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FREMONT -- After 12 consecutive years of rate increases, water district directors will meet Thursday to consider another hike for customers, including extra penalties for heavy water users.
The agency has proposed a surcharge on bills customers pay every other month to fill a $15 million budget gap that Alameda County Water District leaders blame on the drought.
The shortfall stems from revenue streams that began to dry up after district leaders asked its 336,000 customers in Fremont, Union City and Newark to reduce water use by 20 percent.
They were trying to stretch water supplies that dwindled as the state last year recorded its driest year on record.
In March, the board also declared an emergency water shortage and put mandatory limits on landscape irrigation.
Agency leaders say they tried to balance their upcoming budget -- estimated around $120 million -- by deferring $20 million in construction projects, spending about $10 million from a reserve fund, and making plans to issue a $25 million bond.
"ACWD has taken a number of steps to mitigate the loss in revenue we have seen as a result of the drought," district General Manager Walt Wadlow said.
But when those moves failed to fill fiscal gaps, the agency turned to the surcharge, Wadlow said.
If approved, it would take effect Monday, said spokesman Frank Jahn.
The midyear surcharge on water rates would increase per-gallon charges for customers in single-family residences as they exceed mandated water-use levels.
Most residences pay $3.37 per unit of water, which remains the same no matter how much the customer uses.
But that would change for residents of single-family homes under a new rate structure imposing three separate rates for each two-month billing cycle based on a water unit of 748 gallons:
A flat surcharge of 46 cents, regardless of water use, would be applied to residents in apartments and other multifamily residences, businesses, schools and government agencies -- boosting their total charge per unit to $3.83.
The district board meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Fremont district office, 43885 S. Grimmer Blvd.
About 350 customers have contacted the district to complain about the hike, Wadlow said.
"People say, 'You asked us to conserve and then you want to raise rates?'" he said.
"For most people, it doesn't connect that if you get less of something, you end up paying more -- it's counterintuitive," he said. "But our model is different from most business models."
Contact Chris De Benedetti at 510-353-7011. Follow him at Twitter.com/cdebenedetti.
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The snow is falling fast at Whispering Pines Bed & Breakfast. I can't remember seeing snowflakes the size of quarters. It really is a beautiful sight, especially when the pine trees are covered with snow and there are not any foot prints in the snow yet. I'm sure by tomorrow morning there will be lots of deer tracks. One can hardly see the lake and the opposite shoreline is in a complete whiteout.
Bill is outside shoveling the walkway and plowing the drive for our overnight guests, so he has a different perspective on snow. Gratefully it is not too terribly cold.
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STOCKTON - San Joaquin County sheriff's deputies used a stun gun to subdue a man who was arrested after deputies found him in possession of a gun and drugs Wednesday in west Stockton, authorities said.
A citizen flagged down deputies about 3:15 p.m. to report that a man on a bicycle was swerving in front of a vehicle and initially tried to stop the vehicle near Country Club Boulevard and Clipper Lane. Deputies located Urbano Rosales Jr., 28, who rode away on his bicycle after being told to stop several times, authorities said.
Deputies then pursued Rosales on foot. When Rosales reached toward his waistband, deputies used a stun gun, knocking Rosales to the ground, they said. Rosales was taken into custody without further incident, the Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies searched Rosales and found a loaded, five-shot .38 Special handgun, 22 additional rounds of ammunition, 0.7 gram of suspected methamphetamine and a glass pipe, authorities said. Rosales was arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm with no serial number, unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a loaded firearm, possession of methamphetamines, resisting arrest and other crimes, authorities said.
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Dhani Jones took this picture from a plane as he was flying out of LaGuardia. And then it hailed. Hailed! Buzzfeed got hit by lightning. I guess probably some other weather happened in other parts of the country, at some point, too.
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followed or that certain acts must not be done. By enacting such a law, the
legislature has determined the appropriate standard of care to which an
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defendant's conduct is negligent as a matter of law.
Considine v. Waterbury, 279 Conn.
830, 860-61 n.16 (2006); Staudinger v. Barrett, 208 Conn. 94, 101 (1988);
Pickering v. Aspen Dental Management, Inc., 100 Conn. App. 793, 802
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se should not be given when the alleged negligent party is a minor under the age
of sixteen. General Statutes § 52-217.
The instruction for negligence per
se applies only when the statute alleged is designed to protect persons against
injury and the plaintiff has suffered an injury for which the statute was
intended to guard against. The plaintiff must be within the class of persons
for whose benefit and protection the statute in question was enacted; the
violation of the statute must constitute a breach of duty owed to the plaintiff;
and the violation of the statute must be the proximate cause of the injuries
claimed. See Gore v. People's Savings Bank, supra, 235 Conn. 375-76;
Berchtold v. Maggi, 191 Conn. 266, 274-75 (1983); Couglin v. Peters,
153 Conn. 99, 101-102 (1965).
This charge should be given in
conjunction with the charge on causation. If the defendant is found to be
negligent due to violation of a statutory duty, then the defendant will be
liable to the plaintiff if such violation is a substantial factor in causing the
claimed injury. See Gore v. People's Savings Bank, supra, 235 Conn. 376
n.15, citing Busko v. DeFilippo, 162 Conn. 462, 466 (1972).
Negligence per se is applicable to
a violation of a valid regulation or ordinance. See Citerella v. United
Illuminating Co., 158 Conn. 600, 608 (1969); Heritage Village Master
Assn., Inc., v. Heritage Village Water Co., 30 Conn. App. 693, 705 (1993).
An exception to this general rule applies to OSHA regulations which cannot
furnish the basis of a negligence per se instruction due to applicable limiting
state and federal statutes. OSHA regulations can be the basis for an
instruction that they are evidence of the standard of care to which the
defendant must be held. A violation of the regulations, while not negligence
per se, can be considered evidence of negligence. Wendland v. Ridgefield
Construction Services, Inc., supra, 184 Conn. 178. See also Staudinger
v. Barrett, supra, 208 Conn. 100-03 (a violation of a police pursuit policy
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Returning to Reflect
I've spent some time thinking about why it is that I responded so vehemently to the article in NYRSF. A lot of discussion ended up focusing on The Road, but it wasn't really the statements about The Road that sparked my ire -- mostly, I think it was that Sanford's article hit multiple areas of sensitivity for me all at once. What I realized when reading all the commentary about what I and others had said was that there are a number of topics related to the perception of science fiction/fantasy outside of the active community of self-identified readers of SF that I enjoy seeing discussed with an awareness of all the different sorts of complexity involved. When that complexity seems to be ignored, I get annoyed, because what I really want is for somebody to answer questions I don't have answers to, because I lack the knowledge and experience to dig into them.
I don't intend to beat the discussion into the ground -- I've pretty much said what I have to say -- but I want to offer a couple points of clarification. My argument was mostly with the idea of a "literary establishment" and a "literary elite", but I didn't mean to somehow imply I think all books are treated equally by editors, publishers, distributors, booksellers, reviewers, teachers, and readers. That would be an idiotic argument, and though I am fully capable of making idiotic arguments, I hope I didn't make that one. It's the differences that really hold my fascination, in fact, which is why I think I got so testy with an article that I perceived to be simplifying things horribly.
I also think science-fiction-as-science-fiction is in an interesting moment, one where, yes, many topics primarily (but not exclusively) the province of SF over the past sixty or seventy years are often not being identified by writers, marketers, or readers as SF. (Books for teens should also be a part of this discussion.) In The Jewel-Hinged Jaw and, especially, Starboard Wine, Samuel Delany posited the idea that the basic difference between science fiction and other types of prose is a difference of subject/object relationship rather than of content -- that SF privileges the object, whereas other types of writing since the 19th century privilege the subject. If this was true, is it still? What are the different forces at play in the careers of such writers as George Saunders, Aimee Bender, and Kelly Link -- or, for that matter, Ursula LeGuin, Nalo Hopkinson, and Lucius Shepard? What are the systems and forces that came together to make such a general success of The Road ... or Harry Potter? Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Those of us who feel obsessively drawn to these questions, perhaps against our better judgment, would do well to avoid generalizations and probe carefully into the contradictions, exceptions, surprises, histories, orthodoxies, and assumptions of the topic. That's a reminder as much for myself as for anybody else.
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I think I said this in an email, but I may as well post it here...ReplyDelete
One of the problems about talking about SF and mainstream literature is that the two communities seem to mean different things by the term "science fiction."
Within the SF community we usually recognize "science fiction" by the tropes it uses. If it has spaceships, or time travel, or aliens, or talking squid, then it is SF.
The literary community, on the other hand, appears to use the term "science fiction" to to denote a style of writing (and very much a genre style of writing with formulaic plot structures, stock characters and so on).
A good analogy might be to look at romance fiction. Lots of literary fiction is about people falling in love, but you don't see a book described as "romance" unless it fits the classic romance fiction mold.
Consequently, literary authors probably see no contradiction in appropriating the tropes of SF and yet claiming that what they are writing is not "science fiction".
There are two obvious problems with this (aside from the ongoing plague of outraged blog posts whenever anyone makes a "not science fiction" comment). The first is that some literary critics have a tendency to assume that anything published by an SF imprint, or written by an SF author, must be formulaic genre fiction. We, on the other hand, might follow Farah Mendlesohn in claiming that one of the unique things about SF as a genre is that it doesn't have a formula.
The other potential problem is that while just about anyone can write about falling in love (most of us have done so at least once), it isn't as easy to write well about science and technology. Consequently some of the mainstream writers who pick up SF tropes tend to use them rather badly when compared to authors who are steeped in SF traditions.
All of which, I hope, managed to avoid generalizations...
Thanks for adding that, Cheryl -- and thanks, too, for the email, which I haven't yet had a chance to respond to. (I'm at least a week behind on emails...)ReplyDelete
I love mentioning science fiction to people outside the community of science fiction readers, because the response is so unpredictable. Recently, a good friend of mine who is extremely well read in general fiction, but not SF, and who is brilliant and insightful about many things, tried to convince me that the movie Children of Men is not science fiction, because it has nothing to do with spaceships or that sort of thing. She really thought my categorizing it as SF was bizarre. (And when she first balked at my labelling it that, I thought she was joking.)
And then on the other hand, some of the best conversations I had at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference some years ago were about vampire novels, and recently at the lit conference I went to in Kenya I had multiple and very well informed conversations about such writers as John Crowley, Samuel Delany, Paul DiFilippo, Pat Cadigan, and others.
For that matter, some of the best conversations I've had about Faulkner, Henry James, and even Beckett have been at science fiction conventions or with SF fans and/or writers.


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PLEASANT HILL -- Investigators re-enacted events that led to the death of two workers on the BART tracks last week, a procedure that halted BART service between the Lafayette and Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre for three hours Wednesday afternoon.
The procedure will be the latest step in the National Transportation Safety Board's probe into the deaths of 58-year-old BART employee Christopher Sheppard and 66-year-old Laurence Daniels, a rail consultant. Both were working on the tracks between Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek at 1:53 p.m. Oct. 19, when they were hit by a train where the tracks run adjacent to Jones Street.
The re-enactment began at noon, and BART shut down trains on the Pittsburg-Bay Point and San Francisco lines between those three stations until 3:30 p.m., the agency said. Commuters at the Lafayette, Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill stations used BART buses that took them to waiting buses. Service east of Pleasant Hill and west of Lafayette continued unabated.
On Tuesday, NTSB Investigator in Charge Jim Southworth said the collision happened when a supervisor was teaching two trainees to drive trains during the strike. A four-car train was going at least 60 mph when it struck Sheppard and Daniels.
Southworth said his agency found flat spots on the rear car wheels, indicating the brakes were applied before the accident. He also said the lights, horn and brakes all were working.
The NTSB says the supervisor and one trainee were in the cab at the time of the accident with "direct supervision," while four other employees rode in the passenger compartment.
Staff writer Matthias Gafni contributed to this story. Contact Rick Hurd at 925-945-4789 and follow him at Twitter.com/3rdERH.


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For many centuries now, the druids of Taverley and some of the ogre shamans of Gu'Tanoth have been bringing various familiars from other realms to help them with a variety of their tasks. Of course, the druids being peaceful and the ogres being more 'business-like', they traditionally summon entirely different familiars - what would a druid want with a rune minotaur, for example? What would an ogre do with a unicorn stallion?
Having realised how useful this skill is to the adventurers of Gielinor, they have released the secret of their powers, and now you can enjoy the curious advantages that come with learning the art of Summoning.
Summoning works by 'infusing' the essence of a creature from a strange realm into a type of pouch. When the summoning pouch is opened, a portal is briefly activated to pull the familiar through to the world of Gielinor, where it is bound to serve its master for a period of time before the portal closes and it is pulled back.
Summoning is a three-stage skill. That is, there are three distinct aspects to Summoning and using familiars. These stages are as follows:
- Infusing pouches
- Using special ingredients and the charged Summoning obelisks, you can create Summoning pouches which contain a familiar's essence.
- Summoning familiars
- Opening the pouch summons the familiar to follow you about and help you as you travel across Gielinor.
- Using Summoning scrolls
- Pouches can be 'transformed' into Summoning scrolls. All familiars have a special ability that can only be used if you have the correct scrolls.
Infusing Pouches
Main Article: Summoning Pouches
All summoners need pouches to summon their familiars. Through the power of the obelisks, they are able to bind the essence of a creature into the pouch to be released later. In addition, they can use these pouches to create scrolls to empower their creatures to use special abilities.
To infuse any pouch, you need an empty pouch and a few ingredients. By taking these to a fully-charged Summoning obelisk, you will be able to infuse the pouch so that you can summon your familiar. To find out where a suitable obelisk is, read below.
When you find an obelisk, you can simply click on it to bring up the options for infusing a pouch. Depending on the ingredients you have to hand, it should look something like this:
You can remind yourself of the ingredients you need by selecting a pouch in the interface. Like many other skills, you have options for infusing many pouches at once.
Infusing Scrolls
Main Article: Summoning Scrolls
Pouches can be transformed into scrolls at a fully-charged Summoning obelisk. Each pouch will make 10 scrolls. As scrolls are used, your special move bar will be drained, but it will recharge with time.
When you find an obelisk, you can simply click on it to bring up the options for transforming a pouch. Depending on the ingredients you have to hand, it should look something like this:
Summoning Familiars
Main Article: Familiars
To summon a familiar for which you have a pouch, simply right-click on the pouch and select 'Summon'. You will see your familiar appear next to you. Note that you can only have one follower (either a pet or a familiar) out at any one time; there are also a very small number of areas that will not allow you to summon a familiar, usually only if you are standing very near a fully-charged obelisk.
When you summon a familiar, you will notice that your Summoning level begins to fall. Like Prayer, Summoning a familiar will drain your Summoning points, which can only be regained by visiting a Summoning obelisk or drinking a Summoning potion. You can see how many points you have remaining by looking at the Action Bar.
Because Summoning familiars costs you Summoning points, you will often find that you need to recharge. You can do this by heading to any Summoning obelisk, right-clicking on it and selecting 'Renew-Points', or by drinking a Summoning potion. Summoning potions also restore a portion of your special move bar.
The length of time a familiar will remain with you depends on the familiar you have summoned. All familiars will stay with you for a set period of time. There is an initial Summoning points cost to summon a familiar, though, so you must have enough Summoning points to support this. It's easy to top-up your points, though: just have a look for a small obelisk.
When you have your familiar out, you'll discover that many of them have a number of special abilities that you can use to your advantage. If you're unsure what your familiar can do, please read Familiars. If you're looking for a familiar to help with a specific aspect of your training, this article also shows each type of familiar according to its best skill.
All familiars have a 'special move' that can be activated by using a Summoning scroll. There are many different special moves, to see what your familiar does, please read Summoning Scrolls.
Using special moves will use up some of your special move energy, which you can see at the top of the Summoning interface. Like special attack energy, this recharges over time. To see how much of your special move energy is used by each scroll, please see the Summoning - Scrolls article.
Note that although many special moves will activate when you click the special move button, some special moves will require you to specify a target (the Bull Rush special moves, for instance).
Familiars and Combat
Many familiars are capable of helping you out in combat by attacking your opponents. Their attacks range from mild irritants, through to assaults capable of delivering massive damage or seriously reducing your enemy's statistics. Each combat familiar has a specific type of combat that they specialise in, and you will earn experience in that skill (as well as Constitution) as if you had inflicted the damage yourself. Familiars will also help with Slayer assignments and LootShare.
Of course, because your familiar is separate from you, they cannot help you on single-combat servers.
If you find yourself facing someone else who has a familiar (in The Duel Arena, for instance), you will find it useful to know that familiars' attacks are occasionally unlike the usual Melee, Ranged or Magic that you might expect. Most armour has a specific defence value against familiars' special moves and some of their stranger attacks, and if your Prayer level is high enough you may be able to use the Protect from Summoning prayer to minimise the damage you will receive from their attacks.
Main article: Pets
The Summoning skill, aside from granting you the ability to call upon strange beings from another realm, also enables you to form close bonds with a number of animals native to Gielinor. These range from dogs and geckos right up to baby dragons!
Pets can be purchased from pet shops, caught using the Hunter skill, received from birds' nests when Woodcutting, or as drops from some monsters.
When you have your pet out and following you, you will be able to right-click the Summoning icon next to the minimap and select 'Follower details' to see how your pet is getting along.
Like the interface for keeping track of your familiars, there are a couple of useful bits of information available.
The 'feeding dish' icon shows your pet's hunger. The higher the number, the more they need to eat. If you don't feed your pet regularly enough, they are likely to run away, so remember to keep some snacks on you! You can find out what your pet likes to eat from the article on pets.
The other icon, showing an adult bulldog and a bulldog puppy, shows how far your pet is towards being fully grown. Most pets go from being puppies/chicks/etc. to an adult state, but the Guthix raptor, Saradomin owl and Zamorak hawk all have an intermediate stage.
Charged Summoning Obelisks
Summoning obelisks are essential tools for the budding summoner. You can use them to infuse pouches, transform pouches into scrolls and to recharge your summoning points. A number of obelisks have been discovered across Gielinor, so if you're running low on pouches, scrolls or summoning points, you can head to one of these locations.
|Taverley Summoning obelisk and shop
|Gu'Tanoth Summoning obelisk and shop
|Mort Myre Summoning obelisk and shop
|The obelisk is located in Pikkupstix's house.
|Located just before the gates into Gu'Tanoth.
|Located in the Nature Spirit's grotto.
|Isafdar Summoning obelisk and shop
|Brimhaven Summoning obelisk
|Piscatoris Summoning obelisk
|Located just inside the Underground Pass.
|Located west of Brimhaven.
|Located in a cave south of the Piscatoris Fishing Colony.
|Kharidian Desert Summoning obelisk
|Located in a cave south-west of Pollnivneach.
Small Obelisks
In addition to the charged obelisks at which you can infuse pouches, there are dozens of partially charged, 'small' obelisks all over RuneScape that you can use to recharge your Summoning points. The list below is just a sample: you can find lots more by exploring!
|Kharidian Desert
|Small obelisks can be found in Shilo Village, just west of the Nature Ruins and on Karamja volcano.
|Small obelisks can be found in at Shantay Pass, north of Pollnivneach and east of Sophanem.
|Small obelisks can be found in the Fishing Guild, just west of the Gnome Stronghold Agility Course, outside the Combat Training Camp, north of the Battlefield and south-west of Port Khazard.
|Fremennik Province
|Small obelisks can be found south of Rellekka, south of the Lighthouse, by the docks at Etceteria, outside the Jatizso gates and just west of Neitiznot.
Pet Shops and Incubators
Summoners may find that they want a pet that they do not need to summon, and can instead carry about, have following them or store in their bank. Pet shops are convenient places for summoners to find these pets and the resources to look after them. They also have incubators, which are necessary if you want to get an egg ready to hatch.
|Taverley pet shop and incubator
|Yanille pet shop and incubator
Restoring Summoning Points
|The main way to restore summoning points is to recharge them from a summoning obelisk or a mini obelisk.
|It is possible for Members to drink summoning or super restore potions to restore any lost summoning points. Please see the Herblore section of the Manual for more details.
Getting Summoning Experience
XP is provided for infusing summoning pouches and, to a lesser extent, transforming pouches to scrolls, summoning familiars and using summoning scrolls.
Boosting Experience Gain
|The small, medium, large and huge fallen stars can boost your XP gain depending on your level. To activate your bonus XP, you must click the star. Once the bonus XP has been added to your bonus XP pool, the star is removed from your inventory.
|Each individual item in the shaman's set (hand wraps, headdress, leggings, moccasins, and poncho) grant 1% extra XP each. A complete set will grant an additional 1% XP bringing the total to 6% for the whole set.
Players in a clan with a citadel will find that contributing to their clan's resource pool will earn bonus XP that can be used on the surface world.
Training Hints and Tips
- Keep your Summoning points up! If your points run out, you'll be unable to summon your familiars, so if you plan on spending a fair bit of time with your familiar, you should head to an obelisk first to recharge, as well as grabbing some Summoning potions.
- Skill-based familiars (like the Macaw) can help out with a few skills at once, so you can be working on your Herblore, for example, while getting Summoning experience.
- Keep an eye on your familiar's timer! They might just disappear right when you need them the most...
- Consider unlocking the Spiritualise Food spell for your Lunar Spellbook. This spell allows you to heal your familiar with food, as well as boost its combat stats and regenerate its timer.
Summoning Boosts
|The Summoning cape, Summoning cape (t) or Summoning master cape can be used to temporarily increase your skill level by 1. To do this, equip one of the capes, right-click it and choose Boost. Note that you will only be able to use this boost once per minute.
Useful Items
|Spirit gems are worn in the pocket slot and have a chance to save you using a charm when crafting pouches.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Why is my Summoning level lower than it should be?
Your Summoning skill is like your Prayer skill, in that performing certain actions reduces your Summoning points. Your Summoning points are reduced by Summoning a familiar or using their right-click abilities.
You can recharge your Summoning points by going to an obelisk or drinking a Summoning potion.
2. Do I get combat experience for damage my familiar does in combat?
Yes - every familiar that can fight will award combat experience in a specific combat skill as well as Constitution as if you had inflicted the damage yourself. To find out which familiars give specific combat experience, read Familiars.
3. My familiar isn't attacking my enemy!
You can make your familiar attack your foe by clicking the 'Call familiar' button in your Summoning interface.
4. Aren't some of those familiars awfully powerful?
Some of the high-level familiars are potent beasts capable of wreaking havoc among weaker creatures. As such, they can be dangerous opponents - remember, though, that familiars do not get the benefit of Prayers or special armour/weapons that you do.
If you're finding familiars make your duelling challenging, you might like to look into the Protect from Summoning prayer, which will block any familiar's right-click abilities and 40% protection from their special moves. This prayer can be combined with other protection prayers to keep you safe from their normal attacks.
5. Do I need a Summoning level to wear some helmets now?
No, you only need a Summoning level to have helmets enchanted to carry Summoning scrolls. If you don't want your helmet enchanted, you don't need a Summoning level.
6. Why can't I charge my headgear with my scrolls?
If you have enchanted Summoning headgear, you can store combat-based Summoning scrolls in them. You can only have one item of headgear with scrolls stored in it at a time.
7. Why can't I summon a familiar in some places?
You cannot summon a familiar close to a fully-charged Summoning obelisk because the Summoning energies are too great there, and you risk having a familiar running loose. You can still bring a familiar to a fully-charged obelisk, but you will be unable to summon one there. There are also a small number of minigames that may not allow you to use familiars.
8. Where can I get Summoning charms?
There are hundreds of creatures around Gielinor that have charms, so it should be a simple matter of running to a good combat area and killing some monsters to get charms for your Summoning skills.
To get you started, here's a list of some creatures with a decent drop-rate for Summoning charms:
Those who enjoy Slayer might also like to try killing the following for some Summoning charms:
These creatures may not necessarily drop the most charms or even drop them most frequently, so by exploring and trying out different enemies, you may well find a better source.
Finally, you can also claim charms as a reward for taking part in Soul Wars.
9. There was a bug and now I've lost my pet!
Never fear, pets have a natural tendency to head for places with the resources to care for them. If your pet is lost because of a bug, you can simply head to a pet shop to recover it. Of course, this is a naturally difficult time for them, so all pets will be fully grown when you recover them, and it's possible that the shop owner mistakes one animal for another, so your pet may change colour.
You will not be able to recover a pet if you have dismissed it or you lost it when you died.
10. How do I get a carved turnip for an evil turnip pouch?
First of all, you'll need an evil turnip (the wicked vegetable that doesn't follow you about), which you can get by Farming or trading with other players. Next, you'll need to use a knife on it to turn it into that most horrific of all vegetables: the carved turnip.
11. How can I buy many spirit shards in one go?
You will often want to use hundreds of spirit shards at a time, for training or simply stocking up. To satisfy this demand, all Summoning shops offer spirit shard packs, containing 5,000 spirit shards.
12. Will Summoning affect my combat level?
Yes, Summoning will have an effect on your combat level but only if it is your highest combat skill (out of Attack, Strength, Magic, Summoning and Ranged). See Combat for a description of combat levels.
See Also
Summoning Related Skills
The following skills help with the Summoning skill:
- Hunter - If you'd like to get hold of charms without engaging in combat, then you might be interested in hunting charm sprites. These little critters can be found south of the Tree Gnome Stronghold, on the way to the Arandar Pass. Hunters of at least level 72 will be able to buy the necessary tools from the gnome hunter Yaktwee Swinmari Cianta, then use them to blast critters and transmute them into charms.
Summoning Related Quests
For quests that specifically give Summoning experience as a reward, please refer to the Quest Experience Rewards page.
Summoning Related Minigames
You can use your familiars in the following minigames:
- Blast Furnace
- Castle Wars
- Clan Wars
- The Duel Arena - note that Summoning can be disabled during duels and tournaments
- Games Room
- Gnome Ball
- Gnome Restaurant
- Mage Training Arena
- Pyramid Plunder
- Ranging Guild
- Rogue Trader
- Shades of Mort'ton
- Tai Bwo Wannai Clean-up
- Tears of Guthix
- TzHaar Fight Pit
Summoning Related Distractions and Diversions
The following D&Ds help with the Summoning skill:
- Tears of Guthix - If Magic is your weakest skill, try the Tears of Guthix D&D.
- Familiarisation - Once per week, you'll have the mental fortitude to project your consciousness into the spirit realm itself to gather the raw materials the druids require to make spirit shards.
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9.5-7 Criminal Mischief in the Third Degree -- § 53a-117 (a) (1)
Revised to December 1, 2007
The defendant is charged [in count __] with criminal mischief in the third degree. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
a person is guilty of criminal mischief in the third degree when, having no reasonable ground to believe that such person has a right to do so, such person (intentionally / recklessly) <insert as appropriate:>
damages tangible property of another.
tampers with tangible property of another and thereby causes such property to be placed in danger of damage.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Damaged or tampered
with property
The first element is that the defendant <insert as appropriate:>
damaged tangible property of another.
tampered with tangible property of another and thereby placed the property in danger of damage.
"Tangible" means that the property is something that can be felt and seen. To "damage" means to harm the property. To "tamper with" means to physically interfere with.
[<Insert if applicable:> This "other person" need not have had a complete, absolute, or exclusive right to the property. It is enough if (he/she) had a right to possess it or shared some such right with someone else.]
Element 2 - Intentionally /
The second element is that the defendant acted (intentionally / recklessly)1 in damaging or tampering with the property. <Insert as appropriate:>
A person acts "intentionally" with respect to a result when (his/her) conscious objective is to cause such result. <See Intent: Specific, Instruction 2.3-1.>
A person acts "recklessly" with respect to a result or circumstances when (he/she) is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that such result will occur or that such circumstances exist. <See Recklessness, Instruction 2.3-4.>
Element 3 - No right
The third element is that the defendant had no reasonable ground to believe that (he/she) had a right to damage or tamper with the property. A "reasonable ground to believe" means that a reasonable person in the defendant's situation, viewing the circumstances from the defendant's point of view, would have shared that belief.
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 1) the defendant (damaged property / tampered with property causing a risk that it would be damaged), 2) (he/she) did so (intentionally / recklessly), and 3) (he/she) had no reasonable ground to believe that (he/she) had a right to damage or tamper with the property.
If you unanimously find that the state
has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of the crime of
criminal mischief in the third degree, then you shall find the defendant
guilty. On the other hand, if you unanimously find that the state has failed to
prove beyond a reasonable doubt any of the elements, you shall then find the
defendant not guilty.
If both intentional and reckless are charged in the alternative, instruct the
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Sony said Friday it is suspending sales of a tablet computer it launched last month, because of a manufacturing error that made some of the units susceptible to water damage, an especially embarrassing glitch since one of the tablet's main selling points is its water resistance.
The faulty tablets are a setback for Sony's efforts to build a position in the smartphone and tablet computer markets, currently dominated by Apple and Samsung Electronics Sony Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai has identified such mobile devices as important growth drivers in his strategy to turn around the company.
Sony started selling the Xperia Tablet S in September. The company initially sold its first two tablets, introduced last year, under the Sony brand but debuted this model under the Xperia brand for the first time to unify the tablet computer line-up with its smartphones, which are already marketed under the brand name.
A Sony spokeswoman said the company didn't know when it can start reselling the device. Sony said it will be a few weeks until it can start inspecting and repairing the damaged models because of delays in procuring the parts needed to fix the problem.
Of the initial 100,000 units shipped by Sony, 60% of those were exposed to a production error committed by one of the company's contract manufacturers. Customers complained that there was a gap between the display screen and the back of the tablet. Sony deemed that water could seep into the crevice and damage the device.
Sony said no customers have complained about water damage yet. The company said it will inspect the unsold models to root out the defective models, while offering free inspection and maintenance, if necessary, to customers who already bought the tablet.


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I'm writing the directions for this wing sauce as I'm looking at the picture. It looks like I used about a third of the bottle of chili sauce, doesn't it? (help me out here, please!) And... let's say about the same amount of duck sauce. The amount of habanero sauce is best left to your discretion, but I will tell you that my bottle had all kinds of warnings on it... keep out of the reach of children, no smoking around this item, items in this bottle are hotter than they appear, harmful if swallowed. Again, discretionary use is advised. The garlic powder... I'd say about a half of a teaspoon. And if you don't have a Maxine Christmas mug to mix this all up in, you're just going to have to find a different wing sauce recipe. Sorry.
Hubby said it was his favorite wing sauce.... ever.
The basic directions we use for grilling chicken wings can be found here. And what I like best about making wings is not knowing in advance how we're going to sauce them. They turn out different every time. Even Sloopy eagerly awaits his chicken wing. (Ohhh... don't be going and getting your knickers in a knot; we don't really give him chicken bones. I just needed a way to work this photo into the conversation.)


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Richard Littlemore | September 13, 2006
By Richard Littlemore • Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 12:22
"There is a great deal of uncertainty associated with climate predictions and, although temperature changes during this century are consistent with global warming predictions, they remain within the range of natural variability."
Uncertainty is a reliable feature of climate science, but the statement that temperature changes during this century "remain within the range of natural variability" is decidedly and verfiably false. This represents a flagrant misrepresentation and politicization of science.
The Union of Concerned Scientists addresses the question thusly:
It was bad enough that the Conservative Party was prepared to flout the truth in challenging climate science. It is a scandal that the Tories should have forced a formerly reputable scientific institution like Environment Canada to do the same.
The Role of Natural Variability
Human-induced warming is superimposed on natural processes to produce the observed climate. Because these natural fluctuations (which are always present) play a role in determining the precise magnitude and distribution of temperature in a particular year, record warmth in any one year is not in itself highly significant. What is noteworthy, however, is that global average temperatures experienced a net rise over the twentieth century, and the average rate of this rise has been increasing. When scientists attempt to reproduce these twentieth century trends in their climate models, they are only able to do so when including human-produced heat-trapping emissions in addition to natural causes.
Stephen Berg replied on Permalink
New Canadian Climate Policy to Be Built on a Lie
From bad to worse. It makes me feel awful that my former employer (for two summers as a summer student at the Winnipeg weather office) would be forced to lie by the government.
This story has to be circulated to every voter as soon as possible and if not, at least before the next election. This government must go, for the sake of decency and all that is right!
Raging Ranter replied on Permalink
Global warming
Global temperature has increased less than one degree in the past 60 years. That could very well be within the range of normal variability.
Anonymous replied on Permalink
<i>That could very well be
<i>That could very well be within the range of normal variability. </i>
Yeah, except that it's not.
RougePierre replied on Permalink
Seriously, get your head out of the sand
Do you really think all those scientists writing all those studies telling us we should be be concerned wouldn't take such things into consideration? Do you think scientists are aware of all these little skeptic "factiods" like the "little ice age" and "solar variability" when they make their conclusions? If they aren't, maybe you should call them all up and let them know about this nugget of wisdom.
Anonymous replied on Permalink
Actually the premise is
Actually the premise is correct. Climate models use parameterizations because computers cannot explicitly solve partial differential equations and integrations. Equation-solving "schemes" must be used. Thus, the solutions, when you tweak the parameterizations <i>and even the equation-solving schemes themselves</i>, come out different. And the problem is magnified when you tweak initial conditions, which is done all the time based on new data coming in. To say it's an inexact science is an understatement, and the politicization of the topic will get us nowhere.
That being said, the warming is happening, and we should now focus on how to curb it, if indeed we can at all. And remember, mother Earth has proven to be a more wonderful self-healer than we give her credit for.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Stephen (I promised myself I
Stephen (I promised myself I wouldn't politicize this but I couldn't let your comment go).
But I have to ask: what's decent and right, in your eyes? It's obvious you don't think it's the Conservatives, so is decent and right a) someone who steals BILLIONS of your and my tax dollars to line their own pockets, exhibiting exactly zero stance on everything, except USA hatred, or b) a party who wants to sit down, have tea and crumpets and "negotiate" with the Taliban? Someone else?
John Lefebvre replied on Permalink
Are you suggesting ...
…that it was bad for the Liberals to lie (which is a reasonable proposition), but somehow now bad for the Tories to lie? We're not arbiters of decency and rectitude here; we just want these guys to tell the truth about climate change.
Stephen Berg replied on Permalink
What is decent and right in
What is decent and right in my eyes is being truthful. I agree that the Liberals had their problems with the sponsorship scandal, however, it was over the theft of $200-300 million, not "BILLIONS." You're $700-800 million off. It still is a lot of money, mind you, but in the grand scheme of things, over the 5 years or so it was in effect, it cost the average taxpayer a total of $15 or so. It's upsetting, but it's nothing to get your stomach all tied up about. The punishments are beginning to be doled out to those who deserve it.
Why do you, as a Conservative supporter (I assume you are since you so vociferously assailed my post), always seem to think those who are so concerned about climate change are anti-American? You're picking a fight is what you're doing. I never mentioned the conflict in Afghanistan. I was only talking about climate change.
However, now that you've brought it up, I actually do not oppose the Conservatives' position on Afghanistan. I think what Layton and his supporters are doing is appalling, like Neville Chamberlain in Britain trying to appease the Nazis.
And about exhibiting "zero stance on anything," you're targeting the wrong person.
Enough of the off-topic babble. Let's take this outside DeSmogBlog, OK? E-mail me at [email protected] and we'll settle this.
gov quote
The line you cite from the government website doesn't seem to be there. Am I just missing it? Or have they already altered it? I notice that it posts an update date of Sept 14th. I also had no success searching out the line in the wayback machine.
John Lefebvre replied on Permalink
Thanks for the prompt
… see the new post above: Bravo Environment Canada.


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Ms. Sebelius was asked when President Barack Obama knew about the problems with the site's performance. She said it became clear "fairly early on," in the first couple of days, that there was a problem. Asked if Mr. Obama knew of any problems before the Oct. 1 rollout date, she responded "no."
The embattled health and human services secretary offered no new details about the specific problems plaguing the website or the "tech surge" that is supposed to fix them. The federally run exchanges have been hampered by an array of technical difficulties, and the extent of the issues remains unknown.
While some Republicans have called for Ms. Sebelius to resign, she said she has spoken to Mr. Obama only "about doing the job that I came here to do."
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Mr. Obama pledged Monday that the website's problems would be resolved, even as he encouraged Americans to try out the 800 number to sign up for health insurance. Ms. Sebelius emphasized that people could enroll three ways – online, on the phone or in person – saying that the administration never expected everybody to use the website.
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A relative of one of the suspects knows the intended victims, Lt. Terry Hines told the Sun Herald.
The incident was reported about 6 p.m. Sunday at Rolling Hills Estates. The victims -- a couple and their grandson -- told police a man and woman with bandanas over their faces forced their way inside their residence. One of the victims resisted, and the pair fled to a car driven by another woman, police said.
Police later arrested Amber Deering of Ocean Springs and Samantha Triplette and Michael Deering, both of Biloxi, and booked them on charges of armed robbery and burglary.
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