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UK households spent an average of £106 a month on electricity, gas and other household fuels1 in 2012. This compares to £69 a month in 2002, after adjusting for inflation using the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This means there was a 55% increase in average household spending on energy between 2002 and 2012.
Over this same time period, household energy use has fallen, with figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) showing that the average amount of energy used per household was 17% lower in 2012 than in 2002. This means the increase in the average amount households are spending is explained solely by rises in energy prices.
Average household energy use has fallen for a number of reasons. These include the installation of energy efficiency measures (such as loft and wall insulation, and more efficient boilers), households responding to higher bills by reducing use, and generally increasing public awareness of energy consumption and environmental issues. However, energy prices have risen faster than average household consumption has fallen, resulting in rising average bills.
Most of the increase in average spending on energy came between 2004 and 2009, reflecting the significant increases in energy prices which occurred over this period. By 2009, the average household spent the equivalent of £108 a month (in 2012 prices) on energy. Since then, there has been relatively little change in the average monthly spend on energy.
The limited change in expenditure since 2009 may be explained by a combination of factors, including a fall in domestic energy prices in 2010, and price rises in subsequent years appearing to be offset by lower energy use, partly due to milder winter temperatures.
1These include coal, oil for central heating, paraffin and wood. Transport fuels (i.e. petrol and diesel) are not covered by this publication.
In 2002, households using electricity had an average monthly spend of £35 (in 2012 prices). In 2012 this had risen to £51, a 43% increase. Households that used gas in 2002 were spending an average of £37 a month on this fuel (in 2012 prices) but this had risen to £57 in 2012, a 56% rise.
The larger increase in the average spend on gas is largely explained by the fact that gas prices have risen more sharply than electricity prices in recent years, rather than any changes in the amounts used. Despite some year on year fluctuations, possibly reflecting variations in average temperatures, there have not been any substantial changes in the fuel mix for household use over this time. Figures from DECC show that in 2012, 67.6% of household energy use was natural gas, while electricity made up 22.9%. This represents only a relatively small change from 2002 when the percentages were 68.2% and 21.7% respectively.
In 2012, only 7% of households recorded spending on other household fuels such as coal, oil for central heating, paraffin and wood. However, for these households, average spend on these fuels was £131 a month in 2012, up from £68 in 2002, a 92% increase.
While spending on energy has risen significantly between 2002 and 2012, households have not seen a comparable increase in their disposable income, that is, the amount of money that they have available for spending and saving after accounting for direct taxes (such as income tax and council tax). Between 2002 and 2007, the average household's disposable income grew by 6.9%, after taking into account the effect of inflation. However, since 2007 disposable incomes have fallen by approximately 6.7% in real terms.
As a result of this, expenditure on household energy is now equivalent to 5.1% of household disposable income for the average household, up from 3.3% in 2002. Most of this increase occurred between 2004 and 2009, although the fall in disposable income since 2007 has increased the impact of recent energy price rises.
In 2012, the poorest fifth of households spent £93 a month on household energy (equivalent to 11% of the average disposable income for this group), compared with £126 a month for the richest fifth (equivalent to 3% of their disposable income). This difference is likely to be partly explained by the poorest fifth of households having, on average, fewer rooms than the richest fifth, which may influence their energy needs and therefore use. However, it is probable that a range of other factors which affect spending decisions and priorities are also important.
Concentrating on the poorest fifth of households, the percentage of their disposable income spent on household energy has risen from 8% in 2002 to 11% in 2012. This increase is explained by energy prices rising at a faster rate than incomes. Although, after adjusting for inflation, disposable incomes for the poorest fifth of households grew by around 11% between 2002 and 2012, average spend on energy rose by 51%.
As with the overall population, the majority of this increase occurred between 2004 and 2009, reflecting the significant price increases over this period. The slight fall in the percentage of income spent on energy in 2011 may be due to a combination of factors, including a reduction in spending resulting from a relatively mild winter compared to the year before.
For the richest fifth of households, spending on energy grew by 36% between 2002 and 2012, while average disposable incomes actually fell by 1% over this period, after adjusting for inflation.
In 2012, retired households spent, on average, £97 a month on household energy, compared with £110 for non-retired households. However, when taken as a percentage of disposable income (which includes Winter Fuel and Cold Weather payments, as well as other cash benefits, pensions, and earnings from employment), spending on energy is consistently higher for retired households than non-retired households. In 2012, retired households spent an average of 7% of their disposable income on household energy, compared with 4% for non-retired households.
The difference in the amount spent by retired and non-retired households is likely to be partly due to retired households having fewer people in them, on average, resulting in lower total energy requirements (though a higher energy requirement per person). In 2012 the average number of people in a retired household was 1.5 and in a non-retired household it was 2.6.
All figures on household spending on energy in this article are based on the amount actually paid, so are net of any discounts offered by suppliers, including those provided through the Warm Homes Discount Scheme. The Warm Homes Discount, which was introduced in 2011, is offered to people whose electricity supplier is part of the scheme and either receive the Guarantee element of Pension Credit or meet 'broader group' criteria, which can vary across suppliers.
In 2012, retired households received an average of £216 a year in Winter Fuel and Cold Weather Payments. This was equivalent to around 20% of their typical annual energy bill. Non-retired households received an average of £24 a year in these payments, equating to around 2% of their annual spending on household energy.
Winter Fuel Payments of between £100 and £300 a year are paid to UK residents over the qualifying age (for Winter 2013/14, it is those born on or before 5 January 1952). Additionally, people who are in receipt of certain benefits such as Pension Credit and Income Support may be eligible for Cold Weather Payments during periods of prolonged cold weather.
Considering the average household energy spend across the countries of the UK from 2010 to 2012, households in Northern Ireland were spending £154 a month on energy (in 2012 prices). This was £42 higher than in Scotland, £49 higher than in Wales and £51 higher than in England.
The higher average spend in Northern Ireland may be partly explained by the different nature and size of the energy market there. Due to a relatively limited gas network, many homes in Northern Ireland rely on oil-fired central heating, which is likely to lead to higher energy costs (the Northern Ireland House Conditions survey found that 68% of households used heating oil for central heating). Additionally, in those areas where mains gas is available, the market is not yet fully open to competition, with only a single supplier operating in some areas.
Across the rest of the UK, any differences in the average energy spend are very small. The average monthly spend in Scotland is slightly higher than in England and Wales, consistent with DECC figures on energy consumption per household.
Disposable Income: Disposable income is arguably the most widely used household income measure. Disposable income is the amount of money that households have available for spending and saving after direct taxes (such as income tax and council tax) have been accounted for. It includes earnings from employment, private pensions and investments as well as cash benefits provided by the state.
Equivalisation: The income quintile groups used in this analysis are based on a ranking of households by equivalised disposable income. Equivalisation is the process of accounting for the fact that households with many members are likely to need a higher income to achieve the same standard of living as households with fewer members. Equivalisation takes into account the number of people living in the household and their ages, acknowledging that whilst a household with two people in it will need more money to sustain the same living standards as one with a single person, the two person household is unlikely to need double the income.
Income quintiles: Households are grouped into quintiles (or fifths) based on their equivalised disposable income. The richest quintile is the 20% of households with the highest equivalised disposable income. Similarly, the poorest quintile is the 20% of households with the lowest equivalised disposable income.
Household energy: Spending on household energy includes expenditure on electricity, gas and other household fuels such as coal, oil for central heating, paraffin and wood.
Retired and non-retired persons and households: A retired person is defined as anyone who describes themselves (in the Living Costs & Food survey) as 'retired' or anyone over minimum National Insurance pension age describing themselves as 'unoccupied' or 'sick or injured but not intending to seek work'. A retired household is defined as one where the combined income of retired members amounts to at least half the total gross income of the household.
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jasonkidd1234 said...
Good article, and good advice.
It' more of a general knowledge thing than a mage specific thing but helpful nonetheless.
I'm one of the people that don't care if your undergeared. I know it's kinda difficult/expensive to get epics without farming heroics. I know that sometimes "running" somebody through something will make their day a lot easier.
Considering I'm a healer, I'll generally whisper people who are fresh 80's and in greens/blues if I see them doing something obviously wrong. My friend is a Ret pally, who i've been running random heroics with since the patch came out. He's decently geared, but of course he's not geared enough to run H-ToC right from the start. But as a healer, I know that if I try harder, I can make up for his lack of experience and gear.
For example, during the Nomulous or whoever the Elemental guy is in the Nexus, I noticed him attacking the boss during a rift opening. Instead of making it obvious that he is doing it wrong, I quickly whisper him "When he opens the rifts, switch to them, like the other dps"
I'm a pretty paitent person when it comes to heroics. Everybody was a nub and has thier nub moments every now and then. As a healer sometimes it's more obvious/costly if you have a nub moment than as a DPS (My first 80 was a Hunter) and it's quickly matured me to the way of forgiveness.
Now, Jerks and Tanks who don't know what they are doing, I don't really like. If I see a tank coming in who can't pick up even basic mobs, I'll tell them directly, no whispering involved.
"Hey, pick up the caster..." or "When you see your healer running around trying to heal himself, or you see the hunter disengaging and feigning death at every chance, you might want to check to see if you have all the mobs.
Oddly enough, my smoothest Heroic runs have been in the new pugging system. We got an awesome Gundrak group today where we had no downtime at all. We went, from mob to mob, boss to boss, no mana breaks, tank kept aggro consistently, dps saved cooldowns for the appropriate times.
Gundrak is obviously not a hard instance, especially when you are geared for raids (I'm not, I don't have the time) but it feels really good when you and the 4 other random people are killing mobs left and right with no downtime, it feels like you are really working like a well oiled machine.
I think that you're outlook and approach are the minority from what I've seen in the last week and it's a real shame. People should be more patient with others regardless of how easy an instance might be. We all wiped on Anomolous at one point or another.
This is a great article and I'd love to see something like this for tanks. You know who you are mr. pally-tank-who-doesn't wait for the group.
The only problem is when people decide to ignore the advice for some reason. Some Wow players seem to think that advice is an insult to their honor or something, and as such ignore it off principle. Either that or they know everything and couldn't possibly be wrong.
For instance, I was running Forge with three guildies, and two randoms. During every single trash pull with aoe, one of the dps would die. I noticed that the pally healer didn't have beacon on the tank, and saw that it was on them instead. As this was the strategy before they allowed overheals, I thought I'd inform them that they changed it and beacon on the tank would be much easier and keep us alive. The response was "um, no." When the dps all died before the first soul fragment, we decided to duck out of that nonsense.
Besides that, note that an undergeared person in your instance might not be there on purpose, as the random finder doesn't seem to treat the new dungeons differently than most. They're not trying to be carried, they just want the extra badges from the random.


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The "oldies" format, as radio folks call it, has been around for most of the past 23 years on Atlanta radio. It was the place where you can hear classics by the likes of the Beatles, the Supremes, James Taylor and Carole King.
But when Atlanta's Greatest Hits disappeared last month in favor of all news, '60s and '70s pop hits effectively disappeared from Atlanta airwaves.
If you like '70s rock, you can still get the biggest hits, mostly on 97.1/The River, which may pick up some of the abandoned listeners and is dubbed in radio parlance, "classic hits." Other rock stations Rock 100.5, Dave FM and Project will throw in a few nuggets, too, proving how enduring the Eagles, Led Zeppelin and the Who remain to this day.
Atlanta's Greatest Hits was never a hugely popular station but it did okay in the ratings for much of its four-year run. It would typically rank in the teens, sometimes scraping the top 10. In May, it ranked 16th 25-54 and 16th overall.
The format skewed older in its first two years as True Oldies under New York-based Scott Shannon's expert eye. The past two years, when then-owner Citadel chose to localize the music, it had been primarily focused on the 1969-79 era, which covered 60 to 70 percent of its playlist. Hits from 1960s and 1980s were thrown in, too. Billboards would market the station "from Motown to Madonna." It was a diverse blend of R&B, pop and rock.
The station even brought back Randy & Spiff, part of the original Fox 97, on its staff for awhile.
Why the format is gone is pure demographics.
FM radio, like much of media that relies on advertisers, prefers "youth," meaning people under the age of 55. Radio sales people usually parse out demographics like ages 18 to 49, 25 to 54 and 18 to 34.
Someone who was 12 in 1969 is now at that magic age where their listening habits are no longer top priority. Anyone older? Even less so.
Traditional oldies, fortunately, lives on thanks to the Internet, where oldies stations are at your beck and call. There's Pandora, where you can design your own. Or Sirius/XM, with its all-60s and all-70s channels. (Heck, there are stations for the 1940s and 1950s, too.)
The music from the 1960s, much of it truly engaging and legendary and the core of what was originally terms "oldies," has already become a footnote on Atlanta radio the past few years.
That decade fueled Fox 97 to huge numbers in the early 1990s in Atlanta. But that was when the Baby Boomers were in the coveted 18-49 demographic.
Many stations no longer use the term "oldies" because it sounds, well, "old." It's fair to say if you want pop hits that are now considered oldies, it's the 1980s. People who grew up in that era are now in their prime spending years, catnip for many advertisers. It was when MTV arrived, top 40 was king and Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince flourished.
Journey 97.9 plays the most songs from that decade on a percentage basis since it focuses exclusively on the '80s and '90s. B98.5, which retired the 1970s last year, still plays about 25% 1980s music (though its specialty 80s weekends were recently nixed). Nearly a third of the songs played on Dave FM, which has seen its ratings nosedive the past year, are from the 1980s on weekdays and in recent weeks, entire weekends cover that decade.
Dave is owned by CBS, which runs a still successful oldies station in New York City. On 92.9, a similar station could take over Atlanta's Greatest Hits' mantle and help usher back the 60s and 70s pop. In May, Atlanta's Greatest Hits actually pulled in better ratings than Dave, even in younger demographics. Will CBS pull the trigger? I have no idea. Still, there little doubt that CBS will have to do something to fix Dave.
Speaking of decades, how about the 1990s? A decade ago, 1980s stations popped up around the country, including one in Atlanta for a couple of years. But on the FM dial, 90's-only stations are rare. The decade was so fragmented in its musical genres that it has fewer songs appealing to a mass audience.
As mentioned earlier, Journey plays both 80s and 90s. B98.5 only plays about 10% of its songs from the '90s, Dave even less. Star 94 had brief success in the first half of 2011 with all-90s weekends but songs apparently burned out quickly. Star now plays maybe one 90s cut an hour (or less) on weekdays.
Here's a decade breakdown of songs for a few of the aforementioned stations:
Dave FM: 10% 60s/70s, 28% 80s, 28% 90s, 34% 00s to today
Star 94: 3% 90s, 97% 00s to today
Project 9-6-1: 2% 60s/70s, 3% 80s, 43% 90s, 52% 00s to today
97.1/The River: 3% 60s, 56% 70s, 40% 80s, 2% 00s to today
B98.5: 22% 80s, 7% 90s, 71% 00s to today
Rock 100.5: 3% 60s, 30% 70s, 30% 80s, 26% 90s, 11% 00s to today
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June 13th, 2012
4:41 pm
RoHo, I sure hope someone brings back an oldies station, a true one with 60's/70's music. 106 went way downhill when they added all the 80's junk to their mix. Need a place to hear Beatles, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Brit invasion groups, Creedence, Chicago, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Linda Rondstadt, (I could go on and on). righ now being in my car is miserable. If it wasn't for Star, B98 and 99 playing lots of Kelly Clarkson, I'd be going nuts. Gotta get the CD's out!
June 13th, 2012
5:00 pm
Worth noting that SiriusXM has two "Classic Rock" channels: Classic Vinyl, which they define as the first wave of album rock (Beatles, Stones, Zep, Who, etc.) and Classic Rewind, which is more 80's flavored. As Rodney mentioned, they also have dedicated "Decade" channels from the 40's forward.
June 13th, 2012
5:12 pm
ATL needs this music back and fast. This was by for the greatest music ever made there will never be any decades like the 60s, 70s. If I had the money I would do it. PLEASE BRING BACK OLDIES……………………….As far as I and many others are concerned, ATLANTA radio is crap now, it was never that great in the past few years, but literally nothing to listen to now.
June 13th, 2012
5:17 pm
…are 94Q with Gary McKee, Craig Ashwood, Jeff McCartney, Christie Tanner and Russ Davis…
June 13th, 2012
5:53 pm
June 13th, 2012
6:28 pm
I've ruined the format twice, would love to get another crack.
June 13th, 2012
7:21 pm
Maybe the format will have to come back on the AM dial
June 13th, 2012
7:22 pm
The best radio station is already on the AM dial, 1690 AM.
June 13th, 2012
7:37 pm
Hope oldies come back – soon! Having to use my iPod thru the radio to get the music I want to hear while in the car, not what they, the radio hot shots, think you need to hear.
June 13th, 2012
7:50 pm
Rodney – QUESTION:
Any news on ratings for the News format yet?
June 13th, 2012
8:00 pm
trip west put 106.7 off the air because he talked to much hes been fired from star 94 105.7 and now 106.7
June 13th, 2012
8:10 pm
Just spend the $10-12 bucks a month on Sirius/XM and quit the continual whining about oldies. They've got several oldies channels for pop, rock and urban. People subscribe to cable and satellite television to get programming not offered by broadcast stations. Same logic applies here.
June 13th, 2012
8:14 pm
To Al B. Back, I am not paying to listen to radio. Radio stations should pay us with what we vwant to hear.
June 13th, 2012
8:22 pm
The 60s will never die call me a hippie. I was, I went to Woodstock in 69, the 60's was the best music., The SH** on the dial today is abysmal……
June 13th, 2012
8:25 pm
I heard "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, 90s song, on 97.1 the River. Talk about feeling old!
June 13th, 2012
9:30 pm
I wonder if some people who commented even read Rodney's post.
A 60's/70's focused radio station is simply not coming back to Atlanta… ever. The corporate interests do not believe they are financially viable; you may disagree with them but until you win MegaMillions (and go through the arduous process of being cleared to own a radio station) it really doesn't matter what your opinion is.
I sympathize with those individuals who wish radio hadn't changed… but that's the nature of life. The fans of the big band era felt that way about 60's music.
June 13th, 2012
9:45 pm
Tom, Why do other top 10 markets have them and they are doing well???. Atl is the worst top 10 market …………………………….
June 13th, 2012
9:50 pm
Of course there is a want and need for oldies, we need less Adele, Katy Perry, Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers. I have noticed that it is hard to tell which radio station you have stopped on without looking at the dial. dave, star, b985 and Q play some of the same songs ad nauseum. I really liked the initial concept of Dave but it has watered down to bla no matter what type of different feature that they come up with. I listen to project 961 more and more because they have (or seem to have) more variety and l like their personalities. I like to laugh in the mornings and while they may be crude, Kidd Chris and his crew are always talking about something different every day not just another rehash of same old crap nothing grates me more than the "in case you missed it/flashback segments" some other stations use. It screams lazy programming by repeating the same segment over and over. Lame!
June 13th, 2012
10:53 pm
There's radio in Atlanta? I listen to my CD's or Pandora.
June 13th, 2012
11:49 pm
This city needs a station that plays ANYTHING!! JackFM would fit well here in my opinion..
June 14th, 2012
12:47 am
SiriusXM = Oldies Music Whenever You Want It
(or Don't)
June 14th, 2012
12:53 am
There are already 2 Classic Hits stations in this town.
CBS is moving away from music wherever it can.
What are you smoking?
June 14th, 2012
2:46 am
I remember Peach/Lite FM on 94.9, before Clear Channel switched it in 2006 to The Bull (country music)… I'm not a big country music listener. I'm not really into V-103, Kiss 104.1, and Hot 107.9.
Rhubarb Jones had a good morning radio show on 106.7 for 23 years, before he was let go. Randy & Spiff had a good morning radio show on 97.1 for 14 years, then they jumped to Clear Channel's 105.7 and 94.9, and later jumped to 106.7… I'm guessing they were eventually let go. B98 was carrying Delilah at night, after 94.9 dropped the syndicated show… I don't think B98 is even carrying it anymore. Star94 let Steve & Vikki go after 17 years… their show moved to B98, where it stayed for less than 2 years… and was quickly disbanded. Kelly & Alpha had a good morning radio show too. Kelly McCoy recently departed from B98. Star moved Cindy & Ray from afternoons to mornings… and have since been disbanded. Q still has The Bert Show… and I'm not a big Q100 listener.
As for music variety… I'm not a big fan of "over-kill" either. IMO, B98 is bad about over-playing and over-promoting those same Kelly Clarkson, Chris Daughtry, and Matchbox 20 songs. The same can be said about Star, Q, and a few other Atlanta radio stations too. It seems that Atlanta radio is very out of touch with the audience.
June 14th, 2012
8:11 am
The best oldies station in the Atlanta area was Lake 102.3 FM (on the air in the 80's and 90's). They not only played the big hits that are played ad nauseum on most oldies stations,but also played the minor hits as well. There was always a chance you would hear a song that you hadn't actually heard SINCE the 60's or 70's. We need another station like that.
June 14th, 2012
8:37 am
Another thing about Lake, was that they played "beach" music I am sure most of you know what that was, it was an incredible little station. RIP
June 14th, 2012
9:07 am
Sadly the oldies will be back. Just when you think they are gone for good, some radio station exec who hasn't learned from others' past mistakes starts it up again. And eventually they bring in Randy and/or Spiff into the mix. The beginning of Spiff is the beginning of the end for the radio station.
June 14th, 2012
9:16 am
I never like Randy and Spiff
June 14th, 2012
9:18 am
It is unbelievable that a city this size doesn't have a decent oldies station! Radio in Atlanta is a vast wasteland. If major corporations and advertisers think that "youth" has all the money, I suggest they do a new study. Probably a bunch of 30-something year old twerps making the decisions. I really miss the 60's and 70's music…
June 14th, 2012
9:58 am
Anne I feel the same way.
June 14th, 2012
11:00 am
Both Lake 102.3 and Sunny 100.1 were two of the best stations ever. Fox 97.1 in the early 90's was a great station too and then Cox bought it and turned it into "Good Times and Eight Oldies". Atlanta used to have so many great radio stations but now that Cox, Clear Channel, Cumulus and Radio One own most of them there's nothing worth listening to anymore.
June 14th, 2012
11:28 am
Hey, IT, give me a call……..
June 14th, 2012
1:29 pm
there are FIVE rock stations in the ATL. can't we make one of them oldies?
June 14th, 2012
1:39 pm
Where was "Atlanta's Greatest Oldies" on the dial? From the comments above, sounds like it was at 106.7? I never even knew it was there.
I miss Z-93 from the 70s (I still call 92.9 "Z-93″, NEVER "Dave-FM") with Ross and Wilson in the morning, and 94Q of the 80s with Gary McKee, Craig Ashwood, etc. Remember when 94Q played "Jazz Flavors" at night?
June 14th, 2012
3:26 pm
From the beginning when 106.7 went from country to oldies it was never good. Atl was too big to have Shannon and the true oldies channel syndicated, then they get rid of him for someone who has no idea how to program an oldies or greatest hits station. So, you didn't miss much.
June 14th, 2012
3:35 pm
Brent, because the demographics of Atlanta do not justify it… saying other large markets have it so we should too is too simplistic.
Atlanta skews towards minorities (which typically do not listen to pop oldies), has a younger population base (which is much less likely to listen to pop oldies), and is in the south where country music cut into pop music's appeal 50 years ago.
The big cities that have oldies stations typically do not have at least two of those factors going against it (Chicago – older/not southern, San Fran – less minorities/not southern, Boston – older/not southern, Detroit – older/not southern, Miami – MUCH OLDER).
Now notices the markets that don't have a significant oldies presence… New York (younger/large minority base), L.A. (younger/large minority base), Dallas (younger/southern/large minority base), and Houston (similar to Dallas).
I promise you that if a company could come in and sustain for several years a reasonably profitable oldies station they would… it's time to come to grips with the truth tho, it isn't happening.
June 14th, 2012
3:38 pm
I do not agree Tom, sorry.
June 14th, 2012
4:15 pm
For great oldies music from classic artists, contact East Coast Entertainment, home of the 100& markup.
June 14th, 2012
4:45 pm
What is that Steve???? Anyway I want a station with a OMG factor, like when you hear a song you say, "wow I use to love that song", not the same BS oldie playlist that has been done over and over, these are why oldies stations fail, damn I wish I could be a program director, I'd blow the roof off this town…… A Sunny 100.1 or Lake 102 format were jewels.
June 14th, 2012
11:10 pm
Brent, I'll call you Friday afternoon. Off all day but running errands in the morning.
June 15th, 2012
6:54 am
don't listen to 106.7 now,to much news out there as it is, who cares about another shooting in SW atlanta
June 15th, 2012
8:29 am
For those of us who live in the boondocks of north Georgia (I think Early Cuyler might be my neighbor), the former Bulldog 103.7 recently changed formats from news/sports talk to something called "Chuck FM" ("We Play Everything"–including a bunch of crap). Sometimes they play a good song if you catch them at the right time.
June 15th, 2012
11:06 pm
Best music mix would be some late 1950's, a lot of 1960's and some early 70's. NOTHING BEFORE OR BEYIOND. There are still some well known and capable DJ types living in the metro area like Randy and Spiff (Fox 97) John Moore (WSB) Dave Kirschner (WSB) John Doyle (WSB)
and perpahs the likes of Paul Drew (WGST and WAKE)…..all these guys could provide a great mix on the air, and some of them could program that station LIKE THEY DID when those songs were
all over the radio. Sad today that the only choice is Sirius XM channel 5, 6 and 7, and since none
of the local stations know how to program this music, the names mentioned here KNOW the music and can PROGRAM the music. It's just that new ownership like Cumulus, Cox, Clear Channel
are monsters who cannot see anything but bottom lines and money. A great station playing
the 50's 60's and some 70's would be wonderful. But til then, send you checks to Sirus XM and
enjoy the music with no commercials.
June 16th, 2012
7:07 am
Almost forgot–there's also Thunder 104.3 in Dahlonega. Through the week they play a unique classic rock/country mix, but on Sunday they play Gospel and bluegrass (and NASCAR races). Sadly, it's all automated.
June 16th, 2012
7:59 am
I'm used to that… I have a 16 year old son who, when all the facts are laid out to explain why he wants isn't viable, says the same thing (although with a surly attitude to go with it).
To quote an old country song, "(here's) to those who stand on empty shores and spit against the wind and those who wait forever for ships that don't come in."
June 16th, 2012
9:23 am
I miss 94Q to this very day. Best ever. Z93 and 96 rock too. The best morning show ever was Gary McKee. 70s best music era. 60s and 80s great too. Since I am 54 I don"t count anymore. So its ipod talk radio or when in the truck its sirius radio. I can"t stand the robot talking junk even if music is ok. At least Mara"s still real. And by the way, stations their are more than 10 songs in any era.
June 16th, 2012
11:50 pm
I also still remember 99X on 99.7 dial position… Q100 on the 100.5 dial position… before Cumulus moved Q100 to 99.7, and moved 99X to 100.5, it being renamed as Rock 100.5. 99X had a very good morning show for a while… The Morning X with Steve Barnes, Jimmy Baron, and Leslie Fram.
Gary McKee, formerly of Z93 (now DaveFM), B98, and 94Q (now Star94)… and Rhubarb were Atlanta radio gold during Atlanta radio's hey-day.
Randy Cook and Spiff Carner came along… then Steve McCoy and Vikki Locke came into the picture… both their shows were well liked. I also remember 96Rock's Wake-Up Crew show, before The Regular Guys displaced Wake-Up Crew. Clear Channel later retired the 96Rock name, for what we know today as Project-9-6-1.
In recent years… V-103 parted ways with Mike Roberts and Carol Blackman's morning show… in favor of Frank Ski and Wanda Smith. Bert Weiss came along, as did Kelly Stevens and Alpha Trivette. Cindy Simmons and Ray Mariner came into the picture too.
I don't know about the Z93 name making a come-back anytime soon. I could picture JackFM working for Atlanta radio… if CBS Radio wanted to experiment with the JackFM format on 92.9.
June 17th, 2012
12:53 pm
I found a great station out of Gainesville…Chuck FM 103.7. Plays everything, I hope it gets a stronger signal so I can tune in at work in the ATL.
June 18th, 2012
12:42 pm
I liked Scott Shannon's True Oldies Format. Bring it back. Concentrate on 1963-73 or like World's Oldest Teenager said late '50's to early '70's.


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Home Depot Hits a Home Run
Leo is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
It's been a profitable year for Home Depot (NYSE: HD) shareholders. Shares of the home improvement giant have risen 45% over the past twelve months, and are currently flirting with all-time highs. Home Depot has risen high on a tide of increased home sales across the country, as it pounds primary rival Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) into the ground. Can Home Depot's growth last into 2013, or is this bullish optimism premature?
A Robust Fourth Quarter
For its fourth quarter, Home Depot earned 68 cents per share, or $1.0 billion -- a 36% increase from the 50 cents per share, or $774 million, it reported a year earlier. Revenue rose 13.9% to $18.2 billion.
Both top and bottom line growth exceeded the Thomson Reuters' estimate of 64 cents per share on $17.7 billion in revenue.
Blowing away Lowe's
During the quarter, Home Depot posted strong same-store sales that topped its primary rival, Lowe's, for the 15th quarter in a row.
Source: 4Q Earnings Reports
Both Home Depot and Lowe's global sales include stores in Canada and Mexico. Home Depot currently controls 19% of the U.S. home improvement market, while Lowe's trails at 16.7%, according to Euromonitor International.
Home Depot attributed its dominance of Lowe's to several key factors:
- Lower prices (which caused gross margin to dip from 35% to 34.9%)
- More centralized distribution centers
- Shifting more employees to hands-on customer service jobs
- More locally targeted merchandise and advertising
- Faster cost reductions than Lowe's following the housing collapse of 2007-2009, which limited the damage to stores in Florida and California, where sales plunged up to 20%.
How does Home Depot stack up fundamentally against Lowe's as an investment?
Source: Yahoo Finance
While Lowe's is considered the cheaper stock, Home Depot's premium is well deserved. With less debt, stronger return on equity and more robust margins, Home Depot is a fundamentally stronger stock.
Can Home Depot back up these fundamentals with solid top and bottom line growth?
HD Revenue TTM data by YCharts
From this chart, we can see that Home Depot's aforementioned cost reductions started paying off in 2010. Although Home Depot's revenue growth is slightly negative over the past five years, its profit growth has skyrocketed. Lowe's, meanwhile, has both negative top and bottom line growth - which doesn't look to change anytime soon.
Strengthening Markets
In recent quarters, Home Depot's top line has been strengthened by brisk sales of single family homes in America. A recent U.S. Commerce Department report stated that sales of single-family homes hit a four year high in January, while the supply of homes dropped to its lowest point since March 2005.
Home Depot reported its strongest growth in New York and New Jersey, due to the damage inflicted by Hurricane Sandy last October. The company also reported positive growth in Florida, California and Arizona - three of the worst hit regions of the housing crisis. Home Depot's sales to professional contractors also rose in tandem with consumer sales.
These improvements have also been a boon to Lumber Liquidators (NYSE: LL), which sells hardwood flooring, enhancements and accessories. While Home Depot and Lowe's also offer flooring, Lumber Liquidators' simpler, dedicated focus to hardwood floors has fueled its comparatively stronger price performance over the past twelve months.
Same-store sales at Lumber Liquidators rose 13.2% last quarter -- outpacing both Home Depot and Lowe's. Looking forward, the company expects net sales to grow between 9% to 13%, with earnings per share forecast to rise between 13% to 28%. In my opinion, an increased taste for hardwood flooring is a strong indicator of growth in the home improvement market, as both new homeowners and existing ones opt for more expensive hardwood flooring in lieu of carpeting.
Although these signs of growth from Home Depot and its peers are encouraging, CFO Carol Tome remains cautious regarding the future, and did not offer a bullish outlook on par with Lumber Liquidators.
"While recovering, we do not believe the housing market will fully recover in 2013," she stated. "Some may say that this is a conservative view - we would agree. But we would rather plan conservatively."
A Conservative Outlook
After share repurchases, Home Depot expects to earn $3.37 per share for fiscal 2013 - a 12% increase from the previous year.
It also forecasts sales to rise 2%, while same-stores are expected to grow 3%. While that outlook is conservative, even its most pessimistic projections exceeded Lowe's reported numbers in the prior quarter.
The company also boosted its quarterly dividend to 39 cents per share, while approving a $17 billion stock buyback plan.
Let's just forget about that little side trip to China...
For now, Home Depot plans to stay in North America, after its ambitious plans for Chinese expansion backfired. Home Depot initially entered China in 2006 with 12 stores, but quickly found out that the market for DIY home improvement projects was non-existent. A Home Depot spokeswoman summed it up best, stating, "The market trend says this is more of a do-it-for-me culture."
Apartment-based living and cheap labor that uses smaller, specialty shops crushed Home Depot's basic business model, which was directly copy and pasted over from its American operations. By the time Home Depot decided to abandon its Chinese operations, it only had seven stores left, and was required to take a $160 million charge as a result.
However, Home Depot hasn't given up on China completely. The company still maintains two specialty stores - one paint and flooring store and a home decorations outlet in the country. It also offered vague plans to launch online sales with one of China's largest online retailers.
The Foolish Bottom Line
Home Depot is firing on all cylinders - its top line, bottom line, and same-store sales growth are all smoking hot. Macro factors are also heavily in its favor, and increased optimism in the housing market will cause shares to rally even further. In other words, Home Depot just might be the right stock to take home.
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Why travel is wasted on the young
Toddlers are officially better travelled than we ever were - but do they appreciate it, asks Bibi Lynch
Prepare to choke on your piña colada… According to a survey conducted by flight comparison site Skyscanner, the average British toddler has visited 13 cities around the world by the time they're 3!
What in the name of St Thomas of Cook is going on? This is mind-boggling to me. I've only been to three cities in the last year — and one of those was Westfield so I'm not entirely sure that counts.
Travelling toddlers - it's a complete waste of an experience
This is a complete waste of fantastic travelling experience. I don't know how to break this to you, parents, but this isn't benefitting your kids in any way. Do you think you're broadening their horizons? Well, yes, you would be — IF THEY COULD REMEMBER THESE TRIPS!
My earliest memory is looking, longingly, through a shop window at a pair of clear plastic glittery Cinderella slippers. I was 27.
Okay, that's not entirely true: I do have some young travelling memories with my family (from when I was about 8, though) but they're not of where we were (Brighton or Swanage, usually, I think) — but of how I felt.
Mum cooking beans on toast in a caravan — and us laughing. Or sitting on a beach in the rain under a tartan blanket, drinking tea from a flask. Not laughing quite so much. At that age the surroundings didn't matter — just who I was with.
Your toddlers don't have horizons that even need broadening yet! Don't they just need food, sleep, cuddles, somewhere to toddle around, toys to play with, books to chew…?
Can that or can that not all be provided in Penge?
When my nephew was three, his two main obsessions were Ringo Starr and Batman. (Easily the coolest boy on Earth.) He wouldn't have cared a jot where in the world he was as he beat the hell out of his drums while wearing a cape.
This is more about the parents. Parents who can boast that their babies are that cultured. (I don't believe every parent who's taking their child away is doing so because of childcare/work issues.)
Ask yourself - what exactly will your children pick up from these travels?
If we ignore the 'your children's Carbon Footprint' issue here - a subject such parents I'm sure bang on about at dinner parties… - what exactly do you think your children will pick up from these travels? Malaria aside. A cultured international feel? A few key phrases in many languages?
Two words: Rosetta Stone. A few more words: buy them a boxset.
Such travels should be saved for people that will fully experience and enjoy such amazing life events — and who need the blooming holiday to escape the stresses and angsts of adult not-so-amazing life events.
Yes, of course, jetting around the world is a joy - a joy that should be available to everyone (although I am wondering how many working-class families were surveyed here…) - but at least ensure that 'everyone' is old enough to appreciate - or even notice - that they're somewhere fabulously alien to them.
It pains me to think of a toddler running down a lush green Swiss hill and thinking they're on the Teletubbies set…
What do you think? Are children better off for being well-travelled or could the money be better spent?
Bibi Lynch is a columnist, writer and broadcaster (for many publications/stations, including: The Guardian, Grazia and BBC London radio). Londoner. Short.
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Mums-to-be who smoked heavily during their pregnancy found to be more likely to have babies who grow up committing crimes
Children of mums who smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day during pregnancy are more likely to go on to have a criminal record. This is the remarkable conclusion of a study just published in the US.
Nearly 4,000 women were interviewed between 1959 and 1966 about their lifestyle during pregnancy. In 1999 and 2000, when all their children were over the age of 33, the researchers ran criminal checks. They discovered that those children whose mums had smoked heavily during pregnancy were 31% more likely to have a criminal record. The link remained even when social and economic factors were accounted for.
Though the researchers could not say definitively that smoking in pregnancy led to criminality, they have put forward suggestions that nicotine may affect brain development.
"The study adds to a substantial body of evidence linking smoking in pregnancy to difficult temperament in infants, behaviour problems in children and antisocial behavior in adult offspring," said Professor Kate Pickett from the University of York.
In the 1960s, when these mums were pregnant, smoking was much more common in pregnancy than today as less was known about the health implications.
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