Understanding Today's Electricity Business

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Very good introduction, but not deep enough

Dense but Good

Understanding Today's Electricity Business

Understanding Today's Electricity Business
Bob Shively , and John Ferrare
Manufacturer: Enerdynamics LLC
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Binding: Paperback

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Understanding Today's Electricity Business presents a comprehensive 216-page overview of the U.S. electric industry. As with its gas industry companion, this book presents a straightforward and easy-to-understand look at how the industry operates - from who are the major players, to the various deregulation models, to the physical electric system, to how industry players make money and manage risk. The perfect resource book for anyone who needs to understand the "big picture" of the electric business. Like no other book on the market today!

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Very good introduction, but not deep enough.......2006-12-15

I found that the book gives very good introduction to subject - I should have bought it a year ago, when I just started working for a utility. However, I expected it to be more dense and deep, especially when dealing with rate design issues. Anyway, I would recommend the book to anyone who begins to work in the industry, since it covers a very broad range of themes and therefore helps to level field for "electricity illiterate" person (well, I certainly was!).

Dense but Good.......2006-02-14

Shively writes a good overview of the electric power industry, which is critical to our economy and environment. The book is dense, not for the general reader (who would much prefer "From Edison to Enron"), but it offers solid background for insiders wanting to understand the scope and changes associated with the power industry.

Understanding Today's Electricity Business.......2005-10-21

I work for a utility billing and CIS provider and needed a reference book to enhance my knowledge of our focus industry. This book was great, it covers all relevent topics in good depth from generation to how utilities make money under different business and regulatory models. It is surprisingly easy to read given the dryness of the topic. I highly recommend it.

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Second in a series of four Info-lines looking at the roles involved in the Human Performance Improvement Process. Describes the six competencies of the intervention specialist. Discusses types of performance interventions and how to design and develop an intervention. Job aid is a competencies checklist.

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FedEx Express selects Intermec to optimize pickup and delivery operations.(Business)(Intermec Technologies Corp.) : An article from: China Telecom

Manufacturer: Information Gatekeepers, Inc.
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ASIN: B0009GK7BM
Release Date: 2005-06-01

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This digital document is an article from China Telecom, published by Information Gatekeepers, Inc. on August 1, 2004. The length of the article is 415 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: FedEx Express selects Intermec to optimize pickup and delivery operations.(Business)(Intermec Technologies Corp.)
Publication: China Telecom (Magazine/Journal)
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Who "owns" the customer?(changing environment of the financial services industry)(Panel Discussion): An article from: Chief Executive (U.S.)

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Who "owns" the customer?(changing environment of the financial services industry)(Panel Discussion): An article from: Chief Executive (U.S.)
J.P. Donlon
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This digital document is an article from Chief Executive (U.S.), published by Chief Executive Publishing on September 1, 1999. The length of the article is 5673 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A roundtable discussion was organized to discuss the changing environment of the financial services industry driven by the growing popularity of the Internet and online services. Business leaders from the financial services and real estate sectors were present during the meeting. These include Metropolitan Life Insurance CEO Robert Benmosche, Key Asset Management CEO Richard Buoncore, People's Bank CEO David Carson, National City Chmn and CEO David Daberko, Boston Capital Services Richard DeAgazio and American General CEO Robert Devlin. Prudential Institutional CEO Jean Hamilton, KPMG Banking and Finance National Industry Director Jane Jalenko, Lebenthal Pres and CEO Alexander Lebenthal and Capital One Financial Pres and COO Nigel Morris were also present in the meeting. Participants agreed that consumers will dictate the tempo of industry changes in the 21st century.

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Author: J.P. Donlon
Publication: Chief Executive (U.S.) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1999
Publisher: Chief Executive Publishing
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"Teachers make judgments about students every day, based on such formal and informal appraisals of their work as classroom observation, homework assignments, and teacher-made quizzes. Soon, they'll have the first set of professional standards to help guide them in making such decisions."
—Education Week

—Education Week
A practical guide to designing and assessing student evaluation.

Student evaluation and assessment are central to every school and classroom. Evaluation and assessment are how we find out what students are learning, how they are progressing, and how we can make improvements for their future development. With requirements for testing and standards-based instruction at an all-time high, effective student evaluation is more essential today than ever before. But where in the instructional process should assessments occur? What kinds of questions should be asked? How is the information used to direct student learning? Who has the right to access and use this information?

The Joint Committee presents 28 certified standards for assessing evaluation practices in elementary and secondary classrooms. These standards are broken down into four essential attributes of sound evaluation, each providing definitions, guidelines, common errors, supportive documentation, and illustrative case studies:

Propriety standards, which protect individual rights
Utility standards, which ensure that evaluations are timely, informative, and influential
Feasibility standards, which recognize "real-world" dynamics and environmental influences
Accuracy standards, which determine whether an evaluation has produced sound information

These standards provide teachers and administrators with the tools they need to master every "nuance" of student evaluation, including validity, political viability, teacher biases, conflicts of interest, a student’s right to privacy, and much more. But most important, they will help ensure that student evaluation practices are on track, so we can properly serve and improve student learning.

These standards have been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), and were developed with assistance from members of 16 professional societies:

American Association of School Administrators

American Counseling Association

American Educational Research Association

American Evaluation Association

American Psychological Association

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Canadian Evaluation Society

Canadian Society for the Study of Education

Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation

Council of Chief State School Officers

National Association of Elementary School Principals

National Association of Secondary School Principals

National Council on Measurement in Education

National Education Association

National Legislative Program Evaluation Society

National School Boards Association

See Facilitator's Guide to The Student Evaluation Standards

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Twenty-eight standards for assessing evaluation practices.......2003-02-13

The Student Evaluation Standards: How To Improve Evaluations Of Students is the production of The Joint Committee On Standards for Educational Evaluation under the chairmanship of Arlen R. Gullickson. Presenting twenty-eight standards for assessing evaluation practices in elementary and secondary classrooms, with each standard being broken down into four essential attributes of sound evaluation, along with definitions, guidelines, common errors, supportive documents, and illustrative case studies, The Student Evaluation Standards is a recommended and seminal reference which competently and accessibly address the issues of Propriety Standards (protecting individual rights); Utility Standards (ensuring that evaluations are timely, informative, and influential); Feasibility Standards (recognizing "real-world" dynamics and environmental influences); and Accuracy standards (determining whether an evaluation has produced sound information). These standards have been approved by the American National Standards Institute and were developed with assistance from members of sixteen professional educational societies and associations.

Standards work: How clear standards and better assessment have worked to improve instruction and increase student achievement in two districts

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Standards work: How clear standards and better assessment have worked to improve instruction and increase student achievement in two districts
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Smart Things to Know about Growth is a sharp look at the latest thinking on making the most of the opportunities and avoiding the pitfalls associated with rapid growth.
Grundy provides a comprehensive grounding in the principles that underlie sustainable growth, including setting growth objectives, learning how to adapt to changing circumstances, recognizing when growth is not a good idea and keeping your people with you.

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President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" plan to pull the nation out of the Great Depression has been hailed as a landmark in American history. Many people aren't aware that Roosevelt also had critics who believed there were better ways to turn the country around without making citizens more dependent on the federal government.

One of F.D.R.'s best known New Deal opponents was Garet Garrett, financial columnist for the Saturday Evening Post. For nearly a decade, Garrett was one of the few columnists of national stature willing to speak out against the expansion of the federal bureaucracy.

SALVOS AGAINST THE NEW DEAL is a collection of Saturday Evening Post columns written by Garrett attacking the trend toward big government. Garrett's analysis of Roosevelt's recovery plan has stood the test of time well when examined in the cold light of the events of the past sixty years. His writings also offer food for though relevant to the nation's present economic and political environment.

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A Great Collection Of Essays Showing The Downside Of The New Deal.......2005-08-24

This is a great collection of essays against the entire New Deal program and philosophy which lives on today. Ramsey includes very useful notes placing each article in context and background information. History is written by the winners, but many lessons can be learned from the losers. Garrett is a powerful dissident. He shows what lost when the New Deal won, and that explains much of our present economic and social predicament. Although there is discussion of economic issues, it should be easily comprehensible to a non-economist, since Garrett comes from a classical economics (no formulas) background.

Assessing the Weaknesses of FDR.......2004-03-02

Historically speaking, very few Presidents are as immune to criticism or question than FDR. Yet, that premise is unacceptable for American historians, generally, and inconsistent with American domestic and foreign policy with regard to nearly everyone. There is always dissenting opinion because there are always healthy views that comprise the possibility of different options. FDR is so popular a President that most consider him off limits when viewing his administrations. There do appear to be areas where his choices, or those of Eleanor's might have been different however, and whether they might have been better choices, who knows? The case is rarely made, however, just as it is rarely made in the case of Washington or Lincoln. Being American means to question the outcome of nearly everything in order to evaluate the best possible option to use in any given circumstance. This is learning that Americans prize, and need not be an affront to the person scrutinized. Intellectual analysis produces considerable beneficial opportunities for discussion, and surely, if FDR was the kind of person he is portrayed as being, he would be the last to suggest that his decisions could not bear up under a healthy, and respectful scrutiny. For a period so heavily rooted in foreign relations, and world strife, it would be more ignorant not to evaluate the period, the persons associated with decisions made at the time, and what assumptions went into making those decisions appropriate. This is good patriotic inquiry, not intentional discrediting of anyone. Witch hunts appear by using devisive information to harm, not by using legitimate facts to evaluate circumstances present when decisions are made, and then condoned and supported. Americans are the most self-scrutinizing government on the planet, and it is that patriotic spirit that justifies confidence in a free government, requiring criticism from both perspectives of for and against current issues. This is the approach that helps to "balance" democracy and help America stay free (or so we used to think) before the Patriot Act.

Heroic Writings During a Difficult Time.......2003-12-24

How wonderful it is to find this hefty volume of writings by the heroic Garet Garrett! For some 30 years, I've read about Garrett and his polemical battles against FDR and his statist New Deal, but all you could find by him was THE PEOPLE'S POTTAGE (an excellent book, but just a smidgen of Garrett's work). Now Bruce Ramsey has assembled this 300-page sampling of some of Garrett's best political writing from the Saturday Evening Post. Three cheers for Garet Garrett, and another three cheers for Ramsey! This lone, inexpensive volume will give you a very different view of just how "compassionate" a president Roosevelt was.

He who forgets the past . . . . ........2003-11-04

Bruce Ramsey does an excellent job of resurrecting writings that were quite well known at the time, but have become obscure by virtue of the New Deal's political conquest over the Constitution and all of America. What we now accept blindly from our "leaders" was once highly controversial and didn't need to happen. We ignore the writings of Garet Garrett at our own peril.

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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is best remembered for the innovative and radical reforms in foreign policy, democratization and disarmament which occurred during his regime from March 1985 until December 1991. Alas however, Gorbachev failed to provide similar advances toward strengthening the Soviet economy and paid the price with his removal.

David W. Carr's concise and well-researched analysis of the Soviet economy explores the strengths and weaknesses of Gorbachev's policies. Carr points to wavering inconsistencies in Gorbachev's strategies and a lack of visions that resulted in a chaotic and depressed economy. He further examines Gorbachev's improvements in central planning, and the failure of the Communist Party to institute price adjustments or anti-monopoly measures prior to 1991. In conclusion, Carr carefully assesses why Gorbachev's attempts at economic reforms failed despite successes in his political reforms.

Readers interested in a better understanding of why economies worldwide succeed or fail, or in particular, in an investigation of the Soviet economy under Gorbachev would do well to study this scholarly treatise.