 2010 11:58 AMEveryone have their own experience in this. Though I love mac, I'm not sure why the "3 idiots" ( close, min & max) buttons are placed on the left side. As a right handed person, all I have to do is, move the cursor across the screen diagonally to do window operation.
Maheshwaran Subramaniya on April 26, 2010 11:12 AMmy personal favourite is in windows, if you right click on the "hard drive" icon, the option next to "copy" is "format"
It has been there for every version of windows i can remember, seriously how many people format their harddrives so often that this has to be a top level option.
surely it would make sense to hide it away somewhere, even my 2 year old could click on that when they are playing with the mouse
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Account Deleted on July 21, 2010 9:15 AM@Bill Karwin
"or require the Fn key on some laptops."
On a smart laptop, the BIOS lets you negate this behavior. I have a Dell Inspiron, and one of the first things I did was change that behavior.
Adam Marchetti on August 2, 2010 11:16 AMIn soviet Russia, Sukhoi Su-30 flies you, dog.
will lodise on August 6, 2010 12:16 PMPosting a comment to try to close David Kra's <b> tag, which is really bothering me. It might not work.
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TORONTO, ONTARIO and CHICAGO, ILLINOIS -- (Marketwire) -- 07/31/12 -- Bank of Montreal (TSX: BMO)(NYSE: BMO) and its subsidiaries BMO Financial Corp. ("BFC") and BMO Harris Bank N.A. ("BHB") today announced the Purchase Prices (defined below) for the previously announced cash tender offers to repurchase certain of BFC's and BHB's outstanding notes.
BFC is offering to repurchase, for cash, any and all of its 7.500% Subordinated Notes due 2013, and BHB is offering to repurchase, for cash, any and all of its 4.850% Subordinated Bank Notes due 2015 and its 5.000% Subordinated Bank Notes due 2017 (collectively, and together with the 7.500% Subordinated Notes, the "Notes").
Holders of Notes who validly tender and do not validly withdraw their Subordinated Notes prior to 5:00 p.m. (E.T.) on July 31, 2012 (the "Expiration Time"), will receive the applicable Purchase Price listed in the table below (collectively, the "Purchase Prices"). In addition, BFC and BHB will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes from the last interest payment date to, but excluding, the settlement date, which is expected to be August 1, 2012.
The Purchase Price for each series of Notes is intended to result in a yield to maturity equal to the sum of (i) the yield to maturity of the U.S. Treasury Reference Security shown in the table below for that series of Notes, as measured by the Dealer Manager at 2:00 p.m. (E.T.) on July 31, 2012, and (ii) the Fixed Spread for that series of Notes shown in the table below.
Offer by BMO Financial Corp. (Successor to First Indiana Corporation) U.S. Fixed Treasury Bloomberg Spread Purchase CUSIP Title of Reference Reference (Basis Reference Price Number Security Security Page (1) points) Yield (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 32054RAA6 7.50% 0.25% due PX1 100 bps 0.225% $1,077.58 Subordinated June 30, Notes 2014 due 2013 Offer by BMO Harris Bank N.A. (Successor to M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank) U.S. Fixed Treasury Bloomberg Spread Purchase CUSIP Title of Reference Reference (Basis Reference Price Number Security Security Page (1) points) Yield (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55259PAE6 4.85% 0.25% due PX1 130 bps 0.298% $1,091.01 Subordinated July 15, Bank 2015 Notes due 2015 55259PAD8 5.00% 0.75% due PX1 155 bps 0.600% $1,120.61 Subordinated June 30, Bank 2017 Notes due 2017 ___________________ (1) The applicable page on Bloomberg from which the Dealer Manager quoted the bid side price of the UST Reference Security. (2) Per $1,000 principal amount of Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn and accepted for purchase. Purchase Price is based on the Reference Yield of the UST Reference Security as of 2:00 p.m. (E.T.) on July 31, 2012, and an expected payment date of Wednesday, August 1, 2012. All capitalized terms used but not defined above have the meaning ascribed to such terms in the Offer to Purchase (as defined below). See Schedule A and Schedule B of the Offer to Purchase for more detailed calculations.
The tender offers are being made pursuant to an Offer to Purchase and Letter of Transmittal, each dated July 18, 2012, which set forth a more complete description of the terms and conditions of the tender offers, including the calculation of the Purchase Price for each series of Notes. Holders of the Notes are urged to read the Offer to Purchase and the Letter of Transmittal carefully before making any decisions with respect to the tender offers.
The complete terms and conditions of the tender offers are set forth in the Offer to Purchase, dated July 18, 2012 (the "Offer to Purchase"), and the related Letter of Transmittal, along with any amendments and supplements thereto, which holders are urged to read carefully before making any decision with respect to the tender offers. Copies of the Offer to Purchase and the Letter of Transmittal may be obtained from Global Bondholder Services Corporation, the Depositary and Information Agent for the tender offers, at (212) 430-3774 (banks and brokers) or (866) 873-7700 (all others). Questions regarding the tender offers may also be directed to the Dealer Manager for the tender offers, Sandler O'Neill + Partners, L.P., at (866) 805-4128 or (212) 466-7807 (collect).
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I arrived with my 2 young kids late at night @11pm after a long flight. I booked a shuttle for us and the shuttle did not arrive for 40 mins, called to book and then lady said "it's on it's way" then call 15 mins later (at the time my 5 yr old was asleep) and the lady said again "it already left, it should be there any second don't leave because the […] man will be very mad if he gets there and you have got a cab!!!" So I then stayed, waited another 25 mins, called back and a man picked up, by then I was furious, he said to me "well the shuttle hasn't left yet????... Do u still want us to come?" I got in a taxi, by then my 3 yr old was now sleeping on me and I got a taxi, which I should have gotten in the first place, paid $30 just to get to you! Ridiculous I might add?? We arrived at the hotel, still both kids sleeping, no one to help me with my bags, I got a room 318 that was super far from the lobby, had to do 5 trips carrying each child and then ALL my luggage by myself. I was very dissatisfied with the service! The room was clean but it smelt bad too! Overall very very disappointed with my stay at the Hilton Irving Homewood suites!! Pročitajte višeAutentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Wonderful place to stay ,"
It's was great, staff, room were excellent. In fact while on a short vacation we stayed at three different Homewood suites each for a night. Rooms were very clean, staff was nice. I would recommend these hotel for every family member and friends. I travel a lot stay in very high end hotels this rates up there with them. I think avg price for a king, […] non-smoking room with sofa pull- out under priced but a great deal. Good work Hilton !!! Pročitajte višeAutentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Great hotel for the family"
What a nice hotel! We really enjoyed our stay. The indoor swimming pool was nice. The room was very clean. The breakfast was good. The staff was gracious and friendly. We had a blast.Autentične Expedia recenzije gostiju
Very nice room...people were very pleasant an helpful...will be staying again on a return tripAutentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Most Enjoyable Stay"
Great locationAutentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Convenient location and helpful staff"
Great place to stay. I had a few bags delivered that they misplaced for several hours and that had me in a panic, but they finally found them. The staff was sweet and helpful. PARK AND FLY IS AWESOME!! Thanks guys!Autentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Hotel needs improvement"
The front desk service may be improved if staff was more friendly and helpful. Our room vibrated since it was directly above the maid's laundry room and there is a safety issue since our room did not lock properly. The room was spacious and clean though.Autentične Expedia recenzije gostiju
"Great family hotel near airport"
The hotel staff was very helpful and courteous. Hotel was exceptionally clean. Breakfast was wonderful.Autentične Expedia recenzije gostiju
"Pretty Nice Stay"
I liked the hotel overall. The hot tub was closed though and I was informed they would be getting rid of it. The pool was not heated either. Breakfast, rooms, and property were all very good though.Autentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
The hotel was very clean and comfortable. My son was able to leave his car on site free of charge while we were in the Bahamas.Autentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Very nice hotel close to airport"
the hotel is awesome! I loved it! Everything was very nice and up to date! ONLY problem...I called befor booking to see what time their shuttle started running for the airport. I was told it started at 4 AM. This time is only for week days. not weekends! The shuttle will not run until 7AM on Sunday and Saturday. They called us a cab and apologized. […] The cab was still $30 even though we were 10 min away. Pročitajte višeAutentične Expedia recenzije gostiju
The hotel was in renovation when we arrived, not sure who is the one to blame for the lack of notification of this, whether it's Hotels.com or the hotel itself. Then when we arrived we were told that the pool was not accessible. The next night when we acquired about the pool again we were told that it was open and the alternate route to take to access […] it, but the hot tub was no longer usable. The cleaning staff inadvertently mistook my daughter's pillow for their own and removed it from the room. Although the hotel is still a nice one, not sure if I will be staying at this one again. Pročitajte višeAutentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Super Value"
The Homewood Suites chain obviously has high quality standards. The rooms are like small apartments. In my opinion, the guest experience is much better than four and five star hotels that charge extra for things like internet, parking and breakfast. I highly recommend this hotel and the chain in general.Autentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Great hotel for family"
Clean and spacious room with nice breakfast. Shuttle service is very convenient.Autentične Expedia recenzije gostiju
"Comfortable stay"
Everything was great except door at back of building, were we parked, did not take our room keys to open, so had to walk around building in cold to get in.Autentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Did the trick"
This Homewood Suites was perfect for what I needed....a place to stay before an early morning flight out of DFW. Super nice person checked me in and my room was very nice. Comfy bed, clean bathroom and no noise with the airport just seconds away. It did the trick!Autentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Nice hotel in a difficult location"
This hotel is located next to the Dallas/Fort Worth airport so there is a lot of noise outside almost all the time. Inside the rooms are quite in spite of the constant outside noise. There is a breakfast and, on weekdays, dinner included in the room cost. They have a strange mix of plastic and metal eating utensils along with styrofoam and china plates. […] I happen to like real dishes, don't like eating with plastic, so this was not my favorite. The worst part about this hotel is it's location. With all the construction and one-way streets, it is difficult to get in and out. However, the staff tries hard and the hotel is well maintained, just inconvenient. Pročitajte višeAutentične Expedia recenzije gostiju
"Great hotel for stay near DFW or short term needs"
The Homewood Suites was a nice reprieve from the typical hotel. The rooms we had were very large and provided all the necessities of home. The morning buffet was good, not great, as it was a Sunday morning they didn't have all the usual items you'd expect (no fruit, the waffles ran out). But still a great stay and we'd definitely come again!Autentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Great for my family!"
Room was big and comfy, nice to have a living space and bedroom. Tough small breakfast had a few nice choices, only thing missing was some fresh fruit. If oafs were a maze due to construction but that is temporary.Autentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Fantastic Stay"
The rooms are very nice and clean. The ceilings are incredibly tall and the room is spacious. There is a full kitchen, including a regular-size refrigerator, and a dishwasher. The only complaints were that the shower could use some shelving and the pool gets extremely loud with only a few kids because the room echoes. Overall, the hotel is fantasti […] c. Pročitajte višeAutentične Expedia recenzije gostiju
"Awesome place!!!"
Loved it! Had a great time the only thing that would made it perfect would be to be a lil closer to our destination. It was about 25 to 35 minutes away.Autentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
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"Very pleased"
Just what I hoped for in a hotel. Clean, nice beds and a good shower with good service. Not much in the immediate vecinity for eating, but quite a few options that deliver.Autentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Very dirty carpets! Strong smell of smoke!"
The carpets were were EXTREMELY dirty and the smell of tobacco is very strong inside the hotel. Pools are not very clean either. The only good thing/convenience is the breakfast included in the stay!Autentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"great hotel for a family"
spacious comfortable suites with free breakfast and dinner. good value for money.Autentične Expedia recenzije gostiju
It was great would stay there againAutentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Great place to stay for Park n Fly"
We stayed at the Homewood Suites because we were flying out of DFW. Got a good rate on Expedia and the hotel offers park and fly at no additional charge. The free airport shuttle runs every half hour but doesn't start until 7 a.m. so if you have an earlier flight you will need to make alternate arrangements. Our room was nice and big with a kitchenette, […] sofa, large screen TV, I was a little sorry we were just staying one night. There are no eating places within walking distance of the hotel but Trisha at the front desk provided us with a list of places and she also drew us a map to show us how to get to an In & Out Burgers. They have an indoor pool that has an outdoor patio which also has a couple of grills for people to use. They also have a comfortable game room for families to use. Free breakfast included. Pročitajte višeAutentične Expedia recenzije gostiju
"close to family reunion"
great, thank youAutentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Great Stay"
Stayed just one night with my daughter during our drive home from college. The room was vrey clean. The free popcorn was a welcome sight after a long day and fast food while on the road.Autentične Expedia recenzije gostiju
"A weekend of fright..."
Not for the hotel itself, but we booked it for the Texas Frightmare Weekend going on that weekend. The hotel was great, the staff was kind, the pool was excellent. The only complaint I had was that the water pressure in the shower was low. Otherwise I have decided that next year I am going to book this hotel again.Autentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
"Disappointed with shuttle service"
Expedia reflected this hotel as having complimentary 24 hour shuttle service to/from DFW. The hours of service are actually limited and we ended up shelling out an additional $30 for cab fare to the airport for early departure. The hotel did offer shuttle service to / from restaurants until 11pm. We took advantage of that for dinner however waited more […] than an hour for pickup @ restaurant to return to the hotel. Left disappointed. Pročitajte višeAutentične Expedia recenzije gostiju
"Homewood in Irving, Texas"
The hotel is truly a home away from home. It has all the conveniences of home plus the extras. The drawbacks were the cold, cold indoor pool. And the hot whirlpool that was not in working condition. The jets would not blow. Since neither stopped my children from enjoying their stay, I am overall satisfied.Autentične Hotels.com recenzije gostiju
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Comcast COO Stephen Burke has said his company has held talks with movie studios about offering movies on VOD the same day they debut in theaters, reports Reuters.
As usual the biggest pushback has come from theater owners, who see their business model as threatened from such ventures. The talks are unique in that most have previously centered around cutting the VOD/DVD window but leaving theatrical intact.
Burke says day-and-date VOD movies could cost between $30 and $50.
At first that price point seemed extremely high to me since people weren't getting the amenities of the theater along with the film for that price. But then I thought "What amenities?" and also put it in perspective with take-out dining. If I get, say, Applebee's To Go I pay the same for my food and am fine with that despite the fact I'm not also getting the "experience."
So the price point is comparable with a trip to the theater for two or four people, depending on concessions. That's got to scare the bejeesus out of theater owners. It'll be interesting to see how this works out or if someone's greed or stubbornness derails this process.


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2280 Julia Drive has a Walk Score of 35 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so most errands require a car.
This location is in Dubuque.
Nearby schools include Resurrection School, Resurrection School and Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School.
The closest grocery stores are Aldi, Sam's Club and Sam's Club.
Nearby coffee shops include Starbucks, Starbucks and Europa Cafe. Nearby restaurants include Hardee's, McDonald's and Los Aztecas.
2280 Julia Drive is near Emmaus Bible College, University of Dubuque and Clarke University.


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Chart of the Week: ECB Will Do "Whatever It Takes"
The ECB president has announced a bond-buying plan to help Spain and Italy with their borrowing costs at the short end of the yield curve, triggering a stock market rally but leaving questions about how the plan will work.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has pledged to do "whatever it takes" to preserve the euro. That statement, combined with a declaration that the ECB will venture into the open market to buy bonds issued by the debt-laden governments of Spain and Italy to help them curb their soaring borrowing costs. In recent weeks, yields on both Spanish and Italian bond yields have been flirting with and occasionally breaking above the 7% level beyond which it is believed both will have difficulty financing their respective debt. That's the level that they crossed during last summer's European market panic, and that's the level that once more is arousing alarm amongst global policymakers and investors. Below are the charts to watch as the issue continues to dominate market sentiment; collectively, these make up this week's Chart of the Week.
Draghi's new initiative, announced last week, helped lay the groundwork for big market gains Friday and earlier today. But it is just the beginning. Both political leaders and market participants want more in the way of definite action on the part of central bankers and government leaders in Europe regarding the eurozone crisis. While Draghi's apparent commitment helped stem a bond market meltdown that had been brewing in Spain and Italy, it fell short of the immediate and definitive action that investors have been yearning to see. Draghi said that the ECB will develop a detailed plan in the coming weeks, and determine how much cash to invest in the bonds. By Friday, however, initial uncertainty had given way to a greater degree of confidence (reflected in financial markets) that Draghi's plan truly may be the first step toward a lasting solution.
Still, it is just a first step. Germany's Bundesbank remains one of the most powerful members of the ECB's governing council, and its members have spoken out against the idea of a bond-buying plan. Those reservations won't vanish overnight, and may well affect the shape of whatever specific program emerges. "It's clear and it's known that (Bundesbank head Jens) Weidmann and the Bundesbank …have their reservations about programs that envisage buying bonds," Draghi acknowledged.
While outvoted when it came to support for a program, Germany may well pick up support from other nations when it comes to determining the shape of the program that ultimately is implemented. One fact that Draghi has made clear is that any ECB bond buying program will concentrate at the shorter end of the curve, showing up in the chart in the bottom on the right of the package of four above, which depicts the steepening of the yield curve. Pushing down the short-term rates enables Spain and Italy to continue to fund themselves by issuing fresh debt – but maintains the long term pressure on both countries to adopt austerity programs and pursue economic reforms of the kind that German policymakers and politicians insist are non-negotiable.
Spain and Italy also aren't likely to be completely content with terms and conditions that will be the price of the ECB's bond purchase program. Draghi made it clear that the central bank will act only if eurozone governments kick in their own rescue funds, and only in response to a specific request from Spain. Effectively, that means Spain must humble itself in front of its eurozone peers and then will have to accept conditions and endure oversight by the ECB and those peers. The political stigma won't be easy to swallow.
The remarks by Draghi came following last week's ECB meeting, which wrapped up with the eurozone's central bank opting to keep the key short-term interest rate at only 0.75%.
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Acting Manager, Library and Media Services, Announced
I am pleased to announce that Marilyn Turner will serve as Acting Manager, Library and Media Services while Martie Grof-Iannelli is on leave. Marilyn has been with the College since 1990 most recently in the positions of Associate Registrar, Information and Customer Services and Acting Manager, Financial Aid Services. Previously Marilyn was our Alumni Officer working with the Alumni Association. While Marilyn is serving as Acting Manager, Library and Media Services she will continue her responsibility for co-ordination of graduation.
An advocate of lifelong learning, Marilyn holds an M.Ed. (Curriculum), a B.Ed. (Adult Education), a B.A. (Drama and Theatre Arts), a certificate in Alternate Dispute Resolution and is a graduate of Fanshawe College's Radio Broadcasting and Project Management programs.
Marilyn has served in a number of positions with the Department of National Defense cadet program, most recently serving as a Training Officer.
Please join me in welcoming Marilyn to Library and Media Services.
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Johanna Sigurdardottir, Icelandic prime minister, on revelations in an April 12 report on the causes of the collapse of all the nation's banks in the 2008-09 global financial meltdown:
The private banks failed, the supervisory system failed, the administration failed...and the ideology of an unregulated free market utterly failed.
The collateral damage extends to every adult in tiny Iceland (pop. approximately 250,000), whom Britain and other nations are calling on to make whole offshore depositors assiduously courted by go-go Icelandic bankers, who have since lost their deposits and other funds held by the failed Icelandic banks. This is quite impossible, since the outstanding sum exceeds the entire economy of Iceland.


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From right - Eric Westbrook's Emily (18x14, oil) and Evening Glow (36x48, oil) and Grandpa (14x11, oil) by Teresa Cowley
Susan Webster won People's Choice -First Place for her painting of her neice, Flower Girl (18x14, oil)! Congratulations from the society! David Lawton, president, awards Susan.
Jill Petit is awarded Second Place for Peoples' Choice! Her painting is titled Kathryn (20x16 oil).
Michele del Pilar receiving her Third Place People's Choice Award for her painting, Keely (40x30, oil).
Betsy Scible on right with visitor. Gabrielle DeCesaris' Catherine (24x18,charcoal) on stairway wall.
Nancy McCarra (treasurer/secretary), Allison Clock (member from Virginia) and Michele del Pilar (accreditation chair).
Joan Howe viewing the show. From right, Jennifer deWeber's The Man with a Cap (20x16, oil) and G.A. Valerio's Artist's Model (30x20, oil).
From left Rick Casali, Sunbathing (14x18, oil), Betty Pethal's Sunday (18x14, oil), James Sayler's Lady of Flowers and Butterflies (28x34.5, oil), Jeanean Songco Martin's Emily & Elora (17x21, charcoal and whilte conte) and Nancy McCarra's portrait, Paul (20x16, pastel).
G.A. Valerio, Sharon Littig, Rick Casali (vice-president) and Abigail McBride with her son.
On left John Ebersberger's Nila (20x16, oil) and David Connolly's Chesapeake Skull (11x14, oil).
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Energy Performance Contracting is a financing mechanism used to pay for energy efficiency improvements all at once that are then paid back through annual energy savings. The CEO provides technical assistance to public agencies, helping them navigate the process and ensuring that the service providers maintain the highest levels of quality. Furthermore, the CEO actively provides education and outreach on the components of Energy Performance Contracting, maintains contract documents, and sets industry standards for our Pre-Approved Energy Service Companies. For a detailed list of how the CEO-approved process works along with a checklist of important milestones and responsibilities, please look at the Standards for Success document. If you have questions regarding the program, please e-mail the EPC Program Manager.
If you are a public agency that is interested in participating in the program please e-mail the EPC Program Manager. If you choose to participate you will need to sign an Memorandum of Understanding. In addition, please review the EPC ESCO Milestone Checklist.
The Colorado EPC program has a very successful history and is currently ranked 5th in the Country for EPC completed by State. As of August 2012, the program has supported over 146 completed projects for a total of $294 million construction. The program is currently supporting 26 projects that are in construction providing jobs throughout the state.
For more information on State and Higher Education projects see the Offices of State Architects Annual Reports.
To help you find an Energy Service Company (ESCO) for your performance contracting project, the CEO has compiled this list of pre-approved ESCOs.
Please note that although the ESCOs have been prequalified through a rigorous, competitive RFP selection process, the CEO does not, in any way, promote or underwrite any individual company. The CEO RFP selection process simply selects companies based on criteria that we feel are important to provide exemplary service to agencies that participate in the CEO Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) program. Therefore, the companies listed on this CEO pre-approved list have been found to be qualified to act as ESCOs under the CEO EPC program only. They have not been evaluated for additional services that their businesses provide and should be evaluated independently by the agency for services outside of the CEO EPC Program.
We recommend that public entities interested in an EPC follow a Secondary ESCO Selection Process. State agencies are required to follow the solicitation process.
We encourage entities to refer back to the Standards of Success and the Milestone Checklist throughout the TEA process. To obtain State Agency or local technical energy audit information, please go to the links below:
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Any edits done to the contracts should be done in strike through and can result in a delay in the review by the Attorney General's office. Contract documents should be provided to the Colorado Energy Office and Attorney General's office in word.
We encourage entities to refer back to the Standards of Success and the Milestone Checklist throughout the EPC process. To obtain State Agency or local performance contracts, please go to the links below:
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The links below are to files on the Office of the State Architect website. They are provided here for your convenience.
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The CEO reviews the ESCOs on our existing list and accepts proposals for new partners regularly. The CEO is not currently reviewing applicants. The next RFP will be posted on the Colorado BIDS website. The following are some helpful documents to help prepare a potential ESCO for the upcoming application process:
2013 RFP - ESCO Prequalification Document
If you have questions regarding the program, please e-mail the EPC Program Manager.
The energy savings from a performance contract can pay for many efficiency improvements. However, to successfully implement higher capital-intensive measures, additional sources of capital may be necessary. Some possibilities include:
Utility company incentive programs – Your electric, gas, and water utilities may have incentive programs to help you pay for efficiency improvements. As part of the performance contracting process, your ESCO can identify and apply for efficiency incentives.
The Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) Energy and Mineral Impact Assistance Grant – Your ESCO can explore and apply for this potentially viable resource for no-cost grant funds. Funding cycles are open three times per year.
Xcel Energy's Standard Offer Program – Xcel Energy provides rebates for technical energy audits (TEA's) and the installation of bundles of energy conservation measures. For projects where this would be appropriate, customers should contact their Xcel Energy account manager to start the preapproval process or Kim Spickard, Standard Offer Product Manager at 303-294-2069 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
EPA Water Sense - This website provides links to rebates for water efficiency projects such as toilet replacements. The CEO highly encourages integrating water efficiency into your EPC project.
Recharge Colorado - This website provides links to rebates, tax incentives, and other financing options for energy and water improvements throughout the state of Colorado
Your own funds – If you have an adequate capital budget, your own funds can be used to fully, or partially fund the cost of your investment in energy upgrades. You will effectively pay pennies on the dollar for the improvements, because the generated energy cost savings will fund all or a portion of the upgrades.