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In an interview with Deadline, Reitman revealed that one of the motivating factors for his leaving the director's chair was the recent passing of Harold Ramis. "With Harold no longer with us I couldn't see it," Reitman admitted, though he plans to still be involved as a producer and will help the studio find another director. The question remains: where does the movie stand now?
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A few months ago a wonderful French blogger and beauty expert named Timai asked me if she could get in touch with Advanced Style's Debra Rapoport to make a video. I love when other bloggers take an interest in these incredible ladies and couldn't wait to see what Timai would come up with. I finally met up with her in Paris for my book signing event and we immediately hit it off. While in Paris Timai had the chance to make another great video of Joyce. Check out her wonderful website HERE and the two videos of Joyce and Debra.
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- Candace said...
love these videos! so inspiring to be true to yourself!
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Incredible women! I am learning so much right now!
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These were great!! I always say it...I love this blog :D
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Joyce is perfect. Such simplicity. So classy. So...... Perfection for her age.
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I love watching Debra put on her makeup - such yummy colours, and her hair looks fab here. I liked what she said about the difference between tenderness and love--she's right that no one speaks about tenderness anymore, but everyone talks about love, even though many of them don't know what it means.
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How wonderful to discover that Joyce SINGS as well!
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Merci beaucoup Ari! these incredible ladies and yourself are showing us the way!
I had so much emotions and pleasure to meet Joyce and Debra; hope to see you all soon n NYC!
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I love the Debra video. It captures her so perfectly.
Just joy.
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This is great! Yes, this is about listening to our 'elders' or 'teachers' or the 'wise ones'. Your great models could teach a course on style. I hope one day they will.
- July 11, 2012 at 11:27 AM
I absolutely loved these films about my favorite Advanced Style ladies Joyce and Debra. Thanks for this posting.
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Joyce is so elegantly beautiful and in a natural way - I love her philosophy about style and life itself. Thank you for sharing with us all these fabulous women!
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LACKAWANNA, N.Y. -Unique Eats may have headed to a small neighborhood in Lackawanna, but there's nothing small about the food.
Tucked away on a side street off Route 5, Mulberry Italian Ristorante is a bit hard to find (64 Jackson Avenue if you want to Google it) in the middle of a residential neighborhood. It started as a bar frequented by Bethlehem Steel workers but has grown over the years as a restaurant.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Bruce Beckford scored 16 points and Austin Witter again paced North Carolina A&T's post play as the Aggies defeated Florida A&M 64-56 Monday night in Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference action.
The win was the second straight and fourth in five games for North Carolina A&T (13-12, 6-4), which got eight points and 13 rebounds from Witter. The senior set a career high with 14 boards against Bethune-Cookman on Saturday, and has had double-digit rebounds in three straight games after managing fewer than 10 rebounds in 12 straight contests.
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Warm and humid continues. So do the clouds and threats of some showers. Temps this morning never fell below 60, will climb into the mid and maybe upper 70s this afternoon (depending on how much sunshine we are able to sneak in). Rain chances stay around 20% - isolated sprinkles at the most today.
More of the same is expected to continue into and throughout the weekend. All the significant rain is to our west and looks like it is moving north not east.
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AMI investment doesn't add up without it
With advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployments rapidly proceeding, utilities need to implement dynamic pricing programs, which AMI is designed to enable.
And in the absence of further federal resources devoted to grid modernization—a current, political and economic reality—the cost of many research-and-development opportunities should be borne by the power industry.
Both these points were made by a panel at The National Press Club yesterday in Washington, D.C., that discussed myriad issues familiar to the industry if not the public and national press.
The panel presented a new report from a team under the auspices of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Future of the Electric Grid," which offered an assessment of and recommendations for grid modernization.
You can peruse the report on your own time, as it's nearly 300 pages long. Here I'll treat some remarks from the presentation and the question-and-answer session that followed. Note that many if not most of the issues identified by MIT have been standard fare in our coverage over the past two years in which the study took place.
With the "peakiness" of the load curve increasing—historically with the pervasive spread of air conditioning—anything that can shave or shift the peak to reduce the need for new power plants is a good thing, the panel said.
But the implementation of AMI, which makes price signals possible for dynamic pricing programs, has not been followed by such programs, the panel pointed out. The current impasse offers "an incredible learning opportunity" to discover how dynamic pricing can be made palatable to consumers.
Lisa Wood, executive director of the Institute for Electric Efficiency, asked the panel how the industry could move forward with dynamic pricing programs. (Recall Wood argued for implementations over pilot projects in our Industry Expert column titled, "Time to Move Beyond Pilots.") Currently, only Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OGE) has a substantial number of customers (about 20 percent) on dynamic rates, Wood said, pointing to the commitment of OGE Energy's CEO Peter Delaney, local consumer advocates and the state's public utilities commission.
"If you deploy AMI, it makes no sense to sit on your heels," agreed panelist Nancy Rose, professor of applied economics at MIT.
Due to the risk-averse nature of the power industry and its regulators, Rose said, "baby steps" that follow innovative utilities such as OGE will be crucial, as will the sharing of outcomes from dynamic pricing pilots and constructive engagement of customers.
"Don't conflate resistance to 'smart' meters with resistance to dynamic pricing," Rose added.
I asked the panel, which met in Washington, D.C., through a webcast interface, "To what degree should the recommendations you make be initiated by regulators and to what degree by the market and consumers?"
"The recommendations on transmission planning and cyber security are matters for public policy for the industry," answered Henry "Jake" Jacoby, professor of management emeritus, MIT. "The things that Nancy [Rose] is talking about are things that need to be done largely by the industry itself, with the support they can get from their [state] regulators. Almost everything we've talked about here is a mix of government, regulatory and policy instruments, the entities that run the system and their consultants. It's a mix of everybody."
"One thing that makes our study a little different from many studies of technology that have research implications," added Richard Schmalensee, professor of economics and management at MIT, "is we think that the research that needs to be done ... are not big ticket items. These are not multi-billion dollar items that the DOE [Department of Energy] needs to fund. If in coming years federal research dollars in these areas are constrained, we expect that the things we call for are not beyond the industry's means. They're not a big stretch and thus they probably could be and should be industry funded."
Other ideas espoused by the panel:
- "Consumers have to feel that their [electricity usage] data will be kept private. That's a problem to be managed, not solved," the panel said.
- State regulators should require utilities to compile and publish standardized metrics for cost and reliability for public review and as the basis for rate case evaluations.
- The power industry's regulatory framework is due for an overhaul, but the study did not call for fundamentally overhauling the regulatory regime in place since the 1930s.
- Outcomes from projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act should be widely shared to get the most bang for the buck.
- There's "no perfect protection from cyber attacks and we have to learn to live with that [fact]," the panel said. But there's no national oversight of cyber security for the distribution system or for the grid as a whole.
My big take-away: utilities need to propose and regulators need to approve more ambitious dynamic pricing programs. Consumer advocates, including AARP, are concerned about the impacts of peak-related price spikes that could impact vulnerable populations such as the elderly and those requiring medical equipment. (We'll hear more from that camp soon in another column.) But regulators involved in moving to retail electricity competition have touted safeguards such as default rates to address those concerns.
Unfortunately, the current and growing backlash against "smart" meters has the potential to derail dynamic rate programs and the industry's inability to accurately and clearly convey the "smart" meter value proposition does not bode well for the MIT panel's recommendation on the next step.
For arguments that run counter to utilities' interests, read:
- "Smart Meters: Who Said What?!"
- "Smart Meters = Tip of the Iceberg"
- "Vermont and the Opt-out Provision"
- "Dynamic Pricing Gurus Needed"
- "Dynamic Pricing Alert!"
- "A Reader: Dynamic Pricing Destroys Jobs?"
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Agreed. Creating a "Smart Meter" value proposition is needed in order to convey the full potential of Smart Meters and generate consumer demand for dynamic pricing programs. However, achieving this goal will be complicated because utilities are all on a different page in the playbook. Some are further along the AMI adoption/innovation curve than others involving the customer at every step of program development. Others are sitting at the tail-end, waiting out regulatory issues before riding the steep ascent upward. To bridge this knowledge gap, industry leaders must urgently pool resources to gain an understanding of what consumers need and want, how to best communicate the benefits as well as how best to address concerns.
Assessing this need and in keeping with our mission to promote consumer awareness and understanding of the Smart Grid, SGCC conducted research and analyzed many consumer engagement programs across the country. The Excellence in Consumer Engagement research helps the industry gain critical perspective on which programs and incentives have been successful in encouraging customer enrollment. The specific wins of the Salt River Project (OG&E) program are featured. By learning and reapplying the successes of emerging programs, utilities can reduce customer uncertainty with the benefits of smart meter-enabled programs, like dynamic pricing.
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Do customers want Dynamic Pricing?
Some do
If you look at Salt River Project or OGE, there is a significant number of residential customers that have opted-in to TOU rates. The rates do provide those who have flexibility to shift with an opportunity to save money. They can avoid usage when rates are high, which is countered with lower off peak rates. There is also a subset who participate because of the technology angle and some do because of the positive environmental impacts.
Consumer Power
With the emergence of the internet and social networks consumers have become empowered as never before. In 2005 the economist crowned the consumer king and in 2006 the consumer was Time's person of the year. Utilities can no longer use the big stick to implement programs because we are moving into an increasingly competitive market. Consumers will have more choices when it comes to selling their unused EV power, selling their non usage (demand response), or purchasing distributed generation.
It is time for utilities to build relationships with consumers and communicate why a TOU rate is valuable to them personally. If we force it upon them, they will be resentful, less likely to shift peak usage, and be more likely to go with an alternative when one is made available.
Yes, the research on time of use rates clearly have peak usage benefits, but I have not seen any research that assesses the cost to the customer relationship. As we move into a more competitive environment, we need to think more like a competitive company and less like a monopoly. Consumers want options and are empowered with information as never before. We must be mindful of this trend and find ways to build upon it rather than swim against it.
AMI is a Means to an End
AMI without further add ons, including dynamic pricing, is basically AMR - replaces the meter reader, provides some end of network sensor data - but to truly pay off, smart meter projects require follow through to implement significant changes in rates to drive peak reduction. It's like the House that Jack Built.
AMI produces Interval Data, which enables Digital Billing, which enables Dynamic Pricing, which supports and encourages Demand Response Programs, which complement Energy Efficiency Programs, which together Shift Peak Consumption and Lower Capacity Requirements to Defer or even Avoid Capital Investment in Peak and Base Load Generation and Distribution System Expansion. Break this chain and you get a suboptimal payback from your investment in Smart Meters, but follow through and organize the Demand Side and the benefits start to kick in for a positive ROI.
If a utility does not follow through with a program to modernize its grid as described above, I may be with the Smart Meter skeptics who say that the upgrade is just not worth it. Hard to believe I wrote that, but let's face it, AMI has great potential, but it is expensive and requires follow through to realize the benefits and pay for itsefl - no follow through and it looks more and more like an imprudent expense in a time when capital is hard to come by.
John Cooper, Ecomergence, Austin, TX
Dynamic Pricing
For some of your readers, none of the recommendations are a surprise, including a call for regulatory overhaul. After reading Insull's speeches from nearly one hundred years ago, it's clear that at least some of the principles he espoused at the time no longer apply in a more modern world.
Although I think we have more than enough data from pilots to move forward with opt-in dynamic pricing right now, I also think it's going to take other initiatives and a modest amount of research to deal with long-standing issues like the impact of air conditioning on load factors. Better insulation and more efficient equipment may not buy a whole lot of improvement without addressing ventilation for the solar collector that sits atop most people's homes (their attics). Better building codes, strictly enforced, will ensure that new construction doesn't require expensive retrofits later.
Most importantly, regulators and legislators need to figure out what they want and understand the implications of their policy choices. Dynamic pricing won't work in an environment with flat prices. Demand response requires either large subsidies or price volatility to work at all, much less work well, and there are going to be supply shortages if demand response that replaces conventional supply in a capacity auction fails to operated when needed. In spite of all the research and all the talk about how important they are, few people understand what's required for demand response, dynamic pricing and energy efficiency to be successful, what happens when they don't work as planned, and what happens when they do.
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Theatre review: The Hound of the Baskervilles at Theatro Technis
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Veni Vidi troupe tune into Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale with help of ingenious radio spin
»This Veni Vidi Theatre Company production provides an ingenious slant on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale.
As the audience, we played the part of a live studio crowd, watching a radio programme being put together during the medium's hey-dey.
The set is spot on – ribbon mics hang from the ceiling, old fashioned special effects units litter the stage and myriad wires snake around the room in a way that will be familiar to anyone who has worked in radio.
It's convincing stuff – Henry Douthwaite as Sherlock Holmes was imperious both on and off the mic. When not 'in character' he whirled around the stage like a dervish, conducting the special effects teams with wild gesticulations.
There are plenty of nice touches - quite apart from the period costumes and the decor in the theatre bar, when actors are off mic they smoke, drink and fling discarded pages of script to the floor like so much used tissue.
The way the action broke for the interval was so clever it took the audience a few minutes to work out they could leave.
Holmes and Watson are both brilliant, Barrymore hammed up the part too much for my taste (although most people seemed to enjoy it) and Dr Stanley was delightfully sinister.
It's a well executed play with some spellbinding performances and solid technical ability. I'd love to watch it again with my eyes shut, to see how well it would work as a genuine radio production.
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Diesel Particulate Matter
This article was researched and written by a student at Mount Holyoke College participating in the Encyclopedia of Earth's (EoE) Student Science Communication Project. The project encourages students in undergraduate and graduate programs to write about timely scientific issues under close faculty guidance. All articles have been reviewed by internal EoE editors, and by independent experts on each topic.
Diesel Particulate Matter
Diesel Exhaust and Diesel Particulate Matter (DPM)
Diesel particulate matter (DPM) is a complex mixture of elemental carbon (EC) particles, soluble organic carbon, including 5-ring or higher polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) such as benzo(a)pyrene, as well as other metallic compounds. Also, DPM usually contains some small amounts of nitrates, sulfates and sulfuric acid—that is created through reaction of sulfates with water molecules present in the air during ignition or after release into ambient air. Also, diesel exhaust contains some trace elements, water and unidentified components. DPM is made up almost entirely of tiny particles below 1-3µ (microns) as well as ultrafine particles that are smaller than 1µ.
Sources of DPM
DPM is a component of diesel exhaust that arises from combustion of diesel fuels. Diesel fuel is a less refined fuel than gasoline but is also derived from petroleum oil. Diesel exhaust is generated by machines including construction equipment, 18-wheel trucks, commuter trains, and buses, as well as ferries and fishing boats that use diesel engines.
Dangers of DPM
DPM has a large surface area in relation to its mass. This enables DPM to absorb or attract other chemicals or organics found during diesel combustion as well as chemicals found in the ambient air after expulsion from the exhaust system. Their small size relative to their surface area enhances their potential to interact at the subcellular level with respiratory tissues after inhalation in both animals and humans. On the molecular level, carbon in DPM attracts other chemical molecules found in diesel exhaust as well as chemicals in the ambient air creating a potentially toxic mixture of materials in the particles and posing further danger when inhaled. The primary route of exposure to these chemicals is through inhalation with some through dermal absorption if ambient air concentrations are high enough.
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Non Carcinogenic
Toxicological data demonstrate that DPM is an etiologic agent in non-cancer health effects such as asthma and bronchitis (inflammation of bronchi) and other respiratory ailments. Also, DPM has been associated with an elevated risk of lung cancer in humans.
In humans such symptoms as asthma and other respiratory problems are found after long-term exposure to DPM in ambient air. Persons who live in cities are at a higher risk of developing asthma and other lung-related ailments, possibly because of their higher daily exposure to diesel vehicle traffic associated with cities.
Carcinogenic and mutagenic properties
Additionally, Diesel Particulate Matter (DPM) has been associated with mutagenic properties. Most cancer is defined by such genetic alterations as translocation, deletion, and substitution. Since DPM components have had mutagenic effects on DNA it is suggested that DPM can cause cancer. In addition, because DPMs can to pick up other chemical substances—as they remain airborne—they provide a direct route of exposure to other various carcinogenic chemicals that attach to them.
While alternative fuels are one solution, large nation-wide campaigns to change diesel regulation across the United States could substantially reduce DPM exposure. Diesel retrofit programs aim to decrease overall particulate matter through the addition of a second filtration system on the exhaust pipe. Such alternative fuels as biodiesel provide an alternative fuel for working diesel engines and decrease both DPM emissions and CO2 emissions.
Diesel Retrofits
Diesel Retrofit programs that upgrade or retrofit vehicles can reduce particulate matter by up to 90%. There are many retrofit programs that have been instated throughout various school systems for the retrofitting of school bus retrofitting. Technology is available to reduce DPM emissions on already existing vehicles. Several States including California and Massachusetts have taken control at the state level and regulated the requirement of retrofits in school bus fleets that run within the state.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) monitors ambient air quality and regulates the amount of particulate matter that can be in the ambient air at any given time. In September of 2006 the EPA lowered the level of 24-hour DPM standard from 65 to 35µg/m3 and the retaining level particulate matter to a standard of 15 µg/m3 at any given time. Retaining level means that areas may not exceed the standardized level and must retain a concentration of 15 µg/m3 or less. This regulation aims to lower the allowable limits of DPM present in the ambient air at any given time. Areas that do not fit into these standards are designated "nonattainment areas" and are given a time frame for which to improve air quality. Those areas designated as "nonattainment areas" have three years to develop and begin implementing a plan that will reduce the amount of DPM in the ambient air.
In addition to air quality monitoring, the EPA has several Clean Diesel Programs funded by Congress that aim at decreasing diesel pollution at its source by requiring higher standards of emissions from vehicles.
- Peter Møller, Janne Kjærsgaard Folkmann, Lykke Forchhammer, Elvira Vaclavik Bräuner, Pernille Høgh Danielsen, Lotte Risom and Steffen Loft (2008). Air pollution, oxidative damage to DNA, and carcinogenesis Cancer Letters. xxx, xx-xx. [Article in Press; Retrieved from Science Direct database].
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (2002) Health assessment document for diesel engine exhaust. Prepared by the National Center for Environmental Assessment, Washington, DC, for the Office of Transportation and Air Quality; EPA/600/8-90/057F. Available from: National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA; PB2002-107661.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (2007) Particulate Matter (PM) In New England.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (2007) Which Areas in New England Do Not Attain PM Standards.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (2008) National Clean Diesel Campaign.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (2008) Verified Technologies list: Diesel Retrofit Technology Verification.


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