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(CNN)Here's a look at the life of physician Conrad Murray, convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson.
Birth date: February 19, 1953
Birth place: St. Andrews, Grenada
Birth name: Conrad Robert Murray
Father: Rawle Andrews, physician
Mother: Milta Murray
Marriages: Dr. Blanche (Bonnick) Murray (unknown-present); Zufan Tesfai (October 17, 1984-August 26, 1988)
Children: with Blanche: two children; with Nicole Alvarez: a son; Murray has several other children with different mothers
Education: Texas Southern University, BS, 1983; Meharry Medical College, MD, 1989
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He has had a history of financial trouble and has owed hundreds of thousands of dollars related to unpaid bills, child support payments and defaults on education loans.
Is reported to have received $150,000 a month to be Michael Jackson's personal physician.
Murray was raised by his maternal grandparents in Grenada until he was seven, when he moved to Trinidad and Tobago to join his mother and stepfather.
Before going to medical school, he worked as a teacher, a customs clerk, and an insurance underwriter.
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Propofol, also called Diprivan, is a short acting intravenous anesthetic used to put patients to sleep during hospital procedures.
It is not intended for home use, because of the usual lack of equipment required for emergency resuscitation.
Murray told detectives that he was treating Jackson for insomnia by giving him 50 mg of propofol, via an intravenous drip, each night, but lowered the dosage to 25 mg and combined it with other drugs in an attempt to wean Jackson off the propofol.
1980s - Moves to the United States to study medicine.
1991 - Is licensed to practice medicine in California.
1999 - Is licensed to practice medicine in Nevada.
2005 - Is licensed to practice medicine in Texas.
2000 - Opens Global Cardiovascular Associates in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2006 - Opens Acres Home Heart And Vascular Institute in Houston, Texas.
December 2006 - Meets Michael Jackson for the first time when Murray treats one of Jackson's children in Las Vegas.
May 2009 - Is hired by Jackson's promoter to be Jackson's personal physician during his upcoming concert tour.
June 25, 2009 - Murray reportedly finds Jackson unconscious and unsuccessfully performs CPR. Jackson doesn't respond to resuscitation attempts and dies the same day.
June 27, 2009 - The Los Angeles Police Department questions Murray in connection with Jackson's death.
July 22, 2009 - Houston police serve a search warrant on Murray's clinic and a storage unit. Later, Las Vegas police search Murray's Red Rock Canyon Country Club residence and doctor's office.
August 24, 2009 - After reviewing toxicology results, the Los Angeles coroner makes a preliminary conclusion that an overdose of the drug propofol is responsible for Jackson's death.
August 28, 2009 - A Los Angeles coroner's report declares Jackson's death a homicide, due to the amount of drugs in his system.
August 2009 - Murray closes his Las Vegas clinic due to death threats and financial problems.
November 20, 2009 - Murray resumes practice at his Houston clinic.
February 8, 2010 - Surrenders to authorities in Los Angeles and is arraigned in Los Angeles County Superior Court on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. He pleads not guilty, surrenders his passport and makes bail of $75,000. As part of his bond, Murray is allowed to practice medicine but may not administer any anesthesia to patients.
February 10, 2010 - Resumes his practice in Las Vegas, out of another doctor's office.
April 10, 2010 - Texas limits medical license to exclude anesthesia.
June 14, 2010 - A judge in Los Angeles rules that Murray can continue to practice medicine in California.
June 2010 - Nevada restricts scope of medical practice to exclude anesthesia.
January 11, 2011 - Murray's license to practice medicine in California is suspended for the length of the trial.
January 25, 2011 - Enters a plea of "not guilty" at his arraignment on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson.
July 2011 - Nevada medical license expires.
September 27, 2011 - Opening arguments in Murray's trial begin.
October 24, 2011 - The prosecution rests its case.
November 1, 2011 - The defense rests, Murray does not testify.
November 7, 2011 - After deliberating for 10 hours and seven minutes, the jury finds Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
November 29, 2011 - Murray receives the maximum sentence, four years behind bars, in the death of Michael Jackson.
December 4, 2011 - Notice is filed in Los Angeles Superior Court that Murray will appeal his involuntary manslaughter conviction.
December 29, 2011 - The State of California suspends Murray's medical license.
January 27, 2012 - Murray files request to be released on his own recognizance or on bail while awaiting appeal.
February 10, 2012 - The Texas Medical Board suspends Murray's medical license.
February 24, 2012 - Murray is denied bail while appealing his conviction.
October 11, 2012 - He is moved to a larger cell, one better able to accommodate his 6 foot 5 inch frame.
March 25, 2013 - Murray's lawyer files an appeal to the involuntary manslaughter conviction.
August 30, 2013 - The Texas Medical Board revokes Murray's medical license.
October 28, 2013 - Is released after completing his jail time.
January 15, 2014 - An appellate court upholds Murray's involuntary manslaughter conviction.
June 26, 2014 - Murray admits he is remorseful that Michael passed away.

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Kapetanakis, S. and Kudenko, D. (2002) Reinforcement Learning of Coordination in Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems. In: Dechter, R., Kearns, M. and Sutton, R., (eds.) Proceedings of the 18th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). AAAI-02, July 28 – August 1, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. , pp. 326-331. ISBN 978-0-262-51129-2
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We report on an investigation of reinforcement learning techniques for the learning of coordination in cooperative multi-agent systems. Specifically, we focus on a novel action selection strategy for Q-learning. The new technique is applicable to scenarios where mutual observation of actions is not possible. To date, reinforcement learning approaches for such independent agents did not guarantee convergence to the optimal joint action in scenarios with high miscoordination costs. We improve on previous results by demonstrating empirically that our extension causes the agents to converge almost always to the optimal joint action even in these difficult cases.
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Right. The simple capsize ratio is a bit too simplistic to give you any meaningful data. It's good for a quick look and if you did get a number under 2.00 then it might be worthwhile to investigate the stability issue further.
I'm not sure I understand this. If you are using a method that tells you the AVS for an Alberg 35 is above 150 degrees I'd throw that method out. I could be wrong but it seems too high to me. JonB is correct, that could be called the "garboard radius" although it's not a radius in most cases and it changes at each station. In a case where there are hollow garboards and you need to determine a "hull depth" it's going to be tricky. The way I would do it on paper is to draw a straight line tangent to and from the section to the centerline ignoring the garboards, i.e. pretending the keel is not there. But any simplistic approach to determining stability is going to be suspect.
If you contacted US Sailing I am certain they would have accurate stability data for the Alberg.
But why bother? The Alberg will have a high AVS. My guess would be around 138.17 degrees. That's a good number and there is nothing about that design the indicates it would have stability issues. Just look at it. Also keep in mind that critical to any stability study is the VCG. Without an accurate VCG the rest of the equasion is not going to give you an accurate number. If you have found a method that ignores an accurate VCG input then I would call it very suspect.
I'll bet you a dollar that when Carl Alberg designed the 35 he did not do a stability study. I'm sure he drew a shape that he knew was right and in line with other healthy designs of the day. It turns out that he was right and the 35 is a very good boat.
Stability is complicated to most sailors. I think a little understanding of how the elements work can be dangerous. I also think that way too much emphasis is placed on hard stability numbers. AVS numbers only tell a small, static part of the dynamics involved in a capsize. The rest is pretty hard to calculate. If you own a "normal" boat and not some radical design freak or extreme racing boat then your biggest assett in rough conditions will be your own ability to manage the boat in a seamanlike manner. I can't find the formula for that.
Look at Rod Johnstone's exhaustive study on actual, documented capsizes. His results were very interesting. In plotting numbers for the various cases he found that the boats with the best numbers were more prone to capsize. What does that say? Nothing to me. Too many variables to draw any conclusions as far as I am concerned.
I have this image of a couple on their boat in a storm. They get knocked down to 130 degrees. The husband turns to the terrified wife and says, "No worries dear. This boat is good till 132 degrees." I have been in the middle of the Pacific in a taiphoon. I have seen waves that would capsize any boat regardless of the numbers. In all the studies one thing becomes evident, the bigger the boat, the more resistant it is to being capsized.
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Ontario Hydro
Industry | Electrical generation, distribution |
Fate | Broken into five separate businesses |
Successor | Ontario Power Generation, Hydro One, Independent Electricity System Operator, Electrical Safety Authority, Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation |
Founded | 1906 |
Defunct | 1999 |
Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
Ontario Hydro, established in 1906 as the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, was a publicly owned electricity utility in the Province of Ontario. It was formed to build transmission lines to supply municipal utilities with electricity generated by private companies already operating at Niagara Falls, and soon developed its own generation resources by buying private generation stations and becoming a major designer and builder of new stations. As most of the readily developed hydroelectric sites became exploited, the corporation expanded into building coal-fired generation and then nuclear-powered facilities. Renamed as "Ontario Hydro" in 1974, by the 1990s it had become one of the largest, fully integrated electricity corporations in North America.
The notion of generating electric power on the Niagara River was first entertained in 1888, when the Niagara Parks Commission solicited proposals for the construction of an electric scenic railway from Queenston to Chippawa. The Niagara Falls Park & River Railway was granted the privilege in 1892, and by 1900 it was using a dynamo of 200 horsepower (150 kW) which was the largest in Canada.[1] Starting in 1899, several private syndicates sought privileges from the commission for generating power for sale, including:[2]
- the Canadian Niagara Power Company, backed by British investors
- the Ontario Power Company, backed by American investors
- the Electrical Development Company, backed by the Toronto Street Railway and the Toronto Electric Light Company (controlled by William Mackenzie, Frederic Thomas Nicholls and Henry Mill Pellatt)
By 1900, a total capacity of 400,000 horsepower (300,000 kW) was in development at Niagara, and concern was expressed as to whether such natural resources were being best exploited for the public welfare.[3] In June 1902, an informal convention was held at Berlin, which commissioned a report by Daniel B. Detweiler, Elias W.B. Snider and F.S. Spence, who recommended in February 1903 that authority be sought from the Ontario Legislature to allow municipal councils to organize a cooperative to develop, transmit, buy and sell electrical energy.[4] The provincial government of George William Ross refused to allow this, and it was only after its loss in the 1905 election that work began on creating a public utility. During that election campaign, James Pliny Whitney (who would be the eventual incoming Premier) declared:
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The water power of Niagara should be as free as the air.[5] |
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Power at cost[edit]
In May 1906, the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario ("Hydro" or "HEPCO") was formed[6] and its first commissioners were Adam Beck, John S. Hendrie, and Cecil B. Smith,[7] HEPCO was a unique hybrid of a government department, crown corporation and municipal cooperative that coexisted with the existing private companies. It was a "politically rational" rather than a "technically efficient" solution that depended on the watershed election of 1905.[8]
On January 1, 1907, referendums in Toronto and 18 other municipalities approved the provisional contracts that their councils had concluded with HEPC,[9] and subsequent referendums one year later authorized utility bond issues for the construction of local distribution systems.[10] The victories in Toronto were in large part due to the leadership and commitment of Adam Beck's ally, William Peyton Hubbard.[11] The first transmission lines began providing power to southwestern Ontario in 1910.
The Commission's process of expansion was from municipality to municipality, generally in the following manner:[12]
- the municipal council would approach the Commission, expressing its interest in establishing a local distribution system;
- Hydro engineers would then visit the municipality to assess current facilities and probable total load, before producing estimates as to the total cost of extending transmission lines to the municipal boundary, the delivered price of power, and building or upgrading the community's distribution system;
- if the council agreed, a provisional contract would be negotiated between the council and the Commission, subject to ratification by the voters;
- upon successful ratification, thirty-year debentures would be issued by the municipality to cover construction and equipment expenses, and Hydro would then build a tie line to the nearest point in its network.
During the 1920s, Hydro's network saw significant expansion:
- In September 1921, Hydro acquired the Toronto Electric Light Company, together with various railway interests, thus making it the largest electric power system in the world.[13]
- In 1921 and 1924, legislative amendments authorized grant-in-aid programs that encouraged rural electrification in Ontario through reducing unit rates in the areas to be served.[14]
- By the end of the 1920s, most remaining private power producers were unable to withstand any expansion by Hydro into their service area, and some survived only because Hydro did not see the need to enter their markets.[15]
In 1926, the Ferguson government gave its approval for Abitibi Power and Paper Company to develop the Abitibi Canyon, the largest such development since the Niagara River, in preference to incurring more debt for Ontario Hydro.[16] The development was encouraged through secret commitments for long-term purchases of electricity and indemnification of Hydro against any losses.[16] Questions were asked at the time as to how the additional 100,000 horsepower (75,000 kW) in capacity would be used, as there were virtually no customers for it.[17] When Abitibi was placed in receivership in 1932, legislation was passed over the following years to allow Ontario Hydro to take control of several Abitibi power developments.[a] Certain dealings relating to the 1933 acquisition came to be known as the "great Abitibi swindle,"[19] which resulted in the fall of the Henry government in the 1934 Ontario election, to be succeeded by that of Mitchell Hepburn.[19]
In 1939, the commission received authority to regulate all other electricity generators, thus bringing all private utilities in the province under its supervision. It also received authority to acquire any utility that was not producing at its capacity.[20][21]
In 1948, HEPCO changed most of its system from 25 Hz to 60 Hz. However, the Fort Erie area south of Niagara Falls stayed on the remaining 25 Hz generators until 1966, and this area had electricity throughout the 1965 Eastern Seaboard Blackout.
By the 1950s the commission was operating as a single integrated system. As demand rose in the post-war period, Ontario Hydro started expanding its generation system bringing on line many new hydroelectric stations. In 1953, Ontario Hydro began to interconnect with other utilities, the first interconnection being the Keith-Waterman line in Windsor which crosses the Detroit River to Detroit, Michigan interconnecting with Detroit Edison in the United States. This line was originally constructed at 120,000 volts and was later upgraded to 230,000 volts in 1973. Shortly thereafter, other interconnections with New York State were built. The first coal-fired generating stations in the system were also built in this period. The expansion of coal continued during the 1960s and 1970s but was overtaken by the development of nuclear power.
Involvement in electric railways[edit]
In 1912, Adam Beck began to promote the creation and operation of electric interurban railways in the territory served by the commission, and the Legislative Assembly granted authority to do so in the Hydro-Electric Railway Act, 1914.[22] Changes in government policy and public sentiment in the 1920s restricted their development, and all such operations ceased in the 1930s (with the exception of the Hamilton Street Railway streetcar system, which continued until 1946).[23]
In the 1960s, HEPCO was the first utility in North America to utilize ultra-high voltage transmission lines. Planning for the UHV lines began in 1960 and in 1967, HEPCO put into service transmission lines carrying 500,000 volts that carry power from hydroelectric sources in remote Northern Ontario to high load areas in southern Ontario such as Toronto, London, and Ottawa. By 1970 all but the most remote municipal power systems in Ontario were organized into a single grid. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ontario Hydro gradually expanded the 500 kV transmission system into what it is today.
Before its own nuclear power stations started coming onstream, Ontario Hydro had the following capacity and output:[24]
Power source | Type | Dependable capacity (GW) | Annual energy output |
Generated | Hydro-electric | 5.8 | 32,662.5 GWh (117,585,000 GJ) |
Thermal-electric | 4.7 | 18,771.4 GWh (67,577,040 GJ) | |
Purchased | Hydro-electric | 0.5 | 6,503.5 GWh (23,412,600 GJ) |
Nuclear | 0.2 | 411.5 GWh (1,481,400 GJ) | |
Total | 11.2 | 62,448.9 GWh (224,816,040 GJ) |
In 1974 the commission was reconstituted as a crown corporation known as Ontario Hydro,[25] which had previously been the commission's nickname. In many Canadian provinces, including Ontario, hydroelectric power is so common that "hydro" has become synonymous with electric power regardless of the actual source of the electricity.
Nuclear age[edit]
By the late 1950s the corporation also started getting involved in development, design and construction of CANDU nuclear power stations, with the first commercial sized one coming on line in 1965 at Douglas Point.
During the 1960s and 1970s Ontario Hydro's nuclear generating program expanded with the building of the first four units of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station followed by stations at Bruce Nuclear Generating Station and a second four units at Pickering. By the late 1980s, Ontario Hydro operated one of the largest fleets of nuclear-powered generating stations in the world.
Station | Units | In service | Status |
Nuclear Power Demonstration | 1 | 1962 | Decommissioned in 1987 |
Douglas Point | 1 | 1968 | Decommissioned in 1984 and located next to Bruce NGS; site leased to Bruce Power by OPG; equipment owned by AECL |
Bruce | 1–4 | 1977–1979 | Unit 3 limited to 92.5% of capacity |
5–8 | 1984–1987 | Now operated by Bruce Power, but site owned by OPG | |
Pickering | 1–4 | 1971 | Units 2–3 in safe shutdown state |
5–8 | 1983 | ||
Darlington | 1–4 | 1990–1993 | in operations for OPG |
The Bruce Nuclear Generating Station became the largest nuclear generating station in the world in 2011 (and has remained the largest) by net electrical power rating, total reactor count, and number of operational reactors.
The last nuclear plant to be built in Ontario, Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, was planned in the 1970s. Construction started in 1981, but due to a series of political decision to delay construction, construction took an inordinately long time. Costs continued to mount during the delay and the plant was completed in 1993. This delay in the schedule caused the projected costs to increase tremendously, from an initial projected cost of $7.0 billion to $14.5 billion. The delay accounted for seventy percent of the cost increase.[26]
Overcapacity and cost overruns[edit]
The 1970s saw increasing controversy relating to Hydro's expansion strategy, and several inquiries were held:
- in 1974–1975, the Solandt Commission issued reports with respect to transmission lines that were to be constructed between Nanticoke and Pickering,[27] and from Lennox to Oshawa.[28]
- in 1980, the Porter Commission recommended that Hydro change its focus from capacity expansion to demand management,[29] but the report was ignored.[30]
The 1980s saw large increases in the rates charged, arising from:
- cost increases in the construction of Darlington (as noted in the previous section),
- cost overruns for the supply of boilers by Babcock and Wilcox at the existing nuclear stations, the total for which had ballooned to $850 million[31] and
- the negotiation of take-or-pay contracts with Rio Algom and Denison Mines for the supply of uranium, prior to the collapse of world prices,[32] which were subsequently cancelled in 1991 at a cost of $717 million.[33]
In 1989, Ontario Hydro published a four-volume study, up to the year 2014, entitled Providing the Balance of Power, with different scenarios attempting to solve the need for additional facilities to replace aging electricity generation stations. This was derailed when electricity growth rates declined due to the recession of the early 1990s.
In 1998, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario passed the Energy Competition Act, 1998,[34] which:
- authorized the establishment of a market in electricity
- reorganized Ontario Hydro into five companies: Ontario Power Generation (OPG), the Ontario Hydro Services Company (later renamed Hydro One), the Independent Electricity Market Operator (later renamed the Independent Electricity System Operator), the Electrical Safety Authority, and Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation.[35] (The two commercial companies, Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One, were intended to eventually operate as private businesses rather than as crown corporations.)
- detached Ontario Hydro's $19.5 billion debt, to be paid down through a Debt Retirement Charge levied upon Ontario ratepayers.[36]
Further reading[edit]
- E.B. Biggar (1920). Hydro-Electric Development in Ontario: A History of Water Power Administration under the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. Toronto: Ryerson Press. OL 24132048M.
- Reginald Pelham Bolton (1913). An Expensive Experiment: The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. New York: Baker and Taylor. OCLC 697759925.
- Boothman, Barry E.C. (1994). Night of the Longest Day: The Receivership of Abitibi Power and Paper (PDF). Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada 15. pp. 22–32. (Section 14: Business History)
- A. Brady (1936). "The Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission". Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science 2 (3): 331–353. JSTOR 136665.
- Ronald J. Daniels, ed. (1996). Ontario Hydro at the Millennium: Has Monopoly's Moment Passed?. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-1426-0.
- Merrill Denison (1960). The people's power: The history of Ontario Hydro. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. OCLC 519902804.
- Keith R. Fleming (1992). Power at Cost: Ontario Hydro and Rural Electrification, 1911–1958. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-0868-6.
- Neil B. Freeman (1996). The Politics of Power: Ontario Hydro and Its Government, 1906–1995. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-0798-8.
- Howard Hampton (2003). Public power: The fight for publicly owned electricity. Toronto: Insomniac Press. ISBN 1-894663-44-6.
- Aynsley Kellow (1996). "Ontario: The decline and fall of the electric empire". Transforming Power: The Politics of Electricity Planning. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-47122-2.
- Jean Manore (1999). Cross-currents: Hydroelectricity and the Engineering of Northern Ontario. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 0-88920-317-2.
- Nelles, H.V. (2005). Politics of Development: Forests, Mines, and Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849–1941 (2nd ed.). McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-2758-3.
- * A. Lennox Stanton (1929). "The Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 77 (4013): 1115–1130. JSTOR 41358311.
- Jamie Swift; Keith Stewart (2004). Hydro: The Decline and Fall of Ontario's Electric Empire. Between the Lines. ISBN 1-896357-88-1.
See also[edit]
- ^ The Abitibi Canyon Power Development Act, 1933, S.O. 1933, c. 3 with respect to Abitibi Canyon,[18] and The Abitibi Power and Paper Company, Limited, Act, 1937, S.O. 1937, c. 4 with respect to a dam and transmission line at Sturgeon Falls
- ^ Biggar 1920, p. 32.
- ^ Biggar 1920, pp. 34–36.
- ^ Biggar 1920, p. 37.
- ^ Biggar 1920, pp. 42–44.
- ^ Hampton 2003, p. 37.
- ^ "Power Commission Act, 1906, S.O. 7 Edw. VII, c. 19". archive.org. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ^ Biggar 1920, p. 61.
- ^ Neil Freeman (1992). "Turn-of-the-Century State Intervention: Creating the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, 1906". Ontario History 84 (3): 171–194.
- ^ Hampton 2003, p. 44.
- ^ Hampton 2003, p. 45–46.
- ^ Catherine Slaney (2003). Family Secrets: Crossing the Colour Line. Toronto: Natural Heritage/Natural History. ISBN 1-896219-82-9.
- ^ Fleming 1992, p. 40.
- ^ "ONTARIO ACQUIRES ELECTRIC INTERESTS; Province Takes Over Mackenzie Concerns, Valued at More Than $32,000,000. RAIL AND POWER PLANTS. All Electrical Development Now Passes to Public Ownership Under Hydro Board.". The New York Times. December 5, 1920. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
- ^ Fleming 1992, pp. 55–73.
- ^ Fleming 1992, p. 126.
- ^ a b Boothman 1994, p. 24.
- ^ Nelles 2005, p. 470.
- ^ "Abitibi Canyon Generating Station". Ontario Power Generation.
- ^ a b Boothman 1994, p. 26.
- ^ "Power Control Act, 1939, S.O. 1939 (2nd Sess.), c. 8".
- ^ Fleming 1992, p. 179.
- ^ Hydro-Electric Railway Act, 1914, S.O. 4 George V, C. 31
- ^ Due, John F. "Sir Adam Beck and the Hydro Radial Proposals". Bulletin (Upper Canada Railway Society) (50). Retrieved August 14, 2013.
- ^ "The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario: 1969 Annual Report". pp. 44–46. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
- ^ Power Commission Amendment Act, 1973, s.o. 1973, c. 57, which renamed the Power Commission Act as the Power Corporation Act
- ^ Canadian Nuclear FAQs
- ^ "Solandt Commission Part I: a public inquiry into the transmission of power between Nanticoke and Pickering". March 1974. Retrieved August 18, 2013.
- ^ "Solandt Commission Part II: a public inquiry into the transmission of power between Lennox and Oshawa". April 1975. Retrieved August 18, 2013.
- ^ "Report of the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning". February 1980. ISBN 0-7743-4672-8. Retrieved August 18, 2013.
- ^ Hampton 2003, p. 130.
- ^ Hampton 2003, p. 124.
- ^ Hampton 2003, pp. 124–126.
- ^ Kellow 1996, p. 126.
- ^ "Energy Competition Act, 1998, SO 1998, c. 15" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
- ^ "Electricity Act, 1998, SO 1998, c. 15, Sch. A". Service Ontario. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
- ^ John Spears (December 28, 2011). "Hydro debt retirement charge reporting proposed in Ontario". The Toronto Star.


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REPORTS - BOBP/REP/82 Report of the Regional Workshop on the Precautionary Approach to Fishery ManagementMedan, Indonesia; 25-28 February, 1997 |
Executing Agency: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Funding Agency: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME BAY OF BENGAL PROGRAMME Chennai, India 1999 |
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This document reports on the proceedings and decisions of a four-day regional workshop on the "Precautionary Approach to Fishery Management" (referred to in the text as PA2FM), held from 25 February to 28 February, 1997, in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. It was organized by the Directorate-General of Fisheries, Indonesia, and supported by the FAO and the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP). The workshop was meant to clarify and discuss the implications of PA2FM and show how such an approach to management enables sustainable development of fisheries resources in BOBP member-countries and beyond. The workshop was expected to endow participants with practical skills and knowledge on PA2FM methods. The workshop was attended by 18 representatives from member-countries of the BOBP, and seven resource persons from within and outside the region. |
6.1. Bangladesh
6.2 India
6.3 Indonesia
6.4 Malaysia
6.5 Maldives
6.6 Sri Lanka
6.7 Thailand
7. ROLE OF SCIENTIFIC ADVICE ON OPERATIONALIZATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CODE OF CONDUCT FOR RESPONSIBLE FISHERIES By John Fitzpatrick, FAO consultant
8. OVERVIEW OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT IN INDONESIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE by Sukotjo Adisukresno, Director, Directorate of Resources Management, Directorate-General of Fisheries, Indonesia
9. GOVERNMENT DECISION-MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY: A CASE FOR FISHERIES MANAGEMENT by- Fuad Cholik (Central Research Institute of Fisheries) & Johanes Widodo (Research Institute for Marine Fisheries, Agency for Agriculture Research & Development, Jakarta, Indonesia)
10. OVERVIEW OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT IN ASIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE by Nik Mustapha R Abdullah & K Kuperan. Department of Natural Resource Economics, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia, Serdang Selangor
11. U.S. EXPERIENCE IN IMPLEMENTING THE PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH TO FISHERIES MANAGEMENT by Stanley Wang and Andrew Rosenberg
12. OVERVIEW AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH TO FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND THE CODE OF CONDUCT FOR RESPONSIBLE FISHERIES TO SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES by G.L. Preston, Gillett & Preston Associates, Noumea, New Caledonia
13.OPERATIONALIZING AND IMPLEMENTING OF THE CODE OF CONDUCT FOR RESPONSIBLE FISHERIES by Dr John Kurien, Associate Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, India
14. IDENTIFICATION OF UNRESOLVED AND NEW ISSUES IN FISHERIES MANAGEMENT by Dr John Kurien; Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthnpuram, India & Kee-Chai Chong, Programme Coordinator, Bay of Bengal Programme, Chennai, India
15. DO FISHERIES STATISTICS GIVE THE FULL PICTURE? INDONESIA'S NON-RECORDED FISH PROBLEM by Dr Nick Walloughby (Team Leader, Marine Resource Evaluation/Planning Project), Daniel R. Monintja (Institute Pertanian, Bogor, Indonesia) & M. Badrudin (Central Institute for Fisheries, Jakarta)
16. ENCOURAGING FISHERFOLK TO MANAGE THEIR FISHERIES : HOW COMMUNICATION AND AWARENESS CAN HELP by Rathin Roy, Senior Communication Adviser; BOBP
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King Kong (***) | ||
Directed by Peter Jackson | ||
Written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson from a story by Merian C. Cooper and Edger Wallace | ||
Rick Norwood
When I first saw the original King Kong, I was just a kid. I remember being bored for the first twenty minutes or
so, but once the ship reached Kong Island, I was thrilled. Every scene is indelibly etched on my memory, and I think that I
myself could recreate every stop-motion lash of the Tyrannosaur's tail.
I watched the old King Kong again, on the excellent new DVD, before seeing the new film. I was more patient with the
buildup, and less patient with Kong's fangs -- the face is the weakest part of the old Kong. And, for all the praise Fay Wray
has gotten over the years, that lovely satin draped frail really doesn't do anything but scream. But it remains one of the
greatest adventure movies of all time.
The new Ann Darrow shows a lot more spunk and the new Kong has a silver back and an expressive face. They bond. Kong holds
Ann the way Koko holds her kitten and Ann falls for Kong the way Jane Goodall fell for her chimps. Jack Driscoll never does
amount to much in either movie. In the new film, Jack Black is a great Carl Denham. The dinosaur scenes are
spectacular. But I was never thrilled.
An hour is too long to wait before we get to the island. This is supposed to be an adventure story, not a character
study. The characters are not deep enough for a character study, and they are too deep for an adventure yarn. I love
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Dec. 22, 2007 | Mitolo Jester Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 |
Tasting Notes & Comments |
The 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon "Jester" includes 20% dried grapes in the style of Amarone. Purple-colored, it has a fragrant bouquet of black fruits, tar, and violets. This leads to a smooth-textured, layered, dense wine with enough structure to evolve for 4-6 years. It has a long, pure finish and can be enjoyed over the next 15-20 years. It is a superb value in Cabernet Sauvignon. Score - 92. (Jay Miller, www.erobertparker.com, Oct. 2007) - 12/22/2007
Dec. 22, 2007 | Aramis Vineyards Shiraz 2004 |
Tasting Notes & Comments |
Deep violet color. Dense blackberry, creme de cassis, cherry preserves, pipe tobacco, vanilla and baking spices on the nose. This has greater elegance than the more expensive Governor, and the fruit speaks more clearly. Sweet dark berry and cherry flavors are lifted by fresh but gentle acids, and the soft tannins harmonize nicely with the fruit. Finishes with an impressively pure blackberry flavor and a tangy, refreshing note of cracked pepper. Sure, there's oak, but it's there as a sweetening element, allowing the bright fruit to shine. A great bargain in newfangled shiraz. Score - 92. (Josh Raynolds, International Wine Cellar, July/Aug. 2006) - 12/22/2007
Dec. 22, 2007 | Ironstone Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 2004 |
Personal Notes |
Drink whenever...... |
x $19.67 | |||
Tasting Notes & Comments |
You can count on Ironstone Vineyards to deliver wines that are more luscious and direct than most of its price-point competitors. This boasts masses of ripe fruit that are turned even more toothsome with sweet chocolate and vanilla notes. The palate is attractively ripe and luscious with flavours that are very fresh and youthful. Good Value. |
Dec. 18, 2007 | Concha y Toro Marques de Casa Concha Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 |
Tasting Notes & Comments |
A perennial favourite with Wine Spectator (the 2004 vintage earned 90 points!), this robust Cab offers solid value. This powerhouse is packed with red currant, cassis, earth, sage, smoke and cedar aromas and flavours. It's dry, with a plush mouth-filling texture leading to ripe tannins on the lingering finish. Enjoy with bison steaks, lamb chops or rare roast beef. - 12/18/2007
Dec. 18, 2007 | Peter Lehmann The Futures 2004 |
Tasting Notes & Comments |
Aged for 12 months in French oak, this impressively structured, classic Barossa shiraz exhibits delicious dark fruit and chocolate aromas with hints of mixed spice. The fruit's intensity and depth is brought into balance by firm tannins and beautifully integrated oak. Makes for excellent drinking now especially when paired with braised lamb shanks or richly flavoured casseroles. It can be cellared up to 10 years. - 12/18/2007
Jul. 25, 2007 | Trivento Mendoza Syrah 2005 |
Tasting Notes & Comments |
Concha y Toro's wine investment in Argentina - 07/25/2007
Jul. 25, 2007 | Torbreck Cuvee Juveniles Barossa Valley 2004 |
Dec. 14, 2006 | Pomerol 2004 |
Personal Notes |
Polished and elegant, with notes of plum, violet and tobacco, chewy tannins and dry finish. |
x $0.00 | |||
Dec. 14, 2006 | Killerman's Run 2003 |
Personal Notes |
The bargains continue with the 2003 Grenache/Shiraz Killerman's Run (60% of the former and 40% of the latter), which was aged in old American and French hogsheads for two years prior to being bottled unfiltered. Its dense ruby/purple color is accompanied by plenty of sweet kirsch and blackberry fruit intermixed with damp earth and pepper. Fleshy, with excellent intensity and a long, heady finish, this superb Australian red is a fabulous bargain. Moreover, it should drink well for 4-5 years or longer. Score - 91. (Robert Parker Jr., www.erobertparker.com, Oct. 2005) |
x $23.00 | |||
Dec. 13, 2006 | Peter Lehmann The Futures 2003 |
Personal Notes |
Peter Lehmann's wines are among our favourites. The Futures Shiraz is typically generous and likeable, and there's a finesse that's lacking in the brawnier Barossa Shirazes. Ripe fruit and subtle oak are interwoven seamlessly, and it has tons of flavour and lovely smooth texture. Score - ***** (out of 5). (Cuisine NZ, July 2006) |
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Dec. 6, 2006 | Colchagua Valley Alpha Apalta Vineyard 2004 |
Personal Notes |
Lovely aromas of black cherry confiture and freshly shaved vanilla bean lead to a ripe, supple palate of cassis, plum and mineral, shaded deftly with a dash of spicy toast. Shows nice grip. Drink now through 2008. 19,000 cases made. JM |
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Dec. 6, 2006 | P?ppoli 2004 |
Personal Notes |
A ripe, fruity red, with black currant, damson and hints of coconut and chocolate. Very powerful, with a silky medium body and a fruity, chocolate-coated finish. Needs time. Best after 2007. 16,665 cases made. JS |
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Dec. 6, 2006 | The Ashmead Family 2004 |
Dec. 6, 2006 | Kaesler Stonehorse GSM 2005 |
Personal Notes |
Smooth and polished, with a lovely core of black cherry and currant fruit, dripping with dark chocolate and smoky spice notes as the finish goes on. Impressive for its balance and length. Drink now through 2014. 4,000 cases made. HS |
x $22.99 | |||
Nov. 26, 2006 | Beringer Cabernet Sauvignon Founder's Estate 2004 |
Tasting Notes & Comments |
Pretty light, not very robust, much better out there. - 11/29/2006
Statistics for Markas101
Total wines logged: 19
Varieties: 10
Number of wines in cellar: 11 (13 bottles)
Number of Notes: 9
Number of Comments: 7
Average rating: 4
Favorites: Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah


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Scholle , M., Haas, A., Aksel, N., Thompson, H.M., Hewson, R.W. and Gaskell, P.H. (2009) The effect of locally induced flow structure on global heat transfer for plane laminar shear flow. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 30 (2). pp. 175-185. ISSN 0142-727X
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Heat transfer in a plane laminar shear flow configuration consisting of two infinitely long plates orientated parallel to each other is investigated theoretically. The upper plate, which is planar, drives the flow; the lower one, which is fixed, has a regular sinusoidally varying profile. A closed form analytical solution for velocity, based on lubrication theory, together with a semi–analytic one for temperature, from application of Ritz's direct method, is derived for creeping flow. In addition, detailed numerical solutions are obtained from a finite element formulation of the weak form of the governing equations for mass, momentum and energy (temperature) conservation, enabling the effects of inertia to be explored. It is shown that changes in the mean plate separation, that is the geometry, and the level of inertia present affect the local hydrodynamic flow structure in the form of kinematically and inertially induced eddies, respectively. These in turn impact on the local "laminar thermal mixing", and consequently enhance the global heat transfer. Results are reported for a wide range of Pecl´et, Reynolds and Nusselt numbers with agreement between the two methods of solution, for the case of creeping flow, found to be extremely good. The key flow features that emerge are: (i) For creeping flow and varying Pecl´et number, the thermal field is asymmetric for all values of the Pecl´et number other than the limiting conditions of zero and infinity, at which extremes the corresponding thermal field is symmetric. In the limit of infinite Pecl´et number the eddy becomes a basin of fluid at uniform temperature. (ii) Global heat transfer in the case of creeping flow, expressed in terms of the Nusselt number, for a given Pecl´et number increases as the mean plate separation decreases, that is as the local kinematically induced eddy structure becomes more pronounced. (iii) There exists a subtle inter–play between variations in the mean plate separation and the level of inertia imposed, in that both influence the presence or otherwise of eddies. Starting from a creeping flow condition the introduction of inertia can in addition both enlarge and skew an existing eddy. When this information is condensed to a series of Nusselt number curves the indication is that it should be possible, from a practical standpoint, to find a critical mean plate separation, for a given Pecl´et number, for which local inertially influenced eddy effects on the global heat transfer are at a minimum.
Item Type: | Article |
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2009 Elsevier B.V. This is an author produced version of a paper published in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Flow structure, thermal mixing, heat transfer, shear flow, topography |
Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering (Leeds) > School of Mechanical Engineering (Leeds) > Institute of Engineering Thermofluids, Surfaces & Interfaces (iETSI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Mrs Fiona Slade |
Date Deposited: | 05 Mar 2010 16:43 |
Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2014 01:18 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2008.1... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2008.11.003 |
URI: | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/10471 |


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