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FDNY Probes Defaced Image of Obama at Bronx Firehouse
A Bronx firehouse is in hot water after officials found an iconic image of President Barack Obama painted onto a toolbox with the word "hustler" scrawled over his face.
The incident occurred at Engine 45, Ladder 58 in East Tremont. The stenciled picture of the president features the world "BELIEVE" over his head. However, right across his face is the word "HUSTLER" written in bold, red letters.
In addition, officials say underneath the image someone scribbled in black ink "Allah Akbar" - which is Arabic for "God is great."
FDNY spokesman Jim Long declined to comment on the matter but did emphasize that an internal investigation into the incident is underway.
Officials say in addition to the defamed picture of Obama, on an adjacent panel of the toolbox was the infamous police sketch of the Unabomber. Words had been written near the image and had been covered with black tape until only "ET ME" was visible.
FDNY rules bar firefighters from displaying vulgar or offensive material in the firehouse.Copyright © 2014, The Baltimore Sun

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El Dorado Community Rallies after Lake Injury of Zach Pickett
Aug. 5 is a date Zach Pickett will always remember. It was the day after the Ponderosa High junior class president had finished his Eagle Scout project. A member of the high school water polo and swim teams, he was working as a lifeguard at Cameron Park Lake, when he decided to take a dip.
He dived headfirst into the water and hit a sandbar, breaking his vertebrae and damaging his spinal cord. The accident left him paralyzed from the chest down.
"I can't feel my legs anymore," Zach, 16, recently recalled himself saying after coming up from the lake.
For four weeks, Zach has engaged in daily physical therapy at Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California in Sacramento. Though he has regained some sensation in his legs, his doctor said it's unlikely Zach will ever be able to walk again.
"The odds are stacked against him," said Dr. Kee Kim, the neurosurgeon who treated Zach at UC Davis Medical Center. "It'll be a year before we have a good idea where he's going to end up."
The outpouring of support from the El Dorado County community has been incredible, said Judy Pickett, Zach's mother.
A spaghetti feed last Thursday in El Dorado Hills drew 1,400 people and generated more than $37,000 for the family. Fundraising efforts are in full swing again this weekend, with ...


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4 Arrested In Charlotte Man's Shooting Death
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Four people have been arrested in the shooting death of a man near a Charlotte apartment complex.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say Eddrick Damon Davis, Ashley Renee Holbert, Montez Maurice Hancock and Orlando Rashad Thomas were arrested Saturday.
All four are charged with murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon.
They're accused in the death of Terrance Johnson. Authorities say the 28-year-old man was shot to death at an apartment complex near Interstate 85.
It wasn't immediately known if the suspects had attorneys. Authorities have said they thought Johnson fought with several people before he was shot.
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Anthony Melle won the Men's Classic tournament at the TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club for the first time, and he did it in convincing fashion.
Melle carded a 3-over-par 219 total in the three round tournament, which ran from August 2 to 4.
Melle had a four-shot lead over second place Brock Simpson at the start of the final day.
He had a little trouble with the 11th hole in the final round, as he bogeyed it, but caught a break in the following hole.
"I was off to the side on a hill and I pitched it in for birdie, so that really helped me regain my confidence," he said.
Going into the 18th hole, Melle still had the four-shot lead.
"I just wanted to make sure I got my par, because those guys are good hitters and I knew they'd be attacking the green," Melle said.
A good start during the first day helped him gain confidence for the entire tournament, he said.
"It started from the first day when I shot 69. I played solid, and I didn't make any mistakes…just dropped a few puts when I needed to and that got me to a good start," he said.
Melle said he was nervous after his start on the second day, as he double bogeyed the first two holes, but recovered and finished with a 3-over-par 75, to be even par through the first two rounds.
He shot another 75 in the third and final round.
Melle said the main thing for him was to consistently make pars on each hole.
"It was a perfect day, perfect weekend; I hit the ball well, the guys that that I played with were awesome and they always kept me on my toes," he said.
It was Melle's fourth time competing in the Men's Classic. He also won the Estevan Oilfield Technical Society's Oilmen's Tournament in June.
Brock Simpson was second in the championship flight, with a score of 223. Nolan Rohatyn was third with a 224 and Cody Balon finished fourth with a 229.
The flight winners in the men's event were: Jordan Hegglin in the first flight with a score of 233, Layne Wolos in the second flight with a 236, Tony Heath in the third with a 251, and Bart Shaw in the fourth with a 267.
Terry Rohatyn was the winner in the senior's championship flight with a score of 236. Clark McClelland was second with a 244, and Gary Marklinger finished third with a 246.
The senior's tournament also recognizes net champions, in which a golfer's handicap is subtracted from their overall score. Chris Wright won the net title with a 191. Dale Fox was second with a 211 and Ron Friess finished third with a 212.
A total of 78 golfers entered this year's tournament.


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Any day now, I'll be out of the worst part of IRS collections. Any day now, I'll be done and the IRS will acknowledge that my total outstanding liability is under $25,000. And any day, I'll be no longer subject to weekly calls with a revenue officer hunting down my status. I've come a long way. I started out owing over $91,000 just to them. So there's some pride there. My number say I owe $23,900. Their numbers will undoubtedly be different by a smidgen, but I continue to pay weekly to them to get that debt out of my hair.
The uncertainty though is hard to contend with. Look, the bottom line is that they are gonna put me on some type of payment plan. Most likely it'll be $500 a month, far, far less than what I've been paying. That will be a relief, cash flow wise. I'll be able to breathe a little and relax.
But it's not known. It could be another month of the same old 'report to the revenue officer.' It could be that my 2005 returns are wanting, and they want more info that I'll have a hard time supplying. It could be that they are gonna say I owe more. Anything is possible.
Tom Petty says that the waiting is the hardest part.
Dealing with the weight is a wait and a distraction I don't know–quite how to process. On the one hand, it'll either be good news or no news.
But the waiting is the hardest part.
I am mentally having a hard time with it. I know that one of the biggest joys of my life is coming in about 6 months when I write that final "F-off" check to the IRS. I want that to happen this year, in 2009, in the heart of the recession. But the distraction of the maybe is something that the linear part of me can't deal with. I'm having a difficult time focusing on my lists & tasks.
I know–a little bit–what it's like to have a loved one with a grim prognosis. The uncertainty kills. It's part of the reason why mortgage brokers got so much money. They bore the burdens of financial uncertainty along with their clients. I'll let you all know what happens, it'll be sometime in July that the finish line will honestly and actually be in sight. That I'll be able to dash for it, and get the merciless evil that is the IRS out of our life.
Then I'll work on the rest of my debt.
Miles to go, but I see the path at least.
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SDI Board of Directors
Siri Sikdar Sahiba, Sardarni Guru Amrit Kaur Khalsa, MA
Sardarni Guru Amrit Kaur Khalsa started her career in 1974 developing and building the legacy nonprofits established by the Siri Singh Sahib including 3HO Foundation, Kundalini Research Institute, Sikh Dharma Education International, and Sikh Dharma International. She worked internationally in community development and established with the Siri Singh Sahib the Khalsa model of education for Miri Piri Academy in India. She also supporting the formulation of 3HO events & programs, including Solstices, Khalsa Women's Training Camp, Khalsa Youth Camp and she helped to standardize the framework for the early stages of the Kundalini Research Institute's Teachers Training Program by engaging the International body of teachers. She co-founded Amar Infinity to provide endowments and grants to support all the Siri Singh Sahib's inspired legacy nonprofits in order to bring prosperity for the future of this mission.
Until 2007 she served on all the Non Profit Legacy Board of Directors. From 1985, for 20 years, she served as Secretary General of Sikh Dharma International and served the leadership body of ministers by developing the agendas for the International & European Khalsa Council meetings. During that time she traveled around the globe in service to the Sadh Sangat helping communities and individuals through transitions, growth challenges & governance issues as well as facilitating White Tantric Yoga courses. In 2004, at the Siri Singh Sahib's passing he bestowed upon her the privilege to serve the Sangat as a spiritual guide to bring all to the feet of the Guru. An ordained minister of the Sikh faith since 1977, she holds a Bachelor's Degree in Comparative Religions.
The Siri Singh Sahib has said about her:
"When you want a logical and rational spiritual counseling, Guru Amrit is the best. She has a very different kind of vitality and projection as a human being. But if you are in a terrible difficulty she is very kind and compassionate. She can do in three minutes what nobody can do in thirty days. In three minutes she will give herself to you and she can enter your soul to uplift it to the height you can experience. There is no magic about it."
"I have never seen a human being with such a perpetual grit that she stood with me through every odd and even like a rock. She has an extremely dependable character and she has a God given gift which I don't think can be valued in any way. She is absolutely a living rational and logical person and extremely analytical and extremely soothing. Her style is her own. Her life is her own, herself is her own. She is a very rare human being. I not only respect her. I have great reverence for her. She is a very unique person. Her language is her own and it is very joyful and I am very happy and extremely feel very helped that I have all these years of association with her and she is a comrade in hand, friend in the waiting. She is a great healer. She is a real missionary." Lecture: Los Angeles, California 3/20/1991.
Bhai Sahiba - Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Khalsa, PhD
Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Khalsa, PhD, holds the distinguished position of Bhai Sahiba or Chief Religious Minister of Sikh Dharma, and she was the wife of Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji for 52 years. To Sikhs around the globe, she is a revered "mother" and honored as an ambassador of good will and a harbinger of interfaith dialogue among religious leaders.
In 2006 she was named the New Mexico Ambassador of Peace by Senator Shannon Robinson. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson appointed Bibiji as his Representative to India in 2007.
In 2005, Bibiji received the honorific 'Panth Rattan,' from Singh Sahib Iqbal Singh of Takhat Sri Patna Sahib. In Sikhism, we honor those people with title of Panth Rattan meaning "The Jewel of the Nation," for outstanding service given to the Sikh panth. It is a title seldom granted, and then only after serious consideration. In November of 2004, Bibiji was recognized by the Akal Takhat as the Bhai Sahiba of Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere, a position she has held in the West since 1975.
In May of 2004, Bibiji was presented with the Kashi Humanitarian Award by the Kashi Ashram in Florida, and in April she was appointed to the Akal Takhat Religious Advisory Counsel in India, a prestigious body of 21 Sikhs selected from among esteemed ministers, teachers, and counselors throughout the world, credentialed and recognized in their fields. The Akal Takhat Advisory Council was created to conduct studies and make recommendations to the Akal Takhat on critical issues facing Sikhs in the world today.
The Bhai Sahiba is responsible to advise Sikh Dharma on religious matters and promote good relations with the global community.
Bibiji serves as the head of the 3HO delegation to the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO) body of the United Nations. She is the Founder and Program Director of Create Inner Peace, a program to manage critical incident stress for first responders, utilizing yoga and meditation technology.
Bibiji has authored a number of books on Sikh educational principals that are used throughout the world, including Living Reality, a question and answer book for Sikh youth, and the Siri Guru Granth Sahib Blessing, an intricate and esoteric description of the rags (musical scales), poetry, and architectural design of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib, the sacred body of Sikh scripture, hymns, and holy verse. Bibiji is sought as a public speaker, lecturer, and teacher at hundreds of seminars worldwide.
SS Avtar Hari Singh Khalsa
As President and CEO of Intuitive Century Enterprises, Inc., Avtar Hari Singh Khalsa currently works with both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations to help them adopt conscious business practices and evolve organizational cultures that support the highest level of success and fulfillment for each employee.
Since 2000 Avtar Hari Singh has focused his professional energies in the non-profit arena. Most recently he was CEO of 3HO Foundation, a secular educational 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 1969. 3HO is dedicated to fostering personal inner peace by teaching a healthy, happy and holy lifestyle. It accomplishes this mission through its worldwide network of yoga centers and certified Kundalini Yoga instructors and through its International Peace Prayer Day event and global peace efforts. Believing that inner peace leads to world peace, 3HO has held its annual summer Peace Prayer Day event in New Mexico for the past 21 years. This event celebrates diversity and recognizes, through Peace Prayer Day Grants, those local, national and international organizations that have worked to foster peace.
Prior to leading 3HO, Avtar Hari Singh served as Executive Director of SikhNet, the first and perhaps most internationally recognized Sikh-oriented educational organization on the Web. He led the post-9/11 transformation of SikhNet as it performed a new role in educating Americans about Sikhs and Sikhism, and Sikh Nationals worldwide about their rights and responsibilities in the face of heightened travel security measures and changing global attitudes. In addition to his not-for-profit work, Avtar Hari Singh spent over 30 years in the for-profit sector holding such entertainment industry positions as President of Time-Life Television and Executive Vice President of Tandem Productions, Norman Lear's television production company. After spending 15 years as a real estate developer and investor, he joined Khalsa International Industries and Trades (KIIT), a group of consumer products and services companies, first serving as KIIT's Executive Vice President and then as CEO of Sun & Son, Inc., its computer software consulting company. While serving at KIIT, Avtar Hari Singh developed a profound interest in promoting the acceptance of spirituality in business and conscious behavior in the workplace - an interest that has significantly influenced his subsequent professional endeavors.
Avtar Hari Singh holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree, with Distinction, from Harvard Business School. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Los Angeles, California, he and his wife, Ravi Kaur, currently make their home near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
MSS Guru Raj Kaur Khalsa
MSS Guru Raj Kaur Khalsa was in the group of the first women to become ordained as Sikh Dharma ministers in 1972. She has been an active minister dedicated to the Khalsa Panth, including interfaith work, working with Sikh youth including pioneering Sikh youth camps, and in the Office of the Bhai Sahiba of Sikh Dharma.
She was the editor of Victory & Virtue (the Sikh Dharma Minister's Manual), and The Aquarian Teacher Training Manual, and is a KRI Senior Teacher Trainer.
She is active in the Sikh community in British Columbia, Canada, and has served as Chairperson of the Khalsa Council. Guru Raj Kaur was one of the founders of Khalsa Credit Union, British Columbia, and served as a Director for 16 years. During that time, she also served on various Boards within the Credit Union and larger Co-operative Movement in B.C. She is a founder and director of 3HO Vancouver, which operates an active Kundalini Yoga Center, and director of the renowned Khalsa Ladies Camp.
For decades, she has travelled globally - teaching, and singing Gurbani kirtan. Her melodious voice is captured on numerous CD recordings. Her present passion is taking women on Khalsa Ladies Camp Yatras to Mother India! She currently travels extensively as a guest trainer training Kundalini Yoga Teachers. She and her husband are grandparents and live in Vancouver.
SS Dr. Guru Sangat Kaur Khalsa
Dr. Guru Sangat Kaur Khalsa, MD is a retired professor of the Department of Pathology and Epidemiology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. She holds a Master Degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Epidemiology from the Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. She is the CEO of ABAKY, a KRI Lead Trainer, Minister of Sikh Dharma and Khalsa Council Member.
Guru Sangat Kaur returned to Brazil in 1995 from Germany and opened the first Kundalini Yoga Center in Belo Horizonte. In 2004 she founded ABAKY, a non-profit Organization dedicated to promote health, education and life style according to the Teachings of Siri Singh Sahib Ji. ABAKY has become a successful Aquarian platform to sustain Sikh Dharmic and Kundalini Yoga values and to inspire people coming from various walks of life. Since its inception, over 40 Kundalini Yoga Centers have opened to serve the community through the principles of Seva, Simran, Bana and Bani in Belo Horizonte and the surrounding areas. The Sangat in Belo Horizonte has become a consistent model of an Aquarian practice as taught by Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan Ji.
In February 2008, Dr. Guru Sangat, working together with her fellows in ABAKY, built the first Gurdwara in Belo Horizonte, installing the Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji to uphold the Divine Frequency which will carry everyone into the new age of Aquarius and beyond.
Dr. Guru Sangat Kaur Khalsa has written many scientific papers and books including an autobiography which demonstrates to the community in Brazil how a "scientist" has become a Kundalini yoga teacher to fulfill her mission as an educator and healer.
MSS Kirtan-Singh Khalsa
Kirtan-Singh was appointed by the Siri Singh Sahib to the position of Secretary of Gurdwara of Guru Ram Das Ashram Los Angeles in 1985. He is responsible for the administration of the many beautiful and inspiring activities that take place there on a daily, weekly and annual basis. He has served for many years as one of Sikh Dharma's outreach coordinators into the interfaith, political and extended Sikh community.
Kirtan-Singh had the privilege of serving for two decades as charge de affaires for the many dignitaries the Siri Singh Sahib Ji hosted in Los Angeles, including, Akal Takhat Jathadars, SGPC president and officers, the President and Vice Presidents of India, Members of India's Parliament and the many international guests of Sikh Dharma that have visited the region. He continues to work closely as a representative of the Sikh Dharma Community with various state, local and national Sikh organizations involved in forwarding the cause of Sikh awareness and identity.
For more than twenty five years he has been coordinating the annual Southern California Baisakhi celebration, which brings together more than 20 Gurdwaras and 15,000 attendees including many local, state and national political dignitaries.
He and his wife, Siri Bhrosa Kaur Khalsa, reside in Los Angeles and have 2 children and 3 granddaughters.
Sada Sat Simran Singh Khalsa
Sada Sat Simran Singh Khalsa was born into a Sikh family in Great Falls Virginia. He has been a member of 3HO since birth and grew up in the community in Northern Virginia. He went to Miri Piri Academy in India at the age of 9 and attended until graduation in 1999. He was School Captain and taught Gatka (the Sikh martial art) as a senior student.
After graduating from MPA, the Siri Singh Sahib sent him back to Amritsar to further study Sikhism and learn Punjabi and Gurmukhi, Gurbani Kirtan and Sikh lifestyle. He would do Seva in the amrit vela (2 and half hours before the sun rises) at the Siri Harimandir Sahib, the Golden Temple by washing the par karma with the Sangat, making chapatis, and cleaning the inside of the Golden Temple and the Akal Takhat. After meeting his Ustaad ji, he spent most of his days playing music and serving his teacher.
As a member of the Chardi Kala Jatha, Sada Sat Simran Khalsa has had the honor of traveling all over the world to perform music, to teach the ancient musical meditative practice of Gurbani Kirtan and Naad Yoga as well as Kundalini Yoga and Martial Arts The Chardi Kala Jatha have been blessed to perform kirtan inside the Siri Hari Mandir Sahib, the Golden Temple, in Amritsar many times in the last 10 years.
SS SatSundri Kaur Khalsa
SS SatSundri Kaur Khalsa, became a Sikh Dharma minister mid-70s, and is a certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher. She brings professional skills and love of the Guru into all her endeavors, and especially enjoys serving and living amongst the Sadh Sangat. She is mother and grandmother to 2 grown children who spent their early years in school in India, and a beautiful grand-daughter, in addition to enjoying all of our beautiful Khalsa children.
SatSundri Kaur currently contracts for business services to the legacy Board of Managers of EWTC (Yogi Tea) and Akal Security Board of Directors & President. She is an early student of the Siri Singh Sahib, meeting Siri Singh Sahib Ji while still at the University of Oregon in 1971, moving into Ashram life at that time. Throughout her primarily non-profit business-centered career from Journalism / Advertising/Marketing/ Public and Community Relations to Executive Director in the public sector in the 90's and early 2000s, some Dharmic (ad)ventures include - an Ashram Co-Director in the 70's; a variety of youth services including director, and food services coordinator to the large Khalsa Children Programs in the 80's (India and Guru Ram Das Puri, New Mexico); and fairly recently General Manager of Sikh Dharma Worldwide; Executive Director of Sikh Dharma International; and assistant Manager at Dashmesh Sadan, Siri Singh Sahib Ji's home in Anandpur Sahib, India.
She has served on a variety of non-profit Boards including our legacy Boards, other Sikh Board of Trustees, Interfaith, and school Advisory Boards, and in other volunteer endeavors, and feels giving back to the Community in service has been a gift in her life.


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I've always loved deploying to Heroku. The simplicity of a git push let me focus on developing my applications which is what I really care about. However, both because of the scandal about the routing system and because I wanted to expand my skill set by entering the sysadmin land, at Responsa I decided to migrate to a VPS solution.
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We are making a run of our Aluminum Billet Rims.Now is the time to place your order !!!!
The builder of arguablely Australia's best 1/4 scale sprintcars, Mark Davis of Queensland, has just finished his latest car... It is a Zoom chassis, Skellenger rear, Bulls Eye front end. Wheels are from First Quarter Racing, Bishops Tires, all fabrication, paintwork and body kit by Mark. Wings by Jacatac. He built this car for his son so he can enjoy racing with his dad. Inside rear panel was left off so you could see inside.April 1st News:October 10th News:
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Not just because he's not Jewish, but also because, according to Dealbook, he's already got a bitter taste in his mouth. (Which, somewhat surprisingly, has nothing to do with his 5 year ban from the securities industry or Charlie Eregn.) Read more »
Advanced Accounting Philosophy: Americans, Europeans Differ on the Existential Question of Bank LossesBy Jon Shazar
When is a loss a loss? That is the question. Read more »
Commerzbank Is Not Having A Great DayBy Jon Shazar
Actually, Commerzbank is having a bad few months. It turns out that a whole mess of deferred tax-accruals and the hangover from having gone into business in the Ukraine add up to a roughly $1 billion loss for the fourth quarter. Read more »
Citi Clients Not As Understanding As Firm Would've Thought About Funds That Lost Them Their Entire Investment, Currently Being Investigated By The SECBy Bess Levin
From 2002 to 2007, Citi raised $2.8 billion from clients to invest in a couple of fund series called MAT Finance LLC, which invested in municipal bonds and was eventually leveraged 8:1 and Falcon, which invested in mortgage debt. Despite the former being marketed as "an attractive alternative to a bond index" and the latter receiving an S&P rating "equivalent to safe, medium-term government bonds," anyone who bet on the funds lost what might be characterized as "a metric ass-ton of their money."
For exampe, the funds a team of brokers from Smith Barney put their clients in fell an impressive 80% to 97% from May 2007 to March 2008. Though Citi claims no foul play and offered to cover approximately one-eighth of clients' losses, the SEC still felt the need to launch an investigation into whether or not the bank's employees adequately disclosed the funds' risks and/or mismanaged them. And apparently investors are still pretty miffed about the whole thing, which one broker, Michael Johnston, intuited by the response he got from one when suggesting a sweet buyback deal that would've translated to the client only losing 72% and promising not to sue Citi. Read more »
Devastating News From CitadelBy Bess Levin
Don't worry, investors, returns are still a' poppin'. But I cannot in good conscience not let you know that while your money is safe, for now, it's very likely that your next letter from Chicago is going to be a tear stained one. He's putting on a brave face, but Ken Griffin is hurting. We've just received word that after paying $11.38 million for two lots at the Four Seasons' Hualalai resort, for the express purpose of being neighbors with Cher, the singer has up and decided to auction off her property next door.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland reported losses of 761 million pounds today, due to a 5.9 billion pound writedown on risky assets. Chief executive officer Fred Goodwin described the bad news as "a chastening experience" that every bank should go through at least once. Soon to be laid off employees? Shareholders? What's your take on the sitch?
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US regulators seek public input on plan to investigate patent trolls
The US Federal Trade Commission is moving ahead – slowly – with plans to investigate the ways and practices of so-called Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs): patent trolls, to you and me. On Friday, the FTC voted unanimously to seek public comments on a proposal to gather information from "approximately 25 companies that are in the …
Hunting trolls? You're doing it wrong!
They're just taking advantage of flaws in the patent system.
You want to get rid of trolls, FIX THE FRIGGIN' SYSTEM!
Set a system/procedures in place to actually check validity of a claim, not just let the courts clean up the mess later.*
Here's a unique step: Only the inventor can hold a patent! Patents should be non-transferable, period! You want to use it, pay him/her/it for the right to use it.
And the death blow? No software/process patents! If copyright can cover it, it shouldn't be patented.
*"Oh, but where will we ever find the money for this?" I dunno, maybe a couple less Abrams Tanks for the Military? You know, the ones that they don't want, but Congress insists they buy to keep the pork flowing?
Re: Hunting trolls? You're doing it wrong!
"Prevention" in the US is a socialist/commie idea.
There's far more money to be made cleaning a mess.
Re: Hunting trolls? You're doing it wrong!
Only the inventor can hold a patent! Patents should be non-transferable, period! You want to use it, pay him/her/it for the right to use it.
A problem to individuals and small companies who can't afford to fight legal battles. And even a bigger problem to companies that fell on hard-times and need to sell some of their patents to raise some cash.
Patents trolls abuse the system, but it doesn't change the fact that the system is there for a reason.
Either way, I do hope that they will address software patents and simple design patents.
Obligatory: English isn't my native language, for please forgive my EngRish.
Re: Hunting trolls? You're doing it wrong!
Forgive your "EngRish?"
Of course. Fair is fair. Since equity and justice is not our national objective, perhaps you'll forgive our legal system. Also remember ... a "plan to investigate" should not be confused with intent to take action. Hearings, committees, and additional studies are little more than icing on the cake of obfuscation and delay.
Re: Hunting trolls? You're doing it wrong!
"Prevention" in the US is a socialist/commie idea.
There's far more money to be made By Lawyers (who often later become politicians) cleaning a mess.
There fixed it for you.
Re: Hunting trolls? You're doing it wrong!
You want to get rid of trolls, FIX THE FRIGGIN' SYSTEM!
Far more fun would be to let the large USA gun lobby have a go!
Re: Hunting trolls? You're doing it wrong!
"Set a system/procedures in place to actually check validity of a claim, not just let the courts clean up the mess later.*"
The reason for this is that Congress allocates such a measely budget for them. Investigating patents requires people and costs time and money. How will the USPTO handle this on a literal shoestring budget?
"Here's a unique step: Only the inventor can hold a patent! Patents should be non-transferable, period! You want to use it, pay him/her/it for the right to use it."
Sometimes, the inventor is not in a position to market an idea. Put it this way. Hoover didn't actually invent a vacuum cleaner, but he bought the patent of a gentleman not in a position to market the idea. Selling a patent should be allowed, but it should ONLY be for the purposes of actually implementing the patent.
"And the death blow? No software/process patents! If copyright can cover it, it shouldn't be patented."
The thing is, software TECHNIQUES that explain things IN BROAD cannot be covered by copyright because one can use an alternate language or method to get around copyright. Patents are the only way to cover ALL instances. THAT BEING SAID, what's needed is an adjustment on the period of patents based on their pertinent industry. A 20-year patent in a slow-moving industry like heavy machinery or medicine makes sense, but for the fast-moving world of computers, a term of about 3-4 years makes more sense (think two generations of development in an industry--long enough to get some skin out of it, but not long enough to really abuse it). Other industries may benefit from an adjustment to their patent lengths as well.
"Investigating patents requires ... money"
Then the claimants should bear the full cost of that investigation (burden of proof). Obviously.
If their claims are proven false, then that not only protects the rest of us from their fraudulent monopoly, but also serves as a financial punishment and disincentive to make similarly fraudulent claims in the future.
Frankly I'm perplexed why the patent system hasn't always been that way. If people are going to make claims, then surely they need to prove them before they're legally supported.
Re: "Investigating patents requires ... money"
It's not as simple as that. Consider the conditions for a patent: utility, not obvious and novelty. Now consider how you go about proving those things. Utility is probably the easiest to prove and also filters out mere ideas since the invention actually has to exist or at least be capable of existing to be useful. Non-obvious is somewhat harder but if it isn't prohibitively expensive one would think that obvious things would already exist. The hardest is, how do you prove novelty? Seriously, how do you go about proving prior art doesn't exist? For that matter, how do you prove anything doesn't exist? The answer is, you can't, not for all the money in the world. If you could, there would be a lot less religious strife.
Re: "Investigating patents requires ... money"
Sorry, but I have zero sympathy for those who have "difficulty" claiming exclusive ownership of something that's unavoidably derivative, as all so-called "creations" and "inventions" are, and thus should never rightfully be owned exclusively.
Naturally they find it "difficult", but it shouldn't be incumbent upon the rest of us to either disprove their dubious claims or be subjugated by them, rather they need to to prove them, regardless of "difficulty". If it's that "difficult" then maybe they ought to consider that their claims lack any real merit and substance in the first place.
And yes, I fully appreciate the irony of having to disprove the existence of something unknown in order to prove uniqueness, but in practice the assertion that such things are "unknown" is largely disingenuous, and typically an outright lie.
Does Apple seriously expect us to believe that they'd never heard of rectangles before they claimed to have "invented" them, for example?
That is what passes for "invention" in today's opportunistic patent regime, and the claimants' protestations of "difficulty" amount to little more than the idiot defence.
Maybe in an ideal world, not populated by opportunistic conmen and corporate tyrants, we could assume good faith and give claims to "invention" the benefit of the doubt, but as things stand I don't see that we have any choice but to insist all claims are unequivocally proven, at the claimant's full expense, before granting them these monopolistic privileges.
In reality little if anything is ever genuinely "invented", so frankly these monopolistic privileges shouldn't exists at all, but if they absolutely must then they should be proved to the same degree as any claim in academia, or be bluntly rejected.
Re: Hunting trolls? You're doing it wrong!
Elmer Fudd voice, "Shhh. Be wery wery quiet. I hunting Patent Twolls you know."
Re: "Investigating patents requires ... money"
Oh, I'm not arguing that a lot of patents aren't shite. Consider patent 6,368,227 which was ultimately reexamined and had all claims cancelled but it's illustrative in that the absolutely dumbest shite gets put up and passed through. I agree that even a design patent, which is supposed to be purely ornamental, when applied to a rectangle with softened corners is crap because the fact that it is rectangular isn't ornamental, it has functional utility for encasing a rectangular screen. Perhaps a start would be to require that patents be written in a language that is comprehensible to a normal person and not only lawyers similar to the reasonable person test in jurisprudence.
I also don't think the patent system helps the average inventor since I have a friend who has several patents that make some company bucket loads of cash but it doesn't do him much good other than a notch or two on his resume and I had several non-work related ideas that I feel might be patent or copyright worthy but I'll be damned if I was going to hand it to my corporate overlords considering the response I got when I made the mistake of asking about whether my contract allowed spending my own time working an open source project. As a result, prior to being self employed it was fuck that noise and now they aren't relevant to my business so why waste the money.
Re: Hunting trolls? You're doing it wrong!
"You want to get rid of trolls, FIX THE FRIGGIN' SYSTEM!"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....Have you SEEN the state of the US patent system? Let alone the state of the US patent laws? The day shit like this gets fixed is the day I look in the sky for flying swine and/or take the temperature of the ground to see how cold it is. Sadly it'll never happen.
Re: Hunting trolls? You're doing it wrong!
Only if they are not American...
Re: "Investigating patents requires ... money"
Ah yes, the infamous "Method of swinging on a swing" patent:
"The US swing patent does not match an Australian patent on the wheel for sheer absurdity. However, in that case, an Australian lawyer was able to sneak the wheel patent through a fast-track application system. The US patent went through the full application procedure."
Patent offices are little more than mindless vending machines, spitting out monopolies on utter trivia in exchange for cash, without any due diligence whatsoever. Meanwhile the rest of us have to clean up the mess, where that "mess" includes, in some extreme examples, fines of up to a billion US dollars and a draconian restriction of consumer choice.
It's a racket, and it needs to be abolished.
Re: Hunting trolls? You're doing it wrong!
The state of the USA right now is so pathetic that nothing can be done to fix them . Right wing extremists and Tea Party terrorists are trying their damnest to shut the government down. Fix the patent system ? Right now they got way larger troubles handling political terrorists in their midst. They have their terrorists at home too to take care of.
Re: Hunting trolls? You're doing it wrong!
"Only the inventor can hold a patent! Patents should be non-transferable, period! You want to use it, pay him/her/it for the right to use it."
I agree that this would a problem because many things these days are 'invented' by teams not individuals, and typically employees are contracted that anything they invent is property of their employer. What could work is that a patent is awarded in 2 parts - inventor + entity. The 'inventor' part has to be a human or named list of humans and can never be transferred. The 'entity' could be a company, but could also be the same as the inventor, and can be transferred. Individual + entity split proceeds evenly.
This makes it fairer to the individual inventor and a lot less lucrative to patent trolls (who would have to share half any revenue), while still making it possible to have the model of researchers who are funded by big companies or government labs.
Re: let the large USA gun lobby have a go!
I'd pay to see that!
One name missing.
Let's hope that the FTC include Microsoft in their study.
After all it is claimed that MS make more money from Android than Winphone, but have you ever seen any mention of the patents that have been allegedly infringed? If that doesn't make MS a PAE I don't know what does.
Balmer should have added another phrase to his rabble raising this week. "Stand and deliver!"
Re: One name missing.
Yes, the patents in question are Exchange Activesync, long filename support for the FAT file system, and the exFAT file system.
Trolls used to be found *only* under bridges
That's where they should stay.
Commentards of America.
It's your patent system these people are f**king about with.
"Software patents" that stole prior art know within the community for decades have stifled innovation. This investigation of these trolls won't fix the system, but it's a start
Make your feelings know. Tell the FTC what a waste of time and effort these trolls cause and the FUD they bring. Let's not forget SCO "patent" BS and how much they were funded by MS
And BTW they still seem to be going. How the f**k is that possible?
Re: Trolls used to be found *only* under bridges
US Patent system is inherently screwed by the inbuilt incentives:
1) patent office gets very little funding from government
2) AFAIK costs / payments are related to award of patent, not only application
3) there is no penalty to be paid by applicants for 'stupid' patents
Therefore patent examiners have all the incentive to award as many patents possible in the shortest time (meaning less thorough examination), while companies have all the incentive to throw as many patents as they can as quickly as they can at the patent office, and if any is rejected just tweak and re-apply ad-infinitum till it IS accepted.
Way to solve this is to change the incentives:
1) To apply for patent you need small upfront fee + large deposit/guarantee for 'good faith' application, meaning the applicant sincerely believes their patent is useful, non-obvious and innovative
2) patents can be either accepted, declined or rejected. Accepted ones get their deposit back. Declined (for minor issues with the patent) have the deposit held while the patent is tweaked/re-applied. Can only re-apply a declined patent twice (total 3 submissions). Rejected patent (serious issue or 3 X minor issue) forfeits the deposit to patent office, and needs a new deposit to re-apply.
3) Patent officers who reject a patent get to keep a small %age of the forfeited deposit
This way inventors are incentivised to only apply for patents that are seriously good (also reduces workload on patent office), patent officers incentive is to reject as many as possible to pocket bonuses (of course need a mechanism to prevent automatic rejection of every single patent). Small inventors with big ideas can have some sort of loan + insurance pool mechanism to afford the deposits.
Re: Trolls used to be found *only* under bridges
"3) Patent officers who reject a patent get to keep a small %age of the forfeited deposit"
It'll never work. They'll just reject out of hand and become (like Congress) masters of contriving excuses. And due to human nature, you can't force the fairness into the system because humans are inherently corruptible. Yet you can't have anything-goes either or inventors will never develop for fear of copycatting (that's the main reason modern patents exist--to stop copycatting for a reasonable period).
Am I missing something?
"to seek public comments on a proposal to gather information from "approximately 25 companies that are in the business of buying and asserting patents,"
Isn't this kinda like asking the wolves on what should be done to stop them from taking the chickens?
I *must* be missing something, because it sounds like they have no plans whatsoever to stop or even slow down the trolls.
Ah, there I go, I've answered my own question.
One of the worst.....
Intellectual Ventures which Gates has a hand in. There is of course that other company Gates is involved in that abuses the patent system.
Americans can be counted on doing the right thing, after they've exhausted every other possibility.
Microsoft and Apple are fooked with this!
Just DO IT! Get started, then ask for refinement input later.
It's like asking us whether or not fb and the NSA should be audited for sniffing fb accounts with assistance from fb, but collecting non-criminal accounts, lying about not doing so, and then... Well, you get the idea...
This will probably be an article up on el reg's wall any minute now, but, since it ties in with regulators and investigations:
This CERTAINLY can help explain spurious, mysterious crashes, sluggishness, delayed or never-seen messages intended for foreign friends, dual-overlay-like feeling of pages in the browser... Maybe fb should just die, and everyone should go back to snail mail for about 3 years.
No, wait-check that... Postage prices would go up 3x, postal workers would be spared of competing evenly against commercial deliverers, and the NSA would have to hire 20,000 to 100,000 manual mail inspectors, and all our letters would be marked "We Care! We apologize that your mail was damaged in our conveyor/sorting system.
Fix the system
This whole mess has been caused by software patents. Stop patenting software and the entire issue of patents becomes much more manageable.
Re: Fix the system
Techniques CAN be patented. After all, you could implement the technique on a chip or a mechanism, making it hardware instead of software and mooting the point. The problem is the LENGTH of the patent because the software industry moves so quickly that two decades is about ten software generations. Cut the length down to about 3 or 4 years (and adjust the lengths for each industry as well) and it becomes a lot fairer.
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Wildlife rangers in Western Australia's Kimberly region had set up the motion-sensor camera along the Margaret River in May.
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News about Law and Legislation, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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May. 28, 2014
The Upshot; political scientists and legislators offer various theories on why number of bills proposed in House of Representatives is down sharply from previous Congresses; Kristin Kanthak, associate professor of political science at University of Pittsburgh, speculates that slowdown could be due to fact that politicians are not seeing any electoral benefit from introducing bills. MORE
May. 25, 2014
Study to be published in The Harvard Law Review finds that Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions years after they were issued, altering law of the land without public notice; most changes are neither prompt nor publicized, and court's secretive editing process has led judges, lawyers and scholars astray. MORE
Dec. 31, 2013
Adam Liptak Sidebar column notes that legal scholars make a persuasive case that colorful names for bills and statutes cheapen and distort the legal process; observes that clever names for laws are a new phenomenon, rarely appearing before 1988. MORE
Dec. 6, 2012
Word 'lunatic' will be stricken from federal law under legislation that passed the House and is headed to Pres Obama for his signature; Congressional action is the latest effort to remove language from federal law that has become outdated or is considered demeaning. MORE
Aug. 28, 2012
Home rule, an obscure provision in the New York State constitution under which the state gives limited autonomy to local municipalities, has been cited twice in August in decisions overturning New York State laws; decisions, which are both expected to face review by appellate courts, case a light on the home rule provision, an often misunderstood concept under the state grants limited autonomy to local municipalities; 43 states have such a constitutional provision. MORE
Jun. 29, 2012
Op-Ed article by law professor Neal K Katyal warns that the Supreme Court's decision on the health care reform law contains the seeds for a potential restructuring of federal-state relations; asserts that the decision also reinforces the fact that Americans are growing increasingly comfortable with the idea of the court handing down rulings that remove decisions from the legislative process or even rewrite legislation altogether. MORE
Jan. 3, 2012
Washington is applying a new yardstick when judging the merits of federal laws; instead of looking at their costs or savings, question is whether they will create or destroy jobs; economists see misleading claims and counterclaims. MORE
Oct. 15, 2011
New York State's education officials' legislative agenda will focus for the first time on the contentious topic of illegal immigration; top priority is proposal to push Congress to pass legislation, known as the Dream Act, that would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who go to college. MORE
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The American Chemistry Council calls for bipartisan legislation "that would support development of breakthroughs in sustainable chemistry."
November 24, 2014, Monday
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Israeli Cabinet Approves Nationality Bill
The draft legislation emphasizes Israel's Jewish character above its democratic nature, proposing to define Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, a move opposed by Arab citizens.
November 24, 2014, Monday
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In Partisan Washington, Health Law Faces Grave Legal Technicalities
The Affordable Care Act faces grave danger because legislative repair work that was once routine has grown impossible.
November 24, 2014, Monday
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A Step Forward on Child Care
The bipartisan support for a law that will help provide safe, affordable care offers hope that even more progress can be made. The country needs high-quality child care. And that will cost money.
November 24, 2014, Monday
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At Spain's Door, a Welcome Mat for Entrepreneurs
A nation is beckoning foreign brains and money with the kind of immigration reform that Silicon Valley can only envy.
November 23, 2014, Sunday
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The legal action focuses on President Obama's use of executive powers and on how the administration has handled the Affordable Care Act.
November 22, 2014, Saturday
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Obama's good policy is a bad move for his party.
November 21, 2014, Friday
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The president, in a respite from the gridlock and sniping in Washington, also signed a bill that changes the child care rules for low-income families.
November 20, 2014, Thursday
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Responding to the General Motors safety scandal, the bills would deter corporations from covering up defects and punish individuals and companies that do.
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Each month, PG&E offers important information on rebates, saving energy and safety in printed inserts that accompany your bill. Now, access this information online whenever you wish.
- Know what's below—call 811 before you digFor details, visit www.pge.com/diggingandyardsafety
- Proposition 65—Public WarningThe Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, commonly referred to as Proposition 65, requires the governor to publish a list of chemicals "known to the State of California" to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. It also requires California businesses to warn the public quarterly of potential exposures to these chemicals that result from their operations.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) uses chemicals in its operations that are "known to the State of California" to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.
For example, PG&E uses natural gas and petroleum products in its operations. PG&E also delivers natural gas to its customers. Petroleum products, natural gas and their combustion by-products contain chemicals "known to the State of California" to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.
A warning odorant is added to natural gas so that leaks of unburned gas can be quickly detected. If gas odor is detected, PG&E should be contacted immediately at 1-800-PGE-5000 (1-800-743-5000).
For additional information on this Proposition 65 warning, write to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Prop. 65 Coordinator, 77 Beale Street B23H, PO Box 770000, San Francisco, CA 94177.
- Notice of Public Participation Hearings Regarding 2011 General Rate Case (GRC) Phase I and Gas Transmission and Storage Proceeding and Notice of Filing of Pacific Gas and Electric Company's 2011 GRC Phase II ApplicationTHE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU
What is the Gas Transmission and Storage proceeding (A.09-09-013)?
Pacific Gas and Electric Company's (PG&E) Gas Transmission and Storage (GTS) proceeding was filed with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on September 18, 2009. Notice of the application was mailed directly to customers in October 2009. The GTS proceeding proposes cost of service and rates for gas transmission and storage services for the period 2011-2014. PG&E also presents its forecasts of expected demand and system usage for 2011 through 2014, as well as how the costs to operate its transmission and storage business will be assigned to each customer class.
What is the 2011 General Rate Case (A.09-12-020)?
Phase I of PG&E's General Rate Case (GRC) was filed with the CPUC on December 21, 2009. Notice of the application was mailed directly to customers beginning in January 2010. Every three years, PG&E is required to file a GRC in which the CPUC sets annual revenue levels. Annual revenue is the total amount of money a utility collects through rates in a given year for specific purposes. PG&E's application asks the CPUC to increase the revenue that PG&E uses to distribute gas and electricity and to generate electricity. While the GRC will determine the total amount of money PG&E may collect in rates, the design of the actual rates themselves (that is, the level of prices charged to customers) will be determined in a separate proceeding (2011 General Rate Case Phase II), which was filed on March 22, 2010, and is noticed later in this insert. The GRC, in addition to the GTS proceeding, will be the subject of the Public Participation Hearings discussed below.
The CPUC will hold a series of Public Participation Hearings (PPHs) commencing on May 24, 2010, at various locations throughout PG&E's service area. The dates, locations and times of the PPHs are listed below. Consumer services representatives from PG&E and consumer affairs representatives from the CPUC will be present at each location to assist with individual customer billing and service concerns. These hearings will be your opportunity to express your views.
The PPHs will be facilitated by the assigned Administrative Law Judge with oral comments accepted from the public. The CPUC will consider public comments and include them as part of the formal record in the GRC and GTS proceedings. The following locations are all accessible to those in wheelchairs. If you need to have interpreters for language or are hard of hearing, please contact the CPUC's Public Advisor's office at the address listed in this notice at least five days in advance of the hearing date.
Staff from the CPUC's Public Advisor's office will be present at all meetings to assist you. If you would like more advice on how to participate at these hearings, or if you would like to submit written comments about PG&E's 2011 GRC Phase I or GTS applications, please call or write to:
The Public Advisor
California Public Utilities Commission
505 Van Ness Avenue, Room 2103
San Francisco, CA 94102
1-415-703-2074 or 1-866-849-8390 (toll free)
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On March 22, 2010, PG&E filed its 2011 General Rate Case Phase II (GRC Phase II) application with the CPUC.
In the GRC Phase II application, PG&E is asking the CPUC to allocate or divide its authorized revenue among different customer classes and to design electric rates for these classes. In addition, PG&E is requesting authority to recover approximately $53.1 million in costs associated with $12.6 million in revenue requirements for 2011–2013, which includes the cost of implementing a new real time pricing rate option and a revised customer energy statement for electric and gas customers.
Does this mean electric rates could change?
Yes. In the GRC Phase II application, PG&E is seeking CPUC authority to change electric rates for all customer classes. PG&E makes this request to better align electric rates with current costs of serving its various customer classes. PG&E proposes decreases for some customers and increases for others, with such rate changes to take effect by mid-2011. PG&E estimates that electric rates will be affected in the manner shown in the tables below, which show the effects by customer group without any change in the total revenue PG&E collects. The actual increase or decrease to each customer class depends on how the CPUC ultimately decides all the proposals in GRC Phase II.
The rate changes proposed in GRC Phase II will affect bundled customers (those who receive electric generation, transmission and distribution service from PG&E) and customers who purchase electricity from other suppliers (direct access and community choice aggregation customers). Finally, while not shown in the tables below, PG&E's proposals will affect departing load customers (those who receive electric generation, transmission and distribution services from non-PG&E suppliers) who are required to pay certain utilities charges (in this case, the Public Purpose Program charge).
PG&E's proposals include a number of changes to residential rates. To illustrate the effect these changes would have on residential customers, the next table shows the bill change first for the typical bundled customer using 550 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per month, next for a bundled customer using approximately twice the average baseline allowance, or 850 kWh per month, and finally for a bundled customer with significant upper tier usage of 1,500 kWh per month. Results are shown in the table for standard residential schedule E-1 and for customers of the same size taking service on the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) program for low-income customers.
Real time pricing and revised customer energy statement
In this GRC Phase II application, PG&E is seeking CPUC authority to approve the second phase of its dynamic pricing rates, or optional Real Time Pricing rates, as ordered by the CPUC in July 2008. PG&E is also requesting recovery of $17 million in costs associated with $7 million in revenue requirements to implement this new real time pricing rate option. In addition, in compliance with a July 2007 CPUC order, PG&E needs to revise its customer energy statement and is requesting recovery of $36.1 million in costs associated with $5.6 million in revenue requirements to implement the changes. These costs are not included in the tables above but will increase rates for all electric and gas customers who take transmission and distribution service from PG&E (bundled, direct access and community choice aggregation customers) by a small amount. For electric customers, the maximum rate increase is expected to occur in 2014 and would be $6.5 million, or an increase of approximately 0.05 percent to system average bundled electric rates. The maximum increase for gas customers is expected to occur in 2013 and would be $4.8 million, or an average increase of 0.1 percent. Departing load electric customers will not be affected by this cost recovery request.
The CPUC's Division of Ratepayer Advocates (DRA) will review this application. The DRA is an independent arm of the CPUC, created by the Legislature to represent the interests of all utility customers throughout the state and obtain the lowest possible rate for service consistent with reliable and safe service levels. The DRA has a multi-disciplinary staff with expertise in economics, finance, accounting and engineering. The DRA's views do not necessarily reflect those of the CPUC. Other parties of record will also participate.
The CPUC may hold evidentiary hearings where parties of record present their proposals in testimony and are subject to cross-examination before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). These hearings are open to the public, but only those who are parties of record may present evidence or cross-examine witnesses during evidentiary hearings. Members of the public may attend, but not participate in, these hearings.
After considering all proposals and evidence presented during the hearing process, the ALJ will issue a draft decision. When the CPUC acts on this application, it may adopt all or part of PG&E's request, amend or modify it, or deny the application. The CPUC's final decision may be different from PG&E's application.
If you are writing a letter to the Public Advisor's office regarding any of the applications mentioned in this notice, please refer to the address listed inside and include the number(s) of the application(s) (A.09-09-013, A09-12-020 and/or A.10-03-014) to which you are referring. All comments will be circulated to the Commissioners, the assigned Administrative Law Judge and the Energy Division staff.
For more details, call PG&E at 1-800-PGE-5000. For TDD/TTY (speech-hearing impaired), call 1-800-652-4712.
If you have questions regarding PG&E's 2011 GRC Phases I and II or GTS applications, please contact PG&E at the phone numbers noted above. If you would like copies of the applications and exhibits, please write to PG&E at this address:
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
2011 GRC Phase I/Phase II/GTS Applications
P.O. Box 7442, San Francisco, CA 94120
Copies of PG&E's GRC Phases I and II and GTS applications and exhibits are also available for review at the California Public Utilities Commission, 505 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.–noon.
In addition, you may obtain electronic access to GRC and GTS documents on PG&E's Web site at http://apps.pge.com/regulation/search.aspx
- Notice of Workshop and Public Participation Hearing Regarding California Public Utilities Commission Order Instituting Rulemaking to Revise and Clarify Regulations Relating to the Safety of Electric Utility and Communications Infrastructure Facilities (R.08-11-005)On November 6, 2008, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued R. 08-11-005 to consider revising and clarifying its regulations designed to protect the public from potential hazards, including fires, which may be caused by electric utility transmission or distribution lines or communications infrastructure facilities in proximity to the lines. The CPUC's current General Orders 95, 128 and 165 are already designed to promote the safe operation of electric utility and communications infrastructure facilities, and to provide the minimum safety requirements which the state's utilities are supposed to supplement with additional safety precautions when local conditions warrant. Nevertheless, as the devastating fires in Southern California during the last two years have shown, additional CPUC safeguards may be necessary.
Pursuant to an Assigned Commissioner's Ruling and Scoping Memo for Phase II of R.08-11-005, dated November 5, 2009, the Energy Division will conduct a workshop at the date and location listed below to solicit comment from invited public agencies regarding power line inspection; vegetation management; strength requirements for power lines, including design criteria and safety factors; special environmental requirements (e.g., temperature, wind, moisture) for fire-prone areas; designation of fire-prone areas; and other issues of concern. The specific subjects covered, in addition to the names and titles of the persons making the presentations, will be announced at a later time.
Elected officials and the public will have the opportunity to comment at the end of the public agency portion of the workshop. The workshop will be held in the afternoon and will be open to the public. A Public Participation Hearing (PPH), during which the general public may make recommendations and comments relevant to this proceeding, will follow in the evening.
For Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) customers, a workshop and PPH will be held within PG&E's service area at the following location:
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Workshop: 1 p.m.–6 p.m.
PPH to immediately follow
Mack Powell Auditorium
2003 Howe Avenue Sacramento, CA 95825
This location is wheelchair-accessible. If you need interpreters for language or are hard of hearing, please contact the Public Advisor's office at the phone numbers below at least five working days in advance of the meeting date.
A member of the CPUC Public Advisor's office will be present at the meeting to assist you. If you would like additional information on how to participate at this public meeting or if you would like to submit written comments about R.08-11-005, please contact:
Public Advisor's Office
505 Van Ness Avenue, Room 2103
San Francisco, CA 94102
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Texas cattleman elected to American Simmental Board
Tim Smith, Giddings, Texas, has been elected to serve on the 16-member Board of Trustees of the American Simmental Association. Smith was formally seated at ASA's 45th annual meeting held Jan. 19 in Denver, Colo. Also seated were re-elected incumbents Calvin Drake, Manhattan, Kan.; Susan Russell, Sugar City, Colo.; and Robert Lanting, Twin Falls, Idaho, who will also serve on the Executive Committee.
The owner/operator of Smith Genetics, in cooperation with his daughter, Haley, Smith has been affiliated with Simmental cattle for 32 years, ever since he accepted a position as executive secretary of the Kentucky Simmental Association. The holder of a Master of Science Degree in Ruminant Nutrition from the University of Kentucky, he began breeding Simmental in 1980, adding Simbrah to the mix in 1984. His current operation, comprises 200 Simmental and Simbrah females, plus 100 recipient cows, was established in 1989 and is based on extensive use of embryo transfer and artificial insemination.
Smith genetics are marketed through a strong private treaty outlet with major emphasis on youth breeding heifers. He is one of 12 progressive breeders who have banded together to host the Annual Simbrah Synergy Sale and Showcase, offering $15,000 in awards and premiums. A former chairman of the ASA Simbrah Advisory Committee, he has been active in TSSA activities, is a member of the Texas Southwestern Cattle Raisers, the Independent Cattlemen Association and the Texas Farm Bureau. The American Simmental Association is headquartered in Bozeman, Mont., and maintains the breed registries for the Simmental and Simbrah breeds of cattle. ASA has an active adult and junior membership of nearly 5,000.
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