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Jan Nèmec's directorial debut Diamonds of the Night (Démanty noci) begins with an astounding two-minute tracking shot—often referred to as the most complicated tracking shot in the history of Czech cinema. It throws us immediately into the action, as we watch two boys (Ladislav Jánsky and Antonín Kumbera), having just leapt from a freight train that we can hear just off-screen and briefly glimpse, run along the edge of a dense forest, shedding their heavy coats as they scramble up a steep hillside littered with shorn tree trunks. The camera tracks closely alongside them as voices yell from behind and gunshots ring out; the smoothness of the camera movement contrasts with the boys' wild, fraught movements as they run and claw their way up the hill (this being pre-Steadicam, the shot was achieved by building a massive track with the camera on multiple carts, some of which acted as counterbalances for the movement up the hill). The camera eventually joins their desperation, shifting to a handheld modality that reflects the intensity of their desperation. The shot mixes both intense, physical realism and a purposefully disorienting use of space, as Nèmec and his cinematographer Jaroslav Kucera keep the camera at the same angle as the boys, which makes their climbing up the hill appear as if they are crawling on all fours on level ground. It is the first hint that Nèmec is not going to maintain any kind of fidelity to physical reality, but rather use the story of the boys' escape as a leaping-off point for an experiment in cinematic subjectivity.
We later learn that the train from which the boys escaped was taking them to a concentration camp, and their initial escape is just the beginning of a fraught journey to what they can only hope will be eventual freedom. Working from a slim novel by Arnošt Lustig, who himself survived both Auschwitz and Buchenwald and escaped from a freight train carrying him to Dachau, Nèmec depicts the boys' as being constantly in danger, not just from Nazi troops, but from the grizzled old farmers who work the countryside through which they are running. Working with the Nazis, they assemble a hunting party to go after the boys, showing in no uncertain terms how the horrors of the Holocaust were enabled by collaborators who never officially put on a uniform. Nèmec depicts these collaborators in as grotesque a manner as possible, particularly in his emphasis on their celebratory eating and drinking when the boys are captured, which is not only vulgar in its own right, but all the more cruel given our understanding of how desperate and starving the boys are. The sense of human cruelty on display grounds the film's unconventional aesthetic flights, reminding us that Nèmec is not interested in experimentation for its own sake, but rather as a means of getting at deeper, darker truths about human nature.
Diamonds of the Night was one of a number of Czech films at the time to depict the Holocaust—which also include Zbynek Brynych's Transport From Paradise (Transport z ráje, 1963), Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos's The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze, 1965), and Antonín Moskalyk's Dita Saxová (1968)—the result of the post-Stalin Soviet Union easing some of its restrictions on filmmakers in its Eastern European satellite countries. Unlike most other Czech Holocaust films, Nèmec's largely eschews a traditional cinematic approach to the subject and instead dramatizes the action through a fractured subjectivity that renders the entire experience dreamlike and fleeting—ruthlessly subjected it to a surreal nightmare logic that often leaves us questioning whether events actually transpired (in this way, his film is evocative of the works of Alain Resnais, particularly 1959's Hiroshima mon amour). It is a particularly compelling example of Nèmec's assertion that "the director must create his own world, a world independent of reality, as it appears the time" (his resistance to traditional cinematic approaches is likely why he did not achieve the same prominence as some of his contemporary Czech New Wave filmmakers such as Milos Forman and Ivan Passer, both of whom made their way to Hollywood). There is a clear narrative from beginning to end involving the boys' escape, but that narrative is punctuated throughout with both flashbacks and various dreams and fantasies, which makes the film more of a psychological meditation on stress and survival than a linear story about escape. It challenges our expectations at virtually every turn, including its multiple endings that leave the fate of the boys in limbo.
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Drowning in the Big Green Pond.
This is another guest article by Graeme, one of our regular contributing authors. It deals with the innate limiting factors of renewable energy sources, and though such considerations can be quite technical, it describes them in clear everyday language for the benefit of anyone who wishes to gain an understanding of the salient issues without first studying for a degree in electrical engineering – which I think covers most of us.
What does come across to me is how delicate a balance must be maintained to deliver a steady supply of electricity, and increasingly the intermittency of renewables is destabilising that equilibrium.
Most of the Greens calling for more renewable energy capacity believe that somewhere there is a big pond of electricity, and so long as you feed in enough power to keep the level in the pond above zero, then it will keep flowing from that hole in the wall. That…
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Residents in Flint, MI said over and over that the filters were not reliable to keep lead out of their tap water. EPA the state and some scientists said that activists were just creating a crisis that didn't exist. Well, now we see the same thing in NJ. Read about the problem.
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So, remember when I told you that I was unfortunate enough to go to the emergency room with out my knitting? Well, I eventually did get my knitting and enjoyed the remaining time I had in the hospital knitting a nice hat for my daughter's godfather.
During my knitting I was stopped by a nurse who informed me that she had been knitting for years and was curious as to what I was casting on my needles. I showed her the picture from the page I had torn out of the magazine, (yes, I tear pages out of knitting magazines. I'm such an anarchist!), and then continued on my merry little way of casting on. Then the nurse asked me the one question that gets to be every time. "How do you knit?"
Why this question bugs me, I really don't know. It could be from the fact that over the years I have had countless knitters stare at the way I knit, explained to me that I was doing it wrong and then proceeded to try and teach me the 'right' way to knit. (FYI- I knit forwards and backwards, and my little rabbit doesn't go through the front door or the front gate- it goes through the back of the loop. My bunny likes it in the backdoor. *smirk*)
Usually, when this question comes up I have several sarcastic remarkes that run through my head. "How do you knit?"
– With two sticks and yarn.
– With my hands.
– Without listening to you ask questions.
– Very well, thank you for asking.
But the proper young lady that I am gets the best of me and my only response is, "I knit a little different from most knitters".
"Well, I'll show you how I knit", and the nurse took the needles and yarn out of my hand to show me how she knits. That's right, you heard me, She TOOK my needles and yarn and started knitting with them. (Note to any new knitters out there or any knit muggles -aka- people who don't knit: Never remove needles and yarn from any knitter's hands without full verbal permission in front of witnesses or with a notarized statement of permission. To remove such items from the knitter without permission may result in being impaled and hung by the very needles and yarn you thought you had a right to touch.)
"See, I knit continental style but I prefer to hold my yarn this way to keep tension…" At this point, I could care less if she held the yarn in her mouth to keep tension, I just wanted my needles back. "Well, let me show you how I do it", I interrupted her. Needles and yarn safely back in my hands I started on a few stitches.
"Oh, you just throw your yarn." She stared. " Wow, I'm not sure what kind of knitting that is. That's a bit different. You sure you're knitting the right way? I've never seen stitches like that. Well, enjoy making your hat." The nurse walked away and left me with a small half finished row of her stitches next to mine, which did not make for a pretty sight.
So, as I frogged the whole thing and began casting on again, I wondered why the big deal about how someone knits? I remember reading an article by Meg Swansen which pretty much talked about the fact that there is no such thing as a 'right' way to knit. If you like knitting a certain way and you get the results that you want, then that's all that matters.
Now, don't get me wrong, I enjoy learning different techniques as much as the next knitter, but I hate this feeling among knitters to define yourself based on your knitting style. "Hi, my name is Michelle and I knit Eastern combination with tension in the left hand over the index finger".
Continental style knitting. English style. Russian-style continental knitting. Norwegian purl. Eastern Combined knitting. Portuguese Knitting. They are all wonderful techniques to learn. But at the end of the day I frankly could care less how you knit, just finish the damn sweater that's been sitting in your knitting bag for the last three years! Seriously, I'm tired of looking at it.


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The Salamino 'Pizza'
Legend has it that when the band U2 were touring in Australia in the late 1990s they had dinner at one of my favourite pizza joints.
And the pizza of choice for 'the lads' was the Salamino. A tasty pizza bianco (no tomato sauce) topped with ricotta, salami.
After hearing this story, the Salmino quickly became one of my faves too. Simple and oh so tasty.
You may be wondering why it's 'Pizza' in inverted commas. It's because while this cauliflower version of the Italian classic is tasty and satisfying, it is quite different to real pizza.
If you aren't into cauliflower or prefer normal pizza see the 'variations' below for the link to my pizza dough recipe.
Just wanted to be upfront about that because there's nothing worse than having high expectations and being disappointed!
Yes there are way more than 6-ingredients here because I've included all the pizza base ingredients. I hope you don't mind.
makes: 1 large pizza – enough for 2
takes: 40 minutes
500g (1lb) cauliflower, about 1 small
100g (3.5oz) grated parmesan cheese
2 eggs
100g (3.5oz) almond meal
200g (7oz) smooth ricotta
8 slices salami
1 handful grated parmesan, extra for topping
small bunch basil leaves
1. Preheat your oven to 200C (400F). Blitz your cauliflower using your food processor until it looks a bit like fine couscous. Or chop as finely as possible.
2. Add parmesan, eggs, almond meal and a really generous pinch of salt. Stir until combined.
3. Line a baking tray with foil or baking paper. This is super important! Tip the cauli mixture onto the lined tray then using your hands smooth into a pizza shaped circle about 28cm (11in) in diameter. I like to make a 'crust' by shaping the edges to be taller than the middle.
4. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the pizza is browned and feels springy when touched.
5. Dollop on the ricotta, salami and finish with the parmesan. Bake a further 5-10 minutes or until you're happy. Serve topped with basil leaves.
short on time / less ingedients – use pita bread as your pizza base. Will only take 5-10 minutes to cook.
nut-free – replace almond meal with bread crumbs or extra parmesan. OR use use regular pizza dough.
martian 'green pizza' – replace cauliflower with broccoli.
do ahead – you can bake the base ahead of time and then just continue from step 5. Will keep in the fridge for a week or so or in the freezer for months. Defrost before baking.
smaller pizzas – feel free to make into whatever size (or shape) you like. Smaller pizzas won't need quite as long, so check after 20 minutes. I often make 2 pizzas so we can vary the toppings.
paleo (grain, legume & dairy-free) -replace parmesan in crust with extra almond meal and replace ricotta with extra salami.
short on time – use commercial pizza bases instead.
carb lovers / more substantial – use a regular pizza dough.
Waste Avoidance Strategy
cauliflower – ungrated cauli will keep for weeks in a plastic bag in the fridge. Can be frozen but the texture isn't as good when defrosted.
parmesan – keeps for longer in a chunk so only grate when you're cooking. I wrap in waxed paper or baking paper and then keep in an airtight container or a sealed ziplock bag. I prefer this over just wrapping in cling wrap because the air in the container allows the cheese to breathe and not sweat but the container / plastic bag prevents from drying out in the dry fridge air. Either way will keep for months.
psyllium husks / almond meal – keep them in the pantry.
eggs – will keep in the fridge for weeks or use for another meal.
ricotta – unopened tubs of ricotta usually have a shelf life of a few weeks. Otherwise use for another meal. Great on toast with honey for a decadent breakfast or use instead of cream with desserts.
salami – freeze it.
basil – make basil oil by packing washed and dried leaves in a clean jar and covering with extra virgin olive oil. Or you can freeze the leaves, they'll wilt but will still be delicious.
Prepare Ahead
You could cook the base ahead and either fridge or freeze then add the toppings and finish the baking just before serving. Will keep in the fridge for 1-2 weeks but the cauliflower flavour gets stronger with time. Can be frozen.


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Jerusalem – Itshak Holtz, a well known artist whose depictions of Jerusalem, New York and their residents captivated Judaic art lovers, passed away this past Thursday at the age of 93.
Born in Skierniewice, Poland in 1925, Holtz was just five years old when he found himself mesmerized by a picture of a horse pulling a sleigh drawn for him by his father.
One year later, he realized that he had a talent for art when his chalk drawing of the Polish prime minister rendered on a sidewalk drew crowds of onlookers.
Watch below: Holtz in 2012, at the Betzalel Gallery in Crown Heights describes his work.
Holtz's father Aryeh, a cap maker and a furrier, would wonder about his son's future as an artist, never imagining that his paintings would one day draw prices of $100,000 or more.
Holtz and his family moved to Jerusalem in 1935, living in Geula. The young Itshak excelled at creating weekly drawings about the Torah portion of the week in school, continuing his studies at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design where he learned commercial art.
Yearning to become a fine artist, Holtz came to New York to further his education, but ultimately his heart pulled him back to Jerusalem where he began capturing the scenes all around him including ancient buildings, cobblers, tailors, weddings and other scenes that captured Jewish life in the holiest city in the world.
He would often set up his easel on the street and paint what he saw, crowds gathering around him as he worked.
Shmuel Pultman, director of the Betzalel Gallery in Crown Heights, knew Holtz for nearly three decades. He estimated that Holtz painted for more than 75 years, making a name for himself primarily as an illustrator of Jerusalem scenes and figure studies.
"He was, arguably, the most important contemporary Jewish artist," Pultman told VIN News.
Holtz is seen May 17, 2012 at the Betzalel Gallery in Crown Heights sitting next to a wall where his art is shown. (Photo credit: Lenchevsky Brothers)
A religiously observant Orthodox Jew, Holtz lived his life according to Torah values and when complimented by admirers about his artwork he would respond that his talents were a gift from G-d.
Pultman said that the prolific artist followed a path of truth, honesty, simplicity and straightforwardness and was extremely generous with his time, advising young artists who would come to his studio for critiques of their work.
After living in Washington Heights for a period of time, Holtz and his wife Ruth began dividing their time between New York and Israel. One art collector who agreed to be interviewed on condition of anonymity and also shared an extremely close relationship with Holtz, described him as the epitome of sweetness, a diminutive man with talents of gigantic proportions.
Some of his work
"When you walked into his studio you knew you were in the presence of a master," said the collector. "His artwork just talks to your soul and he captured Jewish life in a way that I believe no other artist ever has."
Before moving to Israel permanently in 2010, Holtz gifted the collector with an easel that stands over eight feet high and his art desk, both of which bear the artist's autograph. The easel has a place of honor in the collector's dining room, along with three originals by Holtz.
some of his work
Holtz's artwork was the focus of the Betzalel Gallery's inaugural exhibition in May 2012, as previously reported on VIN News (http://bit.ly/2PW9bzC).
Holtz spent three hours autographing auction catalogs for the hundreds of people who attended the event which featured drawings and watercolors spanning a period of 50 years.
At the time, Holtz described the secret to his success in bringing his subjects to life in a way that resonated with Jewish art lovers saying, "you have to live that life to fully capture it on canvas."
Moshe Frank, owner of Leviim Art Gallery in Crown Heights, said that he purchased his first Holtz after returning from a trip to Israel six years ago.
"It was a painting of a Meah Shearim scene with two people walking down the street," said Frank. "I saw it in a gallery and it brought my whole trip back for me, so I bought it."
Frank paid $800 for the print. He estimated that the original painting would sell for $50,000.
"He was the most expensive per square inch artist in the Jewish world," said Frank. "Most of his paintings were not big paintings and they could sell for and have sold for over $100,000."
Frank said that what set Holtz's painting apart were their realism, their positivity and their use of vibrant color.
"People connect to that," observed Frank. "He is the only artist we have ever had that people would call and ask if we had any of his paintings."
Some of his work
Holtz's artwork appears in some of the holiday artwork at the Jewish Children's Museum in Crown Heights and his drawing of an elderly man with a full white beard intently reading a newspaper tops the My Take on the News column that appears weekly in the Yated Neeman.
Holtz's drawing of an elderly man with a full white beard intently reading a newspaper tops the My Take on the News column that appears weekly in the Yated Neeman.
Frank said that he believes that Holtz's most well known piece of work is a scene depicting an esrog market in Jerusalem, copies of which are sold as a succah poster.
"For me that picture really, really brings the spirit of the month of Tishrei," said Frank. "You can feel Succos and Simchas Torah coming to town when you see it."
Like Pultman, Frank recalled Holtz's exceptional character, remembering one time when someone spent a significant amount of money on what he thought was an original Holtz only to find out that he had been duped.
"He heard about it and he told the buyer 'come to my house and I will give you the original,'" said Frank. "He hadn't even bought it from him and Holtz went and just replaced it. He was the most special guy in the world and that came through in his art."
In his lifetime, Holtz was featured in multiple group shows and galleries in addition to being featured in one man shows in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Jerusalem.
He was honored with the Academic of Italy Gold Medal (1981), Italy's University de le Arti Terme Diploma of Merit (1982), the International Parliament for Safety and Peace's Gold Medal for Artistic Merit (1985) and four awards from New York's Arts Interaction (1989-1991), in addition to serving as a judge for the Arts Interaction 13th Annual Autumn Show at Gallery 12 (1991).
Holtz was laid to rest on Friday morning. He is survived by his wife Ruth, a son and a daughter.
"He left a legacy of thousands of paintings and was a gem of a human being," said Pultman. "You don't often meet people like that."


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Frequent background funnyman Steve Carell has stolen scenes in "Anchorman," "Bruce Almighty," and "Bewitched" — which means it's high time the guy got a movie of his very own! If you're likely to agree, then head on over to Quicktime Movie Trailers to check out the rather amusing trailer for "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."
Starring alongside the virginal Mr. Carell are Catherine Keener ("Full Frontal"), Paul Rudd ("Clueless"), and Seth Rogen ("Donnie Darko"). "Virgin" was co-written and directed by Judd Apatow, known to comedy fans as the man behind TV series like "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared." Mr. Carell's first starring vehicle hits theaters on August 19th.


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Top 10 Best Shark Vacuums In 2020 — Complete Products Reviews
There are various types of vacuum cleaner available, and each one of them is suitable for different types and areas of cleaning. If your objective is to clean the floor completely without straining from the body, a shark vacuum is what you need. Such a vacuum cleaner is long and helps to keep the body posture right. These vacuums can reach deep the floor of different types of hard and soft deeply to suck in allergens, pet hair, dust, and dirt. There are corded as well as cordless shark vacuums available. Check out the list of the 10 best shark vacuums for effectively cleaning your home with less effort than before.
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"Methods in Research on Research (MiRoR)" is a joint doctoral training programma funded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, in …
RRI-Practice is a 3-year project under the European Commission's Horizon 2020 program. It aims to understand the barriers and drivers to the successful implementation of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), both in European and global contexts, to stimulate reflection on RRI, and to identify and support best practices of RRI in research organizations and programs. RRI is a multifaceted framework for research and innovation policy, which encompasses societal engagement, research integrity, gender equality and diversity, open science, and science education.
For RRI-Practice, reviews have been made of research and innovation policies and organizations in 12 countries across the globe, including the Netherlands. The Dutch case study describes RRI-related initiatives and developments in the national research and innovation policy context. Furthermore, it contains reviews of three organizations: the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Wageningen University and Research, and the Radboud University Nijmegen. The national reports, as well as the national policy briefs that summarize their main findings and recommendations, can be found here.
The national RRI case study of the Netherlands shows that many aspects of RRI are already well-embedded in research and innovation policies, or are high on policy agendas. This for instance counts for societal engagement, open science, gender equality, and research integrity. At the same time, the organizational reviews indicate that some barriers impede the further implementation of RRI. These include: resistance to open access, gender bias, and the strong influence of quantitative and productivity-oriented criteria in the assessment of researchers and research groups. Our main recommendations on how to deal with these barriers are:
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Pride in Penrith Lottery makes a splash for town's swimming club
THE board of the Pride in Penrith Lottery have awarded Penrith Swimming Club a grant of £1,425. The grant, which was presented to Ian Powley, president of Penrith Swimming Club, was a welcome cash injection for the club, to help support its growth.
The grant will be used for essential equipment required for galas, training and water polo safety, hats and nets. Penrith Swimming Club has provided swimming tuition since 1880 and gives opportunities for young people aged four to 21 in Penrith and the surrounding area to develop their swimming skills and gives them the opportunity to take part in competitive galas and water polo. The club is run by volunteers who give up their time four nights every week.
Mr. Powley said: "We are delighted to have received a grant from the Pride in Penrith Lottery for new equipment. The club provides an invaluable service to the community, with not only development and competition opportunities for water-based activities, but also in teaching young children to swim."
The Pride in Penrith Lottery was set up to help local good causes, charities and not-for-profit organisations raise money for projects which would benefit and add to the rejuvenation in and around the town. To date, more than £8,000 has been donated to good causes. However, there is still more than £25,000 in funds waiting to be donated.
Lottery chairman Andy Jackson said: "We have been able to donate money to some fantastic good causes since the lottery began in 2010, but we still have lots in the pot and are encouraging other projects and community groups to come forward and apply for grant funding.
"We do not wish to be considered as a substitute for people or organisations who have had funding cut by local or central government, nor to provide money for ongoing running costs of organisations, but we are able to support specific projects undertaken by community groups and individuals."
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Calendars and Calendar Reform
Archaeological evidence, including stone circles such as Stonehenge, indicates the importance attached to periodic astronomical phenomena by prehistoric communities. The ancient Egyptians, worshippers of the sun god Ra, established a calendar year of 365 days c. 4500 BC; in Lower Egypt this was combined with months of 29/30 days based on observation of moon, and in Upper Egypt with observation of the star Sirius, whose heliacal [glossary] rising coincided with the flooding of the Nile. Later, the months were regularised to 30 days each, and five extra days completed the year. The Mesopotamians employed a luni-solar calendar; at first they determined the beginning of months by observations of the moon, but were utilising a computational method by the fifth century BC. An intercalary month was added at irregular intervals to keep the lunar calendar in line with the solar year. From about 500 BC, this was regularised according to the so-called Metonic cycle [Glossary] of 7 intercalations in 19 years. In Ancient Greece, calendars varied from city-state to city-state, but were also of the luni-solar variety.
In Ancient Rome, the correspondence between lunar and solar calendar was eroded as the officials responsible for intercalations used their powers to extend the terms of office of their friends and shorten those of their rivals. The new calendar instituted by Julius Caesar in 46 BC was therefore a much needed reform. In the Julian calendar, the link with the lunar cycle was lost - the months were of fixed lengths (initally alternating 30 and 31 days, with the exception of February) - and every fourth year was designated a leap year. This resulted in a Julian year approximately eleven minutes longer than the solar (tropical) year; or a gain of about three days per 400 years. Over time, this gain vastly exacerbated the natural movement of the equinoxes through the year due to the precession of the earth on its axis; a matter which was of particular concern to Christians because the formula for determining the date of Easter relied upon the lunar phases and the date of the vernal equinox. For several centuries, the Church paid little heed to the concerns of astronomically literate Christians who expressed concern that the Easter was being celebrated on the wrong date. Reform of the calendar was finally enacted by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, but as a consequence of the Church Reformation of the sixteenth century, was not immediately adopted by Protestants. Advised by a congregation including the Jesuit mathematician Christoph Clavius and the Dominican mathematician and instrument-maker Egnatio Danti, the Gregorian reform involved the omission of ten days (eleven by the time Britain adopted the new calendar in 1752), and the withholding of leap-days from century-years not divisible by 400.


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Early American Architecture: From the First Colonial Settlements to the National Period
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Morrison is good especially because of the sound distinction he makes between seventeenth century building in the Old Atlantic English colonies, and the eighteenth century. The former are colonial or late-medieval erections, and mainly of post-and-beam construction as adapted to the materials locally available from New England to Virginia and the Carolinas. After 1700 in the English colonies, Morrison writes of both Georgian and Adam or 'Federal' styles; the last is light, airy and delightful. A great value of Morrison's book is that he illustrates in detail the intricacies of post-and-beam construction. Also, he notices extensively the contemporaneous building by (more…)


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No, the Vorlon ships are not space whales. We established this in an earlier episode. They are garlic. Singing, flying, sentient space garlic.
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Session for Geographers
The Faculty of Natural Sciences held a session for geographers, which took place from October 14 to 20 in the city of Kreminna.
Despite the lack of time, the work took place rapidly – in two shifts. Lectures, practical studies, pilot testing, consultations continued from morning till night. In addition, the first-year master students were offered topics master's works, the consultation with supervisors were held and individual plans of fulfilling their master's research were drawn up.
The second year master students had the procedure of public overcurrent of already completed their master's works. Future specialists received guidance and clarification on the passage of the production and pedagogical practice.
Not only the academic work, but also the joy of meetings, new friendships and informal communication – all this is that the students get, coming to the session.
This year were even more geographers. Traditionally, students become a part of the geographical community only after the "dedication". Therefore, freshmen felt special attention because during the "dedication to geographers" they had to demonstrate certain skills, ingenuity and creativity, to feel the specifics of the chosen specialty. Every year senior students come up with something new for beginners, but orienteering, geographers' oath, faculty anthem and other favorite songs with a guitar are mandatory elements of the "dedication."
The Department of Geography is one of the oldest at the University. In 2016, the Department staff celebrates the 80th anniversary.
On the occasion of this date one of the most experienced teachers of the Department – Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor Oktiabrina O. Kiseleva was awarded with the Diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The award coincided with the birthday of Oktyabrina Oleksandrivna.


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Why aren't there work-out videos on Netflix? Are there work-out videos on any other subscription-based TV (Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc)? Doesn't this seem like a natural and logical pairing?
I just want to do yoga in my living room without pants on, and I want to be able to see what I'm supposed to be doing, rather than squinting at my phone or laptop. The stupid PS4 doesn't have a youtube app. Yes, I am aware that I am whining about #firstworldproblems to the nth degree.
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Guest post by 217church Staff Pastor Matt Murphy
When Jesus left earth He gave us His final commissioning as His disciples. He told us to "Go and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey all I have commanded." In that commissioning He gave us a new identity. He gave us the identity as disciple makers. None of us are exempt from that. The role of disciple maker is not just reserved for paid professionals. He gave us the identity as being a disciple. If we are going to teach Christ's commands we must know and live them out ourselves. Jesus didn't just know, He lived. Jesus gave us the identity of the Trinity. In the trinity we are sent as witnesses by the power of the Holy Spirit, we are servants of the Son because He served us, and we are part of God's family because He adopted us as His children. Because of Jesus we are disciples sent as a family of servant missionaries to make disciples.
Discipleship is the point of the church. It is what the church is called to do. We do that through many different venues. One key one is the small group structure of the church. In fact, when we study the early church we see that they organized in smaller family type groups. We cannot explore what it means to be a disciple of Jesus in the context of a room full of 100s of people in an hour a week. We should be doing life with people in the context of a spiritual family. It is important that we have a small group of people that we know by name that we can do life regularly with. Do you have that in your life? Does the small group that you are in do that
If you are in a small group I want you to ask yourself the question is discipleship happening? If that is the point, is it happening? Let me be clear discipleship is not just the passing along of Christ's teachings. Jesus proclaimed the good news with both word and deed.
Here are three things that every healthy disciple making small group will have.
- Family
I think that this is the most important one. Jesus said, "by your love for one another they will know me." Jesus spent a lot more time building the relationship with His disciples than actually teaching them. I could write a whole blog series on the importance of family but if you don't like each other no one will want to come. Family knows each other deeply and how to apply the truths of Jesus to every situation. Family spends time together outside of the meeting. In my own family I have organized family times but we also have a lot of organic times we hang out. In your small group do you spend any time together outside of your meeting just having fun and getting to know each other? A healthy family will see each other regularly and often outside of the meeting.
2. Gospel
Does every member of your small group know the good news of Jesus? Do they know it so well that they can apply it to every area of life? Every area of scripture points to the good news of Jesus. No matter what you are studying you can point it back to Jesus and the good news. A small groups time of study should be focused on the Gospel because the Gospel is the point of scripture.
3. Neighborhood
Does your group have a heart for a neighborhood? There is are people in your neighborhood that need your family and the good news of Jesus. It goes beyond just serving. If your small group serves, great, but are you building relationships in the midst of that? Do you know multiple names of people in a neighborhood? Do you know there stories so well that you can bring the good news of Jesus to their life? Every healthy small group has a neighborhood that their heart breaks for and orients everything that small group does.
Does your small group have these functioning in a healthy way? What area could your group use the most help? Discuss it as a group. Get coaching in the area you are weakest and make it a strength. We are human so we will never have the perfect group but by God's Grace we can walk more in step with what it means to be a disciple maker.
Matt is the staff pastor of 217church, a multi-site, contemporary church in Mercer County NJ. 217church is a family with small groups in New Jersey and Pennsylvania that meets Sundays in the Hamilton AMC24 Theater 10:00am and Sharon Elementary school in Robbinsville, NJ at 11:00. Our new Robbinsville/East Windsor Campus meets every Sunday. If you are looking for a church in East Windsor NJ, Lawrenceville NJ, Ewing NJ, Robbinsville NJ, Hightstown NJ, Hamilton NJ, Mercer County, Middlesex County or Bucks County, PA, we would love to have you join us. Don't miss our weekend services. Visit www.217church.com for more information. or watch a weekend message here.


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I know that on this particular day a lot of different customs take place in various regions of Greece.
This year I headed to Piraiki where I heard that there is a custom taking place every year. The place was special although it is in an urban environment.
There is a small church that is located on the rocks of the small bay.
The first courageous people who will dive in the cold waters to catch the cross were already there. Around us, lots of spectators, sitting on the rocks, were waiting to see the custom.
The priests were on a platform from where the cross would be thrown into the sea for the divers (around 30 at that time) to catch it.
Well, just the fastest one.
It was hard to find a good spot for photographs since on the left side there were already too many people standing while on the right side it was too close to the water and I would wet my clothes.
The priest throws the cross three times to the sea.
The first two times was difficult for me to take any photo because it was thrown in a opposite direction. The third time I was lucky cause he threw it towards the spot where I was standing.
After the end of the ceremony, I celebrated with lots of people in one of the famous "tsipouro" places of the area of Piraiki.
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I dined at the Mansion House with a large party, assembled in honour of and for the purpose of meeting Mr. Beaumont. I had not seen Beaumont since the election, but we seemed to be (and I have no doubt were) upon our usual intimate terms. He conducted himself adroitly and by his chearfulness and good humour pleased his friends and in some degree disarmed his enemies. My son William accompanied me and he was much amused having never before been at a large public dinner.


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Paperboy: The New Musical?
That's the working title for a musical now in development based on former Memphian Vince Vawter's 2013 novel, Paperboy. Jim Wann, composer/lyricist, author and star of the 1982 Tony-nominated Pump Boys and Dinettes, is doing the music.
The semi-autobiographical novel is about an 11-year-old boy named "Little Man" (Vawter), who throws a paper route in Memphis one summer in 1959. The novel recounts the adventures of the boy, who stutters, and the characters he meets on his Midtown route.
Vawter, 72, who threw the old Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper as a teenager, went on to become news editor of that paper. He was managing editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel and publisher and president of the Evansville Courier & Press.
Paperboy was a Newbery Medal Honor book in 2014. Vawter's current novel is Copyboy.
Vawter says the whole musical idea began about two years ago after he asked John Verlenden, a friend who went to school with him at Southwestern (now Rhodes College), what he thought about Paperboy becoming a stage play. "He said it ought to be a musical," Vawter says. "You need to talk to my friend Jim Wann."
"So, I contacted him," Vawter says. "Sent him the book. And I didn't hear anything for a couple of weeks. And then these damn songs started coming. And they blew me away. I don't know much about that stuff, but he did what he calls 'song sketches.' Plays them on his guitar, writes the lyrics."
Wann sent the songs as mp3s. "It's just him and his guitar."
Among the songs were "Paperboy Song," "The Typewriter Song," "Streets of our Neighborhood," and "Lay That News Gently at my Door."
They're all "songs you wind up humming," Vawter says.
Wann, 70, who lives near Hudson, New York, says he "was just entranced" by Paperboy after he read it. "Like so many people."
He described Little Man as "a wonderfully brave character. And that impressed me so much. His bravery. His struggles to find a way to overcome his feelings about his stuttering. I guess he would have loved to wake up one morning and have it not be there at all, but he had to come to terms with it somehow."
Wann, who is from Chattanooga, and Vawter share similarities about their Southern upbringing. I thought, 'Well, I'll write a few songs and see what Vince thinks of it.'"
Describing "Streets of our Neighborhood," Wann says, "I just loved the sounds of these streets: Vinton, Melrose, Harbert, Union. It was a way of introducing Little Man into the world of delivering papers into the neighborhood.
"All of the music in all of my shows has a Southern roots connection. It always comes in some form of Southern roots music, whether gospel, folk, blues, rhythm and blues. And I felt like this being set in 1959, would be a good fit for that."
When will the musical be finished? "We are still a good distance from achieving our goals for this story as a stage musical," Wann says.
And, he says, "I feel, even though we have a full draft at this point, it's still very sketchy and I think we've only just started figuring out how to let the other characters live and breath on their own. The other parts of the story are so rich and the characters are so interesting. I still think we have a way to go with really expressing Little Man's feelings of loneliness and isolation and his bravery in going out into the world and making new friends, however awkwardly."
Getting to know Vawter was the icing on the cake, Wann says. "We've worked together on and off for a couple of years now. I really enjoy his company. And all the things he tells me. It's a real friendship between us now. And that's a huge plus."
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Look What I Did at My Day Job! Don't Tell My Boss
As part of my day job I design and build machines specific to our process. Sometimes I sneak gun stuff into the design. This here is my latest machine. It takes a continuous strip of paper and moves back and forth creating a spool of paper. Old versions of the machine use tools and screws to secure the tooling. I decided on my new design I would incorporate some firearm technology in the form of a Warne Tikka rail and a Bobro Engineering Acog mount. This has created a tool-less repeatable tool change. It works so well I'm going to incorporate the design into all the older machines. This will be A LOT of Warne rails and Bobro Acog mounts.
This is my own personal inside joke at work and the best part management loves the "reduced downtime and scrap" and "faster changeover". Also getting my job to support the industry a couple parts at a time.
I wonder how much time will pass before someone comes through the building and recognizes the hardware. On another machine I borrowed something from a revolver. I'll save that for another day.
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Every school needs a great logo. In the space of a short glance, it reinforces your brand.
For our clients that already have a great logo, we help them add some life and motion to it for use as a memorable way to start or end their videos. For those clients that need a logo refresh or a whole new look, we can help with that too.
Please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information on logo and design services.
(please note: the logos below were originally created by other agencies, SchoolHouse just added motion to them for video use).


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Checklist For Retirement Planning: Create and Maintain a Plan You Can Feel Great About
Whether your are fabulously wealthy or just getting by, there are four key phases to achieving a secure retirement. The four phases of this checklist for retirement planning are:
- Getting started
- Finding confidence
- Maximizing wealth
- Keeping your plan updated and making adjustments
Getting Started
The first phase of this checklist for retirement planning has four parts and is about getting organized and educated.
1. Do You Have a Written Plan? Is it Detailed Enough?
What is the saying? "You can't get somewhere if you don't know where you are to begin with…" Something like that anyway…
Whatever the origins of the quote, it is definitely true of retirement planning.
Writing down your retirement plan is really the first step to achieving a secure future. This easy step is proven to reduce stress and make you feel better — more confident — about your future.
You can enter just a few data points and get a rough idea of where you stand.
But, is it detailed enough? You can't really feel good about your retirement plan until you add a lot more detail. Most retirement calculators ask for 5 or 10 pieces of information. Good planners ask for a lot more. The NewRetirement retirement planner has 33 different sections that enable you to create a detailed plan.
At a minimum, you want to make sure that you have:
- All of your spouse's information collected separately from your own
- Entered all sources of retirement income: retirement jobs, pensions, annuities, income from investments, passive income and more
- Included medical costs and the possibility of long term care costs
- Documented inflation rates for general expenses, medical cost and housing — these typically rise at different rates
- Thought carefully about your expenses and how they will change over the 20-30 years you'll be retired
- Budgeted any big one time expenses
- Documented debts and how you are paying them off
- A full understand of your retirement accounts and their rates of return
Hopefully the NewRetirement Planner makes it easy for you to create a detailed written plan.
2. Do You Fully Understand Your Plan?
Once your plan is detailed enough, you will want to take a really hard look at whether or not it is adequate.
- When — if ever — do you run out of money?
- How balanced is your cash flow? Do your expenses exceed income? Are you tapping savings?
- What is your net worth now? What will it be?
- How much savings do you have now? What will the value be of those savings next year and all the years thereafter?
- How much should you have saved now? What are the benchmarks for future years?
- What risks does your plan face?
- How do you compare to others in your zip code?
It is easy to get answers to all of these questions with the NewRetirement Planner. If you are still concerned that you might not understand something, it might be a good idea to speak with a financial planner.
3. Is Your Plan Accurate?
When you create a detailed retirement plan, it can be difficult to keep track of all the details. There are literally thousands of numbers that make up your plan.
It is important to review your own inputs. However, you may also want an expert look at your numbers. NewRetirement offers two ways to get a professional assessment of your plans:
- You could work with a financial advisor. NewRetirement Advisors is a new kind of advisory service, focused on providing very affordable financial planning built upon the NewRetirement Planner. You get a knowledgeable advisor to look over your financial situation and make recommendations.
- PlannerPlus Coach uses best practices and the power of technology to monitor your plan and alert you to big risks, oversights and opportunities to improve your finances.
4. Have You Identified What You Want to Be Doing in Retirement?
Retirement planning shouldn't be entirely about calculations. You really also need to think about how to spend your time and with whom.
Without a plan for life after retirement, many retirees find themselves feeling vaguely unfulfilled and restless, craving something more but not knowing what that something might be. Focusing on the financial aspects of retirement is important, but the personal side of your retirement plan is just as important, and could ultimately guide how you use your retirement assets.
- 120 Ideas for What to Do in Retirement
- 3 Ways to Find Meaning and Purpose in Retirement
- 7 Ways to Connect with Your Future Self
Can You Feel Confident About Your Future?
The second phase of this checklist for retirement planning has five parts and is about tweaking your plan so that you can feel truly confident that your future is secure.
1. Do You Have Enough With Both Optimistic and Pessimistic Projections?
There are a lot of things that you need to know to predict your financial security. The trick is that some of these things you can't actually know. You need to make guesses about inflation (general, medical costs and housing) and returns on investments.
One way to feel confident about your future when there are so many unknowns is to create an optimistic as well as a pessimistic scenario.
Unlike many calculators, the NewRetirement Planner lets you set all of these assumptions — both pessimistically and optimistically — for yourself. And, we encourage you to strive to have a retirement plan that insures financial security with both sets of assumptions.
If you have not achieved these metrics, you may want to look at working longer, getting a retirement job, reducing expenses, tapping home equity, boost Social Security benefits, improve investment returns, save more, establish passive income and more…
Play with all of these scenarios in the retirement planner until you have achieved your goals.
2. Do You Have an Income Plan? Have You Guaranteed Enough of Your Income?
Once you have established a plan that suggests that you will be secure with both optimistic and pessimistic assumptions, you may want to strive to establish a more detailed retirement income plan.
You will want to answer the following questions:
- Does your income cover your expenses? To help see this, review the cash flow charts in the planner.
- What sources of income are you relying on? You can see this detailed in the PlannerPlus Income Inspector.
- What are the risks to your sources of income?
- What level of certainty do you have that you can work as long as you intend to work?
- If you are relying on withdrawals from savings, have you protected those savings from market forces?
- If you have a pension, does the company have the funds to pay that pension?
Perhaps most importantly, you should consider whether or not you want to guarantee adequate income to cover your expenses? Social Security, pensions and annuities are guaranteed — you will receive them for your lifetime. Most other sources of income are not completely reliable.
If your guaranteed income is less than your necessary expenses, you may want to at least model a lifetime annuity in your plan to see if it is a cost effective way to give you real confidence in your financial future.
Learn more about retirement income with: 18 strategies for lifetime wealth
3. Can You Afford Medical Care?
The average lifetime out of pocket costs for healthcare for a 65 year old couple retiring today is $285,000.
That amount is more than most people have in retirement savings.
A few tips for tackling medical costs in your retirement plan:
- Be sure you understand if medical costs are being calculated and, if yes, how. The NewRetirement retirement planner automatically builds in average retirement medical costs and will tweak those costs depending on whether or not you have supplemental Medicare coverage.
- Actively shop for the best Medicare supplemental policy each and every year. Your health will change and the policies change. It is worthwhile to rethink your coverage annually.
4. What to Do About the Potential for a Long Term Care Need?
Out of pocket medical costs can be staggering. However, they won't cover what might be the biggest health care cost in retirement — a long term care need.
About 70% of people who turn age 65 will need some type of long term care in their lifetime, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, but few are prepared to pay for that care.
Strategies for funding these costs include:
- Buying long term care insurance
- Funding an old age annuity (a lifetime annuity to start at a predetermined future age)
- Using savings if you have them
- Relying on family members
- Downsizing or getting a reverse mortgage
The NewRetirement planner lets you model these strategies. Try a couple different options and be prepared.
5. Have You Anticipated any Other Potential Gotchas? (And "give-yas")
We are covering a lot on this checklist for retirement planning, but you still need to be prepared for other gotchas — expenses you might not have anticipated. You should also be prepared for "give-yas" — unexpected windfalls.
Here are two considerations:
Have an Emergency Fund: A survey released by the Federal Reserve Board found that 47% of American consumers report they would not be able to come up with $400 for an emergency without borrowing or selling something. That's half of the country living in a continual state of financial peril. You need to have readily available funds to use if your car breaks down, a family member needs help, natural disaster strikes or some other emergency arises.
Think Through Your Future Spending: Imagining your future in as much detail as possible can help you budget appropriately for retirement. A few things to consider:
- Will your kids graduate college and hopefully be on their own so your budget will be freer?
- Are you prepared to help your own parents with a long term care need?
- Will you receive an inheritance?
- Might you sell your vacation home at some point?
- Is there a possibility for divorce or remarriage?
- Are you ready for the death of a spouse?
The NewRetirement Planner allows you to set different levels of spending for different time periods in your life. You can also set up major one time expenses and income events. And soon the PlannerPlus Budgeter will enable highly detailed budgeting.
Maximize Your Wealth
The third phase of the checklist for retirement planning is about maximizing your wealth — growing or getting as much out of your money as you can.
1. Do You Have the Right Asset Allocation?
Depending on your financial situation, you may have very different asset allocation goals. Some people can live comfortably off income from their assets. Others can grow their net worth — even after retirement. And, still others need to make withdrawals to make ends meet.
You need to make sure that your asset allocation strategy really meets your specific goals. Learn about creating an investment policy statement, or consider working with a financial advisor to help you position your savings to really maximize your wealth.
2. Have You Minimized Tax Liabilities? Maximized Tax Efficiencies?
The average American pays about $10,500 a year in total income taxes — federal, state and local. Of course, many households pay a lot more and some people pay nothing at all — depending on your income level.
Ten thousand dollars is a big chunk — about 14% — of the average budget. So, if you think about it, taxes can be a bigger lever in your budget than investment returns, cutting expenses or waiting to claim Social Security for a bigger benefit check.
As such, it is worth worrying about your tax bill in retirement. Here are a few tips (though it is best to take taxes seriously and work with a financial professional):
Think about your income: In retirement, you have some opportunities to manipulate your income to minimize what you pay in taxes. You may be able to manipulate your income to put yourself in a lower tax bracket.
Using Roth IRAs: Used smartly, Roth IRAs and converting traditional 401ks and IRAs to a Roth IRA can really save you money.
Learn more about the Roth IRA and why a Roth conversion might be particularly appealing this year.
Take Your Required Minimum Distributions: If you're 70 1/2 or older and have a traditional IRA, the IRS requires you to take a certain minimum amount from your account each year – and if you don't take enough, you'll be slapped with a huge tax penalty.
What's worse, these distributions may knock you into a higher tax bracket. Here are tips for managing your RMDs.
Retiring to a low tax state — or even another country: Taxes are not equal in all states. The following types of taxes will vary from place to place: state income taxes, estate taxes, sales tax, property taxes and more.
3. Have You Established an Adequate Estate Plan?
The NewRetirement retirement planner lets you set a goal for leaving an estate. (You also have goals for funding retirement through your longevity using both optimistic and pessimistic assumptions.)
You can update your progress against your goals at any time. Of the people who have set an estate goal with NewRetirement, 89% are currently on track to achieve their goal for leaving a financial legacy.
The system also gives you a check list of all the documents you need to create and maintain for an adequate estate plan.
4. Optimize Housing and Spend Retirement in the Best Place for You
Where you live — your community and the walls around you — has a profound impact on your well being. Your home is probably also your single greatest expense and, if you own, it's your most valuable asset.
Therefore, optimizing housing for retirement ranks close to the top in terms of the best retirement plans.
- Figure out the best place for retirement (for you)
- Explore housesharing
- Downsize — reduce costs and the emotional burden of a large home.
- Can you be happy in a tiny home?
- What about retirement abroad?
- If you already like where you live but need access to money, you might want to explore the pros and cons of a reverse mortgage?
- Would you ever consider a mobile home park? (Time Magazine calls it the home of the future!)
- Become a traveling gypsy, live aboard a cruise ship or crisscross the nation in an RV
- What about a retirement community?
- Could you? Would you enjoy moving in with family?
Keeping Your Plan Updated and Making Adjustments
The fourth phase of this retirement planning checklist is all about keeping your plan updated and making the necessary adjustments based on how your situation changes.
You should evaluate and update your whole plan and do a retirement check every time there is a change to any aspect of your health, finances or lifestyle. Small changes can have a big impact over your lifetime.
In addition to assessing your retirement plans when things change, a quarterly retirement check in can be an excellent way to keep your financial future on track.
After all, the economy marches onward. You will want to check to make sure that your:
- Investments have grown in the way you expected
- Projections for inflation are tracking as projected
- Debt is being paid down as anticipated
- Spending, saving and earning rates are tracking as you planned they would
If you have documented your overall retirement plan, then checking in is quick and easy. And, always reach out for professional financial help anytime you are feeling unsure.


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WoB Bites
Dates & Topics for the Inspector's Hearings
The dates for the Inspector's hearings have now been published. You can see a summary below, or read/download the full document: IED/019, and the Inspector's guidance notes: IED/020.
Members of the public are welcome to attend the hearings which will be held at Colchester Stadium.
Dates & sessions as follows:
14 January : Habitats Regulation Assessment pm Employment / Housing numbers
15 January : Build out rates pm Delivery mechanisms & State Aid
16 January : Infrastructure
21 January : Viability technical seminar
22 January : Viability
23 January : Sustainability Appraisal
30 January : Discussion about amendments propose by authorities
NEGC: what are they doing now?
Why are NEGC (North Essex Garden Communities Ltd - the wholly owned council property development company) for West of Braintree, West Tey and East Colchester, having selected groups going to NEGC stakeholder workshops when we have just finished the public local plan consultation and still in the planning inspector's examination period?
Should not the councils wait until the inspector has decided first on the local plan before wasting more tax payers money (over £7m currently) and time on this project of 'unprecedented scale of ambition'* that he might find unsound for a 2nd time.
Surely this is not the right way for councils to treat existing communities.
* from NEGC's own presentation.
UDC WoB:Viability
UDC Local Plan Viability study does not take into account Interest on Land Acquired (contrary to Harman guidance and as found unsound by Inspector Clews in the NEA examination):
If the finance costs on land acquisition are not included, the viability analysis is unsound.
They are categorically not included as land being paid for throughout the development is not a mitigating factor as this approach still incurs huge interest - see the now correct Hyas analysis for NEA examination for the same WOB site which also acquires land over time - the interest cost is many multiples that shown in the UDC viability analysis.
If viability analysis which does not include Interest on Land Acquisition is found sound despite this being directly contrary to guidance and having a large impact, it would clearly be a matter for Judicial Review, but of course this should be avoided.


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New plan to attract doctors in rural SA
A new plan to attract doctors to rural postings has been released for consultation as South Australia continues to face challenges in regional areas.
Developed by the Rural Health Workforce Steering Committee, the draft plan will be the basis for a program to recruit, train and develop doctors and other medical staff to areas of the state where the health system is hanging on by a thread.
State Minister for Health and Wellbeing Stephen Wade the State Government faced a raft of challenges in attracting the professionals needed to deliver public health services in regional and rural areas.
"We currently have 35 vacancies in South Australia's General Practice training program, all of which are vacancies in regional areas," he said.
"These vacancies affect both the services we can offer and the future general practice workforce supply.
"Our draft Rural Medical Workforce Plan, developed by the Rural Health Workforce Steering Committee, outlines strategies to help attract more doctors to the regions and empower our country clinicians with the support they need, when and where they need it."
Consultation of the plan will take place throughout August and September with key stakeholders and health professionals providing feedback for the program.
Rural Health Workforce Steering Committee chair Dr Hendrika Meyer said the aim of the plan was to bolster the number of senior doctors and medical trainees in rural South Australia.
"Some of the strategies to address the shortage include expanding intern and resident training capacity in rural hospitals, increasing exposure to rural experiences for metropolitan based medical interns, and linking training pathways to future rural employment opportunities," she said.
"By involving clinicians and stakeholders across regional South Australia, we will ensure the plan can be tailored to the needs of the local community."
For more information and to view the draft plan, go to www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/ruralhealthworkforce


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Gov. Mike DeWine revealed the entirety of his 2020-21 executive budget on Friday, announcing a biennial spending plan that he said raises no new taxes and bases spending increases on anticipated revenue growth over the next two years. The biennial budget would increase General Revenue Fund (GRF) spending by $1.18billion for FY20 and $1.62 billion in FY21. It calls for state-only GRF spending of nearly $24.0 billion in FY20 and $24.8 billion in FY21, while all funds spending will be $74.295 billion in FY20 and $76.01 billion in FY21.Another calculation for GRF expenditures is based upon state and federal Medicaid spending, which for FY20 totals $33.7 billion and $35.3 billion inFY21. "For too long we tinkered at the margins," DeWine said. "Now is the time to tackle our unfinished business." DeWine was joined by Lt. Gov. Jon Husted and Office of Budget and Management Director Kimberly Murnieks in making the announcement. Husted said that as a former lawmaker, the budget hits the right notes because it is balanced and doesn'traise taxes.
A new fund totaling $250M in FY20 and $300M in FY21 to support wraparound services, mental health counseling, and other needs of at-risk students in Ohio schools represents the bulk of new K-12 education spending in Gov. Mike DeWine's first executive budget proposal. DeWine said Friday the funding will help ensure struggling children are able to learn, and allow schools to redirect core funding they've dedicated to those purposes back to the classroom. School districts will be encouraged to partner with nonprofits, educational service centers, county mental health, addiction and job and family services agencies, and others to provide the services. Schools won't get additional general aid but will receive at least what they did the year prior, DeWine said.
Also in the proposed budget, charter schools that outperform nearby district schools on state tests and enroll a majority of students from low-income families could share in a new funding pool. The executive budget includes $30 million in each fiscal year to support per-pupil payments for charters earning the designation "school of quality." According to DeWine's office, getting that designation requires meeting certain criteria such as scoring better than the local district on the state report card performance index two years in a row.
On Thursday, Superintendent Paolo DeMaria presented the Ohio Department of Education's (ODE) budget proposal to the House Finance Committee, noting that all but a tiny sliver of the billions of dollars directed to K-12education goes to local schools. Also during Thursday's meeting, Rep. Gary Scherer (R-Circleville), vice chairman of the committee, shared he's heard about an inconsistent ability to claim the small business income deduction in school districts that levy income taxes. Scherer said it relates to whether districts impose an all-income tax, or an earned income tax. He said after the hearing he's interested in creating consistency and speculated the problem might have arisen amid the evolution of the business deduction, which was modified and expanded over a few budget cycles.
After shepherding a broad school deregulation measure through the previous General Assembly, Sen. Matt Huffman (R-Lima) is returning in the new term with a follow up bill focused specifically on career-technical education. Presenting SB89 to the Senate Education Committee on Tuesday, Huffman said the legislation was drafted in the same way as his previous bill, 132-SB216 -- by convening superintendents and asking for their suggestions. Among the nearly two dozen proposed changes to law are the following:
- Prohibiting data reporting changes within 30 days of the end of a reporting period and requiring the state to pick a pilot career center to test new reporting requirements.
- Barring the state from challenging or overruling collective funding agreements between schools that share students, such as one between a traditional district and a career center.
- Eliminating WebXam requirements for career-technical education programs that also required passage of a credentialing exam.
- Giving joint vocational school districts other options to make up for missed hours as a result of calamity days declared by students' home districts.
Dissatisfied with the operation of academic distress commissions (ADCs) in the state and under the threat of even more being formed, a number of legislatorshave introduced bills that would alternately place a moratorium on theircreation or abolish them. Reps. Kent Smith (D-Euclid) and Steve Hambley (R-Brunswick) testified on their HB127 in the House Primary and Secondary Education Committee to set a moratorium on ADCs, and Reps. Joe Miller (D-Amherst) and Don Jones (R-Freeport) said they're introducing a bill to abolish the three commissions now operating in Youngstown, Lorain, and East Cleveland.


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Another supply of Polish radios outside Europe
RADMOR S.A. has signed a contract for the supply of military radios 3501 to one of the non-European countries.
The scope of said agreement is the supply of more than a thousand of 3501 VHF tactical radios with accessories in handheld configuration. Completion of deliveries under the signed agreement is scheduled for December 2016. The company is negotiating to extend of the contract with the same user for the supply of subsequent tactical radios in the amount of several hundreds.
This is another foreign user of 3501 radio which is used by several armies in the world. The radio is entirely designed and manufactured in Poland by RADMOR SA.
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