There's been increasing talk about Jack Zduriencik's future and whether his job will be on the line next season. At this point, we don't know what the organization will really be shooting for in 2012, or what kind of budget they'll be shooting with. The 17-game losing streak suggests that a lot more work is needed, while the respectable performance otherwise suggests that the team is tantalizingly close. Another way to look at things is to evaluate what Zduriencik has built (or rebuilt) and see how solid it looks, and after the trade deadline is a good opportunity for that.
Whether or not he gets five years to carry out his plan (not that it was meant to be a "five-year plan"), obviously it will take that long to see how some of the pickups in these deals mature. So I thought it would be good to consider the picture for the next two years, which includes some important transitional questions that a GM would need to anticipate and plan for. What follows is a sense of who's currently in the organization and might play a significant role over that time frame. It's not exactly a depth chart for each position, more a collection of who could end up helping fill different spots.
Since we're talking about the future, the roster building is provisional and incomplete, of course. Only a couple spots are really solidly locked down, and more deals and signings will be needed to plug holes and upgrade positions, starting this winter. Part of this exercise is seeing what's left if, say, you give up a particular player your trading partner really wants. Not everyone on the list will be part of the picture, as guys go away or get replaced. Some of the prospects would still need to make significant strides and their progress is uncertain, but there's at least a scenario in which they might contribute.
Ichiro: This position is no longer one we can realistically consider to be locked up long-term. Presumably Ichiro will hold onto it for the last year of his contract, but that only gets us to the beginnings of uncertainty. Will his performance recover, over the final months of this season or next year? Will ownership or fan sentiment require an extension even if he doesn't recover, or at a price that isn't warranted if he does? Will he decide to return to Japan to close out his career, like Sasaki and Johjima?
Casper Wells: For the first time since Ichiro has been around, the Mariners have someone with the kind of profile to look like a possible succession plan. His bat would look great in center, but his defensive performance would need to be the top percentile of what he's capable of, and even then it wouldn't make anybody forget Gutierrez or Cameron. In right, a guy who has moderate power, is capable defensively, and has a good arm would figure as a league-average player and offer the stereotypical skillset expected of the position.
Johermyn Chavez: Would need to make a tremendous leap forward in 2012, but could figure into the RF picture for 2013 if he does. More likely that he doesn't pan out.
Carlos Peguero: Supposing (but not assuming) that his power potential someday materializes into a useful player at the major league level, putting him in right field rather than left may make more sense to hide his defensive liabilities, especially for Safeco.
Mike Wilson: Somewhat like Peguero, if he makes something of himself, this could be the best spot for him. Realistically, should be playing in Japan before Ichiro is.
Franklin Gutierrez: Very hard to know what's going on, and therefore to project what the future holds. To the extent the team is saying his stomach issues aren't a problem, that could be a way of pushing him or it could be to cover for a guy playing through an "injury" as they've done with other players. The defense is still legitimately fantastic, so he seems fine in that regard. The complete disappearance of power is very worrisome as a lingering problem, though. Does he need an offseason where he can focus on recovering strength, as opposed to spending it chasing an accurate diagnosis? If he comes back next year and nothing has changed, what then?
Greg Halman: Probably not the answer to "what then?" Needs extended playing time in Tacoma to see if he can harness his obvious physical gifts. Not having gotten much this year, he really should spend all of 2012 in AAA, except that he may be out of options.
Michael Saunders: This year seems like a lost season for his development due to a number of issues, including the death of his mother, and the timing is unfortunate (not that there's a good time for such things). If it had come earlier in his progress when he was first trying to break into the majors, the team could have had patience with him, but patience has already been applied with his struggles to adjust in earlier years. Having to leave him to sink in the majors while filling in for Gutierrez, when everyone knew he should be in Tacoma, doesn't help. He's on here because he could still turn into a useful outfielder, but it's unlikely to be for the Mariners.
Casper Wells: Listed here as an emergency option, since it's been suggested he could be competent in center. The team doesn't seem to be showing many signs of wanting to plug him in there, though, so that would indicate they will likely look elsewhere and leave Wells in a corner.
Casper Wells: The best option for now, but assuming the front office wants to improve the offense, LF is probably the optimal place to carve out a spot for that, and if so it needs a bigger bat than this. Could hold down the spot temporarily if he's groomed to take over for Ichiro in right.
Mike Carp: On a good team, he and Wells might make an interesting platoon. A decent hitter overall, but with him and Robinson both, some of their power may be a PCL creation (it's not just Albuquerque or the new walls at Cheney, the offensive inflation is pervasive and as bad as the California League right now). Still quite stretched defensively in the outfield.
Carlos Peguero: Still much to learn.
Chih-Hsien Chiang: Check back in next year to see if he's moving into the picture.
Vinnie Catricala: If he keeps hitting in the minors, Catricala is an intriguing option. The power potential is there. He has played other positions but is no defensive wizard, and in terms of how he would fit on this team, this is the spot that's most likely.
Mike Wilson: His best chance is as the lefty-mashing half of a platoon, but he's not the most likely candidate for it.
Matt Tuiasosopo: If you've forgotten, having concluded he should no longer try to play third or short, the club told him to focus on LF and 1B in spring training. The reason you may have forgotten is that his hitting in Tacoma still hasn't merited any kind of consideration for a callup. Please feel free to resume your previous amnesia.
Brendan Ryan: Under contract for 2012. Still under team control in 2013, so he may well still be the starting shortstop then, unless somebody else forces their way past him. Even an arbitration salary shouldn't be too massive of a burden in his case. If you're wondering where Nick Franklin is on this list, Franklin will almost certainly need to go back to AA next year, then move up to Tacoma after that, so a September 2013 callup is about the most you'd see.
Luis Rodriguez: The team will need some kind of utility player, and he's the closest fit of people who might still be around next year. In reality, it could be anybody.
Carlos Triunfel: Still plays mostly at shortstop, though people keep predicting he will move off. If he ends up contributing in 2013, let's say, he has fewer hurdles here than at other positions. But serving as trade bait is at least as likely.
Chone Figgins: Well, we're looking out ahead to the next two years, and he's still under contract for the next two years. The last straw to grasp at is that he might find himself by playing the kind of super-utility role he had when he first made a name for himself.
Kyle Seager: Not everybody can hit the ground running like Ackley. May be the best option in the system going forward, but since his profile looks better as a utility player, the front office should continue to approach third base as a hole that needs filling.
Alex Liddi: Because of his age and coming from a non-baseball country, Liddi may need a little longer to develop. Or he may just strike out too much to amount to anything. He's in Tacoma now, but that doesn't mean he's ready.
Matt Mangini: Wow, I had just about forgotten Mangini was called up last year. Injuries have been an issue this year, and his glovework is still a concern.
Luis Rodriguez: Utility bench player placeholder.
Carlos Triunfel: While it's long been thought Triunfel might shift here, the competition is significantly thicker.
Francisco Martinez: Immediately became the most promising high-level 3B prospect in the system, but still at least a year away. At 20, his age suggests good potential, but also that the organization may want to resist rushing him, and put him on a similar track to Franklin.
Nate Tenbrink: Kind of in the some boat as Johermyn Chavez, in that his performance has taken a step back and he's being bypassed by newer guys in the system, so it would take a huge leap to get back on the right career trajectory.
Dustin Ackley: The only position player who qualifies as a lock.
Luis Rodriguez: For the one game they decide to give Ackley a rest.
Kyle Seager: For the other game they decide to give Ackley a rest.
Justin Smoak: Things looked good enough early in the year to think the position was solved for a while. Some of what's followed may be thumb issues, but the overall picture should temper our expectations about what Smoak will turn into. He comes cheap and can be good enough, but is unlikely to become a superstar at this point.
Mike Carp: Carp is more of a fall-back option if Smoak crashes and burns, but the gap between them is no longer so big that the possibility should be ruled out.
Rich Poythress: As a righthanded hitter whose value depends on power, it's an open question whether he can be effective in Safeco Field.
Matt Mangini: Still seems best suited as a bat-first corner infield type that fits better on a National League roster, a la Greg Dobbs.
Matt Tuiasosopo: For anyone mourning that the Mariners gave up on Mike Morse, keep in mind that Tuiasosopo today is pretty much what Mike Morse was when they traded him. Sometimes that happens.
Miguel Olivo: We have one more year of Olivo to look forward to. After that – well, catchers don't age well generally, and Olivo's racking up a lot of miles.
Adam Moore: Unless they keep bringing Josh Bard back, in the grand tradition of Pat Borders and Jamie Burke, Moore is the only alternative. He has to make it back from his knee injury, then show he can hit in the majors.
Jose Yepez: The system has gone from being flush with catching prospects (not that any of them really panned out) to being totally barren. The team started restocking this year with the draft and the impending shift of Marcus Littlewood there, but none of them are in the upper minors yet or close to ready. That means there's still no immediate depth beyond the emergency call-up that they weren't going to play if they could help it.
Mike Carp: Assuming Smoak holds down first, this is really where Carp fits best. While his bat doesn't play up that well at DH, it looks great compared to recent team history at the spot.
Johan Limonta: Minor league hitter without a real position.
Vinnie Catricala: With a crowd in the outfield, if his bat develops it could be squeezed in here.
Ichiro: This is a bit of a non-traditional option, but it might be an interesting way to handle Ichiro, as long as he's not in the process of completely falling off a cliff. Ichiro has always been viewed as a kind of savant when it comes to hitting, with the notion that he could just keep doing much of the same stuff all the way to the end like a late-career Tony Gwynn. The biggest worry is about a loss of speed, and that may have factored in this year, but then again he's still stealing bases as well as before. In trying to move from "he's in a slump" to actual analysis, everybody has a theory, nobody has proof. His defense has definitely declined, though, and I wonder if playing the field isn't dragging down his performance at the plate. Considering that he hits well when he does DH, perhaps that should be given more serious consideration to see if this is a good way to extend his career.
Felix Hernandez: The expense for his salary begins to get seriously large next year, which is one reason the Boston and New York media keep ginning up the notion that the Mariners would need to trade him. But even with a more expensive Felix, it's just not possible those teams could come up with the kind of package that would justify such a trade.
Michael Pineda: Need to limit his innings this year and continue to watch him carefully after that.
Jason Vargas: Being in his arbitration years, he no longer has the kind of surplus value that enables a Fister-style trade, but Safeco remains ideal for his skillset. Even if you might not want to be on the other side of the free agent contract he may get, it doesn't mean you can't appreciate having him around until then.
Blake Beavan: What to make of the jump from Beavan in Tacoma vs. Beavan in Seattle? Part is luck (stranding runners) and small sample sizes, part is the offensive environment of the PCL having gone to another level of crazy this year, part may be a "first time around the league" effect. Whatever it is, clearly trading Doug Fister becomes a whole lot easier if you conclude that you have a reasonable facsimile waiting to step in.
Charlie Furbush: Fifth starter for now, but after trading from the rotation to bolster the offense, this is a spot where more competition is needed. Furbush is hopefully not another Luke French, but I'm also a bit wary of guys known for deceptive deliveries, in case the deceptiveness wears off.
Anthony Vasquez, Erasmo Ramirez: When projecting future roster developments using guys in the minors, especially pitchers, it's sometimes easier to lump players into rough categories, on the theory that "one of these guys could make it and potentially fill [some particular role]." These two are the prospects closest to the majors who might fill a rotation vacancy, and in fact Vasquez was speculated about for the start Furbush got. They're pretty much limited to the back end of the rotation and don't have the kind of upside associated with future aces.
James Paxton, Danny Hultzen (assuming he signs): If you use the archetypes associated with each rotation starter ranked 1-2-3-4-5, then based on what we've seen so far the biggest void is somewhere in the middle of that. Paxton or Hultzen are decent possibilities to slide into that gap once they're ready, and of course they're supposed to have potential above that. Just keep pitching prospect attrition in mind before you start counting up how many aces the team will be able to run out back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
David Aardsma, Brandon League: Since managers like to plug bullpen pitchers into predefined roles, lumping guys together makes sense here as well. We start with the veteran closers. The Mariners shouldn't need two, and the effect of the save stat on salary and reputation makes trading them at or near peak value the wiser course, combined with developing their successors within the system. In this case, peak trading opportunities have already passed by. That's not the end of the world, considering the return J.J. Putz brought after an injury-plagued season, but then again, you won't always have Omar Minaya to trade with.
Dan Cortes, Josh Lueke: Young and hard-throwing and therefore the kind of material that might turn into the next closer.
Shawn Kelley, Aaron Laffey, Jeff Gray: Guys who are established relievers of some sort.
Charlie Furbush, Luke French: Marginal starters who could move to the bullpen. Sometimes these guys turn into David Pauley, sometimes they turn into Garrett Olson.
Mauricio Robles, Tom Wilhelmsen: Pitchers who are being worked with in the minors as starters, but if they have much of an impact during the time frame being examined here, then it will probably be as a result of a move to the bullpen. Technically, Wilhelmsen is in the Mariner bullpen now, but that will only last until Kelley is ready to come off the disabled list.
Cesar Jimenez, Stephen Pryor, Brian Moran: Minor league bullpen guys who are somewhat close. At this point, we're pretty much talking about random arms appearing or disappearing out of nowhere, so the names aren't critical. Pryor looks like the best bet at the moment to move up into one of the other groups above.
Oh, and while I am at it….
Detroit spent 122 million last year to go 81-81.
The Chicago Cubs spent $146 million last year to go 75-87.
The New York Mets last year spent $134 million- to go 79-83.
Again, spending money? No guarantee that you've spent money on the right things. Would we be a significantly better team if WE had been the ones with Jason Bay? I doubt it.
It was hard for me to focus on the players because all I could think while reading this was commas, Commas, COMMMAS!!!!
That being said, looking at the minors its no surprise that Ackley is our first promising position player since A-rod, and it might be 16 more years until another comes along with what we have down there now. yikes.
As far as spending money, the time is pretty close to being now. Ok we have all these 'cost controlled' players on our team, are we supposed to wait until they start hitting arb to then go spend money on free agents? This off-season and next off-season are the times to add expensive free agent types while Ackley and Pineda etc. are still cheap.
Unfortunately, there aren't great free agents from a Mariners standpoint to go spend on. The only thing I can really see happening is if Cleveland doesn't pick up the $8.5m on Sizemore. I cant see teams throwing long money at him (3+ years), but I could see the Mariners jump in at 2 years and $15m? Is that way off? I mean, he's played 100 games the last 2 years combined, but when he has played, atleast this season, he has absolutely raked. Even in his 61 games this year he's been worth $5.5m according to WAR. That doesn't take time away from anyone, because at best I see Wells as a 4th outfielder, getting ABs against lefties. He's pretty perfect for that role. And Carp I see like a Stan Javier (in his Ms career) type, a little 1B, a little LF. You don't have to be a starter to get ~350 ABs, and that, to me, is the sweet spot for what Carp should be getting (on a good team).


Using a Macbook or desktop computer often means you keep data stored together. External HDD storage is always a possibility and it should be a consideration. But ultimately any type of data backup will help your computer breathe by cleaning out older files.
Consider putting together a schedule for managing data backups from your computer. It might help to plan for the end of the week on Fridays, or even sometime once a month during the weekends. It really doesn't matter how you handle the backups as long as they are consistent.
Same goes for webmasters who need to pull data out from their web server. It will probably take a while in order to FTP down all the files and grab a copy of any database(s). But you can't always trust a 3rd party host to keep your information backed up properly. And it can be ever easier when you start using your Mac as a common data backup facility.
What many people don't consider is switching to online backups for mac using some type of cloud storage. This way you can send data out over the Internet, and pull down local copies every-so-often.
External hard drives only have so much room for storage. If you need to backup lots of data then it makes sense to only perform this locally when needed. Possibly in 4-6 times a year if there isn't too much extra data. But having data stored on external servers elsewhere online also provides these files on any computer with Internet access.
Trust is what keeps these relationships working strong. It is also a key factor in any business relationship, and it's worth considering before you purchase any type of cloud storage support. Make sure you have some type of plan regarding how you wish to backup data, how frequently, and the main purpose. Never catch yourself in a bad situation with a company that finds itself going out of business with your data backups now hanging in limbo.
No matter how you begin a clear schedule for data backups, the main goal is to stick with it and keep yourself focused on work. Having that little security in your mind knowing your information is safe can do wonders for your performance.


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The latter half of the 1930's is considered the high point of Johannes Greenberg's creative work. At that time he was an artist in his fifties. He had begun his studies in art in 1904 already at Ants Laikmaa's recently opened studio school. He later studied further in Berlin, Latvia and Munich and worked for years in Moscow. Greenberg did not return to Estonia until 1920 and did not start participating more actively in exhibitions until some ten years later. After a springtime bus trip to Spain, where nature and the works of El Greco and Goya inspired him, an "intense period of searching" began in his work according to researchers of Greenberg, which lasted from 1936 to about 1944. The depiction of half-length figures became prevalent, whereas a woman or group of women who somewhat melancholically or plaintively look off into the distance was a frequent subject.
Johannes Greenberg has been considered one of the most colour-sensitive artists in the history of Estonian art. It is interesting to note in this painting how Greenberg's colouring, which as a rule is airy and rich in nuances, is vigorous and expressive here. It is possible that the restless frames of mind of 1939 – the year in which this painting was completed – are also reflected in its surprising colour combination. Greenberg was extremely receptive in terms of the surrounding political conditions, and thus subconscious impulses could have guided his hand in his choice of colours. The scene – a landscape – is also more of an exception in Greenberg's creative work, since we know him first and foremost as more of a creator of figurative paintings.
In Greenberg's works, women's heads are characteristically covered since as a rule, women wear headkerchiefs, hats, bonnets and other such items on their heads in Greenberg's works – he rarely depicts them bareheaded. It is also noteworthy that for Greenberg during that period, using models was apparently a "sin against the spirit", for which reason the woman in this painting was probably also painted according to his imagination.
Greenberg has skilfully used the direction and texture of the plywood that forms the base material for this painting. Greenberg liked plywood. It suited his style of painting and other people also noticed that fact. Thus his colleague Adamson-Eric wrote in a review: "His blackish, dark tones are light and in an academic sense, his murky tones acquire brilliance and warmth from the plywood base that resonates with it."
Subjects associated with theatre were very frequent in Greenberg's creative work. That interest has been explained differently – by interest in theatre, by interest in play, by interest in situations where illusions and actuality do not quite coincide. Greenberg continued to create paintings on theatrical themes during the years of the Second World War at the same time as several works of a tragic tone are also known from the same period: "Homeless People", "Consoler", "Mourners", "Sadness", and so on. In 1940, one reviewer saw all of Greenberg's creative work of that time through sadness and powerlessness, directing attention among other things to the fact that the characters in his paintings do not stand but rather sit instead. At the same time, as another possible interpretation, it has been pointed out that it is instead the talent, extraordinariness and sensitivity of the artists (in other words the actors and singers) that was in the focus of the theatre scenes in Greenberg's later creative work.
In this painting, Johannes Greenberg has depicted actresses of the Estonia Theatre preparing before their performance. We see their serious and focused expressions and their motionless poses that convey not only the inner concentration of the actresses but also the artist's melancholy conception of life.
Johannes Greenberg depicted the world of the theatre very frequently, especially actors and people wearing masks. This interest has been explained differently – as stemming from interest in the theatre, interest in playing games, and interest in situations where illusions and reality do not quite overlap.


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How Search Engine Results Are Terrible
Friday, August 16, 2019 by Wil Gomez in News and Opinion
Got search? Of course you do. People search for anything and everything and the world's biggest search engine is you-know-who. Do not let that playful, colorful logo and cute name fool you.
Google knows so much about you that when you search the answer you're searching for often shows up on the first page and Google sets it up so you don't need to keep searching elsewhere. That's by design.
One Click, Bye
Let's compare your Google search efforts to mine and to a survey of most Google users to see how they vary. I use Startpage instead of Google. Startpage strips out all of Google's trackers but delivers the same search results. Most humans on planet earth that do online search use Google and they're doing something that Google wants them to do.
Rand Fishkin:
In June of 2019, for the first time, a majority of all browser-based searches on Google.com resulted in zero-clicks.
What? No clicks. How can that be? Is the company behind that colorful, playful, cutely-named logo actually doing something, uh, well, dishonest?
June is when zero-click searches in browsers passed 50%, but the pie chart above shows that even before that, Google was sending a huge portion of search clicks to their own properties (~6% of queries and ~12% of clicks). Those properties include YouTube, Maps, Android, Google's blog, subdomains of Google.com, and a dozen or so others (full list here).
In other words, Google knows you and your online search habits so well, and has enough online properties, that it can display a list so useful you don't need to go anywhere else except one of Google's walled garden properties.
How dominant is Google in online search?
The Google Maps App, Google Search App, and YouTube are installed on almost every mobile device in the US, and likely have so much usage that, if their search statistics were included, Google's true market share would be 97%+.
Even worse, the actual clicks to Google's properties has increased over the past decade while clicks to third party properties– not listed with favor in Google's search results– have gone down.
Is that because users just love Google to death? Or, is it because Google favors Google properties and interests first, and everything else is an afterthought.
What about mobile devices with all those Google apps?
On mobile, where more than half of all searches take place, it's a different story. Organic has fallen by almost 20%, while paid has nearly tripled and zero-click searches are up significantly. Even way back in January 2016, more than half of mobile searches ended without a click. Today's, it's almost 2/3rds.
Search engine results are terrible because you are not able to view a wide variety of website properties which have content to fit your request query. Instead, you're being force fed a variety of pre-defined properties which help increase Google's revenue first.
Google now specializes in what is called "Zero click" search. The Jumpshot definition is scary:
The most literal definition is a search that results in zero website referrals, i.e. no web property receives a visit from the search.
Searches that are answered by the results, searches that end because a user was frustrated and couldn't find an answer, searches that end because something interrupted the searcher, or any other reason for a cessation of activity after the query would all count as "zero click" searches.
Because Jumpshot only measures browser behavior, a click/action that takes a searcher out of the browser (for example, opening the phone app for a click-to-call, or the Google Maps app for driving directions) will be categorized under zero-click searches.
Voice searches that show a screen of results are part of this analysis. Searches that are answered by a device's audio (like Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, etc. speaking an answer) are not counted.
Not only are politicians manipulating by espousing fake news rhetoric in superlatives rather than detail, Google seems to be doing a search engine results that works the same way.
Clearly, we are being manipulated.
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Virgin Sacrificed!
Alexis, writing on Circus Pony, explains how a "Virgin Was Sacrificed By Sprint." It's a sordid tale of big brands swallowing smaller brands.
$25! Or, Less!
TommyRocket's Tommaso found a list of "The Best You Can Get For Less Than $25" and just in time for you to be out of money thanks to holiday shopping.
Most Used!
Cal, in voxApple, asks "What iPhone Apps Do You Use The Most." He even gives you tips to find out and what to do about it.
Staus!
One of Mac360's co-founders is in need of medical care at Mayo Clinic. Jack explains "How To Help A Fellow Mac User In Need". Please review the details and help if you can.
About Wil Gomez
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The advances in cosmetic dentistry are very exciting and allow us to brighten stained teeth, discoloured by tea, coffee, red wine or smoking, with tooth whitening, to give you a more dazzling smile.
Unsightly metal fillings can be replaced with natural-coloured fillings to improve the look of your smile and allow you to laugh with confidence, and veneers, which are like 'false nails' for teeth. It provide a wafer thin mask to hide discolouration and close unsightly gaps, with little or no work being needed on the tooth itself.


Bassist/composer Bruno Raberg creates a blend of classical, Indian World music and jazz in his compositions for strings and solists.
The title "Triloka – Three Realms" refers to the trifold form of the piece. The word Triloka, or trailokya, is found in Hindu and Buddhist texts and refers to three spheres or three worlds. This piece has rhythmic structures from traditional Carnatic (S. Indian) music that are called Mora and Korvai. The "three worlds" could also describe the influences on this recording, which are S. Indian music, jazz improvisation, and the Swedish influenced melodies most prevalent in "August Hymnal".
The improvised bass introduction to Chandra Soma is my version of the traditional Alap or Alapana used in traditional Indian music. It is a rubato exploration of the melodic properties of the Raga. I am in no way attempting to play a traditional Alap here but rather using the concept to introduce the melodic material used in Chandra Soma.
Chandra Soma lit. "Moon Juice" is based on the "Subhapantuvarali"mode, which is the 45th mode of the 72 modes from the 72 Melakartas, considered the "mother scales" of Carnatic music. The pitches are: D-Eb-F-Ab-A-Bb-C#. All melodies and harmonies are derived from this mode and I particularly explore the two faced aspects of the mode, one based on D as the root the other with Bb as the root. As in Triloka, I use rhythmic structures and cadences from Carnatic music.
Wave Play is a translation from the Swedish word "Vågspel" which has the double meaning "the play of ocean waves" and "risky venture".
Sojourn literally means "temporary stay". In this piece I start out deeply inside the diatonic "western" scale but at some point venture into microtonal transformations of the pitch, thus changing the color and mood of the piece. This becomes a venue for violinist Layth Sidiq to explore Arabic sounds in his improvisations. At the end, the piece returns to the original sound and mood.
Trilogy for Strings is all about traveling, moving on and exploring new territories.
In Autumn Hymnal I pay tribute to the end of summer, an afterthought and at the same time an anticipation of fall.
Special thanks: to Mimi Rabson who commissioned and conducted Triloka – Three Realms for the Berklee World Strings and who in some ways got this whole project started: to Eugene Friesen who commissioned Chandra Soma, also for Berklee World Strings: to all the musicians that played my music and improvised so beautifully. To Rob Jaczko for recording and mixing with such expertise and commitment.


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Harvey Locke: A vision for conservation in the 21st century | Penticton, B.C.
Globally renowned conservationist Harvey Locke will take us on an inspiring journey from the Okanagan through Yellowstone to Yukon to the grand global conservation vision of Nature Needs Half.
There is hope for wild nature and humanity in the 21st century if we respect nature's needs. This means protecting at least half the world in an interconnected way and being very careful on the rest. Globally renowned conservationist Harvey Locke will take us on an inspiring journey from the Okanagan through Yellowstone to Yukon to the grand global conservation vision of Nature Needs Half.
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Ujhelyi, M.; Merker, B.; Buk, P. & Geissmann, T. (2000). Observations on the behavior of gibbons (Hylobates leucogenys, H. gabriellae, and H. lar) in the presence of mirrors. Journal of Comparative Psychology 114: 253-262.
Observations on the behavior of gibbons in the presence of mirrors
Mária Ujhelyi 1, Björn Merker 2, Pál Buk 1 & Thomas Geissmann 3
1 Semmelweis University of Medicine, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Hungary
2 Mid Sweden University, Institute for Biomusicology, Sweden
3 Institute of Zoology, Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Germany
Key Words: Gibbons; self-recognition; mirror-directed behavior; mark test; self-awareness.
Abstract: Three captive gibbons (Hylobates leucogenys, H. gabriellae, and H. lar) were videotaped in the course of longitudinal exposure to mirrors introduced into their familiar cage or island housing situation. The gibbons, which differed in age, sex, species, and rearing condition, exhibited great individual differences in their behavioral reactions to mirrors, spanning from a minimal reaction dominated by social responses to a dramatic sequence of progressive behavioral change that featured a variety of contingency testing behaviors and included mirror-mediated, self-directed behavior. Additional information on the mirror competence of gibbons was provided by modified mark tests and a hidden object task. The results are discussed in relation to current criteria for self-recognition in primates and factors involved in individual and species differences in reactions to mirror exposure.
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The Petrified Forest is playing at the wonderful Stanford Theatre (1925 restored cinema showing Hollywood movies).
In todays Guardian – an evocative "Country Diary" set in Borth, near Aberystwyth, west Wales, where we used to live. Another petrified forest on the coast and taking us back to the days of the Welsh epic sagas.
After the long winter, with its numbing cold and sustained snowfall, few things raise the spirits as much as walking under a deep blue sky with the afternoon sun warming your back. Add to this a long stretch of empty beach and the scope for improvement becomes vanishingly small. My visit to Borth was timed to coincide with a spring tide, whose dramatic range exposes at low water much that is usually covered by a confusion of surf. Winter storms scour the beach dramatically, and a visit in early spring often yields previously hidden elements – including new areas of the ancient sunken forest for which the beach is well-known.
The especially low tide revealed a part of the forest I hadn't seen before. A dozen feet or so below the peak high-water mark, stumps of trees and jumbled arrays of prostrate trunks stood out from the scalloped ripples of the beach. Beyond them I could see tangled shallow root systems set in a glossy, eroded matrix of clay and woody peat. Some newly exposed trees had surprisingly well-preserved bark still in place, and several were immediately recognisable as birch. Dated at around 5,000 years old, these trees appear to have lost a battle with rising sea levels after the last ice age. Welsh legend carries intriguing tales of the lost land of Cantre'r Gwaelod (the Lowland Hundred), a fruitful tract beyond the present shoreline whose sea defences were inundated through either poor maintenance or drunken error.
Could this be a folk memory carried by word of mouth for thousands of years, or is it a later tale devised to account for the same evidence of change visible today? Opinions appear divided, but as I watched the incoming tide gently moving the individual sand grains of the beach it was clear that change is the natural state of the coastline – whether we like it or not.


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Envision Spokane, faced with a protracted legal battle over its most recent attempt to pass Community Bill of Rights initiative, has filed a new initiative for the November ballot that, if passed, would grant expansive rights to workers in Spokane.
- A guarantee to a "family wage," to be calculated by the city.
- A right to equal pay regardless of gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, familial status, religion and other categories.
- Employers would be required to have a "just cause" to terminate an employee.
- Lastly, corporations would not have be considered "persons" for the purposes of challenging any provisions in the initiative.
"There's momentum around the country for workers to get a decent family wage," says Brad Read, president of Envision Spokane's board.
In 2009 and 2011, Envision Spokane placed far-reaching initiatives on the ballot that would have given greater protections to the Spokane River, given greater protections to workers rights and granted neighborhood councils power over local development.
The first time around, the initiative was trounced. In 2011 it came close. In 2013, a coalition of business groups and public officials successfully filed a lawsuit to prevent the initiative from once again making the ballot.
In January, an appeals court reversed the lower court's ruling, allowing the initiative to move forward.
However, Read, says that opponents of the initiative have used legal maneuvers to delay the initiative from being placed on the November ballot. He says that opponents of the initiative could appeal all the way to the state Supreme Court, a process that could take months and not be resolved in time for the November ballot.
Instead of waiting, Envision Spokane has decided to move forward with an initiative that's more narrowly focused on worker rights.
He also says that Envision Spokane has laid the groundwork in past campaigns that will allow this effort to finally succeed. Specifically, Read says the group has made inroads with low-income communities, who he says will help pass the initiative.
"We think this message resonates even more with those voters because they are the ones doing the jobs and not getting paid," he says.
The quest to rein in Spokane ballot measures.


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by Plantagenet » Thu 07 Aug 2014, 11:21:37
Huge Siberian pits formed due to methane release. And that isn't good.
WaPo: The news isn't good
I find it telling that nothing like these pits has previously been seen in the Arctic. That suggests warming of the permafrost has crossed a threshold into a new realm where unexpected things are now happening.
Something new under the sun.....
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by basil_hayden » Thu 07 Aug 2014, 11:49:17
No one witnessed its occurrence, and similar structures are all around this one; how can this be classified as unexpected? Rare - yes, but evidence that it occurs regularly is all around this site.
If pingo ice pushes upward, there will be a ring of debris at the earth's surface. If said pingo ice melts, a hole forms, with water at the bottom. Eventually, the permafrost surrounding the former pingo ice will defrost and fill in the hole.
None of this needs bursting methane to explain what happened. Alternatively, methane and other soil gas components would be expected to be trapped beneath the pingo ice. Remove the ice and the soil gas from the unfrozen depths will migrate upwards.
Or, keep the ice and soil gas the same and make the overburden (i.e., permafrosted soil above the pingo) lighter or less competent so it's unable to hold down the pingo ice.
This is not a big deal, nor is it anything new that's never happened before. Bunch of chicken littles.
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by dohboi » Thu 07 Aug 2014, 12:30:58
bh, all the folks looking at these that I've heard of say these are new--no old plant growth in or on them, among other things. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
by Keith_McClary » Thu 07 Aug 2014, 12:41:19
basil_hayden wrote: If pingo ice pushes upward, there will be a ring of debris at the earth's surface. If said pingo ice melts, a hole forms, with water at the bottom. Eventually, the permafrost surrounding the former pingo ice will defrost and fill in the hole.
As I understand it, the pingo process is a gradual subsidence over years or decades.
From the images, videos and what Marina Leibman says, these are lumps of mud (with roots sticking out) recently deposited on top of live bushes. Not this year, because there are green leaves on partly buried branches. But not long ago, since there is nothing growing on the mud.
by Cid_Yama » Thu 07 Aug 2014, 12:56:31
A deputy of the regional parliament - or duma - Mikhail Lapsui flew by helicopter to inspect the new Yamal crater. He said: "Its diameter is about 15 metres. "There is also ground outside, as if it was thrown as a result of an underground explosion.
"According to local residents, the hole formed on 27 September 2013.
basil_hayden wrote: similar structures are all around this one
No they're not. These kinds of huge pits surrounded by ejected debris are something new. Nothing like this has ever been found before.
basil_hayden wrote: If ... pingo ice melts, a hole forms, with water at the bottom.
Pingos don't melt in a single summer. Its simple physics...look at the size of the hole, calculate the amount of solar insolation, and you'll find its impossible to melt that much ice in one summer season in the Arctic.
In order to convert 1 g of ice at 0 ºC to 1 g of water at 0 ºC, you have to add 334 J of heat energy. Do the math dude---its impossible to quickly melt a hole that large during the brief Arctic summer. And as Cid points out above, the local observations suggest the hole actually formed in a single day...you can't melt all that ice in a single day just from sunlight.
Nope....the gas expulsion idea is the only plausible explanation.
Do the math, dude. It takes a lot of energy to melt ice.
How the 'mysterious holes' formed in the Yamal peninsula
August 6, 2014 Gleb Fedorov, RIR
Noted scientists tell RIR that the holes found on the Yamal Peninsula that have sparked so much interest on the internet have no known analogues on land, but could indicate a serious degradation of the permafrost, with global implications.
If they are sufficiently analogous to the holes in the Kara, Pechora, Barents and other seas (these are known by the scientific term 'pockmarks') and are formed as a result of natural gas explosions, then this could pose a significant threat.
by Scrub Puller » Thu 07 Aug 2014, 15:37:55
Yair . . . The articles I have read do not define what is meant by "explosion" and most seem to assume some form of combustion.
I would have thought it more likely a bubble of gas became over pressured from the warming and the surface ruptured at the weakest point allowing its release.
I wouldn't think it would be too difficult to prove up the theory with a model.
Mr ROCKMAN/other Geologists what do you reckon?
Scrub Puller
The laymen and journalists are using the term explosion. The scientists are using the terms ejection or expulsion.
The main thing journalists know about methane is that it is flammable, so tend to make the incorrect assumption explosion.
Glaciologists from the sub-Arctic research and study unit in Tyumen say that permafrost temperatures are rising steadily in the region of the Bovanenkovskoye gas field on the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic, near where the first hole was discovered. Forty years ago it was on average about eight degrees below zero, but now in certain areas it is only minus three.
"Perhaps this is precisely why the process of releasing methane from crystalline ice traps started in the depths of the northern tundra," wrote Ranks in an article published by the Slon.ru website.
Scholars noted that pieces of earth were scattered near the crater and at a distance of 328-394 feet, which indicates that rather than collapsing, rock was in fact ejected. Moreover, traces of charring, scorching, or any other evidence indicating a thermal explosion have not been found, so the possibility of a meteorite can be ruled out. Scientists believe that the frozen earth was smashed outwards by powerful pressure from below.
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by dinopello » Thu 07 Aug 2014, 18:42:35
Cid_Yama wrote: The laymen and journalists are using the term explosion. The scientists are using the terms ejection or expulsion.
I prefer methane burp. If we're lucky these and whatever other ones are going to occur in the near future are unusually shallow/rare pockets affected by the initial unfreezing.
If there are a lot of these latent burps waiting to happen - well then it doesn't much matter what we do now,
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The depth has been estimated at around 100 meters. Which is around the upper boundary of the hydrate stability zone in that area.
Cid_Yama wrote: Bovanenkovskoye gas field
Map here:
http://enipedia.tudelft.nl/wiki/Bovanen ... Powerplant
I went looking for the coordinates of the pit. Found others also looking, but no answers.
It would be interesting to see before/after satellite pics.
I would like to emphasize:
Forty years ago it was on average about eight degrees below zero, but now in certain areas it is only minus three.
"Perhaps this is precisely why the process of releasing methane from crystalline ice traps(methane hydrate dissociation) started in the depths of the northern tundra," wrote Ranks in an article published by the Slon.ru website.
5 degrees Celcius higher that it was 40 years ago. Over that time it has warmed, pushing down the depth of the upper boundary of the HSZ.
As the temperature rises, the upper boundary of the Hydrate Stability Zone retreats deeper and any hydrates above that boundary become unstable, subject to dissociation.
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by 35Kas » Thu 07 Aug 2014, 23:17:01
There is nothing that can be done "correctly" to reverse the process of global warming and the clathrate eruption scenario. Any attempt to reduce global emissions or CO2 are a waste of time and losing preposition. Nobody (most people) will willingly sacrifice today for the chance of a better 50 years in the future, specially when they may not even be alive any longer (this applies specifically to boomers).
It is going to happen, and it will happen throughout the next 100 years in ever worsening conditions. Think tropical and equatorial zones being no-life areas, maybe life viable in the sub tropical areas. Massive and fast sea level rise and severe social strain. Easily a megadeath scenario for the lower latitudes.
Is there anything that can be done, in a geo-engineering subject, to stop or reverse this? Several things come to my mind:
The partial blocking of sunlight by an orbiting mirror constellation to induce a flash ice age.
Global thermonuclear intervention, with megaton yield warheads detonating over all major metropolitan areas would cause widespread fires that would blanket the heat from the sun and induce a flash ice age, in addition of significantly reducing global population and the consumption of fossil fuels.
Using widespread collection of methane gas from the ocean and tundra seep points in order to use it as an energy source and prevent its accumulation in the atmosphere. It would still generate vast amounts of CO2 but it is more manageable as a global warming agent. The harvesting of bubbling gas could be done by use of impermeable blankets that funnel into flaring stations that generate electricity in the surface.
Do nothing and enjoy it while it lasts. Suffer through the worse if you have the courage.
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by basil_hayden » Fri 08 Aug 2014, 07:49:17
dohboi wrote: bh, all the folks looking at these that I've heard of say these are new--no old plant growth in or on them, among other things. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
Nowhere did I ever say or even imply this feature was old. Of course it's new.
So you can take your call for evidence and stick it where the sun isn't shining.
What I did say was that this has happened before (example - every other hole in the Yamal Peninsula) and guess what?
WE AND THE EARTH ARE STILL HERE!
Plantagenet wrote: No they're not. These kinds of huge pits surrounded by ejected debris are something new. Nothing like this has ever been found before.
Utter crap. Rockdoc has already shown a picture of the exact same geometry from a place in Canada, I believe, on the other thread.
Melt a giant ice cube in the Arctic in one summer? Who said is was a giant ice cube and not simply a veneer of ice?
Stop pulling answers from your rear end and start coming up with the right questions first.
by dohboi » Fri 08 Aug 2014, 08:34:24
Riiight, so now you're parroting rd who is parroting WUWT. Thanks, you have saved me a lot of time since I don't need to read your posts anymore.
dohboi wrote: Riiight, so now you're parroting rd who is parroting WUWT. Thanks, you have saved me a lot of time since I don't need to read your posts anymore.
I have no idea what WUWT is, and don't parrot. I'm presenting my observations as a trained geoscientist.
There are intermediate steps between what we're seeing in this newly formed feature and historic features similar in appearance.
Maybe those intermediate steps will be documented by geologists now.
As far as you reading my posts, not a single #$%^ was given.
While I've never blocked a poster here you certainly top my list; however, my level of caring can't even manage to push a few buttons to do it as you're not worth it, but thanks for your unsolicited input.


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He married singer Jessica Molaskey in 1998, and the couple have a daughter, Madeleine Elizabeth, who attends Anderson. Pizzarelli also has a son, John Paul Pizzarelli, who is now attending college. They now live in New York City.
Jessica co-hosts a nationally syndicated weekly two-hour radio program called "Radio Deluxe" with her husband John Pizzarelli from "the most deluxe living room from high atop Lexington Avenue" (NYC).
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Pizzarelli appears on several tracks on Paul McCartney's new album, Kisses on the Bottom. The two also performed together at this year's Grammy Awards.
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Junior doctors and the government in dispute over the new contract have been urged to "step back from the brink", return to the negotiating table and put patient welfare "first and foremost"
29 March, 2016 05:04 PM
Junior doctors and the government in dispute over the new contract have been urged to "step back from the brink", return to the negotiating table and put patient welfare "first and foremost".
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges said the NHS faced a time of "unprecedented crisis".
The presidents of 22 medical royal colleges and faculties called for the government to suspend the imposition of the contract and for the junior doctors to halt plans for their all-out strike scheduled for April 26 and 27 in England.
Their comments follow the British Medical Association (BMA) announcement last week.
In its statement the academy said: "We call on both sides in the dispute to step back from the brink by suspending imposition of the contract and the all-out strike and urge a return to negotiations.
"We believe that this is essential if the current impasse is to be broken and progress made in resolving this extremely damaging stand-off for the benefit of all NHS stakeholders, particularly our patients and trainees."
The presidents of the 22 colleges meet regularly to determine their reaction to key issues in healthcare.
However, a letter to the Prime Minister, signed by the former chair of the RCGP Clare Gerada, said the authors feared that if the dispute continues more doctors will leave the UK to work abroad.
The authors also include the BMA's deputy chairman Dr Kailash Chand and BMA council and GPs committee member Dr David Wrigley and are encouraged other doctors to sign it.
They called on David Cameron to stop the dispute by withdrawing the new contract.
"This prolonged dispute is damaging our NHS, our patients and our profession. We urge you to withdraw the imposition of the new contract so that a safe and fair solution can be found."


Creso Pharma (ASX:CPH) this morning revealed that its Canadian subsidiary, Mernova Medicinal Inc., has smashed a major milestone — acceptance of its application for a cultivation license by Health Canada.
The successful application will transpire in a cultivation licence — one of the few to be issued to local companies in Nova Scotia.
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On top of this, CPH has also inked a construction finance loan to fast-track development of the facility.
The terms have been finalised on a loan with a face value of A$2.7 million from L1 Capital Global Opportunities Master Fund and the Canadian Special Opportunity Fund. The loan has a drawdown price of 90% of the face value — CPH will receive A$2.42 million in funding to finalise construction of the growing facility.
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Canada is set to legalise recreational marijuana use on October 17, making it the second country in the world, and the first industrialised nation, to fully legalise the drug.
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Canada's recreational cannabis market sits somewhere between CA$4.9 billion to $8.7 billion, according to Deloitte Canada.
According to a recent report by CIBC analysts, once full legalisation kicks in, Canadian legal cannabis sales could reach CA$6.5 billion by 2020 — exceeding the CA$5.1 billion that Canadians spent on spirits in 2017 and coming close to the CA$7 billion spent on wine.
In 2017, US$2.25 billion was raised across 206 cannabis companies in Canada. In the first quarter of 2018 alone, over US$1.35 billion was raised across 96 Canadian cannabis companies, reflecting significant forecasted growth and demand.
Meanwhile, Canadian-listed cannabis companies that are similarly sized to CPH, with facilities of between 15,000 and 25,000 square feet, have an average market value of CA$64.95 million.
CPH plans to expand the Mernova facility by a further 200,000 square feet, putting the company in an excellent position to emerge as one of Canada's leading producers.
CEO and co-founder, Dr. Miri Halperin Wernli, said that Creso is close to achieving one of its major strategic objectives — to supply consistent, high-quality medicinal cannabis products to its global markets.
The licence has been accepted under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR), and administered by Health Canada. The submission comprised comprehensive data, photos, videos and attestations by David Hyde & Associates Inc. — a renowned cannabis advisory firm which has consulted on 65 Licensed Producer (LP) sites and more than 300 LP applications, helping LPs navigate security and compliance in the highly regulated legalised cannabis space.


I've done tons of research on this and hope to launch a website for it some day. But in the meantime, a few words.
7.2 Which "Rates" columns are DDDC-dependent?
Please, no complaints against NG companies. I'm one guy and there are ~1.6 M AGL accounts. I am focusing on extending understanding of the numbers involved.
The Atlanta GA area is unusual; few other places in the United States let one choose their gas provider.
NG stands for Natural Gas on this page.
GPSC stands for the Georgia Public Service Commission, which kindly represents the interests of Georgia NG users in Georgia.
THIS PAGE IS NOT ABOUT THE COMPANY CALLED GEORGIA NATURAL GAS (GNG), per se. This page advises consumers about natural gas providers in the state of Georgia (USA). One of them is called GNG.
Check the Georgia Public Service Commission for the latest month's prices and deals from every single provider.
The GPSC list is THE go-to list, compiled by a dedicated, helpful team of Georgia civil servants.
I strongly recommend the Fixed Rate contracts. There is no penalty to break them if you have to move. And they're always 2 to 3 times less than Variable rate.
The most important column in the GPSC spreadsheet is the one called "Marketer Filed Rate", and the generally lowest (best) rate is highlighted in yellow. (Thanks, GPSC!) Ignore the rest until you know what you're doing.
If you don't have time to examine your particulars in detail, just choose the lowest Fixed Rate plan. It's highlighted in yellow, and always the best choice. Unless you have unusual circumstances like a huge or tiny house; see below.
Never use the Variable rate - it's for suckers. Variable rates are always 2 or 3 times more than fixed rates. Simply compare any month's Fixed versus Variable rates for any given GPSC month. If you don't see what I'm saying, please contact me.
You can't be charged the cancel fee if you move away before the fixed contract is up.
No, gas rates are not higher in winter. In fact, NG prices are lower in winter, based on the the yellow-highlight lowest rates (the only ones you should look at, unless you really know what you're doing). It's paradoxical until you think about global climate warming. More on this below (see Summer Versus Winter Rates below).
If you might move away soon, there is no penalty charge to break a contract, as far as I know (correct me if wrong). This is a good thing for people unsure of their situation. Talk it out when signing up with a provider.
You don't need to read anything more on this page unless you want to learn about how it all works.
All the rest tells you all the boring details of why you always want a fixed contract, and how much variable-rate ones rip you off.
Until 1998, Atlanta Gas Light (website) was the sole NG provider in the northern Georgia area, and is now a major vehicle for NG sales in various parts of the state and country (PDF of their domains).
(3) The Total Annual Bill and Total Monthly Bill include the base charges from Atlanta Gas Light Company.
The annual base charge for a typical customer with a 1.30 DDDC Factor is $330.47 and is $139.40 for qualifying senior citizens.
The May 2018 base charge is $25.91 for a typical customer with a 1.30 DDDC Factor, and is $7.50 for qualifying seniors with a 1.30 DDDC Factor.
You can easily get an independent confirmation of the monthly base charge you're receiving using AGL's spreadsheet found on this page. You will need the DDDC from your bill.
Monthly values may be off by one cent because it's just a helpful spreadsheet that has it's own rounding properties; it's not what AGL actually uses.
Ave. Mo.: Average monthly. This is simply the DDDC and Total BC p.a. values divided by 12.
Percent DDDC: This percent is the same as an average whether on a yearly or monthly basis, since it's an average across the year.
1/12 = 8.33%; compare how AGL divides up your DDDC-dependent charges (below). The Ave. Mo. Total BC should be slightly more than your April value (8%) since it is 8.33%, but this won't be true if your DDDC changed.
Work in progress. As always, for my wiki pages and others, you can check the History of most wiki pages to see edits and dates (see tabs at top).
They are actually a little lower in January versus July. Just compare the yellow highlighted Fixed Rate plans for July to January in the past year on the GPSC site.
I will change this text if it comes to be not true. It's been true for the past few years (as of May 2018). NG prices are at all time lows and probably mainly subject to supply and demand, which is subject to anticipated buildup for the winter, which is subject to the fact that we need less each winter than modelled relative to the past, due to climate warming. Thanks, Obama! GRRR. just kidding.
Anyway, the net result is lower prices in winter.
You can observe a lot by watching, as Yogi Berra (and a couple of data analysts) said.
You are within the service area of the AGL company. It ceased to sell NG in 1998, when it became the infrastructure service for natural gas to much of Georgia.
Regulated Provider Group 1 is for very low income households (as qualified through the state Depart of Human Resources). N.B., RPG1 is actually HIGHER than the lowest (yellow highlight) one! Choose wisely. I don't understand why GPSC doesn't make the lowest Fixed provider be the servicer for Regulated Provider Group 1, at least for Fixed contracts. (And what else is there but fixed contracts for a regulated provider?) I am contacting them about this.
Regulated Provider Group 2 is for high-credit risk customers who cannot obtain service from a marketer.
There are particular rules about breaking fixed rate contracts, and connection / reconnection fees. Read the fine print.
But there is no charge to break a fixed-rate contract if you move away. So you don't need to worry if you're not sure if you'll be at a place for less than 12 months (as long as you don't cancel your gas until you leave).
Hacking AGL's "Base Rate Example - Residential" spreadsheet is pretty easy, which is no surprise. AGL is not trying to hide anything, as shown by their openness in providing the spreadsheet. But they don't want folks accidentally changing values and getting confused. I think they've made a decent compromise.
Open it in Google Sheets. Note: This is not the same as simply clicking on it in Google Drive (which only opens a viewer). On a PC, right click, then "Open With" > "Google Sheets".
Now the Rates for every month are revealed, all the way back to November 1998. Here's an example of a hacked AGL spreadsheet as of May 2018.
The dropdown will let you select months after May 2018, but they have no data. Apparently it is updated approximately the 20th of each month, for the next month. For example, AGL updated/uploaded the spreadsheet with May 2018 data on April 20.
Which "Rates" columns are DDDC-dependent?
If a column is "X DDDC" (times DDDC), then its value is multiplied by your DDDC. And yes, if your DDDC is 0, all those values go to zero. (Apartments can easily be less than 1.) The GPSC Marketer Pricing spreadsheets use a DDDC default of 1.30 for a typical customer.
If it helps for comparisons' sake, my DDDC is currently 1.280 with a 3600 sq.ft. house in northeast Atlanta. I've done a lot to insulate it, and in winter, we keep our thermostats at 67° F main level and basement, and 65° F upstairs.
The DDDC we inherited (when we first moved in three years ago) was 1.689, which dropped sharply after the first year. I wouldn't be surprised if the drop from 1.7 to 1.3 was mainly due to us being more frugal, because I really doubt that my moderate amount of insulation work (relative to the house as a whole) can result in a 24% drop in usage. But still it shows that even the same house can have non-trivial variation, all depending on the many factors involved.
Please realize that their DDDC is only a modeled concept. There isn't actually some poor AGL guy running all over Georgia on the coldest day of the year checking everybody's meters, while his fingers freeze off.
AGL only takes monthly readings, as far as I know. I believe they have a truck that drives around neighborhoods once a month. It's got about a quarter mile radius to read your meter remotely. The actual day ones' meter is read surely varies across the state. And they won't otherwise take any particular interest in reading your meter unless you're doing something special, like starting or stopping service.
So they're never actually specifically recording your true coldest-day usage. They're using a model of how much everybody used, over those coldest days.
In theory you could game this. But wound't that be a lot like simply keeping your thermostat low? Perhaps a True Detective could tell the difference.
As we saw in my case, the previous owners of our house had a DDDC of ~1.6, but we quickly reduced it to ~1.3. It's the same house, but we probably had our thermostat lower, and we did other things like install better insulation and a primo attic door.
Upshot: Don't take the stated definition of "how much you used on the coldest day of the year" too precisely. They don't measure every day. It's just a general estimate of your usage. Relative to everyone else. No big deal.
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