Despite the gaudy numbers, momentum behind SMS is only beginning to gain steam. Emmet likes to point to surveys that show 80% of American mobile phone users have yet to send their first SMS message.I thought I heard a giggle when he told me.But hold the phone . . .It seems as though Italian researchers are trying to rain on the SMS parade. According to a study from an Italian children's rights organization, about a third of that country's youngsters are "cell phone addicts." One 13-year-old girl was said to have received treatment from an orthopedist - anti-inflammatories, ordered rest - after typing 100 or more SMS missives per day.Irritability and mood swings also were attributed to excessive cell phone use, the researchers found, although how they identified a control group of teens who do not exhibit such traits is beyond me.Moreover, it seems that these researchers might have missed a bright side of overdosing on SMS: All that furious typing is most likely the most exercise many of these teenagers get.
The stroke of midnight on Dec. 31 ushered in more than just another New cheap tiffany pendants for the Sierra Nevada Region. It also marked the transition to the new Power Marketing Plan and operations as a sub-control area in the Sacramento Municipal Utility District Control Area.As the New Year rolled in, numerous SN employees, including staff from Operations, Information Technology and Power Marketing, were frantically working to make sure that systems and business processes were ready to ensure a smooth transition to the new operating environment.
"To carry out the transition to the new marketing and operating cheap tiffany rings, we had to implement 11 new major computer systems," said SN Regional Manager Jim Keselburg. "Each of these would have been a major project on its own. But on top of that, we also had to negotiate a series of new agreements with the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and other parties, invent new business processes and systems and install new metering and communications equipment."Finally, to assure that Western would recover its costs, SN staff conducted a public process to implement a new rate design for post-2004 operations," continued Keselburg. "The fact that we were able to do all this simultaneously is a credit to Western staff and others who worked on the transition.
Many people, organizations and customers--too numerous to name--were responsible for the success. "I want to especially thank Kirk Rodgers and his technical staff in the water operations, supervisory control and data acquisition, and power operations group at the Mid-Pacific Region of the Bureau of Reclamation. We met continuously with Reclamation during the past three years as part of this effort, and we would not have successfully cheap tiffany accessories to our new operating environment without them," he said.
Other organizations including SMUD, the Transmission Agency of Northern California, Northern California Power Agency, Bonneville Power Administration and the California Independent System Operator helped in the transition. "Western is especially indebted to the advice and support provided by Jim Feider and Bryan Griess of TANC, Jim Pope and Vicken Kasarjian of NCPA, and Jim Shetler, Eddy Lim, Keith Hartley, Bruce Oliver and Mitzie Gutherie of SMUD," Keselburg added.
Once Western formalized the decision to join SMUD's control area, the ISO graciously assisted Western in implementing the necessary agreements and physical arrangements to ensure the continued reliable operation of the electric transmission system. "I want to especially thank Jim Detmers, Jim McIntosh, Deanne Lyons, Debi Le Vine and many others at the ISO who assisted in our implementation efforts," he said. "BPA's Transmission Business cheap tiffany 1837 staff, especially Vickie Van Zandt and Bart McManus, helped to ensure the continued reliable delivery of power from the Northwest."
As a sub-control area, Western schedules power deliveries for Project Use loads and customers directly tiffany bangles sale to its transmission system, as well as deliveries from and through its sub-control area facilities and the SMUD control area to entities on the ISO-controlled grid. Western's sub-control area duties include matching generation and load, providing reserves and frequency support to meet reliability criteria and submitting generation schedules to the host control area. Western also manages net power flows at the sub-control area interconnection points.
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