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		<title>Plugging the North West Passage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ships plowing the Arctic waters have made a good start at plugging the North West Passage. During the first season the open Passage has been used by commercial shipping, at least three large vessels have gone aground along this uncharted waterway: a tanker, a cruise ship and freighter. Each one hit rock bottom. Well, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circling the waggons aka closing ranks</title>
		<link>http://achart.ca/blog/archives/274</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fellow alumni formerly of military field rank, miffed that a favourite chaplain of his day would not be favoured with a glowing tribute, claims to write on behalf of like-minded old boys a fierce denunciation of the disclosure of child abuse and pedophilia by some past members of staff (see the www.achart.ca website). He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs in their mangers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By what logic and hypocritical reasoning do those in their mangers bristling with nuclear weaponry deny like ownership to Iran? I mean no harm. I represent no pernicious and evil point of view; I merely ask the question. Surrounded by neighbours who by means fair, foul or at best of questionable skullduggery, have acquired nuclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Aussie solution</title>
		<link>http://achart.ca/blog/archives/265</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art, you’re an iconoclast! And good for you too. We’ve just had an election here that’s stirred the possum something shocking. Neither of the Big Two – Tweedledum and Tweedledummer – can govern in their own right. For the first time they’re going to have to negotiate the Lower House with three independent conservatives (who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More wind, less farm</title>
		<link>http://achart.ca/blog/archives/257</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long ago in the olden days of 1952-53, I was what today would be known as a project manager of a government-funded experimental 10 Kw wind turbine generator known as the Orkney Windmill. This was a wind turbine with three, 40 feet long, blades hydraulically-feathered to compensate for the variable wind strength and velocity. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lament the death of Peech&#8217;s Market</title>
		<link>http://achart.ca/blog/archives/238</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks in large part to an obdurate and intractable car park department of Cobourg Town the Peech&#8217;s Market at the foot of Third Street will shut up shop. The owners spent two years negotiating with the Town to create an outlet to serve the downtown condominium owners in the harbour area; he a skilled butcher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making bombs in an aircraft loo?</title>
		<link>http://achart.ca/blog/archives/231</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Muslim would-be suicide bombers planning to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners were convicted in a London court as reported in the ‘Telegraph’ (8 July 2010). Originally, 24 Muslim were taken into custody; 13 were charged; and two were released without charges. While no one can doubt their intentions &#8211; and those accomplices who escaped trial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy beyond clean &#8211; meaning?</title>
		<link>http://achart.ca/blog/archives/219</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our local newspaper, &#8216;Northumberland Today’, 8 July 2010, published a letter headed &#8216;Benefits of wind energy beyond clean&#8217; whatever ‘beyond clean’ means. written by Robert Horning, president of the Canadian Wind Energy Association. The letter extols the benefits of wind power. As a retired power engineer (hydro, fossil fuel and nuclear power generation), a long-term [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incompatible mighty stick and lipstick</title>
		<link>http://achart.ca/blog/archives/199</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unusual yet welcome spectacle of a Ms Drum Major at the annual Trooping of the Colours ceremony at the Duke of York’s Royal Military School, Dover. A nimble enough Ms to handle the mace that proved, however, too heavy to toss. How much war paint the young ms applied is not known, but she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a billion?</title>
		<link>http://achart.ca/blog/archives/181</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The G20 meeting for 2010 is over and we’re two billion dollars lighter. That’s a difficult sum to comprehend, but help is at hand. As a correspondent put it: ‘A billion seconds ago was 1959; a billion minutes ago Jesus walked on water; a billion hours ago our ancestors were in the stone age; a [...]]]></description>
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