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Kinder Morgan bolts from emergency planning meeting in Savannah
September 18, 2015 Chatham County, Dougherty County, Florida, Georgia, LNG, Suwannee County, TexasAlbany, Chatham County, Coastal Group, Dougherty County, Elba Island, Florida, Georgia, Houston, John S. Quarterman, KC Allan, Kinder Morgan, KMI, LEPC, LNG, Local Emergency Planning Committee, Sabal Trail Transmission, Sierra Club, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, Suwannee County, TECO, TexasJohn S. Quarterman
The world's largest pipeline company ran away from a hint of public scrutiny, like FERC changed its commission meeting date to try to avoid protesters. Maybe… public opinion matters?
The pipeline companies are watching all the opposition. And the opposition is shadowing all the pipeline companies. Score one for the opposition! Plus plenty of opportunities coming up for more concerted opposition against any new fossil fuel tentacles through our countryside or under our rivers.
Mary Landers, Savannah Morning News, 16 September 2015, Kinder Morgan cancels 'spotlight' on Elba operations,
Kinder Morgan officials backed out of a scheduled public presentation Wednesday at a local emergency planning meeting.
Carla Roark, a compliance and safety specialist at the Kinder Morgan-owned LNG facility on Elba Island, had been scheduled to give the Chatham Emergency Planning Committee an overview of the plant's operations in a brief "agency spotlight" at the end of the hourlong meeting at the Civic Center.
Instead, Chatham Emergency Management Agency interim director Dennis Jones opened the meeting by announcing that Kinder Morgan had opted out of the presentation. Jones said Kinder Morgan's planned presentation had been inaccurately presented on social media and elsewhere as an opportunity to learn about the company's disaster plan for the proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal at Elba Island.
As a result, the company's corporate office in Houston pulled the plug on the presentation.
What was this horrible social media? Well, I blogged on SpectraBusters a facebook post from the Coastal Group of the Georgia chapter of the Sierra Club. Kinder Morgan replied in a comment on the SpectraBusters post:
The information in your post above is not accurate. Kinder Morgan will not be presenting at this meeting.
Verified, by the way: that comment really was by Kinder Morgan's corporate office in Houston.
To which I responded in a comment:
Dear KMI,
Thanks for your attention, but I don't see anywhere the post above says Kinder Morgan will be presenting at this meeting.
I imagine people would be happy to ask you questions if you appear at that meeting, however.
Well apparently KMI wasn't happy to be asked questions, because KMI "opted out of the presentation".
Wait a minute: if KMI cancelled, then KMI was scheduled to present! So who's being inaccurate? The Coastal Group and SpectraBusters social media that never actually said KMI was going to be there, or the KMI comment saying "Kinder Morgan will not be presenting at this meeting."?
Maybe the pipeline companies don't like it that people are piecing together the tentacles of the pipeline squid that's trying to gouge its way throughout our countryside and under our rivers.
As KC Allan from Savannah puts it:
They're perpetrating a massive clandestine transference of American commodity wealth from public land into private pockets just like Russia when wall came down. Only they have to sneak it through citizens' backyards to get to market. Very messy and inconvenient for them. BUT, they have this defunct model of public utility legislation to pervert….
FERC is about as "Federal" as the Federal Reserve, since FERC is 100% funded by the same industries it "regulates". Which could explain why FERC was so scared of protesters it moved its May 2015 Commission meeting a week earlier to try to avoid them. Didn't work. Protesters, especially Beyond Extreme Energy, showed up anyway, both inside and out. FERC massively over-reacted, banning recording devices despite FERC's own rule saying recording is permitted, and five were detailed and three arrested. And that really blew up in FERC's face, when three months later a judge acquitted one of the arrested. BXE reported:
In acquitting Laura Gubisch, a resident of the District, Judge McCabe chastised the government for how it handled the situation of people wanting to access the main room where commissioners meet, which in the past has been the site of verbal disruptions by members of BXE opposed to FERC's approval of virtually every gas infrastructure project that comes before it, including interstate pipelines, compressor stations and LNG facilities.
And now FERC has many of those same BXE protesters camped out 24×7 in front of FERC's offices fasting, already for a week now, until the Pope arrives. Literally, until Pope Francis arrives in DC.
The same pope who used the words of St. Francis of Assisi in June:
This sister [earth] now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her. We have come to see ourselves as her lords and masters, entitled to plunder her at will. The violence present in our hearts, wounded by sin, is also reflected in the symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in the air and in all forms of life. This is why the earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor; she "groans in travail" (Rom 8:22). We have forgotten that we ourselves are dust of the earth (cf. Gen 2:7); our very bodies are made up of her elements, we breathe her air and we receive life and refreshment from her waters.
Well, we the sons and daughters of the earth cry out for the earth: enough! No more fossil fuel fracking, pipelines, or LNG export!
Meanwhile, the Kinder Morgan that ran away from presenting in Savannah is the same KMI that has applied to FERC to build a natural gas pipeline across north Florida from Suwannee County to Jacksonville, which is gearing up for LNG export. And that KMI FERC application explicitly says Sabal Trail can connect if it wants to. So there's a KMI tentacle entwined with the Spectra Energy Sabal Trail tentacle all the way to Jaxport LNG export.
It's the same KMI that paid a Pennsylvania Police Department to 'Deter Protests'.
It's not just a local police department that's a fossil fuel industry lapdog. The FBI Houston Division violated its own rules in spying on Keystone XL opponents, saying:
"Many of these extremists believe the debates over pollution, protection of wildlife, safety, and property rights have been overshadowed by the promise of jobs and cheaper oil prices. These extremists include those who oppose federal, state, and local governments' interaction or legal interference in matters of domestic oil and natural gas production.
Well, no, Houston FBI, protecting our own land, water, and air from invaders from Houston is not extremism: it's the kind of real conservatism and conservation this country was founded on!
You know what's extreme? This that you said, Houston FBI:
"The Keystone pipeline, as part of the oil and natural gas industry, is vital to the security and economy of the United States."
No, the fossil fuel industry is not vital to anything any longer but the profits of a few industry executives and investors, and their paid lapdogs in law enforcement and "regulatory" agencies. Solar power is already cheaper, faster, and far cleaner and safer, with wind power to back it up.
You want to investigate some extremists, FBI? How about start by investigating FERC!
Maybe the fossil fuel industry doesn't want people to realize it is pillaging the planet for a few final bucks before the world turns completely to sun, wind, and water power.
Even the financial industry is losing patience with the fossil fuel industry, pointing out that falling oil and gas prices are going to bankrupt a bunch of fracking companies. And without fracking, no new pipelines and no LNG export.
Maybe if we stop a few pipelines the sun will rise faster as more investors pull out of the pipeline boondoggle.
This is still America, where, despite all the fossil fuel influence on the political system from top to bottom, the First Amendment still applies:
The fossil fuel industry doesn't like that. Diane Leopold, president of Dominion Energy, pushing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia and North Carolina (the same one Spectra Energy ran away from after numerous local resolutions against it) said in May:
"We need more than good laws and regulations if important infrastructure projects are to get built," said Leopold, who added she was speaking out to "give voice to an industry."
"We in the natural gas industry need to speak clearly, speak effectively and — when necessary — speak loudly," she added. "We need to make all stakeholders aware of how critical it is to our society that we move forward with growing and improving our natural gas infrastructure."
Well, no, we don't want the fossil fuel industry to have dominion to take over and pollute our lands, waters, and air!
And sometimes state agencies listen. Houston, Houston, do you read? The Georgia Department of Transportation denied a permit for KMI's Palmetto Pipeline, after Georgia Governor Nathan Deal and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle publicly opposed that pipeline, espie Kinder Morgan campaign contributions to both of them.
Now it's time for Gov. Deal to oppose Sabal Trail the same way.
We are the people of America and the world. We want clean air and water and our own property rights. And we're not going to let the last greedy grasp of the 20th century fossil fuel industry stop us. We're going to get clean, renewable, 21st century sun, wind, and water power.
A bunch of opportunities to exercise the First Amendment are coming up:
A string of FERC hearings starting in Albany, GA September 28th.
A GA-EPD public hearing on an air quality permit for the proposed Albany compressor station, some time in October.
One, two, or four public hearings on water issues can be called for by the Army Corps of Engineers and GA-EDP.
And don't forget the legal hearing now being scheduled for WWALS Watershed Coalition vs. Florida Department of Environmental Protection and Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC.
As we just demonstrated, the pipeline companies are watching all the opposition. The opposition needs to shadow all the pipeline companies. Like we just did. And we won!
The people are waking up and coordinating from sea to shining sea, from the mountains of British Columbia to the flatlands of Florida. As an Oregonian put it:
"I guess we could stand having a 232-mile IED in our backyard if it is really benefits the public. But who, exactly, is the public here?"
We are the public.
Activists in Brownsville, Texas asked SpectraBusters to help fight five LNG export projects. And lookey here, one Texas LNG operation is cancelled already! No, I'm not taking credit. But the fossil fuel industry can't tell how much effect the continent-wide opposition had on that cancellation, can it?
Meanwhile, back in Savannah Mary Landers continued:
The emergency planning committee exists to "promote and facilitate the safety of all persons in Chatham County with respect to the potential exposure and or threat of major emergencies and disasters both natural and man-made," according to its website. Its functions and duties are authorized by the Chatham County Board of Commissioners, in accordance with federal emergency planning and "Right-to-Know" law.
A handful of people who had come to the meeting specifically to address Kinder Morgan challenged Jones, suggesting that safety at the LNG facility is a community concern. Kinder Morgan is planning to convert Elba to an export facility capable of processing 2.5 million tons of LNG per year. The Coastal Group of the Georgia Sierra Club posted on its Facebook page that "a worst-case event would be extremely destructive to lives, property, and the environment."
"We live here and so do you," said downtown resident Simona Perry, who is conversant with natural gas issues through her position as vice president/assistant executive director with the nonprofit Pipeline Safety Coalition.
"If Kinder Morgan doesn't want to talk, does that mean they don't talk?" asked Steve Willis, of the Coastal Group of the Georgia Sierra Club. "I just don't think Kinder Morgan should be in charge of the Chatham County government."
Jones said there had already been public meetings about the facility's plans and that there would be more, including one he would try to make happen.
"I just said I'll contact them and see if we can get a community meeting together," Jones told Willis.
At the meeting's conclusion a CEMA representative collected names and contact information for those interested in any future community meeting.
No, pipeline companies, frackers, LNG exporters: you can't have our lands and waters. And if you want them, as the Spartans said to the Persians, Molon Labe! As the Georgians translated for the British: Come and Take It!
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Engine stabiliser bars on an MGBV8
This note is prepared from the various postings on the bulletin board, part of the V8 Register website, with the initial query from Brian Marshall (Teal Blue 4180) from Surrey and then contributions from Mike Barnfather (Green Metallic 3056) from Lancashire, John Bourke (Cavalry Blue 3056) from London N, Daniel Heyer (Damask 0987) from Germany, Keith Rowson (Tahiti Blue 2383) from Hertfordshire and Dave Wellings (Black 0974) from Yorkshire. (August 2002)
Brian Marshall (Teal Blue) from Surrey posted a message "has anyone any experience or advice on fitting an engine stabiliser bar to an MGBV8. I hear it helps prevent the lump moving around and cracking the exhaust manifolds. Any help or recommendations would be welcome". Well the response to this seemingly simple enquiry produced many postings with comments and views from V8 Register members.
In chronological order the responses posted on the V8 Bulletin Board were:
Keith Rowson (Tahiti Blue 2383) a longstanding member from Hertfordshire responded that his 1975 MGBGTV8 had a bar fitted when he bought it ten years ago but it did not stop the manifolds cracking. He removed the bar quite soon after he bought the car as he felt it hindered the engine and might have affected the handling. His conclusion was the bar was a waste of time. With the cast iron manifolds, he feels the best advice is to use the correct torque setting on the bolts - it's not very much and he feels the stresses on the manifolds are increased by over torqueing. He recommended contacting either Geoff Allen (V8 Historian who was in Rectifications Department at Abingdon for over 27 years) or Clive Wheatley the V8 spares specialist for best advice.
Mike Barnfather (Green Metallic 3062) with an MGBGTV8 conversion from Lancashire posted a comment he had fitted a bar to his V8 Roadster conversion which has tubular manifolds and found it "held the engine much steadier" and that "it is not a difficult modification as the P5 (or is it P6) tie bar fits between the nearside rear head and the corner where a LHD master cylinder would fit".
Dave Wellings (Black 0974) from Yorkshire expressed the bold view "the bar will transmit more noise and vibration to the shell and is not likely to reduce the incidence of cracked manifolds". He felt it would be better spending money on renewing the engine and gearbox mountings. Mike Barnfather response was clearly based on his experience of the stabiliser bar fitted to his car. "The Rover bar has substantial hard rubber bushes at each end, presumably to cushion noise and vibration. My engine, which moved considerably before fitting the bar and has had new mountings, is now held steady. I do not know what the cause of the cracked manifolds is but I suspect a reduction in engine movement has got to be beneficial to the exhaust system". Dave Wellings was back in a matter of days - "the cracking of exhaust manifold flanges and downpipe flanges is thought to be where the cast manifold and downpipe flanges do not exactly match up, creating tension. Progressive thermal shock finds the weakest point - the flimsy manifold flange". This probably cause is mentioned in the footnote to this note.
Paul Wiley (Tartan Red 4223) with a V8 Roadster conversion from Surrey posted a brief comment that his "problem with engine movement has been the gasket, now solved by using a high temperature silicone but also fitting a steady bar".
Daniel Heyer (Damask 0987) from Germany posted a comment saying he had just stumbled over the bulletin board on the new V8 Register website "so these comments come a little late I am afraid. I cannot say anything to the manifold cracking problem as this is not my main concern, but the steady bar I fitted to my 1974 MGBGTV8 certainly solved another problem. I went through two sets of engine mountings in two years, although I must confess I tend to stress the car a little more than under daily driving conditions - during track days on the Nuerburgring Nordscleife or elsewhere. When the gearbox packed up and the engine had to come out, I first had the idea of changing the standard engine mountings to Jaguar XJ6 ones as they are roughly the same size and a little more sturdy but they proved too high. So I decided to fit the stabiliser bar and have not had a problem since - travelling to north of Scotland, Sicily and Spa-Francorchamps included".
Daniel Heyer (Damask 0987) from Germany at speed in his V8 on the banking at the Nuerburgring. (Photo: Daniel Heyer)
John Bourke (Cavalry Blue 3056) with an MGBGTV8 conversion posted a comment that he has designed his own steady bar which can be seen on www.mgcars.org.uk/v8_conversions
and "my opinion is that it is worth fitting as it will reduce the stress on the engine mountings. You only have to fit slightly higher compression ratio pistons and an improved cam during a rebuild to put even more stress on the mountings". He added that "another important point if you are running with cast iron exhaust manifolds or the tubular equivalent, a steady
bar reduces the chance of contact with the steering shaft as the engine rotates under load. There is even a risk of contact with the bonnet as the engine/bonnet clearance on the original MGBGTV8 installation is very tight. In my view a bar at the rear of the block will also help reduce the load on the gearbox mountings". John feels that cracked manifolds might not be helped much by a steady bar unless the mountings are already weak and thereby allow excessive engine movement and strain on the exhaust system. The "cast iron manifolds must be free to expand on the block and not bind sideways on their mounting holes because we are talking of a design with inbuilt weaknesses and 25 plus year old cast iron cycling through 400 degrees C".
Footnote from Victor Smith (Harvest Gold 1089): The subject of the cast iron exhaust manifolds cracking is well covered by the early volumes of the V8 Workshop Notes series produced back in the late 1970s and mid 1980s - see Note 33 (Peter Laidler) in Volume 1 and Note 95 in Volume 3 provided by Jerry Bright (ex Citron 1956) with probably the key to the exhaust cracking topic. In essence he suggests a major cause of exhaust flange cracking is that when new exhaust systems are fitted, the front ends of the pipes of the system have to be very carefully adjusted using cramps or jacks to ensure they mate exactly with the cast iron manifold tails. They must not be forced to fit and most certainly you should not pull up any mismatch by forcing the pipes onto the manifold tails and tightening up! If you take your MGBGTV8 to a garage or exhaust replacement depot not familiar with this car, you must ensure the fitter is fully briefed and understands that the pipe and cast iron manifolds must fit perfectly before tightening up. This will ensure the fitter is aware of the risk of flange fracture ruining your cast iron manifolds. If that does happen then at best it will leave you with the problem of getting them welded up - if that is possible.
Finding a replacement cast iron manifold is not easy and certainly costly if you can find one! A later note, Note 158 in Volume 4 from Ken Dodds in Australia from their "Pieces of Eight" journal, also stresses the need to use the correct torque on the exhaust manifold bolts of 18ft/lbs maximum plus the use of an anti-seize compound on all threads.
Footnotes from Roger Parker (Green 4092):
Cast iron manifolds. "My experience is limited to the times which have involved the removal and refitting of the exhaust system in connection with other work, such as a starter motor replacement. The issue that has cropped up repeatedly is that I have seen the poor alignment of the exhaust system to the manifolds and how the systems have to be bent slightly to ensure the flanges of the manifolds and the pipes on the system align. I feel this has, and probably still has, been overcome by levering the system to get it into alignment which then leaves tensions and stress on the connection and components".
Fitting a steady bar. "I have found when doing the first V8 conversion 20 years ago that the torque twist on the more powerful engines was a significant problem for the mountings and with contact between the engine and the steering. It made no difference how new or firm the engine mountings were. A simple steady bar was made between the left chassis rail and a bracket attached to the front of the left cylinder head and the result was control of that excess movement. That set up is still in place today on that first GTV8 conversion".
"On my own car (a V8 Roadster conversion) I created a similar arrangement from day one and in the same position. I also had a rose jointed threaded stabiliser bar from a competition application that was to hand and this was fitted directly between the head and the double mounting lugs welded to the chassis rail. It was my intention to create a bracket at the head onto which the bar would mount via a more compliant bush as fitted to the first conversion".
Vibration from a steady bar. "I was expecting the degree of engine vibration and harshness being transmitted through this solid link to be excessive and demand an early modification, but now some 17 years on I still have the same arrangement fitted. In use I was very surprised that I could detect no noise or vibration that could be attributed to this connection. It is no different to the GTV8 conversion and as a quick rough and ready test, I unbolted it and drove a few miles to compare. I felt there was no gain in noise or vibration terms from the removal of the bar, but I did get some steering to exhaust contact as the torque twist was very much greater and plainly visible even by just blipping the throttle. It is interesting that I have not seen any fatigue or other damage from the solid mounting".
Engine mountings. "Both cars I have referred to are 3.5 litre conversions with fairly mild modifications both of which are confirmed as giving well in excess of 200bhp. Here we are seeing the effect of torque but both these engines, whilst better than the original 3.5 carburetted engines, do fall short of now more common 3.9 or 4.6 litre engines. The torque from these engines, especially the 4.6 can best be described as "stump pulling" and as such there is no way the standard engine mountings fitted to the original MGBGTV8 can be expected to provide adequate control of that extra torque. The RV8 saw some changes, not least of which is the thinner engine mounting rubber which, with the composition of the material, sees less compliance and better control. As the 3.9 litre engine in the RV8 is a fairly low performance specification, it is almost certainly going to be hard pushed to live with a modified engine and will almost certainly fall short when a 4.6 litre engine is fitted".

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In front of the Presiding Officers' desk is the parliamentary mace, which is made from silver and inlaid with gold panned from Scottish rivers and inscribed with the words: Wisdom, Compassion, Justice and Integrity. The words There shall be a Scottish Parliament, which are the first words of the Scotland Act, are inscribed around the head of the mace, which has a formal ceremonial role in the meetings of Parliament, reinforcing the authority of the Parliament in its ability to make laws. Presented to the Scottish Parliament by the Queen upon its official opening in July 1999, the mace is displayed in a glass case suspended from the lid. At the beginning of each sitting in the chamber, the lid of the case is rotated so that the mace is above the glass, to symbolise that a full meeting of the Parliament is taking place.
Parliament typically sits Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from early January to late June and from early September to mid December, with two-week recesses in April and October. Plenary meetings in the debating chamber usually take place on Wednesday afternoons from 2 pm to 6 pm and on Thursdays from 9:15 am to 6 pm. Chamber debates and committee meetings are open to the public. Entry is free, but booking in advance is recommended due to limited space. Meetings are broadcast on the Parliament's own channel Holyrood.tv and on the BBC's parliamentary channel BBC Parliament. Proceedings are also recorded in text form, in print and online, in the Official Report, which is the substantially verbatim transcript of parliamentary debates.
The first item of business on Wednesdays is usually Time for Reflection, at which a speaker addresses members for up to four minutes, sharing a perspective on issues of faith. This contrasts with the formal style of "Prayers", which is the first item of business in meetings of the House of Commons. Speakers are drawn from across Scotland and are chosen to represent the balance of religious beliefs according to the Scottish census. Invitations to address Parliament in this manner are determined by the Presiding Officer on the advice of the parliamentary bureau. Faith groups can make direct representations to the Presiding Officer to nominate speakers.
Private Bill Committees are set up to deal with the legislation required for major public sector infrastructure projects – such as the underground extensions to the National Gallery of Scotland in 2003.
The Scotland Act 1998, which was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom and given royal assent by Queen Elizabeth II on 19 November 1998, governs the functions and role of the Scottish Parliament and delimits its legislative competence. The Scotland Act 2012 extends the devolved competencies. For the purposes of parliamentary sovereignty, the Parliament of the United Kingdom at Westminster continues to constitute the supreme legislature of Scotland. However, under the terms of the Scotland Act, Westminster agreed to devolve some of its responsibilities over Scottish domestic policy to the Scottish Parliament. Such "devolved matters" include education, health, agriculture and justice. The Scotland Act enabled the Scottish Parliament to pass primary legislation on these issues. A degree of domestic authority, and all foreign policy, remain with the UK Parliament in Westminster. The Scottish Parliament has the power to pass laws and has limited tax-varying capability. Another of the roles of the Parliament is to hold the Scottish Government to account.
The specific devolved matters are all subjects which are not explicitly stated in Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act as reserved matters. All matters that are not specifically reserved are automatically devolved to the Scottish Parliament. Most importantly, this includes agriculture, fisheries and forestry, economic development, education, environment, food standards, health, home affairs, Scots law – courts, police and fire services, local government, sport and the arts, transport, training, tourism, research and statistics and social work. The Scottish Parliament has the ability to alter income tax in Scotland by up to 3 pence in the pound. The 2012 Act conferred further fiscal devolution including borrowing powers and some other unconnected matters such as setting speed limits and control of air guns.
Reserved matters are subjects that are outside the legislative competence of the Scotland Parliament. The Scottish Parliament is unable to legislate on such issues that are reserved to, and dealt with at, Westminster (and where Ministerial functions usually lie with UK Government ministers). These include abortion, broadcasting policy, civil service, common markets for UK goods and services, constitution, electricity, coal, oil, gas, nuclear energy, defence and national security, drug policy, employment, foreign policy and relations with Europe, most aspects of transport safety and regulation, National Lottery, protection of borders, social security and stability of UK's fiscal, economic and monetary system.
Stage 1 is the first, or introductory stage of the bill, where the minister or member in charge of the bill will formally introduce it to Parliament together with its accompanying documents – Explanatory Notes, a Policy Memorandum setting out the policy underlying the bill, and a Financial Memorandum setting out the costs and savings associated with it. Statements from the Presiding Officer and the member in charge of the bill are also lodged indicating whether the bill is within the legislative competence of the Parliament. Stage 1 usually takes place, initially, in the relevant committee or committees and is then submitted to the whole Parliament for a full debate in the chamber on the general principles of the bill. If the whole Parliament agrees in a vote to the general principles of the bill, it then proceeds to Stage 2.
Stage 2 is normally conducted entirely in the relevant committee, where amendments to the bill are proposed by committee members. At this stage, the bill is considered in substantial detail. Some bills – and all emergency bills – are considered in detail by a committee of the whole Parliament in the debating chamber; the Presiding Officer acts as convener of the committee in such circumstances.
Stage 3 is the final stage of the bill and is considered at a meeting of the whole Parliament. This stage comprises two parts: consideration of amendments to the bill as a general debate, and a final vote on the bill. Opposition members can table "wrecking amendments" to the bill, designed to thwart further progress and take up parliamentary time, to cause the bill to fall without a final vote being taken. After a general debate on the final form of the bill, members proceed to vote at Decision Time on whether they agree to the general principles of the final bill.
Royal assent: After the bill has been passed, the Presiding Officer submits it to the Monarch for royal assent and it becomes an Act of the Scottish Parliament. However he cannot do so until a 4-week period has elapsed, during which the Law Officers of the Scottish Government or UK Government can refer the bill to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom for a ruling on whether it is within the powers of the Parliament. Acts of the Scottish Parliament do not begin with a conventional enacting formula. Instead they begin with a phrase that reads: "The Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on [Date] and received royal assent on [Date]".
To ask the First Minister what engagements he/she has planned for the rest of the day?
To ask the First Minister what issues he/she intends to discuss at the next meeting of the Scottish Government's cabinet?.
The 2003 election's 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament; 73 represented individual constituencies and 56 represented eight additional member regions.
Elections for the Scottish Parliament were amongst the first in Britain to use a mixed member proportional representation (MMS) system. The system is a form of the additional member method of proportional representation (PR), and is better known as such in Britain. Under the system, voters are given two votes: one for a specific candidate and one for a political party.
Of the 129 MSPs, 73 are elected to represent first past the post constituencies and are known as "Constituency MSPs". Voters choose one member to represent the constituency, and the member with most votes is returned as a constituency MSP. The 73 Scottish Parliament constituencies shared the same boundaries as the UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland, prior to the 2005 reduction in the number of Scottish MPs, with the exception of Orkney and Shetland which each return their own constituency MSP. Currently, the average Scottish Parliament constituency comprises 55,000 electors. Given the geographical distribution of population in Scotland, this results in constituencies of a smaller area in the Central Lowlands, where the bulk of Scotland's population live, and much larger constituency areas in the north and west of the country, which have a low population density. The island archipelagos of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles comprise a much smaller number of electors, due to their dispersed population and distance from the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. If a Constituency MSP resigns from Parliament, this triggers a by-election in his or her constituency, where a replacement MSP is returned from one of the parties by the plurality system.
The total number of seats in the Parliament are allocated to parties proportionally to the number of votes received in the second vote of the ballot using the d'Hondt method. For example, to determine who is awarded the first list seat, the number of list votes cast for each party is divided by one plus the number of seats the party won in the region (at this point just constituency seats). The party with the highest quotient is awarded the seat, which is then added to its constituency seats in allocating the second seat. This is repeated iteratively until all available list seats are allocated.
The Union Flag, Flag of Scotland, and Flag of Europe flying outside the Parliament.
There have been four elections to the Parliament, in 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011.
The next election is due to be held on 5 May 2016. This will be five years (not the usual four) after the previous election date, an option which has been authorised to avoid a clash of dates with elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in London. The original clash went unnoticed by UK Conservative and Liberal Democrats during negotiations establishing the UK coalition government.
As with all elections in the UK, Irish and qualifying Commonwealth citizens are entitled to vote. Unlike elections to the Westminster parliament, citizens of other non-Commonwealth EU member states who are resident in Scotland are entitled to vote in elections to the Scottish Parliament. Overseas electors on Scottish electoral registers are not allowed to vote in Scottish Parliament elections.
The election produced a majority SNP government, making this the first time in the Scottish Parliament where a party has commanded a parliamentary majority. The then-Labour government at Westminster believed that the additional member system would make it all but impossible for one party to win an absolute majority, so the scale of the SNP's victory came as a particular surprise. The SNP took 16 seats from Labour, with many of their key figures not returned to parliament, although Labour leader Iain Gray retained East Lothian by 151 votes. The SNP took a further eight seats from the Liberal Democrats and one seat from the Conservatives. The SNP overall majority meant that there was sufficient support in the Scottish Parliament to hold a referendum on Scottish independence.
Labour's poor showing was attributed to several factors. The party focused heavily on criticising the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition at Westminster, and assumed that it would pick up support from disaffected Lib Dem voters. As it turned out, most of those voters shifted to the SNP. Jackie Baillie compared the result to Labour's performance in the 1983 UK general election. Iain Gray announced his intention to resign as Scottish Labour leader.
The election saw a rout of the Liberal Democrats. Not only did they lose all of their seats on the mainland, but 25 candidates lost their deposits (candidates gaining less than five per cent of the vote). Leader Tavish Scott thought his party was hobbled by the Liberal Democrat presence in the Cameron Government, which was unpopular in Scotland. Scott resigned as leader two days after the election.
For the Conservatives, the main disappointment was the loss of Edinburgh Pentlands, the seat of former party leader David McLetchie, to the SNP. McLetchie was elected on the Lothian regional list and the Conservatives suffered a net loss of five seats, with leader Annabel Goldie claiming that their support had held firm. Nevertheless, she too announced she would step down as leader of the party. Cameron congratulated the SNP on their victory but vowed to campaign for the Union in the independence referendum.
George Galloway, under an anti-cuts banner, failed to receive enough votes to be elected to the Glasgow regional list. The Scottish Greens won two seats, including their co-convenor Patrick Harvie. Margo MacDonald again won election as an independent on the Lothian regional list.
Three previous members of the SNP are now Independent members of the Scottish Parliament. In October 2012, Jean Urquhart and John Finnie (both Highlands and Islands) quit the SNP over the party's change in its policy towards NATO. Finnie has since joined the Greens. John Wilson resigned from the SNP after the September 2014 independence referendum, for the same reason as Urquhart and Finnie.
A by-election was occasioned in 2013 by the death of Brian Adam, the SNP member for Aberdeen Donside. The seat was won by SNP candidate Mark McDonald, preserving the party's majority of 65 voting members. McDonald had been appointed to a list seat for the North East Scotland region after the 2011 election, and his list seat was taken by Christian Allard.
Bill Walker, the member for Dunfermline, was expelled from the SNP in April 2012 after allegations that his candidature form was incorrectly filled in. He subsequently resigned following his conviction for multiple counts of domestic violence. A by-election took place on 24 October 2013 and Cara Hilton won the seat for Scottish Labour.
When independent MSP Margo MacDonald died, her seat was vacated because it was not possible to nominate a replacement for an independent.
For criticisms of the Scottish Parliament Building, see Scottish Parliament Building#Controversy.
Enric Miralles' Scottish Parliament complex in Holyrood Park during construction. The building was completed in 2004. Above and behind the new Parliament is the neoclassical Royal High School, which was prepared for a previous devolved Scottish parliament, but never used.
The resignation of Henry McLeish as First Minister, brought on by an office expenses scandal, generated controversy in the first years of the Parliament. Various academics have written on how the Scottish Parliament can be improved as a governing institution.
A further procedural consequence created by the establishment of the Scottish Parliament is that Scottish MPs sitting in the UK House of Commons are still able to vote on domestic legislation that applies only to England, Wales and Northern Ireland – whilst English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish Westminster MPs are unable to vote on the domestic legislation of the Scottish Parliament. This phenomenon is known as the West Lothian question and has led to criticism.
↑ The Scots for Scottish is in fact Scots.
↑ "Electoral Administration Act 2006" (PDF). Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA). Retrieved 6 February 2007. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> The Electoral Administration Act 2006, reduced the age of candidacy in the United Kingdom from 21 to 18.
↑ See on-line newspaper Herald Scotland for details.
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The front page of the new digital portfolio displays a rotating set of images and links to the five broad categories of work.
I've been busy applying to graduate schools lately, and that has prompted me to work on revising and updating my portfolio. In addition to my traditional portfolio, I've been working to organize and document my work on the web, and the results can be found in the 'Portfolio' section of this website.
Digital portfolios offer a means to display a much broader and deeper array of work, with no limit to the amount of content and a variety of formats available. However, working within the WordPress.com structure, I have kept the design fairly straightforward and uncluttered. I'm aiming for a presentation that is simple, intuitive, and attractive.
The portfolio is organized into five broad categories: House Design, Research & Planning, Construction, Graphic Work, and Architecture Studio.
The whole thing is still a work in progress, so expect some broken links and incomplete pages. I welcome any comments or suggestions about the organization and appearance. Thanks for taking a look!


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Similar to stand up zipper pouches, but with a unique style that mimics a box and bag. Our Box Bottom Quad Seals Zipper Pouches have a metallized barrier, box bottom. They are able to stand up by themselves, even before being filled, and have a zip closure that seals the bag once you're done. A durable bag that ideal for retail displays and local markets.
These kraft paper zipper pouches are designed to offer you great quality paper bags that can easily be used for various purposes. The iconic kraft paper offers a great appeal to these paper bags and helps you store things in style. In addition, the bags come in different sizes, so you can easily get the one that suits your need.
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"Siriusware has been an important element of our strategic expansion into the broader leisure market."
accesso, the premier technology solutions provider to the global attractions and leisure industry, has announced the rebrand of Siriusware Salespoint Solutions to accesso Siriusware.
Siriusware was acquired by accesso in December 2013, and since then has expanded its customer base for its integrated point-of-sale solution beyond the ski industry to the attraction industry.
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I decided I wanted to buy some Litecoin, so I took a small gamble to buy them from a site called Bitrush after I tried BTCDirect (which was a potential scam, a dangerous one).
It's a company based in The Netherlands (this means everything is a bit tighter and easier to verify, but don't get your hopes up just yet).
I made an order, went through the verification steps and waited for a few seconds (it were like 30 seconds or so).
And it said the transaction was complete!
Looking in my wallet, the Litecoins have safely arrived!


Using LEGO® bricks to make team work work.
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A LEGO® Serious Fun workshop creates a Shared Bond.
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Q: How to rotate object to look mouse point in three js? How to calculate object rotation.y in three js to look mouse pointer?

When i move mouse pointer from 1 to 2, arrow should turn to point 2. How do i calculate rotation.y?

A: As an option, you can use THREE.Raycaster() with THREE.Plane() and use .lookAt() of your arrow to point it at the point of intersection of the raycaster's ray and plane.
Let's create our arrow object:
var coneGeom = new THREE.ConeGeometry(0.125, 1, 4);
coneGeom.translate(0, .5, 0);
coneGeom.rotateX(Math.PI / 2); //
var coneMat = new THREE.MeshNormalMaterial();
var cone = new THREE.Mesh(coneGeom, coneMat);
cone.lookAt(new THREE.Vector3(0, 1, 0));
scene.add(cone);

then we'll add an event listener for mousemove:
window.addEventListener("mousemove", onmousemove, false);

and then our onmousemove function will be like this:
var plane = new THREE.Plane(new THREE.Vector3(0, 0, 1), 0); // it's up to you how you will create THREE.Plane(), there are several methods
var raycaster = new THREE.Raycaster(); //for reuse
var mouse = new THREE.Vector2();       //for reuse
var intersectPoint = new THREE.Vector3();//for reuse

function onmousemove(event) {
  //get mouse coordinates
  mouse.x = (event.clientX / window.innerWidth) * 2 - 1;
  mouse.y = -(event.clientY / window.innerHeight) * 2 + 1;

  raycaster.setFromCamera(mouse, camera);//set raycaster
  raycaster.ray.intersectPlane(plane, intersectPoint); // find the point of intersection
  cone.lookAt(intersectPoint); // face our arrow to this point
}

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This week in English we have become story writers. We have planned our own story similar to the layout of 'Boa's Bad Birthday'. We have practised it by orally rehearsing the story with actions. This made it easier when we came to write the story.
In Maths we have learnt how to solve a subtraction question by jumping back on a number line. We also learnt how addition and subtraction are linked. We call this a number family.
This week in Science the children have been learning about the different seasons. They went on an Autumn walk to see if they could find signs of Autumn.
Next week the children will be looking at shapes 2D and 3D.
The homework focus this week is phonics.
Letters about what the children will need to wear for the Christmas play have gone out - If you haven't received this letter please come and see Mrs Kibbler for more information.


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Foldit Gamers Come Up With Scientific Strategies
By Wolfgang Gruener 2011-11-26T03:00:00Z
A few weeks ago, scientists announced that players of the protein folding game Foldit helped unlock the structure of an AIDS-related enzyme researchers had been working on for a decade.
It was the first time a crowd-sourced science experiment solved an important science challenge.
Researchers at the University of Washington had a closer look at the strategies that enabled players to achieve that result. They concluded that gamers who were provided tools for creating, editing, sharing and rating game-playing recipes within the Foldit game came up with at least one recipe, called Blue Fuse, offered a "striking resemblance" to a "scientist-built", but unpublished algorithm called Fast Relax.
"With our previous papers, we proved that a scientific-discovery game can solve long-standing scientific problems, but this paper shows how gamers codified their strategies, shared them and improved them. This is just the beginning of what Foldit players are capable of solving," explained Seth Cooper, the primary architect and co-creator of Foldit and the creative director of the Center for Game Science.
The authors of the paper said they monitored 721 Foldit gamers over a period of three months and discovered a considerable trend toward collaboration as well as a "remarkably flexible nature of the gamer intelligence," which is inspired by human intuition and creative game play that allows users to employ certain tasks at different stages.
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