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EA issued for small modular nuclear reactor project
The federal government has issued the notice of commencement of an environmental assessment (EA) for a small modular reactor project proposed by Global First Power (GFP) with support from nuclear-technology-innovator Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) and Ontario Power Generation (OPG).
"OPG is proud to be working with GFP and USNC on this 'first-of-a-kind in Canada' opportunity. Our advances to date are the result of a shared vision on the role that SMRs and nuclear energy can play in meeting climate change commitments, while also providing environmental and social benefits," said Dominique Minière, president of nuclear at Ontario Power Generation.
GFP, USNC, and OPG propose to construct and operate a 15-megawatt (MW) thermal (approximately 5 MW electrical) Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) plant at the Chalk River Laboratories, owned by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and operated by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL).
With the commencement of the EA, detailed studies will begin. In parallel, GFP will provide CNL with the required information as they continue their proponent selection process, and provide the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) with information to support the licence application process.
"Our MMR technology is designed with a great many safety, environmental, and operational innovations and this project will allow us to demonstrate how our advanced technology can be essential in helping Canada meet its energy, environmental and climate goals," said Francesco Venneri, CEO of Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation.
If approved, the project would serve as a model for future SMR deployments that could support remote industrial applications and provide a viable option to displace fossil fuel use. Ultimately, the MMR model could be a key contributor to an important solution for all of Canada: meeting energy needs while enabling other renewable energy sources and helping to achieve environment and climate change goals.
Read more about Global First Power's proposed project at the Chalk River site.
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This is a bit odd. All of our okra seedlings are covered – very thickly – in these little clear gelly spheres. They seem like eggs, but the strange thing is that none of the other seedlings (including tomatoes, peppers, sunflowers, papaya, and eggplant) show any signs of the "eggs".
Also, we haven't seen any insects. And these have been inside since they were planted – we're just moving them outside to harden them off for the first time today.
Yeah, I've seen a few other descriptions of this on the Internet, but no identification. Incredibly strange… some kind of secretion?
I have these sugar/salt shaped item on my okra leaves.
Everyone of them. About 75 plants.
Hoping that this does not cause damage.
Hating to sell bad plants..
After a lot of research, we learned that this is not a problem at all, and does not cause damage. Your okra are just fine! It's a natural secretion. Good luck with your plant sales!
Thank you so much for this post! I just saw the very same beads on my okra seedlings, and I too had not yet put them outside. I was freaking out that I had a bug in my apartment!! Good to know!
Thanks for the info. I have the exact same thing and was sure it was some sort of egg, and since my seedlings are indoors I had no idea what was going on.
Love okra but have never tried it in Colorado so this is the first time I have not planted seeds in the soil. Just put my seedlings in the ground today and noticed the same beads on the underside of each plant this evening. I'm thankful to know it isn't a garden pest just introduced to the rest of the garden!
Hello, I am having the same problem as you. There are many tiny, colourless egg like spheres on the leaves of my 4 week old okra plant. How did your situation urn out ?
It wasn't a problem at all! As someone earlier mentioned, this is just a natural secretion from the okra. They eventually just went away, and the plants were just fine.


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Description: The moving and provocative tale of two young men -- one Israeli, the other Palestinian -- who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions facing them and their respective families. Joseph (Jules Sitruk), an 18-year-old musician preparing to join the Israeli army for his mandatory military service, lives at home in a comfortable suburb of Tel Aviv with his parents, France-born physician Orith (Emmanuelle Devos) and Israel-born army commander Alon Silbers (Pascal Elbé). A blood test for Joseph's military service reveals that he is not their biological son. During the Gulf War Joseph was evacuated from a clinic along with another baby, and the pair were given back to the wrong families. While Palestinian Joseph went to Tel Aviv with the Silbers, their actual Jewish son, Yacine (Medhi Dehbi), was brought to the West Bank by an Arab couple, Said (Khalifa Natour) and Leila (Areen Omari). The revelation turns the lives of the two families upside-down, forcing them to reassess their respective identities, values, and beliefs.


Buffett: Bank woes are "poetic justice"
TORONTO (Reuters) - The woes in the U.S. financial sector are "poetic justice" for bankers who designed and sold complex investments that have since gone sour, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said on Wednesday.
The head of the Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) (BRKb.N) group of companies also played down worries about a credit crunch by saying that recent interest rate cuts mean low-cost funds are readily available.
Buffett, one of the world's wealthiest people, appeared to see irony in the fact that many of the banks who marketed complex investments which have now crashed are bearing much of the fallout.
"It's sort of a little poetic justice, in that the people that brewed this toxic Kool-Aid found themselves drinking a lot of it in the end," he said.
Buffett, a legendary investor who has amassed a huge fortune through plays in a wide range of industries, has bet against the U.S. dollar in the past.
In 2005, Berkshire had made a $21.8 billion bet that the U.S. dollar would fall. It later unwound that successful position as it found other non-U.S. investments.
Buffett said on Wednesday in Toronto that the turmoil that has rocked the U.S. economy in recent months has imbued the markets with a healthy degree of caution, while the rate-cutting response from central bankers has ensured that cheap money remains available for borrowing.
Buffet was in Toronto for the Canadian launch of corporate-news firm Business Wire, which Berkshire bought in 2006.
Buffett tends to favor companies with relatively simple businesses, strong management, consistent earnings, good returns on equity, and little debt.
As of late last year, Berkshire's businesses employed about 220,000 people and the number is growing as the group continues to expand its portfolio of companies. The units generated a $10.27 billion profit on revenue of $90.2 billion from January to September.


Nibbana is the ultimate good news of Theravada Buddhism: it means complete liberation. Naturally, people want to know about the nature of nibbana, but from the Theravada standpoint, knowing how a person is transformed in attaining nibbana is more important than understanding what it is.
When a person is thirsty, what's important about water is not its chemical properties, but that itquenches thirst. Similarly, for someone who is suffering, what's important about nibbana is not so much its nature but that its attainment extinguishes suffering.
Nirvana (Sanskrit) and Nibbana (Pali, the language of the earliest Buddhist texts) literally mean "to go out"-like a fire-and "to cool." Applied to the mind, it refers to extinguishing the fevers of greed, hate, and delusion, the three roots of suffering. The Buddha's choice of this term was intimately tied to the imagery of his famous Fire Sermon. Here he said: "Everything is on fire; the eyes are on fire; sights are on fire; visual perception is on fire. . . ; the ears are on fire. . . ; the nose is on fire. . . ; the tongue is on fire. . . ; the body is on fire. . . ; the mind is on fire…. They are on fire with greed, hate, and delusion" (from the Mahavagga of the Theravada Vinaya).
In the language of the Buddha, the word for fuel and for clinging is the same: upadana. The Buddha understood that suffering arises from and is fueled by clinging. When the fuel is removed, suffering is extinguished. By understanding how deep-rooted and subtle clinging is in our own unliberated minds, we come to appreciate the mind of nibbana as refreshingly cool and peaceful.
Nibbana is the end of samsara. Contrary to a popular misunderstanding, neither nibbana nor samsara is a place. In attaining nibbana we don't escape from one location to another. For the Buddha, samsara is the process by which clinging gives rise to suffering which, in turn, gives rise to further clinging. He understood that this self-perpetuating process continues over lifetimes as the "fuel" for rebirth, just as the fire from one burning house is carried to a neighboring house by the wind. Nibbana is what is realized when the clinging of greed, hate, and delusion is brought to an end.
Other, more perplexing, synonyms include "the unconstructed, the ageless, the deathless, the featureless." These refer to the idea that nibbana does not exist as something that can be made, shaped, or willed. It is not a "ground of being" from which anything subject to death can arise. Although there is a consciousness, "featureless, infinite, and luminous all around," that is associated with nibbana, it is not dependent on the conditioned world. Nor does it produce the conditioned world. Rather, it is a dimension of consciousness totally independent of circumstances in the world or in one's personal life. Because nibbana is independent, people who fully realize it are said to be "unestablished"-in other words, free from any clinging that would confine their consciousness to any point in space or time.
Experiencing nibbana is like taking a dip in a refreshing pond. A quick dip and we are slightly refreshed. With a long soak we are thoroughly refreshed. Even the first, brief dip into nibbana is a powerful lesson in the possibility of a great happiness, freedom, and peace not dependent on the conditions of the world. As long as someone believes happiness can only be found through the right conditions, it makes sense to cling to those conditions-even when knowing full well that all conditioned phenomena are subject to change. But when there is a direct, visceral experience of an alternative, the enchantment that fuels this clinging lessens dramatically.
The function of attaining nibbana is to reduce and finally end all clinging. In Theravada Buddhism, the desire to walk the path to nibbana has an honored place. Once that desire is fulfilled, it naturally subsides and the mind clings to nothing, not even to nibbana itself.
Walking the path toward the complete ending of clinging and suffering is the noblest thing a person can do. It opens the fist of the mind, and allows a person to walk in the world with gift-bestowing hands.


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There is an ancient and unending love in the universe that is willing to see us through the toughest of times and bring us to a wholeness that is unimaginable when we are immersed in the struggle of living. That is the ultimate message of this book.
It is the story of one woman's struggle to find normality and happiness while fighting the demons of the past. It is the story of God's work in Dorothy, allowing her both the sadness and privilege of wading through the marshlands of depression in order to find a way not just to keep from sinking, but to live on the higher ground where she can feel secure and happy.
Even if we've never experienced depression, we all know someone who has. Here is good news. Dorothy Neilson does not spare herself in relating her own story, through excerpts from her diaries and later reflections, telling of her trials and triumphs.
Dorothy provides tool-kits, practical helps, scripture references, and insights replete with emotional and spiritual wisdom; but ultimately what this book offers is hope.
The intensely personal narrative moves from the particular to the universal; what we learn about Dorothy we learn about ourselves. Dorothy's honesty, self-awareness and courage inspire us all to a life more complete, and her faith puts us in touch with the God who is real.
Dorothy has done a very brave thing—she has been honest! In that vulnerability she creates a space for us to join her in honesty but she also provides the tools to manage that raw reality from which we are tempted to hide. If you have ever been depressed this book will resonate with you; if you would like your depression to be a stepping stone and not a stumbling block, this book is for you.
In Me, God and Prozac Dorothy shares her story of depression with honesty, wisdom and humour. Through painful personal experience she has found tools which helped bring healing. Her desire that depression should have a purpose is fully expressed in this book—both of finding God in the mess and compassionately offering to others tools for healing.
As a GP and fellow depression sufferer I recommend this book both to any who are depressed and to those who care for someone who is—it could change your life!


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2018 Baseball Road Trip – Day 8 (Memphis to Chatanooga Tenneesse)
Posted byjimhnws March 18, 2020 September 2, 2020 Posted inUncategorizedTags:Baseball, Baseball games, baseball parks, Baseball tours, Chattanooga, Lookouts, Minor league baseball parks, Southern League, Tennessee Smokies, tour, Trip
Day 8 of the 2018 Baseball Road Trip began at the Knight's Inn in West Memphis, AR, following a doubleheader at AutoZone Park the night before. Our ultimate destination that day was Chattanooga, TN, to catch a Lookouts' game in the evening. Google Maps informed us that the trip would take a litle more than five hours to reach AT&T Field, home of the Lookouts. That left plenty of time to explore Memphis during the morning hours.
1. Memphis
The famous sign for the Lorraine Motel. I've seen this in pictures for much of my life. (Photo credit: Jeff Hayes)
Our first stop in Memphis (upon the request of my brother Jeff) was the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, site of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Seeing the motel in person proved to be a sobering experience. Dr King was killed before I was three years old, and of course I don't remember the tragedy. However, walking through the motel and seeing the room where he stayed, connected me to the event more intensely than I expected. Though the balcony where he died is inaccessible (as is his room), seeing the layout lends perspective to the videos of the event I've seen all my life.
Following our visit to the room where Dr King was assassinated, we made our way to the main section of the National Civil Rights Museum. Though we arrived at the museum just about as it opened on that sunny morning, there were lines of school children and visitors waiting to enter. As was the case with our visit to the rooms on the second floor of the motel, strolling though the museum was more powerful than I anticipated.
One of the exhibits from the National Civil Rights Museum. (Photo credit: Jeff Hayes)
We spent about an hour at the museum, and could have spent more. However, there were other sites we wanted to see in Memphis, but I'm glad this was our first stop. If you visit Memphis, this is a must-see.
Our next stop was Sun Studio, on Union Avenue. This stop was my idea; how could I pass up an opportunity to see one of the crucibles from which rock and roll sprung? Well, for a moment, it appeared as though it might not happen. Unbeknownst to us (but probably known to the locals), there is not much available parking immediately surrounding the studio. After several approaches, I was about to give up, but my brother insisted we try again. Finally, we were able to secure a spot close enough to the studio to take the tour.
Sun Studio, Union Avenue, Memphis TN. (Photo credit: Jeff Hayes)
From the outside, the studio is a fairly unassuming profile. It belies the studio's iconic status, and as might be expected, the place was busy. Just inside the right door was a small counter where we could buy soft drinks and snacks, as well as a small souvenir area. Luckily, we didn't have to wait long for the next tour, which began promptly at the top of the hour.
The first part of the tour wound us through a museum of the early days of the studio, complete with displays of musical instruments and equipment. As a lifelong fan of rock and roll, I drank in the experience. The tour through the museum lasted about 40 minutes, followed by a visit to the studio itself.
Sam Phillips' early broadcast booth. (Photo credit: Jeff Hayes)
While I thoroughly enjoyed the stroll through the museum, the studio is what I truly wanted to see. Sun Studio is still a working studio, as our informative and engaging tour guide reminded us. Though ancient by today's standards, there was undeniably a presence in this place. Elvis recorded his first hit, That's Alright Mama, in this very location. For me, it was almost a spiritual experience, knowing I was standing where Elvis helped popularize rock and roll.
On the floor of the studio, there is a taped "x" in the spot where Elvis stood when he recorded his first hit. Our tour guide told us that when he first visited, Bob Dylan bent down and kissed that spot. When our guide asked in anyone in the tour would like to do the same, two people actually did!!! While I was truly enchanted by the place, that was not my idea of fun.
Amplifiers on the floor of Sun Studio. (Photo credit: Jeff Hayes)
The tour concluded in the studio, and we were welcome to stay for a while before the next tour. However, the size of the crowd made viewing the studio difficult, so we chose that moment to leave. If you have a deep connection to rock history like me, you cannot leave Memphis without visiting the studio.
With precious little time left before we had to head out toward Chattanooga, we headed for Beal Street. Visiting during the day most assuredly did not afford us the best taste of the area, though we did manage to obtain some feel for the place. Walking down the road, I couldn't help but hear "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohen echo through my head.
Beale Street. (Photo credit: Jeff Hayes)
After a quick walk up and down the street, we were forced to start on our way to Chattanooga. Of course, we only scratched the surface in Memphis, and I have every intention to visit this place again, making sure to see Beale Street at night. Before heading out on the road, we stopped at a Memphis Welcome Center in preparation for the drive. Memphis had one more surprise for us. Inside the center was a statue of B.B King, which was fitting considering his deep ties to Memphis.
B.B. King welcomes you to Memphis! (Photo credit: Jeff Hayes)
2. Memphis to Chattanooga
Leaving Memphis shortly after noon left us about seven hours before game time in Chattanooga. Luckily, the weather was clear, and the traffic driving across Tennessee this afternoon was generally light. Being from the Northeast, we were pleasantly surprised by the light traffic on Interstates across the Southeast. Even during times when traffic should be relatively clear across the Northeast, there is seemingly some problem (be it slow drivers in the passing lane, people afraid to pass trucks, accidents and endless construction) that slows our progress below an acceptable level.
Google Maps showing us the way to Chattanooga.
The drive itself was non descriptive, though we did notice many dead armadillos along the highway. Not knowing much about armadillos, I suspected that they lived further south, where winters are largely mild, even at night. Unfortunately for us (and the armadillos), we did not see a single specimen alive along the side of the road. Following a quick stop for lunch we were on our way again, reaching the hotel in Chattanooga shortly after 500 pm. We stopped long enough to drop off our luggage and freshen up before heading out to the park for the 700 pm game start time
3. AT&T Field, Chattanooga TN
Arriving at AT&T Field about 45 minutes before game time, we found parking at a public lot down the street. Being unsure of the parking layout at the stadium itself, we decided to park away from the field. We have found that parking near the stadium, especially for a well-attended game, can result in a significant slowdown exiting the vicinity.
The ballpark is located on a hill, which is evident as you approach the park. From a distance, it was not clear how to access the park on the hill, until we got closer. There is an escalator behind home plate that makes reaching the ballpark easier, especially to those with mobility issues. As we usually do when visiting a ballpark for the first time, we walked around the outside of the stadium taking pictures. Following the short tour of the outside of the park, we entered the stadium behind home plate. Before going to our seats,, we visited the concession stand, where I partook in a couple of hot dogs, which were unremarkable.
AT&T Field from behind home plate shortly before game time. (Photo credit: Jeff Hayes)
Taking our seats just before game time, we discovered that the seats were directly in the line of the setting sun. That resulted in some difficulty seeing the action that occurred in left field for the first part of the ballgame. On this evening, the Chattanooga Lookouts hosted the Tennessee Smokies in a Southern League game. Skies were clearing, and the temperature at first pitch (717 pm) was about 70 degrees. Despite being a Friday night (which typically means a good crowd), AT&T Field was only about half full.
The view from our seats. You can see the sun wash we experienced until sunset that evening. (Photo credit: Jeff Hayes)
Sitting down the right field line, we discovered that many of the seats further down the line were in fact general admission seats on an aluminum platform. These seats followed the wall into right field, though there were not many fans in the seats. Overall, the ballpark was on par with some of the Double A stadiums we have visited in the Eastern League. The sight lines were good, and from our seats we had a great look at the field.
Early during the game action, Lookouts catcher Brian Navaretto was injured by a bat during a backswing at the plate. Navaretto was visibly shaken after the incident, wobbling while trying to walk with help from the trainer. Despite his best efforts to remain in the game, it was clear he could not continue. Upon leaving, he received a standing ovation from the hometown crowd.
The scoreboard in left field at AT&T Field. Note the haze in the distance, caused by sun wash. (Photo credit: Jeff Hayes)
After scoring a run in the top of the second, the Smokies tacked on four more runs in the top of the fourth, aided by a critical error by the Lookouts. That outburst essentially put the game out of reach. The Lookouts scored their only run in the bottom of the third. Once the game became out of reach, Lookouts fans starting leaving, and by the end of the game, there were few fans left.
AT&T Field at night. By the time this picture was taken, much of the crowd had already departed. (Photo credit: Jeff Hayes)
Due to the thinned out crowd, our getaway was smooth and quick. The warm evening was quickly turning into a chilly night, not surprising for late April. As ballparks go, it was about average for a Double A team, though it wasn't without its charms. Our timing was good; unfortunately, the Lookouts are on the chopping block. MLB's plan to eliminate 40 minor league teams leaves Chattanooga on the outside looking in. Hopefully, for the sake of the fans and the community, AT&T Field will host baseball in 2021.
2018 Baseball Road Trip – Day 9 (Chatanooga Tenneesse back to Maryland)
2018 Baseball Road Trip – Day 7 (Marshall Texas to Memphis Tenneesse)
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This Measurement and Verification Case Study webinar is the second in a series of case study webinars to highlight the successes of facilities that have achieved Superior Energy Performance (SEP) program certification. This webinar highlights the success of HARBEC Inc.'s Ontario, NY facility in achieving Platinum-level SEP certification in November 2013 and improving their facility energy performance by 16.5% over three years, saving over $52,000 annually with no capital investment (see the cost-benefit case study). HARBEC has aggressively pursued alternative energy sources including renewable energy and combined heat and power. This case study demonstrated how the SEP M&V Protocol was able to effectively model this diverse energy supply and to demonstrate a meaningful measure of energy performance improvement. Download the presentation slides.
Welcome to the measurement and verification case study webinar. Today we're going to highlight HARBEC in the next hour. This is Paul Scheihing from the U.S. DOE. Other speakers today will be Bob Bechtold, Amy Bechtold, Jeff Eisenhauer of HARBEC and Randy Green and Bill Meffert of Georgia Tech. Next slide please.
So SEP is a type of strategic energy management program and this diagram we call the continuum, the SEM continuum, where, when you're doing foundational energy management, such as the ENERGY STAR program, you're taking a systematic approach and you're following the plan-do-check-act of continual improvement. Many utilities in the U.S. and Canada are using this type of program. And then we advance one level up to ISO 50001. There you go. Which is an ISO standard. It is the world global standard for energy management systems, similar to the management system framework of ISO 9001 for quality and ISO 14001 for environmental management systems. The thing about ISO 50001 is it is a standard so therefore a third party can certify any facility or company's ISO 50001 implementation. And then above that, is the SEP program. And the difference between ISO 50001 and SEP would be the additional third party measurement and verification that can be, that can be verified by a third party. So SEP, does include ISO 50001. Next slide please.
ISO 50001 is a structure management system following a plan-do-check-act cycle of continuous improvement. We show on this diagram the elements of ISO 50001 and in particular we've highlighted some of the features of ISO 50001 that makes it a little different than other management systems. And that is, is especially true for energy planning, operation control, measuring and monitoring, where you're gathering a great deal of data, you're measuring your, your facility's energy performance, you're controlling it around your significant energy uses, and you're continually measuring and monitoring, those significant energy uses. And it's this part of ISO 50001 which brings out the energy savings of this very structured, robust standard. If you could hit one more time. The one thing that ISO 50001 does not do, it does not prescribe a specific energy performance improvement criteria. It does say you have to continually improve, but it doesn't say by how much. If you could hit the next slide.
And this is what SEP, how it's different than ISO 50001. So ISO 50001 of course is an internationally recognized best practice. It does require rigorous data collection and measurement of energy data. It has, the advantage it has global relevance to companies that have facilities around the world. Excuse me. Where SEP builds upon 50001 is specific energy performance improvement targets, where you have to improve at least 5% over a three year period. It is the DOE's program, national program, to drive the implementation of ISO 50001 and it has the transparency of the third party verification that we hope the market will in a greater way reward either through supply chains, utilities, or carbon trading programs. OK next slide please.
So to date, 14 companies have certified 27 facilities in the U.S., and Canada, Mexico through the SEP program. You can see the companies there. Next slide.
And today we're going to focus on HARBEC. We're going to do a deep dive into how they did their measurement and verification, how they got SEP certified, and talk about the value they received from the program. Next please.
So the purpose of these case studies are 1. Communicate the business value of SEP, 2. Share the learnings of these pilots, especially on measurement and verification, 3. Demonstrate the rigor and robustness of the SEP verification and develop reference case studies. So what we intend to do is create case studies after these webinars so you folks can read them. And then hear from you. We're going to take some questions at the end about your interest and any of what we described today. And we'd like to hear from you. OK. I think I'm ready to hand off to Bill Meffert. Let's, next slide please.
Bill Meffert of Georgia Tech will now speak.
Thanks Paul. So I think it's important that we review, just quickly, what we mean when we measure performance in the SEP program. So I'm going to do a quick overview of how we calculate that performance improvement in the SEP program. The SEP measurement and verification protocol takes a top-down, whole facility approach. So what that means is SEP looks at all of the energy sources that cross the boundary of a facility, whether that's electricity or natural gas, could be steam, or chilled water or compressed air. It looks at that data and it builds a model around that data,typically a linear regression. And it takes into account the variables or predictors that would predict the variation in the consumption of the different energy sources. So on the right side is a very simple graph for natural gas where it looks at consumption vs. production. And you can see that there is a regression analysis there with a fairly high R2 and this is just a simple example of how we would model energy consumption under the SEP program. So typically in a manufacturing setting you'd expect those drivers or those predictor variables to be production, you'd also look at weather. You might look at other things that could have an impact on energy consumption. You know, it's required to investigate a lot of variables in this. So once we've built these models around the energy sources then, that model helps us predict what our consumption would be. So when we look at performance, we compare what we actually consumed to what the model predicts. You can see there that the performance indicator we use in SEP, or the SEnPI, is typically a ratio of the actual consumption vs. the predicted consumption. And that performance indicator varies from zero to one. If it's less than one, then we're actually using less energy than what our models predict, which is a good thing. That means that our performance is improving and that we're actually saving energy and we're doing the right things to do that. But along with this top-down performance indicator, SEP requires a bottom-up sanity check. Typically this is a list of projects that have been implemented in a facility and their approximate energy savings, that would reasonably sum up to what the top –down performance indicator predicts. So there's a lot of rigor required in the top-down analysis but in the bottom-up, it's considered an approximate analysis so that we can reasonably show that the projects that we've implemented in the facility add up to what the model predicts. So that's just a brief overview of the SEP M&V Protocol. Let's go to the next slide.
So I think I'm going to hand it over to HARBEC at this point.
Thank you very much. We are an injection molding company in Ontario, NY. Currently we have about 160 employees between three shifts. We work five days a week, sometimes six. Our company does machining, tooling, and injection molding work in various sectors, including medical, aerospace, defense, and automotive. And in November of 2013 we received our ISO 50001/SEP Platinum level certification. You can go to the next slide.
Our scope and boundary includes our 50,000 square foot facility as well as all of the property surrounding, the grounds and the parking areas. You can go to the next slide.
This is just an overview of how we go about identifying where and how much energy we use throughout the entire facility. So the energy management system gives you tools and guidelines to identify and quantify where and how you're using energy in the facility. The chart on the top right shows basically our larger consumers, onsite generation systems throughout the facility. It also shows on the bottom bar graph the difference and the larger consumers throughout the facility, blue being electricity and the red being natural gas. It gives you kind of a road map to identify your larger consumers and go through this bottom up sanity check to identify projects or processes that might be able to be improved from an energy standpoint. So through our energy profile, obviously the bar graph on the right, the CHP plant was our largest consumer so we identified basically a no-cost operational change that drove our reduction and our certification. We basically worked with DEKRA which is the third party that verifies all of our energy consumption and gives us our certification for SEP and ISO 50001. I think next slide.
Yes, hello. This is Randy Green with Georgia Tech. And what you are looking at, well let me say that we worked with Jeff Eisenhauer at HARBEC to help develop the modeling that was used for their SEP certification. We're going to take the next few slides to show you how we got to their model, which was really the, part of the reason for this webinar so that we can demonstrate, you know, the flexibility of the protocol in evaluating energy performance and the unique approach that HARBEC has because they have a larger than a normal spectrum of energy sources for an industrial facility their size. There're three, excuse me, sources of energy crossing the boundary at HARBEC and what you see here is the, the graph for those sources across the time frame we call the achievement period. Sorry my voice went just as I got on. The top line is natural gas, the green line in the middle is the electricity, and you'll see the light green line at the very bottom representing the electricity supplied by the wind generation. We've also identified two projects or changes that HARBEC implemented: one in November of 2012 which was they changed the basis for the way they scheduled and operated the CHP plant and in February of 2013 they installed an additional 850 kW wind turbine. Those, there's a red line representing the change in CHP and the green vertical line shows when the new wind turbine came online. And so one thing that we can gather from this is, it's hard to tell from this if there's any seasonal effects or that there's any relationship between any of these energy sources to each other. Normally you can see, like in electricity you might see spikes when you expect large cooling loads or in natural gas you might see a seasonal pattern to the heating load in the facility. But those aren't evident here. And I would say that the traditional approach to modeling for a facility is to look at each energy source independently, and this is the way that we approached HARBEC in trying to understand what their energy performance is. Next slide please.
So we're going to walk you through the, how the traditional approach was a challenge for HARBEC because in some months they consume a lot of natural gas which is converted to electricity and in other months it's less, so it really clouds the electric consumption at the facility. What we see here, at the same time frame, is the total electricity. In this case we've combine the wind and the purchased electricity to just look at electricity, and the natural gas is the top, or the brown/orange line. The grey line at the bottom is production, so we wanted to get an understanding of were there any patterns in energy consumption related to production for either of these energy sources and there was nothing really evident from this when we looked at this originally. And you'll see that in the statistics that we tested for these models in a couple slides. Next slide please.
So here is where we looked at some possible correlation with weather data. The red line at the bottom are the heating degree days for the regional airport there where HARBEC is located and the blue line is cooling degree days. This was NOAA supplied weather data; again, track across the time frame, and we can see that electric energy consumption and the natural gas energy consumption. And you can see, maybe in electricity there is a, there seems to be coincidental peaks with cooling degree days, but peaks in electricity that certainly doesn't explain all that we see going on with the electricity model. And no correlation here certainly between the heating degree days and natural gas. So it was a challenge to understand what the variables might be, as we looked at how to develop this model. So next slide please.
We'll see just some typical values that we were getting as we tried to model both electricity and natural gas. And I'm only showing you the tip of the iceberg in relation to what was tested and evaluated for their facility. The yellow cells in that table represent the values that do not conform to the M&V, SEP M&V Protocol and so the model requires a valid, or SEP requires that the p-values for the variables that we use in the model must be less than 0.1, and you can have some p-values less than 0.2. We're not going to try and explain the M&V Protocol today but you can certainly download that and read it on your own from the SEP website. The models must have an R2 of 0.5 or greater and so we see, and the p-value for the model of less than 0.1. And so as we tried to model natural gas against production, heating degree days, cooling degree days, we also tried some other weather variables, which I didn't list here, which included average temperature, because they had wind generation we looked at wind speeds, which you can also get from NOAA, if that is of interest to any of you listening. We also considered including the electricity generated in the CHP plant as a product, trying to explain the natural gas. And I've listed 32 here and it was probably actually more than that. Different models were investigated and they all had similar results to that. We had weak R2 values, we did not have p-values for the variables that we thought should be related, and you could understand how this might happen, in a lot of natural gas is purchased in offsetting electricity purchases in the months that the CHP plant had high production and inversely so in the months that they were low, so how we're we going to help HARBEC demonstrate what they knew to be was a significant improvement in performance? Because their numbers were leading them to believe that they had a significant reduction. So the approach at this point was to back up and take a look at combining energy sources, and it was a little bit of a process to get to that step. If you go to the next slide.
You'll see, if we take total energy as being converted in consistent units, we can combine electricity and natural gas consumption, and you can see that in the orange line, or the brown line, at the top. Production is in grey, heating degree days in red, and cooling degree days in blue. And so, the model's built from the observation of this data, but you can see a couple of trends here. One, we can see a general trend with total energy and production. So in the months leading up to 2012 there was a slight increase and we can see that general trend in the energy data, likewise production drops off a little bit in 2013 and we see energy drop off as well. So there does seem to be some correlation here. Likewise, there is a, a reasonably coincidental peak with cooling degree days and energy. And those are just anecdotal interesting observations, we can't use this to validate our model. I'll show you how we do that on the next slide. So if you'll go to the next slide please.
So these are the results from the tool, the EnPI Tool that you can download at the DOE Superior Energy Performance website. And so if we take total source energy and try to model against these variables, and again we tried a broad range of variables, and we ended up identifying that production and cooling degree days had a significant impact relative to our model. The statistical test that we have again is that the p-value for variables must be less than 0.1. You can see that we, we have that for production and for cooling degree days at 0.039 and effectively zero. There are some numbers out in the six and seven decimal place. The R2 value was quite good at 0.91 for this model, the p-value for the model was exceptionally well. So the other thing that the Protocol requires is that the model reasonably explain the process. So we were interested to understand, certainly production seems to have a relationship to energy. They are in the business of injection molding, though the variable used for that was thousands of pounds of resin that they processed in a timeframe. And so we had a production variable that seemed consistent. Likewise, a large amount of energy goes to creating chilled water as well as air conditioning the work space. They air condition the plant to try to maintain moisture levels which can be absorbed by the plastic or the resin that they're molding, and can effect product qualities. They had a large space cooling load as well as a large chilled water load for injection molding, so the fact that we ended up with cooling degree days and production as variables seemed to be a reasonable explanation for what we saw in the model and the process that exists at HARBEC. I just wanted to put the formula for net electricity consumption on there to show you how we arrived at that number and to help you understand the benefit of onsite generation and renewable as it is defined in the Protocol. So we took to the purchased electricity, it was subtracted from that any electricity that they happened to export back to the grid which on certain days, depending on how much CHP there was they were actually net exporters because they have got the large wind turbine. So that was their net purchased energy of electricity and that has a site to source multiplier of three, so that was multiplied by three. And then we added to that value the amount of energy, electricity generated by the wind generation and that has a site to source multiplier of one. So the net effect or benefit of an additional wind turbine was that they got to consume that energy as source energy for what they produced without having to account for the grid generation multiplier of three. Natural gas was just metered purchased natural gas that they had from the local utility. So this is the model that was developed. Next slide please. We'll look at the results that were achieved.
Thank you. So again you see the statistical values in the top, the same as on the previous slide, but then I've also shown you the coefficients for the variables that were used. So the coefficient for production was 12.218, that is 12.2 million BTUs per thousand pounds of resin processed and the coefficient for cooling degree days is 3 million, 3.01 million BTUs per cooling degree day. The intercept or the baseload in this model calculated is 202,010 million BTUs. So again the baseline was from November of 2009 to October of 2010. We did use the forecast method of adjusting the measurement reporting period of being November of 2012 to October of 2013 and the measured improvement with this linear regression model was 16.52%. In the bottom of the slide you see the formula for the model that was built with the EnPI Tool. Next slide please.
So this is the bottom-up sanity check. There were two significant projects. There was a small lighting project which would add a little bit to this but it was done right at the end of the reporting period, so it would be hard to account much contribution from that in the timeframe that we measured with the model. But you can see that the additional electricity generated by the wind turbine provided a savings of 5,501 million BTUs. The CHP plant was estimated, it really had a broad spectrum of estimated impacts on performance. We assumed the worst case here to be safe, and had a total of 7,135 million BTUs for the projects that we could account for this improvement. The Protocol requires that the bottom-up sanity check at least validate the achievement level, and the 16 and a half percent that we demonstrated with the SEnPI model, that 16 and a half percent qualified for the Platinum level certification which is a 15% improvement. So the bottom-up sanity check has to validate at least a 15% improvement. And a 15% improvement over their 2009 baseline would have been right at 4,900 million BTUs. And their actual 16 and a half percent as its calculated on the baseline would have been 5,301. These projects actually are estimated to have a bigger impact than what we measured with the tool. But that's acceptable with the Protocol and certainly we were not uncomfortable with that. Next slide please.
OK so as we said before we received the Platinum level of certification with a 16.5% reduction over a three year period. Annual energy savings cost would be $52,000 annually and the cost to implement would be $127,000. So the payback period would be an approximately 2.4 years, but as you know with energy costs they generally go up, so we anticipate it to be less than that period of time. And we look at it that there was a cost up front but the payback comes in savings over time. The costs, a little bit about that information, the cost to implement, that was a lot of our time but also we paid half of our coaches' costs. And then we were lucky enough that NYSERDA paid the other half of the coaches' costs. So that gives a little bit of background into the cost to implement. OK next slide.
So this is Bob Bechtold and some closing comments about what you've just heard and to just kind of bring it all together and simplify it. That the process that we're talking about here has allowed us to have a tool that not only taught us initially how to save energy and how to assess savings but forever more puts in place a metric system that, that monitors how we're doing and keeps us aware so that we can keep improving. And the experience has taught us that it's perfectly reasonable for us to think that we can keep improving literally forever. And so where we stand today is with more possibilities than almost we can imagine to look forward to implementing over time. We have, we are convinced of the economic opportunity of this, so if someone were to ask why would a small company be involved in something like this? We have to control our bottom line just like some of the large players that you saw in the early slide. And this process does that for us, helps us control the significant cost of doing business. And the positive impacts like the one we just referred to, the $50,000+ per year continues to hit our bottom line every year, year after year after year. As does every single improvement in economics through energy awareness and energy conservation, in reducing our energy bill. For us, though, it is perhaps an unusual twist, we were pursuing trying to understand how to become a carbon neutral company when we first learned about ISO 50001. And we were stuck because we tried to figure out ways to measure it ourselves but wherever we came across where trying to compare ourselves with others, we were missing a way to verify it, to prove that if we were to make this statement about that we were a carbon neutral company, we needed some way to prove it to others. And this, so when ISO 50001 came along, a very large added advantage that it gave us was, through SEP, a third party verification. For us, SEP is imperative. The ISO 50001 is a really neat idea, but you are verifying it and the rest of it just becomes an exercise in ideas and thoughts and hopes and wishes and nothing really tangible. So SEP is the priority for us. And we'll always be striving for that. So as we attain now, our carbon neutral status, because everything about energy can be turned into carbon, for now we know exactly what we need the small percentage that we can't take care of through our own responsible actions. We go to the carbon market and buy carbon offsets for that that represent a balance at the end of every year. And that at the end, create ourselves as a carbon neutral company. We believe that that's going to be important in the future. We know we live in a country that doesn't understand that very well right now, but we also ship to 26 other companies around our country, around the world where there are carbon-based economies. And so we're watching their lead and what they're teaching us about importance and how markets will operate in the future. And we're preparing ourselves to be ready for that. And in our opinion, there are two ways to be prepared. You can buy the solution by going to the market and buy carbon offsets or you can implement changes in your own company and how you use the energy there such as the onsite combined heat and power and renewable that allow you to actually save money as you strive for this carbon responsibility and being able to prove it. So in the future, I imagine we will have more savings than we can imagine. We totally believe that we have unlimited opportunities to reduce the amount of energy per widget forever. And some of the things, or the ways that we're doing that: we are changing, actually in the future we're, you saw some confusion and stumbling over our dollars per widget or pounds of plastic that we use now, because we're the type of company where a significant portion is totaled. We're actually looking for a more accurate way of measuring by going to, instead of per pounds of plastic, going to dollars of sales. But this only comes after the experience of going through a process like this where you get the tools, you learn the process, and then you raise your awareness and your ability to measure it. And so you can perform even better. And so we're striving for a more accurate way to measure. We're also expanding what we're doing in our energy management strategy that we have implemented as a result of this to take in, eventually, a whole industrial park, but in the earlier stages, we are pushing this model to an eco-industrial park, a version of, if you would, a microgrid, which is a very contemporary idea right now. And so we are connecting ourselves electrically and thermally to a number of other buildings in an industrial park we're in, and by default, everyone that connects to us also automatically takes this energy success that we carry in the model to the other participants in the park. And finally, we're working on a device right now that will allow us to measure every electrical event in our company. We believe that it's very reasonable and very possible and really can become very automatic so just like we monitor our price of materials, our hours on our jobs, things like that in our ERP system, we believe we can deliver to that same mechanism, our energy real time per device. And once it's there, we can set up conditions and flags that will allow us to know at any point in time if we are exceeding any boundaries, approaching any problems, or unintentionally coming up with some positives that we want to take advantage of doing even more and more. So for us, those are a few of the ideas and reasons why we look forward to a forever future involved with this wonderful tool that the Department of Energy has provided for us. And I will give it back to Paul now to conclude.
We plan to have these every other month. So this is the second one. We're shooting for one in November. We hope we'll be able to be announcing that soon. And then if anybody's interested in going a little deeper with SEP, there is the Certified Practitioner and Performance Verifier Training and I encourage you to go to that website there. And of course we gave you the SEP website. If you're not currently subscribed to SEP, you can go to the SEP website. You can sign up on the homepage. So Caroline, I think we're going to open it up for some questions now, alright.
Sure, yes, thanks Paul. And I'm opening up the questions pane now and I'll go ahead and read a few questions. So the first one: what interval did HARBEC use? Was it daily, weekly, or monthly for their data?
Okay, great, thanks. And does the cost to implement include the purchase and installation of the new wind turbine?
Also, Bob, the auto costs right?
Thank you, Bob. And what is the factor for electricity output from CHP to convert to source energy?
The efficiency, BT efficiency or…?
Yeah, if you read the protocol, you're not required to account for the electricity that's being generated in the CHP. It could be considered as a product variable. And certainly, if you're exporting it, you're required to do that. But since we're already purchasing the natural gas from across the boundary to run the microturbine, the energy to create the electricity was accounted for when we consumed that natural gas. And that's where it shows up in the model. We would be counting, write it in CHP as well.
And this looks like another question for you Randy. In slide 18, you used the forecast method for the SEnPI. What was your reason for using the forecast method? Did the selected baseline method result in a better model resulting in the use of forecast?
You know, to be honest, as I sit here today, this was done in 2013. I don't remember all of the considerations in regard to forecast. But I will say this, that there was not a significant difference between the forecast and the backcast. And so our traditional approach to this process is if you have a forecast method and a model that it syncs to, explain what's going on, that would be your first approach, but if my memory serves me right, the backcast as well was still above 15%. So there wasn't a choice between a cheap mid-level here and what we selected.
Okay and the next question: do customers ever require their suppliers be certified into ISO 50001 or SEP?
So far we have not had the pleasure of finding a customer that looks for that or expects it. We are working hard to try to find that, brand ourselves that way and find customers. There are an awful lot of companies that declare themselves sustainable, very, very large companies doing a lot of it. And yet, when we go to them and try to say to them, "How about using a carbon neutral widget manufacturer," that kind of draws a blank. So we're still working hard to find someone. I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm only saying, from one little company's experience, it hasn't happened yet.
And did you want to add any thoughts to that Paul?
Sure. The DOE is working with different groups to work towards that end, getting the market to ask for that. Other spires, in particular, DOE is working within certain sustainable development processes through IEEE, UL for example, where there are sustainability standards being developed for electronic products. And the goal that we're trying to get to is that if you comply with that electronic standard, then there will be points awarded for original equipment manufacturers that get one or more of their suppliers to be SEP certified.
Thank you, Paul and Bob. And Randy, I assigned you a few questions specific to the model. And the first one: what percentage of the typical consumption was the base load and was that a surprise or about what you expected?
So the question is: was the base load proportionate to what we would have expected in this? And yeah, that is something we look at. Certainly, we look at the sign of the base load or the intercept and rationally it needs to be positive from our perspective. And all that the sign of the base load really means is that the model is explaining all of the energy consumption above that level. And so, the variables are, I should say, explaining all of it, but there is always potentially some other hidden variable that is explaining part of what's in the base load. It's not…we will never try to say that this is the scientific model from the standpoint that it would predict any kilowatt hour of consumption in any given period of time. But in this case, the base load seemed to be proportional to the size of the load, the size of their, you know, consumption and demand and in relationship with the variables as well.
Okay. And the next question: what processes are there in injection molding that created the thermal load for the CHP?
HARBEC might want to speak to the gist of it, but it's my understanding that they use absorption chillers to create chilled water. And so the chilled water demand for the cooling as well as the molding was supplied out of that.
Actually, the chiller provides an air conditioning potential that would be extremely cost-prohibitive if we went any other way to produce it. If we had to buy energy to run air conditioning units, to overcome, for example, our molding facility is about 10,000 square feet with 25 injection molding machines in it, so the analogy we use for students and tours and people that visit us is imagine taking a gymnasium and putting 25 industrial pizza ovens in the gymnasium. Run them all at full temperature 24 hours a day. And that's really what we're doing. Our 25 machines are melting plastic at 350 to 550 degrees constantly. So the unfortunate result of that is the term called sweat shop which we were trying to overcome for the sake of our employees. But also, it creates a moisture and it increases the amount of moisture in the air due to the water lines that are running through it and the condensation. So we had a dual reason: for the comfort of our employees and for the fact that the majority that the materials that we mold are, as engineers would say, many of them are very hydroscopic. And so before we did this, from May to October, we would run as many as 25 desiccant dryers, which are electric heat resistant powered constantly to try to keep up with cooking our materials dry enough to mold. And during that period of time, our largest continual quality issue was related to moisture in the materials. So we were barely able to keep up. Once we put in the system, the combined heat and power system, the absorption chiller then provided our air conditioning. By using the waste heat, the thermal opportunity as we prefer to call it, of the microturbines, to generate the 44 to 47 degree cold water that we use to air condition, we virtually eliminated the moisture issue. And today we run at any given time, maybe 5 to 8 desiccant dryers. So an enormous reduction in energy was accomplished by that and an amazing improvement in the conditions that the employees work in and all of that came from the thermal opportunities of combined heat and power.
Thank you, Bob. And Randy, you may have touched on this a little bit, but someone asked why wasn't backcasting considered for the model as the CHP plant wasn't under control in the baseline period?
Well, it was considered and I mean, I don't have a good explanation other than, you know, the forecast certainly worked. The benefit whether you backcast or forecast, the benefit of changing the way they operated CHP was going to show up in either direction. So either take current performance and project that against past performance or take past performance and try to project that against current performance. I wouldn't say that the CHP was out of control. It was just a different operating paradigm, so they were using CHP, as I understand it, to manage demand. So they were using it to trim. You know, demand calls for electricity which can leave them with a thermal load that's unusable if they don't have a cooling load equal to that thermal capacity.
We refer to it as a thermal priority and an electrical priority. And you're right, initially we were running an electrical priority or load following. But once we saw an…and the result of that is often we were just dumping a lot of heat like the utilities do. But from this process, we learned that that is never the right way to do it and that it's always got to be thermal priority. And then once we changed to that, once we understood that and it became the only way that we run going forward, we've been able to see all of the additional advantages that it gives us by all because of the purpose that we run our combined heat and power plant as a heat generator. And the electricity becomes the byproduct. And if we do that, no matter what the cost of energy, because we've had the experience of $12 and more dekatherm of gas at $3 or less, and so as long as we're running thermal priority, that price doesn't matter because we will always be at the most efficient, most economical operation opportunity that there is.
Yeah, this is Bill Meffert. If I could just add here, you know as Bob mentioned, putting a CHP plant into thermal following versus electricity priority, you know that's an efficiency improvement and that's what you want to capture. So if you forecast what's going to show up, your actual consumption is going to be less than what the baseline model predicts and that's going to capture the savings for you. So either you forecast or backcast. Either way, you're still going to capture that savings.
We have a few minutes left here for two last questions. What will HARBEC do next year relative to SEP? Can the reporting period change for new analysis or do you start a new four year period.
We started a new 3 year span after we were certified in 2013. So now we're starting the new goal of 15% reduction again. Does that answer the question?
And I guess you'll get recertified in 2016 right?
Yes, we'll have a surveillance audit coming out, but yes, 2016 was the recertification year.
And we started our baseline, pardon?
And just to add on that, we are seeking the same level of certification, 15% reduction again. So it's just a backup of what Bob said, that there's an endless effort to reduce energy at the facility every year.
And the last question: does the SEP approach apply to commercial buildings such as office buildings?
Yeah, we're actually in a pilot mode right now to test out SEP in the hospitality sector. We are also in a pilot with water and wastewater. And yeah, we're moving into that sector.
Great! And that's all the questions that we have. Oh, it looks like we have one last question. Are you sharing pilot information from those pilots?
We will, yes. Are you talking about the commercial pilots?
Yes. We first have to get those sites certified. And we will do that.
And just one additional comment, HARBEC is also signed up for the water pilot with the DOE. And we're currently trying to strive to be a water neutral company also. So we saw the benefit in the SEP program from an energy standpoint and we brought it right into our facility from a water standpoint also.
Which is great and it's actually possible to do the kind of modeling that we described today with energy, you can do the same kind of modeling with water, consumption it, right?
Anymore questions? Good questions, thank you. And this webinar is being recorded and we will post it on the SEP website in a few weeks, so you'll be able to share it with your colleagues who couldn't make it today. They can watch it. Thank you all for attending. Good discussion, good questions. And thank you HARBEC for a great presentation, as well as Georgia Tech, thank you. This concludes our webinar. Look for the next notice to go out sometime in November. We'll be sending that out soon. Thank you so much. Bye-bye.


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Cannabis's Unlikely Friend in the Fight for Reform: The Courts
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The cannabis scene in Italy is changing quickly. As many as 1,000 shops selling low-THC, high-CBD products have appeared in major cities over the past few years, but cannabis is still definitely illegal: While possession is decriminalized and is punishable by a fine and some paperwork, sales can result in a six-year prison term and a 75,000 euro fine.
But let's say you want to grow a little pot at home. That's apparently now OK, though you might not find permission outlined in any law on the books. Permission to cultivate was instead granted recently by the country's Supreme Court, which ruled on Dec. 19 that "small amounts grown domestically for the exclusive use of the grower" are perfectly acceptable.
Mexican lawmakers granted 6-month extension for passing marijuana legalization Bill
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Mexico's highest court pushed back the deadline for the country's Congress to pass a bill legalizing marijuana after lawmakers requested an extension to continue working on the complex legislation.
The new deadline is April 30, meaning lawmakers were granted another six months to produce legislation amid "unprecedented" pressure from various lobby groups.
Senate Majority Leader Ricardo Monreal revealed last month that there had been significant attempts to influence the legalization bill, especially from multinational corporate interests.
Mexico just missed its deadline to legalize marijuana -- Now what?
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The marijuana industry has been hitting milestones and breaking down barriers throughout North America with regularity in recent years. To our north, Canada became the first industrialized country to give recreational marijuana the green light on Oct. 17, 2018. More recently, on the one-year anniversary date of this adult-use legalization, it officially implemented the rules and regulations that pertain to the sale of cannabis derivatives (e.g., edibles, vapes, infused beverages, concentrates, and topicals).
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The Latest Initiative By Mexico Could Expand Cannabis Across All Of North America
While some may focus on China, others are looking at Mexico. The reason why could have a direct impact on marijuana stocks. Mexican Senate committees have come to the table on a marijuana legalization bill to submit for approval. The initial thought: the bill goes straight to the floor for a vote. However, the proposal is now referred to a multi-party panel for further investigation.
128 million people about to gain access to legal pot: What it means for marijuana stocks
Right now, around 41 million people have access to recreational marijuana that's legal at a federal level. Two countries have legalized recreational pot -- Canada and Uruguay. We can't include the millions of Americans who live in the 11 states that have legalized recreational marijuana in our total since marijuana remains illegal at the federal level in the United States.
But very soon another 128 million or so people will gain access to legal marijuana. Legislators in Mexico are finalizing regulations to make marijuana legal. The legislative effort came after the country's Supreme Court ruled last year that Mexico's ban on recreational pot was unconstitutional.
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Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 10/25/2019 - 11:01
Last month Mexico released the first draft of the legislation that will end the prohibition of cannabis in the country. With the deadline to pass the law imposed by the Supreme Court looming nearer, it's time to take a closer look at the legislation being drafted. The law not only legalizes a recreational adult-use market, but also creates regulations for medical marijuana and industrial hemp as well.
Given the population of the country, Mexico is expected to have the largest adult-use market in the world. That's compared not only to the patchwork of states that have legalized cannabis in the U.S., but the entire countries of Canada and Uruguay.
Legalization of drugs is the way to combat cartels, former Mexican president says
Legalizing drugs is the best way to combat cartels, according to Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico.
Mexico's Senate is expected to vote in favor of a bill to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in the coming days, in a bid to choke off a black market dominated by violent gangs.
Several Mexican Senate committees tabled draft legislation on Thursday to make the commercial production and sale of marijuana legal, expanding on a Supreme Court decision last year which deemed the country's ban on personal cannabis consumption and cultivation unconstitutional. Current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has also been critical of Mexico's protracted drug war and signaled openness to a new approach.
Mexico unveiled its Recreational Cannabis Bill: 8 things you need to know
Over the past two years, milestones and history have been made with regularity for the cannabis industry. Last year, for example, we witnessed Canada become the first industrialized country in the world to give the green light to recreational marijuana.
A look at cannabis legislation in Countries around the World
Ever since Canada became the first major country to legalize marijuana for adults a year ago, other nations have been paying attention.
The small South American nation of Uruguay was the first to legalize marijuana for adults. New Zealand, Luxembourg and Mexico are among those that have looked to Canada for guidance or lessons, while Russia has chastised it for its "barefaced" flouting of international anti-drug treaties.
Mexico may be just weeks away from legalizing marijuana
Last year, we saw marijuana history made many times over. Canada became the first industrialized country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana nearly one year ago, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its very first cannabis-derived drug. The latter is a pretty big deal, considering that marijuana remains a Schedule I (i.e., illicit) substance at the federal level in the United States.


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EnBW submits accounts for 2005 financial year
Pre-tax result tops 1 Bn Euro mark for the first time in the Group's history / Group profits up by 64 % / Highest dividend in the Group's history to follow record results
Karlsruhe. The record results expected after the finalisation of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG's preliminary results of 19th January 2006 for the 2005 financial year have been confirmed. On the 20th February the supervisory board approved the group accounts presented by the board of directors. According to these, the EnBW Group was able to increase its profit by 64.1 percent over the previous year* to 521.6 million Euros in 2005. The result before tax (EBT) increased by 42.4 percent to 1.081 million Euros in 2005. The profit before tax thus breached the billion barrier for the first time in the EnBW Group's history.
"Due to our consistent implementation of the TOP FIT cost reduction programme, fewer write offs and a much-improved financial result, between 2003 and 2005 we have succeeded in turning a pre-tax loss of almost 1.1 billion Euros into a profit of nearly the same amount within only two years. Due to the Group's positive development the board will recommend to the Annual General Meeting and the supervisory board that the dividend be raised. We want to distribute 0.88 Euro per authorised share for the year 2005. This would be the highest dividend in the group's history for the second time in a row and corresponds to a 25 per cent increase in the dividend", according to Professor Dr Utz Claassen, Chairman of the EnBW Executive Board.
The result before tax and interest (EBIT) improved from 1.243 billion Euros by 6.1 per cent to 1.319 billion Euros. The result before interest, tax and depreciation (EBITDA) reached a value of 2.054 billion Euros, an historic high in the area of the continuing operations.
* Figures of the period compared have been adjusted due to, among other reasons, retrospective changes to accounting methods according to the IFRS.
Alongside the clearly improved results EnBW was also able to reduce the Group's debt and to further improve the equity capital rate. "Due to the positive results as well as the consequences of the sale of Group shares the equity capital rate in the balance sheet was raised from the 10 per cent it stood at on 31 December 2004 to 13.2 per cent. Net debts could however be reduced. While they were still 3.94 billion Euros at the end of 2004, they were only 3.28 billion at the end of 2005 and thus 16.6 per cent below the level of the previous year", explained Dr Christian Holzherr, EnBW's Chief Financial Officer.
EnBW also markedly increased its sales revenues. The turnover rose by 18 per cent to a total of 10.77 billion Euros in 2005. Sales in the electricity segment rose by 15 per cent to 8.15 billion Euros. Among other reasons, this increase was due to an increase in EnBW Tradinggesellschaft sales. Increased electricity prices as a result of higher costs contributed only a small amount to the improvement in results. Gas sales rose by 36.4 per cent to 2.1 billion Euros. If the consolidation effect of the acquisition of ENSO Erdgas GmbH is ignored, gas sales increased by 25.4 per cent. In addition to increased gas supply prices, passed on to the end consumer, markedly higher sales in the gas trading business also made a significant contribution. Sales in energy and environmental services rose by 4.6 per cent to 517.4 million Euros.
"At the beginning of our reorganisation and reorientation processes no one would have dared to think that this - also in comparison to the competition - unusually gratifying development, would have been possible. It is underpinned in content by capital, clear values and value orientation, that is to say there is a comprehensive consistency between our vision, our company mission statement, our branding and our strategic and financial planning culminating in the measures taken in our operational planning. Building on our strong results and in conjunction with our strength in innovation we want to improve our position in the market by organic growth and acquisition", says Claassen.
In the 2005 financial year EnBW has already increased investment by 31 per cent to a total of 547 million Euros. About 65 per cent of this investment was made in the electricity segment, in particular in the upgrading of power stations and electricity distribution facilities. In addition, in 2005 EnBW raised its stake in Energieversorgung Niederösterreich (EVN) from about 13 to just under 30 per cent. Through its acquisition of RWE's 15 per cent stake in the Czech Pražská. energetika Holding a.s., EnBW increased its stake in Pražská energetika Holding a.s. from 34 per cent to 49 per cent now. Pražská energetika Holding a.s. is a majority shareholder in the Prague energy company Pražská Energetika a.s. with a 51 per cent stake.
Alongside its finance-oriented accounting, EnBW regards its stringent knowledge management as an important factor of the company's success. Therefore, for the first time, EnBW has also presented a knowledge balance sheet for 2006, and it has also been discussed in the annual report.
EnBW is also a pioneer in the introduction of an environment management system. Among the large energy supply companies EnBW was the first to introduce an environment management system complying with ISO 14001 throughout the Group.
Overview of EnBW group January till December 2005:
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External sales
Mio. €
+ 15.0
Energy and environmental services
+ 4.6
External sales, total
Result of continuing operations
Group net profit
Earnings per share **
Operating Cashflow
Free Cashflow
Capital expenditure on intangible assets and property, plant and equipment
Return on Capital Employed (ROCE)
Cost of capital rate (WACC) before taxes
Average capital employed
* Figures of the period compared have been adjusted among others due to retrospective changes to accounting methods according to the IFRS
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Population of Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi impenetrable national park, Uganda, determined by census
KAMPALA, Uganda. —A census of mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei, conducted in 2011 in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, confirms a minimum population of 400 gorillas, raising the world population of mountain gorillas to 880. The official result was released today by the Uganda Minister for Tourism, Wildlife, and Antiquities Hon. Maria Mutagamba alongside representatives of the Uganda Wildlife Authority.
The increase in the Bwindi population since the last census, from 302 in 2006 to 400 in 2011, is attributed to improved censusing techniques of these rare and elusive apes as well as real population growth
In this latest census, teams systematically moved through Bwindi not once, but twice, looking for and documenting mountain gorilla night nests and faeces, and collecting faecal samples for genetic analysis. The first sweep was conducted with a small team from February 28 to September 2, 2011 and the second sweep conducted with multiple teams from September 10 to November 3, 2011. With the genetic analysis, scientists were able to determine how many unique groups and individuals were found by the field census teams through both sweeps, in what is referred to as a modified mark recapture method.
In short, the two sweeps of Bwindi allowed census teams to find more gorillas than a single sweep would have. Further, it is likely that some gorillas were missed by field census teams in the 2006 census of Bwindi's mountain gorillas. But all signs are that this population of mountain gorillas is indeed growing.
"This method gives us the clearest picture of the status of mountain gorillas in Bwindi that we have yet had," states Maryke Gray, Technical Advisor to the International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP; a coalition of the African Wildlife Foundation, Fauna & Flora International, and WWF). "Even with evolving census methods, the results indicate that this population has indeed increased over the last five years, and that is very encouraging for this critically endangered species."
Mountain gorillas live in social groups and the census results indicate that the 400 mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park form 36 distinct social groups and 16 solitary males. Ten of these social groups are habituated to human presence for either tourism or research and included, at the time of the census, 168 mountain gorillas or 42% of the Bwindi population.
While it was initially planned to include Sarambwe Nature Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a protected area continuous with Bwindi and therefore potential habitat for mountain gorillas, it was not possible to do so due to insecurity in the Sarambwe area at the time of the census.
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The total world population of mountain gorillas now stands at a minimum of 880, representing the 400 individuals in Bwindi confirmed in this 2011 census and 480 mountain gorillas in the Virunga Massif confirmed by a census in 2010. Both populations of mountain gorillas have had positive trends in population growth over the last decade.
"In fact, the mountain gorilla is the only great ape whose population is increasing despite continuous pressure on its habitat. This positive trend is due to the strong collaboration among the three countries where mountain gorillas live and the collective efforts on the ground by park staff, surrounding communities and local government, and non-governmental organizations," adds Dr. Augustin Basabose, Interim Director of IGCP.
The 2011 Bwindi mountain gorilla census was conducted by the Uganda Wildlife Authority with support from l'Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature and the Rwanda Development Board. The census was also supported by the International Gorilla Conservation Programme (a coalition of the African Wildlife Foundation, Fauna & Flora International, and WWF), the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Conservation Through Public Health, the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International.
This census was funded by WWF-Sweden with supplemental support from Berggorilla & Regenwald Direkthilfe e.V., the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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Police in Swaziland beat hungry people with batons as they tried to get free food during King Mswati's 50th birthday celebration.
'There were loud screams from the crowd as batons started flying as the officers bashed some people," The Times of Swaziland reported.
It described the crowd as 'frenzied'.
The newspaper reported on Monday (23 April 2018) that free food was being given out at the King Sobhuza II Memorial Stadium in Nhlangano when word spread that there would not be enough food for everyone.
'Immediately people began pushing and shoving with some falling to the ground in the process,' The Times reported.
It happened as people gathered to watch a speech from the King transmitted on a big screen. In Swaziland seven in 10 of the 1.1 million people live in abject poverty with incomes less than the equivalent of US$2 per day. At Royal occasions free food and other gifts are distributed.
The newspaper also reported there was a 'stampede' as thousands of people struggled to claim gifts of t-shirts and kangas.
Later, King Mswati, who rules Swaziland as sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, wore a suit weighing 6 kg and beaded with diamonds at a banquet for 700 people. Centrepiece was a birthday cake with 52 layers.
The World Food Program has reported 350,000 people are in need of emergency food assistance in Swaziland, with 640,000 potentially affected by some degree of food insecurity at the peak of the lean season.


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PLANO, Texas, Jan. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Integer Holdings Corporation (NYSE:ITGR) announced today that it plans to release financial and operational results for fourth quarter and full-year 2019 at 8 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on Thursday, February 20, 2020. Following the release, Integer management will host a webcast at 9 a.m. EST to discuss these results. Other forward-looking and material information may also be discussed during this call.
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