Vermont Comprehensive Energy Plan 2009 And Update to the 2005 Twenty-Year Electric Plan

This is a Public Review Draft of the State of Vermont’s third Comprehensive Energy Plan (CEP). It is being presented at a time in which combined concerns for energy and the environment are at the center of both state and federal policy attention. As we are completing this Public Review Draft of the Comprehensive Energy Plan, crude oil prices continue to set new peaks and are cresting above $130/barrel. The challenges presented to Vermont consumers who rely heavily on petroleum for transportation, heating, and process energy have never been more acute

Practice by foreign accountants in the United States

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University of Central Florida 1985 Self Study Southern Association of Colleges and Schools: Department of Public Service Administration Self Study Report

University of Central Florida College of Arts and Sciences Department of Public Service Administration 1985 Self Study for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The study covers philosophy of the university and the college, organizational structure, educational program, financial resources, faculty, library, student development services, physical facilities, special activities, graduate programs, research, summer terms, computers, The Brevard, Daytona and South Orlando Centers and Media

Critical Incident Interviews Report

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Water-borne Fluoride and Cortical Bone Mass: A Comparison of Two Communities

This study investigated the relationship between cortical bone mass in an older female population and their ingestion of fluoride from community water supplies. The study was conducted among lifelong female residents in Lordsburg (3.5 ppm fluoride) and Deming (0.7 ppm fluoride), NM. A total of 151 postmenopausal women ranging in age from 39 to 87 years took part; 69 were residents of the optimal-fluoride community, while the remaining 82 were residents of the high-fluoride community. Although bivariate analyses showed no difference in cortical bone mass between women in the two communities, with multiple regression analyses, significant predictors of bone mass (p < 0.05) were weight, years since menopause, current estrogen supplementation, diabetes, and fluoride exposure status. Based on a model containing all of these variables, women living in the high-fluoride community had a bone mass ranging from 0.004 to 0.039 g/cm 2 less than that of similar women living in the optimum-fluoride community. These results suggest that lifelong ingestion of water containing 3.5 ppm fluoride, compared with water containing 0.7 ppm fluoride, does not increase cortical bone mass in women of similar age, weight, and menopausal status. Under the conditions of this study, cortical bone mass might be reduced in a high-fluoride area.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68177/2/10.1177_00220345900690060601.pd

Skipping Breakfast is Associated with Poor Vegetable Intake Among College Students in Japan

Background:Recently young adults in Japan frequently show several dietary lifestyle problems such asskipping breakfast and poor vegetable intake. The present study investigated whether skipping breakfast isassociated with dietary intake, especially vegetable consumption, in college students.Methods:A total of 151 Japanese college students aged 18-21 participated in this cross-sectional study.Of these, we selected 125 (57 males and 68 females) participants who provided complete responses to thequestionnaire, the brief-type self-administered diet history questionnaire( BDHQ), for assessment of dietaryintake during the past 1 month. The frequency of eating breakfast, weight and height were confirmed in thequestionnaire. Breakfast in this study was defined as a meal in the morning that included grain dishes suchas rice and bread. Subjects who frequently skipped breakfast were defined as those who skipped breakfasttwice or more weekly, based on the median frequency of skipping breakfast among all data from 125 participants.Results:The proportion of respondents who skipped breakfast was significantly higher among males(64.9 %) than among females (44.1 %) (p=0.020). The multiple logistic regression analysis adjusted forgender, BMI category, drinking status and energy intake showed that the proportion of those with a vegetableintake of 350 g or more daily in the group that skipped breakfast was significantly lower than that in thegroup that ate breakfast( Odds ratio 0.22, 95% confidence interval 0.07-0.67).Conclusions:The present findings suggest that Japanese college students who habitually skip breakfastalso tend to have a poor vegetable intake

Focus panel report : CPA general business knowledge study

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Reforming the Westminster Model of Agency Governance: Britain and Ireland after the Crisis

Conventional understandings of what the Westminster model implies anticipate reliance on a top-down, hierarchical approach to budgetary accountability, reinforced by a post-New Public Management emphasis on re-centralizing administrative capacity. This paper, based on a comparative analysis of the experiences of Britain and Ireland, argues that the Westminster model of bureaucratic control and oversight itself has been evolving, hastened in large part due to the global financial crisis. Governments have gained stronger controls over the structures and practices of agencies, but agencies are also key players in securing better governance outcomes. The implication is that the crisis has not seen a return to the archetypal command-and-control model, nor a wholly new implementation of negotiated European-type practices, but rather a new accountability balance between elements of the Westminster system itself that have not previously been well understood

Broadband in Nebraska: Current Landscape and Recommendations

N ebraska’s broadband vision is that residents, businesses, government entities, commu-nity partners, and visitors have access to affordable broadband service and have the necessary skills to effectively utilize broadband technologies. Objectives To increase economic development opportunities, create good-paying jobs, at-tract and retain population, overcome the barriers of distance, and enhance qual-ity of life in Nebraska by stimulating the continuing deployment of broadband technologies which meet the need for increasing connection speeds. To increase digital literacy and the widespread adoption of broadband technolo-gies in business, agriculture, health care, education, government and by individu-al Nebraskans. Goals The following goals and targets help focus attention on key aspects of the plan and provide a way to assess the state’s progress in addressing broadband development: Increase household adoption of broadband Over 90% of households statewide will subscribe to broadband by 2020. 85% of households in rural Nebraska will subscribe to broadband by 2020. Increase broadband availability Broadband service of 25 Mbps down will be available to 90% of house-holds by 2020. Broadband service of 1 gbps down will be available to 25% of households by 2020. Support broadband-related development by increasing the number and diver-sity of IT workers At least 1,400 degrees in computer and information science, management information systems, computer engineering, and bioinformatics will be awarded annually by Nebraska colleges and universities by 2020. Women receive at least 25% of the degrees in computer and information science, management information systems, computer engineering, and bioinformatics will be awarded by Nebraska colleges and universities by 2020

Broadband in Nebraska: Current Landscape and Recommendations

N ebraska’s broadband vision is that residents, businesses, government entities, commu-nity partners, and visitors have access to affordable broadband service and have the necessary skills to effectively utilize broadband technologies. Objectives To increase economic development opportunities, create good-paying jobs, at-tract and retain population, overcome the barriers of distance, and enhance qual-ity of life in Nebraska by stimulating the continuing deployment of broadband technologies which meet the need for increasing connection speeds. To increase digital literacy and the widespread adoption of broadband technolo-gies in business, agriculture, health care, education, government and by individu-al Nebraskans. Goals The following goals and targets help focus attention on key aspects of the plan and provide a way to assess the state’s progress in addressing broadband development: Increase household adoption of broadband Over 90% of households statewide will subscribe to broadband by 2020. 85% of households in rural Nebraska will subscribe to broadband by 2020. Increase broadband availability Broadband service of 25 Mbps down will be available to 90% of house-holds by 2020. Broadband service of 1 gbps down will be available to 25% of households by 2020. Support broadband-related development by increasing the number and diver-sity of IT workers At least 1,400 degrees in computer and information science, management information systems, computer engineering, and bioinformatics will be awarded annually by Nebraska colleges and universities by 2020. Women receive at least 25% of the degrees in computer and information science, management information systems, computer engineering, and bioinformatics will be awarded by Nebraska colleges and universities by 2020