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STARTING 4/8/17: Six Word Saturday is now being hosted by the lovely Debbie at Travel With Intent. If you aren't already following Debbie, please visit her blog for Six Word Saturday and her beautiful photos. I'll continue to participate from time to time but please go to Debbie's for the official posts.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
A few corrections at the office
It's scape goat, not escape goat. You blame it, not run away on it.
Nutrition vs attrition: Nutrition involves the nourishment we receive from our food. Attrition is when we don't backfill a position once someone is fired or resigns/retires/dies. If we're losing employees due to nutrition, we're going to see a big increase in our insurance premiums.
Thank you for your patients. Patience is what we want people to have when it takes awhile for us to fix their printer. Patients are what we want to have if we are employed as doctors.
Also, please be on the lookout for gruntled employees. And next time you screw up, you are going to be reprimanned. No, not reprimanded. Reprimanned.
My job may not always carry a heavy workload but I like to think my salary reflects a decent amount of hazard pay.
16 comments:
- Yaya said...
Yup, I have the punch-you-in-the-face reflex brewing in my mind a lot too....
- Aug 26, 2009, 8:47:00 AM
- The Wife O Riley said...
Patients are what you have when you punch everyone in the face for running off the escapegoats.
- Aug 26, 2009, 9:36:00 AM
- C. Beth said...
Ha!!! I love all those eras they're making.
(I hope my misspelling makes sense; it's one I could imagine seeing in the south.)
- Aug 26, 2009, 9:44:00 AM
- Princess Andy said...
omg i hate stupid people.
it takes all of my will to not correct them with a "did you graduate high school?" look and a disgusted snort.
but i'm a judgmental bitch that way.
the one that gets me still is "usposed".
that was my ex-husbands way of pronouncing "supposed".
- Aug 26, 2009, 10:36:00 AM
- Drahdrah said...
Oh boy, I hope I haven't offended you with my bad gramar and speling. Now I'm envous !!!
- Aug 26, 2009, 11:53:00 AM
- Grand Pooba said...
Oh boy, stupid people are everywhere aren't they?
- Aug 26, 2009, 12:22:00 PM
- a corgi said...
LOL; because of my job, I catch things like this when I see them other places (but never on my blog, of course :)
I loved the gruntled employees for sure!
In reality, I have trouble with lose and loose a lot; I should remember it this way, I want to lose weight so my pants will be loose
enjoy the day
- Aug 26, 2009, 12:55:00 PM
- the iNDefatigable mjenks said...
I'm going to put in a note to HR to make sure that we have enough escape goats in the case of a fire.
- Aug 26, 2009, 12:57:00 PM
- sherri said...
Your write. Their our weigh to many mistakes hear. I don't blame you four wanting too punch people in the face!
- Aug 26, 2009, 2:30:00 PM
- Strange Mamma said...
My husband is writing a paper and a colleague (bit of a know-it-all) makes a mention of his spelling of 'travelling' with two l's being British (and Canadian and Australian but whatever) and perhaps we should go with the American spelling (since that's what he is). But this is how he says it:
"It's probably best to spell traveling with one 'l' as that's how its done around hear."
I kid you not. It was everything I could do to not get on a plane to Chicago and beat him with a large dictionary.
- Aug 26, 2009, 3:34:00 PM
- Leah Rubin said...
I'm loving it! Speaking as the original "word nerd", it is my mission in life to ferret out the misspellings, misuses and general errata found in everyday life! Perhaps we are related??
- Aug 26, 2009, 4:13:00 PM
- Moxie said...
My favorite is the ESCAPE GOAT!
I can imagine one of your co-workers hopping on a goat after they make a stupid verbal mistake like that.
- Aug 26, 2009, 6:48:00 PM
- Quilly said...
These are wonderful! I am a homonym Nazi -- except when I am making the mistakes.
I have been been interviewing for jobs, and yesterday while applying for an editorial position for a small local magazine, I saw a cover letter from one of my competitors. The young man had written, "I really look forward to working with you and hope you except me for the job."
I thought, gee, something tells me they will. LOL!
- Aug 26, 2009, 7:21:00 PM
- 2cats said...
I seen your blog fore today. And had too comment.
Your rite of course, their are to many misteaks made.
- Aug 26, 2009, 7:55:00 PM
- cherie said...
haha, funny one! love this!
- Aug 26, 2009, 10:30:00 PM
- Tori_z said...
So many people make those types of mistakes. People don't like it when you correct them though. ;)
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Proponents and opponents say they are moving into campaign mode as voters prepare to decide barely more than a month from now whether Arkansas will become the first Southern state to allow the use of marijuana as a medicine.
Questions to be considered include how the proposal would be implemented, its pros and cons for Arkansas and whether the state can avoid pitfalls experienced in some other states.
If voters approve the proposed initiated act, the state Health Department would establish rules under which a person with one or more of certain specified medical conditions could, with a doctor's recommendation, apply for a card identifying him or her as a patient qualified to obtain and use marijuana legally for medicinal purposes.
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1.) Knowing how Bella reacted in chapter five of Twilight to blood, were you surprised when Bella didn't react all that much to the blood?
I didn't think she'd mind her own blood too much, like me.
2.) What did you think about the mention of the bears? Did you consider that it might play a future role in the book or did you not think anything of it?
I just thought it was one of those trivial bits of information...
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The lifeless body of a 2-year-old girl who had been reported missing in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Saturday was found in a section of the park's lake.
Ruhshona Kurbonova was retrieved from the lake in early evening after she was reported missing at around 1:10 p.m. near the park's boathouse, police said.
Police SCUBA divers searched the lake for the toddler and found her at around 6 p.m.
Ruhshona had been with her 3-year-old brother, who was found soaking wet by a person who called 911 and notified the child's parents. Ruhshona's mother then realized her daughter was missing, police say.
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It feels like it's taken a long time for 7-inch Honeycomb devices to show up. And then, as always, several turn up at once. The Acer Iconia A100 is the most recent and offers many of the usual features. Ours is a Wi-Fi only model, with 8GB of built-in storage which can be upgraded via Micro-USB.
The first impressions we had as we took it out of the box were that it feels solid and well built. It's pleasing too, that manufacturers seems to be learning from Apple, with sleek packaging rather than a mess of nasty brown cardboard boxes.
Included in the pack is a USB cable, proprietary power connector and, of course, the tablet itself. We're disappointed that Acer hasn't dropped this power-adaptor nonsense yet. It's much easier to provide devices that charge over USB, and it means that you can have chargers in lots of places, ready to re-juice your device when it runs low.
On the plus side, there's an HDMI socket, for connecting the A100 to your TV, USB for transferring files to the tablet and, naturally, a headphone socket. Speakers are also present, giving you a way to watch video or listen to music with friends. Another proprietary connector is on board too, but this allows you to connect the Acer to accessories, and we can more easily forgive its restricted nature.
As this is a Honeycomb device, the hardware buttons have largely gone. There's a home key, but apart from that everything is handled by the OS itself. This is something of a mixed blessing, but hardware keys can get in the way when you're holding a tablet in landscape mode, so perhaps their gradual disappearance is a good thing. If anything crashes though, you're going to have to find a pin to stick into that reset switch hole.
Because it's a 7-inch tablet and we've got a Galaxy Tab, we're comparing the Iconia to the aged Samsung 7-inch device. While old, it still does everything we need a tablet to do, and it's amazing how close these devices are to one another. Both are weighty, sturdy and feel nice to hold - an advantage over cumbersome 10-inch models. Each also has a 600x1024 resolution display, although the newer Acer has far more power behind it, including an Nvidia GPU and a dual-core processor.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc. said that it has begun mass producing 64-gigabit NAND flash chips using 20-nm class technology at its 300-mm fab, dubbed M11.
The company developed this previously-announced technology last February. Hynixs 20-nm class 64-Gb chip doubles the density in a package over the current 32-Gb product.
Hynix' device is said to be a 26-nm part, analysts said. Others are also ramping 20-nm class products. Samsung is ramping a 27-nm NAND device, IM Flash is shipping a 25-nm device, and SanDisk/Toshiba have talked about a 24-nm product.


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This week we look at the pizza market's fascinating evolution, report on the continuing controversy over wages in the foodservice industry, explore restaurant industry employee turnover and much more.
Go back half a century and there were Americans who had never heard of pizza much less eaten one. Even restaurateurs of Italian derivation wouldn't consider offering this menu item in their establishments because in Italy pizza was considered lower class food.
Now it seems study after study underlines the acceptance of "poor people's food" in the U.S.: pizza is second only to hamburgers in terms of menu popularity. Technomic reports 75 percent of consumers eat pizza at least twice a month. Pizza consumption seems to have declined slightly in the last two years and Technomic speculates an improving economy may be the impetus for this change.
Researchers at CHD Expert found more than 98,000 restaurants are classified with a menu type of pizza, pasta and Italian. A deeper slice of the pie reveals more than 70,000 of these operations fall into the pizzeria sub-classification, according to CHD. Sales for all these restaurants total $62 billion annually, even though many individual restaurants report yearly sales of less than $500,000. In terms of pizza population, California is number one with 9,500 locations and, not surprisingly, New York is second with 8,400.
CHD Expert says that 53 percent of the pizzerias are independently owned while 84 percent of the Italian restaurants are independent. Due to their prowess in the online ordering arena, pizza chains seem poised to make a run at independent operators because research shows a growing number of consumers now use apps to place their orders.
The pizza business continues to evolve. For example, fast-casual pizza operators continue to grow by offering a variety of pizzas and perhaps selling a higher quality product, according to Technomic. A significant percentage of pizza buyers distinguish between brick oven pizza, wood-fired oven pizza, different types of crusts, and other variations.
Will pizza ever overtake burgers in popularity? It would seem doubtful but pizza offers one major advantage over the hamburger. When it comes to take out and/or delivery, the pizza pie travels a whole lot better.
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Tom Fitzgerald, Author of Poor Richard's Lament, to Speak at Clarkson University Sept. 14
Ancient Errors, Ben Franklin, and the Reinvention of America
Tom Fitzgerald, will speak at Clarkson University on September 14 about issues related to his new novel, Poor Richard's Lament, which features Ben Franklin returned to his "dear country."
Fitzgerald's talk, titled "Ancient Errors, Ben Franklin, and the Reinvention of America," will focus on the question: "Do today's troubling events represent an inevitability -- a generalized decline dictated by some immutable law of history -- or is something else going on?" Weighing in on the matter will be Ben Franklin himself, in his own voice.
A member of Clarkson's class of 1964 with degrees a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and a master of science in industrial management, Fitzgerald will speak on campus 6 p.m. in the Bertrand H. Snell Hall Petersen Board Room (Room 330) on the hill campus, as part of the Arts & Sciences Seminar Series. The event is free and open to the public.
According to Michael Zuckerman, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, Poor Richard's Lament "joins John Barth's Sot-Weed Factor as the best historical fiction of early America ever written." Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs, calls Poor Richard's Lament "a re-imaging of Benjamin Franklin you will not soon forget."
In addition to publishing six books, Fitzgerald has served as a door-to-door salesman of home study courses, a vocational counselor for adults and children with developmental disabilities, a stockbroker, the assistant to the president of a large health-care corporation, a lobbyist, a technical writer, and a corporate manager. During the Vietnam War, Tom served as a Navy UDT/SEAL.
He and his wife of 45 years, Laurie, a marriage and family therapist, live in New England. They have three grown sons and three grandsons.
Here is an abstract of Fitzgerald's talk: "Things don't seem to be going very well in America these days. Our economy is in the tank, our government is in paralysis, our schools are in crisis, our popular culture is ever reaching new lows in garishness and superficiality. Greed, narcissism, rudeness, and a smug ignorance abound. Obesity is epidemic. Instability and angst pervade every dimension of public and private life. But why? Do these troubling developments represent an inevitability – a generalized decline dictated by some immutable law of history – or is something else going on? There are, predictably, an abundance of opinions on the matter, but there can be only one truth. In pursuit of this truth, this talk, based on Poor Richard's Lament, conjectures an unexpected cause-and-effect chain, and thereby an unexpected course of redemption. Weighing in (so to say) is Ben Franklin himself."
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - The attorney for George Zimmerman, the man who was acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, has called juror B29 a "model juror" after speaking out to the media.
Defense attorney Mark O'Mara said juror B29, who is going by her first name Maddy, said in an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts that Zimmerman "got away with murder." But O'Mara called the "big headline" being used from the interview an "inaccurate distillation of Juror B-29's statements," in a posting on his law blog on Friday.
O'Mara said the part of the interview in question is when Maddy says "for myself he's guilty, because the evidence show's he's guilty ... of killing Trayvon Martin. But as the law was read to me, if you have no proof that he killed him intentionally, you can't say he's guilty."
"We acknowledge, and always have, that George killed Trayvon Martin," O'Mara wrote. "Over the last 15 months, we've heard from a lot of people who feel that anytime a life is lost at someone's hands, the person responsible is guilty of something."
But O'Mara said self-defense is one of the instances "under the law when homicide is justifiable." O'Mara continued, saying that it's not the juror's job to decide what a law should be, but to apply the facts at the trial to the laws they're told by a judge.
"Based on her statement, it seems Juror B-29 looked at the law, and whether or not she agreed with the law, she did her job and made her decision on a legal basis," O'Mara wrote. "This is the essence of what we seek in a juror: the ability to use one's common sense, apply the law to the facts, agree not to be swayed by sympathy or emotion, no matter how loudly it's argued by the prosecutors, and decide a lawful and fair verdict."
O'Mara also said "any juror that follows Juror B-29's process will deliver a fair and just verdict," adding that jurors aren't expected to be "heartless people," but to deliver a verdict based on the law and not their emotions.
Maddy is the second juror to speak about the high-profile case since the six-person, all-female jury acquitted Zimmerman earlier this month.
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|November 23, 2012, 12:06 PM
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Sound supresssors or "noise abatement tubes", Whats what?
Mods: I'm not sure if this belongs here, or in the NFA area as it is in regards to the legal definition of an NFA item, please move as needed.
I sometimes shoot at a public range that has those "Noise abatement tubes" (Big foam-lined sewer pipes, for those that don't have to suffer the abominations they are). I was thinking one day, if they "materially alter the sound of a shot" , which they definitely do, are they not by definition a supressor & therfore in need of all that goes with posession or use of sound supressors?
If you use one at a bublic range are you "posesssing" such a device, or is it's "use" legal & the range has "fabricated a restricted item" & is responsible for them?
Does a supressor have to be attached to qualify as a "silencer" legally?
Are they in some way exempt because they are at a range, or for some reason I haven't figured out?
I'm curious how this breaks down & how the exact legal definition works in cases like this.
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|November 23, 2012, 12:11 PM
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They have to be attachable to be controlled by the NFA. Fixed installations are not regualated.
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|November 23, 2012, 12:13 PM
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Their not attached to the gun. Just a tube that your shooting through so no restrictions what so ever except for what the range owner puts on them
|November 23, 2012, 12:38 PM
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The above posts are correct.
Proof from ATF found here
The short answer is that a silencer must be "portable and attachable".
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|November 23, 2012, 04:48 PM
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Thanks for the info & documentation.
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|November 29, 2012, 03:42 PM
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I know that guy. I was on leave last summer and attended the silencer shoot at the KRRC. Ranb on SilencerTalk told me more about the story than was published in the Kitsap Sun. He said he was tired of waiting for the County Attorney to respond to his request for info on whether or not it would be legal to use a box to reduce noise so he installed it anyway and took some video of the test. He said it reduced noise at the sides but the first shot blew the box apart so he took it home to repair it. The next day the county wrote back saying it would be most likely illegal to use. He starting worrying and took his video down from the various forums he had posted it on then wrote to his Representative asking him to get an opinion from the State AG.
His Rep wanted an opinion from the ATF, so he wrote a letter and was totally surprised when he got a reply. He was all excited when the Washington State AG wrote an opinion saying that "a box is not a dangerous weapon" so the dangerous weapons statute does not apply to a simple box. I thought that a laugh and a half. He re-installed his shooting box and it got beat to hell after a few hundred rounds. He is trying to put something together made from steel drums now.
He is an ok guy, a so-so shot and generous with his ammo. He had about a dozen guns at the silencer shoot and let anyone who was interested try them out. He makes his own silencers but had lots to learn. He had a set screw blow out of a bleed hole in the back of one of his high powered rifle silencers which blasted him in the face with debris.
You'd think someone who makes their own silencers would know better, but as we say in the Navy, "the stupid shall be punished". He is rather hot tempered and has a warped sense of humor, but who cares when they get so involved with making guns more available to the rest of us.
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MPR Methodology to Determine The
Long-Term Market Price of Electricity for Use in California's 2004 Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) Power Solicitations
Prepared by the Energy Division and the Division of Strategic Planning of the California Public Utilities Commission
pursuant to Public Utilities Code Section 399 and D.04-06-015
Principal Authors Wade McCartney and Paul Douglas
Review and Oversight by Sean Gallagher, Judith Iklé,
Bruce Kaneshiro, and Dan Adler
In collaboration with the Renewable Energy Program
of the California Energy Commission
February 4, 2005
DISCLAIMER -- Opinions, conclusions, and findings expressed in this report are those of the authors.
This report does not represent the official position of the Commission until adopted by rule or decision at a Commission meeting. Commission staff would like to thank CEC collaborative staff for their comments and input.
Calculation of Market Price Referents (MPR)
The purpose of this staff report is to describe the assumptions and inputs used to calculate the Market Price Referents (MPRs) required by D.04-06-0151. The resulting MPRs provide the Commission with an estimation of the long-term market price of electricity for baseload and peaking power products that will be used in evaluating bid products received during the 2004 Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) power solicitations.
In accordance with D.04-06-015, the following MPRs (2004 $) represent "the levelized price at which the proxy power plant revenues exactly equal the expected proxy power plant costs on a net-present value (NPV) basis."2 The MPRs shown in Table 1 include transformer losses and line losses and, thus, reflect prices for power delivered to specified zonal delivery points like NP15 or SP15. Based on the adopted MPR methodology, the 10-, 15-, and 20-year MPRs are:
Table 1: 2004 Market Price Referents (MPRs)
At Specified Zonal Delivery Points (e.g., NP15 or SP15)
Resource Type
Baseload MPR
Peaking MPR
(5x8 peaking product
over 12-months)
MPRs Were Calculated Using a Cash-Flow Simulation Methodology
The MPRs shown above were calculated using the Southern California Edison (SCE) MPR model, a cash-flow simulation methodology approved by the Commission in D.04-05-015.3 The SCE MPR model calculates what it would cost to own and operate a power plant over a 20-year period. The cost of electricity generated by such a power plant, at an assumed capacity factor and set of costs, is the proxy for the long-term market price of electricity.
The MPR model requires several types of input data, including natural gas prices, capital costs, operating costs, finance costs, taxes, and power delivery assumptions. Two identical versions of the SCE MPR model were utilized to calculate the MPRs, one to calculate baseload MPRs, and another to calculate peaking MPRs. While the baseload and peaking models are the same, the capital and performance inputs will differ significantly, however, the two models will utilize the same finance inputs, tax inputs, and power delivery inputs (aside from capacity factor).
The baseload MPRs reflect an in-service capital cost of $720/kW, while the peaking MPRs reflect an in-service capital cost of $556/kW. The natural gas forecasts used in the two models are the same, except for the fact that that peaking gas forecast, per D.04-06-0154 is set at 95.8% of annual baseload gas prices to reflect an average reduction in mid-summer gas prices, when peakers typically operate. The MPRs shown in Table 1 were calculated using a gas price forecast with years 1-5 consisting of NYMEX data and four Henry Hub fundamental forecasts for years 6 -20.
The primary input drivers for the MPR calculation are the California (CA) gas price forecast, power plant capital costs, and the capacity factor for the peaking MPRs.
MPR Gas Price Forecast
D.04-06-015 noted that there is no transparent, liquid market for natural gas forward products for 10, 15 or 20-year terms, which is necessary in order to fuel a proxy power plant producing fixed-priced electricity over these time periods. Consequently, D.04-06-015 outlined a California gas forecasting methodology for years 1 through 6, and another methodology for years 7 through 20, both of which are based on the forward Henry Hub (HHub) gas price that is basis adjusted to California.5
D.04-06-015 determined that NYMEX HHub futures price would be used for all or part of the first six years of the gas forecast6. For years 7-20, a fundamentals forecast approach would be used, incorporating the forecast escalation methodology advocated by certain parties7. This method entails calculating the average annual escalation rate among a number of different long-term Henry Hub forecasts, including timely forecasts produced by CERA, PIRA, Global Insight, EIA, and the CEC. This average annual escalation rate would then be used to escalate the last year of NYMEX data out to 2024. In addition, a gas hedging transaction cost would be added to both the NYMEX and fundamental gas prices8. Using this adopted methodology, parties worked collaboratively to develop the MPR gas model used to calculate the MPRs presented in this staff report9.
Based on this adopted methodology10, the levelized 20-year baseload and peaker gas prices11 are:
Table 2: MPR Gas Forecasts
Baseload Gas Price ($/MMBtu) - levelized 20 year forecast
Peaker Gas Price ($/MMBtu) - levelized 20 year forecast
MPR Henry Hub Forecast Incorporates 5 years of NYMEX Futures -- Years 1 through 5
D.04-06-015 determined that NYMEX futures contracts are the best representations of forward market prices for natural gas; however, there was no consensus on using NYMEX prices for the entire period of years 1 through 6. CalWEA/CBEA, PG&E, and SCE would use NYMEX prices for the entire period of years 1 through 6. CEERT would only use NYMEX prices for the first two years. TURN and SDG&E would only use NYMEX prices for the first three years, unless significant trading volumes justify reliance on prices for years 4 through 6.
Neither CEERT, TURN, nor SDG&E set forth an acceptable volumetric threshold above which the use of NYMEX prices would be considered sufficiently liquid to be acceptable for years 3 through 6. Because these are in fact available transaction-based prices for natural gas forwards, and because no quantitative threshold or other basis was adequately presented to judge these transactions as insufficiently liquid, D.04-06-015 directed staff to study the NYMEX data in advance of the preparation of the MPRs and determine whether the full six years, or some subset thereof, is appropriate. Staff studied the NYMEX data and determined that five years should be used in calculating the MPR HHub forecast.
With regard to the actual calculation of the annual NYMEX forward price, D.04-06-015 stated that, "...for purposes of establishing the gas price forecast for years 1 through 6, we will use a NYMEX 60-trading day average."12 Staff has determined that the 60-day period should be the 60 days prior to the close of the last 2004 RPS solicitation (PG&E), which was August 23, 2004. This approach is consistent with the direction provided by D.04-06-015, which stated that staff should begin the process of calculating the MPRs once the RPS solicitations have closed.
MPR Henry Hub Forecast Incorporates 4 Henry Hub (HHub) Forecasts -- Years 6 through 20
CalWEA/CBEA and PG&E recommended that the Commission use natural gas fundamentals forecasts produced by CERA, PIRA, and Global Insight to forecast prices for years 7 through 2013. In addition, CalWEA/CBEA noted that the public sector forecasts produced by the CEC and the Energy Information Administration (EIA) could also be consulted. TURN recommended using an average of these private and public sector forecasts. D.04-06-015 directed staff to utilize multiple forecasts in calculating the escalation factor, and to evaluate each forecast in regard to its appropriateness for this task14 . Specifically, this is the forecast of escalation rates method advocated by CEERT, TURN, and SDG&E, as described above.
The MPR Henry Hub (MPR - HHub) forecast was developed using two private and two public 20-year Henry Hub fundamental forecasts15. Specifically, the two public forecasts were from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and California Energy Commission (CEC) 16. With regard to the two private forecasts, one was from Southern California Gas (SoCal) and the other was a private sector natural gas forecasts from Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), PIRA Energy Group, or Global Insight. Due to contractual obligations requiring the CPUC to keep the forecast confidential, staff can not reveal which of the three firms the forecast was purchased from.
It should be noted that the EIA HHub forecast is derived by manipulating the EIA's forecasted wellhead prices. Specifically, EIA examined the relationship between Henry Hub spot prices for natural gas and the U.S. wellhead price for the period spanning August 1996 through December 200017. Their analysis determined the extent to which the two price series are linearly correlated and also evaluated the statistical properties of two simple price relationships-the actual difference and the percent difference. The results of the analysis indicated that there was a strong linear relationship between the two price series, to the effect that, on average the Henry Hub spot prices were 32 cents per thousand cubic feet (10.8 percent) higher than wellhead prices. The median value of the actual difference is 24 cents per thousand cubic feet, and the median value of the percent difference is 10.4 percent. Consequently, staff escalated the EIA wellhead prices by 10.8% to derive a proxy HHub forecast.
California Basis Adjustment was Held Constant After 2007
CalWEA/CBEA, PG&E, SCE, TURN and SDG&E agreed that the NYMEX data should be basis adjusted (positive or negative) to California. D.04-06-015 adopted this recommendation18, stating that gas prices should be estimated at the proxy power plant burner tip, which would include a basis adjustment to the California border (e.g., the average of the SoCal border and the PG&E Citygate delivery points).
In the PG&E MPR gas model used by the CPUC, the California basis adjustment beyond the last year of NYMEX Clearport data was determined by calculating the average annual escalation rate among a number of different long-term PG&E Citygate and SoCal Topock basis forecasts. This average annual escalation rate was then used to escalate the last year of NYMEX Clearport data out to 2025. Because staff was unable to get access to a number of different long-term PG&E Citygate and SoCal Topock basis forecasts, staff held the last year of NYMEX Clearport data (2007) constant out to 2025, thus creating a proxy basis adjustment forecast.
MPR Capital Costs
Energy Division used the CEC Cost of Generation Report19 and associated spreadsheet models to estimate total in-service capital costs20 (2004$) for both a combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant as the baseload resource, and a combustion turbine (CT) as the peaking resource.
Baseload Capital Costs
The majority of the parties in R.01-10-024 and R.04-04-026 proposed costs that ranged from $675/kW to $836/kW in 2004$. The CEC Cost of Generation Report estimated an in-service cost of $616/kW in 2004$; however, the CEC figure intentionally does not include interconnection costs, environmental permitting costs (aside from emissions), additional capital costs for dry cooling, and contingency costs.
Using the CEC's Cost of Generation model, Energy Division calculated a value of $720/kW for the CCGT baseload resource. This estimate was developed in consultation with CEC staff and includes $61 million in adjustments as shown here:
· Addition of dry cooling equipment capital costs in the amount of $20 million.
· Addition of $23 million of interconnection costs, including a $15 million substation, and an $8 million transmission line at $1 million per mile.
· Addition of a 5% project contingency which amounts to $16 million.
· Addition of $2 million for environmental review, mitigation, and permitting costs, and small amount of $5,000 for local permitting.
Energy Division's estimate of $720/kW is close to the SCE Benchmark Study21 figure, which was adjusted to include financing costs.22
Peaker Capital Costs
Parties in R.01-10-024 and R.04-04-026 proposed costs that ranged from $515/kW to $551/kW. The CEC Cost of Generation Report estimated an in-service cost of $485/kW in 2004$, however, the CEC figure did not intentionally include any interconnection costs, environmental permitting costs (aside from emissions), contingency costs, or additional AFUDC costs. PG&E recommended $516/kW, while CEERT recommended a range of $535/kW to $560 (an average of $548/kW), both estimates were based on the CEC Cost of Generation Report CT estimate.
Energy Division opted to use the CEC Cost of Generation Report model for the combustion turbine (CT) plant, and calculated a total in-service cost in 2004$ of $556/kW. This estimate was developed in consultation with CEC staff and includes just under $7 million in adjustments as shown here:
· Addition of $5 million of interconnection costs, including a $3 million substation, and a $2 million transmission line at $1 million per mile.
· Addition of a 2.5% project contingency which amounts to $1.3 million.
· Addition of $0.5 million in environmental review, mitigation, and permitting costs, and small amount of $5,000 for local permitting.
Finance, Tax, & Power Delivery Inputs
As noted earlier, the MPR model will utilize the same finance inputs, tax inputs, and power delivery inputs (aside from capacity factor) to calculate baseload and peaker MPRs. Those figures are shown in "Appendix C, Market Price Referent (MPR) Non-Gas Inputs Table" to this report.
Baseload Capacity Factor
PG&E, SDG&E, and TURN recommend a baseload capacity factor of 92%. Several other parties recommended using lower capacity factors that may be more representative of intermediate resources. The CEC Cost of Generation Report specified a 91.6% capacity factor for a baseload resource. Energy Division utilized a 92% capacity factor to calculate the baseload MPRs.
Peaker Capacity Factor
Capacity factor recommendations for the peaking resource ranged from roughly 10% to 40% in R.01-10-024 and R.04-04-026. However, Energy Division found that most parties did not provide an abundance of supporting evidence or rationale for their recommendations on peaker capacity factors.23 See Table 3 below for the various peaker capacity factors proposed by the parties.
Table 3: Proposed Peaker Capacity Factors
CEC Cost of Generation Report
10 to 15%
25% to 32.5%
All other things being equal, this extremely large range of peaking capacity factors could produce a correspondingly large range of peaking MPRs. Such a range of outcomes lead staff to more precisely define the specific type of peak power product that the peaking MPRs would represent.
To date, the Commission has not set forth a specific definition of peak power in conjunction with the MPR process. As part of their respective 2004 Renewable Power Solicitations, staff observed that both PG&E and SDG&E specified 5x8 peak power products (5 days per week, 8 hours per day). However, each utility specified different delivery windows for this power product:
· PG&E: "Peaking24 means power delivered on a "5x8"25 schedule during June thru September with a Capacity Factor of at least 95%."
· San Diego Guidelines for Peaking Resources26:
o July, August, September, October: Mon-Fri 11am-7pm (excluding NERC Holidays); and
o January - June and November - December: Mon-Fri 1pm-9pm (excluding NERC Holidays)27
Given that both utilities specified 5x8 peak power products, staff determined that it was necessary to reconcile the relationship between the 5x8 peak power products with the estimate of the long-term market price of electricity for peaking power as calculated in the MPR model, which simulates the ownership and operation of a combustion turbine (CT) power plant. Staff determined that the peaking capacity factor should follow from the peak product solicited.
Thus, for a 5x8 peaking product over 12 months, the maximum product hours would be 2,086 hours (365x5x8÷7), less six NERC holidays, the maximum output would equal 2,038 hours (2086-48). This equates to a 23.3% capacity factor (2,038÷8,760) over 12 months.
For a 5x8 peaking product over 4 months, the maximum product hours would be 697 hours (122x5x8÷7), less two NERC holidays, the maximum output would equal 681 hours (697-16). This equates to a 23.3% capacity factor (681÷2,928) over 4 months.
Some might be inclined to calculate an annual capacity factor for a 4-month 5x8 power product. The corresponding capacity factor over a 12-month period for this 4-month product would be 7.8% (681÷8,760). Use of this capacity factor would result in significantly higher peaking MPRs. However, for this price premium, PG&E would still only have use of the 5x8 contract for only 4 months out of the year. Thus, the utility would essentially be paying for an option on which it could not call, i.e., PG&E could not call on the 5x8 contract outside the June through September timeframe.
There is also the issue that peaking MPRs calculated at a 7.8% capacity factor would allow a generator to recover its entire capital costs over a 20-year period while only operating four months out of the year under an RPS contract, yet the same generator could also contract with another counterparty outside the June through September timeframe and, conceivably, enter into a contract with capacity payments. Thus, the utility and ratepayers would be unfairly over-paying for the capacity provided.
Therefore, given the above considerations, staff opted to use a peaking capacity factor of 23.3% (2,038÷8,760) over 12 months for use in calculating peaking MPRs.
If a utility is evaluating peaking bids that do not conform to the 12-month production profile (i.e., a 5x8 product delivered over four months), it should seek further guidance from Energy Division regarding the appropriate referent for use in that evaluation.
Appendix A: 20-Year California MPR Natural Gas Forecast
Appendix B: MPR Gas Forecast Inputs Table
1/ The Henry Hub forecasts are inputs for the MPR - Henry Hub forecast - there are no specific baseload values.
2/ Due to contractual obligations requiring the CPUC to keep the forecast confidential, staff can not reveal which of the three firms the forecast was purchased from.
1 D.04-06-015, p.31, footnote 21.
2 D.04-06-015, p.6.
3 The majority of the parties agreed that the SCE MPR model had one of the most transparent structures and required the fewest modifications, thus it was adopted by D.04-06-015 (pg. 12). A description of the SCE MPR model is contained in Appendix A to D.04-06-015.
4 D.04-06-015, p.39
5 "The Henry Hub is the largest centralized point for natural gas spot and futures trading in the United States. The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) uses the Henry Hub as the point of delivery for its natural gas futures contract." ( http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/analysispaper/henryhub/ ).
6 D.04-06-015, pg. 21 & 38
7 D.04-06-015, pg. 21 - 24
8 D.04-06-015, pg. 26 -27 & 39
9 On July 23, 2004, Energy Division circulated a `straw' MPR gas forecasting model to the MPR Workshop Participants and to the R.04-04-026 Service List for review and comment. PG&E modified the gas forecast model on August 16, 2004 and circulated it to the R.04-04-026 service list, per Energy Division's request. No changes to the PG&E gas model were proposed by the parties.
10 See Appendix B for a detailed discussion of specific gas inputs
11 See Appendix A for a 20-year annual California MPR natural gas forecast.
12 D.04-06-015, pg.20
13 Private sector natural gas forecasts by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), PIRA Energy Group, and Global Insight (formerly DRI), respectively.
14 D.04-06-015, pg. 37
15 Fundamental forecast is developed by using a supply and demand model to determine the market clearing price of gas.
16 The natural gas forecasts employed in this process will include the most recent or otherwise most appropriate forecast prepared by the CEC. (See, Public Resources Code section 25302.)
17 U.S. Natural Gas Markets: Relationship Between Henry Hub Spot Prices - EIA Analysis ( http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/analysispaper/henryhub/index.html)
18 D.04-06-015, p.19
19 The CEC's August 2003 Comparative Cost of California Central Station Electricity Generation Technologies report, www.energy.ca.gov/reports/2003-08-08_100-03-001.PDF, is the most recent version of this report. This report was prepared in support of the CEC's Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) Subsidiary Volume: Electricity And Natural Gas Assessment Report, see p.10 for citation, www.energy.ca.gov/2003_energypolicy/index.html.
20 See Appendix C for a detailed discussion of capital costs.
21 Southern California Edison Co on behalf of Mountainview Power Co, LLC's seeking expedited FERC approval of the Power Purchase Agreement under ER04-316, December 19, 2003. Availability: Public. "SCE Benchmark Study" as used in this Energy Division memo primarily refers to Attachment F: Affidavit of Joseph B. Wharton for SCE. The purpose of the Wharton Affidavit was to show that the price paid by SCE for Mountainview was, in fact, competitive. The affidavit states that it complied with FERC's Edgar and Ocean State Power II standards (Affidavit at p.2).
22 PG&E, SCE, and CalWEA/CBEA relied in whole or in part on the SCE benchmark study. There respective estimates were $675/kW, $700/kW, and $740/kW. The CalWEA/CBEA figure represents the low end of its proposed range. CalWEA/CBEA actually cited TURN/SDG&E for the $740/kW figure who, in turn, noted that the $740/kW is an average from the SCE benchmark study. Interestingly, the actual average reported in the SCE Benchmark Study is $617/kW and represents the "average cost of eleven comparable plants in California" (Wharton Affidavit, p.2). The SCE Benchmark Study did not include financing costs or allowance for funds used during construction (AFUDC) (Id, p.6).
23 The CEC Cost of Generation Report did not, for example, provide specific supporting evidence for its 9.4% recommendation. However, CEC staff stated that a 10% capacity factor was generally agreed to during the CEC workshop process for general planning and discussion purposes.
24 PG&E RPS Solicitation Protocol, July 15, 2004, p.3.
25 PG&E 5x8: Hour ending (HE) 13-20 PPT, Monday through Friday, except NERC holidays.
26 Request For Offers, Eligible Renewable Resources,
July 1, 2004, p.3.
27 NERC Holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.


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NORTHFIELD -- It wasn't until his Mount Greylock girls cross country team earned another top-10 finish at the MIAA Division II state meet that Larry Bell came to a sobering realization Saturday.
"Last week was bad coaching," he said. "I misread my team [at the Western Mass. meet]. I tried to calm them down last week, because I thought they were too nervous."
Bell let his young Mounties run nervous Saturday at Northfield Recreation Center, and they responded with a seventh-place finish, the best of any Berkshire County squad. A week earlier at Northfield, Greylock was second in Western Mass. behind champion Lenox.
The Mount Greylock boys also led the way for Berkshire County, earning a 13th-place team finish.
Emily Kaegi was Greylock's top finisher, taking 22nd place in 20:00.29. She was followed by Kat Chenail (46th in 20:32.92), who beat her Western Mass. finish by 24 seconds. Chenail and Hoosac Valley's Kalyn Alibozek (42nd in 20:27.02) ran together.
"I was chasing her, then I'd pass her and she would chase me," Chenail said. "There are always people to run for. At Western Mass., it was me and Kalyn. There was no one we could catch, because everyone was too far away. There was no one really pushing us. You're constantly getting passed, so it makes you want to go faster."
One week after winning a sectional championship, Lenox finished 15th in the team standings. Elizabeth Jarck was her team's top finisher, taking 76th in 21:15.21.
"I set out who I wanted to go for," Jarck said. "They set the pace for me. I changed up my strategy a little bit by going up the first hill a little slower."
Monument Mountain -- led by Heather Hassett in 20:55.78 (63rd) -- was 18th as a team.
"It seems like everybody improved, which is what our goal was today: improve from last week," Monument coach Chris Unsworth said. "Heather is just so mentally tough. She has a goal every time out, and I can't think of too many times this year when she didn't get it."
Pittsfield's girls finished 18th in the Division I race. Sopho more Lauren Farry led the Generals -- in their second consecutive state championship as a team qualifier -- with a 73rd-place finish (20:46.98). Makayla Powers was the next-fastest General, taking 130th in 21:46.03. Liza Smith was next, in 21:46.33.
"I wouldn't say any of them are disappointed," PHS coach Theresa Apple said. "I came into it with a let's-have-fun attitude. No stress. ... Some girls exceeded their expectations. Others were the same as last week, and even that's an accomplishment, to run this course in the same time frame two weeks in a row."
Pittsfield coach Michael Ortega didn't want his Generals to simply be happy they made the state meet as a team.
"I said in the beginning of the week, 'Yes, it's great that we made it here. But we're not coming down here just to have fun,' " the coach said. "We did the best we can, and I'm relatively pleased with it."
Pittsfield's boys finished in the back of the team standings, but Dan Brien's 33rd-place finish in 16:55.66 led the way for the Generals. Ortega said all his runners were faster Saturday, thanks to better competition at the state level.
"You get up in a pack there, and [Dan] even told me, 'Everybody around me is just as good,' " Ortega said. "He's pleased with what he did."
Cody Lucido was the next Pittsfield finisher, taking 130th in 17:49.1.
Led by Will Kirby's 46th-place finish (17:32.09), and backed up by Carter Stripp's 61st-place finish (17:43.91), Greylock's boys -- Western Mass. champions a week ago -- earned 14th place overall in Division II.
"I decided to try going out harder on the uphill today," Kirby said. "I took off 13, maybe 14 seconds. I think it worked."
Lenox, in 13th place, finished ahead of fellow Berkshire County state qualifiers Grey lock and Monument Mountain (15th). Western Mass. runner-up Tucker McNinch (49th, 17:33.34) was the Millionaires' second scoring runner, behind state champ Scott Carpenter.
"We were happy," Lenox coach Jeanne Teasdale said. "They were looking to win last week, but ... I think going into this, they were more looking to improve their individual times from last week, and come back stronger in terms of picking off runners."
Monument's top finisher was Kelt Wilska, who finished 85th in 18:05.31.
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Can you imagine a future in which the skies (and restaurants) are jam-packed with miniature copters?
My chum Rick Curl dropped into my office this morning to retrieve his great-grandfather's scrapbook (see Wading through the sand of time).
One of the things we've discussed in the past is my desire to build a quadcopter or maybe a hexacopter or possibly (dare I say it) an octocopter. I'd like to mount a really good digital camera to it and take interesting pictures of things.
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Can you imagine a future in which the skies (and restaurants) are jam-packed with these little rascals? I wonder what my dear old dad would have thought about this. I've said it before and I'll say it again we certainly do live in interesting times
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The Victoria City-County Health Department Environmental Health Division inspects places where food is served in Victoria, DeWitt, Jackson and Calhoun counties.
In the inspection reports, each violation in the Food Temperature/Time Requirements category is 5 demerits; in the Personnel/Handling/Source Requirements category, 4 demerits; and in the Facility and Equipment Requirements, 3 demerits. Zero is a perfect score, while 100 demerits is the worst possible score.
Each Wednesday, the Advocate publishes inspection results from the previous week. All demerits are reported, but only those in the categories of Food Temperature/Time Requirements and Personnel/Handling/Source Requirements are detailed.
La Terraza Mexican Grill, 702 W. Broadway St., Seadrift. Demerits: 25. Use single-use paper towels to dry hands. Do not use "thank you" bags to store food. Must use food-grade storage containers. Need to date-label. Keep paper towels at the hand sink in the kitchen. Address problem with the presence of flies. Use a licensed pest control only. Three facility or equipment violations.
La Fogata Bar and Grill, 13861 N. U.S. Highway 77 North, Victoria. Demerits: 19. Date-label food in the walk-in cooler. Keep paper towels at the hand sink. Keep cleaning rags in sanitizer buckets, not on counters. Label spray bottles. Repair the spray heads at the septic system. High water alarm in on. Need thermometer at the tabletop. Make sure all utensils go through the three-step process. Clean the ice machine. Restaurant permit has been suspended until the system is fixed. Five facility or equipment violations.
Sugar Daddi Bar and Grill, 13427 U.S. Highway 87, Westhoff. Demerits: 17. Improper cold-hold temperature. Cover food in the cooler. Discard expired food. Date-label prepared food. Suggest moving trash to make it more accessible. Need a thermometer in the tabletop. Clean the ice machine. Need buffet plate sign. Four facility or equipment violations.
M.H. Leske Oil Co., 413 S. Esplanade St., Cuero. Demerits: 7. Dispose of out-of-date Deli Express. Need to post the last inspection. One facility or equipment violation.
Paw's Pizza Pie, 134 E. Main St., Yorktown. Demerits: 7. Employee drinks need lids and straws. Address problem with the presence of flies. One facility or equipment violation.
Church's Fried Chicken No. 1331, 206 W. Rio Grande St., Victoria. Demerits: 6. Keep paper towels at the hand sink. Label spray bottles. Two facility or equipment violations.
Rosie's Mexican Restaurant, 202 N. Esplanade St., Cuero. Demerits: 3.
Bubba's "The" Boiling Spot Inc., 1142 state Highway 185-E, Seadrift; Brown Bag Saloon, 8609 N. Navarro St., Victoria; Burger King No. 11204, 8501 N. Navarro St., Victoria; Little Caesar's Pizza, 1907 John Stockbauer Drive, Victoria; Popeye's Famous Fried Chicken No. 4224, 8702 N. Navarro St., Victoria; Subway No. 5, 5006 E. Houston Highway, Victoria; The Grape Vine Cafe, 110 Medical Drive, Suite 102, Victoria; El Sombrero Cafe, 713 N. Riedel St., Yorktown. Demerits: 0.
Dos Hermanos Mexican Cafe, 106 E. Houston Highway, Edna, inspected July 2 with 23 demerits. Reinspected Aug. 14 with improper cold-hold temperature. Will return to check cooler in two hours since owner adjusted thermostat. Reinspected again Aug. 14 with improper cold-hold still evident. Will return to check cooler.
Pinto Bean Restaurant, 700 W. Main St., Edna, inspected July 30 with 41 demerits. Reinspected Aug. 14 with cold-hold violation not corrected. Ware-washing violation corrected. Reinspected Aug. 15 with cold-hold violation corrected.
TA dba Travel Centers of America, 802 E. York St., Ganado, inspected July 30 with 29 demerits. Reinspected Aug. 14 with dishwasher still not fixed. Will return when fixed. Reinspected Aug. 15 with violation corrected.
La Fogata Bar and Grill, 13861 N. U.S. Highway 77 North, Victoria, inspected Aug. 20 with 19 demerits. Reinspected Aug. 20 with violation corrected. Went by and they had a licensed professional fixing the spray heads and system. Maintenance contract was signed. OK to reopen.
Whistle Stop, 8501 N. Navarro St., Victoria, inspected June 6 with 7 demerits. Reinspected Aug. 19 with water not fixed yet. There is a leak under the hand sink. Will return to recheck.


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This is a public information announcement: If you self-identify as a "freethinker" or a "progressive" it can seem just a tad conceited.
So does that mean it's conceited to write for The Freethinker? Probably. Oh well.
(The truth is I don't self-identify as either of those, because it's true, it does sound conceited. I don't like self-flattering labels, and I do avoid them. I prefer neutral, factual ones, when I can find them. That's part of why I found Shermer's jeers about "self-declared secular feminists" bizarre, when surely both words are factual more than they are self-flattering. But not calling oneself a freethinker doesn't preserve one from doing things like writing for The Freethinker. What is one supposed to do? Ask them to change the name? But it's a good name, and it's been that name since the 19th century.
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Just wondering if this is a fossil I found on the coast today. Is quite small about a thumb nail size. Any ideas? Thanks guys.
The last photo is just of the other beauties I found today.
Hi Ladylu
Red stone looks like quartz to me,
small one with a lots of holes, lava?
and the fossil might be a coral,
I`m still an amatour, just guessing
left: unknown rock with irreular vein of (probably) quartz
top left: probably a thin piece of limestone with a vein of quartz or calcite, forming the main surface shown
top right: lava - yes, could be, but it could also be just a pebble of limestone that has had recent borings by marine organisms of one sort or another (eg. gastropods)
bottom: part of a vein, looks like quartz
right: piece of limestone, with what might be a coral
Hello Ladylu
Wow - some very nice finds, to me the best one is the red stone with quartz crystals inside, looks water worn and could have been a geode.
Keep an eye out for some full one's it's very unusual.
Great news! Than you all for your help. I will be posting more of my find


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Legia Warsaw appeal to Celtic for Champions League play-off
Legia Warsaw co-owner Dariusz Mioduski has appealed to Celtic asking for a one-off tie to decide which side should progress in the Champions League.
Celtic were on Friday handed a lifeline in Europe's premier club competition after Legia were punished for fielding an ineligible player in their 6-1 aggregate win over the Scottish champions in the third qualifying round.
Legia boss Henning Berg swiftly vowed that his club would appeal, and Mioduski on Sunday issued an open letter stating his side's case and asking the Hoops to "settle this matter honourably".
After reflecting on Celtic's "beautiful" history, Mioduski said: "I therefore call on you to refer your best traditions of honour and honesty, that your famous club has been know for during the last 126 years. Do not destroy the beautiful legacy, that you inherited from the past generations of 'The Bhoys'.
"I call on you to act according to the spirit of the game and rules of fair play - to issue a joint statement to the UEFA disciplinary bodies. Let's meet in Warsaw or Glasgow and settle this matter honourably."
Bartosz Bereszynski, who came on as an 86th-minute substitute as Legia won the second leg 2-0 at Murrayfield on Wednesday night, was handed a three-match ban after a red card in the Europa League last season.
Legia believed he was free to play after missing the two games against St Patrick's Athletic as well as the first leg against Celtic in Warsaw.
However, the player was not included on Legia's squad list submitted to UEFA for the St Patrick's games and thus his suspension was not deemed to be served.
Celtic were awarded a 3-0 win, meaning they went through on away goals after a 4-4 draw and were drawn against Slovenian side Maribor in the Champions League play-off, with the Warsaw club dropping into the Europa League.
Mioduski described UEFA's punishment as "deeply unfair and contradictory to the fair play rules", and referenced Celtic's "rich heritage" and 1967 European Cup triumph in attempting to persuade them to agree to a rematch.
"We found it deeply unfair and contradictory to the fair play rules to see our dreams shattered by the last four minutes of the already decided second leg match, when Bartosz Bereszynski was brought on the pitch," Mioduski wrote.
"Our player had served the full sentence and intentionally missed the first three matches in the Champions League qualifiers this season."
He continued: "Imagine Jock Stein and Billy McNeill deprived of the chance to achieve the biggest triumph in their career by an application form, filled improperly by a club employee acting in good faith.
"Would any true legend of Celtic FC accept the qualification won despite the double defeat suffered on the pitch? I am strongly convinced that their legendary Celtic pride would not allow them to do that.
"How could they then look in the eyes of their humiliated fans?
"Willie Maley, the legendary manager of Celtic FC, once said that in your stadium 'a man is judged by his football alone'. Only you can decide whether this noble credo will be replaced by an opportunistic use of legal loopholes."
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OCEAN CITY- Providing further evidence lacrosse is growing by leaps and bounds on the Eastern Shore and gaining more and more respect along the way, the Greene Turtle All-Star team turned a lot of heads this summer with strong showings in several tournaments against some of the most talented teams in the country.
The Greene Turtle All-Star travel team is made up of some of the top players from high schools across the Eastern Shore including many from right here in the Ocean City and Berlin areas including several players from Worcester Prep and Stephen Decatur. Other players come from strong high school programs on the shore like Easton and Parkside, or Cape Henlopen in Delaware. Last year, players on the team were 9th and 10th graders, but this year, the players are entering 10th and 11th grade at their respective high school programs.
It was formed about three years ago to provide an opportunity for some of area's best young lacrosse talent to play in high level tournaments throughout the mid-Atlantic region and gain valuable exposure in front of some of the top college coaches and recruiters in the country.
Under the direction of Steve Pappas, owner of the original Greene Turtle, and coaches Greg Butler and Moose Mohr along with a heavy dose of coaching and instruction from University of Maryland coach Dave Cottle, the team enjoyed another hugely successful summer tournament season against some of the best programs from up and down the coast.
"There are a lot of great young players on the shore including right here in Ocean City and Berlin and they wouldn't get a chance to play against higher caliber players or wouldn't get the exposed to college coaches and recruiters without this opportunity," said Pappas.
Pappas said the intent is to gain notoriety for the team and Eastern Shore lacrosse in general, and for the talented young players to get a look from college coaches or recruiters who might not otherwise travel to the shore to watch lacrosse. With the success of the Turtle team this summer, the program is achieving the desired results.
"It's working," said Pappas. "It has, by far, achieved more than I ever dreamed possible. Not just one or two players are getting an opportunity, but they're all getting looked at by college coaches."
In the beginning of the program about three years ago, the Greene Turtle All-Stars took their lumps in some of the better tournaments in the mid-Atlantic area, but the local team has caught up to those programs and even gone beyond in the last year or so, collecting plenty of tournament hardware and toppling a few traditional powers along the way.
This summer, the steady evolution of the program continued with a wildly successful tournament season. In June, the Greene Turtle team went 8-0-1 in the Summer Explosion tournament in Annapolis and won its division championship. Next up was the prestigious Gait Cup played at Gettysburg College where the Turtle went 8-1, its only loss coming in the tournament semifinals to the Black Jacks, a powerhouse team from Pennsylvania.
The team garnered a lot of attention in the Gait Cup and a handful of players were named to the Gait Cup All-Star team including Jake Graves, Calvin Snyder, Jeff Mohr, Chris Dashiell and Stephen Pappas.
Three weeks ago, the Turtle continued its impressive summer run at the Summer Sizzle tournament in Baltimore, running the table in its division before falling in overtime in the semifinals to finish the event with an impressive 8-1 record. The Turtle's big summer run concluded with another standout performance in the Battle of the Hotbeds tournament at the University of Delaware two weeks ago when the team went 9-3.
With their run of recent success, the local team is starting to get the credit it deserves as one of the elite programs in the mid-Atlantic region, but the respect has come slowly, according to Pappas.
"One of the intriguing things about this team is that we constantly hear 'you can't beat this or that team' or 'you have to play your very best game to have a shot against that team,' but we go out there and beat them," he said. "We've heard that all year. At Hotbeds against Virginia Elite, everybody said there was no way a team from the Eastern Shore could beat them, so all we did was go out and beat them 9-2. I don't know what else we have to do."
Success in the elite tournaments this summer has gotten the Greene Turtle team the credit and respect it deserves as indicated by a berth in the invitation-only Dick's Sporting Goods Tournament of Champions in Florida next January. The team will travel to Florida for the tournament with the help of a fundraising effort planned for later this year and the support of big sponsors like Great Scott Broadcasting for example.
The future looks bright for the Greene Turtle program with legions of young players involved in lacrosse across the lower shore. A younger Turtle team coached by Ben Ogle and Dustin Gilbert has enjoyed similar tournament success its players will step up and fill the ranks of the older team when its players move up to the next level.


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I've never bothered seasoning screens. (OK, I did it with one screen.) There's really no reason to do it. Despite what most people believe, the purpose of seasoning a pan is NOT to give it a nonstick surface.
If I was going to season a screen, I wouldn't do it how that page told me to do it.
One of the things you do not want to do when using a screen is to not let a skin, especially one with a high hydration value, sit on the screen too long. That can cause the skin to "sink" into the opening in the screen and become permanently attached thereto. Seasoning of the screen helps to reduce the likelihood of this outcome.
"New screens have to be seasoned before they can be used. Failure to do so will result in the pizzas sticking (a bit of an understatement) to the screens. To season the screens, set your oven temperature at 425F, wipe the screens with oil and pass them through the oven for about 10-minutes. DO NOT WASH THE SEASONED SCREENS as this will cause the seasoning to begin lifting off of the screens like a bad sunburn. Then you will need to strip the screens and start all over again. After the screens are seasoned, they will have a slight amber color. This will darken to near black with continued use. This is perfectly normal. You might want to very lightly oil the screens the first time you use them after seasoning, but after that, you don't need to oil them again."Tom Lehmann/The Dough DoctorSource: http://thinktank.pmq.com/viewtopic.php?t=7955&p=54733
That looks really good. I like the melt of the cheese and the crumb.
I agree that your pizza looks good. Can you tell me the size of the screen/pizza? Also, was the bottom of the crust on the light or white side? If so, sometime you might want to try using the combination of screen and stone. I believe I previously referred you to a post that describes how to do this.
The first one in Reply #32 looks a lot better than your first screen pizza. The second one, too, probably, but to a lesser degree. Looks kinda like maybe you gave the dough a little more time in the fridge than normal.I just happened to look at your original post. These all look way better than your pizza in the original post. And the pizza in the original post didn't look bad; it just didn't look anything like a NY style pizza. More like something from Pizza Hut. These look much more like NY style.
BTW, I am not using a stone... because the stone I ordered was way too small for the pizzas I make. Perhaps I'll get a steel plate or a bigger stone in the future. Right now I'm extremely satisfied with these screens.
You can preheat the stone on the lowest oven rack position to the highest temperature your oven can deliver but start the pizza on the screen at a higher oven position. Once the pizza sets and is firm, it can be shifted off of the screen onto the preheated stone, at which point you remove the screen from the oven. The pizza will overlap the stone but that won't be a problem because the pizza is firm. I have made 18" pizzas on a 14" x 16" stone using an 18" screen. You can also move the pizza from the stone back to a higher oven position if you find you need more top crust coloration or the cheese needs more color or the toppings need further cooking.


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The pair say that although some big research projects already are benefiting from the 100-Gbps speeds being offered over the GEANT network, "data flows may suffer in the near future once they reach the Atlantic".
Currently, GEANT and ACE offer over 80 Gbps of transatlantic connectivity. The problem: this is made up of multiple 10-Gbps links, not one single fat pipe. The concern is that this will lead to bottlenecks in the future for prospective 100G users. DANTE wants to replace these over time with multiple 100G links, ensuring that partners in large research projects in radio astronomy, global earth observation, medical research, particle physics and other areas continue to benefit from the best available connectivity.
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"By launching this initiative, DANTE is taking the lead in further strengthening links with North America, and ensuring GÉANT remains at the heart of the global research village."
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England in the great wave of migration from Normandy following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Hacksfarte family lived at Axford, in the county of Wiltshire. Checking further we found the name was derived from the Old English words aesc and ford, meaning ash tree and ford.
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Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4) The family held a family seat at Ramsbury from ancient times. Today, Ramsbury is a village and civil parish that includes the hamlet Axford. It was originally spelt Ramesberrie. Ramsbury at the time of the Domesday Book was one of the larger holdings in the county of Wiltshire and consisted of 10 Mills. It was held by the Bishop of Salisbury. It also included Axford's Farm, from which the Axford family name is conjecturally descended. Axford's Farm is noted for its water mill. Axford is also a village in Hampshire, part of the civil parish of Nutley.
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Starship Defense is now free for Club Nintendo members
July's been a weird month for Club Nintendo members. The two games that were available for free, Mario Tennis and Electroplankton Rec-Rec, were only put up for a limited time as opposed to the entire month. And while the awesome Nintendo 64 tennis game is still up for a few more days, the DSiWare download has been taken down.
In its place is now Starship Defense. You can redeem this one on DSiWare (on the 3DS) for 150 of your shiny digital Coins. I read a review of the game once, and it was good, so have at it if you're looking for some DSi fun … umm, to play on your 3DS.
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Mets greats take last look at Shea
Fans deliver warm greetings to those who return for sendoff
By Kit Stier / Special to MLB.com
"My locker," Alfonzo said as many of his former teammates and Mets from other decades gathered for lunch before the final regular-season game at Shea Stadium on Sunday. "I'd take it home and put it in my trophy room. That way, every morning I'd come down and see my locker and remember."
It was a bittersweet day at the soon-to-be leveled ballpark in Queens that that Mets have called home since it opened for business on April 17, 1964. Across the way, beyond the fences in left and center fields, rises new Citi Field, where next season the Mets are scheduled to open a new chapter in their history.
Sunday was humid and wet at Shea, but the spirits of a sellout crowd and players of the team's past and present were not dampened. That the first pitch wasn't thrown until nearly after an hour after the scheduled starting time due to the rain only left more time for old memories to come to life.
"How about the planes going over about every five minutes?" said Jesse Orosco, a reliever on the 1986 World Series championship team. "That was fun, having the planes fly over. I played another 15 years and never heard another plane."
Brooklyn native John Franco, the Mets' all-time saves leader, remembered coming to Shea Stadium as a kid with his dad and brother and then later as a player.
"It's a sad day, but a happy one," Franco said. "It's a sad day that all the great memories I had a kid and as a player aren't going to be here, but a happy day because a new stadium is going to be here and there is going to be great tradition over there. We used to take the train over here. We used coupons from the side of milk cartons and used to sit up there in the third deck. Then I got to pitch here on Opening Day, when I was traded here from Cincinnati in 1990."
Franco, who still resides in the New York area, arrived by charter bus on Sunday. There were three busloads of former Mets and their families. Many other former players arrived on their own. Yogi Berra, who managed the team for three-plus seasons in the 1970s, drew a loud response from fans behind metal barricades lining one side a long red carpet that led to a stadium entrance down the left-field line. "Yogi, Yogi, Yogi," they chanted.
Fans also crowded together in openings on each of the seven levels above the Gate A entrance. The players they recognized were cheered loudly. No one drew a response greater than Dwight Gooden, who hadn't been back to Shea since he pitched for the Yankees in 2000.
"It's very heartwarming, the response you get," said Gooden. "They support you. I got goose bumps all over."
Cleon Jones, Dave Kingman, Robin Ventura, Sid Fernandez, Bobby Ojeda, Todd Zeile, Gary Carter, Darryl Strawberry, Ron Swoboda, Buddy Harrelson, Rusty Staub, Lenny Dykstra, Ed Charles and Wally Backman were among the many former favorites who walked down the soggy red carpet.
The rain let up and there were glimpses of the sun shortly before the first pitch. Two grandchildren of William A. Shea, after whom the stadium was named and one of the people who was a driving force in bringing National League baseball back to New York, threw out the first pitches.
Then, just before left-hander Oliver Perez threw the first real pitch of the game, Hall of Famer Tom Seaver and Mr. Met peeled off the No. 2 on the Shea Stadum countdown that hung from the center-field fence.
The last regular-season game was set to begin. The fans were hoping for a lot more.
"Hopefully they'll close with a good game," said Gooden, echoing the sentiments of many.
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