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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";color:teal'>No</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <span
style='color:blue'>Nukes</span> <span style='color:red'>News</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Mar.
5, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#2E00FF'>I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of
power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we
tackle that. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>-
<i>Thomas Edison (1847–1931)</i><span style='color:#2E00FF'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style='color:#7030A0'>Independent researchers have calculated that, in
terms of carbon emissions avoided per dollar spent, nuclear is among the most
expensive options, taking lifetime costs into account, not the cheapest. And of
course the nuclear waste issue has not yet been resolved.</span><span
style='color:red'> </span>- <i>Trevor Findlay, author of The Future of Nuclear
Energy to 2030 and its Implications for Safety, Security and Non-Proliferation</i><span
style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#E36C0A'>Feds power up AECL spending by 50%<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
deficit-ridden federal government has plowed an additional $182-million into
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. to cover cost overruns in refurbishment projects
and repairs to its isotope-producing research reactor at Chalk River. As
a result, Ottawa allocated $824-million in the current fiscal year to the
problem-plagued nuclear flagship as the government prepares to restructure it
and sell its commercial division, according to supplemental estimates released
late yesterday. That's a 50-per-cent increase from federal spending on AECL in
the prior fiscal year.</span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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color:black'><a
href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/feds-power-up-aecl-spending-by-50/article1488992/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/feds-power-up-aecl-spending-by-50/article1488992/</a>
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<h3><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#E36C0A'>Budget puts climate action on ice <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/budget/budget-puts-climate-action-on-ice/article1490411/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/budget/budget-puts-climate-action-on-ice/article1490411/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#E36C0A'>Environment, arts get short shrift in new budget<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
environment, the arts, poverty and international initiatives are among the
files that get short shrift in this year's budget. In the case of the
environment, Equiterre's Stephen Guilbeault is crying false advertising.
"Climate change is mentioned three times in the throne speech," said
Guilbeault. "Nowhere is that commitment mentioned in the budget."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gijHxd_Jc9IKl3PIOuf2UY_rqEwg">http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gijHxd_Jc9IKl3PIOuf2UY_rqEwg</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.0pt'><span class=apple-style-span><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#4F6228'>Time
to rethink AECL’s meltdown</span></b></span><span style='font-size:
18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#4F6228'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;line-height:13.5pt'><span class=apple-style-span><b>AECL,
despite reviews and promises, has lost money every year since 1952 </b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;line-height:13.5pt'>Even if the federal government were to
commit Canadian taxpayers to bring AECL’s bid price down to some
reasonable level, there are serious questions about whether AECL’s
flagship Candu technology, which is based on exotic and
super-costly heavy water, would be in Ontario’s best interests.
The prospects AECL once claimed for near-term reactor sales of its
new design in China, the U.K. and the U.S., have all dried up. Those
countries are now all concentrating on light water technology which
is cheaper to build, is cheaper to operate, is more productive
and benefits from a wider pool of technology partners.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a
href="http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/02/25/tom-adams-time-to-rethink-aecl-s-meltdown.aspx">http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/02/25/tom-adams-time-to-rethink-aecl-s-meltdown.aspx</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#943634'>Flaws must be fixed before nuclear revival</span></b><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#943634'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p>Contrary to Moore's reading, the report does pour cold water on the notion
of a global nuclear energy revival. The major barrier is economics. These are
profoundly unfavourable to nuclear energy and getting worse, compared to coal,
natural gas and alternative clean energy sources, as the government of Ontario
has discovered. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a
href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Flaws+must+fixed+before+nuclear+revival/2643540/story.html">http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Flaws+must+fixed+before+nuclear+revival/2643540/story.html</a>
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margin-left:0cm;line-height:26.25pt'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>Province committed to new nuclear at Darlington:
energy minister<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p>"Just in case there's any doubt at all, I want to assure you we're
still very committed to building two new nuclear units in Darlington,"
said Energy and Infrastructure Minister Mr. Brad Duguid. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="http://www.newsdurhamregion.com/articlePrint/149453">http://www.newsdurhamregion.com/articlePrint/149453</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#00B050'>Watt guzzlers to get green retrofit</span></b><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#00B050'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p>The cheapest megawatt is the one that's never used. "Industrial energy
efficiency is usually overlooked because it's so unexciting, but it's one of
the most cost-effective ways to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions," Stewart
said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#00B0F0;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><a
href="http://www.thestar.com/business/article/774106--watt-guzzlers-to-get-green-retrofit">http://www.thestar.com/business/article/774106--watt-guzzlers-to-get-green-retrofit</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<h2><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:red;font-style:normal'>New Ads Challenge Obama on Nuclear Energy<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h2><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>Two excellent tv ads are being aired in
South Carolina and Georgia. The first ad, titled "Family", lists past
nuclear disasters like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, and finishes with a
close up on a child and the voice over "How would you feel about exposing
your family to a potential radiation accident?" The second ad,
"Risk," tied last year's financial hullabaloo to the potential for
another nuclear bailout, similar to the nightmare scenario Mariah Blake
describes in <a
href="http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/01/bailout-nuclear"><em><span
style='color:blue;font-style:normal'>Mother Jones</span></em></a>. "With
cheaper, safer alternatives," the ad concludes, "why should taxpayers
foot the bill for a new nuclear bailout?"<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://environment.change.org/blog/view/new_ads_challenge_obama_on_nuclear_energy">http://environment.change.org/blog/view/new_ads_challenge_obama_on_nuclear_energy</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'>New Nuclear – The
Economics Say No</span></b></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The Five Corporate Risks</span></b></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>There are five substantial areas of risk
faced by developers of new nuclear</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <span class=apple-style-span>power
stations. <span style='color:#FF0909'>Three of those risk areas are so big and
significant that if </span></span> <span class=apple-style-span><span
style='color:#FF0909'>they go wrong, the developer (even the biggest
utilities) could be financially</span></span> <span class=apple-style-span><span
style='color:#FF0909'>damaged beyond repair</span>. These risks can be classed
as <b>Corporate Killers</b>. </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'><a href="https://www.citigroupgeo.com/pdf/SEU27102.pdf">https://www.citigroupgeo.com/pdf/SEU27102.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#00B0F0;font-style:normal'>Nuclear Power Industry Faces Critical Labor
Shortage</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#00B0F0;font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h2><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>But now, as the industry receives
unprecedented levels of government support, it's facing an all-out talent
drought.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h2><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#00B0F0;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><a
href="http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/nuclear-power-industry-faces-critical-labor-shortage/19374206/">http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/nuclear-power-industry-faces-critical-labor-shortage/19374206/</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#E36C0A'>Nuclear projects face
financial obstacles</span></b></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";color:#E36C0A'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'>A new approach for
easing the cost of new multibillion-dollar reactors, which can take
years to complete, has provoked a backlash from big-business
customers unwilling to go along.</span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/01/AR2010030103975.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/01/AR2010030103975.html</a></span></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#00B0F0;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000'>Nuclear Energy's Comeback
Is Fueled By Lobbying Dollars, Not By Safer or Better Technology<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Over 10 years, the industry
has spent $1 million per every U.S. Senator and Representative, plus another
$100 million for the White House, courts and media. Nothing about atomic energy
has really changed. Except this: <em>$645 million</em> for lobbying Congress
and the White House over the past 10 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><a
href="http://www.alternet.org/story/145813/nuclear_energy%27s_comeback_is_fueled_by_lobbying_dollars%2C_not_by_safer_or_better_technology">http://www.alternet.org/story/145813/nuclear_energy%27s_comeback_is_fueled_by_lobbying_dollars%2C_not_by_safer_or_better_technology</a>
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<h2><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#7030A0;font-style:normal'>“Fourth-generation” nuclear power
is another buzzword that has little success behind it</span></strong><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0;
font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h2><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>The idea is that these new reactors will
close the loop for fuel and waste; that is, reprocess the spent rods into new
fuel that can be reused. However, much like carbon capture and sequestration,
this has yet to be done, despite over 60 years and billions of dollars in
research. While some countries, like France and Japan, do reprocess fuel in a
limited way, it still produces hundreds of tons of toxic waste, which could
potentially be used in nuclear weapons. One French plant dumps 100 million
gallons of liquid radioactive wastes into the English Channel every year, and
the French government found the costs of reprocessing waste to cost $25 billion
more than storing it. There is no truly closed-loop cycle; we will still have
to mine uranium, a toxic process, and to contend with the spent nuclear waste,
which still does not have a home despite years of wrangling on Yucca Mountain.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'><a
href="http://vtdigger.org/2010/03/03/fourth-generation-nuclear-power-a-buzz-phrase-with-little-behind-it/">http://vtdigger.org/2010/03/03/fourth-generation-nuclear-power-a-buzz-phrase-with-little-behind-it/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#548DD4;font-style:normal'>Nuclear Waste Watch <o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h2><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>A Network of organizations concerned
about high level radioactive waste and nuclear power in Canada<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h2><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>Position Statement and Background to
nuclear waste storage in Canada<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h2><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><a
href="http://www.cnp.ca/nww/position.html">http://www.cnp.ca/nww/position.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<h2><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#00B050;font-style:normal'>Sweden plans to build 2,000 wind turbines by
2020</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#00B050;font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h2><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>The increase is equivalent to about half
of the power generated by the country's nuclear reactors in 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h2><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#00B0F0;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><a
href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9E6GRPG0.htm">http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9E6GRPG0.htm</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#984806'>Coal-Fired Power on the Way Out?</span></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <br>
<b>by Lester R. Brown<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
principal reason for opposing coal plants is that they are changing the earth's
climate. There is also the effect of mercury emissions on health and the 23,600
U.S. deaths each year from power plant air pollution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>What began as a few local ripples of resistance to coal-fired power quickly
evolved into a national tidal wave of grassroots opposition from environmental,
health, farm, and community organisations. Despite a heavily funded ad campaign
to promote so-called clean coal (one reminiscent of the tobacco industry's
earlier efforts to convince people that cigarettes were not unhealthy), the
U.S. public is turning against coal. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
bottom line is that the United States now has, in effect, a de facto moratorium
on the building of new coal-fired power plants. This has led the Sierra Club,
the national leader on this issue, to expand its campaign to reduce carbon
emissions to include the closing of existing plants. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>If the efficiency level of the other 49 states were raised to that of New
York, the most energy-efficient state, the energy saved would be sufficient to
close 80 percent of the country's coal-fired power plants. The few remaining
plants could be shut down by turning to renewable energy - wind farms, solar
thermal power plants, solar cell rooftop arrays, and geothermal power and heat.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
handwriting is on the wall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/25">http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/25</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#4F6228'>Thinking about solar panels? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'>In recognition of </span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'>International Women's Day</span></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>,
CBC’s Sunday Edition with Michael Enright will feature a 25 minute
segment on the </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#7030A0'><a href="http://vowpeace.org/cms/Home.aspx">Canadian Voice of
Women for Peace</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'>.<br>
<br>
Sunday, March 7, 2010. Time: 9a.m. - 12 noon (likely earlier
in the morning, maybe even at 9 a.m.)<br>
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</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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on Mon. Mar. 8 at 7:30 p.m., at the Friends House, Toronto, join the Voice of
Women for a coffeehouse and open mic night in celebration of IWD – sharing
songs and poems for peace and justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>For
more info:<span style='color:#1F497D'> <a
href="http://vowpeace.org/cms/Misc/Event/10-02-23/International_Woman_s_Day_Coffeehouse_and_Open_Mic_Night.aspx">http://vowpeace.org/cms/Misc/Event/10-02-23/International_Woman_s_Day_Coffeehouse_and_Open_Mic_Night.aspx</a>
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