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BROSSARD - The Canadiens held a practice at the Bell Sports Complex on Saturday morning. The team will have a rare Saturday evening off, but are back at the Bell Centre to face the Islanders on Sunday.
-Alexei Emelin once again took part in a full practice session with his teammates. He alternatively drilled with Andrei Markov and Douglas Murray.
-Daniel Briere practiced wearing a white full contact jersey. It's his second time participating in regular practice since suffering a concussion.
-The coaches organized an up-tempo practice session featuring several odd-man rush drills designed to hone the team's skating and passing abilities. They followed up with two on two "battle drills" in front of the net.
Lines at practice
Defenseman Greg Pateryn was reassigned to the AHL's Hamilton Bulldogs this morning. The 23 year-old from Sterling Heights, Michigan was recalled from Hamilton on October 28th, but did not appear in a game with the Habs since being called up.
Elsewhere, the Canadiens had a day off on Friday. The team's next practice session will be held at the Bell Sports Complex at 11AM on Saturday November 9th.
- The Canadiens held an optional skate at the Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata. Sixteen players took part, including both goalies. Andrei Markov, Josh Gorges, Ryan White, Tomas Plekanec, Raphael Diaz, Francis Bouillon and Max Pacioretty did not practice.
- Daniel Briere participated in his first practice with the team since suffering a concussion on Oct. 19 against Nashville. With no set timetable for his return to the lineup, the 36-year-old is dutifully following protocol to make sure when he does finally get back into action, he'll be fully recovered and ready to go.
|Briere practicing with his teammates
"I don't have a precise date yet. I've followed protocol and things have been getting better. I can do a little more every day," shared Briere, who took an Eric Nystrom elbow to the chin in the team's eighth game of the season. "The hardest thing is just being patient. With the way I'm feeling, I feel like I could play tonight but I know that wouldn't be the best thing to do. We've seen in the past what happens when guys come back too soon and they get hit and then they're out for even longer. I'm following the doctors' orders; they know what's best for me, but it's hard to be patient and wait."
- Travis Moen skated on Thursday morning and will suit up for his first game since fracturing his orbital bone on Oct. 26 after taking a puck to the face. Moen will be sporting a visor for the immediate future and will flank Ryan White and George Parros on the team's fourth line.
- David Desharnais will be back in the lineup after being a healthy scratch against St. Louis on Tuesday. Desharnais will center a line with Michael Bournival and Rene Bourque on the wings.
- Carey Price will get his 14th start of the season on Thursday night. The 26-year-old will look to build on his 14-5-3 career record against the Sens.
- About to square off against the Senators at the Canadian Tire Centre for the first time – preseason excluded – since Game 4 of the first round of the 2013 Playoffs, Michel Therrien is expecting to see a typical rivalry game in Ottawa. Having failed to leave the nation's capital with a win since December 27, 2011, Therrien is hoping to snap that streak on Thursday night.
"When you play against teams in your division, you're used to playing against them and there's always a little more emotion in the air when you face them than when you're playing teams you don't play against very often," admitted the Habs bench boss. "We know how important games like these are and we're starting a stretch of the schedule where we're facing a lot of teams within our conference and our division. We know them better and they know us better, so that always makes for more interesting games."
- Puck drop is slated for 7:00 p.m. at the Canadian Tire Centre.
Game Preview: Canadiens @ Senators
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After Tuesday night's game versus St. Louis, the team announced that forwards Louis Leblanc and Martin St-Pierre will be reassigned to the Hamilton Bulldogs.
Alexei Emelin and Travis Moen both practiced with full contact jerseys.
The coaching staff shuffled the forward lines at practice. Pacioretty slotted in with Plekanec and Gionta, Eller was back with Galchenyuk and Gallagher, Desharnais centered Bournival and Bourque, while Moen was reunited with White and Parros.
Carey Price will make his fourteenth start in Ottawa on Thursday.
Daniel Briere will make the trip and practice with his teammates for the first time since suffering a concussion against Nashville.
The recovery of Emelin and Brandon Prust are on-schedule, but there are no fixed date for their return as of yet.
Lines at practice
- Forwards Louis Leblanc and Martin St-Pierre have been assigned to the Hamilton Bulldogs this morning. They will travel to Rochester today.
BROSSARD - The Canadiens held an optional morning skate at the Bell Sports Complex on Tuesday ahead of their game against the St. Louis Blues.
- For a second day in a row, Brandon Prust skated before practice.
- Prospects Louis Leblanc and Greg Pateryn were the first skaters on the ice.
- Alexei Emelin and Travis Moen skated alongside their teammates. Both are on track in their recovery from injuries.
- Seventeen players took part in the morning skate, including forwards Michael Bournival, Alex Galchenyuk, Brendan Gallagher, Louis Leblanc, Lars Eller, David Desharnais, George Parros, Martin St-Pierre and Travis Moen. Defensemen Raphael Diaz, P.K. Subban, Douglas Murray and Francis Bouillon also took part in practice along with goaltenders Carey Price and Peter Budaj.
- Martin St-Pierre will make his Canadiens debut against the Blues. He will play on a line with Ryan White and George Parros.
"The coach told me yesterday to be ready in case I play, and confirmed with me this morning. It'll be a great experience," stated St-Pierre, who has eight points in seven games with the Hamilton Bulldogs this season.
The 30-year-old will be skating for his fourth NHL club, having already dressed for the Blackhawks, the Bruins and the Senators prior to signing with the Canadiens over the summer.
"It's been four years since I last played [a regular season game] with the Senators, so it'll be a lot of fun to have another chance tonight," noted the Ottawa, ON native.
- David Desharnais will not see action against St. Louis. While it's always a hard decision to bench an established player, head coach Michel Therrien asserts that the decision to leave Desharnais out of the lineup on Tuesday night was a difficult one.
"It's never easy to make those types of decisions because the goal of the exercise is to make sure that your players are at their best. When you don't see results, you need to make decisions," affirmed Therrien. "My main concern is to make sure that all the players in the lineup give a good effort and win this hockey game."
- Lars Eller is skating on a new line with Leblanc and Bourque, which allows former linemate Alex Galchenyuk to slot in at center between Max Pacioretty and Brendan Gallagher.
"My approach will be the same. I've learned in the past that things don't stay the same for long. We have all the assets to do well as a new line," mentioned Eller.
For the 24-year-old, the game against the Blues will be a special occasion. St. Louis drafted Eller back in 2007, before trading him to the Canadiens in 2010.
"Even though I only played seven games with them, I still spent almost three years in that organization. Of course it's special. There will be many familiar faces in the lineup, guys I've played with in the past," acknowledged Eller, who will take on his former club for the third time in his career.
Projected lineup vs. STL
RAW: Eller
RAW: St-Pierre
Game preview
- The Canadiens skated in Brossard on Monday morning after a day off on Sunday following their two-game road swing to Minnesota and Colorado.
- Called up from the Hamilton Bulldogs on Sunday, Martin St-Pierre took part in practice at the Bell Sports Complex. The Ottawa, ON native is currently tied atop the Bulldogs' scoring list with eight points on the year in seven games.
- Travis Moen took part in his first practice alongside his teammates since suffering a fractured orbital bone on Oct. 26 against the Sharks. Moen sported a blue 'no contact' jersey during the practice session.
- Alexei Emelin took part in practice alongside his teammates again in Brossard. This time, however, Emelin was wearing a white jersey indicating he is eligible for contact.
- Brandon Prust and Daniel Briere skated on the secondary ice rink at the Bell Sports Complex on Monday morning. Head coach Michel Therrien confirmed that Briere is no longer suffering from symptoms related to the concussion he suffered just over two weeks ago in a game against the Nashville Predators.
- Therrien also confirmed that Carey Price will get the start in goal against the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night at the Bell Centre.
Lines and D pairings at practice:
Bournival – Plekanec – Gionta
Pacioretty – Galchenyuk – Gallagher
Leblanc – Eller – Bourque
Desharnais – White – Parros
St-Pierre – Moen
Diaz – Gorges
Markov – Subban
Murray – Bouillon
Emelin – Pateryn
The Canadiens assigned Michael Blunden to the Hamilton Bulldogs this morning.
Later in the day, the Canadiens recalled forward Martin St-Pierre from Hamilton.
- The Canadiens held an optional skate on Saturday morning at the Pepsi Center in Denver ahead of their game against the Avalanche. Seven Habs players took part in the skate, including Max Pacioretty, Ryan White, Michael Blunden, Greg Pateryn, George Parros and goaltenders Peter Budaj and Carey Price. Goaltending coach Stephane Waite was on the ice as well for the duration of the on-ice session.
- Budaj will be making his third start of the season for the Canadiens on Saturday night against the Avs. The Slovakian netminder holds a 54-37-13 lifetime record at the Pepsi Center with a 2.63 GAA. Saturday night's tilt will mark Budaj's first career start in the building as a member of the Canadiens. He called the Pepsi Center home as a member of the Avalanche for six seasons.
- Max Pacioretty will return to the Canadiens lineup on Saturday night for the first time since suffering a left hamstring strain on Oct. 15 in a game against the Jets in Winnipeg. Absent for the last nine games, the power forward, who has amassed two goals and three points in five games thus far this season, has been chomping at the bit to return to action.
"A few days ago, they made a plan for me that I would play one of the two games on the trip. Obviously, I wanted to play them both. I have to do everything I can to help the team win tonight," affirmed Pacioretty, who as of the morning skate hadn't been made aware of his linemates for the tilt against head coach Patrick Roy's squad. "I felt bad for about a week after the injury. I've been feeling 100 percent for around a week now. I'm ready to play my game."
- Prior to the start of Saturday night's game, the Avalanche will raise defenseman Adam Foote's number 52 to the rafters at the Pepsi Center. Foote spent 17 of his 19 NHL seasons in the Nordiques/Avalanche organization. The ceremony will be held at 6:55 p.m. MT.
Game preview: Canadiens @ Avalanche
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- The Canadiens skated at the Xcel Energy Center on Friday morning ahead of their tilt against the Minnesota Wild.
- Prior to the start of practice, players lined up for a group photo alongside their guests who accompanied them on the Father & Son Roadtrip to Minnesota and Colorado. Twenty fathers were on site at the rink on Friday morning, along with countless sons, friends and relatives of Canadiens players and staffers.
For Brendan Gallagher, any opportunity to play in front of his father, Ian, is something the 21-year-old looks forward to. The Edmonton, AB native believes that having family and friends in attendance at the Xcel Energy Center provides added incentive for the players to put on a good show and pick up an all-important victory.
"You always want to play well, but when you have people that are very important to you and special to you and that meant a lot to your career, you want to bring your best. You want to show up, you want to play hard," acknowledged Gallagher, who has five goals and eight points in 13 games thus far this season. "I know the guys in here will do that because each and every one has talked how much our dads gave up so much for us to be where we are today. So, tonight hopefully we can go out there and pay a little bit back to them and reward them with a win."
- Brandon Prust and Daniel Briere, both of whom are sidelined due to injury but accompanied the team on the current road swing, did not take part in the morning skate in Saint Paul.
- Head coach Michel Therrien confirmed that Carey Price will make his 12th start of the season for the Canadiens on Friday night. The Habs bench boss also confirmed that Peter Budaj will be between the pipes against the Avalanche to close out the road trip on Saturday night in Colorado. He also indicated that Max Pacioretty will likely make his return to the lineup against the Avalanche. The New Canaan, CT native had been sidelined since suffering a left hamstring injury in a tilt on Oct. 15 in Winnipeg.
- George Parros will make his much-anticipated return to the Canadiens lineup on Friday night against the Wild. Parros suffered a concussion on Oct. 1 in the season-opener against the Maple Leafs.
Back on the ice in the Twin Cities sans his trademark mustache, the 33-year-old is prepared to return to active duty.
"I feel lighter and quicker [without the mustache], but less manly," joked Parros, who shaved off his mustache in honor of Movember prior to the team's departure on Thursday. "I feel good. I'm at the point where I can get back to playing with confidence. I'm not going to rush it. That's important when it comes to this type of injury. I'm ready to play."
- Michel Therrien will be coaching across from a familiar face on Friday night in Wild bench boss, Mike Yeo. The pair spent seven years together in the Pittsburgh organization. Therrien has the utmost respect for his coaching counterpart, who also just happens to be the youngest coach in the NHL.
"We worked together in Wilkes-Barre. When I got to Pittsburgh, we moved up together. I really enjoyed my time with Mike Yeo. He's got great work ethic. He's a smart hockey mind. He's really well-respected by his players," offered Therrien. "I really enjoyed my time with him. I tried to help him and he certainly helped me, too. I'm really pleased with the success he's had with the Wild. I knew that down the road he would eventually get a shot to be a head coach in the NHL."
Game Preview: Canadiens @ Wild
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Yet another classic tool from our toolbox, SiSoftware's Sandra is one of the ultimate benchmarking sidekicks around, allowing us to test almost every-single component in our PC, from CPU to GPU to memory to storage. In the case of our motherboard reviews, we stick with the memory bandwidth and latency tests, since its an area where some differences could very-well be seen.
As mentioned above, the results here don't represent real-world performance, and if one motherboard sees the memory 4ns slower, the chances of you noticing the hit in real usage is highly unlikely, if not impossible. If any scenario would be effected, it would be processes that last the course of a few hours, not a few minutes.
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Human Trafficking Bill (C-268) Becomes Law!
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ARPA Canada is thrilled to learn that Bill C-268 has been passed by the Senate prior to the summer break. Now traffickers of minors will receive a minimum 5 year sentence. For over a year we have been urging you to take action in support of this legislation. MP's and Senators have heard from Canadians and have responded. Here is an email message from MP Joy Smith, the sponsor of this bill, followed by a press release from Canada Fights Human Trafficking.
Dear friends,
It is with great joy that I inform you that Bill C-268 has finally passed
the Senate of Canada!
I am so pleased that our country now has a law that assures significant
penalties for those who traffic children. No longer will traffickers walk
out of jail a week after being convicted.
I want to take a moment to thank you for the amazing support you have shown
over the past year and a half. Tens of thousands of Canadians have voiced
their support for Bill C-268 through petitions, emails, letters and phone
calls. Your voice was heard!
My hope is that Bill C-268 is a tipping point for much more action on human
trafficking. There is much to be done and I plan to continue to advocate for
a National Action Plan to combat human trafficking.
We need to ensure that there are effective prevention initiatives in place
and partnerships formed between federal and provincial governments to
provide much needed protection and rehabilitation for victims.
I am sure you will join me in the next steps necessary to rid Canada of
modern day slavery.
Again thank you for your support during this long journey. We are making a
Joy Smith, MP
Kildonan - St. Paul
June 17, 2010: Ottawa, ON: Today, the Senate of Canada adopted at Third Reading Bill C-268, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (minimum sentence for offences involving trafficking of persons under the age of eighteen years). The legislation will now be sent to the Governor General of Canada for Royal Assent.
Bill C-268 will amend Canada's Criminal Code to introduce a new human trafficking offence specifically addressing child traffickers. The new law will provide a minimum sentence of five years imprisonment for anyone convicted of trafficking a minor in Canada and a minimum of six years imprisonment for cases with aggravating factors.
Introduced on January 29, 2009, by Joy Smith, Member of Parliament for Kildonan – St. Paul, Bill C-268 has attracted broad national support. On September 30, 2009, Bill C-268 was adopted by the House of Commons with the bi-partisan support of Conservative and Liberal MPs and most NDP MPs. On October 1, 2009, Bill C-268 was first introduced into the Senate and was sponsored by Senator Yonah Martin.
"The strong support for Bill C-268 reveals a clear indication that the majority of Parliamentarians understand the necessity of ensuring the traffickers of minors receive sentences that reflect the severity of this grave offence," said MP Joy Smith. "Traffickers need to know that Canada will not accept the exploitation and sale of our children and any attempts to do so will be met with stiff consequences."
Bill C-268 is the first and only Private Members' Bill to be passed by Parliament since the last election in 2008. The passing of Bill C-268 is even more significant since it amends the Criminal Code. Prior to this legislation, only 14 Private Members' Bills containing Criminal Code amendments have been adopted by the Canadian Parliament since Confederation.
Since introducing Bill C-268, Mrs. Smith has presented petitions containing tens of thousands of signatures from Canadians who demanded that the penalties to child traffickers fully reflect the gravity of the crime. Many organizations have also lent their support for this legislation, representing stakeholders such as law enforcement, victim's services, NGO's, and First Nations representatives.
The demand for Bill C-268 arose from a number of human trafficking convictions involving minors where the offender received insignificant sentences. For example, Michael Lennox Mark was convicted on November 10, 2008, for selling a 17- year-old girl for sex. He received a two- year sentence but only spent a week in jail following after his conviction due to the credit of pre-trial custody.
The international community has also recognized this concern and in October 2008, theReport of the Canada-U.S. Consultation in Preparation for the World Congress III Against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents recommended that Canada enact a mandatory minimum penalty for child trafficking. Last year, the 2009 U.S. State Department Trafficking in Persons Report also noted the difficulties reported by Canadian law enforcement with securing adequate punishments against offenders.
MP Joy Smith has been recognized as a leading expert and speaker on the issue and is working at the national and international level to end human trafficking. Since being elected, MP Joy Smith has advocated for a national action plan to be implemented to combat human trafficking in Canada. In 2007, MP Smith saw her motion M-153, which urged the development of a comprehensive national plan, unanimously passed by the Parliament of Canada.
"Bill C-268 is an important step forward in addressing human trafficking here in Canada," states MP Joy Smith. "However, Canada also needs a comprehensive national action plan to combat human trafficking that addresses the multifaceted aspects of this crime. We need to have a federal strategy in coordination with provincial and territorial governments that focuses on prevention initiatives, greater protection and rehabilitation for the victims, and partnerships with frontline organizations."
For more information on Bill C-268, please visit: http://www.joysmith.ca/main.asp?fxoid=FXMenu,7&cat_ID=27&sub_ID=96.
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At the lobby of the industrial building where Apple Daily, daily purveyor of political exposes and celebrity gossip, operates, there stands a bust of an unlikely person: a Scottish colonial servant.
Inscribed beneath the sculpture of John Cowperthwaite - Hong Kong's famously libertarian financial secretary from 1961 to 1971 - is a quote of his, warning of the "harm" from "the centralised decisions of a government".
Scepticism about the powers- that-be has been a pervasive force in Apple Daily's brand of journalism since it slammed into the city in 1995, something that has since evolved into an unabashedly anti- Beijing stance.
Nearly two decades on, this is exerting a price.
It began last August when two banks - HSBC and the Bank of East Asia - suddenly yanked their advertisements, according to its chief editor Cheung Kim Hung.
Other banks, including Standard Chartered, and property companies Kerry Properties and Hongkong Land followed suit.
"Officially, they didn't say why," says Cheung. "But it is no coincidence why they all suddenly stopped during this sensitive period."
Beijing is believed to be the hand behind the ad pullouts. An HSBC representative reportedly told an executive of Next Media, Apple Daily's company, that Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong told the bank to end its advertising relationship.
Freesheet AM730 was similarly hit when three Chinese banks withdrew their ads.
Beijing's allegedly hardball tactics, among others, are cited as having made the past year the "darkest" for Hong Kong's press freedom in the last three decades, according to the latest annual report by the Hong Kong Journalist Association.
The 42-page report cited examples such as the brutal knifing of former Ming Pao chief editor Kevin Lau, personnel changes that amounted to the "removal of critical voices", perceived self-censorship and the government's use of background briefings instead of open press conferences to release information.
The Straits Times' interviews with local news editors, journalists and media scholars, not unexpectedly, indicate differences in opinion as to whether the various cases are due to political interference or are legitimate decisions.
But there is certainly a consensus: that with Hong Kong undergoing its worst political tumult since the 1997 handover, the city's freewheeling and influential media is facing greater pressure and scrutiny from all quarters.
As Ming Pao's principal executive editor Chong Tien Siong puts it: "Seventeen years after the hand- over, Hong Kong's political environment has entered another stage. And the media, as a reflection of the times and the society, will instantly feel different types of pressure."
One clear trend is that with society torn over contentious issues such as universal suffrage and the city's fraught relationship with Beijing, there is a further political polarisation of Hong Kong's already fragmented media.
Readers themselves play a role in this, observes journalism academic Clement So of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
With 18 newspapers - excluding online sites - competing for readership in a city of 7.2 million, many find that they are not attracting eyeballs without strong political stances.
"Readers can get information online and if newspapers cannot follow up with strong opinions, readers will pass on your article," says Professor So. "If you don't have assertive views, no one reads you."
There is also the concern that with the society swept up in political fervour, reporters themselves may not maintain sufficient distance from the news developments, says Chong.
But the largest charge is levelled at powerful players, in particular Beijing and the Hong Kong government, for exerting pressure on media outlets.
Ming Pao, for instance, was accused of serving Beijing's interests when its owner, Malaysian tycoon Tiong Hiew King, brought in Chong, also a Malaysian, to replace its chief editor who had been in the job for about two years. This invited charges that Chong was put there to temper the paper's investigative reporting.
Chong denies this, saying he disagrees with critics who say that the influential paper has become "more pro-Beijing".
He stresses that his biggest concern is to achieve "objectivity in our reporting", although he also notes that it is no easy task given that the definition of objectivity in itself can be subjective.
Meanwhile, instances of perceived censorship have been cited at other papers like the Hong Kong Economic Journal where columnists complain that their pieces have been edited beyond recognition. An outspoken commentator was fired from Commercial Radio.
Those on the other end of the spectrum, meanwhile, argue that such developments have pushed them further to the fringe.
Apple Daily used to carry a 7:3 mix of voices that are critical versus supportive of the establishment, says Cheung. "Now, it's 9:1," he admits, adding that it is "not a healthy development".
He claims the moral high ground in this, saying that with censorship, "certain voices can appear now only in our pages".
"Too many newspapers are already reflecting the establishment's voice, and so the onus is greater on Apple Daily - in advocating for democracy, freedom and human rights - to highlight other (voices)," he argues.
"The more you clamp down on us, the more in one direction the media will move, becoming either pro- or anti-Beijing."
Ultimately, decisions regarding the editing of an article or personnel changes can be subjective. A writer may be sacked as a result of political interference. It could also be that his work is just not up to par. Charges that media freedoms are being eroded in Hong Kong also have to be put in perspective - no reporter has been jailed or persecuted for his views.
But what is clear is that in the current political environment, there is decreasing trust and an increasing disconnect between newspaper bosses and their reporters as well as the public, notes Man Cheuk Fei, former chief editor of HKEJ Monthly.
The most recent example was when a Ming Pao editorial director, Mr Lui Ka Ming, stopped the presses to change a front-page headline at 3.30am on July 2. The original heading - "10-year-high turnout for march to fight for universal suffrage" - became "Hundreds rehearse for Occupy Central, police clearing the space".
Lui said he did so in order to reflect the latest news, a plausible explanation.
But to Hong Kongers wary about the undermining of their freedoms, it was interference, plain and simple.
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City that suffered some of the bloodiest episodes of the war is back under Iraqi control.
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- A new chicken restaurant "King of Kentucky Chicken Restaurant," with two large images of Colonel Sanders in Fallujah. The restaurant is inspired by - but not connected to - the American-based KFC.
Fallujah: The Americans are gone from Fallujah, but the "King of Kentucky Chicken Restaurant" is open for business in a bullet-pocked building.
The city that suffered some of the bloodiest episodes of the Iraq war is back under Iraqi control and bursting with entrepreneurial energy, from music stores and restaurants to workmen digging trenches for a long-delayed US-funded sewage network.
But much war damage remains untended, unemployment runs high, farming has fallen into neglect and there are constant fears that the insurgents who waged war are waiting for the right moment to rekindle the conflict.
This city of 400,000 was the heartbeat of the uprising that followed the US-led invasion of Iraq - notorious for bombings, the killing of 17 people when US paratroopers fired on protesters, and the ambush in which the burned bodies of four Blackwater security company men were hung on a bridge.
In November 2004, with Fallujah in insurgent hands, the US military launched an operation to recapture the city. After 45 days that saw some of the heaviest urban combat for Americans since the Vietnam War, the US announced it had crushed the last pocket of resistance in Fallujah.
Of at least 225 Americans who have died in action in Fallujah since the invasion, 78 were killed in the final operation, according to Pentagon figures. Insurgent losses were estimated at about 1,350.
US forces continued to control the city tightly until last month, when they quit the last of their posts inside Fallujah. Now the city around 48 kilometres west of Baghdad is a testing ground for the Iraqis' ability to keep the peace unaided.
Security is uppermost in people's minds here, their worries heightened by two suicide bombings in the Fallujah area this month that targeted Sunni clan leaders who fought against the insurgents. One of the bombers was thought to have recently been freed from Camp Bucca, the US detention centre in southern Iraq.
Thousands of detainees have been freed from US custody in recent months to comply with a US-Iraqi security pact that took effect on January 1, and there are fears some of them will try to join up with Al Qaida sleeper cells.
"Bucca has reinforced their extremist ideology since the most radical detainees are kept together away from the rest," said Mushtaq Al Eifan, a prominent clan member who fought Al Qaida.
However, Fallujah is relatively calm, though its notoriety appears to endure.
Mayor Shaikh Hameed Hashem says he is struggling to staff to capacity a $46-million (Dh168.8-million), 200-bed hospital just built with government funds because of misconceptions about security in Fallujah. He is promising housing and police protection for out-of-town doctors who agree to work at the hospital.
Meanwhile, as Fallujah recovers some of its traditional vigour as a transport and trade hub, it is feeling pressures of a different sort - falling oil prices.Hashem says his 2009 budget has been slashed by two-thirds to about $43 million because of the slump in oil earnings that underpin government revenue.
With unemployment at about 30 per cent, he said he needs money for industrial and farming projects to create jobs.
Also, he said he needs to build a power station as the government provides only 25 per cent of Fallujah's electricity needs and the rest comes from private generators.
Still, in ways both big and small, the city is struggling back to normalcy. Along with the $100-million sewage network, construction of a stretch of elevated highway appears to be moving ahead.
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Semi-empirical high-field conduction model for polyethylene and implications thereofPage(s): 97 - 106| | Quick Abstract | PDF (664 KB)
A semi-empirical model for high-field conduction in polyethylene is developed on the basis of data in the literature for ac conductivity in the range of 30 to 60 kV/mm and `charge injection' from a needle in the range of 160 kV/mm. The model is used to compute high-field conduction-related phenomena by solving Poisson's equation with field-dependent conductivity and time-dependent applied voltage for a highly inhomogeneous field geometry. Parameters computed include field, current density, charge density, power density, and force density. Temperature rise in the dielectric is estimated based on the computed power density View full abstract»
UHF detection of leader discharges in SF6Page(s): 143 - 154| | Quick Abstract | PDF (856 KB)
The ultra-high frequency (UHF) technique of partial discharge detection has been used to study the partial discharges produced by electrode protrusions and surface contamination in a gas insulated substation (GIS). The paper describes the stages of discharge development from inception to breakdown. The work has shown that the UHF technique may be used to identify distinct phases of discharge activity corresponding to discharge inception and a prebreakdown condition. The prebreakdown activity is detected as an increase in the UHF signal magnitude which has been attributed to the formation of leader-type discharges. These discharges form an essential part of the breakdown process, and their detection can be used to identify when the system is close to breakdown. The paper describes a filtering technique that may be employed to optimize the sensitivity of UHF leader detection View full abstract»
Breakdown characteristics in air gaps with artificial floating metals under DC voltagePage(s): 155 - 166| | Quick Abstract | PDF (804 KB)
The DC breakdown characteristics of a sphere-to-sphere gap with conducting objects supported by an insulator rod in atmospheric air are investigated experimentally to provide fundamental parameters determining the breakdown voltage in the presence of floating objects around DC power apparatus by an air insulation. The shape of tested floating objects made of metal is plate, needle or sphere. Experimental results show that the main factors affecting the breakdown voltage are the shape and size of floating objects, the object location and the gap length. If the object is placed at the location giving the lowest breakdown voltage, any object lowers the breakdown voltage below that without the relevant objects View full abstract»
Space charge in polyethylene/ionomer blendsPage(s): 1 - 11| | Quick Abstract | PDF (844 KB)
Measurements of thermally stimulated currents were made on ionomer/polyethylene blends. The objective of this work was to study space charge formation in these materials. Two ionomers were compared; both ionomers contained methacrylic acid, neutralized by zinc in one and by sodium in the other. A large current peak centered near 60°C was observed in all blends and associated with the motion of space charges injected into the blends during poling. All blends accumulated large negative space charge concentrations. The approach to the equilibrium space charge distribution (negative and spatially uniform in all blends) is much more rapid in the blends containing the sodium ionomer than in the blends containing the zinc ionomer View full abstract»
Electrical conduction in double-layer P-SiO2/polymer dielectric structuresPage(s): 62 - 73| | Quick Abstract | PDF (860 KB)
The dc electrical conduction in MI1M and MI1I2M composite specimens has been studied, where I1 is polyimide (PI) or polyester (PET), and I2 is a thin plasma deposited silicon compound film (oxide, P-SiO2, or nitride, P-SiN). The current-electric field (j(E,T)) characteristics have been measured over a wide range of E values (O⩽E⩽2×10 5 V cm-1) and temperatures (20⩽T⩽170°C). The observed transport characteristics are in broad agreement with data reported in the literature, except for PI based MI1I2M specimens, for which polarity dependent transport behavior occurs for T>60°C and E>2×103 V cm-1. The observed behavior of all specimen types can be explained in terms of protonic hopping conduction; the charge carriers are created by thermal dissociation and ionization of carboxylic acid (-COOH) groups, present in PI as several percent of unimidized polyamic acid, and in PET at chain ends. When the polarity is +MI1I2M-, the relatively abundant free protons in PI flow to the I1/I2 interface, where they can accumulate and give rise to a space charge-induced potential barrier of ~0.2 eV. By modifying Lewis' molecular dipole model so as to include this potential barrier, we derive expressions for j(E,T) which describe the experimentally observed polarity dependence in PI rather well. The effect is not observed in PET based MI1I2M specimens on account of the much lower concentration of free protons in this polymer View full abstract»
On the existence of leader discharges in mineral oilPage(s): 167 - 179| | Quick Abstract | PDF (1188 KB)
Time-resolved pictures of discharges with simultaneous recording of predischarge currents have been obtained in different oil gaps under impulse voltage of positive polarity. It has been stated that in certain experimental conditions, a process similar to the leader process in air occurs, with the typical features of a leader channel and a streamer zone View full abstract»
Effect of filler concentration on electrical conductivity and ultralow-frequency dielectric propertiesPage(s): 54 - 61| | Quick Abstract | PDF (448 KB)
The effect of filler concentration on the dielectric properties in the ultralow-frequency region and on the electrical conductivity was studied for ethylene propylene rubber. First, we investigated the relation between the electrical conductivity and filler concentration: as the volume fraction of fillers qa increased, the conductivity decreased in the low filler concentration region but increased abruptly in the high filler concentration region. The decrease and increase in conductivity can be explained with the action of carrier traps at the interface between EPR and fillers and with the formation of highly conductive paths of filler across the sample, respectively. Secondly, we studied the dielectric properties in the ultralow-frequency region which was obtained from the discharge current. As qa increased, the relaxation time decreased in the low filler concentration region and then rose in the high filler concentration region. The polarization in the high filler concentration region can be explained by two-layer interfacial polarization between filler and rubber View full abstract»
Static electrification and partial discharges induced by oil flow in power transformersPage(s): 40 - 45| | Quick Abstract | PDF (400 KB)
This paper presents the study of the major parameters on static electrification, using full-scale shell type transformers (570 MVA, 405 kV and 100 MVA, 500 kV). The consequences of static electrification on the dielectric strength and the conditions of partial discharge occurrence also are studied with oil flow rate up to 5 times the nominal value. It shows that the leakage currents are strongly influenced by temperature, applied voltage and oil flow rate Q. The latter is the most influential parameter. The winding leakage current I varies as Qn , where 1⩽n⩽3. The maximum value of I is observed at room temperature (20°C) when the transformer is energized View full abstract»
Electroluminescence from polyolefins subjected to a homogeneous ac fieldPage(s): 107 - 113| | Quick Abstract | PDF (468 KB)
Electroluminescence associated with ac voltage aging of polyolefins has been reported under divergent field configuration. Neither the mechanism of excitation nor the nature of luminescent centers are well understood in these polymers. Homegeneous field experiments are desirable since they are easier to run and more light can be collected, thereby allowing spectral analysis to be made. We describe a suitable experimental configuration for electroluminescence detection from polyethylene and polypropylene films submitted to a homogeneous field and report on surface roughness, field, and time dependence of the light emission. Field and time dependence of the light spectra are also investigated. It is shown that the light originates from the polymer bulk and is controlled by the surface roughness of the films. The light spectrum appears to consist of two components which exhibit different behavior as a function of field and stressing time. A tentative explanation is given in terms of competition between two different excitation processes View full abstract»
Computer-aided design of porcelain insulators under polluted conditionsPage(s): 121 - 127| | Quick Abstract | PDF (440 KB)
The development of a user-friendly, interactive personal computer package for designing insulators to be used in polluted conditions is presented. This is accomplished by integrating a dynamic arc model that computes the pollution flashover voltage within the Microsoft Windows application program. Suspension, station post and pin type insulators of numerous shapes have been incorporated into the package. The model is capable of handling AC and DC voltages, in addition to uniform and nonuniform pollution distributions on the insulator surface. The use of the model as a design tool to predict the insulation requirement for a given system voltage, and as a maintenance tool to determine the critical contamination level (in terms of ESDD) that will cause flashover of the insulator at the operating voltage, has been demonstrated. Wherever possible, comparisons of the model predictions with experimental data have been made, and good agreement has been obtained View full abstract»
Influence of space charge buildup on the transition to electrical treeing in PE under ac voltagePage(s): 27 - 35| | Quick Abstract | PDF (592 KB)
Our investigation is focused on the understanding of electrical aging in polymeric materials under 50 Hz ac voltage. In this report, a needle electrode molded into the insulant to simulate defects producing local field enhancement is used. Special emphasis is given to low density polyethylene. The transition between the discharge-free electroluminescent state to micropartial discharge (PD) state (early electrical tree propagation phase) is studied with a sensitivity reaching 0.01 pC. Optical diagnosis is carried out simultaneously. At the moment of tree initiation, electrical discharges from 0.04 to 0.1 pC occur in the positive half cycle. A very small electrical tree of 5 μm was observed. Using the phase angle of the first measurable PD with respect to the applied voltage offers additional information helping to understand tree initiation. Then a correlation between the magnitude of electrical discharges and the characteristic traces of local breakdown (electrical tree) is reported. We proposed an interpretation based on the similarity with grounding tree experiments in which the initiation of a local breakdown is mainly due to a strong Poisson field radiated by a space charge region in the vicinity of the needle tip View full abstract»
Ionic behavior of dc conduction in polyetheretherketonePage(s): 74 - 83| | Quick Abstract | PDF (656 KB)
The conduction process in polyetheretherketone (PEEK) is discussed mainly from the results of dc conduction, thermal pulse current (TPC), thermally stimulated current (TSC), and pulsed electroacoustic (PEA) measurements. It was found that dc conduction currents in PEEK are consistent with the values predicted by a theory based on the conventional thermally activated ionic hopping process. The ionic hopping distance was calculated to change from 2.5 to 3.9 nm when the temperature crosses the glass transition temperature. The results of TPC and PEA measurements show the existence of heterocharges in the vicinity of both electrodes. In TSC spectra, a peak appears at a temperature of ~5 to 20°C above the biasing temperature. The peak position approaches to the constant temperature of 155°C when the biasing temperature is >150°C. The peak height is maximum when the biasing temperature is 150°C. It is considered that this peak is related to the glass transition and caused by the depolarization of ionic space charge. From these results, it is concluded that ionic carriers which may come from byproducts of synthesis play an important role in the dc conduction process in PEEK View full abstract»
Onset voltage for corona pulses in gaseous Ar under high pressure and in liquid ArPage(s): 137 - 142| | Quick Abstract | PDF (404 KB)
HV, applied to a point cathode (radius of curvature ~1 to ~8 μm) in a nonpolar liquid, brings about a regular current pulse regime above a threshold value Vs. This regime is similar to the Trichel pulse regime for corona in air. We present results of an investigation of this threshold voltage Vs in argon over a wide range of densities. In gaseous argon, the Vs(P) values increase with pressure. In the liquid, Vs is independent of external pressure. The results show that Vs is mainly a function of fluid density N and cathode tip radius τp. The theoretical analysis of the phenomenon is carried out according to the criterion ∫α(x)dx constant, where a(x) is the Townsend ionization coefficient. It is shown that if the dependence of Vs on N for low density gas is extrapolated into the region of liquid densities, it greatly exceeds the experimental values. The dependence of Vs on the fluid number density ~ is derived. Its variation is found to be non-monotonic at very high N values View full abstract»
Quantized thermal depolarization of solid dielectricsPage(s): 12 - 26| | Quick Abstract | PDF (1072 KB)
Contrary to the Debye's theory of a distribution of relaxation times, the logarithm of the relaxation current plotted as function of time has several nearly straight sections of decreasing slopes. The slopes formed short series having common geometrical ratios of ~2, 1.5, and 1.2. The ratios represent stepped changes of the probability of charge carrier excitation, generally caused by the stepped decrements of the displacement potential of the polarized charges. As energetic polarization waves deliver activation energies, large groups of charge carriers display mean decrements of energy in steps of single phonons. The model provides new methods of estimating Planck's constant and of the atomic heat capacity. The experiments and the model suggest that all solids obeying the Dulong-Petit law display one value of mean infrared frequency of vibrations. Based on this frequency a novel solid state constant kTln 2 is proposed representing quantum energy steps displayed in most solid state thermal relaxations. The measurements of ratios of time constants creates a new field of spectroscopic studies of the phonon vibration interactions displaying energies of the order of 10-2 eV. The present results may support the hypothesis that the eigenfunctions of Maxwell's equations are represented by a pulse instead of a monochromatic wave View full abstract»
Calibrating the UHF technique of partial discharge detection using a PD simulatorPage(s): 46 - 53| | Quick Abstract | PDF (520 KB)
The paper describes a technique for simulating the presence of partial discharges in gas-insulated substation (GIS) equipment. The technique employs a pulse generator to inject current pulses through a suitable protrusion. The current pulses have similar temporal characteristics to those produced by an actual discharge event, with the added advantage that their magnitudes can be controlled accurately. Because the pulses are highly reproducible, they are ideally suited for investigating the UHF technique of partial discharge detection. The paper discusses the relationship between the magnitude of the UHF signal received by a coupler and the discharge magnitude. It also shows that the coupler signal is dependent on the protrusion length and on the spatial relationship between the protrusion and the coupler. The implications for practical discharge measurements in GIS also are discussed View full abstract»
Nanosecond streak photography of discharges on spacer surface in gasesPage(s): 114 - 120| | Quick Abstract | PDF (420 KB)
Results of an investigation to clarify the process of surface flashover in gases are reported. Two hemispherical capped rods of 12 mm diameter, separated by a half-cylindrical spacer of 50 mm diameter, formed the samples. The spacer materials were polytetrafluoroethylene, acrylic and nylon. High-speed streak photographs of impulse flashover indicate that the presence of a spacer not only lowers the impulse breakdown voltage but also reduces the breakdown time. The discharge on spacers may be initiated anywhere between the electrodes and develops rapidly into a flashover in ~5 ns for an 18 mm gap View full abstract»
Polluted insulator flashover model for ac voltagePage(s): 128 - 136| | Quick Abstract | PDF (500 KB)
Considerable theoretical and experimental research on polluted insulators has yet to yield a perfect generalized mathematical model which can predict accurately critical flashover voltages and currents. In this paper an ac model has been proposed especially applicable to static arcs. The salient feature of the proposed model is that it takes into account the appropriate selection of arc constants for different chemical nature of the pollutants. The computed results closely follow the experimental curves and can predict rms value of critical flashover voltages with a mean absolute error (MAE) of <4%. The validity of the model was verified by comparing the computed results of rms critical flashover voltages and currents against experimental and theoretical data of other researchers for a number of practical insulators of different geometries and good agreement has been obtained View full abstract»
Electrical conduction at low fields of composites sparsely filled with aluminum particlesPage(s): 84 - 96| | Quick Abstract | PDF (816 KB)
The dc and ac electrical conduction properties have been investigated in four composites containing hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) as binder and different proportions of aluminum particles as filler in a temperature range of -60 to +70°C and a frequency range of 40 Hz to 100 kHz. A change in conduction mechanism at a temperature of 4±3°C was displayed explicitly in de measurements. The transition was shown to be due to crystallization of the HTPB upon cooling. dc conduction is explained in terms of ionic hopping in HTPB. Distinct polarization mechanisms, below and above the transition temperature, have been identified as interfacial polarisation and electrode blocking effect, respectively. The change of conduction behaviors at the crystallization temperature, 4±3°C, was not revealed explicitly in ac measurements. However, using the free volume concept to analyze the frequency shift factor aT, a discontinuity in the fractional free volume curve was displayed. The temperature of the break point, 6.7°C, corresponds to the crystallization temperature of HTPB. The study showed that the crystallization of a polymer is accompanied by an abrupt reduction in free volume, and this structural change affects dc as well as ac conduction behaviors View full abstract»
Measurement of the internal space charge distribution of an anti-electrostatic discharge polymerPage(s): 36 - 39| | Quick Abstract | PDF (280 KB)
Charged dielectrics can cause an electrostatic discharge (ESD) that damages electronic circuits because of the electromagnetic noise associated with the discharge. Newly developed anti-ESD polymers are expected to be `anti-ESD polymer insulating materials', but the mechanism of their action against ESD has not been explained. Since the anti-ESD polymers contain some kind of polymer solid electrolyte, they should be able to be characterized by the behavior of their internal space charge. By measuring the space charge distribution of an anti-ESD polymer using the pulsed electroacoustic method under DC electric field, we found that the polymer was effective in preventing ESD because the internal space charge near the surface partially compensates the electric field of the external charge on the surface. We also found indications that the internal space charge behavior is related to the dispersion of the polymer solid electrolyte View full abstract»
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