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ARS has redesigned this lightweight telescoping pruning shears to improve strength and ease of use. Pivoting head on the ARS pruning shears can now be locked to the left, right or straight for those hard-to-reach cutting jobs. Internal mechanism has been strengthened to increase lifespan and reduce downtime. The telescoping pin has also been changed from a double to a single lever for easier operation. This ARS pruning shears also features a drop-forged blade, with a nonslip, plastic-coated ergonomic handle that rotates 180°. 4-ft. to 7-ft. models weigh 2.4 lbs. 6-ft. to 10 ft. models weigh 3.0 lbs. Imported. Choose length from selection box above.
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I use this to prune hard to reach branches. So far it is working great. Cuts smaller branches real easy. very sharp.
OK, not great
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Use this to cut small growth around a bike trail. Couple of points regarding discription: head does pivot, but only about 20 degrees, not much different then when straight; telescoping has only a single setting. I found when pivoting head the handle refused to automatically return to open after a cut and I had to manually open the handles for the next cut. With head straight this did not happen. Overall doesn't feel like a really qualty piece of equipment.
Light and easy to handle
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This pruner is amazing. The articulated head is really handy to allow a good view of the exact position of the cut. The multiple length settings allow for reaching comfortably up to various heights.I will no longer be risking my neck balancing a ladder next to an ornamental tree or the large euonymous that I have growing up trellises.I wish I had known this tool existed years ago. Buy one. Do it now. You won't regret it.
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May's attorney, Tim Carrico of Charleston, did not immediately return a phone call Wednesday. Ted Pile, a spokesman for Alpha Natural Resources, which acquired Upper Big Branch in its June 2011 purchase of Massey Energy, did not respond to a request for comment.
May was one of the mine superintendents at Upper Big Branch, having started at the operation in February 2008 as a mine foreman.
At the time of the disaster, May was superintendent of the southern portions of the sprawling mine, which included areas being prepared for longwall coal production, but not the active longwall mining area where the explosion occurred.
May was among the management employees at Upper Big Branch who asserted their Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer questions from government investigators about the disaster.
Just after the explosion, May was one of the mine managers who rushed underground and tried to rescue any survivors. But records show that investigators have also been told that May often ignored their concerns about safety problems, and sometimes only took action about such issues when he learned inspectors were headed underground.
According to a management chart put together by MSHA investigators, May and another mine superintendent, Everett Hager, were on the fourth row down among Upper Big Branch officials. Above them were Performance Coal Co. President Chris Blanchard, Vice President Jamie Ferguson and general manager Wayne Persinger. Those officials were all below the level of corporate officers and executives at the Massey Energy parent company.
The criminal investigation of the fire that killed two miners at Massey Energy's Aracoma Alma No. 1 Mine in 2006 never got above the section foreman level. The last prosecution of a mine superintendent was following the Southmountain disaster in Virginia in 1992.
So far, May is the third person to be charged in the sprawling federal criminal investigation at Upper Big Branch.
A former miner at the site was sentenced to 10 months in jail after he admitted to faking a foreman's license when he performed key mine safety examinations at the mine between January 2008 and August 2009 and to then lying to investigators about his actions.
Next week, former Massey Energy security director Hughie Elbert Stover faces up to 25 years in prison when he is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Irene Berger after being convicted of lying to investigators and trying to destroy evidence about Massey's practice of warning underground workers of impending government inspections.
In December, Goodwin and his team secured a $209.5 million settlement with Alpha Natural Resources, which acquired the Upper Big Branch Mine when it bought Massey Energy.
Goodwin agreed not to prosecute the company for any Upper Big Branch criminal liabilities, but required Alpha to spend $80 million over the next two years on mine safety improvements and create a $48 million mine safety research trust fund. Alpha also agreed to pay $46.5 million in restitution to families of the disaster victims and $35 million to resolve pending Massey safety fines, including $10.8 million levied for violations related to the Upper Big Branch explosion.
The settlement with Alpha, however, did not prohibit prosecutors from pursuing charges against any individuals -- including Massey officers, employees or agents -- who played a role in the mine disaster.
Wednesday's charges were announced just one day before Thursday morning's planned release to Upper Big Branch families and the public of a report on the state Office of Miners Health, Safety and Training's investigation of the disaster.
Shirley Whitt, whose brother Boone Payne died in the explosion, heard about the charges against May when a reporter called her for comment on them.
"I hope it's really the beginning," Whitt said. "I don't think May and Stover are where the problem was. It starts at the top. I want to see the people who caused this prosecuted."
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Mary J. Blige will help amateurs get a shot at the big leagues.
Mary J. Blige has been tapped to be a judge on E!'s upcoming music reality competition Opening Act.
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After a promising 4-0 start, the Arizona Cardinals finished 5-11 in 2012, prompting changes in the organization.
According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, the team fired general manager Rod Graves Monday.
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This season, the Cardinals became the first team in NFL history to start a season 4-0 and finish 5-11.
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With the premature death of Archie Brownlee from pneumonia on February 8, 1960, gospel lost one of its greatest lead singers. A founding member of the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, Brownlee was equally impressive singing sweetly or with his characteristic piercing screams that later developed into the soul music of the mid-'60s. Blind since birth, Brownlee enrolled in the Piney Woods School, near Jackson, MS, at the age of six. Within five years, he had begun harmonizing with fellow students Lloyd Woodard, Joseph Ford, and Lawrence Adams. When the school suggested that they tour to raise money, the quartet began appearing as the Cotton Blossom Singers. Catching the ear of Library of Congress folklorist Alan Lomax, the group was invited to record on March 9, 1937. In addition to recording several sacred tunes as the Blind Boys, they recorded three folk tunes as Abraham, Woodard and Patterson. By 1944, the group began performing professionally, singing pop tunes for primarily white audiences, and black church music as the Jackson Harmoneers. With Brownlee leading the way, the Blind Boys of Mississippi attracted an ever-growing following. Their early-'50s single "Our Father" became one of the first gospel tunes to reach the Billboard R&B charts. Brownlee was at his peak of popularity when he succumbed to pneumonia at the age of 35. The Blind Boys of Mississippi have remained one of gospel music's most influential groups. ~ Craig Harris, Rovi
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MONTREAL, Que. – Following a planning session last July in Penticton, B.C., Hockey Canada's officers committed to six priorities of focus for the 2011-12 season. Today, following a board of directors meeting in Montreal, Hockey Canada's board of directors and its 13 branches have committed to the same priorities.
"This is a great day for Hockey Canada," said Michael Bruni, chairman of the Hockey Canada Board of Directors. "Hockey Canada's officers, its board of directors and its 13 branches are moving forward together, making changes we feel will be beneficial for the growth of our game. We have an opportunity to change the game, to make sure hockey in Canada stays strong for years to come. These priorities are a credit to the courage and leadership of Hockey Canada's officers, board of directors and 13 branches."
To spirit the attitude and create mechanisms in player movement to facilitate flexibility within the game reflecting the needs of the modern player and family.
To service sport schools and create a positive and flexible infrastructure that meets the needs of this Hockey Canada customer.
To address and create the opportunity for flexible seasons, allowing players and families to participate in both hockey and other activities comfortably.
To recognize and enhance exciting non-contact streams and to encourage and spirit more non-contact streams as a viable and credible participatory program.
To encourage and embark upon relationships and partnerships with entrepreneurs/private hockey programs and work together to provide the best development programs for the player.
To proactively work with Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), recognizing it as a critical part of a vision of the Canadian student/athlete alternative, with particular focus on female hockey.
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3.34/5 rDev -13%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
341ml bottle at Heartwood Community Cafe.
A: yellow, visible carbonation, minimal head that dissipated quickly
S: not picking up much of anything - a hint of citrus, maybe?
T: grassy bitterness, maaaybe a hint of melon or tropical fruit, not well balanced
F: smooth, medium-bodied
O: Not bad, but it's certainly no Fat Tug or Lord of the Hops. I wouldn't get it again.
Serving type: bottle
12-05-2013 05:10:49 | More by souvenirs
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3.5/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
One of the more widely available BC IPAs in sunny Alberta, finally tried this one as part of a Hop Box mixed pack that caught my eye because of a Simcoe single hop offering (review to follow). Pours a yellow to light orange with shockingly good head retention, that sucker sat there like a fortress for quite a while as I waited for the beer to warm up to a more ester-friendly temperature. Aroma was the expected west coast citrus, with grapefruit and orange leading the way followed by a dank marijuana herbal blast. Palate was actually quite devoid of citrus or tropical fruit, these are there in the form of some orange and grapefruit rind but take a decided back seat to tons of hemp oil, pine resin, tea, and leafy flavors that leave a major vegetal impression as opposed to fruit. Whoa. Little in the way of sweet malt to provide balance, maybe a little nuttiness. Not bad if you are in the mood to drink a pot soda without the sweetness. Aroma suggests more complexity than what the palate delivers.
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10-18-2013 01:42:02 | More by CalgaryFMC
4.2/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Got a 6 pack of this at the LCBO.
From a bottle into a snifter
APPEARANCE: Pours a one finger, medium looking, foamy, white head with good retention. Hazy gamboge orange with no carbonation evident. Head fades to a thin film. A splotchy film remains until the end and leaves some lacing down the glass.
SMELL: Pale malts, light caramel notes with some grapefruit, light melon and pineapple perhaps. Definite cascade hop presence for sure. Bold and enticing.
TASTE: Pale malts and melon sweetness up front, some grapefruit and hop bitterness at the swallow. Bold and lingering finish of hoppy cascade grapefruit, grassy bitterness and some melon sweetness as balance. Really nice.
PALATE: Medium body and carbonation. Creamy on the palate, goes down smooth and finishes dry on the palate. Nice and creamy feel.
OVERALL: This is really, really good. Really like the hop bill on this one, and it's really well balanced as well. Other reviewers might be expecting something different, but as far as standard IPA's go, this is a top-class effort. Luckily this one is available at the LCBO all the time. Great stuff, and will definitely be a go-to when back in the Loo. Recommended.
Serving type: bottle
10-11-2013 18:59:30 | More by Jeffo
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3.59/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
341 ml brown bottle with twist off cap poured in a pint glass. Got this from a mixer 12 pack from Willow Park in Regina.
Cloudy, dirty yellow in colour. White foamy head is 3/4 inch on the pour and recedes to a 1/16 cap with lots of sticky gobs of lacing.
Aroma is almost all hops. Citrus (grapefruit, lemon, orange), piney and herbal. Slightly sweet.
Flavour mimics the aroma. Strongly hoppy, but not overly bitter. Grapefruit and pine dominate with hints of herbal/grass. Citrus off the start then morphs into more piney at the finish. Aftertaste is long and drawn out and more piney.
Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Slightly oily mouthfeel.
A pretty decent IPA, but nothing about it really jumps out to grab me. Worth a try.
Serving type: bottle
09-29-2013 04:11:32 | More by Noxious26
New York
3.64/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
The beer comes in a clear golden color. A bit more deeply rich and gold than a standard lager.
The aroma has some refreshing citrus, pine, and grass.
The flavor is very "green." Tons of marijuana flavor, grass, pine, black tea leaves, and then a lot of bitterness on the end. There is a bit of sweetness with this beer, but it's mostly lots of bitterness.
A decent IPA, especially for those for prefer bitterness over balance with malt.
Serving type: bottle
08-22-2013 22:35:58 | More by dar482
Hop Circle IPA from Phillips Brewing Company
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Roanoke Best Buy opens Microsoft shop
A shop featuring Microsoft products has opened at the Roanoke Best Buy.
The Windows Store opened last week. It groups together all Microsoft products such as computers, phones, tablets and the Xbox gaming system.
"The Windows Store offers a large-scale, hands-on customer experience that will show customers how Windows and Microsoft devices and services can make it easier for them to work and play," Tami Reller, chief marketing officer and chief financial officer of the Windows Division at Microsoft, said in a news release.
The Windows Store in the Roanoke Best Buy is on the right of the store in the area where the tablets were formerly located. It is staffed by two Best Buy employees who have received special training on Microsoft products, according to the store's general manager, Jason Short. (Some of the 600 Best Buy stores with Windows Stores have Mircrosoft employees, but Roanoke does not, Short said.)
This concept of concentrating one brand's products in a shop within a store is not new to Best Buy. In April the Samsung Experience Shops opened in the Roanoke and Christiansburg stores. (Christiansburg will not be getting a Windows Shop, according to a Best Buy spokeswoman.)
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Cubs sign Cuban prospect Soler | Story Highlights The Cubs signed Cuban outfielder Jorge Soler to a nine-year, $30 million dealSoler, 20, will initially report to the team's minor league facility in Arizona |
CHICAGO (AP) -- Jorge Soler has officially joined the Chicago Cubs, signing a nine-year, $30 million deal that could make the 20-year-old Cuban outfielder a major piece of the team's future as it rebuilds under team president Theo Epstein.
"We think he provides a ton of potential power for us," general manager Jed Hoyer said Saturday in announcing the deal. "We scouted him heavily. It's obviously a significant commitment for us but we feel like he fits in very well with what we're trying to do. He's the right age, the right talent and we're excited to finally get him started here."
The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Soler will start out in right field and will initially report to the team's minor league facility in Mesa, Ariz., to work out and get ready for games. Hoyer couldn't project how long it might take Soler to be ready for the majors.
"Let's get him into games first. But he's 20 years old and we're really impressed with the looks we've got in games. One thing his agents did a very good job of, they put him in a lot of games down in the Dominican," Hoyer said. "They let him play in a lot of games and he performed so we're hopeful that's a harbinger of good things, but it's hard to tell until he gets into games."
Soler batted .304 in seven games during the 2010 World Junior Championships, helping Cuba to a bronze medal.
"He has huge power and it's hard to find power in today's game and that's a big part of why we're willing to make that kind of commitment is that it is hard to find power," Hoyer said. "He's just a huge guy with bat speed and has always generated a lot of power."
Earlier this year, the Cubs signed Cuban left-hander Geraldo Concepcion, who is now pitching in Class A. The Oakland Athletics made a big splash by signing another Cuban outfielder, Yoenis Cespedes, to a four-year, $36 million contract in February. And on Friday the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Cuban outfielder Yasiel Puig to a seven-year, $42 million deal.
Hoyer said the plan is to bring Soler along slowly.
"We're not going to try to speed him through the minors. There is no reason to do that. He's got to prove himself like anyone else in the system," he said.
"I think we have to do a really good job of focusing on his assimilation. For any player coming from Cuba this is a lot different and we have to understand that," Hoyer added. "Professional baseball is hard for any player, let alone someone that is coming from a completely different culture."
Soler gets a $6 million signing bonus, of which half is payable upon Major League Baseball's approval of the contract and the other half by Jan. 13.
Soler's salaries are $1 million for the first two years, $2 million for the following two years, $3 million for next two years and then $4 million for each of the final three seasons.
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I believe that the internet serves a great purpose for engineers involved in the design function as well as the MRO function. They need product information and they want it now.
My guess is that the first choice for searching is Google. I have a hunch that Google has mostly replaced any and all other inquiry methods for engineers seeking product information. However, it is still a secondary source function. The seeker must learn of the product from some source.
This is where magazines actually work to drive traffic to your company websites through Google. We really do not know how much traffic that we drive to our advertisers websites through Google but my educated guess is that it is significant.
When readers see your ad or press release in a magazine, they can send in a card with a circled number, go to the online bingo card, go to Google, or just type in
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Microsoft's Next-Generation Kinect Sensor to Read Lips - Rumours.
Kinect High-Precision Sensor May Have Ultimate Capabilities
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Microsoft Confirms Development of Kinect Motion Sensor for PCs.
Microsoft to Release Kinect for Windows in 2012
Monday, June 20, 2011
Microsoft Releases Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit.
Microsoft Enables Kinect to Work with Personal Computers
Friday, April 15, 2011
Sony Sells 50 Millionth PlayStation 3 Game Console.
Sales of PS3 Reach 50 Million, Sales of Move Surpass 8 Million
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Microsoft Kinect Named Fastest Selling Consumer Device Ever.
Microsoft Sells 10 Million Kinect Sensors
Monday, March 7, 2011
Microsoft Wants More Hardcore Games to Rely on Kinect.
Microsoft Expects More Games to Adopt Kinect Motion Sensor
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Sony Allows Move to Control PCs, Other Devices.
SCEA Unveils Move.Me Application for Researchers
Monday, February 21, 2011
Microsoft to Enable Kinect on Windows Operating System.
Microsoft to Launch Kinect for Windows SDK in Spring '11
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Microsoft Promises to Support Motion Sensors on PC.
Microsoft Kinect-Derivative May Emerge on PC
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Microsoft Kinect Sales Top Eight Million Units in Sixty Days.
Success of Microsoft Kinect Points to Potential Popularity of NUIs
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Game Developer Designs PC Game for Microsoft Kinect.
Kinect to Be Used to Control PC Game
Monday, December 20, 2010
Microsoft to Improve Accuracy of Kinect Motion Sensor.
New Firmware to Improve Accuracy of Kinect
Monday, November 29, 2010
Sales of Microsoft Kinect Surpass 2.5 Million Units.
Microsoft Sells 100 Thousand Kinect Sensors Daily
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Microsoft Kinect Motion Sensor Debuts in the U.S.
Microsoft Launches Kinect for Xbox 360
Monday, November 1, 2010
Analysts Predict U.S. Sales of Microsoft Kinect and PlayStation Move Controllers to Surpass 4.5 Million This Holiday Season.
Microsoft Kinect and Sony Move to Enjoy Spectacular Sales in the U.S.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Next-Generation Game Consoles to Use Motion-Sensing Controllers - Game Developer.
Microsoft Kinect and Sony Move to Be Used by Next-Gen Consoles
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Microsoft Expects to Sell Three Million Kinect Motion Sensors This Holiday Season.
Microsoft Very Optimistic About Kinect, Hopes to Prolong Xbox 360's Life Cycle
Monday, August 16, 2010
Microsoft Sets Kinect Launch Date for Europe As Analysts Revise Shipments Forecasts.
Microsoft to Start Shipping Kinect in EMEA Region on November, 10
Friday, July 30, 2010
Nvidia Researching Image Tracking, Motion Detection Technologies – Company.
Nvidia May Enable Real-Time Motion Detection on GPUs Eventually
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Analyst Expects Three Million Microsoft Kinect Sensors to Be Sold This Holiday Season.
Microsoft Kinect in Production, Adequate Quantities Expected at Launch - Analyst
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Microsoft Officially Sets the Price for Kinect Sensor.
Microsoft Kinect to Cost $149 - Official Confirmation


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Matthew Sanders: How lessons from Easter and Passover should help us preserve religious freedom
In Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, Charlton Heston's Moses famously pleads Pharaoh repeatedly to, "Let my people go!" It was a classic rendition of an ancient clash between the Israelites, who had been a favored people since their predecessor had helped spare Egypt from famine, and a domineering Pharoah, "who knew not Joseph."
The Bible recounts that after Moses' appeal to Pharaoh to release the Hebrews, all firstborns throughout Egypt were slain except those who followed specific instructions given by God. Broken, Pharaoh finally relented and allowed Israel to depart.
To commemorate God's deliverance from Egypt's persecution and bondage, generations of Jewish families have observed Passover, starting on the 15th day of Nissan, typically near the beginning of April.
More than a millenium later, the people of Israel were overseen and oppressed by a complicated partnership between Rome and Herod Antipas, a puppet king of the Jews and grandson of Herod the Great. The people of the time held out hope for one even greater than Moses, a Messiah, who would come to free them for all time.
Jesus of Nazareth emerged, providing "signs and wonders" foretold by ancient prophets. He and His followers were similarly rejected and persecuted by the prevailing powers. During the Easter season, Christians commemorate Jesus' transcendent suffering and resurrection as the ultimate deliverance — from sin and death.
These events are set in times of severe oppression by the prevailing culture and political powers. Pharaoh's stature as both king and diety gave him nearly unlimited power over his subjects. Israel was ruled by a cruel alliance between the Roman procurator, Herod Antipus, and Jerusalem's religious elders.
These cases illustrate the oft-repeated pattern where religious-sponsored states, or state-sponsored religions, succumb to the poisons of power and commit atrocities. As a result, some argue against any religious influence in public dialogue or policy. But anti-religious dogma has also seen its share of horrors, including the French Revolution, Stalinism and Maoism.
Rather than simple-mindedly building a barricade between faith and civic involvement, the Founding Fathers elegantly protected religion while channeling its good aims and passions through carefully crafted electoral and legislative processes to help shape a moral and just society.
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Algorithms 2013, 6(2), 352-370; doi:10.3390/a6020352
Filtering Degenerate Patterns with Application to Protein Sequence Analysis
Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova 35131, Italy
Computational and Systems Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 138672, Singapore
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Abstract: In biology, the notion of degenerate pattern plays a central role for describing various phenomena. For example, protein active site patterns, like those contained in the PROSITE database, e.g., [FY ]DPC[LIM][ASG]C[ASG], are, in general, represented by degenerate patterns with character classes. Researchers have developed several approaches over the years to discover degenerate patterns. Although these methods have been exhaustively and successfully tested on genomes and proteins, their outcomes often far exceed the size of the original input, making the output hard to be managed and to be interpreted by refined analysis requiring manual inspection. In this paper, we discuss a characterization of degenerate patterns with character classes, without gaps, and we introduce the concept of pattern priority for comparing and ranking different patterns. We define the class of underlying patterns for filtering any set of degenerate patterns into a new set that is linear in the size of the input sequence. We present some preliminary results on the detection of subtle signals in protein families. Results show that our approach drastically reduces the number of patterns in output for a tool for protein analysis, while retaining the representative patterns.
Keywords: pattern discovery and filtering; degenerate patterns; analysis of biological data
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Caffeine for the Sustainment
of Mental Task Performance
Formulations for Military
Committee on Military Nutntion Research
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Washington, D.C.
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JOHN E. VANDERVEEN (Chair), San Antonio, Texas
LAWRENCE E. ARMSTRONG, Departments of Physiology and Neurobiol-
ogy, and Exercise Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs
GAIL E. BUTTERFIELD (deceasedJ, Nutrition Studies, Palo Alto Veterans
Affairs Health Care System and Program in Human Biology, Stanford Uni-
versity, Palo Alto, California
WANDA L. CHENOWETH, Department of Food Science and Human Nutri-
tion, Michigan State University, East Lansing
JOHANNA T. DWYER, Frances Stern Nutrition Center, New England Medical
Center Hospital and Departments of Medicine and Community Health,
Tufts Medical School and School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Boston,
JOHN D. FERNSTROM, Depa~l~ent of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Neu-
roscience, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania
ROBIN B. KANAREK, Depa~l~ent of Psychology, Tufts University, Boston,
ORVILLE A. LEVANDER, Nutrient Requirements and Functions Laboratory,
U.S. Depardnent of Agriculture Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Cen-
ter, Beltsville, Maryland
ESTHER M. STERNBERG, Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior
Section, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland
U.S. Army Grant Representative
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Program, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort
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KARAH NAZOR, Project Assistant (through July 28, 2000)
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CUTBERTO GARZA (Chair), Division of Nutrition, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York
LARRY R. BEUCHAT, Center for Food Safety and Quality Enhancement
University of Georgia, Griffin
BENJAMIN CABALLERO, Center for Human Nutrition, The Johns Hopkins
School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
ROBERT J. COUSINS, Center for Nutritional Sciences, University of Florida,
SHIRIKI KUMANYIKA, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia
ALFRED H. MERRILL, JR., Department of Biochemistry, Emory Center for
Nutrition and Health Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
LYNN PARKER, Child Nutrition Programs and Nutrition Policy, Food Re-
search and Action Center, Washington, D.C.
ROSS L. PRENTICE, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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ROBERT M. RUSSELL, Jean Mayer U.S. Department of Agriculture Human
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fornia at Davis
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The Committee on Military Nutrition Research
dedicates this report to the late Gail Butterfield, a
diligent and enthusiastic member of the committee
who made invaluable contributions to this study and
numerous other studies during her six years of
service. Her unique background in nutrition and
physiology was a special asset to the committee's
work. She was dedicated to contributing to the health
and nutritional well-being of America's military
personnel, both active-duty members and veterans.
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This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their
diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures
approved by the National Research Council's Report Review Committee. The
purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments
that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible
and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evi-
dence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft
manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative proc-
ess. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:
E. Wayne Askew, University of Utah
Fergus M. Clydesdale, University of Massachusetts
Joseph T. Coyle, Harvard Medical School
David Dinges, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Harold Goforth, Point Lorna College
Steven R. Hursh, Science Applications International Corporation
Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive
comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or
recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release.
The review of this report was overseen by Catherine E. Woteki, University of
Maryland at College Park, appointed by the Institute of Medicine, who was
responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report
was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review
comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this
report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.
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This publication is the latest in a series of reports prepared by the Commit-
tee on Military Nutrition Research (CMNR) of the Food and Nutrition Board
(FNB), Institute of Medicine, National Academies. Other reports in the series
have included such issues as food components to enhance performance; nutri-
tional needs in hot, cold, and high-altitude environments; body composition and
physical performance; nutrition and physical performance; cognitive testing
methodology; fluid replacement and heat stress; and antioxidants and oxidative
stress. These reports are part of the response that the CMNR provides to the
commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
(USAMRMC) regarding issues brought to the committee by the Military Opera-
tional Medicine Research Program at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and the Military
Nutrition Division of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medi-
cine at Natick, Massachusetts. Typically, reports in this series review the scien-
tific background of an issue, and provide direct responses to questions posed by
USAMRMC and specific recommendations from CMNR.
The CMNR was established in October 1982, following a request by the as-
sistant surgeon general of the Army that the Board on Military Supplies of the
National Academy of Sciences set up a special committee. The purpose of this
committee was to advise the U.S. Depa~l~ent of Defense on the need for and
conduct of nutrition research and related issues. The CMNR was transferred to
the FNB in 1983. The CMNR's current tasks are as follows:
� to identify nutritional factors that may critically influence the physical and
mental performance of military personnel under all environmental extremes;
� to identify deficiencies in the existing database;
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� to recommend research to remedy these deficiencies as well as approaches
for studying the relationship of diet to physical and mental performance; and
� to review and advise on standards for military feeding systems.
Within this context, the CMNR was asked to focus on nutrient requirements
for performance during operational missions rather than requirements for m~li-
tary personnel in garrison (the latter were judged to be not significantly different
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from those of the civilian population).
Although the membership of the committee has changed periodically, the
disciplines represented consistently have included human nutrition, nutritional
biochemistry, performance physiology, food science, and psychology. For issues
that require broader expertise than exists within the committee, the CMNR has
convened workshops or utilized consultants. The workshops provide additional
state-of-the-art scientific information and informed opinion for the consideration
of the cornm~ttee.
Chapter 1 of this report provides background information on the military
interest in caffeine and the history of its use, and Chapter 2 briefly reviews caf-
feine metabolism and pharmacology. Chapters 3 through 6 review the recent
scientific literature organized around the Army's task questions of efficacy,
safety, formulations, dosage, ethical considerations, and alternatives. The
CMNR's summary responses to questions, conclusions, and recommendations
are presented in Chapter 7. The workshop agenda and abstracts are presented in
Appendix A. Appendix B contains CMNR recommendations concerning caf-
feine from the report, Food Components to Enhance Performance (IOM, 1994~.
Biographical sketches of CMNR members and the workshop speakers are given
in Appendix C. Speakers invited to the workshop were also requested to submit
a brief list of selected background papers. Their recommended readings, relevant
citations collected by CMNR staff prior to the workshop, and citations from
each chapter are included in the references.
It is my pleasure as chairman of the CMNR to acknowledge the contribu-
tions of the FNB staff. Their dedication in the planning and organization of the
workshop and in editing this report made it possible for the committee to pro-
vide an in-depth response to the Army's request. In particular, I wish to ac-
knowledge the superior efforts of Mary I. Poos, the staff officer for the CMNR.
She worked diligently with committee members in securing the expert panel of
speakers and organizing the program for the workshop into coherent sessions.
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She also conducted extensive reviews and summaries of the scientific literature
and performed major edits of the report to ensure clarity and accuracy.
I also wish to commend the workshop speakers for their excellent contribu-
tions in preparing abstracts and participating through their presentations and
discussions at the workshop. Their willingness to take time from very busy
schedules to prepare and deliver outstanding presentations made it possible for
the committee to conduct the review and prepare this report. Their thoughtful
responses to CMNR members' and workshop participants' questions also con-
tributed immeasurably to the quality of the review. It would be neglectful not to
mention the many experts who attended this open meeting at their own initiative
and expense. Their questions and comments contributed in no small measure to
broadening the exchange of scientific information.
I express my deepest appreciation to the members of the CMNR who par-
ticipated extensively during the workshop and in discussions and preparation of
the summary and recommendations in this report. I continue to be stimulated by
the committee's dedication and willing contribution of time and expertise to the
activities of the CMNR. I thank all of you for your continuing contributions to
this program.
JOHN E. VANDERVEEN, Chair
Committee on Military Nutrition Research
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I express my deepest appreciation to the members of the CMNR who participated extensively
during the workshop and in discussions and preparation of the summary and recommendations in
this report. ~ continue to be stimulated by the committee's dedication and willing contribution of
time and expertise to the activities of the CMNR. ~ thank all of you for your continuing
contributions to this program.
JOHN E. VANDERVEEN, Chair
Committee on Military Nutrition Research
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Background, 2
The Committee's Task, 2
Methods, 3
Caffeine Use, 4
Caffeine Metabolism, 4
Response to Military Questions, 6
Military Interest in Caffeine, 17
History of Caffeine Use, 19
The Committee's Task, 20
Absorption, Distribution, and Metabolism, 26
Factors Affecting Caffeine Metabolism, 28
Physiological Effects, 29
Summary, 3 1
EFFICACY OF CAFFErNE ...................................................................
Physical Performance, 33
Cognitive Function and Alertness, 37
Compensation of Sleep Deprivation Impairments, 40
Summary, 44
Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease Risk, 49
Caffeine Effects on Reproduction, 52
Caffeine Effects on Bone Mineral Density, 54
Caffeine Effects on Fluid Homeostasis, 55
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Detrimental Effects of High Doses of Caffeine, 56
Summary, 59
Optimum Caffeine Dosage, 61
Caffeine Delivery Mechanisms, 63
Summary, 65
Education and Training Issues, 68
Labeling, 68
Ethical Considerations, 69
Alternatives to Caffeine for Maintenance of Cognitive
Performance, 69
Summary, 77
Additional Research Recommendations, 96
A Workshop Agenda and Abstracts, 115
B Previous Recommendations on Caffeine from the Committee on
Military Nutrition Research, 143
Biographical Sketches, 147


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Structure | Height | Location | |
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Tower 0 | 387 | 1,270 | 21°48′58″S 114°9′55″E / 21.81611°S 114.16528°E |
Tower 1 | 304 | 997 | 21°48′35″S 114°9′57″E / 21.80972°S 114.16583°E |
Tower 2 | 304 | 997 | 21°48′48″S 114°10′18″E / 21.81333°S 114.17167°E |
Tower 3 | 304 | 997 | 21°49′12″S 114°10′16″E / 21.82000°S 114.17111°E |
Tower 4 | 304 | 997 | 21°49′23″S 114°9′54″E / 21.82306°S 114.16500°E |
Tower 5 | 304 | 997 | 21°49′10″S 114°9′32″E / 21.81944°S 114.15889°E |
Tower 6 | 304 | 997 | 21°48′45″S 114°9′33″E / 21.81250°S 114.15917°E |
Tower 7 | 364 | 1,194 | 21°48′25″S 114°10′19″E / 21.80694°S 114.17194°E |
Tower 8 | 364 | 1,194 | 21°49′1″S 114°10′38″E / 21.81694°S 114.17722°E |
Tower 9 | 364 | 1,194 | 21°49′35″S 114°10′14″E / 21.82639°S 114.17056°E |
Tower 10 | 364 | 1,194 | 21°49′33″S 114°9′31″E / 21.82583°S 114.15861°E |
Tower 11 | 364 | 1,194 | 21°48′56″S 114°9′11″E / 21.81556°S 114.15306°E |
Tower 12 | 364 | 1,194 | 21°48′22″S 114°9′35″E / 21.80611°S 114.15972°E |
On 3 March 2009, the Defence Materiel Organisation advertised on the AusTender website a tender to construct two new roads at the station. The tender stated the 357 guy wires which support the 13 towers had exceeded their life expectancy and the roads will support the installation of the VLF guy wires. It states: Naval Communication Station Harold E Holt (NCSHEH) is sited on the northernmost tip of the peninsula known as North West Cape. The Very Low Frequency (VLF) antennas are large spider webs of wire supported in a top hat arrangement. The centre tower 'Tower Zero', rises to a height of 387.9 metres. The other towers are spread out in two concentric rings around Tower Zero; the towers of the inner ring are 364 metres high while those of the outer ring are 304 metres high. Buried in the ground beneath the antenna array is 386 kilometres of bare copper ground mat.[2]
Sir Garfield Barwick, Australian Minister for External Affairs, negotiated the lease on the US Base at North West Cape in 1963 with U.S. ambassador William Battle. The lease did not allow Australia any degree of control over the station or its use.
The station was commissioned as U.S. Naval Communication Station North West Cape on 16 September 1967 at a ceremony with the US Ambassador to Australia Ed Clark and the Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt, at which peppercorn rent for the base for the first year was paid.[3]
On 20 September 1968, the station was officially renamed to U.S. Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt in memory of the late Harold Holt, former Prime Minister of Australia, who disappeared whilst swimming and was declared dead, presumed drowned, three months after the station was commissioned.
With the election of the Labor Government to power in 1972, Defence Minister Lance Barnard started negotiations on the condition of operation of the U.S. military bases in Australia. On 9 January 1974 a joint statement by Lance Barnard and James Schlesinger, the US Secretary of Defense: assigned the Deputy Commander of the base to a Royal Australian Navy officer and gave Australian personnel roles in base technical and maintenance functions. The cipher room was closed to Australian scrutiny. The joint statement stressed the importance of consultations in crises. There was no undertaking given by the USA to relay fire orders to their submarines bearing nuclear missiles.[4]
In May 1974 several hundred people traveled to North West Cape from around Australia to protest and occupy the base and "symbolically reclaiming it for the Australian people".[3] During the occupation the Eureka Flag was flown over the base with fifty five people arrested during the protest. Songs composed in the campaign against North West Cape and other US bases in Australia include We don't want no Yankee Bases and Omega Doodle which have become part of the Australian folkloric tradition.[5]
From 1967 until October 1992 a Naval Security Group Detachment was stationed at the facility.[6]
In Western Australian domestic politics, the presence of foreign military installations in the state has occasionally been questioned over the decades.[7]
The "U.S." was dropped from the station's official title with the advent of joint U.S. and Royal Australian Navy operation in 1974.
The majority of U.S. Naval presence ended in 1993 with the withdrawal of all U.S. Naval personnel.[8]
In July 2002, the Australian Navy handed over operation of the station to the Defence Material Organisation.[8]
The base is currently operated under contract by Raytheon Australia.
On 15 July 2008, Australia and the US signed a bilateral treaty governing the future joint use of the facility for the next 25 years.[9] .
Harold E. Holt is identified as a potential Air Force Space Surveillance System (or Space Fence) site.[10]
Aircraft interference controversy[edit]
On 7 October 2008, Qantas Flight 72 made an emergency landing at Learmonth airport near the town of Exmouth, Western Australia following an inflight accident featuring a pair of sudden uncommanded pitch-down manoeuvres that resulted in serious injuries to many of the occupants.[11][12][13][14][15] The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) identified in a preliminary report that a fault occurred within the Number 1 Air Data Inertial Reference Unit (ADIRU) and is the "likely origin of the event". The ADIRU — one of three such devices on the aircraft — began to supply incorrect data to the other aircraft systems.[14][16] The ATSB's continuing accident investigation will include assessment of speculation that possible interference from Harold E. Holt facility or passenger personal electronic devices could have been involved, although based on initial analysis, the Bureau believes these are unlikely to have been of any impact.[14][17][18]
On 27 December 2008, another aircraft, Qantas Flight 71, also had a malfunction in its ADIRU. The incident again fuelled media speculation regarding the significance of the Harold E. Holt facility, with the Australian and International Pilots Association calling for commercial aircraft to be barred from the area as a precaution until the events are better understood,[19][20] while the manager of the facility has claimed that it is "highly, highly unlikely" that any interference has been caused.[21]
See also[edit]
- ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1078057/Signals-naval-base-caused-Qantas-passenger-jet-plunge-650ft-seconds.html Daily Mail Online, The base sends radio signals to US Navy and Royal Australian Navy ship and submarines in the western Pacific Ocean and the eastern Indian Ocean and is the most powerful transmission station in the Southern Hemisphere.
- ^ [1], AusTenders. Accessed 18 November 2009
- ^ a b Builders' Labourers' Song Book, pp190-194, Published by Widescape International and the BLF, 1975. ISBN 0-86932-010-6. A recording was released of the speech by US ambassador Ed Clark titled "Ed Clark Pulls It Off", Liberation Records, Melbourne, Australia (April 1974)
- ^ Secrets of State by George Munster, Published by Walsh & Munster (an imprint of Angus and Robertson) 1982 ISBN 0-207-14634-9
- ^ Warren Fahey, The Balls of Bob Menzies: Australian Political Songs 1900-1980, pp288-289, pp299-300, Angus and Robertson Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-207-16204-2
- ^ [2]
- ^ Barker, E. A.(1985) Brian Burke supports the role of US communications base at NW Cape, West Australian, 25 Nov. 1985, p.3,
- ^ a b "Naval Communication Station Harold E Holt ( Area A )] (entry AHD103552)". Australian Heritage Database. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Retrieved 26 August 2007.
- ^ Signing of Harold E. Holt Treaty, Australian Department of Defence
- ^ Payne, Rob. "WA in the running for Space Fence". Astronomy WA. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- ^ "2008/40 - Qantas Airbus Incident Media Conference" (Press release). Australian Transport Safety Bureau. 8 October 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2008.
- ^ "2008/40a — ATSB Airbus investigation update" (Press release). Australian Transport Safety Bureau. 9 October 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
- ^ "2008/40b — Qantas Airbus Accident Media Conference" (Press release). Australian Transport Safety Bureau. 10 October 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
- ^ a b c "2008/43 - Qantas Airbus A330 accident Media Conference" (Press release). Australian Transport Safety Bureau. 14 October 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
- ^ Siddique, Haroon (7 October 2008). "Qantas flight makes emergency landing as dozens of passengers injured". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
- ^ "Computer glitch may be behind Qantas incident: ATSB". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 8 October 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2008.
- ^ Butterly, Nick (16 October 2008). "Exmouth base linked to Airbus incident". The West Australian. Retrieved 16 October 2008.[dead link]
- ^ Johnson, Ed (16 October 2008). "Qantas Plunge Investigators to Examine Naval Base Transmissions". Bloomberg. Retrieved 16 October 2008.
- ^ Catanzaro, Joseph (2 January 2009). "Navigation failure again hits Qantas in north-west". The Age. Retrieved 2 January 2009.[dead link]
- ^ "Call for no-go zone after another Qantas forced landing". The Age. 2 January 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2009.
- ^ Hopkin, Michael (7 January 2009). "Exmouth interference 'unlikely'". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
Further reading[edit]
- Barker, E. A.(1985) Brian Burke supports the role of US communications base at NW Cape. West Australian, 25 Nov. 1985, p. 3,
- http://www.exmouth.wa.gov.au/default.asp?et=3&ei=18
- http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b575
- http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/exmouth.htm
- Ring Masts at Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt at Structurae
- Tower 0 of Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt at Structurae
External links[edit]
- "Google" satellite map: the map opens centered on the "Area A" very low frequency (VLF) towers site, which is at the northernmost edge of the Northwest Cape, approximately 4 miles north of the Main base; the "Area B" high frequency receiver (HFR) site was approximately 30 miles south of the Main Base
- "Google" street view: The view from the side of the road with Tower 9 in the foreground.


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Deregulation of the Texas electricity market
Electricity deregulation in Texas was the result of the coming into force of Texas Senate Bill 7 on January 1, 2002. According to the law, deregulation is to be phased in over several years.
As a result, 85%[1] of Texas power consumers (those served by a company not owned by a municipality or a utility cooperative) can choose their electricity service from a variety of "retail electric providers" (REPs), including the incumbent utility. The incumbent utility in the area still owns and maintains the local power lines (and is the company to call in the event of a power outage) and is not subject to deregulation. Customers served by cooperatives or municipal utilities can choose an alternate REP only if the utility has "opted in" to deregulation; to date, only the area served by the Nueces Electric Cooperative has chosen to opt in.
Since 2002, approximately 85% of commercial and industrial consumers have switched power providers at least once. Approximately 40% of residential consumers in deregulated areas have switched from the former incumbent provider to a competitive REP. REPs providing service in the state include Ambit Energy, Bounce Energy, Champion Energy, Cirro Energy, Direct Energy, Dynowatt, First Texas Energy Corporation, Gexa Energy, Glacial Energy, Just Energy, Kinetic Energy, Mega Energy, MXenergy, Reliant Energy, Spark Energy, StarTex Power, Stream Energy, Tech Electricity, Texas Power, TXU Energy, and XOOM Energy.
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Texas has electricity consumption of $24 billion a year, the highest among the U.S. states. Its annual consumption is comparable to that of Great Britain and Spain, and if the state were an independent nation, its electricity market would be the 11th largest in the world. Texas produces the most wind electricity in the U.S., but also has the highest Carbon Dioxide Emissions of any state.[2]
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The law designated the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to be the authority to oversee grid reliability and operations so as to ensure no particular buyer or seller would gain an unfair advantage in the market.
Aggregators, brokers, consultants[edit]
"Aggregators" are legal entities that join two or more customers to purchase electricity at reduced rates.
"Brokers" are legal entities that work with multiple Retail Electric Providers in order to shop the market for a competitive rate for their clients. Examples of electricity brokers are Electric Evolution, LLC, Adjacent Energy, LLC, and Parker Energy [1].
Organizations such as TEPA [2] represent established and active aggregators, brokers and consultants, which are largely credited with the early and high rate at which residential, commercial and industrial consumers in Texas switched to a competitive REP. These companies act as intermediaries and customer advocates.
The "price to beat"[edit]
Included within SB7 was the notion of the "price to beat" or PTB, an idea of a regulated rate governing the pricing behavior of the former utilities.
According to a typical economic theory, prices are optimally determined in a fair and transparent market, and not by a political or academic body. In deregulation of electricity markets, one immediate concern with pricing is that incumbent electricity providers would undercut the prices of new entrants, preventing competition and perpetuating the existing monopoly of providers. Thus, the SB7 bill introduced a phase-in period during which a price floor would be established (for incumbent electricity companies) to prevent this predatory practice, allowing new market entrants to become established. New market entrants could charge a price below the price to beat, but incumbents could not. This period was to last from 2002 to January 1, 2007 [3].
How is the price to beat established?
In order to prompt entry into the market, the price to beat would have to be high enough to allow for a modest profit by new entrants. Thus, it had to be above the cost of inputs such as natural gas and coal. For example, a price to beat fixed at the actual wholesale procurement price of electricity does not give potential entrants a margin to compete against incumbent utilities. Second, the price to beat would have to be reasonably low, to enable as many customers as possible to continue to consume electricity during the transition period.
One desired effect of the competition is lower electricity rates. In the first few years after the deregulation in 2002, the residential rate for electricity increased seven times, with the price to beat at around 15 cents per kilowatt hour (as of July 26, 2006, www.powertochoose.org) in 2006. However, while prices to customers increased 43% from 2002 to 2004, the costs of inputs rose faster, by 63%, showing that not all increases have been borne by consumers [4]. (See Competition and entry of new firms above for discussion on the relationship between retail prices, inputs, and investment.)
The deregulation permitted a few regions to retain regulated rates, such as in Austin. In these areas, the electricity rate has stayed closer to the average rate of about 10 cents per kilowatt-hour in the U.S. For those residents that have access to competitors (often more than a dozen), prices are only a little lower than the price to beat. For example, the lowest cost provider in central part of Texas was charging 6.8 cents per kilowatt (as of December 7, 2011, www.powertochoose.org).
However, the price to beat seems to have accomplished its goal of attracting competitors to the market during the period through January 1, 2007. It has allowed competitors to enter the market without allowing the incumbents to undercut them in price. It has also given energy consumers the ability to compare energy rates offered by different providers [5]. The less-regulated providers undercut the price to beat by only a small margin given that they must balance lower prices (to attract customers and build market share) with higher prices (needed to reinvest in new power plants). Due to the small difference in competing prices and slow (yearly or so) "buying" process, price decrease due to competition was very slow, and it took a few years to offset the original increase by "traditional" electric providers and move to lower rates. However, just in a few years, large providers lost a big fraction of the market, and, probably due to this, the largest one (TXU) was even sold in 2007 (this was considered the largest buyout in the USA history) and "reconstructed".
Using the rate of 10 cents per kilowatt-hour (c/kWh) in Austin, Texas as a benchmark of still-regulated pricing, Texans in deregulated markets were receiving a discount of 32% below the regulated rate in 2011, mostly due to higher rates from "old" large, monopolistic Austin Energy. Switching to a new provider is slow on the electric market, but in 2010 fixed long-term (one year) market rates from many retailers became lower than 10 c/kW, and less than 9 c/kWh for shorter terms even in "expensive" electric markets (large cities) in Texas. During those transitional years some have regarded the unmet expectation of lower rates promised by deregulation as a success.
In environmental impact, results are mixed. With the ability to invest profits to satisfy further energy demand, producers like TXU are proposing eleven new coal-fired powerplants. Coal powerplants are cheaper than natural gas-fired powerplants, but produce more pollution. When the private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Texas Pacific Group announced the take-over of TXU, the company which was known for charging the highest rates in the state and were losing customers, they called off plans for eight of the coal plants. TXU had invested more heavily in the other three. A few weeks later the buyers announced plans for two cleaner IGCC coal plants.
There are positive environmental impacts from retail price deregulation as well. The profitable and growing Texas electricity market has drawn considerable investment by wind-turbine companies. In July 2006, Texas surpassed California in wind energy production.
Another positive environmental impact is the effect of higher energy prices on consumer choices, similar to the US market trend toward more fuel-efficient cars. As electric bills have risen, residents are reducing their electrical usage by using more moderate thermostat settings, installing insulation, installing solar screens, and other such activities. Texas utilities (such as Austin Energy) are also installing advanced electricity meters that may one day enable variable pricing based on the time of day. This would permit energy customers to save money by further tailoring their consumption based on whether it occurred during the peak demand period (high cost/high pollution) or the off-peak (night time).
Effect on Renewable Energy[edit]
Due to the increased usage of natural gas immediately after deregulation, new-era energy tools such as wind power and smart-grid technology were greatly aided. Texas' first "renewable portfolio standard" — or requirement that the state's utilities get a certain amount of their power from renewable energy like wind — was signed into law in 1999, as part of the same legislation that deregulated the electric market.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Explore Energy Rates in Texas". SaveOnEnergy.com. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
- ^ "2013 State Energy Facts - Texas". SaveOnEnergy.com. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
- http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/commit/c850/c850_78.htm
- http://www.puc.state.tx.us/nrelease/2001/120701.cfm


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Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Auditore, Jennie
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Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Auditore, Jennie
Italian Americans -- Massachusetts -- Gloucester.;Gloucester (Mass.) -- Emigration and immigration.;Oral history -- Massachusetts -- Cape Ann.
Ann, Cape (Mass.) -- History -- Anecdotes.;Ann, Cape (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
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Linda Brayton and David Masters, principal oral historians.;Interviewer(s):David Masters (6/7/1978).
TRACKS:Story of Italians-Sicilians in Gloucester and Boston -- Date of birth -- Early childhood experiences, earthquake -- Names of the first Italians in Gloucester - a firsthand account -- The Italian people really built Gloucester -- Some amusing childhood remembrances of prohibition -- Strikes on Gloucester's own fishing wharves -- Influenza epidemic of 1918, some revelations about the power of the National Guard during the crisis -- World War I -- Politics -- Among the first Italians to graduate from grammar school -- Mill work -- Sentiments about education -- Glad I raised a family when I did, feelings about modern child-rearing and its possible relationship to delinquency -- Sacco and Vanzetti -- Life in Sicily now 00 Material living -- The extended family - always a strong tradition among the Italians, but may be giving way as it is in other segments of the society -- Modern conveniences - are they necessary? -- Differences between the Northern Italians and the Sicilians.
The following names and terms were used in this interview:Terrsini, Scola, curcuru, Sacco and Vanzette, purser.
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Auditore, Jennie Interviewee.;Masters, David Interviewer.
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Ann, Cape (Mass.) -- History -- Anecdotes.;Ann, Cape (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
Auditore, Jennie Interviewee.;Masters, David Interviewer., "Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Auditore, Jennie," Digital Commonwealth , accessed March 11, 2014, http://digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/3694.