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Age Assessment Guidelines to Prevent and Respond to Child Recruitment in the Afghanistan National Security Forces
15 February 2016
These are guidelines from the Afghanistan National Security Forces (ANSF). The document describes an age assessment process to prevent enlisting underage members into the national armed forceswhen identity documents are not available. Prepared by experts, practitioners, military officials, and UNICEF, these principles suggest an assessment based on five components including direct interviews with the individual, interviews with family and community members, crosschecking of all available information, documentation, and referral to services and reintegration. Child sensitive age assessment techniques are provided operating within international human rights obligations. This document and annexed checklists are applicable to both national armed forces and armed groups in order to ensure the enforcement of the international humanitarian law obligation to prevent the recruitment and use of child soldiers and to reform the recruitment process to prevent the violation before it happens. This resource is available in both English and Dari.
Education and Transitional Justice: Opportunities and Challenges for Peacebuilding
16 November 2015
This report, part of a joint research project by ICTJ and UNICEF on the intersections of education, transitional justice, and peacebuilding, explores how a transitional justice framework can help to identify educational deficits relating to the logic of past conflict and/or repression and inform the reconstruction of the education sector. Drawing on comparative experiences from around the world, it looks at how formal and informal education can help facilitate the work of transitional justice measures and vice versa. Page 35 begins practical recommendations for Transitional Justice practitioners, policymakers, civil society actors, education practitioners, policymakers, and donors. For more on the project, visit the project webpage: https://www.ictj.org/our-work/research/education-peacebuilding
Children in Armed Conflict Accountability Framework: A Framework for Advancing Accountability for Serious Violations against Children in Armed Conflict
This Framework is a practical resource that promotes accountability for serious violations of international law committed against children in armed conflict (CAC). It responds to the significant gap that exists in preventing and remedying these serious violations - and is designed to assist policymakers and practitioners working at all levels to bridge this gap. It provides individuals and organizations working in child protection, justice, peacebuilding, and related fields with a comprehensive definition and structure for understanding CAC accountability and practical guidance for developing well-informed, context-specific, and feasible options for advancing CAC accountability.
Marco de Rendición de Cuentas frente a los niños, las niñas y los jóvenes afectados por los conflictos armados
This resource is the Spanish version of the "Children in Armed Conflict Accountability Framework." El Marco de Rendición de Cuentas frente a los niños, las niñas y los jóvenes afectados por los conflictos armados es un recurso práctico que promueve mecanismos para abordar casos de violaciones graves derecho internacional cometidas contra los niños, las niñas y los jóvenes en situaciones de conflicto armado (rendición de cuentas sobre NNJ). Elaborado como respuesta al importante vacío existente en materia de prevención y reparación de este tipo de violaciones, este Marco aporta los siguientes elementos: 1. una definición completa y estructura para entender la cuestión de la rendición de cuentas sobre NNJ; 2. orientaciones metodológicas prácticas que pueden ser adaptadas y aplicadas en diferentes contextos con el objeto de aumentar las acciones de rendición de cuentas sobre NNJ.
Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict
December 2014
In response to the use of schools and universities by parties to armed conflict, this resource establishes six guidelines to protect schools and universities. These guidelines are intended to assist actors planning military operations and organizations monitoring armed conflict. The annexes include the international legal framework and examples of domestic law and practices.
Core Competencies for Security Sector Training on the Prevention of the Use of Child Soldiers
March 2014
The Dallaire Initiative partnered with The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) to develop a set of Core Competencies for all security sector training related to child soldiers. The document also provides an overview of the international legal framework relating to the protection of children in armed conflict.
Protecting children in armed conflict: key rules from Geneva Call's Deed of Commitment
November 2013
Designed as a training booklet, this resource provides twelve key rules from Geneva Call's Deed of Commitment in an accessible visual format. Rules include the prohibition of the use of children in combat or combat-related activities, prohibition against forcing children to associate with armed forces, prohibition against recruitment, and sanctioning violations in accordance with international standards.
Child Protection Model Law, Best Practices: Protection of Children from Neglect, Abuse, Maltreatment, and Exploitation
January 2013
Citing 130 domestic laws from 68 countries, this resource provides models laws on child protection, including protection of children in situations of emergency and armed conflict, for legislators drafting or amending child protection laws. These model laws are based upon international standards and best practices on child protection, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Optional Protocol to the CRC on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC).
Lessons in War: Military Use of Schools and other Education Institutions during Conflict
November 2012
This resource outlines the military use of education institutions and the consequences of such use on students, teachers, and scholars. It includes an overview a list of initiatives to address armed forces' and armed groups' use of education institutions, including the UN Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism, Committee of the Rights of the Child, and voluntary commitments by non-state armed groups. It also provides relevant laws restricting the use of education institutions by armed forces and groups.
Submission on the principles to be applied, and the procedure to be followed by the chamber with regard to reparations
10 May 2012
This resource contains UNICEF's submission to the International Criminal Court in the prosecution against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The document contains UNICEF's recommendations for the principles and criteria that should guide the ICC's decisions to awarding reparations.
A Framework for the Protection of Children
This resource provides an overview of UNHCR's policies and practice regarding child protection and shares UNHCR's guiding principles and approaches. It articulates UNHCR's six goals regarding the rights of children and relevant benchmarks. The annex includes UNHCR's policy framework for the protection of children.
Summary of ICTJ's Recommendations to the ICC on Reparations in the Lubanga Case
This resource summarizes the ICTJ's submission to the International Criminal Court (ICC) giving recommendations on reparations to victims in the Lubanga case. Recommendations included: ensuring information and access to justice for victims; holding reparations hearings within the Democratic Republic of the Congo; designing a combination of compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction, and symbolic reparations depending on the category of victim; conducting needs assessment and gender analysis; involving communities; and ensuring perpetrators pay reparations.
Study on Field-based Programmatic Measures to Protect Education from Attack
December 2011
This resource outlines types of programmatic measures to protect education from attack under four headings: protection, prevention, advocacy, and monitoring and reporting. Attacks against education include attacks against students, educators, and other educational personnel at educational institutions. Recommended programmatic measures range from local initiatives to systemic-level interventions intended to prevent conflict. The annex includes 20 country-specific examples.
Guiding Principles for the Domestic Implementation of a Comprehensive System of Protection for Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups
15 September 2011
This resource aims to clarify existing obligations of State parties, facilitate respect for existing obligations, and promote the implementation of relevant legal provisions. It contains recommendations by the ICRC for practical, regulatory, and legal measures to promote the effective domestic implementation of international rules to protect children affected by armed conflict. This resource considers specific issues such as recruitment, juvenile justice, preventative measures, reparations, transitional justice, and disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration programs.
Child Protection in United Nations Peacekeeping
September 2011
This resource highlights the role of child protection and child protection advisers in UN peace operations. It examines child protection in the contexts of Afghanistan, Lebanon, Haiti, and the Sudan. Page 17 answers questions about the role and function of child protection in UN peacekeeping.
Through a New Lens: A Child-Sensitive Approach to Transitional Justice
September 2011
Based on assessments of Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, and Nepal, this resource examines the ways in which transitional justice can engage children and consider their needs. It assesses the extent to which truth-seeking mechanisms, criminal justice, reparations, and institutional reform have raised awareness about the victimization of children.
Bridging the Accountability Gap: New Approaches to Addressing Violations Against Children in Armed Conflict
June 2011
This resource examines the accountability gap for violations committed against children in situations of armed conflict. It evaluates actions to attain accountability through efforts at the national level, UN Security Council, and international level. The report provides several policy options to address the accountability gap and features case studies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Colombia.
Guide for setting-up Child Friendly Complaints and Response Mechanisms (CRMs): Lessons Learnt from Save the Children's CRM in Dadaab Refugee Camp
This resource provides guidance on creating a complaints and response mechanism (CRM) in a child-friendly manner. Using a pilot case study from Ifo Camp, Dabaab, North Eastern Kenya, this resource provides information on setting up a CRM, awareness raising, recording complaints, challenges, and lessons learned. The annex includes a stakeholder mapping tools used during their consultations with children.
Guidelines on Action for Children in the Justice System in Africa
Intended for African governments, this resource aims to provide guidance on implementing African Union (AU) and other regional and international treaty bodies. The guidelines include a set of overarching principles, general measures of implementation, an overview of child friendly justice, fair trial rights for children in conflict with the law and for child victims and witnesses, and alternative care proceedings. This resource also discusses traditional justice and provides minimum standards for traditional courts.
Criteria for the Design and Evaluation of Juvenile Justice Reform Programmes
September 2010
This resource identifies good practice for juvenile justice programs and develops a set of criteria for their design and evaluation based on the rights of the child enshrined in international norms and standards. This resource also considers basic principles and programs for child victims and witnesses of crimes. The annex includes sample programming goals, objectives, outcomes, and potential impact.
Children and Security Sector Reform in Post-conflict Peace-building
June 2010
This resource considers children and youth in the post-conflict peacebuilding phase of restoring justice and security. It discusses national structures and mechanisms, such as hybrid courts, domestic prosecution, and truth commissions, and articulates their relevance to children and young people. This report also explores the role of civil society organizations in building accountability and good governance within the security sector.
Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, UN General Assembly Resolution 64/142
24 February 2010
This resource provides UN guidelines for the alternative care of children, which are intended to enhance implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This resource is intended to assist and encourage governments to implement their responsibilities and obligations towards children, including in situations of armed conflict.
Child Protection Systems Mapping and Assessment Toolkit: Users' Guide
This resource is intended to help practitioners develop comprehensive national child protection systems and prioritize actions. Mapping and assessment should include an analysis of the current child protection system, an understanding of the legal and normative framework, highlighting key risks, identifying global best practices, finding opportunities to improve services, and planning for the necessary financial and human resources.
Children and Armed Conflict: A Guide to International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law
This resource provides an overview of the international legal framework, and explains the practical applicability of the law and standards as they relate to children and armed conflict. This resource also discusses internally displaced children; sexual violence against children; child labor; children and landmines and cluster bombs; children and small armed and light weapons; child victims, witnesses and perpetrators of crimes; and the role of children in peace processes.
Operational Guide to the Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Standards
This resource is intended to accompany the Integrated DDR Standards (IDDRS) document. As an operational guide, this resource summarizes key guidance from each IDDRS module. Guidance 5.20 and 5.30 focus on youth and children DDR; it examines reintegration programming, advocacy, and prevention of recruitment.
Guidelines on International Protection No. 8: Child Asylum Claims under Article 1(A)2 and 1(F) of the 1951 Convention and/or 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
22 December 2009
This resource is intended to provide legal interpretive guidance for governments, legal practitioners, decision makers, the judiciary, and other practitioners who need assistance carrying out refugee status determination in the field. This resource also provides guidelines on carrying out this determination in a child-sensitive manner and includes an overview of the relevant international legal framework.
Training Manual to Fight Trafficking in Children for Labour, Sexual and Other Forms of Exploitation
July 2009
This resource aims to assist donor governments, workers, employers and NGOs to combat trafficking in children for labor, sexual, and other forms of exploitation. Exploitation is defined to include the forced or compulsory recruitment of children. The training manual includes three textbooks, an exercise book, and facilitator's guide.
Behind the Uniform: Training the military in child rights and children protection in Africa
In 1998, Save the Children Sweden began training military personnel, including pre-deployed peacekeepers, in child rights and child protection across Africa. This resource outlines the training program and provides a summary of its achievements, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations. Annex 3 includes the international legal framework for child protection in conflict settings. Annex 5 lists the materials used during trainings.
Justice in Matters involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime: Model Law and Related Commentary
A companion to UN ECOSOC's Guidelines on Justice in Matters involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crimes, this resource is intended to assist the design or review of laws and practices regarding child victims and witnesses of crimes. These model laws can assist States in adapting their legislation to meet the provisions contained in the guidelines or other international instruments such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States: Amnesties
Intended for practitioners, this resource explores the concept of amnesty and considers the relationship between amnesties and other processes of transitional justice, such as truth commissions, the right to remedy and reparations, and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programs. This resource also incorporates relevant rules of international law and United Nations policy when drafting amnesties.
Handbook on Legislative Reform: Realising Children's Rights, Vol. 1
November 2008
In order to support implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), this resource examines constitutional and legislative reforms in favor of the rights of children. Taking a human rights-based approach, it considers various guiding principles, rights of victims, prevention, criminalization, and processes and entry points for constitutional and legislative reforms.
Guidance Note of the Secretary-General: UN Approach to Justice for Children
September 2008
This resource is intended to provide guidance for children's activities in pre-crisis, crisis, and post-crisis contexts, with particular attention to achieving justice for children at the national level. This resource includes nine guiding principles and a framework for a justice approach to child protection and child participation.
No One to Turn to: Under-reporting of child sexual exploitation and abuse by aid workers and peacekeepers
Based on focus group interviews and consultations with children and adults living in chronic emergencies, as well as humanitarian professionals, this resource provides a snapshot on the under-reporting of sexual exploitation by aid workers and peacekeepers. Recommendations, which begin on page 22, include building effective local complaints mechanisms, establishing a new global watchdog, and tackling the root causes of abuse.
The Paris Commitments to protect children from unlawful recruitment or use by armed forces or armed groups
February 2007
The Paris Commitments and Principles and Guidelines on children associated with armed forces or armed groups consolidate global humanitarian knowledge and experience in working to prevent recruitment, protect children, support their release from armed forces or armed groups and reintegrate them into civilian life. The Paris Principles and Commitments build on the Cape Town principles and best practices on the recruitment of children into the armed forces and on demobilization and social reintegration of child soldiers in Africa (Cape Town principles) which were adopted in 1997.
The Paris Principles. Principles and Guidelines on Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups
February 2007
The Paris Commitments and Principles and Guidelines on children associated with armed forces or armed groups consolidate global humanitarian knowledge and experience in working to prevent recruitment, protect children, support their release from armed forces or armed groups and reintegrate them into civilian life. The Paris Principles and Commitments build on the Cape Town principles and best practices on the recruitment of children into the armed forces and on demobilization and social reintegration of child soldiers in Africa (Cape Town principles) which were adopted in 1997.
Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies
The second volume in the ICTJ's Advancing Transitional Justice Series, this resource is comprised of a collection of essays that explores the issue of vetting in a variety of countries and contexts. Chapter 13 examines vetting and transitional justice. The appendix includes operational guidelines for vetting public employees in post-conflict settings.
IASC Gender Handbook: Women, Girls, Boys and Men: Different Needs – Equal Opportunities
December 2006
This resource is intended to assist field practitioners responding to humanitarian emergencies in meeting standards for integrating gender issues. It offers checklists for monitoring gender equality programming and focuses on major cross-cutting issues such as camp coordination and management, education, food issues, health, livelihoods, non-food items, registration, shelter, and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene).
Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Standards
This resource is intended to guide practitioners on a range of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration activities and programs. Module 5.20 looks specifically at youth and DDR and considers socio-economic reintegration strategies for youth and young-ex-combatants, gender issues, and socio-political integration. Module 5.30 examines children and DDR and considers programming, access of children to DDR programs, prevention of recruitment and re-recruitment of children, and DDR programming for girls.
Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States: Vetting: an operational framework
Written for United Nations field staff and others responsible for institutional and personnel reform in post-conflict states, this resource provides an overview of vetting as a tool of institutional reform and transitional justice. It also explores the conditions of transitional personnel reform, operational guidelines for assessment and designing the vetting process, and considerations regarding the political conditions surrounding reform.
Vetting Public Employees in Post-Conflict Settings: Operational Guidelines
This resource provides guidance on vetting in post-conflict settings. It includes an overview of factors that determine a vetting process, designing a vetting process, different types of vetting, and other relevant institutional reforms. The annex includes a vetting checklist, a capacity and integrity framework, and relevant conventions and codes for vetting in security and judicial sectors.
Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law
December 2005
This UN General Assembly resolution provides principles related to State's obligations concerning reparations to victims of international humanitarian and human rights abuses. Victims have a right to be treated humanely and with respect, to access justice and relevant information, and to be afforded adequate and effective reparation without discrimination.
The Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration of Children Associated with the Fighting Forces: Lessons Learned in Sierra Leone 1998-2002
June 2005
This resource looks at the children's aspect of Sierra Leone's disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) program. It also provides an overview of DDR during and after the end of Sierra Leone's civil war. Other topics covered include an analysis of girls in the DDR process, family tracing and reunification, alternative care, reintegration, strategies of prevention, and lessons learned.
Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Reports
This resource is the final report of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, held from 2002 to 2004. Volume Two, Chapter 3 contains recommendations concerning legal, political, and administrative reforms and measures, and includes a specific category for children. Volume Two, Chapter 4 provides the legal basis for reparations, lists categories for eligible beneficiaries, including children, and makes recommendations on according the benefits and effectively implementing the reparation program.
Model Complaints and Investigation Procedures and Guidance Related to Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation
March 2004
Developed by the IASC Task Force on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, this resource details steps taken when NGO staff or UN agency staff are suspected of sexual exploitation and abuse of women or children. Intended to build a consistent approach across all agencies, this resource provides an overview of complaints mechanisms, investigation guidelines, and interviewing witnesses and victims. Interview guidelines pay special attention to interviewing children.
Inter-Agency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children
January 2004
This resource focuses on children affected by armed conflict who become separated from their families, as well as unaccompanied children and orphans. It includes principles and guidelines for special issues related to refugee children and promoting children's rights. The annex provides a list of key international instruments relating to separated children.
Child Protection: A handbook for parliamentarians
Intended to assist parliaments and their members in legislating and promoting child protection, this resource provides an overview of specific child protection issues and explains international standards on child protection. Chapter 7 examines the issue of children and armed conflict. Other issues examined include sexual exploitation of children, harmful traditional practices, alternative care, juvenile justice, and the rights of child victims.
Children in War
This resource contains ICRC documents related to children affected by armed conflict. Documents include: a summary table of international humanitarian law provisions applicable to children; an overview of child protection and humanitarian assistance activities for children; and a summary of the ICRC's communication programs for young people and mine action programs.
Gender-Based Violence: Care & Protection of Children in Emergencies, A Field Guide
Intended for staff in emergency situations, this resource focuses on the prevention of gender-based violence in emergency field operations. It includes Save the Children's programming framework, principles, and process. Section III on page 9 provides an overview of international legal and policy instruments. Page 46 includes an implementation checklist.
Guide to the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
December 2003
This resource aims to help child protection actors within governmental and non-governmental organizations advocate for the ratification and implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC). This resource emphasizes the monitoring and reporting requirements of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Guidelines for Prevention and Response
May 2003
This resource provides guidance for protection of refugees against sexual and gender-based violence. It provides guiding principles and considers prevention strategies through transforming socio-cultural norms, rebuilding community support systems, improving accountability systems, and monitoring and documenting of sexual and gender-based violence. The annex includes a code of conduct and sample report forms.
Children and Armed Conflict: International Standards for Action
April 2003
This resource is a compilation of legal standards and norms regarding children and armed conflict, including the rights of the child, international humanitarian law, law on refugees and internally displaced persons, international criminal law, and UN Security Council resolutions.
Legal Protection of Children in Armed Conflict
A fact sheet developed by the ICRC's advisory service on international humanitarian law, this resource explains the general and special legal protection afforded to children during armed conflict under the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols and the role of States and the International Criminal Court (ICC) in upholding these protection standards.
International Criminal Justice and Children
September 2002
This resource introduces the international framework for children and justice, including international legal protection standards and judicial and non-judicial accountability mechanisms. It takes a particular look at protection of children in times of war and use of child soldiers, as well as protection of children as victims and witnesses. In particular, it outlines the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC), as well as its relation to national justice systems. Finally, it gives some concrete recommendations on the role of children in non-judicial mechanisms like truth commissions and traditional accountability mechanisms.
Human Rights and Law Enforcement: A Trainer's Guide on Human Rights for the Police
Part of OHCHR's professional training series, this resource provides an outline of training on human rights topics, group exercises, instructions, guidance for trainers, and handouts, including on the protection of juveniles. This resource is designed to complement OHCHR's International Human Rights Standards for Law Enforcement and the Human Rights Standards and Practice for the Police: Expanded Pocket Book on Human Rights for the Police.
Child Soldiers: Care & Protection of Children in Emergencies, A Field Guide
Intended as a practical reference for practitioners in emergency settings, this resource is designed for field, headquarters, and Save the Children partner organization staff members who design and manage children and war programs. It discusses child soldiers and their vulnerabilities, the international framework, and a programming framework that includes demobilization and reintegration, and a process for program design.
Children Not Soldiers: Guidelines for working with child soldiers and children associated with fighting forces
This resource provides guidance for practitioners working with children involved in armed conflict. Part 1 includes an overview of the responsibilities of states, the international community, and non-state armed groups, and the legal framework that grounds all action to protect children associated with fighting forces. Part 2 addresses the military recruitment of children.
Child Rights and Child Protection before, during, and after conflict: Training Manual for Military Personnel
December 2000
Drafted for military trainers, this resource is intended to train military personnel and familiarize them with the legal instruments of child protection and child rights. The manual's themes include the legal standards on child rights and child protection, the effects of armed conflict on children, and collaborating with humanitarian organizations and civil authorities. Additional materials include handouts, exercises, checklists, and other visuals.
Refugee Children: Guidelines on Protection and Care
Intended for UNHCR staff and its operational partners, this resource provides guidelines on the protection and care of refugee children. It includes an overview of treaty standards, cultural considerations, psychosocial well-being, personal liberty and security, legal status, education, and unaccompanied children. The Annex provides UNHRC's policy on refugee children.
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Full Screen Launcher Pro 1.6.3 Apk | 587 KB | Mediafire
Requires Android:2.2 and up
The Full Screen Launcher is a replacement home screen for your android Device. This 3D launcher will give you unlimited space on your phone home screen and quick access to your contacts and applications.
v1.6.3 update:
– Fix bug when moving widgets inside folders
–== Features ==–
– 3D wall : the desktop becomes a big wall with OpenGL ultra smooth scrooling
– Coll animation when switching walls
– Widget support : widget dropped on the desktop are converted to 3D and shown back in 2D when needed (tested with Facebook, Calendar, power and weather widgets…)
– Full Screen Caller ID integration : drop HD picture of your favorite contacts for easier access.
– Folder : Unclutter your home screen with folders. Each folder is displayed as a new wall and can contains widgets, application icons, contacts.
– Wallpaper support : when zooming inside your wall, the android wallpaper zoom
– Live Wallpaper support
–== How to use ==–
Press your home button to select the Full Screen Launcher as the default launcher.
The first use will render textures into cache, this might slows down the application.
To add widget, shortcuts or contacts to your home screen, simply long press the desktop.
All items can be picked with a long press.
To create folder, long press the desktop and choose add folder. You can now drop any items in your new folder. Folders are shown on the home screen as a 3D cube previewing the content of the folder.
Download– @ Market

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High Wire Act: Improving the Grid for Renewable Energyby -
China, the United States, and the European Union take on transmission upgrades
The European Union, China, and the United States have all made significant commitments to renewable energy deployment, at either the central or regional levels. But they all face a major challenge: how to integrate this power into the existing grids. As a new WRI report shows, policies to help transmit renewable energy have not kept pace with renewable energy ambitions.
Despite its potential, renewable energy puts new pressure on transmission infrastructure as it scales up. Excellent sources of sun, wind, and wave power are rarely conveniently located next to industrial centers and cities. The energy generated in remote places must be transmitted to heavily populated areas.
Renewable energy is also intermittent--that is, dependent on the sun shining or the wind blowing. Typically the most cost-effective way to manage intermittency is to draw energy from a large geographic area. This requires moving electricity across a more widely integrated grid than has historically been necessary.
Today's transmission infrastructure is simply not up to the job. But just adding new wires will not resolve all of the obstacles to integrating renewable energy in the grid. Transmission policy, such as how electricity markets incorporate planning for intermittent sources and operations that keep the power flowing smoothly, must also evolve.
A new report from World Resources Institute, High Wire Act examines the relationship of renewable energy and transmission in the European Union, China, and the United States. Supported by the HSBC Climate Change Centre of Excellence, the research highlights how, in all three markets, transmission is currently a bottleneck to maximizing renewable energy's cost-effective contribution to the power mix.
The main message for policy makers crafting renewable energy policies and for investors seeking to be a part of this $240 billion a year market is a simple one. Transmission constraints have to be addressed upfront to improve the chances of reaping the long-term rewards of a future powered by renewable energy.
As the report highlights, transmission policy has not kept pace with clean energy ambitions, largely as a result of concerns over associated costs and reliability. Transmission decisions are also shaped as much by complex politics as they are by economics. A deep tension between locally borne costs and national or supra-national benefits emerges over and over again. Local communities are reluctant to accept large infrastructure when most of the benefits are seen at the national level rather than locally. Each region examined in this report is uniquely grappling with this "local" versus "larger society" tension, based on its own political and regulatory norms.
The European Union
The renewable energy market is large and growing in the European Union, stoked by both EU-wide goals and national incentive programs. Recognizing that transmission policy and infrastructure has to evolve, the EU is in the midst of implementing the 3rd Legislative Package on Energy Markets, which is pushing towards more integrated electricity markets by 2014 and assistance for transmission projects that have an EU-wide strategic importance. However, it is unclear how much authority the countries will cede to the EU-wide bodies or whether they will remain largely advisory instead. The wide range of transmission cost policies across countries is also shaping the renewable energy market – driving projects to locate where the transmission costs are lower, rather than where the best renewable energy resources are.
China's renewable energy growth – particularly through wind farms in the remote North and Northwest of the country – poses transmission companies with a large physical challenge. For this reason, among others, China is investing heavily in groundbreaking research into ultra-high voltage transmission, which will allow more efficient transmission over far larger distances.
However, the dramatic growth in new wind turbines has yet to translate into growth in renewable energy in the grid. A lack of connection standards for generators to follow, a lack of coordination between wind farm planning and transmission planning, inflexible electricity dispatching, and a lack of financial incentives for grid operators to buy renewable energy power have all contributed to the problem. As a result, many of these wind turbines are not contributing as much as they could to the national grid. The central government attempted to resolve several of these issues through the 2009 Amendments to the Renewable Energy Law, but it will take time for the effects to be widely felt.
The United States
While Congress is considering President Obama's proposed Clean Energy Standard, currently renewable energy goals are set at the state level in the United States. This state-by-state approach is also reflected in very strong state control of transmission decisions, which has made large-scale projects or coordinated planning very challenging to accomplish –. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is considering new federal rules for cost allocation, but substantial reform would likely face both legal and legislative challenges.
|RE Goals
|Coordination Efforts
|European Union
|EU Renewable Energy Directive (June 2009) sets goal of 20 percent power from RE sources by 2020 and mandates grid connectors to provide access to new RE to achieve EU climate policy
|The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) and the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) have transmission coordinating missions
|EU Priority Projects defined and assigned an EU coordinator to push the project forward
|Renewable Energy Law (2005, 2009) obligates power grid companies to connect all RE generation sites that fall in their grid coverage
|Renewable Energy Law Amendments (2009) require coordinated RE and transmission planning
|Development of UHV infrastructure with $59.7 billion in investment
|United States
|Thirty-one state Renewable Portfolio Standards
|Federal efforts encourage regional transmission planning, though there are no requirements
|Innovative cost allocation resolutions such as the Tehachapi and Southwest Power Pool projects
|Local Interests
|European Union
|Transnational coordination and enforcement powers of EU institutions remain unproven while local opposition to large-scale infrastructure projects is significant in some areas
|Transmission investment will be difficult in an era of austerity and slow economic growth
|Disagreement between the grid operators and wind developers on technology standards and planning complicate RE generation connection
|Vast distances between generation and load sites and chronic grid congestion necessitate massive transmission expansion
|United States
|Weak jurisdictional coordination in the transmission siting and approval process slows or stops transmission projects
|Transmission cost allocation issues remain largely unresolved or are resolved at local level, reflecting narrow local interests
Going Forward
In a time of austerity, the issues raised by this report are all the more pressing. Public subsidies for renewables are under pressure and raising consumer costs to pay for renewable energy is even less palatable. Meeting renewable energy goals in the most cost effective manner is critical to the industry's long-term success. But if the transmission issues highlighted by this research continue to fester, achieving competitive pricing with fossil fuel electricity will be all the more difficult and the goals themselves may fall by the wayside.
The lesson from this report is clear: if renewable energy investors and policy makers are to build a vibrant global renewable energy industry they must first transform the transmission landscape.


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By Lori Hinnant
European news organisations bleeding money and readers are trying to avoid extinction by asking governments in France, Germany and Italy to step in and charge Google for links to stories the internet search giant has always gotten for free.
Critics - including, unsurprisingly, Google - say the strategy is short-sighted and self-destructive, and the search engine warns it will stop indexing European news sites if forced to pay for links. But publishers advocating a "Google tax" aimed at benefiting their industry point to the example of Brazil, where their counterparts abandoned the search engine and say repercussions have been minimal.
The dispute underscores a fundamental question facing media agencies around the world: Who should benefit from links to online content that is costly to produce and yet generates a fraction of the ad revenue that once allowed newspapers to flourish?
Europe has tried to sidestep Google before. Six years ago, then-French President Jacques Chirac unveiled plans for Quaero (Latin for "I search") as the answer to US dominance of the internet. The multi-platform search and operating system was supposed to work with desktop computers, mobile devices and even televisions.
Despite millions spent to develop Quaero, it went nowhere.
This week, implicit threats hovered over a meeting between current French President Francois Hollande and Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman.
Hollande demanded Google reach a deal with publishers over the copyright dispute and also address the French taxes it escapes by basing its European headquarters in Ireland. Google essentially reiterated a point it made in a recent letter to French publishers: Paris' latest attempt to impose itself would force readers to "Anglo-Saxon" sites based in countries with more favourable copyright laws, such as Britain and Ireland.
Google's post-meeting statement said the discussions dealt with "the contributions of the internet to job creation and the influence of French culture in the world".
Adding to the pressure on Google in France, a French newspaper reported Wednesday that French authorities are threatening Google with a 1 billion euro tax bill and investigating alleged financial wrongdoing.
Google France denied being notified of such a tax bill and said it will "continue to cooperate with the French authorities". Government spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem wouldn't comment on the report in the weekly Canard Enchaine, except to say that if there were a tax probe, it would be covered by laws on fiscal secrecy.
French publishers, along with counterparts in Germany and Italy, are hoping Brazil will be the proof that there is a successful way to confront Google.
After failing to come to terms with Google in the past year, Brazil's biggest papers - representing 90 percent of circulation - decided to boycott Google News by essentially making their content unavailable to anyone using the search engine. The result? Negligible losses in web traffic, the Brazilian papers say.
Brazilian newspapers haven't ruled out reopening talks with Google, if the company whose name is synonymous with "search" agrees to pay for their content. Unlike in Europe, the Brazilian publishers have not turned to their government to act as a mediator or impose a tax as part of their dealings with Google.
"Newspapers live off advertising revenues, like Google. They're our competition and they have billions and billions in revenues globally," said Ricardo Pedreira, executive director of Brazil's National Association of Newspapers.
Still, Pedreira is not convinced Brazil is a good model for European nations. "Every country has a specific reality, and I think there will probably evolve different models in each nation," he said.
Others in Brazil have warned about long-term consequences of the boycott.
Carlos Castilho, a media critic and TV journalist, writing on the press watchdog website Observatorio da Imprensa, argued that the boycott was a backward strategy, because "news is everywhere today and to surround it with walls of copyrights is like trying to dry ice".
The growth of search engines as a way to find information is affecting news organizations in different ways.
Print news was suffering in the United States and Europe long before financial crises took hold in recent years, its business model eroded by television and the Internet. As print advertising revenues have declined, more media organizations are trying to boost circulation and earn more through subscriptions, including charging for online content.
The New York Times is among the most prominent news organisations with a website paywall. The Associated Press and Google have a long-standing business agreement that includes Google licensing of AP content as well as joint efforts to improve news products and services.
European publishers have seen less rapid change in readership patterns as a result of the Internet and have been able to stave off the dramatic losses that gutted American print journalism. Still, competition has grown fiercer and profits slimmer with the onset of the European debt crisis. In France, the once-iconic newspaper France Soir went into liquidation in July. In October, dapd, a major Germany news agency, filed for bankruptcy protection.
German publishers already are getting some government support: A measure is headed through the legislature to force search engines to pay for links that include excerpts of content.
And in Italy, publishers say they are willing to risk leaving Google if the search engine refuses to pay, citing a study that indicates that clicks from Italian readers would drop by 6 or 7 percent - "a very low percentage", said Isabella Splendore, lawyer for the Italian Newspaper Publishers Federation.
The European publishers insist they are not trying to keep readers from getting information, but that they deserve compensation for use of their intellectual property. But Jeremie Zimmerman, of the French Internet liberty group the Quadrature of the Net, described engaging in the dispute with Google as "idiotic".
"It shows that the industry hasn't understood anything about the internet and is fundamentally conservative about its future, and defending private interests rather than adapting to technology," he said.
Emma Llanso of the Washington-based Centre for Democracy and Technology said that, at least for now, the dispute among governments, Google and publishers is a loss for readers.
"When we're looking at the free flow of information online, how much relevance do national boundaries have?" she said. "As the internet becomes a primary source of information around the world, governments see a threat or a way to benefit. I think we are seeing a lot of national governments struggling to think of what they want it to be."
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Orrin Hatch is conservative by almost any measure, but these days that's not enough to shield him from the right. There's a credible challenger in the wings and a real possibility that the Utah senator could become the first establishment casualty of the 2012 season.
The Tea Party movement first demonstrated its clout last year by knocking off Hatch's Utah colleague, Bob Bennett. Now the movement's activists have served notice that they are displeased with several big-name Republican senators. Hatch, like most of them, is cultivating the grassroots, moving rightward, and hoping to fend off a serious primary challenger.
It's already too late for that in Indiana, where state treasurer Richard Mourdock is taking on Richard Lugar. And it may be too late for Hatch, who could well face Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a self-described "definite maybe" who will decide after Labor Day whether to run. Others drawing conservative scrutiny and complaints are Olympia Snowe of Maine, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, and Bob Corker of Tennessee.
What all this amounts to is nothing less than a redefinition of conservatism—or, at least, the brand of conservatism acceptable to those who have the power to boot Republicans who have long toed what used to be the party line. The no-longer-acceptable column includes a willingness to negotiate or form partnerships with Democrats, or even to back the aims of the last Republican president.
The GOP establishment is standing behind its incumbents. John Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is holding a fundraiser for Hatch on Monday in New York.
Chaffetz is not impressed. "If you're not voting right," he told me, referring to Hatch, "seniority doesn't matter."
Some of Cornyn's primary picks—remember Charlie Crist?—didn't fare so well in 2010. But a wholesale housecleaning of GOP incumbents before the general election looks unlikely for now. One reason is the lesson of 2010, not just for senators trying to preserve their careers but also for the conservative groups deciding where to focus their money and activism.
Viability is a watchword for FreedomWorks and the Club for Growth, two of the three juggernauts that use similar criteria for their primary picks. As for the third, the Tea Party Express, founding strategist Sal Russo told me his group is willing to back candidates with "a tougher course" to victory, but "clearly we're trying to win elections."
Hatch has a solidly conservative lifetime rating of 89 from the American Conservative Union. But the logic of campaigns is narrow and sometimes unfair. Hatch is from a state so Republican that anyone who could best him for the nomination would be a near shoo-in in a general election (unlike, say, swing state Nevada or Democratic-leaning Delaware). And Chaffetz is eminently credible.
He's no Sharron Angle (who lost to Harry Reid in Nevada), Christine O'Donnell (who lost to Chris Coons in Delaware), or Joe Miller (who beat Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's GOP primary but lost when she ran as an independent).
The Club for Growth endorsed Angle last year but was disappointed in her general-election campaign. "When you're on that big a stage and you've got that many people offering you help, we were hopeful that she might have taken some of it," Club President Chris Chocola told me.
While Chocola defends the Angle endorsement, it's notable that his first pick against an incumbent this time around is Chaffetz, promising him money in a recent email headlined "Run Jason Run." "If we make an endorsement, we ask our members to invest their money. We're not going to ask our members to do that if we don't think a candidate's viable," Chocola says.
Utah has a multi-tiered nomination process that starts with neighborhood caucuses, proceeds to a convention, and then, if no candidate wins 60 percent of delegates, to a primary. Utah strategists and Hatch insiders say the senator has been reaching out to the new Tea Party activists in his state for years and is building a strong organization. "I intend to win, and we will win," he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. He dismissed Chaffetz as a publicity hound, adding, "I think he could possibly be a halfway decent congressman in the House if he would concentrate on it."
Many of Hatch's alleged sins, as reeled off by Chaffetz and the Club for Growth, involve his support for such George W. Bush initiatives as TARP (the bank bailout), the Medicare prescription-drug benefit and the No Child Left Behind education act. He also backed earmarks (unfashionable these days), raising the debt ceiling (once considered a responsible vote to avoid default), and a 2007 extension of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Hatch was not an outlier on the children's health program—17 GOP senators voted yes—but that was the least of it. Ten years earlier he had joined Ted Kennedy to create it.
Hatch, who declined a Daily Beast interview request, has apologized in a half-hearted way for his TARP vote; introduced a balanced-budget bill with fellow Utah Sen. Mike Lee; and insisted on spending cuts as a condition for raising the debt limit. "Anybody who says I'm no fiscal conservative is, I don't want to be rude, but they're lying," Hatch told Hewitt. But Chocola says "Utah can do better." FreedomWorks, which helped Lee oust Bennett in 2010, also anticipates being active in Utah this year. Meanwhile Lee, a Tea Party favorite, has said he won't endorse Hatch.
One of Hatch's selling points to voters is that he's in line to chair the Finance Committee if Republicans take over the Senate—no small matter since the panel handles taxes, trade, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Chaffetz is not impressed. "If you're not voting right," he told me, "seniority doesn't matter."
He says Hatch was "swept in" with Jimmy Carter in 1976 after a campaign in which Hatch asked Utah voters, "What do you call an 18-year senator? You call him home." Hatch already has been in office twice as long as that long-ago opponent and wants to stretch it to 42 years with a seventh term. "It's time for a new generation to take a stab at these problems," Chaffetz says.
Indiana is another hotbed of unrest. Most of the state's GOP establishment has endorsed Mourdock and all three national groups are looking at the race. Lugar, facing what conservative "Hoosier Pundit" blogger Scott Fluhr habitually calls "Lugargeddon," has removed his name from the DREAM Act to help children of illegal immigrants. He recently signed on to a bill to replace the income tax with the "fair tax," a national sales tax.
How's it playing? Russo says Lugar "continues to express his hostility" toward the Tea Party movement. FreedomWorks also expects to play in Indiana. The Club for Growth is still cogitating after what Chocola called "a disappointing first quarter" in Mourdock fundraising. "Mourdock needs to prove he can raise the resources to be competitive," he says.
Snowe, who won her 2006 race with an astonishing 74 percent of the vote, is the most liberal of the quintet. She was a crucial vote for President Obama's stimulus program in 2009 and supported a health-reform bill in committee. Just recently she voted against the budget pushed by Paul Ryan, expressing concern about its plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program. It can't hurt Snowe to cast herself as a protector of the medical program for the elderly in a state with the highest median age. Nor does it hurt that Maine's Tea Party governor, Paul LePage, has endorsed her. It's personal; her first, late husband helped the dirt-poor, French-speaking teenager get into college, and he has never forgotten.
So far Snowe has two challengers hoping to capitalize on conservative frustration: Scott D'Amboise, a small businessman aligned with the Tea Party, and Andrew Ian Dodge, who heads Maine Tea Party Patriots. Neither is getting much traction. "I don't think either one of them is electable," says Pete Harring, founder of MaineTeaParty.com. "I honestly don't see anybody in the state strong enough to overthrow Olympia Snowe." Russo praised Snowe for backing a balanced-budget amendment and repeal of Obama's health law. The Tea Party Express is "open to her seeing the light," he says.
Corker, who has negotiated with Democrats over financial reform and auto bailouts, is a top target of RedState.com founder Erick Erickson. "He pushes the Senate GOP left and toward capitulation. He is contemptuous of conservatives," Erickson wrote last month. Yet Corker fits squarely in his state's bipartisan tradition of centrists, and so far no challenger has surfaced.
The same is true in Massachusetts, where Brown won a stunning upset last year for Kennedy's old seat. "I find it hard to believe you could do much better than Scott Brown in Massachusetts," says Adam Brandon, a spokesman for FreedomWorks. "Maybe you could prove me wrong. That's the unknown. What is known is that we could have the ground game in Utah and Indiana to be successful."
That's pragmatism talking. There's been no donning of hair shirts over 2010, even from Russo, whose group backed the losing Angle-O'Donnell-Miller trifecta (he says the candidates weren't "as bad as some people said they were"). But will these groups go to the mat next year for conservative challengers who are inexperienced or erratic, who display sub-par fundraising, communication, or organizational skills, in hard-to-win liberal or moderate states? Probably not. For the moment, at least, it seems the maturing Tea Party movement has raised the bar.


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In January 2005, Dr. Shazia Khalid was raped by member of the Pakistan Army in a remote area of Baluchistan province. Dr. Shazia Khalid is a medical doctor who was working as an employee of Pakistan Petroleum Limited at that time, and the incident happened at her compound which was located inside the hospital's premises in the Sui area of Baluchistan. A case was filed and investigations began after her husband made repeated visits to the police. The military government of that time found Dr. Khalid's protests against sexual assault by a military employee extremely irritating and started making conscious efforts to remove the thorn in their side. First, the authorities destroyed the evidence and later, they started questioning the character of the victim by narrating shady stories of "used condoms" being found at her compound. Her case was also dismissed on the grounds that the victim failed to produce four witnesses of the incident. Her case increased tensions between the Baluch nationalist tribes and the Pak Army as the tribes took the incident as an attack on their honour. Dr. Khalid was kept under a house arrest in Karachi for several weeks. Eventually, she was flown out of the country and the entire story was swept under the carpet. Dr. Shazia Khalid is still awaiting justice.


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Armenians target Azerbaijan's residential settlements, civilian population, and civilian facilities - PHOTOSESSION
Azerbaijani MP suggests to establish shelters for beggars
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14 years pass since establishment of the Ministry of Emergency Situations: They always come to your aid in any difficult moments - PHOTOSESSION - VIDEO
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Azerbaijan's State Security Service brought Lebanese terrorist mercenary to justice who fought in Karabakh - VIDEO
Today a minute of silence will be observed in Azerbaijan to pay tribute to martyrs of the Patriotic War
A minute of silence to be declared tomorrow at 12:00 to commemorate memory of martyrs
MoD: 2783 Azerbaijani servicemen martyred in the war


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MONTICELLO — Sitting in his Monticello office across from the county courthouse, Stephan Schick has a short move to his new job — but a big change coming.
MONTICELLO — Sitting in his Monticello office across from the county courthouse, Stephan Schick has a short move to his new job — but a big change coming.
Schick, 60, the face of the county Legal Aid panel for nearly two decades, won a seven-county race for a 14-year term on the Supreme Court.
He is expected to be sworn in Dec. 28. And that means he not only has to pick a law clerk and gradually shed his criminal caseload, but also leave a life spent as a criminal defense attorney mostly defending poor people.
Up until September, he didn't even know if he would get the Democratic nomination for the seat in the 3rd Judicial District.
"Right up to Sept. 21, there were still debates going back and forth," Schick said. "I am gratified they reached the conclusion that Sullivan County was in a situation that required a Sullivan County judge."
Former District Attorney Stephen Lungen, who rented an office in the Legal Aid building after he retired, called his former professional foe Schick "an incredibly decent and compassionate lawyer."
"We were adversaries for probably 30 years, and during that period we probably tried some 30 to 35 murder cases against each other," Lungen said.
"Even though we fought like the dickens, it never interfered with our mutual respect and friendship for each other."
Sullivan hasn't had a resident sitting Supreme Court justice since retired Justice Anthony Kane was elevated to the appellate division a decade ago.
Schick said he and other local attorneys believed a local justice was needed for reasons beyond mere scheduling convenience.
"You have somebody who knows the county," he said. "You know the lawyers, you know the people, you have lived here. They (other justices) are sitting here in a vacuum and don't know the local customs."
Schick has run Legal Aid since 1995 and worked for the panel a total of 27 years. He has been a trial attorney for 35 years.
Schick's longtime deputy Tim Havas will take over Legal Aid for the time being. Schick said he's hopeful the panel will continue to get the county Legal Aid contract.
Schick said he wanted to finish his career as a judge. "I had a great experience here," Schick said. "I have done everything you possibly can do in this office. I am especially proud of the fact that a number of lawyers trained under me."


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The badly damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has been upgraded from 5 to 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. That's, in case you were wondering, out of seven—the only other nuclear crisis to reach the same level is Chernobyl.
Authorities still believe "the cumulative amount [of radiation] from the Fukushima plant is less than that from Chernobyl," but another aftershock—6.6 magnitude—forced workers to evacuate on Monday, and Reactor No. 4 is apparently on fire.
Update: More information about the upgrade: The Wall Street Journal writes that the decision to upgrade the Fukushima plant's rating is a "grim admission" that we're talking about serious, long-term damage to the surrounding area, and an acknowledgment that the plant suffered from a "major release" of radioactive material. The Japanese government is evacuating towns as far as 19 miles away, depending on radiation levels, though the danger isn't immediate and residents have a month to move.
[NHK, WSJ; image of police clearing bodies in the evacuation zone via AP]


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Portable PowerPack provides cordless AC power
October 22, 2012
By PEM Magazine
The new PowerPack Series Portable Power System from Newcastle Systems provides seamless, cordless AC power for 12 hours or more between rechargings from a standard wall outlet. Indoors or outdoors, the sturdy unit is ideal for powering computers, printers, POS systems, scales, testers, and other electronic hardware without the hassles of an extension cord or the fumes of a generator.
Quiet, reliable, and compact, the PowerPack is ideal for equipment carts used as mobile concessions (with cash registers, receipt printers, etc.) or anywhere else that power is not otherwise available (trailers, LED signage, manufacturing facilities, loading docks, remote storage areas, the far corners of warehouses, etc.).
Housed in a sealed, fully ventilated steel cabinet (20" x 21" x 14"), the PowerPack comes standard with an inverter (modified sine wave, input 12 volts, output 115 VAC, 60 Hz), battery, "smart charger" (20 amperes, with automatic shutoff), and fusing system. UL and CSA approved, it supports up to 1,000 watts and operates at temperatures from 32° to 120° F. Run time varies according to use.
The PowerPack is available with one slide-out battery or two. The single-battery configuration (PowerPack 42) will typically power a laptop/tablet computer and a large printer for 8-10+ hours, recharges in 3-5 hours, and weighs 120 pounds. The dual-battery configuration (PowerPack 45) will typically power a desktop PC and a large printer for 8-10+ hours, recharges in 8-10 hours, and weighs 160 pounds.
A digital, color-coded meter shows the unit's battery status and includes a visual and audible low-voltage alert. Also standard are built-in handles, a cord holder, and a six-outlet power strip. An optional bracket system secures the unit to a cart, vehicle, or other surface. For true portability, an optional wheel-base tote system is also available.
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