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Powerit Holdings, Inc., The Leader in Energy-Demand Management Systems, Completes Series A Financing Round - Joe Merlo
by paul.kholer paul.kholer 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Joe Merlo Powerit Holdings, Inc. the leading provider of intelligent, automated demand control & demand response systems for industrial and commercial buildings, today announced the successful completion of the company's "Series A" round of venture financing. Led by @Ventures with a $3.0 million investment, the $7.1 million round also included co-investor Expansion Capital Partners with $3.0 million and the balance from existing investors including Stellar Holdings and Company management. "This funding from @Ventures and Expansion Capital Partners, two recognized leaders in clean technology venture capital, will allow us to accelerate our growth and product offerings to meet the demands of a growing number of industrial and utility customers who need proven demand response and demand control energy management solutions to better control rising energy costs," said Claes Olsson, CEO of Powerit Holdings. Powerit Solutions is especially well-poised to support the growth of demand response services to the electric utility industry. Their primary product solution, the Energy Director, is based on the principal that the best, cleanest and most cost-efficient way to obtain needed power during times of peak usage is to leverage the hidden inefficiencies that cause high peak demand. The Energy Director system automatically predicts, regulates, and reduces demand by carefully lowering the consumption from selected loads with precisely-timed curtailment actions and manages these actions in a way that it limits any impact to productivity or building comfort. As such, it is a system that is distinctively tailored to enable industrial & commercial users to meet challenging power savings goals and has been approved for demand response (DR) incentive programs by public utilities which have strong interest in finding reliable cost-saving and demand-savvy solutions for those challenging sectors. According to Olsson, sixty percent of all energy in the domestic U.S. market is consumed by commercial and industrial buildings. "Powerit systems reduce demand charges on an ongoing basis between 10- and 40-percent and can allow those previously savings-challenged industrial manufacturing companies to participate in demand response programs," he said. "Do the math. The financial benefits, measured by dramatically reduced demand charges and the opportunity to participate in DR programs, are substantial, often creating a project payback in the range of 1 to 18 months, - not to mention the benefits to local energy utilities struggling to keep power to their customers during peak usage periods." As part of the financing, Marc Poirier, Managing Director, @Ventures and Bernardo Llovera, General Partner, Expansion Capital Partners will take seats on Powerit's Board of Directors. "Powerit's technologies are uniquely-suited to meet the demanding needs of large industrial electricity users," said Marc Poirier. "By deploying fully-automated intelligent systems to help companies reduce their energy bills without hindering productivity, Powerit delivers strong economic value to its customers. And by helping utilities manage their peak-demand periods without increasing internal capacity, Powerit helps address the increasing demand for electricity while minimizing carbon emissions and other environmental impacts associated with power generation," added Poirier. "The combination of Powerit's exceptional energy management and demand response solutions, and its proven leadership in high technology innovation, are strong indicators that the company will continue to excel," said Bernardo Llovera. "We are impressed with Claes Olsson's track record of driving growth in companies like Powerit." Evolution Capital Advisors, a boutique investment bank serving entrepreneurial stage companies in energy, information, communications, and media technology markets, served as advisor to Powerit on the transaction. About Powerit Holdings, Inc. Powerit Holdings, Inc. (Powerit) is a global leader in intelligent, energy-demand management. Through its wholly owned companies, Powerit Solutions in the U.S. and Diana Control in Europe, Powerit helps organizations manage and reduce peak energy demand - saving money and conserving energy without compromising production and processing operations or building comfort factors. The company has hundreds of installed systems globally, many in industrial sectors that have high-energy demand, including mechanical fabrication and manufacturing, agriculture and food products, petroleum and petrochemicals, forest products, and primary metals fabrication, as well as in commercial and recreational facilities. About Expansion Capital Partners, LLC: Founded in 2002, Expansion Capital invests venture capital exclusively into expansion-stage, Clean Technology enterprises. The firm targets companies that offer dramatic improvements in resource efficiency and productivity, while creating more economic value with less energy and materials, or less waste and toxicity. Clean Technology Fund II, LP, invests in US and Canadian enterprises with current customer revenues of $2-30 million, combined with solid prospects of attaining $30-$100 million of revenues within 3-5 years. The fund makes initial investments of $3 million to $7 million, with its three Partners taking active, value-add board roles. Expansion Capital has offices in San Francisco and New York. About Stellar Holdings, Inc.: Stellar Holdings is a private international real estate investment and development firm headquartered in Seattle. Founded in 1989, Stellar has seen exceptional growth and currently owns and manages a significant portfolio while engaging in development projects in the Pacific Northwest, Sweden and Poland. http://www.energyautomation.com/

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Index bug (urgent)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Dear gang, Consider the following: ======================== \starttext \setupregister[index][n=1] \index{This is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, long entry}{This is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, long entry} \index{U}{U} \placeindex \stoptext ======================== If we comment the \index{U}{U}, then, in the index, the previous indexed entry does not indent the second line. That is, if the very last entry in an index is long, then indentation of the second line is lost. Can this be fixed or is there a workaround? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Learn How Are Patches Used? - John Schrerer
by paul.kholer paul.kholer 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

John Schrerer Patch sizes vary and may be as small as some kilobytes or go as high as a hundred megabytes and higher ? the larger the size, the larger the change the patch is bound to do. Typically, when media, such as pictures and sounds, are changed or added instead of program, files become rather large. This is usually seen in patches designed to update or modify computer games. Unlike software designed for initial installation process, patches generally are faster to apply. Some patches may be acquired from the manufacturers and sent to users in diskettes or discs, while others may be downloaded through the Internet. Patches that are downloadable could take longer to acquire depending on the connection speed. Most patches that are designed for operating systems and software for computer servers are created to fix important holes in the security system. Some operating systems allow automatic update or semi-automatic updating that allows the continual feed of patches whenever there are changes done by their authors. A lot of people, especially those in the corporate world, decline getting totally automatic updates because there were many experiences of patches causing glitches. Some software experts also believe that allowing totally automatic updates may let software companies acquire limitless control over people?s computers. Thus, varying degrees of automation has been offered in relation to getting patches. The use of totally automatic updates is rather more popular for the consumers because most operating systems, Microsoft Windows in particular, have added them as a support tool. Its creators have also set the automatic updates for Windows as default. Some users, especially network system managers, are very wary about installing patches. They put off applying them until they have clear proof that the fixes are stable. Most large patches or those that promote sudden significant alterations are distributed first with limited availability as beta tests for qualified developers who would know what to do in case something wrong happens. http://www.videoprofessor.com

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columns
by Patrick Gundlach 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hi, in \setupcolumns, what is ntop=<number> and height=<dimension>? I've played with these parameters but couldn't see any effect. Is it possible that align=yes/no is incorrect? See http://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/page-mul.tex?search=%40%40… (search for @@klalign) Patrick

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fancyhdr equivalent
by Peter I. Hansen 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

Hello Just getting started with ConTeXt, and liking it so far :) However, I would like to use something similar to the LaTeX 'fancyhdr' package. I've been poking around trying to find such a thing and the closest I could get is: http://osdir.com/ml/tex.context/2001-10/msg00094.html I can't find it in the manual, so if it is built in maybe one of you guys can tell how to use it? Thanks, Peter

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Re: [NTG-context] Itemize problem
by w.neimeijer＠hccnet.nl 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

To Aditya >It is possible that this change caused your existing setup to break. >Can you create a minimum example that exhibits the problem? Start with >Patrick's example, and start adding lines from your setup, so that the >problem reappears. That may help in figuring out if it is something >wrong in your setup, or a bug. I already provide a minimum example. Patrick just used my example on Context live where it works. On my system with the latest Context it does not. In addition, what could be wrong with my setup ? The setup is all Context and nothing special and the setup I am using, did not give me problems in the past. I will try to debug but I think it must be a bug with the latest Context. Kind regards Wim

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metafun/label: utf8 and spaces
by Patrick Gundlach 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

Hi, is there any way to get utf-8 labels and without the 'strange' space glyph? -------------------------------------------------- \startMPenvironment[+] \enableregime[utf] \stopMPenvironment \starttext foobar baz äöß % <-- OK \startuniqueMPgraphic{bla} label("foobar baz äöß",(3cm,3cm)); % <-- broken draw btex foobar baz äöß etex % <--- OK \stopuniqueMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{bla} \stoptext -------------------------------------------------- Patrick

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frames and hyphenation
by Hans van der Meer 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

I encountered some strange thing with framedtext's in trying to define one where hyphenation is suppressed. The definition is: \defineframedtext[myblock][frame=off,style=\tt,width=0.8 \makeupwidth,before=\nohyphens] But then \startmyblock text \stopmyblock does not stop hyphenation. While \startmyblock\nohyphens text \stopmyblock stops it. Since I would like to have the myblock's all having suppressed hyphenation I am at a loss how to do it. Could it be that the \nohyphens in the "before" is overriden by something? It looks like, because setting lefthyphenmin and righthyphenmin zero at that point did not work either. By the way it is a bit difficult to give an exact example, because hyphenation so much depends on ones linesize and font dimensions. Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] Itemize problem
by w.neimeijer＠hccnet.nl 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

Patrick et al, I also tried it on live.contextgarden.net and there it works fine. But not with my Context. I have some definitions but they did not change for more than 6 months, and comparing my setups with some of my backups, nothing has changed. The only change is that I updated Context with ctxtools --update from the Scite menu. I don't know which of my definitions or setups could cause this. I am not using \setupitemize. I hope someone can help. Kind regards Wim

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graphic combinations captions
by Steffen Fritzsche 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

Hallo, I have got a problem with my the captions of my graphic combinations. How can I adjust the font-size of the caption which goes under each graphic? Problem is, that my general graphic caption is a smaller font-size ... the detail captions seem to use the default document font-size. for placing the graphics I use following code ... \placefigure [here][fig:test1] {test1 label} { \startcombination[2*1] {\externalfigure[leftTest]}{left test label} {\externalfigure[rightTest]}{right test label} \stopcombination } My captions are formatted with this command ... \setupcaptions [way=bytext, align=left, style={\switchtobodyfont[8pt]}] Thanks for your help! Steffen

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