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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE: European Union Elections: A Crossroad
Tuesday April 02, 2019 - 08:23:00 PM
As the campaigns for the European Parliament get underway, some of the traditional lines that formerly divided left, right and center are shifting, making it harder to easily categorize political parties. In Italy, a right wing coalition calls for a guaranteed income, larger pensions and resistance to the heavy-handed austerity programs enforced by the European Union (EU). In France, some right wing groups champion the fight against climate change, decry exploitation of foreign workers and growing economic inequality.
In contrast, Europe’s political center seems paralyzed in the face of growing disillusionment with the economic policies of the EU. Even the social democratic center-left defends doctrines that have alienated its former base among unions and working people, pushing such parties to the political margins.
If voters seem confused, one can hardly blame them, which is not good news for the left and the center-left going into the May 23-26 elections. Polls show center-right and center-left parties, which have dominated the EU Parliament since it first convened in 1979, will lose their majority. Parties that are increasingly skeptical of the organization may win as many as a third of the seats in the 705-seat body. -more-
Comments on Senate Bill 50, Planning and zoning: housing development: incentives.
Dr. Peter Andersen, Professor of Communications, San Diego State University, retired
(This bill is co-authored by, among others,State Senator Nancy Skinner and Assemblymember Buffy Wicks.)
Senate Bill 50 undermines CEQA. Projects may be exempt from the CEQA if they are in jobs rich or transit rich area or if they are in the 10% to 25% of the housing that can be built outside of job rich or transit rich areas.
The bill undermines general plans and eliminates future zoning and general plans that are inconsistent with this law
The bill changes the entire legal burden of proof from the developers to agencies (cities, counties, planning boards). These local entities have to prove in court that they are in compliance with law when disputes occur. This is like a person having to prove themselves innocent in court (which is logically impossible).
The bill conflates and mixes 3 different needs pretty randomly: homeless shelters, low income housing, and affordable housing in one bill where the rationale for each is very different.
The bill uses frighteningly vague and/or tautological in many sections. For example it defines housing as housing. It defines disapproval as disapproval. This fails freshman English or logic.
The bill is a major assault on neighborhoods of single family homes. Evidently living in a single family home, according to the bill, is a luxury we cannot afford in the alleged housing crisis. Indeed, the bill may have the perverse effect of people who want single family home moving out of cities into suburban sprawl developments. -more-
All Species Commission in Uproar at Berkeley Council Meeting
Bernard Marszalek, for a ludic society, http://ztangi.org
Monday April 01, 2019 - 09:56:00 PM
After a year of disputatious hearings, Berkeley’s All Species Commission has finally delivered a recommendation to City Council.
Another Berkeley First was the establishment, several years ago, of the All Species Commission (ASC). During its first year it provided guidelines for proper attire for dogs, regulated healthy pet food, monitored pet salons and motels, and issued licenses to pet-care providers.
It was one of the most successful new commissions established and the Mayor and City Council took great pride in their foresight and pioneering efforts to establish it and looked forward to other cities adopting a similar institution.
But in the autumn of 2017 things turned sour. An overflow commission meeting heard angry Berkeley residents vociferously complain about the over population of squirrels and crows that were harassing them. Not the least of the mischief was that squirrels were digging up the Resilience Gardens the City has been promoting with free seeds, compost and classes under the State’s Grow Your Healthy Food campaign.
And the crows have been disturbing residents’ Well-Being Regimen sponsored by the County Well-Being Agency (CWBA). Complaints had been pouring in to CWBA immediately after they launched their Morning Meditation Salons (MMS). These were held to train neighbors to meditate together early in the morning before work. But nobody could meditate with the constant daybreak aural assaults from hyperventilating crows. Quiet chirping of little birds would aid mediation, but the crows were like feathered soccer bullies.
One especially irate individual threatened to poison the squirrels and crows at a winter meeting of ASC and received a standing ovation from many residents in attendance. All hell broke out among the commissioners and they summoned the police to restrain the murderous resident. The officers who arrived refused to do so and instead threatened to arrest the apoplectic commissioners. Calm only returned to the hearing when MMSers in the audience positioned themselves between the commissioners and irate citizens and spontaneously began meditating as a group. -more-
The "Missing Middle" Report and the Berkeley General Plan
Hon. Shirley Dean, former Berkeley Mayor
Saturday March 30, 2019 - 02:47:00 PM
Editor's Note: This open letter to the Berkeley City Council was originally submitted on March 24, 2019 before their March 26 meeting. Item 22 was postponed until 4/23, and Item 23 passed on consent.
Re: Council Agenda, March 26, 2019, Item 22, Missing Middle Report, and Item 23, Referral to the City Manager to Scope Process and Estimate Costs of a New General Plan
Since I will not be able to attend the Council Meeting to be held on this coming Wednesday, March 26, I am forwarding my thoughts on Item 22, the Missing Middle Report. I must say in the beginning that the four years I spent as a member of the Planning Commission and the then-named Board of Adjustments, 15 years as a member of the Berkeley City Council and eight years as Mayor, this item comes very close to being the most destructive of the quality of life for Berkeley residents that I have ever seen.
I well understand the need for housing in the East Bay and throughout all of California. However, those who seek to find a solution to the need for housing through a ‘one size fits all’ approach will not only fail in their quest to ‘fix’ the housing problem but also destroy existing livable communities. I believe a real solution can be found, but it must be carefully crafted to consider existing conditions and geography unique to a community and importantly, job availability in and near that community. Given recent scientific information that we have just 12 years before we face irreversible climate change, we must address land use with its closely related cousin, traffic congestion, immediately. -more-
Mike Zint No Longer Has a HUB Social Worker
Marcia Poole
Greetings Mayor and Berkeley City Council members.
I appreciate the attempts all of you have made to solve the ever growing problem with our unhoused community. When I write to you, it is not with an adversarial attitude - it is with the desire to give you information that you may not have and that could help you redesign structures and policies.
Mike Zint is a friend of mine whom I feel very close to. I am aware of many of his health problems and often reach out to the City of Berkeley when I see Mike going through difficult times that the City could resolve. He has had 4 social workers through the HUB in the time that he has been housed by Berkeley at the border of Oakland and San Leandro. Some of these workers have been very helpful in temporarily resolving situations that have put him in great physical jeopardy. The last series of incidents involved the rains penetrating through his ceilings and walls and making his place uninhabitable. HUB and the City had his landlord, who they contracted with, repair the outside and then the inside of his apartment. He now does not live in a watery swamp, but he still has water coming out of the wall in an area of the bathroom. This has been ongoing for several months. The basic problem is that Berkeley contracted with a slum landlord who was being prosecuted by the City of Oakland for negligence in his maintenance of housing and who Oakland refused to do business with anymore. The same issues that Oakland saw arose for Berkeley with this landlord
Mike Zint has stage 4 emphysema and COPD and has great difficulty physically moving about. He now weighs under 100 pounds and is on medication to help him walk, talk and do the normal daily functions. The medicine works and he is able to live alone and get along. The problem, though, is the continual mold that seeps in through the walls and ceilings from the previous water damage. Berkeley's HUB attempted to move him to an apartment in Berkeley two months ago, but it fell through. Now, the social worker who was assigned to him has left the HUB and he has found himself with no worker and no one who is responsive to his needs. -more-
Election Day Holiday is Not a Good Idea
Kelly Hammargren
tem 4 in the March 28, 2019 agenda for the Berkeley City Council Budget & Finance Committee Regular Meeting is Refer to the City Manager to Designate Election Day as a City Holiday sponsored by Council Members Robinson, Davila and Hahn.
I’ve been following national voting since 2011 when I realized that 58.2% of eligible voters did not vote in 2010. It was worse in 2014 when only 36.7 of eligible voters actually voted. 2018 was a record year for congressional elections with 50.3% voting. Donald Trump was elected by 27.2% of the voting eligible population. These numbers come from www.electproject.org a source that uses the voting eligible population not who is registered.
Designating Election Day as a holiday does not solve the underlying issues of why people do not vote. While making such a designation will carry drama and the City can pat itself on the back for creating such a holiday, there are unintended consequences. -more-
Freelancing: The New Road To Poverty
Harry Brill
The issue of worker exploitation refers obviously to the unfair treatment of employees, who are underpaid and given very few or no benefits. That doesn't only include employees on the payroll, but also refers to workers who are misclassified as independent contractors. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, If workers were properly classified, the various additional costs to employers, including paid sick leave, medical coverage, and unemployment insurance, would be about 40 percent more. -more-
Boat Night at the City Council
Carol Denney
The frustration of RV and tent dwellers trying to keep their jobs, school schedules, and families together hit a peculiar peak on Tuesday, March 26th, 2019, when a small item about obtaining a grant to address a couple dozen abandoned boats was suddenly championed as a solution to homelessness. -more-
April Pepper Spray Times
By Grace Underpressure
Editor's Note: The latest issue of the Pepper Spray Times is now available.
You can view it absolutely free of charge by clicking here . You can print it out to give to your friends.
Grace Underpressure has been producing it for many years now, even before the Berkeley Daily Planet started distributing it, most of the time without being paid, and now we'd like you to show your appreciation by using the button below to send her money.
This is a Very Good Deal. Go for it! -more-
Just Too Simple a Solution?
Becky O'Malley
Friday March 29, 2019 - 05:15:00 PM
There is general agreement in the Bay Area, or certainly in Berkeley, that we now have a shortage of housing for low-income people, even those who are fully employed. Today’s Chronicle reports that the median home purchase in Alameda County is now about $785,000, and in neighboring counties it’s over a million. And that’s the median. The rental situation is even worse, so many Bay Area workers are left out.
It’s tempting to believe we can build our way out of this situation, particularly if we took those beginning econ classes in high school or college. A little learning is a dangerous thing, but if you got into the more sophisticated realms, beyond that old hat neo-liberal trickle-down theory, you’d learn that it would take something like 50 years for the kind of apartments now being thrown up all over Berkeley to become available to the masses at affordable prices. Also, these shoddily built rentals can be expected to fall apart after about 40 years, so do the math. Yes, they do have marble counters in the kitchen, but they’re structurally shaky--remember Library Gardens.
Lately there’s been a lot of theorizing about novel ways to solve the Bay Area’s shortage of affordable housing. “Affordable” is a term of art fraught with peril, since in some definitions it means accessible to two-income families earning more than $100,000 a year. But even in those rare jurisdictions which mandate a $15/hour minimum wage (not yet Berkeley) that only adds up to $30,000/year from a single wage earner, many of whom are supporting dependents. Where are these families supposed to live? -more-
ON MENTAL ILLNESS: Resolving Problematic Behavior--What It Takes
Jack Bragen
For me at least, not speaking for anyone else, I have had moderate behavior problems that were solved by an understanding of the consequences of the behaviors. -more-
ECLECTIC RANT: Mueller Investigations and Election Security
Ralph E. Stone
It is much too early for Trump and his supporters to be gloating about the Mueller Report's conclusions as spun by Attorney General’s William Barr’s summary. What is needed is the full Mueller Report with all the underlying support. Then we can all objectively decide. Regardless, Trump is unfit for office. -more-
SMITHEREENS: Reflections on Bits & Pieces
Gar Smith
I recently spotted another sign that BART is becoming increasingly "streetified." -more-
Garrick Ohlsson in an All-Brahms Recital
Reviewed by James Roy MacBean
I always enjoy hearing pianist Garrick Ohlsson, and it doesn’t matter much what music he plays. However, when it comes to piano music by Johannes Brahms I can’t say my enjoyment is anywhere near its peak. Not counting the two piano concertos, Brahms’ writing for piano almost invariably strikes me as learned, perhaps erudite, but rarely thrilling. This was the case in the all-Brahms recital performed, albeit quite brilliantly, by Garrick Ohlsson on Thursday, March 28 at Herbst Theatre. -more-
The Berkeley Activist's Calendar, March 31-April 6
Kelly Hammargren, Sustainable Berkeley Coalition
Worth Noting and Showing Up:
Tuesday – The City Council agenda includes a proposal for a Vehicle Dweller program. People living in RVs includes children in our schools, workers in our city. With 89% of Berkeley rents > $2000/month* and a full time $15/hour job paying $2,600/month before any withholding, it should be clear why people are living in vehicles. The people who don’t have enough resources for vehicle sheltering are in tents, shelter beds, doorways and literally on the street.
Wednesday – The Planning Commission hearing on moving lot lines on contiguous properties a tactic being used to game-the-system/avoid paying the full affordable housing fees (In Lieu Mitigation Fee) to the City or include affordable units in for sale condominium projects.
Wednesday - David Brower Center – Panel on California’s Drinking Water Crisis
Thursday – The Housing Advisory Commission has a full agenda of important issues.
Saturday – Berkeley Portrait Project Opening at the Brower Center
Sunday, March 31, 201
No City meetings or events found
Monday, April 1, 2019 -more-
Back Stories
Just Too Simple a Solution? 03-29-2019
The "Missing Middle" Report and the Berkeley General Plan Hon. Shirley Dean, former Berkeley Mayor 03-30-2019
Mike Zint No Longer Has a HUB Social Worker Marcia Poole 03-30-2019
Election Day Holiday is Not a Good Idea Kelly Hammargren 03-30-2019
Freelancing: The New Road To Poverty Harry Brill 03-30-2019
Boat Night at the City Council Carol Denney 03-30-2019
April Pepper Spray Times By Grace Underpressure 04-02-2019
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE: European Union Elections: A Crossroad Conn Hallinan 04-02-2019
Comments on Senate Bill 50, Planning and zoning: housing development: incentives. Dr. Peter Andersen, Professor of Communications, San Diego State University, retired 04-02-2019
All Species Commission in Uproar at Berkeley Council Meeting Bernard Marszalek, for a ludic society, http://ztangi.org 04-01-2019
ON MENTAL ILLNESS: Resolving Problematic Behavior--What It Takes Jack Bragen 03-30-2019
ECLECTIC RANT: Mueller Investigations and Election Security Ralph E. Stone 03-30-2019
SMITHEREENS: Reflections on Bits & Pieces Gar Smith 03-30-2019
Garrick Ohlsson in an All-Brahms Recital Reviewed by James Roy MacBean 03-30-2019
The Berkeley Activist's Calendar, March 31-April 6 Kelly Hammargren, Sustainable Berkeley Coalition 03-30-2019
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PGMA gives LGUs big say in mining dev't at local level
Manila (15 August) -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued local government units a say in mining development at the local level.
In issuing E.O. No. 745, the President through Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said it amends E.O. No. 469-A dated 11 Oct. 2005 to allow representation and participation of the LGUs in the Minirals Development Council (MDC) through the leagues of municipalities, provinces and cities and barangays.
"xxx The inclusion of the representation of the Local Government Units will ensure the promotion of socially responsible mining development at the local level."
Under the new Executive Order (E.O. No. 745) the MDC shall be composed of the following:
Department of Environment and Natural Resources - chairman
Department of Interior and Local Government - member;
Department of Finance - member;
National Economic Development Authority - member;
Department of Trade and Industry - member;
Department of Land Reform - member;
Department of Agriculture - member;
Department of National Defense - member;
Department of Labor and Employment - member;
Presidential Management Staff - member;
National Commission on Indigenous Peoples - member;
National Anti-Poverty Commission - member;
Philippine Information Agency - member;
Chamber of Mines of the Philippines - member;
League of Municipalities of the Philippines - member;
League of Cities of the Philippines - member;
Liga ng mga Barangay sa Pilipinas - member;
The chairman of the MDC, serving in an ex officio capacity, shall preside at all meetings of the MDC and ensure that all policies, directives, plans and programs of the MDC are faithfully carried out.
There shall also be an executive director with the rank of undersecretary, who shall be appointed by the President and who shall manage the day-to-day affairs of the MDC.
The representatives from the members of the MDC shall have the rank of undersecretary. The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines shall be represented by its President." (PIA-MMIO) [top]
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Cyprus Community Art & Culture History 23rd to 30th September 2019
Traditional crafts and skills are alive and well in the Cyprus community of Kato Drys. Here the local community are making traditional local products for sale which have real integrity and a true sense of place. All of these products and processes rely on the 4 pillars of sustainability, Cultural, Social, Environmental and Economic.
This week long structured course looks at these traditional skills and products and considers why they have importance in our contemporary world. Participants will create a wall mural in Kato Drys.
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Bulgaria 5th to 12th October 2019
This structured study visit to Bulgaria will focus on the management of nature sites, traditional crafts and culture heritage as part of local development. The programme is hosted by the Devetaki Plateau Association and your guide will be Velislava Chilingirova.
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Biodiversity & Sustainable Development Slovenia 4 to 12th July 2019
Slovenia has rich biological and cultural diversity and covers a range of landscapes from Alpine to coastal. This course has a focus on the management of species and landscapes through sustainable development, including rural entrepreneurship.
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Nature Study in Latvia 2nd to 9th September 2019
Feedback from Stuart Graham, SNH, NET4 2018: I thoroughly enjoyed the training
trip to Latvia. I cannot believe how much we
managed to fit into our week and the attention to
detail to the arrangements from our host (Andis)
was impeccable. The quality of all the individuals
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Forestry, Wetlands & Education, Finland 2nd to 9th September 2019
The NET 5 visit to Finland will focus on different aspects of forestry and biodiversity management and education. The group will also meet with Finnish forestry students to learn about environmental education and to share their skills from Scotland.
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Wetlands Odra Delta Poland 9th to 16th June 2019
Ujście Warty National Park landscape is a mosaic of meadows, pastures and areas overgrown by sedge and reed.
Odra Delta Nature Park is also an open laboratory where group of scientific realize works connected with flora, fauna, but also social aspects of nature conservancy.
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TAMK And the Urban Forest
Over two-thirds of Finland is forest cover. Much is owned by private persons. Accessibility is also important because many people are able to use the forest, even if they do not own any forests themselves. People are able to use the forest and the wildlife within it as a renewable resource for wood products, hunting and foraging. Above all, most Finnish people strongly value the link with nature.
Helvetinjärvi & Seitseminen National Parks
We learned that Finland has forty two National Parks and we were told that in total they receive around 4 million visitors per year. By contrast Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park (LLTTNP) has over 4.5 million visitors.
EVO hiking centre and Riistakeskus
EVO is a hiking centre and forestry college in Kanta-Häme. As well as teaching forestry skills from an economic, recreational and conservational point of view, EVO offers opportunities for members of the public to engage with nature. For example, the public can pay to spend time with animals- there are numerous cows that the public can see and tend, while there is also a meat and grain store.
Nuuksio National Park and Haltia Visitor Centre
Nature is often fragile, however, and especially here in the North can be slow to recover from damage. With the freedom to enjoy the countryside comes the obligation to leave the environment undisturbed and preserve Finland’s rich natural heritage for future generations to enjoy.
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Thanks and Acknowledgements
This is a joint report written by Ian Bray (Scottish Natural Heritage), Georgie Brown (Galbraith), Estelle Gill (Scottish Natural Heritage), Michelle Henley (Scottish Wildlife Trust), Andrew James (Historic Environment Scotland), Gwen Raes (The Woodland Trust), Adam Samson (Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park).
Finnish Forests, Hunting & Capercaillie
“We have around 500,000 capercaillie in Finland ” said Tapio Vähä-Jaakkola, our host at a local hunting club, as our jaws dropped. My colleagues Chris and Molly from RSPB work on capercaillie and the population in Scotland is in a pretty sorry state, having dropped to around 2000, from an estimated 20,000 in the 1970s. Capercaillie populations are healthy enough for Finns to hunt tens of thousands of them a year. “Most of the capercaillie hunting takes place in Northern Finland”, Tapio said later. In the 10,000 hectares of forest controlled by the Metsästysseura Haukka Ry hunting club, they hadn’t shot capercaillie for many years “Last year we calculated that there were enough capercaillie for us to hunt two.”
Kirsten Wood
It was interesting to hear that despite training opportunities there is not much uptake by young people to follow a career path in crafts. Many leave rural areas and head to the larger towns and cities for employment. Indeed some villages we drove through had an abundance of derelict houses and one we were told had 300 homes occupied out of a total of 1000. So what can be done to encourage young people into a career path within crafts? The model of an apprenticeship whereby the individual receives training through a dual system is an approach which works well. This involves a combination of theoretic training in an educational establishment combined with practical training in a crafts enterprise. Over the last few years Historic Environment Scotland has directed funding into apprenticship schemes in a number of its directorates. In the area of conservation there are paid apprenticeships in tradition crafts such as stonemasonary, joinerary, plumbing and painting. Individuals receive a wage and are guarrenteed employment after successful completion of the training. Indeed apprenticeship schemes across Scotland in all areas of work are on the rise.
Katherine Murphy
The Association was set up after our host Velis and her co-worker Iva were touring the villages of the Plateau more than a decade ago and looking into ways they could help the region develop for the benefit of the residents. They discovered people in neighbouring villages with similar interests but no communication between them, a lack of accommodation for visitors, and rich cultural and natural heritage – worth sharing – that had been ignored, mistreated or neglected. Relying on the memories and experiences of local people, they found and cleared up some of these sites, installing interpretation and path networks, and advertised them in tourist guides. Visitor numbers went from 15,000 per year to more than 250,000 in only a few years
Gail Boardman
Infrastructure improvements are generally costly, but DTA has made significant inroads into connecting the villages to twenty-first century Bulgaria and the rest of the world by the installation of publicly available internet facilities in each of the community centres. Residents, with suitable training, are thus able to read news, contact relatives, order goods and otherwise develop and maintain contacts with other parts of Bulgaria and the wider world. DTA has also initiated language classes, a project which has many potential benefits in the wider tourism strategy for the area.
Seona Anderson
The STEM Programme (Traditional Skills & Sustainable Materials) The overall aim of STEM is to improve the knowledge, experience and engagement of Scottish professionals, to ensure that traditional skills and sustainable materials continue to survive as a dynamic part of our common European heritage and provide employment, training and enjoyment for all. Traditional skills and the materials they use are an integral part of both our natural and cultural heritage and have great potential to influence landscape management and cultural engagement. STEM is a KA1 Adult Education for Staff programme funded by Erasmus+ and coordinated by Archnetwork with our consortium of Scottish organisation. We are running four week-long courses, each with 6 to 8 participants with our European host organistions. The courses are designed to train, inspire and connect Scottish professionals with best practice and innovative solutions in Europe. The STEM courses will explore the challenges, successes and training of traditional craftspeople; the management of materials and the landscapes they come from; markets, entrepreneurship and rural development. Celebrating and supporting traditional skills and the materials they rely on has many benefits for both cultural and natural heritage management and is increasingly relevant for our modern concerns about the sustainability of […]
The NET Programme (Managing Our Natural & Cultural Heritage Assets) NET aims to train, inspire and connect Scottish professionals in order to tackle complex issues of nature conservation and culture heritage management. The NET programme has been running for 6 years and each year we send over 100 Scottish heritage professionals to our training host organisations in Europe. Our courses are one week long and each course includes between 6 and 8 participants from Scotland. We carry out consultations with our consortium to identify key training priorities for our sector. For NET 5 we have set up the training with reference to 6 themes, each course can fit into more than one theme and all courses contain elements exploring the heritage of the host country: Sustainable Development, Farming, Food & Climate ChangeBiodiversity, Forestry, HuntingCommunities, Engagement & WellbeingLandscape Scale Management, Land Ownership & AccessHeritage Interpretation, Tourism & Rural DevelopmentTraining Systems, New Technologies & Traditional Skills NET is funded by Erasmus+ as a KA1 Adult Education for Staff programme. NET Consortium: the NET Programme is implemented through a consortium of leading Scottish heritage organisations. Consortium members assist with setting training priorities, identify participants from their staff and volunteers and with the promotion […]
CYPRUS: Village Voices, Sustainability & Identity in Rural Cyprus
Host: Martin Clark & Panayiota Demetriou (Kato Drys Community Council) Course Dates: 2- 9 March 2020 Application Deadline: 31 January 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 14 February 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring sustainability in rural communities through the 4 pillars of sustainability (environmental, social, economic & cultural); local livelihoods, traditional skills, rural development, community heritage and cultural identity. Draft Itinerary: DAY ONE, Monday 2nd March Arrival to Paphos, transfer to Pano Lefkara. Accommodation in Aloni House with room sharing if necessary. Soup and rolls are waiting for you and we chat about the week ahead DAY TWO, Tuesday 3rd March Tour of Pano Lefkara, assemble at Athasi heights for 11.00. Induction and discussion on the 4 pillars of sustainability. More and more in modern rural Cyprus, locals try to add to value to local products. Before lunch we have an hour of modeling clay into acorns and making natural fibre twine. The acorns will be fired in our own kiln later in the week and sold in our ‘Green Village’ shop (jewelry from the landscape) to raise money for native tree planting in Kato Drys (“Drys” = “oak” in ancient Greek) – which was once a village in oak forest. Lunch in a coffee […]
NORWAY NINA: Sheep Farming, Golden & White-tailed Eagle Populations
This course is being organised with the Scottish Sea Eagle Working Group and is not open for applications on this occasion. We are submitting an application in January and hope to be able to offer an open course to NINA in the autumn. Host: Duncan Halley (NINA Norwegian Institute for Nature Research) Course Dates: April 2020 Application Deadline: n/a Preparation Meeting Date: TBC Aims & Themes: research & practical issues on the management of eagle populations alongside sheep farming.Comparisons & skill sharing between Norway & Scotland Draft Itinerary: NINA Institute in Trondheim; Golden Eagle Research Project; Alv Ottar; Trondheim; Alesund Reports from 2019 & 2018 film Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020.
SPAIN: Sustainable Farming & Agroforestry in the Dehesas of Andalucia
Host: Ernestine Lüdeke (Fundación Monte Mediterráneo/ Dehesa San Francisco) Course Dates: 20 to 27 April 2020 Application Deadline: 7 February 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 26 March 2020 Aims & Themes: demonstrating organic agriculture & agroforestry in action on marginal land; cooperatives and rural economic diversity; conservation of habitats, species and soils Draft Itinerary: Date Activity April, 20th Getting to know Dehesa San Francisco – walk/hike April, 21st Visit to ham production Visit to Aracena: Nature Park Museum, Meeting with the Head of Nature Park Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche; lunch at an ecological village (access walking) with sociocratic governance. April, 22nd Visit to Villanueva de la Serena Lamb and Wool cooperative Visit to Wildlife Project with bird hospital in Villafranca de los Barros April, 23rd Visit to Cork Institute and Cork Processing plant April, 24th Visit to Roman excavation (private) Visit to Organic Olive Grove in Écija April, 25th Visit to the slum in Sevilla and the Horticulture project of FMM Visit to Sevilla University – weed expert April, 26th Individual activities on the dehesa – possibly visit to another farm April, 27th Departure day Reports from 2019 and film from 2019 Click here to download the full […]
SLOVAKIA: Exploring Community Heritage in Southern Slovakia, Lišov Museum
Hosts: Adriana Patkova & Jakub Dvorsky (Lišov Museum) Course Dates: 30 April to 7 May 2020 Application Deadline: 2 March 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 1 April 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring the potential for rural museums to increase community engagement in heritage and diversify incomes; understanding Lišov cultural heritage as part of wider Slovak & European heritage. Draft Itinerary: Arrival Budapest & travel to Lišov; discovering the 3 elements of Lišov museum – the traditional house, the Mask Museum & the reconstructed Round House; the cave houses of Lišov & Brhlovce Regeneration Project; Local heritage of honey; wine making, stone carving & oil making ; UNESCO WHS of Banska Stiavnica & Svaty Anton Village; Engagement activities at Lišov Museum including earth building, textiles, community histories; archaeological riches of the region. Reports from 2019 & 2018 Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are verywelcome to email an expression of interest but they must complete their own internal HR process before submitting an application form)
BULGARIA: Community Engagement & Rural Development in the Devetaki Plateau
Host: Velis Chilingirova & Iva Taralezhkova (Devetaki Plateau Association) Course Dates: 17 – 24 May 2020 Application Deadline: 2 March 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 24 April 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring community engagement & rural development in an area rich in natural and cultural heritage but experiencing rural depopulation; developing and delivering community action plans. Draft Itinerary: the course details will be finalised taking into account the interests of participants. Arrival Sofia & travel to the Devetaki Plateau. Visits to community organisations, heritage sites & rural development projects. 23-24th May is a national 2 day orienteering event in the Devetaki Plateau with 150 participants, May 24th is the Day of the Bulgarian Alphabet. Reports from 2019 & 2018 Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are very welcome to email an expression of interest but they must complete their own internal HR process before submitting an application form)
NORWAY: Evenstad Hunting, Predators & Cross-border Conservation
Please send an email (libby@archnetwork.org or seona@archnetwork.org) to express an interest in this course. We will contact you when we have the dates and you can complete the application form at that point. Hosts: Inland Norway University, Evenstad Campus Course Dates: May/June 2020 TBC Application Deadline: TBC Preparation Meeting Date: TBC Aims & Themes: hunting, land rights and conservation; predator management and conflicts; cross-border management and monitoring Draft Itinerary: Arrival Oslo & travel to Evenstad Campus. The course content is under discussion and will be published on the Archnetwork website shortly. The course will include Evenstad’s expertise on adaptive ecology (forestry, sustainably hunting and fishing, game management & monitoring, predator management conflicts & cross-border working). Participants also present to students at the university. Reports from 2019 & 2018 Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are very welcome to email an expression of interest but they must complete their own internal HR process before submitting an application form)
ICELAND: turf building, cultural context & practical skills training
Host: Byggðasafn Skagfirðinga Course Dates: 31 May to 7 June 2020 Application Deadline: 31 March 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 15 May 2020 Aims & Themes: cultural heritage and archaeological context of turf buildings in Iceland; Turf building and restoration skills. Draft Itinerary: Arrival Rejkjavik; Settlement Exhibition & travel to Skagafjörđur;lectures on culture heritage management & turf buildings& visit to Skagafjörđur Heritage Museum, Glaumbær Turf Buildings; 3 days practical turf building (this is hard work & messy); Skagafjörđur Historical Buildings tour; 7 Drive to Reykjavik via Ƥingvellir National Park; Depart Rejkjavik Reports from 2019 & 2018 Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are very welcome to email an expression of interest but they must complete their own internal HR process before submitting an application form)
POLAND: coastal zone management from pure engineering to pure nature
Host: Kazimierz Rabski (Society for the Coast EUCC) Course Dates: 31 May to 7 June 2020 Application Deadline: 31 March 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 14 May 2020 Aims & Themes: coastal zone management including planning, erosion and accumulation; managing coastal protected areas and Natura 2000 sites; tourism versus nature on the coast. 1. Responsibilities of coastal zone management. 2. National Parks management in various types of coasts. 3. Management planning. 4. Technical aspects of coastal zone management. 5.Natura 2000 in coastal areas. 6.Threats and challenges. 1.Selected aspects of coastal zone management. 2. Various types of soft coasts administration and relations to nature values. 3. Tourism versus nature. 4.Erosion and accumulation in the light of management. 5. “Natura 2000” on Polish coast of Baltic Sea Draft Itinerary: Route: Gdańsk – Łeba – Jarosławiec – Trzęsacz – Niechorze – Międzyzdroje – Świnoujście – Szczecin – Gdańsk Organisations: Maritime Offices in Gdynia and Szczecin, Słowiński and Woliński National Park administrations, Society for The Coast (NGO), individual experts. Reports from 2019 & 2018 film and earlier. Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are verywelcome to email an […]
SLOVENIA: Sustainable farming & food in biodiversity rich regions
Sustainable Farming & Food in Biodiversity & Protected Areas through Different Educational Approaches Host: Bojan Žnidaršič (VITRA Centre for Sustainable Development) Course Dates: 2-9 July 2002 Application Deadline: 20 April 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 19 June 2020 Aims & Themes: learning about good practice in sustainable farming & food; biodiversity management & circular economy; adaptation to climate change, food security, sustainable communities and eco-tourism. Themes & Draft Itinerary: 1. Biodiversity with all part of sustainable development 2. Ecosystem management, managing habitats and ecosystems. Rural biodinamic food in the Regional natural park 3. Adaptive aproaches to species management. Biodiversity in forest 4. Management for countryside activities for all generationes with green jobs 5. Environmental interpretation, bringing nature to people. Biodiversity in the Sea natural park 6. Natural heritage and turist management in Slovenian Alps 7. Management of Karst cultural landscapes – environmental, cultural, social and economic sustainability based of family generations 8. Managing for nature in a changing environment with UNESCO World Heritage Site Learn about good practices in sustainable farming and food inside the biodiversity and protected areas inside the public and private sectors Get to know the biodiversity of 1/3 of Slovenia’s territory and their management through various institutions […]
ESTONIA: Cultural & Natural Heritage of Coastal Estonians
Host: Maarika Nagel (Viitong/Heritage Tours) Course Dates: 12 – 19 July 2020 Application Deadline: 20 April 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 22 June 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring cultural heritage interpretation and management in a range of contexts; community heritage as part of community cohesion and rural development; heritage tourism. Draft Itinerary: DAY 1 : Goal of the day: Old Tallinn (UNESCO heritage site) 14:30 Guided tour in Old Tallinn Free time in Old town DAY 2 : Goal of the day: Military history, soviet history Drive to the west, traces of Peter the Great in former Soviet nuclear base in Paldiski town Haapsalu town – resort Meet the officials of Haapsalu medieval castle. Visit the site, discussion Haapsalu tour – resort, historical wooden houses and train station, Tchaikovsly bench DAY 3: Goal of the day: Island heritage alive wooden boat building in a vocational school „Spaaremaa“ – 195 years of using local sea mud for healing and wellbeing. Ferry to Muhu island, drive to Kuressaare town Wooden boat building faculty of Kuressaare Vocational School, meet specialist. visit one of the medical spas. Using sea mud in healing. Discussion, tour. Värava farm – your home in Saaremaa Check in, look […]
ROMANIA: Small scale sustainable farming in Transylvania
Hosts: Monica Oprean & Martin Clark (Association Satul Verde) Course Dates: 24 – 31 August 2020 Application Deadline: 18 May 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 14 August 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring small scale sustainable farming; hay making & orchards within a cultural landscale; the challenges of sustainable rural development, community engagement and heritage management Draft Itinerary: Participants will learn about subsistence farming as opposed to intensive farming, as well as traditional ways of managing the land. There will be opportunities to do some hands on work like hay making (cutting grass with a scythe, making a hay stack), fruit gathering, making preserves. DAY ONE: Arrive in Cluj Napoca and travel to the market town of Aiud in Alba County ( the transfer takes around 1:15 h, depending on traffic). Overnight at “Casa Domeniile Vinului” Ciumbrud (a village at the outskirts of Aiud town). Dinner & discussion about the programme. DAY TWO: Visit the village of Girbovita. We start a ‘day on the farm’ – visiting vine yard / hay meadows / orchards & vegetable gardens. In each, the focus is on the wildlife potential of these traditionally farmed areas – we look out for insects, birds, trees and flowers […]
FINLAND: Forestry Education, Practice & Conservation
Hosts: TAMK Tampere University of Applied Sciences Course Dates: 30 August to 6 September 2020 Application Deadline: 18 May 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 13 August 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring conservation, urban and commercial forestry in Finland; forestry education; hunting; ecology of mires and peatlands; skill sharing with Finnish forestry students Draft Itinerary: the course details will be finalised when the participants are selected. Arrival Tampere; the course will be centered around Tampere University & will include a presentation from Scottish participants to Finnish students; there will be visits to conservation, commercial and urban forest & a national park, Seitseminen or Helventinjarvi National Parks. Reports from 2019 & 2018 Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are verywelcome to email an expression of interest but they must complete their own internal HR process before submitting an application form)
LATVIA: Forests, Wetlands, Green Infrastructure & Digital Technologies
Hosts: Andis Purs (State Forest Service of Latvia) Course Dates: 6 – 13 September 2020 Application Deadline: 18 May 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 12 August 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring Latvian forestry and wetland management, conservation policy and practice; hunting attitudes & practices; digital tools for conservation planning & action; cultural heritage and landscapes of Latvia Draft Itinerary: the itinerary will be finalised in consultation with the participants. It will include the State Forest Service and associated government and academic organisations in Riga; Kemeri National Park, Lake Kaneiris and Dunduri Meadows; State Forest Research Institute; Cesis Institute of Environmental Solutions; Traditional Barrel Makers; Viestura Larmanic Culture Heritage as Green Infrastructure in rural north Latvia. Reports from 2019 & 2018 Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are very welcome to email an expression of interest but they must complete their own internal HR process before submitting an application form)
POLAND: STEM course – tradition, training & enterprise, the Jagiellonian Fair Lublin
Tradition, training & enterprise: culture heritage & the Jagiellonian Fair Lublin Host: Agnieszka Wojciechowska (Workshops of Culture Lublin) Course Dates: 18 – 25 August 2020 Application Deadline: 4 May 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 21 May 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring traditional skills, patterns and materials in training, enterprise, heritage and community engagement. Draft Itinerary: Day 1: August 18th, Tuesday Goal of the Day: arrival, Old Town in Lublin – European Heritage Label Accomodation in the hotel. Dinner. Welcome tour in Lublin Old Town – introduction of European Heritage Label. https://lublin.eu/en/lublin/about-the-city/european-heritage-label/ Day 2: August 19th, Wednesday Goal of the Day: multicultural heritage Visiting Muzeum Wsi Lubelskiej / The Open Air Village Museum in Lublin The Open Air Village Museum in Lublin is a permanent public institution of knowledge and science which specializes in creating, preserving and sharing both material and intangible cultural heritage and social background. The Museum recreates historical forms of settlements, habitations, buildings of public services of villages and small towns with their interiors as well as with traditional forms of the rural landscape. The institution plays a significant educational and societal role in popularizing both esthetic and intellectual needs. This role defines cultural identity as a mediator […]
ESTONIA: STEM course 2020 – traditional skills & nature, training & community
Culture heritage, traditional skills and nature: training and community engagement. Host: Maarika Nagel (Viitong/Heritage Tours) Course Dates: 14 – 21 June 2020 Application Deadline: 31 Mar 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 20 May 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring traditional skills as part of education, community life and heritage engagement in a digitally engaged and biodiversity rich country. Draft Itinerary: 2020 study trip Erasmus+ programme Central Estonia Dates: June 14 to June 21 2020 Day 1 Goal of the Day: arrival, Old Tallinn – UNESCO heritage site Welcome tour in Old Tallinn guided by Riin Alatalu Dinner, good sleep Overnight in Tallinn Day 2 Goal of the Day: environment and sustainability, industrial and dark heritage. Vasalemma and Rummu villages. Former horrible destination of prisons and criminals and the worst soviets, nowdays an atractive tourism destination. Vasalemma – industrial heritage. https://www.visittallinn.ee/eng/visitor/see-do/sport-adventure/pid-179639/matkajuht https://www.visittallinn.ee/eng/visitor/see-do/sport-adventure/pid-179642/paekalda-holiday-resort activity Meet Kaja Lotman – the outstanding lady of Estonian environmental activities, the nominee of Alfred Toepfer medal given for the most outstanding input in nature protection and sustainable development of Europe 2019. Overnight in Tallinn Day 3 Goals of the Day: 1.Outstanding practices integrating agricultural and country heritage to modern life. 2. Sharing the heritage knowledge with youth via studies. […]
Romania: STEM Course 2020 biodiversity, traditional skills & rural development
Linking rich biodiversity with traditional skills and rural development in Transylvania. Hosts: Fundatia ADEPT Course Dates: 12 -19 June 2020 Application Deadline: 31 March 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 22 May 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring traditional skills as part of rural development and heritage engagement in a biodiversity rich area of small scale sustainable farming. Draft Itinerary: Airports: Either Sibiu, Targu Mures, Cluj-Napoca, or Bucharest Proposed accommodations: Hotel Central Park, Dracula Danes, Viscri guesthouses Day 1: Arrival and transfers to Sighisoara. Dinner with the hosts. Day 2: Saschiz- visiting the ADEPT office, short presentation of each partner and discussion of food regulation barriers to small producers Lunch at the office Fruit and vegetable processing unit Ceramic workshop Dinner in Sighisoara (or in Saschiz- local association of women+ discussions) Day 3: Angofa project- visit and discussions (educational center, cattle farm) Lunch at the ANGOFA SCHOOL Bio-Mosna visit (milk processing model) Dinner at the farm Day 4: Medias- visiting the glass recycling workshop Medias- town visit and lunch Brateiu- craft village visit Return to Sighisoara – dinner Day 5: Visiting Torcatoria de lana- wool processing unit in Mihai Viteazu Commune Cluj-Napoca Lunch in Luncani, Cluj Visiting oil pressing unit in Luncani, Luna […]
Summary Report for NET 5 2019
2019 has been another great year for the NET Programme. Our hosts have delivered a wide range of innovative and well-crafted courses in nature conservation and cultural heritage management, and the NET participants have created an excellent and diverse range of reports from films encouraging agroforesty in Scotland, outreach activities based on Slovak cave houses, recommendations for forest and wetland management, audio and visual diaries, presentations, and thoughtful reports on many topical issues. NET continues to celebrate the connections between Scotland and Europe and the many ways in which we can share skills and work together. Please click here to download the NET 5 2019 summary report.
kate holl
Film: Dehesa – A Spanish Agroforestry Farming System & Implications for Scotland
There are very few contemporary examples of agroforestry in Scotland today, so to help land managers visualise what this system could look like and how it might work on your farm, we have made a short film about a living, working agroforestry farm in the south of Spain. The system is called Dehesa, and although the climate is different, the Dehesa has many parallels with marginal land in the Scottish uplands.
SPAIN: STEM Course Woodworking tradition & innovation in Galicia
Woodworking & forest management: tradition and innovation in Galicia. Please send us an expression of interest email (seona@archnetwork.org or libby@archnetwork.org) if you like to be informed when the course dates are set and then you can complete a full application at that stage. Hosts: XERA Agency for Forest Based Industries Galicia Course Dates: TBCApplication Deadline: TBC Preparation Meeting Dates: TBC Aims & Themes: exploring traditional woodworking alongside forest management: innovation, enterprise and strategy in Galicia Draft Itinerary: the details for this course will be posted soon but it will involve XERA Santiago de Compostella & Ourense, visits to local woodworkers using a variety of traditional & innovative techniques, forest managers, government support agencies and cultural heritage organisations. Click here for the full list of STEM 2020 course. Click here for the STEM 2020 application form.
Rachel Backshall
Inspiring Identity: how heritage connects community in Southern Slovakia – Lišov Múzeum
The museum champions the lifestyles of people in the years current and previous, and the skills and knowledge linked to this are being upheld, celebrated and rejuvenated. Lišov Múzeum is less a museum about archaeology and artefacts and more a museum about a way of life, and a community. It feels like it preserves less of a specific time period, but looks towards history as more of an template for our modern world, assessing what we can learn from the past to improve what we do today, which on a much broader scale allows us to asses our own identities in the process.
Gavin MacGregor
Glimpses of Thracian Landscapes
At the cultural centre, we chat with the ladies, who welcome us with evident pride, about the people and stories of Gorsko Slivovo. The gallery space provides powerful juxtaposition: on one wall, dark eyes stare, four mothers dressed in black, four sons sacrificed, partisan scenes of resistance and death. A shrine remembers oppressions past, Soviet, Ottoman, Roman; on the other wall, paintings of traditional dress, costumes of colour and hope, the shepherds practical garb, lively animals and fertile fields. The promise of bounty and celebration of a community, who knew it is only the land, which has always been there, and through commitment sustains them. Like some ongoing conversation across the gallery, these faces of Bulgaria continue to speak.
Lana Blakely
Wetland & Coastal Management in the Odra Delta – a model for Mersehead?
It was a great opportunity to be able to spend a week looking at the various types of parks and reserves in the Odra Delta and seeing the benefits and challenges of each. I think we were all blown away by how rich and diverse the wildlife and landscapes are, not just within the protected areas, but in the general landscape of the region as a whole. The main issues facing protected areas and wildlife in general in Poland seems to be a familiar one, lack of funding, staffing and awareness, which is all too familiar a problem in the UK as well. Due to Poland’s history, many people do not feel a connection to the land and so one of the results is that volunteering is nearly non-existant, which is a shame as this could be a rich source of help that is currently unavailable. It will also be interesting to see how the reserves will cope with climate change; increased pressure from predation and invasive species is tied in to this (as seen at Ujscie Warty NP) and subsequently pressure on staff time and funding for projects to deal with this. Hopefully the diversity of the landscapes means […]
Abigail Guthrie
From Scotland to Slovakia: Cave Dwellings & Community Heritage
ARCH coordinates adult education courses to Europe through the Erasmus+ Programme. We run a range of week-long courses for 6 to 8 participants with our host trainers in Europe. Next year we will run 10 courses based around managing cultural and community heritage
Emily Warner
Woodland Regeneration & Grazing in South West Norway
It was amazing to explore the regenerating forests in SW Norway and to understand better how native forests can develop with a lower browsing pressure. Deer management practices differ between Norway and Scotland, with carcass weights used to determine deer quotas in Norway, indicating the overall health of the population and helping to balance its impacts on woodland regeneration. Cultural and social factors have influenced the woodland regeneration we saw, from the abandonment of farms over the 20th Century to the different attitudes to hunting, foraging and land-use in Norway. The diversity of species and structure in the Norwegian forest sets an example for us to aspire to in Scotland, and we need to consider how to integrate a rebounding forest within Scotland’s cultural and social setting.
Forestry, Biodiversity & Conservation in Finland
Natural regeneration was abundant nearly everywhere we visited, something which is comparatively unusual in Scotland unless it is enclosed within a deer fence. Regeneration was so prevalent in some locations that it was encroaching into previously open habitats, such as small fields of abandoned farms. A strong hunting culture and associated herbivore management within Finland appears to the main cause for natural regeneration within Finnish forests.
Marina Gray
The Comeback of An Apex Predator: Could Scotland Learn from Norway?
Geographical Connectivity is the Natural Key Norway has had a natural recolonization of all carnivores, due to be part of the continent Europe and neighbour countries fluxes. First wolves recolonized in 1980 to the south, through dispersion of the first wolves by likely Finish-Russian populations. The geographical position of the UK being an island doesn’t allow natural recolonization, and therefore it leaves the question to wether we could or we should intervene
Monica Warwick
Traditional Buildings & Community Heritage in Lišov
The purpose of this report is to share the knowledge I gained while working with the Lišov Múzeum in October 2019. As a member of the Technical Outreach and Education team at The Engine Shed, I wanted to focus on the traditional building materials and skills, as well as the importance of community engagement in Lišov. This report is primarily visual, with key points written out. The idea behind this is to be able to share this information with colleagues, or others who may be interested, in an accessible format. The ability to share information visual and through activities or tactile learning is important to our team and for our work with the public.
The Hierarchy of Protected Areas in Poland & Comparison with Scotland
The level of protection afforded to different types of protected area in Poland is not dissimilar to that in Scotland. For example, in terms of the Natura 2000 network all EU countries have an obligation to transpose the Habitats and Birds Directives into domestic legislation. Similarly, in Scotland and Poland, regulatory authorities and have their own responsibilities. I think the main difference in the protect areas protection measures between Poland and Scotland is the level of public promotion and access provision. In Scotland we actively advertise our protected areas at whatever level but in Poland this is much more subtle even where public access provision is encouraged. The trip to Poland was truly fascinating in many respects and one would hope that western influences do not put pressures on the natural heritage we experience in Scotland and the UK as a whole.
Heather James
Exploring Community Heritage in Southern Slovakia
I was especially interested in the ethnographic display in the museum which included some flax heckling boards. I have been working on an 18th century flax mill near Glasgow and so it was great to see how the hand heckling technique worked. One handle was for the foot and the other for one hand. The flax was then thrashed against the heckling spikes to straighten the flax fibres ready for spinning. This technique would have been used in Scotland prior to the construction of water mills. Apparently there were a couple of water mills in Lišov in the 19th century, but they have been demolished. Corn mills were often used for other purposes such as flax mills and saw mills. Flax was grown in this area in the past and according to Jacob there are old flax soaking ponds in the area.
Tom Ingrey-Counter
Greetings from Bulgaria: workplace posts for the National Lottery Heritage Fund
This is one of the faces of Walltopia – a Bulgaria company and a global leader in climbing wall manufacture. It belongs to the Mountain Guides training school in Troyan on the Devistashko Plateau, established in 2013. Marco, one of the teachers here, tells us that students arrive aged 14, and leave six years later with a range of skills including cultural tourism, mountain biking skills, navigation and first aid.
Chris Tilbury
A Tale of Two Forests – Comparing Forests and Conservation in Finland and Scotland
I went to Finland with an idea to compare the forests there with those in Scotland and, more specifically, with that found at Abernethy. It became apparent, however, that such a comparison was unrealistic. The context of the forests, geographically, culturally and historically, are totally different. Finland is roughly 5 times the size of Scotland and is 75% forested. The population is approximately the same in both countries. This has meant that huge areas of Finnish forest are never, or incredibly rarely, disturbed by human activity. Historically, effectively all of Scotland’s forests have been managed as commercial plantations, especially following the Second World War. This meant a huge reduction in the size of the forest and large areas of forest consisting of uniform trees the same age and size. Finland has greater areas of old growth, natural forest which has never been managed by humans. Culturally, the natural world appears to garner much more respect in Finland than in Scotland with visitors much less likely to actively damage the forest or wilfully disturb wildlife. Regular fire sites and camping huts mean that visitors have designated places to eat, sleep and light fires. Much of the way the Finnish people treat […]
Hamshya Rajkumar
Sustainable Development of Cultural & Natural Assets in 2 Cypriot Mountain Villages
Looking to the communities of the past can directly inspire the answers to these questions. Maybe people could connect to their heritage to feel a sense of place, a sense of identity and ‘rootedness’, in a way that is relevant to their lives. Maybe wider communities can be created in museums by ensuring that people from disenfranchised backgrounds find a ‘home’ and share learning possibilities in the museum environment. Maybe it is extending beyond the academic/intellectual framework that informs traditional museum culture, to also engage with, in a sustainable way, skilled craftspeople, artists, storytellers and musicians to form creative spaces, who intersect with, and are informed by, the collections held in the museum. Maybe by having such an inclusive environment, we can directly mirror the coherent, collectively organised communities of the past.
Meryl Carr
The Future of Small Scale Farming in Romania
Visiting Alba and neighbouring counties in Transylvania, Romania was the highlight of my working year. I applied to go on this ERASMUS funded Arch destination as I thought it would be an interesting in-sight into how other European countries manage the funding opportunities provided by the European Common Agricultural Policy, particularly to benefit the small scale farmer and small rural communities. My main area of work during the year is assessing Agri-Environment and Climate Change grant applications. In Scottish Natural Heritage we assess any applications which involve land management on designated sites or deer management. As Romania is one the new member states to enter the European fold, lies in Eastern Europe where in the past agriculture has had many challenges, I was interested to see and hear their story and find out if and how the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy was benefitting agriculture and the environment in Romania. I live and work in the North West Highlands of Scotland, one of the Crofting Counties where small scale agriculture dominates. Romania is a country where small, semi subsistence/subsistence farming is of great importance. Is there a future for this type of farming in the European Union?
Roo Campbell
Wild Cats, Traditional Farming & Camera Traps
In Scotland, we have lost many of the attitudes to livestock husbandry that allow coexistence with predators. The exception to this is with smaller livestock such as chickens, were the concept of protection is well understood. If we ever bring back any of the larger predators, we can learn from the practices employed in countries like Romania. Finally, if we are going to be able to support a viable wildcat population in perpetuity in Scotland (i.e. without risk of hybridisation), we may need to look at the environment in Romania and see what we can take from it that helps both wildcats and biodiversity more generally.
Jackie Taylor
Rimet – A Living Landscape: Establishing a Natural & Cultural Heritage Foundation in Romania, a Case Study in the Apuseni Mountains
In the Cairngorms National Park tourism has greatly influenced a range of factors including the development of towns and villages, road infrastructure, signage, land management, demographics and employment. The park has a resident population of 18,000 people and every year between April and October 1.8 million visitors enter the park boundary. This volume of tourism requires significant resource to manage. Rimet is on the cusp of change and in ten years may be a very different village to the one it is now; a small, picturesque village in a beautiful location. The decision makers have the opportunity now to plan for change, to look at other examples across the world, learn from their mistakes and demonstrate sustainable tourism in practice.
Sian Atkinson
Rewilding or working with nature – lessons from rural Transylvania
What can be learnt from all this? Preserving traditional land management, culture and ways of life in Transylvania is crucial, not as a quaint museum piece, but within a wider narrative that draws out their interconnectedness with the natural world. Supporting younger people to remain in rural areas, and to develop low impact, ecologically conscious tourism at a rate and scale that supports rather than destroys the existing balance and pattern of life could be part of the answer, and providing agri-environment grants and packages that are easily accessed, and truly supportive of small scale subsistence farmers could be another. From a UK perspective, we need to learn as much as we can.
Romania & Scotland
Years ago a friend visited Romania and when he returned he commented that the countryside he found there felt to him how he imagined much of Scotland must have once been. We are a nation working to restore natural habitats that have been lost and to repair the mistakes we have made in the past, while they are a country who still hold the potential to learn from the mistakes made in other lands and work to protect and celebrate their wild landscapes, before they need to be saved and restored. I look around the vast scenes of canopy covered mountains and wonder if Transylvania isn’t just a glimpse of what Scotland has lost but of what it could also recover.
Gavin Skipper
A Comparison of Romanian Village Farming with Crofting on Balmacara Estate
Following my structured training course in Romania and subsequent discussion with my colleagues, we now have plans to bring some of the traditional village farming methods from Romania onto Balmacara Estate. We have a demonstration species-rich meadow on a high profile gateway site. Next year before the harvest we will get the students from the crofting course at Plockton High School to establish a number of fixed quadrats on the meadow. They will record and quantify the plant species and invertebrate life within these quadrats giving us a base sample. When the meadow is ready to cut, half will be done by the students using scythes, creating Romanian style haystacks in the process. The other half of the meadow will be cut using modern machinery creating round baling hay. On an annual basis the crofting students will carry out the same procedures, and we will monitor the quadrats to check what is happening to the biodiversity within each half of the meadow.
Lucy Cunningham
Romanian Ways
An openness of this kind to new ideas could be key to the sustainable development of Transylvannia and many other places like it. Outsiders could come to live in these remote regions, enticed by the free land and materials, and make a commitment to work the land – undertaking to do the hard graft, and to learn from the community, before these skills are lost. There is huge interest from people in the UK and beyond, who recognise this need to get back to the land, who would undertake this – within a system they can trust, and that works for everyone. If the new road leads to developments in infrastructure which eventually allow faster internet, then a whole new raft of possibilities open up to people working part time on the internet for some income, but remaining committed to small scale farming practice – knowing its value from having seen the results of over development in their various countries of origin.
Claire Glaister
A Series of Finnish Forestry Blogs
By Claire Glaister, Institute of Chartered Foresters 61 degrees latitude: A house of 100 trees An intrepid group of seven left Scotland to head to the land of lakes and trees; a country with a scale of forestry which, to a forester, comes close to Utopia. The week-long Erasmus+ study tour, hosted by Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) and promoted by ARCH, was to cover forests, birds and environmental education. On arrival at our accommodation for the week however, it became clear that we would also be treated to spectacular skies and sunrises, landscapes and culture and great hospitality too. The final turn of our journey that night took us down an avenue of Silver birch which, even accounting for the car’s headlights, seemed to shine brightly in front of us. The bark looked much brighter than we see on birch at home and certainly lived up to the tree’s silver title. Sitting around the kitchen table that first evening, our neighbour, Tapio Rautaneva, the owner of the house, explained to us how he had built it using 100 trees from his own woodland – just along the road – individually selected for their physical and quality characteristics. […]
The government use revenue from hunting licences to compensate landowners on any damage to productive tree crops by deer browsing – if this is indeed correct it is a very different system to what we have in Scotland. Despite the presence of bears and wolves we learned that hunting is essential to managing a sustainable deer population, which was contrary to my perception at the start of the trip. Tapio said there are around 300 wolves in Finland, but 10,000 would be needed to meet equilibrium. It would not be possible for the number of wolves to coexist with the current human population of Finland – so hunting of deer by humans will always be required. We also learned that in the Lapland area accounting for 36% of the country no bears, wolves or lynx were tolerated and were shot on sight to protect the reindeer. Unlike Scotland there are no ‘professional’ hunters, as hunting is too popular of an activity. However, Tapio foresees such jobs might exist in the future as the country continues to urbanise and less people live in rural areas.
Sarah Badman-Flook
Finland, Forest & Friends 2019: a film report
This film shows the other side of the Erasmus course – the friendships formed and the cultural barriers toppled.
Emily Bryce
A Roof O’er Their Heads: turf buildings through time in Scotland & Iceland
This presentation illustrates turf building in Iceland and Scotland and details plans for a new turf building in Glen Coe
Amee Hood
Latvia Report 2019 & Species List
A group report covering a range of perspectives and topics from the NET Latvia course 2019.
John Macdonald
Plant the Planet!
Hunting is cultural; licensing includes Wolf, Beaver, Lynx & Bear, Moose, Red and Roe deer that the others might scare! Sprays & deterrents are used but fences are few, Hunters are plenty but numbers including Golden Jackal still grew.
Lucy Elliff
LATVIA: A CULTURAL JOURNEY NOT JUST A NATURAL ONE!
From the wetlands of Kemeri National Park through to the wooded sand stone valley of Gauja National Park the visiting tourist cannot fail to be impressed by the abundance of information signs, play areas, picnic spots, fire pits, boarded walks and walking trails which manage to make you feel welcome without compromising on the natural beauty of the landscape. I think all in the group would agree that we were excited about the accessibility of Latvia to a tourist with return trips already being mapped out. Nothing demonstrates this tourism infrastructure more than the Latvian Nature app, freely available and translated into English it enables you to maximise your visit to Latvia from the comfort of your pocket.
ĶEMERI NATIONAL PARK – BOGS, WETLANDS, AND RE-MEANDERINGS
An account of the history and restoration works undertaken of one of Latvia’s major peat bogs – and the restoration of an adjoining river and associate flood plains.
Duncan Bruce
Forestry in Latvia
In terms of organisational structure there are strong similarities to Scotland. The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) develops policy. The State Forest Service sits within the MOA and enforces legislation across the industry whilst providing support and issuing licences/permits for all forests regardless of ownership. Finally, the Latvia State Forests Joint Stock Company operates as a commercial entity and manages all state owned forests. However as Normunds went into more detail and as we visited more forests throughout the week it became clear that organisational structure was where any similarities to forestry in Scotland ended. In terms of forest cover, ownership and management Scotland and Latvia could hardly be more different. It was fascinating to spend time in a country with such a different approach, where forestry seems to be winning out over intensive tree farming. Since being back at work I’ve been looking at my sites differently, wondering how much of what I saw could work here and daydreaming of Wolf , Moose, Lynx and Bear…. Paldies Latvia!
Paul Roberts
Deer, Moose & Forestry in Latvia
In Latvia deer management is administered centrally by the State Forest Service and there is a national register of hunters who require a license to hunt. However management is devolved to the 2074 hunting districts with cull targets and objective agreed locally. This and the requirement of a minimum land area over which to hunt different species means that there is a more collaborative approach to hunting in Latvia. Cull reporting is more rigorous than in Scotland and hunters are required to record where, when and how many deer they harvest.
Chris Fairgrieve
Forest Management, Disease & Control: Perspectives from Latvia
Given the extent and value of both Norway and Sitka spruce stands in both Scotland and the wider UK, it is vitally important economically and environmentally as described above to minimize and control any outbreaks of dangerous forest pests in coming years. Lessons learned in Latvia as well as other European countries indicate the importance of early detection through annual monitoring and indeed the important relevant intervention to control outbreaks and minimize losses as well as preventing further spread of infestations.
Ross Watson
Institute for Environmental Solutions
It is an impressive set up, with a (for Latvia) diverse staff of 35, who are highly skilled and experienced in their fields of biology, chemistry, electronics, and others. The umbrella vision for IES and the other 11 companies is an ethos of environmental thinking through medicine, art, beauty, and gastronomy. There is a conscious effort to break the barriers between science based knowledge and the experience of people who have gained a deep understanding of the land through years of working and living with it, blending the two to gain a higher level of understanding. This is done through job swaps, careful recruitment, local projects, and shadowing.
Molly Doubleday
A Capercaillie’s Home & Finnish Blogs
What beguiled me on this trip was that it was evident from every Finnish person I spoke too that they had a deep respect for nature. This included the hunters. Even the predators were an important part of their mythology. For instance, people used to collect the first droppings that a bear produced after hibernation and kept them in a pouch to wear so that they would have the strength of a bear all year. Another indication of this respect was the almost total lack of litter found in natural places which can be a real problem in Scotland. Our student guides just didn’t understand why you would leave rubbish behind. Solo walks in the forest were common and important to people of all ages. My impression was that the Finnish culture still maintained a real connection with nature whilst some urbanisation in Scotland may have severed this connection.
Carrie Weager
Estonia: Happy by Nature
Estonian runic singing began to decline as European influences took prevalence. When I heard this I was reminded of a passage in a book called ‘Soil and Soul’ by Alastair McIntosh, when he described a ‘loss of cultural self-confidence’ that occurred in Gaelic culture with the advent of television and radio. The singing that used to accompany activities such as weaving, rowing and ploughing gradually fell silent. This trip has inspired me to finally bite the bullet and sign up to Gaelic classes (a part of my own heritage that was not passed down by my great-grandparents). On the Sandwood estate where I work we are also developing a plan to gather unrecorded Gaelic place names from older members of the community, to see what more they can tell us about the area’s people, history and ecology before they are lost forever. This trip has inspired me to believe this is a project well worth undertaking.
Melanie Nicoll
Field Notes: Integrating livestock with woodland
Overall, though, I was most struck by the interplay and interdependency of the different land uses and incredible attention to detail in the management of the trees, pasture and livestock. Just one example of this was learning of the special calculation done each year into the anticipated acorn crop and limit set accordingly on the number of pigs that can be reared in order to retain organic status for pork production. Such an ethos is surely something that John Muir would have approved of, regardless of whether in sunny, southern Spain or on the side of a somewhat soggier Scottish mountain:- “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
Lessons learn from the Spanish “dehesa”: a new model for Scottish agriculture & woodland management?
The holistic approach to land management that is the defining feature of the dehesa system of land management provides an opportunity to consider how the historic, largely sectoral approaches to Scottish agriculture and woodland/forestry could be better integrated for the benefit of people, nature and the wider environment. Such a shift in thinking could be of particular value to agriculture on marginal land. Tree and animal species would necessarily differ from those in Spain but, for example, fruit trees could be expected to have a particular role given their nutritional value for livestock as well as opportunities for a crop and fruit-related products.
Matthew Bellhouse-Moran
Estonia: Rapid Development & Deep Traditions
Rapid development is the watchword for Estonia. New infrastructure, new roads, integration of technology and heavy investment – both nationally and from the European Union – speak of a country facing forward. It is heartening to see that this is not to the detriment or exclusion of natural, built and cultural heritage. Tradition runs deep and, for the most part, it is incorporated into Estonian identity along with this rapid progress. Development has been carefully balanced, in the main, with nature. Estonians value nature and their relationship with it in a different way to Scotland, it being more integrated and present in their lives, all around them rather than being something one takes a trip to visit.
Rebecca Barclay
An Estonian Adventure
Exhibits included 3D site models – making the castle more accessible for visually impaired visitors, and old maps and archaeological site drawings printed on Perspex which could be slid over one another showing how the site changed through time (an idea I’d like to steal for Archaeology Scotland!). My favourite exhibit was the wall of artefacts found during recent excavations. Pot fragments displayed over the outline of the type of pot they came from and bridle parts displayed over a sketch of a horse’s head made it obvious what the artefacts were, and were used for in the past – sketches like this would be a great addition to our Artefact Investigation kits.
Susan Webster
Estonia – People & Place
The ‘singing revolution’ is the time between 1986 and 1991 when Estonians gathered in large numbers to sing revolutionary songs in a non-violent protest against the soviet occupation. Culturally this was a powerful way of Estonia retaining its identity. 100,000 Estonians gathered for 7 days and nights in the Tallinn song festival grounds. ‘Until now, revolutions have been filled with destruction, burning, killing and hate, but we started our revolution with a smile and a song’ Estonian Activist Heinz Valk who coined the term ‘ singing revolution’
Julia Westbury
Hunting Game in Norway: A Way of Life & a Method of Management
Hunting in Norway is deeply engrained in the country’s history and its culture. This makes replicating its use as a conservation tool difficult for countries, such as Scotland, where hunting is regarded as merely a rich man’s sport. Nevertheless, there is much that Scotland can learn from Norway’s attitude to hunting.
Aa is for Everything – an ABC of Estonia
Aa is for Everything is a personal record of a week-long exploration of Estonia’s cultural heritage that took place from 4-11 August 2019. It contains personal reflections and observations, bits and pieces of history gleaned from our guide and from my own research, inspiration from conversations with my tour companions, and from the information imparted by our many hosts who generously gave of their time and shared their knowledge. The ABC structure of this report is inspired by the book Sõrulase Aabits, a primer on the cultural heritage of Sõrve on the island of Saaremaa. The word aabits comes from the pronunciation of the first three letters of the Estonian alphabet: ah-bey-tsay The full report is reprinted below, or you can go to the Aa is for Everything website – there’s also a map of the places we visited and a gallery of images. The programme was developed by ARCH Scotland and funded through Erasmus+ and hosted by Maarika Naagel of Vitong Heritage Tours. You can read the stories and articles here as a kind of idiosyncratic introduction to Estonian culture as I found it in 2019. It’s far from exhaustive, but hopefully instructive. A bit of everything. Thanks for […]
Nina Probst
Tere Tulemast to ESTONIA
What inspired and impressed me most was the chosen narrative, the acceptance that different idea(l)s of Estonia exist, from the Estonian diaspora, islanders, people from the countryside, from towns or from Tallinn. It wasn’t supporting one national idea of what Estonia is, which too often seems to be propagated by countries even today but showing that there are many and that there is room for all of them. Visitors were also frequently asked to consider “what would you have done?” instead of condemning everything in good or bad. It was the perfect ending, summing up what we all had come to notice – that Estonians are a very resourceful and colourful people, proud of who they are and where they are from.
Rhona Maxwell
Estonia – Ya (Baltic) Beauty!
I’ll treasure many memories from our time in Estonia – swimming in the Baltic sea at sunset, climbing a lighthouse, seeing a moose, meeting Mari, but I also want to hold onto the lessons learned, and bring those home with me. I can draw many parallels with Scotland – both have dramatic landscapes, vast wilderness and habitats, rich heritage and stunning beaches. And both have the same strongest asset- it’s people. I’ll be doing everything I can to embed what I’ve learned into helping connect, and reconnect, Scotland’s people with what they have on their doorstep, and the stories, skills and ancestry in their blood.
Sophie McGraw
Sustainable Development & Biodiversity in Slovenia – A GIS Storymap
Secovlje Salt Pans We learned that the park is on the list of Ramsar wetlands of international importance. In fact, in 2003 the solina was damaged which meant no harvesting took place, however European funding helped restore the site for birdlife, which in turn enabled salt harvesting to resume. It was really interesting to see how much of an asset wildlife has been for the park, as it enabled them to restore the salt-pans, and the park clearly takes great pride in its wildlife.
Matt Dale
Visitor Management in the West Pomaranian region of Poland
I work as a ranger at Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park where my job can be best described as ‘helping visitors enjoy the National Park in a safe and responsible way’. This can be done through sharing of information, education and also enforcement through patrolling. My main patrol area is Loch Lomond so I was very keen to visit similar wetland environments in Poland and see how land managers do things there.
Stephen Inglis
Breeding wader conservation in West Pomerania
Grazing management in Poland currently appears to be wader friendly and it was encouraging to hear that many efforts are being made to make sure grazing is appropriate. At Ujscie Warty, large extents of the park’s floodplain meadows are rented out to local farmers for cattle grazing. Although farmers are keen to get stock out onto the meadows as soon as possible, the park authorities make an attempt to prevent cattle introduction until the second half of June to reduce trampling risk to wader nests but also prevent excessive damage to soft wet ground.
Adriana Patková
*New Course* Community Heritage in Southern Slovakia 4-11 October 2019
Lišov Museum is a newly set up rural museum which aims to celebrate culture history and to provide a stimulant to local development. The area has a rich heritage of historical and archaeological sites and the museum works on a range of building and craft techniques as part of their education and outreach activities
Will Hayward
Gamebird hunting and raptors in Norway
By participating in the survey and reporting bag numbers the hunters themselves are key figures in game management. Due to the vastly different cultural heritage of hunting in Norway, where hunting is much more a way of life than an elite hobby, divides between shooting and conservation communities simply do not exist as they do in the UK. However it is inspiring to see what can be achieved when all parties recognise the requirement for robust and contemporary population data and work together to ensure gamebird hunting is carried out at a sustainable level each year.
Sergey Eydelman
Forestry in Norway
The important role of the mountain forests for ground’s stability has been observed at Dovre National Park. Betula pendula, B. pubescenis, B. nana, Juniperus communis, and Salex spp cover waist area overhead 1000 m above the sea level between stands of coniferous and alpine zone. Roots system holds poor, stony and wet soil and well protects against landslides. The woodland habitat creates much better biodiversity than post-grazing grassland. That is a good example for land management of similar areas in Scotland.
Jess Barrett
Connecting with nature in West Pomerania
I was inspired by the focus placed on face to face engagement in Poland to connect people with nature. Given the small size of the teams overseeing the nature areas I felt the decision to concentrate on being out amongst people rather than focusing on producing written communications for press and social media allowed them to build support for nature with the people living next door to it. It highlighted the importance of having local people engaged with nature and supportive of their work which in turn helps with the delivery of conservation.
Fleur Miles-Farrier
Differences between the protection, education and public awareness of nature sites in Poland and Scotland.
a common tactic seemed to be limiting public knowledge of the parks as much as possible, reducing pressure on the environment and disturbance to wildlife as there is just not the staff or infrastructure to support them. Has this resulted in Ujscie Warty National Park having one of the highest densities of birds in Poland? or Dabskie Lake in Szczecin having the highest number of White-tailed Eagles in Europe? Of course, this is not to say they don’t want visitors, they just can’t currently handle them without the resources. Hopefully in the future perceptions will change and they will be awarded the funding they deserve, and be able show off the wonderful nature and wildlife of Poland in a sustainable way.
Colin Tate
Invasive alien species in Western Pomerania’s wetlands and protected areas
Action includes a ban on keeping on selling the species, a rapid eradication obligation of newly emerging populations and the management of established populations to prevent the species from becoming a wider problem and to keep them out of protected areas.
Laura Preston
10 Useful Norwegian Websites for Conservation
Links to the best Norwegian websites and databases fpr conservation.
Debbie Skinner
The Protection of Norway’s Nature
It is obvious that Norway recognises the ecological, economic and cultural importance of its natural environment. However in the absence of Natura sites combined with increasing pressures from development, Norway’s nature may face testing times ahead. With Scotland’s smaller landmass combined with greater pressures from development, I’m not sure our environment would be robust enough to withstand Norway’s approach to environmental protection. It is therefore reassuring to know that the Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that EU environmental standards will continue to be met once we leave the EU.
Michael Thornton
Land ownership and natural resource management in Norway
Land management continues to be highly sectorial in Scotland, with different sectors (arable farming, conservation, game management) working in isolation, competing for limited natural resources. This has led to significant land use and human wildlife conflicts, resulting in a culture of distrust among the different stakeholders. In contrast, Norwegian land management is based on a more integrated system, with a greater culture of land stewardship, trust and shared values amongst its stakeholders.
Forests, Mountains & Meadows in Eastern Slovakia
Again there was an overwhelming diversity of flowers – a carpet of colour and endless new species. Highlights included Clematis recta; Anemone sylvestris which looked like a poppy; birds nest orchids and broomrapes; cornflower; a carpet of bugle; salvia; dianthus; martagon lily; lily of the valley; and Solomon’s seal. The diversity and sheer number of flowers was magnificent, and something we simply do not have in Scotland. The management of the meadows has now been mechanised and the meadow is cut in late June/early July. Previously it was cut by hand and used as hay but nowadays it is baled.
Brigitte Postma
Torfljàr – Drawing Turf Building
During our week in Iceland I made use of every opportunity to record visual material by making photos and sketches, and as a result I now have at my disposal a valuable source of material to continue to work on in my art studio. I will make a series of works on the subject that will be exhibited during Perthshire Open Studios in September 2019.
Re-building a turf barn at Tyrfingsstaðir farm
The round inside of the barn required the Klambra to be cut with enough of an angle so that they can be firmly pushed together with no gaps, these gaps would create weak areas in the wall which could lead to collapse or failure of the structure.
Alistair Norris
History of Turf Building
From the late 19th and early 20th century turf building ceased to be the main form of construction in Iceland surpassed first by timber construction and soon after by the widespread use of modern concrete. This form of construction is now only used to maintain historic structures and in demonstration projects to keep the knowledge of these construction techniques alive.
Turf Building & Potential in Scotland
However easy Helgi make it seem I realise that there is a tremendous level of experience needed behind turf building especially in the choice of areas/conditions to excavate turf from and the design of the structure being built. I will experiment with interested volunteers but greatly look forward to the opportunity of involvement with the turf building restoration planned for Glencoe and appreciate the links made by this course with other potential turf builders in Scotland.
Andrew McAvoy
Turf Ting A Visual Diary & Written Report
The frame was entered with some sense, that new architecture on the Arctic rim, will have to evolve to tackle the greatest contemporary human imperative – Climate Change. To this end matters of thermal transfer and isolation offered by the inherent properties of Turf are reflected on. ( with of course – a pinch of Icelandic pragmatism and dark humour, thrown into the hot tub …for good measure.
Stacie Allan
Turf Building Presentation
Much like in Scotland, turf building is in serious decline, this leads to a skills shortage and a danger that the skills might eventually be lost. The beauty of turf building is that it has evolved over generations in response to factors such as the socioeconomic changes, materials shortage and the effects of the everchanging climate climate. Thankfully, the work that Skagafjörður Heritage Museum is doing, helps to keep the skills and knowledge alive.
Duncan Ainslie
Icelandic Turf Building – Tools and their uses.
What is sometimes forgotten though is that for traditional trades to be carried out in a truly traditional way they rely on the correct tools being available. This is felt in the UK – at present a number of tool making crafts feature on the Heritage Crafts Association ‘Red List of Endangered Crafts’. This is not an issue unique to the UK. It became apparent that sourcing replacement parts for the Icelandic turf building tools, the turf scythe in particular, was a challenge
Report on Turf Building Course in Iceland
Then strips of Torfa a double Strengur are laid to the thin part or tail of the Strengur on the inside of the wall from front to back. These are built overlapping each other which strengthens the wall and bonds it together. Once the stone base course is built to the required height the clamping blocks or Klambra can be built on top.
Vanessa Burton
Norway NET 2018
Landbruk: lessons for Scotland from Norway
The Heart of Scotland Forest Partnership are based in Perthshire, Scotland. Here, public, private, community and charity partners are working together to connect woodlands across Highland Perthshire. Members of the partnership were recently given the opportunity to visit Norway on a training course developed by ARCH, hosted by Duncan Halley and NINA (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research) and funded through the Erasmus+ programme.
The Dehesas of Southern Spain
I have a newfound appreciation for this sense of balance that maximises environmental and social priorities, something that can be difficult to achieve. This study visit has emphasised the global importance of this system (in terms of preventing desertification), whilst also providing a shining example for sustainable, biodiversity-friendly land management systems elsewhere in Europe.
Transhumance in the 21st Century – a social & ecological model
Transhumance is an ancient practice of moving animals between regions to benefit from the best grazing at the best time of year. The loss of this transhumance has impacts in both Andalusia and the north. In Andalusia the sheep remain on the same ground throughout the year which increases the pressure on the available grazing and is detrimental to the soil. In the north the lack of annual grazing has led to abandonment of pastures, which are infilled with continuous forest or scrub cover, which lowers biodiversity and increases the risk of fire.
Charlotte Blackler
The Dehesa’s of Andalusia. A working model for sustainable agro-forestry
When the worlds soils are predicted to have only 60 harvests left in them, we need to find a more sustainable approach to our use of agricultural land. The Dehesa San Francisco is a beautiful example of what can be achieved.
Forestry & Grazing in South West Norway (3-10th September)
This course is now full – there are still places on some of the other courses for 2019. Dates: 3 to 10 September 2019 (with flexibility a couple of days either side to allow for flight availability) Themes: to provide people working in Scottish upland management to see how native woodland responds to changes in grazing pressures. Participants will visit a variety of biodiverse, reforested landscapes from exposed coast to mountain tops, with multiple land uses including hunting, forestry and farming. There is rough and sometimes rocky walking on most days of this visit which participants should consider when applying. Draft Itinerary: Day 1 arrival Stavanger and drive to Gaudland; Day 2 Gården Li on Hidrasundet on the coast; Day 3 Fidjadalen; Day 4 Byklehaiene; Day 5 Bjåen and Berdalen; Day 6 Åmøy Fjordferie; Day 7 Return Hosts: Duncan Halley (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, NINA) Please click here to view the film from the NET 4 visit in 2018 to learn more about the visit.
Slovakia Lisov 2018
Archaeology at Lisov
Near Lišov is a c200km long linear monument, part of a massive network of similar sites stretching from the Czech Republic to the Black Sea. This section near Lišov runs approximately North-South and was once thought to be defensive, however a number of theories have been proposed to explain its massive construction. They are thought to be Neolithic and their relationship to tributaries of the Danube, and the Danube itself appear to be important. The monument is reminiscent of the Cleaven Dyke, Perth and Kinross, a complex earthwork comprising a pair of parallel ditches (c.45-5om apart), with a central bank, running for 1.8km through woodland and for a further 350m as a cropmark.
Website Report on Lisov Museum
The rural museum opened in 2015, so it has only been operating (and flourishing) over the last 3 years, under the care and love of locals Adriana Patková and Jakub Dvorský, our young guides who accompanied us throughout our stay in Slovakia. I fell in love with the museum from the beginning and the ideas it stands for. It may display historic objects and furniture in a traditional way at times, but many of these are actually donated by the locals or passionately collected by Adriana. This way, the museum acts a depository for the local heritage and for holding people’s memories and identity. Moreover, it acts as a space for keeping alive ancient traditions, like for example burning the Goddess Morena, symbolising death and the winter, and sailing it down the river to welcome spring.
Film of Lisov Museum
Impressions of Lisov and its culture heritage
The Role of social, cultural, economic and political issues and factors in raising awareness and promoting traditional, vernacular, architectural identity, and construction methods, techniques and associated crafts and skills, Lišov, Slovakia.
Vernacular architecture, construction methods, techniques and associated crafts and skills, is a lesson of the past for the future. Architecture established and resulting, including from construction approaches, is a unique component of a locations’ culture just as much as its language, music, art, literature or food. Architecture is also the most visual of those cultural components; conveying a unique image. This is called “genius loci,” the “spirit of a place”.
External and internal decorative finishes to traditional southern Slovakian rural roofed domestic dwellings.
I sincerely hope that the work of Jacob and Andriana at the Lišov Museum revive the traditional crafts of using clay mortars and plasters and limewashes for the repair of old buildings and encourage their use in modern construction.
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| March 25, 2016, 6:35 pm
Butch Mousseau tragedy trumps Avalanche-Wild coverage Friday
A friend texted me the news while I was driving back from the Avalanche’s optional skate Friday. Butch Mousseau, the Colorado hockey referee who has his NHL striped jersey and skates on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, died of a brain hemorrhage in Grand Rapids, Mich. Mousseau, who is of American Indian descent, tripped last Friday during warmups in an NCAA playoff game and hit his head on the ice. His hands were in his pockets. His brain swelled. Doctors couldn’t save him.
Referee Butch Mousseaux (Photo via GoFunMe)
The news made Saturday’s Avalanche-Wild showdown seem unimportant. In fact, after I filed a quick online Mousseau obit Friday, and then two or three write-thrus, I became disinterested in writing the COL-MIN advance story. It stinks. And I don’t care. After talking to DU Pioneers radio guy Jay Stickney via phone from Minnesota, where he’s preparing to call Saturday’s NCAA Tournament regional game between DU and Boston U., I had a tough time looking at my computer through tears. Stickney and Mousseau were fraternity brothers at Colorado and lived and worked in Maui after graduation.
Referees/linesmen and sports writers don’t usually cross paths outside the rink. But because of former longtime linesman Tim Swiader of Denver, I was introduced to the WCHA officiating clan about 10 years ago. I consider Swiader and former WCHA ref Don Adam, now the NCHC officials czar, good friends, and I enjoyed my brief time hanging out with Mousseau.
Mousseau worked for the WCHA for 16 years, and also did NCHC games since that Colorado-based league began in 2013.
“Butch loved officiating and he had great respect for the student-athletes and coaches. No matter how difficult or intense a game might be, Butch always wore a big smile on his face. This smile had a tremendous calming effect on everyone. On the occasions where would disagree with a call, his self-deprecating humor and warm personality would quickly diffuse an emotional situation. He was very well-liked by everyone and perhaps the most popular official in the WCHA. His unique war ‘whoop’ on delayed icing was his unique way of signaling his fellow officials. He will be missed terribly by everyone who knew him.” — George Gwozdecky, former Denver coach
Swiader is now the NCHC video guy. “After working 25 years working both minor professional and NCAA Division 1, Butch was one of the guys that I felt 100 percent confident going into a big game. I always knew where he was and where he is going,” Swiader said in an email. “Off the ice, Butch was one of the nicest guys you would ever meet. He would do anything at any time. When I got hurt, he would be one of the first to call to see how I was doing. He always had a smile on his face and was the first to initiate a handshake.
“I am not an emotional kind of guy but I have run out of tears today.”
Wild at Avalanche on Saturday, 1 p.m.
Avs LW Cody McLeod on Friday:
Patrick Roy Part 1 Friday:
Avs D Francois Beauchemin: “Exciting games to play. Everybody is watching us and saying we’re in a tough situation. But you have to take it as a positive thing and just get excited and motivated by it … We have to approach it like a must-win situation. We have eight games left. We know where we’re at. Obviously, it’s a must-win situation … We control our own destiny. We win tomorrow, we’re right back in it. We all know that if we lose we put ourselves in a really tough situation.”
Roy: “It’s not time right now to look at the big picture. If you’re looking at the big picture it’s going to be scary.”
| March 25, 2016, 12:15 am
Erik Johnson: “I might have played one of the best games of my career and one little play, it can happen like that and be the difference.”
By Terry Frei
(Photo by Brent Lewis/The Denver Post)
My game story on the Avalanche’s 4-2 loss to the Flyers is here. It’s always fun to have three different versions of the “lede” going — one for a Colorado win, one for Colorado getting one point, one for Colorado losing in regulation — and then starting to settle in on one … and have it blow up.
Filing that “runner” at the buzzer then becomes, um, quite a challenge and we’re always relieved when the later touched-up story with quotes, refiled after a half hour of gathering quotes and rewriting, is posted.
Some extras:
Erik Johnson, who logged 26:58 of ice time and for the most part had a terrific game, was at his stall, answering questions.
He’s quoted in the story, but I wasn’t able to get in his entire answer after I asked him abut blowing leads.
“We have to find a way to be better,” he said. “We can talk about it all we want, we just have to do it. We’ve talked about it a ton, trust me, as a group. Is our preparation, is it the process, is it just focus. We talk about it a lot, about the leads, and at the end of the day I think we just get a little too passive. When we feel the other team pushing, the other team buzzing, we may get a little bit back on our heels and then they buzz and something happens.”
I also wasn’t able to get in his answer when I asked him about the Flyers’ third goal, which followed a Johnson turnover.
“We were setting up for the one-timer in the offensive zone,” he said. “I just tried to chip it down the wall, and (Wayne) Simmonds made a nice play to pull it to the middle. They got a shot there and we backchecked perfect into the slot and I guess we over-backchecked a bit and the fourth guy (Claude Giroux) knocked it in.
“I might have played one of the best games of my career and one little play, it can happen like that and be the difference.”
In Patrick Roy’s post-game interview, I asked the coach about the blown leads — that’s in the story — and also about shortening his bench, even more than usual.
Among the defensemen, not just Johnson and Francois Beauchemin (23:28) played big-time minutes, but so did Nick Holden (27:23) and Tyson Barrie (26:16) The Avalanche had only one power play to skew that a bit for Barrie. That meant Chris Bigras (10:14) and Zach Redmond (4:31) didn’t see the ice much.
And the Colorado fourth line, with Mikko Rantanen centering Cody McLeod and Jack Skille, played so sparingly, it demonstrated a glaring lack of faith in Rantanen — something Roy himself admitted. Rantanen was drafted as, and played most of the season at San Antonio as, a winger before playing center with the Rampage of late. Yes, with Matt Duchene and Nathan MacKinnon out, it was the right call to bring up Rantanen and even to get him to the 10-game threshold and burn the first year of his entry-level deal, but this is the worst of both worlds. You either have enough faith in him, making it worth burning that year if it comes to it, or you don’t. It would be ridiculous to both burn that year and not show any faith in him. If that’s the possibility, the Avs would have been better off to recall a lunch-bucket forward from the Rampage.
“I tried to roll the lines,” Roy said. “I guess I don’t trust yet Mikko and that makes me sometimes nervous, a faceoff in our end…Sometimes it’s just a matter of trust. I guess with time, he’ll be there, but this is a playoff game for us. It’s not about how much I say I’m going to give to the guys, it’s about having the guys that I think should be on the ice at that moment and who I’m trusting and have confidence in.”
Terry Frei: tfrei@denverpost.com or @TFrei
Categories: Eastern Conference, Game Day, General Avs
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March 2012 Blog Posts (64)
Harold Chapman: "The Beat Hotel...And Other Images, Made for the Future" at OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art
Retrospective exhibition of Harold Chapman's work, covering 65 years (1947 - 2012), is opening at the OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art on Saturday, March 24 in Huntington Beach, California.
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An Interview with guitarist Joe Gooch of Ten Years After & Hundred Seventy Split: The Blues is non pretentious
"To me the blues is about freedom of expression and my own personal musical journey"
Joe Gooch: True musical expression
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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on March 20, 2012 at 1:11am — No Comments
Legendary Excello singer Marion James talks about Hendrix, Doc Blakey, Gatemouth Brown, & her new label EllerSoul
"I think blues lasts because it is pleasing to the ear and tells a true story about life."
Marion James: I sing music that you can "feel"
Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee,…
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"Keep it simple. Learn the basic language of music (or anything) and then find the most natural way to express yourself."
Pete Contino: Mix Music Gumbo
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An Interview with drummer Kofi Baker, son of legendary Ginger Baker: The Cream is my ideal band
"Drums mean everything to me as they allow me and music allows me to express myself."
Kofi Baker: Drums Experience
As the son of legendary drumming icon Ginger Baker, Kofi Baker has a name that’s…
An Interview with A.J. Croce: Life is always interesting. It’s not always easy or fun but it’s interesting.
"My father gave me one pice of advice that would serve everyone well, “Don’t be an asshole”. It’s a good mantra."
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Brit harpman Will Wilde talks about Little Walker, Musselwhite, Mike Vernon, animal rights & bodybuilding
"I have always suffered on and off with depression, and blues is a way for me to channel my feelings and emotions."
Will Wilde: Soul-building Blues…
Israeli bluesman Eli Marcus talks about Champagne Charlie, Blues for Peace, & the philosophy of Blues
"The Blues has always been my friend when I feel lonely, and I think it keeps me sane when people around me are just too crazy..."
Eli "Dr. Blues" Marcus: Blues as Zen
Eli Marcus is a…
An Interview with brilliant singer/songwriter Beverly McClellan: Blues is the heartbeat of life
"Live Life you only get one!!!"
Beverly McClellan: Heart & Soul
Rock ‘n’ roll is built on a foundation of great vocalists, and…
Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on March 17, 2012 at 12:00pm — No Comments
R.I.P Red Holloway, Big Walter Price & Eddie King
Sadly we have had so many from our blues community leave us
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Fabulous D.C guitarist Tom Principato talks about Danny Gatton, Chuck Leavell, Powerhouse, & Telecaster
"Blues music has changed over the years - it has to. Blues needs to stay current with the times."
Tom Principato: Bluescaster D.C
Tom Principato has spent the last 40+ years as a guitarist and singer based in his hometown of…
An Interview with Tennessean blues singer/songwriter Terry Garland: Express my feelings with the blues
"Blues is constant and ageless and always being recycled. I wish new artists would be and get deeper."
Terry Garland: Original Blues Heartbeat
When Terry Garland sings the blues the listener is…
An Interview with Barnes "Sinnerboy" Barnes: Keeping the music and memory of Rory Gallagher's alive
"Rory wrote songs about the loneliness one can experience on the road"
Barry "Sinnerboy" Barnes: On the road with Rory
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New Yorker Arthur Neilson talks about Shemekia, Otis Rush, Cyndi Lauper, Albert King, & NY blues clubs
"You can always relate to emotion, if you can't, then you got a hole in your soul."
Arthur Neilson: Melodic Emotions…
An Interview with versatile Arnie Goodman: The energy of the music is what comes out of my lenses
"Great photos are music to the eyes, you can see every note."
Arnie Goodman: Lightning blues storm…
Texas blues/rock singer Nina Van Horn talks about Dan Aykroyd, Bette Midler, Odetta, her book, & blueswomen
"The heart keeps the failures, the soul inspires you and the brain tells you to sing it!"
Nina Van Horn: Hell of a Woman
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Bloodshot Bill: Rock n Roll can never die
Bloodshot Bill plays Wild Greasy Rock'n'Roll & Hillbilly music...usually by himself. He is from…
An Interview with guitarist/singer/songwriter Marcus Bonfanti: Happiness is doing what you love all the time
"You can take the emotion and feeling required to play the blues and apply it to anything you do."
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Eugene Peterson, Gay Marriage, and The Scandal.
So yesterday the story broke about this guy name Eugene Peterson, honestly, I've heard his name once or twice but really knew nothing about him. I found that he's a pretty quiet guy. He is an American-born clergyman, scholar, author, and poet. He has written over thirty books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, a paraphrase of the Bible
He was being interviewed by a popular left leaning blogger Jonathan Merritt in the interview Jonathan asked the following question...
“If you were pastoring today and a gay couple in your church who were Christians of good faith asked you to perform their same-sex wedding ceremony, is that something you would do?”
Peterson answered the question with a simple 'YES!'
And then the backlash began...Lifeway threatened to pull the message Bible... and then all of the sudden there was a quick retraction, sorta.
“I affirm a biblical view of marriage: one man to one woman. I affirm a biblical view of everything… When put on the spot by this particular interviewer, I said yes in the moment. But on further reflection and prayer, I would like to retract that. That’s not something I would do out of respect to the congregation, the larger church body, and the historic biblical Christian view and teaching on marriage. That said, I would still love such a couple as their pastor. They’d be welcome at my table, along with everybody else."
“I wouldn’t have said this 20 years ago, but now I know a lot of people who are gay and lesbian, and they seem to have as good a spiritual life as I do. I think that kind of debate about lesbians and gays might be over.”
Having a 'good spiritual life' does not mean you are necessary a follower of Christ.
So it is obvious that he does not view homosexuality as a sin. His comment reveals where his heart really lies, and he was speaking the truth during his interview and once the financial pressure showed up he realized that he better try and smooth this thing over. So his retraction really was not a retraction on his views. It was an attempt to smooth the scandal over and make folks like LifeWay happy again. And what's sad is that many Christians are totally cool with his 'retraction' and have opened their heart and arms back up to him as a brother.
But here is the thing he's shown who he is. He's a weasel. He goes with what the popular opinion is at the moment.
I've never been a fan of the message Bible. Way too liberal and progressive in its translation.
SO this is once again where Christians need to see this guy for who he is. He's now lumped in with the progressive left, actually he's been there for a long time were just now seeing it. So be careful what you all read into and allow into your hearts and minds.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. 1 John 2 15-17
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Grindleford Bridge Chapel
Derbyshire Places of Worship
Other Places of Worship in this Area
Grindleford, Grindleford Methodist Church
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Grindleford, St Helen's Church
Grindleford, Padley Chapel
Froggatt, Wesleyan Reform Chapel
Eyam, Wesleyan Reform ("Bottom") Chapel
Stoney Middleton, St Martin's Church
Stoney Middleton, Wesleyan Reform Chapel
Stoney Middleton, Unitarian Chapel (Demolished)
Eyam, St Lawrence's Church (formerly St Helen)
Eyam, Eyam Methodist Church ("Top Chapel")
Calver, Stocking Farm School Room
Calver, Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
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Grindleford Bridge Chapel, Grindleford
Grindleford Bridge Chapel [no longer registered]
Grindleford Bridge,
Grindleford, Derbyshire.
We believe the Chapel did NOT have a graveyard.
Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.
This Place of Worship was founded in 1766, but we understand it was closed by 1905, and the premises are now in secular use.
Methodism may have first arrived in Grindleford as early as 1766. John Wesley, in his Journal for the period 27th May 1765 to 18th May 1768 records that on Thursday 27th March 1766, "I preached in the morning at a little village, near Eyam, in the High-Peak. The eagerness with which the poor people devoured the word, made me amends for the cold ride over the snowy mountains".
The little village is reputedly Grindleford Bridge, and he may have been travelling there from Sheffield, as his entry for 2 days before (March 25th) describes preaching at "Creitch" [Crich], and "thence we rode on through several heavy showers of snow to Sheffield, where, at six, we had a numerous congregation. There has been much disturbance here this winter. But to night all was peace".
Wesley's visit may have been a consequence of an abortive attempt to introduce Methodism to Eyam in 1765. William Wood, in The History and Antiquities of Eyam (1842) describes Mr. Matthew Mayer, of Portwood-hall, near Stockport preaching twice at Eyam that year, and meeting with so much hostility that he each time narrowly escaped with life. Thereafter the mass of the villagers would not suffer the preachers to come into the village... the few converts to the new doctrine repaired to Grindleford Bridge, where the preachers were not molested.
Thereafter various directories record a Methodist Chapel in Grindleford Bridge, built in 1830.
The return to the Religious Census of 1851 (HO 129/449/3/6/8) for "Grindleford Bridge Chapel", for a Wesleyan Methodist congregation describes a separate building, erected "before 1800", used exclusively as a place of worship. It had free sittings for 54, and 46 "other" sittings, and the estimated congregation on March 30th was 29 in the morning, 43 in the afternoon, and 16 in the evening; and there were 42 Sunday Scholars at morning class, and 45 in the afternoon. The return was completed by Joseph Andrew, its Steward, who gave his address as "Grindleford Bridge, Derbyshire". He remarked it was "an unusually slender attendance this day, in consequence of the weather being showery and the district straggling. The night service is a prayer meeting".
Old Maps of 1880 and 1898 show a building labelled as "Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan Reform)" in between where the present Methodist Church stands, and the "Pinfold". Evidently, it did change its allegiance to become a "Reform" Chapel, as the entry in Harrod's Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and Staffordshire of 1870 for Woodland Eyam records the Rev. Joseph Andrew as Wesleyan Reform minister for the township.
It was replaced by the new building in 1904-5, and on the next available Map, of 1922, the original building was labelled "Institute". In 1971, as today, it can be seen attached, as it was (presumably) originally, to a property now known as "Rose Cottage.
Now or formerly Wesleyan Methodist.
If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication.
This Chapel was located at OS grid reference SK2421777802. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:
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Information last updated on 28 Dec 2014 at 14:46.
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When Vishy Met Bobby
An article yesterday on Guardian.co.uk has been getting mentions on chess blogs everywhere -- not too surprising in that it features the current World Champion talking about one of his greatest predecessors: Vishy Anand: I found Bobby Fischer surprisingly normal and calm. Here's the portion that relates to this chess960 blog.
Q: The BBC are currently showing the documentary Bobby Fischer, Genius and Madman. You met Fischer in 2006, a couple of years before he died. What was he like?
A: I found him surprisingly normal. Well, at least not very tense. He seemed to be relieved to be in the company of chess players. He was calm in that sense. He was also a bit worried about people following him, so the paranoia never really went away. But I am really happy I got the chance to meet him before he died in 2008. It was weird as well because I kept having to remind myself that this was Bobby Fischer sitting in front of me!
Q: Were you tempted to whip out a pocket chessboard and challenge him to a quick blitz game?
A: No, because he whipped out his pocket chess set first and we started to analyse some recent games I'd played.
Q: Really?
A: Yes, I showed him some of my games from Wijk aan Zee and tried to share some interesting developments. He was sort of able to follow everything – he hadn't lost his sharpness for chess – but his methods were a bit dated. In that sense he had fallen behind.
Q: How do you mean?
A: Well, he had some suggestions, and he was sort of in the ball park … but when I would tell him that the computer says white is winning here, for me that was a sign to move on – but for him it was a starting point to argue with me! [Laughs]. I found it difficult to say to him 'No, no, no – these computers are really strong. You shouldn't be arguing with them!"'
Is it a coincidence that, as I recounted in 'Hardly Ever Played Chess960 Before', Anand first played chess960 the following year? Whatever the reason, another account of the same meeting appeared in October 2008 on Chessbase.com -- Vishy Anand: 'Chess is like acting' -- which featured an interview with Anand from Der Spiegel:-
Q: The American Bobby Fischer, who died at the beginning of the year, was chess crazy, paranoid, misanthropic. You met this chess genius two and a half years ago in Iceland, where he was living in exile. How did that happen?
A: I played in a tournament in Reykjavik and the Icelandic grandmaster Helgi Olafsson asked me if I would be interested in meeting Bobby Fischer. Olafsson picked him up from his flat, while I waited in the car. Fischer probably wanted to avoid my knowing which apartment was his.
Q: What did you talk to him about?
A: Fischer told me how he sometimes rode around Reykjavik with the bus, in order to see the city. He complained that he could not get Indian balm [Amrutanjan] in Iceland. Suddenly he wanted to go to McDonalds. So there he was, this legend of the chess world, asking me if I took ketchup.
Q: Did you talk about chess?
A: Of course. We were standing in a park and Bobby pulled out an old pocket chess set and we analysed a couple of games between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi in 1974. He wanted to prove that all world championship games after his victory were prearranged. He did not convince me.
Q: Why did Fischer specifically want to meet you?
A: Perhaps he felt an affinity. We are both from countries in which chess was not popular until we came along. I am not Russian and Fischer felt persecuted by the Soviets in the past. And there is evidence to suggest that Soviet grandmasters actually ganged up against him.
Q: Fischer proposed a new variation of the game, which is called Fischer Random Chess. He wanted the pieces in the starting position to me shuffled before every game. Would that not be a more creative form of chess?
A: I do not think much of a random placement of the pieces. That is perhaps something for people who were previously active and now have very little time. They don't want to study openings theory. But the opening systems are part of chess.
Looks like we won't be seeing Anand anytime soon in another chess960 tournament. In fact, that assessment complements an item posted by Thechessdrum.net just after Fischer's death in January 2008: Fischer wanted to play Kasparov, Anand.
A story from the Iceland’s Morgunbladid has stated that Bobby Fischer desired one last match with Garry Kasparov and/or Viswanathan Anand. [...] In interviews he stated that he would only play Fischer Random, but there was keen interest in a match with a top player. [...] Anand had been asked about a match with Fischer and expressed keen interest in the possibility.
It's not clear from that account whether Anand's 'keen interest' for a match applied to chess960, or was reserved for traditional chess, where he would have trounced Fischer. The Chess Drum's post leads to another account of the Anand - Fischer meeting, this time preserved on video -- Fischer Remembered | Macauley on blip.tv -- where Anand speaks about the Reykjavik meeting at both 5:50 and 7:40 into the clip.
[NB: I could be wrong, because I haven't seen either documentary, but the Guardian's reference to Bobby Fischer, Genius and Madman seems to be the same film as the Liz Garbus effort titled Bobby Fischer Against the World. To be confirmed...]
Labels: History, Video
If I could just debunk another myth on Fischer Random Chess that is being spread by Anand and his buddy Kramnik. This duo think that if you change the start position it's a different game. That is rubbish.
They are confusing the idea of a game with the idea of scientific inquiry. The only difference between traditional chess and 960 is that traditional chess has a huge opening database of accumulated "facts" that support the theories on best practice.
But since when has chess been about scientific inquiry? That is just one aspect of it. Chess is a game that is all! It is good to have theories that are tested over the board on the spur of the moment but that have no substantive fact to back them up. It's just a game!
Aronian said it perfectly the other day in an interview. He said he "loves the geometry and the struggle for plans" in Chess. That is a quality of game playing, not of scientific inquiry. Think about it! Neither an appreciation for the geometry of chess nor the struggle for plans actually needs a nice cosy database of "facts" in order to experience.
To answer my own question above "since when has chess been about scientific inquiry?". Here is Kasparov's ideas:
Kasparov moves for scholastic chess in Turkey....
14.12.2011 – "We would like to think of chess not as a game but as a special learning tool that improves results. We focus on the word ‘education’ and not the word ‘chess'
Ok so the big question is whether Chess960 is also a learning tool with an equal focus on education?
To me, Chess960 is more beneficial than traditional chess because it still involves scientific inquiry with computers, but there is a lot more room for the imagination during the opening phase. Kids not only learn about discovering the optimal path, but having to deal with non-optimal strategies that are present from the word go. That is very much like the real world they find themselves in! And anyway, after the opening Chess and Chess960 are the same!
Whatever. Have a great Christmas to all Chess960 Fischer Random fans!
Setting Chess on Course for the Next 100 Years
Setting Chess Back 100 Years
Not Everyone Likes Chess960
'Can I use this name "Fischer Chess"?'
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About China
Living in the Village
Folktales and Legends
Traditional Art Style: Ink Wash Painting
Ink wash painting (水墨畫) is a traditional art style dating back to ancient China. This type of painting often uses ink and water to present scenes (Shan Sui Hua 山水畫), animals, and people. Traditionally, paintings are black and white with variations of grey. Ink wash painting has been practiced throughout history, and it is still considered prestigious. It is an art form that emphasizes “feeling the art”. It can be very abstract and full of difficult-to-appreciate beauty.
In the past, painters would grind their own ink with inksticks on inkstones
Inkstones are hard to get so bottled ink is more often used nowadays
Colours are sometimes added
Bigger brushes can paint larger areas and smaller brushes are used to paint details
Brushes are made from different animal hairs, which are each of a different stiffness: Weasel hair (hard) and goat hair (soft) are most often used in brushes
Hair from rats, rabbits, deer, and horses, for example, can also be used
In calligraphy and paintings, the paper used is Xuan or Shuan Paper(宣紙)
In the past, this paper was used for fans and would have ink wash paintings, calligraphy, or both on it
A cheaper and more common paper used for both calligraphy and ink wash painting is Mian paper(棉紙)
How to Paint a Rooster
This video has all the details about drawing a rooster with Chinese Ink. Chinese painting has a long history, it begins in dynasty of Han which is around 2000 years ago. Thus, to learn Chinese culture and history, Chinese painting is very important. The reason is because to understand a nation, you have to know their history and their culture. Chinese ink is one part of history and culture, the painting could show what people were thinking of at that time.
这个视频是讲中国国画的，画的是一只鸡。国画拥有很长的历史，要追溯到2000年之前，也就是汉朝。所以学习中国文化和历史，要了解国画是很重要的。因为国画是中国历史文化的一个很重要的部分，从国画里面可以看到当时的人们的想法，以及那时候的人民的生活。
Dough Fish
In China people make animals and other sculpture out of coloured dough. The Chinese Dough Sculpture Art is originated from traditional folk handicraft in ancient China about 1300 years ago. It is used in cooking originally because Chinese people love fancy design. The variety shapes can be created with different symbols to a family even an individual.
For the process
1. Preparing the ingredients and tools (Flour, Sweet Flour, Salt, Tempera Paint, Sculpture tools). Mix flour, sweet flour, small scoop of salt and small amount of preservative (or you can even skip this) with boiled water. Roll the dough by your hands until it’s smooth. Set the dough for 2 hours then roll it again until it is smooth.
2. Put it in the plastic wrap and steam for around 40 minutes.
3. Knead the dough after it is cooling down for about 40 minutes until it has become smooth and elastic.
4. Adding colours for your need then mix them well. You will be ready for the sculptures.
5. Use your idea to create a sculpture
http://chinaalive.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/clay_fish.mp4
Chinese Knots
Here we will show you how to make Chinese Knots. Chinese knots is one of traditional handcraft products. It is one of the symbols of major characteristic industries of the Chinese nation. Chinese knots are kind of characteristic folk decoration in handcraft art. They are also a distinctive feature of traditional Chinese apparel.
Knot is pronounced as ‘Jie’ in Chinese, similar to ‘ji’, which means blessing, good salary, longevity, happiness, fortune, safety and health. It is the everlasting pursuit of Chinese people, so some Chinese knots express people’s various hopes.
The history of Chinese knots takes us back to the prehistoric era. The earliest record of using knotting can be found at the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian. People used ropes as a primitive form of belt with knots for more than just fastening, wrapping, hunting and fishing. Knots were also used to record events, and some had purely ornamental functions.
http://chinaalive.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/chinese_knot.mp4
Here we will show you how to make a Chinese character by cutting it out of paper.
Paper cutting is also one of the traditional handcraft art in China. It is formed from six hundred CE in Tang dynasty in China. When the paper became more affordable in the past, it became a popular art form. It can create different pictures, such as character, animals, and patterns. The paper cutting usually uses to decorate the home and other structures. It also usually uses to the Chinese wedding and spring festival as the decoration too.
Process to cut a Chinese character of “Chun”;
First, fold the square paper in half.
Second, draw a half character of “Chun”.
Third, start to cut along with the lines.
Final, open the paper and finish.
http://chinaalive.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/paper-cutting.mp4
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Blackford: threat to Scotland grows from Johnson's 'fanatical' Brexit plans
The SNP has said that Scotland faces the very real and growing threat of being “dragged down the road to economic and social Brexit self-harm”, as Boris Johnson looks set to succeed Theresa May as Prime Minister today.
Ian Blackford MP warned Boris Johnson against “building a bunker-mentality government” that would side-line any attempts at seeking a meaningful route out of the Brexit crisis.
Blackford added that the former Foreign Secretary was “fanatically fanning the flames” of a devastating no-deal Brexit, which will cost thousands of jobs, leave people poorer and worse off and could plunge Scotland and the UK into a recession.
However with a slew of Tory Cabinet members and ministers resigning in protest against the prospect of a Boris Johnson government, the SNP warned that Scotland was looking on in horror as an increasingly bitterly divided Tory party pushed the country ever closer to the cliff-edge.
Commenting, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said:
“With Boris Johnson set to succeed Theresa May as Prime Minister today, it’s clearer than ever before that Scotland faces the very real threat of being dragged down the road to economic and social Brexit self-harm.
“Rather than fanatically fanning the flames of a devastating no-deal Brexit, Boris Johnson must take a step back from the brink and, for once in his career, act in the national interest.
“If the Tory leadership contest is a sign of things to come then I warn Boris Johnson against building a bunker-mentality government that would shut off any attempts at seeking a meaningful route out of the Brexit crisis.
“Time and time again economic analysis has found that a no-deal exit from the EU would be catastrophic for jobs, people’s livelihoods and could plunge the country into recession.
“It’s no wonder then that support for independence is rising, and a majority now support a fresh referendum on Scotland’s future.
“With the October Brexit deadline fast approaching, Scotland is looking on in horror at the bleak Boris Johnson Brexit Britain on offer. Scotland must have a choice over a better future.
“It is clearer than ever that the only way to properly protect Scotland’s interests is by becoming an equal and independent European country.”
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