Self-harm can be a way of coping with problems. It may help you express feelings you canât put into words, distract you from your life, or release emotional pain. Afterwards, you probably feel betterâat least for a little while. But then the painful feelings return, and you feel the urge to hurt yourself again.
The Public Utility Commission of Oregon (PUC) regulates customer rates and services of the state's investor-owned electric, natural gas and telephone utilities; and certain water companies.
A public utility is a business that furnishes an everyday necessity to the public at large. Public utilities provide water, electricity, natural gas, telephone service, and other essentials. Utilities may be publicly or privately owned, but most are operated as private businesses. Typically a public utility has a Monopoly on the service it provides. It is more economically efficient to have only one business provide the service because the infrastructure required to produce and deliver a product such as electricity or water is very expensive to build and maintain.