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Spending soars on state ballot measures
The top 10 donors to California’s November ballot measures have already spent a total of more than $150 million on the various campaigns [California Watch].
Major donors include politically opposed siblings, a 91-year-old billionaire and a teachers union that has outspent every other special interest group in the last decade.
In a year in which statewide focus lies on Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to raise taxes for education funding, a competing tax initiative has actually received the highest individual donation. Civil rights attorney and daughter of a billionaire business partner of Warren Buffet, Molly Munger, has spent more than $30 million to pass Proposition 38 which, like Brown’s Proposition 30, would raised taxes to fund K-12 education.
Meanwhile Munger’s half-brother, Republican activist Charles Munger Jr. has spent $23 million to defeat Proposition 30 and support Proposition 32, which prohibits unions from spending payroll deducted funds on political campaigns.
On the other sides of propositions 30 and 32, the California Teachers Association has given nearly $8 million and more than $18 million to passing and defeating the respective measures. While this year’s ballot measures directly affect the teachers union, the heavy spending by the CTA is nothing new. From 2001 to 2011, the union gave more than $118 million to candidates and initiatives, more than any other interest group.
Other individual big spenders on the 2012 initiatives include hedge fund manager Thomas Steyer and Mercury Insurance Chairman George Joseph. Steyer, an investor in renewable energy, has spent $22 million to pass Proposition 39, which would alter taxation on multi-state companies to raise money for alternative energy projects. Joseph, the 91-year-old founder of Mercury, has spent more than $16 million supporting Proposition 30, which would let car insurance companies base rates on whether customers had previously been insured.
Though not nearly as funded as the tax initiative campaigns, Proposition 37, the genetically modified food labeling measure, has drawn considerable spending from a couple corporations. Monsanto and DuPont, two companies that produce genetically modified seeds, have spent $7 million and $5 million respectively opposing Proposition 37.
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Question: What is the definition of Globalization?
Answer: Princess Diana’s death.
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Slam me all you want for this but……Unions are good only for the members. The ones footing the payroll bills get screwed. Unions protect the lazy, good for nothing employees that can’t produce anymore. I have supervised union employees and with all due respect, 60% of the employees were good hard working individuals. The other 40%, pieces of crap, but I couldn’t fire them without an act of God. What is the worst is that union dues are paid by the taxpayers for government workers where the unions use that money to lobby other government employees/officials for favorable decisions. This is public taxpayer funded lobbying and it should be illegal. The law enforcement side of this is the worst starting with the correctional officers. They lobby and lick Gov. Brown’s brown part to get what they want. Sorry, but this is just wrong. I vote to disband them all and let employees work based on their work ethic, not their bs membership in some gay union club. Wake up union members! Are you scared to be employed based on your own drive and work ethics? Do you think some lazy lackey should get paid the same as you but works 1/2 as hard?
r0y
I have no problems with Unions, their funding of political issues, etc. What I object to is the unionizing of the public sector. Even FDR didn’t think that was a good idea, and look at what an elitist, spoiled progressive he was! How public unions can be justified simply boggles the mind.
Unions were definitely needed at one point in the history of industrialization, true. But their need after the early industrial years came to an end with globalization. If you can be a private sector union shop and survive WITHOUT forced government contract work, more power to you! However, the instant the government gets involved with unions (either by unionization or requiring union shops for contracts), it just smacks of collusion. It’s the nature of the beast, unfortunately.
Unions are NOT good for companies, why would they be good for Tax Payers (aka the public sector)?
Unions are NOT good for companies thats right that is why there are ” trade associations and lobbys ”
Unions are for people who work. capital being the daughter of labor , unions democratic by nature capital being autocratic by nature
the conflict who serves vs who eats.
I have no problem with millionaires or billionaires or unions (private sector) spending money to get favorable legislation passed. Welcome to representational government.
What we should be concerned with is: WHY DO WE, as voters, FALL PREY TO PROPAGANDISTS? I mean, I will assume that most of those millions are spend on TV/Radio Ads… how is it that we’re so damn lazy that we make a decision based on a TV or Radio commercial? Therein lies the problem.
It’s not a spending problem, it’s an education problem. It’s a lazy, apathetic issue that too many voters have. We really should have a basic IQ test before we let people vote. Or at the very least require them to READ (out loud?) the propositions and bills they are voting for or against. Yeah, that’ll never happen. The ignorant are too easy to manipulate and control. Hence our rapid decline in education over the last 50 years.
SLOBIRD
This is all criminal! All this money the unions are putting out there to support them along with the millionaires is wrong. It is so illogical that we allow this happen. We overpay/benefit state workers and then they take that money and stop it on this s$@t so they can get more so then they give more to the unions to come back in the next election and have us bend over somemore. What is wrong with this.
Let’s take Prop 30: As of October 1 LaborUnions (SEIU, AFLCIO, TEACHERS, ETC.) are the biggest supporters of Prop 30 with $41 Million dollars. Prop 30 will change the California Constituation. REALLY – See proposed Section 36. The new money is really not meant to bail out the schools but for Schools and Public Stafety. Should you take the time to read the amendment to the Constitution it is for Prisons (guards/unions), attorneys, courts and support staff, mental health, child abuse, housing for offenders,local law enforcement training and new jails. This prop is not only a 1/4 cent sales tax increase but affects all taxpayers/businesses making $250,000 or more and goes up in increments as a business makes more money. Munger’s Prop is no better because it tax all taxpayers except the poor but at least her’s goes go to the schools. VOTE NO FOR ANY TAX INCREASE ANYWHERE BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO GET IT WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WITHIN THE NEXT TWO YEARS BIG TIME!! Plus, California is bankrupt and as they shift more to the local agencies we will be paying more for police, fire, ambulance, roads, schools locally, etc.
R.Hodin
The unions are doing exactly what the Chamber of Commerce membership has been doing since Day One. Campaign for your own interests. The unions are doing it with money they lawfully earned while working to benefit the state. The corporations are doing it with money their businesses earned while paying slave wages to their employees while cutting their benefits.
The way I see it, if some working stiff still has benefits & a retirement package after the last 50 years of rapacious corporate political influence in this country, then I say “Congratulations, you’ve earned it and I hope you can hang onto it, because you represent the promise of free enterprise which has been denied the rest of us. Good luck!”
Russ J
The difference being, that the chamber of commerce membership provides products that are of good value, while CTA political bribes provide for a union membership that is one of the highest paid in the country but producing the lowest student ranking in the nation. Besides, on many issues, the chamber of commerce sleeps with the same political muscle behind the CTA.
“CTA political bribes provide for a union membership” …or, as I like to view it:
Publicly Funded group A gives to Political Party B, Political Party B pushes and enacts legislation that enriches Publicly Funded group A. That is good old fashioned money laundering if I ever saw it.
Education has not been about education for decades. Like all public sector jobs, it’s about job security and squeezing the public for more money while providing less work and no accountability.
That said, education is the hardest place to have accountability. Especially when money is tied to it. Too much incentive to lie, cheat and steal. Until we completely dump the system and re-create the system to something similar in the late 1800’s (very localized, there because they love kids and not money, etc) we’re never going to see this end.
No, the difference is a business has a choice to join or not join the Chamber of Commerce, through a collective process choices are made as to what and what not to support and if you don’t like the choices made, you stop your membership. The gooberment employments are mandated to pay the union dues to get their job (bribery) and have no say and no way out of the choices made by the unions. I would be fine with employees making a choice to as be join or not the collective bargaining unions. Amazing how some of you do not recognize CHOICE, which is part of the problem today, just lead me to the trough…
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Family Research Council Applauds Gov. Brownback’s Confirmation
Family Research Council Family Research Council, Gov. Sam Brownback, Tony Perkins
WASHINGTON, DC – Family Research Council today praised the Senate confirmation of Governor Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) to be the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, a position elevated by the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2016.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins released the following statement:
“Sam Brownback’s confirmation will significantly boost our nation’s efforts to help those around the globe who are persecuted and targeted for genocide because of their religious faith. As ambassador, he will have more authority and resources to prioritize religious freedom programs, and elevate the issue in our foreign policy. One immediate way he can do this is by building on the progress made during Vice President Pence’s recent visit to the Middle East where religious liberty has deteriorated significantly.
“From the very beginning of his administration, President Trump has been intentional about his desire to pick up the torch for religious liberty, first trying to secure it for Americans here at home through his executive order and other directives. Yet the president has also highlighted the persecution that many suffer around the world because of their faith. We applaud President Trump’s nomination and the Senate’s confirmation of Sam Brownback to promote religious freedom around the world, a significant accomplishment which helps fulfill the president’s promise to address this issue,” concluded Perkins.
Article reprinted by permission of the Family Research Council.
The Family Research Council, founded in 1983, works to champion marriage and family as the foundation of civilization, the seedbed of virtue, and the wellspring of society. Based in Washington, D.C., its mission is to advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a Christian worldview.
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Beledo Moves On; Alek Darson Performs at ProgStock
Sep 26, 2017 | Circuline News and Band Updates
After a year and a half with Circuline, playing on Counterpoint, performing at RoSfest, Progtoberfest, Sonic Voyage Fest, and shows in England, guitarist Beledo has decided to focus on growing his jazz career. Beledo is a great guitarist, and we wish him the best of luck!
Performing with Circuline at ProgStock 2017 will be international guitarist Alek Darson (Fright Pig, Meridian Voice Project)!
Circuline co-leaders Darin Brannon and Andrew Colyer saw Alek perform for the first time with Fright Pig at the 2014 Rites of Spring festival (RoSfest). RoSfest is a 10-band progressive rock weekend, which is a lot to take in at one time. Alek was so awesome that he stood out among the crowd. Darin and Andrew remembered him. Later that year, in October at the 2014 New Jersey Proghouse Homecoming, Darin and Andrew saw Alek onstage again, performing a rock-jazz fusion show with Meridian Voice Project. They connected that weekend, and when Circuline needed guest guitar players for the Counterpoint album, they called Alek.
What many people don’t know about Alek is that not only is he a virtuoso guitar player, but also a highly trained recording and mixing engineer who has produced over 12 albums. Originally from Serbia, Alek went to school for audio engineering and worked for many years running his own studio, before coming to the U.S. and attending Berklee School of Music for performance and composition.
Alek contributed guitar tracks to the songs “Forbidden Planet”, “Hollow”, was the mixing engineer for the Counterpoint album, and is featured in the band’s Official Video for “Forbidden Planet” (see below). We’re excited to be performing with him at ProgStock!
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How USCIS Has Tilted DACA Decision-Making
By David North on October 15, 2012
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the ranking GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, respectively, have uncovered an outrageous, but not entirely surprising, feature of the way in which the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty program is being carried out.
DACA is the amnesty program for almost two million DREAM Act beneficiaries that was recently started by the Obama administration by means of a two-and-a-half page memo and accompanying press release, thereby avoiding the public notice and comment that substantial programs like this would normally require, and without any action by Congress.
There can be five basic decision/review patterns (in any kind of application process, public or private) that, by their very nature, range from strongly discouraging approvals of applications to strongly encouraging approvals, as charted in the table below. USCIS has chosen a pattern for DACA that most strongly encourages approvals and, for reasons to be discussed later, strongly discourages staff-level denials.
As background, Grassley and Smith recently wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano calling for more openness and more data on the DACA amnesty program: They attached to that letter an internal USCIS e-mail (from Barbara Velarde, the number-two official in the USCIS Service Centers operation) that said, in part:
We have been requested to hold any DACA denials prior to issuance and communicate the pending denial through HQSCOP [headquarters, Service Center Operations] so we can alert the front office [that of USCIS Director Mayorkas]. Please make sure that this is communicated to the field. We [have] indicated that all denials (except abandonment denials) require supervisory review during the early stages of DACA. However, at this time, and until further notice, please make sure that ALL denials are held. ...
You can imagine the likely thought process of an adjudicator, probably a lowly GS-9, sitting in a cubicle in a USCIS Service Center in California or Nebraska, when faced with the send-all-the-denial-cases-to-Washington directive. While the adjudicator has usually worked out his or her relationships with the line supervisor — they both are in one of USCIS's four regional centers — the prospect of having a denial, with the adjudicator's signature on it, sent to Washington for further review, potentially by the office of the director, must be troublesome for the guy at the bottom of the pyramid.
A likely outcome for anyone in that situation, unless that person was about to leave the agency, would be to try to figure out some way to approve the application, rather than to be recorded, on high, as opposing what appears to be the agency policy. Some adjudicators would resist this tendency, but many would succumb.
Five basic patterns for the decision-and-review process could be seen as these:
Approach Inherent Tilt Pattern Example
A. All approvals must be reviewed by headquarters Strong tilt against approvals Loans of more than a million dollars in a small bank
B. All approvals must be reviewed by first-line supervisors Some tilt against approvals Routine insurance settlements
C. No decisions are reviewed unless there is an appeal by one of the parties No tilt in any direction Most court cases
D. All denials must be approved by a first-line supervisor Tilt toward approvals Many government decisions
E. All denials must be reviewed by headquarters Strong tilt toward approvals DACA
There is another set of approaches, in which the question of review is not based on the approval/denial variable, but on something else, such as age or dollar volume. Such systems do not carry with them the inherent biases that are present when the review process is based on the nature of the underlying decision.
In short, the very structure of a bureaucratic process, as outlined above, can tilt the whole process one way or another, without the agency leadership saying a single word, either verbally or in writing, about how it wants decisions to be made.
And USCIS, when it comes to DACA, has opted for Approach E.
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UEFA to allow fans to attend Super Cup in Budapest
By Reuters For Citizen Digital
Published on: August 25, 2020 19:59 (EAT)
FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - UEFA Congress - Beurs van Berlage Conference Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands - March 3, 2020 UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin during a press conference REUTERS/Yves Herman
However, UEFA said that all other UEFA matches, including the upcoming Nations League matches and club competition qualifiers, will continue to be played behind closed doors until further notice.
Fans will be allowed to attend the UEFA Super Cup match between Bayern Munich and Sevilla in Budapest on Sept. 24, European soccer’s governing body said on Tuesday.
All games in the recent Champions League and Europa League final-stage mini-tournaments were behind closed doors, but UEFA’s executive committee ruled that up to 30% of the 67,215 capacity Puskas Arena in the Hungarian capital can be taken by fans.
The Budapest match is being viewed by UEFA as a test for their ‘Return to Play’ plans. It has not yet been decided whether only local fans will be allowed to attend the match or also travelling supporters.
“While it has been important to show that football can carry on in difficult times, without fans, the game has lost something of its character. We hope to use the UEFA Super Cup in Budapest as a pilot that will begin to see the return of fans to our matches,” said UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin.
“We are working closely with the Hungarian Federation and its government to implement measures to ensure the health of all those attending and participating in the game. We will not take risks with people’s safety,” he added.
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It’s Not Too Late to Sign Up for the ABA Regional CLE Program on Consumer Class Actions and Mass Torts (with 2 Ethics Credits!) in San Francisco this Thursday
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged ABA, cads, class action, class actions, CLE program, litigation, mass torts, quasi class action on June 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »
It’s not too late to register for this Thursday’s CLE program at the University of San Francisco. See the particulars below.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER
Who’s in Charge Here?: The Role of Lawyers, Clients, Insurers, and Judges in Class Actions and Mass Tort Litigation
Presented by the Class Actions and Derivatives Suits, Consumer Litigation, and Mass Torts Committees
Thursday, June 19, 2014, 12:00pm – 7:00pm
University of San Francisco Law School, San Francisco, CA
FREE PARKING AND 2 ETHICS CREDITS!!
The Gulf Oil Spill, the 9-11 terrorist attacks, massive product recalls and credit card data breaches—these and other large-scale conflicts generate correspondingly massive litigation, requiring courts, parties, attorneys, and insurers to adapt to increasingly complex challenges. For this half-day CLE event, we have assembled a distinguished group of judges, academics, mediators, and counsel to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing the various stakeholders.
Our all-star panels will explore ethical and other standards for selecting and evaluating named class representatives; coverage and other current issues surrounding consumer data breach class actions; the balancing of individual plaintiffs’ interests in settlement of mass tort cases; and cutting-edge case management techniques gleaned for among the most tragic mass disasters of our time—the 9-11 attacks and the Gulf Oil Spill.
We are pleased to feature the Hon. Alvin Hellerstein, U.S. District Court for the S.D. of New York—who presided over the 9-11 cases; the Hon. Jon Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the N.D. of California; Tara Kelly, inside counsel at British Petroleum (Houston); Prof. Deborah Hensler of Stanford Law School; Assoc. Dean Joshua Davis of the University of San Francisco School of Law; Thomas Kang at the ACE Group (Los Angeles); and Jocelyn Larkin, Executive Director of the Impact Fund (Berkley), among our distinguished panelists. Lunch will be provided, and the program will be followed by a sponsored cocktail hour, providing ample opportunities for networking. Come join us for an enlightening afternoon!
Program Highlights:
Whose Class Is It Anyway? –The Policy, Practice, and Ethics Behind the Search for Named Plaintiffs (Ethics CLE Credit Applied for)
Recent Developments in Data Privacy Class Actions and Insurance Coverage
It’s The Trees Not the Forest – Considering Individual Interests in Mass Torts Settlements
Judicial Quasi-Class Actions – Managing MDL and mass tort litigation through judicial control over the appointment of lead counsel, attorneys’ fees, and cost-shifting
Hon Alvin K. Hellerstein, U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York
Hon Jon S. Tigar, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Professor Joshua Davis, University of San Francisco Law School
Professor Deborah Hensler, Stanford University Law School
Tara Kelly, British Petroleum, Houston, Texas
Thomas Kang, ACE North American Professional Risk, Los Angeles
Catherine Yanni, JAMS, San Francisco
Jocelyn Larkin, Impact Fund, San Francisco
Sheila Birnbaum, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, New York, New York
Paul Karlsgodt, BakerHostetler, Denver, Colorado (Program Co-Chair)
Linda D. Kornfeld, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP, Los Angeles
Karen Menzies, Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro Davis, Newport Beach
Andrew McGuinness, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Program Co-Chair)
Rudy Perrino, Walsworth Franklin Bevins & McCall, Los Angeles
Rosemarie Ring, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco
Christina Terplan, Clyde & Co., San Francisco
Timothy Tomasik, Tomasik Kotin Kasserman, Chicago, Illinois
Donna L. Wilson, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Los Angeles
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CAROLINE AIN’T SO SWEET: TIME FOR PITT TO DITCH SWEET CAROLINE (Part 2)
Posted on December 30, 2020 by COMON Network Leave a comment
By David Haddad, Guest Contributor
Unique stadium anthems have become a valuable calling card in American athletics, galvanizing fanbases before the 4th quarter, leading up to do-or-die defensive stands and after wins. These ballads that have become synonymous with their program’s successes and have deeply embedded themselves in the culture and brand of their respective institutions. They enhance the game-day atmosphere and create a common cause between fans. Unless of course, you are a Pitt fan. In which case, the toothless, overdone pop song you have to sing every 4th quarter is just a reminder of the state of your program: irrelevant, past its prime and completely without an identity.
Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” has been the anthem of Pitt Football–played between the 3rd and 4th quarters at home football games–since 2008 when Pitt’s Director of Ticket Marketing, a former player, was tasked with improving the fan experience at Pitt games (might I suggest hiring a competent OC?). He chose the familiar soft-rock classic, and we’ve been stuck with it ever since. But as it turns the page to the 2021 season, has the time come for the University of Pittsburgh to ditch “Sweet Caroline?”
This is part two of our two-part countdown of 10 ideas for the replacing Sweet Caroline. You can find the first part here. That piece takes you through the why and numbers 10 through six on the countdown. Now we’re here to bring you home.
Here’s a reminder on the formula:
1. Sing-along-ability – This is the most important factor. Ideally, thousands will be singing along to whatever is piped over the PA. It would make sense that we make that as easy as possible, with memorable lyrics and choruses that you can’t listen to without screaming along.
2. Hype – It needs to be a song that gets the blood boiling in Heinz Field, for players and fans alike. This song can’t be something you lock arm-and-arm to and sway like you’re singing Kumbaya. It needs to get heads banging, adrenaline flowing, and mouths frothing.
3. Uniqueness – Pitt athletics is desperately trying to build a brand. The new uniforms and logos were a great start. The recent embrace of the Cathedral of Learning in our motifs is strong. Now we just need a jam that the average sports fan will associate with Pitt and Pitt alone. And also more wins. But that will come eventually.
4. Local Significance – While not a necessity, I think it would behoove Pitt to choose a theme song from a local artist. Pittsburghers are the kind of people that scoff at restaurants that serve Hunt’s. We drink Iron City, not because it tastes “good”, but because they put our skyline on the can and jobs in our region. The easiest way to get early buy-in is by giving our people something that tugs at their pride.
Bonus points will be given for a killer intro, steamy build-up, youth-friendliness, and a nature that is conducive to highlights of Paris Ford stealing souls.
10. “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele
9. “It’s a Long Way to the Top” by AC/DC
8. “Bad Company” by Bad Company
7. “Welcome to the Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance
6. “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” by The Darkness
And now we go.
5. The Song You Think It Should Be
You! Yes, you – the person reading this. The smartest, handsomest, most special Pitt fan in all the world. Number 5 is whatever song you were punching air about not yet seeing on this list. That’s right. Whatever bullshit, nobody-grunge crossover from 2002 that you were going to angrily flood our mentions with – that’s the one. The guitar riff. The drums. The vocals. It’s all too perfect. I’m just sorry we made you wait until Part 2 for it.
Just imagine how the crowd and players will react every Saturday. This is the song that will single-handedly fill Heinz Field, lift whatever curse has been plaguing the program since the late 90s, and put Pitt football – no… the whole city of Pittsburgh – back on the map.
You’re so smart. They should let you call the plays, too.
4. “Mother” by Danzig
When I asked Pitt Twitter for suggestions, a song about everyone’s favorite parent by a band I’d never heard of popped up in my mentions. A quick Spotify search and five seconds of runtime later, and was ready to run headfirst into the nearest wall. Honestly, I’m listening to it right now and it’s getting hard to type with my hands shaking and my drool slickening the keyboard.
Is it a little too heavy metal for today’s kids? Perhaps. Would a whole stadium of people moshing to this song teleport Heinz Field into another dimension and guarantee a Pitt win? Hell yeah.
3. “Party on 5th Ave” by Mac Miller
You had to have seen this coming.
I mean…it’s almost too perfect…
A party anthem named after a street that runs through the heart of campus, written by the most famous musician Pittsburgh has ever known – who died tragically before his prime and will be remembered forever? You simply couldn’t write a script like this. The fact that we haven’t added speakers to the Cathedral’s Victory Lights with the sole purpose of playing “Party on 5th Ave” until the sun comes up is a crime against logic.
With a familiar beat and memorable chorus, Mac Miller’s 2011 smash hit is everything you need in a post-victory singalong. The verses may not be great for singing along to due to their tempo and intricacy, but I think we can make an exception for a song with more local significance than a Warhol portrait painted with Heinz condiments.
In fact, I think the only thing keeping it from the #1 spot is that if we went straight chalk, you wouldn’t know how contrarian and smart we are.
2. “Burnin’ Up” by the Jonas Brothers
Don’t you roll your eyes at me. I get it. A girl you had a crush on in middle school was in love with the Jonas Brothers, so you spent your adolescence making fun of their skinny ties and purity rings. But fortunately for modern civilization, your asinine toxic masculinity didn’t stop Joe, Kevin, and Nick from making certified bangers for over a decade.
I want you to close your eyes. It’s the end of the 3rd Quarter in Heinz Field. Pitt’s up seven against an inferior opponent that they were beating by 21 at half. The boys need momentum and the crowd needs back into it. The Jumbotron goes black. A hush falls over the stadium. From the heavens fades in a muted guitar riff. A tea kettle whistle rises to a fever pitch, and in perfect unison, tens of thousands of Pitt fans chime in, “I’M HOT.” Chills.
I know it sounds like I’m kidding, but this song hits a lot of the pre-requisites: an intoxicatingly upbeat tempo, a chorus that begs to be shouted at the top of one’s lungs, and the ever-important nostalgia factor. The current crop of college students were 6-10 years old when Burnin’ Up dropped in 2008 (oh my God, I’m going to throw up), which is perfect because the Jonas Brothers’ target audience is right there. They would love this. And keep in mind, this is for them and not you.
Say whatever you want about the Jonas Brothers lacking the machismo for a true stadium ballad, but just keep in mind that this man wrote every great pump-up jam from 1975-1991.
Before we get to #1, we have to give a shout out to all the songs that we couldn’t fit into this list but still deserve your consideration. Namely, any song you can force a Pitt pun into. Here are just a few possibilities:
“Pittin’ On the Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding
“Pitt Me Baby One More Time” by Brittney Spears
“Pittersweet Symphony” by The Verve
“Everyday We Pitt” by FYN Lucci
“’Duz Yourself” by Eminem
“Lyke a G6” by Far East Movement
The possibilities are literally endless.
1. “Elm Street” by Jimmy Wopo
If you haven’t heard of this one yet, you’re welcome.
Jimmy Wopo’s “Elm Street,” with its pounding piano riff, infectious energy, and memorable bars, is a genuine head-turner upon first listen; the type of song that has people at the party asking, “What is this??” when it comes over the speaker.
The song has Heinz Field exposure in some capacity, having been used sparingly during time outs and commercial breaks. But more importantly, it is already somewhat of a staple of the Pitt locker room after wins (starts at 0:43).
The reason, however, that this takes our top spot is that no other song captures as many valuable factors as “Elm Street.” What we also have here is a unique, not-yet-commercially popular bop that the American public would be able to easily associate with the Pitt brand. And we already covered the contagious beat and indelible, yellable lyrics – which I could hammer until I’m blue in the face.
But what can’t be oversold is the potential local significance of making this the new Pitt jam.
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Jimmy Wopo (real name Travon Smart), was killed in a drive-by shooting in the Hill District on June 18, 2018 – mere days after signing with Wiz Khalifa’s Taylor Gang Entertainment. He was a star-in-the-making who saw his light extinguished before his time. Wopo is remembered fondly by the youth and burgeoning rap scene of Pittsburgh, especially his good friends Damar Hamlin and Paris Ford.
What a way to enshrine the legacy of one of Pittsburgh’s greatest rappers.
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One health: from buzzword to public health practice in Nepal
by Molly Miller-Petrie
Antibiotic Resistance Blog
We’re miles outside of town, progress slowing as the jeep plunges in and out of massive potholes. All around us stretch green fields divided by long straight rows of bright purple flowers. Nepali farmers are out in the fields beside their homes, each of which boasts a tower of straw and a smattering of chickens or goats.
This is just the right place for the College of Veterinary Sciences, Agriculture and Forestry University, Chitwan, which conducts research that can help farmers optimize production and protect their animals’ health. The Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP)-Nepal working group supports young researchers here to focus their studies on antibiotic resistance. Lining the walls leading upstairs are scientific posters describing investigations into resistant isolates in poultry and antibiotic use in aquaculture, among more traditional agricultural topics.
Dr. Amit Sharma, one of those young GARP-supported researchers, has been studying antibiotic use in the growing aquaculture industry in Nepal, where fish production grew by more than 10 percent per year from 1990 to 2014. Of the 40 farmers he interviewed, antibiotics were used by less than one-third. However, these farmers are operating at small scale, growing fish in backyard ponds—nothing to rival salmon farming in Argentina, for instance, which relies heavily on antibiotics for disease control in their high-density fisheries. The largely antibiotic-free practices in Chitwan must be encouraged and strengthened, lest farmers be tempted to increase production at the expense of greater antibiotic use.
Meanwhile in Bharatpur, the nearest town, Nepal’s only national cancer referral hospital, BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, stretches over a huge piece of land with sections for palliative care, outpatient and diagnostic services. The hospital chairman, Dr. Prakash Raj Neupane, stresses that doctors here still tend to use antibiotics post surgery, rather than prophylactically. This is a serious problem, as a much greater volume of antibiotics is used when given post-, rather than pre-surgery, creating even more pressure on bacteria to develop resistance.
Farther east, at the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Professor Paras Pokharel, GARP-Vice Chair, is trying to bring these diverse challenges together by introducing the idea of one health—an approach to combating antibiotic resistance that integrates the animal and human health communities—to his public health students.
“Have you heard of this concept before?” he asks the room, filled with a mix of nursing, medical, and public health students. No one raises a hand. Through awareness weeks, essay competitions, collaborative research and cross-sectoral lectures, GARP-Nepal hopes to change the siloed research on AMR in order to tackle the issue together.
Nepal’s Minister of Health, Mr. Ram Janam Chaudhari, is putting the one-health concept into action. He has committed to tackling the challenge of antibiotic resistance, incorporating animal and human health into his draft National Action Plan on antibiotic resistance. He also tells us that he plans to focus on expanding access to primary health care—including antibiotics—to the remotest regions of Nepal, such as where he hails from in the western part of the country.
In spite of the cracks running through the corners of classrooms and hospital labs alike—remnants of the April 2015 earthquake that caused such devastation here—energy and enthusiasm to tackle the problem of antibiotic resistance runs high among GARP working group members, and they are spreading their enthusiasm across the country, farm to clinic.
One health may be easy to say, but it is harder to put into practice. By bringing together veterinary, public health and clinical professors and students—who engage in research with implications for all fields and share information between sectors—GARP-Nepal is building the foundation of a truly operational one-health approach to curbing antibiotic resistance.
Molly Miller Petrie is a Senior Research Analyst at CDDEP.
Photo courtesy Molly Miller-Petrie.
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Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in two Indian states
by Ramanan Laxminarayan
A study led by CDDEP, representing coordinated efforts between researchers from Princeton, University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Government of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, investigated disease transmission patterns in 575,071 individuals exposed to 84,965 confirmed cases of COVID-19, in one of the largest contact tracing studies to date.
Andhra Pradesh (population 50 million) and Tamil Nadu (population 68 million) are among the Indian states with the largest healthcare workforce and public health expenditures per capita and are known for their effective primary healthcare delivery models. Both states initiated rigorous disease surveillance and contact tracing early in response to the pandemic. Procedures include syndromic surveillance and SARS-CoV-2 testing for all individuals seeking care for severe acute respiratory illness or influenza-like illness at healthcare facilities; delineation of 5km “containment zones” surrounding cases for daily house-to-house surveillance to identify individuals with symptoms; and daily follow-up of all contacts of laboratory-confirmed or suspect COVID-19 cases, with the aim of testing these individuals 5-14 days after their contact with a primary case, irrespective of symptoms, to identify onward transmission.
What We Found
COVID transmission
Risk of transmission from an index case to a close contact ranges from 2.6% in the community to 9.0% in the household and does not differ significantly with respect to the age of the index case.
Infection probabilities ranged from 4.7-10.7% for low-risk and high-risk contact types, respectively. Same-age contacts were associated with the greatest infection risk.
The study found high prevalence of infection among children who were contacts of cases around their own age; this finding of enhanced infection risk among individuals exposed to similar-age cases was also apparent among adults.
Not all infected individual transmit COVID-19. Prospective follow-up testing of exposed contacts revealed that 70% of infected individuals did not infect any of their contacts, while 8% of infected individuals accounted for 60% of observed new infections. This study presents the largest empirical demonstration of superspreading that we are aware of.
Case-fatality ratios spanned 0.05% at ages 5-17 years to 16.6% at ages ≥85 years.
Men were 62% more likely to die than women.
63% of those who died had at least one co-morbidity. 36% had two or more co-morbidities. 45% of those who died were diabetic.
Unlike observations in high-income settings, deaths in India are concentrated at ages 50-64 years. The figure below shows case fatality ratios (CFR) at various age groups in India compared to other countries. The CFR is higher in the 40-70 age group in India than in any of the four comparison countries (see figure below). For the age category above 80, the CFR is India is in line with other countries indicating a potential survival effect.
Contrary to long hospital stays reported in high-income settings, the median time to death is 6 days following admission (compared to 13 in the United States).
Effect of the Lockdown
There are substantial reductions in the reproductive number Rt associated with implementation of India’s country-wide shutdown, which have not previously been shown empirically.
Case-fatality ratios (proportion of cases that died) have decreased over the course of the epidemic. Individuals who tested positive between in July were 26% less likely to die than those tested in March and April. Those who tested positive in May and June were 13% less likely to die than those tested in March and April.
“This study was made possible by the significant contact tracing effort in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, which involved tens of thousands of healthcare workers. The results on disease transmission and mortality have the potential to inform policy to fight COVID-19. The study also speaks to the capacity of research emerging from India to help inform the global response to COVID-19”, said the director of CDDEP, Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan.
The study titled, “Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in two Indian states” was published on September 30, 2020 in Science and is available online here.
The study’s findings and its implications in the public health context have been discussed in depth in several major international media outlets:
The Economist this week: our coverage of the coronavirus – The Economist
Huge Study of Coronavirus Cases in India Offers Some Surprises to Scientists – The New York Times
Largest study of COVID-19 transmission highlights essential role of super-spreaders – Los Angeles Times
Kids And Superspreaders Are Driving COVID-19 Cases In India, Huge Study Finds – NPR
Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders? – BBC News, World Service
Big contact-tracing study shows role of kids and superspreaders in coronavirus pandemic – CNN
Studies show: High prevalence of infection among children who were in contact with their own age group – The Hindustan Times
India Surge Driven by Super-Spreaders – Bloomberg
What a Positive Test Won’t Change About Trump and the Pandemic – The New Yorker
Check the study’s Altmetrics here
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COVID-19 in India: State-Wise Estimates of Current Hospital Beds, ICU Beds, and Ventilators
COVID-19 in India: Potential Impact of the Lockdown and Other Longer-Term Policies
COVID-19 in India: State-Level Estimates of Hospitalization Needs
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Convincing V Persuading Essay: Ways of Meeting Oppression: ML King speech.
29Jan 2020 by admin No Comments
Ways of Meeting Oppression ML King Speech
In his speech on ways of meeting oppression, Martin Luther King gave a persuasive speech on dealing with oppression in a more reasonable manner that embraces non-violent approach and not use of violence. According to Martin Luther King, there exist three forms of responses towards oppression. This includes the acquiescence, resorting to violence and non-violence resistance. The essay deals with a detailed expression of the different ways that oppression can be responded to and provides a direction that Martin Luther King sought as the best. It details the application non- violence approach and advocates for it application as more ideal compared to the other two.
According to Martin Luther King in his speech of ways of meeting oppression, oppression provides a force that drives the oppressed to develop a resistance as a form of reaction to the level and effects caused by oppression. Oppression presents an unjust treatment of people or control that leads to dissatisfaction and frustration resulting into a response that may involve either violence or non-violence. Oppression violates the rights of the people; it denies them the liberty naturally inherited as human beings. Oppression devalues other human beings, who may react in a way that lead to tensions and aggression as a resistance, which may involve loss of lives and property (Nibert, p.6). Martin Luther King observes that the Black Americans were oppressed by the native in the United States. The black people suffered under the rule of the white dominants. The Black Americans were denied their civil rights and were treated as second class citizens.
According to King, the some African Americans responded with acquiescence as a means to which they resigned to their fate. They did not engage in violence nonviolent movements as a means to alleviate their situation. As such, the oppression continued and the suffering worsened in the hands of the oppressor. The oppressed slowly become conditioned to the suffering embracing it as a way of life with less resistance. The level of complacence that develops allows them to sink back into oppression as they see no end to it. In light of this, the biblical referral that Luther had to the situation was that of Moses and the children of Israel that suffered under the leadership of Pharaoh for years without raising resistance. They adjusted to the oppression and felt better in leaving under the conditions for longer with less consideration of the effects it had to their lives. In liberating them, Moses was destined to lead them to the Promised Land that had no suffering. During the times, Moses came to learn the difficulties of his task based on the fact that the Israelites had been used to the oppressed life. They had grown accustomed to the slavery that they found it had to believe in a land they did not know. Shakespeare once described them as people that preferred the “fleshpots of Egypt” to the different emancipation respects that Moses brought to them.
In respect to other situations, the colonization of the African communities provide an expression of a society that is accustomed to the oppression and can only react by accepting. The same situation applies to slavery in which the slaves accepted their situation and worked to please their oppressors despite the harsh treatment filled with oppressive means of control.
Martin Luther King did not advocate for this method due to the effect it created and the bolstering effect it gave to oppression. The method did not provide a means for solving the problem but rather encouraged it.
Other oppressed people responded with violence as a means to ending or reacting to the oppression they faced. This form of reaction resulted in violence that involved fighting and other crude ways leading to loss of lives and destruction of property. The major challenge with the application of violence is the momentary results that it provides. It does not result into peace and creates more complications that continue to fuel violence. Many societies have responded to oppression with violence but only ended up creating an injustice to the other side that originally oppressed them. In light of this, Martin Luther considered violence means an inadequate method of responding to oppression based on the injustices it promoted. The method was not only immoral but also much impractical to apply. It results into the destruction of all the parties involved and hence does not give space to cultivate peace and harmony. The major aim of the method that King advocated for was to win the understanding of the opponent. The method aimed at creating a level of understanding in the oppressor of their actions against the people they oppressed. Violence approach was advocated by Malcolm X’s which is call of “an eye for an eye” as retaliation that the African Americans should use to react to the oppression they underwent under the rule of the whites and dominance. The response with violence only creates situations where by the future generations of the oppressed will succumb to the same violence that their parents used to react. King believed that the response based on violence would only create a spiral of events that would keep oppression developing and hence less effect in solving the problem.
Violence approach leads to destruction of nations and loss of lives that have affected its people. The bitterness of the survivors remains held in their hearts leading to a more aggressed society. It is based on these ideals that Martin Luther King did not support use of violence as a way of resolving the oppression suffered by the black Americans. He considered the means inadequate in quenching the thirst that oppression creates and aimed for a means that would build peace through the realization of the effects that the actions of the oppressors have on the oppressed.
The third method of reaction that Martin discusses is the method of nonviolent movements. This is an approach where the oppressed seeks to maintain peace in spite of the oppression he suffers. It represents a more humane way of dealing with oppression (Douglass, p.35). It aims at providing a chance for dialogue that create chance to understand that oppression is wrong for both sides, and what is needed is for the two parties to coexist peacefully. It seeks to provide a platform through which reconciliations become possible creating lasting peace and an amicable means to ending the oppression. It reconciles the acquiescence aspect and that of violence with the elimination of the immoral and extreme effects that they cause. King advocated for this method since it provided a situation in which the oppressed did not respond with violence to the oppressions that they underwent but also the oppressor respected the need for recognizing the rights of the people they oppressed. They both recognize the evils of oppression and develop resistance towards them with an amicable consideration of the means of responding to violence. The oppressor does not resist the need for the freedoms of the oppressed to become granted and respect and the oppressed respects the need to avoid violent retaliations.
Martin Luther King identified the effects and benefits of both these measures but sought to employ the non-violent measure as the most appropriate. The non-violent means of responding to oppression was able to create an environment of understanding where the two sides could cooperate with each other for the betterment of the whole nation. This form of response proves as the most efficient, effective and yet economical means of response to oppression. King was able to persuade the Black masses that it was better for them to engage with the whites to end the operation rather than fight back and loss the moral authority to condemn operation.
In conclusion, the three options of dealing with oppression discussed in the speech by Martin Luther King provide ways of approaching oppression to create a solution. Acquiescence creates more oppression since the oppressor does not understand the effects of their actions to the oppressed. It does not eliminate the suffering of the oppressed and creates a continuous spread of hatred that leads to unending oppression. Based on these and other effects discussed in the essay above, it proves as an ineffective means of responding to violence. The approach that advocates for response to oppression with violence only solves the problem in a partial way creating differences that lasts generations without end. It builds hatred that spreads from one generation to another with revenge as a means to getting even with the oppressor. The effects of this method results in more violence, hence its inapplicable nature in solving social challenges of oppression. Nonviolent approaches to oppression prove better means of dealing with violence. King was successfully in persuading the black Americans that nonviolence way promotes the understanding of the oppressors of their actions towards the oppressed and hence the remorse that promotes peace and seeks to promote forgiveness within the society.
Douglass, James. The Nonviolent Coming of God. Wipf and Stock Publishers. 2004. Print
Nibert, Alan, David. Animal rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation. Rowman & Littlefield. 2002.Print
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Submissions for variant NM_001399.5(EDA):c.463C>T (p.Arg155Cys) (rs132630312)
Laboratory for Molecular Medicine,Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine RCV000011782 SCV000060827 pathogenic Hypohidrotic X-linked ectodermal dysplasia 2015-06-10 criteria provided, single submitter clinical testing The p.Arg155Cys variant in EDA has been reported in 6 affected males with X-link ed hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (XLHED) and segregated with disease in 1 af fected male and 5 carrier females from 3 families (Monreal 1998, Schneider 2001, Fan 2008, Khabour 2010, Callea 2013, Zhu 2013). It was absent from large popula tion studies. Furthermore, this variant has been identified by our laboratory in 5 individuals with XLHED. This variant resides in the furin domain of EDA and i n-vitro functional studies suggest that this variant impacts protein cleavage (C hen, 2001). In summary, this variant meets our criteria to be classified as path ogenic for XLHED based upon segregation studies, absence from controls, and func tional evidence.
GeneDx RCV000254983 SCV000321579 pathogenic not provided 2018-06-15 criteria provided, single submitter clinical testing The R155C variant in the EDA gene has been reported previously in association with X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (HED) (Monreal et al., 1998; Schneider et al., 2001; Khabour et al., 2010) and has been observed before by GeneDx in multiple patients referred for EDA gene testing. The R155C variant was not observed in approximately 6500 individuals of European and African American ancestry in the NHLBI Exome Sequencing Project, indicating it is not a common benign variant in these populations. The R155C variant is a non-conservative amino acid substitution, which occurs at a position within the furin recognition sequence. The gain of a Cysteine residue at amino acid position 155 is likely to affect disulfide bond formation, and variants within the furin recognition sequence have been shown in functional studies to prevent cleavage of EDA, which appears necessary for EDA-mediated cell-to-cell signaling (Schneider et al., 2001; Chen et al., 2001). Pathogenic variants within this region, most often at residue Arginine 156 (R156G, R156C, R156S, R156L, R156H), cause approximately 20% of all reported cases of X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (Chen et al., 2001; Stenson et al., 2014), supporting the functional importance of this region of the protein. We interpret R155C as a pathogenic variant.
Invitae RCV000011782 SCV000630025 pathogenic Hypohidrotic X-linked ectodermal dysplasia 2018-12-07 criteria provided, single submitter clinical testing This sequence change replaces arginine with cysteine at codon 155 of the EDA protein (p.Arg155Cys). The arginine residue is moderately conserved and there is a large physicochemical difference between arginine and cysteine. This variant is not present in population databases (ExAC no frequency). This variant has been reported in multiple individuals with X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dsyplasia (XLHED) (PMID: 9683615, 22428923, 26273176, 27305980, 18231121). This variant segregated with disease in several families with males that are affected with XLHED and female carriers that were either unaffected or mildly affected (PMID: 18821982, 20486090, 25333067). This variant has also been observed to occur as a de novo change in one individual with XLHED (PMID: 27054699). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 11035). Experimental evidence suggests this variant shows a lower catalytic efficiency compared to wild type EDA protein (PMID: 11416205). For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic.
Fulgent Genetics,Fulgent Genetics RCV000763630 SCV000894498 pathogenic Hypohidrotic X-linked ectodermal dysplasia; Tooth agenesis, selective, X-linked, 1 2018-10-31 criteria provided, single submitter clinical testing
OMIM RCV000011782 SCV000032014 pathogenic Hypohidrotic X-linked ectodermal dysplasia 1998-08-01 no assertion criteria provided literature only
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Syfy Releases Trailer for ‘Todd McFarlane: Like Hell I Won’t’ Documentary
July 20, 2020 John Evans News Leave a comment
Syfy released an official trailer for their first original documentary, Todd McFarlane: Like Hell I Won’t. Featuring new interviews, classic footage, and everything in between, the documentary will chronicle Todd McFarlane’s historic rise in the comic book and action figure industries.
The documentary premiere will coincide with San Diego Comic-Con’s Comic-Con@ Home event and the SyFy Fan Fest. On July 23rd at 5:00 pm ET, Todd Mcfarlane will appear at a Comic-Con@Home panel called “Syfy Presents: The Untold Tales of Todd McFarlane” on Comic-Con’s YouTube channel. The documentary will then go live on July 25 at 11:00 pm ET on Syfy’s YouTube channel, Syfy.com, and on-demand.
Todd McFarlane: Like Hell I Won’t is directed by David Oster. The documentary will feature interviews with other comic book legends, including Jim Lee. Stay tuned to Conskipper for complete coverage of this exciting new project as soon as it breaks!
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF INDIA: INDIA DOES NOT NEED THE CAA-NPR-NRIC
On January 9, 2020 By constitutionalconductIn Constitution, Governance, Public affairs
Dear Fellow Citizens of India,
Over the past few weeks, many of you have been understandably agitated over the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (“CAA“). Your fears have been compounded by the contradictory and confusing statements made by spokespersons of the Government of India on the implementation of the National Register of Indian Citizens (“NRIC”), Though that government now seeks to delink the National Population Register (“NPR”) from the NRIC, we, the Constitutional Conduct Group, comprising former civil servants from the All-India and Central Services committed to the Constitution of India, consider it our duty to inform you that the three issues are linked, acquaint you with the facts regarding the NPR, NRIC and the CAA and emphasise why these measures need to be resolutely opposed. For easy comprehension, we are listing the issues pointwise:
There is no need for the NPR and NRIC
Both the NPR and NRIC exercises flow out of the amendments in 2003 to the Citizenship Act, 1955 (“1955 Act”) and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 (“2003 Rules”) framed by the then NDA government in 2003. The NPR has nothing to do with the Census of India, which is conducted every ten years and is next due in 2021. While the Census collects information about all residents of India without listing their names, the NPR is a list of names of all those who have lived in India for over six months, regardless of their nationality. A Population Register will contain the list of persons usually residing within a specified local area (village/town/ward/demarcated area).
The NRIC will effectively be a subset of the Population Registers for the entire country. The 2003 Rules provide for verification of the details in the Population Register by the Local Registrar (normally a taluka or town functionary) who will separate out cases of doubtful citizenship and conduct further enquiries. After carrying out enquiries in respect of residents whose citizenship status is suspect, the Local Registrar will prepare a draft Local Register of Indian Citizens, which would exclude those not able to establish, through documentary proof, their claim to be citizens of India.
It is at this stage that the experience of the citizens of Assam can cause apprehensions in the minds of those who are required to establish their citizenship, whether or not they profess any religion. The NPR 2020, unlike the NPR 2010, asks not only for the names of the parents of the resident, but also seeks to also record their dates and places of birth. A person who is not able to furnish these details for his/her parents or, for that matter, for himself/herself, could well be classified a “doubtful citizen”.
The 2003 amendments to the 1955 Act (vide Sections 3 (b), 3 (c) and 14A) and the consequent introduction of the 2003 Rules seem to indicate an undue obsession about illegal migrants, without any factual basis. We fail to understand the need for a nationwide identification of “illegal migrants”, which is what the NRIC in effect amounts to, when census statistics over the past seven decades do not show any major demographic shifts, except in certain pockets in some areas of North-Eastern and Eastern India adjoining our neighbouring countries.
We are apprehensive that the vast powers to include or exclude a person from the Local Register of Indian Citizens that is going to be vested in the bureaucracy at a fairly junior level has the scope to be employed in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner, subject to local pressures and to meet specific political objectives, not to mention the unbridled scope for large-scale corruption. Added to this is the provision for objections to the draft Local Register from any person. The Assam NRC exercise has thrown up the dangers of such a large-scale exercise: lakhs of citizens have been made to spend their life’s savings running from pillar to post to establish their citizenship credentials. Worrying reports are already coming in of people in different parts of India rushing in panic to obtain the necessary birth documents. The problem is magnified in a country where the maintenance of birth records is poor, coupled with highly inefficient birth registration systems. Errors of inclusion and exclusion have been a feature of all large-scale surveys in India, the Below Poverty Line survey and the Socio-Economic Caste Census being prime examples. The recently completed NRC exercise in Assam has been equally error-ridden and has led to major discontent. Indeed the State Government itself, with the BJP in power, has rejected its own NRC data, an extremely ludicrous scenario.
The provisions of the CAA, coupled with rather aggressive statements over the past few years from the highest levels of this government, rightly cause deep unease in India’s Muslim community, which has already faced discrimination and attacks on issues ranging from allegations of love jihad to cattle smuggling and beef consumption. That the Muslim community has had to face the brunt of police action in recent days only in those states where the local police is controlled by the party in power at the centre only adds credence to the widespread feeling that the NPR-NRIC exercise could be used for selective targeting of specific communities and individuals.
Added to the inconvenience that the NPR would put the common person through is the unnecessary expenditure on the NPR exercise, when data which is now to be gathered is already available through the Aadhaar system: these include name, address, date of birth, father/husband’s name and gender. Most Indian citizens are already covered by Aadhaar. The purpose of gathering a lot of the additional data (over and above the Aadhaar details) is unclear and will only give rise to the reasonable apprehension that the bona fide citizen could be enmeshed in an interminable, costly bureaucratic exercise if his/her citizenship status comes under doubt.
Our group of former civil servants, with many years of service in the public sphere, is firmly of the view that both the NPR and the NRIC are unnecessary and wasteful exercises, which will cause hardship to the public at large and will also entail public expenditure that is better spent on schemes benefiting the poor and disadvantaged sections of society. They also constitute an invasion of the citizens’ right to privacy, since a lot of information, including Aadhaar, mobile numbers and voter IDs will be listed in a document, with scope for misuse.
Why authorise widespread setting up of Foreigners’ Tribunals and detention camps?:
The Foreigners (Tribunals) Amendment Order, 2019 (issued on 30 May 2019) has unnecessarily stoked fears that Foreigners’ Tribunals can now be set up on the orders of any District Magistrate in India and is the precursor to a widespread exercise to identify “illegal migrants”. While the central government may contend that there is no such intention, it was surely impolitic, given the prevailing atmosphere in Assam and elsewhere, to issue such blanket orders delegating powers for constituting Foreigners’ Tribunals. The experience with Foreigners’ Tribunals in Assam has been, to put it bluntly, traumatic for those at the receiving end. After running the gamut of gathering documents and answering objections to their citizenship claims, “doubtful citizens” have also had to contend with these Tribunals, the composition and functioning of which were highly discretionary and arbitrary. Consequently, a number of citizens lost their lives in the quest for affirming citizenship or have had to suffer the indignity of incarceration in detention camps.
There have also been media reports, not denied by the Government of India, that orders for setting up detention camps have been given to all state governments. We are frankly bemused by the Prime Minister’s recent statement that no such camps are in existence, when reports have documented the construction of such camps in states as far apart as Goalpara in Assam and Nelamangala in Karnataka and the intention to construct a detention centre in Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra. The Government of India has not come out with any statistics to show that the “illegal migrants” problem in India is so severe that it requires the large-scale construction of detention camps all over the country.
The constitutional and moral untenability of the CAA:
We have our grave reservations about the constitutional validity of the CAA provisions, which we also consider to be morally indefensible. We would like to emphasise that a statute that consciously excludes the Muslim religion from its purview is bound to give rise to apprehensions in what is a very large segment of India’s population. A formulation that focused on those suffering persecution (religious, political, social) in any country in the world would not only have calmed local apprehensions but would also have been appreciated by the international community. In its current formulation, the CAA does not even mention the word “persecuted”, probably because using this word in the context of Afghanistan and Bangladesh would have marred India’s relations with these countries. Given that the Government of India has powers to grant citizenship after a migrant has completed eleven years in India, it would be instructive to know whether the Government of India has cleared all pending cases of “illegal migrants” till end-2008. Since the discretion to grant citizenship and to exempt individuals/groups from the purview of the Passport Act, 1920 and the Foreigners Act, 1946 lies entirely with the Government of India, this discretion could have been exercised on a case by case basis by the Government of India without any need to go through the exercise of the CAA and mentioning specific communities from specific countries.
What has given rise to grave apprehensions about the intentions of the Government of India has been the rash of statements by Ministers of the Government of India in recent times, linking the NRIC and the CAA. The Prime Minister’s statement at a public meeting in Delhi on 22 December that the CAA and the NRIC are not linked contradicts the averments of his Home Minister on repeated occasions in various fora. In such a welter of conflicting and confusing utterances, it is hardly surprising that the ordinary citizen is left bewildered and is overcome by unknown fears, more so when government has not entered into any dialogue on this issue. At a time when the economic situation in the country warrants the closest attention of the government, India can ill afford a situation where the citizenry and the government enter into confrontation on the roads. Nor is it desirable to have a situation where the majority of State Governments are not inclined to implement the NPR/NRIC, leading to an impasse in centre-state relations, so crucial in a federal set up like India. Above all, we see a situation developing where India is in danger of losing international goodwill and alienating its immediate neighbours, with adverse consequences for the security set-up in the sub-continent. India also stands to lose its position as a moral beacon guiding many other countries on the path to liberal democracy.
We, therefore, urge our fellow citizens to insist, as we do, that the Government of India pay heed to the voice of the citizens of India and take the following steps at the earliest:
Repeal Sections 14A and 18 (2) (ia) of the Citizenship Act, 1955, pertaining to the issue of national identity cards and its procedures and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 in its entirety.
Withdraw the Foreigners (Tribunals) Amendment Order, 2019 and withdraw all instructions for construction of detention camps.
Repeal the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONDUCT GROUP
(106 signatories, as below)
1. Anita Agnihotri IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Department of Social Justice Empowerment, GoI
2. Salahuddin Ahmad IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Rajasthan
3. V.S. Ailawadi IAS (Retd.) Former Vice Chairman, Delhi Development Authority
4. S.P. Ambrose IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Secretary, Ministry of Shipping & Transport, GoI
5. Anand Arni R&AW (Retd.) Former Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, GoI
6. Mohinderpal Aulakh IPS (Retd.) Former Director General of Police (Jails), Govt. of Punjab
7. N. Bala Baskar IAS (Retd.) Former Principal Adviser (Finance), Ministry of External Affairs, GoI
8. Vappala Balachandran IPS (Retd.) Former Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, GoI
9. Gopalan Balagopal IAS (Retd.) Former Special Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal
10. Chandrashekhar Balakrishnan IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Coal, GoI
11. Sharad Behar IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
12. Madhu Bhaduri IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Portugal
13. Meeran C Borwankar IPS (Retd.) Former DGP, Bureau of Police Research and Development, GoI
14. Ravi Budhiraja IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, GoI
15. Sundar Burra IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Govt. of Maharashtra
16. R. Chandramohan IAS (Retd.) Former Principal Secretary, Transport and Urban Development, Govt. of NCT of Delhi
17. K.M. Chandrasekhar IAS (Retd.) Former Cabinet Secretary, GoI
18. Rachel Chatterjee IAS (Retd.) Former Special Chief Secretary, Agriculture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
19. Kalyani Chaudhuri IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal
20. Anna Dani IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Maharashtra
21. Surjit K. Das IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Uttarakhand
22. Vibha Puri Das IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, GoI
23. P.R. Dasgupta IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Food Corporation of India, GoI
24. Nareshwar Dayal IFS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs and former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
25. Pradeep K. Deb IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Deptt. Of Sports, GoI
26. Nitin Desai IES (Retd.) Former Secretary and Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, GoI
27. Keshav Desiraju IAS (Retd.) Former Health Secretary, GoI
28. M.G. Devasahayam IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Govt. of Haryana
29. Sushil Dubey IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Sweden
30. K.P. Fabian IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Italy
31. Prabhu Ghate IAS (Retd.) Former Addl. Director General, Department of Tourism, GoI
32. Arif Ghauri IRS (Retd.) Former Governance Adviser, DFID, Govt. of the United Kingdom (on deputation)
33. Gourisankar Ghosh IAS (Retd.) Former Mission Director, National Drinking Water Mission, GoI
34. S.K. Guha IAS (Retd.) Former Joint Secretary, Department of Women & Child Development, GoI
35. Meena Gupta IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forests, GoI
36. Ravi Vira Gupta IAS (Retd.) Former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
37. Wajahat Habibullah IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, GoI and Chief Information Commissioner
38. Deepa Hari IRS (Resigned)
39. Sajjad Hassan IAS (Retd.) Former Commissioner (Planning), Govt. of Manipur
40. Siraj Hussain IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Department of Agriculture, GoI
41. Kamal Jaswal IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Department of Information Technology, GoI
42. Jagdish Joshi IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary (Planning), Govt. of Maharashtra
43. Najeeb Jung IAS (Retd.) Former Lieutenant Governor, Delhi
44. Rahul Khullar IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
45. K. John Koshy IAS (Retd.) Former State Chief Information Commissioner, West Bengal
46. Ajai Kumar IFoS (Retd.) Former Director, Ministry of Agriculture, GoI
47. Arun Kumar IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, GoI
48. Brijesh Kumar IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Department of Information Technology, GoI
49. P.K. Lahiri IAS (Retd.) Former Executive Director, Asian Development Bank
50. Subodh Lal IPoS (Resigned) Former Deputy Director General, Ministry of Communications, GoI
51. S.K. Lambah IFS (Retd.) Former Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of India
52. P.M.S. Malik IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Myanmar & Special Secretary, MEA, GoI
53. Harsh Mander IAS (Retd.) Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
54. Lalit Mathur IAS (Retd.) Former Director General, National Institute of Rural Development, GoI
55. Aditi Mehta IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Rajasthan
56. Shivshankar Menon IFS (Retd.) Former Foreign Secretary and Former National Security Adviser
57. Sonalini Mirchandani IFS (Resigned) GoI
58. Sunil Mitra IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Finance, GoI
59. Deb Mukharji IFS (Retd.) Former High Commissioner to Bangladesh and former Ambassador to Nepal
60. Shiv Shankar Mukherjee IFS (Retd.) Former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
61. Pranab S. Mukhopadhyay IAS (Retd.) Former Director, Institute of Port Management, GoI
62. Sobha Nambisan IAS (Retd.) Former Principal Secretary (Planning), Govt. of Karnataka
63. P.G.J. Nampoothiri IPS (Retd.) Former Director General of Police, Govt. of Gujarat
64. Surendra Nath IAS (Retd.) Former Member, Finance Commission, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
65. P.A. Nazareth IFS (Retd.) GoI
66. Amitabha Pande IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Inter-State Council, GoI
67. Alok Perti IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Coal, GoI
68. R.M. Premkumar IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Maharashtra
69. T.R. Raghunandan IAS (Retd.) Former Joint Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, GoI
70. N.K. Raghupathy IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Staff Selection Commission, GoI
71. V.P. Raja IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission
72. C. Babu Rajeev IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, GoI
73. K. Sujatha Rao IAS (Retd.) Former Health Secretary, GoI
74. M.Y. Rao IAS (Retd.)
75. Satwant Reddy IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Chemicals and Petrochemicals, GoI
76. Julio Ribeiro IPS (Retd.) Former Adviser to Governor of Punjab & former Ambassador to Romania
77. Aruna Roy IAS (Resigned)
78. Manabendra N. Roy IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal
79. Deepak Sanan IAS (Retd.) Former Principal Adviser (AR) to Chief Minister, Govt. of Himachal Pradesh
80. G. Sankaran IC&CES (Retd.) Former President, Customs, Excise and Gold (Control) Appellate Tribunal
81. Shyam Saran IFS (Retd.) Former Foreign Secretary and Former Chairman, National Security Advisory Board
82. S. Satyabhama IAS (Retd.) Former Chairperson, National Seeds Corporation, GoI
83. N.C. Saxena IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Planning Commission, GoI
84. Ardhendu Sen IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal
85. Abhijit Sengupta IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Culture, GoI
86. Aftab Seth IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Japan
87. Ashok Kumar Sharma IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Finland and Estonia
88. Navrekha Sharma IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Indonesia
89. Pravesh Sharma IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
90. Raju Sharma IAS (Retd.) Former Member, Board of Revenue, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh
91. Rashmi Shukla Sharma IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
92. Har Mander Singh IAS (Retd.) Former Director General, ESI Corporation, GoI
93. Padamvir Singh IAS (Retd.) Former Director, LBSNAA, Mussoorie, GoI
94. Satyavir Singh IRS (Retd.) Former Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, GoI
95. Sujatha Singh IFS (Retd.) Former Foreign Secretary, GoI
96. Tirlochan Singh IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, National Commission for Minorities, GoI
97. Jawhar Sircar
IAS (Retd.)
Former Secretary, Ministry of Culture, GoI, & former CEO, Prasar Bharati
98. Narendra Sisodia IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Finance, GoI
99. Manoj Srivastava IAS (Retd.) Former Commissioner, Departmental Enquiries (Chief Secretary rank)
100. Sanjivi Sundar IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Surface Transport, GoI
101. Parveen Talha IRS (Retd.) Former Member, Union Public Service Commission
102. Thanksy Thekkekera IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Minorities Development, Govt. of Maharashtra
103. P.S.S. Thomas IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary General, National Human Rights Commission
104. Geetha Thoopal IRAS (Retd.) Former General Manager, Metro Railway, Kolkata
105. Hindal Tyabji IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary rank, Govt. of Jammu & Kashmir
106. Ramani Venkatesan
IAS (Retd.) Former Director General, YASHADA, Govt. of Maharashtra
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OPEN LETTER TO HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT ON THE RECENT POLICE ENCOUNTER IN HYDERABAD
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA: DELHI VIOLENCE AND ITS AFTERMATH – RECOMMENDATIONS OF A FACT FINDING MISSION
31 thoughts on “AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF INDIA: INDIA DOES NOT NEED THE CAA-NPR-NRIC”
Girdhar Rathi
To dumb down the citizens, BJP spokespeople on all channels almost rebuke with a challenge…Where is this written in the C A A…When the citizen responds–it is feared …then at once he is bullied–what fear?Show us where is written…Evidently ,not every citizen can cite the horrific instances of Deprivation of Citizenship. Perhaps the Assam experience needs to be foregrounded. All communities, classes, professions. are potential targets of these inhuman legal gallows.
dutchindolia
Please never ever visit west Europe or USA where you may be asked to present your ID no matter if you are a citizen or a tourist and failure to do that will land you in jail with a hefty fine of around 250 euros to 500 euros.
Obviously why do we need CAA, NRC, NPR, UCC? Why should even India think of becoming a superpower let’s just be content with 9 to5 job till 60 years of service, marry our children and then criticize the government’s policies until Yamadoots come to retrieve us 🙄🙄
Vibhuti Salvi
Do you realise…that no one wants to respond to you….
….pata nahi kabir kahe the ki nahi….
…gyani jab mile gyanee se kare gyan ki baat…
..gaadha jabhue mile gadhue se…khaiee due due laath…..
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
So just 2 words to u Vibhuti: F**k off
Against AndhaBhakti
“Obviously why do we need CAA, NRC, NPR, UCC? Why should even India think of becoming a superpower”??? These will make India super power or the economy will? Where are we on jobs and development? GDP growth by Government estimate will be below 5% this year. Where are the 1 crore annual jobs when unemployment is the highest in 45 years. And do not give the crap about six years only in rule, six years is long enough to show your priorities. Since you keep comparing NRC with theocratic states in the West, can you also please compare us on any international index of development?? You cannot because this government is not interested in that. How will we become superpower with a NRC is beyond me….Also, these 106 people have served India and its interests in India and abroad, there is a former NSA and Foreign Secretary in the list. Service to India is beyond abusing people anonymously on websites.There is also a BJP appointed ex-Governor on the list. Are all of them “Congress stooges”? Can Congress whose Rahul Gandhi couldn’t save his own seat against a TV soap actress actually convince 106 people f such repute to sign an open public document?
ganeshbhattgb
India, like any sovereign nation, needs a citizenship database and system that guarantees freedoms its constitution provides to them. The idea has always been out there; now the country appears to take decisive action on the matter. However, it must do this carefully and cautiously — in the truest spirit of “sab deshvasiyon ka saath, unka vikas aur vishwas”!
That said, it would benefit all of us — current and future citizens— if the following issues/concerns/actions are addressed before moving further:
1. Criteria for “doubtful citizenship data”? What should be done to make the process trouble free for those who are not illegally staying in India?
2. How can government make resources that collect, verify, and prepare NRC/NPR records people helpers and not staff vested with corruptible powers?
3. How will India create a system that does not end up becoming a tool for politicians to exploit the data to serve their interest?
4. How can the government create a multi-step process for citizenship confirmation so that lawful citizens do neither spend money nor time in running from pillar to post? Government must facilitate the process in next stages once the relevant preliminary information has been supplied by the citizen.
5. Government should include points learnt from census and economic and other data collected from time to time in the past. Obviously, too many flaws exist in these processes.
6. All information available and proven in census and Aadhaar processes should not be recollected. Govt should clarify why any data not already collected at census/Aadhaar level is required now.
7. Govt must ensure how it’s system would secure citizens’ privacy in the wake of all the information it collects on its citizens.
8. Post the initial data collection, verification and implementation, how is govt to go about identifying undetected and/or future illegal migrants?
9. How will govt prevent targeting of innocent citizens by zealots on the basis of differences that crossover to becoming socially or politically discriminatory?
10. The honourable Supreme Court should give it’s ruling on the constitutional validity of the exercise intended once the govt has responded to the above and other relevant concerns of India’s citizens reasonably satisfactorily.
freespeechcollective
One of the clearest analysis I have read on why the CAA-NPR_NRC is such a terrible move, morall, ethically, legally and constitutionally!
That you don’t get to decide. Thankfully we have Supreme court I. India and not rabid fools like you fell vering verdicts on matters they scantly even comprehend
Sheeraz Naqvi
CAA is unconstitutional as per article 15 of the constitution of India. As Home minister told that this act will be helpful to give citizenship to the minorities i.e. Hindu, Sikh, Cristian from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh on the basis of religious prostitution , I have no problem in this act but the document is differ as our home minister says. In the document, there is no any word of about religious prostitution.
#NoCAA
#NoNRC
#NoNPR
Article 15 is for Indian citizens you dumbo.
CAA is for non Indian citizens and it’s for those religiously persecuted, not prostituted 😆😆😆
C.Nagendra Rao
bloody individual ‘ it is not prostitution dear prostitute it is persecution. dont submit your habit on this public space
S. Ganguly
Very well written. Thank you. Assuming that the Supreme court does not strike down CAA and the government proceeds with NPR-NRC, what suggestions do you have for ordinary citizens?
Leave India for any of these 3 countries and apply citizenship there and when persecution starts there on you, then apply for Indian citizenship back under CAA and thank current government for bringing this in the first place.
Also leave your communist antinational brain when applying for Indian citizenship again which can’t see the benefits that would be accrued with the nation building exercises like CAA, NPR, NRC and most importantly UCC
S.Ganguly is questioning the government, which is what a citizen does in a democracy, he is not anti-national. There is a difference. Perhaps if you could move beyond Andha Bhakti, you could see it too. He could be a tax paying nation builder, you don’t have to prove your nationalism by agreeing to whatever regulations a government wants. And I wonder why you are talking of NRC when the Hon’ble PM has said that his government has not even mentioned the NRC.
Bajro
Do you know ‘dumbo’ how many will be benefited by CAA? According to the sleuths of home deptt. of the Govt. of India, the figure is 31,311. To benefit 31311 foreign intruder why devastating lives of 1.35 billion citizens of the country? When a prime minister can not show his graduation certificate, has he any authority to ask for documents from crores of under-privileged who do not bother to preserve any such things?
All the 106 dumbols who have signed this open letter (similar to the 46 chameleons who signed open letter on 6Dec2019 beating chest that SC made a wrong decision) are stooges of congress party and work symbiotically in a congress ecosystem cultivated with decades of corruption.
First congress took care of them and now they are taking care of the congress without realizing that Indian population has seen through your act.
No western nation (N America & west Europe) is without NPR and NRC. Moreover, everyone is always expected to carry your Visa, resident permit or passport (as per case of different Nationals or citizens) in case authorities ask.
Failure to do so can land one in jail and fine.
So all 106 of these pseudo intellectuals are politely requested to travel there and then immediately burn their IDs on which they entered and enjoy the reception they will get in the jails of these countries.
Only then these arm chair experts will understand how badly we need NRC, NPR, UCC and most urgently strict population control laws
Bhaskar Gupta
No doubt India, our respected BHARAT MATAA is in a terrific conditions…her children r struggling on roads against Rulling Party leaving Campus_es against CAA/ NRC/NPC/ BEYROJGARl/ Economical Conditions/ Bhook Mari etc.etc.
This is first time that after enactment of an ACT( here,CAA) , Govt is on d job with d assistance of Rulling Party & it’s Constituents ( most r opposing like AASU) 2Teach d Citizens about d Act & even Dharma Gurus r giving Notes on it.
Mind it Rajiv Gandhi as a Prime Minister respected Students Leaders from Assam ( here.AASU) and invited them Delhi 4Discussions arranging Special Flight & solved d issues related with Citizenships….
Let’s Try our best 2Solve d issues amicably….no Violence but Peace only d way through dialogues 2Save India, our BHARAT MATAA.Jai Hind.
Chintan Shah
This time i am with my country voice….
Though time …I am don’t support CAA & NRC…
Today I see my country back 15 years as Growth….
Pls our Central gov. Employee come with us & Avoid to CAB…
Mini Mohan
Those who are happy with it stay in India and rejoice as India begins nation building exercises which should have been done in 1951 and celebrate the rich culture knowing all of us want the best for India and will live and die for it wherever in the world we live.
Those who are unhappy can apply for the citizenship of the countries they think will support their idea of secularism in which minorities could be rampant and vandals but majority should always uphold the secular views over nationalistic views.
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sebastiankjose
You have very well done your duty. This is the need of the hour. It is pertinent that you have addressed the citizens of India not it’s rulers. This is the right approach in a democracy. Had this been translated into regional languages it would have reached the entire population of the country. Hope the rulers who are also citizens will heed this sane message.
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surenabreu
A succinct and excellent letter that clearly explains the dangers inherent in the two exercises (NRC and NPR) coupled with the CAA.
With the obduracy of the current dispensation, despite online polls showing a vast majority against the CAA and NRC-NPR, it seems that protests will have to continue while we await the SC opinion on PILs filed against these initiatives.
Thank you for your letter addressed to us. I will do my best to spread it round.
Yeah please spread the hate, fear around and start your 2020 by fulfilling the duty of spreading your master – Chaos’s Dharma
Reni R
You servants of India are misleading citizens of India, those who work or stay in other countries can understand the need of these, you don’t understand what is happening in Kerala due to illegal migrants who comes for job spread violence, tidy environment, robbery, killings. You learned people are misleading the Indian citizens
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Sir, I wanted to find out if you are a government appointed group. If not, are you authorised to use the official three lion symbol on your mast-head?
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Tahiti Trash: Recycling Waste
By Cornell Sailing on 27.05.2015 | Tag(s): Plastic pollution
Event(s): Blue Planet Odyssey
Destination(s): Pacific Ocean, French Polynesia
The Blue Planet Odyssey sailors visited the Fenua Ma recycling plant in Tahiti, part of environmental organisation Fenua Ma, the Société Environnement Polynésien, which aims to maximise recycling throughout French Polynesia as well as protecting the natural environment.
Crushed pop cans at the Fenua Ma recyling plant- Photo MAGGIE
The visit included a puppet show which educates children about the importance of recycling their waste.
Fenua Ma Puppet Show: Recycling Mission School
Janet, CHAPTER TWO
Our Blue Planet Odyssey reps have organized a field trip to the Papeete recycling center and I’m a big proponent of recycling so I joined the excursion.
I offered to take Martin and Marko from TAHAWUS because their parents had commitments but knew that it was a good school outing for them.
Janet, Marko and Martin presenting a BPO souvenir plaque to Benoit, Manager for Fenua Ma, the Société Environnement Polynésien at the Tahiti recyling center
The group assembled and loaded into cars with Benoit, the director of the recycling center for Tahiti. We arrived at the center and were given yellow vests in order to stand out for the trucks passing through the yard.
Benoit gave a presentation on how the Polynesian islands are trying to reduce their carbon footprint with recycling.
I learned the following facts:
The island built their center in 1998 with it fully operational by 2000. Since 2000 their recycling has gained momentum by educating the residents within the community. Several times a year there is a community event to bring in items such as light bulbs, appliances, ink cartridges and old TV’s.
There are recycling points all over the city to drop off batteries, used oil and glass bottles. You can even bring an old cars, oil drums and wood and they will all be compacted for shipping.
The center recycles paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, aluminum, juice and milk cartons with the trucks picking up almost daily from the residents and delivering to the center for sorting. The materials are then loaded onto a conveyor belt which moves up and onto a raised platform. There are employees stationed on both sides of the belt with assignments to remove either paper, plastic, aluminum or cardboard. Their sole responsibility is to remove one category such as paper and throw into dedicated bins which then drops onto the floor below them. By the end of the belt only 17% will go to the landfill.
Once there is a substantial pile of material in the bins, then it moved by dozer onto another belt to a machine which compacts it into a large bundle. The bundles are prepared and stacked into shipping containers. Before the doors are latched, the bundles are sprayed with pest control liquid. The containers must be pest free when they arrive in a foreign country.
The plastic, aluminum, tin, cars, drums and batteries are shipped to New Zealand. The cardboard and paper are sent to Asia and the glass is ground into a fine sand and used as a filler behind retaining walls or under concrete slabs.
The whole recycling process was very interesting and impressive and the island has made great strides in controlling their waste. Tahiti is working with many of the islands in the area to help them organize a recycling campaign.
Carol, MAGGIE
Tahiti has the most sophisticated recycling system in the Pacific. It was interesting for members of the Blue Planet Odyssey to have a presentation and a visit to the plant led by the manager, who fortunately spoke good English.
Part of his job is to provide incentives to families and businesses to recycle and sort garbage. This includes school programs to educate. The “green bins” are picked up and eventually the contents are placed on conveyor belts. They are then hand sorted into large bins beneath the workers. In France these workers last about 8 months but here many have been doing it for the 15 years they have been open.
Hand sorting recylables – Photo MAGGIE
The usable waste is then compacted. The cubes of stacked colored cans are quite a sight. Also, the compacted cars after the batteries and fluids are removed. Products like the batteries are shipped to specialist facilities in New Zealand. Ground glass is used as a substitute for gravel under roads and retaining walls.
I would be interested now to see all that we do at home.
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'Pastor' Robert Jeffress: Impeachment 'Will Cause A Civil War-Like Fracture'
Southern Baptist "pastor" and Trump advocate Robert Jeffress first mocked Nancy Pelosi before sending out a signal to the evangelicals in the tank for Trump: This is war.
On Sunday, "Pastor" Robert Jeffress went onto Fox News and preached a sermon of mockery, division, partisanship and violence. Shame on him.
Ignoring all of Trump's sins which are in public in black and white for all to see, Jeffress instead mocked Speaker Pelosi's call to be somber and prayerful as they proceed with the impeachment of Dear Leader.
"I think it’s hard to take Nancy Pelosi’s call to prayer seriously," he told his Fox friends. "I mean it reminds me of a pyromaniac with a match in hand about to set fire to a building saying, 'Please pray with me that the damage I’m about to cause isn’t too severe.' I mean if you’re really sincere about that prayer, then put down the dang match."
"[I]mpeachment is the only tool they have to get rid of Donald Trump and the Democrats don’t care if they burn down and destroy this nation in the process," he proclaimed without even a tinge of irony.
I would argue that what is happening is life-saving surgery with a chance for failure, but then again, I'm not the pastor of a megachurch in Texas that preaches Trump and guns to a congregation.
What came next should never be uttered by anyone, much less someone who calls himself a pastor. It's a call to arms and a deeply dangerous one.
After telling everyone that evangelicals were furious at the possibility that their votes for a craven sociopath might be negated, Jeffress had a prediction: "If the Democrats are successful in removing the president from office, I’m afraid it will cause a Civil War-like fracture in this nation from which this country will never heal."
What an irresponsible statement. And guess who picked right up on it, amplifying and modifying it for the benefit of his cult and bot army? Yep.
....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews
That was too much for even a Republican to handle. Rep. Adam Kinzinger had enough:
I have visited nations ravaged by civil war. @realDonaldTrump I have never imagined such a quote to be repeated by a President. This is beyond repugnant. https://t.co/a5Bae7bP7g
— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) September 30, 2019
Yes, but that's what Trump and his "pastor" friend are: Beyond repugnant.
Transcript via Media Matters
Adam Kinziger, Civil War, Robert Jeffress
Lou Dobbs Is Bitter Over Nancy Pelosi's Victory Lap
Lou Dobbs confided to his friend "Pastor" Robert Jeffress that he hates having to admit Nancy Pelosi won the shutdown.
Shep Smith Admits Hateful 'Pastor' Robert Jeffress Is A Fox News Contributor
Fox anchor Shepard Smith enumerated "Pastor" Robert Jeffress' hateful statements and views before admitting Jeffress is one of theirs.
Evangelical 'Christian' Pastor Is Fine With Trump's Affair With Stormy Daniels
"Pastor" Robert Jeffress is just fine with the "president" having an affair with a porn star, and tell us why we should be too.
'Pastor' Robert Jeffress And Ed Henry Bash Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Fox News reporter Ed Henry and Texas "pastor" Robert Jeffress took a few minutes to trash Ocasio-Cortez for speaking the truth: Jesus was, in fact, a refugee.
Shep Smith Ticks Off 'Pastor' Jeffress' Hateful Views Before Admitting He's A Fox News Contributor
Fox News contributor "Pastor" Robert Jeffress has used their media platform to spread hateful ideas about other religions and races, as Shepard Smith enumerated.
Lou Dobbs Confesses: It 'Makes Him Nuts' To See Pelosi Take A Victory Lap
Lou Dobbs confessed his bitterness to Baptist 'Pastor' Robert Jeffress Friday night. We thought the part about the beer and the Cadillac convertible was precious.
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Five questions with Dig Deep Coaching – meet Ciara MacManus
by Jessi Braverman
The partnership forged between Dig Deep Coaching and CyclingTips in July 2014 will extend to Ella. We’re pleased to introduce you to Ciara MacManus. The Dig Deep coach hails from Ireland and is the reining Irish MTB XC champion. Her main passion is the dirt, but her experiences span across all disciplines, and she has generously raised her hand to answer any questions you have about training.
While CyclingTips will continue to field questions for our male readers, Ciara is on hand to tackle questions from our women’s community. Before she answers any of your questions, we threw five questions her way so you could get to know her a bit better.
Have questions for Ciara? Ask them in the comments section or send us an email at editor@cyclingtips.com.au with the subject line: “Dig Deep Coaching question – Ella” and we’ll pass it along to Ciara. She’ll answer select questions in the first instalment of this series slated for mid-February.
1. How did you get into the sport? What is your athletic background?
I’ve always enjoyed the outdoors lifestyle since I was very young. We travelled a lot with my dad’s work and got to live in parts of the world where we would be camping, hiking, swimming at an early age.
At school I was captain of the hockey team but it wasn’t until I went to University that I discovered cycling and more specifically mountain biking. Initially I would use the bike to get in and out of college but after reading a couple of mountain bike magazines that a friend had I got curious about the possibility of taking a bike off road and into the mountains. I’m also pretty lucky that I live right beside a large lump of volcanic rock that rises from sea level to 400m above Belfast known as the Cavehill, which is one of the best places to ride a bike off road I know.
I started racing in the late 90’s but had to take a back step for a few years due to work commitments before taking up competitive cycling again in 2002 and was a member of the Irish National MTB team in 2006 & 2007. Since then I’ve developed a passion for endurance events and stage racing. I’m two time Irish MTB marathon champion, although I haven’t limited myself just to the long distance events being also two times Irish cyclocross champion and current Irish MTB XC champion in 2013 & 2014. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy road racing, I’ve competed a number of local and national road races including the Ras na mBann international women’s road stage race in Ireland, however my strengths and passion seems to be in off road riding.
2. Why are you drawn to cycling?
Being a competitive person I would have probably ended up competing at some level of sport. I don’t think I was drawn to cycling per se. Like many people I know, I took it up as a practical means of transport, then it became a “fitness thing”, but when I realised that cycling opens up so many more experiences than just going from A to B that’s when it became my “sport”.
Cycling is a very different experience to the team sports I played at school. It allows you to develop as an individual athletically and also affords a sense of freedom and adventure, opening up the world to a whole new range of possible challenges, challenges which are so wide ranging, from the beginner hoping to complete their first 30km cycle to the enthusiast hoping to complete the Etape Du Tour or the elite riding aiming for a World Championship. Biking has taken me to many different countries around the world and introduced me to so many different people with one common interest – bikes!
3. How did you get into coaching?
I’ve always been passionate about wanting to encourage other people to get on their bikes and experience the excitement of cycling and mountain biking. Initially I did the Scottish Mountain Bike Leader’s qualification and became a qualified guide and skills coach. As my racing career progressed and I experienced the gains that came with structured scientific based coaching, I became more and more enthusiastic about sharing my skills and experience with local riders, assisting with women’s development training camps for our regional cycling body and running the Irish National MTB development team in 2010 – 2011. When Dig Deep Coaching approached me, I jumped at the idea of working with such an experienced and progressive thinking team.
4. What are would you consider your expertise?
Mountain biking is my primary bike sport both in terms of skills coaching and sports coaching. Having competed successfully in short MTB cross country races, MTB enduro races, longer MTB marathon races and MTB stage races I’ve built up a pretty good knowledge of all of these disciplines. Having raced competitively on the road and in cyclocross, I understand the demands of each of these forms of bike riding, too. As a female rider, I also understand the needs and requirements of fellow women riders. I’ve built up quite a range of experience, so perhaps you could say that’s where my expertise is.
5. What training/coaching issues are unique to women?
Good question. In general terms the same training principles which are used to train men apply equally to women. In my coaching experience with women the main differences between the two sexes are more related to the male/female psychology than physiology. Cycling has traditionally been a male dominated sport so for men the adoption or transition to bike riding from other sports is a fairly easy step as there is a good support network of other male riders. Female riders often do not have that same level of support due to their lower numbers. For example when I started mountain bike riding I found myself the only woman on the trails for several years. Thankfully now this is changing more every year.
Once involved in cycling, female riders are more likely to require more encouragement and support as they can often lack a level of self-confidence that seems to come naturally with male riders; however, female riders will often listen to advice and coaching more readily and subsequently adopt this advice/coaching quicker and will also be more patient in their outcomes. For women who have families time management can be an important aspect of coaching and training, with the goal to balance training with child, family and work responsibilities.
Dig Deep Coaching is a global cycling and triathlon coaching company that provides an expert service to a wide range of athletes who simply wish to improve towards a goal. The Dig Deep team includes a wide range of coaches and specialists who help every athlete perform better with targeted and specific coaching advice that allows each person to structure their training around their lifestyle. Athletes can take advantage of an extensive range of coaching solutions and packages available to help them maximize their potential as they strive to meet new goals. Dig Deep Coaching has helped athletes worldwide achieve their dreams and demonstrate passion for sport by helping individuals reach their potential.
For further information on Dig Deep Coaching and useful tips on all aspects of performance please head to their website or follow them on Facebook and Twitter.
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Blum: Hoiberg and the transfer shark tank
Brent Blum, May 22 • 0 Comments
The first person to parachute out of an airplane was probably almost institutionalized. Same can be said for the first dude to jump in a shark tank.
Anytime you are the first to try something new, there is a heaping amount of risk involved. Risk to your reputation and worse. In the aforementioned skydive and shark examples, a person could in fact die. Fred Hoiberg’s player acquisition strategy did not involve sharks or parachutes, but the basketball traditionalists looked at him in the summer of 2010 as some sort of off-the-Vegas-strip huckster. Why is the clean cut Mayor chasing down "trouble-makers" like Royce White, Chris Allen and Anthony Booker? That will never work; if Tom Izzo can’t get the guy to play hard, then the fresh-faced Hoiberg has no chance. A transfer here or there is fine, but assembling a team of them is a recipe for disaster.
With the signing of Hallice Cooke this week, Hoiberg has now inked 13 division one transfers in just over four years. Only one of those 13 transfers left Iowa State unexpectedly (Maurice Jones). And the Jones case was an NCAA clearinghouse issue from his previous stop and there was nothing Iowa State could have done to prevent it.
In men’s college basketball today, roughly 40 percent of players will transfer in their career. This is growing by the year. Hoiberg was not the first to take a transfer, the practice has been a part of college basketball since forever. But Iowa State, under Hoiberg, is seemingly the first BCS conference school to get a majority of their players via the transfer route.
Under Hoiberg, Iowa State has signed nine high school players (note Melvin Ejim, Eric McKnight, Calvin Godfrey, Jordan Railey all signed while Greg McDermott was at the helm so they aren’t included in this exercise). He has signed three junior college players and accumulated the 13 transfers.
So if you are a mathematician, of the 25 players that have penned a letter of intent to Hoiberg, 13 have transferred from other Division-1 schools. This, we can safely assume, has never been done at a power conference school.
The strategy has obviously worked tremendously. Iowa State built a team that returned just four letter winners when Hoiberg took the job to a three-time NCAA Tournament team and a potential national championship contender. This isn’t quite Bill Snyder transforming K-State from the dead to the living, but the rapid ascent of the Iowa State program is something.
Now we see the scorned basketball traditionalists participating in the same free-agent season. The big-time schools all over America are saving one to two scholarships until April in hopes of adding a missing piece. For example, Mike Krzyzewski at Duke took just two transfers in his first 32 years at Duke. He has added two transfers in the last three seasons. He is not alone.
Anymore, the safest bet in acquiring talent is the transfer. First and foremost, college coaches have actual college game tape and numbers to analyze before giving out a scholarship. Hallice Cooke was lightly recruited by the power schools coming out of high school. He was a classic tweener guard and only averaged five points per game as a sophomore at powerhouse St. Anthony’s High School in New Jersey. But after he committed to Oregon State, played 26 minutes per game as a freshman and shot 45 percent from three in the monstrous Pac-12 conference, any questions about his ability to play at the elite level were erased. The hit rate on a transfer is almost guaranteed to be higher than a freshman because you know what you are getting. And even when dealing with the guaranteed elite high school talent, the chances of them sticking around for more than one or two years is a dicey proposition. Of the projected top 20 picks in the 2014 NBA Draft, there is one college junior or senior listed – Doug McDermott.
Not to mention, the overlooked factor in regards to transfers is it is highly unlikely they will transfer again. When two in five players are transferring out of programs, college coaches constantly weigh the battle of who will return next season. Greg McDermott was decimated in his tenure at Iowa State by roster upheaval. It is brutal to assemble a roster when a chess piece may vacate the board at the most inopportune time.
But once a player transfers and sits out a year, if they opt to leave again, they would have to sit out another entire year. No player wants to spend forty percent of their eligibility sitting in street clothes. Fred Hoiberg has benefited from this "last chance motel" scenario. For the initial guys with professional hoops aspirations like Royce White, Chris Babb and Chris Allen, if they failed at Iowa State, the opportunity to latch on somewhere else was essentially zero.
Hoiberg’s initial 2010 foray into the transfer market puts Iowa State a step ahead of some of the other schools due to the proven track record he has accumulated.
What started out as a last chance landing ground has turned into a opportunistic stage. Now the transfers are seeking out Iowa State because of the success previous men have had. Guys like Cooke and Abdel Nader are coming to the Cyclone program because it is a step up from where they were and gives them a chance to win on the highest level.
Iowa State is benefiting from jumping head first into the transfer shark tank before everybody else. The transfer stigma should be erased. Being first is only crazy if it doesn’t work.
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DAVID CRAIG WHITE
Executive Coach & Anger Management Specialist
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If you’ve been having or are having suicidal thoughts then it’s really important to reach out to someone for help.
Unfortunately, I am unable to offer to coach anyone who is considering suicide without a referral from a medical professional but there’s a ton of people available to talk to for free.
Important! If you’re feeling like you’re life may be at risk right now due to your suicidal thoughts then don’t panic. You should get yourself to your nearest Accident and Emergency (A&E) department as soon as you can or call 999 or ask a friend to get you there.
Alternatively, here is a list of organisations who offer free help to anyone having suicidal thoughts;
The Samaritans have a 24 hr helpline offering emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide.
You can call them on 116 123 (free of charge from a landline or mobile) or visit their website at www.samaritans.org
PAPYRUS is a national charity dedicated to the prevention of young suicide.
They provide confidential support and advice to young people struggling with suicidal thoughts, and anyone worried about a young person through their helpline, HOPELINEUK.
You can call them free on 0800 068 4141, text them on 0778 620 9697 or visit their website for further details and opening hours at papyrus-uk.org/get-in-touch/.
CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably)
The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) works to prevent male suicide and offers support services for any man who is struggling or in crisis.
CALM’s helpline 0800 58 58 58 and web-chat are for men in the UK who need to talk or find information and support.
The services are open 5pm–midnight daily and are free, anonymous and confidential. For access or to find more information visit thecalmzone.net
Premier Lifeline
The National Christian Helpline is a confidential telephone helpline offering a listening ear, emotional and spiritual support from a Christian perspective, prayer and signposting.
Premier Lifeline is open 9am to midnight every day of the year.
If you’d like someone to talk to and pray for you then you can call them on 0300 111 0101 (Landline Rate – included in call packages where landline calls are included) or visit www.premierlifeline.org.uk.
NHS Mental Health Services
The NHS are also a great resource for help and advice about mental health.
You can, of course, contact your local GP for help and advice or you can now also use the new self-referral scheme to refer yourself to see a therapist.
You can read more online at www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/nhs-services/mental-health-services/
Call, text or chat via WhatsApp now on 07907 599 444 or send a message below.
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The Connector by Elizabeth St John - a story inspired by a song
Guess The Song
here's a clue!
The man in the Brioni dinner jacket sitting to Julia’s left in the White House State Dining Room picked up the exquisite Baccarat glass and gently swirled the burgundy before sniffing, sipping and savoring the taste.
“Of course,” he remarked, his Boston accent draping like a Burberry merino blanket over the yipping of the southern belle on her right, “in European circles, the legacy of the Romanovs continues to confound Russian nationalism. The durable impact of the Tsar and his family’s execution was not anticipated at the time.”
He held the crystal goblet to the flame of a slender ivory candle that formed the elegant centerpiece, warming the wine to the indignant concern of the butler hovering nearby. A gold signet ring engraved with a crown flashed from the New Englander’s finger.
“Not quite the right temperature,” he explained almost apologetically, a dimple flashing in his cheek, then further added, “They would have actually been far more useful left alive.”
“You treat world-changing events with such nonchalance.” Julia found his arrogance irritating. He sounded like another one of her 20th century history students at Merton College, where nihilism was de-rigueur. “Perhaps an acknowledgement of the heartbreak of a family slaughtered, the brutality of the attempted eradication of their memory should be considered.”
“And continue the ‘Anastasia survived’ myth?” he replied. “We know as historians to dismiss the rumors that circulated for fifty years that she escaped. They were all wiped out. Convenient for Lenin. Tragic, yes, for that beautiful family. Five minutes of violence and the entire Russian empire was effectively toppled.”
The other diners fell silent as the man’s words reverberated around their circle of eight. Julia glanced at the head table, where the new Russian president sat next to the German chancellor and her husband. Another accord signed this past week had increased economic and cultural ties tenfold, leaving the United Kingdom beached on the distant shores of Europe.
She pulled her attention back to the conversation. Was he really that cold-hearted? Or simply stating facts? “And that changed the political axis, allowed the rise of Hitler?”
This dinner was proving to be more a lecture in 20th century history than the social occasion she’d anticipated when Julia had first received her invitation from the British Embassy.
“Well, the focus of Lenin and subsequently Stalin was completely on building a new state, not destroying an old corrupt and declining one.” The man smiled, suddenly breaking the tension. “We could debate the new world order all night. But we are here to enjoy ourselves, right?” He waved away the butler and refilled her glass himself. “A Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru should not go unnoticed. Fortunately, the White House sommelier went off-piste and didn’t choose wine from the homelands of our honored guests.”
A mock grimace and he had the table laughing. She joined in, despite herself.
“Jack Bradshawe, by the way.” He was a chameleon. And charming.
“Julia Beauchamp,” she replied.
“English?” He quirked his head, full focus now on her.
“Yes. I’m currently working at the Folger on a research project for CEMS.”
“Ah. And let me guess. Merton.” He smiled, the dimple reappearing. His dark blue eyes crinkled at the corners, face attractively tanned from skiing or yachting, or an exotic southern hemisphere sun. “You’re a long way from home, Julia.”
He said her name with a caress, extending the first vowel. It reminded her of the way Paulo spoke, caught her off guard. She had thought she was over that lost love.
She pulled her attention back to his question. “A first folio research grant brought me to Washington. But I’m surprised you’ve heard of the Centre for Early Modern Studies.”
“I’m one of those irritatingly enthusiastic Rhodes Scholars, I’m afraid,” he replied with a grin. His hair was as blue-black as a raven’s wing, just a little too long for business, a little too short for Bohemian. “And you’re not just a researcher. You’re a world expert on seventeenth century women’s literature. And their secret spy network.”
Julia shrugged. “It’s not a field that gets much competition.” She looked at him curiously. He could have been no more than in his early forties, and clearly not a diplomat. “What field did you study at Oxford?”
“History and Politics at Christ Church. And then I stayed in England and took a doctorate at LSE.”
“Interesting combination.”
Jack responded, leaning closer towards her and dropping his voice, “Economics is equally an instrument of social change as culture or politics or religion,”
“Not in every society.” Julia couldn’t decide if she was still irritated or becoming intrigued. She was leaning toward the latter. She brushed back her fringe, which always flopped into her eyes, despite her best efforts to construct a sophisticated chignon. As she did so, she caught his amused glance and flushed. “And sometimes all three together. Look at what the Kennedy assassinations did to America in the sixties.”
“The end of Camelot?” Jack’s tone was mock-wistful. “The betrayal of the sanctity of kings? Do you believe in the quest for the holy grail, Julia?”
“Perhaps the end of innocence,” she replied. “And holy wars are a whole different paradigm.”
“Ah. One man’s crusade is another man’s holy war. Like Bin Laden’s jihad against the US that we disingenuously call 9-11?” Jack sipped his wine again and looked reflective.
“A jihad? Or evangelism?”
A veil dropped across Jack’s eyes. “Is there a difference? I worked at Kleinwort Benson on Wall Street in 2001. I saw the plane hit Tower Two. I watched the trapped office workers jump. I joined the exodus to Harlem as we silently walked uptown through the ashes.”
“I’m sorry.” Julia bit her lip.
“Don’t be. Sometimes being an eyewitness to history changes the perspective of centuries. It’s back to our early conversation. Is history altered by one cataclysmic event or long, slow reform?”
“Reform? Or revolution? Either can be reversed, perhaps.” Julia poked at a thought that was distracting her. Revolution raised it in her consciousness. Something about his name was familiar, and yet she couldn’t place it.
He watched her closely, as if willing her to connect her thoughts. “You are thinking of England’s experiment with a Republic, perhaps? It lasted eleven years, and then the king reclaimed his throne.”
That was it. What a coincidence. Jack—John—Bradshawe was the first signatory on Charles I’s death warrant. The judge who’d presided over the execution of the king.
“—That I share a name with a certain judge?” he laughed, catching her thoughts, and gestured for her glass to be refilled. “Yes, an unfortunate—or perhaps fortunate, depending on which side of the Atlantic you stand—twist of fate.”
“The Civil War was England’s greatest contribution to freedom of choice, with the separation of church and state.”
“Ah. John Locke’s credo. You sound as though you appreciate his philosophy. And a concept our founding father Thomas Jefferson felt important enough to include in his writing.” Jack paused. “Of course, if you think documents such as the Constitution still hold up for interpretation. Some of our neighbors—” he nodded subtly at the southern belle “—would say that now is America’s opportunity to redefine how we contemporize relevancy and teach history. Perhaps it’s time to reunite church and state to build the Kingdom of God here on Earth.”
A murmur around the table indicated the consensus of the other dinner guests. Julia wondered how much Jack Bradshaw believed or was simply teasing her. It was hard to tell, his eyes holding hers in amusement, a smile quivering over his lips. She chose to ignore his bait.
“So, do you still return much to Oxford, Mr. Bradshaw?” Damn. That sounded too eager.
“Jack, please. I used to. But I’ve recently been offered a position here in Washington that will make it harder for me to return as often as I like.” He smiled at her, causing the color to rise in her cheeks again. “Terrible timing, I would say.”
A tinkling of the chords from the lute player interrupted them.
“Ah, troubadours,” Jack laughed, his eyes crinkling again. “A rather lovely touch, wouldn’t you say? And it sounds to me like the Earl of Essex’s galliard. A stirring piece, don’t you think? I always admired Devereaux’s boldness, the impulsive passion that led to his downfall.”
She nodded, charmed. It was ridiculous. This man was perfect. Perhaps, after all this time, she’d finally met someone who shared the same range of esoteric interests she did.
A chiming on a glass interrupted her thoughts. The president was standing. “Ladies and gentlemen, a pleasure to host you all at the White House tonight.”
White House state dining room
A smatter of polite applause, and the lutist fell silent.
“And before we retire for the evening, I have one more announcement I would like to make.” The president turned towards Julia and her companion, raised his glass. “Many of you know of the vacancy in the Department of Education. The Secretary had to retire due to her recent unfortunate accident, and it is my privilege to appoint her replacement. On the occasion of honoring our friends from Russia and Germany, who have had the opportunity to redefine and teach their own post-revolution, post-war curriculum, I am delighted to bring to my administration a man who shares many of my own beliefs about the greatness of America and how its history should be remembered and taught. Some people think of our position as xenophobic. I prefer to think it patriotic, and it is our duty to bring our children up to honor the ideals of the Republic of America.”
Julia suddenly experienced a rush of anxiety in the pit of her stomach. She glanced around the room. All one hundred and fifty diplomats, celebrities, and billionaires were listening in rapt attention to his words.
The president waited for the applause to fade. “Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to meet the new Secretary of Education, Jack Bradshawe. I think you will agree by just looking at him, he’s one of us. A man of wealth and taste.” The president raised his glass. “Jack, why don’t you say a few words.”
Julia’s neighbor rose, his immaculate dinner jacket outlining his athletic body, the crisp white shirt accentuating his tanned physique. The southern belle gave a hoot of excitement. Jack grinned and playfully pointed a finger at her as if it were a handgun. She pretended to fire back. Julia flinched in shock as the other dinner guests extended their hands in the same gesture.
Raising his own glass, he said, “Please allow me to introduce myself…”
© Elizabeth St John
Did you guess the song?
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
About Elizabeth St.John
Elizabeth St.John spends her time between California, England, and the past. To inspire her writing, she has tracked down family papers and residences from Nottingham Castle to Lydiard Park, and Castle Fonmon to the Tower of London. Having spent a significant part of her life with her seventeenth century family while writing The Lydiard Chronicles trilogy and Counterpoint series, Elizabeth St.John is now discovering new family stories with her fifteenth century namesake Elysabeth St.John Scrope, and her half-sister, Margaret Beaufort.
Although the family has sold a few castles and country homes along the way (it's hard to keep a good castle going these days), Elizabeth's ancestors still reside within them in the form of portraits, memoirs, and gardens that carry their legacy. And the occasional ghost. But that’s a different story …
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Liz Harris 16 December 2020 at 07:21
Alas, I didn't guess the song, but I enjoyed this unusual story.
Elizabeth St.John 16 December 2020 at 14:37
Thank you! I enjoyed writing it - thanks to Helen, giving us carte blanche to pick any song!
Annie Whitehead 16 December 2020 at 09:25
I sort of started to guess the song towards the end, but to be honest I was so wrapped up in the story that I kind of forgot there might be a song. Brava Elizabeth, I really enjoyed this one!
Thanks Annie! He did prove rather a compelling villain. I have a feeling he may show up somewhere else one day!
Richard Tearle 16 December 2020 at 10:58
I had my suspicions early on but could only confirm them near the end. Even then, I had to reread to pick up the other clues given within conversation! Excellent story and, from a personal point of view, an excellent choice of music!!
Richard, you know me well. One of my favourites, and an unforgettable live performance!
Little Angelic Rose 16 December 2020 at 13:14
To be honest, I'm rubbish at guessing the songs. I'm far too enthralled by the wonderful stories. Beautifully written, Liz. There's so much more to know here.
Thank you so much! The original song ended with the Kennedys, so it was interesting to bring the story into contemporary times.
Helen Hollick 16 December 2020 at 15:06
thanks for the replies everyone - makes you think about what goes on in the White House doesn't it? *whistles innocently*
J.G. Harlond 17 December 2020 at 08:38
Mesmerizing, like the devil at her side. Bravo!
From Marina Osipova: "What an interesting story (didn't guess the song). Loved the highly intellectual polemic and the ending! Bravo, Elizabeth St John!"
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Annual average sea surface temperature, 2000
The ocean waters surrounding New Zealand vary in temperature from north to south. They interact with heat and moisture in the atmosphere and affect our weather. Long-term changes and short-term variability in sea-surface temperatures can affect marine processes, habitats, and species. Some species may find it hard to survive in changing environmental conditions.
This layer shows annual average sea surface temperature for 2000 as part of the data series for years 1993 to 2013.
NIWA’s sea-surface temperature archive is derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite data it receives from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The archive provides high spatial (approximately 1km) and high temporal (approximately 6-hourly in cloud-free locations) resolution estimates of sea-surface temperatures over the New Zealand region, dating from January 1993. Uddstrom and Oien (1999) and Uddstrom (2003) describe the methods used to derive and validate the data.
This dataset relates to the "Annual average sea-surface temperature" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website.
Geometry: grid
Unit: degrees Celsius
Further information can be found in:
Uddstrom, MJ (2003). Lessons from high-resolution satellite SSTs. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 84(7), 896–897.
Uddstrom, MJ, & Oien, NA (1999). On the use of high resolution satellite data to describe the spatial and temporal variability of sea surface temperatures in the New Zealand region. Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans) 104, chapter 9, 20729–20751.
1. Annual average sea surface temperature, 1993 2013 197 KB pdf
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Tag Archives: Christmas
Children Celebrating Christmas, 100 Years Ago.
From lighting a real candle on the branch of an indoor Christmas tree, to a well-dressed family singing carols on a stairwell in the home, this lovely collection of nostalgic photos reveal how children from a bygone era celebrated the festive season.
A little girl and her Saint Bernard deliver a present at Christmas, circa 1910s.
Children carrying holly and mistletoe, London, December 1915.
See more wonderful Images via Lovely Vintage Photos Show How Children Celebrated Christmas More Than 100 Years Ago ~ vintage everyday
Tags: Christmas, nostalgia
Yorkshire’s Secret: Christmas Cake and Cheese.
Photo: The combination of a well matured and baked dark fruit cake accompanied by slices of crumbly piquant cheese is a rare treat not to be missed.
The poor fruitcake has gotten a bad rap over the past few decades, and not just a cellophane wrap.
People misunderstand its booze-infused density and dank fruitiness, chalking up the decision to give such a gift as nothing more than a misguided antiquated ritual.
But Yorkshire natives will not be dissuaded from enjoying the holiday loaf and, furthermore, from topping the succulent slice with a thick layer of piquant cheese.
In England, a Christmas cake refers to the dried fruit–speckled, rum-soaked round that many other cultures simply call fruitcake. Ideally, the cake is made ahead of time—up to two months—allowing the ingredients to mellow and blend as they receive a regular dowsing of alcohol.
But how did cheese come to accompany the holiday treat?
According to food historian Peter Brears, the creative combo comes from the Victorian era, specifically in Wensleydale, Yorkshire.
Wensleydale is also home to an eponymous cow’s milk (formerly sheep’s milk) cheese that, at the time, was made only during the summer and reached maturity right around the Christmas season.
Folks found that the sharp and crumbly cheese—either perched atop or eaten alongside the cake—paired perfectly with the moist, rich baked good, and a tradition was born.
The Christmas custom has remained mostly a delight confined to Yorkshire, but has become very popular across the border in Scotland
Source: Christmas Cake and Cheese – Gastro Obscura
Tags: Christmas, food
A Pictorial History of Santa Claus – 1865.
1863: Detail from Thomas Nast’s illustration ‘A Christmas Furlough’ for the front page of a 1863 issue of Harper’s Weekly. Obviously crafted for the Union side of the American Civil War Conflict.
As time went by, more and more was added to the Santa Claus legend.
The cartoonist Thomas Nast established the bounds for Santa Claus’ current look with an initial illustration in an 1863 issue of Harper’s Weekly, as part of a large illustration titled “A Christmas Furlough”.
In later Nast drawings a home at the North Pole was added, as was the workshop for building toys and a large book filled with the names of children who had been naughty or nice.
via A Pictorial History of Santa Claus – The Public Domain Review
Olde Christmas Cards.
Anthropomorphic birds and animals were another popular theme, as seen in this Christmas Reversed scene, where raw dinner ingredients get in a party mood.
Sending Christmas cards was a habit popularised by the Victorians, helped by the introduction, in 1840, of a uniform penny post.England’s first commercial Christmas card was printed in 1843, and is in the Laura Seddon collection at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Here, is a selection from its archive.
Showing that there’s little new about the tactics of trick-or-treaters, a group of festive musicians make their presence known, and demand beer.
This classic card was designed by the children’s book illustrator Walter Crane, a prominent member of the Arts and Crafts movement.
All Photographs: Ade Hunter/Manchester Metropolitan University
See more Images via Compliments of the season … Victorian Christmas cards – in pictures | Life and style | The Guardian.
Tags: Christmas, ephemera
Have a Good and Safe Christmas
Well a big thank You to The Toff and Mr Grubby…
How pray tell did two such popular blokes get those ridiculous nicknames?
The Toff is easy, he claims he is descended from British aristocracy and as an apprentice showed contempt for the other apprentices.
He tried countless times to get out of work that he thought was below him. Quite well off, drives a Jaguar and uses driving gloves and wears a top hat.
Mr Grubby’s nickname and how he got it are just so monstrous that even I do not quite understand it. But, I believe it occurred during morning tea in the comp room some years ago and was a practical joke that went astray. However the nickname “Grubby” suggests there was filth involved.
Let’s move on… we have tried on two occasions to organise a Get Together and both times been beaten by Covid-19.
Alex Riley will not give up. He has made a temporary booking at Westies in March, 2021.
More information to come and let’s hope we can finally enjoy each other’s Company.
Keep Safe this Christmas…. Derwombat.
Tags: Christmas, LUNCHEON
A Christmas Yarn for the Tightarses.
It Could only happen in Scotland…
An old man in Scotland calls his son in London the day before Christmas Eve and says, “I hate to ruin your day son but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough.”
“Dad, what are you talking about?” the son screams.
“We can’t stand the sight of each other any longer” the father says. “We’re sick of each other and I’m sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Leeds and tell her.”
Frantically, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone. “Like hell they’re getting divorced!” she shouts, “I’ll take care of this!”
She calls Scotland immediately, and screams at her father “You are NOT getting divorced. Don’t do a single thing until I get there. I’m calling my brother back, and we will both be up there tomorrow.
“Until then, don’t do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?” and hangs up.
The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife. “That’s Sorted!
They’re coming up for Christmas tomorrow and they’re paying their own way.”
Rob Powell
Tags: Christmas, Scotland
Queen Charlotte introduced the Christmas Tree to Britain in 1800.
1 16 November
For some years it was assumed that Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s consort had introduced the Christmas Tree into Great Britain.
However, that honour rightfully belongs to Queen Charlotte, the German born wife of George III in December of 1800.
That year Queen Charlotte planned to hold a large Christmas party for the children of all the principal families in Windsor.
And casting about in her mind for a special treat to give the youngsters, she suddenly decided that instead of the customary yew bough, she would pot up an entire yew tree, cover it with baubles and fruit, load it with presents and stand it in the middle of the drawing-room floor at Queen’s Lodge.
Such a tree, she considered, would make an enchanting spectacle for the little ones to gaze upon.
When the children arrived at the house on the evening of Christmas Day and beheld that magical tree, all aglitter with tinsel and glass, they believed themselves transported straight to fairyland and their happiness knew no bounds.
Queen Charlotte.
Dr John Watkins, one of Queen Charlotte’s biographers, who attended the party, provides us with a vivid description of this captivating tree ‘from the branches of which hung bunches of sweetmeats, almonds and raisins in papers, fruits and toys, most tastefully arranged; the whole illuminated by small wax candles’.
He adds that ‘after the company had walked round and admired the tree, each child obtained a portion of the sweets it bore, together with a toy, and then all returned home quite delighted’.
Christmas trees now became all the rage in English upper-class circles, where they formed the focal point at countless children’s gatherings.
As in Germany, any handy evergreen tree might be uprooted for the purpose; yews, box trees, pines or firs. Trees placed on table tops usually also had either a Noah’s Ark or a model farm and numerous gaily-painted wooden animals set out among the presents beneath the branches to add extra allurement to the scene.
By the time Queen Charlotte died in 1818, the Christmas-tree tradition was firmly established in society, and it continued to flourish throughout the 1820s and 1830s.
The fullest description of these early English Yuletide trees is to be found in the diary of Charles Greville, the witty, cultured Clerk of the Privy Council, who in 1829 spent his Christmas holidays at Panshanger, Hertfordshire, home to Peter, 5th Earl Cowper, and his wife Lady Emily.
But it was not until periodicals such as the Illustrated London News, Cassell’s Magazine and The Graphic began to depict and describe the royal Christmas trees every year from 1845 until the late 1850s, that the custom of setting up such trees in their own homes caught on with the masses in England.
By 1860, however, there was scarcely a well-off family in the land that did not sport a Christmas tree in parlour or hall.
And all the December parties held for pauper children at this date featured gift-laden Christmas trees as their main attraction.
The spruce fir was now generally accepted as the festive tree par excellence, but the branches of these firs were no longer cut into artificial tiers or layers as in Germany, but were allowed to remain intact, with candles and ornaments arranged randomly over them, as at the present day.
via History Today.
Tags: Christmas, united kingdom
A Christmas Gift List in 1948 looks strange in 2018.
Take a look at Macy’s best-selling holiday gifts of 1948—which LIFE compiled, along with the number of each item sold and at what price—and it’s immediately apparent that things have changed since then.
For starters, the gifts then skewed more toward the practical.
Such everyday items as a pair of nylons or a ballpoint pen, the department store’s third- and fourth-highest-selling items that season, may ignite little excitement in today’s gift receiver, who has been conditioned to want little more than the latest Apple product.
Second, there is a conspicuous absence of anything technological, whereas nearly seven decades later, more than two thirds of holiday shoppers plan to purchase electronics for their loved ones.
Then again, the rise of personal technology was still decades away, as these were the days when fewer than 10% of households even had a TV set.
Rather than instruments of entertainment, gift-givers wrapped up objects that were wearable or edible, and immediately usable: a pair of pajamas, a bottle of scotch or that perennial favourite, some sturdy slippers.
Basic, to be sure—but sure to be put to frequent use.
via Top Christmas Gifts: See How Popular These 1948 Best-Selling Christmas Gifts Were ~ vintage everyday
Fuzzy Christmas Night in Athens.
For quite some time I’ve had the idea to capture the contradictions of life in Athens during the years of the economic crisis, but not in a documentary way.
December is a cold month in a mediteranean country intrinsically linked to its warm climate
Christmas lights and decorations all over the city streets at Nighttime.
In a country generally connected to daylight, rain and umbrellas, are the opposite to its otherwise careless and outgoing character.
More info: michaliskoulieris.com
Source: Using Plastic Lens, I Captured How December Nights Feel In Athens, Greece | Bored Panda
Tags: Christmas, Popular
The Birth of the Christmas Card, 1843.
Cultures have enjoyed sharing written New Year’s greetings for centuries. The English-speaking ritual of sending holiday cards, however, dates back only to the middle of the 19th century.
Some sources say it originated with Thomas Shorrock, of Leith, Scotland, who, in the 1840s, produced cards showing a jolly face with the caption “A Gude Year to Ye.” a Guid New Year
Credit more commonly goes to Sir Henry Cole, who would later become the first director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.
He commissioned an artist to create 1,000 engraved holiday cards in 1843. Cole’s greeting featured a prosperous-looking family toasting the holidays, flanked on both sides by images of kindly souls engaging in acts of charity.
A caption along the bottom read, “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You.”
The world’s first commercially produced Christmas card, designed by John Callcott Horsley for Henry Cole in 1843
With advances in printing technology and mail service, the practice of sending commercially produced Christmas cards caught on.
By the 1880s, it was an integral part of the holiday season for many American families as well. In “The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship,” Yale anthropologist Micaela di Leonardo explains that the practice thrived amid postbellum industrialization and the demise of the family farm.
As relatives spread out geographically, women assumed responsibility for “the work of kinship” and became caretakers of extended family connections. Christmas cards were a convenient way for them to nurture relationships among their husbands, children, and distant relatives.
As the Christmas card habit took hold, manufacturers rushed to meet demand. Best known was German emigrant Louis Prang, who produced attractive and reasonably priced chromolithographed cards for the mass market. He is often referred to as the father of the American Christmas card.
Not all manufacturers were as concerned with quality. Many of them relied on trite and overly sentimental images to decorate their greetings.
In 1885, The Decorator and Furnisher magazine criticized the industry for its ubiquitous imaginings of “pantaletted young ones” singing in snowstorms and “angels floating in mid-air bearing a baby.
Such tiresome subjects, the article lamented, created “no agreeable sensations.” Also troublesome were the poor production values.
That same year, The Art Amateur magazine faulted a British manufacturer for offering a card that featured the image of a cherub whose head was “too intangibly connected with her body even for a disembodied spirit.”
Industry critics predicted that the American public would soon tire of Christmas cards. But then, in the early 1900s, improvements in image reproduction technology allowed the greeting-card market to surge to new heights.
In 1900, The British Medical Journal applauded a new series of Christmas cards with “platino-panel reproductions” that resembled photographic prints. The variety of subjects featured on the new cards also increased—sporting themes, landscapes, and patriotic drawings of men in regimental uniforms.
Read on via A Brief History of the Holiday Card | JSTOR Daily
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Louis Honore
1780 - 1842 (61 years) Has 29 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.
Judith Honore
Birth 15 Jul 1778 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 19 Jul 1778 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Died 1 Mar 1779 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Father Jean (Johann) Honore, b. Feb 1750, Odense, Denmark
Mother Esther Blond, b. 18 Oct 1752, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 13 Nov 1777 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Pierre Honore
Died 19 May 1849 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Buried 20 May 1849 Reformed Cemetery, Fredericia, Denmark
Family Charlotte le Fevre, b. 5 Jan 1783, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 13 Dec 1804 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
+ 1. Susanne Honore, b. 15 Jun 1805, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 2. Esther Honore, b. 21 Dec 1807, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
3. Jacob Honore, b. 6 Jan 1810, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 4. Olympe Honore, b. 5 Sep 1811, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 5. Jean Honore, b. 24 Feb 1814, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 6. Charlotte Honore, b. 5 Aug 1816, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
7. Cathrine Honore, b. 21 Aug 1819, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
8. Pierre Honore, b. 28 May 1821, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
9. Abraham Honore, b. 6 Jul 1824, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Charlotte le Fevre
Birth 5 Jan 1783 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 5 Jan 1783 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Died 12 Sep 1868 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Buried 16 Sep 1868 Reformed Cemetery, Fredericia, Denmark
Father Jacob le Fevre, b. 22 Sep 1751, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Mother Susanne Louison, b. 31 Oct 1744, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 26 Feb 1773 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Family Pierre Honore, b. 22 Jul 1779, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Birth 24 Sep 1780 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 24 Sep 1780 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Died 27 Feb 1842 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Family Susanne Dupont, b. 13 Sep 1788, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
1. Esther Honore, b. 31 Aug 1811, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
3. Marthe Honore, b. 23 Apr 1816, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 4. Jacob Honore, b. 17 Oct 1818, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 5. Susanne Honore, b. 3 Mar 1821, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
6. Marie Honore, b. 19 Jul 1825, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
7. Johanne Honore, b. 20 Sep 1828, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Susanne Dupont
Father Jacob Dupont, b. 17 Aug 1766, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Mother Marthe de Pierre, b. 14 Sep 1763, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 8 Feb 1788 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Family Louis Honore, b. 24 Sep 1780, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Marie Honore
Birth 16 Mar 1782 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 17 Mar 1782 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Died 27 Oct 1846 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Buried 2 Nov 1846 Reformed Cemetery, Fredericia, Denmark
Family Jacob Armand, b. 7 Aug 1781, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 1 May 1807 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
+ 1. Jean Hermann, b. 12 Mar 1808, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
2. Jeanne Hermann, b. 20 Aug 1809, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
3. Esther Hermann, b. 17 Dec 1810, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
4. Marie Hermann, b. 1 Apr 1812, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
5. Marie Hermann, b. 16 Jan 1814, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 6. Jacob Hermann, b. 20 Dec 1816, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
7. Sara Hermann, b. 14 Oct 1818, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 8. Judith Hermann, b. 5 Jan 1821, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
9. Peter Hermann, b. 22 Oct 1825, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Jacob Armand
Nickname Jacob Hermann
Birth 7 Aug 1781 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 8 Aug 1781 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Died 6 Sep 1859 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Father Jean Urie Armand, b. 10 May 1742, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Mother Jeanne Dupont, b. 20 Jul 1737, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 9 Apr 1767 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Family Marie Honore, b. 16 Mar 1782, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Jean Honore
Nickname Hans Honore
Birth 22 Feb 1785 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 26 Feb 1785 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Died 8 May 1843 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Family 1 Susanne Marie Dupont, b. 11 Jun 1772, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 21 May 1808 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
+ 1. Marie Jeanne Honore, b. 26 Dec 1809, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
2. Pierre Honore, b. 17 Jun 1813, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Family 2 Cathrine Vilain, b. 6 Jan 1802, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 2 Mar 1822 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
1. Cathrine Honore, b. 21 Nov 1823, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
2. Susanne Honore, b. 1 Nov 1825, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
3. Esther Honore, b. 14 Oct 1828, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
4. Jacques Honore, b. 31 Jul 1830, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
5. Hans Honore, b. 20 Nov 1833, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
6. Sara Honore, b. 23 Mar 1837, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Susanne Marie Dupont
Birth 11 Jun 1772 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 14 Jun 1772 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Father Matthieu Dupont, b. 5 Mar 1743, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Mother Olympe Killemond, b. 8 Nov 1747, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 18 Oct 1769 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Family 1 Jean Deleuran, b. 17 Aug 1766, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 26 Mar 1795 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
1. Susanne Deleuran, b. 8 Aug 1796, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 2. Olympe Deleuran, b. 15 Nov 1798, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Family 2 Jacob Dupont, b. 1 Dec 1759, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
1. Marie Jeanne Dupont, b. 2 Apr 1802, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Family 3 Jean Honore, b. 22 Feb 1785, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Cathrine Vilain
Died 26 Jan 1842 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Buried 31 Jan 1842 Reformed Cemetery, Fredericia, Denmark
Family Jean Honore, b. 22 Feb 1785, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Esther Honore
Birth 4 Nov 1786 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 5 Nov 1786 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Died 30 Mar 1856 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Buried 4 Apr 1856 Reformed Cemetery, Fredericia, Denmark
Family Jean Deleuran, b. 4 Apr 1781, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
1. Cathrine Deleuran, b. 23 Oct 1807, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
2. Jean Deleuran, b. 16 Sep 1809, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
3. Isaac Deleuran, b. 10 Aug 1811, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Jean Deleuran
Birth 4 Apr 1781 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 8 Apr 1781 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Died 20 Jul 1852 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Buried 24 Jul 1852 Reformed Cemetery, Fredericia, Denmark
Father Jean Deleuran, b. 22 Feb 1749, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Mother Elisabeth Honore, b. 1 Nov 1747, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Family Esther Honore, b. 4 Nov 1786, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Isaac Honore
Birth 13 Oct 1788 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 13 Oct 1788 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Buried 17 Oct 1788 Reformed Cemetery, Fredericia, Denmark
Jacques Honore
Birth 29 Jan 1790 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 31 Jan 1790 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Died 9 Jan 1870 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Family Jean Pierre Honore, b. 10 Aug 1787, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 31 Jan 1812 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
+ 1. Pierre Jean Honore, b. 27 Nov 1812, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
2. Susanne Honore, b. 1815, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
3. Judith Honore, b. 30 Apr 1818, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
4. Jean Honore, b. 21 Aug 1820, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 5. Franz Honore, b. 23 Sep 1824, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 7. Abraham Honore, b. 25 Dec 1829, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
8. Cathrine Honore, b. 5 Jul 1831, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Jean Pierre Honore
Birth 10 Aug 1787 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 19 Aug 1787 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Died 8 Dec 1851 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Buried 13 Dec 1851 Reformed Cemetery, Fredericia, Denmark
Father Pierre Honore, b. 29 Apr 1762, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Mother Susanne Dupont, b. 7 Dec 1762, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 27 Apr 1787 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Family Judith Honore, b. 25 Feb 1791, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Sarah Honore
Died 27 Jun 1848 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Buried 30 Jun 1848 Reformed Cemetery, Fredericia, Denmark
Family Abraham Dupont, b. 14 Nov 1794, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 9 Dec 1814 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
+ 1. Johann Dupont, b. 31 May 1815, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
2. Jacob Abraham Dupont, b. 1 Mar 1817, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
3. Catherine Dupont, b. 14 Sep 1820, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 4. Abraham Dupont, b. 6 Jan 1823, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
5. Esther Dupont, b. 31 Jan 1825, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 6. Peter Dupont, b. 8 Mar 1827, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
7. Marthe Dupont, b. 11 Mar 1831, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
8. Cathrine Dupont, b. 18 Oct 1835, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 9. Franz Dupont, b. 10 Jun 1837, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Abraham Dupont
Birth 14 Nov 1794 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 16 Nov 1794 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Family Sarah Honore, b. 24 Jul 1793, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Jean (Johann) Honore
Birth Feb 1750 Odense, Denmark
Died 11 Jun 1827 Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Father Pierre Honore, b. 7 Nov 1708, Gramzow, Brandenburg, Germany
Mother Judith Foue, b. 12 Sep 1711, Gramzow, Brandenburg, Germany
Family Esther Blond, b. 18 Oct 1752, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
1. Judith Honore, b. 15 Jul 1778, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 2. Pierre Honore, b. 22 Jul 1779, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 3. Louis Honore, b. 24 Sep 1780, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 4. Marie Honore, b. 16 Mar 1782, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 6. Esther Honore, b. 4 Nov 1786, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
7. Isaac Honore, b. 13 Oct 1788, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
8. Jacques Honore, b. 29 Jan 1790, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 9. Judith Honore, b. 25 Feb 1791, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 10. Sarah Honore, b. 24 Jul 1793, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Birth 7 Nov 1708 Gramzow, Brandenburg, Germany
Father Pierre Honore, b. 1686, Warquignies, le Borinage, Hainaut, Belgium
Mother Marie Desmarets, b. 15 Oct 1688, Bagemühl, Uckermark, Germany
Married 21 Oct 1706 Gramzow, Brandenburg, Germany
Family Judith Foue, b. 12 Sep 1711, Gramzow, Brandenburg, Germany
1. Susanne Honore, b. 15 Mar 1736, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 2. Marie Honore, b. 15 May 1737, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 3. Susanne Honore, b. 24 Feb 1740, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 4. Cathrine Honore, b. 23 Jan 1743, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
5. Pierre Honore, b. 8 Jan 1745, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 6. Elisabeth Honore, b. 1 Nov 1747, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
+ 7. Jean (Johann) Honore, b. Feb 1750, Odense, Denmark
Esther Blond
Died 11 Dec 1831 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Father Louis Blond, b. 1692, Brandenburg, Germany
Mother Marie Betacq, b. 28 Sep 1709, Schmargendorf, Kreis Angermünde, Germany
Family Jean (Johann) Honore, b. Feb 1750, Odense, Denmark
Louis Blond
Birth 1692 Brandenburg, Germany
Died 23 Nov 1781 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Buried 28 Nov 1781 re
Father Daniel le Blond, b. 1660, Cormeilles, Picardie, France
Mother Marie Le Francois, b. 1664, Saint-Michel, Thierache, Picardie, France
Married 1 Dec 1689 Brandenburg, Germany
Family Marie Betacq, b. 28 Sep 1709, Schmargendorf, Kreis Angermünde, Germany
1. Marie Blond, b. 1730, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
2. Susanne Le Blond, b. 6 Apr 1733, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
+ 3. Sarah Blond, b. 4 Oct 1734, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
4. Louis Blond, b. 3 Dec 1738, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
5. Daniel le Blond, b. 5 Jul 1744, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 6. Daniel Le Blond, b. 6 Jan 1748, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 7. Esther Blond, b. 18 Oct 1752, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Jacob Dupont
Birth 17 Aug 1766 Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Father Jacob Dupont
Mother Susanne Dupont, b. 1724
Family Marthe de Pierre, b. 14 Sep 1763, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 1. Susanne Dupont, b. 13 Sep 1788, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 2. Francois Dupont, b. 1 May 1790, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
3. Jeanne Dupont, b. 14 Jul 1792, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 4. Abraham Dupont, b. 14 Nov 1794, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
5. Jacob Dupont, b. 1 Oct 1796, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 6. Jacob Dupont, b. Sep 1797, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
7. Susanne Cathrine Dupont, b. 11 Nov 1799, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
8. Pierre Dupont, b. 21 Mar 1802, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
9. Pierre Dupont, b. 14 Aug 1808, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 1 Sep 1811 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Father Louis Honore, b. 24 Sep 1780, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Mother Susanne Dupont, b. 13 Sep 1788, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Died 16 May 1841
Family Heinrich Hans Michelsen, b. 25 May 1810, Eckersund, Norway
Married 18 Aug 1837 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Marthe Honore
Birth 23 Apr 1816 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 28 Apr 1816 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Family Thomas Johannsen
Jacob Honore
Buried 26 Feb 1866 Reformed Cemetery, Fredericia, Denmark
Family 1 Anne Vork
+ 1. Susanne Marie Vork, b. 20 Apr 1845, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Family 2 Marie Hermann, b. 26 Oct 1803, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
1. Peter Honore, b. 1846, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Family 3 Elisabeth Hermann, b. 4 Nov 1814, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Married 9 Nov 1849 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
1. Susanne Honore, b. 22 Sep 1850, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 2. Jacob Ludwig Honore, b. 18 Apr 1852, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 3. Ludwig Honore, b. 2 Oct 1854, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
+ 4. Johann Honore, b. 12 Nov 1855, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
5. Marie Honore, b. 19 Oct 1859, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Susanne Honore
Birth 3 Mar 1821 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened 3 Mar 1821 Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Family Andres Petersen, b. 1816, Tanum, Denmark
Married 18 Jul 1847 Tysk Reformerte menighed, Copenhagen, Denmark
1. Susanne Petersen, b. 1848, Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Louise Petersen, b. 1849, Copenhagen, Denmark
+ 3. Ludvig Honor Petersen, b. 25 May 1858, Copenhagen, Denmark
Johanne Honore
Died 18 Apr 1837 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Name Louis Honore
Relationship with Pierre Devantier
Born 24 Sep 1780 Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Baptized from the Reformed parish register 1779 - 1780
Copies from The Reformed Congregation Church Book in Fredericia, Denmark. Baptized 1722 - 1838
Census 1 Jul 1787 Dronningensgade, Fredericia, Denmark
1787 census, Dronningensgade 8, Fredericia, Denmark
Census 1 Feb 1801 Dronningensgade, Fredericia, Denmark
1801 census, Dronningensgade 19, Fredericia, Denmark
1801 census, Dronningensgade 19 & 20, Fredericia, Denmark
Census 1 Feb 1834 Kongenssträde, Fredericia, Denmark
1834 census, Kongensstræde 124b, Fredericia, Denmark
1834 census, Kongensstræde 120a + 120b + 124b, Fredericia, Denmark
1. Judith Honore , b. 15 Jul 1778, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 1 Mar 1779, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 0 years)
+ 2. Pierre Honore , b. 22 Jul 1779, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 19 May 1849, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 69 years)
▻ Charlotte le Fevre , m. 13 Dec 1804
+ 3. Louis Honore , b. 24 Sep 1780, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 27 Feb 1842, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 61 years)
▻ Susanne Dupont , m. 30 Nov 1810
+ 4. Marie Honore , b. 16 Mar 1782, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 27 Oct 1846, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 64 years)
▻ Jacob Armand , m. 1 May 1807
+ 5. Jean Honore 2x , b. 22 Feb 1785, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 8 May 1843, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 58 years)
▻ Susanne Marie Dupont , m. 21 May 1808 ; Cathrine Vilain , m. 2 Mar 1822
+ 6. Esther Honore , b. 4 Nov 1786, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 30 Mar 1856, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 69 years)
▻ Jean Deleuran , m. 14 Nov 1806
7. Isaac Honore , b. 13 Oct 1788, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 14 Oct 1788, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 0 years)
8. Jacques Honore , b. 29 Jan 1790, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 18 Jul 1790, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 0 years)
+ 9. Judith Honore , b. 25 Feb 1791, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 9 Jan 1870, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 78 years)
▻ Jean Pierre Honore , m. 31 Jan 1812
+ 10. Sarah Honore , b. 24 Jul 1793, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 27 Jun 1848, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 54 years)
▻ Abraham Dupont , m. 9 Dec 1814
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Pierre Honore (1654) & Susanne Cupre (1688)
Person ID I1414 Devantier Tree | Danish - Fredericia Branch, Decendant of Pierre Devantier (1637-1692)
Father Jean (Johann) Honore, b. Feb 1750, Odense, Denmark , d. 11 Jun 1827, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark (Age ~ 77 years)
Mother Esther Blond, b. 18 Oct 1752, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 11 Dec 1831, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 79 years)
Marriage 1776 - 1777 - 1778
Copies from The Reformed Congregation Church Book in Fredericia, Denmark. Marriage 1734-1844
Family Susanne Dupont, b. 13 Sep 1788, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 21 Sep 1864, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 76 years)
Marriage 1810 - 1811
Age at Marriage He was 30 years and 2 months - She was 22 years and 2 months
1. Esther Honore, b. 31 Aug 1811, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 22 Sep 1813, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 2 years)
2. Esther Honore, b. 12 Aug 1814, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 16 May 1841 (Age 26 years)
m. Heinrich Hans Michelsen (1837)
m. Thomas Johannsen (1838)
+ 4. Jacob Honore 3x , b. 17 Oct 1818, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 21 Feb 1866, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 47 years)
m. Anne Vork , Marie Hermann (1846), Elisabeth Hermann (1849)
+ 5. Susanne Honore, b. 3 Mar 1821, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 1858 (Age 36 years)
m. Andres Petersen (1847)
6. Marie Honore, b. 19 Jul 1825, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 9 Sep 1837, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 12 years)
7. Johanne Honore, b. 20 Sep 1828, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark , d. 18 Apr 1837, Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark (Age 8 years)
Last Modified 29 Aug 2019
Born - 24 Sep 1780 - Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
Christened - 24 Sep 1780 - Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Census - 1787 census, Dronningensgade 8, Fredericia, Denmark - 1 Jul 1787 - Dronningensgade, Fredericia, Denmark
Census - 1801 census, Dronningensgade 19, Fredericia, Denmark - 1 Feb 1801 - Dronningensgade, Fredericia, Denmark
Married - 30 Nov 1810 - Reformed Church, Reformed Congregation, Fredericia, Denmark
Census - 1834 census, Kongensstræde 124b, Fredericia, Denmark - 1 Feb 1834 - Kongenssträde, Fredericia, Denmark
Died - 27 Feb 1842 - Fredericia, Elbo herred, Vejle amt, Denmark
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Abbey Theatre, issues relating to
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Arts and culture capital scheme
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Arts Council, expenditure of
Arts Council, funding
Arts Council, funding of
Arts in education charter
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Beit collection
Built heritage jobs leverage scheme
Clár Éire Ildánach
Creative Ireland programme
Culture Ireland
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Culture, policy on
Film industry, development
Film industry, development of
Film industry, issues relating to
Film Industry, tax reliefs
Funding of the
Funding, issues relating to
Irish music industry
National Concert Hall
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National orchestras
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Plan for the
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Promotion of the
Promotion of the, initiatives undertaken for
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29/11/2016 [Oral Answers]...the way in which the government plans to ensure arts funding is used to ensure minority and new Irish voices are heard as part of cultural output. [Q. No(s) 426 to Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs ] Vol-930 Book-3
29/11/2016 [Oral Answers]...if she will work with the Minister for Health to develop and roll out an arts and health strategy across acute and children’s hospitals and across the community health sector; and the other innovative approaches being considered to use the arts as a means to promote well-being acros... Vol-930 Book-3
29/11/2016 [Oral Answers]...the action she is taking with her government colleagues to systematically address social, geographic and economic barriers to full participation in the artistic and cultural life of the country, particularly for children and young persons. [Q. No(s) 437 to Minister for Arts, Heritag... Vol-930 Book-3
29/11/2016 [Oral Answers]...the way in which she plans to create an environment in the arts that is more welcoming to young persons with special educational needs; if specific funding will be provided to programs to promote the inclusion of young persons with special educational needs; and if she will make a s... Vol-930 Book-3
29/11/2016 [Oral Answers]...if she will consider subsidising the costs of participation for young persons in the arts to promote inclusion from all economic backgrounds; if specific funding will be provided to programs to promote the inclusion of young persons from various economic backgrounds; and if she will... Vol-930 Book-3
29/11/2016 [Oral Answers]...the way in which she plans to create a more inclusive environment in the arts for children from immigrant families; if more multi-lingual arts programs will be available to children; if specific funding will be provided to programs to promote the inclusion of young persons from vari... Vol-930 Book-3
29/11/2016 [Oral Answers]...if she has had discussions with the Minister for Health with regard to setting up a specific funding stream for creative therapies, such as music therapy, which would be funded through her department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 477 to Minister for Arts... Vol-930 Book-3
29/11/2016 [Written Answers Nos. 417 - 429] I propose to take Questions Nos. 426, 435, 437, 453 to 455, inclusive, and 477 together.
Under the Arts Act 2003, primary responsibility for the promotion and support of the arts, including music, throughout the country is devolved to the Arts Council. In this re... Vol-930 Book-3
Visual artist's workspace scheme
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Preview of Campaign 2022?
By Dennis House on 02/15/2013 • ( 8 Comments )
You never know where guests on Face the State will end up, but two of this week’s guests seem to have bright political futures. State Representative Sean Williams is widely regarded by members of his Republican party and State Representative Matt Ritter is popular among Connecticut Democrats.
These young up-and-comers were in for a taping of Face the State, and I teased them about potentially being candidates for governor in 2022. Ritter and Williams are friends and said if the two did run against each other it would be the “nicest” race ever.
The two were here to talk about Governor Malloy’s budget and as you might expect, they have different views of the governor’s spending plan. Williams, of Watertown, called the governor’s budget full of gimmicks, and Ritter defended the plan.
A big issue that resonates with voters is the car tax. The governor called for it to be eliminated, and that puts Ritter in a difficult position. His constituents in Hartford pay some of the highest car taxes in Connecticut, so naturally they want the tax to go bye-bye. Yet Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra has complained that the governor’s plan will cost the city millions in revenue.
On Sunday, you’ll see Rep. Ritter explain this.
Rep. Williams also talked about the car tax, which was slated for elimination under Republican Jodi Rell, but failed. So will Williams support Governor Malloy’s plan?
Tune in Sunday at 11 AM for Face the State on Channel 3 for the entire discussion, in which we also talked about gun control and right to work. We’ll also talk with Mike Freimuth, the new director of the Capital Region Development Authority and our flashback looks at a key figure in black history in Connecticut, Gary Franks. In addition, we will remember the career of our late colleague, Brian Garnett.
UPDATE: Watch the Williams/Ritter segment here: http://www.wfsb.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=8418996
About the author: http://dennishouse.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/marking-20-years-at-wfsb/
Tagged as: Campaign 2022, Connecticut car tax, Face the State with Dennis House, Governor Dannel Malloy, Governor Malloy's Budget, Hartford, Mayor Pedro Segarra, State Representative Matt Ritter, State Representative Sean Williams, Watertown
Was that Taylor Swift in Hartford Traffic?
XL Center, UConn and Housing Top Priorities for CRDA
alertjoe says:
02/17/2013 at 8:35p02
Get rid of it once and for all…
Edward Grafe says:
Gov. Malloy seems to have it half right, it’s unfair to tax equal vehicles at different rates just due to location. Either apply the tax based on value to registrations (not really a good thing) or a flat tax mill rate across the state, such as a motor vehicle mill rate, with each community being the recipient of said tax amount, the way it is collected today.
i.e. a 2005 vehicle assessed at $15,000 is taxed at a mill rate of 20.00, for a taxable amount of $300.00. That method would seem fairer across the state… the state already tells the community what the assesed values of automobiles is, so it stands to reason they can tell the community what the tax rate shall be. This will also eliminate a portion of the state constituents from the fraudulent garaging a car (on paper) in say Essex where their vacation home is and the mill rate is lower but really parking the car in Waterbury or Hartford, where the mill rate is higher, because that is their primary residence.
I’m all for equalizing taxes, but to exempt motor vehicles under a certain value will only promte a higher tax burden on the real estate property owner’s in a given community.
Eliminating a tax liability for some, not all, is not the answer.
Susan Wood says:
Get rid of it! Its a burden on everyone!
Linda Hopkins says:
We have to pay enough taxes, some of us are not rich so when we get behind on car taxes we cannot register our cars.
Richard Famiglietti says:
He should eliminate it. The cities use it to screw over the taxpayers and there is no recourse. I live in Waterbury. In 2008 I moved out of state and i had a car that was repoed. I moved back in 2012 and found that Waterbury insists that I owe $2600 (plus collection costs) for back taxes. They claim I didn’t pay 2007 (I did but in the move I lost the receipt for the $900 i paid) they say I owe 2008 (I do) and 2009 which I don’t because I didn’t have the car. My daughter went through this as well. You only have 180 days to appeal the tax due otherwise it is considered valid. I refuse to pay it and hope they bring me to court so I can tell the judge what they are trying to do. In Waterbury if you do not keep your recepts they conviently lose the computer copy that you paid it already. My daughter had the receipts to back her up. I don’t so the court is my only option. Appealing to the tax commissioner will do no good.
Gail Tagan says:
If the car tax is eliminated, what is going to replace the lost revenue? Another fee or the towns/cities will have raise the mill rate and homeowners will have to pay more taxes on their homes? So I will have to pay more tax on my home to cover the people that own cars but don’t own a home. How is that fair?? It is not going to save people anything, renters will have to pay more rent to cover the additional tax on the property they rent.. Wish someone would explain how this is going to save anybody money—especially the middle/low income people who really need it.
This state and the state of Rhode Island are the only two states in the United States to collect car tax. Converse with the other 48 governors and ask how they do it I assume they make it up with gas tax. There is no need to charge a car tax. How does it help the poor if we force this tax on them? It would allow more people to afford cars which ultimately could lead to better jobs.
The entire subject of tax reform is a very sensitive one…those of us who live and own property in high mill rate communities say we are taxed to the hilt and cannot abide any additional taxes, hope for a break somewhere, While those who live and own property in low mill rate communities feel that they will be penalized with any tax increase fight against any tax equality progress.
THIS is the reason why the nation is in such a broken state, everyone is concerned ONLY for themselves, and fails to see what real reform would involve…yes some will benefit with more disposable income and some will pick up additional burden, but something has got to change.
We cannot continue to have our cake and eat it too, the services provided by town, state and federal agencies come solely from tax dollars, not some benevolent old man or corporate support. The sooner we all recognize that taxation is inevitable, and we the people must pay into the pot fairly and equally, the better we will all be. If anybody expects a free handout, without helping in some way to fund the benefit, then soon we will all be taking, and nobody will be giving.
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Trumpzilla vs. Covid 19
So covid 19 has decided to take on the man himself, President Donald John Trump. Big mistake. Covid 19 will just make him stronger.
The losers in Loserville are loving it.
The Federalist reported, "‘I Hope They Die’: Left-Wingers React To Positive Coronavirus Diagnosis For Trump, Melania."
So expected. They have hearts that are smaller than the Grinch before he saw the light. Harder than diamonds, too.
The press went wild.
Just the News reported, "Media react to Trump's covid 19 diagnosis with succession scenarios, I-told-you-so's."
I am sorry, but I cannot find that President Trump Will Contract Covid 19 prediction. Maybe it is out there. Maybe not. Maybe Schrödinger's cat ate it.
CNBC reported, "Republican donors who attended President Donald Trump’s fundraiser at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club are panicking after being around the commander in chief hours before he announced that he was infected with the corona virus.
"GOP donors have been reaching out to Trump campaign and GOP officials for any guidance following the event, according to a person briefed on the matter.
"'The donors have been texting and calling. Freaking out,' the person with direct knowledge said. This person declined to be named as the conversations were deemed private."
If the conversations were private, why is the conveniently unnamed person making them public?
I would be concerned too, and have myself tested. But panic? Freaking out? CNBC's source needs to calm down.
Democrats once again think they have our Road Runner president. The New York Times reported, "Trump’s disclosure upends the campaign in its final stretch."
Wait a second. I thought the polls all showed Basement Biden with a 12-point lead. Does this mean he will carry the 57 states of Obama lore?
The press is pushing panic and spreading gossip. One cited "a stunned former West Wing official" without disclosing which administration he served in. Obama? Bush? William Harrison?
Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair wrote, "Trumpworld is gripped by fear and panic this morning as the country absorbs the news that Donald Trump, Melania, and Hope Hicks tested positive for covid 19. 'There are so many threads to pull. No one knows where this is going to go,' a stunned former West Wing official told me.
"The biggest unknown is the state of the president’s health. This morning the New York Times reported that Trump is exhibiting 'coldlike symptoms.' Two Republicans in close contact with the White House told me that Trump’s symptoms have included a cough and fever. Melania is said to be asymptomatic. 'They are worried about the president because of his age,' one of the sources said. Sources said Trump will likely want to be seen in public as soon as possible to blunt the narrative that he is sidelined by the virus he’s spent the last six months downplaying. 'He’s going to want to get out there a lot sooner than people think,' the former official said. 'But it will be hard to hide if he’s sick. Also, who will want to be in a room with him?' The White House did not respond to a request for comment."
I wouldn't talk to these chumps either.
Reuters reported, "President Donald Trump is experiencing mild symptoms but will keep working after testing positive for the corona virus, administration officials said on Friday, as the White House and presidential election campaign scrambled to adjust to the bombshell development."
Nevertheless, the news sent stocks tumbling deeply overnight, but not as much once the market opened to another great unemployment rate and the realization that President Trump still will beat Biden. Follow the money. They donate to Democrats for protection like the shop owner pays off the mob. But both root for the good guys.
The pandemic panic lopped more than 22 million jobs off the American economy. Unemployment soared by 11.2 points in just 2 months, as the unemployment rate rose from 3.5% in February to 14.7% in April.
In just 5 months, President Trump has regained more than half the jobs lost, knocking 6.8 points off the unemployment rate.
The press spin is that adding 661,000 jobs in September -- the fifth time in five months that jobs added were in the Top 6 months ever. (Only September 1984 was as Trumpian in its jobs added total.)
The 7.9% unemployment rate is slightly higher than the 7.8% rate at this point in the Obama years. A majority of voters gave him a second term.
We have gone from the Great Depression to a recession in five months. The Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta said on Thursday, "The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2020 is 34.6% on October 1, up from 32.0% on September 25.
"After recent releases from the Institute for Supply Management, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the U.S. Census Bureau, the nowcasts of third-quarter real gross private domestic investment growth and third-quarter real personal consumption expenditures growth increased from 38.1% and 34.2%t, respectively, to 45.1% and 36.8%, respectively, while the nowcast of the contribution of change in real net exports to third-quarter real GDP growth decreased from -0.28 percentage points to -0.56 percentage points."
That will wipe out most of the 32% drop (annualized) in the economy in April, May, and June.
We shall see what the final number is by the end of the month.
Having defeated the pandemic panic, Trumpzilla is ready to take on Covid 19 itself. I suggest he take HCQ and zinc, videoconferences daily, and finally takes the stage publicly at the next debate. When he looks better than Biden, the election is over.
UPDATE: President Trump rises to the challenge.
BOOM! President Trump will hold a virtual campaign rally tonight!
— thebradfordfile™ (@thebradfordfile) October 2, 2020
It's on, Wuhan Flu.
UPDATE: Virtual rally canceled.
Breitbart reported, "President Donald Trump will transfer to Walter Reed Military hospital for several days “out of an abundance of caution” the White House announced on Friday."
Snowgander October 2, 2020 at 3:11 PM
The Bee is already on it:
"Coronavirus Panics After Testing Positive For Trump"
Don Surber October 2, 2020 at 3:20 PM
Good one. Next: "Democrats demand his resignation"
zregime October 2, 2020 at 3:31 PM
How awesome is The Bee?
Very, VERY awesome.
Ford Galaxies October 2, 2020 at 3:48 PM
The bee is very very awesome for sure. I love how they put ACB in a handmade outfit and said she dressed that way just a tick off the left.
I gotta go with The Colonel (Kurt Schlichter) on this and NOT rule out the possibility it’s a nuclear-level PSYOPS concocted by Mr. T his own bad self!
edutcher October 2, 2020 at 4:10 PM
He is tested positive, he campaigns, he wins in a landslide, 11/4 he declares ChiCom Cough officially over, closes all lockdowns.
Yeah, I can see it.
ck October 2, 2020 at 4:01 PM
On Tuesday or Wednesday Trump will come out and say "The First Lady and I started HCQ++ on Thursday as soon as we got the diagnosis, we have both just tested negative".
I knew he would turn this to his advantage.
Pepper October 2, 2020 at 4:14 PM
BoJo caught it, he's doing fine and he uses British medicine.
Don Reed October 3, 2020 at 2:38 AM
British medicine works? British ANYTHING works?!
Don Reed
Boris Johnson is an idiot, he let his National Health Service nearly kill him and Trump had to send a doc and HCQ++ to save his sorry ass. Now he's locking things down again. IDIOT
Eskyman October 2, 2020 at 10:36 PM
Yes, he's been a great disappointment. I had high hopes for him, but he's just not got the steel.
What's worse is that the world's biggest ass, Max Hastings, predicted that Boris would bomb. Looks like Hastings finally got something right (besides perfecting the art of writing books that are impossible to read).
SaudiPiper October 2, 2020 at 4:42 PM
The incubation period is 2-3 days. Did Chris Wallace poison the POTUS' podium? Wouldn't put it past him.....
TeaPartyGal October 2, 2020 at 4:56 PM
It's sad that the Democrats have become such active and eager promoters of disease. They are missing the fact that spiritual power exists and is superior to all negativity. The pure courage, faithfulness and devotion to America that Trump embodies constitutes a solid and inviolable inner strength for him.
We can all help by prayers that surround him with Love and calmness throughout the turbulent month before this election.
The Old and Unimproved Dave October 2, 2020 at 5:14 PM
I’m going to state my views on Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis in two parts (making the eight-ball in the corner pocket).
1. Anything that doesn’t kill him BETTER START RUNNING.
2. Now every single peep out of him is instantly and automatically a NEWSFLASH! It’s the Democrats’ campaign that’s going to be struggling for oxygen, not Trump.
Douglas DC October 2, 2020 at 6:34 PM
We get to see a new reality show "Trump v.s. the Virus."
This is on a par with TR getting shot in the chest, spits to see if he's hit in the lung, then tell the perp as he is hauled away: It akes more than one bullet to kill a bull moose!"
It will yake more than the BatFlu to get Trump. Now watch what happens to China. after he recovers..
Roozter October 4, 2020 at 6:28 PM
lyn5 October 2, 2020 at 8:43 PM
Liked this comment at Bookie's blog.
Callmelennie • 6 hours ago • edited
How could this be a gamechanger for Trump? If he recovers promptly with the HCQ cocktail, it will bring the HCQ story to the forefront, and how his opponents greatly hindered the use of this wonder drug with a campaign of outright lies and suppression of info.
All of which would lead.to only one conclusion -- The Dems knowingly and willfully caused the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans simply to hurt Trump. It would rank as one of the greatest crimes ever committed by any political faction in all of American history.
Yes yes YES! ^^^THIS!^^^
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Talk:Skulltag
1 "The Skulltag Team"
3 Aspect Ratio
4 skulltag monsters
5 Skulltag should have a mic feature
6 new monster in skulltag ( and items )
8 Staff Listings
9 Does Quake have a "Haste" powerup? I don't remember any.
10 What's the deal with "Zandronum"?
"The Skulltag Team"[edit]
Is it really necessary to list forum admins/mods as part of the development team? They essentially have nothing to do with the source-port itself, and more to do with the community. The list could be shrunk substantially if it only focused on developers who made actual source/media contributions to Skulltag itself. Not intending to muster up any of the recent drama, but it seems especially unnecessary.
Do the skulltag monsters deserve their own articles? Or an article "Skulltag Monsters", or maybe just sections in this article? I ask because they are wikilinked and somebody has created Dark Imp (the content of which should probably just go in here). -- Jdowland 19:01, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
I think it was decided somewhere else (maybe) that custom monsters not in the original games went in their respective game/mod/source port articles. Bloodshedder 00:56, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Hmmm. It was decided that custom weapons went in their respective game/mod/port articles, although IIRC some people thought that this discussion alone was not conclusive enough for a final decision.
The larger question here is: which new features in source ports deserve their own articles and which do not? Some, like scripting languages, seem to get their own articles without any debate. I can believe that a scripting language generally takes more effort and is far less common than a new Thing, but is that by itself enough reason to confine the monsters/weapons to one paragraph each? (Maybe it is. I've never tried it so I don't know.) Does a monster or weapon mod become more notable simply by being bundled with a popular source port? (It certainly becomes far more widely known, as the Skulltag partisans here have pointed out.) Are helper dogs new monsters or a new engine feature?
Maybe we can agree that anything reproducible with a DeHackEd patch is too minor to have its own article, but we may want to make exceptions for particularly infamous cases (the rocket trooper comes to mind). Ryan W 17:42, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Cacolantern has been created also. Ryan W 17:42, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Helper dog has enough information in it to deserve an article of it's own: also, it's present in all MBF derivatives, which includes Eternity and Prboom, so it's relatively widespread. Cacolantern and Dark Imp do not. -- Jdowland 19:32, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Aspect Ratio[edit]
It has been brought to my attention that someone here is repeatedly restoring some bogus report about an aspect ratio bug in Skulltag. This information is not correct. There is no aspect ratio bug in Skulltag which behaves exactly like all other source ports out there. Graf Zahl 22:17, 13. June 2007
A demonstration of the lack of aspect compensation, with original pistol sprite for aspect comparison.
If everyone does it wrong, it's still wrong. Tangent 08:56, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
How the status bar face should appear
The one on the left is actually correct, if you go by how Vanilla Doom behaves. Doom originally ran fullscreen in 320x200 mode. Most monitors are a 4:3 aspect ratio, so to fill the screen the monitors does some vertical stretching.
Nowadays, some monitors don't support 320x200 or 640x400 properly any more. If you run in this resolution, you're likely to get black borders at the top and bottom of the screen because the monitor is actually running in 320x240 / 640x480 and the OS is compensating.
For Chocolate Doom I've actually written aspect ratio correction code that stretches the 320x200 screen so that you can run in 640x480 and have it appear how it appeared in DOS when Doom originally came out. Arguably this is how it's supposed to appear - the zombies look squashed down when running in a 1:1 pixel ratio, whereas when running with aspect ratio correction they appear tall and in the proportions that you expect a human to appear.
The image on the right shows how the status bar face should appear on your screen if the port is doing aspect ratio correction properly. Fraggle 16:52, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
But in the ratio you feel is correct causes round sprites such as Cacodemons or the Megasphere and Soulsphere to become oval. Why would a behavior that causes such stretching be considered correct? Even if the 16:10->4:3 is correct (which I strongly doubt), Skulltag does not display 16:10 at the same aspect ratio as 4:3. Tangent 19:02, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
That's just how they appear in Doom. You might want to check out Image:Aspect_Ratio_Mona_Lisa.png which demonstrates that with the aspect ratio corrected ("stretched"), the status bar face better matches the shape of the human face. Fraggle 19:16, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Also, I just did some experiments with the cacodemon sprite. If you examine it you'll find it's not round, but actually a squashed oval. When you stretch it up to correct the aspect ratio it looks rounder. I think the sprites and other graphics in Doom were specifically designed for the 8:5 aspect ratio. Fraggle 19:33, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Also also, an astral dreadnought head is not perfectly round, and the sphere powerups in Doom may well be based on the extra life powerups from Wolfenstein 3D, which IIRC were not perfectly round (though it's been a while since I played that in 320x200 either). Ryan W 21:25, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Everything else of that is conjecture, and the Cacodemon definitely does not look rounder when stretched vertically (it is ~10% taller than wide). Either way, Skulltag does not include compensation for the differences between 16:10 and 4:3 so they display in different ways, which is not normal game behavior. Hopefully you can at least understand this.
Maybe we need the input of an original team member regarding the aspect.
EDIT: Doom Advance and Doom RPG display the sprites in the aspect that I feel is correct. Tangent 22:47, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Both 640x480 and 640x400 should appear the same, aside from a slight increase in graininess in the vertical direction. There shouldn't be any black bars at the top or bottom, as pixels in 640x400 (and 320x200) aren't square, but slightly higher than their width. (By 6/5, which unsurprisingly is equal to 480/400.)
Of course, there's always a chance that even vanilla Doom got this wrong, and should have applied A/R correction in the opposite direction. But after seeing that Mona Lisa demonstration, I doubt it...
What might be useful for the Aspect ratio article are photographs of what things should and shouldn't look like in vanilla and various ports, since the A/R of screenshots is dependent on the viewer's display. -- CODOR 00:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
See, that's what I'm thinking, that vanilla Doom did this wrong due to a technical limitation, or maybe nobody noticed (many people can't easily distinguish aspect distortion). I do see it's possible that they could have intended it to be stretched, but it seems more likely to me that they gave the humanoids slightly unrealistic proportions than that they didn't want circles to actually be round.
I emailed John Romero about it, but his response was "I have no idea" because he thought I was talking only about Doom 95, so I need to clarify that. Tangent 09:55, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Left: Corrected aspect ratio, Right: Uncorrected aspect ratio, Center: Box art
Here is some pretty convincing evidence that Doom was designed for the unusual 320x200 aspect ratio. On the left is the Doom guy's head as it appears on the title screen when the aspect ratio is corrected (ie. stretched to fit the screen). The right is the uncorrected version. In the center is the head as it appears on the Doom box art. It seems pretty clear from this that at least the title screen was designed for the 320x200 aspect ratio, and if that's the case, it's likely that most of the other art work was as well. Fraggle 03:34, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
That makes sense, but there are still many sprites that don't look correct at all, such as the rocket, which becomes short and oval. Perhaps they only designed some of the sprites for distortion? Tangent 20:09, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I can play in 640x400 in all ports with no distortion, nor black bars, whatsoever. I get no distortion in 640x480 either. The previous scentence is true for all ports except for Doom95 (Which may actually look correct on the computers with the black bars problem). I think that any of this problem is either not a bug and just a problem with the user's computer. Even if it was, it should be put in a wider range instead of being attributed solely to Skulltag, say like Zdoom. -Wagi 69.51.157.227 14:52, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
If your video card supports 640x400 mode then it will look correct (when fullscreen on a 4:3 monitor), and will be undistorted. However, you will always get some kind of distortion when running at 640x480 mode - either the aspect ratio will be distorted because the port doesn't correct the graphics for the different pixel sizes, or there will be some blurring of the graphics due to the aspect ratio correction applied. Fraggle 09:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
For a detailed discussion of the empirical rendering differences between ports, see here. Ryan W 10:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
When running Zdoom/Skulltag in 640x480, the only kind of distortion I get is on the status bar, because it scales the status bar's height up, and consequently, every other row is doubled. Other than that, the heights and tallness are all preserved for me. Also, in the site Ryan linked to, I'm suprised he didn't bitch about how the weapon is distorted in ALL resolutions of Doom95. :] -Wagi 69.51.157.227 18:41, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
skulltag monsters[edit]
abaddon is a new monster too skulltag too and the guradsohere and other items like that are cool ...
Skulltag should have a mic feature[edit]
I may sound crazy but it would help without typing lots of words during coops and deathmatches. You could get fragged by a player or killed by another demon, doesn't that stink? [Like the following situation.]
PLAYER:I FOUND THE EXIT
PLAYER:WAS SLASHED BY AN IMP
PLAYER:DARN:<
Now you see.
We sould hook up mics into our computers into the pink mic jacks and talk live to other players which helps thme in a situation like this.
{Player On the mike speaking} Watch out, fireball!
{Player2 On the mike speaking} Thanks I almost got hit!
See plus the mic will help skulltag have more users on it. It would be a big hit on doom online multiplayer! Plus people might make more donations to Skulltag!
Good thought, and one that I'd like to see... but what exactly does it have to do with a Wiki, which is basically a documentation site? Shouldn't you talk to the Skulltag Devs or post in their forums? It's a lot more likely they'll read it there as opposed to here. --Dark Pulse 05:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
You should take your suggestion to the Skulltag forums. This kind of discussion isn't really appropriate for the Doom wiki. Thanks. Fraggle 11:15, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
new monster in skulltag ( and items )[edit]
the abaddons and thoose monsters are cool and the items are cool too
items guardsphere doomsphere timfreezesphere and spread and others i dont know
Staff Listings[edit]
The retired staff listing under the staff section is incomplete, it's only a listing of the people who are currently in the retired staff usergroup on the Skulltag forums - not everyone who was formerly a Skulltag staff member. Either an effort to add all the people missing should be made, or it should be removed altogether.
This is a wiki so anyone can add themselves or other missing people to the list at any time, which is why I don't see it's a problem to have an incomplete list until it is eventually completed. If you disagree, please state why you think an incomplete list is better than having no one listed at all. -- Janizdreg 19:20, September 13, 2010 (UTC)
Does Quake have a "Haste" powerup? I don't remember any.[edit]
subj PolicyNonsense 08:28, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
It doesn't, unless one refers to Quake as a series rather than as the first game with that name. There's a haste powerup in Quake III Arena and in Quake IV multiplayer. --Gez 09:23, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
What's the deal with "Zandronum"?[edit]
I searched for it and found a source code repo but I don't understand what happened. Anyone knows more? PolicyNonsense 05:25, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
https://zandronum.com/ and https://bitbucket.org/Torr_Samaho/zandronum We forked from Skulltag since we got tired of dealing with Carnevil. Website and stuff is still under construction but we had to make it public since Carnevil closed the Skulltag forums. All of the staff are involved with the fork, so it is safe to say that all development of Skulltag has ceased.
We also plan to take the port in a slightly different direction by removing autoloaded stock content (there are probably some details about that on the forum somewhere). Blzut3 06:05, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. What forums, btw? The closed Skulltag ones or new Zandronum ones? PolicyNonsense 07:31, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
The new ones. Blzut3 07:56, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
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“Wuthering Heights” is a story of love and revenge. When it was first published, the critics’ reaction wasn’t unanimous. However, they acknowledged that the novel was of great power and energy. The essay below is a comparative Heathcliff and Edgar Linton characters’ analyses. The author compares two heroes from different perspectives: their appearance, social status, manners, behavior, etc.
In the novel “Wuthering Heights,” Edgar Linton and Heathcliff are the two main male characters. They’re complete opposites, but both of them are in love with the same person – Catherine Earnshaw. We’re sure that their story from the perspective of this essay will be interesting to you. However, if you want to get a sample on any other topic, place your order. Our writers will provide you with a well-structured and original sample.
Compare and Contrast Edgar Linton and Heathcliff in the Novel Wuthering Heights
The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is regarded as a classic of English literature. The
story’s plot is based on the contrasts between the main characters who act according to their own moral codes and principles. The two main male characters are Edgar Linton and Heathcliff. Both of them have similarities in their love for Cathrine Earnshaw, but they are distinctively different people. Their dissimilarities are obvious and prominent, while both of them yearn for Cathy’s love and devotion.
In the novel, Edgar Linton is a foil, a character who is a complete opposite to the main character and serves to highlight the particular protagonist’s traits. He is a drastic contrast to Heathcliff both physically and spiritually. Edgar and Heathcliff are different from all the perspectives: appearance, social status, education, behavior, etc. Heathcliff is described as “a dark-skinned gypsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman” (Brontë 6). In his turn, Edgar has “light hair and a fair skin” (Brontë 71).
When it comes to social status, the gap between these two characters is also apparent. Edgar is the heir of a respectable family residing in Thrushcross Grange. His home is a symbol of civilization and culture and suits his character and manners. Heathcliff has a much lower social status. He is orphaned and taken to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw. His social standing is underlined by the fact that his surname is, at the same time, his given name.
Whereas Heathcliff embodied the will and strength of a survivor in difficult circumstances, Edgar, on the other hand, had been brought up in a refined and polished environment. Richard Wasowski states that “Edgar represents the typical Victorian hero, possessing qualities of constancy and tenderness” (72). His manners and social status are the reasons why Catherine Earnshaw prefers marriage with him than to her soulmate, Heathcliff. When Edgar proposes to Cathy, she accepts, although her love for him is weaker than her connection with her sworn brother.
In contrast to Edgar, Heathcliff is more of the Byronic hero. Wasowski characterizes him as an “abusive, brutal, and cruel” hero (10) who appears as an inhuman monster. When Mr. Lockwood asks Mrs. Dean to describe Heathchliff’s character, she says that it is “rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone” (Brontë 43). Despite his love for Cathy, he never seems to forgive her for her choice, and “in a sense, he ends up murdering his love” (Wasowski 78).
Even though both Edgar and Heathcliff love Cathy, they show and interpret their feelings in different ways. Edgar’s love is gentle and reserved. Despite their feelings, Wasowski states that a “non-emotional intellectual is not the type of person who can make Catherine happy in the long run” (72). Edgar understands and cherishes his wife, but his efforts are not enough to sustain a relationship. In contrast to Linton, Heathcliff seems to be obsessed with Cathy and then, after her death, with a delusional image of her. Graeme Tytler considers Heathcliff to be “monomaniac” in his article “Heathcliff’s Monomania” (332). Love and revenge are two feelings that define his behavior and actions. He is a “man of stormy emotions” (Wasowski 72) who is capable of hatred and passion. Heathcliff despises Edgar and his feelings for Cathy. He states: “If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day” (Brontë 190).
Edgar and Heathcliff have almost nothing in common. Linton portrays everything that Heathcliff does not: noble origin, education, constancy, empathy, and tenderness. Heathcliff is, in his turn, passionate, obsessed, and rough. Their dissimilarities appear in every aspect of their lives, even in the only thing they have in common: their love for Catherine Earnshaw.
Brontë Emily. Wuthering Heights. Planet Ebook, www.planetebook.com/wuthering-heights/. Accessed 8, Jan. 2019.
Tytler, Graeme. “Heathcliff’s Monomania: An Anachronism in Wuthering Heights.” Brontë Studies, vol. 20, no. 6, 1992, pp. 331–343., www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/030977692796439621?journalCode=ybst19.
Wasowski, Richard. CliffsNotes on Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2001.
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MPs to investigate whether to take decisions on fracking plans out of local control
By Ruth Hayhurst on February 1, 2018 • ( 50 Comments )
Third Energy’s fracking site at Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire, 16 December 2017. Photo: Eddie Thornton
A committee of MPs is to examine whether planning applications for fracking in England should be decided by a government minister, rather than local councils.
The Communities and Local Government Select Committee is seeking submissions on whether fracking should be treated as national infrastructure under the 2008 Planning Act.
This is one of the key questions to be addressed by an inquiry launched by the committee earlier this week.
The inquiry will also look at whether the planning guidance to local authorities needs to be updated, improved or brought together in one document.
The Conservative 2017 election manifesto proposed classifying major planning applications for fracking as national infrastructure.
This would allow shale gas companies to apply directly to the Planning Inspectorate, bypassing the local mineral planning authority. Applications would be examined by an inspector and the decision issued by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government.
The proposal was not included in the Queen’s Speech but in December the Leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom, told MPs:
“Major shale gas planning decisions will be the responsibility of the national planning regime.” (DrillOrDrop report)
At the time, a spokesperson for the then Communities and Local Government Department told DrillOrDrop:
“The government is considering how it will bring major shale planning decisions under the national planning regime and will announce our preferred way forward in due course.”
Launching the committee’s inquiry, chair Clive Betts MP (Labour, Sheffield South East) said:
“The debate over fracking has aroused strong views on both sides but with large reserves of shale gas prevalent across northern England, applications for its extraction are only likely to grow over the next few years.
“It’s important all parties, from applicants to local authorities, are clear about the planning process so we will be looking at whether the guidance is adequate or whether the Government could do more to bring all the relevant directions together.
“The guidance needs to be as clear and straightforward as possible so those involved in the decision-making process can judge whether any bids for fracking are in the interests of the local community and the country as a whole.”
Local authorities currently consider planning advice from a range of sources when making their decisions. These include the National Planning Policy Framework, Planning Practice Guidance on mineral extraction, national energy and climate change policies, the Town and Country Planning Act, local plans and rulings made in court cases and public inquiries.
The committee is inviting written submissions on four key issues:
Should the guidance be updated and improved?
Should there be a comprehensive document incorporating existing and updated guidance?
What is the status of government planning guidance?
Should applications for fracking be dealt with as national infrastructure under the 2008 Planning Act?
The deadline for written submissions is 14 March 2018.
The Communities and Local Government Committee has a Labour chair. The remaining members are divided equally between Labour and Conservatives.
Only four of the 11 members of the committee have exploration licences in their constituency : Clive Betts (Labour, Sheffield South East) Mike Amesbury (Labour, Weaver Vale), Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative, Thirsk and Malton) and Jo Platt (Labour, Leigh).
Mr Amesbury (Weaver Vale) spoke against fracking at a meeting in Ellesmere Port last year (DrillOrDrop report). Mr Hollinrake has Third Energy’s fracking site at Kirby Misperton in his constituency.
Mr Hollinrake said on his website
“I do understand that a large-scale roll out of shale gas would put undue pressure on local authority planning resources, so can appreciate why this might need to be designated Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project, as happened previously with large scale onshore wind farms.”
He has also supported the development of national planning guidelines. He has proposed a maximum density of 10 well pads per 100 sq km outside protected areas, minimum separation distances of one mile between a pad and a settlement, school or health facility and a requirement for pads to have direct access or be within half a mile of an A road or good B-road.
Other members of the committee include: Bob Blackman (Conservative, Harrow East), Helen Hayes (Labour, Dulwich and West Norwood), Andrew Lewer (Conservative, Northampton South), Fiona Onasanya (Labour, Peterborough), Mark Prisk (Conservative, Hertford and Stortford), Mary Robinson (Conservative, Cheadle) and Liz Twist (Labour, Blaydon).
Responding to the inquiry, the Green Party MEP, Keith Taylor, said:
“The mere suggestion that the pursuit of environmentally-destructive fracking should be an excuse for Government Ministers to ride roughshod over local residents and their representatives is frighteningly anti-democratic. It’s shameful enough that the Tories, in a bid to fast-track, fracking have already done this in places such as Lancashire. The Government is making a total sham of any pretence of localism.”
“In the face of overwhelming local and national opposition across England, the Government is looking for permission to avoid scrutiny over its plans to industrialise our precious countryside – a move all the evidence says is a blatant act of climate sabotage.”
Link to inquiry on planning guidance
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government announced on 30 January 2018 it expected to publish a draft revised National Planning Policy Framework before Easter. Link
Updated 2/2/2018 to include quote from Keith Taylor and correct the number of committee members with exploration licences in their constituency from three to four
Tagged as: committee, Communities and local government, guidance, hearing, infrastructure, Kevin Hollinrake, Mike Amesbury, MPs, national, planning, planning inspectorate, Secretary of State, submission
Small rise in support for fracking – latest government survey
February 2018 drilling headlines
blooming vegans and vegetarians how dare they talk to you like that martin, do they actually come round to your house to say such things or do they shout them at you as you sweep past in your nearly new hybrid
what is the world coming to?
Most of them do it at dinner parties hrb, without having the ability to identify who else may be around the dinner table, feeling they will get a free ride. (Chlorinated chicken is the other current danger zone with myself in attendance.) I put it down to a dietary deficiency.
Getting a new hybrid at the end of this month. (Thanks Ponzi.) I wonder if the new model will run on battery if the temperature drops below 3 degrees C? If not, I will just have to trust global warming accelerates, or join refracktion with a diesel stating someone else mislead me, so I’m not to blame. (But hush about DYOR.)
(Used to work with a vegetarian, absolute lovely lady. Had qualms about how animals were slaughtered (fair enough). When she moved to another company, ended up as a Global Marketing Manager for one of the UKs leading processors of specialist leather! Her biggest clients? The “bible belt” in USA for up-market bibles-strange old world.
She once treated a group of us to a sophisticated Japanese banquet in a posh Bath restaurant, and was mortified when one of our group drank the finger bowl thinking it was a type of Japanese tea! Oh, happy days.)
was that before or after you were a farmer?
Then I was in the animal health industry, marketing treatments to most of the UKs livestock farmers and veterinary surgeons-but no owls. (Actually, I probably did, but never had such detailed reports back from the veterinary surgeons.)
See, there’s no flies on me-even used to market fly repellant ears tags for cattle. Gave me some experience of the big beasts being bothered by noisy tiny entities. I knew it would come in useful one day.
no flies on you – are you wearing of the tags then?
No hrb. Need to Giggle livestock a little I think-it’s winter. Flies for warmer times.
Anyway, I have done my best to offer a little light relief to mitigate against the disaster of the Survey results, and must now catch up on other matters.
Try not to fall into despair over the weekend. Console yourselves that, I will be back!
actually martin the first and second of february are imbolc a festival which marks the coming of spring, so best get your ear tag in
Philip P says:
You two (Martin, hrb) might consider starting your own mutual fan club on Facebook? There’s a lot of fruitless scrolling to get through for the rest of us here.
Please note the Post heading (topic/context etc)
strangely enough philip, fruitless scrolling is the name of the village where martin lives
😀 hehe we have room for that kind of humor. I thought he might be in a village called Upton Snodsbury.
What was the subject again? Could someone give me one of the FBI’s Russian firecrackers? i think i fell asleep in the snow?
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Breaking: Court clears the way for first UK frack for seven years – Cuadrilla says it starts tomorrow
By Ruth Hayhurst on October 12, 2018 • ( 83 Comments )
Fracking equipment ready for use at Cuadrilla’s shale gas site at Preston New Road, 5 October 2018. Photo: Danny Vc Llew
Cuadrilla has said it plans to start fracking tomorrow (13 October 2018) at its site near Blackpool after a judge at the High Court refused to extend an injunction against the operation.
In a ruling this afternoon, Sir Michael Supperstone also dismissed an application for a judicial review of emergency planning procedures at the site.
The decision clears the way for the first high volume hydraulic fracturing in the UK since 2011 and the first UK frack of a horizontal shale gas well.
But campaigners who brought the case said immediately they would apply to overturn the ruling at the Court of Appeal.
The only likely block on fracking tomorrow will be high winds and rain from Storm Callum that could delay the operation until Monday.
Francis Egan, chief executive of Cuadrilla, said in a statement after the ruling:
“We are delighted to be starting our hydraulic fracturing operations as planned. We are now commencing the final operational phase to evaluate the commercial potential for a new source of indigenous natural gas in Lancashire.”
Bob Dennett outside the Royal Courts of Justice, 12 October 2018. Photo: DrillOrDrop
But Fylde retired businessman, Bob Dennett, who brought the case against Lancashire County Council, said:
“We have been advised there are two clear errors in the determination of the judge that leaves the way open for us to take the case to the Court of Appeal. We remain defiant. This started in Lancashire. We are going to finish it in Lancashire.”
The injunction was issued last Friday when Mr Dennett submitted court papers in which he said he feared the county council’s emergency plans would not protect local residents if there was an incident at the site.
His case was the council had not adequately assessed the risk from the site or communicated appropriately with local people about what would happen in an emergency.
But Sir Michael said today the case was not supported by the evidence before the court. In his ruling he said:
“I am satisfied that the negative risks have been properly considered by the appropriate regulatory bodies.”
The court had heard that the Preston New Road site has been assessed by the council as medium risk, which meant there was no need for a site-specific multi-agency emergency plan.The
Sir Michael said:
“I am satisfied that the assessment of the risk is medium has been properly reached on the evidence.”
He also said the council was not required to publish its procedures. He said he accepted the council’s case that the Civil Contingencies Act gave officers considerable discretion about what it showed to the public. He said:
“The evidence before this court does not support the contention that the council is in breach of its duty to the public.”
He said the council had published a brochure about emergency planning in the county and there was a website for residents about how to prepare for emergencies.
Sir Michael refused the application to continue the injunction or to challenge by judicial review the emergency planning procedures.
Helen Chuntso outside the Royal Courts of Justice, 12 October 2018. Photo: DrillOrDrop
Helen Chuntso, a researcher who has investigated the procedures for Preston New Road said outside the court that the judge had interpreted the law incorrectly.
“The judge’s ruling puts him directly in opposition to cabinet office guidance on the statutory duty to publish information about emergency plans.”
She said the general brochure made no reference to hydraulic fracturing or what the local community should do in the event of an explosion or blow out at Preston New Road. She added:
“We will continue to fight the effects of fracking on this community. We will take this to the Court of Appeal”.
Ms Chuntso added that the campaigners would pursue the case on the grounds of “a previously undisclosed and questionable risk assessment” and the council’s failure to consult and publish its emergency plans.
Yesterday, the court heard that any delay in fracking would cost Cuadrilla £94,000 a day. Mr Egan said today the first results from fracking are expected in about three months. He said in a statement:
“If commercially recoverable this [shale gas] will displace costly imported gas, with lower emissions, significant economic benefit and better security of energy supply for the UK.
“The hydraulic fracturing process will take approximately three months to complete for both horizontal exploration wells. Cuadrilla will then test the flow of natural gas from those two wells with initial results expected in the New Year.”
Planning rules limit fracking at Preston New Road to 8am-6pm Monday to Friday and 9am-1pm on Saturday.
Cuadrilla is planning to frack about 45 sections of the well. Each section is 15-50m long and will take about 90 minutes. The first stage is furthers from the pad and successive fracks will work backwards along the well.
More reaction
Shadow business secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey
“It’s a scandal that the government has been allowed to force through fracking at any cost.”
Frack Free Lancashire
“The court decision is hugely disappointing. Our local councillors have been demanding information about emergency procedures for months now and fracking is about to begin at the site.
“The case was all about the failure of Lancashire County Council to provide adequate Emergency Evacuation procedures, and have public consultation and communication into Civil Contingency plans in the event of an explosion or gas leak at the Preston New Road fracking site.
“Given that an emergency situation at the site could impact health, threaten natural resources, or require evacuation, and particularly with the close proximity of a number of schools, it is unthinkable that Lancashire County Council or our government should have considered allowing Cuadrilla to go ahead with fracking without the local community being fully aware of what would happen in the event of an accident on site.
“The recent pipeline explosion in British Columbia resulted in an evacuation zone extending over several kilometres – there were just 100 people in that area: in the equivalent zone near the PNR site there would be thousands if not tens of thousands
“Cuadrilla can now carry on regardless, ignoring the urgent warning issued this week by the IPCC about the need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, but all of the fracking companies need to know that fracking will never get a foothold in the UK because they will meet resistance at every stage of their projects.”
Jonathan Bartley, co-leader of the Green Party
“A new fossil fuel frontier has been opened in Britain. In the same week the UN warned we have little more than a decade to tackle climate change, this ruling has paved the way for the first fracking in seven years.
“To stand any chance of hitting climate targets we must keep all fossil fuels in the ground where they belong. Fracking is a dirty, dangerous industry and I stand shoulder to shoulder with the brave residents standing up for the safety of their community today.
“We are deeply disappointed by this ruling, but the anti-fracking movement is stronger than ever and we will not give up this fight until Britain is frack free. It’s time the Government ditched its reckless dash for gas and invested instead in a renewable revolution of solar, wind and tidal power.”
Green Party MEP, Keith Taylor
“I want to thank campaigners for their efforts in the High Court; I share their disappointment with the outcome. But we must remember that, ultimately, it is the government’s full-throated and blind support for fracking, despite all the evidence, that has led us to this point. It is a sad day for democracy, for residents and for our planet. It proves we cannot trust the Tories on climate change.”
“This week, climate scientists from across the globe pleaded with world leaders to take unprecedented action to divest from fossil fuels and decarbonise their economies to avert the very worst effects of a climate breakdown that is already in progress [2]. Today, a government-backed bid to revive a dangerous and destructive fracking industry in England, against the wishes of the local community and local authority, has been given the green light.”
“For all their warm words and greenwashing, the Tories have been conspiring with their friends in the filthy fossil fuel industry all along. Ministers’ climate denial is insidious and disastrous.”
“Britain under the Tories is a genuinely terrifying place. The ignorance of evidence and the pursuit of climate-destructive policies at any cost imperils any future we hope to build for the generations to come. History will not judge the Tories kindly. Greens will continue standing on the frontlines of the fight to protect our planet and keep supporting all of those brave heroes like the Frack Free Four who have put their lives and liberty on the line to do the same”
Lee Petts, chair at Lancashire For Shale
“We’re very pleased that the High Court has sensibly rejected this last-minute challenge from campaigners. The industry’s expert regulators at the Health & Safety Executive and Environment Agency are satisfied with emergency response arrangements, and I think it’s time people trusted them to look after us.”
Reporting from this hearing was made possible by individual donations from DrillOrDrop readers
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Helen Chuntso practices Chinese medicine as a profession yet is lecturing a HC Judge on facts of law? Oooook then.
Google has been a great tool in many ways but has also led many to become self proclaimed experts and to self diagnose, oh look my headaches from listening to antis are apparently cured solely by ancient Chinese medicine. I’ll maybe pass on consuming ground tiger bone though.
I wonder where you think the medical profession and it’s ‘cure alls’ began GBK? Perhaps the last cure for your condition has just gone up in a puff of proverbial smoke?
Yes Sher we can all read about history, well done.
My point still stands. I sense a feeling of sadness from you today. Chill out, put your feet up and enjoy the weekend ahead 😊
So you has misread again….no surprise.
No, just incredible admiration from those who continue the fight; the only sadness is for you and yours; enjoy your ‘bubbly’ [make sure its made from your buddy’s Schlumberge] and have a great weekend yourself, life goes on;
for another 12 years at best.
36.5% renewable energy grid generation right now….
….not likely to chill with all this free wind powering my home 🙂
Sherwulfe. If you look at the latest published energy statistics for the UK (July 2018 – giving a complete analysis of 2017), you will see that renewables only provided @10% of UK energy demand. Take a look at the load factors for solar in particular – that solar PV farm near PNR will not even cover its own embedded carbon in “avoided” CO2 emissions. So whether you like it or not you better be grateful for gas for some time to come. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes-2018-main-report
So let’s ramp up the renewables…what are you and your drill buddies afraid of, eh?
Scherwulfe – I agree that renewables need ramping up, but in order to do this requires much more technological development & infrastructure to get from fossil/nuclear mix 90% down to 10%. It also requires renewables suitable for our natural resources & for solar PV, they are very poor at our latitude & coudiness. The UK’s 10% average annual load factor for Solar PV is very poor. If the campaigners are so committed to renewables – why don’t they do something positive and crowd fund R&D instead of wasting money on being policed and incurring costly legal challenges?.
‘they are very poor at our latitude & coudiness’ – no we have done this dead herring before.
Grateful; no
When humans first lit tobacco and all was fun and trendy, then there was no remiss; a century later and the big C.
So let’s cut the crap and speed up the slow waltz to the inevitable? Why bother cutting emissions at all if you do not sign up to the devastation?
You are in conflict; cut the industry strings, you are an intelligent person?
Sherwulfe – you are not listening about Solar PV. Look at the information here. Not my information. This is the official information. You can measure it better?
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes-2018-main-report
Can you reference your statement regarding ‘for solar PV, they are very poor at our latitude & coudiness’; it’s a big report and on a quick read can only find references to a fluctuation in one period. Also this report is based on what we have and does not forecast a change as there is no political will to do this. It is easy to marginalize a technology when not adequately deployed.
Can you also take time to study the IPCC and it’s warnings. There is a trade off and a technology shortfall for sure, but whilst the oil and gas industry cover the governance with dead herrings we cannot transition in time.
Regarding ‘that solar PV farm near PNR will not even cover its own embedded carbon in “avoided” CO2 emissions’ can you compare that to the equivalent generation of carbon from gas? That would make a better discussion.
Sherwulfe. Thank you for getting back to me. In the link https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes-2018-main-report. Go to page 163. Look at chart 6.7 on that page. Look at the bottom of the chart & solar PV. Consistently at 10% load factor or less since 2011. Indeed slightly falling. 10% load factor means a 1KWh panel on average in the UK gives only 100 watts/per hour. The go to this link http://pvshop.eu/Solar-Irradiation-in-Europe-kWh-per-m2 . Look at the graph UK is in the lowest 3 for solar energy reaching the land surface. You can look at this map published by the EU. http://www.eborx.com/download/en/data/European-Solar-Irradiation-kWh-m2.pdf Solar PV is only really effective in the brown areas – e,g southern Spain. Just to give you the context the pale green of SW Englannd receives 30% more solar energy at the land surface than the blue of Shetland. Most marketing material about PV is based on California – which is at the latitude of N Africa.
Nick; I am not a lover of solar farms, for me they are not efficient and take away from land use. What I would like to see is all new eligible homes with solar roofs and house batteries, insulated and with triple glazing; all older eligible homes able to access a ‘student’ loan type finance to upgrade insulation/install photovoltaics with house batteries. No home should ask for electricity from the grid for basics they can generate themselves.
As a user of renewable energy for over 20 years I can more than generate enough power for the basics of lights, tv’s computers etc at all times, which seem to be the items most cannot do without; why are we even using gas to make electricity in the 21st century when, by combination of the above and offshore and onshore wind we can more than cover our electricity generation needs, using interconectors from renewable sources e.g Norway and at a push [my other pet hate, nuclear] for the ‘I can’t cope with organizing myself better, individuals’? Gas from the North Sea can then be used only for heating, and if your home is well insulated, coupled with the increase in mean temperature due to already a lift of 1 degree C pre-industrial with the mindset of jumpers not shorts in winter, we wont need much at all.
Commentators talk about self-sufficiency of energy on here – trade agreements aside – with this infrastructure in place, this is the only way forward if we are to keep below 1.5 degrees over pre-industrial levels. Cuadrilla’s losses over the weekend, ironically due to high wind speeds would have installed 20 homes with solar generators and back up store.
Fail and we are responsible for the consequences of mass migration [see if you can meet their needs?], conflict and food shortages in just 12 years, never mind lost of species and land mass.
There is a lot of work to be done to save what we can of the planet, and it has to be done now, and fast; we cannot wait for more chat, dead herrings for profit or diversions.
Your carbon capture would be a benefit to the fossil fuel industry if it works, however is not up to speed as yet. Given the lifespan of a renewable generator with current technologies, it makes sense to maximise now, then over time if CC works can phase back some FF using better technologies and habits; also if the wind turbines are still an eyesore for some [as compared to that industrial photo of a fracking site!], these can be reduced in number by better and more efficient machines- we know this tech has come on so much, what will it look like in 25 years?
You still have not calculated the fossil fuel consequences of the solar farm you mention, if this was generated by shale, I believe the methane emissions alone would tip the balance.
It says a lot that the stats for solar are predominantly a guesstimate as is stand alone of electricity generation of non-commercial wind turbines.
Past statistics are all well and good to inform investors, of the now, but if the investment is in the wrong commodity then we all lose. I will check out your references; interestingly there have been statistical references with demonstrate the better economics of renewables for the future posted on DOD which the pro-frackers run a mile from.
The report you cite is a government report, and their mantra just now is ‘keep going with fracking despite all its shortfalls’, withdrawing support for green generation and use; in my book this demonstrates they are nothing short of climate deniers.
Ramp up intermittent renewables???
Err if you fill the Countryside with wind turbines and solar panels at huge cost to the bill payer then there is no wind for weeks on end and not much sunshine in Winter and you’ve made the whole Country install electric air source heat pumps and rip their Gas boilers out.
No heat and no electricity…
That’s what scares the energy industry…
Nope; just the loss of your job……but you could retrain. Yet another ostrich comment.
Ramp up the fossils, heat up the planet; oops, now it doesn’t matter what the countryside looks like cos it’s all dead, oh and so are we……..
Don’t forget to sign up for Green GB week celebrating 10 years of paying lip service to the CCA. Launched today by the Duplici-Tory Government.
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Patrick Sudlow says:
I have invested money in Thrive (formerly Triodos) Renewables, which is mostly involved in on-shore wind (wind being free and abundant but the Tories do not want), in Stockport Hydro, River Bains Hydro, and smaller investments in bio-gas and tidal energy. I do not drive or fly, I have a small carbon footprint, including water which I harvest and re-use. If people’s pension providers invested in renewables instead of fossil fuels (Greater Manchester Pension Fund being heavily invested in fossil fuel), along with our politicians doing more to support renewables and energy efficiency, we would be a lot better off!
Well done Patrick.
Cheers, but I am not alone and there are a lot of people who would like to invest in renewables, especially community initiatives. Of course, there are many others, who, due to Government sanctions, the bedroom tax and other actions against the poorest. Along with how those on meters or pay week to to week, are penalised by the main energy suppliers, whilst those who have money and waste energy, pay less for it! Thrive Renewables has just posted an update on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6456511408073895936
I think you’ll find Patrick importing vast amounts of Gas from foreign shores increases your bills coupled with 9% of your household energy bill being subsidies for so called green energy. Drax Biomass is classed as green energy! Emitting more CO2 than burning coal!!!
By producing our own Gas tax revenue from these Companies will help the Government achieve the energy price cap… As for investing in intermittent renewables why is Swansea council investing £Millions in foreign fracking operations and not their incredibly expensive white elephant tidal lagoon trying to make the tax payer suffer???
https://utilityweek.co.uk/swansea-bay-tidal-lagoon-firm-enters-debt-agreement/
Not so intermittent as a fuel that will destroy the human race before it finally runs out anyway!!
That’s Labour run Greater Manchester Council with close to one £Billion invested in fracking operations…
And still people honestly believe if the Labour Party gained power that they would turn their back on £Billions in revenue to the Treasury from U.K Shale Gas???
The Labour Party issued the shale Gas exploration licences!!!
If The Labour Party are so against U.K Shale gas why are a lot of their Councils prepared to invest their pensions in it.
Local Councils in the U.K have invested pension pots totalling
£9,000,000,000
Do people honestly believe if there is a successful U.K Shale Gas industry operating in the U.K paying £Millions in tax revenue to the Treasury that if Labour gained power they would just shut it down???
Even the most ardent anti shale gas protester would agree that Labour would continue with U.K Shale Gas…
This is what the antis realise, that when U.K Shale Gas is being produced safely no matter what Party is elected it will continue…
The ER issue will no doubt continue to roll on, injunction or not, and fracking or not.
Good that people are putting on their thinking caps re major accident hazards.
The risks from high pressure gas pipelines, COMAH sites, chemical spills, fuel station fires, Nuclear events, dam failures, and so on existed before fracking came along and will still be there if it goes away. And that will not alter with a change of ruling party.
It would be interesting to know if there has been a recent uptake in the fine guidance provided by LCC as a result of this focus on Major Accident Hazards, and if those schools or people living next to a high pressure gas main are taking appropriate precautions?
Indeed, has Lancashire got sufficient water to fight a gas main fire now…?
madpears says:
The USA has seen fracking failure. In most cases the effect on your water quality, environment, & people. Here in America the news commentator Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) has acess to send you videos of the scenes of fracking emergencies. Get in touch with her. At NBC news in New York City. Worth a try…
Sherwulfe
Let’s see how the water issue goes.
Shirebrook last Saturday
Call to response time 4 minutes!
Phew, but what is the average I guess?
Rapid response does not make headlines.
Let’s look at West Lancashire; no ambulances available – two astthma emergencies….that didn’t make the news either; or 81 year old left on floor for four and half hours until ambulance shift change -nether did that……
So why do protesters think it is O.K to block Preston New Road, a vital blue light route???
They don’t, the police close the road. If they are doing their job there will be provision for blue light services to be either rerouted or prioritized; another dead herring
They don’t block anything , Lancs Police do that.
Rather than facilitating a workable contra flow with the vast numbers of officers on the ground they prefer to pursue the narrative that the road is impassable as they seek to justify their operations with the public. It only works with the weak minded sheep though, you only need to watch the live feeds to see that a blue light call could easily pass if required.
If you have even been in a city during rush hour you will see emergency vehicles pass through much worse traffic situations without all the attendant plod seen at PNR.
But please continue to suck up and regurgitate the nonsense you are being fed Kishney
‘Indeed, has Lancashire got sufficient water to fight a gas main fire now…?’ a very good point hewes, and the other blue light services? I think not, the ‘austerity’ – read theft from the taxpayer – has seen to that. If you cannot get an ambulance from a a hospital 5 mins away in 5 hours, then things are looking grim…..
Another reason why the Government needs £Billions in new tax revenue from U.K Shale Gas Companies.
Not much tax from importing Norwegian, Dutch, Russian, American, Qatari Gas…
And yet another dead herring from the ‘jobsworth’…..£Billions from shale , ha, ha, ha; stop it, pass me the green bottle, I can’t take this anymore!
Reduced house prices = less money for social care = cost to government/taxpayer
Health issues highlighted from shale gas extraction worldwide = cost to NHS/government/taxpayer
Revenue form an offshore ponzi scheme = zero
Costs for infrastructure, new road to accommodate trucks and maintenance [future tumbleweed avenues] = cost to government/taxpayer
There are some good OU courses, would suggest you start now, or you may end up just taking entrance money for the Blackpool Tower……
Yes that’s the way to go, use any revenue raised through tax’s as a sticking plaster for austerity and tax breaks for the wealthy . Just like in the 80s with money raised from North Sea exploration frittered away on services that should already be appropriately funded.
The Norwegians use the revenue they raise for a sovereign wealth fund to reinvest and whilst not exclusively green or ethical it has divested from coal, other environmental polluters, arms companies, tobacco and companies with poor human rights records.
Interesting report on BBC NW Tonight about the PNR fracking and court case. The local kennel owner who appears to be the closest business / residence to the PNR wellsite had more problems with protestors, particularly those from outside the area, than he ever had with Cuadrilla. I have not seen anything about this on DOD? I thought everyone who lived near the site was pro antis and very much against Cuadrilla?
Paul Seaman says:
I don’t think we have ever said that, Paul.
Note also that the kennel owner when asked whether he would rather Cuadrilla or the protestors left said “both”.
Paul I believe they only want Cuadrilla to leave to get rid of the protestors otherwise more than happy to accommodate the firm.
I do fully sympathise with the avg person living in the vicinity that have had to endure the camoflauge crew. I drive past similar tribes when I’m near Faslane naval base.
Anyway looks like weather may hold off activity till Monday. I’m sure the antis will all be waiting for the Jurassic Park moment (ripple in the water from tremor). Should keep them busy for the next three months. Happy days.
It’s not what you believe GBK et al, it’s what the owner wants….kick out Cuadrilla, protesters leave – then the kennels can get on with their lawful business; win, win
….more like a pee in a stream…..
You mean this camouflage crew GBH?
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/members-of-the-south-korean-army-struggle-to-clean-up-a-beach-covered-picture-id78381066?k=6&m=78381066&s=612×612&w=0&h=vVZL–cBm-KY97-cNX19VcvQjwSuRp4sDh00gpecvZc=
Good for hiding in an oil soaked beach perhaps?
Where as I as someone actually in the vicinity prefer having human beings regardless of what they are dressed in rather than countless HGVs, drilling rigs, frack pumps, waste “water” tankers filled with who knows what and all the other associated detritus that goes with this industry.
At it again Paul
Paul the Poster and moderator!!!
Who will be the next local protestor to be jailed?
Will they be from London or Cornwall???
Who knows???
At it again Kisheny?
Kisheny the Poster and Immoderator!
Who will be the next “fracking guru” to be jailed?
Who will be the next operator to go bankrupt!
Will they be from Switzerland or Monaco???
Kishy; don’t bite the hand that feeds your obsession…….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bmdvr7/north-west-tonight-evening-news-12102018#
Jackthelad says:
The GREAT Fracking PONZI
The fracking of oil, in particular, rests on a financial foundation that is far less secure than most people realise.
Because so few fracking companies actually make money, the most vital ingredient in fracking isn’t chemicals, but capital, with companies relying on Wall Street’s willingness to fund them. If it weren’t for historically low interest rates, it’s not clear there would even have been a fracking boom at all.
FRACKING lives on the back of cheap, near zero interest rate money .
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/30/how-the-us-fracking-boom-almost-fell-apart
And lets not forget the decades of misinformation sown by the fossil fuel industry and its supporters! ‘Vast Blind Spot’: IPCC Accused of Ignoring ‘Decades Long’ Fossil Fuel Misinformation Campaign on Climate https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/10/12/ipcc-accused-ignoring-research-fossil-fuel-funded-misinformation-campaign
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Supporting Decisions at the IU Media School
Read how the administrators at the Indiana University Media School are leveraging the power of AM360 to measure the success of their strategic iniatives
Scott Feickert is the director of administration and strategic initiatives for the Media School. One of his primary responsibilities is to collect, synthesize, analyze, and present data (both quantitative and qualitative) to guide strategic planning, resource allocation, and policy setting, and to assess the resulting outcomes.
Throughout each term, Scott monitors and analyzes student headcounts, course enrollments, and other key metrics. He must understand not only what’s happening in the Media School, but also how the trends in the Media School compare to those of other responsibility centers and campus as a whole. Conducting these analyses used to mean writing and running multiple custom inquiries.
AM360 allows Scott to quickly view core metrics and tweak them in ways most relevant to the questions being asked. Sometimes that gives him all the information he needs. Other times, it’s a jumping-off point to delve into the data at a more granular level by running his own queries.
Because of AM360, more stakeholders are looking at and actively exploring the data. This has meant that discussions of data are replacing presentations of data.
In my view, the single biggest value of AM360 is giving stakeholders across IU a common frame of reference. It’s also helpful to be able to customize data views instantly while talking through a question with others, and to have those data presented in a format that’s accessible to everyone.
- Scott Feickert, Director of Administration & Strategic Initiatives, Media School
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The Camera Makers Dress Up for Halloween
(humor, maybe)
I don't usually publish rumors, but I've gotten wind of what the various camera makers are going to dress up as at the Halloween party this year at PhotoPlus, and I thought I'd share the information with you.
Canon and Nikon — Both going as vampires, which is appropriate, because they suck the money out of you and live forever. Besides, vampires predate all the other things they could have chosen, except maybe the mummies, so they're making a statement about how long they've been at their money-sucking schemes.
Pentax — Going as a zombie, because they've been reborn from the dead and keep biting other companies (Hoya, Ricoh) who then feel they have to join them.
Leica — Another case of the reborn, this time as a mummy. They believe they were just in suspension (mummified) for many years while they plotted their revenge and eventually reanimated to take the world by storm. Just don't unwrap them, as you might encounter some Panasonic parts underneath.
Sony — They've selected Frankenstein's monster, a costume worn for years previously by Fujifilm and Kodak. Sony is now so much into scavenging parts and making new entities from them, such as the QX, that they thought this the most appropriate of the traditional costumes.
Adobe — What else but a clown? They've entertained us all year with their marketing antics associated with Creative Cloud. But everyone knows many adults are actually frightened by clowns, and Adobe is hoping to frighten all the other software companies into giving up. Instead, many of them just laughed. Oh well, it's just an act, right?
Nikon D600 and D800 Product Teams — Too easy: gremlins. First, they're mythological, just like the problems with those cameras according to Nikon. Second, they're mischievous and mechanically oriented, and the mythological problems with the those cameras definitely have those traits.
Samsung — Stormtroopers. Basically white (like many of their cameras), copies (NX is pretty darned close NEX), and faceless elite soldiers wanting to kick butt. Unfortunately, not quite succeeding at the latter. A strange choice, because stormtroopers seem to be poor shots.
Panasonic says they're not going to celebrate this year, and I have no information about what Olympus might be doing. Fujifilm obviously is going as Mister X, as they feel they must fix errors in the Bayer construction.
Some readers have come up with some other unconfirmed reports of what camera makers will be wearing to the party:
Nikon D400 Product Team — They're coming as The Invisible Man. I guess that means that we won't know if they even show up to the party.
Hasselblad — Their Lunar and Stellar groups apparently have gotten the upper hand, as they've decided to come as The Joker from Batman. I had heard it was another Batman character, though: Two-Face.
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Communicate science in TV-series style
Using the TV-series story format to share scientific information | Mandate European research network TINNET | Story Winfried Schlee, Patrick Neff, Hynek Bures | Direction Hynek Bures | Animation Ehud Graf | Voices Fernando Tiberini, João Duarte Ferreira | Music Lionel Dentan | Languages English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese | 2019
The production of this animation series has been very exciting! First, the project allowed us to venture out into a new professional sector: brain research and health care. Second, we dared to tell the information in a very unconventional way: they are fun to watch! Third, we weaved scientific information into a TV-series story format. But before I expand on this, let's start by watching the first of the five stories: Do you know what tinnitus is?
The Netflix effect
In the recent past, TV series have become the dominant way to tell stories. Netflix TV series are a good example. Netflix uses the TV series structure to hook its subscribers to its services. With each new season. The audience comes back to continue watching the story. We wanted to make use of this effect in order to attract a maximum of views. Sharing your knowledge in small bites has several advantages:
A series of videos means more content for your information campaign on social media. With each new Facebook post a new video is added, encouraging the audience to come back and follow you over the period of your campaign.
Shorter videos have a greater potential to be watched till the end. How many times have you clicked away from a YouTube video because you felt its duration was just too long for what you wanted to learn?
Short videos help your audience to digest one message or topic at a time. For example in a YouTube playlist the viewer can stop the stream after each video clip. Taking time to reflect on what he or she has just learned?
The Simpsons generation
The last point here above could also work against you: At the end of each video the viewer clicks away to something completely different. To counter this habit, we looked for inspiration from the most successful animation series ever: The Simpsons. First, we have created a title sequence that introduces our character and his big problem: tinnitus. To keep production costs manageable, we stopped short of changing some elements in each title sequence.
Second we dared to use an animation style that is closer to fictional story telling rather than the usual serious scientific videos. And finally we added one non-Simpsons element to our story structure: Each video tells you where you stand in the series (video 3 out of 5) and each video ends with an outlook what the next episode is all about.
The Swiss knife approach
Ideally, you create a video or an animation for one specific channel: For your key note presentation, for your Facebook page, for a specific client segment. From my experience, clients like to maximize the use of the commissioned work. Sharing your information in a series of short videos allows just this. Short videos can be used on social media and in your next public presentation.
It provides you with the ability to create a multi-media experience for your audience. Fox example, on the organization's web page, the videos can be enriched with additional information using text, images, graphics or links to further information. BBC makes great use of this approach for its online news stories where text, video, statistics and even interactive applications let you dive deeper into a topic.
One language isn't enough
This animated series has been produced in 5 languages: English - German - French - Spanish - Portuguese - Click the links to watch it in your preferred language. And please share them to the respective language web worlds and communities!
Do you know me
My name is Hynek a.k.a Kenny. I am an audio-visual storyteller. The production company dubbed perceptions allows me to work with artists I admire, and enable my stories come to life.
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Dunne Properties
Successful property development and management through respect and strong partnerships.
Dunne Properties had modest beginnings back in 1995 when Stephen Dunne, his wife, Joanne, and a partnership group acquired commercial land at the Historic Railyards in Kensington, Prince Edward Island, and constructed three new retail buildings totaling 10,000 square feet.
In addition to being the company’s first property development initiative, the project was also significant because the developers had a strong sense of community and saw the need for a design that complemented the architectural style of Kensington Railway Station, a National Historic Site of Canada.
Once the development was completed, Dunne Properties took on the role of property manager. From the beginning, Stephen and his team were respectful of tenants, got to know them well, and developed a great rapport. In 2015, the properties were sold to local ownership and remain a focal point for the community.
“Dunne Properties strive to be a responsive landlord. They not only listen to tenants, but pro-actively maintain the properties so they remain attractive and appealing to staff, diners and clients alike.”
Dunne Properties’ next development venture was in 2000 when Stephen, Joanne and another partnership group purchased and renovated two historic buildings in Charlottetown…what are now the Gahan House at 124 Sydney Street and the Sims Corner building at 86 Queen St. These classic buildings feature two of Charlottetown’s best-known restaurants on the ground floors, and office space on the upper floors. Once again, the company took on the role of property manager post-renovation.
Graphic Communications is an office tenant at 124 Sydney. Company president Craig MacLeod has this to say about his landlord: “Dunne Properties strive to be a responsive landlord. They not only listen to tenants, but pro-actively maintain the properties so they remain attractive and appealing to staff, diners and clients alike.”
The results of being tenant-focused and pro-active on property maintenance and upkeep are high occupancy and low tenant turnover. It’s a win-win relationship for everyone.
Dunne Properties and their investment partners have continued to expand their property development and management portfolio in the Charlottetown area in both commercial and residential properties. Click on either Residential or Commercial below to see the portfolios.
Today, Dunne Properties and its partners own and manage more than 150,000 square feet of high quality rental space that is called “home” by more than 500 PEI residents and workers. There are more developments on the horizon and the company has a firm commitment to stay true to its respect and strong partnership roots.
Contact us today to inquire about investment or rental opportunities
“Dunne Properties is a very responsive landlord. They not only listen to our needs, but pro-actively maintain the property so it remains attractive and appealing to staff, diners and clients alike.”
- Craig MacLeod
TENANT, 124 SYDNEY STREET
“Dunne Group property management has always followed up and carried out any enquiries we have made. All communication has been prompt and efficient. We have and we would continue to recommend their properties without hesitation to anyone contemplating rental space.”
- Kent Scales
“It has been my pleasure to rent office space from Dunne Properties in Charlottetown since 2004. I have found them excellent to work with. There are regular improvements to the property, inside and outside, not just maintenance. Any rare issues are dealt with properly and promptly. They were very flexible with us as we added and removed the number of offices rented over the years.”
- Paul Chaulk
Owner, Atlantic Evaluation Group
The PEI Association for Newcomers to Canada appreciates the support we have received regarding building issues. Your company is responsive in a timely manner and works quickly to resolve problems. We particularly appreciate having one of your representatives on-site supervising solutions.
- Craig Mackie
PEI Association of Newcomers
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How to Develop a Dating App like Tinder in 2020
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Tinder, Match & Online Dating
Tinder is a dating app that matches users to others based on geographic proximity. They can also see age, and if they have any Facebook connections in common. The Tinder app is built around the idea of the double opt-in — taking out the element of embarrassment and unwanted attention. You can only talk to someone if you both like each other. IAC is also responsible for dating sites Match. The free-to-use app introduced a premium subscription model in with added features Tinder Plus , and a third level in Tinder Gold. One-off in-app purchases can also be made. Since then, Tinder has only grown bigger to become an irreducible element in the modern dating landscape. It is estimated that 50 million people worldwide use Tinder , though concrete figures have not been made available.
Brace yourself because your dating life is about to get a hell of a lot more interesting. How much storage capacity do you have on your phone? Coz we have 55 dating apps that aren’t Tinder for you to download, all sorted out for you in alphabetical order. Aisle is the dating app for those looking for meaningful relationships.
Which comes with the answer be the best dating apps in fact tinder. With its date matches. Also, there besides tinder, but what are looking for women; more accessible. Whether you love? If you love or other alternatives. By taking away the.
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The new kid on the block — Hinge — might look glossy like a magazine with the bold Serif fonts and clean white background but With a tagline that says “Designed to be deleted”, it promises to produce more ‘serious’ relationships and the focus is to get to know the people that match with you better. Free users are only allowed ten swipes per day so there’s no mindless swapping going on here.
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By Sara Lighthall. Rebecca is your typical tech-savvy twentysomething. The app operates by giving users a stack of pictures to sift through; if one likes what they see, they swipe right over the image, if they do not, they swipe left and move on. While Tinder and other dating apps like Bumble , Hinge , and OkCupid pride themselves on making meaningful couplings, many young users reject the serious nature of the products and repurpose them as merely carefree entertainment.
Tinder. One of the most popular dating apps in India, you can sign up on If two people like each other it becomes a match and you get an.
Now you have to construct witty profiles on Hinge or make the first move on the app Pickable. But not all apps are exclusive to romantic matches with platforms like Bumble having a business buddy and BFF networking feature to boot. For the sceptical among you, statistically speaking, dating apps have been found to work. Dating apps are a bit of a necessary evil, for those of you who struggle to find the time to meet someone IRL.
Ladies, the power is all in your hands — a bit like Take Me Out , but the virtual version where you have 24 hours to respond. Originally founded by women for women, Bumble challenges the antiquated and often sexist rules of dating — there’s need to wait for the fella to make the first move.
Unlike Tinder, Bumble is not a swipe-and-forget-it form of application. If that does not take place, the match expires. Bumble is just a free software like Tinder, although it is possible to spring for the premium registration to Bumble Increase if you would like perks just like the power to include another a day to the countdown and usage of significantly more than 2 Bumble filters at any given time. In the event that you decide Bumble feels like the best relationship software for you personally, remember to consider these 10 Bumble cheats to obtain more matches and dates!
How to Develop a Dating App like Tinder in In this issue: There are several business models that Tinder and other dating apps use for earning money.
All you have to do is fan the flames of attraction into a date. Bumble is a free app like Tinder, although you can spring for a premium subscription to Bumble Boost if you want perks like the ability to add another 24 hours to the countdown and access to more than 2 Bumble filters at a time. If you decide Bumble sounds like the best dating app for you, make sure to check out these 10 Bumble hacks to get more matches and dates!
Matches are pulled from mutual Facebook friends. Like Bumble, potential matches only have a hour shelf life. For an in-depth Coffee Meets Bagel review, click here.
So, Tinder is pretty good. Or maybe you need another app to work alongside Tinder so that you get more dates. The good news is that there are several apps like Tinder out there that you can sign up to right now to look for dates. Also, matches disappear if no one starts a conversation within the first 24 hours, which creates a sense of urgency and — theoretically — encourages more conversations.
Download Tinder – Dating & New Friends and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod I had experienced other dating apps, and just wasn’t making any serious We wouldn’t speak again for more than a month; but when we did, it was like.
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How many dating apps do that? No stress. No rejection. Trust us, the more options you have, the better-looking life becomes.
This list will give you the best dating apps simular to Tinder of ! In short, plenty of reasons to use another app besides Tinder. Let’s start.
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Dating apps let you meet so many people with varied. Similar to Tinder, Bumble is a dating app where users make a small profile of Users can swipe right to like another user’s profile and swipe left to reject, and when two.
Pocket-lint – Tinder revolutionised online dating. It made swiping left or right what you do to meet someone new. Nearly everyone has tried Tinder at some point in their single lives, and as a result, maybe they’ve found it isn’t their cup of tea. Perhaps they’re looking for something more LGBTQ-focused or something that caters to the wants of women first.
Well, it’s , so there’s an app for that. Web: bumble. Bumble is a lot like Tinder – except, once you match, only women can make the first move by sending a chat. It’s supposed to protect women from unsolicited dirty messages or just feeling overwhelmed. There’s also a hour time-limited chat availability, so it basically encourages women to be more active. And if you just want to use the app to create friendships, you can always use the BFF mode. Web: okcupid. After signing up, OKCupid serves up tonnes of personality quiz questions in order to give you a match percentage with would-be partners.
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Kennedy Space Centre: launch of Atlantis
The Kennedy Space Centre's new $100 million exhibition that houses the space shuttle Atlantis is truly breathtaking. First flown in 1985, the spacecraft was instrumental in developing our understanding of the cosmos. Over its thirty year career it made over thirty successful space flight missions, helped build the International Space Centre and Hubble Telescope and orbited the world almost 5,000 times. Given this epic record of achievement, the gurus at NASA thought it only right to give the Atlantis space shuttle a very special retirement home.
A decade's worth of planning went into the Atlantis exhibition centre, and it shows: the huge 90,000 sq ft resting place suspends the awesome spaceship high above so visitors can gaze at it from every angle. And when you've captured the magnificent craft there's more than 60 interactive exhibitions that recreate life in space.
This exhibition works hard to give visitors a true experience of life as an astronaut. First stop should be the multimedia room where you'll get an enlightening overview on the history of the space shuttle in a cool IMAX theatre. Next head to one of the simulators where you can see what it's like to blast off into the atmosphere.
Once you've felt the power of a rocket launch it's time to try out life in space. 'Lunch with an Astronaut' is a special daily event that is exactly as the title describes: over a spread of delicious food, true space pioneers from the NASA astronaut programme will answer any questions you have on what it's like to be in zero gravity. Listen out for the lavatory question which some brave audience member always seems to ask. Then you can take your own space adventure by crawling through the replica space station which floats on the top floor of the exhibition.
Aside from Atlantis, you'll find the The Kennedy Space Center has a smorgasbord of activities for families; from the crazy-coloured Angry Birds gaming area, to the history making Saturn V Center where you can see the rocket that took man to the moon.
How to get there: 14 nights staying at the nearby Four Points Sheraton Cocoa Beach for two adults and two children, including return flights to Orlando and car hire; from £2,349. To book visit Virgin Holidays or call 0844 557 4321.
Travel time: Flying from London to Orlando takes around 9 hours and the hotel is 45 minutes by car.
Accommodation: Four Points Sheraton Cocoa Beach is a true sample of Floridian hospitality. With an in-house Starbucks, surf shop and shark-themed restaurant, and you're bound to spend lots of time browsing around the complex. That is when you're not at Cocoa Beach; the horizon-long strip of soft pale sand that's just 10 minutes walk away.
Top tip: Budget some dollars to spend in the extra special NASA gift shop where they sell everything astronaut-related, even space ice cream.
More info: Tickets for Kennedy Space Center cost from £35 per adult and £29 per child. Lunch with an astronaut can be very popular so make sure you book on arrival or book here in advance. The local Space Coast tourist board is also useful for up-to-date information on the area.
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OMB: The IT management lights are on
By Mark Rockwell
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where the Office of Management and Budget is housed.
White House IT management officials say they're making sure IT policies and mandates from the last few years sink into federal agencies as the new administration maps out its own priorities.
The calm from the Office of Management and Budget on IT policy issues 70 days into the new administration shouldn't be taken as a sign of inaction, said OMB officials, just that the agency is busy making sure effective IT management continues.
"The lights are on. We're working," federal Chief Enterprise Architect Scott Bernard said during an April 4 panel at the GITEC conference in Annapolis, Md.
Tech policy and governance, Bernard said, is "cyclical," and runs on mandates such as FISMA, FITARA and other initiatives that have been implemented in the last few years.
Efforts to get a better handle on federal IT, such as TechStat, have been providing better data on how and where to modernize federal IT, he said. OMB's update of its A-130 circular in 2016 provides an overarching framework for federal information policy, he added, and has helped build IT harmony at federal agencies.
That work, he said, is continuing as the new administration moves ahead. However, when asked by the audience for speculation on a key part of IT modernization -- legislation that would provide an IT modernization fund to replace the legacy IT systems that riddle the federal government -- Bernard and fellow OMB panelists demurred. "Watch the news," he said.
OMB's March release of its annual Federal Information Security Modernization Act report "gives agencies the megaphone they need to make the case for their cybersecurity programs," said Joshua Moses, OMB's director of federal cybersecurity performance.
The FISMA report sums up the observations and audits of inspectors general across the federal government and other agency data. The latest edition showed an apparently improving outlook for agencies' implementation of information security measures, including the use of dual-factor authentication for employee logins, the adoption of the Einstein 3A security screen by agencies and the identification and protection of high-value assets.
Moses noted those improvements also, particularly in implementation of PIV cards for identification. In July 2015, he said, only 27 agencies had "strong PIV card" access. Now over 40 agencies now have it. The implementation has moved from large CFO Act agencies to "the smallest of the small," he said.
OMB is also advancing a digital workforce training programs begun in the last administration. Traci Walker, director of the acquisition community of practice at OMB's Digital Service, said her office is about to publicly release Digital IT Acquisition Professional Training content.
The training and certification program for contracting officers is currently in its second pilot, said Walker, who plans to put the content online in May for agencies and contractors to access.
That program, launched in the Obama administration, looks to create a growing community of contracting personnel who understand digital acquisition techniques and how to apply them to federal acquisition.
That ability, said Walker, is critical to developing efficient effective federal IT systems quickly. The need is so great for those kinds of people, she said, "we can't scale" DITAP fast enough.
By making the content open source, Walker said, OMB will allow agencies and contractors to "create your own" rather than wait in line for a single source through the DITAP process.
Mark Rockwell is a senior staff writer at FCW, whose beat focuses on acquisition, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Energy.
Before joining FCW, Rockwell was Washington correspondent for Government Security News, where he covered all aspects of homeland security from IT to detection dogs and border security. Over the last 25 years in Washington as a reporter, editor and correspondent, he has covered an increasingly wide array of high-tech issues for publications like Communications Week, Internet Week, Fiber Optics News, tele.com magazine and Wireless Week.
Rockwell received a Jesse H. Neal Award for his work covering telecommunications issues, and is a graduate of James Madison University.
Click here for previous articles by Rockwell. Contact him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter at @MRockwell4.
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Jarvis Cocker Unveils New Version of "Running the World"
It features instrumentation by the Kaiser Quartett
By Sarah Murphy
Jarvis Cocker's 2006 single "Running the World" got a second life following the U.K. election, and now the Pulp frontman has unveiled a new version of the track.
The new rendition features an arrangement by the Kaiser Quartett, giving the track a modern classical-tinged vibe.
"So here's the story: about a month ago the Kaiser Quartett sent me a recording of their arrangement of 'Running the World' and asked if I'd consider singing on it. So I did," Cocker said in a statement. "The song will feature on one of their upcoming record releases but — given the current campaign — we thought you might like to get a sneak preview right now."
The campaign he's referring to, of course, is Britain's plight to make "Running the World" (with its C-bomb-laden chorus) the Christmas No. 1 in protest of Boris Johnson's recent re-election.
Listen to the new version below.
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Virginia Beach Virginia
Another breezy day along the boardwalk
4.8 kilometers of beachfront to enjoy
Strolling the trails at First Landing State Park
Dolphin spotting on a kayak trip
The sunset over serene Sandbridge Beach
Tasting fresh oysters straight from the Lynnhaven River at Pleasure House Oysters
Heading down the dunes straight for the beach
A majestic whale makes an appearance at sunset
The charming rustic exterior of Bonney & Sons Seafood and Produce
Enjoying a laugh and cold beverages at a waterfront restaurant
Norfolk (ORF)
Oceanfront activities for all ages
Only a few hours from Washington D.C., this classic coastal city boasts three diverse beaches, two state parks, great food and some of the most flat-out fun on the east coast, so it only seems fair to share it with the rest of the world. Step onto the boardwalk and greet the bronze King Neptune statue, or swoon over the symphony at the Sandler Center for Performing Arts. Feast on fresh Chesapeake Bay blue crab, or hit your stride on the balmy beaches (the water here is warmer than elsewhere on the East Coast, thanks to the Gulf Stream) and let it sink in that you’re truly on vacation.
A Tale of Three Beaches
Travel quiet waterways by kayak, meet the high seas by charter boat, conquer the boardwalk by bike or just rule from the comfort of your beach chair. Chesapeake Bay Beach is family-friendly and relaxing, with shallow waters, a calm shore and plenty of dockside restaurants available for grabbing a quick bite. Resort Beach is hopping with things to do, from biking or rollerblading the bustling boardwalk to kayaking and people-watching. For a more secluded experience, head south to quiet Sandbridge Beach, where nature and wildlife await. Take a trip to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge & Tunnel to fish the pier and watch the huge ships come in from two scenic overlooks.
Coasting Through Nature and History
Here you can explore trails through diverse forests and marshlands and get a dose of history at the same time. Visit the Cape Henry Lighthouses on the grounds of Fort Story and just outside First Landing State Park, site of the Jamestown colonists’ first landing in 1607. See First Landing Cross, a monument honoring the pilgrims’ first steps into the New World, then hike or bike 30 kilometers of trails (or rent a cabin and stay all night).
At False Cape State Park, walk unfettered beaches tucked away between Back Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Or, head to Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge to kayak alongside dolphins, scope bald eagles, watch osprey along the shore or catch an otter scuttling up the bank. The Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center’s Whales and Wildlife Sea Adventure boat tour will bring you nose-to-nose with the most fascinating creatures of the sea. You can also explore the center’s indoor treehouse or zipline through the Adventure Park.
Have a Culinary Experience
The best way to experience the signature coastal cuisine here is through a foodie tour. Taste Virginia is your entrée to the food, wine and craft beer scenes. Try the Locavore “Shore” Tour to sample farm-to-table fare right on the farm or take the Town and Country Wine Tour, which starts from the smallest and most rural winery here and goes all the way to the area’s first urban one. Always wanted to see an oyster farm? Pleasure House Oysters farm tour takes you out on the Lynnhaven River, puts you in waders and shows you exactly how to harvest these sumptuous shells straight from the sea.
Virginia Beach has the largest population of bottle nose dolphins on the East Coast.
The Chesapeake Bay produces almost 500 million pounds of seafood per year.
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Jan Tait and the Bear
Henry Northmore
credit: Meilo So
Folky chamber opera for all the family
Jan Tait & The Bear is a cute chamber opera based on a Shetland legend. A story of greedy tax collectors, bears, bunions and butter. Written by Emily Doolittle it has a lilting, folky score brought to life by Ensemble Thing (featuring Aileen Sweeney on accordion, Alex South on Clarinet and Emily Walker on cello, conducted by Thomas Butler).
Mezzo-soprano Catherine Backhouse takes the lead as Jan Tait, who finds himself exiled to Norway after killing one of the king's men as punishment and is sent out to kill the huge bear that is terrorising the local countryside. However things don't go according to plan.
Baritone Brian McBride adds some fine comedic touches in multiple roles (in particular as the magnificent ursine protagonist). Narrator Alan McHugh (who has cropped up in everything from Taggart and High Road to Outlander and Limmy's Show) also keeps things rolling along nicely. The music is charming while Backhouse and McBride's voices are strong and clear making it accessible and perfectly pitched for an all ages crowd (although some of the youngest members of the audience did start wriggling towards the end).
Summerhall, 13 & 14 Aug, 1pm; 15 & 16 Aug, 10.30am, £10 (£7, family £28).
Ensemble Thing Based on a medieval story handed down by oral tradition, Emily Doolittle's comedic chamber opera tells the story of Jan Tait, a rugged and roguish Shetlander who is always ready for an adventure. When he is overcharged by an unscrupulous tax collector, Jan Tait strikes back. He is transported to Norway to…
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Congress finalizes Biden's win after riot disrupts Capitol
By Meg Wagner, Melissa Macaya, Mike Hayes, Melissa Mahtani, Veronica Rocha and Fernando Alfonso III, CNN
Updated 5:15 p.m. ET, January 7, 2021
Congress affirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s victory after pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol.
The House and Senate rejected objections to throw out electoral votes for Biden.
Certification proceedings were halted when the riot began. A woman was shot and killed on the Capitol grounds during the riot, DC police said.
Our live coverage of today's events has moved here.
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4:18 a.m. ET, January 7, 2021
Trump pledges an "orderly" transfer of power to Biden
President Donald Trump walks to the Oval Office while arriving back at the White House in Washington, DC, on December 31, 2020. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
Following a formal affirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory, President Trump said the decision "represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history."
"Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th," Trump said in a statement.
"I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again," Trump said while repeating false claims about the election that incited a mob to storm the Capitol.
CNN's Kaitlin Collins has more:
Following violent day, Senate chaplain delivers powerful prayer concluding joint session proceedings
From CNN's Josiah Ryan
House TV
Senate Chaplain Barry Black delivered a powerful prayer just moments after Congress had affirmed President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory, condemning the “desecration” of the Capitol building and reminding lawmakers of the weight of their words and actions.
“We deplore the desecration of the United States Capitol Building, the shedding of innocent blood, the loss of life, and the quagmire of dysfunction that threaten our democracy," he said.
“These tragedies have reminded us that words matter and that the power of life and death is in the tongue,” he continued. “We have been warned that eternal vigilance continues to be freedom's price.”
Read his prayer:
"Lord of our lives and sovereign of our beloved nation, we deplore the desecration of the United States Capitol building, the shedding of innocent blood, the loss of life, and the quagmire of dysfunction that threaten our democracy.
These tragedies have reminded us that words matter and that the power of life and death is in the tongue. We have been warned that eternal vigilance continues to be freedom's price.
Lord, you have helped us remember that we need to see in each other a common humanity that reflects your image.
You have strengthened our resolve to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies domestic as well as foreign.
Use us to bring healing and unity to our hurting and divided nation and world. Thank you for what you have blessed our lawmakers to accomplish in spite of threats to liberty.
Bless and keep us. Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to do your will and guide our feet on the path of peace. And God bless America. We pray in your sovereign name, amen."
4:50 p.m. ET, January 7, 2021
Congress affirms Biden's Electoral College victory
Congress has just affirmed President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump.
The counting of Vermont's three electoral votes put Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris over the 270-threshold needed to win the presidency.
Vice President Mike Pence, who presided over the count conducted by a joint session of Congress, announced that Biden had won the Electoral College vote after the House and Senate easily defeated Republican objections lodged against the votes sent by two states, Arizona and Pennsylvania.
"The announcement of the state of the vote by the President of the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected President and Vice President of the United States, each for the term beginning on the 20th day of January 2021 and shall be entered together with the list of the votes on the journals of the Senate and the House of Representatives," Pence said following the count of all of the state's Electoral College votes.
The certification comes after pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol earlier Wednesday.
The joint session of Congress, which is normally a ceremonial step, was halted for several hours when rioters breached the Capitol.
Proceedings resumed at about 8 p.m. ET with Pence, bringing the Senate session back into order.
"Let's get back to work," Pence said.
Watch the moment Pence announced the results:
Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly reported that an objection to Arizona's electoral votes did not reach debate. It did reach debate.
Joint session to count electoral votes resumes
Congress has reconvened in a joint session to continue to count electoral votes after the Senate and House rejected objections to throw out Pennsylvania's votes for President-elect Joe Biden.
Four lawmakers designated as "tellers" — two from the House and two from the Senate — will continue to read the certificates of vote from each state. There are 12 states to go.
The votes are read in alphabetical order.
We expect Wisconsin to be challenged in the House, but there will not be a senatorial signatory to it.
Track the electoral vote count here.
The House just rejected an objection to Pennsylvania's electoral vote
From CNN's Kristin Wilson
The House voted to reject an objection to throw out Pennsylvania's Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden. The challenge failed by a vote of 282-138.
The measure was also dismissed in the Senate, with a 92-7 vote tally.
The House and the Senate will now reconvene in a joint session to continue to count the remaining Electoral College votes. Track the electoral vote count here.
Pennsylvania will be the last state that will be debated. We expect Wisconsin to be challenged in the House, but there will not be a senatorial signatory to it.
There are 12 states to go.
Remember: Any further objections must be made in writing and backed both by a member of the House of Representatives and a senator, from any state.
Objections that are entertained by the chair — that’s Vice President Mike Pence, whose duties include serving as president of the Senate — will force both the House and Senate to withdraw for debate in each chamber, which will be capped at a maximum of two hours.
Congressman announces he's positive for Covid-19 four hours after voting on House floor
From CNN's Kristin Wilson and Daniella Diaz
GOP Rep. Jake LaTurner of Kansas has announced via Twitter that he has Covid-19. He is not experiencing any symptoms, according to the tweet.
He voted in person four hours ago on the House floor per this vote tally.
See his tweets:
House is voting now on objection to Pennsylvania's electoral votes
The House just wrapped up its debate over an objection on Pennsylvania's electoral votes for President-elect Joe Biden.
The objection is expected to fail. It already failed in the Senate, the vote was 92-7.
2 House members confronted each other during the Pennsylvania objection debate. Here's what happened.
Two members of the House confronted each other on the House floor over a push to strike another members' remarks from the record.
It began when Rep. Morgan Griffith, a Republican from Virginia, objected to what Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Conor Lamb said during the Pennsylvania Electoral College challenge debate.
This is what Lamb said that led to GOP members objecting:
"Enough has been done today here today already to try to strip this Congress of its dignity and these objectors don't need to do anymore. We know that that attack today, it didn't materialize out of nowhere, it was inspired by lies, the same lies that you're hearing in this room tonight. And the members who are repeating those lies should be ashamed of themselves, their constituents should be ashamed of them," he said.
Rep. Andy Harris and Rep. Colin Allred yelled at each other to “sit down” “no, you sit down!” from across the floor.
They both then confronted each other in the aisle. At least a dozen other members bench cleared from their sides. Rep. Al Lawson of Florida, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, and a senior Democratic staffer helped break up the confrontation.
According to CNN's Kristin Wilson, who was in the room, the situation diffused fairly quickly but tensions were high.
The deputy Sergeant-at-Arms showed up in the scrum.
Watch the moment:
Trump "committed a mortal crime against the republic," former GOP congressman says
From CNN's Leinz Vales
Former Republican Rep. Charlie Dent. CNN
Former Republican Rep. Charlie Dent expressed his disgust Wednesday over rioters who stormed the US Capitol building and President Trump's rhetoric that helped sparked the unrest.
"He's committed a mortal crime against the republic," Dent said. "He should have resigned over this, but he won't, of course."
In an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon, the former Pennsylvania lawmaker conveyed his anger with a pro-Trump rioter carrying a Confederate flag inside the Capitol building, calling it a "desecration."
"I always proudly took my constituents to a plaque right by the east-front Capitol, right by the front door. It's a plaque dedicated to the honorary first defenders from Allentown, Pennsylvania, in Redding, Pennsylvania ... who went to the Capitol, at the call of Abraham Lincoln, to defend the Capitol during the Civil War. ... The confederates never got there. They were there to protect against the rebellion. And here we are, watching Confederate flags running through the Capitol. To see this desecration to me, it's so upsetting as an American, as a Republican. How could this happen?"
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» exasperate < exacerbate
exasperate < exacerbate
Jorkel in his invaluable cataloguing of Paul Brians’ invaluable list of common errors lists this pair (with no directionality indicated) in his category 4, that of “Words sometimes confused—source for malapropisms, or substitution words in eggcorns.” There seem to be plenty of examples, including published ones, of people using exasperate (the more common and low-brow of the two) for exacerbate .
This tendency will be exasperated by the attitude of the members
Finally, the diagnosis of a toxic-thyroid condition explained some of the erratic behavior, though his lifelong bouts with and without alcohol often exasperated problems.
(friend suffering from allergies:) The place where they are staying (my BIL’s parents) have several cats and a dog and it is probably exasperating the problem.
the totalization agreement with Mexico would likely exasperate our Social Security crisis
That has been exasperated by events beyond our control.
It would be odd to posit that perps think situations, problems, crises, tendencies, etc., get intensely (or even mildly) frustrated and irritated. But it seems more reasonable that they might think people get worsened (“made more violent, bitter, or severe” M-W) by the things that frustrate and irritate them. If so, the use of the same form for both kinds of situations would make plenty of sense. So, in a backwards kind of way, it would be a pretty good eggcornical usage: the “wrong” form is happily used because the meaning in the “right” usages is shifted to fit the cases where it would otherwise be wrong.
The converse usage, that of exacerbate to describe what happens to people, helps make the notion plausible, perhaps, though most people who make the substitution probably wouldn’t be able to define exacerbate as “make worse”. Those exacerbate < exasperate examples smell to me like they may often be hypercorrective in origin: people have been corrected from using exasperate to use exacerbate enough that, still thinking they are dealing with the same word, they may use exacerbate whenever they think their wording/writing might be scrutinized.
She was exacerbated by her time in detention so it was a really emotional and traumatic experience for her.”
By the time her 2nd album came out, Ellie told the Guardian she was exacerbated by Ed Sheeran who made her sound promiscuous in his hit song “Don’t”.
I was exacerbated by the entire process and will not rent from U-haul again unless it is an emergency.
Don’t irritate her or exacerbate her or embitter her.
And, of course, non-eggcornical stuff may be going on at any time, such as the phonological metathesis of [‘æsɹ̩beʲ] to [‘æsb/pɹ̩eʲ], or people’s guess that such a shift is what/all that has happened.
The common use of aggravate to mean irritate/exasperate is certainly relevant as well.
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Redoubt Coast Ship Security Complex
The second generation coastal anti-ship operational-tactical missile system "Reduce" was developed under the leadership of V.M. Chelomey in the Design Bureau-52 in accordance with Decree of the USSR CM No. 903-378 of August 16, 1960 on the basis of the operational-tactical anti-ship missile P-35. The complex is designed to engage surface ships of all types. The missile of the coastal complex received the index P-35B.
The launcher is based on the four-axle chassis ZIL-135K (after the transfer of serial production of the chassis in Bryansk - Baz-135MB). The head developer of the control system of the Redoubt complex was NII-10 (Allair Research Institute). The missile's TRD march was developed at the Design Bureau-300.
Flight tests of the P-35B missile began in the autumn of 1963. By Resolution of CM № 631-202 of August 11, 1966 the Redoubt complex was adopted for service. In the Baltics, rearmament of the 10th Separate Coastal Missile Regiment with the Redoubt System started in 1972. The regiment was renamed the 1216th Separate Coastal Missile Division (OBRD). On November 1, 1974 the 1216th OBRD was reorganized into the 844th OBRD. In the Northern Fleet, the 501st Separate Coastal Missile Regiment, stationed on the Rybachy peninsula, was re-equipped with Reduce missiles in 1971-1974. July 16, 1961 was issued a Resolution of the CM for the rearmament of coastal stationary complexes "Utyos" from missiles "Sopka" to missiles P-35B. The first launch of the P-35B missile in the 362nd OBRP in Balaklava took place on 30 May 1971. Officially, both Balaklava divisions equipped with P-35B missiles were put into operation by the CM Decision of 28 April 1973. At present, the Balaklava divisions have been transferred to Ukraine. The rearmament of the stationary complex on Kildin Island (616th OBRP) was carried out in two stages: the first one on P-35B in 1976 and the second one in 1983.
The missile regiment of the Black Sea Fleet, equipped with the Reduce complex, was repeatedly transferred from the Crimea to Bulgaria on its own. There it held positions from which it could fire on the Dardanelles and parts of the Aegean Sea.
In 1974, the development of ZM44 "Progress" began on the basis of the P-35 complex. The main change in the missile was a new onboard guidance system with increased interference immunity and selectivity. New on-board electrical equipment units and a launch unit were developed for it, which provided better performance characteristics. The stealth and invulnerability of the missile in approaching the target has been increased by increasing the length of the final section of the trajectory for lowering the flight altitude in this section.
The following new technical solutions were applied in "Progress" complex in comparison with P-35 complex:
a newly developed interference-proof radar vizier;
automatic switch of the missile to autonomous search and target selection in the absence of commands from the launch vehicle;
the flight altitude in the final section of the trajectory was reduced from 100-120 m to 20-40 m;
the length of the final section of the trajectory has been increased from 20 km to 50 km;
the logic of autonomous target selection has been introduced;
the number of missiles in the salvo was increased to 16 when shooting from several carriers.
After state trials in 1976-1977, the "Progress" complex was recommended for adoption by the ships of projects 58 and 1134, as well as the coastal systems "Reduce" and "Utes". Officially, "Progress" was adopted in 1982. Production of rockets for coastal systems was conducted from 1982 to 1987.
Nothing is known about foreign modifications of the complex or about its production abroad. Most likely, the complex was exported in a limited way and no licenses for its production were transferred to any countries.
The designation of the US MOD missile is SSC-1B (Surface-to-Surface Cruise Type 1 is the second variant), the designation of NATO is Sepal.
It is part of the complex:
SPU-35B self-propelled launcher (SPU-35B) (see diagram)
P-35B (3M44) missiles (see figure)
cars with the control system "Rock" (4P45) and radar on the car chassis
The complex can receive target designation from Tu-95D, Tu-16D, Ka-25C helicopters (with "Success" radar).
Organizational launchers of the complex are grouped into batteries of 3 AP, five - six batteries (15 - 18 AP) make up a battalion, three battalions with support facilities make up a brigade (45 - 54 AP).
According to data for 1988, the fleet was in service:
Baltic Fleet - 6 battalions
Black Sea Fleet - 5 battalions
Northern Fleet - 3 battalions
Pacific Fleet - 5 battalions
Operation of the complex (see diagram)
In the technical position, the LPC is prepared and charged. The time of transition from marching to combat position is about 1.5 hours. The launchers and other vehicles of the complex are moved to the firing line on the defended coast. The LTP in position sets the container in a combat position (the elevation angle is 20 degrees). The complex brigade's radar detects the target, and the coordinates of the target are transmitted to the battalion, which accompanies the target and finds out if it belongs to the target by means of its own system. After that, the control system selects the PU for firing and launches the missile. When the missile is launched, a TRD march is launched and the missile is launched using two launch accelerators towards the target. After the missile leaves the container, the wing is opened. The missile gains speed and altitude using the missile's RTD launch accelerators. After the fuel is produced, the launch vehicle is reset and the rocket with a running marching engine is lowered to the marching altitude. The inertial control system maintains the specified altitude, speed and flight direction.
When the target area is reached, an active radar sight is activated. The missile transmits a radar picture of the target to the operator's console. The operator assigns a target to the missile, the CNS captures the target and points the missile at the target.
Blast unit is initiated by the fuse after the missile hits the target.
The Redoubt rocket complex has a powerful combat unit and high marching speed, which increases the probability of hitting (breaking through the air defense) the target with a single missile or multi-missile with multiple PU. The systems currently in service most likely have a 3M44 "Progress" missile with improved TTH. Due to its long range, the Redoubt battery can cover the several hundred kilometers of coastline with external target designation. The powerful high-explosive or nuclear warhead allows to disable a ship of any class by one missile.
The outdated rocket has a relatively large size and mass, so the LPS carries only 1 rocket. The LPS is not autonomous and cannot detect and fire targets by itself. The time it takes to deploy the complex in a combat position is long. The missile's long range creates problems with target designation.
Range of fire, km 25 - 270 - 460
The marching altitude of the rocket flight, m 400 / 4000 / 7000
Flight height at the end section, m. 100
Missile flight speed march, number M 1,5
Diving angle on target, deg 80
Time to deploy PP from the march, min. at least 30 minutes.
Dimensions, m:
- length 9,45 (9,75; 9,88; 10)
- wingspan 2,6
- folding width 1,544
- max. housing diameter 1,0
- altitude 1,5
Mass of empty rocket, kg 2330
Launch mass of the rocket, kg. 4 500
Fighting unit blast
Weight BC, kg ~ 1000
The power of the nuclear BC, kT 350
Type of start tilted container, angle 20O
Governing bodies airfoils
Guidance System INS + active radar vizier
Marshal engine TRD
Fuel kerosene
Starter motor two RDTTs
Traction, kgs. 2 х 30 000
Start engine running time, s 2
Type self-propelled wheel
Wheel formula 8 х 8
Mounted on chassis ZEAL-135K (BASES-135MB)
PU weight, kg 21 000 (around 18 000)
Dimensions in marching position, m:
- length 13,5 (11,5)
- width 2,86 (2,8)
- altitude 3,53 (3,0)
Maximum speed, km/h 40
Power reserve, km 500
The military calculation, man. 5
Testing:
According to various data, apart from Russia, the Redoubt complex is armed with the coastal units of the following countries:
Syria - 1 Battalion (18 SSU)
Yugoslavia - several batteries
Nothing is yet known about the combat use of the Redoubt complex.
The Redoubt complex, despite its shortcomings, is still a powerful weapon of coastal units.
"Российское ракетное оружие 1943-1993", А.В. Карпенко, СПб,"Пика", 1993
"Военно-Морской Флот СССР 1945-1991", В.П. Кузин, В.И. Никольский, СПб, Историческое Морское Общество, 1996
"Оружие Российского Флота", А.М.Петров и др., СПб, Судостроение, 1996
"Береговые ракетные комплексы ВМФ", А.В. Карпенко, N2 1997 Военный Парад
А.Б.Широкорад "Оружие отечественного флота", Минск, Харвест, 2001г.
http://twower.livejournal.com/
http://www.npomash.ru/press/ru/podrobnee020612.htm?l=0
Basing:
Anti-ship
Warhead:
Special ammunition
Control sys.:
Active radar homing
460 km.
Similar in definition and basing:
Mobile coastal missile system "Bal-E"
Spike-NLOS multi-purpose missile system
Spike-ER multi-purpose anti-tank missile system
DF-21 medium-range missile system
NSM anti-ship missile
X-35 anti-ship cruise missile
Anti-ship missile system SSM-1 (Type-88)
Coastal anti-ship complex 4K51 Rubezh
RBS-15 Mk3 anti-ship missile
Anti-ship missile system RBS-15ka
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Vine Street
Vine is a street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California that runs north-south from Melrose Avenue up past Hollywood Boulevard. The intersection of Hollywood and Vine was once a symbol of Hollywood itself. The famed intersection fell into disrepair during the 1970s but has since began gentrification and renewal with several high valued projects currently in progress.
The Hollywood/Vine (LACMTA Station) serves the intersection with the station entrance located at Hollywood Blvd. and Argyle Ave., located one block east.
The Capitol Records building, Capitol Tower, is located just north of the intersection of Hollywood & Vine.
South of Melrose, Vine turns into Rossmore Avenue, a Hancock Park thoroughfare that ends at Wilshire Boulevard.
Vine Street continues for one block as a residential street in Torrance, renamed as Vine Avenue. However, it is a strictly residential street which terminates at Sepulveda Boulevard in Torrance.
In a ceremony on 12 February 2007, talk show host Jimmy Kimmel announced the build of The W Hollywood Hotel & Residences. The city-block-size project worth $600 million intends to restore luster to the iconic intersection.
Metro Local 210 and Metro Rapid 710 serve Vine Street.
Commuters seek going further south by going some blocks east on Wilshire Boulevard from Rossmore Avenue to Crenshaw Boulevard, where Metro Local 210 and Metro Rapid 710 serve to go further south.
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Transelectrica to be listed on BSE
Marţi, 4 iulie 2006, 0:00
Transelectrica shares were oversubscribed by about 6.46 times, as 4.861 investors subscribed for 47.38 million shares valued at 798.08 million RON, according to an announcement issued on Tuesday by utilities Romanian company’s management.
The listing on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) is planned for August this year, Razvan Purdila, manager of the Capital market with the Transelectrica says.
The public bid by Transelectrica issued for sale about 7.33 million shares at 16.8 RON/share. 70% of the subscribed shares belong to Romanian investors while only 30% to foreign investors. Therefore, Romanian investors subscribed 33.17 million shares. Among the main investors there are Alpha Bank Romania, BRD-Groupe Societe Generale and Raiffeisen Bank, and Proprietatea Fund.
The Romanian-based electricity transporter Transelectrica reported a 35 million euros net profit for 2005, up 46.5% compared to the 24 million euros in 2004. The company is considered to be the first major state-owned company to be privatized.
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floridavelocipede
What fresh hell is this?
Signs are everywhere
Travels with Ron
Travels with Ron II
Trail signs for our times
This is our Sweetwater
Downtown reflections
That’s all so Gville
Creeks run through us
Design is destiny
Not all roads must lead to ruin.
South Main Street funnels traffic into downtown Gainesville. It traverses mom-and-pop businesses, an industrial district and Depot Park. Big trucks, cars, buses, walkers and cyclists all use South Main in more or less peaceful coexistence.
Archer Road also brings traffic into the heart of the city. On the way it runs right through Gainesville’s “medical mile,” past the VA Hospital and UF Health’s tightly packed hospitals, clinics and labs.
Archer is also traffic-,transit- and pedestrian-intensive. And some of its pedestrians must get around with the help of canes and wheelchairs.
Slowing traffic where there are lots of sick and elderly people – and thousands of health care workers – would seem to be good public safety policy. I assumed that was the reason 25 mph speed limit signs were once posted on Archer between SW 23rd St. and SW 13th St.
Because we know that speed kills.
But it turns out that the 25 mph limit was just a temporary inconvenience for drivers while road construction was underway. Last month, the limit was raised to 35 mph.
Not that posted limits count for very much. Archer was designed for speed. Multiple, broad travel lanes, no on-street bike lanes or parking, no roundabouts and good straight lines of sight all conspire to empower fast drivers.
The speed limit on South Main is 30 mph. But unlike Archer, South Main was deliberately designed to move traffic at a slow, steady pace. A single, narrow travel lane, on-street bike lanes and parking, roundabouts, landscaped median and other “traffic calming” designs induce motorists to behave themselves.
South Main used to look a lot like Archer, and it similarly invited rural highway speeds.
True confession: I got my last ticket on the old South Main speedway. In retrospect, I should have pleaded entrapment by design.
If you haven’t been paying attention, South Main is beginning to blossom. Depot Park and the Cade are people magnets, and new businesses are beginning to spring up in a corridor once known more for urban blight than vitality.
In contrast, Archer’s medical mile continues to be traffic-centric. Moving cars as quickly and efficiently as possible is goal No. 1, with public safety a distant second.
Why UF isn’t demanding that the state turn that stretch of Archer into a South Main clone is baffling to me. If though traffic was diverted around the medical complex and onto SW 16th Avenue, only people who had health business to attend to would need to drive through medical mile.
The old South Main speedway is newly redesigned by the City of Gainesville to improve the urban quality of life. It is reviving a once moribund part of the city without disrupting, only slowing, traffic.
Archer was designed by the state to do exactly what it does. Move a lot of cars very quickly.
But here’s the thing. All over America, cities are waking up to the necessity of obliging cars to behave themselves in order to make the public streets safer and accessible to people who do not seal themselves up inside protective metal cocoons.
In any sane society the safety of people who get around with the help of wheelchairs and walkers would take precedence over the convenience of fast driving.
But that’s the story of autoAmerica.
We can be better than that in Gainesville. We can choose to design our own destiny. Not all of our roads must lead to ruin.
Ron Cunningham is former editorial page editor of The Sun. Read his blog at http://www.floridavelocipede.com.
Author floridavelocipedePosted on January 24, 2020 April 28, 2020 Categories I love Gainesville, Life in autoAmericaLeave a comment on Design is destiny
autoAmerican anarchy
Two adolescents, a boy and a girl, were throwing snowballs at cars in Milwaukee. One driver took umbridge, pulled over, and shot them. Would an autoAmerican jury even convict?
Meanwhile, in Kansas City, an off-duty police officer, a the mother of two, pulled her car over to help an elderly woman cross the street. As a reward for her good deed she was struck and killed by an oncoming vehicle.
Turns out, Halloween is a truly scary night. “The most disturbing thing about Halloween isn’t the fake blood, urban legends, or sexy clown costumes. It’s that the streets are full of actual child-killers: Pedestrians under age 18 are twice as likely to be struck and killed by a car on October 31 than on any other day of the year,” reports City Lab. Be very afraid, kids.
It is a perverse autoAmerican value that the act of walking is actually hazardous to your health. “Ten years ago, 4,109 pedestrians died. The number has risen virtually every year since, and last year, the death toll was up 3.4 percent to 6,283. Pedestrian fatalities in urban areas are up 69 percent over the last 10 years,” Reports McClatchy news service. On the other hand, don’t you feel really safe inside that big, tall, armored SUV?
From our Best Intentions Dept: San Francisco adopted “Vision Zero” goals to eliminate traffic deaths. But the city has since declared a “state of emergency” because the death toll is actually climbing. “San Francisco is midway through its Vision Zero goal to eliminate street fatalities, which don’t count highways or underground transportation, by 2024 but faced a setback…this year has seen at least 24 people die in street collisions and 16 of those have been pedestrians or cyclists. In all of 2018, there were 23 deaths counting against Vision Zero,” reports SFWeekly.
And if you think technology is going to keep us from killing each other, think again. It turns out that the reason an Arizona woman was killed by an Uber self-driving SUV last year was because the car apparently didn’t know that human beings don’t always heed the rules of the road. “Much of that explains why, despite the fact that the car detected (Rafaela) Herzberg with more than enough time to stop, it was traveling at 43.5 mph when it struck her and threw her 75 feet. When the car first detected her presence, 5.6 seconds before impact, it classified her as a vehicle. Then it changed its mind to “other,” then to vehicle again, back to “other,” then to bicycle, then to “other” again, and finally back to bicycle,” reports Wired. Back to the drawing board on that one.
After a 37-year old cyclist was run over by a truck in Chicago, cyclists turned out in protest bearing “Please don’t kill us” signs. But don’t just blame the driver. ““You had a bike lane that is completely gone, it hasn’t been maintained. The plan was to make it a protected bike lane but the area pushed back, so it was just a faded, painted bike lane,” Christina Whitehouse, founder of advocacy group Bike Lane Uprising, told Block Club Chicago. “We had a cyclist that was in it and who was clearly an experienced cyclist based on the bike, and you had a commercial truck that right-hooked her.” The moral to this story is that life is cheap – or at least cheaper than the cost of laying down a little paint or installing barriers.
The city of Elizabeth, N.J. decided to ban Lime electric scooters after a teenager rented one and was killed. By a tow truck. ““It didn’t matter if he was 16 or 18. He was hit by a tow truck. No matter how old he was, he would have been killed,” Elizabeth resident Danielle Fienberg told StreetsblogNYC. “We have no bike lanes, we have no basic pedestrian safety measures, and we have drivers that are aggressive. We were not ready for Lime scooters.” No word on whether Elizabeth now intends to ban killer tow trucks.
They are serious about jaywalking in Gwinnette County, Ga. A man on his way to a job interview reportedly got tased three times for walking outside the line. “You jaywalked again right in front of us. Again, bro,” the officer said, according to a WSBTV news report. “Y’all doing all that over jaywalking?” the tasee responded. Hey, this is autoAmerica, pal, you need to watch your step!
Professional wrestler Matt Travis was a tough guy. “Wrestling is my lifeline. Every night I come home and hear how someone got shot… like, what if I’m next? But with wrestling I feel like, finally, I have a shot,” he once said. “It didn’t take a bullet to kill Matt Travis. It took a 10,000-pound dump truck,” reports StreetsblogNYT. “According to police, Travis was coasting down the Willis Avenue bridge bike path at around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, intending to continue across 125th Street — but a dump truck on a service road parallel to the bridge made an illegal left turn onto 125th Street and then another left onto the bridge, hitting Travis in the process.”
And, listen, you don’t have to be a pedestrian or cyclist to be at risk in autoAmerica. In Toms River, N.J. a red Porsche was traveling so fast that it actually went airborne and lodged itself into the second story of a real estate building, killing both driver and passenger. “The red Porsche Boxster was clearly visible upside down in the second story,’ reported USA Today. “Toms River building inspector John Gerrity deemed the building unsafe, police said.” And the building wasn’t even jaywalking.
Meanwhile, the Houston Chronicle reports that “Texas has not had a death-free day on its roads in 19 years.” Texas Transportation Commissioner Laura Ryan said “They die silently and violently,’…noting the numbness many drivers have to Texas leading the country in fatalities.” On the plus side, you get to drive really, really fast in Texas.
By the way, if you think driving doesn’t go to your head, think again. “New research has linked air pollution nanoparticles to brain cancer for the first time. The ultra-fine particles (UFPs) are produced by fuel burning, particularly in diesel vehicles, and higher exposures significantly increase people’s chances of getting the deadly cancer,” reports The Guardian. “Toxic air has been linked to other effects on the brain, including hugereductions in intelligence, dementia and mental health problems in both adults and children. The World Health Organization says air pollution is a “silent public health emergency.” Talk about distracted driving.
But don’t get the impression that all drivers are oblivious to the world around them. When St. Petersburg cyclist Steven Weldon got nailed by a speeding motorist, he got assistance from an unexpected source. “The unidentified driver stopped and helped pull an injured Weldon off the roadway. He also moved the bike out of the road,” reported the Tampa Bay Times. Then “the driver got back into his car and drove off. Now it’s being investigated a case of hit-and-run.”
Be careful out there folks.
Author floridavelocipedePosted on January 17, 2020 April 28, 2020 Categories Life in autoAmericaLeave a comment on autoAmerican anarchy
Listen, Donald Trump’s war on Iran could save hundreds of American lives. Maybe thousands.
But not against acts reprisal or terrorism. That blood letting is likely to be terrible, and we will live to regret our strategy of promiscuous drone warfare.
But it could save lives back here on the home front.
How? Because if things really go sideways with Iran, the price of oil will likely skyrocket.
Cheap gas is killing us, and we’ve been drunk on the stuff for years.
About 40,000 Americans were slaughtered in traffic last year alone. And it is a fact that the less we pay for gas the more we drive. And the more we drive the more likely we are to kill each other.
“During hard times, or when gas prices surge, people drive less: some shift to cheaper travel modes, some just stay home,” the online news service CityLab observes. “One predictable and well-documented result of big spikes in gas prices is fewer car crashes…”
Not to mention that less driving means less climate-changing carbon emissions spewing into the atmosphere.
The Union of Concerned Scientists points out: “Our personal vehicles are a major cause of global warming…cars and trucks account for nearly one-fifth of all US emissions, emitting around 24 pounds of carbon dioxide and other global-warming gases for every gallon of gas.”
We’ve been fighting this forever war in the Mideast for what seems like forever now – squandering our national treasure and throwing away young American lives to keep the oil spigots flowing. It’s not honor, but slavishness that makes the bloody Saudi regime our best pal. We have pledged our allegiance to Aramco.
What does “patriotism” even mean in war time these days? The Bush administration told us to go shopping while it knocked off Iraq. And thanks to all the oil we “liberated,” too many of us went shopping for gas guzzling SUVs and pickups.
That’s not patriotism. That’s self-indulgence.
To end the forever war, the ultimate act of patriotism would be to drive less, drive smaller and drive slower. Doing so would simultaneously save lives and help stave off climate change.
What might a rational homeland security strategy look like in a post-forever war America? Well, instead of spending billions on bigger highways we would be investing in transit…and then make it free as an incentive to not drive.
Rather than subsidizing suburban sprawl – as we’ve done since World War II – we would instead redesign our cities to be more walkable and bikable. Traffic calming by design saves gas and makes us more free to get around.
Here on the home front, pedestrian deaths in cities like New York and Denver are on the rise. This despite the adoption of much-touted “Vision Zero” policies.
Does that mean Vision Zero doesn’t work? No, in Norway, Oslo saw just one traffic fatality last year, thanks to a Vision Zero plan that takes itself seriously.
“The great tragedy of the American postwar development pattern is that we’ve built a world where a productive life is only possible if we do our daily travel at truly crazy, historically unprecedented speeds,” argues strongtowns.org. “These are speeds that make doing everything by car (with the attendant risk of injury or death, to yourself or others) the unavoidable ante to participating productively in society.”
To end the forever war we need to stop playing Aramco’s game and resolve to make America a civilization that doesn’t run on cheap gas.
Ron Cunningham is former editorial page editor of The Sun. Read his blog at floridavelocipede.com.
Author floridavelocipedePosted on January 12, 2020 April 28, 2020 Categories Environment/urbanism, Politics, pundits and pursuitsLeave a comment on The forever war
So long Surly
Oh the ignominy.
I just gave away one of my bicycles.
To make room for my new(ish) car.
I can’t even believe I just wrote that. Me, the holier-than-thou cyclist philosopher and constant scold of autoAmerican Anarchy.
But there it is.
And at this point I can only plead extenuating circumstances.
You see, I owned a 13-year old Nissan pickup trick. For years it sat in my driveway. And it was mostly my fallback transportation. I usually cycle downtown, or to campus, or to the Starbucks of my choice where I did much of my writing. But my mother lives more than three hours away, in Brevard County, and my favorite place to camp is Anastasia State Park, in St. Augustine. Plus, at my age, cycling in, say, a cold rain is no longer the thrill it once was.
Long story short, the old pickup was starting to cost cost money for repair. And so we finally traded it in for a 2017 Honda Civic. Smaller and more fuel efficient, it reduced my carbon footprint.
But here’s the thing. The Civic turns out to be the nicest looking car I’ve ever owned. A sleek, jet like, smoke-gray model that looks like something Capt. Kirk drove to the spaceport on his way to board the Enterprise.
And our next door neighbor has an overhanging hickory tree that has for years pelted whatever happened to be parked in my driveway with hard, dent-inducing projectiles.
So I resolve to make room in my half of the garage (my wife’s Subaru owns the other side) for the Civic.
One problem, though. What to do with the five bicycles that already had squatters rights in there? Not to mention the shelves full of God-knows-what, and the decades-old refrigerator.
First we got rid of the refrigerator (bye-bye emergency backup beer). Followed by lots and lots of accumulated junk.
Hey, am I the only American guy who kept large coffee cans full of nuts, bolts, brackets, washes, hooks and whatnot – all of it just sitting there waiting to spring into action?
I don’t even remember where all that stuff came from. Maybe I inherited from whoever lived there before us.
All I can say is that, in the 30-some years we’ve lived here, I can never remember dipping into any of those cans to pull out that one essential component I needed to keep the house from falling apart.
So I got rid of all that stuff….no doubt tomorrow I’ll have to go to Lowes and buy new nuts, bolts, washers etc.
But never mind that. After getting a junk hauler to haul all the junk away, I was still left with one final dilemma.
Let’s see, the Subaru on the left. The Civic on the right. And the little alcove in the back for the bikes and the shelves.
No kidding, it took me three days of arranging, rearranging and re-rearranging to finally figure out that I had one bicycle too many for a comfortable fit.
We’ve got two road bikes, Jill’s and mine. And two urban bikes that we use for everyday trips around town.
That left my touring bike. A sweet Surly Cross Check that I bought for multi-day road trips.
Getting rid of Surly wasn’t easy. It was the first bike I ever bought brand new. That was maybe seven or eight years ago and it set me back nearly $2,000 as I recall. Tough steel frame, fat tires and a three ring drive chain it was designed for the long haul.
And we’ve had some adventures together, Surly and I.
I once cycled the Great Allegheny Passage and the C&O Canal trails, from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C. on it, carrying all of the clothing and gear necessary for a six day journey. I’ll never forget the night we showed up in Harper’s Ferry, Surly and me, covered in mud after an all day trek in stormy weather.
Not to mention our journey on the Erie Canal Trail, from Buffalo to Seneca Falls, fighting headwinds much of the way.
But truth be told, I hadn’t ridden that bike much in recent years. On the odd camping trip, mostly.
It was like giving up an old friend. But the truth was, Surly’s tires were all but flat from disuse.
So I just gave Surly away to a buddy, who seemed glad to have it. And all to the good, I suppose, because it’s a shame to see a good bike go to waste – languishing away on the hooks that kept it suspended up against the wall of my garage.
Surly I hardly knew ye.
Author floridavelocipedePosted on January 11, 2020 April 28, 2020 Categories CyclingLeave a comment on So long Surly
The fire next time
Growing up in the “shadow of the H Bomb” and being a teenage boy, I naturally gravitated to nuclear apocalyptic fiction.
“Fail Safe,” “Alas Babylon,” and of course “Dr. Strangelove” all conspired to feed my Cold War era paranoia.
But the most depressing “end of days” book I ever read was Nevel Shute’s “On The Beach.” It was a grinding, soul-crushing account of how the last survivors of World War III lived out their remaining days while waiting for the radiation to reach them.
“It’s not the end of the world at all,” Shute wrote. “It’s only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan’t be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.”
And then he tacked on what amounted to mankind’s eulogy: “Maybe we’ve been too silly to deserve a world like this.”
Shute’s “end of the world” scenario was set in Australia. It was the globe’s last outpost of humanity after Europe, Asia and the Americas wiped each other out in a nuclear holocaust. But the prevailing winds would ultimately spare no one, not even those who watched and waited at the ends of the earth.
I haven’t thought about “On The Beach” in years. But the inferno now raging in Australia…literally driving many refugees out of their homes and onto the beach, brought it all back.
Who knew that far from being the last outpost of humanity, Australia would turn out to be one of the first at risk? That its residents would be among the first to face, not radioactive Armageddon, but rather the deadly impact of man-made global warming.
It is a desert continent, after all. And changing weather patterns appear to be converging on that already hot and dry island as surely as Shute’s imagined radioactive wave.
But Shute knew of what he spoke, even if he got the means of delivery wrong. “No, it wasn’t an accident, I didn’t say that,” one of his characters, John Paxton, explained. “It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But it was a mistake.”
Mistakes aplenty were indeed made. Because, having escaped out from under the shadow of the H bomb, we humans proceeded to spend the ensuing years and decades spewing carbon into the atmosphere. We were warned, goodness knows, but we chose to ignore the harbingers of climate change doom.
“You could have done something with newspapers,” Shute wrote. “We didn’t do it. No nation did, because we were all too silly. We liked our newspapers with pictures of beach girls and headlines about cases of indecent assault…”
No, we opted for all of the cheap luxuries and consumer goods that our disposable, petro-sodden economy could give us. And we listened as charlatans like Donald Trump assured us that environmentalists were hysterical naysayers, and that we could have jobs or a clean environment but not both.
Have you seen the photos from Australia? As bad as the fires that have been raging in the Amazon rain forests. Worse than the conflagrations that burn large swaths of California.
But, surely, those are all just acts of nature and nothing to do with the rest of us.
“A look at the current fire map shows the whole continent of Australia ringed with flame,” reports the Daily Beast. “This is the driest continent on earth, and it is now being cooked by global warming. After the driest spring on record it has had the hottest day, with average highs across the whole country above 107 degrees.”
But nothing to see here, folks. “Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said climate concerns were being stoked by ‘raving inner-city lefties.’ Australia remains heavily committed to coal-fired power stations and has one of the highest per capita greenhouse gas emission rates.”
In Shute’s novel, word of the encroaching catastrophe could not compete with all of the sweet distractions of life. “The news did not trouble her particularly,” he wrote of one character, “all news was bad, like wage demands, strikes, or war, and the wise person paid no attention to it.
“What was important was that it was a bright, sunny day; her first narcissi were in bloom, and the daffodils behind them were already showing flower buds.”
Daffodils are on fire in Australia. They will burn, or perhaps drown in the rising sea levels, elsewhere in the coming years. And we will likely continue to wallow in self-interested doubt and denial.
Perhaps because, indeed, “we’ve been too silly to deserve a world like this.”
“Australia today is ground zero for the climate catastrophe. Its glorious Great Barrier Reef is dying, its world-heritage rain forests are burning, its giant kelp forests have largely vanished, numerous towns have run out of water or are about to, and now the vast continent is burning on a scale never before seen,” Australian novelist Richard Flanagan, a latter day Shute, wrote in the New York Times. “The images of the fires are a cross between ‘Mad Max’ and ‘On the Beach’.”
Survivors are literally gathering “on the beach” in Australia because everything else is on fire. Will the fire next time blaze closer to home?
Author floridavelocipedePosted on January 3, 2020 April 28, 2020 Categories Environment/urbanism, UncategorizedLeave a comment on The fire next time
We hope for the best.
And prepare for the worst.
Author floridavelocipedePosted on January 2, 2020 April 28, 2020 Categories Life, the universe and everything, Politics, pundits and pursuits, UncategorizedLeave a comment on What comes next?
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Artillery warfare like in Supreme Commander?
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April 4, 2015 11:28:41 AM from Ashes of the Singularity Forums
So, Was just talking to someone about whether this game has Artillery Warfare. Cant find any reference to it, but I still come back to SupCom2 for the massive shields and all around beautiful artillery warfare. Does this game have something like that?
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Reply #1 April 7, 2015 11:13:25 AM
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artillery warfare in supreme commander FA started at minute 50 something like that, sometimes after an hour, and the shields would hold off for some 10 mins before falling, so basically it could be a game ender at the hour mark, which was good.
in SupCom 2 it started after the 7 minute mark or something like that and could never bring down shields. So it was just a permanent necessity of SupCom2 that would cause you to loose if you didn't conform and WASN'T a game ender, which was bad.
can we please agree that SupCom 2's solution for artillery was absolutely atrocious and painstaking and a chore while FA's interpretation made alot of sence gameplay-wise and allowed for deep dynamics.
t2 arty was close range firebase on firebase and a good anti-navy weapon. t3 arty could kill the commander by eventually breaking through the shields or harass the resources or troops all around the map.
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Reply #2 April 7, 2015 12:47:45 PM
Quoting KaneTiberian,
1. Will player in AotS be able to build units they researched in any quantity (except, probably, technical per-player unit limit), as in any other TA-based game?
>>>>> 2. Will long-range weapons, like artillery that reaches other side of the map, or ballistic missiles, be present in AotS? <<<<<
3. Will AotS defensive structures in appropriate numbers be potentially able to block any type of attack, including long-range weapons like ICBM or artillery, if present, like in SupCom?
4. Given that terrain engine is fully morphable, will AotS feature terraforming, like Zero-K?
5. Will AotS feature in-place economic options, like TA/SupCom's metal fabricators?
6. Does Nitrous Engine support fully 3D (i.e. possibly multi-level) maps, or it uses heightmap-based landscape? If multi-level maps is supported, will they make an appearance in AotS?
1. The economy is essentially the same as TA. That is, as you build things, it's consuming resources as they're built.
>>>>> 2. Not on the bigger maps. AFTER ea begins, we will take feedback on whether we need to have such mega weapons. We would like to avoid that though. <<<<<
3. We don't currently have ABMs in. I doubt 1.0 will have something like that. The nice thing is, Ashes is the START of a series so as players get into it, we'll be able to extend it from there.
4. We don't plan to do that. We want the strategy to focus on using the terrain and resources as opposed to changin git.
5. We do not plan to allow players to convert power into metal. What we have, instead, are refineries which magnify how much metal you already have stored (i.e. they take your stored metal and turn it into more, like a compound interest).
6. They're fully 3D, multi-level to the point where having the high ground really matters. The ballistics model is very realistic (one of the developers used to work on simulations for the military).
I guess Frogboy means that they will have some kind of short, medium range artillery for defense purposes.
Frogboy
Depends on the map size. On the largest maps, no, artillery won't reach the other side. They're just too big. But on the smaller maps, we'll see. It depends really on how small we want the smallest maps to be.
I could write a whole article on why we want to avoid the end game nuke vs. ABM thing. We think we have a solution for this situation. In TA, there was no limit on how many buildings you can build. Starcraft has the same issue. But in Ashes, you have to have power and only the planetary power generators provide that power and they have to be captured.
As a result, someone WILL win. We also have victory points on some maps that if one player dominates the map, they will ultimately win.
Reply #4 April 10, 2015 5:19:00 PM
I like to see an article explaining how artillery work in the game, or maybe wait for the alpha to see it ourself.
KaneTiberian
Reply #5 April 11, 2015 9:50:53 AM
Quoting Frogboy,
But in Ashes, you have to have power and only the planetary power generators provide that power and they have to be captured.
Sounds like my greatest concert about Ashes got suddenly confirmed. From statement above it follows that game will have strict artificial limits to base building just like Sins' tactical/logistics slots, ruling out any viable possibility of turtling. Absence of stalemates also sounds suspicious - stalemate is a pretty normal outcome that happens in real wars very often when no side have power enough to crush its enemy. It's good that I'm not a founder yet, given the risk to spend another $100 for a game that's not intended to match my play style, as with Planetary Annihilation.
psychoak
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No, it definitely doesn't sound like turtling is a possibility.
BristolBulldog
i'm with kane on this.
What the dev's are doing to me sounds great but its not my play-style at all. I like to secure an area, fortify it, and then only move back to that area if i am overwhelmed, or flanked etc.
I find games where i have to defend everything, all the time actually stressful. If i was good at it, i'm sure i would enjoy it, but i don't.
FA, and to a lesser degree soase don't reward me for this approach, but they also don't heavily penalize me (i have shields, arty, experimentals and fabs to assist in my defense).
It sounds like this will be a great game, but one for people that are able to take in the entire game all the time, and i cannot see how this will not be an all out rush game, because territory largely determines your income, and once your behind on that, thats it. your fighting an uphill battle. The only way to compensate for this is to have disproportionately strong static defenses available, like KKND did.
Reply #8 April 12, 2015 10:42:45 PM
Well have you played company of Heroes? that kind of play style will be AOTS, but in a way bigger scale, i am saying that because of what i understood by reading about AOTS
Lets say the faster player to get more Territory will build faster units and have more buildings, and that's fine for me of course the developers need to find a way for the other player to have options to take the territory from the first player who took it, that's were the strategy comes, it should be a way.
let me do and example here: Player1 send fast units to expand the territory, by doing that he will get more income and more options to build faster everything while player2 start the game by building its main base first. 10 minutes after starting the game. player1 may have more buildings and more units. but player2 have less building and less units but the units are more advanced so player2 will send his units to conquer territory by making some good strategies on what units so send and where... player 1 will be waiting to defend that territory he took first with his units.
Player1 have 1000 while player2 have 500 but more advanced units.. so it may be a 50/50 chance of wining or loosing depending on the strategy the player will use.
But what worry me about AOTS is, if player1 take 10 new territory in the first 10 minutes and player2 takes 5 then player1 will be way more powerful by building and researching everything at 2x the speed than player2, it means that the game is done and there is no way for player22 to win that game at all.
So developers need to find a way for player2 to do something to gain territory slowly with a good strategy. at least to make it possible, if not AOTS will not last too much time before making he general player quit the game for good and leave just the elites playing.
AOTS should be made for Pro and Regular player, every player need to have a way to win back territory. It not fun at all to loose a game in the first 10 minutes because the pro player got all the territory without giving the regular player the opportunity to win territory back.
I am sure Oxide will do something about that. so lets wait till July to try the game
Qwell01
Reply #9 May 13, 2015 11:42:00 AM
Count me on the side of Kane and Bristol as well, me and my friends greatly prefer the traditional TA / Sup Com approach of allowing easier resource management through conversion and reclaimation abilities. We don't really play competitively its mostly a few of us up against a huge number of AI, and we want to build a huge base and amass an army to invade the fortified enemy. It's probably why games like Starcraft and Company of Heroes never really meshed with us, it was all about expanding territory and fighting on multiple fronts.
Hopefully there will at least be cheats or perhaps a sandbox type of mode so we can have our fun. It's fine if the AI gets affected just as we do, its not like we are trying to steamroll we just want to build the way we want to build without having to eat up the entire map. I'll be keeping an eye on this as we have been itching for a new RTS to take over Sup Com 2.
Emp X
Reply #10 May 16, 2015 6:51:05 AM
Same as Qwell01, most of my group are not "fast" players, and not in a comparative way (may be after 25 years of play all sorts of games we are getting too old for that ). For many RTS games, we also enjoy building a huge and well organized base (best achieved in SupCom series) and a balanced approach to attack/defense. I'm glad that here comes the game that gives SupCom a new life, but I'd like to see more options to suit different play styles. I played CoH but didn't get as much enjoyment as when I played traditional RTS games like TA/SUpCom etc. I hope to see the options of allowing change the number of defensive structure each zone or even better, SupCom style of base building/management, so each Zone can have a mini base and will be able to sustain a reasonable amount of punishment until reinforcement comes, at least comparable to SoAE, some how I can defend "my territory", without fighting a mobile warfare all over the map. Since the scale of the game is so big, I thinks this will give a good sense of progression and conquering and "empire" building. Qwell01 has put it well:"
Quoting Qwell01,
we just want to build the way we want to build without having to eat up the entire map. I'll be keeping an eye on this as we have been itching for a new RTS to take over Sup Com 2.
Reply #11 May 19, 2015 6:11:13 PM
The pacing of Ashes is more like Sins of a Solar Empire. It's not about how fast you move. It's about where you put your units.
But at the same time, we're not going to have units that can just do long-range pummeling while the player turtles around it. NO BIG BERTHAs in this game.
That's fine with me as long as its going to be fun to play from start to end.
AoWFever
Reply #13 June 12, 2015 10:30:52 AM
I agree that pacing in some games becomes frenetic, but I love Sins and found the pacing to be spot on in each iteration of the game. There were lots of strategies you could employ to reinforce your defenses. I also liked Sins implementation of end game super-weapons and super techs. I felt like they gave you solid boost at a point in the game where things could have dragged on indefinitely.
Unfortunately, turtlers will always be at a disadvantage compared to someone employing more varied tactics. There's a reason why soldiers are told to keep moving during combat. It's because eventually, no matter how well you dig in, someone is going to dislodge you one way or another; either through sheer will power, advanced technology, superior tactics, or a combination thereof. That's the nature of modern and future warfare. We simply no longer live in an age of medieval castles and crude siege weaponry and I do not think we ever will given how fast technology advances.
Also, who really has the time to (or wants to) invest 2 hours in a game just to hit a stalemate? How is that enjoyable for you or your opponent? My suggestion is that you study the games you play and learn to vary your tactics a bit. It will open your world up to any number of more modern games than Supreme Commander and make you a far more effective player.
Looking forward to playing the AoS Alpha!
Reply #14 June 12, 2015 2:39:56 PM
Quoting AoWFever,
My suggestion is that you study the games you play and learn to vary your tactics a bit. It will open your world up to any number of more modern games than Supreme Commander and make you a far more effective player.
I think people there aren't looking for "l2p n00b"-like advices, they're looking for a product that suit their needs. I'm ready to pay $100 or even $300 for a slow-paced RTS with strong turtling support, but there's just no offer to meet my demand, given that SCFA with mods crashes all the time on all rigs I have access to. I don't like fast RTS games or want to play them, and, more generally, can't stand any environments that put me under time pressure. There's a lot people like me - observations on sites that's not dedicated to PC gaming show that most people play RTS games completely offline just to avoid related stress. I've thought that AotS could be the new game with viable turtling, but with anti-SupCom stance of the developer team, confirmed absence of shields and long-range weapons, severe restrictions on defensive structures and public representative emphasizing his StarCraft achievements, it's definitely not the case.
Thanks Kane. Good luck with all that.
Reply #16 June 15, 2015 6:30:00 AM
given that SCFA with mods crashes all the time on all rigs I have access to.
do you by any chance install it somewhere other than the C drive? :> what cpu and what cpu heatsink are we talking about? does prime95 even pass on these computers?
Kreyson
Kane, a recommendation to you for turtle games, check out Creeper World 3. sells for a couple bucks on steam. It is all turtle.
TheRealWarpstorm
I fully agree on the Creeper World 3 recommendation. It's one of my favorite games.
from Galactic Civilizations III Forums
I agree with you totally Kane, I would pay ALOT of $$ for a good turtle RTS game with a lot of depth. One of my favorite features of SC was the observation mode. Set up various factions and watch them duke it out.
Quoting kreyson135,
check out Creeper World 3
Awesome game BTW, though it's more of a puzzle than RTS, at least as it gets closer to higher levels. Also it's kind of downside that CW3 is unsuitable for LAN party - multiplayer is impossible due to high gameplay asymmetry, and co-op is missing since puzzle-like levels were designed for singleplayer.
Quoting tatsujb,
All installations on C drive, no spaces in path, temperature, voltage and other hardware parameters within normal levels, rigs pass all tests with ease. Hardware on the rigs is entirely different, they have no components in common. Tried setting compatibility mode with Vista, XP SP2 & SP3, patching MySpeed in and out, running without Core Maximizer - nothing helps. Mods are: LEM 4.4, Sorian AI 2.1.1, TVg 4.86, Total Mayhem 1.20, BOGIS 5.0, BlackOps Balance & Unleashed 6.0, BlackOps Special Weapons (v4), BlackOps Alternate Reality (v3), BlackOps Naval Rebalance 1.2, BlackOps ACUs 3.2, Experimental Shield Generator 1.2. Game crashes after 40-45 minutes. Disabling separate mods allows it to last longer, up to 90 minutes, but in the end it still crashes. Also FAF version executable shows somewhat more resilience. Old Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo rigs were able to stand 2-3 hour matches to the very end on the exactly same SupCom version and mod layout. There are two different 0xc0000005 errors: in xactengine2_9.dll and ForgedAlliance.exe itself. I really have no more ideas how to fix it.
-KD7BCH
Games run out of addressable memory. Once you hit that 3GB 32bit limit, boom as soon as it tries to write outside that it will crash. Which is why 64bit coding is such a good idea as programs don't have to live within that limit.
TVg 4.86
these mods are not-intercompatible and the one I quoted, for example is compatible with no other.
you should let FAF handle your mods for assured inter-compatibility. you can play with that many mods on but at least have the right versions and such.
I'm not quite sure you understand how mods work. it's not a "it's gonna morph them together exactly like I imagine it in my head!" situation.
in fact, you put some mods in there that have so many of their different bits and pieces overwritten by other mods in your list that you don't see them in the game at all and it would be no different to play without.
Quoting KD7BCH,
Games run out of addressable memory. Once you hit that 3GB 32bit limit, boom as soon as it tries to write outside that it will crash.
32-bit RAM space overflow was my guess as well, but it's not really the case - in the moment of crash it's usually from 2.2 to 2.8 GB.
Probably some mods in the build are excessive and/or have slightly overlapping hooks. The gameplay-important part is interplay between BlackOps mods, TVg and Total Mayhem. The main reason for testing it in configuration mentioned above is that it's proven to be a working one - while some things in the gameplay were weird, exactly that layout of mods (down to versions) worked without a single crash on a previous generation PCs. Under assumption that hardware, OS and drivers cannot affect the results of ingame script execution by LUA interpreter as long as it stays single-threaded, crash source is localized to engine itself. After all, even removing every single mod don't help to cure that crash completely, while significantly extending lifetime. We don't use FAF, since our core layout of mods is still not available here, and it cannot handle more than one major mod anyway.
KaneTiberium, it likely is an issue getting memory. If a Win32 program was built Large Address aware, you might on a good day get 3 GBs of addressable space, but likely a good bit less than that due to fragmentation etc.
Thinking FAF can't handle more than one mod I think that is outdated thinking. Plus it would appear that your install can't handle itself either so?
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Trump suggests he may be open to entitlement cuts in future
AP ^ | Jan 22 2020 | Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Aamer Madhani
Posted on 01/22/2020 7:58:57 PM PST by rintintin
Washington – President Donald Trump appeared to suggest in a television interview Wednesday that he’s willing to consider entitlement cuts in the future, a move that would mark a tectonic shift from his stance during his 2016 run for the White House.
Trump suggested he was open to a cut in social safety net benefits, such as Medicare and Social Security, in comments during a CNBC interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
While Trump has repeatedly talked up strong economic growth, the federal budget deficit has swollen as his administration has pressed for tax cuts and increased government spending.
Asked if entitlement cuts would ever be on his agenda, Trump responded, “At some point they will be.”
As a candidate for the White House, Trump stood apart from much of the GOP primary field as he vowed to oppose cuts to Social Security and Medicare, while also ensuring every American had health coverage.
In the CNBC interview, Trump called tackling entitlement spending “the easiest of all things” and suggested higher economic growth would make it easier to reduce spending on the programs.
“Well, we’re going – we’re going to look,” Trump said. “We also have assets that we’ve never had. I mean we’ve never had growth like this.”
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy
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To: thoughtomator
“nice pile of weasel words you dredged up here”
the words are on tape. Trump said those words on a CNBC interview. I realize he often speaks in a rambling way. I hope he’s being misinterpreted. I hope he didn’t mean that he’s reversing himself, and going along with the standard Bush-Republican platform of cutting Social Security. I wish he would make that clear when asked questions about it. He sure didn’t make it clear today.
21 posted on 01/22/2020 8:28:58 PM PST by rintintin
To: GreyFriar
“A DC Democrat”
Fine. Are you going to send your Social Security checks back to the federal government?
To: Theoria
“And medicare?”
I used to favor cuts in social programs, including Medicare. But then I was told it was ok to spend unlimited taxpayers dollars on wars and nation-building — including health care and social benefits — in Iraq, Afghanistan and other Middle East counties. In total, we’ve spent $12 trillion over there since Bush first launched our invasions and nation-buildings.
I no longer have a problem with spending money on American seniors and struggling middle and lower class Americans, since we are forced to pay health care, education, infrastructure and security in so many foreign countries.
To: rintintin
$265B went to support illegal aliens. Want to cut spending? Start there. Let them self-deport back to their home countries to make an honest living there.
24 posted on 01/22/2020 8:42:27 PM PST by Boomer ('Democrat' is now synonymous with 'corrupt')
To: Boomer
“$265B went to support illegal aliens. Want to cut spending? Start there.”
Can’t argue with that. Also, put a tax on money that people send to foreign countries.
I think the government can darn well think of better place to start cuts. Your suggestions are a good start.
26 posted on 01/22/2020 8:49:18 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
then post the CNBC source and not the AP hard-left propaganda spin
27 posted on 01/22/2020 8:51:16 PM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
our country can spend approx $600 BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR on illegals and all the costs they incur- but we can’t find money for our legal senior citizens and must cut?
Build the $25 billion dollar wall- kick out illegals, and save hundreds of billions of dollars EVERY single year- That’s the cuts we need- Cut ILLEGALS off our our gov welfare
28 posted on 01/22/2020 8:58:30 PM PST by Bob434
Here’s the CNBC interview clip:
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1220055994149089283
To: Bob434
Trap for Trump. We need entitlement reform, but Trump should not take the lead before the election. Both parties must be committed to reform.
31 posted on 01/22/2020 9:11:29 PM PST by kabar
This is horseshit propaganda. Trump would never suggest such a thing this is a made-up story to piss off people.
32 posted on 01/22/2020 9:17:19 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
To: kabar
“We need entitlement reform,”
Paul Ryan says so. I don’t agree. We need to cut money to illegals and to foreign countries - including invasions, occupations and nation-building. Paul Ryan never called for cuts in any of that - only cuts for American seniors by paring back their Medicare and Social Security. Trump talked differently in 2016, and won. If he goes back to Ryan-Romney Republicanism, look for the Dems to do well in November.
To: Mr. K
“This is horseshit propaganda.”
Watch the video of his interview today.
Strange how the critical context as supplied in brackets by the hard-left political activist pretending to journalism does not actually appear in the video.
Does that not also seem strange to you?
What seems strange to me is that Trump can’t be as clear and unequivocal today as he was when he ran 4 years ago. 4 years ago he said again and again, explicitly, he would never cut Social Security and Medicare. He was even booed at the GOP debate in South Carolina when he said this, because it was diametrically opposed to the standard GOP position, and the audience was full of GOP bigwigs.
He had a chance today to be just as clear and unequivocal. But he wasn’t. Instead, when asked about entitlements, he said “we’re going to take a look at that”. An open-ended response that was nowhere near the clear and unequivocal words he voiced four years ago.
Look, I voted for Trump and supported MAGA to the hilt. If he’s pulling back from it - maybe because he’s being pressured by the GOP Senate, which has leverage over him, with impeachment - he is going to have challenges getting reelected. He was voted in by blue collar Democrats. If he starts pushing Ryan-Romney-Bush-McConnell policies on entitlements, a lot of those voters will stay home.
...appeared to suggest he may...
Spin by the media, why not just report and let people decide?
37 posted on 01/22/2020 9:29:12 PM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
We don’t need to cut entitlements. Just get rid of the fraud. If you have 3 65” t.v.’s and a late model Cadillac Escalade, you shouldn’t be getting free government cheese.
38 posted on 01/22/2020 9:34:12 PM PST by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
But remember, we can't afford cuts in overseas military bases, foreign aid or foreign wars. Only programs for senior Americans here at home are "unaffordable."
I saw the interview. He gave his usual non-specific, non-committal answer to a reporter's question about "entitlements" — "Yeah, we could look at that at some point."
Then he talked about growth and tax cuts.
It was a nothingburger, and he said absolutely not a single word about "programs for senior Americans."
But hysterics gonna hysteria.
39 posted on 01/22/2020 9:35:06 PM PST by M. Thatcher
If the A:P couldn’t lie... then what would they sell?
40 posted on 01/22/2020 9:39:02 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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Qualitative analysis of a simple tumor-immune system with time delay of tumor action
On the semilinear fractional elliptic equations with singular weight functions
Mathematical modeling of an immune checkpoint inhibitor and its synergy with an immunostimulant
Elpiniki Nikolopoulou 1, , Steffen E. Eikenberry 1, , Jana L. Gevertz 2, and Yang Kuang 3,,
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona state University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1804, USA
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, USA
* Corresponding author: Yang Kuang
Received July 2019 Revised December 2019 Published April 2020
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are a novel cancer therapy that may induce tumor regression across multiple types of cancer. There has recently been interest in combining the ICIs with other forms of treatments, as not all patients benefit from monotherapy. We propose a mathematical model consisting of ordinary differential equations to investigate the combination treatments of the ICI avelumab and the immunostimulant NHS-muIL12. We validated the model using the average tumor volume curves provided in Xu et al. (2017). We initially analyzed a simple generic model without the use of any drug, which provided us with mathematical conditions for local stability for both the tumorous and tumor-free equilibrium. This enabled us to adapt these conditions for special cases of the model. Additionally, we conducted systematic mathematical analysis for the case that both drugs are applied continuously. Numerical simulations suggest that the two drugs act synergistically, such that, compared to monotherapy, only about one-third the dose of both drugs is required in combination for tumor control.
Keywords: Immune checkpoint inhibitors, PD-L1, immunostimulant, synergy, combination treatment, mathematical analysis, mathematical model.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 58F15, 58F17; Secondary: 53C35.
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Figure 1. Schematic model representation for Tumor-Immune Interactions. Sharp arrows indicate proliferation/activation. Blocked arrows indicate killing/blocking. Dashed lines indicate proteins on the tumour (V) or T cells (T). IL-12 stimulates the proliferation of activated T-cells. NHS-muIL12's role is to administrate IL-12 to damaged intratumoral regions. PD-L1 is mainly expressed on tumor cells. Anti-PD-L1 binds to PD-L1 to prevent the formation of the PD-1-PD-L1 complex
Figure 2. Tumor volume data and simulations using model (3)-(6) for each single-agent and combination therapy case. Case (a) administration of no drug. Case (b), (c) treatment with NHS-muIL12 $ 2\mu g $ and $ 10 \mu g $ respectively on day $ 0 $. Case (d) administration of avelumab $ 200 \mu g $ on days 0, 3 and 6. Case (e) treatment with both avelumab ($ 200 \mu g $) on days 0, 3, 6 and NHS-muIL12 ($ 2\mu g $) on day 0
Figure 3. First graph depicts the model simulation for the combination treatment case of avelumab ($ 200 \mu g $) and NHS-muIL12 ($ 10\mu g $). The remaining two graphs correspond to each of the drugs administrated with respect to time
Figure 4. Surface plot depicting the asymptotic behavior of systems (3)-(6) and (18)-(19) for combinations of $ \gamma_1 $ (avelumab) and $ \gamma_2 $ (NHS-muIL12) drugs, where both are applied continuously. Based on a threshold, three regions, namely, 'tumor control', 'tumor escape' and 'intermediate' are identified, which are separated by hyperbolic curves. The hyperbolic curve closer to the origin corresponds to the system (18)-(19) and the other one to (3)-(6). Six representative points indicated by different markers and colors, are chosen and shown on the plot. Their respective tumor volume behavior is plotted in Figure 5 employing the same marker and color notation. Note that the red point falls in the intermediate region, where the behavior is dependent on the system being used
Figure 5. A subset of tumor volume behaviors of both the full system (3)-(6) and the limiting system (18)-(19) for continuous dosage with $ \gamma_1 $ (avelumab) and $ \gamma_2 $ (NHS-muIL12) respectively. The threshold chosen is shown on the plot with a dashed line. We observe that the qualitative tumor volume behaviors between the systems are comparable with the exception of the red point, which lies in the intermediate region as shown in Figure 4
Figure 6. Surface plot depicting the asymptotic behavior of the full system (3)-(6) for combinations of $ \gamma_1 $ (avelumab) and $ \gamma_2 $ (NHS-muIL12) drugs, where both are applied continuously. Based on a threshold, two regions, namely, 'Tumor Control' and 'Tumor Escape' are identified, which are separated by a hyperbolic curve. Six representative points indicated by different markers and colors, are chosen and shown on the plot
Figure 7. Surface plot depicting the asymptotic behavior of the limit case system (18)-(19) for combinations of $ \gamma_1 $ (avelumab) and $ \gamma_2 $ (NHS-muIL12) drugs, where both are applied continuously. Based on a threshold, two regions, namely, 'Tumor Control' and 'Tumor Escape' are identified, which are separated by a hyperbolic curve. Six representative points indicated by different markers and colors, are chosen and shown on the plot
Table 1. State Variables of the model system (1)-(2) and (3)-(6).
Variable Meaning Unit
$V$ tumor cell volume mm$^3$
$T$ volume of activated T cells mm$^3$
$L$ free PD-L1 volume mm$^3$
$P$ free PD-1 volume mm$^3$
$A_{1}$ anti-PD-L1 concentration g
$A_{2}$ NHS-muIL12 concentration g
$Q$ PD-1-PD-L1 volume mm$^3$
Table 2. Parameters and variables (Var.) of the model system (3)-(6)
Var. Meaning Value Reference
$r$ Tumor cell growth rate $0.213\text{ day}^{-1}$ fitted
$\eta$ Kill rate of tumor cells by T cells $1$ mm$^{-3}$ $\cdot$ day$^{-1}$ fitted
$\delta$ Source of T cell activation 0.02 mm$^{3}$ /day estimated
$\lambda_{TI_{12}}$ Activation rate of T cells by IL-12 8.81 day$^{-1}$ [14]
$K_{A_{2}}$ Dissociation constant of $A_{2}$ $7 \cdot 10^{-14}$ moles/liter estimated
$K_{TQ}$ Inhibition of function of T cells by PD-1-PD-L1 $10^{-13}$ mm$^{6}$ estimated
$d_{T}$ Death rate of T cells $0-0.5\text{ day}^{-1}$ [14]
$d_{A_{1}}$ Degradation rate of Anti-PD-L1 $ 0.1136\text{ day}^{-1}$ [17]
$d_{A_{2}}$ Degradation rate of NHS-muIL12 0.69 day$^{-1}$ [12]
$\rho_{p}$ Expression level of PD-1 $3.19\cdot10^{-7}$ - $8.49\cdot 10^{-7}$ [11]
$\rho_{L}$ Expression level of PD-L1 $3.56\cdot10^{-7}$ - $1.967\cdot 10^{-6}$ [11]
$K_{A_{1}}$ Dissociation constant of free PD-L1 with anti-PD-L1 10$^{-13}$ mol/liter estimated
$\epsilon_{v}$ Expression of PD-L1 in tumor cells vs. T cells 1-100 [14]
$\sigma$ fraction of complex association and dissociation 0.01mm$^{-3}$ estimated
$\gamma_1$ continuous infusion rate of avelumab $10^{-7}-9\cdot 10^{-5}$ g/day estimated
$\gamma_2$ continuous infusion rate of NHS-muIL12 $10^{-9}-2\cdot 10^{-6}$ g/day estimated
$c_1$ conversion constant for $A_1$ drug $55^{-1}10^{-7}-55^{-1}10^{-6}$ estimated
$c_2$ conversion constant for $A_2$ drug $75^{-1}10^{-7}- 75^{-1}10^{-6}$ estimated
Table 3. Parameter values used in simulations for equations (3)-(6)
Variable Meaning Value
$r$ Tumor cell growth rate $0.213\text{ day}^{-1}$
$\eta$ Kill rate of tumor cells by T cells $1$ mm$^{-3}$ $\cdot$ day$^{-1}$
$\delta$ Source of activation 0.02 mm$^{3}$ /day
$\lambda_{TI_{12}}$ Activation rate of T cells by IL-12 8.81 day$^{-1}$
$K_{A_{2}}$ Dissociation constant of $A_{2}$ $7 \cdot 10^{-14}$ moles/liter
$K_{TQ}$ Inhibition of function of T cells by PD-1-PD-L1 $10^{-13}$ mm$^{6}$
$d_{T}$ Death rate of T cells $0.05\text{ day}^{-1}$
$d_{A_{1}}$ Degradation rate of Anti-PD-L1 $ 0.1136\text{ day}^{-1}$
$d_{A_{2}}$ Degradation rate of NHS-muIL12 0.69 day$^{-1}$
$\rho_{p}$ Expression level of PD-1 $5.84\cdot 10^{-7}$
$\rho_{L}$ Expression level of PD-L1 $2.7635\cdot 10^{-7}$
$K_{A_{1}}$ Dissociation constant of PD-L1 with anti-PD-L1 10$^{-13}$ mol/liter
$\epsilon_{v}$ Expression of PD-L1 in tumor cells vs. T cells 50
$\sigma$ fraction of complex association and dissociation 0.001 mm$^{-3}$
$\gamma_1$ prescribed infusion rate of avelumab $10^{-7}-9\cdot 10^{-5}$ g/day
$\gamma_2$ prescribed infusion rate of NHS-muIL12 $10^{-9}-2\cdot 10^{-6}$ g/day
$c_1$ conversion constant for $A_1$ drug $55^{-1}10^{-7}$
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COVID-19 Vaccine First doses at Dallas mega-site s...
COVID-19 Vaccine First doses at Dallas mega-site successful without major issues
ByHarshal 12 Jan 2021 08:31 AM 6
The new mega vaccination site at Fair Park in Dallas to give its first doses went successful with only minor issues.
One of those issues reported is that the lines are slow-moving.
The mega-site opening is the first step in the right direction. More sites are coming up soon, but the process is slow.
Dallas Fair Park urged people to get their first dose of vaccine.
Monday’s vaccine recipients were older people who were most vulnerable.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said, “We are trying to put out locations in the places that are traditionally underserved by healthcare."
Two other vaccination locations also went live on Monday at Eastfield College and Ellis Davis Field House. The goal for these sites is to give 500 doses a day, but they’re run by Parkland and only for its patients.
The Fair Park site started the day with about 1,800 appointments for the general public in groups 1A and 1B.
Dallas County Health Director Dr. Philip Huang said, "We wanted to get people in slowly and not overwhelm the system at first."
County leaders say the site will progressively ramp up with a goal of 2,000 doses a day and can scale up well beyond that. But the county’s state allotment this week is only 6,000 doses and likely not enough to finish the week.
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episode 18: Episode 27: Project Hubbard with Chris Abbott
This month we're joined by c64audio.com's very own Chris Abbott to discuss all things Rob Hubbard! A project many years in the making, Chris is currently in the final stages of bringing Project Hubbard to life - a massive project dedicated to the life & career of Rob, including a book, new music and more!
You can find the Kickstarter for Project Hubbard, including a number of the preview tracks & games at http://www.projecthubbard.com
Chris's work, along with much more can be found at https://c64audio.com/
We're bought to you with the support of our Sponsors Bartronica, Pinball Paradise & Ms. Bartronica! Head to http://bartronica.com/ to check them out! This episode, along with all previous ones can always be found at http://pressplayontape.podbean.com. You can find us on iTunes by searching for Press Play on Tape Podcast – we’d love it if you gave us a review while you’re there. It all helps! We can be found on Facebook by searching for Press Play on Tape podcast, and on Twitter @PPOT_Podcast Tony has his game reviews, pickups and more over on the Electric Adventures YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/user/electricadventures You can read up on some of Damian's restoration projects at http://www.tehkella.net/retro/ For all other things retrogaming related, make sure to check out Retro Domination at http://www.retrodomination.com Or for pop culture, board gaming and other Geeky stuff, check out Geekdom United at http://www.retrodomination.com/category/geekdom
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Shootout goal by Papais gives Storm win and playoff berth
GUELPH – A goal by Matthew Papais in a shootout lifted the Guelph Storm to a 4-3 victory over the Oshawa Generals in a shootout in Ontario Hockey League play Friday night at the Sleeman Centre.
Papais was the fifth shooter in the shootout for the Storm and the third to score. Two of Oshawa’s five shooters scored.
The teams had scored a goal apiece in each of the regulation-time periods. A power-play goal by the Generals with 4:32 to go in the third tied the score and sent it to overtime.
Cedric Ralph scored twice for the Storm while Eric Uba also scored. Single assists were awarded to Cam Hillis, Daniil Chayka, Josh Wainman, Martin Has and Pavel Gogolev.
Brett Neumann, Philip Tomasino and Ty Tullio each had a goal and an assist for Oshawa while Nico Gross, Lleyton Moore and Giovanni Vallati each had one assist.
The Storm outshot Oshawa 38-26, holding the Generals to less than 10 shots in each period. The Generals went 1-for-2 on their power play while the Storm were scoreless on three power plays.
Nico Daws turned aside 23 shots in the Guelph net while Jordan Kooy made 35 saves for Oshawa.
The win clinches a playoff berth for the Storm who are sixth in the Western Conference at 32-21-3-5. Oshawa is fourth in the Eastern Conference at 31-19-6-5.
The Storm have seven games to go in their regular season. They’re to play the Sarnia Sting (21-34-5-1) Sunday at Sarnia starting at 4:05 p.m.
Storm 4 Generals 3 (SO)
Oshawa 1-1-1-0-0–3
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Dubai to cover mental health, longer rehabilitation under mandatory insurance
The additions are expected to push up health insurance premiums
Mental health treatment and extended rehabilitation from debilitating and neurological conditions will soon be covered by mandatory health insurance in Dubai, according to reports.
Dubai Healthcare Corporation CEO Dr Younis Al Kazim told Gulf News the body was working to include a longer period of rehabilitation sessions in the standard health insurance package.
Other planned changes will see mental health issues covered for the first time.
“Mental health is going to be part of the public health strategy. We cannot ignore it as it is important in providing stability to an individual at home and at the workplace,” he was quoted as saying.
Al Kazim said there were several cases of patients going into depression after they were discharged.
“Now we are working to have mental health included in health insurance. The patients will receive psychological counselling along with other ongoing treatments,” he added.
However, these additions are expected to push up insurance premiums with the costs to be covered by companies or insurers.
It became mandatory for every Dubai resident to have insurance coverage after March 31 last year.
Read: Dubai health insurance enquiries skyrocket after deadline
Dubai Healthcare Corporation was formed in May under a new organisational structure at Dubai health Authority.
This also saw the formation of Dubai Health Insurance Corporation and operations in strategy and development, health regulation and joint corporate support services.
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Sports > Basketball > Mark Cuban Calls NBA Product a Scam
Mark Cuban Calls NBA Product a Scam
By Howard Foxx on November 27th, 2012
Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban has a reputation for being outspoken, and taking on the NBA over decisions he disagrees with. Thanks to his appearance on the television show “Shark Tank”, Cuban also has a reputation for being a shrewd investor. Those traits combined Monday when Cuban went on a tirade in the Mav’s locker room before tossing a display of NBA merchandise in the garbage.
The product in question is the Power Balance Bracelet, an NBA licenced silicone wrist band. The bracelet, which purports to help athletes with their performance, is endorsed by high profile athletes including Clay Matthews, Drew Brees and Matt Kemp. In the NBA, they started appearing on players’ wrists as early as 2010, and now carry official team logos and a nominal league endorsement.
This isn’t the first time that Cuban has taken on Power Balance type products. When a contestant on “Shark Tank” appeared selling similar watches, Cuban called it a scam and refused to even consider the product. In an interview in September, Cuban again called out the product, calling it the worst pitch they had on the show. While some players continue to wear the product, it appears that their popularity is on the wane. While the Power Balance bracelet is the first product (that we know of) to claim to use holograms, it is hardly the first fad accessory that has made unsubstantiated claims about helping performance. Previous products included magnetized bracelets, special necklaces and any number of supplements and pharmaceuticals. Though we aren’t able to weigh in on their efficacy as medical experts or athletic trainers, we can’t help but notice the lack of details in the company’s own FAQ.
What does this wristband Do?
The Power Balance band is a performance technology wristband with a distinctive hologram worn by millions of consumers and athletes worldwide. It is based on eastern philosophies of health and wellness.
What is Power Balance Hologram Technology?
Power Balance holograms are created using a proprietary process featuring cutting edge three-dimensional technology, which makes the hologram truly unique.
How can you prove it works? Will the wristbands work for everyone?
While we have received testimonials and responses from around the world about how Power Balance has helped people, there is no assurance it can work for everyone. We make no claims and let the consumer decide based on their experience.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron a failure? Calm down now.
By Nav K on September 8, 2015 • ( 16 Comments )
You may have recently read some stories talking about Disney’s disappointment in the performance of Avengers: Age of Ultron and how it could mark the end of the superhero genre! Ahh it’s the end of days, everything is falling apart! Seriously though the hyperbole in some of the articles I’ve read about this topic have been ridiculous. But with a rational mind let’s discuss whether Avengers: Age of Ultron was a failure.
So according to Bleeding Cool, Disney execs were not happy with the performance of Avengers: Age of Ultron. The movie wound up doing $1.4 billion worldwide ($457 domestically) on a $250 million dollar budget. In comparison the first Avengers did $1.5 ($623 domestically) billion on a $225 million dollar budget. These numbers show that internationally Avengers: Age of Ultron did similar numbers compared to the first one, however the domestic gross has gone down. Although $457 million domestically is nothing to complain about, it’s a miracle for most movies to even get that worldwide.
And of course critically the movie wasn’t received as overwhelmingly positively as the first Avengers. The first Avengers is currently sitting on 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, whilst the sequel is on 74%. Audience response was more divided on Avengers: Age of Ultron, however overall most people enjoyed it.
Bleeding Cool went on to say that Kevin Feige used this disappointment as leverage to dissolve the Marvel Creative Committee’s power over Marvel films. And what is the Marvel Creative Committee? They’re basically the guys, including the infamous Ike Perlmutter, that Feige had to answer to. Bendis who is part of the committee described their role as, “They have us go through every outline of every draft of the script as they come in, and we give notes, and then meet on the phone or in person for hours at a time, sometimes just by ourselves, and sometimes with the filmmaker.”
So it seemed like they were pretty hands on, giving suggestions on improvements to make. The committee will still be in charge of television, however Feige will answer to Disney now. And whether that ends up being for better or worse, I guess we’ll find out. People seem to be concluding that this will mean that Marvel movies will be the best they’ve ever been without the committee’s interference. However this is the committee that brought us movies like Guardians of the Galaxy and Winter Soldier, so they must not be all bad.
Anyways back to Avengers: Age of Ultron, maybe Disney did consider Avengers: Age of Ultron a failure, however what exactly were they expecting? Normally sequels to popular franchises make more money the second time around if the first was so well received, so it was surprising that Age of Ultron grossed less than the first one, but not by much.
Also considering the novelty effect the first film had, it was a new concept, bringing in together different superheroes from other films into one big team-up, I’m sure that added to receipts. Now we can watch a trailer with Batman and Superman fighting each other, and watch an Ant-Man movie where Falcon pops up, superhero crossovers aren’t as new and exciting anymore.
But regardless Avengers: Age of Ultron still made $1.4 billion dollars worldwide, and I think it’s a little worrying if we start considering that number a failure. We’ve started to enter into a culture of overly heightened expectations that surely cannot be met.
I’ve recently read some articles about the box office predictions for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and they’re pretty high. People are concluding that Star Wars will beat Jurassic World’s opening weekend and gross total. And whilst I agree it will probably beat the worldwide gross, Star Wars is opening in December, and to think it could do over $200 opening weekend is a pretty high expectation. It’s a possibility I guess but the highest opening weekend in a December has been $83 million. Now I already know that with these high expectations for Star Wars that if they do $175 opening weekend there are going to be headlines considering that number a failure.
I think it’s time to start adjusting our expectations and stop assuming that every big movie will easily break $2 billion at the box office. Next thing we know if Civil War grosses $900 million worldwide we’ll be deeming that a failure. And if Doctor Strange does $500 million, that too will be a disappointment.
I’m sure that the gross of Avengers: Age of Ultron doesn’t mark the beginning of the end for Marvel, so let’s all just calm down with the dramatic headlines and enjoy the greatness that’s going to come in 2016!
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Paul Bowler says:
Although Age of Ultron didn’t do as well as Disney might’ve expected, or was as well received critically as the first Avengers film, I still don’t think it can be considered a failure. Perhaps expectations are now so high for new superhero films, it was inevitable one of the big films might not end up doing as well. Superhero crossover events are now becoming the norm, so they are not so unique an event now. I think Star Wars VII is going to be one of the biggest films ever, lets just hope it can like up to our expectations!
nkay96 says:
Exactly, studios can’t expect to keep getting crazy box office returns for these films when they’re the norm now. Star Wars for sure is going to do big business, here’s hoping it’s as good as it looks!
I agree, sure Star Wars will do well, fingers crossed its as awesome as it looked in the trailers!
swanpride says:
Yeah, I am especially puzzled that the sixths highest grossing movie of all time is seen by some as a sign for “superhero fatigue”. I mean, really? Those movies might not be the biggest thing out there in a few years. That is possible. But even if it isn’t, we are far, far removed from those movies NOT making a ton of money (unless they are named “Fantfourstic”).
With Star Wars…we need to wait and see. I am kind of astonished that there is this assumption that it will be a giant blockbuster. I mean, it will make money, but a lot depends on the reviews. If the first reviews say it is a turd, it will only make a decent gross for its budget. And just because the fanbase can’t wait, the general audience might not be that existed. The same is true for Dawn of Justice, btw. Just because the fanbase has waited for ages for Batman going up against Superman, it doesn’t mean that the general audience will be interested.
The only movie which is slated next year which I am sure will be a success is Civil war, simply because it is the sequel to Winter Soldier and I think the general audience is interested in seeing Steve and Bucky reunite, no matter if they are comic book fans or not. Dr. Strange…I guess it was very smart of Marvel to cast Cumberbatch, because it brings in an additional fanbase.
In any case, in the end the important part is that a movie makes money. As long as it does, there will be a sequel, unless the studio sees a steady downwards trend…but it is a long way down from the Avengers grosses.
Yeah superhero movies are still one of the biggest genres out there right now, and if $1.4 billion is considered bad that just shows how big the genre is. Star Wars for sure is going to make a lot of money. The prequels had terrible reviews but even they made a lot. Star Wars is far too embedded within our social culture for it to not make a tonne of money.
Anyways I think next year will be the big test for superhero fatigue, but I have feeling that most of the comic book movies that come out next year will be fine and do great business
I think a lot will hinge on reviews. I don’t think that any of them will outright bomb, but the general audience will be very careful which Superhero movie they pick.
yeah agreed, and with social media word of mouth travels fast, so these movies need the quality if they want to do big business (as we saw with FF)
John Sorensen says:
Beware the fandom menace!
robertfern49 says:
Good obserations. I agree that people have too high of expectations. No matter how good the movie, they will always be disappointed.
Agreed, people set themselves out to be disappointed with their high expectations, it’s ridiculous
Hypersonic55 says:
Great article yo, you bring up a lot of great points when it coes to not only the financial side of things with Age of Ultron but also with the recent changes at Marvel Studios with Kevin Feige and the fact that The Avengers was a special event back in 2012 and things have changed a lot over 3 years. I do believe that not only superhero films but a lot of big budget films have gotten so big that people expect so much more, they want critical and financial successes of the highest degree, so when it fails everybody moans and wants to find someone or something to blame for the apparent failure.
The budgets for these superhero movies just keep getting bigger and bigger, so it’s not surprising that they expect bigger returns. Everyone just needs to level their expectations a bit instead of expecting something that just isn’t possible
If comic book movies keep making studios enough money to fill Scrooge McDuck’s money bin several times over they will keep making them. ‘Nuff said.
Yupp well said!
healed1337 says:
If making more than a billion is actually a failure, there’s something seriously wrong with the movie industry. That goes for any genre, not just superheroes.
Precisely! It’s time to have level-headed expectations for these films, otherwise they’re gonna be in a constant state of disappointment
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Democracy best served diluted (CNN)
By Madhav Nalapat, Special to CNN
Editor’s note: Madhav Nalapat holds the UNESCO Peace Chair at Manipal University in India. The views expressed are his own.
Despite the 2008 economic crash and lingering possibility of a Eurozone collapse, the West still clings to its one-size-fits-all mentality – especially when it comes to political systems. Democracy is still almost inevitably defined in terms of the Western model, with periodic elections to choose representatives to a parliament or head of state. Local variants, such as Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga system, are dismissed as not really democratic. But this “universalization” of the Western approach – especially for countries embarking on the path of democratization – is misguided.
I was an early believer in the Middle East democracy project, with the caveat that first there needs to be a comprehensive reform of school curricula. The present fare offered to young minds, especially in Saudi Arabia, is a mishmash of confused ideas cloaked in theology. The result is that the education system fosters minds that are in many cases unable to properly grasp reality, ones that instead too often focus on vague concepts that get superimposed onto the real world. It’s little wonder that conspiracy theories are so prevalent in the region.
The deepening of democracy within the Middle East should therefore start in the classroom, not the ballot box. Yet the reality is that this can best be done by a ruling elite free of the fear of the vote. This is not to argue that democracy is ultimately harmful, but merely to suggest that the proper societal and economic foundations should be laid first.
Rather than looking toward the U.S. or French models, states within the Arab world would be better off looking east, and drawing some lessons from the experience of South Korea and Taiwan, which set in place the forward-looking structures necessary for economic success before subjecting rulers to the ballot box.
Indeed, one need not look very far to see the dangers of doing otherwise – Egypt highlights the consequences of transitioning to a Western-style democratic model without an intermediate period of building up institutions and mindsets promoting democratic values. Although elected by the public, President Mohamed Morsy is a prisoner of conventional Egyptian experience, with the only departure from his predecessor being that he sees the Muslim Brotherhood as the natural core of governance, rather than the military-security apparatus patronized by Hosni Mubarak. So long as Morsy persists with such an approach to governance, Egypt is likely to continue on its present unstable path.
Likewise, the ruling family in another Middle East giant, Saudi Arabia, needs to abandon its longstanding policy of pandering to extreme religious interests and switch support to the modernizers. To a certain extent, King Abdullah has already embarked on such a path, but it is at far too stately a pace, one that needs to be accelerated if the kingdom is to survive the aftershocks of the unfolding disaster in Syria.
Finally, while Moammar Gadhafi was reprehensible while alive, his fall has had disastrous consequences for his country, with arms from Libya flowing to groups that are ideological cousins of the Taliban.
Democracy is a beverage best served diluted, at least until the body gets accustomed to its headiness. Sometimes the processes of democracy are used by the many to trample on the rights of the few, something seen not just in the Middle East but in faraway Malaysia, where halal food dominates despite a third of the population being Christian, Hindu or Buddhist. Yet despite its relative economic prosperity, Malaysia’s religious tensions also point to future strife and even conflict.
For long term stability, countries must take the long view and allow a period for the introduction of secular and rational curricula in schools, the creation of institutions that conform to democratic norms, and the awakening of minds numbed by the ceaseless barrage of, for example, Wahabi cant.
Until such a period of adjustment takes place in the Middle East, democracy taken neat will do enormous harm to the nation drinking it.
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On policymakers’ loss functions and the evaluation of early warning systems
Peter Sarlin
Finance, Helsinki
This paper introduces a new loss function and Usefulness measure for evaluating early warning systems (EWSs) that incorporate policymakers’ preferences between issuing false alarms and missing crises, and individual observations. The novelty derives from three enhancements: (i) accounting for unconditional probabilities of the classes, (ii) computing the proportion of available Usefulness that the model captures, and (iii) weighting observations by their importance for the policymaker. The proposed measures are model free such that they can be used to assess early warning signals issued by any type of EWS, and flexible for any type of crisis. Applications to two renowned EWSs, and comparisons to two common evaluation measures, illustrate the importance of an objective criterion for choosing a final specification and threshold value, and for models to be useful, the need to be more concerned about the rare class and the importance of correctly classifying observations of most relevant entities.
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Amathus opens third London wine and spirits store
By Gemma McKenna
Published: 28 July, 2014
Amathus, well-known as a drinks supplier, importer and specialist retailer, has opened its third London store, this time in Knightsbridge.
Amathus has opened its third London storeAmathus is expanding the retail side of the business with the opening of its third London store in Knightsbridge.
The firm already operates outlets in Soho and the City, selling a range of wines, spirits and craft beers. The new shop will have a number of specially-selected drinks unique to its location.
In addition, it carries most of the firm's 200-strong Champagne and sparkling wine list, including a Louis Roederer Cristal Methuselah 2006, priced at £8,732.35.
Aside from wines, Amathus has around 1,800 spirits on its list, 400 of which it import exclusively, including Bourbon from Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery, Casa Centinela Tequila, and Château de Laubade Armagnac.
The group is also adding Ibérico Mezcal to its range.
The company plans to hold wine and spirit tasting sessions at the new store, with a host of experts on hand to talk guests through a regular series of guided masterclasses.
Amathus Knightsbridge, 203 Brompton Road, is open seven days a week and offers a click-and-collect service as well as free local delivery.
Amathus, which was set up in 1978, also runs an in-store members society, called the Wines of Wonder "WOW" Society, although this is not yet running in its new Knightsbridge store. For now anyone can come and use the Enomatic machines for sampling wine, although rather than 8 rotating wines, 16 wines and at least 8 spirits are available to taste at all times.
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What’s the curriculum for the doctoral program in health education at Texas A&M University?
Every student’s course of study is individually designed on the basis of career goals and interests. The program required a minimum of 64 hours of coursework beyond the master’s degree and 96 hours of coursework beyond the bachelor’s degree and must include: health education core; statistics/research requirement; teaching internship; dissertation of original research; students may petition to substitute elective courses for required health education courses already completed. For more information, please visit: https://hlkn.tamu.edu/academics/health-education-doctoral/#curriculum
Why should I obtain a Ph.D. in health education at Texas A&M University?
Texas A&M has the 6th largest student body in the nation, and is ranked among the nation’s top 25 public universities and top 10 public engineering schools by U.S. News & World Report. The campus is located in the twin cities of Bryan and College Station, Texas, which boasts a low cost of living, good educational and support for students, sunbelt environment, and is consistently ranked among the best places to live in the country.
The Department of Health & Kinesiology’s Health Education Division in Texas A&M has world-wide faculty with diverse backgrounds, strong research skills and a desire to help and mentor students. Their research fields are widespread and varied, including but not limited to cancer, HIV, sexuality, health policy, school health, substance abuse, physical activity, health disparities, mental health, interpersonal violence, health communication, international research, social network analysis, maternal and children health, public health genomics etc., which can meet students’ different research interests and needs.
There is a wide range of employment in health education. Most of our Ph.D. graduates are highly competitive in the job market, with many getting faculty positions inside and outside the United States or working in government or hospitals.
What is Health Education?
The Department of Health & Kinesiology’s Health Education Division offers comprehensive curricula that prepare students to help people improve their health, and thereby the quality of life, through effective health education, powerful networking, strong leadership, meaningful research and selfless service to others. The vision of the Health Education Division is to be a leader in improving the quality of life for individuals on personal, community and global levels. The mission of the Health Education Division is to train and equip professionals to facilitate improving human health through practice, research, and service. (For more information, please visit: https://hlkn.tamu.edu/divisions/division-health-education/)
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AccorHotels defines luxury in a way that “suits the personae of the guest”
It’s now been a little while since the integration of Raffles, Fairmont and Swissôtel into the AccorHotels group. We asked Chris Cahill, CEO of AccorHotels Luxury Brands what the net result of this integration has been in terms of growth potential.
All our brands are well situated across some of the world’s fastest growing markets. The acquisition of Raffles, Fairmont and Swissôtel brands provided AccorHotels with a stronger footprint in North America and three remarkable and trusted brands that are internationally recognised for their iconic luxury hotels, unforgettable experiences and high- touch, personalised guest service. Since the transaction, 35+ properties under Fairmont, Raffles and Swissôtel brands have been signed. There is great acceptance and reception from potential owners.
What is AccorHotels group’s definition of “luxury”?
Luxury has indeed become a widely used term, complicated by its personal nature and meaning: one person’s idea of luxury may be a standard or another person’s excess. We de ne luxury at each of our brands in a way that suits the personae of the guest. At Le Royal Monceau, Raffles Paris, for example we might offer a bespoke gallery tour based on a guest’s interest in emerging artists, designed by our art concierge.
ONE PERSON’S IDEA OF LUXURY MAY BE A STANDARD OR ANOTHER PERSON’S EXCESS
Fairmont Gold, a hotel within a hotel concept, provides a distinct level of exclusivity, exceptional service and personalized luxury for discerning travellers. While Fairmont Fit customised program delivers in-room workout apparel and running shoes fitted to visiting guests. At MGallery hotels, “Inspired by Her” offers a range of products, gestures and services that address the distinct needs of female travellers.
Each of our brands aim for a high degree of personalization and individual recognition and an approach, be it in wellness, design or our culinary offerings that inspires guests to feel healthier, happier and more enriched by staying with us.
What will be the biggest challenges in coming years?
Customising the hotel experience for each individual guest requires a high degree of congruity between our guests, our technology and our service providers. We must pay attention and track data on guest preferences, while remaining discreet, respectful of privacy and focused entirely on the needs, comfort and ease of our guests. We are fortunate that we can rely on the genuine warmth of our colleagues and the sophistication of our technology to nd that balance.
How do you work with travel professionals in terms of “pro” interfaces and eventual incentives?
AccorHotels always consider the luxury travel advisor as a critical part of our distribution. We de nitely want to develop the partnership with them because they provide us important business to our hotels; through that partnership we can get much more information about our clients and we are able to personalise their experience in the hotels and create everlasting memories.
ACCORHOTELS ALWAYS CONSIDER THE LUXURY TRAVEL ADVISOR AS A CRITICAL PART OF OUR DISTRIBUTION
What renovations and openings will be the most interesting over the next year or so?
Raffles will open the doors at the beloved Raffles Europejski Warsaw and will follow that up with the eagerly anticipated reveal of the magnificent restoration of Raffles Singapore before launching a new oasis – the Raf es Maldives Meradhou. For Fairmont, our sights are set on the exploration of exciting new markets, with Fairmont Austin in Texas, Fairmont in the Maldives the recently opened Fairmont Marrakech in Morocco and Fairmont Amman in Jordan. Fairmont has also reflagged the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles which is currently undergoing a massive renovation. We have also signi cantly renovated some of our major landmarks in North America such as the Fairmont Empress in Victoria, British Columbia with $60 million restoration and Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth in Montreal, another $140 million renovation project. As for the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto, it has just started a massive five-year renovation program.
Sofitel has recently introduced three stunning new properties in Asia with the opening of signature hotels including Sofitel Kuala Lumpur Damansara, Sofitel Singapore City Centre and Sofitel Sydney Darling Harbour. A new fashionable property will also be opening in Mexico City. We have exciting news on our SO/ brand which is expanding its presence in Auckland, Jakarta, Samui, Kuala Lumpur and other key European cities soon to be revealed. MGallery just opened three new addresses including two that mark first steps in Bosnia and Dubaï: Victory House, London Leicester Square in the UK, The Retreat Palm Dubai in UAE and Tarcin Forest Resort & Spa, Sarajevo in Bosnia.
Pullman also benefits from a strong development with upcoming openings such as Pullman Nadi Resort & Spa Fiji, Pullman Luang Prabang, Pullman Mandalay Mingalar, Pullman Tokyo Tamachi.
The Chinese outbound market has everyone’s attention at the moment. How important will this sector become in the next years, and what is AccorHotels doing to address the growth?
We have a strong presence in China since over three decades and now count a total of over 230 properties. Our recent strategic partnership with Huazhu Group is accelerating our expansion in today’s largest and fastest-growing domestic travel markets and the world’s largest outbound travel market. The alliance offers customers of both loyalty programs (together over 100 million card holders) the opportunity to access a network of over 7,000 hotels globally, thus strengthening our leadership in the Chinese market.
We also have five sales offices in China, which allows us to be in direct contact with this clientele, for group or leisure requests. Where Chinese clientele represents an important part of the hotel activity, we have dedicated employees that speak Chinese (sometimes it is even their native language).
Photos: Chris Cahill, CEO, AccorHotels Luxury Brands; Sofitel Shanghai Hongqiao, China
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What's The Best Live Album Of All Time?
The guys in Gooseneck were having this debate recently: What's the greatest live album ever recorded?
There are so many great live records -- from the Allman Brothers At Fillmore East to The Who Live At Leeds -- but which one is best? What's your desert island live record?
Well, we couldn't agree on a winner, so we conducted a highly-scientific survey of music fans to determine the greatest live album of all time.
Let's take a look at the top 3 picks:
#1 -- The Allman Brothers, Live at Fillmore East
This is an amazing recording of the Allmans at the height of their powers, captured over two nights in March, 1971.
You might be surprised to learn that the Allmans were not headlining these shows at Fillmore East, Johnny Winter was. But their act was so dominant that by the third night promoter Bill Graham had the Allmans closing the show.
Because they weren't headliners, the Allmans were paid just $1,250 for each night of these shows. It's a good this we have this priceless recording from those nights!
#2 -- Little Feat, Waiting For Columbus
Many of us in Gooseneck voted for this as our favorite. Not only do we love Little Feat, but also the addition of Tower of Power horns on this album makes it the obvious choice.
Of course there are lots of amazing live albums. But for us, the combination of Little Feat and Tower of Power horns on Waiting For Columbus takes the cake.
One thing that made Waiting For Columbus so special was the addition of Tower of Power's horn section. Listen back to tracks like "Spanish Moon" and the horns will give you goose bumps.
Indeed, Emilio and Doc and the boys from TOP horns played on all kinds of records, but arguably this is their greatest contribution to another band's sound. Waiting For Columbus captured both bands at the height of their powers.
#3 -- The Band, The Last Waltz
No argument here -- this is another amazing classic. Not only is the music great, but also there's the added drama of the dissolution of The Band and the revealing Scorsese-directed movie that chronicles it.
Hard to believe it's been more than 40 years since The Band brought together their friends on Thanksgiving 1976 and threw one of the greatest rock 'n roll parties of all time.
Luckily for us, they got Martin Scorsese to document the event in what is probably the greatest concert movie of all time, The Last Waltz. In fact, this isn't just a concert movie, it's a great documentary that captures the life and times of The Band and their influence on music and culture in the 70s.
To coincide with its 40th anniversary, there are some new and expanded versions of the concert album that are worth checking out.
Apart from the music itself, one of our favorite moments is when Neil Young comes on stage and Robbie Robertson points out the copious amount of cocaine clearly visible on Neil's nose. Whoops!
What's your favorite live record? Do you agree or disagree with these picks? Leave a comment and let us know!
If you like bands like Little Feat and The Band, you might also like Gooseneck's latest record, Flyin' High. Get a free copy at this link or by clicking on the image below:
Gordon Kansas City
I agree with picks 1 and 2. And I always flip, sometimes ABB is 1 and other times , Feat is 1. But for #3, I do agree with The Band. But the album would be Rock of Ages
Brian PA
Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall
Neil James Bethpage NY
Best live album was At the Fillmore East ..Double Album was Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Starring Joe Cocker..
RICK MURPHY Farmington HILLS, MI
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James Ridarsick Los Angeles
Love This! Brought back great memories of my youth. The music was amazing and a sign of the times!
T. Gray Seagrove, NC
The Real Thing...Taj Mahal 40th anniversary at the Fillmore West...Tower of Power
The Real Thing...Taj Mahal
40th anniversary at the Fillmore West...Tower of Power
Bob Myrtle beach
The Who. Live at Leeds. Deep purple. Made in Japan
Craig Strack Garner NC
Gotta agree with your list 1B Waiting for Columbus although Chicago at Carnegie Hall is my 1A
Andy NYC
Hard to imagine a proper list of greatest live albums without Bless It’s Pointed Little Head. Jefferson Airplane at their best
Cholo Willsin Seattle
I agree with all of those picks but would like to add this one Long John Baldry – On Stage Tonight - Baldry's Out! It's on Stony Plains Records and is one of the best sounding recordings I have ever heard
Bruce Pictor El Cajon, Ca
I'll go with "Waiting 4 Columbus", Allmans a close 2nd. You boys know how I feel. Love your shares and your attitude. You guys are real musician's musicians. Love to ya! Bruce Pictor. "The Association ".
I'll go with "Waiting 4 Columbus", Allmans a close 2nd. You boys know how I feel. Love your shares and your attitude. You guys are real musician's musicians.
Love to ya!
Bruce Pictor.
"The Association ".
Phil Boyd Oblong, IL
Feb 21 2020 12:01 PM
Neil Diamond Hot August Night, the original. Also, Chicago at Carnegie Hall. Sound quality isn't great, but they were young and the horns were loud.
Peter Zabriskie Maryland
I remember it well. Fillmore East was a regular go to for us growing up New Jersey. These shows we heard in a fantastic new LIVE radio broadcast to the local NYC market. Needless to say we bought the vinyl as soon as it hit the Sam Goodies.
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Our Subject Matter Experts can be utilised to witness Factory Acceptance Testing, or manage critical workshop repairs and re-certifications. Our consultants will ensure and document their findings and assist the workshop or manufacturer in delivering the equipment on time.
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Tatjana currently serves as Administrative Manager, being responsible for various tasks as onshore staffing and payroll, liaison with trade unions, accounting, budget development and costs control, office and facilities management. She also provides full 24/7 administrative support to the organization.
Tatjana started her career with FOSS & ESG Catering, in a junior offshore management position as Chief Stewardess in January 1998. This was valuable hands-on experience that helped her to learn the principles, and insights of first-class offshore catering business. This position also gave her an opportunity to further develop her talents and expertise in that field.
Very soon Tatjana went through extensive Health & Safety training, and then became the first FOSS & ESG Catering Health and Safety Offshore Supervisor in April 1999. She improved the general safety culture among offshore catering personnel, by developing and implementing internal safety practices and procedures.
She was later promoted to Onshore Supervisor, being involved in various HR tasks as well as offshore personnel logistics, training coordination, control of supplies, clients and customer relations, and other administrative duties.
Since June 2000 Tatjana has also been working for GOSS (Global Oilfield Support Service) Ltd, while still providing full time support to FOSS & ESG Catering. Tatjana holds BA Degree in Management and Administration.
Aleksej Kovtunenko
Commercial & Sales Manager
Aleksej manages commercial, marketing, business development and sales functions. He is responsible for driving company’s growth strategy, pursuing new business opportunities, developing partnerships, assessing risks, putting together bids, negotiating contracts, assisting with day-to-day operations and focusing on the long-term interests of the business.
Before joining FOSS & ESG Aleksej gained experience working for a global manpower supply firm for 6 years. During this time, he led a team of consultants focusing on Oil and Gas markets in Russia & CIS, Europe and the Middle East. He has established a successful cooperation with many major operators, drilling contractors and EPC companies and has been heavily involved in brand positioning and other marketing activities. Aleksej holds a degree in Law and is presently undergoing part-time MBA studies.
Cor Selen
Cor provides strategic leadership and coordinates global operations. He is responsible for day-to-day company management, guiding the strategy, keeping the company focused on its goals and ensuring that the business benefits from opportunities present in the market.
Cor comes from an exceptionally strong Oil & Gas background. He started his career in 1989 on board of drilling units and has worked his way up to a Rig Superintendent/OIM role. From 2006 Mr. Selen advanced his career onshore from Rig Manager to most recently Operations Director for Ocean Rig UDW’s worldwide operations, based in Athens. From 2010 to 2012 Mr. Selen was CEO for Maersk Drilling USA Inc. and was amongst other tasks highly engaged with the IADC during the US Golf of Mexico moratorium, addressing the concern’s from the drilling contractors in Washington DC. Cor was appointed CEO of GOSS in July 2016. Cor has received a technical education and has further completed advanced business education at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2012.
Helmut Franke
The founder of GOSS, Helmut oversees the executive management team across operations globally.
Helmut has been working in the international catering business since 1972. Before founding GOSS and FOSS & ESG, global offshore catering service provider, he had a successful career first as a chef, and then as a Catering Operations Manager. At this time Helmut monitored the catering operations delivered on board offshore drilling units and in military camps around the world.
In 1993 he founded Franke’s Offshore Support Service GmbH (FOSS) which joined forces with Emder Schiffsausrüstungs GmbH (ESG) to provide full package of catering, housekeeping and food supply services to a number of Nedrill drilling units in the North Sea. Cooperation proved to be very successful, FOSS & ESG GmbH was established in December 1996. Over the years FOSS & ESG has grown into a leading offshore catering and Housekeeping contractor, providing first-class service to clients all over the world.
In 2000, driven by clients’ demand, he founded GOSS (Global Oilfield Support Service) Ltd. with a purpose to provide dedicated manpower service to the offshore industry. Over the years the service has organically developed into a leading manpower supply, consultancy and oilfield services company operating globally.
Dr. Vassos C. Partassides
Dr. Vassos C. Partassides is serving as Director of FOSS & ESG Catering Ltd and of GOSS (Global Oilfield Support Service Ltd), since the establishment of both companies in June 1998 and August 2000 respectively. He is responsible for the overall management, administration and control, liaison with all Cyprus Authorities, banking institutions, legal advisors, auditors and other local strategic partners.
Vassos shared with the companies’ founders Mr. Helmut Franke, Mr. H.J. Wurpts and Mr. R. Overhaus the vision of choosing Cyprus to register the companies and establishing their headquarters there, using the strategic geographically and convenient location of Cyprus, with its excellent communications infrastructure and the high calibre of professional services offered, enabling the companies to serve both Europe and Asia, keys areas of FOSS & ESG Catering’s operation and marketing interest at that time. He worked intensively to implement the proper establishment of the companies in Cyprus.
Vassos obtained his diploma in economics from Germany, and following its award, he proceeded with postgraduate studies and research leading to his PhD degree in International Economic Relations.
Returning to Cyprus he worked for several years in leading positions in shipping and insurance and later in trading. His experience accumulated over the years is extensive, and covers business management, international trading, sales and sales management, financial management and costing as well as human resource management. He was elected and served as Honorary Treasurer of the “Cyprus- Scandinavian Countries” and of the “Cyprus-China” business Associations of the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry and as member of the Board of the Limassol Cooperative Saving Bank. His interest and care for communal issues is reflected in his repeated election in the post of Municipal Councillor of the Limassol Municipality, spanning a period of 15 years and his long tenure at the Board of Directors of the Limassol Theatrical Company (ETHAL).
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Date of Birth June 15, 1989
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Bayley is a professional wrestler signed with WWE. She was previously NXT Women’s Champion. At the age of 11, she started going to Big Time Wrestling shows. She started her wrestling career in April 2008 (when she was 18) by starting her training with Big Time Wrestling with trainer Jason Styles. She was first seen in a video game as a playable character in WWE 2K17.
Pamela Rose Martinez
Bayley, Davina Rose
Bayley giving a speech during a B.A. Star event in December 2016 (Fort George G. Meade Public Affairs Office / Flickr / CC BY 2.0)
Newark, California, United States
She graduated from Independence High Public School located in San Jose, California.
In her senior year, Bayley was the captain of her school basketball team called ‘The 76ers.’
Mother – Ann B. (née Martinez)
Siblings – Melissa (Older Sister), Brenda Marie (Older Sister), Manuel (Younger Brother)
Before Bayley joined the WWE roster, Kirk White, owner of Big Time Wrestling was her promoter.
56 kg or 123.5 lbs
Bayley has dated –
Donovan Tate (2008-2010) – Bayley’s IMDb profile states that she was married to a man named Donovan for about a year and a half (from November 2008 to April 2010). But, this relationship, as well as the man’s exact identity, is not confirmed.
Aaron Solow – Aaron is a pro-wrestler from San Francisco. He first got to know Bayley while both of them were training with California based trainer Jason Styles. They eventually moved on to work with Independent Wrestling companies. In 2013, Bayley debuted with WWE’s developmental territory NXT while Aaron was also hired by NXT on and off for temporary appearances. Although Aaron has not been able to land a big break with WWE like Bayley has, he works hard to survive as a pro-wrestler and often gets offended when people undermine his hard work to highlight and discuss his relationship with an established WWE star. However, there is no dearth of love and mutual respect between the couple going by their social media activity. As of 2018, Bayley and Aaron were engaged and living together in Austin, Texas.
Aaron Solow and Bayley on May 19, 2017 (Bayley / Instagram)
Bayley has Hispanic / Latin American father and possibly might have Welsh / American mother.
Signature hairstyle of wearing a side ponytail and a hairband
Bright, dimpled smile
Brand Endorsements
She was cast in a Snickers (2017) commercial in partnership with WWE.
The face of WWE merchandise
Her video game character debuted in WWE 2k17 and appeared again in WWE 2k18 created by 2k Sports
Mattel toy company released a Bayley doll in 2018
Bayley at WWE’s WrestleMania XXX Axxess in April 2014 (Miguel Discart / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0)
Her wrestling performance as Bayley on the main roster of WWE’s RAW brand since 2016
First Wrestling Match
Bayley played her first match on September 19, 2008, when she was 19 for Big Time Wrestling. At that time, she used to play under the ring name of “Davina Rose”.
First TV Show
Bayley wrestled under the ring name of “Davina Rose” on sports show PWD Prime in 2008, Pro Wrestling Destination’s weekly television show.
Bayley has been extremely athletic since her middle school. She played basketball, volleyball, soccer, and track & field sports. She continued playing basketball in high school. During the off-season, her coach made her run cross-country and track to stay lean.
At the age of 18, she started training under the supervision of Big Time Wrestling’s head trainer, Jason Styles who taught her everything she needed to know about becoming a pro-wrestler.
After a decade of an active wrestling career, Bayley’s body changed from lean and slim to lean, muscular, and shredded.
Since her mid-twenties, Bayley is swearing by CrossFit. She stated that CrossFit training helps her master a range of athletic skills that she could not perform earlier and switching to this form of training, turned out to be one of her best decisions for her career.
She trains under the supervision of CrossFit trainer, Josh Gallegos who is also a trainer to other WWE stars such as Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch.
Bayley trains 5 times a week.
When on the road, she simply follows the customized program written for her by her trainer.
Back home in Austin, Texas, Bayley trains at Onnit Gym, a facility that swears by unconventional training teamed with ancient training equipment. She likes to attend all their mobility classes and switches to more challenging yet functional training that involves the use of kettlebells, extra thick jumping ropes, striking / boxing etc.
Additionally, Bayley performs steel mace exercises that she learnt from Onnit Steel Mace Master Coach, Eric Melland.
She learnt footwork drills from a football coach and employs plyometric drills and sprints in her workouts before a big wrestling match so that the heavy wrestling boots don’t wear her down or affect her agility in the ring.
Coffee forms a staple part of Bayley’s everyday routine. She searches for the best local coffee shops on Google every time she is scheduled to visit a new city or country and with her friend, Sasha Banks, she loves to earmark the places that serve the best coffee.
Bayley Favorite Things
Wrestling Idols in Childhood
Male – Macho Man, The Rock, The Hardy Boyz
Female – Lita, Ivory
School Sport – Basketball
Music Genre – Rock
Band – Paramore
TV Shows – That 70s Show (1998-2006), Friends (1994–2004)
Accessories – Belts, Colored Socks, Beanies
Source – Art of Wrestling, Miami Herald, Falcon Joshi, Pro Wrestling Is Art
Bayley with her CrossFit instructor Josh Gallegos in March 2018 in Chicago (Bayley / Instagram)
Bayley Facts
Wrestling first made its lasting impact on Bayley when at the age of 8 she saw ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage perform in his full charismatic glory on TV.
Bayley’s mother gave her the middle name of Rose because her father (Bayley’s maternal grandfather) gifted his wife a dozen roses every week – a gesture which became an important memory for her.
At the age of 11, Bayley started accompanying her father to watch Big Time Wrestling (BTW) local matches which gave her the aspiration to grow up and become a pro-wrestler.
In case she could not make it as a wrestler, Bayley’s plan B was to study Psychology and become a counselor since going through her parents’ divorce equipped her with enough maturity to counsel others.
She got dumped by her high school boyfriend when she was 15 because she talked obsessively about Matt Hardy for days after she got a picture clicked with him.
When Bayley first started training for wrestling, she would smile perpetually in the ring, so much so that her trainer repeatedly had to ask her to stop smiling.
Bayley’s bright and colorful WWE costumes created with the help of WWE in-house designer, Mikaze are inspired by ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage’s persona. Wearing his style and recreating some of his moves in the ring is Bayley’s way of paying homage to the legendary wrestler.
She is often dubbed as Everyone’s Favorite Hugger or The Huggable One because Bayley prefers hugging people to shaking hands with them. She stated in an interview that a hug is her version of a handshake.
Since Bayley was an obsessed WWE fan in her teens and preteens and usually dressed in WWE merchandise, she was often bullied for her appearance in school. Now, as a WWE celebrity, she has become an active anti-bullying advocate.
Befitting her bubbly personality, Bayley has always enjoyed skateboarding and jumping on a Pogo stick since her childhood.
She has an Egyptian symbol, Eye of Ra tattooed on the back of her neck.
Bayley is an animal lover.
The wrestler complains that she tends to feel cold most of the time and rarely feels warm.
Pro-Wrestler and Yoga instructor, Serena Deeb has been Bayley’s mentor since 2010.
To find out more about Bayley, visit her official page @ wwe.com/superstars/bayley.
Follow her on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Featured Image by Fort George G. Meade Public Affairs Office / Flickr / CC BY 2.0
Jcv June 13, 2019 at 12:02 AM
Is ok bayley. Don’t listen to alexa, and lacey. Because they really stupid.
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T20 Competition on Bank Holiday Monday 28 May
This Bank Holiday Monday the HCPCL has arranged for Rounds 1 and 2 of its T20 competition to be held, with 16 teams competing at four different grounds.…
Henley are playing at Banbury CC where the two Round 1 matches are:
10.30 Buckingham v Banbury
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Round 2 will be played afterwards between the winners, after a 30 minute break unless otherwise agreed.
Other teams competing this Monday are Slough, Amersham, Oxford and Finch (playing at Finch), Aston Rowant, Chesham, Tew and Horspath (playing at Rowant), Harefield, Wycombe, Thame and Tring (playing at Tring).
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Henley Cricket Club Welfare Policy
Members and Guests of Henley Cricket Club are required to abide by the provisions of this Code of Conduct and any subsequent updates as may be in force from time to time. By their presence on club premises or at club events or activities they are deemed to have accepted and to abide by the provisions of this Code and any other relevant Codes of Conduct, Rules or Regulations the Club has adopted. The rules and guidelines set out below pay particular reference to the ECB “Safe Hands” Policy which is on the Henley Cricket Club website.
This Policy was formally adopted by the General Committee on 12/05/16.
All Members and Guests of Henley Cricket Club will:
Respect the rights, dignity and worth of every person within the context of Cricket
Treat everyone equally and not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, disability, race, ethnic origin, nationality, colour, parental or marital status, religious belief, class or social background, sexual preference or political belief
Not condone, or allow to go unchallenged, any form of discrimination if witnessed
Display high standards of behaviour
Promote the positive aspects of Cricket e.g. fair play
Encourage all participants to learn the Laws and rules and play within them, respecting the decisions of match officials
Actively discourage unfair play, rule violations and arguing with match officials
Recognise good performance not just match results
Place the well-being and safety of children above the development of performance
Ensure that activities are appropriate for the age, maturity, experience and ability of the individual
Respect children’s opinions when making decisions about their participation in Cricket.
Not smoke, drink or use banned substances whilst actively working with children in the Club.
Not provide children with alcohol when they are under the care of the Club
Follow ECB guidelines set out in the ‘Safe Hands – Cricket’s Policy for Safeguarding Children’ and any other relevant guidelines issued
Report any concerns in relation to a child, following reporting procedures laid down by the ECB
Club Officers and Appointed Volunteers :
In addition to the above all club officers and appointed volunteers should
Have been appropriately vetted, if required, before taking on their role. A list of positions requiring vetting is available on ECB’s Safe Hands Policy for Safe Guarding Children.
Hold relevant qualifications and be covered by appropriate insurance
Always work in an open environment (i.e. avoid private or unobserved situations and encourage an open environment)
Inform Players and Parents of the requirements of Cricket
Know and understand the ECB’s ‘Safe Hands – Cricket’s Policy for Safeguarding Children’
Develop an appropriate working relationship with young players, based on mutual trust and respect
Ensure that physical contact is appropriate and necessary and is carried out within recommended guidelines with the young player’s full consent and approval
Not engage in any form of sexually related contact or behaviour with a young player. The ECB adopts the Home Office guidelines which recommend the principle -“People in positions of trust and authority do not have sexual relationships with 16-17 year olds in their care”
Attend appropriate training to keep up to date with their role, especially that relating to the Safeguarding of children
Ensure that all contact with juniors is done via parents/guardians and not directly with the junior. This includes use of social media where any contact must be done on an open and transparent platform
If a breach of the provisions or principles of this Code occurs or is reasonably suspected to have occurred the Club reserves the right to take such action as it deems appropriate, including but not limited to asking the person responsible for the breach to leave the Club premises. Any disciplinary or complaint hearings in connection with a breach of these rules shall be dealt with in accordance with the disciplinary procedure as set out in the Club constitution or Cricket Section Regulations as may be amended from time to time.
Henley Cricket Club is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the well being of all its members.
Henley Cricket Club believes that it is important that members, coaches, administrators and parents, carers or guardians associated with the club should, at all times, show respect and understanding for the safety and welfare of others.
Therefore, members are encouraged to be open at all times and to share any concerns or complaints that they may have about any aspect of the club with the appropriate club official.
As a member of Henley Cricket Club you are expected to abide by the following junior code of conduct:
All members must play within the rules and respect officials and their decisions.
All members must respect the rights, dignity and worth of all participants regardless of gender, ability, cultural or ethnic background or religion.
Members should keep to agreed timings for training and competitions or inform their coach or team manager if they are going to be late.
Members must wear suitable kit –appropriate protective equipment, appropriate clothing for the weather conditions – for training and match sessions, as agreed with the coach/team manager.
Members must pay any fees for training or events promptly.
Junior members are not allowed to smoke on club premises or whilst representing the club at competitions
Junior members are not allowed to consume alcohol or drugs of any kind on the Club premises or whilst representing the Club.
All parents should also note the following:
The ECB recommends that all drivers transporting children on behalf of the club are appropriately qualified to drive and insured to provide such transport. Henley Cricket Club cannot monitor this and it is the parent/guardians responsibility to ensure the child is transported in a safe manner to cricket grounds both home and away and to ensure that they are collected at the agreed time.
All parents should be aware that on occasions young people may have to shower in changing rooms containing adults such as in Open Age cricket. The club policy is for adults to shower and change at different times within the facility as per the ECB guidelines. Parents should be aware that juniors and adults may have to share the same facility in open age cricket and must raise any concerns or objections to club.
Henley Cricket Club will keep Personal Player Profile forms electronically. This information is collected at the registration process and includes emergency contact numbers and medical information. This information will be readily available for all team managers and coaches as appropriate. Henley Cricket Club will endeavour to ensure this information is kept safe and limited to those who need it.
All photographs etc. are regarded as “personal data”. The Henley Cricket Club attempts to ensure that such data is processed in accordance with the principles within the Data Protection Act and within the ECB guidance on photography and video camera guidelines. Any parent that doesn’t wish their child to be photographed and/or identified must make this known to an official of the club.
All adults who work with children at Henley Cricket Club, either as a volunteer or paid, must be recruited appropriately which includes being vetted for their suitability to work with children. HCC Vetting Procedures include the use of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. There is no cost to the individual and is handled within the club by the Club Welfare Officer. All parents who assist within junior teams are encouraged to achieve this qualification. If there is any doubt as to whether this vetting is necessary then the Team managers must contact the Club Welfare Officer for clarification.
ECB Safe Hands Policy
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Henley Cricket Club reserves the right to modify a programme due to adverse weather conditions, low attendance or other unforeseen circumstances.
If a parent or guardian would like to make a complaint to Henley Cricket Club then they should contact the office by phone, email or written post. The parent or guardian will be contacted within 72 hours of the complaint being lodged, but the complaints procedure may take up to 2 weeks. A full and detailed copy of our complaints procedure is available to parents or guardians on request.
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Constitution of Henley Cricket Club
Dated 25.06.2015
1. The Club
The name of the Club is HENLEY CRICKET CLUB, the address is the Brakspear Ground, Matson Drive, Henley-on-Thames RG9 3HB, and the colours of the Club are dark blue, dark green and gold.
The Club is affiliated to the England and Wales Cricket Board, the Berkshire Cricket Board, and the Oxfordshire Cricket Board.
The aims and objectives of the Club are to:-
2.1 foster and promote participation in the sport of cricket within the community;
2.2 provide facilities for playing cricket, coaching and competition;
2.3 manage the Brakspear Ground and Pavilion at Matson Drive, Henley, which are for the use of members of the Club and its invited guests only;
2.4 honour the Spirit of Cricket and encourage appropriate standards of behaviour throughout the Club and its premises.
The property of the Club (including any freehold or leasehold land) shall be vested in the Trustees elected by the Club at a General Meeting, who shall respectively hold office until death or resignation unless removed by a resolution of the Club. The number of Trustees shall be not more than four nor less than two. One additional Trustee shall be nominated by the Henley Town Council until such time as the Henley Town Council loan shall have been repaid in full when this provision shall lapse. They shall deal with such property as directed by a resolution at a meeting of the Club passed by not less than a two thirds majority. The Trustees shall be indemnified against risk and expense out of such property.
President and Vice Presidents
The President of the Club shall be elected by the club at the Annual General Meeting and such office will normally be held for a period of three (3) years. At the end of that period there shall be an election at the AGM for the position of President. The current incumbent shall be eligible to stand for re-election.
Vice Presidents shall be elected by the Committee and notified to the AGM.
Honorary Vice Presidents and Honorary Life Members shall be proposed by the Committee and endorsed by the AGM.
5.1 Membership of the Club shall be open to anyone interested in the sport of cricket on application regardless of sex, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, religion or other beliefs. However, limitation of membership according to available facilities is allowable on a non-discriminatory basis.
5.2 The Club may have different classes of membership and subscription on a non-discriminatory and fair basis. The Club will have an equitable pricing policy and will keep subscriptions at levels that will not pose a significant obstacle to people participating.
5.3 In addition to the President, Vice Presidents and Honorary Members specified in Section 4, the Club has the following classes of membership:-
5.3.1 Senior Playing Member;
5.3.2 Junior Playing Member (under the age of 18 on 1 May);
5.3.3 Student Playing Member (between the ages of 16 and 22 and undergoing a full-time course of education);
5.3.4 Social Member.
5.4 The level of subscriptions will be proposed by the Committee and determined by the AGM. Subscriptions will become payable on the 1st May and must be paid by 30th June. Any Member whose subscription is unpaid by this date shall be notified of the fact by the Honorary Treasurer and shall be liable to suspension at the discretion of the Committee. Any member whose subscription remains unpaid at 30th September shall have his/her membership terminated forthwith.
5.5 Application for membership of the Club shall be by completion of a membership form, for consideration by the Committee at its discretion. The Membership Secretary will keep a register of members.
5.6 Two days must have passed since the application for membership was submitted before membership can be granted.
5.7 No Member shall be eligible to take part in the business of the Club, vote at general meetings or be eligible for selection for any Club team unless the applicable subscription has been paid by the due date and/or membership has been agreed by the Committee.
5.8 The Committee may refuse membership, or remove it, at their discretion but only for good cause such as conduct or character likely to bring the Club or cricket into disrepute. Appeal against a refusal of membership shall be to the Appeals Committee as detailed below. The procedure for taking disciplinary action against a member, including removing membership, is dealt with in more detail below.
5.9 All members joining the Club will be deemed to accept this Constitution and any Rules, Regulations and Codes of Conduct that the Club has adopted and published on its website.
5.10 A member may resign by written notice to the Club, but the return of any subscription paid is at the discretion of the Committee.
Officers of the Club
The Officers of the Club shall be:-
Vice Chairman (if appointed)
Honorary Treasurer
Fundraising Chairman
Grounds Chairman
Junior Section Chairman
All Officers shall be elected annually at the AGM and may be eligible for re-election.
7.1 The Committee shall consist of the President, the Chairman, the Vice Chairman (if appointed), the Honorary Secretary, the Honorary Treasurer, and the Grounds Chairman. Other Officers, plus the 1st XI Captain and the Coach, will be invited to attend by the Chairman as appropriate.
7.2 The Committee shall hold no less than six meetings per year. The quorum required for business to be agreed at Committee meetings shall be four Officers. The Committee may appoint advisers as necessary to fulfil its business.
7.3 The Committee shall have powers to co-opt members and to appoint sub-committees as necessary. The Junior Section shall be a Standing Committee.
7.4 Decisions shall be taken by simple majority of those Officers voting; the Chairman shall not have a casting vote.
7.5 The Committee shall be responsible for the general running of the Club, its grounds and premises, including the bar in accordance with the Club Membership Certificate and any relevant Temporary Event Notice.
7.6 The Committee has the power to provide coaching, training, medical treatment, and related social and other facilities.
7.7 The Committee shall be responsible for taking out the appropriate insurance for club committee, employees, contractors, players, guests and third parties.
7.8 The Committee shall be responsible for adopting new policies, Codes of Conduct and Rules that affect the organisation of the Club.
7.9 The Committee shall be responsible for disciplinary hearings of members who infringe the Club rules and regulations. The Committee shall be responsible for taking any action of suspension or discipline following such hearings.
7.10 The Committee has the power to raise funds by appeals, subscriptions, and loans.
7.11 Any bank account in which any part of the Club's funds are deposited shall be operated by the Committee and shall be held in the name of the Club. All cheques from such accounts must be signed in strict accordance with the bank mandate approved by the Committee.
7.12 All expenditure on behalf of the Club, either by cheque or an order for payment, must be with the prior authorisation by the Committee, or within clearly defined and recorded delegation and authorisation levels as determined by the Committee, or by a written agreement with the Chairman which is subsequently reported to the Committee at its next meeting.
7.13 The Honorary Treasurer shall be responsible to the Committee and to the Club for keeping proper books of account in respect of: (a) all sums of money received and expended by the Club and the matters in respect of which such receipts and expenditure takes place, and (b) the assets and liabilities of the Club. The books of account shall always be open to the inspection of the Committee. Club members have no right to inspect the books of account except as conferred by statute or as authorised by the Committee. The Honorary Treasurer will make a report, and present accounts that must be audited in advance, to each AGM as detailed below.
Removal of Membership, Discipline and Appeals
8.1 Any complaints regarding the behaviour of members, guests or volunteers should be lodged in writing with the Honorary Secretary.
8.2 Any person who is the subject of a written complaint or appeal shall be notified of the procedures to be followed in reasonable time to prepare for any hearing.
8.3 The Committee shall appoint a Disciplinary Sub-Committee which will meet to hear complaints within 21 days of a complaint being lodged. Membership of the Sub-Committee shall be confined to Officers or Trustees of the Club who have no personal conflict of interest in the case in question. Any person requested to attend a Disciplinary Sub-Committee shall be entitled to be accompanied by a friend or other representative and to call witnesses. The Disciplinary Sub-Committee has the power to take appropriate disciplinary action on behalf of the Committee, including the termination of membership or exclusion from Club premises.
8.4 The outcome of the disciplinary hearing shall be put in writing to the person who lodged the complaint and the person against whom the complaint was made within 14 days following the hearing.
8.5 There shall be a right of appeal within 14 days of receipt of the disciplinary decision or decision to refuse membership:
8.5.1 against the Disciplinary Sub-Committee's findings or the sanction imposed or both; and
8.5.2 against the Committee's refusal to admit a new member.
8.6 In either case, the Committee shall appoint an Appeals Committee. The Appeals Committee shall have a maximum of three members which shall not include members involved with the initial disciplinary hearing but may include non-members of the Club. The Appeals Committee shall consider the appeal within 21 days of the Honorary Secretary receiving the appeal. The individual who submitted the appeal shall be entitled to be accompanied by a friend or other representative and to call witnesses. The decision of the Appeals Committee shall be final and binding on all parties.
All General Meetings
9.1 All members may attend all general meetings of the Club in person. All members have one vote. Junior Playing Members shall not be entitled to vote, save at Junior Section meetings.
9.2 Members must be given at least 14 clear days notice of all general meetings;
9.3 The quorum for all general meetings is 12;
9.4 Except as otherwise provided in this Constitution every resolution shall be decided by a simple majority of the votes cast on a show of hands.
Annual General Meetings (AGM)
10.1 The Club will hold an AGM once in every calendar year and no later than 30 November;
10.2 At every AGM the Members will elect the Officers of the Club to serve until the next AGM;
10.3 Nominations for election to Officers of the Club, and items for discussion, shall be in writing, proposed and seconded by two members of the Club, and in the hands of the Honorary Secretary seven clear days before the AGM;
10.4 The Members will receive a report for the year from the Chairman and the Team Captains;
10.5 The Honorary Treasurer will present a detailed report, together with an audited Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet, for the Club for the latest financial year;
10.6 The Members will appoint a suitable person to audit the accounts for the period to the next AGM;
10.7 The Members will discuss and vote on any resolution (whether about policy or to change the Rules) and deal with any other business put to the meeting.
Extraordinary General Meetings (EGM)
An EGM shall be called by the Honorary Secretary within 14 days of a request to that effect from the Committee or on the written request of not less than 12 members signed by them. Such EGM shall be held on not less than 14 nor more than 21 days' notice at a place decided upon by the Committee or in default by the Chairman. If the Committee fails to call a meeting within 14 days of receiving a valid request from the members then the requisitionists may themselves call a meeting, the costs of which will be reimbursed by the Club.
Child Protection and Welfare
12.1 The Committee shall appoint a Club Welfare Officer to ensure compliance with safeguarding legislation and the ECB Safe Hands policy. The Club Welfare Officer shall report to the Junior Section meetings and the reports, together with any action taken, must be minuted.
12.2 The name and contact details of the Welfare Officer shall be displayed on the Club notice board and shall further be made known to coaches, volunteers and parents in the Club fixture card and on the website.
12.3 The Club shall publish a Child Protection Policy on its website, including the incorporation of ECB Regulations and Guidance on the sharing of changing facilities with adult members, with which Members must comply.
The Club shall adopt and implement both the ECB's One Game Strategy and the Club Inclusion and Diversity Policy and any future versions of these documents.
The Constitution of the Club shall be altered only at an AGM or EGM and fourteen days clear notice of any proposed change of a rule shall be given in writing to all members. Such changes shall only be binding in the event of their being adopted by two thirds of the members present and voting.
Neither the Club nor any Officer shall be liable to any member or guest of a member or a visitor for any loss or damage to any property occurring from whatsoever cause, in or about the Club premises, nor for any injuries sustained by any member or guest of the Club or visitor whilst entering or leaving the Club premises, and a notice to this effect shall at all times be displayed in a prominent position on the Club premises.
A resolution to dissolve the Club shall only be passed at an AGM or EGM through a two thirds majority vote of the members present and voting. In the event of dissolution, any assets of the Club that remain after the settlement of all debts shall be disposed of by the Trustees, on the sole and overriding condition that the Brakspear Ground should be preserved as a sporting facility for the community.
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Assessing the Non-Linear Effects of Credit Market Shocks
Barnichon, Régis
Matthes, Christian
Ziegenbein, Alexander
Regis Barnichon
Christian Matthes
Alexander Ziegenbein
Can financial market disruptions have non-linear dynamic effects on economic activity? Using a novel econometric technique, we assess whether credit shocks have non-linear effects, notably asymmetry and state-dependence, that have been predicted theoretically but never considered empirically. We obtain two main results. First, negative shocks to credit supply have large and persistent effects on output, but positive shocks have no significant effect. Second, credit supply shocks have larger and more persistent effects in periods of weak economic growth. These findings are consistent with the presence of occasionally binding financial constraints and the recent theoretical predictions of He and Krishnamurthy (2013) and Brunnermeier and Sannikov (2014).
Barnichon, Régis & Matthes, Christian & Ziegenbein, Alexander, 2016. "Assessing the Non-Linear Effects of Credit Market Shocks," CEPR Discussion Papers 11410, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:11410
File URL: http://www.cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=11410
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Against the Tide, Atheism, Big Bang, birth of science, Cambridge University, Chandra Wickramasinghe, Christianity, communism, fine tuning, Fred Hoyle, Georges LeMaitre, history of science, John Lennox, Kevin Sorbo, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, steady state theory, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Hawking
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On this ID the Future, John Lennox tells about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and seeing what it does to rationality itself. In his continuing conversation with host and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, Lennox relates how in his interactions with famous religiously skeptical scientists, he emphasizes that the Judeo-Christian worldview did much to give us science. When skeptical scientists ask the Oxford mathematician and philosopher how Christianity could have anything to say to science, Lennox is ready with an answer. This is the second part of a three-part conversation in which Lennox discusses his new documentary, Against the Tide, filmed with actor and host Read More ›
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On this episode of ID the Future, Rice University synthetic organic chemist and inventor James M. Tour continues his conversation with Stephen C. Meyer. Read More ›
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On this episode of ID the Future, James M. Tour and Stephen C. Meyer begin a discussion about the hard problems facing researchers trying to discover how the first life could have come about naturalistically. Meyer is the director of the Center for Science and Culture; Tour is a world-renowned synthetic organic chemist with over 700 research publications and multiple major recognitions, including TheBestSchools.org naming him one of the 50 most influential scientists in the world today. Though he doesn’t sign on to ID theory, he says he’s sympathetic with the idea, and certainly not impressed with any naturalistic explanations for the origin of life. In this first of a three-part series, they explore problems ranging from the extreme improbabilities associated with protein assembly, Read More ›
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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid interviews Robert Alston, Ph.D electrical engineer working at Picatinny Arsenal and co-author of the new book Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell. The two discuss the origin of the Nutshell book and the origin and fine tuning of the universe. Though cosmic fine tuning is often referred to as “the fine tuning problem,” Alston says it’s really no problem at all — not unless you’re trying to shoehorn it into the box of philosophical materialism.
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On this episode of ID the Future, Kirk Durston, a biophysicist focused on identifying high-information-density parts of proteins, completes a three-part series on three categories of science: experimental, inferential, and fantasy science. Fantasy science makes inferential leaps so huge that virtually none of it is testable, either by the standards of experimental science or by those of the historical sciences, which reason to the best explanation by process of elimination. One example of fantasy science, according to Durston, is the multiverse. As he insists, an imaginative story largely untethered from evidence and testing but told using math instead of literary devices is still an imaginative story untethered from evidence and testing. Scientism, “atheism dressed up in a lab coat,” can lead Read More ›
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Journey after surgery
April 3, 2015 by Megs Pollock, Patient Family
Jordan with Dr. Milo.
After Jordan’s hip and ankle surgery, he seemed to be doing well and was transported to the 5600 unit. The staff educated Randy and me on his pain pump, which administered medication through his IV.
Jordan was very thirsty afterwards, and as much as he hated to, he threw up in his little blue bag. After that, he would randomly look at me and say, “I don’t need to throw up. I threw up in the bag.”
The first night was difficult. He woke up with pain in his hip and under his upper right arm, which we later contributed to his spica cast pushing on his ribs.
Before surgery I imagined sitting around in the hospital for a couple of days waiting to take Jordan home. But I don’t really remember sitting a lot. Jordan had several low-grade fevers and every time his fever broke, his hair would be drenched in sweat. He ended up with a Mohawk because I rubbed his head so much.
Physical therapy finally came in to show us how to transport Jordan to his wheelchair. The awkwardness of his hip spica cast made our little peanut very uncomfortable. She and another therapist also showed us the special car seat we would be taking him home in.
Jordan with Dr. Jones
When Dr. Jones came in, he asked if Jordan’s stuffed monkey, Nick, had been casted as well. So Nick was then casted.
Jordan continued to have pain throughout the day so we requested pain medication as well as something to help with muscle spasms to help him relax enough to sleep because he hadn’t slept all day. Unfortunately, around 11 p.m., Jordan became agitated, pulling off his gown and IV, and becoming delusional.
We attempted to walk the halls with him in his wheelchair to see if he would fall asleep, but every time he would start to dose off, he would startle, yelling out for us. At one point he looked at Randy and asked, “Who dat lady over there?” He was pointing to me, his mommy.
Jordan also asked about the chickens in the room and wanted to go into the barn in the wall. By 3 a.m. we asked if the pain management team would come in and help. The anesthesiologist and nurse came in and told us it was probably a reaction to one of the medications. About an hour later, he finally fell asleep peacefully in his bed.
Jordan with Dr. Adamczyk
After he woke up, a volunteer brought in a cart of goodies. Jordan picked out a couple of tattoos, cars and a pair of glasses with a big nose and mustache. The glasses were a great hit. Jordan put on the glasses and greeted the doctors and nurses as he sat in the hall in his wheelchair. He was also able to get a nap in and we found a pain medication his body was able to handle without the side effects.
That evening, Jordan had to move to another patient room, where we were greeted by a nurse who had taken care of Jordan when he had his shunt surgery.
The next morning, we were excited to find out his nurse was going to be Julia, who had been one of his nurses when we were in the NICU.
Throughout day 3, Jordan continued to have pain and fevers but seemed to calm down by late afternoon. We were glad we ran into Dr. Baird in the hall. We also saw Shannon from myelo clinic and Brian from Hanger Orthotics. Each person who visited gladly signed his cast and agreed to wear Jordan’s crazy glasses for a picture.
Jordan in car seat with hip spica cast
As we wheeled ourselves out, we were so excited to see Dr. Protain, who took care of Jordan in the NICU, and Dr. Milo, Jordan’s ENT doc.
There is something about being in a hospital where you are greeted with a smile and know there are people who go out of their way to make a difference. From Dr. Jones, who was thoughtful enough to have Nick casted, to Dr. Adamcyzk, who provided a green and blue cast.
It truly makes a scary situation better knowing that these people have dedicated their lives to not only helping children physically but also as being a light in their lives as well.
Filed Under: Labor of Love, Mom Bloggers, Patient Experience Tagged With: dr kerwyn jones, dr mark adamczyk, hip spica cast, physical therapy
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California Lawmakers To Newsom: Give All Immigrants Health Coverage
Ukiah Daily Journal, The (CA)
SACRAMENTO >> California Democratic lawmakers so far have failed to convince Gov. Gavin Newsom that the state can afford to spend an estimated $2.6 billion a year to expand its Medicaid program to all unauthorized immigrants.
Now, they're trying a new strategy.
Rather than working independently, a fiercely liberal state senator from Los Angeles and a moderate Assembly member from the Central Valley are joining forces to pressure Newsom to make California the first state in the nation to cover every income-eligible resident regardless of immigration status. Unauthorized immigrants up to age 26 can already qualify for Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program for low-income residents.
Emboldened by the win of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and spurred by the urgency of the coronavirus pandemic, state Sen. María Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles) and Assembly member Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno) plan to introduce a two-bill package on Monday that would cover unauthorized senior immigrants first, and eventually the remainder of California's undocumented immigrant population.
"It's a national issue. Look at how all the national Democratic candidates raised their hands in front of the world to support covering undocumented immigrants in health insurance," Durazo told California Healthline. "We want a clear commitment to finally do this, not just lip service."
Newsom has long touted his goal of achieving universal health coverage in California and made campaign promises to work toward a single-payer health care system. But after nearly two years in office, Newsom's ambitious health care agenda has been sidetracked by deadly wildfires and a widening homelessness crisis - as well as the COVID-19 pandemic - and he has not managed to dramatically expand coverage.
California currently covers about 200,000 unauthorized immigrant children and young adults, according to the state Department of Health Care Services. The state budgeted about $375 million to cover young adults ages 19 through 25 this fiscal year, but does not track spending for undocumented immigrant children, according to the state Department of Finance.
Opening the low-income health program to all eligible undocumented immigrants would expand coverage to at least 915,000 low-income residents and cost an additional $2.6 billion annually, according to a projection this year by the nonpartisan state Legislative Analyst's Office. There are an estimated 1.5 million undocumented immigrant Californians who are uninsured, estimates show, but not all of them would qualify.
Public support for expanding coverage to unauthorized immigrants has risen over the past few years, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. But expending scarce taxpayer resources on such an effort is politically risky, said Doug Herman, a Los Angeles-based national Democratic strategist.
"Gavin's got bigger priorities right now and he has been wounded, so he has to be very cautious about what he does," Herman said. "Look at the French Laundry and scandals. The homelessness crisis is raging and the prison outbreak happened on his watch. This doesn't rise to that level."
Newsom communications director Jesse Melgar said no one from his office was available for comment.
Since Newsom took office, Durazo and Arambula have authored separate bills to expand Medi-Cal to more undocumented immigrants. Durazo has gotten close after negotiating with Newsom - only for the first-term Democratic governor to back out, citing costs.
Such proposals have received widespread legislative support among Democratic lawmakers, who hold supermajority power in both houses of the state legislature.
A worsening economic outlook and long-term budget pressures could once again derail their efforts. Because the federal government prohibits states from using federal Medicaid dollars to cover undocumented immigrants - except for emergency services - California would have to pick up most of the price tag, which could top $3 billion annually to cover everyone, including children and adults, according to the Legislative Analyst's Office.
Newsom will be forced to weigh an onslaught of budget demands while managing, and paying for, the ongoing COVID-19 emergency.
"That gives Newsom the ability to delay or oppose anything that doesn't fit his agenda," Herman said.
But some lawmakers, immigration rights activists and health care advocates argue the COVID pandemic has made their campaign more urgent as Latino and Black residents get sick and die at disproportionate rates.
Politicians cannot ignore that the pandemic has exposed a broken health care system that has left millions of taxpaying Californians without health coverage because their immigration status renders them ineligible, said Sarah Dar, director of health and public benefits for the California Immigrant Policy Center, which is already lobbying the governor to support the Medi-Cal expansion.
"Now we have a full picture of what this crisis is, and the blatant disparities faced by our essential workers, so there's no excuse," she said. "Immigrant communities and farmworkers in the food and agricultural sector, like meatpacking plants, have literally been hotbeds for the spread of disease."
Dar acknowledged financial pressures ahead for the state, and said advocates will be pushing for ways to generate money to pay for the expansion, possibly including tax increases.
There could be some hope for a one-time cash infusion. Fiscal estimates show California could reap a $26 billion surplus next year, largely from personal income tax receipts from high-income earners who have not suffered devastating economic losses during the pandemic, according to state fiscal analysts. Durazo and Arambula are eyeing that revenue for the Medi-Cal expansion.
"He has routinely stated his vision, but we'd like Gov. Newsom to deliver on health care for all during his governorship," Arambula said. "I'm not going to sit and wait."
Durazo said she would introduce a bill Monday to expand Medi-Cal to unauthorized immigrant Californians age 65 and older. She put a similar bill on hold in 2019, in exchange for a commitment from Newsom to include the proposal in this year's state budget.
Newsom included the proposal in the first version of his state budget in January, but then withdrew it, citing soaring unemployment, business closures and an economy decimated by the pandemic.
Durazo and other backers decided to craft a new approach: Alongside Durazo's bill to cover older adults, Arambula plans to introduce companion legislation to cover all undocumented immigrant adults.
The lawmakers are using the two bills as a negotiating tactic. Arambula and advocates said they hope to win coverage for undocumented immigrants 65 and older next year, while developing a plan with Newsom to expand coverage to the entire population at some point during his governorship.
Durazo said both bills are equally important and are intentionally being used to pressure the governor into action next year.
"This is our way to finally have a real conversation about what it'll take to get everyone covered, given we'll have federal partners with the Biden-Harris administration," said Orville Thomas, director of government affairs for the California Immigrant Policy Center.
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House proceedings not disclosed: Gujarat HC notice to secretariat over PIL
The Right to Information (RTI) Act that lists obligations of public authorities, mandates proactive disclosure of public affairs and thus not complying with it “is a serious violation of the principles of democracy and the constitutional rights of the petitioners”, the PIL submits.
By: Express News Service | Ahmedabad | Updated: December 22, 2020 2:10:57 am
From Monday, Gujarat HC judges also commenced proceedings from the court premises over video conference with parties concerned. Until now, the judges had been conducting proceedings over the virtual medium from their official residences. (file)
The Gujarat High Court issued a notice to the state Assembly secretariat Monday after a public interest litigation (PIL) highlighted the non-availability and non-disclosure of legislative proceedings in the House on its website or in the public domain.
The division bench, headed by Justice J B Pardiwala, issued the notice while hearing the petition filed by Neeta Hardikar, a Dahod resident who mentors tribal area programme team with a focus on health, legal rights, and local self-governance, and Dr Siddharth Pathak, a retired professor of Saurashtra University at Rajkot.
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The petitioners, represented by advocate Bandish Soparkar, stated the Gujarat Assembly Secretariat “does not proactively provide comprehensive information to citizens on the functioning of the Legislative Assembly as such”.
This information, as listed by the petitioners, includes information on the proceeding of the Assembly (including live and old telecast and transcripts, the papers to be laid, private member’s business, zero hour, list of question and their answers, the text of debates); text of legislation (including subordinate legislation) as introduced, passed, pending, assented, lapsed, withdrawn and negatived by the Assembly, and information on the committees of the Assembly among other material that is expected to be put in the public domain.
The PIL sought that the Gujarat HC to direct the Assembly secretariat to regularly provide and display this information on its official website in English and Gujarati. It also sought that the Assembly proceedings should be made available for view (live and old telecast) of the public on the website of the Assembly for public perusal, as is already practiced by several state assemblies as well as the Lok Sabha, which has aided greater transparency.
Among other states that update their proceedings online include Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Kerala, Bihar, Delhi, and Rajasthan.
Owing to the coronavirus pandemic, the petitioners further submitted, several executive and legislative measures were adopted in the state that includes ordinances issued by the Governor which are expected to be ratified in the upcoming House session. “
Further, important issues regarding the shortfall in receipt of taxation are also before the Assembly to discuss. It is, therefore, submitted that although the petitioners have always had a constitutional and statutory right to know the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, it is all the more important at this point for the petitioners to know and understand in a direct and complete manner in which the Legislative Assembly discusses a variety of issues to recover from the crises. Therefore, the proceedings of the Assembly ought to be webcast and available online for detailed study and understanding,” the petition stated.
Pending admission, hearing, and final disposal, the petitioners also sought that the court directed the authorities to upload as much information as is available with them and make the telecast of the proceedings of the Assembly available on their website for the immediate session of the House.
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Deepti Naval shares deleted stanza from Tum Ko Dekha Toh Ye Khayal
Sharing the video on her Facebook page, Deepti Naval wrote that she wished the stanza was picturised on her and her co-star Farooq Sheikh in the film Saath Saath.
Written by Mimansa Shekhar | New Delhi | November 25, 2020 9:51:56 pm
Deepti Naval and Farooq Sheikh starrer Saath Saath released in 1982. (Photo: Screengrab/Shemaroo/YouTube)
Much to the delight of her fans, veteran actor Deepti Naval on Wednesday shared a deleted stanza from Saath Saath song “Tum Ko Dekha Toh Ye Khayal”. The Raman Kumar directorial starred Deepti Naval and Farooq Sheikh in the lead roles.
Naval took to her Facebook page and shared the video. She captioned it, “What a lovely stanza I discovered … didn’t even know it existed. How I wish it was picturized on Farooq and me!”
The deleted stanza included the lines – “Tum kisi aur ka muqaddar ho. Humne yeh kehke khud ko samjhaya. Zindagi dhoop, tum ghana saya.”
The video of the song has Jagjit Singh revealing that the aforementioned lines aren’t a part of the original song. It looks like the song was recorded at one of the concerts of the late singer, who treated the audience to the deleted stanza.
Kuldeep Singh’s composition “Tum Ko Dekha Toh Ye Khayal”, with lyrics by Javed Akhtar, was crooned by real-life couple Jagjit Singh and Chitra Singh.
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The world’s most infantile cult
Posted on Nov 12, 2017 Nov 13, 2017 by Rich Will
Trump’s tweets about ‘making friends’ with Kim Jong Un, complete with exclamation marks more befitting an eight-year-old, confirm once again a level of naivety about world affairs which most people, judging his role and the background to such statements, will regard as both terrifying and contemptible. But his online supporters (presuming there are some who are not automated) seem to lap it up, insisting that his appeals for everyone to get along be taken at face value. Their insistence that the most superficial aspects of world affairs – reports of personal conversations between individual world leaders – are the only defining ones also explains their (faux?)-naif response to his statement about Putin’s ‘response’ to his (apparently pretend) questions about election meddling. For one thing, the theme of lying is too adult to acknowledge; for another, they appear to be too deeply embedded inside a particular worldview to truly care about what’s true or false, or, as Reza Aslan wrote last week, ‘Trump has been spectacularly successful at getting his supporters to believe his blandishments rather than their own eyes’.
It’s common to see Trump supporters on social media extol love and friendship, and denounce the ‘hatred’ and ‘negativity’ of his opponents. I’ve written before about the sentimentality of tyrants. With his gold bath fittings, made-up golf trophies and puerile insistence that such tokens of his success – his toys – be explicitly acknowledged and admired, Trump resembles a more insecure version of the man who will inevitably, in the next few days, become his new BDF (Best Dictator Friend): Rodrigo Duterte of (as it’s correctly spelt) the Philippines, who combines unmitigated brutality and obscene outbursts with teen-like melodrama, especially when it comes to karaoke. There is a long history of autocrats seeing their subjects and counterparts in a mawkish light; there’s also a Michael Jackson element to both Trump’s worldview (and that of his immediate family members) and his appeal, which it’s fair to suspect may suggest similar predilections. Maybe some Trump supporters think that Roy Moore, like the King of Pop, just wanted to play innocently with those children, and would react just as nonchlantly if it were revealed that their hero does too.
I’ve long contended that such naivety is a symptom of a retreat to a less complex and frightening world in the face of the changing climate. The infantile depiction of the world of Fox News and the bogeyman worldview of Infowars are cases in point. There are a number of factors that account for the success of such propaganda. For me, such a retreat to a world of fairy tales is a response to our inability to discuss the environmental consequences of our way of life responsibly. If you can deny the facts of global warming, you can (be persuaded to) deny anything. Once confronted, acolytes of the new right habitually deny everything we try to use to counter them: reason, the experiences of others, universally-agreed upon historical fact, intellectual and scientific authority, even what they themselves have just said. This last is telling: owning one’s own statements and the logical consequences thereof is a habit one acquires as one matures. Instead, faced with truly incontrovertible evidence that their argument is based on false premises, both children and self-declared supporters of Trump repeatedly try to shift the blame by changing the subject, and when that doesn’t work resort to insults. I find most of the time that I have no response but to plead with such people to grow up.
Trump supporters and their equivalents elsewhere may perceive and behave in accordance with a cartoon version of reality, but it’s not a innocent or harmless one. It encompasses the cruelties of children: spitefulness and bullying, including racism of the most puerile kind. Read, for example, this exchange between two adult Trump supporters as reported by Kyle Griffin. Then there are phenomena like the trans bathroom controversy and the building of a wall to keep out outsiders. It is not a world defined by and for adults.
Social media exacerbates this. It’s a playground in which it’s extremely easy to discard the standards of reasonable debate. Bullies and political manipulators were much quick to recognise and mobilise its radical potential than defenders of progressive values. I suspect that as fascism takes hold across the planet, meaningful resistence will not be centred on social media in its current form.
Children often begin to distinguish themselves from their parents by forming gangs. Some join cults. I think it’s essential to take seriously the notion that Trump’s base is a cult. Thus in trying to turn the tide – and, Canute-like or not, we have no choice – we need to turn to the wisdom of deprogrammers and those who know how to counsel individuals caught up in the cult mindset. Trump (etc) supporters behave and argue like children, because that is the mentality particular to their cult. The critical question is: given that their childish retreat into a more reassuring world is partly a symptom and result of our own failure to begin to address very real problems which, Trump or no Trump, threaten our continued existence, what do we have to offer them which is better than the comfort blanket they are so attached to? How do we engage with them without getting drawn into a cartoon-level battle of good versus evil? Should we even treat them as adults, or as children? I have no idea whatsoever. I think it’s time to read up on how cults work.
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AGENDA - LPP
Meeting:
Georges River Local Planning Panel (LPP)
River Room, Georges River Civic Centre, corner MacMahon and Dora Streets, Hurstville
Adam Seton (Chairperson)
Juliet Grant (Expert Panel Member)
Michael Leavey (Expert Panel Member)
Henry Wong (Community Representative)
Meryl Bishop (Director Environment and Planning)
Tony Ristevski (Team Leader Development Assessment)
Cathy Mercer (Team Leder DA Administration)
1. On Site Inspections - 2.00pm – 3.30pm
a) 282 Forest Road Hurstville
b) 1/72 Carwar Avenue Carss Park
Break - 3.30pm
2. Public Meeting – Consideration of Items 4.00pm – 6.00pm
Public Meeting Session Closed - 6.00pm
(Break – Light Supper served to Panel Members)
Georges River Council – Local Planning Panel Thursday, 17 May 2018
3. Reports and LPP Deliberations in Closed Session - 6.30pm
LPP015-18 Delegation of functions from Georges River Local Planning Panel to General Manager in Planning Appeals
(Report by Solicitor)
LPP016-18 1/72 Carwar Avenue Carss Park – DA2017/0537
(Report by Independent Assessment)
LPP017-18 282-290 Forest Rd Hurstville – MOD2018/0038
(Report by Director Environment and Planning)
4. Confirmation of Minutes by Chair
REPORT TO GEORGES RIVER COUNCIL
LPP MEETING OF Thursday, 17 May 2018
LPP Report No
LPP015-18
Development Application No
Delegation of functions from Georges River Local Planning Panel to General Manager in Planning Appeals
Report prepared by
That the LPP delegate its functions as referred to in Part 8 Division 8.3 Section 8.15(4) of the EPA Act to the General Manager in accordance with the instrument of delegation annexed at “Attachment 2”.
1. On 23 February 2018, the NSW Minister for Planning issued the Local Planning Panels Direction - Development Applications pursuant to section 9.1 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (the EPA Act) (the Direction).
The Direction identifies the type of development applications that must be considered by Council’s Local Planning Panel (LPP). A copy of the Direction is annexed at “Attachment 1”.
Following the amendment to the EPA Act of 1 March 2018, the LPP has the control and direction of the conduct of an appeal commenced pursuant to ss 8.7, 8.8, 8.9 of the EPA Act and any subsequent appeal arising from a decision in those proceedings (Planning Appeals) that relates to an application that was determined by the LPP pursuant to the Direction.
Prior to the amendments to the EPA Act, senior Council staff were delegated with the authority to manage Planning Appeals and to give instructions with respect to resolving or defending matters. This report requests that the LPP delegate their functions of control and direction of Planning Appeals to the General Manager to allow for the efficient and cost effective conduct of proceedings.
2. Section 8.15(4) of the EPA Act now provides that:
(4) If the determination or decision appealed against under this Division was made by a Sydney district or regional planning panel or a local planning panel, the council for the area concerned is to be the respondent to the appeal but is subject to the control and direction of the panel in connection with the conduct of the appeal. The council is to give notice of the appeal to the panel.
Council’s position is that section 8.15(4) of the EPA Act does not apply to deemed refusals because a Local Planning Panel is not defined as a consent authority under section 4.5 of the EPA Act. Furthermore, following consultation with the Department, Council’s view is that Planning Appeals relating to decisions made by the LPP before 1 March 2018 are saved and are not subject to section 8.15(4) of the EPA Act.
Although Council is the respondent in any appeal to the Court, in Planning Appeals that relate to a determination of the LPP, Council’s conduct of the class 1 proceedings is subject to the control and direction of the LPP. This means that appeals to which section 8.15(4) applies will need to be reported to and instructions obtained from the LPP. By reason of section 2.20(8) of the EPA Act, the LPP cannot delegate its functions to a single Panel member and therefore a decision of the full Panel is required before solicitors are provided with any instructions.
Such a process is cumbersome and unlikely to work in practice. Furthermore, the provision makes it difficult for Council to comply with the Court’s requirements that:
The parties are to participate, in good faith, in the conciliation conference (see s34(1A) of the Land and Environment Court Act 1979), including preparing to be able to fully and meaningfully participate, having authority or the ready means of obtaining authority to reach agreement and genuinely endeavouring to reach agreement at the conciliation conference (Paragraph 47 Practice Note – Class 1 Development Appeals).
In order to ensure that Council can continue to conduct Planning Appeals in the most efficient manner, it is appropriate that the LPP delegate its functions under section 8.15(4) to the General Manager, with the condition that in the case of a Planning Appeal relating to a decision of the Panel that is contrary to a development assessment report, the General Manager will consult with the Chair of the Panel that made the relevant decision, as to the conduct of the Planning Appeal within seven (7) days of Council being served with the appeal.
Section 2.20(8) of the EPA Act allows Local Planning Panels to delegate any of their functions to the General Manager. Such a delegation does not require a resolution of the Council under section 381 of the Local Government Act 1993.
It is proposed that following the Panel’s delegation, that the General Manager sub-delegate the Functions under the delegation to senior Council staff including the Director of Planning, the General Counsel, the Manager for Development and Building, the Coordinator Development Assessment, and the Senior Solicitor.
The requirement for the General Manager (or the delegate of the General Manager) to consult with the Chair of the Panel about the conduct of the appeal means that the Panel can be satisfied that Council will conduct the appeal with the LPP’s decision in mind. If the LPP was concerned that an appeal was not being conducted in a manner consistent with its determination, the LPP could resolve to revoke the delegation in that specific matter.
A copy of the proposed delegation for the adoption by the LPP is annexed at “Attachment 2”.
Any judicial review proceedings relating to a determination of the Panel are not the subject of section 8.15(4) of the EPA Act and Council will have the control and direction of such proceedings. Nevertheless, Council intends to notify the LLP in the event that judicial review proceedings of an LLP decision are commenced.
3. Should the delegation not be provided to the General Manager, then there are likely to be additional legal costs associated with the management of legal proceedings.
4. Due to the recent amendments of the EPA Act the LPP currently has the control and direction of the conduct of the proceedings in any Planning Appeals relating to a determination of the LPP. In view of the practical realities of conciliation conferences and the need for instructions at short notice, together with the clear advantages of having an officer present at the conciliation with delegation to give instructions with respect to settlement or the defence of a Planning Appeal, it is appropriate for the LPP to delegate its functions under 8.15(4) of the EPA Act, to the General Manager.
5. That the LPP delegate its functions as referred to in Part 8 Division 8.3 Section 8.15(4) of the EPA Act to the General Manager in accordance with the instrument of delegation annexed at “Attachment 2”.
Attachment ⇩1
Local Planning Panels Direction - Development Applications
Proposed form of delegation
Georges River Council - Georges River Local Planning Panel (LPP) - Thursday, 17 May 2018
[Appendix 1] Local Planning Panels Direction - Development Applications
[Appendix 2] Proposed form of delegation
DA2017/0537
Site Address & Ward Locality
1/72 Carwar Avenue Carss Park
Blakehurst Ward
Proposed Development
Construction of a fixed awning above existing verandah
Robert Lee Architects
Planner/Architect
Date Of Lodgement
Cost of Works
Local Planning Panel Criteria
Development on Council owned land
List of all relevant s.4.15 matters (formerly s79C(1)(a))
Greater Metroplitan Regional Environmental Plan No 2 - Georges River Catchment
Kogarah Local Environmental Plan 2012
Kogarah Development Control Plan 2013
List all documents submitted with this report for the Panel’s consideration
Architectural plans
Independent Assessment
THAT the application be approved in accordance with the conditions included in the report.
Summary of matters for consideration under Section 4.15
Have all recommendations in relation to relevant s4.15 matters been summarised in the Executive Summary of the assessment report?
Legislative clauses requiring consent authority satisfaction
Have relevant clauses in all applicable environmental planning instruments where the consent authority must be satisfied about a particular matter been listed, and relevant recommendations summarised, in the Executive Summary of the assessment report?
Clause 4.6 Exceptions to development standards
If a written request for a contravention to a development standard (clause 4.6 of the LEP) has been received, has it been attached to the assessment report?
Special Infrastructure Contributions
Does the DA require Special Infrastructure Contributions conditions (under s7.24)?
Have draft conditions been provided to the applicant for comment?
No, standard conditions have been attached with no design changes
1. The proposal seeks approval for a roof awning over existing verandah for community centre.
In accordance with part A2 of the Kogarah Development Control Plan 2013, the proposed application was not notified. The proposed development generally complies with the planning controls and objectives within Kogarah Local Environmental Plan 2012.
In view of the above, the application is recommended for approval subject to conditions included in the report.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSAL
2. Development consent is sought for the construction of a roof awning over existing Community Centre verandah at 1/72 Carwar Avenue, Carss Park.
The proposed awning will be 2.5m high, measured from the existing deck level and 60sqm in total area. The proposed timber framed roof will have a double pitch of 1-2 degrees and three (3) skylights with transparent sheeting.
The proposed awning is to join the existing, unchanged timber structure awning on the west side of the building in order to provide shelter to the entire deck. The awning will provide a larger under covered area for entertainment and will link internal and external areas of the community centre.
17 Feb 06 Development application 564/2005 approved the renovation ground floor of former Bowling Club to Child Care Centre (60 places), subject to conditions.
13 Jun 08 Development application DA/147/2008 approved the use of the first floor on top of the child care centre for a community facility, subject to conditions.
3 Nov 17 Current development application DA2017/0537 lodged
DESCRIPTION OF THE SITE AND LOCALITY
4. The subject site is Part Lot 376 in DP 1118749 and is known as 1/72 Carwar Avenue, Carss Park. The site is centrally located within Carss Bush Park in Carss Park, adjacent to the waters of Kogarah Bay. Carss Bush Park is bounded by Todd Park to the west, residential properties in Miowera Street, part Bunyala Street, part Gnarbo and Allaway Avenues and Carlton Crescent to the north, Kogarah Bay to the east and residential properties in Church, Torrens and Beach Streets to the south.
Carss Park offers various services and recreational activities including the Community Centre, Carss Park Cafe, Kogarah War Memorial Olympic Swimming Pool, sports field, playground areas and various other amenities.
Figure 1: Aerial Photo – Subject Site, 1/72 Carwar Avenue, Carss Park (Source: Nearmaps 2018)
5. The subject site is zoned RE1 – Public Recreation in accordance with the Kogarah Local Environmental Plan 2012. Refer to zoning map extract below.
Figure 1: Zoning map extract
APPLICABLE PLANNING CONTROLS
· Greater Metropolitan Regional Environmental Plan No 2 – Georges River Catchment
· Kogarah Local Environmental Plan 2012
6. The site has been inspected and the proposed development has been assessed under the relevant Section 4.15(1) "Matters for Consideration" of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
Environmental Planning Instruments
Kogarah Local Environmental Plan
7. The extent to which the proposal complies with the relevant standards of Kogarah Local Environmental Plan is outlined in the table below.
Complies
Part 2 – Permitted or Prohibited Development
RE1 Public Recreation
The proposal is defined as Community Facility. Community Facilities are permissible in the zone.
Objectives of the Zone
The proposal achieves the objectives of the zone.
4.3 – Height of Buildings
No maximum applicable height as identified on Height of Buildings Map
4.4 – Floor Space Ratio
No maximum applicable height as identified on Floor Space Ratio Map
NA – no proposed additional FSR
5.10 – Heritage Conservation
To conserve the environmental heritage of Kogarah,
To conserve the heritage significance of heritage items and heritage conservation areas, including associated fabric, settings and views,
To conserve archaeological sites,
To conserve Aboriginal objects and Aboriginal places of heritage significance
Carss Bush Park has been identified as a heritage item of local significance under Schedule 5 Environmental Heritage in the KLEP 2012 Heritage Map.
The Community Centre is not listed as an item of significance in schedule 5.10 of the KLEP 2012.
Yes – See discussion below.
6.1 – Acid sulfate soils
Works within 500m of adjacent class 1, 2, 3 or 4 land that is below 5 metres
Australian Height Datum and by which the water table is likely to be lowered below 1 metre Australian Height Datum on adjacent Class 1, 2, 3 or 4 land.
The site is located within class 2 land however, the proposed development will not require any excavation.
6.7 – Essential Services
The following services that are essential for the development shall be available or that adequate arrangements must be made available when required:
* Supply of water, electricity and disposal and management of sewerage
* Stormwater drainage or on-site conservation
* Suitable vehicular access
Essential services are available to the development
Suitable vehicular access is available to the site.
Part 5.10 Heritage Conservation
8. Carss Bush Park is identified as a heritage item of local significance within the Kogarah LEP 2012 however, the subject community centre is not listed as an item of heritage significance within Carss Park.
The proposed awning has been assessed against the objectives of part 5.10 and will have no adverse impacts on the environmental heritage of Carss Park. The proposed awning is an extension to an existing awning that provides shelter for the existing community centre’s deck along and north and west edges. The awning will remain within the existing building’s footprint therefore, will not appear excessively bulky when viewed from Carwar Avenue and Carlton Crescent.
The proposed works will not affect the heritage significance of Carss Bush Park, adjoining roads, public land or waterways and are therefore supported.
STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICIES
9. Compliance with the relevant state environmental planning policies is detailed and discussed below.
Greater Metropolitan Regional Environmental Plan No 2 – Georges River Catchment
10. The site is within the area affected by the Greater Metropolitan Regional Environmental Plan No 2 – Georges River Catchment. The proposal, including the disposal of stormwater, is consistent with Council’s requirements for the disposal of stormwater In the catchment. Stormwater drainage from the roof of the existing building will remain unchanged and the stormwater from the proposed additional awning area will connect to and discharge into the existing stormwater system.
State Environmental Planning Policy No 55 – Remediation of Land
11. The subject site is zoned public recreation and has a history of public recreation use therefore, it is considered unlikely that the land is contaminated.
Draft Environmental Planning Instruments
12. No Draft Environmental Planning instruments affect the proposed development.
13. There are no controls that relate to this form of development in Kogarah Development Control Plan 2013.
14. The site is surrounded by dense vegetation with large trees and other natural features. The proposal does not seek to remove any tress or other form of vegetation within the existing surrounds.
15. The proposed development would not result in any adverse impacts upon the built environment for reasons discussed throughout the report.
Social and Economic Impact
16. The proposed development would not result in any adverse social and/or economic impacts within the locality.
Suitability of the Site
17. It is considered that the proposed development is of a scale and design that is suitable for the site having regard to its size and shape, its topography and relationship to adjoining developments.
SUBMISSIONS AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST
18. In accordance with part A2 of the Kogarah DCP 2013, the proposed application was not notified.
19. The proposed development application does not require any referrals.
20. The proposal seeks approval for a fixed awning over existing verandah at 1/72 Carwar Avenue, Carss Park.
In accordance with part A2 of the Kogarah DCP 2013, the proposed application was not notified. The proposed development generally complies with the planning controls and objectives within Kogarah Local Environmental Plan 2012.
DETERMINATION AND STATEMENT OF REASONS
1. The proposed development, subject to the recommended conditions, is consistent with the objectives of the applicant environmental planning instruments, being Kogarah Local Environmental Plan 2012.
2. The proposed development is considered to be of an appropriate scale and form for the site and character of the locality.
3. In consideration of the aforementioned reasons, the proposed development is a suitable response to the site and its approval is in the public interest.
THAT pursuant to Section 4.16(1) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979, as amended, the Council grants development consent to Development Application DA2017/0537 for the construction of a fixed awning above existing verandah at Part Lot 376 in DP 1118749 and known as 1/72 Carwar Avenue, Carss Park, subject to the following conditions of consent:
Schedule A – Site Specific Conditions
These conditions have been imposed to ensure that the development is carried out in accordance with the approved plans and to ensure that the appropriate fees and bonds are paid in relation to the development.
1. DEV6.1 - Approved Plans - The development must be implemented in accordance with the approved plans and supporting documentation listed below which have been endorsed by Council’s approved stamp, except where marked up on the plans and/or amended by conditions of this consent:
Reference No.
DA-1A
Robert Lee Archictects
Site Analysis Plan
Section C-C
South West Elevation
PRIOR TO THE ISSUE OF THE CONSTRUCTION CERTIFICATE
These conditions either require modification to the development proposal or further investigation/information prior to the issue of the Construction Certificate to ensure that there is no adverse impact.
2. CC9.18 - Building Works to comply with BCA - Heritage Buildings Or Buildings Within Conservation Area - Any building works required to ensure compliance with the BCA or new building standards not specified in the submitted/approved plan must not damage existing fabric and building features. If such upgrading works will potentially impact on existing fabric and features, details of the works must be submitted and approved by Council’s Heritage Advisor prior to issue of a Construction Certificate.
3. CC9.22 - General Heritage -
(a) The proposed works are to be carried out in a manner that minimises demolition, alterations and new penetrations/fixings to the significant fabric of the existing building which is listed as a Heritage Item.
(b) The fabric and features to be retained by the proposal must be properly protected during the process of demolition and construction.
(c) All conservation and adaptation works are to be in accordance with the Articles of the Australian ICOMOS Burra Charter 1999.
(d) New services are to be surface mounted rather than chased-in to existing walls to minimise impact on heritage fabric.
(e) Appropriately qualified tradespersons (as appropriate) are to be commissioned who are skilled in traditional building and engineering trades to carry out the proposed scope of works.
(f) The new windows and doors on the existing building must match the original material, which is [Select: timber joinery, steel-framed, bronze or brass-framed].
(g) The face brickwork/stone/tiles must not be rendered, painted or coated.
(h) Where internal partitions meet external walls they must abut window mullions, columns or other such building elements and not glazing.
4. CC9.52 - Access for Persons with a Disability - for persons with disabilities must be provided to the premises/building in accordance with the requirements of the Premises Standards, the Building Code of Australia, and AS 1428.1. Details must be submitted with the Construction Certificate Application for approval.
5. CC9.85 - Tree Removal prohibited - This consent does not approve the removal or pruning (branches or roots) of any trees on the subject property, Council’s public footway, public reserves or on neighbouring properties.
6. CC9.1 - Fees to be paid - The fees listed in the table below must be paid in accordance with the conditions of this consent and Council’s adopted Fees and Charges applicable at the time of payment (available at www.georgesriver.nsw.gov.au).
Payments must be made prior to the issue of the Construction Certificate or prior to the commencement of work (if there is no associated Construction Certificate).
Please contact Council prior to the payment of Section 7.11 Contributions to determine whether the amounts have been indexed from that indicated below in this consent and the form of payment that will be accepted by Council.
Council will only accept Bank Cheque or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) for transaction values of $500,000 or over. Council must be contacted prior to payment to determine correct total amount to be paid and bank account details (if applicable).
A summary of the fees to be paid are listed below:
GENERAL FEES
Long Service Levy (to Long Service Corporation) Or, provide evidence of Payment direct to the Long Service Corporation. See https://portal.longservice.nsw.gov.au/bci/levy/
Builders Damage Deposit
Refund of Builders Damage Deposit
The fees and charges above are subject to change and are as set out in the version of Council's Schedule of Fees and Charges or as required by other Government Authorities, applicable at the time of payment.
7. CC9.32 - Erosion & Sedimentation Control - Erosion and sediment controls must be provided to ensure:
(a) Compliance with the approved Erosion & Sediment Control Plan
(b) Removal or disturbance of vegetation and top soil is confined to within 3m of the approved building area (no trees to be removed without approval)
(c) All clean water runoff is diverted around cleared or exposed areas
(d) Silt fences, stabilised entry/exit points or other devices are installed to prevent sediment from entering drainage systems or waterways
(e) All erosion and sediment controls are fully maintained for the duration of demolition, excavation and/or development works
(f) Controls are put into place to prevent tracking of sediment by vehicles onto adjoining roadway
(g) All disturbed areas are rendered erosion-resistant by turfing, mulching, paving or similar
(h) Compliance with Managing Urban Stormwater - Soils and Construction (Blue Book) produced by Landcom 2004.
These measures are to be implemented prior to the commencement of work (including demolition and excavation) and must remain until works are completed and all exposed surfaces are landscaped/sealed.
8. CC9.4 - Damage Deposit - Minor Works - In order to insure against damage to Council property the following is required:
(a) Pay Council, before the issue of the Construction Certificate, a damage deposit for the cost of making good any damage caused to any Council property as a result of the development: $550.00
(b) Pay Council, before the issue of the Construction Certificate, a non-refundable inspection fee to enable assessment of any damage and repairs where required: $110.00
(c) Submit to Council, before the commencement of work, a photographic record of the condition of the Council nature strip, footpath and driveway crossing, or any area likely to be affected by the proposal.
At the completion of work Council will inspect the public works, and the damage deposit will be refunded in full upon completion of work where no damage occurs. Otherwise the amount will be either forfeited or partly refunded according to the amount of damage.
9. CC9.78 - Waste Management Plan - A Waste Management Plan incorporating all requirements in respect of the provision of waste storage facilities, removal of all materials from the site that are the result of site clearing, extraction, and, or demolition works and the designated Waste Management Facility shall be submitted to the Certifying Authority prior to the issue of any Construction Certificate.
ONGOING CONDITIONS
These conditions have been imposed to ensure that the use or operation of the development does not adversely impact on the amenity of the neighbourhood or environment.
10. ONG14.12 - Noise Control - The use of the premises must not give rise to the transmission of offensive noise to any place of different occupancy. Offensive noise is defined in the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (as amended).
Schedule B – Prescribed Conditions
Prescribed conditions are those which are mandated under Division 8A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 and given weight by Section 80A (11) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
Detailed below is a summary of all the prescribed conditions which apply to development in New South Wales. Please refer to the full details of the prescribed conditions as in force, at www.legislation.nsw.gov.au.
It is the responsibility of the beneficiary of this consent to determine which prescribed conditions apply.
11. PRES1001 - Clause 97A – BASIX Commitments - This Clause requires the fulfilment of all BASIX Commitments as detailed in the BASIX Certificate to which the development relates.
12. PRES1002 - Clause 98 – Building Code of Australia & Home Building Act 1989 - Requires all building work to be carried out in accordance with the Building Code of Australia. In the case of residential building work to which the Home Building Act 1989 relates, there is a requirement for a contract of insurance to be in force before any work commences.
13. PRES1003 - Clause 98A – Erection of Signs - Requires the erection of signs on site and outlines the details which are to be included on the sign. The sign must be displayed in a prominent position on site and include the name and contact details of the Principal Certifying Authority and the Principal Contractor.
14. PRES1004 - Clause 98B – Home Building Act 1989 - If the development involves residential building work under the Home Building Act 1989, no work is permitted to commence unless certain details are provided in writing to Council. The name and licence/permit number of the Principal Contractor or Owner Builder and the name of the Insurer by which work is insured under Part 6 of the Home Building Act 1989.
15. PRES1007 - Clause 98E – Protection & support of adjoining premises - If the development involves excavation that extends below the level of the base of the footings of a building on adjoining land, this prescribed condition requires the person who benefits from the development consent to protect and support the adjoining premises and where necessary underpin the adjoining premises to prevent any damage.
Schedule C – Operational & Statutory Conditions
These conditions comprise the operational and statutory conditions which must be satisfied under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and the Environmental Planning & Assessment Regulation 2000. Please refer to the full details of the Act and Regulations as in force, at www.legislation.nsw.gov.au.
It is the responsibility of the beneficiary of this consent to determine which operational and statutory conditions apply.
16. OPER1001 - Requirement for a Construction Certificate - The erection of a building must not commence until a Construction Certificate has been issued by the consent authority, the Council (if the Council is not the consent authority) or an accredited certifier.
An application form for a Construction Certificate is attached for your convenience.
17. OPER1002 - Appointment of a Principal Certifying Authority - The erection of a building must not commence until the beneficiary of the development consent has:
(a) appointed a Principal Certifying Authority (PCA) for the building work; and
(b) if relevant, advised the PCA that the work will be undertaken as an Owner-Builder.
If the work is not going to be undertaken by an Owner-Builder, then the beneficiary of the consent must:
(a) appoint a Principal Contractor to undertake the building work. If residential building work (within the meaning of the Home Building Act 1989) is to be undertaken, the Principal Contractor must be a holder of a contractor licence; and
(b) notify the PCA of the details of any such appointment; and
(c) notify the Principal Contractor of any critical stage inspections or other inspections that are required to be carried out in respect of the building work.
An Information Pack is attached for your convenience should you wish to appoint Georges River Council as the Principal Certifying Authority for your development.
18. OPER1003 - Notification of Critical Stage Inspections - No later than two (2) days before the building work commences, the PCA must notify:
(a) the consent authority and the Council (if not the consent authority) of his or her appointment; and
(b) the beneficiary of the development consent of the critical stage inspections and other inspections that are to be carried out with respect to the building work.
19. OPER1004 - Notice of Commencement - The beneficiary of the development consent must give at least two (2) days notice to the Council and the PCA of their intention to commence the erection of a building.
A Notice of Commencement Form is attached for your convenience.
20. OPER1007 - Critical Stage Inspections - The last critical stage inspection must be undertaken by the Principal Certifying Authority. The critical stage inspections required to be carried out vary according to Building Class under the Building Code of Australia and are listed in Clause 162A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000.
21. OPER1008 - Notice to be given prior to critical stage inspections - The principal contractor for a building site, or the owner-builder, must notify the principal certifying authority at least 48 hours before each required inspection needs to be carried out.
Where Georges River Council has been appointed PCA, forty eight (48) hours notice in writing, or alternatively twenty four (24) hours notice by facsimile or telephone, must be given to when specified work requiring inspection has been completed.
22. OPER1009 - Occupation Certificate - A person must not commence occupation or use of the whole or any part of a new building unless an Occupation Certificate has been issued in relation to the building or part.
Only the Principal Certifying Authority appointed for the building work can issue the Occupation Certificate.
An Occupation Certificate Application Form is attached for your convenience.
If you need more information, please contact the Development Assessment Officer, below on 9330-6400 during normal office hours.
Site Plan - 72 Carwar Ave Carss Park
Site Analysis Plan - 72 Carwar Ave Carss Park
Proposed Roof Plan and Section AA BB CC - 72 Carwar Ave Carss Park
North west and South west Elevations - 72 Carwar Ave Carss Park
LPP016-18 1/72 Carwar Avenue Carss Park
[Appendix 1] Site Plan - 72 Carwar Ave Carss Park
[Appendix 2] Site Analysis Plan - 72 Carwar Ave Carss Park
[Appendix 3] Proposed Roof Plan and Section AA BB CC - 72 Carwar Ave Carss Park
[Appendix 4] North west and South west Elevations - 72 Carwar Ave Carss Park
MOD2018/0038
282-290 Forest Rd Hurstville
Hurstville Ward
Modification of Development Consent No DA2016/0322 to amend the deferred commencement conditions of consent requiring easements
Telado Pty Ltd
Notification not required
Implications on Council owned land
Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012,
Hurstville Development Control Plan No 2
Information submitted by the applicant
Director Environment and Planning
THAT the application be approved subject to conditions included in the report
Reasons for determination
-The proposed development, subject to the recommended conditions, will have no unacceptable adverse impacts upon the natural or built environments
-In consideration of the above reasons, the proposed modification to the development is a suitable and planned use of the site and its approval is in the public interest
Conditions have been attached in consultation with the applicant
· On 16 August 2017 the Sydney South Planning Panel granted deferred commencement development consent for the demolition of existing structures and construction of a 14 storey building comprising 3 x levels of retail floor area, 11 x levels of commercial floor area, and basement parking accessed from Humphreys Lane. The development includes areas which overhang the Central Plaza adjoining the site and the deferred commencement conditions required the registration of easements and restrictive covenants relating to the Central Plaza
· The applicant has now submitted an application to modify the deferred commencement conditions of consent by deleting the requirement to obtain easements and restrictive covenants over the adjoining Council land (Central Plaza) on the basis that the area overhanging is to be used as an awning for weather protection only.
· The application has been assessed against the relevant requirements and it is considered that the deferred commencement conditions of consent can be amended to delete the condition on the proviso that other conditions are imposed addressing the fire matters and preventing the use of the awning unless, and until, proprietary rights such as a lease or license are in place.
2. On 16 August 2017 the Sydney South Planning Panel granted deferred commencement development consent for the demolition of existing structures and construction of a 14 storey building comprising 3 x levels of retail floor area, 11 x levels of commercial floor area, and basement parking accessed from Humphreys Lane.
The subject site is located adjoining the Central Plaza. This Plaza is publicly owned and currently under construction by Georges River Council. The development was approved with the ground floor retail area opening into the plaza and part of the first floor terrace overhanging the plaza.
As such, the consent was granted subject to the following deferred commencement condition:
A. DEF1001 - Deferred Commencement Condition 1 – Registration of Easement/s and Restrictive Covenant/s-
a. The person with the benefit of the consent must obtain/secure a 6 metre wide easement at ground level with an approximate area of 338sqm (as confirmed by a registered surveyor) registered under section 88B of the Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) for access and egress (Right of Way),
b. A restrictive covenant registered under section 88D of the Conveyancing Act 191 (NSW) for fire separation. The covenant will apply from natural ground level being 6 metres wide and to a height of no more than 60 metres and having an area of 338sqm (as confirmed by a registered surveyor).
c. An easement registered under section 88B of the Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) for encroaching structure (awning overhang) from natural ground at RL 71.69 to RL77.010 to the under slab of Level 2 being 3 metres wide and having an approximate area of 168sqm (as confirmed by a registered surveyor).
The consent is not to operate until evidence of registration of the easement/s and restrictive covenant/s is provided to Council.
Documentary evidence as requested or the above information must be submitted within 24 months of the granting of this deferred commencement consent. Commencement of the approval cannot commence until written approval of the submitted information has been given by Council.
Photomontage showing overhang of first floor terrace and ground floor tenancies accessed from Plaza
3. The application seeks approval to delete the deferred commencement condition of consent and the applicant has submitted the following information to support the application.
Description of proposed modification
Deletion of Schedule 1 condition “DEF1001 Deferred Commencement Condition 1 – Registration of Easement/s and Restrictive Covenant/s” as the easement/s and restrictive covenant/s which are subject to this condition are no longer required given the changes on the adjoining site (Lot 16 / DP 4799) (the Plaza) since the time at which the original consent was granted.
Supplementary information regarding the outdoor terrace over the property boundary
Telado Pty Ltd is prepared to proffer that a condition be imposed on DA2016/0322 to the following effect:
Projection of the outdoor terrace over the property boundary
a) That part of the outdoor terrace on level 1 which projects beyond the north western boundary of 282-290 Forest Road, Hurstville must not be used for any purpose other than for providing weather protection to pedestrians in the Plaza or entering the building.
b) The area of the outdoor terrace on level 1 which projects beyond the north western boundary of 282-290 Forest Road, Hurstville must be made inaccessible at all times (via the construction of a suitable barrier) other than for the purposes of maintenance.
c) If a lease or licence pursuant to section 46 of the Local Government Act, 1993 for the area of the outdoor terrace that projects beyond the north western boundary of 282-290 Forest Road, Hurstville is obtained from the owner of the Plaza, that area may be accessed for purposes permitted by such lease or licence and the barrier may be removed for the period during which any lease or licence remains in force.
d) Upon expiration or termination of any lease or licence, the barrier must be reconstructed along the common boundary position unless and until a new lease or licence becomes operative.
e) Notwithstanding parts (a)–(d) above, the applicant acknowledges that no proprietary rights are conferred on the applicant in respect of the land into which that part of the outdoor terrace on level 1 which projects beyond the north western boundary of 282-290 Forest Road, Hurstville encroaches.
Supplementary explanation regarding the proposed modification:
· At the time of the grant of DA2016/0322 in respect of 282-290 Forest Road, Hurstville (the site), the Council land to the west of the site was owned by the Council, but contained a building abutting the boundary of the site. The easements stated above were necessary at the time of Council granting the consent to DA2016/0322, given the then use of the Council’s land. Since that time, the circumstances have materially changed. The building on the Council land has been demolished and a public plaza is under construction. In addition, the Council land has been classified as community land under the Local Government Act 1993 and the Council has adopted a Plan of Management for its use, care, control and management.
· The easements required by the consent were largely necessary in response to the Building Code of Australia (BCA) Report submitted with the development application which proposed the easements as a performance justification for the non-compliance with the deemed-to-satisfy requirements of the BCA having regard to the circumstances in existence at the time of the BCA Report.
· The Plan of Management adopted by the Council for Central Plaza provides:
"2.2 The parcel of land subject to this Plan of Management has been categorised as general community use.
3.2 Based on the above core and value objectives, the uses that may be permitted in Central Plaza, Hurstville categorised as 'General Community Use' are outlined in Table 3.1"
· Table 3.1 sets aside Central Plaza for passive recreation activities and group recreational use such as "staging of community events, gatherings and cultural activities, community use and ancillary service areas related to function and maintenance". The forms of physical development and facilities permitted include "shade structures, seating, water feature, lighting and hard and soft landscaped areas", "Community notice boards, ...kiosks, ...café or refreshment areas (permanent, pop up and mobile) including seating..." and "loading areas, car spaces, bicycle racks and advertising". The table also contemplates the leasing or licensing of areas for outdoor dining and pedestrian access to adjacent buildings and retail premises.
· Clause C3.2 of the BCA provides a deemed-to-satisfy criterion for protection of openings in external walls as follows:
Openings in an external wall that is required to have an FRL must —
a. if the distance between the opening and the fire source feature to which it is exposed is less than —
(i) 3 m from a side or rear boundary of the allotment; or
(ii) 6 m from the far boundary of a road, river, lake or the like adjoining the allotment, if not located in a storey at or near ground level; or
(iii) 6 m from another building on the allotment that is not Class 10,
be protected in accordance with C3.4 and if wall wetting sprinklers are used, they are located externally; and
b. if required to be protected under (a), not occupy more than 1/3 of the area of the external wall of the storey in which it is located unless they are in a Class 9b building used as an open spectator stand.
· Fire source feature is defined in clause A1.1 as follows:
Fire source feature means —
c. the far boundary of a road, river lake or the like adjoining the allotment; or
d. a side or rear boundary of the allotment; or
e. an external wall of another building on the allotment which is not a Class 10 building.
· At the time of the preparation of the BCA Report submitted with the DA for the site, the land comprising Central Plaza contained a building. The western boundary of the site was treated for the purposes of clause 3.2 as the "side boundary".
· While ever there was a building occupying the Central Plaza land abutting the site, the western boundary was plainly a "side boundary". However, the land comprising Central Plaza is now community land and the Council has commenced construction of the plaza, and as such the frontage of the building approved on the site will front public open space rather than adjoin a building on its side boundary.
· In respect of compliance with C3.2 of the BCA, while Central Plaza is not a public road adjoining the allotment, the far boundary of the plaza is the relevant ‘fire source feature’ within the meaning of clause A1.1 of the BCA by virtue of the words “or the like”.
· While not a road, a public plaza is likely to function akin to a road. In common with a road, it is likely to provide a thoroughfare for pedestrians and while it may contain structures like lighting, paving, garbage bins, landscaping and seating, it is not likely to contain buildings other than minor ones such as kiosks and temporary structures.
· Conversely, while plazas and squares might be like roads, sometimes roads are like plazas and squares. There are many examples of public squares in the Sydney CBD which are in fact roads. Martin Place, Barrack Street and Queen's Square are such examples. These are all places that were roads open to traffic that have become fully or partly pedestrianised yet remain roads under the Roads Act 1993. There could be no question that Martin Place would be treated as anything other than a road for the purposes of the BCA for a building fronting a pedestrianised section of that road.
· Accordingly, once the Council demolished the building on the Central Plaza land, classified the land as community land and resolved to adopt a Plan of Management for that land that dictated its use for pedestrian thoroughfare, passive recreation and community activities, the land took on many of the characteristics of a road. While the Plan of Management does permit small buildings like kiosks and cafés, it is unlikely that such buildings will be placed in the area of the subject easements. This is even more so in this case as the Plan of Management dictates that Central Plaza is to be maintained to provide a pedestrian thoroughfare and to integrate with adjoining landholdings. It would, therefore, be inconsistent with the Plan of Management to erect any buildings in the plaza, including any buildings less than 6 metres from the buildings which adjoin the Central Plaza land.
· The consequence of this is that the approved building can be regarded as complying with the deemed-to-satisfy requirements of C3.2(a)(ii) of the BCA as it is located more than 6m from the far side of Central Plaza and, consequently, a restrictive covenant for fire protection is not required, as supported by the revised BCA report submitted with this modification application.
· In respect of the exits from the ground floor of the building to Central Plaza from the retail tenancies and the lobby on the ground floor, the original BCA Report referred to non-compliance with D1.2 of the BCA because only one exit was provided to these places. The original BCA Report did not suggest that the easement for access at ground level was a performance requirement that would overcome the non-compliance with the deemed-to-satisfy requirements of clause D1.2. Compliance is instead addressed through a fire-engineered performance solution. In addition, given the use of the Central Plaza land as a public plaza providing pedestrian thoroughfare in the area of the subject easements, a right of way at ground level is not required.
· In relation to the easement for the awning overhang over the Central Plaza land, there is no precedence in which an easement has been required for an awning over a public road or any form of public plaza or open space. Evidence recently provided by Council’s planning expert Ms Gabrielle Morrish in Supreme Court Proceedings 299079 of 2017, supports the notion that an easement for encroaching structure, for the purposes of an awning overhang, is not required.
· Importantly, the awning overhang is consistent with both the approved Plan of Management and the development consent for the Central Plaza land (being DA2017/0049). The Development Application Report accompanying DA2017/0049 for the public plaza illustrates a “covered walkway” extending over the Central Plaza land from the building for the purposes of providing all-weather access through the public plaza (page 12 of the report).
· Furthermore, the awning overhang provides public amenity and a new public benefit by creating a revenue generating opportunity for Council in the event that future tenants located on level 1 of the building apply for a license to use the area over the awning as a verandah. This potential use is consistent with Council’s Plan of Management which contemplates the lease or licence of areas within the Central Plaza land for uses such as outdoor dining (see section 3.2). In the absence of such an application by a tenant or a grant of a license by Council, the area over the awning overhanging the Central Plaza land would remain non-trafficable and non-accessible, with the exception of any necessary maintenance and upkeep requirements. Telado Pty Ltd has proffered that a condition be imposed on DA2016/0322 to manage the use of this area.
· Finally, none of the subject easements are required to enable the construction of the building, including the awning overhang. The grant of a temporary hoarding and scaffolding permit (or the like) is the normal approach and would be sufficient to enable construction to occur.
In light of the change in circumstances since DA2017/0049 was granted, we have concluded that:
· there is no BCA or legal requirement for the proposed right of way at ground level for access and egress;
· there is no BCA or legal requirement for the proposed restrictive covenant for fire separation; and
· there is no BCA or legal requirement for the proposed encroachment easement for an awning overhang.
As such, the easements required by Deferred Commencement Condition are not necessary and the consent should be modified to delete them.
THE SITE AND LOCALITY
4. The subject site is located on the southern side of Forest Road Hurstville near the corner of the lane known as Diment Way. The rear of the site has a boundary to Humphreys Lane. The site is known as 282 – 290 Forest Road and legally described as SP66662. The land is an irregular rectangular shape with a frontage to Forest Road of 28.975m, a frontage to Humphreys Lane of 18.99m and a site area of 1248sqm.
Existing on the site is a three (3) storey building with 3544sqm of retail area which is built to the four boundaries. Fronting Forest Road at ground level are three retail tenancies and located centrally to the site is an arcade that provides pedestrian access to a number of retail tenancies at the lower ground level. The arcade extends to the rear of the development and connects to Humphreys Lane.
The site has a 4.25m slope across the site from north to south. A driveway at the rear of the site from Humphreys Lane is the primary vehicle access point. Humphreys Lane consists of a single lane road which restricts curb side parking and is located adjacent to an intersection of Cross Street and Crofts Avenue.
To the immediate south of the site is the Soul Pattinson Building, a 1920s commercial development of historic significance due to its social associations and location within the historic town square. To the immediate south west are three heritage listed buildings that comprise 235 Forest Road, 237 Forest Road and 239 Forest Road. To the south east of the site is the heritage listed Hurstville Memorial Square. This part of Forest Road forms part of the commercial retail core of the Hurstville City Centre and it is characterised by a number of low scale commercial developments and functions as the main civic space within Hurstville.
To the immediate north east, on the opposite side of Humphreys Lane is the Westfield Shopping Centre which is five (5) storeys in height. To the south east of the site are two (2) and three (3) storey buildings which are aligned to Forest Road. These buildings are characterised by narrow shop front facades and are typified by 1920s architectural facades. Further east is the street entrance to Westfield Shopping Centre.
To the immediate north west of the site was a two storey building known as 292-296 Forest Road which has been demolished and will be the site for the Central Plaza which is a site owned by Georges River Council and under construction as an urban park/public open space.
Directly opposite the site to the south is Hurstville Central Shopping Centre, which incorporates a range of retail areas and Hurstville train station. Located to the immediate south of the site is the Westpac banking tenancy (225 Forest Road).
5. The subject site is zoned B3 Commercial Core under the provisions of the Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012 and the proposed modification to the approved development is permitted in the zone with Council consent.
Assessment of Section 4.55 (1A) Application
6. Section 4.55 (1A) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act (as amended) allows Council to modify development consent if:
a) it is satisfied that the proposed modification is of minimal environmental impact
Comment: The proposed modification is of minimal environmental impact. The modification proposed as part of the application does not result in any adverse impact to the amenity of the adjoining developments. The proposed amendment relates to the approved terrace area which overhangs the northwestern boundary of the site being redesigned so that it functions as an awning (is non-trafficable and for weather protection only). This proposed change has no implications on the approved height or floor space ratio of the development.
b) it is satisfied that the development to which the consent as modified relates is substantially the same development for which the consent was originally granted and before the consent as originally granted was modified (if at all)
Comment: The proposed development is considered to be substantially the same development as that for which consent has been granted. The amended development will maintain the approved uses, being a retail and commercial development which will remain fundamentally as originally approved.
c) it has notified the Section 4.55 application (if required under Council’s DCP) and has considered any submissions concerning the proposed modification
Comment: The application was not required to be notified/advertised under Section 2.4.3.1 of DCP2.
The development has been inspected and assessed under the relevant Section 4.15(1) "Matters for Consideration" of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012
7. The subject site is zoned B3 Commercial Core under the provisions of the Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012 and the proposed amendments to the development have no implications on the approved development’s compliance with the relevant requirements. The development as modified does not change the height or floor space ratio of the approved development.
State Environmental Planning Instruments
8. The development as modified has no implications on the approved development’s compliance with the relevant State Environmental Planning Instruments.
9. There are no draft environmental planning instruments that apply to the proposed development.
11. Hurstville Development Control Plan No 2 (DCP2) applies to the proposed development. The development as modified is consistent with the DCP2.
The modification application proposes that that part of the first floor terrace that overhangs Council land will not be used for any purpose except maintenance.
If, in the future, lessees or occupants of the first floor area that overhangs Council land wish to make the overhang trafficable and/or useable, such as for the use as a café, restaurant, or the like, this option would be available subject to the appropriate approvals and property arrangements with Council. This has been emphasised by an acknowledgement by the applicant that it has no proprietary rights over that part of the land into which that part of the development will overhang Council land.
12. The modified development is unlikely to have an adverse impact on the natural environment. The development as amended does not affect any open space and landscaped area within the development.
13. The proposed development is unlikely to have an adverse impact on the built environment. The proposed amendments relate to the terrace area which will, in part, become an awning and non-trafficable. As such, the proposed changes to the development are negligible in terms of its appearance from the street and impacts on adjoining developments.
Fire Safety Provisions
The development is situated along the north-western boundary of the site. This boundary adjoins Council’s Central Plaza, which is currently under construction. The fire safety requirements (access/ egress and protection to openings) of the building were to be addressed through an easement of up to 3m along this boundary.
As an easement is no longer proposed, the development must ensure that the fire requirements under the Building Code of Australia have been met. The consent has been conditioned accordingly.
Social and Economic Impacts
14. The proposed development has no perceived adverse social or economic impacts.
15. The subject site has no impediments that preclude it from being developed for the proposed development. The awning overhang will enable pedestrians within the Plaza area to obtain weather protection.
REFERRALS, SUBMISSIONS AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST
16. The application was not required to be notified/advertised under Section 2.4.3.1 of Development Control Plan No 2.
17. The easements required as part of the original consent have been the subject of Supreme Court proceedings by the applicant pursuant to s88K of the Conveyancing Act, 1919. During the course of those proceedings, legal and external expert planning advice has been provided to Council to the effect that the easements are not reasonably necessary for the effective use or development of the applicant’s land.
Council referrals
Senior Building Surveyor (Major Projects)
18. Council’s Senior Building Surveyor (Major Projects) has examined the modification application and has advised that as the Central Plaza site has the potential for the erection of a building under the B3 Commercial Core zone, and an easement is sought to be deleted, the applicant will need to will need to address “egress” and “protection of openings” requirements under the Building Code of Australia (BCA). This is based on the boundary line between the Central Plaza land and the property the subject of this application being identified as the “fire source feature”. As such, this has to be addressed and a condition of consent to that effect has been imposed.
External Referrals
19. No external referrals were required for this application.
20. The application seeks approval to modify deferred commencement Development Consent No. DA2016/0322 under the provisions of Section 4.55(1A) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act by deleting the deferred commencement conditions to remove the requirement for easements and covenants. The proposed modification is acceptable subject to the imposition of conditions relating to the restriction on the use of the part of the terrace that overhangs Council land as well as the requirements of the Building Code of Australia being met. Accordingly, the application is recommended for approval subject to conditions of consent.
21. THAT pursuant to Section 4.16(1) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979, as amended, the Council grants development consent to the application known as MOD2018/0038 to modify deferred commencement Development Consent No DA2016/0322 granted on 16 August 2017 by the Sydney South Planning Panel for the demolition of existing structures and construction of a 14 storey building comprising 3 x levels of retail floor area and 11 x levels of commercial floor area, and basement parking accessed from Humphreys Lane on Lots 1-26 SP66662 and Lot CP SP66662 and known as 282-290 Forest Road Hurstville be approved subject to the following conditions of consent:
Consent Operation - This consent operates from the date of determination set out in this notice and will lapse five (5) years after that date, unless development has commenced within that time, pursuant to the provisions of the Sections 83, and 95 of the Act.
Right of Review – If you are dissatisfied with this decision, you may request a review of the determination under Section 82A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. A request for review and the decision by Council of that request must be made within six (6) months of the date of this Notice of Determination and be accompanied by the relevant fee. You must ensure that an application for review of determination gives Council a reasonable period in which to review its decision having regard to the relevant issues and complexity of the application (Section 82A is not applicable to Integrated or Designated Development).
Right of Appeal – Alternatively, Section 97 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 gives you the right to appeal to the NSW Land and Environment Court within six (6) months of the determination date on this notice.
Schedule A - Site Specific Conditions
1. GEN1001 - Approved Plans - The development must be implemented in accordance with the approved plans and supporting documentation listed below which have been endorsed by Council’s approved stamp, except where marked up on the plans and/or amended by conditions of this consent:
Job No PA030432,
DA-0080
Demolition plan
PTW Architects
Basement 4
Ground floor plan
Level 1 plan
Level 3-11 typical plan
Level 12 plan
Plant room
North west elevation
North east elevation
South east elevation
External Finishes
GFA plans
Area schedule
Built form and scale streetscape alignment (3 sheets)
Photomontage Hurstville view 01 and 03
SY151-066-DA010
Van der Meer Consulting
WD822-01F02(REV1)-WS REPORT
Wind Environment Assessment
54446DT
Plan showing site details and levels
Harrison Friedmann and Associates Pty Ltd
1(a). That part of the outdoor terrace on level 1 which projects beyond the north western boundary of 282-290 Forest Road, Hurstville must not be used for any purpose other than for providing weather protection to pedestrians in the Plaza or entering the building.
1(b). The area of the outdoor terrace on level 1 which projects beyond the north western boundary of 282-290 Forest Road, Hurstville must be made inaccessible at all times (via the construction of a suitable barrier) other than for the purposes of maintenance. Details of this barrier are to be provided at Construction Certificate stage.
1(c). If a lease or licence pursuant to section 46 of the Local Government Act, 1993 for the area of the outdoor terrace that projects beyond the north western boundary of 282-290 Forest Road, Hurstville is obtained from the owner of the Plaza, that area may be accessed for purposes permitted by such lease or licence and the barrier may be removed for the period during which any lease or licence remains in force.
1(d). Upon expiration or termination of any lease or licence, the barrier must be reconstructed along the common boundary position unless and until a new lease or licence becomes operative.
1(e) No proprietary rights are conferred on the applicant by this development consent in respect of the land into which that part of the outdoor terrace on level 1 projects onto the Central Plaza land.
(Conditions 1(a), 1(b), 1(c), 1(d) and 1(e) have been added to the consent as part of MOD2018/0038) (DA2016/0322))
2. GEN1016 - Damage Deposit - Major Works - In order to insure against damage to Council property the following is required:
(a) Payment to Council of a damage deposit for the cost of making good any damage caused to any Council property as a result of the development: $34,770.00.
(b) Payment to Council of a non-refundable inspection fee to enable assessment of any damage and repairs where required: $290.00.
(c) At the completion of work Council will:
(i) review the dilapidation report prepared prior to the commencement works;
(ii) review the dilapidation report prepared after the completion of works;
(iii) Review the Works-As-Executed Drawings (if applicable); and
(iv) inspect the public works.
The damage deposit will be refunded in full upon completion of work where no damage occurs and where Council is satisfied with the completion of works. Alternatively, the damage deposit will be forfeited or partly refunded based on the damage incurred.
(d) Payments pursuant to this condition are required to be made to Council before the issue of the Construction Certificate.
(e) Fees and charges above are subject to change and are as set out in the version of Council's Schedule of Fees and Charges or as required by other Government Authorities, applicable at the time of payment.
3. GEN1002 - Fees to be paid to Council - The fees listed in the table below must be paid in accordance with the conditions of this consent and Council’s adopted Fees and Charges applicable at the time of payment.
Please contact Council prior to the payment of Section 94 Contributions to determine whether the amounts have been indexed from that indicated below in this consent and the form of payment that will be accepted by Council.
Form of payment for transactions $500,000 or over - Council will only accept Bank Cheque or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) for transaction values of $500,000 or over. Council must be contacted prior to payment to determine correct total amount to be paid and bank account details (if applicable)
(a) Fees to be paid:
Fee types, bonds and contributions
Long Service Levy (to Long Service Corporation)
Inspection Fee for Refund of Damage Deposit
S94 Non-Residential Hurstville City Centre (Public Domain)
The following fees apply where you appoint Council as your Principal Certifying Authority (PCA). (If you appoint a private PCA, separate fees will apply)
PCA Services Fee
Construction Certificate Application Fee
Construction Certificate Imaging Fee
$TBA
Fees and charges above are subject to change and are as set out in the version of Council's Schedule of Fees and Charges or as required by other Government Authorities, applicable at the time of payment.
4. GEN1004 - Section 94 Contributions - Non Residential Development in Hurstville City Centre (Public Domain)
a. Amount of Contribution
Pursuant to Section 94 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979 (as amended) and Hurstville Section 94 Development Contributions Plan 2012 the following contribution towards the cost of providing public domain facilities shall be paid to Council:
Contribution Category Amount
Public Domain Facilities $1,243,590.42
Total: $1,243,590.42
This condition and contribution is imposed to ensure that the development makes adequate provision for the demand it generates for public amenities and public services within the area.
b. Indexing
The above contribution will be adjusted at the time of payment to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index (All Groups Index) for Sydney, in accordance with the provisions of the Hurstville Section 94 Development Contributions Plan 2012.
c. Timing and Method of Payment
The contribution must be paid prior to the release of the Construction Certificate as specified in the development consent.
Please contact Council prior to payment to determine whether the contribution amounts have been indexed from that indicated above in this consent and the form of payment that will be accepted by Council.
Form of payment for transactions $500,000 or over - Council will only accept Bank Cheque or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) for transaction values of $500,000 or over. Council must be contacted prior to payment to determine correct total amount to be paid and bank account details (if applicable).
Contributions must be receipted by Council before a Construction Certificate is issued.
A copy of the Hurstville Section 94 Development Contributions Plan 2012 may be inspected or a copy purchased at Council’s offices (Civic Centre, MacMahon Street, Hurstville NSW 2220) or viewed on Council’s website www.georgesriver.nsw.gov.au.
5. GEN1014 - Long Service Levy - Submit evidence of payment of the Building and Construction Industry Long Service Leave Levy to the Principal Certifying Authority. Note this amount is based on the cost quoted in the Development Application, and same may increase with any variation to estimated cost which arises with the Construction Certificate application. To find out the amount payable go to www.lspc.nsw.gov.au or call 131441. Evidence of the payment of this levy must be submitted with the Construction Certificate application.
SEPARATE APPROVALS UNDER OTHER LEGISLATION
These conditions have been imposed to ensure that the applicant is aware of any separate approvals required under other legislation, for example: approvals required under the Local Government Act 1993 or the Roads Act 1993.
6. APR6001 - Engineering - Section 138 Roads Act and Section 68 Local Government Act 1993
Unless otherwise specified by a condition of this consent, this Development Consent does not give any approval to undertake works on public infrastructure.
A separate approval is required to be lodged and approved under Section 138 of the Roads Act 1993 and/or Section 68 of the Local Government Act 1993 for any of the following activities carried out in, on or over a public road (including the footpath):
(a) Placing or storing materials or equipment;
(b) Placing or storing waste containers or skip bins;
(c) Erecting a structure or carrying out work
(d) Swinging or hoisting goods over any part of a public road by means of a lift, crane or the like;
(e) Pumping concrete from a public road;
(f) Pumping water from the site into the public road;
(g) Constructing a vehicular crossing or footpath;
(h) Establishing a “works zone”;
(i) Digging up or disturbing the surface of a public road (e.g. Opening the road for the purpose of connections to utility providers);
(j) Stormwater and ancillary works in the road reserve; and
(k) Stormwater and ancillary to public infrastructure on private land
(l) If any excavation is to be supported by the use of below ground (cable) anchors that are constructed under Council’s roadways/footways.
These separate activity approvals must be obtained and evidence of the approval provided to the Certifying Authority prior to the commencement of works.
The relevant Application Forms for these activities can be downloaded from Georges River Council’s website at: www.georgesriver.nsw.gov.au
For further information, please contact Council’s Customer Service Centre on (02) 9330 6400.
7. APR7001 - Building - Hoarding Application - Prior to demolition of the buildings on the site or the commencement of work above ground level a separate application for the erection of an A class (fence type) or a B class hoarding or C type scaffold, in accordance with the requirements of Work Cover Authority of NSW, must be erected along that portion of the footway/roadway where the building is within 3.0 metres of the street boundary. An application for this work under Section 68 of the Local Government Act 1993 and the Roads Act 1993 must be submitted for approval to Council.
The following information is to be submitted with a Hoarding Application under s68 of the Local Government Act and s138 of the Roads Act 1993:
(a) A site and location plan of the hoarding with detailed elevation, dimensions, setbacks, heights, entry and exit points to/from the site, vehicle access points, location of public utilities, electrical overhead wire protection, site management plan and builders sheds location; and
(b) Hoarding plan and details that are certified by an appropriately qualified engineer; and
(c) The payment to Council of a footpath occupancy fee based on the area of footpath to be occupied and Council's Schedule of Fees and Charges (available on our website) before the commencement of work; and
(d) A Public Risk Insurance Policy with a minimum cover of $10 million in relation to the occupation of and works within Council's road reserve, for the full duration of the proposed works, must be obtained a copy provided to Council. The Policy is to note Council as an interested party; and
(e) The application must be endorsement by the Roads & Maritime Services (RMS) as the hoarding is located within 100m of an intersection with traffic lights. For assistance you should contact the DA unit at RMS and speak to Hans on 88492076. Or email hans.pilly.mootanah@rms.nsw.gov.au to obtain concurrence for the hoarding structure.
8. APR7003 - Building - Below ground anchors - Information to be submitted with Section 68 Application under LGA 1993 and Section 138 Application under Roads Act 1993 - In the event that the excavation associated with the basement car park is to be supported by the use of below ground (cable) anchors that are constructed under Council’s roadways/footways, an application must be lodged with Council under Section 68 of the Local Government Act 1993 and the Roads Act 1993 for approval, prior to commencement of those works. In this regard the following matters are noted for your attention and details must be submitted accordingly:
(a) Cable anchors must be stressed released when the building extends above ground level to the satisfaction of Council.
(b) The applicant must indemnify Council from all public liability claims arising from the proposed works, and provide adequate insurance cover to the satisfaction of Council.
(c) Documentary evidence of such insurance cover to the value of ten (10) million dollars must be submitted to Council prior to commencement of the excavation work.
(d) The applicant must register a non-terminating bank guarantee in favour of Council for the amount of $50,000.00.
The guarantee will be released when the cables are stress released. In this regard it will be necessary for a certificate to be submitted to Council from a structural engineer at that time verifying that the cables have been stress released.
(e) In the event of any works taking place on Council’s roadways/footways adjoining the property while the anchors are still stressed, all costs associated with overcoming the difficulties caused by the presence of the ‘live’ anchors must be borne by the applicant.
9. APR6003 - Engineering - Vehicular Crossing - Major Development - The following vehicular crossing and road frontage works will be required to facilitate access to and from the proposed development site:
(a) Construct a 150mm thick concrete vehicular crossing reinforced with F72 fabric in accordance with Council’s Specifications for vehicular crossings.
(b) Construct a new full width (boundary to kerb) footpath in paving material as determined and approved by Council’s Engineer for the full frontage of the site in Forest Road and Crofts Avenue in accordance with Council’s Specifications for footpaths.
(c) Any existing vehicular crossing and/or laybacks which are redundant must be removed. The kerb and gutter, any other footpath and turf areas shall be restored at the expense of the beneficiary of this consent and in accordance with Council’s Specification for Vehicular Crossings and Associated Works. The work shall be carried out by a private contractor, subject to Council approval.
(d) A hump shall be introduced at the entrance to the basement carpark to prevent any overland flow entering into the basement car parks. Details are to be submitted with the construction certificate for the approval of the Principal Certifying Authority.
Constructing a vehicular crossing and/or footpath requires separate approval under Section 138 of the Roads Act 1993, prior to the commencement of works:
To apply for approval:
(a) Complete the Driveway Crossing on Council Road Reserve Application Form which can be downloaded from Georges River Council’s Website at www.georgesriver.nsw.gov.au.
(b) In the Application Form, quote the Development Consent No. (eg. DA2016/0322) and reference this condition number (e.g. Condition 23).
(c) Lodge the application form, together with the associated fees at Council’s Customer Service Centre, during business hours. Refer to Section P1 and P2, in Council’s adopted Fees and Charges for the administrative and inspection charges associated with Vehicular Crossing applications.
Please note, that an approval for a new or modified vehicular crossing will contain the approved access and/or alignment levels which will be required to construct the crossing and/or footpath. Once approved, all work shall be carried out by a private contractor in accordance with Council’s Specification for Vehicular Crossings and Associated Works prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate.
10. APR6004 - Engineering - Road Opening Permit - A Road Opening Permit must be obtained from Council, in the case of local or regional roads, or from the Roads and Maritime Services, in the case of State roads, for every opening of a public road reserve to access services including sewer, stormwater drains, water mains, gas mains, and telecommunications before the commencement of work in the road.
REQUIREMENTS OF OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
These conditions have been imposed by other NSW Government agencies either through their role as referral bodies, concurrence authorities or by issuing General Terms of Approval under the Integrated provisions of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
11. GOV1006 - Sydney Water - Trade Waste Agreements - A Trade Waste Agreement with Sydney Water may be required. Details of any work required to comply with the agreement must be detailed on the plans lodged with the Construction Certificate. If no trade waste agreement or grease trap is required, a letter from Sydney Water to this effect must be submitted with the application for the Construction Certificate.
12. GOV1008 - Sydney Water - Section 73 Certificate - A Section 73 Compliance Certificate under the Sydney Water Act 1994 must be obtained from Sydney Water Corporation. Application must be made through an authorised Water Servicing Coordinator. Please refer to the Plumbing, Building and Developing section of Sydney Water’s website to locate a Water Servicing Coordinator in your area. Visit: www.sydneywater.com.au
A "Notice of Requirements" will advise of water and sewer infrastructure to be built and charges to be paid. Please make early contact with the Coordinator, as it can take some time to build water/sewer pipes and this may impact on other services and building, driveway or landscape design.
The “Notice of Requirements” must be submitted prior to the commencement of work.
13. GOV1009 - Sydney Water - Section 73 Compliance Certificate - A Section 73 Compliance Certificate under the Sydney Water Act must be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority prior to the issue of the Occupation/Subdivision or Strata Certificate.
14. GOV1010 - Ausgrid - Substation or Kiosk - Ausgrid shall be consulted to determine if an electricity distribution substation is required. If so, it will be necessary for the final film survey plan to be endorsed with an area, having the required dimensions as agreed with Ausgrid, indicating the location of the proposed electricity distribution substation site. The substation must be located within the boundary of the development site, or within the building, subject to compliance with the Building Code of Australia. The substation site to be dedicated to Council as public roadway, or as otherwise agreed with Ausgrid. For details visit www.ausgrid.com.auor call 131365.
(a) written confirmation of Ausgrid's requirements is to be submitted prior to the issue of the Construction Certificate; and
(b) Ausgrid's requirements are to be met before the issue of the Occupation Certificate.
15. GOV1011 - Ausgrid - Underground electrical conduits - Ausgrid is to be consulted to determine if underground electricity conduits are to be installed in the footway. If so, the developer is to install the conduits within the footway across the frontage/s of the development site, to Ausgrid's specifications. Ausgrid will supply the conduits at no charge. The developer is responsible for compaction of the trench and restoration of the footway in accordance with Council direction. For details visit www.ausgrid.com.au or call 131365.
(a) a copy of Ausgrid's requirements is to be submitted to Council before issue of the Construction Certificate;
(b) Where conduits are to be installed, evidence of compliance with Ausgrid's requirements is to be submitted before the issue of the Occupation Certificate.
Where works within the road reserve are to be carried out by the beneficiary of this consent, a Road Opening Permit Application must be submitted to, and approved by, Council before the issue of the construction Certificate.
16. GOV1012 - Ausgrid - Clearances to electricity mains - If any part of the proposed structure, within 5m of a street frontage, is higher than 3m above footway level, Ausgrid is to be consulted to determine if satisfactory clearances to any existing overhead High Voltage mains will be affected. If so, arrangements are to be made, at your cost, with Ausgrid for any necessary modification to the electrical network in question. For details visit www.ausgrid.com.auor call 131365.
17. GOV1013 - Ausgrid - Undergrounding electricity mains (Hurstville CBD area) - Arrangements are to be made with Ausgrid to install underground all low voltage street mains in that section of the street/s adjacent to the development and to provide conduits for the future under grounding of high voltage mains. This shall include any associated services and the installation of underground supplied street lighting columns where necessary. These works to be carried out at the expense of the beneficiary of the consent. For details visit www.ausgrid.com.au or call 131365.
(a) A copy of confirmation of Ausgrid's requirements is to be submitted to Council before issue of the Construction Certificate; and
(b) Ausgrid's requirements are to be met prior to the issue of an Occupation Certificate.
Where works within the road reserve are to be carried out by the developer, a Road Opening Permit must obtained from Council's Customer Service Centre before commencement of work.
18. Prior to Council or an accredited certifier issuing a construction certificate, a detailed site investigation and remedial action plan (if required) shall be undertaken/completed by a suitably qualified person in accordance with the relevant guidelines approved by the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) and in accordance with the requirements of the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997. If remediation is required, as a consequence of that detailed site investigation, the required measures are to be implemented to the satisfaction of George River Council’s Environmental Health Officer.
18(a) Prior to the issue of the Construction Certificate, the building design is to show adequate means of egress in accordance with Section D and adequate means of protection to openings under Section C of the Building Code of Australia.
(Condition 18(a) has been added to the consent as part of MOD2018/0038) (DA2016/0322))
19. End-of-trip facilities within the development are to be provided to support and encourage active transport to the subject development. The end-of-trip facilities are to be shown on the plans with the Construction Certificate.
20. The recommendations of the “Wind Environment Assessment” prepared by Windtech Consultants Pty Ltd (reference number WD822-01F02(REV1)-WS REPORT, dated 23 November 2016) are to be adopted in the development and maintained for the life of the development. Any modifications to the development required as a result of these recommendations are to be shown on the Construction Certificate plans.
21. Any wall or fence or solid object on either side of the driveway/vehicular crossing where it meets the Council’s road reserve at the boundary must comply with sight distance requirements stipulated in the Australian Standards AS2890.1. If compliance with this requires a design change, it is to be shown on the plans for the Construction Certificate.
22. CC3001 - Development Engineering - Stormwater System
Drainage layout
OSD tank details
The above submitted stormwater plan has been assessed as a concept plan only and no detailed assessment of the design has been undertaken.
(a) All stormwater shall drain by gravity to the upper level of Council’s kerb inlet pit within Humphreys Lane in accordance with the Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 3500.3: 2003 (as amended).
(b) All stormwater drainage from the basement car parks shall be pumped out to the proposed 600 x 600mm junction pit (next to the pump room) by a suitably designed sump and pump system;
The design of this proposed drainage system must be prepared by a qualified practising hydraulics engineer (with details of qualifications being provided) and be submitted for approval with the Construction Certificate application.
23. CC3002 - Development Engineering - Stormwater Systems with Basement -
(i) Stormwater drainage plans for each of the basement car parks shall be designed and submitted with the construction certificate.
(ii) All stormwater drainage from the basement car parks shall be pumped out to the proposed 600 x 600mm junction pit (next to the pump room) by a suitably designed sump and pump system;
Plans and design calculations along with certification from the designer indicating that the design complies with the above requirements are to be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority prior to issue of the Construction Certificate.
The design of the proposed drainage system must be prepared by a qualified practising hydraulics engineer (with details of qualifications being provided).
24. CC3003 - Development Engineering - Stormwater - Protection of basement from inundation of stormwater waters - The construction of the building shall be designed to comply with a hydraulic report prepared by a qualified hydraulic engineer in regards to the protection of the underground basement from any possible inundation of surface waters.
Evidence from an appropriately qualified person that this design requirement has been adhered to shall be submitted with the Construction Certificate application.
25. CC3004 - Development Engineering - Stormwater Drainage Plans (By Engineer Referral Only)
Stormwater drainage plans including pipe sizes, type, grade, length, invert levels, dimensions and types of drainage pits prepared by a qualified practising hydraulics engineer (with details of qualifications being provided) in accordance with the Australian Institute of Engineers Australian Rainfall and Runoff (1987) and Council's Stormwater Drainage Guidelines, shall accompany the application for the Construction Certificate.
26. CC3005 - Development Engineering - On Site Detention
An on-site detention (OSD) facility designed by a professional hydrological/hydraulic engineer, shall be installed. The design must include the computations of the inlet and outlet hydrographs and stage/storage relationships of the proposed OSD using the following design parameters:
(a) Peak flow rates from the site are to be restricted to a permissible site discharge (PSD) equivalent to the discharge when assuming the site contained a single dwelling, garage, lawn and garden, at Annual Recurrence Intervals of 2 years and 100 years.
Refer to Flow Controls in Council's Draft/Adopted Stormwater Drainage Policy.
(b) The OSD facility shall be designed to meet all legislated safety requirements and childproof safety fencing around the facility must be provided where the OSD facility is open or above ground when the design peak storage depth is greater than 300mm. A durable metal plate or similar sign is to be placed at the OSD facility and must bear the words:
"This is an on-site detention basin/tank and is subject to possible surface overflow during heavy storms."
Full details shall accompany the application for the Construction Certificate.
27. CC3012 - Development Engineering - Pump-Out System Design for Stormwater Disposal - The design of the pump-out system for storm water disposal will be permitted for drainage of basement areas only, and must be designed in accordance with the following criteria: -
(a) The pump system shall consist of two (2) pumps, connected in parallel, with each pump being capable of emptying the holding tank at the rate equal to the rate of inflow for the one (1) hour duration storm. The holding tank shall be capable of holding one hour’s runoff from a one (1) hour duration storm of the 1 in 20 year storm;
(b) The pump system shall be regularly maintained and serviced, every six (6) months; and
(c) Any drainage disposal to the street gutter from a pump system must have a stilling sump provided at the property line, connected to the street gutter by a suitable gravity line.
Engineering details demonstrating compliance and certification from an appropriately qualified and practising civil engineer shall be provided with the application for the Construction Certificate.
28. CC3018 - Development Engineering - Existing Sewer Main - Council’s records indicate that a sewer main passes through the site. The requirements of Sydney Water shall be satisfied for the construction of the proposed building.
29. CC6006 - Engineering - Stormwater drainage infrastructure works - Detailed design of the proposed stormwater drainage infrastructure woks shall be submitted to the approval of the Council’s infrastructure unit, prior to the issue of the Construction Certificate.
30. CC7002 - Building - Fire Safety Measures prior to Construction Certificate - Prior to the issue of a Construction Certificate a list of the essential fire safety measures that are to be provided in relation to the land and any building on the land as a consequence of the building work must accompany an application for a construction certificate, which is required to be submitted to either Council or a Certifying Authority. Such list must also specify the minimum standard of performance for each essential fire safety measure included in the list. The Council or Certifying Authority will then issue a Fire Safety Schedule for the building.
31. CC7006 - Building - Vibration Damage - To minimise vibration damage and loss of support to the buildings in close proximity to the development, any excavation is to be carried out by means of a rock saw and if available, in accordance with the guidelines of the Geotechnical Engineer’s report.
Alternatively where a hydraulic hammer is to be used within 30 metres of any building (other than a path or a fence) a report from a qualified geotechnical engineer detailing the maximum size of hammer to be used is to be obtained and the recommendations in that report implemented during work on the site. The report shall be submitted with the Construction Certificate application.
32. CC7008 - Building - Access for Persons with a Disability - Access for persons with disabilities must be provided throughout the site, including to all common rooms, lobby/foyer areas, commercial premises and sanitary facilities in accordance with the requirements of the Building Code of Australia and AS 1428.1. Details must be submitted with the Construction Certificate Application. In regards to the above, pedestrian access throughout basement levels shall be highlighted/line marked and sign posted to safeguard egress.
33. CC7018 - Development Engineering - Structural adequacy of the buildings - Buildings shall be designed and certified by a suitably qualified practicing engineer to ensure against failure due to flooding. In addition, a Flood Evacuation & Management Plan shall also be prepared by a suitably qualified professional. The design and certification of the building and the Flood Evacuation & Management Plan shall be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority together with the application for the Construction Certificate.
34. CC7019 - Building - Prior to the issue of a Construction Certificate the applicant may be required, under Clause 144 of the Environmental Planning & Assessment Regulation, 2000 to seek written comment from FR NSW about the location of water storage tanks, construction of booster pump and valve rooms and any Fire Engineered Solution developed to meet the performance requirements under the Category 2 Fire Safety Provisions.
The applicant is also advised to seek written advice from FR NSW on the location and construction of the proposed Fire Control Centre Facility and location and installation of the sites Fire Indicator Panel.
35. CC2003 - Development Assessment - Construction Site Management Plan - Major Development - A Site Management Plan must be submitted with the application for the Construction Certificate, and must include the following measures:
· location of protective site fencing;
· location of site storage areas/sheds/equipment;
· location of building materials for construction, e.g. stockpiles
· provisions for public safety;
· dust control measures;
· method used to provide site access location and materials used;
· details of methods of disposal of demolition materials;
· method used to provide protective measures for tree preservation;
· provisions for temporary sanitary facilities;
· location and size of waste containers/skip bins;
· details of proposed sediment and erosion control measures;
· method used to provide construction noise and vibration management;
· construction traffic management details.
The site management measures are to be implemented prior to the commencement of any works including demolition and excavation. The site management measures are to be maintained throughout the works, to maintain reasonable levels of public health, safety and amenity. A copy of the Site Management Plan must be retained on site and is to be made available upon request.
36. CC6003 - Engineering - Council Property Shoring - Prior to the issue of the Construction Certificate, plans and specifications prepared by a qualified and practising structural engineer must detail how Council’s property shall be supported at all times.
Where any shoring is to be supporting, or located on Council’s property, certified structural engineering drawings detailing; the extent of the encroachment, the type of shoring and the method of removal, shall be included on the plans. Where the shoring cannot be removed, the plans must detail that the shoring will be cut to 150mm below footpath level and the gap between the shoring and any building shall be filled with a 5Mpa lean concrete mix.
37. CC7004 - Building - Structural details - Structural plans, specifications and design statement prepared and endorsed by a suitably qualified practising structural engineer who holds the applicable Certificate of Accreditation as required under the Building Professionals Act 2005 shall be submitted along with the Construction Certificate application to the Certifying Authority for any of the following, as required by the building design:
(a) piers
(b) footings
(c) slabs
(d) columns
(e) structural steel
(f) reinforced building elements
(g) swimming pool design
(h) retaining walls
(i) stabilizing works
(j) structural framework
38. CC7010 - Building - Geotechnical Reports - The applicant must submit a Geotechnical Report, prepared by a suitably qualified Geotechnical Engineer who holds the relevant Certificate of accreditation as required under the Building Professionals Act 2005 in relation to dilapidation reports, all site works and construction. This is to be submitted before the issue of the Construction Certificate and is to include:
(a) Investigations certifying the stability of the site and specifying the design constraints to be placed on the foundation, any earthworks/stabilization works and any excavations.
(b) Dilapidation Reports on the adjoining properties prior to any excavation of site works. The Dilapidation Report is to include assessments on, but not limited to, the dwellings at those addresses and any external paths, grounds etc. This must be submitted to the Certifying Authority and the adjoining residents as part of the application for the Construction Certificate. Adjoining residents are to be provided with the report five (5) working days prior to any works on the site.
(c) On-site guidance by a vibration specialist during the early part of excavation.
(d) Rock breaking techniques. Rock excavation is to be carried out with tools such as rock saws which reduce vibration to adjoining buildings and associated structures.
(e) Sides of the excavation are to be piered prior to any excavation occurring to reinforce the walls of the excavation to prevent any subsidence to the required setbacks and neighbouring sites.
39. CC7011 - Building - Slip Resistance - Commercial, Retail and Residential Developments - All pedestrian surfaces in areas such as foyers, public corridors/hallways, stairs and ramps as well as floor surfaces in the wet rooms in any commercial/retail/residential units must have slip resistance classifications, as determined using test methods in either wet or dry conditions, appropriate to their gradient and exposure to wetting. The classifications of the new pedestrian surface materials, in wet or dry conditions, must comply with AS/NZS4586:2004 - Slip Resistance Classifications of New Pedestrian Materials and must be detailed on the plans lodged with the application for the Construction Certificate.
40. CC2001 - Development Assessment - Erosion and Sedimentation Control - Erosion and sediment controls must be provided to ensure:
(a) Compliance with the approved Erosion and Sediment Control Plan
(c) all clean water run-off is diverted around cleared or exposed areas
These measures are to be implemented before the commencement of work (including demolition and excavation) and must remain until the issue of the Occupation Certificate.
41. CC2008 - Development Assessment - Landscape Plan - A detailed landscape plan, drawn to scale, by a qualified landscape architect or landscape designer, must be submitted prior to the issue of the Construction Certificate. The plan must include planting to the Level 1 outdoor terrace area, Level 2 outdoor area, and Level 12 terrace area and the following details:
(i) Location of existing and proposed structures on the site including existing trees (if applicable);
(ii) Details of earthworks including mounding and retaining walls and planter boxes (if applicable);
(iii) Location, numbers and type of plant species;
(iv) Details of planting procedure and maintenance;
(v) Details of drainage and watering systems.
42. CC2005 - Development Assessment - Building Height - The height of the building must not exceed RL124.040. Details of compliance to be illustrated on the plans lodged with the Construction Certificate.
43. CC2009 - Development Assessment - Pre-Construction Dilapidation Report - Private Land - A qualified structural engineer shall prepare a Pre-Construction Dilapidation Report detailing the current structural condition of adjoining premises including but not limited to:
(a) All properties with a common boundary to the subject site.
The report shall be prepared at the expense of the beneficiary of the consent and submitted to the satisfaction of the Certifying Authority prior to the issue of the Construction Certificate.
A copy of the pre-construction dilapidation report is to be provided to the adjoining properties (subject of the dilapidation report), a minimum of five (5) working days prior to the commencement of work. Evidence confirming that a copy of the pre-construction dilapidation report was delivered to the adjoining properties must be provided to the Principal Certifying Authority.
44. C10000 - Land Information- Allocation of street addresses - In order to comply with AS/NZS 4819:2011 Rural and Urban Addressing, the NSW Addressing User Manual (AUM) and Georges River Council’s requirements, the street addresses for the subject development must be allocated as advised by Council.
Details indicating compliance with this condition must be shown on the plans lodged with the Construction Certificate.
45. CC2034 - Development Assessment - Design Quality Excellence
(a) In order to ensure the design quality excellence of the development is retained:
(i) The design architect, PTW Architects is to have direct involvement in the design documentation, contract documentation and construct stages of the project;
(ii) The design architect is to have full access to the site and is to be authorised by the applicant to respond directly to the consent authority where information or clarification is required in the resolution of the design issues throughout the life of the project;
(iii) Evidence of the design architect’s commission is to be provided to the Council prior to release of the Construction Certificate.
(b) The design architect of the project is not to be changed without prior notice and approval of the Council.
46. CC6004 - Engineering - Traffic Management - Compliance with AS2890 - All driveways, access ramps, vehicular crossings and car parking spaces shall be designed and constructed in accordance with the current version of Australian Standards, AS 2890.1 (for car parking facilities) and AS 2890.2 (for commercial vehicle facilities).
47. CC6005 - Engineering - Traffic Management - Construction Traffic Management Plan (Large Developments only) - A Construction Traffic Management Plan detailing:
(a) construction vehicle routes;
(b) anticipated number of trucks per day;
(c) hours of construction;
(d) access arrangements; and
(e) proposed traffic measures to minimise impacts of construction vehicles, and
must be submitted to the satisfaction of Council’s Engineers prior to the issue of the Construction Certificate. Council’s Engineers must specify in writing that they are satisfied with the Traffic Management Plan prior to the issue of the Construction Certificate.
48. CC8001 - Waste - Waste Management Plan - A Waste Management Plan incorporating all requirements in respect of the provision of waste storage facilities, removal of all materials from the site that are the result of site, clearing, extraction, and, or demolition works and the designated Waste Management Facility shall be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority and copy provided to the Manager - Environmental Services, Georges River Council prior to the issue of any Construction Certificate.
49. CC8005 - Waste - Waste Storage Containers – For the retail/commercial portion of the building appropriate waste and recycling containers and facilities will need to be provided for all specific end use businesses in accordance with the following waste generation rates:-
(a) Retail Trading - shops, to 100 square metres - 0.1-0.2 cubic metres per 100 square metres of floor area per day;
(b) Restaurants and Food Shops - 0.3-0.6 square metres per 100 meals, plus up to 0.15 cubic metres of beverage containers per 100 meals; and,
(c) Office - 0.01-0.03 cubic metres per 100 square metres of floor area per day.
The details and final design of the waste facilities are to be determined in consultation with the Manager - Environmental Services, Georges River Council prior to the issue of the Construction Certificate.
All waste and recycling containers shall be stored in an approved waste storage area that is large enough to store the required number of bins, appropriate for the number of units and intended uses of the building, and is to be located in an area of the building that can be adequately serviced by waste collection vehicles.
If the Waste Storage Area is located in a part of the building that cannot be easily accessed by service providers, it will be the responsibility of the Owners Corporation/onsite manager to present the bins for collection to the kerb-side.
Details of the Waste Storage Area must be illustrated on the plans submitted with the application for the Construction Certificate.
50. CC3014 - Development Engineering - Allocation of car parking and storage areas - A plan showing the allocation of car spaces to the retail and commercial components of the development in accordance with the conditions of the development consent shall be prepared. This plan shall accompany the application for the Construction Certificate.
51. CC3020 - Development Engineering - Alignment Levels - An Application under Section 138 of the Roads Act 1993 shall be submitted to Council’s Engineer for the issue of footpath design and alignment levels for the full frontages of the site in Forest Road and Humphreys Lane. The alignment levels shall be issued prior to the issue of the Construction Certificate.
Constructing a vehicular crossing and/or footpath requires separate approval under Section 138 of the Roads Act 1993, prior to the commencement of works.
52. CC4003 - Health - Regulated Systems - Details and Fit out - Details of the regulated system must be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority. Such details must demonstrate compliance with the following:
· Public Health Act 2010 (as amended)
· Public Health Regulation 2012 (as amended)
· AS/NZS 3666.1:2002 Air-handling and water systems of buildings - Microbial control - Design, installation and commissioning (as amended)
53. CC4006 - Health - Acoustic Certification - Rooftop Mechanical Equipment (CBD only) - The Construction Certificate plans must be accompanied by a certificate from a professional acoustic engineer certifying that noise from the operation of the roof top mechanical plant and equipment will not exceed the background noise level when measured at any boundary of the site. If sound attenuation is required, this must be detailed on the plans lodged with the Construction Certificate.
PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF WORK (INCLUDING DEMOLITION AND EXCAVATION)
These conditions have been imposed to ensure that all pre-commencement matters are dealt with and finalised prior to the commencement of work.
54. PREC2001 - Building regulation - Site sign - Soil and Erosion Control Measures - Prior to the commencement of works (including demolition and excavation), the durable site sign issued by Georges River Council in conjunction with this consent must be erected in a prominent location on site. The site sign warns of the penalties which apply to pollution, storing materials on road or footpath and breaches of the conditions relating to erosion and sediment controls. The sign must remain in a prominent location on site up until the completion of all site and building works.
55. PREC2002 - Development Assessment - Demolition and Asbestos - The demolition work shall comply with the provisions of Australian Standard AS2601:2011 - Demolition of Structures, NSW Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and the NSW Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011. The work plans required by AS2601-2001 shall be accompanied by a written statement by a suitably qualified person that the proposals contained in the work plan comply with the safety requirements of the Standard. The work plans and the safety statement shall be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority prior to the commencement of works.
For demolition work which involves the removal of asbestos, the asbestos removal work must be carried out by a licensed asbestos removalist who is licensed to carry out the work in accordance with the NSW Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and the NSW Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 unless specified in the Act and/or Regulation that a license is not required.
The asbestos removal work shall also be undertaken in accordance with the How to Safely Remove Asbestos: Code of Practice published by Work Cover NSW.
Copies of the Act, Regulation and Code of Practice can be downloaded free of charge from the Work Cover NSW website: www.workcover.nsw.gov.au
56. PREC2008 - Development Assessment - Demolition Notification Requirements - The following notification requirements apply to this consent:
a) The developer /builder must notify adjoining residents five (5) working days prior to demolition. Such notification is to be a clearly written note giving the date demolition will commence, contact details of the developer/builder, licensed asbestos demolisher and the appropriate regulatory authority. Notification is to be placed in the letterbox of every premises (including every residential flat or unit, if any) either side and immediately at the rear of the demolition site.
b) Five (5) working days prior to demolition, the developer/builder is to provide written notification to Hurstville City Council advising of the demolition date, details of the WorkCover licensed asbestos demolisher and the list of residents advised of the demolition.
c) On demolition sites where buildings to be demolished contain asbestos, a standard commercially manufactured sign containing the words “DANGER ASBESTOS REMOVAL IN PROGRESS” measuring not less than 400mm x 300mm is to be erected in a prominent visible position (from street frontage) on the site. The sign is to be erected prior to demolition work commencing and is to remain in place until such time as all asbestos material has been removed from the site to an approved waste facility.
57. PREC2009 - Development Assessment - Demolition work involving asbestos removal - Work involving bonded asbestos removal work (of an area of more than 10 square metres) or friable asbestos removal work must be undertaken by a person who carries on a business of such removal work in accordance with a licence under clause 458 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011.
58. PREC7001 - Building - Registered Surveyor’s Report - During Development Work - A report must be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority at each of the following applicable stages of construction:
(a) Set out before commencing excavation.
(b) Floor slabs or foundation wall, before formwork or commencing brickwork.
(c) Completion of Foundation Walls - Before any construction of flooring, detailing the location of the structure relative to adjacent boundaries and floor levels relative to the datum shown on the approved plans.
(d) Completion of Floor Slab Formwork - Before pouring of concrete/walls construction, detailing the location of the structure relative to adjacent boundaries and floor levels relative to the datum shown on the approved plans. In multi-storey buildings a further survey must be provided at each subsequent storey.
(e) Completion of any Pool Formwork - Before concreting of pool shell, detailing the location of the pool relative to the adjacent boundaries and its height relative to the datum shown on the approved plans.
(f) Completion of any Roof Framing - Before roof covered detailing eaves/gutter setback from boundaries.
(g) Completion of all Work - Detailing the location of the structure (including eaves/gutters) relative to adjacent boundaries and its height relative to the datum shown on the approved plans. A final Check Survey must indicate the reduced level of the main ridge.
Work must not proceed beyond each stage until the Principal Certifying Authority is satisfied that the height and location of the building is proceeding in accordance with the approved plans.
59. PREC7004 - Building - Structural Engineers Details - Supporting Council road/footway - Prior to the commencement of work in connection with the excavation of the site associated with the basement car park, structural engineer’s details relating to the method of supporting the excavation must be submitted.
60. PREC6001 - Engineering - Dial before your dig - The applicant shall contact “Dial Before You Dig on 1100” to obtain a Service Diagram prior to the issuing of the Construction Certificate. The sequence number obtained from “Dial Before You Dig” shall be forwarded to Council’s Engineers for their records.
61. PREC6002 - Engineering - Dilapidation Report on Public Land - Major Development Only - Prior to the commencement of works (including demolition and excavation), a dilapidation report must be prepared on Council infrastructure adjoining the development site, including:
(a) All public infrastructure adjoining the subject site
The Dilapidation Report must be prepared by a qualified structural engineer. The report must be provided to the Principal Certifying Authority and a copy provided to the Council.
The report must include the following:
(a) Photographs showing the existing condition of the road pavement fronting the site,
(b) Photographs showing the existing condition of the kerb and gutter fronting the site,
(c) Photographs showing the existing condition of the footpath pavement fronting the site,
(d) Photographs showing the existing condition of any retaining walls within the footway or road, and
(e) Closed circuit television/video inspection (in DVD format) of public stormwater drainage systems fronting, adjoining or within the site, and
(f) The full name and signature of the structural engineer.
The reports are to be supplied in electronic format in Word or PDF. Photographs are to be in colour, digital and date stamped.
Council will use this report to determine whether or not to refund the damage deposit after the completion of works.
DURING WORK
These conditions have been imposed to ensure that there is minimal impact on the adjoining development and surrounding locality during the construction phase of the development.
62. CON3001 - Development Engineering - Physical connection of stormwater to site - No work is permitted to proceed above the ground floor slab level of the building until there is physical connection of the approved stormwater drainage system from the land the subject of this consent to Council's stormwater drainage network/infra-structure.
63. CON7001 - Building - Structural Engineer’s Certification during construction - The proposed structure/building must be constructed in accordance with details designed and certified by the practising qualified structural engineer. All structural works associated with the foundations, piers, footings and slabs for the proposed building must be inspected and structurally certified for compliance by an independent practising geotechnical and structural engineer. In addition a Compliance or Structural Certificate, to the effect that the building works have been carried in accordance with the structural design, must be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority at each stage of construction or prior issue of the Occupation Certificate.
64. CON6001 - Engineering - Cost of work to be borne by the applicant - The applicant shall bear the cost of all works associated with the construction of the development that occurs on Council property. Care must be taken to protect Council's roads, including the made footway, kerbs, etc, and, where plant and vehicles enter the site, the footway shall be protected against damage by deep-sectioned timber members laid crosswise, held together by hoop iron straps and chamfered at their ends. This construction shall be maintained in a state of good repair and condition throughout the course of construction.
65. CON2001 - Development Assessment - Hours of construction, demolition and building related work - Any work activity or activity associated with the development consent that requires the use of any tools (including hand tools) or any power operated plant and machinery that creates noise on or adjacent to the site shall not be performed, or permitted to be performed, except between the hours of 7.00 am to 5.00 pm, Monday to Saturday inclusive. No work or ancillary activity shall be permitted to be performed on any Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day or any Public Holiday. A penalty infringement notice may be issued for any offence.
In addition to the foregoing requirements, construction work on all buildings (except that on single dwelling houses and associated structures on the site of a single dwelling house) shall be prohibited on Saturdays and Sundays on weekends adjacent to a public holiday.
66. CON2002 - Development Assessment - Ground levels and retaining walls - The ground levels of the site shall not be excavated, raised or filled, or retaining walls constructed on the allotment boundary, except where indicated on approved plans or approved separately by Council.
67. CON6002 - Engineering - Obstruction of Road or Footpath - The use of the road or footpath for the storage of any building materials, waste materials, temporary toilets, waste or skip bins, or any other matter is not permitted unless separately approved by Council under Section 138 of the Roads Act and/or under Section 68 of the Local Government Act 1993. Penalty Infringement Notices may be issued for any offences and severe penalties apply.
68. CON8001 - Waste - Waste Management Facility - All materials removed from the site as a result of demolition, site clearing, site preparation and, or excavation shall be disposed of at a suitable Waste Management Facility. No vegetation, article, building material, waste or the like shall be ignited or burnt whatsoever or in association with the work on site. Copies of all receipts for the disposal, or processing of all such materials shall be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority and a copy provided to the Manager Environmental Services, Georges River Council.
PRIOR TO THE ISSUE OF THE OCCUPATION CERTIFICATE
These conditions have been imposed to ensure that all works have been completed in accordance with the Development Consent prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate.
69. The person with the benefit of this consent must pay for the relocation of the pedestrian crossing located to the rear of the site on Humphreys Lane. The crossing is to be relocated to a suitable location as determined by the Georges River Council Traffic Advisory Committee. The relocation of the pedestrian crossing will be based on the new desired path of pedestrians taking into account the completed development. The relocation of the crossing is to be completed prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate.
70. OCC10000 - Land Information - Installation of street addresses - In order to comply with AS/NZS 4819:2011 Rural and Urban Addressing and the NSW Addressing User Manual (AUM), the street addresses for the subject development must be installed as advised by Council.
(a) The street number of the development must be displayed in a prominent location at the primary frontage of the site.
(b) Separate letterboxes for each unit must be provided with permanent numbers for each letterbox. The letterboxes must be located within an easily accessible area.
(c) The number of each unit must be displayed in a prominent location near the entrance of each unit.
The abovementioned works must be completed before the issue of any Occupation Certificate.
71. OCC10001 - Land Information - Notice to Georges River Council - Allocation of street addresses - Prior to the issue of any Occupation Certificate, ‘As-built’ drawings detailing the installed and allocated street/unit address and numbering must be submitted to the satisfaction of the Land Information Team at Georges River Council.
72. OCC3001 - Development Engineering - Positive Covenant for On-site Detention Facility - A Positive Covenant is to be created over any on-site detention facility.
This covenant is to be worded as follows:
"It is the responsibility of the lots burdened to keep the "On-Site Detention" facilities, including any ancillary pumps, pipes, pits etc, clean at all times and maintained in an efficient working condition. The "On-Site Detention" facilities are not to be modified in any way without the prior approval of Council."
Georges River Council is to be nominated as the Authority to release, vary or modify this Covenant.
The Positive Covenant shall be registered at the NSW Department of Lands prior to the issue of a Final Occupation Certificate.
73. OCC3008 - Development Engineering - Consolidation of Site - The site shall be consolidated into one allotment by a Plan of Consolidation being prepared by a Registered Surveyor. This Plan shall be registered at the NSW Department of Lands prior to the issue of any Occupation Certificate (Interim or Final Occupation Certificate).
74. OCC4001 - Health - Noise Domestic Air conditioner and Heat pump water heaters (less than 450mm from boundary) - Prior to the issue of any Occupation Certificate, a report prepared by a professional acoustic engineer must be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority to certify that the design and construction of the air conditioner shall not produce a sound level exceeding 5 dB(A) above the ambient background level at the closest neighbouring boundary between the hours of 8:00am and 10:00pm on Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays and between the hours of 7:00am and 10:00pm on any other day. Outside the specified hours, the sound level output for the running of air conditioner shall not exceed the ambient background noise level.
75. OCC4004 - Health - Noise from mechanical plant and equipment - CBD Only - Noise from the operation of mechanical equipment, ancillary fittings, machinery, mechanical ventilation system and / or refrigeration systems must not exceed background noise when measured at the nearest lot boundary of the site. Where noise sensitive receivers are located within the site, noise from the operation of mechanical plant & equipment must not exceed background noise when measured at the nearest strata, stratum or community title boundary.
A professional engineer (acoustic) shall be engaged to certify that the design and construction of the all sound producing plants and equipment associated with the building complies with the above requirements. Certification shall be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority prior to the issue of any Occupation Certificate.
76. OCC6004 - Engineering - Line marking of car parking spaces - Major Development - Internal driveways and parking spaces are to be adequately paved with concrete or bitumen, or interlocking pavers to provide a dust-free surface. All car parking spaces are to be line marked in accordance with Australian Standards, AS1742, Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices and NSW Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Regulations 1999.
77. OCC6006 - Engineering - Wheel Stops - Wheel stops must be installed in accordance with Section 2.4.5.4 of the Australian Standards AS/NZS 2890.1 - Parking Facilities - Part 1 Off-Street Car Parking. Wheel stops shall be painted with reflective white paint to ensure night time visibility.
78. OCC6007 - Engineering - Compliance with AS1742 Traffic Control Devices - The internal road network, pedestrian facilities and parking facilities (including visitor parking and employee parking) shall be designated and line marked in accordance with Australian Standards, AS1742 - Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices and NSW Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Regulations 1999.
If an exit from car park utilises a pedestrian footpath, then a warning system, such as flashing light and/or “alarm sound” must be installed on the subject property to alert pedestrians of vehicles exiting the car park. The Alarm System must be designed and installed in accordance with AS2890.1 - 2004.
79. OCC7001 - Building - Fire Safety Certificate before Occupation or Use - In accordance with Clause 153 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 (the Regulation), on completion of building works and prior to the issue of an Occupation Certificate, the owner must cause the issue of a Final Fire Safety Certificate in accordance with Clause 170 of the Regulation. The Fire Safety Certificate must be in the form required by Clause 174 of the Regulation. In addition, each essential fire or other safety measure implemented in the building or on the land on which the building is situated, such a Certificate must state:
(a) That the measure has been assessed by a person (chosen by the owner of the building) who is properly qualified to do so.
(b) That as at the date of the assessment the measure was found to be capable of functioning at a standard not less than that required by the attached Schedule.
A copy of the certificate is to be given (by the owner) to the Commissioner of Fire and Rescue NSW and a further copy is to be displayed in a frame and fixed to a wall inside the building's main entrance.
80. OCC7002 - Building - Slip Resistance - Floor surfaces used in the foyers, public corridors/hallways, stairs and ramps as well as floor surfaces in wet rooms in any commercial/retail/residential units are to comply with the slip resistant requirements of AS1428.1 (general requirements for access/new building work) and AS1428.4 (tactile ground surface indicators) and AS2890.6 (off-street parking). Materials must comply with testing requirements of AS/NZS4663:2002.
81. OCC7005 - Building - The proposed structure(s) must be constructed in accordance with details designed and certified by the practising qualified structural engineer. In addition, Compliance or Structural Certificates, to the effect that the building works have been carried in accordance with the structural design, must be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority prior issue of the Occupation Certificate.
82. OCC6005 - Engineering - Completion of Major Works - Prior to the issue of a Final Occupation Certificate, the following works must be completed at the applicant’s expense to the satisfaction of Council’s Engineering Services section:
(a) Stormwater pipes, pits and connections to public stormwater systems within the road related area;
(b) Driveways and vehicular crossings within the road related area;
(c) Removal of redundant driveways and vehicular crossings;
(d) New footpaths within the road related area;
(e) Relocation of existing power/light pole
(f) Relocation/provision of street signs
(g) New or replacement street trees;
(h) New footway verges, where a grass verge exists, the balance of the area between the footpath and the kerb or site boundary over the full frontage of the proposed development must be turfed. The grass verge must be constructed to contain a uniform minimum 75mm of friable growing medium and have a total cover of turf predominant within the street.
(i) New or reinstated kerb and guttering within the road related area; and
(j) New or reinstated road surface pavement within the road.
Council’s Engineering Services Section must advise in writing that the works have been completed to their satisfaction prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate. Further the damage deposit paid to Council will not be released until the works have been completed to Council’s satisfaction.
83. OCC6009 - Engineering - Stormwater drainage works - Works As Executed - Prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate, stormwater drainage works are to be certified by a qualified stormwater engineer, with Works-As-Executed drawings supplied to Council detailing:
(a) Compliance with conditions of development consent relating to stormwater;
(b) The structural adequacy of the On-Site Detention system (OSD);
(c) That the works have been constructed in accordance with the approved design and will provide the detention storage volume and attenuation in accordance with the submitted calculations;
(d) Pipe invert levels and surface levels to Australian Height Datum;
(e) Contours indicating the direction in which water will flow over land should the capacity of the pit be exceeded in a storm event exceeding design limits.
(f) Evidence that a positive covenant pursuant to Section 88E of the Conveyancing Act 1919 has been created on the title of the subject property, providing for the indemnification of Council from any claims or actions and for the on-going maintenance of the on-site-detention system and/ (including any pumps and sumps incorporated in the development).
Council’s Engineering Services section must advise in writing that they are satisfied with the Works-As-Executed prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate.
84. OCC3011 - Development Engineering - Requirements prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate - The following shall be completed and or submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority (PCA) prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate:
(a) All the stormwater/drainage works shall be completed in accordance with the approved Construction Certificate plans prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate.
(b) The internal driveway construction works, together with the provision for all services (conduits and pipes laid) shall be completed in accordance with the approved Construction Certificate plans prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate.
(c) Construct any new vehicle crossings required.
(d) Replace all redundant vehicle crossing laybacks with kerb and guttering, and replace redundant concrete with turf.
(e) A Section 73 (Sydney Water) Compliance Certificate for the Subdivision shall be issued and submitted to the PCA prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate.
(f) Work as Executed Plans prepared by a Chartered Professional Engineer or a Registered Surveyor when all the site engineering works are complete shall be submitted to the PCA prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate.
85. OCC6002 - Engineering - Vehicular crossing & Frontage work - Major development - The following road frontage works shall be constructed in accordance with Council's, Specification for Vehicular Crossings and Associated Works together with the Vehicular Crossing Approval issued by Council’s Engineering Services Division:
A private contractor shall carry out the above work, at the expense of the beneficiary of this consent and in accordance with Council’s Specification for Vehicular Crossings and Associated Works.
The driveway and road frontage works are to be completed before the issue of the Occupation Certificate.
86. OCC2005 - Development Assessment - Completion of Landscape Works - All landscape works must be completed before the issue of the Final Occupation Certificate.
87. OCC2006 - Development Assessment - Post Construction Dilapidation report - Private Land - At the completion of the construction works, a suitably qualified person is to be engaged to prepare a post-construction dilapidation report. This report is to ascertain whether the construction works associated with the subject development created any structural damage to the following adjoining premises:
The report is to be prepared at the expense of the beneficiary of the consent and submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority (PCA) prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate. In ascertaining whether adverse structural damaged has occurred to the adjoining premises, the PCA, must compare the post construction dilapidation report with the pre-construction dilapidation report required by conditions in this consent.
Evidence confirming that a copy of the post construction dilapidation report was delivered to the adjoining properties subject of the dilapidation report must be provided to the PCA prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate.
88. OCC2007 - Development Assessment - Allocation of car parking spaces - Car parking associated with the development is to be allocated as follows:
(a) Accessible car spaces: To be provided in accordance with the relevant Australian Standard (AS 1428 as amended) and the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (as amended).
(b) Retail: 36 car spaces
(c) Commercial/office: 48 car spaces
(d) Loading/Services: as shown on the approved plan
(e) Bicycle spaces: 54 spaces (6 for the retail component and 48 for the commercial component)
89. OCC6008 - Engineering - Dilapidation Report on Public Land for Major Development Only - Upon completion of works, a follow up dilapidation report must be prepared on Council infrastructure adjoining the development site, including:
(a) All public infrastructure adjoining the development site.
(a) Photographs showing the condition of the road pavement fronting the site,
(b) Photographs showing the condition of the kerb and gutter fronting the site,
(c) Photographs showing the condition of the footway including footpath pavement fronting the site
(d) Photographs showing the condition of retaining walls within the footway or road, and
(f) The full name and signature of the professional engineer.
Council’s Engineering Services Section must advise in writing that the works have been completed to their satisfaction prior to the issue of the Occupation Certificate. Further, Council will use this report to determine whether or not to refund the damage deposit.
90. ONG2009 - Development Assessment - Development consent is to be obtained for the first use of each retail/commercial unit within the development unless such use is authorised by State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008.
91. The maximum size of truck/service vehicle using the development shall be restricted to an SRV with a maximum length of 6.4 metres.
92. All vehicles shall enter and exit the premises in a forward direction.
93. No deliveries to the premises shall be made direct from a public place or street inclusive of footpaths, nature strip, roadway and car parks except from identified “loading zones”.
94. All loading and unloading of vehicles in relation to the use of the premises shall take place wholly within the dedicated loading/unloading areas, which is wholly within the site.
95. ONG7002 - Building - Annual Fire Safety Statement - In accordance with Clause 177 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation, 2000 the owner of the building premises must cause the Council to be given an annual fire safety statement in relation to each essential fire safety measure implemented in the building. The annual fire safety statement must be given:
(a) Within twelve (12) months after the date on which the fire safety certificate was received.
(b) Subsequent annual fire safety statements are to be given within twelve (12) months after the last such statement was given.
(c) An annual fire safety statement is to be given in or to the effect of Clause 181 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation, 2000.
(d) A copy of the statement is to be given to the Commissioner of Fire and Rescue NSW, and a further copy is to be prominently displayed in the building.
96. ONG3006 - Development Engineering - Ongoing maintenance of the on-site detention system - The Owner(s) must in accordance with this condition and any positive covenant:
(a) Permit stormwater to be temporarily detained by the system;
(b) Keep the system clean and free of silt rubbish and debris;
(c) Maintain renew and repair as reasonably required from time to time the whole or part of the system so that it functions in a safe and efficient manner and in doing so complete the same within the time and in the manner reasonably specified in written notice issued by the Council;
(d) Carry out the matters referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) at the Owners expense;
(e) Not make any alterations to the system or elements thereof without prior consent in writing of the Council and not interfere with the system or by its act or omission cause it to be interfered with so that it does not function or operate properly;
(f) Permit the Council or its authorised agents from time to time upon giving reasonable notice (but at any time and without notice in the case of an emergency) to enter and inspect the land with regard to compliance with the requirements of this covenant;
(g) Comply with the terms of any written notice issued by Council in respect to the requirements of this clause within the time reasonably stated in the notice;
(h) Where the Owner fails to comply with the Owner’s obligations under this covenant, permit the Council or its agents at all times and on reasonable notice at the Owner’s cost to enter the land with equipment, machinery or otherwise to carry out the works required by those obligations;
(i) Indemnify the Council against all claims or actions and costs arising from those claims or actions which Council may suffer or incur in respect of the system and caused by an act or omission by the Owners in respect of the Owner’s obligations under this condition.
97. ONG2003 - Development Assessment - Maintenance of Landscaping - All trees and plants forming part of the landscaping must be maintained on an ongoing basis. Maintenance includes watering, weeding, removal of rubbish from tree bases, fertilizing, pest and disease control and any other operations required to maintain healthy trees, plants and turfed areas.
98. ONG4018 - Health - Amenity of the neighbourhood - The implementation of this development shall not adversely affect the amenity of the neighbourhood or interfere unreasonably with the comfort or repose of a person who is outside the premises by reason of the emission or discharge of noise, fumes, vapour, odour, steam, soot, dust, waste water, waste products, grit, oil or other harmful products.
No vegetation, article, building material, waste or the like shall be ignited or burnt whatsoever or in association with the work on site.
99. ONG4011 - Health - Noise Control - The use of the premises must not give rise to the transmission of ‘offensive noise’ to any place of different occupancy. ‘Offensive noise’ is defined in the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (as amended).
100. ONG4004 - Health - Operation of Regulated Systems - The occupier must operate regulated systems in compliance with Clause 9 of the Public Health (Microbial Control) Regulation, 2000 (as amended).
Where there is any change in the regulated system the occupier must register the changes in the regulated systems with Council pursuant to Clause 15 of the Public Health (Microbial Control) Regulation, 2000 (as amended).
Water cooling system must be certified by a competent person annually as being an effective process of disinfection under the range of operating conditions that could ordinarily be expected.
101. ONG4017 - Health - Lighting - General Nuisance - Any lighting on the site shall be designed so as not to cause a nuisance to other residences in the area or to motorists on nearby roads and to ensure no adverse impact on the amenity of the surrounding area by light overspill.
102. ONG7004 - Building - Noise levels emitted from the mechanical exhaust system or any commercial air conditioning unit must not exceed the background noise level when measured at any point on the boundary of the site.
This advice has been included to provide additional information and where available direct the applicant to additional sources of information based on the development type.
103. ADV7001 - Building - Council as PCA - Deemed to Satisfy Provisions of BCA - Should the Council be appointed as the Principal Certifying Authority in determining the Construction Certificate, the building must comply with all the applicable deemed to satisfy provision of the BCA. However, if an alternative solution is proposed it must comply with the performance requirements of the BCA, in which case, the alternative solution, prepared by an appropriately qualified fire consultant, accredited and having specialist qualifications in fire engineering, must justifying the non-compliances with a detailed report, suitable evidence and expert judgement.
Council will also require if deemed necessary, for the alternative solution to undergo an independent peer review by either the CSIRO or other accredited organisation. In these circumstances, the applicant must pay all costs for the independent review.
104. ADV7004 - Building - Council as PCA - Compliance with the BCA - Should the Council be appointed as the Principal Certifying Authority, the Construction Certificate Application must be accompanied by the following details, with plans prepared and certified by an appropriately qualified person demonstrating compliance with the BCA:
· Mechanical ventilation, provided to sanitary facilities and basement areas/rooms not afforded natural ventilation.
· Fire-fighting services and equipment including control centre facility, hydrant systems, sprinkler systems, hose reels, mechanical air handling and stair pressurization systems, portable fire extinguishers, smoke hazard management systems and sound & warning systems.
· Emergency lighting and exit signs throughout all premises including terrace, common room/areas, lobby and basement areas.
· Fire resistance levels of building elements including walls, floors, roof tops, columns, and separation of electrical supply systems etc.
· Construction of all fire doors including the installation of operational and warning signage.
· Fire compartmentation and fire wall separation details including all stairway, lift and service/exhaust shafts.
· Exit travel distances including the number of required exits must comply with Part D.
· The installation of internal wall wetting sprinklers for the protection of paths of travel.
· Smoke separation and smoke control zones, must demonstrate compliance with the BCA. Air handling systems should form part of the buildings smoke hazard management system.
· Re-entry facilities from fire isolated exit stairways.
· Stretcher facility and emergency lift installation.
· Aggregate exit widths must provide a sufficient egress for the intended number of occupants.
· The total number of male and female (including for the disabled) sanitary facilities must accommodate the intended number of occupants.
In this regard, detailed construction plans and specifications that demonstrate compliance with the above requirements of the BCA must be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority with the Construction Certificate Application. Should there be any non-compliance, an alternative method of fire protection and structural capacity must be submitted, with all supporting documents prepared by a suitably qualified person.
In the event that full compliance with the BCA cannot be achieved and the services of a fire engineer are obtained to determine an alternative method of compliance with the BCA, such report must be submitted to and endorsed by the Principal Certifying Authority prior to issue of the Construction Certificate
105. ADV7005 - Building - Energy Efficiency Provisions - Should Council be appointed as the Principal Certifying Authority, a report prepared and endorsed by an Energy Efficiency Engineer or other suitably qualified person must be submitted, detailing the measures that must be implemented in the building to comply with Section J of the BCA. The proposed measures and feature of the building that facilitate the efficient use of energy must be identified and detailed on the architectural plans. At completion of the building and before the issue of an Occupation Certificate, a certificate certifying that the building has been erected to comply with the energy efficiency provisions must be submitted to the Principal Certifying Authority.
106. ADV7006 - Building - Compliance with Access, Mobility and AS4299 - Adaptable Housing - Should the Council be appointed as the Principal Certifying Authority, the Construction Certificate application must be accompanied by detailed working plans and a report or a Certificate of Compliance from an Accredited Access Consultant certifying that the building design and access to the adaptable units complies with Development Control Plan No 1 - LGA Wide - Section 3.3 Access and Mobility and AS 4299 Adaptable Housing.
107. ADV2002 - Development Assessment - Site Safety Fencing - Site fencing must be erected in accordance with WorkCover Guidelines, to exclude public access to the site throughout the demolition and/or construction work, except in the case of alterations to an occupied dwelling. The fencing must be erected before the commencement of any work and maintained throughout any demolition and construction work.
For more information visit www.workcover.nsw.gov.au
108. ADV2009 - Development Assessment - Security deposit administration & compliance fee - Under Section 97(5) of the Local Government Act 1993, a security deposit (or part) if repaid to the person who provided it is to be repaid with any interest accrued on the deposit (or part) as a consequence of its investment.
Council must cover administration and other costs incurred in the investment of these monies. The current charge is $50.00 plus 2% of the bond amount per annum.
Interest rate applied to bonds is set at Council's business banking facility rate as at 1 July each year. Council will accept a bank guarantee in lieu of a deposit.
All interest earned on security deposits will be used to offset the Security Deposit Administration and Compliance fee. Where interest earned on a deposit is not sufficient to meet the fee, it will be accepted in full satisfaction of the fee.
109. PRES1001 - Clause 97A – BASIX Commitments - This Clause requires the fulfilment of all BASIX Commitments as detailed in the BASIX Certificate to which the development relates.
110. PRES1002 - Clause 98 – Building Code of Australia & Home Building Act 1989 - Requires all building work to be carried out in accordance with the Building Code of Australia. In the case of residential building work to which the Home Building Act 1989 relates, there is a requirement for a contract of insurance to be in force before any work commences.
111. PRES1003 - Clause 98A – Erection of Signs - Requires the erection of signs on site and outlines the details which are to be included on the sign. The sign must be displayed in a prominent position on site and include the name and contact details of the Principal Certifying Authority and the Principal Contractor.
112. PRES1004 - Clause 98B – Home Building Act 1989 - If the development involves residential building work under the Home Building Act 1989, no work is permitted to commence unless certain details are provided in writing to Council. The name and licence/permit number of the Principal Contractor or Owner Builder and the name of the Insurer by which work is insured under Part 6 of the Home Building Act 1989.
113. PRES1005 - Clause 98C- Entertainment Venues - Schedule 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 outlines the prescribed conditions which apply to Entertainment Venues.
114. PRES1006 - Clause 98D – Erection of sign for maximum number of persons - This prescribed condition applies to entertainment venues, function centres, pubs, registered clubs and restaurants. This condition requires the erection of a sign which states the maximum number of persons (as specified in the consent) that are permitted in the building.
115. PRES1007 - Clause 98E – Protection & support of adjoining premises - If the development involves excavation that extends below the level of the base of the footings of a building on adjoining land, this prescribed condition requires the person who benefits from the development consent to protect and support the adjoining premises and where necessary underpin the adjoining premises to prevent any damage.
116. OPER1001 - Requirement for a Construction Certificate - The erection of a building must not commence until a Construction Certificate has been issued by the consent authority, the Council (if the Council is not the consent authority) or an accredited certifier.
117. OPER1002 - Appointment of a Principal Certifying Authority - The erection of a building must not commence until the beneficiary of the development consent has:
118. OPER1003 - Notification of Critical Stage Inspections - No later than two (2) days before the building work commences, the PCA must notify:
119. OPER1004 - Notice of Commencement - The beneficiary of the development consent must give at least two (2) days notice to the Council and the PCA of their intention to commence the erection of a building.
120. OPER1005 - Subdivision Work – Construction Certificate & Appointment of Principal Certifying Authority - Subdivision work in accordance with a development consent cannot commence until:
(a) A Construction Certificate has been issued by the consent authority, the council (if not the consent authority) or an accredited certifier; and
(b) The beneficiary of the consent has appointed a Principal Certifying Authority for the subdivision work.
No later than two (2) days before the subdivision work commences, the PCA must notify:
(b) The beneficiary of the development consent of the critical stage inspections and other inspections that are to be carried out with respect to the subdivision work.
An Information Pack is attached for your convenience should you wish to appoint Hurstville City Council as the Principal Certifying Authority for your development.
121. OPER1006 - Subdivision work – Notice of Commencement - The beneficiary of the development consent must give at least two (2) days notice to the Council and the PCA of their intention to commence the subdivision works.
122. OPER1007 - Critical Stage Inspections - The last critical stage inspection must be undertaken by the Principal Certifying Authority. The critical stage inspections required to be carried out vary according to Building Class under the Building Code of Australia and are listed in Clause 162A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000.
123. OPER1008 - Notice to be given prior to critical stage inspections - The principal contractor for a building site, or the owner-builder, must notify the principal certifying authority at least 48 hours before each required inspection needs to be carried out.
124. OPER1009 - Occupation Certificate - A person must not commence occupation or use of the whole or any part of a new building unless an Occupation Certificate has been issued in relation to the building or part.
If you need more information, please contact me on 9330-6400 during normal office hours.
SSPP DA assessment report - 282 Forest Rd Hurstville
SSPP 2016SSH002 Panel decision - 282 Forest Rd Hurstville
LPP017-18 282-290 Forest Rd Hurstville
[Appendix 1] SSPP DA assessment report - 282 Forest Rd Hurstville
[Appendix 2] SSPP 2016SSH002 Panel decision - 282 Forest Rd Hurstville
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May 9, 2019 Irfan Syed Leave a comment
After moving to Kindle a few years ago, I have pretty much moved only to Kindle. The odd hard copy I still buy is a collectible, like all the Guru Dutt books I got in my hyper-obsession over the man last year.
Of course, Kindle (or any other book reader, or app) is convenient. No need to carry, or buy, so many books (except perhaps to show how erudite you are during your airport travels). You can increase or decrease the font size as needed. You can find out meanings of new words while reading, instead of waiting to check out on a dictionary later, when you would most likely have forgotten more than half the new words you came across. The e-book versions are also cheaper, even if marginally. And now, with Prime Reading, you can even read some books for free.
I first came across a Kindle with a co-commuter in a bus several years ago. I thought the black device was a tablet, but I also knew it wasn’t as chunky as a tablet. (This was about seven-eight years ago.) He told me about it, and then proceeded to explain the great extent to which Amazon had gone to simulate the reading experience in a device: the papery background, the fonts, the weight of the device, the colour of the device (black, to not compete with anything else)…
After getting my own device, settling into it, and getting used to it, like it happens, all this had become a blind spot. Until a few days back. When I paused in the course of my Sunday reading to notice the logo. When I sought to, actually, I didn’t notice it. And then, branding-loving me realized: if Amazon had designed the device to simulate the reading experience, they had designed the logo to not interfere with it, especially bearing in mind that the logo would come on the front of the device. The font is lower-case, sans serif, and not overly thick, and the colour is black (against the black of the device) – all to ensure that it doesn’t draw your attention from your reading. Until your curiousity is kindled.
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Adventure, She Writes
October 8, 2018 Irfan Syed Leave a comment
Her first book, Dungeon Tales, was Arabian Nightsesque. Her second, The Washer of the Dead, a collection of ghost stories centred around women, was humanistic rather than scary. Her next, Soap! Writing and Surviving Television in India, a handbook for people writing for the cash-rich but quality-strapped Indian TV industry, drew upon her years of experience in the space. She then wrote a three-book animal fiction series on the trot. Her most recent, Boy No. 32, is about a boy in an orphanage with the name, or rather, number Battees (32). That is, the boy is named 32, not the orphanage, because orphans apparently don’t deserve any better. But his life and luck may be about to change when the orphanage is inadvertently brought crashing down, letting him and his mates loose on the pathways of Mumbai and setting off a series of adventures, rendezvous and discoveries.
Somewhere, Venita Coelho’s life is as varied, adventurous, unconventional and humanistic as the books she writes and the themes she explores. She was born in Dehradun, grew up in then Calcutta, worked in then Bombay, lived in Coimbatore (which she considers home) and presently lives in Goa. She is a single mother to an adopted girl of 10, whom she home-schools and has started taking off with on tours across India in a customized caravan, because she feels that’s the best way to learn geography and history. She also loves animals, due to which she turned vegetarian 20 years ago.
Venita started off writing for TV, in the early days of satellite TV, and worked there the longest, before giving it up when the saas-bahu “poison” took over. She returned to front Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi, but left TV for the second and final time when she saw Jassi too going saas-bahu mode. She wrote a few films, but took a break when none of the three scripts she penned turned out as envisaged. She switched her attention full-fledged to books, and has been quite prolific: seven books in 11 years, with about as many at various stages. She has started looking at films anew and is also interested in the rapid-rising space of web series. And somewhere in the midst of all this action, she has engaged in activism too, being a part of Goa Bachao Abhiyan and having taken on a celebrated writer and a well-known minister (both male) in different forums over different causes.
Irfan Syed spoke to the author whose life reads like one of her books, about her works and her writing motivations and inspirations. Excerpts:
You have written across mediums and genres…
Actually, I’m not a writer – I’m a storyteller. It’s allowed me the freedom of adapting, learning and going from genre to genre, medium to medium.
How easy or difficult is it writing across mediums?
TV is easy. TV is very formula. Once you’ve cracked the formula – 24 minutes, 12 scenes, ad breaks – it’s very easy to write… Film is the most difficult. In film, the universe you create has to be very credible. It takes many minds. It’s also very collaborative – and we as writers tend to be solitary… Easiest is books, because with books, you are the sole person in charge.
It seems the inspiration for Boy No. 32 came from the times you spent with street kids when waiting for the last train back from work during your TV days…
I was always on that last train back to the hostel. All the odds and ends would be on that train: hijras, fisherwomen, some urchin or the other… Because this train was empty, these kids would come and chat. I would have these absolutely fantastic conversations… They would also entertain me. They’d catch those handholds on top and swing from them and do acrobatics… I thought they deserved a book. I thought they deserved for people to look at them as more than just beggars. I wanted people to see them as children.
Were there any other motivations for writing the book?
Boy No. 32 is also about family. That’s what he is looking for. He’s never had family. It also came out of the conversations I had with my daughter about family, because by definition, we are not your standard family: single mom with adopted kid. The fondest, deepest, most loving family can be the family that you choose.
The book seems to have influences of Salman Rushdie: the telepathic communication between the kids and the various elements of fantastic adventure. You seem to be a Rushdie fan – also evident in your first book, Dungeon Tales. If so, do the similarities creep in subconsciously?
I picked up my first Rushdie when I was in college. I just fell into Midnight’s Children. Not as much for the storytelling, but for that the first time I read a book and said, ‘Oh my god, we can tell our stories and people will take us seriously.’ There was Rushdie using Bambaiya… accents… And he tells a truly Indian story. I was like: ‘I can admire an Indian author – and the world admires him as well.’ So, that’s why, for me, always at the back of all my writing is Papa Rushdie sitting there as inspiration.
The book could so easily make a movie. In fact, many of your books can. Is that your TV and film writing at play?
All the books are the movies that will never be made! Look at my animal rights series – climaxes that involve 250 tigers! So, that’s how I use my books. Because in films, you are trying to write stuff that will get made. But in books, you can write stuff that doesn’t have to ever be made – you can just go mad.
Most of your books are aimed at children. Do you find it easier to write for children than adults?
Adults have a whole lot of opinions and prejudices that they might not openly show. And a whole lot of thoughts about what is good reading and bad reading. Kids haven’t done that at all. As long as you are telling a good story and in a funny way, they listen to you.
How did the animal series books come about?
I got so sick of the way people are treating animals. Also because I fell in love with animals. In our family, animals are treated very much as beloved members of family. And I looked around at what we are doing in the world of animals. I said, ‘Animals have nobody to speak for them.’ I said I’m going to do it. And then I decided to talk to kids again – I’m going to tell them great fun stories, and those stories are going to teach them about animal rights, cruelty to animals, the space that animals have in the world and respecting that.
In Soap!, you’ve also talked about the physical problems you had while writing so much, which eventually receded through yoga. Is that you how keep fit and manage to write?
Totally. It saved my life. There is no problem I’ve had that yoga has not fixed.
You don’t intend to return to TV. But any plans to take up a web series, as they seem to be the flavour of the day and are also not saas-bahu?
I hope to do a web series. But what I discovered when I looked at the series that are really popular right now was, I felt I was a bit old and didn’t understand that kind of thinking or – well, not that kind of thinking – that kind of pitch. So, I’ve taken some time off and am just looking at the whole thing: at stuff that’s popular, at youngsters and what they are interested in, at pitch and sur, how it should be different… For me, it’s one more new genre to learn.
Finally, will you be writing on your pan-India trips?
I’ve got all these kinds of offers. ‘Take a camera and shoot it.’ ‘Do a blog.’ ‘Do a series.’ I said no to everything. I said I want to do something just for the fun of it for once. We are doing our tours, meeting people, seeing sights – and eventually I’m sure it will influence my writing. Any kind of adventure you have just deepens you, enriches you and feeds back into your work.
I wrote this piece for the magazine Harmony – Celebrate Age for this month’s issue. Here’s the piece online.
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Destruction and Construction
February 14, 2018 Irfan Syed Leave a comment
In my rapid and rabid discovery of Guru Dutt, after having watched almost all his acted, directed and produced movies and a documentary on him, I have now moved on to his books. I have read three so far, am in the midst of one, have one more to go, and want to get my hands on the only one I don’t have yet, but also the most expensive. (That has letters from GD to the other GD, Geeta Dutt, his better half and singer in almost all his films, written over the 13 years of their togetherness, and so costs what it does. But I will get to it, I will.)
All the books are, aptly, around a certain theme or have a certain leaning. The one I’m reading right now actually is about Abrar Alvi, who wrote the dialogue for his films and directed one (Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam; its songs though, like all GD films, were directed by GD himself). It’s about the 10 years he collaborated with GD, and is thus called Ten Years with Guru Dutt: Abrar Alvi’s Journey. It’s authored by Sathya Saran, former Femina editor, and is structured interestingly: the chapters are named after songs in GD’s movies, and achingly, begins with his death through the Kaagaz ke Phool lament Bichhde sabhi baari baari.
A couple of others (In Black and White: Hollywood and the Melodrama of Guru Dutt, by Darius Cooper, and Guru Dutt: A Tragedy in Three Acts, by Arun Khopkar, translated by Shanta Gokhale) read more academic and go into the realm of philosophy and psychology, regularly bringing up Jung and Freud. While Cooper, as his book’s title goes, talks at length about the various kinds of melodrama in GD’s movies, Khopkar brings up one theme quite often: self-destruction. How self-destruction was a recurring thought in GD’s movies, and although not saying it directly (the scope of the book is not biography, as Khopkar states at the beginning), also in his life.
Since Khopkar looks at GD’s movies through the twin lenses of philosophy and psychology, perhaps we do the same for this comment. What is self-destruction? And through whose eyes? Perhaps “self-destruction” is living your life your way rather than that prescribed by the world, and paying the price for that. As I often say (as I am often at the receiving end of society’s diktats myself), the world / society does two things to an individual who goes against the grain: It tries to bring them “on track”. And if they don’t fall in line, which is the case with most individualistic people, society pronounces them “evil” and marks a tortured path for them.
Guru Dutt was a perfectionist, idealist, humanist and romantic in his movies, and I can safely add, in his life too. And perhaps paid the price for that. Or should I say, self-destructed.
But I also read somewhere that our purpose in life – and here’s adding a spiritual lens to this discourse – is the “completion of the soul”. GD’s movies were full of soul, even the lighter ones (such as Aar Paar and Mr and Mrs 55), and they filled the soul of their viewers, and continue to do so, more than fifty years since he passed on. Hmm, maybe that’s why he departed so early. He had managed the completion of his soul. Hopefully, it rests in peace now.
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Animals / Books | Wonderful as an Animal
March 6, 2017 Irfan Syed Leave a comment
This piece is for the launch issue of VegPlanet, the new quarterly premier lifestyle magazine for vegetarian, vegan and veg-curious folk. This appears in their Media Matters section.
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At The Hindu Lit for Life 2016 litfest, held about a year ago, I had bumped into Venita Coelho, both of whose animal fiction books I had just read then. Venita has been a scriptwriter for serials and films, before recently moving on to authoring and activism. I wished to find out one key thing from her: the motivation for writing these books. Her answer was simple: “Write for children. Adults’ minds are too set.”
Perhaps why much animal writing is aimed at children. So, in this round-up of last year’s best animal-friendly writing, we feature a couple of children’s books, including one by Venita herself. But for good measure, and perhaps to show that all is not lost with adults, we also include one aimed at grown-ups. Happy animal-friendly reading.
The second in Venita’s Animal Intelligence Agency (AIA) series, Dead as a Dodo traces the efforts of three AIA agents – Rana (boy), Bagha (tiger) and Kela (langur) – to save a dodo. A lone member of this extinct species has been miraculously discovered, but as expected, avaricious hunters are in pursuit too, for unscrupulous collectors worldwide. The three sleuths need to take the dodo to safety, so that history does not repeat itself. Like her first book, Tiger by the Tail, this too is racy, with several fantabulous adventures. No wonder it won the fest’s Young World – Goodbooks Award. So, are the three able to save the dodo? The ending is… clever as a fox.
Stephen Alter’s The Secret Sanctuary is more sublime. This too features a trio (all bipeds though), also out on an expedition, but only by chance. As they head out for school one morning, they lose their way in the forest en route, and are forced to spend the night therein. Before too much harm can come to them though, they encounter a naturalist, who helps them navigate through and also educates them in the ways of the jungle. What baffles the kids most is that while they spot and touch many a wild animal, the animal doesn’t see or sense them in response. The premise is simple: animals are meant to be away from humans – and from humans harming them. If only that were true in real life.
As simple and smooth as the previous two books are, South Korean Han Kang’s Man Booker-winning The Vegetarian is as complex and intense. The protagonist, Kim Yeong-hye, decides to turn vegetarian (actually, vegan, as she gives up dairy and leather too), but the story, in three parts, is not from her viewpoint. Kang presumably wants to portray how others perceive veg(an) folk. So, Part 1 has the protagonist’s family not taking her decision well at all, her father even forcing meat down her throat at a get-together. Part 2 is esoteric: her brother-in-law yearns to paint floral-scapes on her bare body, the idea being that a plant-preferring’s person’s skin becomes very alluring. (This may not be so esoteric after all: there are several studies supporting this notion.) Part 3, told from her sister’s perspective, depicts her institutionalization in a mental health facility, as she is seen to take her vegetarianism “to an extreme”. (Now, how often do veggie folk hear that?) Due to its surrealism and structure, Vegetarian is not an entirely easy read, but serves its purpose well: showing how challenging it may be for folk who resolve to lead an animal-friendly life to live that life, especially when they have to do so around unsupportive others. For folk who’ve turned veg(an) in real life though, that’s easy: just think of the animals.
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Irficionado | Every New Book
January 1, 2017 Irfan Syed Leave a comment
It takes a while
Getting into
The geography of a new book,
But once you do,
It ends up changing
The contours of every mental nook.
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Irficionado | Books | ‘Sleeping (Well) on Jupiter’
April 5, 2016 Irfan Syed Leave a comment
I discover Anuradha Roy through a Hindu interview and like her attitude: frank and no-nonsense. I read up more about her and begin liking her voice. I come to know she’s nominated for The Hindu Prize 2015 and wonder if she’ll disappoint a favourite writer nominated alongside, Siddharth Chowdhury, but she doesn’t – neither of them wins, in fact – but am okay; I guess because I haven’t still read her. Then, she wins the DSC Prize (given for South Asian literature) – $50,000, or Rs 32,50,000, the cost of a 1 BHK on the outskirts of Chennai and the nethers of Bombay / Mumbai – and I resolve to finally read her. So, I buy Sleeping on Jupiter, for which she won, just before a 16-day workation to Bombay and Bangkok. And what do I do? I start reading on the way to Bombay, finish two chapters… and then nada through the entire trip and 10 days after that, after returning to Chennai, as I’m busy settling back and then fall sick.
So, although I finally finished it a couple of days ago, because of this long gap, because I lost the flow during that time, this will – criminally – not be a review, but rather just a few points on it.
Right off the blocks, Anuradha writes keenly. The second chapter alone – The First Day – can be a delightful short story in itself. After that, I found her stellar writing continuing, but wasn’t struck by it, but this could be because I was either used to her style by then or due to that damn chasm in reading.
The story itself is not a novel structure – it’s the one with multiple stories (of multiple people) converging at some point, in this invented town of Jarmuli, which sounds like a mongrel of Digha in West Bengal (due to the beach), Konark in Odisha (the famous big temple) and Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh (the erotic sculptures).
I won’t get into the details of the stories, though here’s a sliver: three old women making a trip to the temple town without their families for some time with their best friends, a documentary filmmaker who was adopted as a child coming to trace her bitter past under the pretext of researching for a film on the temple, the cameraman assisting her going through a divorce, a temple guide in love with a server (a guy) at the beach tea-stall… Through them emerge dark and heavy themes of unholy godmen, the frustration of gay love, the spirit-sucking degradation of the faculties in old age, and the despair of failed marriages.
Roy builds up the stories astutely, making them mingle well and at the right time. Does she resolve them, at least some of them? Well, she gives all of them an ending, but not surprisingly, there is melancholy laced in each, and one ends particularly macabre, in fact, you get this right at the end.
Now, due to the reading break, that’s all I will, or can, say about the book. Nevertheless, I do have two comments more. Though this could be the advertising / branding (brand-naming) part of me talking more than the writing part.
For a long time, you wonder about the title of the book. Having almost reached the end and finding no signs of it, you wonder if you’ve missed it, or if you haven’t, then whether Roy won’t reveal it to you. But she fortunately does. And I kinda like it. (I had my own take, just in case, which I’ll share right after.)
So, ‘sleeping on Jupiter’, with its many moons, and their quiet, peaceful, soothing lights – the light of our moon at night times Jupiter’s – promises to be calming for the tortured human soul from earth. There, under that blissful light, you’re free from the tyrannies of vicious godmen, agonizing old age, depressing divorces and scary pasts. Forget Mars, we should target Jupiter.
My take, which I later realised could be considered similar, comes from the Hindi word and Hindu mythology for the planet. Jupiter in Hindi is called ‘brihaspati’ or ‘guru’ (if you consider the day, Thursday, or ‘guruvar’) and is considered a lucky planet (compared with Saturn, called ‘shani’ and regarded as the inauspicious one); and ‘guru’ in Hindi also means a ‘spiritual teacher’. Just what you need to go through the hardships of life. I will help plan that mission to Jupiter.
Finishing the book, I went through the end praise for her previous two books, An Atlas of Impossible Longing and The Folded Earth. So, her titles all seem to employ geography and then twist it? Well, doesn’t life?
So, even though I’m not sure if this was worthy of a $50K award – but again, blame the chasm – but for the titles and her apparent “exploration of the human condition” (just had to use this oft-used phrase by reviewers), going by Sleeping on Jupiter, my appetite is whetted. To the size of Jupiter.
Anuradha Roy receiving the DSC Prize 2015 for ‘Sleeping on Jupiter’
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Irficionado | Writing and Creativity (Since 1921… and Way Earlier)
Wrote this piece for The Hindu’s thREAD. It got published today, the perfect day, Friday, as it’s about movies, and the arts in general. Here’s the link: This Piece on thREAD. And below’s the original piece.
There are about three conversations happening around the super-loved, superhit Kapoor and Sons (Since 1921) right now.
First, it’s a delectable easy-charm, slice-of-life movie that takes the protagonists and the viewers not from A through Z, but to, let’s say, a T. Also, it’s a liner and not a submarine – it cruises along without diving deep. I agree with most of that, but wish it could have gone just a bit deeper; it would have been a “truer” film, like the director, Shakun Batra’s debut Ek Main aur Ekk Tu, which does the opposite of Kapoor and Sons – it goes from A to T and then back to A: the protagonists don’t end up being together at the end, nor seem very likely to.
Next, how insanely good-looking Fawad Khan is, especially shorn of the stubble from his Bollywood debut, Khoobsurat – and people thought that was hot. Fawad has got most girls, and some guys, weak in their knees and other body parts. And there’s talk that just for this delightful import from across the border, we might finally let their cricket team win a World Cup match.
Finally, people are going to town about how sensitively the film-makers have dealt with Fawad’s character, Rahul, being gay. (Did we hear those girls weeping and those guys whooping? Chill, that’s just his character – although he is married in real life.) The LGBT community especially seems ecstatic that the makers have said ‘gay’ without saying ‘gay’ – there’s no mention of the word, not even an indication (even the fuchsia feather boa in the family belongs to his dad) and Rahul isn’t portrayed as disco/Cher-loving or shirt-chasing. I think the makers could have gone better here too – while no one uses the G word, Rahul’s mom treats him, at least as soon as she comes to know of his “truth”, with the same disgust most queer people find themselves at the receiving end of. But portrayals of LGBT characters in our movies rarely go beyond those effete, pink-loving stereotypes, so this is at least two-steps-forward, one-step-back.
But I’d like to bring a fourth, and perhaps more discussion-worthy, conversation to the Burma-teak table. Before that, the context-setting.
Rahul and his younger bro, Arjun, are both writers. However, Rahul is the successful one and Arjun the struggler. Rahul’s second book has been a huge success – although his first tanked – and he’s presently working on the third. In fact, he seems to be doing well enough to come to his home-town, Coonoor, to scout for a bungalow to turn into an artists’ retreat. Arjun, in contrast, is struggling with more than just his writing. He’s recently given up, after a short stint, his gig of blogging about Bollywood and is presently making ends meet as a part-time bartender. In his spare time, he is working on a book, his second one, after having given up the first because it “somehow” proved to be very similar to Rahul’s second/successful book. (Did Rahul sneak a peek and get “inspired”? For that, you’ll have to watch the movie.)
Setting aside their differences for a while, in the second half, the brothers begin talking about Arjun’s manuscript. Arjun shares that the publisher has asked him to change the ending as it’s a not happy one, but he is, um, not happy with doing that. Why? Because he believes “books, or literature, should reflect real life – and real life is never happy.”
However, toward the end, as the movie moves toward its T point, we see Arjun reneging: he makes the book end positively. At the publishers’, when asked how he finally relented, warmly recalling Rahul’s reflections to him (more about this later), he offers, “Based on someone’s suggestion…”
As a writer and creative individual (or so the hope), this seemed a more primal point for discussion than how deep a movie should go, how lovely a lad looks, or how a gay guy can love other colours in the rainbow flag.
The great books, even the good ones – and by this I mean literature and not “racy, pacy reads” – have almost always ended sad. From Homer to Shakespeare to Hardy to living authors, it’s like a defining trait of literature that it shouldn’t end joyous. And I believe this is for the good: people read these books, not so much to escape their pain, but to empathize with others in a parallel universe somewhere dealing with the same kinds of pathos. As we see our troubles equalled, or even surpassed, in literary characters, we are assuaged – kind of like a therapy session right at home, or wherever you choose to read. And while these characters are fictional, lit-lovers know that somewhere these are either alter egos of the writers or amalgamated versions of people the writer has met or observed.
While I haven’t read Iliad and very little of Shakespeare and Hardy, let me talk of the ones I have, right from my favourite authors and books to more recent literature.
Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, while mesmerizing to read right from the first Buendian (the family in the story) to the last, eventually ends up in loss for the family. As the second-last Buendian loses himself more and more in academia, the last Buendian, the baby, loses his little life, Second-Last failing to pay attention to Last’s precarious situation. A century on, the family is back to solitude.
In Naipaul’s tender, tearful A House for Mr Biswas, there is almost no relief for Mr B through the expansive tome. As he sees his third and final house slowly disintegrating, his life too seeps away, at the ripe old age of… 46.
Even in Marquez’s ultimately-happy Love in the Time of Cholera, the lovers meet only after “51 years, 9 months and 4 days.” Many would say, where’s the joy in that?
Or take the recent DSC winners (an award given for South Asian writing, which seems to be going India’s way over the last few years, just like the Ms Worlds/Ms Universes were once upon a time). Cyrus Mistry’s Chronicle of A Corpse Bearer deals with the many tragedies in the life of the titular khandhia, from his excommunication from his caste on marrying a woman “below” him to the death of his wife at a very young age. Even the most recent winner that I’m in the middle of now, Anuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter, deals with many dark and heavy themes: the not-so-holy doings of some (all?) godmen, the frustration inherent in most gay romances (the flavour of the season?), and the spirit-leeching deterioration of the faculties in old age. I’m yet to know how it ends, but it surely doesn’t augur well.
So, if literature ends up being tragic yet triumphant, and he isn’t writing a book with a number in its title or a Hindu mythological figure as its hero, why does Arjun end up modifiying its ending?
The answer perhaps lies where it started – in our movies. Many Bollywood directors (no doubt, there are examples in other Indian cinemas too, but I am a Big Bolly Buff) make a great first movie – a movie from their heart and soul – but which doesn’t do ting at the tills as it’s too “real”, and so change tack and make a more “commercially viable” movie henceforth, which not surprisingly works.
Ayan Mukerji made the wondrous Wake Up Sid, which despite all its acclaim at best only woke up, rather than shook up, the box office. So, he moved to more commercial elements, such as a more saleable leading lady and foreign locales, and delivered the blockbuster Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.
Zoya Akhtar first gave us, or me (as it’s my favourite film of all time), the rich, deep, involving Luck By Chance, which had layers upon layers of psychology, nuance, complexity, and then some. But apart from folk like me who watched it 15 times, it had little luck. So, she swerved to the big, vapid Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and then the bigger and only less vacuous Dil Dhadakne Do.
Finally, and ironically, Shakun Batra himself. He debuted with, as I already wrote, the ruminative Ek Main aur Ekk Tu, where the hero-heroine remain ek main aur ekk tu, but never ek hum (one you, one me, but never one us): the heroine, Kareena Kapoor, feels they are nice individuals in their own place but can’t be together, at least she doesn’t see it that way. Not surprisingly, the movie was seen by ek-do (one-two) folk. And so, in Kapoor and Sons, Shakun had Arjun and Tia (Alia Bhatt) hooking up by the end. And perhaps, to be doubly sure, he made Rahul prefer men. (Oh, was that the real reason for the character being gay?)
To be fair, these directors might be attempting a golden middle. In a mini-interview to a different part of The Hindu, about which book he’s reading presently (Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace), Shakun had this to say: “The book talks about finding the balance between telling the stories you have to tell and fighting the battle you have to fight… It gives a lot of perspective and also makes me feel that it is possible to not sell your soul and make a film that connects with people.”
Your first creative endeavour goes under. You don’t want the next to suffer the same fate. Any wonder then that in making its ending a happy one, Arjun makes a practical decision. He wants to be successful – and if this is the only thing stopping him – why not, in a manner of speaking, lower your ideals?
Now, to all the writers/creative souls out there: what would you do? Write (pen/direct) a real but less saleable story? Or a happy and more successful one? That is, write for the self – or to sell? Or is there a golden middle?
As you begin writhing over that, let me finally share the suggestion Rahul gives Arjun, which leads to the modified ending, “Because people find real life tough, they look for happiness in stories…”
Now what would you do?
Agonizing, huh? Well, such is life. And I guess, literature.
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January 28, 2016 Irfan Syed Leave a comment
In the Dork trilogy, Sidin Vadukut expects us to suspend disbelief, over all the dumb things the protagonist, Robin “Einstein” Varghese, does, for which he somehow eventually receives fantastic payoffs. In ‘The Sceptical Patriot’, Vadukut urges us to do just the opposite.
Subtitl ed ‘Exploring the Truth Behind the Zero and Other Indian Glories*’ (the asterisk denoting ‘Conditions apply’), Vadukut’s first book of non-fiction goads us to have a skeptical, enquiring mind toward all the glorious “truths” that are hurled our way by jingoistic politicians, cultural chauvinists and lazy history books, instead of accepting them at face value. “Facts” such as India invented the zero, Sushruta performed the world’s first plastic surgery, this great land never invaded another land in the past 10,000 years, J C Bose invented the radio before Marconi, and Taxila/Takshashila was the world’s oldest university.
Vadukut aims to get to the heart of the “truth”, with a lot of research, referencing and reading. Plus an army of questions. In the chapter on Taxila, he has us mull over how exactly to define a university. In the one about the Chola kings, he urges to keep looking and digging for further and deeper truth. And in the one on the invention of the radio, he makes us consider: an invention isn’t as easy a definition as GK books make us believe – many inventors may have invented things that enabled the final inventor (or assimilator) to come up with that invention; so, who do you really credit it to?
Intentions aside, Vadukut is candid enough to admit that this is at best a “pop history” book and some discussions are beyond its scope. Fair enough. For he doesn’t aim to establish the truth, but like any ideal guide, or even teacher, he urges us to find out the truth for ourselves. Nevertheless, he does share the “truth” according to him: at the end of each chapter that examines a particular popular India “fact”, he gives a truth scale, offering his opinion of the said truth. And leaves each chapter with a few questions for the reader (learner) to chew on.
However, Vadukut hasn’t abandoned his trademark gut-busting humour, though it can’t be abundant in a book of this nature; else, it wouldn’t have been just ‘pop’, but actually junk. In the Sushruta chapter, he goes, ‘We don’t care if plastic surgery was invented in India by Bijumon Biryanveetil or Blossom Babykutty. All we want to know is if they did this before anybody, anywhere else.’
Vadukut also shows that he can write. You don’t see this in Dork; Dork is distractingly funny. However, he shows he can layer and build stories, in the process, making non-fiction absorbing. The way he does this is by beginning each chapter with an extremely tangential anecdote or experience and then eventually linking it to the “fact” under exploration. For the one on Taxila, he begins with his visit to the Edinburgh castle, where he learns how impregnable it was designed to be. He then moves on to how India had a natural barrier from almost all sides due to its location (the seas in the south and the mountains in the north and north-east) – which is why all invaders came from the north-west. He finally comes to talking of Taxila’s location – it had to be where it was for where else would you see so much interaction in those times?
‘The Sceptical Patriot’ thus comes across as a very admirable and even brave effort. Someone questioning, and urging us to question, the veracity of these “time-honoured” statements. However, it is also a sign of the times that Vadukut has to bookend the heart of the book with disclaimers (at the beginning) and worries of the culture vultures coming after him next (at the end): ‘This is going to piss off a lot of people, and I am buying asbestos underwear as I type, but…’. However, Vadukut need have no such worry. He lives and works out of London. And maybe that’s just why and how he can afford to write such a book: the safety of distance and objectivity. If he had been here, he would have had to do a waapsi of the signing amount he got for this book, at the very least.
Which brings you to a question of your own: wonder if this book will have a series too? Given its intention and quality, there should be. So, dare I predict the names of books two and three? ‘God Save the Sceptical Patriot’ and ‘Who Let the Sceptical Patriot Out?’ Bring them on.
If interested, check out Sidin’s blog here, where he writes with the nom de plume, Domain Maximus: Whatay
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January 25, 2016 Irfan Syed 1 Comment
You read a book by an author you haven’t read before. You like it. You read up about the author. You like what you read. Then, you meet the author at a literary fest. And promptly fall in love with them. Literarily. Not literally.
I spotted Siddharth Chowdhury on the very first day of the just-concluded The Hindu Lit for Life 2016. Siddharth was there as his new book, ‘The Patna Manual of Style’, was shortlisted for The Hindu Prize for Fiction. I read the book a couple of months back, after reading glowing reviews of it, and found it sweet, simple, soft, warm. His storytelling and language are so simple that it makes you believe you can be a successful writer yourself. And I mean this in a good way, of course.
So, there Siddharth was at one of the event organizer tables at the entrance, signing a cheque. (From what I could gather, there must have been some change of plan, for which he was presently having to pay out of his pocket, and I guess he would be reimbursed later.) A few people were coming up, not to speak with him, but for inquiries, believing him to be one of the organizers. But since he seemed to be busy, they just picked up the event brochure and left. I took the opportunity to approach him with what I thought was a clever introduction line, “Hey, Siddharth, you shouldn’t stand here as they’ll think you’re on the organizing committee.” And before he could wonder who hadn’t mistaken him for an organizer, I quickly added, “I know your name because I’ve read your book, loved it, and am waiting to speak with you.”
Cheque-signing over, Siddharth was free to speak with me. While I shared with him whatever I wanted to talk to him about, I couldn’t help noticing how soft-spoken he seemed to be. Even shy. Even benign. Even like a mouse. (And I mean this in a good way, of course.) I was a little surprised by this, for on the inside back cover of the book is a photo of his where he seems to be from a regal family, and therefore a bit unapproachable. The same pic was on the board nearby that spotlighted the names and books of all the nominated authors. I told him so. I don’t remember his exact reaction now, but it was… benign.
I spotted who seemed to be his wife and kid close by, and then parts of the book (which is actually several parts of his life autobiographized) came back to me: going to Calcutta/Kolkata to ask for his to-be wife’s hand from her parents, making out with her with implorations of “no, not on the chin, like a dog” (she), his wife encouraging his writerly dreams… It’s surreal watching a writer’s life, or at least parts of it, unraveling in front of you. Or at least, you think it is: for what if rather than autobiographizing it, he, being a writer, was actually concocting it?
And then, we spoke about his book and writing. The book is a 143-pager, comprising several short stories that are interconnected. While it’s a pleasure to read, I shared with him that it’s perhaps too short, at least too short to win a major award like this. He told me his writing is very short (so I need to go and read his other books). And left me with – when I asked him, despite the size of the book, whether he fancies his chances at the award – a not-so-benign, but utterly-filled-with-candour, “No way!” And that’s when I was smitten with Siddharth. Again, literarily of course.
I read more about him at night, and saw him the next day too. He was all dressed up as the award ceremony was in the afternoon. He, like the other authors, would be reading a bit from his book. Wished him luck. Asked for his card (didn’t have it). Wondered if it would be okay to drop in to meet him if and when I’m next in Delhi (he’s an editorial consultant at Manohar Publishers). Went for the session. Watched him read. Watched him receive a generous response. And watched him not winning. Sigh. (The winner was Easterine Kire for ‘When the River Sleeps’.) Heard my mind go: ‘Rigged’. ‘Unfair’. ‘Boohoo’.
In my two interactions with him, as I’ve already written, I found Siddharth Chowdhury to be as gentle as a Red Panda (what’s with my animal analogies, and hope he doesn’t mind, or better doesn’t see this). And then, his writing seemed to unravel some more. ‘The Patna Manual of Style’, as I see it, should be called ‘The Writer’s Manual of Style’, or even ‘The Siddharth Chowdhury Manual of Writing’: simple, warm musings and anecdotes of a writer’s aspirations (‘ambitions’ is too strong a word for someone like Siddharth and for his writing), muses, rigours (the chapter about a day in the life of a writer, titled unassumingly ‘Autobiography’), insecurities (the first chapter where he loses his job). And the best part is, it’s part of a series (the previous two being ‘Day Scholar’ and ‘Patna Roughcut’, from what I know). No, the real best part is the name Siddharth gives his protagonist, or alter ego (as it’s autobiographized). ‘Hriday’. ‘Heart’ in Hindi. Not ‘Dil’, also ‘heart’ in Hindi, but which sounds commercial and coarse. But ‘hriday’, a softer word. Or a word that’s more… benign.
My hriday looks forward to more from gentle little Siddharth Chowdhury.
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Irficionado | Books | Something’s Amish
January 21, 2016 Irfan Syed 2 Comments
I read Amish’s first book in the Shiva trilogy (‘The Immortals of Meluha’, his first book ever, which also shot him to spectacular, overnight fame), soon after it released and on taking in all the buzz, up to page 100, that too with a lot of self-pushing, and gave up. The writing was too every day.
I like mythology, especially Hindu mythology, which almost blends into the religious domain. And I like Shiva – his wild appearance, his yin-yang forces of masculinity-femininity, the anger he harnesses within, which when provoked, manifests through his taandav dance or, in rare cases, through the opening of his third eye, and eventually his power to destroy (which is actually aimed at restoring balance in the world). But I need my writing (that is, the writing in the books I read) to be as engaging as the story itself. Which is why I gave up on Amitav Ghosh too (many of his fans themselves say his books are tremendous… from a research perspective, and therefore a delight… for academics).
Now, why would somebody who had an interesting subject (to the best of my memory, no Indian writer had written fiction around Shiva before this; they have on Ram – through the Ramayana – and on the Mahabharata, but not the Destroyer God) not write mesmerizingly on it too? The session with Amish at the recently concluded The Hindu Lit for Life litfest provided some answers, or better still, some insights. (Interviewing Amish was Vaishna Roy, Associate Editor, The Hindu, who I’ve met and corresponded with a couple of times.)
One of the first questions to Amish was about something he himself has stated earlier: he gets the plot of his books and its details through some “divine inspiration”. He just sits at his laptop and sees clearly the pictures he’s going to paint, and the writing just flows. Amish has also said how he’s a Shiva bhakt and believes Shiva, and the other gods (or people), did exist. (He also reveals how he was atheist for a long time before he turned believer.) If you want to read “divine inspiration” in another way, it can mean pure talent. So, Amish has the innate talent for this; it’s, well, God-given. But now, if his books seem more like recordings than narrations, that means… he does nothing more with his talent. No developing it, no growing it, no interfering with it. Stasis. (Which also means that if one day, the talent deserts or subsides within him, then what? No worries. The author is also a good speaker and businessman – he kept goading attendees to buy and read his books – and can rely on these other talents to see him through. Plus, in India, there are enough takers for mythology/religion.)
That however was only one part of the story. The tale unraveled further when Amish answered another question (and the most exacting one of the interview, in my opinion). “Your writing seems a bit utilitarian.” A euphemism for “functional”, or worse, banal. (Good one, Vaishna.) Amish fielded this one as well as he did the other questions (he came across as being as diplomatic as the other hugely successful writer on Hindu mythology, though in non-fiction, in India, Devdutt Pattanaik), saying that each style (pedestrian vs poetic) has its merits and serves a function, and in a very cloistered way, agreed that his writing is not, to use another euphemism, ambitious.
The decider though was yet to come. When asked about the kind of books he reads, Amish answered that while he reads a lot, and has been doing so for a long time (4-5 books per month), only 15%, at the most, 20% of it is fiction; 80-85% is non-fiction. Based on the kind of writing he produces, I dare say this non-fiction is more detail-based than narrative. And there I guess you have it. Why Amish writes the way he does.
If I had to read interesting mythology, I’d go to Arundhathi Subramaniam, author/poet on spirituality and culture, who has written a book on Buddha and who chaired a session on female Indian mystic poets at the litfest. I still wouldn’t go to Devdutt, who I believe merely presents (or worse, packages) mythology (though he knows a lot about it, and well, packages even better when speaking). For non-fiction (non-fiction that actually reads like fiction), I’d go to someone like Bishwanath Ghosh, also Associate Editor, The Hindu, who I met at the fest too. And for fiction that reads like narrative non-fiction – it’s that easy and simple and warm – I’d go to someone like Siddharth Chowdhury, who too I met at the fest. And about who I’d be blogging about next.
Really, Amish, I’m more than happy to give you A-miss. And now, I know just why.
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Powerful winds in India 4 Co-location of core materials and kitting operations 8 Efficient wind turbine repairs 10 Next-gen aerial fire suppression systems 12 Supporting a young British sailing team preparing for the Olympics 14 Upcycling composites into innovative interior design 16 Sustainable packaging 17 World’s first electric, zero emissions racing yacht ‘J-Bird III’ 18 Sustainable forestry in Ecuador 22 Opportunities for a green value chain 24 Green hydrogen on the way 26 From bottle to boat 28 IMOCA 60s at the Vendée Globe race around the world 30 Longest wind turbine blade mold ever built 33 Development of environmentally friendly technologies 34 Placing safety at the center of our operations 38
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Dear Reader, The year 2020 came at us from unexpected directions. We are faced with a worldwide pandemic which impacts our personal lives and curtails our individual freedom, spreading fear in economies in both free and controlled global societies. It has shown us limits of doing business globally and added unpredictability into our undertakings. COVID-19 has, however, not only resulted in visible losses of human life and resources, it has introduced disruptive change to the way we live, and ultimately, the way we do business as well. We at Gurit have all worked extremely hard to deal with the new – and hopefully temporary – reality of keeping our business afloat by strictly applying the health rules while serving our customers who are also struggling. Concerns for colleagues, relatives and friends affected by the virus, crippling supply chain disruptions, transportation challenges, multiple and sequential customer plant “stopand-starts”, running with incomplete shifts – this year has had it all – and still does. Thank you all for going the extra mile, and leading and acting with confidence and perseverance. Despite the challenges the pandemic has presented, together we were able to achieve continued business growth of 4.1% in the first nine months of 2020. And yes, we managed to open our new Mexican plant for both kitting and extrusion, and we continued our India expansion for materials, tooling and kitting. We have leased the sites and hired the first people, and by the end of 2020 we will be opening a third kitting plant in China – this time in Wenan. These achievements clearly demonstrate our passion, capability, courage and confidence as team Gurit. We have also continued to implement our new corporate values, mission and our vision “with passion for a sustainable future”. In this issue of SHAPE, you will see sustainability initiatives undertaken by our company, our customers, suppliers and wider markets.
Sustainability is an important driver of our strategy and operations. And we continue to place Health and Safety in the foreground. The wellbeing of our colleagues and customers is fundamental to our collective success. And with our Safety-First training program launched during 2020, we are ensuring that safety is embedded in our culture and remains at the top of everyone’s mind. We trained well and so far, we have hit the first third of our 50% H&S improvement goal for 2020-2022. Climate neutrality at Gurit is another key direction – not only supporting renewable Wind Energy and Lightweighting, but also achieving it in a sustainable way. We will announce our climate neutrality target date by the end of this year and we will publish our greenhouse gas footprint in our next Sustainability Report. On a personal note, this will be the last editorial you will read from me in the function of CEO of Gurit. Thirteen years have passed in a blink – challenging, exciting, interesting and run with all the dedication I could possibly give to this company. As of January 4, 2021 we will begin handover tasks to my successor, Mitja Schulz. Please give him the same loyalty, commitment and passion I was so grateful to receive from you during my many years in office. Yours sincerely, Rudolf Hadorn CEO November 2020
Powerful winds in India The growth in renewable energy in India is proving to be one of the most effective solutions for reducing the need for fossil fuels, limiting coal imports and shrinking environmental pollution. Wind and solar energy are leading the way towards a green and clean electricity supply for the country. A rapidly growing Indian wind energy market Wind power generation capacity in India has grown to 37 gigawatts in 2020. The Government now has an ambitious plan to add 20-25 gigawatts of wind energy in the next three to four years. The goal is to increase India’s wind energy contribution to 20% in total of the electrical energy pie, and to reduce greenhouse gases.
With an annual production of 7 gigawatts of wind turbines for domestic use and exports, India contributes 10% of the global wind turbine production and has become an export hub for wind blades with large numbers being exported to Europe and the USA. This trend is expected to accelerate over the coming years.
The Indian wind energy market is on the upswing and becoming a major global force for harnessing renewable energy. It has attracted a significant amount of foreign investment over the years. Wind power is one of the key renewable energy sources for electricity generation in India and the country is now ranked as the fourth largest country globally for installed wind energy capacity after China, USA and Germany.
Wind farms as a job creator Wind energy farms have spread across the South, West and North regions of India. A major advantage of wind energy farms is their ability to support rural employment and uplift the rural Indian economy.
The biggest advantage however is that with wind energy, the fuel is free, and it does not produce direct CO2 emissions. Wind farms can also be built reasonably fast and the wind farmland can be used for either farming or solar power plants as well – therefore serving a dual purpose. It is also cost-effective compared to other forms of power generation.
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"Gurit has been serving the Indian wind industry for well over a decade. With global Wind Turbine Generator OEMs confirming their strong local and export books in India, which combined represent almost 10% of annual global demand, Gurit is taking major steps to invest in India by setting up two additional manufacturing plants. This will create proximity, supply flexibility and provide a much increased level of competitiveness." Prashant Kshirsagar Director and Head of Sales of Gurit in India
New wind turbine production hubs Several wind turbine makers have set up manufacturing facilities in India and have introduced the latest-generation turbine models. Since 2007 Gurit has been operational in India from facilities based in Pune, with a strong field workforce for servicing the wind energy market with both tooling and composite materials for wind blade producers and repairers. Specializing in advanced composite solutions for the wind turbine manufacture and repair industry, Gurit already has many established wind clients both in India and globally.
These market opportunities further strengthen Gurit’s competitiveness and contribute to further promoting sustainable energy solutions. Gurit has recently announced that, by the end of 2021, it will install a new PET extrusion plant in India, kitting facilities in the North and South of India as well as a tooling production site for wind blade molds. These significant commitments reflect Gurit’s support of this thriving wind energy market with state-of-the art, modern facilities in the country.
What trends do you see in the Wind market in general and considering the current economic environment? “India and new markets with a lot of potential are growing. It is an exciting time to be involved in the wind energy sector! Over the past five years, new solutions and larger rotors reduced the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) of renewable wind power. The speed of this development is constantly increasing. Driven by the longer blades, we are seeing a fast transition to use PET and towards split blade technologies. I also believe that governments will speed up the transition towards renewable energy sources. To ensure continued success of this development, we must do our best as a supplier to the industry to reduce LCoE. In the core kitting part of the business I am responsible for, we excel at developing kits that improve lay-up time, reduce material use, and create a stable and repeatable infusion flow for our customers.”
Andreas Kipker General Manager Kitting Business Unit
What are our strengths in the market?
Bing Chen General Manager Tooling Business Unit
“Gurit offers a wide range of solutions to the wind blade industry. Building on the knowledge from across product ranges, we can challenge ourselves to always be frontrunners in terms of technological development. At the Tooling business unit we continue to drive innovation with further automation solutions to improve performance and cycle times. With the wind blades becoming longer, real estate, materials movement and production facilities have grown in size as well. To balance out these additional costs, we need to reduce the cycle times. And this is exactly what we are doing with our innovation efforts for the wind blade molds and blade making processing equipment. Together with strong engineering teams as well as an excellent field technical support and installation workforce, we will continue to provide value and support the transition to clean sources of power generation.”
“Gurit’s offering is unique, as we provide tooling for the wind blade mold, a wide range of advanced composite materials, the core kitting services as well as repair solutions to maintain and extend the wind turbine blades’ life time. Now we are especially looking forward to expanding our footprint in a promising market such as India, to adding local extrusion capacity and implementing our co-location strategy to demonstrate an efficient collaboration with kitting services. I am very much looking forward to also following and supporting our customers in this part of the world.”
Ernst Lutz General Manager Wind Materials Business Unit
Co-location of core materials and kitting operations Reducing cost, waste and transport emissions One of the key aspects that are making the wind energy sector so successful today is the scalability of the technology, especially in terms of blade size. Enormous developments have been made in the field of wind turbine construction. The largest turbines are approaching the height of the Eiffel tower as blades are getting longer and rotor diameters now reach the 200-meter mark. This is not only impressive from a constructional point of view, it also has a significant impact on performance. These larger turbines capture and transform more energy during their lifetime, ultimately resulting in a substantial cost reduction for the electricity produced – the
so-called levelized cost of energy. As cost parity with fossil fuel-based power generation has now been reached, wind farms have become competitive and economically viable even without government subsidies. Wind has therefore become one of the largest sources of clean, renewable power.
Gurit’s co-location strategy As a supplier to the wind turbine market with wind blade tooling, composite materials and core kits, Gurit contributes along various steps of the value chain with continuous improvements and innovations to further reduce the overall cost of wind power – all while maintaining or improving
Traditional raw material to turbine supply chain
Raw Material Providers
Core Manufacturers
Engineering Kit Manufacturers
Blade Manufacturer
"On the wind industry sustainability path, many avenues will be explored and deliver improvements. Gurit’s co-location model presents both advances in further reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but also makes total cost improvements to support the Industry." Mathieu Cariou Director Strategy & Business Development Wind, Gurit
properties. Co-location is about reducing transport emissions, storage space, time and allowing for significant recycling of raw materials. The recipe is simple and effective: PET core material production sites, with so-called extruders placed in the vicinity of kitting operations. Instead of weeks of sea-freight or long truck journeys, the locally produced Kerdyn Green PET structural foam cores are transported to the kitting factory next door – a five-minute journey using a forklift. This represents a huge reduction in transport emissions and the material can be processed much faster, speeding up the entire supply chain. Also, instead of keeping large stocks at two sites, these can be reduced, dynamically optimized and managed. The product properties remain the same at all sites globally, so
in the event of a local shortage, the material can be sourced flexibly from another site.
Recycling of waste PET core material A second important aspect is that the proximity allows for the core material leftovers from kitting operations, in the form of PET dust or cut parts, to be fully recycled back into the extruder operations. This saves further truck journeys and prevents landfilled or incinerated waste by simply recycling it into the production process. This is a great example of how sustainability is at the very heart of our daily operations here at Gurit.
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Co-location raw material to turbine supply chain Wind dedicated industrial park
Raw and Recycled Material Providers
Engineering Kit Manufacturer
Regionally Focused Supply Chain
Efficient wind turbine repairs The wind turbine repair industry is growing due to the high number of existing wind turbines approaching an advanced age in their service life and in need of more frequent maintenance. It is vital that wind farms are kept in optimum working conditions to ensure they are running at the highest energy generation capacity. Furthermore, these increases in efficiency streamline costs for the turbine owners and supply more energy back to the grid. For these reasons, regular preventative maintenance is commonly carried out, increasing the demand for materials and repair solutions for on- and offshore wind turbine generators around the world.
Maintenance extending the service life Wind turbines are typically designed for a service life of around 20 to 25 years. During this time, maintenance and repair procedures ensure the ongoing structural integrity of the wind turbines and prevent catastrophic failures. Problems need to be detected and repaired as fast as possible to keep downtime to an absolute minimum. According to CompositesWorld.com, an out-of-service turbine can cost between USD 800 and 1600 per day, with most repairs taking one to three days. If a crane is required to repair or replace a blade, the cost can run up to USD 350,000 per week. An average blade repair can cost up to USD 30,000, and a new blade costs, on average, about USD 200,000. Major corrective maintenance could be the replacement or repair of the gearbox, the main shaft, generator, bearings or one of the rotor blades. Blade damage can occur from handling, installation, weather conditions and environmental impacts. Deterioration during operation is most common, with lightning strikes, debris, wind and constant temperature changes battering the wind blades, causing blade surface 10
erosion, critical bonding areas to start separating or even more compromising damage to the composite structure. Any of these critical components will likely render the turbine inoperable for some time and the current repair solutions are critically impacted by temperature and humidity, reducing the repair teams’ access to the turbines throughout the year.
The repair portfolio applies to a wide range of repairs, from blade-finishing or bonding of ancillary or retrofitting of parts, either in the factory, where the de-molded blade can require some finishing, or repairs to in-field situations on the turbine in operation.
Repair time reduced from two days to four hours Efficient repair solutions contribute to minimizing downtime, for example through materials availability, processing and applied properties. Gurit has a range of OEM qualified & certified, low toxicity epoxy materials for all in-factory blade finishing and repairs including laminating and infusion resins, fillers, adhesives and gelcoats. Building on its in-depth understanding of the materials from which wind blades are made, Gurit has developed new technologies and dedicated solutions for infield maintenance that act to extend the life cycle of wind turbine blades. Gurit offers a wide range of products available in two curing techniques: thermal & UV light. For example, the Ampreg™ low toxicity, thermally curing laminating system, is supplied in a range of dispensing solutions and small packs, ideally suited for use in challenging situations. Gurit’s UV-curing technology-based RENUVO™ moves from a two-day operation using thermal solutions, to a fourhour operation using a new generation UV lamp. This saves on up-tower trips, allows covering several repairs in less time and reducing cure time from hours to minutes. The added health and safety benefits include less systems handling and limited risk of spillage. Modern UV lights have become compact and lightweight, so today UV-curing is an attractive option for both in-field and in-factory repairs.
A dedicated team at Gurit consisting of technical specialists, product developers as well as a worldwide distribution network with dedicated partners is being built up to address various stakeholders’ needs. For more information, contact our Wind Repair Sales Expert klavs.weis-fogh@gurit.com
"With an increasing share of wind rotor parks now reaching an advanced age, the industry is looking at solutions targeting increased average operation efficiencies as well as extending equipment
Gurit wind blade repair portfolio
life. Our experience across all aspects of the blade manufacture makes Gurit
Ampreg™ Laminating PRIME™ Infusion Filling & Fairing Spabond™ Adhesive Gelcoat Repair System UV-Curing RENUVO™
the prime partner for OEMs and wind park operators for the development and delivery of solutions during the whole blade life." Mathieu Cariou Director Business Development Wind, Gurit 11
Next-gen aerial fire suppression systems
Helitak is a firefighting specialist, designing and manufacturing rotary aerial firefighting equipment. With well over a decade of research and development, Helitak has developed an efficient, compact, reliable and cost-effective fire tank, constructed with advanced composite materials from Gurit.
Helitak’s CEO and Chief Engineer, Jason Schellaars, is a helicopter firefighting pilot. As a commercial pilot and engineer by trade, Jason identified the need for a user-friendly, easyto-install, all-in-one plug and play fire suppression unit for use in the helicopter industry. He is supported by an expert team and together they ensure consistently high standards of innovation, design and manufacture. 12
Helitak has been operating since 2006 and the first commercial Helitak Fire Tank was exported to the United States in 2007. The Helitak Fire Tank was also featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “New Inventors” TV show in 2009. The tank design was the clear winner and collected the people’s choice award.
Custom-built fire tanks The underbelly fire tanks are custom-built for each make and type of helicopter, with a carrying capacity ranging from 1000 to 10000 liters (250 to 2645 US Gal). The top section of the tank is constructed from carbon fiber with a Gurit Corecell™ M foam core, infused with Gurit epoxy resin Prime™ 27, and the design is such that no modifications are required to the aircraft. The extendable bag is manufactured from a specially sourced, heavy-grade, hard-wearing and tear-resistant vinyl material – rated to 15 tons. The tanks have builtin compartments housing the electrical systems, microprocessor control unit, hydraulic components as well as the foam dispensing tank and pumps. Fail-safe door operation allows the doors to open following a loss of power. Drop sequencing can be variably controlled by the pilot from the easy-touse cockpit controller.
Black Hawks attacking wildfires The Australian-made Helitak FT4500 Black Hawk aerial firefighting tank is a 450-litre-capacity aerial suppression system installed to the underbelly of the Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter. A predominantly carbon composite shell provides the structural integrity of Helitak’s newest tank to hit the global market. Helitak completes load testing to 4.4 g of the Design Limit Load, around 20,000 kgs, on the tank shell to pass the strict international aviation certification regulations.
"Helitak chose Gurit to partner in our very important supply chain to provide a range of consistent-quality composite materials. So we can confidently stand by our product range and boast being the best ‘next-generation’ fire tank on the global market to help combat the growing bushfire and wildfire problems our planet is experiencing." Paul Blundell Operations Manager Helitak Firefighting Equipment PTY LTD
Helitak has a range of tanks to suit the most popular helicopters commonly used in fire suppression and have expanded their product line to include a range of high-volume hover pumps and a microprocessor controller unit and mapping systems.
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Supporting a young British sailing team preparing for the Olympics
"We are honored to be supported by a company with such a successful history in the marine industry and an ongoing commitment to sustainability. This partnership with Gurit will allow us to dedicate even more time to training and let us focus on our ultimate goal." Alice Masterman, Mastfell Sailing Team
Gurit is pleased to announce a partnership with the Mastfell Sailing Team as they prepare for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, participating in the 49erFX class. Members of the British Sailing Team, Alice Masterman and Bella Fellows hold national championship titles and continue to coach while training.
Lance Hill, General Manager of Gurit’s Marine/Industrial Business Unit, states: “It is our pleasure to support the next generation of sailors and it underlines our long-standing experience and dedication to the boatbuilding industry, both in the UK and worldwide.” The team’s commitment to their ambition is impressive. Not only are they intent on their Olympic training, they are also attentive to the environmental needs of the locations in which they practice. Alice Masterman tells us: “In the build-up to a competition, we like to arrive at the venue a few weeks in advance, have a solid training camp and then take a break and remove ourselves from the venue. This way, we can come back to the venue refreshed and with a clear mind and in regatta mode. It’s vital to be prepared with a list of spares, ready-made sheets & halyards and a toolbox with everything in it. Gurit have provided us with a package that ensures that, if we ever have a collision or breakage to our hull (touch wood we won’t have to use it!), we can make a quick repair to get out that day or to make sure we are all good to go the following day. Part of our volunteering as an athlete representative includes beach clean-ups which have become a regular event at big sailing competitions. All the competitors will join together to partake in a beach clean and help show the surrounding community that we plan to leave a clean footprint when we leave – encouraging them to treat the beach with the same respect.” www.mastfellsailing.co.uk 15
Upcycling composites into innovative interior design From wind turbine blades to exclusive furniture When a wind turbine has provided energy for its entire lifecycle, one significant challenge remains. It is the complex task of taking care of the waste that is the no longer an operational wind blade. To get closer to solving this issue and finding a second life, an innovative mindset is required. An inventive example is what MM Composites does.
They have found a way to reuse materials from wind turbine blades to create Polishing a table plate produced from recycled composites uniquely styled furniture. No piece is like any other and the initiative supports the growing trend of recycling and reusing different materials. MM Composite is a global company based in Denmark, which manufactures high-quality composite products for the wind industry. Marc Dullum Project Manager, MM Composite
A major inspiration for the development of these distinctive furniture pieces was the interest for the circular economy and recycling. The project started with in-house experimenting with fiberglass and left-over material from their wind industry production. The result is a range of “Exclusive Table Plates from Recycled Fiberglass�. This initiative proves that, with the right mindset, you can create new ideas and move forward. However, the ambitious goal of fully reclaiming and recycling polymers and fibers from the turbines on a larger scale is a challenge yet to be solved.
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Sustainable packaging A more compact layout and lighter packaging materials reduce CO2 emissions
As part of Gurit’s commitment to decrease emissions and enhance sustainability in all operations, a re-design initiative to establish an improved packaging solution for preimpregnated fabrics (prepreg) materials has been undertaken. Prepregs are typically transported in large rolls and the new packaging solution drastically increases shipping efficiency. This is achieved by reducing the volume of the packages and therefore enabling larger quantities of the products to be fitted into a container or truck, consequently decreasing the number of transports required for the same product quantity.
When shipping by truck, 45 more rolls/boxes can be accommodated in a full truck load, allowing for a 40% reduction in CO2 /m2. This smart improvement benefiting customers and our environment illustrates Gurit’s ongoing commitment and passion for a sustainable future. By applying this principle and utilizing the new packaging model rather than the current one when shipping by sea freight, a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions per square meter of prepreg fabric transported can be achieved. The new packaging allows for 36 more rolls/boxes to be fitted into a regular sea freight container.
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World’s first electric, zero emissions racing yacht ‘J-Bird III’ A restoration project of one of the world’s first elite racing yachts, ‘J-Bird III’ is underway by new owners Ian and Annika Thomson from Ocean Crusaders, an environmental Conservation Organization based in Queensland, Australia.
J-Bird III is approaching 20 years old and is one of the world’s first of the Transpac 52 sailing class that went on to become the grand prix standard of inshore yacht racing across Europe. The Transpac 52 (TP52) is a class of yacht used for competitive 52 Super Series yacht racing. J-Bird III was designed by Alan Andrews Yacht Design. It was originally launched in May/June 2001 and was one of the top two scoring TP 52’s in the inaugural season.
Restoration process The yacht is now undergoing an extensive core refurbishment with advanced materials and engineering services by Gurit. The objective for J-Bird III is to become the first electric-powered, zero-emissions TP52 racer/cruiser, and to be back racing in some of the biggest races in Australia. The refit plan was to cut the front half of the deck off and replace it with a new profile. Then the cockpit and rear side decks would need to be re-cored using Gurit core materials, Gurit Ampreg 31 and Prime 27 resin systems. The coach house and foredeck will be replaced using a structurally engineered Gurit Hi-Panel, an infused composite panel solution that will be delivered direct as a kitset, CNC cut to shape and ready to be fitted on-site. The reason J-Bird III was so attractive to the new owners is that they wanted a fast hull. They also wanted head room, since Ian is 6’4” (193 cm) tall. There simply wasn’t a fast race boat from old days or more recently that was within their budget and had the headroom required for both racing and comfortable cruising around the Pacific. Therefore, finding a boat on which the deck needed replacing was perfect. Following the completion of the restoration,
J-Bird III will spend 18 months campaigning in Australia’s biggest yacht races including the Rolex Sydney to Hobart, and then a fully crewed Around Australia World Record Attempt to promote zero emissions sailing and the need to look after our oceans. After the racing campaign, she will head to the Pacific to help educate islanders on the issues plastics cause to our oceans and how it is impacting ‘Island Life’, with a particular focus on the effect to the islanders’ main food source, marine life.
A passion for the ocean The owners, Ian and Annika Thomson, are both commercial skippers and founders of Ocean Crusaders, a charity organization that specializes in cleaning Australia’s waterways, reusing and recycling much of what they recover. The Ocean Crusaders entire campaign is run with a passion for the ocean having seen the issues wildlife is facing first-hand. So salvaging an elite race yacht and providing J-Bird III with her second wind ideally reflected their passion for sustainability.
"Ocean Crusaders are dedicated to looking after our oceans, and what better way than to ‘recycle’ a race yacht that was destined for scrap. With a motto of No Emissions, No Compromise, the campaign will turn to an electric engine, yet will race at the front of the fleet. We chose Gurit since they were the original engineers on the project. However, the sealer was their recycled PET core that we could use to replace rotten interiors and their environmentally friendly Bio Resins." Ian Thomson Founder/Managing Director Ocean Crusaders
Ian and Annika Thomson
The Transpac 52 Design The TP52 is a simple racing machine. No moving parts under water other than a single centreline rudder, no complicated issues on deck or in the rig. Just high-quality components allowing proper control of the boat and a sail wardrobe build for optimum performance at every wind angle and windspeed. The TP52s are true grand prix racers, designed and built to withstand the abuse of yacht racing at the highest level, with highly optimized structures ensuring excellent performance. The original designer Alan Andrews, who specializes in creating high performance racing and cruising sailing yachts, is a long-term customer of Gurit and was involved with the new deck design.
Founded in 1979, Alan Andrews Yacht Design incorporates a philosophy of high-performance sailing characteristics combined with solid, state-of-the-art engineering. The net result is a well-found yacht with a competitive lifetime outlasting current racing rules. Gurit’s long design heritage with racing yachts and light-weighting for marine has played an important role within this refit project, and the original laminate drawings and calculations were all on hand to help achieve these extensive modifications with confidence.
Ocean Crusaders CAPS CRUSADE Ocean Crusaders is working on a program to ensure that plastic doesn’t end up in the environment, by collecting plastic caps and finding ways to re-purpose. At their collection locations in Queensland, they receive up to 300,000 plastic bottle caps a day! From there, the caps are sorted, granulated and made into new items such as Crab Pot Floats that will eventually replace Polystyrene Crab Pots that break up and litter our waterways. Ocean Crusaders are also looking to make plastic bricks out of all the remaining granules. These bricks will each contain 1.5kg of plastic – approximately 600 bottle caps – and can be used for non-structural things like bike shelters, bus stops, seats and cubby houses. The bricks will eventually be sold, and the funds raised will help fund the OC cleaning operations.
Ocean Crusaders recently won the Queensland Sailing Sustainability Award at this year’s Queensland Yachting Awards night for their campaign in the 2019 Sydney to Hobart where they conducted a clean-up in the harbor before the race. Find out more about Ocean Crusaders and their recycling efforts by visiting: www.oceancrusaders.com.au
Watch the full story on how to make a recycled brick from 100% plastic waste here: www.recyclerebuild.org/recycledbrick
Sustainable forestry in Ecuador Tropical deforestation is a significant source of carbon emissions. It is estimated that the earth’s remaining tropical forests house 250 megatons. If
Balsa factory, Ecuador
we lose this remaining forest and release this carbon into the atmosphere, the earth will experience catastrophic change. Likely, no amount of renewable energy and reforestation can save us if we simultaneously lose our tropical forests.
Therefore, the big question is how do we change behavior – from local communities to international value chains – to keep the earth’s tropical forests intact? How do we raise the value of forest enough so that it influences people’s relationship to it? If we consider that forests are a requisite to our continued existence on this planet, then forests are profoundly undervalued. How do we change the equation? This is the question that Whole Forest is working on.
Balsa, a wood with excellent properties Because balsa wood is low in density but high in strength, it is preferred for use as core material in the composites industry; most notably, the blades of wind turbines. Balsa lumber is very soft and light, with a density from 40–340 kg/m3, and a typical dry density of around 170 kg/m3 to 190 kg/m3.
How is balsa grown? Balsa is known as a pioneer tree species, which means it is one of the first tree species to sprout naturally when there is a soil disturbance or clearing in the forest. Balsa trees do not grow in the old-growth native forests, but rather in the disturbed forest landscape around native forests on the agricultural frontier. Most balsa wood comes from small landowners and rural families living in the agricultural frontier landscape. Balsa’s native range is from Central to South America. However, Ecuador’s location and unique climate create the perfect conditions to give Ecuadorian balsa the best physical and mechanical properties for the composite industry.
Whole Forest is a mission-driven forestry enterprise that started in Ecuador in 2003. The company partners with forest communities to reverse tropical deforestation by building robust rural economies based on the long-term management of highly threatened native forests. Whole Forest is creating a new market mechanism for tropical forest conservation by offering its clients beautifully designed tropical hardwood products combined with a large carbon offset based on the avoided deforestation, which they achieve through their intervention. Whole Forest is an activist brand that provides its clients with an emotional connection to nature and an opportunity to take on an active role in mitigating climate change. Essentially, Whole Forest is creating a new value chain for tropical forests that helps conserve rainforests and provides a large carbon offset.
As a pioneer species, balsa’s biological function is to provide protective cover so that other vegetation can grow. This is why balsa is so fast-growing and its wood is so amazingly lightweight. Given balsa’s rapid growth, it also has a short life span, living between 20 to 30 years, although the composite industry prefers balsa around five years old.
Whole Forest’s conservation strategy is based on creating a community forestry and wood products supply chain that drives more value back to communities from conserving their forests, than they get from converting their forests to agricultural activities like oil palm, cattle, cacao, and others.
market. Furthermore, Whole Forest offers its clients carbon offset based on the avoided deforestation within its area of influence of roughly 50,000 hectares of highly threatened tropical jungle in the Ecuadorian Choco in northwest Ecuador.
Whole Forest has two lines of intervention: One, the company works with local communities to put highly threatened native forests under long-term forest management to keep those forests out of the path of deforestation. Whole Forest manufactures flooring, tables, and other architectural finishings for the international green building
Whole Forest’s second line of intervention is to establish and manage balsa plantations with local families and manufacture laminates for Gurit’s global composite supply chain. Through this intervention, Whole Forest has grown to employ 100 community members in forestry, manufacturing, and business administration and works with over 400 small providers. 23
Opportunities for a green value chain Interview with Garrett A. Siegers, CEO and Co-Founder of Whole Forest What can the industry further do to address climate change? There is an enormous opportunity sitting in front of us to create a climate-positive impact in the wind energy value chain by strategically connecting the top and bottom of the supply chain. I suggest the following model as a big opportunity: – Create a deforestation-free balsa supply chain by only establishing plantations in sites where no forest was cleared. – In parallel, develop a project of native forest restoration, with a 1:1 ratio. This kind of program would create a fully sustainable raw material base on the bottom end of the supply chain that would address both the balsa supply required by industry, ecological conservation, and carbon emissions from deforestation. The outcome of this green value chain would be a very powerful additional sustainability driver for the balsa and wind energy supply chain. And it would be of great interest to wind energy utilities, like Orsted, that are focused on making sure the global economy gets to Net Zero emissions by 2050 to protect the climate.
Garrett A Siegers Co-founder & CEO Garrett has led the growth of this social enterprise from a community project to become a globally unique and scalable conservation-business model. Previously, Garrett managed several carbon sequestration projects for Conservation International and has worked as a forestry consultant for different organizations including the United States Forest Service. He has received several awards and recognition for his work as a social and environmental entrepreneur. Garrett holds degrees in Economics and International Relations.
Why did you pick Ecuador to grow your business? It might be more accurate to say Ecuador chose me. When I came to Ecuador, I managed reforestation projects for carbon capture for corporate funds for the voluntary carbon market. I found that no amount of reforestation would be able to mitigate a pending climate disaster if the world’s remaining tropical forests were destroyed. I observed that agriculture, far more than anything else, was the driver of tropical deforestation. It became apparent that the world’s value chains were not accounting for the negative externalities caused by the unmitigated push for expanded agriculture. Therefore, in economic terms, the only way for the forest to withstand the incentive to convert the land to agricultural was to raise the value of the forest so that they could compete with the opportunity cost of converting to agriculture. And this is how Whole Forest was born. Do you have plans to replicate the same model in other areas? Our immediate focus is on working with communities on the coast of Ecuador to address deforestation. To expand, our strategy is to partner with other community-based organizations or forest products companies to adapt our business and conservation model. We are an open-source company, which means we welcome others to apply and adapt the Whole Forest model to make forestry value chains more sustainable. Whole Forest is working through a seven-year partnership with Ecuador’s Ministry of Environment as a model for community forest management. It is the first private initiative to be included as part of the country’s UN REDD+ Action Plan to reduce deforestation per the country’s commitments through the Paris Climate Accord. Through both of these mechanisms, there is an expectation that Whole Forest will expand to work with other groups to help bring more threatened forests under management.
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Lead forester, Darwin Rosero, delivering Balsa saplings to local community women
Balsa & sustainability The question about the sustainability of balsa is being asked frequently. Most balsa wood comes from small landowners and rural families on the agricultural frontier, where agriculture is pushing up against and displacing native tropical forest. Balsa wood is a wonderful source of income for these rural communities. Nevertheless, in terms of sustainability, the challenge is to prevent balsa from being a driver of deforestation. Balsa trees are not found naturally in old-growth native forests. Rather, the concern and challenge is that native forest is cleared to plant balsa plantations. As the global demand for wind energy has grown, rural communities are planting more balsa. This demand for balsa will inevitably create conflicts between the need for balsa raw material and the conservation of native forests, leading to biodiversity loss and significant carbon emissions from clearing intact tropical forest.
At the same time, the world’s value chains are aggressively moving toward decarbonizing. One example in the energy sector is Orsted, the Danish wind installation developer. Orsted recently committed to reaching carbon neutrality in its own business’ value chain by 2025. Orsted is actively looking for new supply chain partners for its wind energy business with a sustainability commitment. The top end of the world’s value chain is looking for innovations to drive down and reverse its climate impact. However, who is focused on the environmental potential at the bottom end of the supply chain? Is the top end of the value chain considering the opportunity of the impact of balsa production on local communities and the natural ecosystems in Ecuador?
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Green hydrogen on the way As an energy carrier and viable solution to store energy, hydrogen has a promising future and the potential to play a deciding role in our planet’s overdue transition to clean energy. Hydrogen is the element with the highest energy density. Today's very competitive cost of electricity produced from solar or wind power, for example, is a major success factor for sustainable hydrogen production. However, hydrogen is only sustainable if it is so called ‘green hydrogen’, produced from clean renewable energy. In the past, most hydrogen production involved fossil fuels, generating extensive volumes of greenhouse gas emissions.
Hydrogen electrolysis
Today, most hydrogen available on the market is grey hydrogen. But with a shift to widely available, cheap renewable energy, the picture is changing, and hydrogen is looking at a bright future. “Hydrogen is today almost entirely produced from natural gas and coal,” states a 2019 report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). As discussed in the last edition of SHAPE, hydrogen can also be used to effectively store energy produced from wind power, by generating hydrogen during peak wind hours with low demand from the grid, therefore acting as a buffer, and even supporting the transition from fossil gas by converting gas pipeline infrastructure into a hydrogen network.
Green hydrogen as a sustainable fuel Green hydrogen
Electricity produced with wind, solar or hydropower is used to split water molecules and separate hydrogen.
Blue hydrogen
If hydrogen is separated from biomass, biogas, oil or natural gas this also generates carbon emissions that can be captured and stored. This process is called blue hydrogen with a lower or moderate carbon intensity.
Grey hydrogen
Grey hydrogen is produced with fossil fuels, emitting greenhouse gases. Often the applied process is Steam-Methane-Reforming – which is carbon and methane intensive. If coal is burned, this is sometimes described as brown or black hydrogen, an unsustainable form of hydrogen. A hydrogen fuel truck
The hydrogen industry is fastgrowing, facilitated by the recentlyachieved cost-parity of renewable energy with fossil fuels. Hydrogen is likely to become a multi-billion-dollar fuel industry. Some countries are taking bold first steps. In October 2020, Spain announced a 10-year roadmap for green hydrogen as a clean fuel for air, road and sea transport. Spain plans to build 4 Gigawatts (GW) of hydrogen electrolyzers, splitting water molecules (H2O) into hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2). The electrolyzers will be powered by abundant sources of renewable energy like solar and wind power.
its new trucks will be delivered by the end of 2020. The seven customers who received the first batch of XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks will haul payloads of consumer goods around Switzerland, emitting nothing but clean water vapor. The operations will be backed by a robust green hydrogen ecosystem and 100 hydrogen fueling stations across the country. The XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks feature high pressure storage tanks made out of advanced composites and have a range of up to 400 kilometers on a single charge. Hyundai’s production capacity will reach 2000 vehicles in 2021. Visit hyundai-hm.com to learn more.
Hydrogen can be burned, which generates heat in a furnace or engine, similar to oil or natural gas. The hydrogen can also be used in a “fuel cell” to produce electricity through an electrochemical reaction. In both cases, water is the only emission.
Fueling stations
Hydrogen trucks in commercial operation The Swiss Alps are a demanding environment for trucks. Korean manufacturer Hyundai chose this location to launch the world’s first mass-produced heavy-duty fuel cell trucks. 50 of
The hydrogen economy is also growing from other angles. A good example is the Scandinavian company Nel Hydrogen. They are one of the suppliers to the hydrogen ecosystem in Switzerland and many other countries. The pioneering company provides solutions to produce, store and distribute hydrogen from renewable energy sources. Products include electrolyzers, and Nel’s H2Station™ is the world’s most compact fueling station, capable of fueling multiple types of vehicle and simple to integrate into conventional fuel stations.
Jens Egholt Rasmussen, Senior Director Global Sales at Nel’s Fueling division, shares his passion for hydrogen:
"Hydrogen is ideal in the sense that it enables fuel cell electric vehicles with the same fast fueling and long range as conventional vehicles today. The advances of energy produced from wind and other renewables enable us to switch to a green hydrogen economy with tremendous progress towards zero emission achieving our climate targets."
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From bottle to boat
In 1845, John Brunswick came to America from Switzerland’s Rhine Valley. A carriage-maker by trade, he opened a shop on September 15, 1845, in Cincinnati, where he was introduced to the game of billiards. A master woodworker, Brunswick began making his own tables, forming a recreational product company that is approaching 200 years in business. Brunswick is now the world’s leader in recreational boats, marine engines and marine parts and accessories, and is one of the longest continually publicly-traded companies on the New York Stock Exchange. With experience comes understanding, and Brunswick has made a commitment to sustainability. It understands the impact its business can 28
have on the world and the necessity to lead the way in sustainable business practices. As such, it is committed to meeting its fiscal responsibilities while responsibly developing, manufacturing, distributing and servicing its products.
As part of this commitment to sustainability, Brunswick has begun the transition from balsa wood core used for added hull rigidity in many of
Kerdyn process
its boats towards Gurit’s Kerdyn Green PET structural foam, made of up to 100% recycled plastic bottles. Several of its boat manufacturing facilities have completed the conversion, and the balance will be completed in the next year. When full conversion is complete, the replacement of its current core materials with Kerdyn in their boat production operations will consume the equivalent of over 4 million recycled plastic bottles and save 7,000 balsa trees annually. Brunswick Boat Group’s product line includes the well-known Boston Whaler, Bayliner, SeaRay, and Protector brands, and Kerdyn PET is used in structural core applications, decks and parts.
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IMOCA 60s at the Vendée Globe race around the world The 2020-2021 Vendée Globe showcases racing at its most challenging, as the only solo, round-the-world without assistance sailing event. In its eighth edition, the race features not only exciting new designs, but a demonstrated commitment to sustainability, with many of the teams partnering with environmental organizations to draw attention to the plight of ocean health. The race’s spotlight on environmental issues makes it even more gratifying for Gurit to have provided engineering and/or materials to so many of the teams.
Gurit’s engineering department has provided services to twelve of the teams in this year’s race, and sixteen of the participants feature Gurit materials. From the 2000 Kingfisher, sailing this year as One Planet One Ocean, to the cutting-edge entries for Charal, Hugo Boss, and DMG Mori, Gurit is supporting a wide range of competitors and designs. The common thread? Performance.
The IMOCA fleet The boats of the Vendée Globe all measure 18.28 m long (60 feet) and have a 4.50 m draft. With a large sail area, they are the most powerful monohulls on the planet led by a solo skipper. They can go beyond 30 knots in downwind conditions. The gauge of these racing animals is defined by the IMOCA class (International Monohull Open Class Association), founded in 1991 and supported by World Sailing, the International Sailing Federation. The biggest innovation in recent history was without doubt the addition of foils, appendices which allow the hull to lift in upwind conditions. This saves drag and enables better performance. The Vendée Globe 2016/2017 showed the effectiveness of this equipment. In 2020, a high number of contenders to the podium will be equipped with foils. www.imoca.org
Gurit engineering expertise Gurit’s engineering department has spent more than 6,000 hours on these various projects, always in full realization of the importance of a structure that can cope with such extreme performance. Given the company’s long history of working on IMOCA 60s, Gurit has significant experience in the field. Over the last 20 years, average speeds have increased by 30 per cent, with top speeds increasing by 50 per cent, while structures have become lighter. And as the push for performance continues, the current fleet will perform a balancing act like no other, challenging the laws of physics and defying conventional thinking of what it is like to sail a racing boat.
“The introduction of foils has changed load conditions, as the leeward foil works with the fin of the canting keel to lift the boat at speed,” Gurit Paolo Manganelli Principal Engineer Paolo Gurit Principal Engineer Manganelli explains. “The structure around the foil is pretty complex and you’ve got a second major structural element to deal with on a similar scale to that of the keel. We're integrating the foil support structure into the keel support structure so that some of the elements are serving a double purpose in order to avoid adding more mass to the boats.”
Structural engineers analyze the stresses in the hull of an IMOCA 60
Material choice is key
Teaching an old dog new tricks
“As performance increases, slamming is another critical area and while Gurit’s Corecell foam has become the material of choice for the core in the underside of the hull, we have been able to further optimize its usage thanks to the improved understanding of its dynamic behavior. We have gained extremely valuable insight into the properties of Corecell at high strain rates through extensive testing performed by our New Zealand office in collaboration with the University of Auckland. Close collaboration with the teams is key to further improve our understanding of the new loading configurations that these boats are exposed to.”
Some of the efforts by Gurit Engineering were spent on upgrading and maximizing the performance of boats that were built in a previous generation of IMOCAs. Upgrading an older design to accept modern foiling capacity required a different approach.
Gurit’s technical sales manager Yannick Le Morvan agrees that working in partnership with the teams and their builders is critical to success. “Collaboration is the key to moving these projects forwards,” he says. “The detail with which the modern designs are being built means that the whole exercise is a collaboration rather than the previous relationship where the partners may have simply supplied materials and/or data.”
Gurit’s extensive history in engineering and providing materials for these spectacular boats will be on display around the world during the Vendée Globe, and we wish all the teams a safe and swift passage.
The unpredictable nature of a race such as this, including the increasing amount of ocean debris, can lead to participants being unable to complete the event. Following damage to his rudder, Alex Thomson / Hugo Boss were unfortunately forced to withdraw. We hope to see Alex in a future iteration of the Vendée Globe.
A good example of how this works in practice is the construction of a laminate and the precise way in which the fibers are laid. For a given area, we are now incorporating more layers that are thinner and arranged more precisely to achieve the best structural properties. As a consequence, cure cycles are also becoming more complex. 32
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Longest wind turbine blade mold ever built
Gurit Tooling has a new record to celebrate! In November 2020, the team completed the longest wind turbine blade mold Gurit has ever built. The picture shows Gurit’s Tooling team in Taicang lined up in front of the new mold, more than 100 meters long. "The latest automation features help our customers reduce cycle times thanks to our reliable and innovative technology." states Bing Chen, General Manager Gurit Tooling.
"We were successful, together with our tooling team around the globe, proactively collaborating with our customer to design a tool in response to their technical requirements. We worked hard and it feels good to see the result of our work and ship it to the blade-making factory." Yu Zheng Site Manager Gurit Taicang
"Our engineering team spent more than 3000 hours on designing this large mold. I am proud to be part of a project that helps further improve efficiency and reduce the cost of clean renewable energy." Lu Jialin Engineering Manager
Gurit is the largest wind turbine blade mold manufacturer worldwide. Since production started twelve years ago, the company has shipped close to 400 mold sets to the global wind turbine industry. With over 500 skilled employees based in China, Canada, Poland and at customer sites worldwide, this business unit is dedicated to the design, engineering, manufacture and service of composite tooling. Gurit is a prime engineering and sourcing partner for quality molds delivered to client specification in short lead times. In 2021, the Tooling business unit will further expand its geographic footprint and set up a new production site in the South of India.
"We worked hard to build this large mold and successfully overcame big surface area manufacturing challenges." Yao Weidong Operations manager
"It has been a privilege to take on the challenge of building the largest blade mold in the world. Gurit's capabilities are on full display; our passion for safety, customer focus and quality are realized with this mold. This project shows that we continue to be the market leader in wind energy tooling." Ethan Miller Project Manager
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Developing environmentally friendly technologies Gurit is a member of the United Nations Global Compact. As part of this commitment, Gurit is encouraging environmentally friendly technologies. Gurit made and will make significant investments into a strong, sustainable core material offering. Gurit is also improving both health & safety as well as the environmental footprint of its formulated product ranges.
Why have safer chemicals? Chemical regulation became very significant a few years ago with the advent of regulatory systems such as REACh (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization of Chemicals) in the EU and Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) in the USA. Such schemes seek to identify and control the risks of harmful chemicals to the people and environment within their territories. A key part of REACh has been identifying and controlling Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC’s). Substances such as these are deemed the most harmful due to the risk they pose to human health and the environment. As such, they are targets for restriction or authorization for use. In recent years, the drive towards sustainability has meant that industries have placed greater importance on health and safety, and is switching to using lower hazard chemicals. Today, greater expectations are being placed on suppliers of chemical products to manage their harmful chemicals.
"We believe that by taking responsibility for the products we manufacture and their hazard profiles, we are able to not only improve the products we manufacture but also to engage throughout the supply chain. We do not believe that toxicity of chemicals is a trade-off with sustainable credentials; the two should be considered as of equal importance." Amy Moram Regulatory Compliance Officer at Gurit
What is Gurit doing? Gurit continually monitors and manages the risks posed by the chemicals it uses. Where feasible, the most harmful substances are removed from the product portfolio, going further than the requirements set out by regulatory bodies where appropriate.
Gurit’s Hazardous Chemicals Management Policy The Gurit Hazardous Chemicals Management policy sets out Gurit’s policy and process for managing such materials. It focuses on 4 key areas: 1. Assessing and avoiding high-priority chemicals 2. Hazard assessment and supply chain communication 3. Supply chain management 4. Sustainable chemistry
Gurit products with SVHC content > 0.1% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0 2017 2018 2019
Avoiding high hazard chemicals
Hazard assessment and supply chain communication
In order to avoid the use of high hazard chemicals, identification of such substances is key. Gurit developed a High Priority Chemical (HPC) score in order to identify and clearly compare the most harmful substances. The most harmful of substances are designated as red, lesser hazards are designated as orange, blue, then green. The score system can consequently be applied from raw materials through to finished products allowing a clear correlation between the input substances and output finished product. The scoring system is then used to focus and prioritize all reformulation efforts.
Communication of hazards is critical when supplying chemical products. Specialist software and automated processes allow for effective communication throughout the supply chain as well as within the organization. Robust review processes of supplier data and regulatory tracking systems ensure that the supply chain remains promptly informed of any changes.
Supply chain management Gurit actively engages with suppliers to communicate the company’s principles and policy on using less harmful materials. Through this, Gurit is able to work with suppliers on substituting the most harmful substances as well as ensuring new developments consider the use of safer chemicals. When selecting appropriate suppliers, hazard communication and regulatory awareness are fundamental to securing a good working relationship.
Sustainable chemistry Considering sustainable chemistry means that many factors are reviewed, not only ensuring our manufacturing processes are as efficient as possible, but also considering bio-based options, use of recyclate and minimizing material
"The formulated product portfolio was complex and filled with legacy systems with a number of health & safety related issues. We are now in the final year of the formulated product rejuvenation project which started with Ampreg™ in 2018, then AMPRO™ last year and will be completed with PRIME™ & Spabond™ by the end of 2020. To date, two-thirds of the formulated portfolio has been replaced with safer, higher performing products and this will increase to over 90% by the end of 2021. In 2021, we will have four great rejuvenated and sustainable product lines: Ampreg™, AMPRO™, PRIME™ & Spabond™. Our ecological approach to formulations is unique in our industry and something we are extremely proud of." Kevin Cadd Formulated Product Manager
wastage. Sustainable chemistry implies a fine balance between appearing sustainable and actually getting it right, looking at toxicity, health & safety, as well as transportation, sustainable supply chains and greenhouse gas emissions. There is a broad spectrum of sustainable options currently available, although many are still in their infancy. Selecting the appropriate, most sustainable option is not always easy. The growing generation of data such as life cycle analysis and carbon footprint analysis helps to make such decisions easier, but we are aware of the vast amount of work still achievable in this area. Since the advent of REACh in 2008, the European Chemicals Agency has designated a total of 209 Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC’s) to date. Of specific note to the composites industry was the inclusion of Bisphenol A and Nonyl Phenol. These substances are present in many amine-based hardeners and, although they can provide very effective technical benefits, the hazard profiles of endocrine disruption and bio persistence mean that removal of such substances is of paramount importance. A key target set out by Gurit in 2017 was to remove all SVHC’s from all Gurit standard and essential products by 2022. This is no small task given that the European Chemicals Agency are designating more SVHC’s every year. The removal of such substances not only removes these harsh chemicals from the supply chain but also reduces reporting requirements for our customers such as those under new European waste reporting schemes in force from 2021. Gurit
"I am proud that Gurit is removing the most harmful chemicals from the business and replacing these with safer ones. It supports and promotes our values, with Safety First and Sustainability." Jason Rice Manufacturing Manager Formulated, Gurit
is currently on track for this target with a large reduction in the number of Gurit materials affected – from 65% in 2017 to 28% in 2019*. By 2021, we expect this figure to be <10%. Gurit’s drive to reduce the hazard profile of products has resulted in a number of new product developments such as the SE90 and SE75 Prepregs, or the Spabond 800 and 400 range and the Ampreg 3X laminating range. These products also incorporate Gurit’s unique Light Reflecting Technology, allowing the user to detect the presence of contamination on clothing and around the work environment in order to monitor exposure with the support of a simple UV light. While much more work needs still to be done in controlling and substituting high hazard chemicals for safer alternatives, Gurit is well positioned to identify regulatory changes and additional hazard test data through its monitoring systems, and to pass innovative new developments in lower hazard chemical products to its customers.
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Placing safety at the center of our operations
Safety training at our new Mexican site
In July 2020, Gurit teams and sites Training modules around the world started conducting safeThe trainings are focusing on "Safety Walks" and "Incident ty trainings as part of an enhanced safety Investigation and Reporting". The first round of trainings was initiative. The goal is to improve awareheld virtually. Local implementation at each site will follow as ness, skills and reporting procedures in a next step. terms of workplace safety by focusing on how to practically implement and live the Gurit health and safety standards. A se- Safety Walk – an interactive process ries of programs targeting different levels The Safety Walk revolves around a dialog and awareness of the organization has been carefully deprocess which aims to practically apply health and safety veloped and the company aspires to have standards in work behaviors, and to train employees to aczero work-related injuries and illnesses. To tively observe and identify both unsafe and safe practices. achieve and maintain such an objective, The method encourages observation of the work environment commitment and determination at all levels from a different perspective and enables immediate mitigation of risks and recognition of best practices. of the organization are required. 38
"Our Training program is helping us to proactively find solutions to reduce potential risks and to share examples of best practice with the rest of the organization. Our health and safety activities are helping us to create a workspace that is safe for all of us. We encourage your commitment and active contribution. Let us make Gurit a safe place." Safety First initiative roll-out in Mexico
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Incident investigation and reporting
The Gurit safety training program
This module focuses on local Health and Safety standards, and encourages each employee to adopt them. By actively working with the standards and by having clearly assigned key responsibilities, the implementation of a health and safety culture in every part of the operations becomes a reality.
SAFETY WALK TRAINING
By now, several training modules with a number of different groups have been conducted, starting with senior management and cascading through the organization. TRAIN THE TRAINER
INCIDENT INVESTIGATION & REPORTING
Continuous process and constant focus After the first round of trainings are completed, sites are starting to implement the two standards, Safety Walk and Incident Investigation and Reporting for local managers and supervisors and subsequently for all employees. The response to the trainings has been excellent with a satisfaction level of 90%.
GENERAL SAFETY AWARENESS
"Through the different exercises, discussions and role-plays that we carried out, we have been able to bring the theory of standards to the day-to-day operations of our factories. Our staff is showing tremendous ambition. I hope and strongly believe that, with continued effort and focus, we have a good chance of achieving our common goal. I am very satisfied with the result so far." Hannes Haueis Head of Group Human Resources
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Interview with Daniel C. Matt – translator of the Pritzker edition of the Zohar
Posted on March 17, 2016 by Alan Brill | Leave a comment
In a striking image, the Zohar compares the Torah to a princess sequestered in a palace tower. The student of Torah is her lover seeking her to reveal herself from the window showing her reciprocal love. The lover’s does catch a fleeting vision, a personal and private revelation of her secrets stirring his heart. A mystical approach to Torah yearns for this love and personal revelation.
This may be compared to a beloved maiden, beautiful in form and appearance, concealed secretly in her palace. She has a single lover unknown to anyone—except to her, surreptitiously. Out of the love that he feels for her, this lover passes by her gate constantly, lifting his eyes to every side. Knowing that her lover is constantly circling her gate, what does she do? She opens a little window in that secret place where she is, reveals her face to her lover, and quickly withdraws, concealing herself. None of those near the lover even sees or notices, only the lover, and his inner being and heart and soul go out to her. He knows that out of love for him she revealed herself for a moment to arouse him.
So it is with words of Torah: she only reveals herself to her lover. Torah knows that one who is wise of heart circles her gate every day. What does she do? She reveals her face to him from the palace and beckons to him with a hint, then swiftly withdraws to her place, hiding away. None of those there knows or notices—he alone does, and his inner being and heart and soul follows her. Thus Torah reveals and conceals herself, approaching her lover lovingly to arouse love with him.
A reader could understand this in a technical sense of a ritual to connect to the sefirah of malkhut/shekhinah but for many it is the mystical lyrical aspect of the passage that attracts readers. ” The scholar Michael Fishbane, wrote that the Zohar “pulses with the desire for God on every page.”
For those who cherish the work, Professor Daniel C. Matt has done an invaluable service in translating the Zohar into a vibrant glowing English, thereby setting a benchmark for translations for contemporary Jewish culture. His Pritzker Edition published by Stanford University Press is easy to use and the website has samples and a full Hebrew/Aramaic text to download.
The Zohar as printed in the 16th century is a five volume set (3 volumes of Zohar, Tikkune Zohar, and Zohar Hadash) of over thirty separate books including the non-Kabbalistic allegorical Midrash Haneelam from the early 13th century, the 14th century Tikkune Zohar, the especially esoteric Idrot and Sitrei Torah by Rabbi Yakov Shatz. It also contains fragments and pieces of Ashkenaz esotericism, Bahir, and a work on palmistry. The work also has 14th century passages from Rabbi Yosef of Hamadan and his contemporaries, whose authorship was already noted in the traditional commentaries. These works differ in language, protagonist, esoteric ideas, use of midrash, and especially religious worldview.
The part of the Zohar beautifully translated by Daniel C. Matt is the main narrative section of the first three volume. The 9 English volumes cover 85% of the 3 Aramaic volumes of the standard edition(s) of the Zohar (except for sections such as Midrash ha-Ne’lam, Matnitin, Tosefta, Sitrei Torah, and Heikhalot, which are included in the English volumes 10-12, and Ra’aya Meheimna, which will not be translated.
(As a side point, the Soncino English translation (1934) was almost unusable, inadequate in both translation and passages covered. The Soncino actually selected as a translator a Volozhin Yeshiva alumna who had already converted to Christianity).
The contemporary attraction for the Zohar is in the narrative section whose passages offer the attractive merits of literary stories, heightened language, love of God, and deeper levels of reality. The work is a mystical midrash in which a circle of kabbalists travel and reveal secrets as they expound the verses of the Bible. The narrative invites the reader to share its vision by using the phrase “come and see’ (ta hazai), in place of the Talmud’s “come and hear.” Gershom Scholem and Isaiah Tishby focused on the doctrine of the sefirot, but later academic readers look at the entire package of midrashic-literary-mystical-kabbalistic weave. The other parts of the corpus do not have these qualities. Current trends find multiple hands and opinions even in the narrative sections leading to seeing the work as a group effort. There is no early complete manuscript of the Zohar (and there never was. For more information, see my 2010 Forward review of Daniel Matt & Melila Hellner-Eshed, and some of my prior blog posts- here and here).
The narrative section reworks older materials into something new. For examples a Zohar section may quote two pieces of Genesis Rabbah then a piece of Tanhuma and/or Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer followed by a piece of Gerona Kabbalah and conclude with Rabbi Shimon presenting the position of Castillian Kabbalah. All of it set within a narrative story with rhetorical questions and vivid imagery. The Zohar reworks minor midrashim such as Midrash Wayissa’u, a story of the sons of Jacob warring against their enemies and Midrash Peṭirat Mosheh, on the death of Moses. It also has knowledge of various Second Temple period Pseudepigrapha books whether via midrash or some subterranean tradition. Nevertheless, none of these antecedents are the medieval sefirotic chart.
For those who are not acquainted with kabbalistic literature, there are dozens of seminal kabbalistic works. If one wanted to be informed about the world of the sefirot one would likely start with the Sha’arei Orah, by Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla, if one wanted to study the Gerona school then one would start with the works of Rabbis Azriel and Ezra of Gerona or one could study Nahmanides’ French tradition. One could even look at the texts as diverse as Moses ben Jacob from Kiev’s compilation Shushan Sodot or the Byzantium work Sefer Hatemunah. The Zohar is far from the summary or summation of the kabbalah and its many schools. (For those who want an introduction, see my YUTorah introductory lectures on the Kabbalah).
The Zohar had admirers and imitators at the start of the 14th century including Yosef Angelet and David b. Yehudah Hahasid, and it was quoted by Bahye and Recanati, however it was not the classic until the Spanish exiles in the 16th century who turned it into a canonical text by writing commentaries on the recently published text and then building elaborate systems using the Zohar as the basis. It generated ritual gestures such as Kabbalat Shabbat and inviting guests into the sukkah as well as the Yeshiva ideal of studying Torah day and night. In the 17th century, it was applied in a mechanical ritual manner (10 pieces of Chometz, 10 items on the Seder plate, 100 shofar blasts).At the end of the 20th and start of the 21st century, people study the narrative parts of the Zohar for its beauty and mystical worldview.
Those who are carefully reading through the volumes page by page will not agree with every decision made in the volumes, one can question some of his decisions of which Zoharic book a passage belongs to, as well as not always agreeing with his translation and commentary. At some points, Matt follows one commentator over another without citing the important alternate understanding. These points aside, Daniel C. Matt has done the Jewish community a tremendous service in his translation Below is a my interview with him and afterwards I received a selection from his autobiographic essay.
1) Why did you decide to make a composite text rather than a
stemma with variants? What were your criteria to choose which variant to use?
There is no complete manuscript of what we now call the Zohar, nor did such a manuscript ever exist, because the Zohar was composed over a long period of time by different authors. At first, I thought that I would translate from one of the standard printed editions and simply consult manuscripts when I encountered difficult passages. However, I soon discovered that the manuscripts (especially the older and more reliable ones) preserved numerous better readings. So I decided to reconstruct the Aramaic text based on those superior readings. There is undoubtedly a subjective element in choosing variants, but I came to trust certain older manuscripts. It is often possible to see how later scribes added material to the text, and I scraped away such later additions.
2) Why did you include the Matnitin and Idrot if your goal was to
limit the volumes to “guf haZohar”?
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition includes many sections of the Zohar, not just what is called Guf ha-Zohar (The Body of the Zohar). This latter term refers primarily to the running commentary on the Torah, which is translated in Vols. 1–9. Certain other sections of the Zohar are also included in these nine volumes, such as Sava de-Mishpatim, the Idrot, Rav Metivta, Yanuqa. Many of the older manuscripts record the Matnitin as one unit, rather than how they appear in the printed editions (scattered throughout the Zohar), and we decided to follow the older manuscripts. We did not translate either Tiqqunei ha-Zohar or Ra’aya Meheimna, which were composed later as Zoharic imitations.
3) Are you consistent in the words used to translate a
Hebrew/Aramaic term? For example, is tiqqun always translated as
enhancement? How did you come to translate alma de-atei the way you did? Why is heizu rendered as visionary mirror, rather than one or the other?
It would be a grave mistake to always translate Zoharic terms consistently. As I proceeded in my work, I composed a Zohar dictionary so that I could keep track of various possible nuances for the Zohar’s unique brand of Aramaic. For the root tqn, for example, I listed over fifty possible English equivalents, including “to mend, repair, refine, enhance, improve, prepare, correct, rectify, perfect, restore, arrange, array, adorn, establish.” I used the rendering “enhancement” only for certain passages in the Idrot describing the features (and curlicues) of the divine beard.
The rabbinic term alma de-atei is often translated as “the world-to-come,” but I usually render it as “the world that is coming,” in order to emphasize the eternal present. In the Zohar this term often alludes to the Divine Mother, Binah, who is constantly flowing. In the words of Rabbi Shim’on, “That river flowing forth is called Alma de-Atei, the World that is Coming—coming constantly and never ceasing” (Zohar 3:290b, Idra Zuta).
Occasionally I combine two possible meanings of a Zoharic term in order to convey its range of meaning. For example, the Aramaic word heizu means “vision, appearance,” but in the Zohar it also signifies “mirror,” based on the Hebrew word mar’ah (which can mean both “vision” and “mirror”).
4) What are some of your most inventive words and hardest words that you used in your translation?
One of the most charming—and frustrating—features of the Zohar is its frequent use of neologisms (invented words). The authors like to switch around letters of Talmudic terms or occasionally play with Spanish words.
One newly coined word is tiqla. In various contexts, this can mean “scale, hollow of the hand, fist, potter’s wheel, and water clock.” This last sense refers to a device described in ancient and medieval scientific literature, which in the Zohar functions as an alarm clock, calibrated to wake kabbalists at precisely midnight for the ritual stud of Torah. A similar device was employed in Christian monasteries to rouse monks for their vigils. How appropriate to invent a word in order to describe an invention!
The Zohar describes the primordial source of emanation as botsina de-qardinuta. The word botsina means “lamp.” The word qardinuta recalls a phrase in the Babylonian Talmud (Pesahim 7a): hittei qurdanaita, “wheat from Kurdistan,” which, according to Rashi, is very hard. The Zohar may also be playing here with qadrinuta, “darkness.” I sometimes rendered botsina de-qardinuta as “a lamp of impenetrable darkness.” More recently, I chose “the
Lamp of Adamantine Darkness.” As the paradoxical names suggests, the potent brilliance of this primordial source overwhelms comprehension.
Many mystics record similar paradoxical images: “a ray of divine darkness” (Dionysius, Mystical Theology); “the luminous darkness” (Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Moses); “the black light” (Iranian Sufism). In his Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides writes: “We are dazzled by His beauty, and He is hidden from us because of the intensity with which He becomes manifest, just as the sun is hidden to eyes too weak to apprehend it.”
5) What was the biggest surprise that you found in the many year
process?
One surprise was the playfulness of the Zohar and its sense of humor. According to Rabbi Shim’on, a bit of foolishness can stimulate wisdom. In the section called Yanuqa (The Child), two rabbis encounter a little boy who is a wunderkind—and also a bit of a rascal. He alternates between amazing the rabbis and teasing them, impressing and then challenging (or stumping) them. This child prodigy spouts wisdom, spiced with humor.
I used to try and figure out what the Zohar “meant.” Now I prefer to let the rich language wash over me and through me, allowing it to uplift, confound, or transform me.
6) Many people want to know: How does the Zohar influence your
spiritual life? Do you keep a mystical journal? Are you a mystic?
I don’t keep a journal. I don’t have visions. The Zohar enriches my life by teaching me not to be content with how things appear on the surface, by stimulating me to delve more deeply. I look for the divine spark in the people I encounter, in the phenomena of the natural world, and in everyday life, moment by moment. I am a mystic in the sense that I feel the oneness of all existence, the wondrous interplay of matter and energy.
7) Why should we study Zohar? What does its creative imagination of God offer?
In interpreting the Bible, the Zohar is willing to ask daring questions. Going beyond traditional midrash, the Zohar employs radical creativity to make us question our current assumptions about life, about ourselves, about God and spirituality. It moves through the Torah verse by verse, asking probing, challenging questions. As the Zohar says, “God is known and grasped to the degree that one opens the gates of imagination,” so it’s up to our imaginative faculty to understand reality, or the reality of God.
The Zohar is a celebration of creativity—it shows how the Torah endlessly unfolds in meaning. Jacob ben-Sheshet Gerondi, a 13th-century kabbalist, said it’s a mitzvah for every wise person to innovate in Torah according to his capacity. That’s refreshing because you often hear the traditional notion: to accept what’s been handed down or to learn from the master because you’re not able to create on your own. But ben-Sheshet says (after conveying one of his innovations), “If I hadn’t invented it in my mind I would say that this was transmitted to Moses at Mt. Sinai.” He’s aware that his interpretation is new, but he thinks it harmonizes with the ultimate source of tradition—his creative discovery itself is somehow deeply connected to an ancient mainstream. An essential component of all creativity is tapping into something deeper than your normal state of mind.
We all know that near the beginning of Genesis there’s the famous story of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. It’s clear that God expels Adam and Eve from the Garden. But the Zohar asks, “Who expelled whom?” It turns out, according to the Zohar’s radical re-reading of the biblical verse, that Adam expelled Shekhinah from the Garden!
This seems impossible, almost heretical or laughable. But the Zohar may be implying that we’re still in the Garden, although we don’t realize it because we’ve lost touch with the spiritual dimension of life. On a personal level, each of us becomes alienated by excluding the Divine from our lives. The Zohar challenges us to reconnect with God, to invite Her back into our lives, to rediscover intimacy with Her.
Ultimately, God is Ein Sof (the Infinite). In a striking interpretation, the Zohar construes the opening words of Genesis not as “In the beginning God created,” but rather “With beginning, It [that is, Ein Sof] created God.” To me, this implies that all our normal names for God are inadequate. What we call “God” is puny, compared to the ultimate divine reality.
8) What do you like about the Idrot?
The Idrot present a detailed description of the divine anatomy, especially the divine head, face, and beard. This may be, in part, a response and reaction to Maimonides, who insisted on eliminating all anthropomorphic descriptions of God. But there is much more to the Idrot. In the Idra Rabba (The Great Assembly), there is a state of emergency, because due to human misconduct, the world is vulnerable to divine wrath. Rabbi Shim’on and his Companions set out on a dangerous mission to restore the balance in the upper worlds and to stimulate a radiant flow from the compassionate aspect of God, which can soothe the irascible divine force and thereby save the world.
In the Idra Zuta (The Small Assembly), Rabbi Shim’on is about to die, and he reveals profound mysteries. He concludes with a detailed description—graphic yet cryptic—of the union of the divine couple. As he departs from this world, he assumes the role of the Divine Male, uniting ecstatically with Shekhinah. Thus Rabbi Shim’on’s death becomes a joyous occasion, and a celestial voice announces his wedding celebration.
In the recent Zohar conference in Israel I read selections from Idra Zuta because I wanted the listeners to appreciate the dramatic power of this rich narrative.
9) What do you do with the dualism and demonology of the Zohar- do you find it offensive? What do you do with the nasty parts of the Zohar such as the severe condemnation of masturbation? Many are deeply scarred by the effect of those passages.
The Zohar often describes the conflict between the divine and demonic forces. The demonic realm is called Sitra Ahra (the Other Side). This name can be understood as reflecting the terrifying nature of the demonic sphere—as if it cannot even be accorded a real name, but is just referred to as “Other.” However, this designation can also imply that evil is simply the “shadow side” of good, that you can’t have one without the other. We only recognize light because there is also darkness; we only recognize good because there is also evil. Ultimately, both good and evil originate within God. If there is a balance between the divine polar opposites, goodness flows into the world. If there is an imbalance, evil can lash out, wreaking havoc. Human behavior affects the divine balance, contributing to the manifestation of either good or evil.
I’m not offended by the demonology of the Zohar. I see it as an expression of human fear.
I don’t deny that the Zohar includes “nasty” elements. This masterpiece of Kabbalah is often lyrical and inspiring, but being composed in medieval times, it naturally reflects a medieval mentality, including aspects of chauvinism, misogyny, superstition, and various attitudes that we know find antiquated or harmful. To me, Kabbalah is a great resource for contemporary spirituality; but we should approach it with a critical mind; we should not accept all of its teachings as ultimate truth.
10) How do you relate to the various theories of recent scholars
that think that there is no fixed original text, rather the continual
accretion of material?
Certainly the Zohar, as we now know it, never existed as a single continuous text. Rather, it is the product of centuries of compilation and editing, which was proceeded by an extended period of composition by various authors. However, by consulting and comparing early manuscripts, it is possible to scrape away from the standard printed editions centuries of scribal accretion and at least come closer to a more “original” text, section by section.
that trace ideas back to earlier midrashic and Second Temple sources?
Although the Zohar was composed in medieval times, it is clearly based on numerous earlier sources, primarily various midrashim and the Talmud. Among the midrashim, we find particular influence of Pirqei de-Rabbi Eli’ezer, Pesiqta de-Rav Kahana, and Bereshit Rabbah. The Zohar itself is a type of midrash, while sometimes it also an experiment in medieval fiction. The genius of the authors lies in their ability to use the earlier material to compose a more spiritual midrash, stimulating the reader to expand his consciousness, challenging the normal workings of the mind.
12) How do you explain the different mindset of Rabbi Moshe de León from the Zohar? Do you have any new explanation of why Ramdal rejects opinions that are affirmed in the Zohar?
It is very interesting to compare the Zohar with the Hebrew writings of Ramdal (Rabbi Moses de León), in which he admits being the author. In these Hebrew compositions, Moses de León makes free use of the Zohar, often translating or paraphrasing Zoharic passages and introducing them with formula such as: “As the ancient ones have said….” He is completely fluent in the Zohar and seems to be promoting the “ancient” material for a wider public. He often explicates Zoharic symbolism. It is easy to conclude that the author of these Hebrew books is himself the composer of large sections of the Zohar.
On the other hand, his Hebrew writing lacks the lyrical power, creativity, and playfulness of the Zohar. This can be explained partly by the fact that in these Hebrew writings, Moses de León is working within his normal state of consciousness, whereas in the Zohar he has shed this persona and taken on the identity of ancient sages. This switch apparently liberates his poetic instinct and enables him to create a unique, otherworldly masterpiece.
Moses de León was certainly not the sole author of the Zohar. Most likely, he did not express the Zoharic opinions that he rejects in his Hebrew writings.
13) How does the universalism of mysticism relate to the very particular ritual focus of the Zohar? Why Zohar rather than Vedanta or Buddhism?
There are many similarities between mystical teachings of the various world religions: God as the oneness of it all, the goal of reuniting the apparently separate self with this divine oneness, the potency of the divine word and of human meditation. While the insights are frequently similar, or even identical, each religion expresses these insights through the unique forms of its own tradition and culture. A Jew should explore and appreciate the wisdom of his own tradition, while also being open to other spiritual teachings.
However, while the insights are frequently similar, or even identical, the mystics of each religion express these insights through the unique forms of their own tradition and culture. More basically, the particular forms and practices of one’s religion provide pathways to experience mystical states and discover mystical truths. For example, a Jewish mystic finds God through Torah, the celebration of Shabbat, and the mindful observance of other mitsvot.
In certain mystical traditions, one sees the desire to leave the material realm, to seek seclusion and to focus on meditation. Although there is a rich stream of kabbalistic meditation practices, Jewish mysticism emphasizes life in this world and cooperation with others. Participation in the community remains vital, for example, davening in a minyan. In general, the regimen of Torah and the mitsvot helps the individual to stay rooted.
14) How can we apply Kabbalah to modern day Judaism?
I don’t recommend that we become complete kabbalists. Rather, we should draw on the spiritual insights of Kabbalah in order to enrich our spiritual lives. We can reimagine God as the energy that animates all of life. We can balance the patriarchal depictions of God with the feminine imagery of Shekhinah. In our prayer services, we can focus on the mystical implications of verses such as “In Your light we see light,” or “Taste and see that God is good.” Furthermore, we can make room for moments of contemplative silence within prayer. This will help us comprehend and experience the profound verse in Psalm 65: “To You, silence is praise.”
Selections from an Autobiographical Essay
My interest in Kabbalah and the Zohar certainly has something to do with the fact that my father, Hershel Matt, was a rabbi. He never urged me to delve into Jewish mysticism; on the contrary, he was somewhat suspicious of mysticism and always insisted on maintaining the gap between human and divine. But he conveyed and embodied an intense spirituality, and this undoubtedly inspired me to search for the mystical element within Judaism.
The writings of Martin Buber introduced me to Hasidic tales and teachings. In my undergraduate years at Brandeis University, I took a Hillel course in Hasidic texts taught by Arthur Green. These texts often quoted phrases or lines from the Zohar, which intrigued me. Then, during my junior year abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, I began delving into Zohar. Realizing that I had only one year in Jerusalem, I took a course in Beginning Zohar and simultaneously another one in Advanced Zohar. I was somewhat overwhelmed by the latter, but that didn’t matter so much because I was also overwhelmed by the former! Overwhelmed, but also captivated.
Returning to Brandeis, I completed my B.A. in 1972. I returned to my alma mater for graduate work in Kabbalah, under the direction of Alexander Altmann. My Ph.D. dissertation consisted of a critical edition and analysis of Sefer Mar’ot ha-Tsove’ot (The Book of Mirrors), written by David ben Yehudah he-Hasid, a thirteenth-fourteenth century kabbalist. I chose this text because it contains the earliest extensive Hebrew translations of passages from the Aramaic text of the Zohar.
I discussed the choice of my dissertation topic with Gershom Scholem when I served as his teaching assistant at Boston University in 1975, and he encouraged me to proceed with it. I recall someone telling me around this time that a doctoral student should be very careful in selecting his topic, since this will likely determine the focus of his entire academic career. I chafed at that notion and responded, “Not necessarily so!” Little did I know then how translating the Zohar would enthrall me.
During these years (early-to-mid 1970s), I was a member of Havurat Shalom in Somerville, Mass. I still cherish the wonderful friendships, rich learning, and inspired davening that I experienced there.
Soon after receiving my Ph.D., Art Green invited me to compose a volume on the Zohar for the Classics of Western Spirituality. After selecting approximately 2 percent of the immense body of the Zohar, I proceeded to translate and annotate these passages. My intent was to demonstrate how the Zohar expounds Scripture creatively: applying the ancient biblical narrative to personal spiritual quest, and imagining (or, at times, recovering) mythic layers of meaning.
I recall someone asking me, “When are you going to translate the other 98 percent of the Zohar?”But I had other projects in mind.
Subsequently, I became interested in the subject of negative theology. The kabbalists describe the ultimate stage of Divinity as Ayin, “Nothingness,” or “No-thingness.” This paradoxical term implies not an absence, but rather a divine fullness that escapes description and language: God is beyond what we normally call “being.” After publishing “Ayin: The Concept of Nothingness in Jewish Mysticism,” I later compared the Jewish notion of ayin to Meister Eckhart’s teachings on Nichts and the Buddhist concept of sunyata (“Varieties of Mystical Nothingness: Jewish, Christian and Buddhist”).
In the mid-1990s, I was invited by HarperCollins to produce a volume entitled The Essential Kabbalah. For this project, I composed annotated translations of Hebrew and Aramaic passages culled from several dozen significant texts ranging from the second to the twentieth centuries. The translations are grouped into themes such as: Ein Sof (God as Infinity), the Sefirot (Divine Qualities), Creation, Meditation and Mystical Experience, Torah, and Living in the Material World. This book has been translated into six languages including a Hebrew edition (Lev ha-Qabbalah).
I spent several years working on a book entitled God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony between Science and Spirituality. Here I do not make the simplistic claim that kabbalists somehow knew what Stephen Hawking and others would eventually discover. Rather, I explore several parallels between scientific cosmology and Kabbalah, such as the creative vacuum state and the notion of fertile mystical nothingness, or broken symmetry and the kabbalistic theory of “the breaking of the vessels.” Given that the theory of the Big Bang has become our contemporary Creation story, I seek to outline a “new-ancient” theology, drawing especially on the kabbalistic idea of God as the energy animating all of existence. A revised edition of God and the Big Bang is about to appear, incorporating some of the recent discoveries in cosmology.
In 1995, I was approached by the Pritzker family of Chicago, who invited me to take on the immense project of composing an annotated translation of the Zohar. I was simultaneously thrilled and overwhelmed by this opportunity. After wrestling with the offer for some time, I decided to translate a short section of the Zohar to see how it felt; but I poured myself into the experiment so intensely, day after day, that I was left drained, exhausted, and discouraged. How could I keep this up for years? I reluctantly resolved to decline the offer, but finally agreed to at least meet with the woman who had conceived the idea: Margot Pritzker. I expressed my hesitation to her, and told her that the project could take twelve to fifteen years—to which she responded, “You’re not scaring me!” Somehow, at that moment, I was won over, and decided to plunge in.
I began working on the translation in 1997 in Berkeley (while on sabbatical). Between 2004-14, Stanford University Press published eight volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, and last month Volume 9 appeared, concluding the Zohar’s main commentary on the Torah. Two other Zohar scholars are composing Volumes 10–12, which will include various other sections of the Zohar.
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You Will Excuse Me while I Live-blog Masterpiece Theatre
By Kelly Keller, March 23, 2008
Oh, I do love Emma. And I am just a tad excited that The Complete Jane Austen has returned to Sunday nights.
So if you find this boring, just come back tomorrow. Those of you who are mildly obsessed like me — and I know you’re out there — read on, and comment as needed.
Starting with the chicken theft was a little weird (am I watching the right movie??!!), but I like the connection to the departure of Miss Taylor.
“Marriage is very upsetting to one’s social circle.” Not there. I missed it a little.
*sigh* Mr. Knightley is not Jeremy Northam. Trying to get over this.
Kate Beckinsale makes a pretty, youthful Emma to the more mature Mr. Knightley (truer to the book than the Hollywood version).
They’re singing a hymn!! Fun!!!
The older set (Miss Bates, Mrs. Bates, and Mr. Woodhouse) is wonderful so far. You really get the feeling that they’re mildly crazy and entertaining to the younger set.
I like how Harriet is slightly disheveled in contrast to the polished Emma. Harriet is cute and wide-eyed in a very believable way.
Emma and Mr. Knightley arguing about Harriet’s refusal of Robert Martin: he seems a little too angry…he’s actually raising his voice…that seems a bit over-the-top…. Oh, but a good make-up scene, with the baby and the warmness.
Am I the only one that thinks that this actor portraying Mr. Elton looks a little like Colin Firth in P&P?
I like Mrs. Weston and Mr. Knightley talking about Emma behind her back. “You know she is an excellent creature.” 🙂
ACK! The picture’s talking!! At this point I have a flashback to Colin Firth talking out of Jennifer Ehle’s mirror: “You must allow me to declare how ardently I admire and love you.” Apparently Andrew Davies is a fan of the extra-terrestrial disembodied-head suitor.
HA! She’s so freaked out by Mr. Elton’s declaration!!! Great job, Kate!!
I don’t think Jane is pretty enough to be a threat to Emma. They have her hair so plainly done.
Wow, this Miss Bates is really good at the prattling on. I didn’t think anyone could do it as well as the other lady, but wow. I was completely bored.
The explanation of the tenant farmer system with Mr. Knightley’s estate was a helpful addition. I didn’t really grasp that the first time I read the book.
Wow, Frank Churchill. He’s so pretty, he must be bad news. Never trust a man with better hair than you, that’s what I say.
OK…phone call…so I have no comment on the ball-planning scene. Or the two scenes following. Or the one after that.
OK…party scene with all the pianoforte playing. Mr. Knightley is portrayed as more blunt in this version; he minces no words with Emma or anyone else. He also intervenes directly on behalf of Jane Fairfax’s poor voice instead of cuing Miss Bates to do so.
Is Mrs. Elton the same lady as Mrs. Hurst in P&P? (yes) Well done with all the gaudy jewelry.
I miss the scenes from the other movie showing Emma being benevolent to their poorer neighbors.
Ball scene…well done all around. No comment there, really, except it’s nice to see Mr. Knightley smile. Sadly, smiling did not turn him into Jeremy Northam.
The romantic fantasies are cute. They’re getting a little tiresome though.
Strawberry picking at Donwell Abbey…Sweet that Mr. Knightley talks about his future wife inviting people to his home. And I’m always up for seeing Mrs. Elton put in her place.
Box Hill…goodness, what a production with all the tents and tables. And the pivotal Emma blunder in humiliating Miss Bates. Great exchange with the bawling out of Emma by Knightley.
Anything that Knightley can bring to John and Isabella? “…besides the laugh which no one carries.” Darling. Sweet.
Oh, I do love the scene with him leaving. He’s so happy that she went to the Bates’ to apologize, and she’s so sad that he’s leaving with things so awkward between them.
Kate Beckinsale is a good cryer. She also cries a lot in “Much Ado About Nothing.” I wonder if she cries in that vampire flick.
Knightley’s back…his anger at Frank is excellent. Her puzzled expression at his declaration is perfect. A bit creepy with the “I held you in my arms when you were six weeks old…” thing. That’s cradle robbing for ya.
Cute scene with them telling Mr. Woodhouse.
I like the harvest dinner scene. It shows that Knightley does not think of himself as above his tenants…and what an honor to be toasted by an entire room of your fiance’s friends!
Happy Ending.
And…we’re back to the chickens. Another woman stolen away.
And a teaser for the new S&S…oh my!!! SWORDFIGHTING!! That’s quite exciting!!
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2 Responses to “You Will Excuse Me while I Live-blog Masterpiece Theatre”
Amber Benton March 24, 2008
Oh, I did try to watch…I was nursing Nathan and kept falling asleep. David kept coming in and waking me up, so I am sure I missed more than I saw!
cascadingwaters March 24, 2008
Equally obsessed, just haven’t seen it yet! I’ll be back with comments when I do!
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“The U.S side made new groundless accusations against the Chinese side, and China finds it totally unacceptable,” Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng told reporters at a news conference in Beijing.
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“We hope the United States will drop the words and behaviors that damage bilateral economic and trade relations and adopt a constructive attitude,” Gao said.
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“We are evaluating the measures that the United States may take,” Gao said, stressing that Washington’s generalization of the concept on national security would only result in unnecessary barriers and damage trade.
“China will pay close attention to the relevant U.S. legislation and take necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises as appropriate,” he said.
Washington is demanding Beijing to improve market access and intellectual property protections for U.S. companies, cut industrial subsidies and slash a $375 billion trade gap. Trump has imposed tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports to force concessions.
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Who is to Blame: The Truth About Shincheonji and COVID-19
September 9, 2020 September 10, 2020 kleverchristlichen 7 Comments
Hi all, it’s been a while! How are you dealing with COVID-19 sitch and corona blue? I hope you’re all doing okay.
It’s like the new normal is settling down to our life as if we originally wear masks all the time and lock up ourselves at home. How did this happen? Who is to blame? At least Korea has a part of the history.
Starting from late February 2020, one of the Shincheonji church members caught COVID-19 and without knowing it, she went to service, and the disease spread like a wildfire. By this time, Korea accused Shincheonji of being the ‘core’ of the COVID-19 in Korea. The KCDC (Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) claimed that this religious organization tried to hinder the prevention of COVID-19, even if it happened right after the president told his people to live the normal daily life.
Repeating what KCDC claimed, the public opinion and press insisted that it is Shincheonji to blame (as if COVID-19 was started from Korea, not Wuhan, China). Then, the government shut down all the buildings owned by Shincheonji – churches, training centers, offices – by now.
Is Shincheonji a troll or the antagonist?
Here’s the fact: Shincheonji was believed to be the part of the beginning of the COVID-19 in Korea, but the trail of the actual first COVID-19 case is unclear. COVID-19 started from Wuhan, but the patient from (which is the ’31st’ case in Daegu, Korea) Shincheonji hasn’t visited there. That means she wasn’t a flint to start a fire in Korea – she also was infected from someone else, while the country was off-guard, thinking that it is safe from COVID-19.
After months of accusing and blaming Shincheonji, KCDC finally told the truth: COVID-19 in Korea was from Wuhan, China. “COVID-19 was from China. After the inflow, the disease spread in the regions by patients who have mild/no symptoms. We did our best to deal with COVID-19 without China blockade”, Jeong Eunkyung, the head of KCDC admitted. (https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/ranking/article/003/0009977574)
Even more, the research says 0.03% of Korean citizens had COVID-19 antibody. Still, the rate of Daegu, Korea was 7.6%, which means the rate of this city in Korea is 253 times higher than the average rate of the whole country. Having the COVID-19 antibody means they had COVID-19 and got well. (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea/undiagnosed-virus-infections-could-be-27-times-higher-in-south-koreas-daegu-city-study-idUSKCN24N0CJ)
What we need to look closer is the number of Daegu citizens who have the antibody is much far higher than the known case of COVID-19 in Daegu.
KCDC investigated all contacts of the 31st case and trailed, tested, then quarantined them.
Officially reported (who are investigated by KCDC) COVID-19 cases of Daegu are 7,088 (KCDC, 09.09.2020).
About 180,000 Daegu citizens cured COVID-19 without knowing that they had/carried the disease.
This leads to one conclusion; COVID-19 already widely spread in Daegu, Korea, before the 31st case. It wasn’t Shincheonji’s fault, it was the consequence of the failure of prevention of the disease. If you ‘need’ to find somebody to blame, it’s the Korean government who hesitated to block the source of COVID-19.
While this truth is revealed, cured members of the Shincheonji Daegu church are donating their blood plasma to help develop the COVID-19 treatment. (https://eagle.co.ug/2020/09/08/shincheonji-church-of-jesus-2nd-group-of-plasma-donation-1018-people-completed.html)
Total 1,646 Shincheonji people have donated blood when the cured patients outside of Shincheonji are afraid of stepping out to help because of being exposed (Due to the side effect of the brilliant investigation technique of Korea to track down COVID-19 contacts, the private information of the patients were exposed, often which lead them to be attacked by the public.).
Interested in this topic? Media in Korea have produced tons of fake news about COVID-19 and Shincheonji from February 2020 and there are facts loaded to bust the fake news. This series will be uploaded to this blog. Stay tuned!
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7 thoughts on “Who is to Blame: The Truth About Shincheonji and COVID-19”
Shincheonji Church members have been among the biggest victims of COVID-19 in South Korea yet 1700 recovered members of this church have donated their blood plasma in a global effort to find a cure to this virus. This is an unprecedented gift that may result in saving the lives of millions of people around the world. Thank you, Shincheonji❤️
Lynne Jessel says:
Amazing love from the donors!
Louise Stern says:
oh wow, actually I read it a lot that religious communities get scapegoated like this….
therefore I really liked, that so many people donated their bloodplasma
The congregation members of Shincheonji have a lot of courage. To donate their blood plasma despite all the accusations, uncertainty and mistreatment by the government officials takes a lot of bravery and love for their fellow citizens.
Michael Schätzle says:
I´m sure in the end the truth about everything will come to the light
To date, 1700 recovered members of Shincheonji Church have donated their blood plasma in a global effort to find a cure to this indiscriminate virus. This is an unprecedented gift that may result in saving the lives of millions of people around the world. Thank you, Shincheonji❤️
Wow its rare to see such a so many people come together helping with blood plasma donations. I don’t think there would be any other place would do something like what this church members did. Appreciate their big hearts and generosity in giving to others especially in this pandemic that is affecting everyone
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The "Wonderland at Roseville" display brings more than 30,000 visitors to a neighborhood in Fairfield during the holiday season, causing parking problems. So, 45 residents of Sawyer Road, which connects to Roseville Terrace, have signed a petition, according to KTLA sister station WTIC in Hartford.
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For many people, we will be known historically as Leina Broughton however we are so excited to have transitioned into our new name Leina & Fleur.
The brand Leina Broughton started in a home garage in Gold Coast ten years ago but six years ago that all changed when we officially joined forces. We didn’t know each other but there was an undeniable synchronicity of when we met (a sliding doors moment!), our similarities, our complimentary skill set, our work ethos and a belief that our intuition was in check and that this all made sense. We didn’t know it at the time, but it turns out that our approach to gut instinct decisions backed with knowledge and bravery would become the strength of our business decisions.
This wasn’t a halfway decision to head into partnership together, true to us, it was all in. We were going in as 50/50 partners with a few clear decisions made. We would set up our operations with a software system (which we later went on to receive a federal grant to create), we would focus on Australian Made and that if it all went pear-shaped we had a ‘get-out’ card for 3 years time where we could both walk away with no regrets.
Right from the beginning, we knew that the self-named brand would need to be reassessed as we went, but for then the focus was getting past that 3-year mark!
It turns out that time was just what we needed. We became Telstra Business Award finalists, received a grant to design and build our own custom software for the business, moved to new premises that were 4x bigger than our original offices and our wonderful customers increased exponentially.
Our customers have been such an important part of our journey and have not only been the face of our brand over the last 2 years with our Customer Supermodel Shoots, they have also been the support that has given us such incredible inspiration. This is something that we will always be so thankful for and why we are so passionate about staying connected to our community.
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But of course, there was always that unfinished and opened loop of the name of our business. Of course it was a brand name but there was such a gap as the reflection of who we are as a business and how we operate. We’ve always looked after different parts of the business, it’s our strength. The yin and the yang, the operations and the marketing, the money and the design. These parts can’t operate independently, these parts need each other to work.
After a week-long intensive in Vegas for Business Mastery (yes the bizarreness of that is not lost on us) we came back on a mission, we had chosen a new name, Womenco, and we were on a mission to make it a reality!! Everything was planned, we had a clear idea and nothing was changing our minds… Right at the eleventh hour, we decided to hold a focus group with six key customers to make sure our passionate vision made sense. We bought the group together from 3 different states with strict instructions on keeping it all under the radar and we unleashed the name… let’s just say the response was not what we imagined, not even close!! Straight away the group assumed that we were planning to sell and move on from our very Community Focused Brand. Lucky we have learnt how to be agile ninjas over the years! It was back to the drawing board to find ‘the’ name. Business continued as normal but it still wasn’t right...
Fast forward to a rainy day in February (right before the world stepped into crazy land) it was like the heavens opened up and said what are you doing ladies, it’s time!!! In a whirl of emotions (we do nothing by halves…) the name of leina & fleur flew in the conversation and we both literally stopped in our steps, looked at each other and said, I like it. We didn’t need a tricky or neutral name to explain who we are, it just needed to say us.
So here we are, in the middle of a global pandemic deciding that the time is right to make a change and make this year one that goes down in history as crazy yet momentous.
We thank you for your incredible ongoing support and for those of you that know us well, we thank you for celebrating with us and for nodding your head thinking, spot on!
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What Precautions you should take during Corona virus by Steven lash San Diego
Steven lash San Diego thoughts on Covid-19
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Dilemma Solved: A/R Collections During a Billing System Conversion By Steven Lash
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In the world there is huge effect of covid19, many people lost their lives and many lost their job. Every industry is affected and many of them have lost their work. This pandemic situation in the world is even worst then you thought. To save yourself from covid19 you should take necessary precautions which must be taken by every individual.
To Prevent the Spread of Corona Virus, you must clean your hands on regular basis by soap or alcohol based hand rub. You should maintain a safe distance from anyone who is coughing or sneezing. Always wear a mask whenever you’ll go outside the home and tells others to do the same. If you ever feel any chances of fever, cough immediately contact to medical center. The best and effective way to spread covid19 is take as many as precautions which must save you and your family. Don’t get out of home for unnecessary reasons stay home and stay safe by Steven Lash San Diego. Steven lash has been helping many people through social media by sharing useful information on covid19,how we can save our family as well others.
By stevenlashsandiegoin health, Health care December 1, 2020 192 WordsLeave a comment
Today, I am going to share some of my thoughts on Covid-19 virus, As you all know this deadly virus is spreading all over the world very rapidly. In the world 3 million people are suffering from this virus and more than 100k people are already dead because of this. The most affected country in the world is USA where almost one million people are suffering and around 50k people are dead, So as American it’s my responsibility to help my country in whatever way. We can help the poor people by feeding food to them in your near streets as well donate some money online to the organisation who are working towards country and also donate some money to Gov to fight against this corona virus.
We people unite together and let this virus out of our country as soon as possible. We should appreciate our health workers who are working 24*7 for our country. We should need to stay indoor as possible as can. We should always wear mask while going outside for any grocery items and also sanitise your vehicle while going outside for any work.
I request people of United States to help as many people around you. My name is Steven lash San Diego, I’m feeding many people in my area who can’t afford food and other necessary things of daily life, I hope everything in the world will be fine soon and all people stay safe and healthy everywhere they are.
By stevenlashsandiegoin health, Health care, steven lash san diego April 27, 2020 246 WordsLeave a comment
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As a Revenue Cycle Director, it is likely during your career you will be faced with a Billing System conversion. You have a daunting decision whether to convert the old A/R, use existing staff to work the old A/R and at the same time learn they need to learn the new Billing system.
This is a major undertaking fraught with operational and financial risk. It gets even more complicated if a new clinical system is going in at the same time. Supporting a seamless revenue cycle conversion requires extensive planning and training, along with laser-like focus on the operations and features of the new platform with the staff having to learn the tips and tricks along with functionality.
An initial decision to use existing staff to wind down collections at the same time as learning the new system exacerbates the major organizational effort that is required. Billing personnel will be pulled in multiple directions as they attempt to master the complexities of the new system while at the same time try to wind down aging accounts receivable linked to the legacy platform. Attempting to juggle these competing tasks can produce the worst of both worlds; outgoing claims submitted through the new system stall or decrease, while unresolved accounts in the old platform pile up. Cash flow erodes as days in AR and denials increase. And if unanticipated problems or delays emerge during the Billing System implementation, the financial problems can quickly snowball.
To mitigate these risks and preserve cash flow, a bifurcated approach to the revenue cycle transition should be strongly considered. By establishing a clean cut off after thorough testing and training of the new system the internal staff would handle new system billing activities, in-house personnel can submit claims in an accurate and timely manner after the cut off. This is their sole focus.
Legacy accounts, meanwhile, can be outsourced to a qualified, third-party AR resolution vendor. Turning the old inventory over to external specialists not only allows internal staff to concentrate on current claims and the new system, it also ensures that aging denials will be worked methodically to resolution. This would result in cash being collected on accounts that most likely would have been written off due to divergent priorities by the in-house staff.
Under the best of circumstances, even with a flawless implementation (this has never happened) it’s not unusual for organizations undergoing new Billing Systems installations to experience an increase in both days in AR and denials, along with a commensurate reduction in cash flow critical that every step be taken to ensure a successful implementation. Partnering with a qualified third party to resolve legacy AR enables internal staff to focus exclusively on the new billing platform. It is safe to assume the odds for success are greatly improved if the in-house billing staff is not required to simultaneously work legacy denials while attempting to submit clean claims through the new system. Beyond the extra workload and inconvenience that juggling the two tasks entails, allowing personnel to continue to interact with the legacy platform can undermine acceptance of, and confidence in, the new billing process. This, in turn, can reinforce outmoded processes or behaviors and hinder the development of staff-wide competence with the new system. The net result is further financial risk. For more info you can visit here Steven lash San Diego.
By stevenlashsandiegoin Health care, health care advise August 26, 2019 562 WordsLeave a comment
POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT TOOLS HELP IMPROVE QUALITY AND CUT COSTS By Steven Lash San Diego
With an unrelenting focus on patient outcomes under value-based reimbursement systems, providers are seeking the holy grail in order to improve population health management programs that target at-risk groups, such as chronically ill patients.
Medicare programs such as Annual Wellness Visits and Chronic Care Management program are one such example of a Population Health tool, that not only improves patient outcomes, but also can generate new revenues for a medical practice. There is a lot of literature and research that supports that a robust Annual Wellness Visit program coupled with a Chronic Care Management program provides significant advantages in being proactive in Preventive Care as well reduce the progression of chronic disease and avoid the development of new chronic conditions.
A good start is for providers to start identifying the most expensive patient populations, which usually have higher hospital readmission rates and more emergency department visits. Medicare has a program called Transitional Care Management which is right on point for reducing these events. These are high-cost events for providers and value-based care models will penalize providers for not preventing these healthcare events.
Researchers historically advise healthcare organizations to acquire/affiliate/link with more primary care physicians to boost preventative and chronic care management, invest in patient-centered medical homes, focus on care management for high-risk patients, and use clinical registries to monitor patient health statuses.
“You need a methodology to identify high-risk patients and then a care management program to manage the care of those high-risk patients,” commented Jonathan Niloff, MD, McKesson’s Chief Medical Officer. “It’s a well-known phenomenon that a small proportion of patients always account for a disproportionate share of costs, so one can get a lot of return from focusing on those high-cost patients.”
While EHR systems are critical to collecting population health data, providers would benefit from additional patient risk stratification programs to identify high care utilizers and cost drivers. The more information click here Steven lash San Diego.
By stevenlashsandiegoin health, Health care October 28, 2018 323 WordsLeave a comment
Steven lash San Diego shared Best Practices on Value-Based Care Reimbursement
Payers have begun to transition to value-based care reimbursement from the more traditional fee-for-service payment system. Executives and financial experts are begrudgingly understanding that it will take longer than expected to adopt the new payment structures. Many obstacles will impact the timing and effectiveness of this transition. Payers should follow some key best practices.
Evaluate the patient population
Steven lash San Diego explain how we can move to value-based care reimbursement effectively, payers will need to understand their subscriber base to understand the type of care and preventive services that will be required from the provider network. The results of this analysis can be communicated to relevant medical facilities to establish appropriate treatment for each patient.
Key strategies payers should include patient risk stratification and population health management analytics. Payers could help inform providers on which members are in need of greater engagement in their chronic disease management. Payers should follow Medicare’s lead and pay for a Chronic Care Management program.
Improvements in hypertension, weight management and sugar control show that it will have a positive impact on patient outcomes, but that usually takes years to benefit the patient and ultimately benefit the overall cost. This of course, is the payer conundrum since patients can change their health plans annually so the payer that has paid for these programs may not reap the benefit.
Passing the financial risk to providers should be done slowly
An important component for moving to outcome-based care is to introduce financial risk gradually. A Carrot and Stick approach is a radical change for providers and cannot be rushed into the provider community. When providers partner with payers through a risk sharing model (aka value based reimbursement), they’re often required to assume more financial risk as opposed to payers taking on more risk in a fee-for-service model.
Quality measures should fit existing provider patient care goals
Healthcare providers often have their own quality improvement goals for their patient population and as of late a standardized set. Payers could effectively transition to value-based care by aligning their quality measures to fit existing goals of their providers. This means that instead of forcing providers to adhere to differing quality metrics between public and commercial health plans, payers would implement their quality measures to align with that of CMS and the MACRA regulations.
Support healthcare delivery reform
Payers should follow Medicare’s lead and actively support changes in the healthcare delivery change. ACOs have been shown (when well run with good leadership and tools) to improve quality and reduce costs. In their infancy Medicare economically supported the formation of these ACOs. Additionally, models such as patient centered medical homes have also driven down costs and improved patient care.
Member engagement and empowerment
Steven lash San Diego explain how you can see the best results from value-based care reimbursement it will be necessary to invest in patient engagement and for patients to assume accountability for their health. Patients with the tools needed to make appropriate decisions in their healthcare shopping are more likely to choose more affordable options to the benefit of their wallet.
By stevenlashsandiegoin Health care, health care advise September 2, 2018 516 WordsLeave a comment
Chronic Care Management Conclusion by Steven Lash
It is evident based on the 2 earlier articles that Steven Lash published this is a very heavy lift for almost all practices. Even large practices will have to add significant staff to establish the program. This would lead to very low margins.
• The practice will have new fixed cost structures in the form of employees, computers, space, telephones, etc., with no assurance that the practice will be able to capture every patient every month for reimbursement from Medicare.
• A do it alone approach will impact/change in a very major way existing practice workflow. This will reduce office efficiency and either lead to longer workdays for the entire practice or a reduction of the number of patients coming into the office as time was taken up performing new workflow activities.
• One of the most important items is that the practice and the physician providers would be subject to compliance concerns and potential problems. No provider wants to have a Medicare audit and certainly not one where they are recouping tens of thousands in Medicare payments. More info Steven lash
By stevenlashsandiegoin health, Health care, health care advise, Uncategorized January 28, 2016 191 WordsLeave a comment
Defining the new Alternative Payment Models by Steven lash
Steven Lash noted health advisor notes that the new MACRA legislation defines three payment models which will definitely qualify as APMs beginning in 2019: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), current APMs like the bundled payments currently operated by CMMI through the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, and medical homes. Additional models will be considered as APMs are defined. There are three basic criterion for participants in APMs:
Use certified EHR technology
Report on quality measures comparable to the MIPS quality measures, and
Bear financial risk for monetary losses under the APM that are in excess of a nominal amount
The Secretary of HHS will define the other models which will qualify as APMs. The legislation creates a new entity to advise the Secretary and evaluate the development of alternative payment models, to be known as the Physician-Focused Payment Models Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). The committee will make recommendations to the Secretary as to whether the alternative payment models meet the criteria (the three points above and any others to be established by the Secretary) for assessing physician-focused payment models.
The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) would provide technical and operational support for the committee, which could be by use of a contractor. The Office of the Actuary of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would provide actuarial assistance as needed.
According to noted healthcare advisor Steven Lash the proposals to the TAC and federal rulemaking will be the chief processes to define APMs moving forward. The legislation recognizes there will be other valuable value based models that should be classified as an APM.
The first milestone will be November 1, 2016, when the Secretary will write a rule to establish the criteria for physician-focused payment models which will be used by the TAC.
During the comment period for the proposed rule, MedPAC, individuals, and key stakeholders could submit comments to the Secretary on the proposed criteria. Individuals and stakeholder entities also could submit proposals to the TAC for models that they believe meet the criteria. The TAC will review models submitted on a periodic basis and provide comments and recommendations to the Secretary regarding whether the models meet the criteria. The Secretary has the ultimate authority to define the APM models.
By stevenlashsandiegoin Health care, health care advise, Uncategorized January 8, 2016 374 WordsLeave a comment
Under MACRA there will be two new physician payment systems that will exist side-by-side by Steven lash
According to noted healthcare advisor Steven Lash “One system will be a “2.0 version” of the several pay-for-performance systems currently in place for Medicare physicians. It will be a melding of the Physician Quality Reporting System, the Value-Based Modifier, and Meaningful Use for EHRs’”.
The three systems will continue as currently constituted through 2018. In 2019, they will be melded together to form a new system called the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Steven Lash noted that “MIPS is intended to be the less-attractive path for physicians because—while upside rewards and bonuses will be possible for some extraordinary practices—low performance could be penalized by 4% and as much as 9% as the system matures.”
Three entities will be tending MIPS: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and the Government Accounting Office (GAO). MedPAC will report on the impact of the 0.5% updates on physicians and the broader Medicare program in terms of total spending, quality, and access. DHHS will establish the quality measures from which MIPS-eligible professionals could choose, and which will serve as the basis for the MIPS bonus or penalty.
GAO will submit four reports, one of which will assess the burden of MIPS measurement, and two of which will assess the effectiveness of government programs to help physicians prepare for participation in alternative payment models. According to Steven Lash “The fourth GAO report, due January 1, 2017, would study the role of independent risk managers and examine whether such entities could pool financial risk for physician practices. Could risk managers support physician practices, particularly small ones, in assuming financial risk for the treatment of patients? What are the current barriers (practical, legal, otherwise) to assuming risk? What would such managers look like?”
To avoid 4-9% payment penalties and lock-in a 5% annual bonus, eligible professionals must participate in the second system, the Alternative Payment Models (APM). Physicians will be able to opt-out of MIPS and instead participate in the APM system if a sufficient share of their revenues is derived from APMs. In the first year, only Medicare revenue will count towards APM participation; however, in subsequent years, revenues could be pooled across Medicare and other sources to qualify for APM participation. This is intended to be the more attractive system and the 5% bonus is intended to reward the resources and effort required to participate in an APM.
By stevenlashsandiegoin Health care, health care advise December 3, 2015 391 WordsLeave a comment
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Kevin Amendt
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC
As a patent attorney, Kevin C. Amendt’s focus is on strategic IP counseling, including patent procurement and IP litigation. He is known for identifying and capturing maximum value from his client’s innovations. His success on behalf of clients comes from his combination of strong technical and legal skills.
Kevin counsels clients on all aspects of patent prosecution. He drafts and prosecutes patent applications and performs patent portfolio, infringement, and validity analyses. He helps clients obtain patents that reflect the technical details of their invention as well as their business plan.
Kevin is involved in intellectual property disputes. He handles post-grant proceedings before the USPTO and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, including ex-parte re-examinations and inter-partes reviews (IPRs).
He also is involved in patent litigation with experience supporting cases in federal district court and at the International Trade Commission (ITC). Kevin plays an active role in analyzing prior art, infringement material, and discovered documents to formulate and support litigation positions.
Kevin has worked on behalf of entities ranging from individual inventors and venture-backed startups to academic institutions, hospitals, and large multinationals. His experience spans broad technical fields including medical devices, software, consumer electronics, signal processing, telecommunication, robotics, artificial intelligence, business methods, mechanical systems, and biotechnology.
Kevin graduated first in class and summa cum laude from Suffolk Law’s evening program while working full time at Mintz as a patent agent. Upon graduation he received the Daniel J. Fern Award for outstanding academic achievement.
Before joining Mintz, Kevin worked as a systems engineer for Raytheon Corporation in their missile defense systems department. He has also worked for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and Tangible Media, a research group with the MIT Media Laboratory. While pursuing his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he focused on intelligent systems, robotics, and control.
Suffolk University Law School (JD, summa cum laude)
University of California – San Diego (MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Managed and prosecuted portfolio of bill validators for private equity-backed company spun out of one of the largest privately held companies in the United States. Also conducted landscape and freedom to operate analysis for new product releases.
Handled world-wide patent portfolio strategy for an Inc. 500 international retail jewelry company.
Inter Partes Reexamination 95/001,874 – Represented Petitioner Camtek Ltd. in invalidating some claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,729,528 related to an automated wafer defect inspection system. All instituted claims were found invalid. Patent Trial and Appeal Board upheld decision on patent owner appeal.
Ambato Media LLC v. Clarion Co. Ltd et al., 2:09-cv-00242, (E.D. Texas) –Helped develop validity and infringement positions for patent owner Ambato Media, LLC in its patent infringement jury trial victory over Garmin International, Inc.
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Bringing dead films back to life one review at a time
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January 19th, 2014: Hard Target (1993)
Jan19 by Max Roland Ekstrom
Cast and Crew: John Woo (director), Kodo (soundtrack); Jean-Claude Van Damme, Yancy Butler, Arnold Vasloo (The Mummy), Willie Carpenter, Lance Henrickson.
What it’s About: When a homeless vet goes missing in New Orleans, his estranged daughter (Yancy Butler) stumbles upon underemployed bayou badass Chance Boudreaux (Van Damme) and convinces him to help find her father. The two soon find themselves up against a depraved criminal enterprise that offers affluent clients the unique opportunity to hunt human prey.
Why Watch it Today: “The Most Dangerous Game” was originally published in Collier’s Weekly on this day in 1924, and has been inspiration for countless human safari books and movies. John Woo’s Hollywood debut may not be his finest directorial effort, but he wisely plays his Hong Kong pyrotechnics, quick-cut cinematography, and stylized “gun-fu” choreography as minor roles, granting the legendary legwork of his action star center stage.
Van Damme and Woo never again team up for a feature film. Woo may have felt constrained by his new Hollywood masters, and Van Damme may have felt unsteady with a director lacking experience in Hollywood effects and stunts. Director and star fumble the Big Easy setting and can’t breathe sequel-grade life into its hero, Chance Boudreax. Van Damme contorting his Brussels-sprouting English into an Acadian inflection is sublimely preposterous, making Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attempts at playing a Russian cop in Red Heat sound eminently reasonable. Look out for Arnold Vasloo (The Mummy), who steals his scenes with psychotic bad-guy gusto.
A Belgian kickboxer playing a Cajun homeless man as directed by a Chinese filmmaker with a California crew may not be as much of a novelty today, but then again, maybe it still is. While Van Damme fans may prefer Bloodsport due to its superior concentration of kickboxing mayhem, and Woo fans Hard Boiled for its inexhaustible supply of bullet-ridden bodies, Hard Target still delivers where it counts–fast-paced manhunts, machine guns ripping through mooks, Van Damme roundhousing people, and shit exploding on a regular basis.
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T.A. Gerolami says:
My brother and I are “Most Dangerous Game” rip-off nuts. The surest way to that man’s heart is to run a variant of this story and I think I lost count of how many times he used the plot when we were still playing role-playing games together…including a bayou variant long before this film was released. I avoided this for years due to the Van Damme, but I finally caught it last year with BVH, who finds Van Damme the least irritating of the late 80s/early 90s action stars. My personal favorite things about this, besides when Woo manages to be Woo, are the supporting cast. Lance Henriksen and Arnold Voosloo make great bad guys, and who doesn’t love Wilford Brimley, Cajun Commando? I nearly busted a gut when we saw him riding off hollering with a bow in his hand.
Max Roland Ekstrom says:
Yes, remiss of me not to document the Brimley scenes. It feels like a whole ‘nother film, but for camp value, his presence puts Hard Target over the edge.
They definitely don’t seem to belong, though I can’t imagine them being forced on Woo-I don’t think many test audiences demand more Brimley action scenes nor can I imagine a studio exec saying “we need some cross over appeal with the Quaker Oatmeal demo”.
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There Is No Such Thing As A Fair Benefit Sanction And They Are Not A Tory Invention
Posted on March 8, 2015 by johnny void | 131 Comments
A pregnant women who was sanctioned in disguise at a recent protest so Jobcentre staff don’t recognise her. From The Poor Side Of Life
Iain Duncan Smith’s mass use of benefit sanctions is driving people to their deaths. But it began under Labour, and was not opposed by most trade unions or charities established to support people living in poverty.
In 2008 the Labour government published a green paper entitled ‘No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility’ (PDF). Gordon Brown himself wrote the forward to the document pledging “tough responsibilities that respect tax payers” for all of those on some form of out of work benefit.
Even for a Government which had already introduced workfare and the despised Work Capability Assessment, some of the measures proposed were shocking. These included mandatory work related activity – a vague term that often means workfare – for both sick and disabled claimants and lone parents with children over 5. Other proposals included a policy that long term unemployed people should be sent on workfare for “as long as needed”. Those with a drug problem would be required to undertake mandatory treatment regimes and possibly even drug testing. Benefit sanctions would be strengthened. A new and privatised ‘Fit For Work’ service would be introduced to encourage people to go back to work quickly if they became ill. And all those currently claiming sickness or disability benefits would be ‘frequently’ re-assessed at the notorious Work Capability Assessments which were being run by French IT company Atos.
Atos were far from the only private company set to rake in huge sums from Labour’s savage attack on the poor. The green paper proposed that private providers would be able to bid for any welfare-to-work service. This was based on a recommendation from David Freud, now better known as Lord Fraud, the current Tory Minister for Welfare Reform.
Except for mandatory treatment for drug users, all of these measure were eventually introduced, some by Labour and some by the Tories. Many of Iain Duncan Smith’s most vicious policies were actually first proposed by Labour.
The consequences of Labour’s welfare reforms were devastating. 52,399 benefit sanctions were inflicted on Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants in March 2010. This was twice the number from just two years earlier and more than the 51,142 sanctions handed out by the Tories in September 2014, the most recent month for which figures are available.
In March 2010 the number of people on sickness benefits who had their benefits stopped for failure to carry out ‘work related activity’ hit a high of 3,673. This is just slightly below the 3,828 sanctions handed out to this group in September 2014.
To hear the current rhetoric from the TUC, you would think that mass benefit sanctions were a Tory invention. TUC General Secretary Frances O-Grady recently released a statement saying “Under this government the sanctions system has become a cruel maze in which it is all too easy for claimants to lose cash for minor breaches of rules and random decisions.” This was in response to a report showing the desperate toll that sanctions were taking on lone parents and most importantly their children, As far back as 2008 the government’s own experts, the Social Security Advisory Committee, recommended that lone parents should not face sanctions. The Labour government rejected this advice (PDF).
The TUC’s position is that some sanctions are acceptable. Most charities share the same view. The Labour Party have merely said there will be no targets for sanctions should they win the election. Iain Duncan Smith already claims there are no benefit sanction targets.
Yet again this week coroners found that benefit stoppages had been a factor in two tragic suicides. Leaving someone with no income at all, in one of the richest countries in the world, is inexcusable and inhumane. To do this to people who can’t find a job, when we know there are not enough jobs to go round, is dystopian. In the UK today, if you are poor, then you live under a regime of state inflicted terror.
Jobcentres have no idea what is going on in people’s lives when these sanctions are handed out. They often do not know if someone has a mental health condition, or if they are homeless, a victim of domestic violence, or even just in the midst of a personal crisis. Perhaps they are already desperately trying to avoid eviction by paying off rent arrears out of meagre benefits. Perhaps they are about to have their gas or electricity disconnected. Benefit claimants are already desperately poor. No matter how ‘fair’ or ‘proportionate’ sanctions are claimed to be, no matter how many so-called safeguards are introduced (and ignored), benefit sanctions will always destroy lives. For a small few they will be the tipping point that turns this so-called ‘help’ from the Jobcentre into a potential death sentence.
This is what the TUC and some charities support and it is fucking vile. Benefit sanctions need to be stopped without exceptions. It is way beyond time that those leading the trade union movement, and those in charities that claim to care about people in poverty, were brave enough to take a meaningful stand against the horrifying regime inflicted on those unable to find work. Their current whining from the sidelines is both incoherent and ineffective. Their cowardice makes them complicit in killing people.
On the 19th March the community section of UNITE Union will be holding a day of action against sanctions. This will include protests outside Jobcentres across the UK. Many have been organised by unemployed people themselves and they deserve support. But even UNITE have doggedly refused to answer the question of whether they are opposed to all sanctions.
The PCS Union, who represent Jobcentre workers, have commited to this position, although they refuse to do anything much about it. Both UNITE and the PCS should be ferociously lobbying the TUC leadership to take an urgent stand against all benefit sanctions. It is the very least they can do after all. Now these sanctions can also be inflicted on low paid part time workers. A trade union movement that doesn’t just tolerate this cruelty, but endorses it in some circumstances is worse than negligent. It is a trade union movement that is actively attacking the very poorest working class people. And for that the TUC leadership should hang their fucking heads in shame.
For a list of the protests called so far as part of UNITE’s day of action against sanctions visit their website. Please help spread the word.
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131 responses to “There Is No Such Thing As A Fair Benefit Sanction And They Are Not A Tory Invention”
Methusalada | March 8, 2015 at 3:01 pm | Reply
I find your Blogs very unique & often if not always very illuminating. You think outside the box which I personally find very stimulating.
bobchewie | March 8, 2015 at 3:04 pm | Reply
“Meanwhile a BBC Wales opinion poll suggests that almost half of Welsh voters believe that the UK government is not being tough enough towards people on benefits and more should be done to force them into work.
The annual St David’s Day poll, carried out by ICM, found that 45% of those questioned thought that the Westminster coalition government was not being tough enough towards people on benefits.”
Wtf is going on there?
johnny void | March 8, 2015 at 3:36 pm | Reply
year old poll that shows more people actually thought the system was ‘about right’ or too tough
@Johnny void so who wrote that crap.? Can we guess?
Ah yes that arbiter of neutrality in news reporting the good ole Aunty beeb
sibrydionmawr | March 12, 2015 at 11:20 pm | Reply
You also have to remember that Wales is, by and large mainstream Labour, and quite happy to regurgitate the standard Labour crap, i.e, that sanctions are neccessary. In some areas, most notably the North Wales coast and some areas of West Wales, large numbers of Daily Mail reading types have migrated there, a significant proportion of whom as part of a ‘white flight’ from areas with significant numbers of people with a different skin colour. Amazingly, these people often seem blissfully unaware of the irony apparent when they talk about how terrible immigration is! They often have some pretty obnoxious attitudes to local people, particularly if they have the audacity to speak their own language (Welsh) within earshot.
However, generally you will find that attitudes towards the unemployed and benefit claimants in general reflects UK wide trends, despite the existence of Plaid Cymru, whose tendency to buck the trend on this largely falls on deaf ears.
untynewear | March 8, 2015 at 3:06 pm | Reply
https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/tuc-welfare-conference-fight-for-a-decent-benefit-system/
Organisations show up at TUC conference to show support for fairer benefit system
Stepping Razor Sound Plate System | March 8, 2015 at 3:14 pm | Reply
Gordon Brown was the nail in Labours coffin. Left wing to what ring wing to what all getting their wings clipped so they can`t understand real life. Stand up tell it like it is all trying to control the main mass media in a social networking election campaign with £50,000 a year jobs working on Twitter spreading the propaganda to the masses. Not a long term job then !!! Who ever wins still have the Maximus contract until 2018 & will have to buy out the contract from Maximus. That also includes ATOS & Capita & many others. They can`t afford it. Corporate business not poll a tricks runs the future. The recession is only going to get worse & will be still in it in 2040. Denial Factories in business. Confidence Tricksters in politics.
No party is mentioning Human Rights & Equality. Who has that? Less than 1% of the population – It`s called Dodgy Daves new Human Rights Laws. Yes very Dodgy.
prayerwarriorpsychicnot | March 8, 2015 at 3:19 pm | Reply
Reblogged this on Citizens, not serfs and commented:
if the government wants 100% employment including the ill, disabled and dying, mothers with young children, the elderly who have had their retirement ages put back, every migrant, the young and homeless – fine. When an applicant goes to a Job Centre and the Job Centre can’t find a job to match the applicant – they should pay up and that should be the end of it. It is the government’s actions that have contributed to the shortage in jobs, undermining our industries, loading small and medium sized businesses with red tape, complicit in off- shoring jobs, and simultaneously increasing the population. The job shortage is completely the government’s responsibility. The only people we should vote for are anyone who will guarantee the provision of good, secure conditions, living wage jobs for 100% of the population, and with virtually open borders everyone else who arrives here. It is not the fault of the elderly, sick, disabled, young, mothers and other unemployed that there aren’t enough jobs. It is the governments fault, their responsibility, and scapegoating everyone else is a disgusting political tactic to mask their enormous failure.
ulysses | March 8, 2015 at 5:24 pm | Reply
That Red Tape that businesses are weighed down with is there for us, not them, it theoretically stops us being forced on 18 hour days and protects us from unsafe practices…
prayerwarriorpsychicnot | March 9, 2015 at 4:08 am | Reply
The key word is “theory”. There is no protection from zero hours contracts. Besides we were protected from 18 hour working days decades ago. Now people are doing two or more jobs just to make ends meet. in my last job a co-worker was doing two full-time jobs just to pay his living expenses (London) – an eighty hour week, and both employers working him to the minute.
Patrick Sudlow | March 8, 2015 at 3:23 pm | Reply
The Labour Party and the Trade Union movement in the UK, has been a complete failure for ordinary people, since Labour was first elected to Government. Even the introduction of the Welfare State and the NHS, there were Labour MPs, like Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn fighting against its establishment. They did not introduce worker committees to the workplace, or rid themselves of the poor managers, who were part of the problems in the UK. We had some of the poorest quality housing in the UK, poor working practices, poor quality food and poor education. Though, cosmetically, things have been improved, it is all ‘The Emperor’s Clothe’s’, we are really a Third World Country.
The DWP have set Maximus Targets. The DWP don`t have targets Maximus do. Yet the responsibility lies with the DWP. Maximus still get paid £580 Million for the 3 year contract. So DWP`s targets have now been passed over to Maximus. The politics involved means no blame on the DWP. Yet the Welfare System wants everyone working which is a target in itself. The DWP Target Mal-Practice
Creating a fairer and more equal society
First published: 4 November 2010
Last updated:18 August 2014
The social model of disability
We encourage the use of the social model as a way of understanding disability. It says that disability is created by barriers in society.
The barriers generally fall into 3 categories:
•the environment – including inaccessible buildings and services
•people’s attitudes – stereotyping, discrimination and prejudice
•organisations – inflexible policies, practices and procedures
What is the medical model of disability?
Many people think that disability is caused by an individual’s health condition or impairment. This approach is called the medical model of disability.
The medical model says that by fixing their body, disabled people will be able to participate in society like everyone else. This is an outdated model that is not supported by disabled people or their organisations
Why use the social model of disability?
Using the social model helps identify solutions to the barriers disabled people experience. It encourages the removal of these barriers within society, or the reduction of their effects, rather than trying to fix an individual’s impairment or health condition.
The social model is the preferred model for disabled people and encourages society to be more inclusive.
https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/creating-a-fairer-and-more-equal-society/supporting-pages/the-social-model-of-disability
WE SHALL OVERCOME THE BIBLE BASHERS AT THE DWP.
Ages | March 8, 2015 at 3:46 pm | Reply
STOP SANCTIONS!. Via 38 Degrees. Please sign and Share.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/benefit-sanctions-must-be-stopped-without-exceptions-in-uk#
This petition was originally posted by JV, see here:
https://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/benefit-sanctions-are-state-terrorism-and-must-be-stopped-without-exceptions/
A long running petition that is still gaining signatures.
johnny void | March 9, 2015 at 12:31 am | Reply
should point out the petition wasn’t initiated by me, Ana Pepa Akatix deserves the credit, it just used the text from this blog
Ages | March 9, 2015 at 10:31 pm | Reply
I know. I should have used the “highlighted” rather than “posted”.
My apologies for the ambiguity.
KRS | March 8, 2015 at 3:51 pm | Reply
Found this abstract from University of Salford dating 2004. it refers to growing welfare conditionality: notably the Sure Start Maternity Grant.
Click to access CREEPING_CONDTIONALITY.pdf
Meanwhile, a bit of “light entertainment”.
The following links were from 5 years ago. Nothing has changed really.
sdbast | March 8, 2015 at 4:15 pm | Reply
Does it matter who started this whole “Sanctioning Regime?”.
The big question has to be, WHO WILL STOP IT, which Party?.
Any answers??????
Florence | March 8, 2015 at 5:58 pm | Reply
Quite right. The duping of government(s) by the Unum / Atos crap about work being good for everyone, and so everyone can work must be dumped. The potential for good, assistance when unable to work, and when able to be helped with tailored training, active support in the work place (which I benefited from when I could work), enforcement of disability and other discrimination in society and the workplace, has been completely corrupted by what can only be described as the legions of hell (and I’m not religious).
We must hold our election candidates to account. We must make it a major issue in the coming weeks. The problem is that there are so many different routes created by this government for enforcing financial hardship and servitude that a single issue – such as sanctions – has difficulty being heard. The question is also – is the issue of sanctions separate from this war on the vulnerable and the poor, or it is just the end game for those determined to harass us to death?
Chris | March 8, 2015 at 6:23 pm | Reply
Ah there is a cunning plan B, with the basic information coming from the excellent Benefits and Work website.
There is a way to put together a way that utterly changes Labour and shuts the Tories and UKIP out of ruling government, in the lowest voter turnout in UK history (best for small parties to make good gains).
The poor now outnumber all other voters in many years, of all ages, in or out of work.
See how the poor have never had so much power to effect change:
http://www.anastasia-england.me.uk
Ages | March 11, 2015 at 10:07 pm | Reply
Might this be a better link to get your point across?
http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/2994-claimant-count-vs-parliamentary-majorities
I fully see where you are going. More marginals need to be highlighted though.
Raining | March 8, 2015 at 8:49 pm | Reply
I think it does matter because when you look at the Labour party and what they used to represent and then look at them when Blair took them on the road to ruin, then you see them for the frauds that they truly are.
There were already warning signs before when spineless Neil Kinnock refused to align the party shoulder to shoulder with the N.U.M and Arthur Scargill. We could have broken Thatcher and her government, but because the leadership were total wimps they sold out on us all.
That was the true beginning of the end. Once the miners union was broken then the other unions were easy pickings. Which brings us to the sorry excuses for unions we have today; like the PCS for example.
So the groundwork was laid for the party being taken in the wrong direction and then Blair totally killed it.
l8in | March 8, 2015 at 4:22 pm | Reply
Reblogged this on L8in.
Atos Healthcare | PIP Consultation | What To Bring With You
Published on 8 Jan 2015
This video tells you what to bring with you, if you are having a consultation as part of an assessment for your Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim,
ATOS are still around doing the PIP. Turn off the fucking music I can`t hear a word.
PIP will still use WCA & with ATOS running it.
ATOS IT will be running the IT on the Online voting – RIGGED.
And not a DWP anything in sight.
Pimp My Atos – Pimp My Maximus – Pimp My Election – It`s the social model of confidence tricksters.
IRejectFPTP (@Scribbles123) | March 8, 2015 at 4:40 pm | Reply
The present ferocity of sanctions is a tory invention. Just as the present, not fit for purpose, WCA is. That Labour started it is meaningless w/out context. Its lazy and disingenuous. Foodbanks existed under Labour too, 30,000 ppl were using them. One million use them now. Not even remotely the same thing
Sanctions under Labour were also much shorter e.g. half a day’s money, not the present 4 weeks minimum. It is redundant now to rake over the Bliar years, we all know his Nu Labour was just neo-con. But there were some good things done under Labour too, like funding the NHS, but it’s overshadowed by so much of the bad stuff, which hurt Labour supporters at the time, too. Unum and ATos were slithering around the UK before (nu) Labour’s election. IDS has re-engineered the WCA until he got what he wanted – an indiscriminate, punitive and damaging system of oppression and culling of the vulnerable. That is nowhere near what happened under Labour. We have to face up to past mistakes, but Labour are not responsible for what IDS has done. And Labour now is not NuLabour, despite the occasional slither from the Bliar faithful.
Sanctions under labour were one week to six months. In terms of how many people were found fit for work, the WCA under Labour was far more draconian: https://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/taking-the-wca-back-to-the-bad-old-days-why-sick-and-disabled-claimants-should-fear-a-labour-government/
Historian | March 9, 2015 at 5:44 am | Reply
Neither was there any ‘hardship’ payment under Labour unless you were in ‘vulnerable group’ – those not in a vulnerable group were expected to starve to death! The Social Security Advisory Committee advised Labour against this abhorrent policy – Labour ignored them.
shirleynott | March 9, 2015 at 6:33 am | Reply
In the time of the smiling assassin …?
It does matter what happened when as long as it doesn’t lead to a throwing up of hands and “they’re all as bad as one another” only; as long as people remember not to give up trying to find a way back to sanity/humanity.
GORDON KEANE | March 8, 2015 at 6:26 pm | Reply
It was Labour under Gordon Brown who introdced the present system, which allowed the tories to make use of it as they have done, tories being tories. Things such as ATOS, Bedroom Tax, etc, all began life under Labour. Folks who found themselves going off on the sick from work, and then sending in sick note, etc to DWP found they had to pay for their prescriptions, even though they were only getting the same amount as anyone on JSA.
After a certain number of weeks, the JSA levels would rise, at first by a few pounds then by as much as 10 or 20 or even 50….but, they then had to pay extra towards their Council Tax and rent payments, as they were deemed to be getting above JSA levels. That affected anyone who had to sign for sickness benefits after July 2006. That proved quire a devastating system for those finding out the owed hundreds to the housing costs, as it would take the local councils several months to work out how much was due.
That is what Labour done for the peasants!
Labour MPs were made well aware of these difficulties and done nothing to redress the problems. Their answer to all this?….Promise to be tougher than the tories on the unemployed…and take ALL BENEFITS from everyone under 21.
That is why Labour are in freefall at the moment.
I never cease to point out that it was Labouor that created this system. The tories have simply expanded on it.
Any wonder then, this has been the most inept and useless Opposition’s ever!
Labour got voted out before the impact of their welfare reforms was really felt. Iain Duncan Smith carried on where they left off.
Same boss over Liam Byrne, as IDS, dont forget –
Turncoat and conveniently bought for cash & peerage David Fraud.
If anything i’d say Byrne was worse than IDS. And Freud was and always will be a useless oxygen thieving cumstain
Gen William Taggart | March 8, 2015 at 6:45 pm | Reply
Yes Labour was being manipulated by Unum etc (just as every government has been since Maggie employed them), nobody is denying that. However it was the Tories that originally gave them the foot in the door.
It was the Tories that allowed them to be influential policy advisor’s to Civil Servants, thus outside the process of who is in parliament.
I will remind you that the WCA has not actually been implemented as intended by Labour. The current process as of the Social Security Act 2010, is a complete bastardisation of the original legislation.
Labour took in to account existing legislation, in which the only way an existing award of benefit can be amended/terminated is via a supersession (Social Security Act 1998). This is why the Social Security Act 2008 reads (to paraphrase) that an existing award of qualifiying benefit, is proof of limited capability for work.
In this manner, although technically still unlawful (just like all other changes in like for like benefits since 1998), a supersession could be carried out on the basis of as near like for like swap in benefit awards.
The SSA 2010 however illegally removes this, requiring claimants to apply for a new benefit, and terminating the existing award without supersession.
A £50Billion+ fraud by the DWP, in which existing claimants have remained entitled for all this time to their pre-existing award of benefit.
An issue that IDS, DWP and the Government are fighting tooth an nail to keep out of the courtroom.
They have even resorted to falsifying evidence and manipulating the outcomes of 2 tribunals as well as preventing any investigation in to the matter by the HMRC. http://r-force.org/blog/?p=224
The original (listed) appeal was:
1. The Data Protection Act 1998, and the associated issues of the Department of Work and Pensions allegedly wrongfully declaring ATOS Healthcare as a Data Processor, when prior rulings by the Information Commissioner would clearly define them as a Data Controller in the Capacity of conducting the WCA.
2. The Right of Supersession (Social Security Act 1998). In which the state has not been showing sufficient or obtaining for the purpose of, evidence to Supersede an existing award of benefit. No supersession has been applied, which is in contravention of Social Security Act 1998, on existing awards, by the department of work and pension. (Those subject to the migration process).
3. That Declarations 4, 5, 6 of the ESA50 questionnaire, are allegedly in contravention of Article 7(1) ‘forced submittal to retrospective laws’ and Article 8 ‘forced termination of right of privacy’ of the European Convention of Human Rights. As well as being enforced with no right of Refusal in sharing of Private Personal information with other Data Controllers in contravention of The Data Protection Act 1998 and that ATOS Healthcare has not been correctly declaring themselves as a Data Controller in respect of the WCA in direct contravention of The Data Protection Act 1998.
4. That the existing award of Benefit Made under the Social Security Act 1998 (Incapacity Benefit Paid as Income Support), be reinstated as per regulation until the outcome of said Upper Tribunal.”
..and you are really trying to blame Labour for that? As a previous life long Tory voter I can categorically state that this Government is rotten to the core and the Tories will never get my vote again.
In respect of your article, you can do the whole blame game. However it’s a bit like going back and blaming Samuel Colt, because he produce such an efficient revolver that has been used to kill peeps.
Or maybe Japan should prosecute the families of the Manhattan Project concerning all the peeps affected by the Atomic bomb?
illogically response? well that is exactly what you are doing, when you try to compare the brutal actions of this Government with those who tried to reform the Benefits System.
Yes the reforms were flawed, but that will never justify why the Tories went ahead with them.
Labour announced plans in the 2008 budget to re-assess all IB claimants. This was due to begin in April 2010. All Iain Duncan Smith did was carry out Labour’s plans. Both the WCA and sanctions were already causing desperate suffering before the Tories were elected. Labour have not said they will reverse anything except the bedroom tax and I bet they wriggle out of that. It is not like prosecuting the families of people in the Manhatten project, it is like blaming the people who bombed Hiroshima and have announced plans to bomb Tokyo. Just cos the Tories bombed Nagasaki in the meantime does not get them off the hook (if you see what I mean, but it’s better than your metaphore)
Gen William Taggart | March 9, 2015 at 11:10 am | Reply
I do get that your intention was to show that no party is better than the other in this situation and in some respects that is entirely correct.
However as you are fully aware the WCA and the first stage reforms are not the Labour Parties. It is Prof Sir Mansel Aylward (Unum’s) baby, and yes Gordon Brown was gullible enough to repeat the bile that is Unums bastardisation of the Biopsychosocial model as this is what was being presented as the way forward by Lord (Baron) Freud and the DWP.
In other words they are Guilty of trusting a public department to do the right thing.
The Tories however where under no illusion as to the purpose of this bastardisation of the Biopsychosocial model’s policies as it was their Hierarchy that had given Unum such an exclusive advisory position to the Civil Servants in the first place. They had known from the outset that it was a money grabbing free for all for the private sector to skim off vast amounts from the tax payer. Which just happens to have the bi-product ideology of reducing the public sector.
To state that IDS just carried out Labours plans, is a gross misinterpretation.
You need to look at Labours Social Security Act 2008 and Compare it to The Tories amendments that is the Social Security Act 2010.
To reiterate what I have stated elsewhere.
Labour SSA 2008. (Too paraphrase).
An existing award of qualifying benefit for the purposes of migration to ESA, is proof of ‘limited capability for work’, Supersession carried out on a like for like migration of benefits.
Tory SSA 2010.
This completely ignores the earlier Act (does not repeal it, which has render it impossible to administer) however extra is added which requires the claimant to be invited to claim the new benefit, Absolutely no provision is put in place in relation to legal termination of the existing award of benefit.
Thus forcing the DWP, to be in breach of Supersession rules as set out in the Social Security Act 1998.
To reiterate: (Paraphrased) Right of Supersession;
‘Where an existing award is in place the onus is upon the state to prove that the claimant is no longer entitled’
The WCA process, shifts the onus on to the claimant to prove entitlement, in fact the same supersession issue arises upon the yearly renewal of ESA. As in the current WCA legislation as of 2010 does not take in to account that the earlier award can only be terminated via a supersession. Thus the actual figures for the fraud could be in the £100Billion+ range by now.
The DWP openly admits that is has not been superseding in either instance.
As I explained before this means that all claimant, migrated, (even if forced on to JSA or off benefit entirely) have legally remained entitled to their previous award of Incapacity Benefit (Or the more common Incapacity paid as income support) for all this time. Which means that claimants have been defrauded by the DWP/IDS to the tune of £50Billion+ and rising.
This supersession issue has been used successfully in over 50 Tribunals to overturn the decision. As I previously said I am battling with the HMCTS to get this matter to a Judicial review (the DWP, Government and the HMCTS are doing everything they can to prevent it). Then Joe Public will become aware of this £50Billion+ scandal/fraud endorsed by the Tory/Lib Dem Government.
It really is impossible, to compare Labours blindness to what the WCA process represented, to that of the Tory led coalition actively introducing unlawful procedures and closing the entire departments that could have handled this legally.
As to how IDS tried to get around the Legalities of what he has done?
I suggest you read the forced declarations 4,5 & 6 on page 18 of the ESA50 questionnaire : Which reads:
I agree that
– the Department for Work and Pensions
– any Healthcare Professional advising the
– any organisation with which the Department has a contract for the provision of assessment
may ask any of the people or organisations I have
mentioned on this form for any information which is needed to deal with
– this claim for benefit
– any request for this claim to be looked at again and that the information may be given to that
Healthcare Professional or organisation or to the Department or any other government body as
permitted by law.
I also understand that the Department may use the information which it has now or may get in the
future to decide whether I am entitled to
– the benefit I am claiming
– any other benefit I have claimed
– any other benefit I may claim in the future.
I agree to my doctor or any doctor treating me, being informed about the Secretary of State’s
determination on
– limited capability for work
– limited capability for work-related activity, or
– both.
These were introduced by the Tories,
The first one relates to trying to circumvent the Data Protection Act, as in Contractors like ATOS/Maximus had been/are declared as Data Processors in the capacity of the WCA, however a previous ICO ruling concerning work related medical assessments, is that if they offer an ‘opinion’ they are deemed as Data Processors. Which means they are not exempted from the DPA under previous SSA regulations. (Under the DPA all claimants have a right to refuse this without penalty, I personally tested this to the highest levels by redacting said declaration, the DWP chose to unlawfully continue as if I had not completed the form)
The second one (Declaration 5) is the most alarming of all, it allows the DWP to retrospectively (up to 5 years) to disallow that award of benefit and or any associated pass ported benefits, based upon outdated or even previously proven to be incorrect evidence. Effectively overruling Tribunal findings, court findings, findings by medical professionals or the Police.
The out come of this is a £100k+ bill and false accusations of fraud which gets the claimant a 3 year sanction.
There have already been a number of cases before tribunals concerning this miss use of evidence for other benefits, and attempts to claw back the previous 5 years of awards.
The latter Declaration 6:
Allows the DWP to write rather nasty letters to the claimants GP, trying to intimidate them in to not issuing fit notes, it also allows for non medical DWP decisions to be added to a claimant medical records.
Now are you really going to say, that this was a Labour thing?
overburdenddonkey | March 8, 2015 at 9:07 pm | Reply
lab manipulated leave it out…also the wca was designed to find claimants fit for work, that’s the corral/pen default position, all descriptors point to being fit for work putting the energy sapped claimant in the position of having to prove otherwise… dr lucy reynolds on 2012 health and social care act… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkTnCtg_Omk
Mr. Reckless | March 9, 2015 at 12:21 pm | Reply
Do people really think that welfare reform would have been possible without the Labour Party laying the foundations and supporting the actions of IDS in principle.
The foundation was and is an ideological contempt for welfare, the principle that the dismantling of the post-war welfare state will bring a utopian revolution in that aim IDS&co are useful idiots.
overburdenddonkey | March 9, 2015 at 12:32 pm | Reply
mr r
the snp threatens the 1 party state…gravy train…
Gen William Taggart | March 9, 2015 at 12:28 pm | Reply
Thanks for that, however I am fully aware of the nature of the WCA, this is what happened when I spoke out too loudly about the proposed tick box system and the involvement of Unum & Schlumberger SEMA (now known as ATOS), back in 2000-2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2387909.stm
They tried to have me assassinated and yes Johnny it was a Labour Government in Power on the mainland at that time.
This along with other issues saw the Arrest of Denis Donaldson, on trumped up spying charges,
“4 October 2002: Sinn Fein’s offices at Stormont are raided as part of a major police investigation into alleged intelligence gathering by republicans” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2952997.stm
The collapse of the then Northern Ireland Assembly, the release of Denis, his outing as a double agent and his subsequent assassination.
Denis had made the mistake of mentioning to his handler about the whole Unum & Schlumberger SEMA situation, as well as the redirecting of DLA to Paramilitaries on both sides of the divide to keep the troubles going. It was cheaper than paying for the failing infrastructure in Northern Ireland.
Bernadette H | March 9, 2015 at 3:01 pm | Reply
Hi, Johnny, What I want to know is, what happened before 2008? Was the benefit system/ incapacity/ Social Security Act a much fairer method?
Only asking/
Prior to 1995 it was largely down to your GP if you were able to claim sickness benefits. Then they brought in Personal Capacity Assessments which involved an independent medical assessment and then Labour introduced the WCA in 2008
True, and maybe the Tories get voted out before the impact of Universal Credit is really felt too, and whoever forms the next government will carry on where IDS left off. Swings and roundabouts really.
Vote for CLASS WAR!! | March 8, 2015 at 5:14 pm | Reply
EAT THE RICH!!
DOUBLE DOLE & PENSION
Emeritus Professor of Social & Economic Policy | March 8, 2015 at 5:25 pm | Reply
In real terms the dole in only worth a quarter of what it was way back in the 80s when Thatcher was on the Throne. Never mind doubling the dole – the dole needs to be quadrupled at least to restore it to income parity.
The Greens did indeed had two policies that would have given The Greens a landslide SYRIZA like victory, but chickened out.
– Citizen Income, universal and automatic, to the basic tax allowance level, but later brought down to JSA level of only £72 per week (in line with UKIP’s basic income idea). Now lost during an interview on BBC Radio 4 with MP Caroline Lucas, the 1 Greens MP.
– Citizen State Pension, irregardless of National Insurance contributions and credit history, up to basic tax allowance level.
Supplements for disability for each of the above.
These would have replaced all the hundreds of billions wasted on welfare admin more and more each year since 2010, whilst the money to the starving has reduced by billions year on year.
All the welfare admin, both state and private contract, could have turned into an opportunity of putting money into people’s hands and the poor spend on the high street, of all ages, so generating business, creating youth jobs and granting business rates to cash strapped councils.
But Class War’s double dole and state pension will save lives right now, not the pie in the sky of some future time.
The poor cannot wait. They are starving and being left in that penniless starvation even to babes in wombs of mothers being sanctioned before and after birth to nil food money.
Put Class War and other small parties getting nil media coverage on my website and they could seriously change and save lives in 2015:
Hmmm you have been a little creative with the facts there.
1. The migration process as per the 2008 regs, replaced Incapacity Benefit on a like for like basis (negating the need for a Supersession, SSA 1998), the 2010 regs, brought in by the Tories unlawfully just terminates the existing award after inviting claimants to apply for a new benefit. (ESA). To date the DWP/IDS have defrauded claimants to the tune of £50 Billion+, due to this supersession issue.
2. Sanctions have been around for decades and according to the House of Commons records it was introduced by a Tory Government. However previously they where limited to a percentage of award of the main benefit, less amounts paid for partners or children. The Tories however increased this to a 100% sanction, nothing for partners or children. Then applied a progressive scale, in the duration of such sanctions. Then most recently, they have started sanctioning pass ported benefits such as local housing allowance (Housing Benefit) at the same time. Previously claimants could still claim as nill income during sanction period. Thus they are ensuring homelessness and destitution.
3. The WCA although highly flawed, was introduced as a work in progress. The Tories however ignored that this was work in progress and continued to roll it out as is. Without resolving any of the problems.
4. Now we get back the contractors, try checking who Maggies Government employed, then checking the names of this companies over time. ATOS is in fact Schlumberger Sema. Exactly the same contractors as employed by Maggie to oversee Disability Living Allowance and Incapacity Benefit. The same contractors who have held the contract since the 90’s.
5. Current policy has been driven by Unum since the 90’s (Uder a Tory Government) and is still be driven by there Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research at Cardiff University, headed up by Professor Sir Mansel Aylward http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/888/page/64606
The list goes on and on, in respect of how misinformed this article is. To be honest I am pretty surprised to see such a propaganda piece here.
sanctions have been around since before the pyramids were built, but we weren’t on that contract…it is more the worsening of such as the levels of work and consequently employment opps have dropped dramatically…the process is far less believing the claimant ie ‘have you done any work in the last fortnight, no, sign here’…to become ingrained and engaged in a bewildering array of hoops, hops, skips, and jumps to negotiate the JS allowance system so therefore it is of current significance..formalization of sanctions….
Yep, I am ashamed to say this, but back in my day I was one of the pioneers of the whole Social Engineering (Yes it had been around for centuries), but I figured out that you could literally hack how peeps respond by giving them key disinformation.
It was only ever intended to be a bit of fun, to gain access to places and systems. However policy makers around the world decided to start using very crude versions of these techniques to manipulate entire sections of the populous, here we have what is known as the ‘nudge unit’ which push forward pointless tasks, disinformation etc. (Any claimant knows the full effect of this).
All designed to break down the usual barriers and hit the populous with a saturation of misery and pointless tasks. One of the key things in this is to ensure that the rest of the populous sees them as less than human. In so doing you can break the community spirit that always threatens any restrictive policies.
When peeps are left destitute and without anywhere to turn, they become easier to manipulate and exploit.
all designed to crack nut and get inside head…ie the nazi’s used this as a prime mind gumming/numbing technique…behaviourism is highly toxic…comply or no vitals of life…let alone our entitlement vitality giving vitals of life…. we need some kind of citizens income…. see also http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/socialcharter/Conclusions/State/UKXX2_en.pdf article 12; the minimum levels of short-term and long-term incapacity benefit is manifestly inadequate; the minimum level of state pension is manifestly inadequate; the minimum level of job seeker’s allowance is manifestly inadequate.
I know talk about it, I am one of the uncounted statistics, I do not qualify for JSA due to disability however they will not process my claim for ESA as I refuse to accept unlawful declarations 4,5& 6, page 18 ESA50 questionnaire. (If claimant redacts these unlawful declarations, the DWP unlawfully declares that the claimant has not completed the ESA50).
In respect of payment levels I was aware of the EU standing on this before it went public, the levels should actually be twice what they currently are. However other than international sanctions (which technically cannot be applied in respect of this situation. The Government is just thumbing their nose at it, declaring it as soft law.
You are wrong about sanctions. LHA cannot be sanctioned, neither can child or partner benefits. You can still make a nil income claim. Labour sanctions were also 100%, I have no idea where you’re getting your information from but you really need to check your facts.
As I have explained on the thread in facebook, it is an effective sanction.
As in they are.
1. Disallowing the first 2 weeks of LHA on nil income grounds if somebody has been sanctioned.
2. Child tax credits as a sort of pass ported benefit, are being suspended at time of main benefit sanction, it can take months to get them reinstated.
Leaving an entire family unit with an effective 100% sanction, although legally they can argue, we pay the back money when it’s sorted out. However that does not give that family unit any money to live on in between and should they not have been evicted in between, a large part of the arrears of Child Tax credit is more often than not paid out again to clear the two weeks rental arrears.
I would like to state that there has been a number of instances in which JCP have been threatening claimants that they will have their LHA terminated for two weeks.
How can they do this?
1. The SSA2010 allows the Secretary of State to alter the legislation literally on demand, without any scrutiny of the house.
2. Declaration 5 page 18 of the ESA50, which is exactly the same declaration as forced on claimant of any a broad range of benefits now.
“also understand that the Department may use
the information which it has now or may get in
the future to decide whether I am entitled to
– the benefit I am claiming
– any other benefit I have claimed
Notice the last three lines, it let’s them sanction any benefit, without any change in legislation.
LHA although administered by Local Authorities, it is still under the control of the DWP. Thus subject to that declaration of authorisation by a claimant.
I should state as of yet IDS has not actually changed this part of the legislation, as the declaration forced upon claimants negates the need for him to officially do so.
Also as I request on the facebook page, do you have any information concerning the 100% sanction rate prior to 2010?
I was aware of it via hearsay, however I have been unable to find any evidence of this.
sanctions have been 100% since at least the 90s I think. you are thinking of hardship payments, set at 60% of benefits and which are still available. LHA cannot be sanctioned, it is sometimes stopped because the DWP tell local councils the claim has stopped without informing them why. there is no two week waiting period, although due to delays in claiming/processing sometimes people do lose some housing benefit – this happened under Labour as well.
http://edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk/node/4
‘WAITED AGES TO GET HOUSING BENEFIT?
Don’t put up with it. If your claim hasn’t been sorted out two weeks after you have given all the information needed, then the Council are legally obliged to make you regular interim payments of Housing Benefit.’
bobchewie | March 9, 2015 at 6:45 pm |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/damianreece/9095992/Letting-businesses-vote-could-boost-local-economies-and-increase-jobs.html
TORYGRAPH SUGGESTS THAT BUSINESSES SHOULD BE ABLE TO VOTE
Claims it might prevent wealthy powers lobbying.
On which note I just say
” oh do fuck off please “
tell me the purposes of the changes (ib to e&sa) that happened under labour? farmers prepare for new crops, and don’t tell me this is any different… see dr lucy reynolds vid i posted to you…
Dave | March 8, 2015 at 5:30 pm | Reply
Good, again, to see it being told exactly how it is, instead of what too often happens in the media – blaming one party and not realising it’s all main parties in it together, for themselves and for corporations. It is extremely important that this false opposition between the parties is recognised, otherwise there is literally no way anything will change… because a vote for the ‘opposition’ is NOT a vote for any opposition to the vindictive and self-serving policies of neo-liberalism.
Donna Smith | March 8, 2015 at 6:26 pm | Reply
Well where is the cash from the tax payer and NI contributions going to – if not claimants. I pay tax and ni contributions to assist the welfare state – not to be saved up in some bank account or used for other purposes as the Government see fit.
Taxpayers include the 75 per cent of all tax that comes from all of us, in or out of work, poor, and however young adult or old, that comes from stealth indirect taxes embedded in our daily lives, even food, and VAT.
The poor therefore have an effective 90 per cent tax rate.
The NI contributions are now looked after by the Inland Revenue not Social Security Department, and gone to pay off the mythical deficit / national debt, when major world authorities say UK’s national debt is only a world average. It is a loan and some little interest is put back into the NI Fund.
Most of the unemployment benefit third of the National Insurance Fund is being gobbled up by the hundred of billions of IT projects and welfare admin management, rising each year, whilst the money to the starving is reducing by the billions each year.
The so-called surplus in the NI Fund of £30 billion since 2013 is the
non paid out state pension to women for 6 years from 2013, and to men for 1 year from 65.
Universal Credit rules will mean mean over the years that Pension Credit is hit to current pensioners, and those already on UC are being told they cannot get state pension payout as men until age 73 or even 76 because their lady wife is younger than them.
97 per cent of those on benefit are in work or poor pensioners.
Only 3 per cent is the unemployed, that include the disabled and chronic sick dumped off disability / sick benefits onto Jobseekers Allowance or the work part of Employment and Support Allowance and sanctioned for many months to nil food money.
It is people in work who are the bulk of those going to foodbanks, from loss of benefit, as well as babes in wombs in sanctioned mothers, who continue to be sancitoned even after birth.
And there is a lot worse to come to those in or out of work and however young or old, even pensioners, from the Universal Credit from 2016-2017, with indefinite or even permanent sanctions.
And then there is the poorest men and women who will get hit for the first time with nil state pension for life for those retiring on and from 6 April 2016, next year and then onwards to the men and women denied state pension payout since 2013 who cannot retire til from 2019-2020 onwards.
See why under my petition, in my WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT section at:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
Annos | March 8, 2015 at 6:29 pm | Reply
Thomas | March 8, 2015 at 7:02 pm | Reply
If this government wants everyone to have jobs, they need a partial command economy. Letting in immigrants from everywhere, allowing too much red tape, strangling small businesses with the dreadful Universal Credit, letting jobs go overseas, and allowing workfare that will just remove paid jobs, all leads to unemployment.
Starving people won’t get them into work, it’ll either kill them or make them steal things.
UK’s “Nudge Unit” altering bureaucracy
Published on 3 Jun 2014
Nudge Nudge Wink Wink Targets.
Gibberish and gobbledygook Nudge Unit.
aka talking a load of bogus rubbish.
Behavioural Insights Team is now independent of the UK government
Gov.uk – https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/behavioural-insights-team
The Behavioural Insights Team – also known as the Nudge Unit – is now a social purpose company. It is partly owned by the Cabinet Office, employees and Nesta.
http://www.behaviouralinsights.co.uk/
aka an insurance company – Risk Or Not To Risk That Is The Answer.
Nesta is a non profit charity running the nudge unit with a bit of help from the Cabinet Office, What a tax haven.
£10 million to run the nudge unit saving £2 billion. Money Laundering wasters.
Sir Mansel Aylward ????
Patrick Sudlow | March 8, 2015 at 11:17 pm | Reply
On searching for Mansel Aylward, I came across this post: https://downwithallthat.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/professor-wessely-knocking-the-docs-overstepping-the-mark/.
And this about Mansel Aylward: https://downwithallthat.wordpress.com/category/dubious-academics-universities/professor-mansel-aylward/.
Vested interests influencing benefit payments and it has been going on for sometime!
dirt_under_their_feet | March 9, 2015 at 6:33 am | Reply
From above (for those who don’t know):
“ In November 2001 a conference assembled at Woodstock, near Oxford. Its subject was ‘Malingering and Illness Deception’. Amongst the 39 academics and experts was Malcolm Wicks, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Work, and Mansel Aylward, his Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP). What linked many of the participants together, including Aylward, was their association with the giant US income protection company UnumProvident.
New Labour was looking to transform the welfare system.
In 1994 Peter Lilley, (Conservative) Secretary of State for Social Security, hired John LoCascio to advise on ‘claims management’. Lo Cascio was second vice president of Unum. He joined the ‘medical evaluation group’. Another key figure in the group was Mansel Aylward. They devised a stringent All Work Test. Approved doctors were trained in Unum’s approach to claims management…
In the UK, two Woodstock participants, Professor Simon Wessely and Professor Michael Sharpe, were working on reclassifying ME/CFS as a psychiatric disorder. A change in classification would save the industry millions of dollars ”…
Prof Wessley has led the campaign, amongst other conditions, to deny the reality of ME/CFS as a physical illness, and has actively manipulated its denial in the media. So ignoring the WHO definition of it as a neurological condition. Due to this campaign led by Prof Wessley, in association with Aylward et al, ME/CFS sufferers have been treated as having psyhological problems that need to be cured (as in going to the SanctionsCentre), and some have subsequently been subjected to inappropriate graded exercise and talking therapies, causing many further to deteriorate.
Also of course many have been found fit for work, so that some very sick people have had their benefits removed, on the grounds that really it’s all in the mind. This even while evidence has grown that it is in fact a real physical illness. If only all the effort that has been put into denying it had been put into more positive research about it.
Neuroimaging study identifies brain abnormalities in chronic fatugue syndrome patients :
http://health-innovations.org/2014/10/29/neuroimaging-study-identifies-brain-abnormalities-in-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-patients/
Professor Sir Mansel Aylward CB MD FRCP FFOM FFPM (Chairman)
bobchewie | March 8, 2015 at 10:07 pm | Reply
@merhusala aylward the disability denier gets a fucking title. Sir Murderer in Chief
Can we do a Rolf on MA and complain and have his title taken from him?
No I am fucking serious a petition to have that title stripped from him it comes,to something that arch murderer like him should get a title
why are you giving value to titles?
No Mr donkey none at all. What I am suggesting is that these bastards in some sort of power give value to titles
And since they don’t give a fuck about us poor plebs the only way to Clobber them is via their reward system
It’s strategic.
well mr chewie
but as you have implied you have no power over what they do…
Mr donkey it’s not what we think of value it’s what those in power value. It’s an achilles heel. For them. After all old Rolf had his reward taken from him
Because of his cruel acts
I see this in the same light
overburdenddonkey | March 9, 2015 at 5:15 pm |
but you’re supporting the state value system, you’re giving their system, their system of oppression value…which is punishment or reward, good or evil, deserving, undeserving….that’s behaviourism….
No I am trying to kick them where it Hurts ie money and privilege and status
overburdenddonkey | March 9, 2015 at 10:02 pm |
yeah i know you are…
one should rage against/confront the abuse, (unbottle one’s trapped emotions), not the abusers, you don’t need to unbottle their trapped emotions, nor save them, nor need them, that’s their loss/look out…
eventually feel nothing of/for the abusers, that way the power/affects of the abuse and so of the abusers will evapourate..subtle i know, but this eventually heals one….
Donkey consider this. In secret documents it revealed so much hoohah about Cyril.smith getting a reward thing and the consternation if found out he had been an abuser in which they would be concerned it would tarnish their reward system.
And by putting this in the same light
Ie rewarding total utter bastards who cause harm to others
There should indeed seriously be a big protest about it.
This is illustrative of the country in which we now live. Where mass murders are honoured, and decent people are demonised and driven to despair.
wessexsolidarity | March 8, 2015 at 10:09 pm | Reply
Reblogged this on Wessex Solidarity and commented:
Politicians want to kill you, don’t vote for them.
A6er | March 8, 2015 at 10:27 pm | Reply
Reblogged this on Britain Isn't Eating.
Alan Deane | March 8, 2015 at 10:29 pm | Reply
Lot of these organisations and individuals have a Common Purpose…..breaking the spirit of the indigenous population of these Islands being the goal….
Gazza | March 9, 2015 at 1:13 am | Reply
Spleen Vent:
we have a problamatic neighbour downstaris. So called boy freind is a jailbird.
at 7 had fire brigade round. Wire to fuse box IS shorting, constantly casusing lights to flicker. they left after disconnecting fuse – if left would possibly cause fire – we are in flat above. Before Engine was at top of road fuse back in, power back on and flickering lights due to shorting. Called electical people. Can’t do anything. Them downstairs won’t let engineer in to remove fuse and chuck them out. called police at 12 Now finally at 1 police turn up to say cannot do anything! Fumiing Big Time.
Will not be able to sleep now in case fire breaks out and need to flee.
Just a taster about Dariu$ – late last year was stacking bricks in street – police came and arrested Bricks. Then him. Allowed him to return to flat and get coat. an hour later he was back along with the bricks!!!
Annos | March 9, 2015 at 9:45 am | Reply
BBC | March 9, 2015 at 10:36 am | Reply
Viewpoint: The disappearing property ladder
Poor Doors | March 9, 2015 at 10:40 am | Reply
“it’s just a very vicious assault on people who are poor what’s going on” – too fucking right!
Mr. Reckless | March 9, 2015 at 1:01 pm | Reply
Welfare reform fraud – the law breaking is jaw dropping for a democracy that claims to be governed under the rule of law are the politicians in too deep to put their hands up.
they all fucking lie | March 9, 2015 at 1:36 pm | Reply
dont let the fuckers back in again! so who do you want to elect to fuck it up again for us? ukip? the greens yeah right! monster raving loony partry? ya know what they just might be able to get things in order but you can bet your last £1 of your dole payment that the torys will be back in power! we are fucked and there is not anything we can do about it.
DWP’s new ‘fitness for work’ provider faces fresh allegations
DNS – 6th March 2015
New allegations have emerged about the US multi-national that has secured several major contracts from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), just as it begins to deliver the controversial “fitness for work” test on behalf of the UK government.
DWP has been dismissing concerns about the troubled history of Maximus – which has a lengthy record of discrimination, incompetence and alleged fraud in the US – since Disability News Service (DNS) revealed last year that the outsourcing giant was in line to win the contract to deliver the work capability assessment (WCA).
But a new documentary has now been aired in Australia by the state broadcaster ABC, which claims widespread exploitation and manipulation of government contracts within the Australian welfare-to-work industry, similar to concerns raised in the UK.
One of the providers highlighted in the programme is MAX Employment, which is owned by Maximus.
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwps-new-fitness-for-work-provider-faces-fresh-allegations/
“””But a new documentary has now been aired in Australia by the state broadcaster ABC”””
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2015/02/23/4183437.htm
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Unemployment in Australia is at its highest in 12 years. The Government’s solution is an innovative billion-dollar scheme called Jobs Services Australia. But the initiative is failing.
Now, a Four Corners investigation shows how the scheme is being manipulated and, at times, systematically exploited. Reporter Linton Besser reveals the corruption at the heart of the program aimed at helping some of this country’s most vulnerable people.
He travels to suburbs where unemployment is a way of life. He meets Kym, struggling to find work and pull her daughter out of a cycle of poverty.
Working Links Are SCUM!! | March 9, 2015 at 3:48 pm | Reply
Friend of mine is still getting hassled by ‘WORKING LINKS’ vermin two years after he refused their slave WP. They phone him at home and send letters and plead with him to tell them if he’s got a job and all the details so as they can close the file ie. claim their government blood money for inflicting stress, anxiety, depression and misery on to someone for years.
What i want to know is the legal position of a third party like that holding someone’s personal details for that length of time when the person indicated he was having nothing to do with their slave system. The only reason for them holding his details would be if he was agreeing to attend and take part in a WP. He said no so that should have meant his personal details should have been erased from their system.
I want to know if they’ve committed a crime as regards breaching the ‘Data Protection Act’ by holding private details of a person that they had no need to be holding.
GORDON KEANE | March 9, 2015 at 10:07 pm | Reply
I think the way the system goes is that the Work Program is s’posed to keep track of ppl a full 2 years after they are mandated to it, even if they have a job in that time. It may still operate that way even if a person refuses to go on it, but not sure there. Wouldn’t person who refuses be sanctioned?
After that 2 year period however, I see no reason for any Work Program group to contact any one. They are certainly not legally entitled to do so as far as I know.
Raining | March 10, 2015 at 4:56 pm | Reply
Yeah i think he got sanctioned for it. But i wonder if there are any lawyers who frequent this site who could advise us on where a person stands legally as far as possibly taking action against this company for violating the data protection act and holding private details of individuals and using them to hound and harass them at home via phone calls and letters. With really no proper justification for holding and storing those personal details on a computer system.
sibrydionmawr | March 13, 2015 at 12:46 am | Reply
Send a Cease and Desist letter by signed for delivery should get them to stop the harassment, which is a criminal offence punishable by up to six months in prison.
Ingeus Are SCUM!! | March 9, 2015 at 3:57 pm | Reply
“finding jobs, changing lives” – same bullshit strap-line as Working Links!
” in recent years Government checks have forced some companies to pay back millions of dollars, but few are
***sanctioned***
Former job agency employees say crucial internal records are adjusted in preparation for government audits”
Corruption in the welfare to work business.
The irony of seeing that word ” sanction” in that context
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Sanction Greedy MPS
Get the Tories Out
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Great Article. Thanks for the info. Does anyone know where I can find a blank capability work questionnaire form to fill out?
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“What this lays bare is the extent to which private water marketers like Nestlé, and others like them, go [in] their attempts to privatize sovereign public water, public water services, and the land and communities they impact,” Olson said. This article is loosely based on the rigorous taste tests conducted by Dan Gentile over at the Thrillist. I like to travel around the world to discover local brands of liquor, that’s the reason why he can recommend all these authentic yet not well-known brands. But the case could also throw a wrench in Nestlé’s attempts to privatize water around the country. Everything you need to know about Nestlé is here: brands, key figures, milestones. The price was not disclosed. Nestlé began fulfilling the global needs for clean, bottled water in 1992 and created the Pure Life brand in 1998. “EGLE remains committed to protecting our state’s valuable water resources, but as a regulatory agency we must act within our statutory authority,” said EGLE Director Liesl Clark. They said state law “unambiguously” implies public water supplies are “conveyed to a site through pipes” while nonessential water is provided in bottles. Innovation is at the heart of Nestlé. When considering the price point of Nestlé Pure Life Water, it is important to recognize that while it was once called natural spring water the water is primarily sourced from local municipalities. Discover what this commitment includes. Copyright © 2020 BottledPrices.com. There is likely to be minimal amounts of mineral content as the water absorbs minerals as it travels from source to the tap used by Nestlé. As stated by the Surgeon General of the United States, pregnant women should refrain from drinking alcohol as it increases their baby’s probability of having congenital defects. Nestlé touches the lives of billions of people every day: the farmers who grow our ingredients, our consumers, and the communities where we live and work. The movie Bottled Life documented 2012 the situation and won several film awards. A lower court wrote in late 2017 that water was essential for life and bottling water was an “essential public service” that met a demand, which trumped Osceola township’s zoning laws. With an annual payroll of nearly $16 million, our economic activity generates about $5 million each year to support state and local taxes that fund local schools, fire and police departments, local parks, and other essential services. The company previously said it had done extensive testing and saw no signs of damage or danger to the environment. “We conclude that [Nestlé’s] proposed booster-pump facility is not a ‘public water supply’ under [Michigan law],” the court wrote. Nestle has agreed to sell its Pure Life bottled water brand in Canada to family-owned company Ice River Springs, based in Ontario. Copyright 2020 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved. The company stands to make a potential profit of hundreds of millions of dollars each year from the water pumped out of Michigan. Learn more The ingredient list includes: As you can see, the ingredients list in simply purified water (just water and mineral content) grows significantly when flavored options enter the equation. Join the conversation “In the context of the larger question, ‘Who owns the water?’ – in this round, the state and public do, because selling containerized water for profit is simply private, not public,” Olson said. In an effort to ramp up the legal fight against Nestle’s use of Michigan water, environmental groups requested that Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel step in back in July of this year. Ice Mountain is a naturally-sourced product that does not endure the purification processes used by Pure Life. Nestlé bottled water brands include Arrowhead, Poland Spring, San Pellegrino, Perrier and more. Nestle pulls water from other wells in the area. This should lead to avoiding the comparison of this brand with other naturally sourced waters. On Friday, EGLE rejected the appeal of the company’s permit, saying the department did not have the authority to intervene under current circumstances. Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website. David Huff, chair of the zoning and planning commission for Osceola township, stands before the local Chippewa Creek last year. In 2018, residents told Local 4 that the creek was thriving a few years ago, but things have changed because of the water Nestle is pumping out. Alternatively, Nestlé has taken heat for its perceived lack of concern for local water supplies. The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America's water to sell in plastic bottles. 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by Jordy
Ever since The Walking Dead began, fans of the show wondered if we would see how the apocalypse began. Well now we get that opportunity with Fear the Walking Dead. I have been so excited for this show to debut and it didn’t disappoint. The show is very different from it’s counterpart and will give us an entirely new look at how people reacted at the start of the outbreak.
The premiere eases into the zombie outbreak slowly. And I exaggerate slowly. We see several accounts of zombies in the first episode, but it’s more about establishing characters.
The first scene takes place in a church, many people saw this when AMC released the first three minutes on Friday. Nick, a drug addict, is the first character we see who comes in contact with a zombie. He’s baffled by what he saw but was so high he doesn’t know if it was real or a hallucination.
All the characters seem to be aware of some sort of virus that has broken out over the country. At the start of the episode we don’t hear about reanimated corpses, but my mid-point video leaks of officers unloading rounds into someone until a headshot finally takes him out. There are definitely some people who are concerned and students aren’t showing up to school. Are they turning or just scared to leave home?
The majority of the episode introduces us to characters and their normal lives. With The Walking Dead, we’re thrusted into the reality of a full blown apocalypse. We don’t really think about anyone other than the characters we see or see much of their lives prior. With Fear, we’re going to have to see society fall. People we would interact with everyday will be gone, characters we didn’t have to mourn in TWD. That to me is something that will be emotional to watch.
Overall I liked all the characters. I think the idea of featuring a blended family adds a different element to the show. Madison is a high school guidance counselor who’s boyfriend Travis has just moved into the home she shares with her two children, drug addict Nick and daughter Alicia. Travis is a teacher at the same school who has a son of his own, and the two have a difficult relationship. As the zombie outbreak becomes a greater threat it will be interesting to see how the dynamics of these two families will change and how they will interact with each other.
Don’t expect this show to be like The Walking Dead, at least not in the beginning. This isn’t an all out zombie fight. No one knows how to take care of themselves in that situation. So I can only imagine what sort of carnage we’re in for.
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This is literally the first positive review I’ve read of the pilot episode. I like TWD, but I think I’m waiting for people to watch episode two and see if the reviews get any better before I’m going to commit to buying any episode via Amazon.
I’m very surprised to hear there were any negatives. I watched with a non-TWD fan and I small fan (I’m a huge fan). We all three enjoyed it. I will say the episode ran slow, probably too slow for a show that’s only 6 episodes long. But I was intrigued the whole time.
There’s a couple TWD fans at work, and one of them just literally spent five minutes ranting about how bad the FTWD pilot was, and that was just the latest thing I’d encountered this morning. I wonder what pulls it into the love/hate lines.
I’m sure a lot of people were dissatisfied with character focus. For an hour and a half we probably see zombies for maybe ten or fifteen minutes of it. But I sort of like that. I didn’t want another TWD. It’s definitely going to be a fast paced show from now on.
That’s most likely it. In that case, I’m going to be someone that hates the pilot. Gimme the mindless zombie action, please!!
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Sara Walter Ellwood Second Honeymoon Book Tour with #G*I*V*E*A*W*A*Y
Posted on April 3, 2014 by Mae Clair
Today, I’m happy to welcome Sara Walter Ellwood to my blog during her Second Honeymoon Book Tour. Sara is one of my sister authors with Kensington Books/ Lyrical Press imprint. She’s dropped by for a friendly Q&A interview and has an awesome giveaway going on! So grab some virtual coffee or tea, sit back and enjoy! And before you leave, don’t forget to sign up for Sara’s giveaway (details at bottom).
Sara, please tell us a bit about yourself and how long you’ve been writing.
I live in an area South Central Pennsylvania that has the best of both worlds. I live about half-way between the state capitol of Harrisburg, which is a decent sized city, and Gettysburg. There are small towns that surround the entire area, but between those towns and housing developments are tons of dairy farms and corn fields. I grew up on a small farm west of where I live now. Because life on the farm wasn’t very exciting, I wrote my first novel in 11th grade as a journaling exercise I had to do in school.
I’ve started many novels over the course of the next 20 years, but never finished any of them. Then I got interested in Star Wars fan fiction and wrote about 40 stories (both novels and short stories). In 2008, I decided to try my hand at something publishable and wrote A Hunter’s Angel which was published in 2012 by The Wild Rose Press. The other four books that I’d written in the years after 2008 were quickly acquired by publishers in the following year.
That’s fantastic! And as a Central Pennsylvania native myself, I’m always pleased to welcome another Keystoner. Are you a draft writer or someone who invests a lot of time in editing and polishing as you write? Why does your method work best for you?
Oh, to my eternal frustration I polish as I go. I often can’t move on until what I’ve already written is perfect. It slows me down and makes me crazy, but I don’t know how to even write “fast” where I just get ideas down and not worry about editing. The one time I tried this it paralyzed me. I couldn’t write a thing! I just can’t write like that… So even though my internal editor makes me positively nuts at times, I don’t know how to write without it.
I completely understand that. With the exception of trying NaNoWriMo last year, I am a polish-as-I-go-writer and, like you, can’t move forward until I have my existing material as close to perfect as it can be. Obviously, that method works for you, given how prolific you are! You actually brought three books to talk about today, so how about sharing the first three sentences from each?
From Gambling On A Secret:
“You’re twenty minutes late, Mr. Quinn. It wouldn’t hurt to show a little punctuality if you wanted a job.” Charli Monroe stopped at the gate in the broken picket fence of her newly purchased, broken-down ranch.
From Gambling On A Heart:
“Have either of you seen Bobby?” Tracy Parker all but barked, and immediately lassoed the irritation. She might have a ton to do, but taking her crappy mood out on her brother and father wasn’t fair. “Lucinda needs him next for pictures.”
From Heartstrings:
Seth Kendall parked his Escalade and stared out at the people who had known him all his life. What the hell was he doing here?
With a sigh, he opened the door, and all eyes turned in his direction as he got out.
Great beginnings. They all sound equally intriguing! When you’re not writing (or reading) what do you do to unwind?
I like movies and I have several TV shows that I’m hooked on. I also crochet while I’m watching. Once the weather gets nice, I’m out in my garden. I have a huge country/English garden that my hubby calls “the jungle” and in it I have just under 200 different kinds of plants.
It sounds gorgeous. I’m horrible gardener, but I’ve always wanted to have that English/country look in my yard. I just haven’t found a magic wand that does the trick yet! 🙂
Do you have any guilty pleasures you’d like to share?
I would have to say it’s TV. If it’s paranormal, science fiction or western/southern themed drama, I’m all over it. Some of my favorite shows are the new Dallas, Nashville, Being Human (I’m so sad that show is ending), The Originals, Bitten, Sleepy Hollow, Falling Skies, Deliverance, Continuum… See? I’m all over the place when it comes to what I like on TV.
LOL! I know a lot of people who follow Being Human. I didn’t realize it was ending. I love Sleepy Hollow and can’t wait for that one to return. Switching topics, do you have any pets? Pets and writers just seem to go together like peas in a pod.
I have a cat. Penny is my writing buddy. If she isn’t on my desk, she’s sitting on the chair beside me looking out the window at the birds that flock in my flower garden in the back.
I love hearing that! My cat used to do the same. I miss him a lot. Speaking of flower gardens, what’s your favorite season?
Late Spring/Early Summer
Favorite type of music?
Country—I like everything from sounds of the old stuff like Patsy Cline and Willy Nelson to the new stuff from Florida-Georgia Line and Taylor Swift.
I’m boring–Chocolate
Favorite social media platform?
Mountains or beach?
Beach! Especially after the winter we’ve had around here.
I’m sooo with you on that one. Central PA weather has been dreadful (and reluctant to leave) this year! Thanks for visiting my blog, Sara. It was a delight to have you!
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Although Sara Walter Ellwood has long ago left the farm for the glamour of the big town, she draws on her experiences growing up on a small hobby farm in West Central Pennsylvania to write her contemporary westerns. She’s been married to her college sweetheart for over 20 years, and they have two teenagers and one very spoiled rescue cat named Penny. She longs to visit the places she writes about and jokes she’s a cowgirl at heart stuck in Pennsylvania suburbia. She also has paranormal romantic suspense published under the pen name Cera duBois.
Gambling On A Secret
Book 1 of The Colton Gamblers
When Charli bets everything on a secret, will she find the deck stacked against her?
Former runaway-turned heiress Charli Monroe is hiding her sordid past and planning a future in Colton, Texas. Attending the local college for a degree in social work, she intends to raise cattle on her newly purchased ranch, which she plans to open as a home for troubled teens. Only a few glitches—the Victorian mansion is crumbling, the barn needs a roof, and her oilman neighbor wants more than friendship. When she meets Dylan Quinn, Charli is willing to take a chance on the town drunk to help her rebuild the rundown ranch.
Dylan has his demons, too. The former Special Forces commander can’t get past his ex-wife’s betrayal and the botched mission that left him with much more than a bad limp. Certain the greedy oilman next door to Charli wants much more than just her heart, Dylan’s even willing to stop drinking in order to protect her.
When things get dangerous and secrets of the past are revealed, is he only looking out for his new employer, or is she the new start he so desperately needs?
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Gambling On A Heart
She once lost his heart on a bluff. Will she risk everything to win it back?
Beautician Tracy Quinn spends her days making the women of Colton, Texas beautiful, while living down the nickname of Olive Oyl, given to her by the only man she has ever loved—Zack Cartwright. She spends her nights alone, despite what her ex husband wants their friends and neighbors to think.
Ex-rodeo cowboy. Ex-bad-boy. Ex-Marine. Widower and single dad Sheriff Zack Cartwright can describe his life in exes. One ex in particular reminds him of what’s missing in his workaholic life: Tracy Quinn. For years since she broke his heart, he’s practically made avoiding her a second job. He still wants her, but can never go after her.
When cattle rustlers target her brother’s ranch, Tracy and Zack are stuck working together. Her son could use a positive male role model, and his daughter is wild for a chance at a “substitute” mom. But Tracy’s ex threatens to sue if she lets Zack near her son, and the Colton grapevine is abuzz with rumors about their past relationship. Is it worth the gamble to see if what they have is more than lust?
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He’s determined to set things right, no matter the cost.
The last person Abby Crawford wants to face down is country music superstar Seth Kendall. Last time she did, she flat-out lied so he’d go to Nashville without her. She’s never understood why their mutual best friend proposed, but she went with it so her baby wouldn’t be fatherless. Now she’s a divorced mother of a teenager, and secretly Seth’s biggest fan.
Seth is home in McAllister, Texas for his father’s funeral…and a chance to meet the daughter he’s never known. He’s willing to face the music of his own making and admit he’s known about his little girl all along. For fifteen years he’s kept his distance because Abby told him to follow his dreams without her, insisting she didn’t love him. But now he won’t leave until he knows his daughter and she knows him, even if it means facing the woman who broke his heart for good.
Confessing she’s lied about her daughter’s paternity all these years won’t be easy for Abby, especially with her ex blackmailing her to keep the secret. And Seth doesn’t know the hardest truth of all: Every love song he plays on his guitar still plucks her heartstrings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wGmgAkdsyM
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Follow the Second Honeymoon Blog Tour HERE
RAFFLECOPTER GIVEAWAY:
Sara is giving away a beautiful treasure box full of goodies:
1. A thumb drive containing Sara’s novella The Birthday Fantasyand her paranormals A Hunter’s Angel and A Hunter’s Blade
2. A signed paperback copy of Carolyn Brown’s Just a Cowboy and His Baby
3. A retractable black ink pen
4. A decorative diary style notebook
5. A mouse pad
6. Sara’s own custom designed jewelry (necklace and earring set)
7. $10 Starbucks gift card and more.
A total prize package valued at $100.
The giveaway ends April 30 and the winner of the Swag Pack will be announced on May 1, 2014. Must be 18 years old or older and a resident of the USA to qualify. Void where prohibited by law. See http://sarawalterellwood.wordpress.com/giveaway-rules/ for complete list of terms and rules.
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18 thoughts on “Sara Walter Ellwood Second Honeymoon Book Tour with #G*I*V*E*A*W*A*Y”
Sara Walter Ellwood on April 3, 2014 at 6:44 AM said:
Thanks, Mae, for having me today…. Loved your questions by the way!
Mae Clair on April 3, 2014 at 12:28 PM said:
It’s great to have you visit, Sara. What a fun book tour! 🙂
Harliqueen on April 3, 2014 at 7:10 AM said:
Great interview, loved the answers 🙂
Lovely to see you here again. Thanks for stopping by to check out Sara’s interview and giveaway!
Sara Walter Ellwood on April 3, 2014 at 6:34 PM said:
Thank you for stopping by Harliqueen!
gemmabrocato on April 3, 2014 at 9:17 AM said:
Sara, I’m a huge sci-fi fan myself. Love Falling Skies and was so happy to see it would be back soon. I also love Florida Georgia Line. Country music makes me happy. So happy for your release. Good luck with the tour.
Thanks for popping in, Gemma. I know Sara will appreciate it 🙂
I have country music in my bones… I grew up listening to the classics and haven’t stopped. I love anything that a fun twist on the alien invasion story–and Falling Skies and Defiance have that. Thanks for stopping by!
D'Ann on April 3, 2014 at 11:13 AM said:
Love Sara’s books!
It’s great that they’re back in circulation again. Thanks for visiting, D’Ann!
Thank you so much D’Ann… And I agree Mae. I missed them when they were off sale.
Emma on April 3, 2014 at 12:37 PM said:
You were so young writing you first novel! We like a lot of the same TV shows. Random question Sara, but how are you finding the TV show, Bitten?
Thanks for stopping by, Emma! I really like the show Bitten… But I also have some gripes with it. I don’t like that it’s got that somewhat chauvinistic twist that women can’t become werewolves. But at the same time I see what the writers are were thinking– how else can they make their heroine bigger than life–well let’s make her the only female werewolf. I really like Elena’s character and for the most part the plot so far… Will have to see where it goes.
The books are better than the TV show. I find the show pretty boring most weeks, though I do like seeing a tough female lead. Nice to meet you, Sara.
Kate I. on April 3, 2014 at 1:15 PM said:
Great interview! I’ve found some new titles to add to my TBR. As to the Rafflecopter question, my favorite cowboy hero is Sheriff Walt Longmire.
Thanks, Kate! You got good taste in cowboy heroes!
Flossie Benton Rogers on April 4, 2014 at 8:08 AM said:
Sara, your books sound most intriguing. I really like tormented heroes with past demons to heal. Crochet is one of my favorite relaxation occupations, too. Best of luck with your release! Thanks for your post, Mae.
Mae Clair on April 4, 2014 at 1:19 PM said:
Thanks for dropping by, Flossie. Always lovely to see you here! 🙂
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The 2015 Mercedes S65 AMG fuses cutting edge technology and a V12 engine
It’s amazing how high-end automakers have turned their luxury sedans and executive saloons into fire breathing monsters while keeping them true to their inherent nature. The spec sheet of some of these exec saloons can put a lot of high-end sports cars to shame. Mercedes’ newest offering is the latest to join the league and rather earns the crown for being the most outrageous of all. Enter the brand new 2015 Mercedes Benz S65 AMG for people who consider the 2014 S63 AMG just didn’t have enough horses under the hood. The German automaker has given a preview of the range topping S-Class before it makes a debut at the 2013 LA Auto Show starting on 20th November.
The 2015 S65 AMG looks a little sharper and smarter version of the S63 AMG – if that’s even possible – and was spotted quite a few times without any camouflage before it was unveiled. But most of the auto experts didn’t expect much of change from the current model; however, Mercedes has managed to surprise everyone. The most striking addition to it is the V12 engine replacing the V8. The twelve cylinder engine under the hood helps the new S65 AMG achieve some crazy performance figures.
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The bi-turbo 6.0 L V12 fitted into the 2015 S65 is a familiar engine as it has been sourced from the SL65. It produces 621 horsepower (44 hp more than the S63) and a tarmac-shattering torque to 1000Nm of torque, something Mercs are famous (or rather infamous) for. But strangely, Mercedes has made the S65 rear wheel drive rather than an all-wheel-drive (4MATIC Drive system) like its predecessor, which means all this ridiculous amount of power and torque will only be channeled to the rear wheels and will shred the tires much faster until the traction control is put to maximum. But then all this extra power becomes useless with the traction control dampening the power. The extremely-powerful V12 engine comes mated to a new seven-speed “AMG SPEEDSHIFT PLUS” automatic gearbox which replaces the five-speed unit; the new automatic gearbox should effectively decrease the fuel consumption.
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Why are many (not all) Christians so against homosexuality, while they completely disregard other parts of the bible that forbids things, like eating shrimp or wearing mixed fabrics?
36740 points | 5278 comments | 1 month ago ago by Bimimans from NoStupidQuestions
MichaelEmouse |10083 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I'm not Christian nor against homosexuality but here goes:
Some prohibitions are moral and others customary. Moral prohibitions like theft, murder etc are still on. Customary prohibitions were more meant as a way to set Hebrews apart from others and as ritual purity rules. Eating pork is a prominent example.
Not that there isn't a lot of hypocrisy commonly found in Christian opposition to homosexuality. Jesus says fuck all about homosexuality but is pretty strict about divorce and Evangelicals have a pretty high divorce rate. He also flipped his shit at money changers in the temple; I don't think he'd react better to prosperity Gospel or televangelists.
ETA: Can I ask people why this post got such positive feedback? Sometimes one of my posts will blow up and I wonder why as I could make more post others benefit from in some way.
Mythgirl |4781 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Yeah, I always figured that people zoned in on homosexuality harder than adultery because they could feel “holier than thou” about it either because it was something that never tempted them and therefore they couldn’t empathize or because it did tempt them but they “resisted” and therefore see the gay person as weak for “giving in.” Not to mention the closeted active homosexuals who lash out in anger as some sort of weird defense mechanism.
ACrazedRodent |1449 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Yeah. As a Christian, I don't get the leniency on adultery and pornography, but the harsh vilification of homosexuality. Since according to doctrine sin=imperfection=separation from God - redemption through Jesus=hell, I don't see why one should be treated differently.
dirtielaundry |896 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
With pornography, I think they disapprove of it on the surface but then it's like Baptists not recognizing each other in the liquor store.
weinermcgee |870 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
How do you stop a Baptist from drinking all your beer when you're fishing?
Invite another Baptist.
evoblade |498 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
What’s the difference between Baptists and Presbyterians? The Presbyterians say hi when they see each other in line at the liquor store.
1Os |761 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Had a coworker "turn me in" to our boss, saying I was an alcoholic (I am).
"I see him at the liquor store every day."
She still doesn't get why she was laughed out of the room.
He’s there almost every time I am!
crowcawer |78 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I swar I just go to get the Christmas gifts for the homeless children!
-jp- |9 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
♫ All I want for Chrishmash is my two forties... my two forties... my two falls asleep. ♫
Tender_Scrotum |126 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
What a cunt.
Does she have an issue with you or is she just a busy body?
unaskedattitude |206 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
She's baptist, she feels she can judge the world at large by her rigid values and literally doesn't comprehend that there can be another successful way of life outside her value system. It's Brainwash
Source: recovering baptist. They love judging other people as hellworthy and sinful waaaaay more than they attempt to follow their jesus' teachings about acceptance and love
bruno7123 |33 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Same. I used to be a Baptist (really young) but the blatant hypocrisy was so rampant, it got me out of it. The favoritism, the hypocrisy, the constant judging was so much, we spent 4 days of the week there. 3 4/5th of the days were spent with just gossip. The only person at the church I liked, that was actually a pleasant person, was the pastor. He was actually nice and understanding. When I told him I was an atheist he asked me to join the upcoming Christian event, and experience the fervor myself, and if I still wanted to leave afterwards he would be fine with it. His approval actually got my grandmother off my back and allowed me to actually make that decision being young, I was 13-15
Duhblobby |40 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Judging people is easy. Living as a good person is hard.
Tender_Scrotum |46 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Excellent answer but I was looking for something more specific from OP.
Like, why did she want to report him to the boss for the same thing she's doing?
Did she want him fired?
Bionglish_Teacher |30 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
It would seem she is not just a busy body but also a boozy body.
masheduppotato |32 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
If you ever need to talk or need help quitting, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
gsfgf |75 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Jews don't recognize Jesus as the son of God, Protestants don't recognize the Pope, and Baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store.
DerpDogDevices |67 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
How many baptists does it take to drink a six pack?
Only one if nobody's watching!
blorgio69 |42 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I live next to a Presbyterian church and have never understood what separates it from normal Christianity. All I know is that the slogans they put on their sign are usually pretty funny.
bellj1210 |6 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
nothing really dogmatically. What you believe is all about the same as every other major Christian religion. There are very small differences that you may or may not notice unless you are extremely deep into that question.
The biggest difference is the means in which you organize your church. So your services are different, the governing bodies are different. That is actually a pretty easy thing to look up if you want to know a lot more about the actual difference.
sittin_on_grandma |24 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
You know why baptists don't have sex standing up? So God won't think they're dancing.
MrMcgruder |9 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Know why Baptists forbid premarital sex? Because it might lead to dancing.
Phizzwizard |21 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
What's the difference between Baptists and Methodists?
Methodists can read.
evoblade |9 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Haha, that’s from a river runs through it. Well, similar at least.
ksmith0306 |32 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
This is my grandpa to a T.
Militesi |52 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Religion is somewhat of an accountability system for people and I feel like closer to its inception this was largely what it was for. In a time when your neighbor could murder you in your sleep for your mate it would have been helpful to lay down some ground rules.
Keraunos8 |36 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
This is why a lot of mythological figures get cursed by the gods for breaking “guest right” aka killing a stranger you invited into your home. If you can’t trust another human enough to walk into his house civilization as we know it would be much different
AlohaChips |25 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Including possibly the Bible. This isn't talked about by some, as they are so busy being overly obsessed with the homosexuality bit, but I once heard a sermon arguing that the more relevant reason that the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, as well as the reason that the city of Gibeah was judged so harshly in the story of The Levite's Concubine, was not because they wanted to sodomize a man. Rather, it was because they were so selfish and obsessed with their own pleasure that they demanded even the guests and travelers in their towns be handed over so they could brutally rape/assault them. This behavior was a disturbing affront to proper hospitality for strangers, which Biblically and historically speaking, was considered a godly virtue.
Other sections of scripture that refer to Sodom and Gomorrah seem to support this, as they don't really mention the sodomy part of it. Instead they refer to the cities as adulterous, lying, prideful, haughty, and full of wealth but unwilling to lift a finger to help the poor and needy.
mickatron696 |84 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I grew up between Lutherans and Catholics, the idea of Christians who are fundamentally against alcohol is almost as strange to me as the idea of religion itself. I mean, according to the shit they believe didn't Jesus literally turn water to wine?
doomlite |33 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I was told it was because they couldn’t preserve juice once upon a time, so wine was a preservation technique. Now that we can keep juice....
I guess beer is meant to preserve the barley then.
Didn’t say it was good logic lol
TheSOB88 |15 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
That’s Part of it. It was also used to disinfect water, very diluted beer would be drunk instead of plain water to kill bacteria and parasites.
SuperLemonUpdog |16 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
This was done because boiling the water was part of the process of making beer. The water they were drinking would have contamination that was killed by the boiling. This was used to make the beer, and the people who drank it were generally ok.
They did not boil water before drinking it, because they did not know about contaminants in the water. People got sick from drinking the water. So for awhile they thought beer was literally better for you. They did not yet know that it was the process of making the beer that pasteurized their water, and it could have been done to just the water on its own.
Edit: removed unneeded “was”
D-Alembert |10 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
My understanding is that alcohol was used as an everyday way of making drinking water safe (ie a disinfectant), and that "wine" and "beer" were typically heavily diluted compared to how we consume them today, dilution necessary to make that antiseptic function practical (not to mention affordable enough for routine use.)
In the eastern civilizations, boiling the drinking water (e.g. tea) more often served that function.
Edit: Now I'm curious what that would be like. My next lockdown experiment might be to drink highly-diluted wine (instead of pure water) for a day!
SuperMemesXD |18 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Bruh god litteraly said wine is a gift and we should drink it. Just don't go crazy and get drunk.
woopWOOPnoPMsPlease |34 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Exactly why they oppose gay marriage; its an open erosion on the moral fabric of a nuclear family, it becomes a moral issue under this light. It’s a limit on the publicity of the action; like how public drunkenness or nudity are illegal.
But if you want to go into a field and blow your best buddy in secret, who’s to know?
Prior to same sex marriage becoming legalized, a lot of parishes said they are fine with gays, they just wanted to protect marriage. Now that control of that moral code has been wrested, it seems like it’s normal to oppose the Gay Agenda entirely in the more hardcore parishes.
MCsinister765 |30 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
It's interesting to me that people who say nonsensical shit like "eroding the nuclear family" can't ever actually define what they mean by that. Like what? Are straight people going to suddenly stop having families all because gay people can get married too? Of course not. There is no real logic behind that way of thinking. It's fear mongering plain and simple.
idlevalley |22 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
In my opinion, divorce is a waaaayyy bigger factor in "eroding the nuclear family" but they really don't care about that.
ArcAdan908 |18 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
This is an important distinction. There is historical evidence that shows some things got worse after legalization. Not going to go into my detailed sexual preferences but let's just say I'm not talking out of my ass 😉 (pun not intended)
Anyhow, while some things obviously got instantly better, like being able to marry like we should be, some things got worse. While states opened up to it, churches closed there doors. Where there was once safe havens and parish's that did not condemn and whatnot, those places become rather scarce and it would be sometime before the "All are welcome. All means all." Slogans started becoming a thing.
All in all however, things generally got better after legalization. But just how people went crazy into their "I hate black people side" after obama was sworn in, people definitely doubled down on there whole "I hate gays" thing too after obergefell v Hodges (SCOTUS)
Cyllid |101 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
It's cuz people take their morality and then back it into their religion, and not the other way around.
BecuzMDsaid |40 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Exactly. It is way easier to call out the sexual minority than call out a more common sin like hypocrisy which is so common in the church. Legit had a person whine about restaurants being open on Sunday ten seconds after they ordered a pizza. Logically if you would like to observe Sunday as a holy day why would you be making someone else work in your place?
adoptblackcats |12 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Do they buy a 6pk (at the start of you're 8 hour shift) run out, then get mad when they go get more because the store just closed? I worked at couple liquor stores this was a nightly thing. Firstly it's illegal for me to let you in, secondly I'm going home it's 11pm. It was fun when they made a scene though. Only job I've had were I can yell swear words at customers, and have them come say sorry to me the next day.
evoblade |43 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I know there are a lot of churches that preach about homosexuality but during my young life when I went to church regularly, I don’t think I ever heard a sermon that directly addressed it.
deerpajamapants |35 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
The very last church service I've been to, we had a guest pastor give a sermon on homosexuality. I don't even remember him saying a single thing about what the bible had to say about it, but his approach on homosexuality is that it will absolutely destroy your life. How will it destroy your life you may ask, well thats easy. He was in a lovely marriage with children, but his homosexual urges forced him to cheat on his wife with a man and she left him and took the kids and he had to fight to get them to come back.
So basically he told everyone that being gay will leave you no choice but to cheat on your spouse.
He also asked for us to come forward if we struggled with gay thoughts. But to respect our privacy, he told us to tweet at him using an insanely homophobic hashtag. He would then pull the tweet up on the giant screen and pray for whoever wrote it in front of the whole audience
I really hope that there were others in the audience that thought it was as bad as I did. I was already doubting my faith in christianity, and that sermon was what finally made me realize how little I wanted to be associated with religion
Wow. What a weirdo! I can understand why you would be driven away
manimal28 |22 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
It is simple, in their mind: what other people do is bad, and a sin, what I do is justified and forgiven.
There are lots of attempts by the religious to justify this and a lot of proof texting and apologetics.
B1naryB0t |41 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
You don't of course. That's just how they view gayness.
scarablob |28 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I think that the batch of "you get tempted into gayness but you have to resist it!" are closeted bisexuals. So they do feel attraction for the same sex, and assume that it's the same for everybody, but that only the "depraved" that give themselves to the tentation end up in gay relationship. So they don't believe that some people might be attracted only to people of the same sex, and thus that some people can't be attracted at all by the opposite sex. Ironically, they also don't seems to believe that purely heterosexual peolpe exist, since they think that everyone is tempted by that.
But it's easier for a bisexual person to "resist it" since, you know, they still have the other half of the population to find a sexual partner, so "resisting it" basically amount for them simply passing up on a few crushes, while if you're gay, fat chance, it's gonna be insatisfaction forever if you try to "resist it".
Mythgirl |13 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Tempted meaning wanting to do something that according to the rules you aren’t supposed to do. Doesn’t matter if it’s stealing, lying, or having sex outside of marriage (including before marriage, cheating, and after divorce with anyone but your ex-spouse though most people forget that last one). If someone is bi or homosexual, then experiencing lust towards the same sex is temptation to engage in rule-breaking acts.
Technically you aren’t supposed to look at anyone lustily. There’s a great verse somewhere about plucking your eye out if it’s causing you to sin. I should really memorize it to post under people blaming girls for showing too much skin.
End of the day, it’s physically impossible not to somehow sin. And pretending that the pastor is in any way less guilty than the gay guy down the street is ridiculous.
indigo-a-a |128 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Mike Pence?
AVestedInterest |88 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
qlester |76 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
That's Lady G to you
therealityofthings |12 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
This is all I can think of when I hear Lady G speak
YodaRealMVP- |13 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
It is a defense mechanism I am not proud of. I for one have grown up around a southern Baptist’s church. They focus more on the fear of Hell then the love of God. So fear has been imbedded in my mind since I was a child. It’s extremely hard to grow out of. Is that a valid excuse for being an asshole? No. But fear of what my peers and God thinks keeps me in check.
-SwanGoose- |38 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I don't think it's a holier than thou thing as much as it's a "you're wierd and doing what isn't normal to me and I don't like it"
ThrozenFrone |143 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Eating pork
I'm no biblical scholar and could very well be wrong here, but I was told that this was because pigs carry parasites that can infect humans so this prohibition was originally a health based measure.
Not that this has anything to do with your main point, but I thought it was interesting.
GodIsANarcissist |115 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
It was probably the same with shellfish. They had no way of storing it safely, so best bet is to just not go there.
I_done_a_plop-plop |45 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
It makes sense in the inland Middle East, but it is just silly to miss out on Mediterranean seafood.
More plump shrimp for the Greeks, then
spedgenius |10 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
My guess, and this is only a speculation on my part, is that the original shellfish ban was for bi-valves like clams and oysters. This particular type of shellfish grows very well in water polluted with sewage. Oysters can transmit fecal disease and parasites even though they are perfectly fresh. Of course the cool thing is that if moved to unpolluted water, they purge themselves of those disease relatively quickly. Bi-valves are pretty damn good at cleaning polluted water with no harm to themselves. They feed on the algae that thrives on the nutrients found in animal waste. It's possible that the word shellfish got broadened to crustaceans over time as well.
Although, some crustaceans have an issue where they harbour bacteria that while helpful to the fish while living, can bloom out of control very quickly when they die. This is why lobster should only be eaten if frozen live or cooked from live. If they die and are allowed to sit, even in refrigeration for a short period of time, they can become problematic to consume.
So maybe it did mean all shellfish from the beginning because they didn't know exactly what made them sometimes ok to eat and other times not. So better safe than sorry.
Clever_Word_Play |12 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Yeah food poisoning back then would have a much higher death ratio
KrackerJoe |78 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Theres a really extensive and specific list of all the animals off limits to eat in Leviticus and most of them come with a little tidbit of why, usually some physical marker like where its knees are or how its feet look. A lot of the animals on the list were known to transmit disease if not prepared properly so its likely that this started as a safety issue that was pro ported as “cleanliness”. There are examples of God purifying the meat to make it “clean” for Jews later in the Bible but I’m not really sure if that means the animals were cleaned forever past that moment or if it was just a one time thing.
doddydad |16 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Also my memory is that the point where leviticus is given out is during the isrealite's time wandering the desert. Turns out it's hard to clean and preserve food properly there. No shit eating seafood that's been in the sun for a few months and can't be cleaned and had no preservatives is a bad idea.
1TenDesigns |53 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
This has always been my understanding.
Religion and superstition were used to educate and control the uneducated.
Most superstitions have very pragmatic reasons that go with them.
Break a mirror bad luck, mirrors were made with silver and stupid expensive. Walk under a ladder bad luck, and also a really good way to get hurt, or hurt someone on the ladder.
Don't eat pork, because if you're not careful it'll kill you. Etc.
Senor_El_Capitan |15 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
walk under a ladder comes from walking to the gallows, i thought... same point, but worth mentioning
Seakawn |13 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Religion was used for control by some. But this is a really overblown generalization.
Something that I learned when studying the brain for my degree was that religion, and superstitions in general, originated naturally from the ways our brains interpret reality. So, while some atheists/agnostics may have (and probably did) use religion to control others, in most cases, any religious leader was religious themselves.
The psychological anthropology of this is quite interesting. Here's a summary:
When we were early hominids, our brains had different ways of perceiving and making sense of nature. Imagine the scenario of seeing a bush rattle. There were 2 assumptions we could have made about it.
1). It's just the wind. Everything is fine.
2). It MUST be a predator! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!
We can presume that Group 1 died off. Because every single time that they assumed the wind and were wrong, they got eaten.
We are likely the descendants of Group 2. Because even if they were wrong, and ran from the wind instead of any actual danger, they still ended up just finding another bush to forage. Plus, when it was a predator, they were more likely to escape by assuming as much.
So, think about the actual cognition here that took place. We assigned agency to nature. Particularly, we assigned agency to coincidence and mystery. We wouldn't assume "it's just the wind," we'd assume "someone must be responsible for this." In the case of a rattling bush, that agency only needs to extend as far as predators which actually existed. But, the bug of this cognition is that it extended much further past this. So when we saw lightning, it wouldn't make sense to assume a Panther, but we still assumed agency, and thus assumed supernatural agency. "That lightning must be from Thor/Zeus/Etc.!" Then narratives got built around such assumptions in order to make sense of them. I mean, who is the dude responsible for lightning? Must be a super-man, some kind of god that can control nature. What's his story? Go through enough iterations of this and you end up with mythology/religion.
IIRC, we have only found one isolated tribe that is agnostic at best. It is default cognition to be superstitious. Most people alive in the world even today are religious or superstitious. It's just how our brains function by default. For my own anecdote, I also grew up religious. It wasn't until I studied the brain, and got a "bigger picture," that I was able to reason myself out of superstition. We can thank our frontal lobes for being capable of understanding such insights. But for people like me, it took studying a science that isn't even taught in most grade schools, much less comprehensively throughout grade school, in order for me to know better. If I didn't study the brain, I'd have gone to Seminary to study Apologetics and become a Pastor. Because I was able to rationalize most ways of challenging my faith, while still retaining my faith. But studying the brain knocked me flat out on my feet, and I couldn't hold on to my faith after knowing what I knew about how our brains actually function. It's a better explanation of how to interpret and understand reality without appealing to a god or superstition.
I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, if any theists are reading this. I just wanted to express this as food for thought. Were I still a Christian, then my post is something that I'd be eager to chew on in order to challenge my faith and see how I fare.
YYCwhatyoudidthere |24 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
It was an interesting time when few people were educated and just did what their parents taught them spreading some good tips and a lot of misinformation. The religions were the best source of actual education at the time. Easier to say "don't eat pork or shellfish" than try to explain the subtle difference between safe and unsafe storage. Same for things like washing your hands before you eat, and kosher food prep in general.
oisteink |17 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
There’s a post somewhere on askhistorians i think about this. It said that while there are some overlap between health and this type of rules it’s not consistent and the real reason was to separate your group from the others.
No I can’t eat pork because religion. No I don’t cut my hair because religion. I use this strange hat because of my religion.
metalhead82 |9 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Have you read “God Is Not Great” by Christopher Hitchens? He discusses this extensively. There are many theories, including the fact that a pig screaming when it is being slaughtered is eerily similar to a human screaming.
superchalupa |7 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
But wouldnt it have been easier for an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful supernatural being to inspire his followers to write:
"Thou shalt cook thine pork to an internal temperature of at least 160F, lest god smite thee with pestilence and plague."
-taradactyl- |150 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Poop hole loop hole keeps us all pure until marriage
shellexyz |43 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
BitsAndBobs304 |53 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Reminder: sodomy in the past meant everything that wasnt PIV sex.
GateauBaker |26 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Aren't sodomites just the citizens of Sodom?
yes, and they were supposedly depraved/edonist/perverted/whatever. it doesnt explicitely state that they were really into anal sex, and, in fact, God gets really pissed at them when... a crowd gathers around Lot's house because two angels went to his house, and they all wanted to have sex with the angels. And Lot, who is a righteous pious man, offers his daugthers to be gangraped by the crowd to placate them and prevent them from committing such a horrible sin. And out of all this, God is pissed at the people horny for (heavenly beautiful?) angels.
FreshFrut4RotingVeg |41 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
To be fair none of the humans involved come away from that looking great. A bunch of rapists attack a misogynists house and the misogynist offers his daughters instead of his guests, that's not a good look for anyone. Also Lot got saved because of his relation to abraham, not because he was a good guy.
titaniumkeg |40 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
It gets better. Lot’s daughters, who watched their mother turn to a pillar of salt because she “looked back” as they were fleeing, decided that getting their dad drunk and raping him was the best way to save their family line. They both got pregnant, one giving birth to Moab and the other, Ammon.
Nobody was good in this story at all, except maybe the poor “pillar of salt” wife.
wizardboxxx |8 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
That’s where the term developed from. Sodom was considered a wicked and evil city and according to the Bible, that’s why it had to be destroyed.
Iammeandnooneelse |71 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Further than that, the men of Sodom were at the very least attempted rapists, which I think we can all agree is a little different than being gay.
KoalaTeaGuaranteed |198 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Grain of salt, I was told this a long time ago, on mobile and at work but I’ll see if I can find a source later
When it was written, Jews were in contact with Greeks, who liked to do little boys in the butt. Jews said, nah we aren’t gonna let that fly. and wrote it into Leviticus. A better translation specifies, man shall not lie with little boys; but the male/male aspect was the only part that made it through
I think it was meant to be more a condemnation of pedophilia, but over time people somehow made it a gay thing
Leviticus stories were a long time before Athenian pederasty.
MonochroMayhem |50 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Not to mention that pederasty was more than just the sexuality. It was an exchange for being taught. Also, generally the sex wasn’t anal- it was intercrural (between the thighs).
darmarr |36 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
i wanna upvote for the factual info, but i wanna downvote because the info is yucky.
Dude if u could find a source on that I'd greatly appreciate it
https://um-insight.net/perspectives/has-%E2%80%9Chomosexual%E2%80%9D-always-been-in-the-bible/
Just a quick google search got me this. The translation isn't actually that great here, but it's at least as good as the KJV or any subsequent protestant bible. In a nutshell, Hebrew is complicated, and the archaic version thereof that the Torah is written in is hard to translate into modern hebrew. neither argument holds that much water as arguing is always biased, but they at the very least hold equal merit.
The better arguments point out that the Old Testament has a lot of gay suggestive writing. For example the actual writing on Ham's transgression was that he and Noah had sex, and Noah wasn't mad the sex was gay, rather that it was non consensual and incest. Also David and Jonathan and Saul definitely had a semi sexual relationship, and there is a specific verse I'm forgetting where it's pretty clear that David and Jonathan have sex, and Saul accuses jonathan of "uncovering his father's nakedness" with David, and that's not presented as bad. There's also the fact that historically everyone had a lot of gay sex around this time. It's too early for me to actually be awake and dig up verses and explain hebrew translation on reddit, and I'm honestly not an expert just someone who had to take hebrew class as a kid, but honestly if you're seriously curious I'd go find a Rabbi or a hebrew scholar, perhaps best a historian who knows hebrew and the period, and have them explain things to you. even if you're not Jewish, I think more christians should understand much more about hebrew.
HappyMeatbag |13 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I think more christians should understand much more about hebrew.
100% agree. I was raised Roman Catholic and even forced to go to catechism classes once a week. It was a while ago, so I can’t say with complete certainty, but we either learned nothing about Hebrew or so little that I don’t remember it even being mentioned.
72414dreams |16 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
In terms of timeline that makes sense.
Fenrir_RedBeard |29 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I agree. From my understanding of the original intent/translations it was ment to be against pedophilia. But the homosexuality aspect suits their modern agenda better.
doddydad |6 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
From what I remember both are viable theories and we can't be certain either way, but an insistence that we're certain it's against homosexuality is unfounded.
IDoubtYouGetIt |22 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
As far as I know,, he Bible never explicitly states what sins the people of Sodom and Gomorrah committed...someone in history just attached homosexuality to them.
novagenesis |17 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
It seems pretty clear the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah involved inhospitality and rape. When a sinner is attempting violent rape, I don't think it's defensible to use the story to come to any moral conclusions about consensual sex whatsoever.
onibuke |19 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
How do you tell the difference between the moral and the customary prohibitions?
GodIsANarcissist |13 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
This is a great question. Because I'm sure the people who are invested in these traditions believe they're all moral issues, even if it's only "well God said so and if you don't obey you're immoral"
stellar-moon |85 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Wasn't the whole homosexuality thing a mistranslation in the Bible? It was supposed to. Be "If a man lay with a child, he shall be stoned." When people thought that it was a man and a man
dman7456 |50 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Some people say that it is a mistranslation, but I have never heard that particular alternative as the "correct" translation. Either way, that's not a theory that is widely accepted.
Ryuain |39 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I did a deep dive in to this one a few weeks ago. It comes up twice, there's basically a list of kind of the same things once with 'it's an abomination' and once with 'stone the pair of them'.
The abomination one was hebrew for 'man' twice and the stoning one was hebrew for 'man' and hebrew for 'male'. Some people have taken that to mean boy, the Luther Bible uses 'knabe' for example.
Abomination was also difficult and dealt with old beliefs about purity and different levels of that which all use the same word in english, but that's for sure the worst one and you're basically outlawed and banished from the tribe. I think you can still get right with God and go to heaven (or whatever ancient ( or modern for that matter) Jews think happens after death if you do some rituals or whatever, but I don't recall.
I might have sources here somewhere if someone wants to correct/discuss.
Interesting fact, some orthodox Jews have used the whole 'lie with a dude like a lady' thing as an excuse to have gay ultra orthodox weddings, on the condition that the couple promise to not actually commit buggery. What a world we live I
Warning_Low_Battery |16 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
We did some research when I was in college (in the very conservative South) and found 6 total admonishments against acts that could be interpreted as homosexual. But then we found 211 admonishments against various heterosexual acts. You can guess which list the evangelicals conveniently ignore.
BoredBorealis |62 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I really hope I'm not the only one hearing irony in this
I was confused for just a short second. But, oof.
dangerhasarrived |11 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I'm either dense or there's nothing ironic here (unless you're talking about the Alanis Morissette kind of irony).
I was referring to the stereotypical idea of higher priests and the like having intercourse with minors. Not to it being ironic by it being called ironic while lacking irony :P
jethronu11 |24 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Pretty sure that was just a tumblr post
McGenty |794 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Because the Bible isn't a one shot document that God typed up in MS Office in an afternoon. It's a compilation of numerous texts given to different people groups, through 40+ human authors, over a 4,000 year period. That means each individual book can't be ready as a simple list of "do this, don't do that," but rather must be interpreted in it's own literary, historical, and cultural context.
That is, Song of Solomon is Hebrew Poetry, written at the height of the Davidic Kingdom to a Jewish audience. You can't read it with the same mindset as 1 Corinthians, written by Paul to 1st century Gentiles as an instructional letter.
The books of Law (primarily Leviticus and Numbers) were written by Moses, the first official leader of the Hebrews as an independent nation, to the Hebrews and those who chose to join them as a national identity. The law was not just stuff that Yahweh liked and disliked. It was intended to help Israel establish and preserve itself as a unique and independent nation. Many of the laws given served that end (not wearing certain materials, for example.) Others were a matter of safety (not eating shellfish and pork in a time and place where proper methods of safely preparing either not available (as an interesting aside, Leviticus is fascinating in that regard, where Yahweh instructed his people to do things that must have seemed bizarre but turn out to be scientifically sound in hindsight.)
How do we distinguish between the things intended for Israel's national identity and those deeper, moral principles? Repetition in other contexts.
For example, the nation of Israel, in Moses' day, was not to eat shellfish. Millennia later, you have God EXPLICITLY tell Peter that those rules don't apply anymore and anything to eat is fair game. Paul reinforces this change in his letters as well.
As a rule, what was a moral principle as opposed to a cultural rule in the Old Testament will be repeated and reinforced in the New Testament. (Think of the 10 commandments: each one has a parallel in Jesus' teaching, Paul's letters, or both.)
Those things that were only intended for a time are not repeated in The New Testament, or even flat out rescinded.
That's the difference between adultery/premarital sex/homosexuality/etc. and eating shellfish.
Theology, regarding any religion, not just Christianity, is a complicated subject comprised of thousands of years of human thinking and philosophy - even if you outright reject the notion of any higher power. It's unfair on both sides of the argument to apply a flat, one size fits all template to all literature at once.
TL;DR it's fundamental to compare the old testament to the new. Abiding right and wrong principles will be repeated. Cultural rules will not.
fuzzykittenhead |441 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
In the beginning was Word.docx, and the file was large.
Rion23 |87 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
And lo, even the Lord of the world could not make the printer work. The one thing he has no knowledge over, is where the drivers are.
treetrunks31 |20 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
And spell check did not translate Hebrew well.
im_a_zoe |41 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
The old testament would have probably just been in .doc format. .docx for the new testament though.
Snickerway |12 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
"Damn it, Dad, no one's gonna read all this! You gotta trim it down."
"Fine, I'll throw out some of the apocrypha."
cBEiN |70 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Context is everything. Unfortunately, many people believe the Bible was written as you mentioned... in MS Office by God one afternoon.
mallad |16 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
You're correct, but it's important to note in the case of homosexuality that Leviticus doesn't actually discuss homosexuality.
The Greeks were a contemporary society to the writing, and Greek men of stature commonly slept with younger boys, whether it was a mentor/apprentice situation or otherwise. In Greek culture at the tine, an adult was a man, and an adolescent was a male (equivalent of boy). This is important, because in Hebrew, there were more words to distinguish young boys from men.
Yet in Leviticus, it was specifically written that men (ish) shall not lay with males (zachar) as they do with women (isha). They specifically chose not to use the word zachar even though it's out of place in Hebrew, only because "male" was how Greeks described a man who was not of age. If it was speaking of homosexuality, it would say an ish shall not lay with an ish as he would an isha.
At the time of the New Testament writings, the nuance of this may have already been lost. That is why it is written about a couple of times, but never spoken of by Jesus. Hebrew was not their language at the time, Aramaic was, so it makes sense that they lost a bit of the meaning. They also had other languages in the area as the Romans took control.
It's talking about pedophilia, not homosexuality. A man shall not lay with an adolescent male as he would a woman. Because in the context of the time, they wanted to separate themselves from that Greek practice.
McGenty |14 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I've looked into that explanation. It only holds up if one rejects Mosaic authorship of the books of Law in favor of a later, polemic authorship by unnamed rabbis.
Given Moses' life (14th century BC) was centuries before Greek history began (750 BC) it doesn't make sense that he or his contemporaries would have taken pains to distinguish from a Greco-Roman behavior. There's not evidence that pedophilia was a significant issue in Canaan or Egypt, the cultures from which the fledgling Hebrew nation were being deliberately distinguished, so the pedophilia explanation is a complete non-sequitor in context.
A simpler explanation is that the word Zachar is used colloquially in the same way we use "boys" or "guys" in English. Otherwise, you create more questions than answers, among them:
Why the use of Zachar (male) and not bachur or yeled, both of which have a much stronger, more distinct meaning of young and being a child?
Why the specificity of a male child? Pedophilia is cool for a girl, but not a boy? That's an odd place to draw the line, especially in a time when marriageable age was much younger than now.
If it was a matter of age, why is that principle not repeated and emphasized even more strongly in writings actually contemporary with the prevalence of Greek culture (the major and minor prophets, gospels, and Pauline Epistles?)
Why, when the matter is revisited in Paul's writing, when pedophilia was very much a known/common cultural issue, did the extremely pedantic Paul (seriously, some of his sentences are paragraphs long) not specifically clarify the issue? Surely as a "Pharisee among Pharisees," he would have been well aware of any Polemic intention behind the Leviticus passage.
This is a huge part of why I dislike the Polemic explanation for canonicity. You can't make the entirety of scripture revolve around intertestamental Jewish scholars thumbing their noses at Greek culture without abandoning the larger themes and purposes entirely. The vast majority of events documented in the Old Testament predate even the earliest Greek history.
FlyingBishop |11 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
That seems consistent. Leviticus-era law doesn't have any concept of age of consent for girls. They are property that you buy from their father and you can buy them as young as you like. (And provided that you pay for them you can do what you like with them.)
I'm not saying that's right, but the Old Testament is pretty clear on this subject.
Only_Votes_Pro-Life |19 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
To expand slightly on that, you also have what are surface actions (getting caught in the physical act of adultery) versus the heart (looking at a woman with lust). The Law can only address the surface action and behavior: it can never touch the heart. The Gospel comes offering a new heart that will love God's law in a way that surface actions cannot follow. Paul goes into this extensively in Galatians 3 and 4.
entschuldigung1 |2882 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
The Old Testament ceremonial laws (not eating certain meats, not mixing fabrics, animal sacrifices, the tabernacle, etc.) were temporary, as they were symbolic of Jesus Christ, they were a shadow of things to come. They were done away with under the New Covenant when Christ fulfilled them. But the moral laws such as “Thou shalt not kill”, “Thou shalt not steal”, Leviticus 20:13, etc. still apply in the New Testament.
Tl;dr ceremonial laws were fulfilled and done away with, but the moral laws still apply.
Matthew 5:17 “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.”
Edit: Here’s a great sermon series that explains the symbolism of Jesus in every book of the Old Testament: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjUNeNfm2XbZ6TGY3H7vKeiIafhusp3dt
Edit #2: Thanks for all the awards! Here’s another video I’d recommend (only 7 minutes long) if you want to understand the central message of the Bible, the gospel: https://youtu.be/CLTAqJavYZU
Archidiakon |777 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Very good answer. I'll just add that homosexuality is condemned in the New Testament many times too
entschuldigung1 |508 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
That's correct. Romans 1 is one example.
26 "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:"
27 "And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."
32 "Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
Iammeandnooneelse |582 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
If this was so important, why does Jesus literally never make mention of this? I don’t understand why homosexuality became such a gigantic vex for Christianity when the two greatest commandments are to love god and love your neighbor. What happened to removing the beam from thine own eye? He who is without sin cast the first stone? Judge not and you will not be judged? Like I literally don’t understand why two people’s private actions have anything to do with someone else’s personal relationship with God. Nor, as a Christian myself, do I think Jesus would ever have taken such strong action against the gay community. There is genuine hatred towards the gay community from far too many Christian communities, and Jesus would never have stood for that.
starry_cobra |717 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Jesus doesn't mention it because he was preaching to the Jews, who were pretty strict in their following of the law, but had other problems like pride. Paul mentions it because his audience was pagans who didn't follow Jewish laws, so it was a relevant topic.
If Jesus had told the Jews not to be gay, they would've been like "yeah obviously, God says that right here in Leviticus"
Actually a pretty interesting point that I hadn’t considered. Audience definitely matters. One could argue that Jesus audience was intended to be the world, though his immediate audience was certainly the Jewish people of the time. I think evidence of him speaking outside the Jewish people can be seen in John 10:16 “And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.” I personally interpret Jesus teachings, especially the Sermon On The Mount, to be less culturally specific and more generalized guidance for mankind, whereas I view many of the later books of the New Testament to be more culturally specific to regions or people.
chiguayante |42 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Jesus says at least twice that he came to save the Jews, and rejects attempts to get him to preach to Romans.
Trench-Coat_Squirrel |10 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Gotta be honest, that sounds too much of a jump in logic. Didn't Jesus also overturn common ideas via his paraboles? The good samaritan comes to mind, where instead of fearing foreigners you should accept that they can be trusted and good (as opposed to the then-current notion that you are not to trust foreigners or treat them well).
I personally still think the first 2 commandments override this jump, in addition the beatitudes that Jesus taught too.
xX420JUICYSYNAPSEX69 |52 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Great answer
voteYESonpropxw2 |31 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Check out The Politicization of Sexuality pgs. 36 - 37
This is an exerpt from Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici.
I will copy and paste the quote after I eat! I'm still investigating this but this is the source of my curiosities RE how does the Catholic Church decide its values and what information it will disseminate?
Edit for quote:
As Mary Condren has pointed out in The Serpent and the Goddess (1989), a study of the penetration of Christianity into Celtic Ireland, the Church's attempt to regulate sexual behavior had a long history in Europe. In this process, "sexuality was invested with a new significance .... [It] became a subject for confession, where the minutest details of one's most intimate bodily functions became a topic for discussion" and where "the different aspects of sex were split apart into thought, word, intention, involuntary urges, and actual deeds of sex to form a science of sexuality" (Condren 1989: 86-87). A privileged site for the reconstruction of the Church's sexual canons are the Penitentials, the handbooks that, starting from the 7th century, were issued as practical guides for the confessors. In first volume of his History of Sexuality (1978), Foucault stresses the role that these handbooks played in the production of sex as discourse and of a more polymorphous conception of sexuality in the 17th cemury. But the Penitentials were already instrumental to the production of a new sexual discourse in the Middle Ages. These works demonstrate that the Church attempted to impose a true sexual catechism, minutely prescribing the positions permitted during intercourse (actually only one was allowed) , the days on which sex could be practiced, with whom it was permissible, and with whom forbidden.
This sexual supervision escalated in the 12th century when the Lateran Councils of 1123 and 1139 launched a new crusade against the common practice of clerical marriage and concubinage, and declared marriage a sacrament, whose vows no power on earth could dissolve. At this time, the limitations imposed by the Penitentials on the sexual act were also reiterated. Then, forty years later, with the III Lateran Council of 1179, the Church intensified its attack on "sodomy," targeting at once gay people and non-procreative sex (Boswell 1981 : 277-86), and for the first time it condemned homosexuality ("the incontinence which is against nature') (Spencer 1995a: 114).
With the adoption of this repressive legislation sexuality was completely politicized. We do not have yet the morbid obsession with which the Catholic Church later approached sexual matters. But already by the 12th century we see the Church not only peeping into the bedroom of its flock, but also making of sexuality a state matter. The unorthodox sexual choices of the heretics [non-Catholics] must also be seen, then, as an anti-authoritarian stand, an attempt the heretics made to wrench their bodies from the grip of the clergy. A clear example of this anti-clerical rebellion was the rise, in the 13th century, of new pantheist sects, like the Amalricians and the Brethren of the Free Spirit who, against the Church's effort to control sexual behavior, preached that God is in all of us and, consequently, that it is impossible for us to sin.
Huttingham |56 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I think a lot of it is cultural. As are many and most fixation that the christian community has. If I'm not mistaken, the fixation started with some king attempting to ban the practice and using the bible as his justification.
Helovinas |73 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Gay people were targeted in what was called the Lavender Scare in the 40’s and 50’s. Gay people were seen to be more susceptible to communism—much of this “godliness” is just vestigial anti communist propaganda.
I believe the lavender scare only worked because there was already stigma against being gay. the idea was that gay people could be blackmailed by enemy spies threatening to tell others their sexuality
I mean there may have been some stigma but the early 1900’s and late 1800’s were a period characterized by a decent degree of social tolerance.
My point is not that the stigma did not exist before the 40’s, but that it was cultivated for political ends.
wolfinmetal |202 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Only a straight person would look at these passages and interpret them as a general condemnation of homosexuality. Just saying. It’s sort of a circular argument to say that “changing the natural use into that which is against nature” must only refer to homosexuality, because homosexuality is the only unnatural behavior. That’s just a lack of imagination. Like maybe they were conducting sexy blood rituals or cannibalizing each other like mantises, instead of just holding hands and making love sometimes, y’know?
Also, these passages are from the Pauline epistles, which is not the direct word of God. Paul is talking about specific people at a specific time and place engaging in specific behaviors, which, in his opinion, are condemned. What does that have to do with anyone today? I’m 100% certain that most gay people don’t start out perfectly straight all the way into adulthood, but then suddenly turn gay because God got angry at them and flipped a switch. Which is what this story is about, if it is about homosexuality at all.
TZ840 |51 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
If I remember correctly these were written at a time when christians were trying to dissuade the practice of pederasty.
SuperBlooper057 |14 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
You have to keep in mind that in Greco-Roman culture, homosexual relations between grown men of comparable social status wasn't so much taboo as it was more-or-less completely unfamiliar. You can see this in the writings about Elagabalus some decades later (who ended up being assassinated largely because of his perverse acts). At the time the New Testament was written, virtually all homosexual activity was what we would call pederasty, and so the NT authors didn't have a frame of mind to call out what we consider homosexual acts, and thus didn't.
Death_Soup |28 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
that was more the "man shall not lie with man" part. it translates better like "man shall not lie with boy."
xoEnvie |19 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I went into a whole exposition about what this means and how it is pulled from the scriptures out of context. The thing is, all things biblically indicated pertain to the chapter in which they are held.
So the passage about man not lying with men was in the “incest and beastiality is bad” chapter of levicitus (and the romans portion was as a warning to christians venturing to Rome- they should not fall into the practice that Romans use which is to mentor their younger men in many ways, one of which being sodomy)
Which basically means that when it was said “man shall not lie with men in the same was as he lies with women, it is detestable” actually meant “dont fuck your aunts and sisters and mother and any other close female family members, but also, fucking your male family members is just as detestable.”
The key thing about taking meaning from scripture is that nothing in the bible is without context, and that context bears heavily on the intended message.
Keep in mind that to the "natural use" of a woman is clearly childbearing as far as they're concerned.
Just the phrase "natural use of a woman" makes me gag.
M4xP0w3r_ |52 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
No, no, gagging isn't part of the natural use.
iHoldAllInContempt |14 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I was gonna say - I thought this passage was against blowjobs.
edit while still illegal in some states, it always sounds like someone was upset they were missing out and made a rule that no one can have any.
Sorry, but are you seriously claiming that only a straight person would read "And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly" as referring to homosexuality?
Sell200AprilAt142 |80 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
this issue is, of course, that the Old Testament law does nothing to describe which parts are "ceremonial" and which parts are "moral". Observing the whole Torah was moral as far as Jews were concerned. Likewise Paul emphasises that the Law is all or nothing in Galatians. There is no decent rebuttal to someone suggesting the prohibition of male on male sex acts was likewise "ceremonial" and intended to set the Jews apart in a similar way to the prohibition of tatoos or mixed fabrics
ColonCaretCapitalP |23 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
The Catholic Church has enough authority in the eyes of Catholics to write the rules. They aren't Sola scriptura (only Scripture) the way many Protestants are. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is a systematic summary of accepted Catholic positions about many topics.
For evangelical Protestants, it's pretty clear that the New Testament takes some precedent over the Old. Although they often claim the whole Bible was divinely inspired and inerrant, Acts of the Apostles and Paul's epistles are more full of straightforward guidance about what Christianity is and how it's different from Judaism than the rest of the Bible combined.
So the non-Gospel NT books come off as a final word and a synthesis of what happened before it. If you're interpreting the Bible as inerrant, you basically have to take Peter's vision of non-kosher animals as the final word on kosher (that it doesn't apply any more). And yet homosexuality is still referred to as sin in Romans 1:26-27, 1 Timothy 1:10, and 1 Corinthians 6:9.
That said, I'm not a Christian anymore, but I don't see how one can ignore repeated references in the New Testament without being much more critical of the NT's writers than most Christians tend to be. Lots of Catholics ignore parts of church dogma but those are called Cafeteria Catholics because they choose what to believe and what they don't want on their plate.
the_fermat |51 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Where does it actually say in the bible that they were temporary or is this just a convenient modern explanation?
ThisUIsAlreadyTaken |47 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
The book of Mark has a better answer to the food customs question. It literally says Jesus made all foods clean (and acceptable for consumption).
He said to them, “Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile, since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) - Mark 7:18-19 NRSV
dexter_024 |22 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Wow, I had to scroll surprisingly far for the real answer.
Kurgon_999 |25 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Matthew 5:18 International Version
"For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."
Powerfury |9 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Everytime dishonest Christian's always stop at the fulfill part and completely ignore what God said right after it.
It's disgusting.
BardicLasher |403 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Acts 15. Basically it says "The laws of the Jews are too hard to share with the world. Let's drop it down to a few big ones for anyone who's not actually of the Abrahamic bloodline." They redefine the kosher rules as "No strangling animals, and no drinking blood," but they include a blanket "no sexual immorality," which would suggest that all the rules about sex in the old testament still apply.
[deleted] |19 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Plenty of people have already discussed the details of cultural practices outlined in the Old Testament to set the Jews apart from the Gentiles, and how that differs now due to Christ’s sacrifice, so I wanted to address the spirit of your question. I commented this somewhere else but wanted you to see it too.
What you’re talking about is blindness to their own sin. It’s much easier to point out others’ sins than it is to point out your own. Christianity in its true and most Biblically accurate form does not hold up those hypocritical Christians’ approaches to sin the way they think it does. I personally have found this mindset you’re speaking of more perpetuated in the older generations of the church. They don’t like confrontation so they just ignore it and gossip instead (which is also a sin).
The answer you’re looking for isn’t about the faith of Christianity but rather about the human practicing it. Those you know that are hard on homosexuality might be that way because it’s probably the one sin they can’t imagine doing. Uncle Joe over there casting harsh judgment on homosexual people while he drinks excessively, is abusive to his family and cheats in his finances doesn’t realize that God views his sins equally to those that are sexually immoral.
Believe me, you say “nobody cares” when Christians cheat or get divorced, but I promise you that they do. It’s just quiet. No one makes a ruckus about these because those are sins that are also widely acceptable by society, but there should be a ruckus about every sin. Some Christians might even use society’s acceptance of it as excuse to do it. Society’s acceptance doesn’t make it any less of a sin, but basing our understanding of sin on society is unbiblical.
I hope this all made sense. At the end of the day, it’s a human problem, not a God or Christianity problem. People don’t like acknowledging their own sin when it’s their comfy sinful lives at stake so they turn and inappropriately point fingers at others’ sins. That is actually a sin outside of it all, to wrongfully cast judgment on others for their sins.
Another point to add, those hypocritical Christians you’re referring to also don’t see their sin at the same “level” of homosexuality, when that concept is unbiblical in and of itself. Almost all sin is equal to God, but it all goes back to the “comfy sinful lives” I mentioned. There are only a few that He views more egregious:
1) Arrogant lies 2) Lying tongues 3) False witness who stirs out lies 4) Hands that shed innocent blood 5) A heart that devises wicked schemes 6) Feet quick to rush to evil 7) A person who stirs up conflict in the community (Proverbs 6:16-19).
He’s also very clear about what He thinks of people that lead children astray (Matthew 18:6).
At the end of the day, straight adultery is not less horrible than gay adultery. Those people getting all up in arms about homosexuality while ignoring other sins aren’t practicing their faith biblically and need to understand that they have a plank in their eye (Matthew 7:3-5).
mwatwe01 |355 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Source: I am a Protestant minister and a Bible teacher.
Because the moral laws against sexual acts outside of marriage and other sins were reinforced in the New Testament.
Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
And the procedural rules like the dietary restrictions, customs that were meant to set the Jews apart, were directly and indirectly rescinded so as to make a new covenant and spread the Gospel (the good news of Jesus' salvation) to the Gentiles (non-Jews).
About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
“Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.
Bimimans |143 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Thanks for your answer, nice to hear from someone who has in-depth knowledge of Christianity. I do have some more questions regarding your answers, if you don't mind the discussion.
Where would you draw the line? Since in your quote the bible also talks about adulterers, greedy, and drunkards. Does the church act the same against people who
-Cheat
-Get drunk regularly
-People who are greedy (this one is a bit more abstract of course)
as they do against people who are gay. Let's say a straight Christian woman is known to have cheated and drinks two bottles of wine every weekend. Is she seen as just as much of a sinner as a gay man who doesn't cheat or drink?
Basically, my question boils down to: Where do you draw the line?
Also, if you don't mind sharing, I would like to know how you - as a minister and bible teacher - personally think of gay people. Are they in your eyes 'bad', 'sinners', or just good people who are not allowed in Christianity?
Is she seen as just as much of a sinner as a gay man who doesn't cheat or drink?
Yes, she is. I don't think you would find anyone in the church, clergy or otherwise, who would tell you that cheating, getting drunk, or hoarding money all to ones self is okay. And this has been preached and taught in every church I have been a part of.
The thing is, many people outside the church see these as bad or improper as well. It's because, like it or not, most modern cultures have morals based on Christian values. Over time, however, our culture has chipped away at the moral stance on sex outside of marriage, to the point that a very large number of people now say that it's okay. The culture then looks at the church and says "Okay, you need to change, too.". And we are saying, "No, we can't do that".
Where do you draw the line?
The bigger concept is the fact that we all sin. We all fall short of God's perfect standard. I could give you examples, but it takes reading scripture to really say "This is a sin" or "This is not a sin".
how you - as a minister and bible teacher - personally think of gay people.
They are no better or worse than anyone else. Like I said, we are all sinners. And there is no sin in "being gay", i.e. having same-sex attraction. That is just a feeling a temptation. It's what we do with our temptations that matters. This is why the best biblical translations make it clear that it is the sexual act itself that is the sin, not the attraction.
good people who are not allowed in Christianity?
If we only allowed "good" people in Christianity...there would be no Christianity. Part of accepting the faith is acknowledging that one is a "bad" person, stained by one's own sin, but that Jesus Christ has the power to save us from that, to make us perfect in his eyes. So the other part is agreeing to start the process of "sanctification", whereby we work to honor God and avoid sin in our lives, knowing that we will probably stumble.
And personally, I have gay friends and family members. I love them, same as anyone else. Whatever sin they have in their lives is between them and God.
I want to thank you for your answers. You brought a lot of nuance in a topic in which a lot of people don't see nuance. I can't honestly say that I agree with you, but I do have a much better understanding of your views. Which is why I asked the question in the first place.
windrunner830 |94 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I don't know if this helps a lot in continuation, but there's one thing that really struck me from a sermon a few years ago: Church is a hospital of sinners, not a museum of saints. There are those who think that because they go to church, they are better than others, that they are free of sin, but they don't really seem to understand.
About637Ninjas |26 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
To your point: we have a children's bible that we regularly read through with our kids, and near the beginning it has a description of the Bible that is something like this:
Some people think the bible is a book of rules, telling you what you should and shouldn't do. But while it does have some rules, it's not a book about you and what you should do. It's a book about God and what he has done.
Likewise Some people think the bible is a book of heroes, showing us people we should be like. But most of the people in the bible are terrible, and do some really bad things. The bible isn't about how great they are, but about how great God is.
I think it does a good job of starting kids off on the right foot, as far as understanding the goal of the bible.
Edit: for anyone wondering, it's the Jesus Storybook Bible. I've found that it even helps adults make connections they previously missed in their own reading of scripture.
EdgelordMcMemester |67 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Thank you so much for your perspective.
LordTrollsworth |45 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
This is a great answer, thanks for sharing. I grew up in a very religious environment and you sound like a true Christian person living the heart of Jesus' teachings.
However I think it answers the letter but not the spirit of OP's questions. As you say, a sin is sin and there's plenty of them, and I think OP's question was more around why are some sins brushed over by most yet homosexuality is a sticking point.
As you say, drunkenness, adultery, avarice, lying, cheating, homosexuality are all binary "sins" in that their all equally bad, but it's part of the human condition. But I feel that OP's question is why do most Christians, in a political sense, give free passes to every other sin or even embrace them (not trying to be political but Trump literally has a toilet made out of gold), yet still campaign so heavily against homosexuality.
To many Christians, the only "sin" they will ever talk about or take action on is homosexuality, and ignore everything else.
mwatwe01 |48 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
The OP was specifically asking about the seeming dichotomy between the procedural Jewish laws vs. the forbiddance of sexual immorality, homosexual sex in particular. So I answered that.
The comment above delved into the hypocrisy you are talking about, and that is a problem, and it's why so many churches, mine included, preach against the sins of gluttony, drunkenness, and greed.
And you might be surprised, but in my experience, churches spend very little time talking about homosexual behavior (sex). When it comes to sin, we spend much more time talking about those things (that you mentioned) that some in our culture have deemed acceptable.
So I agree that there are a lot of people who have decided that their own sins are acceptable, and those others are not. This is our nature. All I know and believe, is that we will all have to answer to God one day, about the choices we make.
This is a great answer, thanks.
TheMoiRubio |26 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
One would assume that, yet in my personal experience (which I know doesn't mean much) men who are adulterers don't face any consequences. I know many a pastor who have cheated, divorced and remarried multiple times and nobody cares. I have seen couples get in trouble for premarital sex though.
I know many church goers who get drunk on the regular. We actually used to have a rule at my old church about no drinking that many people refused to follow that we ended up getting rid of it. Those same people are constantly sharing anti gay marriage rhetoric on social media.
According to the bible, yes that woman is seen as as much of a sinner, sin is sin.
DBCOOPER888 |9 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
So in today's age where sex outside marriage is normal, why is homosexuality more frowned upon?
silashoulder |3462 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Because many christians haven’t actually read the bible.
SatanMeekAndMild |984 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Yep. Their church leaders tell them what God says, they don't usually bother to read the source material. Somehow, even when they do, they don't have a problem picking and choosing which parts aren't applicable anymore.
The most famous anti-gay verse is from Leviticus, which says some pretty wacky things that conveniently fall under the "oh but that's the Old Testament" cop out. Incidentally, Jesus explicitly said that he came not to replace the Old Testament, but to fulfill it, so the old rules still apply. They forget about that too.
BigZmultiverse |171 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
pretty wacky things
Care to summarize?
Don't plant more than one crop per field, and don't wear clothes made of mixed materials:
"Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee." Leviticus 19:19
Don't eat fat:
"It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood." Leviticus 3:17
Disabled people are not worthy of worshipping God:
"16 The Lord said to Moses, 17 “Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. 18 No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; 19 no man with a crippled foot or hand, 20 or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles. 21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God. 22 He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food; 23 yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the Lord, who makes them holy.’”" Leviticus 21:16-23
ButterCostsExtra |52 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Sounds like Leviticus had some hot takes alright.
What the fuck. This was so quick. I haven’t even read it yet but I just wanted to say what the fuck. Wow
Edit: Alright. I read it now. Thanks for the response.
I’ve heard the first passage before. Second one I haven’t heard but that is BONKERS. Third one I haven’t either... tbh it sounds like something Hitler would approve of, yikes.
Haha I wrote that out about an hour ago for another comment and just copied and pasted.
BigZmultiverse |35 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I thought something like that was likely, but I couldn’t not acknowledge what just happened. It was a reddit first for me.
SatanMeekAndMild |67 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Or maybe I'm just a very advanced AI who forgot to leave a plausible amount of time before submitting my response.
I LITERALLY ALMOST SAID THIS EXACT SAME THING AT THE END OF MY LAST COMMENT.
If you are a super advanced AI, it seems you can also predict my thoughts, which makes you even scarier.
Beep. I mean.. *cough*
LeoMarius |73 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
No modern person can claim to live the Bible in full. It’s too convoluted and archaic.
It's also contradictory. It's not modernity that keeps someone from living the Bible in full, it's literally not possible when following one rule can break another.
This is why Orthodox Jews have such artificially difficult lives. There’s a Sabbath setting on my oven so they can cook on Saturday without breaking the commandments.
I personally love how they look at it. "God is perfect, therefore, if God left a loophole open, he did it with the intention that we take advantage of said loophole."
Like the phone that is always trying to dial every number, and with a mechanism that inhibits the phone from dialing the number. So instead of pressing a button, you're inhibiting that which inhibits the number from being pressed. All kosher, so to speak.
_LongLongMan |43 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
"God is perfect, therefore, if God left a loophole open, he did it with the intention that we take advantage of said loophole."
God, the great lawyer in the sky.
Goin up to the lawyer in the sky lawyerintheskyyy
It's where I'm gonna go when I'm tried whenI'mtrieeddd
Dungarth |7 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
The last Shabbat phone I saw had a touch-sensitive keypad, so they could even use it like a normal phone. Basically, the prohibition on use of electrical machines on Shabbat is about opening or closing an electrical circuit. If something is already on, modifying its properties is permitted (based on an old interpretation that starting a fire on Shabbat isn't permitted, but adding firewood to an already existing fire is OK). Essentially, these phones are always "on", and you're just modifying the capacitance when you touch the numpad. Same goes for Shabbat ovens: they stay on all day during Shabbat, and all you're doing is adjusting the temperature setting when you need to heat food (still not allowed to cook, though) instead of turning the oven on or off.
My favourite Jewish loophole is the eruv, though. There are some things that can't be done in public spaces during Shabbat, but which are allowed inside private properties (carrying house keys, pushing baby strollers, or even just move any object from private space to public space and vice versa). To circumvent that, they'll use various markings to "merge" many private and semi public properties (like smaller streets and alleys) together. In Montreal, there are a few entire neighbourhoods that are symbolically merged like that just so that they can trick God into allowing stuff. It's zany!
RS702 |9 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
What does this Sabbath setting do on your oven?
NivlacSupreme |20 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Looking it up, it just means it’ll stay on all day. Because putting food in the oven is fine but turning it on isn’t?
indigo-a-a |15 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
You are not supposed to do work. For example, in my building there are 3 elevators and during the sabbath, one of them stops on every floor from sundown Friday until sundown Saturday so that they don't have to press buttons, because that is considered work.
BluntHeart |7 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Can you elaborate on the sabbath setting on your oven and how it helps things?
LeoMarius |9 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
https://www.whirlpool.com/blog/kitchen/what-is-sabbath-mode.html
portajohnjackoff |22 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
There's a fun book called The Year of Living Biblically where the author does so for a year
space0watch |22 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Though didn't Jesus turn it around? Because his disciples asked Jesus when they saw a blind man in the street if it was caused by the sins of his mother or father or himself. Jesus said that it was not caused by any sin and then proceeded to heal the blind man and give him sight again.
FunchMunch |81 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Also as a student of theological history, it's impossible to overstate the role that translation has played. Considering that Jesus spoke Aramaic and that the Bible was written in Hebrew and then translated into Greek and then Latin and THEN English, the Bible is not the same document it once was.
To use this example, I believe the word homosexual was inserted into the text in the 20th century by evangelical groups.
What that passage in Leviticus is most likely referring to is sex crimes committed by men onto boys or those in his service. This moralising you now see is the result of political translation, exploitative ignorance and ironically, a sinful misrepresentation of the word of God.
gdawgvv |27 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Thank you for mentioning this!! I’ve gotten into numerous arguments about the homosexuality/pedophilia translation. I think it’s a really important thing to keep in mind because there aren’t always words or phrases that mean the same thing from one language to another. So to take the English text of the Bible as the words of God that should be followed step by step is foolish and incorrect.
dm_me_alt_girls |25 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
The interesting thing too is how Christians translated "young woman" to "virgin", making one of the basics tenets of their beliefs that Jesus was borne of a virgin. You have to believe that, it's doctrine. Jews for centuries said that the original Jewish belief regarding the messiah is that he would be borne of a young woman, and that at no point did they stress she would be a virgin. Christians previously argued that Jews had changed their texts in order to push back against the rise of Christianity.
Then the Qumran caves were opened and the dead sea scrolls were discovered, revealing that, surprise surprise, the wording was in fact "young woman" and it was actually the Christians who made up the whole "virgin" thing. A century of Christian apologetics followed.
Just another example of changing a narrative to fit a belief, without following the original teachings. The whole thing is infuriating.
Sad-Lemon-2759 |28 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
The verses that talk about fabrics were Old Testament law and had nothing to do with what is considered actual sin to God. Think of the rule in which people had to use the bathroom away from their living area and others’ living area. It was more to do with preventing illness than it being a “sin,” to use the bathroom next to a tent.
The1BannedBandit |53 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Many Christians treat the Bible like an iTunes EULA. They don't actually read the damned thing, they just scroll to the bottom and click "I Accept."
littleghostwhowalks |84 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
This is true. When I was 18 I decided to read the Bible (old and new testament) just to be better prepared for debate with toxic Christians (I'm an atheist but respect others' beliefs within reason). Turns out it didn't matter that I read the Bible. Most of the bigoted "christians" aren't Christians in the slightest. They're not interested in God or Jesus, they just want an easy excuse to judge other people.
galoluscus |6 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Or understand who the Levites were and why they were chosen.
Many don’t understand the significance of “mixing fabrics” or why the Levites were forbidden from it.
Unbentmars |18 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
I might get lambasted for this, but IMO Christianity has been co-opted by-and-large by people who only care to use it to enable themselves (whatever that entails). If it would harm them they ignore it, if it would harm others but further their goals they embrace it.
Notice how they hate the gays until it turns out they or a close relative are gay? Against abortion until they need one? They don’t give a shit about the Bible, only what parts of it can be used to further their pursuits and bigotry in any given moment.
I get that not all Christians do this, but I see a heck of a lot of Christians who do nothing but enable it if not outright tacitly support it. If you let a bigot speak for you it’s awful hard to tell the difference between you and a bigot
LindaBitz |8 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Coming from the Bible Belt, this is all so true. Spot on. It’s as if religion has become about telling other people what not to do.
Firree |114 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
This is a legitimate question and I would love to hear a legitimate response from a Christian.
Every reply in this thread has been the biased response you would expect from the typical non religious redditor.
I commented elsewhere. I am a Protestant minister.
hunterwbrown |40 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Theology student, this is my life:
It's the difference between following the Jewish Law and following Jesus's and God's teachings after the resurrection, which very clearly state that following the Law (not eating pork, not marrying non-Jews, segregating against non-Jews, etc) is NOWHERE near as important as living a loving life sharing the gospel led and shaped by the Holy Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, etc.).
Homosexuality isn't clearly addressed by Jesus in the gospels, but passages like Romans 1 show that the apostles who best understood his teaching saw homosexuality as a foundationally corrupt act. Meanwhile, God scolded them for still caring too much about living according to the old Law (Acts 10), which is why we don't care about not eating pork. Jesus's resurrection fulfilled that covenant.
That's why people see a difference.
thethunderheart |4 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Alright I'm not an expert, but a Christian who has asked this question myself, and this is what I know -
In most churches, there tends to be a bias in new vs old testament teachings, skewing (rightly so, I believe) towards applicable scripture in the new testament vs the old testament. Scripture does not invalidate scripture, only enhances it, but there are serious cultural lenses we place on it that obscure a better understanding of it all, and hence we have misinterpretations and misapplications of ideas. Let me expand a little.
In the old testament/Hebrew bible, there are plenty of restrictions placed on the Israelites, (Deuteronomy and Leviticus mainly) for various reasons. You have to remember, this is a nomadic and unscientific people entrusted as God's chosen people on earth, and there's a lot of rules placed on them that I interpret as being there to ensure their survival - ie dietary restrictions, ritual cleanliness, ect; all of which are or can be important in their continued existence. One bout of diarrhea or food poisoning in the desert can kill you, infect the other members, kill off whole genealogies - it's a very hard life. These rules are important.
Fast forward 1000-1500 years and there's divisions forming around practicing Jews and foreign converts (gentiles) in the early Church. One of the major rifts between them are the traditional commandments and practices of the Israelites, and the Gentiles who don't see the importance a of these things. The Israelite customs are, by and large, ceremonial at this point, which has some value - but not more valuable than splitting the Church it's self. First Timothy 4:4-5 reads, "For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude; for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer," and specifically in Acts 10, Peter had a vision from God, telling him that nothing God has made is unclean or bad to eat. In various other letters in the new testament, it stresses the unity of the church over divisions about church customs, so there's a clear priority being laid out here.
Still with me? Okay we're getting to the real meat of the problem.
The simple way to put it: in America, we tend to read our Bible poorly. More specifically, our Churches heavily skew towards Calvinism, a theological means of interpreting scripture which is a WHOLE other topic in its self, but to surmise: one of the tennant's of Calvinism is Sola Scriptura, latin for "the word alone," an idea that truth is contained in the scripture alone, and all you need to understand the bible is the bible. While I wholeheartedly believe the bible to be the best resource for the infallible word of God, interpreting it accurately requires more context than we are given in the Bible, because we don't have the same cultural or contextual clues that would be used to understand what was written ~2000 years ago.
TL;DR that leads us to the lenses we have put over scripture - when people read the Bible without proper study and contextual understanding, we tend to emphasize aspects of the Bible that resonate the most with our own cultural understanding while ignoring others, and in this case, most conservative (little c conservative) culture in America reads "sexual immorality" specifically and most often as homosexuality, which is not the only way of interpreting scripture. Read your bible, ask good questions, study, pray, and better understanding will come.
_Problems_ |15 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
¨Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” mark 7:15 all these laws abt clothing and food are for the old testament/ Jewish law and Jesus changed that and brought the new covenant.
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Well that idea backfired...
VantaLeek8 |1 pointwritten 1 day ago ago
From a jewish theological perspective-
God gave people free will after the Flood, and rarely intervened with it, even in massive catastrophes such as the Killing of the Firstborn in Egypt, Shoah, Porajmos, etc.
There are other perspectives, such as Jews being a nation who "bear the guilt" of others (see Isaiah 53)
Although the first one is most popular to my knowledge.
Palestinian activists celebrate the death of a Jewish Israeli billionaire. Thoughts?
VantaLeek8 |0 pointswritten 3 days ago ago
True, but in most cases I don't feel comfortable celebrating death. It just doesn't feel right.
I don't think death should be celebrated in any situation, but this guy's legacy isn't exactly admirable.
Remember “that” plague ?
VantaLeek8 |1 pointwritten 7 days ago ago
While europeans were the worst offender, Jews were also harshly persecuted in other continents, for example Ethiopian jews, if we're talking about the continent of Africa.
Jew Truth
VantaLeek8 |2 pointswritten 15 days ago ago
Yup, pointed that out too in another comment. At least 2 and 3 are falsified.
Sometimes it's worth a try. Some people like this are genuinely mislead by others rather than being irrationally hateful.
See what above?
Btw, I looked up the second quote on a web service and didn't find it, so it might just be fabricated, as well as a couple others I'd assume.
EDIT: Checked the third one. Also no mention of that in the entire page. But feel free to do your own research!
The Talmud is a 1500 year old Rabbinical debate forum, rather than a novel. It also makes a point to host every minority view for comparison with other views, so that's why frequently you come across this kind of shit in it. The historical context is also one of persecution by gentiles, so unfortunately these minority views were frequently xenophobic as a result of their environment.
Either way, most Jews have not read the Talmud anyway. Too much Aramaic for me.
Hope this cleared something up!
What historical fact makes you cry?
VantaLeek8 |1 pointwritten 26 days ago ago
ah well. at least we still exist. unlike the roman empire.
how did you put it.. the ashes of the emperors are lost forever
"you deserve to collapse for not liking being a target of genocide and slavery"
rip Baghdad House of Wisdom
rome was a genocidal slave empire that destroyed countless people's civilizations incl. my own. people seem to forget this a lot.
their empire deserved to collapse.
Trump's Proud Boy Nazis attack a Jewish couple trying to escape from them
VantaLeek8 |1 pointwritten 1 month ago ago
What'd they say
Why headscarves of Jewish Orthodox women isn't discussed as much as Hijab of Muslim women?
VantaLeek8 |2 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Why'd this get downvoted lol
I’m not Jewish and probably never will be due to my non religious preference but I have an absolutely stupid irrelevant question
True, there's that
I'm pretty sure it includes anyone who speaks Arabic and originates in an arabic speaking country. I'm pretty sure you can find a list or map if you look up "Arab World"
So including the gulf, levant, parts of north africa, etc.
Ho ho Hanukkah!
I didn't say you hated them.
I'm "jumping" to statistics about Palestinian support of an atrocity because you brought up statistics about jewish indifference to atrocities,my bad if it seemed like I was implying that.
The original commenter is using the citation you linked to back up the claim that , blaming random jews for israeli atrocities because of some statistic is a-okay.
I brought up the statistic to show the stupidity of this claim.
It looks like you are backing him up on his claim, but let me know if I'm misunderstanding you.
EDIT: I clarified in another comment that "supporting Israel" has many different meanings for people, from supporting it's existence in some form, to supporting it's actions, all the way to (unfortunately) supporting it's atrocities.
It takes less brain power to actually read my comment about the meaning of being "pro-israel". I despise the Israeli government and do not consider myself pro israel but I'm not gonna sit here while you ignore all my points. Read.
I am in favor of a canton-subdivided federation solution so both peoples can control their own ways of life but both peoples can go anywhere in their indigenous land. What do you mean by racial rights? Jews aren't a race. It's a complex Identity but "nation" or "people" sums it up but it has an ethnoreligious factor too.
Same thing with Palestinian right of return, it is not a "racial right" either but it's the main priority of many I speak to.
Sources for my claims:
Source on jewish identity: paragraph one of this article, as well as my brain.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews , intro paragraph > Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים ISO 259-2 Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation [jehuˈdim]) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group[10] and a nation[11][12] originating from the Israelites[13][14][15] and Hebrews[16][17] of historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated,[18][19] as Judaism is the ethnic religion of the Jewish people, while its observance varies from strict observance to complete nonobservance.[20]
Source listing proofs of jewish indigeneity, read it all if you don't believe me.
1.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Jews
2.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews
Paragraph 1 after intro paragraph
Jews originated as an ethnic and religious group in the Middle East during the second millennium BCE,[9] in the part of the Levant known as the Land of Israel.
Supporting Israel is clearly an anti Palestine stance
Again , the meaning of supporting Israel is not something specific and someone can identify as "pro-israel" while still supporting Palestine. Read my comment before you answer it. You've brought up no arguments and are simply saying what you believe as some kind of intractable fact.
I am for some kind of one country solution and minimizing military and strategic cooperation with the US.
and? only 25% of Palestinians opposed a restaurant bombing in Haifa which killed two families, four children and a baby, wounding 60 more.
This doesn't mean Palestinians are bad people and I would be disgusted with myself if I assumed negative things about a Palestinian simply because they are Palestinian.
"supporting israel" is a very vague idea that can be anything from supporting it's existence in some form, to supporting some of its actions, and to (unfortunately) support it's actions against palestinians.
But if you assume that a jew is a racist because they are a jew... Whoo boy.
This is the same mentality those anti-Palestinian racists have when they think " a high percentage of Palestinians support violent resistance & terrorism, so therefore every Palestinian I meet is probably a terrorist"
Did all Jews technically descend from the Middle East? (Not considering converts)
Ethnic jews are of middle eastern descent , but that doesn't mean they can't be white.
Some Arab individuals are also white, or appear as white, depending on your interpretation of weird american racial constructs. However some arabs do not identify as "white" due to, I assume, the implied European-ness and the discrimination they face as Arabs. If you're Ashkenazi I guess either option works(?)
The way this survey is structured is kind of confusing.
How to deal with being of patrilineal Jewish descent?
Here's my take on it- Although it might be controversial for more orthodox-leaning people than myself.
I don't think halakha is the only deciding factor for who is a jew- To me, being a Jew and being part of Am Yisrael are overlapping concepts, but not necessarily the same. We are also a cultural group. You don't have to be part of "Am Yisrael" by halakha to be a jew, and all your experiences, culture, and family history as a jew are as valid as mine.
Any recommendations on where to get Israeli gum and what flavor?
I suggest r/Israel if you don't get a response here
How do you guys feel about Israel?
EDIT: why was my original comment downvoted 😔😔
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Daiva Dasakam (The Universal Prayer)
by Nitya Chaitanya Yati
Is there a God? Is this world real, or is it only a shadow? Does human life have any purpose? To all these questions, different answers can be given from different points of view.
In the animals of the forest, the fish of the sea and in the vegetative world, we see one and the same life. It is not different from human life. To exist, to be horn, to grow, to change, to decay and finally to perish is the common lot of all living organisms. In that, man is not different from a worm. To say that our life has a greater meaning than that of a blade of grass does not have much pertinence on the biological level.
Although nature has not given any special goal to human life, man can propose a goal for himself. He can make his life purposive by developing his own life-philosophy. Family life, national life, social life – all these are upheld as human history. These are as real as the physical world in which we live.
However, these institutions are all built on traditional concepts and mere ideas, which came from human minds. Social contracts to which man submits himself, and international conventions to which nations agree, are all born of the human mind. They are mere ideas. Thus, in our world, facts and ideas stand on a par in terms of their influence on our lives.
According to the Indian tradition, it is believed that man has four main goals in life. They are dharma, acquiring righteousness; artha, earning livelihood; kama, fulfilling desires; and moksa, attaining realization. Of these four, realization is considered to be the final goal of life. For this reason, it is called paramapurusartha.
Devotion is considered to be the best of all tools for realization. In Sankara’s great work Vivekacudamani, he says that of all the instruments for realization, nothing is more efficient than bhakti or devotion. In Narayana Guru’s Darsana Mala, also bhakti is given a very high place.
The realization that one gains by resorting to bhakti has five aspects. They are: saranagati, surrendering oneself absolutely to the Divine; stuti, praising the Absolute or praising God; dhyathru dheya parasparya, cultivating a bipolarity between the meditating person and that which is meditated upon, as for instance in the a bipolarity between man and God. The fourth is arthana, praying, making requests. The final one is santi, the peace that one gets by disciplining oneself this way.
Thus, is is called pancanga laksana, a devotion which has five characteristic marks. Panca means five; anga means limbs; laksana means marks.
Daiva Dasakam is a prayer which has all these five principles implied in it. Out of compassion, Narayana Guru composed this prayer for his disciples. Nowadays, in the morning and evening hours, one can hear this prayer being recited in many homes in South India.
Narayana Guru is a prophet of this new age in which science and the freedom of man have become of great importance to mankind. In this prayer, he has kept his thought as close as possible to the language of modern man. He does not parochially limit his concepts to any particular place or time.
The Guru is part of the traditional hierarchy of Vyasa, Suka, Yajnavalkya and the other great Gurus of the Upanisadic tradition. For this present commentary, I am indebted to my guru, Nataraja Guru. I am grateful to him for the grace which he is always showering upon me.
Life can be approached from three angles: philosophy, religion and science. Philosophy is the path for those who can infer realities by putting together facts, mentally coordinate data to get an organized picture, and who also have an intuition to look at the hidden meanings of life which are not revealed through the perceptual data of everyday experience. Religion places its emphasis more on the heart, the feelings, of man. From this angle mystical experiences have a great place. Devotion is relevant to religion. Science is the path for those people who want to have a factual assessment of the given world and put their emphasis on the objectivity of what they study. There are branches of science which go beyond this delimitation, such as the study of human nature through looking at historical facts with critical acumen. These branches still come under the category of science.
It is difficult to place Narayana Guru in any single one of these categories. His approach is of a philosopher, a religious person and also a scientist. There is nothing of interest which he has left outside the scope of his search and study.
At the emotional level, his life was moved by compassion. He never caused any hurt, even to a little ant. To love all was very basic to him. The secret formula of his life was, "Only he lives who loves (arul ullavandnu jivi)." In social life he never compromised with injustice or inequality. He always fought against any kind of exploitation in which his fellow beings indulged.
Thus, in Narayana Guru’s Daiva Dagsakam, we have a prayer which can be assessed from all the three angles of the philosopher, the religious person and the scientist. It is at once a song and a science.
Prayer is common in Indian literature. The Vedas are supposed to be the oldest of ancient literature, and among the Vedas, the Rg Veda comes first. Except for the Isavasya Upanisad and Gayatri, we do not come across any prayer in Vedic literature which is not addressed to one particular deity, such as Varuna, Mitra, Agni or Indra. We can say that since the time of the Isavdsya Upanisad, Narayana Guru’s prayer is the first universal prayer which has come from an Indian pen. Isavasya Upanisad comes in the Samhitd part of the Yajur Veda, so it can be considered as a Vedic text. However, according to Sankara, it teaches wisdom, so it should be considered as an Upanisad. It is a piece of wisdom literature. Although the Savasya Upanisad begins with addressing God as such, without calling him Varuna, Mitra or Agni, towards the end it closes with special reference to the Sun and Fire as deities.
In the present prayer, only the Absolute is praised throughout. It is not specially aimed at any God of the Hindu pantheon. The sense in which God is recognized in the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is not accepted by the six systems which are considered to be the orthodox philosophical schools of India. In traditions such as Saiva, Vaisnava, Sakteya and Ganapatya, there are great lovers of God who have written emotionally charged hymns with great philosophical meaning addressed to Visnu, Siva, Sakti, or Ganapati. But in this prayer we see a departure from all of these traditions.
God is here recognized as one God, not as the God of any place or religion. That Absolute is related with everything that depends on the Supreme.
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