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Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, welcomed the release of human rights activist and journalist Mazen Darwish.
The issue of freedom of the press and media, as well as arbitrary detention of political and human rights activists, remains an important component of the Geneva communique.
"I am aware of reports that many more journalists, human rights and political activists remain in detention often without access to legal and medical services," Mr. de Mistura said.
"I strongly urge the Syrian government to take further steps and release all those detained or charged for their exercise of the freedom of expression, which is a fundamental human right."
He added that, "we should all strive to reach a sustainable political solution in Syria on the basis of international human rights standards and freedoms."
Speaking to the press following his meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. on 4 August, the Secretary-General said he was encouraged by the strong support expressed by the Security Council for the proposal presented on 29 July by Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura to establish four thematic groups to operationalize the Geneva communiqué. "We will try to expedite -- to provide some political solution to this, operationalizing the Geneva communiqué. At the same time, we are doing our best effort to provide humanitarian assistance to needy people" the Secretary-General said.
Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura visited Ankara today where he met with the Undersecretary of The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Ambassador Feridun Hadi Sinirlioğlu.
Mr. de Mistura conveyed his appreciation for the substantial effort by Turkey in welcoming and hosting a large number of Syrian refugees.
The Special Envoy also stressed the importance of the contribution of the regional countries to a political solution to the Syrian conflict. He also underscored an urgent need to find ways to end the bloodshed in Syria.
In this respect, Mr. de Mistura will continue his consultations in the region in the coming few days.
زار المبعوث الخاص ستيفان دي ميستورا أنقرة اليوم حيث التقى مع وكيل وزارة الشؤون الخارجية في تركيا، السفير فريدون هادي سينيرليوغلو.
نقل السيد دي مستورا عن تقديره للجهد كبير الذي تبذله تركيا في الترحيب واستضافة عدد كبير من اللاجئين السوريين.
وشدد المبعوث الخاص أيضا على أهمية مساهمة دول المنطقة لإيجاد حل سياسي للصراع السوري. كما أكّد أيضا على الحاجة الملحة لإيجاد سبل من أجل إنهاء اراقة الدماء في سوريا.
في هذا الصدد، سيواصل السيد دي مستورا مشاوراته في المنطقة خلال الايام القليلة المقبلة.
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura ended his visit to Cairo where he met with the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs His Excellency Mr. Sameh Shoukry and the National Security Adviser Mrs. Fayza Aboulnaga.
The discussions revolved around the way forward to support Syrian parties in their search of a political solution to the conflict and the relevance of all international efforts exerted to put an end to the suffering of the Syrian people.
Mr. de Mistura also met with several members of the Syrian opposition who were present in Cairo.
The Special Envoy will be continuing his consultations with Member States in the region in the coming few days.
11 July 2015, Cairo
أنهى مبعوث الأمم المتحدة الخاص لسوريا ستيفان دي ميستورا زيارته إلى القاهرة حيث التقى مع وزير الخارجية المصري سعادة السيد سامح شكري ومستشار الأمن القومي السيدة فايزة أبو النجا.
تمحورت المناقشات حول الطريق إلى الأمام لدعم الأطراف السورية في بحثهم عن حل سياسي للصراع وأهمية كل الجهود الدولية المبذولة لوضع حد لمعاناة الشعب السوري.
كما التقى السيد دي مستورا أيضا مع عدد من أعضاء المعارضة السورية الذين كانوا موجودين في القاهرة.
يواصل المبعوث الخاص مشاوراته مع الدول الأعضاء في المنطقة في الأيام القليلة القادمة.
11 يوليو 2015، القاهرة
Within the framework of the Geneva Consultations, Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy met today with representatives of the Syrian civil society, including Mr. Zedoun Al Zoubi and Mr. Tawfik Chamaa of the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organizations. They briefed Mr. Ramzy on the escalating armed conflict and deteriorating situation on the ground, including the dire conditions of medical facilities, as well as on the work of Syrian civil society organizations. They also shared perspectives for a political solution and discussed ways how the civil society could contribute to efforts in reaching a political solution to the Syrian conflict.
Within the framework of the Geneva Consultations, Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy met with Mr. Mohammad Marwan Al-Atrash and Mr. Habib Haddad from the Syrian Democratic National Block. They shared views on a political solution to the Syrian conflict. They also discussed with Mr. Ramzy the role of the international community and the United Nations in supporting Syrian efforts to end the conflict.
At the end of today's meeting, Mr. Ramzy underscored the urgency of a Syrian-led political solution to the conflict. In this regard, he stressed the importance of efforts towards unity and consensus among opposition groups.
On 24 May, Mr. de Mistura met with a delegation of the Assyrian Democratic Organization, and the Syrian Turkmen Council. He shared views with them on a political solution in Syria and the ongoing conflict on the ground. "Today I heard again about the importance of preserving Syria's social fabric and taking into account the diverse views from all corners of the country," Mr. de Mistura said. He stressed that "the United Nations will continue supporting efforts towards an all-inclusive Syrian-led political process."


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Flat-top supercontinuum and tunable femtosecond fiber laser sources at 1.9-2.5 μm
Dmitry Klimentov, Nikolai Tolstik, Vladislav V. Dvoyrin, Roland Richter, Irina T. Sorokina
We report the high-energy flat-top supercontinuum covering the mid-infrared wavelength range of 1.9-2.5 μm as well as electronically tunable femtosecond pulses between 1.98-2.22 μm directly from the thulium-doped fiber laser amplifier. Comparison of experimental results with numerical simulations confirms that both sources employ the same nonlinear optical mechanism - Raman soliton frequency shift occurring inside the Tm-fiber amplifier. To illustrate that, we investigate two versions of the compact diode-pumped SESAM mode-locked femtosecond thulium-doped all-silica-fiber-based laser system providing either broadband supercontinuum or tunable Raman soliton output, depending on the parameters of the system. The first system operates in the Raman soliton regime providing femtosecond pulses tunable between 1.98-2.22 μm. Wide and continuous spectral tunability over 240 nm was realized by changing only the amplifier pump diode current. The second system generates high-energy supercontinuum with the superior spectral flatness of better than 1 dB covering the wavelength range of 1.9-2.5 μm, with the total output energy as high as 0.284 μJ, the average power of 2.1 W at 7.5 MHz repetition rate. We simulate the amplifier operation in the Raman soliton self-frequency shift regime and discuss the role of induced Raman scattering in supercontinuum formation inside the fiber amplifier. We compare this system with a more traditional 1.85-2.53 μm supercontinuum source in the external highly-nonlinear commercial chalcogenide fiber using the Raman soliton MOPA as an excitation source. The reported systems1 can be readily applied to a number of industrial applications in the mid-IR, including sensing, stand-off detection, medical surgery and fine material processing.
https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2016.2604039
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10.1109/JLT.2016.2604039
Flat-top supercontinuum and tunable femtosecond fiber laser sources
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http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7555391/
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Klimentov, D., Tolstik, N., Dvoyrin, V. V., Richter, R., & Sorokina, I. T. (2016). Flat-top supercontinuum and tunable femtosecond fiber laser sources at 1.9-2.5 μm. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34(21), 4847-4855. https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2016.2604039
Klimentov, Dmitry ; Tolstik, Nikolai ; Dvoyrin, Vladislav V. ; Richter, Roland ; Sorokina, Irina T. / Flat-top supercontinuum and tunable femtosecond fiber laser sources at 1.9-2.5 μm. In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 2016 ; Vol. 34, No. 21. pp. 4847-4855.
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The article, "Stakeholder Relations and Comprehensive Contingency Planning Key to Composting Success in Guelph" outlines the City's community consultation process that went beyond the legislative requirements. Guelph's noted achievements were recognized by Amy Burke, a member of the Waste Management practice of Golder Associates Ltd. The consultation process included demonstrating the planned engineering controls, processing measures and operational procedures to manage odour, litter, noise, traffic and other potential impacts that the facility might have – and particularly the backup or contingency plans to be implemented if the usual steps failed.
The community consultation process aimed to determine issues of importance to the community and to provide responses to community concerns. The consultative approach confirms the City's dedication to the success of the OWPF.
The OWPF will allow Guelph to re-establish its position as a leader in solid waste diversion. The OWPF will use less energy and generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than transporting organic waste long distances for processing.


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When it comes to leveling the playing field between white and black residents, Minnesota ranks 47th out of 51 (the list includes the District of Columbia). We only managed to beat, in order, Iowa, Maine, Wisconsin, and D.C. Meanwhile, New Mexico, West Virginia, Hawaii, Kentucky, and Texas are all sitting in the top five.
There's no one answer as to why we're so far down; we're screwing up all over the place. We have the second-worst median income gap in the nation between our white residents and our black residents -- only D.C. beat us to the bottom. Our homeownership rate gap put us at No. 49 (just above Maine and North Dakota) and our poverty rate gap also put us at No. 49, just above Wisconsin and, again, Maine.
But that's just the economy. We've got an additional mess of problems when it comes to education. We're No. 50 for the disparities between who has at least a high school diploma, and we're 44th in the nation for our hefty standardized testing gap.
Sure, you may be thinking, Minnesota is struggling to address inequality. But surely we're putting in the work to make it better, right?
Unfortunately, no. There's a ranked list for that, too – how much these gaps have narrowed over the years -- and Minnesota comes in at No. 44. If you really want to pat someone on the back for trying to make things more equitable, give a shout-out to Wyoming, which got the top spot.
But more than that, we are still very segregated. Consider Minneapolis, which is roughly 90 percent single-family zoning -- or will be, until the 2040 plan takes effect. Single-family home zoning was originally conceived as a legal way to keep certain neighborhoods as white as possible, and it still works today. Even now, south and southwest Minneapolis -- which have been dominated by racially restrictive covenants in the past -- are still overwhelmingly white.
East Carolina University Professor Mamadi Corra released a statement with the results of WalletHub's study. The "key to addressing racial inequality," he says, is first acknowledging that inequality exists, and then taking action. In order to make significant changes, we have to first understand that we're not as wonderful a place to live as we like to believe. Not for everyone.


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2008 program amendment recommendation
Submitter: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Reply To: OWW-135
Mr. Bill Booth
Chair, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
Dear Mr. Booth:
The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would like to take this opportunity to provide comments on the 2008 proposed amendments to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council's (Council) Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program. EPA has long believed that protecting and restoring water quality must be one of the essential elements of any long-term program for Columbia River Basin fish and wildlife recovery, building from the goals of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA). We appreciate past attention to the Clean Water Act in the Council's Fish and Wildlife Program. We would like to highlight two ecosystem factors, water temperature and toxics reduction, which are critical to Columbia River Basin fish and wildlife recovery and restoration. I ask that the Council give consideration to temperature and toxics in the Fish and Wildlife Program amendment process.
Toxics and Fish and Wildlife Recovery
In 2006, EPA designated the Columbia River as a priority Critical Ecosystem in EPA's 2006-2011 Strategic Plan with a focus on reducing toxics. A key element of the plan is measurable and accountable numeric environmental targets we will need to reach by 2011. These targets include restoring 16,000 acres of wetland in the Lower Columbia, 150 acres of contaminated site clean-up and a 10% reduction of toxic chemical concentrations in fish and water in five sites in the Columbia River Basin. EPA believes that these work efforts directly support Columbia River Basin fish and wildlife recovery.
We are launching a number of collaborative efforts around the Basin to achieve these numeric targets, in addition to our major ongoing Superfund-related clean-ups underway at Hanford, Portland Harbor and Lake Roosevelt. Examples of collaborations include pesticide stewardship partnerships with agriculture, legacy pesticide collection events, and financial support for precision agriculture technologies. We are currently developing a State of the River Report for the Columbia River Basin to characterize and assess toxic chemical problems, work initiatives, monitoring needs and toxic reduction needs in the Columbia River Basin.
Research from the NOAA Science Center and others has shown that toxic chemicals found in the Columbia River including PCBs, DDT, PAHs, pesticides, and flame retardants, can impair juvenile salmon growth and development, affect immune function, act as hormone disruptors and reduce reproductive success, even at low concentrations. Toxics can also alter salmon sensory abilities (particularly smell) and behavior, making it difficult for juveniles to swim, feed, avoid predators, and navigate their migratory path.
EPA believes that toxic contamination is a significant habitat issue in the Columbia River, and that salmon recovery will be enhanced by reducing toxic chemical concentrations in fish, water and sediment in the Columbia River Basin. There is much that is not understood about distribution, concentration, sources of toxic contamination and how juvenile salmon and other species are exposed to toxics. We believe that the 2008 amendments must acknowledge the critical role of toxics in fish and wildlife recovery and support increased monitoring and toxics reductions work. We look forward to working with NWPCC, NOAA and other agencies and interested parties as we develop answers to these questions.
EPA Region 10 has a long-standing commitment to address water quality problems related to temperature. In 2003, working with our State and Tribal partners and, with NOAA and other agencies, we established our Regional temperature guidance. We are engaged in a variety of regulatory activities under the Clean Water Act to directly address temperature problems, such as setting TMDLs and point source permitting. Oregon and Washington have now adopted, and EPA has approved, water quality standards consistent with our temperature guidance. Oregon and Washington have developed hundreds of temperature TMDLs in the Columbia River Basin, including those for the Grande Ronde, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Wenatchee, Wind, and Willamette Rivers and the Hells Canyon reach on the Snake River. All of these activities are intended to improve river temperatures and reduce the adverse effects to salmon that currently occur in these rivers.
We appreciate your acknowledgement of water temperature as a critical ecosystem restoration factor and the attention it is given in the amendments. Within the latest version of the Water Quality Plan, there are several potential actions identified to lower water temperatures that we believe deserve further investigation and analysis. For example, the Plan identifies cool water releases and/or operational changes from the Hells Canyon Complex and Grand Coulee Dam as potential actions to lower water temperature during critical timeframes. We believe these actions should be further assessed. Additionally, options to reduce water temperatures immediately upstream of the dams and methods to protect and create areas of cold water refugia along the migratory corridor should be further explored. These activities are also identified in the Plan.
We understand challenges remain regarding how best to address issues related to water temperature in the Plan, including those listed above. I have raised this subject with NOAA Fisheries and support a regional dialogue on water temperature in the Columbia and Snake Rivers. It would be appropriate for the Council to participate in this ongoing dialogue, and I will ask our staff to share technical information with you on these issues.
We believe our activities are strongly supportive of our mutual responsibilities for salmon recovery and toxics reduction, and we welcome this opportunity to provide input on your Fish and Wildlife Program in this ongoing amendment process. We also look forward to working with you on a regional dialogue to address water temperature technical and policy questions. Please do not hesitate to contact me at (206) 553-1234, if you wish to discuss these issues further. Your staff may want to contact Mike Gearheard, Director of Water and Watersheds, at (206) 553-7151, to discuss any questions or concerns.
Elin D. Miller
Regional Administrator
2008 Comment Letter to NWPCC-Fish and Wildlife Program-Mainstem Amendments.pdf
Program Amendment,


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This historical epic dramatizes the Battle of Peking, a turning point of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900 when U.S. Marine Major Matt Lewis, aided by British Consul Sir Arthur Robertson, devises a strategy to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force arrives.
Actors: Charlton Heston,
Charlton Heston 4 October 1923, Wilmette, Illinois, USA
Ava Gardner,
Ava Gardner 24 December 1922, Grabtown, North Carolina, USA
David Niven,
David Niven 1 March 1910, London, England, UK
Flora Robson,
Flora Robson 28 March 1902, South Shields, Durham, England, UK
John Ireland,
John Ireland 30 January 1914, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Harry Andrews,
Harry Andrews 10 November 1911, Tonbridge, Kent, England, UK
Leo Genn,
Leo Genn 9 August 1905, London, England, UK
Robert Helpmann,
Robert Helpmann 9 April 1909, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
Kurt Kasznar,
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Philippe Leroy,
Philippe Leroy 15 October 1930, Paris, France
Paul Lukas,
Paul Lukas 26 May 1891, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Genre: Action, History, Drama
Director: Guy Green ,
Guy Green 5 November 1913, Somerset, England, UK
Nicholas Ray 7 August 1911, Galesville, Wisconsin, USA
The War Lord


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I have just returned to Austin from New York and am waking up with a book about Tàpies called Witness of Silence by Alexandre Cirici (1972). There is such a freedom in the work of Tàpies that I hope to achieve in my own one day, a kind of trust for the unknown which I believe every artist should embody, walk from, live with. And then there are the colors in his work which move me so deeply. The oranges that speak of something pungent, internal, like blood or love, and also earth. I am staring at this piece called Painting.
There are artists that I come back to that I feel somehow related to—artistic ancestors—we have some kind of shared elemental connection—these include Antoni Tàpies, Ana Mendieta and (recently) María Magdalena Campos-Pons. We see their work and think 'these are my people.' It makes me think about this idea (this message I heard) that 'there is no imagination without the ancestors and where we come from.' And I am thinking of ancestors in all possible forms: blood relations and artistic ancestors as well as place and land.
And we continued to talk about this elemental connection that we have to materials. The materials know us. We know them, but they have known us longer. Think about that. That the materials have sought us out. So our connection to the materials we use as visual artists stems from something very deep. Ancestral, elemental, fundamental. And so for our work to be powerful form must embody content. The form is history is our past, present and future.
And our deep love and excitement and breathlessness about seeing the color earthbloodorange used on a painting may indeed come from the fact that one of our ancestors was impressed by that color as it painted the sky with the setting sun hundreds or thousands of years ago. We must be incredibly old to be artists.


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Searching for God includes reading of the eponymous prayer followed by beautiful piano music based on original compositions of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Piano music includes: ´´The Seasons´´, ´´Les Saisons Op. 37a´´, ´´April: Snowdrop´´. Prayer read in English, unabridged by Josh Verbae. Music recording by Anton Kingsbury. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Josh Verbae. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/mxbo/000252/bk_mxbo_000252_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
Searching for God Knows What , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 435min
In Searching for God Knows What, Donald Miller´s provocative and funny new audiobook, he explains that the greatest desire of every person is the desire for redemption. Every person is constantly seeking redemption (or at least the feeling of it) in his or her life, believing countless gospels that promise to fix the brokenness. Typically, their pursuits include the desire for fulfilling relationships, successful careers, satisfying religious systems, status, and escape. Miller reveals how the inability to find redemption leads to chaotic relationships, self-hatred, the accumulation of meaningless material possessions, and a lack of inner peace. Listeners will learn to identify in themselves and within others the universal desire for redemption. They will discover that the gospel of Jesus is the only way to find meaning in life and true redemption. Mature believers as well as seekers and new Christians will find themselves identifying with the narrative journey unfolded in the book, which is simply the pursuit of redemption. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Brick. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/000185/bk_hove_000185_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 640min
This program is read by the author. A best-selling author and rabbi´s profoundly affecting exploration of the meaning and purpose of the soul, inspired by the famous correspondence between Albert Einstein and a grieving rabbi. ´´A human being is part of the whole, called by us ´Universe´, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness....´´ (Albert Einstein) When Rabbi Naomi Levy came across this poignant letter by Einstein, it shook her to her core. His words perfectly captured what she has come to believe about the human condition: that we are intimately connected and that we are blind to this truth. Levy wondered what had elicited such spiritual wisdom from a man of science. Thus began a three-year search into the mystery of Einstein´s letter and into the mystery of the human soul. What emerges is an inspiring, deeply affecting audiobook for people of all faiths filled with universal truths that will help us reclaim our own souls and glimpse the unity that has been evading us. We all long to see more expansively, to live up to our gifts, to understand why we are here. In Einstein and the Rabbi, Levy leads us on a breathtaking journey full of wisdom, empathy, and humor, challenging us to wake up and heed the voice calling from within - a voice beckoning us to become who we were born be. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Rabbi Naomi Levy. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002616/bk_aren_002616_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 556min
It seems that ever since mankind was kicked out of the Garden of Eden for eating the forbidden fruit, we´ve been trying to get back in. Or, at least, we´ve been wondering where the garden might have been. St. Augustine had a theory, and so did medieval monks, John Calvin, and Christopher Columbus. But when Darwin´s theory of evolution permanently altered our understanding of human origins, shouldn´t the search for a literal Eden have faded away? Not so fast. In Paradise Lust, Brook Wilensky-Lanford introduces readers to the enduring modern quest to locate the Garden of Eden on Earth. It is an obsession that has consumed Mesopotamian archaeologists, German Baptist ministers, British irrigation engineers, and the first president of Boston University, among many others. These quixotic Eden seekers all started with the same brief Bible verses, but each ended up at a different spot on the globe: Florida, the North Pole, Ohio, China, and, of course, Iraq. Evocative of Tony Horwitz and Sarah Vowell, Wilensky-Lanford writes of these unusual characters and their searches with sympathy and wit. Charming, enlightening, and utterly unique, Paradise Lust is a century-spanning history that will take you to places you never imagined. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Marshall. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021878/bk_adbl_021878_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 532min
An updated edition of the down-to-earth resource that offers twelve practices to make Christian faith a way of life Many Christians are looking for ways to deepen their relationship with God by practicing their faith in everyday life. This best-selling guide helps take belief out of the realm of theory and shows how to live it out in a series of twelve central practices such as hospitality, forgiveness, healing, testimony, and keeping Sabbath. Designed to work across a wide range of Christian laypeople, leaders, denominations, and study groups, this is the second edition of the book that Theology called ´´... a stimulating contribution to the work of making explicit the connection between what Christians do and what they believe.´´ Contains information on the practices discussed in the book and shows how they relate to and intersect with prayer, worship, and Bible study. Offers a guide for conversation, learning, and growth at the back of the book. This updated and expanded new edition includes a new introduction and two additional chapters that describes new insights into and experiences with the ´´practicing our faith´´ approach. The book includes a variety of prominent contributors, who draw on their rich shared experience as believers, theologians, ethicists, and educators. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002086/bk_acx0_002086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We´ve Only Dreamed Of , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 400min
Sometimes it seems we just can´t get what we want. Circumstances thwart our best-laid plans. We struggle to live a heartfelt life. Worst of all, says Eldredge, the modern church mistakenly teaches its people to kill desire (calling it sin) and replace it with duty or obligation (calling it sanctification). As a result, at best, Christians tend to live safe, boring lives of resignation. At worst, their desire eventually breaks out in destructive ways such as substance abuse, affairs, and pornography addictions. In The Journey of Desire, Eldredge invites readers to rediscover God-given desire and to search again for the life they once dreamed of. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Kelly Ryan Dolan. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/oasi/000044/bk_oasi_000044_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
Searching for Jesus: New Discoveries in the Quest for Jesus of Nazareth - and How They Confirm the Gospel Accounts , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 685min
For more than a century, Bible scholars and university researchers have been systematically debunking what ordinary Christians believed about Jesus of Nazareth. But what if the most recent Biblical scholarship actually affirmed the New Testament? What if Jesus was not a zealot revolutionary or a Greek cynic philosopher or a protofeminist gnostic but precisely what he claimed to be: the divine Son of Man prophesied in the book of Daniel who gave his life as a ransom for many? What if everything the Gospels say about Jesus of Nazareth - his words, his deeds, his plans - turned out to be true? Searching for Jesus changes ´´what if?´´ to ´´what is´´, debunking the debunkers and showing how the latest scholarship supports orthodox Christian belief. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Russell. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/tnwd/000517/bk_tnwd_000517_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
Faith and Other Flat Tires: Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 419min
At age 21, Andrea Palpant Dilley stripped the Christian fish decal off her car bumper in a symbolic act of departure from her religious childhood. At 23, she left the church and went searching for refuge in the company of men who left her lonely and friends who pushed the boundaries of what she once held sacred. In this deeply personal memoir, Andrea navigates the doubts that plague believers and skeptics alike: Why does a good God allow suffering? Why is God so silent, distant, and uninvolved? And why does the church seem so dysfunctional? Yet amid her skepticism, she begins to ask new questions: Could doubting be a form of faith? Might our doubts be a longing for God that leads to a faith we can ultimately live with? 1. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Palpant Dilley. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/zond/001255/bk_zond_001255_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.


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Some sound advice from the Salamander: do NOT go totally gonzo-party overboard this 4th of July, because you'll most definitely want to save some energy for Friday the 5th and the stellar rock 'n roll triple bill showcased at Mickey's Tavern in Madison. Headlining (but playing second on the bill) is the garage-rock power-duo from Chicago: White Mystery! This is White Mystery's first Madison appearance since opening for Shonen Knife at the UW Terrace last August.
Hot on the heels of the recently released 'Telepathic' record, White Mystery will blow their incendiary festive cookies to propel your holiday weekend into the ether! Comprised of the fiery red headed brother-sister combo of Miss Alex White (lead vocals & guitar) and Francis Scott Key White (drums & vocals), the White Mystery concert experience is a combination of reverberated Rickenbacker guitar feedback over top of primitive rhythms. Or, one might say: heavy fuzz, loud, and unabashed garage pop in a Cramps-meet-the-Nuggets-era psychedelic-band vein, with a touch of MC5, The Runaways, mod/bubblegum, and curly red hair flying all over the place!
You'll love Alex White's tough but tuneful power-punk singing with brother Francis ending the verses in his crazed, yet sort of deadpan, punctuation. Referencing the new 'Telepathic' record, Alex told me, "Francis steps up his drumming, songwriting, and singing, especially on "Junglecat"." The new track that shakes me up the most is "Dirty Hair", which Alex describes as "an evil nursery rhyme by White Mystery".
Do you adore vinyl as much as this amphibious reporter does? 'Telepathic' is available on vinyl LP, CD, and cassette tape, courtesy of Burger Records, and digitally through iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Bandcamp, and Spotify. Something for everyone, all available for mail order and in record stores! Alex's take on the vinyl revolution is, "vinyl of course is really neat because the art is big, bold and beautiful, whereas CDs are utilitarian, and easily played in cars." So… cruise on over to Mickey's July 5th! This group is not to be missed. No doubt White Mystery will continue the explosive tradition of Independence Day with some wild rockin' reckless abandon!
Additionally, don't be a trendy Eastside hipster and show up fashionably late, since first on the bill are local boys The Arge, playing their first show in two years. For this gig, guitarists Erik Burtz and Bill Borowski will be joined by Jason Jensen (Tyranny Is Tyranny, United Sons Of Toil) on drums, replacing absent drummer Zac who is currently in the balmy confines of Antarctica! With, of course, bass player and vocalist, Peter Newhall. For those unfamiliar with The Arge, they're kind of hard to pigeonhole, but I guess I'd describe them as dirty grunge-rock mixed with 70s style twin lead guitar solos. They're known for pulling out some classic covers along the lines of Purple and Sabbath!
Rounding out the evening will be a newer trio making a buzz around town, The Non Travellin' Band, whose debut release 'Never Prayed Once', is available on cassette tape released by the Oakland, CA, label Moon Glyph. This recording was captured live to celluloid by Bobby Hussy. Singer/guitarist Lue Lueck told me they should have a new vinyl record out before the end of the year. The voluminous psych-garage group also features Brother Joseph Tucci on drums, and electric guitar by Dead Luke. Word on the street is that Dead Luke may be relocating soon, so if you want to catch The Non Travellin' Band in their original incarnation, you'd best not pass up this opportunity!
Other dates to catch White Mystery in July include: July 4th at the Firecracker 500 Festival in Iowa City, July 6th at the Double Door, and July 14th at Jerry's, both in Chicago.
JUST ANNOUNCED: White Mystery will play the WORT Underground Stage at the Willy Street Fair in Madison, Sunday, September 22!


1 Several days later Jesus returned to Capernaum, and the news of his arrival spread quickly through the town. 2 Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there wasn't room for one more person, not even outside the door. And he preached the word to them.
I have set the scene mid morning.
Sunlight comes from the right.
Various Hebrew people. Many of them are looking in through the door of the house where Jesus is teaching.
The scene is entirely made up from my imagination, although I did some research on biblical archeology, in order to find out about building materials & house construction methods, in order to accurately depict the house throughout this story sequence.
I've used my usual selection of muted colours for the clothing of people in the crowd. I think ordinary people in biblical times probably had linen (flax) clothing, coloured using readily available natural dyes (from crushed minerals, animals & vegetable matter) giving fairly simple, muted colours.


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Kelcimer
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Posted - 11 Sep 2021 : 08:55:21
I have an idea for how Wizards of the Coast, Piazo, and other gaming companies could sell more books.
We live in a world of print on demand. If you are unfamiliar with it, there are a lot of books on, say, Amazon, whereby the individual book is not printed until someone actually orders it. This could be applied to the world of gaming products and with a twist.
I run mainly 1st Edition Pathfinder so I will use that as an example. Consider the Beastiaries. I have Beastiaries 1-5 for Pathfinder 1st edition. I won't use most of the monsters for any given campaign I am running, but that is a lot of books to flip through and there are surely monsters in a lot of other books to include in the pool as well. So many books to flip through. I wouldn't mind being able to go to Piazo's website, for example, and being able to go to a "Custom Book" section to make a custom Beastiary of everything that I might use in my game. The way that I imagine that this could function is to have a long list of every monster for which an entry has been made and I just check off the ones I want. Then have a program that assembles the separate monster entries into one PDF, it sends it to print, and a reasonable time later I get it in the mail. For the cover, a simple default cover with some default text that says "Custom Beastiary" and then underneath that have a spot for the user to have a custom name for their book. The most annoying part of this is creating the program to be able to process the digital assets into a PDF and automatically send to a print on demand service.
But that is just Beastiaries. This could be done for spell books, feats, and prestige classes as well.
As a graphic designer with a lot of experience flowing text into periodicals, I know that when you have bits of text of multiple lengths that formatting them to make use of all page space is a thing, but these are custom books and the publisher wouldn't have to do that. There are two columns for spells per page. Simply set up the program that if there isn't enough space in a column to add the next spell on the selected list that it shifts that next spell to the next column. There would be a lot of pages with blank bits at the bottom, but I wouldn't mind that and I don't think most people would. The utility of having spells from across 1st Edition Pathfinder that I want all in one spot and not having to flip past spells I don't allow in my game would be huge! Whether someone is playing 2nd Edition DnD, 3rd Edition DnD, 3.5 DnD, Pathfinder, or 4th edition DnD this would be huge.
I would gladly pay a premium price for such custom books for my game and I think a lot of other people would too. Because the time saved of not having to flip through so many books would be well worth it. Like, double what the book would otherwise be priced at.
Now, the companies rightly wouldn't want fresh material to be incorporated into this custom book service, because they rightly want to sell more books. So my suggestion would be to do this only for content that has already been in print for five years or something like that or maybe limit it to previous editions only and see how it works. That way if people want the latest stuff then they have to purchase the latest books. Once the programs were created for this, I think they would find that they would turn a tidy little profit off of old assets that are not otherwise generating value.
And it would not be like someone prints off the ones they want and then never return. New campaigns happen. When a DM creates a new campaign and the existing custom books don't quite have everything he wants, then lo and behold he would then make more custom books for the new campaign!
Anyway, as that this forum has a lot of game designers on here who have connections to a lot of other people in the gaming industry, I hope this idea doesn't sound unworkable and that some of them can bring this idea to the relevant decision makers.
Ayrik
Great Reader
I agree with your ideas. Product-on-demand (print-on-demand) is an ideal method of matching niche consumers (readers) with niche products (books).
I would love to see it happen.
I'm also convinced it will never happen. Y'see the Big Five Publishers (or Big Four or Big Three now?) have aggressively artificial market conditions: they decide which books and authors are going to be "best sellers", they decide what does and does not get made available for sale, they control the big book distribution and retail chains. And they have set up an industry full of middlemen over and under middlemen, everybody gets their percentage, accountants and marketing folks (not editors, not publishers, not executives) make all the decisions about how many copies of what will get printed (and when and where it will be released to market).
It's a cut-throat industry full of Big Names and Big Money. Even "large" content producers like Hasbro have very little influence on things and must settle for whatever conditions are imposed upon them. They might get around 20% of the net revenue per copy, they might then split a smaller percentage between WotC and the actual author. It's a ripoff all around. (It's a double ripoff with e-books, where they still charge full cover prices while spending nothing on physical printing and logistics, lol.)
So that's why I think it'll never happen. Wizbro is a big corporate dinosaur used to consistent and comfortable arrangements with established business partners, predictable numbers to pass along to shareholders, they don't waste time taking risks or figuring out which details are costing/losing them money when they can focus on "big picture" stuff which might make more money. And for them, the big money comes from intellectual property, copyrights, branding, ownership, territory.
"Disruptive technologies" like print-on-demand are the sort of thing which get embraced by hungry small businesses/authors who willing to adapt and innovate and embrace new ways. Wizbro has a bad record when it comes to migrating onto new technologies, they've always been behind the curve and they've always handled the new paradigms very badly, so I doubt they'll change their ways (embrace print-on-demand) until it becomes a survival imperative.
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sleyvas
I can honestly say "it sounds interesting, but I don't think there's a big enough market". Also, maybe its just me, but if you don't have the books and want to pick certain pages, they'd have to have them up for people to read through. That might turn into people not buying the product at all (as we have seen that many younger players sometimes show up at games without a single book and a character sheet on their phone). Seems like a lot of risk if not thought through properly for little return on time investment.
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Phillip aka Sleyvas
... as we have seen that many younger players sometimes show up at games without a single book and a character sheet on their phone...
Seems like a reasonable approach if the player (young or old) is new, uncertain, or perhaps not particularly interested in the game. I've seen a lot of people visit the gaming table once or twice, or perhaps several times a year, but not invest much of themselves (or their money) into the game.
Although it seems to me that if a lot of young players (WotC's preferred market) can't afford to buy the rulebooks then perhaps WotC (along with the rest of the industry) should rethink how they price, package, and sell things. For comparison: subscribing to an online video game addiction basically costs less than $20 per month.
Gary Dallison
I think it's an ace idea. If I ever get my rules finished enough to sell on amazon I'll do the main rules for a fiver and watch chapter can be two quid and then sell a page of feats or a single monster sheet for 50p.
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Print on demand already exists for a lot of stuff on the DriveThru sites. I've gotten some Kickstarter books that way, and my copy of Portfolio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets was PoD.
That said, I think there's more of a market for that type of book than custom ones. The Dunkelzahn book was an out of print book for an older edition of the game (even though there's nothing in there rule-related, that I can recall). The Kickstarter books were designed with PoD in mind.
Your custom book idea, though... I have to wonder: why spend money on custom books? If I have the pdfs, I don't need to pay someone to print off and bind what I need -- I can simply print it off myself. Sure, it won't have a cover and fancy binding and all that rot, but I'm also not shelling out money for something I'll use one time and then let it gather dust on my bookshelf, no longer useful to myself or anyone else.
In fact, I already do that a lot, as it is. I'll copy everything I need for the character class to a Word document. I'll do the same with any feats/proficiencies/skills. I'll do the same with magic items and spells. Then I print it all off. That way, I can have the full text of everything I need without having to lug a backpack full of books with me. I'll often have the pdfs handy on a tablet, as well, just in case.
And if something new has to be added, like a new spell or something, it's a Word doc -- just copy the new stuff to it, print off a few more pages, and boom, I'm set.
So while I'll agree that printing on demand can be good for people that want to get their hands on older gaming material, I don't see it being a viable option for custom books. I don't think the demand is there for any company to consider it worth the effort of setting it up as a service -- especially when you consider the copyright issues of someone wanting to make a custom book involving material from different publishers.
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Edited by - Wooly Rupert on 11 Sep 2021 17:48:20
Originally posted by Ayrik
Yep, I don't disagree. The point would be though that in those instances, presumably they either bought an electronic format of the book, or they're sharing books. With this general idea of "I can go some place and preview pages and then print them" that would mean they can A) waste the company's bandwidth previewing repeatedly and B) it doesn't encourage them to buy the books if they can just preview repeatedly for free.
In ye olde Gygaxian AD&D days, the expectation was that each player would buy a Player's Handbook (and, eventually, an Unearthed Arcana, which was sort of "PHB part 2") while the DM would need the same plus a Dungeon Master's Guide and a Monster Manual. As it turned out, the DM would usually buy the whole series of books (plus some Greyhawk, Realms, or Dragonlance sourcebooks) and an endless pile of adventure modules - while, more often than not, the players would all do the same.
Spare money was just as hard to obtain then as it is now. But the books were also cheaper (in adjusted cost terms). And generally better quality. They weren't packed with vapid filler and fluff, they were dense and condensed things full of appendices and indices and cross-referenced tables of tables of goodies. I think that's why players always bought their own books back then, and why players don't feel compelled to do the same these days. The game used to promise (and deliver) hours and hours of entertainment, simply reading the rulebooks if nothing else. These days the books are just full of pretty pictures and endless collectible stat blocks, templates, archetypes - you can breeze from cover to cover in about 20 minutes - no wonder people are disinterested and (often correctly) convinced they can find better value (for free) online.
Edited by - Ayrik on 11 Sep 2021 19:14:13
I feel that their marketing strategy has changed, too. Instead of the prior approach of "you want to add this to your game; it'll be an exciting new thing and you can expand your campaign" the new approach seems to be "You NEED this for your individual character and you'll be left behind if you don't have it."
I'm not going to say that one marketing strategy is better than the other, but for me, telling me I need one or two books for a game is much more likely to get my money than telling me I need four or five.
And Ayrik is right: sometimes, just reading the books for the setting material is all I want. Obviously, WotC feels that people like me are not worth marketing to, but the reason I've got damn near everything FR-related from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd edition is because I enjoy reading about the setting. I enjoy that kind of thing enough to have bought that material in printed format twice and then gotten a bunch of pdfs on top of it.
There was actually a game I was interested in and that a friend tried to get me to play -- but there was no setting material, and that was a deal-breaker for me. I have to know something about the world I'm playing in.
Right now, Catalyst Games and Kobold Press are getting a lot more of my gaming money than WotC is, because both of them are giving me setting material. Heck, I recently bought a Shadowrun book that's like 15 years old, because the topic interested me. Last year, I bought an older print on demand Shadowrun book, for the same reason. Neither book was for the current ruleset, but since it's setting material, it doesn't matter.
I can spend $50 on a Midgard or Shadowrun book and get enough material to build a campaign. Alternatively, I can give WotC $50 for a single adventure, or for a book with nonsensical ideas like "hyenas eat gnoll scraps and become gnolls!" or "beholders dream other beholders into existence!"
Even their adventures have nonsense ideas, like a submarine named for a real-world novel/movie and a bunch of pop culture/inside joke Easter eggs. And even if I run the adventure exactly as is, I'll still need to figure out what to do afterward, and I don't have the material to go in unexpected directions because WotC isn't interested in that.
And I get pdfs when I buy those books from Catalyst or KP, too -- WotC doesn't offer their books in pdf format. Sure, I could pay money for their online thing, but that doesn't do me any good if I want to look up something whilst I'm at work, where that kind of thing is blocked. I can, however, easily look at a pdf I've popped onto removable media.
Also, Kobold Press has a Patreon. For $3 a month I get an adventure every month, and roughly every two months, more setting material. At that price, it's all pdfs, but they're still adding to the setting, and I'm getting this stuff, in a more accessible format, for far less than what WotC is asking for something I can't peruse at work.
I think WotC would be far better off shifting to KP's model. Web material, good quality content for a reasonable price through Patreon, and the occasional Kickstarter for bigger stuff. Sure, put out the core stuff as they have been, but give us additional stuff through Patreon or something like that.
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What about FedEx Office printing? I hadn't thought of it until this topic but I have had them print other things for me. They are a bit on the high side at 75 cents per sheet (full color) with stuff like wire binding being another 5 bucks per book (there are price breaks at certain volumes but I doubt any of us would hit that).
https://www.fedex.com/en-us/printing/marketing-materials/manuals.html1410
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Because not everyone wants to do that. I don't. Not having to scour PDFs of a whole bunch of different books in order to trim the bits that I want and then collate them would be nice. And I'm a graphic designer proficient in InDesign. (To do it properly, you'd want to use InDesign instead of Word.)
And I do like the quality of an actual book though.
You say "character class" as if you are doing this as a player. Nah. This is from a DM's perspective of deciding what is all going to be allowed in his world without forcing his players to sift through dozens of books.
And it wouldn't be like people would only use it one time and that's it. If someone is going to this length, then they're going to make use of the books.
I didn't realize this was intended for DMs to run the same campaign repeatedly.
I still don't see that there is a market for this. Why would a publisher want to allow people to pick and choose parts of their books instead of buying the whole book? Why would publishers set up an extra mechanism to cater to a much smaller portion of the overall market?
I am not sure what you mean by "repeatedly". I can't imagine a DM would want to run the literal same campaign over again. But whether it is a new campaign or the continuation of an existing campaign, it would be useful. I know some DMs that can't stick with a campaign to save their life. I could see them making custom books for every new campaign they start.
Are they actively selling the old editions anymore? I don't think so. This is just a way for them to make money off of old assets that otherwise aren't making them money. There are plenty of groups out there that play older editions and haven't spent money on new books in ages.
I'm one of them. I have settled on Pathfinder 1st Edition for my game and have no intention of shifting. I have 20 years of character sheets for my game and to the extent that I needed to rebuild various character sheets from one edition to the next, I have done so with the 3.x change overs. Everyone of my games is a custom game. I don't do modules. The only products I have purchased in the past ten years have been used copies of out of print books on Amazon.
I can't imagine that this kind of print-on-demand service would be competition to whatever is their current edition. I think most players who are interested in the current edition are either coming into gaming during that edition or are old players that haven't settled on a system because they like shiny new things. I should think that this would merely compliment their overall business model.
And again, the most cost intensive part would be the programing. The programing itself seems like it should be pretty simple, so I don't know as that that cost would be too high in the first place. Once the programing is created, then they just leave it there. It is a one time cost that would allow them to monetize old assets. They like making money, right? Why wouldn't they want to make money off of existing assets that they don't have to create any new material for?
Originally posted by Kelcimer
You said it wouldn't be a single-use thing, that it would get used multiple times.
And since the objective is to have just one book, not multiple books, that means that every campaign using that one book is in the same area, with the same monsters, and the same stuff allowed for characters. Nothing new gets incorporated, because that would require more than one book.
Hence, it's the same campaign.
You've never heard of DriveThruRPG, obviously, because yes, old editions are being sold by a lot of companies, including WotC. And Paizo still sells a lot of their older stuff through their website, as well.
It's not that it's competition, it's that it would take time and money to set up this kind of a service, for a small return. They're better off spending that money on new stuff for a larger audience.
But they're already making money off of old assets, exactly as they are right now. Why would they want to set up a new service that will bring them less money than the existing setup?
Did I at any point say I'd only get only one book for a campaign? No. I could imagine ordering multiple books for my existing campaign. A custom beastiary for myself, and multiple copies of the custom spell book for my players, and one book for custom feat selections. That's at least five books.
I did not know this. Now I do.
Taking a look at it, it is just downloads. That's not the same thing. I rather dislike scrolling through a PDF to find something. Yeah, yeah, I can print them out, but I would rather purchase a used copy off of Amazon if I really wanted a book.
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert It's not that it's competition, it's that it would take time and money to set up this kind of a service, for a small return. They're better off spending that money on new stuff for a larger audience.
I don't know how much time and money it would take to actually set up. You might be wildly overestimating what it would take. At the heart it would be a database/formatting thing with a user interface. That's not as complicated as you might think.
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert But they're already making money off of old assets, exactly as they are right now. Why would they want to set up a new service that will bring them less money than the existing setup?
I assumed that they were no longer selling hard copies of the old books and did not consider that they would be selling them digitally as a way of making money off of the old material. Yes, they are making money off of the old material. But are they maximizing it? They could set those books to print on demand.
I don't know as that it would bring in less money. A lot of the material on DriveThruRPG are campaign setting related. I'm just talking about the crunch. Those are separate things. The campaign materials is relevant regardless of the edition someone is running. The crunch, ugh, who wants to have to be familiar with 30 books to track down every spell or feat a character can use in a game system?
Maybe you are right. I dunno. But you might be wrong too. Or maybe we're both a little bit right and a little bit wrong.There might be a viable niche for what I am talking about that is more than what you think and less than what I think.
BTW I did a search for one of the two best source books on Forgotten Realms, The City of Ravens Bluff, and they don't have it on DriveThruRPG. That's weird.
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Up to the end of the 1940s Neston was still largely a rural community—many small farms and clusters of cottages in nearby hamlets. As part of a national policy to provide affordable homes for rent, Neston Urban District Council had embarked on a programme of housebuilding, beginning with the Rose Gardens Estate (see Rose Gardens), started in 1948.
Neston and Parkgate Housing Association had already, before the War, built small groups of houses in Cottage Close (off Burton Road), at the bottom of Bendee Road near Neston South Station, and at Mayfield Gardens on Liverpool Road.
Mr W. H. Benbow (senior), a native of Abermule in mid-Wales who had settled in this area, had started, in 1936, to build private houses on the top of the field opposite Mellock Lane in. Starting with Bendee Avenue, running from Lees Lane opposite the Water Tower across the top of the field to the railway line. His development of semi-detached houses and bungalows eventually stretched right down the hill to join up with the four blocks of Housing Association homes each side of Bendee Road at its junction with Mellock Lane.
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During the early part of the 20th century Neston building tradesmen were noted for their skills and good standard of workmanship; the 1930s housebuilding boom had seen many large houses appearing in the area, in Burton, Willaston, Little Neston and Parkgate, to provide homes for the many Liverpool businessmen who could now travel into work every day on the efficient train service through Hooton to Birkenhead Woodside where the ferry speedily took them over to their offices in town.
At the end of WW2 many such tradesmen had returned home seeking work, so local building firms were invited by the Council to tender for the construction of several blocks of six three-bedroomed houses, with some semi-detached blocks in between them. The first block, Raeburn Avenue, ran down at right angles from Mellock Lane, alongside the Hooton to Parkgate Railway line. The builder was Edwin Oxton (Ted) who had already built a couple of houses on fields off the Burton Road at West Vale. It was felt that if different builders were allocated separate blocks of houses to build, better workmanship would result because of the element of competition involved. Gradually all the other blocks were constructed, on a grid pattern around a central square. All the roads were given names of English painters: Raeburn, Landseer, Morland, Romney. The first block was ready for occupation by summer 1949, and the first tenants included some of the key workers' families who had moved up to Neston from London with Morgans Refractories. Building went on for the next two years at Mellock Lane.
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Man in his 20s dies after his arm is ripped off by a shark while swimming despite the desperate effort of paramedics to save his life as he bled to death on the beach
A man had died after being bitten by a shark on Emerald Beach in Coffs Harbour
Paramedics arrived at the scene via helicopter before he died from his injuries
NSW North Coast emergency services were called to the beach at about 11am
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Published: 22:05 EDT, 4 September 2021 | Updated: 05:47 EDT, 6 September 2021
A young surfer has died after his arm was ripped off by a shark despite the desperate effort of paramedics to save his life as he bled to death on a New South Wales beach.
The man, who was in his late 20s, was attacked by the shark while swimming off Emerald Beach in Coffs Harbour at about 10.45am on Sunday.
The man was heard shouting, 'Help me,' as he flailed in the water and brave locals got to him the shore where they performed CPR before paramedics arrived.
NSW Ambulance Inspector Chris Wilson looked visibly emotional as he described how the young man's arm was torn off and his back covered in lacerations.
'A male in his approximate late 20s, sustained significant injuries to his upper body, which has resulted in major bl — I can't even say that,' the paramedic stuttered.
'It was a devastating for everybody on the beach this morning.
A man in his 30s has has died after being bitten by a shark on Emerald Beach in Coffs Harbour (pictured, Emerald Beach)
NSW Ambulance Inspector Chris Wilson (pictured) looked visibly emotional as he relayed the young surfer's injuries sustained in a horror shark attack in Coffs Harbour on Sunday
'A number of local surfers and bystanders came to the aid of this man, they were incredibly brave in a very challenging situation.'
One witness told 9News: 'I saw a lady run down… everyone was yelling (to) get out of the water.'
A helicopter lowered an emergency doctor onto the beach as paramedics tried desperately to revive the surfer in a makeshift ICU unit on the sand.
Despite their gallant efforts, the young man sadly succumbed to his injuries at the scene.
A surfer who said he witnessed the attack described hearing harrowing screams and said he soon saw a man without an arm losing copious amounts of blood.
'He was shouting "help me" — people were trying to get him out to the shore,' he told the Courier Mail.
'I saw paramedics performing CPR on him for about an hour and a half trying to save them.'
The man was mauled to death and he reportedly lost an arm during the attack (pictured, emergency services on Emerald Beach)
'I saw a lady run down… everyone was yelling (to) get out of the water,' one witness (pictured) said of the gruesome scenes witnessed at the shore
The keen surfer said he felt spooked by the gruesome scenes and said he didn't plan on returning to the popular beach for some time.
'The Westpac Rescue Helicopter winched in a critical care medical team onto the beach to continue treatment,' Inspector Wilson said.
'The patient suffered a critical injury to his arm, but despite the best efforts of bystanders, paramedics and other emergency services, the patient couldn't be revived.'
Emerald Beach will remain closed for 48 hours as police patrol the water.
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