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Singing Events
Constitution of the CARDINIA MEN'S SHED
Part 1 – Preliminary
Part 2 – Membership © 2020
Nomination for membership
Cessation of membership
Membership entitlements not transferable
Resignation of membership
Register of members
Fees and subscriptions
Members' liabilities
Resolution of internal disputes
Disciplining of members
Right of appeal of disciplined member
Part 3 – The Executive Committee
Powers of the Executive Committee
Constitution and membership
Election of Committee members
Removal of member
Meetings and quorum
Appointment of Sub-Committees
Voting and decisions
Part 4 – Reference Group
Appointment of Management Committee members
Part 5 – General meetings
Annual General Meetings – holding of
Annual General Meetings – calling of and business at
Special General Meetings – calling of
Quorum for General Meeting
Presiding member
Making of decisions
Special resolution
Appointment of proxies
Part 6 – Miscellaneous
Funds – source
Funds – management
Alteration of objects and rules
Custody of books
Inspection of books
Service of notices
Distribution of property on winding up of association
Conduct of postal or electronic ballots
Name: The Association shall be known as THE CARDINIA MEN'S SHED. (an Incorporated Association)
The objects of the Shed are to advance the health and well-being of our members by providing a safe and happy environment where skilled and unskilled men can, in the company of other men,
pursue hobbies, pastimes and interests
learn new skills, practice and pass on old skills
learn about their own health and well-being
receive information, education and training on health and wellbeing issues such as first aid training, men's health checks, seminars and guest speakers
improve the health and wellbeing of members and reduce the number of men who are at risk from preventable health issues that may emanate from isolation
by their efforts, contribute to their families, their friends, the Men's Shed and their community
The Men's Shed is a not-for-profit Association and accordingly:
The assets and income of the Men's Shed shall be applied solely in furtherance of its above-mentioned objects and no portion shall be distributed directly or indirectly to the members of the Men's Shed except as bona fide compensation for services rendered or
expenses incurred on behalf of the organization and
In the event of the organisation being dissolved, the amount that remains after such dissolution and the satisfaction of all debts and liabilities shall be transferred to another organisation with similar purposes which is not carried on for the profit or gain of its individual members.
In these rules:
The Men's Shed means The CARDINIA Men's Shed Inc.
Commissioner means the Commissioner of the Office of Fair Trading.
Ordinary Committee Member means a member of the Executive Committee who is not an office bearer of the association.
Management Committee Member means a member of the Management Committee of The Men's Shed
Secretary means: (a) the person holding office under these rules as Secretary of the Men's Shed, or (b) if no such person holds that office – the Public Officer of the Men's Shed.
Special General Meeting means a General Meeting of the Men's Shed other than an Annual General Meeting.
The Act means the Associations Incorporation Act 2009.
The Regulation means the Associations Incorporation Regulation 2016.
a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and
a reference to the exercise of a function includes, if the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.
The provisions of the Interpretation Act 1987 apply to and in respect of these rules in the same manner as those provisions would so apply if these rules were an instrument made under the Act.
Part 2 – Membership
Membership of the Men's Shed is open to individuals, agencies or organisations concerned with men's issues in our community and who support the Men's Shed objects as set out in Part 1.
A member may be a natural person, an incorporated or unincorporated Association, or an agency or department of government.
A member must be nominated for membership of the Men's Shed as provided for and must be approved for membership of the Men's Shed by the Executive Committee.
Full membership – open to natural persons, Male and over the age of 18yrs who do not represent a corporate member
Ladies auxiliary membership – open to natural persons, who do not represent a corporate member, but are involved in activities that support the Cardinia Men's Shed. They cannot be involved in the normal daily activities of the men's shed on normal active days. However, they may work in the shed on days that are not active, as long as at least two Cardinia Men's Shed full members are present. The ladies' auxiliary will run as a separate identity with its own Executive Committee, which rules shall not be inconsistent with this constitution, reporting to the Cardinia Men's Shed Executive Committee.
Corporate membership – open to incorporated or unincorporated organisations, or to agencies or departments of government. A corporate member must nominate a natural person to vote on their behalf at Men's Shed meetings. A corporate member may vary that appointment by written notice to the Secretary of the Men's Shed
Sponsor membership – open to individuals or organizations who desire to sponsor the Men's Shed or its activities.
Life Membership –
The shed may grant, by Special Resolution, Life Membership to a member in recognition of long and outstanding service to the shed and the Cardinia community.
A life member shall not be liable to pay annual membership fee to the Cardinia Men's Shed but shall be entitled to all privileges of membership including the holding of office.
A nomination for membership of the Men's Shed:
must be made in writing on the form set out in Appendix 1 to these rules, and
must be lodged with the Secretary of the Cardinia Men's Shed.
As soon as practicable after receiving a nomination for membership, the Secretary must refer the nomination to an officer of the Executive Committee who will determine whether to approve or refer the nomination to the full Executive Committee.
As soon as practicable after the Officer of the Executive Committee member makes that determination, the Secretary must:
notify the nominee, in writing, that the nomination for membership is approved or rejected (whichever is applicable), and
if the nomination of membership is approved, request the nominee to pay (within the period of 28 days after receipt by the nominee of the notification) the sum payable under these rules by a member as entrance fee and annual subscription.
The Secretary must, on payment by the nominee of the amounts referred to the rules within the period referred to in that provision, enter the nominee's name in the register of members and, on the name being so entered, the nominee becomes a member of the Men's Shed.
A person ceases to be a member of the Men's Shed if the person:
dies, or
resigns membership, or
does not pay any monies due to the Men's Shed for fees, subscriptions, or any other amount owing in respect of membership within 60 days of the due date for payment or
fails to have any communication with Cardinia Men's Shed for a period of 2 months, is deemed to have forfeited their membership or
is expelled from the Men's Shed.
A right, privilege or obligation which a person has by reason of being a member of the Men's Shed:
is not capable of being transferred or transmitted to another person or organisation, and
terminates on cessation of the membership of that person or organisation.
A member of the Men's Shed is not entitled to resign that membership except in accordance with this rule.
A member of the Men's Shed who has paid all amounts payable by the member to the Men's Shed in respect of the member's membership may resign from membership of the Men's Shed by first giving to the
Secretary written notice of at least one week (or such other period as the Executive Committee may determine) of the member's intention to resign and, on the expiration of the period of notice, the member ceases to be a member.
If a member of the Men's Shed ceases to be a member under Part 4 and in every other case where a member ceases to hold membership, the Secretary must make an appropriate entry in the register of members recording the date on which the member ceased to be a member.
The Secretary of the Men's Shed must establish and maintain a register of members of the Men's Shed specifying:
the name and address of each member of the Men's Shed,
their email address,
the name and address of the nominated representative of a corporate member who may vote and receive notices on behalf of that member and
the date on which the person became a member.
The register of members must be kept in Victoria and may be kept in written or electronic form.
The register of members must be kept at the principal place of administration of the Men's Shed and must be open for inspection, free of charge, by any member of the Shed at any reasonable hour.
A member of the Men's Shed may obtain a copy of any part of the register on payment of a fee of $2 for each page copied or, if some other amount is determined by the Executive Committee, that other amount.
A member must not use information about a person obtained from the register to contact or send material to the person, other than for:
(a) The purposes of sending the person a newsletter, a notice in respect of a meeting or other event relating to the association or other material relating to the association, or
(b) Any other purpose necessary to comply with a requirement of the Act or the Regulation.
A member of the Men's Shed must, on admission to membership, pay to the Men's Shed an entrance fee as determined by the Executive Committee for that class of membership.
The Executive Committee shall set annual subscriptions for each class of membership which shall become due and payable on the 1st of July in each year.
The Executive Committee may vary the amount paid by a member in recognition of the member's special circumstances.
The liability of a member of the Men's Shed to contribute towards the payment of the debts and liabilities of the Shed or the costs, charges and expenses of the winding up of the Shed is limited to the amount, if any, unpaid by the member in respect of membership of the Men's Shed.
Disputes between members (in their capacity as members) of the Men's Shed, and disputes between members and the Men's Shed, are to be referred to a community justice centre for mediation in accordance with the Community Justice Centre's Act 1983.
At least 7 days before a mediation session is to commence, the parties are to exchange statements of the issues that are in dispute between them and supply copies to the mediator.
If a dispute is not resolved by mediation within 3 months of the referral to a community justice centre, the dispute is to be referred to arbitration.
The Commercial Arbitration Act 1984applies to any such dispute referred to arbitration
A complaint may be made to the Executive Committee by any person that a member of the Men's Shed:
has persistently refused or neglected to comply with a provision or provisions of these rules, or
has persistently and wilfully acted in a manner prejudicial to the interests of the Men's Shed.
The committee may refuse to deal with a complaint if it considers the complaint to be trivial or vexatious in nature.
If the committee decides to deal with the complaint, the Executive Committee:
must cause notice of the complaint to be served on the member concerned; and
must give the member at least 14 days from the time the notice is served within which to make submissions to the Executive Committee in connection with the complaint, and
must take into consideration any submissions made by the member in connection with the complaint.
The Executive Committee may, by resolution, expel the member from the Men's Shed or suspend the member from membership of the Men's Shed if, after considering the complaint and any submissions made in connection with the complaint, it is satisfied that the facts alleged in the complaint have been proved.
If the Executive Committee expels or suspends a member, the Secretary must, within 7 days after the
action is taken, cause written notice to be given to the member of the action taken, of the reasons given by
the Executive Committee for having taken that action and of the member's right of appeal.
The expulsion or suspension does not take effect:
until the expiration of the period within which the member is entitled to appeal against the resolution concerned, or
if within that period the member exercises the right of appeal, unless and until the Men's Shed confirms the resolution, whichever is the later.
A member may appeal to the Men's Shed in General Meeting against a resolution of the Executive Committee, within 7 days after notice of the resolution is served on the member, by lodging with the Secretary a notice to that effect.
The notice may, but need not, be accompanied by a statement of the grounds on which the member intends to rely for the purposes of the appeal.
On receipt of a notice from a member the Secretary must notify the Executive Committee which is to convene a general meeting of the Shed to be held within 28 days after the date on which the Secretary received the notice.
At a general meeting of the Men's Shed convened:
no business other than the question of the appeal is to be transacted, and
the Executive Committee and the member must be given the opportunity to state their respective cases orally or in writing, or both, and
the members present are to vote by secret ballot on the question of whether the resolution should be confirmed or revoked.
If at the general meeting the Shed passes a special resolution in favour of the confirmation of the resolution, the resolution is confirmed.
The Executive Committee of the Men's Shed, subject to the Act, the Regulations and these rules and to any resolution passed by the Men's Shed in general meeting:
is to control and manage the affairs of the Men's Shed, and
may exercise all such functions as may be exercised by the Men's Shed, other than those functions that are required by these rules to be exercised by a general meeting of members of the Men's Shed, and
has power to perform all such acts and do all such things as appear to the Executive Committee to be necessary or desirable for the proper management of the affairs of the Men's Shed.
The Executive Committee is to consist of up to Nine members including:
the vice-President
the Treasurer,
the Secretary and
up to five Men's Representative
The office bearers of the Men's Shed are: The President, the Vice-President, the Treasurer and the Secretary.
A committee member may hold up to 2 offices (other than both the president and vice-president offices).
To qualify as the Men's Representative on the Executive Committee a person shall:
be concerned with or actively involved in men's issues
have links to other men in the local area and be able to represent their needs
(a) Each member of the committee is, subject to this constitution, to hold office until the conclusion of the annual general meeting following the date of the member's election, but is eligible for re-election.
In the event of a casual vacancy occurring in the membership of the Executive Committee, the Executive Committee may appoint a member of the Men's Shed to fill the vacancy and the member so appointed is to hold office, subject to these rules, until the conclusion of the annual general meeting next following the date of the appointment.
Election of Executive members
Nominations of candidates for election as members of the Executive Committee:
must be made in writing, signed by 2 members of the Men's Shed and accompanied by the written consent of the candidate (which may be endorsed on the form of the nomination), and
must be delivered to the Secretary of the Men's Shed prior to the commencement of the annual general meeting at which the election is to take place.
If insufficient nominations are received to fill all vacancies on the Executive Committee, the candidates nominated are taken to be elected and further nominations are to be received at the annual general meeting.
If insufficient further nominations are received, any vacant positions remaining on the Executive Committee are taken to be casual vacancies.
If the number of nominations received is equal to the number of vacancies to be filled, the persons nominated are taken to be elected.
If the number of nominations received exceeds the number of vacancies to be filled, a ballot is to be held.
The ballot for the election of Committee members is to be conducted at the annual general meeting in such usual and proper manner as the Executive Committee may direct.
The Secretary of the Men's Shed must, as soon as practicable after being appointed as Secretary, lodge notice with the Men's Shed of his or her address and contact details.
It is the duty of the Secretary to ensure that proper minutes are kept of:
all appointments of office-bearers and members of the Executive Committee,
the names of members of the Executive Committee present at an Executive Committee meeting or a general meeting, and
all proceedings at Executive Committee meetings and general meetings.
Minutes of proceedings at a meeting must be signed by the chairperson of the meeting or by the Chairperson of the next succeeding meeting.
It is the duty of the Treasurer of the Men's Shed to ensure:
that all money due to the Men's Shed is collected and received and that all payments authorised by the Men's Shed are made, and
that correct books and accounts are kept showing the financial affairs of the Men's Shed, including full details of all receipts and
expenditure connected with the activities of the Men's Shed.
In the event of a casual vacancy occurring in the membership of the committee, the committee may appoint a full member of the men's shed to fill the vacancy and the member so appointed to hold office, subject to this constitution, until the conclusion of the annual general meeting next following the date of the appointment.
For the purposes of these rules, a casual vacancy in the Executive Committee occurs if the Committee member:
ceases to be a member of the Men's Shed, or
becomes an insolvent under administration within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth, or
resigns office by notice in writing given to the Secretary, or
is removed from office under rule 67), or
becomes mentally incapacitated, or
is absent without the consent of the Executive Committee from 3 consecutive meetings of the committee, or
Is convicted of an offence involving fraud or dishonesty for which maximum penalty on conviction is imprisonment for not less than 3 months, or
Is prohibited from being a director of a company under Part 2D.6 (disqualification from managing corporations) of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth.
The Men's Shed in general meeting may by resolution remove any Committee member from the Executive
Committee before the expiration of the member's term of office and may by resolution appoint another person to hold office until the expiration of the term of office of the member so removed.
If the Committee member to whom a proposed resolution referred to in Rule (67) relates makes representations in writing to the Secretary or President (not exceeding a reasonable length) and requests that the representation be notified to the members of the Men's Shed, the Secretary or the President may send a copy of the representations to each member of the Men's Shed or, if the representations are not so sent, the member is entitled to require that the representations be read out at the meeting at which the resolution is considered.
The Executive Committee must meet at least 10 times in each period of 12 months at such place and time as the Executive Committee may determine.
Additional meetings of the Executive Committee may be convened by the President or by any other Committee member.
An agenda for a meeting of the Executive Committee must be given by the Secretary to each member of the Executive Committee at least 48 hours (or such other period as may be unanimously agreed on by the members of the Executive Committee) before the time appointed for the holding of the meeting.
Any 3 members of the Executive Committee constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of a meeting of the Executive Committee.
No business is to be transacted by the Executive Committee unless a quorum is present and if, within half an hour of the time appointed for the meeting, a quorum is not present, the meeting is to stand adjourned to the same place and at the same hour of the same day in the following week.
If at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour of the time appointed for the meeting, the meeting is to be dissolved.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee:
the President or, in the President's absence, the vice-President is to preside, or
if the President and the vice-President are absent or unwilling to act, such one of the remaining Committee members as may be chosen by the members present at the meeting is to preside.
The Executive Committee may, by resolution, appoint one or more sub-committees (consisting of at least one Committee member together with such member or members of the Men's Shed as the Executive Committee thinks fit) to advise the Executive Committee on various matters including:
The Executive Committee may, by resolution, revoke wholly or in part any appointment under Rule (76).
A sub-committee may meet and adjourn, as it thinks proper, and may invite experts to attend its meetings to advise on matters relevant to the work of the sub-committee.
Questions arising at a meeting of the Executive Committee or of any sub-committee appointed by the Executive Committee are to be determined by a majority of the votes of members of the Executive Committee or sub-committee present at the meeting.
A Committee member who has a conflict of interest in any matter before the Executive Committee must
disclose that interest and must abstain from any discussion or vote on that matter.
Each member present at a meeting of the Executive Committee or of any sub-committee appointed by the Executive Committee (including the person presiding
at the meeting) is entitled to one vote but, in the event of an equality of votes on any question, the person presiding may exercise a second or casting vote.
Subject to Rule (72), the Executive Committee may act despite any vacancy on the Executive Committee.
Any act or thing done or suffered, or purporting to have been done or suffered, by the Executive Committee or by a subcommittee appointed by the Executive Committee, is valid and effectual despite any defect that may afterwards be discovered in the appointment or qualification of any member of the Executive Committee or sub-committee.
Part 4 – The Reference Group
The Executive Committee may appoint a Reference Group to advise and assist the Executive Committee to manage the affairs of the Shed.
Members of the Reference Group may be community leaders drawn from sources which include:
The local Council
Local State and Federal Members of Parliament
The Magistracy
Retired Servicemen's Organisations
Local groups dealing with men's issues
Community organisations and
Community Service clubs
A term of office of a member of the Reference Group is from the date of appointment to the close of the second Annual General Meeting following that appointment, or such other term as the Executive Committee may determine.
Appointment of Reference Group members
The Executive Committee shall appoint members to the Reference Group. The Executive Committee may call for nominations from the members of the Men's Shed
For the purposes of these rules, a casual vacancy in the office of a member of the Reference Group occurs if the member:
is removed from office under Rule (84), or
becomes incapacitated, or
is absent without the consent of the Reference Group from all meetings of the Reference Group held during a period of 12 months.
The Executive Committee may by resolution remove any member of the Reference Group from the office of member before the expiration of the member's term of office and may by resolution appoint another person to hold office until the expiration of the term of office of the member so removed.
The Reference Group must meet at least 2 times in each period of 12 months at such place and time as the Reference Group may determine.
Additional meetings of the Reference Group may be convened by the President or by the Executive Committee.
Oral or written notice of a meeting of the Executive Committee must be given by the Secretary to each member of the Reference Group at least 14 days
before the time appointed for the holding of the meeting.
One third of the appointed members of the Reference Group constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of a meeting of the Reference Group.
At a meeting of the Reference Group:
if the President and the vice-President are absent or unwilling to act, such one of the remaining members of the Reference Group as may be chosen by the members present at the meeting is to preside.
With the exception of the first Annual General Meeting of the Men's Shed, the Men's Shed must, at least once in each calendar year and within the period of 6 months after the expiration of each financial year of the Men's Shed, convene an Annual General Meeting of its members.
The Men's Shed must hold its first Annual General Meeting:
within the period of 18 months after its incorporation under the Act, and
within the period of 6 months after the expiration of the first financial year of the Shed.
Rules (96 and 97) have effect subject to any extension or permission granted by the Commissioner under section 26(3) of the Act.
The Annual General Meeting of the Men's Shed is, subject to the Act and to Rules (96) to (98), to be convened on such date and at such place and time as the Executive Committee thinks fit. Only full members are entitled to be present or to vote on any question at any General Meeting. In addition to any other business which may be transacted at an annual general meeting, the business of an Annual General Meeting is to include the following:
to confirm the minutes of the last preceding Annual General Meeting and of any Special General Meeting held since that meeting,
to receive from the Executive Committee reports on the activities of the Men's Shed during the last preceding financial year,
to elect members of the Executive Committee,
to receive and consider any financial statement or report required to be submitted to members under the Act.
An Annual General Meeting must be specified as such in the notice convening it.
The Executive Committee may, whenever it thinks fit, convene a Special General Meeting of the Shed. Only full members are entitled to be present or to vote on any question at any General Meeting. The Executive Committee must, on the requisition in writing of at least 5 per cent of the total number of members, convene a Special General Meeting of the Shed.
A requisition of members for a Special General Meeting:
must state the purpose or purposes of the meeting, and
must be signed by the members making the requisition, and
must be lodged with the Secretary, and
may consist of several documents in a similar form, each signed by one or more of the members making the requisition.
If the Executive Committee fails to convene a Special General Meeting to be held within 1 month after that date on which a requisition of members for the meeting is lodged with the Secretary, any one or more of the members who made the requisition may convene a Special General Meeting to be held not later than 3 months after that date.
A Special General Meeting convened by a member or members as referred to in Rule (103) must be convened as nearly as is practicable in the same manner as general meetings are convened by the Executive Committee and any member who consequently incurs reasonable expenses is entitled to be reimbursed by the Men's Shed for any expense so incurred.
Except if the nature of the business proposed to be dealt with at a general meeting requires a special resolution of the Men's Shed, the Secretary must, at least 14 days before the date fixed for the holding of the general meeting, give a notice to each member specifying the place, date and time of the meeting and the nature of the business proposed to be transacted at the meeting.
If the nature of the business proposed to be dealt with at a general meeting and requires a special resolution of the Men's Shed, the Secretary must, at least 21 days before the date fixed for the holding of the general meeting, cause notice to be given to each member specifying, in addition to the matter required the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution.
A member desiring to bring any business before a general meeting may give notice in writing of that business to the Secretary who must include that business in the next notice calling a general meeting given after receipt of the notice from the member.
Notice may be sent by email to the email address of the member which is recorded in the register of members.
Quorum for General Meetings
No item of business is to be transacted at a general meeting unless a quorum of members entitled under these rules to vote is present during the time the meeting is considering that item.
Five members present in person (being members entitled under these rules to vote at a general meeting) constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of a general meeting.
If within half an hour after the appointed time for the commencement of a general meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting:
if convened on the requisition of members, is to be dissolved, and
in any other case, is to stand adjourned to the same day in the following week at the same time and (unless another place is specified at the time of the adjournment by the person presiding at the meeting or communicated by written notice to members given before the day to which the meeting is adjourned) at the same place.
If at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour after the time appointed for the commencement of the meeting, the members present (being at least 3) is to constitute a quorum.
The President or, in the President's absence, the Vice-President, is to preside as Chairperson at each general meeting of the Men's Shed.
If the President and the vice-President are absent or unwilling to act, the members present must elect one of their number to preside as Chairperson at the meeting.
The Chairperson of a general meeting at which a quorum is present may, with the consent of the majority of members present at the meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and place to place, but no business is to be transacted at an adjourned meeting
other than the business left unfinished at the meeting at which the adjournment took place.
If a general meeting is adjourned for 14 days or more, the Secretary must give notice of the adjourned meeting to each member of the Men's Shed stating the place, date and time of the meeting and the nature of the business to be transacted at the meeting.
Notice of an adjournment of a general meeting or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting is not required to be given.
A question arising at a general meeting of the Cardinia Men's Shed is to be determined on a show of hands and, unless before or on the declaration of the show of hands a poll is demanded, a declaration by the Chairperson that a resolution has, on a show of hands, been carried or carried unanimously or carried by a particular majority or lost, or an entry to that effect in the minute book of the Shed, is evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against that resolution.
At a general meeting of the Men's Shed, a poll may be demanded by the Chairperson or by at least 3 members present in person or by proxy at the meeting.
If a poll is demanded at a general meeting, the poll must be taken;
immediately in the case of a poll which relates to the election of the Chairperson of the meeting or to the question of an adjournment, or in any other case, in such manner and at such time before the close of the meeting as the Chairperson directs, and the resolution of the poll on the matter is taken to be the resolution of the meeting on that matter.
A resolution of the Men's Shed is a Special Resolution:
if it is passed by a majority which comprises at least three-quarters of such members of the Cardinia Men's Shed, being entitled under these rules so to do, vote in person, by corporate representative or by proxy at a general meeting
of which at least 21 days' written notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a Special Resolution it be enacted.
where it is made to appear to a Commissioner that it is not practicable for the resolution to be passed in the manner specified that the Special Resolution will not take effect but may be represented at not less than 21 days from the original Special Resolution meeting.
On any question arising at a general meeting of the Men's Shed a full member has one vote only.
All votes must be given personally, by corporate representative or by proxy but no member may hold more than 5 proxies.
In the case of an equality of votes on a question at a general meeting, the chairperson of the meeting is entitled to exercise a second or casting vote.
A member, a corporate representative or a proxy is not entitled to vote at any general meeting of the Men's Shed unless all money due and payable by the member or proxy to the Shed has been paid, other than the
amount of the annual subscription payable in respect of the then current year.
Each member is to be entitled to appoint another member as proxy by notice given to the Secretary no later than 24 hours before the time of the meeting in respect of which the proxy is appointed.
The notice appointing the proxy is to be in the form set out in Appendix 2 to these rules.
Postal or electronic ballots
The association may hold a postal or electronic ballot (as the committee determines) to determine any issue or proposal (other than an appeal under clause 12).
A postal or electronic ballot is to be conducted in accordance with Schedule 3 to the Regulation.
Use of technology at general meetings
A general meeting may be held at 2 or more venues using any technology approved by the committee that gives each of the association's members a reasonable opportunity to participate.
A member of an association who participates in a general meeting using that technology is taken to be present at the meeting and, if the member votes at the meeting, is taken to have voted in person.
The Men's Shed may effect and maintain such insurances as are determined by the Executive Committee
The funds of the Men's Shed are to be derived from entrance fees and annual subscriptions of members, donations, grants, sponsorships and, subject to any resolution passed by the Men's Shed in general meeting, such other sources as the Executive Committee determines.
All money received by the Men's Shed must be deposited as soon as practicable and without deduction to the credit of the Men's Shed bank account.
The Men's Shed must, as soon as practicable after receiving any money, issue an appropriate receipt if a receipt is requested.
Subject to any resolution passed by the Shed in general meeting, the funds of the Men's Shed are to be used in pursuance of the objects of the Men's Shed in such manner as the Executive Committee determines.
All cheques, drafts, bills of exchange, promissory notes and other negotiable instruments must be signed by any 2 members of the Executive Committee or employees of the Men's Shed, being members or employees authorised to do so by the Executive Committee.
These rules may be altered, rescinded or added to only by a special resolution of the Men's Shed. The Men's
Shed shall advise the Director General, in writing, of any amendments, additions or deletions to the governing rules within 30 days of those changes being made by the public officer or a committee member.
Except as otherwise provided by these rules, the Public Officer must keep in their custody or under their control all records, books and other documents relating to the Men's Shed.
The records, books, Constitution and other documents of the Men's Shed must be open to inspection, free of charge, by a member of the Men's Shed at any reasonable hour.
A member of the Men's Shed may obtain a copy of any of the documents referred to in Rule (141) on payment of a fee of not more than $1 for each page copied.
For the purpose of these rules, a notice may be served on or given to a person:
by delivering it to the person personally, or
by sending it by pre-paid post to the address of the person, or
by sending it by facsimile transmission or some other form of electronic transmission to an address specified by the person for giving or serving the notice.
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The art and science of Mammoth Hot Springs
Nov 1, 2016 2:00 pm by Bruce Fouke | Professor of GeologyBehind the Scenes
Steam from an Old Faithful eruption is more spectacular in winter because of the direct contact between the steam and the cold air. There is a silhouette of a bison cow absorbing the heat from the morning sun below the steam cloud.
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I was first drawn to Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park as a natural laboratory for a NASA project to study how microbes form fossilized "markers" in ancient travertine rock deposits. The water temperature, chemistry and flow at Mammoth are similar to that found on the early Earth, and the hot springs still harbor microbial life that evolved billions of years ago. Microorganisms are essential to the healthy functioning and evolution of all living things and are critical to solving global challenges in environmental sustainability, human medicine, food security, energy generation and even the search for life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Increased flow from the springs is burying and creating a whole new landscape on the slope of Minerva Terrace. The original older structure, still visible in the upper left, is being buried in the center and right under stalactite-like fingers and porcelain-smooth coatings.
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The broad goal of my work is to understand the unifying physical, chemical and biological themes of a natural system like Mammoth on every level, from the single microbial cell to the entire ecosystem, and how these components and dimensions interact. After two decades of investigation, we are just now beginning to learn how Mammoth came into existence, how its vitality and scope can best be conserved, and even how its secrets contribute to the well-being of humanity.
At a particularly active flow complex at Canary Springs, a colorful landscape stands between older, abandoned white and gray mineral deposits. We can come back the next day or the next month or even 10 years later, and know that the landscapes will be familiar but completely changed.
Art and science both originate from the same human desire to understand the world within and around us. Profoundly inspired by the natural photography of Tom Murphy, I have worked with him for five years to create a book that melds Yellowstone art and science. In this book, Murphy's photos of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park accompany my essays on natural science to illustrate the search for common laws of nature through the power of observation and a willingness to embrace the unexpected.
Pine trees are sometimes in the spring's way. If they are, hot water finds the trees, kills them and sometimes encases them in travertine, a white mineral rock.
While writing this book, I came to appreciate the need for educated, curious and good-hearted people from all fields of science and art to work together. Ordinary citizens, moved by the direct experience of nature or by photographs or paintings of the natural world, must join the quest to better understand the Earth by combining the arts and science.
For our survival on this water-rich planet, we need to know much more about how physical, chemical and biological components of natural systems have evolved to work together, and to incorporate that knowledge into our spiritual and metaphysical life as expressed in art.
Large bubbles of carbon dioxide effervesce as they escape from a hot spring's vent, 10 centimeters in diameter. The hot-spring water quickly cools from 73 degrees to 71 degrees Celsius, allowing light beige filamentous bacteria to form the fettuccine-like rock textures.
Editor's notes: "The Art of Yellowstone Science: Mammoth Hot Springs as a Window on the Universe," by Bruce Fouke and Tom Murphy, is available in hardcopy and eBook versions from Crystal Creek Press.
Bruce Fouke and photographer Tom Murphy will give a lecture and host a book signing Nov. 16 at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the U. of I., 1206 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana.
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Understanding the prosody of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub's construction also requires an accounting of its extravagance.
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The World Trade Center Transportation Hub, designed by Santiago Calatrava, January 19, 2016. (AP)
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Proportion—the relationship of parts to wholes—only makes architectural sense when it's joined to scale, the actual dimension of things. For millennia, from Vitruvius to Leonardo to Le Corbusier, an idealized body has been used to make this connection. Hence the commonplace phrase "human scale," merging aesthetic and practical desires. These are clearly revealed in forms and feelings at the extremity, like the half-height floor in Being John Malkovich, too tiny to stand up in, or Albert Speer's Volkshalle, big enough to hold an army and generate its own weather.
That the sweet spot in human scale isn't fixed suggests that spaces have to be socially and psychically proportionate, whether to conduce feelings of cozy domesticity or to induce shock and awe. The churches built by the conquistadors were meant to dazzle the natives into docility, much as the great European cathedrals embodied the mightiness of the divinity and the smallness of its subjects, dwarfed by vaulted ceilings reaching to the heavens. This capability isn't always negative; it can also celebrate and inspire with grandeur, loftiness, and numinous space without end. Chartres is indisputably fabulous, and without it culture would be bereft. But while it may be wonderful as an architectural absolute—much as the pyramids were to their age or the interstates to our own—a Gothic cathedral's utility is limited by its relative unsuitability for secular purposes. We would not instinctively think to build one for, shall we say, the entrance to a local stop on the IRT. Or would we?
In Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas, the entry for "railway stations" states: "Always go into ecstasies about them: cite them as models of architecture." With the completion of Santiago Calatrava's Oculus—that remarkable creature at the World Trade Center that's effectively an entrance pavilion for the PATH train to New Jersey and several subway lines—the utility/expression chestnut is set for a thorough roasting. Finally open after a decade of construction and the expenditure of nearly $4 billion (including $655 million for "administrative costs"), the Oculus is at once incredible and infuriating. It's a black hole for bucks, a stunningly autonomous monument, and a medium of creative displacement—a vortex that has absorbed the imaginative energy that might have been expended on its surroundings (the vanishing Ground Zero arts center or those mediocre office towers) or elsewhere (a new Penn Station and Port Authority Bus Terminal, the renovation of who knows how many subway platforms, or the desperately needed renewal of the system's creaky, century-old technical infrastructure and frail capacity). The Oculus struggles to symbolize both the purity of its strictly artistic utility (which is to say, its lordly functional superfluity) and something more ineffable still.
Calatrava has produced a building that is singular but not recondite, a train station and a cathedral. It's a glistening white steel rib cage, 160 feet high and 392 feet long, enclosing a nave-like space with a volume greater than Grand Central Terminal's main concourse and a distinctive surmounting crown. Dense rows of vertical ribs alternate with lofty glass to envelop the great room and then turn outward to become gigantic spikes— pituitary versions of those radiating from the Statue of Liberty's crown—that sprout from the building like enormous porcupine quills or the bones of a pterodactyl's wings. The mixed metaphor—it's a bird! It's a plane! A phoenix! A stegosaurus!—speaks to the irresistibly biomorphic character of the building and its formal originality. It is a real rara avis, albeit one with a strong family resemblance to other members of the Calatrava bestiary.
The Oculus sits at a canny remove from scenes of both spirituality and mass movement, at once neutralizing and absorbing their purposiveness. The 9/11 memorial pits and a new Greek Orthodox church (also designed by Calatrava) are not simply across or down the street but inaccessible from within its gleaming lantern. This arm's-length distance makes the Oculus's spirituality pagan: It occupies the space initially meant to have been evanescently illuminated by Daniel Libeskind's "Wedge of Light," a marker of time offered as an equivalent to Abu Simbel or Stonehenge, but trivialized by the banality of the erstwhile framing and enabling office-tower architecture that limned its solar slot. Likewise, the Oculus isn't exactly a train station, but rather a centroid that organizes pathways to a series of more autonomous stations at varying distances and relations—a distributed aggregation of tracks that may rival Penn Station's but, individually, are miniatures in relation to the huge space. Much of the power of the Oculus comes from this disproportion: the enormous and beautiful uncolumned space that shelters the little stairways down to the PATH's five tracks, with the Broadway local crossing overhead in a massive tube supported by monster trusses.
Let's set aside the build-one-battleship-or-10,000-schools argument that's been at the heart of virtually everything written about the structure to date: That argument is both conclusive and concluded. Instead, let's consider the poetics of the Oculus's assembly and tectonics. I really like the big beast as both object and space, and already feel sad about its imminent squishing between the two crappy towers that will flank it. If only it could just walk—or fly—away! Indeed, Calatrava had originally wanted its wings to flap, and I sympathize with his disappointment that this motility was value-engineered into stasis.
Calatrava is both beloved and reviled for the anatomical literalism of so much of his work: the balance, joinery, rigidity, and rhythm of the skeletal. Because the Oculus is so expressively "ornamental"—larded with flourishes, enormous and otherwise, that do nothing but please the eye—it fudges the boundary between architecture and sculpture, prompting some of the same questions raised by that high priest of art-world avoirdupois, Richard Serra. Serra's work demands to be seen as more than merely sculptural in its modulations of space and passage, and derives much of its power from the threateningly massive heft of all that Cor-Ten steel. As with the Calatrava, much of the impact of Serra's sculpture has to do with the chest-thumping weight of those Torqued Ellipses and precariously leaning, dangerous walls. But Calatrava and Serra riff differently on functionalism's asymptotic parsimony: With pieces like Tilted Arc, Serra goes for the massively minimal, whereas Calatrava madly multiplies structural members and coyly conceals and reveals which ones are actually bearing the load.
The very careful—even maniacal—engineering of Calatrava's designs suggests a crucial difference from Gothic cathedrals. Although they frequently collapsed during, and after, their construction, those churches were far and away the most structurally advanced architecture conceived for a period of close to two millennia, right out there at the edge of the possible. Their height, span, complexity, and lightness were amazing and—given the pure seat-of-the-pants, trial-and-error structural calculation involved—astonishingly daring. Despite its visual and spatial affinities, the Oculus is very different. Calatrava, who trained as both an architect and an engineer, has always stressed the expressive import of structure, most famously in his often magical bridges and stations, works that embody engineering's highest technical, economic, and artistic aspiration: elegance.
Still, this bird's a turkey—so expensive, heavy, and dense with structure, and so willing to blur the line between the functional and the decorative, that understanding the prosody of its construction also requires an accounting of its extravagance. The design isn't simply highly conservative in terms of its relationship to risk (balancing risk and means is the key dialectic of structural performance); it is also flagrantly, expressively profligate in its conservation of materials, an inescapable responsibility in any 21st-century construction. According to Calatrava's firm, the amount of steel used weighs in at an astonishing 15,250 tons. (For comparison's sake, a "mere" 50,000 were used to build 1 World Trade Center, the continent's tallest building.) The distinguished structural engineer Guy Nordenson argues that this gives the Oculus what may effectively be the largest carbon footprint, per unit volume, of any building on the planet. And Donald and Bernie, take note: All that steel comes from Europe!
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But let us assume for the moment that there is some virtue in extravagance, and that the Oculus has redeemed the artistic potential squandered at Ground Zero. Let's further assert that vast expenditure on public works is the hallmark of a great civilization, that the game is not zero-sum—i.e., the savings realized by removing a quill or two would not be applied to a housing project in Brooklyn—and that the thing can be judged artistically sui generis. Still, the time and expense laid out do count in that critical calculus; after all those years and cash, the thing should be close to perfect. Here arrive my reservations: I find the Oculus tremendous and beautiful, but not quite right. I am disturbed that, about two-thirds of the way out on the rows of quills, there's a steel tube that joins them all together, a stiffener and a spacer. Really? Tens of millions spent on that imported steel and those ribs can't fly solo? And what about the funky fireproofing that kills the precise angularity of the metal beneath? Or the inaccessible beams and crannies that are sure to turn the now-pristine thing into a permanent museum of dust?
As structure, the Oculus is made like a bridge—even though it doesn't function as one—and perforce becomes a slightly ironic reflection on the techniques of bridge-building. Each of the long sides holds a structural arch, and the huge ribs that appear to support these arches lean in to provide a hybrid of walls and roof before taking, as they pass the line of the arch, a dramatic outward turn to form those sideways-soaring wings or quills—a pure, flamboyant, "superfluous" ornamental expression, despite weighing thousands of structurally challenging tons. However, although the arches are symmetrical, the quills are not: Each side is different, reversing the pattern of the other. This eccentric loading and the variable length of the ribs as they rise to meet the curve of the arches mean that much computer power has been spent on the design of the hidden base: an oval ring embedded at grade that acts as the bottom chord of a giant Vierendeel truss that stiffens those walls against the wind and for self-support.
The most self-consciously witty aspect of the structure is the continuous, operable glass skylight that runs the length of the building's ridge line, forming a gap between the two arches (for my money, this should have been left unglazed, like the eponymous oculus in the Pantheon in Rome). These are actually joined, and carried, only at their ends, where they land on massive buttressing knuckles, the push-me/pull-you beastie heads through whose mouths the building is entered at street level. The long sky-lit slit defies the visually induced expectation that the ribs are holding things up and that the two long sides of the building should thus be joined together across this seam to form a series of A-frames—a very sturdy and conventional configuration that would be made stronger still if the arches were linking the row of frames together. The absence of this joinery reveals that the arches really are bearing the load that one assumes is being carried by the ribs. One imagines, too, that the ribs and flying quills are in near equipoise, relieving the expected rotational stress on the ring-base caused by those long cantilevers. Calatrava gives plenty of further hints about the limited role of the ribs by not bringing them down to the lowest level of the building and instead bending them into a rhythmic filigree, a curlicue caesura that seems barely connected to the walls! Here Calatrava plays cheerfully with the line between the fussy and the butch, deliberately marking his system as very different from the compressive clarity of a cathedral's buttresses, which bulk up progressively as they head earthward and plunge resolutely into the supporting ground.
The Oculus is further distinguished from Chartres by its organization of movement. The main circulatory action in a cathedral is singularly directional: enter at the back of the nave, move toward the altar, pray, reverse. There's generally a secondary route around the perimeter—lined with shrines, confessionals, fonts, chapels—that can be accessed without traversing the main axis (an array prosaically repeated in the Oculus with a two-tiered ring of shops). Whereas cathedrals—towers and crypts notwithstanding—are invariably slightly elevated continuations of the ground plane, the primary grade of the Oculus is two levels below the street. The privileged movement plane is subterranean, and the Oculus functions diagrammatically as the head of an octopus, with tentacular extensions radiating to four transit nodes (including the much more concentrated nexus at Fulton Street, its own ambitious dome made ever so sad by the drama down the block) and to the lobbies of surrounding buildings, often over fairly long distances. And unlike a cathedral, for which the ground is a single plane, the multiple levels of this space are inelegantly joined by a plethora of escalators and stairs that look seriously underscaled. This is nowhere more unsatisfying than at the ends of the nave, where entries from ground level lead to klutzy cantilevered escalators that, switching back and forth, are more tease than celebration of the glorious axial view. Many wedding couples will be photographed on the intermediate landing.
I admit to being among those who had argued for a no-build solution at Ground Zero, for turning the entire site into a great space of public assembly—a wanton display of democracy's greatest physical freedom. My concerns about the partition of commerce and commemoration are not relieved, alas, by the final results. However "spiritual" Calatrava's astounding building may be, thick demising walls separate without acknowledgment the money-changers from the more literally sacred environment of the adjoining temple: the 9/11 memorial and museum. All those glistening Italian-marble corridors that the Oculus organizes are lined with retail, retail, and more retail, their deluxe white in blinding contrast to the memorial's somber black. Conceptually, the complex is a glorious reinstatement of exactly what existed there before 9/11: an underground shopping mall brought to us by our old friends at the Westfield Corporation. Step aside, Woolworth Building—this is the true cathedral of commerce!
And yet… I was able to tour the site a number of times during construction, and the sheer ingenuity of the logistics, as well as the fiendishly complex challenges of dealing with the massive ruin, with trains running across the site without surcease, with an astonishing tangle of infrastructure, with the mammoth 24-hour movement of people and materials, all make this a breathtaking achievement. Perhaps it's the dedicated workers and engineers—whose labor made this transformation possible, and whose contribution invisibly undergirds all that hypertrophied form rising above the surface—to whom we should truly turn in admiration, gratitude, and celebration.
Michael SorkinMichael Sorkin (1948–2020) was the architecture critic of The Nation from 2013 to 2020.
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Clem Cattini is the legendary drummer whose career spans over 60 years, beginning in the mid-1950s with Terry Kennedy's Rock and Rollers who played gigs across London, most notably at the 2i's Coffee Bar in Soho, before the band were asked to join up with Terry Dene for a nationwide tour. In 1960 Clem teamed up with Johnny Kidd and The Pirates, resulting in the classic recording of arguably Britain's greatest rock and roll record, Shakin' All Over.
Following on from the Johnny Kidd days, Clem became involved with maverick record producer Joe Meek. Needing a band to record demos in his Holloway Road 'studio', in reality the upstairs of a shop, The Tornados were formed, which led to the recording of the worldwide hit Telstar, the first British record to reach the number one spot in the American Billboard charts in 1963. (In the 2008 film of the same name, Clem was played by James Corden.) Tours backing Billy Fury followed, before Clem decided to call a halt to the incessant touring in 1965.
When an opportunity arose to play studio sessions, meaning he could still enjoy playing music without the hassles of being constantly out on the road, Clem jumped at the chance. Meeting up and drinking coffee in cafes in Denmark Street with the likes of guitarists Big Jim Sullivan and Jimmy Page, bassist John Paul Jones, and drummers Bobby Graham and Tony Meehan, they were hired to put down the tracks for hundreds of hit records during those crazy days of the 60s and the 70s.
Clem's career included a decade as a member of The Top of the Pops Orchestra. He was approached for tours by numerous stars, as well as being headhunted for the band that would become Led Zeppelin, and also for Paul McCartney's Wings, both of whom he decided to politely turn down.
During his session days Clem played on recordings for artists as diverse as Cliff Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, Lou Reed, Lulu, Tom Jones and The Who, in the process racking up a mighty 40 No. 1 UK hit singles.
Set against the backdrop of cultural and social development of post-war Britain, Through The Eye Of A Tornado is an affectionate look back over an unparalleled career, with Clem and friends recalling the early days of the British rock and roll scene around Soho, the life of a session musician, and revealing the stories behind the some of the best-known music made in the UK over the past 60 years.
Published by Mango Books (020 7060 4142 - contact@mangobooks.co.uk).
Click here to see the list of Clem's 43 No. 1 singles.


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Third world maize (Zea mays L.) production is characterized by having extremely low yields, attributed in part to the poor planting methods employed. Maize planting in most third world countries involves placing 2–3 seeds per hill, with hills being roughly 30 cm apart. The variability in seeds per hill and distance between hills result in heterogeneous plant stands that are directly responsible for lower yields. Oklahoma State University (OSU) has developed a durable hand planter with a reciprocating internal drum that delivers single maize seeds per strike and that can also be used for mid-season application of urea fertilizer. The hand mountain planter is 1.4 m in length, 5.8 cm in diameter, and weighs 1.9 kg when empty. The seed hopper has the capacity to hold 1 kg of seed and the tip has a sharp pointed shovel which can deliver seed to a planting depth of 5 cm in no-till and tilled soils. The current prototype has been comprehensively tested and evaluated to deliver at least 80% single seeds (singulation), with 0% misses and work well across varying seed sizes (2652–4344 seeds/kg) and different operators. Using the OSU hand planter, third world maize producers with average yields of 2.0 Mg ha−1 could increase yields by 20%.
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Throughout his career Stephen Nasse has never been afraid to share what's on his mind, whether it's about a fellow competitor or even himself. The former was on full display at the Snowball Derby one year ago, but the latter has also been demonstrated as Nasse and the No. 51 team prepare for the 50th Snowball Derby on December 3 at Five Flags Speedway.
Nasse enters this year's Snowball Derby on the heels of a championship season with the Southern Super Series. But despite showing consistency en route to the championship, Nasse didn't reach victory lane. That is something that he's focused on accomplishing as he heads to the biggest race of the year in Pensacola, FL.
After running against drivers that will also be competing in the Derby at the Florida Governor's Cup at New Smyrna Speedway, Nasse came home with his nose clean in seventh. After the run, he determined that there is much to do before heading west on the Panhandle.
Last year, Nasse struggled in Derby qualifying, but rebounded in race conditions, winning the Last Chance Race and charging through the field before a late-race incident with William Byron. This year, qualifying is not the chief concern for Nasse.
The 2017 season was a career year for Nasse, winning the Southern Super Series championship. Although he didn't win a race, he displayed consistency throughout the season. Nasse celebrated a CARS Tour win in October, but it came in the Hamke house car, not his No. 51. For Nasse that's not achieving his own goals. But he feels with effort and his knowledge of the Derby, if his team can crack the answer, he will be able to get a career win.
In addition to running the Super Late Model, Nasse is poised to run the Pro Late Model Allen Turner Snowflake 100 with overwhelming confidence in reserve.
Nasse's confidence comes from the current measuring stick that is Casey Roderick and the Ronnie Sanders Racing team, who Nasse has chased the few times he has run. But he feels the No. 18 is within striking distance.
But no matter what the circumstances are, Nasse's drive is to still win, and he goes in with a goal of making it a clean sweep.
Stephen Nasse considers the high-banked half-mile of New Smyrna Speedway in New Smyrna Beach, Florida to be his home race track. The driver from Pinellas Park, Florida scored his first Super Late Model win at the legendary track a few years ago in addition to having thousands of laps there.
That's why any time Nasse races at New Smyrna Speedway, he expects to win. On Sunday, Nasse finished seventh in the Florida Governor's Cup 200 at New Smyrna, and as a result he was left wondering why he didn't win.
Where Nasse will head from there is down to Pensacola, Florida where he will pull Super and Pro Late Model double-duty at the historic Five Flags Speedway for the 50th Annual Snowball Derby and the Allen Turner Snowflake 100 in early December.
The 2017 Southern Super Series champion struggled in qualifying for both races but was a contender for the win in the late stages of each event in 2016. When asked if he'll be able to rebound down in Pensacola, Nasse had a very simple answer.
Race fans can watch Stephen Nasse in both the Snowflake and the Snowball Derby live on Speed51.com on December 2-3.
For updated schedule information and more on Stephen Nasse, visit www.stephennasse.com. You can also follow Stephen on Twitter at @StephenNasse.
Stephen Nasse has had victory within his grasp on multiple occasions this season but had been unable to secure the win. On Saturday night, that finally changed. Saturday night Nasse climbed behind the wheel of the Hamke house car for a one-off race in the CARS Tour finale at South Boston Speedway and 125 laps later he climbed out in victory lane.
The race was one of intensity and endurance as it was filled with cautions and carnage. Ultimately it came down to which drivers were able to miss the wrecks and keep cool heads while others laid it all on the line. On the last lap, Nasse found himself in third but coming to the checkered he took advantage of the contact between Jake Crum and Matt Craig and was the first across the line.
Nasse didn't know if he would have a chance at the win after an incident in the later half of the race resulted in him restarting from the rear of the field.
Fortunately for the Pinellas Park, FL driver the top two made contact on the last lap opening the perfect door for Nasse to take the lead and ride home clear to the checkers collecting his first win of the season.
With the Southern Super Series championship and now the win he had been hunting for on his shoulders, Nasse turns his attention to the biggest races of the season. The next race on the schedule is the Governor's Cup at New Smyrna Speedway (FL) in mid-November.
Following the Governor's Cup, all focus will be on the prestigious Snowball Derby as Nasse and his team return to Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Florida on December 3rd.
Stephen Nasse has always been a race car driver who goes to the race track with one goal: win the race. However, this season Nasse found himself in an unfamiliar situation battling for a touring series championship. At that time, he decided to chase the championship and that decision paid off as Nasse clinched his first career Southern Super Series championship Saturday night at Five Flags Speedway (FL).
Going into this past weekend's finale at Five Flags, only 11 points separated Nasse from his closest competitor in the standings. Despite that, he made his way to Pensacola having the same goal that he's always had to win.
At the end of the night, Nasse came up just one sport short, but a second-place finish was enough for him to be crowned the 2017 SSS champion.
"We really just wanted to win this season and didn't think we would end up being in any sort of contention for the championship, but to win the Southern Super Series championship has been awesome for myself and my team," Nasse said.
With a championship title from one of the toughest touring Super Late Model series on his resume, Nasse has turned his focus to the next thing on his list: the prestigious All American 400 at the Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville.
Nasse is looking to better his chances of victory as he plans on pulling double duty that weekend, piloting both the Pro Late Model and the Super Late Model for a total of 500 laps.
Although winless, Nasse has had an exceptional season and is looking to build on that as the season continues on and teams roll into "big race season." With races like the All American 400, Winchester 400 and the Snowball Derby around the corner, Nasse can get back to the mentality of parking his No. 51 Late Model in victory lane.
Stephen Nasse picked-up his second top-ten finish in as many races in the JEGS/CRA All-Star Series. The Pinellas Park, FL driver qualified eigth and bettered that by one spot in the 100-lap Pro Late Model event to bring home a seventh place finish.
For more information on Stephen Nasse, visit his website at www.stephennasse.com and follow him on Twitter at @StephenNasse.
Stephen Nasse has plans to only run a handful of Pro Late Model races in 2016, but so far he's found success each time. The Pinellas Park, Florida driver picked up a win in the Baby Rattler in March and more recently scored a top-10 finish in the Champion Racing Oil Mater of the Pro's 144 Saturday at I-44 Speedway in Lebanon, Missouri.
Nasse qualified 17th for the 144-lap event, but quickly worked his way towards the front. By lap 50 he moved into the top 12 and then the Pinnellas Park driver found himself in the 10th position at the lap 100 break.
Over the final 44 laps, Nasse fell back to 11th, but made the pass for 10th with just two laps to go to bring home a top-10 finish.
The 21-year-old driver felt he had a really good car Saturday afternoon and if he would have been able to qualify a little better, he could have competed for the win.
Nasse climbs back behind the wheel of his Super Late Model next weekend for the CARS Tour event at Southern National Motorsports Park. This marks Nasse's second trip to Southern National this year; he finished 12th there with the CARS Tour back at the beginning of April.
Sometimes it's all about being in the right place at the right time, and that's exactly where Stephen Nasse was on Saturday night at South Alabama Speedway. Nasse, of Pinellas Park, Florida, parked his No. 51 Pro Late Model in victory lane after a dramatic ending to the Baby Rattler 125.
As part of the victory lane celebration, Nasse continued a long-standing tradition at South Alabama Speedway by having an Alabama rattlesnake draped around his neck.
Nasse started the 125-lap race from the 11th position and methodically worked his way towards the front. He moved into the top five on lap 70 and into third on lap 106. There was quite a bit of distance between Nasse and the leaders, and it appeared it would be tough for Nasse to close the gap over the final 20 laps.
As the white flag flew, the leaders encountered lap traffic and contact was made between them in turn four. Nasse avoided the incident, completed the final lap and crossed under the checkered flag in second.
After the checkers flew, track officials made the decision to put the initial race winner to the rear for his involvement in the last lap incident. This gave Nasse the win and he moved his No. 51 machine into victory lane for a date with the rattlesnake.
It's no secret that Nasse has always been strong in his home state of Florida, but his win in the Baby Rattler 125 proved he can get it done at other tracks as well. It's a confidence that keeps growing for the 20-year-old driver and he thinks this year they will be a threat wherever they go.
Nasse was hoping for that next win to come the following day, when he looked to become the first driver to complete the Rattler weekend sweep at South Alabama Speedway.
Nasse qualified sixth for the 40th annual Rattler 250 and looked strong right away. He raced in the top three throughout the course of the first 100 laps, even briefly grabbing the lead on lap 7.
There was a competition caution and a 10 minute break at lap 100 to give drivers a chance to make adjustments, take tires and fuel their machines. When the green flag dropped again, Nasse remained strong in the top five over the next 40 laps. Some hard racing for position led to contact with another driver, causing Nasse to drop back to the 15th position. Nasse could tell something was not right with his No. 51, but he held on in the top 15 until the next break at lap 200.
Nasse remained in the top 15 for the next 27 laps, but when the caution flew again, he could sense more damage and was forced to retire for the day.
The next race on Nasse's 2016 racing scheduled has yet to be determined. He's planning on being at the CARS Tour season opener on April 2 at Southern National Motorsports Park (NC), but is unsure if he'll race anywhere else before then.
Fresh off a strong showing during the World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing at New Smyrna Speedway, Stephen Nasse is prepared to tame South Alabama Speedway and meet the rattlesnake in victory lane at the Rattler 250.
The 20-year-old Super Late Model racer will make his way to South Alabama Speedway with the DLP Motorsports team for the Southern Super Series season opener on Sunday, March 20.
A win at the Rattler isn't out of the question for the Pinellas Park, Florida driver. Over the past two years he has captured two top-10 finishes, including a sixth-place finish in 2014. He also qualified second for the race one year ago and started the race from the outside of the front row.
While Nasse has found success at South Alabama Speedway as of late, when it gets right down to it, anything less than a win would be considered a disappointment. Now a veteran of Super Late Model racing, he has a new focus for 2016.
Nasse acknowledges the stiff competition that he's up against and knows that earning his first win of 2016 is easier said than done. Not only is he up against the best of the best in Super Late Model racing, but he also must survive 250-laps at South Alabama Speedway to put himself in a position to take the checkers.
The Rattler 250 weekend kicks off with practice and qualifying on Saturday, March 19 and concludes with the 40th annual Rattler 250 on Sunday, March 20. Race fans unable to attend the race at South Alabama Speedway can watch Nasse live via an online television-style broadcast on Speed51.com.


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Yulia was born into a musical family, showing great interest in music from her earliest years. Upon graduating from music high school in 2004 she entered the Moscow Conservatory where her professors included the notable pianists Naum Shtarkman and Ruvim Ostrovsky. Resident in Switzerland since 2010, she continued her musical education as a student of Konstantin Scherbakov (Concert Diploma and Diploma in Music Pedagogy) and Peter Solomon (orchestra piano, harpsichord and organ).
An extensive repertoire and outstanding skills have won her prizes and acclaim at several renowned international competitions (including the International Adilia Alieva Competition in Gaillard, France; Jean Francaix International Competition, Paris; Kiwanis Competition and Landolt Competition, Zurich; Kiefer Hablitzel Competition, Bern; IBLA Competition, Ragusa Ibla, Italy; Concours musical de France, Paris) and festivals (including Herbst in der Helferei, Musiksommer am Zurichsee, Pro Nota-Konzerte Nordhorn, Rainbow 21 in Suntory Hall Tokyo, Zurcher Festspiele, BSI Festival Engadin and the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad). She has participated in numerous masterclasses (with Konstantin Scherbakov, Vera Gornostaeva, Liliya Zilberstein, Robert Levin, Dmitri Bashkirov, Homero Francesch, Ulrich Koella, Henri Sigfridsson and David Zinman). She was also awarded scholarships by the Marguerite Meister and Rahn Foundations in Zurich.
Her pianistic activities are not confined to solo performance: she also plays in various ensembles, duets, trios and other musical groups. She has performed together with Konstantin Scherbakov (piano), Alexander Rudin (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano), Martin Grubinger (percussion), Rainer Seegers (percussion), Kristjan Johannsson (tenor), Ilya Gringolts (violin) and Stefan Tarara (violin). As a concerto soloist she has played with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany), Orchestra TU Darmstadt, Giraud Ensemble Zurich, Kazan 'Romantic' Orchestra (Russia), Orchestra of the Zurich University of the Arts.
Other engagements, for example as church organist in Wildberg ZH and musical assistant, harpsichordist and organist at the OperOderSpree Festival (Germany) testify to Yulia's versatility.
As an orchestra pianist she has performed under conductors including David Zinman, Franz Welser-Most, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Manfred Honeck, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Marc Kissoczy, Pierre-Andre Valade and Lionel Bringuier.