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Ile aux Cerfs is a privately owned island near the east coast of Mauritius in the Flacq District. Black River Gorges National Park is a national park in the hilly south-western part of Mauritius. Le Morne Brabant is a peninsula at the extreme southwestern tip of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius on the windward side of the island. The Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden, commonly known as the Pamplemousses Botanical Garden, is a popular tourist attraction in Pamplemousses, near Port Louis, Mauritius, and the oldest botanical garden in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Saturday Morning Post-SFRA Links! All! Tabs! Closed!
* SFRA is over, but ICFA season has only just begun! The theme for ICFA 2019 is "Politics and Conflicts" and the special guests are Mark Bould and G. Willow Wilson.
* And keep saving your pennies for SFRA 19 in Hawaii! Stay tuned for more information soon.
* Ben Robertson put up his SFRA talk on the MCU and abstraction as well as his opening statement for the Avengers vs. Jedi roundtable (which coined the already ubiquitous term "naustalgia"). My opening statement was this image, more or less…
* Other piping hot SFRA content at #SFRA18! It was a great conference.
In the process of his SF reading @pefrase throws off the deep key to all post-70s cop shows: "All Cops Are Bastards, Except Us." That is: they must concede obvious corruption of the system, but posit a fantasy space of exception, of nobility and decency, inside it. #SFRA18
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 2, 2018
Echoing Mark Bould's own Pilgrim speech from two years ago, Freedman notes the irony of science fiction studies becoming "respectable" at the moment the humanities and the academy writ large find themselves under cataclysmic, existential attack. #SFRA18
* The Economics of Science Fiction.
* A book I'm in won a Locus Award: Check out Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler! Congratulations to Alexandra and Mimi.
* Black Women and the Science Fiction Genre: an interview with Octavia E. Butler from 1986.
* CFP: TechnoLogics: Power and Resistance. CFP: Childhoods of Color.
* The early career academic: learning to say no.
* The Humanities as We Know Them Are Doomed. Now What? Jobs Will Save the Humanities.
* Revised Course Evaluation Questions.
#RevisedCourseEvaluationQuestions
Your professor appeared to conceive of the seminar as
1) a psychoanalytic session
2) a Reddit thread
3) an opportunity to talk about themselves
4) a lawsuit waiting to happen
— Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx) June 25, 2018
* Essentially total victory for John McAdams over Marquette at the WI Supreme Court. I don't talk about "Marquette stuff" on here because of the slippery nature of my status as an agent of the university, but noted for history. More here. Marquette "agrees to comply" but doesn't concede wrongdoing.
"The undisputed facts show that the university breached its contract with Dr. McAdams when it suspended him for engaging in activity protected by the contract's guarantee of academic freedom," states the ruling, written by Justice Daniel Kelly.
* Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union. So good.
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:
– waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality
– promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
— Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018
– living five adults to a two room apartment
– being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you
* Since it isn't, a simple question arises: where's all the fucking money? Piketty's student Gabriel Zucman wrote a powerful book, The Hidden Wealth of Nations (2015), which supplies the answer: it's hidden by rich people in tax havens. According to calculations that Zucman himself says are conservative, the missing money amounts to $8.7 trillion, a significant fraction of all planetary wealth. It is as if, when it comes to the question of paying their taxes, the rich have seceded from the rest of humanity.
* If Elon Musk can save the trapped Thai soccer team though I'll definitely forgive him for everything else, for at least a couple weeks. In the meantime…
* Trump's ethnic cleansing operation is blowing past boundaries that would have been considered utterly sacrosanct only a few years ago. The Trump administration just admitted it doesn't know how many kids are still separated from their parents. "In hundreds of cases, Customs agents deleted the initial records in which parents and children were listed together as a family with a "family identification number," according to two officials at the Department of Homeland Security." The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death. Toddlers representing themselves in court. USCIS is Starting a Denaturalization Task Force. Trump's Travel Ban Has Torn Apart Hundreds of Families. Trump's catch-and-detain policy snares many who have long called U.S. home. At 9 He Lost His Mom to Gang Violence. At 12 He Lost His Dad to Trump's Immigration Policies. After being released from custody in El Paso on Sunday, the parents have now learned the whereabouts of their children, a shelter director said. But there are more hurdles before they're reunited. Lawful permanent resident freed nearly three weeks after arrest. Sick Child Couldn't Walk After U.S. Took Him From His Mom. Painful memories of Michigan for immigrant girl, 7, reunited with mom. The Awful Plight of Parents Deported Without Their Children. From behind bars, a father searches for one of the 2,000 kids still separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Dad, I'm Never Going to See You Again. Feds failing to put migrant parents in touch with separated kids. Former Seattle Chief Counsel sentenced to 4 years in prison for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft scheme. "At night, Andriy sometimes wakes up screaming in the bunk bed he shares with his mother and baby brother." "My Whole Heart Is There." "My son is not the same." "Are You Alone Now?" There was a pilot program. Transport Fees. A Migrant Mother Had to Pay $576.20 to Be Reunited With Her 7-Year-Old Son. Letters from the Disappeared. Listen. Border Agent Threatened to Put Immigrant's Daughter Up for Adoption, ACLU Says. A New Border Crisis. Separated Parents Are Failing Asylum Screenings Because They're So Heartbroken. A Twitter Bot Has Joined the Immigration Battle to Fight ICE With Facts. A Twitter Bot Is Posting the Names and Locations of Immigrant Detention Centers Across the U.S. Over the course of three weeks, a major U.S. defense contractor detained dozens of immigrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with no kitchen and only a few toilets. The Immigrant Children's Shelters Near You. Supreme Court just wrote a presumption of white racial innocence into the Constitution. The Trump administration is not answering basic questions about separation of migrant families. Immigration Attorney Says ICE Broke Her Foot, Locked Her Up. This is what Trump and ICE are doing to parents and their children. A practice so cruel that the United States ended it for a quarter-century. It's only going to get worse. Torn apart. Don't you know that we hate you people? (Only) 17 states sue Trump administration over family separations. News outlets join forces to track down children separated from their parents by the U.S. We might not even have ever known. New 1,000-Bed ICE Lockup Set to Open on Site of Notorious 'Tent City' in South Texas. Potemkin camps. Research suggests that the family of Anne Frank attempted to escape to the U.S., but their efforts were thwarted by America's restrictive immigration policy. Exclusive: Trump administration plan would bar people who enter illegally from getting asylum. We're Going to Abolish ICE. Woman Climbs Statue of Liberty to Protest Family Separations, Island Shut Down. How to Abolish ICE. And just for fun: ICE Training Officers in Military-Grade Weapons, Chemical Agents. Dogsitting.
I can't tweet everything I know. Some of it is off-the-record. Some of it is uncorroborated. Some of it is embargoed until we publish.
But I can tweet this: this thing where the government took children from their parents atthe border? It's more horrific than we have imagined.
— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) July 6, 2018
* The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A.
* I've Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year. Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong.
* I feel pretty confident the buried story here is that Trump blackmailed Anthony Kennedy by threatening to destroy his son's life; I suppose it'll all come out during Truth and Reconciliation in the 2040s. Anyway this is just about the final end of America, buckle up.
* Down we go.
* All of American history fits in the life span of only three presidents.
* Trump Confidant Floats Crazy RBG-For-Merrick-Garland SCOTUS Swap. I am a huge proponent of this deal but you'll have to confirm Garland first. You understand.
In that spirit, an out-of-the-box solution for desperate times: Trump should name Knicks owner James Dolan to replace Anthony Kennedy as a justice on the Supreme Court, forcing him to sell his ownership of the Knicks. Outlandish? Perhaps. But worse than what we have now? 4/17
— danielbenaim (@danielbenaim) July 5, 2018
* How democracy ends.
* There's no returning to a golden age of American democracy that never existed. Donald Trump, the resistance, and the limits of normcore politics.
* What can we learn from 1968?
* Trump Inauguration Day rioting charges against 200+ people abruptly dropped by U.S.
* A major Republican leader in the House has been accused of facilitating the sexual abuse of huge numbers of children in his previous career as a wrestling coach. No, not him, this is a new guy.
* Clown car.
* Farmers in America are killing themselves in staggering numbers.
* Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me.
* In the richest country in all of human history.
* A country of empty storefronts.
* $117,000/year is now considered low income in San Francisco. Class and America.
* How Flint poisoned its people.
* The thing about peace.
* 'A way of monetizing poor people': How private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans. With special appearance by Obama Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner!
* Onward to Venezuela!
* Sure, why not.
* Twilight of UW.
* Rosa Parks's Arrested Warrant.
* The Beautiful, Ugly, and Possessive Hearts of Star Wars.
20 years next year I faced a media backlash that still affects my career today. This was the place I almost ended my life. It's still hard to talk about. I survived and now this little guy is my gift for survival. Would this be a good story for my solo show? Lemme know. pic.twitter.com/NvVnImoJ7N
— Ahmed BEst (@ahmedbest) July 3, 2018
* Every parent's secret suspicion confirmed: She was worried how a 'teacher of the year' treated her 5-year-old son. So she made a secret recording.
* Lows of 80 degrees and higher, now commonplace, were once very rare. They occurred just 26 times from 1872 to 1999 or about once every five years. Since 2000, they've happened 37 times or twice every year on average. Probably nothing.
* It's So Hot Out, It's Slowing Down the Speed of Stock Trades.
Yesterday was Africa's hottest reliably measured temperature in recorded history: 124.3°F (51.3°C) in Algeria
Africa has 16% of the world's population—and produces just 3.8% of all greenhouse gases.
Climate change is fundamentally a story of injustice.https://t.co/UuNTd0aDGt
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) July 6, 2018
* Flood insurance is completely broken.
* Companies buying back their own shares is the only thing keeping the stock market afloat right now.
* @jack is a collaborator.
* Facebook destroyed online publishing, then quit the business.
* The US Left Has Only Four Tendencies.
* Students in Detroit Are Suing the State Because They Weren't Taught to Read.
* Doesn't seem like a great sign, no.
* A great ideas as long as you know nothing about either writing or computers.
Turns out that's an easy question to answer, thanks to MIT research affiliate, and longtime-critic of automated scoring, Les Perelman. He's designed what you might think of as robo-graders' kryptonite, to expose what he sees as the weakness and absurdity of automated scoring. Called the Babel ("Basic Automatic B.S. Essay Language") Generator, it works like a computerized Mad Libs, creating essays that make zero sense, but earn top scores from robo-graders.
To demonstrate, he calls up a practice question for the GRE exam that's graded with the same algorithms that actual tests are. He then enters three words related to the essay prompt into his Babel Generator, which instantly spits back a 500-word wonder, replete with a plethora of obscure multisyllabic synonyms:
"History by mimic has not, and presumably never will be precipitously but blithely ensconced. Society will always encompass imaginativeness; many of scrutinizations but a few for an amanuensis. The perjured imaginativeness lies in the area of theory of knowledge but also the field of literature. Instead of enthralling the analysis, grounds constitutes both a disparaging quip and a diligent explanation."
"It makes absolutely no sense," he says, shaking his head. "There is no meaning. It's not real writing."
But Perelman promises that won't matter to the robo-grader. And sure enough, when he submits it to the GRE automated scoring system, it gets a perfect score: 6 out of 6, which according to the GRE, means it "presents a cogent, well-articulated analysis of the issue and conveys meaning skillfully."
* Winners of the 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest.
* Pruitt 2024!
* Utter lawlessness.
* In 1934, an American professor urged that Jews be civil — to the Nazis.
* California reconsiders felony murder.
* Scholarship for dark times.
* William Shatner kicks off July 4th by implying that UW-Madison & Penn should consider firing 2 kid lit professors for disagreeing with him about whether it's appropriate to note racism in Little House of the Prairie.
William Shatner kicks off July 4th by implying that UW-Madison & Penn should consider firing 2 kid lit professors for disagreeing with him about whether it's appropriate to note racism in Little House of the Prairie. @uwmaaup stands with @BrigField, @clfs_uw, and @Ebonyteach! pic.twitter.com/g8T9fm1V3R
— UWM AAUP (@uwmaaup) July 4, 2018
* Six decades after being told her mother was dead, she found her — 80 minutes away and 100 years old.
* Between 1984 and the mid-1990s, before better HIV drugs effectively rendered her obsolete, Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She buried more than three dozen of them herself, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.
* How Universities Facilitate Far-Right Groups' Harassment of Students and Faculty.
* Video games and fatphobia.
* A location scout's view of California.
* Not all heroes wear capes: How an EPA worker stole $900K by pretending to be a CIA agent.
* How Pixar's Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column).
* Reality Winner pleads guilty.
* When copyright goes wrong, EU edition.
* Academic minute: Geoengineering.
* Anglo-Saxon Studies, Academia and White Supremacy.
* The Millennial Socialists Are Coming. How Ocasio-Cortez Beat the Machine. A Conversation with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fights the Power. Next: Julia Salazar Is Looking to Land the Next Blow Against the New York Democratic Machine. The socialists are coming! But huge, if true.
optimism watch: I think things are going to get so terrible in the next few years, and so quickly, that we will have full blown socialism in the US by the time my kids are grown. We just have to survive and destroy Trumpism.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 28, 2018
* The clearest lesson, which holds now as it did then, is that to rearrange international order in an egalitarian way, you need an egalitarian and internationally oriented domestic politics in the richest and most powerful countries. Otherwise, your best-laid plans can be scuttled by something like what happened then—the neoliberal revolt of capital, the crushing of the labor unions, the turn to the construction of the current international regime of relatively free flow of goods, services, and capital, but not people. Today's nationalist revolts, most notably the catastrophe in the United States, are another body blow to progressive internationalist aspirations. Ironically, they are directed in part against some of the pieties of the neoliberal order—although certainly not in any constructive or progressive direction.
* A Subreddit Dedicated to Thanos Is Preparing to Ban Half of Its Users at Random.
* lol
* Hard pass, thanks.
* The UK is committing national suicide to satisfy a laughably illegitimate referendum that never should have happened in the first place and no one is going to stop it.
* Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, "How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?" The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind.
* If there is hope, it lies with the Juggalos.
* Luke was a Boomer.
It is tragic. I'm not a method actor, but one of the techniques a method actor will use is to try and use real-life experiences to relate to whatever fictional scenario he's involved in. The only thing I could think of, given the screenplay that I read, was that I was of the Beatles generation—'All You Need Is Love', 'peace and love'.
I thought at that time, when I was a teenager: 'By the time we get in power, there will be no more war, there will be no racial discrimination, and pot will be legal.' So I'm one for three. When you think about it, [my generation is] a failure. The world is unquestionably worse now than it was then.
* The first superhero movie is more than 100 years old.
* Rest in peace, Harlan Ellison. Rest in peace, Steve Ditko.
* Anatomy of a superhero.
* NASA's Policies to Protect the Solar System From Contamination Are Out of Date. We're not going to is the thing.
* Space is full of dirty, toxic grease, scientists reveal.
* Man suspected of killing 21 co-workers by poisoning their food.
* There could be as many as 7000 tigers living in American backyards.
* "When I Was Alive": William T. Vollmann's Climate Letter to the Future.
* Remembering Google Reader, five years on.
.@Google killed its Reader in 2013 because RSS as a format gives readers agency, doesn't track browsing to sell ads, and lets the user chose what they want to read. As opposed to algorithmic personalisation which siloes us into increasingly homogenous demographics for advertisers https://t.co/YAThAP6bdO
— Luc Lewitanski (@LucLewitanski) July 2, 2018
* Very cool: If you use Gmail, know that "human third parties" are reading your email.
* A classic edition of "our brains don't work": that's because your freaking visual system just lied to you about HOW LONG TIME IS in order to cover up the physical limitations of those chemical camera orbs you have on the front of your face.
* Sports corner! The Warriors Are Making A Mockery Of The NBA Salary Cap. A Literary Lineup for the World Cup. We Timed Every Game. World Cup Stoppage Time Is Wildly Inaccurate. Catching "the world's most prolific criminal fixer of soccer matches."
* Physics says that our perception of smoothly flowing time is a cosmic accident. So why do we think the future always comes after the past?
* A Dunbar number for place: At any point in life, people spend their time in 25 places.
* Some monkeys in Panama may have just stumbled into the Stone Age. Don't do it, guys, it's not worth the hassle.
* I was basically my own editor for 25 years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And then the publisher decided he didn't like what he saw.
* Life as a professional dungeon master.
* Naked Japanese hermit forced back into civilization after 29 years on deserted island.
* An Oral History of ASSSSCAT.
* Peyton Reed (director of Ant-Man and the Wasp) remembers writing Back to the Future: The Ride.
* The Roxy, West Hollywood, CA, July 7, 1978.
* Readystolen.
* Someone in the club tonight is stealing my ideas.
* The arc of history is long but seriously they really took their time with this.
* What should we read if we want to be happy?
* And Incredibles 3 looks wild. Don't miss Old Man Incredible! I'm here for it.
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These Tuesday Links Surround Hate and Force It to Surrender
* Pete Seeger before the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1955. This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender. Some recent articles and profiles. RIP.
* CFP: New Directions in Sherlock.
* Amazing moment: Northwestern University athletes have filed for union representation with the NRLB. Now, I don't think they'll get it — so the really interesting question is what happens when they don't.
* Rabon, a veterinarian, said he believes House Bill 930 is too weak. He said its standards for humane treatment could too easily be interpreted by a judge to apply to livestock as well as pets. "It can't spill over to the animal husbandry in this state, which is an $80 billion industry – larger than the other top five industries in the state," he said. "There is a LOT of money involved."
* Freddie deBoer has a nice demonstration of how statistics don't always tell you as much as you think.
* Instead of guaranteeing that poor undergraduates can get through college debt-free, the University of Virginia decided it's going to make low-income students borrow up to $28,000.
* More on the brokenness of the Common Core.
* The new face of food stamps. Of the top five jobs projected to grow from 2012 to 2022, only one—registered nurse—provides an annual, full-time salary over $22,000.
* The Fantasy Politics of the Libertarian Alliance.
* BREAKING: The past isn't done with you yet.
With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death-penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas chambers.
* Kubrick's alternate titles for Dr. Strangelove.
* Jonathan Banks is officially part of Better Call Saul.
* Lawsuit Blames Uber App for Death of 6-Year-Old Girl.
* West Virginia as colonized zone.
* Five years into his presidency, Obama has finally issued an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contracts. Can solving climate change be far behind?
* "Academic freedom" is a funny phrase: New York bill to punish ASA over Israel boycott picks up 48 supporters.
* Man Charged With Shooting And Killing Own Neighbors Because He Wrongly Thought They Were Trespassing.
* Florida Man's Very Own Backyard Gun Range Is Perfectly Legal.
* Marquette just got $10 million to build a new JesRes.
* An 83-year-old nun faces up to 30 years in prison for breaking into a nuclear weapons facility.
* Here's why Ezra Klein left the Washington Post. This is my skeptical face, but good luck.
* Horrific: After Being Denied A Snow Day, University Of Illinois Students Respond With Racism And Sexism.
* The crisis is over! Colleges are rich again!
* Queens Library president gets $390G salary, luxe office makeover while shedding 130 jobs.
* BREAKING: Austerity politics don't work. No one could have predicted!
* A bit on the nose, don't you think? Birds Attack Peace Doves Freed From Pope's Window.
* Let kids be kids: Chaos may reign at Swanson Primary School with children climbing trees, riding skateboards and playing bullrush during playtime, but surprisingly the students don't cause bedlam, the principal says. The school is actually seeing a drop in bullying, serious injuries and vandalism, while concentration levels in class are increasing.
* The invention of jaywalking.
* Understand academic labor the Brady Bunch way.
* Rebecca Schuman hangs up on her "calling."
* And some linkbait I can never resist: 22 Unbelievable Places that are Hard to Believe Really Exist.
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Verlassen auf einem Düsenflugzeug
With that the blog will be on even-more-of-a-hiatus for a bit as I head to Germany for the Politics of Adaptation conference next Monday and Tuesday. I might throw up a post or two while I'm there, but Twitter is a much better bet.
Back next week sometime.
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More Thursday
* Fringe will get a fifth season.
* How much of the Moon's surface did the Apollo 11 astronauts actually explore?
* Aside from the slave labor, why manufacture in China? Because that's where the rare earth minerals are.
* Parks and Recreation creators preposterously claim The Wire as an influence.
* Science proves being bad at math makes you religious. I think I have that right.
* And tomorrow at Duke: the inaugural Novel conference, with Rebecca Walkowitz, Amitav Ghosh, Jacques Rancière, and more.
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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


The Nature of Fife Inventory (NOFI) was conceived as an accompaniment to the "Nature of Fife", published by Scottish Cultural Press in 1998, on behalf of the Fife & Kinross branch of the Scottish Wildlife Trust. It consists of annotated lists of plants, fungi and animals which had been recorded in the Fife Local Authority area.
The extent to which the inventory of 1998 has been revised and updated varies from group to group. It is hoped that all the original NOFI lists will be revised and updated as necessary. Fife Nature Records Centre will support appropriate experts in this task.


Cooking event: Rebbetzin Hindel Levitin of Chabad House of Northern Palm Beach Island will share some of her best recipes for Shabbos at 7 p.m. Monday at the chabad.
Levitin will also speak on the importance of shaping future generations through cooking. Dinner will be included, and guests will receive a complimentary cookbook. Reservations are required.
Chabad House is at 361 S. County Road. Call 347-564-8393 or go to palmbeachjewish.com/jwc for reservations.


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News and Trends in UK Real Estate, Disputes and Planning Law
By: Hogan Lovells
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Interim Code rights – the Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill
By Abbey Shepherd
What are interim Code rights? Operators have been having issues in relation to non-responsive owners of multi-let buildings where the Operator's customer occupies part of the building as a tenant. This means that there is often a delay in the tenant of those multi-let buildings getting internet services. In order to tackle this issue the government has published the Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill. This Bill was published before the general election and has now…
Don't take it personally: Is the benefit of an agreement for lease personal to the landlord?
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In Bella Italia Restaurants Limited v Stane Park Limited, Bella Italia had entered into a conditional agreement for lease with its prospective landlord, the Trustees of the Churchmanor Pension Scheme. As you would expect, the agreement contained a right for the landlord to grant a lease, on the terms agreed, with a corresponding obligation on the tenant to accept this lease. The Trustees then sold the property to Ropemaker. In the sale contract, the property…
Unleashing real estate's potential: what follows next?
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The real estate sector will welcome the stability, at least in the short term, that such a decisive election result brings. Jackie Newstead, our Global Head of Real Estate, predicts a post-election bounce in investment following a return of confidence to the market and a busy Q1 in 2020. Deals which were on ice can be resurrected and pent-up investment unleashed. So, what key policies lie in store for the real estate sector? Brexit One…
Confirmation from the Court of Appeal: Exercising CRAR will waive a right to forfeit
By Benjamin Willis
In an earlier blog we discussed the High Court decision in the case of Thirunavukkrasu v Brar & Brar. The High Court confirmed that taking action pursuant to the Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery regime (CRAR) would amount to a waiver of a right to forfeit. The landlords subsequently appealed to the Court of Appeal, which has handed down judgment this week. By way of background, Thirunavukkrasu was the tenant of premises in Teddington, London and…
Court of Appeal confirms that telecoms operators can obtain Code rights to carry out site visits
By Shanna Davison
A second case has been decided by the Court of Appeal under the 2017 Electronic Communications Code (the "Code"). The Court upheld the decision of the Upper Tribunal that an approved operator under the Code has a right to access and carry out investigations on a site's suitability for installation of electronic communications equipment (known as a "multi-skilled visit" or MSV). The Court also confirmed that the operator may apply under paragraph 26 of the…
Telecoms operators do not have a choice between the Code and the 1954 Act on renewal of rights
The Upper Tribunal has considered for the first time the relationship between the new Electronic Communications Code and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, ruling that an operator in occupation under a lease protected by the 1954 Act is not entitled to ask the Tribunal to impose Code rights. The new Code came into force in December 2017, replacing the original Electronic Communications Code (as amended in 2003). Under the original Code, telecoms operators who…
Landlord consent case splits the Supreme Court
By Tim Reid
Property cases do not often make it all the way to the Supreme Court, let alone cases relating to a landord's refusal of consent under a lease. For that reason alone, the Supreme Court Justices' decision in the case of Sequent Nominees Limited v Hautford Limited this Autumn is valuable reading. That said, it was a case that divided the Supreme Court, with three of the five judges finding in favour of the landlord, and…
Don't overstep the mark: what can an independent expert decide in a rent review determination?
By Paul Tonkin & Shanna Davison
The old saying goes "if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile", but the Court of Appeal has reaffirmed that an independent expert appointed by parties to make a binding determination in relation to their dispute is not entitled to anything more than that inch. The scope and nature of an expert's powers are granted to him/her by the contract between the parties, so where the contract does not confer express rights on…
Electronic signatures: a warning sign
By Megan Stewart & Katie Gallagher
How do you sign your emails? If your name and contact details are automatically generated at the bottom of an e-mail, do you consider you have signed the e-mail and should be contractually bound by the contents? This was the issue for the county court in the recent case of Neocleous v Rees. The facts The defendants had agreed to transfer a part of their land to the claimants for the price of £175,000. The…
Higher MEES on the horizon?
By Simon Keen, Jane Dockeray & Ingrid Stables
On 15 October, the government published a consultation on tightening minimum energy efficiency standards (MEES) for commercial properties. Click here for a copy of the consultation. Responses must be submitted by 7 January 2020 and we strongly encourage all interested parties to respond. The consultation focuses on two key questions: What should the minimum standard of energy efficiency for all commercial properties be in 2030; and How should we get there? The government's clear preference is…


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8 / 10 - Zumba Fitness World Party
World Party is well worth a try for anyone looking to add a fun dose of fitness to their Wii U routine.
7 / 10 - One Piece: Unlimited World Red
Unlimited World Red is a good example of a licensed game done well. If you're a One Piece fan, you'll be in high-seas heaven; the gang's all here, they look and sound great, and the gameplay — while it has its issues — provides a solid foundation for the adventure. Poor camera controls and some repetitive design dampen the experience, and will be harder to swallow for non-fans, but even players who can't tell a Straw Hat from a straw hat can enjoy the the bright, high-energy action and colourful characters.
8 / 10 - Skylanders Trap Team
Trap Team continues the Skylanders legacy in style, serving up an excellent adventure with fun gameplay, lots of variety and top-notch production values both on-screen and off. It's kid-friendly in every sense of the word, though grown-up gamers will find plenty to enjoy here as well.
9 / 10 - Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
Persona Q has something for everyone. If you're a Persona fan, you'll get a huge kick out of seeing your old Gekkoukan and Yasogami classmates in an all-new adventure, and Etrian Odyssey fans open to a change will love it — this is the story-driven experiment of Etrian Odyssey Untold taken to the next level, with a stylistic overhaul to match. And if you haven't played either of its inspirations, you're still in luck — this isn't just a great crossover, it's a fantastically fun RPG in its own right, with colourful characters, engaging gameplay, and a whole heap of style. Persona fans will undoubtedly get the most out of the fan-service, but even if you can't tell Junpei from Junes, you'll still have a blast exploring Persona Q.
7 / 10 - LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
Lego Batman 3 may not be the greatest adventure — or even the greatest LEGO adventure — on the Wii U, but it's certainly still well worth a look for series fans. Repetitive gameplay elements and some occasionally awkward controls bring down the Dark Knight's latest, and the lack of an explorable open world feels like a step back from its predecessor, but fun writing, excellent co-op, and lots of LEGO charm are more than enough to seal the deal for DC devotees.
8 / 10 - Etrian Mystery Dungeon
Wrapping Mystery Dungeon' time-tested gameplay in an evergreen Etrian aesthetic, Etrian Mystery Dungeon is another excellent RPG in the 3DS' already impressive lineup. It's not always a perfect mashup - the randomly generated Mystery dungeons aren't a patch on Etrian Odyssey's memorable mazes, and the elaborate skillsets feel better suited to menus than button mappings - but the masterful mix of addictive exploration, strategic combat, extensive customization, and a real sense of adventure remains engrossing throughout. Fans of either series - or anyone up for a challenging dungeon-crawl in a idyllic setting - will have a great time combing through these charming catacombs.
9 / 10 - Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker
With fun, strategic battles, a roller-coaster narrative that never lets up, and a fantastic sense of upbeat, apocalyptic style, Devil Survivor 2 is a full-on blast from start to finish. If you missed out on the original release, you're in for a treat, and if you've already played the DS cart to death the Triangulum scenario adds another immediately accessible full-length adventure to the experience - more than enough reason to return. Whether you're a longtime MegaTen fan or just enjoy deep, strategic RPGs, you'll have a great time with Record Breaker, so summon up your courage and sign in to Nicaea; you won't regret it.
9 / 10 - Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight
Both a wonderful upgrade to the original Etrian Odyssey 2 and an impressive improvement on Etrian Odyssey Untold, Untold 2: The Fafnir Knight is a dungeon-crawling delight. With satisfying combat, endless customization, and beautiful labyrinths that are as fun to map out as they are to explore, this is a joyously engrossing adventure - and a truly accessible difficulty setting and user-friendly interface make it the easiest Etrian to dive into yet. If you've played other Etrian Odysseys and are looking for more, you'll have a blast here, and if this is your first time journeying into Yggdrasil, prepare to be hooked - just make sure to leave some breadcrumbs to find your way back.
9 / 10 - Stella Glow
A fitting swan song for imageepoch and another gem in the 3DS' legendary RPG lineup, Stella Glow is smart, stylish, and seriously satisfying. Fans of SRPGs will get a kick out of the combat, characters, and strategy, the fun, fast-paced story will keep you entertained to the end, and the musical motif works wonderfully, winding its way through the gameplay and presentation with ease. A few interface wobbles keep it from being a totally perfect show, but they're minor concerns in an otherwise spellbinding performance. Stella Glow is absolutely worth singing about.
9 / 10 - Bravely Second: End Layer
As a sequel, Bravely Second: End Layer does everything right. It improves on its predecessor in nearly every way, shakes things up enough to still be exciting for players who may have recently poured sixty hours into the first game, and offers a meaningful chance to reconnect with beloved characters. Even better, it's a nearly-perfect JRPG in its own right. Beautiful, well-written, and endlessly engaging in gameplay and story, this is a wonderful example of why people fall in love with the genre. Simply put, Bravely Second is a must-play for JRPG fans, and one of the 3DS' finest games to date.
9 / 10 - Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale
Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale tells a beautiful tale, but its magic isn't in the plot points, and won't come through in a simple summary of events. Instead, it's in the little details, the kindness of the characters, the gentle music, the journey. Like a storybook that just so happens to come on a 3DS cartridge, Return to PopoloCrois is sweet, heartwarming, and absolutely worth diving into. If you have a soft spot for golden-era JRPGs — or just classically charming games in general — we can't recommend it enough.
7 / 10 - Sadame
A fun action RPG with an infernal/feudal Japanese aesthetic and some great ideas, Sadame is a welcome eShop surprise. The core combat can get repetitive, and it lacks the fluid finesse of the best beat-'em-ups, but there's a lot here to love, including a particularly thoughtful implementation of its four-character hook. If you're in the mood for a hack-and-slash alt-history lesson, Sadame can definitely cut it.
5 / 10 - Alphadia
Alphadia definitely does what it says on the tin, serving up an old-school JRPG with turn-based combat, a familiar story and a SNES-era aesthetic. Unfortunately, it does so without ever really aspiring to any sort of excellence, and with a few telltale trappings of a mobile port, including jittery movement, noticeably compressed sound and a lack of stereoscopic 3D. Alphadia isn't a bad game — and players looking for pure comfort-food gaming will certainly find some old-fashioned fun here — but on a system with what is hands down the best library of JRPGs in recent memory, 'not bad' isn't enough to stand out.
6 / 10 - Justice Chronicles
Like most RPGs in the Kemco stables, Justice Chronicles does just what it sets out to: recreate the glory days of console JRPGs filtered through a modern, mobile-inspired lens. And while there's no masterful writing or great innovation at play here, an interesting battle system and tried-and-true gameplay loop means that Justice Chronicles succeeds as a slice of low-priced comfort gaming. It doesn't do much to stand out in the 3DS' library of JRPGs — already flooded with some of the finest examples of the genre in recent history — but if you've played the best and are still left with the need to save the world in a turn-based fashion, this is a thoroughly decent choice.
9 / 10 - 7th Dragon III Code: VFD
With top-class character customization, a delightfully different combat system and a slick nature-futuristic style, 7th Dragon III Code: VFD is a fantastic addition to the 3DS' JRPG library.
6 / 10 - Infinite Dunamis
Infinite Dunamis gives players exactly what it promises: a turn-based, nostalgia-heavy JRPG that hearkens back to the 16-bit era. It suffers from many of the same presentational pitfalls as its fellow mobile ports, including jittery movement, generic-looking backgrounds and a pervading lack of polish, but it also introduces some genuinely interesting ideas, like the timing-based power ups of its 'Gaia Icons', and boasts competent, characterful writing. There are far better role-playing experiences on the 3DS, but for turn-based world-saving on the cheap, Infinite Dunamis is a fine option.
3 / 10 - Langrisser Re: Incarnation - Tensei -
With sluggish gameplay, off-putting presentation and bafflingly poor design decisions at every turn, Langrisser Re:Incarnation Tensei is an entirely underwhelming revival of a once-beloved series, and a subpar SRPG besides. It's clunky and charmless, and suffers all the more from its considerable company; on a system with multiple Fire Emblems, stylish standouts like Stella Glow, and cheap-as-chips eShop options like Mercenaries Saga 2, it's hard to think of a place for Langrisser. Maybe someday Masaya's storied series will rise again, but for now, this is one SRPG best kept sheathed.
8 / 10 - Zero Time Dilemma
Zero Time Dilemma is an impressively polished, unsettling ride, but whether it's worth playing is entirely dependent on your previous experience with the series. If you've played and enjoyed the first two games in the trilogy you'll absolutely love Zero's last stand. You'll find the same twisting, twisted narrative, the same satisfyingly tricky puzzles, and plenty more of Uchikoshi's signature style, and watching the story's climax unfold after three games is a real rush. If you haven't played the first two games but you're interested in the series, this isn't the best place to start — to really enjoy it, you'll want to have both Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (on DS and iOS) and Virtue's Last Reward (on 3DS and Vita) under your belt before jumping in here.However you arrive at Zero Time Dilemma, if you're into the series' mix of horror and Hegel you're in for a treat — and you may never look at a snail the same way again.
6 / 10 - Adventure Labyrinth Story
A perfectly passable, prototypical roguelike RPG, Adventure Labyrinth Story is a decently diverting game that's happy to entertain without leaving a lasting impression. It takes tried and true gameplay elements and wraps them up in a plain presentation, resulting in a dependable experience that does what it says on the tin. That's not a problem in and of itself, of course, and if you're just looking to do some randomized exploring with all the trappings (and traps!) of the genre, this will definitely scratch that itch — it's comfort gaming, and on the cheap, too. But it's severely lacking in soul, and if you've got a few more gold to spare, we'd recommend Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity or Etrian Mystery Dungeon as far more memorable experiences in the same vein.
9 / 10 - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice
You saw this verdict coming; Phoenix Wright's latest adventure is every bit as brilliant as his earlier escapades, with phenomenal writing, satisfying gameplay, and tons of irresistibly clever courtroom drama. The high-altitude Himalayan setting is fresh and fun, and much more than just window dressing; the thrilling Divination Séances are a wonderful on-theme addition, the new characters are as memorable as any in the series, and Khura'in's customs makes for both enjoyable virtual tourism and a constant source of plot-twisting courtroom culture-shock. Whether you're a longtime fan or a first-time offender, no further deliberation is required — this is a court date you won't want to miss.


Sailing into oblivion or a scam?
Not all aboard the Titanic was as it seemed. The fourth funnel was a dummy and the ship almost certainly had 50 stowaways on board when it foundered. But did she strike an iceberg? Tony doesn't think so.
RMS Titanic was the White Star Line's answer to the regal Mauritania and Lusitania during the golden age of transatlantic crossings. Her sister ship, Olympic, ran aground off Cornwall and that was hushed up for 75 years.
Tony's conspiracy theory will have you Googling like mad when you get home and is a really thought-provoking talk. Despite the tragic loss of life, the talk is kept light hearted and, as with all these characterisations, Tony searches for the humour in the situation.
The White Star line only had the boat insured for third party, fire and theft. Now there's a curious thing! £1.5 million to build and they scrimped on the insurance premiums.
A switch including substitution of crucial components? Which ship lies at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean? Prepare to re-think the standard accounts.


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Booters eyeing win against Cambodia
The Bangladesh national football team will take on Cambodia in a FIFA friendly in Phnom Penh today as the men in red and green get back to international duty for the first time since October last year.
Booters leave for Cambodia today
The Bangladesh national football team will leave for Phnom Penh, Cambodia today to play a FIFA friendly match against the hosts. The match, slated for March 9, is the first international fixture for the boys in red and green since they faced Palestine in the Bangabandhu Gold Cup in Cox's Bazar last October.
BFF suspends four booters
The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) yesterday suspended four national team players for various terms for disciplinary breaches.


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Longares è un comune spagnolo di 911 abitanti situato nella comunità autonoma dell'Aragona.

Il paese, riconquistato dai Cristiani agli inizi del XII secolo, presenta una chiesa parrocchiale del XVI-XVII secolo. La bella torre mudéjar che la affianca fu invece costruita nel XIV secolo: era dunque preesistente al tempio cristiano. Alcune pitture esposte all'interno della chiesa sono state attribuite al pittore Alonso Cano, uno dei grandi maestri del barocco spagnolo.

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Sommet dans le parc quasi national de Hidaka Sanmyaku-Erimo


The first Sun Line Stella Maris was a steam ship, which was built as a Castle Class Patrol Frigate named HMS Guildford Castle. She was built at the built at the Henry Robb Shipyards in Leith, Scotland. Her keel was laid on May 25, 1943, and she was launched on November 13 that year. Having been fitted out and completed and commissioned she was handed over on March 11, 1944, but she had been renamed the HMS Hespeler for the Royal Canadian Navy. She was used on the Atlantic to hunt down U-Boats and the now prefixed HMCS Hespeler played a significant part in the Battle of the Atlantic and she was credited in the sinking of a U-Boat as well as an another enemy ship.
She is seen here in her second guise as the HMS/HMCS Hespeler - pendant number 489.
Type of Ship: Castle class Corvette.
Built by: Henry Robb Shipyards Leith - Scotland.
Tonnage: 1,370 GRT (Gross registered Tonnes).
Propulsion: 4 cyl triple expansion steam engine – 2,980 IHP.
Complement: 100 to 110 Officers and men.
The Hespeler was paid off on November 15, 1945 and she was soon sold. She was renamed SS Chilcotin in 1946, but sadly there is little no information available regarding her duties from that time until she was sold in 1958.
She obtained by Greek Sun Line who decided to completely rebuild her and she became the Liberian registered SS Stella Maris in 1958. Looking at her, you would never have thought that this ship was originally built as a frigate, although some of her lines, which were beautifully hidden by her dark hull colours.
She certainly became a fine looking cruise ship, but above all she became extremely popular and the name Stella Maris made the name Sun Lines a household byword in fine cruising as the company flourished purchasing many other ships, the next ship being the much larger Stella Solaris and later the intimate but slightly larger ship that would carry her name on her bow.
The SS Stella Maris may have had a Short Cruising Life, but it was a Great One! She was sold in 1965 to make way for the new MV Stella Maris II. SS Stella Maris was renamed SS Westar, but sadly having only just entered service whilst sailing in the Sarroch Roads off the coast of Sardinia on January 28, 1966, the worst possible accident at sea occurred as she caught fire which saw her being totally destroyed. She was beached to stop her from sinking. Once she had been refloated she was sold and she was taken to an Italian breakers yard arriving at La Spezia on April 30, 1966.
SS Stella Maris I and II as well as the other Sun Lines ships are remembered for many years of superb service with one of the finest luxury Greek cruise companies that was tragically destroyed much later when a number of other Greek cruise companies merged into one larger company known as Royal Olympic Cruises. Although the Olympic committee forced them to change their name and their new name was - Royal Olympia Cruises. However, this new management was to say the least a total shambles and with a combination of a litany of greed and stupid managerial decisions they, and I mean the executives and no one else, totally destroyed this once superb company. Myself and a number of people attempted to purchase several of their laid up ships on behalf of others who wished to operate them and save them from doom, however these total idiots simply would not sell them, even though the income could have saved them from total financial doom, but they just did not have the brains to see this. No wonder the Greeks are in such a state today and I have great doubts about any Greek run company these days! It is sad to say having managed Chandris Lines in the past, but I simply would not work with any Greek operator in the modern age, yet having said this, in days past the Greek men I have worked with were great people and I have worked with some of the very best in the shipping Industry, but they have sadly all gone! My all time favourites were of course Mr Onassis and dear Mr Chandris Snr, however his sons were useless and as they could not handle the cruise industry after their father passed away, they sold my beloved Celebrity Cruises to Royal Caribbean. However, back to Olympia Cruises and the Stella's.
Their ships remained laid up and were a burden on their purses. Then suddenly without notice these ships were sold to the breakers for less than 20% of the original offers that we made to them. Now call that stupidity on a grand scale! As I said before no wonder the Greek nation is in such a mess today, for frankly idiots are running it!
Sun Line should have remained its own boss and it would have remained profitable, for this company was well run and had a superb reputation and a huge following for they were simply spectacular. It was only ruined by Royal Olympia! Sorry, I am just being me – totally honest and to the point!
I wish to thank Rob "The Loftsman" of leithshipyards.com for his kind assistance with details on the HMS Guildford Castle & HMS/HMCS Hespeler.


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Some of my family went to see Selma on MLK Day and we ran into some friends while we were there. That's my Mommy with the head full of snow-white hair sitting with two of her dear friends, Sis. Nevels and Sis. Lyons.
Selma is a powerful film, but it is entertainment, not a full-on documentary. Selma is powerful, not perfect, powerful and we were all moved, but in different ways. We were three generations with varied responses.
My mother's painful and vivid memories as a black woman born in 1930, married in 1950 to a proud black man and raising black children the same ages as those little black girls murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in the 60s were stark ones. Her friends, women I've known all my life, their memories were painful and vivid as well. I should not have been surprised. I wasn't thinking. Selma is a powerful and evocative film. It was hard for Mommy, Sis. Nevels and Sis. Lyons.
My sister Cheryl and I grew up with our big brother David watching the cruel violence of fire hoses and attack dogs unleashed on people that looked just like us, just like our parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins and friends-basically everybody in our largely segregated world in Columbus, Ohio. We children sat in silence in front of the TV every night while our father seethed-there was no talking during the news. His anger and our required silence during that hour seared those images in my mind and helped me (eventually) understand his hyper-vigilance.
My sons Charles, Damon and Evan grew up reading King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail along with Fanon's Wretched of the Earth and Biko's Black Consciousness and Machiavelli's The Prince from the time they were 11 or 12 (one of the benefits of homeschooling;) so they were aware of some of the politics of Selma, academically. CMadison grew up in Memphis. He and his father, Rev. Dr. H.C. Nabrit, marched in the Sanitation Worker's Strike. Dr. & Mrs. King stayed at CMadison's parents' home back when public accommodations were closed to black people. Our sons were aware of some of the politics of Selma personally. But information trasmitted through books and discussion can be greatly enhanced by the visual. Selma is a powerful film.
One of the most striking scenes, the scene that most made me thing of CMadison and Daddy was when Dr. King initially went to the White House and President Johnson jokingly mentioned his inability to get MLK to work in his administration. CMadison and Daddy would have pulled our sons close and said "Don't go for the okey-doke!" The various 60s era civil rights' coalitions had different, sometimes even divisive approaches. They were often insular and harshly independent in the formation and delinieation of strategy. Yet when necessary they were able to create spaces for broad-based and inclusive work efforts. But the policies, the positions, the forward movements and yes, the mis-steps and the mistakes were largely self-directed. The invasive wire-taps of the homes and offices of civil rights leaders, staff and volunteers made the government's gaze omnipresent but it was never omnipotent. Non-violent resistence captured the imagination of the world and altered U.S. public policy because it was riveting, situated on the vaunted position of the moral high ground. The relentless and revolutionary power inherent in non-violent resistence is not for the faint of heart (or me) but it is a force that has been proven to be irresistible. It was riviting and irresistible in Selma and it is riveting and irresistible today in Ferguson, Staten Island, Cleveland and elsewhere.
If you are able, please go and see Selma. Ms. Ava DuVernay created a powerful film. If possible, take some old(er) folks for the reminder and some young(er) folks for the information because truly "No lie can live forever."


If you follow @pinkhouseliving on Instagram you'll probably know that me and my family are upping sticks and moving The Pink House from Edinburgh to London (reversing the move we made six years ago). What you probably don't know is that we're surrounded by people who think we're bonkers. Even my GP, when I told him we were heading back to London, looked horrified and said, "why on earth would you want to do that?"
When I first started to moot the Scot-Lond move (the seed was planted during the Scottish Independence Referendum - something which now appears to be coming back to haunt us), this resistance made it harder to come to a decision. But the Pink House Husband and I finally made up our minds on the move at the end of last year.
But on reflection it's not surprising many think our move is mental. At our life stage (I'm 38) lots of people move out of London to a) be near family, b) afford a bigger house/garden, and c) to find a more peaceful way of living. We are doing the opposite (although we did the former abc six years ago when the 7yo was a baby who refused to sleep) but somehow it just feels right.
I wasn't ready to leave London when we did - we only went because the sleep deprivation and endless crying (me and the baby) had pretty much defeated me. I had no idea the motherhood thing would be so hard and I wanted/needed family support. Both my parents and in-laws live in or near Edinburgh so it just made sense to my sleep-deprived mind. And I'm so glad we did move to Edinburgh for the six years during which the children were really small - it's allowed them to forge a close, loving relationship with their grandparents which I'm confident will last a lifetime.
I first moved to London after completing my English Literature degree at Cambridge. For me and most of my friends, moving to the capital was the obvious choice if you wanted to realise your career potential. The bright lights and golden-paved streets beckoned, and for the most part didn't disappoint: living in London felt like living in the centre of the universe; who cared if your kitchen was a bit cramped - the fabulous bars, fantastic career opportunities and creative vibe more than made up for it.
But despite working my way up first the London advertising industry and then the magazine world, when my eldest was born, my head was so scrambled I could hardly remember having had a career, let alone what it had been. Before we knew it, our two-bed flat in gritty Archway was sold, and we were somehow the owners of a charming five-bed, four-storey Victorian house in one of Edinburgh's poshest areas. Once here we threw ourselves at the grandparents' mercy, desperate simply for a few hours sleep and the odd evening to ourselves.
As I started to get more sleep and freedom, the loss of London hit me harder and harder, despite regular visits to the Big Smoke to visit friends. But I kept telling myself it was grass-is-greener syndrome, and that living in London with young kids (my youngest son arrived in Dec 2012) wouldn't be anything like as brilliant as it had been in my 20s. People (Edinburgh residents) kept saying how I had 'the best of both worlds', meaning I could enjoy the space, higher standard of living and more peaceful environment of Edinburgh, with occasional visits to London to see the sights, visit friends and do 'the fun bits'.
I disagreed. I didn't want to be a tourist in London; I wanted to go back to being a LONDONER, with all the dirty tube journeys, short cuts down smelly Soho back alleys, and knowledge of the crusty-looking place in Kentish Town that did amazing croissants if you went before 8.36am on Tuesdays. After 12 years living in the city, I had earned the right to call myself a Londoner, and I was gutted I couldn't.
For me, London is the one place in the world I feel most alive; most myself. It's filled with amazing memories of my adult life - memories I chose to make (unlike the memories of being bullied that haunt me whenever I leave my Edinburgh home and walk past my old school). There's the spot in Green Park, near the tube, where I randomly bumped into my now-husband when I was out for a run, just a couple of weeks after we'd started dating. There's the cobbled Soho street where I used to go for after-work Thursday drinks in my first advertising job. There's the super-steep bit on Hampstead Heath where I beat (nearly) all the boys to the top in British Military Fitness. So many memories I want to be reminded of every day.
But I also want space to make new memories. We're moving to a part of London - the South East, around Forest Hill - that neither of us really know. This is where we will create new stories for our new family, unencumbered by people from my distant past on every corner. In a way, I feel like moving back to London is my version of the big 'living abroad for a bit' adventure that never quite happened, but without moving too far from our families, or somewhere temporary. I want this move to be our last, at least while the kids live with us. I want it to feel like home, but still be exciting. And I guess that's how I like my life to be - comfort and security, but with regular moments - maybe hours if I'm lucky - of excitement. London is home AND exciting, so it's perfect. Luckily the husband feels the same way.
And of course London is way better for both of our careers - now the kids are a bit older, and since starting The Pink House, I've felt that old rush of ambition return. Ambition is a world I like to use often; women are often made to feel ashamed of being ambitious or competitive, but ambition and a sense of competition are things I value highly in myself, which allow me to make the best of myself. While the kids were very small and my ambition had to take a back seat, I didn't feel properly myself; I felt less me. I was so relieved when my drive to succeed in something other than keeping small people alive came back, and I'm damned if I'm not going to allow myself to realise my potential, especially after so many years of being a full-time mum. I feel I've earned it. Living in London again will give me the opportunity to see how high I can really fly - same goes for my other half. That's what I promised myself when I graduated from university, and I'm not letting my 21-year-old self down now.
But hopefully the way we're planning to do London will mean I actually have MORE time to spend with the kids, partly because I won't be spending the best part of a day every other week travelling up and down the UK for meetings and events. Having lived north of the river before moving to Edinburgh, the houses in South East London seem surprisingly not-quite-so-eye-wateringly-expensive (obviously I'm not about to say 'cheap' here), and we're actually able to afford a decent house. Plus Brexit seems to have worked in our favour, affecting London's property market more than Edinburgh's.
The Edwardian semi we're buying (fingers crossed all goes smoothly) might be a bit smaller than our Edinburgh house, but it's lovely and has loads of potential. It even has access to a huge communal garden, meaning the kids will have more space to play outside than they do now. It's also close to the Overground station, which will allow me to shoot straight to Shoreditch (where I plan to work - and play - some of the time) or central London in about 10-15 minutes, depending on where life takes me.
The schools thing is definitely difficult - possibly the hardest thing of all, logistically. Basically, we'll make the best decisions we can for our 4yo and 7yo with the info we have at every stage, and trust we'll find a way that works. And if it doesn't? We'll change it. I'm so excited our boys will grow up as Londoners, with all the opportunities and delights our capital city has to offer.
Basically, yes, we are a little bit mental to be leaving our lovely Edinburgh lives, our supportive Scotland-based families and friends, and our beautiful house, but being mental is, in my view, an important part of life. If it doesn't scare me, I'm not doing it right; I refuse to get too comfortable - not yet, anyway. One life, and I intend on living it in a way I will never regret. And I'm excited to have a whole new Pink House to start decorating - this one's done!
Did you move out of London to have kids, but are now considering a move back again? I'd love to hear from you - drop me a link on emily@pinkhouse.co.uk and/or comment below, including your contact details if you'd be interested in me potentially using your story in a magazine article.


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require 'yaml'

module Statsample
  # This module aids to code open questions
  # * Select one or more vectors of a dataset, to create a yaml files, on which each vector is a hash, which keys and values are the vector's factors . If data have Statsample::SPLIT_TOKEN on a value, each value will be separated on two or more hash keys.
  # * Edit the yaml and replace the values of hashes with your codes. If you need to create two or mores codes for an answer, use the separator (default Statsample::SPLIT_TOKEN)
  # * Recode the vectors, loading the yaml file:
  #   * recode_dataset_simple!() : The new vectors have the same name of the original plus "_recoded"
  #   * recode_dataset_split!() : Create equal number of vectors as values. See Vector.add_vectors_by_split() for arguments
  #
  # Usage:
  #   recode_file="recodification.yaml"
  #   phase=:first # flag
  #   if phase==:first
  #     File.open(recode_file,"w") {|fp|
  #       Statsample::Codification.create_yaml(ds,%w{vector1 vector2}, ",",fp)
  #     }
  #   # Edit the file recodification.yaml and verify changes
  #   elsif phase==:second
  #     File.open(recode_file,"r") {|fp|
  #       Statsample::Codification.verify(fp,['vector1'])
  #     }
  #   # Add new vectors to the dataset
  #   elsif phase==:third
  #     File.open(recode_file,"r") {|fp|
  #       Statsample::Codification.recode_dataset_split!(ds,fp,"*")
  #     }
  #   end
  #
  module Codification
    class << self
      # Create a hash, based on vectors, to create the dictionary.
      # The keys will be vectors name on dataset and the values
      # will be hashes, with keys = values, for recodification
      def create_hash(dataset, vectors, sep=Statsample::SPLIT_TOKEN)
        raise ArgumentError,"Array should't be empty" if vectors.size==0
        pro_hash = vectors.inject({}) do |h,v_name|
          v_name = v_name.is_a?(Numeric) ? v_name : v_name.to_sym
          raise Exception, "Vector #{v_name} doesn't exists on Dataset" if
            !dataset.vectors.include?(v_name)
          v = dataset[v_name]
          split_data = v.splitted(sep)
                        .flatten
                        .collect { |c| c.to_s  }
                        .find_all{ |c| !c.nil? }

          factors   = split_data.uniq
                                .compact
                                .sort
                                .inject({}) { |ac,val| ac[val] = val; ac }
          h[v_name] = factors
          h
        end

        pro_hash
      end
      # Create a yaml to create a dictionary, based on vectors
      # The keys will be vectors name on dataset and the values
      # will be hashes, with keys = values, for recodification
      #
      #   v1 = Daru::Vector.new(%w{a,b b,c d})
      #   ds = Daru::DataFrame.new({:v1 => v1})
      #   Statsample::Codification.create_yaml(ds,[:v1])
      #   => "--- \nv1: \n  a: a\n  b: b\n  c: c\n  d: d\n"
      def create_yaml(dataset, vectors, io=nil, sep=Statsample::SPLIT_TOKEN)
        pro_hash=create_hash(dataset, vectors, sep)
        YAML.dump(pro_hash,io)
      end
      # Create a excel to create a dictionary, based on vectors.
      # Raises an error if filename exists
      # The rows will be:
      # * field: name of vector
      # * original: original name
      # * recoded: new code

      def create_excel(dataset, vectors, filename, sep=Statsample::SPLIT_TOKEN)
        require 'spreadsheet'
        if File.exist?(filename)
          raise "Exists a file named #{filename}. Delete ir before overwrite."
        end
        book  = Spreadsheet::Workbook.new
        sheet = book.create_worksheet
        sheet.row(0).concat(%w(field original recoded))
        i = 1
        create_hash(dataset, vectors, sep).sort.each do |field, inner_hash|
          inner_hash.sort.each do |k,v|
            sheet.row(i).concat([field.to_s,k.to_s,v.to_s])
            i += 1
          end
        end

        book.write(filename)
      end
      # From a excel generates a dictionary hash
      # to use on recode_dataset_simple!() or recode_dataset_split!().
      #
      def excel_to_recoded_hash(filename)
        require 'spreadsheet'
        h={}
        book = Spreadsheet.open filename
        sheet= book.worksheet 0
        row_i=0
        sheet.each do |row|
          row_i += 1
          next if row_i == 1 or row[0].nil? or row[1].nil? or row[2].nil?
          key = row[0].to_sym
          h[key] ||= {}
          h[key][row[1]] = row[2]
        end
        h
      end

      def inverse_hash(h, sep=Statsample::SPLIT_TOKEN)
        h.inject({}) do |a,v|
          v[1].split(sep).each do |val|
            a[val]||=[]
            a[val].push(v[0])
          end
          a
        end
      end

      def dictionary(h, sep=Statsample::SPLIT_TOKEN)
        h.inject({}) { |a,v| a[v[0]]=v[1].split(sep); a }
      end

      def recode_vector(v,h,sep=Statsample::SPLIT_TOKEN)
        dict     = dictionary(h,sep)
        new_data = v.splitted(sep)
        new_data.collect do |c|
          if c.nil?
            nil
          else
            c.collect{|value| dict[value] }.flatten.uniq
          end
        end
      end
      def recode_dataset_simple!(dataset, dictionary_hash ,sep=Statsample::SPLIT_TOKEN)
        _recode_dataset(dataset,dictionary_hash ,sep,false)
      end
      def recode_dataset_split!(dataset, dictionary_hash, sep=Statsample::SPLIT_TOKEN)
        _recode_dataset(dataset, dictionary_hash, sep,true)
      end

      def _recode_dataset(dataset, h , sep=Statsample::SPLIT_TOKEN, split=false)
        v_names||=h.keys
        v_names.each do |v_name|
          raise Exception, "Vector #{v_name} doesn't exists on Dataset" if !dataset.vectors.include? v_name
          recoded = Daru::Vector.new(
            recode_vector(dataset[v_name], h[v_name],sep).collect do |c|
              if c.nil?
                nil
              else
                c.join(sep)
              end
            end
          )
          if split
            recoded.split_by_separator(sep).each {|k,v|
              dataset[(v_name.to_s + "_" + k).to_sym] = v
            }
          else
            dataset[(v_name.to_s + "_recoded").to_sym] = recoded
          end
        end
      end

      def verify(h, v_names=nil,sep=Statsample::SPLIT_TOKEN,io=$>)
        require 'pp'
        v_names||=h.keys
        v_names.each{|v_name|
          inverse=inverse_hash(h[v_name],sep)
          io.puts "- Field: #{v_name}"
          inverse.sort{|a,b| -(a[1].count<=>b[1].count)}.each {|k,v|
            io.puts "  - \"#{k}\" (#{v.count}) :\n    -'"+v.join("\n    -'")+"'"
          }
        }
      end
    end
  end
end

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Justia Patents HeatingUS Patent for Method of heating a road surface and apparatus therefor Patent (Patent # 4,561,800)
Method of heating a road surface and apparatus therefor
Dec 28, 1983 - Chugai Ro Co., Ltd.
A method of and an apparatus for heating a road surface, in which hot air controlled to a predetermined temperature is blown against the road surface so as to heat the road surface. The apparatus includes a hot air generator provided with a burner and a thermal control unit, and a duct formed with blowing pores for blowing the hot air against the road surface.
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The present invention generally relates to a heating method and an apparatus therefor and more particularly, to a method of heating a road surface and an apparatus therefor.
Conventionally, in previous repair work of roads paved with asphalt concrete, it has been so arranged that, prior to the repair work, the road surfaces are softened through heating thereof by road surface heating apparatuses, each mounted on a vehicle. The known road surface heating apparatuses usually employ, for example, direct flame type burners, infrared burners or radiant heaters.
However, the known road surface heating apparatuses have such inconveniences that, since a plurality of burners are used independently of each other, adjustments of the burners are troublesome and it is difficult to adjust the thermal capability of the known road surface heating apparatuses uniformly according to the site conditions. Meanwhile, the known road surface heating apparatuses that are provided with the direct flame type burners or the infrared burners have been disadvantageous in that there is a difference in the heating temperature between one road surface portion confronting the burners and another road surface portion not confronting the burners and there is a strong possibility that the road portion confronting the burners will emit black smoke due to overheating thereof, thereby resulting in extremely difficult adjustments of the burners.
Furthermore, the prior art road surface heating apparatuses have such a disadvantage that the thermal efficiency for heating the road surfaces is extremely low.
Accordingly, an essential object of the present invention is to provide an improved method of heating a road surface, in which hot air controlled to a predetermined temperature is blown, through recycling thereof, from a slit or a plurality of blowing pores against the road surface so as to raise its thermal efficiency, with substantial elimination of the disadvantages inherent in conventional methods of this kind.
Another important object of the present invention is to provide an improved road surface heating device of the above described type, which is simple in structure, highly reliable in actual use and suitable for mass production at low cost.
In accomplishing these and other objects according to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an improved method of heating a road surface, comprising the step of blowing against the road surface hot air controlled to a predetermined temperature so as to heat the road surface.
In accordance with the present invention, since the hot air controlled to the predetermined temperature is blown at a high velocity from a number of the blowing pores against the surface of the road paved with asphalt concrete, the road surface is heated to a uniform temperature.
These and other objects and features of the present invention will become apparent from the following description taken in conjunction with the preferred embodiment thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a road surface heating apparatus according to one preferred embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the apparatus of FIG. 1, with movable branch ducts employed therein being located at the retracted position,
FIG. 3 is a view similar to FIG. 2, particularly showing the movable branch ducts located at the projected position, and
FIGS. 4 and 5 are views similar to FIGS. 2 and 3, respectively, particularly showing a modification thereof.
Before the description of the present invention proceeds, it is to be noted that like parts are designated by like reference numerals throughout several views of the accompanying drawings.
Referring to FIGS. 1 to 3, there is shown a circulating hot air type road surface heating apparatus K according to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, which is arranged to be mounted on a vehicle such that the road surface heating apparatus K is moved by the vehicle in the leftward direction shown by the arrow A. The road surface heating apparatus K generally includes a hot air generator 1, a plurality of ducts 7 each having a number of blowing pores 8 (nozzles or slits) formed at a lower face thereof, a hood 12 for housing the ducts 7 therein, and a connecting duct 14 for communicating the hood 12 with the hot air generator 1, with the connecting duct 14 having a circulating fan 15 incorporated therein.
Meanwhile, the hot air generator 1 includes a direct flame type burner 2 incorporated therein and a thermal control unit 4 which is composed of a thermocouple 5 disposed in a supply duct 3 and a temperature controller 6. It is so arranged that the temperature of the hot air heated by the direct flame type burner 2 is detected by the thermocouple 5 so as to be controllable to a preset temperature by the temperature controller 6 through adjustments of the feed rates of both the fuel and air.
The ducts 7 are provided in a header 10 in communication with the supply duct 3 such that the hot air controlled to the predetermined temperature, which is introduced from a side opening 9 of each of the ducts 7, is directly blown against a road surface 11 from a number of the blowing pores 8 formed on the lower face of each of the ducts 7.
As described above, the hood 12 covers the duct 7 (the header 10 in this embodiment) and is communicated, at its upper portion, with the hot air generator 1 through the connecting duct 14 provided with the circulating fan 15 such that a large portion of the hot air blown from the blowing pores 8 against the road surface 11 is returned to the hot air generator 1. Furthermore, a curtain or a peripheral heat seal member 13 made of, for example, asbestos, is provided at a lower periphery of the hood 12 so as to prevent the hot air blown from the blowing pores 8 against the road surface 11 from leaking out of the hood 12 as much as possible. In addition, a discharge port 16 for exhaust gas is provided in the connecting duct 14 so as to be disposed above the direct flame type burner 2.
As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the road surface heating apparatus K includes a blower or plenum section K' comprising a main frame 20 and a pair of movable frames 21 which are movably mounted on the main frame 20 so as to be moved in a sidewise direction of the main frame 20. Meanwhile, the ducts or nozzle members 7 extend outwardly from opposite side walls of the header 10 towards the corresponding movable frames 21. The header 10 also has a number of the blowing pores or apertures 8 formed at a lower face thereof. The ducts 7 include fixed branch ducts 7a integrally formed with the header 10 and movable branch ducts 7b which are each retractably mounted, at one end thereof, on the header 10 through a metallic bellows 19, while the other end of each of the movable branch ducts 7b is secured to each of the movable frames 21, so that the movable branch ducts 7b are displaced in the sidewise direction of the main frame 20 together with the movable frames 21. More specifically, one pair of guide bars 23 are each slidably mounted on one end of the main frame 20 through one pair of upper and lower bearings 22 which are attached to the one end of the main frame 20, with distal ends of the guide bars 23 being, respectively, secured to the movable frames 21. Likewise, another pair of the guide bars 23 are each slidably mounted on the other end of the main frame 20 through another pair of the upper and lower bearings 22 and are secured, at distal ends thereof, to the movable frames 21, respectively. Furthermore, one pair of bellows 24 are, respectively, provided adjacent to one end of the main frame 20 between the main frame 20 and one of the movable frames 21 and between the main frame 20 and the other one of the movable frames 21. In the same manner as described above, another pair of the bellows 24 are provided adjacent to the other end of the main frame 20. The movable frames 21 are arranged to be displaced manually or by a driving mechanism such as a remote-controlled cylinder, etc., whereby the movable branch ducts 7b can be moved in the sidewise direction of the main frame 20 upon displacement of the movable frames 21.
By the above described arrangement of the road surface heating apparatus K, air fed by the circulating fan 15 is mixed with heated air produced by the direct flame type burner 2 so as to be converted into hot air including combustion gas of a high temperature controlled to the predetermined temperature by the thermal control unit 4 of the hot air generator 1 and then, the hot air is blown from the blowing pores 8 against the road surface 11 through the supply duct 3, the header 10 and the ducts 7 so as to soften the road surface 11 through heating thereof. Subsequently, the hot air whose temperature has dropped due to heat transfer therefrom to the road surface 11 is sucked by a suction force of the circulating fan 15 into the hood 12 through a clearance between the header 10 and the hood 12 together with atmosphere infiltratively admitted into the hood 12 via the curtain 13 so as to be returned to the hot air generator 1 through the connecting duct 14. Namely, most of the portion of the hot air blown from the blowing pores 8 against the road surface 11 can be recycled in the road surface heating apparatus K.
It is to be noted here that the road surface 11 is sequentially heated by the road surface heating apparatus K upon movement of the road surface heating apparatus K by the use of the vehicle and thereafter, repair work of the road surface 11 is performed. Meanwhile, although the direct flame type burner 2 is employed in the hot air generator 1 in this embodiment, the direct flame type burner 2 may be replaced by an indirect heating type burner. Furthermore, although hot air for heating the road surface is recycled in this embodiment, it is needless to say that it can be also so arranged that the hot air is not recycled.
Meanwhile, even if such a problem is encountered that a width of a portion of the road surface 11, which portion is subjected to repair work, changes, the movable branch ducts 7b can be moved in the sidewise direction of the main frame 20 upon displacement of the movable frames 21 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 so as to cover the portion of the road surface 11, whereby the above described problem can be solved with much ease.
Furthermore, although the ducts 7 include the fixed branch ducts 7a and the movable branch ducts 7b in the blow section K', there is shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a blow section K" which is a modification of the blow section K'. In the modified blow section K", each of the ducts 7 is secured, at one end thereof, to each of the movable frames 21 and is slidably supported, at the other end, by the header 10 through a seal 25 such that all the ducts 7 act as the movable branch ducts 7b. In the modified blow section K", it can also be so arranged that the blowing pores 8 are not formed on the header 10 such that the hot air is fed only to the ducts 7.
As is clear from the foregoing description, in accordance with the present invention, since the hot air controlled to the predetermined temperature is blown at a high velocity from a number of the blowing pores against the surface of the road paved with asphalt concrete, the road surface is heated to a uniform temperature. Consequently, in accordance with the present invention, since the road surface is not locally heated to high temperatures, such an undesirable phenomenon does not take place that the surface of the road paved with asphalt concrete emits black smoke due to ignition and subsequent burning of asphalt surface thereof.
Furthermore, in accordance with the present invention, since adjustments of temperature of the hot air are performed on the basis of the temperature of the hot air itself supplied to the blowing pores, the thermal capability of the road surface heating apparatus can be adjusted with much ease.
Moreover, in accordance with the present invention, since the road surface is heated by the hot air itself produced by the direct flame type burner and most of the portion of the hot air whose temperature has dropped due to heat transfer therefrom to the road surface is recycled, the thermal efficiency of the road surface heating apparatus has been remarkably raised by 50-70% in comparison with those of conventional apparatuses, thereby resulting in a great saving of energy therefor.
In addition, in accordance with the present invention, since the ducts can be moved in the sidewise direction of the road surface heating apparatus, such a problem can be solved with much ease that the portion of the road surface, which is subjected to repair work, changes in width, thus rendering the road surface heating apparatus highly suitable for practical use.
Although the present invention has been fully described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be noted here that various changes and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art. Therefore, unless such changes and modifications depart from the scope of the present invention, they should be construed as included therein.
1. A method of subjecting a roadbed surface to air heated by a burner to prepare the surface for repair work comprising:
(a) raising the temperature of air adjacent the burner to a predetermined temperature;
(b) forcing the heated air into contact with the road surface;
(c) collecting the exhausted hot air which has been blown against the road surface; and
(d) returning the exhausted hot air to the burner.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of raising the temperature of the air to a predetermined temperature includes:
monitoring the temperature of the heated air downstream from the burner; and
controlling the amount of fuel and air supplied to the burner in accordance with the monitored temperature.
3. In a road surface heating apparatus for applying hot air to an asphalt concrete roadbed surface to soften the same prior to initiating repair work, the combination which comprises:
(a) a supply duct having an upstream and a downstream end;
(b) a burner disposed in said duct;
(c) temperature sensing means disposed in the supply duct downstream from the burner;
(d) fuel control means coupled to the temperature sensing means and the burner for regulating the rates of fuel and air supplied to the burner to maintain the air flowing past the burner at a preset temperature;
(e) a header connected to the downstream end of the duct;
(f) a plurality of nozzle members adapted to be positioned adjacent the roadbed to be heated and connected to the header so that air flowing into the header will be directed through the nozzles and against the roadbed;
(g) a hood extending over the header and nozzle members for trapping the air exiting the nozzles against the roadbed surface; and
(h) blower means connected between the hood and the upstream end of the supply duct for returning the trapped air to the upstream end of the duct whereby the air heated by the burner is continuously recirculated through the nozzle members past the roadbed surface and back to the burner.
4. The road surface heating apparatus of claim 3 wherein the hood has four outer frame walls, two of the frame walls including bellows means to permit said two walls to be moved closer or further apart to vary the width of the hood for covering different widths of roadbed surface and wherein the header includes a plurality of movable branch ducts connected to said two movable frame walls for movement therewith and a plurality of fixed branch ducts which are stationary relative to said movable frame walls, the nozzle members being carried by the branch ducts, the header further including bellows means for coupling the movable and fixed branch ducts to direct all of the heated air from the burner to the roadbed surface.
5. The road surface heating apparatus of claim 4 wherein the header includes a central duct connected between each of the branch ducts and the supply duct, the bellows means being connected between the central and the movable branch ducts.
517191 March 1894 Perkins
3160154 December 1964 Sowell
3221617 December 1965 Quigg
4061463 December 6, 1977 Bennett
4261669 April 14, 1981 Edo
Date of Patent: Dec 31, 1985
Assignees: Chugai Ro Co., Ltd. (both of), Kajima Road Co., Ltd. (both of)
Inventors: Toshiki Hatakenaka (Nishinomiya), Tetsuo Akiyama (Nishinomiya), Shinji Asada (Osaka), Kunio Shinohara (Nishinomiya)
Primary Examiner: Stephen J. Novosad
Assistant Examiner: William P. Neuder
Law Firm: Jackson & Jones
Current U.S. Class: Heating (404/79); 126/2712A; With Means For Heating A Road Base, Surface, Or Material (404/95)
International Classification: E01L 2314;


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