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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - A fourth-grader has told Monroe County officials that they could save $25,000 a year by turning off computers at night.

Ten-year-old Wynn Brower discovered in a science project for school that by turning off his home's four computers at night, the family would save $1 per day.
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Wynn demonstrated how he used a device to test the energy use of a laptop and desktop computer, then extrapolated the results to the county's 550 computers. He came up with a savings of $25,000 a year if all computers are turned off at the end of the work day.
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Wynn got an A-plus and second place on his project when he entered it in his school's science fair.

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Police contained the crowd for most of the night by targeting and arresting disorderly individuals, Wibert said.

But at about 1:30 a.m., police declared the event an unlawful assembly and ordered the crowd to disperse after a change in its mood.

After numerous loudspeaker commands to disperse were ignored by some partygoers, police launched smoke grenades and flash bangs — which produce firecracker-like noise and light — into the crowd at about 2:07 a.m.

Wibert said the warnings only eliminated some of the crowd.

Some students reported not hearing the loudspeaker announcements, while others said they heard them but didn’t take them seriously.

“I never really saw a warning,” junior Tony Smith said.

“I’m sure they did somehow, but I never saw.”

At about 2:16 a.m., officers launched tear gas as what Wibert called a last resort.
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A few Irish journalists remembered Ireland's sacrifice for King and Country before it was fashionable to do so. In the early 1970s – when I was Northern Ireland correspondent of The Times – I wrote about the old Irish-British regiments. But my article elicited not a scintilla of interest at a time when theProvisional IRA claimed to be following the blood sacrifice of Dublin in 1916, when Protestant paramilitaries claimed to be following the blood sacrifice of the Somme in 1916 and when the British, believing Northern Ireland was an "integral" part of the United Kingdom, made a claim that now sounds wearily familiar in our post-Iraq ears: that a British retreat from Belfast would mean – yes – civil war.

This Easter, the 92nd anniversary of the Rising, it is intriguing to look at the parallels that connect Ireland and the Middle East. The "Black and Tans", whom Churchill supported when they took their revenge on Irish civilians in 1920, were later sent – again with Churchill's support – to Palestine, where they became the "British Gendarmerie" and continued their reprisals against Arab and Jewish civilians to considerable effect. Decades later, John Hume (Ireland's only living statesman) wrote in The Jerusalem Post that Israel and "Palestine" should take a page out of Ireland's Good Friday Agreement. It was all about compromise, he said.

He was wrong. Israel's settlements on Palestinian Arab land in the occupied territories were as illegal as the Protestant settlements and the dispossession of the Catholics in 16th-century Ireland. A closer historical symbol was Fallujah. Not long after the US 82nd Airborne killed 14 Iraqi civilians during a protest in 2003, the people of Derry wanted to twin with Fallujah. Had not the British Parachute Regiment killed 14 Irish civilians in Derry (13 on "Bloody Sunday", another died of wounds) in 1972? The offer was never taken up – but the message was valid enough: we must deal with injustice before we look for "compromise".

The relatives of the Bloody Sunday dead received a multi-million-pound inquiry. The relatives of the Fallujah dead were twice put under US siege until their city was almost destroyed.

This project was initiated to test some of the necessary component engineering work prior to the start of the 64 MW plant installation. As part of the work, two Solar Collector Assemblies (SCA's) are being erected, exclusive of the receiver tubes and only partially outfitted with parabolic mirrors, so that mechanical testing can be completed, proper fit and function can be demonstrated, and installation methods can be verified and improved. Receivers and additional parabolic mirrors may be added at a later time so that the SCA's can also be tested for thermal performance in the future. Included in the equipment to be tested at the site are Advanced Local Controllers (AdLoC's), which have been newly developed, to control the sun tracking of the parabolic troughs using a new hydraulic-based drive system.