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AND, get ready for August
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Oops, I meant to send this note to Mary Darveaux instead -- my apologies!
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Ted, I tried to send this page a little while ago and I think it failed.
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So, you may have to actually drop this address into the netscape location section to bring up the site.
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Anyway, there seemed to be a pretty good selection on the web.
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Still, I think the one on this page best captures the kind of image you're looking to project.
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If you'd rather shop around try these (there are some outstanding designs)...
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Disclaimer: Please realize these sites were sent in jest.
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If you actually don any of the items contained within them I may be forced to sever all ties and deny ever having known you.
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Drew -- I've looked at this and it is fine; really does not deviate from what we have posted before.
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One issue that arose Friday was whether our all-or-nothing approach (i.e., shipper must take all 49,000 dth of capacity or none at all -- or all 20,000 or none at all) constitutes tying.
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The 49,000 package includes 35,000 to North Needles and 14,000 to Topock.
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So if a shipper wants the Needles space it has to take the Topock space too.
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This looked like a clear case of tying to me until I remembered that this capacity is now, and has been, posted and available and any shipper can bid on any part of the Needles space right now if they wanted to and we'd sell it to them without making them take the Topock space.
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That'll be true during the IOS too -- i.e., nothing can stop shippers from bidding on the Needles space outside of the IOS process.
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This is just a situation in which we're putting a special package together with the expectation that the price will reflect the fact that the less desirable Topock space is part of that package.
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Does this make sense to you?
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If not, give me a call.
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There is nothing wrong with simple and understated when it comes to a non-native Texan acquiring western wear.
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Remember slow and steady wins the race.
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One needs items they could wear at any given time (Red Wings a simple classic hat)...not just to the Vail Rodeo.
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-- I'm intrigued...what exactly is the Hawaiian Biker ensemble?
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I spoke with Steve Stojic about this and he had the same concern.
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Even though I was trying to keep this out of the new rate schedule requirements by not making it a rate schedule, I believe I still managed to cover many checklist items.
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One that is not covered is testimony similar to what might be filed in a rate case, in order to justify market based rates.
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We are planning to include a revenue estimate.
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I'll go over these and make sure everything is addressed before filing.
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Are you OK with this filing from a general conceptual standpoint?
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The marketers want to start giving a draft to customers for them to review beginning TODAY.
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Fifth grade assignment The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it.
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The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories.
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Kathy said, "My father's a farmer and we have a lot of egg-laying hens. One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket on the front seat of the pickup when we hit a bump in the road and all the eggs went flying and broke and made a mess."
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"And what's the moral of the story?"
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Asked the teacher.
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"Don't put all your eggs in one basket!"
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"Very good," said the teacher.
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"Now, Lucy?"
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"Our family are farmers too. But we raise chickens for the meat market. We had a dozen eggs one time, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks. And the moral to this story is, don't count your chickens until they're hatched."
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"That was a fine story Lucy."
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"Johnny do you have a story to share?"
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"Yes, ma'am, my daddy told me this story about my uncle Bob. Uncle Bob was a pilot in Vietnam and his plane got hit. He had to bail out over enemy territory and all he had was a bottle of whiskey, a machine gun and a machete. He drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn't break and then he landed right in the middle of 100 enemy troops. He killed seventy of them with the machine gun until he ran out of bullets, then he killed twenty more with the machete till the blade broke and then he killed the last ten with his bare hands."
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"Good heavens," said the horrified teacher, "What kind of moral did your daddy tell you from that horrible story?"
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"Don't fuck with Uncle Bob when he's been drinking."
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Hey Math-Wiz, I completely understand your plight.
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I too am suffering a two o'clock, post-lunch slump (the coffee is simply not working at this point).
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Anyway, I think a change of clothes prior to Steak Night is probably a good idea.
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Also, driving tomorrow is not a problem...
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just let me know the gate code, apt.
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#, etc. Along those same lines, what time did you want to head over there?
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(For better-safe-than-sorry reasons, due to my job, I think no earlier than 7:30 p.m. is our best bet.) Hope you're having a lovely day and don't work too hard (Ha!!).
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Susan
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Sounds good to me...Coincidentally, a made service will be coming to clean my car this evening Susan
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Ted, My day is going quite well, actually.
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I managed to sleep in past 6:30 a.m. this morning and did not work-out so I'm feeling pretty good.
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I'm not sure if I'll be able to respect you in the light of your "rule-breaking", but I'm going to try to look past that.
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I'm heading to lunch right now - yes, I am actually leaving the building - so the day just keeps getting better and better.
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As for last night, I had a really good time too and am glad you were able to look past my bad manners and agree to go out Friday.
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Talk to you soon.
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Susan -- By the way, I'm very relieved to hear about the buckle.
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For discussion this a.m.
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According to my research, this project (which involves construction by TW of a lateral consisting of about 40 miles of at least 16" pipe to provide service to a power plant) would require a 7(c) certificate. Do you concur? Any comments?
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Ted, I think you had, at one point, asked me if the first U.T.
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football game was Labor Day weekend.
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It is actually the weekend after Labor Day (Sept. 9) against Louisiana-Lafayette at 11:30 a.m. So basically it should be a very challenging game and relatively cool (Ha!).
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Hope your day's going well.
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Shorty FYI - U.T.
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plays Stanford at Stanford Sept. 16 (7:15 p.m. kick-off)
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After our IOS adventure last week, I put together the following questionsthat need to be resolved.
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Some of them have needed to be resolved for quitsome time.
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Tony, let's talk since I think some of these have already beendiscussed and maybe resolved in the context of developing TW's EnronOnlinesite, and I just need to get up to speed.
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To the extent there aren't answers yet, I'll get busy researching.
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Drew -- comments?
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Shall we all get on thephone & discuss this?
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List of TW contracting issues 1.
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Reevaluate the following in the context of current FERC negotiated ratepolicy: a.
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Transwestern's current form discount letter states: "[t]he total charshall include all applicable surcharges."
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Should this language be revisedand if so, how?
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b.
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Transwestern usually charges one-part rates, and includes language inits discount letter stating that Transwestern shall allocate the combinedrate between the reservation and commodity components inclusive of surcharges.
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Are one-part rates really negotiated rates?
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material deviatiofrom the tariff?
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c.
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Transwestern's discount letter includes a statement that in no eventshall the contract rate be greater than the maximum or lower than the minimum rates provided in Transwestern,s tariff.
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This was intended as assurance that the contract is not a negotiated rate.
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Is this language still effective?
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necessary?
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a.
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When should IOS be conducted, if at all?
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b.
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Once notice of IOS or EnronOnline bidding has been posted, can the subject capacity still be sold off-line (i.e., pursuant to traditional bidding procedures)?
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c.
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Is our system for IOS and EnronOnline set up to handle max rate biddinsituations in a nondiscriminatory manner and in compliance with the bid evaluation procedures in the tariff?
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If not, what changes need to be made?
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Tony, the idea we had discussed at our meeting with Drew was somehow acquiring capacity on El Paso in order to access the South Needles interconnect with SoCal.
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Currently SoCal lets El Paso deliver to S. Needles but does not extend the same privilege to TW.
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I'm unsure how it would work.
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TW does have a couple of interconnects with El Paso's system.
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I would simply say in the memo that one solution to the constraint at Topock might be to get some shippers to switch to South Needles, and deliver gas to South Needles after twisting SoCal's arm and letting us in, or somehow acquiring capacity on El Paso (or otherwise using their system) to access South Needles.
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Obviously we will need to flesh this out from an economic, regulatory and legal standpoint.
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I will discuss it with Jeff when he returns.
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