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Managing Multiple Configuration File Environments with Pre-Build Events
ScottGu mentioned an idea to me last week that he'd had for managing configuration files like web.config depending on what the current build config is. Bil Simser mentioned one part of this in January and Rob Chartier offered batch file help on a mailing list in June. Since ScottGu is busy Managing Generally (he IS the General Manager) so I said I'd prove the concept for him.
Here's the general idea. It's not too hard. I'll use an ASP.NET Web Site and web.config as an example, but this will work with most any kind of project, exe's or .dll's.
1. From Visual Studio, go File | New Project, and select ASP.NET Web Application.
Note: Do NOT "New Web Site" as we want a .csproj and we're going to use a Pre-Build Event, not supported by Web Sites. I've named mine FooFoo.
2. Right click in the Toolbars and ensure that the "Standard" toolbar is showing. You'll know if you see a dropdown that says "Debug" next to one that says "Any CPU."
Click the dropdown and select "Configuration Manager."
You'll probably have Debug and Release configurations, but you can also make custom ones and base them on existing configuration. In this dialog I've made a new "Deploy" and I'll base it on the "Release" configuration.
Make sure to create a Solution Configuration AND a Project Configuration, as they are different. Here I've made one called Deploy for the Project also. If you get an error message, be aware of the "Create new project configurations" checkbox. You might get a warning if you are making a new configuration and the dialog tries to make another configuration with the same name; uncheck the checkbox if that happens.
Of course, you can have as many Configurations as you'd like.
3. Add some custom configuration stuff in web.config, like connectionStrings:
<connectionStrings> <add name="Foo" connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=DatabaseName; User Id=sa;Password=debug;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> </connectionStrings>
See now I've made the password in my nonsense connectionString = "debug"? Now, create three new web.config's by CTRL-dragging the web.config on top of the project. Name them web.config.debug, web.config.deploy, and web.config.release. Make the password equal to "deploy" and "release" respectively.
4. Ok, now we've got different configuration and different configuration files. Let's create a batch file called "copyifnewer.bat" and here's the contents:
@echo off echo Comparing two files: %1 with %2 if not exist %1 goto File1NotFound if not exist %2 goto File2NotFound fc %1 %2 if %ERRORLEVEL%==0 GOTO NoCopy echo Files are not the same. Copying %1 over %2 copy %1 %2 /y & goto END :NoCopy echo Files are the same. Did nothing goto END :File1NotFound echo %1 not found. goto END :File2NotFound copy %1 %2 /y goto END :END echo Done.
Basically this batch file will copy a file over another if the files don't match. It's not strictly "copyifnewer" (like, not at all) but it does the job.
Why bother with a batch file to check for changes and not just copy over the file every time? Well, each time you copy over a web.config it restarts all the designers and running AppDomains that are watching that file. No need to copy over a file if it hasn't changed...everything will churn less.
Put this copyifnewer.bat file in the root of your project.
Why not use PowerShell? One word - speed. Batch files are fast. Full stop. This is a build, so it needs to be fast.
5. Create a Pre-build Event. Right-click on your Project and select Properties. Click Build Events and in the "Pre-build event command line" and enter this value:
"$(ProjectDir)copyifnewer.bat" "$(ProjectDir)web.config.$(ConfigurationName)" "$(ProjectDir)web.config"
Notice the magic dust, the $(ConfigurationName) project variable, that contains "Debug" or "Release" or "Deploy."
6. Build. Now if you build, you'll see in the Build Output the batch file being run and the files being copied. Because it's a Pre-Build Event it'll be seen in both the Build Output in Visual Studio .NET.
When you build within Visual Studio the currently selected item in the drop-down list is the current configuration.
The configuration value can also be passed in on the command line when building with MSBUILD.
msbuild FooFoo.sln /p:Configuration=Deploy
And there you go. The connection string in the web.config now contains deployment-specific configuration data.
<connectionStrings configSource="separateConnStrings.config"/>
Bad things are that you've got to keep web.config's in sync if there's lots of settings, but you could totally break it apart via "include files."
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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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Why not use PowerShell? One word - speed. Batch files are fast. Full stop.That's one for the ages.
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Repairing 900 feet of deteriorated sidewalk on the west side of Church Ave. from Spring St. to Mountain St.
What is the current status?
This project is upcoming.
How is this project being funded?
Funding for this project comes from the Street Fund. The Street Fund is financed through two sources:
1) Turn-back revenues from the State of Arkansas. The State collects motor fuel taxes, which are returned to the City on a per-capital basis.
2) Turn-back monies received from the County Road Millage Tax. The City receives 80% of the road millage levied by the Quorum Court on real and personal property located within the city.


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This site is the archived OWASP Foundation Wiki and is no longer accepting Account Requests.
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Category:OWASP WeBekci Project
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|Project Name
|Short Project Description
|WeBekci tries to provide an admin panel that ModSecurity, which is an open source web application firewall that runs as an Apache module, lacks.
Web application firewalls (WAF) are gaining importance among the information security technologies designed to protect web sites from attack. WAF solutions prevent attacks that network firewalls and intrusion detection systems can't and they require no modification of application source code. ModSecurity is an embeddable web application firewall and it provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications. It is an open source project available to everyone; it however does not come with an admin panel.
|Email Contacts
|Project Leader
Bünyamin Demir
|Project Contributors
Bedirhan Urgun
Christophe Vandeplas
Eduardo Jorge
|Mailing List/subscribe
Mailing List/Use
|First Reviewer
Alex Fry
|Second Reviewer
Stefano Di Paola
|OWASP Board Member
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|Sponsor - OWASP Summer of Code 2008
|Sponsored Project/Guidelines/Roadmap
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What is WeBekci?
WeBekci is a web based ModSecurity 2.x management tool. WeBekci is written in PHP, Its backend is powered by MySQL and the frontend by XAJAX framework. It is an OWASP Project.
What is ModSecurity for Apache?
With over 70% of all attacks now carried out over the web application level, organisations need every help they can get in making their systems secure. Web application firewalls are deployed to establish an external security layer that increases security, detects, and prevents attacks before they reach web applications (ModSecurity).
It will remove management overhead of ModSecurity 2.x. You can configure modsecurity.conf, add special rules and watch system, apache and modsecurity logs (only guardianlog has been implemented in this version).
It covers 90 percent of the ModSecurity 2.x configuration features. Manual- and GUI-based rule managements are supported. It permits to add single-argument rules and it covers 70 percent of the action parameters. It can be used in monitoring system, apache and ModSecurity guardian logs. As of this version the monitoring utility is rather basic and it gives some information about the system.
Future Development
- Configuration : Most of the configuration parameters will be managed through the web interface
- Rule Generator : Basic rules will be generated using the web interface
- Core Rule Integration: Core rules will be added to the database for use
- Logging and Reporting: Apache error log and modsec_audit log will be parsed and presented to the user thru the web interface
- DB Support : MySQL
- Platform Linux/Unix,
- Apache + ModSecurty 2.x
- Php
- Mysql
OWASP WeBekci Project Release! - 31 March 2007
Download adress: http://sourceforge.net/projects/webekci/
# tar –zxvf webekci-1.0.tar.gz # mv webekci /usr/local/www/ # cd /usr/local/www/webekci
Primarily, create .htaccess and .htpasswd files. These are required for WeBekci`s own. Edit .htaccess file:
# vi .htaccess
In the .htaccess file, enter the correct path for the .htpasswd file in the AuthUserFile line in accordance with your own configuration:
AuthUserFile /usr/home/bunyamin/.htpasswd AuthType Basic AuthName "Owasp-WeBekci Screet Area" <LIMIT GET POST> require valid-user </LIMIT>
Now edit .htpasswd file:
# vi .htpasswd
If the user name is going to be "webekci" and password "1234", then enter:
You may enter your own UID and password.
Now, you need define "directory" in the httpd.conf file.
Alias /webekci/ "/usr/local/www/webekci/" <Directory "/usr/local/www/webekci/"> Options None AllowOverride All Order Allow,Deny Allow from all </Directory>
Note: If you are using mod_rewrite, then enter "AllowOverride All" so that .htaccess file can be read. Otherwise enter "AllowOverride None".
# apachectl restart
Make necessary modifications in config.php file. Add the following line:
It's important to create the mod_security.conf file and include its path to the httpd.conf. Let's add the following line into your httpd.conf. Change the path according to your distribution if necessary.
Include etc/apache22/extra/mod_security.conf
To give the www user read and write permissions:
# chown www /usr/local/etc/apache22/extra/mod_security.conf
Note: www user is the user where apache runs. Please check the the following entries in httpd.conf:
User www
Group www
Some distributions may have different user and/or group names.
After configuring WeBekci you need to restart apache. Do this with these sudo configurations: $config['apache_config_test'] = '/usr/local/bin/sudo /usr/local/sbin/httpd -t';
$config['apache_restart']='/usr/local/bin/sudo /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k restart';
Also alter your config.php according to your distro. Edit sudoers file:
# vi /usr/local/etc/sudoers
Enter these lines:
www ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/local/sbin/httpd -k restart www ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/local/sbin/httpd -t
Now www user can do "config test" and "restart" operations restart apache without having to enter password.
Please make sure you entered MySQL related changes in your config.php file; and browse your site and run the install.php file:
Do not forget to delete install.php later..
# rm install.php
A reminder: www user must have read-write rights to audit, debug and guardian log files. For instance, if the Guardian log file has the path as "/var/log/modsec_guardian.log" , then we need to enter this command:
# chown www /var/log/modsec_guardian.log
Now the guardian log can be seen in the program. You have to do chown for other log files, too.
I express my gratitude to those who helped me with this write-up.
Project Contributor
The project is lead by * Bunyamin Demir (bunyamin~owasp.org)
Mail list: owasp-webekci~lists.owasp.org
ModSecurity 2.1.0 Reference documentation (English) (Turkish)
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Alternately placing a 9 mm handgun to his temple and inserting the barrel of the weapon in his mouth, murder suspect William J. Goddard stood in a snow-covered field in Berlin on the afternoon of Jan. 28, 2008, and pleaded with police to shoot him, a Worcester Superior Court jury was told today.
The 42-year-old Mr. Goddard has raised an insanity defense to murder, kidnapping, assault and firearm charges stemming from the Jan. 28, 2008, shooting death of his ex-girlfriend, Kelly Brackley, at Action Crash Parts, an auto body parts distributor at 14 Railroad Ave. in Webster where she worked.
Mr. Goddard, formerly of 8 Vivian St., is also charged with shooting, Ms. Brackley's boss, Yograj Shivdasani, with whom the 30-year-old mother of five was involved in a dating relationship. Mr. Shivdasani was shot in the arm.
The shootings occurred about 9 a.m. Mr. Goddard later drove his Ford Expedition to the Spencer home of his sister, Jody Brooks, and asked her if she could give him a ride to Worcester, explaining that he was having problems with his vehicle, according to Ms. Brooks, who testified today at her brother's trial.
Unaware that Mr. Goddard had been involved in a shooting, Ms. Brooks drove him to Worcester, where he was picked up by a friend, Rebecca MacDonald, who also said she knew nothing of the shootings.
Ms. MacDonald testified earlier in the trial that Mr. Goddard told her his SUV was being repaired and asked if she would give him a ride later to pick it up. She said she drove Mr. Goddard to her home in Berlin and described him as acting "loopy" and mumbling to himself while in her presence.
Ms. MacDonald said she received a telephone call from a friend, Tara Johnson, who asked her why police would have issued a BOLO (be on the lookout) for her car. Hearing her end of the conversation, Mr. Goddard ran down the stairs and out her basement door, according to Ms. MacDonald.
A manhunt involving state police helicopters and tracking dogs led to a field off Jones Road in Berlin, where Mr. Goddard was eventually located. Armed with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun, Mr. Goddard engaged in a standoff with police.
"He was very emotional. He wanted us to shoot him. He wanted us to kill him," testified Lt. Michael Domnarski, one of several members of the state police tactical operations unit who were at the scene.
The standoff ended and Mr. Goddard was taken into custody only after Sgt. James Nanof, a veteran state police crisis negotiator, offered to get the suspect a hot coffee. When Mr. Goddard bent over to pick up the cup of coffee, Lt. Domnarski shot him four times with a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with non-lethal "beanbag" ammunition.
Lt. Domnarski testified that the ammunition is designed to bring about "pain compliance" without inflicting serious injury. He said he was told during his training that being shot with the ammunition is akin to "getting hit with a major league fastball thrown by Roger Clemens."
At one point during the negotiations, Sgt. Nanof said he told Mr. Goddard police wanted to hear his side of the story. He said Mr. Goddard, a self-employed disc jockey, responded that his side of the story was on a CD in his Ford Expedition.
Police later obtained a search warrant for the vehicle and recovered the CD.
A video of the standoff consisting of footage shot from two state police helicopters and a WBZ-TV news helicopter was played for the jury.
Also called to the stand today by Assistant District Attorney Thomas E. Landry was Angelina N. Croke, a special agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Ms. Croke, who said she knew Mr. Goddard in a professional capacity, but did not elaborate, testified that she received a call from him on her cellphone on the morning of the shootings.
The federal agent testified that Mr. Goddard told her he had confronted his ex-girlfriend at her workplace and believed he had shot her in the face and possibly shot others.
"I'm tired of everything. I can't take it anymore," Ms. Croke said she was told by Mr. Goddard.
When she suggested Mr. Goddard turn himself in, he told her he would rather kill himself, according to Ms. Croke, who said she alerted authorities after receiving the call.
In his opening statement in the case, Mr. Goddard's lawyer, Michael P. Doolin, said the evidence would show his client was suffering from bipolar disorder, post traumatic stress disorder and the effects of a series of head injuries on the day of the slaying and that he lacked criminal responsibility for his actions.


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Financial Management
The City's budget is a statement of community values and expectations reflecting specific goals which the government hopes to attain and the relative priority assigned to each of those goals. Through the budget, the City determines which services and programs will be provided, for whom, at what cost, and at what desired level of quality or performance. Thus, the budget is the centerpiece of the City's legislative and policy-making process; the most effective lever for organizational control; and the focus of its financial operation.
Budget by Fund
The City uses different funds to account for expenses and revenues associated with the various services provided.
General Fund
The General Fund, where the City accounts for most property tax supported services as well as a variety of programs supported by other revenue sources besides property taxes, represents 29 percent of the 2013 Council Adopted Budget.
Special Revenue Funds
Special Revenue Funds are used for personnel costs, operating costs, contractual services, and equipment that are funded by certain non-property tax revenue sources that are explicitly limited to specific activities. These funds support, to some degree, the convention center, health and family support; public safety; federal, state and local grants, and ongoing support of closed pension funds, among other activities.
Capital Project Funds
Capital Project Funds include permanent improvement funds and are used for the construction of infrastructure projects.
Debt Service Funds
Debt Service Funds are used to pay interest and principal on City debt.
Internal Services Funds
Internal Services Funds are used to account for business-like services that the City provides to other City departments. Internal services include information technology, fleet (e.g. police squad cars and fire equipment), property services, tort claims, and workers compensation claims.
Enterprise Funds
Enterprise Funds include services that the City provides that operate like a "business" – similar to internal service funds but with external customers. Charges for services are expected to recover operating costs, indirect costs, capital investments, and interest expense. Enterprise services of the City include sanitary sewer services, stormwater management and flood mitigation, water treatment and distribution, solid waste and recycling, and parking.
Programmatic Budgeting
The City moved from traditional incremental budgeting to program budgeting in 2012 to allow for greater clarity around the resources committed to programs. Instead of focusing on what to cut, the process focuses on where to invest. Program budgeting allows the City to direct resources towards programs that provide the greatest value, helps to articulate why a program exists, and is more strategic and transparent in that it funds activities by function rather than department.
In traditional incremental budgeting, the starting point is last year's spending with increased assumptions added to the base. Revenue shortfalls are handled most often with across-the-board cuts and departments determine how to allocate spending. In program budgeting, there is not a starting point, and departments are asked to submit programming proposals to achieve results for the City goals/priorities. This allows the City to effectively target programs for investment and cuts when necessary, allowing for a more transparent process.
Program budgeting allows for continued integration of business planning, measurement, and budgeting. This process has been implemented successfully in a number of governmental entities including Baltimore, Maryland, Savannah, Georgia; and Snohomish County, Washington, to name a few.
Annual Budget Calendar
The City's fiscal year aligns with the calendar year; thus, the fiscal year runs January 1 to December 31 each year. The budget process is a year-round activity which integrates information from the City's strategic and business planning processes, capital long-range improvement committee process, and the departmental performance measurement review process to establish annual resource allocations. The following timeline reflects the annual budget calendar.
Strategic Planning
The City engages in citywide strategic planning every four years to develop citywide goals and strategic directions. These citywide goals and strategic directions set guidelines for each department to develop its business plan. As a result of the decisions arrived to in these sessions, a new vision, five-year goals, and strategic directions were adopted.
Preliminary Year-End Budget Status Report
Finance and Property Services presents a year-end budget status report for the previous year to the Ways and Means/Budget Committee. This is a preliminary report, because the audited Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) is not available until the second quarter of the following year.
Capital Improvement Budget Development
City departments prepare and submit capital funding proposals (or modifications to existing proposals) to the Finance Department. Capital project proposals are reviewed by the Finance Department and the Capital Long-Range Improvement Committee (CLIC) . After review, CLIC provides a report with recommendations on capital funding to the Mayor, and, pending any adjustments made by the Mayor, to the City Council.
Operating Budget Development
Departments work in coordination with Finance and Property Services to prepare programmatic operating budgets. In addition, departments prepare proposals that describe policy and organizational changes with financial implications. During this time, departments may also submit proposals for funding of operating capital. The program proposals form the basis for the Mayor's budget meetings with departments held in June and July.
Mayor's Recommended Budget
The Mayor's Recommended Budget is based on program proposals submitted by departments. These program proposals are reviewed and discussed by the submitting department, the Mayor's Office, the Coordinator's Office, and Finance and Property Services for priority-setting. In addition to reviewing operating budgets, the Mayor meets with representatives from CLIC before finalizing the capital budget recommendation. By City Charter, the Mayor must submit the proposed budget to the City Council no later than August 15.
Maximum Proposed Property Tax Levy
As a requirement of State law, the maximum proposed property tax levy increase is set by September 15 by the Board of Estimate & Taxation (BET). The BET, described in detail on page 134, sets the maximum levies for the City, the Municipal Building Commission, the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, and the Park & Recreation Districts.
City Council Budget Review and Development
The City Council budget review and development process beings with a series of public hearings on the Mayor's Recommended Budget. These hearings are conducted by the Ways and Means/Budget Committee, with all Council Members invited to attend. Following departmental budget hearings, the Ways and Means/Budget Committee forwards its recommendations to the full City Council. The committee-recommended budget includes any and all changes made to the Mayor's Recommended Budget.
Truth in Taxation
Truth in Taxation or "TNT" property tax statements are mailed by Hennepin County to property owners indicating the maximum amount of property taxes the owner will be required to pay. These statements also indicate the dates when TNT public hearings will be held. State law was changed in the 2009 Legislative Session to eliminate a separate TNT hearing. It was replaced with a requirement to allow public comments at the meeting at which the final budget adoption occurs. However, the City Council has maintained this hearing as part of its regularly scheduled budget meetings to provide greater opportunity for public engagement on budget-making decisions.
City Council Budget Adoption
The City Council adopts a final budget that reflects any and all changes made to the Mayor's Recommended Budget. Once the final budget resolutions are adopted, all department requests for additional funds or positions made throughout the year are brought as amendments to the original budget resolutions for approval by the City Council.
Also See
- City Budget & Financial Reports
- Finance & Property Services Division
- Strategic Planning and Analysis
- Department Business Plans
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OTF Knives (Out the Front Knives)
OTF knives, Out the Front knives, or Switchblades. Whatever you prefer to call em, weve got em. While these knives are primarily used by and made for law enforcement, military personnel, and first responders, they make a great addition to any collection. Plus, they help tone your thumbs.
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Zink Canada Interview – School of Rock
Well, I have to say I feel very hip seeing myself in one of my favourite magazines! This is from the autumn issue of Zink Canada. When Zink magazine said they'd like to interview me I was quite delighted and they asked for a picture of me so I sent them a typical headshot. ThenContinue reading


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For lectures to programs for children, come visit us at one of the library events and programs listed below. For more information, call 615-862-5750 or 1-800-342-3262.
Friday, February 16, 2018 from 9 am to 3 pm and Saturday, March 3, 2018 from 9 am to 3 pm.
Free Tax Prep Day at DeafConnect - RSVP Required
To RSVP: Contact Gina on VP at 901.201.5733 -spaces are limited so call soon-
*** Attention interpreters.. Contact Summer if you would like to volunteer your services for this event.
Lunch will start at noon.
Member cost: $5.00; Non-member cost: $10.00. Will have DOOR PRIZES!!
Will have a brief meeting based on general and 50th Anniversary committees
Any Questions please contact John Evans or Cindy Perdue
Docent-Guided Exhibition Tour with ASL Interpretation
1:30 p.m.
Meet at the Frist Art Museum's Information Desk
Gallery admission required. Click here for admission prices.
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4:30 p.m.
Meet in the Frist Art Museum's Grand Lobby
Coming downtown to the First Saturday Art Crawl? Then start your evening at the Frist.
"When was the Frist Art Museum built? Who was the architect? Can you tell me about the floors in the galleries?" These are just some of the questions answered in the Frist's popular architecture tours. Stroll around the Frist Art Museum as you learn more about our landmark building from one of our always-engaging docents.


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Default on Loans and Debts: Higher Education Student Loans
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Student loan debt and student loan default is one of the most serious problems facing the country's long term recovery and health, and it is increasingly in the news. I'll post frequently about this topic. For today — a recent New York Time's article reports: In all, nearly one in every six borrowers with a […]
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Democrats nominate 3 'constitutional officers,' returning 2 to former posts
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � Maine legislative Democrats have selected their nominees for three highly visible state offices � secretary of state, treasurer and attorney general � and their votes are all but guaranteed to return two of them to offices they previously held.
House and Senate Democrats gathered together Tuesday to make their nominations in advance of the formal opening of the new legislative session.
They nominated Matthew Dunlap of Old Town as secretary of state and Janet Mills of Farmington as attorney general. Both previously held those posts before Republicans ousted them in 2010 after the GOP took control of the Legislature.
Democrats also nominated Neria Douglass as state treasurer. Douglass, who's been state auditor for the last eight years, also is all but certain to win a final vote Wednesday.


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Forget Facebook; IPO Investors Like Real Estate
After Facebook Inc.'s calamitous IPO, investors are now looking less at the Internet and more at real estate to put their money in, MarketWatch's David Weidner reports. (Photo: AP)
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P repare to travel lightly for this Sunday's Estes Park Music Festival Winter Series at The Stanley Hotel Concert Hall, as Cobus du Toit, on flute, and Patrick Sutton, on guitar, present The Music of Argentina and Mountains Over the Sea. Beginning at 2 p.m., the concert is a program change, from Duo Chagall, because of the illness of one of their members. Admission is $7 at the door or Save by subscription: $60 for a block of 10 tickets of your concert choice. Children and students are admitted free. This concert is sponsored by Thorp Associates. For your convenience, there is additional parking behind the Stanley. Doors to the concert area open at 1:30 p.m.
Du Toit has been praised for his crystal-like tone and his innate sense of musical style, and is quickly establishing himself as one of the leading flutists of his generation. He has won more than a dozen competitions across the globe. Some of the most prestigious prizes includes the SAMRO International Music Scholarship Competition, the UNISA Performers Licentiate Competition, the Boulder Philharmonic Young Artist Competition and the Byron Hester Flute Competition.
Having already performed as a soloist with the Kwazulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, University of Pretoria Symphony Orchestra, the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, du Toit continues this legacy with three concertos this season, alongside the University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. His chamber music focus extends to the duToit/Sutton duo with classical guitarist Patrick Sutton.
Du Toits held the principal position in the National Youth Orchestra of South Africa, which toured to Germany for the Beethoven Festival in Bonn. While in Germany, he performed at noted venues, such as the Berlin Philharmonie, under conductor Herbert Blomstedt. He is currently the principal flute with the Boulder Chamber Orchestra and the flute player of the Antero Winds, a Colorado-based professional woodwind quintet.
Du Toit holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pretoria, where he studied flute under Professor John Hinch, and a master's degree from the University of Colorado, where he studied under Christina Jennings. Patrick Sutton began his journey with the guitar at the age of 11 in Evergreen, Colo. He completed his bachelor and master's degrees in classical guitar performance at the Lamont School of Music, studying with Ricardo Iznaola, Masakazu Ito and Jonathan Leathwood. While at Lamont, he received several honors, including first place in the 2009 Lamont Chamber Music Competition, three Recital of Distinction awards and induction into the Pi Kappa Lambda national music honor society. He is also a prize-winner at the DCGS Guitar Competition.
Recent and upcoming performances include engagements with the Boulder Symphony, Colorado Music Festival Orchestra and the Lakewood Symphony. A highlight of the upcoming concert season will be the premiere of a new concerto for violin and guitar with Rebekah Durham, by 2012 Grammy-nominated composer Austin Wintory. Chamber music is his favorite expressive outlet. He recently completed recording an album of cello and guitar music entitled, "Cold Dark Matter," with cellist and duo partner Kimberly Patterson of the Tesla string quartet. Sutton also regularly collaborates with flutist Cobus Du Toit.
He has twice been the John D'Addario Performing Assistant at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine, where he performed extensively and gave premieres at its Gamper Festival of New Music.
He maintains a passionate interest in a wide variety of musical styles and has been sponsored by Godin Guitars. He is currently on the music faculty at Community College of Denver and Naropa University. Patrick is also pursuing a doctor of musical arts degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder, as a graduate teaching assistant and Continuing Education instructor.
Together, the du Toit/Sutton Duo explores the horizons of flute and guitar music with verve and passion. Sunday's program features Latin music at its best and most exciting. Join the Music Festival for a very special afternoon.
Thank you to the Stanley Hotel, Peterbark Productions, our weekly sponsors and Winter Season Major Benefactors: Daniel and Stephanie Rauk, Ron and Vivian Gordon, Chevron Corporation and the Estes Park Community Thrift Shop.
How about a gift of music? Purchase a 10-concert ticket package for $60 and give a couple of tickets as gifts to those you want to remember for a special occasion. The tickets are good for any concert of the Winter Series. There are so many varied concerts remaining, you have a great selection. Ticket packages can be purchased at the Music Festival Business Office, Hobert's Office Services, at 1140 Manford Ave., Suite A, or at any Sunday concert.
Another fabulous first performance with the Music Festival. The program on Jan. 27 features Joseph Howe and Allan Armstrong on piano and cello, presenting a classical chamber concert. There will be no concert on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3.
For further information, contact our business office at 970-586-9519 or visit our up- to-date website: estesparkmusicfestival.org. To receive weekly updates of our concerts and upcoming events, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Where: Stanley Hotel Concert Hall
What: Winter Series Performance
When: Sunday, Jan. 20, 2 p.m.
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Cultural Landscape of the Vernacular Stilt Housing of Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta and of Medio Atrato
Permanent Delegation of Colombia to UNESCO
Departments of Antioquia, Chocó and Magdalena
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Housing in the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta
Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta is located in the northern part of the country, on the coast of the Caribbean Sea, between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Magdalena river. It was declared a Ramsar Site, as it is one of the ecosystems with main ecological significance in the country. It is made up by a group of marshes and a network of creeks and rivers; it is the largest lacustrine complex in Colombia, with an area of 4,280 Km2, from which 730 km2 are water surface.
The lacustrine towns of Bocas de Aracataca or Trojas de Cataca (township of the municipality of Pueblo Viejo), Buenavista and Nueva Venecia, also known as "El Morro" (the latter located on the jurisdiction of the municipality of Sitionuevo) were located on Cienaga de Pajaral marsh and the Cienaga Grande itself since the mid XIX century.
These fishermen neighborhoods have achieved a level of adaptation and integration to their environment by developing houses that are immersed in the aquatic medium, with the use of wood as the main construction material and the improvement of the stilt construction techniques, on which platforms and docks are built in order to support the houses and thus guarantee their stability and enduringness when facing the changes and movements of the water of the marsh. The main economic activity of the inhabiting communities is artisanal fishing. Fishing has been a determinant factor for houses to have living and working spaces, and has favored interaction between the inhabitants and the marsh by incorporating drying areas (Trojas), as well as fish farming and storage.
The product of this economic activity is traded in the nearby markets of Barranquilla, Soledad, Malambo, Sabanagrande, Santo Tomás and Palmar de Varela, in the Department of Atlántico, and Sitionuevo, Remolino and some others in the Department of Magdalena. The main means of communication amongst the different towns and markets is water, in canoes and motorboats.
The conditions of the marsh, including the presence of freshwater and salt water tributaries, as well as shallow surfaces, have made it a very rich ecosystem with abundant fish. Fish group themselves in big masses and resemble floating food islands during the subienda (time in which fish swim up river to spawn). Additionally the fact that the swamp is closed causes fish to have reduced mobility, which makes them bigger in size as compared to fish found in waters allowing for better mobility.
Houses have been conceived as isolated units in the three towns. Houses in Bocas de Aracataca are different in that they are supported by an area with more extensive ground surface; this means that archipelago – like house building has been facilitated, without necessarily utilizing wooden stilts as foundations, and this condition has made many of these housing solutions targets during the rainy season.
In Buenavista and Nueva Venecia, the totality of houses is supported by wooden stilts, and the houses are almost exclusively connected by canoes. There are connection bridges only amongst main public use buildings such as schools and churches.
Stilt communities have had to implement knowledge and techniques which have enabled them to develop a relationship with their environment, slowly adapting their traditional practices to the present demands and conditions. However, since these communities are part of a very fragile environmental context, they can be threatened by changes on the swamp's ecosystem.
Thus, up to now, the inhabitants have been able to develop sustainable environmental management, with ownership on the space whereby stilts emerge as a settlement model and territorial representation. Thus, housing appears as both the support and scenery of culture, as it allows the continuity of traditions and lifestyles which have been passed on through generations, barter and communication systems, as well as the uses and management of the territory, resisting transformations akin to urban evolution.
The constructive development of the houses starts by choosing the place where the house will stand and driving of the mangrove wooden stilts into the ground, on top of which the wooden floors and walls will be supported. The general dimensions of the houses include one storey, with a gabled roof oriented depending on direction of the wind. The indoor outline follows a traditional distribution that includes a social living room / dining room area, a bedroom area, bathroom services as well as a kitchen with a stove.
A significant element in these houses is the possibility of constructing a patio by filling a fenced area with solid waste such as oyster shells, branches, mud and rubble, all brought in by boats and canoes: "Thus, with surprising constancy, by force of accumulating the most diverse waste and materials, a very humid terrain is achieved at last, after two or three years, which is more of a marsh that any other type of terrain, whose area is 20.50 or 80 sq. meters. According to the economic possibilities of the landowner, this word can be used here. After some more time, the long – awaited patio is obtained which, if not completely dry, has less humidity."
In general terms, it has been necessary to fill in areas in the three lacustrine towns to establish common use areas during the dry season when the water level is lower; places like soccer fields, and areas next to churches and schools, which normally take the place of main squares in traditional towns.
Stoves used to be located at the patios for fish smoking; nowadays, fish is not smoked but sun dried on the Troja, a uniform log surface on which the product is displayed. Therefore patios are now used for drying clothes, fixing canoes, storing water and for children to play.
The technical construction of these houses is very different from that mainland housing. They are not the result of a contract with construction workers or builders, but an event that gathers comrades, friends and family, strengthening friendship and kinship ties; it changes from a constructive event to a social gathering. In this regard, knowledge of the trade lies not only in the hands of masters; it is in everyone's head, from children down to grandparents.
The distance between houses, besides being part of its urban configuration, is a resource that promotes health to the extent that all waste from households is discharged directly into the seawater. If houses were arranged in a continuous manner, a health problem of great dimensions would arise. Without being symmetrically arranged, houses establish river flow areas between one another, analogous to roads of any mainland town. These houses are similarly arranged by sectors or neighborhoods, almost always resulting from family associations.
The strategic location of these villages has turned the population into targets of illegal groups seeking to control the territory, with massacres such as that of November the 22nd, 2000. This event remains in the memory of settlers due to its cruelty and depravity, as a profound scar which marked and transformed their lives and those of their families, with the loss of life and displacement into other towns. Displacement has caused abandonment of some of the houses, as well as lack of interest in continuing to live in the villages.
Housing in Medio Atrato
This type of housing can be seen in the municipalities of Quibdó, Medio Atrato, Bojayá Murindó and Vigia del Fuerte. It is the result of the superimposition of a system of space occupation by people of African descent on the previous Indian settlement system, in a territory mainly populated by ethnic groups exploited and oppressed by the Spanish presence.
Narrations by indigenous people in the area tell that African descendants learned the production and construction techniques of the houses of the former, as they were most appropriate to the environmental conditions of the tropical rainforest. Said housing solutions are practically identical to those built a hundred years ago.
In order to better understand the origin of the settlement system, it is necessary to understand that it was primarily influenced by an economy linked to mining and, subsequently, the farming system developed in the region in the twentieth century.
Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries there is rudimentary mining activity in Chocó, which is controlled by the Spanish colonial regime from the mid-seventeenth century. This activity entered into crisis in the nineteenth century when slavery was abolished. The conquest of this territory was not easy, and it was not achieved by the Spanish colonizing expeditions but by small civilian mixed groups of Creoles, mestizos and mulattos coming from cities like Pasto, Popayán, Cali, Buga, Cartago, and in general of the West Cordillera. This is therefore a land of settlers, at least initially. The sparse population in the region was located in low-density cores on the areas where mining - the source of income at the time- was taking place. None of these townships was upgraded to "Villa" or "City", being at most classified as "Town", and predominantly in the "Real de Minas" (Royal mining) category, many of which disappeared shortly after their creation.
Some time later there came a phase of land settlement and an independent mining mainly driven by Cimarrones, libertos (freed slaves) and manumisos (freedmen) who peacefully ended up covering primarily the banks of the main tributaries of the region, beginning in the late eighteenth century, reaching a peak in the early twentieth century and remaining valid to this day. The spontaneous land settlement also generated numerous agricultural enclaves deeper into the jungle, there appearing plantations of maize, sugarcane, coconut, rice, cassava and plantains. The stage of self - sufficiency is reached, subsequently achieving surpluses which could be traded and leading to the emergence of collection centers.
The river populated areas are exposed to continuous rains typical of a super-wet tropical climate like the jungles of Chocó; there can be found over 150 of them in the study area. In general, more than 400 river villages can be identified in the country's Pacific region with a population reaching 300,000 people.
The transformation of the pattern commonly used in the plot planted in the middle of the forest is transformed into scattered cultivations and linear villages. These are generally rural populations with no more than two thousand persons, not exceeding five thousand, or settlements which house between 10 and 100 families.
Collective and rotational use of land for farming is predominant, as well as water resources and forests. Lack of title to property is also common; property is acquired through inheritance, donation or usufruct. A similar situation occurs with the lots where houses are built (which have use value but no economic value); these lots are given free of charge, or at a very low price, to those who want to build their house there, with a predominance of blood relationships, friendship or cronyism (as well as in agricultural and collective fishing farming economic activities). Only seldom is a house bought or sold, and the usual practice upon the abandonment of a house is to assign it or to lend it to a relative, and even more rarely is the house rented; such a situation occurs in cases of arrival of outsiders to the villages.
The evolution of farm typology is characterized by the passage from the initial scattered productive lands to rural neighborhoods, township nuclei and finally urban centers, thus generating various types of lots on which production areas are ever smaller, whilst residential areas increase and are subdivided amongst family members. Three types of properties can be identified: Firstly, cultivated rural lots, and / or intended for animal husbandry, with areas between 300 and 800 m2. Secondly, lots with ample back patios and generous front sides, whereupon houses are built with an area ranging between 150 m2and 800 m2. In third place there are lots with areas between 100 and 150 m2 with a small backyard. Family size varies between five and seven people who occupy lots with an average area between 100 and 200 m, thus allowing the existence of small - scale and self - sufficiency agricultural activities.
The rhythm of daily activities is marked by the river's behavior. When the river covers the earth, there appear rafts and multipurpose barges which are moored near homes. This barges consist of planks resting on balsa logs, to which enclosure walls and covers can be added, and may be intended for such varied activities as deposits, pens for pigs and chickens and communal activity and socialization areas (laundry and dishes, beauty salon, fishing, etc.), maintenance and care thereof is the responsibility of all villagers. The only possibility of movement amongst the houses is by means of trestles. When the soil is dry, the boats are moored away from the houses. The stilts whereupon houses stand can be seen and the soccer fields can be used, so that different applications are given to the private and collective space, in accordance with the fluctuation of water.
Coordinates: 10°46'4.30"N, 74°22'12.48"W (village of Bocas de Aracataca, municipality of Pueblo Viejo, Magdalena), 10°50'29.59"N, 74°30'32.72"W (municipality of Buenavista, a town of Sitio Nuevo, Magdalena), 10°49'44.70"N, 74°34'28.61"W (village of Nueva Venecia municipality of Sitio Nuevo, Magdalena), 5°41'28.43"N, 76°39'29.99"W (municipality of Quibdo, Chocó), 5°59'58.60"N, 76°46'59.29"W (municipality of Medio Atrato, Chocó), 6°33'29.56"N, 76°53'41.05"W (municipality of Bojayá, Chocó), 6°35'38.77"N, 76°53'28.89"W (municipality of Vigia del Fuerte, Antioquia), 6°47'59.94"N, 76°47'59.61"W (municipality of Murindó, Antioquia).
Justification de la Valeur Universelle Exceptionnelle
The cultural landscape shaped by the existing lacustrine populations in Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta is a representative example of adaptation and coexistence in a lacustrine environment, which has allowed the permanence and continuity of traditions and knowledge about fishing, as well as the emergence of construction techniques and production systems defined by environmental conditions and resources.
In the case of the housing associations in Medio Atrato, this cultural landscape is the result of adaptation of human groups (mainly formed by African descendants) who settled this area in the middle of the tropical rainforest of the Pacific since the seventeenth century in its natural environment. These groups adapt the rhythm of their day – by – day activities to fluctuations in water levels both from rainfall and the river itself, with linear settlement patterns of houses on stilts along the Atrato river. The Atrato river is the heart of the area and is the ultimate means of communication amongst villages, since it drives the economy and travelers going daily between Quibdó city (located near the headwaters of the river) and the Gulf of Urabá (located in the Caribbean Sea) over a length of approximately 750 kilometers. This cultural landscape is alive and constantly under construction, along the Atrato and its tributaries there appear buildings and new homogeneous housing clusters on a daily basis, while responding to environmental variables which have remained constant in the region and which constitute the cultural border between the jungle and the river.
The close relationship of these communities with their natural environment makes them heavily reliant on conservation thereof, which has brought about a symbiotic bond to the balance between environmental conditions and production and daily routines. Said bond is currently threatened by environmental changes due to global warming and conflicts of a public and social kind that these regions of the country live; for this reason it is imminently necessary to acknowledge the values present in these communities, as well as their conditions and characteristics with the possibility of promoting or searching for tools to allow them to maintain their current lifestyle.
Criterion (iv): The implementation and construction of these stilt villages is an example of the dominion of environmental conditions, resulting from adaptation over more than two centuries by human groups, who have generated their own building systems and efficient optimization of resources and transformation of the landscape, creating a building tradition marked by the use of wood as the main material and a system of docks and stilts for support and water insulation. The materiality of such housing has changed over time but has adapted to the introduction of new materials, thereby maintaining the traditional building technique.
Criterion (v): These settlements represent a traditional occupation which has configured a symbiotic relationship between the aquatic media and its inhabitants, following a particular lifestyle governed by the natural conditions and the everyday activities of its inhabitants.
Déclarations d'authenticité et/ou d'intégrité
Despite the security problems which have affected the zones wherein it is possible to observe these types of housing (and that have generated displacement of some of its inhabitants) and the appearance of new building materials that have slowly replaced traditional ones in some cases, passage of time has shown that this type of construction is the most efficient way of adapting to the aquatic ecosystems in which these groups are settled, as construction materials are provided and subsequently reabsorbed when deteriorated, without affecting the environmental balance.
Whilst specific zones of the Colombian territory are indicated as exemplary of this type of housing, this way of coexisting with the aquatic medium is commonly extended to vast zones of the pacific, as is the case of the constructions along the Atrato riverbanks.
As regards housing in lacustrine ecosystems, evidence has been made manifest in recent years of the necessity to protect both the Cienaga (marsh) and the traditional way of living of its inhabitants, throughout a series of projects which seek to decontaminate the body of water, recover currently deteriorated constructions, and attracting visitors to the zone as a way of destigmatizing it as a violence – stricken zone.
Comparaison avec d'autres biens similaires
So far there have been no similar examples in the list of World Heritage List. However, it has been possible to identify two examples that can serve as a reference for this case:
1. The stilt houses of Chiloe in Chile, which are associated with a set of notable churches declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The city of Castro is the capital of the homonymous municipality, on the Big Island of Chiloé archipelago, located 1200 kilometers south of Santiago de Chile. It's the beautiful Los Lagos Region.
Typical stilts houses line the steep and rugged coastline in the region. The stilt -shaped buildings are not just limited to homes, but also restaurants and hotels. The stilt houses of Chiloé are also world famous for being one of the few cases of this type of constructions so large and over the sea.
2. Santa Rosa de Agua. Maracaibo, Venezuela
This set stilts appears with news of being declared by UNESCO as a world architectural heritage in 1992. However, as it doesn´t appear in the World Heritage List, it has been difficult to verify the veracity of this declaration.
Santa Rosa de Agua is a similar example of adaptation developed in the Cienaga Grande of Santa Marta, with construction techniques and own housing schemes resulting from local conditions.


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Embedded modules that can upgrade existing relays and IEDs to latest Smart Grid substation and metering protocols (IEC 61850, GOOSE, DLMS) with minimum R&D effort and time
With the advent of superior protocols like IEC 61850, there is an increasing need for Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) to be compliant with these new protocols while still maintaining interoperability with legacy ones. Kalkitech's SYNC 200 series of embedded chip products act as upgrade cards for incorporating latest smart grid substation and metering protocols in existing IED equipment design.
SYNC 200 module series offer the IED manufacturers the ability to upgrade to support almost any protocol like IEC 61850, DNP3.0, IEC 608570-5-101 / 103 / 104 and DLMS/COSEM with minimal change in product design, enabling faster go-to-market, while saving on R&D and product development costs. Additionally, the incremental R&D efforts in keeping up with the latest protocol developments is borne by experienced professionals from Kalkitech rather than the device manufacturers, allowing them to focus on their core strengths.
SYNC 200 (formerly named as SYNC OEM) is embedded in various devices like Protection Relays, Energy Meters, Mini RTUs, Transformer Monitoring Systems, PLCs, Switch gears and Alarm Annunciators, and is being used under long term agreements at more than 30 customer locations worldwide.
SYNC 200 modules are specifically designed for power industry applications, with superior processing capabilities as well as numerous interfacing options. SYNC 200 has been tested to withstand stringent temperature and environmental variations and has proved successful in a variety of industry segments. SYNC 200 modules are suited for high performance IEC 61850 requirements and can be used for General Purpose Input / Output (GPIO) and Generic Object Oriented Substation Events (GOOSE) based high-speed messaging. Numerous products using Kalkitech SYNC 200 series embedded boards have been certified at KEMA and CPRI test labs by various customers.
SYNC 200 provides not just one-to-one protocol conversion, but also many-to-many protocol conversion and supports a full set of protocols. Moreover, the small size and the various interfacing mechanisms like TTL, I2C SPI and GPIO make it ideal for a large variety of products and applications.
Kalkitech has developed a Developer Kit to help test and integrate the SYNC 200 modules with end devices quickly and with minimal costs. The Developer Kit comes with the necessary development board and sample SYNC 200 modules hardware, configuration tools and documentation, as well as 20 hours of free technical support.
Kalkitech also provides support for IEC 61850 Level A certification from KEMA on customer devices, CPRI and other certification agencies, built on its expertise in IEC 61850 and product management.
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Client: Gilbane
Location: New Albany, OH
Engineer: M Engineering
Architect: Acock & Associates
Scope: HVAC and Plumbing
Mechanical Value:
Project Type: Commercial
Project Description: HVAC and plumbing for this 350,000 SF distribution center.
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical was responsible for all mechanical systems. A mechanical room provides HVAC for the distribution center. HVAC equipment includes two boilers, two chillers, and seven central air handling units. Three of the air handling units are large built-up air houses.
Client: Infinity Construction Company
Owner: City of Avon
Location: Avon, Ohio
Engineer: O Sports/ Osborn Sports
Architect: RWL Architects Inc.
Scope: Plumbing and HVAC
Mechanical Value: $1,200,000.00
Project Type: Commercial, Recreation and Sports Facility
Project Description: Provide Plumbing and HVAC for new stadium.
Project Highlights: Plumbing and HVAC was installed for the restrooms, a complete kitchen, and three different bar areas for the new stadium. The project came in under budget and on schedule.
Client: Gilbane
Owner: Chemical Abstracts
Location: Columbus, OH
Engineer: HAWA, Inc.
Scope: HVAC, Plumbing, and Piping
Mechanical Value: $2,058,091.00
Project Type: Commercial
Project Description: 45,000 SF expansion for a computer data base center.
Project Highlights: Design called for installation of nine drycoolers installed in two rows, with piping to serve three additional coolers. Initial design required installation of the pipe runs between the two rows which would have obstructed access for future maintenance and repairs. Through the partnership of Speer Mechanical, the owner, and design engineer, an alternative layout was designed, allowing for easier access. The new design called for installation of pipe underneath the units instead of between the rows. The units were raised to accomodate the pipe. The installation was both functional and visually appealing.
Client: Smoot Elford Resource
Owner: Columbus City Schools
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Engineer: Korda/Nemeth Engineering
Architect: Design Group
Scope: HVAC and Plumbing
Mechanical Value: $5,156,000.00
Project Type: Institutional
Project Description: Complete renovation of 183,367 SF high school and construction of a new 8,811 SF athletic complex.
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical rose to the challenge as contractor for all HVAC and plumbing for the complete renovation of South High School, originally built in 1924 and considered eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Speer Mechanical worked with all trades and preservation consultants on the project.
Client: Dugan & Myers
Owner: The Stonehenge Company
Location: Gahanna, Ohio
Engineer: Prater Engineering Associates, Inc.
Architect: Bird Hauk Collaborative
Scope: Plumbing
Mechanical Value: $172,200.00
Project Type: Commercial
Project Description: Provide all plumbing for an underground 310-space parking facility.
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical was pleased to participate in the Olde Gahanna Revitalization Project by providing all of the plumbing for the Creekside Underground Garage. The garage services this east-side community, consisting of nearly 240,0000 SF of mixed-use development including fine dining, shopping, luxury residences, and access to pedestrian walkways along the restored Big Walnut Creek.
Client: Dennis Group
Owner: Dole Fruit & Nut Company
Location: Springfield, OH
Engineer: The Dennis Group
Mechanical Value: $870,431.00
Project Type: Industrial - Food Processing
Project Description: This project included the installation of industrial piping and sanitary waste
and HVAC for this 140,000 SF food processing facility.
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical was responsible for underground plumbing systems and the
office HVAC system. Speer provided design assistance for the office HVAC
system to meet the schedule requirements.
Client: Dugan & Meyers
Owner: Steiner & Associates
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Engineer: Speer Mechanical Design Build
Architect: Desman & Associates
Scope: Plumbing
Mechanical Value: $62,760.00
Project Type: Commercial
Project Description: Provide Design Build Services for all plumbing needs.
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical Design Build Services included the storm drainage piping for this two-story garage. The Hilton at Easton Town Center is a full service, AAA 4 Diamond upscale hotel boasting 313 guest rooms.
Client: Corna/Kokosing Construction Company
Owner: E Corp.
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Engineer: Korda/Nemeth Engineering
Architect: Acock & Associates
Scope: HVAC, Plumbing, and Building Automation
Mechanical Value:
Project Type: Commercial
Project Description: Easton Town Center was designed as a leisure center with emphasis on entertainment facilities, restaurants, and nightclubs. The structure is a two-level facility totalling 601,640 SF with two, multi-level parking structures.
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical was responsible for HVAC, plumbing, and the building automation system for the core building and tenant finishes. Speer Mechanical furnished and installed all devices to make a complete building automation system for temperature control including tie-ins to the fire system, smoke evacuation, and building pressurization. In conjunction with AEP Communcations, who provided Datapult, a communications and energy management package, Speer Mechanical provided sub-metering of utilities. The project was driven by a demanding schedule with a requirement to complete the project in less than 12 months.
Client: Corna/Kokosing Construction Company
Owner: Easton Town Center, LLC c/o Steiner + Associates, Inc.
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Engineer: Korda/Nemeth Engineering
Architect: Meacham & Apel Architects Inc.
Scope: Plumbing and HVAC Core and Shell Work, Special Projects
Mechanical Value:
Project Type: Commercial
Project Description: New, four-story mixed-use office building.
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical provided the plumbing and HVAC core and shell work. The building provides retail space on the first floor and offices on the second, third, and fourth floors. Upon completion, the Speer Mechanical Special Projects Division was contracted to finish the tenant space for J. Jill retail stores and WomanKind Medical Office Space.
Client: Turner Construction Company
Owner: Franklin County
Location: Columbus, OH
Engineer: Heapy and Dynamix
Architect: Hellmuth, Obata, Kassabaum Inc. and Moody Nolan
Mechanical Value: $17,000,000.00
Project Type: Commercial - Plan/Spec
Project Description: New construction, LEED and Green Seal, for this $140-million, 14-story, Hilton Hotel.
Project Highlights: The Hilton hotel includes 532 guest rooms; 23,000 square feet of meeting space; 12,000 square foot ballroom; 160-seat restaurant and a 100-seat lounge.
Speer Mechanical performed the fabrication and installation of the HVAC duct work, HVAC piping systems and the plumbing systems.
The project was designed and modeled in REVIT. Speer Mechanical took the lead in the BIM coordination process, performed all clash detection in NavisWorks and chaired all coordination meetings.
The hotel is designed to attain both LEED and Green Seal Certifications from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Client: Bassett Mechanical
Location: Massillon, Ohio
Engineer: Bassett Mechanical
Scope: Demo, Install Condensers, and Complete Piping Hookup
Mechanical Value: $580,000.00
Project Type: Industrial, Food Processing
Project Description: Demo all existing material and remove. Receive and set four ammonia condensers and complete piping hookups for each.
Project Highlights: Ammonia condensers were installed without any interruption to the Heinz Foodservice production schedule. The work schedule was coordinated with all trades to achieve a tight installation timetable, bringing the project in on schedule and under budget.
Client: Holmes Cheese Co.
Location: Wooster, Ohio
Engineer: Hinkel Engineering Inc.
Scope: Plumbing and HVAC
Mechanical Value: $280,000.00
Project Type: Industrial, Food Processing
Project Description: Provide HVAC, plumbing, and process piping.
Project Highlights: The installation for a new process treatment facility allowed the facility to separate the whey from the waste water. The whey could then be dried and sold as a new product.
Client: The Albert M. Higley Company
Owner: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Engineer: Syska Hennessey Group, Inc.
Architect: Gund Partnership
Scope: HVAC and Plumbing
Mechanical Value: $3,090,600.00
Project Type: Institutional
Project Description: Provide HVAC and plumbing for the renovation of Peirce Hall.
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical was awarded the contract to provide all mechanical for the renovation of Kenyon's iconic Peirce Hall. The historic building houses a dining hall, servery, classrooms, offices, and a 160-seat pub.
Client: Corna Kokosing Construction Company
Owner: Motorist Mutual
Location: New Albany, OH
Engineer: Karpinski Engineering
Mechanical Value: $1,700,000.00
Project Type: Commercial - Plan/Spec
Project Description: Installation of plumbing and HVAC for a new-build data center.
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical was contracted to install all plumbing and HVAC for this new 19,000 SF Tier III data center. The project included a mechanical room with three chilled water pumps, three dry coolers, two generators, two heat pumps and an air handler. In addition to the main HVAC system, two computer rooms required nine Liebert units, each requiring an elaborate control system, with all piping located under the raised computer-room floor.
Tier III Data Center Requirements:
Owner: Newark City Schools
Location: Newark, Ohio
Scope: Lighting Design/Installation
Mechanical Value:
Project Type: Energy
Project Description: Lighting system redesign and installation for Newark City Schools Bus Garage
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical Energy Services achieved a reduction in electrical usage by more than 40% and secured a utility rebate of $4,500.00. Lighting redesign included a reconfiguration of light fixture spacing to provide optimum light levels and eliminate shadowing issues. Foot-candle levels were improved from 20 to just over 50, and the district's bus mechanic no longer has to use flashlights to work inside the buses.
Speer Mechanical Energy Services specified and installed 32, 8-lamp LED tube fixtures to replace the garage's 32 existing, metal halide fixtures. Speer Mechanical also specified and installed four, waterproof high bay LED fixtures to replace high bay metal halide fixtures in the wash-bay area. Installation was completed in just two days.
Client: Turner Construction
Owner: Columbus Downtown Development Corporation
Location: Columbus, OH
Engineer: Moody Nolan Architects, Inc.
Architect: Schooley Caldwell Associates
Scope: HVAC and Plumbing for Tenant Finish
Mechanical Value:
Project Type: Commercial
Project Description: HVAC and plumbing for a multi-floor tenant finish, USGBC LEED Gold Certified.
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical installed the HVAC, associated piping, and plumbing for floors 4-6, while maintaining close coordination with all other contractors to keep the project on time and on schedule. Speer Mechanical played an integral role in the construction of the green renovation of the building which set national standards for office building renovations and achieved LEED Gold Certification, a set of standards and requirements established by the United States Green Building Council.
Client: Equity, Inc.
Owner: Ohio Health
Location: Westerville, Ohio
Engineer: URS Corporation
Architect: URS Corporation
Scope: Plumbing
Mechanical Value: $455,000.00
Project Type: Institutional
Project Description: Plumbing construction.
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical provided all plumbing construction for the core and shell of Ohio Health's Westerville Campus. The facility includes outpatient surgery, sleep services, and medical office space.
Client: Honeywell Building Solutions
Owner: Robinson Memorial Hospital
Location: Ravenna, Ohio
Engineer: CCRD
Architect: Van Auken Akins
Scope: HVAC Upgrades and Energy Savings
Mechanical Value: $2,198,325.00
Project Type: Institutional, Health Care
Project Description: Replacement and various HVAC upgrades.
Project Highlights: Removal and replacement of outdated equipment improved the existing HVAC system and made the building more energy efficient. Successfully coordinating with subcontractors of all trades and working through the challenges of weather and the use of cranes, the project was completed meeting all hospital safety procedures and regulations.
Client: Agricultural Technical Institute
Owner: The Ohio State University
Location: Wooster, OH
Architect: RWL Architects Inc.
Scope: HVAC
Mechanical Value: $760,000.00
Project Type: Institutional, Higher Education
Project Description: Provide HVAC for renovation.
Project Highlights: Seventy-two unit ventilators were replaced and new chilled water pumps installed on a tight schedule to accommodate the availability of classrooms on campus for the start of school. The project entailed meticulous planning as well as monitoring of all electrical, temperature control, insulation, and test and balance subcontractors to facilitate the aggressive timeline.
Client: The Ohio State University
Owner: The Ohio State University
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Engineer: Heapy Engineering
Architect: Acock Associates Architects
Mechanical Value: $5,520,500.00
Project Type: Institutional
Project Description: Demolition and renovation of Sullivant Hall.
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical performed major HVAC renovation and replacement for Sullivant Hall, with approximately 95% of the project comprising demolition for replacement. The $5.5 million project included rebuilds on three, existing air handlers and reconditioning of two, existing chillers. Speer Mechanical installed two, new, custom air handlers for the classrooms and art storage spaces of the building, and steam, steam condensate, heating hot water, chilled-water and condenser-water systems throughout the building.
Due to the age and building configuration (four separate buildings were erected and joined together over 60 years), coordination of installed ductwork, piping systems and penetrations through existing walls, posed unique challenges. Eight-thousand (8,000) feet of pipe was installed.
The project was a first for the university to recognize the benefits and consent of the use of Kingspan KoolDuct (phenolic board encapsulated with reinforced foil-facing on both sides) throughout project applications, including the roof.
Client: The Ohio State University
Owner: The Ohio State University
Location: Columbus, OH
Engineer: Speer Mechanical
Mechanical Value: $1,406,842.00
Project Type: Institutional - Design-Build
Project Description: Replacement of existing chiller, cooling tower and chilled water pumps on the 13th and 14th floors of the Taylor Tower dormitory building at OSU.
Project Highlights: As engineer of record for this design-assist project, Speer Mechanical first performed a 3D scan of the existing mechanical room to create a drawing, serving as the basis for the installation and as a preview for the building owner to see exactly how the new installation would look. Speer Mechanical performed all of the commissioning and all of the balance and temperature control for the installation, while a third-party engineer, hired by Speer Mechanical, assisted with the installation and performed the third-party commissioning inspection.
Prior to installation, Speer Mechanical demolished the existing piping and equipment. The new cooling tower was shipped in pieces and assembled in place. Cranes were used to lift the cooling tower, chiller and all associated piping. The chiller was carefully rigged, and an existing louvered opening in the side of the building was used to fit the chiller into the mechanical room. The existing cooling tower roof opening was used to fit the new cooling tower into the building.
The project was completed on-time, despite both a 10-day delay to the project start date and a 10-day delay due to late delivery of the owner-approved chiller.
Client: Gilbane Building Company
Owner: The Ohio State University
Location: Wooster, OH
Engineer: CCRD
Architect: Van Auken Akins
Scope: HVAC & Plumbing
Mechanical Value: $7,300,000.00
Project Type: Institutional
Project Description: Provide HVAC, Plumbing, Process Piping, and 3D Coordination.
Project Highlights: The secure biocontainment facility is the second built in the U.S. and the first in Ohio. The facility includes two BSL-3 enhanced laboratories and four BSL-3 Ag animal isolation laboratories. All incoming air, exhaust air and ventilation air must pass through various levels of HEPA filtration. All penetrations through floors are welded to stainless steel inserts poured into concrete. Mechanical systems included chillers, boilers, tissue digester, effluent containment systems, welded stainless steel ductwork and piping.
Client: CB Richard Ellis
Owner: STRS
Location: Columbus, OH
Engineer: Prater Engineering
Architect: Jester, Jones, Schifer
Scope: HVAC Renovation
Mechanical Value:
Project Type: Commercial
Project Description: HVAC portion of a major corporate renovation including sheet metal for ductwork and HVAC piping, and controls for 139,000 SF of existing office space, common areas, lower level athletic facilities, and garage area of Corporate Hill I for new general office space Worthington Industries.
Project Highlights: Speer Mechanical completed the entire project ahead of schedule through successful field management by the project foreman to drive the schedule for the other trades. The mechanical portion of the project included a new VAV distribution system with Teletrol controls. Speer Mechanical removed the AHUs from the rooftop while the roof was repaired and then reset four, new- and three, reused-units.


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So I'm sitting there this morning, doing my regular Zazen as usual and it just kinda hits me; this whole "thinking not thinking" thing.
For those of you who don't know, there's a famous Zen story. Dude goes up to a Zen Master and asks, "What are you thinking sitting there?"
Zen Master says, "Thinking the concrete state of not thinking."
Dude says, "What's the concrete state of not thinking?"
Zen Master says, "It's different from thinking."
Like everyone who practices Zen, I hit this state of not thinking and miss it in more or less equal measure. After 20 years of doing the practice, the neurotic belief that my thoughts really mean anything important has pretty much worn away. That's a very important step. And it takes many years to get there and a lot of real effort.
But the habitual regurgitation and rumination of thoughts by the brain is a hard habit to break -- even when you know they're all bupkiss anyway. But, just this morning I hit upon that sought after state of non-thinking and noticed how it was done. It's not a matter of trying to add some kind of energy into the equation which somehow stops thought. It's a matter of subtracting energy.
It takes energy to think. We don't usually notice this. But thinking the way we usually do is like any other habit. Twiddling your thumbs, for example, or tapping out rhythms to songs only you can hear. To stop thinking, all you really need to do is stop using energy to regurgitate and ruminate upon thoughts. It's a matter of not starting rather than stopping.
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KiokuDB::Util - Utility functions for working with KiokuDB
version 0.57
use KiokuDB::Util qw(set weak_set);
my $set = set(@objects); # create a transient set
my $weak = weak_set(@objects); # to avoid circular refs
This module provides various helper functions for working with KiokuDB.
- dsn_to_backend $dsn, %args
Tries to parse
$dsn, load the backend and invoke
newon it.
Used by "connect" in KiokuDB and the various command line interfaces.
- set
- weak_set
Instantiate a Set::Object or Set::Object::Weak from the arguments, and then creates a KiokuDB::Set::Transient with the result.
- import_yaml $kiokudb, @files_or_dirs
Loads YAML files with MooseX::YAML (if given a directory it will be searched recursively for files with a
.ymlextension are) into the specified KiokuDB directory in a single transaction.
The YAML files can contain multiple documents, with each document treated as an object. If the YAML file contains a single non blessed array or hash then that structure will be dereferenced as part of the arguments to
Here is an example of an array of objects, and a custom tag alias to ease authoring of the YAML file:
%YAML 1.1 %TAG ! !MyFoo:: --- - !User id: foo real_name: Foo Bar email: firstname.lastname@example.com password: '{cleartext}test123'
You can use a hash to specify custom IDs:
%YAML 1.1 --- the_id: !Some::Class attr: moose
Yuval Kogman <firstname.lastname@example.com>
This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Yuval Kogman, Infinity Interactive.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.