The combined result of the two big parties was the worst in a western state in nearly 60 years, continuing a decline speeded up by their awkward power-sharing at federal level.
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They are curbing run-away energy with a combination of micro-level controls (for individual servers, power distribution units, air-flow controllers, and cooling units) as well as macro-level controls and policies (for racks of servers, rows of racks, and entire data centers).
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The building blocks of a modern economy--bridges, roads, power lines--are at about the level of South Korea a quarter century ago, according to the Construction and Economic Research Institute of South Korea.
As a result, you can view software-defined power and DCIM level 5 as two sides of the same coin.
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Now nearly 56, Lim -- and his party -- have never tasted power at any level.
The Ascend G 330 follows hugely successful Ascend G 300 smartphone in Huawei's G-series smartphone family, designed for consumers looking for the kind of blockbusting power and functionality not delivered by entry-level smartphones.
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The ultimate in energy efficiency will come when power producers can turn on and off small substations at a moments notice based on real-time data on energy consumption at a household level, and consumers can make power purchasing decision based on real-time metering of their consumption.
We saw a number of Electric Imp demos and appliance ideas at the booth including a simple hand-held "detonator" toggle switch with LED, seven-segment counter, water level sensor, servo-controlled gauge, RGB light, power socket, Christmas light, power monitor, toy washing machine, 16x16 LED display and receipt printer (the latter two being combined to show the avatars and tweets of anyone mentioning the Electric Imp) -- all Internet aware.
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Developing and owning power on this level is mostly a middle-aged affair.
The agency, which isn't a government entity, has the power to ban athletes from competing in elite-level sports and to revoke previous titles.
The digital "eyebrow" display at the top of the instrument panel provides high visibility for the Eco indicator and speedometer, while the lower liquid crystal meter display houses the new percentage style state-of-charge meter, power meter, battery temperature gauge, multi-function display, remaining energy gauge, capacity level gauge and distance to empty display.
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Ofgem's review of the market also show that - on average - power companies' profit margins are at their lowest level for two years.
After Mr. Putin came to power in 2000, Mr. Shuvalov was promoted to ministerial-level jobs.
In 2011 coal-generated power was down to 42%, its lowest level since at least 1949, when records began.
The power in this expanse of data is its ability to make person-level predictions about likely consumer (or voting) behavior.
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In the second tier, the hustler class of new-money industrialists produced a first generation of Robber Barons, and then an asymmetric balance of power between bankers and second-generation hustlers who aspired to Robber Baron level fortunes (egged on by Horatio Alger narratives), but ended up as the tame new middle class.
In many other states, such activity may fail to rise to the level of criminality but public money is nevertheless used by power-hungry politicians to wield power and gain influence.
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Mr Greenspan says a high-level panel of American financial officials should be given broad power to seize any financial institution whose failure threatens the entire economy, bail out its creditors and close it down.
Barring a constitutional amendment, it seems that the line-item veto may turn out to be one of America's shorter-lived fiscal experiments, at least at presidential level. (Forty-three state governors have this power, and it is under no threat there.) Despite its controversy, the veto does nothing to change the basic structure of budget-making.
Alan Paller, director of research at SANS Institute, a computer-security organization, said that the level of cyberattacks, including against power companies and critical infrastructure, has shot up in the last seven or eight months.
Meanwhile, privatization of government owned entities is probably not feasible in the near term, but the government likely will move steadily toward the creation of a level-playing field by removing input cost subsidies and reducing the monopoly power, allowing for newcomers in the market that can address these gaps.
What if we could build a nuclear reactor that offered no possibility of a meltdown, generated its power inexpensively, created no weapons-grade by-products, and burnt up existing high-level waste as well as old nuclear weapon stockpiles?
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But it is the Love whose nature is expressed in good actions, marked by self-control and justice, at the human and divine level that has the greatest power and is the source of all our happiness.
How can a legislative body--at the local, state, federal or international level--have any chance of passing workable legislation when single legislators hold veto power?
But in recent years -- from "rubber rooms" for teachers who can't be fired in New York City to the prison workers unions in California that helped to drive prison spending to nearly the same level as all higher education in the state -- resentments have been stirring against the power and alleged abuses of public sector unions.
In the meantime, though, we'd guess that this update may not be worth hunting down to the degree that the new iPad 2 was -- the level of shrinkage here doesn't seem enough to have a huge impact on power draw, and in any case that's less of an issue for a device that's fed from the wall.
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S. K. Srivastava, who is Secretary at the Ministry of Coal, said the federal government projects 52% of India's total power generation in 2030-2031 will come from coal-fired plants, only marginally lower than the 57% level now.
The power electronics unit integrated in the engine compartment operates at a level of around 370V and manages the flow of high-voltage energy to and from the battery and the electric motors.
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In 1994, as the Mandela government came to power, Motsepe left the law firm and struck out on his own, hoping to build a business contracting low-level labor like sweeping, where workers use brooms to glean gold dust from the rock surface after industrial mining crews have done their work.
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