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As they paddled the woman toward the Harbor Patrol boat, Taijeron saw a wave coming.
"This wave is cresting, breaking right in our faces," Taijeron said. "The last thing we want to do is lose this girl in the water. It would have been a catastrophe."
But they got the victim on top of the wave.
"We got lucky," Harrison said. "We just got over that crest. We had about two seconds."
When they got the woman safely on deck, they had to swim back to retrieve the man. His rescue was easier because he wasn't injured. He could swim.
They were able to get both victims to the boat safely. The boat went Code 3 – lights and sirens – which is an unusual occurrence on a Saturday night at Inspiration Point.
They saw O'Rourke, the first lifeguard to reach her, come limping out of the water. They couldn't praise him and the other lifeguards enough.
Then Harrison and Novak transported the woman to the Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach.
Suppe, who is a probationary firefighter, asked Taijeron, "Do we do stuff like this often?"
"This one," Taijeron said with a smile, "is pretty rare."
Sunday, the firefighters took a break from training at Station 7 in Newport Beach to talk about their rescue and explain how it's all part of the job. Still, they were smiling proudly. They raided the refrigerator and took out a few Gatorades to celebrate. They compared this rescue with others in their careers. Suppe, the newbie, listened and laughed.
But Harrison was quick to point out what the injured woman said when she finally got to the boat.
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14CSP001 - PCL - Re-Bid of New Addressable Fire Alarm System
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The abbreviated Summary of Work is as follows:
Re-Bid of New Addressable Fire Alarm System: Replace existing fire alarm system in PCL building with new addressable system. Work shall include all fire alarm devices, panels and interconnections for a new and fully complete system. Provide subsequent demolition of existing fire alarm system. Coordinate with Owner's requirements for change-over of existing to new systems at PCL. Provide support of 3rd party commissioning, Owner's testing & training, and documentation as per University's requirements.
The general Construction Budget for the project is approximately: $630,000.00 to $714,000.00.
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Perry Casteneda Library (PCL)
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- Pre-Proposal Conference Date: September 10, 2013 Time: 2:00 P.M.
- Notice to Proposers Out: September 3, 2013
- Specifications and Plans Available on or about: September 5, 2013
- Envelope #1 Date: September 24, 2013 Time: 11:00 A.M.
- Envelopes #2 and # 3 and Public Response Acknowledgement Date: September 25, 2013 Time: 11:00 A.M.
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Montreal Canadiens defender P.K. Subban isn't sharing details regarding the state of contract negotiation between his camp (he's represented by Don Meehan of Newport Sports Agency), and the Canadiens. In this case, no news is probably good news for Habs fans, even if it's bad news for pageview hungry hockey bloggers.
Subban did reveal that negotiations are being kept intentionally quiet, after adding earlier in the week that he hopes to be a "lifer" with the Canadiens. Taken as a whole, it sure seems unlikely that Subban's salary for next season and beyond will be decided by the award of an arbitrator.
Subban's salary arbitration hearing is scheduled for Friday, August 1; and the two sides have to exchange "briefs" no less than 48 hours beforehand (or, on Wednesday morning). Those briefs will include Montreal's term election (two-years is kind of a no-brainer) as well as the figure each side is seeking from the arbitrator. I'll be very curious to see if negotiations last that long, because if they do, we'll get more details about how the two sides see Subban's value when those salary arbitration award targets leak.
One guy who is reportedly poised to actually go through the arbitration process is Florida Panthers forward Jimmy Hayes. The mammoth 24-year-old forward showed some touch at the net front last season, scoring 11 goals and adding 7 assists in 55 appearances split between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Panthers.
Despite the latest news about the Panthers and Hayes being far enough apart that an arbitration hearing might be warranted, I'd be pretty surprised if it occurred. As far as I can tell, the last player to actually go through with an arbitration hearing might have been Shea Weber (certainly all 15 cases settled a year ago, and all 16 the year before that, and even Vladimir Sobotka is listed as a "settlement" on the NHLPA website so 16 of 23 scheduled hearings have been settled this summer, too).
Salary arbitration hearings appear to be like offer sheets, they just don't seem to happen anymore.
Derick Brassard and the New York Rangers have 'exchanged briefs' ahead of their scheduled salary arbitration hearing, which is set to take place on Monday morning in Toronto. The two sides are over a $1 million apart in their award targets, with Brassard seeking just under $5 million and the Rangers countering with just under $4.
I have a lot of optimism for Brassard and think he's more than capable of filling Brad Richards' top-six spot for the Rangers next season, I also think this one is a slam-dunk to get settled before Monday's hearing. Brassard is too good, the Rangers have too much space after locking up Mats Zuccarello and Chris Kreider on the cheap last week, centermen are at too big a premium to risk alienating, and that $1 million gap just doesn't seem insurmountable.
The Ottawa Senators are poised to begin negotiating potential contract extensions with capable forwards like Bobby Ryan and Clarke MacArthur, according to assistant general manager Pierre Dorion. It'll be fascinating to see how these negotiations turn out, in particular since the Senators have seen a steady outflow of star talent in recent seasons (Jason Spezza and Daniel Alfredsson). Can the Senators reverse the recent trend, and prove that they're able to retain star-level talent this time around (with Bobby Ryan in particular)? I have my doubts...
The Leafs avoided salary arbitration with James Reimer this week, so the attention will now turn to their last remaining NHL-level restricted free agent Jake Gardiner. Maple Leafs general manager (but for how long?) Dave Nonis doesn't seem to think it'll be too difficult to negotiate a contract with the fast defender.
What may prove more difficult is convincing Maple Leafs head coach (but for how long?) Randy Carlyle to use Gardiner more suitably - in particular allowing him a longer leash to freelance a bit and carry the puck through the neutral zone, though ladling out more minutes to Gardiner is probably a good call too.
Of the 13 skaters that Gardiner has spent more than 300 even-strength minutes with in his career, 10 have done better by shot attempt differential with the American-born puck-mover on the ice, than they've done without him (and one of the exceptions in Luke Schenn so...). Basically Gardiner is really good at something the Maple Leafs - as a team - have not been in the Carlyle-era.
One of Gardiner's most interesting "with or without you" splits is with Maple Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf. The two offensive-minded blue-liners have shared the ice as a pairing at five-on-five for a total 304 minutes and 52 seconds since 2010-11. In those minutes, the Maple Leafs have outscored their opponents, while controlling 53 percent of shot attempts.
It's a miniscule sample, but I'd still imagine it's worth giving Phaneuf and Gardiner an extended shot as a specialized pairing - one that gets fed offensive-zone starts and secondary competition - this upcoming season.
One team that has issue retaining and attracting star level talent? The Chicago Blackhawks. Newly signed Blackhawks center Brad Richards said this weekend that half the league would play for the Blackhawks were it not for a salary cap. I'd perhaps formulate that thought a bit differently, while thinking of Andrew Ladd, Brian Campbell and Dustin Byfuglien among others: nearly half the league actually *has* played for the Blackhawks because of the salary cap.
Here's a "thing fantasy owners should want to be aware of," new Carolina Hurricanes
coach Bill Peters discussed some of his ideas for power-play units at length this weekend. In particular, Peters suggested putting Alex Semin on the right point and playing sophomore forward Elias Lindholm up front with Jeff Skinner and Eric Staal on the Hurricanes' first power-play unit. One of Justin Faulk or Ryan Murphy would, according to Peters, fill out the five-man unit by occupying the left point.
What a coach says in July obviously isn't gospel, but if Lindholm - who didn't do much in his rookie season, really (though he crushed the U20 tournament) - logs first unit power-play minutes this upcoming season, that could make him an intriguing fantasy sleeper.
Finally, I'm not sure if I'll be able to make it (I work the night shift Tuesday, so if I can make it, I'll have to show up pretty late) but there's a Dobber Hockey event happening this Tuesday night in the Toronto area. Details here.
But yes, it is free so I guess there should be absolutely no standards.
7 out of 8 links today are to the Score, glad to see Drance's laziness continues through the weekend.
Well said. These score articles are always old news, no need to promote them.


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Rohit Shetty's signature style doesn't change with the genre. So you know what to expect with "Bol Bachchan".
There is little room for doubt or indecision when it comes to a Rohit Shetty film: you either like his directorial style or you don't. Judging by the Rs.100 crore-and-more collections of his last two movies — "Singham" (2011) and "Golmaal 3" (2010) — most Indians like it. If you're one of them, perhaps you won't read any further because you know exactly what you're looking for, and will get.
Movie after movie Shetty delivers with a signature that doesn't change with the genre. Comedy or action, he has patented an unpretentiously, unambiguously populist style that is over-the-top in every which way (including, yes, revenues).
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By Olivier Vergnault Schools should not bring in external "super heads" to sort out their problems, but look within, a Westcountry academic has claimed.
"OPEN defiance and unacceptable language" greeted a school inspector during an assessment of a Bradford secondary school, it was revealed yesterday. Queensbury High School in Deanstones Lane has been placed in special measures after being judged to be failing its pupils.
By HANNAH TAYLOR Priory Primary School has been described as a "satisfactory and rapidly improving school" in its latest Ofsted report.
By Roger Decanio IN ORDER for West Virginia to attract the high-tech jobs of the 21st century, we must have a well-trained work force. The key to that is education.
Bilingual pupils from eight Gloucestershire secondary schools had a fantastic time at a citizenship day. The event, at Dean Close School, Chelten- ham, brought 50 youngsters from all over the world together to celebrate language and diversity while helping to teach them how to support each other.
By Dan Charles More than 20 pupils have walked away with awards at St Peter's High School annual end of year mass. Headteacher at the Tuffley school Lawrence Montagu said that the ceremony was a great way of recognising the pupils' talents. "It is a celebration what our young pupils are achieving.
Bilingual pupils from eight Gloucestershire secondary schools had a fantastic time at this year's citizenship day. The event at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, brought 50 youngsters together to celebrate language, diversity, commonality, while helping to teach them how to support each other.
By Marc Lourdes KUALA LUMPUR: A pilot project will be launched in 720 schools next month to fine-tune school safety standards before they are introduced in all schools.
Teachers, support staff and school administrators in the South Butler County School District will return to the bargaining table Thursday for the first time since the state-supervised fact-finding process failed in May.
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In the demo site the menu is not responsive, i just checked on the iphone. only first 3 or 4 menu links are visible.
Hi rakesh1974,
Use touch scroll on your device, for menu use scroll left and right touch. And do not mislead others with this commentary.
1) I am getting main top included in all the subsequent pages (the 3 packages) how do i remove that? 2) the comment form(leave a reply) is still visible on all the inner pages even after installing the plugin and disable it by clicking on the green icon which is red now.
Pl let me know
Hi chetan2012,
Check email
I just checked the theme on my iphone, and it is not responsive?! I might purchase, but I have to know the problem first.
Great theme
Hey is it possible to get the XML file so that I can make my site look similar to your demo and then edit everything from there?
Please email it to jon@ affcrusher.com
Hi jswebco,Do not quite understand your question. For quick help use support forum or request via my page
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Any possible chance of support here? Hell I bought the damn site and asked for the demo XML three days ago…
Please respond to my support request. I think I have been more than patient here.
Thanks, Jonathan
Hi jswebco,
Gantry Framework doesn't support demo xml for demo data, use quick start.
HALLOOO ! How do I show a favicon on this theme.. I asked 3 questions, and did not get an answer on any of them.
Really not a great support on this theme..
Hi Nannamh90,
I apologize, but due to technical problems, technical support not seen your emails.
Upload your favicon in the folder template.
What do you mean with Upload your favicon in the folder template.
Where is that folder?
Hi Nannamh90,
Try to upload your favicon.ico in the folder /wp-content/themes/wp_template-name/
It dosn't work It dosn't show any favicon
where can i find the boxes with you displayed the bronze, silver, gold packages please?
me no so good with web – how u make theme look like sample theme. me thought me buying that. cant turn on menus
i would like to see a demo of this site but unable to due to your demo site is down
Hi VisionSmart
Now demo available, you can check.
I really like this theme but I don't find settings to slow down the homepage slider… the slider like the one in your demo site.
After 5 secs it goes to the next slide, but I need 10 secs.
I looked for it for long time, but no results.
Can you help me?
Hi thiella,
You need change for Sequence Image Slider or Nivo Slider?
This one in homepage: http://www.centralino-cloud.it/ , I think is Image Slider…
I get a parse error when running the install script. An Idea of what this could be?
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LUSH Butterball Bath Bomb
338 reviews
84% would repurchase
Package Quality: 3.7
Price: $$$
Package Quality: 3.7
Price: $$$
on 7/12/2010 3:39:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
Its great! So moisturizing, my skin feels like silk after I get out. Great for all you dry skin girls, like me :). Also, a great bath bomb to use in on winter skin. My one issue is there is barely any fragrance (especially compare to other bath bombs), but i usually use a bubble bar or another bath treatment with it so its not a big issue.
on 7/1/2010 9:40:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Blue
This is seriously awesome! It moisturises my skin, doesn't leave any film or glitter on me and smells delicious (like vanilla.) There are cheaper products around but for quality and effectiveness I'll choose this every time I need a bath bomb.
on 6/23/2010 1:02:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Other, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
my favourite bath product ever! no, it doesn't have any fancy colours or confetti (a plus for me, a minus for others), but it leaves my skin feeling SO amazingly soft and it smells amazing. i have repurchased this many times and will continue to do so in the future.
on 5/28/2010 2:48:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I loved this bathbomb! It made my dry skin super soft. The only problem is that it is kind of on the expensive side.
on 5/24/2010 10:31:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool
Hair: Red, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Green
This was lovely! The scent is delish and it lasts throughout the bath. I loved how moisturzing the water became and I felt nice and silky by the time I stepped out of the bath. The only thing I would change about this is I would add some color - I like my bath water to turn colors, just for fun... but it won't stop me from buying Butterball again.
on 5/23/2010 12:53:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Hazel
Meh. That is pretty much my thoughts on Butterball Bath Bomb by LUSH. It smelled super yummy (both in the packaging and in the bathtub), but overall I think that I personally like the bubble bars better.
After dropping this bad boy into the bathtub it fizzed exactly like I expected it to and I did like how it floated near the surface of the water so I could see it in action. I liked the little chunks of cocoa butter as it fizzed away as they were super soft; I just wish it had lasted longer... total time for me from dropping it in until it was completely dissolved was 5 minutes tops.
There was also some yellow stuff floating near the foot of my tub as well which was a little weird but thankfully the jets kept it down there! (:
I would repurchase again for the fact that it smells delicious and it a bit moisturizing but I simply prefer some other LUSH products over this one.
on 5/12/2010 2:02:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Oily, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I had my first Butterball today and really like how you don't have to put on lotion after you use it. The scent was not too strong and frizzed quickly. It left my skin soft and pampered. Sadly it did leave a greasy mess in my tub like all of the the other bombs do. This is one of the cheaper of the all of LUSH's BB and a nice product for a little cheaper price.
on 5/10/2010 4:56:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I love LUSH products and I was thrilled to try out a bath bomb by them. I picked Butterball because I liked the idea of a moisturizing bath. Sadly, I was a bit disappointed. I loved the fizzing, it lasted for about five minutes and was fun to watch. As it was deteriorating little yellow pieces came off from it, which looked a bit gross, but I guess it was the shea butter. When it finished the water just looked a bit dirty with yellow pieces, which I didn't like. The bath was moisturizing, but nothing that really stood out to me. For me, the best part of this bath bomb was the smell. I will not repurchase, but will try other LUSH bath bombs in the future :)
on 3/18/2010 2:39:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
With most Lush bath bombs, I find that the PH is off and they leave my skin feeling very dry and itchy. But I like butterball.
Smells nice, i cant describe what it's supposed to smell like, but it's nice and not too strong.
Neutral PH
Shea butter is not greasy, However, when it melts in the bath water it forms a very viscous, greasy film. I really like bath oils, But I dont really like the cloying texture of the shea butter when it melts. But once you get out of the bath and towel off and cool down, the shea butter solidifies aging and the greasiness goes away.
on 3/18/2010 1:55:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Dark, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
The Good
Nice smell: This is one great smelling bath bomb. The scent is a combination of vanilla and ylang ylang. Even before plunging it into the tub I could smell it. But once it started melting, the delicious scents began dancing throughout my room and the scent stayed with me the entire day.
Moisturizing: With slivers of cocoa butter, I wasn't surprised at how soft this bath bomb made my skin feel after. It was smooth and silken and felt as if I had moisturized with an expensive skin lotion. I was impressed at how soft my skin felt after.
Long lasting: The scent and the effects of the butterball bath bomb are long lasting. I used it around 11 in the morning, and even as I dozed off late at night, I could still smell it and my skin felt just as soft. However, if you don't like the smell of the butterball, then this could be an irritating factor since you're stuck with the scent for the entire day.
The Bad
Leaves tub residue: I disliked the mess this bath bomb made in my tub after. While not as messy as some of lush's other bath bombs it did leave a greasy tub residue that was hard to clean off. If you clean your tub right away, you might not have a huge clean up but if you let it sit it will harden, forcing you to apply some elbow grease.
Greasy: The grease wasn't simply on my tub, but my skin also. I don't have a problem with greasy lotions but this one has quite a bit of cocoa butter that is a greasy and a little messy when first being released. You have to smooth it on like you would lotion.
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Around the country, apples are a sure sign of autumn! From pies and cobblers, to crisps and sauces, apples can be used for such a wide variety of purposes that sometimes, simplicity is best. Baking apples can be one of the simplest, most rewarding (and healthy!) desserts on a crisp autumn night, but it's no surprise that some choices are better than others. In general, I select from the following:
Granny Smith - green & tart, the most popular baking apple
Gala - red and gold striped with a sweet flavor and definite crunch
Jonathan - dappled red color with a signature tartness and will hold its shape during baking
Of course, you can always ask your grocer or produce stand attendant which apples are best for stand-alone baking or throwing into a pie/crisp/cobbler, etc.! Here are 5 of my favorite baked apple recipes, including a few quite creative ideas!
Molasses Baked Apples with Cinnamon and Walnuts
All of autumn's finest flavors in one simple, elegant dessert.
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Using (gluten free) pie dough, make mini apple pies in muffin tins! If you're gluten free, be sure to use your favorite GF pie dough for this recipe.
Witch's Froth
A traditional Hungarian dessert that is similar to a mousse. Baked apples are pureed with rum, vanilla and egg whites* to form a rich, creamy dessert.
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Millennial Musings—Y2K
There are many folks who worry about planes falling out of the sky and civilization ending at 00:00:01 on January 1, 2000.
Of course, this is the date only for Western Christians. For Eastern Christians, the calendar is shifted by about two weeks. For Jews, it's about 240 years until the (next) millennium. For Moslems, it's also several centuries. So, the whole to-do seems both parochial and silly. Also, for computer folk, there's the realization that the calendar isn't a UNIX system: it doesn't begin with "0", so the second millennium must begin on January 1, 2001. (If you think there was a year 0 between 1 BC and 1 AD, this will be where you stop reading.)
However, there are problems, and they are worldwide. Why? Because over the past 50-odd years, chips and computers have become ubiquitous. Computers don't actually think very well. Unlike bookkeepers from the Italian Renaissance to the present, who used two-digit dates and had no problem computing interest for 1695 to 1705 when they wrote "95-05", computers don't really know how to handle "00."
Well, in most cases we just don't know. It appears that the overwhelming portion of the U.S. power grid has tested okay. But what if a very small supplier "trips" something? The grid folks assured those of us living in Manhattan in 1965 that a massive grid failure couldn't happen again. There was another less than a decade later. A few years ago, there was a cascading failure on the West Coast. So we really aren't sure what will happen.
On the other hand, there are myriad things each of us can test: kitchen and household appliances with date chips, for example. I tested my VCRs, setting the date to December 31, 1999. In the morning, one had the right time, one was blinking "00:00" at me.
Maybe my coffee maker won't go on, or my bread machine, or the VCR won't tape the nth episode of something. But none of these is necessary to my life.
I have confidence in the various phone companies, too. They have far too much at risk not to have checked things out. And I know that most electronic switching systems are Y2K safe.
Doors with time locks may not be. I don't know whether banks have checked the locks on their doors and their safes as rigorously as they have checked their accounting machinery. But I know the New York Stock Exchange is in good shape, as are the large brokerage houses.
If you're running UNIX, time doesn't run out for decades; well, at least into the 21st century for Linux. DOS 6 and earlier? Win95? You may be a victim. Windows 98? Well, according to Agence France Presse last February, the French Directorate for Competition and Prevention of Fraud (DGCCRF) showed that Windows 98 and Works 4.5 would be unable to recognize the year 2000. According to Marylise Lebranchu, the Minister for Small and Medium Businesses:
The DGCCRF carried out tests in mid-January on products which might not work after 2000 and we have proof that Works 4.5 and Windows 98 will not work. It is extraordinary that a company which is supposedly at the cutting edge of technology has sold products which will not work after 2000.
One of the design basics in the ARPANET, the sire of the Internet, was that it be both redundant and resilient. Today's Net, with over 50 million host machines and about 150 million users, is even more redundant. Many of us "live" on a frail branch, a mere twig, a single leaf. We depend upon an ISP—an enormous one like UUNET or a small one with perhaps 100 to 200 clients. Many of these smaller ISPs run older routers.
Go look at Cisco's site. All the routers currently sold are Y2K sound. Go back a couple of years: either all are sound, or there is free software available for download over the Net. If you go back five years, not only are the routers not Y2K-safe, they don't have enough memory to be upgraded.
So I worry that Internet users at some small twigs may lose their dial-up connections. I worry that some DNS caches may fail or be corrupted. Most of all, I worry about people's reactions to not being able to dial up, not being able to see the ball drop in Times Square from their desktops (as opposed to their TV sets), or not being able to exchange chat New Year's greetings.
If one looks at the Net statistics for hurricane Floyd last September, it's clear the usage spikes came after the hurricane passed: folks wanted to know "How bad was it?", "How's uncle Fred?", "Are you okay?"
So the big Y2K events may occur before noon in the continental U.S. on December 31. When it's midnight in Guam, it's 8 AM in New York and 5 AM in Silicon Valley. In the US, we'll have a lot of warning: from Tokyo, Melbourne, Singapore, etc., as the hour marches around the globe.
I don't think we should worry. There may be glitches and minor failures, but it won't be the end of the world. Penguins will survive.
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By James Slater: People are still trying to work out exactly what happened this past Saturday night in Munich, Germany when British heavyweights Dereck Chisora and David Haye wound up bringing the sport of boxing into disrepute by brawling at the Vitali Klitschko-Chisora post-fight press conference.
While the main subject right now is seemingly just what the appropriate punishment should be for both the license-holding Chisora and the non-license-holding retired Haye, some people are asking, was the whole thing staged. Just why a skirmish between Haye and Chisora would be staged is anyones guess (the idea that the brawl was put on to hype a future ring meeting between the two Londoners has to be ignored seeing how Hayes manager Adam Booth has said that his fighter has absolutely NO interest whatsoever in fighting Chisora) - but a new video, filmed from an angle that allows the viewer to see the main podium, has surfaced. And what is witnessed in this short video is sure to add further confusion to the whole ugly mess that went down five days ago..
We were told that WBC king Vitali was so disgusted with the actions of Haye that he almost instantly left the podium as the savage brawl erupted. Vitali and his brother Wladimir also said that both men brought the sport down and should be punished accordingly. However, the new video (at least I had never seen it before German promoter/manager Malte Muller-Michaelis kindly sent me a copy of the footage he himself obtained from a friend) shows Vitali acting like anything but a disgusted observer.
Check out the footage added to this article and you can clearly see Haye walk over to the podium, with Chisora still hollering he glassed me! and then shake hands with a smiling, apparently far from disgusted Vitali. Now, Im not sure what this means, but nobody (at least to the knowledge of both Mr. Michaelis and myself) has written about this. Was Vitali happy with the actions of Haye (and Chisora)? Why else the handshake and the big grin just seconds after what has been called one of the worst nights in boxing history?
Haye, remember, is a man Vitali says touched me personally and Haye is a man Vitali wants very much to punish and send to the dust (KO). It sure doesnt look like this in the newly acquired footage, does it?
Nobody is having a go at Vitali - or manager Bern Boente, who also smiles as Haye approaches the podium - and nobody is accusing either man of anything. But isnt it strange that a man who told anyone who would listen that he was disgusted with the shameful actions of Haye and Chisora would, seconds after the brawl had ended, smile and shake hands with one half of the trouble-making duo?
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Depicting a cluster of smokestacks, ducts, and pipes on an ocean liner, this drawing features the kinds of mechanical and industrial imagery embraced by Precisionist artists as icons of modern America. A style that arose in the 1920s, Precisionism was characterized by simplified geometric forms and an absence of human beings. Here George Copeland Ault cropped the view of the ship's machinery in order to focus attention on the aesthetic potential of his subject—the play of rounded and linear shapes and dark and light tones—rather than its practical function.
- Artist: George Copeland Ault, American, 1891-1948
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- Dates: 1924
- Dimensions: Sheet: 9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.2 cm) (show scale)
- Signature: Signed in graphite, upper left: "G.C. Ault '24."
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- Caption: George Copeland Ault (American, 1891-1948). Shipboard, 1924. Graphite on medium, cream, slightly textured, wove paper, Sheet: 9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Manhattan Art Investments, LP, 2007.46
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The transmission of control information from a base station to at least one mobile station in the cell of a cellular radio system takes place using a first channel and a second channel. At a first moment of time, there is an indication on the first channel about the location of the piece of control information on the second channel. At a second moment of time, later than said first moment, the piece of control information is transmitted on the second channel.
1. A method for transmitting a discrete piece of control information from a base station to at least one mobile station in the cell of a cellular radio system using a first channel and a second channel, comprising the steps of:
at a first moment of time, indicating on the first channel the exact location of the discrete piece of control information among all other pieces of information on the second channel, wherein the indicating step is performed on only one channel; and
at a second moment of time, later than said first moment, transmitting the discrete piece of control information on the second channel;
wherein the first channel is a broadcast control channel and the second channel is a traffic channel of point-to-point type, and the method further comprises the step of
between said first moment of time and said second moment of time, transmitting from a mobile station to the base station a request for transmitting the piece of control information.
2. A method for transmitting a discrete piece of control information from a base station to at least one mobile station in the cell of a cellular radio system using a first channel and a second channel, wherein the first channel is a broadcast control channel and the second channel is a traffic channel of point-to-point type, comprising the steps of:
at a first moment of time, indicating on the first channel the exact location of the discrete piece of control information among all other pieces of information on the second channel;
at a second moment of time, later than said first moment, transmitting the discrete piece of control information on the second channel; and
between said first moment of time and said second moment of time, transmitting from a mobile station to the base station a request for transmitting the piece of control information;
wherein the piece of control information is located at a network address of a packet-switched data network, whereby the base station conveys said request to said network address and the transmission of the piece of control information follows the establishment of a packet-switched communication connection from said network address to the mobile station.
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5. A method for receiving a discrete piece of control information from a base station at a mobile station in the cell of a cellular radio system using a first channel and a second channel, comprising the steps of:
at a first moment of time, receiving an indication on the first channel concerning the exact location of the discrete piece of control information among all other pieces of information on the second channel;
at a second moment of time, later than said first moment, receiving the discrete piece of control information on the second channel; and
between said first moment of time and said second moment of time, informing the user of the mobile station about the intended reception of a piece of control information at said second moment of time;
wherein said step of informing the user of the mobile station takes place as a response to an attempt by the user to power down the mobile station.
The invention concerns the technology of broadcasting an amount of general information to a multitude of radio receivers in a way that uses effectively the radio resources that are available. Especially the invention concerns the application of such technology in a cellular radio network.
In cellular networks there is commonly known the concept of cell broadcasting. It means that the base station of a cell transmits some information that is meant to be received by all mobile stations within the reach of the base station, or at least by a significant number of them. In a cell of a typical prior art cellular radio network there is determined a so-called common control channel or a BCCH (Broadcast Control Channel) that is receivable by all mobile stations in the cell. Although BCCH is a reserved name of a channel in a particular second generation cellular radio network (the GSM; Global System for Mobile telecommunications) it is used here as the general denomination of a common control channel without limiting the scope of the discussion to any particular system. The BCCH is used to convey information about e.g. the identity of the neighboring cells and their BCCH frequencies so that a mobile station may monitor the level of power it receives on those frequencies. A significant rise in the BCCH power level of a neighboring cell indicates that the mobile station is moving towards a position where a handover or cell reselection to the neighboring base station will be performed.
At the time of filing this patent application the third generation of cellular radio networks is under specification. Already it is seen that the amount of information that should be transmitted on a BCCH or the like will eventually be larger in the third generation systems than in the present second generation systems. For example, at a certain location there may be an overlap of cells from a macrocell RAN (Radio Access Network) and a nanocell RAN, whereby the mobile station should be informed not only about the identities of the neighboring cells but also about their characteristics (highest possible rate of transmitted user data, available modulation methods etc.) so that the mobile station could determine, which one of the neighboring and/or overlapping cells would be the best possible candidate for a handover or cell reselection.
A natural solution to handle the increasing amount of information to be broadcast is to increase the capacity of the BCCH by for example giving it more bandwidth or transmission power whereby in the latter case the applied channel coding could be reduced. However, radio resources (time, frequency, power) are scarce in a cell, so giving more capacity to a common channel reduces the capacity available for dedicated channels. Additionally the amount of information to be broadcast may vary from one cell to another, because not everywhere in the network are there numerous neighboring or overlapping cells, the characteristics of which should be transmitted. If a very large portion of the available capacity is given to the BCCH, it may happen that in many cells a significant portion of this capacity is underutilized while simultaneously some connection setup requests must be turned down because all capacity available for dedicated channels is occupied. Even in areas where there actually is a lot of BCCH information to be transmitted, some BCCH capacity should be reserved for future additions and this capacity would be underutilized everywhere at least during the initial service life of the system.
From the patent U.S. Pat. No. 4,850,033 there is known a method in which a transmission channel of each base station is assigned as a simplex message transmission channel in which a given base station transmits to the mobile stations information describing the structure of the control channels. Such information includes references to message transmission channels of adjoining base stations, and references to one or more control channels assigned to the given base station. The message transmission channels are thus at a higher level in the hierarchy of references than the control channels. Access by several different kinds of subscriber sets and different services can be provided by transmitting a relatively small number of references.
From the Finnish patent application number FI 980014 there is known a method in which the otherwise unused capacity of a paging channel is used to transmit information logically belonging to other channels. Since the mobile stations must listen to the paging channel regardless of whether there are paging messages or not, the periods during which their receivers are switched on can this way be utilized better than just for listening to an empty paging channel.
It is an object of this invention to present a method and a system for enabling the transmission of a variable amount of common control data in a cell. It is a further object of this invention that in a method and a system according to the invention, future additions to the common control arrangement would be possible without initially reserving significant capacity for them.
The objects of the invention are achieved by dividing the common control information into parts that are transmitted separately, and indicating, where the different parts can be found in the time and frequency co-ordinate system of the cell.
The method according to the invention is characterised in that it comprises the steps of
at a first moment of time, indicating on the first channel the location of the piece of control information on the second channel and
at a second moment of time, later than said first moment, transmitting the piece of control information on the second channel.
The general inventive idea of dividing the control channel information into parts that are separately available may be realized using two alternative approaches or a hybrid approach containing features from both of the two alternatives. The first alternative approach is to define a group of different information unit types, designated as Protocol Data Units or PDUs in an exemplary manner, and to set up a transmission schedule which relates the PDU types to certain frames of the control channel information. The most important PDU type will appear most often, preferably in each frame containing control channel information, and the other PDU types will appear in every second frame, every third frame or generally in every Nth frame according to PDU type, where N is an integer. The schedule of appearance of different PDU, types and the type of information contained within each PDU type will be communicated to the mobile stations, so they may decide, which PDU types they need to receive.
The second alternative is to send a part of the common control information on some other channel and indicating in a common control channel frame where among the other channels the additional common control information can be found. The information units contained within a common control channel frame and indicating the location of some other common control information are called pointers. The location indicated by a pointer may be for example in some traffic channel configured to be a point-to-multipoint channel. In an advantageous embodiment of the invention the pointer indicates not only the location but also the type of information contained within some other channel so that the mobile stations may decide, whether they need to receive the additional information or not.
A hybrid approach is to define a certain common control channel PDU type as a "pointer PDU" containing pointers, as in the second alternative discussed above, and including this PDU type among the other PDU types defined according to the first alternative discussed above. The pointer PDU will then appear regularly in every Mth common control channel frame, where M is an integer defined statically in the system specifications or dynamically, either by the base station transmitting the control channel information or by the radio network controller controlling the operation of the base station.
The novel features which are considered as characteristic of the invention are set forth in particular in the appended Claims. The invention itself, however, both as to its construction and its method of operation, together with additional objects and advantages thereof, will be best understood from the following description of specific embodiments when read in connection with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 illustrates a system according to the first alternative approach of the invention,
FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary schedule of PDU types in the system of FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 illustrates a system according to the second alternative approach of the invention,
FIG. 4 illustrates the contents of an exemplary pointer used in the system of FIG. 3,
FIG. 5 illustrates a system according to the hybrid approach of the invention,
FIG. 6a illustrates a first embodiment of the method according to the invention and
FIG. 6b illustrates a second embodiment of the method according to the invention.
In FIG. 1, base station (BS) 101 transmits control information to a multitude of mobile stations 102. The contents of the control information are not limited by the invention, but it is understood that it is by nature such information that a mobile station needs for operating in the cell of base station 101 and for preparing for a handover or a cell reselection to some neighboring and/or overlapping cell. Typical control information contains information giving identification of the current network, location area and cell; information used for candidate cell measurements for handover and cell reselection procedures; information describing the current control channel structure; information controlling the random access channel utilization; and information defining different options supported within the cell. In the following, control information in general is called BCCH data for brevity.
For conveying BCCH data from the base station to the mobile stations a control information channel 103 has been specified as occupying certain predetermined parts of the time and frequency co-ordinate system of the cell. If CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) or other spread spectrum technology is used in the cellular radio system, also the spreading code used to spread the control information must be used as a co-ordinate that defines the radio resources reserved for the control information channel. The control information channel is called the BCCH for short, although it should be understood that denominations like BCCH used in this patent application do not limit the applicability of the invention to any specific cellular radio systems.
BCCH data is arranged into mutually independent units called Protocol Data Units or PDUs 104. On the other hand, transmission in general is arranged to take place in transmission frames, the temporal duration of which is constant. According to the first alternative approach of the invention there are several PDU types, known as PDU type 1, PDU type 2 and so on, and the appearance of PDUs representing a certain PDU type follows a certain schedule with regard to the transmission frames. FIG. 2 is an exemplary schedule for PDU types 1, 2, 3 and 4. The frame numbers at the top of FIG. 2 are proportional so that in a certain predetermined overall frame structure like a superframe or hyperframe there can be defined a certain frame 1, frame 2 and so on until after frame 9 the numbering cycle is restarted from frame 1 until all the frames in the frame structure have been numbered. It can be seen from FIG. 2 that PDUs of type 1 appear in each frame, PDUs of type 2 appear in every third frame starting from frame 1, PDUs of type 3 appear only in odd-numbered frames and PDUs of type 4 appear only in frames 2 and 6.
For the method to be flexibly adaptable to different amounts of BCCH data, the schedule of appearance of different PDU types is not fixedly specified but it can vary from one cell to another. The information about which types of PDUs are transmitted and in which frames is communicated from the base station to the mobile stations by using a certain PDU known as the channel configuration PDU. Alternatively each PDU may contain an information element indicating the period of appearance of this PDU type in frames (when the PDU type appears periodically) or the proportional frame numbers in which this PDU type appears.
In those frames where different PDU types appear they are most advantageously transmitted in order of ascending frame type number, e.g. in frame 1 of FIG. 2 the PDUs are transmitted in the order of type 1 first, type 2 second and type 3 third. The rationale for arranging the PDUs into a well-known transmission order is to give the mobile stations the possibility of deciding beforehand, which PDUs they want to receive. Having the receiver switched on in a mobile station consumes energy depleting the battery of the mobile station, so it is advantageous to have the receiver of a mobile station switched off always when there is nothing important to be received.
The capacity reserved for the BCCH limits the number of PDUs that can be transmitted within each transmission frame. It is on the responsibility of the base station or the radio network controller controlling its operation to arrange the PDUs into the available capacity so that all BCCH data will eventually be transmitted. Typically in an area where there is a large amount of BCCH data to be transmitted the base station or radio network controller will increase the number of frames between successive transmissions of PDUs of certain type so that effective bit rate available for the transmission of the information conveyed in PDUs of that type will be lower than in areas where the amount of BCCH data to be transmitted is small.
FIG. 3 illustrates a system according to the second alternative approach of the invention. Base station 301 again transmits control information to a multitude of mobile stations 302, for which a control information channel 303 has been specified, but there are also specified other channels called point-to-multipoint (PTM) traffic channels 304 between the base station and the mobile stations. A base station or a radio network controller may specify a certain channel or a number of channels as point-to-multipoint traffic channels when needed by transmitting a respective channel configuration message to the mobile stations. If no such specification is made, the respective capacity is available for dedicated (point-to-point) traffic channels.
In FIG. 3 there is a certain minimum amount of BCCH data that is transmitted in respective PDUs 305 on the BCCH. The amount and content of this minimum amount of BCCH data depends on the cellular radio system to which the invention is applied, but it is expected that at least information giving identification of the current network, location area and cell, and information used for candidate cell measurements for handover and cell selection procedures are included in this category. The rest of the PDUs on the BCCH are so-called pointer PDUs 306 not containing actual BCCH data but only indications about what the respective actual BCCH data would contain and where in the channel configuration of the cell the actual BCCH data is found. FIG. 4 is a schematic representation of an exemplary pointer PDU 400. It consists of fields, the length of which is determined in bits and/or octets (groups of 8 successive bits).
The first field 401 is the Message Identifier field spanning the lengths of 1 to 2 octets and identifying the PDU as a pointer PDU. Its structure conforms to the structure of message identifiers determined for all so-called Layer 3 messages, referring to the protocol layer in a well-known OSI model (Open Structured Interface) into which the PDUs belong. The second field 402 is the Information Identifier field that identifies, what information is available at the point where the pointer PDU points to. A commonly agreed coding scheme will be needed to provide for standardized Information Identifier strings for different kinds of information. The proposed length of field 402 is 2 octets.
The third and fourth fields 403 and 404 identify the location where the pointer PDU points to. Field 403 is a one-octet long Carrier Number and field 404 is a one-octet long Channel Identifier. They identify the carrier (in a multifrequency system) or the spreading code (in a single-frequency spread spectrum system) and the channel in which the actual BCCH data is located. Field 405 contains the Timing Information which is used to indicate, when the BCCH data concerned will be available at the specified location. The proposed length of this field is 2 octets and several alternative time coding schemes are possible. For example the Timing Information may be a frame number in a superframe or a hyperframe, indicating the first frame in that larger aggregate of frames where the BCCH data will be available, together with a period code indicating the number of frames between successive appearances of the data within the superframe of hyperframe. The period code is naturally applicable only if the BCCH data concerned will appear periodically. Another possibility for indicating a certain frame in the Timing Information is to indicate the number of frames between the current frame and the first following frame containing the BCCH data concerned, again possibly combined with a period code. Other alternatives for using the Timing Information field are easily presented by a person skilled in the art.
The last field in FIG. 4 is the proposedly one-octet long Updated field 406. Its contents either tell whether there has been a change (addition, deletion or update of information) in the BCCH data concerned since it was last broadcast, or indicate a version number of successive updates in an ascending order. The reason for using such a field in the pointer PDU is to give the receiving end the possibility to decide, whether it needs to receive the BCCH data concerned or not. If the Updated field reveals that the information has not changed since the receiver received it for the last time, there is no need to switch on the receiver to receive the same information again.
The composition of a pointer PDU illustrated in FIG. 4 is naturally only exemplary. Other fields that it might include are for example a length indicator indicating the overall length of the pointer PDU (in case it is not constant) and other fields typical to Layer 3 messages. The lengths of the fields proposed above are probably somewhat too pessimistic; several effective coding schemes are known from the technology of Layer 3 messaging for reducing the length of separate fields. For example, a single bit could suffice for the Updated field, whereby its value would indicate whether the information has been updated during a certain passed time period or not.
After having received the pointer PDUs a mobile station analyses, which BCCH data it needs to receive, and tunes its receiver to the correct channel at the correct time for receiving the BCCH data. Alternatively the mobile station may inform its user about the need for downloading certain information conveyed as BCCH data, and ask for a permission to receive the BCCH data. This alternative is especially useful when the amount of data to be downloaded is large and its downloading would incur significant costs.
The flexibility of the second alternative approach to the invention, discussed above with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, is readily seen. The base station or radio network controller may allocate capacity from a point-to-multipoint channel for the purposes of conveying BCCH data as needed, and cancel the allocations whenever the amount of BCCH data falls below a certain predetermined threshold. Although a point-to-multipoint-type traffic channel has been described above as the favorable medium for transmitting the actual BCCH data, a pointer PDU may basically point to any location in the channel allocation scheme of a cell or even to some location in some different set of communication resources available to the mobile stations. For example in the above-mentioned case where the mobile stations asks the user for a permission before downloading certain information conveyed as BCCH data, even a dedicated traffic channel could be used. After having received the permission from the user, the mobile station will then transmit a channel request to the base station and indicate in some specific message that it would like to receive certain information conveyed as BCCH data. A connection using a dedicated traffic channel will be established and the requested information will be transmitted to the mobile station that requested it.
A very important generalization of the invention is the possibility to have the pointer PDUs point to somewhere else than the channel allocation scheme of the cell. In a system where suitably equipped mobile stations have access to a packet-switched data transmission network the pointer PDU may point to a certain network address, like an Internet address. A mobile station that receives the pointer PDU and wants to receive the information identified in the pointer PDU will then send a packet to the indicated address, containing a request for downloading the information. The network server responsible for the resources behind said address will then send the requested data in packetized form to the mobile station. Here again the mobile station may ask its user for a permission before sending the packet containing the request.
Another important application of the pointer PDU approach is the scheduling of transmissions in order to balance the loading of the control information channels between rush hours and more quiet times. It is commonly known that during the very early hours in the morning the momentary need for both transmitted control information and reserved dedicated channels in the cells of a cellular radio system is very small, because a majority of the users are asleep and their mobile stations are stationary and idle if not totally switched off. During these times there is plenty of free capacity in the network so the transmission of even large amounts of information conveyed as BCCH data is possible. During active daytime a system according to this particular embodiment of the invention can transmit pointer PDUs indicating that large blocks of information are available for downloading next night or some other time in the future. If the nature of the information is such that the mobile stations do not need it right away, they can just memorize the announced future transmission time of the information and wait until something like 03.00 AM before downloading the information from a location somewhere within a point-to multipoint channel, pointed to by the pointer PDUs. On the other hand, during daytime the same information could be offered to users that need it immediately, whereby those users will have to request for an immediate transmission on a dedicated traffic channel—and probably pay more because their request and its fulfillment consume the radio resources of that cell.
Downloading the scheduled information from a previously announced point-to-multipoint channel at a previously announced time naturally requires that the mobile station will be switched on at the previously announced time. It could be useful to arrange for the User Interface (UI) of the mobile station to warn the user about the scheduled downloading if an attempt is made to power down the mobile station before the announced time.
Next the hybrid approach to the invention will be briefly considered with reference to FIG. 5. In this approach pointer PDUs 501 will be used to inform the mobile stations about the location of some actual block of BCCH data like in the second approach discussed above. However, the pointer PDUs only appear as representatives of one PDU type, which has its own transmission schedule as in the first approach discussed above. BCCH data can be classified into a relatively large number of groups according to some indication of its importance and urgency. The most urgent and most important BCCH data will then be transmitted in each transmission frame, some less urgent data will be transmitted perhaps not more often than in every third transmission frame, and the least urgent BCCH data somewhere else in the channel structure, as indicated by pointer PDUs on the actual control channel.
FIGS. 6a and 6 b illustrate the operation of a Base Station (BS) and a Mobile Station (MS) according to the invention. The straight arrows indicate the propagation from one functional step to another in each device and the curved arrows indicate the mutual relations between transmit and receive functions. In FIG. 6a the base station goes through the functional steps 601, 602 and 603 regularly or according to the need of transmitting BCCH data on the second channel. After having received, at step 604, an indication about an incoming BCCH data transmission on the second channel the mobile station will prepare itself for reception and consecutively receive the BCCH data at step 605. In FIG. 6b there is the difference that the mobile station has to ask for the BCCH data transmission at step 606 (request received at step 607) before the base station will transmit.
If the mobile station is equipped to warn the user against powering down the mobile station before an already indicated BCCH data transmission will take place, the warning step will be found in FIGS. 6a and 6 b somewhere after step 604 and before step 605.
The invention does not restrict the nature of the information sent directly on the BCCH or in some location pointed to by a pointer PDU on the BCCH. Typical examples of such information that has a volume large enough to justify the "enlarged BCCH" concept of the invention are software updates to the mobile stations and service provider information. The latter can include both information about the service providers whose services are available and description of the services themselves.
The invention is very well suited for a cellular radio system where additions to the offered services and functions are constantly made due to constantly ongoing development work. A "basic mode" mobile station only needs to know the timing used on the BCCH and the instructions for decoding a pointer PDU to be able to utilize those services and functions that had been specified at the moment when the mobile station left the facilities of its manufacturer and/or programmer. All information meant only for more advanced or more recently released mobile stations will appear as unidentified PDUs or unidentified information elements to the basic mode mobile station, whereby it ignores them and utilizes only those services and functions which it identifies and understands.
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