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Wind Concerns Ontario is a province-wide advocacy organization whose mission is to provide information on the potential impact of industrial-scale wind power generation on the economy, human health, and the natural environment.
Expensive legal action will cost taxpayers more for unnecessary power project, community group says
OTTAWA July 3, 2018— The citizens’ group opposing the 100-megawatt “Nation Rise” wind power project asked Premier Doug Ford and his new government today to state its intention to cancel the project’s contract, and halt legal action related to its approval.
The power project, to be located just south of Ottawa, received Renewable Energy Approval just days before the writ for Ontario’s June election was drawn up.
The community filed an appeal of the approval, based on environment and health concerns, which is set to begin Thursday July 5 with a hearing in Finch, Ontario.
Given the new government’s campaign pledge to end contracts for projects which do not have final approval, however, the legal action is a waste of time and taxpayer money, says Margarent Benke, spokesperson for the Concerned Citizens of North Stormont.
Ministry of the Environment employees and lawyers must travel from Toronto and mount a defence of the approval, Benke says, which makes no sense if the government plans to cancel the unnecessary power project.
“We made an urgent request today for action on the Nation Rise project. It will cost the people of Ontario a base price of $500 million over 20 years, and add to our electricity bills,” says Benke. “The Environmental Review Tribunal Hearing will represent even more cost to the government and to the people of Ontario, and more financial and emotional strain to the people of North Stormont.”
The power project would expose citizens near Finch, Crysler and Berwick to environmental noise from huge, 3.2-megawatt wind turbines; most of the turbines would also be located on an area designated as a “highly vulnerable aquifer.”
Ontario currently has a surplus of electrical power; wind power projects produce power out-of-phase with demand, and Ontario’s Auditor General has criticized the contracts for their above market rates. Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk has said Ontario electricity customers overpaid for renewable power by $9.2 billion.
Well-water protection, noise are issues of concern
For immediate release
Ottawa, May 29, 2018 – A community group has filed a formal appeal of the Renewable Energy Approval given by the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) for the “Nation Rise” wind power project.
“People in our quiet rural communities are unhappy with the prospect of an industrial-scale wind power project, particularly due to concerns about noise emissions from the wind turbines,” says Margaret Benke, spokesperson for Concerned Citizens of North Stormont. “This 100-megawatt power project is very large in scope, spanning 12,000 acres. The plans are for 33 industrial wind turbines, equivalent to 60-storey office buildings. It will have a huge impact on our communities.”
Of prime concern is the potential to damage well water supply, as a result of the drilling and pile-driving necessary to anchor the top-heavy turbines. “Of the 33 proposed turbines, 31 are slated to be directly on top of what the MOECC has designated as ‘highly vulnerable aquifers’,” says Benke. “Up to 10,000 wells for villages, homes, farms and businesses between North Stormont and almost to the Ottawa River to the northeast, depend on this fragile source of water.”
Water wells in the Chatham-Kent area have been contaminated with black sediment following turbine construction last year, and there are calls for a public health investigation as a result.
“We are very worried about what could happen to our water,” says Benke.
Noise is a serious concern too, especially because the MOECC has received thousands of noise complaints in Ontario, but few have been resolved, says Wind Concerns Ontario president Jane Wilson.
“The reports we obtained from the MOECC under Freedom of Information show that the Ministry has not responded effectively to reports of excessive turbine noise, and instead relies on hypothetical, computer-generated noise models from the turbine manufacturers. Meanwhile, families can’t sleep at night—some have even abandoned their homes,” says Wilson. “That is not the protection of the environment and health Ontarians expect from their government.
“With so many reports of problems, the people in the North Stormont area are right to be concerned,” Wilson adds.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 5th, tentatively in Finch, Ontario.
The Nation Rise power project will be located about 40 km southeast of Ottawa, and includes the communities surrounding Finch, Berwick and Crysler. It is being developed by Portuguese power developer EDP Renewables.
SOURCE: Wind Concerns Ontario, Concerned Citizens of North Stormont
CONTACT: Margaret Benke email@example.com Jane Wilson firstname.lastname@example.org
A qualified professional real estate appraiser in Illinois alleges that an executive with U.S. wind power developer Invenergy is conducting a campaign of defamation and slander against him, in an effort to have him disqualified from testifying as an expert witness on wind turbines and property values.
Michael McCann wrote a letter on October 20th to the County Supervisors in Palo Alto, Iowa, to counter statements made about him by the Invenergy employee, Michael Blazer, who is both a company vice-president and chief legal officer.
Apparently, Blazer filed an online complaint with the Illinois licensing board that governs the practice of real estate appraisers in that state, then took a screenshot of his complaint and filed that as proof that Mr McCann was “under investigation” by the licensing board. There was no public documentation of any complaint.
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation did process the online submission but found it to be without merit, and dismissed any complaint against Mr. McCann. His license is not in fact under review.
Nevertheless, McCann alleges in his letter, months later Invenergy and Blazer continue to repeat the story that McCann is under suspicion, in an attempt to prevent McCann’s testimony about “injurious” effects of the presence of wind turbines on property values.
“This was a blatant attempt by an Invenergy officer and attorney acting as complainant, judge, jury and firing squad to advance his corporate interests by sullying my reputation, and apparently to try to prevent me from testifying regarding my well documented findings regarding the significant impact of wind turbines on neighboring values.”
“This attempt to discredit an expert witness by a wind power developer is very worrying,” says Wind Concerns Ontario president Jane Wilson. “It is hard enough for ordinary citizens and community groups to achieve any kind of justice against these huge, wealthy power developers, without active campaigns to slander and discredit witnesses.”
Residents of Chatham-Kent who are concerned about reports that as many as 12 water wells may have been affected by pile driving activity during construction of the North Kent II wind power project continue their demonstration at the site today.
The power developer filed for an injunction against them last week, citing concern for the safety of construction workers. The demonstration has been peaceful, and was conducted through the Labour Day holiday weekend.
The campaign has been organized by local community group Water Wells First, which filed an appeal against the power project. The appeal was withdrawn when the appellants were not allowed time to have experts review a hydrology report submitted by the developer.
Chatham-Kent has asked the Ontario government to halt construction until the situation has been reviewed, and property owners affected have been offered free water testing by independent laboratories.
The Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change has taken no action.
For more frequent updates on the demonstration, please check on our Facebook page, and/or at Water Wells First.
The approval for proposed Fairview Wind power project has finally been revoked by the Environmental review Tribunal, on the basis of serious harm to human health and risk to aviation safety — the project was close to two airports.
Our question is, HOW did this power project get as far as it did? How could Transport Canada not block this? Why should taxpayers have had to pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect safety and the environment from their own Ontario Ministry of the ENVIRONMENT and Climate Change?
In the original decision issued last fall, the Environmental Review Tribunal accepted the appellants’ aviation expert testimony, which included a rejection of any “mitigation” proposed by the wind power developer, wpd.
In specific the panel noted:
 For these reasons, Tribunal accepts that the margin for error posed by introducing the proposed wind turbines at their proposed locations would be inadequate to either prevent collision with a wind turbine, or prevent a crash due to wind turbine-induced turbulence.
 The Tribunal finds that Mr. Cormier has provided informed criticisms of the proposed mitigation measures that were not contradicted by the Director’s or Approval Holder’s experts, and, therefore, the Tribunal accepts Mr. Cormier’s evidence in this regard. As such, the Tribunal finds that there is insufficient evidence that mitigation measures will be effective.
The reason for the delay in revocation of the approval was because a secondary issue was harm to the Little Brown Bat and the Tribunal felt it necessary —despite the clear risk to human health — to review and evaluate the mitigation procedures proposed. The Tribunal in its decision released this week, did find that the mitigation measures were acceptable but in any event, the risk to human health was sufficient to cancel the approval.
In the October decision, the Tribunal noted that documents from the power developer referred to Transport Canada in an apparent claim that that government agency was OK with proposals for new approaches for pilots to avoid the turbines. However, the Tribunal noted that the Transport Canada letter was “carefully worded” and did not, in effect, provide approval for the power developer’s notion of how to avoid plane crashes.
At “the end of the day” as lawyers say, we are left scratching our head as to how such a proposal could get so far when common sense would seem to dictate otherwise, and why our own government could be so blinded by its “green” ideology that it is more than willing to defend the proposal?
“…in the public interest … to remove from the REA turbines … in Blandings turtle habitat”
The Environmental Review Tribunal released its long awaited decision on the remedies proposed by wind power developer WPD for its White Pines project in Prince Edward County Ontario to protect the endangered Blandings turtle and Little Brown Bat.
Relevant sections of the decision:
 In light of all of the circumstances, based on the evidence provided and taking
into account the purposes of the EPA in support of environmental protection and
renewable energy, the Tribunal finds that it is in the public interest to alter the Director’s
decision by amending the REA in part. The Tribunal finds that it is in the public interest
to add the Approval Holder’s proposed Condition L2 to the REA, but to alter that
condition by removing Tables 3-1 to 3-3, in the NRSI Plan. The Tribunal further finds
that it is in the public interest to remove from the REA the turbines proposed to be
accessed by the proposed upgraded secondary and tertiary municipal road segments
and by the intersections in Blanding’s turtle habitat, specifically Turbines 12, 13, 14, 15,
Condition J7.1. The Company shall implement the Mitigation Plan
for Operation of the White Pines Energy Project, dated July 21,
2016 prepared by Stantec Consulting Ltd., including:
1. Implement the monitoring and mitigation measures as
outlined in Table 2 of the Mitigation Plan;
2. Adjust cut-in speed to 5.5 m/s between sunset and sunrise
from May 1 to September 30 at all turbines for the operating
life of the Project; and
3. In the event of a mortality of a bat species that is a species
at risk, successively increase the operational mitigation as
detailed in Table 2 of the Mitigation Plan.
The question that remains is, with 60 percent of the project effectively removed, how can WPD meet its obligation to provide 75 percent of the power in its contract?
The entire project may have to be reformulated…it remains to be seen whether the company will opt to do that by using 4.1 MW turbines perhaps, or by finding other locations, but the company may have run out of time to do that.
Here is a recording of lawyer Eric Gillespie’s closing remarks at the remedy hearing held in Wellington, last January. “The only remedy is to revoke [the approval]. … the result of mitigation will be to extirpate a species.”
Judge says OMB offers limited justice—is the same true for the ERT?
Recently, lawyer and retired Ontario judge Peter Howden published a book on the Ontario Municipal Board, titled, The Ontario Municipal Board: From Impact to Subsistence 1971-2016.
Howden, a judge for 20 years, also served for 10 years with the OMB.
According to a review of the book by Ottawa Citizen columnist David Reevely, Howden’s opinion of the OMB is that killing it off would be better than leaving it to function as it is.
In our view many of Howden’s comments about the OMB (which was a key factor in approval of Ontario’s early wind power projects against community wishes) can also be applied to the Environmental Review Tribunal or ERT. Both are administered under ELTO or the Environmental and Lands Tribunal Ontario branch of government.
The people who staff the OMB are “unknown entities, people largely without any public profile who seem to do whatever they want without criteria, limiting elements, or ability to define why one group won and the others lost.” Further, Howden says, OMB members’ decisions may be one-page rulings that are issued after days of detailed testimony, or they are rambling documents in which rationale is buried.
“The price to be paid,” Howden writes, “…is the continued progressively worsening public cynicism and the record over the past 10 years of insufficient deliberation and writing time, inconsistency in policy and outcomes, reliance on part-time members …”
Howden also says the set-up of these tribunals is a problem and interferes with their mandate: the adversarial nature of the hearings, not unlike court battles, is unfair for residents fighting well-funded developers.
“Most homeowners these days are simply trying to maintain their homes and families. They do not have the thousands of dollars it takes to round up a team of professionals….This kind of inequality erodes any sense of justice.”
Lack of justice is emblematic of the hearings before the Environmental Review Tribunal where Ontario citizens spend hundreds of thousands of after-tax dollars to protect their communities and the environment, ironically from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, which has a special, supportive relationship with the wealthy wind power developers it appears alongside in the hearings.
Countless appeals were mounted in Ontario by well-meaning dedicated citizens who took their fight for their community and environment to the Tribunal, without benefit of legal counsel at all, while wind power developers were represented by lawyers from Canada’s top law firms.
Millions spent by citizens
A recent informal poll of Wind Concerns Ontario member community groups reveals that communities have spent over $3 million in legal costs to mount appeals before the ERT, and that number is almost certainly understated.
Moreover, citizen evidence presented at the hearings, paid for by citizen dollars, is often critical to wind power project operations—even in appeals that have been unsuccessful, the evidence presented has resulted in changes to the proposed power projects. This evidence is usually indications of risks to the environment, facts that the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change would have been aware of, if they did any oversight or checking on Renewable Energy Approvals … which they do not.
For example, the evidence presented on the danger to species such as the Blandings Turtle and the Little Brown Bat –paid for by citizens who raised money through spaghetti suppers and garage sales—won the day for the environment in several appeals. The appeal of the Ostrander Point project, which took years of work by Prince Edward County naturalist and community groups, not only resulted in overturning the approval for the project in a fragile environment, but also caused the Tribunal to refocus its aims, and conclude that, contrary to claims by the MOECC and developer lawyers, wind power was not necessarily a “greater good” that outweighs everything—balance must be achieved in protecting the environment.
In the fight at Clearview, citizen evidence showed not only was there danger to wildlife from the proposed wind power project, but there was a clear danger to human life from a project planned close to not one, but two airports.
Judge Howden concludes that the OMB should be a body worthy of respect.
Last week, the wind power communications machinery was touting the virtues of the Gunn’s Hill wind power project which they claim is Ontario’s first real “community” wind power project, half-owned by the local community.
The project’s success was owed to its partners, the Oxford Community Energy Cooperative, a (non-local) First Nation, and Bullfrog Power as well as the Germany-based power developer, Prowind.
The story was repeated on CBC’s Ontario Morning.
Community-based? Not so fast.
Retired engineer William Palmer wrote to correct the CBC on their assumptions, with this letter.
I listened with interest this morning as Wei Chen spoke with Miranda Fuller, Communications Director of the Gunn’s Hill Wind Project about this “community project” of the Oxford Community Energy Cooperative.
– it is a project with 49% community ownership
– 33% of the members of the cooperative live in Oxford County
We heard also learned of the other owners, ProWind Canada, and Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation.
Let’s look a little deeper at this community involvement.
The Cooperative Web Site says, “The present membership consists of 160 individuals and organizations that live in the project vicinity, Oxford County and all of Southern Ontario,” to whom $9 million in shares and debentures were sold. Yet, to be a member of the cooperative the minimum share is $100, so not every member needs to be a major investor. It is interesting to read who some of the other members of the cooperative are – including the project developers. Elsewhere the website says there are 186 members.
So that means there are about 33% of 186 = 62 members of the cooperative that live in Oxford County … which Wikipedia tells us had some 105,719 residents in 2011, so we can see that 0.06% of the county population are supporters. It’s not exactly a wide support base in the county.
You might be interested in knowing that at the Environmental Review Tribunal the Township of Norwich Councillor for the impacted ward, Mr. Wayne Buchanan spoke of the Township of Norwich’s past and ongoing objections to the Project. He presented three letters to the Tribunal, one from the Township to Premier McGuinty asking for a moratorium on wind turbine developments, one to the Approval Holder (developer) asking for a delay in the development until noise and health studies are available, and one to Premier Wynne noting that the Township of Norwich was an unwilling host of industrial wind turbines.
You might also be interested in knowing that the office of the participating Six Nations of the Grand River Development Agency is located over 50 km from the wind turbines. It is a financial investment, but not exactly in their neighbourhood. (A similar case occurred in the community of Dutton Dunwich, where the participation of First Nations groups included First Nations located near the Manitoba Border or James Bay, but not the local First Nation.) “Points” are received by the Ontario Renewable Energy Approvals process for “community involvement, or for First Nations involvement, even if they are not from the impacted community.
Now, why would folks invest in such a development? Well, the 10 turbines of Gunn’s Hill will be paid some (10 x $135 a MWh x 1.8 MW x 8760 hours a year x 24% capacity factor) = $5,108,832 a year for the estimated 37,843 MWh they will produce – whether the electricity they produce is needed or not (as wind developers can be paid to curtail operation or not produce when the electricity is not needed). Interestingly, had the power been produced instead by Bruce Power, the payment would have been less than half as much. That $5 million a year for a 20 year contract, is pretty good return for a project with a total investment of perhaps $40 million. Few other (government supported) investments will return some 12.5% a year on a guaranteed basis for 20 years. Sadly, the power consumers of Ontario, including those who cannot afford to pay their electricity bills, are the payees of that investment return.
Wei Chen started to ask a question that deserved an answer … about how people will think when their electricity bills arrive. Ontario simply cannot keep paying twice as much for a product that is delivered best at times when it is not needed … and then pay Michigan or New York State to take the excess off our hands (or at the very least give them the electricity for free to power their industries) without adversely impacting power rates in Ontario. It is no wonder that Ontario rates are climbing so rapidly.
I thought that Wei Chen or other Ontario Morning staff might be interested in scanning what concerns I would have presented to the Environmental Review Tribunal where I was accepted as an expert witness, had they chosen to accept all my testimony. (They did not, and what was presented was only a fraction of what was initially prepared for them). A copy of my presentation as initially offered to the Environmental Review Tribunal is attached, and signed as a Professional Engineer. I note that many others in the community also made presentations – again with only partial acceptance by the Environmental Review Tribunal.
I have blind copied a few of the local participants and interested bodies who may not have heard your interview this morning and who may wish to contact you to confirm if what you were told was accurate that “once the turbines are in operation the project is accepted” or as Miranda Fuller noted, people see the turbines as “majestic.”
A resident of Dover Centre in Chatham-Kent is calling for leaseholders in wind turbine projects to be released from the non-disclosure or “gag” clauses that are preventing full awareness of the situation regarding contaminated well water in the region, says a resident writing in the Sydenham Current.
When the recent appeal of the North Kent 1 wind power project was dismissed, the only expert advice offered was the technical report completed by Golder & Associates, paid for by the wind power developer.
“What if accepting the wind developer’s Golder report the Mayor and Mr. Norton put all of Chatham township’s property at risk from an environmental stigma?” asks letter writer Peter Hensel.
” A stigma that the aquifer below would be contaminated with vibrations and is no longer capable of providing safe clean water. You think your property won’t drop like a stone in value? Think again.
“What if accepting the Wind developer’s Golder report the Mayor and Mr Norton allowed pile driven turbine foundations that increased the heavy metal concentrations in the source water – the water in the aquifer below Chatham township? What price do you put on your families’ health?”
The Environmental Review Tribunal refused appellant Kevin Jakubec time to have other experts review the Golder report, which jeopardized his appeal.
“It was only because the MOECC [Environmental] Tribunal Branch refused a time extension to let Mr. Jakubec bring in well test results from Dover into the Trubunal’s final hearing did Mr. Jakubec make the best of Tribunal process and took what gains he could get from the mediation.
“Ask Mr. Jakubec if he stopped investigating Dover,” says Mr Hensel. “Ask Mr. Jakubec if the Tribunal process is fair and that everything is neatly wrapped up now as Mayor Hope and [C-K legal counsel] Mr. Norton would want you to believe.”
Comments filed on Renewable Energy Approval process
“The litany of failures is astounding,” says president of community group coalition
Wind Concerns Ontario filed comments with Ontario’s EBR yesterday, with recommendations on revisions to the Technical Guide for the Renewable Energy Approval process for industrial-scale or utility-scale wind power projects.
Basically, WCO said, the guidelines for the power industry are not protective of the environment … and there is plenty of evidence to prove it.
In short, the requirements in place for companies to get approval are not adequate, there is not enough proper oversight by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (or even, capacity to do fulfill that role), and there is no check on compliance with Renewable Energy Approvals post-operation.
Findings from the ERT decisions and other legal activities have shown that the current process is not adequate to assess the expansion of renewable energy generation while upholding the government’s commitment to protecting the environment.
The process contains no provisions to discuss the creation of clean energy jobs and encouraging energy conservation.
The proposed process does not reflect decisions from the Environmental Review Tribunals (ERT)
“The fact is, almost every single wind power project that received an approval in Ontario has been appealed on the basis of protecting the environment and human health,” says Wind Concerns Ontario president Jane Wilson. “And four of those appeals have been successful. The Ministry should be embarrassed that ordinary citizens are not only taking on this protective role, but that they find information about these projects and the damage they will cause, that Ministry staff were not aware of.”
Wind Concerns not only recommended more stringent requirements for a Renewable Energy Approval, the coalition of community groups and Ontario families repeated its call for municipal support to be a mandatory requirement for wind power project approvals.
“Municipal governments are the local voice of the people and communities,” says Wilson. “And they know best what kind of development is appropriate and sustainable. They are also aware of conditions locally that logically should prevent a wind power project — but those voices are not listened to under this process.”
Thousands of noise complaints have been made to the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Wind Concerns Ontario says, which is a clear indication of the failure of the REA process. Moreover, MOECC protocols for measuring wind turbine noise emissions – when they do measure at all as follow-up – are not adequate and do not capture the full range of problematic environmental noise.
“In fact, the litany of failures of this process is astounding,” says Wilson.
The method in which projects are announced to communities is secretive and municipalities are forced to approve with almost no information on the impact of the power projects. Public “meetings” are a sham, consisting mainly of poster presentations and incomplete project information.
Post-operation, the numbers of bat deaths and bird kills far exceed what was expected from the wind turbines, noise complaints are being made more frequently as a result of more powerful turbines, and wind power companies have abused their approvals by removing trees from protected woodlands, for example, or placing turbines on sites not consistent with the approvals.
“Premier Wynne professed to be surprised recently at the removal of over 7,000 mature trees in the Niagara area for the huge power project there,” Wilson says. “Does the government not know what is really going on? The people of Ontario see the environmental damage being done and the effects on people’s health from high-impact wind power development — this process has to change.”

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Xiaomi announces 80W Fast Charging Wireless Technology for Smartphones. Xiaomi is working on fast-charging for a very long time and improves wireless charging speed for each new trial.
However, Xiaomi has not yet launched any 80W Wireless charging smartphone but we can expect in upcoming months. Also, The company has charged 4000mAh in Just 19 Minutes with an 80W Wireless charger.
Xiaomi 80W wireless charging
The wireless fast charging may replace the wired fast charging era in upcoming days. The smartphone maker company Xiaomi has announced the fastest wireless charging technology for Xiaomi smartphones. The Mi 10 expected to be the first phone to get 80W fast wireless charging technology.
Also, Xiaomi released a test video for wireless 80-watt fast charging on Mi 10 Pro In the video, the 4000mAh battery will be charged within 19 minutes. The smartphone will get charge 50 percent in just 8 minutes.
The video on Xiaomi official youtube channel shows the wireless fast charging technology tested on modified Mi 10 Pro. The test shows the smartphone going 0 to 10 percent in just 1 minute and 10 to 50 percent in 8 Minutes and 100 percent full charges within 19 minutes.
Smartphone with 80W wireless charging support
Xiaomi not yet announced any smartphone details for 80W fast charging support. But the test performed on Mi 10 Pro will make the possibility that the Mi 10 Series will get 80W charging support.
Currently, up to 10W wireless charging smartphones are available in the market, and 120W wired charging smartphones are also available with fast-charging adapters.
Xiaomi also tested 40W wireless charging technology back in march month. Similarly, now the company has successfully tested 80W wireless fast charging. With this progress, we can expect a wireless super-fast charging smartphone in 2021. Also, If wireless charging makes reliable solutions for all the users we may able to replace wired charging technology with Fast wireless charging for smartphones.
Xiaomi Wireless charger comaptibilty
Xiaomi was working on fast charging technology for a very long time and now successfully tested 80W wireless fast charging. Before this test, the Mi company has done testing for 10W, 20W, 30W, and 40W wireless charging tests.
Currently, 10W Xiaomi wireless charger is available in market also 20W, 30W, and 40W Xiaomi wireless chargers are available for fast wireless charging smartphones.

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The Burning Down the House Strategy may present a new opening for a flagging GOP initiative.
Now it has been an ongoing initiative of the GOP to carve away portions of the Democratic Party’s Base. As an example we can look at the Social Security Privatization Initiative. This initiative was designed as much as anything as an attempt to reduce the loyalty of current and pending social security recipients to Democratic Party. As it was planned, privatization would create future retirees who would become dependent and loyal to the magic of the market place, money managers on Wall Street and their backers in D.C., i.e., the GOP. So the Privatization Initiative was really a three for one: over turn a big part of the new deal compact, hobble the Democratic Party and create a whole new generation GOP voters.
Turning back to the Burning Down the House strategy and its potential side effects. As recently as 2005, then GOP chairman Ken Mehlman initiated various outreach efforts attempting to woo African American community leaders to reconsider their relationship with the Democratic Party.
During these outreach efforts, Mr. Mehlman would note that the “Party of Lincoln” has not always acted like the Party of Lincoln. He would also play up various GOP initiatives such as commitment to family values, improved student test scores, and increased home ownership as issues that the African American Community may find appealing. Historically, when allowed access to the ballot box, there have been periods where the Black vote was split between both parties and that competition for the Black vote now is healthy for the nation.
In remarks before the NAACP in 2005, Mehlman noted that about 90 percent of blacks vote for Democrats in most national elections. And he said Republicans themselves were partly to blame. "Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization," Mr. Mehlman told his audience. "I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong." Alluding to the rise of the Republican Party in the South since the civil right movement nearly a half-century ago, Mr. Mehlman said that "if my party benefited from racial polarization in the past, it is the Democratic Party that benefits from it today."
OK, Mr. Mehlman is not telling us anything new. So there are a variety of reasons why African Americans don’t support the GOP at the polls, some of which Mr. Mehlman touches upon. As a matter of fact it is axiomatic that the decision to implement the Southern Strategy to benefit from racial polarization makes voting for the GOP a nonstarter for many, not just African Americans. See, you can’t capture all the old time segregationists in your coalition then expect to bring in African American voters at the same time.
But here is the rub. Underlying this whole issue is, that in the marketplace of ideas, in the political area, competition for YOUR vote is ultimately beneficial (relative term, I know) to you and your demographic group. The theory goes that if there are multiple parties competing for your vote, the more likely that those candidates will be inclined to implement policies that you believe will inure to your benefit.
So what to make of this? The GOP can say they want your vote, but can they offer any incentive to pull the lever for the GOP? Well two convergences are lining up that may give a portion of the African American community a reason to give the GOP another look.
FACTOR ONE – BURN THE DAMN HOUSE DOWN
We’ve learned by studying the Math that Hillary has a statistically improbable chance of catching up to Obama in an above the belt fight. But say Hillary is successful and manages to wrest the nomination from the hands of the candidate that won the most states, won the most votes and won the most pledged delegates. Would she suffer any negatives effects after taking the nomination away from a popular Black Candidate?
From the PPP yesterday, we start to get a picture of the potential effects. Polling Data in
Of course in politics one does not have to fight fair. Winning dirty and winning ugly is still winning, but winning ugly can begat its own negative consequences. HRC polling at 51% with African Americans in
FACTOR TWO – REBRANDING OF THE GOP
Now this Rebranding has not started happening yet on a meaningful scale. But it’s gonna happen one way or another because the GOP brand is a tainted brand and has to be re-tooled in some manner. The key will be the direction the rebranding goes. Conceivably it could go toward a Western - Socially Moderate - Fiscally Responsible - Don’t Fence Me In - brand of Republicanism. Or the alternative is to go the Stay the
That aside, the nomination of John McCain as the GOP standard bearer brings an opportunity to clean out some of the crazies who been calling the shots and serving as the public face of the party. First McCain can distance himself from Bush somewhat (yes I know Irak is still there). But remember he and Bush only have a marriage of convenience. And he has to do this if he is to have a chance of winning. He can sack the remaining Southern Strategy folks from the Party leadership roles, a lot of them are passing way with the passage of time anyway. He can push the Party to a show Public Face that is more socially moderate and less draconian and in the process move the image of the party closer to the center.
Ya, I know it’s hard to turn a battleship. It takes some time. And there are entrenched interests and movement conservatives to deal with. But do you think the party activists will cut McCain some slack, if the alternative is President Hillary? Republicans usually fall in line. There is no reason not to expect the same this year.
So with these factors converging, a Candidate McCain with a reputation of candor with an assist from the Mehlman wing, can present a case to dissatisfied African American voters to give him a second look. And no, he does not have to win the African American Vote, but if Hillary only pulls 51% or 61% or 71% of the vote with some folks defecting and others staying at home, she’s doomed.
We know that saying, promising and doing are different things. But the door is opening a bit here due to an unlikely source, i.e.,……HRC.

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Author of Meant To Be
A TRUE STORY OF MIGHT, MIRACLES AND
TRIUMPH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT
Join us as author Roslyn Franken presents the inspiring true saga of her award-winning book, Meant to Be, about her parents’ amazing survival, love and triumph over tragedy as Holocaust and atomic bomb survivors. Her mother survived the concentration camps in Nazi Europe while her father survived the Nagasaki atomic bomb as a prisoner of war in Japan. Roslyn will reveal how her parents survived captivity continents apart to find everlasting love and triumph over tragedy. We can all learn from Roslyn’s parents’ story, lessons to live our best lives and help make our world a better place. This is an unforgettable story of hope, love and strength of the human spirit that you will not want to miss. A movie adaptation of Roslyn’s book is currently in development.
Book signing and questions and answers following the presentation.

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Friday, March 30, 2012
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Ianis Girgenson (Covington) and Anna Numerova (ALRUD) address Reform of Russian Competition Law: It's a Long Way from Brussels to Moscow.
ABSTRACT: The level of competition enforcement in Russia is excessive, with thousands of new investigations launched every year. The regulator sometimes pursues objectives unrelated to the promotion of competition. Economic analysis plays a marginal role in Russian competition enforcement. A drastic reform is required: the regulator should focus on the most serious infringements and improve the quality of its economic analysis.


Determination of critical micelle concentration of lipid based systems with Cisplatin
Irfan Akartas, Yildirim Y, Ak G, Karasulu E, Sanlier S and Karasulu H Y
Ege University, Turkey
: J Pharm Drug Deliv Res
Surfactant solutions which are prepared by different concentrations could show rapid changes of its osmotic pressure, conductivity, turbidity and surface tension at higher concentrations. McBain associated these rapid changes with the formation of micelles or aggregates. The lipophilic hydrocarbon chains which have hydrophilic groups that interact with water phase move to the inner part of the micelles. The critical micelle concentration (CMC) is defined as the concentration of surfactants above which micelles form and all additional surfactants added to the system go to micelles. The aim of this study is determination of critical micelle concentration of lipid based system with cisplatin by surface tension method. Isopropyl myristate was used as the oil phase, kolliphor were used as the surfactant, and propylene glycol was used as the co-surfactant to produce lipid based system. Surface tension is typically measured in dynes/cm, the force in dynes required to break a film of length 1 cm. There are several methods to measure the surface tension such as Wilhelmy plate, capillary rise method, and drop weight method. In this study, traube stalagmometer is used for drop weight method. Water and HCl buffer with pH 1, 2 and phosphate buffer with pH 6, 8 were used as solvents. 0.24x10-3, 1.2x10-3, 2x10-3, 4x10-3 and 6x10-3 g/ml concentrations of SMEDDS with cisplatin are prepared to measure surface tension in these solvents.


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It’s the early 1970s, a time when the Carpenters are playing on the radio, the Milk Tray man epitomizes sophistication and, in the small town outside Belfast where teacher Cushla Lavery lives with her mother, bombings and beatings fill the headlines. At 24, she is able to recall a time before the Troubles, unlike her class of seven-year-olds at the Catholic primary school, whose vocabularies already include words such as gelignite and internment.
Theirs is a “mixed” town, but community relations teeter on a knife edge. At the family’s pub, run by Cushla’s brother, Eamonn, Paras pointedly grind their cigarette butts out in the carpet and the “ould lads” propping up the bar reminisce about the second world war, “because this war was unspeakable”.
In trespasses, her first novel, acclaimed short-story writer Louise Kennedy sets herself the challenge of encapsulating those unspeakable times and the powerlessness felt by ordinary people caught in the crossfire. She does so with skill, combining unflinching authenticity with narrative dexterity and a flair for detail, all wrapped up in a moving love story – two, really.
The first tracks Cushla’s affair with Michael Agnew, an older, married Protestant; the second of her her involvement in the home life of bullied pupil Davy McGeown, whose earnest goofiness steals her heart from her. Over the course of spring and summer, these two distinct plotlines converge to devastating effect.
Kennedy, a fiftysomething former chef, spent much of her childhood in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. She makes potent symbolic use of visual details, capturing, for instance, the mothers waiting outside school, their “touching umbrellas like a badly made quilt”, and her idiomatic dialogue gives her prose real verve.
Cushla’s mother, the gin-soaked Gina, has a particularly fine line in insults: Helen Mirren, seen on a TV chatshow, is a “dirty article”. Cushla herself, though self-conscious in the company of Michael’s accomplished friends, speaks with a perfect blend of tough humor and vulnerable sincerity. “The state of it,” she says, as they drive past the much-bombed Europa hotel.
Michael, meanwhile, becomes a handy mouthpiece for setting the Troubles in historical context. He also voices the sheer claustrophobia of living in a world where you’re defined first and foremost by religious affiliation. “It’s not about what you do here,” he reminds Cushla, “it’s about what you are.” Sure enough, circumstances will leave her acts of well-intentioned kindness to Davy’s family looking as twisted as barbed wire.
trespasses is framed by an encounter that takes place decades later. Cushla, now elderly and still surprised by the fact, stands contemplating a sculpture commemorating a friend of the artist, murdered in the Troubles, when a hand reaches out to touch her arm. Though restitution is all but impossible, together the sculpture and the chance meeting provide a sense of resolution. It’s a scene as deftly calibrated as the drama that precedes it.

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QPR boss Steve McClaren praises Ben Pearson as Preston North End run out convincing winners at Loftus Road
QPR boss Steve McClaren admitted his side were well beaten by Preston North End and pointed to Ben Pearson as the game's best player.
The Lilywhites were convincing 4-1 winners at Loftus Road on Saturday as they won for the first time in six Championship games.
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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Shawndale L. JAMISON, Defendant-Appellant.
Shawndale Jamison appeals his sentence on the ground that it violates the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution. Since Jamison had fair warning of the possible penalties for his actions, we find that his sentence passes muster under ex post facto and due process principles and affirm.
In 2004, Jamison was indicted on four counts of distributing cocaine base. He pled guilty to count one of the indictment and admitted that his total offense conduct was at least two grams, but less than three grams of cocaine base. The probation officer summarized Jamison's relevant conduct and concluded that he was responsible for 3.8 grams of cocaine base. This elevated figure included an amount from a June 22, 2004 cocaine sale in which Jamison denies that he participated.
The district court determined that the Sentencing Guidelines could not be constitutionally applied in this case, given that Jamison did not stipulate to all the facts supporting the increased drug amount, and sentenced Jamison to 38 months in prison, treating the Guidelines as advisory. The court then imposed an alternative sentence, in the event that the Guidelines were found to be constitutional by the Supreme Court, also of 38 months imprisonment.
In United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), the Supreme Court, in two majority opinions, held that (1) the constitutional rule announced in Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 124 S.Ct. 2531, 159 L.Ed.2d 403 (2004), applies to the Guidelines; and (2) the Guidelines are no longer mandatory, but advisory. 125 S.Ct. at 745-69. Jamison claims that the application of the remedial holding of Booker, rendering the Guidelines advisory, violates the ex post facto clause of the Constitution by exposing him to a longer maximum sentence. Jamison essentially seeks a sentence that comports with the Sixth Amendment requirements of Booker, but wants to avoid the possibility of a higher sentence under the remedial holding of Booker. Unfortunately for Jamison, the Supreme Court clearly instructed that both holdings should be applied to all cases on direct review. 125 S.Ct. at 769.
Our analysis of Jamison's claim is controlled by Rogers v. Tennessee, 532 U.S. 451, 121 S.Ct. 1693, 149 L.Ed.2d 697 (2001). While reiterating that the ex post facto clause is a limitation upon the legislature and does not apply to the courts, the Court also recognized that “limitations on ex post facto judicial decisionmaking are inherent in the notion of due process.” Id. at 456, 121 S.Ct. 1693. These judicial limitations are most concisely reflected in the basic principle of fair warning. The Court rested its rationale on “core concepts of notice, foreseeability, and, in particular, the right to fair warning as those concepts bear on the constitutionality of attaching criminal penalties to what previously had been innocent conduct.” Id. at 459, 121 S.Ct. 1693.
Jamison knew that he was committing a crime at the time he distributed cocaine base. The new judicial interpretation of the law brought about by Booker affects his punishment, not whether his conduct was innocent. Distributing cocaine base was not made a crime by the Court's decision in Booker. Jamison also had fair warning that distributing cocaine base was punishable by a prison term of up to twenty years, as spelled out in the United States Code. Jamison had sufficient warning of the possible consequences of his actions, and his sentence does not run afoul of any of the core concepts discussed in Rogers. We therefore join the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits in rejecting an ex post facto claim based on the remedial holding in Booker. See United States v. Scroggins, 411 F.3d 572, 2005 WL 1324808 (5th Cir.2005); United States v. Duncan, 400 F.3d 1297 (11th Cir.2005).
The sentence imposed by the district court does not violate the ex post facto or due process clauses of the Constitution and is Affirmed.
BAUER, Circuit Judge.


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Baku. 5 February. REPORT.AZ/ The recipes of Shakh Ismayil's and Shakh Abbas's cooks gathered from ancient books were collected. We are planning to work on these recipes and publish in a book."
Report was told by the president of Culinary Center of Azerbaijan Tahir Amiraslanov said.
According to him, the scientific research should be conducted on recipes: "The recipes should be reworked on and then can be used in the restaurant business. I revealed all the information obtained. The data is in the ancient languages and they should be translated and re-used. The financial support is also necessary for the publication of the book."


The photos below are courtesy of Ian Cowan:
|Philip steaming the crane in MH yard - no sign of sheds or shops|
|Tandem lift while installing the 14" x 14" wooden beams for Andrews House footbridge|
|Lifting Progress's tank - Ian craning, Derek slinging & could be me on No.2.|
Note door to MH shed & Tommy's third emporium.
|Derek & Ian placing the National diesel engine on a Shields pier bogie ......|
(pre carriage shed)
|..... followed by the crankshaft with flywheel|
|Moving panels following replacement with 109 lb/yd FB on F27s at Burdon Plain|
|Andrew operating the crane|
|The crane on Causey East Incline with a track team working on a bright winter's day.|
Eric at left, Derek has a plan, perhaps Mel behind him, Peter posing, Ian at the ready, ???
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POINT PLEASANT — The Housing Authority of the City of Point Pleasant will be celebrating their 50th year of business in the housing industry on June 12, 2012, between the hours of 4-7 p.m.
The past 50 years the housing authority has been an integral part of the community and county. Currently the agency has three development sites: Tu-Endie-Wei Manor, Fort Randolph Terrace, and Shawnee Homes, serving the elderly, disabled and handicapped, and families. Also, the Section eight Housing Choice Voucher Program serves 125 individuals and the Shelter Plus Program serves 10 persons. This total is 272 families being assisted with their housing needs. They continue to provide safe, decent, and sanitary housing for low to moderate income families.
Throughout the past several years, many improvements have been made with the availability of Capital Funds awarded to the housing agency. Those improvements range from Energy Efficient furnaces, new windows and siding, new flooring, roofs, electrical up-grades, carpeting new porches, security cameras, etc.
The history of the housing authority began on June 11, 1962, when the city council passed Resolution No. 1, which determined the need for the creating a housing authority in the City of Point Pleasant. The resolution stated that in the city, there existed unsanitary and unsafe dwelling accommodations and persons of low-income were forced to reside in these households. There was a shortage of safe and unsanitary dwelling accommodations available at rents which persons of low-income could afford and such persons were forced to occupy over-crowded and congested dwelling accommodations.
The construction of housing developments would result in the clearance, re-planning and reconstruction of areas for improvements in the quality of life for those with low-incomes. To protect the welfare of the public and in the best interest it would be necessary to form a public corporate body in the City of Point Pleasant to be known as the “Housing Authority of the City of Point Pleasant.” On June 27, 1962, the city clerk, Mrs. A.E. Thomas presented to Mayor Virgil W. Siders the adoption of Resolution No. 1 determining the need for the creation of a Housing Authority in the City of Point Pleasant. It was reported that the land and buildings are owned by the authority and not by the city, county, or state in which the property is located. The local authority was set-up to establish and to administer the federally-assisted programs.
Within the housing authority organization is a five member board of commissioners that continue to maintain the federally assisted programs and provide policies in keeping with the Department of Housing and Urban Development regulations. These members volunteer their services and many have served by providing their expertise in management and leadership skills. It was reported that a commissioner is a public official who is required to take an oath of office who are held accountable to the federal government and not local officials for how the funds are spent.
It was also reported the executive director of the housing authority has many responsibilities concerning the day-to-day operations, budget, administering the policies and procedures set-forth by a lease agreement, admissions and occupancy policy manual, supervision of employees and maintaining the up-keep of units. The Housing Authority commissioners, executive director, and staff members encourage the public to attend their 50th Anniversary Celebration on June 12, 2012. There will also be an opportunity to tour the new administrative office building.


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Fill a deep pot or deep fryer with a mixture of light olive oil and canola oil. The proportions are not crucial, so blend them to your personal taste.
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Simply stated, mixed olive oils should be avoided. Producers who are looking to sell volume over quality may resort to mixing extra virgin olive oil with other vegetable oils like sunflower seed or grapeseed oil. Not only can this be misleading to the consumer, it may also put those with allergies at risk.
Can I mix canola and vegetable oil?
Both vegetable oil and canola oil are plant-derived oils with a high smoke point, and there is no harm in mixing the two for frying. Both vegetable and canola oils are standard oils used in most professional kitchens.
Can you mix oil and butter for frying?
Yes, you can mix butter and vegetable oil. People often do so when sautéing. You heat some oil in a pan and then add butter. The oil lends a higher smoke point, so the butter doesn’t burn, and the butter lends flavor.
Can you mix oils for frying?
Yes you can mix oils for frying, BUT ensure that they have a similar flavor profile. DO NOT be tempted to use Extra Virgin Olive oil as it has a strong flavor and is hard to mask. I don’t see why not. Just be aware that different oils have different smoke points …
What’s the healthiest oil to fry in?
We generally try to reach for monounsaturated fats when pan-frying. These healthy fats are liquid at room temperature (as compared to saturated fat like lard, butter and coconut oil that are solid at room temp). Our favorite healthy fats for pan-frying are avocado oil, canola oil and olive oil.
Can you fry with extra virgin olive oil?
A staple of the Mediterranean Diet, the oil contains antioxidants attributed to its phenolic compounds. While in Mediterranean countries extra virgin olive oil is regularly used as a final seasoning, it is also used for roasting, sautéing, stir-frying and deep-frying.
What oil is used for deep frying?
Most deep fryers operate at a temperature between 350- and 400-degrees Fahrenheit, making canola oil a highly stable choice. Furthermore, canola oil tends to be one of the most affordable oils on the market, making it a popular choice for restaurants that require large volumes of oil and frequent oil changes.
Can you mix sunflower oil and vegetable oil together?
Yes, we can mix different types of oil, not only in the same container but in the same pan as we cook. In some cases it is recommended that we do when we want to get the flavour of an oil but the cost or temperature benefits of a different oil. Yes you can mix them. Even there are commercial products as you described.
Can you fry peanut oil and vegetable oil together?
Can you mix peanut oil with vegetable oil to fry a turkey? As peanut oil and vegetable oil are of a reasonably similar burning point, you can mix them when frying anything, including a turkey, but you should work with the burning point of the vegetable oil, as this will be lower.
Can I mix other oil with peanut oil?
Yes, you can mix peanut oil and vegetable oil while cooking. Both will easily dissolve in each other. No, it’s a toxic idea to mix peanut oil with vegetable oil.
Does mixing oils raise smoke point?
You can increase the smoke point of oil by combining it with an oil with a higher smoke point. For instance, mixing butter with extra light olive oil will give you a smoke point much higher than that of butter.
Does mixing oils change smoke point?
Unfortunately, it’s simply not true: a butter-and-oil mixture will start to smoke at the same temperature as butter on its own.

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Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks Second International Workshop QoS IP 2003 Milano Italy February 24 26 2003 Proceedings
Quality of Service (QoS) is a standards effort to provide consistent levels of service despite delivery problems. Providing students with an understanding of the technologies and techniques that will enable Internet QoS, this book is for courses in network management.
Advanced QoS for Multi-Service IP/MPLS Networks is the definitive guide to Quality of Service (QoS), with comprehensive information about its features and benefits. Find a solid theoretical and practical overview of how QoS can be implemented to reach the business objectives defined for an IP/MPLS network. Topics include standard QoS models for IP/MPLS networks, essential QoS features, forwarding classes and queuing priorities, buffer management, multipoint shared queuing, hierarchical scheduling, and rate limiting. This book will enable you to create a solid QoS architecture/design, which is mandatory for prioritizing services throughout the network.
Deploying IP and MPLS QoS for Multiservice Networks
QoS, short for “quality of service, is one of the most important goals a network designer or administrator will have. Ensuring that the network runs at optimal precision with data remaining accurate, traveling fast, and to the correct user are the main objectives of QoS. The various media that fly across the network including voice, video, and data have different idiosyncrasies that try the dimensions of the network. This malleable network architecture poses an always moving potential problem for the network professional. The authors have provided a comprehensive treatise on this subject. They have included topics such as traffic engineering, capacity planning, and admission control. This book provides real world case studies of QoS in multiservice networks. These case studies remove the mystery behind QoS by illustrating the how, what, and why of implementing QoS within networks. Readers will be able to learn from the successes and failures of these actual working designs and configurations. Helps readers understand concepts of IP QoS by presenting clear descriptions of QoS components, architectures, and protocols Directs readers in the design and deployment of IP QoS networks through fully explained examples of actual working designs Contains real life case studies which focus on implementation
A comprehensive guide to implementing QoS in IP/MPLS networks using Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XR Software Understand IP QoS architectures and how they apply to MPLS Take a detailed look at traffic management using policing, shaping, scheduling, and active queue management Study Cisco QoS behavioral model and the modular QoS command-line interface (MQC) Learn the operation of MPLS TE with its DiffServ extensions and applicability as a traffic-protection alternative Find multiple configuration and verification examples illustrating the implementation of MPLS TE, DS-TE, and FRR Review the different designs, ranging from a best-effort backbone to the most elaborate scenarios combining DiffServ, DS-TE, and FRR Quality of service (QoS) plays a key role in the implementation of IP and MPLS networks today. However, QoS can be one of the most complex aspects of networking. The industry efforts to achieve convergence have generated a need for increased levels of traffic differentiation. Today's networks need to meet an array of QoS requirements to support distinct applications (such as voice, video, and data) and multiple network services (such as IP, Ethernet, and ATM) on a single converged, multiservice network. QoS has therefore has become an integral part of network design, implementation, and operation. QoS for IP/MPLS Networks is a practical guide that will help you facilitate the design, deployment, and operation of QoS using Cisco® IOS® Software and Cisco IOS XR Software. The book provides a thorough explanation of the technology behind MPLS QoS and related technologies, including the different design options you can use to build an MPLS network with strict performance requirements. This book discusses MPLS Traffic Engineering (MPLS TE) as a tool to complement MPLS QoS and enhance the performance characteristics of the network. You'll learn technology, configuration, and operational details, including the essentials facts about the behavior and configuration of the rich MPLS QoS and related MPLS TE functionality. To get the most out of this book, you should have a basic understanding of both IP and MPLS, including the basics of IP addressing and routing and the basics of MPLS forwarding.
While more and more data is shifted from circuit-switched to packet-switched networks, the users of these networks expect a smooth, continuously unproblematic service (unrelated to the amount of data transported). Therefore, the reliability of a network as well as the satisfaction of its users relies largely on Quality of Service (QoS). Service quality through resource management in IP networks will ensure that sufficient resources are available to fulfil the delay of applications and packet loss requirements. This year several books on QoS from the angle of operators/engineers have been published HOWEVER, none of these titles tackle the management side of the problem. This book shows how to determine quality requirements of services, it discusses and considers the various means of allocating network resources and of supervising the service quality. Furthermore, it explores strategies for allocating network resources and their relation to revenue or operator utility as well as service allocation optimization. The book concludes with a Nokia case study that illustrates the previously mentioned concepts. Essential reading for networking professionals wishing to understand service quality management in IP networks, as well as students needing to understand principles and basic techniques of service quality management.


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Deadly malaria, painful filariasis and other mosquito-borne diseases can likely be controlled using a parasite known as Wolbachia.
The research could create a new way to manage mosquito populations and eventually save millions of lives each year.
“We took a strain of mosquitoes, transinfected them with the inherited bacteria Wolbachia, and looked at gene expression compared with mosquitoes that didn’t have Wolbachia,” said Steven Sinkins, a scientist at the University of Oxford who co-authored a paper appearing today in the journal Science.
“We found a surprising number of immune genes were turned way up.”
For years scientists have known that mosquitoes, fruit flies and other insects infected with Wolbachia live about half as long as their uninfected counterparts.
Scientists have also known that infected animals have dramatically lower transmission rates for a number of diseases.
What scientists didn’t know is why the Wolbachia-infected insects lived half as long, or why they were less likely to pass on diseases to humans. Sinkins and his colleagues have now answered a large part of both questions.
For their study, the researchers infected the mosquito eggs with Wolbachia. When the eggs hatched and the mosquitoes grew up, the scientists then infected the mosquitoes with the nematode that causes filiariasis.
The mosquitoes’ immune system, already in overdrive because of the Wolbachia infection, destroyed as much as 100 percent of all the nematodes.
Presumably malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever and other diseases will be similarly destroyed, although more testing is required to definitively prove the effectiveness of this method, said Sinkins.
The Wolbachia infection is especially taxing on mosquitoes’ immune system and takes a lot of energy. Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes live half as long as uninfected mosquitoes.
Not only does Wolbachia decrease the total number of disease-carrying, bloodthirsty, flying syringes, it also decreases their numbers. Old mosquitoes are more likely to carry disease causing infections than young mosquitoes.
For public health officials, the next trick is getting the Wolbachia into the mosquitoes more easily. The scientists injected the mosquitoes with a special strain of fast-growing Wolbachia originally found in fruit flies. This strain has been casually dubbed “popcorn” because of the popcorn-shaped structures formed inside the gut of fruit flies.
To infect Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which carry yellow and dengue fever, and malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes, scientists injected Wolbachia into tiny mosquito eggs.
Only 10 percent of A. aegypti mosquitoes survived, and only 5 percent of Anopheles mosquitoes survived.
Once a Wolbachia-infected mosquito, always a Wolbachia-infected mosquito, even after the original infected mosquito dies. All the offspring from a Wolbachia-infected female mosquito are also Wolbachia-infected, since the parasite is passed from mother to daughter.
Given adequate funding and local cooperation, Wolbachia could spread though a local mosquito population in a year, says Sinkins.
French Polynesia, Burkina Faso and Kenya are likely to be the first countries to develop field trials for Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes, if they pass all the appropriate tests for biological control agents.
Using one bacteria to stop another is like using probiotics to aid in digestion, said George Dimopoulos, a researcher at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
“I think we will see a number of interesting applications in the near future based on the introduction of certain bacterial populations,” said Dimopoulos. “In fact, this may be happening all the time naturally.”
In the field, there is often a huge variation between local mosquito population in their ability to transmit diseases said Dimopoulos, a variation that is likely explained by the various bacteria found in the mosquitoes guts.
If Wolbachia can influence the transmission of filariasis-causing nematode, other bacteria should be able to influence other diseases as well.
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A two-day conference organized by climate justice leaders examines the root causes of climate change.
Organizers estimate that 310,000 people joined the New York climate march, and each one had a point to hammer home.
This is what it looks like when several hundred thousand people take to the streets for climate change.
Damn, that was big! The march in New York City on Sunday brought out record crowds.
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Canfor-Licella JV to convert biomass to biocrude
Cat-HTR technology will be used to produce biofuels and biochemicals.
VANCOUVER — Licella Fibre Fuels Pty Ltd. and Canfor Pulp Ltd. are forming a joint-venture that would integrate Catalytic Hydrothermal Reactor (Cat-HTR) technology to convert biomass for biofuels.
Licella Pulp Joint Venture would integrate Licella’s Cat-HTR upgrading platform into Canfor Pulp’s kraft and mechanical pulp mills.
Biomass, including wood residues from Canfor Pulp’s kraft pulping processes, would be converted into biocrude oil to produce biofuels and biochemicals.
Canfor, a manufacturer of pulp and paper products with operations in BC’s central interior, said this additional residue stream refining would further optimise pulp production capacity.
The Licella Pulp Joint Venture is looking ahead at offering the technology to other third party kraft and mechanical pulp mills.
Successful preliminary trials were conducted on feedstock from Canfor Pulp’s Prince George, BC pulp mill at Licella’s pilot plants located in New South Wales, Australia.
Canfor Pulp is a subsidiary of Canfor Pulp Products Inc., based in Vancouver.
Licella is a subsidiary of Licella Pty. Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Ignite Energy Resources Ltd. (IER), an Australian public unlisted natural resource and energy technology development company.

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PSG took their 12th consecutive win, a new club record when they beat Toulouse 2-0 tonight and went through to the League cup final. Zlatan only played 17 minutes, read his thoughts after the game.
Tonight's semifinal against Toulouse ended 2-0 for PSG – congratulations on the win and on going through. What do you think of the match?
You got on the pitch in the 74th minute with the score already 2-0 for PSG. What do you think of your own performance the short time you played?
PSG's 35 year old third keeper, Frenchman Nicolas Douchez, got a clean sheet and also managed to save an important penalty kick in the last minutes of the match. What can you say about Douchez and his performance?
Source: Zlatan Unplugged.


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According to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology in 2005, there is a connection between milk and severe acne.
Does milk cause acne? For decades scientists have searched for the causes of acne. A study has identified one of the key triggers: milk. Researchers claim to have found a correlation between milk intake and the incidence of acne. Teenagers who drink a pint or more of milk a day are almost 50 per cent more likely to develop spots and pimples than those who rarely or never drink milk.
This supports the results of previous studies, researchers began by asking people to recall what they ate. One such study asked 47,355 women to remember what they ate in high school 9 years prior. Another study asked teenage boys to recall what they ate and to determine the severity of their acne. After analyzing the foods eaten, researchers concluded that girls that consumed three or more servings of milk each day were 22% more likely to suffer from severe acne.
Studies investigating a link between acne and milk have not given clear results. At the moment the research does not support a strong link between acne and milk. This study also found that People who regularly drank skimmed milk, with two half-pint glasses a day raising the risk develop acne by 44 per cent. Those who drank a pint of whole milk a day were 12 per cent more likely to develop acne, while semi-skimmed milk increased the risk by 16 per cent. Overall, those who regularly drank milk were 22 per cent more likely to have suffered from acne than those who rarely or never drank the white stuff.
These studies had limitations. Trying to accurately recall what you ate years ago or even days ago can be difficult, so the collected data cannot be considered entirely reliable. So why drinking milk can cause acne? Some think its the hormones found in milk. Milk contains progesterone and other hormones that are known precursors to DHT, the primary acne-producing hormone in humans.
Cow milk also contains Iodine, the amount of hormones gets increased when farmers inject their cows with more hormones. This is done to increase the productivity of milk by a given cow. These injections increase the amount of IGF – 1 present in milk. It must be noted that it is IGF -1 that woks along with testosterone and DHT to cause acne.
But Skim milk was associated with higher IGF-1 levels than whole milk. The processing of skim milk may explain why it is linked to acne severity more often than whole milk. Whey proteins are added to give skim milk a creamier consistency. Some speculate that these proteins impact acne development.
So, does this imply that you should stop drinking milk altogether to get rid of acne? Not really. Try to opt for a no milk and no dairy diet for about a week. If you experience improvement in your acne condition, you might as well give up milk. However, if your acne does not improve you can continue drinking milk and not deprive yourself of the essential nutrients present in it.

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Donovan's Red - The Alchemist
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Reviews by skivtjerry:
4.18/5 rDev +3.7%
So glad to finally see this!!
A: Hazy and brown, with a medium off-white head that fades quickly.
S: Pine-herbal-citrus hops up front but not too strong, then whiffs of dark malt with a faint roast note in the background.
T: Like it smells. A moderate American hop flavor blends with dark malts. Perfect balance. Hints of plums and grapes, then a little roast flavor at the end.
M: Medium carbonation and medium-light body. A nice dry finish after all that sweet malt, with a walnut skin note that I associate with dark Munich malts. Super flavorful and extremely drinkable.
O: This beer covers just about all the bases flavor-wise without being overwhelming in any way; love the way it lingers on the tongue. Donovan's was an Irish red for the first year or so but then got a little darker and hoppier each year, and was more of an American brown ale by 2011. The 2013 edition is maybe better than my last one at the old pub.
10-26-2013 11:18:46 | More by skivtjerry
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3.68/5 rDev -8.7%
Chestnut colored with a thick and foamy off-white head. This one unfortunately does not have an aroma to speak of, and has a bit of a watery mouthfeel, but the flavor is smooth ane even and enjoyable. All malt, a bit roasty, and on the mild side. No hop presence, but this is a tasty beer, very smooth and enjoyable and highly drinkable.
04-01-2004 03:33:27 | More by far333
3.63/5 rDev -9.9%
Good red colour, nice job of getting bitterness from 28 IBU.. Thinner mouthfeel, active carbonation. Fresh clean taste.
Two and a half years later, appreciated this better, the c hop and the malt, grapefruit, bubbly white head on reddish tinge. Carbonation had become perfecto.
11-10-2005 20:35:02 | More by Sammy
4.71/5 rDev +16.9%
The Alchemist's Donovan's Red
Poured from a growler, ok sorry... I took a vacation to Vermont not only for beer, also for the foliage and Ben and Jerry's and just to get away. Anyway, I had planned my vaca MONTHS in advance and the day I arrive, they announce a new Growler system and growler fills. Was almost like winning the lottery for an Ohio guy.
Then a week after we got back, they announce the store front shut down. Anyway...
I thought this was a rather solid specialty. HUGE hop presence, easy to drink and just fresh. I cant compare it to anything else. Just every sip you wanted more and more. Almost had a bit of a addictive effect.Was truly a treat and would love to see it mass produced one day~
11-27-2013 05:09:45 | More by BrewUSA
3.95/5 rDev -2%
Appears a dark amber with a 2 finger head and lots of lacing left all over.
Smell is of heavy malt...heavy on the crystal malt variety with an appearance of hops.
Taste is of a smooth red ale with a sweet balance of malt that hits on the middle of the tongue and slides to the back of the mouth with the hop bite.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied with a slight hop feel and a blend of a typical red ale.
Drinkability is pretty good for this style. A pleasant session brew.
07-20-2005 19:55:45 | More by weeare138
4.38/5 rDev +8.7%
On tap at the brewpub on November 4, 2010.
Pours an amber-red color with a good light tan head. A finger or two worth with some bits of lace here and there. The nose brings out quite a bit of toasted bread, caramel, and some light dough. Amber malt in there as well. Some very light earthy and floral hops.
The flavor is just really, really nice. This is insanely malty and flavorful for the alcohol level. Caramel and bread crust plus a bit of toast and a nice earthiness to round things out. Great body with a very nice level of bitterness. A very quaffable brew.
11-14-2010 12:42:42 | More by Thorpe429
4/5 rDev -0.7%
sampled on tap at the brewpub may 31/2010. listed at 5.4% and 25 IBU.
pours deep red and almost perfectly clear with a nice tan head. the head drops very slowly and leaves lots of lace as it falls.
aroma is good. lightly toasted multi-grain bread and biscuit. hint of caramel. earthy herbal hop character. light alcohol. touch of toffee.
taste is good. toasted multi-grain bread and biscuit. caramel and toffee. hints of dark chocolate, coffee, and nutty character. low bitterness level. herbal and earthy. bit of fruity character starts to show as it warms.
mouthfeel is good. just over medium body with a nice dry finish. slightly under medium carbonation level.
drinkability is good. nice balance. tasty with a good malt character and nice depth. deceptively filling, but that may be the quesadilla that i paired it with talking...
06-14-2010 18:40:11 | More by grub
4/5 rDev -0.7%
The locals combines 1/3 donovan's red with 2/3 heady topper to make a "redhead"
Dark red with a nice head. Very good lacing.
Smells pretty sweet - very clean malt scent.
Taste is very malty. I'm getting caramel and a hint of hops. Very powerful for 5.16 ABV
Nice feel of balance between the malt and the hops
Great session ale. I haven't found a beer I've been disappointed with yet from this brewery. Solid stuff.
12-08-2010 01:14:29 | More by DNICE555
3.3/5 rDev -18.1%
Pours a deep red with a thick off-white head which lasts. Hoppy is there in twang. Malty sweet adds a slight counter to the mellow hopping. Nice, clean, and smooth. Certainly a decent brew to drink the night away with. Not even close to my favorite at the Alchemist, but a solid brew none-the-less.
02-24-2004 03:18:45 | More by scottum
3.85/5 rDev -4.5%
On tap at the brewpub.
Pours a clear reddish orange, a bit of light brown up top, very thick off white head forms and slowly settles down to a thick layer and ring around the glass, lots of lace chunks stick.
Smell is nice, quite caramelized, honey, some toast and a bit of light floral, biscuity, corn syrup, a bit of light roast and some graininess, a bit earthy, not bad.
Taste is similar, pretty malty, caramel and biscuit, oats, some nice roast going through the middle, grainy, some fruit, a touch of chocolate, pretty solid bitterness.
Mouthfeel is light to medium bodied with low carbonation, goes down silky smooth. Another nice one from Alchemist.
07-14-2010 17:48:03 | More by Viggo
4/5 rDev -0.7%
A- Pours a dark red-brown color. Moderate head and With a bit of lacing.
S- malt and barley on the nose.
T- pine, caramel and sweet malt.
M- full and smooth. Mild to moderate carbonations.
O- solid session ale. A lot of flavor and rather drinkable.
Serving type: growler
01-31-2014 00:42:03 | More by hillvt4me
4.45/5 rDev +10.4%
Pours a darkish red color into my pint glass. Decent two finger head (good pour as always!) That leaves a bit of lacing.
Aroma is sweet and a good whiff of malt on the nose.
Taste is smooth with a hint of hops, caramel and sweet malt. Very somple and yet elegant.
Mouthfeel is full of caramel and hops. Very nice.
This is an excellent session ale. Its simple, full of flavor and accessible. I would love to brew something like this.
02-14-2009 22:20:07 | More by Brad007
Donovan's Red from The Alchemist
89 out of 100 based on 41 ratings.

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We managed to visit the factory that produces sniper rifles and hunting rifles. We could not even imagine how difficult it all is.… But first things first.
The project itself for the construction of a plant for the production of rifles appeared most recently in 2008, and the first product was released only two years ago in March 2011. The plant was built almost from scratch, initially in its place were the premises in a monstrous state. May 15, 2010 started to overhaul. Flagship production — ORSIS sniper rifle — this is an abbreviated name for a phrase «weapon systems». But we will return to the history of the plant, and now let’s go inside.
My path passes through the workshop, in which the trunks are treated. The workpiece in which the hole will be drilled and cutting will be performed is called «form». Forms are delivered to the factory from the USA.
On such machines are processed parts for rifles. Here, in the blanks, they first drill a hole, the width of which depends on the caliber of the future rifle. By the way, some machines were designed in the design office of the plant with the assistance of consultants from Switzerland and Germany.
In general, the plant has more than 30 machines for various purposes with numerical program control (CNC). They are very different, there are simpler, for simple operations, and there are those that do really unique things, according to the technologies, which I heard about for the first time.
The trunks are made of special stainless steel weapons.
Pay attention to the coin. It stands edge on the moving part of the machine, which cuts the barrel from the inside. The smoothness and accuracy of the course in this operation is so high that it does not allow the coin to fall. At the end of the post you can see the video of this process.
The same machine. Here you can see how a rod goes off in the barrel form, making rifling — 4-6 spiral stripes, they help stabilize the trajectory of the bullet. The cutting is done with a special metal hook, which is also manufactured at the factory.
The tool enters the stationary workpiece and leaves a single micron depth mark on the cutter. To facilitate cutting into the barrel pours oil. The process of cutting the barrel lasts 3-5 hours. For one rifling, the tool should come in 60-80 times. After that, the barrel is manually polished with lead-tin lapping and cleaned of oil.
After these operations, the trunk enters the laboratory.
Here, experts probe the bore of a bore-scope (a relative of the endoscope) for defects — scratches, shells or cracks. The barrel is checked several times: after drilling the hole, cutting and polishing.
Go ahead to the second shop. Another little discovery — on the machine does not rotate the drill and the detail! The drill slowly crashes into the stainless steel.
What kind of wood we will find out a little later.
Pig, which will soon become the main part of the bolt mechanism.
The cnc machine processes the detail of the slide mechanism, which is immediately cooled with water.
Further, this item is subject to quality control. With the help of this device (on the left) the characteristics which the part should correspond to are determined.
The general plan of the second workshop.
Further our way lies through the shop where they make a bed. It is with this same jigsaw that a piece is cut out, from which an almost finished product will be cut out on the machine.
For each model make their own box. It provides structural rigidity. For tactical rifles use a bed of aluminum, for sports — from special weapon laminate. In addition, the plant to order makes a box of valuable wood, for example of walnut.
The machine also works on software control.
One blank of this part can cost several tens of thousands of rubles. If you carefully look at one of these bars, you can see 4 layers of plywood or as it is called differently. — wood laminate.
After processing on a milling machine, the craftsmen manually grind it, apply brand notches with a laser and impregnate it several times with oil. In one shift, the master makes 2-3 beds.
In the workpiece is a notch for the trunk, after which it is once again covered with oil and only then with varnish.
Let’s go further.
Here you can see how the blanks are ground.
Next we are waiting for painting shop.
And in the next room I was waiting for a small opening.
Here, using high-precision equipment (the cost of which amounts to tens of thousands of euros), parts for the bolt group (triggers, fuses, triggers) are cut out of metal, which could not be done with the help of other machines.
Parts are cut using electrical erosion technology. That such a thread, it can be from molybdenum or brass.
Everything happens like this: the thread from the coil is threaded through a small hole in a metal sheet or a pig, fixed from the bottom so that it can be wound onto another coil. Then this sheet is immersed in a bath of water, into which high voltage and current flows.
The thread is quickly wound on the second spool and the machine thus cuts out parts that are highly accurate to microns. This process can take 3-4 hours. Such a modernized jigsaw.
Here, too, CNC, a person only sets the program and monitors the accuracy of the operation.
Here from this disc is cut too much, so that you can insert another part.
And I was surprised that the thread can be cut at an angle. From the middle of this cylinder, a part is cut, which is round on one side and an asterisk in the other.
Details of the trigger mechanism.
Here you can see that several sheets were welded together to cut the maximum number of parts.
We are leaving this shop and are heading the assembly area; this is the last stage before the rifle enters the shooting range.
In these boxes are ready-made rifles.
The specialist collects together the details of the bolt group, attaches them to the trunk, followed by a glass bedding process. Special mastic is put on the bed for the rifle, metal parts are put into it and left to dry for a day. Then the parts are taken out again and given away for painting, and on the bed their exact impression remains, which allows the wood to be adjusted to the metal. This provides greater precision weapons.
After painting the parts are put together again. Specialists of the technical control department inspect the finished product and give a conclusion that the rifle is ready to fire.
At the factory there are very young workers.
Every day the plant produces up to 10 rifles per day.
In addition to rifles, the factory collects Austrian Glock pistols of various calibers.
And this is a refrigerator, but in it you will not find vegetables, fruits, beer, yesterday’s dinner and other snacks. It is also used when assembling a rifle. How, you ask?
The fact is that when assembling some parts, it is necessary to fasten some details to the bed as tightly as possible. If this is done at room temperature, the screws will crash too much into the product and may spoil it, so these parts are placed in the refrigerator for a while so that it squeezes a bit (I hope everyone remembers physics) and it could be screwed as tightly as necessary, without risk spoil the bed.
We leave the assembly shop and head to the shooting gallery. This is the final stage of checking the rifle for quality and accuracy. All weapons pass through the sighting.
You need to get a vooooon to that little point. See something? I do not) the length of the shooting gallery — 100 meters.
Testing the accuracy of weapons conducted by the master of international class shooting. The room here is small, about 2 meters by 2. We put on the headphones so as not to deaf.
High-class shooters have repeatedly won shooting competitions with this rifle.
By the way, Stephen Sigal is a big fan of hunting and weapons and ordered an exclusive rifle at the Orsis plant.
photo from the site of the plant
At the factory there is a salon of weapons, where you can look after yourself with a rifle, buy spare parts for it.
And a small video where you can see firsthand how all this is done:
We would like to thank Ekaterina Nuriakhmetova, the head of the plant’s press service, for the opportunity to see how all this is done.

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Re: 338 Edge AI
Ok after doing the math 2400 buck takes everything. That's including shipping to your FFL.
I settled on 2800 fps but the load could be pushed harder. This allows the brass to be loaded many times.
Keep in mind this is a single shot. There has been an aluminum block added to the action that stiffened it up as well.
I decided to go with the ai cause you don't have to trim and you can't really load the bullets out and get them in a traditional mag anyways.


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