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Los Medanos District Energy Facility
Docket Number:
98-AFC-01 (Application For Certification)
98-AFC-1C (Compliance Proceeding)
Project Status: Licensed; In Compliance Phase. Operational: July 9, 2001
The California Energy Commission approved this project's Application for Certification on August 17, 1999. The Commission monitors the power plant's construction, operation and eventual decommissioning through a compliance proceeding.
Committee that oversaw Original Licensing Proceeding:
David A. Rohy, Vice Chair, Presiding Member
Michal C. Moore, Commissioner, Associate Member
Hearing Officer: Susan Gefter
Key Dates
- 6/15/1998 - Application For Certification (AFC) filed
- 7/29/1998 - Energy Commission declares AFC as adequate
- 3/10/1999 - Commission staff releases Staff Assessment of project.
- 6/30/1999- Presiding Member's Proposed Decision is released.
- 8/17/1999 - Full Commission's approves AFC
- 12/29/1999 - Plant Name Change from "Pittsburg District Energy Facility" to "Los Medanos District Energy Facility."
- 7/9/2001 - Power plant on line and producing power.
On June 15, 1998, the Pittsburg District Energy Facility, Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed an Application for Certification (AFC) with the California Energy to construct and operate the Pittsburg District Energy Facility (PDEF -- Now called the Los Medanos Power Plant). The PDEF will be providing process steam to USS-Posco Industries. Electrical energy produced from the proposed power plant will be sold to California's regional power pool and other electricity consumers. The PDEF electric generating plant and related facilities, such as the electric transmission line, natural gas pipeline and water lines are under the Energy Commission's jurisdiction. The power plant certification process examines engineering and environmental aspects of power plant proposals, and contains requirements similar to those contained in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
The PDEF is proposed to be located on a 12-acre site on East 3rd Street, west of the intersection of East 3rd and Columbia in the City of Pittsburg, in eastern Contra Costa County. The site is on the northwest corner of property owned by USS-Posco Industries.
The applicant has proposed a combined cycle combustion turbine generator (CTG) design with a nominal capacity of 555 megawatts (MW). The design would consist of two trains of "F" class CTG machines with either one or two steam turbine generators. Natural gas is burned in the combustion turbine generators, which converts the thermal energy into mechanical energy required to drive the compressor and electric generator. The combustion turbine trains will include exhaust stacks and step-up transformers, heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) units, steam turbine generator units and their transformers, and water treatment and cooling towers. A 115 kilovolt (kV) high voltage switchyard will be located on the west side of the project site. Reclaimed water for turbine cooling will be supplied from the Delta Diablo Wastewater Treatment Facility located in the City of Antioch. Estimated cost of the project are between $200 & $300 million.
In support of the City of Pittsburg's effort to reroute existing marine terminal truck traffic as well as provide improved access to the project site, the PDEF project has sponsored and will construct a new Truck Bypass Road which will be approximately.75 mile long. It will connect East 14th Street, near the existing intersection of Columbia Street and East 14th, to Harbor Street, near the existing intersection of East Santa Fe Avenue and Harbor.
Nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from the combustion process will be reduced to 2.5 parts-per-million by volume dry (ppmvd), or less, at 15 percent oxygen by utilizing dry low NOx combustion technology and a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system . The SCR system will use aqueous ammonia for the reduction process.
Linear electric facilities associated with the project include: a new 2.5 mile double circuit 115 kV overhead/underground electric transmission line to connect the project to Pacific Gas & Electric's (PG&E) existing Pittsburg Power Plant Switchyard; and a new 1.2 mile single circuit 115 kV line to connect the PDEF with the USS-Posco Industries plant. Sections of these new lines will parallel existing 115 kV lines.
Pipeline facilities associated with the project include: a potable water supply line approximately 500 feet long; a gas pipeline approximately 3.6 miles long; a sewer line approximately 500 feet long; and a reclaimed water line approximately 2 miles long. All of the pipeline facilities will be buried underground. The engineering and environmental details of the proposed project are contained in the AFC.
Energy Commission Facility Certification Process
The California Energy Commission is the lead agency (for licensing thermal power plants 50 megawatts and larger) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and has a certified regulatory program under CEQA. Under its certified program, the Energy Commission is exempt from having to prepare an environmental impact report. Its certified program, however, does require environmental analysis of the project, including an analysis of alternatives and mitigation measures to minimize any significant adverse effect the project may have on the environment.
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we decided as a league that having a flex position is good, period end of story over.
then Matt...being butt hurt over it decided to make up for that he was going to try an add another WR spot to the roster.
that's an entirely different vote that the league also decided was a good idea.
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The Spot: 3OH!3
While 3OH!3's Sean Foreman looted his bedroom to pack for their fall tour, we were on speakerphone prodding him with questions about the upcoming dates.
While 3OH!3's Sean Foreman looted his bedroom to pack for their fall tour, we were on speakerphone prodding him with questions about the upcoming dates, why strip clubs mix steak with nudity and why Yanni gets him so psyched to sing on stage. Okay, that last one isn't entirely true, but Yanni was mentioned. The two boys, known for opening for superstar Katy Perry and having Ke$ha sing in one of their biggest hits, will be releasing their fourth studio album, Omens, that is definitely going to dominate the airwaves as soon as the album drops.
We're kicking off the fall tour in Richmond, Virginia at this venue called The National, and it's a really awesome venue. For the artist they've got hot tubs and pool tables and anything you can dream of backstage. It's kind of funny that we're starting there because it would be such a great place to hit midway through when you're super tired of sitting in closets and stuff like that. It's always a party. I remember last time playing The National it was a big dance party at the end of the show.
Well, shit. I'll tell this one because it's really funny but super embarrassing. One of our first big European tours was with Katy Perry. We were good friends with her and we went out on the town with her the last night that we were in Belgium. She was successful and big at the time, but it was right on the cusp of her becoming a world-famous superstar so there were paparazzi and people following us around. So we played the show — I was already pretty drunk — and then we hit up the bars after. I don't know what it was, this isn't typical, but I was looking at the line for the men's bathroom and it was just out the door. I was really drunk and couldn't get my shit together and I ended up peeing my pants in the bar. But I was so happy and so drunk I was like, you know what? This isn't about to ruin my night. I'm not going to go home. So I just hung out next to Katy. I'm sure there are paparazzi photos in magazines of her standing there and then an arrow pointing at me saying, "Who the fuck is this?" No one called me out on it or anything, but it was the funniest thing as I look back on it. What was wrong with me?!
It is different sounding, but we learned a lot [from] our previous experiences through songwriting and producing. It's definitely a huge step forward for us, but it's also a step, maybe a jump backward, because we did it all in Matt's basement: mixing, producing, writing, everything. It brings it back to the basics. You know, two college kids in an apartment doing the exact same thing. We took more liberties and we didn't feel the pressure. We got weird with songs and ended up writing about 20 songs this way, not thinking too much about how people receive it or where we should put them. We just wrote whatever songs we wanted to write, and some will never see the light of day and probably shouldn't. We ended up narrowing it down to 11 songs and I'm really stoked about it. We've already started playing a couple of songs on the road and the reception has been really great.
We've done a few things with Playboy, and it's crazy for me because it was always such a mainstay for me. My friend's stepdad would always have these collections of [nude] mags and we'd always find them. Playboy was definitely the first one I encountered. Maybe late fall, my friend stole some to keep, and he couldn't keep them at his house and I couldn't keep them at my house so we ended up putting them in a bush down by the park so we can go to the bush and take turns looking at them there. It's funny now because every single year in the fall, there's a certain time in Colorado that has this distinct smell that always reminds me of Playboy because the Playboy started to smell like the leaves. I would go down there to check out my decrepit rain Playboy. It's a super fond moment that I always look back on because it was such a weird moment. And every time I smell that smell, I think of Playboy.
We love hole-in-the-wall bars with good jukeboxes and cheap drink deals. We get into messes wherever we go; in Atlanta there's this place called the Clermont Lounge that's a pseudo-bar/strip club, and it's a bizarre place that's really hard to beat. It's not your straight-down-the-middle strip club, so we always try to hit it up when we go there. Sassy's in Portland (Oregon) is another one that is up there, as is Acropolis, a strip club with the best steak you'll ever get because the guy who runs it owns the ranch so it's straight from the land to the plate for like 10 bucks, if that's what you want to do while you're at a strip club. With steak and strip clubs it's like you're crossing different senses that shouldn't be crossed.
I just downloaded a bunch of new music. The new Imagine Dragons is dope, I just listened to that a couple of times. I actually have a playlist here for the tour, you know, Yanni, anything classical…No, but really, we just did a thing with Spotify called our "pre-game mix," and it has a ton of songs. There's a throwback R. Kelly remix to "Ignition," Nero's "Guilt" and Marina and the Diamonds' "Lies." She's awesome; we've always been fans of her. On her first big U.S. tour she covered one of our songs, "Starstrukk.
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(Jan. 10, 2007)--The latest issue of Sombrilla Online, the Internet version of UTSA's award-winning university magazine, is now available for viewing and download.
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1. Kozuka
2. Weir (just because)
3. Borodulin
1. Ando
2. Wagner (just because)
3. Lepisto
1. Pang/Tong
2. Kavaguti/Smirnov
3. Inoue/Baldwin
Dance (total guesses):
1. Davis/White
2. Kerr/Kerr
3. Bobrova/Soloviev
Actually it's a great start to get Takahashi back into the competitive stage. He needs to get pass the Japanese National before even have a chance of going to Olmypics. Al though I don't think he will have a problem finishing no lower than third and japan does have 3 spots in men.
He does have great PCS score, and if he just skate clean and don't attempt quad, i don't think he will have a problem getting on the podium. Quad is this stage will be too risky, as he needs to be fully recover before thinking about it.
Hmmm... let's see...
1. Daisuke Takahashi (lookin' good!)
2. Kozuka Takahiko (doesn't he pretty much always get the silver??!)
3. Brian Joubert (he's due for a good showing, but I won't put him over the home-town faves!)
1. Miki Ando (and she'll skate much cleaner than last time... I hope!)
2. Yukari Nakano (going with the Japan advantage again... fight for that Olympic spot)
3. Ashley Wagner (more happy reactions!)
1. Pang/Tong
2. Kavaguti/Smirnov
3. Brodeur/Mattata
1. Davis/White
2. Kerr/Kerr
3. Crone/Poirer
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Press release on Sri Chinmoy's passing
Beloved Spiritual Teacher Sri Chinmoy Passes Away
Eulogised by World Leaders and Luminaries
New York. Internationally renowned world harmony leader, spiritual teacher and humanitarian Sri Chinmoy, who passed away on the morning of 11 October at the age of 76, was buried last Thursday near his home in Queens, New York. During the memorial week at a private ceremony, UN officials, religious leaders of all faiths, political figures, humanitarian workers, renowned musicians and world-class athletes from all around the world joined thousands of followers to pay final tributes to the beloved spiritual teacher, Sri Chinmoy. They gathered to express their condolences on Sri Chinmoy's sudden passing at a meditation garden in New York where his body lay in wake.
Leaders who could not be present but who sent letters of condolence ranged from national leaders and Nobel laureates from countries as varied as United States, Germany, Russia, Nepal and Namibia, to senators and members of congress.
President Mikhail Gorbachev wrote, "With deep regret I have learned that my long-term close friend, the friend of my family and of our Foundation, Sri Chinmoy, passed away yesterday… This is a loss for the whole world. Through many years of his selfless work for the sake of peace, Sri Chinmoy has gained recognition and love in the farthest corners of our planet…In our hearts he will forever remain a man who dedicated his whole life to peace… We shall remember Sri Chinmoy forever!"
President Nelson Mandela wrote: "It is with great sadness that I learnt of the passing of my dear friend, Sri Chinmoy. Today, the world is a lesser place as I recall his lifetime of service to humanity in the great cause of world peace. I will remember always the time we spent together and treasure his support and encouragement over the years."
President Bill Clinton wrote: "Throughout his many years, Sri Chinmoy enriched the lives of countless others and served as a model of generosity and discipline to those he met, fostering an atmosphere of compassion, harmony, and unity. Sri Chinmoy was a leader, humanitarian, artist, athlete, and public servant who will be sorely missed. His legacy of kindness, reflection, and resolve will endure for many years to come."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote, "Sri Chinmoy was a great man. God is smiling to know the immense good he has accomplished and encouraged in others. In a world of suspicion, hostility and conflict, he worked tirelessly to bring the different faiths together and inspired many to emulate."
Mr. Vijay Nambiar, Chief of Staff to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remarked, "I am sure I represent the Secretary-General when I express my profound respect and gratitude to Sri Chinmoy for his contribution to the building up of inner peace in the United Nations as in the world at large."
Sri Chinmoy was an ardent supporter of the United Nations. Since 1970 he served as the leader of the Peace Meditation at the United Nations, an association of delegates and staff he founded under the aegis of the third UN Secretary-General U Thant, which he led twice-weekly.
Respected and loved worldwide, Sri Chinmoy's philosophy for world peace was manifested through a wide array of activities, ranging from literature to art to sports to music. The universal nature of his philosophy embraced and encouraged people of all backgrounds, faiths and nationalities to work together for peace.
Sri Chinmoy's love of sports spanned a lifetime and resulted in a number of landmark programs for peace and self-transcendence. In 1987, Sri Chinmoy founded the World Harmony Run, the world's largest relay for peace involving millions of participants in 140 nations.
Sri Chinmoy also founded the Sri Chinmoy Marathon team which is a leading promoter of ultra- distance races, sponsoring events ranging from marathons to the world's longest footrace, a 3100 mile run.
Hailed as a modern day renaissance man, Sri Chinmoy wrote over 1600 books of prose and poetry, composed nearly 21,000 pieces of music, and performed 777 Peace Concerts worldwide - all offered free of charge - in venues including Royal Albert Hall in London, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, San Francisco's Davies Hall, Moscow's Russia Hall and Tokyo's Budokan Hall. He was an avid runner, tennis player and champion weightlifter.
A dedicated humanitarian, Sri Chinmoy's service organisation, The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles, collected worldwide and distributed millions of dollars of medical supplies throughout Asia and Africa. Devoted to easing pain and alleviating suffering, Sri Chinmoy once wrote, "My Lord, do give me the capacity to wipe every tear from every heart."
Sri Chinmoy was born on August 27, 1931 in a small village in east India. Orphaned at the age of 11, Sri Chinmoy then lived with his six brothers and sisters at a spiritual community in southern India, where he spent the next 20 years in intense prayer and meditation. Heeding an inner call, he travelled to the United States in 1964 and made New York City his home.
In the 43 years since his arrival in the West, Sri Chinmoy became a model of the potential of humankind. Opening meditation centers throughout the world for peace and harmony he tirelessly traveled the globe to share his inspiration and goodwill.
A champion of interfaith harmony, Sri Chinmoy was beloved by religious leaders of all denominations. From Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II to Mother Teresa to the Buddhist patriarchs in many countries, Sri Chinmoy was celebrated as a true servant of God.
"I am so pleased with all the good work you are doing for world peace and for people in so many countries," wrote Mother Teresa. "May we continue to work together and share together, all for the glory of God and for the good of man."
"The physical and the spiritual must go together," taught Sri Chinmoy. "They cannot be separated."
In this light, Sri Chinmoy astounded sports heroes and luminaries through a weightlifting career which he began in 1985, at the age of 54. Weight being anything but insurmountable, Sri Chinmoy credited God's Grace which gave him inner peace for the ability to lift thousands, sometimes even tens of thousands of pounds. From cars to elephants to planes, Sri Chinmoy lifted almost every object imaginable in various styles of strongman lifts.
"I have learned from Sri Chinmoy that the size of the arm does not make the man; the size of the heart makes the man," said five-time Mr. Universe and Best Built Man of the 20th Century, Bill Pearl. "Nobody on earth has done what Sri Chinmoy has done."
At galleries worldwide, including the Carrousel du Louvre and UNESCO in Paris and the Russian National Museum of Decorative Arts, selections of Sri Chinmoy's paintings and 16 million "Dream-Freedom-Peace-Bird" drawings have given joy and inspiration to countless people.
Over 7,000 people continue to follow his philosophy through more than 300 Sri Chinmoy Centres worldwide.
Further Reading
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What does it take to provide traditional Thanksgiving fare for 280? About 40 pounds of ham, 120 pounds of turkey, 60 pounds of stuffing and three gallons of gravy.
The volunteers dishing out that yumminess? Marquette faculty and staff who served Thanksgiving dinner to more than 280 university community members, including many international students, who stayed on campus and celebrated America's favorite food holiday.
In its 63rd year, the dinner sponsored by Campus Ministry with the help of Sodexho Food Service and the Office of Residence Life is served in memory of Rev. William McEvoy, S.J. He first provided the dinner for students during the 1950s in the basement of the Dental School building.
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The World's End
Think "Shaun Of The Dead" meets "The Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers"
In the 3rd movie reuniting director Edgar Wright with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, you get two movies in one: a drinking buddy movie becomes an apocalyptic comedy. Unfortunately , it's not up to either"Shaun Of The Dead" or "Hot Fuzz". I came in with expectations and it ended up being like bad sex. You know what they say about bad sex.
20 years after an epic pub crawl, a group of friends reunite to repeat history. Simon Pegg's Gary King is stuck in the past. He's convinced the high school graduation pub crawl was the highlight of his life, which is why he wants to repeat it with his old buds, who have all gone on to lead pretty much normal, productive lives. Pegg's King is like the now-grown-up high school football quarterback who thinks his high school years were the best years of his life. It was all down hill from there.
The group quickly learns, as the saying goes, you can't go home again. But not for the reasons you think. They see some of the same people they knew 20 years ago, except they're not quite right. It turns out their bodies have been taken over by aliens . They're robotic versions of themselves , who bleed blue goo.
Yes, add this to the summer of apocalyptic movies: "After Earth"; "World War Z"; "Oblivion"; "Warm Bodies"; "Pacific Rim"; "This Is The End" and "Elysium". Of the three comedies, I have to say this comes in 3rd, with "This Is The End" leading the list.
There are laughs but this is no "Shaun Of The Dead". It's "Shaun Of The Dead" light. By the way, the young version of Gary King looks nothing like Simon Pegg.


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text: Please pardon if this has already been addressed. This is my first time this year to graft and only second time ever. I made a cloake board, isolated the queen from the nurse bees and grafted about 25 cells. It's been two days, there are 18 nice cells started so today I removed the floor on the cloake board to reunite the colony (queen excluder is still in place) and make it queenright again. Was this a mistake? I read somewhere where a queenright colony can be used as a finisher colony but my worry is have I just set my best hive up for swarming. I have a laying queen and 18 additional queen cells seperated by the excluder, will the queen sense this and make swarm preparations? I'm planning to remove the cells and put them in nucs at the proper time.


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Here's a clever way to haul your forklift:
Here's a clever way to haul your forklift:
I am holding on to the hope I have inside... Kutless
That does look smart
wonder if it would bottom out while turning in and out of off road approaches?
Ian Steppler >> Canadian Beekeeper's Blog
If you have enough momentum would it matter? lol
I am holding on to the hope I have inside... Kutless
As someone who moves bugs on a near nightly basis.....I'm gonna save all you newer folks lots of money here. (PM me for an address to send my $100.00 consultation fee)
"Run from this mess like you're entered in the Special Olympics"
Could always raise it some and lengthen the ramps if that were the case... Anyone heard of this being done with a smaller sized flatbed to draw behind a 3/4/550? I'm guessing not having tongue weight on the trailer would become an issue at that point though.
That's what she said
I didn't see the headboard and forks. Where do they go?
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I guess not everyone has full loads. What is that 1500 to 2000 pounds of bees you cannot move for being overweight?
Not really a problem when moving bees from farm to farm. Besides the machine is necessary.
I am holding on to the hope I have inside... Kutless
Here is a better way to carry a forklift, in the middle of the load area.
The forklift rides transversely in the depressed center area, and the forklift weight is mostly on the tractor drive tires.
I have seen a scrap paper company in the Seattle area utilizing these trailer to pick up large bales of paper (corrugated, generally) from customers.
USDA Zone 7A Elevation 1400 ft
Oooooooo I like it!!!!
Kind of interesting but perhaps a second bulkhead might be a good thing. I could see hives shifting ahead and sliding into your machine.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
I don't have a bulkhead on my trailer now.
bulkheads is for people that can't drive. heck where I comes from they have trailers with no wheels. course all you city slickers would just call them sleds. Yu all is sissies.
Why when I was a yungin. we would toss a hive over each shoulder a hoof it 5 mile uphill in both directions through snow drifts up to our eye brows in heat so fierce it would melt lead. Now all you young bucks with your panties all in a twist. Oh my is my ramp long enough???
Think you got it tough? Heh you don't know bout tough til your half way through lunch thinkin that toast seems awful soft until you realized you was eatin shoe leather.
chew nails my eye. I eat steel and fart nails boy.
Heck you ain't done a thing until you trained the bees to pick the hive up and move it theyselves.
Sease your whinnin and start packin. If you lifted hives half as well as you cry about it it'd be done already.
Man do I remember that last one said a lot.
Conversation brought back flash memories of my grandfather.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Migratory Beekeeping has been going on for a long time. Your idea is not a new one.....I have seen it implemented a number of times years back. The last one I saw was about 15 years ago, a Texas Commercial had one mounted behind the cab of his "semi" (independent of the trailer). I don't remember his name but I've seen his trucks since and he no longer uses that system. The equipment or location of the equipment itself is not the problem......rather the concept. The negatives, other then very limited situations, are overwhelmingly against this concept.
1)Weight: Just picking a number of 60 lbs per hive.....a S185 Bobcat (as pictured) weighs 6220 lbs alone resulting in a loss of 104 hives per load not counting the additional weight of the "contraption". A Hummerbee....4860 lbs or 81 hives and a 610 Bobcat.....3810 lbs or 64 hives. At todays transportation costs, these alone are serious numbers.
2)Reality: To honestly justify the ownership of a "semi" trailer.....a beek would, by necessity, need to be running a serious number of hives. Ownership of a "semi" trailer means you must also own (or rent) a tractor.....more problems and expense. Most of even the largest commercials do not own 'tractor/trailer' rigs......they hire them when needed....ownership simply doesn't pencil out in most cases. If you run that many hives...you've already got smaller trucks/trailers and probably employees...why not just use them and save the bed space for hives?
If you've already got this.....use it, but I'd sure have an eye on improving costs, efficiency and utility and I can't picture a scenario where this concept accomplishes that.
If you keep your eyes open in almonds you will see all kinds of different ways to get the job done.
Moving bees out of holding yards and into orchards takes some creativity if you ever want to get back home and get some sleep.
A buddy of mine has been running the pictured trailer(s) around just south of Chico for years and years and years, helping beekeepers place hives.
Now I know what you are going to say, so save your breath; he has a CDL for doubles!
I have exactly ONE hive more than than you.
That makes my opinion beyond dispute!
Harry, I had a set up like that once for a VERY short period of time......I have a defective gene that doesn't allow me to back that thing up more then a couple of feet. Anything more.....each piece of equipment heads off in a different direction
I run a one ton chev duramax with 9 ft bed 48 col infront of a 20 foot equipt trailer with another 48 col on front of trailer with a little old case skid loader which weights about 2200 lbs.I put a 20 hp honda engine on it. This lets me move 96 at a time .Looks funny but works for me.Been running this waysince 92 except I was using 94 dodge for a while I usualy load one pallet at a time run only 2 high.
Ever run over weight?
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Matthew Williamson showed his fall collection within the hallowed auditorium of London's Royal Opera House on Sunday night, and such an extravagant setting turned out to be entirely fitting, not only for the theatrical repertoire the designer went on to unveil, but also as a celebratory location for the brand's fifteenth anniversary. In honor of that occasion, Williamson delved further into the decorative interior world of the Russian czars he'd referenced in his pre-fall, which translated that season as brocade pants and gilt-embellished shifts, stopping just short of all-out evening glamour with the military control of blazers and outerwear. Here, however, Williamson shook off those restraints and let fall express his glamorous vision of a grown-up bohemian city-dweller more fully.
The prints and sequin formations splashed or stitched across shimmering lamé shifts, glittering slim-fitting pantsuits, and ripples of floor length evening dresses, were inspired in one part by Fabergé eggs, the other by the idea of fragmented chandeliers within those palatial homes of the tsars. "There's a crumbling decadence to the embellishment," explained Williamson backstage of the broken-up, gemlike formations that looked more like accessories worn over shift dresses and tops. But it was the playful use of light layers and occasional graphic touches—shirt collars peeping over floor-sweeping evening dresses and overlaid with boxy chiffon T-shirts, or silky shirts tucked into red leather pants and similarly paired with a transparent chiffon layer—that made certain pieces stand out with a noticeably more contemporary feel. Looking into the future, it would be interesting to see Williamson rein in the ostentation and further expand on those modern inclinations that have begun to edge to the fore.
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I don't understand why one would forbid the more nuanced view here. Games have gameplay. Cool. Can a game exist as nothing but gameplay? Nope. That would require some mystical mind magic. Can games be good without putting much effort into any of the non-mechanical elements that allow gameplay to be communicated to the player? Yes, but be careful; good gameplay is meaningless if it isn't translated intact to the player. I can't see inside to the core of the game and understand exactly what the developer wanted me to experience, I can only play with what I perceive as being offered to me.
Can they be really good at communicating the gameplay in an entertaining, valuable context to the player without the play itself having any mechanical nuance, novelty or notable quality to it? Yes, but we should be careful again especially with the "notable quality" part; I think this is much more reasonable a suggestion that that in the above paragraph, though. In a much over-simplified sense, this is how genres develop. We're ok seeing some mechanics get re-used and retooled without much creativity as long as the whole package delivers something worthwhile (and hopefully creative)--maybe additional mechanics that are novel, or an interesting narrative, or a well-realized world, or great visuals.
Why can't we measure the worth of a medium, and works within that medium, in terms of impact? How fun or meaningful or interesting they are to the audience and designers? It's all very well to criticize the gaming public for lauding the story in game X or the visuals in game Z if you disagree that they are in fact good. But suggesting that those are invalid measure of the worth of the product? The game developers put time into it. Players cared about that element of the game. Critics cared about that element of the game. Other developers took notice and picked at that component of the game. How then can you dismiss character, visuals, sound design, narrative, unorthodox modes of play, found content (emergent gameplay, player-contribution mechanics), and all the other bits that make up a game simply because, say, the control scheme is awful? Or the maps and guns are boring?
There's another question. What on earth is gameplay anyway? Why can't visuals be part of gameplay? In most games you sort of have to see what's going on to be able to play properly. Sounds can play an important role in the mechanics (alerting your of off-screen happenings, confirming the affect of actions in the world when animations are insufficient), as can level design. Narrative and dialog can be play--in games like Mass Effect (and for that matter, old-school RPGs) where dialog is pretty solidly mechanical gameplay but also in games where it doesn't directly interact with the rest of the game. If it affects my experience of the mechanics, I'd say it's part of gameplay whether or not it does so through clear, explicit mechanical means; and narrative can quite often change how I behave in a game. Whether I try to protect an NPC, whether I use my stun-gun or my sniper rifle, whether I go out of my way to perform particular activities, whether I consider attempting particular actions in game ...
I'm struggling to find a definition of gameplay that kicks narrative and other non-button related mechanics to the curb. And when the narrative, as in Mass Effect, is a fully fleshed mechanical concept? You have to do better than "gameplay trumps story," folks, because conversations were part of play in Mass Effect no matter how bad you thought the story was.
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You ruined his point by putting it in context thats cheating -bull0
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Well let me try then
A game with good gameplay and bad story is still at least a mediocre game
A game with bad gameplay and good story is shit
No let me. A game with good gameplay and a bad story is shit. A game with bad gameplay and a good story is shit. A game with bad gameplay and bad story is shit. A game with shit is shit. A shit shit shit shit shit shit.
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Last edited by gwathdring; 04-12-2012 at 06:07 AM.I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardusts Music Sounds Better With You. Theres lots of fog. --tomeoftom
You ruined his point by putting it in context thats cheating -bull0
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Either bad gameplay or a bad story kill a game for me. Truth be told, everything has a story if you're paying attention.
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Mohorororororvicicicicic is right that a game with bad gameplay and a good story is a bad game, but that doesn't mean it's not a good something else, and still better at being something else than it would be if you removed all the interactivity.Irrelevant on further examination of the rest of the thread.
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This sentence is not an allegory for author's cravings to return to life in peace with nature and mother earth, because the dimly lit corridor symbolizes a womb and puke green symbolizes damaged ecology of our planet. It means it was a corridor in puke green, dimly lit because it was a cheap-ass motel.
Stop making up nonsense.
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To me a game that has mediocre game-play is never going to be a good game no matter how much narrative you cram into it, because that's not what a game is (to me). If I want writer driven narrative there are other mediums that are better suited to it.
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An alternative cynical point of view is that you're just trying to get as many people to buy your product, and you reckon that removing the mediocre gameplay would make fewer people buy your product even if it would make the product better. A related example is that choice'n'consequence dialogue tree games are usually RPGs and vice versa, even though there is no logical reason for this. People just expect one with the other and you give people what they expect rather than what's best.
Last edited by NathanH; 04-12-2012 at 10:04 AM.Irrelevant on further examination of the rest of the thread.
Believe it or not, some people like playing their stories.
I like playing through a story. Even if the gameplay involves me clicking around a screen to progress it, I'd rather do that than read a book or watch it while just sitting there. I personally, can't get as heavily invested in caring about characters in most books and shows.
There's also choice to be made and consequences to be had in games that you can't do in movies or tv shows and the only way you can do them in books is adventure books. I doubt very much Lord of The Rings would have held up as well if you got to the end of a chapter and it said "Do you want Frodo to lead the fellowship, go to chapter 12. Do you want Legolas to sit this one out, go to chapter 11".
In games you can make choices that have an effect so much later in the game, that you can't simply reload and pick the other option, without spending maybe 3 or 4 hours to get back to where you are. Although not an amazing example of doing this because the choices didn't matter, I made choices in Mass Effect 1 that resonated into Mass Effect 3. I couldn't simply turn back the clock and remake those choices without playing through at least another 20 hours of game. Hell even if I'd to replay an hour of game to remake a choice I'd be pushed not to do it, and I know that whatever happens to whatever characters is as a result of my actions.
I can't stop what happens to Ned Stark in Game of Thrones. I can't control anyone in Serenity. But I can make choices in Heavy Rain and The Walking Dead that will cause the story to twist and turn and have an impact on me, because I'm the one that made it.
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To be honest I am quite bored with these "why not make it a book" arguments, simply because if someone were to be thinking about writing a novel I'd ask them "why not make it a game?"Irrelevant on further examination of the rest of the thread.
04-12-2012, 10:38 AM #1952017 Yay!!!!
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Perhaps it's because both these games, with their mediocre gameplay but compelling story lines destroy whatever weak argument you or anyone else possible have for suggesting that games can only truly be judged by their gameplay and that games shouldn't try have compelling stories because books and movies exist.
Looking at the top ten selling games on PC, did they sell because of story or gameplay?
Sims 1&2---------gameplay
Half life 2------not sure
left 4 dead 1&2--gameplay
Diablo III-------gameplay
Sims 3-----------gameplay
Half-life--------not sure
Scanning the rest of the list, I only see very few story based games that have large fanbases and big sales.
Looking @ the PS3, it is about 50-50. & xbox360 it is maybe 70-30.
Maybe most gamers don't actually like story driven games that much, & I'm not in minority in not liking them. Which leaves me scratching my head as to why the industry seems so focused on them.
Yes. The more people that buy into something, the better it is. This is why The Dark Knight and Transformers 3 are two of the greatest films ever created.


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Dec. 21, 2012, Robert Oscar Jasman was led home to be with Jesus by his son, James Jasman (1998), grandson Vincent Mosberger (2002) and great-grandson Emmett Jones (2005).
He is survived by his wife, Beatrice Marie (Crittenden) Jasman; daughters, Bobbie (George) Carroll, Darla (Jerry) Faehnrich, Debra (Gary) Mosberger and Denise Jasman; 17 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Robert served in the Army from October 1940 to March 1946 earning American Theater Medal, Asiatic Pacific Theater Medal, World War II Victory Ribbon, and the Bronze Star Medal.
Bob and Bea were on their 34th address in their 70 years of marriage. Bob volunteered his time to many organizations including most of the churches they belonged to and Meals on Wheels, delivering blood for the Red Cross, being a Foster Grandparent at elementary schools, Habitat for Humanity and so many more. He was a most giving person and a great example to his many grandchildren and great-grandchildren and an inspiration to anyone who had the pleasure to know him.
Services were at 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, at Nelson-Doran Funeral Home in Brainerd with the Rev. Dr. Ed Morgan officiating. Visitation began the hour before services. Burial will be at Fort Snelling National Cemetery at a later date.
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
The poor baby died of skull fracturs and burns. I hope that stupid babysitter gets what's coming to her. I really do. If I were the mother... well... it wouldn't be pretty.
Read the whole story here.
28 comments :
- Jenn said...
I linked to this last night, I just don't get how some people can do the things they do and think there is nothing wrong with the weird sick thing they are doing!
If I was the mom or even that stupid girl's mom she would be praying the police got her before I did !
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 9:17:00 AM MST
- Kathyb1960 said...
OH MY GOSH! How stupid can you be! What are these people thinking? They're not, that's the problem! I bet it's a case of how young kids don't think about the consequences of their actions.
Remember that story last year about the stupid man who put the baby in the microwave? Oh gads! That was really sick!
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 9:29:00 AM MST
- mom2natnkatncj said...
OMG, that's horrifying. Maybe someone needs to put that woman in the dryer and turn it on so she can get an idea of what that poor defenseless little baby felt like. Just sickening.
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 9:30:00 AM MST
- My Opposite Boys said...
Thanks for making me cry...again! I sometimes think I shouldn't read your blog anymore because sometimes it's just too sad...CANCER SUCKS. Guess who will NOT be hiring a babysitter, EVER!?
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 9:51:00 AM MST
- sherry said...
I loved at the end of the story that her lawyer declined comment. What could the person say??? You know he/she probably thought the babysitter had lost her mind.
Unfortunately there are too many people in this world just like her!
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 9:59:00 AM MST
This story is the epitome of ignorance! Did she not KNOW that tossing a baby at all(let alone in a dryer) is DANGEROUS. This girl is NINETEEN,not a little girl. But obviously one that has not had the parental guidance needed to babysit or to have children of her own for that matter!!! One of the worst I've heard lately. Maybe it will draw attention to the training & guidance needed to be around children. Thanks for sharing Renee...an eye opener for us all.
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 10:35:00 AM MST
- Mary said...
That is just so sick!!! I agree... if I were a mother... wll there probably wouldn't be a dryer big enough for her but I'd find one!
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 11:07:00 AM MST
- Courtney said...
I don't know what to say....except for stories like this make me thankful I am not God. I am SURE I wouldn't be as forgiving as he would be....WOW~!
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 11:18:00 AM MST
- Amanda said...
That is just sad....I hardly ever leave the kids with anyone...but we can't trust anyone either these days...
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 11:21:00 AM MST
WTF!!!???!!! Are you kidding me?!?! I am at a loss for words other than what I said. What is wrong with people? OMG!!!!
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 11:51:00 AM MST
WTF!!!???!!! Are you kidding me?!?! I am at a loss for words other than what I said. What is wrong with people? OMG!!!!
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 11:51:00 AM MST
- Holly Aytes said...
I don't understand some people! Seriously what the HECK was she thinking. It is a good thing I am not the mother either! What is our world coming too? It isn't a pretty picture on so many levels!
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 11:52:00 AM MST
- Shari said...
OMG! It seems like people are getting sicker by the minute in their minds. What is our world coming to? She wouldn't be standing upright if she did that to my kids! In March of last year a babysitter couldn't get a little girl to stop crying. She punched her in the head then took her by the feet and swung her head into a door frame twice breaking her skull in two places and now she permanently damaged. She is 1 year old now and like a two-month old.
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 12:59:00 PM MST
- Carol VR said...
19 years old... despite the age of the sitter... I still can't fathom anyone thinking that was a good idea.
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 1:22:00 PM MST
- wvamom said...
Oh my goodness--what is wrong with people like this? In WV (our state) last week a couple babysitting a 3 year old was charged with killing him by giving him methadone--even though it came from a prescription bottle they said they thought it was cough medicine or decongestant and they were trying to help him sleep. Unbelievable.
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 1:22:00 PM MST
- Violet said...
I'm in tears and SICK to my stomach! I just don't get it. When I was 7 I had a babysitter who did unmentionable thing to me and my sister. I vowed I would be THE BEST babysitter I could be. I'm not perfect, but I pray always that parents will no I'm a safe person to leave their children with. I have families I've babysatt for, for 10 years, and I never want to stop. I love those kids SO much, they are like little nieces and nephews.
Not all babysitters are sick and twisted. I don't have kids yet so I don't truly know but, I think I love them just as much as I would love my own. I praise God when a parent leaves their kid with me without really even knowing me. I thank God it was me, and that the child is safe. It's happened a few times. A friend of a friend of a friend says they know someone, and give them my number. I hope this babysitter is punished severely. I am praying for that mother too!!!
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 2:44:00 PM MST
- momof4as said...
Ughh... just ugh. Praying for the children's family.
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 3:41:00 PM MST
- little.birdy said...
Wait, she did what? What? TURNED IT ON? Wh...O_o
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 4:49:00 PM MST
- rebecca said...
This story made me sick to my stomach.
There's a local teen girl here my daughter knows who lost her son after the father shook him. SBS.
So awful...
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 7:48:00 PM MST
- Christine said...
Just sickening!
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 9:39:00 PM MST
- Krazy Armstrong K's! said...
omg this is horrible! I dont want to read the whole story, so sad!
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 9:51:00 PM MST
- Theresa said...
That's why I can't follow the news. I live in a bubble...the Disney channel/Food Network bubble.
People like that... (well I have a few choice words for them but I know this is a G-rated blog.)
- Monday, January 12, 2009 at 4:08:00 AM MST
- Michelle said...
OMG! That is just unbelievable! It just makes me physically sick. That poor mom. I'm afraid if I were her the crazy Puerto Rican would not be able to be surpressed!!
- Monday, January 12, 2009 at 11:28:00 AM MST
- JennyH said...
That is sick. I am off to read the article now.
- Monday, January 12, 2009 at 1:44:00 PM MST
- My Three Sons said...
That is so sad. I cannot understand people anymore. I have given up trying to even reason with them. My heart goes out to that poor mother who lost her angel.
- Monday, January 12, 2009 at 3:34:00 PM MST
- AlaneM said...
I don't even have words that is SO bad!
- Monday, January 12, 2009 at 4:20:00 PM MST
- God's Rock Angel said...
In the dryer?!?!?! 5 months old?!?!
When I'm babysitting I'm too busy worrying that I'm doing the wrong thing or something. If there's a problem I call the parent of the child I'm babysitting or I call my Mum and ask her what she'd do (she's clever like that hehe)
My friend says that if her daughter starts crying I'm to leave her for like 10 minutes if she's still going then I should check on her to make sure she's not hurt herself then leave her again to see if she settles.
One time I babysat she wouldn't stop crying so we parked in front of the TV and watched dancing with the stars - that calmed her down then I put her down again and she was fine!
- Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:46:00 AM MST
- Rachel said...
Holy Crap this made me vomit!
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The Pequot Lakes junior varsity boys' basketball team defeated Deer River 67-48 on Thursday, Nov. 30.
The Patriots grabbed an early 16-6 lead. Jackson Goerges later hit a 10-foot shot and a three-pointer to make it 31-22 at the break. Brandon Hehir scored eight of the first 10 points of the second half to expand the lead to 41-27.
"I thought we really played well for our first game," said Pequot Lakes coach Brian Lempola. "We shot well, and our two freshmen (C.J. Borleis and Hunter Larson) did a real good job for their first JV action."
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The Pequot Lakes seventh-grade team was defeated by Deer River by three points while the eighth-graders lost by two points.
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Against Pierz, the Patriots trailed 22-21 at intermission before coming back to outscore the hosts 30-22 in the second half. Pequot Lakes trailed 26-25 in the second half before going on a 14-5 run. Morgan Lohmiller's three-point basket gave the Patriots a 39-31 lead.
"We turned the ball over too many times, and we missed too many easy shots," said Pequot Lakes coach Kate Dale, "but we did make a nice run to get the lead, and we were able to hold it."
Kelsey Hart led the Patriots with 10 points while Emilee Buell and Jessica Faacks each had nine, Hailey Wiebolt had six, Lohmiller five, and Alex Nelson and Laura Squires each had four.
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Bear with me on one of my sillier DIY posts. This is how I turned a cheap cat bed into a superior cat hammock.
Cats are so fickle. I buy inexpensive cat stuff just in case they are deemed uncool by our picky pets. Sometimes the strategy backfires when the cheap buy becomes a favorite and then doesn't hold up.
Here's the perfect example. This particular cat bed happens to be something Pixel loves. She lays across the top panel using it as a hammock all the time.
She used it so much that the poorly constructed piece began to fall apart. You can see in the above photo how silly she looked sitting in the broken bed in different positions. I decided I needed fix it up for her.
Neither cat ever used the bottom portion as a bed so I got rid of it yo make a proper cat hammock.
The old bed fell apart at the seams, so instead of having a seam right at the frame joint my plan was to make the whole hammock from one continuous piece of fabric.
With a black frame, I bought purple fabric to match our Great Room. I lucked out at Joann's and found a perfectly sized remnant of purple polyester for a couple bucks.
My Cat Hammock Materials List
- Less than a yard of purple heavy weight polyester or nylon
- Matching thread
- Sewing machine
- Straight pins
- Scissors
- Straight edge
- Newspaper
- Pencil and sharpie
- Iron on low setting
With all my materials ready, I removed the old bed from the frame and use it as a rough pattern for the new hammock.
Using a piece of newspaper, I sketched out the shape with pencil. Then I used a straightedge and pen to make exact lines for my pattern and cut it out.
I ironed all the kinks and wrinkles out of the fabric before I pinned it to the pattern.
Then I cut about an inch out from the actual pattern piece for my seam allowance.
The polyester has a tendency to fray so I folded all my seams twice (1/4″ each) to enclose the raw edge. I worked slowly around the entire piece first pressing the edge with my iron then securing it with straight pens.
When it was all pinned, I sewed my seam slowly. (I always make mistakes if I go to fast.) Then I went back and pressed the seam again with the iron.
Since the frame pulls apart really easily, I decided to sew permanent closures, but I could have also used Velcro or snaps to attach the hammock to the frame.
I used the frame as a guide to figure out how much clearance I needed. Then folded over each end and sewed it to create a channel for the frame to fit through.
Installation was a cinch. I just took apart the frame and slid the hammock on then reattached the frame. Here's the finished piece I presented it to Pixel. She gave it a sniff before walking away and ignored it. Such a fickle cat! I waited on eggshells to see if she would use it.
Days later, I came home from work to find her lounging in the hammock. Her actions showed the project was a success. Pixel has a cool place to spend her afternoons and I feel like a proud cat mama.
I know this project would be hard to do without the frame, but I bet you could use a milk crate like this or this instead with Velcro or snaps closures.
Who knows, maybe I'll try it myself if we need a second cat hammock in the house.


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