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As researchers investigate how software gets made, a new empire for empirical research opens up
Greg Wilson, Jorge Aranda
If we can't predict who will become a good programmer, can we at least certify who already is one? Would it help if software developers were required to undergo some sort of certification? In most of the industrialized world, engineering professionals must be licensed; a preliminary exam permits them to practice and gain experience as an engineer-in-training, followed some years later by a deeper exam, often specialized according to their discipline. Successful candidates are then allowed to offer their services to the public. Could such a program be developed for software engineers? And would it actually make anything better?
If done right, such a program would be based on a codified body of necessary knowledge and best practices, just as exams in civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering are. A major effort under way right now is the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge project (SWEBOK), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. Their intentions are noble, and conscientious professionals are steadily assembling a potential set of standards.
We are skeptical of this work, for the very reasons that we are committed to empirical software engineering research. We believe that it puts the cart before the horse, that we simply don't yet know enough about what actually works and what doesn't to define such standards. In place of a trustworthy gateway, we fear that a Software Engineering Body of Strong Opinion would create a false belief that we know more than we do at present about how software can and should be made, how the quality of software can be rigorously determined and how programmers should take on the job of programming. That knowledge is the very thing empirical software researchers are stalking.
For example, in the 1990s a group of respected software designers combined forces to create a graphical notation for computer programs called the Unified Modeling Language (UML), which was intended to fill the role of blueprints and circuit diagrams in civil and electrical engineering. Despite a great deal of hype, UML never really caught on: Almost everyone who earns a degree in computer science learns about UML at some point, but very few programmers use it voluntarily (although some are obliged to use it in order to satisfy the terms of government procurement contracts).
In 2007, Mario Cherubini, Gina Venolia, Rob DeLine and Andrew Ko studied what kinds of diagrams programmers actually draw and why they draw them. They found that in almost all cases, programmers' sketches were transient in nature; they were meant to be aids to conversation rather than archival documentation. They also found that the cost of turning hastily drawn whiteboard doodles into formal instructions was greater than the value of the diagrams to the programmers who were creating them. Companies selling UML drawing tools ignore this awkward result, but we are hopeful that a younger generation of software designers will incorporate into their work both findings like these and the research methods behind them.
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Wal-Mart's Stronger Net Buoys Retail Stocks
BEA Systems (BEAS ) announced that Dell is installing BEA WebLogic Server as its standard Java platform for application development and deployment. S&P maintains hold.
UBS Warburg upgraded Sears (S ) to buy from hold. On Monday Sears agreed to acquire Lands' End in a $1.9B deal.
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Goldman reiterated its recommended list rating on Brocade Communications (BRCD ). Shares were halted after the company inadvertently released its Q3 revenue guidance of $145M-$150M -- information that was supposed to be released on Wednesday, May 15.
Merrill makes positive comments on Dell Computer (DELL ) and reiterates near-term and long-term strong buy.
BEI Medical (BMED ) agreed to be acquired by Boston Scientific for $95M cash, or $6.84 per share. Separately, BEI posted a $0.24 Q2 loss a on sharp revenue rise.
Deere (DE ) posted $0.59 vs. $0.54 second quarter EPS on 4.7% higher worldwide net sales and sees 3%-5% higher Q3 sales.
USB Piper says checks indicate strong April sales for Amazon.com (AMZN ) and reiterated its outperform rating.
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CS First Boston expects a positive analyst day on May 16 for Retek (RETK ) and reiterated its buy rating.
OSI Pharmaceutical (OSIP ) and Genentech get fast track designation from the FDA for Tarceva.
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Thomas Weisel upgraded Extreme Networks (EXTR ) to buy from attractive.
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ECPA: Mike Nasi's testimony to Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy
Filed under: CDPHE, Legal, Legislation, New Energy Economy
Colorado's Electric Consumers' Protection Act (ECPA), a bill to address Colorado compliance with the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP), received its first hearing on Thursday, April 9, 2015 in the Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Committee. Senators John Cooke (R-Greeley) and Jerry Sonnenberg (R-Sterling) are the prime sponsors of SB15-258. A number of people and organizations testified in favor of it including Catholic Charities, the Colorado Consumer Coalition, TriState Generation and Transmission Association, and our own Michael Sandoval. All made compelling arguments to support the ECPA. Below is the written testimony of one of the most compelling witnesses air regulatory attorney Mike Nasi.
The bill did pass out of committee with bi-partisan support on a 7-2 vote. Now it moves to Senate Appropriations.
For more information on the CPP and the ECPA, read the Independence Institute's latest Issue Backgrounder "Colorado and the 'Clean Power Plan': Expensive, Ineffective, Illegal, and Impossible" by intern Lexi Osborn.
Also read Sen. Cooke and Sonnenberg's commentary "No regulation without representation."
Illegality of EPA's Clean Power Plan & Benefits of the Electric Consumers' Protection Act (ECPA) SB15-258
April 9, 2015
Jackson Walker, L.L.P – Austin, Texas
My name is Mike Nasi. I am a partner at the law firm Jackson Walker, located in the firm's Austin, Texas office where I head up the firm's air regulatory practice. I am honored to be here before you today. I have been asked to testify here today because I have been a practicing air quality attorney working with EPA air quality regulations for over 22 years and represent power generation interests, including rural electric cooperatives, in pending DC Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court cases regarding a number of recently-promulgated EPA air regulations targeting the electric generation sector.
As proposed, EPA's Clean Power Plan is illegal. This is not just my opinion, but the position of thirty-two states' elected officials; huge swaths of the electric power, manufacturing, and chemical industries; various businesses and community organizations; and even those in the President's inner circle. As recently stated by Laurence Tribe – the renowned scholar and close advisor to the President:
"EPA is attempting [in the Clean Power Plan] an unconstitutional trifecta: usurping the prerogatives of the States, Congress and the Federal Courts – all at once. Burning the Constitution should not become part of our national energy policy."
The Clean Power Plan (CPP) is an unprecedented and unconstitutional attempt at a power grab by the EPA. In direct conflict with the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, EPA intends to take over roles reserved to the states and remake them in their vision – including a takeover of electricity production, consumption and distribution. Under the guise of "state flexibility," EPA hopes to coax states, or, if necessary, coerce them to develop state plans that would create authority EPA does not otherwise have to enforce the "outside the fence" elements of the CPP.
The Clean Air Act places limits on EPA's authority; specifically, to "defining" the best system of emissions reduction – BSER – and promulgating a guideline document. It does not provide EPA the authority to set binding state-specific emissions rate targets or regulate electricity markets under the auspices of a federally enforceable state plan. By setting such stringent emissions limits under incredibly compressed timelines, and by preventing states from considering actions they've already taken before the 2012 baseline year – including retirements, significant build out of renewable generation and reductions in end-user demand – EPA has failed to provide the states with any of the state-led authority or flexibility required in the Clean Air Act. This authority and flexibility is central to the cooperative federalism required by the Clean Air Act.
At its core, EPA does not have the authority to require states to undertake the actions contemplated in its BSER model – the so-called four building blocks of the rule. Block 1 – increased coal power plant efficiency – is unreasonable and technologically impractical, if not impossible. The remaining three blocks, however, are where EPA truly contravenes the Clean Air Act by looking "beyond the fence" for emissions reductions. The plain language of Section 111(d) makes it clear that a standard of performance should only apply to an "existing source" "which emits or may emit an air pollutant." There is no discussion of "groups of sources" or "markets related to an existing source," but rather, requires that standards apply to individual "existing sources" in isolation – "within the fence." Blocks 2 through 4 completely contradict the within-the-fence requirements. Regarding Block 2, EPA has no authority to require re-dispatch of generation, which is left largely to the free market or the regional transmission organizations ("RTO") and independent system operators ("ISO") that oversee dispatch [and Public Utility Commissions]. EPA simply is not provided the authority under the CAA to set mandatory state emission budgets based on the emission reductions it calculates are possible from fuel switching, renewable generation increases, or end-user energy efficiency. This is also in direct contravention of the Federal Power Act, which leaves to the states exclusive jurisdiction over intrastate electricity matters.
The legal problems with EPA's rule start well before reaching the question of their "beyond the fence" state budgets, however, as EPA has three significant statutory hurdles it has not and cannot clear. The explicit language of the Clean Air Act prevents EPA from promulgating this rule. The Act states that EPA is prevented from applying Section 111(d) standards to source categories already regulated under Section 112 of the Act; fossil fuel power plants are regulated through Section 112 by the Mercury and Air Toxics Rule. EPA claims that the Act is ambiguous due to drafting errors, but the language as codified in the United States code is clear. Even accounting for drafting errors, the language still clearly prohibits EPA's actions. Furthermore, the Supreme Court has already spoken on this issue, in a note to its decision in AEP v. Connecticut, in which it stated: "EPA may not employ [Section 111(d)] if existing stationary sources of the pollutant in question are regulated under the…the "hazardous air pollutants" program, [Section 112.]"
The Clean Air Act also requires a valid new-source 111(b) rule to be in place before EPA may proceed to an existing source rule under Section 111(d). These rules are still in the proposal stage, and even if finalized, are riddled with technical and legal flaws that in my opinion will result in the rules being vacated, which will remove this necessary legal prerequisite to any 111(d) rule. As recently pointed out by 13 state attorneys general (see attached March 25, 2015 letter), EPA also failed to finalize the 111(b) rule within one year of proposal in violation of its mandatory duty to do so under 111(b)(1)(B) of the CAA. As explained more fully in the AG letter, this violation stands to undermines EPA's current schedule for finalizing the 111(b) and (d) rule this summer given that the 111(b) rule must be re-proposed and finalized before the 111(d) rule can be finalized. EPA has also failed to make a necessary Section 111-specific endangerment finding based on CO2 emissions from the fossil fuel source category. EPA attempts to rely on its endangerment finding for GHG emissions from motor vehicles as the endangerment finding for this rule. But this motor vehicle endangerment finding is based on a completely different section, even title, of the Clean Air Act; it was an endangerment finding for six separate greenhouse gases, not just CO2 as the Clean Power Plan addresses; and the statutory language of the endangerment finding itself is different, with the Section 111 standard imposing a greater burden on EPA. EPA attempts to say that there is a "rational basis" for this rule, but this is simply not true; the rule, even if fully implemented, will have an almost imperceptible impact on global climate.
Colorado's ability to comply with the Clean Power Plan is in serious question, though due to no fault of your own, but it is why any attempt to comply should be transparent for every Coloradan to see. The sheer enormity of the emissions reductions and the incredibly short time constraints of the rule alone would be a daunting, if not impossible challenge, but the legal authority of state agencies to implement the rule is simply not there in many respects. As an initial matter, the Air Quality Control Commission's authority, as implemented by the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, is limited to drafting regulations directed at sources of air pollutants. There is no authority to go "beyond the fence," which, like the federal government, significantly constrains the ability to develop any plan addressing Blocks 2 through 4 of EPA's BSER model. The Public Utilities Commission is also subject to limitations on breadth of authority, that precludes it from addressing the environmental components and entities necessary to meet EPA's budget.
I certainly would not recommend that Colorado create a plan that establishes authority that EPA itself does not have. Having said that, I see value in the passage of SB 258 the Electric Consumer Protection Act because it would ensure the PUC's oversight and actions to ensure that rates stay competitive and reliability is maintained. Given the price increase and reliability risks in question, it makes good sense that the ECPA requires both PUC approval followed by the General Assembly's approval because it will ensure that the public may participate in a transparent process and Colorado legislators have oversight over the submission of any plan.
I was encouraged to see that – the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the Public Utilities Commission and the Colorado Energy Office – in official comments to the EPA about the CPP acknowledge that, "legislation may be needed to clarify or direct state agencies on their respective roles and authorities." There will be lawsuits, and the ECPA contains a smart safety valve provision that suspends or terminates any further action on a State Implementation Plan if the regulations are not adopted, are suspended, or are found to be contrary to law.
The ECPA is simply good government that provides a transparent framework. Without the ECPA, CDPHE has indicated that it will draft a plan and implement it behind closed doors, without public or legislative oversight. Without the ECPA, you will be ceding your authority, your responsibility, to unelected air quality regulators.
Thank you.
Colorado's cruel approach to energy policy
Filed under: New Energy Economy, preferred energy, renewable energy, solar energy, wind energy
By Amy Oliver Cooke
"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun," wrote environmental doomsday prophet Dr. Paul Ehrlich in 1975.
That's a cruel statement directed at people who simply want electric lights so their children can read at night, a refrigerator to keep food from spoiling, or a heater to keep their homes warm during the winter.
Yet it seems to be the approach of Colorado's environmental Left. Part of the problem is progressive leaders' extremely narrow definition of "clean" energy that limits resource choices to more costly and unreliable wind and solar.
In 2004, Colorado voters approved Amendment 37, requiring Xcel Energy and other investor-owned utilities to use preferred sources such as wind and solar for 10 percent of the electricity sold to end users.
Since then the Colorado legislature has mandated increases in the renewable (or preferred) energy standard, from 10 to 20 to the current 30 percent by 2020. Only Maine (40 percent by 2017) and California (33 percent by 2020) have more aggressive mandates. They also have higher electric rates than Colorado.
Last year the state legislature passed SB 252, a 20 percent preferred energy standard on Colorado's rural electric cooperatives. Now nearly the entire state must pay for a significant percentage of electricity produced predominantly from preferred "clean" sources wind and solar.
Since producing electricity from wind and solar is more expensive, Colorado's electric rates have gone up along with the legislature's mandates.
Not too long ago, our state enjoyed some of the cheapest electricity in the United States. In 2000, Colorado's residential rates were 7.31 per kWh, equivalent to 9.89 cents in 2013 dollars. Instead, Coloradans now pay 11.91 cents per kWh for residential electricity, the highest rate in the Mountain West. California, Alaska, and Hawaii are the only Western states with higher residential rates.
Colorado's electric rates are rising significantly faster than in most states. Last year rates across the U.S. increased on average 2.4 percent, compared to a 4.5 percent jump here.
These high rates couldn't come at a worse time. Just this week the Denver Post reported that Colorado's labor participation rate has fallen 6 percentage points since 2006, to its lowest level (67.3 percent) since 1976.
In addition, the number of Coloradans obtaining assistance from food stamps continues to mark all-time high numbers, Complete Colorado reports.
The second week of February saw a 42 percent increase in Coloradans asking government for help paying their heating bills, according to 9News.
The state legislature had an opportunity to modestly improve the situation. Rep. Lori Saine's (R-Weld County) HB 1138 would have expanded the definition of "clean" energy to include hydroelectricity.
Under HB1138 many electric co-ops that serve Colorado's rural communities could have met or at least come close to meeting SB 252's increased mandate. Without the expanded definition, some co-ops will need to build additional capacity and expensive transmission lines, or purchase renewable energy credits from other providers. Some of Colorado's poorest counties will bear the costs.
Despite HB1138's bipartisan sponsorship, lobbying from the wind and solar industries and their advocates in the environmental non-profit world doomed the bill in committee.
Progressive state lawmakers' definition of clean energy is also unique. Many states, including those in the eco-friendly Pacific Northwest, the Center for American Progress, the Environmental Protection Agency, and our own Colorado Energy Office all consider hydro to be a clean, renewable source.
Our state's extremely narrow definition of clean energy begs the question of whether progressive lawmakers simply seek to protect the wind and solar industry at the expense of ratepayers.
A 2012 Independence Institute study showed Xcel Energy ratepayers spent $343 million to comply with the preferred energy mandate, much of which ended up as surplus because supply exceeded demand. That's $245 per ratepayer, nearly two months of average Colorado electricity bills, for electricity they didn't use.
Affordable power is not mutually exclusive of clean power. Colorado should expand the definition of clean resources to include clean coal, natural gas, hydroelectric, and nuclear. We also should encourage a least cost principle and let consumers decide.
Anything else is just cruel.
This opinion editorial appeared originally in the Greeley Tribune on February 20, 2014.
CO electric rates rise along with increase in preferred energy mandate
Filed under: New Energy Economy, renewable energy, solar energy, wind energy
In 1999 Colorado enjoyed some of the lowest electricity rates in the United States and the Mountain West. In 2004, Colorado voters approved Amendment 37, requiring investor owned utilities to provide 10 percent of the electricity sold to end users to come from the preferred sources wind and solar.
Since 2004, the Colorado state legislature has mandated increases in the renewable portfolio standard, more appropriately titled the preferred energy standard, from 10 to 20 to the current 30 percent by 2020. Only Maine (40 percent by 2017) and California (33 percent by 2020) have more aggressive mandates, and they also have higher electric rates than Colorado.
Last year the state legislature passed a 20 percent preferred portfolio standard on Colorado's rural electric cooperatives.
As the mandate to produce more electricity from wind and solar has increased so have Colorado's electricity rates.
- In 1999 Colorado's electric rates were 5.9 cents per Kilowatt hour (kWh) and were the 18th least expensive in the country.
- In the 1990s Colorado's population increased by 30 percent, electricity demand grew 26 percent, yet real prices fell 25 percent in the same period.
- If electric rates simply kept pace with inflation, Coloradans would have paid 8.4 cents per kWh in 2013 instead of 9.83 cents per kWh.
- In 2000, Colorado's residential rates were 7.31 per kWh; adjusting for inflation that's the equivalent of 9.89 cents in 2013. Instead Coloradans now pay 11.91 cents per kWh for residential electricity.
- Colorado's current electric rate for all sectors is 9.83 cents per kWh, nearly 7 percent higher than the Mountain West average of 9.21 cents per kWh.
- Colorado's electric rates increased 4.5 percent last year while U.S. electric rates increased only 2.4 percent last year.
- At 11.91 cents per kWh, Colorado has the highest residential rates in the Mountain West.
- Colorado residential electric rates are the 20th highest in the nation, with California, Alaska, and Hawaii being the only western states with higher residential rates.
Most information available at the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Table of "Average Retail Price of Electricity to Ultimate Customer by End-Use Sector."
Progressive criticism of PUC nominee Vaad is about ALEC rather than energy
Filed under: Archive, HB 1365, New Energy Economy
Progressive left logic: Progressives want to destroy ALEC. Moderate Republican PUC nominee Glenn Vaad has been a member of ALEC. Therefore progressives want to destroy Glenn Vaad even though he has supported increasing Colorado's renewable energy mandate and fuel switching.
The progressive left's criticism of Governor John Hickenlooper's appointment of former State Representative Glenn Vaad (R-Mead) to Colorado's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) appears to part of a coordinated national campaign against the American Legislative Exchange Council rather than Vaad's record on energy policy, which is more in line with Democrats than free market conservatives. Vaad is awaiting State Senate confirmation, which is likely to happen sometime this week.
ALEC is a nonpartisan voluntary membership organization for conservative state lawmakers "who share a common belief in limited government, free markets, federalism, and individual liberty." ALEC promotes such dangerous ideas like reducing excessive government spending, limiting the overall tax burden, choice in education, and market-based approach to renewable energy sources. As a state lawmaker, Glenn Vaad was a member.
The progressive left is obsessed with ALEC. In May 2013 several progressive organizations with ties to Colorado met to "coordinate their attack plan" as the Washington Free Beacon reported:
Leading progressive organizers met on May 10 to coordinate their attack plan against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), discussing ways to pressure corporations into abandoning the group for its small-government advocacy and turn against what they call the "vast, right-wing conspiracy."
The participants, including representatives from such far-left groups as Common Cause, Color of Change, and ProgressNow, met for lunch in a conference room at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The Free Beacon quoted Aniello Alioto of ProgressNow Colorado, summing up the strategy on attacking ALEC, "Never relent, never let up pressure, and always increase."
By law, the three-member PUC cannot have more than two members from any one party. With Republican member James Tarpey retiring and the other two members Pam Patton and Chairman Joshua Epel being Democrats, that means the Governor had to find a qualified applicant within the Republican Party. In theory, he could have looked for someone inside the Constitution, Libertarian, or Green Parties, but it's likely that the qualified applicant pool was rather shallow.
So Governor Hickenlooper selected a very moderate Republican Rep. Vaad, who has the necessary qualifications as a former Weld County Commissioner and longtime employee of the Colorado Department of Transportation. Vaad's 2011 Colorado Union of Taxpayers' rating (a conservative legislative scorecard) was a modest 50 out of 100. Only nine House Republicans scored lower.
When it comes to energy policy, the environmental left should be pleased with Vaad's nomination. As a state representative, Vaad co-sponsored HB07-1281, the bill to increase Colorado's renewable mandate to 20 percent. He also sponsored then Governor Bill Ritter's crowning jewel of his "new energy economy," the controversial fuel-switching bill HB10-1365, which got nearly unanimous approval from the Democrat caucus but proved quite divisive for Republicans.
But Vaad's actual legislative record doesn't seem to matter. To the progressive left, his appointment is more about ALEC than Colorado's PUC as the far-left Colorado Independent reports:
Groups opposed to Vaad's appointment say he has not just been an ALEC member but an officer. They point to documents and reports posted by consumer-advocacy groups like Common Cause and progressive-politics organizations like the Center for Media and Democracy that show Vaad was Chair of the ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development task force while he was serving in the state legislature in 2011 and 2012 and that he had been accepting ALEC "scholarships" every year he was in the legislature dating back to 2006.
According to a press release from Gabe Elsner, executive director at the Energy and Policy Institute, quoted in the Independent:
There is a clear conflict of interest…In the past year, ALEC's utility and fossil fuel members lobbied lawmakers in at least 15 states to introduce legislation repealing Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards. Now ALEC is launching a new wave of attacks on clean energy policies like solar net metering… There's a real threat that Mr. Vaad will serve ALEC's special interest members instead of Colorado families.
Well first, Rep. Vaad hasn't been in the state legislature since the spring of 2012, and Mr. Elsner is talking about 2013. Also, there is no evidence that Vaad ever introduced legislation to repeal the renewable energy mandate. In fact, as stated earlier, he did just the opposite. (Although he did oppose HB10-1001, the 30 percent renewable mandate bill). Furthermore, he was on the Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development task force not the Energy, Environment and Agriculture.
Progressive left logic: Progressives want to destroy ALEC. Moderate Republican PUC nominee Glenn Vaad has been a member of ALEC. Therefore progressives want to destroy Glenn Vaad even though he has supported increasing Colorado's renewable energy mandate and fuel switching.
The bottom line is that the opposition to Glenn Vaad is about attacking ALEC rather than Vaad's qualifications or his perspective on energy policy. So the progressive left is willing to sacrifice about the best appointee they can hope for in order to "never let up the pressure, and always increase."
I did call Glenn Vaad for comment but as of posting he has not returned the call.
Pandora's Promise: if you care about kids, go nuclear
By Dr. Robert Applegate
The opening scene of the documentary Pandora's Promise brings viewers face-to-face with nuclear power plant protestors screaming scary things like "the nuclear industry is a death industry." Then it moves to a nuclear energy supporter walking around the destroyed nuclear power plant in Fukushima with the filmmaker Robert Stone asking are you still "pro-nuclear?"
At this point I was unsure where this film would take me. If this was a movie really about how nuclear power is clean and safe and our only option to combat climate change, or was this more of a movie trying to balance opinions rather than present fact. When the movie did jump into the facts of nuclear power, it did not disappoint. Explaining, for example, that one pound of nuclear fuel (about the size of your finger) holds the same amount of energy as 5000 barrels of oil.
The movie provides an overview of the origins of the hysteria over nuclear energy. It exposes the baby boomers who came of age during the height of the Cold War with elementary school duck-and-cover drills just in case the Soviets dropped the bomb. As a result, an entire generation, arguably the most influential generation, associated the word "nuclear" with bombs and destruction. Add this irrational fear to the lack of understanding of how and where electricity comes from, and the nuclear power industry was set up for failure by the 1980's.
Pandora's Promise does a decent job of talking about how the accessibility of energy is directly correlated to quality of life. People live longer and better lives when they can access power easily and inexpensively. Stone should have made this a bit stronger, especially since the movie is directed at environmentalists and why they need to reexamine nuclear power as an option to improving the quality of life in the developing world. The two billion people globally without electricity don't just need a clean environment; they need access to clean, reliable, and affordable power.
My favorite part came when Stone tours the globe with a dosimeter (a radiation-meter), showing people what physicists know; radiation exists naturally everywhere and in everything, and our bodies deal with it every day with no increased cancer risk. What's funny, and trust me the irony is not lost on physicists like me, Stone even shows a group of protesters having a "banana break" in which one is handing out bananas to eat while they are screaming about the horrors of radiation. Many people, except misguided protestors, know that a Geiger Counter (a machine that measures radiation) next to a banana is quite noisy because bananas have a lot of naturally occurring radiation.
Contrary to popular myth, deaths from nuclear power are incredibly low. No one in the U.S. has died from a nuclear power related accident, including any radiation leaks, and this is pointed out in the film. Roughly 50 people did die at Chernobyl as a result of the accident there, but that isn't even close to the nonsensical "millions" number that one protester cites. The film crew braved Chernobyl revealing how the plant kept working nearly 10 years after the accident and how people went to work every day there with no increased cancer risk.
Stone also addresses the difficult topic of nuclear waste with a straightforward quote from an environmentalist who flat out says, "Nuclear waste is not an environmental issue" because there is simply very little of it.
The movie has an optimistic ending, talking about the future and how the newer reactor designs are incapable of melting down. Peaceful nuclear power is helping to reduce the number of nuclear warheads through recycling – 16,000 in the past 10 years recycled and now used to power cities. Bottom line: don't fear nuclear power. We need it to combat carbon emissions and raise two billion people out of poverty.
I know this is tough for old-school environmentalists but Pandora's Promise tried to be gentle with this message to the eco-left: your heart is in the right place, but your facts are wrong. Please reexamine your point of view, and you will change your mind. Do it for the sake of the kids you are trying to save.
To hear more about my take on Pandora's Promise, listen to my review on the Amy Oliver Show on News Talk 1310 KFKA.
Now, go hug a nuclear power plant operator.
Dr. Robert Applegate has a PhD in Applied Physics from the Colorado School of Mines, has worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and is an advocate for science in public policy.
Think of economic impact before banning fracking
Filed under: Hydraulic Fracturing
By Brandon Ratterman
Around the nation, self-described environmentalists have made hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and their perceived negative impact on the environment growing points of contention. In Colorado this debate led to several community-based moratoriums and talks of a statewide ban on fracking. But if a few organized, anti-fracking organizations realistically want to shut down an entire industry, they need to acknowledge the economic effects of those actions. Luckily, the University of Colorado (Boulder) recently published the economic and fiscal benefits of Colorado's O&G industry, which is summarized in the paragraphs below.
In 2012, the O&G industry contributed a total of $29.6 billion to Colorado's economy in direct and indirect activities. Of the total, $9.3 billion is directly related to oil and gas production, which requires the most efficient extraction technology (hydraulic fracturing) to be competitive.
The value added from the O&G industry supports 111,500 Colorado jobs. Of those jobs, the 29,000 employees that are directly involved in drilling, extraction and support jobs earned over twice as much as the average Colorado employee. In total, the O&G industry paid almost $6.5 billion in wages to Coloradoans in 2012.
The oil and gas industry also provided benefits to those outside of the industry through state and local funding. In 2012, Colorado state and local governments, school districts, and special interests received a total of $1.6 billion in revenues from the O&G industry. Of that $1.6 billion, O&G severance tax—which is a fee for extracting a non-renewable resource—contributed $163 million alone.
The economic and fiscal benefits from the oil and gas industry need to be remembered as statewide actions are considered. If the plan to ban fracking across Colorado is implemented, tens of thousands of Coloradans will be without a job. Likewise, the Colorado economy will be without tens of billions of dollars in revenue, of which over one billion will be cut in state and local government(s), schools and special interests. With effects of this magnitude, it would be advisable for Coloradans to disregard documentaries in this matter and independently research the environmental effects of "fracking."
Brandon Ratterman is a research associate with the Energy Policy Center.
FERC nominee Ron Binz the flipper
Filed under: HB 1365, renewable energy
By Amy Oliver Cooke and Robert Applegate
As Ron Binz campaigns to be confirmed as the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, much of the emphasis has been on his position as an activist for what he considers to be low or no carbon energy sources, predominantly Big Wind. (Forget the fact that wind requires an enormous amount of carbon emissions in the manufacturing of gigantic wind turbine.)
But Binz's no carbon advocacy is hypocritical.
While Binz now advocates for lowering carbon emissions, he was instrumental in shutting down Colorado's lowest carbon emitting power source, the Fort St. Vrain nuclear plant, which eventually converted to natural gas – a technology he now calls "dead end" when it comes to carbon emissions.
As head of the Office of Consumer Council (OCC), Binz successfully argued before the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) that the power plant did not work correctly and that the shareholders of the company running the plant must pay for the capital costs rather than customers using the electricity. (This is when Binz cared about ratepayers)
More stringent regulations and the burden of the extra cost upon the shareholders ultimately forced the plant to close as a carbon free, nuclear power source. This "regulating to death," as stated by previously employees of the plant ultimately came at the cost detriment of electricity customers who paid for the decommissioning and subsequent recommissioning as a carbon emitting natural gas plant.
His position on natural gas has flipped too. In 2010, as chair of the PUC Binz took a lead role in negotiating the terms of the controversial fuel switching bill HB 1365 titled "Clean Air; Clean Jobs Act." At that time, Binz championed a mandated fuel switch from coal to natural gas. Apparently Binz thought natural gas was a clean fuel in 2010 but isn't now. Too bad ratepayers didn't know that in 2010. It would have saved them more than $1 billion dollars, but then Binz's concerns for consumer costs have flipped too.
Want open space? Don't go wind or solar!
Filed under: Archive, New Energy Economy, renewable energy
By Robert Applegate
Amid the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) latest report1 on the land requirements of solar power generation, others are taking a look at what is really required to power homes using solar and wind and comparing that to another carbon free source, nuclear power generation.
A nuclear power plant, the biggest reactors currently available would take up less than 2 square miles and produce 3200MW of power.2 To achieve this same power output from solar would require 292 square miles, 146 times the amount of land required for a nuclear plant.2 A wind farm would need to be 832 square miles, or 416 times the land to create the same amount of power of the nuclear plant.2 To put this into perspective, the land footprints are shown over the backdrop of the state of Rhode Island, where the blue is a nuclear plant, the yellow a solar farm, and the green a wind farm all of equal capacity.
Land footprints of a nuclear plant (blue), solar array (yellow), and a wind farm (green) all of equal capacity (3200MW), over the backdrop of the state of Rhode Island.2
1 NREL Report Firms Up Land-Use Requirements of Solar. Study shows solar for 1,000 homes would require 32 acres. July 30, 2013. http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2013/2269.html
2 What Does Renewable Energy Look Like? Clean Energy Insight, 10 Apr, 2010. http://www.cleanenergyinsight.org/energy-insights/what-does-renewable-energy-look-like/
Why won't Colorado eco-left consider hydropower renewable?
Filed under: Legislation, New Energy Economy, renewable energy
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers hydropower to be a renewable energy source.
The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) calculates that carbon emissions from hydroelectric power are on par with wind and solar energy.
Last Thursday, Daniel Weiss of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a leftist non-profit organization, testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee that hydroelectric power is renewable.
For more information on Weiss, see below.
Responding to question from Congressman Cory Gardner who asked Mr. Weiss if he considered hydropower to be "renewable," Weiss stated, "yes it is."
Video of that testimony is here. Congressman Gardner's question to Weiss begins at the 1:53:27 mark.
Gardner went on to explain that Colorado's rural electric cooperatives get a significant percentage of their power from Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a federal hydropower project, yet that is not considered "renewable" under SB 252, the state bill to increase the renewable mandate on Colorado's co-ops 100 percent by 2020.
Supporters of SB 252 claim to be concerned about carbon emissions, yet none advocate for hydro. Both the EPA and CAP consider hydro a renewable source, but supporters exclude most hydro from the bill.
This begs the questions: if hydro is renewable and clean and co-ops already use hydro, then why would the Colorado state legislature force them to comply with a mandate that excludes their clean source and requires a massive $2 billion to $4 billion build out?
Perhaps a better title for SB252 would have the "preferred" energy standard for rural electric cooperatives.
More about Weiss from his curriculum vitae:
Daniel J. Weiss is a Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at American Progress, where he leads the Center's clean energy and climate advocacy campaign. Before coming to American Progress, he spent 25 years working with environmental advocacy organizations and political campaigns. Weiss is an expert in energy and environmental policy; legislative strategy and tactics; and advocacy communications.
No love for reality of "renewable" energy in North Carolina
Filed under: Legislation, New Energy Economy, renewable energy
A newly released survey provides some powerful ammunition for North Carolina lawmakers who want to freeze the state's renewable energy mandate at its current level rather than continue its increase to meet the 12.5 percent mandate by 2021.
The Raleigh, North Carolina, based Civitas Institute conducted the state-wide poll and found that while residents like renewable energy in theory they don't like it in practice, in law, or in cost:
North Carolinians oppose the state law requiring utility companies to purchase a percentage of their energy from so-called renewable energy sources by more than 3-to-1…. Additionally, ratepayers strongly oppose the use of such energy sources as wind or solar if it means paying higher utility bills.
Break downs for responses to two specific questions listed below:
Do you support or oppose the increased usage of renewable sources to generate electricity?
70% Total Support
15% Total Oppose
42% Strongly Support
28% Somewhat Support
6% Somewhat Oppose
9% Strongly Oppose
15% Undecided/Don't Know
1% Refused
Do you support or oppose the existing state law that requires you to purchase a certain amount of renewable energy each month, even if it costs you more?
21% Total Support
67% Total Oppose
10% Strongly Support
11% Somewhat Support
18% Somewhat Oppose
49% Strongly Oppose
12% Undecided/Don't Know
Another interesting result is the response to who should pay for the additional cost for electricity produced from sources such as wind and solar. Fifty-eight percent said shareholders of investor owned utilities should shoulder the financial burden. My guess is if shareholders rather than ratepayers had to pay for the cost of wind and solar, the enthusiasm for "green" would diminish substantially.
Earlier in the year, "legislation to freeze the state's renewable energy mandate stalled in a House Committee, but a similar bill is currently moving through the Senate. " This poll reveals the bill would be extremely well received by ratepayers.


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Sad.. RIP Erica Blasberg
May 10, 2010, 04:21 PM
shocking... not much detail yet..
May 10, 2010, 04:31 PM
wow at such a young age,terrible loss to the family and the tour.
May 10, 2010, 04:38 PM
Always always a sad occasion :(
May 10, 2010, 05:44 PM
very sad....just 25 years old.
May 10, 2010, 06:00 PM
wow...and in the hottest lpga star i picked her...just a a couple days ago...now it makes me feel kind of creepy and weirded out for doing that....i wonder was it an accident or what?
that young something has to be unusual otherwise. sad.
May 10, 2010, 06:31 PM
A young life cut short. Very sad indeed. :(
Rest in peace...
May 10, 2010, 06:51 PM
Sad story.
Seems she might have been having some substance issues.
May 10, 2010, 08:17 PM
Very sad, indeed.
May 10, 2010, 08:19 PM
I just heard the news from a friend of mine because he knew she was one of my fav LPGA players. I still can't believe it. I got a chance to see her play at the Canadian Open in Ottawa two years ago.
May 10, 2010, 08:55 PM
Thats too bad...at least she made her dreams come true..
May 10, 2010, 09:01 PM
That's sad. I also picked her as being one of the most attractive LPGA players.
May 10, 2010, 09:31 PM
Very Scary to lose a life that young!:(
May 10, 2010, 09:38 PM
Very sad to hear! She was way to young to pass away. RIP
May 11, 2010, 12:05 AM
from the Press Enterprise, At first glance it looks like she might have taken her own life, but at second glance, something is very, very strange about it, said Ericas father, Mel Blasberg, by phone from Nevada. Were waiting for the police to make an investigation, its a pending investigation.
Either way, I lost her and its impossible to deal with.
RIP Erica :(
May 11, 2010, 03:10 AM
Very sad!!
May 11, 2010, 08:01 AM
holy crap...that is horrendous...I guess I will leave her avatar up as my tribute
May 11, 2010, 10:42 AM
This is horrible.
A story about the situation...
May 11, 2010, 06:36 PM
Agent: Blasberg had bags packed
LAS VEGAS -- LPGA golfer Erica Blasberg had her bags packed for a tournament in Alabama when she died suddenly at her home in suburban Henderson, her agent said Tuesday. Police aren't saying how she died.
Blasberg was scheduled to leave last Sunday to play a qualification round on Monday for the Bell Micro LPGA Classic in Mobile, said the agent, Chase Callahan, who is based in Irvine, Calif.
Callahan and Blasberg's parents, Mel and Debbie Blasberg, of Corona, Calif., began planning Tuesday for a memorial service in her hometown amid questions about Blasberg's death Sunday in her home about 15 miles southeast of the Las Vegas Strip.
"We don't know yet who, what or why," Callahan said, calling Blasberg's death "tragic for her family, the people of Corona, and the people who knew her."
"Police haven't given her family or me any indication of anything," said Callahan, who noted that Blasberg's father was also her golf coach.
"At first glance it looks like she might have taken her own life, but at second glance, something is very, very strange about it," Blasberg's father, Mel, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "Either way, I lost her and it's impossible to deal with."
Blasberg was found dead about 3 p.m. Sunday after police responded to a 911 call from the two-story, three-bedroom home Blasberg bought for $281,000 in November 2007.
Police have not said if they suspect foul play, and police spokesman Keith Paul declined again to say Tuesday who summoned police to the house.
Clark County Coroner Michael Murphy said a ruling on a cause of death was pending blood and tissue tests that could take four to six weeks to complete.
Callahan said he didn't know if Blasberg had any visitors during the weekend.
"I don't question any of the relationships that she had in this right now," he said.
The family has scheduled a May 19 memorial service at the Eagle Glen Golf Club in Corona, about 65 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Private burial will follow.
Blasberg grew up in Southern California, and was in her sixth season on the LPGA Tour.
She was a former junior golf standout, an All-American in 2003 and 2004. She was the 2003 NCAA Freshman of the Year and 2003 Pac-10 Player of the Year while at the University of Arizona.
She turned professional in June 2004, and won once on the Duramed FUTURES Tour before qualifying for the LPGA Tour in 2005.
Her best year on Tour was 2008, when she earned a career-best tie for eighth at the SBS Open in Hawaii and over $113,000 in winnings, the LPGA said.
Blasberg played in one event this season, tying for 44th in the April 29-May 2 Tres Marias Championship in Morelia, Mexico.
May 11, 2010, 08:35 PM
That's truly sad. I was hoping that she would be a future star. We all pray for her and her family. The LPGA's loss.
May 12, 2010, 09:58 AM
shocking... not much detail yet..
May 12, 2010, 10:00 AM
from the Press Enterprise, At first glance it looks like she might have taken her own life, but at second glance, something is very, very strange about it, said Ericas father, Mel Blasberg, by phone from Nevada. Were waiting for the police to make an investigation, its a pending investigation.
Either way, I lost her and its impossible to deal with.
RIP Erica :(
heart-breaking. im sppeechless.
May 12, 2010, 12:12 PM
When you read this story - reading between the lines it doesn't sound positive in terms of why/what happend.
Shock and disbelief over Erica Blasberg's death
By RANDALL MELL
Senior Writer, GolfChannel.com
Posted: May 11, 2010
MOBILE, Ala. Erica Blasbergs voice kept coming back to him.
Wobbling across Magnolia Groves emerald fairways, his players bag feeling heavier than it should, Ray Kim got his caddie instructions from a higher plane during Tuesdays practice round at the Bell Micro LPGA Classic.
Every time Kim felt like putting down Becky Morgans bag, he could hear Erica.
She would tell me to quit being such a `wuss, Kim said. She would tell me that I should `Man up. That was Erica. She was so fiery, so competitive, but she was so much fun off the course. I wasnt her caddie. I was her friend who caddied for her. She brought me out here on tour. She gave me this life. Everything out here reminds me of her.
And thats what made Tuesday so painful for Kim.
News that Blasberg, 25, was found dead Sunday in her Henderson, Nev., home outside Las Vegas is hitting her friends in unrelenting waves. Shock, disbelief and sadness mingled with confusion and curiosity from the locker room to the driving range.
Why? asks Irene Cho, Blasbergs closest friend on tour. What happened? Why did it happen? Thats what we keep asking ourselves.
Since news of Blasbergs death reached here Monday, tour pros have struggled with more than the loss of a friend and colleague. Theyve struggled with the mystery. What happened to this attractive young talent who once showed so much promise and was so well liked?
Everyones just in shock, Cho said. I cant believe it. I wont believe it until I actually see her body.
A Henderson police spokesman said Tuesday that Blasbergs death remains under investigation. Police have not released the cause of her death or any details surrounding its circumstances.
The only glimpse inside the mystery came from Blasbergs father, Mel, who spoke to The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif., on Monday. Hes a golf teacher whos been integrally involved in the shaping of her game from juniors to pros.
At first glance, it looks like she might have taken her own life, but at second glance, something is very, very strange, Mel Blasberg said.
The last time Kim saw Blasberg was at the Tres Marias Championship in Mexico two weeks ago, where Blasberg Monday qualified to get into the field and then tied for 44th. Kim helped her pack before she left Monday morning.
I told her, `See you in Alabama, Kim said.
Cho also was waiting for Blasbergs arrival here this week. With limited status on tour this season, she was going to play another Monday qualifier in a bid to play her way into this weeks Bell Micro LPGA Classic. Cho was so excited about her friends prospects, she offered her caddie, Missy Pederson, to tote her bag. On Sunday, Pederson received a text message from Blasberg. She told Pederson she changed her mind, she wasnt going to play this week.
I texted Erica Sunday night to try to find out what happened, Cho said. I never got an answer back.
The Associated Press reported that Blasbergs bags were packed when she was found dead. LPGA officials said Blasberg had not committed to the Monday qualifier, but it wasnt unusual for eligible players to commit upon arrival on site.
Cho broke into tears when LPGA commissioner Mike Whan hugged her Tuesday as she left the practice putting green. The flag on property Tuesday was at half mast. Players wore purple ribbons in memory of Blasberg, and LPGA staff made preparations for a memorial to honor her this week.
Beneath the tears, the sadness here, theres angst and confusion about what happened to this former junior and collegiate champ.
Blasberg grew up in Corona, Calif., as a three-time American Junior Golf Association All-American. She was good enough to play on the boys team at Corona High. Her father was a professional instructor and the only swing coach shes ever known. She went on to become a two-time All-American at the University of Arizona.
She won everything, Cho said.
Blasberg was so good that after her sophomore year, she turned pro. She won a Futures Tour event that summer and advanced through LPGA Qualifying School with non-exempt status. She was going to be a star. That was the feeling back home, but it never happened.
In five LPGA seasons, Blasbergs best finish was a tie for eighth at the SBS Open at Turtle Bay in Hawaii. Thats where she met Kim, a local caddie assigned to her for the week. They hit it off so well that Blasberg talked Kim into leaving the island to become her full-time caddie. They made a strong run at winning with a final-round lead at the 2008 Corning Classic, but Blasberg closed with a 79.
Erica really believed she was the best player out there every week, Kim said. But she didnt live up to it. She was a really good player, but she had some rough edges she needed to work on and things just didnt click the way she planned.
Blasberg and Kim parted ways professionally before last year, but they remained close friends, so close that Kim tried to help her rebound when she slumped last season.
With just five cuts made in 17 events in 2009, Blasberg was down on herself. She returned to Q-School at seasons end.
Erica didnt even want to go, Kim said. I convinced her to go. I told her I would caddie for her. It was a selfish thing. I wanted her out on tour. She was my best friend.
With her game unraveling in the second round at Q-School, Blasberg grew despondent.
She pretty much gave up at the turn, Kim said. At the end of the round, she told me she was going home.
Kim saw a change in Blasberg after that. That failure was an emotional turning point.
She was supposed to come out and be a star, and she couldnt make it through Q-School, Kim said. I think she saw her life flashing before her eyes. She didnt finish college, and you could see her struggling with the idea, `What else am I going to do?
Blasberg openly talked of feeling depressed after the Q-School failure.
Kim said Blasberg was always full of life and had a sense of adventure. It was hard to see her down.
She either wanted to be laughing or making someone laugh, Kim said.
Cho was drawn to that quality, too.
Erica was so spontaneous, so spur of the moment, Cho said. She was intense on the course, but she taught me how to have fun off it. She told me that I had to loosen up. She totally rubbed off on me.
Kim was worried about Blasberg after Q-School. He worried not seeing her when she headed back to Las Vegas.
She said she was bored in Las Vegas, Kim said. She didnt know anybody, but Erica liked to party.
Kim said his worries fell away when he saw Blasberg two weeks ago at the Tres Marias Championship. The fact that she traveled to Mexico to try to Monday qualify told him all he needed about her renewed motivation. She seemed revitalized there. Blasberg even told Kim about the work she had been doing with her father on her swing.
Hes tough, and hes very strict and he can be intimidating, but he loves her very much, Kim said. Shes his life, his pride and joy.
Kim said Mel Blasbergs toughness rubbed off on his daughter. She was as tough as he was. She was no wilting flower in papas presence.
I remember once when he wanted me to start lining her up before her shots, Kim said. She told him she would rather quit playing golf than ever let somebody line her up.
In Mexico, Kim told Blasberg that she felt really good about the bonding she and her father enjoyed over the winter break, when she was so down and needed his help.
It was unreal how happy she was in Mexico, Kim said. Thats why this is so confusing.
And why her death is so sadly mysterious.
north ridge
May 14, 2010, 10:07 PM
I've been on Team Blasberg for a long time. Best story I've read on this. Very,very sad.
May 20, 2010, 10:58 PM
have they released the cause of death yet?
May 30, 2010, 12:38 PM
Just found this....
May 30, 2010, 01:49 PM
Xanax by itself is a good anti anxiety treatment and also has some anti depressant properties. This is in a class of drugs called Benzodiazapene's. One can usually take a truckload of these drugs as some tolerance develops. BUT - they are extremely dangerous when taken with alcohol. This might have been a case of accidental overdose, or accidental self medicating with alcohol.
For golfers this reminds of the preassures of the tour - and just how talented these players are at the top level. Very sad - my opionion is accidental overdose.
May 30, 2010, 03:43 PM
Thanks for the clarification Woody... hadn't heard that yet!
This whole thing is quite bizarre! We have a "wall of fame" in our test center with all the Tour players that have won using our products and other players that have loyal to us. Erica is on that wall, what is so weird, is that who would think that she would be the first to pass away!
great person, who is missed by many!
Jun 2, 2010, 06:22 PM
Blasberg's father says Erica had personal relationship with doctor
Posted at 1:24 PM by Mike Walker (http://search.golf.com/site/results.html?Ntt=Mike Walker) | Categories: Erica Blasberg (http://blogs.golf.com/presstent/erica-blasberg/)
Erica Blasberg's father said his daughter was not depressed prior to her mysterious death on May 9 and that he knew that his daughter has "something other than a professional patient-doctor relationship" with Dr. Thomas Hess.
In an interview with The Early Show on CBS (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/02/earlyshow/main6540363.shtml), Mel Blasberg said he was not surprised that police investigators searched Hess's Las Vegas medical practice and home just days after Erica's death. The Las Vegas Review-Journal (http://www.lvrj.com/news/raid-reportedly-linked-to-death-investigation-95396104.html) reported that police confiscated "several computers, two video cameras, a cell phone and a global positioning system" from Hess's home. Police also took white trash bags and a computer from his office, The Review-Journal said.
"The whole issue with Dr. Hess is -- it's been vague, ambiguous, almost, and as these events are coming out, I'm learning about them just like everybody else is," Mel Blasberg told CBS. He added that his daughter had mentioned Hess the week before she died.
"I had seen Erica the Thursday before the Saturday that she died or Sunday that she died, and she was mentioning that she had a friend who was a doctor," Blasberg said. "But that was it. I didn't even know the guy's name. It wasn't until all these pieces of the puzzle came together, so-to-speak, that I knew who he was. There's no doubt Erica and this doctor had something other than a professional patient-doctor relationship. I'm not implying anything beyond the fact that I know for a fact that they played golf."
Mel Blasberg also said his daughter was in good spirits prior to her death. When Erica was found dead in her Henderson, Nev., home, her bags were packed for the Bell Micro LPGA Classic in Mobile, Ala., where she intended to play the following day.
"And I should say that the question that I posed to the police department, and I think it's important for everybody to know this as well, is Erica was fine," Mel Blasberg told CBS. "You could just tell, she couldn't wait to get there. We know that she packed a bag on Friday ... so she was ready to go. What happened to Erica after she did all this, for her not to go to Alabama, which is where the event is? That's a question that has to be answered. There's only thing I can think of and that's something off the (golf) course."
According to The Las Vegas Review-Journal, Henderson police are calling their inquiry a "death investigation."
Authorities have said that a 911 call that summoned investigators to Blasberg's home came from inside the house and that she was not alone upon officers' arrival.
Hess, a family practice doctor, did not return a phone call at his office Tuesday. His lawyer, Charles Kelly, declined to comment.
Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy has said toxicology results might not be ready until late June.
Mel Blasberg told CBS that he's speaking publicly about the case because he believes the media has reported misinformation about his daughter.
"The three things you said are all wrong," he said. "So, 'A,' she was not depressed. In a medical sense. She was never treated for it. Never went to a doctor for it. Financially, contrary to what everybody is saying, Erica's off-course income was substantial. Perhaps not as much as the PGA Tour guys. To say that Erica was upset about how she played the year before, that is a correct statement. But that was the year before. Erica was fine as she went into this year. Although she had a tough route to follow, because she had to do some qualifying. So again part of your original question is, 'Why am I here? Why am I doing this?' It's to clarify things that are just wrong."
Read more: http://blogs.golf.com/presstent/2010/06/blasbergs-father-says-erica-knew.html#ixzz0pjzuxHwa
Dec 2, 2010, 11:16 AM
Nevada doctor pleads guilty to obstruction in golfer Erica Blasberg suicide case
The Associated Press
HENDERSON, Nev. - A Las Vegas physician who found the body of professional golfer Erica Blasberg after she committed suicide has pleaded guilty to misdemeanour obstruction.
Henderson Municipal Judge Diana Hampton sentenced Dr. Thomas Hess on Wednesday to one year probation and 40 hours of community service.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Hess told authorities he removed a suicide note and prescription medications from Blasberg's home before police arrived to investigate her death.
Hess says he wanted to spare her family embarrassment.
The 25-year-old Blasberg was found May 9 with a plastic bag over her head at her Henderson, Nev., home.
The Clark County coroner's office in August ruled the death a suicide. It says she died of asphyxia with traces of prescription drugs in her body.
Dec 2, 2010, 12:33 PM
Thank you for the update. Does it not seem plainly obvious that he Killed her to anyone else? None of the agreed upon "facts" make any sense together...?
Nevada doctor pleads guilty to obstruction in golfer Erica Blasberg suicide case
The Associated Press
HENDERSON, Nev. - A Las Vegas physician who found the body of professional golfer Erica Blasberg after she committed suicide has pleaded guilty to misdemeanour obstruction.
Henderson Municipal Judge Diana Hampton sentenced Dr. Thomas Hess on Wednesday to one year probation and 40 hours of community service.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Hess told authorities he removed a suicide note and prescription medications from Blasberg's home before police arrived to investigate her death.
Hess says he wanted to spare her family embarrassment.
The 25-year-old Blasberg was found May 9 with a plastic bag over her head at her Henderson, Nev., home.
The Clark County coroner's office in August ruled the death a suicide. It says she died of asphyxia with traces of prescription drugs in her body.
Dec 3, 2010, 09:30 AM
sounds like a very strange way to commit suicide...Hang him!!!!
Dec 4, 2010, 10:51 AM
The guy is dirty, no doubt.
Dec 4, 2010, 11:12 AM
While the whole thing stinks to high heaven, you cannot incarcerate someone on hypotheticals and conjecture.
The Troll
Dec 4, 2010, 11:22 AM
A few months before her death her tweets were posted on Golfwrx. I felt they revealed a person going through their own struggles and demons.
The thread and the tweets were taken down shortly thereafter, long before she passed away....she took a fair bit of 'net abuse over those.
It is a very sad story.
Dec 4, 2010, 02:25 PM
Golf Central had Mr. Blasberg on the other day. He was asked if he could ever recover from this...
Dec 4, 2010, 07:14 PM
Calling Dexter.:shhh:
Dec 5, 2010, 05:54 PM
Wonder if the doctor was married and was seeing her on the side?
Dec 5, 2010, 06:38 PM
Wonder if the doctor was married and was seeing her on the side?
Heard his wife and him (Dr.) were going through tough times. Separated but that apparently was unrelated if you believe the accounts.
Dec 5, 2010, 09:11 PM
Wonder if the doctor was married and was seeing her on the side?
I'm pretty sure that I read that the Dr. and Erica had a relationship. I know her father alluded to it.
Dec 6, 2010, 07:34 PM
Failing marriage, recreational prescription drugs, dead body...all things you don't want to be anywhere near.
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Hello i am a Target Employee who has been injured by a slip and fall. i am currently seeking medical attention to treat my injured hip. i was told i couldn't sue based on workers compensation ; however my employer was negligent on his behalf . They were told several times that the floor was inoperable. Several other people including customers fell within the same day and even after. Do i have a case?
You were told correctly. Speak with local and qualified workers compensation counsel. Good luck.
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You likely have a workers compensation claim but probably do not have a negligence claim. While there are a few exceptions, if someone in CT is hurt on the job, your remedy is through the workers compensation system. On the plus side, you don't have to prove fault or blame - only that you were hurt at work. On the down side, your recovery is limited. Certainly Target's workers compensation carrier should be paying your medical bills. Contact a lawyer ASAP to file the claim, or research how to do it yourself (lots of folks represent themselves in workers compensation claims). Good luck!
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You cannot sure your employer for a work-related injury--it's a workers comp claim. But if some third party is responsible, you could sue them. For example, say an outside contractor came in and did something negligent to the floor that caused you to fall, you could sue the contractor. But if your employer is responsible and you were in the course and scope of employment at the time of the fall, you are limited to workers comp.Ask a similar question
You can certainly bring a workers' compensation claim; however, suing your employer requires some gross negligence on his part, or some OSHA violation for which they were on notice to correct, but didn't.
It's difficult either way. It's possible there may be some type of product liability claim, though your facts are silent as to such a possible claim.
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Based upon the information you have provided, you do not have a negligence claim against your employer. However, if Target used a contractor to maintain the store floors, then you can pursue a negligence claim against the contractor.Ask a similar question
What you have been told by my colleagues is the law in most states. Unless there is some exception which applies, your recovery will be limited to workers' compensation.
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Workers comp, thus, retain a local workers comp lawyer.
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Based on what you have told us, you have a workers compensation claim, but you do not have a direct claim for negligence against your employer.Contact a workers compensation attorney to ensure that you are receiving all the benefits to which you are entitled.
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Most claims against your employer for on the job injuries are limited to workers compensation.
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The doctorate in business administration with an emphasis in finance at Washington State University is designed to prepare graduates for careers in research and teaching. The primary goal of the finance doctoral program is to train academics for placements at AACSB-accredited universities throughout the United States and abroad. The program encompasses a variety of formal and informal interactions and projects with faculty and others, as well as course work, comprehensive exams, teaching experience and dissertation research. It enables students to develop substantial competencies in the theory, practice, and research methodology essential to the advancement of finance knowledge, while accommodating individual backgrounds, experiences, and objectives. Course work covers topics associated with the scholarly pursuit of marketing as well as topics from supporting fields of inquiry such as psychology, sociology, and management. Extensive coverage of research methods and statistics associated with the social sciences also is a large component of the program. In addition to specific coursework, the marketing doctoral program also provides an environment in which students can develop research competencies in close association with the marketing faculty and other graduate students.
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Candidates must reach a minimum admissions index score of 1250 to be considered for admission. The index is based on the formula GPA x 200 + GMAT. There is not a minimum GMAT score. However, sucessful candidates typically exceed 650. GMAT score report code 09D-TL-81 Pearson Test of English score report code: 8Z2-GT-38 Desired pre-requisite courses: 3 semesters college level calculus, 1 semester mathematics for economists, 1 semester of linear algebra, 2 semesters of probability and statistics, 1 semester of intermediate microeconomics, 1 semester of intermediate corporate finance, 1 semester of investments, 1 semester of financial markets and institutions.
Desired Prerequisites to Enter the Ph.D. Program
• 3 semesters of college calculus
• 1 semester of mathematics for economists
• 1 semester of linear algebra
• 2 semesters of probability and statistics
• 1 semester of intermediate microeconomics
• 1 semester of intermediate corporate finance
• 1 semester of investments
• 1 semester of financial markets and institutions
Research Tool Requirements (20 credit hours)
• EconS/Fin 510 Statistics for Economists
• EconS/Fin 511 Econometrics I
• EconS/Fin 512 Econometrics II
• BA 598 Research and Professional Development Seminar (1 credit)
• Three of the following:
• Stat 530 Applied Linear Models
• MgtOp 516 Time Series Analysis
• Math 548 Numerical Analysis
• Stat 556 Introduction to Statistical Theory
• Stat 536 Statistical Computing
• MgtOp 519 Applied Multivariate Analysis
• Stat 522 Biostatistics and Epidemiology
• MgtOps 596 Advanced Topics in Operations and Statistics
• MKTG 593 Behavioral Research Methods Seminar
• Course approved by the Finance Ph.D. Program director
Major Field Requirements (15 credit hours)
• EconS/Fin 596 (I) Advanced Topics in Financial Economics
• EconS/Fin 596 (II) Advanced Topics in Financial Economics
• EconS/Fin 596 (III) Advanced Topics in Financial Economics
• Two additional courses to be defined and approved the Finance Ph.D. Program director. Possibilities are MBA level finance courses, FIN 600 Independent Study (up to 6 credits), FIN 400 level course (up to 6 credits), MgtOps 596, statistics courses, or other.
Supporting Field Requirements (12 credit hours)
• EconS/Fin 500 Economic Theory I (Static Optimization)
• EconS/Fin 501 Economic Theory II (Introduction to Dynamics)
• EconS/Fin 502 Economic Theory III (General Equilibrium)
• EconS/Fin 503 Economic Theory IV (Short-run fluctuations and nominal rigidities
Suggested Study Program for the First Year
Fall Semester
• EconS/Fin 500 Economic Theory I
• EconS/Fin 501 Economic Theory II
• EconS/Fin 510 Statistics for Economists (4 credit hours)
• BA 598 Research and Professional Development Seminar (1 credit)
Spring Semester
• EconS/Fin 502 Economic Theory III
• EconS/Fin 503 Economic Theory IV
• EconS/Fin 511 Econometrics
Qualifying Exam
Students are required to take the Micro, Macro, and Econometrics qualifying exams after taking the EconS 500 to 503 sequences. However, this requirement will be waived for any of the three exams when the student receives no lower than an A- in that two-course sequence.
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You hand Ronar both halves of the plan. He places one on top of the other and then holds them both up to the light. You see how, when held in this manner, the light displays the words from one page onto the other making a complete record. Ronar says, 'Ah, yes, I see it so clearly now. It appears that Rallos was using the power Solusek Ro was providing him to power a great machine which is being used to create an unstoppable army of metallic warriors. It appears that one by the name of Giwin is overseeing this. Go to the Plane of Innovation and seek him out so you may discover how to end this threat once and for all.
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Hexham Abbey
Frith Stool.. a throne & sanctuary
Guide | Acca | Crypt | Flavinus | Frith | Screen | Sculpture | Stair | Windows | Banners | Wilfrid
The Frith Stool stands in the middle of the Choir at Hexham Abbey, a solid block of sandstone that was broken in two during the 19th century and cemented together again; the stone has been worn smooth by human hands over many centuries. It was made into a seat in the earliest days of the church, probably in the 7th century, and it has played a part in its story ever since.Perhaps Saint Wilfrid had this stone seat made soon after he founded the first monastery here about 671. Wilfrid was copying the stone churches that he had seen when he stayed in France, on his journeys to and from Rome. He was much impressed by the splendid buildings and political power of the Church in Merovingian Gaul, and he would have seen there stone and wooden seats like this one, where bishops and abbots sat presiding over their teams of clergy. When Wilfrid founded the first church at Hexham he was Bishop of the Northumbrians with his seat at York; but later he became abbot and bishop here at what was then known as the Hagustaldian Church, so almost certainly he sat on this as his throne; with, it is to be hoped, a cushion. Hexham was a cathedral, at the centre of a diocese, from about 678 to about 821, and this throne was perhaps made the bishop's official cathedra. Wilfrid used stones brought from the Roman ruins at Corbridge for his church, and this large block of stone too may have been quarried originally by Roman workmen. Probably Wilfrid's own Anglo-Saxon Northumbrians scooped out the seat and carved the simple patterns on the arms and front. There parallel straight lines to emphasise the outline of the seat, and an interlace design on the upper side of the arms ending in a triquetra. The same pattern appears in a manuscript illumination of St Matthew seated in a wooden chair that was painted at Canterbury perhaps about 750; but the design is so simple that it could have been carved at almost any time. The seat seems to have been set against a wall, in the middle of stone benches for other clergy; and perhaps it was once on stone supports carved in animal form, rather like larger versions of the beasts now in the niches of the nave. In later centuries Wilfrid's monastery fell into decay, though the church continued in use and the hereditary priests who served it may have sat where bishops and saints had sat before them. In the 12th century the Norman Archbishop of York sent Augustinian Canons to revive the church and restore its former splendour. They rebuilt in the new Norman style and, when fashions changed, in the Early English form of Gothic, so that nothing of the earlier church was left above ground; but they treated with great respect the ancient chair, for it undoubtedly went back to the days of the saintly founders and it had been sanctified by a great many holy bottoms. Prior Richard, who led the new community in its early days and was the first historian of Hexham, wrote of it with pride, calling it the FRITH STOOL The Frith Stool was 'the Chair of Peace'. Frith, though now obsolete, was common enough in Prior Richard's time and long before, in Anglo-Saxon English and Old German, meaning peace, security and freedom from molestation. Different forms of the word are found in the name 'Frederick' (peace-ruler) and the modem German words for peace, Friede, and churchyard, Friedhof. Many of the greater churches had such frith stools placed, as was this one, close by the high altar. Refugees in time of trouble and civil war, or wrongdoers in flight from authority and justice could claim the protection of the Church until they were assured of a full and fair trial. Anyone breaking the right to sanctuary by taking or killing a refugee within the church was liable to a fine of £96; but, writes Prior Richard, if the victim reached 'the stone cathedra next to the altar, which the English call the fridstol', that breach of sanctuary was beyond pardon, and the culprit faced excommunication or death. The Frith Stool remained close by the high altar throughout the Middle Ages, and it was certainly used in the troubled times of the Border Wars, though we cannot be sure just how much safety it guaranteed. Deserters and petty thieves found their way to the protection of the Priory Church and became 'grithmen'. In Edward Ill's reign, the king authorised the recruitment of such wrongdoers into the army. In Tudor times the right of sanctuary was strictly limited, for Henry VIII would allow no one to defy the royal law; and it was completely abolished soon after. The Frith Stool became redundant, a heavy and awkward piece of unwanted furniture. It was moved wherever it was least in the way, to the north aisle, the south transept, and back to one side and then the other of the high altar; it was probably during one of these moves in 1830 or 1859 that it was broken and badly patched up. In May 1908, when the new nave, was completed, work began to re-arrange the Choir and to relay its whole floor. C. C. Hodges and J. P. Gibson then uncovered foundations of the apsidal east end of a Saxon church, with a number of burials outside it. When the floor was re-laid above this (though the foundations themselves are still visible under the trapdoors below the carpet), the Frith Stool was brought out of seclusion and firmly cemented into position above the centre of the apse, on the assumption that this was the east end of Wilfrid's original church and therefore the site of his throne. It is now believed that the apse was in fact part of a small chapel, perhaps a mausoleum for saints and bishops, whose western end was under the later rood screen. Wilfrid's main church was further west, on the site of the present nave. There is, nevertheless, no intention to remove St Wilfrid's Throne from the honoured place it has occupied since 1910.


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NC Industrial Commission Executive Secretary Section
Who We Are
The primary role of the Executive Secretary's Office is to provide Administrative Review of issues in cases not scheduled for a hearing before a Deputy Commissioner or the Full Commission.
The Executive Secretary acts in a quasi-judicial capacity, with responsibilities of ruling and issuing orders on various Motions, approving Compromise Settlement Agreements and directing distribution of third party recoveries, supervising Special Deputy Commissioners in ruling on termination or reinstatement of benefits, and providing supervision, training, and direction for the Workers' Compensation Information Specialists program, which provides public information on the Workers' Compensation claims process.
Our Mission
The mission of the Executive Secretary's Office is to efficiently and effectively address, handle and rule on administrative filings in as summary and simple a manner as feasible and in as quick a manner as possible. The shared mission of the Executive Secretary, Special Deputy Commissioners and support staff is to assist all parties in the field of workers' compensation who file requests in a professional manner through informed administrative rulings and responses, streamlined processes and consistent practices, communications with the parties, and responsiveness on all matters with which we come into contact.
How We Can Help
The Executive Secretary provides the following services. This is by no means a comprehensive list of everything we do, but we will assist with the following:
- Form 24 Applications
- Form 23 Applications
- Administrative Motions filed by plaintiff's/defendant's counsel, and unrepresented parties
- Review of Compromise Settlement Agreements (also known as Clinchers)
- Orders Directing Distribution of Third Party Recoveries
Types of Motions Heard
The following list is representative of the types of general motions which are commonly handled by the Executive Secretary:
- Motion to Compel Discovery Responses pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-80 and Rule 605
- Motion to Comply with Rule 607 Request
- Motion to Compel Production of Form 22 pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-2(5)
- Motion to Compel Production of Employment Security Records pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-42.1
- Motion for Extension of Time to Respond to Discovery pursuant to Rule 605(1)
- Motion for Extension of Time to Respond to Form 33 pursuant to Rule 603
- Motion to Reinstate Compensation after Unilateral Termination of Compensation pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 97-18, 18.1
- Motion to Reinstate Compensation after Unsuccessful Trial Return to Work pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-32.1 and Rule 404A
- Motion to Issue Compensation Check on Timely and Weekly Basis pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 97-18 (b) and (e)
- Motion for Removal of Rehabilitation Professional pursuant to Rule IX of the Rules for Utilization of Rehabilitation Professionals in Workers' Compensation Claims
- Motion to Compel Compliance with Medical Treatment and/or Vocational Rehabilitation pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-25
- Motion for Dismissal pursuant to Rule 613
- Motion to Enter or Approve of Consent Order
- Motion for Communication with Physician pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-25.6
- Motion to Consolidate Cases
- Motion to Add or Remove Parties
- Motion to Approve Guardian ad Litem pursuant to Rule 604 (Form 42)
- Motion to Remove Case from Hearing Docket pursuant to Rule 613
- Motion to Approve Expert Witness Fees pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-26.1 when not connected to a hearing
- Motion to Allow Pre-Hearing Depositions
- Motion to Reimburse Travel Expenses pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-25 and Rule 407
- Motion to Approve Form 18M pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-25.1 and Rule 408
- Motion to Comply with Rule 601
- Motion for Late Payment Penalties pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-18
- Motion to Withdraw or Substitute Counsel pursuant to Rules 614(2)
- Motion for Extension of Time to Respond (to any of the above motions)
- Motion to Withdraw Administrative Motion
- Motion for Reconsideration of Administrative Order or Decision pursuant to Rule 703(1)
- Motion for Stay of Administrative Order or Decision pursuant to Rule 703(2)
This is not a comprehensive list. For more information or if you have questions regarding the role of the Executive Secretary, please contact us.
Executive Secretary Staff
Below is a list of the Executive Secretary and Staff, along with their areas of responsibility.
N.C. Industrial Commission General Contact Information can be found HERE
|Executive Secretary and Special Deputy Commissioners
|Executive Secretary
|Meredith R. Henderson
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|Special Deputy Commissioner
|Lucy Austin
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|Special Deputy Commissioner
|Rita Dorry
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|Special Deputy Commissioner
|Alexandra Hagerty
|(919) 807-2670
|Special Deputy Commissioner
|Neal Inman
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|Special Deputy Commissioner
|Michael Kelly
|(919) 807-2643
|Special Deputy Commissioner
|John Manzo
|(919) 807-2612
|Support Staff
|Compromise Settlement Agreements (Clinchers)
|Scott Horton
|(919) 807-2578
|Office Assistant
|Mandy Liang
|(919) 807-2664
|3rd Party Distributions
|Shona Pearson
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|General Case Questions
Procedures for Cases pending w/Executive Sec.
|Shona Pearson
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|General Motions
|Shona Pearson
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|Medical Motions
|Audrey Terry
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|Form 23 Applications
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