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One of the most important things to understand about hosting a 20-year reunion – or any reunion – is that outreach is as important to success as the big party itself. Start early to build anticipation and maximize participation.
Email and social media such as Facebook make this easier than ever. Chances are you already use Facebook, have joined the "You know you're in/from [insert hometown here] if…" FB page, and have spun off a reunion page that you administer. (If not, all these ideas are translatable to email, message boards, etc.) The next step is to utilize it effectively. Use the page to:
Find high school classmates and 20 year-old artifacts. Put out short lists regularly of people you're seeking, yearbooks you're missing, and old photos of landmarks you'd like to display.
Build new reunion memories. Use status updates to provide a personal welcome to new members as they join. Ask questions: "Anybody here from the CHS Choir?" "Did you catch Jurassic Park when it opened? Who'd you see it with?" "Tube skirts or flannel shirts?" Conversations will nurture a comfort level among participants. They will also tell you what's still universally memorable to the Class of '93. At the reunion itself, many committees set up stations that replay a high school video or leave scrapbooks filled with pictures. Ask attendees to sign a physical or digital guest book with messages about the past or predictions for the future.
Add value to the reunion ticket. Perhaps reunion committee members have worked out a deal for a block of discounted hotel rooms, or someone is organizing an afternoon picnic. Give reminders of these extras regularly to ensure that new page members see it – some folks will search older threads and the Events page when they join, but many won't.
Let's say that the Jurassic Park mention got a huge response. What do you do with this information? We recommend planting a cardboard cutout of a T-Rex somewhere in your venue as a symbol of a good time had by all.
Take the symbolism as far as you want: Empire State Building prop to stand in for Sleepless in Seattle, Red Roses backdrop for Bon Jovi's "Bed of Roses," and so on.
Party props mixed with Class of '93 artifacts (game balls, photo canvases of class outings, etc.) can form the basis of a guessing game about senior year events that classmates start on upon arrival.
The overall party theme could reflect early 90s popular culture or could come from other shared experiences, such as:
- Favorite hangouts: beach, movie theater, dance club
- Special events: annual fair/carnival, excursions into the city
- School pride: winning-est sports, music and academic teams; school colors
- Other: senior prom theme duplication, crowd-sourced ideas put to a vote
Again, let outreach interactions be your guide. Once the reunion theme is chosen, you'll be able to coordinate banners, favors and tableware with theme decorations.
Two areas may require extra supplies: tableware and favors. Be sure to know how many display tables you'll need for name tags, yearbooks and the like so that you can cover them similarly to the dining tables. Likewise, have contests worked out in advance of ordering (dance moves, classmate-who-traveled-the-farthest-to-get-here) so you can select favors as prizes.
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Vodafone has agreed to buy Germany's largest cable operator Kabel Deutschland for 7.7 billion euros, betting on TV and fixed-line services in its biggest deal since 2007.
Announcing its second major acquisition for a European fixed-line network in 12 months, Vodafone said it would pay 87 euros per share for the group to enable it to offer more competitive packages with TV, fixed-line and broadband services to its mobile customers.
The world's second-largest mobile operator, following up its acquisition of Cable & Wireless Worldwide, is however paying a rich price for the German firm and its 8.5 million homes, which it considered buying before it went public in March 2010 at 22 euros per share.
One trader who asked not to be named said the offer, Vodafone's biggest since a 2007 Indian acquisition, valued Kabel Deutschland at 12 times enterprise value against 2013 core earnings, a 35 percent premium to the sector.
However, this falls to 8.5 times when taking into consideration the synergies Vodafone expects to extract.
"We believe this is a decent deal for Vodafone," the trader said.
Shares in the group had been trading at 63 euros before Vodafone's initial interest was reported in February.
The UK-based company was forced to raise its offer in the last week after John Malone's Liberty Global entered the fray, forcing it to up the stakes or face losing ground to Liberty's own cable operator Unity Media and to Deutsche Telekom.
"German consumer and business demand for fast broadband and data services continues to grow substantially, as customers increasingly access TV, fixed and mobile broadband services from multiple devices," Vodafone Chief Executive Vittorio Colao said.
"The combination of Vodafone Germany and Kabel Deutschland will greatly enhance our offerings in response to those needs."
The board of Kabel Deutschland said it expected to recommend the offer to its shareholders, although some analysts thought Liberty Global could still return with a counter offer even though it would likely face high regulatory barriers.
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Nick torching a cocktail"][/caption] I could spend a whole week in New York and not get to all the restaurants and cocktail bars on my shortlist. But Booker and Dax was one of those do-or-die bars and well, I'm just glad that I made it back to the East Village on my last night on the island. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Lady of the Night (Reposado tequila, tomato water, horseradish, sriracha, worcestershire)"][/caption] They're flashy cocktails, but not purely for showman's sake. (And what a show they put on.) These cocktails are, most importantly, delicious - and thought-provokingly so. With Momofuku Milk Bar shuffled across the street for this few months-old cocktail bar, a torch, centrifuge and carbonating-shaker-contraptions (as they are scientifically called) are found on the same counters once occupied by crack pie and cereal milk soft serve machines. Booker and Dax is a collaborative effort by David Chang and Dave Arnold with the latter bringing his brand new methods to the table. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Liquid nitrogen application"][/caption] The resulting cocktail menu is one that can be divided into fifths. That is: Bubbles, stirred, shaken, on the rock and Red Hot Poker. And if you're interested in what you're drinking in the least, you best be sitting at the bar if only to witness the wizardry of the process. For instance, if you ever thought water and ice was enough to chill your glass whilst the bartender makes your cocktail, think again, because only liquid nitrogen does the trick at Booker and Dax. The Lady of the Night was effectively a liquid Bloody Mary - one to be enjoyed all times of the day. Horseradish tincture is in the cocktail, which was created by first muddling fresh horseradish with vodka and then re-distilling it. Sriracha essence? Basically the liquid resulting from centrifigual force enacted upon the infamous rooster sauce. The result was a Bloody Mary full of clarity. No pulp to be found - just all-out flavor. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Bangkok Daiquiri"][/caption] Of course, I had to see the Red Hot Poker in action, so I ordered a Friend of the Devil, or what I'd call a "Torched Boulevardier," made with rye, campari, sweet vermouth and pernod bitters. As I was curious if the alcohol might be burnt off as a result of the torching action, Sother Teague reassured me that each cocktail is indeed made with more spirits to compensate. Served in a ceramic cup, the resulting cocktail was warm and comforting with a touch of carmelization to taste. And it was strong. A super simple but delicious cocktail my friend Greg ordered was the Bangkok Daiquiri, made with white rum, lime and Thai basil. Unfortunately, I didn't get to try any of the cocktails made with carbonation but was lucky to witness a fellow guest's cocktail get shaken. She assured me that it was carbonated and delicious. Next time, New York. Next time.
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By Nicole Williams
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Taste of Soul Creator and Sentinel Executive Publisher Danny Bakewell Sr. announced this week that newly elected Mayor Eric Garcetti will serve as one of four chairs of the prestigious 'Taste of Soul and Family Festival' that will unfold before hundreds of thousands for the 8th time on Crenshaw Blvd. on Oct. 19th.
"We are pleased to welcome the Honorable Mayor Eric Garcetti as Chair to the 2013 Taste of Soul. He has always been supportive and we look forward to his leadership this year in making the 2013 Taste of Soul one of the biggest and best ever," Bakewell released in a statement.
Joining Mayor Garcetti as chair of 'Taste of Soul' will be Second District Supervisor Mark Ridley- Thomas, Council President Herb Wesson, Council member's Bernard Parks.
'Taste of Soul' Wesson indicated that he expects the same excitement;
"The '8th Annual Taste of Soul' promises to be another community spectacular! It's again my honor to be a Co-Chair of this amazingly successful event, and I want to welcome everyone in Southern California to Crenshaw Boulevard. You and your family will experience the incredible food and entertainment that's been planned. I look forward to seeing you!"
Parks added; "The Taste of Soul Family Festival has been such a treat to go to year after year. I can't wait until October 19th when people from all over will descend on Crenshaw Boulevard to taste the delicacies and enjoy the sights and sounds our community has to offer. 'Together We're Amazing' is a fitting theme for this year's event and embodies our community's positive and collaborative spirit."
"Taste of Soul is an exceptional event in the heart of the Crenshaw community that celebrates family, music and yes – delicious food. Whether your taste ranges from burgers to barbeque, gumbo or a gourmet salad, the Taste of Soul is always a wonderful experience. Since its inception eight years ago, it's become a South Los Angeles tradition, and now like so many Angelenos, I look forward to it every year," said Ridley-Thomas.
Recognized as one of the largest street festivals in America, and the biggest in Los Angeles, 'Taste of Soul' has attracted close to one million Angelenos since its inception and this year will continue to grow.
Last year alone, an estimated 300,000 people, some of those being families from all over the state and U.S. converged on Crenshaw Blvd. for a day that serves as the major economic engine for local vendors and merchants.
The event celebrates the community and the African American culture through exhibits of food, music and entrepreneurships.
Complementing the host neighborhood of Crenshaw by allowing residents to invite their families and friends to celebrate their community.
Co-chairs named by Bakewell include; and Curren Price, and Assembly members Isadore Hall, III and Reginald Jones-Sawyer, Los Angeles School Board Member LAUSD District 1 Marguerite LaMotte, KCBS Channel 2 Anchor Pat Harvey and the prestigious law firm Ivey, McNeil & Wyatt.
Bakewell selected 'Taste of Soul's Chairs and Co-Chairs who believe in the atmosphere of Black culture that 'Taste of Soul' represents, which resonates with this year's theme "We're Amazing Together."
Each of co-chairs praised their involvement with 'Taste of Soul.'
"I am pleased to join with the Los Angeles Sentinel as Co-Chair of the 8th Annual Taste of Soul 2013. The Taste of Soul is a culturally rich event celebrating Angelenos of all ages. Much like a street fair, folks come together from across our great city to the Crenshaw corridor and surrounding South L.A. neighborhoods. It's a great way to connect our diverse communities through food provided by local restaurants and eateries, featured entertainment from popular entertainers & music artists, and local talent, and an array of merchandise for sale at vendors' booths. The Taste of Soul is the place to be on Saturday, October 19. I hope everyone will come out join in the festivities," Price explained.
Hall praised Bakewell saying, "I'm most honored to serve as a Co-Chair of the 8th annual Taste of Soul. Mr. Bakewell and the Los Angeles Sentinel have taken this momentous occasion to levels beyond belief. Congratulations Mr. Bakewell."
"I am very excited in my first year as an Assembly member to partner with the Bakewell Company on the 8th Annual Taste of Soul street festival. This is an uplifting, enriching community event that has set a new standard of excellence when it comes to cultural and civic pride. And although it has its roots in the African American community, the entire city of Los Angeles, with all of its ethnic diversity, is included in the theme 'Together We're Amazing," said Jones-Sawyer
""I am delighted to be one of the co-chairs for the upcoming Taste of Soul event. This event is important as a showcase for local vendors and retailers within the community, and as a resource to residents, who may be unfamiliar with the services provided by civic and community-based organizations. Additionally, Taste of Soul provides a fantastic opportunity to socialize with others and enjoy great entertainment," concluded LaMotte.
"The 8th Annual 2013 Taste of Soul is a great festival that brings us all together for a memorable day of family, food, music, and lots of fun," asserted Attorney Bob McNeil.


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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) Stephon Carter scored 26 points and Cal State Bakersfield led wire to wire for a 69-49 victory over La Verne on Saturday night.
Cal State Bakersfield (4-6) had a 34-28 rebounding edge and had a 25-18 advantage off turnovers.
Carter, meanwhile converted all 12 of his free-throw attempts. La Verne (1-6) made just 7 of 11 as a team.
Brandon Barnes scored 12 points for Cal State Bakersfield, Tyrone White 10 and Adam Young 10. Young also had 10 rebounds and three blocked shots.
Jake Veith scored 12 points to lead La Verne and Vince Bauer scored 11.
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Rules Refresher
December 14, 2007, 02:36:48 PM »
I've noticed a few irregularities in rules applications in AP reports and recordings, so I thought I would collect a few notes here as a refresher. I realize that Agon is pretty fiddly and spot-rulesy, so it's hard to keep everything straight in the moment.
Setting the Contest Type
It's the job of the Antagonist to decide what ability a contest uses. Players should not cast their actions as "I use my Might to solve this problem!" Rather, they should describe the action their hero takes. "I lift a great boulder and throw it to smash down the barricade!" Then the Antagonist sets the contest type, based on the action taken.
If the heroes disagree about the way to solve a problem, then they compete with Orate, and the winner's plan is adopted. The GM can tell the players which ability she plans to call for while they are debating the various plans.
Here's another player move: If you stink at Orate, do this: "Let's wrestle for it, instead of making speeches! To sweeten the pot, I'll owe you an Oath." Or promise to pay them two oaths if they beat you, or whatever. But you can swing the contest away from Orate through that kind of negotiation.
When you roll to restore impairment, everyone who beats the GM gets to restore. Plus, the person who called the challenge gets a free level restored. The book says you need to "win" to restore, which always means "beat the opposition roll" (in this case, the GM). Winning never refers to the person with the highest roll -- those are two separate things -- just to be clear.
Minions get their gang up bonus only for attack rolls and nothing else. A group of minions is treated as a single entity for all purposes (like the results of a War Cry penalty).
Advantage Dice
At one point in Mel's recording, a player wants to convince a group of pilgrims to help the heroes heal their wounds. This is a perfect chance for a contest for advantage. Every hero who wins would carry advantage dice forward into the Interlude to assist their Heal rolls.
Pretty much anytime a player says, "Can I do X to help Y?" the answer is, "Sure! Let's have a contest for advantage." You can do this as your action in combat, too. Few people remember to do that, including me.
Wilhelm's simplified "Tricks" mechanic
(on the wiki) makes this more uniform and easier to apply in combat.
I'll add more if I notice anything. You guys can do the same! Feel free to post your own sticky rules bit that you think is important to keep straight.
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Divine Weapons
In Mel's second recording, the heroes are fighting Cerberus. One of the players says, "Man, we were not prepared for this," as the dog kicks their asses. Another player says, "Well, we couldn't really have been prepared."
Not true!
There's another way to get a weapon that can hurt a monster besides spending 5 divine favor. You can learn the monster's vulnerability (with contests). Then, you can put fire on your arrows, or dip your swords in honey, or whatever the thing is. Lore is ideal for this.
If you are suddenly attacked by a monster, and don't have the DF to spend, run away! Then go learn its weakness and come back later for ass kicking.
(P.S. Mel, I hope you don't mind me nitpicking your game! The recordings are awesome and are great examples of Agon play -- especially the verve of your players using Oaths -- but they're also a good opportunity for me to point out some tricky rules stuff and illustrate how they're intended to be used. Thanks for your understanding. :-)
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Earning Glory
When a player beats the GM's roll, her hero earns a point of Glory. Always. On every roll.
In addition
, the hero who rolls the highest earns
Glory equal to the difficulty of the roll (see the little chart in the reference section in the back of the book).
This one is easy to lose track of in the moment. I sometimes see groups only giving Glory to the hero who rolls the highest, or not giving any Glory when the heroes tie, and other stuff like that. The main thing to remember is:
If you beat the GM, you always, always get a point.
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Quote from: John Harper on December 14, 2007, 03:15:47 PM
(P.S. Mel, I hope you don't mind me nitpicking your game! The recordings are awesome and are great examples of Agon play -- especially the verve of your players using Oaths -- but they're also a good opportunity for me to point out some tricky rules stuff and illustrate how they're intended to be used. Thanks for your understanding. :-)
I don't mind at all. It's like a free Agon clinic! We're all really liking Agon so I'm happy for the 'rules refresher'. Obviously, that's an excellent point about Cerberus. The heroes knew they were going to confront it, so a simple contest of Lore could earn them an advantage. I think they'll next be searching for Prometheus, so I'll make sure we're all up to speed on how to better prepare for upcoming fights.
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Quote from: John Harper on December 14, 2007, 03:55:01 PM
Earning Glory
When a player beats the GM's roll, her hero earns a point of Glory. Always. On every roll.
Just to clarify: I take it this refers to Contests, and not Battles (attack rolls, defence rolls, positioning tests, all of which often have the GM rolling).
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Yep, that's right, Darren.
Although, if you *did* give Glory for those rolls, too, it would be okay.
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No. 10 Flames gear up for trip out west to face No. 1 ASU
January 8, 2013 | Lynchburg, Va.
Following a 32-day layoff, Liberty University's Division I men's hockey team opens the new year with one of its most anticipated series of the season. The Flames fly out to Phoenix on Wednesday for a single game Thursday against the ACHA's top-ranked team, Arizona State, before boarding a bus for a 100-mile road trip down Interstate 10 to Tucson for back-to-back games Friday and Saturday at No. 18 Arizona. Liberty takes the ice against the Sun Devils on Thursday at 10 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) and against the Wildcats at 9:30 p.m. (EST) on Friday and Saturday.
Scouting Preview, Games 25-26: No. 10 Liberty University (14-9-1) at No. 1 Arizona State (22-4), Jan. 10 (10 p.m. EST) at Oceanside Ice Arena; at No. 18 Arizona (13-11), Jan. 11 and Jan. 12 (9:30 p.m. EST) at Tucson Convention Center. A live webcast of Liberty's game against ASU will be available at http://www.fasthockey.com.
Liberty Scouting Report: Since dropping back-to-back games to defending ACHA national champion Delaware on Nov. 9 and 10, and the first of four meetings with Stony Brook on Nov. 17, the Flames have won five of their past six contests, including three straight against the Seawolves. After being ranked as high as No. 7 in the ACHA during their 8-0 start in September and as low as No. 14 after losing nine of 10 in October and early November, Liberty has risen back to No. 10 in the rankings, which is where it ended the 2011-12 season.
Senior forward Rick Turner leads Liberty and ranks fourth in the ACHA in points with 50 (30 goals, 20 assists). Ryley Egan is the Flames' next highest scorer with 29 points (10 goals, 19 assists), and Lindsay LeBlanc ranks third with 25 (10 goals, 15 assists). Egan is tied for 11th in the ACHA with six power-play goals.
Goalie Blair Bennett (2.97 goals against average) has had the hot hand of late for the Flames while Clayton Brown (3.68 GAA) is tops on the team with two shutouts.
Arizona State Scouting Report: The Sun Devils started off the season at 19-0, capped by consecutive wins at Oklahoma on Nov. 16 and 17, before suffering a humbling 8-3 defeat Nov. 30 at Penn State, a team that moved up to NCAA Division I this season. ASU retaliated with a 3-1 victory the next night and has remained the No. 1-ranked team in the ACHA for six consecutive polls since Nov. 1. That was the week after Liberty split a pair of games against top-ranked Ohio, ending the Bobcats' month-long run at No. 1. The Sun Devils have stretched their winning streak against rival Arizona to 28 games with four wins this season.
Kale Dolinski is ASU's leader with 44 points (24 goals, 20 assists) while Colin Hekle (19 goals, 21 assists, 40 points) ranks tied for second in the ACHA with four short-handed goals. Danny McAuliffe is the team's assist leader with 23 and has also netted 13 goals for a total of 36 points.
Joseph D'Elia (15-3) has allowed just 2.50 goals per game in more than 1030 minutes in the cage while backup Corey Frank ranks ninth in the ACHA with a GAA of 1.26.
Arizona Scouting Report: The Wildcats are coming off back-to-back losses this past Friday and Saturday to Minot State (16-4) — a team that also defeated ASU on Jan. 3 — after opening 2-0 leads against the Beavers in both games. Those 6-2 and 5-3 setbacks ended AU's five-game winning streak.
Ansel Ivens-Anderson is Arizona's top scorer (17 goals, 18 assists, 35 points) while Andrew Murmes leads the ACHA with six game-winning goals (out of 12 scored) and has distributed a team-high 22 assists.
All-time series: Liberty is 0-1-1 versus Arizona State, including a shootout loss in last year's regular-season game. The other loss occurred in the ACHA national tournament in 2010. The Flames are 2-0 against Arizona after a 2006 sweep of the Wildcats in the first two-game series between the two programs.
Coaches: Kirk Handy is in his 13th season as Flames head coach, with an overall record of 271-117-13. Greg Powers, in his sixth season at Arizona State, picked up his 100th win with a 7-1 triumph over Williston State last Friday. A finalist for ACHA coach of the year honors last season, his overall record is now 100-20-7. He has the Sun Devils ranked No. 1 for the first time in program history as it seeks its first-ever ACHA national title. For Arizona, Sean Hogan is in his second season and has a 24-31-1 mark.


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But no longer.
Maybe it's been the mild winter that has failed to spark the mischievous joy in us that usually accompanies the onset of warmer weather and longer days, but we just don't have it in us.
Oh hell, just for old time's sake, here's a fake article we might have come up with:
Marshall Emulates Young George Washington, Chops Down Cherry Trees
(Kew Gardens) When will our elected officials learn?
Channeling one of her political inspirations, Marshall chopped down several cherry trees behind Queens Borough Hall…and also refuses to lie about it!
But instead of an axe, Marshall had chiseled Union workmen wielding chainsaws and heavy machinery do the job, one-upping her 18th Century idol, who managed to fell just one tree by himself, by cutting down several cherry tree. We've come a long way, baby!
Reached for comment, Marshall said…
Oh, who are we kidding, we're just not up for it. Thankfully, we have other people to do it for us!
We actually received a few April Fool's press releases (you do love us!), and thought we would just share those with you.
The first was from Councilman Jumaane Williams of Brooklyn, who tried to trick people into believing that he was signed to a 10-day contract by the New York Knicks to replace the injured Jeremy Lin.
Nice try, councilman! You do realize that once we posted that on Tweeter, tumblr-ed it out, and renewed our status on Facebook, one of our 16 1/2 (Please don't ask about the 1/2.) followers was going to let us know that claim was just simply not true. Thought you could fool us, eh?
Another April Fool's Day press release we received, however, had much more devious political intentions.
It came from the New Kings Democrats with the title "Brooklyn Democratic Boss Vito Lopez Announces Bold Plans to Move to Brooklyn" and plays on long-standing rumors that Lopez actually lives with his girlfriend in Queens.
Here's a fake quote from the release:
"I like representing Bushwick so much that I thought I'd try living there for a change," said Lopez, who signed a notarized mortgage application way back in 1997, affirming that he actually lived in Queens with his girlfriend, Angela Battaglia. Lopez added, "Besides, I hear there are some pretty cool things happening in Brooklyn these days."
We got to hand it to the New Kings Democrats, that's pretty funny stuff, although we doubt that Lopez is laughing. Then again, if the accusations are all true, Lopez has been getting away with living in Queens for well over a decade now, so we doubt he's too, too worried about a fake press release.
Well, we hope you had a great April Fool's Day and played some great pranks of your own, but like we said, that feeble attempt at spoofing on Helen Marshall aside, we're not getting too caught up in the fun this year. Really, who would believe for a second that a bunch of cherry trees at Queens Borough Hall were cut down?
Wait, Helen Marshall did what?!


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1.st make a backup of your whole Subsonic folder, to go back if something goes wrong !!!
You should only need the installation packages, no other installations or workarounds are needed!
Since Beta the Upgrade works much better, the Installer also make a Backup from the DB folder,
but i still recommend a installation from Scratch!
Since Build 3120 Upgrade from Subsonic 4.6, 4.7 supported
5 quick steps to upgrade
- stop Madsonic script/service
- replace madsonic.war & madsonic-booter.jar
- clean browser caches
- restart madsonic
- rescan files
- [1] just use the installer to install or upgrade your installation.
- [1] remove old war
[2] delete work folder
[3] redeploy new war file
[FAQ] Update madsonic with a war package on debian linux
[Script] Upgrade madsonic on debian linux
Short Instruction for new/existing Ubuntu/Fedora installation:
- [1] Fresh Ubuntu/Fedora Install
[2] Install Java 1.7 JRE/JDK (sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk)
[3] Config current JRE/JDK to 1.7 with:
[#] sudo update-alternatives --config javac
[#] sudo update-alternatives --config java
[4] check config with
[#] javac -version
[1] Start Firefox -> Check Java Version -> browse -> http://javatester.org
[6] Install Adobe Flash Player
[7] Uninstall all current subsonic/madsonic version
[8] If exist delete folder /var/subsonic or /var/madsonic
[9] Create /var/media folder
[10] Put Content into /var/media
[11] Install the madsonic Server deb/rpm)
[12] Check if Service is running
[#] sudo service madsonic start
[13] Start Firefox -> browse -> http://localhost:4040
14. Config subsonic via Webpage
15. Done!
linux Defaults
/var/madsonic --> user db, settings, logs
/usr/share/madsonic --> madsonic.war, madsonic-booter.jar, madsonic.sh
/etc/int.d --> madsonic daemon (script)
/etc/default --> madsonic daemon (settings)
Complete Cleanup from Scratch
- stop madsonic server
- uninstall madsonic
- delete folder c:\madsonic or /var/madsonic
- cleanup all Browser Caches
- cleanup all temp files
Conversion guide from older windows build version < 3630
- stop madsonic server
- make backup of c:\subsonic folder
- uninstall older madonic version
- install new madsonic version
- stop service
- copy back the db folder back from your madsonic backup
- copy back the subsonic.properties file and rename it to madsonic.properties
- start service
- check user, settings, mediafolders
- make full scan
- finished, now all your old config should be back!
Conversion guide from older linux build version < 3630
- stop madsonic daemon
- make backup of /var/subsonic folder
- uninstall older madonic version
- install new madsonic version
- stop daemon
- copy back the db folder back from your madsonic backup into /var/madsonic
- copy back the subsonic.properties file into /var/madsonic/ and rename it to madsonic.properties
- start daemon
- check user, settings, mediafolders
- make full scan
- finished, now all your old config should be back!
Data Migration guide from older version
- 01. stop madsonic service
02. backup! (zip or copy) your old subsonic/madsonic installation (in your case c:\subsonic) !!!
03. move your backup to a save place
04. uninstall all Madsonic installation
05. delete all old traces -> (c:\subsonic, c:\madsonic, c:\supersonic and \var\subsonic, \var\madsonic, \var\supersonic)
06. make a new madsonic installation
07. after installation the service will automatically start (new DB will created)
08. stop madsonic service
09. delete DB folder again (in your case c:\madsonic\db or \var\madsonic\db)
10. delete settings file (madsonic.properties)
11. copy your backup (DB folder and subsonic.properties only!) into your madsonic installation folder (c:\madsonic\)
12. rename subsonic.properties to madsonic.properties
13. restart Madsonic service
14. Madsonic detect automatically the db version and will upgrade to newest Madsonic db structure layout
15. possibly it can't hurt to go through all your settings and even press the save button on every settings page
16. make a Full Scan Mediascan
17. hopefully all is done


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Hugo Chavez (President Of Venezuela) Ethers Fox News! "The Stupid People From Fox News. You Guys Are Poison. You Are Talkin Bad About Obama Cause Hes Black"
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Police say that a robbery suspect attacked not only the clerk he robbed but also an arresting officer.
The incident happened early Sunday morning near N. California Street and E. Sonoma Avenue, according to a release from Stockton Police.
A man – later identified as 30-year-old Demetrus Olson – entered the store and walked behind the counter to grab some cigarettes. The clerk saw this and looked the doors and pushed an alarm.
However, Olson is then said to have threatened the clerk and pushed him. The clerk soon unlocked the doors, allowing Olson to get away.
Officers soon showed up and saw Olson running towards Oak Park. One of the officers was able to catch up to Olson and tackle him at the park, but Olson is said to have fought the officer during the arrest.
Olson was eventually taken into custody and now faces charges of robbery, resisting arrest and battery of an officer.


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Just in case there's any doubt the auto aftermarketgasm called SEMA is the trashiest show on the automotive calendar, here's a gallery of attendees too fat and/or lazy to walk the show floor unaided.
How can we say such a thing? Well, for starters these aren't Hoverounds SEMA-goers brought with them — these are Hoverounds they rented at SEMA. Seriously folks, this is why you're fat.


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A polka for Polish Youngstown
No local group has been more effective at reawakening ethnic pride than Polish Youngstown.
The organization, spearheaded by Aundrea Cika Hesch-myer, has rallied younger Polish-Americans with a stream of events such as Polish Happy Hour, which features beer and vodka imported from the old country. Cika says it had to be done, because the culture was fading among the younger generation, and with it would go the heritage that unites Polish-Americans.
One annual highlight of the PY calendar is Polish Day, which is each summer. It's a typical ethnic festival with pirogies, folk dancing and polka music. But it also has a strong element of education, with workshops in Polish customs.
It was at last year's Polish Day celebration that Baltimore-based polka band leader Mike Matousek noticed PY's work.
He was so inspired by the organization's revitalization of the Polish community that he wrote a song.
"The Polish Youngstown Polka" is available on CDBaby.com, and will soon be on other digital song-sellers, including iTunes.
Matousek, a Polka Hall of Famer, said it pains him to see ethnic traditions and institutions slipping away. But Polish Youngstown, he said, is turning the tide in the Youngstown area.
Polish Day 2011 will be Aug. 28 at St. Anne's Church, 4310 Kirk Road, Austintown. Matousek and his band, The Boys, will not be there this year, but they will be at Kuzman's in Girard on Oct. 2. Matousek said the band will play "Polish Youngstown Polka" then.
Heschmyer helped Matousek with the lyrics to the song, filling in details about local Polish institutions, such as the now-defunct Krakusy Hall on South Avenue and the polka festivals at Idora Park.
Matousek also wrote another set of lyrics for the tune to give it broader appeal. The other version, called "In My Old Polish Town," will be included on The Boys' next album.
Here are lyrics to "Polish Youngstown Polka":
So they closed Krakusy Hall, and the Polish clubs are gone, And our children wonder why we feel such loss. The places that we knew have become so far and few, One can only wonder at what cost
The picnics in the summer made us feel like we belonged Remember how we loved Idora Park? These things have come and gone But something new has come along Here's your chance to make a brand-new start
(chorus) With Polish Youngstown, yes Polish Youngstown. Where Polish pride is felt, and Polish hearts are found. Oh it's imperative to know your heritage With Polish Youngstown, yes Polish Youngstown
Do you feel the inspiration, when you see the red and white? And the eagle, does it stir your Polish pride? When you hear the names Pulaski, Kosciusko and the like, Do you feel that Polish passion deep inside?
If you do, then heed this message; The mission's crystal clear Let's celebrate our culture once again. For all who came before us, let's pledge to persevere. That Polish blood is flowing through our veins."
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Very nice article in July 28th Vindicator!
Very nice article in July 28th Vindicator! You have a grasp on saving the Polish culture.....In retrospect, too bad the Irish did not do the same a generation ago.
One of the Bridal Showers for our oldest son's wife, Francine Larsick, was held at Krakusy Hall...they have been married 29 years.
The lyrics are so perfect for Polish Family history.....Bless you!
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Cosmic inflation
The discovery of gravitational waves in the echo of the Big Bang lends support to the inflation model of cosmology
The polarisation of the cosmic microwave background radiation – the "afterglow" of the big bang – suggests the presence of gravitational waves, according to the team analysing data from the BICEP2 telescope.
Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime that propagate as waves, produced when large masses interact, and are the last unverified prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
The discovery, if confirmed, will also lend support to the inflation model in cosmology – the hypothesis that the universe underwent a brief period of exponential expansion immediately after the big bang – since only inflation can amplify gravitational waves from the beginning of the universe to a point at which they become detectable.
The inflation model was proposed by Alan Guth in 1980 as one way to explain two problems in cosmology – the horizon problem and the flatness problem.
The horizon problem is that areas of the universe separated by vast distances have identical physical properties such as temperature, but, since the exchange of information is limited by the speed of light, this should be impossible, as regions on opposites sides of the universe have not been in causal contact with one another during the universe's lifetime.
The flatness problem is a similar issue relating to the lack of an explanation as to why the universe appears to be nearly flat on a large scale – i.e. why the density of matter and energy appear to be precisely fine-tuned so that the universe neither rapidly collapsed back in on itself shortly after the big bang nor expands so quickly that galaxies are unable to form.
In the inflationary model, the extremely rapid expansion of the very early universe flattens out any large-scale inhomogeneities in temperature and density, quickly creating a large cosmos out of a much smaller one that was previously causally connected.
Guth's model also explains the origins of the large-scale structure of the universe – before inflation there are quantum fluctuations in the very early universe, which then get magnified to macroscopic size and become the sites where galaxies, and clusters of galaxies, form.
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Are Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas Forming a Band Together?
Are Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas planning on joining forces to form a band together?
In an interview with MTV, Lovato revealed that she and Jonas might just be partnering together for a side project someday.
"I did write an amazing song with Nick Jonas and we want to do something with that, but we are not quite sure, so maybe we can do a side project together," Lovato told MTV News. "We may or may not have picked out the band name already."
So can we expect a duet album soon? "I know he's working on his new album too, so it might not be for awhile. I'm always writing songs and he's always writing songs."
Lovato and Jonas do have a history together. The youngest of the Jonas Brothers trio worked with Lovato on 'Camp Rock' and 'Camp Rock 2.' Recently, he served as the creative director on Lovato's 'Neon Lights' tour and even made appearances at some shows.


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"Oh, brother."
That was one of the favorite on-the-air expressions of the late Richie Ashburn.
Can we borrow that right now?
Hey, someone call Delta airlines. Ask them to check the luggage department of the 737 aircraft that brought the Phillies north last Thursday night. Perhaps the bats are still there.
A struggling start isn't new to the Phillies. We've dropped the opening series five straight years.
On a bigger scale, the defending World Champions have lost the first series in three of the last five seasons.
In checking the musty, dusty archives, I couldn't find a Phillies start in which they scored just ne run while losing the first two games. The files date back to the 1911 season. In 1991, we started by losing, 2-1, 2-1.
Where is the fan that used to yell, "Woo, hoo! Everybody hits?"
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the original woo hoo man ,bill,passed away several years ago….


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Most mornings, Danny Kennedy hops on a bike with orange saddlebags and rides half an hour from his home to Oakland's Jack London Square. He makes for quite a picture cruising down Telegraph Avenue, decked out as he often is in an orange helmet, orange jacket and orange leather Adidas shoes. When he arrives at his office, he often makes his rounds on an orange indoor bike. (He's not joking around with the orange thing.) Though Kennedy was once a young environmental activist documenting the horrors of the oil and mining industries, he's now a 41-year-old company man. The orange that he wears daily — which extends even to the checks on his shirts, and which drives his wife crazy — is the brand color for his rapidly growing residential solar company, Sungevity, whose revenues grew by a factor of eight in 2010 and doubled again in 2011, and whose employees have grown to 260 from 3 since the company's inception five years ago.
Given that growth, it's somewhat surprising to learn that Kennedy and Sungevity aren't taken very seriously by their larger competitors. Kennedy's activist past and his willingness to wear his commitment to the solar industry quite literally on his sleeve are viewed by some as a liability in an industry desperate to demonstrate its seriousness. Thanks to increased Chinese production of photovoltaic panels, innovative financing techniques, investment from large institutional investors and a patchwork of semi-effective public-policy efforts, residential solar power has never been more affordable. But even with pricing that requires no initial capital outlay from consumers and guarantees lifetime savings — and even occasional opportunities to make money, by selling power back to the grid — Americans still aren't buying into solar in significant numbers.
Two factors have hurt the industry's growth. The first is abstract and well ingrained in the American psyche: the negative association of "green" technologies with inefficiency and idealistic, hippie-fueled impracticality. The second is concrete and recent: the sleek, vacant headquarters of Solyndra, the infamous federally subsidized solar-panel manufacturer that went bankrupt in 2011. The glassy campus sits just off the Nimitz Freeway, visible to commuters between San Francisco and Silicon Valley as they battle rush-hour traffic each morning, surreptitiously checking their phones.
Though the failure of Solyndra has dominated the political and social discourse around solar power, the reality of the industry — as evidenced by the enormous investments that companies like Google and Bank of America are making in residential solar power — is that it has rapidly become a smart, practical and profitable investment. Despite a lack of widespread acceptance, the market is growing and the competition is getting tight.
Where Kennedy will ultimately fit into all of this remains to be seen. He told me: "We don't need missionaries anymore. We need mercenaries." As the industry grows, big investments don't necessarily flow toward the people with the deepest environmentalist roots. No matter how much orange Kennedy wears or how dedicated to corporate branding he appears to be, his bleeding heart still shows through. Missionary, mercenary: can he — can anyone — be both?
Of the residential solar-power companies with national aspirations, Sungevity is among the smallest in terms of market share. Sunrun, one of the market leaders, is led by Lynn Jurich and Edward Fenster, two Stanford Business School graduates who got into the business, as Jurich told me, in part because "the numbers worked." SolarCity, another market leader, was founded by the brothers Lyndon and Peter Rive; Lyndon had previously founded Everdream, a software company that was eventually bought by Dell. The venture is also backed by Elon Musk, the Rives' cousin and more notably a founder of PayPal; Tesla, the electric-car manufacturer; and SpaceX, a private space-exploration company. In 2004, Lyndon Rive was in a car with Musk on the way to Burning Man in Black Rock Desert, Nev., when the idea of getting into the solar business first hit him. (SolarCity also has a commercial solar-power business and is planning an initial public offering later this year, which could value the company at $1.5 billion.) Another company, SunPower, which is also a solar-panel manufacturer, does a big business in the residential market in California, through its dealer network. Kennedy and Sungevity run, roughly, fourth in California — which, because it's the biggest market, most of these companies view as a proxy for the rest of the nation. But because of Kennedy's background with Greenpeace, his big Australian personality (he was born in the United States but identifies as, and sounds like, an Australian) and some of his high-profile connections, he and Sungevity have received a fair amount of media attention. The actress Cate Blanchett was an early investor, and the actor Mark Ruffalo recently began leasing a system from the company, which he discussed in an appearance on "The Colbert Report" in March.
This clearly rankles Kennedy's competitors. John Ordona, the director of communications at Sungevity, interviewed with another large solar company before taking the job at Sungevity. "They basically said that Danny was a tree-hugger and that Sungevity had no real business plan," he told me. When I visited Sunrun, I was shown a graph indicating the size of their lead in California. When I asked about Kennedy and Sungevity directly, I was told by a marketing person, through a tight smile, "Their mind share is bigger than their market share."
Compared with the relatively smooth and recent road that some of his competitors took to arrive at the business of residential solar-power installation, Kennedy's path has been unusual. He has been fighting against oil and coal for most of his adult life. He got his start as an environmental activist at age 12, when he fought, as part of a landmark victory for conservationists in Australia, against the construction of a dam in Tasmania. After attending college, he worked for Greenpeace in Papua New Guinea, where he observed the efforts of villages to resist exploitation by international oil companies. There, in 1993, he nearly died after contracting malaria while trying to document the environmental damage Chevron was causing in the region. He was saved only after villagers rowed him, delirious with fever, upriver in a dugout canoe to the secluded home of a young Japanese anthropologist who happened to have a rescue agreement with Chevron. She lighted a signal fire, releasing a plume of colored smoke, and within hours a small helicopter airlifted Kennedy to Chevron's base camp, where an American doctor administered the drugs that saved his life. Once he was on the mend, Kennedy left Chevron's base camp and went right back to his efforts to expose the actions of the company that had just rescued him. "I stayed out in the field and continued to work," he says. "Went back to the village and told them, 'Everything's cool, thank you very much for getting me out of there.' "
Kennedy left Greenpeace in 1995 and the next year founded Project Underground, which could be more flexible than Greenpeace and was more narrowly focused on issues of social justice and human rights. A year later, he was detained for three days by Indonesian intelligence. He suspected that a courier reported him for trying to ship water samples abroad — water samples that would demonstrate the environmental abuses at the enormous Grasberg gold mine in Irian Jaya. These were the days of Suharto's repressive regime, and Kennedy says intelligence officials deprived him of sleep and forced him to dictate his version of events over and over again. At one point, he said, they threw him into a jeep and drove him to an old prison complex, where they told him to get out and walk around, despite a tropical thunderstorm. As he got out of the car and felt the men's eyes on his back, he assessed his chances of running for the forest line and escaping somehow. He thought they might try to shoot him. Instead, they loaded him back into the car, took him back to the cell and asked for his statement again. "Messing with my head," Kennedy says.
In 1999, as part of his work with Project Underground, Kennedy helped coordinate the visit of a young activist named Terry Freitas to Colombia, in an effort to prevent an Occidental Petroleum development there. On his way to the airport for his flight home, Freitas was kidnapped by FARC, the leftist guerrillas active in Colombia's hinterlands. "We thought it was going to be a hostage deal," Kennedy says, so he spent a week trying to raise a ransom. But FARC wasn't after money; Freitas was shot in the back and killed, along with two other Americans. Kennedy said he suspected but had no proof that the oil business was somehow behind the murders, and he worried about continuing to risk his own life. His first daughter, Aiko, was conceived that very week. "Her middle name is his middle name," he says of Freitas. "He was a really amazing kid." Kennedy began the slow turn away from front-line activism that would eventually lead him to residential solar power. He had been aware of the potential of solar energy since the early '90s, when he noticed that one village in Papua New Guinea had a health clinic that was able to provide immunizations because it had a few solar panels up, enough to power a refrigerator to keep the vaccines cold. He returned to work for Greenpeace in 2000 and the next year led its effort to support a ballot initiative in San Francisco that empowered the city to issue $100 million in revenue bonds to finance renewable-energy projects.
Five years later, on his way from Australia to Amsterdam, Kennedy stopped to deliver a report on behalf of Greenpeace at the Solar Power International conference in San Jose, Calif. He was struck by a speech given by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was then the governor, about his ambitions for solar power in the state. "There are people pumping their fists and standing on chairs," Kennedy told me. "By this point in my life, I've been to dozens of solar conferences in various countries. And here you have the can-do American entrepreneurial heartland — this is the San Jose conference center, Silicon Valley, ingenuity and know-how and risk capital all combined — going crazy. And it was just kind of like, 'This is awesome.' " Soon after that, he spent a night with a friend, Alec Guettel, whom he met years earlier, in 1990, at meetings in London to address the issue of ozone depletion. (Guettel was a protester outside the event, dressed as a soon-to-be-extinct penguin; Kennedy, attending as a youth delegate from Australia, wandered outside and ended up getting a beer with the penguin.) Kennedy had been searching for a way to convert his activist beliefs into a business that could make money and benefit the planet. A year after Schwarzenegger's speech, he, Guettel and Andrew Birch, a former banker and executive at BP Solar, started Sungevity.
When I visited Sungevity's offices in January, Kennedy kept asking if I had been across the street yet. "Have you taken him?" he asked a colleague. "When are we taking him?"
Eventually, Kennedy took me himself. We walked out of Sungevity's main offices and across the cobbled street to an abandoned Barnes & Noble. When he opened the doors, I understood why he wanted me to see it: there before me, in one great room under a vaulted ceiling, were row after row of headset-wearing Sungevity employees tapping away at banks of high-resolution computer screens. Sungevity's massive installation, interconnection and service teams — what Kennedy calls "project management," meaning everything that has to be done once the solar system has been ordered — worked here. Though they have since moved into a different office space, as of January there were about a hundred people working in that abandoned bookstore, nearly as many as there were in all of Sungevity's vast headquarters across the street.
The operation demands this many people because the permits required to put a solar array on your roof vary from city to city, even within California. "Some agencies want an AutoCAD drawing of the proposed installation as a digital file," Kennedy said, pointing at the various people at work at their monitors. "Others want a single line electrical drawing as a piece of paper in a folder somewhere. And somebody's got to do all that."
When I asked Lyndon Rive if SolarCity had a similar operation, he said: "There's a lot of complexity with permitting and everything else. We're trying to hide the customer from that pain." Lynn Jurich at Sunrun told me that the work it takes to arrange permits for an installation adds $2,500 to the cost of each system. Looking out at the Sungevity work force in that former bookstore, it wasn't hard to believe. It was a living, moving picture of the inefficiencies created by fragmented policy — but it was also a lot of jobs. I kept trying to move farther and farther back, just to get some sense of the scale. As we walked out, Kennedy said: "This business is a baby growing up so fast, forget childhood. It's straight into adolescence and beyond."
The innovation that has pushed Sungevity and the rest of the residential solar industry straight into adolescence over the past five years was financial, not technological. Solar technology, though it retains a kind of Jetsonian aura, is hardly new. In 1954, Bell Labs discovered that purified silicon, doped with arsenic and sliced into thin wafers by a high-powered diamond saw, was capable of converting sunlight into electricity. The Bell Solar Battery was conceived as a way to power telephones with a cheap renewable resource, but the people at Bell sensed that they were on to something bigger. "The dream of ages has been brought closer," a print ad read at the time. "If this energy could be put to use — there would be enough to turn every wheel and light every lamp that mankind would ever need."
They weren't exaggerating. Enough sunlight falls on the earth's surface every hour to meet the entire world's energy needs for one year. A plot of roughly 100 miles by 100 miles in the American Southwest, if covered with today's industry-standard 15-to-20-percent-efficient solar panels, could generate enough power for the entire United States. This is not the whole story, of course; the sun shines only during the day, and as yet we have no efficient way to distribute and store the power that such a plot would generate (so that the energy could be used at night, for example). But the potential of the sun as a power source is nearly unlimited.
When we burn coal, gas or oil, we are simply harnessing an archived version of that same energy from the sun, stored in plant and animal life, compacted and preserved under the earth's crust. As Kennedy puts it in his passionate but rational way: "Think about it this way. We're killing people in foreign lands in order to extract 200-million-year-old sunlight. Then we burn it . . . in order to boil water to create steam to drive a turbine to generate electricity. We frack our own backyards and pollute our rivers, or we blow up our mountaintops just miles from our nation's capital for an hour of electricity, when we could just take what's falling free from the sky."
That's a hard argument to refute. Since the 1950s, solar cells based on Bell's battery technology have powered craft as big as space stations, but they have yet to define our lives in the way that Bell Labs envisioned. Solar technology in particular has carried unfortunate political baggage for the last three decades. During the comparatively oil-rich 1980s, Ronald Reagan removed the solar water-heating system that Jimmy Carter had installed on the roof of the White House, a symbolic swipe at liberals. In 2011, Solyndra's disastrous bankruptcy played right into the hands of politicians and pundits, who have gleefully pegged it to an anti-solar and anti-renewable narrative: solar isn't reliable, we're not good at it, the Chinese are better at it anyway, and so drilling and fracking are the pragmatic, job-creating ways forward.
The reason that the residential solar industry has begun to buck this general trend is because, instead of appealing to our heartstrings, it has begun to appeal to our checkbooks. The innovation that made this possible — selling solar services instead of solar panels — was pioneered in the commercial market by Jigar Shah. Though Shah was trained as a mechanical engineer, his most important bit of engineering was financial: in 2003, he started a company called SunEdison, which offered something called a solar-power purchase agreement (P.P.A.) to commercial customers.
Instead of having to pay all of the money for a solar installation up front and then having to carry that payment as a debt on their balance sheets, which no publicly traded company wants to do, companies like Whole Foods and Staples contracted with SunEdison to have solar panels put up at no initial cost. SunEdison then charged the companies for the amount of energy that the panels produced at a fixed rate for a period of 20 years — a rate that was less than what the companies were already paying the utilities, and that would ultimately save them even more money as energy prices inevitably rose over time. The bold stroke was that they were selling the power, not the hardware.
The revenue stream from the 20-year P.P.A. contracts allowed SunEdison to raise capital from outside investors like Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and MetLife. The banks pay for the solar systems and then reap the returns on their investment through tax credits and a negotiated share of the monthly P.P.A. payments. Everybody wins: Staples gets cheaper energy for no money down, SunEdison sells the systems to the banks at a profit and charges recurring maintenance fees and the banks have a reliable revenue stream that also offsets their tax burdens. Shah was so convinced of his model's efficacy that when companies came to SunEdison looking to buy solar equipment outright, he referred them to his competitors.
Though there are debates about who was the first to bring Shah's model into the residential marketplace, all that matters is that for the time being Shah's conceptual model prevails. (Though, in most jurisdictions, the national residential installers have moved toward offering straight leases — a fixed payment every month — instead of P.P.A.'s, which vary according to the amount produced.) Five years ago, third-party-owned systems accounted for none of the residential solar market. In the first quarter of 2012, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association, 63 percent of new solar systems in California were third-party-owned, and in Colorado, that number was as high as 80 percent. The solar lease has been a key driver for the explosive growth in the residential solar market in California and, increasingly, across the country.
Lyndon Rive, the head of SolarCity, said: "People don't buy gas stations. People don't buy utilities. Why are we having them buy solar equipment?" The premise of the lease is simple. You go online to one of the installers and enter basic information about your location and your previous year's energy usage. The installer then uses satellite and aerial imagery to assess how viable your rooftop is for solar use — too many trees are a problem, southward-facing roofs have the most exposure to sunlight over the course of the day — and whether they can put enough of a system on your roof to make it worthwhile.
If they can, the basic value proposition is this: Say you have been paying your utility, on average, $100 a month. The solar company installs solar panels on your roof, maintains them, monitors them and repairs them for the life of the lease. The output will reduce your utility bill to roughly $20 a month, and you pay around $65 a month to lease the equipment (and the power the equipment produces, along with maintenance). You're now paying $85 a month total, 15 percent less than you were, the installer has a revenue stream that it can use for cash flow or sell off to an investor and everybody is playing his part in reducing the burning of fossil fuels.
"The most frequent question I get," Kennedy says, "is: 'What's the sting? Where's the trap?' " Lyndon Rive says he still goes to dinner parties, where people know all about SolarCity and what he does, and at the end of his pitch about the solar lease, somebody will say: "So how much does this cost again? What's the payback period?"
"'You haven't heard me!"' he shouted to me, over the telephone, spelling out his frustration with those kinds of questions. "You get cheaper electricity! Full stop!' "
A lot of major players in the economy get it, and they are betting on the potential of renewables and on the power and profitability of the residential solar-lease arrangement. This includes Google, which has created two residential solar funds totaling $355 million. (The willingness of these large companies to invest in the residential solar market via leasing arrangements is one reason that the installers would much rather lease you a system than have you buy one, even though buying one is usually a better deal if you can afford it. The average price of a system has come down to $25,000 or so from $50,000 over the last five years, but Sunrun won't sell you a system even if you want it to, and SolarCity and Sungevity make clear from their pricing structures and maintenance options that, for now, they would rather offer you a lease.)
But all of this institutional money flowing into residential solar leases and the solar field in general does not fit the impression that the coverage of Solyndra has left in anybody's mind. "The thing that bugs me the most about the way the press has covered all this stuff is that we can't physically grow any faster," Jigar Shah told me. He pointed to industry data that showed that over the last five years, revenue in the global solar-energy industry has increased to $93 billion in 2011 from $17 billion in 2007. "No one knows that, right?" he said. "People are complaining to me that we don't have enough stuff on roofs. Right? I mean — " and here he concluded with various expletives.
"I'm kind of caught on the turning of the corner of the old to the new," Kennedy confessed at one point over dinner. The pivot from activist to entrepreneur, in his mind, has been a smooth one. Nonprofits and activists think they can change the world, and so do entrepreneurs.
In the industry's eyes, this isn't a race to see who wins by the third quarter of 2012. It's a transformation that, if it comes, will come over decades, as electric vehicles reinforce the need for cheaper electricity and solar panels become ever cheaper and more widespread. Already the residential solar market has begun to deploy building-integrated solar, with roofing shingles that double as solar panels. This will eventually extend to your windows and other surfaces, and it will become easier and cheaper until — if you believe in the vision of the solar promoters — your contractor and your local roofing company will install solar as standard equipment.
Silicon Valley has done a great job of talking about its disruptive potential, but there is something truly disruptive about solar: a fully distributed model of energy generation. We currently rely on the centralized hub-and-spoke delivery systems of the utilities, many of which are outdated and suffer tremendous losses as electricity travels from power plants, along transmission and delivery lines and into our businesses and homes. There is a massive infrastructure of regulation and enforcement in the energy market to underwrite the utilities; it's one of the most highly regulated and noncompetitive markets in the country. Imagine a world in which homeowners and business owners are miniature power plants, with the full ability to sell power back to the grid at retail prices — power, literal and figurative, would be wrested from the hands of monopolistic, polluting utilities and their ancillary industries: mining, fracking and the like.
The advantages of such a system are obvious. Not only would Americans pay less for energy, but with solar they would also provide power back to the grid at peak hours, when utilities are the most taxed — and when they turn to their most expensive and dirtiest "peak" power plants, which are standing by for just such occasions. We would also avoid some blackouts, because fewer houses would be reliant on the grid, and transmission failures wouldn't cascade in the same way. By some estimates, 500 megawatts of rooftop solar — roughly the total amount of solar that California installed just last year, equivalent to about 80,000 residential systems — would have prevented the blackout of 2003 and saved the U.S. economy several billion dollars.
The utilities are too stuck in their ways to do this themselves. An effort by Duke Energy in North Carolina to experiment with distributed generation and residential solar ended with only seven actual residential installations, after finding the process cost-prohibitive. An employee of a major utility in California told me that solar is "kind of a pain." The employee said the core competency of the utility was "acquiring lots of power and gas, building a plant and distributing it." He added: "If you want to aggregate thousands of people and [install] solar, it's a low-margin business. Go ahead."
Everybody I spoke with in the solar industry stressed the need for all companies to act in ways that benefited the industry as a whole, in the belief that there is room for them all to succeed as long as they keep their standards high. "Most of the world gets that climate change is real," Kennedy said. "The weather is changing, wacky stuff is happening, and we need something other than fossil-fuel dependency."
And so they are all, really, still missionaries. They talk about market share, but their main task is a common one: persuading people to change the way they think about energy, and to believe that the more we can do for ourselves, the better. The solar companies can make all the financial and clean-energy arguments they want to, but they still have to impel average consumers to switch energy providers for their own homes.
Which brings us back to the orange that Danny Kennedy wears as a uniform most days. "I'm sure there are people who look at you and say, 'Gimme a break,' " I said to him, as we were finishing dinner on my last night in California.
He laughed. "Yeah, there probably are," he said. "I haven't really thought about it, but yes." A moment later, he added: "Humanity needs to be reminded that the sun's putting out four hundred trillion trillion watts every second of every day, and we should tap that. Let's wear it, be proud of it, push it. That's the real motivation, I think. We've got to brand the sun."
He and his team at Sungevity might not have all the answers or the most scalable model, but who knows? And why not try? Why not compare yourself to Steve Jobs without irony? And why not celebrate the fact that you were trying to do something good for the planet at the same time?
"We need to build a sense of identity that roots people in the future, which is inevitable. It seems impossible today that it could be there, but it will be, and this" — he pulled at his orange shirt — "this helps, maybe. Even if it's just for the staff, and I think a lot of it is, it's like: 'Carry on. This is a struggle.'
"I'm sorry, I'm raving now," he went on, leaning forward, "but will we make it? Will other companies make it? Very good questions. Yet that the overall march of this will get to its destination? That will happen."


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My dear friends, if you don't mind, and if you have the time, I'd like to chat with you for a moment. Turning points like this confront us in life from time to time and how we handle—or don't handle—them can often shape the course of things to come in ways we seldom foresee. It may be that with the words I say here I will burn every single bridge of fellowship that's been built during my brief life. I'm grateful that probably won't be the case but, even if it were, it would be a small price to pay for the joy of being finally, truly honest about who and what I am.
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