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Engineers have the last laugh: The Loretto Heights water tower caper of 1962
by Lori Ferguson | Jul 11, 2018 | Looking Back, Summer 2018 | 1 comment
As students in the 1960s, Harold Heinze '64 and his classmates were committed to a rigorous work ethic. "From Sundays at 6 p.m. to Fridays at 4:30 p.m., Mines was a serious place," Heinze recalled. "You were a student and worked hard—that's what you did."
There were, however, two exceptions to that rule. "Friday evening until Sunday afternoon was fun time, and then there was the annual Engineer's Day, or E-Day, a spring weekday when classes were canceled and everyone was given time to play in activities and contests on campus," Heinze continued. In other words, it was the perfect day for a caper.
"No one would expect a bunch of college types to show up on a weekday and do what we were doing," Heinze said. A half-dozen Mines dorm residents, including Heinze, were actually pulling off some high-elevation high jinks.
In the spring of 1962, the water tower at the neighboring all-girls school, Loretto Heights College, was ground zero for a graffiti war perpetrated by students from Mines' local rival institutions: University of Denver (DU), Regis College and the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Under cover of darkness, DU students painted "Regis" on the tower in hopes of getting their rivals in trouble. When their plan failed, the students returned and painted over their handiwork. However, the Regis students liked the attention they got from having their name overlooking the Loretto Heights campus and climbed the tower and repainted their name.
Air Force Academy cadets soon joined the fun and replaced "Regis" with "U.S.A.F.A." From then on, it was a game of back and forth, with Regis students again painting over the cadets' handiwork and restoring their claim to the tower.
The Mines crew knew they couldn't miss out on being a part of the friendly rivalry. "I don't know who came up with the idea, but we all thought it was a good one—it was fun, different and didn't entail damage to property," Heinze said.
That last point was especially important, Heinze confessed. "As a freshman, I was involved with a prank at DU—the aluminum 'Denver University' sign was disassembled with ball-peen hammers. I got the 'D,'" he explained. Unfortunately, DU campus police got Heinze's license plate number, and he was presented with an ultimatum by Mines' dean of students: pay $400 to replace the sign or be expelled. Heinze passed a hat around campus and quickly raised the funds to restore the sign and vowed that future pranks would involve no property damage.
The water tower caper struck Heinze and his friends as a perfect opportunity to have some good, clean fun. "We had been watching the whole thing unfold for several weeks and thought, 'What a bunch of amateurs. They're doing a lousy job lettering, and as engineers, we know how to do it right," Heinze recalled.
The crew spent several weeks prepping for their strike, creating a "Mines" stencil with butcher block paper—the "M" was in perfect proportion to the other letters, Heinze proudly remembered—securing painters' uniforms, even splashing a bit of whitewash on the truck they planned to drive to the site. "We knew the nuns at Loretto were watching the tower pretty closely, so we wanted to have a good story if they caught us in the act," he said.
In the early hours of E-Day, Heinze and his classmates traveled to Loretto, climbed the tower, painted over "Regis" with a rectangular background and loosened the nuts holding the uppermost section of the ladder in place. Their plan was to return that night, spray-paint "Mines" on the tower and remove the highest section of the ladder so no one else could scale the tower and destroy their handiwork.
"The mother superior spied my classmate, Stan Lukezic '65, on the tower that day—he was up there jumping on a four-foot wrench, trying to break the rusty nuts loose," Heinze said. "She asked what he was doing. We told her he was tightening the nuts and, fortunately, not knowing the 'righty tighty lefty loosey rule,' she bought it."
The team returned later that night to complete their work. "We worked quickly and were out of there in less than 30 minutes," Heinze recalled with a laugh. "Two or three guys slapped up the stencil we'd made, spray-painted the letters on, removed the section of ladder we'd loosened and set off fireworks on the way down to illuminate our handiwork."
It was a great gag and fun to pull off, but it was also a telling commentary on the members of the Class of 1964, Heinze said. "In an interesting way, the prank spoke to who we were, how we grew up and what was going on around us," he said.
Born on the front edge of the post-World War II baby boom, Heinze's generation was caught up in the space race with the Russians. "When Sputnik was launched in 1957, it made the education gap between Russia and the U.S. very clear, and my high school curriculum changed overnight," Heinze said. "I and many others were identified as having engineering potential, so as a high school freshman, I was fast-tracked into math, chemistry and physics. It was a formative experience for me."
Heinze and his classmates were also part of the generation sent to war in Vietnam after graduating college. Heinze and nearly every other graduate in the Class of 1964 entered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as second lieutenants after college, and almost all served in combat units. "While at Mines, we learned to work hard and keep a low profile," he said, skills that helped carry him and his classmates safely through the war. "There were 200 graduates in our class, and not one was killed in Vietnam. That's an amazing tribute to our resourcefulness and our good sense at keeping our heads down."
But despite all the hard work and seriousness of completing his Mines degree, Heinze says the fun times were still important in setting him up for success later in life. "It's hard to justify doing such a childish prank, but it was executed with some form, grace and thought," Heinze said. "It was a nod to the school's reputation—Mines turns out engineers who are action-oriented and know how to do something. It was in keeping with what we were all about."
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Harold, If you have ever met a Loretto Sister, you would know that, not only does she most likely know the 'righty tighty lefty loosey rule', but she also very likely knew exactly what you were doing and allowed you to have your fun, despite the fact that you were, indeed, damaging the Loretto community's property. With all due respect to you and your classmates who were called to service with the space race and as second lieutenants in Vietnam for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, I hope you realize that while you certainly represented Mines well against our rivalry schools of the time, you did a poor job of representing Mines in the community as a whole.
This article did not make me proud to be an alumni of CSM. Luckily, other articles in this same issue of Mines Magazine redeemed my CSM pride, such as when I read about how the Mines Robotics Club won the national Applied Exoskeleton Competition for their design to help firefighters bear the load of their heavy equipment, how the Human Centered Design Studio is creating adaptive equipment for people with disabilities, and how Mines is joining Catalyst HTI to accelerate innovation and collaboration in the health care field.
I understand that times were different then. My hope is that Mines students these days would not consider or need such activities to cope with their stress but would instead be more influenced by, for example, the books recommended by the Leadership in Social Responsibility Interest Group that were listed on page 37.


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> 'Steve's home PC with upstream capacity of 128kbps' ?
could serve as a measure of the quality of the availability and throughput.
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Located in the resort of Southport, Merseyside. The Pier Pavilion was built at the same time as the widening of the pier in 1901, and opened on 1st January 1902. It was at the shore end of the pier, and was constructed of steel & cast iron. The auditorium had seating in orchestra stalls and a gallery level.
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Scroll down about three-quarters of the way down this webpage to see a blue-tinted picture of the Casino Theatre as it was in 1962.


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They make excellent watch dogs.
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This breed needs vigorous daily exercise.
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Covid-19: The ineptitude of power
Seuty Sabur, Shehzad M Arifeen
Sat Apr 4, 2020 12:00 AM Last update on: Sat Apr 4, 2020 01:15 AM
Unable to find work, a porter sits idly under a foot bridge at the capital's Karwan Bazar, on April 2, 2020. Photo: Star
Plagues, pandemics, floods and blights, we were once taught, are vehicles of retribution, weeding out those who have not prepared for divine wrath—the greedy, reckless, and arrogant. Yet heavenly justice can be merciless and undiscerning, destroying innocent lives for the hubris of their leaders. As the global division of labour has expanded and deepened, decades of "structural adjustment", privatisation, deregulation, austerity measures and the deliberate destruction of public institutions and social welfare infrastructure have left a fundamentally weak and vulnerable world. Now the West lies crippled, much of the Third World unable to even measure their predicament, and only a handful of governments managing any kind of effective response at all.
Here, in this crowded land, the first phase of an unofficial lockdown began after March 17, becoming official as of March 25. The government had at least two months to prepare since the first wave of both people and news arrived from China; yet it appears that, for some, other activities took precedence over the health of their fellow citizens. Now that we are finally taking it seriously, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina insists that we must "take measures in such a way that we can protect every person of the country [from the deadly disease]," while Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque has declared that "our country is now safe and doing well" (The Daily Star, March 30, 2020). Indeed, with very few new cases of infections being reported, it seems that Bangladesh is succeeding where so many of the mighty have failed. A formidable achievement indeed!
We have, however, sincere doubts about what is being said and the integrity of our institutions. Amidst continued claims that there are no shortages (bdnews24, March 29, 2020), only one of the four facilities originally assigned to be used for coronavirus patients is reported to be equipped for the task. There are severe shortages of protective gear for hospital staff, and too many reports of rejected patients, doctors and nurses refusing to approach them, forcing family members to attend to them instead. Even now, in the fourth week of the pandemic's career in Bangladesh, we are coming across news of a critical patient spending 12 hours in an ambulance, trying to get admitted into six hospitals one after another, only to die in the end with zero medical attention (Prothom Alo, March 29, 2020). Meanwhile, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) continues to stick to its own narratives with numerous reports coming in everyday of people unable to reach anyone on their "hotline".
While we preach "social distancing", practice surgical sanitisation, bemoan the flood of returning migrants and the en masse evacuation of Dhaka, we forget that our "remittance soldiers" do not have the support system to stay in a foreign land without daily wages, and that the working classes do not have the luxury of "social distancing" or sanitisation while going hungry for days under the lockdown (The Daily Star, March 23, 2020). We have put the onus on able-bodied individuals to ensure their personal safety, while disguising the structural inequality that determines who gets infected and who can save themselves. Social distancing is social inequality: the elite retreat into safety while marginalised communities (the working classes, the impoverished elderly, sex workers, the hijra-transgender community, etc.) are left exposed. The nation has been abandoned to figure out how to survive on its own, either by hoarding monthly supplies, self-medicating, or reaching out to people in need. Such is the state of this aspiring "middle-income" country.
Covid-19 has stripped naked the modern nation-state everywhere. The helplessness of the world's great statesmen to contain this pandemic has unmasked the deadly flaws in the structure of global capitalism that we have been enduring for ages, under the illusion that such a system is the path to human freedom and progress. This is what happens when we allow private gain to become the organising principle of social life: a world where we can produce enough "fast fashion", but not enough protective masks—a Bangladesh where we have the space to throw extravagant weddings, but not enough to provide safe housing during a crisis. Nishant Shah, a friend of one of the writers, has put it well: "[T]he reason why we shall not accept this as normal is because the call for normalcy—and its accomplished rhetoric of productivity, work, business-as-usual—is in the service of the very system that has led to this crisis."
Encouragingly, collective efforts have emerged to raise funds and provide PPE and other necessities to the "socially distanced". Such efforts are commendable; yet why do these working-class bodies have to live on our handouts, instead of what they are entitled to as citizens of the state? While affluent voices have cried over the fate of "khete-khawa manush", they have looked on at the state agencies beating and humiliating citizens, the "undisciplined" bodies, denying them the right to live with dignity. Where are these "small punishments" for the hoarders, or for the factory owners who forced workers to continue to expose themselves to hundreds and thousands of others in crowded factories every day? Even as late as March 21, the state minister for labour declared that RMG factories would continue to operate unless the prime minister directed them to stop, ignoring warnings about the disproportionate risk garment workers were facing (New Age, March 22, 2020). Despite many impassioned speeches, there is still no official injunction requiring all factories to shut down, for all due wages to be paid, and no guarantee that workers will not be sacked. Meanwhile, beyond the RMG industry, the body-count has begun: when workers at a jute mill in Biral, Dinajpur came out to demand all unpaid wages (fearing a shutdown), the police responded with bullets and beatings, killing a paan-seller, a bystander, in the process (Jagonews24, March 26, 2020).
Just like in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza massacre, millions of taka are flowing in from everywhere without any transparent plan about how this money will be managed (such as the BGB's 125 million donation, Dhaka Tribune, March 30, 2020). We demand a full disclosure of the state's strategy to deal with this pandemic, and accountability regarding the distribution of funds. Charity will not save us. Both the state and the industrial-corporate class have deployed a narrative of common humanity to implore the affluent to help "the needy", the same narrative that makes us believe that we can help the many without inconveniencing the few. This is an illusion; the wealth and power of the latter rest on the perpetuation of social arrangements that generate the misery and dispossession of the former. If anything, this pandemic has taught us a brutal lesson on just how much our lives are intertwined. Lockdowns and closed doors can only delay the inevitable. When the time comes, the state will have to answer for everyone who may die. Let us not make a man-made disaster look like natural selection. We are all in this together, after all.
Seuty Sabur and Shehzad M Arifeen both teach anthropology at the Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Brac University.

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"2045: The end of WW3… With only 3% of the world's population left after total nuclear fallout, the few that remain are left to build a new society; one bereft of the technology, material trinkets and infrastructure they had long taken for granted before. Even with a new way of life, the humans attempts to reverse the damage of the war prove futile; all the waste, pollution and death have already permeated the Earth's core, slowly mutating the dying planet from the inside, out. A rise in sightings of unexplained giant monsters on the surface soon rattled the poor survivors. Mercifully oblivious of the humans, the beasts (dubbed Kaijyu) were more intent on destroying each other…Fighting to the death in the Kaijyu Battlegrounds to secure territory in the New World!"
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Founded by the few remaining government officials, scientists and military from the Old World, this international coalition aims to eradicate all kaijyu and detractors alike- by any means necessary! Friends or foe to humanity? Only time will tell…
Born from the pollution, death and destruction of WW3, these fearsome beasts are Earths last chance at restoring balance. Feared by many, worshipped by some, there is one thing agreed on by all; these towering demi-gods are here to stay whether we like it or not!
Kaijyu worshippers-turned- resistance fighters against the intensifying grip of the NWA, this crazy band of warriors search for freedom and equality for all. Understanding the importance of Kaijyu for the future of the Earth, they will do anything to secure their safety!
Born out of a deep love of dioramic toys for play (Poppy's Mutropolis Base, Bluebird's Mighty Max), kaiju (particularly pachimon) and the early neo kaiju scene, Kaijyu Battleground is a narrative-led series featuring toys that span across many different genres in the boutique sofubi and keshi industry, including fully-fledged playsets, classic-style large and mid-size, minis and more – all which in their own way help develop the KB story further in a similar way to classic lines of the 80s and 90s.
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Q: Directive template not evaluating expression I just started playing with AngularJS today and am stuck. Pardon the coffeescript and haml.
# some-js-file.js.coffee
app.directive "sr", ->
  restrict: "C"
  replace: true
  transclude: true
  scope:
    serviceRequest: "@servReq"
  template: "
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{{service_request}}
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  link: (scope, element, attrs) ->
    scope.$watch 'serviceRequest', (serviceRequest) ->
      console.log scope.serviceRequest, serviceRequest
    # cool stuff

# index.html.haml
# more cool stuff...
.row{'ng-repeat' => 'service_request in service_requests'}
  .sr{'serv-req' => '{{service_request}}'}
    {{service_request.description}}

The loop and basic template are displaying except that the {{service_request}} expression isn't being evaluated - just blank.
You will notice that in the 'link:' section, I had to $watch the scope for the console.log to work - it wasn't evaluating serviceRequest either. What's going on?
Thanks!!

A: If service_request is an object (as indicated by service_request.description on the last line), then you cannot pass it into the directive using interpolation ({{service_request}}) and attribute-based binding (@servReq).
Instead, you want the actual JavaScript value to be passed through, so you'll need to change your Haml to
.sr{'serv-req' => 'service_request'}

and upate your directive to use bi-directional binding based on the attribute
scope:
  service_request: "=servReq"

(You also need to underscore service_request here, because that's how it's used in the template.)
It's hard to really tell what you're trying to do, but here's a jsFiddle that demonstrates these changes: http://jsfiddle.net/BinaryMuse/Z7Bru/

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King George VI & Queen Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes 2019
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. PRIZE money of £1.2 million is carried for this year's renewal of the Group 1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes on July 27 at Ascot. Ribot, Nijinsky, Mill Reef, Brigadier Gerard, Dancing Brave, Montjeu and last year's winner Enable…
July 22, 2019 in Ascot.
William Haggas believes drying ground will suit Rivet in Dewhurst
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. WILLIAM HAGGAS believes the drying ground will benefit Champagne Stakes winner Rivet in the £500,000 Group 1 Dubai Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday. Rivet is a rare runner in the Dewhurst for Haggas whose only previous runner was in 1990 when he…
October 6, 2016 in Newmarket.
Lester Piggott and Richard Hughes to co-present trophy to 2015 champion jockey
By Simon Jackson. Legendary jockey Lester Piggott is to present the trophy to this year's champion flat jockey on QIPCO British Champions Day at Ascot on October 17. This year's flat jockeys' championship started at Newmarket on May 2 and concludes on Champions Day next month and for the first time this year the championship…
September 3, 2015 in British Champions Day.
Royal Ascot 2015: Ryan Moore wins on Aloft to set modern-day record of nine winners
By Simon Jackson at Royal Ascot. Ryan Moore set a modern-day record at Royal Ascot on Friday when he bagged his ninth winner of the week on Aloft in the Listed Queen's Vase. The victory surpassed the long-standing record of eight winners at a single Royal Ascot meeting held by Lester Piggott (1965 and 1975)…
June 19, 2015 in Ascot.
Lester Piggott presented with inaugural Derby Cap at first meeting of 2015 at Epsom
By Simon Jackson at Epsom Downs. Lester Piggott, the nine-time Derby-winning jockey attended the Investec Spring Meeting at Epsom on Wednesday where he was presented with the inaugural Derby Cap. The cap, which will be presented to jockeys to mark their debut ride in the Investec Derby, was unveiled at the racetrack's first flat meeting…
April 22, 2015 in Epsom.
Legends of the Turf commemorative walk to be unveiled at Newmarket ahead of July meeting
By Simon Jackson. The July meeting at Newmarket this week will be preceded by the unveiling of Newmarket's 'Legends of the Turf' commemorative walk on the High Street. Human and equine heroes from Newmarket's rich racing history that includes Frankel, Lester Piggott and the late Sir Henry Cecil will have paving stones dedicated to them…
July 8, 2014 in Newmarket.


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Salesforce is a powerful tool. And if you're tasked with implementing a new data system for your org, there are very good reasons why this might be the way to go.
But there are valid reasons to stay away, too.
My staff knows how much I love Salesforce. And as much as I wish every org could implement it without issue, that's just not how it works! Your org needs to be in the right headspace to knock a Salesforce implementation out of the park. Take it from someone who's experienced some of these issues firsthand: this isn't the right tool for everyone. And that's okay.
So, how can tell when Salesforce is just not the right fit? Check to see if any of these indicators are present before you commit your nonprofit to the Salesforce Ohana.
1. Your org is going from no system at all to Salesforce.
This isn't to say that Salesforce can't work in this situation; 'new' can be good. But consider that for your end users, this is like running before crawling. If there's no infrastructure whatsoever for your data – or maybe you're not even collecting any yet!– then the necessary investment may be more than what makes sense right now.
*Tip*: But don't abandon the data strategy altogether! Start small with spreadsheets and other low-cost tools, and see how your org responds.
2. Your leadership team isn't invested in the outcome of your implementation.
You'll need your leadership's support throughout this project, including after your rollout. If leaders aren't engaged in each step of the process, then you're missing a critical element to your own success.
3. You need this implementation done yesterday.
I don't know that any worthwhile system can be configured overnight. But certainly not Salesforce! A proper implementation takes planning and testing – typically months of it – so don't sign onto Salesforce if your org isn't willing to put in that time. Otherwise, you risk making major decisions on the basis of turnaround rather than what's right for your data.
4. You're not prepared to roll this out to staff.
Configuring a Salesforce instance is tough, but that doesn't mean you should skimp on the rollout. If you have no plan, desire or authority to train, troubleshoot and provide support to end users, then stop right here. Any implementation is only as successful as its adoption phase, and that simply won't happen if no one is willing to do the necessary hand-holding with your staff.
*Tip:* This is less about Salesforce and more about people. Even if we could build the most user-friendly system in the world, we can't assume that everyone will just "get" it. Ya know?
5. Expectations on how staff will use Salesforce are unclear.
Are folks required to use this thing or what? If leaders don't set the precedent early on about how they'll hold staff accountable, then 1 of 2 things will happen: people won't feel the need to use Salesforce at all, or they'll grow resentful once they learn that it is in fact mandatory. Both options will hinder your success, so if you're putting your neck on the line to spend time and money on this effort, be clear on what you're working with.
6. Your org's data needs are simple.
And by that, I mean simple enough that any other system would go beyond your wildest dreams. The setup and maintenance of Salesforce is a lot on its own, so if something else works and requires half the effort, that may be the safer bet to start.
7. You don't have a relationship with your end users.
Technically speaking, anyone can come into your org and set up Salesforce. The science of it is easy. But the art of it -setting things up in a way that lends to the productivity and efficacy of your users- is hard. And it's pretty much impossible if you don't have someone on your implementation team who's willing to make those connections.
*Tip*: This type of workplace empathy is a gem of a skill. So get practicing! Figure out how your users work, their pain-points, and drivers. Then, use that knowledge to set up a system they'll grow to love tolerate.
Some orgs get drawn to the "free"ness of Salesforce, not realizing the setup and maintenance costs (which amount to precious time and expensive skill). If freeness is your motivating factor, or you're working with a non-existent budget, tread carefully.
9. Your leaders expect that once it's set up, Salesforce will be a "done" project.
10. Because all the other nonprofits are doing it.
Salesforce is great, but there's also a dark side to this Salesforce game. Just ask any of the orgs who implemented too soon or with the wrong partner, who are now bitter towards their costly CRM. (Orgs, it's not too late!.) You may see that more nonprofits are getting on the bandwagon, but remember that the orgs who are successful with this have the necessary resources to make it happen.
Take time to shop around for a system that's going to fit your org's needs, capacity and budget.
This entry was posted in Data and tagged CRM, Databases, Implementation, Nonprofit, Salesforce, Tech on January 17, 2019 by Dee.


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West Suffolk Council Community Chest opens for applications
Community groups, charities and voluntary organisations in West Suffolk can now apply for Community Chest funding for 2020/21.
West Suffolk Council is to make more than £350,000 available as it looks to invest in community projects to improve the lives of local residents.
Money is available to local projects that can help strengthen families and empower communities so that they can better support themselves.
Since it launched in 2015, the council has invested in a range of community based initiatives, to help, for example, young people who have lost direction, gain a sense of purpose and integrate them back into their local community.
Other initiatives have been funded to break down stereotypes to bring generations closer together and develop a better understanding of each other. Community Chest has also been used to provide support to parents and families before they reach crisis point, and to help people overcome social isolation and loneliness.
Robert Everitt, Cabinet Member for Families and Communities at West Suffolk Council, said: "Our belief is that by investing in our communities, we can help combat issues before they lead to bigger problems We know that social isolation and loneliness takes a huge toll on people's physical and mental health, while family crises, without support, can have a deep and lasting impact on children that will continue into their adulthood. Across West Suffolk there are some great community organisations and charities that have a wealth of knowledge, experience and a desire to help –and we are looking to invest in their ideas to further improve the lives and experiences of West Suffolk residents."
The deadline for applications is September 30 at noon. A decision on the grants will be made later this year with successful bids paid in April 2020.
To apply, and for more information on application criteria, visit https://www.westsuffolk.gov.uk/community/community-grants.cfm
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Tripalium ou Trepalium (dérivé des racines latines, « tri / tres » et « palis » - littéralement, « trois pieux »), est un terme latin considéré comme faisant référence à un instrument de torture composé de trois barres de bois (description basée sur son sens littéral). Il est fréquemment considéré comme étant l'origine étymologique du mot « travail » en français ainsi que de son équivalent dans de nombreuses langues latines mais cette parenté étymologique est largement contestée.

Étymologie
Le terme tripalium est attesté chez Cicéron au . De tripalis, lui-même formé de tres (« trois ») et palis (« pieu »).

Dérivés
Tripalium est en général considéré comme la source de plusieurs mots modernes dans les langues latines et germaniques comme, travail (français), trabajo (Espagnol), travaglio (italien), trabalho (portugais), traballo (galicien), trabalh (occitan), treball (catalan) et travel (voyage en anglais).

À l'exception du terme anglais, tous les termes dérivés de tripalium signifient « travail ». Cependant, cette parenté étymologique est contestée.

Histoire

L'utilisation contextuelle originale de tripalium n'est toujours pas clairement avérée. Les tentatives pour en établir le sens reposent principalement sur des interprétations variées de son sens littéral: « trois pieux ». Les premières références de l'époque romaine montrent qu'il est utilisé pour décrire une structure en bois conçue pour immobiliser en toute sécurité un grand animal "fougueux" (cheval, bœuf, vache) afin de pouvoir l'examiner ou lui apporter des soins. Dans le In Verrem ("Contre Verres") de Cicéron, en 70 av. J.-C. et dans un texte antérieur (le concile d'Auxerre), tripalium est utilisé dans le contexte de l'interdiction faite aux clercs d'assister aux séances de torture et en référence à un instrument fait de trois barres de bois utilisé uniquement pour punir les esclaves. Le sujet y aurait été attaché et torturé (par exemple, brûlé par le feu).

Cependant, les documents historiques concernant la torture dans l'ancien empire romain fournissent de nombreuses informations sur des affaires célèbres où elle a été utilisée et en décrivent la légalité mais ils ne décrivent que rarement la nature de la torture  et ne font pas référence à l'empalement.

La transition du tripalium au mot technique français travail eut lieu au . Travail est encore utilisé aujourd'hui en France pour décrire une structure en bois similaire au tripalium en maréchalerie. Avec l'évolution de la langue française, Tripalium aurait pu potentiellement diverger dans les variantes suivantes : « traveil », « traval » ou « traveaul ». Au Moyen Âge, tripalium décrit soit une structure constituée d'un cadre de poutres en bois appelé Trabicula, soit une poutre individuelle dans la structure. Ces trabiculae sont la source directe d'architectures, les traboules, structures transversales permettant l'accès aux appartements, connues surtout à Lyon mais aussi une dizaine d'autres villes.

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