Fescue wrote “To talk about ‘4 percent of nameplate capacity’ is grossly misleading and, in fact, makes no sense.” Well it makes sense to AESO engineers and market analysts because that is exactly how they describe output for generation assets. To quote AESO from a recently weekly market, “Hourly wind generation averaged 125 MW over the week resulting in an average capacity factor of 8.7%, down from the previous week’s capacity factor of 17.3%.” All public data and available here: http://ets.aeso.ca/

Sonoco Alcore is part of the international group Sonoco Products Company, one of the largest diversified global providers of a variety of consumer packaging, industrial products, protective packaging and displays and packaging supply chain services.

Serious Head Injury on ABC’s Castle Employer: ABC Studios, Aka Castle/ABC Studios, Los Angeles At approximately 2:22 a.m. on January 18, 2013, an incident occurred when Employee #1, a stuntman, was to perform a stunt involving the kidnapping of another person. The stunt was performed at a street on the back lot of a television studio. The stunt involved the carrying of another coworker into the open sliding door of a stopped cargo van. The van door was to begin to close and the van was to drive out of camera view. During the first filming of the scene, the stuntman carried the other actor into the van. The van door was latched closed and the van accelerated out of the scene while turning to the left. On the second “take” the door was not closed prior to the movement of the van. Employee #1 thrown out of the right side sliding van door. Employee #1 sustained serious head injuries when his head struck the pavement. Employee #1 was taken to a local area hospital, where surgery was performed due to his injuries from the accident.

Yes. I’d say, Steve, going forward, as we move even more of the revenue base on that, it definitely is a lower cost to serve. It’s a natural for us where we have over half our revenues with major customers that understand the efficiency of e-commerce. So we have multiyear MRO contracts with them. They have cross-referenced parts. We have pricing established. The terms and condition all established. So it really lends itself to the ease for them to order in their system, cross-reference to our catalog and places the order into our system very seamlessly. So it’s part of our model. We’ll deal with them, all of our customers at a transactional basis and the branches if that’s the preferred, we’ll do the multi-year contracts and large purchases for them. And we’ll also offer, with the items we have in stock for them and for their contract, really easy way for them to do business with us through the catalog. So I think it’s a trend that’s going to continue and we are investing to even enhance that better as I mentioned. So I think that is a growing part of our business mix.

Obesity! Nobody is accredited with the wisdom to look at agriculture soils,(A/S)it is the medium/catalyst,( no pun!),of our life forces nutrition creativity.Tragically,A/S are an abomination to the entire plant food chain,even before the food processors ad their mischief to it.My 40 years employ in dairy industry field services division, provided engagement with some of the greatest visionary minds on the planet, re soils-plants- livestock-human interconnect, life forces full compliment of balanced nutrition abundance.This brilliant, creative, perfect in fact, principle, has been completely annihilated,by a totally monetized economy. The focus, tonnes/bushels, litres/weight gains,etc,massive production/productivity increases exponentially, in the absence of correctly accredited maintenance, of wholesome balanced nutrition credentials.Results, critical deficiencies, of essential mineral, vitamin, true protein balanced nutrition,= malnutrition on a massive scale,( the bellies are full, but the minds are crying out for the essential life forces eg’ perpetual hunger! True beautiful creative nature, mineral and sweetness are synonymous as one, a complete unit of nutrition.Sugars/carbohydrates, are omnipresent/ubiquitous,shoveled down, like there is no tomorrow.-Rampant/unbridled obesity.feeds the ever expanding health/infrastructure/services and prisons,at a terrifying drain on our national G.N.P.unsustainable,(Ignorance is a terrible burden on such a scale!).Norman Bourlag’s,distortions of the main staple, wheat,back during the green revolution, his work, re hybridizing various varieties, increased total yields, ten fold, a staggering outcome,"they said", we can now feed the growing masses,& honored Norman with a Nobel prize. Recently, it was revealed,wheat products from these original strains,are "blessed", with two, very negative characteristics,#1 stimulates appetite, 2,opiate receptors engage addiction to wheat products/derivatives.Another challenge for weight watchers,me thinks!.I have copies reports in my files, of studies conducted on a large variety of vegetables, fruits and meat cuts, across the northern hemisphere, from 1941-1990,demonstrating significant decline of the main essential minerals required for health abundance.The same could be demonstrated here in Australia also,I continue to do refractive index/brix test analysis on several fresh vegetables,fruits and milk, almost without exception, results are in the poor-low range, indicative of chronic mineral, vitamin and true protein deficiencies. Kind Regards,Noel Stratford,Mount Gambier, SA.

“And so I kind of saw that as a silver bullet. It’s not exactly a silver bullet, but I would say it’s as close to one as we could have gotten,” he said.

Gong nods. He does not seem to care very much about the prospect of reunifying little, “backward” Kinmen, as he recalls it. But he acknowledges, when I bring it up, that the spirit of chuanghai, or bold taking of the seas, cannot allow Kinmen to remain as it is forever. China, as Gong goes on to describe it, sounds like Gulliver on Lilliput: a giant in chains. Taiwan is referred to as part of the “first island chain” that binds China. If Taiwan proper is part of the first chain, one thinks, what is Kinmen, which is visible from the highway just outside?

Aquatherm pipe in place at Windsor Over Peachtree. Its virtually leak-free performance impressed the installing contractor.

Laughter on the 23rd Floor focuses on Neil Simon’s own early career experience as a junior writer of Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows” and “Caesar’s Hour “ and provides an intimate look of the cackles and chaos behind the scenes of writing and producing a hit comedy show during the 1950’s golden age of television.

St. Patrick’s Day weekend starts at Larkin Square! Live music by McCarthyizm, Crikwater, and Greater Buffalo Firefighters Pipes and Drums, plus Irish dancing with Clann Na Cara Irish Dance. Food trucks, craft beer, hot beverages and Irish fare from The Filling Station. Free to attend thanks to KeyBank and Independent Health!

“We have completely stopped the talks with Ansteel on a merger,” Chen Jizhuang, chairman of Benxi Steel, told Reuters on the sidelines of the country’s annual parliament congress. He did not elaborate.

Worker’s Legs Crushed by Falling Equipment on Pirates of the Caribbean III Employer: Second Mate Productions Inc., Los Angeles On October 3, 2006, Employee #1 was a prop maker and welder for the makers of the “Pirates of the Caribbean III” movie. He was working on a structure intended to be used underwater as a supporting stand. It weighed 4,700 lbs and was constructed from I- beams. The structure was being raised to weld the underside. It was rigged with 2 3-ft polyester slings attached to the ends of an 8 ft 4 in. steel spreader bar, which weighed 100 lbs. The slings were placed through Crosby screw-pin shackles that were rated for 3.25 tons and attached to the spreader bar. The spreader bar was attached to an 18-in. long polyester sling and slung over one fork of a JLG Telehandler, Model Number G10-55A, forklift. The slings were manufactured by Olympic Synthetic Products, Incorporated. The rated capacity of each sling was 5,300 lbs. The structure had been lifted twice. On the third lift, the top sling broke and the structure fell injuring Employee #1. He was hospitalized for multiple fractures of both legs and feet.