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Begbroke and Yarnton Green Belt Campaign
Begbroke and Yarnton
Green Belt Campaign
Cherwell District Council want to build 4,400 houses, the majority on the Green Belt surrounding the villages of Begbroke, Yarnton and Kidlington. The largest number will be built on two sites between Begbroke and Yarnton. BYG is campaigning to save our Green Belt.
A Positive Step for Our Campaign
26 February 2021
The latest, encouraging, news from the Begbroke & Yarnton Green Belt Campaign (BYG) is that a High Court ruling is allowing a judicial review to go ahead of Cherwell District Council`s Local Plan Partial Review. The Plan, initiated in 2015, proposes the building of 4,400 houses on Oxford`s Green Belt to the north of the city, including over 2,000 around Begbroke and Yarnton.
The Honourable Mrs. Justice Lang, sitting in the Planning Court of the Queen`s Bench on 11 February, directed that the Cherwell Development Watch Alliance, of which BYG is a founder member, could proceed to a full court hearing with the application it made to the court last year for a Planning Statutory Review of Cherwell`s proposals.
This was the first, crucial test of our fundamental claim that the adoption of its Plan by Cherwell is unlawful, and that it should therefore be quashed or sent back for a complete review. Now that it is in the courts and out of the hands of Cherwell District Council and Oxford University`s landowners, it seems at last that someone is actually prepared to listen to us!
Defending the Plan are Cherwell and the Secretary of State for Housing, Robert Jenrick. Four other parties, as landowners in the target Green Belt, have an interest in the Plan going ahead and are jointly supporting the Defendants: Oxford University and the university colleges of Christ Church, Exeter, and Merton.
The key issue is the level of housing need claimed by Oxford which, as a neighbouring authority, Cherwell has agreed to help meet.
In the judge`s view, we have `presented arguable grounds which require full consideration`. The date for the full hearing is yet to be set but is likely to be some months away.
Although this is not an indication of the final outcome, we are delighted and feel that our efforts to date and all the support we have been given by residents and the Begbroke and Yarnton parish councils, as well as others, has been justified.
Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far.
Giles Lewis
for Begbroke & Yarnton Green Belt Campaign; Cherwell Development Watch Alliance.
Cherwell Council Ignores Residents and Approves Local Review Plan
The 7th September was a dark day for local democracy as Cherwell District Council led by Barry Wood pushed through adoption of its local plan Partial review (Oxford's Unmet Need). We thank all the local Councillors – Carmen, Conrad, Ian, Katherine and Maurice for speaking up for us and voting against. All the affected Parish Councils have been magnificent on our behalf. Sadly, all our efforts were ignored.
Summing up, Cllr Colin Clarke, Lead member for Planning confirmed that the council "always accepted the local plan would not be to the liking of everyone and I acknowledge that the residents of Kidlington, Begbroke and Yarnton would be affected by these proposals".
Yes, it's true. Cherwell Council set out to deliberately ignore the fierce opposition from local and national campaign groups. They have betrayed the trust of every local resident who took part in the public consultation. Not a single modification – not one – was made to the plan as a result of public feedback. They did, though, add even more houses in the Green Belt to accommodate the 400+ houses the Planning Inspector thought might blight the setting of Blenheim Palace. So, for example, the Yarnton site to the west of the A44 will be extended further into the Green Belt, as will the land behind Water Eaton Lane which will now be developed almost all the way to Kidlington roundabout. The 'Kidlington Gap' will effectively be closed.
All of the 4,400 extra Oxford City homes will be located in the Green Belt. It seems doubtful that any of the 'affordable' houses will be available for Cherwell residents as they are being reserved for the City Council and the University. The proposals will however transform Begbroke, Yarnton and Kidlington from self-contained settlements within, and protected by, the Oxford Green Belt into outward extensions of Oxford.
Cherwell Council has abandoned our rural communities to be engulfed into Oxford's Sprawl. The treasure that is the North Oxford Golf club and its thousands of mature trees will be lost, all to provide housing for the university's expansion. [The Club is in Cherwell District not Oxford City as might be expected.] The Council's press release has the gall to claim that "The Plan will bring significant benefits to the south of Cherwell district" allowing us to "readily connect to Oxford and access its services and places of work". Improved transport links???? Closing Sandy Lane and Yarnton road is never for our benefit.
Barry Wood, Leader of the Council went so far as to say the public were deluded to believe they could influence planning decisions via the democratic system. Planning decisions, he again claimed, are actually a QUASI LEGAL matter. In fact that is simply an abdication of his and his Council's responsibilities to its electors.
The Begbroke & Yarnton Green Belt Campaign, Kidlington Development Watch (to whose Linda Ward I am grateful for the copy of this announcement) and the Cherwell Development Watch Alliance amongst others have therefore been working to put together a legal challenge. We believe that the adoption of the local plan is flawed and hope that it may be overthrown via Judicial Review. At the time of writing, we are fine tuning the case with the help of a top barrister. We have pledges to fund most of the legal fees and are campaigning to raise the rest. Yes, it's a costly long shot but it's the only redress left to us. Once our Green Belt is gone, it is gone forever. Please support us for the sake of future generations.
Visit www.ourgreenbelt.uk or KidlingtonDW.org.uk for details.
Giles Lewis.
CDWA Website
CDWA have set up their own excellent website. Please visit it via the link below.
Inspector's Report
Attached for information, the Inspector's Report. Any feedback greatly welcomed.
Fund Raising to Mount Legal Challenge to the Cherwell Plan
We're raising £5,000 to mount a legal challenge to the Cherwell plan to build 2,500 houses on Green Belt land in and around Begbroke and Yarnton.
Begbroke and Yarnton Greenbelt Campaign have now set up a Justgiving page for those who might find this a more convenient way to donate.
Detail of Where Our Council Wish to Build on Our Villages
The latest plan – coming up for adoption very soon - is the Cherwell Local Plan Pt 1 Partial Review and allocates sites for 4,400 houses in the Green Belt around Kidlington, Begbroke, Yarnton and North Oxford.
The document originally submitted can be found at:
This was then changed (at the request of the Government Planning Inspector) to remove an allocation at Woodstock with the houses being redistributed to the other sites closer to Oxford. The maps showing the individual sites can be seen below or by following the link below (which will download a 4.7MB pdf document),and scrolling to page 45 (where you will also find the full decode of the coloured areas.
Pink is new planned housing!
Pink is planned new housing!
Letter from our Chairman
Dated 28 July 2020
Dear Resident,
We've reached the final stage in our exhaustive – and so far, unsuccessful – battle to stop Cherwell District Council building 2,500 houses around Begbroke and Yarnton, closing Sandy Lane in the process.
The Government Inspector is imminently releasing his final Report on the plan for consideration and almost inevitable adoption by the Council, probably in August. This follows the sham consultation process, during which our concerns have been blithely ignored, despite 'unprecedented' opposition (the Council's own words) to the plan.
Begbroke and Yarnton Greenbelt Campaign (BYG) and Cherwell Development Watch Alliance (CDWA) mounted expert evidence - funded by our parish councils and residents - demonstrating why the Plan is not sound.
This is a bad development Plan. Our last chance to stop it is in the courts. For that we need money. Both village parish councils have again kindly voted us significant sums, but we need more.
The plan will:
Destroy the distinct identities of our two historic villages, merging them into one conurbation nearly three times their current size;
Snarl up the traffic on the A44, to and from Oxford;
Sever Begbroke and Yarnton from Kidlington and its services;
Build exclusive houses for university staff and London commuters on our local Green Belt, providing very little, if anything, for the local community.
If you would like to donate towards this final and expensive attempt to protect and preserve our two communities, please either send money direct to the BYG bank account (details below) or send a cheque, made out to Begbroke and Yarnton Greenbelt Campaign, to BYG, Cobweb Cottage, Spring Hill Road, Begbroke OX5 1RX.
Thank you once again for your support.
Giles Lewis
Chair, Begbroke and Yarnton Greenbelt Campaign
PS: Please spread the word and encourage others to donate. We are often surprised by the fact that many people we meet don't know about the housing threat, in spite of several leaflet drops over the past few years.
Begbroke and Yarnton Greenbelt Campaign, Lloyds,
Sort Code 30-99-08, Account Number 22765768
Letters to Prime Minister and SofS
Our Chairman, Mr Giles Lewis, sent the following letter to the Prime Minister. A letter from the CDWA sent to the Hon Robert Jenrick, Secretary of State for Housing and Community from CDWA is also attached, (click the buttons to download the letters):
The CDWA letter to the Secretary of State for Housing and Community, about the Oxford and Cherwell District Local Plans, was endorsed by local Member of Parliament Layla Moran, by County councillors, by all local District councillors, by all local parish council chairs, by Oxfordshire planning professionals, by all five local community groups including BYG, and by other local organisations opposing the Plans.
The letter makes a detailed request for the Secretary of State`s intervention in these Plans to protect the Green Belt, as repeatedly promised by the Conservative government.
Oxford Times Picks up on letter to PM
NEWS: Cherwell District Council is consulting on proposed Main Modifications to the Partial Review of the Local Plan. The Modifications arise from the planning inspector's post-hearing note that requested the removal of the Woodstock site (PR10) from the plan and the 410 houses re-distributed elsewhere. In effect, Cherwell are removing even more Green Belt in order to accommodate houses already in excess of a truly objectively assessed housing need for Oxford. Responses to the consultation must be received by Cherwell no later than 11.59pm on Friday 20 December 2019.
"One thing is certain: there is NOTHING in [site PR8 - Begbroke] for the benefit of local residents. All they can expect is severance from their local services; local traffic chaos; loss of Green Belt amenity; destruction of their ancient separate identities; and ten years of disruption." – Read Giles Lewis' address to Cherwell District Council, 22 July 2019
On 10 July 2019 The planning inspector published a "post-hearing advice note" which served to demonstrate, as far as the demonstrably flawed 'Oxford's unmet need' numbers are concerned, just how broken the planning system really is!
The Examination in Public was held from 5-13 February 2019. BYG, and the umbrella group, Cherwell Development Watch Alliance (CDWA) participated and submitted a number of statements both before and after the hearings.
A Preliminary Hearing took place on 28 Sept 2018. Representatives from BYG attended. We contributed to a written submission on behalf of the Cherwell Development Watch Alliance (CDWA).
On Monday, 26 Feb 2018 Cherwell District Council voted in favour of submitting the Plan to the Planning Inspectorate.
BYG Consultation Response: Read the BYG Response to the Cherwell District Council Proposed Submission Plan Consultatio
Campaign news
Campaign news now has its own dedicated page! Latest news includes:
Where has local democracy gone in our district planning?, 17 Oct 2019
BYG address to Cherwell District Council, 22 July 2019
Public meetings in Begbroke & Yarnton to raise funds.
Examination in Public hearings announced for Feb 2019.
Preliminary Hearing on two key issues in the Local Plan announced.
We have submitted our response to the Cherwell consultation
We need money to "lawyer-up"!
How to check your previous submission to Cherwell DC Local Plan consultation
Begbroke & Yarnton village hall meetings on 12 & 15 Sept 2017
We need to raise money!
BYG submits response to Oxford City Council's consultation on their Local Plan options
Cherwell District Council announces extension to consultation period, to 10 Oct 2017.
Cherwell District Council consultation opens (17 July)
Key dates in July & August (8 July)
In the press, 15 June 2017
A New Town Between Pear Tree and Woodstock: reaction to the proposed sites to meet Oxford's "unmet" housing need (13 June 2017)
Read statements of support from Layla Moran and Nicola Blackwood (general election candidates, 6 June 2017)
Statements from the local council elections (24 April 2017)
BYG is an association of concerned residents of both Begbroke and Yarnton who share a common aim of protecting Green Belt land surrounding the villages of Begbroke & Yarnton from encroachment by housing or other built development. Cherwell District Council is proposing to build 4,400 houses in and around the villages of Begbroke, Yarnton and Kidlington in support of Oxford City Council's alleged 'Unmet Housing Needs'. We also work with Kidlington Development Watch and CPRE Oxfordshire.
With the exception of financial help from Begbroke & Yarnton Parish Councils, BYG has been primarily self-funding. However, in order to continue to make the best response we can to Cherwell District Council's plans, as well as continue our campaign of awareness-raising amongst our two villages, we need to raise money. If you wish to donate then please do so, either via our fund-raising site or directly (drop us an email).
Join the BYG Campaign
The Begbroke & Yarnton Green Belt Campaign (BYG) is an "unincorporated association", formed to promote and encourage for the benefit of the public the improvement and protection of the countryside and the protection of the Green Belt from encroachment by housing or other built development, in particular the Green Belt land surrounding the villages of Begbroke & Yarnton and related areas.
As an Association we have members. If you agree with the above aim of the Association it is very easy to join BYG. Simply tell us your name, email address, street and village, and confirm that we may hold this information for the purposes of maintaining a membership list and contacting you.
In any case, we encourage you to subscribe to our email updates. Add yourself to the email list by sending a blank email to email@example.com. Please also follow us on Twitter and engage with us on Facebook.


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When a worker dies in a construction site fall, OSHA almost always finds there were safety violations
In 2012, serious violations were cited in 89 percent of the fatal height-related construction accidents OSHA investigated in New York. Violations of safety standards specifically intended to prevent height-related injuries were cited in 68 percent of these fatalities.
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Nationally, OSHA inspects fewer than four percent of construction sites. In New York, there are only 71 inspectors to monitor all worksites in all industries, so most construction sites are not inspected. When OSHA does inspect and cites violations, the penalties they asses are so low, they are a mere slap on the wrist, even if a worker died. The average penalty in fatal height-related construction accidents in New York in 2012 was only $7,620.
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California Highway Patrol is reporting Interstate 80 is closed Saturday from Colfax to the state line due to multiple spin outs from wintry conditions.
CHP Truckee tweeted the alert at 3:25 p.m.
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Late Saturday through early Sunday afternoon, 2 to 4 inches of powder could accumulate above 1,500 feet in the North Bay mountains, East Bay hills and Santa Cruz mountains -- with more than 4 inches possible above 2,000 feet, according to the National Weather Service.
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"Earlier this fall, the pair released their long-awaited sophomore LP The Other, a masterful 14-track electronic odyssey that spanned far beyond just the defined boundaries of techno to dabble in moments of glitch-hop, ambient, and even dubstep.
The pair's taking no time to rest, now focusing its energy on the upcoming release of The Other Remixes. The LP - due out December 14 via Second State - is comprised of eight (10 on its digital release) reworks of the album's tracks from their associates and friends, with remixes from Nicole Moudaber, Carl Cox, Alan Fitzpatrick, Stephann Bodzin and Joseph Capriati representing just the tip of its iceberg." - DJ Times
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This fall session is one of my favorites! It was so cold and windy on the day of the session that we almost decided to reschedule. I'm so glad we didn't though! Our "rain date" ended up being even colder and we had so much fun during the session despite the weather.
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March Madness
Savannah's Casey twins could add up to double trouble
When Kentucky played the University of Georgia basketball team in 1959, there was only one way to stop Bulldog sophomore Pat Casey – grab him by his shorts and not let go.
And that's exactly what the Wildcats did. The referees rarely picked up on it and the Wildcats went on to rout the Bulldogs, 102-50. Years later, Kentucky Coach Rick Petino sent Casey an autographed basketball, inscribed with this note: "Come back to see us. The next time we won't hold your shorts."
Casey has the ball displayed in his rec room, along with other assorted trophies and awards he won during his three seasons at Georgia and three seasons at Benedictine School of Savannah.
Benedictine's opponents encountered a case of double trouble. Not only did Pat murder the opposition in the first half, but in many games his identical twin brother, Gene, clobbered them in the second half.
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"As far as their basketball prowess, if I were to pick players for a professional basketball team, the first one I would choose would be Pat Casey. He had great peripheral vision. He could look one way and pass off or shoot the other way. For three years he was our team leader. He had the best hook shot in the region, probably the entire state. In three years, he never made a bad pass. He set up the plays. He was deadly from the corners, unerring at the foul line. He made 90 percent of his free throws. No wonder he was All-State and the center of attention of college scouts. "Gene was a great rebounder. He was not our leading scorer – Pat was – but he hit in the clutch."
As good as the Caseys were at basketball, they were equally successful in business. Pat retired as a senior vice-president of BellSouth and Gene as a senior vice-president of Bank South.
Today, the Caseys are 65 years old. Pat and his wife of 43 years, Daphne, live in Dunwoody and Gene and his wife of 41 years, Betty, live in Alpharetta. The brothers return to Savannah every year for St. Patrick's Day to place flowers on their father's grave and march in the St. Patrick's Day parade as their father did for 65 consecutive years.
The Caseys were born in Savannah, the son of Eugene Patrick Casey, for whom they are named, and Thelma Nichols Casey. Both parents were raised in orphans' homes and the boys and their sister, Catherine, grew up at a near poverty level. Their dad was a stage manager at the city auditorium and their mother was a switchboard operator at Levy's Department Store. The brothers each had paper routes, which helped put food on the table and provided money for an occasional movie.
By the time they reached Benedictine – both received scholarships – Pat was 6 feet 4 inches tall and Gene 6 feet 3 inches. Both made the varsity basketball team as freshmen. Both Caseys were officers in the Cadet Corps and honor students; Pat was salutatorian of his graduating class.
Pat was the first person in the Casey family to attend college. At Georgia, he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi honorary scholastic society and named to "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities."
Pat served two years in the U.S. Army and 28 years in the Army Reserve before retiring as a Colonel. He serves on the Board of Benedictine School and recently received the Benedictine Medal for "loyalty, humility and dedication."


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In the same way all economic movements have done throughout history, blockchain finance challenges our traditional conceptions of 'value,' and, in turn, our ideas about identity and freedom. The new digital economy is now being built by a worldwide community who share common goals of decentralization, transparency, and financial inclusion.
My first real job was at Bank One Corporation in the Research and Recovery department, taking pictures of checks saved on spools of microfilm and mailing them out to customers. Flash forward a couple of decades, and technology has obviated and remade my old job many times over. Now I work in the latest iteration of that cycle—cryptocurrency.
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As teams continue to build the tools and platforms that will redefine the global economy, there are four simple truths we should all keep in mind: keep it transparent, accessible, secure, and human.
Transparency Will Redefine Global Finance
When you break down the barriers to entry for both traditional and blockchain-powered finance, the barriers for the latter currently seem higher. But blockchain financial products only seem more complex, simply because we are witness to its inner mechanics, which is unfamiliar to most because of intricate code and cryptography.
Traditional finance hides similarly complex processes behind easy to use banking apps and ATMs. We can deposit money in a local branch with real people, an interaction that feels familiar and safe. But all of these interactions carry a far greater cost to our financial lives—monthly fees, transaction costs, crippling interest rates, contracts, passive data collection, and, most worryingly, financial exclusion and corruption.
The 2008 financial crisis nearly sank the global economy. However, after ten years, most people are still mystified by terms like "Credit Default Swap" and "Mortgage-Backed Securities" with no idea what role banks and bankers played in the collapse. Banks have barriers made of glass, with the curtains voluntarily drawn.
Blockchain's transparency, however, enables individuals and businesses to see—in real time—what is happening with every single transaction, investment, fund, and credit, and exactly where they are stored and sent. This transparency, when combined with open source tools, not only has the potential for enhancing technological innovation, but also for elucidating the underlying economic principles of blockchain based financial products.
Maker is one of the most popular and well-respected platforms in the ecosystem precisely for these reasons. Want a loan but don't understand what a Collateralized Debt Position is? The MakerDAO CDP portal provides a concise explanation. Follow the steps to generate Dai currency and fully understand your interest rate and the terms of repayment. There is no negotiation or contract to sign. A person should not need to be a banker to understand how their loans work, and that is one of the reasons why platforms like Maker are so compelling.
Make Crypto-Finance Easier Than Traditional Finance
One of the greatest barriers to the mass adoption of any groundbreaking new technology is its accessibility—both through its purchase cost and its usability.
But blockchain is not inherently free to run or to use. To be an active user of the blockchain is to pay for it in some way, like through transaction fees. But utilities themselves should be free, otherwise, we sustain a barrier to entry that is too high. Users need to be free to experiment—to learn by doing. As blockchain businesses, we can make our consumer tools free, making cryptocurrency more accessible. Builders of crypto platforms and tools can easily finance themselves through mechanisms such as transactions fees, micropayments, or B2B models.
The process of buying, storing, and transacting in crypto also demands a steep learning curve, so usability and user experience cannot be underestimated. The UX has to be simple and elegant enough to parallel how simple and elegant the blockchain really is, to interact with it, and observe its core functions.
Developing solutions that are intuitive to use and can be integrated with existing technologies, such as mobile phones, will help the world become crypto literate and, by extension, drive its widespread use. In the developed world, 82 percent of adults have both a mobile phone and access to the internet. In developing economies, the number is 40 percent. We can put cryptocurrency in their hands through mobile apps or customized crypto-finance mobile services that are simple to use.
From Security to Safety
The inherent security and immutability of blockchain technology are what makes it superior to traditional finance. But, as some critics have pointed out, what constitutes "security" is subjective. Ethereum Foundation researcher and Casper Protocol project lead, Vlad Zamfir, has said it's Ethereum's secure properties that can make it unsafe for users. Immutable and irreversible, blockchain transactions are perilous for naive crypto holders. It's said that without significant hand-holding, onboarding new cryptocurrency users is "ethically dangerous."
We need to be those hand-holders. As we develop our blockchain tools, built-in security should be a priority, helping to break the current stigma of the cryptocurrency industry as the 'Wild West' of finance.
As we've seen time and time again—nothing is unhackable, there are bugs in every system, and various forms of malfeasance cannot be avoided. Fraud is rising in cryptocurrency, and cybercrime evolves as fast as blockchain technology, playing to the biggest weakness of new users—their inexperience. While we must all commit to proactively educating our new users, our core responsibility lies in safeguarding them as the first line of defence.
We can integrate the best security measures proven to mitigate risk, providing as many layers of protection as necessary. This includes hardware functionality, two-factor authentication, MetaMask compatibility, and never requiring users to enter private keys into their browser.
At the end of the day, if we want the average person to move toward crypto-finance and store their rainy-day fund in a crypto wallet, those funds should be respected by offering the best possible security.
Technology Is Inherently Human
Beyond all of these design concepts, it is important to remind ourselves that a blockchain—as a global, decentralized network—is made up of real people. If it's destined to survive and reshape our global economy, diverse populations should consider the blockchain a place where they belong.
For blockchain to have anything resembling that sentiment, it's necessary to understand that every node run, every transaction sent, and every contract executed, has its roots in a fundamental human impulse. It means that someone out there is just trying to buy a home, raise a child, get a job, or just relax at the end of the day.
The different ways people are drawn to crypto and blockchain are continuously growing as new use cases tap into the imagination of those who see beyond technical aspects, or beyond the investment opportunities that enticed early adopters. Serving and incorporating diverse and marginalized voices in the creation of this ecosystem is essential to its longevity and broader adoption.
Some rules are not meant to be broken. As the global economy slowly turns digital, hopefully, the teams at the forefront driving this transformation will create new rules which help place cryptocurrency in everyone's pocket, as well as break some old rules that no longer serve us all.


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When I think of the word apron, my mind immediately thinks about both of my grandmothers baking in their kitchens, always wearing their aprons. I'm sure the incredible smells and delicious goodies that came out of those kitchens, inspired my love of cooking and baking and as long as I can remember, I've always worn an apron. I am also pretty messy when I cook, bake, craft or garden and without my apron, I am sure I would have ruined many an outfit!!
These five (5)aprons made my top favorite DIY quick and easy to make list.
I bet I could make each and everyone of these but I'll probably start with the no sew ones first . Be sure to click on the links for easy to follow tutorials.
Purl Bee Studios has a unisex apron- great for mom or dad! For some reason this apron makes me want to BBQ.
What could be easier, turn an old pair of jeans into a garden apron, in less than a minute! Brilliant idea!
Everyone knows how I love to recycle and repurpose things, so naturally this one made the list – an old dress shirt, turned into an awesome apron and so easy to do. Check it out here at Gabriel's Good Tidings (with full tutorial).
This DIY Bandana Apron from Ashley Ann Photography is awesome because it is NO SEW – I see one of these in my future very soon.
Last but not least, I could not forget the little people in our lives and I think it's never too early to get the kids in the kitchen. Another no sew apron – This cute little apron is made from a dish towel and comes to us from Stephanie Lynn.com under the table and dreaming.
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The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the performance of the Ghanaian economy in 2017, is a vindication of the decision taken to appoint 110 Ministers and Deputy Ministers of State.
Citing a quote from the speech of the Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, at at Legon, at the opening of the New Year School, President Akufo-Addo stated: "The question that we should ask is how can you inherit a budget deficit of 9.3% of GDP, proceed to reduce taxes, bring down inflation, bring down interest rates, increase economic growth (from 3.6% to 7.9%), increase your international reserves, maintain relative exchange rate stability, reduce the debt to GDP ratio and the rate of debt accumulation, pay almost half of arrears inherited, stay current on obligations to statutory funds, restore teacher and nursing training allowances, double the capitation grant, implement free senior high school education and yet still be able to reduce the fiscal deficit from 9.3% to an estimated 5.6% of GDP? Quite simple, this is a remarkable achievement and this is what we mean by competent economic management."
It is this competence coupled with integrity in the conduct of public transactions, ensuring value-for-money, protecting the public purse, President Akufo-Addo added, "that are going to bring the dream of a happy and prosperous Ghana, a Ghana Beyond Aid, quickly within our grasp."
The President made this known on Wednesday, 17th January, 2017, at a media encounter to mark his 1st year in office, at an event held at the Flagstaff House.
With Free SHS now a reality, President Akufo-Addo indicated that the first batch of students to be enrolled under the scheme has finished one term, and gone back to school after the Christmas break.
"If it has taken the introduction of Free SHS to encourage media and other commentators to find the many problems that bedevil our schools, I simply take it as one more reason to cheer the Free SHS," he said.
The President assured that Government shall work systematically to solve the problems, not just of the Senior High Schools, but from the Kindergartens to the Junior High Schools as well.
"We shall put greater emphasis on technical, agricultural and vocational training, and skills training in general. We have no choice but to educate and train our workforce to match the needs of the modern economy," he said.
This, he said, is only possible if the country prioritizes and accelerates the development and application of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), and also develops the capacity to design and manufacture machines, parts and tools for ourselves.
"The two Ministries of Education and Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) are working together to step up the development and application of appropriate technologies to solve the variety of problems that confront us at this stage of our country's development," he said.
The President continued, "This is to be supported with a national strategy to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education throughout our educational system, and stimulate the interest of our pupils and students, especially girls, in Science, Technology and Innovation."
On the issue of gender parity, he noted that "I am still working to achieve gender parity, or, at least, reach the percentage promised in the NPP Manifesto. In the meantime, I wish to encourage all to support the HeForShe Campaign to help us achieve SDG Goal 5."


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A year after she released Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, the 26-year-old Chantal Akerman returned to New York City, where she had lived for several years in her early 20s. Akerman, a French-speaking native of Brussels, and the daughter of Polish Holocaust survivors, spent the next several months with her cinematographer Babette Mangolte, wandering through Manhattan with a 16mm movie camera. The result of their labors was News from Home, a fascinating look at New York City in the 1970s.
News from Home opens with an extended stake of the Staples Street Skybridge in pre-gentrified Tribeca. Having lived in Tribeca in the mid-1990s, when the process of gentrification was well underway but not yet complete, I know the area well. I've probably stood on every street corner where Akerman and Mangolte filmed. I recognize most of the buildings, but News From Home feels like a report from another universe, or, better yet, the ghost of an old industrial neighborhood haunting the ghetto of the super-rich that Tribeca has become. It is by far the most compelling part of the movie, mostly because Akerman lets the camera linger on the lost history of the city. The lettering on the facades of the old storefronts and factories, the billboards and advertisements long forgotten, even the garbage littering the sidewalks, all of it felt like part of a word where I wished to spend more time.
Akerman and Mangolte also film in Hell's Kitchen, Harlem, Midtown, and on the Upper East Side, but none of the footage they took uptown had quite the same magic of the early takes in Tribeca. The most frustrating, and yet intriguing, parts of News From Home take place on the subway. Akerman and Mangolte probably spend anywhere from a quarter to a third of the film standing inside various subway cars with the camera pointed, either at the doors, or straight down the middle. They make no effort to record the advertisements on the platform, or the headlines of the newspapers and magazines people are reading. Just about the only way you can tell it's the 1970s is by looking at what the other passengers are wearing. At times, it feels exactly like a long subway ride. Having commuted from North Bronx to downtown Manhattan on the D-train, I found it tedious.
The more News from Home's subway footage bored me, however, the more I began to wonder. How exactly did Chantal Akerman do it? While these days a filmmaker as reputable as Akerman could probably get a permit to bring a 16mm camera and a tripod on the subway, it's hard to imagine her fellow passengers sitting so still, allowing themselves to be filmed without complaint. More likely they'd mug for the camera, ostentatiously duck under the lens to spoil the shot, or start yelling about how they were being filmed without their consent. Were people in the NYC subway really that much different in the 1970s than they are now? Or was Akerman, who died last month, some kind of witch who threw a spell over the 1-Train? Perhaps she just had a cloaking device. Or maybe she was already dead in the 1970s, a ghost floating disembodied between Houston Street and Canal Street recoding the passive, mournful faces of the, far more working-class, New York of the past.
All the time Chantal Akerman is filming her Manhattan street scenes, her mother, still very much alive, haunts News From Home. As the narrator reads the older woman's letters, almost all of which end with the plea that her daughter write home more often, we begin to see Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles in a new light. In Akerman's earlier film, a middle-aged woman doted on her son, a morose, self-involved teenager she supported, partly by prostitution. We wonder how much of herself Akerman had projected into the young man, and how much the title character owed to her mother. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles ends with a senseless act of violence. Jeanne murders a client with a pair of scissors. Akerman's mother, a Holocaust survivor, is haunted by the worst genocide in human history. She's terrified that her 22-year-old daughter will meet a sudden, violent end in dark, dangerous, crime ridden New York City. We sympathize with Akerman's mother. We also sympathize with Akerman. In other to escape the weight of historical memory, she has run away to America, a land with no consciousness of history. Yet compassion for her mother, whom she obviously cares about, means joining her under the weight of the not so distant past, sharing the torment, the survivor's guilt, of someone who had seen the inside of a Nazi death camp, and escaped to see her adult child leave the nest. We begin to wonder if the subway cars Akerman spends so much time filming are a form of psychic prison, the deep, dark tunnel of a past she cannot escape.
Yet she does. The final ten minutes of News from Home are shot from the Staten Island Ferry, pulling away from Battery Park. Akerman's camera dwells on the skyline of lower Manhattan — the ghost of the World Trade Center adding a dimension she could not have anticipated – her world getting more and more windy and spacious, memory fading into the distance as a flock of white gulls hover overhead. While we never actually see the Statue of Liberty, that gift from the French that has become a symbol of immigration to the United States, we feel its presence. A newly arrived immigrant in New York Harbor, Chantal Akerman has finally put the old world behind her. Her mother's voice is gone. News from Home opened with her as the daughter of two Polish Holocaust Survivors. It ends with her as a newly-minted American.


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Get Rid Of Warts
Edited by Debbie, Lynn, Maureen D., Eng and 5 others
If you've found an oval-shaped dome-like spot on your hand, it could be a wart. No one enjoys having a wart. They can appear on your face, hands, and less commonly, on other parts of your body. They are unattractive, and Planter's Warts can also be painful.
- 1 Various Kinds of Warts
- 2 Removal Methods
- 3 Product Suggestions to Treat Warts
- 4 Tips Tricks & Warnings
- 5 Questions and Answers
- 6 Comments
Various Kinds of Warts
Warts are caused by a virus, and there are several different kinds:
- 1These can be found on your face, legs, and arm areas.Flat warts.
- 2These can be found on the soles of the feet, and make walking annoying and painful. They look like hard thick clusters of warts with black specks, which are actually tiny blood vessels.Plantar warts.
- 3These warts usually form around the nose and mouth area.Filiform warts.
- 4They are round and cauliflower-like in appearance.Common warts are mostly found on the hands, but can grow about anywhere.
- 5Periungual warts are found underneath the fingernails and toenails.
Removal Methods
Warts are contagious, so it is best not to share towels or personal items with anyone. No matter how careful you are, you still may get warts, and there are many methods for removal.
At Home Remedies for Warts
You can try one of the following home remedies:
- 1Rub the oil on and around the area, and cover it with a bandage. Repeat until wart is eliminated.Castor Oil.
- 2Soak your wart in it for 20 minutes every day for two weeks.Apple Cider Vinegar.
- 3Apply a drop to your wart/s three times daily.Tea Tree Oil.
- 4Open a caplet and put a little on the area, then cover it with a bandage each day for two weeks.Vitamin E.
Conventional Methods for Removing Warts
- 1Try an over-the-counter wart removal product. They can be found at your local pharmacy, grocery store, or convenience store.Wart removers.
- 2Visit your doctor and have him or her:
- Cut the wart off, but this may leave a scar.
- Freeze the wart off with liquid nitrogen.
Product Suggestions to Treat Warts
- 1The overall rating of this ointment is 80.6 percent. Reviews have revealed that the effectiveness of this product is four out of five. The results are quick making the quality of this product good. It is a semi-thick watery paste and the most important thing is, it is safe to use. This product will also work to remove skin tags and moles. It is easy to use, and has natural ingredients which make it a safe and painless way to treat warts.Derma Tend.
Tips Tricks & Warnings
- Never try to remove the wart by cutting it yourself.
- Don't share towels.
- It is a myth that warts are caused by poor hygiene, so don't be embarrassed about seeking treatment.
Questions and Answers
Raised spot on arm, is it a wart? It's painful when I touch it.
I don't know whether it's a wart or not, but it's painful when I touch it.
A wart is basically a small tumor caused by an infection by the HPV (human papillomavirus). As mentioned in the article, the shapes and sizes can vary. Although your description of the raised spot on your skin might be a wart, there are many other possibilities such as a cyst, ingrown hair or other types of infections. It is best to see your doctor or nurse practitioner, because you are unsure. The fact that it's painful means you absolutely should see a doctor. You can still try the at home methods, but make sure it's actually a wart you are dealing with. Thanks for your question!
How to remove warts from the hand?
I have one in my hand and ever time I cut it, and it grows a little bigger
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NEW YORK – Fans return to major league stadiums for openers on Thursday amid pandemic attendance restrictions in most places, and baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred can envision filled ballparks by midseason.
Capacity will be limited to about 12% at the season's start in Boston and Washington. Twelve teams are at 20%, Colorado at about 43% and Houston at 50%. The only team higher is Texas, at 100%.
"I hope by midsummer that we have ballparks that are unrestricted and we have full fan access," Manfred said Wednesday during an interview with The Associated Press.
Last year's shortened regular season was played entirely without fans, who were allowed back only for the NL Championship Series and World Series, and then in limited numbers for games moved to a neutral site in Arlington, Texas.
"For most clubs, this will be another year of significant losses. It's not going to be the $2.5 to $3 billion that we had last year, but there will be significant losses if we continue in the mode where we don't have full fans," Manfred said. "The clubs have done a great job of working with financial institutions they had relationships with in terms of assuring liquidity."
Manfred thinks most players could be vaccinated against COVID-19 by mid-May. The St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros said Monday their players will be offered vaccines before openers, and the San Francisco Giants said some of their players already had received shots.
"I am pleased that we have gotten here," Manfred said. "I think the players and the club people did a tremendous job during spring training, a continuation of what they did last year. And I'm just hopeful we're going to be able to play a season that looks like normal."
He thinks fans long to return to ballparks.
"I see this season as a huge opportunity for baseball," he said. "We're an outdoor sport. I think it's safe or safer to go to outdoor activities. Everybody seems to agree on that. And I think that there's pent-up demand for entertainment products, and we're going to do everything we possibly can to take the best opportunity to take advantage of that."
MLB proposed in January delaying the season's start until April 28 and cutting each team's schedule from 162 games to 154, but with full pay. The players' association rejected the offer.
"I think playing the full slate over the normal period of time, affording us as much flexibility as possible in the schedule should there be hiccups, weather related or other, is of benefit against the backdrop of the experience last year," union head Tony Clark said in a separate interview with the AP.
MLB's plan would have included the designated hitter in the NL for the second straight year and would have expanded the playoffs from 10 teams to 14 after allowing 16 to make it following last year's 60-game shortened season.
"My only disappointment is I think that our research suggests that our fans like the expanded format. And, obviously, our goal is to deliver the product that our fans want to see," Manfred said.
Manfred and Clark have started discussing the possibility of moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta this July over concern about legislation adopted in Georgia restricting voting rights.
"He wanted to have a conversation. I completely understand why Tony would want to have a conversation about this topic. We've actually had a preliminary kind of conversation, and there will be more substantive conversations about that," Manfred said. "I am talking to various constituencies within the game and I'm just not going beyond that in terms of what I would consider or not consider."
Manfred expects a series of announcements this summer on All-Star sites for 2023-25. Los Angeles will host in 2022 after the pandemic caused cancellation of last year's All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium.
Bargaining is likely to start this spring over a labor agreement to replace the one that expires Dec. 1. The DH and expanded playoffs are likely to be issues along with the union's concerns over alleged tanking by rebuilding teams and service-time manipulation that can delay free agency and arbitration eligibility.
Teams maintain the timing of call-ups is their sole prerogative. An arbitrator denied the union's grievance on behalf of Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant, ruling in his case there was no evidence of manipulation, without deciding the overall issue.
"Players believe establishing a more competitive environment will drive industry growth and that industry growth will benefit everyone — fans, owners players— believe that having clubs incentivized for competing and succeeding rather than rewarded for repeatedly losing is beneficial for the industry," Clark said. "We believe in making adjustments to the system so that the younger players who are producing and increasing value for their clubs are more fairly compensated for it. And we believe that many of the adjustments associated with those moving pieces will help restore meaningful free agent markets for experienced, veteran players."
In-game video use has been restored this season, on team iPads with catcher's signals not visible. It was banned last year as the fallout of the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scandal, with clubhouse televisions turned off to discourage gathering during the pandemic.
"The clubs could live with or without in-game video as long as it's an even playing field," Manfred said. "Our effort and expense to restore in-game video was really to deliver something that some segment of the player population thought was important to them."
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One DVR; Multi-room Access
Digeo, makers of the Moxi HD-DVR set-top box (only available to digital cable subscribers) has released the Moxi Mate, as a companion piece. The Moxi Mate enables multi-room access to video content from a connected Moxi HD-DVR as well as PCs and other devices connected on a wired or wireless in-home network. The unit will carry an MSRP of $399, though for a limited time you can purchase it for $199.
The Moxi Mate will access all recorded content stored on the central Moxi HD DVR plus it will also play media files available from the home network and the Internet on any TV throughout the house. Supporting files include digital music, digital photos, and home movie formats (SD and HD). This eliminates the need for consumers to purchase multiple DVRs and pay additional fees for each device,
If you do not already own a Moxi HD-DVR, the company has bundled the DVR and multi-room device together for $999, a $200 savings compared to purchasing them separately. For existing Moxi HD DVR customers, Diego is offering a special $199 price on a separate Moxi Mate for a limited time.
The Moxi HD DVR is compatible with an add-on LaCie 4 Quadar 6TB hard drive for extra storage. The storage device will record 12 times the HD programming previously available, for up to 1,000 hours of HD recording. The Moxi system now supports connections of external e-SATA hard drives that are PVR capable.


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1: # [[!template id=man name=uvm_hotplug section=9]] port-masters' FAQ. 2: 3: 1. Why does it matter? 4: 5: As a port maintainer any architecture that needs to use the virtual memory 6: sub-system of NetBSD aka uvm is affected by the 7: [[!template id=man name=uvm_hotplug section=9]] change. 8: 9: Early boot code of every port is affected. Global variables: 10: struct vm_physseg vm_physmem; 11: int vm_nphysmem; 12: are no longer visible. They need to be replaced by appropriate 13: accessor calls in [[!template id=man name=uvm_hotplug section=9]] 14: 15: These calls are documented as "Utility Functions" in the 16: [[!template id=man name=uvm_hotplug section=9]] manual. 17: 18: 19: The "switchover" CVS commit log is here: 20: [http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2016/12/23/msg080110.html](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2016/12/23/msg080110.html) 21: 22: 23: 2. What files may be affected? 24: 25: In most of the architectures the "sys/arch/<arch_name>/<arch_name>/machdep.c" 26: and "sys/arch/<arch_name>/<arch_name>/pmap.c" if they exist are usually 27: affected. 28: 29: But this may not be a exhaustive list. Any other files that deals with pmap and 30: stealing pages might also be affected. 31: 32: 3. What does it do ? 33: 34: [[!template id=man name=uvm_hotplug section=9]] manages the previously exposed "vm_physmem" static array which 35: used to keep track of the memory segments. 36: 37: In the current implementation, the array has been replaced with a 38: [[!template id=man name=rbtree section=3]] backing which makes the 39: data structure dynamic. 40: 41: An array based implementation is also provided, for backwards 42: compatibility. This is the default implementation and does not provide 43: hot pluggability. It is also used without 'options UVM_HOTPLUG' 44: However the API itself is implementation agnostic. 45: 46: 4. Why is it needed? 47: 48: With the [[!template id=man name=rbtree section=3]] backing 49: implementation, the list of physical pages 50: in the system is no longer in a static array and can dynamically 51: expand or collapse, hence adding new pages to the freelist from newly 52: available RAM / physical memory (plug) or removing retired pages 53: (unplug) via taking them off the freelist and the old vm_physmem. 54: 55: 5. What should I do? 56: 57: Review the changes to your port due to this new feature. The changes 58: may have been made without direct knowledge of your port architecture. 59: 60: See if your port has hotpluggable hardware. If it does, write a driver 61: to use the [[!template id=man name=uvm_hotplug section=9]] api. 62: 63: An example of [[!template id=man name=uvm_hotplug section=9]] api's 64: application can be found in 65: [[!template id=man name=balloon section=4]].


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Berlin: An Italian pilot flying a Japan-bound flight allegedly threatened to crash the plane with 200 passengers on board if his wife left him, a report said on Monday.
The unnamed pilot, in his 40s, sent a text to his wife saying he would kill himself along with the 200 passengers on his Rome-Japan flight after she apparently threatened to leave him, The Times reported on the incident that occurred in January last year.
Police managed to stop the pilot at Fiumicino airport in Rome from taking controls of the flight just minutes before take-off. His wife had alerted authorities after he sent her a text message threatening to commit suicide and kill everyone on board the long-haul flight from Rome, the report said.
Another pilot took his place and passengers were not told about the incident that has been kept secret until now, the report said.
The Italian pilot sent the text message after his wife announced she was leaving him, and referred to the flight he was due to take that night.
The pilot had previously been reported to police by his wife for mistreatment. He remains suspended and is undergoing psychiatric evaluation, according to reports.
This incident happened two months before German pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed his Germanwings A320 in the Alps, killing 149 people.