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Hi, At some point in the next couple of hours, I will upload a book called (I think but I may be leaving out a word or two) "Building Powerful Web SitesWith Drupal 6" by a bunch of authors. I had expected to post it over a weekago but the refinement process in OP 15 took my lovely sighted wife Susanfar longer than we had guessed. The book has a ton of screen shots which we eliminated, tables (which we had to tell OP to recognize as such and littleicon like thingies in the margins similar to those that occupy too muchspace in the "for dummies" series. I'm sure it can still use some work butit can definitely be used with the Drupal software very well now. So, are there any other geeks out here who would like to suggest a next project for us. We enjoy reading (and therefore working on) books about computing technologies, artificial intelligence, linguistics ( but not foreign languages), real science (no bigfoot, UFO or cold fusion theories)other kinds of cutting edge technology (but nothing too difficult in biologyor chemistry as that would make my brain hurt), semantics, the history of science, biographies of scientists and mathematicians and other materialthat falls into this general category which you can probably divine from thelist. We are not simply geeks. Before I joined Henter-Joyce, now FS, I enrolledin the Harvard College graduate school to study English/Creative writing andI really enjoy "serious" fiction and creative non-fiction (Faulkner, Hemmingway, Toni Morrison, Capote, Hunter Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, VS Naipaul, Marianne Wiggins, E. L. Doctorow, Jamaica Kincaid, Margaret Atwood, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Hemmingway, Steinbeck, Eudora Welty, MFK Fisher etc.).I will probably reject suggestions for books that I've read recently as the refinement process will be a bit boring and boredom (for me at least) leadsto long delays and poor work. Obviously, I do not want to duplicate anyeffort so please check if any suggestion is in the catalogue or in process.We hope to go to the used book store this after lunch so please send in ideas as soon as you can. I'd like to buy a stack of books and get the scanning done and work on the refinements as we proceed forward. If any of you want to learn how to make really cool and accessible web sites, I highly recommend this book about Drupal as it is an excellent content management system (CMS) with 508 approved themes included. Enjoy, cdh To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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We have a daughter who would love to attend a Catholic college this fall, but she would graduate with $40,000 in debt. She has also been accepted to state universities. I feel torn between a Catholic higher education and her not incurring debt. Any suggestions?
I can personally relate to your concern. With the oldest of seven children just into her college years, my family faces the same question. I recently took a call from a woman on a Catholic radio program. Her daughter had been accepted to a prestigious music college. She wanted to pursue her dream of becoming a professional musician. While the college would provide a small scholarship, the cost was still going to run $37,000 per year. The family had not saved for this, they were already stretched financially, and none of the grandparents were in a position to help.
I expressed concern that the daughter would leave school with $150,000 in debt and without the earning capacity needed to pay it off. I could sense the disappointment on the other end of the line as we wrapped up the discussion.
As a parent, I have a desire to see my children benefit from both a formative Catholic education and one that prepares them for their career calling. But I'm also concerned that today's parents and students are too easily accepting more debt than they should as part of the financing package — especially when it comes to a degree that doesn't point to an adequate income to pay off the debts incurred.
Let's face it. Handling $100,000 or more in student loans is very different for an M.D. than it is for a teacher at a Catholic school. While there are certainly no guarantees that the doctor's career plans will work out, one can make reasonable assumptions. It is pretty clear that a teacher at a Catholic school will have a limited income even if highly successful. Those heavy debts will become an incredible burden, especially when the graduate starts a family.
I'm a big believer in a multi-prong strategy when it comes to paying for college. This includes the parents saving ahead of time and using current resources to the extent reasonable. In addition, the student should participate in work study and summer work as appropriate. Taking advantage of scholarships is certainly key. Don't lock into one school too soon. Schools offer dramatically different scholarship funds, depending on their particular recruiting goals. Also remember that grandparents often provide additional support if they have the means.
When the graduate's income is expected to be limited, I would look for a plan that can repay the debt within five years of graduation. That may mean some pretty radical lifestyle decisions immediately after college to keep expenses low so that the debts can be repaid quickly. My sense is that student debt in the range of $15,000-$20,000 is reasonable in such a situation. With an educational plan where a higher income can at least be anticipated, additional debt is highly likely and is probably reasonable. By following such an approach, the debt burden of college can be reasonably limited. God love you!
Phil Lenahan is President of Veritas Financial Ministries (VeritasFinancialMinistries.com).

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The Stables and Poultry House Gardens of Claverack-Keewaydin is on Perri Pelz and Eric Ruttenberg's 1892 estate.
The Stables Gardens contains 10 acres of lush greens and blooms.
The Sand Trap garden's owners imported outdoor sculptures from their New Jersey home.
Maria and Bruce Bockmann's garden, Four Fountains
Four Fountains features a cutting garden filled with blooms from May to October.
Can you imagine a nicer way to spend a Saturday than visiting gardens and saving animals all at once? Animal Rescue Fund (ARF) of the Hamptons held its annual self-guided "A Peek Behind the Hedges" tour on June 16 in Southampton. More than 300 people participated, and nearly $90,000 was raised to benefit Long Island's leading animal welfare organization. Each year ARF provides more than 800 cats and dogs with food, veterinary care, spaying, neutering, and a safe, loving place to stay at its state-of-the-art Adoption Center. ARF also finds pets loving homes and offers community outreach and humane education.
In its 26th year, the tour featured five gardens, as well as a stop at the Rogers Memorial Library Rose Garden, a creation of the Southampton Rose Society and the area's only public rose garden. Dedicated in 2003, the garden features 38 varieties of modern hybrid tea roses planted around its perimeters and carefully labeled for novice rosarians. Arbors are covered with six varieties of climbers, and David Austin shrub roses burst with fragrant blooms. English boxwood defines the beds, and more than 360 specimens offer brilliant color and shade.
Moving on to the private properties on the tour, the Stables and Poultry House Gardens of Claverack-Keewaydin of Perri Pelz and Eric Ruttenberg's 1892 estate has been redesigned and updated. The owners began purchasing parcels of land in 1992, and they now own most of the property, except the main house and its immediate grounds, which originally included Victorian plantings designed by landscape design firm Olmsted Brothers, comprised of Frederick Law Olmsted's sons, John and Frederick Jr.
To create a pastoral setting, landscape architect Jack deLashmet, along with Kim Lipkin of Avant Gardens, worked around the buildings from the original 30-acre site, designing six gardens, including cutting and vegetable gardens; a "grandmother's garden," an interior garden space; and a meadow. A pond garden takes advantage of existing trees, many relocated by arborist Ray Smith. A tennis court is surrounded by evergreens, lily pads dot the pond, and a bank of hydrangeas provides a flowering backdrop for the swimming pool. Large sweeping beds of perennials, filled with nepeta and lilies, sit beside meadows with mowed paths. Astilbe, alliums, and dusty miller vie for attention, while hosta and ferns line a shade garden.
Redcraft, the four-acre garden of Michael Raynes, some parts originally designed by Deborah Nevins, now has been rethought by landscape architect Perry Guillot. The greatest challenge was "editing the overgrowth of existing vegetation in a way that opened up the house on all four sides to the new garden experience," he says. The solution was designing a new driveway and parking court to better suit the 19th-century house. The estate incorporates hedges of copper beech and yew that create a walled flower garden, and mounds of boxwood offer an evergreen anchor to the house's four sides. While parklike areas of the property remain spare on blossoms, according to Guillot, "much was done to punch up the color variety in the new flower gardens." Perhaps the most spectacular feature of the site, specimen shade trees "form the backdrop of the entire property," Guillot notes, adding, "A century-old allée of chestnut trees along the east border is like no other in the village of Southampton."
A visit to Four Fountains, the legendary 6.7-acre gardens of Maria and Bruce Bockmann, reveals creations in the flavor of mid-20th-century landscape and interior designer Russell Page, who is believed to have worked directly on the gardens, and Australian garden designer Paul Bangay. "The greatest challenge was marrying the original language, [likely] designed by the great Russell Page, with the new areas, [as] I wanted to honor the integrity he had created," Bangay says. "History was respected by using plants that belonged to the original design scheme and continuing the formality of the garden into the new areas. Sight lines were maintained to allow flow from new to old areas of the garden." A majestic circular front courtyard, defined with boxwood, welcomes visitors. A breathtaking cutting garden filled with blooms from May through October, a greenhouse, large wooded pond, reflecting pool, pear tree allée, and Italianate garden just off the pool terrace are united by an expansive lawn connecting to the house, which was built as a personal theater in the early 1930s. Specimen trees, rhododendrons, lavender, peonies, white birch, and roses gracefully occupy this elegantly designed garden.
Sand Trap offered a bold contrast to the other properties, as a newly built, modern, oceanfront home designed by Southampton architect Mark Matthews. In 2007 its owners imported outdoor sculptures from their New Jersey home and sought landscaping to complement the art and the stunning sea views. Palm Beach's Mario Nievera was responsible for garden design and plant material that could withstand deer and wind. The vast size and bright colors of the sculptures by Tom Sachs and Joel Shapiro required Nievera to creatively select plant combinations that would work in harmony; he opted for blue, white, and purple blooms to complement the strong oranges of the main sculpture, and yellow and dark green florals to work with the rustcolored sculptures. "I saw the gardens as waves and patterns that flowed horizontally with the topography," Nievera notes. "Sculptural evergreen pines provide vertical interest and give scale to the adjacent sculptures. Textures and colors are carefully arranged so that the waves are distinctive all summer long." The meticulous pruning of the winterberry ilex make them appear as clouds and lend a sense of organization to the garden that is overseen by Herman Garcia.
The garden of Christy and Clifford Brechner is set on a narrow lot of about an acre on a village street that dates back 360 years. Joseph W. Tyree designed a lush yet linear garden emphasizing the property's length. He creates a dramatic vista by working with a simple selection of plant materials, including Natchez crape myrtle, western arborvitae, privet, boxwood, white-blooming pee gee hydrangeas, and Mathilda gutges. Terracing unites the house with the pool house, proving that good lines and fine bones define a sophisticated garden.
These stunning properties featured on the tour are selected by the Garden Tour Committee—a group of knowledgeable landscape designers, gardeners, and garden fanciers—and the sites move to a different Hamptons town each year.
"Each village is blessed with an extraordinary diversity of gardens," says Sara Davison, ARF executive director. "It is an extremely successful event because people love to see elaborate gardens. Many on the tour are serious gardeners, and some are just dreamers."
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Meal a real Christmas treat
From left, Peter McNabb, Terry Mears, Rev. Terry Bennett, Bev Patterson, Ted Patterson, Matt Thrift and Randy Ducker enjoy Christmas dinner at St. James' Anglican Church Tuesday afternoon.
Jodi Cox cooked her first turkey this Christmas — for a group of strangers.
"I just felt like I could do something," Cox said Christmas morning at St. James' Anglican Church, where more than 150 people gathered for a holiday meal.
"To be here and actually share Christmas Day with a bunch of people you don't know, it just makes Christmas more Christmasy."
Cox, who attended for the first time with her parents, was one of 45 volunteers who contributed to the preparation and serving of the church's annual noontime feast, which this year consisted of 16 turkeys, 70 pounds of potatoes, 65 pounds of carrots, dressing, green peas, gravy and pie with ice cream for dessert.
"It's one of the rare days you can have so many different people from different walks of life and everybody's treated as equals," said Cox, who was "amazed" by the number of people who came out.
"Normally, we would be having Christmas dinner at home, but our son had to work today," explained her mother Mae, a parishioner at St. James'.
They changed their plans to have it Boxing Day instead so he could be there.
"This is a different Christmas, but it's one in a lot of way, I've wanted to do for a long time," she said.
The family sat with a handful of former residents from Couchiching Jubilee House, where Mae volunteers.
After she finished her own meal, she dropped off takeout to those who couldn't make it.
There are some who are so financially strapped they wouldn't be able to have a Christmas dinner otherwise, said Rev. Terry Bennett.
"By the time they pay their rent, heating and lighting, they have $150 to live on," he said, adding even if they could afford to buy a turkey or ham, they might not have an oven to prepare it in.
Bennett brought the idea of Christmas Day dinner with him to St. James' when he arrived eight years ago.
"If you're by yourself, it can be a very quiet, lonely time," he said, noting there aren't many people out and about.
The dinner was a hit from the get-go.
"People wanted to put meaning back into Christmas," said Bennett, who has seen more volunteers than he knew what to do with in years gone by.
Bennett, whose father missed four Christmases fighting overseas during the Second World War, has long advocated people spending the holiday with those they love and care about.
He knows, for the most part, everybody who attended the dinner and considers them friends.
"The gifts don't make the difference, but the people do," he said.


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Subject: Re: [DNA] Haplotype "Q" in Shetland Islands
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Re. Asian markers in Norway and from there to the Shetlands. The markers
could have come overland to Norway from the east too, like the other
Asian markers found in the other test could have gotten into the
European population ... via the numerous migrations/invasions and gene
flow due to trade and travel over time from Asian tribes from the east.
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> But how did an East Asian haplotype find its was to Norway considering that it is not (as I recall) seen in any samples of the surrounding countries. I have entertained the possibility that a group of Greenland Inuit were blown off course 2000 years ago - but what will be needed here is a SNP test since the samples were not broken into Q versus Q3 (which charactieizes Native American haplotypes). Since there are Greenland Inuit samples in the database, and no mathes emerged, it does seem unlikely, but there could be a founder effect here so who knows. Fascinating though, and will need to be intensely investigated.
> Dr. David K. Faux, P.O. Box 192, Seal Beach, CA, 90740, USA
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First I want to thank everyone for your patience with some of the hiccups the blog had this month. I was transitioning everything from one web host to another. I'm happy with the move but of course there were a couple of days of downtime in the process and it's so great to have readers who hang in there with me through that. Now for the roundup … here is everything that happened on the blog in September in case you missed it!
Crochet Ideas and Inspiration Posts
These roundup posts were designed to inspire; I hope they did!
20 Wonderful Male Crochet Designers and Artists
11 Cutest Ever Crochet Rompers
Guest post from Fresh Stitches about Craft School Saturday
Crochet Art and Artists
Etsy's Wire Crochet Artist YooLa
Transformative Crochet Artist Mary Tuma
Surprising Crochet Art from Industrial Designer Alessandro Zambelli
Exhibit: The Mysterious Content of Softness
Possible New Book about Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reefs
Crochet Designers
I did a post with advice for a budding crochet designer. I also looked at some crochet designers' work:
Learn Bruges Lace by Ellen Gormley
1970s Crochet Designer Mark Dittrick
Nicki Hitz Edson, then and now
Crochet Patterns
15 Beautiful Free Crochet Dress Patterns
15 Beautiful Crochet Dress Patterns to Buy Online
Crochet Fashion
I did the monthly celebrity crochet roundup this morning. September's other crochet in fashion included:
Martin Margiela Designer Crochet
Crochet and Health
I'm continuing to share posts about crochet and health as well as news about my book Crochet Saved My Life:
Mother Stress-Relieves with Crochet
4 Reasons Crochet Helped One Person with OCD
5 Reasons Crochet is a Great Craft for Hospitals
3 Women Improve Their Lives with Crochet
Pain of Neurological Failure Reduced with Crochet
3 Ways Crochet Improves Our Modern Lives
If Only Doctors Prescribed Crochet
Social Worker Takes Interest in Crochet Saved My Life
Crochet Eases Tears in Difficult Time
General Crochet News
Irish Crochet Featured in Museum
CLF at Reno Knit and Crochet Convention
My Crochet
I tried to crochet with Mizuhiki paper cords
I did a roundup of ten of my favorite crochet blogs
I shared the links to sign up for my two different newsletters
Off-the-Blog News
Crochet Concupiscence and my book Crochet Saved My Life both got some great off-blog attention this month as well. Here are some of those links:
Fresh Stitches Did a Terrific Review
Interview with Seven Alive or read an excerpt
GoCrochet Reviews Crochet Saved My Life
Fiber Fashionista Interview on Jordana Paige
Knit Edge Featured My Crochet Article
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Tax Implications of an Investment Propertyby Debbie Donner ; Updated April 19, 2017
The tax implications of an investment property can be intimidating to a new landlord. It is helpful to know what income must be reported to the IRS, what is taxable, and the deductions you are entitled to as a rental property owner. According to the IRS, you must include all money you receive for rent as part of your gross income for the year.
Rental Income
The IRS classifies rental income as "any payment you receive for the use or occupation of property." Even if you are paid advance rent prior to the time period it covers, you must report the income in the year it is received. If the tenant pays for any expenses for the property, such as repairs or replacement of an appliance, you must count it as rental income received. However, a security deposit is not included in your total income. If you keep a portion for repairs, cleaning, painting and so forth, you will report the amount kept as income for that year.
Deductible Expenses
There are deductible expenses that can lessen the tax implications of an investment property, and reduce the amount of rental income on which you are required to pay taxes. In general, the costs you incur to prepare the investment property for tenants, manage the property and maintain it, are deductible expenses, even during periods of vacancy. Ordinary and necessary expenses include repairs, pest control, utilities, maintenance, depreciation, management fees, mortgage loan interest, property taxes and supplies.
Selling Investment Property
Whether you sell a property that is your primary residence or an investment property, you need to know the basis of the property for tax purposes. Typically, the basis of a home is the price you paid for it, in addition to the cost of all capital improvements made to the home while you owned it. For an investment property, you are claiming capital improvements on your tax return, along with depreciation costs. The tax implications of selling an investment property start with a reduction in the basis for your home for the amount of total depreciation you claimed on all previous tax returns. If you have rented the property for a significant time period, or it has appreciated in value, a reduction in the basis could substantially lower your profits from the sale of the property.
Foreign Investment Property
If you own investment property in another country, you are still required to report your worldwide income on your personal income tax returns. Your rental income is reported at the current exchange rate, as are deductible expenses. You are still permitted to take all the ordinary and necessary expenses of managing and maintaining the property, including depreciation. The tax implications of a foreign investment property mean you may be paying income taxes in the country where the property is located as well. However, you can claim the foreign income taxes as a deduction or a credit against your income tax liability in the U.S.
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A long-awaited bridge is about to open up for Miami-Dade drivers. The brand new two-lane connector will ease traffic on 836 eastbound to 826 northbound.
The bridge is expected to open by 5 a.m. Friday. Drivers will exit about a mile earlier than the old ramp on 836 to get to 826.
"It's a high capacity flyover," explained Oscar Gonzalez, a spokesman with the Florida Department of Transportation.
Drivers watched its piece-by-piece construction for the past nine months. The flyover is the first of four that will connect drivers on the interchange between the Dolphin and Palmetto expressways.
The connector is part of a project that includes 45 bridges, and began in November 2009. It's expected to be complete by fall 2015.
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Orange march in north Belfast passes peacefully
Hopes rise for a quieter summer after trouble-free Tour of the North
Signs for a peaceful marching season looked positive last night after a contentious parade in north Belfast passed off without incident.
The Tour of the North has in the past been marred with violent clashes between nationalist protesters and unionist band members and supporters.
Last night a heavy police presence enforced determinations issued by the Parades Commission.
Branches of the loyal orders gathered at Carlisle Circus before passing through Donegall Street and continuing their route.
Pockets of nationalist residents lined the route in protest over previous breaches of Parades Commission rulings.
A second residents' protest was held in the Duncairn Gardens area.
The commission last week ruled that the Ballysillan Orange Lodge was not allowed to parade along Woodvale Road and Crumlin Road between Woodvale Parade and Hesketh Road on the return route – the same route the Orange Order was stopped from returning along during last year's 12th of July parade.
Supporters were restricted from accompanying the parade as they passed St Patrick's Catholic Church on Donegall Street, and most bands heeded the ruling, which said they must only play a single drumbeat.
A restricted number of residents held a banner outside the church, which remained closed throughout the parade, reading 'Respect St Patrick's Church'. Speaking after the parade passed, North Belfast MLA Caral Ni Chuilin called for dialogue and resolution.
"There were a few breaches of the determination, which was regrettable," she said.
"We are in the marching season proper now and what we need rather than statements being made by political unionism about what is needed for the summer, is a call for dialogue and a call for resolution.
"The concern is there seems to be more parades than less, and I think we all need to use our leadership in a very positive way and try and get a positive resolution to this. This isn't what we need, we need regeneration, we need jobs, proper education and health.
"We need investment, and the money that is being spent on policing these parades is ridiculous."
Last year, a number of arrests were made during and after the parade, while there was also a controversial incident when Sinn Fein Assembly Member Gerry Kelly was driven a short distance while clinging to a police Land Rover.
Before this year's parade unionist and loyalist leaders met the Parades Comission, while First Minister Peter Robinson urged residents and marchers to "keep cool".
He added: "We look for people to keep cool in these circumstances to ensure that the traditions that are part of our culture are not tainted by violence. Of course people will be unhappy with some of the decisions of the Parades Commission, but I hope that the Orangemen have an enjoyable evening and that it is a peaceful occasion."
PSNI chief superindent Nigel Grimshaw said after last night's parade ended peacefully: "I am encouraged by the dignified and responsible way those involved in the parade and performing their protests behaved, and appreciate the efforts of all those involved in ensuring that this was the case.
"Moving forward, I would encourage everyone to work together to ensure that the remainder of the summer is peaceful and that local communities are not disrupted by violence that has occured in recent years."
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The future looks bright for the Senators.
While it might be tough for fans, director of player personnel Pierre Dorion returned from Sweden, where he got a chance to catch up with top prospects David Rundblad and Jakob Silfverbeg.
And after getting a look at what the Senators have coming down the road, Dorion was raving about the progress of both prospects, with a promise that Rundblad will play here next year.
Acquired from St. Louis for the No. 16 pick in last years draft, Rundblad, 20, who is playing for Skelleftea HC, is not only the best player on his team, he could be the top blueliner in Sweden.
Dorion said the plan is to have Rundblad, who was already signed to a deal by the Blues before being dealt here, in the NHL next year as long as he follows the off-season training Ottawa has set for him.
He was outstanding. Hes an offensive-type defenceman who can move the puck and pass it really well. On top of that, hes shown great improvement in his defensive play, said Dorion.
We feel that hes going to be a good player for us in the very near future.
If he gets stronger, hell definitely have an impact and hell be somebody our fans will be excited to see next year.
Rundblad has 10 goals and 31 assists in 49 games this season with Skelleftea and is averaging 25-30 minutes a night. The rigours of the NHL arent easy, but the Senators believe he can handle the pace.
Its a pretty high-paced league and with a big summer, I dont think it will be an issue, said Dorion. We feel as a 20-year-old, what hes doing in the Swedish Elite League as the first player to ever to get to 40 points that young, I wouldnt worry about the level of play there compared to the level of play here.
Therell be an adjustment, but hell have an impact.
Winger Silfverberg, 20, a second-round selection of the Senators in the 2009 draft, has 15 goals and 14 assists, playing alongside former Senators winger Andreas Dackell with Brynas IF Gavle.
Hes responsible away from the puck and hes probably got one of the best shots on the team, said Dorion. Weve got a good player there who we hope to sign. We hope he comes over and contributes. With Jakob Silfverberg, we have an NHL player. Down the road well be very comfortable with saying this guy will be a second- or third-line player or maybe even more.
Dorion, who also caught a glimpse of draft prospect Adam Larsson in Skelleftea, was pleased GM Bryan Murray was able to get a second No. 1 pick from Nashville in the deal for centre Mike Fisher.
Were ecstatic to have two picks in this draft. Its a really quality draft, said Dorion. Having two first-rounders and having two second-rounders, you dont want to be arrogant, but I feel were going to get four quality assets for this organization.
The guy were taking with our first pick: We hope, no, not hope, he will contribute next year. This years draft is much deeper than last years draft.


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Bernie Ecclestone backs Mercedes shakeup
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Asked about the shakeup, Ecclestone - holidaying in Kitzbuhel, Austria - told Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper: "I hope it means that Mercedes is much stronger. I trust that the new team leaders Niki Lauda and Toto Wolff ... it's new people with new ideas. Mercedes has the best engine, strong drivers, enough budget -- I would be disappointed if they are not at the front," the 82-year-old added. (GMM)
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A bris in San Francisco is celebrated by family members in May 2011.
In the wake of the ruling by a regional court in Germany banning circumcision on children too young to consent to the procedure, Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles penned the following poem about a decision that some are calling a "frontal attack on Jewish life in Europe." Those who support the ban agree with the court's assertion that the "fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity outweighed the fundamental rights of the parents." The World Health Organization is among groups supporting the practice of circumcision for health reasons.
Writes Wolpe:
In Germany there is a move
To outlaw circumcision.
I take to verse to summarize
This outrage with concision.
The WHO recommends
That no male miss a bris
The snip that saves, WHO raves
Does not diminish bliss.
Far from disfigurement, it is
A sacred, ancient rite.
A covenant crossing untold ages
Father Abraham's requite.
And yet, today, in Germany
–the ironies abound–
This Jewish practice meets a sanction
Where once indeed was found
Many who were circumcised
And versed in Jewish lore.
Perhaps the Germans have forgotten
For they are there no more.
Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, David Wolpe is the author of seven books including "Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times" and his latest, "Why Faith Matters." Follow him on Facebook.


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Potpourri Op. 94 (Fantasy)
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Hummel's "Potpourri" for Viola and Orchestra op. 94 is part of every viola player's core repertoire, especially in its shortened version, the "Fantasy." Sprinkled with quotes from operas by Mozart and Rossini and framed by spirited, newly composed passages, "Potpourri" fills a gap in the small repertoire of the classical-early romantic period. Tabea Zimmermann has drawn upon her extensive experience in providing fingerings and bowings for the solo part. And it goes without saying that the "Fantasy" version can also be played using our edition.


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This long-awaited third book of the acclaimed American Patriot Series once again sweeps readers into the tumultuous world of revolution. The story resumes with Elizabeth Howard scrambling for crucial intelligence General George Washington desperately needs to stop the British from capturing New York. Elizabeth's assignment will lead her into the very maw of war at the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, where disaster threatens to end the American rebellion.
Yet all the while Elizabeth's heart is fixed on Jonathan Carleton, whose whereabouts remain unknown more than a year after he disappeared into the wilderness while on assignment for Washington. She does not know that Carleton, now the Shawnee war chief White Eagle, is caught in a bitter war of his own. As unseen forces gather to finally destroy him, he fights white settlers encroaching on Shawnee lands --- and the longing for Elizabeth that will not give him peace. Can her love bridge the miles that separate them --- and the savage bonds that threaten to tear him forever from her arms?
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Captain Dnipro Ruslan rotan shared his impressions of the defeat of his team in the match of the 16th round of the Ukrainian championship against Shakhtar (0:2).
In yesterday's match Shakhtar Donetsk through Viktor Kovalenko scored two goals in the first half, and then confidently brought it to victory. Midfielder Dnieper team believes Miners are the best team in Ukraine, and stated that such an opponent is hard to play after missing two goals.
"A team like Shakhtar, can't give two goals of handicap. The Donetsk team are able to keep the ball, they made the result and just did not give it.
This is a team of Champions League level. And today they confirm that they are the strongest team of Ukraine", – said rotan TV channel Football 1.
At the moment the miner with 44 points occupies the first place in the Premier League, ahead of coming in second place Dynamo eight points.
The same news on iSport.ua: rotan: Shakhtar is the strongest team of Ukraine
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The 2008 Cabo Verde PWA World Cup - Registration Day
The final 10 riders advancing from that competition are:
Kai Katchadourian (Quatro / Simmer)
Francisco Porcella (Mistral / Simmer)
Jean Baptiste Caste
Yann Sorlut (Simmer)
Jules Denel (Naish / Naish)
Mitu Monteiro
Diony Guadagnino (Mistral)
Francisco Fonseca (RRD / Simmer)
Dany Bruch (F2 / Gaastra)
Camille Juban (Quatro / GUN)
Once more Josh Angulo (MauiSails) sat on the rocks and saw all the key moments.
'We had an exciting day with a solid 3-foot to logo-high swell with sets sometimes even bigger firing down the reef and unwrapping really fast – so super good wave conditions for the guys basically.
The head judge ran 20-min heats to finish the 3rd round. Jules Denel and Francisco Fonseca advanced with solid performances.
The tightest heat was between hot local rider Mitu Monteiro, and Camille Juban.
They were neck and neck in the 2-wave sets and were just picking them off real well, and Mitu only just squeaked through by the narrowest margin.
Yann Sorlut had another great heat against Jake Miller (Quatro) from Maui – that was a real standout battle actually.
Then they switched to a 4-man heat setup with a longer 30-minute duration to make the most of the conditions.
Djo Silva took on Dany Bruch and you could just see Dany's winter of training in heavy waves and light winds on Tenerife paying off as he worked it hard.
Camille Juban also shone brightly in that heat with a near mast-high wave where he just went for it - he's so impressive.
Ponta Preta's beginning to fire now so I'm getting amped about the big show starting tomorrow with these worthy qualifiers and all the top seeds frothing to get things moving in some nice surf.'
Thanks again to Josh for his summary. Skippers' meeting is at 08.00 tomorrow.
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Full Comment's Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: After more than a decade of bad press over its handling of child-molesting clerics, there are signs the Roman Catholic Church has learned its lesson.
The diocese of Los Angeles obeyed a court order Thursday, publishing the personnel files of 124 pedophile priests, 12,000 pages of records stretching back decades.
The files made abundantly clear, Cardinal Roger Mahony, the former archbishop, was a major part of the pedophile problem. He quietly moved culprits to other parishes, failed to inform police and seemed more worried about matters of liturgy than the victims.
The other shoe was quick to drop. Friday Archbishop José Gomez banned Mahony and his sidekick, auxiliary bishop, Thomas Curry from acting in any public capacity for the diocese. (As a cardinal Mahony can still help elect the next pope if this event occurs before his 80th birthday.)
The move served notice — finally — that no one is above censure. It was unlike the kid glove treatment given Cardinal Bernard Law, rewarded with a plum job in Rome after a similar scandal in Boston.
In a letter that elicited nothing but contempt, Mahony attempted to slough off responsibility. "Nothing," he wrote, had prepared him to cope with such problems.
At Catholic Culture, Philip Lawler spoke for many of the faithful when he called Archbishop Gomez's move "electrifying," "exhilarating" and "above all encouraging."
For more than a decade, since the explosion of the sex-abuse crisis, American Catholic bishops have been issuing apologies, promising changes, instituting procedures—but never directly acknowledging the damage done to their credibility by their own negligence and malfeasance … The archbishop's decisive statement is encouraging in itself, but there is another reason to see it as a sign of more good things to come. It is difficult to imagine that Archbishop Gomez could have taken such a dramatic step without first consulting with Rome. So we can safely infer that Pope Benedict — who has taken a tough line on sexual abuse since the beginning of his pontificate — supported the action. We might even hope to see other bishops making similar announcements.
Writing in The Washington Post, Mathew N. Schmalz believes the most significant aspect of the Church's response is the release of internal documents.
If the release of the documents was done solely out of legal necessity, then it is difficult to see how matters will fundamentally change. To be sure, we might see further removals of bishops, but that would be largely symbolic and cosmetic. If, however, there is a new willingness on the part of the church to be fully open not just about its inner workings but about its faults-then it would definitely mark the beginning of a new and different era in American Catholicism. Transparency is not just important for preventing further abuse, or for addressing matters of liability and legal responsibility. It's also an important spiritual act that acknowledges our own humanness and our own accountability to one another.
The Los Angles Times' Steve Lopez eviscerates Mahony's contention "nothing" in his "background" had equipped him to "deal with this grave problem."
Nothing? Not common sense? Not the master's degree in social work? Not the earlier experience of the molestation scandal in Stockton, [Calif.] where Mahony was assigned before his move to Los Angeles? Do you need special training to know that the rape, abuse and psychological torture of children has to be stopped immediately? Or that your first responsibility when you hear about a child being molested isn't to protect the church's reputation, but to get help for the victims and make sure the priest is brought to justice?
The personnel files turn up many examples of Mahony's obsession with liturgical missteps, rather than pedohile priests, the LA Times' Victoria Kim, Ashley Powers and Harriet Ryan report.
The archdiocese of Los Angeles learned in the late 1970s that one of its priests had sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy so violently that he was left bleeding and "in a state of shock." The priest said he was too drunk to remember what happened and officials took no further action. But two decades later, word reached Cardinal Roger M. Mahony that the same priest was molesting again and improperly performing the sacrament of confession on his victim. The archdiocese sprang to action: It dispatched investigators, interviewed a raft of witnesses and discussed the harshest of all church penalties — not for the abuse but for the violation of church law.
Mahony's obsession with liturgical matters extended outside his diocese. At Life Site News, John Henry Westen notes,
Whereas Mahony was loathe to publicly censure predator priests, he was totally determined when it came to publicly sanctioning an American nun who was the hero of pro-life and pro-family Catholic everywhere – Eternal World Television Network founder Mother Angelica. [In his biography of Mother Angelica] EWTN host Raymond Arroyo [writes] Mahoney went ballistic after Mother criticized him on the liturgy. According to the account in the book, various high-ranking prelates testified to Mahony's seething anger with Mother Angelica over her criticism of him. He visited all the offices of the Vatican that could censure her to make his case.
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The film is largely in the hands of the late Paul Walker, who plays a father waiting in a hospital while his wife is in labor. Faced with disaster after disaster, Nolan Hayes (Walker) must figure out a way to make ends meet and save his family while the flood walls fail and water begins to pour into New Orleans. Walker does a good job with the material, capably showing audiences the frustrations of life in the hours after Katrina hit, amped up by a timeline related to a baby girl and a breathing apparatus. It's a little predictable at the end, but the terror and frustration related to the big disaster offer enough thrills to justify tuning in.
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This is a scan of a tiny one and a half inch print which comes from deep within the "Unknown" box. But we do know a little about the subject of the photograph. On the reverse is written: "Taken at Ballycastle specially for you (liar). Love from Nora" Oh Nora, I can't believe you would lie - honesty is printed on your face.
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Saturday, 15 October 2016
Fading Back Into Time
This is a scan of a negative which was acquired from the depths of an on-line auction site. The wonders of modern digital techniques allow us to scan such treasures, repair them, remove the scratches and dust spots, and sprinkle them with newness.
They retain an objective patina - the car, the clothes all speak of an age now gone - but the crisp monochrome doesn't quite fit. If it had been a print rather than a negative, it would have acquired a sepia coating that would have been as effective as a date stamp. But negatives tend not to fade in the same way; and therefore the digital tools that cleaned the negative up have to be brought into use again, to fade the print back into its' proper time.
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
A Fine Horse - A Heap Of A Fine Horse?
I like to think that this photograph was taken by Thomas Heap of Sowerby. Admittedly, it doesn't have his name on, but Thomas did advertise himself as a "portrait, landscape and equestrian photographer", and here we have a portrait of a man, set in a landscape (limited as it may be) and undoubtedly an equestrian horse. And the photograph was bought from the same stall as the one of the unknown man that clearly has his name attached to it. Whoever took the photograph and whoever the man may be - the one thing that is certain is that it is a fine horse.
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Riding The Technological Rip-Tide In A One Horse Town
Over the years, I have known a good number of people who came from Sowerby and they all shared a similar physical trait. There was a certain bluntness about their features, almost as though the natural lines of their bodies had been evened out by the relentless work of the wind and the rain blowing down from the moors. I can well believe that this chap lived in Sowerby - he has the look.
Whilst the subject of these old Carte de Visite's is always fascinating, I must confess that I am first drawn to the photographers themselves - in this case Thomas Heap of Sowerby. To understand Victorian photographers you have to understand the technological transformation which turned a pseudo-scientific experiment into a popular mass market in a few short decades.
Most Victorian photographers were not born into the business and many were not even trained in the business. They rode a technological rip-tide, seizing the opportunities presented by a rapidly emerging mass market that meant every town and city, every large village and crowded settlement, had the need of a photographic studio.
Thomas Heap was a perfect example. He was born in the nearby village of Warley in 1847, the son of a "cloth fuller". As was so often the case, that is the trade he followed his father and grandfather into, and in the 1871 and 1881 census, he is shown as working in the textile industry. By 1891 he has undergone a transformation, the hands that had previously filled and raised cloth were now soaked in developer and fixer: he had opened a photographic studio in Sowerby.
He later advertised himself as a "Portrait, Landscape and Equestrian Photographer" - just in case any of the blunt farmers of Sowerby wanted their carthorses immortalising in silver bromide salts.
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One of the study's most interesting findings is that the average retail price of a pair of glasses fluctuated over the past three years from $290.25 in 2008 to $279.84 in 2009 to $295.07 in 2010. Considering that the 2008 survey was done before the economy tanked, it's not surprising that the price plunged the following year. It's encouraging to see that prices not only bounced back in 2010, but surpassed the 2008 level. Although we are still in the grip of a recession, the fact that consumers are willing to spend more on a pair of glasses than they have in the past several years shows consumer confidence is returning and the economy is improving.
This bit of data illuminates key findings on brand and price. Eight percent of the retailers surveyed said brand is "extremely important" to them regarding their decision as to which lenses to carry; 41 percent said brand is "very important." Yet only 6 percent of ECPs believe that consumers consider brand "extremely important" to their purchase decision, and only 28 percent consider it "very important."
When it comes to price, the findings vary even more sharply. Twenty-five percent of the retailers said price is "extremely important" when considering whether to carry a product. But 46 percent believe price is "extremely important" to consumers who are considering a purchase. Interestingly, nearly all respondents said quality is an essential for both themselves and consumers.
The data suggests that although consumers are willing to spend more for eyewear, brand names alone are not enough to convince them to make a purchase. Consumers are price sensitive, but will buy a brand if it delivers quality at a fair price—in other words, if it represents a good value. Keep that point in mind the next time you re-evaluate your product mix.
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text: Scatterings Temporal Cloak Could Boost Security Over Fiber Patricia Daukantas Coauthors (left to right): Joseph M. Lukens, Andrew M. Weiner and Daniel E. Leaird. Just as metamaterials experts have been learning how to hide objects in space, other researchers are trying to conceal signals in the time domain. Several U.S. researchers have demonstrated a "temporal cloak" that works at a realistic data rate for telecommunications (Nature 498, 205). Three scientists at Purdue University (U.S.A.) built the cloak out of off-the-shelf optical components, such as phase modulators and chirped fiber Bragg gratings. The cloak is a temporal version of the so-called Talbot effect, which in the spatial domain regenerates the image of a diffraction grating at certain periodic distances from the grating. In the experiment, the team set up pairs of pulse modulators in front of and behind an intensity modulator, which sent out a sinusoidal signal representing the "event" to be cloaked. When the researchers turned on the cloak, it made "holes" in the signal that concealed the signal, similar to the way that metamaterials divert light around obstacles in order to hide them. According to lead author Joseph M. Lukens, a Purdue graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, the experimental results are getting close to the point of practical application in fields such as cybersecurity, thanks to the speed of the method and the use of widely available components. More research must be done, however, to make the cloak into a commercial product. "For example, our cloak applies to a single wavelength, whereas in the future one would like to be able to handle a fiber link that holds multiple data streams," Lukens says. "Additionally, at present the cloak does not provide a means to send the data to a second receiver while the first receiver is cloaked (it simply hides the data from one recipient). With more research, it should be possible to cloak the data stream along one channel, but then simultaneously send it faithfully to someone else along another." Publish Date: 19 June 2013


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For a judgment described as landmark by Britain's intelligence agencies it has gone remarkably unnoticed. On 25 February, the court of appeal ruled on the case of Rangzieb Ahmed, a British citizen from Rochdale, serving a life sentence after being convicted of membership of al-Qaida and directing a terrorist organisation. He claimed he was tortured in Pakistan when he was held in custody there and that the UK authorities were complicit in his treatment.
The judges – Lord Justice Hughes, Mr Justice Owen and Mrs Justice Thirlwall, rejected his claim, as the trial judge had done, that British authorities had "outsourced" his torture. They then made two key points in important passages certain to be seized on by MI5 and MI6. "Torture is wrong", they said. "If it had occurred there could be no excuse for it, not even if Rangzieb was a suspected terrorist who might kill people". They added: "But the question was not whether it is wrong, but what consequences flow from it if it occurred". They agreed that "it is not, and cannot be, the law that every act of torture has the consequence that the tortured person becomes immune from prosecution in every country and for all time, whatever crime he may commit". There must be a connection between the torture and the prosecution. The necessary connection exists where the torture has an impact on the trial, but not otherwise. "Even if there had been torture whilst Rangzieb was in Pakistan, it had no bearing on the trial," the appeal court said.
In the second key passage, the judges, referring to an earlier case (A v Home Secretary [2004] UKHL 56; [2005] 2 AC 68); "A (No 1)" stated:
"The Home Secretary is entitled to rely on material gathered from a foreign source, with which information and intelligence is shared, even if such material might be the product of torture. Likewise, the security services or the police are not required to close their eyes to information which helps to protect the public's safety [...] even if that information comes to them from a foreign source which has used torture. Moreover, if subsequently called upon to justify a person's detention or other actions to control him, the foreign material can be relied upon. What however cannot be done is to rely in court on the information to make a case against someone".
In other words, MI5 and MI6 – and the police – can use information obtained from torture for intelligence purposes, but not as court evidence. They can be in what security sources describe as "passive receipt" of information gained by torture but must not actually encourage torture.
Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, has gone further, in the sense of distancing British authorities from torture. "Torture is illegal and abhorrent under any circumstances, and we have nothing whatsoever to do with it", he said last October in the first public speech given by the chief of the secret intelligence service.
Sawers continued: "If we know or believe action by us will lead to torture taking place, we're required by UK and international law to avoid that action. And we do, even though that allows the terrorist activity to go ahead". However, reflecting closely the words of the appeal court's judgment, he added: "We also have a duty to do what we can to ensure that a partner service will respect human rights. That is not always straightforward".
Sawers went on: "Yet if we hold back, and don't pass on that intelligence, out of concern that a suspect terrorist may be badly treated, innocent lives may be lost that we could have saved. These are not abstract questions for philosophy courses or searching editorials. They are real, constant, operational dilemmas."
The judgment, and Sawers's speech, raise serious questions. Our security and intelligence agencies can easily avoid action that "will lead to torture taking place". But they can use the product of torture-induced information in a "passive" way simply by not asking how it was obtained.
This significantly narrows the definition of complicity. It encourages hypocrisy. It is a recipe for turning a blind eye to practices, including CIA "extraordinary rendition", that, if disclosed, would be condemned. And there are those, even within the intelligence agencies, who publicly condemn torture on the grounds not only that it is morally wrong, but that it is ineffective – that it merely produces whatever the victim thinks the torturer wants to hear, but not the truth.


text: Filling a gap in the textbook market, Feminism: Issues & Arguments provides an accessible and stimulating introduction to feminist philosophy that assumes no background in the subject. Drawing on both philosophical thought and up-to-date empirical research, Jennifer Mather Saul provides lucid arguments for a variety of feminist positions but avoids advocating any particular position so that students will be motivated to think critically. The chapters are organized around key topics including pornography, abortion, sexual harassment, and the politics of work and family. By focusing on real-world applications of feminist philosophy, this text brings the subject to life for students because it deals with issues that they care about. Feminism: Issues & Arguments is ideal for courses in feminism, feminist philosophy/philosophy of women, and sociology of women.


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text: Malcolm Wallace wrote: > {-# RULES > "foldr2/both" forall k z (g::forall c.(a->c->c)->c->c) > (h::forall c.(b->c->c)->c->c) . > foldr2 f z (build g) (build h) = > g (\x _-> h (\y r-> f x y r) z) z > #-} Looks wrong to me. Somehow it doesn't feel right that the first argument to g doesn't use its sencond argument and I think, what you wrote is actually foldr (f (head (build g))) z (build h) or something like that. Wasn't there some consensus that foldr/build cannot deforest both lists that go into zip? Intuitively it feels right: the "loop" that drives the calculation is contained in the build, and it cannot call out to the other generator to just get one element. Udo. -- "The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases." -- Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/libraries/attachments/20060410/1c47bade/attachment.bin


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Owen Wellman
Washington — Owen Wellman passed away Jan. 15, 2014, peacefully at home after a long illness.
Owen was born Oct. 14, 1920, at home to Catherine Fitzpatrick and Alton Wellman in Washington.
Owen enlisted in the Army at a young age to help fight for his country and was assigned to the 83rd Engineering Division during World War II. He was known to have fought in Normandy at the Battle of the Bulge. Upon returning home, he married his life-long love, Arlene Louise Noyes. They were married for 62 years until her passing in July 2013.
Owen worked various jobs until he opened his own business at the age of 65, known today as the Washington Redemption Center. IT was one of the first licensed redemption centers in the state of Maine. He retired at the age of 76 and the business is still owned and operated by his son, Ronald Wellman and his wife Jeanne.
Owen was known to be a very hard worker and had a great love for family and friends. He had the kindest heart and would help anyone in need and was a very humble man.
Owen and his wife often went on vacation once a year to his military reunions, which took him all over the country.
Owen loved to garden and set every Saturday night aside for dinner and dancing with family and friends. Owen had an infectious smile and was quick-witted in conversation and loved to make people laugh. He will be sadly missed by his family and circle of friends.
Owen is predeceased by his parents, his wife Arlene, three brothers and three sisters. He is survived by his daughter Rhonda Shantz of Tallahassee, Fla.; his son Ronald Wellman and his wife Jeanne of Washington; four grandchildren, Christopher Carroll of Florida, Heather Carroll of Midcoast Maine, Aaron Wellman and his fiance Kristi Perkins of Wiscasset, Ashley Wellman and her fiance Earl Nash of Rockport; six great-grandchildren: Dylan, Gavin, Dominic, Kiana, Raelynn and Ellahna.
Owen will be cremated per his wishes. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Miles St. Andrews Hospice. A special thank you to the hospice specialist team that took care of Owen throughout his sickness. Honorable mentions to Millie Jone Farnham, Maggie Real and Jeff Murch, who gave exceptional care in his last days.
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In the second of our series looking at the regeneration of major industrial sites in South Wales, Rhodri Evans visits Ebbw Vale, where the former steelworks site is being developed with an emphasis on sustainability
The Works timelapse video
WHEN the Ebbw Vale steelworks closed in 2002 it ripped the heart out of the area.
Not only did the works provide hundreds of much- needed jobs in Blaenau Gwent, but its 200-acre site also dominated the town built on its periphery.
The response to that closure was the redevelopment known as The Works.
This £350m public-sector driven scheme aims to transform the former steelworks site, creating more than 700 homes and generating 2,000 jobs.
The development contains a number of major public works, and while other schemes have slowed or been put on hold during the economic downturn development at the Ebbw Vale site has continued apace.
Major sections of the scheme, most notably the new Aneurin Bevan Hospital are already complete, while others are progressing strongly.
But speaking to project director Richard Crook, one thing is clear – The Works is also a test bed for the latest environmental technology. Visitors have come from as far afield as China and Austria to see what is happening on the site.
While the scheme is not huge in the scale of regeneration projects, it is unusual in a Valleys setting, and will undoubtedly prove crucial to the future prosperity of Ebbw Vale.
"It's not very often you get 200 acres of flat land in the Valleys," said Mr Crook. "While a 200-acre site in the UK isn't a big site, when you put it against the context of how big the town is, it is as big as the town.
"When you think of what to do with a site you have to be very careful. You don't want to damage the town. We have got a once in several generations opportunity to change things. We didn't want to propose anything that took away from existing regeneration initiatives, but to bring new things to the table.
"What we wanted to do was support the town centre. The activities in the plan that generate lots of footfall are close to the town. At that end of the site we have a grade II building, the general offices, which we are bringing back into use as a tourist facility. It will contain the Gwent Records Office and also house a new genealogy centre.
"The other key building is a cultural facility, an arts and culture hub."
One of the challenges the project faces is to integrate the new development with the town, which was largely divorced from the steelworks site.
Mr Crook said: "The town centre turned its back on the works. It wasn't the prettiest thing to look at so it naturally turned its back to that. Historically there was also a railway line between the town and the site. The integration between the site and the town is critically important."
There is also a 22m height difference between the town centre and the site, so a new link has been created between the two, which will bring people from the town to the area with the key public buildings on the development, including the new post-16 education Learning Zone, a £27.6m project in its own right.
Further down the site there are other facilities including an 11-to-16 school, and an energy centre for green energy with a district heating system. There is also "Basement Park", an area of former steelworks basements that will be a business area, the new hospital and an environmental resource centre which has been built using the latest passive technology to minimise its energy use.
Indeed, that particular development is at the forefront of the environmental emphasis of the scheme.
"One of the key principles we wanted to stick to was sustainability," said Mr Crook. "When we came into this the green economy was where the world was going and we said sustainability would be what this site was about. We had a vision of moving towards mixed use with zero carbon."
The implementation of that vision goes beyond the building of greener buildings to the methods that have been used as part of the transformation of the land itself.
"There was nothing green on the site when we took over," said Mr Crook. "It was covered in concrete. We have made our own soil on site.
"The only thing we have taken off the site in any scale is steel which has been sent for recycling. The waste we used to make the soil came from South Wales and we used the entire South Wales supply chain for three months."
The project director said he hopes that the scheme will show the viability of sustainable methods.
"We have always said we were going to be sustainable," he said. "We can't expect developers to act sustainably if we are not being sustainable ourselves. We made our intent very clear and said we would recycle everything on site. Where we had areas of contamination resulting from hydrocarbons we have dealt with them on site.
"We used the areas of concrete to lift it out and used bio-remediation. That bio-remediation has extended across the site. While we had a master plan we did not want to be too specific about dealing with the remediation so that we couldn't go ahead with a new idea, so we have done it all to residential standard."
However, bio-remediation, where bacteria are used to break down oil products, raised challenges of its own.
"One of the big challenges was using that method of remediation," said Mr Crook. "As the temperature changes so does the rate and when you have cold temperatures it slows down. We had to bring in cloches and heaters to blow warm air onto it. That was a real challenge.
"The other big challenge was keeping to the programme because the hospital was a potential early occupier. We had to get the area ready while dealing with the rest of the site, but everybody understood what we were doing and we were able to work around that."
Another of the challenges the project faced was convincing some in the community that the ambitious plan for the site would succeed. This was particularly important given how crucial the redevelopment will be to the whole town.
"Because we were proposing quite a bold plan clearly we got a certain degree of 'of course it will never happen'," said Mr Crook. "The only way to deal with that is to demonstrate with what you do.
"Generally there's been huge public support for the scheme."
One way in which the scheme has built links with the community was through the involvement of local schoolchildren in planting trees on the site"
"In the central valley we have planted 12,000 trees," Mr Crook said. "Of course, because we are going down the route of sustainability and native woodland, they will take time to grow. If you use a sustainable approach you may not get the results as quickly. Every school had children planting and each child has a certificate with the GPS location of their tree."
But some environmental decisions had to be more prosaic. A river flows through the site, but in 1936 it was diverted into a man-made culvert channelled underground.
The decision had to be made whether to open up the river once again, but after discussions with the site's environment group, which includes the Countryside Council for Wales and the Environment Agency, it was decided not to do so but to create a wetlands habitat that followed the course of the river instead.
With the project developing steadily, this year promises to see a number of major milestones being passed.
"The genealogy centre will be coming forward at the end of this year" Mr Crook said. "The Learning Zone will come forward into use next September. The leisure centre is started and that will come forward in phases over the next 18 months."
However, despite good progress to date, there is no set date when the project will be completed.
"There isn't a final date because the last bits would be housing, which will be largely market-driven," said Mr Crook. "In general terms I thought we would have a 10-year development cycle. We think, looking at what a large scale steelworks this was, it is coming forward at a rate of knots."
What had marked The Works out was the level of activity on site compared to other schemes across the UK, he said.
He noted that when the Olympics development was stripped out there were few other regeneration projects in a similar position.
The public sector elements of the scheme helped with this, but the focus is now turning to the private element, with house- builders being approached. "We could see that the market was going to go down so we decided to pull back and re-order some of our activities," said Mr Crook.
"In some ways we are going to use that as a benefit, because when we go out to the housing market a lot more of the site infrastructure and finish will be there so we may find we enhance our values.
"This year we are going back out and doing a housing release. We are going to release a small plot of 40, but what we have done is set an energy target we are calling 2013 standard.
"In 2013 Wales will take charge of its own building standards and we would have to build houses to those regulations. Five of that 40 we hope will be passive houses and reach those standards."
Mr Crook said he expected house-builders to rise to the challenge of creating those greener homes.
"In theory it is going to be £80 a year to heat and light your house," said Mr Crook. "That's most people's monthly cost, but that's the annual bill. We all know that energy costs are the one thing that will continue to go north.
"We can demonstrate to house-builders that we can build houses like this and there is going to be some commercial value to houses that are cheaper to live in"
And while the scheme seeks to be greener it is also seeking to make the community smarter, with the hope that the developments on site will create a culture of innovation.
"We can show that we're building a very innovative community," said Mr Crook.
"It's dynamic and happening in Wales and we want to ensure it continues happening in this community."
Perhaps the key test of The Works will not come in the physical legacy that it leaves behind, vital though it is to the community of Ebbw Vale, but whether it is capable of a cultural change, both locally and in the way that we think about regeneration more generally.
Next week – the regeneration of the docks in Barry