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Andre Ward and Sakio Bika participated in a national media conference call on Monday to discuss their upcoming world title fight on Saturday, Nov. 27, LIVE on SHOWTIME® (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast) from Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.
Ward (22-0, 13 KOs) will defend his World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight championship in front of his hometown fans for a second time against the tough, dangerous Bika (28-4-2, 19 KOs) of Sydney, Australia, via Douala, Cameroon.
The Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament points leader, Ward has already secured his spot in the tournament Semifinals and will face Bika outside the tournament.
Bika will be making his third world title appearance in a world title fight. Two of his most noteworthy victories came when he crushed Peter Manfredo, Jr. (TKO 3) in November 2008 and when he outpointed Sam Soliman across eight rounds in October 2007..
In the first fight of the split-site doubleheader on SHOWTIME, "King" Arthur Abraham will meet Carl "The Cobra" Froch in the final Group Stage 3 bout of tournament for the vacant WBC super middleweight world title. The world title match will be televised on same-day-delay from the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland.
Here's what the principals had to say on Monday:
"I'm so excited. It's been a year yesterday (Nov. 21, 2009) since I won my world title and I'm focused and locked in on defending my title. That's all me and my team has ever focused on. Not just becoming a champion but being a defending champion and striving for great challenges like Sakio Bika. I've prepared myself for a fight like this years in advance. I'm prepared for Sakio and I know he's prepared for me. And I know we're going to put on a great show on Saturday."
Does it matter to you that this is not a Super Six fight?
"Absolutely not. At the end of the day my championship belt is still on the line and at the end of the day I've got to show up and get the job done. And I've got a guy on the other side of the ring that's trying to hurt me. For me personally there's no let down. This is as big as it gets. There's really no problem with this not being in the tournament. Everyone understands why it's not in the tournament but this is a fight so as far as myself and my team it's business as usual."
Why aren't you fighting Andre Dirrell on Saturday night?
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"When you sign a contract it's a binding agreement and we were legally bound to fight Dirrell in our third fight. Personally, it's not something you want to do; that's a friend of yours, your family knows one another. It's not really an ideal situation. But at the end of the day I've been fighting for a long time and I was prepared to do what I agreed to do. I think some of the fans blew things out of proportion. A lot of people weren't talking and there really wasn't much to say and it would have probably just made things worse.
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Nursing staff in five private hospitals in the district will go on strike from October 22 under the aegis of the Indian Nurses Association (INA) demanding revision of their pay scale as recommended in the Balaraman committee report, among others.
The INA gave formal strike notice to the managements of the Dhanalakshmi Hospital, Koyili Hospital, Ashirvad Hospital and Speciality Hospital at Kannur and Lourde Hospital at Taliparamba. INA office-bearers said that they were forced to go on strike in the hospitals as the managements of these hospitals violated the assurances given to them.
INA national secretary E.M. Vineeth Krishnan said here on Friday that pay scale revision as approved by the Balaraman committee report is among the INA's major demands. He said that even staff nurses in these hospitals were getting a monthly salary of around Rs. 7500 each. Their workload is also heavy as nurse-patient ratio in these hospitals was 1:3 in intensive care units (ICU) and 1:20-25 in wards. Demanding three-shift duty schedule equivalent to that in government hospitals, he said that the INA was demanding 1:1 in ICU and 1:4 in wards. The INA also raised the demand for 10 per cent annual increment for senior nurses.
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The company's loss from continuing operations in the fourth quarter of 2008 was $228.6 million, compared with earnings of $14.6 million a year ago. Exclusive of certain items that management considers not representative of ongoing operations, 2008 fourth quarter earnings were $76.2 million, compared with $167.4 million in the same quarter last year. This decrease in earnings was driven by temporary manufacturing line shutdowns taken to balance capacity with demand and manage inventory levels. Additional factors contributing to the decrease included inflation in manufacturing and delivery costs, lower sales volumes, and unfavorable foreign currency translation. Improved prices and product sales mix partially offset these unfavorable factors.
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"The results of the fourth quarter clearly reflect the increased flexibility we have created at O-I in recent years," said Al Stroucken, chairman and chief executive officer. "We were able to react quickly to a weakening global economy and temporarily curtail production in the fourth quarter to prevent carrying excess inventory quantities into 2009. We are confident that a strategy to enhance our liquidity in these uncertain times is the correct course for O-I and is in the best interest of our shareholders."
Net sales from continuing operations increased 4.2% to $7.885 billion in 2008, compared with $7.567 billion in 2007. The $318 million increase was driven by improved prices and product sales mix across all regions, as well as favorable currency translation, principally of the euro, in the first three quarters of the year. However, a decline in tons shipped partially offset these favorable effects.
For the full year 2008, the company reported earnings from continuing operations of $251.5 million, or $1.48 per share (diluted), compared with earnings from continuing operations of $299.3 million, or $1.78 per share, last year. Exclusive of certain items that management considers not representative of ongoing operations, the company earned $645.2 million, or $3.80 per share (diluted), in 2008, compared with $493.7 million, or $2.94 per share (diluted), in 2007. The increase in earnings in 2008 was primarily the result of improved prices and product sales mix, further improvements in glass plant operating efficiencies, and favorable foreign currency translation, partially offset by lower sales volume and inflation in manufacturing and delivery costs.
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White Bird Hill Summit is a mountain pass in north central Idaho on U.S. Highway 95. Located in Idaho County, it is midway between White Bird and Grangeville. The summit elevation of the highway is 4,245 feet (1,294 m) above sea level, through a substantial cut.
The modern multi-lane highway was completed 40 years ago, following ten years of construction which concluded with the opening of the bridge at the base over White Bird Creek in June 1975.[1] The treeless northbound grade climbs 2,700 feet (820 m) in 7 miles (11 km), an average gradient of over 7%.[1]
The original road was completed in 1921 and first paved in 1938, it rose slightly higher to 4,429 feet (1,350 m), due to the absence of a summit cut. Located to the east, the old road was twice the length and had a multitude of switchbacks ascending a treeless slope. On the present highway, the descent north of the summit is less dramatic as the grade drops less than 900 feet (270 m) in the forest with few curves onto the Camas Prairie towards Grangeville at 3,400 feet (1,040 m).
White Bird Hill Summit marks the divide between the Salmon River and the Camas Prairie. The Battle of White Bird Canyon of the Nez Perce War occurred in the valley south of the summit in 1877. Chief White Bird was a respected leader of the Nez Perce tribe.
- ^ a b Roche, Kevin (June 17, 1975). "'Goat trail' symbol breaks as Whitebird route opens". Lewiston Morning Tribune. p. 12A.
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ALAPPUZHA: Kerala will be eligible to conduct Asian Games if it can successfully host the National Games in 2010, Sports Minister M. Vijayakumar has said.
Speaking at a meeting called to constitute a district-level welcome committee for the National Games here on Thursday, Mr. Vijayakumar said preparations were in progress for the games, which the State was proposing to host in seven districts.
The condition of sports infrastructure in the State was far from satisfactory and the aim of hosting the games was to improve it and put in place a system so that the State could host any international sporting event.
He said the State had three goals in connection with the National Games — to host the best edition of the National Games, to attain first position in the event and to accomplish whatever was necessary to host sporting events of any stature.
The State, which had already submitted to the Centre projects worth Rs.220 crore out of the Rs.500-crore proposal for the games, was aiming to host the games in Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, Alappuzha, Kollam, Kozhikode, Kannur and Thrissur. Usually, the host State would get at least three years to prepare for the games, but Kerala had less than a year, he said.
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The Minister, who promised a 600-bed sports hostel and renovation of the Water Sports Complex here, handed over a cheque of Rs.1 crore for completing the work at the Alappuzha Municipal Stadium before visiting the stadium site.
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But the estranged mother-daughter duo has been at odds for quite some time, as evidenced by exclusive text messages obtained by Radar.
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"You treat me like sh*t," Tamra tells her daughter in one message (which were included in legal documents filed by Simon) and asks in another, "What have I done to you that you hate your own mother?"
Tamra even pulls the legal mother card at one point.
"Answer me. I tried calling. You need to answer me. I've been very nice for months now. I have legal rights as your mother and I really don't want to go that route," she texted.
"But if you refuse to communicate, you leave me no choice! For the life of me I can not understand why you are SO disrespectful to your own mother. Can you please answer me."
The insider concludes, "Sidney is a lot more stable without so much interaction with her mother."
There's more to come from the allegations Simon made in the legal documents, but for now, Tamra is staying close-mouthed on the controversy tweeting on Tuesday:


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I received an email from a friend warning me never to talk on a cellphone while it is recharging. It cites the case of a boy who did just that and was killed when "electricity flowed into the cellphone unrestrained and the young man was thrown to the floor with a heavy thud." The email said it was a warning from the University of Miami Hospital that should be passed on. Should I? -- W.P., of Belleville
If there's one thing I learned quickly in the Internet Age, it is to ignore all mass e-mails that are long on fear-mongering but short on facts.
As soon as I started to read your warning, accompanied by a quartet of appropriately grisly photos, my journalistic mind started asking some basic questions: Who was this kid? Where did he live? When did it happen? What exactly were the circumstances? Who was the doctor who treated him? To what hospital was he taken?
The email, of course, offered no details and the hospital certainly wasn't at the University of Miami. To find the answers, I had to enlist several of my favorite urban legend-busting sites, including Snopes and Hoax-busters. They agreed that the idea that you might be dialing up death by using a recharging cellphone is false bordering on the preposterous.
As it turns out, this particular tale of woe has been floating around the Great Web since 2004. Apparently it is based on one or, at most, two cases in India and China of people using phones of unknown origin and quality.
The one documented case involved 31-year-old K. Viswajith. According to a story out of Chavara, India, on Aug. 11, 2004, Viswajith "was electrocuted when he attended a call on the mobile phone that was put for charging." (In 2005, an Ethiopian man supposedly suffered the same fate, but the wording was the same, so the claim is doubtful.)
Now, if this were a real threat, I'd expect hundreds or thousands of similar incidents, considering the astronomical rise in both the number and use of cellphones. Just look at GM's woes. But guess what? Only one other potentially legitimate account of a 23-year-old woman in Xinjiang, China, has surfaced, but information is scant and the story has never been confirmed.
Besides, if the phone were well-manufactured, the Indian man most likely could not have died as described. That big cube you plug into the socket converts normal household current into low-voltage direct current voltage, so your phone -- and, presumably, yourself -- can't be fried. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission makes no mention of the practice being unsafe and you can bet your apps that legitimate cellphone companies would make prominent black-box warnings to avoid lawsuits. My own phone, for example, merely mentions that I can expect a default ringtone while it is charging.
The best guess is that this Dr. Doom warning was fueled by several reports of exploding batteries. In January 2004, for example, a Malaysian man had his buttocks scalded when a recharging phone exploded nearby as he napped. A year earlier, Nokia said a number of similar reports were caused by the use of third-party or counterfeit batteries, many of which had been further compromised by phones being dropped, etc. But even these incidents have all but disappeared.
So while I might not talk on a recharging cellphone while doing dishes or taking a shower, I wouldn't clog up my friends' email boxes with this ancient rehash.
While watching a channel specializing in old movies, my grandson fell in love with a cartoon called "Boulevardier from the Bronx." Any chance I can buy it somewhere? -- D.E., of Belleville
Your grandson has good taste. After Warner Brothers adopted "Merrily We Roll Along" as the theme for its Merrie Melodies cartoons in 1936, "Boulevardier From the Bronx" is usually cited as the very first short to feature it.
And, if he's a sports fan, it's no wonder he loves it. If you watched it, you already know that it is a parody of St. Louis Cardinal great Dizzy Dean. In this toon, however, he shows up as Dizzy Dan, an overly cocky rooster and the pitching ace of the Chicago Giants.
"Every small-town bush leaguer is anxious and eager to meet me when I go slummin'," he sings in a tune ripped off from a song of the same name in the 1936 Warner Brothers musical "Colleen." "But with all of my poise, I'm still one of the boys -- just a boulevardier from the Bronx."
Anyway, he and his Giants arrive in Hickville to thrash a bunch of rural hayseeds led by their pitching standout, Claude. What happens? Let me just say "Chicago" and leave it at that.
Unfortunately, I'm told that this classic short is unavailable on DVD, but he can watch it on his computer (at least, I did) at www.dailymotion.com/video/x11btml_boulevardier-from-the-bronx-1936_shortfilms
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Bill Warner states there are angles of thought when it comes to writing or speaking about Islam to non-Muslims (kafir). In essence then there is the negative and the positive. The negative comes from the angle of the critic of Islam. The positive comes from the Muslim apologist. The Muslim apologist may or may not be a Muslim. The apologists that are Muslim either are blind to the darkness inherent in the Quran, Hadith and Sira or are downright walking the line of deception to win the kafir to Islam or to hide from the kafir Islam's intentions for those who refuse to believe in Islam in this temporal life.
Warner points out that the critic of Islam is often vilified as a bigot, a hater, an Islamophobe and so on. The Islamic apologist is the hero of Muslims and the hero of multicultural diversity people who unwittingly promote national and global chaos by compartmentalizing indigenous cultures by infusing foreign cultures.
For the record – I am a critic of Islam.
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Hate mongering Islamofascists or Anti-Islamic EDL
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The United Kingdom's English Defence League (EDL) has had a reputation of being way on the Right and anti-Semitic. Now days the EDL are still on the Right yet have moved more to the center and have abandoned anti-Semitism. The EDL past is a concern and yet their primary emphasis today is an anti-Islam platform.
For Europeans which includes the Brits, even being anti-Islam still places EDL in the public view of racists.
With this information about the EDL I was pointed toward a snippet from a Michael Savage radio broadcast wondering why Muslims spewing out hate toward British soldiers and the government get a pass, while an EDL counter-protest get police harassment and arrests:
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Pet-A-Palooza is coming to the Great Park in Irvine Oct. 16-17 and K-Earth 101 came up with the idea of a headline attraction – morning personality Gary Bryan will perform a mass canine wedding each day in which dogs will be joined in what it calls "Holy Mutt-rimony."
Seriously, I'm not making this up. Bryan has a Doctor of Divinity degree from the Universal Life Church in Modesto and has married dozens of human couples in several states. But this will be a first for him.
"The marriage vows will include readings from 'Hound Dog' and '(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window.' Each union will be consummated with a 'paw-thentic' marriage certificate," he said.
Everyone who wants to marry their dogs is welcome to participate in the event, to be held at 1 p.m. on both days. Bryan has been asking K-Earth listeners to e-mail pictures of their dogs, but it is not a requirement to participate.
CBS radio stations KNX, KFWB, The Wave, JACK FM, AMP and K-Earth are all taking part in 'Pet-A-Palooza,' which will also feature about 200 pets available for adoption, pet entertainment, and pet products. I will be there, too, on Oct. 16, in our "Pet Place" radio and TV show booth, so come on by and say hello.
Admission is free. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The schedule, directions and more information can be found at www.ocpetapalooza.com.
"Money Talk" with Bob Brinker returns to KABC/790 AM Sunday (Oct. 10) as part of a post-Dodgers change in weekend programming. Brinker will be on 5 to 8 p.m. Sundays.
The new Sunday schedule: 8-11 a.m., "Motorman" Leon Kaplan; 1-5 p.m., NFL Football (New Orleans Saints vs. Arizona Cardinals); 5-8 p.m., Bob Brinker; 8-10 p.m., "Dr. Kipper Health Medical Show" with Peter Tilden; 10 p.m.-midnight, "Red Eye Radio" with Doug McIntyre.
Saturday programming: 3-5 p.m., Leo Terrell; 5-6 p.m. "The Digital Doctor" with Jeff Levy; 6-8 p.m., food expert Merrill Schindler; 9-10 p.m., Peter Dills; 10 p.m.-midnight, "Red Eye Radio" with Marc Germain.
KABC weekday note: Steve Kindred, most recently at KFI, starts anchoring afternoon drive news at 790 AM on Monday.
"I'm thrilled to be back in the full-time work world," he said. "Even those huge traffic jams I'm facing on La Cienega every day won't dampen my enthusiasm. I'll be working with Jack Silver and Bob Moore, and news director Mark Austin Thomas, who are among the most talented people in radio. Mark built a newsroom from scratch and brought the station four Golden Mikes. I'll also help with KABC's election night coverage. I love politics so I'm really looking forward to it."
"My thanks also to the people at KFI. program director Robin Bertolucci and news director Chris Little gave me a job during a bleak period in my career, and the experience kept this old brain, mouth, and typing fingers fully operational so that the parts wouldn't rust!"
Reader response to Larry Elder's return to KABC/790 AM has been positive – not one negative comment came in. Diane Smith in Rancho Cucamonga e-mailed, "He has really energized the station. We have had to adjust our schedules to listen in the morning, or when we get home on the computer. KABC has hit a home run!"
Elder also e-mailed to say the title of the book about his relationship with his father is "Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives ... Eight Hours." It is to be published next year.
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Favorite thing: Great Barrier Island is, as I have said, sparsely populated with few roads, dense bush, and is surrounded by crystal clear waters. Both the island and the surrounding waters are home to lots of wildlife, including some endangered species, so it is important to protect the special environment here. Take care to guard against fire, especially during hot, dry weather, and take any rubbish away with you.
The island makes it easy for campers and boaties to deal with their rubbish, by providing good facilities, including recycling facilities, at Port Fitzroy, and over the Christmas/Summer holiday period, there is even a floating rubbish station for passing boaties at the entrance to Fitzroy harbour. So, no excuses!
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The 'Circle of Protection' a consortium of of more than 65 US church leaders, heads of denominations, relief and development agencies, and other Christian organizations, invited the presidential candidates - President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney - to submit short video statements outlining their policies on how they plan to work to alleviate poverty.
The leaders said in a statement: "We believe that this presidential campaign should include a clear focus on what each candidate proposes to do to provide help and opportunity for hungry and poor people in the United States and around the world."
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HORSESHOE BEND -- Crews are fighting a brush fire on the west side of Horseshoe Bend near the Boise County transfer station.
Boise Bureau of Land Management says that the Dump Fire has burned around 600 acres on the south side of the Payette River. The fire keeps growing in size; however, it is now burning at a slower pace then it did earlier in the day. The fire is around 30 percent contained.
Officials say about seven homes west of Boise Street and Old Emmett Highway located near the area known as the the dump area were evacuated as a precautionary measure, however those evacuation have since been lifted.
BLM says that there have been no reports of any structures involved.
Several resources are fighting the fire include five BLM engines, two State engines, one water tender, two hand crews en route, one dozer, one air attack, and two helicopters.
Horseshoe Bend and Garden Valley Rural Fire Departments are continuing to provide structure protection, along with additional fire support by providing three engines and two water tenders.
Brandon Hampton with Boise BLM says this is a good reminder that we are well into fire season, even with the rain that came in at the start of the week.
This is a pretty big warning to the general public that we are in fire season. You know the rain we had first of the week, I think allowed some people to get complacent and think it's not gonna happen, well we're forecasted for 90 degree temperatures. It's gonna happen, said Hampton.
BLM says if current conditions continue the Dump Fire should be contained around 8:00 Saturday morning, and is estimated to be controlled around 6:00 Saturday evening.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.--Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery--what we see with the "mind's eye"--directly impacts our visual perception.
The research was published online June 26 by the journal Current Biology.
"We found that imagery leads to a short-term memory trace that can bias future perception," Joel Pearson, research associate in the Vanderbilt Department of Psychology. and lead author of the study, said. "This is the first research to definitively show that imagining something changes vision both while you are imagining it and later on."
"These findings are important because they suggest a potential mechanism by which top-down expectations or recollections of previous experiences might shape perception itself," Pearson and his co-authors wrote.
It is well known that a powerful perceptual experience can change the way a person sees things later. Just think of what can happen if you discover an unwanted pest in your kitchen, such as a mouse. Suddenly you see mice in every dust ball and dark corner--or think you do. Is it possible that imagining something, just once, might also change how you perceive things?
"You might think you need to imagine something 10 times or 100 times before it has an impact," Frank Tong, associate professor of psychology and co-author of the study, said. "Our results show that even a single instance of imagery can tilt how you see the world one way or another, dramatically, if the conditions are right."
To test how imagery affects perception, Pearson, Tong and co-author Colin Clifford of the University of Sydney had subjects imagine simple patterns of vertical or horizontal stripes, which are strongly represented in the primary visual areas of the brain. They then presented a green horizontal grated pattern to one eye and a red vertical grated pattern to
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Expansion plans at Areva's remote uranium mining site in Saskatchewan, Canada, calls for an upgrade of the facility's distributed control system (DCS) to one with integrated, intrinsically safe I/O.
Areva Resources Canada is involved in uranium exploration, mining and milling. At its McClean Lake mine and mill site in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, the company produces 10 million pounds of yellowcake annually. With plans in place to expand capacity to produce up to 24 million pounds each year, Areva had some very specific reasons to upgrade its Provox control system, which had been in place since the facility was built in the mid 1990s. It chose the Emerson Process Solutions DeltaV system, and is now interested in adding Emerson's intrinsically safe (IS) CHARMs technology.
"The mine site is very remote," said Brian Burkowsky, account manager with Spartan Controls, which provides engineering services to Areva. "The area has no daily FedEx or UPS shipments, so Areva wanted to ensure its technology was reliable." Burkowsky was speaking at the 2012 Emerson Global Users Exchange in Anaheim.
Areva's migration to DeltaV began in steps starting in 2005. The driving idea behind the migration was to implement DeltaV for new areas of the plant as it expanded, while maintaining existing Provox systems until full conversion. Data dumps from the Provox system into DeltaV were conducted to ensure existing tuning values were implemented in the new DeltaV system, so that migration would maintain like-for-like operation.
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• One set of DeltaV controllers for the existing solvent extraction plant as well as a new one, which will be built in the 2013/2014 timeframe. "Having one set of controls for both plants reduced control system hardware costs by 10 percent," said Chad Sewell, P.E., electrical engineer, Areva Resources Canada.
• Maintain or reduce control system footprint. "With CHARMs, we went from needing 10 termination panels to only needing 8 — a 20 percent reduction in space requirements," noted Sewell.
• Increase spare I/O capacity. The Provox system had 16 I/O points, CHARMs has 24, which increases I/O capacity by 50 percent. "There are now seven I/O card slots available for future expansion," Sewell said.
• Reduce downtime associated with system installation. Migration was done terminal by terminal; the back panels stayed in place with just the Provox terminal panels being removed as the DeltaV panels were installed. DeltaV Explorer was used to commission HART I/O using AutoSense to re-connect HART devices. For the 200 I/O points so far migrated, it took 50 percent less time to migrate than was expected. "We budgeted for the process to take 5 days and it only took 2 and a half days," said Sewell.
• Maintain facility's hazardous rating. This was enabled by the IS circuitry built into CHARMs.
Thus far, Areva has achieved a 24 percent costs savings in comparison to total funds approved for the project, according to Burkowsky. Future plans for the migration include using DeltaV CHARMs for field marshalling, upgrading PLCs to CHARMs, and using Ethernet for motor control.
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Date change makes dove hunt more accessible
Online: Hunters react to proposed change in date for dove opener at uniontrib.com/news/sports/outdoors
We weren't exactly overwhelmed with responses from hunters to the poll about a proposed plan to establish the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend instead of Sept. 1 as the official start of dove hunting season.
The reaction truly is mixed. Some of you bypassed the issue and went straight to your dark, selfish side and just wanted to know where the concentrations of doves were in Imperial Valley. Opening day is a month from Sunday. If there are doves concentrated right now, chances are they won't be there in a month.
Others spent more time criticizing less experienced and savvy hunters by calling them "idiots" and "boneheads."
It's typical of a growing segment of hunters who think they are the modern-day Davy Crocketts, while all other hunters are, well, "idiots and boneheads," who don't belong in the same field or woods as them. This is a trend I've noticed in 18 years of covering this great tradition with some not-so-great people participating in it.
I read enough comments in e-mails and took more feedback from friends and fellow hunters to know that there are two camps when it comes to moving the dove opener to the first Saturday in September.
One side wants to keep the status quo, let the traditional dove opener stay at Sept. 1. There's no other way to label that side than to call it a selfish and uncaring group of hunters who are oblivious to the fact the pastime they cherish is going away faster than a darting dove. Already is.
Department of Fish and Game statistics show there has been a 53.4 percent drop in resident hunting licenses since 1980. And worse, there has been a 52.8 percent drop in resident junior hunting licenses in the state over the same 30 years. Meanwhile, the state's population since 1980 has increased by 13,088,000, or by 55 percent.
The other side, what I'd call an aware, compassionate, sharing group, one filled with hunters who want to see the tradition carry on, would like to see the opener always fall on the first Saturday in September. That will allow families to enjoy the hunt. It will get more kids out because they won't have to take off school.
From my perspective, I side with the group that favors a Saturday dove opener instead of it always falling on Sept. 1, which happens to be a Wednesday this year. If the opener was Saturday, Sept. 4, we'd see more kids and more families hunting.
I know some of you are thinking, "Hey, bonehead, the dove opener is a one-day, actually, a one-morning shoot."
No doubt, the best shooting is at daybreak on opening day. The next best time is a couple of hours before sundown on opening afternoon. After that, it's spotty. There are fewer birds. They start flying even faster, higher and more erratically.
I respect hunters who make the dove opener a private affair, you know, the guys who scout and find an isolated spot in the desert or in some remote field that they get to themselves on opening day. Those kinds of hunters, those kinds of hunts, though, are an exception. And I don't think those guys will mind more hunters in the field, because those hunters will always find secluded areas.


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- 2 tablespoon(s) Sesame Seeds roasted
- Boil the noodles in water, make sure they don't stick together, drain, rinse in cold water, and then set aside. In a small bowl or pitcher, add some crushed seaweed and allow it to marinate in the added boiling water. Add the rest of the remaining ingredients to this mixture and stir. In a large wide pan, preferably cast-iron, stir the pre-cooked noodles with the sauce. Cook until the noodles are hot, steamy, and a little brown on the edges. Serve hot and fresh! Enjoy!
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Hop inside the post for 10 vintage pocket cigar and tobacco tins. These aren't really pocket sized by today's standards, but back then, these were quite travel friendly.
There are some pretty badass Instagram collections out there that are filled with vintage goodies people come across. I stumbled onto FicusMongus, who's posted a bunch of cool finds. These are just a taste. I especially love the Singer Monogram at the top. Stunning.


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I'm usually not a fan of more mystic based comic books, but JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK is not only a fantastic mystic-based team book, but it's a book that I find a lot more accessible to non-mystic comic readers. It contains a lot of elements from the DCU that you may or may not be familiar with but it's very new reader friendly.
One thing I love that Jeff Lemire is doing on this book, since he took over writing duties, is how he introduces all these great, unused elements into this book. Since the run began, we've already seen The Books of Magic, The House of Secrets, and the House of Mystery. This issue we get a couple more cool unused ideas from the DC Vault. This is adding a lot of depth to the mystical side of the new 52, and I'm extremely happy to see these ideas incorporated, especially with Jeff Lemire writing them.
Mikel Janin (pencils) and Ulises Arreola (colors) are one hell of an art team here. The pencils are solid, consistent, and dynamic within each panel, and the colors are top notch. The colors are really the driving point of this book, no offense to Janin who truly has some great work here. There's lots of different pages and panels I could talk about, but a stand out one, for me, involves the reintroduction to a mystic character that not only has beautiful colors, but also a brilliant amount of detail. From page one, if you don't mutter to yourself "so pretty," then you may be blind.
Great ending to this issue. It's a bit of a shocker. No spoilers for you though. You'll have to read it.
The Bad
Although it's a new story line, in a sense, it's not a jumping on point. You need to start at issue 9, when Lemire started writing, to get a better sense of what's going on now.
The Verdict - Pick of the Week
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK 12 is my pick of the week! What a fantastic issue, and what a fantastic series since Lemire took over. I love everything he's putting into this book and how the line between DC and Vertigo elements is becoming so blurred. This book has wonderful writing on it as well as wonderful art. It's a match made in Limbo.
The only downside, at all, is that if you want to read this book, I highly recommend jumping on at issue 9.
Overall, I highly recommend this issue.


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Medical Services Generally Met Requirements and Costs Decreased, but Oversight Is Incomplete
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Since the end of a court-ordered receivership overseeing medical services at the District of Columbia Jail in September 2000, the Department of Corrections (DoC) has contracted with the Center for Correctional Health and Policy Studies, Inc. (CCHPS) to provide inmate medical services. GAO was asked to provide information on (1) the medical services DoC contracted with CCHPS to provide, including CCHPS's monitoring of its services; (2) mechanisms DoC established to oversee CCHPS's services; (3) CCHPS's contract compliance and DoC's efforts to ensure compliance; and (4) the cost of medical services. To collect this information, GAO analyzed documents and interviewed officials from District agencies, CCHPS officials, and an independent reviewer hired by DoC to monitor medical services.
DoC has contracted with CCHPS to provide a broad range of medical services to inmates at the District of Columbia Jail and the Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF)--an adjacent overflow facility. Services include health screenings at intake; primary care services, including care for chronic conditions; mental health care; and specialty care. In addition, CCHPS assists DoC in helping inmates obtain services not included in the contract, such as specialty or emergency services that cannot be offered on-site. As part of the contract, CCHPS also established a quality improvement program to monitor its services. A key component of the program is a quarterly analysis of random samples of inmate medical records to measure how consistently CCHPS delivers required services. DoC established several mechanisms to oversee CCHPS's delivery of medical services to inmates. For example, DoC retained an independent reviewer to monitor the services provided by CCHPS on a quarterly basis. In addition, the contract gives DoC authority to impose monetary damages on CCHPS if it fails to meet any of 12 requirements specified in the contract, most of which relate to providing key services to a minimum percentage of inmates. The contract also requires CCHPS to submit quarterly and annual progress reports describing quality problems identified by the independent reviewer or its own monitoring and actions taken to correct them. Although available evidence indicates that CCHPS has generally complied with the terms of its contract, DoC has not exercised sufficient oversight to provide assurance that problems are not occurring or are quickly corrected. The independent reviewer has consistently found that CCHPS's services meet the contract's overall requirements for access to care and quality, but has also reported that CCHPS has not always met certain requirements. For example, while CCHPS recently improved its performance in providing timely follow-up services to inmates with abnormal chest x-ray results, the independent reviewer had repeatedly found problems in this area. DoC has not taken actions that would allow it to be assured of CCHPS's compliance with contract requirements linked to monetary damages. The agency has not collected data or developed a formal procedure to determine whether CCHPS has met the requirements, and it lacks a procedure to impose damages if warranted. Also, DoC has not regularly enforced the contract requirement that CCHPS submit quarterly and annual progress reports describing quality problems and corrective actions, and CCHPS has often not submitted these reports. From 2000 to 2003, the average daily cost of providing medical services to a Jail inmate decreased by almost one-third, from about $19 a day per inmate to about $13 a day. In 2003, DoC consolidated the services provided to inmates in the Jail and the CTF under one contract with CCHPS. In that year, during which 17,431 inmates were admitted to the Jail and the CTF, the total cost of providing medical services at both facilities was about $15.8 million.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: As of August 26, 2005, the District of Columbia, Department of Corrections had not implemented the recommendation. The recommendation is now moot because a different contractor is providing medical services at both the DC Jail and Correctional Treatment Facility.
Recommendation: To help ensure that CCHPS provides required medical services to inmates of the District of Columbia Jail and the CTF, the Mayor should require the Director of DoC to develop formal procedures--including collection of needed data--to regularly assess whether CCHPS's performance meets the contract requirements that are linked to monetary damages and to impose these damages.
Agency Affected: District of Columbia
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: On August 26, 2005, the District of Columbia, Department of Corrections provided documentation showing that the first annual report for the period covered by and immediately following our report (3/04 - 3/05) had been submitted by the contractor, as had the quarterly reports for a period following our report. The annual report provides information on identified problems and actions taken to correct those problems.
Recommendation: To help ensure that CCHPS provides required medical services to inmates of the District of Columbia Jail and the CTF, the Mayor should require the Director of DoC to ensure that CCHPS submits to DoC the required quarterly and annual progress reports, which should describe identified problems and the actions CCHPS has taken to correct them.
Agency Affected: District of Columbia
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Chelsea's under-19 squad became European champions on Monday by defeating Shakhtar Donetsk 3-2 in the UEFA Youth League final.
Izzy Brown scored from close range in the first half to provide Chelsea's opener in Switzerland, only for Shakhtar to level through Andreas Christensen.
Chelsea took control after half-time with two goals in the first 10 minutes as tournament top scorer Dominic Solanke found the net and Brown added his second from 20 yards.
Shakhtar pushed forward and although they found...
UEFA Youth League stars to watch: Chelsea, Roma, Shakhtar, Anderlecht
The winner of the second edition of the UEFA Youth League will be decided in Nyon, Switzerland this weekend. On Friday, Chelsea will face Roma and Shakhtar Donetsk will square off against Anderlecht in the semifinals, while on Monday the two winning sides will compete for the trophy. With holders Barcelona already eliminated, there will be a new name on the silverware this time around.
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Sugar-crunch fruitcake
Cooking timePrep: 10 mins Cook: 45 mins Plus 50 mins for the compote
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 6
Moist fruit and a crunchy sugary topping mean it's impossible to have just one slice of this delicious cake
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- fat
- 21g
- saturates
- 10g
- fibre
- 2g
- sugar
- 32g
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- 100g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
- 2 eggs
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- 50g self-raising flour
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- zest ½ lemon
- 2 portions Apple, pear & cherry compote (see 'Goes well with')
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- First make the Apple, pear & cherry compote (see 'Goes well with'). You'll need 2 of the 12 portions of compote for this cake.
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and grease a 20cm cake tin. Beat together the butter, eggs, caster sugar, flour, almonds and lemon zest to a smooth mixture. Scrape into the tin, dollop over the compote, then bake for 25-30 mins until well risen. Scatter over the sugar and return to the oven for 10-15 mins until the cake is cooked through.
- Remove from the tin and eat warm or at room temperature with cream or custard.
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No, Extra Channeling does not grant 2 more channels to each type of channeling. See page 159 Sidebar of the Advanced Class Guide entitled "Feats that grant extra uses". Essentially, it gives you two extra uses that you can spend on any type of channeling that you wish.
Yes, Channel from Life Spirit and Rebuke Spirits from Spirit Warden archetype both get their own pool of channels, and if you have Extra Channeling you can apply it where you need it each day (but it only gives you two extra channels, not two per type).
No, Channel and Rebuke Spirits don't stack for damage. You can use Channel to heal or to harm undead as a Cleric of your Shaman level (1+Cha mod times per day), and you can use Rebuke Spirits to harm undead as a Cleric of your Shaman level (3+Cha mod times per day). The damage doesn't stack.
BigNorseWolf wrote:
I've always read that to be choose any two skills that are Int, Wis, or Cha-based. So, Intimidate and Knowledge (Nature) would be fine. There's no mention that the two skills need to be based off of the same attribute.
PFSRD wrote:
If you critical, you don't roll your damage, so...
If you do 1d12+15(x3) with your great axe (for example), that would be also be an additional 1d12 damage on a Vital Strike.
So you would deal (12+15) x 3 = 81 + 12 (for Vital Strike) = 93 points of damage.
At least that's how I'd read it.
Tequila Sunrise wrote:
Agreed; time travel makes me face-plant, no matter the film or show.
I'd make an exception for the DS9 episode "Trials and Tribble-ations", that featured the DS9 crew crossing over with the original series "Trouble With Tribbles". That was a hoot.
I'd also like to point out that if it wasn't for Star Trek, there'd never been a Galaxy Quest...
Abraham spalding wrote:
In a lot of earlier encounters, though, the Flight hex will make it easier to Cackle to extend Misfortune while continuing to stay out of reach of your target.
Whale_Cancer wrote:
So long as your DM is treating the NPCs as his Player Characters, you and your party are going to get trounced.
You said these NPCs are important to the campaign and the story. The problem is that no one should be more integral to the campaign and story than the Player Characters.
It seems as though the DM has relegated the PCs to the status of bit players.
Djelai wrote:
That's true, but a casting of wind wall or fickle winds will probably help you there better than a couple of points of AC.
Having said that, I would invest in some items that would raise your AC. A Belt of Incredible Dexterity will also increase your attack rolls with ranged touch spells, and your initiative. A Ring of Protection will raise your Touch AC and your CMD. And any increase to AC may help your mirror image spell survive being taken down by lower level minions.
Blueluck wrote:
The combination of "free" silent casting, Silence, and Surprising Charge is what originally inspired me to make a deaf oracle. It makes him extremely good at stopping spellcasters.
I agree totally with this.
I also think this character would benefit from the Step Up line of feats, even though you'll often be operating with reach, thanks to Enlarge Person or Righteous Might.
Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
You must be within 1 step of your deity's alignment. Being Neutral Good, the only options for Sarenites are Lawful Good, Neutral Good, and Chaotic Good.
Heymitch wrote:
Wouldn't Neutral also be an option? It's one step from Neutral Good.
Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
Neutral people still wouldn't commit or endorse acts like torture and encouraging the killing of innocents for religious reasons. These Sarenites are trying to start a war between Qadira and Taldor, believing Qadira will win and install a Sarenite theocracy in a nation that had the impudence to ban the worship of their goddess. That seems evil in my book. You wouldn't be bound for an evil plane of existence when you die if it weren't.
Yeah. I never said they would. I'm pretty sure I just said that it was an option you didn't list.
Matthew Morris wrote:
It's not a matter of not seeing the connections. It's a matter of refusing (rightly, I think) to give equal weight to both wrongs.
Any stigma or discrimination suffered by people as a result of their being left-handed is wrong.
Discrimination suffered by people as a result of their gender identity is also wrong, and has resulted in murder being committed against transgendered people.
They're both wrong. Until there are a bunch of people being beaten to death for being left-handed, though, they're not equal.
Wrong. Not equal.
"Slapping someone in the face is wrong."
That's the problem with giving equal weight to every connection.
MyTThor wrote:
Did you have a bad experience with a magically reduced bow as a child or something? Seems like you're taking this awfully personally...
I think he's upset that Jason Bulmahn promised a clarification on this in January of 2011, and never did it.
Jason Bulmahn wrote:
I am going to go back into this the next time we reprint and tweak it. I think Reduce Person will probably get the same clause, making it not quite as bad versus ranged weapon users.
Also, I don't think you're response is helpful.
LazarX wrote:
Enlarge and Reduce have NO effect on ranged weapons, because the missile instantly reverts to normal size on leaving the bow.
Unfortunately, the text from reduce person would appear to contradict that.
Logically, though, it would make sense if the mechanic with enlarge person and reduce person exactly coincided.
Adamantine Dragon wrote:
I've been wondering where to put my gunslinger/steampunk nation... I guess the answer is to put it on the southern continent and then I can address any final accusations that my world is racist by virtue of its geology...
So you're saying that the South is full of gun nuts?!?
Sorry...I couldn't resist.
I'd like to see an occasional module that's actually done like Part 6.5 of an Adventure Path.
Basically, take an Adventure Path, and write a module that's designed to be run after the completion of Book 6, but can also be run on it's own.
By tying it into an existing Adventure Path, it may help increase sales, and it may fit in better with a higher level campaign that's spent most of a year running through an Adventure Path in that particular setting.
I actually would have liked to see fewer battle scenes, and more dialogue. I liked the scenes with Lois, and the Kents, and Jor-El, and Zod. I wanted to see more of them interacting without someone being punched through six buildings.
Also, there's a bit where Supes is driving Zod's face into the side of a building during a fight, and you're seeing the window panes shatter against his face. All I could think was--Why? Whatever would you expect that to accomplish? A little glass isn't going to hurt him...
Still a good movie, although it felt a little dark for a Superman movie. Batman should brood. Superman, not so much...
Grand Magus wrote:
Why didn't the kid yell, "Don't shoot me!" and then run away as fast as he could??
Excellent point. Hey, if someone shoots me, and I don't even have the self-respect to evade the bullet, I probably had it coming. And if I start to say, "Don't shoot me!", but I get shot mid-sentence, well, I must not have been trying hard enough.
Andrew R wrote:
hoods are the new masks because they can be worn more freely, and some people actually wear them for warmth so the criminals have an excuse. But look at modern criminals and count the hoods, they really are the uniform of a criminal, too damn bad they are also popular with others for different reasons.
This is a good point. I feel a whole lot safer knowing there are Neighborhood Watch Dudes out there braving the mean streets everyday, and ready to shoot every hooded person they see, before they can do me harm...
Andrew R wrote:
What of martin's possible drug use? his internet handles? Any news that brought those up or showed a recent picture of what he ACTUALLY looked like was called racist.
I'm sure Zimmerman took into account the kid's internet handles and drug history, and then made an informed choice to follow him with a gun, and shoot him dead...
PFSRD:Cleric wrote:
Called to serve powers beyond most mortal understanding, all priests preach wonders and provide for the spiritual needs of their people.
Kudaku wrote:
I have taken a level of Oracle and I have the Mute curse. Do I qualify for Cleric even though I do not have the ability to speak, and by extension the ability to preach wonders?
You probably want a rank in Linguistics. Purchase Semaphore as a language, and you should be set. Preach away!
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bugleyman wrote:
It does mean that treating the Core Rulebook like the freakin' US Constitution is silly.
Vic Wertz wrote:
Some of those Amendments have holes you can drive a truck through. And the way they erratta'd the 18th Amendment by issuing the so-called "21st Amendment" instead of just fixing what was wrong with the 18th? Totally not cool, man.
Vic, to add levels of Gunslinger, do I need to belong to a well regulated militia? Thanks in advance for clarifying.
I used to daydream an awful lot back when I was in high school, so I can't be certain of this, but...
I'm pretty sure everything that I was required to read, from Dickens, to Austin, to Homer, to Lee, to Shakespeare, to Fitzgerald...I seem to remember that all of them involved Giant Robots fighting Giant Monsters.
So there's that.
I would like to see a few more options than just the Martial Artist for non-lawful Monks.
It's one thing to place restrictions on various archetypes, but if you want to play a non-lawful Monk, Martial Artist is it. A few more options would be nice.
Removing the alignment restriction from Drunken Master would be a start.
SiuoL wrote:
Please don't take off the lawful restricting, because I hate it when someone take monk for their power and act with no discipline at all.
I don't hate people who play Monks for their power, but I do fear them, because they're delusional.
People who play Monks for their power are far more likely to stab me with a spork than those who don't.
Kairos Dawnfury wrote:
I feel like the Magus focus on Heightened Shocking Grasps with Magical Lineage definitely downplay the loss of spells since you can use the Arcane Pool to get the spell back for only one or two points.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but the Kensai gets fewer spells and loses Spell Recall and Improved Spell Recall, so he's not spending points from his Arcane Pool to get spells back...
You really would think that instead of insisting that the spell only appear on the Cleric or Druid spell list, it would be only on the spell list of a divine casting class, which would include Paladins, Rangers, and Inquisitors.
It's kind of strange that an SLA of a Paladin-only spell would be considered arcane...
3 points of Constitution ability damage would only apply a -1 penalty to relevant statistics, because of the way ability damage works.
CRB wrote:
The character would lose 3 hit points from the ability damage, not 6.
leo1925 wrote:
Willpower no, but iternal focus and discipline are traits tied to being Lawful.
Heymitch wrote:
Me, I always thought that Inquisitors come across as being very disciplined...
Calybos1 wrote:
Did you hear that everyone? If you follow the rules as written, and allow Inquisitors to be chaotic in your games, you're tone-deaf...


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