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Tyndall Air Force Base, FL (AP) -- Air Force officials say a fighter jet has crashed along a highway in the Florida Panhandle and that the pilot ejected safely. There were no immediate reports of injuries on the ground.
A news release from the Air Force says the F-22 Raptor went down Thursday afternoon near Tyndall Air Force Base, just south of Panama City. The pilot was receiving medical treatment at the base.
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While plenty of high-yield opportunities exist, investors must always consider the safety of their dividend and the total return potential of their investment. It is not uncommon for a struggling company to suspend high-yielding dividends and subsequently result in precipitous share price declines.
TheStreet Ratings' stock rating model views dividends favorably, but not so much that other factors are disregarded. Our model gauges the relationship between risk and reward in several ways, including: the pricing drawdown as compared to potential profit volatility, i.e. how much one is willing to risk in order to earn profits?; the level of acceptable volatility for highly performing stocks; the current valuation as compared to projected earnings growth; and the financial strength of the underlying company as compared to its stock's valuation as compared to its stock's performance.
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China Nepstar Chain DrugstoreDividend Yield: 14.60% China Nepstar Chain Drugstore (NYSE: NPD) shares currently have a dividend yield of 14.60%. China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates a retail drugstore chain that sells a range of pharmaceutical and other healthcare products in the People's Republic of China. The company has a P/E ratio of 29.43. The average volume for China Nepstar Chain Drugstore has been 122,400 shares per day over the past 30 days. China Nepstar Chain Drugstore has a market cap of $203.4 million and is part of the retail industry. Shares are up 9.8% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday. TheStreet Ratings rates China Nepstar Chain Drugstore as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and increase in stock price during the past year. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the growth in the company's net income has been quite unimpressive. Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 6.4%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 10.6%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displaying stagnant earnings per share.
- NPD has no debt to speak of therefore resulting in a debt-to-equity ratio of zero, which we consider to be a relatively favorable sign. Along with the favorable debt-to-equity ratio, the company maintains an adequate quick ratio of 1.24, which illustrates the ability to avoid short-term cash problems.
- 42.40% is the gross profit margin for CHINA NEPSTAR CHAIN DRUG-ADS which we consider to be strong. Regardless of NPD's high profit margin, it has managed to decrease from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of -0.67% trails the industry average.
- The return on equity has improved slightly when compared to the same quarter one year prior. This can be construed as a modest strength in the organization. In comparison to the other companies in the Food & Staples Retailing industry and the overall market, CHINA NEPSTAR CHAIN DRUG-ADS's return on equity is significantly below that of the industry average and is below that of the S&P 500.
- The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Food & Staples Retailing industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 358.2% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $0.29 million to -$0.76 million.
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Kent Hovind, the evangelist who styles himself "Dr. Dino" and runs the Creation Science Evangelism ministry as well as Dinosaur Adventure Land, a small creationist theme park in Pensacola, Florida, was arrested on July 13, 2006, on fifty-eight federal charges. The Pensacola News-Journal (July 14, 2006) reports that in court Hovind professed not to understand the basis for the indictment: "I still don't understand what I'm being charged for and who is charging me," he said.
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As the August 1, 2006, Kansas primary election approaches, evolution is a burning issue. The state board of education is at the center of the furor, of course; in November 2005, the board voted 6-4 to adopt a set of state science standards that were rewritten, under the tutelage of local "intelligent design" activists, to impugn the scientific status of evolution.
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Resident Evil Afterlife takes place in a world of the undead, plagued by the Umbrella Corp's manufactured T-virus. Alice (Milla) is back on track collecting survivors and trying to bring people to a safe location…kicking zombie ass along the way. She is joined and aided by some familiar faces. Claire Redfield (Ali Larter) and K-Mart (Spencer Locke).
For some reason the search for safety takes them to Los Angeles. LA was never safe even when people weren't walking around as blood thirsty zombies…. so I'm not quite sure what they were thinking but hey, it's a movie. Nonetheless the group is LA bound. They may be heading into a trap before you can say "Zombie Snack!".
As far as the cast of characters growing, Milla Jovovich is like Batman. She is willing and more then capable of working alone. However, the more movies come out, the more Robin's and Batgirls seem to be added. Eventually, the Resident Evil franchise may go back to their roots where Milla kicked ass all on her own without the help of sidekicks. In the meantime, I'll just enjoy the 3D zombie killing action.
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Afghanistan is the worst place to be a child.
As politicians, pundits, and diplomats endlessly debate the future of the world's involvement in Afghanistan, it seems wise to reflect on the innocents of Afghanistan over the decades of invasions, insurgencies, civil wars, and abject poverty.
– Daniel Toole, UNICEF, Regional Director for South Asia
The burden of wars, poverty, instability, and insurgencies has always been borne disproportionately by children. They are killed and maimed by landmines and other explosives. Schools are being destroyed by the Taliban, and girls who seek an education are often threatened and attacked. Children are recruited by the Taliban to be suicide bombers and smugglers.
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to look at their children who are severely injured physically, emotionally, and psychologically.
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After hearing the news that the Opelucid Gym is closed, and the advice given by Mr. Hattori's butler, Ash and co. decide to head for the port to board a boat to Virbank City for Ash's final Gym Challenge. On the way they encounter Iris' rival Georgia and her Vanilluxe who has a personality of making friends with a Dragon-type Pokemon like Axew. She's on her way to Ferroseed Research looking for moss that powers up the Pokémon's skills created from the thorns of a Ferroseed. However, as Ash and co. take a tour around their research with a lab research assistant Case who's being a tour guide, the power of the chargestones those Ferroseeds absorbs (that came from Chargestone Cave), releases much more moss, grows out of control in the 3rd floor and covers the whole building, and spreading everything in its path. Not only that, those moss spores that any Ground or Electric-type Pokemons inhaled it would cause a reaction that make them feel sick. And with Iris trapped on the roof with Axew, Oshawott and Georgia's Vanilluxe, how will she get out of this one? By telling Vanilluxe to use Icy Wind because the moss is vulnerable to Ice-type moves. Now that they know the moss' weakness, Ash and co. along with the scientists would need help from Ice-type Pokemons like Georgia's Beartic to fight their way to the 3rd floor in order for them to remove excess electricity from the Ferroseeds' body to stop the moss from growing.
- The setting of this episode in the beginning looks all the same like they're back in Castelia City. In case it would've been the reason why Mr. Hattori's butler told them to go to Virbank City in the first place when they're transported here from limo in the last episode.
- As of this point, all the members of the Vanillite evolution family have appeared under the ownership of a rival trainer: Trip has a Vanillite in BW034: Ash and Trip's Third Battle!. Brycen has a Vanillish in BW081: Caution: Icy Battle Conditions!. And Georgia now has a Vanilluxe.
- This marks the second three episodes when the entire pokemon evolution family has three trainers. Ash has captured Gible in DP157: Gotta Get a Gible!. Ursula has a Gabite in DP114: Another One Gabites the Dust. And Champion Cynthia has a Garchomp in DP040: Top-Down Training!.
- Georgia's Vanilluxe is confirmed to be female when it takes a liking to Iris' Axew, but not Ash's Oshawott anyway with his majority crush.
- It's been 42 episodes earlier since they last saw Georgia's Beartic.
- This is the second episode in a row when main characters meet their rivals again to the other. First, was Burgundy in the last episode and now they met Georgia.
- The chargestones from Chargestone Cave those researchers got makes its third appearance since BW064: Crisis at Chargestone Cave! when Team Rocket forced all of those Joltiks and Galvantulas off so they could steal them all for Dr. Zager to power up his fossil restoration machine. With the computer data they've stole from Prof. Juniper and Dr. Fennel in BW039: Archeops In The Modern World! in order to restore Tirtouga from a Cover Fossil in Twist Mountain in BW077: A Restoration Confrontation! (Part 1) and 2 to use its life energy to keep the expanded space-time warp called the "Time Gate" open, so they can capture all of the Ancient Pokemons from the past.
- This episode may share similarities, and differences from the episode, BW064: Crisis at Chargestone Cave! because, its about how the chargestones are being used as.
- Iris narrates the preview of this episode. (Japan Only)
- Who's that Pokemon?: Ferroseed (US).
- After Georgia calls out Vanilluxe and still like Axew the most, Ash's Oshawott comes out on his own because he thought Vanilluxe like him.
- After Oshawott kept on chasing Vanilluxe to the roof for a long time to love her, the hearts eyes came off of him when he realized that Vanilluxe wasn't in love with him after all when she angrily use Icy Wind to freeze him away.
- Georgia never noticed that Ash and co. came in to check out Ferroseed Research until now after she got there. Which she assumes that they started following her.
- Iris had been goofed when she sends out Excadrill and Emolga even though she doesn't know what Cilan meant about the moss would make a reaction to cause a pokemon to be sick, if they're an Electric-type or a Ground-type so they can't attack. Which forced her to call back Excadrill and Emolga for now.
- Oshawott thinks his Water-type move like Water Gun would force the moss back but the moss would surely grow back faster if it absorbs more water.
- Georgia's Vanilluxe: "VA-NIL-LUXE!"
As she used Icy Wind on Oshawott.
- Ash's Oshawott: "Wott? Osh-a-wott?"
Then zapped.
- Ash's Oshawott: "OSH-OSH-OSH-OSH-OSH-OSH-A-OSH-A-WOTT!"
- "Quite a kick."
Iris and Georgia after being shocked by Pikachu.
- Ash's Pikachu: "Pi-ka Pi-ka."
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|Previous Element: Copper
Next Element: Gallium
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Zinc is a metallic chemical element, with atomic symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is the first element in Group 12 of the Periodic table. Zinc is chemically similar to the element magnesium, since the ionic radius is of comparable size, and the only common oxidation state is plus two. Zinc is the 24th most abundant element within the Earth's crust and has five stable isotopes. The most commonly mined zinc ore is sphalerite, a form of zinc sulfide. The largest occurrences of this zinc ore deposits are found in Australia, Canada, and the USA. Zinc production includes froth flotation of the ore, roasting, and final extraction using electricity.
Physical properties
In pure metallic form zinc is a bluish-white, lustrous, diamagnetic solid, even though common commercial grades of the metal exhibit a dull finish. The element manifests slightly less density than metallic iron. Relative to other metals zinc offers a low melting temperature; in fact zinc's melting point is below that of any transition metal with the exceptions of mercury and cadmium. Zinc also possesses a low boiling point relative to other heavy metals. This metal is brittle and hard at typical ambient termperatures, and is malleable between 100 and 150°C; however, once the temperature rises above 210°C, zinc again becomes brittle and is readily pulverized. Zinc exhibits moderate electrical conductivity. Metallic zinc displays a hexagonal crystal structure.
Chemical properties
Zinc burns in air with a bright bluish-green flame, yielding fumes of zinc oxide. Reactions of zinc are evident with acids, bases and many non-metals. Strong acids, including hydrochloric and sulfuric acid, can remove the thin coating layer of zinc carbonate formed when pure metallic zinc is exposed to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Zinc's outer electron shells feature ten electrons in the 3d shell and two electrons in the 4s shell, making it a member of group 12 of the periodic table. Zinc manifests itself as a somewhat reactive metal; moreover, it is a potent reducing agent. Most of zinc's chemistry is dominated by the +2 oxidation state, although some instances of the +1 state are found such as the compound Zn2Cl2, that occurs at temperatures above 285oC.
Common zinc compounds include zinc nitrate, zinc chlorate, zinc nitrate, zinc phosphate and zinc sulfate, all representative of the oxidation state +2. Less common compounds are formed with the nitrogen group, including: zinc nitride, Zn3N2; zinc phosphide, Zn3P2; zinc arsenide, Zn3As2; and zinc antimonide, Zn3Sb2. Zinc organic compounds are characterized by zinc–carbon covalent bonds.
Natural occurrence
Zinc comprises approximately 75 parts per million (ppm) of the Earth's crust, making it the 24th most abundant element. Typical soil concentrations range from five to 770 ppm of zinc, with an average of about 60 ppm. Oceans contain 30 ppb zinc, and air has 0.1–4.0 µg of zinc per cubic meter.
Zinc is normally found in ores affiliated with other heavy metals like copper and lead. Zinc is a Goldschmidt chalcophile, indicating a low affinity for oxide formation relative to sulfide bond formation. Chalcophiles formed when the Earth crust solidified under the reducing conditions of the early Earth's atmosphere. Sphalerite, a form of zinc sulfide, is the most heavily mined zinc ore, since its concentrate exhibits 60 to 62 percent zinc.
Other minerals yielding zinc include zinc carbonate, hemimorphite (zinc silicate), wurtzite (also a zinc sulfide), and hydrozincite (a basic form of zinc carbonate). With the exception of wurtzite, the other zinc ores were formed as a result of weathering processes on the primordial zinc sulfides.
There are five naturally occurring isotopes of zinc. 64Zn, the most abundant isotope (49% natural abundance), has a half-life of 4.3 x 1018 years. In like manner, 70Zn (abundance 0.6%), exhibiting a half life of 1.3 x 1016 years, is typically considered to be stable isotope. The other isotopes occurring in the Earth's crust are 66Zn (28%), 67Zn (4%) and 68Zn (19%).
Zinc isotopic fractionation. Over thirty man-made radioisotopes have been created. 65Zn, which has a half-life of 243.66 days, is the most long-lived isotope, followed by 72Zn with a half-life of 46.5 hours. Zinc has ten nuclear isomers. 69mZn has the longest half-life, 13.76 hours, with the superscript m denoting a metastable isotope. The nucleus of a metastable isotope exists in an excited state and reverts to the ground state by emitting a gamma ray. 61Zn exhibits three excited states and 73Zn manifests two. Zinc synthetic isotopes 65Zn, 71Zn, 77Zn and 78Zn all possess merely a single excited state.
For zinc radioisotopes of atomic mass 65 and lower, the most common decay mode is via electron capture, with the chief decay product being a copper isotope. For zinc isotopes with mass 66 and above, the most characteristic decay mode is through beta decay, a step that results in a gallium isotope.
Environmental pathways
Abandoned mine at Galena Creek, Montana
where zinc entered the food chain.
Source: U.S.Geological Sirvey Zinc enters the atmosphere, surface waters and soil via both natural processes and human activities. Most zinc enters the environment as the result of mining, purifying of zinc, lead and cadmium ores, steel production, coal combusion and garbage combusion. Liquid waste streams from zinc and other metal manufacturing and zinc chemical industries, domestic wastewater, and surface runoff from soil containing zinc can release zinc into waterways. Zinc in soil increases chiefly from zinc disposal from metal manufacturing industries and coal ash from electric utilities. Sludge and fertilizers contribute to increased levels of zinc into soil. In air, zinc is present mainly as fine dust particles. This dust eventually settlesout over land and water, with precipitation removing zinc from the air. Most of the zinc in lakes or rivers settles to the bottom. However, a small amount may remain either dissolved in water or as fine suspended particles. The level of dissolved zinc in water may increase as the acidity of water increases. Fish and other aquatic organisms can accumulate zinc in their bodies from the water and from the food they ingest. Most of the zinc in soil is bound to soil particles and does not dissolve in water. However, depending on the type of soil, some zinc may reach aquifers, and contamination of groundwater has occurred at some hazardous waste sites. Zinc may be taken up by animals eating soil organisms or drinking water containing zinc. Zinc is also a trace mineral nutrient and as such, small amounts of zinc are needed in all animals.
Human health
Zinc is classified as an essential trace element, necessary for metabolism in human cells as well as other fauna and flora, and also for microorganisms. Cell growth and division simply will not occur without the presence of zinc. There are approximately two to three grams of zinc present in an adult human. However, zinc is unevenly distributed within the human body, as is also the case in other higher animals, where disproportionate concentrations are found in the eyes, brain, kidney, liver, bones and male reproductive organs. Zinc occurs as a co-factor of over two hundred distinct human enzymes, which are notable in protein synthesis and hormone function. In protein structures zinc ions are frequently coordinated with the individual amino acid side chains of histidine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid and cysteine. The metal is stored within metallothioneins; furthermore, it is the sole metallic element which occurs in every enzyme class. Conversely at high dosages zinc exhibits certain toxic properties.
Brass baptismal font, Liege, 12th c AD.
Source: Jean-Pol Grandmont It is difficult to ascertain the exact antiquity era regarding earliest use of zinc, since many artifiacts contain zinc at less than two percent, which level can occur merely as an impurity in other metal ores. Archaeological recovery suggests that brass objects were produced in the Aegean and as far east as Eurasian Georgia as early as the third millennium BC. More detailed evidence of brass technology have been recovered in the Anatolian region (modern day Turkey) dating to the second millennium BC; however, the first reliable historical reports of mining and using zinc ores in brass are from 8th century BC Phoenician Sardinia; there is later note by Pliny and Strabo of copper ores containing zinc on Cyprus. Diffusion of brass technology seems to have reached China via Persia by at least the third century BC. The explosion of brass technology occurs in widespread Greco Roman use of brass metallurgy in the classical period, including Dacian finds and Romano British occurrences. Due to the technical difficulty in isolating zinc in elemental form, it is unlikely the ancients knew zinc in its pure elemental form, but only through its mineral forms and the alloy brass.
In medieval times the ability to distill pure zinc may have occurred as early as the tenth century AD. After that era there was widespread European innovation of alloy sophistication and casting to create a prolific and diversified brass industry which found uses in military, jewelry, and architectural applications.
- Mineral Information Institute. 2009. Zinc: essential for plant and animal life.
- James E.Brady, Gerard E.Humiston, and Henry Heikkinen. 1983. General Chemistry: Principles and Structure (3rd ed.), John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 047186739X
- John Emsley. 2001. Zinc, Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements. Oxford, United Kingdom. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198503407
- David R. Lide, ed. 2006. Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (87th ed.) CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 0849304873
- Georges Audi. 2003. The NUBASE Evaluation of Nuclear and Decay Properties. Nuclear Physics A (Atomic Mass Data Center) 729: 3–128
- John Hinds and Iredelle Dillard. 1908. Inorganic Chemistry: With the Elements of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons, New York
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Seventeen-year-old girl shot. Shooter is dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators are looking at revenge against a teacher as a possible motive.
CENTENNIAL - The 18-year-old gunman who took his own life after shooting a fellow student at Arapahoe High School Friday was identified as Karl Halverson Pierson.
Claire Davis, the 17-year-old female shooting victim is in critical condition at Littleton Adventist Hospital. There was some initial confusion about a possible second shooting victim, but Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said later in the evening that the second victim had only appeared to have blood on him from the shooting victim.
Arapahoe High School will be closed Monday.
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The second victim who was initially thought to have been shot was transported to Swedish Medical Center in Englewood. There it was determined she was not shot. The blood found on her was from the first victim.
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Two other students suffered emotional attacks but were treated at the scene, according to investigators.
Pierson was found dead inside the school from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the police.
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UPDATE: Arapahoe High School shooter planned to attack 5 areas of school
The teacher, Tracy Murphy, after learning he was being asked for by Pierson and that Pierson was armed, immediately implemented "active-shooter protocols."
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Sheriff: Incident at school took 80 seconds from start to finish
About 20 minutes after police began searching Arapahoe High School, police found Pierson dead in a classroom from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The body remained in the school for hours.
Police did not engage in a gunfight with Pierson.
Police believe Pierson acted alone.
Arapahoe County Sheriff investigators are looking into revenge against Murphy as a possible motive.
Murphy is the librarian and coaches the school's debate team.
Friday night, an Arapahoe County deputy escorted Murphy home to pick up a few belongings.
Two devices, being described as Molotov cocktails, were found inside the school. One device was detonated by Pierson. The other device was located and deemed safe.
Officers who arrived on scene had to deal with smoke from the first Molotov cocktail detonation.
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A Molotov cocktail is a bottle-based improvised incendiary weapon.
Witnesses describe Arapahoe HS shooting
Students were seen walking toward the school's running track with their hands in the air. SKY9 showed students being patted down by police.
"The kids have been through a traumatic situation," Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said. "We need to ensure that anyone we evacuate isn't part of our problem. We're doing the evacuation slowly and deliberately."
9NEWS Reporter Meagan Fitzgerald said she saw many students sobbing on the athletic fields as they loaded buses to the church.
Psychologist: Arapahoe students need time to process shooting
Parents showed up in all sorts of conditions - wearing tennis skirts and hospital scrubs - to pick up their kids.
Pierson was described by neighbors as a "nice young man." Online, Pierson looks like a happy student. He was a routine winner in speech and debate contests.
He's often seen posing with first and second place trophies. He also ran cross country. Two years ago, he was working on an Eagle Scout project.
Shooter was actively involved in school
The rapid response by officers is a direct result of lessons learned at Columbine in 1999, Platte Canyon in 2006 and the Youth With a Mission shooting in 2007.
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Arapahoe High School is a part of Littleton Public Schools. There are 70 different classrooms in the high school which covers a 254,000-square-foot area. There are 2,229 students that attend the high school. The school was built in 1964.
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Source(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title II, § 210, as added Pub. L. 92–500, § 2,Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 843; amended Pub. L. 105–362, title V, § 501(d)(2)(D),Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3284; Pub. L. 107–303, title III, § 302(b)(1),Nov. 27, 2002, 116 Stat. 2361.)
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The new RFI reflects some changes over the past months from its original form, which are worth calling out because those changes reflect the project's focus.
"The biggest evolution is that our entire deployment is around home energy management (HEM) trials," Executive Director Brewster McCracken told me. "The HEM is the operating system for customer participation.
"One thing that's unchanged from our initial RFI in late November is that—unique to this nation's smart grid projects—the focus here is on the customer side of the meter.
"I'd like to clarify that we're not trying to identify one solution provider," McCracken added, "but will test many solutions to help develop standards and best practices for HEMs for smart grid systems."
As many as 1,000 homes in the Mueller neighborhood adjacent to downtown Austin (formerly the site of the municipal airport), as well as older nearby neighborhoods will be participating in energy management trials to begin this fall, McCracken said.
Right now, in Phase One, those homes are wired to gather baseline energy use information, including electricity, natural gas and water. In Phase Two, the project will integrate a variety of dynamic pricing models for participating homes, which will also incorporate electric vehicles, solar photovoltaic panels and home energy storage. Each home will be monitored as a whole house as well as six separate circuits for various energy consumption patterns.
The project has been modeling the effects of different technologies on over-arching challenges faced by utilities such as peak demand, pollution and finances relating to meeting those two challenges. Participants discovered that when HEMs were involved in the mix, the value propositions of various technologies changed radically, many of them positively.
Naturally, having been a critic of Xcel Energy's conduct of its SmartGridCity project in Boulder, Colo., with its cost overruns charged to ratepayers, I had to ask McCracken how Pecan Street would avoid such a scenario.
"First, having stakeholder participation by actual consumers can give us feedback and act as an early warning system if we get off track," he said. "One lesson we learned from SmartGridCity is that we're taking the exact opposite approach. They took the utility side of the meter and they generated great expense without consumer involvement. You have to do both, but the customer side has been neglected."
On the issue of potential ratepayer liability, McCracken said:
"If you are a regulator and you want an insurance policy against rate shock, you'd want a nonprofit corporation based in a tier-one research university," he said.
That, in fact, is the model for Pecan Street Project, which has involvement from a wide variety of stakeholders, including Austin Energy, but no recourse to cost recovery mechanisms typically available to investor-owned utilities.
The project got off the ground in 2009 with an impressive array of local partners, which included the City of Austin, Austin Energy, The University of Texas, the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Austin Technology Incubator.
While I won't recount the details, the project attracted $10.4 million in federal stimulus funds and $14.5 million in local matching funds, which includes in-kind services from many stakeholders and financial support from the Capital Area Council of Governments, augmented last October by $350,000 from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
I also spoke with Bert Haskell, who joined Pecan Street in August 2010 as technology director, with a background in renewable energy and consumer electronics. We touched on the interoperability aspect of the project.
Haskell said Pecan Street would approach interoperability from three domains: technical, informational and operational. The technical domain refers to communications standards and the informational domain refers to data formats. As for the operational domain, Haskell said, "we'd like to understand the policies and regulatory frameworks and business models that will emerge in the new energy economy."
"Our program right now is pretty unique," Haskell said, "with a level of collaboration and focus on what consumers want out of a smart grid. I hope we're emulated around the country. Smart grid will not be business as usual. We think the power industry is going to re-invent itself."
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Austin Energy's project seems to be more carefully thought out than some of the others I'm acquainted with. It also has the important advantage of being in ERCOT, an energy-only wholesale market where so far, at least, politicians and regulators have resisted the temptation to "protect" consumers from occasional high prices.
I'm hoping the Pecan Street experiment will finally put to rest any reservations on the part of regulators and self-styled consumer advocates that consumers are unable to deal with dynamic pricing. If tied to wholesale prices, dynamic retail pricing provides the information consumers need to adjust their electricity consumption in ways that benefit the grid without subjecting consumers to the confusing plethora of tariffs and program rules that characterize more typical and largely unsuccessful attempts to influence consumer behavior via electricity pricing. I still think wholesale markets provide too little forward visibility, but that's a problem that can be fixed.
I'm also hoping that at least some consumers have an opportunity to experiment with a rate that combines a tailored hedge with exposure to real-time prices, because I think this is going to be the most sensible and most popular way for consumers to take advantage of the benefits offered by dynamic pricing.
Jack Ellis, Tahoe City, CA
The PSP has an outstanding charter. That said, the "partner" list contains a wide array of green enthusiasts/proponents. It will take a good measure of discipline for project leaders to keep biases at bay...and that must be done for the sake of credibility.
Currently the PSP has 100 homes in Mueller and 100 homes elsewhere, all being subject to energy audits. According to the RFQ for auditors:
"Upon completion of the 200 energy audits Pecan Street Project will quantify the
environmental, energy and economic impact of energy retrofits and green building. This
analysis will compare the load profiles of three groups of buildings:
1) 100 new green built homes at Mueller,
2) A total of 100 older homes that received ECAD audits with a sampling from those
that undertook recommended retrofits, and
3) A sampling of homes that received ECAD audits that undertook relatively few or
no efficiency retrofits."
It seems to me what is missing here is a "control group"...a group of 100 homes that has done nothing toward the goal of energy conservation. The load profile of this group would provide an independent "base case" which self-adjusts for seasonal excursions. While it is impossible to get a completely sterile control, this would probably suffice.
It is imperitive that the PSP get the science right. A failure to do so will ultimately discredit the entire effort...and at this point in the era of Smart Grid hysteria, we've already got plenty of discredited efforts.


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A Chance Meeting With Henny Garfunkel
Yesterday while walking down Park Avenue I saw an amazing woman pass by and I had to ask her for a photo. I stopped to tell her that I photograph stylish and creative people over 50 and she instantly began to smile. She said," I know who you are, my friend Kim wanted us to meet some time ago." What a wonderful chance encounter, to meet someone whose work I so admire. Henny and I both photograph people that we encounter on the street, making this all this meeting all the more special. Her series of "Fab Old Ladies" can be found on her website: http://www.hennygarfunkel.com/ .
Check out this small clip of Henny applying her lipstick by film maker Eric Smith. Eric also made one of my favorite shorts, Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road, which you can also check out below!
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verey coool
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Nice quiff!
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WHat a great POST today and the 2 utubes are FABULOUS
Thanks Ari.
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- Forest City Fashionista said...
Ari, WHERE do you find these incredible women!! Anyone with the name of Henny Garfunkel has to be fabulous, and she lives up to her name. The glasses, the hair, the earrings and the lipstick--beyond words! Love the clip of Irene as well. Your blog is constantly inspiring and re-shaping my vision of myself as I grow older..thank you so much for doing what you do!
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How cool! She looks amazing!! :D
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great pics!!
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I'm addicted to your blog!
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Ari, the women you feature on this blog inspire me more than any of the young fashionista/o blogs I read! The freedom of expression and unabashed sense of self is just exciting. I've always said that I can't wait to be an old lady (I'm 26,) and your blog just solidifies that idea in my brain! My Nana used to say that when you get old you can do and say whatever you want, because people think you're crazy anyway. I say, why wait? Thank you, thank you, for sharing the golden generation in all their unappreciated glory with the world!
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(a) Jurisdiction of Commission; bases for determination; fair market value
(1) The Commission shall have jurisdiction to receive, examine, adjudicate, and render a final decision with respect to any claim of the Government of the United States or of any national of the United States—
(B) included within the terms of any claims agreement concluded on or after March 10, 1954, between the Government of the United States and a foreign government (exclusive of governments against which the United States declared the existence of a state of war during World War II) similarly providing for the settlement and discharge of claims of the Government of the United States and of nationals of the United States against a foreign government, arising out of the nationalization or other taking of property, by the agreement of the Government of the United States to accept from that government a sum in en bloc settlement thereof; or
(2) In the decision of claims under this subchapter, the Commission shall apply the following in the following order:
(B) The applicable principles of international law, justice, and equity. In determining the value of a claim under international law, the Commission shall award the fair market value of the property as of the time of the taking by the foreign government involved (without regard to any action or event that occurs after the taking), except that the value of the claim shall not reflect any diminution in value attributable to actions which are carried out, or threats of action which are made, by the foreign government with respect to the property before the taking. Fair market value shall be ascertained in accordance with the method most appropriate to the property taken and equitable to the claimant, including—
In the case of any claim for losses in a service industry, the appropriate basis of valuation shall be presumed to be that referred to in clause (iii). For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term "service" means economic activity the output of which is other than tangible goods.
(b) Notice of filing time; publication; basis of decisions; finality of decision
The Commission shall give public notice of the time when, and the limit of time within which, claims may be filed, which notice shall be published in the Federal Register. In addition, the Commission is authorized and directed to mail a similar notice to the last known address of each person appearing in the records of the Department of State as having indicated an intention of filing a claim with respect to a matter concerning which the Commission has jurisdiction under this subchapter. All decisions shall be upon such evidence and written legal contentions as may be presented within such period as may be prescribed therefor by the Commission, and upon the results of any independent investigation of cases which the Commission may deem it advisable to make. Each decision by the Commission pursuant to this subchapter shall be by majority vote, and shall state the reason for such decision, and shall constitute a full and final disposition of the case in which the decision is rendered.
(c) Administration of oaths; examination of witnesses; subpenas; reporting of hearings; witness fees; contempt
Any member of the Commission, or any employee of the Commission, designated in writing by the Chairman of the Commission, may administer oaths and examine witnesses. Any member of the Commission may require by subpena the attendance and testimony of witnesses, and the production of all necessary books, papers, documents, records, correspondence, and other evidence, from any place in the United States at any designated place of inquiry or of hearing. The Commission is authorized to contract for the reporting of inquiries or of hearings. Witnesses summoned before the Commission shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States. In case of disobedience to a subpena, the aid of any district court of the United States, as constituted by chapter 5 of title 28, and the United States court of any Territory or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States may be invoked in requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of such books, papers, documents, records, correspondence, and other evidence. Any such court within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry or hearing is carried on may, in case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpena issued to any person, issue an order requiring such person to appear or to give evidence touching the matter in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
(d) Depositions
The Commission may order testimony to be taken by deposition in any inquiry or hearing pending before it at any stage of such proceeding or hearing. Such depositions may be taken, under such regulations as the Commission may prescribe, before any person designated by the Commission and having power to administer oaths. Any person may be compelled to appear and depose, and to produce books, papers, documents, records, correspondence, and other evidence in the same way as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify and produce documentary evidence before the Commission, as hereinabove provided. If a witness whose testimony may be desired to be taken by deposition be in a foreign country, the deposition may be taken, provided the laws of the foreign country so permit, by a consular officer, or by an officer or employee of the Commission, or other person commissioned by the Commission, or under letters rogatory issued by the Commission. Witnesses whose depositions are taken as authorized in this subsection, and the persons taking the same, shall severally be entitled to the same fees as are paid for like services in the courts of the United States.
(e) Penalties
In addition to the penalties provided in section 1001 of title 18, any person guilty of any act, as provided therein, with respect to any matter under this subchapter, shall forfeit all rights under this subchapter, and, if payment shall have been made or granted, the Commission shall take such action as may be necessary to recover the same.
(f) Attorney's fees; limitation
No remuneration on account of services rendered on behalf of any claimant in connection with any claim filed with the Commission under this subchapter shall exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to any award certified under the provisions of this subchapter on account of such claim. Any agreement to the contrary shall be unlawful and void. Whoever, in the United States or elsewhere, demands or receives, on account of services so rendered, any remuneration in excess of the maximum permitted by this section, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both.
(g) Representation by United States; payments
The Attorney General shall assign such officers and employees of the Department of Justice as may be necessary to represent the United States as to any claims of the Government of the United States with respect to which the Commission has jurisdiction under this subchapter. Any and all payments required to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury under this subchapter pursuant to any award made by the Commission to the Government of the United States shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts.
(h) Notification of disposition of claims; right to hearing; finality of Commission's decision
The Commission shall notify all claimants of the approval or denial of their claims, stating the reasons and grounds therefor, and, if approved, shall notify such claimants of the amount for which such claims are approved. Any claimant whose claim is denied, or is approved for less than the full amount of such claim, shall be entitled, under such regulations as the Commission may prescribe, to a hearing before the Commission, or its duly authorized representatives, with respect to such claim. Upon such hearing, the Commission may affirm, modify, or revise its former action with respect to such claim, including a denial or reduction in the amount theretofore allowed with respect to such claim. The action of the Commission in allowing or denying any claim under this subchapter shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by the Secretary of State or any other official, department, agency, or establishment of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise.
(i) Separation of awards
The Commission may in its discretion enter an award with respect to one or more items deemed to have been clearly established in an individual claim while deferring consideration and action on other items of the same claim.
(j) Compliance with administrative procedure law
The Commission shall comply with the provisions of subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 5 except as otherwise specifically provided by this subchapter.
(k) Compliance with principles of international law, justice and equity; fair market value
In exercising authority granted after October 8, 1986, under this chapter or any other Act, the Commission, in determining the value of claims of the Government of the United States or of nationals of the United States (as defined in this chapter or such other Act) against any foreign government for losses arising from the nationalization or other taking of property, shall comply with the principles set forth in subsection (a)(2) of this section.
Source(Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title I, § 4,64 Stat. 13; Aug. 9, 1955, ch. 645, §§ 1, 2,69 Stat. 562; Pub. L. 90–421, § 1(1),July 24, 1968, 82 Stat. 420; Pub. L. 99–451, § 1,Oct. 8, 1986, 100 Stat. 1138; Pub. L. 105–277, div. G, subdiv. B, title XXII, § 2211,Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–812.)
References to This Subchapter Deemed To Include Section 119 of H.R. 2076
References to this subchapter deemed to include 119 of H.R. 2076, see 119(b) of H.R. 2076, as enacted into law by Pub. L. 104–91, set out as an Authority of Foreign Claims Settlement Commission note under section 1644 of this title.
In subsec. (j), "subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 5" substituted for "the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946" on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b),Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
1998—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105–277added par. (1), redesignated second sentence as par. (2) and former pars. (1) and (2) as subpars. (A) and (B), respectively, and struck out former first sentence which read as follows: "The Commission shall have jurisdiction to receive, examine, adjudicate, and render final decisions with respect to claims of the Government of the United States and of nationals of the United States included within the terms of the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948, or included within the terms of any claims agreement on and after March 10, 1954 concluded between the Government of the United States and a foreign government (exclusive of governments against which the United States declared the existence of a state of war during World War II) similarly providing for the settlement and discharge of claims of the Government of the United States and of nationals of the United States against a foreign government, arising out of the nationalization or other taking of property, by the agreement of the Government of the United States to accept from that government a sum in en bloc settlement thereof."
1986—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99–451, § 1(a), amended second sentence generally. Prior to amendment, second sentence read as follows: "In the decision of claims under this subchapter, the Commission shall apply the following in the following order: (1) The provisions of the applicable claims agreement as provided in this subsection; and (2) the applicable principles of international law, justice, and equity."
Subsec. (k). Pub. L. 99–451, § 1(b), added subsec. (k).
1968—Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 90–421struck out provisions which authorized the Commission to determine the amount of attorney's fees, such fees not to exceed 10% of the award and any written agreement between attorney and claimant as to fees to be conclusive upon the Commission, if the agreed upon fees do not exceed 10% of the award, provisions which authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to deduct the fees from the amount of the award and to pay it directly to the attorney, any agreement to the contrary to be unlawful and void, provisions which authorized the Commission to give notice by mail to each claimant of the provisions of this subsection, and provisions which authorized the Commission to recover any fees paid in contravention of this subsection, the recipient to forfeit all rights under this subchapter.
1955—Act Aug. 9, 1955, § 1, amended credit to section by designating act Mar. 10, 1950, as "title I".
Subsecs. (a), (b), (e) to (h) and (j). Act Aug. 9, 1955, § 2, substituted "subchapter" for "chapter".
Effective Date of 1986 Amendment
Pub. L. 99–451, § 2,Oct. 8, 1986, 100 Stat. 1139, provided that: "The amendments made by this Act [amending this section] shall apply to any claim pending on the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 8, 1986] and to any other claim determined after such date."
Abolition of International Claims Commission and Transfer of Functions
International Claims Commission of the United States, including offices of its members, abolished and functions of Commission and of members, officers, and employees thereof transferred to Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1954, §§ 1, 2, 4, eff. July 1, 1954, 19 F.R. 3985, 68 Stat. 1279, set out as a note under section 1622 of this title.
For provisions transferring the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States as a separate agency within the Department of Justice, see section 1622a et seq. of this title.
Protests Relating to Awards by Commission; Notice by Publication in Federal Register
Act Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title VI, § 615, as added Pub. L. 94–542, Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2512, provided that: "Notwithstanding the provision of sections 210 and 211 of the War Claims Act of 1948 (Act of July 3, 1948), as amended by Public Law 87–846 [sections 2017i and 2017j of Title 50, Appendix, War and National Defense], the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission established by Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1954 (68 Stat. 1279) [set out under section 1622 of this title] is authorized and directed to receive and consider protests relating to awards made by the Commission during the ten calendar days immediately preceding the expiration of the Commission's mandate to make such awards on May 17, 1967. Any such protests must be filed within ninety days after notice of the enactment of this provision is filed with and published in the Federal Register, which shall take place within thirty days of enactment [Oct. 18, 1976]. Such protests may include the submission of new evidence not previously before the Commission, and shall be acted upon within thirty days after receipt by the Commission. The Commission may modify awards made during the subject period in accordance with the procedures established by the War Claims Act of 1948, [section 2001 et seq. of Title 50, Appendix], and any increases in awards determined to be appropriated by the Commission shall be certified to and paid by the Secretary of the Treasury out of funds which are now or may hereafter become available in the War Claims Fund in accordance with section 213 of the Act [section 2017l of Title 50, Appendix]."
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