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Utility death spiral: Is decoupling a dumb idea?
In an era that demands conservation and efficiency, the "traditional" utility business model doesn't work anymore. It links a utility's revenues to the amount of electricity it sells. Therefore, it has no economic incentive to be more efficient. (Why spend more to make less.)
I've always thought that decoupling was a dumb way to address this challenge. It is arcane, complex and cumbersome. Even so, it may be better than nothing. In the guest article below, the Wired Group's Paul Alvarez provides answers to some of the questions posed by decoupling opponents.
Paul recently stopped by to explain the hard questions to ask BEFORE choosing a smart grid communications network. As before, this article is excerpted from his new book Smart Grid Hype and Reality: A Systems Approach to Maximizing Customer Return on Utility Investment. Click the link to buy the book at a special discount for Smart Grid News readers. - Jesse Berst
By Paul Alvarez
Decoupling and the smart grid lost revenue challenge
More than 50% of the direct economic benefits available in an ideal smart grid deployment stem from energy conservation (as a result of time-varying rates, prepayment, and conservation voltage reduction capabilities).
Unfortunately, utilities employing traditional ratemaking practices are economically penalized when sales volumes drop. The implication is that utilities are not maximizing the conservation value of smart grid capabilities. While there are several potential solutions, including radical regulatory reform as currently being contemplated in New York (Case 14-M-0101), decoupled ratemaking is certainly one solution regulators, governing boards, and utilities should be considering in the short term.
"Decoupling" sales volumes from revenues in ratemaking
Though the details of decoupled ratemaking can be extremely complicated, we will try to simplify to the basics here. "Decoupled" ratemaking is so named as it eliminates the link between -- that is, decouples -- sales volumes and utility revenue.
In doing so, it eliminates utility incentives to increase sales volumes and disincentives to reduce sales volumes once rates are set. Regulators in 13 states and the District of Columbia have implemented decoupling for electric IOUs, and a very small but increasing number of nonprofit utilities are doing so.
(California, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia have adopted decoupled electric ratemaking processes for investor-owned utilities.)
Decoupled ratemaking is being used with only a handful of the thousands of electric utilities operating worldwide today, hinting at the complexity and controversy associated with it as well as a distinct lack of interest in it exhibited by electric distribution utilities historically.
Breaking the link between sales volumes and cost recovery
Though there are a variety of approaches, decoupling eliminates the link between sales volumes and cost recovery by adjusting rates â€" either up or down â€" as actual sales volumes become known. As sales volumes drop, rates per kWh increase; as sales volumes rise, rates per kWh decrease. These adjustments are made without a rate case and are usually limited to a defined range (generally, plus or minus 2% or 3%). Adjustment time frames vary, but quarterly adjustments are common.
Decoupling reduces a utility's incentive to reduce costs. Decoupling does not guarantee profits but only assures a level of revenue. By removing the incentive to increase profits by increasing sales volumes, cost reduction remains (outside of capital investment) the only means available for an IOU to increase profits once rates are set in a rate case. In fact, one could argue that a utility's incentive to reduce costs is actually increased, as decoupling should reduce rate case frequency. (Cost reductions enjoyed by a utility prior to a rate case become customer benefits in the form of reduced rates after a rate case, meaning that utilities prefer to delay rate cases in times of falling costs.)
A reduction in rate case frequency is also cited by customer advocates as a drawback to decoupling, but this can be resolved through mandated rate case frequency (for example, every three, four, or five years). This can help ensure that revenues obtained through decoupling mechanisms do not stray too far from a utility's underlying costs, and that customers are periodically rewarded from a utility's cost reductions.
Decoupling reduces a utility's incentive to restore power quickly. Traditional ratemaking provides utilities with an economic incentive to restore power quickly, as every minute the power is out represents lost revenue. It is indeed true that decoupling removes this economic incentive. However, the incentive to restore power quickly can be addressed by removing the impact of outages in the sales volumes used to calculate a decoupled rate adjustment, or by adding or strengthening a "speed of restoration" component to performance-based ratemaking incentives.
Of course there are other ways to remove a utility's disincentive to pursue smart grid conservation opportunities - including adjusting rates for anticipated sales volume reductions, offering DSM program credit for smart grid-related conservation(with corresponding adjustments to conservation targets, of course), increased use of demand rates (also known as straight fixed-variable rates), and radical regulatory reform of the sort underway in the U.K. (Ofgem's RIIO regulatory model). Each option has its pros and cons. But in the interest of maximizing benefits for customers, regulatory, governance, and ratemaking issues that limit or discourage optimization of smart grid capabilities should be carefully and thoroughly examined as part of every smart grid investment decision.
For a more thorough discussion on decoupling concepts, approaches, pros, and cons, please see "Revenue Regulation and Decoupling: A Guide to Theory and Application" by the Regulatory Assistance Project.
About the Author
Paul Alvarez is President of the Wired Group and author of Smart Grid Hype & Reality -- A Systems Approach to Maximizing Customer Returns on Utility Investment. To receive a 20% discount off the Smart Grid Hype and Reality cover price reserved especially for Smart Grid News readers, please click here.


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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Five suspended employees of a Tulsa megachurch charged with waiting more than two weeks to report the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl will be returning to the ministry by the end of the month with different responsibilities, church leaders said.
5 employees to return to ministry after suspension
Victory Christian Center pastor Bruce Edwards made the announcement during this weekend's services at the 17,000-member worldwide ministry.
Prosecutors allege the 13-year-old girl told employees around Aug. 15 that she had been raped in a stairwell on the church's campus in south Tulsa — but police weren't told until Aug. 30, after church officials said they did their own investigation. Police and church authorities then determined she was among at least four victims of alleged sex crimes by two former employees.
Among those charged for not reporting the allegations are John and Charica Daugherty, the son and daughter-in-law of ministry co-founder and head pastor Sharon Daugherty. The others are Paul Willemstein, Anna George and Harold "Frank" Sullivan. All five have pleaded not guilty to one misdemeanor count each and are due in court Oct. 31.
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Took this tent out this past weekend up to about 10k ft elevation in the Uinta mountains for some mid spring camping. This tent set up super easily and quickly and seems to be very well made with great storage and nice and tall on the inside! My wife was able to inflate the queen sized camping mattress outside of the tent and then fit it in the front door which was really useful in the middle of the night when the mattress decided it didnt want to hold air anymore. This is not a huge tent when all put away but i wouldn't ever try to take this on a back packing tent, maybe split between two people and carried a mile in would be ok but no ore then that! We got this tent to be our car camping tent and needed it to fit a queen mattress, two dogs, and all the other things that go with that with room to spare and thats what it does! The ONLY possible complaint would be that the front does not hold taught enough to make the door easy to unzip but the tent was pitched on a slight slope so it may have been because of that. We will be taking this tent on a multi day high desert camping trip this coming weekend so look for an update!
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Would like to know how that door worked out; like the look of this tent and details very much, but Hate door issues. That's why I'm looking for a new one. Please comment!
its not bad, i have a spinal injury that keeps me from lifting my leg too high and i have never tripped getting out. had door open in light rain and it kept it out till the wind blew it directly in. this tent will be a keeper for a while
we have a double high queen size mattress. do you think it would fit easily? didn't buy it for camping but we do a lot of car camping and it would be super to be able to put it in the tent.
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You Know What he Does, but do you Know who he Is?
John Russell Beckman has stared death in the face. Not behind the wheel of the Aaron's/Valvoline Dodge Funny Car, which he drives for Don Schumacher Racing, although there is certainly an element of real danger attached to that. No, the man they call Fast Jack had his most intimate encounter with his final curtain in 2004 after a visit to his doctor's office, and what he confronted, endured, overcame and achieved while bobbing and weaving around the Grim Reaper does much in telling the story of who he is.
The son of Robert and Joanne Beckman grew up in Granada Hills, California (Home of Don "The Snake" Prudhomme). Jack's parents divorced when he was 10-years-old, and his dad, now living in Arlington, Texas, is a retired aerospace engineer, machinist and computer programmer who occasionally takes on consulting work for some of the country's new age, high-tech military projects. Jack's mom passed away from cancer in 1994 at age 50, after raising the Beckman family and working in the retail makeup industry. Jack spent four years in the Air Force, stationed in Clovis, New Mexico (birthplace of Kenny Bernstein), and following his tour of duty, appeared to be headed squarely into a blue collar career path rather than the high-speed, nitro-frenzy in which he now earns his living.
His 2003 NHRA Super Comp world championship was won amidst the demoralizing effects of carrying around the early symptoms of a potentially lethal disease. His professional drag racing exploits began in 2005 when he picked up his professional license in Dexter Tuttle's Top Fuel dragster before competing in 12 national events that year. With sponsorship help from his close friends, Rodger and Karen Comstock—the owners of Mail Terminal Services—Jack was soon driving a Funny Car for Schumacher Racing in the seat formerly held by Whit Bazemore. As of this writing, Jack has scored 11 Funny Car national event wins, held both ends of the category's national records in 2006, and picked up a victory in the $100,000 bonus F/C event at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals in 2007.
Longtime NHRA TV commentator, writer and producer, Bill Stephens, who has returned to the Drag Racer Magazine roster of contributors after a seven-year absence, recently interviewed Jack, with his wife Jenna by his side, to uncover as much as he could about Jack Beckman: the man, rather than Jack Beckman: the racer. What resulted was a fascinating and revealing look at one of the NHRA's most complex but candid professionals—a 45-year-old man who has stared death in the face but defiantly refused to go quietly.
STEPHENS: How did you first get bitten by the drag racing bug?
BECKMAN: I went to my first drag race in 1973 when my mother's brother John, who was involved with a couple of race teams, took my brother Ted and I to Orange County Raceway. What I saw and heard did something to me. Even the smells—the nachos at the concession stand, the racing fuel, burning rubber, all of it. I watched the cars doing their dry hops and the dragsters getting their push starts. The sound of the exhausts, the candy apple paint; I was engrossed. But what really impressed me was how we could walk right up to the drivers in the pits and talk to them. I'll never forget that.
STEPHENS: How long before you made your first trip down a dragstrip?
BECKMAN: In 1986, I was in the Air Force stationed in Clovis, New Mexico. My dad had bought a 1968 Chevy El Camino from the original owner in 1978, and I bought it from my dad in 1981. It had a 396-cube engine and while in the service, I drove it 100 miles to Lubbock, Texas, and raced it once. It ran a 15.06 E.T. and later that day it was a bit quicker, running a 14.50. After I got out of the service, I saved up some money and eventually put a 454 in it. On nitrous, it ran as quick as a 10.15 at 134 mph. I still have that El Camino. I dropped a 396 engine back into it—not the original one—and it will still run pretty quick, somewhere in the 12s.
At that time, I had no intentions of making drag racing a career. I was in the Air Force from age 17 to age 21. When I got out, I just wanted to make my car go faster, go to SuperShops and buy parts for it, and just have fun. I was working for Westinghouse Elevator at the time, making good money, living at home, and never considering becoming a professional drag racer.
STEPHENS: Obviously, that changed when you enrolled in the Frank Hawley Drag Racing School.
BECKMAN: Right. I had been an elevator technician for 10 1/2 years, from 1988 to 1998. In May of 1997, I went to Frank's school and upgraded my license to Top Alcohol Dragster. I was offered a job as a teacher at Frank's school and quit the elevator trade in November of 1998. I was giving up a good career with a good salary, benefits and job security. A lot of people thought I was crazy. But it was something that was going to take me in the direction I wanted to go in. I still work as a consultant for the school, but back in 1997, the chance I was taking didn't matter to me. It was something I had to do.
STEPHENS: You became sick in 2003. How did you learn you had cancer?
BECKMAN: It was a long process. In late 2003, I started feeling bad. I caught what I thought was a cold, but it never went away completely. I'd feel sick for a couple of weeks and then feel better for a couple of weeks. I recall in September of that year I had to drive one of Frank Hawley's rigs from Indianapolis to Gainesville [Florida], and as I was driving I was thinking how lousy I felt. Whatever it was that was making me sick, I never really kicked it.
This was all happening while I'm in the thick of a battle for the Super Comp championship. I was asking myself, "Could this be stress?"
In January of 2004, I had to renew my racing license. I remember telling the doctor who gave me my physical that I hadn't been feeling well. But when the results of my physical came back, everything checked out. I had undergone an appendectomy in November of 2003, and I was thinking that maybe that had been the cause of my sickness, whatever it was, but the doctor said that wasn't it. When the symptoms I had been feeling during 2003 hit me again, I started taking antibiotics. I developed a urinary infection and then in February, started having some serious pain in my left kidney and lower back. I went on painkillers and made several trips to my urologist.
I wasn't getting any answers. Was it kidney stones? Was it HIV? Was it cancer? The doctor I was seeing told me it was just a bunch of little things. Two of my closest friends, Brent and Staci Cannon, who are my son Jason's godparents, urged me to go have an MRI. Brent's brother is a partner in a healthcare center, but I didn't go to have one done for a while. Finally, I went and had it. During that time, the pain in my lower back was extreme. Then, my right kidney began hurting—feeling as if it were on fire—and my thought was that this has to be a kidney stone.
I made an emergency appointment to see a urologist because the pain was excruciating. The urologist I saw regularly was out of town and the substitute doctor I saw was the first one to tell me I had lymphoma. He was so matter-of-fact when he told me it amazed me.
STEPHENS: How did you take that news?
BECKMAN: You know what? The pain I was suffering with at the time was so severe, it took precedence over the news I had just received. He could have told me that both my kidneys had to be removed, and I would have been okay with it if it would relieve the pain.
STEPHENS: I remember in 2004, I was pit reporting for ESPN at the Fram-Autolite Nationals in Sonoma. You were racing your Super Comp dragster, and when I walked down to your pits and saw you, it shook me. You were so gaunt, and you had no color in your skin. I gave you a welcome hug and there wasn't much of you there. I thought, "Dear God, don't let this guy die. He's too good a guy for this to happen." What odds of recovering did the doctors give you when you began chemotherapy?
BECKMAN: They weren't great—40-60 percent. The blood cancer had spread from my pelvis to my neck before I began chemotherapy. It had spread fast, and because it had been undiagnosed for so long, it had a pretty good head start. The first thing the doctor asked me before I started chemo was "Do you have kids?" The level of chemotherapy I was facing could likely make me sterile. The Thursday before the Division 7 points race in Bakersfield, I went to the sperm bank. Then I started my treatment.
STEPHENS: How tough was chemotherapy for you?
BECKMAN: It wasn't painful but I did lose all my hair, felt lots of hot flashes and some nausea, and often just felt out of it. I had a problem maintaining my weight. At my best, I had been working out five days a week before I got sick, was a solid 193 pounds and was down to about 187 before the cancer really kicked in. As I continued through chemotherapy, I dropped down to 159 pounds. After the first treatment, I began getting skinny and it felt a strange sensation, like I had termites in my midsection. I thought, "They're not getting it. I'm done." I called my oncologist and told him what I felt and he explained to me what I was feeling was the chemotherapy working on the cancer. That's what we wanted. That changed my attitude.
Just about this time, I got a call from my first general practitioner who had given me my physical in early 2004. He apologized that he hadn't discovered the cancer. He said everything looked OK at the time and now he didn't know what to say to me. I didn't know what to say to him either, except, "I hope I live through this."
The treatment protocol for the type of cancer I had was either six or eight cycles of chemo with one treatment every three weeks. During the treatments, I was feeling weak, developed lesions in my mouth, and wanted the chemo to be over. After the sixth one, I'm thinking, "That's the last one," but the doctors wanted me to go to eight because they felt that eight full treatments would increase my long-term survival chances. We could tell the chemo was working, but you have to keep poisoning the system to attempt to destroy all the cancer cells. It's like weed killer. You want to be sure you've killed them all so the process isn't over until that last application. Treatment number seven was the toughest. I had to get my mind around the fact I had to go back.
STEPHENS: Was there a point when you felt you had beaten the cancer?
BECKMAN: That's the thing. Even if you know it's working while you're going through it, you wind up waiting to see if the cancer comes back again. The doctors told me that because I was so young and in such good shape, the chemo could be more aggressive than if I had been a 60-year-old man. The cancer had spread so fast and so far that the chemo they had to treat me with was as high a dosage as possible. The doctors said that the cancer wouldn't kill me but the treatments would either cure me or kill me. The chemical they were using is so powerful, if you spill it on your skin it will burn you, and they were shooting it into my veins. The treatments were so strong; if the cancer ever comes back I can't go through chemo again. My body couldn't take it.
STEPHENS: Do you think the experience changed you in any way?
BECKMAN: I'm not an extremely emotional person. I usually can keep my emotions in check. Sometimes the little things bother me, but I'm not into throwing tantrums, throwing tools or losing control. So I can't say the experience had a major effect on me. For the most part, I'm not a "flowers must be sweeter" or a "grass must be greener" kind of a person, but having cancer definitely helped put a lot of issues into perspective for me.
What has changed is my energy. It's not back 100 percent. I don't feel the same way I did before I got sick. My memory isn't as sharp as it was before the chemo. I liked how I felt physically a bit more than I do now. Not many people would notice, but the chemo took away a little of my edge. Anyone who's had a serious case of cancer never shakes the shadow of it. "What's this stomach ache?" "Why do I feel this pain?" You're not quite the person you were, and there's that chance the cancer could come back. And having to battle through cancer a second time would be like working on building a car, putting everything you have into it, getting it just exactly the way you want it, and then stuffing it into a wall. After all that, do you really want to go through the whole experience again?
STEPHENS: Are you a spiritual person?
BECKMAN: I wish I was. I'm probably a little bit less than I used to be. I went through a change when my mother died. I thought there would be some kind of an epiphany, but that didn't happen. One of the positive things that came out of my experience is I can talk to people who are dealing with cancer. I tell them it's beatable and they're not alone. I know there are times when they wonder if they're going to make it or they feel they're all alone. I try to give them a positive attitude. There will be days when they feel they're not going to make it, but it's OK to feel sorry for yourself a couple of days a week. But it's important to get past those days and regain a positive attitude.
STEPHENS: Do you have a best friend in the sport?
BECKMAN: I don't know if I have one best friend. I'd say I have a few that have best friend qualities. Brent Cannon would be one, although he's not in the sport anymore but still looks after me. I'd say the Comstocks, Rodger and Karen, are very close friends, too. I have remained close with a lot of my former sportsman competitors, and it's tough not to like most of the other Funny Car drivers—unless they're in the other lane. [Chuckles]
STEPHENS: When your son Jason was born, how did that change your life?
BECKMAN: It's funny, almost surreal. Like I said, I'm not a real emotional person, so when he was born in 2007, I didn't hear the angels singing. It almost bothered me when they didn't. But I love him more and more each day, and before he was born, I had no idea there was such a powerful force on earth as unconditional love. I can't imagine loving another child as much as I love him, but I know when we have our second child that same love will be there. (Note: At this writing, Jack's wife Jenna is expecting their second child, a girl.)
It was amazing that after I finished chemo, I took two fertility tests and they both came back with zeros in every category. I was sterile. The doctors said things could return to normal, but I was comfortable knowing I wasn't going to be a father. I was really okay with it. Then to our surprise, Jenna conceived naturally and I closed the account at the sperm bank. The experience of becoming a father was completely fulfilling. It was the most wonderful thing that could happen.
STEPHENS: Is there anything you would like to change about your life today?
BECKMAN: It's hard to complain. Sometimes I've got to pinch myself. I get paid to do what I worked overtime to do when I was racing my own cars. It's still unbelievable to me that fans want to be around me, get my autograph, talk to me about what I do. That's cool. Everyone should get to experience that in their life. My dream was just to make a run in a nitro car, and I did that for the first time driving Dexter Tuttle's dragster. Now I've won national events in Funny Car and Super Comp. I've gone way beyond what my dreams were. In all honesty, I never could have imagined it.
STEPHENS: What's Fast Jack Beckman's overall philosophy on life?
BECKMAN: When it's over and done, I want to disprove the theory that nice guys never win.
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Windows Server 2012 is a server operating system from Microsoft. It went RTM on August 1st of 2012, and to general release on September 4, 2012. Like its predecessor, Server 2008 R2, it is only available in 64 bit versions. It contains many substantial changes over it predecessor, and substantial streamlines the number of available versions, which are down to four: Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter.
The editions and their features are laid out in a table at Wikipedia, but substantial new features and changes include:
- Metro, a new Graphical User Interface (based on Microsoft's Metro design language) which is also present in Windows 8.
- A new FileSystem, ReFS (Resilient File System)
- A new role, IP address management (IPAM)
- A new IIS version (IIS 8.0)
- Simplified and updated Active Directory functionality
- A new version of Hyper-V (Microsoft's virtualization technology)
- Much expanded PowerShell commandlet library: over 2300, compared with approximately 200 in Server 2008.
- The ability to switch between Server Core and full modes without a full re-installation, and the addition of a new installation option that excludes most of the GUI.
Minimum system requirements for installing and running Server 2012 are:
- 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor
- 32GB disk space
Maximum hardware scalability in Server 2012 is also improved, currently:
- 640 logical processors
- 64 fail-over cluster nodes


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Evan Longoria is an All-Star third baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays. He made his major league debut for the Rays in 2008, and was named to the American League team for the 2008 All Star Game. He also was named the 2008 American League Rookie of the Year. A three-time All-Star, he won Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards in 2009 and a Gold Glove in 2010. In 2012, Longoria was signed to a 6-year, $100-million dollar contract extension that could keep him in Tampa Bay through 2022.
Big game. Big series.
Huge win.
Rays vs. Red Sox. Even normally sleepy Tropicana Field had a bit of buzz to it Friday night. Okay, so it wasn't Fenway Park, and it didn't quite feel like October, but it did feel like a game that mattered.
TAMPA — Tampa Bay Rays slugger Evan Longoria and his business partners on Thursday won initial City Council approval for a late-night restaurant featuring duckpin bowling.
ST. PETERSBURG — As hot as the Rays have been, manager Joe Maddon admitted it's unusual that they just had their best month in club history while their best player, 3B Evan Longoria, has struggled.
ST. PETERSBURG — The Rays will wait a few days to see if the pain caused by plantar fasciitis in 3B Evan Longoria's right foot subsides.
ST. PETERSBURG — Tigers star third baseman Miguel Cabrera hurt the Rays pretty good Friday night, with two home runs among his four-hit night that handed Tampa Bay a 6-3 loss at Tropicana Field.
NEW YORK — The first run Evan Longoria knocked in Thursday night made for a nifty, historic notation, the 500th RBI of his already-impressive career.
There are nights, like Monday, when baseball is not so easy, even for Evan Longoria. He had bounced into a double play in the game's most promising moment, and his Rays ended up losing in 14 innings, to the Red Sox no less, and he, understandably, wasn't in much of a mood as he left the Trop. …
ST. PETERSBURG — The Rays' Evan Longoria was the DH for the second straight game Friday and could be there the rest of the weekend as he's dealing with a "pretty painful" case of plantar fasciitis in his right foot.
CHICAGO — Former Ray James Shields said he was looking forward to facing his former teammates on Tuesday night, the Royals pitcher said Friday from Kansas City.
BOSTON — The Rays are making it pretty tough on themselves with their lack of offense.


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Outlook 2007 is the latest full-featured emailing and contact management software from the Microsoft Office suite. Instructor Sean Conrad explains each of Outlook 2007's components and new features in detail, from the basics of the main interface to the more advanced elements of the application. Sean covers the Office button and the Quick Access toolbar as well as the ins and outs of reading and writing email. He delves into using the advanced filtering features to prioritize incoming mail and avoid unwanted spam or files. Sean also explains how to integrate Outlook's Calendar and Notes features for increased productivity.
We've created a new meeting request in our own Calendar, and invited other people to take part in the meeting with us. But what does it look like when you're invited to attend a meeting? Well, we have a meeting invitation in my Calendar right now. I can tell it's a meeting invitation because it has a different icon beside it than an e-mail, which has just a little envelope. In this case, it looks like a calendar grid with a little envelope in the top right-hand corner. There's also a little bell icon here, and that indicates there's a reminder attached to this also. I can Left-click on it here to see the results in the Reading pane, and up at the top, I have some buttons that I might use to respond to this meeting request.
But if I want to see all the details, I can double-click on it to open it up in its own window. Here, I have all information about this meeting request, and up in the Ribbon I have various responses and actions that I can take. Now, I can either Accept or Decline or set it as Tentatively accepted at this point, or, I can choose to go into the Actions group and click on Calendar, and this is great because the issue really is, I've been invited to take part in this meeting, does it fit into my Calendar or not? Do I have time? If I click on Calendar, it's going to take me directly to that day on the Calendar.
I can scroll down here, and it's tentatively put it in. Notice the little barber pole looking line to the left here, that indicates it's not really been added, but this is where it would fit if I choose to accept it. So I can see that currently, it fits in nicely with my Calendar. I've got another meeting before it, but there's a little bit of time in between, and I've got a couple of meetings that day, but it does fit in here. So that gives me the information I need to make my next decision, which is, how should I respond? In the Respond group, I can choose to Accept it. And if I accept it, of course it will add it to my Calendar.
By default, it will send the response now, and if I choose OK, it will send a simple message back to the person who requested the meeting, saying that I accepted. Now I can choose to edit that responce to add more text, add another question, or just communicate some additional information to that person who invited me if I choose, or I can not send a response. If I don't send a response, it still adds it to my Calendar, it's just not to let the person who invited me know I accepted it. That's probably not a good idea. It would be a good idea to let them know. I'm just going to Cancel for now and show you some of the other responses.
We could Tentatively accept this. So we could tentatively accept it, it'll put it in our Calendar but mark it as a tentative item, and then we'd have the ability to go back and respond to it again later on, when we confirm that we're going to attend or not. We can also Decline. If you choose to decline, it's going to by default ask you to edit the response before sending. Of course, I can ignore that, but in many cases, if you're declining altogether a meeting invitation, you may want to communicate and let the person know why you've declined and what the issue is. Maybe you're going to be away on vacation or something like that.
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First off, everyone likes to speculate what will happen next year, nobody really knows. So here is what I would like to see happen next year to our roster.
Then trade Griffey to a team that can afford his contract. Someone like the Chicago Cubs. I think that Griffey would accept a trade there and we may get a guy like Juan Pierre in return.
Then trade Adam Dunn to Houston for Brad Lidge and Luke Scott.
Then sign Ted Lilly to a 2 year contract, and resign Harang, Ross, EE, Lohse, Holladsworth, and Weathers to arbitration deals.
Trade Jason LaRue and Eric Milton to Milwaukee for Toma Ohka and Bill Hall.
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C David Ross
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RF Ryan Freel
P Aaron Harang
Chris Denorfia
Norris Hopper
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Around the world coral reefs are facing threats brought by climate change and dramatic shifts in sea temperatures. While ocean warming has been the primary focus for scientists and ocean policy managers, cold events can also cause large-scale coral bleaching events. A new study by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego compared damage to corals exposed to heat as well as cold stress. The results reveal that cool temperatures can inflict more damage in the short term, but heat is more destructive in the long run.
The study is published in the Feb. 2 issue of Scientific Reports, a publication of the Nature Publishing Group.
Climate change is widely known to produce warming conditions in the oceans, but extreme cold-water events have become more frequent and intense as well. In 2010, for example, coral reefs around the world faced one of the coldest winters and one of the hottest summers on record.
During a unique experiment conducted by former Scripps Oceanography student Melissa Roth and current Scripps scientist Dimitri Deheyn, corals subjected to cold temperatures suffered greater growth impairment and other measurable damage in just days compared with heat treated corals. Yet the researchers found that corals were eventually able to adjust to the chilly conditions, stabilize their health and continue to grow. However, over the long term corals subjected to heat suffered more greatly than those in cold, with evidence of severe bleaching and growth stoppage, a trajectory that leads to death.
"These results show distinct responses between cold and heat-treated corals on different time scales," said Roth, now based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "On a short time scale, the cold event was actually more harmful to the corals than an equivalent warming event, but over time, these corals were able to acclimate to the cold. Therefore, these corals showed more resilience to seawater coolin
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ORGANIZE AND NEATEN UP: Take tidy rack and stuffits for $15 and will throw in a white plastic double five prong over the closet door clothes hanger, stainless steel four rung rack, storage box with lid (shoe box size) and stainless steel shelf . ...TIDY RACK ORGANIZER for sports equipment or toys. New in box. Black plastic wall mount rack plus 12 interlocking steel rods and all hardware ...
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LAMPS: DEAL: Take black metal candlestick lamp plus either of the other two lamps and either of the desk torch lamps for $25. Take all the lamps here for $40 and will throw in globe glass shade. .....BLACK METAL CANDLESTICK LAMP. With shade. Takes 75 watt bulb (not included). 17" to top of bulb socket. $10 Either one of the following two with shade (only one shade is available) ... Tall and ...
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CLUSTER OF SEMI PRECIOUS STONE GRAPES. On silver colored stem with leaf. Rose quartz. agate. black onyx. aventurine. amethyst. carnelian. crystal. Probably 50 or more stones tightly wound. 3" long... $25 Please click on "View all ads" on the right to see album of items for sale. ITEMS LISTED HERE ARE AVAILABLE NO NEED TO ASK. Reasonable offerswill be considered. NYC Residents: please ...
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BAKELITE HANDLED FLATWARE. Yellow Bakelite handled stainless steel service for 6 each of knives. forks. soup spoons. dessert or tea spoons. Like new. You may test the pieces with the friction heat method to be certain they are Bakelite. $20 all. Please click on "View all ads" on the right to see album of items for sale. ITEMS LISTED HERE ARE AVAILABLE NO NEED TO ASK. Reasonable ...
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LARGER PLANT STANDS OR SMALL SIDE TABLE. DISPLAY OBJECTS OF ART: ..Brown wood sturdy pedestal base. Black painted wood top. Top measures 15 x 12.5. 16 1/2" overall height. $20 .. All wood stool or stand. Four blond bent wood legs. Round black painted top. 10 1/4" diameter. 12" high. $10 Please click on "View all ads" on the right to see album of items for sale. ITEMS LISTED HERE ARE ...
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BOHEMIAN/CZECH GLASSWARE. Vintage. Hand blown and Baroque hand painted high relief enamel florals with gold accents and edges. Individually as indicated or the lot for $60 ..Decanter Set for cordials of cobalt blue bottle and 10 glasses. $50 the set ..Stem glasses. Bright red. Set of 2. $15 ..Ashtray in form of scrolling sea shell. Emerald green. $15 Please click on "View all ads" on the ...
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Custom build cabinets and countertops. Vanity Cabinets , Bar Cabinets and Consoles . Store displays . Kitchen Countertops , Vanity Counters . All stages from measure , production to installation . Family owned and owner operated. Quality Solid Surface Inc is located on Long Island New York . Licensed and Insured . Specializing in solid surface materials for more visit : www.coriansolidsurface ...
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Brand new A110 pendant designed by Alvar Aalto 1952. White painted steel shade with polished brass ring. The fixture is: 17,3" high x 6,3" diameter. Regular price is: $ 330. We sell this brand new item packed in original carton for: $ 200!
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Hummingbirds and Flowers Landscape Throw Blanket Large 54 in. by 38 in. A beautiful landscape with hummingbirds and flowers. An eye-catching beauty that will get lots of compliments. A work of art that will brighten any room. A great gift idea. Stunningly beautiful blanket will get lots of attention and questions of, "Where did you get that?" Cozy up with this awesome, woven throw blanket! ...
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Beautiful and versatile, this 2-section wall unit has a pull-down bar, open shelves, a glass-front display case, and sliding door storage in the bottom units. It stands 7 feet tall, but in 3 stackable pieces: top 19", middle 47", bottom 21" tall. The width is 47" for all pieces. See pictures! (I will consider selling these separately.)
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USA SHIPS FREE! For sale is a lot of six (6) STUDIO SILVERSMITHS TABLE AND SERVING PIECES. You will receive: * 1 - Cake Server * 1 - Set of 2 Candle Holders * 1 - Fork Server * 1 - Napkin Holder * 1 - Spaghetti Server * 1 - Spoon Server These are all brand new, in their original boxes - just old store stock.
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For sale is one (1) ELECTRIC DRAYDEL DECORATION from RITE LITE. Part of the Rite Lite Chanukah Express series; item #B-HL/6. It is brand new, never been used, still sealed in its original box. Features: * Light up decoration (steady or flashing) * Suction cup included * Size: 14" x 10" * Indoor/Outdoor * Flashing bulb * 2 spare bulbs USA SHIPS FREE! CHOKING HAZARD - ...
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FREE USA SHIPPING! For sale is one (1) Christmas Bud Vase from A.J. Cohen. You will receive: * 1 - X'mas Bud Vase The vase is made of fine porcelain, and is brand new in the box; never been used. It stands 6 1/4" tall, with a 1 3/4" diameter. As shown - other items not included.
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For sale is one (1) ALL Scale MUSICAL LIGHTED CHRISTMAS TREE from Model Power, item #977, brand new in the box. • Great for most any scale train layout. • Perfect for Doll Houses. • Great Gift for Teachers, Secretaries, Moms, Grandmas FEATURES: * Stands 12 inches tall w/ skirt * Plays 3 Christmas Carols * Flashing lights * Battery operated - 2 AA and 1 9V (not included) The first ...
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- Bed Bath & Beyond wall mirror with foldable stand - The back has a foldable wooden stand, allowing the mirror to stand at an angle without needing to be fastened or leaned against a wall - Bed Bath & Beyond site: http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com Item is being sold because the seller is moving to another city.
Jun 22 - New York
Big, Beautiful Iris Serigraph. Vibrant colors, Artist Proof. The print & frame are in excellent condition but it should be re-matted as the mat has slightly discolored in places. Check the pics.
Jun 22 - Port Jefferson Station
Selling two gorgeous handblown glass bowls by J.W. Hewitt. Mint condition. 13.75 diameter; 4" deep, with 1" deep by 2" wide offset rim. Bought at Gallery showing 1989. Available immediately. By phone show contact info or preferably by text or email. Can easily be shipped.
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Vintage Ginger jars in mint condition. Dark blue, rose madder and celadon colors on blue-black background. Detail of insert Court Ladies Under Cherry Blossoms design; panels front and back. Bought at Chinese Ceramic auction in 1995. Can easily be mailed,. Will accept Paypal.
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BackgroundAn action strategy title set within the era of World War Two. The game opens with paratroopers dropping into Europe to disrupt the entrenched Axis army ahead of the main invasion forces set to land on D-Day. Take command of your forces and turn the tide of Axis aggression to conquer fortress Europe. A tremendous number of authentic infantry, vehicles and artillery are on offer to help achieve your goals.
- Fully 3D engine allows for advanced gameplay techniques incorporating true 3D Line Of Sight systems, seasonal lighting and environmental effects, landscape scarring and multiple stage deformation for all units and buildings.
- A morale system influences the style and actions of the units in play; for example "Heroic" actions can be performed when morale is high.
- Intelligent and adaptive AI that reacts to your strategy as you play.
- Features a "Hearing" system where enemy units that are within range but not in Line Of Sight can be detected if they are heard.
- Cut scenes use real WWII archived footage, including rare color footage, which provides an informative and historical update between sub campaigns.
- 25 Single Player missions that can be played either as a 12-mission "Recruit" campaign or a 20-mission, non-linear "Veteran" campaign.
- Command up to 23 real-life WWII units per side, featuring historically accurate hardware.
- Multiplayer support for up to 4 players via LAN and the Internet offering a variety of game styles. 10 specific multiplayer maps and 25 single player maps can also be played.
Hardware RequirementsWindows 98/ME/2000/XP
Pentium II 500 MHz or equivalent
DirectX 8.1 compatible 3D video card with 16 MB RAM
750 MB Hard Disk Space
DirectX 8.1 compatible soundcard
LAN play requires TCP/IP connection
Official URLOfficial Site
Recent threads
- Gamespy Sep 30
- anyone wanna play? Sep 30
- CHEATS Jan 2
- game crashes out when I try to save Jun 18
- Genre: WarGames (PC)
- Theme(s): World War II
- Developer: The Bitmap Brothers
- Publisher: Strategy First
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In the early part of this legislative session I must admit I felt pretty grumpy.
CBF Maryland Executive Director Alison Prost.
In one of his first actions after taking office, Governor Hogan canceled brand new environmental regulations put forth by the prior administration. Those rules would have stopped the spreading of excess manure on crop fields.
We made no bones about our disappointment. Each year about 228,000 tons of excess manure are applied to fields of the Eastern Shore. The excess ends up in nearby creeks and rivers. It sparks algae blooms and eventually dead zones of low oxygen. The Choptank River and other Shore rivers are so badly fouled that swimming and shellfish harvesting in those waters are unsafe.
The rules had been more than a decade in the making, first by scientific study, then by repeated political delays. And then in a blink they were gone.
We at CBF have always made clear that we didn't blame farmers for spreading too much manure. They literally didn't know what was too much. They needed scientific guidelines that the long-delayed rules contain. No rule. No guidance.
But you, concerned Marylanders, didn't let the story end there. Outraged as we were, you spoke up, in 15,000 e-mails and letters to the governor and to the legislature.
Then, state Senator Paul Pinsky and Delegate Stephen Lafferty sponsored legislation to do what the now-shelved manure rules would have done.
On the eve of legislative hearings on those bills, Governor Hogan announced his own alternative solution to the manure crisis—revised regulations. This was a good thing. The governor acknowledged the problem of excess manure. He also accepted the basic solution of the earlier regulations. But the governor's proposed regulations would have allowed repeated delays of the rules going into effect. CBF could not support that.
But Governor Hogan was willing to listen to our concerns. And farmers themselves acknowledged the problem. They just wanted a practical solution that wouldn't put them out of business.
In mid-March, Pinsky, Lafferty and the Hogan Administration reached a compromise—regulations that would ban excess manure on fields with the heaviest phosphorus saturation next fall and full implementation on all crop fields by 2022, or 2024 at the latest.
It probably didn't hurt that a company appeared on the scene saying it could turn 200,000 tons excess manure into energy if the rules went into effect. The devil is in the details about this commercial proposal but if successful it could ease farmers' fears of being saddled with added costs to get rid of excess manure.
As of this letter, we still don't know if we'll have the same success solving the continued problem of polluted runoff in urban and suburban areas. Governor Hogan proposed a repeal of the stormwater fee bill of 2012 that provided dedicated funding to local governments for this critical work. But Senate President Mike Miller is seeking a compromise. We'll update you in upcoming communications. Please stay tuned for a possible action alert on this issue coming soon!
In the meantime, I'm convinced you made all the difference in getting a workable compromise on the Eastern Shore chicken poop crisis. Thank you.
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March 5th, 2010 #1
Where to start - soliciting advice on where/how to start a project
So, I'm off a stint teaching English in China, still living in the country with a plush bank account and looking forward to two months of literally not having to do crap or worry about living expenses - the perfect setup for an artist.
It's been a while since I've been on the horse - I haven't seriously drawn anything since about October due to my erratic schedule and the ridiculous cold (indoors and out) here, but winter's thawing and I've got creative blue-balls: ideas that have come to me in the past months, inspiration from this wild and vivid culture I've been soaking in for nearly a year now, old ideas that I put on hold when I came out here...
But now... I'm not sure where to start. I'm literally overwhelmed with story possibilities. My aim is to start worldbuilding with the intention of deriving some kind of story out of it, but I've got inspiration from everything from Journey to the West to Asimov to little kids urinating on sidewalks all sorta swimming in a huge morass in my brain.
Utterly overwhelming. The paralysis comes from the fear that I'll somehow "pick the wrong seed," or later when I've started with a story and get distracted by another story I want to tell. Or like I'm fishing in a really mucky pond and every time I go for that sweet fish, I get a big hook full of scummy distraction or old, rotten, dead end idea.
Anyone else have experience with this dilemma, and how to wrangle it? How do you just start when you don't have an external assignment (or deadline, for that matter) to grow from?MY SKETCHBOOK IS AWESOME
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Stop worrying so much, there IS no wrong seed.
Just start doodling/writing and see where it takes you. If you don't like that path, doodle something else.
Brainstorms are fun.
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You are going to visit a beautiful country with a wonderfully complex history and legends - and you want more? Take your time, listen and then feel inspired.
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March 5th, 2010 #5
I feel like that every time I come off crunch time on a job and suddenly have free time to work on my own stuff...
For me, the easiest things to start with are any long-running projects I might have neglected or something I started a long time ago and never finished.
If I don't have anything like that kicking around, I usually pick some of the smaller, simpler ideas to start with, just to get the ball rolling (okay, FIRST I spend a lot of time flipping out and saying "What'll I do!? What'll I do!? I want to do EVERYTHING!!") Or I'll do a lot of thumbnails and planning and brainstorming and jotting down notes for a whole bunch of projects, jumping between them all, until something emerges that I feel like I just HAVE to finish right now.
I'll also maybe pick a few projects to start with and divide my time among them - work on one this morning, another this evening, a different one tomorrow, juggling them around so I'm not dumping all my time on just one project. And then if one emerges from the mess as being top priority, THEN I'll focus on that one.
Dunno if any of that helps, but it's what I do...
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March 6th, 2010 #6
QueenGwenevere, it's really good to hear that someone else suffers from the same "everything" overload when confronted with the tyranny of choice.
What you describe doing is pretty much what I've been doing. Brainstorming, doodling, etc. Now I'm just waiting for it to warm up so I don't have to sit on my space heater with my gloves on. Drawing hand's screwed, too - chilblains: they suck.
What's cool is that without my brain twisted around the ins and outs of teaching English, I've been waking up with stories and stuff in my head, literally dreaming up plots and chunks of worlds. It's really, really cool.
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May 18th, 2010 #8
This thread has been most helpful thus far. I know the "problems" you're going through. The best advice I have to offer is not see your problems as problems. It's all a process; you just have to figure out what stays, what goes, and what needs to be refined. Think about what ideas could fit together; their integration may just lead you to something even more interesting than what you started with. Just keep pushing. And like Neolight mentioned, just make notes of ideas and then draw them.
Above all, you've got to relax.
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."


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Covenant is a tight and performant Promises/A+ implementation written in Coffeescript. Covenant passes the Promises/A+ Test Suite (Version 1.1).
Covenant is a 64-line Promises/A+ implementation written in Coffeescript. Covenant passes the Promises/A+ Test Suite. It compiles to under 200 lines of javascript, less than 500 bytes without compression.
Download it, clone it, or
npm install wizardwerdna/covenant
Covenant has no dependencies, but does use process.nextTick, found in modern Browsers. If process.nextTick is not a function, Covenant falls back to setImmediate, and then to setTimeout. If you are using ancient browsers, it is highly recommended that you use a shim to implement (fake) nextTick and/or setImmediate.
// load the coffeescript compiler (unless running precompiled version) // and then follow up with obvious variations of the coffeescript below require'coffee-script';
# alternatively, simply transpile a direct javascript file and use that# insteadcoffee -c node_modules/covenant/covenant.coffee
# get the Promise class Covenant = require'covenant'Covenant # create a new pending promise covenant = # fulfill it covenantfulfillvalue # reject it covenantrejectreason # schedule asynchronous handers covenantthen onFulfilledonRejected
I set out to write Covenant, just for myself, so to achieve a better understanding of the nuances of the Promise pattern. The Promises/A+ specification seemed elegant, but I couldn't seem to grok it without more. Reading the code of various compliant mplementations was helpful, but I still didn't seem to own it. I began the experiment by "cowboy" coding a first set, using the test suite to verify that things were working. Finally, I discarded that code as one to throw away, and rebuilt it in pure BDD red-green-refactor style.
Having a well-understood testbed for promises, I will probably extend covenant to a more full-featured implementation.
I am indebted, in particular, to the work of Brian Cavalier, whose when.js, and avow.js libraries illuminate what can be done both in a full-featured and minimalist implementation.
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Week 3 of INCH's A to Z series
Updated: August 21, 2009, 4:23 PM ETBy Inside College Hockey
Inside College Hockey's A to Z profiles feature players worth knowing in 2009 from every Division I team. These guys aren't necessarily the best players or the biggest names, but each is someone you ought to know. INCH moved down the alphabet in Week 3, from G to M.
Look back: Week 1: A-C | Week 2: C-G
Gabe Guentzel Colorado College So. | D | Woodbury, Minn.
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5 ways retirement-age boomers are shaking up your investing.
The consumer marketplace has been overwhelmingly youth-oriented (even youth-obsessed) for decades — but this about to change dramatically, and in ways that will spotlight a traditionally overlooked upside of aging.
Until recently, corporations, marketers and entrepreneurs paid little attention to men and women aged 50 and over. There was, after all, little to spark their interest in a group whose members were thought to be frugal and set in their ways. But now marketers are realizing that they can no longer afford to ignore adults.
Madison Avenue bears its share of the blame. Big advertising has bred notions about older people that simply don't hold true for baby boomers who reflect the new face of aging. What's required to reach them, and too often missing, is a broader understanding of the Age Wave and how to appeal to this group that differs so dramatically from their parents and grandparents — in both longevity and lifestyle.
Boomers are transforming aging, defining it with more vigor, motivation and purpose. They don't aspire to the old retirement dream dominated by idle leisure, even disengagement. Most intend to work well into their traditional retirement years, many by choice. They return to school, start new careers, volunteer in their communities, and seek purposeful activities.
As a group, the 78 million-strong boomer generation has unrivaled amounts of money to spend. Representing 32% of the U.S. population, Americans aged 50+ currently earn almost $2 trillion collectively in annual income, and control 77% of the total net worth of U.S. households — almost $46 trillion. Even though boomers are largely ignored by advertisers, they represent 50% of all discretionary spending power. In fact, their per capita discretionary spending is 2.5 times the average of younger households.
Because of their demographic's huge size, when they reach any stage of life, boomers create huge opportunities for companies that can meet their needs — whether financial, interpersonal, or even hormonal. For example, boomers didn't just eat food — they transformed the snack, restaurant, and supermarket industries; they didn't just wear clothes — they changed the fashion industry; they didn't just go to work — they disrupted the workplace; they didn't just go to the doctor — they altered health care.
And boomers won't simply grow old. They will transform aging itself.
As the boomers mature, five key factors will reshape America's marketplace for goods and services — and how and where you invest:
A 90- or 100-year lifespan will become commonplace. And as they search for the "fountain of health," they will try all sorts of things to stay healthy and young longer. Watch for growth in anything and everything that can forestall or minimize physical aging — from joint replacement surgeries to vitamin supplements, nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals to botox skin treatments and anti-aging spas and/or medical clinics.
They changed majors in college and haven't stopped shape-shifting since. Twenty percent have changed religions and 50% have changed spouses. They are also far less likely than previous generations to be brand loyal — and far more open to new ideas and products. This appetite for trying new things and lifelong learning will not only propel the tech industry (for everything from mind-expansion software to smart homes), but will breathe new life into colleges and universities both as centers of adult learning as well as retirement housing meccas.
For example, the "empty nest" life stage will unleash an abundance of "discretionary time" — to be filled with everything from walking tours of Europe to cooking classes at the local Y. And watch for grandparents to be the power consumers of everything from toys to college tuitions to starter homes — for their progeny.
In an attempt to "live within their means" while trying to improve the quality of their lives, boomers will undergo a psychological shift from acquiring more material possessions toward a pursuit of enjoyable and satisfying experiences, fueling growth in the travel, leisure, entertainment and volunteerism sectors.
At the same time, the financial services industry will launch new products and services to help boomers "catch up" financially, manage more than $10 trillion of inheritances, extract liquidity from their homes, and mobilize practical saving and funding strategies to carry them through their long lives.
The boomers will bring a level of adventure, intellectual curiosity, and sexuality to a stage of life that has been relatively bland. Can you imagine telling Bruce Springsteen that since he's 64, it's time to stop playing music? Or forcing 65-year-old fashion powerhouse Anna Wintour to retire? And that Rolling Stones tour that just started up again — with the band's average age over 70 — maybe those guys should just let it go already? Not likely!
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October 04, 2013
Reported in: The Outer Banks Voice
Written by: Russ Lay
Towne Bank of Currituck celebrated the grand opening of its Southern Shores office with an Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce After Hours function.
The event attracted one of the largest After Hours crowds in many years. The new bank features a beach-like look and feel, combined with some of the old-style bank grandeur that is common among Hampton Roads-based banks.
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Former UTSA quarterback Eric Soza has been named offensive quality control coach at the University of Houston. [Read More]
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UTSA has been picked to repeat as champions in Conference USA women's volleyball. Dajana Boskovic and Jessica Waldrip are expected to lead the Roadrunners, who finished 24-8 last year. [Read More]
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The possibility of shared use of the Alamodome by a new NFL tenant and the UTSA Roadrunners surfaced earlier this week. [Read More]
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The UTSA football team will host a fan appreciation day at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Convocation Center. [Read More]
North Texas coach recalls a painful moment — a loss to UTSA
North Texas coach Dan McCarney said Wednesday that he thinks any one of the six teams in the Conference USA West could win the division. [Read More]
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UTSA football coach Larry Coker said Tuesday that the university has offered a contract that could extend his current deal by five years. Coker's contract has two years remaining. [Read More]
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Three UTSA recruits, including all-state quarterback Blake Bogenschutz from Carthage, will play for the South against the North Tuesday night at the Texas High School Coaches Association All-Star game. The game is set for a 7 p.m. kickoff at the Alamodome. [Read More]
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Religious and political leaders, artists, scientists, and adventurers are all represented in these pages - cultural icons of the greatest fame and obscurities that will surprise the reader. Albert Einstein is here, of course, and so is Madame Curie. Crucial issues of race are examined in the lives of not only Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama, but of Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali. Certainly Abraham Lincoln and George Washington were the indispensable men. But what of Thomas Paine, Igor Stravinsky, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Walt Disney, Rachel Carson, Steve Jobs, and Steve Wozniak? This is a book of vibrant history, and it is also a book that is fun of fun-fun facts, fun tidbits, fun arguments, fun and rarely seen pictures. It is also a smart book that will appeal to the inquisitive school kid as much as to his or her parents.
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New Issue of MFA graduate student run journal MARY launches
The MFA Program in Creative Writing MARY staff are proud to announce the release of the 2013 issue of MARY: A Journal Of New Writing! Find new work from writers, including: Marcia Aldrich, Cinthia Ritchie, Yasmin Tong, Sarah Dzida, Christine Utz, Justin Carmickle, Marty Carlock, Kit Robinson, Micah Ballard, Shin Yu Pai, T.R. Hummer, Traci Brimhall, and a translation by Norma Cole. Also, make sure to check out our nouveau section for emerging writers, like John Castro, Alicia Catt, Kate Sloan, Michael McDermit, Ben Gwin, Joseph Burrows, Laura Pendell, Jeffery Haynes, and Rae Gouirand. Go to maryjournal.org to read their work, and for details on how to submit for the next issue of MARY: A Journal Of New Writing. Email [email protected] for more information.
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Kes V Seven of Nine
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January 21 2009, 11:12 PM
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Re: Kes V Seven of Nine
exodus wrote:
kimc wrote:
Lynx wrote:
However, that meant that Kes was kept in the background in many episodes but when she was given a place under the spotlight, we could actually see that the character had a lot of quality. The same for Jennifer Lien's acting. When she was given the chance to shine, she took it.
I have to agree this is the case in episodes like "Warlord".
Now compare "Warlord" to "Infinate Regress".
Lien was so-so. If she put the emotional impact into "Warlord" like Ryan did with "Regress", there would be no doubt that Kes would have been the breakout character without them ever needing Seven.
All Seven was is a restart to the character Kes was meant to be.
Comparing Seven and Kes by referring to Seven as a "restart of what Kes was meant to be" is actually wrong because there is too much difference between the characters and their presumed roles in the stories.
If the writers had given Lien the same opportunities as Ryan was given, then the outcome for the character Kes would have been much different. As it was, Kes was underused but actually did shine when allowed to do so.
Who'd let that cat in here?
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They also hoisted their black and white flag over a town left undefended by Nigeria's military, just 53 miles from the north-eastern state capital of Maiduguri.
Hundreds of villagers in another north east area, Askira Uba, are fleeing after receiving letters from the Islamic extremists threatening to attack and take over their areas.
Survivors said insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and lobbed home-made bombs into homes, and then gunned down people as they tried to escape the attack on the town of Damboa.
A human rights advocate said the extremists struck again as people were trying to bury the dead and said the death toll is probably much higher than 100. The only defence reportedly came from vigilantes armed with clubs and home-made rifles.
The town had been under siege for two weeks since Boko Haram dislodged soldiers from its outskirts.