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RED BLUFF, Calif., Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Walmart celebrated its newly operational large-scale wind turbine at its distribution center in Red Bluff, California. The wind turbine is Walmart's first onsite industrial-sized wind turbine and will generate approximately 2,200,000 kilowatt hours of power, providing up to 20 percent of the distribution center's annual electricity use. U.S. House Representative Wally Herger joined local officials, as well as Walmart and...

BLUFF, Utah, Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- As part of our continuing mission to give architecture students the opportunity to design and build a sustainable home for a deserving family on the Navajo Nation reservation, today DesignBuildBLUFF is proud to announce the completion of Little Water, our latest home. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120927/CG82272) Little Water was designed and built by twelve first-year architecture graduate students from the University of...

BLUFF, Utah, Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- For 12 years DesignBuildBLUFF has given students the opportunity to design and build a sustainable home for a deserving family living on the Navajo Nation reservation in Bluff, Utah. Today we are pleased to announce the completion of our latest home. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120927/CG82271) The Nakai House was designed and built by eight students from the University of Colorado Denver as part of the year-long...

BENTONVILLE, Ark., Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Walmart today unveiled at its distribution center in Red Bluff, California, its first onsite large-scale wind turbine pilot project. The wind turbine, expected to be operational by this fall, will provide roughly one megawatt of power or 15 to 20 percent of the distribution center's yearly electrical use. The new wind turbine features a tower height (265 feet) and a blade diameter (250 feet) approximately equal to the height of a...

University of Miami economist uses modern-day game theory techniques to examine legendary military bluffs and explain why they workedEconomist Christopher Cotton from the University of Miami (UM), uses game theory to explore two of the most famous military bluffs in history. The findings are published in the current issue of the Journal of Peace Research.The study is one of the first to use game theory to assess the Chinese military legends of Li Guang and his 100 horsemen (144 BC), and Zhuge...

DUBLIN, August 5, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- - Innovative Twist On No-Limit Hold'Em To Produce World Champion at Irish Winter Festival paddypowerpoker.com today announces details of the much anticipated Blind Man's Bluff World Championship event, which will be held at this years' Irish Winter Festival in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin on Sunday 24th October 2010. The EUR100 + EUR10 Blind Man's Bluff World Championship event will follow the same structure as a game of NLH poker...