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During this year's Milan Design Week Swedish furniture maker IKEA rolled out a bunch of bright-colored tables, chairs, and other pieces of furniture. But perhaps the most interesting product IKEA unveiled in Milan was found in a press kit. According to Gizmodo, at Milan's Salone design show IKEA distributed a press kit that doubles as a digital camera made of cardboard (which will soon be released). The camera runs on a pair of AA batteries, and can reportedly hold up to 40 images on its built-in memory stick.
What makes this camera unusual is that it's both digital and made of cardboard. A camera body made of cardboard usually suggests that it's disposable – we grew up using disposable cardboard film cameras, and we still find them at our place-settings at weddings. But as Jaymi Heimbuch at TreeHugger points out, because this camera is digital, you should be able to clear its memory and reuse it (although we don't actually know whether it's reusable). If that were the case, why would you want the body to be made of cardboard? So many questions.
Although the camera looks fun, it's difficult to get excited about yet another disposable product from a company that's often criticized for producing less than stellar stuff. The camera can be synced with a computer via the USB that swings out from its side, according to Gizmodo. The price and release date for the cardboard camera haven't been announced yet.
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Help with funny looking stone fruit leaves
One limb of a Minnie Royal cherry broke bud strangely this year. I thought perhaps it was die-back, but now the odd buds are actually pushing new growth--which also looks strange:
The leaves are stringy and oddly colored on the margins. Some look like they have been artistically nibbled. I'd hate to lose the limb as it will unbalance the tree, but if this is some kind of virus, I don't want it to spread to the rest of the tree. If it's a fungus or pest, I'd like to know how to treat it.
Next come the plums...Old growth looks fine but new growth is showing yellowing and some leaf malformation:
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Nutritional problems?
These are what the more mature leaves of the ersatz "Satsuma" I posted about
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Finally, I did some apricot bench grafts this year and have not had a lot of success. Only one (FloraGold) has really taken well:
The only other surviving graft is this sad-looking GoldKist:
That was grafted in late February and that is all it has done. The leaves look pretty sad, but it won't die (yet). I guess my question is whether there is a disease involved that could be weathered (like my peach bench grafts with the near-fatal PLC last year which now look great after a lime-sulfur regimen) or whether I should just cut my losses and regraft. I don't have any more GoldKist wood, but I do have some additional Blenheim which is what I have been using on the other bench grafts that failed. I had hoped for 4 different varieties, but at this point I just want to be sure I have four trees that can go in the ground in late Summer. I can always top work later while the trees are small.
Not sure about the cherry. If it's a virus it likely has already spread to all the tree. But it's more likely nothing serious or a bacterial or fungal issue.
Dapple Dandy and plums look like iron deficiency which can be be caused by high pH and too wet/cold.
The graft might be too wet but that's a guess. So that could be related to the plum issue.
Thanks. It is certainly on the cool side here--all the time. So maybe that's the way things will look for awhile, or, maybe I will have to boost the nutrition/lower the pH a little considering the climate and the fact that everything in the ground is growing in dune sand.
As to the cherry, maybe I should try a little copper on that limb and see if things straighten out?
It is remotely possible that a small amount of Roundup might have drifted on the breeze and settled on the plants, although I don't think that can explain the cherry on which the phenomenon is precisely confined to a single branch. That's an odd one--and not a very good photo. Maybe I can do better tomorrow.
Fruitnut is correct, Steve. We've had a chilly, prolonged, and for you all up in N. Calif, a pretty wet winter and spring. What you're seeing most likely some fungal issues, due to temps being exactly right for that, as well as iron deficiency. We see micronutrient uptake issues here in California due to our higher pH soils in combination with chilly temps and lots of rain. Causes many different plants, including citrus and our stone fruits to become chlorotic. The first micronutrient affected is Manganese, which actually may be what's going on with your plums, then behind that, Iron. Iron is a little less likely due to the abundance of iron in our soils out here, but with the winter and spring we've had, it's probably most of the micros - Manganese, Iron and Zinc. So, just apply fertilizer with micros, and wait for our weather to warm up a bit. And, I would definitely apply some fungicide of some sort, to see if you can get a bit of improvement with your cherry leaves.
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Why just one affect branch?
As was said, "sub-lethal dose."
As concerns the effects of glyphosate on fruit trees, easy to locate info & images w/ a search using "glyphosate damage tree fruits" -- but omit the quotes.
Typically, such damage follows an herbicide application (ai of glyphosate) made the prior season -- as in fall clean-up.
Her's how it goes:
The tree gets a non-lethal dose in fall;
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ProMark is a Houston, Texas-based American drum stick company. Since 2011, it is part of strings company D'Addario. ProMark is a widely known stick company generally played in drum set, drum and bugle corps and concert bands.
ProMark was founded in 1957 by percussion instructor and shop owner Herb Brochstein in Houston, Texas. It is the first company to introduce Japanese Shira Kashi white oak into the American market, and the only company to successfully market oak sticks in the United States. The wood provided for ProMark is supplied by Japanese trader Tatsuo Kosaka. In recent years ProMark has moved to use of non-endangered wood and a "green" finishing process to make their sticks and manufacturing processes safer to the player and the environment.[1]
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By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
10/19/2012 (2 years ago)
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Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and in a state of highly precarious health. According to Venezuelan doctor Jos� Marquina, Castro has trouble feeding, speaking and recognizing people.
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10/19/2012 (2 years ago)
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Keywords: Fidel Castro, stroke, Hugo Chavez, Cuba, frailty
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Marquina told the newspaper El Nuevo Herald that he has access to firsthand sources and information.
"He suffered an embolic stroke and recognizes absolutely no one," Marquina says. The doctor has also previously claimed to have direct information about the illness affecting President Hugo Ch�vez of Venezuela.
"The people with a condition of this nature have difficulty eating and, of course, they end up with total deficit in their neurologic capacities."
Castro's health had been speculated upon in social networks and the media. Rumors swirling around the former leader have intensified, to the point that word spread that he had died and that the Cuban government would shortly make an official announcement.
Castro was last seen in public last March, during the visit to Cuba of Pope Benedict XVI. Castro has not written his opinion columns, called "Reflections," since June. In addition, he did not send any message or congratulation to Ch�vez for his recent election victory.
Castro remains in his home in El Laguito, Havana, receiving constant and specialized medical care, Marquina said. Cuban authorities and Castro's family are working to keep him alive and far from public view, the doctor said.
"He could last weeks like that, but what I can say is that we'll never again see him in public," Marquina said in a telephone interview from Naples.
Marquina said that Castro is not receiving therapy to improve his condition because his neurological state does not allow it. Marquina described Castro's condition as "very close to a neuro-vegetative state."
"He is not receiving artificial respiration and is not connected to tubes, as some have said. What's probably true is that Castro is being fed through nasogastric tubes," Marquina said.
Patients with this type of clinical picture are usually felled by respiratory complications and irreversible infections. According to Marquina, the decline in Castro's health compelled Hugo Ch�vez to fly to Havana this week in order to inquire about his ally's condition.
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New Contest, read all about it!
Ok, Since I lost the last sans contest we had. I now invite all (except Norma) to an new contest. Who has a photo proving the widest leaf on a Sansevieria trifasciata group of plants. I know the Futura type should be in the winner circle.
Ok Norma you can enter. I know you would win if you do.
Also if I ever get to go to Calf. again, I want to go to the Huntington Gardens and meet Norma there, And call my friend Greg and Josh for a congratulation drink. Anyone else can come on over and celebrate.
Stush, As I said earlier I would first need a plant speices to compete with first.
I'm In once I get my hands on one. I'll look for the type you mentioned hopefully this coming week.
Throw a picture of one up again to see a fresh look at one please.
Ok, I coming out swinging. Here's the first picture. It is my widest leaf. All the others measure 3 inches, this one is a full 3-1/2 inches. Take a good look at the new leaf coming up next to it. Now 3 inches maybe more in a few months.
I believe it to be a Futura type, or maybe a Compacta. Your guess. also the one I am sending Greg.
It should be a contender in a few months in his good hot Calf. sun.
Just for fun guys. You know I am a good loser.
Hey Stush! Glad you are helping to keep this forum active!! Hmmm. None of my Futura types are that mature, so I am out. Like the pics above though. Maybe I can sneak in a 'Mason Congo' (S. masoniana) and stick a trifasciata label on it......but I am too honest for that! Stush I like the nice wide margins on your plant in the photo.
Chris, I have a trifasciata Laurentii that has more yellow on it than green. Would be nice to pass this along in it's pups. Then I would have some thing.
Lovemysans, I really love that name. I should have used Sanstush. or something more in line with my favorite plants.
Stush, check this out, I was about to throw a punch and then realized I haven't even entered the ring yet, hahaha...
Ok, so today I'm off and I'm at Santa Monica beach with my beautiful wife, we just had lunch and we are parked along pacific coast Hwy, It's beautiful.... After a while I'll be stopping at some nurseries I've mentioned before called The Leaf and Pedal Nursery. O.M. G. They have such nice assortments of cacti & succulents you've ever seen.
Stush, back to the point, your wide leafs are very impressive alright boy that's going to be suicides getting into the ring with those broad shoulders, let me think about this it feels like a set up if I ever seen one. But out of good sportsmanship, I'll do it ! Maybe will have to go two out of three or something, LOL...
Stush, I have a question for you off topic if you don't mind, So now that the cold weather looks like its behind me here for a little bit at least, I have Q. about my Sans. Sensation bantel. Can they tolerate full sun here in my part of the country, zone 9-10 ?
I've been leaving him outside all this week to get some fresh air and some full sun off & on for the day but was thinking maybe its to much to soon. Do you happen to know there tolerance levels of full sun vs. Bright lighting prefreences?
Thanks stush,
Best guess, Those plants that show lots of variegation must be protected from direct sun, or most of direct sun. Morning sun is ok, but watch for leaf burn. I would put it in a brightly light area without direct sun. They like to be warm. The all green types of any plants love direct sun, even my green hostas can take most all day sun.
Again only best guess. Any comments from others?
BTW, the dark green one I sent you should be ok after acclimating it.
Thanks Stush, And it's good to hear from you too, I thought you were awol or on vacation.
Yeah thanks for the info. on the dark green one you sent me too I was also wondering about that one too.
The tempeture is 94 degrees today so I made sure before I left home today they were both in shaded areas but bright light was available for them.
Have a great weekend guys, Right now I am so busy with work and plus I just brought in a nice haul with some new plants and a bunch I'm trying to propagate I think I did to much cutting without enough time to replant them all so I'm super busy buying new pots and finding space for others in the ground, WHEW!!! can you feel how busy I am? LOL...
I think we should send Greg some of the snow, Stush. I just got 12 inches and had to call off work Monday because I couldn't get out of my driveway. The roads weren't clear until the afternoon. I stayed inside and scaled lilies, watered planted, and drank wine.
Michael, sounds good I'll use it for my ice tea LOL...
Well guys let me tell you my 94 f degree temp on Friday dropped to 82 on sat. Then down to 79 on Sunday. Sprinkles on Monday and now today Tuesday they're saying rain .
On a good note I just got my first Agave Joe hoax ! Yeah man she or he is a beauty , No pictures yet but you can see one on the cacti & succulent page under " when one Agave isn't enough."
Michael kind of you to think of us in Calif. With all this crazy weather and all, that snow will make an awesome snow cone too I'll bet. Thanks
Well some things just don't do well when your busy and don't get around to planting them all proper and all. They are barely hanging in there. I don't blame Bob for it but my own not handing them right. I know better but I think I lost a few. I have to get some pictures of the one I planted up from some here that gave me. I almost lost two beautiful sans due to the sudden cold dips we were getting last month. I have them in the house and they are just hanging on. No growth or anyrot either.
Thanks to the kind folks here, I am starting to get a nice Sans collection myself. And to think I only knew of one species a few years ago.


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Corporate Social Responsibility and Management Practice
There is little doubt that we have witnessed a surging interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) over the past decade. The number of annual sustainability and corporate citizenship reports has skyrocketed, and chief executive officers (CEOs) increasingly rank CSR as a "central" or "important" concern for senior managers (Simms, 2002; Friedman, 2003). Yet the increasing interest in corporate social responsibility is not just limited to talk. Companies are also making significant changes in their business practices. Examples range from global labor standards (Nike, Adidas, Ikea), sustainable supply chains (the decision by Home Depot and Lowe's not to sell wood from old-growth forest), and animal welfare (McDonald's and Yum Brands poultry policies) to general public-policy issues such as global warming and human rights (British Petroleum [BP], Shell). Even Wal-Mart, the current bête noire of political activists, is now aggressively moving in this direction. It has began to work with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) such as Conservation International and the Natural Resources Defense Council on various sustainability initiatives ranging from sourcing from sustainable fisheries to attempts to reduce waste production and energy use (Baron, 2006b). Particularly striking are the recent attempts of major global corporations to rebrand themselves as ecologically responsible companies. Examples include BP's Beyond Petroleum initiative and its carbon footprint campaign as well as General Electric's Ecoimagination initiative.
Of course, corporate social responsibility is not a new phenomenon. Procter and Gamble pioneered disability and retirement benefits (1915) and an eight-hour workday (1918) long before such policies were required by law. Henry Ford paid his workers twice the market rate, and companies such as Heinz, IBM, and Hershey's subsidized education and other community benefits (Crook, 2005). More generally, corporate philanthropy has a long tradition, especially in U.S. corporate history, from the nineteenth-century robber barons to the "5 Percent Club" in the 1960s and 1970s, so named because its members (for example, Levi Strauss, Cummins Engines, and Control Data) donated at least 5 percent of their earnings (Vogel, 2005) to charitable causes.
What is new is an emerging consensus that corporate social responsibility is no longer a luxury for a few prosperous companies but a necessary component of sound business practice. Companies are increasingly held accountable by standards other than maximization of shareholder value, and they need to develop strategies and policies to address these challenges. In a recent article in the McKinsey Quarterly followed by an op-ed piece in the Financial Times, Ian Davis, worldwide managing director of McKinsey & Co. (Bonini, Mendonca, and Oppenheim, 2006) lists the need for companies to gain sustained social acceptance as one of the five key global, emerging trends:
The role and behavior of big business will come under increasingly sharp scrutiny. As businesses expand their global reach, and as the economic demands on the environment intensify, the level of societal suspicion about big business is likely to increase. The tenets of current global business ideology-for example, shareholder value, free trade, intellectual-property rights, and profit repatriation-are not understood, let alone accepted, in many parts of the world.... Business, particularly big business, will never be loved. It can, however, be more appreciated. Business leaders need to argue and demonstrate more forcefully the intellectual, social, and economic case for business in society and the massive contributions business makes to social welfare.
It is important to understand that this claim is not about a question of morality. The issue is not what companies should do ("What is the social responsibility of business?") but what they need to do to be successful in today's economy, whether their goals are purely motivated by profits or they also include references to ethical motives not captured by shareholder value. In other words, the debate is less about business ethics and more about management practice.
It is conceptually useful to first consider these issues from the point of view of a firm whose sole goal is to maximize profits because it helps to clarify whether and to what extent CSR is indeed a successful strategy (for example, Vogel, 2005). (We will discuss the case of morally motivated managers and owners later in this chapter.) The issues are whether and when CSR improves performance of a business unit, which companies should adopt it, and how CSR strategies should be implemented. From this perspective, the issue of whether a company should engage in CSR activities is not fundamentally different from whether it should pursue a high-quality or a low-cost strategy. It also suggests that we should expect significant variation in the patterns of CSR activities and when CSR activities lead to better business performance.
CSR as a Strategy
Perhaps the most basic question about CSR as a strategy is whether the strategy works. In the management literature, this question has been expressed as whether it "pays to be green" or whether companies are "doing well by doing good" (for example, Dowell, Hart, and Yeung, 2000; Fisman, Heal, and Nair, 2006; Heal, 2005; Porter and van der Linde, 1995). The existing literature on this topic is empirically motivated. It tries to establish whether firms that engage in CSR activities exhibit better financial performance than companies that do not. There is much debate among management scholars about this issue, but the evidence for a positive association between CSR and financial performance is at best mixed. Some studies find a small positive effect, others find no effect, and yet others find a negative effect (for example, Dowell, Hart, and Yeung, 2000; Margolis and Walsh, 2003; Vogel, 2005). In addition, there are serious problems measuring CSR (what exactly counts as CSR activities?) and questions about the direction of causation (are firms more profitable because they engage in CSR, or can they afford to engage in CSR because they are more profitable?).
Irrespective of the validity of the existing findings, from a strategy perspective this line of research is not very fruitful, since (as would be the case with any other business strategy) we would expect the effect of CSR activities to heavily depend on the market or the product. Recall that the existing literature has tried to establish whether on average socially responsible companies do better. But markets are frequently characterized by product differentiation. Some firms in an industry may rely on a high-quality/high-price strategy, others on a low-quality/low-price strategy. In many markets, ranging from consumer goods to financial services or retail, such differentiated markets are highly stable. However, were we to ask whether on average high quality pays off, we may find no relationship whatsoever. Both Tiffany and Wal-Mart may be highly profitable in their respective retailing segment, one adopting a high-quality/high-cost strategy, the other a low-quality/low-cost strategy. Similarly, in a market that is differentiated by CSR activities, it is entirely possible that both the socially responsible and the "regular" firms can be profitable. In other words, there may an "ecological niche" for socially responsible firms and another one for companies that do not care at all for CSR (Vogel, 2005). Empirical studies that correlate social and financial performance are only useful if they can address the question of why and under what circumstances firms can benefit from adopting socially responsible business practices.
Proponents of the business case for CSR have pointed to various benefits of CSR activities, of which the following is a partial list (see, for example, Heal, 2005):
1. Reducing costs and waste
2. Accelerating product innovation
3. Creating and improving brand equity
4. Lowering the cost of capital
5. Improving employee productivity and attracting or retaining talented employees
6. Reducing various forms of risk (legal, regulatory, political, reputational)
7. Improving relationships with political and regulatory entities
It is important to understand that the listed motivations operating suggest conceptually different justifications for CSR. The proposed rationales 1 and 2, for example, are purely operational, not strategic. They use CSR (especially environmental CSR) as a heuristic to improve process performance. A well-known example is BP's adoption of a firmwide cap on greenhouse emissions combined with corporate emissions trading system (Reinhardt, 2000). That decision led to great success. Not only were emissions reduced significantly, but, according to BP, the trading system increased net income by more than US$600 million. A similar example is Dow Chemical's decision to adopt aggressive pollution controls, which led to the capture of tens of millions of dollars' worth of valuable solvents (Heal 2000, 2005). Both cases are straightforward examples of increased operational efficiency. Both Dow and BP had hidden sources of cost efficiencies, unbeknownst to management. For example, BP was flaring natural gas from some of its wells. But these costs were difficult to identify. They did not show up as cash costs on a balance sheet but constituted hidden opportunity costs. Simply polluting the environment, somewhat surprisingly, turned out not to be the least expensive way for the companies to dispose of their waste. CSR played the role of a heuristic that made it more likely for management to identify such cost savings. The same argument (or its mirror image) holds in the context of innovation, item 2 in the previous list. Here the argument is that a focus on sustainability and environmental responsibility will lead to faster rates of innovation in high-impact technologies. GE's Ecoimagination initiative is one of the better-known examples of this approach. CSR again serves as a heuristic, now with a focus on the innovation process.
Both rationales should be utterly uncontroversial. They should be adopted by any company interested in improving its operations. To put it differently, even if ExxonMobil fundamentally disagrees with BP about the fact or the causes of climate change, imitating BP's trading scheme would be advisable, provided the system indeed leads to the stated cost savings. What may vary across companies are the extent to which such heuristics are fruitful and which CSR domain will be most important. For example, a focus on environmental CSR may be a very useful heuristic in the energy sector or the chemical industry but much less important for software companies. On the other hand, a focus on improving access to health care may spur innovation in the medical-device industry but may be of no importance to the financial service sector. The bottom line is that whether and to what extent CSR can serve as an operational heuristic is largely an empirical question and will vary widely from market to market and firm to firm. Unfortunately, we lack empirical studies that would allow us to assess or measure the operational impact of CSR for a large set of companies.
The remaining five proposed benefits (items 3 through 7) have an entirely different rationale. They are based on the belief that adopting CSR will improve a company's competitive advantage in the marketplace. While the focus of competition may vary-the competition may be over customers, talent, or capital-these five benefits all suggest that companies are well advised to consider CSR as a significant component of their business strategy. In contrast to the operational benefits discussed above, this strategic approach is based on the fundamental premise that some significant segment of the actors in the company's business environment care about values other than their own monetary gain. In other words, CSR strategies presuppose the existence of moral agents whose concerns are not addressed by shareholder value maximization and who are willing and able to act on these motivations. These agents may be part of the value chain (customers, employees, investors) or external stakeholders (NGOs, journalists, politicians, and so on). In the first case, CSR is intended to satisfy a (latent?) "demand for virtue" (Vogel, 2005). It provides value to the "moral self" of customers, employees, and investors and therefore would make a company more competitive in the market for customers, talent, and capital. CSR therefore is frequently thought of as a benefit-focused, competitive strategy. That is, it provides a company with a competitive advantage that is based on providing higher value to customers, in contrast to providing lower costs to the company or lower prices to customers. Note that this approach is conceptually distinct from the operational rationale discussed previously. The demand-for-virtue rationale only works if there are agents who care about something other than personal income or profit, whereas the operational rationale does not depend on such a premise. It works even if the world were solely populated by actors straight out of an economics textbook.
Viewed from this perspective, CSR works in the same way as a strategy that focuses on providing customers with high quality. This strategy makes sense if there is a customer segment willing to pay sufficiently more for a high-quality product to more than compensate the company for the higher cost of providing it. There are many successful examples for such strategies, frequently in small companies created by visionary entrepreneurs. Well-known examples are Ben & Jerry's, Patagonia, Seventh Generation, the Body Shop, Whole Foods, and the British retailer Green & Black's. What is striking about this list of companies is that such firms largely provide high-end products to niche markets of well-to-do customers (Vogel, 2005). It is much less clear whether these strategies can be extended to large multinational companies, especially if these companies offer a wide range of products. This is one reason why experiments such as BP's Beyond Petroleum campaign or Toyota's success with the Prius are particularly interesting. To assess the prospects for such strategies, in general we need to understand their logic in more detail.
Satisfying the Demand for Virtue
Let us first consider competition for customers. This is best considered in the context of socially responsible brands. Socially responsible brands are based on the idea that customers prefer to buy their products from companies that abide by certain moral rules or principles. This may result in a higher willingness to pay or in a larger market share. In other words, socially responsible brands allow customers to express a demand for virtue. The existence of such a demand, however, is not enough for a sustainable business model. Companies must also be able to capture this value by building sustainable competitive advantages.
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Managing flood risk – Council consultation
|March 2, 2015
|Filled under Bilton, Community, Consultation, Debate, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Environment Agency, Yorkshire Water
EAST RIDING of Yorkshire Council has launched a consultation on plans for managing flood risk in the area over the coming years. The 2007 floods were the catalyst for new laws giving councils powers and responsibilities to reduce local flood risk. And since 2007, the council has built various flood defence schemes designed to take […] read more
Golfing comedy entertainment from BADS
|January 12, 2015
|Filled under Bilton, Community, Entertainment, Events, Theatre
GOLF is the background theme of the latest comedy production from Bilton Amateur Dramatic Society (BADS). Taking place at the BADS purpose-built theatre in Bilton for three nights at the end of January 2015, the comedy by Peter Gordon, "Par For The Course" takes place around a golf club. Captain's Day at the Seven Lakes […] read more
MP welcomes new flood defence funding for the Humber
|December 3, 2014
|Filled under Bilton, Debate, Environment Agency, Hedon, Holderness, Paull, Politics, Thorngumbald
LOCAL Member of Parliament, Graham Stuart has welcomed the announcement of £80 million Government funding to improve flood defences in the Humber region. Over the past 12 months Mr Stuart has been working alongside fellow MPs from the Humber area to lobby ministers for money to deliver the plans outlined in the Humber Flood Risk […] read more
New glass flood defence wall proposed for Paull
|November 13, 2014
|Filled under Bilton, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Environment, Environment Agency, Hedon, Hull, Paull, Thorngumbald
NEARLY A YEAR after the devastating tidal surge that affected over 1,100 properties along the Humber, East Riding of Yorkshire Council is leading a project to install innovative new flood defences in the village of Paull. Paull was one of many communities that suffered during last December 2013, when flood water came over the existing defences. […] read more
Bilton entrepreneur brings remarkable 'My Baby Can Dance' classes to Preston
|October 15, 2014
|Filled under Active Lifestyles, Bilton, Education, Events, Lesson, People, Preston, Youth Activities
LETTING TODDLERS play with parachutes does not seem a particularly good idea! But when it's done as part of a remarkable play and dance session in Preston's 'My Baby Can Dance' class, it's not only perfectly acceptable, but positively promoted! But parents needn't worry, there are no areroplanes, sky diving or free-falling involved. Instead parents […] read more
Hull Fair 2014 – Buses from ASDA Bilton
|October 2, 2014
|Filled under Bilton, EYMS, Transport
All the fun of Hull Fair – without the worries of parking! Buses run from ASDA Bilton from 5.40pm until 8.35pm, with the last buses home leaving Hull Fair at around 11pm (ask on the bus). "With a special flat fare of only £1.50 each way you'll have plenty of money left over for toffee apples, and there's no need to worry about finding somewhere safe to park your car either!" read more
Argument between councils continue as Boundary Referendum votes are cast
|September 18, 2014
|Filled under Bilton, Campaigns, Debate, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Events, Hedon, Politics, Preston
ERYC:"Hull did not consult with us about their plans which amount to a land-grab, a hostile take-over bid, and we are giving residents in the areas most likely to be affected the chance to have their say on the matter." In media interviews HULL COUNCIL leaders have consistently claimed that the East Riding Council had been invited to participate in the Commission of Inquiry. They say that it was was the East Riding Council's decision not to get involved. read more
MP's cycle ride to raise awareness of life-saving defibrillators
|September 17, 2014
|Filled under Active Lifestyles, Aldbrough, Beverley, Bilton, Burstwick, Burton Pidsea, Campaigns, Community, Elstronwick, Events, HealthWatch, Hedon, Preston, Sproatley, Thorngumbald, Withernwick
GRAHAM STUART MP for Beverley and Holderness, is taking to the road on a bike ride around the constituency to promote the installation of Public Access Defibrillators across the area. The MP will be cycling for two days, beginning in Beverley and heading to North Holderness and then to villages across Mid Holderness and finally […] read more
East Riding Council leader: "Grave misgivings about Hull-centric Inquiry"
|September 10, 2014
|Filled under Bilton, Campaigns, Consultation, Debate, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Hedon, Hull, Politics, Preston
LEADER of East Riding of Yorkshire Council Councillor Stephen Parnaby has questioned the independence of Hull City Council's Commission of Inquiry into boundaries between Hull and the East Riding. He also suggests that Hull City Council has wider ambitions to lead a Combined Authority in the Humber region. Note: The war of words between the […] read more
"It's a NO NO" say 'Hands Off!' campaigners
|August 19, 2014
|Filled under Bilton, Campaigns, Debate, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hedon, Parish Councils, Preston
"It's a NO NO!" was the battle cry at the launch of the "Hands Off the East Riding" campaign last night (Monday 18th August 2014) at Hessle Town Hall. The slogan refers to the two questions being asked in the East Riding Council's Boundary Referendum next month and urges affected residents to vote decisively against […] read more
Hands Off Campaign Launch
|August 18, 2014
|Filled under Bilton, Campaigns, Debate, East Riding of Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Events, Hedon, Holderness, Hull, Politics, Preston
TODAY (Monday 18th August 2014) sees the official launch of the 'Hands-Off the East Riding' Campaign, led by Hedon's 668th Mayor, Councillor John Dennis, with the backing of dozens of concerned residents of the communities potentially threatened by Hull's boundary expansion plans. read more
"Not a 'land grab' or attempt to build on green space" says Hull Council Leader
|August 13, 2014
|Filled under Bilton, Debate, East Riding of Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Hedon, Hull, Local Government, Preston
COUNCILLOR STEPHEN BRADY the Leader of Hull City Council has contacted every single member of staff in the authority via a global email to redress what he sees as "misleading or inaccurate" media coverage about the Commission of Inquiry set up to look at Hull's boundary and the referendum organised by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council. In […] read more
Hull's expansionist "take-over bid" lambasted by East Riding Council Leader
|July 30, 2014
|Filled under Bilton, Campaigns, Consultation, Debate, East Riding of Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Events, Hedon, Holderness, Hull, Preston
COUNCILLOR STEPHEN PARNABY, the leader of East Riding of Yorkshire Council in an extraordinarily frank press release, has criticised the expansion ambitions of Hull City Council and has also lambasted politicians from that city for what he calls "their clap-trap comparisons" of the two neighbouring authorities. Councillor Parnaby will address a full meeting of East Riding of […] read more
Boundary Referendum information for Voluntary and Community Groups
|July 29, 2014
|Filled under Bilton, Campaigns, Community, Consultation, Debate, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Events, Hedon, Hull, Local Government, Politics, Preston
VOLUNTARY SECTOR groups have been issued information, circulated by the Humber and Wolds Rural Community Council on behalf of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, about the forthcoming Boundary Referendum in September 2014. A Commission of Inquiry contracted by Hull City Council will carry out a study into the effects that Hull's current boundaries has on […] read more