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To: DMaA who wrote (3790)	10/30/2006 4:12:13 PM
From: mistermj	Respond to of 10087

They are going up like crazy around here in SE Wis., some big projects....if the NIMBY's aren't successful that is.

To: DMaA who wrote (3790)	10/30/2006 4:18:15 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

<<A heck of a lot of windmills came through here this year.>> 690 of those blades wound up in my area. They take them off the rail cars and load them one to a truck that has a driver in front and another in the rear. The bases for the towers are 20' across and 15' deep, reinforced concrete. The blades are attached to the heads on the ground and are lifted by a 400 ton crane. 2 operators for the crane because it's cheaper to have a second operator on hand than have any down time. Land owner gets $6k a year per tower.

To: DMaA who wrote (3790)	10/30/2006 5:25:32 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 10087

Report accuses N.Korea of crimes against humanity Oct 29, 8:32 PM (ET) By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has committed "crimes against humanity" against its own people according to an independent report published on Monday that made a long-shot appeal for the U.N. Security Council to deal with the issue. Released after North Korea's October 9 nuclear test, the report describes Pyongyang's brutal treatment of its citizens, from the beatings of pregnant women to force miscarriages to the abduction, torture and execution of political prisoners. Commissioned by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, former Czech president Vaclav Havel and former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, the paper seeks to spotlight rights abuses that have been previously reported but are often overshadowed by concern about North Korea's nuclear ambitions. "It is clear that (North Korean leader) Kim Jong-il and the North Korean government are actively committing crimes against humanity," they said in a letter introducing the report, which was prepared by the nonprofit, independent U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and by the DLA Piper law firm. "We strongly urge the U.N. Security Council to take up the situation of North Korea. Protecting the people of North Korea requires nothing less," they added. An official at the North Korean mission to the United Nations declined comment on the report and repeated North Korea's position that it does not violate human rights. Foreign policy analysts praised the report for highlighting an issue that often gets short shrift amid concerns about North Korea's nuclear and missile programs but they said the chances of the Security Council acting on it were slim. Among other reasons, they noted the council has already passed two resolutions imposing sanctions on North Korea in the last four months, the first following its July 5 ballistic missile tests and the second after this month's nuclear test. They also said China -- which holds a veto -- historically has resisted bringing up human rights at the Security Council for fear that its own practices might be scrutinized. 'POLITICAL NONSTARTER' "On the one hand, it's probably a moral imperative. On the other hand, I think it's a political nonstarter," said Columbia University Professor Edward Luck, a U.N. specialist. The report, largely based on previously published material, estimates that North Korea imprisons "upwards of 200,000 people in its modern-day gulag" and that double that number have died in the its prison network over 30 years. It describes prisoners being fed near-starvation diets that they supplement with insects, being beaten until their eyeballs pop out and being entombed in "sweatbox" solitary cells so small they are forced to crouch for months. Noting as many as one million people may have died in North Korea's late 1990s famine and the country faces "chronic" food shortages, it argues Pyongyang "failed in its responsibility to protect its own people from crimes against humanity." In a second justification for Council action, it said North Korea poses a "non-traditional threat" to international peace because of its rights abuses, the possibility of mass refugee outflows and alleged drug trafficking and counterfeiting. Analysts said the council may not wish to take up the issue because it is already being discussed in the U.N. General Assembly and the Human Rights Council and investigated by a U.N. special rapporteur who has been denied access to the country. In an interview, Bondevik acknowledged it may be tilting at windmills to expect the Security Council to act but said: "If we do nothing, nothing will happen. If we do this, hopefully something will happen. We have to try." "We hope this will wake up the world," he added. reuters.myway.com