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We did the killing here, it was our drone that saw three lower level terrorists under a tree with a couple of other unidentified folks(guys on our side) and smoked them. This lack of intel is overlooked routinely and innocents are killed to get a couple of terrorists and is chalked up as collateral damage.
I hope i am anything but a person with a typical liberal mind (i am very conservative), and i don't have an equation just reports from folks other than fox news. But if you want to play that way, do you have numbers that terrorists are decreasing or is this typical conservative "don't question our military ever emotions" that lead us to never questioning our tactics on wars that can't be won?
I have never said terrorist numbers were declining.
That was Obama...............a claim he made right after "HE" got Bin Laden.
Why would I need numbers to support Obama's false assertion?
You however posted that "Its an example of our awful foreign policy that creates ten terrorists for every one we kill."
I am just curious how you arrived at this assumption.
You may not know this, but I have been adamantly opposed toany involvement in Afgahnistan since day 1.
I am sure there are many here that can support that.
It is my contention that Reagan did not bring down the USSR, Afgahnistan BROKE them.
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Didn't the French Foreign Legion try to kill Frances president over something that happened in Afghanistan? nope looks like it was Algeria Best thing to come out of there that I can think of was a cool picture of a young lady with green eyes.
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I came to that number just from research i've done and it is not a hard number, but i bet its close. But i would say it is evident we are making more terrorists and that there are more terrorists now than before 9/11. Obama and bush basically have the same foreign policy of intervention, the only difference is the amount of troops.
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Marv, i hope i don't turn into a dissapointed hippy, or even a hippy or that matter. Honestly the switch in my foreign policy from mainstream conservative republican to a libertarian one is by coincidence. My faith has led me to ask myself tough questions about how our country treats others. I wound up looking for folks that represent my fiscal and foreign policy and wound up prefering libertarians.
Another 60 million to the Syrian opposition! At a time when the White House is decrying the end of the USA over a 2.4% reduction in future spending. I know you guys have got to see the foolishness of our Foreign Policy that I do? This is on top of the $200million we have already provided in Humanatarian Aide. There is a lot more budget cutting that can get done! Deficit Spending is the greatest threat to our Freedom and way of life.
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Randy Schaley was settling in to watch a college football game on TV on Dec. 15 when his son, Beau, 16, walked into the living room of their home near Niagara, N.D. "He said, 'Dad, someone's at the door about a deer,'"By: Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald
Randy Schaley was settling in to watch a college football game on TV on Dec. 15 when his son, Beau, 16, walked into the living room of their home near Niagara, N.D.
"He said, 'Dad, someone's at the door about a deer,'" Schaley recalls.
He doesn't remember their names, but Schaley, 56, said the two men at the door were coyote hunters from Grand Forks. They told him two bucks were locked together by the antlers in a field about a mile away and they wondered if he had a muzzleloader tag.
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Schaley didn't have a muzzleloader license but remembered he had an archery tag.
"They said, 'You might be able to get close enough,'" Schaley said.
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Schaley said he could see the heads of the entangled bucks, which both were lying down, in the grassy field about 40 yards off the road. He got within about 20 yards when one of the bucks stood up.
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"I walked up, and when I got close, all I could see was the red flesh," he said. "And I thought, 'Oh my gosh.'"
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The buck that was alive still had enough energy to backpedal away from Schaley. Every time Schaley tried to move closer, the buck would backpedal even farther away.
"I'm starting to lose ground and started running at him," Schaley said. "He bee-lined backwards into a cattail slough and stopped; now he's in the cattails."
Schaley circled into the cattails to approach the buck broadside and figures he was about 20 yards away when he raised the bow. The buck was frantically thrashing its head, and Schaley missed with the first shot.
He connected with the second arrow.
Before setting out in pursuit of the bucks, Schaley had called Gary Rankin, district game warden for the Game and Fish Department in Larimore, N.D., to see what he should do. He wasn't able to reach Rankin by phone, but the warden by coincidence came driving by just as they were about to pull the bucks out of the cattails.
"He said we had done everything right," Schaley said, and issued a salvage tag to legally possess the second buck.
"It was kind of ironic that Gary just happened to drive by," Schaley said.
The deer were similar in size, and the buck that was still alive had a 4x4 rack while the dead buck had 5x5 antlers. Schaley is having a full-head corner mount made of the entangled bucks — each head on facing walls — that will hang in his house.
"They were locked together pretty good," said Jim Benson of Sportsman's Taxidermy Studio in East Grand Forks, where Schaley is having the bucks mounted. "It was a challenge to unlock them."
The racks will again be locked to complete the mount.
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Schaley said the half-eaten buck didn't appear to have been dead more than a day or two because the flesh was only partially frozen. The deer had been completely disemboweled, its chest cavity hollow.
He said it's hard to say whether the buck died from a broken neck in the fight or if the coyotes killed him.
"What was the other deer thinking?" Schaley wonders. "I assume it took more than one or two coyotes to do that."
The buck Schaley shot didn't have any wounds or bite marks, but the coyotes that ran off likely had their eyes on the deer.
"I'm not the first guy to shoot a deer locked together (at the antlers), but I might be the first to have shot a deer that was eaten by a coyote," Schaley said. "I don't want to make it sound like it was shooting fish in a barrel because it wasn't.
"He wasn't going to lay there for me. He backpedaled away from me, and when I started running, he made a 90-degree turn. He knew where the cattails were."
Schaley said the encounter lasted about 2½ hours from the time the men knocked at the door until he was home with the entangled bucks.
"I do give those two guys credit for wanting to find someone with a tag," Schaley said. "I was pretty pumped. I missed the rest of the football game, that's for sure."
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Does the collapse of Housing Action indicate that relying on charity to meet social need risks failure?
Suffolk-based Housing Action – which leased 300 properties from landlords and let them to vulnerable tenants in the East of England – has been put into liquidation. The charity was acting as a link between local authorities and private landlords. It used to receive local housing allowance for their tenants which it then redistributed to private landlords.
A statement released by the liquidators and the Housing Action board to the Norwich Evening News said that "The trustees sought appropriate advice and came to the conclusion that while the charity was not insolvent, the risks associated with trying to continue as a going concern were too great."
Though they were receiving rents below market rate, the scheme proved attractive to many landlords in the area. The Eastern Landlords Association has warned that some of its members might choose to replace their vulnerable tenants to bring in new people.
My own view that this is an early indication of what will be the outcome of the combined housing and welfare policy of this government, but what do others think?
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23/04/2012 12:37 pm
"Does the collapse of Housing Action indicate that relying on charity to meet social need risks failure?"
In a word - no. Any endeavour has a risk of failure - so this does not indicate anything new.
Let's focus on positives - what is likely to make 'private charities' more successful at meeting social need (as defined by individual charities and whoever contributes to funding them)? The Government is actually a large monopolistic competitor to charities meeting social need. Let me explain this.
There are many people who would choose to be benevolent. However, a lot of their income and spending is taxed which reduces the amount left over for supporting charities. Individuals can't opt out of 'Government charity' otherwise known as the welfare system, as tax evasion is considered a crime. Individuals don't have a meaningful say in how their contributions to the welfare system will be spent, meaning they have little involvement in directing what social needs their money will go on. The Government is monopolistic when it comes to meeting social needs - does it have to be?
A lot of talk goes on about how the Government should emulate the private market and be competitive. Why not make it discretionary whether or not individuals fund the welfare system (through 'Additional Voluntary Taxation'), or direct their tax money to charities meeting social needs instead (as judged individually). At the moment, charities are so starved of contributions that they are constantly begging for crumbs from the Government, and there is no good reason why the system must be so.
Give people the choice of which charity to fund, and let them keep more of their earnings so they have the means to act on that choice. I think we would see 'private charities' grow and become very successful, and meet more social needs than are met now. Not that the Government will entertain any withdrawal of its interference into our economic affairs. After all, little people like us are too stupid and incompetent to be trusted with making such decisions - we need high salaried bureaucrats to make them for us... let's challenge this thinking.
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23/04/2012 3:54 pm
Meritable, and a potential starting point for thinking when approaching a new way forward Jono, but as currently expressed what you are saying would just be a massive backwards step.
The circumstance and situation you are calling for is exactly that which predated the Poor Law - yet charitable giving failed the poor, life expectancy was appalling, and living conditions for the many equally bad.
Surely what needs to be considered is how tax charged is minimised whilst the value of the tax paid is maximised. The same is true in terms of charity. I'd never donate through a street collector, nor at all to the likes of the NSPCC, where so much is expended on collecting donations that the value is minimised. However arrived at, taxation, charitable donation, or a mixture of both, it is the value of that expended from that collected that needs to the attention. The philosophical debate of the primacy of the individual does not do this.
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24/04/2012 2:07 pm
Chris - of course whenever you change from one system to another there are difficulties. People are notorious for reacting badly to change.
What I am calling for is nothing like the situation which preceded the Poor Laws. I am not calling for a Feudal system, or for most individuals to fear God, or for a reversal of modern technology back to the time when the printing press hadn't been around very long, or for an economy in which there is mass starvation, etc. Now and then are two incomparable periods. We can achieve things now we couldn't over 400 years ago.
It's interesting because the system I propose would enable you to exercise the judgement you arrived at - you could decide to fund the Government using your earnings through Additional Voluntary Taxation to support its Welfare system. Or instead, you could choose how much, if any, to give to private charities - according to whether you judge the money to be well spent or not. Currently you do not even have this choice.
This is why private charities are failing, and the welfare state continues to be the tax funded wrecking machine that it is. There is no choice. Our disposable incomes are being exhausted through taxes (both direct and stealth) and we have no real say. Government workers are spending our money on meeting the social needs they judge are important. I say we individually should be the ones judging what social needs are important to us, and back that judgement up with our own money.
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I'm not convinced Jono.
Whilst you are not proposing a return of feudalism, and indeed times have changed, the reason that they have changed has been, in part, as an outcome of the actions of the State. The State has used its period of being in control of the levers of the economy to shape society into that which we know today. Part of that has been the evolution of the complex and (we agree) out of control tax system. Equally, what started as a means to ensure a suitably fit and educated workforce now costs in the extremis but produces a population ill suited to commercial requirements.
As you know, I'm on the 'flat-tax' side of the argument, and we've covered that previously at length. It is clear to me to continue to tweek what is failing is folly, but to revolutionise will have the change consequences that you point to. Thinking of how times have changed, I can not see any indication that people have socially evolved such as to support the change you would see introduced. Only recently it has been made clear that the elite (who some thought were paying so much into the tax pot, and now find that they are not) use charity to reduce taxation - yet offered lower taxation but a cap on further tax reduction from 'excesive' charitable giving chose not to give. They want the low tax and low donation option - i.e. given the choice those with the most would prefer to keep it thatnk you very much.
So I remain of the opinion that what we have seen with Housing Action is the shape of things to come - just as I forecast the consequences of Tory social and housing policy, the details of which are now becoming reality to the shock and horror of the less astute.
Not that I call you less astute, for you are, as has been seen, one of the most astute avatars to post on IH. What I mean though is that your faith in people to donate is misplaced, based on the evidence around.
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Thanks Chris.
Two points to respond to.
1) by your social evolution comment, I think what you are saying is that people would choose to keep their money and not help anyone. It is a matter of their earnings; my view is they should judge how to spend it and on what. Just because my neighbour is unkind, I do not have any right to take his money so that I can be more kind.
Many people in this country are kind though. For example, the Tsunami appeal saw generous, voluntary giving of support. Look at the latest generosity following the sad death of the marathon runner Claire Squires. Despite high levels of tax, people are generous in their support of charities as it stands now.
2) Charitable donations and tax 'efficiency' - under the system I think we both support - one with a flat % tax rate on earned income only, it would be impossible to engage in this sort of behaviour. Either you would pay Additional Voluntary Tax to support the welfare system, or donate to charities. There would be no tax advantage from donating. You would only donate to charities because you want them to be successful in their purpose.
The rich of the moral fibre you describe have those values of ethics because our system rewards them. We have a system which rewards people for coercing rules in favour of one collective or another. That is one reason why I believe in the primacy of the individual and dislike collectives backed with the force of Government. If you have a system which is premised on respect for the individual rights of every individual, you will not have one that passes laws, regulation, directives, grants, subsidies etc to the benefit of some individuals but to the cost of others. You will instead have a truly laissez-faire capitalism - not the corrupt and mixed economy we have now.
Those with the ethics you describe will find what they once considered to be virtues have now become impractical - because the state would have no power to interfere in the economy (other than perhaps through the money supply and general level of taxation). This would be far more powerful agent of 'social evolution' than all the regulation and compulsion we are faced with now as a restraining jacket.
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I would tend to agree with you on this Jono. Indeed, from a Christian basis Jesus teaches that if you have something another person needs then you should give it to them, having faith that God will see to your own needs. This is not as silly as some may consider it in an ideal sense because if everyone behaved that way we would each be looking out for each others' needs and nobody would be left wanting.
Likewise, the sort of society you describe is equally viable. My response however was to point out that the consumerist society we have, that has been taught through generations to look out for number one, charity begins at home, family comes first, and the ultimate Conservatism no such thing as society, all suggest that neither the version of humanity that Jesus directed us to become, nor the version you would like to see, are likely without massive change in human outlook and far more people having more positive priorities beyond the selfish and the individual.
People misquote 'money is the root of all evil', when in fact it is the pursuit of wealth for wealth sake that we are told is wrong, coupled with wealth only has value if it is put to work for good causes. In that way Jono, your belief set, my belief set, and even the misguided antics of Cameron do share a common basis.
However, in the here and now, and with the failing of Plan A (not a surprise to many) the charitable sector is facing compounding crisis as more is demanded of it with less resources from State and individuals to fund the work.
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Partition Magic: Parted Magic 3.5 with ext4
Parted Magic, the live distribution with Gparted and other tools to create, modify and secure hard drive partitions is now available in version 3.5. And thanks to the Linux 126.96.36.199 kernel, the new version comes with support for ext4 file systems.
The ext4 partition works with an earlier Gparted version taken from the project's subversion repository, which according to developers, has been extensively tried and tested.
New programs include the use of squashfs instead of a 7zip archive for image compression, the xfce-screenshooter-1.5.0 and fsarchiver-0.3.5.
Among the updated software packages are rsync 3.0.5, reiserfsprogs 3.6.21, xfsdump 2.2.48-1, xfsprogs 2.10.2-1, and ntfs-3g-2009.1.1. Support for WLAN cards has also been improved.
A Parted Magic 3.5 download is as ISO image, suitable for CD and USB, now available. Developers request a small donation from satisfied users.
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Reader 10.1.1
Xerox Phaser 6200DP (latest avaliable driver update)
I cannot print reliably from Adobe Reader. There is some odd interaction between Reader's print dialog box and the OSX print dialog box.
If I go to the "printer" tab in Reader's dialog, to set the printer up, then go back to Reader and hit "print" I get a message saying that I have not selected a page range - no matter which way I select the page range.
If I avoid touching the "printer" button in the dialog box, then I can print - BUT the document will not print using the printer features such as double-sided printing, even when the OSX printer settings are selected for it.
This problem does NOT occur with Acrobat Pro 9.4.6, which uses the OSX print dialog box instead of using an Adobe-specific one.
The problem also does NOT occur when using Mac OSX 6.
The problem appears to be specific to Reader 10.1.1 and OSX 7.
Reader X 'evaporates' when trying to print a PDF document or access preferences.
Adobe Support Feedback:
1) Are you using Acrobat or Reader?
2) What is the version of Acrobat or Reader you are using? The latest version is 10.1.1 and I would request you to keep the application up-to-date. You may do so by going to Help-->Check for updates. Kindly report back if the issue is fixed or not after the update.
3) Do you see the issue occuring with specific pdf documents or all pdfs? Could you share your pdf documents at firstname.lastname@example.com
4) what is the make of the printer? what is the make of the driver?
5) What is the exact nature of the issue? print does not come? or Do you see any error dialog while printing? or anything else?
Systems affected
Systems Not-affected
PDF documents affected:
An update to post #41.
A clarification that I should of included in my original post is that all problemmatic behaviour reported in post #41 is seen when running as an XP LUA.
An (accidential) further investigation confirms that Reader 10.1.1 with Protected-mode enabled seems to work without problems when logged on as the XP Administrator. Similarly my Windows 7 SUA does not encounter problems.
An addition:
Whilst accessing a bunch of utility bills via IE8, the Reader add-on stopped loading for reasons unknown (IE would open a document viewing window, download the file but window remained blank and no Reader loaded). After some playing around (copy-and-pasting URLs and using Chrome) I got Reader running outside of IE (displaying the bill) and discovered that "Enable Protected Mode at Startup" had been rechecked. Unchecking this etc. re-enabled correct operation of the Reader plug-on with IE8.
Previously (particularly with Reader 9.n) I had regarded this as a problem with IE and not Reader (there are known problems with IE caching of encrypted pages).
To prevent this from happening again, I have (on my only system running Reader X) disabled the use of protected mode for all users in the registry by using:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0\FeatureLockDown]
This might be helpful to some.
1) Are you using Acrobat or Reader?
Reader X
2) What is the version of Acrobat or Reader you are using? The latest version is 10.1.1 and I would request you to keep the application up-to-date. You may do so by going to Help-->Check for updates. Kindly report back if the issue is fixed or not after the update.
3) Do you see the issue occuring with specific pdf documents or all pdfs? Could you share your pdf documents at email@example.com -- all pdfs
4) what is the make of the printer? what is the make of the driver?
hp laserjet 4
5) What is the exact nature of the issue? print does not come? or Do you see any error dialog while printing? or anything else?
when I try to print, I "adobe reader has stopped working" a problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is availabel.
I've been having the same issues. Downloaded AdobeX Reader on 1/12/12 and installed. Aftwards nothing would print. Old versions of Reader have worked just great.
After searching the internet for about 30 minutes I happened upon this post. I did what mvbaums15 did. Under Edit/Preferences/General I unchecked "Enable Protected Mode at startup".
Now all PDFs print just fine. Thanks Adobe. Fix your stupid program!
Please apply the fix available at http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/928/cpsid_92870.html for this issue.
I too am having printing issues, I followed the advice to print as an image which worked.
We use Reader X versin 10.1.3
This issue always happens when I download PDF's from my bank but also noticed it has affected other PDF files.
The printer is a HP Laserjet 1018 -up to date HP drivers,
At first it shows that it has printed the document but when nothing prints I look to my printer status which shows 0 documents pending. Then when I try to print again I get error messages which tell me to install a printer, when I check the status of my printer it says the printer spooler is not working. When I changed to print as an image the printer worked fine but last month before the lasted upgrade, the printer prints pages 1-3 of a 12 page document over and over and over and I could not stop it. It had shut down my printer from working on this computer at all! So I think we are one step ahead.
We have the same problem but have further narrowed it down.
This happens to us when the PDF is being printed directly from a gmail attachement if the computer has Acrobat X on it.
If the PDF is downloaded and then printed from the local machine it works fine, if they have an older version of Acrobat it works fine.
Some time after Atul Agarwal attempted to help me in a private phone conversation, I found the "fix" link in this discussion. It had been posted AFTER our help session, yet no one notified me that such a "fix" was available. I applied the "fix" a few months ago now and it seemed to solve all of my printing problems with Reader X regarding PDF files that 1) would not stay loaded when trying to print them, 2) would not print, 3) would not load at all. I had been assured that the issue was a corrupted installation. So I ask, "Why did the "fix" solve the problem when any number of reinstalls did not?" It would have been helpful to me if Atul had recalled our help session and notified me of the "fix" being available. It would also be swell if Adobe would finally acknowledge that there indeed was a problem. Otherwise, why did there have to be a "fix"?


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Alpha Version of Fedora 19 Released
Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger's Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
New developer offerings in this release include the Developer's Assistant tool, which provides templates, samples, and toolchains to help with coding projects and lets you publish directly to GitHub. This release also includes Ruby 2.0, the latest version of node.js, and 3D modeling and printing tools, such as OpenSCAD and Skeinforge. And, the OpenShift Origin feature lets users build their own Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) infrastructure to facilitate development and deployment of software.
Additionally, the alpha version of Fedora 19 integrates the optional Syslinux boot tool for simplified booting. The developers state that they "have added support for using syslinux instead of GRUB via kickstart and plan to add a hidden option in Anaconda installer as well."
The Schrödinger's Cat alpha release is supported by the Fedora QA team. To report issues, you can contact the team at firstname.lastname@example.com or in #fedora-qa on freenode. Visit the F19 Alpha release announcement for more details on the many included features.
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Hello. I was picking him many times before the nerf (Realy dont remember the patch number, but after I forgot about this hero) till today I had random while had to do smth out of PC in All Pick mode.
Dont know if its me, or this hero realy cannot take even nymphora with -9 pdef from Sol's and Shieldbreaker...
While I ALWAYS had about 2/3:1 kdr with DM - atm I did play 3 matches (2 won, 1 lost) and with my calculation I had like 0.5:1. What is going on with him? Any ideas what to do, maybe different item build or... Just dont pick DM, never?
No it's not you i guess (if your an average player).
Before the nerf i played him alot also and he was quite fun. Since they patched his second he is kinda useless imo.
I mean, i could'nt even kill a 1/4 HP cd while i was full at the same level and with the same farm...
It just doesnt make sense that you get charges AFTER you got a kill because mostly you kill player running around alone withbut since you cant even use your 3rd and 1st + ult while still gettin the "buffs" the second gives - hes useless. In ganks you can often get your 20 charges but then 4 ppl already died. wow makes sense to me (irony)
Pls s2 buff his second skill i guess only moon can still win with that hero but he is....different so to say and i guess he was the reason of the nerf
Last edited by OBERPROGAMER; 04-18-2012 at 10:36 AM.
DM is just plain trash right now, lol. He's a barely decent initiator on 3s, and that's only if your team is actually somewhat competent.
Drink charges nerf was done to stop him "self buffing" himself constantly
So you now have to decide whether you want to use stagger/lunge/ulti at the appropiate times
Personally though, I loathe the changes, drink charges are now such a hassle
I was really thinking to buy him today... I stumble upon this thread and I am glad I just took a peek in the forum before giving him a shot. I'm not a great player but... DM seems to be already a bit complicated to play with...now if is already not-so-good... I guess I'll just pass.
I don't think he's trash now. He's a little away from his former self, but I managed to go on a bloodbath streak on another account some days ago with him. He sure takes some more time to start rolling all over the server, but if you send him mid he should be able to do significant damage from level 10 onwards with his W and E maxed and one point in Q and R. The only thing that hurts him quite a bit is that you won't be able to make use of his drunk-charged ultimate in most cases so you will take full damage and might need some defensive items before you get sb, sols and whatever you want to buy after that (i personally like the critshard build).
I farmed helm + boots in midlane, tried to gank with a rune if I had one and went sb after that. Still works against most heroes...
i dont know you guys....but just after the patch i had a game vs a DM in mid....he totally destroyed me using devo.....i feel him op even with the nerf......
i guess you have to get used to the hero change.....or that guy was really really good
Eventough his win % is very low... I still see him kick ass regulary and he in fact carried our team to victory in my last game.


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I have just been severely "coached"...;-)
The positioning assembly is apparently a Darlington/ CANDU 6 feature...
The design at Bruce apparently requires quite an elaborate effort to physically cut/ weld/ and pull the Channels!
In other words, pretty much exactly as you indicated Morgan, they need to re centre !
If anything this reminds me that standard designs would be great... go EC6!
Thanks for the correction, Andrew. Of course! The end fittings have to be positioned so that the outboard (fuelling machine side) and inboard (calandria side) journal rings remain in contact with their bearing sleeves. Essentially, these journal bearings allow thermal and radiation-induced axial expansion of the pressure tube. Presumably, the bearings are designed so that there is no feeder-to-feeder contact if the bearing surfaces are within their sliding range.
Some illustrations are found on the CANTEACH site at http://canteach.candu.org/library/19980102.pdf , pages 5 to 9 in particular.
From: Andrew Daley [mailto:email@example.com]
Sent: January 9, 2012 1:52 PM
To: Brown, Morgan
Cc: cdn-nucl-l
Subject: RE: [cdn-nucl-l] IESO press release: Ontario electrical generation in 2011
Small correction/ clarification about the "west shift"... To accommodate the lengthening of the fuel channels (due to irradiation), the reactor is set up such that one end is fixed and one end is free... this is accomplished by locking the positioning assembly (or not locking).
When the pressure tube has grown such that there is no more room on the free end bearing, it is required to flip the free and fixed ends.
At Bruce, reactor faces are oriented east/ west and all the assemblies on a face had the same original position.
I am sure canteach has a diagram which will show how the positioning assembly is arranged but I am on my phone so I can't find it!
There are also alignment and clearance issues to consider but I don't think they are of primary importance.
(Ps, someone correct me if I am wrong!)
On 2012-01-09 12:00 PM, "Brown, Morgan" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
Hello Jerry and Happy New Year to all.
Bruce-3 is currently in a 160-day outage (started Nov 6), spending $323 million primarily to perform a "west shift" of fuel channels. This is not a refurb or retube (to the best of my knowledge they are not replacing any pressure or calandria tubes), but instead are adjusting the location of the channels in the core – channels grow due to neutron irradiation and high-pressure (low temperature) creep during normal operation. I believe that the channels need to be realigned with the centre of the reactor, to prevent feeder pipes contacting each other. The project is to extend the life of unit 3 before requiring a full retube (as currently wrapping up in units 1 and 2).
Bruce 1 and 2 are set to be restarted this year (unit 2 leading the way) after a multi-year re-tube and re-boilering. They were originally 769 MWe (net), 825 MWe (gross), and I believe that they will generate that amount in the future (the turbines and generators were refurbed, but not replaced). In their earlier lives, these reactors also generated additional heat (equivalent to 79 MWe) used to supply steam to the Bruce industrial park (the heavy water plant, plus some greenhouses I think). The steam requirement is gone, so the reactor core will presumably be run with a lower heat output (by ~250 MWth) than originally designed.
With the return to power of Units 1 and 2, I expect to see the annual net electrical output increase by ~5.7 million MWh (assuming an 85% capacity factor) for each of these reactors. I don't know how long Bruce 3 and 4 will continue to operate until they are shut for refurbishment. I think there are plans to start to re-boiler and re-tube unit 4 within a couple of years. The annual Ontario net generation should approach (maybe surpass) the record output of ~83.5 million MWh net, set in 1994 when Pickering 2 and 3 were also in operation (shut permanently in 1997). Of course, given the lower electricity demand (unless manufacturing increases), we may see longer maintenance outages.
I believe the wholesale price of electricity is paid to the producers (3.15 cents/kWh). The global adjustment (previously the "provincial benefit") is "the difference between the total payments made to certain contracted or regulated generators/demand management projects, and market revenues" (http://ieso.ca/imoweb/b100/b100_GA.asp). I don't pretend to understand this – it appears to be a complex obfuscation process. According to http://ieso.ca/imoweb/pubs/ga/Global_Adjustment-QAs.pdf :
The goal of the recent change to the global adjustment is to act as a further time‐of‐use incentive for large users to move their consumption in response to supply and demand conditions. It provides a financial incentive for large customers to use less electricity during hours when the grid is under its highest stress which subsequently provides demand response to the market without incurring additional costs. It also encourages customers to shift usage to off‐peak periods when low‐cost, low‐emissions supply is available.
I think the user ends up paying for the wholesale electricity PLUS the global adjustment. I do not know who gets to keep the global adjustment portion (the IESO, OPA, provincial government?). In addition, the user has to pay various delivery charges to the grid operating company (e.g., Hydro One, Ottawa Hydro), the debt retirement charge, and various taxes. It would be great to see a breakdown of who gets what: the electrical generator, the grid operator, the debt retirement fund, the IESO, the OPA, the various levels of government. Anyone up to this task?
From: email@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of JERRY CUTTLER
Sent: January 9, 2012 10:59 AM
To: cdn-nucl-l
Subject: [cdn-nucl-l] IESO press release: Ontario electrical generation in 2011
Happy new year and thanks Morgan
This message is quite interesting.
I understand Bruce U3 is in an extended outage for partial fuel channel refurbishment.
How do you expect the numbers to change when Bruce U2 and U1 come on line this spring?
Can you clarify the meaning of the following sentence from the IESO message?
The total cost of power in 2011 was 7.16 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), up from 6.52 cents/kWh in 2010. This cost includes the average weighted wholesale market price of 3.15 cents/kWh and the average Global Adjustment of 4.01 cents/kWh (preliminary).
Regards, Jerry
From: "Brown, Morgan" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: cdn-nucl-l <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 9:10:55 AM
Subject: [cdn-nucl-l] IESO press release: Ontario electrical generation in 2011UNRESTRICTED | ILLIMITÉ
Composition of Ontario's Electricity Supply Mix Continues to Change: Consumer Response Supports Reliability
January 6, 2012
The Independent Electricity System Operator's annual release of supply, demand and price data highlights three trends that helped shape the management of Ontario's power system in 2011: increasing production from renewable resources, reduced dependence on coal-fired units, and a more active role for consumers in managing their consumption.
With a total installed capacity of more than 1,700 megawatts (MW) at year-end, Ontario's wind generators are playing an increasingly important role in meeting demand for electricity. Total production rang in at 3.9 terawatt hours (TWh) - up substantially from 2.8 TWh in 2010. November 2011 marked the highest monthly wind output ever seen in Ontario, with production in that month alone exceeding 0.56 TWh. In annual terms, wind generation represented 2.6 per cent of total output across all fuel types of 149.9 TWh.
Production from Ontario's nuclear units continues to supply more than half of Ontario's power needs. Nuclear generation rose slightly in 2011 to 85.3 TWh, an increase of 2.4 TWh from 2010. By contrast, output from Ontario's coal-fired units dropped to 4.1 TWh in 2011, two-thirds lower than it was the year before. After unusually low water levels resulted in reduced hydroelectric output in 2010, production rebounded to 33.3 TWh from 30.7 TWh. Natural gas facilities rounded out the mix, with production of 22.0 TWh, up from 20.5 TWh in 2010.
The table below reflects total electricity output in 2011 by fuel type.
85.3 TWh
33.3 TWh
4.1 TWh
22.0 TWh
3.9 TWh
1.2 TWh
56.9 %
22.2 %
2.7 %
14.7 %
2.6 %
0.8 %
82.9 TWh
30.7 TWh
12.6 TWh
20.5 TWh
2.8 TWh
1.3 TWh
55.0 %
20.4 %
8.3 %
13.6 %
1.9 %
0.8 %
82.5 TWh
38.1 TWh
9.8 TWh
15.4 TWh
2.3 TWh
1.2 TWh
55.2 %
25.5 %
6.6 %
10.3 %
1.6 %
0.8 %
84.4 TWh
38.3 TWh
23.2 TWh
11.0 TWh
1.4 TWh
1.0 TWh
53.0 %
24.1 %
14.5 %
6.9 %
0.9 %
0.6 %
Due to rounding, percentages may not add to 100.
Total electricity consumption in Ontario dipped slightly to 141.5 TWh, down from 142 TWh in 2010. A heat wave in late July pushed peak hourly demand to 25,450 MW on July 21 - a 375 MW increase from 2010's peak. This increase would have been even higher if not for demand response (DR) program participants, which include residential, industrial, commercial and institutional users that agree to reduce their consumption during peak periods with extreme weather conditions. During the peak hour, demand for electricity was reduced by more than 500 MW through various DR programs and pricing incentives.
"The supply mix is not the only thing that's changing," said Paul Murphy, President and CEO of the IESO. "By reducing their consumption during periods of high demand, and by using new tools and applications to monitor their usage, Ontario's electricity consumers are becoming key partners in maintaining system reliability."
The total cost of power in 2011 was 7.16 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), up from 6.52 cents/kWh in 2010. This cost includes the average weighted wholesale market price of 3.15 cents/kWh and the average Global Adjustment of 4.01 cents/kWh (preliminary).
Electricity trading activity between Ontario and its interconnected markets slowed, leading to lower imports and exports. Imports fell to 3.91 TWh from 6.4 TWh, while exports dropped to 12.9 TWh from 15.2 TWh.
Morgan Brown, P.Eng