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Another special Friday edition of the BUZZ. Lots of interesting stuff!
* Have you seen the latest posts at THE TAX PROFESSIONAL? Check out "The Discussion Continues" and "A Truly Heinous Business Expense".
* I recently came across a quote from journalist Kevin Williamson (thanks to a "tweet" from Joe Kristan). As usual, the highlights are mine -
"The so-called fiscal cliff is one installment in a series of manufactured crises, the purpose of which is to provide the political establishment with small problems it can solve or pretend to solve while steadfastly refusing to address the much thornier problem of the long-term non-sustainability of U.S. public finances."
While I do believe there is truth to this statement, I also believe that by not addressing certain aspects of these crises, however manufactured, promptly and properly, the idiots of the "political establishment" will create real, tangible, and what could have been avoidable problems for the American public. Specifically I am talking about the issue of the dreaded AMT patch.
* Kay Bell brings us "Tax Carnival #109: Tax Stocking Stuffers" at DON'T MESS WITH TAXES. My post on locking in 2012 medical deductions is included.
* "No, I Don't Plan to Take the RTRP Exam". So says Enrolled Agent Jason Dinesen (and not me, although I do not want to take it) of DINESEN TAX TIMES.
Jason points out that –
"Some enrolled agents are taking the RTRP exam so they can add the RTRP designation to their name. The logic being, 'registered tax return preparer' is more palatable to the public than 'enrolled agent'."
There is no need for an EA to take the RTRP exam. They just need either a better name or better PR.
* A blast from the past - Jim Blankenship's November 2009 post "Not So Fast! 9 Special Considerations Before Rolling Over Your 401(k)".
* And Jim identifies "An Unexpected Result From Roth Conversion – Increased Medicare Premiums" in a current post.
* A post from TAX PROF Paul Caron led me to the paper "The Economic Costs of Tax Policy Uncertainty: Implications for Fundamental Tax Reform" by Seth H. Giertz of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and Jacob M. Feldman of the George Mason University's Mercatus Center -
"The economic literature finds that policy uncertainty is harmful to the economy in a variety of ways. Clearly, uncertainty discourages investment and results in the misallocation of resources. As mentioned earlier, Baker, Bloom, and Davis show that policy uncertainty can help explain the United States' lackluster growth (in jobs and overall economic activity) in recent years. In addition to the other avenues by which policy uncertainty harms the economy, we argue that it fosters rent-seeking and unproductive entrepreneurship."
The paper suggests "What can be done to lessen tax policy uncertainty" –
"Enduring fundamental tax reform would certainly help. Aside from policy uncertainty, there are many good reasons to support tax reform. Although recent years have been marked by great political discord, few of any political bent would dispute the contention that the U.S. federal income tax is unfair, inefficient, and needlessly complex, and that it raises far less revenue than Congress commits to spend. These are reasons enough for tax (and spending) reform. However, tax policy uncertainty is another, often overlooked, reason."
* Speaking of the TAX PROF - For years now, when clients have complained about paying too much tax, or asked if they are making too much money, I have always said, "At least you are not an equal partner with the government," meaning that each additional dollar earned was taxed at less than 50%.
I may not be able to say that to some clients anymore. Paul Caron references a new report that suggests "Top Marginal Tax Rate Will Exceed 50% in California, New York, and Hawaii in 2013".
Actually back when I started preparing 1040s (February of 1972) there was a "Maximum Tax" form that made sure the federal tax assessed on "earned income" was limited to 50%.
* It's that time of the year again – "Nominations Due for 2012 Tax Offender of the Year" over at TAXABLE TALK.
Russ Fox announces -
"With just under a month to go before 2012 is complete, it's time again for anyone to submit a nominee for the Tax Offender of the Year. To be considered for the Tax Offender of the Year award, the individual must do more than cheat on his or her taxes. It has to be special; it really needs to be a Bozo-like action or actions."
My vote for the 2012 Tax Offender of the Year goes to last year's winner – The United States Congress. I can think of no bigger Bozo.
* The SAYEDUCATE personal finance blog considers "Tax Software: Should You Do It Yourself?". It begins by telling us (the highlight is mine) -
"When it comes to preparing your state and federal incomes taxes, do you rely upon a tax professional or do you undertake this arduous process yourself? With the former choice, you can ensure that the person that does your taxes knows what he or she is doing. With the latter, you risk making important mistakes, perhaps missing out on an important deduction or failing to follow complicated instructions.
There is, of course, a third way — do your taxes yourself with the help of a third-party tax preparation software program."
His bottom line –
"So, the answer to this question has largely to do with two matters: your time and your computer's ability to handle a program. For some consumers, the only answer here is to make a call their tax accountant and arrange a meeting to have those taxes prepared. In this case you'll leave the hard work to a trust professional, enabling you to concentrate on other matters."
The author has missed another "matter" to consider when evaluating the choice of using tax preparation software – your knowledge of the Tax Code. As with any software, the rule is "Garbage In – Garbage Out".
Unless you really know a lot about taxes, by using a tax preparation software package "you risk making important mistakes, perhaps missing out on an important deduction or failing to follow complicated instructions".
* TAXGIRL Kelly Phillips Erb kicks off her "12 Days of Charitable Giving 2012" at FORBES.COM with "Be An Elf".
* Happy Birthday to the Tax Foundation - you don't look 75!
* TAXPRO TODAY presents "The NAEA's Degen on the Biggest Challenges Facing Tax Preparers", the latest in a series of interviews with the heads of tax preparer membership organizations.
Frank Degen, president of the National Association of Enrolled Agents, was asked - "What is the biggest challenge facing tax preparers today?". His answer –
"Uncertainty. The challenge is two-fold. First is the uncertainty in the legislative area. What will Congress do? What will happen to the Bush tax cuts, the extenders, the AMT patch, and so on? Because of this, it is extremely difficult for practitioners to give sound advice to their clients.
Second is the uncertainty in the tax administration area. Will the IRS effectively administer the new preparer registration regime? There appear to be a large number of preparers who still must be tested and registered. Additionally, will the IRS effectively publicize the significant differences between the federal designations -- the senior credential of Enrolled Agent and the junior credential of registered tax return preparer?"
While the RTRP designation may be "junior", many of those who do, or will, qualify for these initials are far from "junior". I have been doing this for over 40 years now.
* We get the word from Trish McIntire that the "Education Credits Form Changes" for 2012.
While the new form will take a bit more time to fill out, at least we, as tax preparers, do not need to personally call the educational institution and check transcripts.
Unfortunately, the Form 1098-T that is supposed to be used to report qualified tuition and fees paid is basically tits on a bull, and tax preparers have had to spend valuable time chasing down alternative documentation to calculate the appropriate education benefit for several years now.
As Trish suggests, the form has been expanded because the American Opportunity Credit is partially refundable and therefore a magnet for tax fraud.
There is already a system for providing government-funded student financial aid in place. The AOC benefits should be distributed via this system, up front when the money is needed, and not run through the Tax Code.
I truly miss the annual Christmas shows of Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, Perry Como, etc. from my youth. Unfortunately traditional variety on broadcast tv is dead (and was killed for good by Rosie O'Donnell).
Thank God for PBS, which occasionally runs compilations of classic variety shows and specials, and continues to re-run Lawrence Welk each week.
The last original entertaining Christmas variety show that I can remember was on TVLand!
A recent early Blake Shelton (wtf?) NBC "special" was anything but – the failed attempts at comedy were distasteful and vulgar.
I realize that, with the exception of Tony Bennett, there are no longer iconic performers of the stature of Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams or Perry Como. But many rock icons, like Rod Stewart and Paul McCartney, have embraced traditional popular standards lately, and could properly host a traditional Christmas show, and there are plenty of talented performers who could guest.
Rod Stewart actually did a too early (pre-December, I think) Christmas special for PBS based on his new album that was certainly far superior to the BS fiasco – but it was, unfortunately, chopped up by extensive begging breaks (my one ongoing complaint with PBS).


text: Hi all, Quite new around here. I've posted in a couple of Jeyl's "Episode Of The Week" threads, which I really like. This topic could have been more generalised, but I think it applies best to TNG - you'll see why in a moment. I hope this post isn't too long - I do go into a lot of detail, but that's because I'm hoping this will spark a detailed level of debate and interest. In my opinion, the horror aspect of Star Trek in general is somewhat underrated. The elements of horror which appear in science fiction are probably underrated because they are both more fantastical and more subtle. Now I'm going to make a very bold statement: In my opinion, Night Terrors has some of the most creepy and psychologically disturbing moments in not only all of television history, but perhaps film history, too. Why? Because the episode is overt enough that we know it's meant to be spooky, but too subtle for us to laugh at it. Case in point: the morgue scene. The morgue scene is one of the most subtle freak-out moments ever, because it doesn't go for the obvious route of scaring the pants off the audience with cheap thrills; it's far more insidious than that. It's so simple: our doctor is left alone in a room full of dead bodies, which is quite normal for her considering her line of work. However, because she is hallucinating, the bodies appear to...all sit up simultaneously. She turns away, and they are lying down again. End of scene. That is all...nothing else happens. So why is it so scary? It's highly fascinating to me that this one scene, in which not a drop of blood is spilled, no one is hurt and no one screams, is nevertheless more psychologically creepy, freaky and unnatural, IMHO, than any number of gory scenes in horror films. That the corpses don't do anything other than make that ever so creepy rustling sound, and then sit up, could actually be the reason why it's so frightening: if they started moaning and lumbering about like zombies, even if they seemed to pose some threat to Doctor Crusher, we could still laugh at the scene and so it would lose its power. Because they do nothing other than sit up all at once in that horribly unnatural jerking movement, it's too subtle to be cheesy - we can't laugh at it, because it's genuinely freaky as opposed to silly. I find this very interesting...any thoughts? It might just be me, it might be linked to the fact that I first saw it when I was about five years old. I'm not sure. Either way, it's intriguing. Moving on to other episodes, the general point I'm trying to make here is that the understated nature of the horror elements in TNG's particular brand of sci-fi is, perhaps, what makes gives them especially disturbing, get under-your-skin kind of creepiness, one which is too low-key to be sniggered at. Frame Of Mind is scary only because we see everything from Riker's point of view, and it's disjointed, weird and terrifying to him - and thus to the audience. Again, it's psychologically very powerful. Schisms is considered by some fans to be the scariest Star Trek episode ever, period, throughout all the episodes of every Star Trek series, and it's simply an alien abduction plot. Is Schisms more frightening than a gory horror film? It might not seem that way from the outset, but its level of spookiness is virtually unmatched...even though all the visual elements are, again, fairly subtle. In the end, it has to come down to psychological horror, which lends itself really well to subtlety. Is psychological horror always going to be more frightening and disturbing to the human mind because it taps into our deepest fears, as opposed to simply aiming to shock? Some kind of demonic, gory, revolting film ought to be scarier, and certainly more depressing, but it doesn't seem to be, even when it's not something you can easily laugh at...maybe it's simply too extreme, and so it becomes corny. Does this mean that the visceral elements of horror are nothing without, or when compared to, the psychological ones? I can't think of any other reason why certain TNG episodes are still creepier to me than any number of films. Hope that this all makes for some interesting food for thought and debate.

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A screenshot gallery has emerged of the prototype, showing concept art of locations, characters and monsters that resembled--but were not acknowledged--parts of the Halo universe. In-game mock-ups of the prototype appeared to borrow more than a few elements from Blizzard's monolithic MMO World of Warcraft.
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--Conference Call Scheduled for Tuesday, February 24 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time-- HAMPTON, N.J., Feb. 19, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:CLDX) will release fourth quarter and year-end 2014 financial results on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 before the U.S. financial markets open. Celldex executives will host a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET on the same day to discuss 2014 financial and business results and to provide an update on key 2015 objectives. The conference call and presentation will be webcast live over the Internet and can be accessed by going to the "Events & Presentations" page under the "Investors & Media" section of the Celldex Therapeutics website at www.celldex.com. The call can also be accessed by dialing (866) 743-9666 (within the United States) or (760) 298-5103 (outside the United States). The passcode is 89115872. A replay of the call will be available approximately two hours after the live call concludes through March 2, 2015. To access the replay, dial (855) 859-2056 (within the United States) or (404) 537-3406 (outside the United States). The passcode is 89115872. The webcast will also be archived on the Company's website. About Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. Celldex is developing targeted therapeutics to address devastating diseases for which available treatments are inadequate. Our pipeline is built from a proprietary portfolio of antibodies and immunomodulators used alone and in strategic combinations to create novel, disease-specific therapies that induce, enhance or suppress the body's immune response. Visit www.celldex.com.
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Christmas is a time of great joy. It is the season of giving. It is the season of depression, as well.
Depression may seem like a strange topic to write about instead of the wonderful message of the baby Jesus. Most of us will gather with family, enjoy the Christmas spirit and honor the birth of Jesus. There are more people than we see who go through the motions but remain burdened with the season, however.
I would like to talk about those we can reach out to this season, who may even walk among us but remain in the grips of darkness. We can't fix their conditions. However, we can walk with them in respect, gentleness and great grace during the season.
The first group is those who have lost a loved one and the wound remains open. The holiday brings up memories. It also brings up great feelings of loneliness. For anyone you may know who has lost a child or may have a very sick child, Christmas can be extremely harsh. The emphasis on the baby brings natural feelings of despair for the suffering.
Another group that faces the depression of the holiday is those whose families are fractured and extremely dysfunctional. They are often alone with a broken safety net. Christmas is traditionally a family season. For broken families, it doubles the sense of despair.
There are those who naturally suffer from depression. Even with medication, the combination of light deprivation (short days) and festive mood reminds them of their condition. We would think it would brighten their outlooks. For some, that is true. However, for many it is a reminder of their condition.
There are others who face life-changing issues. Evil and depravity do not respect the time of the year. Sickness, loss of job, marital strife, addiction and more do not stop to sing "Silent Night." The natural forces of the depraved world cause feelings of great loneliness and despair. This is especially true for those who had a certain level of income and lifestyle, only to see it disappear overnight. The inability to provide a Christmas wish for a child who has great hopes burdens the parent.
These are those who suffer in life. They are in our families. They are our neighbors. They are in the pew at church. Many try hard to join in the Christmas spirit. Others get too much into the spirits.
So what do we do? Often, to the depressed, outward efforts to brighten the day actually drive them deeper into the darkness. Many of us simply don't know what to do, so we lay stymied in our efforts. We often blame the depressed for their attitudes and seek to force them to be of Christmas cheer.
There is no easy answer. Ignoring the situation or forcing ourselves on the sufferers is not the answer. Often, the only gift to give them this holiday season is a presence of understanding and care. Sitting with them, fulfilling their wishes, just being there, maybe even crying with them in their suffering, is the best gift to give.
Listening carefully to the cry of the heart may not be the typical Christmas mode. However, it is the mode of love that the very baby Jesus brought to us. That baby in the manger often walked through life touching the hurting and suffering. He tended to address the issues of their lives with great care and grace.
There is someone we know who will struggle this season. Instead of cliché and one-verse quips and overbearing holiday cheer, walk softly with them. Hold their hands. Cry with them. Listen with them. Just be there. Jesus came here to be with us. Follow the example of the one whose birth we celebrate. God be with you.


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Old John Hancock Building (now Berkeley Building)
One of Boston's largest corporations, John Hancock Insurance, outgrew its offices by the 1940s. It had formerly occupied 197 Clarendon Street, which was constructed in 1922. They commissioned the Old John Hancock Building in 1945 to be constructed right next to the old corporate headquarters. Ultimately, John Hancock Insurance outgrew the Old Hancock Building and constructed the Hancock Tower, which was completed in 1976, next to its other two buildings. John Hancock Insurance has recently reaquired the Old John Hancock Building.
The Old John Hancock Building was constructed by Cram and Ferguson in Boston just after World War II. It was a late example of Art Deco skyscraper by comparison to New York's Empire State and Chrysler Buildings. Nevertheless, its construction was crucial to Boston, as it was the city's second tallest building, making it a vital addition to Boston's skyline.
The Old Hancock Building was built next to Richardson's masterful Trinity Church in Copley Square. It also stands nearby McKim, Mead, and White's Boston Public Library. The Old Hancock Building is attached in its lobby to the older Hancock building at 197 Clarendon Street. This smaller structure was constructed by Parker, Thomas, and Rice in 1922.
The Old Hancock Building is a steel framed, masonry clad structure reaching 26 stories and 495 feet high. This 747,000 square foot building consists of a tiered structure with a stepped roof and a spire equipped with blue and red neon lights.
The Old Hancock Building is loved by Bostonians, who rely on it for quick and easy weather predictions. The lights in the spire are blue when the skies will be clear, flashing blue when it will be cloudy, red when it is going to rain, and flashing red when it is going to snow. This weather forecast function began in 1950.
The Old Hancock Building has a sense of solidity and gravity to it that the Custom House Tower, Boston's tallest building at the time of construction, does not possess. It was constructed in the Art Deco style with tiers and a shallow stepped pyramid on top. The shallowness of the pyramid helps emphasize the heaviness of the building. This heaviness to the building also helped inform I.M. Pei's design for the Hancock Tower. He constructed a foil to the Old Hancock Building. Even though the new Hancock Building dwarfs the old in height, the new Hancock's slender shape and reflective all glass skin give it a sense of lightness.
The construction of the Old John Hancock Building in Boston was a major move for the city. Prior to this building, there were no tall buildings in the Back Bay. The Back Bay was one of Boston's most affluent neighborhoods with its beautiful row houses and tree-lined avenues. The Hancock Building set precedent for tall commercial building construction in the Back Bay, which was later followed by the 749 foot Prudential Tower in 1964 and I.M. Pei's 790 foot John Hancock Tower in 1976. Boston had lost economic prominence by the turn of the century. The 1915 Custom House Tower, built in what is now the Financial District, was the last tall building constructed in Boston before the Hancock Building. The Hancock Building helped to reassert Boston's role in the American economy. As a complex with the 1922 197 Clarendon Building and the 1976 Hancock Tower, the Hancock Buildings chart the rise of one of Boston's most important corporations.
A late example of Art Deco architecture, the Old John Hancock Building served a crucial role in the history of Boston. After decades without significant building projects, the construction of the Hancock Building instilled hope in the still struggling city. It helped set precedent for new larger commercial building campaigns in the city of Boston.
"John Hancock Building Job Goes to New York Company", Boston Globe, January 7, 1946, p 12. "Weather Light Beams from Hancock Tower", Boston Globe, March 16, 1950, p. 17. American Institute of Architects Guide to Boston, 1992. Ethan Anthony, The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office, New York, W.W. Norton, 2007. "1.2 Million Square Foot Complex in Boston Acquired for John Hancock Operations", http://www.johnhancock.com/about/news_details.php?fn=dec2806-text&yr=2006. Adrianna Borgia, "Exhibit B : Landmark : ?The Berkeley Beacon", Boston Magazine, January 12, 2010. "John Hancock Building", Emporis, http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&lng=3&id=119260. Keith N. Morgan, Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2009. George M. Cushing, Jr., Great Buildings of Boston: a Photographic Guide, Dover Publications Inc., NY, 1982. Victoria Beach, "Who's the Client? Cobb's Hancock Tower in Boston, MA", 1996.


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abot Posts: 2My 2007 HH has fluctuating dc voltage since April 2011 when there was 120488 miles on it. The dealer had below statement:
They gave me an expensive estimate to repair it. Back then I didn't like the fact to pay such money for a part that still working. I thought I will repair it whenever it dies.
It is more than a year and half and I put more than 15000 miles on my car and the inverter is still working as before.
Anybody has the same problem? Does anyone know if my car really needs an inverter or it might be something simpler than that?
I would appreciate any thought.0
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ark8012 Posts: 7Hi,
I was offered a used 2008 Prius with good price. I have checked the CARFAX report for the car, and found the battery was replaced early this year. Is it ok to buy a Prius with replaced battery?
It looks the car was used for high miles for the life. So it has 90,000 miles now.0
which "battery"?0
new_yorker Posts: 490,000 miles isn't high mileage, 390,000 is high mileage for a Prius. I suspect the hybrid battery is still original and untouched as these cars have had half a million miles without needing them changed. I suspect they changed the battery that starts the car, at 5 years that's normal service for the battery in any car.
90K is 18 K a year which isn't bad, 1500 miles a month, 50 miles a day average
With a good price you probably should buy it.0
lthibou Posts: 1I have a 2005 toyota prius. A couple of weeks ago my husband and I were leaving a car race and while pulling out of the parking lot the car began to show all kinds of low oil warnings. Upon pulling into the gas station my husband noticed that the car had no oil. Once the car was towed to the Toyota dealer they informed us that there was no oil filter on the car which caused all of the oil to drain out. The they informed us that we would need to replace the engine, hybrid battery, and a sensor. We informed our insurance of the issue and they agreed to pay for the engine but not the battery. Toyota informed both them and us that the engine going out had nothing to do with the hybrid battery going out. But our car broke all at once. Both the engine and the battery were working with no problems. How could it be possible that the engine and the battery broke simotaneously with no relation? Please advise.0
Okay, and now for the REST of the story. How on earth did the car lose its oil filter?
I don't have the technical expertise to come up with an answer to how a still running but lame engine could destroy a hybrid battery system, but it does strike me as rather far-fetched.
So did this engine seize? Make horrible noises? Why couldn't they just replace the oil and see how it goes?
This description leaves a lot out, so I think you need to fill us in more.0
lhayner Posts: 1I have a 2005 Prius Hybrid with 200,000 miles. I have a headlamp focus problem (second time).
I bought the part online and installed it myself, but I can't recall what they call the part. It
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There's a headlight alignment actuator, HA sensor, and HA control module.0
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I asked Nissan Motors a question concerning their new Pathfinder Hybrid. It had to do with their Climate Control System operation. As I understand, the electric drive motor shuts off when the air conditioning portion of the CLS kicks in to cool off the interior of the car. This is because there is a drive belt from the compressor to the gas engine that operates the air conditioning. I asked Nissan if the heating portion of the CLS also shuts off the electric motor of the hybrid (if it does, this electric drive motor that helps to save gas and run your car...is off...and it would be off most of the time, thus making the hybrid useless). I stated to Nissan in my third e-mail, "I have been waiting at least 3 WEEKS for an answer to this question. This is not a difficult question. Either the electric motor shuts off or it does not under the conditions asked. A 2 minute inquiry. Every other question I have asked of Nissan was answered quickly. Not this one. Is it because the electric motor is continually shutting down under both warm and cool conditions thus making the hybrid useless? Please respond already. John". Someone please HELP with this question. :P
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Here's the answer I got from Nissan Motors, "When the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) is engaged the vehicle uses the gas engine and electric motor. When HVAC is engaged, the vehicle is programmed not to operate in EV (Electric Vehicle) only mode. Heater, as long as the AC compressor is not on, does not require the ICE to be on"...looks like I am good to go on buying a hybrid Nissan Pathfinder.
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Hi - my Toyota Highlander Hybrid is quite old with mileage over 200 000 miles. The servicing manual stops at 200 000. Can anyone recommend a servicing plan after 200 000 miles?0
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I think I'd just start over at zero or perhaps 100k. Most old cars strand you for the same reasons newer ones do - lack of preventive maintenance.
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Get ready for higher electricity costs. An exponential jump in capacity costs for the 2015-2016 delivery year will significantly increase electricity prices for FirstEnergy Corp.'s Ohio customers. These increases will be so profound that they will drive some commercial and industrial users out of business. Though the implications are enormous, most FirstEnergy-Ohio customers are unaware of these impending costs, and even fewer understand this complex issue. Electricity is different from many commodities because it cannot be economically stored in large quantities. Electricity has no shelf life; it must be produced and consumed simultaneously. For this reason, there must be sufficient generation — enough "capacity" — to produce electricity when demand on the grid is at its peak. If the amount of electricity generated is insufficient to meet demand during these peak times, the lights go out. In order to ensure there is sufficient capacity, all FirstEnergy-Ohio customers pay capacity costs, either directly or indirectly, as a component of their electric bill. Capacity costs have recently constituted a very small portion of electricity costs. At a fraction of a penny per kilowatt-hour it has been easy to discount this relatively minor expense. However, beginning June 1, 2014, capacity costs in FirstEnergy-Ohio territory will increase nearly 700%. Increases become even more pronounced on June 1, 2015, when these costs will increase more than 1700% from current levels. These costs will be crippling to some large commercial and industrial energy users. Capacity costs are determined by periodic auctions run by the wholesale electric market that serves Ohio and many other Midwest states and the East Coast. Under ideal circumstances, each auction would set capacity costs for the entire wholesale market. However, as a result of aggressive Environmental Protection Agency regulations and plummeting prices for natural gas as a competing fuel, several coal-fired power plants in Northern Ohio are retiring. Because these local closures don't impact the entire Midwest/East Coast market, the FirstEnergy-Ohio region was carved out to set its own capacity clearing price — an unprecedented price for the 2015/2016 delivery year. So what's it going to cost your business? In FirstEnergy-Ohio territory, a customer's capacity costs is based on its electric consumption during the five, one-hour intervals of the year when demand on the electric grid is at its highest. Load factor is a useful tool to estimate your capacity costs. Load factor is a measure of electric consumption consistency. It is the ratio of your average hourly electric consumption to your highest hourly peak usage over a billing period. As an extreme example, a 100% load factor indicates that a customer's electrical draw remains constant every hour of every day throughout the billing period. An example of a high load factor customer is a manufacturing plant that runs three shifts, seven days a week. In comparison, a low load factor customer has tremendous variance in its electrical draw throughout the billing period. An example of a low load factor customer is a bank that is only open eight hours a day, five days a week. In very general terms, the lower a customer's load factor, the more increased capacity costs impact their electric bill. But load factor is only a reliable indicator if your highest hourly peak usage coincides with the grid's peaks. It works better for a manufacturer who uses the most power during the day, and especially during times such as hot summer afternoons, but would not be a reliable tool for a company that ran its machines only at night. If a customers peak usage does not coincide with the grid's peak demand, an evaluation based on the customer's load factor will likely overestimate its capacity costs – sometimes significantly so. Detailed analysis of your historical consumption is required for more precise estimates. At Brakey Energy, we use load factor to estimate the retail capacity costs for FirstEnergy-Ohio customers in cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for the 2011/2012 through 2015/2016 delivery years. For many customers with load factors less than 40%, capacity costs could easily meet or exceed the current base price of electricity. We think these rising costs are going to have real effects on local businesses, especially those that don't prepare now. High capacity costs for the 2015/2016 delivery year will significantly impact electricity prices for most customers in FirstEnergy-Ohio territory. The consequences for many businesses will be dire. 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Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found that a laboratory technique used for over 60 years is the best way to date to clean nanoparticles from organisms. From a Jan. 26, 2017 news item on ScienceDaily,
Sometimes old-school methods provide the best ways of studying cutting-edge tech and its effects on the modern world.
Giving a 65-year-old laboratory technique a new role, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have performed the cleanest separation to date of synthetic nanoparticles from a living organism. The new NIST method is expected to significantly improve experiments looking at the potential environmental and health impacts of these manufactured entities. It will allow scientists to more accurately count how many nanoparticles have actually been ingested by organisms exposed to them.
A Jan. 26, 2017 NIST news release (also on EurekAlert), which originated the news item, offers more detail,
The common roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has been used in recent years as a living model for laboratory studies of how biological and chemical compounds may affect multicellular organisms. These compounds include engineered nanoparticles (ENPs), bits of material between 1 and 100 nanometers (billionths of a meter, or about 1/10,000 the diameter of a red blood cell). Previous research has often focused on quantifying the amount and size of engineered nanoparticles ingested by C. elegans. Measuring the nanoparticles that actually make it into an organism is considered a more relevant indicator of potential toxicity than just the amount of ENPs to which the worms are exposed.
Traditional methods for counting ingested ENPs have produced questionable results. Currently, researchers expose C. elegans to metal ENPs such as silver or gold in solution, then rinse the excess particles away with water followed by centrifugation and freeze-drying. A portion of the "cleaned" sample produced is then typically examined by a technique that determines the amount of metal present, known as inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). It often yields ENP counts in the tens of thousands per worm; however, those numbers always seem too high to NIST researchers working with C. elegans.
"Since ICP-MS will detect all of the nanoparticles associated with the worms, both those ingested and those that remain attached externally, we suspect that the latter is what makes the 'ENPs' per-worm counts so high," said NIST analytical chemist Monique Johnson (link sends e-mail), the lead author on the ACS Nano paper. "Since we only wanted to quantify the ingested ENPs, a more robust and reliable separation method was needed."
Luckily, the solution to the problem was already in the lab.
In the course of culturing C. elegans for ENP-exposure experiments, Johnson and her colleagues had used sucrose density gradient centrifugation, a decades-old and established system for cleanly separating cellular components, to isolate the worms from debris and bacteria. "We wondered if the same process would allow us to perform an organism-from-ENP separation as well, so I designed a study to find out," Johnson said.
In their experiment, the NIST researchers first exposed separate samples of C. elegans to low and high concentrations of two sizes of gold nanospheres, 30 and 60 nanometers in diameter. The researchers put each of the samples into a centrifuge and removed the supernatant (liquid portion), leaving the worms and ENPs in the remaining pellets. These were centrifuged twice in a salt solution (rather than just water as in previous separation methods), and then centrifuged again, but this time, through a uniquely designed sucrose density gradient.
"From top to bottom, our gradient consisted of a salt solution layer to trap excess ENPs and three increasingly dense layers of sucrose [20, 40 and 50 percent] to isolate the C. elegans," Johnson explained. "We followed up the gradient with three water rinses and with centrifugations to ensure that only worms with ingested ENPs, and not the sucrose separation medium with any excess ENPs, would make it into the final pellet."
Analyzing the range of masses in the ultrapurified samples indicated gold levels more in line with what the researchers expected would be found as ingested ENPs. Experimental validation of the NIST separation method's success came when the worms were examined in detail under a scanning electron microscope (SEM).
"For me, the eureka moment was when I first saw gold ENPs in the cross section images taken from the C. elegans samples that had been processed through the sucrose density gradient," Johnson said. "I had been dreaming about finding ENPs in the worm's digestive tract and now they were really there!"
The high-resolution SEM images also provided visual evidence that only ingested ENPs were counted. "No ENPs were attached to the cuticle, the exoskeleton of C. elegans, in any of the sucrose density gradient samples," Johnson said. "When we examined worms from our control experiments [processed using the traditional no-gradient, water-rinse-only separation method], there were a number of nanospheres found attached to the cuticle.
Now that it has been successfully demonstrated, the NIST researchers plan to refine and further validate their system for evaluating the uptake of ENPs by C. elegans. "Hopefully, our method will become a useful and valuable tool for reducing the measurement variability and sampling bias that can plague environmental nanotoxicology studies," Johnson said.
They've tested this technique on gold nanoparticles, which begs the question, What kinds of nanoparticles can this technique be used for? Metal nanoparticles only or all nanoparticles?
I'm sure the researchers have already asked these questions and started researching the answers. While the rest of us wait, here's a link to and a citation for the paper about this promising new technique,
Separation, Sizing, and Quantitation of Engineered Nanoparticles in an Organism Model Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Image Analysis by Monique E. Johnson, Shannon K. Hanna, Antonio R. Montoro Bustos, Christopher M. Sims, Lindsay C. C. Elliott, Akshay Lingayat, Adrian C. Johnston, Babak Nikoobakht, John T. Elliott, R. David Holbrook, Keana C. K. Scott, Karen E. Murphy, Elijah J. Petersen, Lee L. Yu, and Bryant C. Nelson. ACS Nano, 2017, 11 (1), pp 526–540 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b06582 Publication Date (Web): December 16, 2016
Copyright This article not subject to U.S. Copyright. Published 2016 by the American Chemical Society
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Their Own Hall of Shame
The first step towards such a clarification is to realize that there are really two different discussions. The question of whether certain individuals deserve to be in the Hall differs from whether certain individuals should be in the Hall. This proposition, at first glance, seems counterintuitive. But it will become clearer as we explore this further.
Do Bonds and others deserve to be in the Hall?
Bonds, Clemens, Sosa and the other known cheaters do not deserve to be in the Hall.
Getting to this point first involves a decision on whether they actually cheated. Many philosophers have argued that their behavior did not constitute cheating for a couple of reasons. First, they argue that the high level of steroid usage during their playing days diminished any unfair advantage. The lack of enforcement in the era and the high usage supports this argument. After all, advantages disappear whenever a substance is widely available. Second, some argue that there is no clear link between steroid usage and performance. Some statistical support exists for this argument, but physics and medical studies greatly contradict this argument. In short, I dismiss this argument.
As I write more thoroughly in a forthcoming law review article, this positivistic stance is unsatisfying. There must be a moral component to the approach towards cheating in baseball, and this moral component should be reflected in Hall of Fame voting. Yes, usage was rampant. Yes, the rules were not enforced. But this still involved a moral choice. Players knew that their behavior was wrong, and yet they chose to behave in such a manner anyways. And they were rewarded handsomely for this immoral choice.
Since this is a blog on life in the minors, imagine that you are a Triple-A baseball player. We'll say you are an outfielder. You have similar skills to another outfielder in the organization. You choose not to use steroids; your teammate chooses to use steroids. Your teammate suddenly hits more homeruns, steals more bases, and covers more ground in the outfield. The team promotes your teammate while you continue to languish in the minors. Your teammate makes millions of dollars, maybe makes two All-Star teams, and enjoys pension benefits for his lifetime. You go home after a couple more years in the minors and struggle to find a job to feed your family.
This was the basic moral decision that thousands of ballplayers made. The players who chose to take steroids made an immoral choice. They benefited greatly from that immoral choice over the course of their careers, and they continue to benefit from that choice.
These cheaters should not be recognized any further for their tainted greatness. They should not win any more awards. The greatest of them should not be in the Hall of Fame.
Should Bonds and the others be in the Hall?
This is a separate and more difficult question to answer. While the cheaters do not deserve to be in the Hall, it is almost impossible to separate the cheaters from the non-cheaters. Where is the line drawn? On positive tests alone? On connections to performance enhancing drugs? All of these standards have their problems.
The era was so tainted with suspicion that it is difficult to label any player. Almost any standard will result in a plethora of false positives and false negatives. Thus, it's difficult to find any workable standard.
It might be best to look at history. Again, as I discuss thoroughly in my forthcoming law review article, organized baseball has a rich history of cheating. Previous pitchers who openly doctored baseballs have been admitted into the Hall. For instance, Gaylord Perry wrote an autobiography called "Me and the Spitter," and yet writers inducted him into the Hall. He achieved his greatness through known cheating. Even though his cheating involved an external manipulation in the form of ball doctoring instead of an internal manipulation in the form of body morphication, his achievements were similarly tainted. And yet he, and other traditional cheaters, have been admitted.
History thus supports the admission of these players into the Hall, even though they don't truly deserve such admission. Moreover, the lack of a workable standard supports such an admission.
At the end of the day, baseball writers must make a moral choice. Those that tell them to "get off their high horse" are simply wrong. Cheating is a moral issue. The players made a moral choice when they decided to use performance enhancers. The baseball writers must assess the effects of this moral choice when making their decisions.
Are the baseball writers then judging the players? Yes, in a way they are. Would many of the baseball writers have made the same choice as the cheating players had they been players? Undeniably so. But that does not make their current decision hypocritical, as it is a hypothetical discussion. One must instead deal with realities. The baseball writers are the ones to make the choice, and it must be a moral one.
Again, Bonds and the others do not deserve to be in the Hall. Even though this would be a retroactive reaction, deterrence supports such a retroactive reaction. At a basic level, it differs only slightly from stripping Tour de France titles from a certain cyclist.
For this reason, I would be more than fine with these players not being in the Hall. But because of the history of admitting other cheaters, and because of the lack of a workable standard, these players should probably still be admitted.
Maybe we'll give them a separate wing in the Hall, where they may forever congregate in a Hall of Shame.
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- obsessivegiantscompulsive said...
Good to see you write again.
I disagree. All many talk about is body bulk with steroids, and there are 250 pound behemoths that hit lollipops while a lanky 180 pound stick with good wrist action can become the career leader in homeruns, as Aaron did.
Aaron says that cheaters do not belong in the Hall, but I know Mays was specifically fingered, so is Aaron saying that Mays should be removed from the HOF too, since he's a cheater? Bonds was universally agreed to be a Hall of Famer before he reportedly started using, that should be enough for writers to put him in.
What makes it even more sad is that the writers have had over 20 years to get down to business and actually DO THEIR JOB as journalists. They let the steroids era grow and fester, as the rumors were rampant in the 90's and especially when McGwire was caught with the Creatine in 1998. Nothing was done then. Why?
Meanwhile, they carry pitchforks and tar and feathers, while not checking out what are really the facts and what are just suppositions and misconceptions. Eric Walker, of A's and Sinister Firstbaseman fame, keeps up a website to sell his baseball analytics service and, first, he discovered that the offensive era looks like it was caused by a juiced ball (http://highboskage.com/juiced-ball.shtml), and second, because people claimed he was wrong and started claiming steroids did certain things, he researched the heck out of it and concluded that steroids did very
little to benefit baseball players (http://steroids-and-baseball.com/) and gave a lot of evidence (and links to studies) that the ball was juiced during that period.
He did the investigative journalism that was necessary to show that steroids didn't do much of anything, instead of copying the "journalists" who just spread the same misconceptions that another "journalists" claimed was true. If any of you feel that cheaters should not be included, then read through his steroid's website, look at all the associated subsites that cite even more things in detail and see what he has to say
http://steroids-and-baseball.com/role-models.shtml ).
- January 16, 2013 at 5:04 PM
- obsessivegiantscompulsive said...
Walker makes a very strong case that the general public, including reporters, got it all wrong. Yes, the players might have cheated (definition slippery since it was not against the rules of the game to take amphetamine and steroids), definitely took something illegal, but it apparently didn't help players out that much in performing better, from the research cited and quoted.
In other words, whatever PEDs players might have used were not much better than a placebo. They cheated with today's version of snake oil. They are no different from the Asians today who eat rhino horns, thinking that would give their bodies some sort of boost. So, are we now preventing players from making the Hall of Fame for being stupid? Because, while they may have cheated, they didn't get any benefit from it.
Journalists could have done this type of investigative journalism work long ago, not some OCD baseball analyst, if they were really interested in the truth and not in a witch hunt.
Here is how I view this: the writers felt greatly embarrassed by the steroids era because they did nothing while it was going on, and thus many of them feel the
need to punish the players who used or allegedly used PEDs.
When, really, they should be embarrassed twice over now, first for not only missing the steroids rise, but really, overlooking it, it is not like it is a shock, as noted, McGwire was suspected of using long ago, yet no reporter ever thought of investigating him closely, and second for spreading false "truths" about steroids, and then taking their anger out on star players like Bonds and Clemens, and really, since nobody got in this year, all players, as there were players who appeared clean and who should get in, like Biggio.
Had they done their job, maybe players like Bonds would not have felt forced to use, it would have just been a cultural blip of the 90's. They should be ashamed.
- January 16, 2013 at 5:05 PM
Like Obsessive I'm thrilled to see you writing again. I think the right answer for Bonds is what is going to happen -- eventual admission to the HOF but on a diminished vote and delayed time frame. The key for me is that he had HOF credentials before the scandal. Also, unless the HOF is going to remove cheaters once uncovered, it will someday face the problem of a bunch of people in from this era who were not "caught" like Bonds and Clemens before it was "too late." And should you distinguish between the regular users and the ones who did a little to get back sooner from injury? From what I've read, there's a spectrum of use that makes it a grayer situation ethically than your article suggests. Of course, I never dealt with the impact on my life the way you did.
- January 28, 2013 at 5:55 PM
GAYLORD PERRY- Just one example of a HOF member who admitted to cheating after he was enshrined in the Hall. Never hear the sanctimonious baseball writing cretins mention this.
You can't compare eras, as much as some would like to think so. There's the dead ball era, the raising and lowering of the pitcher's mound, just to name a couple. Just because someone tells me that HOF players from the 20's could hit Verlander, Randy Johnson, Clemens or Nolan Ryan... I have no way to prove the argument. Didn't Ty Cobb win the HR championship, one year, by hitting (like) 9 Home Runs?
I'm happy that players are recognized by the Hall because they excelled in their era of play.
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�My village is probably a good 10 miles from the ocean, so that�s probably the reason they don�t have no dead but the wind wiped everything, our elementary school, our church � every house in the village has been wiped off,� said Hanson, who lives in Havelock. �No homes. No church. No school. Just all gone.�
The tropical cyclone, with peak winds of 174 mph, made a direct hit on the town of Dulag, just 25 miles south of Tacloban City.
�Tacloban is my city and Dulag is my town,� said Hanson, who owns Havelock Military Alteration in Havelock.
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�It�s supposed to be meaning happiness. It�s not happiness right now,� she said.
Hanson has two brothers and two sisters that live in the area, and she said all are alive. Her brother lived in their parents� home.
�My parents� house, it�s a concrete house, but they have three trees, two mango trees and one coconut tree, on top of my parents� house,� said Hanson, who moved to Havelock after marrying a Marine.
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Last year famed astrophysicst Neil deGrasse Tyson made all kinds of headlines when he picked apart the obvious (to him) bad science in Gravity. A lot of people took issue with his complaints, though, that seemed to be more in line with the tone in which he delivered them (on Twitter, where individual tweets could easily be taken out of context), than the complaints themselves. Well now another scientist has taken to addressing one of 2013's most beloved science fiction films: Her.
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I would place some of the elements in Jonze's depiction at around 2020, give or take a couple of years, such as the diffident and insulting video game character he interacts with, and the pin-sized cameras that one can place like a freckle on one's face. Other elements seem more like 2014, such as the flat-panel displays, notebooks and mobile devices.
Samantha herself I would place at 2029, when the leap to human-level AI would be reasonably believable. There are some incongruities, however. As I mentioned, a lot of the dramatic tension is provided by the fact that Theodore's love interest does not have a body. But this is an unrealistic notion. It would be technically trivial in the future to provide her a virtual visual presence to match her virtual auditory presence, using, lens-mounted displays, for example, that display images onto Theodore's retinas.
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