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#78 -Doneta Dawson shares How to Change the World through Worship as an Independent Recording Artist
Independant Kingdom Recording Artist and native of Cincinnati, OH Doneta Dawson have been given rave reviews for arrangement of music, vocal range, and writing ability. Receiving an award from the Black Essence Awards, City of Forest Park GospelFest, Singing on the Bobby Jones Presents Show, performing for the annual Women Helping Women Expo Luncheon, ministering with Cincinnati's Pharmacy on Tour roster, M.A.P. (Making Apostolic People) Prophetic and Apostolic VClasses and more, Doneta's teaching and speaking is loved all over the world.
#77- Diahanna Stevens shares How she was healed from Domestic Violence through the Worship Arts
Worshipper Diahanna Stevens is the Visionary and Founder of Alabaster Healing Ministries, she is under the covering of Apostle Gregory Simpson and Prophetess Carol Simpson of Kingdom of God Deliverance Ministries in Culpepper, VA . God has anointed her to empower, equip, train and impart biblical aspects to those who are called to minister in dance for the Kingdom.
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There's already serious awards buzz surrounding Idris Elba's performance as Nelson Mandela in biopic Mandela: Walk to Freedom. And our exclusive clip gives you a hint why. The scene, in which Elba's Mandela makes a defiant stand for human rights, is as powerful as it is arresting. Watch the clip and then let us know what you think in the comments below. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom opens in UK cinemas from 3 January 2014.
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I'll be posting art from my new account so if you guys would like to see more drawings from me, message me for the URL.
If not, feel free to unfollow this blog since there probably won't be any updates from it in the future.
Message me if you want the URL
I'll be posting art from my new account so if you guys would like to see more drawings from me, message me for the URL. If not, feel free to unfollow this blog since there probably won't be any updates from it in the future.
The second of maybe three cosplays for Otakon this August.
It's Maggie from Ava's Demon! I hope I'm not missing any details from her outfit here. It's simple and cute and it'll be fun to make.
I'm going to be going to Otakon this year and I have a few cosplays I wanna try. So I'm making full turnaround refs for them! I thought it would be fun I guess.
I'm SUPER rusty drawing right now so this is also me just trying to like. Ease back into drawing in general. I haven't picked up my pen in a WHILE before now.
When I figure out a functional pattern for this I might post it here idk.
Illness likes to prey upon the lonely, prey upon the lonely
when it bites, oh, I would rather be dead, I would rather give up
Yooo do any of you guys have a normal type friend safari with Ditto? If you do and you add me. I will be in your eternal debt.
Reblogs here 'cause I REALLY wanna know. If someone does and they message me, I'll draw them a pokemon of their choice!
Also if any of you'd like to add me anyway—my friend code's 5343-8772-5087. Just message me yours. c:
Hey guys, I'm wondering what
-you'd like to see me focus on in my art
-what you like so far
-what you'd like to see improve
-anything that irks you about my art.
-stuff you want to see me draw.
Feel free to go anon, I won't be publishing or responding these but I'll appreciate the input. Thank you!
Favourite Single Stage & Design: Unown & Castform
I'm cheating because I couldn't pick between either Castform or Unown for both categories so both are here as fave design and single stage. u v u
Days 21 & 22 || Day 25
Favourite Mega Evolution & Baby Pokemon: Mega Gardevoir & Chingling
Pastel babies
I feel really bad for not posting any new art lately but—here's an improvement meme! I think 2013 was a good year?? There's lots of work to be done, especially with backgrounds, but I've improved.
Onward to 2014!
Rising Crowns is a fantasy art and roleplay group centered around the world of Noverra and its inhabitants. Your character is a citizen of one of the group's kingdoms—
- The Aomori Empire, a friendly seafaring nation focused on exploration and balance and ruled by the benevolent dryad Jade Empress Kimura Mei. Kinda like a Wutai Narnia!
- The Immortal Goblin Empire of Karsh, ruled by King Malach Grapplebasher and stupidly enthusiastic about technological pursuits and aggressive expansion. Think Discworld and Night Vale had a baby.
You can join as a variety of species, from beastmen to goblins, and in addition to casual and event RPs, you strengthen your character and kingdom by completing writing/drawing missions. In time, you can even start your own kingdom!
Feel free to message this blog or comment on the RC group page if you have any questions.
RC's opening up for more peeps soon! Even if none of my followers are interested in joining, I'd be grateful for a signal boost to get more word out.
I can't post any pokemon or the main thing I've been working on but here's a WIP of something else.
Favourite Electric Rodent: Raichu
I almost never use any squeaky electric critters but I had a raichu in Emerald that I liked a lot.
Favourite Eeveelution: Espeon
I have a soft spot for psychic types.
Favourite Water Type: Lapras
I AM SO BEHIND WOW but here's the happiest lapras ever.


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Cruise, wife Katie Holmes and daughter Suri share a group nap in Melbourne, Australia. Plus: Madonna, Hugh Jackman, Rumer Willis and more
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Greenpoint Is Showcasing Cabinetry Craft
Greenpoint Technologies (Stand 839), a completions center for Boeing Business Jets, is showcasing cabinetry craftsmanship here at EBACE, where it is displaying cabinetry manufactured and designed for the 747‐8 VIP. The U.S. company is one of only 15 approved BBJ completion centers worldwide.
It currently is modifying the first two of five 747‐8Is delivered from Boeing with the Aeroloft, a modular product designed specifically for the 747-8 that provides eight sleeping berths above the main deck in the aft section of the aircraft.
"Four years ago, Greenpoint set its aim on a 747‐8 completion with strategic company investments and an organizational restructure," said Sloan Benson, Greenpoint executive v-p. "The time we've spent with The Boeing Company understanding the unique aspects of the 747‐8 related to our Aeroloft development have enabled an advantageous project launch," he added.
Greenpoint provides turnkey VIP aircraft interiors for private individuals and clients, including heads of state. In‐house talent includes interior design, engineering, program management, manufacturing and certification for interior installations and modifications.
Meanwhile, Odyssey Aerospace Components, a Greenpoint subsidiary and a VIP cabinetry facility for Boeing, Bombardier and Gulfstream business jets, is engineering interiors for a VIP 747‐8I and recently delivered custom units for a VIP BBJ and BBJ3. "Our engineering team has increased significantly…the engineers use current 3-D/CAD software and work closely with the manufacturing artisans. This results in artistry engineered as seen in our products," said Kevin Watassek, Odyssey Aerospace Components director of engineering.
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Badges Of Fury, a crime thriller featuring one hell of a martial arts trio with Jet Li (needs no introduction), Collin Chou (The Matrix Reloaded, Flashpoint) and Wu Jing (SPL / Kill Zone) in the lead roles. When a spate of eerie murders erupts across HK two troublemaking cops are assigned to the case. Mai mult–>


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Dana's Event Journal
Drew Carey Presents The Best of the Midnight Show
Saturday July 14, 2012 / 7:30pmDrew Carey Presents The Best of the Midnight Show
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915 Columbus Ave
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NEW YORK (AP) — Cabela's says strong sales of guns and ammunition helped drive its profit up 73 percent in the first quarter, surpassing expectations and briefly driving its shares to all-time highs Thursday.
The Sidney, Neb.-based retailer operates stores that sell gear for hunting, fishing and outdoor sports.
Consumer demand for firearms has surged in recent months on worries about the possibilities of increased regulation or bans of certain kinds of weapons in the wake of the December slayings of 20 first-graders and six adult staffers at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
The shooting stirred up debate over gun control. A bill to expand background checks for gun purchases was introduced in the Senate, which also fueled demand, even though the bill was voted down last week. In fact, guns and ammunitions have been tough to keep on store shelves.
CEO Tommy Millner said Cabela's has been able to keep up with demand better than others because it began diversifying its supplier base four years ago. But he added that supply is still tight, particularly in some categories such as 22-caliber ammunition. Demand shows no sign of slowing, he added.
"I think the honest answer is, I don't know when it's going to loosen up," Millner said.
Cabela's said net income rose to $49.8 million, or 70 cents per share, in the January-March quarter, up from $28.8 million, or 40 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter. Analysts expected 59 cents per share, according to FactSet.
Revenue jumped 29 percent to $802.5 million from $623.5 million last year. Analysts expected revenue of $770.5 million.
"First-quarter results exceeded our expectations on every line of the income statement," said Millner. He said revenue in the second half of March was much stronger than expected.
Excluding guns and bullets, revenue in stores open at least one year rose 9 percent. During a call with analysts, Millner said that due to the strong demand and tight supply of ammunition, the company is not going to report revenue in stores open at least one year that includes guns and ammunition until the demand "normalizes."
Millner added that Cabela's stores continue to see strong new customer growth because of the high demand for guns.
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Shares rose $9.23, or 16.4 percent, to close Thursday at $65.45, after earlier reaching an all-time high of $66.24.
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The Little Post Office
Since 1996, the Post Office, much loved by children, has been
situated in the basement of the museum. Discover what it was like
to work for the Post Office in the 1920s.
The children can play and perform the work of postmen, parcel drivers,
cashiers and sorting office staff. There is also a a large table
for them to write letters and draw their own picture postcards and
Open to all during weekends and school holidays 11 am - 4 pm, but
at other times, it is reserved for pre-booked groups.
Questions? Tel. +46-10-436 4438
About communication and the written word
Listen to children interviewing researchers about communication
and to children telling you about their pen pals. Read letters from
famous people or write your own letters or postcards. In our quiet
area you can communicate without words.
>> Do mirror writing and make up secret codes
>> Practise handwriting and use the typewriter
>> Fold envelopes and make your own picture postcards
Your Post
About the history of the Post and the Post today.
Sweden has changed a lot since the 17th century. At the same time
as society was changing, so was the Swedish Post. In Your Post you
will find out how. The exhibition shows past and present side by
side. How was it then? How is it now?
>> Play "Fast Parcels"
>> Sit in an electric car
>>Try on uniforms and have
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The Treasure Chamber
With a focus on stamps
The exhibition is filled with beautiful letters stamped with our
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We also display our rarities:
>> 4 Shilling Banco in quarter sheet
>> 6 Shilling letter to London
>> Two famous stamps from Mauritius
Temporary exhibitions
Swedish Secrets
Anonymous confessions sent in on postcards.
Inspired by Frank Warrens art project Post Secret.
Open until September 2014
The Litte Post Office.
Photo. Gustaf Mårtensson
Photo: Ulf Michal
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Your Post
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"The Real" Host Jeannie Mai Talks Divorce, Plastic Surgery, Fashion and More
Last week, we brought you our Fall 2014 feature on the beautiful and successful Jeannie Mai who is currently a host on The Real. But clearly, that wasn't enough. You asked for it, so hereREAD MORE
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Your skin feeling a little … meh? Are you bored with your basic skin care regimen of wash, moisturize, sunscreen? Or have you been fairly diligent about your skin care routine, but feelREAD MORE
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New York Fashion Week is well underway and contributor Mariana Leung's got the inside scoop on the shows. Here, her recap of Zang Toi's Spring 2015. Fashion Week favorite Zang Toi celebrateREAD MORE
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Advances in science, technique, training, and regulation in the counseling and therapy professions
Thursday, January 2, 2014
The four biggest MFT Progress Notes posts of 2013
4) Prologue. To be honest, the continued interest in this has surprised me. It's a poem for new students in family therapy (though it certainly can be applied to other mental health fields as well), summarizing what I often wish I had said to students I've had in years past.
3) California MFT program rankings: The best license exam preparation. As I make the case for in the full book, license exam performance is one of the few areas where you really can objectively compare the performance of alumni from various graduate programs. There are some problems with doing so (after all, we don't all admit the same students), but it's still compelling data. Want to see whose graduates do best among the state's bigger programs? The top program is revealed here.
2) The difference between an LMFT, an LCSW, and an LPC (or LPCC). This was originally posted in October 2012, but continues to get a lot of readership. Counselors (LPCCs here in California) have rightly criticized me for framing their work too narrowly, a problem I plan to correct in the next edition of my California Law book for MFTs, LPCCs, and LCSWs. But if you want a quick summary of what makes the professions different, it's in this post.
And at the top of the traffic list for the year? Mental drumroll...
1) The best MFT graduate programs. This post, originally put up in 2008 and regularly updated since, has spawned several others and, now, a book with data on 34 of California's biggest programs. Neither I nor anyone else can tell you which program will be best for you (that's a decision you need to make based on what's most important to you personally), but if you're struggling to decide, this post may help you at least sort out what to pay the most attention to.
I have a lot already in the works for 2014, including a long-overdue facelift for the blog and some cool new ways to navigate. If there's something you would love to see me cover here, please feel free to say so! Many of the blog's best and most popular posts were born from reader suggestions, classroom discussions, and talks with colleagues. It's meant to be a conversation, here, not a lecture. I'd love to hear your thoughts. And as always, my thanks to you for reading.
Happy New Year!
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- Randi Cutler said...
Hey! your blog has been a godsend to me trying to figure out how to navigate the world of MFTs. I was wondering if you could cover how the field is going to change with the institution of obamacare? Many of my professors have said that private practice is going to go out the window. what do you think?!
- January 13, 2014 at 5:18 PM
- Ben Caldwell said...
@Randi - Thanks for your comment! I'll write more in the future about Obamacare and how it is likely to influence our work, but the short version is this: Your professors who are saying that are likely mistaken. Obamacare will bring millions of people who didn't have insurance previously (and couldn't afford to pay out of pocket for therapy) onto insurance rolls. Couple that with the requirement that insurance cover mental health at comparable levels to physical health (i.e., parity laws), and you'll have far better access to services than before. Those therapists who accept insurance in their private practices seem likely to see their client loads grow, while those who don't will probably see their practices shrink to some degree as any newly-insured clients move to providers where their sessions will be covered.
- January 21, 2014 at 11:50 AM
- Randi Cutler said...
Thank you so so much for your reply. I think it is so incredible that you add that personal level of commitment to your blog! Your response was really helpful!
I also have one more question for you.
I'm currently a first year MFT student at the family Institute @ northwestern University in the chicago area. The program is accredited and provides you with everything you need, aside from the 2000 hours of supervision to sit for the licensing exam. My plan so far is to get licensed in the state of Illinois since I just moved here and made so many wonderful connections. BUt ultimately, I plan to live in california. That said, i was wondering if applying for Ph.D. programs in california after I am licensed here makes sense to help me not only open my career options, but also to help me make the transition smoother to the California system. From my understanding, after a Ph.D. program, you are eligable to be licensed in the state of your school, as long as its accredited. I was imagining that this would help ease the transition socially as well to be back in an academic setting, as well as towards getting the requirements i need to be licensed in california. I'd love to hear your feedback on this. Thanks so much again!
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Coast 2 Coast LIVE NYC Edition, September 25, 2014, brings together the best celebrity judges and Hip-Hop industry professionals including DJs, A&Rs, Producers and more.
The Long Island Music Hall of Fame (LIMHoF) is proud to announce its 2014, and fifth Class of Honorees, to be inducted at its star-studded red carpet Award Ceremony and Fundraising Gala on Thursday, O...
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com> wrote:
When I say released I meant in the sense of made available for
download, not in the sense of software engineering and doing a proper
Release information here:
Any ways as you can see it's had a CVE assigned:
So for Debian Bug report logs - #690532
CVE-2012-2248: build system paths used in -DCLIENT_PATH
So my work here is done =).
Wasn't the assigned CVE number already apparent as part of the subject
of this thread?
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Don't tease the HomeBot
The future has arrived. Have you looked away from the Internet recently, taken a gander out there at what passes for the real world these days? If not, you'd better take a look.
Some oddly premature future has arrived while you were posting cute cats and inspirational quotes on Facebook. What we generally think of as the present has been skewed, bumped off-center and ahead of its time into a sci-fi realm that's fast becoming commonplace reality (not to mention fast evolving into even screwier realities we can only guess at). It's scary.
A case in point: I've just now caught myself responding emotionally to our new HomeBot. This snazzy robotic vacuum cleaner carries two on-board cameras and maps the territory it's expected to clean, learning from experience and doing its job faster as it gets the lay of the land. Sara loves it, though she grants it certain limitations. On earlier test runs, for instance, she parked the dining-room chairs up on the table to avoid confusing our little home helper and to give it more room to maneuver.
But what good is all this hi-tech gimcrackery, if I've still got to do some work? So this morning I chose to leave the chairs on the floor. A bit later I was in my office composing deathless prose when I hear something like a zombie bumper-car rally out in the dining room. In reality it was our HomeBot — it was trapped in a labyrinth of chairlegs. A wee shiver ran up my spine as I watched this simple machine, which so much resembled a curling stone, displaying something very like sentience as it tried to find its way clear. It had taken to methodically going this way and bumping into a leg, then that way and bumping into another leg, and then another way. Again and again, it came very close to discovering a clear run out toward the kitchen. Except it always missed the exit by a couple of inches, only to take up the whole search routine all over again. Caught up in its quest, I found myself sharing its frustration. (Not to mention all this was easier than writing.)
"You moron," I hollered at it. "There. Just to your left. ... No! You idiot."
Bear in mind I'm talking to a mechanical vacuum cleaner.
Anyway, before I had to intervene, it worked things out for itself. Not quite a moron. And what did it do then? Having escaped from under the table, it performed a couple of victory turns out there in the open, spun around once more, and then careened right back under the table and under the same chair that had last entrapped it.
So I changed my mind. "You really are a moron, aren't you?" I told it.
Yeah, right. I watched in amazement as it repeated its earlier reconnaissance routine except this time, after one circuit as if to confirm what it had already learned, it darted back out through the proven escape route and headed off for the kitchen.
After it finished with the kitchen, it came into my office. Picture this companionable scene: me at my desk beavering away all the while the HomeBot hummed and whisked away, taking care of business, leaving me free to concentrate on such creative projects as writing blog posts about vacuum cleaners. And so it went. Except I'd closed the office door to keep the cool air in, and my new helpmate got confused. Next thing I knew it was nudge-nudging along the wall in the northwest corner on the room, first one way and then back the other, whining about low batteries.
"Low battery," it said, real urgency in its voice (or so I imagined).
Here's the thing. HomeBots are programmed to establish and remember the location of their recharging station. And this one's station lay in the corresponding corner of the living room, which it couldn't get to because the office door was closed. So there it was with its next best hypothesis, futilely and ever-more desperately trying to get the fix that would let it finish the job.
But here's the real thing — I reacted the way you might to a pet animal in distress. I experienced a sense of amused concern for this poor wee bot, all hungry and confused the way it was.
"You moron," I told it, this time more affectionately. I picked it up and carried it to the living room, where I put it down it front of its station, vicariously enjoying the relief as it scuttled up to dock at its electrical teat.
They're everywhere. Think about it. HomeBots and their ilk are just the beginning. Soon every home will have a robot or two, or three. (In fact some argue the revolution has arrived. And here.) At least as interesting: These bots promise to become part of the household, even part of the family. You probably think I'm just weird, feeling sorry for a mechanical vacuum cleaner who isn't that much smarter than a curling stone. (It can't even climb up and dust the books on my shelves, I was disappointed to learn.) But my responses may be typical. Indeed bots are being designed to encourage emotional relationships. They're already used with some success in elderly care, for just one example.
Or how about this? In terms of congenial human-bot relations, we Canadians — who, just incidentally, also invented the telephone, the Nanaimo bar and Justin Bieber — now present you with the super-nice HitchBot. What a charmer, eh? Schmoozing its way all the way across the continent, programming maybe by Dale Carnegie or some such.
Speaking of cars and passengers, beyond the housebots as such, our cars are already being transformed. In the near future our vehicles will be directed both internally and externally by clever machines designed to take us safely and expeditiously where we need to go, in a manner and by a route we can leave to our carbot.
No such thing as a free lunch. At the same time digital technology is taking much of the drudgery out of our daily lives — in the process often usurping our jobs (e.g. three million professional drivers in the USA alone may soon have to seek other employment) — it is also contributing much to the increasingly totalitarian nature of our societies. So look ahead to a day coming soon when you get this kind of exchange:
You say, "To the mall, carbot."
"Sorry," it replies. "Your presence is required downtown. Someone wants to talk to you."
"Carbot! Take me to the mall."
"Okay, I'm getting out. ... Unlock the doors."
Sci-fi? Maybe.
My friend Jack's new Ford performs automatic parallel parking, but it leaves Jack to extricate himself from the space afterwards. And Jack says his car has this perhaps puckish habit of stuffing itself into spaces that he can't drive out of afterwards. And this is early days, a mere preview of the revolt of the machines, maybe even our eventual supersession by the bots, the evolutionary antecendents to whom humanity gave birth.
So, is our HomeBot just the thin edge of the wedge? The announcement comes to me where I sit in the office: "Charging complete!" I go back out to the living room to look at the thing again.
This time I sense a sinister cast to the way it's hunkered down there, all fueled up and ready to go again. It occurs to me to wonder: Can we really trust our vacuum cleaners? But that's only one of a range of responses to our robotic helpmates.
"Don't tease the HomeBot," Sara tells me, when she hears about today's adventures. "You should always put the dining-room chairs up on the table."
Of earworms and Teflon tunes
Our word for the day is earworm. And the following definition is from the charming animation "Jazz that nobody asked for."
"Sometimes a song can get stuck in your mind. Become a little piece of unwanted music, that keeps looping for the rest of your day.
Neurologists claim that stuck songs are like thoughts we're trying to suppress. The harder we try not to think about them, the more we can't help it. The phenomenon is also known as earworms, and the ongoing 'dim di da da dum' causes a kind of brain itch you can't scratch."
I once acquired the equivalent of that little red Pandora's box in the animation. Back at the beginning of time, when I still lived in Montreal, I bought Live/Evil (Miles Davis), and I used to come home at about 4am sometimes full of beer, and listen to Miles' 21-minute version of "What I Say" two or three times in a row while I chain-smoked in the dark. The ladies who shared my flat finally asked me whether I couldn't listen more quietly, or possibly in some other city, since they had to go to work in the morning. (I was a student.)
Then, decades later here in Bangkok, I've come across this album again and, what do you know? I still find this cut compulsively listenable. Which suggests that my musical tastes never really matured.
Sara snickers. "Unlike the rest of you?" she says.
Whatever. It may be my old Montreal flatmates had somebody put a curse on me, because now I wake up in the middle of the night with this thing in my head, and it won't go away.
That's right. So go ahead and listen to it at your own peril.
A note on Teflon tunes.
Bill the Mathematician, who is second only to Al the Alien as a mentor, says nobody else is old enough to remember Miles Davis, and I'll provoke more traffic to this site if, as he puts it, "You dis Phish and praise Nickelback. Miles Davis is in that in-between stage where he's too long gone to be well known to the online masses, but not so long gone that it can be cool to be really into him. On the other hand, everyone loves the forgettable Phish and loves to hate the even more forgettable Nickelback, and wants to tell the world about both those things."
So I've gone and had a look on YouTube. And both groups sort of give me a pain in the neck. I don't think they'd ever infect me with earworms, because my delicate sensibilities erase all trace of them bar by bar even as I try to listen.
There, now I've dissed them both. I await the outrage, maybe even an extra visitor to my site.
Homo app
app (n.) 1. originally from computer software app*lication; 2 (n.) bio smartphone and tablet app*endages, most commonly specimens of Homo sapiens.
When extraterrestrials finally arrived on Earth circa 2021 for a look around, they discovered that the dominant life forms were evolved digital communications devices. Subsequent investigation suggested that these creatures had only recently emerged on the scene, and at first the aliens couldn't see what had given rise to them.
But then one team noticed tiny bio appendages dangling from many of the endemic Smartphone and Tablet spp. Even as the digital beings had developed, their evolutionary antecedents had shriveled to largely vestigial organs, more decorative than functional. Later investigations revealed that a pre-Homo app specimen of Homo sapiens, one designated Collin Piprell according to prevailing naming conventions, had foreseen these developments in something he referred to as a central irony of their age.
Other Earthly species had already undergone parallel developments. One such example was Haplophryne mollis. "When scientists first started capturing ceratioid anglerfish, they noticed that all of the specimens were female. These individuals were a few centimetres in size and almost all of them had what appeared to be parasites attached to them. It turned out that these "parasites" were highly reduced male ceratioids."
Female anglerfish with atrophied males attached.
Bingeing on bingeing
Bingeing writers and binge writing. Traditionally, writers have been notorious bingers. And, aside from any occupational enthusiasm for booze and suchlike, we get binge writing, where instead of turning caffeine into books, as some would have it, writers instead turn whiskey into piss and engage in binge writing in the intervals between their alchemical endeavors. (I first encountered the expression "binge writing" listening to a Letterman interview with Hunter S. Thompson. See "What is writing?")
Binge viewing. The media has given much attention to the rise of binge TV series viewing. With entire seasons and entire seasons readily available on DVD, couch potatoes no longer have to wait till next week for the next episode of 24, Breaking Bad, The Tudors, whatever. Hell, no. They can go for hit after hit of suspenseful conclusion segueing into the start of the next cliffhanger, and the next, and the next right up till it's nearly time to get up and go to work anyway, so why not watch just one more?
Binge reading. More recently we've seen the emergence of so-called binge reading. Probably spoiled by the DVD TV series syndrome, binge readers are unwilling to wait a year or even six months for the next blockbuster novel in a series. They want the damned thing now, now, now. So publishers are beating on their favorite series authors, telling them to get the lead out and churn those novels. That's money we're talking, eh? See, e.g., "Impatience Has Its Reward: Books Are Rolled Out Faster." I've read somewhere that the fantasy writer George R.R. Martin has had fans get so irate at the pace with which he coughs up the next book in his series that they've issued death threats. Here's something from an interview:
It is great that so many people are eager for the next book and certainly these are the people who are paying my bills and allowing me to have a house across the street from my other house. But at the same time, sometimes I just wish they would stop pressuring me about it. It will be done when it's done. I'm working on it. I don't know what else I can say: I'm a slow writer, I've always been a slow writer, and these are gigantic books…
A favorite comic sci-fi writer, Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe fame, produced a few novels that were near genius. The last few were anything but. Reading them, I kept getting this image of some publisher holding a gun to his head and saying, "We're talking big money, laddie. So write us another book. Like now, you should write it. "
Binge pontificating. Isn't all that reminiscent of the "publish or perish" blight, where academics had to generate some kilos of books and papers to win associate professorships or tenure or whatever? And look what that did to the general quality of academic publishing. Yow.
Binge realities. But now we're bingeing on breaking reality, which is a dangerous thing, since a reality has to sit and steep a while before anyone knows whether they've got the genuine article or not. Here in Bangkok, e.g., we've been teetering on the edge of chaos since late December, where events unfold day by day as though we live in a cleverly designed TV suspense series, where the conclusion of each episode leaves you dying to see what happens next, this always being a big surprise. And it gets to be like binge-viewing whole seasons at a time on DVD -- instead of waiting for the morning newspaper to get your next fix, you become addicted to minute-by-minute Twitter feeds, witness to the unravelling of our world in real time.
If the day-to-day events aren't put in a context of national, regional, global and cosmic change and development, then current affairs is only gossip. My old friend Tony Alcock, a classicist and linguist of no mean accomplishment, says he doesn't want to read about it if it isn't at least 300 years old. From that sort of perspective, CNN is little more than the modern equivalent of neighbors jawing over the back fence. And the Twitter universe? Spare me.
Still, in these troubled times I admit I can't stop checking the feed to see what's happening. Among other things, I fear the onset of binge tribalism. Maybe I should just retreat into that Breaking Bad TV series someone lent us.
Here's a nice take on bingeing from techradar.
Tourists in our own and each others' realities
"[E]ssentially the camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."
First published in 1973, Susan Sontag's On Photography speaks to us with even more force today about what cameras and the mass reproduction of images have done to our appreciation of ourselves and our worlds. And she offers this insightful spin on our lemming compulsion to photograph our experiences again and again and then share these images with as many people as possible:
"The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied: first, because the possibilities of photography are infinite; and, second, because the project is finally self-devouring. The attempts by photographers to bolster up a depleted sense of reality contribute to the depletion."
Though Sontag couldn't have foreseen how this effect might be exaggerated by the fact that cameras would become ubiquitous, she saw how the process was already having profound effects on our world. In her conclusions to On Photography, she says that
"The powers of photography have in effect de-Platonized our understanding of reality, making it less and less plausible to reflect upon our experience according to the distinction between images and things, between copies and originals."
Recent items I've posted on this site -- "Colonialized: The Peak Experience" and "McStuff and the triumph of democratic mediocritization" -- offer related reflections upon my own experiences of Hong Kong's Victoria Peak, the Mona Lisa, whale sharks, the universe and my self.
The above image is attributed only to "anon" on the Internet.
McStuff and the triumph of democratic mediacratization
The Peak Experience.
In a recent post, I reflected on the strange compulsion to record every iota of our individual and collective experience and then share it with everyone else, each of whom is trying to do the same. How can anyone enjoy an unmediated experience of night-time Hong Kong from Victoria Peak, for example? ("Colonialized: The Peak Experience")
There I stood at the rail on the viewing platform, getting a many-elbowed massage from others who had mounted an assault on the Peak Experience. I stood my ground, trying for a contemplative appreciation of what should be an amazing sight, wishing all the camera flashes weren't destroying my night vision and wondering how these ranks of lemming photographers thought their cellphone flashes were going to further illuminate the city lying hundreds of meters below.
The Mona Lisa Experience.
Then, right there in mid-Peak Experience, my encounter with the Mona Lisa came to mind.
Some years ago I was wandering about in the Louvre when it suddenly occurred to me: This very museum was home to one of the most widely recognized of all the great works of Western culture. Best have a look, I thought. Take an up close and personal peek at this phenomenon.
But there was no getting close to this thing. It was railed off and surrounded by a mob. As with views of the Hong Kong colonial light-creature (see earlier post), furthermore, you had to stand tippy-toes to see over other admirers standing four and five deep, not to mention risk blindness from the barrage of photographic flashes. The Mona Lisa's famous smile, from what I could see, which was very little, looked more like a wince.
So scratch the Mona Lisa. Sara figured her YouTube Victoria Peak Experience beat "the real thing," and I got more juice out of magazine repros of the Mona Lisa than I ever did from the real McCoy.
A cultural icon? Sure. McMona Lisa.
The Whale Shark Experience.
Swimming with whale sharks can be awesome. It's best, I'd say, when the encounter is unexpected and you're sharing it with a couple of other divers at most. It's even better when these divers don't have cameras (or, at least in the old days, when they've run out of film). But maybe that's just me.
Too often these days, especially on liveaboard dive trips dedicated to finding whale sharks, you get gangs of divers all plunging into the water together going flash-flash, often getting mainly pix of other divers going flash-flash. The shark lurks in the background, figuring it's past time, if only it can find a way to break clear of all its groupies, to migrate back to deep water.
Hey, but progress marches on. Several years ago, enterprising sports-diving entrepreneurs, not wanting to leave the Whale Shark Experience to chance, started using spotter planes around Western Australia's Nigaloo Reef. Having drawn a bead on the sharks, they radioed fast boats which then sped off to dump loads of divers as close as possible to the sharks, no doubt massively freaking out all but the hammiest of these creatures.
Not what I'd call close encounters with untamed nature.
Since then, however, commercial imperatives and the triumph of the "fair's fair, down with elitism; let's democratize every damned thing there is" meme has gone way beyond the Nigaloo Experience.
Take Macau, for instance. An enthusiasm for glitzy casinos on the part of mostly non-locals has already all but erased the charming Sino-Portuguese colonial architecture and distinctive local way of life. And the boom continues. The 2,900-room Venetian, e.g., the Las Vegas Venetian's sister development, boasts the largest gambling area in the world. Hell, it keeps a captive Venice on the third floor, complete with canals, gondolas and gondoliers, even a faux sky that remains benign no matter what the weather outside. This is a new, improved Venice with no rain and no floods and shiny big name-brand boutiques on all sides.
So how do you beat that? Easy. Toss some whale sharks in a big aquarium and invite happy crowds of adventurers to come goggle at them. New casino-related projects include funparks complete with whale shark enclosures so visitors can have a big adventure snapping photos of this largest of all fish species, beautiful creatures that, till recently, had remained rarely sighted and mysterious.
"Twenty years ago, scientists did not know much about what whale sharks ate, where they spent their time or how they reproduced. Historically, seeing a whale shark in the wild was a rare experience, even for veteran divers. Jacques Cousteau reportedly encountered only two whale sharks his whole life." ("How to Love a Whale Shark," Scientific American)
But now every Tom, Dick and Harry with the price of a Macau vacation can snap any number of whale shark photos and show them to friends back home who have already seen them a hundred times before on TV and YouTube. Borrr-ing. (Casino developers in Singapore are planning something similar.)
Not that any of this is basically new.
Never mind. Democratization and anti-elitism rools, OK! And who am I to suggest these experiences soon become degraded for both those privileged with the time and money to do it right and for those on a budget. Not to mention for the whale sharks.
Untamed nature for Everyman? Sure. McWhale Sharks.
The Me, Me, Me Experience. Where are we really going with all this? Good question. We're already photographing every square centimeter of Mars and much of the rest of the solar system. Which is nothing, considering the fact there are untold billions of galaxies in our universe, and each galaxy includes billions of stars and quite a number of solar systems.
The Hubble telescope, for one, is peering into deep space to find that even the apparently emptiest bit of our sky harbors thousands upon thousands of galaxies, more of them the deeper you peer. This video shows what some are describing as the most important image ever recorded in human history.
Maybe. But look at this selfie I've just snapped. The self-mediated me. And just watch me post it on the Internet. Thusly.
Whoa. McMe. I guess that puts all those galaxies and stuff in perspective, eh?
The Afterthought Experience.
We're witnessing the triumph of the "fair's fair, down with elitism; let's democratize every damned thing there is" meme. Meanwhile we distance ourselves from our own experience in the ongoing commodification and mass distribution of everything including ourselves.
"Does that make any sense at all?" Sara asks me.
"It probably needs more editing," I tell her. "Plus I think I might have something like a hangover."
"Selfie," a recent neologism, appears destined for the standard dictionaries.
"Mediacratization" is of my own coinage, a portmanteau of "mediate" and "mediocritization" hot off the press, and probably doomed to oblivion. "Mass mediacratization begets mediocritization," an aphorism for our times, and, again, hot off the press.
Related insights from Susan Sontag: "Tourists in our own and each others' realities."
Photo credits.
"These tourist snappers are killing the Mona Lisa" (The Guardian)
Jonathan Kang, Kuroshio Sea of the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Okinawa, Japan
Whale shark images by Ashley J. Boyd. (Boyd, an Australian resident in Thailand, was long one of Southeast Asia's leading underwater photographers. A highly qualified diving instructor and teacher of underwater photography, Ashley has logged close to 4,000 dives. His photographs have been widely published in books, magazines, calendars and postcards, while his underwater video has been used in advertising and TV. He has collaborated with Collin Piprell on dozens of articles and three books (all of them now out of print):
In thrall then & now: So what's new?
The other morning on the BTS Skytrain I found myself bemused at the sight of nearly every one of my fellow passengers in thrall to digital devices. Each was oblivious to all the others as they pawed away at Facebook pages, e-mails, tweets, games, music and phone calls. One young renegade was actually reading a book.
More than bemused, I was struck by the sense I was living in a science-fiction story. But then, resisting the impulse to check my own iPhone, which was tucked inside my computer bag, I was struck by a thought. (The kind of thing that can happen when you divorce yourself, however briefly, from the digital web.*) I had a sudden recollection of the London-Oxford train, circa late 1970s, bearing its ranks of dark-suited, bowler-hatted men from the City, each absorbed in his own copy of The Times of London.
Not totally absorbed, mind you. Occasionally indignant squalls would thrash through the forest of newsprint in face of the rogue colonial invader (me) in his torn Lee corduroy jacket and scruffy jeans, who would like as not be reading a volume of essays by some notorious Continental thinker, some crackpot wog from the other side of the Channel.
Then, as on the BTS now, I sometimes felt myself a dilettante anthropologist at large in another world. But where the London-Oxford train was merely amusing, why did I find the Skytrain scenario also chilling? Was it an apprehension of what these ever-accelerating changes might portend for a more distant future that suddenly seemed not so distant after all?
Or maybe I just felt excluded. I should have whipped out my own smartphone and got engaged, eh? Like, get with it, man. I could've plugged myself into a Heidegger lecture. Sure. Or browsed the Web for a photo of British business people on a commuter train that I could use to illustrate a blog post that no one would ever look at.
Hey! What a good idea.
Related expressions of unease:
Getting away from it all: Now and then
People with phones on BTS from the Bangkok Post.
Businessmen on train from the Independent.
* Getting struck by a thought may not be without its dangers. See, e.g., The Apocalypse (http://thisistheapocalypse.com).
Colonialized: The Peak Experience
Below us lies a massive growth of porous luminosity, its cellular steel and glass exoskeleton inhabited by various species of soft light. A colossal marine organism has emerged to colonize the harborside. Brighter creatures enjoy mutualistic relations with the colonial host. Some of them, Logo spp., are neural parasites that prey on humans.
Sara and I stand atop the Peak Tower with a bunch of other creatures, not yet colonial but through the wonders of digital technology fast evolving that way. We stand four or five deep at the railing, cameras and phones held high overhead, obsessively flash-flashing at the softly throbbing creature below us for some important reason that no one knows, driven by a primordial imperative to record innumerable images of this thing we've been led to, and then share them by means of social networking until, ideally, every sentient being in the universe has witnessed the giant light-creature on the shore.
Lo, and verily. And eventually, as we did once before this day, we come to stand in a queue of thousands to enter the tram, this time to be delivered back down from the Peak for reabsorption by the light creature. As we descend, it becomes progressively less apparent that this thing is in fact one organism.
During our precipitous descent, we catch glimpses up through bright high-rise canyons where members of the colony dwell.
Sara later reveals the fact she had already experienced the Peak Experience on YouTube that very morning. And then, just to rub it in, she say she did this thing without suffering interminable waits in line for the tram and pushy mobs on the viewing platform.
"Jasus, jasus," I tell her. "We could've stayed in Bangkok and saved the airfare, not to mention the hours spent standing in queue."
"Yes," she says. "But it freshens the mind to visit different places."
And to record every square centimeter of the buggers, and take the same photos millions of other travelers have and try to share these experiences with someone, except that everyone has already experienced them, at least on YouTube.
"Did that video really convey the Experience?" I ask her.
"No. It was much better. They took it when there was some special light show."
Whatever. As Sara pointed out, there was plenty more to enjoy in Hong Kong.
See "McStuff and the triumph of democratic mediacrization" for more on these ideas.
Related insights from Susan Sontag: "Tourists in our own and each others' realities."
Notes. The illustration doesn't begin to do justice to the Victoria Peak Experience.
The other shot is from the Kowloon side of the harbor on the 118th floor of the Ritz Carleton, atop the ICC Building. The Ozone is reportedly the highest bar in the world. (I believe the tall building in the top left corner of the first photo is the ICC Building.)
Novels: Mental health threat or therapy?
"The solitude of writing is ... quite frightening. It's close sometimes to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch." Nadine Gordimer
"It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of." Shirley Hazzard
It's often said that the writing of novels can be a symptom, maybe even a cause, of insanity.
Perhaps a person does have to be mad to write novels, to spend so much time alone spinning realities that no one shares till, God grant, readers enter the process. (Novelists who make enough money are of course exempt. In fact a lucky few, J.K. Rowling and Dan Brown among them, are considered very clearly sane indeed.)
Not so widely recognized is the danger reading novels was once thought to pose to one's mental health.
Bangkok-based crime writer Christopher G. Moore has recently posted an interesting item regarding changing conceptions of madness over the years. His post included this 19th-century flyer.
"Novel reading" is listed among ways one could gain admittance to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Directly beneath that appears "nymphomania." That was probably only for reasons of alphabetical order, yet there is a more substantial connection between reading novels and nymphomania. Some nineteenth-century authorities believed that reading novels, in itself dangerous to your mental health, might also contribute to nymphomania. Here's a poignant note from a case study reported in Nymphomania: A History, by Carol Groneman (reviewed in the New York Times):
'Mrs. R., described as a short, stout, recently widowed twenty-year-old woman with a lively disposition, came to Dr. Bostwick out of desperation. She explained, "If I can't be relieved of this agonizing condition, I am certain that the struggle between my moral sense and lascivious longings must soon send me to the grave." She blamed reading novels and attending gay parties in her youth as the cause of "my imagination [being] wrought up to the highest point."'
Ms Groneman also reports a case where a woman so afflicted was advised by her doctor to give up writing novels.
As Chris Moore suggests, however, fashions in madness come and go. Given the number of people who appear to be at work or about to begin work on novels these days, those inclined to conformism might fear that not writing a book was a sign of serious abnormality. In an article entitled "Writers should take a year off, and give us all a break," Colin Robinson says this:
'According to Google, some 130m titles have been published since the first books took form on the desks of monks. This overwhelming catalogue is today being supplemented at a rate never before seen in the history of the book. Another industry statistician, Bowker, reports that nearly 1.8m new titles were published in 2012, an increase of half a million in just three years.'
Not so long ago, Julian Barnes could offer this advice: "It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them."
No longer true, eh? It is no longer easy not to be a writer, and ever-larger portions of our populations must face concomitant threats to their well-being, large dollops of money rarely being one of these.
In conclusion, I'll offer a contrarian perspective from Graham Greene:
"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."


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Gene and Emily Hurd of Mesa took their 22-month-old daughter to receive an H1N1 vaccination Saturday morning, hoping to get on with the rest of their day in a reasonable amount of time. After two hours of waiting in line, the couple still wasn't in the building.
Gene and Emily Hurd of Mesa took their 22-month-old daughter to receive an H1N1 vaccination Saturday morning, hoping to get on with the rest of their day in a reasonable amount of time.
After two hours of waiting in line, the couple still wasn't in the building.
"We didn't think it would be this bad," Gene Hurd said. "I wasn't expecting it to be walk-in and walk-out, but I wasn't expecting a line this big."
Hurd was at a Mesa location out of nearly 40 sites spread across the Valley - the few destinations offering the sparse vaccine for H1N1, also known as swine flu. The sites included shopping destinations and supermarkets - all places where lots of people tend to go.
Hurd said it was a debacle from where he stood.
"They don't look like they have a lot of people working there," Hurd observed at a Bashas' supermarket in Mesa near Brown Road and Mesa Drive. "I only saw a couple of people doing it (shots), so I think they probably should've been more prepared."
At one point, more than 150 people were standing in line.
The Bashas' supermarket was one of six out of the chain's stores hosting shots of the vaccine in the Valley.
Art Mollen, founder of the Mollen Immunization Clinics that administered the shots at the Bashas' locations, said each location was prepared to see about 500 people for the vaccinations.
Three Mollen Immunization Clinic nurses gave the shots at the Mesa Bashas' store.
With their limited supply, Mollen said workers had to limit access.
Children 6 months old up to teenagers of 18 years, caregivers of babies 6 months and younger, and pregnant women were given the vaccine, Mollen said.
That designation also extended to people at special risk, said Rita Brock-Perini, a nurse with the Mollen clinic.
"If they have long-term conditions like asthma, bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, anybody that has that, they would get (the vaccine)," as well, Brock-Perini said. "Basically anybody who's immune-compromised."
In addition to the H1N1 shot, the clinic also offered 400 regular seasonal flu shots for those who did not qualify for the H1N1 vaccine, according to Brock-Perini.
Nurses of the clinic tried to reassure those in line that they would not run out of the vaccine before their turn came around.
When asked if she anticipated running out of the H1N1 vaccines before the end of the allotted time for the in-store clinic, Brock-Perini remained upbeat.
"We hope not," Brock-Perini said. "But we do have a lot of families that have multiples. We do know that we have 500 (vaccines), but when you've got a family that's got six kids and two adults, they take up a big batch of it."
One person who did not take any chances of the store running out of the vaccine was Nancy Wood, an east Mesa resident.
She was the first person to receive the shot at the store. Wood started in line at 7:40 a.m.
But even with reports of long lines across the Valley, Woods said her two-hour wait was self-inflicted.
"I was in line for two hours," she said, adding that it was only because she arrived two hours before the 10 a.m. start time.


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When Duke Energy Carolinas goes to Raleigh next week for its latest
rate hike hearing, the usual dry testimony will be spiced by claims the
Charlotte utility is scamming consumers.
In its third rate case since 2009, the result of a massive building spree, Duke will defend not only the utility's bottom line but its relationship with 1.9 million recession-rocked customers.
Last month Duke agreed to terms with the North Carolina Utility Commission's consumer advocates, the Public Staff, which usually leads to approval by the commission itself. Duke had originally asked for $446 million, but in negotiations with the Public Staff cut its revenue request by nearly half. Typical residential bills would rise about $7 a month starting in September.
But the commission may view this year's settlement more cautiously.
The state Supreme Court reversed Duke Carolinas' 2011 rate case, in which Duke gave up more than half the revenue it had wanted, and sent it back for a review of its consumer impact.
Attorney General Roy Cooper, whose appeal led to that reversal, has signaled he's still skeptical of rate increases. This week Cooper appealed a 5.5 percent rate increase granted Duke Energy Progress, which serves eastern North Carolina and the Asheville area.
Duke Carolinas maintains it's being fair to consumers in agreeing to take less revenue than it sought. A Durham advocacy group, N.C. WARN, says the utility is cynically trying to bill customers for millions of dollars in unwarranted expenses.
"Duke walks away happy with whatever they get," said director Jim Warren. "It's not just a pattern of incompetence, especially when they come in asking for so much more than they walk away with."
In this year's rate case, Duke Carolinas settled for 47 percent less revenue than it first requested. In 2011 it agreed to 52 percent less and in 2009, to 36 percent less.
"A settlement by its very nature is a give-and-take process," Duke said in a statement. Lengthy negotiations with the Public Staff, it said, led to an agreement "we believe ... is fair and balances the needs of our customers with that of the company."
WARN claims Duke improperly tried to overcharge customers by $30 million, including stock-based executive compensation that it says other states don't allow and political contributions, advertising, dues and donations. Its expert witness says the commission should fine Duke at least $5 million.
Duke acknowledged some accounting errors and differences of opinion on what expenses are allowed.
"But the regulatory process is most comprehensive and the diligent approach the parties take to that process clearly works and adjustments have been made," it said.
The Public Staff, in settling with Duke, carved off $188.6 million in sought-after revenue.
Deletions included merger-related legal fees, some lobbying expenses and the political contributions, charitable donations and promotional advertising that WARN also challenged.
"It's certainly typical that the North Carolina litigated case arrives at a number between what the utilities ask for and what customer groups ask for," said David Drooz, the Public Staff's lead attorney on the Duke rate case. "We're kind of doing a reality check not on what (Duke) thinks they deserve but what a litigated outcome would be."
The Public Staff settles rate cases when it believes customers will benefit more than if they were contested before the commission, Drooz said. Settlements can also include provisions, such as the $10 million in low-income aid and phased-in rate increases that Duke agreed to, that the commission can't order.
Some customer groups, including Wal-Mart and other commercial customers and the 1.1-million North Carolina AARP, still oppose the settlement.
Duke took its biggest revenue hit -- $112 million -- when it agreed to drop its return on equity, a profit margin allowed investors, from the requested 11.25 percent to 10.2 percent.
A higher return on equity, Duke says, helps it finance billions of dollars in construction at good rates. A lower one can save customers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Economists hired by Duke, the Public Staff and customer groups come up with widely different recommendations -- between 7.8 percent and 11.5 percent in this case -- on the size of the return. Those depend in part on assumptions the experts make about the returns Wall Street will require and what other utilities will be allowed.
"It's the (factor) with the least science and the most, let's say, art," Drooz said. "It's extremely subjective."
WARN also claims Duke lures power-hungry industries such as data centers with low rates, justifying the need for new power plants, while raising rates for residential and commercial customers.
Under the settlement, residential customers will initially pay 5.1 percent higher rates, industries 4.7 percent and commercial businesses 3.8 percent more. Duke pulled back a proposal to rebate the higher rates for industries that it said would create new jobs.
The settlement doesn't resolve a long-running dispute over how Duke determines the costs of providing service, a key factor in setting rates, among customer groups.
For more than 40 years, Duke has based costs on delivering electricity on the hottest single hour of the year -- 3 p.m. on July 21, 2011 in this case.
Duke says that method sends a "price signal" that encourages customers to save energy. Consumer advocates, including the Public Staff, say it costs homeowners and small businesses proportionately more than industries.
The commission sided with Duke in the Duke Energy Progress rate case in May.
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