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09:51 02 january 2018 Source: nydailynews.com
YouTuber Logan Paul apologizes for video with suicide victim 2018-01-02 2018-01-02
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© Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Logan Paul faced backlash after posting video from Japan's Suicide Forest that included footage of a dead body. YouTube star Logan Paul was blasted for an insensitive New Year's Eve video that included footage of a suicide victim.
The 22-year-old vlogger posted a 15-minute video from Japan's Aokigahara forest, known as the "Suicide Forest" for the number of suicides attempted and committed there.
About six minutes into the video, Paul and his crew came across the body of a young man who appeared to have hung himself from a tree.
"This is the most real vlog I've ever posted on this channel," Paul said in the video. "I think this definitely marks a moment in YouTube history."
Logan Paul Says There Will Be 'No Vlog for Now' in Wake of Backlash Following Controversial Video
Logan Paul is taking a break from his daily vlog. Days after the YouTube star came under fire Sunday for posting a graphic video of the body of an alleged suicide victim filmed in Aokigahara, Japan — a forest at Mount Fuji's base that is often referred to as "suicide forest" due to the high number of suicides that occur there — he revealed Wednesday that he will not be releasing new videos for the time being.
Paul then proceeded to film closer to the body before apologizing to viewers for what was "supposed to be a fun vlog."
He also said that the video was supposed to focus on the supernatural aspects of the Suicide Forest, not the suicides.
Can I just bring to your attention that after Logan found the body he said "guys depression isn't a joke and suicide isn't a joke" then not even 20 seconds after saying this he went and made this so called "joke" ladies and gentlemen I present to you Logan Paul... pic.twitter.com/2siDO7Iw0t
— courtney♡ (@lastingdolan) January 2, 2018
Paul ended the video by urging viewers to seek help if they are contemplating suicide.
But backlash hit almost immediately from people who blasted the YouTube star for filming the body.
Japanese Cops Say Logan Paul Videos Broke the Law—and They'd Just Love to Nail Him
Video of a man who'd committed suicide was gruesome, and Paul's subsequent clips show destruction of property and public indecency. All the evidence is right there on YouTube.Logan Paul, YouTuber and professional troll, may have raised awareness of Japan's suicide problem during his stay in our country unintentionally, but he seems to have broken several criminal laws intentionally. Or so the police see it. And if he returns to Japan, he won't be welcome; he may even end up arrested and charged with several misdemeanors. He could be accused of more serious crimes as well.
"How dare you! You disgust me. I can't believe that so many young people look up to you. So sad," "Breaking Bad" alum Aaron Paul tweeted. "Hopefully this latest video woke them up. You are pure trash. Plain and simple. Suicide is not a joke. Go rot in hell."
"The amount of personal + social unawareness Logan Paul has displayed in THAT video is mind blowing to me," tweeted Rebecca Black. "How could one w such power and influence have the audacity to put something so thoughtless online? You have potentially intensified an entire family's grief beyond measure."
"You're an idiot. You're not raising awareness. You're mocking. I can't believe how self-praising your "apology" is. You don't deserve the success (views) you have," tweeted "Game of Thrones" star Sophie Turner. "I pray to God you never have to experience anything like that man did."
Paul erased the video and apologized Monday night.
Logan Paul Still Has 'Opportunity to Prove' Himself to YouTube
TCA 2018: "He's made missteps, unfortunate missteps. He's expressed remorse very quickly," Robert Kyncl says"We don't know," the Kyncl said during YouTube's panel at the Television Critics Association press tour on Saturday. "I couldn't really answer that. Everything is evolving so fast and the best thing we can do is make sure we put all projects on hold indefinitely.
"This is a first for me. I've never faced criticism like this before, b ecause I've never made a mistake like this before. I'm surrounded by good people and believe I make good decisions, but I'm still a human being. I can be wrong," he wrote.
"I didn't do it for views. I get views. I did it because I thought I could make a positive ripple on the internet, not cause a monsoon of negativity. That's never the intention. I intended to raise awareness for suicide and suicide prevention and while I thought 'if this video saves just ONE life, it'll be worth it,' I was misguided by shock and awe, as portrayed in the video. I still am."
Logan Paul is trash. This is a fact.
— Blaire White (@MsBlaireWhite) January 2, 2018
I can't even put together a tweet acknowledging the Logan Paul Suicide Forrest video.
All I will say is that I think at this point there is an actual disconnect from reality where the Paul brothers have started to only think in terms of viewership, growth, and click bait.
— Michael J. Murphy (@MikeyMurphy) January 2, 2018
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CDU responds to Rezo video: "We have to be more present online"
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General Secretary Ziemiak has once again commented on the anti-CDU video. On the other hand, an announced video response by the CDU politician Amthor is coming soon.
CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak has called on his party to do more to reach young voters. "We have to be more present online. We need to use the Internet even more to make complex issues more understandable, "he told the editorial network Germany (Thursday).
Over the past few days, a million-clicked anti-CDU video from the Youtuber Rezo had caused quite a stir. In it, Rezo contributes just under an hour arguments against the party together .
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Ziemiak had already commented on the Tagesspiegel and the video called "dangerous" called . He lamented to the RND now an excess of populism, insults and false simplifications in social media. He also said that his party had not made enough progress in communicating its position on the reform of European ancillary copyright.
In addition, it had been said on Wednesday afternoon, the CDU Bundestag MP Philipp Amthor want to release a video response to the Rezo allegations. Until Thursday morning, however, that had not happened, which caused ridicule on Twitter . The CDU did not want to comment in the morning on whether this Amthor video already exists and when it should be published. (tsp / dpa)
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Logan Paul Posts Suicide Awareness PSA Weeks After Dead Body Controversy: 'I've Made Mistakes' .
"I know I've made mistakes. I know I've let people down. But what happens when you're given an opportunity to help make a difference in the world?" he says in the clip. "It's time to learn from the past as I get better and grow as a human being. I'm here to have a hard conversation as those who are suffering can have easier ones. " "It's time to start a new chapter in my life as I continue to educate myself and others on suicide," he says. "I'm humbled and thankful to say, this is just the beginning." "I've never been so humbled in my life by a single event. I was shocked to discover just how big this is," Paul says, admitting he never knew anyone who committed suicide despite being from Ohio, where suicide is the second leading cause of death. "That was part of the problem, just my ignorance on the subject. While I'm not able to solve the problem by myself, I want to be part of the solution." Paul shares 5 simple steps people can use when confronted with someone considering suicide. They are: Step 1: Simply just ask, 'Are you thinking about suicide?; Step 2: Listen, be present, don't make any judgments. Step 3: Be there for them. Dependability is key. Sept 4: Help them connect. Whether it's with a friend, a family member, a local suicide hotline, a therapist. Step 5: Check in on them. Show them you care. "I think as a society, as human beings, we just have to be more compassionate," he says. "That includes me too — that's something I'm learning on this journey.
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Dr. Harsh Vardhan took charge as the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare
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Incremental Construction: Low-cost modular housing scheme, Addis
Incremental Construction
Low-cost modular housing scheme
Detailed building information model with all process and procurement information.
Left: First prototype was built on the Campus of the Addis Ababa University. Right: The second prototype is located in the sub-city Lideta, an informal settlement in the core of Addis Ababa. It is now used as a local office for the self-empowerment campaign.
Vibrant low income settlement, Lideta, with the second prototype of the SICU building in September 2013.
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Presentation of the Holcim Awards Bronze 2014 for "Incremental Construction: Low-cost modular housing scheme, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia" (l-r): winners Asgedom Berhe, Dirk Donath, jury members Fasil Giorghis, Chair of Conservation of Urban and Architectural Heritage, Addis Ababa University and Howayda Al-Harithy (head of jury) Professor of Architecture, American University of Beirut; Bernard Fontana, CEO of Holcim Ltd; and winner Brook Haileselassie.
Winners of the Holcim Awards Bronze 2014 for "Incremental Construction: Low-cost modular housing scheme, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia" (l-r) Brook Haileselassie, Dirk Donath and Asgedom Berhe.
Dirk Donath of Bauhaus University, Germany winner of the Holcim Awards Bronze 2014 for "Incremental Construction: Low-cost modular housing scheme, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia".
The project is situated in an area earmarked for total renewal in a typical neighborhood of Addis Ababa, one of the fastest-growing cities in Africa. New constructions in the city predominantly use concrete frame and cast in-situ construction; and the city has banned natural materials from being used in buildings since 2009, limiting the solutions available for house construction. It aimed to investigate possibilities for an alternative urban housing unit in this context.
SICU is situated in a compound of 150 inhabitants, most of whom have low incomes.
The local community was present at the launch event for the assembly of the prototype.
The prototype was also intended to initiate discussions between the different stakeholders.
The flooring of the upper story of the house is constructed with prefabricated plywood boards.
SICU is a semi-complete construction where the homeowners are able to finish the building themselves.
Metal connectors were used to secure the eucalyptus frames to the wooden beams.
Students from Ethiopia, Germany and South Sudan participated in the assembly of the prototype.
Accolades for all Holcim Awards main prize winners (l-r): Brook Haileselassie, Dirk Donath and Asgedom Berhe (Bronze), Zeynep and Onat Öktem (Gold), and Raëd Abillama, Youssef Abillama, Yasmina Khalifé and Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine (Silver).
Dirk Donath, Brook Haileselassie, Asgedom Haile, Helawie Sewnet, Sarah Yusuf, Peter Dissel and Jakob Mettler.
Global finalist entry 2015 - Incremental Construction: Low-cost modular housing scheme
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Project entry 2014 Africa Middle East - Incremental Construction: Low-cost modular housing scheme, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Holcim Awards 2014 Africa Middle East ceremony, Beirut, Lebanon
Holcim Awards Africa Middle East ceremony, Beirut, Lebanon
Holcim Awards Africa Middle East media briefing, Beirut, Lebanon
The Sustainable Incremental Construction Unit, a modular prototype for low-cost houses to foster development of poor neighborhoods, responds to the housing challenge of rapid urbanization.
Close to 90% of components including concrete elements and lightweight eucalyptus frames are prefabricated by small-scale enterprises, creating skilled employment and capacity building. The 56 sq m house can be erected by the owner in nine days, and can be extended by 28 sq m as funds become available.
June 29, 2015 | Feature Interview | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
"An experiment that is proven in practice"
Feature interview – Incremental Construction: Low-cost modular housing scheme, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
"Blending international and local know-how" – (l-r): Dirk Donath, Germany; Asgedom Haile and Brook Teklehaimanot, Ethiopia.
"We looked around to see how traditional and modern construction is being done in this country. And then we developed our project by blending international and local know-how together." – Dirk Donath, Germany.
"The authorities have already said they are prepared to use the SICU on a larger scale. But we told them it's better to wait and see how the experimental unit develops." – Asgedom Haile, Ethiopia.
"The novelty of our approach is that students from all participating universities were involved. So we developed courses that ran throughout the entire project." – Brook Teklehaimanot, Ethiopia.
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Participants from three countries built the prototype for a modular house in Ethiopia, thereby exchanging knowledge – and showing how living conditions of the very poor can be improved through simple means.
The project was designed as a hands-on assignment for the students for two reasons. First, Dirk Donath believes that all young architects should get their hands dirty on a construction site at least once, to enhance their practical knowledge of the building process. And second, a fundamental requirement for the SICU was that even someone with minimal construction know-how should be able to build one. The students were to prove that even beginners can put the concept into practice.
"We have brought together students and professors from three countries and have exchanged knowledge: all of this will move construction practice in a more sustainable direction, and that really makes a difference!"
Read feature interview in 4th Holcim Awards 2014/2015 (flip-book)
March 05, 2015 | Global finalist entry | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Global finalist project entry 2015 - Incremental Construction
Overview of the prefabricated elements; the colours indicate the grouping for the prefabrication companies and fields of specialization.
As one of the three main Holcim Awards winners for Africa Middle East in 2014, "Incremental Construction" automatically qualified as a finalist in the Global Holcim Awards 2015. All 15 finalist project teams were asked to submit an updated and more comprehensive entry that was evaluated by a global jury in March 2015.
View project entry posters - Global Holcim Awards
The results of the global phase of the 4th Holcim Awards competition were announced on April 20, 2015.
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January 29, 2015 | 4th Holcim Awards Competition | Zurich, Switzerland
Global Holcim Awards winners announced April 20
The winners of the global phase of the 4th International Holcim Awards competition will be revealed on April 20, 2015. The results will be announced via the Holcim Awards website.
The USD 2 million Holcim Awards is the most significant international competition for sustainable design. The jury composed of renowned specialists from around the world and headed by Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (USA) will evaluate 15 projects out of more than 6,000 submissions. The finalists are the winners of the Holcim Awards Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards 2014 in each of the five competition regions of the world.
The finalist projects competing for one of the three Global Holcim Awards prizes are located in Austria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, France, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, and the USA and were entered by authors from these countries as well as from Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. They reflect a broad variety of the current interpretation of sustainable construction combined with architectural excellence and enhanced quality of life beyond technical intervention.
The submissions will be evaluated by the Global Holcim Awards 2015 jury including Marc Angélil, Senior Dean of Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Alejandro Aravena, Principal of Elemental (Chile), Maria Atkinson, Founding Director of the Australian Green Building Council (Australia), Meisa Batayneh Maani, Principal of maisam architects and engineers (Jordan), Yolanda Kakabadse, President of WWF International (Ecuador), Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (USA), Matthias Schuler, Principal of Transsolar(Germany), and Rolf Soiron, Chairman of the Board of the Holcim Foundation (Switzerland).
The winners of the global prizes will share prize money of USD 350,000. Previous winners of the tri-annual Global Holcim Awards include Bureau EAST (Los Angeles, USA), Centola + Associati (Salerno, Italy), Coelacanth and Associates (Tokyo, Japan), Ingenhoven und Partner Architekten (Dusseldorf, Germany), Kéré Architecture (Berlin, Germany), L'OEUF (Montreal, Canada), Public Architecture (San Francisco, USA), Proyectos Arqui5 (Caracas, Venezuela), realities:united (Berlin, Germany), Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), and Urban-Think Tank (São Paulo, Brazil).
Members of the Global Holcim Awards jury 2015
Finalist projects for the Global Holcim Awards 2015
Videos of all Global Holcim Awards 2015 finalists
About the Holcim Foundation and Holcim
The Swiss-based Holcim Foundation promotes and illustrates the strength of diverse strategies of achieving greater sustainability of the built environment. As part of its approach, the Foundation publishes booklets on outstanding examples of applied sustainable construction. The initiatives of the Holcim Foundation include the USD 2 million Holcim Awards – the most significant international competition for sustainable design.
Since it was established in 2003, the Foundation has been supported by Holcim in more than 70 countries worldwide and is independent of commercial interests. Holcim is one of the world's leading suppliers of cement and aggregates (crushed stone, gravel and sand) as well as further activities such as ready-mix concrete and asphalt, including services.
October 24, 2014 | VIDEO – PROJECT AUTHOR | Beirut, Lebanon
"Sustainability? Acting as mediator, not as architect" – Dirk Donath
Dirk Donath from Bauhaus University, Germany says the success of his Holcim Awards Bronze winning project comes from trying to act and be treated not as an architect – but to play the role of a mediator to share capacities of the community. "Incremental Construction: Low-cost modular housing scheme" in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia responds to the housing challenge of rapid urbanization, and develops a purposefully incomplete structure that is both affordable and rapid to assemble.
October 16, 2014 | Winners for Africa Middle East Announced | Beirut, Lebanon
Bronze for low-cost urban housing plan in Ethiopia
Presentation of the Holcim Awards Gold 2014 for "Eco-Techno Park: Green building showcase and enterprise hub, Ankara, Turkey" (l-r): Howayda Al-Harithy, Head of the Holcim Awards jury for Africa Middle East and Professor of Architecture, American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East; winners Onat and Zeynep Öktem, ONZ Architects, Turkey; and Bernard Fontana, CEO of Holcim Ltd.
Celebrating the Holcim Awards Gold 2014 winner "Eco-Techno Park: Green building showcase and enterprise hub, Ankara, Turkey" (l-r): Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East; winners Onat and Zeynep Öktem, ONZ Architects, Turkey; and Bernard Fontana, CEO of Holcim Ltd.
Presentation of the Holcim Awards Silver 2014 in the host city to "Evergreen City: Urban pine forest rehabilitation, Beirut, Lebanon" (l-r): Benedikt Vonnegut, CEO of Holcim Lebanon; Howayda Al-Harithy, Head of the Holcim Awards jury for Africa Middle East and Professor of Architecture, American University of Beirut; winners Yasmina Khalifé, Raëd Abillama, Bilal Hamad, Mayor of the City of Beirut; winners Youssef Abillama, Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine; and Bernard Fontana, CEO of Holcim Ltd.
Presentation of the Acknowledgement prize for "Adaptive Re-Use: Women's center and playground, Beit Iksa, Palestine" (l-r): Amer Moustafa, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Design American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; winners Shatha Safi and Khaldun Bshara, Riwaq – center for architectural conservation, Ramallah, Palestine; Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East.
Presentation of the Acknowledgement prize for "Chicoco Radio: Community building designed for urban flooding, Port Harcourt, Nigeria" (l-r): Amer Moustafa, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Design American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; winners Kunlé Adeyemi, NLÉ Works, Lagos, Nigeria; Marco Cestarolli, NLÉ Works, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Michael Uwemedimo, CMAP, Port Harcourt, Nigeria; Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East.
Presentation of the Acknowledgement prize for "Co-op Capacity Building: Community farming and market hub, Kigali, Rwanda" (l-r): Amer Moustafa, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Design American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; winners Pamela Larocca, Urban Future organization, Milan, Italy and Costanza La Mantia, Bantu Studio, Johannesburg, South Africa; Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East.
Presentation of the Acknowledgement prize for "Weaving Publicness: Socially-integrated office building with sustainable façade, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia" (l-r): Amer Moustafa, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Design American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; winners Wes Degreef, BC architects, Brussels, Belgium; Adeyabeba Tadesse Hailemariam, ABBA architects, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and Ken De Cooman, BC architects, Brussels, Belgium; with Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East.
Presentation of the Acknowledgement prize for "White Canvas: Health center and school in refugee camp, Bassikounou, Mauritania" (l-r): Amer Moustafa, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Design American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; winners Attila Szabadics and Mónica Rácz, ArchSus Group, Pécs, Hungary; Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East.
Representatives of all five Holcim Awards Acknowledgement prize-winning teams with projects in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mauritania, Palestine and Rwanda are congratulated by Amer Moustafa, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Design American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (4th from right) and Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East (3rd from right).
Presentation of the "Next Generation" 1st prize for "Bio-Mimicry: Water research center, Fika Patso Dam, South Africa" (l-r): Daniel Irurah, jury member and Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture & Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; winner Jurie Swart, South Africa; and Edward Schwarz, General Manager of the Holcim Foundation, Switzerland.
Presentation of the "Next Generation" 2nd prize for "Destroyed City Told: Earthquake memorial and archaeological museum, Agadir, Morocco" (l-r): winners Laurent Sanz and Chamss Doha Oulkadi, BOM architecture, Agadir, Morocco / Paris, France; Daniel Irurah, jury member and Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture & Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; winner Mohamed Belhouari; and Dominique Drouet, CEO of Holcim Morocco.
Presentation of the "Next Generation" 3rd prize for "Machinarium: Regenerative urban catalyst and textile production, Pretoria, South Africa" (l-r): Daniel Irurah, jury member and Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture & Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; winner Heidi van Eeden, University of Pretoria, South Africa; and Edward Schwarz, General Manager of the Holcim Foundation, Switzerland.
Presentation of the "Next Generation" 4th prize for "Waste to Energy: Urban energy recovery and development concept, Beirut, Lebanon" (l-r): winners Romy El Sayah, Yara Rahme, Marylynn Antaki, Mira Boumatar, all American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Benedikt Vonnegut, CEO of Holcim Lebanon; Daniel Irurah, jury member and Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture & Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; and winner Christina Attiyeh, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
Presenting the Holcim Awards main prize-winning projects: Howayda Al-Harithy, Head of the Holcim Awards jury for Africa Middle East and Professor of Architecture, American University of Beirut.
Presenting the Holcim Awards Acknowledgement prize-winning projects: Amer Moustafa, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Design American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Presenting the "Next Generation" prize-winning projects: Daniel Irurah, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Planning University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
"How do we make the city sustainable and smart?" Bilal Hamad, Mayor of the City of Beirut, Lebanon.
Bernard Fontana, CEO of Holcim Ltd and Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Holcim Foundation, Switzerland.
Welcoming more than 200 guests to the AUB campus, Ahmad Dallal, Provost of the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon.
Master of ceremonies: Ricardo Karam, TV Talkshow Host.
Holcim Awards Gold 2014 –Eco-Techno Park: Green building showcase and enterprise hub, Ankara, Turkey
Exterior view.
Holcim Awards Silver 2014 – Evergreen City: Urban pine forest rehabilitation, Beirut, Lebanon
The Beirut Pine Forest is centrally located in the city and can be easily accessible through main roads. It is surrounded by different functions such as residential, office, educational, cultural, and religious precincts. Softscape, an urban project starting from Downtown Beirut will have the Beirut Pine Forest as its final stop.
Holcim Awards Bronze 2014 – Incremental Construction: Low-cost modular housing scheme, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Holcim Awards "Next Generation" 1st prize 2014 –Bio-Mimicry: Water research center, Fika Patso Dam, South Africa
This project explores whether nature and architecture can amalgamate to become a hybrid solution in a vast landscape which has lost its reference to place and time. The transformation of place and time through architecture results in a progressive fusion giving meaning to a certain non-place lacking character and spatial qualities and resulting in an awakened space. This led to the idea of spatial reawakening through the medium of architecture.
A project conducted in parallel by the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction & City Development (EiABC), Addis Ababa and Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany received Bronze. The project to explore and implement construction techniques that tangibly upgrade housing stock in the city was led by Dirk Donath. Within this process-oriented project, close to 90% of the building components including prefabricated concrete elements and lightweight eucalyptus frames are produced by local micro and small-scale enterprises. The approach creates the opportunity for skilled employment and capacity building, and also allows homeowners to complete the construction themselves, installing building components and finishes according to their needs.
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June 13, 2014 | Regional Jury Report - Africa Middle East | Beirut, Lebanon
"Advancing the constructive framework of the city in the very formation of the urban habitat" – Holcim Awards Jury
The project incorporates a series of features that promote the concept of sustainability beyond the common understanding of the term. The jury greatly valued the role of the university as a critical player in advancing the constructive framework of the city, engaging a series of stakeholders – city officials, local inhabitants, craftsmen, etc. – in the very formation of the urban habitat. While the project offers strategies for formalizing the informal, at the same time it learns from local construction practices and social customs to produce a new form of urban vernacular – a strategy that essentially informalizes the formal.
March 31, 2014 | Project Entry & Details | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Project Entry 2014 for Africa Middle East
The research project Sustainable Incremental Construction Unit (SICU) is a response to the housing challenge in the rapidly-urbanizing capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. The project is process-oriented and aims to both explore and implement specific construction techniques to tangibly upgrade the city's housing stock. Whereas the first phase of the process was framed by collaboration between academia, local administration, and inhabitants, the second phase is specifically focused on the development of a prototype – a purposefully incomplete structure that is both affordable and rapid to assemble.
Close to 90% of the building components including prefabricated concrete elements and lightweight eucalyptus frames are prefabricated and produced by micro and small-scale enterprises, creating the opportunity for skilled employment and capacity building. The housing unit is a "half-ready construction" where the homeowners will be able to finish the construction themselves, installing building components and finishes according to their needs.
The Sustainable Incremental Construction Unit (SICU) experiment attempts to address the climatic, economic, cultural, and social sustainability of the project context. This is achieved by using locally-available and locally-produced prefabricated building elements with standardized dimensions, an easy to construct modular system, and a culturally and socially motivated design that enables highly flexible forms of occupancy. At the same time, the approach targets mass-customization, affordability and "up-scalability" of the building prototype.
A high proportion of building parts of the house (approaching 90%) are prefabricated in a workshop by micro- and small-scale enterprises, creating the opportunity for new jobs and skills. Considering the current building system in Ethiopia – which is highly dominated by imported building materials, expensive customized processes, and inflexible cast-in-situ systems – this shift will present a cost-efficient and faster alternative for the construction sector.
Through the efficient employment of resources, energy, labor and time, Incremental Construction demonstrates that the city's complex and seemingly insurmountable installation process of housing units could be overcome. By learning from the experiment, it would be possible to self-construct a very affordable housing unit in less than three months. It also makes it possible to activate private resources and form a private workforce to erect necessary housing units for Ethiopia, which introduces the possibility to do "more with less" and keep the value chains for production and assembly within the country.
Different building elements within the SICU system have been strategically designed and sorted for convenient development by micro, small scale and medium business enterprises. From the SICU building elements manual, pre-existing or newly-organized youth associations can identify a building system or component which is profitable for them, and pursue its production as a business initiative. The pre-prepared design that is modular allows for easy adaptability for small-scale manufacturers to adopt essential details and proportions and then further modify them, as required.
In addition, the physical structure is designed to support the incremental nature of construction in the Addis Ababa context. The approach allows homeowners of incomplete structures to further the construction themselves; installing building components such as enclosure walls, windows, internal partitions, and finishes, according to their needs.
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Dirk Donath
Bauhaus University, Germany
Further Author
Brook Teklehaimanot
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction & City Development (EiABC) , Ethiopia
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BOOK REVIEW In the wake of the Titanic disaster
In the wake of the Titanic disaster
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AND THE BAND PLAYED ON:
The Titanic violinist and the glovemaker: a true story of love, loss and betrayal
by Christopher Ward
(London: Hodder and Stoughton)
RRP: AUD$32.95
Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel
Almost 100 years after the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, interest in the disaster shows little sign of diminishing.
While countless books and articles tend to cover and review essentially the same material, Christopher Ward's And the Band Played On analyses the tragedy from a fresh perspective, namely the fate of Jock Hume, a 21-year-old violinist who was the second youngest member of the Titanic's orchestra, which continued playing as the ship went down.
Jock was one of the 1,500 souls who perished in the epic maritime disaster. He left behind his father, siblings and his pregnant fiancée Mary Costin, a glovemaker. The author, Christopher Ward, is the grandson of Jock and Mary, and in this book he pieces together the events preceding and following the sinking of the Titanic.
Jock, like his father Andrew Hume, was a talented violinist. From the age of 14, when he left home, he served in orchestras on a number of ships and regarded it as a coup when he was chosen to be a violinist on the Titanic's maiden voyage.
Just before he left his hometown of Dumfries in south-west Scotland to travel to Southampton, his fiancée Mary Costin, with whom he had been co-habiting for almost 12 months, informed him that she was pregnant with his child. Overjoyed at the news, he promised to marry Mary upon his return from the United States in May.
However, it was not to be. Like his fellow-musicians aboard the Titanic, Jock dutifully remained playing on deck while the ship was sinking, so as to calm the passengers and crew, until he could no longer perform.
He subsequently perished. However, his body was one of those recovered by the cable-repair ship, the Mackay-Bennett, that was chartered by the Titanic's owners, the White Star Line, to search for bodies. He was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Eventually, Jock's effects were returned to his father, Andrew Hume, who also received a bill from the music agent demanding payment for the White Star Line brass buttons and epaulettes on his lost son's unpaid uniform! This was an incredibly insensitive action, particularly at a time when people were donating generously to the Titanic Relief Fund, established to help families of those lost in the disaster.
However, Jock's father can hardly be described as an innocent victim. The portrait of him that emerges from Ward's account is one of an insensitive liar and conman. Andrew Hume was harsh towards his children, particularly after their mother's death and his remarriage.
A violinist and music teacher by profession, he also claimed that his grandfather had been a famous musician, not a labourer as is strongly suggested by the evidence.
Furthermore, he seems to have engaged in business fraud, claiming that many of the violins he sold were valuable antique instruments. In the wake of Jock's death, he also tried fraudulently, but unsuccessfully, to claim insurance on "valuable" instruments, in the possession of his son, that went down with the Titanic.
However, Andrew's treatment of his late son's pregnant fiancée Mary Costin was incredibly cruel. Having hoped that his son would marry someone of a higher social station, Andrew refused to believe that Jock was the father of the subsequent child, a girl called Johnann ("Jackie") Law Hume Costin (the author's mother).
Initial funds sent by the Titanic Relief Fund, which were intended for the daughter, were inadvertently sent to the grandfather Andrew Hume, who pocketed them.
Justice was ultimately to prevail a couple of years later after an extraordinary sequence of events.
At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Jock's sister Kate, in order to spite her father, forged a letter from a fictitious Red Cross nurse claiming that Grace Hume (Kate's actual sister, who was a genuine nurse), had been killed on active service in Belgium by the invading Germans.
Grace Hume, however, was actually working in Huddersfield at the time, and a court thereupon found Kate guilty of forgery.
However, the case also exposed Andrew Hume for what he was, with the result that he was forced to flee to England to salvage his musical career, being regarded with scorn by the Dumfries community.
Sadly, Mary Costin, although she subsequently found a husband for herself, did not live to an old age, and her daughter Johnann was raised by other relatives.
And the Band Played On powerfully illustrates how the Titanic tragedy did not end with the sinking of the liner, but for years afterwards continued to have an impact on the families of those who perished.
The author has based his account on extensive family lore and research. However, as he himself admits, his journey of discovery of his family's tragic and sometimes sordid saga is not necessarily over, with many questions still remaining unanswered.
This reviewer found the book hard to put down.


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We have just had a very busy weekend of birthday parties in our household! I thought I would share the cards that I made for the three gorgeous kids. I took the opportunity to have a play with my latest supplies from the new catalogue. I really love the petite pennants punch and the Big Top Birthday DSP.
Hello all! Long time no see!!
I am so very excited I have just been lucky enough to get a new DSLR camera…. and it's fantastic! I thought I would post just a couple of pictures of Miss Ellie. She was a somewhat reluctant model this morning, but with a little bit of bribery I was able to get a few good ones of her.
I can't believe the difference in the quality of the photos, it's just amazing. I am hoping to do some workshops in the New Year to improve my skills and get the best use out of my camera. I don't want to use AUTO forever!! Ha Ha!
Let me know what you think – I would love your feedback! I am seeking models who are willing to put up with my camera in their face! If you are interested or know anyone who might be, please contact me. I am only a hobby photographer at this stage, but am really keen to expand my skills!
Hello Everyone! Thanks for stopping by again!
It seems the 'challenge bug' has gotten me, and I've decided to participate in the Saturday Sketch Challenge over at Stamping 411. The challenge involves creating a card using this sketch.
I am using this card to give to a really good friend of mind who is off tripping around for the next couple of weeks. I just wanted to wish her fantastic time away!
I have used Basic Black, Real Red and Whisper White cardstock. The flowers and vines are from SU 'Vintage Vogue' stamp set, and the Oprah Winfrey quote is from SU 'Seaworthy'. I look forward to participating in some more challenges over at Stamping 411… Thanks for inspiring me ladies!
It is a beautiful day here again. I have finally managed to sit down and make something for a fantastic new challenge site called 'Sunny Challenges & Creations'. This site has been set up by my incredibly creative mum, Kris, and two other very talented Stampin' Up! Demonstrators, Gwen & Vicky.
The challenge this week was to use this sketch by Gwen, with Stampin' Up!'s 'Inspired by Nature' stamp set.
I am not sure if I have met the challenge exactly as I have done a scrap page instead of a card, just because I love to scrapbook! I hope that it's ok ladies!! I also do apologise for the quality of my photograph – I printed it myself at home (because I am too lazy today to go down and get them printed out!).
I have been lucky enough to get a hold of the new Photoshop Elements thanks to my beautiful mum, Kris. So I have been having a bit of a play around with some of the new features. I am not clever enough to use the full version, but I find that Elements works well for me.
This is a photograph I took of Ellie a few weeks ago when she decided to rug up in her scarf and beanie. Of course I am totally biased about my children, but I think she looks cute as a button!
These are some 'Thank-You' cards that I made a few weeks ago as a gift for a friend who is going through a difficult time at the moment.
I absolutely love the vintage look so I went with it! I often find it is just as easy to make multiple cards at once as you have out all the supplies anyway. This set was very simple to put together once I decided what I wanted….!
Hello…. I'm back, with a new look too!!! Wow, it has been a very busy six months since I was last on here! I guess that's what happens when you work and have a young family! I am sad to say that I am no longer a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, but I thought that I would still try and post some of my scrapbooking and cards on here. I also really love photography – the pictures on the header are some that I took of my gorgeous baby girl a few months ago now. So I am hoping to also share with you some of the pictures I take in an attempt to grow as a hobby photographer! I would really love your feedback.
Thanks so much to those of you that continue to stop by my blog. I will endevour to get back on here a bit more often…. yeh, famous last words I know!!
As per previous posts, Little Miss Popular is at it again, with two birthday parties this weekend!! I thought that it would be nice to do something a little bit different for these two beautiful girl's 6th birthday's. And seeing as though Christmas has just been, I figured they would have got lots of amazing shop bought presents! Also another of my New Year's Resolutions is to be a little stricter on birthday present spending as I am sure Abi went to at least 15 parties last year and that certainly adds up. This year I will have two at school, so it could get very out of hand otherwise!!
This is what I made for Abi to give to each of her friends. A bookmark, a little notebook (they love writing little messages now that they are big enough to do so!), a picture frame to put a photo from their party and a little jar of lollies – YUM! The other item is a cute little tube of bubbles! I did also put in some hair ties and a lip gloss. I hope the birthday girl's like them! As for a Birthday Card…. Abi is going to use the ones she made herself (previous post)!
Those gorgeous Owl's were made by my very talented 'sideline' Shirley @ Stamping Elephants. They were part of a beautiful christmas gift I received from her …. I hope she doesn't mind me putting them to good use!
The gift bag was made using the very popular bag-a-lope design. I love to modify that idea to suit whenever I need it!
Again, this is something I did a little while ago, but due to the lack of posts in the past few months, I thought I'd share with you. I have to say that I cased this lot from someone…. and as it's been such a long time since I did them, I can not remember (I am really sorry). I wish to convey that I take no credit for being original here. But when I saw them, I just had to have a go. I also donated these to the 'Girl's Night In' fundraiser! At which there were lots of 'School mums', so hopefully they will come to good use this year!
They were quite quick to replicate and look really effective. I think this would make a great workshop class… Hmmm now there's an idea! Ha Ha This lot have used mostly retired stock, but it would be easy enough to change around. The 'Celebrations' DSP would work great – lots of bright colours which always look good on kids cards.
Well it has been yet another wet and rainy day in beautiful Queensland!! Thankfully we are not affected by the terrible floods that have left so many Queenslanders devastated. My heart goes out to them all, such an awful awful thing to happen.
On a brighter note, my neighbours two little girls (6yrs and 7yrs) stayed over last night as they are good friends with Abi! After way too much Justin Bieber and High School Musical they finally fell asleep about 10pm! So this morning they asked if they could do something crafty. I pulled out a card which I had previously cased from my very talented mum and upline Kris and decided to let them loose with the stamps and punches! I had Abi (6yrs), Ellie (almost 3yrs) and the two girls from next door, and they were all fantastic. I cut them up a 'kit' like I do for any other class, so it was pretty straightforward. I think they listened and were more careful than some adults I've seen!! It was lots of fun, and now I'm thinking that perhaps I should think seriously about getting a Kids Craft Class running one saturday morning a month…..
So these are the three older girls works of art. They each made two cards and a bookmark. Although they did need a bit of help with the crop-a-dile, and with putting the brads through their felt flowers on the bookmarks, they otherwise pretty much made it all themselves. They had great fun too! It is also a good way for me to use up some old DSP and supplies!!


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I apologize if this a duplicate report; I tried searching but was unable to find anything similar.
This problem does not occur in the stable 2008.8 and 2008.9 release images, but in the daily/testing images, or when updating a stable release using the testing repositories, the problem is reproducible at will.
The problem occurs when using GTK applications, specifically tested on apps such as the 'oh-puzzles' package games that originally came with the 2007.2 release.
When selecting one of the application's menus, and then either selecting a menu option or closing the menu, the main drawing areas for the app will not redraw, resulting in the menu staying drawn on screen until interacting with the game/app causes the screen to change and forcibly redraw.
I'd attach screenshots if I knew how take them on the Neo. If you need them, please let me know the easiest way to take them via SSH/terminal and I will attach them here.
Looks like a duplicate of #1946.
It does seem to be related/duplicate of #1946. I'll test the apps mentioned in the other bug and grab a couple screenshots when I get home from work.


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La salamandra plateada (Ambystoma platineum, Cope, 1867) es una especie híbrida de salamandra o ajolote endémica de los Estados Unidos de América y Canadá.

Descripción
Por lo general, mide entre 12 y 20 cm de largo y es estilizada con muchas pequeñas manchas de color azul plateado en su espalda y lados. Es de color gris parduzco principalmente. Esta es un anfibio triploide y unisexual, resultado de la hibridación entre diferentes especies. Cabe destacar que esta es una de un grupo de especies similares del género Ambystoma que poseen mezcla genética de otras especies puras tales como A. barbouri, A. texanum, A. tigrinus, A. jeffersonianum y A. laterale entre otras. Solo se puede distinguir estas de las salamandras de Jefferson o bien contando los cromosomas, midiendo los glóbulos rojos más grandes de la plateada (es triploide) o mediante marcadores moleculares.

Reproducción
Como se ha mencionado la salamandra plateada es una especie que solo posee individuos del sexo femenino. Estas como en la mayoría de las especies que practican la partenogénesis son triploides debido a una hibridación en la cual no se dio una correcta meiosis en uno de los progenitores que dieron resultado al híbrido. Sin embargo, en estas salamandras se presenta un tipo de partenogénesis conocido como gynogénesis en el cual la hembra se reproducirá con un macho de una de la salamandra de Jefferson. Tras la reproducción, las substancias químicas presentes en los espermatozoides inducirán al óvulo (futuro huevo) a empezar a dividirse, más la genética contenida en los espermatozoides no contribuirá a la genética del embrión y, por tanto, la salamandra resultante será un clon de su madre. Tras el apareamiento la hembra pondrá grupos de huevos pegados entre sí (entre 2 y 50).

Por otro lado, esta especie pasa por una metamorfosis completa (holometábola) y un ciclo de vida similar a otras de su género si bien hay que destacar la alta mortalidad embrionaria que a veces se sitúa en un 80% (común en anfibios partenogenéticos).

Hábitat
Viven casi en cualquier lugar desde el centro-sur de Michigan hasta la adyacente Indiana y Ohio hasta el oeste de Massachusetts al sur hasta el norte de Nueva Jersey. Se encuentran comúnmente en ríos y estanques poco profundos o cerca de ellos en bosques caducifolios. Hay una población extremadamente limitada en el condado de Vermilion, Illinois. Se considera en peligro de extinción dentro de ese estado.

Depredadores
En la naturaleza, esta especie es depredada por gran variedad de animales como aves, grandes peces de agua dulce, mapaches que viven en los bosques que habita e incluso perros asilvestrados.

Alimentación
Consumen todo tipo de pequeños invertebrados, así como posiblemente artrópodos acuáticos.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 https://herpetology.inhs.illinois.edu/species-lists/ilspecies/silvery-salamander/
 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28567774/
https://www.inhs.illinois.edu/collections/herpetology/data/ilspecies/am_platine/

platineum

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During the warmer months , we host 45-minute Hula Rockout classes at local parks around the DFW metroplex. Whether you are brand-spankin' new to Hula, or have been dancing for years and can 'Uwehe with the best of them, this is a fun way to get some early morning FUN in the SUN!
Our Hula Rockout classes are an exciting way to get a workout in with friends and family, and anyone can join – all ages, no matter your fitness level or dance expertise. We encourage Moms (and Dads!) to bring your na keiki (kids) along! We enjoy this format for introducing the little ones to the art of dance while getting in a GREAT workout!
Hula Rockout Class Rate: $5.00/person, Children 10 and under are FREE.
Check out our Calendar for our Hula Rockout Schedule!
One of our passions, aside from Polynesian dancing, is lei making. If you've ever danced with a Hula or Polynesian dance group before, you know that A LOT of the work involves making your own costumes and adornments.
Our lei making & crafting workshops are planned at different times throughout the year, which we try to coincide with other Polynesian events that are happening in the area. Different classes are organized and coordinated depending on the participants and difficulty (for instance we'll host a Yarn Lei Making workshop for children, and a Floral Lei Making workshop for the adults).
Be sure to check our Calendar for upcoming dates and additional info.
Our Keiki Hula Camps are perfect for those who are brand new to Hula! The camps are one (1) hour each week, held in five (5) week sessions, and are open to children ages 5 and up. Additionally, parents are required to be present.
At the end of each five-week session, we hold a mini-recital for friends and family, which gives the kids an opportunity to share what they have learned.
The Keiki Hula Camp Itinerary may include (but may not be limited to): Hula Step Basics, Kahiko (Ancient Hula) instruction, and 'Auana (Modern Hula) instruction. The songs & hula taught will always be age-appropriate. All participants are provided with information packets which include the names of the Hula steps, Lyrics (and translations) for the songs being taught, as well as CDs of the music so that the keiki can not only practice at home, but share with others what they have learned!
Be sure to check our Calendar for upcoming dates & additional info.
We hold weekly Keiki Hula classes for children (ages 5 and up) who have attended at least one (1) five-week Keiki hula camp session, and want to learn more. The children in our weekly Keiki classes commit at least one (1) hour to learning and dancing with us every Sunday.
Our Keiki Hula students also get the opportunity to participate in our events and share what they have learned with the public, which is very exciting!
Our Polynesian Dance Workshops may be half-day (approximately 4 hours) or full-day (approximately 6 hours) depending on the Teacher, participant Expertise Levels, and Difficulty of the dances being taught. These camps are open to all, but are specifically geared toward participants who want more in-depth instruction past just the Basics. Camps may include a combination of Hula and Tahitian songs, or another Polynesian cultural art, such as Maori poi balls.
The Polynesian Dance Camp Itinerary may will include (but may not be limited to): Kahiko (Ancient Hula) instruction, and 'Auana (Modern Hula) instruction, with the Meles (songs) varying between Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced. All participants are provided with information packets which include Lyrics (and translations) for the songs being taught, as well as CDs of the music.


Today we have a lock to repair or replace in churchstoke, a UPVC door that cant be unlocked in Forden.
We also have security free security reviews in Newtown.
On Thursday last week we changed and upgraded some locks in Shrewsbury.
On Friday we installed a new Domestic CCTV system in Llanfechain to help the householder feel more safe and secure following problems.
Later this week we have alarm maintenance in Clun to undertake and more work in Newtown and Welshpool.
A fairly busy week planned but still some free appointments for emergencies that may crop up along the way.
In the last week we have installed a new alarm system in Much Wenlock. This system communicates in a number of ways one of which is by app to any tablet or phone, where for added reassurance the system can be checked at anytime from anywhere in the world.
We installed a new commercial CCTV system in a shop in Newtown providing 24 hour reassurance and offsite facilities too.
We repaired a CCTV system near Llandinam where a branch from a tree had broken some cables.
We have repaired, replaced and upgraded a number of locks around Welshpool, Newtown and Shrewsbury. Upgrades are usually to meet an insurer's minimum security requirements as otherwise they may refuse to pay out in the event of burglary.
We have a house to visit in Adfa that don't have any window keys to unlock their windows. We carry the most popular 100 or so window keys with us.
In the last couple of weeks, we have travelled widely throughout the areas we cover. Here are a few examples of where we have been and what we have been doing.
We had a customer with a broken key in Guilsfield, Powys. It is worth noting that if you snap a key in a lock, providing it was the correct key and you don't damage the key or lock trying to remove it yourself, we can usually remove it without damaging the lock to save the cost of having to buy a new lock and we can even cut extra keys on site if you don't have enough spares for that lock.
In Fordham, Powys we assisted a customer with a new set of handles to replace the broken ones on their UPVC Door.
We had a customer who was unable to shut and lock their UPVC door in Trefeglwys.
In Carno, we had a customer who snapped the only key they had in their UPVC door cylinder and were unable to lock it, we were able to change it for a new one with three keys.
We had a person locked out in the cold in Llanidloes. It is worth saying that we always try to gain entry without damaging the locks wherever possible in order to keep your costs to a minimum. If this is not possible, we will always talk you through the options, explain them fully including costs etc.
We have undertaken numerous jobs in Newtown and Welshpool, including Lock changes, persons locked out, security upgrades, CCTV and Alarm quotes.
We upgraded some old locks in Kerry, to new more secure locks.
In Montgomery we had a customer with a snapped key.
In Shrewsbury, we did a security survey and quote for a wireless intruder alarm system.
In Llanfair Caerinion we had a person locked out, for whom we gained entry.
Next week we already have work booked in Newtown, Welshpool, Clun, Bishops Castle and Church Stretton.
We undertook a number of training sessions in order to hone our skills to be able to provide our customers an even better service.
The Expo itself has the very latest in security with over 95 exhibitors from all around the world, so we can be assured that the products we offer are the very best they can be.
Networking with other small independent Locksmiths and Security businesses from around the UK is also great, it enables us to ensure that our prices are keen and competitive and also gives a fascinating insight as to how other locksmiths tackle the common and not so common problems.
Don't forget we provide domestic and commercial locksmith services 24/7 365 days a year for towns such as Newtown, Welshpool, Shrewsbury, Telford and all villages and towns in between in the Counties of Powys, Shropshire and South Gwynedd.
Another customer now less likely to become a burglary victim.
As it's Christmas I thought I'd blog about something other than security for a change – our new boxer dog.
About 2 years ago, our son now aged 7 asked if he could have a dog. Thinking of all the negatives we said no, however over the past two years he has continued to ask. To be honest the negatives always outweighed the positives in my mind and I usually just put any decision off however it was clear that our son really wanted a dog.
When our son did his list for Father Christmas around October this year noticing he had not included "dog" I foolishly asked him why it was missing to which he replied "because you won't let me have one" that really tugged at my heart strings.
My wife and I have spent considerably more time deciding whether to get a dog than we ever did about having kids. I have always loved the playful mischievous nature of Boxers. I remembered one of our old friend breeds them and had a few chats together with research and we decided to go ahead with a male puppy but for him not to be a Christmas present.
On 17th December we met "Scooby" as named by the kids for the first time he was as gorgeous as his pictures sent by the breeder had suggested.
We decided to crate train him as he won't ever be left for long periods but we don't want to endure his chewing stage. The first two nights he spent in a small box next to our bed and every time I took my hand away he cried. We spent lots of time introducing him to his crate and on night 3 he went in. We had been advised to ignore his crying and eventually he did stop.
Despite getting up and letting him out in the night his crate was a real mess in the morning. We had a huge one with bed one end and paper the other and although he head gone to toilet in right place he had trodden it everywhere. After 2 nights of mess and the fact that nights 1 and 2 were no problem in his small box, we invested in a much smaller crate with room for bed only and have had no problem since.
Two weeks on he loves his crate often goes in during day to escape the children and have a sleep.
Scooby is definitely full of character, extremely playful and already mischievous. He has fitted in really well with us all. House training over the wettest Christmas ever has not been easy as he doesn't like the rain but I think we are making progress.
Having read up well we have been so careful with the kids and chocolate over Christmas but despite all the care somehow he got into our utility room on Boxing Night and in the minute he was there he managed to eat a piece of chocolate cake. Thankfully our new vet was wonderful, we were there within 30 minutes and poor Scooby was vomiting the contents of his stomach like someone at the end of a bad night out. He recovered really well and by next morning was back to his mischievous self.
We all have so much still to learn but despite the hard work house training in the winter etc, he is a gorgeous new addition to the family.
Reading this could save you lots of money – I have blogged about The problem with UPVC doors previously but it's something I come across so often it's worth repeating.
The locking mechanism of whatever type engages when you push up the handle; when you take the next step of turning the key it locks the mechanism in place.
The action of pushing the handle up usually turns a number of cogs which engage with he top and bottom sliders to slide the locking mechanism into place. This should be an easy smooth operation; if you are having to exert extra force something is not right (usually the door needs adjusting).
The teeth on these cogs are not strong and if you continue to use undue force on the handle the teeth will break off resulting in you being locked in or out and requiring the gearbox or in many cases whole locking mechanism replacing which can be expensive.
UPVC Door alignment problems can be heightened in extremes of cold and heat making the problem worse.
If you have to use extra force to push the handle up then having the door looked at ASAP cold save you lots of trouble and money later on.


Spring has sprung, so now I can fill photos with bright colors and lots of flowers.
and get her in front of the camera.
This is my 1972 Kenner Reproduction Ashton Drake Blythe "LoveNLace" released in 2004.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 11 2012 (IPS) - President Barack Obama's top diplomat on African affairs on Tuesday defended the U.S. administration's response to the continued crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in the face of stepped up criticism from both civil society and U.S. lawmakers.
Since April, violence has spiked in the eastern part of the DRC, perpetrated in part by an armed group known as the M23 – a group that three U.N. reports this year have found to be receiving support from the Rwandan government, a key U.S. ally. Over the past eight months, the renewed conflict has displaced some 2.4 million people, culminating in the recent fall of Goma, the largest city in the eastern part of the country, to the rebels.
Although the M23 leadership has now pulled out of Goma and entered into difficult peace talks, many analysts worry over the fact that these are being sponsored by Uganda, thought to be hardly a neutral player, and the lack of Rwanda's representation in the negotiations.
Speaking before a subcommittee hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives, Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson said he rejected the notion that the U.S. administration has failed to speak out against the M23 rebels. Carson also noted that a "credible body of evidence" does indeed implicate Rwandan government support for the M23, "including military, logistical and political assistance".
"Based on this evidence, we have repeatedly pressed Rwanda to halt and prevent any and all forms of support to Congolese armed groups," Carson stated. Later, however, he admitted that, beyond closed-door talks, the only direct action Washington has taken has been to suspend a token amount of around 200,000 dollars in military aid to the Rwandan military earlier this year.
As the conflict drags on, that low-key approach has been increasingly criticised, as other Western countries, including the U.K., E.U. and several Scandinavian countries, have moved to impose sanctions on Rwanda. Indeed, back in 2006, then-Senator Barack Obama sponsored legislation that would have followed a similar route, an approach recently approved by a U.N. group of experts.
Eastern DRC is an area rich in natural resources, including diamonds, oil, timber and a host of minerals. Longstanding competition and animosities have led Congo, Rwanda and Uganda to battle over these resources for years, with some analysts suggesting that Rwanda's support for the M23 is part of an open plan to annex part of the eastern DRC.
At Tuesday's House hearing, Subcommittee Chair Christopher H. Smith stated that the U.S. government "must overcome our regret to what happened 18 years ago," referring to the genocide in Rwanda that shook many here in Washington and beyond.
Smith also referred to a letter sent on Monday to President Obama by a coalition of 15 international civil society organisations. That letter warns that a decade and a half of "quiet diplomacy" by the United States in the Great Lakes region of Africa has failed to deter Rwandan support for armed rebels operating in the DRC.
That failure, they contend, has contributed to the current crisis.
"The U.S. response to the crisis has patently failed and is out of step with other Western nations," the groups, including the Open Society Foundations, Refugees International, Africa Faith & Justice Network and others, said in the open letter.
The NGOs are calling on President Obama to name a special envoy to lead the U.S. response to the situation in the DRC, to support the naming of a similar U.N. envoy and a U.N. arms embargo on the DRC, and to suspend all non-humanitarian aid to the Rwandan government.
In testimony on Tuesday, Carson did express support for the appointment of a U.N. special envoy.
Yet he rejected the need for a presidential envoy from the U.S., stating that such an official already exists, albeit with a broader mandate for the entire Great Lakes region. Carson also stated that further punitive actions squeezing U.S. aid to Rwanda were unnecessary, noting that the U.S. government has no proof that any aid given to Rwanda has been "misused or rechanneled into the conflict in DRC".
Over the past fiscal year, the United States gave some 195 million dollars in development assistance to Rwanda, primarily for use in health and agriculture programmes.
"The U.S. government seems content to simply work behind the scenes based on its own relationships in the region, but this isn't yielding results in peace or bold ideas for resolving the longstanding issues in the region," Aaron Hall, a policy analyst with the Enough Project, a Washington-based anti-genocide watchdog that spearheaded the recent open letter, told IPS.
Of the current peace talks between the M23 and the Congolese government, Hall says they only constitute a "band-aid solution".
"First off, it's being chaired by Uganda, which has been implicated for supporting the M23. Second, the talks are only being held between the Congolese government and the M23 rebels, when clearly other groups have stated that they understand the involvement of Rwanda, which is not at the table," Hall says.
What's needed instead, Hall and many other analysts suggest, is to finally address long-term, systemic issues. This would include tackling not only Rwandan and Ugandan policies and actions, but also the inability of the Congolese government to create viable judicial and political institutions in the east.
why does the US feel a sense of guilt for 800,000 rwandan inter tribal killings, yet feel unmoved by over 5 million innocent congolese deaths plus mineral theft caused by rwandan aggression and hegemonic ambitions? is it because 800,000 deaths sounds larger than 5 million? or are rwandans more human than the congolese. Why does the US not feel equally guilty over a catastrophe it is actually partly responsible (it gives £240million in aid to rwanda annually plus trains and fund its army – the very army accused in the take over of Goma)??
@mngabo2003:disqus That amazing. I love your sensibility.Some argued also that 800,000 deaths in Rwanda was a fabrication by the western media.Some died while fleeing the APR advance.Is that so? So bad governance is causing massive death now?wow!
Kongo to the Kongoleses. Take your hands off now International community. And take Rwanda's Kagame with you in your way out.
And why nobody can find the link you posted?


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The Little Grasshopper Costume for boys includes a shirt, pants, a vest with attached wings, and a headpiece. Your kid will take a leap at Halloween and have a great time at the school Halloween party!