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Greenwood man arrested in incident that led to school lockdown
Updated: 7:00 AM CDT Aug 23, 2016
UPDATE 5:05 p.m.: The Greenwood Police Department released new information on the incident that resulted in the lockdown.Friday morning, Northeastern State University began investigating a text message that included language about a school shooting, and was perceived as a threat, according to Greenwood Police Chief Will Dawson. Although no specific school was mentioned, the location of the phone was found to be in Greenwood.A Greenwood man named Justin Hashaw, age 20, was arrested and charged with one count of Communicating a False Alarm.------------UPDATE:Greenwood Schools Assistant Superintendent Suzanne Wilson released this statement to 40/29 News:"At approximately 1:15 p.m. today the Greenwood Police Department reported to Greenwood School District personnel that a vague threat had been received and reported to local authorities by another agency. Due to this the Greenwood School District temporarily placed its schools under alert and several additional law enforcement officers were dispatched to each campus.At approximately 2:10 the Greenwood School District along with Greenwood PD determined that school activities could resume to normal.The Greenwood School District would like to thank the Greenwood Police Department and the Sebastian County Sheriff's office for having an additional presence on our campuses. "-----------------A lockdown for Greenwood Public Schools was lifted Monday afternoon, according to a post on the school district's Facebook page.An employee with the schools confirmed the information.The post lifting the lockdown read:"The lockdown has been lifted for all schools. Thanks to the local law enforcement for their support this afternoon!"The initial post read:"All of the Greenwood schools are on a precautionary lockdown pending a threat in the outlying areas of Greenwood. All students and staff are safe. Law enforcement are at all schools as an extra precaution. We are asking that parents not come to check out their children early at this time. Thank you for your cooperation."
GREENWOOD —
UPDATE 5:05 p.m.: The Greenwood Police Department released new information on the incident that resulted in the lockdown.
Friday morning, Northeastern State University began investigating a text message that included language about a school shooting, and was perceived as a threat, according to Greenwood Police Chief Will Dawson. Although no specific school was mentioned, the location of the phone was found to be in Greenwood.
A Greenwood man named Justin Hashaw, age 20, was arrested and charged with one count of Communicating a False Alarm.
Greenwood Schools Assistant Superintendent Suzanne Wilson released this statement to 40/29 News:
"At approximately 1:15 p.m. today the Greenwood Police Department reported to Greenwood School District personnel that a vague threat had been received and reported to local authorities by another agency. Due to this the Greenwood School District temporarily placed its schools under alert and several additional law enforcement officers were dispatched to each campus.
At approximately 2:10 the Greenwood School District along with Greenwood PD determined that school activities could resume to normal.
The Greenwood School District would like to thank the Greenwood Police Department and the Sebastian County Sheriff's office for having an additional presence on our campuses. "
A lockdown for Greenwood Public Schools was lifted Monday afternoon, according to a post on the school district's Facebook page.
An employee with the schools confirmed the information.
The post lifting the lockdown read:
"The lockdown has been lifted for all schools. Thanks to the local law enforcement for their support this afternoon!"
The initial post read:
"All of the Greenwood schools are on a precautionary lockdown pending a threat in the outlying areas of Greenwood. All students and staff are safe. Law enforcement are at all schools as an extra precaution. We are asking that parents not come to check out their children early at this time. Thank you for your cooperation."


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Legislation / Standards
"The employee was not a good worker, so I did not think they deserved to be paid the National Minimum Wage"
By Eric Bignell , 17 August, 2021
While the vast majority of employers pay their employees at least the National Minimum Wage, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has published some of the excuses it has received from those who don't.
Last year (2020 to 2021) HMRC helped more than 155,000 workers recover more than £16million that they had not received because they were paid less than the minimum wage. It also imposed more than £14million of penalties on employers who did not pay the minimum wage.
These are some of the excuses given by employers for flouting the law:
"She does not deserve the National Minimum Wage because she only makes the teas and sweeps the floors."
"The employee was not a good worker, so I did not think they deserved to be paid the National Minimum Wage."
"My accountant and I speak a different language – he does not understand me, and that is why he does not pay my workers the correct wages."
"My employee is still learning so they are not entitled to the National Minimum Wage."
"It is part of UK culture not to pay young workers for the first three months as they have to prove their 'worth' first."
"The National Minimum Wage does not apply to my business."
"I have got an agreement with my workers that I will not pay them the National Minimum Wage; they understand, and they even signed a contract to this effect."
"I thought it was okay to pay young workers below the National Minimum Wage as they are not British and therefore do not have the right to be paid it."
"My workers like to think of themselves as being self-employed and the National Minimum Wage does not apply to people who work for themselves."
"My workers are often just on standby when there are no customers in the shop; I only pay them for when they are actually serving someone."
Steve Timewell, the Individuals & Small Business Compliance Director at HMRC, says: "The majority of UK employers pay their workers at least the National Minimum Wage, but this list shows some of the excuses provided to our enforcement officers by less scrupulous businesses.
"Being underpaid is no joke for workers, so we always apply the law and take action. Workers cannot be asked or told to sign-away their rights.
"We are making sure that workers are being paid what they are entitled to and, as the economy re-opens, reminding employers of the rules and the help that is available to them.
"HMRC reviews every complaint made about the minimum wage, so if you think you are being short-changed, or are a business that is unsure of the rules or needs help to get things right, get in touch and we will help you.
"But any employer deliberately or unapologetically underpaying their staff will face hefty fines and other enforcement action."
The National Minimum Wage hourly rates are currently:
£8.91 - Age 23 or over (National Living Wage)
£8.36 - Age 21 to 22
£4.62 - Age under 18
£4.30 - Apprentice.
HMRC is reminding workers to check the hourly rate of pay they are actually getting, and also to check any deductions or unpaid working time, as part of the Government's commitment to build back fairer from the pandemic.
Anyone not being paid what they are entitled to can complain online here.
If you want to speak to someone in confidence, you should phone the ACAS Pay & Work Rights Helpline on 0300 123 1100.
Employers can also contact the ACAS Helpline for free help and advice, or visit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/calculating-the-minimum-wage to find out more.

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Kunstler: Mistaken Futures
And so the Democratic Party has gone and hoisted the flag of "socialism" on the mizzenmast of its foundering hulk as it sets sail for the edge of the world. Bad call by a ship without a captain, and I'll tell you why. Socialism was the response to a particular set of circumstances in time that drove the rise of industrial societies. Those circumstances are going, going, gone.
The suspicion of industry's dreadful effects on the human condition first sparked in the public imagination with William Blake's poem "Jerusalem" in 1804 and its reference to England's newly-built "dark satanic mills." Industry at the grand scale overturned everyday life in the Euro-American "West" by the mid-19th century, and introduced a new kind of squalor for the masses, arguably worse than their former status as peasants.
And thus it was to be, through Karl Marx, Vlad Lenin, and the rest of the gang, ever-strategizing to somehow mitigate all that suffering. Their Big Idea was that if government owned the industry (the means of production), then the riches would be distributed equally among the laboring masses and the squalor eliminated. You can't blame them for trying, though you can blame them for killing scores of millions of people who somehow got in the way of their plans.
Nobody had ever seen anything like this industry before, or had to figure out some way to deal with it, and it was such an enormous force in everyday life thereafter that it shattered human relationships with nature and the planet nature rode in on. Of course, the history of everything has a beginning, a middle, and an end, and we're closer to the end of the industrial story than we are to the middle.
Which opens the door to a great quandary. If industrial society is disintegrating (literally), then what takes its place? Many suppose that it is a robotic utopia powered by some as-yet-unharnessed cosmic juice, a nirvana of algorithms, culminating in orgasm-without-end (Ray Kurzweil's transhumanism). Personally, I would check the "no" box on that outcome as a likely scenario.
The self-proclaimed socialists are actually seeing the world through a rear-view mirror. What they are really talking about is divvying up the previously-accumulated wealth, soon to be bygone. Entropy is having its wicked way with that wealth, first by transmogrifying it into ever more abstract forms, and then by dissipating it as waste all over the planet. In short, the next time socialism is enlisted as a tool for redistributing wealth, we will make the unhappy discovery that most of that wealth is gone.
The process will be uncomfortably sharp and disorientating. The West especially will not know what hit it as it emergently self-reorganizes back into something that resembles the old-time feudalism. We have a new kind of mass squalor in America: a great many people who have nothing to do, no means of support, and the flimsiest notions of purpose in life. The socialists have no answers for them. They will not be "retrained" in some imagined federal crusade to turn meth freaks into code-writers for Google.
Something the analysts are calling "recession" is ploughing across the landscape like one of those darkly majestic dust-storms of the 1930s, only this time we won't be able to re-fight anything like World War Two to get all the machines running again in the aftermath. Nor, of course, will the Make America Great Again fantasy work out for those waiting in the squalid ruins of the post-industrial rust-belt or the strip-mall wastelands of the Sunbelt.
Most of the beliefs and attitudes of the present day will be overturned with the demise of the industrial orgy, like the idea that humanity follows an unerring arc of progress, that men and women are interchangeable and can do exactly the same work, that society should not be hierarchical, that technology will rescue us, and that we can organize some political work-arounds to avoid the pain of universal contraction.
There are no coherent ideas in the political arena just now. Our prospects are really too alarming. So, jump on-board the socialism ship and see if it makes you feel better to sail to the end of the earth. But mind the gap at the very edge. It's a doozie.
Kunstler
84 Comments on "Kunstler: Mistaken Futures"
Davy on Wed, 13th Feb 2019 5:45 am
"Soros Confirms He Is Losing In Europe"
https://tinyurl.com/y44cqgx3
"People with power only come out of the closet and plead like this when they are losing. Empires don't negotiate, they dictate. The same goes for billionaire financiers who are the product of the bubbles they helped blow but refuse to accept the responsibility for when they pop. No, that's the fault of those savage Euroskeptics not being sufficiently committed to the cause. Y'all aren't woke enough in Soros-land. People like Soros buy influence behind the scenes to get what they want. Soros outing himself from behind the curtain is telling of how anxious he has become. Instead of sounding like a prophet, he comes off as a clueless old leftie with a lot of money in his pocket talking his book. To those truly woke to Soros' schtick, I say what else is new? He is no different than the tired and moldy Marxists in the Democratic Party here in the U.S. and their useful idiots, arguing that Socialism hasn't failed, it simply hasn't been properly implemented yet. So 150 million dead people (not counting the wars) in the 20th century wasn't refutation enough? You can rebrand it 'Democratic Socialism' or 'Stakeholder Capitalism' all you want, but in the end it is still just a bunch of dudes and dudettes, sitting around playing god while the rest of us toil waiting for the costs of going along with them rising above the cost of overthrowing you. Welcome to the World Socialism Built. Democratic Socialism has been the dominant political ideology of the age, going back to the Progressive Era. Y'all have been in charge in some form or another for the past 90 years and Soros thinks the reason his social engineering experiment called the EU is failing because of outdated political party systems he sees as vestiges of the fight between labor and capital. I'm not shocked George has gotten this all wrong since he made his money fixing currency markets, having gotten his money neither through labor or the creation of capital goods. Soros mistook getting uber-rich in a corrupt system somehow validated his sense of superiority, versus just being a crook. Hubris is the downfall of all rulers and would-be Emperors. And if he lived in a different time he may have been able to pull this off. But global communications, the natural forces of decentralization and the basic laws of both physics and economics caught up with him before his dreams could come to light. If there was ever a moment that signaled the end of the European Union, it was George Soros admitting, in public, that we should look on all his works and despair."
"Chinese investment giant CMIG misses bond payment, sending shockwaves through US$11 trillion market"
https://tinyurl.com/y5q4l98o
"An investment giant backed by dozens of the biggest Chinese firms and dubbed the "the aircraft carrier of China's private companies" by local media has partly suspended trading of its bonds after missing a repayment. The case underlines the mounting pressure in the country's US$11 trillion bond market, said analysts, as a liquidity crunch forces an increasing number of heavily indebted companies to the brink of default. China Minsheng Investment Group (CMIG) has stopped taking bids for three of its bonds "due to recent price volatilities", according to a filing issued on Tuesday morning through the Shanghai Stock Exchange. One of the three bonds had plunged by more than 27 per cent on Monday, as investors sold off amid concerns about CMIG's financial condition."
"Europe Looks Like the Real Weak Link in the Global Economy"
https://tinyurl.com/y6pkmn7q
"The concern I have right now is in Europe," said Salman Ahmed, chief investment strategist at Lombard Odier. "It's clear China is going through a slowdown, but there's also a strong amount of stimulus in the pipeline. However, in Europe, things are deteriorating quite fast." The extent and surprising suddenness of the weakness reflects that the slowdown is hitting the core of the region. While the likes of Greece were at the root of past sluggishness, this time Germany's prospects are crumbling after a protracted slump in manufacturing. Household spending has also ground to a halt in France, which is beset by the Yellow Vest protests. Together those two countries account for about half the euro-area economy. "If France stops consuming and Germany stops producing you have a major problem in the euro zone," said Ludovic Subran, deputy chief economist at Allianz."
Antius on Wed, 13th Feb 2019 6:50 am
"ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ'S 'CORRUPTION GAME' SPEECH IS NOW THE MOST VIEWED TWITTER VIDEO OF ANY POLITICIAN"
To a lot people, especially young, bored and low-IQ people; identity and passion are more important than substance. This is how dictators come to power in democratic systems.
I read some extracts from the AOC Green New Deal yesterday. If something sounds like it was written by a bimbo with the educational achievement of a cocktail waitress, it's probably because it was. The document reads like a wish list for a lefty green fantasy world, rather than a practical plan. It lacks any practical understanding of the real world energy economy. Socialism is full of that sort of shit. It is all about the perfection of a vision. The real enactment of the fantasy in the complex real world is just details that these people don't want to think about and is typically swept to the side-lines.
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 13th Feb 2019 7:29 am
Calm down Grandpa..Don't want to make a mess in your diaper..
Dredd on Wed, 13th Feb 2019 7:38 am
Why stick with the current status quo feudalism (American Feudalism – 10)?
Got plutocrats?
Are you one of those young guys still peeing in his bed? LOL
Mitch on Wed, 13th Feb 2019 8:43 am
Your three above Zero Hedge links are all off topic Davy.
The above article was about socialism in America. It is not about George Soros, Europe, or China.
Davy on Wed, 13th Feb 2019 10:34 am
"Things Are Deteriorating Quite Fast": Europe Emerges As World's "Weakest Link"
http://tinyurl.com/y4un7mte
"Last week, when looking at the latest regional Industrial Production figures out of European nations, we made a simple observation: while GDP has yet to confirm, Europe is now in a recession. And according to Bloomberg, just a few days later, Europe has indeed emerged as the world's weakest link, and perhaps more so than the outcome of the US-China trade war, "it is Europe that increasingly looks like the biggest threat to global growth." As evidence, Bloomberg cites the same data that we highlighted last week, namely that industrial production across the 19-nation euro area is "falling at the fastest pace since the financial crisis, and deteriorating demand is evident as the region finds itself squeezed between international and domestic drags." According to Wednesday data, industrial output for the Euro area slumped 0.9% in December from November, double the forecast, while the annual decline was the steepest since 2009."
"Making matters worse, Europe is sliding into contraction at the worst possible time: just as the ECB has ended its QE, although the silver lining is that any speculation for a rate hike by Mario Draghi have been permanently crushed, and like in the US, the only question now is when will QE return. As a result, the Bloomberg euro index is near its lowest since mid-2017 and European stocks have never been cheaper relative to bonds in terms of yield gap. And investors are not happy. "The concern I have right now is in Europe," said Salman Ahmed, chief investment strategist at Lombard Odier. "It's clear China is going through a slowdown, but there's also a strong amount of stimulus in the pipeline. However, in Europe, things are deteriorating quite fast."
Cloggie on Wed, 13th Feb 2019 10:58 am
Dear Britain, in your own best interest, sign the Barnier-Raab deal:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6700273/Ford-warns-no-deal-Brexit-catastrophic.html
"Ford warns no-deal Brexit would be 'catastrophic' amid claims the car giant is preparing to shift production out of the UK"
Signing means that your biggest export and import trade flows keep flowing unhindered, it is the best chance to keep Scotland and Northern-Ireland in your union and you still have some geopolitical freedom, for instance to administer Anglo-Canada, "after the brake".
Sure, a no-deal Brexit will hurt Britain and Europe in equal measure, it is just that two equal quantum's of hurt are going to be smeared out on two population blocks of considerable different sizes.
And for the initiated in the JQ, a no-deal Brexit means that the British population stubbornly will go into the "Dunkerque mode" and as such will become an easy prey for ZOG, currently slightly tempered by the Trump presidency, but he won't live for ever either, and if the left returns with a vengeance after Trump AND European-America will not revolt (not entirely unthinkable), you are stuck in a world as predicted by Orwell, an Orwellian world to be precise…
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/which-future-world/
(2nd map)
…and you'll be missing out on the populist revolt, now underway in continental Europe and kiss British Britain goodbye for good.
But perhaps the Good Lawd in the skies above has meant it this way, namely that all great religions, namely Christianity, Judaism, Confucianism and Islam, should have their foothold, somewhere in the wide world, competing with each other, again as predicted by Orwell, always at war with each other, but only at the border, since an all-out war between A and B would only benefit C and D.
A no-deal Brexit means an accelerated end of the West, pushing continental Europe into the arms of Eurasia and Russia in particular, but it also diminishes the chance of continental Europeans liberating the Anglos from their multicultural (((tormentors))), a scenario of which a European-American revolt is an essential precondition (no such revolt is to be expected from the British, other than Scots in the form of a unilateral declared independence).
Anyways, we in continental Europe are outta here, it was nice to have known you all, but we have bigger fish to fry than being the servant of Uncle Schmull. Or as they say in Islamistan: "Death to the West!"
"after the brake".
Pun intended because of Ford.
Seriously: "after the break"
Antius on Wed, 13th Feb 2019 11:25 am
"Dear Britain, in your own best interest, sign the Barnier-Raab deal"
Why? We would be locking ourselves into a subservient arrangement with an entity that may not exist in five years' time. It would not be good for Britain's long-term economic prospects (which do not look good in any event) to get tied into being an EU client state and losing all ability to set our own trade arrangements with the outside world.
No doubt there will be economic losses associated with the transition to freedom; so be it. A slave escaping from jail may go hungry for a while without prison food; but his long-term prospects are dramatically improved by escaping.
As for a populist rebellion; signing that ridiculous document would have no bearing on its likelihood within the UK. We would still be under the boot of the same despotic regime, whether we remain or not. With the coming economic apocalypse caused by debt defaults, the unwinding of ZIRP and quantitative easing; every country in the western world is facing a dramatic reordering of its internal political order. It may take longer in Britain.
From Davy's Zerohedge link, the part he "forgot" to quote:
Meanwhile, like Deutsche Bank, Goldman recently downgraded its near-term euro-area expectations, although it remains optimistic on the longer-term outlook, and sees an improvement later this year, thanks to a boost from lower oil prices and fiscal policy. ABN Amro economist Aline Schuling shares the view: "The domestic economy is quite resilient. You could very well have a negative first quarter and a weakish second, but after that it should pick up again. I don't expect a deep or prolonged recession."
Cloggie, these sorts of forecasts are speculations; educated guesses at best. None of them saw the 2008 crisis coming, in spite of the obvious tell-tale signs of growing bad debt levels, rising oil prices and rising US interest rates. It didn't take a lot of intelligence to see what was coming, yet these people failed to pick up on it.
It is safe to rely on these people to tell you what is happening now. But ask them to tell you the future? You might as well find an old gypsy woman with a crystal ball. That's about as reliable as long term financial forecasts from institutions like Goldman really are. These people would have no incentive to share the truth even if they could see it.
We would be locking ourselves into a subservient arrangement with an entity that may not exist in five years' time.
The alternative is an even more subservient arrangement with the US, that also may not not exist in 5 years time:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/cw2-brewing/
Britain is too small to stand on its own feet, unless you opt for an isolated and poor Albania status under the loving care of Jeremy Hoxha.
It would not be good for Britain's long-term economic prospects (which do not look good in any event) to get tied into being an EU client state and losing all ability to set our own trade arrangements with the outside world.
Hookay, so you are going to break economic ties with your most important trading partner by far, in order to replace those with imaginary ties (Congo? Argentina?) that have yet to materialize. And you are not only going to lose trade relations, you are also going to lose all major companies like Ford, Shell, Unilever, the lot.
A slave escaping from jail may go hungry for a while without prison food; but his long-term prospects are dramatically improved by escaping.
A "slave" sounds pretty dramatic. Rules are made by the governments of the member states, including the British government. I still think that a British white nationalist like you (not to be confused with a pan-European white nationalist like me), would be slightly better protected by the emerging right-wing mood in Europe and European governments forced to act on the rising influence of the populists, than if you are left alone at the mercy of the British government and society, where populism (as in closet white nationalism) is simply absent, in contrast to continental Europe.
But it is your choice. As I have said numerous times before, I absolutely love Brexit, deal or no-deal, like Trump it is a God-send, because it enables us to leave the West and team up with the Russians and protect our racial integrity, where uncle Schmull is hell-bent on ramming Anglo-whitey into minority status:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/paul-krugman-white-americans-are-losing-their-country/
Whatever. Your owners have already given up on continental Europe…
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/the-good-news-zog-is-dying/
… but sure as hell not on Anglos, like you.
You are walking straight into Oceania. Good luck with that.
Ah well, island mentality, 500 years of balance of power, etc., etc. I understand.
/bigshrugg
Indeed. One of the "attractions" of peak oil was that it implied a major crisis, that would have broken the status quo. Peak oil didn't happen and will not happen (peak oil supply that is) but other factors have emerged: the political crisis in the US, rising China and a Russia that withstands the pressure from the West. And then there are the European populists.
We no longer need peak oil to survive as white civilization. The NWO is definitely over.
I have never been so upbeat since my "minimum" in 2000.
Cloggie on Wed, 13th Feb 2019 2:08 pm
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/brexit-nur-vier-eu-abkommen-fuer-grossbritannien-kopiert-a-1253095.html
UK trade minister going nowhere with setting up trade deals. Brexit means the loss of existing deals with 100 countries. So far 4 new deals have been achieved:
ESA (African club)
Far Oer
Not only Ford, Nissan too hints at a withdrawal:
https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/foreign/2019/02/11/nissan-brexit-eu/39037593/
autistmouse on Wed, 13th Feb 2019 5:20 pm
This was a close as Kunstler has come in a long time to making sense. Too bad many of the commenters missed the point. There is no future socialist, status quo, or otherwise in these super human scale systems. The future is small. With each group being very distinctive from their neighbors. Anyone barking about Soros or the Kochs may be right about the powers that be in the moment but in even the moderate term they just don't matter.
makati1 on Wed, 13th Feb 2019 6:02 pm
"Rats, Public Defecation And Open Drug Use: Our Major Western Cities Are Becoming Uninhabitable Hellholes"
"The Denver City Council has voted unanimously to decriminalize a number of offenses, including defecating in public. Also, urinating in public. Camping on public or private land without permission. Panhandling. And lying across public rights-of-way, such as sidewalks."
"People from all over the world are drawn to Los Angeles because of what they have seen on television, but it is truly a filthy, filthy place. The number of homeless has been rising about 20 percent a year, public drug use is seemingly everywhere, and there are mountains of trash all over the place. Needless to say, rats thrive in such an environment,…"
"Each day in San Francisco, an average of 85 cars are broken into. Inside Edition" ran a test to see how long stereo equipment would last in a parked car. Their test car was quickly broken into. Then the camera crew discovered that their own car had been busted into as well." LOL
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/rats-public-defecation-and-open-drug-use-our-major-western-cities-are-becoming-uninhabitable-hellholes
Slip slidin' faster and faster…to 3rd world America.
Cloggie on Thu, 14th Feb 2019 2:13 am
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6702327/McDonnell-labels-Churchill-villain.html
"McDonnell labels Churchill a 'villain': Shadow Chancellor provokes furious backlash as he 'blackens the name' of wartime PM for ordering in troops to quell miner riots in 1910"
British icon under attack. I do not often agree with lefties, except for environment and a decent social minimum, but here I do. Which is not that strange if the argument is with the Tories.
If you distance yourself enough from history, it is difficult to argue that Churchill was not the "greatest Briton who ever lived" (for starters he was half-American), but the greatest disaster ever to befell the British isles. He was in the pay of international kosherdom and was the key element in bringing the US (and Soviet) empires about, at the cost of Europe and most of all of the British empire itself. It is difficult to come up with an historic example of a greater traitor than WC.
In 1939, Britain was the #1 country in the world (thanks to coal and stream engine). When he accomplished what folks like Waley Cohen (chairman of Shell) paid him to do, namely maneuver Britain into war with Germany, a war of choice, as a crucial step to ensure kosher rule, not only over the US and USSR, but over Europe as well, Britain ended up as a miserable US colony, until today. As a consequence it has a third world capital. And a no-deal Brexit will mean that the island will get in a tail spin and end up in a role and relationship to the US, comparable to what Cuba was to the USSR: an impoverished satellite.
Well, at least the overlord speaks English.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6703563/May-faces-Brexit-showdown.html
"Remainers and Brexiteers plot to break May's heart in crunch Valentine's Day votes as she faces bid to force referendum and revolt over ruling out no deal"
British political deadlock continuous with no end in sight, except of course the default no-deal abyss of March 29.
Meanwhile Nordstream-2 is getting completed, despite protests of the US ambassador to Germany and the German government is thinking softly aloud about German nuclear armament. Hint: they will get the nukes for free from Russia, if Russia is accepted as a full member of Gorbachev's European House.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Home
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/paris-berlin-moscow/
And as bonus the Russians will free the Germans of the holohoax as well. They have the documents in their archive to prove it.
How did Lord Heseltine put it again?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/24/lord-heseltine-suggests-brexit-allowing-germany-win-world-war/
Heseltine is too smart for Britain, where the BoJo's rule.
Davy on Thu, 14th Feb 2019 3:56 am
"Where A No-Deal Brexit Would Hit Hardest"
https://tinyurl.com/y3rl247y
https://tinyurl.com/y2m8twfl
"It found that Germany could lose the most jobs with around 103,000 threatened if the UK crashes out of the EU with no deal. Even though Europe's economic powerhouse could be impacted most in terms of the sheer number of jobs, the situation is different when it comes to the share of total employment threatened. In this case, only 0.24 percent of Germany's workforce would be under threat compared to 1.03 percent of all jobs in Ireland. That's despite "only" 19,800 Irish jobs potentially being impacted."
"Russia Readies Own Web To Survive Global Internet Shutdown"
https://tinyurl.com/y6cxalpn
https://tinyurl.com/y3cbokn4
"Telecom operators (MegaFon, VimpelCom (Beeline brand), MTS, Rostelecom and others) will have to introduce the "technical means" to re-route all Russian internet traffic to exchange points approved by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor), Russia's federal executive body responsible for censorship in media and telecommunications. Roskomnazor will observe all internet traffic and make sure data between Russian users stays within the country's borders, and is not re-routed abroad. The exercise is expected to occur before April 1, as Russian authorities have not given exact dates. The measures described in the law include Russia constructing its internet system, known as Domain Name System (DNS), so it can operate independently from the rest of the world. Across the world, 12 companies oversee the root servers for DNS and none are located in Russia. However, there are copies of Russia's core internet address book inside the country suggesting its internet could keep operating if the US cut it off. Ultimately, the Russian government will require all domestic traffic to pass through government-controlled routing points. These hubs will filter traffic so that data sent between Russians internet users work seamlessly, but any data to foreign computers would be rejected. Besides protecting its internet, Russia is simultaneously building a mass censorship system similar to that seen in China."
"Airbus scraps A380 superjumbo jet as sales slump"
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"European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has pulled the plug on its struggling A380 superjumbo, which entered service just 12 years ago. Airbus said last deliveries of the world's largest passenger aircraft, which cost at least $25bn (£19.4bn) to develop, would be made in 2021. The decision comes after Emirates, the largest A380 customer, cut its order. The A380 faced fierce competition from smaller, more efficient aircraft and has never made a profit."
"How China's JPMorgan Wannabe Became a $34 Billion Debt Risk"
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"It was supposed to be China's answer to JPMorgan Chase & Co. But less than five years after China Minsheng Investment Group Corp. outlined plans to become a financial colossus, the company has instead turned into a symbol of the turmoil sweeping China's once-vaunted private sector. CMIG shocked investors by missing a bond payment on Jan. 29, before scraping together enough cash to repay the note on Thursday. The company's liquidity crunch, caused by what analysts describe as a combination of mismanagement and tighter lending conditions in China, underscores a sometimes overlooked risk to the global economy in the era of Trump, Brexit and trade wars. As China reins in the shadow-banking system that fed its private sector with cheap credit for more than half a decade, companies that were meant to be pillars of the nation's growth miracle are proving surprisingly fragile. "CMIG is not an isolated case,'' said Fan Wei, vice general manager of the fixed-income department at Shenwan Hongyuan Securities Co. "Many Chinese companies face declining investment returns and refinancing difficulties that have plunged them into debt woes.''
"Global wind annual installations are expected to grow 40% in the next decade – from 53 [gigawatts (GW)] in 2018 to over 75GW by 2027," said Shashi Barla, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables senior analyst. "Pressure to lower the levelized cost of electricity (LCoE) is accelerating technology developments, which is causing a wider proliferation of next-generation 4.X/5.X/6.X [megawatt (MW)] turbines. As a result, we expect a 20% decline in the total number of turbines deployed, from over 20,000 turbines in 2018 to just over 16,000 by 2027."
This is not so much groundbreaking news as just the natural observations of the industry as it has been trending over the last couple of years. With technology developments pushing wind turbine power ratings higher, fewer turbines are necessary to accomplish higher overall capacity additions — something which is true for both onshore and offshore. In other words, where once it took 100 2 MW wind turbines to achieve a 200 MW project, it now might only take 33 or 40, depending on the size of onshore turbine.
Cloggie on Thu, 14th Feb 2019 12:46 pm
"May slumps to crushing 303 to 258 Brexit defeat at hands of Tory rebels despite begging them not to weaken her hand with Brussels – and doesn't even turn up to hear grim result of vote"
More political deadlock and hopelessness from Britain.
Meanwhile in Holland…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6703885/No-news-not-good-news-Donald-Tusk-trolls-PM-Brexit.html
"Now the Dutch are calling us Muppets! Foreign minister poses with big blue Brexit 'monster' – as Donald Tusk jibes that May has no 'realistic' ideas for breaking deadlock"
Actually we didn't, we would never do that as we are the most Anglophile country in entire Eurasia. We called Brexit a muppet, a subtle difference.
Nevertheless, we are still more Capitalist than Anglophile, so we are eager to lay our hands on every British company we can lay our hands on, or rather volunteers to come our way.
https://tinyurl.com/y4ckw2p2
"De een zijn dood is de ander zijn brood"
(One's death is the other one his bread)
In Dutch it rimes.
Dutch FM Stef Blok doing the Brexit stunt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWKJS53xu1Y
This is the same foreign minister Stef Blok, who was caught saying during a private speech that the multicultural society was a total failure and that he knew no example of a multicultural society that ended peacefully.
He got some leftist and imperial media flack but tellingly for the political climate in Europe, he survived politically after some halfhearted mutterings about that "he was taken out of context" (he wasn't).
The pictures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6QYzUxE1cs
Cloggie on Thu, 14th Feb 2019 1:01 pm
Interview with Dutch-born US ambassador to the Netherlands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg-6Rhbkc9Y
Euro-army is "a joke" and buying Russian gas is wrong.
Antius on Thu, 14th Feb 2019 2:41 pm
The Euro army is likely to be used to bully dissident countries like Hungary. At present, all Brussels can really do to Hungary for failing to bow down before Islamic migrants is remove its voting rights. In the future, failing to be a good little goy could see the EU army arrive at your border.
US state of emergency:
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/14/politics/donald-trump-wall-funding-bill/index.html
"McConnell says Trump will sign funding bill, declare a national emergency"
Finally a politician who does what he promised.
https://www.rt.com/news/451486-putin-us-withdrawal-syria/
Just on the German news… which partner do the Germans trust most?
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/deutschlandtrend-1515~magnifier_pos-4.html
Frankreich…………..89%
Gross-Britannien….54%
Russland…………….35%
Amerika………………24%
Compare that with April 2016:
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France constant high, Russia up, UK/US down, US even massively down.
Cloggie on Fri, 15th Feb 2019 12:24 pm
I don't think so. Things are changing rapidly in Europe, moving to the right. The block of Eastern European nations would never cooperate with such an action. We need a Euro-army to finally get out of the shadow of the US and take our fate in our own hand. And at least as important: to have a tool to intervene in North-America if things go terrible wrong there (or terrible right, it's a matter of perspective).
Davy on Fri, 15th Feb 2019 1:14 pm
The Euro army will likely never amount to much more than a concoction of French and German units. These units will never mesh as a unified army. Combining units from both nations are a good idea for specialized tasks like missile defense and forces which are too expensive to duplicate like Special Forces with rapid deployment capabilities.


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Austal Australia delivers the 10th GCPB
May 10, 2021, by Sanja Pekic
Austal Australia has delivered RSIPV Taro, the tenth Guardian-class patrol boat (GCPB) to the Australian Department of Defence.
Courtesy of Austal
RSIPV Taro, named after Taro Island (capital of the Choiseul Province, located in the far northwest of the Solomon Islands archipelago), is the second of two guardian-class patrol boats that are to be delivered to the Solomon Islands under the Pacific Patrol Boat Replacement Project.
This follows the delivery of the RSIPV Gizo in November 2019.
The Pacific Patrol Boat Replacement (PPB-R) Project was granted to Austal in May 2016, with an additional contract option awarded in April 2018. The program includes 21 vessels, valued at more than A$335 million.
The project is a part of the Australian Government's Pacific Maritime Security Program.
Austal CEO Paddy Gregg said: "The RSIPV Taro is the tenth guardian-class patrol boat we have completed for the Australian Government, out of a total 21 vessels we are constructing and sustaining under the Pacific Patrol Boat Replacement Project."
Austal Australian shipyard is reported to be well on track to deliver all 21 guardian-class patrol boats by the end of 2023.
The GCPBs are faster, with improved seakeeping, better amenities, and an enhanced mission capability, including an integrated RHIB stern launch and recovery system. They provide the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force with an improved naval asset to carry out border patrols, regional policing, search and rescue, and other operations.
Twelve Pacific Island nations including Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau, Samoa, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Timor Leste will receive the vessels through to 2023.
Austal Australia's expanded service center in Cairns, now incorporating a 1,200 tonnes (80 metres LOA) slipway and an 1,120 tonnes mobile boat hoist, continues to provide in-service support to the guardian-class patrol boat fleet.
RSIPV Taro is a 39.5 metres steel monohull patrol boat, designed, constructed, and sustained by Austal Australia. It is based on a design platform that has included the 38 metres Bay-class, 56 metres Armidale-class and 58 metres Cape-class patrol boats that are in service with the Australian Border Force and Royal Australian Navy.
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Australia's first Arafura-class offshore patrol vessel hits the water


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I'm coming out, but it isn't what you're thinking. I'm writing this to finish answering a question that I was asked 25 years ago by an attending physician. He was a Scotsman with a ruddy complexion and it was early in my third year of medical school. I had been up since 4am rounding on patients and then assisting on a general surgery case.
Answering the esoteric questions the Scotsman posed had gone well that morning and I was feeling as though I would get through the difficult rotation without a hitch. That's when he lobbed over what would become the most important question of my career.
"What specialty do you want to go into?" he asked.
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At that point I realized I'd clearly given the wrong answer and any confidence I'd felt earlier went out the window. I attempted to recover by telling him that psychiatrists have the opportunity to assess their patients from a biological, psychological and social standpoint, but I could see his attitude toward me changing. After that experience, I was teased unmercifully about wanting to go into psychiatry, even called a "spook," and I learned that the stigma of mental illness existed within the medical community — directed toward mental health departments, clinicians and unwitting medical students.
Today, the stigma is evident with the continued shortage of good mental health care, fewer dollars spent on mental health programs compared to other specialties and hideous crimes committed by people with untreated mental disorders.
Which brings me to the rest of the story, the part I left out when answering the Scotsman's question. What I didn't tell him that day was that my mother's severe, unrelenting mental illness and the devastation it wreaked on our family was what inspired me to become a psychiatrist. At the time, I shuddered to think of what his reaction might have been to that revelation, but today I realize that if I don't talk about it openly, the stigma will remain and we must all do our part to diminish it.
My mother, an exquisitely beautiful, bright woman who had once planted petunias and dressed my sister and I in matching outfits, suffered from a mental illness that changed her life forever. An illness that wasn't correctly diagnosed or treated for over twenty years and by that time our family had been torn apart. We saw her deteriorate into someone who was, in many ways, unrecognizable. Not long after she finally got some relief from her symptoms, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and died at age 56.
Her story has always inspired me in my work with patients and now my hope is that sharing it publicly will inspire others to work harder to get the diagnosis right, to support mental health initiatives and to encourage inspired medical students who want to become psychiatrists.
Angela Marie Andrich is a psychiatrist.
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The Ducal Town of Pastrana, capital of the region of La Alcarria, is a well-preserved settlement of historical and artistic importance.
Pastrana's origins may date back to Roman times, when it was possibly known as Paternina, although it is first documented in manuscripts referring to the Visigothic town of Pastrani, mentioned by King Wamba (672-680) when he was drawing up boundaries for Christian dioceses. However, its widely-known history only begins in the time of Alfonso VIII of Castile, who, in 1174, granted the town of Pastrana to the Order of Calatrava. The town belonged to this military order until 1541, when Charles I reclaimed it and granted it to Ana de la Cerda, widow of Diego de Mendoza, Count of Melito. In 1562, Philip II granted the title of Dukes of Pastrana to Ana de Mendoza, the legendary Princess of Eboli (who spent her final years imprisoned in the Ducal Palace of Pastrana) and her husband Ruy Gómez de Silva, advisor, favourite and personal friend of the king. This explains the origin of the honorific title of 'Ducal Town'.
The years straddling the Renaissance and the Golden Age were ones of true splendour for Pastrana, thanks to the efforts of its noblemen, the visit by the mystic Teresa of Ávila, who founded convents in Pastrana, and the establishment of silk factories operated by Moors brought in from Andalusia who settled in an area today known as the Albaicín.
Pastrana began to decline from the early years of the 18th century, when the Dukes transferred their residence to Madrid, effectively converting Pastrana into a backwater. It was the Nobel Prize-winning writer Camilo José Cela who initiated a rediscovery in his well-known work Journey to the Alcarria. Today, the name Pastrana is associated with a resurgence of interest in its artistic and cultural past.
Pastrana's historic quarter, which maintains its medieval layout, contains a large number of buildings of undeniable artistic quality. These include the Ducal Palace, constructed in the mid-16th century with a rectangular floor plan, which has an outstanding Renaissance doorway. The crypt of the Collegiate Parish Church of Our Lady of the Assumption (16th-17th century), adjacent to the original Gothic church of the Knights Templar, contains the remains of the Dukes of Melito and Pastrana. The church also contains the Parish Tapestry Museum, which holds a collection of religious art and the eponymous Flemish tapestries.
The Conceptionist Franciscan convent (16th century, rebuilt in the 17th century in the Baroque style) and the <b>Convent of Carmel (16th century) were founded by St. Teresa of Ávila. The latter houses the curious Museum of Natural History of the Philippines (or Science Museum) and the Teresian Museum (or Carmelite and Religious Art Museum), dedicated to the founding saint and to another great saint and mystic, St. John of the Cross, who visited the town. Other buildings of interest are the College of St. Bonaventure (17th century), with its Baroque facade and patio; the remains of the old castle and walls built by the Knights Templar; the old quarter of the Albaicín, with its unusual layout; and several emblazoned palaces and manor houses from the 16th and 17th centuries.
A good time to visit Pastrana is during festivals, such as the Ducal Festival, held around the feast day of the Virgin of Mount Carmel (16th July) and with a medieval and Renaissance theme. Festivals are also held in honour of St. Sebastian (20th January), Our Lady of the Assumption (15th August), and St. Teresa (15th October).


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Gloucestershire Economic Growth Scrutiny Committee - Wednesday 19 January 2022 10.00 am
Members of the committee are invited to declare any pecuniary or personal interests relating to specific matters on the agenda.
Please see note (a) at the end of the agenda.
No declarations of interest.
Gloucestershire Infrastructure Investment Fund Programme (GIIF) PDF 891 KB
To receive a presentation on the GIIF, a written report and presentation is attached.
Gloucestershire Infrastructure Investment Fund , item 3. PDF 936 KB
3.1 The Chair welcomed Neil Hopwood, Projects and Infrastructure Manager for GFirst LEP, to present this item. Members noted the following points:
· Originally the GIIF Programme was a grant fund (Growing Places Fund) which was awarded in 2012 and allowed local authorities/LEP to be flexible in how they used the funding. In Gloucestershire it was used as revolving loan fund to provide gap funding for commercially viable projects that needed start up support.
· Typically, once the funding had created an asset, the project would generally then be refinanced, which would then repay the GIIF loan and GFirst would then recirculate the money. The use of this loan had been very successful in creating infrastructure and assets that were struggling to get off the ground.
· Each project had to be commercially viable, but one of the great advantages of the fund was being able to take a slightly longer-term view and look at schemes that might not have been as commercially viable at that point in time.
· Slide 2 gave an overview of all the projects that had been supported to date. The Honeybourne Gate Extra Care Home and Park View Extra Care Home were both regarded as 'gateway sites' that had struggled to get funding. Both of these sites were now fully operational and regarded as having high value facilities. By GFirst investing £2.75m of GIIF funding upfront, this drew in £13.4m private sector investment.
· Another notable project was the Gloucester M5 Services (Southbound) with initial GIIF investment of £3m, which drew in £20.34m in private sector investment.
3.2 A member asked if there were projects in the pipeline when the repayments are made in the third quarter. It was noted that there was a major repayment due this quarter and the funds were fully committed to the second phase of Bakers Quay. Following this, there was availability for new projects and the LEP would be looking to promote these available funds in the next few months.
3.3 Following a question, it was explained that the GIIF was currently the only grant funding available. The Getting Building Fund had now been fully committed to projects. It was stated that they were awaiting the Levelling Up White Paper which was expected to be published in the following weeks for clarity on future investment funds.
3.4 Looking at the type of projects the loans could fund, it was queried whether a working group in Gloucester that were looking into creating a sculpture on Robinswood Hill, could apply for the funding. It was advised that unfortunately, as the loan needed to be repaid, this would not be suitable for a community project such as this. Gloucester City had been nominated as a 'priority place' by the Arts Council, so the working group could look to apply for a grant capital fund from the Arts Council, which would not need to be repaid.
3.5 It was queried how local authorities were consulted in the decision process. It was explained that the LEP would not ... view the full minutes text for item 3.
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To receive the annual update on strategic and local plans in
4.1 Mike Dawson (CEO) and Cllr Sandra Ford from Tewkesbury Borough Council were invited to present this item. Members noted the following points:
· This report was presented to the GEGJC at their last meeting and was for noting and a reference point for this Committee.
· The report provided an update on the status of strategic plans that had been progressed by the Gloucestershire authorities and the levels of growth that had been identified/planned for each.
· Stroud District Council had commenced a review of their Local Plan, they were expecting to have an examination in public sometime this year.
· Tewkesbury/Cheltenham/Gloucester had a Joint Core Strategy (adopted in December 2017) and this was currently being reviewed. The authorities had also carried out an 'issues and options' consultation which had unfortunately experienced delays. They had now appointed consultants to support the review of the JCS and had a revised timetable for completion.
· Forest of Dean had an adopted Strategy, this was currently under review and they planned to have a 'preferred options' consultation in Summer/Autumn 2022.
· Cotswold also had an adopted plan which was under review and they were looking at a regulating consultation for early 2022.
· In summary all councils had adopted plans and were all in the review stage at different times.
· Page 19 listed a number of plans that GCC were responsible for, strategic documents, a list of plans that had been adopted and the number of plans that were under review.
· Key projects:
o The consultation on M5 Junction 10 proposals would expire on 15th February 2022.
o M5 Junction 9 and A46 - GCC were leading on considering options for the new A46 alignment. The council had applied to the DfT for the large local major spending to be able to take this forward. A consultation was expected in 2022 on options on what the realignment could be.
o A417 Missing Link – This was being taken forward as a development consent order application so that application had been submitted to the planning inspectorate, which would likely be considered sometime this year.
o National planning matters – It was expected that government would announce a much less radical reform of the planning system than previously thought.
4.2 A member questioned what impact the revised Environment Bill would have on future planning. It was advised that the key impact for planning authorities was the need to show that all new developments would provide a net gain in terms of biodiversity.
4.3 Noting that the majority of the report content referred to major road schemes, it was questioned how the planning process would change/adapt to changes in the law and public opinion, especially around climate change movements and the increased emphasis on separating safe cycle paths from existing roads etc.
4.4 In response, it was acknowledged that there were a necessity to look at modal shift in terms of future infrastructure and climate change, but it would also remain important for people to have a choice. All district councils ... view the full minutes text for item 4.
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To review the committee work plan and suggest items for consideration at future meetings.
5.1 The Chair reconfirmed that the two items that had previously been scheduled for today's session had been delayed and would therefore be allocated new meeting dates as a priority:
· Youth unemployment
· Economic Impact of Climate Change – to include green jobs
5.2 The Chair asked members to comment on the proposed list of items in terms of which should be prioritised or if members had alternative suggestions:
· The item on Public Transport (to include the impact of driver shortages) was requested as a priority, but to expand and include a dialogue with bus companies and to explore the extend they were willing to engage with GCC on local issues. This may best served as a joint meeting with the Environment Scrutiny Committee.
· It was confirmed that the final item on Modern Methods of Construction would be a discussion with the private sector developers. The aim would then be to pull together a report on all three sessions, which the Chair could then present to GEGJC on behalf of the Committee.
· On the Youth Unemployment item, a member suggested getting input from local education providers e.g. Cirencester College as well as looking at opportunities for cementing opportunities in the workforce as these young people leave education.
· It was noted that there was a regular economic dashboard that went to GEGJC which provided the latest figures and information in response to the Pandemic.
ACTION: Add dashboard to future GEGJC update item for Committee to note
· Members clarified that they would like the item on Economic Impacts of Climate Change to include information on what the council was doing to support the development of green jobs in low carbon industries across Gloucestershire and what the initiatives were within the council, LEP and within our further education providers across Gloucestershire to support a low carbon future.
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To note an update report from Colin Chick, Executive Director of Economy, Environment & Infrastructure on Economic Growth issues in the County.
7.1 There was a question on the process of CIL payments. The Executive Director explained that CIL has been implemented in five of the county's six districts. Those with neighbourhood plans immediately assumed 25% of the funds for use in their local neighbourhood. Following this the district would be allowed to apply a 5% administration charge which resulted in 30% of the CIL money being immediately swallowed up, and already resulted in a much reduced level of funds for the county who were responsible for providing infrastructure to support the development.
7.2 The Executive Director stated that of the five district councils that had implemented CIL in Gloucestershire (the exception being the Forest of Dean) only Stroud had given out any CIL funds to GCC since implementation. As a result of this being introduced, the Infrastructure Funding Statement previously referred to showed a very worrying trend of reduced monies received from developers through Section 106 payments. The Executive Director noted that prior to CIL being introduced, GCC would be receiving well in excess of £10m per annum for infrastructure works, year on year this had severely depleted.
7.3 The Executive Director stated that consultants have been commissioned (jointly funded by the county council and the JCS authorities) to review the JCS CIL and see if there is a way to improve this situation, but noted that it would need to reach a place where CIL reflected monies that would have been received via Section 106 payments or it would continue to be flawed. GCC would now have to wait a year for the review to take place. It was hoped that now the county were a fully paid partner of the JCS, this would help improve the position.


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Q: How to apply difference in DateTime to a list of DateTime objects in c# I have some code which detects when properties are changed on objects, which are persisted to the db. The detection happens before they are saved back to the db.
I want to know the best way to apply the change in time to a whole set of related log items.
Say I have an item with a datetime of
01/01/2000 00:00:00
and I change it to
02/01/2000 06:00:00
I know I need to move each log item forward by 1 day and 6 hours. Should I be manually writing code to handle all this, or does .net have some smooth way of handling this for me. DateTimeOffset sounded like the right idea, but I don't think it is used for this.
If I was to build this myself, I would probably calculate a timespan, and if the span should be added or subtracted from the DateTime. But is there something better?

A: TimeSpan will work for you, and yes, it does keep track of positive and negative. The Duration() method on the TimeSpan will return a new TimeSpan that has the absolute value of the original value (i.e. the positive change).
That being said, with the following you won't have to worry about positive or negative changes:
        DateTime[] dateTimeArray = {DateTime.Now};
        foreach (DateTime dateTime in dateTimeArray)
        {
            dateTime.Add(timeSpan);
        }

A: Just use the Add* methods on the DateTime object.
DateTime d1 = DateTime.Now;
d1 = d1.AddDays(1).AddHours(6);

A: What's the problem with TimeSpan class?
TimeSpan timeSpan = finishDate - startDate;
for (int index = 0; index < dateList.Count; index++)
    {
        dateList[index] = dateList[index] + timeSpan;
    }

Here timeSpan initialized as a difference of two dates. But you can initialize it in other ways, check TimeSpan constructors.
Timespan class does work with negative time intervals. Try to check it.
DateTime start = new DateTime(2010, 10, 26);
DateTime finish = new DateTime(2010, 10, 20);
TimeSpan diff = finish - start;
DateTime value = new DateTime(2010, 11, 1);
value += diff;
Console.WriteLine(diff);
Console.WriteLine(value.ToString("dd.M.yyyy"));

Output:
-6.00:00:00
26.10.2010

A: You can do this using LINQ using a one liner:
datetimes = datetimes.Select ( itm => itm.AddDays ( 1 ).AddHours ( 6 ) ).ToArray ();

If this is more readable than a foreach loop is left open for you to decide for yourself.

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There was a Baptist Church in Thurso from 1805 to about 1850; but the present congregation started as a house meeting in the early 1980's.
In 1990 we became part of The Caithness Baptist Churches Group which was formed to support the Thurso church both spiritually and financially. This group included Wick and Keiss Baptist Churches, and Scarfskerry Baptist Church. The Senior Pastor at this time was Rev. John Johnston from the Wick church. In 1991 the group called an Associate Minister whose main responsibilities were for the Thurso and Scarfskerry churches. They called Rev Stuart Dunnett and the induction took place in June 1991 in Wick Baptist Church.
They met in a school for several years and moved into the present premises, a former T.A. building in 1994.
Thurso Church eventually became self supporting as the fellowship increased in size, and the vision of the group of churches had been fulfilled.
The present building has been a challenge in accommodating the adults and children on a Sunday morning. God has been gracious to us in providing resources to extend the building with the addition of a new Sunday School room in 2012. We give thanks and praise for this, and trust God will continue to bless us as we seek to serve Him in Thurso.


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(Reuters) After a 2020 presidential campaign dominated by President Donald Trump's words and actions, Biden on Thursday rose to the level of a true adversary as he accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for the November election.
Accused by the Republican Trump of hiding in his basement throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Biden turned his opponent's narrative to his advantage on the final night of the Democratic National Convention, delivering an austere address in a quiet room that some commentators, both left and right, likened to a speech from the Oval Office, not a convention floor.
Biden, 77 and nearing his 50th year in politics, cast himself as the wizened healer of a troubled and divided nation, pushing back at doubters within his party who whispered that he was wrong for the moment. He invoked President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who presided over a nation beset by economic hardship and then war.
A day after former President Barack Obama warned that Trump posed a threat to democracy, Biden, who was Obama's vice president, offered Americans an alternative, pledging to be "an ally of the light, not the darkness" if elected.
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I purchased two of these detectors and they were both pieces of junk. After two days on the phone with the First Alert Support Team, I finally returned both and purchased Nest detectors. Within hours of installing both detectors, they went offline and I had to reset them and reset them and reset them, etc. You get the idea. They would not stay online and would not connect to First Alert's App. Could not get the night lite feature to work after the initial setup Had absolutely no confidence that these detectors would ever actually work and notify me of smoke or carbon monoxide. Would strongly recommend installing any other brand than this First Alert product.
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So. Pluses: 1) Alexa works well 2) sounds quality good 3) easy to setup Cons: 1) expensive 2)EXPENSIVE! 3) REALLY EXPENSIVE! $250 for what is essentially an Amazon dot stuffed into a smoke alarm is a lot to ask for. That said, it works as well or better than you'd expect. It's up to you whether you think $250 is an acceptable price for a smoke and CO alarm.
Coming from a Nest Protect, this was an intriguing alternative. I was excited for the HomeKit and AirPlay 2 compatibly. So far though, no Airplay 2. Which makes the $120 premium (over the Nest Protext) pointless. I called First Alert, and was told that it was in "testing" over a month ago. No date, and nothing since. Will be returning.
This thing broke completely within three months. Before the complete break this device would constantly unmute its own microphones against my will which is a huge privacy breach. On top of the technical problems they over sold the quality of the speaker. It does not sound like a premium speaker.
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VIDEO | Luke Rockhold Beleives Yoel Romero is an Easier Fight than Robert Whittaker
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The combat world wept when Robert Whittaker had to back out of his fight with Luke Rockhold, especially since it was going to set the middleweight division right for the first time in roughly two years. However, the tears quickly dried when we learned we were going to get Yoel Romero fighting Rockhold at UFC 221 instead. It's a fight that we've somehow never got, but now here it is right in front of us. Luke Rockhold is fine with the change in opponent as well, which he believes is an easier fight than he was in before hand.
"It's not an ideal situation, of course. I'm going across the world to fight a guy that I could fight down the street. I wanted to fight [Robert] Whittaker. It's a fight I've been seeking for a long time and I thought it was a good time to make it happen, but obviously he's got some health issues. I wish him the best and I know Whittaker's not a man to run away from anything. I respect that kid and I wish him the best. I hope it's not too serious. Yoel [Romero] was the option right off the bat, and I'm ready to fight as long as the money's right, the belt's on the line."
.@LukeRockhold believes Yoel Romero has "more holes to expose" in his game than Robert Whittaker. Do you agree? Watch show live: https://t.co/11sYrEm5Ug pic.twitter.com/YA6ZPRylhf
— MMAFighting.com (@MMAFighting) January 15, 2018
"I think Yoel has more holes to expose in his game. Whittaker's tighter. He's harder to get to, whereas Yoel will kinda leave himself open. Very similar fights, but I like this match-up. [Romero]'s body is suspect. I think he can only push so hard for so long. Mentally, I think he has it. I mean, he has the will to win even when he's tired. It's about making his body quit and that's what I plan to do. He's got limitations, he's got holes, so I'm going to pick him apart and I'm going to push his body to that breaking point. I know he's going to come forward, I know he's dangerous, I know he's not going to quit, but I know his body will give out, and I'm going to push him to that level." — Luke Rockhold on The MMA Hour.
Luke Rockhold was on a five-fight win streak before suffering his upset at the hands of Michael Bisping, which was the catalyst to the UFC middleweight divisions' log jam. He rebounded back against former WSOF double champ David Branch in September of last year and now he's looking to win back his title. Yoel Romero was in a similar position after being derailed from his eight-fight win streak by Robert Whittaker. The winner of Rockhold and Romero's fight is slated to unify the middleweight titles with Whittaker.
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The myth of Gayomart is the myth of the Primal Man. According to Zoroastrian tradition Gayomart was created immediately after the Primal Bull that was to supply him with food and help him. These two primal beings stood on the banks of the river which flowed from the center of the world, the good Daiti. Here they are attacked by Ahriman for they have withstood his attempys to spread world-wide destruction. Ohrrmazd foreseeing the Bull's death administers an soporific to ease the pain. First the Bull is killed, then Gayomart, who foretells as he dies, that despite of his death the human race will be born.
Immediately Ahrimad delights at his apparent triumph over Ohrmazd, but the latter has subtler plan's for Ahriman's ultimate demise. The death of both the Bull and Gayomart ensured the fertility of life on earth. Eventually from the Bull's blood springs forth all vegetation; from its seed (carried to the Moon) come all animals. And, where Gayomart was slain, on the spot, his seed fertilized the earth, and forty years later a plant shot up, splitting into gave forth two persons, a male and a female.
It may be mentioned the myth has the mark of antiquity as it contains the role a deceitful demon as do many myths surrounding the origin of humankind. Similarly, it involves the theme of the two sexes. A factor peculiarly Iranian, but completely opposed to Zoroastrian doctrine, which postulates good cannot come from evil, is that the demon is called Ahriman. Equally interesting in the myth is the description of the fertilization of the seed of Gayomart that signifies a consanguineous marriage, which antiquity regarded as an Iranian custom. Those civilizations recognizing the possibility of the fertilization of the earth by man, or the first incestuous act between brother and sister to give birth to humankind, looked no further than this myth. The plant, resulting from Gayomart's fertilization of the earth, and its splitting to give forth the male and female possibly indicates the origin of the theory that the human race came from an androgynous being.
Also, it should be noted the crescent shape of the moon is referred to in the myth. This is accomplished through the preservation of the Bull's seed in the moon; and the moon's crescent is resembled in the horns of the ox. This concept is inspired in Iranian text as it is in several Indian texts. A.G.H.


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College Valley > How we look after the Valley
Our long term goals for the valley
The objective is to run CVE with a long term perspective in a way which balances the interests of:
while earning for the owner an acceptable income.
College Valley is situated in North Northumberland on the northern edge of the Cheviot Hills, an area of renowned beauty. The estate extends to some 12,000 acres and lies entirely within the Northumberland National Park (NNP).
The Valley is part of the legacy left by Sir James Knott, successful business man, politician and philanthropist.
The estate is now managed by a Board of Directors whose duty is to manage it in a way that increases its value as an environmental, social and economic place of excellence. They and our staff strive to encourage and make available to the general public an environment that focuses on education and recreational enjoyment. Farming and forestry underpin the estate's financial viability, although the directors look carefully at other enterprises so long as they are in line with the objectives and aims of the College Valley.
College Valley is a haven for wildlife and vegetation, and contains the Cheviot Massif, the highest hill in North England at 2,672ft.
We manage the estate with C. V. E. in mind
C for Conservation
V for Visitors/Tourism
E for Education.
The Cheviot massif contains one of the largest Site of Special Scientific Interest in Northern England. We also have the Harrow bog which is the most significant semi-natural ancient woodland in the park area.
Most of the land is managed under DEFRA Stewardship agreements, with a view to protecting and enhancing bio-diversity.
We let out 4 holiday cottages and a bunkhouse. Also for hire is Cuddystone Hall which is available for functions, such as weddings and birthday parties.
We welcome day visitors, but encourage them to leave their cars in the car park at Hethpool, and walk. We believe that the restrictions that we place on vehicle access make the Valley even more special for our visitors. We do sell a very limited number of day permits for cars which enable those who really wish to take their cars. These cost £10.
Horse riders are welcome and to a certain extent cyclists.
We have a close relationship with the universities of the region and they frequently send students to utilise the Valley for undergraduate and post graduate work. Recent topics of study have included vegetation, wildlife such as birds, goats and insects, cattle grazing and behaviour and archeology. The effects of our changing management of the most botanically sensitive parts of the valley are currently subject of a PhD.
The Valley was purchased in 1953 by College Valley Estates Ltd the directors of the company, then Chaired by the 10th Duke of Northumberland, The Valley was purchased at auction for £75,000 (about £1.5million in today's terms). The sellers were the executors of Sir Arthur Sutherland.
What the directors purchased was a 12,600 acre upland estate with 17 cottages and a mansion house. The estate mainly farmed sheep and cattle at the time, with a total of no more than 24 acres of woodland. The estate is approximately 10km long, it runs from the summit of Cheviot at 815m north wards to Hethpool and Elsdonburn. The Scottish border runs along most of the west side of the estate. You can also look due south into Scotland from the main valley, along which the college burn runs.
Between 1964 and 1973 the estate entered in to an ambitious forestation programme to plant 2000 acres of commercial coniferous woodland. The young trees were grown in a nursery here at Hethpool. After some 45 years, most of these woods are approaching maturity. Objectives change, and on felling many of these woods are being altered to more mixed species with the aim of improving our habitats and landscape.
We let 2 farms here within the valley, each of around 2,200 acres and rented to very experienced and skillful stockmen under Farm Business Tenancies.
The estate manages a further 5,500 acres of the most environementally sensitive ground directly. Here, we lightly summer graze the land with 300 hoggs (young female sheep) and 80 native breed catlle on the hill, with the aim of protecting and enhancing the rare and delicate plant communities.
We also have two small farms outside the valley one at Yeavering which consists of 198 acres of arable and permanent pasture land running beside the river Till, and one at Wooler which is 100 acres of mostly arable land.
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HomeNews From EmbassyPresident of Turkmenistan and Ambassador of I.R. Afghanistan discuss priorities of interstate dialogue
President of Turkmenistan and Ambassador of I.R. Afghanistan discuss priorities of interstate dialogue
President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received credentials from newly-appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Turkmenistan Najibullah Alikhil.
Expressing gratitude for the opportunity of a personal meeting, the diplomat conveyed the greetings from President of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and the best wishes to the President of Turkmenistan, as well as prosperity to the fraternal people of Turkmenistan.
It was underlined that the neighboring state sincerely valued the traditionally friendly relations with Turkmenistan and supported the constructive foreign policy, pursued by the President of Turkmenistan that stands as an important factor for ensuring peace, security and stability in the region.
Thanking for the kind words and conveying the greetings to the President of Afghanistan, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov congratulated the diplomat on the appointment to the post and wished him every success in his work with the aim to further strengthen the interstate cooperation.
The President of Turkmenistan expressed satisfaction with the successful development of the Turkmen-Afghan relations that are based on the long-term ties of good neighbourliness, the principles of mutual understanding and trust. That is vividly testified by the Agreement on Strategic Cooperation, signed on the outcomes of the official visit of the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Turkmenistan in February this year.
The Turkmen leader and his guest exchanged views on the priority areas of the bilateral cooperation, including trade and economic sphere as well as humanitarian and cultural areas. Particular attention was paid to the implementation of the agreements, achieved at the top level, as well as important joint infrastructural projects.
In this context, the importance of the construction of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, designed to become a bridge of friendship and effective cooperation in the region, was emphasized. At the same time, the importance of projects interconnected with TAPI was underlined. Among them are the laying of power lines and fiber-optic communication lines along the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) route, which also determine the prerequisites for enhancing regional partnership.
During the meeting it was emphasized that the constructive initiatives put forward by the Turkmen leader on the formation of multimodal transit and transport corridors were also aimed at reviving the socio-economic situation in Afghanistan, and its integration into the system of regional and world economic relations. The implementation of these large-scale projects opens up enormous prospects for optimizing transport flows throughout the Eurasian space.
The diplomat expressed gratitude to President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov for the active support provided by Turkmenistan in the peaceful reconstruction of Afghanistan.
The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Turkmenistan assured the President of Turkmenistan that he would apply every effort to strengthen the fruitful interstate dialogue.
In conclusion of the meeting, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Turkmenistan expressed confidence that relations between the two countries would successfully develop.
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