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Sinéad O'Connor Confirms She Is Not Quitting Music After Prematurely Announcing Retirement
Emmy Mack Jun. 08, 2021
Sinead O'Connor has triggered mass confusion after announcing her retirement from the music industry, before immediately retracting it.
The Irish singer broke the news of her retirement on social media in a series of now-deleted tweets, revealing plans to release one final album, dubbed No Veteran Dies Alone, next year, before hanging up her microphone for good.
"I've gotten older and I'm tired. So it's time for me to hang up my nipple tassels, having truly given my all," the 54-year-old tweeted (via News Corp).
"NVDA in 2022 will be my last release. And there'll be no more touring or promo," she continued.
"It's not sad news. It's staggeringly beautiful news. A wise warrior knows when he or she should retreat: #MeTime. It's been a forty year journey. Time to put the feet up and make other dreams come true ;)"
She continued: "Apologies if any upset caused to booking agents or promoters or managers due to my tweeting about my retirement… All shows which were originally set for 2020, rescheduled to 2021 and then to 2022 are going to be pulled. Because this soldier woman has grown old quicker than Covid."
However, O'Connor has since deleted those tweets.
The singer, who has been open about her struggles bipolar disorder with clinical depression, has now published a lengthy statement, explaining that her treatment in several recent interviews had triggered her to jump the gun and announce her retirement prematurely.
"Good news. Fuck retiring. I retract. Am not retiring. I was temporarily allowing pigs in lipstick to fuck my head up," she tweeted.
"I said I was retiring. As I've said many times before in knee jerk reactions when I was young and made the butt of media abuse on the grounds I'm legally vulnerable."
She continued: "The hugest misconception of 'Sinéad O'Connor' is that she is Amazonian. I'm not. I'm a five foot four inch soft hearted female who is actually very vulnerable.
"When people ridicule or invalidate or disrespect or abuse or misuse me… I turn back into the hurt child. Or that appallingly treated young woman, and my job becomes something I'm terrified of.
"But I love my job. Making music that is… I am born for live performance."
The 'Nothing Compares 2 ' singer added: "I feel safe in retracting my expressed wish to retire and I will in fact be doing all shows currently booked for 2022.
"Also, I lied when I said I was past my peak. Ain't no such fuckin' thing."
You can read Sinead O'Connor's full statement below.
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Most people go to Cambodia to see the Angkor temples. With millions of tourists each year, it is not unreasonable to say that the Angkor area, including Siem Reap, the closest city and the hub for visiting the temples, has become excessively commercialized and tailored for tourism. That is to be expected at any popular tourist destination, for like many others, Angkor was my reason for visiting Cambodia.
I was genuinely fascinated by Angkor Wat, THE most famous temple of them all, even though its grandiosity was with no doubt undermined by the sheer number of tourists within the temples at any given time. Of course, the other temples, like Bayon, Baphuon, Ta Prohm, and Banteay Srei (all the ones we went to that day), each had its own unique characteristics. I am not going to spam you with only the typical photos of each temple itself, but rather, I will show you some parts of the exploration that you may not see on postcards and advertisements.
It's easy to get templed-out in Angkor, especially when that's all you go there to see. With two and a half days in the Siem Reap area, my friend and I could only afford one day in the temple complexes, which means that between 9am and 6pm, we were temple-hopping in the scorching, 33-degree heat. Some interesting sightings included elephant-riding tourists, gorgeous butterflies, and monkeys…lots and lots of monkeys just chilling around Angkor Wat. It was quite a miracle that I didn't end up with a heat stroke.
When touring the Angkor temples, I couldn't help but ponder whether tourism has harmed the country than helped it. Sure, tourism is a significant source of income for Cambodians, and I don't deny that it has helped the growth and development of the country. However, every time I visit a popular tourist destination in a developing country, I think of the impact and implications of the tourism industry on culture and society. When the sacred histories of your country become the Facebook profile pictures of foreigners who don't understand what it took to make those histories happen, when the realities of life in this country is masked by the glamorous image of tourism and overlooked by most, do you feel saddened? Indifferent? Does it even matter at all?
Of course, I have to come back to the people. I struggled to decide whether I should post more photos of the Cambodian people because they made me feel so…sad and torn. On one hand, I want to avoid the possibility of disrespecting the people who appear in these photos but on the other hand, I would not be telling the whole story if I omit them from my experiences. In the end, I decided that I would post them.
I cannot forget that little girl at Angkor Wat, walking back and forth through the queue of people lining up to climb a temple, picking up, crushing, and bagging plastic bottles and cans from anyone who threw them away. This was life for her. While I paid $20 for a single visit to the temples and hundreds of dollars to get to her country in the first place, $1 might be more than what she gets a day. This is her life.
It is no secret that Cambodia is a poverty-stricken country and when I see the stark contrast between my life and that of the little girl, I even felt a bit guilty. And the tourism question comes back – do we do good by "supporting" Cambodia – or any other country where tourism plays a main role in its economy – through its tourism? If this is what life is like here, then I can't even begin to imagine life in the more rural parts of the country, perhaps its true face.
We see so much, yet know so little.


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Friday Khutba: 1990 - 1999
The Changing World and its Ailments
Date: January 5th, 1990
The West, the East, and South Africa.
The Changing World
Date: January 12th, 1990
Continued from last week. The deliberate effort to prevent the winds of change in Muslim dominated countries: Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, and Palestine.
Ramadan & Self-Enhancement
Date: March 2nd, 1991
Holding oneself accountable before the Day of Judgment.
The Quran and the Transformation of the Ummah
Date: March 3rd, 1991
How the Quran changed the lives of the Ummah after the revelation and how to change the Ummah today.
Hijra and the Unique Ummah
Date: July 5th, 1991
The uniqueness of the Muslim experience, messenger, and scripture.
Date: November 6th, 1992
The four dangerous reactions of the Muslim community during difficult times.
Date: May 7th, 1993
The Islamic concept of motherhood.
Future of Islam
Date: July 2nd, 1993
Getting through the darkness of Islam's days to come.
Losing Our Young Muslims
Date: October 1st, 1993
Why our young Muslims are looking outside of Islam for guidance and the early signs to look for.
Era of Jahiliyya (Ignorance)
Date: September 2nd, 1994
Jahiliyya is not just a lack of knowledge but also represented a culture contrary to the teaching of Islam. Liberating the human mind.
Hardship and Remembering Allah
Date: March 14th, 1997
Remembering God in difficult times and not forgetting Him during good times.
Date: April 2nd, 1999
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Rishabh Pant unlikely to be available for IPL 2023
By Sports Analyst January 2, 2023 0
India's star wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant is looking at a long hiatus from the game. The left-hander sustained a gamut of injuries from the near-fatal crash near Gurukul, Narsan, in the state of Uttarakhand, including a couple of cuts on his forehead. Although the wicketkeeper is stable, he has suffered abrasion injuries on his back besides the ligament tear in his right knee that will take some time to recover.
As per a Cricbuzz report, the exact nature of treatment and time required for recovery and rehab can be decided only after the treatment of the ligament tear on the right knee starts. The medical team of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is monitoring the progress of the 25-year-old wicketkeeper-batter, and they may fly him to Mumbai when he is in a position to move.
According to The Times of India, who quoted a doctor who looks after the sports injury department at AIIMS-Rishikesh, it will take three to six months for Rishabh to recover from the ligament injury he suffered during the car crash. AIIMS-Rishikesh's Dr Qamar Azam, who looks after the sports injury department, told TOI, "Pant will take at least three to six months to recover from the ligament injury. And if it's severe, he may take more time. Further evaluation can be based on his detailed injury report."
Pant, who was recently dropped from the white ball squad for Sri Lanka, was in great form in red-ball cricket for the Indian team in 2022. The Indian wicketkeeper-batter was India's best Test batsman in 2022, amassing 680 runs in seven Tests at 61.81.
With the serious injury, it is certain that Pant will miss the 4-match Test home series against Australia. This will present an opportunity for KS Bharat, who might see his Test debut, or will we see the comeback of experienced man Wriddhiman Saha behind the wickets?
Pant, who plays for Delhi Capitals, will be under pressure to fill the gap left by Pant's absence. They will likely turn to David Warner or Prithvi Shaw to lead the team.


Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease and line a 25cm round deep cake tin with baking parchment. In a large bowl, mix the oil, egg yolks, vanilla paste, caster sugar and 200ml water until well combined. Sift in the cocoa powder and whisk until smooth.
Sift in the flour, bicarb and 1 tsp salt. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites to stiff peaks. Fold into the batter with a large metal spoon and mix until everything is well combined.
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Make the salted caramel icing while the cake bakes. Heat the brown sugar, ½ tsp salt and cream in a saucepan until the sugar has dissolved. Bubble for a few mins, then leave to cool completely. Beat the butter until smooth, pour in the cooled cream mixture and continue mixing until softly whipped. Chill until needed.
To make the ganache, heat the cream until just boiling. Remove from the heat and pour over the chocolate. Leave to stand for a few mins until the chocolate has melted and you have a smooth sauce consistency. Leave to cool at room temperature until the ganache is a pipeable thickness, then transfer to a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle. To finish the cake, slice in half and fill with the salted caramel buttercream. Pipe tall spikes of chocolate ganache on top and decorate with the sea salt crystals. Will keep for up to 2 days in a cool place.


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Source of public transportation throughout the City of Muscatine. Includes three routes that begin at 6:30 a.m. to approximately 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday. Weekend routes run from 8:30 a.m. to approximately 4:00 p.m. Limited evening service (5:45 p.m. to midnight) is available for job-related and school transportation, but you must call and request. All vehicles are accessible to persons using wheelchairs/mobility aids. Route deviations or other accommodations are arranged as needed. One way fare - $.75 kids under 5 free – transfers free. Tickets – 12 for $8.25 Monthly pass $28. Shuttle - 12 for $11.
Has a route that varies by day to various communities serving Muscatine, Davenport, Iowa City, Wilton, West Liberty, and others. Individuals may call to schedule a pick-up. Fares depend on the route. Call River Bend Transit for schedule.
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Are you looking for a quality mirror at a good price? Look no further! Puig's RS2 mirror is everything you need. This rearview mirror, not approved, has a plastic shell in matt black or carbon-like finish and can be adapted to any type of motorcycle. Before purchasing, you must have a clear reference to buy it in order to apply it to your motorcycle: adaptation to a rod, adaptation to the fairing of the screen with 30º inclination, adaptation to a straight rod or adaptation to the fairing of the dome with 70º inclination.
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Q: stacked colours according attributes I have a hierachical List of attributes e.g. column (1) S (2) SD (3) SD0
or (1) A (2) AN (3) An1 etc. So there is one S with several SD s and several SD0 in the attribute table. When I display column (3) I wonder if there is an automatic way to set the colours in a stacked way i.e. all S different grey colours all A different blue etc. All I could find was the rule based way but then it is still a lot of work because there are so many types in column 3. Is there a way to use the other columns, in my case for example column 1 to classify?
Thank you for help!!

A: So what you basically want is categorized colouring of multiple specific polygon/vector attributes, if i understand you right.
Depending on your attribute-structure maybe this can be done through the rule-based labeling in qgis, if you use categories intelligently.

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*Select rule-based labeling on your polygon File

*Apply a simple filter for one of your coloumns (select all)

*Rightclick on your filter and select -> refine current rule -> add categories

*here you can add any gradient as you like and apply it to your coloumn style

the category-based colouring should be available from qgis 1.8 on. See the nice blog post from underdark for the new labeling features

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David Wiesner's Best Page Layouts
Fri, February 8, 2019
I first learned of David Wiesner while watching a video about Caldecott winners Wiesner's book, The Three Pigs, was reviewed. I was intrigued by Wiesner's use of comic book style panels, and how the pigs "escaped" their story to the space between pages. Similar to breaking the proverbial fourth wall, but in this instance, only within the confines of other storybooks.
I wanted to read more of Wiesner's work so I reserved all of his books available to me at my local library. Twelve books by Wiesner and two biographies about him. I spent the next few days reading his books multiple times. If you've read a Wiesner book, you know how great his art is, and how much fun his stories are to read.
One Sunday morning I dropped my daughter and a friend off to see a movie. During the two hours, while I waited, I spent my time reading and taking notes about Wiesner's books. It's the first time in two years I've taken notes with a pen and pencil. You can read more about that in Going Back to Paper blog post.
My primary goal in taking notes about Wiesner is to document layout patterns in two of his books: Tuesday, published in 1991, and June 29, 1999, published in 1992. In each book, he repeats a limited set of layouts creating a unique pattern of panels to tell each story.
The children's book Tuesday won Wiesner a Caldecott in 1992. In this book, Wiesner used one of four layouts for a spread.
The only words that appear in this book are found in one of two similar layouts. The words are on the left page while the right page displays Weisner's illustrations. The two layouts differ by the number of panels on the right page. This first layout displays three stacked horizontal panels on the right page.
Fig. 1 – Sketch from my notes of a stacked three-panel layout on the right page with words on the left page in David Wiesner's children's book, Tuesday.
The next layout you're exposed to in the story is a full-spread layout.
Fig. 2 – Sketch from my notes of a single panel, full-spread layout of artwork in David Wiesner's children's book, Tuesday.
The third layout implores a full-spread, full-bleed panel with three inset panels—two inset panels on the left page and one on the right. Further, in the story Weisner reuses this layout but flips the inset panels to one on the left page and two on the right.
Fig. 3 – Sketch from my notes of a full-bleed layout of artwork with three inset panels in David Wiesner's children's book, Tuesday.
The final layout is similar to the first displaying words on the left page. This differs by only using one large panel on the right page.
Fig. 4 – Sketch from my notes of a single page panel layout on the right page with words on the left page in David Wiesner's children's book, Tuesday.
I find this to be one of Weisner's best-illustrated books. People's faces are well defined. He is able to effectively show the large scale of the vegetables in relation to the surrounding environments and people.The composition of each spread is very cinematic. Interestingly enough, Weisner only uses three layouts in the entire book.
This layout is his most cinematic in the story. There's one single panel that stretches across both pages covering about 5/6 of the spread. The words are on the far left of the spread in a single, slim column.
Fig. 5 – Sketch from my notes of a single panel layout with words on the far left in David Wiesner's children's book, June 29, 1999.
This is my favorite layout of all of Weisner's books. Four equal-sized vertical panels with words underneath each are evenly spaced across the spread.
Fig. 6 – Sketch from my notes of a four panel layout with words under each panel in David Wiesner's children's book, June 29, 1999.
The very last page of June 29, 1999 provides the third and final layout—one large panel effectively concluding the story. There are no words on this page as the character's surprised expressions are all that is needed.
Fig. 7 – Sketch from my notes of a single panel layout on the left at the end of the story in David Wiesner's children's book, June 29, 1999.
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To date, these two books are Weisner's very best work in regards to using comic book style layouts and panels to aid his storytelling. As a cartoonist, I think about stories in panels so his approach really resonated with me. It's given me the confidence to pursue this type of layout and story telling in my books.
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NYC & Company offers information on every step along the way, from making travel arrangements to booking accommodations to getting around once you're here.
This Is New York City™: Plan your personalized City experience.
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New York emerged from World War II as the unquestioned leading city of the world, with Wall Street leading America's emergence as the world's dominant economic power, the United Nations headquarters (built in Manhattan in 1952) emphasizing its political influence, and the rise of Abstract Expressionism displacing Paris as center of the art world.
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Considered by some to be the "Capital of the World," New York City is one of the most diverse places on earth, with a population of over 8 million people stretched over three islands and hundreds of neighborhoods.
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On this episode of The Joy of Gaming Podcast, we (Rich and Jordan) discuss two of the most anticipated Fall gaming releases - Assassin's Creed: Odyssey and Super Mario Party for Nintendo Switch - and take a nostalgia-fueled look back at the multiplayer games that had the greatest impact on us, from the NES/Genesis era until today.
We also discuss two of the biggest stories in gaming right now - the unfortunate and unexpected shuttering of Telltale Games, and the recent comments made by Rockstar Games CEO Dan Houser about 100-hour work weeks. Both of these stories inevitably lead us to the topic of crunch and overwork, as well as workers rights within the gaming industry.
So join us, as we celebrate yet another incredible Fall gaming season, and do our best to remember that it's people and passion that make these games possible. This...is the Joy of Gaming!


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Епізоотоло́гія (від гр. epi – на, zoon – тварина, logos – наука, поняття), або ветеринарна епідеміологія — самостійна ланка ветеринарної медицини — наука, що вивчає епізоотії, прояв епізоотичного процесу під час якого інфекція вражає велику кількість тварин, вивчає об'єктивні закономірності виникнення, прояву, поширення і згасання епізоотій (інфекційних хвороб) і на цій основі розробляє методи профілактики і заходи боротьби з ними.

Завданням є недопущення, профілактика чи ліквідація епізоотій. Основними завданнями епізоотології на сучасному етапі є розробка теоретичних і практичних основ науково обґрунтованої стратегії і тактики протиепізоотичних заходів, з метою забезпечення стійкого благополуччя тваринництва щодо інфекційних хвороб, високу його продуктивність і надійний захист населення від зооантропонозів.

Знаючи закони епізоотичного процесу (біологічне явище, він розвивається згідно з певними біологічними законами, які не залежать від волі людини), спеціалісти ветеринарної медицини можуть активно втручатись в розвиток епізоотичного процесу конкретної інфекційної хвороби і ефективно займатись її профілактикою і ліквідацією.

Наука поділяється на:
 загальна епізоотологія, — вивчає загальні закономірності розвитку і згасання інфекційних хвороб; вчення про імунітет і інфекційні хвороби; вчення про загальні і спеціальні заходи лікування тварин.
 Спеціальна, — вивчення характеристик збудника, патогенез, поширення, паталого-анатомічні зміни, методи діагностики і диференційної діагностики, лікування, економічні збитки, розробка заходів ліквідації і профілактики.

Для вирішення проблеми епізоотології необхідні фундаментальні знання ветеринарної генетики і імунології.

Епізоотологія як наука особливо розвинулась після 1920-х років. Вчені детально вивчили ряд маловідомих або зовсім невідомих інфекційних захворювань, розробили питання діагностики і імунітету, патогенезу, специфічної профілактики при багатьох інфекціях сільськогосподарських тварин, птиці та бджіл.

Примітки

Джерела
 Епізоотологія з мікробіологією : Підруч. для підгот. фахівців. в аграрних вузах 1-2 рівнів акред. з напр. підгот. "Ветеринарна медицина" / За ред. В. П. Постоя. – К. : Вища школа, 2006. – 543 c. : ілюстр.

Див. також
 Міжнародне епізоотичне бюро

Ветеринарія
Епідеміологія

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India Arrests 27 after "Witch-Hunt" Massacre of Tribal Women
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Arakan State Suffers Two-Thirds of Flood-Related Fatalities Nationwide
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India must do more to tackle the practice of witch branding among tribal communities, activists said, following the murder of five women accused of sorcery.
By Nita Bhalla 11 August 2015
NEW DELHI — India must do more to tackle the practice of witch branding among tribal communities, activists said on Monday, following the murder of five women accused of sorcery.
The victims, aged 35 to 52, were dragged out of their rural homes in the eastern state of Jharkhand in the early hours of Saturday and beaten and stabbed to death by villagers who accused them of killing a youth.
Police have arrested 27 people following the attack, but activists said a string of similarly horrific killings this year shows an urgent need to tackle the root causes of the practice and enforce the law.
"Many of these murders are linked to superstitious beliefs, but they are also due to economic reasons where people want to take the woman's land or property," said Ranjana Kumari, director of the Centre for Social Research, a women's rights organisation in New Delhi.
"These crimes keep happening because the authorities have not done enough to create awareness. They don't take them seriously and as a result, there are few prosecutions and convictions."
In the last year there have been numerous reports of women being branded witches in villages across central, eastern and northeastern states. Government data shows there were 160 murders linked to witch-hunts in 2013, against 119 the previous year.
Activists say figures are likely to be much higher as many cases go unreported, with witnesses fearing revenge attacks or ostracism if they speak up.
Despite a slew of pro-poor policies, India's economic boom has largely bypassed its indigenous population, who make up more than 8 percent of the country's 1.2 billion population.
Many inhabit remote villages, eking out a living from farming, cattle rearing and selling forest produce.
Neglect by the authorities, a Maoist insurgency in the country's central tribal belt and civil conflict in the northeastern region have further margnialized these communities.
Campaigners say a combination of patriarchy, poverty, a lack of education and poor law enforcement allows witch-branding to continue.
Women can be accused of witchcraft following illnesses, deaths or poor crops. But activists say there is often a motive behind the murders such as a dispute or an intention to acquire the woman's land or other assets.
Police said Saturday's murders occurred in the village of Kanjia, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the state capital Ranchi, when an angry mob stormed into the women's mud homes.
They stripped them and beat them with wooden sticks, metal rods and stabbed them with spears and swords, accusing them of being behind the death of a severely jaundiced 17-year-old boy who had died the week before.
The women's bodies were put into large jute bags and dumped outside the village, police said.
"Their faces were also defaced, apparently by stones," Jharkhand police spokesman S.N. Pradhan told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Ranchi. "Almost the entire village was involved in the massacre."
There were 54 murders related to witch-branding in Jharkhand in 2013, more than in any other state. There have also been reports of witch-branding in Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam, and Chhattisgarh.
Over the last year, entire families have been butchered in the middle of the night, and women have being stripped, tortured, paraded naked, forced to eat faeces, beaten to death or burnt alive after being accused of sorcery.
Last month, a couple and four of their children were hacked to death in the eastern state of Odisha by villagers who accused them of practising witchcraft and making their children sick.
The same month, a 63-year-old woman in the northeastern state of Assam was branded a witch by a mob who dragged her out of her home, stripped and beheaded her.
"The thing I find most appalling is this mob violence where people are taking the law into their own hands and think they can go around and lynch women. It's like witch burning in medieval England," said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director for Human Rights Watch.
"It shows that there is a complete breakdown of the rule of law in many parts of the country, where people act with a sense of impunity and police are reluctant to file complaints and the judicial process is laborious."
Government officials at both central and state level said they planned to launch public awareness campaigns in high-risk areas and would ensure the deaths of the five women were investigated and the accused brought to trial quickly.
India's tribal affairs minister, Jual Oram, said he was "very upset" by the recent killings related to witch-branding and that his ministry was considering action to increase awareness among tribal communities.
"We can prevent such incidents only if we can educate people," he said.
Nita Bhalla Thomson Reuters Foundation


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The Disgraceful case of 'S'
Posted byneopolitic	 30/01/2020 23/03/2020 Leave a comment on The Disgraceful case of 'S'
What appears below is an amalgam of three cases – all concerning ongoing litigation about the same child. After more than a decade of litigation father is forced to give up on seeing his son again, and leave the court as just another 'tearful and wholly-deserving father'. For my money, this is probably the most disgraceful family law case there has ever been.
Case 1 – TE and SH and S [2010] EWHC 192 (Fam)[1]
This case was decided in January 2010 and concerned a child, 'S' who was, at the time, 11 years old. The judgment concerns the father's application for S's residence to be changed. This case had been before this judge several times before – the father issued his first application for a contact order in June 1999.
The judge says:
'141. Having listened to the father as he gave his evidence, he impressed me as a devoted father who is committed to his son. At times during his evidence he was quite tearful. He is clearly devastated at the breakdown of his relationship with S. He said, movingly, that this present situation isn't just S's tragedy or his tragedy but is a tragedy for S's siblings, his grandparents, his cousins, his aunts and uncles. He said that 'if ever we go out for a meal there is always an invisible guest there'.
'142. However, it is also clear that the father has great difficulty in foreseeing the consequences of his actions. For example, whilst I have no doubt that his decision to seek DNA tests was, as he says, intended to underline to the mother the fact that he is S's father, with all that that implies, I equally have no doubt that he gave no thought to whether that step might be perceived by the mother as a hostile step implying a slur on her character. In other words, he was unable to foresee that a step which he hoped would have positive consequences might in fact have very negative consequences. Similarly, his applications for permission to change S's name and for him to be educated in the independent sector, no doubt both worthy aspirations in his mind, were likely to have and did have a negative impact on his relationship with the mother. Given that contact was at last progressing reasonably well at the time he made those applications, it is unfortunate that the father did not have the foresight to contemplate the damage that might be caused by making those applications.
'143. The events of early January 2006 provide the most powerful testimony to the father's inability to foresee the consequences of his actions. Although the description of his conduct as being 'over-zealous' still rankles with him, I am satisfied that it is an apt description. The repercussions have been profound. Having over the years put so much effort into successfully establishing a meaningful relationship with his son, all of that good work was undermined by his over-zealous response to S's apparent disclosures. '144. That said, it would not in my judgment be either fair or appropriate to conclude that in terms of the complete and utter breakdown in the contact arrangements the father is wholly responsible.'
This kind of analysis of the father's behaviour is wholly reprehensible. How the fuck do you expect a father to behave in these circumstances? Dad here is being marginalised, his relationship with his child deliberately derailed and frustrated, and then he's criticised for losing his rag a bit now and then. I am tempted to wonder how old Cliff would react if we took his kids away from him, denied him contact with them, and messed him about for YEARS over contact issues. If any father reacts to such treatment with calm Bjorn Borg-like Swedish equanimity we would surely regard that father as a very weird fish.
Of the mother, Judge Bellamy is critical, enumerating several instances where mother frustrated contact and concluding:
Whereas I have found that some of the father's actions have been carried out without any insight at all into the likely consequences, I am in no doubt that this mother does have insight into the likely consequences of some of her actions. In my judgment, when taken together, and in the context of the whole of the evidence before me, all of this strongly suggests that in truth this mother has no real wish to see contact restart.'
This was in 2007. Because of Bellamy's limp-wristed approach, the matter came back to court and in 2009 indicated of mother that
"there are a number of factors in the evidence that lead me to believe that the mother is still not as enthusiastic about reinstating contact as she would have me believe. I list just six of them:
(a) For three months after my earlier judgment, her continuing refusal to accept voluntary maintenance pending the making of a new CSA assessment.
(b) Her response to S's behaviour when Dr W visited her home.
(c) With respect to the planned encounter at the place of worship, her telephone call to Mrs K, rather than to the father, to discuss S's distress prior to this event; her
decision to invite the father to the place of worship notwithstanding her awareness of her own father's clear view that it was not the done thing for her and the father to be seen together at the place of worship.
(d) With respect to the planned encounter at the cross country event, her failure to tell S's Head Teacher that she had invited the father to attend the cross-country race; her delay in telling S about this event; her decision to invite the father to this event notwithstanding her understanding of the importance of that event both for S and for the school; her attempt to discuss S's adverse reaction with Mrs K on the morning of the event; her failure to discuss his reaction with the father.
(e) With respect to S's education, her rejection of the father's request that he should attend Parents Evening with her; her failure to consult the father about choice of secondary school; her general failure to recognise the significance of shared parental responsibility in matters relating to S's education.
(f) With respect to indirect contact, her failure adequately to reprimand S for his rudeness to the father during telephone conversations and for his failure to acknowledge gifts received from his paternal family.
And yet that
Having said all of that, I do accept that the mother has made some progress since the last hearing. I do accept that she has tried, though I am not wholly convinced that her intent has been to commit to making contact work. It is equally possible that her efforts have been intended to persuade the court that she has tried her best to make contact work.'
Astonishing. How many times does old Cliff have to be told before he gets it? And in the meantime, the alienation deepens, as we shall see. Is he just S-T-U-P-I-D?
Two experts were involved, a social worker called Ms K from NYAS (useless, woolly-headed and over-involved) and a 'Dr W' whose evidence, broadly, was accepted by old Cliff. I don't know, but I am willing to bet that Dr W was Dr Kirk Weir, a renowned expert in the field and well-known to my own judge, judge Stewart, apparently. Dr Weir is excellent though unfortunately now retired.
But he seems to have bottled it – Dr Weir said:
'I would support a change of Residence if there was evidence that S suffered emotional harm and/or abuse as a result of care given by the mother. I would not regard the presence of "alienation" in S as sufficient to conclude that the mother caused emotional harm and/or abuse."
"On 13th December 2007, by consent, I made a residence order in favour of the mother. The father had indicated through his counsel on the first morning of that hearing that he would consent to that order. I said that I had 'no doubt it was right for the father to agree to a residence order in the mother's favour' (paragraph 145). However, it was clear that the father's consent to that order was, in one sense, tactical in that he hoped that by making it clear that he was not intending to disturb the residential status quo S and his mother would feel more secure and that S's approach to contact may soften. In her evidence the mother herself had said that the making of a residence order would 'go a huge way to help S to feel secure' (paragraph 112). Despite the making of the residence order in favour of the mother, S's approach to contact did not soften."
This is a paradigmatic error. And one that I made myself, and later on advice from a barrister, Gemma Bower. That is, that by 'backing off' APs see reason and 'soften' or that judges see you more kindly as having taken the high ground – THEY DO NOT. Your 'backing off is not perceived as reasonableness, but as weakness. Problems with contact increase, not decrease, and the alienation deepens. Perhaps I can be forgiven for my naïveté but Gemma Bower can't and nor can old Cliff.
Judge Bellamy goes on to accept the summary of his earlier findings by F's lawyer:
"Miss Ball has gone through my earlier judgments with care and on the basis of that analysis she submits that the court has already reached a number of significant conclusions. She sets out seventeen in total. They may be summarised, briefly, as follows: that the mother is more culpable than the father for the breakdown in contact and the failure to restore it; that whereas the father has lacked insight the mother has been well aware of the likely consequences of her actions and has behaved wilfully; that the mother's behaviour has created antipathy and coloured S's thinking about his father; that although in recent months there have been some signs that the mother may have been attempting to change course, the reality is, as she herself admitted in evidence, that she has now lost control of S; that the consequence of all of this has been that S has become alienated from his father; that S has been emotionally affected by being at the centre of parental conflict and is at risk of future harm if he is unable to enjoy a meaningful relationship with his paternal family; that the court is pessimistic about the mother's ability to change."
The judge then goes on to accept summaries of his findings regarding the mother, adduced by the mother's barrister:
"She says that
(a) What is equally important is the findings that the Court has not made as these must be considered when balancing all factors of the welfare checklist by way of example. (sic)
(b) The court has not found that the mother is responsible (or solely responsible) for the alienation of S from his father.
(c) The court has not found that S suffers any disadvantage in any other areas of his life.
(d) The court has not found any exposure of S to distorted belief systems or false allegations from the mother.
(e) The court did not make its order for sibling contact based on any assertion by the mother, or assumption by the court, that this would lead on to contact between S and his father."
The mother's lawyer goes on and
"points to the likely distress that would be caused by moving S from the care of the parent who has been his primary carer for the whole of his life and with whom he has a strong bond. Such a move would mean not only change of carer but also change of home, change of school, loss of friends and loss of the social and sporting life he enjoys at present. He will have to build a new life living with a father whom the court has found lacks insight and empathy. She submits that such destabilisation and disruption of S would come at a heavy emotional and psychological cost. It would involve the court taking a substantial (and, it is implied, unreasonable and inappropriate) risk."
But the judge goes on
"I am satisfied that S has suffered emotional harm. I am also satisfied that if he remains [my emphasis] alienated from his father he is at significant risk of suffering the kind of psychosocial harm (behavioural and emotional disturbance, academic under-achievement, relationship difficulties) described Dr W in his evidence and to which I referred earlier in this judgment."
The judge goes on to say that the court must balance all of the factors in favour of maintaining the status quo, with the factors in favour of a change of residence. He says this:
On the side of the scales representing the status quo, I place eight factors:
(1) The parents had separated before S was born. The mother has at all times been S's primary carer. Even during those years when contact worked well, the longest period of time that S has spent in his father's care is 15 days.
(2) The evidence demonstrates that S is doing well in every respect both at home and at school. I have found that the mother's physical care of S is of the highest order. Although there is no evidence from S's present school, to which he moved in September, the evidence from his Junior School was that he was doing very well both academically and in sport. Save for her relationship difficulties with the father, which have led her to be (to a greater or lesser extent from time to time) hostile to S enjoying a meaningful relationship with his father, the mother is otherwise bringing up a son who is flourishing.
(3) S continues to express a strongly held view that he wishes to remain in the care of his mother. That has been his position consistently since direct contact stopped in February 2006. No stone has been left unturned in trying to encourage a change in S's position. Those efforts have been unsuccessful. He is now rising 12 years of age. His wishes and feelings are entitled to respect.
(4) Direct contact last occurred in February 2006. S has not been to his father's home for almost four years. The closest he has come to having direct contact with his father, at the cross country race in March 2009 (see paragraphs 54 to 69 of my judgment of 15th June 2009), was a complete failure.
(5) Given that there has been no direct contact for almost four years and given, too, the distress which S has shown at some of the steps that have been taken to try to break the contact deadlock, it can reasonably be anticipated that a change of residence would be likely to cause S significant distress. Dr W's opinion is that such distress is likely to be short-lived. However, I accept that it is likely that that distress would lead to management difficulties in effecting the transfer. Those difficulties could conceivably require the use of some degree of force in order to achieve the transfer. It is likely that the distress would continue in the early days following transfer.
(6) A move to live with the father would involve not only a change of primary carer but a significant reduction in the level of contact that S has with members of his maternal family and in all probability the loss of school friends. It would also involve the disruption of a change of school after just one term at his present school.
(7) The father works more than an hour's journey away from his home. It is clear that on weekdays substantial responsibility for caring for S would be delegated to his stepmother and to his paternal grandparents.
(8) I have expressed concerns about the father's lack of insight and empathy. Unless the father is able to make real changes in this area it is likely that this could undermine S's placement with him.
On the other side of the scales I place the following seven factors:
(1) I have found that S has already suffered emotional harm. I have accepted evidence from Dr W that S has become alienated from his father. I have also accepted Dr W's evidence that there is a risk that the long-term consequences of alienation and estrangement from his father could be damaging to S's welfare. That damage could include the kind of psychosocial harm (behavioural and emotional disturbance, academic under-achievement, relationship difficulties) described by Dr W in his evidence and to which I referred earlier in this judgment.
(2) Although S has very clearly stated that he does not wish to see his father (and has called him 'a monster' and has said that he 'hates' him) I have accepted evidence from Dr W that as a result of the alienation not only are those views irrational they are also unreliable. In my judgment of 15th June 2009 I found that video footage clearly showed S to have been relaxed, happy and at times quite animated during his stay with his father in January 2006. I have noted some recent signs that S's expressed wishes and feelings may not genuinely reflect his true wishes and feelings.
(3) I am satisfied that the father is being sincere in the assurances he gives concerning the maintenance of S's relationship with his mother and maternal family in the event that S were to live with him. Given all that the father has faced over the last ten years, one might have expected him to be angry. In fact, as Dr W noted, he is, quite simply, very sad. I have detected no sense of malice or ill-will towards the mother. The father has pursued these proceedings as determinedly as he has because he cares deeply about the welfare of his son. In my judgment the father would be in a better position to maintain the mother's relationship with S than vice versa. I am confident that the father would prioritise the need for S to continue to enjoy a close and loving relationship with his mother.
(4) I am satisfied that the father, together with his wife and parents, would be able to meet S's physical and educational needs to the same standard as that provided hitherto by the mother.
(5) Although in my judgment of 15th June 2009 I accepted that the mother had made some progress since the previous hearing in November 2007, I was not wholly convinced that her intent had been to make contact work. I expressed the opinion that it was equally possible that her efforts had been intended to persuade the court that she had tried to make contact work. I said that my concerns about the mother had 'lessened only slightly since December 2007'. That remains my position.
(6) Previous orders of the court have not been effective in re-establishing direct contact. I do not share Mrs K's optimism that indirect contact may in due course lead to a resumption of direct contact. If the status quo remains and the court proceedings come to an end I consider the prospects for re-establishing any form of contact between S and his father to be remote. In my judgment the overwhelming probability is that S will have no further contact with his paternal family unless, in later adult life, he himself seeks it out.
(7) Following on from that last point, the mother has accepted that she has lost control of S. I am confident that even if the mother were motivated to provide real encouragement to S to see his father it is unlikely at this late stage that that encouragement would bear fruit. In any event, I am not confident that the mother is genuinely motivated to provide that encouragement.
The learned judge concludes:
"The decision for the court is a profoundly anxious and, as I now accept, finely balanced decision. Some may regard a decision to move S as being too bold and inappropriately risky. Mrs K has referred to it as 'an experiment'. Others may regard a decision not to move him as failing to grasp a nettle that has cried out to be grasped for far too long. I have taken time over Christmas and New Year to reflect on my decision. Having reflected I have come to the conclusion that, traumatic though it may be in the short term, it is in the best interests of S's long-term welfare for him now to live with his father. I so order."
Case 2 – the Appeal
This decision was appealed by the mother.
What follows is the result of that appeal, heard in the Court of Appeal by LORD JUSTICE THORPE, LADY JUSTICE SMITH and MRS JUSTICE BARON[2]
The appeal was heard in March 2010. Litigation had, by this point, been going on for nearly ELEVEN YEARS. Throughout this case, the child is referred to as 'A' notwithstanding that he has been referred to as S before. But it's the same child and the same case. In this 'follow-up' Dr Weir is referred to by name – so it was him after all.
Old Cliff had tried to effect the transfer of residence, but mum was having none of it and the local authority had become involved. Judge Bellamy had had to resort to tipstaffs and had indicated that the change was happening whether mum liked it or not. Mum, on the other hand, had other ideas…
The local authority were mooting an idea that the child go into local authority care for a few moths as a 'stepping stone' to transfer to dad's house, but judge Bellamy thought it better to do a direct transfer and get on with it. 'A' in the meantime had indicated that if forced to move to his fathers house, he would run away.
The court found a compromise – the 'stepping stone' via local authority care should be only for 21 days, not three months…and maternal contact should be by supervised phone calls only.
How's that gonna work out…?
Well, we can see exactly how this turned out here –
Case 3 – Resignation
WARWICKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL Applicant
TE First Respondent
SH Second Respondent
S (by his Children's Guardian, Ms J) Third Respondent[3]
"On 21 July 2010 a wholly deserving father left my court in tears having been driven to abandon his battle to implement an order which I had made on 4th January 2010 that his son, S, now aged 12, should move to live with him.[1] The order of 21 July, made by consent, brings to an end litigation relating to S which has been before the court almost continuously since June 1999."
At some point Karen Woodall became involved. She thought the situation could be remedied with therapy. Dr Weir thought not, saying
'I do not share Ms Woodall's optimism that further therapeutic intervention will succeed…This is a serious and entrenched case of alienation…and it has been and remains my opinion that therapy is unlikely to succeed in overcoming S's resistance to any form of relationship with his father's family.
Weir goes on
"The difficulty I have is that although the local authority is hoping reason will prevail and S will come round to accepting the inevitable, I think it is unlikely. The delay allows a period when attitudes can become entrenched, behaving badly, and further risk of harm occurring…at the end after the work and negotiation there will still be the same situation where we have to force him to live with his father. Even if he is willing to go into foster care, which is a good thing because it avoids a scene at the time, the bad thing is that we are not dealing immediately with what is ultimately necessary, that is, to make him to go live with his father.'
As I have already noted, the strategy S adopted during contact sessions – putting his head in his hands, putting his fingers in his ears and flatly refusing to engage – was carried through with great determination. His attitude became even more entrenched.
In his report of 25 May 2010, written in response to the by then failed attempts to persuade S to engage with his father, Dr Weir said
'There is little that I can add to my previously expressed views. The "stepping stones" method predictably failed and may have made matters worse…The continual delays and failed attempts at reintroducing contact make it more likely that S might successfully resist contact and/or transfer in the future, as he is now even more experienced at resisting the advice and encouragement of even more people in authority.'"
The court continued:
Some of the steps recommended by Dr Weir are likely to appear highly counter-intuitive to a child care practitioner who is not experienced in dealing with alienated children. At the professionals' meeting on 23 February Dr Weir was asked how the reintroduction of contact should progress. He gave this advice:
Dr Weir: The [first] visit needs to be quite long to help the child get over it. If it ends quickly because of unpleasantness then it is setting up the next visit to fail. I am looking at the first visit being very long and to be kept going until S is prepared to answer his father and…look him in the eye ending in a change of attitude. It may take hours.
Q: What if he can't do that?
Dr Weir: It needs to go on as long as possible.
Q: What if S says he won't eat, drink, do school work etc? How long do you leave it?
Dr Weir: Indications from other cases are that threats are not persisted with. They may end in hours or 2/3 days and then things change…and it is OK.
Some child care professionals are likely to be deeply unhappy with such an approach and, out of concern about the risks to a very distressed child, unwilling to follow such an approach.
In other words, you have to push really hard.
Some while after the second appeal Miss Ball QC, leading counsel for the father, advised the court that the father's wife was pregnant with their third child. At the pre-hearing review on 7 July I was told that the father's wife had miscarried. Following an advocates' meeting on 13 July I was informed by Miss Ball that the father no longer intended to seek the implementation of the residence order made on 4 January. In the circumstances, I have no doubt that that will have been a very painful decision for him to take. However, after all that has happened in the six months since my order of 4 January, I have no doubt that the decision was the right decision for S. I warmly commend the father for it.
On the concept of alienation,
"In his first report Dr Weir gave this description of the concept of alienation:
'There are children who show an extraordinary degree of animosity towards a parent with whom they once had a loving relationship. Most of these children will show some or all of [a cluster of psychological responses]. Within an individual child (and between children in the same family) the presence of the features can vary rapidly over time and place, but in their full manifestation are so surprising and unique as to be unforgettable. The proposed term 'Alienation' applies only to the cluster of psychological responses in the child with no need to presume a deliberate campaign of denigration by one parent. [my emphasis] There is now research data supporting a multifactorial aetiology for 'Alienation' following parental separation, involving contributions from both parents and vulnerabilities within the child.'"
"In the light of the considerable body of evidence I have heard and read in this case over the last three years, the research literature that has been produced and my experience of dealing with other high conflict cases involving different experts, I am satisfied that Dr Weir's evidence as to the concept of alienation as a feature of some high conflict parental disputes may today be regarded as being mainstream."
Therapy was not to be the answer in this case, as Dr Weir had opined, and Karen Woodall
"described the progress as 'tiny'"
So dad gave up. He had no choice. There was a 'postscript
The final order was made on 21 July. S was informed later that evening. At my request, the guardian sent me an e-mail on 22 July to let me know how this meeting had gone. I set it out in full:
'Dear Judge
To inform you that myself and Mrs K met S last night and we had a meeting with father and [his wife]. The father read out his letter to S and we asked S to listen which he did. It was an extremely difficult meeting for father but he managed to read the letter and S did allow his father to touch him on his arm. S did not look at his father and had his head down for the whole time.
I spoke to S after his father had left and he was feeling numb but "good". He said to say thank you and said that this was not the end and he would think about seeing his father after his GCSE's.
I am sure he listened to his father and it was S who volunteered that this was not the end and he would see his father on his terms when he was ready.
Overall S managed the situation very well, but sadly we could hear his father sobbing as he left.
[1] http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2010/192.html
[2] IN THE MATTER OF S (a Child) [2010] EWCA Civ 325 – http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2010/325.html
[3] [2010] EWHC B19 (Fam) CASE No. NU10C00043 – http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2010/B19.html
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I think your analysis about Stephen's innocence in the two passages connects with this passage later on in the novel: "Their banter was not new to him and now it flattered his mild proud sovereignty. Now, as never before, his strange name seemed to him a prophecy. So timeless seemed the grey warm air, so fluid and impersonal his own mood, that all ages were as one to him" (James 142).
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To date, no disease-specific tool has been available to assess the impact of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire specifically designed to this aim: the Nasal Polyposis Quality of Life (NPQ) questionnaire. As indicated in the current guidelines, the development and validation of the NPQ occurred in two separate steps involving different groups of patients. The questionnaire was validated by assessing internal structure, consistency, and validity. Responsiveness and sensitivity to changes were also evaluated. In the development process of NPQ an initial list of 40 items was given to 60 patients with CRSwNP; the 27 most significant items were selected and converted into questions. The validation procedure involved 107 patients (mean age 52.9 +/- 12.4). NPQ revealed a five-dimensional structure and high levels of internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha 0.95). Convergent validity (Spearman' coefficient r = 0.75; p < 0.01), discriminant validity (sensitivity to VAS score), and reliability in a sample of patients with a stable health status (Interclass Coefficient 0.882) were satisfactory. Responsiveness to clinical changes was accomplished. The minimal important difference was 7. NPQ is the first questionnaire for the assessment of HRQoL in CRSwNP. Our results demonstrate that the new tool is valid, reliable, and sensitive to individual changes.
Nasal Polyposis Quality of Life (NPQ): Development and Validation of the First Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire for Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps
Baiardini, Ilaria;Paoletti, Giovanni
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To date, no disease-specific tool has been available to assess the impact of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire specifically designed to this aim: the Nasal Polyposis Quality of Life (NPQ) questionnaire. As indicated in the current guidelines, the development and validation of the NPQ occurred in two separate steps involving different groups of patients. The questionnaire was validated by assessing internal structure, consistency, and validity. Responsiveness and sensitivity to changes were also evaluated. In the development process of NPQ an initial list of 40 items was given to 60 patients with CRSwNP; the 27 most significant items were selected and converted into questions. The validation procedure involved 107 patients (mean age 52.9 +/- 12.4). NPQ revealed a five-dimensional structure and high levels of internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha 0.95). Convergent validity (Spearman' coefficient r = 0.75; p < 0.01), discriminant validity (sensitivity to VAS score), and reliability in a sample of patients with a stable health status (Interclass Coefficient 0.882) were satisfactory. Responsiveness to clinical changes was accomplished. The minimal important difference was 7. NPQ is the first questionnaire for the assessment of HRQoL in CRSwNP. Our results demonstrate that the new tool is valid, reliable, and sensitive to individual changes.
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Ward, good advice as always.
This particular example of a homeowner coming on the message board and asking "How much does it cost?" is perfect for proving a couple points. I have met with Matthias, personally, and we will be doing some work at his home later this summer. We look forward to that opportunity and are thankful - Joe - that this site helped us connect.
For the homeowner, the more detailed and accurate depiction of the job and scope you provide, the better! Understand that there are many different variables involved in pricing, including the region in which you live. Also, you might luck out and have a guy who's a one man show that charges reasonable prices and lives nearby.
Remember that larger companies, who can afford to hire workmen skilled with slate, have a different price structure (ie, overhead) than that one man show.
In Louisville, I have a $75 minimum in town. More if I have to travel to another county. If I'm getting on a roof for the first time I always take pictures and write up a "free" audit which addresses anything else that might need additional work.
The fairness of the price really depends on the difficulty of the job, the type of materials they used, and the market you are in. Here In Louisville, KY I would charge somewhere between 400-500 for the repair you described. Obviously prices are going to be a lot higher in New England. For example: I charge $200 US to even LOOK at a roof in Antigua, but I'm dealing with a totally different market. I can't afford to do free estimates and single tile repairs in Antigua like I can in Louisville.
The thing is, you have to consider you are getting (hopefully) a permanent solution when you pay a skilled slater to make a repair. If you have good stone, it's an investment that will pay for itself over the remaining service life of the roof. If you have soft stone you may be better off just doing cheap patches until you can afford to have the roof replaced.
I have a small repair that is to be done. Are estimate states 20 to 40 pc for $1000.00. I bid are estimate if, I seen the house for $25.00 per slate if I havn't seen the job and the owner tells me what needs to repair. We call it a service call and it will cost depending where it is about $400.00 to $550.00. I will repair up to 10 pcs and give they a details cost estimate report on what other things may need some work. I can see my per pc price getting that high on some jobs, but not my all of they. If you do the math on the job I have to do, let say I only repair 22 of the 40 I have in the contract, I will get about $45.00 per pc!
I had 20 slates replaced for over $940 - contract specd just over $45 per slate. Two men and total job took over 3 hours. Reputable company.
Roof needs good deal of additional copper work including chimney flashing and replacement of all ridges (hip roof). Chimney reflashing quoted $1800 S. New HAmpshire Location.


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This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.
Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, "He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness";
For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.
But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"
But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very shrewd man.
Now someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." And David said, "O Lord, I pray, make the counsel of Ahithophel foolishness."
The advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one inquired of the word of God; so was all the advice of Ahithophel regarded by both David and Absalom.
"For My people are foolish,
They know Me not;
They are stupid children
And have no understanding.
They are shrewd to do evil,
But to do good they do not know."
And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
and said, "You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?
Professing to be wise, they became fools,
For it is written,
And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside."
but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,
Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.
that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.
the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them—I place no other burden on you.
They have as king over them, the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek he has the name Apollyon.
And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
For the sake of my brothers and my friends,
I will now say, "May peace be within you."
Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness.
Then he said, 'This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.'
But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed."
because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and were believing in Jesus.
But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.


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Congress slams Mayawati over Uttar Pradesh split
by Hill Post Staff
Lucknow : The Congress party slammed Chief Minister Mayawati on her move to split Uttar Pradesh into four smaller units, but remained non-committal on the question of supporting or opposing the proposal.
"We have never been against creation of new states; in fact, the Congress party was responsible for creation of as many as 11 new states over the years in the country. But it cannot be done in an unplanned and haphazard manner as is being attempted by Mayawati," state Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi told a press conference here.
Terming the chief minister's move as a "political stunt ahead of the state assembly elections", she said: "Mayawati's design is to take political mileage by misguiding the innocent people of the state. But she has stood completely exposed as people understand what she means by taking such a step at a time when elections are just around the corner."
Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Pramod Tiwari went a step further by observing that "Mayawati is simply playing a gimmick, otherwise what was she doing over the past four and a half years since she has been in power".
Tiwari claimed: "In fact, three resolutions introduced in the state assembly over this period are still pending – one was initiated by Congress leader Pradeep Jain for carving out Bundelkhand while another was moved by Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singh for creation of Harit Pradesh and yet another by another leader for creating Purvanchal state – but none of the proposals received any support from the ruling BSP."
He lambasted Mayawati for playing with the sentiments of the people.
Hill Post Staff
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