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The forum was set up for villagers to share their views on the Planning Application to build 17 homes and a children's nursery on the Old Goods Yard site. This planning application was later withdrawn with a new plan due to be submitted shortly. A village meeting was held on 19th May during which John & Helga Barr presented the new plan and listened to the views of villagers.
If you would like to share your views with other villagers, please send them to me: email@example.com. I will add them to this page and alert the village through the Nobbut Email Service every time a new comment is added.
Notes of Goods Yard Planning Proposal Village Meeting held on 6th Jan 2014
in the Schoolroom are attached at the bottom of this page. Click on it to open.
Your comments sent in to the Nobbut will be added below:
I have rearranged the comments into two columns:
Comments on original plan of Dec 2013
Planning application later withdraw
This column is now closed
The letter referred to by Keith Aitchison
in his email to me (Nobbut) and posted to the houses most affected around the development:
Torver Planning Application
As you probably already know, a planning application has been submitted for 17 "affordable" houses, children's nursery and playground on the Coal Yard/Storage land across the main road opposite Green Cottages.
I am writing because I am concerned that the timing of the application over the Christmas holiday seems designed to deliberately limit the opportunity for people to meet the LDNPA timetable for objections. This is 28 days from 10 December-i.e strictly 7th January.
The application which has helpfully been accessed and publicised by Nobbut Torver (thanks David) can be viewed easily from the link at http://www.torver.org/planning-applications
It is perhaps no coincidence that the site was cleared last year ahead of the planning application which now states there are no trees or hedges affected by it.
The Parish Council have announced a public meeting on 6 January to "inform them of the views of the village". This is ahead of the Parish Council meeting on 9th January. I understand they will press for an extension of the consultation deadline. However this may not be granted.
It is therefore important that if you have a view on this development you do not rely on the Parish Council making it for you, but submit your objection direct to the LDNPA yourself before the current earliest due date of 7th January to be sure of inclusion.
As I understand it from talking to people in the village, there may be at least some on the Parish Council who support this application. I stress that I have not heard that direct from anyone on the PC. This would however be a surprise to me for several reasons since in my view:
It is a massive overprovision of the Parish Councils own survey of housing need for the village as contained in the Parish Plan.
A big part of the justification for the application is as housing provision for Coniston, yet several of the proposed local housing sites which are identified in the Coniston Parish Plan remain unused
When the Butcher Moss site was developed, it was clearly designed with the possibility of expansion in mind should a future need be identified
The two plot housing site at Kitchen Syke in Torver remains unused.
If approved , the Coal Yard will be an eyesore development of a gateway site to the village which will severely detract from the character of Torver
The proposed access from the new development onto the main road is dangerous and a similar proposed access from Butcher Moss was rejected on safety grounds.
I am well aware of the need for affordable homes for local people and supported such development prior to Butcher Moss for this purpose. If there is a proven demand for more in Torver now I am in favour of that too. I am not in favour of this eyesore development ; we should not be taken in by its tag of "phased" development; if approved it will happen.
I urge you to make your views known direct to the planning authority and also separately to the Parish Council. If you would like to get together to discuss how best to object to this application I am happy to convene an informal meeting before 6th January. Please let me know either by phone, email or just call in.
Have a good Christmas and I'm sorry to bother you with this at this time. Clearly the developer left no choice.
Keith Aitchison, 7 Green Cottages. email@example.com 015394 49581
From Chris Bradley:
It is important that the Torver community is fully informed about the process by which the Parish Council will decide its response to the National Park planning authority in relation to the proposed development of the Goods Yard. The Torver Parish Council (TPC) has been granted a short extension to the statutory consultation period, so that the planned meeting of the TPC on 9th January can agree the response and this will be considered by the planning authority in coming to their decision. This extension does not apply to individuals, so it is very important that members of the village who wish to express a personal view to the planners do so as soon as possible, the greater the number of responses, the better.
It is the duty of the TPC to represent the wishes of the community. The Parish Plan survey included questions about affordable housing provision and the TPC is aware of the results of recent housing needs surveys in both Coniston and Torver, all of which will inform our discussion on the 9th. The village meeting arranged for 6th January will be an opportunity for everyone to have their opinions heard. Plans for the housing development will be available for viewing an hour before the meeting begins, so villagers who cannot access these via the internet can see a paper copy.
We would like to encourage as many people as possible to attend Monday's meeting, the greater the participation, the more weight the Parish Council response will carry.
From Kevin Cooper:
Plans like this are a must to keep small communities healthy, with the high cost of local homes these new homes will give young local people the chance to stay in the place where they grew up and work. Unfortunately new homes like this are too late for some of us as both me and my brother had to move away from Coniston as we could not afford to buy in the village, most of my age group has moved away from the village because of the lack of homes available leaving a age gap in the community.
I sincerely hope you allow this plan to go ahead to stop the further decline of locals leaving the area resulting in low trades for local shops, pubs and businesses. It is all to easy for people who have moved to this area from away to say they don't want the area to change, but this area would not be what it is with the locals! So without them the area will eventually turn in to ghost towns with passing trade in the summer months and will be dead throughout the rest of the year.
Please allow us to live where we where born and bred.
From Joan Wilson
the text of her letter to the Planning Board:
Letter in Support of Outline Planning Application
Ref: 7/2013/5698
Location: Storage land, Torver, Coniston,
Phased development of 17 affordable houses, children's nursery and community playground
I have lived and worked in the village of Torver from 1955; formerly at Hoathwaite Farm and more recently (since March 2012) at Butcher Moss. During this time my family farmed and ran the camp site at Hoathwaite Farm for 54 years, from 1955 to 2009; I am now retired.
Today most of the houses in our village have become second homes / holiday homes. There are now only 2 children of school age in the village; in 1955 there were 42 children.
For this reason I feel very strongly that this proposed, attractive development of family homes, for local people, should be permitted, as this will help to keep the village alive throughout the year. I most sincerely hope that the Officers and Councillors of LDNPA will support this application and that Planning Permission will be granted.
I am greatly saddened by the fact that Torver Parish Council are objecting to this application. Currently it appears that, if you accept their arguments against this Application; then when my generation dies, virtually all the housing will become holiday homes, which will sit empty for most of the year, and community life in Torver will be dead.
Yours sincerely, Joan Wilson
Comments on the new plan - May 2014
Planning application to be submitted following a village
meeting on Monday 19th May in the Schoolroom
From David Rogers: (3rd May 2014)
As administrator of the Nobbut and the Website I was inclined not to comment in this (staying impartial), but I am a villager and with a renewed application coming up for discussion on 19th May in the Schoolroom I have decided to offer my views. Particulary I want to comment on some of the objections that were placed at the village meeting held on 6th January.
It was said that the new development would be an "eyesore". I mean no disrespect to Mr Barr but compared to what is there now? As eyesores go it's kept pretty tidy but pretty it ain't and replacing it with a small estate of well designed homes, green areas, gardens, would be a vast improvement.
On the proposed nursery it was said that there is no need because we already have a hall. Then we would have another, a properly equipped nursery for the new families coming to the development and, perhaps, for other purposes. Why not?
It was said that there is already a nursery in Coniston. So the young, probably struggling family, moving into a new house, Mum caring for the children while Dad goes off to work, or maybe both working, which of the family's fleet of cars would she choose to get the kids to Coniston? No, they'd have one car and she would have the choice of walking them in or waiting for the weekly bus.
It was said there would be no-one qualified to run it. Just like there is no-one qualified to run the Schoolroom, mow the village grass verges, sit on the Parish Council or, dare I say, administer this website. I would imagine the parents would get together to share the task as volunteers or employ someone. Hardly a reason to dump on the whole idea.
It was said that access to the main road would be dangerous. Why? There are already three access points along that stretch and another on a straight stretch with clear visibility both ways would probably be the safest in Torver.
It was said that Butcher Moss could be extended. Is that being planned? Has an application been submitted? And if it happens there's a good chance we will have even more children coming to this retirement home. Perhaps we should try a little game that involves standing in the village centre for an hour after school's out with a note book or camera to record the results. It's called 'Spot the Child'. There's a really awful song from the 1980's that begins "I believe the children are our future". If that's true Torver doesn't have a future.
It was said that the new development would provide housing for Coniston. Good! Twenty five years ago we came here from London via Essex, Cambridgeshire and Waberthwaite, and most of the rest of Torver's people came from somewhere else. But we are all Torver now. When those young families arrive from Coniston (or Hawkshead, or Barrow or Timbuctoo, who cares!) they will become Torver people, just like us.
I know we want to preserve the character of our village, keep things as they are and sleep away our dying days in peace and solitude, but think of all the wonderful things Torver used to do - children's sports days, jubilee celebrations, bonfire parties, remember the pram race? All gone because the people who organised them got old and the children who ran the three-legged race grew up and left the village for good because the 'affordable homes' we had (Green Cottages?) were sold off for second homes and holiday lets and they couldn't afford to live here. We need young people, young families, new life, to prevent our village becoming that 'open space' we all protested about years ago, a small group of houses to let for Summer visitors and boarded up for the rest of the year.
We have been offered another chance and we need this development if only so that in the years ahead there will be people in Torver young enough and fit enough to dig our graves for us.
From Keith Aitcheson: (5th May 2014)
Its good to see that John and Helga Barr are consulting the village (or more correctly hamlet as we have learned during this process) on their latest proposal for the Goods Yard before submitting it as a planning application; I for one thank them for that.
Hopefully what will be revealed at the village meeting on 19th will be what those present at the previous village meeting seemed to want i.e an attractive, small scale development that meets Torver's housing need, compliments rather than dominates the centre of the village (hamlet) and is affordable and protected for local people to be able to buy or build a home here. I sincerely hope that is what is unveiled so that it can be supported by all of us who want to see Torver thrive as a living year round community. I also hope that the new plans retain some employment on the site so that jobs that support the families that want the homes can be created and make the idea of a children's nursery feasible. That said, the newly refurbished Schoolroom would seem to me to be equally attractive as a playgroup or nursery venue when one becomes needed.
Here's looking forward positively to what may now be proposed.
From Keith Aitchison (19th August 2014)
I am writing to let all in Torver know what has come to light in correspondence I have had this week with the local authority in respect of the Coal Yard site planning application.
The planning application has been changed to include "the removal of two trees" . The accompanying plan however shows the removal of four trees. The original planning application, on which we were all invited to comment, specifically stated at Section 15 that there were no trees or hedges on the site. Section 15 also states that "there are no trees or hedges on land adjacent to the development site that could influence the development or might be important as part of the local landscape character".
I have been told that a report and recommendation to Delegate to Head of Development Management to approve the application subject to a legal agreement; conditions and no substantive objections from the Highway Authority was prepared on 11th August by Mairi Lock.
The day after this report and recommendation was written, a letter was sent to some of us in Torver notifying us that an amended plan for the Coal Yard site had been submitted and that two, not four, trees were proposed to be removed. We have been invited to submit further comments on the application by 29 August 2014. In fact the accompanying highway plan shows four trees to be removed.
If this application is approved without amendment, the main impact of the removal of these trees will be on those in Green Cottages but there will also be a significant impact on the visual and wildlife amenity on the entrance to Torver along the "Torver motorway".
If you feel that it is wrong to allow the removal of any trees, particularly as this was implied not to be necessary in the original application, then please write to or email the planning authority stating your opposition to Mr Paul Haggin who is the Management Development Team Leader. He has assured me that should any further views be received between now and when his Committee meets to decide the application he will ensure that they are reported to the Committee.
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This could, after all, be the thin end of a very unpleasant wedge.
From Carole Barr (20th August 2014)
Thank you Keith for keeping us updated about the felling of two trees, which from the plan look to me to be those in Highways land, to accommodate the Goods Yard proposal. When the Torver Trail was put in we had to remove some trees but in the scheme of things the amenity we have now makes up for it.
Obviously the main visual impact of removing the two trees in question will be on the residents of Green Cottages, especially the two properties, who live there full time. You may also know that there is 500 tonnes of wood to be removed from Scar Head Wood and major felling work to start in Dickinson Wood. The visual impact of that will be obvious to us all, not to mention the impact on the wildlife. Far greater than the impact of the removal of two trees in the grass verge outside the Goods Yard. Interestingly, it is the first time anyone has come to the defence of those Highways trees, usually people are complaining about them overhanging into the road.
The woods when they have been felled will be replanted eventually, regeneration being the key. As for being "the thin end of a very unpleasant wedge" some might say the thin edge of the wedge is not the removal of two trees but the gradual decline of our communities.
All good stuff for debate on a winters night in front of our log fires.Wood from sustainable forests no doubt.
From Keith Aitchison (20th August 2014)
Just to correct Carole's observation in response to mine. It appears from the new plan that four , not two trees are proposed to be felled to create a new access to the development site .
Carole also draws interesting comparisons with the Torver Trail work, a sympathetic construction and undoubted benefit to the wider community, and the work on Scarr Head and Dickinson Woods, which , as she points out , will be "replanted eventually, regeneration being the key". That is certainly not the case with the Goods Yard development. This will hopefully provide some much needed, affordable housing for families, but will certainly not in its present proposed form be sympathetically designed nor regenerate woodland.
That said , I have spoken, not just with the two full time residents , but also the other permanent regular residents of Green Cottages who have been coming here for several years. Non of us want to see Torver spoilt by an unnecessarily large development that is unsympathetically delivered. I believe we are all in agreement that the scale and design of the development planned is still excessive for the needs of Torver.
I don't think any of us have argued with Carole's strong and commendable desire to help the sustainability of Torver.; we share it. That is why I personally have always stated my support for a small development which meets that need. Somethings, however, are worth more than profit, though I also recognise the need for the developer to make a good return on his investment.
Perhaps in this case the answer is, save the four trees and remove the loss of amenity to all in Torver, whether permanent, part time or just visiting and create a smaller, more sympathetic design. Speaking personally , I can't see why a new access to the site is needed in the first place as the existing one would be perfectly feasible.
If you agree with this point of view I again urge you to write to the planning authority again as they assure me that your views will be put before the committee which meets to approve this development. It certainly looks at this stage as if the development as planned has been recommended for approval .Your letter or email needs to be with them by 29 August. A decision is due to be made on 3 September.
I have also this morning received a further email from the planning authority in which they state :
"As far as we are concerned the rest of the employment site is to remain in employment use. Any change to that would require a planning application. At the present time we would seek to retain an employment site. It is not possible to say whether that would still be the case in 10 years time and would depend upon whether there are any changes in policy and housing need in the locality in the future."
I interpret this to mean that any developer can, at any time, seek to further develop the rest of the site as housing and that application would be judged in the the light of then current county, not local, policy and housing need. Given that there is very little defined housing need now and yet the present housing proposal looks like being approved, I would not bet much on a future housing application being rejected so we could be back to the large housing development previously applied for.
From Carole Barr (20th August 2014)
Apologies Keith, my response was in reply to yours about the removal of "two trees" and your concern about the impact visually and on wildlife. Clearly, your objection to the removal of the trees is part of your general objection to the Goods Yard application, the reasons for which you have now outlined to us all.
Of course, the Goods Yard application is not about regenerating woodland. Although I'm sure replacement trees could be planted.
Is not providing "some much needed, affordable housing for families" you mention not regeneration of the village?
Just as a correction I made reference to "the two properties, who live in Green Cottages full time" not "two residents".
There was a lot of comment about the access to Butcher Moss, people generally felt it should have been onto the main road in front of the development, such as John is proposing for the Goods Yard. It would certainly seem to be unwise to take people out through the employment end of the Goods Yard. Also taking everyone passed the full time residents at Shepherds View seems rather unfair. There was also a lot of support for housing development on the Goods Yard rather than Butcher Moss field. How things change or do memories get shorter?
Despite the rumour I don't have a crystal ball so I can't see what the future holds for Torver. Whether the number of residents will continue to decline? Or if I reach the average age of the residents in the village now, will there be enough of us to enjoy the spectacular landscape we live in? I hope that there is thriving village and that the only place to find our full time residents is not the graveyard.
I'm sure everyone shares the desire for a thriving village now and in the future but we all know the pressures small communities like ours face. We can't reverse the trend of second home ownership or the explosion of holiday lets and even if we could there aren't the services and facilities to support our villages like there used to be. Change has been coming for a long time and do we want to wait until being a full time resident puts you in the minority or do we want to look to the future now?
From Keith Aitchison (25th August 2014)
The exchange in this forum between Carole and me suggests a polarisation of views which I think is misleading as we seem to agree on many things. Where we disagree is on scale and current design. So I will simply state that I have asked the planning authority to do the following :
Because the Planning Authority have just written out apologising for erroneously saying that only 2 trees were to be removed when in fact the number has now risen to four, they have extended the consultation period until 1 September. I urge anyone in Torver to take this one remaining opportunity to influence the decision by writing to them with your views.
From Keith Aitchison (3rd September 2014) New Comment
Congratulations to John, Helga and Carole, who represented them so eloquently at the planning authority meeting this morning, when the Development Control committee voted 11-0 (with 2 abstentions) in favour of Delegating to the Head of Development Management to approve the Storage Yard planning application subject to the conditions discussed at the meeting. I sincerely hope that what they build on the site now and in the future helps to deliver the thriving Torver (and beyond) hamlet that we all want to see in a community where all are welcome.
So that's goodnight from me and thank you to all those people who sent messages of support and asked me to present their objections to the scale and design of the development at the meeting this morning.


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Something worth considering about Barack Obama
Several times during recent months I have received emails concerning Barack Obama such as this one:
I have felt for sometime now that Obama is the one person that "Frightens Me". I believe the Bible has warned us that "A man will come from the East that will be charismatic in nature and have proposed solutions for all our problems and his rhetoric will attract will many supporters!"
When will our pathetic Nation quit turning their back on God and understand that this man is "A Muslim"....First, Last and always....and we are AT WAR with the Muslim Nation, whether our bleeding-heart, secular, Liberal friends believe it or not. This man fits every description f rom the Bible of the "Anti-Christ"!
I'm just glad to know that there are others that are frightened by this man!
Who is Barack Obama?
Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obam a was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white ATHEIST from Wichita , Kansas.
Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii.
When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya. His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia.
When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocate to Indonesia. Obama attended a MUSLIM school in Jakarta.
Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is quick to point out that, "He was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic school."
Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it appear that that he is not a radical.
Obama's introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence over his son's education.
Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam. Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world. Since it is politically expedient to be a CHRISTIAN when seeking major public office in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background. ALSO, keep in mind that when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran.
Barack Hussein Obama will NOT recite the Pledge of Allegiance nor will he show any reverence for our flag. While others place their hands over their hearts, Obama turns his back to the flag and slouches. Do you want someone like this as your PRESIDENT?
Let us all remain alert concerning Obama's expected presidential candidacy.The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the US from the inside out, what better way to start than at the highest level - through the President of the United States, one of their own!
Most of this message is nothing other than irrational fear of Muslims, much like the fear of Japanese during WWII or fear of communism during McCarthyism.
Snopes has details debunking most of the points in this email on their site here:
Barack Obama is not a Muslim, and even if he were, that does not mean he is sympathetic toward the radical fringe Muslims who are currently involved in Jihad against the US. However, the truth is that for more than 20 years, Obama has been a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ (1). I think instead of spreading false accusations about Obama the radical Muslim, what people should be doing is focusing on the truth about Obama the radical Christian.
For most of Obama's time as a member, the Trinity United Church of Christ has been led by pastor Jeremiah Wright. Obama has called Reverend Wright his spiritual mentor and "one of the greatest preachers in the country."(2) Barack and Michelle Obama's wedding ceremony was performed by Reverend Wright and a sermon written by Wright was the inspiration for the title of Obama's book The Audacity of Hope (3).
Here is a video of Jeremiah Wright at the pulpit:
Of course he is wrong about several things. First, I don't think there is a significant amount of "hatin' on Barack Obama." It seems to me that he is doing better than Clinton in the primaries and is in fact one of the reasons there has been record turnout in many of the elections. He has also won several so-called "white" states. While race may be a factor in some voters' minds, it works both ways (some might vote against Obama because he is black, but some will also vote for him because of that). The reason he is doing well has much less to do with race than it does the fact that he is a charismatic politician. Wright is also wrong on several points he makes about Obama personally. Obama isn't white, but he isn't black either. He had a black father and a white mother, which makes him at most only 50% of either race. He also didn't grow up in a single-parent house. Additionally, being a Harvard graduate, attorney, senator and best-selling author, he certainly is both rich and privileged. However, putting all of this aside, the most important aspect of this video to me is the racist feel of the whole thing: are white people "the enemy?"
Here is another video showing some of Wright's sermons:
God Damn the U.S. of KKK A....... is this the kind of thinking with which the President of the United States should be associated?
Something else worth noting is that in December 2007, the church bestowed its highest social achievement award to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a man with obvious hatred of whites, Jews and America in general. Personally, I don't care if Farrakhan hates America. He is entitled to his opinions and beliefs, but at the same time I don't think our President should be a member of a group who honors him.
While the actions of his church don't have any direct relation to Obama, what concerns me is that for more than 20 years, Barack Obama has been a member of this church run by a pastor whose sermons frequently have an odor of racism and anti-Americanism. Obama has tried to dismiss the radical messages spread by Wright by comparing him to an uncle who sometimes says things with which he doesn't agree. However, there are many other churches out there he could attend, but for more than 20 years he has stuck with this one. Why? If Obama really disagrees with the anti-American rhetoric of Reverend Wright, then why didn't he leave the church and find one that better suits him? Given the great multitude of alternatives, why would he continue to attend a church like this for 20 years unless he agreed with the agenda of its leader?
Of course there is no direct proof that the beliefs held by Wright represent those held by Obama. I'm sure many of us have some associates who might hold some racial or social beliefs contrary to our own and it would be inaccurate to label us guilty by association. On the other hand, if I were campaigning for public office, I would make a conscious effort to clarify that I do not agree with or support the views of these folks. It would be a simple matter to hold a conference and expressly denounce any rhetoric from those people. The only reason not to do it would be if the ties I had to those people and their message were more important to me than the office I was seeking. Obama does have close ties to Wright, and thus far he has done nothing to distance himself from him, which makes me wonder about his priorities.
Unless Obama can provide a convincing reason for his continued support and membership of the Trinity United Church of Christ, then I think it's important to consider whether or not Americans should elect a person who supports anti-American beliefs as the leader of our country. Barack Obama is a member of a group who gives their highest praise to Louis Farrakhan and holds weekly meetings where they applaud messages of hatred toward "rich white people" and hatred toward the United States of America in general......and he wants to be our president...there are some clear red flags here.
Obama has a very short political history in the US senate and he consistently avoids specifics in his speeches. We simply don't know all that much about what he might do if elected. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton is more qualified than Barack Obama on nearly every level. She has more experience dealing with foreign countries and she has been intimately close to the internal workings at the highest level. Perhaps most importantly, unlike Obama, she is not involved in a radical religious group that holds allegience to Africa higher than allegience to the USA. I think anyone who votes for Obama simply because "Clinton is a bitch" is making a serious mistake.
Obama calls Wright "one of the greatest preachers in the country" (Real Player required)

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I used various paper collections and played around with cuttings using my Silhouette and Cricut machines, as well as punches and pieces from my stash. I keep a project box for Christmas in which I keep all papers and embellishments with a Christmas theme so that I can mix and match easily to put cards together.
I also filmed a video to show you how to stamp onto acrylic without your stamp sliding on the acrylic and messing up your image. I also explain how I store my acrylic stamps.
Recent Christmas Cards
Recent Christmas Cards
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In recent letters from state inspectors, Straight is accused of ignoring the conditions of a Sept. 16 consent order, which had given the embattled program a tentative one-year lease to operate in Maryland.
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More details about speakers and sessions will be announced soon. As in past years, the conference moderator will be BBC World News Anchor and Journalist David Eades.


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Global effect: Strengthens and motivates in tired and moody phases
filter module GREEN
Character: Balance and hope
Global effect: Boosts equilibrium, composure and stamina in weak and restless situations Momenten
filter module BLUE
Character: Coolest and most relaxing colour
Global effect: Reassures and relaxes nervous irritability and stressful strain of all nature
filter module VIOLET
Character: Individualism and intuition
Global effect: Unblocks, relaxes and revives in hopeless moments
There are many ways and techniques of how to apply Q.Light colour light to the human body for therapeutic and wellness purposes. It is advisable to visit colour therapy education courses or seminars.
The colourlight filter set can be applied with the Q.Light PRO UNIT and the Q.Light SKIN CARE UNIT.


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When you're an infant, the brain makes three dots and a line into a face; later in life, it turns a creak and a shadow into a ghost. Adults too often perceive bad luck as the work of a conscious (if vindictive) mind. You can resist it with logical thought, but the mind's default setting—what happens quickly, automatically, uncontrollably—is to believe its experiences were caused by living, thinking, feeling beings.
If you want to see how little the brain needs to trigger the sense that it's perceiving a person, look at the biomotion walker. All you'll see, literally, are a few lights moving on your screen. What you'll perceive, though, are people, and you'll be able to tell if they're male or female, angry or sad. Try it for yourself right here.
We are uncontrollably trigger-happy with our mental tools for perceiving objects as people. That can be a lot of fun. But along certain byways in robotics, it's getting a little creepy.


text: On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 04:49 AM, Silvia.Pfeiffer at csiro.au wrote: > 1) "application/ogg": > On the one hand, we should have the generic MIME type "application/ogg" > and the generic file extension ".ogg" for anything that uses the Ogg > container format. I guess for the moment there is no generic > application > that can handle all existing defined ogg media mappings (such as > ogg-speex, ogg-vorbis, ogg-theora). But that can of course be built and > then we are on a line with Quicktime, Microsoft media player and > RealPlayer. > > Those three by the way can understand several MIME types, e.g. > Quicktime > understands "video/quicktime" but also things like "audio/aiff", > "audio/wav", "audio/midi", "video/avi", "audio/mpeg", and "video/mpeg". > One word of caution here, though: while those three each try to > dominate > the market with their application and do not want others to use their > container format, Ogg is open and many people have started picking up > the Ogg container format for their encoding format by only having to > define a media mapping. Therefore, it will be difficult to maintain a > generic application that will be able to interprete any random Ogg > file, > because the Ogg container by itself does not know what kind of data it > carries. Silvia, this is wildly wrong. QT really wants lots of people to use it's container format. That's why it is open and freely licensable. Even MS are allowing licensing of asf now. The reason QT accepts those MIME type is that it can import the respective file formats and create a QT Movie that references the source files. Far from trying to dominate the market with our application, Apple gives away a full SDK with sample code for you build your own playback and editing applications with QT. Being able to parse the container format, and having codecs available to play back the contents are separate problems, and spawning MIME types for every codec variation is going to be very messy. You should define your MIME types by application domain, not by encoding format --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'theora-dev-request at xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.


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Open Innovations 2015
Moscow, Russia
October 28 - November 01, 2015
From the 28 September until the 1 November in Moscow's exhibition complex VDNKh, the annual International Forum for technological development, "Open Innovations", will be held. It is the largest event in Russia dedicated to the presentation of new technologies and perspectives of international cooperation in the field of innovation. In conjunction with the main theme of the forum: "Humanity in the Center of the Technological Revolution", discussions will be led on the five key subjects. Each of these subjects is determined by an important area in life, which is rapidly changing under the influence of technology: productivity, habitat, education, health and entertainment.
This year the Forum and Technology Show "Open Innovations" will be held in a new interactive format with presentations and discussions designed to follow the experience of the best international technological forums.
Website: http://www.forinnovations.ru/en/
10th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE 2015)
Genoa, Italy
September 17 - 18, 2015
The European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE 2015) provides an international opportunity for scientific discussion and collaboration on a broad range of relevant areas associated to recent trends in innovation. Over the last years, there is a growing recognition in business environments of the key role played by innovation in the creation and success of businesses. At the same time there is an increase in understanding of the need for more sustainable innovation, combining economic, ecologic and social aspects.
Website: http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2015/ecie15-home.htm
The Second International Forum "Social Innovations. Youth League".
Vologda, Russia
September 03 - 05, 2015
In the beginning of September more than a hundred delegations from Russian and foreign cities will meet in Vologda to share their experiences in the field of innovational municipal practices. The organisers of the event hope that the forum will become an effective platform to discuss the newest methods in the sphere of social planning and creative urbanism, as well as to present successful projects. The main focus will be given to the issue of the participation of youth in the urban development, formation of an active citizen position by taking part in various social programs and volunteering as a form of social activity.
Website: http://innovation35.ru/
XIII Triple Helix Conference 2015
Beijing, China
August 21 - 23, 2015
The Triple Helix International Conference 2015 will be organized by Tsinghua University. After London, Bandung, Silicon Valley, Madrid, Glasgow, Singapore, Turin, Copenhagen/Lund, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Amsterdam, and Tomsk Chinese capital will host the event that aims to enhance discussion about interaction between university, government, and industry, and its influence on economic development. This year the main topic of the discussions will be: "Academic-Industry-Government Triple Helix Model for Fast-Developing Countries".
Website: XIII Triple Helix International Conference
XIII International Conference on Innovation and Regional Development
London, United Kingdom
June 28 - 29, 2015
The ICIRD 2015: XIII International Conference on Innovation and Regional Development aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Innovation and Regional Development. It also provides the premier interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted in the field of Innovation and Regional Development.
Website: http://www.waset.org/conference/2015/06/london/ICIRD
The University-Industry Interaction Conference
Berlin, Germany
June 24 - 26, 2015
The University-Industry Interaction Conference will be the leading international discussion forum for academics, researchers, practitioners and business representatives on university-industry interaction, where theory and practice are equally emphasised in the programme. Over 400 participants from all over the world will gather in Berlin to share knowledge, interact and build new cooperations. This year's UIIN conference will focus even more on facilitating interaction and creating cooperation. In addition to the academic and practitioner presentations, the conference will also aim its attention at good practice case studies and 'next-practices'.
Website: http://www.university-industry.com/
21st International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/IEEE )
June 22 - 24, 2015
To address this year's theme of "Engineering Solutions for Societal Challenges"the organisers have framed the main conference topics under six key societal challenges. Each of the modules relates to the compelling problem of the present-day life and aims to find an innovative way to solve it using tools and methods of modern engineering. The conference is hosted by Ulster University Business School.
Website: http://www.ice-conference.org/
World of Photonics Congress
Munich, Germany
June 21 - 25, 2015
The International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies (IYL 2015) is a global initiative adopted by the United Nations to raise awareness of how optical technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to worldwide challenges in areas such as energy, education, communications, health, and sustainability.
This year the leading congress on photonics in Europe will be held under the auspices of IYL. Key trends and challenges will be discussed during conferences and a series of special symposia for cutting-edge technologies based on light. As plenary speakers some Nobel Prize Laureates are expected. The biggest trade fair for the laser and photonics industry "LASER World of PHOTONICS" will take place in the time of the event.
Website: http://www.photonics-congress.com/
Nanotech 2015 Conference
TechConnect World Innovation Conference
National SBIR/STTR Conference
National Innovation Summit
Washington, DC
June 14 -17, 2015
The super-event covering global innovation trends in physical and life sciences will be held in US capital in the middle of June. The joint programmes include the Nanotech 2015, the world's largest nanotechnology conference; TechConnect World Innovation Conference, which aims to accelerate the commercialisation of innovations out of the lab and into industry; the National Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Conference and the National Innovation Summit.
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World Conference on Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Istanbul, Turkey
May 28 - 30, 2015
The interdisciplinary gathering aims to build up a high value synergy by assembling the expertise, energy and experience of both the scientific and business sectors, in order to increase social welfare. The conference seeks to tackle business and social needs with important scientific developments in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of Life and Medicine Sciences, Physical and Engineering Sciences and Social Sciences.
Website: http://www.istanbuluniversityinnovation.org/
3rd International Conference BioPhotonics 2015
Florence, Italy
May 20 - 22, 2015
The IEEE BioPhotonics Conference is a high-level meeting in the area of light-based techniques for medicine, life science, agriculture, environmental science and many other areas of application. The goal of this Workshop is to bring together researchers worldwide to exchange their knowledge and experience, as well as their research developments in a stimulating multidisciplinary forum of experts.
BioPhotonics 2015 is a listed event under International Year of Light (IYL 2015) programme. This is year the IEEE BioPhotonics Conference will be part of the "Florence Biophotonics Week", which will include also ICOB 2015 (International Conference on Biophotonics, 18-20 May 2015). In the afternoon of May 20th a shared session of both Conferences will be organized.
Website: http://biophotonics2015.ifac.cnr.it/
Budapest, Hungary
May 05 - 07, 2015
Innovation forum organised by the European Institute of Innovation and technology (EIT) will comprise a set of events: the EIT Stakeholder Forum, the EIT Awards, the EIT Roundtables and the EIT Alumni Connect event. The forum aims to promote innovation and encourage entrepreneurship and celebrate entrepreneurial achievements of the EIT ventures and alumni, as well as provide a platform for dialogue between the EIT Community and external stakeholders and enhance collaboration with the wider European innovation society. The event will bring together 600 participants: start-ups, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, higher education and research institutes, EU, national and regional policy makers, and over 100 entrepreneurial students and graduates.
Website: http://eit.europa.eu/innoveit#home
International Conference on Innovation in Economics and Business
Amsterdam, Netherlands
February 12-13, 2015
The 2nd International Conference on Innovation in Economics and Business (ICIEB2015) aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Innovation in Economics and Business, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The conference will be held every year to make it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences inInnovation in Economics and Business and related areas.
Web-site: http://www.icieb.org/index.htm
International Conference on Innovations in Chemical and Agricultural Engineering (ICICAE'2015)
Kaula Lampur, Malaysia
February 8-9, 2015
The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Chemical and Agricultural Engineering. Another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners of different parts of the world. The conference will be held regularly to make it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in Chemical and Agricultural Engineering as well as in related fields.
Web-site: http://icicae.org/index.php
International Conference on Innovation and Management (IAM2015 Winter)
February 3-6, 2015
With the rapid development in e-business and technology, enterprises are now facing competition that is fiercer than ever before. How to assist enterprises in gaining competitive advantage via business innovation and technologies has become a crucial issue. International Conference on Innovation and Management (IAM2015 Winter) is a venue that allows business stakeholders, researchers and experts worldwide to meet and share knowledge of innovative technologies and managerial theories, exchange valuable experience, and form cooperative relationships to promote business innovation and management.
Web-site: http://iam2015w.conf-online.org/index.php
4th Global innovation Forum
London, UK
November 19-20, 2014
The 4th Global innovation Forum will discuss the latest trends in the field of innovation, creativity, design, R&D and new product development, as well as the major challenges for the future. We rely on a tremendous agenda, experienced speakers, key messages, global players and intense networking.
Web-site: http://www.innovation2014.com/
World Innovation Convention Cannes 2014
Cannes, France
November 4-6, 2014
The World Innovation Convention in picturesque Cannes is the most popular and pioneering platform for global innovators who particularly join to collaborate with their industry peers, and proven experts for 3 action packed days. They assemble with a direct mission to learn, share and discover how to make innovation happen faster and better within their organizations.
Web-site: http://www.winovc.com/
Open Innovations Forum 2014
Moscow, Russia
October 14-16, 2014
The III Moscow international forum for innovational development "Open Innovations" and the Open Innovations Expo will run between the 14th and 16th of October 2014 in the Technopolis MOSCOW. This year, Russia's partner country in running this large even will be China. The forum's key theme: "Creative Disruption: Staying Competitive in the 21st Century". The focal point of the discussion shall be the innovational re-formatting and re-building of markets, and the influence of this process on several different technological directions and on different players of the global innovational ecosystem.
Web-site: http://forinnovations.org/
Congress of Knowledge Economy-2014
Qingdao, China
September 21-23, 2014
Congress of Knowledge Economy-2014 is designed to be a high-end international conference geared to the needs of the Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, Mainland China and beyond.The event consists of an opening ceremony & plenary session, 15 parallel Forums focusing respectively on Economy, Finance, Education, Culture, Technology, Innovative Biomedicine, Advanced Materials, Manufacture, Agriculture Transportation, Tourism, and SMEs. And colorful Exhibition showcasing on the Following zones, the Exhibition will be attended by Chinese state leaders, and the foreign political celebrities, minister-level officials, local leaders, respective of international organizations, and principals of large corporations from worldwide participating countries in about 1,000 participants or so.
Web-site: http://www.bitcongress.com/GCKE2014/
Innovation Connecting Show 2014 (ICS-2014)
Toulouse, France
September 16-18, 2014
A major international meeting on Innovation and Competitiveness will take place in Toulouse onSeptember 16th, 17th and 18th, 2014. This venue will be placed under the high patronage of the President of the French Republic and of the European Commission.These 3 days of meetings focusing on key generic technologies offer the decisive advantage of multiplying the points of contacts between actors from different sectors by opening up the innovation ecosystems.
Web-site: http://www.ics-show.com/
Triple Helix XII International Conference
Tomsk, Russia
September 11-13, 2014
The Triple Helix XII International Conference seeks to answer the questions to the challenges of the global agenda – the search for new sources of economic growth. Organizing conferences in different parts of the world, forming a large-scale research network and extending the concept of the Triple Helix in key economies with a significant share of global GDP, the Association of Triple Helix is the player who can give its own versions opting to cope with this challenge. Conference main theme: "The Triple Helix and innovation-based economic growth: new frontiers and solutions."
Web-site: http://tha2014.org/
International Forum and Exhibition "High Technology of XXI. Innovations on SCO Space" «High-Tech SCO – 2014» ("R&D.Transfer.Innovations")
Moscow, Russia
August 26–28, 2014
"High Technology of XXI. Innovations on SCO Space" is a unique exhibition & congress innovative event that promotes facilities of the enterprises involving in creating and producing high technology production and technology.
Under support of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO) Business Council, the Government of the Russian Federation, the Moscow City Government, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Federal Space Agency, State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, SkolkovoFund, Rusnano JSC.
Participants – SCO Member States, SCO dialog observers and partners.
Web-sites: http://www.vt21.ru/
Indonesia International Conference on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Small Business (IICIES)
Bali, Indonesia
August 12-14, 2014
Indonesia International Conference on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Small Business (IICIES) is an annual conference held by Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership (CIEL SBM ITB). IICIES has always involved the three pillars in the process of technology commercialization and small business empowerment: academics, business, and government. Researches are focused on the areas of entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, management of technology, leadership, and managing small business and start-up.
Web-site: http://iicies.org/
International Conference on Innovation and Management (IAM2014 Summer)
Hawaii, U.S.A.
July 15-18, 2014
With the rapid development in e-business and technology, enterprises are now facing competition that is fiercer than ever before. How to assist enterprises in gaining competitive advantage via business innovation and technologies has become a crucial issue. International Conference on Innovation and Management (IAM2014 Summer) is a venue that allows business stakeholders, researchers and experts worldwide to meet and share knowledge of innovative technologies and managerial theories, exchange valuable experience, and form cooperative relationships to promote business innovation and management.
Web-site: http://iam2014s.conf-online.org/
Ekaterinburg, Russia
July 09-12, 2014
"INNOPROM" is a unique communication stage, on which new technological developments are demonstrated and which gives possibility to discuss urgent questions of development in Russia in order to modernize and make the Russian industry more competitive. At the exhibition Russian industrial developments, innovative projects and projects of modernization of Russian leading industrial enterprises will also be represented. Theme of the exhibition: Intellectual Industry.
Web-site: http://www.innoprom.com/default.aspx?sid=85
11th ICIE International Conference
Paris, France
July 7-10, 2014
From July 7 to July 10, 2014 in Paris will be held The 11th Conference of the International Centre for Innovation in Education. Main topics: Educating to face the challenges of the 21st century; ICT: Obstacle or opportunity? Standardization vs. Individualization; and New organizational models for education.
Organizers invite all who are interest in: innovation in education, excellence in education, and gifted education to attend this conference. The participants will include: university academics, educational psychologists, education policy advisers and managers, business and industry leaders, gifted and talented program coordinators, school heads, graduate students.
Web-site: http://www.paris.icieconference.net/
NanoBio Australia 2014
Brisbane, Australia
July 6-10, 2014
The intersection of Biology with Nanoscience and Nanotechnology currently represents one of the most exciting wellsprings of scientific innovation, and is also a major stimulus for a plethora of high value technologies and industries. By combining the two largest conferences in the world which focus on this scientific frontier, NanoBio Australia 2014 will feature a diverse array of multi-disciplinary science designed to connect world-leading scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs working in this space. NanoBio Australia 2014 will incorporate the 5th International NanoBio Conference and the 3rd International Conference on BioNano Innovation.
Web-site: http://iicies.org/
Global Innovation Economic Congress-2014
Dalian, China
June 26-29, 2014
The Global Innovation Economic Congress-2014 will share and explore the global strategic national innovation system and the successful experiences with you. There will be wonderful speeches by the innovation economic policy makers around the world, and you can seek the methods to enhance competitiveness and promote economic recovery force together.
Web-site: http://www.bitcongress.com/giec2014
20th ICE Conference – IEEE TMC Europe Conference
Bergamo, Italy
June 23-25, 2014
The International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation. In the last two decades, the ICE conference has every year brought together leading academics, researchers and practitioners, contributing to the global debate on engineering, technology and innovation. ICE 2014 is entitled "Engineering Responsible Innovation in Products and Services".
Web-site: http://www.ice-conference.org/
XXV ISPIM Innovation Conference
Dublin, Ireland
8-11 June, 2014
The XXV ISPIM Innovation Conference will focus on – Innovation for Sustainable Economy & Society. Organised by ISPIM in partnership with Intel Labs Europe, this conference will bring together around 500 innovation experts from 50 countries.
Web-site: http://conference.ispim.org/
InnoTown Innovation Conference
Aalesund, Norway
June 4-5, 2014
"Over the last 13 years, InnoTown speakers have skilfully entertained our audiences with their unique stories. Their talks contain a rich blend of deeply motivational personal journeys and exceptionally practical business cases. They leave our attendees energized and confident to capitalise on new ideas beyond the tried and tested."
Web-site: http://www.innotown.com/
Social Innovation Summit 2014
May 28-29, 2014
The Social Innovation Summit is a twice annual event taking place at the United Nations and Silicon Valley, that represents a global convening of black swans and wayward thinkers. Those who are playing at the nexus of technology, investment, philanthropy, international development, and business come together to investigate solutions and catalyze inspired partnerships that are disrupting history. The Summit mission is to gather those hungry not just to talk about the next big thing, but to build it.
Web-site: https://www.socinnovation.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=79546&;;;
Innovation Convention 2014
Brussels, Belgium
March 10-11, 2014
The 2nd Innovation Convention will take place on 10 and 11 March 2014. The first edition was described as "a creative collusion of some of the world's brightest people from across all sectors involved in research, innovation and science". This second edition will be even bigger and better, with over 2000 participants.
It will take place under the patronage of the President of the European Commission, Mr José Manuel Barroso, and will feature inspirational speakers from a range of backgrounds.
Web-site: http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/ic2014/index_en.cfm


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Seed Packet Said Peppers
I spent a good deal of time this week rearranging and preparing the raised beds. So of course Bixby and Bailey had to add their paw prints to them. We are heading out to the local lumber store to buy some slats to complete the fence. So enjoy it while you can crazy ones. Enjoy it while you can. LOL
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