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Post subject: How to Interpret Speed Test Results
JoeP wrote:
I am looking for an accurate interpretation of the results of this speed test and the TestMyVoIP.com test. What's good, bad, acceptable. Also, when a particular value is determined to be problematic where can it be found as to the cause and recommended solution.
I was not able to find this information anywhere to date. It would seem to me that it would be a "sticky" for newbies like me and to avoid having someone ask the same question over and over.
Joe P
Download 691,145 to 3,017,424 bps
Upload 370.467 to 475,168 bps
QOS 18 to 91%
RTT 56 to 60 ms
MaxPause 71 to 190 ms
Note: As you can see my test results are all over the board and I am trying to accurately evaluate and understand them.
The speed test hosted on this site is an applet named "MySpeed". More information about MySpeed can be found at
This test measures the available bandwidth between your computer and the web server hosting the test. The test results can be affected by a variety of factors including other applications running on your local machine, congestion at your ISP, specific bandwidth limitations between you and the target site and the load on the hosting server.
I am going to provide a very brief description of the test outputs here. For full descriptions please look at the
Download: speed of an incoming http transfer
Upload: speed of an outgoing http transfer
QOS: quality of service is the minimum speed seen during the test divided by the maximum speed
RTT: round trip time, the total time it takes from sending a packet to receiving a response
MaxPause: longest single delay during transmission measured when reading data from the incoming sockets
The importance of these measurements? Obviously a certain minimum bandwidth in both directions is required for a
call. More importantly you need a high QoS number. A low QoS number will result in choppy, and possibly dropped, calls. When the QoS number is low packets are being explicitly dropped, or delivered out of order in which case they are also dropped. You could have a consistent good quality connection with a high RTT (this results in latency). On a
call latency expresses itself as a delay between the speaker and the listener. This phenomenon is also present in PSTN calls, particularly overseas calls, because of long transmission lengths or satellite relays. MaxPause is essentially a brief interruption of your connection. This can be caused by network congestion or by other applications running on your local machine. On
calls a large MaxPause results in drop outs for the length of the pause, and if long enough, a dropped call.
Acceptable Values
wants a minimum of 90 kbps in each direction to ensure high quality calls.
QoS: Should be in at least the 80's. However people have reported success with much lower scores. Unfortunately this test measurement is not useful unless you determine what is causing the low score. I don't put much stock in this QoS mechanism because it can be affected by many different causes and it is not based on a big enough sample to accurately reflect line quality.
RTT: Most callers notice round-trip delays when they exceed 250mSec, so the one-way latency budget would typically be 150 mSec. 150 mSec is also specified in ITU-T G.114 recommendation as the maximum desired one-way latency to achieve high-quality voice.
MaxPause: Would ideally be less than 100. Meaning no dropouts more than 1/10th of a second. (Guess, refinements anyone?)
Action to take if you get inconsistent results from the Speed Test
Make sure that no other applications are running on your machine and repeat the speed test. This includes network applications such as email programs and IM clients, but also non-network programs like word processors and spreadsheets.
Most network problems occur on the link from your house to the ISP, particularly in the case of cable customers. File a complaint with your ISP and get them to look at the problem.
You can use a more detailed test such as PingPlotter to tray to find out exactly where and when you are having problems.
Why run the test at testyourvoip.com
This test more closely mimics the network activity experienced during a call. It will provide more explicit details about exactly what the problems are that are affecting your
call quality, but it does not identify the source of the problem.
Ping Plotter
By configuring PingPlotter to run using UDP packets to a network point near the
system you can identify the location of a network problem. Because PingPlotter can be run continuously it can also check for problems that are periodic or intermittent.
Other notes
Run speed tests at multiple sites to eliminate problems at the desitnation site or on parts of the network in between. For example, something at the edge of Comcast's network is capping my upload speed at 2 Mbps to the vonage-forum site, but not to the
site. Note that this also affects my QOS score detrimentally, this is another reason I don't place much emphasis on the applet QOS score, my
calls would never push that much data and so would never be capped.
Run speed tests that mimic the actual traffic that you expect. Test to the Boston server at TestYourVoip.com because it is close geographically to
in New Jersey.
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Post subject:
Great job Scerruti!!
Here is the information I culled from TestMyVoIP.com but I was unable to get the Acceptable Values:
TestMyVoIP.com Test Results Defined
From You to the Testing Location:
Post-Dial Delay
is the time it takes, after you've dialed, for the phone you're calling to ring.
Call Setup Delay
is the full time it takes to setup the call and receive an acknowledgement from the far end that it has accepted the call. Call setup delay includes post-dial delay.
Media Delay
includes the full call setup time plus the time it takes to receive the first packet of media (conversation). Media Delay includes both call setup delay and post-dial delay.
From the Testing Location to You:
Post-Pickup Delay
is the time that elapses between answering the call and receiving the first packet of media (conversation).
Call Setup Delay
is the time from receiving the request for the call until the final acknowledgment from the caller that the call setup has been successfully completed.
Media Delay
is the time between receiving the initial call notification request to receiving the first media packet (conversation). Media Delay includes both the call setup delay and post-pickup delay.
Note, that call setup and media delay measurements incorporate the effects of network impairments and signaling infrastructure (that is, the delays you care about) but do not reflect any delay in answering the call that might be injected by a slow user.
Here is the information I have on latency, Jitter and Packet Loss. It is rather lengthy and probably needs to be edited.
Latency, Jitter and Packet Loss
Once a call has successfully been setup, latency, jitter, and packet loss effects are important predictors of overall call quality
: A measure of the delay in a call. We measure both the round-trip delay between when information leaves point A and when a response is returned from point B, and the one-way delay between when something was spoken and when it was heard. The largest contributor to latency is caused by network transmission delay. Round-trip latency affects dynamics of conversation and is used in our MOS calculations. One-way latency is used for diagnosing network problems.With round trip latencies above 300 msec or so, users may experience annoying talk-over effects.
Jitter refers to how variable latency is in a network. High jitter, greater than approximately 50 msec, can result in both increased latency and packet loss. Let's see how.When talking to someone it's important that they hear what you say in the same order that you say it, otherwise they won't understand what you're telling them. Unfortunately, jitter causes packets to arrive at their destination with different timing and possibly in a different order than they were sent (spoken), with some arriving faster and some slower than they should.To correct the effects of jitter,
endpoints collect packets in a buffer and put them back together in the proper timing and order before the receiver hears them. This works, but it's a balancing act. Processing that buffer adds delay to the call, so the bigger the buffer, the longer the delay. Remember the effects of latency? Keep in mind, no matter how big the buffer is, it is finite in size. If voice packets arrive when the buffer is full then packets are dropped and the receiver will never hear them. These are called discarded packets.
Packet Loss
: Just as it's important to hear what someone says in the order they say it, it's also important to hear all of what they're saying. If you miss one out of every 10 words or 10 words all at once, chances are you're not going to understand much of the conversation. This is packet loss some of the voice packets are dropped by network routers or switches that become congested (lost packets), or discarded by the jitter buffer (discarded packets).Knowing the average packet loss for a call gives you an overall sense for the quality of the call. A call with less than 1 percent average packet loss will always sound better than a call with 10 percent loss. But average loss doesn't tell the whole story. You need to know what type of packet loss you encountered.There are two kinds of packet loss: "random" and "bursty". Think about two calls each with average 1 percent packet loss. Call A loses one in every 100 packets over the entire call (random loss) while Call B loses 100 packets in two clumps at the beginning and the end of the call (bursty loss). Which call would you rather have? That's why we report not just the average packet loss but also the type of loss and information on any bursts of packet loss during your call (reported as loss periods). It matters.
Based on the information you posted and the information I gathered it appears that I have an issue with outgoing calls. I will post in another thread and leave this one solely for the purpose of defining the results of the
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Post subject:
In general it is hard to define
results for the parameters for some of these tests. In some cases it is because the test results do not directly relate to
performance, in others it is because the parameter may indicate a level of call quality that is acceptable to some, but not others.
That is why testyourvoip.com displays your score as it compares to
Forget the phone, try Pony Express
Like tin cans and string
As bad as a crummy cell phone call
As good as a decent cell phone call
Like calling next door
Better than being there!
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Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:45 pm
Post subject:
scerruti wrote:
In general it is hard to define
results for the parameters for some of these tests. In some cases it is because the test results do not directly relate to
performance, in others it is because the parameter may indicate a level of call quality that is acceptable to some, but not others.
That is why testyourvoip.com displays your score as it compares to
Forget the phone, try Pony Express
Like tin cans and string
As bad as a crummy cell phone call
As good as a decent cell phone call
Like calling next door
Better than being there!
What about the
"See Detailed Results
, (see my last post "TestMyVoIP.com Test Results Defined") such as
MOS Analysis from You TO Boston
Media Quality MOS 4.1 / 5.0
(Best with G.711 is 4.4)
Degradation Sources
Codec 0.58 62.6%
Latency 0.00 0.0%
Packet Discards 0.34 37.4%
Packet Loss 0.00 0.0%
Codec G.711 (PCM at 64kbps,
20ms RTP payload,
80kbps IP BW)
Latency 280 ms
Packet Discards 1.2%
Packet Loss 0.0%
Loss Periods Min: 20 ms
Avg: 20 ms
Max: 60 ms
Random Loss
Jitter Min: 0 ms
Avg: 4 ms
Max: 60 ms
Signaling Quality
Post-Dial Delay 110 ms
Call Setup Time 120 ms
Media Delay 320 ms
MOS Analysis FROM Boston To You
Media Quality MOS 4.3 / 5.0
(Best with G.711 is 4.4)
Degradation Sources
Codec 0.57 79.5%
Latency 0.00 0.0%
Packet Discards 0.15 20.5%
Packet Loss 0.00 0.0%
Codec G.711 (PCM at 64kbps,
20ms RTP payload,
80kbps IP BW)
Latency 180 ms
Packet Discards 0.9%
Packet Loss 0.0%
Loss Periods Min: 20 ms
Avg: 20 ms
Max: 40 ms
Random Loss
Jitter Min: 0 ms
Avg: 4 ms
Max: 40 ms
Signaling Quality
Post-Pickup Delay 162 ms
Call Setup Time 168 ms
Media Delay 195 ms
In those results above I am using the line at the time. I have saved other tests when the line is idle. Both tests show a significantly high RTT, Outgoing Packet Discards, and Media Delay. I also get complaints from those I converse with that they lose some of my speech, "it clicks off", "the volume drops", etc.
While I was conversing I ran 8
Speed Tests and the RTT ranged from 57 to 60, QoS 16-28, and the Max Pause 71-551 (4 of the 8 were in excess of 500ms), Upload ranged from 381-401 and the Download was 1.2 to 2.6.
Once the line went idle I ran two
speed tests and got the following:
Download 594 bps
Upload 458,306 bps
RTT 55 ms
MaxPause 621ms
Download 2,505,872 bps
Upload 456,336 bps
RTT 58 ms
MaxPause 100 ms
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30.08.2017 - Steven Zwillinger elected as new president of the APRL
(lsn) The Board of Trustees of the American Philatelic Research Library (APRL) has elected Steven Zwillinger as its president. Zwillinger, who has served on both the APRL Board and the Board of Directors of the American Philatelic Society, will fill the position vacated by Roger S. Brody, who stepped down as president following the completion of his term. Zwillinger was elected unanimously on 4 August during a meeting that immediately followed the adjournment of the General Board meeting.


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It was with a resigned sigh of what I expected when the Scarborough cabinet voted for another tax increase on residents and the people who keep our economy alive... shoppers and visitors.
I would point out the increases motorists have suffered in the borough.
• Resident parking permits increase from £15 to £30 per year per car.
• Visitor scratch cards increased from 80p to £1.
• 24-hour car parking increased from £6 to £9.
• Winter parking free to £1.
There is a relentless opportunism to these increases, how can we squeeze more from the motorist?
Parking tickets collect how much per year for minor infringements such as failing to scratch the year off you parked.
At the same time we are informed the high street is in decline yet more and more out of town developments are given permission with free parking attached. Why does everyone avoid congested town centres, sitting in queues to find a parking space with fewer and fewer shops to frequent ?
Shops need footfall to keep them going, by sending out the message we are going to charge you to even enter the town centre the council fails to grasp the enormity of their actions, but it's only £1 they say. Grandma used to say count the pennies and the pounds look after themselves... £1 spent on parking is £1 not spent in the local economy and it all adds up.
Just a final thought, there was some discussion on meters being modified, will they, for example, give change or accept cards all the time?
It's no use offering reduced parking for 80p if you only have £1 in your pocket, the council keeps your change, view it as a tip for the excellent representation they offer.
Peter Croft
Sandpiper House


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The Impact of Public Smoking Ban on the Incidence of Myocardial Infarction Hospitalizations Disease State Review
Smoking is a well-established risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Exposure to tobacco smoke is associated with an estimated 35,000 cardiovascular deaths per year in nonsmokers. In addition, the risk of CVD decreases with the cessation of exposure to smoking. Association of smoking with CVD has been well known for years; however, association of secondhand smoke with CVD has been a topic of great interest, especially for the past 2 decades. Multiple studies and articles have evaluated the impact of smoking ban on the incidence of AMI-related hospitalizations.|In this article, we discuss the effect of smoking ban on the economy and on human health in general, as well as its potential effects on the prevalence of smoking. [Rev Cardiovasc Med. 2010;11(3):e121-e129 doi: 10.3909/ricm0540]


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Just wanted to update everyone on yesterday's Oncology appointment. Throughout this process I have talked about having good days & bad days. You have a bad day & you try to keep trudging forward knowing that another good day will come back around soon. Yesterday was a bad day for us. First of all it started with the doctor trying to reiterate to us how rare Joel's cancer was. I finally asked him "ok by rare-what do you mean". He proceeded to tell us that there were only 2 other known cases of this type of cancer in the kidney-in the ENTIRE world! He told Joel that he will be "famous" & that his case will be written about & studied by doctors all over the world. Our mouths were on the floor. Not exactly the type of thing you would want to be famous for. Since this cancer is so rare there is basically no guidebook or studies on how to even proceed-which is very frustrating. The doctor's told us that they want us to go to MD Anderson in Houston for a treatment evaluation. We told them that we had been trying to get into MD Anderson for weeks & have been unsuccessful. They told us that they have a direct link to them & will work on getting our case expedited. So we will now 100% be going to MD Anderson as soon as we get our appointment date-in the next 2 to 3 weeks. Once we get to MD they will be running more tests on Joel including a PET scan to check for the presence of spreading of cancer into his cells. We need your prayers & belief that these scans will come back 100% clear. Every time we have asked people to join in prayer for us God has definitely blown our minds in granting what we have prayed for. So our immediate prayer is for no spreading.Now, the other thing is they have said that Joel will be receiving intense chemotherapy for a full year. This was devastating to us as well. We had been praying that it would only be a couple of months. What we are believing for with the chemo is that all of these scary symptoms they are telling us are possible-will not happen with Joel. We are praying that he will breeze right through it. This Monday he will be having a small surgery procedure to install a port into his chest. That way they have easy access in & out of his body for the chemo & so they won't have to keep poking him with a needle. Last time after 5 days of that in the hospital Joel's veins were starting to collapse. So the port will be a good thing-but Joel's a little nervous about the procedure. Poor guy has already been through enough. But this is for the best. For a bit of good news Joel is done with his 30 days of blood thinner shots-big deal for him! And also his blood pressure has totally returned to normal & he is off of the blood pressure medicine. Both of these things are big news. Yesterday the nurse took us on a tour of the infusion room where they will be giving Joel chemo for the next year of our lives. As we were there I found myself thinking what I have thought a million times through this process-how did we get here? It is still so surreal & at times completely overwhelming. We both took yesterday's news very hard. I don't get it & I don't understand why we are having to go through this. I don't have the answers to those questions. BUT what I do know is that God is faithful. He has been faithful to us this entire time & what He started He will complete. We couldn't get through one moment without Him.
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IASC Principals Meeting, 4 December 2017
IASC Principals Meeting, 4 December 2017
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Session 1: Financing the Humanitarian System (Principals-only)
Session 2: The L2/ L3 system and whether it remains fit-for-purpose in our current operating environment (Principals-only)
Session 4: IASC structures beneath the Principals
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"Summary Records Sessions 3 and 4, IASC Principals Meeting 4 December 2017


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10 Phrases A Narcissistic Sociopath Uses
He's so good.
He's so good at being bad.
"I don't care what you think
unless it is about me"
- Kurt Cobain
"Even the best of states
have serious flaws.
The best solution is you take
someone who has
been identified as a sociopath
and you lock him
up forever because by definition,
they are predators.
They will do it again."
- Marc Klaas
"If a sociopath believes a
lie it makes it truth."
- Karen Kirschbaum
If anyone has perfected the art of saying the right things and making you believe that he means them it's a narcissistic sociopath. He is skilled in charm not sincerity… he excels at superficial not substance… he is a man of much nonsense and riddles like a joker or magician but not meaning or truth.
A sociopath has a typical set of phrases he uses as there are always commonalities between them. It's been said so many times in the support groups I belong to that when the members post messages that their Ex has sent them… they could have been sent from anyone's Ex sociopath… as they all appear to speak the same language… astonishingly, it's as if they are all one and the same person… as if they went to the same school and were taught from the same bag of tricks.
When I was dating my Ex, (even a large part of the marriage) for the most part he was doting… he listened… in fact, part of my attraction to him was the fact he listened… something I didn't have from a father who simply talked at me. What I didn't know then is that people of a manipulative nature may very well listen… they may not be what is expected… dismissive… at least in the beginning… as it behooves them to listen to you and listen well. They excel at listening to what you have to say… hanging onto every word… learning all they can about you so they can reel you in… and in this crucial time period offering bits of sage advice, comfort and affirmation. When we date someone who appears to be the picture of care, of kindness and empathy we believe we truly have what were seeing… we take it to heart and don't doubt that what were experiencing is real.
Any of the typical phrases a sociopath uses may not come to the surface until much later on… once you're immersed in a marriage and dependent upon him. It's not until he has you captured in a corner like a defenseless little ladybug does he begin to show his true colors… and for a while he may even dance back and forth between charm and seemingly genuine care and contempt for you… leaving you completely confused and off balance… because you can't figure out where you stand with him… and he knows it.
Often times when were so close to a situation or person we don't have the distance to step back and be objective. It may be difficult for us to not beat ourselves up later down the road upon the full truth revealed… or block out the "What was I thinking?" thoughts going through our head… but we have to forgive ourselves for any blindness that kept us in the wolf's path… this is part of the healing process. It's a mental barrage of "coulda, shoulda, woulda's"… and it can go on forever if allowed. At some point we have to say "What's done is done and it's unfortunately reality" and then begin self care… making a conscious point to be gentle with ourselves, to journal, pamper ourselves, surround ourselves with healthy, supportive friends and family… doing the little things including the big, leaning on God… asking Him for comfort, strength and healing.
1. "Trust me" My Ex used this all the time and amusingly even later during the divorce process. What he's really saying is "Please be a sucker and let me trick you once again." Why on earth would you trust someone who has continually lied and cheated that you have proof of? For a sociopath to tell their target "Trust me" after they've shown (perhaps repeatedly) they cannot be trusted is merely laughable.
2. "I love you" He will use this phrase over and over again. Another lie. He will use this with every woman he's with. A sociopath is incapable of love. What he's really telling you is: "I love the way you make me feel. Being with you is like a rush for me at this moment."Unfortunately, eventually the rush will wear off and you'll be replaced.
3. "Happy?" or "Happy now?!" Is his little guise of a remark of ensuring he has taken care of your needs or desires but in reality is a short, dismissive way of telling you: "You're a pain in my butt and inconveniencing me big time. Now go away." My Ex used this one all the time and still does with our children.
4. "It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission." Ugh. My Ex used this all the time. Another statement they use to try to justify their actions and believe that whatever recent ordeal they just put you through (or shady business deal) will merely blow over… that by just saying: "Sorry!" in their usual dismissive tone that everything will smooth over, consequences will be nil and he will be able to wiggle his way back into your heart.
5."You're so sensitive." A classic. A way to justify his negative actions or verbal abuse toward you when you naturally get upset or mad. Then you begin to question yourself and your own feelings. What eventually happens is later on (even perhaps after you're divorced) it strips you of confidence and you begin to question every interaction you have with people… the natural response is a phase of being unsure… the good news is your confidence will return as you heal and become stronger. Keep in touch with friends that know and love you and don't allow yourself to become isolated.
6. "I can never make you happy. My God! You are so negative! Why do you think I'm never around? Because I can't stand being around you!" Justification and twisting for why he's cheating or a workaholic.
7. "What about you? What about your issues?" This is his comeback to you when you call him on the unacceptable choices he's made. He will spin it back onto you and try to bring up any faults or flaws you have (or make any up) to get the heat off him.
8. "I could do that for you." Could. Interesting. He could, but chooses not to. He could do that Honey-do on your list that you really need finished but he won't.
9. "I only get this negativity from you." In other words…. he isn't getting what he wants so it's easier to attack you.
10. "The more you tell me to do something the more it makes me want to do the opposite." Oh, okay… it's comparable to a three year old boy having a fit. He doesn't wanna just cause you want him to so he ain't gonna!
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Gangsta! I thought it was Philly but this was in Deleware.
12 Replies to "Niqabi Sister Help Police Arrest Gunman by Convincing Him to Surrender"
SubhanAllah! I hope the reporter will survive the barrage of hate coming at her for letting a "fundamentalist" on TV and presenting her in a positive light. May Allah s.w.t. reward the sister for this and make us all as brave as her.
Wow they didn't mention NIqab, Muslim or anything else!
Of course Ahmadi, they didn't need to mention her Islam since she wasn't convicted for anything 😛
I hope most people can put it together by looking at her appearance though.
but wow, maShaAllah @ this sister!
daaaaaang that's definitely gangsta lool
MashaAllah, she need to get recruited by the police as a hostage negotiator because she obviously knew what she was doing.
I know your intentions were good but if the sister was white would you still have said 'gangsta'
jus a thought
So now you generalize with a hint that philly is full of niqabi women? i can feel that sense of anti niqab in your post. stop it.
But awesome video. 🙂
sry men ( i am a man also,,,,,,) i find that Muslim women tend to be more fierce than the men….. especially when educated and motivated
Masha'Allah! Awesome story!
May Allah protect the sister, Ameen.
Maybe a new way in American Broadcasting – no more racial or religious profiling, or they didnt know she was Mozlem and didnt want to ask bout the niqab..?
He gained a friend? Is she? She'l be his sister in Islam after he converts in jail…. First came Hancock, now the Niqab-sis..
Eman is action subhanallah, I would wife that sister
hmmm interesting how they removed this vid
does anyone know where i can find info about this story
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Properties in Italy
Related questions...
Good day all!
Looking for an idea on what town is ideal for us to plan a small intimate wedding, and rent a villa? Somewhere quiet and relaxing, possibly with a vineyard and pool. Looking for the months of June or July.
Thank you in advance!
If you are fans of Montalbano
If you are fans of Montalbano places like Scicli/Noto/Siracusa in Sicily are very popular, with virtually guaranteed weather, thouhg you have already left it quite late. You could try fiocchi di riso wedding planneron facebook, as to get married in Italy requires paperwork which you need to start now if you'replanning on June this year.
Cortona on the Tuscany
Cortona on the Tuscany Umbrian border and which features in Frances Mayes Under the Tuscan Sun is where we did the deed 20 years ago we had a fab time, Another pretty small place wher I know Brits have got married is Montone, in Umbria. Hope you find somewhere that works for you good luck.
Our daughter was married in
Our daughter was married in Siena town hall, but most of the events took place here in Catignano. They did have a small chaple at the time (2007) and another couples wedding actually took place in this whilst we were there. The place looks a lot more imposing on-line than it actually is and it does not convey the size of the place. However they can accomodate both large and smaller weddings. There are a number of other places around the same area which looked just as nice.
I'd suggest you look at Orta
I'd suggest you look at Orta San Gulio [on Lake Orta, North-West of Milan].
A beautiful small lakeside town/village. Beautiful Church and the gardens by the Comune, where they do Civil weddings, have wonderful lake views – we've seen several weddings there, and they look stunning in these surroundings. In easy reach of Malpensa, Bergamo and Turin airports. Cooler than the south of Italy, and plenty of places to rent
Google throws up;-
Guardian newspaper article 20012
Local Newsletter
Review on TripAdvisor about weddings there
Also – Google "Lake Orta Weddings" for more details on wedding planners etc
Good Luck
My husband and I got married
Have a look at Montestigliano
Have a look at Montestigliano in Tuscany. Their biggest villa (http://villapipistrelli.com/english/villa-pipistrelli.html) has its own private pool and is secluded from the rest of the farm estate. There are other smaller villas which share two pools - a quiet one, and a children's one, set amongst the olive groves. Here's a link to their weddings page on their website. http://www.montestigliano.it/site/Weddings. Luisa Donati speaks excellent English and will make sure that all the details of your special day are taken care of. Good luck for your big occasion!
Hi Aubrey, my favourite place
Hi Aubrey, my favourite place is Rome, the capital of love! I visited this fantastic city 2 months ago for a weekend and I bealive that can be pefect for your wedding. What do you think? Good luck with all:))
You might be able to narrow
You might be able to narrow down the near-infinite options if you think about:
1) Is there one airport in Italy that would be better for most of my guests to use arriving and departing from Italy?
2) How is the wedding party going to get from the airport to the wedding destination? Will they all need to take the train or are they ok with renting cars?
3) Would a fairly flat wedding venue be best because some people can't climb steep hills or many stairs?
4) Will most be spending fewer than 5 days in Italy? Does it make sense to pick a venue close enough to an airport that they won't spend a whole day getting to the wedding, or needing to spend a night at the airport on their way home to catch a crack-of-dawn flight?
Hello, in the municipality of
Hello, in the municipality of Piegaro, I can suggest Agriturismo La Crocicchia (they have a FB Page) and Agriturismo Abbazia sette Frati : www.abbaziasettefrati-fratres.it
Often guests of the weedings stay with us in our Casa Vacanze Il Piccolo Noce and they are very happy about the location and the differet possibilities.
I hope it helps, ciao, Milena


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W.H. tactics rearrange lobbying world
The Financial Services Forum, whose members are also CEOs, noticed the Roundtable's success and is now trying to adopt a similar mode of operation by acting as a largely neutral resource and sounding board for the White House and Capitol Hill.
As a consequence, the member companies of the Forum and the Roundtable have scored multiple coveted opportunities to meet with administration officials in small groups to air their thoughts and concerns.
By contrast, the Financial Services Roundtable, which is openly fighting key provisions in the financial reform bill, has diminished influence. The group's tactics, according to one senior Senate aide, have "marginalized them and, by extension, their member firms from playing any meaningful role in shaping the reform that will get passed."
But the Financial Services Roundtable's Scott Talbott is unrepentant. He said the group continues "to represent our members as we strive toward the common goals of strengthening and modernizing our regulatory structure."
The Chamber's experience in being publicly targeted by the White House has left plenty of anger in its wake.
Richard Rahn, a business lobbying expert at the libertarian Cato Institute and former Chamber economist, warned that the White House's hardball tactics are shortsighted and could backfire.
"The smart administration doesn't make the organization the issue; they make the set of policies the issue," said Rahn. In Washington, organizations "can be allies at one moment, opponents at another and sometimes both at the same time, depending on the issue."
But Psaki denies that the White House, through its exclusive gatherings and targeted attacks, is trying to silence critics or mute opposition to its agenda.
"We continue to have an open door and want to work with business trade groups," she said. "Any perception that a partnership with those groups is not productive from all sides is certainly not the message we are trying to send."
Business groups do give the administration high marks for its outreach, but they question how much influence they are really having on the policy decisions made afterward.
"We appreciate the administration's willingness to listen to manufacturers and have shared our thoughts and ideas with a number of senior administration officials," said Jay Timmons, executive vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers. "However, what's more important is an agenda that stresses job creation, economic recovery and growth."
NAM, once one of the city's most powerful groups, has seen its clout diminished as American manufacturing has declined. And while Timmons does his best to sound optimistic that the trade groups can reassert their status, not everyone is able to be so upbeat.
"The entire business industry, when it comes to politics and policy," said the Republican adviser, who didn't want to be named, "is on a completely new course, disrupted and splintered."


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Michael J. Klarman. The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 880 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-994203-9.
Reviewed by Dominic DeBrincat (Missouri Western State University)
Published on H-Teach (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Camarin M. Porter (Western Colorado University)
Taking Power from the People: The Creation of the Conservative Constitution
Michael J. Klarman has done what few scholars have dared: to write a comprehensive narrative on the creation of the United States Constitution. Surely, many others have written on the subject. But most have focused principally on one of its four phases. A few have looked at the crises of the 1780s and the conditions that gave rise to a new constitution. Most examine the Philadelphia Convention itself, fixing on its players, their arguments, and their outcomes. Of late, thanks in great part to The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution series (1976-2017), edited by John P. Kaminski and others, and Pauline Maier's synthesis of those materials (Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 [2010]), scholars have set their attentions on the state battles over its approval. Scholars typically address the final phase, the drafting of the Bill of Rights, as either a postscript to the conventions or as a subject unto itself, especially fetishizing James Madison's superhuman effort in distilling the states' recommendations down to one marketable list. Klarman does something quite different. He exhaustively sews all four acts together in one book. The stories he tells are not all that new. The packaging, however, is ambitious and remarkable.
The author reinforces the interpretation that the new republican constitution's creation was a counterrevolutionary moment. Constitutional delegates and lawmakers drafted a conservative document, redressing the states' economic and political missteps that had plagued the country since the Revolution. As Klarman notes, this result was logical considering the advantages that nationalist-minded delegates had in getting selected to both the Philadelphia Convention and the state ratifying meetings. These elite statesmen "designed a constitution that dramatically extended the powers of the national government while insulating it far more from popular political influence than most Americans would have anticipated or desired" (p. 6). This is the essence of what Klarman calls "The Framers' Coup."
The author's first two chapters set a familiar stage, exploring the American crises of the 1780s. These postrevolutionary years unveiled a perceived need for a constitutional framework stronger than the Articles of Confederation provided. The national government struggled to maintain financial solvency and social peace in the face of foreign and domestic debt defaults, state failures to pay national requisitions, Spain's closing of the Mississippi River, pirate attacks in the Mediterranean, the continued presence of British soldiers in western forts, and worsening sectional differences. The articles did not secure for the national government the necessary powers to address these unanticipated setbacks. In particular, the national government had no authority to collect taxes from the states, effectively govern commercial affairs, or adjudicate interstate matters. Even more troubling, the articles were not designed for responsive flexibility. Unanimous consent was required for amendments, and supermajorities controlled important issues like treaties and appropriations. As a final glaring flaw, strict term limits curbed procedural efficacy and legislative competency. Concerned elites, including Madison, urged his colleagues to amend or replace the ineffective articles. But too many were skeptical of such drastic change, as the failed 1786 Annapolis meeting confirmed. Shays' Rebellion and its uncontrolled lawlessness changed many minds, nudging delegates to attend a convention in Philadelphia the following summer.
Examining the convention itself, Klarman separates general debates on the new constitution's form (chapter 3) from the more politically charged issue of slavery's future (chapter 4). He argues that the constitution represented a radical departure from revolutionary-era experiences in two critical ways. First, Americans crafted a constitution that consolidated authority in a manner that clearly criticized state incompetence. This centralization was especially telling after having recently thrown off a tyrannical imperial monarchy led by a distant and insensitive Parliament. They created a national assembly that monopolized control over treaties, appointments, appropriations, and taxation, and a singular executive who was to carry out Congress's bidding without the aid of an advisory council. Secondly, the new government was designed to check populist (or highly democratic) impulses in the young country. This is best illustrated by the Electoral College that buffers the easily charged public from the selection of the chief executive. This indirect process was supposed to prevent the misinformed masses from elevating incompetent and unprepared demagogues to the nation's highest office.
Slavery also defined the trajectory of the convention's final product. Most delegates understood that any real discussion of ending slavery threatened the convention altogether, as many southern members vowed to walk out. Therefore, the final product was a compromise of sorts, a constitution of two minds. In practical terms, it preserved the political and financial security of the Republic with clauses protecting Atlantic trade, fugitive recovery, and three-fifths apportionment. Klarman, however, argues that the constitution also had an idealist bent, one that allowed slavery's opponents to amend it easily once slavery met its presumed inevitable end. With both sides appeased, the delegates approved a constitution that was sent to the states for the people's approval.
The next two chapters study the ratification debates after the Philadelphia Convention closed in September 1787. Chapter 5 explores the theoretical divides that drove conversations on the constitution, laying out the broad categories of objections through an Antifederalist-Federalist call-and-answer chorus. These objections include Antifederalist concerns with absent rights protections; the elitist power of the Senate and the president; and the expansive military, taxing, and commercial authority of the national government. Klarman hones his sights on the practical considerations that created such divides. He frames most of these conflicts in clear dialectics: urban and rural interests, creditors and debtors, East and West, and North and South. In the next chapter, Klarman dives into the state debates over the constitution, led by popularly elected conventions sitting for the exclusive purpose of ratification. Here, the author recreates the theater, not the theory, of ratification—a procedural unfolding of the document's approval. Klarman highlights the acrimony and personal assaults that came to characterize the debates. Although he does his best to give each state its due share, Virginia and New York unsurprisingly take up a great deal of his energy. Hailing from two of the largest states in population, political influence, and economic importance, Virginians and New Yorkers fully expected to dictate much of the national debate. But both states delayed their conventions. In doing so, they handcuffed their abilities to direct other states' decisions. In fact, because eight states had ratified the constitution before these key states sat, their delegates faced a much different political landscape than they had expected, including the possibility of a United States without them.
Virginia's influence might have been muted during ratification, but as Klarman shows in his final substantive chapter, the commonwealth's constitutional hero took center stage in creating a much desired bill of rights. The author argues that the Bill of Rights was built on two puzzling contradictions. First, Madison—who once opposed such a bill as both dangerous and unnecessary—took the lead in drafting it. He hoped a bill of rights would alleviate Antifederalist anxieties and entice outliers North Carolina and Rhode Island to ratify the constitution. The second contradiction points to the exasperating backbiting of the moment. Many Antifederalists ardently opposed the constitution for its lacking rights protections. But once Madison compiled and reduced the states' suggestions for amendments, Antifederalists became the bill's most vocal opponents. Many were still holding out hopes for a second convention, so they assailed the tightly written list as weak and vacuous. Regardless, the First Congress approved the Bill of Rights as an essential component of a limited republic, providing safeguards for individual liberties and placing constraints on governmental authority.
Klarman does his best to humanize the story of the constitution's creation. Resisting the tendency to elevate the constitutional players, he reminds readers that these men "were not demigods; they had interests, prejudices, and moral blind spots" (p. 5). For the most part he upholds this ideal. Aside from lumping them together under the hagiographical label of capital-F "Framers," he writes a story that braids the efforts of genuinely concerned republicans, intellectual heavyweights, and petty political strategists. This is no more obvious than in his treatment of Madison, the so-called Father of the constitution. Klarman is understandably conscious of Madison's importance in this creation story, his fingerprints present at every stage of its development. He, however, withholds Madison's canonization, often portraying him as a frustrating cynic, an electoral malcontent, and a political bully. The author also leans on Mary Bilder's recent scholarship calling the veracity of Madison's convention notes into question (Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention [2015]), warning readers that his incomplete and edited notes represent a deliberate effort to manipulate constitutional interpretations and historical memory.
Klarman's varied note styles uniquely enhance this book's accessibility. Nearly two hundred pages of endnotes confirm his thorough research, his work richly grounded in the current and classic secondary literature, as well as primary sources. But he also embeds vibrant footnotes in the main text without disrupting his argumentative flow. These narrative notes appear in several forms. The first third of the book is peppered with biographical notes introducing the backgrounds of leading players. Other footnotes offer asides that add to his chapters' content. Some are argumentative, like his challenge to the enduring misnomer "Connecticut Compromise," which understates the much broader small-state victory that came out of creating a balanced bicameral legislature (p. 194n). Some footnotes give the readers helpful legal explanations to difficult concepts, such as his deft comment on the meaning of "direct taxes" in the early Republic (p. 275n). Finally, his notes can simply offer welcome color. For example, John Hancock excused himself from the Massachusetts ratifying convention, suffering from gout. But history suggests Hancock was politically skittish, that he was likely feigning illness to see which way his colleagues landed before he took a public stand (p. 439n). Placed as footnotes, readers need not scan for narrative annotations at the end of the book (which most students would not dare do). Instead, they can directly link these gems to their accompanying text. It is a refreshing nod to older publishing practices, and demonstrates to readers—especially budding student writers—the various roles that notes can play.
In a student's hands, this book would bear one undeniable limitation—its length. Timid students might blanch at such an imposing monograph with chapters that test audiences' endurance. Klarman's quest for comprehensiveness has assured readers they must lift this book with their knees, not their backs. But ambitious students should not be hesitant. Klarman's accessible prose and excellent source work models the kind of clear historical writing to which all students should aspire. Nor should instructors be reluctant. Not only does this book serve well as a ready reference on the constitution's creation, but the lengthy chapters are also extractable as short-form subjects for fruitful study. Regardless of its classroom use, Klarman's book should grace the libraries of all American constitutional scholars, who will surely benefit from having such a comprehensive volume at their fingertips.
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The Hollywood Theater in Portland Oregon is my favorite place in the entire world. I started going there when I was nineteen and instantly fell in love with its pinkish walls and sprint-filled halls. Along with being beautiful, wicked cool, and haunted, it also has some of the most interesting programming of any theater I've ever visited. The first time I peeked my head into the theater and saw the opening number to a Queer Horror, one of the Hollywood's regular events that starts with a drag show and is finished off by a horror movie, I was beyond floored. I do not remember what movie they were showing, but I do remember how I felt. Seeing Carla Rossi walk on stage is both captivating and horrifying, but you can't stop laughing. I was hooked from the start. Queer Horror has grown since then, it now routinely sells out weeks in advance, evidence that others feel the same way I do. I sat down with Carla Rossi (aka Portland's Premier Drag Clown) to talk about Queer Horror and everything empowered lady. This year Queer Horror is only showing films that celebrate bad ass women (The Adams Family Values, Slumber Party Massacre). I wanted to know more about why this decision was made and what exactly makes Queer Horror the coolest show in town.
What Is Queer Horror and how did it come to be?
I won a residency through the Hollywood Theatre and my alma mater Pacific Northwest College of Art where I would have to create three months of programming at the Hollywood. Part of the application was to propose that programming right then on the spot, and my husband has just finished a painting of big red lips with the words "QUEER HORROR" right in the middle of them. Working with that image in my head, I proposed a short horror film festival from queer and allied filmmakers featuring performances in between. The theatre loved it so much that they asked me to become a programmer and do it regularly. Two years later it's my prized baby, we were just nominated for Willamette Week's Best Drag Show (for our ten minute preshows before each movie), and we've sold out four of our most recent screenings.
Can you give us a biography of Carla?
Carla is Portland's premier drag clown. She claims the mantle of "the ghost of white privilege" and that's hilarious because it will never die (her joke, not mine). I'm half Grand Ronde Native and half German and Carla's my way of dealing with my own assimilation and whiteness basically by making fun of white people and the horrible things they do. She's anywhere between 10,000 years old to as old as the Big Bang, being a trickster demon. Historians have a hard time trying to pin her existence down though evidence of her is often found on and off throughout art history. We do know for a fact that in the last century she spent some time as a lounge singer in Weimar Berlin and later mistakenly joined the Manson Family instead of the Partridge Family in the '60s. Her favorite color is money and her favorite flavor is gasoline. She's certifiably terrible.
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Does Carla like Horror movies or do you just make her watch them?
I don't know that Carla genuinely likes anything except money, drink tickets, and other forms of currency. I actually have to break character as Carla a lot when I host because I have to introduce the movies in the context of our programming, and Carla's too stupid to do that. We kind of become a hybrid Anthony/Carla when we host because I'm in drag as Carla and I look like her, but I'm talking as myself because I'm so excited to share why I love these movies so much.
You are only showing films that celebrate women this year, why?
After the election I felt powerless. Some of my best sister witch queens and I were opening ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES the following week, and we couldn't do anything in rehearsal except lay on the ground and smoke weed and mope. And then we decided to recite Wednesday Addams' monologue and Debbie's alongside each other, set to the CELL BLOCK TANGO from CHICAGO, while showing Donald Trump on fire in front of American flag and doing a Stonewall kickline. Women's voices are the voices of resistance, and I wanted to channel that matriarchal power we felt at ADDAMS FAMILY into a whole year of programming in response to what's happening in our world. And besides, like most everything in the world, horror is a very bro-centric, misogynist genre, and everyone knows names like Carpenter or Argento or Craven but we aren't as acquainted with the names of women in horror unless they're "scream queens." But the best work comes from women because they have to work twice as hard AT LEAST to get it made, to be taken seriously—and they're intimately acquainted with real horror in the world.
Are there any films that didn't make the list this year that you wish you had time for?
Horror's been completely revolutionized just in the last two or three years alone by seriously strong work from visionary women filmmakers, and if these films weren't all so recent I would have loved to show them all—THE BABADOOK, HONEYMOON, A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT, THE INVITATION (aka the scariest movie I've seen in years), THE LURE, and RAW are just some of them. Not all of them have queer elements, but I'm a strong believer that to exist as a woman or femme in this world has become a kind of queerness, and the importance of stories told by women are just as queer and revolutionary by their existence alone.
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How many hours go into planning each QH?
For what's typically a two and a half hour show—including a twenty to thirty minute preshow—it takes at least ten times that to work out the programming, run everything by the theatre and secure the rights, write the press releases, design the poster and put them up, recruit and rehearse with our performers, and figure out outfits and makeup. Not to mention the countless hours I spend consuming Taco Bell after every screening.
Why do you think there are so many empowered women characters in Horror Films of all places?
There's so many incredible female characters in horror and it's been a convoluted journey getting there. These empowered characters literally emerged from misogynist intentions—women were just there to have sex and die in horror films, and final girls emerged as the "pure" and "chaste" do-gooders who functioned as a woman was expected to—she didn't have sex, she didn't take off her clothes, she's not wild or goofy, she babysits. As horror—and particularly slashers—evolved along with waves of feminism, the final girls started fighting back. In (our last screened film) SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE, the surviving women gang up and take out the killer together. They strategize. In FRIDAY THE 13th PART 2, Ginny (Amy Steele) goes Freudian and manipulates Jason into believing she's his dead mother before she hacks him with a machete. And just look at Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in ALIEN. Soon the final girl becomes a leader and a survivor—if not a downright trained survivalist—and we're less concerned with whether or not she's had sex or where her morality lies. This recently culminated with two amazing, smart, cunning, plotting final girls via Maika Monroe in IT FOLLOWS and Sharni Vinson in YOU'RE NEXT. These women are more unstoppable than the killers or ghosts or curses they're fighting. And it's become an archetype—an empowerment fantasy about finding strength and surviving in the face of patriarchy—that only becomes more and more explicit as women actors and writers and producers and filmmakers gain more voice and agency in front of and behind the camera. Look at A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT—Dracula is no longer preying on women. Dracula is a woman and she skateboards through her city at night protecting other women from monstrosities embodied by men.
What can someone who has never been to QH expect?
With a sold-out theatre packed full of almost 400 queers and allies, it's going to get loud. It won't be obnoxious, but our audience gets rowdy. We yell at the screen when it's unavoidable. We laugh really hard and long. Films and scenes you've never expected take on a whole new life and meaning before your eyes—like when we showed FRIGHT NIGHT, and the vampire opens his cape to the weird kid Evil Ed before turning him into a vampire and says "You'll never have to worry about being bullied again." Scenes like these gain a whole new relevance and emotion with this audience. They can also expect Carla to never stop talking (my current record is a 47-minute intro, but I was really depressed after the electoral college did nothing and I promise not to talk that long ever again) and to pull out her vape pen—Galadriel the Elven Queen—and show it off at least once.
Who are your favorite witches in Pop Culture?
Obviously I was head over heels for THE VVITCH and the coven in that. MALEFICENT is another hero of mine and I still can't believe that Disney made her film anti-patriarchy rape survival story. I love Faye Dunaway in SUPERGIRL as the witch who lives in a funhouse. My very favorite kind of witches are the earthy Satanic dirt witches who live on the outskirts of society and exist solely to terrify and oppose men—women like Meg Foster in LORDS OF SALEM, the witch in the '80s classic SUPERSTITION (it's amazing, try to find it and watch it!), and Gaga in AMERICAN HORROR STORY. I personally identify as a Satanic feminist witch and these ladies give me life. But so do the Sanderson Sisters in HOCUS POCUS. From the witches of childhood stories to the witch heroes in the movies I love today, I can't get enough of powerful women existing in spite of society, being fabulous, and twisting mens' folly to their will. And, like I and three other drag queens endlessly argued over in our intro to THE CRAFT, I am indeed the Nancy.
More info about Queer Horror and Carla Rossi can be found below:
TheCarlaRossi.com / Queer-Horror.com / FB / YouTube
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i saw blow up when i was 17 and it was the first movie that made me say "whoa" and changed my whole idea about what a film could be. love it to this day.
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Chemist Surya Prakash says Iceland is better suited to be fuel self-sufficient than any other nation, with an Icelandic company planning to produce 80 million liters of methanol annually.
"Icelanders live in such ideal conditions to easily become fuel sustainable,'' says Surya Prakash, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California and CEO of the Loker Institute of Carbon.
"Iceland is better suited to use exclusively renewable energy than any other nation,'' he adds. "You have the geothermal heat, access to water, large geographical areas and you are a highly educated nation with small population. It´s perfectly reasonable for Icelanders to set the goal of exclusively using renewable fuel for both the car and fishing vessel fleet. The problem in Iceland is that the regulations prevent you from being able to achieve this.''
Prakash is the author of the book The Methanol Economy which deals with fuels of the future. His opinion is that it is not just Icelanders who ignore the possibilities that natural resources have to offer. Such oversight, he says, causes increasing pollution and less sustainability. "Every nation should aim to become fuel self-sufficient. Just look at what is happening in America; there, a gallon of oil costs four dollars but once it has been taxed it becomes eight dollars. The reason for this is the high cost of protecting oil resources in the Middle-East."
Benedikt Stefánsson, Manager of Business Development at Carbon Recycling International (CRI) which operates the only methanol plant in the country at Svartsengi in Grindavík, says present regulations do not assume higher than 3% methanol mixed with gasoline. Iceland, however, is committed to increasing the country's fuel consumption coming from renewable fuels to 10% by the year 2020. Changes are being made in this regard and Benedikt is hopeful these changes will be a step in the right direction.
It is possible to produce 5 million liters of methanol in the Svartsengi plant. "We have also been exploring the possibility of producing 40 to 80 million liters from waste,'' he says. "Additionally, it´s possible to produce much more with electricity. Indeed, there are already projects in place in the energy sector which could allow us to produce fuel to meet the total demand." The fuel consumption of the entire car population is around 350 million liters annually.


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