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Here's Beckett trying to copy my hairstyle
Monday, February 1, 2010
Whoa, can you believe it! Two posts in two days. Wait no. Oh bummer its been three days. Oh well. I've been inspired to do better at this here blogging. It's been like a bajillion weeks since I caught up on my blog stalking, so I decided today was as good a day as any. And here I am however many hours later and I've only gotten through New Years day on my blog roll. Good grief you people are blogmazing! I'm inspired by you. So here I am. I owe you an apology. You came to my blog, even signed up to be my follower friends, you come back to see how I'm doing and nothing. I haven't written in months. I'm especially sorry to my family and friends who are far away and would love to know what in the world is going on over here. Anyway I vow to do better. Have I said that before. Surely not. Well, that being said, I have to go. Beckett needs dinner. Kevin needs dinner. I need to get ready to go to bible study (which should only require grabbing my bible and possibly applying a bit of makeup, but seeing as I haven't finished my lesson it will now require a bit more time). I'll try to think of something real to say tomorrow.
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Yes! More, please!!
- February 1, 2010 at 7:02 PM
- Megon said...
Keep it up! This pic is priceless!!!
- February 2, 2010 at 4:45 PM
- Kristy said...
What a cutie!
- February 3, 2010 at 4:50 PM
- Christy said...
Oh my gosh, he is so cute! When do I get to see him in person? Soon please!
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The young man was found Tuesday night in a locked room at Hillenbrand Hall.
The school has said the student apparently fell from a boat into a small pond during a Sigma Chi fraternity social event.
An Indiana State University student died at an off-campus, fraternity event over the weekend.
IU student Abigail Bott died at McNutt Quad on Sunday afternoon. The preliminary cause of death is undetermined.

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Information is power. Sometimes information comes through unlikely avenues. In my case, the information I present to you is largely anecdotal. My life story, and the lessons I learn from living such a life I hope to pass on to others, in large part to let you all know you aren't alone.
Taking that a step further, I believe that empowered parents lead to empowered children and that eventually, those children will grow into empowered adults. At least I have faith that it can work like that.
My hope has always been to empower my reader with the simplicity of understanding. Empower you to know that even though bad things happen to us, we don't have to lead a bad life. Empower you to know that even though you and I may do things very differently, that's ok. Empower you to know that even in the worst of moments, everything will be ok. Empower you to know that your efforts are wider reaching than you could ever imagine. I can only wish that as you mobilize all this empathy you have towards me, you can find avenues to turn the tables and revert that empathy and understanding back in your own direction, and cut yourself, and your children a little slack.
I hope you see I'm trying to do that here.
As I type this tears are streaming down my face. I don't say that to brag about my sensitivity, in fact I'm sure some may see that as a weakness, I say that to let you know that I am sincerely passionate about this community. Every single corner of this community. And by community I mean every person, every loved one, every doctor, every company, every human being affected by diabetes. All diabetes.
So is love enough? Is this heart of mine that swells with adoration, understanding and empathy enough to make a difference in the world? Maybe it could be. Maybe it has been. But right now there is a swelling in my chest that says it isn't enough. I want to say that my time at the Medtronic Advocate Forum was the antitheses of such swelling, but really it begun several weeks before that as the new year knocked on the door of the old.
Somewhere inside of me I know I need to take what I'm doing to the next level. I didn't know what that looked like a few weeks ago, but I have a much better understanding of what that looks like now. Am I already there to full enlightenment? No. But I'm ready to take that first step, and that step is to help mobilize the people in my community, (you and I,) towards common goals.
I've used the analogy before about the Who's in Whoville from Horton Hears a Who. Our community is much like that. One voice can make all the difference to making us be heard.
And we need to be heard.
There are policy makers, pharma companys, news outlets, and simply neighbors in our immediate area that need to hear our collective voices. I am going to call on you from time to time to add to the collective to push our influence over the edge. If I promise you it won't be hard…if I promise you it can take minimal time, like less time than waiting in line for a cup of Starbucks, would you be on board?
I'm asking you to commit to saying yes. I'm asking you to commit to taking action, even before I ask for help. To commit to shunning away the voices that say you aren't needed.
I'm asking you not turn the other cheek.
I'm asking that of myself too.
In fact, part of my mission this year is to answer the calls for help.
I know I'm being vague, and I promise I'm not leading up to any big initiative announcement, or surprise anything…I am, really, just asking us to let go of ambivalence, and embrace the calls to action. We'll have our first opportunity to do that in a couple weeks when the annual "Spare a Rose" campaign launches.
If I've learned anything the last few days, I've learned this: One person can make a huge impact by doing small things. Please don't underestimate your power or our communities need for your one voice.
My 2014 Mission Statement: I will answer to calls for help in furthering worthwhile causes to benefit the global population of those affected by diabetes. I will examine my strengths and find my unique way to help, whether very big or very small. I will not hold on to the information I glean from others online, instead I will share that information to empower the parent community, and to educate as well.
Big things are happening in the diabetes healthcare landscape, regarding access and FDA approval. Big things are happening around the world with intent to save lives. Big programs are happening that can unite our diabetes community, and help us emotionally as well as eradicate stigmas associated with diabetes as a whole. Let's start noticing. Let's start helping.
I promise to do my part to seek out these things, and to let you know what those things are.
I'll take my first step by sharing some of the information I learned this last weekend while attending the Medtronic Advocate Summit. The event was impeccably put together and lent itself to an atmosphere of openness from all sides.
It's all coming once my brain can settle on what to start with.
Ready… Set…
(PS In full disclosure, Medtronic and Bayer paid for my flight, food and lodging to this forum. I was not asked to write about it. My views are 100% my own.)


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When I was young I was a bad, bad boy or so I was told repeatedly. In fact, it has continued through out my adult years as well, in various ways and I've been continually told I'm a bad, bad man from a variety of sources.
It doesn't concern me that much these days but where does it come from and I've come to the conclusion that it's from 'Me' at some level. I am reflective and do question myself but there is a disconnect from what the guilt says and where the Universe wants me to go. And bizarrely to me at times, the Universe is supporting me all the way which I don't understand sometimes. And probably surprises a few as well. Positive people and experiences continue to pop up all the time. So why if I'm a bad, bad man ?
A few articles I wrote about the Texan oil. As I think we now know, oil relates to kundalini and the chakras. For a long time now, I haven't written about sex apart from in a general sense and the Oil wasn't meant as a reference to the sexual energy within kundalini. To clear up any misunderstanding.
And this has happened more than a few times for it to be coincidence. AN Other has asked for chocolates. I've bought them chocolates and they want more chocolates. And I've thought they enjoyed chocolates, as they seemed to like the taste. And then they've turned round and said they don't like chocolates and never did, and that it's all my fault and that I'm a bad bad boy and am EVIL. Anyway, that's how I've seen it from my perspective but I think these situations have been replaying something that happened a long, long time ago.
Because it would seem kundalini is more than just a sexual energy. What I was actually referring to was Time. If you re-read the article you may see what I mean. Click 'The River Of Time'.
To be honest, I've just started examining this angle but I suspect that all Time is incorporated into the chakra system and is the origin of our past and our memories. And why we experience what we do and our relationships at any given time and with whom.
On Merovee, we've discussed Groundhog Day and the Time Loop many times. I think we've seen this in general terms where over a long period of time situations replay themselves repeatedly. Birth and death for example.
But if you go a bit deeper into this theory, then something more specific jumps out and that is that everything you have experienced and what you perceive as Now, maybe a memory. For example, at this present time you are reading this article but if Groundhog Day is correct this is actually a memory or maybe a replaying in your mind of you reading the article. And I am at my present time, remembering writing this article. And this goes for all your life. And mine.
I also mentioned the seaside towns of Eastbourne, Brighton and Chichester in England and their link to Westminster via the road system. Again, I think there is more to this than meets the eye and that the highways and byways and other energy channels such as the one I am currently using – the Internet – are a reflection or mirror of the chakra system and kundalini. And this can also be seen all over the world, the stars and basically incorporates the whole Universe, including Time, which we then experience in the Mind.
I believe the chakra system is The River of Time and that we have been and are on a journey on the river back to the source.
And in other News.
LOL and the murder with poison of Kim Jong Nam. Which would seem to tie in with something else and the Past.
Since about the beginning of December when myself and Cade had a slightly weird conversation about the dysfunctional nature, in my opinion, of the Number 7 it has continually reshowed itself. 2017 was the trigger.
And recently the Seven Sisters has jumped out at me and the Seven Suspect countries. And also we've been discussing the Seventh Seal. Or maybe Seventh See All or even the Seven All Sea (s).
And now Wikileaks is going to reveal the Seventh Vault ( thanks Roob ) .
So who are Wikileaks and who are We. Maybe, it's simple as this.
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Hillary Clinton hoards the company of celebrities, it's where the money is. She camps out on their coat tails, hangs on to their often exposed bare legs and cleavage. Hillary loves to share the stage with Hollywood, and entertainers; it's the few moments you see a real smile. Its the only time she expresses excitement. When have you seen the same enthusiasm for YOU the average American?
To Hillary Clinton the likes of you and me are mere peasants. She is the great pretender, deceiver…..suck us in; then when elected she'll separate from the American public. She'll pick up where she left off as Secretary of State, wine and dine with the Middle East (and elsewhere) money hounds; accept more bribes. Only now, she'll have more to sell. America will be sharing our resources and assets unlimited with the rest of the world (uranium to Russia already), while Clinton's throne and wealth expands (Illuminati and Soros her only bosses). National Security? She's already placed it at severe risk with here unsecure/insecure personal server. There is nothing she will not share, give away for the almighty dollar. She has nothing to worry about, she gets away with it all, she is above the law.
There is a deceptive DOJ to protect the Clinton's. They were chosen many years ago for this time, this moment. They believe, and its easy to see why, they are above us all. Only we collectively can stop her, stop them; the Washington Establishment (criminal gang) and the Clinton Crime Syndicate. They don't pay for their crimes like we do, they cover-up and pardon each other.
God watches to see if we respond by helping one another, help ourselves. God help us!


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Author has written 6 stories for Megamind, Dragon Age, and Zoey 101.
Hello there, nice to meet you.
I like a lot of genres, but most of all fantasy. It rocks my world. Always has, always will.
Also, Dragon Age is great.
I haven't got around to play DAO till early in 2011, but it spoilt video gaming for me (I've been a Bethesda girl up until that point). It's such a rich universe with so distinct, interesting characters and conflicts, it's simply delightful. Funnily enough, it was the game that convinced me of the gloriousness that is archery, too - and now I couldn't imagine to play anything else in any game. I have to confess that I'm a die-hard Cousland fan - shock, horror, oh Maker, how boring, I know, but I love that family to bits -Bryce-Eleanor-Oren-Oriana-Fergus! - and I actually enjoy being a human in a fantasy setting. Not only because it was the first origin I played, but also because I found it my most fulfilling one and I've repeated it so many times I've lost count. My love for the Couslands may also have something to do with the fact that my stuck-up Cousland Warden was the only one I used to troll other characters with. But I digress. :)
I'm also fascinated by the city elves struggles to maintain their elven identity, while having to adapt to the human society their subjected to. No Dalish, mages - DA II ruined that or dwarves for me, at least not unless they're excellently written. If you take a look at my favorites list, however, you will find that there are truly fantastic Dalish stories that are close to converting me, even though it's never going to happen.
Anyway, I love to read DA stories of all kinds and I don't think I'll stop anytime soon.
Also I love to draw. Visit my deviantArt account for all that I cannot quite express in words. :)


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Can I keep this up I wonder? Probably not!
I made this card for my neighbour's daughter who was three on Saturday. All the products are by Craftwork Cards except the ribbon which I have had for ages. The range of paper is called Sorbet Scoop, and the elephant is a die cut from the range. I love using my Fiskars border punches, they are so useful, I wonder how I managed before.
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On January 14, 2011, Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali declared a state of emergency and stepped down amid nationwide protests. The protests were precipitated by economic strife and corruption accusations against the 23 year Tunisian leader. They began on December 17, 2010 after Mohamed Bouazizi, a fruit vendor whose cart had been seized for the lack of a permit, lit himself on fire outside the governor's office. In June 2011, Ali was tried and convicted in absentia on numerous charges related to corruption. On January 3, 2012, a military tribunal began trying Ali for his alleged orders to shoot protestors. Mass protests in the Middle East have also led to the end of the regimes of both Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and longtime Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi.
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text: John O'Dea wins Outstanding Contribution to Medtech Award Monday, 19 December 2016 The Irish Medtech Association, the Ibec group which represents the medtech sector, recognised John O'Dea for his 25 years in the industry with the Outstanding Contribution to Medtech Award 2016. This award recognises an individual who has made a significant contribution to the development, growth and success of the medtech sector in Ireland. The recipient is selected by the Irish Medtech Association board, with the support of Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland, to acknowledge a person's contribution to the sector as a whole, rather than to any one company or organisation. Irish Medtech Association Director Sinead Keogh, said:"John O'Dea has been a great ambassador for Ireland's medtech community. Since he began his career as an engineer working in Digital Equipment and Puritan Bennett, he has become known as a champion for entrepreneurs, with a passion for building linkages across academic and clinical communities. His business Caradyne was acquired by Respironics in 2004, before he became founding CEO of Crospon in Galway 10 years ago. While setting-up and running his own businesses may be time consuming, he continues to generously give his time to share his experience as the Chairman of the External Advisory Board for BioInnovate Ireland, as well as a Special Advisor to the SFI CURAM Centre for Research in Medical Devices, as well as the wider medtech community." On receiving his award Crospon CEO John O'Dea highlighted the importance of supporting startups:"Ten years on at my startup Crospon, I only feel we are getting going. Building a device, building the clinical evidence base, it's a long journey. Here in Ireland the landscape for device startups continues to greatly improve with initiatives such as BioInnovate, Curam and the Health Innovation Hub providing fertile ground for new startups. I have sought to champion the issues pertinent to startups through my involvement down the years with the Irish Medtech Association (then IMDA). "As we look to develop this industry, we need to look to how companies can traverse the long journey to market. We need alternatives to Venture Capital funding, particularly, longer term sources of funding to allow us build companies that can reach the point of profitability, thrive and create employment. What keeps us going, as entrepreneurs in this industry is the shared belief that engineers and clinicians working together can change the way medicine is practiced. This is what makes working in this industry special, and I am very appreciative of the recognition for my role in this sector with the Outstanding Contribution to Medtech Award 2016."


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I really enjoy working with kids. The Bay Area has so many great parks, libraries and museums there is always something interesting to do. I really enjoy sharing these experiences with the children I care for.
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My past childcare experience: I am a former preschool teacher with a great deal of experience working with children of all ages. I have earned a Master's Degree in Family Counseling and have a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology. I have more than 12 years experience working as a nanny with toddler, pre-K and elementary school age kids. Activities include going to parks, playgrounds, libraries, block building, puzzles, indoor forts, museums, pet stores, arts and crafts, and special programming as it is available. I am energetic, fun-loving and enjoy being outdoors. My schedule is flexible. I have excellent references, a perfect driving record, insured transportation and I am a non-smoker.
Additional Comments: Activities I do with children include the outdoors, going to parks and libraries, reading, art projects, building blocks, games, fieldtrips, toy racetracks and more! I really enjoy spending time with, teaching and guiding children. If you entrust your child or children to me I can promise you much more than safety. I will listen, explain, empathize and help them celebrate their daily achievements with sincerity and a sense of humor.


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Cinco De Mayo Easy is swinging at a pinata without a blindfold so grab a bat and bust this sudoku pinata wide open! Cinco De Mayo Easy is the perfect sudoku puzzle game for beginner players. It is even a great sudoku game for more seasoned players to just have fun and take a break from the more difficult sudoku games at Cinco De Mayo Sudoku.com!
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Casio's second watch doesn't look much different than the outdoor smartwatch it revealed at last year's CES. However, the software brains inside the ruggedized timepiece have been given a strong nudge forward. This is one of the first Android Wear 2.0 devices to surface, over half a year since we first got to play with Google's retooled wearable OS. The watch — designed for outdoors types — also comes equipped with low-power GPS and color maps that can be downloaded offline for true outdoorsmen and women. You will survive.
Yep, as we said earlier, the design is very similar to the original. Casio has, however, added button guards and a new protective bezel — important when your outdoors watch costs a few hundred dollars. For usability while wrestling bears or kayaking for your life, the buttons are now different sizes to help differentiate while using it.
App-wise, Casio has further developed the things its Pro-Trek watch does best, with fishing, hiking and cycling features all well represented.
In addition to specific tracking and assistance apps, there's also something called "Location Memory." This gives you a one-button location read-out, and also doubles as a location marker. You can add notes to these tagged spots as well through speech recognition on the smartwatch. Meanwhile, a feature called "Moment Setter" allows you to pre-program notifications, making the watch display light up dependent on sunset times or remaining altitude left to climb. Aesthetically, you'll also be able to choose more original watch face designs that tap into the low-power GPS or offline maps you've stored.
It's not a watch for everyone, but perhaps that's the point: It's an unapologetic ruggedized smartwatch, and it must have been popular enough for Casio to make a sequel. What if you bought said predecessor just months ago? Well, there's some good news: The older WSD-F10 will be upgradeable to Android Wear 2.0 this spring.
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'Listening to Jeb Bush and the rest of the Republican field of candidates for president speak out against President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, I wonder: perhaps Jeb should be told about what his daddy did when he was vice president; perhaps Senator Ted Cruz should be told about what his hero Ronald Reagan did for Iran.' Scott Galindez.
Many believe, as I do, that the Reagan administration, with Vice President George H.W. Bush, formerly director of the CIA, promised Iran weapons if they held American hostages until after the 1980 election. It is not in dispute that the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran, only the motive is in dispute – but would even that be in dispute in today's 24/7 media environment?
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Thousands of Saudi documents recently released by WikiLeaks detail an extensive government apparatus dedicated in recent years to undermining Shiite Iran while spreading Saudi Arabia's strict version of Sunni Islam.
While the documents show no Saudi support for militant activity, critics say the kingdom's campaign against Shiites and promotion of a strict form of Islam has diminished pluralism in thrganizations around the
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Christmas music in the form of carols, songs stringed or instrumental
renditions, is constantly heard during the Christmas season. Music forms the background against which everything else takes place to make the Christmas season different from all others. Christmas music plays such a significant role that during the entire season, other popular music temporarily disappears from radio. That may be the reason for all the different types of Christmas music -sacred, secular, popular and traditional – that have emerged throughout the years.
Popular and secular renditions of Christmas music has been developed by
musical artists and performers who 'make over' classic styles of Christmas music with their own personal touch. One reason for popular make overs of Christmas music may be because regular popular music is not heard during the holiday season so pop musicians and artists do Christmas music to keep their voices always in earshot of their fans and the general audience. It could also be that they want to capitalize on the popularity of Christmas music.
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Music at Christmas time is important to create the right mood. The
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The most popular Christmas song is said to be 'White Christmas,' which is
popular even in warm and tropical climates where people sing of 'dreaming of a White Christmas,' which in reality they would not want. Other popular Christmas songs and carols are: Away in a Manger, which tells the Nativity story in song; O Holy Night, Silent Night, Joy to the World, Hark the Herald Angels and Angels we have Heard on High.
Whatever selections of Christmas music are made however, it's likely that it will create a festive mood and spirit among all who hear or are listening to the music.


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Poppi is located in a unique setting, is surrounded by Central Italy's most beautiful cities of art and it is famous for its important cultural and artistic history, and it can be seen as a jewel in the crown as far as Tuscan views are concerned; it is precisely in this unique setting that you can find this beautiful historic estate dating bak to the 18th century.
This four-storey high-quality villa measures 925m2 totally and also has a 510m2 garden with a view over the Casentino valley and the castle of the Counts Guidi. It is possible to build a swimming pool in the garden so that you may relax in your own private haven of a rest.
The ground floor features the entrance hall, a kitchen with a pantry, two rooms and some bathrooms, while upstairs there are six rooms and some bathrooms.
This prestigious property also includes some rooms on the second floor, used as an attic, and other rooms in the basement, used as a cellar, but there is also a garage with two parking spaces.
This villa's rooms feature some typically Tuscan architectural elements and furniture such as some monumental stone and marble fireplaces, ceilings with beams, and wooden furniture.
This is a unique luxury property and a true dream villa set in a land blessed with an internationally-loved food and wine tradition, surrounded by the soothing colors of the Tuscan countryside but also close to all comforts.
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It's a common misconception that women are the sex living in a dream world. Sure, some women enjoy reading cheesy romance novels (myself not included), and even more enjoy a good romantic comedy (guilty as charged on this one)---but men live in WAY more of a fantasy world than women can even conceive.
I will say one sentence:
All men think they're James Bond.
Even men know this is true. They will laugh, but they laugh because it's true.
I once worked for a restaurant manager whose "secret" code on the company computer was "007".
Yes. I rolled my eyes.
Nice enough fellow, but short, bad skin, no real personality, closeted homosexual---yet, in his fantasy world he was still "Bond. James Bond."
And pickpockets, take note: the easiest way to steal a bunch of wallets is to go into a men's locker room and try turning the combination locks to 0-0-7.
You can thank me later.
Why this sudden fascination with the male fantasy world, you might ask?
Well, the other day, I was hit on by a NYC Street Sweeper.
Yes, more than one middle-aged man doing court-mandated community service, wearing a red jumpsuit and pushing a garbage can has seen me standing on the sidewalk and felt the urge to put down his broom and say, "Hey, gorgeous. You got beautiful blue eyes. What are you doing? On a coffee break? Damn, you look fine."
Well, let me put down my Starbucks and tell your parole officer not to wait up.
I don't care how lively your fantasy world is---if you're wearing a red jumpsuit, you might as well pack away the penis.
Not "Bond. James Bond."
More like "Out. Out on bond."
So, I am here to write a one-time-only advice column for men. Amongst my circle alone, I know quite a few men who could use a dose of female reality---and yes, women are WAY more realistic than men.
The current psychological profile of the sexes declares that men are problem solvers while women like to talk about their problems.
Sure, men may be more problem-solving, in general---but they're trying to solve the wrong problems. Like how to get the winning bid for a Star Ship Enterprise model on eBay when the real problem is that they don't have a job. Sure, we're still discussing our problems with our girlfriends while you're waiting for the postman to arrive…but at least we're on the right track.
It's The Tortoise and the Hare of the sexes.
Not to claim that women always win the race… But while you're busy making the Theme From Goldfinger your primary ringtone, we're washing your tidy whities, picking up the dandruff shampoo you're too embarrassed to buy, and trying to figure out a tactful way to get you to improve your aim into the toilet.
So, here are just a few of my observations and opinions on the male fantasy world.
First off---Are you REALLY a secret foreign agent? No? Okay. Remember that. Let's move on.
I don't care how much you felt like you "really connected" with the stripper when she was giving you a lap dance. I don't care if she laughed at your jokes or listened sympathetically about how your last relationship broke up. You may have recently lost five pounds, gave Rogaine a shot, and felt like you were really "on top of your game" that night---but she just wants your MONEY. If you started shoving love poems instead of dollar bills in her G-String, she would dump you quicker than your ex did. And trust me, the stripper won't need "closure".
Are you Brad Pitt? George Clooney? Blair Underwood? The current James Bond, Daniel Craig? Or even remotely close to opening a campaign office to nominate you for People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive? No? Then chances are, a Supermodel is NOT going to fuck you. Remember The Seven Year Itch? At the end of the movie, did he get Marilyn Monroe? I rest my case.
Do you even OWN a tux? And no, James Bond does NOT rent one from The Men's Warehouse. Chances are, at this very moment, the only disguises in your OO7 Wardrobe are the sweaters and big shirts that disguise your ever-expanding waistline. "Too much bread last night" my ass. Thank your lucky stars that women aren't as shallow as men, enjoy your Reuben, and stop thinking that wearing your old college sweatshirt makes you look like a college-aged student.
Two words. Air guitar.
Porn is not real. The women are paid. Good money. Most of them need the money to fund their drug habit. That's why they're not working as a waitress at Dennys. The Grand Slam Breakfast goes for around $5.99. A fifteen percent tip on that is about ninety cents. And with heroin, only the first one's free. And, while we're on the subject---There's a reason you can't SEE phone sex operators. Stop fantasizing that they look like Catherine Zeta-Jones. They don't. Ever seen an attractive radio personality? Try 1-900-Howard Stern. That's who's waiting for your call.
Paintball is not war. It's more like hide-and-seek. Your paintball victory on Sunday afternoon will never be covered by The History Channel. It's not The Normandy Invasion. Just a bunch of boneheads with beer.
Your favorite team may have won The Superbowl or The World Series---but you did NOTHING to facilitate this. NOTHING!!! I don't care how many games you attended or watched or how much you wore the jersey or how loudly you cheered---you deserve NO credit for this. And unless you had a bet down, the outcome will not affect your life in any way. Are you wearing a Superbowl Ring? End of discussion.
Costumes are for Halloween. Period. Look in your closet. How many costumes do you own? None? Really? Are you sure? Are you a cowboy? Then why do you own cowboy boots? Do you even know how to ride a horse? Are you a soldier? Then what's with the fatigues? Are you a rap star? Then buy some pants that fucking fit you. Golf shoes. Football jerseys. Whatever Michael Jordon endorses. How many "costumes" do you have for sports you don't even play? A black leather jacket does not make you James Dean any more than a brown bomber jacket makes you a World War II Ace. Yes, we think the photos of you running around in your Superman cape when you were six years-old are adorable. But you're a grown man now. Get rid of the Spiderman sheets.
And finally---Okay, how do I say this? Recently, I was watching one of my favorite shows on the BBC How Clean Is Your House? The premise is, a person with a dirty house calls hosts Kim and Aggie to come in and clean their house. Every episode is accompanied with the 50-something pair of British ladies screaming and eeeking over the dirty filth they're been subjected to. This particular episode featured "rock star"
I'm not out to change the world---I'm just offering you fellows a few friendly pieces of advice. You can take it or leave it. But if one day, you go to the gym and discover that your wallet is missing…
Don't be shocked if I say, "Told you so."


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Saturday, December 19, 2015
A tale of two cities
27 comments:
- AnonymousDecember 19, 2015 at 6:47 PM
No comparison. The yidish community population is so much bigger in NYC and NYS and the political clout is strong. We have absolutely no,political clout in Lakewood. We have a few thousand votes on the state level and bligs like this advocate against the vaad bloc vote so we dont even have that. Its no comparison. Stop blaming people. If you think we have clout then do somethingReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 19, 2015 at 7:29 PM
The vaad always before an election claims to have connections with politicians to help the kehila. So much for their connections and political clout if they were there for the tzibbur and not for the needs of a few things would not be the way it is. They took a gamble and endorsed Corzine over christie thinking they will get something from him. Not only that they refused to even meet with christie when he asked for a meeting. In the end most of the lakewood vote went for christie despite the vaad s endorsement of Corzine. However since the self appointed vaad officially represents the lakewood voting block at least in the eyes of the politicians it's been a rocky relationship with the administration hence all the trouble from the depth of education and elsewhere. Only a vaad that is transparent elected by the loam with no conflicts of interest can advocate on behalf of the kcal and have the trust of the tzibbur.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 19, 2015 at 11:14 PM
Your attempt to blame this for lack of support for the Vaad is parhetic. The Vaad does nor represent the Klal, but the onterests of the Prat.Delete
They have tremendous clout in local elections, and it has brought only havoc to Lakewood.
- YeedleChoosidDecember 19, 2015 at 7:04 PM
Appoint Yudel Shain to the board of EdReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 19, 2015 at 9:19 PM
Yudel Shain, Harold Hershkowitz, Chaim Shaulson, u fill in the next 2....Delete
- AnonymousDecember 19, 2015 at 8:13 PM
The vaad is not self appointed. It is appointed by BMG. Your fight is not with the VAAD. It is with the roshei yeshivah who appoint the Vaad.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 19, 2015 at 9:21 PM
Almost right. The askanim who the yeshiva relies on for community affairs told the Roshei yeshiva who to appointDelete
- AnonymousDecember 19, 2015 at 8:42 PM
The Vad is an independent body in the last election they couldn't produce a current letter from the roshei yeshiva. The letter was from a few years ago. Why won't the vaad members even sign their names.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 19, 2015 at 8:54 PM
Utter nonsense. The roshei yeshiva may or may not write letters of endorsement but yhey appoint the vaad members and they certainly are adamantly against disbanding this vaad and forming a newly elected one. Everybody knows this. You can ask them.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 19, 2015 at 9:46 PM
Go ahead make your own vaad no one is stopping you.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 10:22 AM
You mean to say "no one is sgopping you right now"Delete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 7:20 AM
does anyone have any ideas what we as simple laymen can do right now to combat the state monitor's tyranny? would writing letters en masse to Christie help? obviously, we have to somehow bypass the vaad anyone with good ideas how to do something NOW please let us knowReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 7:52 AM
We should demand that all non mandated programs be put on a referendum. Let the taxpayers decide which programs to cut.Let them show us the BOE budget line by line we Will than have a clear picture as to where all the money is going.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 7:56 AM
There is boe money paying for pre-k it is not mandated!!! Who is benefiting from that? Why is that not cut instead of courtesy buying which benefits all taxpayers.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 8:32 AM
The state and the monitor do not share our feelings and concerns. They believe that the public non mandated such as sports and after school programs are important and can not be cut. They belive that the public comes before non public. We belive that the taxpayer should decide any non,mandated and that thete is no difference betwern publicand private in non mandated. It is hard to fight the state.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 8:48 AM
They state does not have the power where to cut. We should take them to federal court.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 10:02 AM
As long as the monitor is here you have no,power to fight. And because of the bad formula the monitor will be here forever.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 10:32 AM
There is a good chance to win in court. A monitor can not overrule an elected school board. It should go to the Supreme court if necessary.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 10:32 AM
Enroll all the Jewish boys in public school and actually follow through on it. See if that sends any kind of wake up call to Trenton. It is a powerful tool if you choose to use it. If your not willing to use the power you have then don't complain.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 11:27 AM
Please research the nj law. A monitor has very broad powersReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 11:30 AM
A monitor can definitely overrule under curent nj lawReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 12:18 PM
There is no chance to win in court.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 12:38 PM
Yes there is. The state should be taken to court its a democracy and when you have no representation it violates the constitution. Look what happened in Lawrence a few years ago it went to court and the federal judge ruled against the district.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 1:22 PM
Please give the 250000 forthelawyerReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 1:32 PM
323 gave money for legal fees.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 3:05 PM
If 323 gave money then call him and tell him to file suitReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 3:13 PM
Get it from the guys who wrote the 323 article they seem to have gotten the money.Delete


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Sorry to hijack this thread but I'm not finding an email address to send an email to initiate a new thread on the new forum. Instead, Mail continually wants to offer an existing thread when I start to type my To with Panorama. Ugh.
What email address can I send an email to?
Robert Ameeti
You use the New Topic button at the top right, beneath the search, etc. icons.
I merged these two posts into one topic. I chose the title I used, because I'm pretty sure Robert is asking how to do it from email, without logging on to the forum.
Unfortunately, I can't supply the answer.
Sorry, you cannot start a new thread from email, only from the web interface.


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1. Yvette Cooper, Introduction, Eco-Towns Prospectus, London, Communities and Local Government, July 2007, p 3
2. Mark Brinkley, 'Eco towns: only the fit need apply', 8 November 2007, Building, posted on www.building.co.uk
3. Eco-Towns - Living a greener future, London, Communities and Local Government, April 2008
4. Gideon Amos, quoted by Kate Ahira, 'Eco-towns shortlist unveiled', 3 April 2008, Building, posted on www.building.co.uk
5. Eco-Towns Prospectus, London, Communities and Local Government, July 2007, p 5
6. Caroline Flint, Introduction, Eco-Towns - Living a greener future, London, Communities and Local Government, April 2008, p 4
7. Caroline Flint, 'The Green Home', speech at the Building Research Establishment Innovation Park, Watford, 15 May 2008
8. Rynd Smith, 'Eco-towns risk becoming communities of Stepford Wives', 4 April 2008, Building, posted on www.building.co.uk
9. Peter Hall and Colin Ward, Sociable Cities - The legacy of Ebenezer Howard, Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 1998
10. Gideon Amos, Foreword to TCPA and CLG, Best Practice in Urban Extensions and New Settlements - A report on emerging good practice, London, Town and Country Planning Association, March 2007, p 3, posted on www.tcpa.org.uk
11. TCPA and CLG, Best Practice in Urban Extensions and New Settlements - A report on emerging good practice, London, Town and Country Planning Association, March 2007, p 39, posted on www.tcpa.org.uk
12. House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, Greener homes for the future? - An environmental analysis of the Governments housebuilding plans, HC 566, Twelfth Report of Session 20072008, London, TSO, November 2008, p 3, posted on www.parliament.uk
13. Ibid, p 26
14. Scott Wilson Ltd, Eco-towns - Sustainability Appraisal and Habitats Regulations Assessment of the Eco-towns Programme, Wetherby, Communities and Local Government, November 2008
15. Draft Planning Policy Statement: Eco-Towns - Consultation, Wetherby, Communities and Local Government, November 2008, p 15
16. Eco-Towns Location Decision Statement, London, Communities and Local Government, July 2009
17. 'First four eco towns announced', 16 July 2009, Housebuilder, London, Home Builders Federation, posted on www.house-builder.co.uk
18. John Healey, Speech: Town and Country Planning Association Annual Conference, 1 December 2009, 1 Whitehall Place, London, TCPA Annual Conference 2009: social justice, climate change and planning, posted on www.tcpa.org.uk
19. Draft Planning Policy Statement: Eco-Towns - Consultation, Wetherby, Communities and Local Government, November 2008, p 21
20. Eco-Towns Prospectus, London, Communities and Local Government, July 2007, p 12
21. Richard Simmons, quoted in House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, Greener homes for the future? - An environmental analysis of the Governments housebuilding plans, HC 566, Twelfth Report of Session 20072008, London, TSO, November 2008, p 28, posted on www.parliament.uk
22. Creating low carbon homes for people in Eco-towns: Eco-towns housing worksheet - Advice to Promoters and Planners, London, Town and Country Planning Association, November 2009, p 18, posted on www.tcpa.org.uk
23. The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan - National strategy for climate and energy, Norwich, TSO, Amended 20 July 2009 from the version laid before Parliament on 15 July 2009, p 91
24. Simon Jenkins, 'The countryside must seize the day', 15 April 2009, Country Life, p 48 to 49
25. David Cameron, quoted by Phillip Webster, 'Cut-down programme gives Brown time to build up election defences', 4 December 2008, The Times, p 32
26. Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, quoted by Sarah OGrady, House prices set to surge, 18 January 2011, Daily Express, p 1 and 2
27. John Healey, Eco-towns and Zero Carbon Homes - Communities and Local Government: Written answers and statements, Hansard, House of Commons Debate, 16 July 2009, c42WS, posted on www.parliament.uk
28. Definition of Zero Carbon Homes and Non-Domestic Buildings - Consultation, Wetherby, Communities and Local Government, December 2008
29.Definition of Zero Carbon Homes and Non-Domestic Buildings - Impact Assessment, Wetherby, Communities and Local Government, December 2008
30. Fabric Energy Efficiency Standard for Zero Carbon Homes - Executive Summary of Task Group Recommendations, London, Zero Carbon Hub, November 2009
31. Neil Jefferson, quoted in 'Government changes zero carbon homes policy', 23 March 2011, Housebuilder, London, Home Builders Federation, posted on www.house-builder.co.uk
32. Defining a Fabric Energy Efficiency Standard for Zero Carbon Homes - Task Group Recommendations, London, Zero Carbon Hub, November 2009
33. The Governments Standard Assessment Procedure for Energy Rating of Dwellings - 2009 edition, Watford, Building Research Establishment, October 2010, published on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change, posted on www.bre.co.uk
34. Carbon Compliance: Setting an appropriate Limit for Zero Carbon New Homes - Findings and Recommendations, London, Zero Carbon Hub, February 2011
35. Neil Jefferson, quoted in 'Update on today's zero carbon announcement', 23 March 2011, Housebuilder, London, Home Builders Federation, posted on www.house-builder.co.uk
Zero Eco-Towns
In 2007, when she was Housing Minister, Yvette Cooper published the infamous Eco-Town Prospectus. If she really wanted many more new homes built she defeated her policy from the beginning by arguing that these new settlements must be "zero carbon", by which she meant they should have no impact on the planet's climate, as if they were not there:
'We have an ageing, growing population with more people living alone, and rising housing demand is outstripping new supply. To help families across the country find affordable, quality housing we need to build far more houses. But we also need new measures to protect the environment. At the beginning of the 21st Century our greatest environmental challenge is from climate change. As housing accounts for 27 per cent of carbon emissions, we need to substantially cut emissions from new homes and work towards zero carbon housing.' (1)
The New Labour Eco-Towns are about as zero carbon as they possibly could be. After the effort in planning, no Eco-Towns are likely to be built.
This failure of the Eco-Towns project is partly a consequence of the mortgage market related financial crisis that followed the New Labour hyperbole of 2007, but mostly to do with the inherent contradiction in the insistence on Eco-Towns rather than just new towns. You simply can't have a radical programme to increase house building and protect the environment from house building. Building a town is a major industrial undertaking. A town has a necessary impact during construction, and an ongoing impact when lived in. The rural landscape is transformed.
The fact that finance has been less available has not helped, but any shortage of development capital is a temporary problem. The reason why no Eco-Towns are likely to be built is that no-one could satisfy sustainability experts at the department of Communities and Local Government they were Eco-enough for successive Housing Ministers to avoid criticism from the array of environmentalists scrutinising proposals.
Green ideology equates the development required by a growing human population with environmental pollution. Mark Brinkley was typical when he objected that '... a 20th century eco-initiative, the Green Belt, is being sacrificed to 21st century expedience'. Brinkley went on to question '... whether we really need all this new housing. The mantra the government seems to be following here is that house prices are too high because we havent been building enough homes for many years. But this is a very simplistic notion and experience from other housing markets around the world suggests that the relationship between supply and price is complex and difficult to predict'. Brinkley was happy to invert social reality and over-complicate the housing issue. What he really objected to were immigrants. 'With the entire population of the EU free to move wherever the jobs and the housing are available, it is likely that one of the unintended consequences of expanding the housing supply will be to expand the population to fill the void'. (2) This was a green spin on the racist argument that immigrants cause housing shortages, and after attacking immigrants it is a small step for environmentalists to oppose population growth in general. The lack of house building is the housing problem, but Eco-Towns were never going to provide the solution.
This anti-human ideology, expressed in the prefix "Eco", ensured great efforts were made to argue against every Eco-Town proposal. The CLG began Eco-Towns by welcoming views from all stakeholders, which meant that countless environmentalists quibbled that the ludicrous zero carbon proposals were not sufficiently sustainable, asking for ever less impact to be financed by the developer. The developers, or "promoters", employed countless other environmentalists in a futile attempt to satisfy the burgeoning stakeholder demands, and many no doubt believed they were in the business of protecting the planet before making a return on capital invested through building. No wonder some developers pulled out.
From the 57 proposals that resulted from Cooper's prospectus only 15 were shortlisted by the time of the publication of Eco-Towns - Living a greener future. (3) Some proposals were rejected as unsustainable, but some developers no longer thought the Eco-Town idea worth the hassle.
Only 10 of the sites were ever to be selected by panels of CLG managed experts. Initially there were only to be 5 approved, but this pathetic figure was doubled in September 2007 because of the strong response from 57 bidders. New Labour had missed the opportunity to go with 50 locations. Gideon Amos, then the Chief Executive of the Town and Country Planning Association told Building magazine that '... with a potential to deliver around 200,000 new homes, eco-towns are an essential part of the solution to the problem of delivering affordable homes at the highest environmental standards to families and households crying out for decent homes in a good environment'. (4) Amos and the TCPA were dreaming.
The 15 Eco-Towns shortlisted by April 2008 shown in relation to the Green Belt in 2011. Source: CLG (3)
The Eco-Town Prospectus made a fair enough case for much more house building, referring to the work done by Stephen Nickell at the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit, which advised the CLG:
'Without a major increase in new housing, homes will become increasingly unaffordable. During the last 30 years of the 20th century house-building rates have halved while the number of households grew by 30 per cent. House prices have doubled in real terms over the last ten years and nearly trebled in the last twenty years, making it ever harder for those trying to buy their first home. The National Housing and Planning Advice Unit has estimated that average home prices are set to reach ten times annual earnings for the next generation if we fail to build more homes.' (5)
A year later, and the shortlisted locations in Eco-Towns - Living a greener future were introduced by Caroline Flint, then the Housing Minister. Cooper had become Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 24 January 2008, to help Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling tackle the bursting of the 1994 to 2007 housing bubble. While New Labour had bigger financial problems, Flint was stressing the "Eco":
'Not all the shortlisted bids will be successful. There will be no compromising our commitment to excellence and there are tough challenges ahead for each project to meet the standards set. We will now be testing every detail of the proposals with local authorities, stakeholders and local communities themselves.' (6)
Flint was an New Labour expert in self-congratulatory delusion, and environmentalists like the Building Research Establishment were happy to be flattered, and paid a stream of fees in the process. 'It's no exaggeration to say that England is now a world leader in green building. While climate change threatens countries around the world, we are the first to seize the initiative, transforming the way that we plan, design and build... with historically low interest rates and high employment, the conditions are right for a healthy housebuilding industry over the long term.' (7)
Britain has become a world leader in not building under the leadership of Cooper and Flint, with government content to fund consultancies like the BRE with their portfolio of environmental objections to development.
There were also many leading planners enjoying the green inquisition of the surviving Eco-Town proposals, adding their own requirements in the process. Rynd Smith, as Head of Policy and Practice for the Royal Town Planning Institute, was full of fresh constraints: 'Government must ensure successful proposals go beyond environmental targets, in addition meeting the following three criteria; the towns must have strong public transport links to other major metropolitan centres, sufficient local jobs to support the majority of the towns population must be within a reasonable distance of the development and the town must offer a broad range of recreational activities'. He said that if Eco-Towns were not built to be economically and socially self-contained, '... the environmental credentials of the development will be severely undermined because residents will be encouraged to spend more time behind the wheel of their car, heading off to more vital, enticing or convenient locations'. (8) While Brinkley rejected population growth Smith aimed to contain the mobility of any Eco-Town residents. No town in Britain needs to be self-contained.
The RTPI were evidently eager to add green qualifications for proposed Eco-Towns, but they were not the only professionals recommending developers consider more than the development. The TCPA had been quick to work with the CLG to define Best Practice in Urban Extensions and New Settlements by March 2007, ready for Cooper to loudly launch the Eco-Town Prospectus. The leading authors were:
Cayzer's Growth Areas Division was to encourage the development of the London-Stansted-Cambridge area as the M11 corridor, arguably up to Peterborough. Other areas were identified around Milton Keynes in the South Midlands, the "Thames Gateway" along the estuary, and Ashford in Kent. These too have failed as green-growth programmes, and are sure to provide ample lessons for the 250 New Towns Club.
The 250 New Towns Club would do well to look at these green-growth programmes in critical detail to work out why and how they failed. The records are dispersed, and will take some effort to capture. I suspect that common themes will become apparent, and a continuity will be seen with the way the Coalition government is talking about a "presumption in favour of sustainable development". It was not as if New Labour were operating a "presumption in favour of unsustainable development"!
Thames Gateway - Closed 11.07.2008
Double the population of London - serious growth in the Thames Gateway 17.04.2008
While the RTPI seemed to require self-contained settlements as a measure of sustainable development, the TCPA and the CLG seemed to require linked settlements for Eco-Towns that were more than urban extensions. The Best Practice guidance explicitly did not reiterate '... the historical concept of the new towns programme developed by post-war Labour and Conservative governments, although it might be noted that these governments achieved decent-quality new homes for some 3 million people'. Instead '... the focus is on a new interpretation of the new settlement model a linked new settlement. In some senses this builds on the "beads on a string" form expounded by Peter Hall and Colin Ward in Sociable Cities (9), but in other respects it differs'. (10) The guidance was dismissive of self-containment as a requirement, but offered nothing that developers could rely upon in promotion:
'Today it could be said that the attainment of self-containment is almost impossible in the more crowded parts of England, and in any case may be undesirable in locations where building a major town offers a less sustainable answer than might be offered by a cluster of new and existing settlements.' (11)
There was no agreement about what constituted an Eco-Town between the RTPI and the TCPA, at the top of the planning profession. The CLG were unclear. The environmental consultancies can't really be blamed for doing what they do best, earning fees by problematising development proposals, and government willingly funded stakeholder opposition to Eco-Towns. The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee spent an amount of their own effort criticising the zero carbon housing aim that, as Cooper had insisted upon, underpinned the Eco-Towns:
'Currently, the Governments target is for 2 million new homes to be built before the zero carbon target comes into effect in 2016, and for a further 1 million to be built afterwards. The Government should change the balance of its target so that the proportion built after the zero carbon target comes into effect is increased significantly.' (12)
While Britain's annual new housing production was falling dramatically during the financial crisis in the mortgage market the cross party House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee were effectively saying that this could be seen as a green opportunity. If the targets were postponed the lack of house building today could be presented as a promise of more zero carbon homes in the future. Delay in advancing any Eco-Towns was considered a virtue by environmentalists within and without government, regardless of anything the NHPAU thought. The Environmental Audit Committee went further to argue '... the importance of protecting and where possible extending existing Green Belt boundaries'. (13) That was quite a problem when several of the shortlisted Eco-Towns were either within the periphery of Britain's Green Belt on poor quality land, or just outside and in the way of extension. The Green Belt keeps growing.
The vague 2008 shortlisted proposal of Rushcliffe had by 2009 turned into three proposed settlements of Kingston, Newton, and Cotgrave Place, all facing objections from those who wanted to protect the Green Belt around Nottingham and Derby. The 2008 proposal of Weston Otmoor in the Green Belt around Oxford had been joined with another at Shipton, on the Cherwell river. The redevelopment of the coal workings in Rossington was not liked for being in Green Belt around Doncaster. By 2009 all these modest schemes were facing opposition emboldened by the Environmental Audit Committee's views. No Eco-Town, least of all those which wanted to make something of poor quality Green Belt, were welcomed by any significant planning authority. Green Belt was sacred.
Britain's numerous planning authorities had the Draft Planning Policy Statement: Eco-Towns - Consultation to hide behind. This listed only 11 locations then being considered, but all subject to lengthy consultation up to April 2009. In that process each developer had to produce a Sustainability Appraisal and a Habitats Regulation Assessment, in addition to showing their development was zero carbon enough. Then, in November 2008, Scott Wilson graded 20 proposals A, B, or C in some incomprehensible process that judged the Sustainability of locations. (14)
Only two Eco-Town proposals were given an A Grade. The gradings were disputed by promoters and detractors alike, and the PPS allowed wide interpretation by environmentalist objectors. 'The definition of zero carbon in eco-towns is that over a year the net carbon dioxide emissions from all energy use within the buildings on the development are zero or below. Planning applications should demonstrate how this will be achieved'. (15) This ludicrous "zero or below" requirement was impossible to understand. For a government being criticised for setting annual targets for housing production New Labour were spectacularly incapable of setting a measurable definition of zero carbon. Cooper never bothered to define her zero carbon rhetoric in the effort to appeal to greens, and there were numerous schisms amongst environmentalists about what "zero carbon" should mean. There still are.
Two years after the tiring chatter around the Eco-Town Prospectus a struggling New Labour got around to the Eco-Towns Location Decision Statement. Some of the unloved Green Belt proposals were still being discussed, Rossington and Elsenham were criticised, Weston Otmoor, Pennbury, and Ford were told to think again, and Middle Quinton was unresolved. The developers for Manby, Curborough, Marston, Hanley Grange, Leeds City, and Coltishall had pulled out, exhausted. Coltishall in Norfolk had gone, but Rackheath was raised as a preferred location. The withdrawal of Marston in the identified growth area situated between Bedford and Milton Keynes meant that the many worked out Oxford Clay pits around the closed but extensive Stewartby brick works were not developed either. An opportunity that should be looked at again. The decision suggested 14 locations, but in reality only 4 sites were being accepted by government after all the consultation. (16) They were:
It was amazing that even these 4 developers continued in their effort to get going. Next they were invited further to bid for a share of no more than a trifling £60 million of public funding to contribute towards local infrastructure. The next New Labour Housing Minister was John Healey, who meekly told Housebuilder magazine '... we wanted to see up to ten eco towns by 2020. Despite the recession I am giving the green light today to the first four pioneering proposals and making the offer to work with and help fund six more. The standards are high but I am confident of wider interest from developers and councils'. (17) He was clearly deluded. 'Our planning system must be an egalitarian system, driven by an egalitarian vision - not the grand designs of a few, but greener, more affordable homes which help everyone do their bit for tackling climate change.' (18) He was no less deluded than the TCPA of course, who loved the nonsense about Eco-Towns saving the planet.
The 14 Eco-Towns shortlisted by July 2009 shown in relation to the Green Belt in 2011. Source: CLG (16)
The PPS had required that '... planning applications should demonstrate a high level of engagement and consultation with prospective and neighbouring communities'. (19) This was easier said than done of course. Communities could hardly be brought together before the development was a built reality. The government set up a website to let people fantasise about "my eco-town", and in the engagement process to "have your say". www.direct.gov.uk/ecotownshaveyoursay is now closed, and we'll never know the contributions people made to the discussion.
The New Labour ambition was small from the start. Eco-towns were supposed to be "small new towns" of at least 5,000, and maybe 20,000 households. Most of those shortlisted were at the low end of that range. Any reduction on 5,000 and they become eco-villages. Shipton on the river Cherwell was the smallest 3,000 home proposal, but the Leeds sites were scattered throughout the city. Some sites in Leeds were graded C.
The Eco-Town Prospectus talked of a minimum target of 5,000 to 10,000 homes for only 10 locations. (20) In total, assuming all 20 locations were approved, the Eco-Towns initiative was only 159,500 homes. However 4 were finally approved, totalling 20,500. The approval result was nearly a tenth of the 200,000 that Amos had estimated. A fraction of the 240,000 homes New Labour argued were minimally required every year to meet demographic growth. With only 20,500 Eco-Town homes being discussed the objectors talked up the zero carbon requirement in all house building.
The meddling Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment had told the Environmental Audit Committee that since Eco-Towns, developed over many years, represented a much small quantity of new homes built compared to annual production targets, '... the ambitious environmental criteria for development in the proposed eco towns need to be applied to all significant development'. Richard Simmons, CABEs chief executive, had recommended that '... from 2016 all significant developments are subject to the same tests as for eco-towns'. (21) A worrying prospect for house builders given the systemic failure to build any Eco-Towns.
The TCPA carried on telling developers what they should do to improve the design of housing in Eco-Towns. The TCPA seemed oblivious to the fact that the numbers of homes that might be built was dwindling the more they insisted on a plethora of briefing criteria to be achieved without design repetition. 'Eco-towns must challenge the pattern book approach to housing employed by some developers and show that innovative thinking can be applied to housing and house types and that this does not have to increase costs. In the longer term, savings can be made through good-quality design'. (22) If anything a pattern book approach to planning was necessary to aggregate the Research and Development costs. Like CABE, the TCPA wanted architectural novelty in the pursuit of all housing being zero carbon by 2016, without thought for how the R&D was to be financed in 5,000 home settlements. Even New Labour's UK Low Carbon Transition Plan appreciated that '... building zero carbon homes will require substantial change on the part of house builders and their suppliers.' (23) That is an understatement.
Others rejected newness entirely. Simon Jenkins, chairman of the National Trust, insisted in Country Life that ' the best eco-town is an adapted existing one'. He only saw a loss of landscape ' in the erosion of green belt and in the spread of executive estates, wherever developers can cajole a council or a Minister into giving [planning] permission.' He believed ' the eco-towns were located with no thought for their landscape impact, as if nothing was learned from the post-war new-town experience.' (24) There are lessons to be learned from the post-war new towns, and landscape is important, but Jenkins would have no new settlements, "Eco" or otherwise. Regardless of design quality.
Blowhard Brown and the eco-towns of Little Britain 13.07.2007
Responding to Prime Minister Gordon Brown after the Queen's speech at the State Opening of Parliament, David Cameron could easily lay into the government's record: 'Eco-towns - he told us there would be loads of them. In fact only one is still alive. He promised zero-carbon homes - well, I can tell the House there have been virtually zero of them'. (25)
Only the St Austell Eco-Town project seems to be still alive on the Internet, on http://eco-bos.com, but nothing has happened yet beyond an architectural design competition for the 50 home Pilot Phase in 2010. This is pitiful, and Cooper in particular should be embarrassed.
At the 250 New Towns Club we are not talking about reviving the failed Eco-Towns programme because we need many new towns for more people. Or as James Heartfield sensibly and stridently put it:
Forget Eco-towns - Let's follow the example of Britain's Gypsies 15.04.2008
The Eco-Towns have indeed amounted to nothing. However, while house price inflation co-incided with confident mortgage lending terms until the financial crisis, house price inflation has wobbled but returned under conditions of cautious mortgage lending. (26) Britains vast majority of home owners will be relieved. Most people have felt uneasy with financial dependency on the debt and equity in their home. Most people also know that not enough new housing is being built to meet demographic growth. Britain needs to build a lot more new housing.
While we should forget the prefix "Eco", the 250 New Towns Club might most usefully look again at the good locations identified in this ridiculous planning episode, either as locations for 40,000 household new towns, or a number of smaller developments. That requires some effort in collating information about the projects, which the CLG never recorded centrally.
There are zero Eco-Towns. No doubt to the satisfaction of Simmons, the pursuit of zero carbon housing persists, however. Neil Jefferson, chief executive of the Zero Carbon Hub on www.zerocarbonhub.org had a description of zero carbon provided by Healey in July 2009:
'A zero-carbon home is one whose net carbon dioxide emissions, taking account of emissions associated with all energy use in the home, is equal to zero or negative across the year. Our definition of "energy use" will cover both energy uses currently regulated by the Building Regulations and other energy used in the home'. (27)
That was easy to say, after a lengthy consultation, (28) and a published impact assessment, (29) but rather more complex to translate into commercially viable architectural designs. (30) In 2011 Jefferson is still trying to achieve a workable definition of zero carbon from Cameron's Coalition government. 'Our job is to continue to work with government and all those involved in the housebuilding industry to help make this policy a reality from 2016'. (31) Jefferson should stop fiddling with carbon measurement, and the ZCH should be wound up. It is daft that the house building and materials manufacturing sectors fund them.
It has just become very clear that the Coalition thinks differently to New Labour, and wants only the emissions covered by Building Regulations, such as heating, fixed lighting, hot water and building services, to be reduced to zero by 2016. The zero carbon purists might not let the ZCH and the CLG ignore emissions from cooking or from a host of plug-in appliances, such as computers and televisions. Jefferson is facing another round of quibbling about the new zero carbon scenario. (32) This must involve the ZCH negotiating with the Building Research Establishment. The BRE Group has a sweet contract with government since Cooper at the CLG agreed to turn their EcoHomes system into the Code for Sustainable Homes to create a series of steps for revising the Building Regulations. That was in 2006, at the beginning of the promotion of zero carbon and Eco-Towns.
Cooper allowed the Standard Assessment Procedure for Energy Rating of Dwellings - the key first to EcoHomes, then the steps in the Code for Sustainable Homes, and now the Building Regulations - to be maintained as private knowledge by the BRE Group. The Department of Energy and Climate Change depend on them. (33) Under the terms of its agreement over SAP part of the BRE Group, BRE Global, licences both the Code Assessors and other Code Service Providers, establishing a protected fee stream even as construction activity declines. Publication of SAP 2009 has not fixed the broken Code, and neither will SAP 2012, or SAP 2015, as the Building Regulations attempt to make all buildings zero carbon.
The Code for Sustainable Homes is broken 19.03.2008
Gummer might gloat, but he made the Building Research Establishment what it is today 11.11.2007
Britain has a critical Building Regulation concerned with reducing energy use in buildings, being revised to a shifting definition of zero carbon, the assessment of which government allows to be privately monopolised by BRE Group as a fee earning consultancy. That it can afford to support a charity, the BRE Trust, is of no comfort to all other consultancies, and the construction industry in general. The incomprehensible regulation of the design of buildings is the only legacy of Cooper's zero carbon housing fantasy, which she imagined would be made manifest in a number of Eco-Towns. After the effort in planning, no Eco-Towns are likely to be built. The Eco-Towns are about as zero carbon as they possibly could be, while the zero carbon regulation of construction grinds on. CABE got their wish, and building designers must keep paying the BRE Group.
The ZCH are powerless. They must deal with BRE Group, but why does the construction industry let the "black box" operation persist? Why can't SAP be public knowledge, maintained by government for all?
Open all the publicly funded "black box" data that environmentalists guard as "evidence" 22.11.2009
Jefferson hardly cares. He has his reports to build on, and writing more will keep ZCH staff busy. (34) He is '... really pleased that we have had confirmation that the Hub's task group's recommendations for levels of on-site Carbon Compliance will form the basis for the 2016 Building Regulations'. (35) No doubt there are environmentalists busy arguing for the scope of the Building Regulations to be extended to regulate energy using behaviour in the home. They may win out unless the house building and materials manufacturing sectors manage to oppose them.
Energ!se the future now, say James Woudhuysen and Joe Kaplinsky 30.01.2009
Expect a lot more talk about zero carbon, none of which will amount to more high performance new house building that most people can afford.
Expect a lot more talk about too many immigrants, and too many people from the Coalition government and a constituency of environmentalists imposing sustainability as the qualification for planning approvals.
The lesson of Eco-Towns is that zero carbon means zero development...
Ian Abley 28.03.2011
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my apologies for those reading this who thinks that i am giving too much info but my lower groin feels like it's being stretched slowly. my pelvic area is sore and everytime i get up to walk, i have this constant need to take both my hands and put it under my tummy to support a baby who feels like he's going to fall out anytime soon.
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Star Wars
Are you sitting comfortably? In depth analysis of starwars can be an enriching experience. While it has been acknowledged that it has an important part to play in the development of man, starwars is not given the credit if deserves for inspiring many of the worlds famous painters. It is estimated that that starwars is thought about eight times every day by socialists, who just don't like that sort of thing. Complex though it is I shall now attempt to provide an exaustive report on starwars and its numerous 'industries'.
Social Factors
Society is our own everyday reality. When Sir Bernard Chivilary said 'hounds will feast on society' [1] he was clearly refering to the impact of starwars on today's society. A society without starwars is like a society without knowledge, in that it cleary plays a significant role amongst the developing middle classes.
Did I mention how lovely starwars is? Society says that every man must find their own truth. While one sees starwars, another may see monkeys playing tennis.
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Do we critique the markets, or do they in-fact critique us? We will begin by looking at the Lead-a-Duck-to-Water model, a lovely model. Cost
When displayed this way it becomes very clear that starwars is of great importance. Even a child could work out that the cost of living looms over starwars this cannot be a coincidence. The economic policy spectrum is seeing a period of unprecedented growth.
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Politics was once a game featuring competitors from elite classes. Politicians find it difficult to choose between what has become known in politics as - 'The two ways' - the two sides of starwars.
In the words of a legend in their own life time, Maximilian Skank 'I don't believe in ghosts, but I do believe in democracy.' [2] What a fantastic quote. If starwars be the food of politics, play on.
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Rolling black-outs all night long. (Thankfully, remembered to unplug computers and major appliances).
Managed to find flashlight and candles and matches in a timely fashion.
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PC Jonathan Henry, may you rest in peace.
I'm not naive, I am well aware that the police face this kind of abuse regularly, I have not only heard it but have a friend in the police who has to take it on a regular basis. I am ashamed & sickened to see that somebody, posting as 'anonymous', has been posting comments on the police bloggers that have posted tributes to PC Henry, they have been using this comment as copied below;
"Great news as another Nazi pig gets put down. What a wonderful week it is now. shame the guy did not stick a few more Nazi pigs before they got him.
Someone should dig up the dirty pig cut off the baldheaded Nazi cunts head and stick it on a lamp post in luton town center, as a warning of what all pig scum should get for being a traitor to the man on the street.
and may may more of the scum follow this scum to an early grave in the most painful way possible.
every dead pig is a victory for the people."
This has been copied & pasted on over 90% of police blogs, which in itself shows great imagination wouldn't you agree.....?
And of course, once he found out I was applying to the police I also came in for some abuse, namely I was wished a sooner rather than later death, preferably as painful as possible & when I corrected him on the appalling grammar & spelling I was told;
"I am old enough to be your father little girl, IF i was I would smack some sense into you for joining the scum"
And on CSI:UK's blog, the comment below;
"Girl*Next*Door I would stay a goby little girl receptionist if I was you. maybe when you grow up. you may find out that pigs are not there too protect anyone the scum in power.I would never dream or running around feeling with all important in a storm trooper uniform. repressing and abusing the general public.may someone dig the scum up and stick the Nazi scums head on a pole in the middle of luton town as warning too the scum pigs that that what the have coming."
As you can see, the 'human' being who prefers to hide behind anonymity rather than show his name or even a viable blog link has zero respect, zero decency, zero courage, bravery & any other attribute that is worth having or mentioning decent people & real men have. I have done this post, not to give any attention to the extremely un-educated person posting this venom, but to show the difference between a real man, a man who died with honour doing the job he loved, protecting & serving & then someone who feels the need to hide anonymously & post pure evil & venom on a tribute to a man doing his job, serving others, & to do that he is the lowest of the very low. I will not call him a man because he isn't, he is male. There is a world of difference between the two.
This blog post will remain up for 2 days, after that it will be deleted as I refuse to have such disrespect & venom polluting my blog.
I didn't feel a tribute to PC Jonathan Henry was appropriate by me, it was also covered by police blogs who have done a far better job than I could have done. That isn't to say my thoughts aren't with PC Henry's family, friends & colleagues.
RIP PC Jonathan Henry.


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Lopilato's rep declined to say how far along she is. The couple was married in 2011, and Noah was born in August of 2013.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
the plaza...
eloise. beautiful, vivacious, and smart eloise. she loves to cause havoc around the plaza in new york, and is always learning a new lesson while doing so. she is a perfect namesake for the little newbie i was honored to shoot on friday. i met up with her mama and grandma at their beautiful home to capture her in all her newborn glory. some newborns sleep right through their sessions, making it easy to move and position them just as needed. eloise was not that way. she was alert, and curious, a total sweet heart, and awake up until the end. it was so fun capturing her tiny little toes and lovely smile, and i hope she grows up to be just like the eloise in the books.
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Construction work on the Colombo-Kandy highway will begin immediately, Road Development, Higher Education and Investment Promotion Minister Kabir Hashim who was speaking in Parliament informed that government would start construction work on the Colombo-Kandy highway soon.
The Minister said the matara-Beliatta-Hantantota stretch of the Southern Highway will also begin soon after negotiations with the contractors He said the government believed that it would be possible to reduce the costs involved in the contract by 30 percent.
Referring to the Northern Highway he said the construction of the road had to be suspended as the work on the project was to begin without awarding contracts in a transparent manner.


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Lucknow: There will be no immediate relief from the blazing heat in Uttar Pradesh, the state Met department said on Saturday.
Owing to dry hot winds, the maximum temperature and the minimum temperature would continue to remain 4-6 degrees Celsius above average in almost all parts of the state, it said.
Banda remained the hottest in the state Friday with the maximum temperature recorded 44.8 degrees, while in Lucknow the maximum temperature was recorded 43.0, five degrees above average.
In other districts of the state, including Varanasi, Allahabad, Kanpur, the maximum temperature remained well above 40 degrees.
The minimum temperature in Lucknow on Saturday morning was 23.5 degrees, four degrees above average.
"The reason behind such an intense heat wave is the absence of a weather phenomenon responsible for thunderstorm and showers," state Met director JP Gupta told reporters.
"There would no relief from the heat at least for the next 48 hours. As the southwesterly winds are weak, dry hot westerly winds coming from Rajasthan are dominating the atmosphere," he added.
Such a weather pattern is not normal for Uttar Pradesh at this time of the year and is witnessed generally in the month of May and June, officials said.


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