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Thanks for the response. As to which one is mine..... I'm not sure. We will se him this weekend. We have planned on keeping his food and water separate for a while. We were going to do the introductions in the field next to our house. It's not exactly neutral, but since we live in the country it's what we have. Our plan is to have me with the puppy in the field while my wife gets the other dogs. My beagle will be on a leash as well as the new puppy. I'm not concerned with our lab because our neighbors new puppy gets loose all the time and all she does is play with or ignore him. We have purchased a puppy play yard for our living room and will put him in that for a while so the beagle can get use to him. We have a new crate that is going to be kept in our room. I was going to put another crate down stairs by our other kennel ( it's 15x15, I had my wife measure it) but i think it will be more confusing for him than anything. I would like to have him close to the other dogs so they can see he isn't going anywhere. Maybe I'll lock the other dogs on our bedroom while we are gone. Puppy in the crate of course. Sent from Petguide.com Free App |
Mary Beth | How cute! Which one is yours? For your question, well, I had only a cat to introduce my pup to. From what others have told me about their experiences, the initial introduction in a neutral area helped. Being careful about feeding, make sure the pup can't go up to the other dogs' food dishes - I know a pup who got bite bad and her jaw was broke by the adult lab. Be sure the pup has a separate place away from the other dogs - a baby gate helps. Also your older dogs need to know they come first and so it is important to make time for them. For the basement kennel, that seems way too small for 3 dogs. Also there would be the risk that they would redirect on each other when they hear a noise or another dog walk by. I see it all the time when 2 or more dogs are one small outside kennel, I walk by with my Sting, the dogs bark then as the frustration builds, one turns on the other. |
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New Puppy and other dogs Greetings All!!!! We will be picking up our new GSD in a couple of weeks. (My wife is going crazy over the wait.) My question is, we have 2 6 year old dogs, a black lab and beagle, what is the best way to introduce them? I have read about having them meet at a neutral location or having the puppy in a crate and so on. I was just wondering what others have done. My lab is VERY well tempered so I'm not worried about her. My wife's beagle on the other hand can be a bit of a meanie with other dogs (little man complex.) The lab is female and the beagle is male. The GSD we will be getting is male as well. When my wife and I first moved into our house we put in a 10x10 kennel in the basement. I don't plan on putting all 3 dogs down there right away but is this something that could happen over time? /Users/Mac/Desktop/1185104_10201827808957143_353841776_n.jpg |


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Testicular torsion repair is surgery to untangle a spermatic cord. The spermatic cord is the collection of blood vessels in the scrotum leading to the testicles. If it twists or turns, testicular torsion develops. This torsion (pulling and twisting) blocks blood flow to the testicle.
Most patients receive general anesthesia for testicular torsion repair surgery. This will make you asleep and pain-free.
After you receive anesthesia, the surgeon will make a surgical cut in your scrotum to get to the twisted cord. The surgeon will then untangle the spermatic cord and testicle. The surgeon will use stitches to attach this testicle to the inside of your scrotum. The other testicle will be attached in the same way so that it does not twist in the future.
Testicular torsion is an emergency. Surgery is usually needed right away to relieve the sudden severe pain and swelling and to prevent the loss of the testicle. For the best results, it should be performed within 6 hours after symptoms begin. By 12 hours, a testicle may become damaged so badly that it has to be removed.
Risks of any anesthesia are:
Risks of this surgery are:
Because this surgery is most often done as an emergency, there is usually not enough time to have medical tests beforehand. You may have an imaging test (usually ultrasound) to check for blood flow and tissue death.
You will probably be given pain medicine and be sent to a urologist for surgery as soon as possible. A urologist is a doctor who specializes in the surgery and treatment of genital and urinary problems and diseases.
Pain medicine, rest, and ice packs will relieve pain and swelling after surgery. Do not put the ice directly on your skin. Wrap it in a towel or cloth. Rest at home for several days. You may wear a scrotal support for a week after surgery.
Avoid strenuous activity for 1 to 2 weeks, and sexual activity for about 4 to 6 weeks. Start doing your normal activities slowly.
If surgery is done in time, you should have a complete recovery. When it is done within 12 hours after symptoms begin, the testicle can be saved about 70% of the time.
If one testicle has to be removed, the remaining healthy testicle should provide enough hormones for normal male growth, sex life, and fertility.
Elder JS. Disorders and anomalies of the scrotal contents. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 539.
Wampler SM, Llanes M. Common scrotal and testicular problems. Prim Care. 2010;37:613-626.
Ban KM, Easter JS. Selected urologic problems. In: Marx JA, Hockberger RS, Walls RM, et al, eds. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2009:chap 97.
Ringdahl E, Teague L. Testicular torsion. Am Fam Physician. 2006;74:1739-1743.
Barthold JS. Abnormalities of the testes and scrotum and their surgical management.In: Wein AJ, ed. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 10th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 132.
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The Law of Unintended Consequences
March 6, 2009
Rules have consequences. And sometimes they have unintended consequences. If I told you that the US government was going to give multiple tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to hedge funds and private investors, you would justifiably not be happy. I think the word angry would come to mind. But that is exactly what is happening, as a result of rules that were written for a time and place seemingly long ago and far, far away. Further, we are looking at potentially much larger sums being lost in the bank bailout (can we say hundreds of billions?), a reduced lending capacity at banks and, in general, a worsening of the very problems at the core of the crisis.
The good news is that it can be fixed, but the authorities need to get a sense of urgency. As Steve Forbes writes today in the Wall Street Journal, Obama is continuing with the worst of Bush's policies, making the crisis far worse than it should be. It is as if we are giving all 13-year-old kids a "F" in math because one kid failed.
Today's letter will look at some rather obscure rules which are having major unintended (and negative!) consequences, and what can be done. Then, if we have enough time, we will look quickly at Japan, unemployment, and a few more statistical predictions of when the recession will end that you should be very wary of. It's a lot to cover, but it should make for an interesting letter.
But first, and quickly, I just wanted to take a moment and remind you to sign up for the Richard Russell Tribute Dinner, all set for Saturday, April 4 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego -- if you haven't already. This is sure to be an extraordinary evening honoring a great friend and associate of mine, and yours as well. I do hope that you can join us for a night of memories, laughs, and good fun with fellow admirers and long-time readers of Richard's Dow Theory Letter.


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I just got to Chapter V today and I found the only basilisk I have encountered so far that seems to respawn regularly. In Raven's Crypt I meditate for about 24-48 hours and he is there each time as long as I go after midnight. I leave the crypt, and go to the fireplace by the refugee father on the Cemetery Island to meditate in between runs at the crypt. I think there were originally a few basilisks in that room but only one respawns. The Bruxa on Cemetery Island never respawn but 3 of the Garkain do almost every 24 hours.
Are there any other basilisks anywhere in the game that respawn?
I know the basilisks at Black Tern Island in Chapter IV never respawned for me. I tried meditating for several days at a time and they never came back.
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Basilisks. Where do they like to be?
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Raven's Crypt is one of the best places to maximize your exp points. You can meditate in the crypt itself to respawn monsters in there. However, according to Witcher wiki and my memory there is no other location that Basilisks will appear after that point of game.
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You're welcome. Walking in the dark :) That reminded me, in one of my playthroughs I've beaten the crypt many times consecutively. Every once in a while I forget to make a cat or thinking I have some don't make a cat meditating and then continue in dark watching where Geralt's going from the minimap at the top right :D Well, maximizing xp is annoying.
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yes, actually, once I have beaten it the first time and get the map, I never use cat potion or torches during the walk throughs of the crypts to gain XP. It's pretty easy to keep an eye on the mini-map and it has the added benefit of saving potions and making it incrementally more interesting since the monsters don't really present enough of a challenge.


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Police are looking for a white man, possibly hunch-backed, 30 to 50 years old. According to police the girls, ages 14 and 15, were walking home in their neighborhood near Clover Basin Drive and Grandview Meadows Drive. A man approached them in a red pickup, stopped his truck in the street, and without saying anything got out and chased them on foot.
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On Friday afternoon police released a sketch of the man based on the description provided by the girls.
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Dennis Puma – Director Investor Relations
Laurence Downes – Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
Glenn Lockwood – Chief Financial Officer
Mark Sperduto – Vice President, Regulatory and External Affairs, New Jersey Natural Gas
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New Jersey Resources (NJR) F1Q10 Earnings Call February 3, 2010 9:00 AM ET
Good morning. My name is Chrissy and I will be your conference operator today. At this time I would like to welcome everyone to the New Jersey Resources first quarter fiscal 2010-earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions)
I would now like to turn the call over to Dennis Puma, Director of Investor Relations.
Dennis Puma
Thank you Chrissy. Good morning everyone. Welcome to New Jersey Resources' first quarter fiscal 2010 conference call and webcast. I'm joined by Larry Downes, our Chairman and CEO, Glenn Lockwood, our CFO, as well as other members of our senior management team.
As you know, certain statements in our news release and in today's call contain estimates and other forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We wish to caution readers of our news release and listeners to this call that the assumptions forming the basis for forward-looking statements include many factors that are beyond NJR's ability to control or estimate precisely which could cause results to materially differ from the company's expectations.
A list of these items can be found but is not limited to items in the forward-looking statements section of today's news release filed on Form 8-K, and on our 10-K filed on November 30, 2009. All these items can be found at SEC.gov. NJR does not by including this statement assume any obligation to review or revise any particular forward-looking statement referenced herein in light of future events. I'd also like to point out that there are slides accompanying today's discussion which are available on our website.
With that being said, I'd like to turn the call over to our Chairman and CEO, Larry Downes.
Laurence Downes
Thanks, Dennis. Good morning everyone. We appreciate you taking the time to be with us this morning. As Dennis mentioned, I will be working through a slide presentation.
So starting with Slide 2, before I discuss our performance, I'd like to remind everyone that I will be making reference to forward-looking statements. In Slide 2 you see the factors that could affect those statements. They're listed here and in our 10-K and 10-Q and I would encourage you to please take a moment to review them carefully.
Moving to Slide 3, I will also be referencing certain non-GAAP financial measures, namely financial earnings and financial margins, and while we believe that these metrics provide a better understanding of our performance. They are not intended in any way to replace GAAP. Item 7 of our annual report on Form 10-K provides a more detailed discussion and once again I would encourage you to please review that discussion carefully.
With that, let me begin with the highlights of the first quarter of fiscal 2010. We announced earnings this morning as you know. Our net financial earnings for the quarter were $0.66 versus $0.77 last year. As you know, we do not give quarterly guidance but we are this morning reaffirming our net financial earnings for the year in a range of $2.45 to $2.60 per share.
We saw a larger contribution from New Jersey Natural Gas in our midstream assets business in the quarter. As you know, we implemented a 9.7% dividend increase that was effective January 4, 2010. We announced last week that our share repurchase plan was being increased by 2 million shares. Very important, our CIT was extended by the Board of Public Utilities and specifically with regard to our midstream assets, those earnings increase substantially $1.9 million versus $500,000 for the same period last year.
Moving to Slide 5, you can see the net financial earnings for the quarter were $27.4 million or $0.66 per share compared with $32.5 million or $0.77 per share last year. When you look at the numbers you can see that both New Jersey Natural Gas and our midstream business reported improved results and NJRES experienced lower earnings which I will discuss in further detail in just a little while.
Moving to Slide 6 and very importantly, we reiterated our guidance for the year and we estimate net financial earnings of $2.45 to $2.60 per basic share in fiscal 2010. Now how are we going to get there?
First of all, we expect improved results from New Jersey Natural Gas reflecting the positive impact of our AIP program, our BGSS incentive program. We're still seeing good customer growth with particular strength in the conversion markets, and New Jersey Natural Gas's benefiting from lower interest rates. The improvement in our midstream assets that is coming primarily from Steckman Ridge but also Iroquois and we expect that these results will offset lower net financial earnings from NJR Energy Services. Those results have been affected by lower volatility. Now if we achieve this net financial earning will represent the 19th consecutive year of improved results for the company.
Moving to Slide 7, and if we look more closely at our guidance, you can see in the pie chart there the range of contributions to net financial earnings that we expect from our different businesses. The combination of New Jersey Natural Gas and our midstream investments will contribute between 65% and 80% of fiscal 2010 net financial earnings, while we expect currently that NJR Energy Services will be in a range of 20 % to 30%.
Moving to Slide 8, as I noted, our strong financial profile allowed us once again to increase our dividend. We've now increased the dividend 17 times in the last 15 years. The 9.7% increase in our annual dividend rate took the annual rate to $1.36 effective earlier in January. Now going to Slide 9, if you look at our growth rate compared with our peers, you can see that's very strong. One a one year basis, 9.7% versus 3.1% and over the last 5 years, 7.7% versus 3.5%.
Moving to Slide 10, if we look at our payout ratio, while we've been able to increase the dividend at a faster rate than our peers, at the same time our payout ratio remains in the low 50% range which means that we are reinvesting a significant portion of our net financial earnings to support our future growth. As is obvious from this chart, our record compared with our peers in terms of our earnings retention rate is very strong.
Going to Slide 11, you can see that our share repurchase program, we increased that by 2 million shares. There are now a total of 8.8 million shares authorized. We've repurchased a total of 6.5 million at a split adjusted cost of $28.90. You can see the activity going back to 1996 when we first put the plan in place. The purchase program remains an important part. Another tool if you will as we execute our financial strategy.
Going to Slide 12, I want to move on to some of our fundamentals. Our customer growth rate remains steady, new construction has slowed, but the commercial and conversion markets remain resilient. You can see for the quarter we added 1.438 new customers and another 58 additional customer heat conversions. We expect that those new customer additions will contribute approximately $700,000 of new margin to New Jersey Natural Gas each year.
If we look at the pie charts you can see the breakdown between conversions and new customers, just about 50-50, again, showing the strength of the conversion market and looking at the contribution to gross margin, our residential is about two-thirds commercial, about 31%, and existing customers about 2%. But despite some of the challenges that we've seen in the economy, I think our customer growth rate has held up quite well.
Moving to Slide 13 on the regulatory front, we were able to extend our CIP program. That has been a very successful program not only for our shareholders but very importantly for our customers. It was extended by the Board of Public Utilities on January 20. It is now in place through September 30, 2013.
As you know, there is alignment of this program with many of the states' policy initiatives in the area of what we like to refer to as Environmental Stewardship. Basically, it gives us the incentive to encourage our customers to conserve, to use less energy while protecting our gross margin from both declining usage and weather and I think the last bullet point you see there that we've been able to save our customer over $135 million since that program was first put in place back in 2006.
On Slide 14, we continue to make progress with our accelerated infrastructure program. You'll recall that the AIP includes incremental capital investment of up to $70.8 million on 14 projects. We project in fiscal 2010 capital spending under the AIP of about $44 million. We are expecting to create up to 100 new jobs which is supporting economic development and job growth in the states and the rate recovery of the program spending is that our weighted average cost of capital is 7.76% and once again, those investments will help us continue our record of providing customers with safe, reliable service.
Now turning to NJRES at Slide 15, earnings for the quarter were $2.5 million versus $9.4 million last year. Three primary reasons: first was lower volatility, second increased regional production and deliveries of LNG and then finally the impact of the economy on core demand. As I said earlier, we expect that NJRES will contribute between 20% and 30% of our net financial earnings in fiscal 2010.
Going to Slide 16, we continue to make progress with our midstream strategy. Steckman Ridge is now operational and contributed $1.32 million to our first quarter net financial earnings. We expect for the year that Steckman will provide between 2% and 6% of our net financial earnings in fiscal 2010 and as you can see from the map, the positioning of Steckman Ridge relative to not only Marcellus Shale but LNG and supply coming from the Rockies. That has been a very successful investment working with our partner, Spectra Energy.
So to summarize, in announcing our first quarter results and reiterating our guidance for fiscal 2010, I think you can see that we're continuing our record of consistent performance as we look forward to the balance of the fiscal year. We've got the fundamentals in place to increase NFE as our guidance indicates. The combination of customer growth, AIP, and Steckman Ridge that we think supports our ability to increase dividends.
We continue to maintain a strong financial profile which not only facilitates access to capital but allows us to pursue other financial strategies. Our relationship with our regulators remains strong and when you put all of that together it supports our track record of growth and consistent results.
So as always as I close, before we open for questions, I want to thank the almost 900 women and men of New Jersey Resources for their passion and their commitment to excellence. They make these results possible and I also want to thank our investors for the confidence that has been placed in us.
With that I will open it to Q&A.
Question-and-Answer Session
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Daniel Fidell - Brean Murray.
Daniel Fidell - Brean Murray
Can you give us a little bit of color of what you're see on the energy marketing side in January?
Glenn Lockwood
Overall the market has not been as volatile as we've seen in the past. Larry mentioned from the fundamentals on the supply and demand side. As far as January itself goes, as we factor that into the fact that we're still expecting 20% to 30% of the earnings to come from RES for the year. I'm sure you noticed that is slightly lower than the original guidance we gave and that basically is [inaudible], the lack of volatility.
Daniel Fidell - Brean Murray
Maybe you could just talk a little bit about Steckman. It looks like we're off to a nice start with Steckman. Can you talk a little bit about how we should be looking at the trend for earnings? Is it mostly first and fourth quarters, a little more evenly split, and then maybe as a second question, any expansion plans you can talk about for Steckman perhaps down the road.
Glenn Lockwood
It's way too early to talk about any expansion plans. The engineers are analyzing how the field is operating. It's the first year of operations. As we've talked about in the past, we still have to determine whether we need to drill additional wells or not, and again that's an operational question that the engineers will make the call on. As far as the seasonality if you will, there is some seasonality in that business based on the contracts we have. You would tend to see stronger pricing in the winter as opposed to summer.
Daniel Fidell - Brean Murray
Was there any kind of favorable benefit from the extension? In other words, it had been a while since it had been in. Was it trued up, was there anything beneficial that comes from that?
Laurence Downes
I'm going to ask Mark Sperduto to answer that question. He heads our Regulatory end.
Mark Sperduto
The basic structure of the CIP remains intact and there was no – the benchmark is I think what you're referring to. They were updated in our last rate case. We're measuring off a lower benchmark that was established in our rate case going forward. The basic structure remains the same.
Your next question comes from Joanne M. Fairechio – Capstone Investments.
Joanne M. Fairechio – Capstone Investments
Let me just follow up on the question on the CIP. You did mention when it was extended it would allow you to I guess to more actively promote conservation. What are you seeing there? Are customers going to see more from you in the way of conservation, what they should do to save gas, to save money, or how are you marketing that to your average customer base?
Laurence Downes
You've probably seen our annual report. The Conserve to Preserve program is really the umbrella for all of our efforts, programs, and activities to encourage our customers to use less. It really runs the gamut of programs from e-tips, just really increasing their awareness. If you look on our website and you go to the Conserve to Preserve dashboard, customers can really see how much energy they're using, where they're using it, how they compare with others. So we will not only continue those efforts but we'll expand those because I think when we go back and look at 2006, the original program objectives, it was structured in a creative way but it was structured to benefit both customers and share owners and I think we've achieved that and we're certainly going to continue to press forward with helping our customers use less energy.
Your next question comes from Heike Doerr - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC.
Heike Doerr - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
I wondered if we could talk a little bit about AIP and how you see spending that $44 million. Is it going to be fairly steady over the course of the year? How should we be thinking about that and the impact we'll see flow through on the income statement?
Glenn Lockwood
This space, our normal construction timetables, winter versus summer, you'd see more of the spending towards the last two or three quarters of the fiscal year as opposed to the first. The earnings related to spending does tract the level of spending so you would tend to see it increasing over the year as we would spend more money again towards the last two or three quarters of the year and until we adjust our base rates which will happen on basically the first of next fiscal year, you're going to see the earnings in fact in our other income and we'll disclose in the 10-Q the account called AFDC Equity which is part of other income and is reflecting the cost of capital earnings related to that spending.
Heike Doerr - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
I was wondering whether we were going to see that in the Q or not. I know that the new governor has made his request as far as the appointment to the Commissioner. I'm wondering if you have gotten a chance to meet with Mr. Solomon and if you know much about his background that you could maybe share with us.
Laurence Downes
We have not. Judge Solomon is still completing his responsibility to the Superior Court but as everyone has seen, he has a very strong legal background. The reaction to his appointment has been on both sides of the aisle very positive and our view is that he will do an excellent job.
Heike Doerr - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
And Commissioner Butler will stay on until he's approved by the Senate? How does that work?
Laurence Downes
That's correct. Commissioner Butler will stay on until Judge Solomon is approved by the Senate and we expect that will probably happen later this month.
Heike Doerr - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
There's another commissioner whose term ends this spring, correct?
Laurence Downes
I believe it's a year from March.
Your next question comes from Jim Lykins – Hilliard Lyons.
Jim Lykins – Hilliard Lyons
Another question about energy services. That segment was down this quarter due to market conditions. Guidance stayed the same. I was just wondering if you could give us a little more color on what your assumptions are, as difficult as that quarter was, are you expecting things to improve on that front?
If it looks like Q1 is not off to the best start in the world because of the lack of volatility, but just anything more that you could say related to your assumptions from energy services.
Glenn Lockwood
Again, we're taking into account actual January activity in the current market for obviously February and the rest of the year. If you do the math, we did adjust the business segments. As Larry pointed out, we're having a very strong year both utility and midstream so we upped the percentage contribution. We expect from those segments as opposed to obviously we lowered the percentage we expect from RES. Obviously we still expect a very profitable year given the fact that we believe 20% to 30% will come from that business segment so if you do the math, on our overall guidance is 20% to 30%, you get a good sense of the type of earnings contribution we still expect to get from RES this year.
Jim Lykins – Hilliard Lyons
One AIP question, was there anything spent for that program in Q1?
Glenn Lockwood
There are two or three projects ongoing. We in fact started some of them last fiscal year, about $3 million I think we spent last year and there was a few million dollars spent in the first quarter out of that $44 million that Larry mentioned. But the majority of the $44 million will be spent in the last two or three fiscal quarters.
Your next question comes from Ryan Rosenthal – Sidoti & Company.
Ryan Rosenthal – Sidoti & Company
Following up on Steckman Ridge, I was trying to get a sense of kind of how the asset matched up to our expectations for earnings thus far and also if you're fully leased out for both the winter and summer capacity.
Glenn Lockwood
I believe again, with short term contracts, we're fully leased for the short term here and as we pointed out in our guidance update, we did not change our midstream segment so basically both Iroquois and Steckman are right on our internal projection.
Ryan Rosenthal – Sidoti & Company
There is a variance range between 2% and 6% I believe for Steckman for this year. Can you discuss some of the variability there and what might cause it to go in either direction?
Glenn Lockwood
It is the first year of operation so from an operating efficiency perspective, cost, the fact that the revenues are somewhat determined on the ability of the operator to take advantage of the short term issues in the market so we're very comfortable as you can see from the first quarter that we're going to have a strong year from it but there has to be some wiggle room just based on the operational efficiency, especially in the first year of operation.
Ryan Rosenthal – Sidoti & Company
Following up on that, is there then likely additional accretion potential in 2011 as you get a year under your belt for the asset?
Glenn Lockwood
We haven't and we don't get fiscal 2001 guidance but in general, the amount of return we get from investment ultimately comes from the types and lengths and pricing of contracts that the operator ultimately enters into, and as we've been very clear for this first year, it's all short term marketer type contracts. No long term what I would call firm attractive long term pricing yet in the field for this first fiscal year.
Ryan Rosenthal – Sidoti & Company
Turning to the guidance, I noticed that's been asked two different ways, but I'm trying to get a sense of utility operations and I believe you mentioned that they performed a little bit better than you had initially anticipated. I was wondering kind of what factors led to the stronger than initially anticipated utility earnings thus far.
Glenn Lockwood
Again, customer growth has been right on. Our internal forecast margin has been good with the growth from customer growth. The fact that we've been refunding and making credits back to customers because of lower gas prices has helped us from a bad debt expense perspective. Larry mentioned lower short term interest rates have been very attractive for the utility and just operational cost controls in general have been as good if not better than what we internally expected. So all of those factors are rolling into the ability to actually increase the expected earnings from the utility.
Ryan Rosenthal – Sidoti & Company
One final question concerning the energy services business. I believe some of the year-over-year decline in the earnings for that segment were due to timing. Would you expect that would be kind of one-off in the next quarter or would that be distributed throughout the remainder of the year?
Glenn Lockwood
Again, we don't' give quarterly guidance. We take the whole year into account when we give the updated guidance and as you can tell, we do expect, if you do the math, the earnings contribution to be lower than what we expected and what we've seen in prior years from energy services.
There are no further questions at this time.
Laurence Downes
Thank you for your time and we'll see your next quarter.
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I tend to avoid religious institutions whenever possible, and aside from a handful of Christmas pageants, bar mitzvahs, and the occasional wedding, I'm usually very successful. Our family's Judaism goes back many generations, but for all practical, non-historical purposes it faded out in Battle Creek, Michigan, about 80 years ago. Since then, we read Herschel and the Hannukah Goblins, occasionally eat latkes, and argue about which direction you light the candles. Pretty sure we're wrong 50% of the time.
I took my friend up on what I'm sure was an idle invitation to attend Passover services Friday out of some combination of curiosity, exhaustion, and the desire to sit and listen to someone talk for a few minutes about things greater than my immediate personal and professional concerns. Basically, for the same reasons I go to yoga.
The sermon (is that what you call it?) was short and thoughtful. It was about creating mindfulness in your life by recognizing distinctions. The rabbi used kosher eating as an example, and as someone who tries (and usually fails) to be mindful about what goes in my mouth, I felt like she was speaking directly to me. Her point, as I understood it, was that observing what feel like arbitrary or outdated distinctions actually serves the purpose of artificially mandating mindfulness into one's habits. If you have to consider "Can I eat this?" you will also consider "Should I eat this?" and "Do I want to eat this?"
Food is only one small sliver of application for the concept of mindfulness. It's about bringing conscious decision-making to your life in as many facets as you can find for it. Should I walk or take the bus? Should I say this thing to this person or not? Should I read my book or watch this show or call my brother or stare at Twitter? Whatever you choose, choose it consciously. Or so goes the theory that I have in no way mastered.
In many ways, my favorite parts of the service were the pieces that could have been lifted straight from a yoga class. Instead of telling you want to think about or how to think, the leaders direct you to examine your own mental and emotional priorities and self-diagnose. What, of all the things I could think about right now, do I really need/want to devote time to? I find it a highly respectful approach that appreciates and accommodates everyone's individuality.
Point is, I think I may go back. Who knows, next Pesach I may even join the matzoh-eaters!
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Today, the worlds hunger for minerals has again put the spotlight on the states mining industry.
Industry experts say Lemhi County, along the state line with Montana, could hold the key to unlocking the answer to the shortage of the worlds rare earth minerals. Those such as neodymium, lanthanum and cerium are used in everything from cellphones to military weapons to green technology.
Its likely that only California, Alaska and Wyoming top the Gem State in the amount of rare minerals within their borders, said Virginia Gillerman, an economic geologist for the Idaho Geological Survey.
Those resources continue to become more valuable. China, which produces more than 90 percent of the worlds rare earth minerals, has warned that it will curb its exports.
An Arkansas mining company, U.S. Rare Earths, is searching for the buried treasure within the rock near the Idaho-Montana state line.
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We know from geology that there are rare earths out there ... (but) no one has ever really started looking out there (before) because it costs a heck of a lot of money, said Russ Bjorklund, Salmon-Challis National Forest minerals program manager.
The nations hunt for uranium began in 1945 after the end of World War II.
That exploration turned up an interesting discovery in Lemhi Pass: thorium. Its considered a safer, more abundant alternative to uranium in nuclear fuel, Gillerman said.
The need for thorium was minimal and extraction was stopped. Prospectors didnt realize that spidered through the rock, alongside the thorium, were rare earth minerals that decades later would be some of the worlds most coveted resources.
Early studies by the U.S. Geological Survey concluded that this district had the largest thorium resource in the nation and also hosted an equal amount of rare earths, according to a January 2011 Idaho Geological Survey journal article.
Throughout Idaho are large deposits of neodymium (used in magnets), lanthanum (studio lighting and projector lights) and cerium (televisions), Gillerman said.
Mining those minerals remains difficult and expensive, meaning its not likely to happen soon.
Like any mining project, a company has to prove there is enough in the ground to make it economically worthwhile to extract and that they can extract it efficiently, Gillerman said.
A couple of years ago, prices (for rare earths) spiked up and everybody got excited, talking about shortages, Gillerman said. Mining in Idaho depends on whether China sells them to us.
The minerals are accessible, but the price has to be right. The rare earth elements are mixed together in the rock near the Idaho-Montana line. To separate them requires an expensive chemical process, Gillerman said.
Until that point is reached, U.S. Rare Earths continues exploring. It has submitted three plans to the Salmon-Challis National Forest, two of which have been approved. In one area, the company has started drilling core samples, used to pinpoint mineral veins, Bjorklund said.
Neither Gillerman nor Bjorklund knows whether the company found what it was looking for.
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Anna Boulton is an accomplished New Zealand/English artist. She works mainly in oil. Anna has exhibited in New Zealand, Antigua, England, and Malta. Her last exhibition was at Harmony Hall in Antigua. At the moment she is exhibiting her paintings at Kendalls Fine Art gallery in Cowes and two galleries in Antigua. Harmony Hall and "Rythem and Blues" Her recent Dhow paintings are displayed at the Majlis Gallery in Dubai.
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VANDALS smashed a Winchester charity shop window with a concrete bollard.
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9:36am Friday 11th October 2013 in News By Ian Craig
COULD Worcester have its very own Banksy?
This mysterious piece of graffiti – which looks similar to work created by the Bristol artist – has appeared in the car park of the Worcester Arts Workshop in Sansome Street, leading to speculation that a copycat could be at large in the city.
The image is thought to have been prompted by the Government's trial badger cull – which has been met with resistance in Worcestershire and further afield – and also makes a cheeky reference to the idea by conspiracy theorist David Icke that the world is secretly controlled by a race of alien lizards posing as figures such as the royal family.
No one in the area knew how long the image had been there or who had painted it but it is unlikely Banksy himself is behind it as he is believed to be in New York at present.
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Hwicce says...
And they wonder why people aren't keen to support them.
10:25am Fri 11 Oct 13
Andy-Apache says...
I wonder who could have done that eh? I think it's cool, and humorous, and definitely NOT newsworthy!
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Hwicce wrote:Banksy's satirical street art combines dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Apart from the technique it shares the same political message as the murals on the house of Shankill Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland and in the communist areas of Russia. It is also done tounge-in-cheek and is an act of freedom of speech.
Agravated trespass and now vandalism.
And they wonder why people aren't keen to support them.
I doubt this was Bansky himself but even the story is ironic if you read between the lines. Some people just don't get it.
And no Hwicce. You need to read the article properly...
"The image is THOUGHT to have been prompted by the Government's trial badger cull". See the word "thought"? That is someone's option on the artwork which might be entirely different to what is meant by the artist theirselves.
I'd rather see this type of graffiti than the "tag" inscribed walls along the canal.
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on Jun 10, 2013 at 10:27 am
She had a weapon..." Sex appeal" A young blonde, 5'7" tall, and weighing only 120 pounds.
WOW...but no real weapon seen...the cab driver wouldn't last 2 minutes in Oakland or 2 seconds in New York.
He must have been a real wimp.
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Ah, Julia. Classy as usual, I see.
on Jun 10, 2013 at 8:22 pm
"He must have been a real wimp"....
Scarily, there is a part of me that could agree with Julia.
But who is to say that the robber didn't, for example, ask if the driver could break a $100 to pay a $20 fare then grab and take off with the $80 change.
For that matter, we don't know that the driver wasn't a 5' 1" and 110 lb FEMALE.
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Well, I guess the Cold-Eeze I mentioned last week didn't really do the trick after all. That "twenty-four hour bug" has turned out to be a week-long cold, and even pretending I wasn't sick for four or five days didn't do much good; it finally caught up to me, and I'm sitting in bed today, just trying to give my body a day to recuperate.
That's not going to stop me, though, from posting a brand new Illustrate Me for November's archives. This month's illustration is the handiwork of the extremely talented Rob Giampietro, one-half of the design studio Giampietro + Smith, located in downtown New York City.
As the de facto curator for Illustrate Me, I count myself continually lucky: this is yet another ingenious entry that immediately brought a smile to my face as soon as it came over the transom. Rob makes a surprisingly lucid, free-associative connection between four weblog posts I wrote last month and a series of Chinese tangram puzzle constructions. It's an incongruous juxtaposition, but the way he pulled it off, it looks like the most natural thing in the world
Along with his partner Kevin Smith, Rob is producing some of the most aesthetically accomplished and intellectually satisfying graphic design out there today. In addition, he's something of a writer and teacher: he's currently teaching a course at The Rhode Island School of Design one day per week, and he's recently launched Lined and Unlined, an online compendium for his writings on design — not quite a blog, more of a 'writing portfolio.' It's definitely worth a few minutes of your time to get a peak into one of the sharpest young minds in graphic design today.
What was your inspiration for November's Illustrate Me?
In college, one of my professors was obsessed with tangrams, which are these open-ended Chinese puzzle pieces that you can use to make a million different things. Each Tangram has seven pieces: two big triangles, a medium triangle, two small triangles, a parallelogram, and a square. After my professor showed them to me they were kind of on my radar screen, and a few weeks ago I picked up this used book in a bargain bin called "300 Tangrams." I liked the flat black geometric shapes, they reminded me a bit of the design of Subtraction, but they also felt like they came from someplace else.
How much of that kind of free association are you able to bring into your work at Giampietro+Smith?
Well, when clients want things fast, you have to think on your feet, and free associating is one way of doing that. So it comes in handy, but you have to watch calling it that or making it feel that way, or they won't let you get away with it.
For example, our studio is near Café Gitane, which is this great cafe down in Nolita. We take out from there a lot, so I've spent some time looking at the walls. One day I noticed they were all different colors. One was butter yellow, another bright orange, another lime green, and then some of the pillars and the waiters' jackets are deep Yves Klein blue. Kind of a funky palatte, but it worked. Then we were doing this book for the artist Martin Kippenberger, and none of the colors we were proposing were working. The book was getting later and later. Finally, I just decided to throw the Café Gitane colors in there, using them basically at random, but only from that limited palette. It worked. When they asked me about the random colors, I said that I thought Kippenberger liked to make his work unexpected and playful, and they accepted that.
So it's my experience that clients want rational solutions, but people actually don't. People make leaps of faith and free associations all the time, and they enjoy thinking that way. It's pleasurable and leisurely and it lets you have your own way of seeing. Khoi, you wrote a nice elegy for Paul Rand's old UPS logo here, and you pointed out that he knew it was good when his daughter walked in and said it looked like a present. UPS just needed a package; Rand gave them a gift. That's good design, if you ask me.
Designers often spend a lot of time trying to develop intellectual, left-brain frameworks within which they can rationalize their processes and decisions to clients. Do you also spend time nurturing this more intuitive, right-brain side as well, or is it something that just comes subconsciously?
I have to spend time nurturing it. I'm sort of an organization addict, so I'm always wanting to categorize, list, name, and index things. It takes a lot of effort to stay open and just let an experience — visual, verbal, aural, whatever — just hit me and not be thinking consicously about what I want to use it for. In my class at RISD, one of our readings for last week was "Intuition and Ideas" from Rand's "Design, Form & Chaos." I'm sure many designers are familiar with it, but it's worth revisiting here.
In it, Rand first draws the important comparison of intuition to improvisitation, which resonates strongly with me because I'm a jazz pianist, and I often feel like I'm using the same part of my brain for playing the piano and designing. He goes on, "Compliance with all the laws and systems of form, restraint, and proportion will not provide proof of the soundness of a work of art, nor guarantee its coming to fruition. This is one of the reasons it is so difficult to understand or teach art. […] Without regard to available systems (e.g., the Golden Section, DIN Proportions, typographic grids), the designer works intuitively."
While I don't feel like Rand's statement here is entirely true — I don't believe even Rand thought so, based on some of his other writings — I believe there's certianly a lot of truth in it, and, frankly, I think it's honest and brave. I also think it helps him find his closing thoughts, which maybe I'll steal for my own: "If a design is striking enough, it is not always necessary to explain it. Explanations sometimes obscure more than they reveal."
Another great addition (and for the best month of the year)! Nice work, Rob.
My mind is like a bunch of nothing, but I guess it doesn't bother me. I haven't been up to anything recently. I've pretty much been doing nothing to speak of.
I've been similarly entranced lately with origami, the Japanese art of paper-folding. I think in this age of digital design, it's good to get back to "hands-on" projects and crafts, and I certainly think that we'll go back more and more to these traditional arts to find inspiration for our designs.


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