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According to Reuters, EU regulators look likely to accept an offer from Apple and a handful of publishers, including Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette Livre and Macmillan. The assembled publishers propose that they will allow retailers (including Amazon) to sell e-books cheaper than Apple currently does. The move will attempt to end the EU's anti-trust investigation that looked into the publishers' e-book pricing model that unfairly affected retailers' ability to compete with Apple's own electronic book collection.
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Friday, I wrote an article on Puget Sound Energy?s performance during the January 2012 snowstorm.
Jeff Goltz, chair, WUTC
Monday, I interviewed Jeff Goltz, chair of the Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission, the agency that regulates investor-owned utilities including PSE, about PSE?s ?January 2012 Pacific Northwest Snowstorm ? After Action Review.?
Goltz said the commission has no position on the report, prepared by KEMA, a PSE consultant. However, he said he has talked to PSE about it.
Goltz said the Hanukkah Eve 2006 Windstorm report, also by KEMA, was all critical and heaped criticism on PSE. The 2012 snowstorm analysis ?was a much more favorable report,? he said.
When asked if he thinks an independent report is needed, Goltz said he views the 2012 report as independent because KEMA was critical of PSE?s performance in 2006.
When asked why no customers were interviewed for the report, he said it would be good to get a ?broader view next time.?
Going forward, Goltz said he thinks the new the Outage Management System and the use of technology in the field are ?both good steps.? PSE plans to use iPads and GPS units to communicate damage assessment data from the field rather than having the assessments called in and written down.
After that, he thinks use of a smart grid, such as the project Avista is working on that can automatically detect and report outages and sometimes make repairs, will improve responsiveness. Avista is an investor-owned utility serving customers in Eastern Washington and Idaho.
Goltz, who spent most of the two days his power was out during the 2012 storm in his Olympia office where there was heat and he had work to do, thought the information on PSE?s website was useful.
He said he could see where PSE?s reliance on the Internet to get information out on outages would be a problem for people like me who don?t have access to the Internet when their power goes out.
On vegetation management, Goltz said PSE has stepped up efforts since 2001, according to a 2009 vegetation report.
When asked about information presented at the March 19 commission meeting that PSE reduced its vegetation management program expenditures from $11.7 million in 2010 to $10.2 million in 2011, Goltz said he didn?t recall that information, but would look into it.
If PSE has reduced its expenditures on vegetation management, he said the commission could address the issue in its next PSE rate increase case.
Also in that case, Goltz said the company will present information to the commission on how much money it spent on the 2012 snowstorm.
These expenditures aren?t included in the rates yet, he said. All PSE customers still pay a little money each month for the 2006 Hanukkah Eve windstorm costs, because those costs are spread out over a number of years, he added.
Goltz said PSE is working to fix the problems with its communications system, parts of which failed several times during the 2012 snowstorm.
While I appreciated Goltz being available for a 15-minute interview and giving me his views on PSE?s 2012 snowstorm response, I don?t think that the commission is giving this matter enough attention.
In its report quoting PSE officials, I didn?t think the company showed much regard for what customers went through during the storm.
A great deal of attention was paid to improved communications during the 2012 snowstorm response, with the report saying that PSE was able to ?own? the story in its work with the media and not lose control of it as the days progressed.
About 20 photographers were hired to put photos on Flickr so customers could see the conditions crews were working in. The result was ?a significant increase in customer goodwill,? the report said.
Social media, which I couldn?t access, was used successfully, according to PSE officials, who plan to rely on it more heavily in upcoming outages.
I suggest that the commissioners prepare an official response on PSE?s 2012 snowstorm report.
In March, customers attended a hearing on PSE?s 2012 snowstorm response. On June 19, a report was issued.
The commission, as PSE?s regulator, needs to tell PSE customers what actions, if any, it is going to require of the utility on storm response based on the 2012 snowstorm report.
For more information for boomer consumers, see my blog The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide.
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New evidence that men are more likely to cooperate in difficult circumstances
When things go wrong, we band together. Image: iStock/Roger Cotton
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Ever feel that stress makes you more cranky, hot-headed or irritable? For men in particular, we think of stress as generating testosterone-fueled aggression ? thus instances of road rage, or the need to ?blow off steam? after work with a trip to the gym or a bar. On the other hand, in circumstances of extreme stress such as during natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy, we hear moving accounts of people going out of their way to help others. Hurricane Sandy has led to a flourish of supportive tweets and Facebook messages directed to people on the East Coast. The tsunami in Asia a couple of years ago led to a huge influx of financial support to help afflicted areas. Many who lived in New York City during 9/11 remember that, for a few days afterward, the boundaries and class divisions between people dissolved: people greeted each other on the street and were more considerate, sensitive to each other, and gentle than normal.
The classic view is that, under stress, men respond with "fight or flight,? i.e. they become aggressive or leave the scene, whereas women are more prone to ?tend and befriend,? as has been shown in research by Shelley Taylor. A new study by Markus Heinrichs and Bernadette von Dawans at the University of Freiburg, Germany, however, suggests that acute stress may actually lead to greater cooperative, social, and friendly behavior, even in men. This more positive and social response could help explain the human connection that happens during times of crises, a connection that may be responsible, at least in part, for our collective survival as a species.
In Heinrichs? and Dawans? study, male participants were assigned to either an experimental group, with a stress procedure (a public speaking exercise followed by a complicated mental arithmetics), or a control group with no stress. They all were then asked to play an economics game involving potential financial gain based on the choices they make. In this game, they could choose to cooperate with others and trust them or not. The researchers found that, rather than becoming more aggressive after stress, men in the stress group actually became more trusting of others, displayed more trustworthy behavior themselves, and were more likely to cooperate and share profits. The researchers also found that these results were not due to weakened judgment in the stress group: the stress group did not differ from the control groups in their ability to make decisions or their willingness to sanction another participant who behaved unfairly.
One reason why stress may lead to cooperative behavior is our profound need for social connection. Human beings are fundamentally social animals and it is the protective nature of our social relationships that has allowed our species to thrive. Decades of research shows that social connection is a fundamental human need linked to both psychological and and physical health including a stronger immune system, faster recovery from disease and even longevity.
Social connection may be particularly important under stress because stress naturally leads to a sense of vulnerability and loss of control. A study by Benjamin Converse and colleagues at the University of Virginia found that feeling out of control (through a reminder of one?s mortality) leads to greater generosity and helpfulness while research at Stanford University by Aneeta Rattan and Krishna Savani showed that the opposite is true when we are primed with feelings of self-determination and control. Think back to a time when you felt out of control, for example during a romantic break-up, when you had an empty bank account, or lost a job. Chances are your feeling of vulnerability and feelings of lack of control may have made you seek the comfort of others in some way. Brene Brown, Professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work and expert in the field of social connection, explains that vulnerability is a core ingredient of social bonding.
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