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Why is it so hard to get people to understand the value of data?
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Draw them a picture.
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Engage them emotionally.
If you are good at digital analytics...
If you are careful in your advice...
If you are able to translate confident intervals to degrees of enthusiasm...
You will be a trusted advisor.
You will be a digital analyst instead of a report generator.
You will help your organization become more data-driven than the competition.
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Lionel Hitchman
|Lionel Hitchman
November 3, 1901
Toronto, ON, CAN
|January 12, 1969
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Frederick Lionel Hitchman (November 3, 1901 – January 12, 1969) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins.
Forming one of the greatest defensive pairings of all time with superstar Eddie Shore,[1] Hitchman's #3 jersey was retired by the Boston Bruins on February 22, 1934, the second time in North American professional sports history that a player's number was officially retired, with the Toronto Maple Leafs retiring #6 for Ace Bailey on February 14, 1934.[2]
Amateur career[edit]
The son of Edward F. Hitchman, a noted cricket authority and journalist,[3] Hitchman was born in Toronto, although his family moved to Ottawa when he 21.[4] He played his junior hockey with the Toronto Aura Lee club of the Ontario Hockey Association, appearing sporadically in four games in the 1920 season and three the following year.
Subsequently serving in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, he had shown enough to be invited to join the Ottawa New Edinburghs of the senior Ottawa City Hockey League, for whom he played in 24 games over the 1922 and 1923 seasons. Scoring seven goals, Hitchman gained greater notoriety as a hardrock defenceman, amassing 52 penalty minutes, and was named to the league All-Star Team both seasons.[5] He also saw action with the RCMP team in the Civil Service League.[6]
Ottawa Senators[edit]
After the end of the New Edinburghs' playoffs that season, Hitchman was signed by the Senators in 1923, first appearing in a victory against the Hamilton Tigers on February 28.[7] His first playoff game for the Senators was tumultuous, a match against the Montreal Canadiens on March 7 in which future teammate Sprague Cleghorn - with whom he had been sparring all evening - crosschecked Hitchman in the face, knocking him out.[8] Cleghorn received a match penalty for the act, which provoked a near-riot from the home crowd and an assault on the referee.[8] While too injured to play in the first Stanley Cup semifinal match against the Vancouver Maroons of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, he played in the three remaining matches. In the best-of-three finals against the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Canada Hockey League, Hitchman starred in a decimated Senators' defence, scoring the tying goal which sent the first game into overtime, won by the Senators en route to their tenth Cup victory.[9]
With the retirement of star defenceman Eddie Gerard, Hitchman became a regular for the Senators thereafter, a starter on the 1924 regular season champion team.[10]
The following season, with the Senators in a losing streak - and Hitchman thought to be expendable due to the play of long-time amateur and newcomer Ed Gorman - he requested a trade to the expansion Boston Bruins in January 1925.[6] He was subsequently loaned to the Bruins for the remainder of the season, subject to him coming to contract terms with the club.[11][12]
Boston Bruins[edit]
His first season for the floundering Boston team not otherwise notable,[11] due to being traded mid-season to a team which had played fewer games than the Senators, Hitchman set the NHL record for games played in a single season with 31, in a season scheduled for 30 games.[13]
Matters improved in the 1926 season with the acquisition of Doc Stewart in goal and Hitchman's old nemesis Sprague Cleghorn, with whom he was teamed on defense. The Bruins finished the season with a 13-3-1 run, missing by a single point overtaking the Pittsburgh Pirates for a playoff berth.[14] Hitchman finished third in team scoring, logging seven goals and eleven points, his career high in both categories.[15] Under Cleghorn's veteran tutelage, Hitchman adopted a much scrappier style - if without Cleghorn's habitual dirty play - and his penalty minutes more than tripled.[16]
The 1927 season, with the dissolution of the Western Hockey League, saw ex-Edmonton superstar Eddie Shore sign with the Bruins. Shore replaced the fading Cleghorn as Hitchman's defence partner, and was quickly recognized as the league's preeminent defence pairing.[17] The two would team up for the rest of Hitchman's career, with Shore's rushing style paired with Hitchman's stay-at-home play.[18] The Bruins fell to the Senators in the 1927 Stanley Cup Finals, and Hitchman's play was sufficient to receive a $1,400 bonus from the team, the second highest awarded.[19]
Cleghorn retired after the 1928 season, and Hitchman was named to replace him as team captain. His first year as captain was highly successful, as he led the team to its first Stanley Cup championship, with the Bruins defeating the New York Rangers in the finals two games to none.[20] His toughness was proven the following campaign when, in a March 1, 1929, game against Ottawa, his jaw was broken by a Shore clearing pass; he stayed in the match, playing the rest of the game without relief.[21] He would become one of the first hockey players to wear a helmet, donning a leather helmet designed by Bruins' coach Art Ross to protect the jaw after sitting out for two weeks to recover.[22] The helmet was credited with saving Hitchman from serious injury when he was slashed in the head by Montreal Maroons forward Hooley Smith in a subsequent match.[23]
Hitchman resigned the captaincy in George Owen's favor in 1932, but remained well-regarded enough as a leader to substitute for Ross as player-coach when Ross took ill in January 1933.[24] Hitchman's interim stint was marred by a January 24 match against the Canadiens which included stick battles and the referee being knocked unconscious.[25] The match provoked a league investigation and a furor played out in the press, ultimately leading to the resignation of Bruins' owner Charles Adams as a league governor.[25]
This was the last season in which Hitchman served as Shore's defence partner. The 1934 season proved his last, and slowed by injuries, he retired mid-season. His last match was February 22 against Hitchman's old Senators team, after which the Bruins announced that his #3 jersey would be permanently retired, the second professional sports team to do so, after the Maple Leafs retired Ace Bailey's #6. He played a handful of games at the end of the 1934 season for the minor league Boston Cubs, after which he hung up his skates for good.[26]
Hitchman retired with 28 goals and 34 assists in 417 career NHL games, adding 534 penalty minutes. Although often overlooked by contemporaries in favor of defencemen with gaudier offensive numbers, Hitchman was regarded as the premier defensive defencemen of his day.[27]
Despite reports that he would succeed Ross as Bruins' coach and would not be asked to serve in the minor leagues,[28] Hitchman went on to coach the Bruins' Boston Cubs farm for two seasons; the Cubs folded thereafter, and he was named Ross' assistant coach for the Bruins the following year.[29]
Hitchman went on to coach the Springfield Indians in 1939, although he missed half the season with a leg injury that kept him off the bench.[30]
After retirement from hockey, he continued to serve with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a sergeant, a post he had been filling in the off-season throughout his hockey career.[23] Hitchman was also an avid fisherman, at one point setting a size record for salmon fishing.[31] His daughter Gloria starred with the Ice Capades.[32]
He died in Glens Falls, New York on January 12, 1969.
- ^ Diamond, Dan (1998). Total Hockey. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 1774. ISBN 0-8362-7114-9.
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Noted Cricket Authority Wife Passes". Ottawa Citizen. July 18, 1958. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ^ "Lionel Hitchman Leads Bruins Against Ottawa Squad Tonight". Ottawa Citizen. January 8, 1931. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ^ "Lionel Hitchman Biography". Hockey Hall of Fame. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ^ a b "Lionel Hitchman Goes To Bruins For Remainder of NHL Season". Ottawa Citizen. January 9, 1925. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ^ Coleman, Charles (1964). Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol I. Sherbrooke, PQ: Progressive Publications Ltd. p. 419. ISBN 0-8403-2941-5.
- ^ a b Coleman (I), p. 431
- ^ Coleman (I), p. 436
- ^ Coleman, Charles (1969). Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol II. Sherbrooke, PQ: Progressive Publications Ltd. p. 661.
- ^ a b Coleman (I), p.467
- ^ Vautour, p.38
- ^ "NHL Progressive Leaders for Games Played". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
- ^ Vautour, p.39
- ^ Vautour, p.41
- ^ Coleman (II), p.662
- ^ Coleman (II), p.14
- ^ Booth, Clark (1998). Boston Bruins: Celebrating 75 Years. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Books. p. 117. ISBN 1-887656-11-1.
- ^ Vautour, p.42
- ^ Vautour, p.47
- ^ Coleman (II), p.91
- ^ Booth, p.117
- ^ a b Booth, p.125
- ^ Coleman (II), p.175
- ^ a b Coleman (II), p.176
- ^ Hitchman biography, Hockey Hall of Fame website
- ^ Windsor Daily Star. October 10, 1936. Missing or empty
- ^ "Lionel Hitchman May Be Art Ross' Aide". Montreal Gazette. January 19, 1934. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ^ "Art Ross Back As Bench Boss". Calgary Daily Herald. September 15, 1936. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ^ "Lionel Hitchman To Return". Montreal Gazette. January 3, 1939. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ^ "Makes Record Catch". Montreal Gazette. May 21, 1932. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ^ Jack Koffman (February 13, 1945). "The Customers Write". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
External links[edit]
- Lionel Hitchman's career statistics at EliteProspects.com
- Lionel Hitchman's career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database
- Lionel Hitchman's biography at Legends of Hockey
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See summary of comments from attendees (hyperlink to attached PDF).
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Girona Cathedral
|Cathedral of Saint Mary of Girona
Santa Maria de Girona
The cathedral with the lower Tower of Charlemagne, characterized by mullioned windows.
|Basic information
|Girona, Catalonia, Spain
|Geographic coordinates
|41°59′15″N 2°49′35″E / 41.98750°N 2.82639°ECoordinates: 41°59′15″N 2°49′35″E / 41.98750°N 2.82639°E
|Roman Catholic
|Latin rite
|Roman Catholic Diocese of Girona
|Year consecrated
|Ecclesiastical or organizational status
|Msg. Francesc Pardo i Artigas
|Architectural description
|Architectural type
|Architectural style
|Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque
|Direction of façade
|85 metres (279 ft)
|90 metres (300 ft)
|Width (nave)
|22.98 metres (75.4 ft)
|Height (max)
|45 metres (148 ft)
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of Girona is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Girona, located in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. Its interior includes the widest Gothic nave in the world, with a width of 22 metres (72 ft), and the second widest overall after that of St. Peter's Basilica, just for comparison, the width of the nave of Reims is 14.65 m, Saint-Étienne de Sens, 15.25 m and 12 m, in Notre Dame de Paris. Its construction was first started in the 11th century in Romanesque style, and later continued in the 13th century in Gothic style. Of the original Romanesque edifice only the 12th century cloister and the bell tower remain. The bell tower was completed in the 18th century.
A primitive Christian church existed here before the Islamic conquest of Iberia, after which it was converted into a mosque in 717. The Franks reconquered the city in 785 under Charlemagne, and the church was reconsecrated in 908.
Romanesque cathedral[edit]
In 1015, the church was in poor condition. Bishop Peter Roger, son of count Roger I of Carcassonne, restored it with the money obtained by selling the church of St. Daniel to his brother-in-law, count Ramon Borrell of Barcelona. The church and its cloister were built until 1064, in Romanesque style. The bell tower was completed in 1117.
Gothic cathedral[edit]
The complex was redesigned by Pere Sacoma in 1312. After a few years of dubitation, Guillem Bofill and Antoni Canet started the project in 1416. The new design consisted of a big Gothic nave, the widest Gothic nave in the world — 22.98 m — and the second widest nave of all styles after St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.[citation needed] The elevation is 35 metres (115 ft).
The church has a Baroque façade (begun in 1606, finished in 1961 in the upper part[2]), preceded by a staircase completed in 1607. The sculptures decorating the three orders of the façade were executed by local sculptors in the 1960s. Other exterior features include the Gothic portal of St. Michael, in the northern side, and the southern portico of the Apostles, from the 14th century: it originally featured sculptures of the Twelve Apostles, executed by Antoni Claperós in the 1460 and now disappeared aside from two, depicting St. Peter and St. Paul, now in the church's capitular halls.
The church has two bell towers. The oldest one, entitled to Charlemagne, is the surviving one of the two once featured by the first Romanesque church (the other disappeared in the 14th century). Begun in the early 11th century, it has a square plan with six levels separated by friezes with Lombard bands, and with double mullioned windows. The new bell tower, begun in 1590 and completed (with a changed design) in the 18th century, has an octagonal plan. It houses six bells, the oldest one dating to 1574.
The interior's single nave is surmounted by cross vaults, supported by Gothic buttresses. The side walls feature a triforium with stained glass ogival windows. The apse is separated by the nave by a large wall, characterized by a large central rose window (1705, dedicated to St. Michael Archangel) flanked by two smaller ones at the sides. The polygonal apse is in turn flanked by two short galleries, with ogival arches as entrances, which correspond to the original aisles of the Romanesque edifice and introduce to the ambulatory. The latter is divided by piers with trapezoidal vaults, aligned with the ray of the apse's trapezoidal vaults, and which form ten radial chapels.
The high altar, in white marble, dates to the 11th century. Other artworks include the Gothic sarcophagus of Berenguer d'Anglesola (died 1418), by Pere Oller, in the chapel of Isabella of Portugal, the Chapel of All Saints (1376)
Romanesque cloister[edit]
The Romanesque cloister is notable, featuring a series of columns with sculpted capitals: they depict fantastic figures and animals, and vegetable motifs. The frieze has instead scenes from the New Testament. Among the sculptors who worked at the cloister is Arnau Cadell, also author of the cloister of the Monastery of Sant Cugat. Also in the cloister is the Chapel of Our Lady of Gràcia i de Bell-Ull, which was originally a gate to the cloister, renovated in the Gothic period; its tympanum has an image of the Virgin by Master Bartomeu (13th century). The cloister's galleries are home to numerous tombs of rich members of the monastery, dating to the 14th-18th centuries, one also by Master Bartomeu (1273).
The museum's main attraction is the Tapestry of Creation, a 11th (or 12th) century textile considered amongst the masterwork of Romanesque tapestry. Other artworks include:
- the Pietà Retablo, by Jaume Cabrera
- a "Charlemagne" sculpture by Jaume Cascalls (1345), believed to portray King Peter IV of Aragon
- the Girona Beatus, a 10th-century illuminated manuscript
- the Chest of caliph al-Hakam II (10th century), known to be a gift to his son Hisham II
- Retablo of St. Magdalene (16th century), by Pere Mates
Christ recumbent, sculptured by Domènec Fita i Molat.
Tapestry of Creation. At Tresury of Cathedral Museum.
- ^ a b Official website of the Cathedral of Girona. "Chronlogy - Cathedral's history". Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- ^ "History of the Cathedral". Retrieved 17 September 2010.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Catedral de Girona.
- Official website (Catalan) (Spanish) (English) (French)
- The Art of medieval Spain, A.D. 500-1200, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this cathedral (see index) (English)


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Several things stand out (rough numbers):
Last year:
BMW sold 1000 fewer bikes than KTM (105k to 104k, iirc)
- KTM knows how to sell at least as well as BMW (I know KTM average price is lower, so BMW sales are higher)
- meaning that the new owners know at least as much as BMW about selling bikes
Husqvarna sold @10k bikes, (iirc) and the new owners state they want to take that to 20k/year, directly taking on the Japanese.
My Terra is 4719, based on VIN, so they made and shipped about 5k units in less than half a year; I hear rumors that Husky sales were up 20+% in last quarter, due mostly to the Terra. I hear that January was even stronger--
IMHO, it makes no sense to discontinue (or fail to secure the supply line for) the best selling product in a business you buy; a bike that can apparently single-handedly get you to 20,000 bikes this year, as long as you can ramp up production. Oh, and is positioned directly to steal sales from out-dated KLRs, DR650s, etc.
I doubt we see the Terra an "orphan", dumped or given back to BMW --- makes no business sense. I that counts in today's market ----
Maybe BMWs U.S. price point on these bikes allows for little profit when compared to their other models... In other words they were put out at a break even price to try to entice potential Japanese model buyers over and even with big sales do little for the bottom line...
I have heard complaints from prospective buyers North of the US border that they are being ripped off... The Canadian dollar has been on par or higher than the US buck and yet these bike are priced much higher {+$2000?} up here...
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Nitrates and Nitrites
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Nitrates and Nitrites
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Nitrates and nitrites are compounds containing a nitrogen atom joined to oxygen atoms. Nitrate is represented as NO3 while nitrite is NO2. The presence of nitrates occurs naturally and it is contained in many substances.
The nitrogen cycle (converting nitrogen to nitrate to nitrite and back to nitrogen again) is a natural cycle that keeps excessive amounts of nitrates or nitrites from accumulating in the environment. Of course, humans have been greatly affecting this balance in the environment. The major source of increased environmental nitrate concentrations is due to agriculture. This comes from the levels of fertilizers used as well as from livestock and poultry farming, the latter two contributing to the excess through the large volume of nitrate-rich manure.
The threat of methaemoglobinaemia is highest among very young children. Because the conditions of the stomach can play a large role in the conversion of nitrate to nitrite, infants are more susceptible due to a higher pH of gastric fluid. This condition is not the only potential threat of nitrate or nitrite ingestion.
There are two other health concerns that are worth mentioning, but please keep in mind that further research in still needed in both of these areas. The first topic is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and the second is stomach cancer.
Recently 7,352 adults participated in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The study showed evidence to suggest that consuming 14 or more portions of cured meat per month may increase the risk of COPD. The study looked at rating of forced expiratory volume (the volume of air that can be forced out taking a deep breath, an important measure of pulmonary function) and forced vital capacity (the total amount of air that you can forcibly blow out after full inspiration). There were no significant indicators showing a change in FVC. In evaluating FEV, researchers did see evidence of significant changes according to pre-trial criteria for levels outside the normal deviance.
These research findings are looked at with great interest because COPD is a high cause of death in both the U.S. and U.K. Anything that may help in finding out more about the causes of COPD are looked at with promise. While this study reveals some interesting information, there is need to focus a little more on the quantitative amounts of nitrites to form a baseline for comparison.
Lastly, I would like to mention briefly the correlation between nitrates and stomach cancer. The process of changing nitrate to nitrite in the gastrointestinal tract can also lead to a change from nitrite to N-nitroso compounds, which have been found to be carcinogenic in test animals. The evidence relating to human consumption, on the other hand, is still inconclusive and highly debated.
Though it is still questionable as to how much nitrates and nitrites, if any, may cause stomach cancer, it has still been advised to limit the intake of these preservatives, particularly in infants as stated earlier when discussing methaemoglobinaemia. Nitrate/nitrite poisoning fatalities have all been in infants.
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The Guangya (Chinese: 廣雅/广雅; pinyin: Guǎngyǎ; Wade–Giles: Kuang Ya; "Expanded [Er]ya") was an early 3rd-century CE Chinese dictionary, edited by Zhang Yi during the Three Kingdoms period. It was later called the Boya (博雅; Bóyǎ; Po-ya; "Broadened [Er]ya") owing to naming taboo on Yang Guang (楊廣), which was the birth name of Emperor Yang of Sui.
Zhang Yi wrote the Guangya as a supplement to the centuries older Erya dictionary. He used the same 19 chapter divisions into lexical categories, and numerous Guangya entries are abstract words under the first three chapters Shigu (釋詁 "Explaining Old Words"), Shiyan (釋言 "Explaining Words"), and Shixun (釋訓 "Explaining Instructions").
The Qing Dynasty philologist Wang Niansun spent a decade studying this dictionary, and his Guangya shuzheng (廣雅疏證 "Guangya Annotations and Proofs") is still considered the authoritative edition, in which he demonstrated the important philological principle of "looking for the ancient meaning by considering the ancient sound ... not constrained by the structure of the character" (就古音以求古義......不限形體). His preface notes the Guangya has 2343 entries and a total of 18,150 characters (the received text has 17,326), including corrections and emendations, which is about 5000 more than the received Erya. The linguist Zhou Fagao edited an index (1977) to the Guangya.
See also[edit]
- Zhou Fagao 周法高 . 1977. Guangya suoyin 廣雅索引 ["Guangya Index"]. Hong Kong: Zhongwen Daxue Chubanshe.
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- Guangya 廣雅, Ulrich Theobald
- Various editions of the Guangya and its commentaries - Chinese Text Project


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Last week, Governor Deval Patrick signed into law "An Act Relative to Gender Identity," also known as the Massachusetts Transgender Equal Rights Bill. This law, which will go into effect in July 2012, extends the state's equal rights provisions to transgendered individuals by prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity in employment, housing, credit and education. The law amends the existing state anti-discrimination law, Chapter 151B, to include "gender identity" as a protected category. Employers will be prohibited from refusing to hire, discharging or discriminating against any individual in compensation or in terms, conditions or privileges of employment, because of an individual's gender identity. One of the bill's most controversial provisions, which would have given transgendered individuals equal access to single-gender restrooms and locker rooms, was taken out of the bill two days before the legislature's vote.
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American nuclear power companies on Monday said they have to take the required authorisation from the Barack Obama administration to commence exports of nuclear technology to India while hoping to start preliminary work during 2010.
"U.S. companies have to take necessary authorisation from the administration, this is the next important step [in implementing the India-U.S. 123 agreement]," Timothy Richards, the Managing Director of International Energy Policy, General Electric said here, after a meeting of the CII-USIBC joint task force on commercial nuclear power.
A separate fact sheet circulated at the conference underlined the criticality of an agreement on non-proliferation assurance between India and the U.S. so that the U.S. Department of Energy can begin to issue specific authorisation for India.
"Without these authorisations, the U.S. and Indian companies cannot have meaningful negotiations and discussions about nuclear power projects, which must occur before contracts are signed," it said.
Mr. Richards said both India and the United States were yet to conclude the nuclear fuel reprocessing agreement, New Delhi also had to enact the nuclear liability law. U.S. Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer, Mr. Richards said, told the meeting that negotiations on the issue were progressing towards conclusion. Besides, he said the U.S. companies were yet to be allocated the two sites identified by India for setting up nuclear reactors using American technology.
Asked whether the U.S. companies would ensure lifetime fuel supply to the reactors they set up, Meena Mutyala, the vice-president of Westinghouse Electric Company said that as per the 123 agreement, India could approach alternative sources for fuel in the event of a change in U.S. policy.
She said the hope was that the American companies would be able to get into some contract in 2010 and start site preparations while the actual contracts would take longer.
While India has earmarked two sites — Chhayamithi Virdi in Gujarat and Kovvada in Andhra Pradesh — for nuclear power plants by U.S companies, the allocation was yet to be made.
The companies are likely to set up six to seven plants each to generate 10,0000 MW power, she said. The state-of-the-art Westinghouse 1100 MW reactors would be 100 per cent safe than those in use in the United States, she said.
S.A. Bohra, Advisor to Tata (Nuclear) Power, who co-chaired the meeting, said issues related to participation of private utilities were focus of discussions. He stressed the need to amend the Atomic Energy Act to facilitate private participation in the domestic nuclear sector. The government should also focus on setting up national training centres.
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The Environmental Assessment (EA) process is a planning tool used to identify the possible adverse effects of proposed infrastructure projects on the environment. The Ontario Environmental Assessment Act requires Ontario municipalities to complete an EA when undertaking capital works projects. Municipalities in Ontario have the benefit of using the Municipal Engineers Association's Class EA process for certain municipal road, water and wastewater projects.By eliminating or reducing effects on the environment, the municipality can avoid expensive, and sometimes controversial, remedial action once the project has been completed. Over the long term, environmental assessment provides decision makers with the kind of information they need to approve projects that are suitable with a healthy, sustainable environment for both present and future generations.
Ontario Environmental Assessment Act
The purpose of the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act (EA Act) is to provide for:"…the betterment of the people of the whole or any part of Ontario by providing for the protection, conservation and wise management in Ontario of the environment.""Environment" is applied in a broad sense and includes the natural, social, cultural, built and economic environments. It is defined in the EA Act as:
air, land or water;
plant and animal life, including human life;
the social, economic and cultural conditions that influence the life of humans, or a community;
any building, structure, machine or other device or thing made by humans;
any solid, liquid, gas, odour, heat, sound, vibration or radiation resulting directly or indirectly from human activities; or,
any part or combination of the foregoing and the interrelationships between any two or more of them.
There are two types of environmental assessment planning and approval processes.Individual Environmental Assessments are those projects for which a Terms of Reference (TOR) and an individual environmental assessment are carried out and submitted to the Minister of the Environment for review and approval.The process typically used by municipalities, including the City of Hamilton, is the Class Environmental Assessment. This process is used for projects that are approved subject to compliance with an approved class environmental assessment process with respect to a class of undertakings, such as roads, water, and wastewater.The key principles of successful environmental assessment planning include:
Consultation with affected parties early in and throughout the process, such that the planning process is a co-operative venture.
Consideration of a reasonable range of alternatives, both the functionally different "alternatives to" and the "alternative methods" of implementing the solution.
Identification and consideration of the effects of each alternative on all aspects of the environment.
Systematic evaluation of alternatives in terms of their advantages and disadvantages, to determine their net environmental effects.
Provision of clear and complete documentation of the planning process followed, to allow "traceability" of decision-making with respect to the project.
Class EA's
These projects are broken down into three schedules:
Schedule A projects are limited in scale, have minimal adverse environmental effects and include a number of municipal maintenance and operational activities. These projects are pre-approved and may proceed to implementation without following the full Class EA planning process. These projects generally include normal or emergency operational and maintenance activities.Schedule B projects have the potential for some adverse environmental effects. The proponent (municipality) is required to undertake a screening process, involving mandatory contact with directly affected public and relevant review agencies, to ensure that they are aware of the project and that their concerns are addressed. If there are no outstanding concerns, then the proponent may proceed to implementation. These projects generally include improvements and minor expansions to existing facilities.Schedule C projects have the potential for significant environmental effects and must proceed under the full planning and documentation procedures specified in the Class EA document. These projects require that an Environmental Study Report (ESR) be prepared and filed for review by the public and review agencies. These projects generally include the construction of new facilities and major expansions to existing facilities.
Class EA Planning Process
There are five phases in the process:Phase 1 Identify the problem (deficiency) or opportunity.Phase 2 Identify alternative solutions.Phase 3 Examine alternative design concepts for the preferred solution.Phase 4 Prepare Environmental Study Report (ESR). Phase 5 Implementation (contract drawings and documents, construction and operation).Schedule A Projects only require completion of Phase 1.Schedule B Projects must complete Phase 1-2.
Public Consultation
Consultation early in and throughout the process is a key component of environmental assessment planning. While the Class EA establishes minimum requirements only, most proponents develop public consultation plans that exceed the minimum.Most public consultation plans include:Notice of Study Commencement that indicates that a study has been initiated and that there will be an Open House to identify the problem/opportunity and review the process.Notice of Public Consultation Centre, for Schedule C projects only, is held to review the alternative designs and the possible impacts of the designs on the environment to assist in the selection of the preferred design for the chosen solution.Notice of Completion occurs at the end of Phase 2 for Schedule B projects and the end of Phase 4 for Schedule C projects. This notice shall clearly state the review period of the ESR (minimum 30 calendar days) on public records and the date by which submissions or requests for an order are to be received.For all Schedules of projects, public consultations for Phases 1 and 5 are optional but recommended.
Part II Order
Under the provisions of subsection 16 of the EA Act, there is an opportunity for the Minister of the Environment to review the status of a project. Members of the public, interest groups and review agencies may request the Minister to require a proponent to comply with Part II of the EA Act (which addresses individual EA's), before proceeding with a proposed undertaking. The Minister determines whether or not this is necessary with the Minister's decision being final.
Procedure to Request a Part II Order
The procedure for dealing with concerns, which may result in the Minister by order requiring a proponent to comply with Part II of the EA Act, is outlined as follows:
For Schedule B projects, a person or party with a concern should bring it to the attention of the proponent in Phase 2 of the planning process.For Schedule C projects, a person or party with a concern should bring it to the attention of the proponent at any point during Phase 2 through Phase 4 of the planning process.
If a concern is not resolved through discussions with a proponent, the person or party raising the objection may request the proponent to voluntarily:
-elevate a Schedule B project to Schedule C
-elevate a Schedule B or Schedule C project to an individual environmental assessment.
If the proponent declines, and the person or party with the concern wishes to pursue the matter, they may write to the Minister of the Environment and request a Part II Order. These requests shall be copied by the requester to the proponent at the same time that they are submitted to the Minister.A written request must be submitted to the Minister within the 30 calendar day review period after the Notice of Completion (of the ESR) has been issued.Requests made or received after the 30 calendar day review period will not be considered.
The EAA Branch has 45 days to review the information and prepare a report for the Minister's consideration. The 45 day period commences after the 30 day public
Responsibility of the Public
Members of the public having concerns about the potential environmental effects of a project or the planning process being followed, have a responsibility to bring their concerns to the attention of the proponent early in the planning process, when the proponent has greater flexibility to accommodate changes in the project development and the process.Requests for a Part II Order to the Minister must be in writing and must address the following issues as they relate to the identified concerns:
environmental impacts of the project and their significance
the adequacy of the planning process
the availability of other alternatives to the project
the adequacy of the public consultation program and the opportunities for public participation
the involvement of the person or party in the planning of the project
the nature of the specific concerns which remain unresolveddetails of any discussions held between the person or party and the proponent
the benefits of requiring the proponent to undertake an individual environmental assessment
any other important matters considered relevant
Minister's Decision
Upon receipt of a recommendation from the EAA Branch, the Minister shall consider the request and both sides of the argument, and make one of the following decisions within 21 calendar days of receipt of the EAA Branch's recommendation:
Deny, with or without conditions;
Refer the Matter to Mediation; or,
Part II Order.
In considering a request, the Minister shall give consideration to, but not limited to, the following issues:
extent and nature of public concern
potential for significant adverse environmental effects
need for broader consideration of alternatives by the proponent
considerations of urgency
participation of the requester in the planning process
nature of request
degree to which public participation and dispute resolutions have taken place
For Further Information
PLEASE CONTACT:City of HamiltonPublic Works Department,Capital Planning and Implementation DivisionStrategic and Environmental Planning Section320-77 James Street NorthHamilton, Ontario L8R 2K3Phone: (905) 546-2424, ext. 4170Fax: (905) 546-4435Disclaimer: All information has been adopted from the Municipal Engineers Association Class Environmental Assessment document (June 2000). All information up to date at time of release.
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Who WON'T you buy another game from?
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion
EA because of Earth and Beyond.
SOE because of SWG/NGE.
Though I may still resub to CoX every now and again, after the failed launch of Auto Assault after a nifty beta - what I have seen of Champions Online and Star Trek Online - I will be passing on anything new from Cryptic/NCSoft/Atari.
CCP...CCP. This is a tough one, because for the most part I like Eve Online. Though it is the only game I have ever done the nerdrage quit of deleting everything after four years. I simply could not deal with their obtuse explanations on certain areas of the game and the overall lack of in-game ethics from the GMs. It is one thing to screw up a game technically and another to do what they have done over the years. I dread thinking of them involved in the WoD IP.
I have to agree with what was said about Turbine and DDO. It was supposed to be the old rpger's wet dream come true. It became a combination of erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation.
Blizzard is a curious one as well, mainly having to do with WoW. From beta and the jokes about the Fisher-Price graphics, they have continually taken old ideas from older games - dumbed them down - and called it innovation. One need only look at Cataclysm to see their decade old ideas about innovation.
Though I have no experience with the AoC launch, I still play Anarchy Online from FunCom. Yes, it is a grindfest - but it makes no claims to the contrary, thus there is no peeling away the thinly veiled lie to find the truth as you will with so many other games.
It is funny, of all the games I miss the most - I miss Shadowbane.
edit: Yeah, I hated what Microsoft did to FASA/Battletech/Mechwarrior.
How "hardcore" are you?
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion
Risk. If a game lacks any risk, then you might as well be playing Bejeweled.
Eve Online has risk.
If failure carries some risk, then the game might start to be considered hardcore depending on that risk.
In WoW, there is no risk involved with failure. It is a casual time sink.
I for one want NO class balance.
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion
You have a Doctor, a Lawyer, and an Accountant. Their balance should be at the end of the day being able to make money. The Lawyer should not be doing your heart surgery and your Doctor should not be doing your taxes.
You have a Tank and a Jet.
There are so many examples where if you look at an overall end goal, given certain circumstances different items/people are the best for the job. Thus, you have balance.
But in mmorpgs, everybody cries that they want to be able to do everything because they rolled something and they feel really special about what they rolled. Tough.
You want to balance solo content, then go with something simple:
Fighter, Rogue, Cleric, Mage are the base four.
Fighter (tank) - can take damage, but does less damage - spends more time sitting to heal.
Rogue (dps) - spends more time setting up the damage and spends time sitting to heal.
Cleric (heals) - does little damage but spends less downtime healing.
Mage (dps/control) - big damage but big downtime.
When all is said and done, they will progress through the content at the same speed based on the balance of the classes ability to do damage, take damage, and heal damage.
Add in varieties of these classes, where they perhaps take more damage but do more damage - etc, it will all balance.
There should be no artifical balancing done for PVP. That will come down to teamwork and player aptitude. If that means one class is always losing to another class in PVP, oh well... stop dueling. Too many games have catered to the constant swing of the nerfbat over this silliness. It is annoying.
Champions Release .. Bodes well for STO?
General Discussion « Star Trek Online
STO has been dumbed down more than any other IP out there. When the game was first announced and as it progressed, it looked sweet. Now it looks like a gimp console game. It will suffer even more from this than CO did, because at least with CO they stopped short of it being a nickel and dime console game.
A successful launch does not mean anything. Many games have had good launches and choked. Many games have had oopsie launches and are still running eight or more years later. It is what the company can deliver on despite of a good or a bad launch.
A problem with End Game implementation in World of Warcraft.
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion
Bring back attunement and raid progression.
Remove PVP gear outside of Arena/Battlegrounds. You play at a certain rank in Arena, you were a uniform of appropriate level. You fight in a Battleground, you wear the uniform of the side you are fighting for.
Forget trying to balance PVP around classes and realize that it needs to be done based on a 3v3 comp. If you want to go outside that tank/dps/heal comp - that is on you, have fun.
Things like this will never happen in WoW as it caters to crybabies that are happy with their Fisher-Price World of Bejeweled.
It could be an awesome game instead of just being a casual time sink.
Champions Online: Head start screw up
General Discussion « Champions Online
Cryptic has a history of different "bonuses" and "perks" depending on who you did your pre-order with in the past. It should not really come as a surprise that they would do something like this.
Best PvP game on the market.
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion
I have not enjoyed PvP in a game since Shadowbane.
World of Starcraft
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion
Somebody needs to do RIFTS already.
General: Weathers: MMO Booby Prize
News & Features Discussion « General Discussion
Originally posted by Saerain
You've lost me. Things like what? Big bewbies beneath big heads?
It is not a big head - it is a young head - what appears to be an underage head.
Will you reroll for Cataclysm?
General Discussion « World of Warcraft
Originally posted by jason_webb
I think part of this comes into play with the use of Hunter instead of Ranger. I believe part of the original discussion on why there were no Human Hunters involved the animals lack of trust of people (as far as the pet bit). This is a topic that is covered quite a bit in fantasy, in regards to Human Rangers being rare compared to Elven Rangers and the like. On the other hand, Elves and forest critters and Dwarves and mountain critters has been rather commonplace.
It will be interesting to see how many people end up rolling an old race new class combination compared to a new race as they experience the new old content.
Looking for a more story line based MMORPG
LFGame « General Discussion
I wonder about the ability for there to be a story driven mmorpg. After all, if the story at a given point is about Bob the Mob - and somebody has already whacked Bob - if you are going to whack Bob too, how is this not an instanced single player game in a large 3D chatroom?
Yes, Bob the Mob is a simplified example of a greater issue. Say that it is indeed quite a bit of interaction with NPCs and the like, still - if somebody has done it before... you know?
I would like there to be a game where you interact with the story, instead of just being one of many people doing the same story at the same time. Say there is an issue going on in regards to some threat, instead of it being the players that directly affect that issues (countless players doing the same thing and it having no meaning in the game) that they do something that affects it - and that the collaborative work of all the players moves the story along. Something along the lines of how the Dark Portal was done in WoW, but not quite dumbed down like that. Yet along those lines, as the players do enough quests for a certain story arc - it progresses.
Of course, this means there would not be "repeatable" content - so the onus would be on the developers to be able to deliver on more and more stories for the players new and old.
It will not happen though, and we will be stuck with what we have...
Goblins or Worgen?
General Discussion « World of Warcraft
First a thank you to coffee for the info on the Goblins. Things like that have always left me wondering about there only being two playable factions and how some of the decisions have been made in regards to which race is on which side.
In regards to what Jason said, that has always been the curious thing about WoW since the start - since as a whole, the Alliance and Horde are not at war. There are factions within the Alliance and the Horde at war with each other, but as a whole - the big guys on each side have teamed up against greater threats.
Then again, that just ties in with the thoughts on wondering about why it has always just been two playable factions (even though it started with the whole Warcraft Humans and Orcs thing).
Looking for a new mmo
LFGame « General Discussion
During my time in WoW, I went back and forth with CoX and EVE. Heck, I even did Auto Assault until they ruined it by releasing it as they did; which led to them having to shut it down. I played a bunch of games before WoW. In having given up on EVE (only game where I ended up deleting everything and swearing never to return(even after four years)), I found myself back at CoX - but it has only gotten worse over the years in being the same thing it was so long ago. I am actually taking a look at Anarchy Online once more. Too many of the new games are just the old games with different graphics. If Blizzard ever does anything new with WoW, I might return.
You will probably find yourself joining the swell of beta testers that go from game to game suffering endless disappointment.
It is kind of funny, considering that post that was talking about the average gamer being depressed - more realistic would have been to say that the average gamer is depressed about the nature of the games.
While there may not be anything on TV, there is always an outside out there...somewhere, or so the rumors go.
Goblins or Worgen?
General Discussion « World of Warcraft
Have they said what will happen to the neutral Goblin cities?
Figure with them redoing other content, the Worgen quests are gone or tweaked or whatev.
Will you reroll for Cataclysm?
General Discussion « World of Warcraft
As it stands, there is little reason to resub for this xpac. It almost reads more like a patch.
General: Weathers: MMO Booby Prize
News & Features Discussion « General Discussion
So how old do you think that female on the right side there for Dragonica is...?
It is one thing to have the bewbies, cause the guys love the bewbies - but then things like that are just wrong.
What is Blizzard's aversion to new classes..?
General Discussion « World of Warcraft
There are already too many classes.
They should have just gone with the base four classes, and then gone with talent trees from their for specialization into different "classes" and "roles" instead.
Blizzard's New MMO
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion
Basically they have said it will not be Diablo, StarCraft, nor WoW2. They have said they are not picking up any of the IPs floating around out there. So, it could be anything - it could be nothing - and it will be years until we see anything.
the perfect MMO you would like to play
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion
CCP may have their very own NGE
Jita (General) « EVE Online
This is where some elaboration would be nice. In regards to how the DUST folks get to the planet. With folks camping gates and patrolling 23/7, unless CCP plans on having the DUST folks sitting around doing nothing - then there will probably be some juryrigged loophole to allow folks on your planets (since CCP is fond of those loopholes that go against their own mechanics).