NI Water have said it could be next week before all homes and businesses in Northern Ireland are reconnected.
Ministers in NI are to hold an emergency meeting to discuss how to help the 36,000 people still affected as it emerged that two hospitals have experienced supply problems.
South Tyrone Hospital in Dungannon has been relying on the NI Fire Service and bottled water.
Lagan Valley Hospital in Lisburn was without water for a number of "hours".
Eighty villages and towns have been affected as pipes burst in the thaw.
The Stormont Executive will discuss what further measures can be taken.
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said he feels "absolutely let down" by NI Water's response.
The state-owned company, which is the sole provider of water and sewerage services in Northern Ireland, said an unprecedented number of leaks caused by the thaw following the long period of freezing weather had been putting "big pressure" on its systems.
Mr McGuinness said people had not been given enough information as to when water would be restored.
"My focus is on how NI Water can do things better over the course of the next number of days," he said.
The thaw followed the worst snow in Northern Ireland in 25 years and record cold temperatures.
As temperatures rose, burst pipes drained reservoirs, forcing NI Water to turn off the tap to the 80 locations.
Some people have been without water for 11 days.
BBC Northern Ireland's political editor Mark Devenport said there was recognition that NI Water's engineers were struggling to deal with an unprecedented number of call-outs, but there was also general condemnation of the company's inability to communicate better with its increasingly angry consumers.
The Stormont Executive has accepted help from Scotland and sent civil service staff to help out at NI Water's call centre.
Ministers will want to discuss at Stormont what further measures can be taken to resolve an emergency which has raised fresh questions about historic under-investment in Northern Ireland's outdated water network, our editor adds.
"We're doing everything we can. It will continue, I suspect for another few days. We want to keep that as short as is physically possible and I do want to apologise to customers and I appreciate their patience with us."
Minister for Employment and Learning Danny Kennedy is attending the meeting.
"I believe that this crisis wasn't made by politicians," he said.
"I think it does prove to me that there was inaction and ineptitude on behalf of senior executives in NI Water who failed to recognise and prepare properly between the period of the big freeze and the big thaw so they bear heavily responsibility.
"Now if they are able to transform radically the situation then it may well be that they will save their skins but I think the public are looking for answers and there must be an immediate response from not only the Executive but also NI Water itself."
The interim chairman of NI Water, Padraic White, admitted its response had been unsatisfactory.
"The organisation has to improve its performance, has to improve its communication and, I believe, will improve its communication over the next two days or so," he said.
"I empathise as interim chairman with those people who haven't had water for the last two or three days - that's an awful situation to be in."
Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson said that while the Westminster government had a lot of pressures on its budget, it was also ready to help.
He said Northern Ireland's infrastructure had suffered over the years and that changes were now needed.
"What will be looked at here is the difference in the way that water is paid for in the rest of the UK and the way it is paid for in Northern Ireland, where it is just an element of the rates," he said.
"I think what is clear is that the events of the last week or so will bring this to a head. It is a major issue that has to be resolved."
Mr Paterson said the wider infrastructure problems were for the Stormont government to address.
"This is a local responsibility now," he said.
"NI Water is an organisation responsible to local ministers and it is up to them to decide in response to their voters how they organise and how they fund water supply in Northern Ireland."
NI Water is now operating water "black outs" where householders' supplies are interrupted for a period of six to eight hours, then turned back on again.
NI Water's head of customer services Liam Mulholland said it is a "slowly improving situation".
"We'd like to see that improve much more quickly," he said.
"We're doing everything we can. It will continue, I suspect for another few days.
"We want to keep that as short as is physically possible and I do want to apologise to customers and I appreciate their patience with us."
Mr Mulholland said some people are still not aware that they have been affected.
"I'm fearful that, as many businesses return to work on Thursday, we're going to find a lot of people arriving into circumstances that no-one wants to be in, with burst pipes, broken ceilings, businesses that are going to be affected in already difficult times," he warned.
The company said it is also aware of bogus information being given to customers at their door steps concerning water supply times.
NI Water said planned times for when supplies will be switched off, for a period of time, and then restored are indicated on the major incident page on its website.
The company said all NI Water staff should have ID cards with a photo of that person, their name, a unique serial number and logo.
Local councils are working to supply water and offer free showers to people without a mains supply and information is being provided on the NI Water website.
The Scottish government is providing 160,000 litres of bottled water, the first shipments have already arrived.
Media captionBelfast resident: "It's unbelievable... it's just not on"
More information is available from the NI Water website, or telephone hotline: 08457 440088, on Ceefax 169 and BBC News Online.
Are you in Northern Ireland? Are you experiencing problems with your water supply due to the weather? Do you run a small business? How has it affected trade? Send us your comments and experiences using the form below.


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The Radical Movement of Iran () was a political party in Iran during the Iranian Revolution. The party was allied with the Muslim People's Republic Party, and opposed to the clerical Islamic Republican Party.

Many members of the party were former associates of the Third Force and the others were involved in 1961 teachers' strike led by Mohammad Derakhshesh. Some of them were employees of education and justice ministries. The Radical Movement called for the rule of law, release of political prisoners and end of brutality and torture by security forces.

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January is Radon Action Month and is a perfect time to test homes for radon because windows and doors are typically closed.
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Radon is an invisible, radioactive soil gas that enters homes through small gaps in foundation walls and floor slabs. Once inside, it mixes with the air we breathe, which presents a serious health risk if high levels of radon are inhaled over time. Radon exposure is the leading cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers and causes hundreds of cancer deaths in Colorado annually, which is why Vail Health's Shaw Cancer Center is helping promote Radon Action Month.
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The region that now makes up Çorum has been settled since the earliest stages of human civilization. It rose to prominence around 1650 BC when the Hittites, from their capital of Hattusha, raided the great city of Babylon and went on to make themselves one of the great bronze age empires ranking alongside the Egyptians and Babylonians. Then suddenly in 1250 BC, for reasons only guessed at, it all collapsed and what would become Çorum was left by the wayside for millennia until the Hittite capital was re-discovered.
Aside from the historical fame Çorum is home to leblebi (a snack of roast chickpeas, normally plain, but in Çorum you get them in all sorts of flavors) and a rich cottage industry of leather workers, coppersmiths, weavers, and other traditional crafts.
With loads of ruins, lost cities, rolling prairie, and craggy hills this mostly agrarian province is the quintessential Central Anatolian city.


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Mykhaylenko M.V. The puzzle of transit: the institutionalist answer to the disappearance of the "Second World"
Политология и право
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THE PUZZLE OF TRANSIT: THE INSTITUTIONALIST ANSWER
TO THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE "SECOND WORLD"
Mykhaylenko M.V.
The article ponders upon background and outcomes of development strategies chosen by post-Socialist states within the last 25 years, the fundamental limits and opportunities of choices, and evaluation of their progress scaled between traditions and modernity. The problem of development in the former 'second world' is being analysed from the viewpoint of, if to generalize, contemporary institutionalist theories in political economy, namely the approaches by Douglas North, Hernando De Soto and the Austrian School, particularly with attention to Joseph Shumpeter's concept of creative destruction. The political process in the region is colligated through the works of leading Russian political scientists, economists and sociologists.
Keywords: development, modernization, transit, tradition, path dependency, OECD, creative destruction, institutionalism.
ЗАГАДКА ТРАНЗИТА: ИНСТИТУЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ПОДХОД
К ИСЧЕЗНОВЕНИЮ «ВТОРОГО МИРА»
Михайленко М.В.
Статья посвящена анализу предпосылок и результатов выбора стратегий развития постсоциалистическими государствами на протяжении последних 25 лет, фундаментальным ограничениям и возможностям этого выбора, а также оценке его итогов на шкале между традиционализмом и современностью. Проблема развития и критериев развитости в бывшем «втором мире» рассматривается в контексте институциональных теорий в политической экономии, в частности, подходов разработанных Дугласом Нортом и Эрнандо Де Сото, но, прежде всего, «австрийской школы», а именно концепции «творческого разрушения» Джозефа Шумпетера. Политический процесс в странах региона обобщается изучением междисциплинарных работ ведущих российских политологов, экономистов и социологов.
Ключевые слова: развитие, модернизация, транзит, традиция, зависимость от колеи, ОЭСР, креативное разрушение, институционализм.
The discourse of social or societal modernization has been a contradictory research area ever since the assessment of nation-building process in the then post-colonial world has started to trickle into academic publications in the West. It seems to be rather debatable whether the very concept of societal modernization bore any intrinsic flaws in itself – that might depend upon authors' ideological stands. The issue of some inbuilt deficiency is apparently strongly connected to the impact of the Marxian somewhat linear view of history – although, ironically, in the post-WWII period the modernization 'paradigms' have been constructed, to some extent, as an alternative to communist recipes for challenges of development in what came to be called the "third world" [4, с. 219-233]. Currently, the study of modernization embraces a broad array of theories, what makes it easy to 'sink' into detail. Therefore such a study demands a narrowing focus to any treatise in this subject.
Thus, in this article, we are primarily interested to look for answers as to whether the historically most recent post-Communist modernization effort (or transit) (1) could be interpreted as success or failure and why, what direction has it taken (2) and (3) how can its experience be conceptualized within modern theories of social development.
On one hand, a nation's journey from traditional society to a modern one can be perceived as some spontaneous process of change, a quality pertaining to objects like human societies per se. After all there seem to be only a few countries which appear to be frozen or stuck in terms of their progress (such as the Peoples Republic of Korea, or Myanmar for example). Though, even that 'frozenness' might prove to be a superficial illusion. On the other hand, while a precarious exception can be made for the westernmost part of Europe (at which Wallerstein [11] points in his world-system theory) , that spontaneity is rather a product of interplay involving not only internal, but also external factors, which eventually define depth and speed of social change.
A question which immediately arises at fringes of relevant discussions is whether modernization, as a variety of social change actually makes the target nation 'a better place' as politicians tend to put it. There seems to be an answer. Interestingly enough, the updated UN World Happiness Report ranking of 2015 and the IMF country ranking by GDP [12] per capita income (purchase power parity) indicates the same list of countries with some 10-15% change, although in a somewhat different order [13]. Minding that there just might be a methodology problem, rooted in the algorithm of surveying in non-democratic states – for now, these doubts could be discarded.
Accordingly, if we assume that the general goal of modernization is an acknowledged transit from a traditional to a modern society within a 'target nation's' borders, than we can apply certain criteria in order to establish whether such modernization has actually taken place or not. Agreeably then, the final goal of national modernization can be defined as an external recognition of progress taking a visible shape of belonging to a group of similar entities. Before the WW2 such a group could look as a 'concert of European powers' or colonial empires, and afterwards as a 'club' of so-called industrially developed nations.
What is then a developed country? Which criteria are to be used and which countries can be classified as being developed are still subjects of debate. However, at first, let's approach that query in a more simplistic manner. A developed country, industrialized country, or "more economically developed country" (MEDC), is a sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations [5]. Most commonly, the criteria for evaluating the degree of economic development are gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP), the per capita income, level of industrialization, amount of widespread infrastructure and general standard of living. Some argue that only developed countries have post-industrial economies, meaning the service sector provides more wealth than the industrial sector. They are contrasted with 'developing' countries, which are in the process of industrialization, or undeveloped countries, which are pre-industrial and almost entirely agrarian. Although, this view looks somewhat outdated because the service sector has come to dominate the economic structure of most economies, that's why it is hardly any confident criteria anymore. Economists such as Jeffrey Sachs, however, have claimed that the current divide between the developed and developing world is largely a phenomenon of the 20th century [9]. But we cannot agree with vagueness like that – it tends to question the very concept of human progress. Thus, we might accept that a 'quality stamp' on whether a country is developed or developing is issued by, as mentioned above, a group or club identity. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is probably best suited to serve as such identity, as it has followed the expansion of the post-WW2 international order as a certain marker of, first, post-war reconstruction and, second, parallel political modernization of Germany and Italy. It is a forum of countries describing themselves as committed to democracy and the market economy, providing a platform to compare policy experiences, seeking answers to common problems, identify good practices and coordinate domestic and international policies of its members.
In 1948, the OECD originated as the Organization for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) to help administer the Marshall Plan (which was rejected by the Soviet Union and its satellite states [11]). This would be achieved by allocating American financial aid and implementing economic programs for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. (Similar reconstruction aid was sent to the war-torn Republic of China and post-war Korea, but not under the name "Marshall Plan") In 1961, the OEEC was reformed into the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development by the Convention on the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and membership was extended to non-European states [7]. Most OECD members are high-income economies with a very high Human Development Index (HDI) and are regarded as developed countries.
There are currently 34 members of the OECD. The list includes 21 of the 28 European Union member states. The EU states not in the OECD are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, and Romania.
During the Cold War nations like Turkey, New Zealand, and Japan acquired membership.
In 1989, after the Revolutions of 1989, the OECD started to assist countries in Central Europe (especially the Visegrád Group) to prepare market economy reforms. In 1990, the Centre for Co-operation with European Economies in Transition (now succeeded by the Centre for Cooperation with Non-Members) was established [6], and in 1991, the Program "Partners in Transition" was launched for the benefit of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland. This program also included a membership option for these countries. As a result of this, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, as well as Mexico and South Korea became members of the OECD between 1994 and 2000. Finally, Chile, Estonia, Israel and Slovenia have been invited and joined the OECD in 2010.
In 2013 the OECD has initiated negotiations with Latvia and in May 2016 the country was officially welcomed to become the 35th member. The same year accession procedures were launched with regards to Colombia. On April 9, 2015, the OECD decided to open accession negotiations with Costa Rica. Also, the OECD decided to open accession negotiations with Lithuania. It is worth notice, that in May 2007, the OECD decided to open accession negotiations with Russia, but they were halted in March 2014.
Therefore, the developed nations club will soon amount to 40 members and there are two peculiar features which seem to be intrinsic to it – apparently, it is not enough to dispose of industrialized market economy. In order to be accepted, the nation has also to be a recognized sovereign state (that's why we do not observe Taiwan as part of the OECD) and a working democracy (that's why Singapore and China are still absent).
There is a certain feeling that the doors of the 'golden billion' are closing in 2016 – in the future it potentially could still include the remaining 'Europe 2" and the new 'Europe 3' (EaP pending Association countries) and nations like Malaysia [3]. There exist obvious political obstacles to pave way for China and Russia – whatever their economic development results are, disregarding the nowadays sluggishness of their performance (although driven by different reasons).
Do the above necessarily mean that a 30-year transit of the "second world", which has started under Gorbachev, has been somehow flawed? If you look into the demographic dimension, you can find a different answer – over 76 million inhabitants of the former 'second world' in 4 original, 3 restored and 3 new countries have joined the first world within these three decades and another 120 million in 2 original and 8 new countries – which pose no external threats and progress in competitive democracy, although their economic development can be evaluated as slow or unstable – secure a chance of being accepted in next 20 years or so. Is this a mixed and emotionally complicated result? Definitely, a mass of almost 240 million people in 9 new countries of the former Soviet Union (or 54.7% in terms of demographics and 31% in terms of sovereign states) stay outside the whirlpool of wealth and freedom, locked into a historical deadlock. However, when observed from some distance and bringing some of other relevant interdisciplinary research into the game, that outcome looks as being far from obsessive.
The institutionalist theory in both economics and political science seems to have provided a different perspective and evaluation to the consequences of post-Communist transit. Firstly, it's the fundamental Angus Maddison's work in the field of the construction of national accounts, where a country's accounts are calculated back in periods of several decades all the way to the year 1. To this end he combined modern research techniques with his own extensive knowledge of economic history and in particular countries' performances in the field of GDP per capita. Maddison's studies resulted in a deep new understanding of the reasons why some countries have become rich whereas others have remained poor (or have succumbed to poverty). In his 'The World Economy: Historical Statistics', a book published in 2004 by the OECD Development Centre, it has shown the growth of populations and economies across the centuries: not just the world economy as it is now, but how it was in the past. Henceforth, a derivation made by institutional economists from Maddison's statistical data can be the following: it's the movement of formal and informal institutions in the society what really matters with regard to the speed and substance of its development and modernization.
In 2010 and 2011 Alexander Auzan, the leading Russian economist, currently the dean of the College of Economics in Moscow State University has adapted institutionalist discoveries to the general public in a series of articles for the Snob Magazine [1]. Within their logic, revolutions play a role of explosion with long-term unpredictable consequences, as Douglas North has demonstrated in his analysis of Russia's October Revolution. It showed that the wave of negative consequences of the violent revolution can stretch across the entire century. However, the tension between the poles of formal and informal institutions is growing, and this leads to a bilateral restructuring: informal rules begin to slowly catch up, to adapt to the changing vector of life, and the formal rules roll back to more familiar forms. At some point, these two lines intersect, and the country enters a period of economic prosperity, followed by political reaction. In Russia this phenomenon was reflected in the 'New economic policy' epoch. But later formal and informal rules continue to move apart and a certain restoration of previous order with its inefficient institutions becomes a sad reality. What blocks changes? It is so-called path dependence, institutional inertia that keeps the country in a certain trajectory. The idea of these paths has been generated by Angus Maddison. Maddison took major indicators of all nations which have controlled the globe for centuries – their gross domestic product, population, and, accordingly, the level of gross domestic product per capita – and brought all this data in a single table valid for the last 200 years. It became apparent that most of the world is divided into three groups, and this division is very clear.
The first group is on a high trajectory and stably shows high economic results.
In the former 'Second world' this group corresponds with the ten countries which have joined the OECD.
Second group is as stable at a low trajectory. It includes traditional societies that simply do not set the goal to achieve any high economic results, and focus on other values, like family and religion.
That category reminds of Central Asia, although it should be underlined, that Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, both in their unique manner, demonstrate peculiar features of modernity, while Belarus evades being archaic through its industrial policies and Russia can only be evaluated as turning into this direction, it still does not fully fit in.
And there is a third, the most volatile a group of countries, which are constantly trying to go from the second group to the first. They emerged from tradition, but cannot complete modernization. Examples of such transitions are extremely rare. Members of the third group they jump, they hit the ceiling and then slide down.
This group to a large extent relates to the few EU member-states, which do not belong to the OECD, also to three EaP EU Association countries, and partially to other three countries, formally belonging to EaP, but effectively two of them are members of the "Eurasian Economic Union". Russia has seemed to be a part of this category until recently, when a new-old set of values has been declared by its elite and the economy has shrunk drastically. This is even more disappointing, once you recall that in 2012 Russia was defined by the World Bank as a high-income economy, although it never has had a top HDI position.
John Rawls claims that "a person's good is determined by what is for him the most rational long-term plan of life given reasonably favorable circumstances. A man is happy when he is more or less successfully in the way of carrying out this plan" [8, p. 395] Therefore, a country that cannot implement a modernization plan – is 'unhappy'. What could be the reason for cyclic failure?
The most pessimist explanation is provided by the Neo- Schumperterian (Austrian) school. They keep to the theory of "creative destruction" formulated by the Austrian-American economist Joseph Schumpeter to explain technology development. According to this theory [10], what we usually perceive as development is nothing else than the recombination of elements: their shuffle gives semblance of a new picture, but they all lie within the same paradigm. The paradigm itself changes rarely – applied to nations it is the national identity, which sets very rigid development limits.
Neoshumpeterians infer, that in order to make this leap to the first world, the country should sacrifice its national identity to adopt successful blueprints, like Japan has done. To some extent we can observe such phenomena when we look at the transit experience of those post-Communist countries which have joined or plan to join the OECD. Nevertheless, old institutions like church and folk traditions are still quite strong – what also can mean that those countries went back to their pre-Communist national identity and it did not interfere with their transit (while specific recent processes in Poland and Hungary are still under assessment)
Douglas North has decided to apply this idea more widely to the development as a whole. He suggested that countries that are trying in vain to reach high trajectory of development, have made the initial error in their institutional choice. He proves this by the example of England and Spain. By XVI century, these countries were at absolutely equal starting positions. Both were about equal in population and employment structure and both carried out foreign expansion. Any macroeconomist would have said that they will be at close levels in distant future. But by the XIX century England has transformed into a major world power, while Spain has degraded into of the most backward countries in Europe. What's the matter? North has shown that what happened was an 'accident'. The taxation distribution in England was handed to the parliament and in Spain it was entrusted to monarchs, who've blown its colonial riches away to wage wars and produce luxury. Wrong institutional choice – such as strong presidential models of the early 1990s, later hurryingly changed for mixed or parliamentary ones, constitutional, but unfunded 'social orientation' of the government or such far-reaching solutions as serfdom – is genuinely identifiable in the less successful post-Communist countries. The question is whether they are able to succeed at all.
Finally, a different ("how") approach was taken by famous Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto [5]. De Soto has asked why developing countries do not actually develop. He looked at the problem both from within the developed world, and from some distance. It turned out that all of the deficiencies that occur in developing countries have plagued the advanced countries, only much earlier. In XVII century England the city tried to introduce residence permits. Two centuries ago virtually no one recognized property rights in the United States; the American values were painfully born in an infinite series of lawsuits and legislative decisions by states. However, the living generations in developed countries have already forgotten how to solve these problems, and that's why solutions they offer to developing countries often don't work. According to De Soto, the underdevelopment is about the gap between the formal and informal institutions, followed by the struggle of dominant groups seeking to preserve a status quo favorable for themselves. The conflict of formal and informal institutions is the basic reason underlying social turmoil in all of the three EU EaP Association countries within last 15 years.
Despite the fact, that in the beginning of this paper we have already established that statistical data indicate correlation between modernization and happiness, what if nation's progress isn't worth the pain it is accompanied with?
A recent article by Russian sociologist and economist Vladislav Inozemtsev generalizes in some depth to compare effectiveness of tradition and modernity with respect to quality of human life and government sustainability [2].
China, the most powerful economically power of the medieval world (32% of global GDP at the beginning of the XVII century, according to Maddison), which has been mysteriously lured by autarky at the peak of the Ming Empire, eventually de-linked its relationship with the outer world for more than three hundred years. The outcome was a tragic defeat in the war against Western powers, 'opium colonialism' and dependence on Japan, subsequently – a communist dictatorship. Eventually, China's share in the global economy has declined to 1.7%. In only forty years since its comeback to the modern world the country has regained the rank of the largest economy in the world and has acquired the unprecedented status of a second global superpower.
The above is quite some evidence to argue that traditionalism poses a direct long-term threat to government's effectiveness and national security.
In another part of the world "conservative" Islamic states, first the Arab countries, and then the Ottoman Empire have consistently rejected progress, what has resulted in their virtual deterioration by the middle of the XIX. It took the Ataturk revolution in Turkey and the (failed) liberal reforms in Iran, to start bringing these countries closer to modernity. Today, the price of "tradition" is even higher. Obviously, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait, where the lifestyle is almost indistinguishable from the West are among the richest countries in the world, whereas Afghanistan or Somalia continues to rank among the poorest.
You might think of similarities between these examples by Inozemtsev and differences between former 'second world' and now the developing nations in Central Asia. On one hand, we observe the experience of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, very different in terms of living standards but forging their ability to adapt to, in the first case, up-to-date capitalism and vibrant competitive democracy in the second case. On the other hand, there is sad experience of isolation and backwardness by three other former Soviet republics in the region.
Further, all the different kinds of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in history, which in all cases were meticulous about moral principles of ideological purity and dominance of the state over the public and individuals – have never held a leading position globally or regionally for more than a couple of decades.
In Europe, Spain, which has disposed of a per capita GDP of circa 65% compared to the UK, has shrunk three times by the end of Franco's rule.
In the 1920s Argentina was the most prosperous country in Latin America, while by early 1980s, after a series of military dictatorships, its per capita GDP has slid to the fifth place in the region.
Many other examples show that rejection of modernity and human progress can easily lead any nation to devastation and hunger, break-up and loss of sovereignty.
The commitment of to tradition is also dangerous because such country neighbors usually follow a different path. France, for example, has slugged in military reform and suffered painful defeats in the 1871 and 1940. Russia was forced to recover modernization after half of century traditionalist apathy after being defeated in the war of 1855 and then speed reform up again in 1905 after its unfortunate Far East adventure. It is clear today, that autarky is unable to create a modern defense industry.
Russia is sometimes referred to as a playground for harsh and eloquent social experiments in the area of development studies – the struggle of its conservatives and progressives drags on for many ages and is very instructive. In the XVI century Moscow has conquered primitively organized states on Volga basin and Siberia, but lost to a Western coalition in the Baltic – that knocked the country over into flawed institutional choice, such as serfdom, civil war and protracted decay. Much of the same has repeated and Nicholas the First and Alexander the Third, both well-meaning conservatives – what has essentially determined Russia's muddling-through and hitting the ceiling development pattern and the horrors of the Bolshevik revolution and war. Russia's complicated experience with modernization corresponds with findings made by Joseph Schumpeter in the area of paradigm resistance, path dependence studies and institutional change research by Douglas North.
Finally, traditional nations' (and conservative areas, such as the Bible Belt in the US) indicators in terms of social ills, health and crime are times worse than data characteristic of progressive countries and territories. It seems that superficial religious identity reflected through different forms of collective dictate does not actually deliver on its own promises – the elusive moral purity is unable somehow to transform into social health and wealth all by itself. The above does not necessarily mean that parish communities and family values foredoom certain countries to spend centuries in backwardness – they very well can serve as a useful segment to cluster phenomena, assisting national development. But as official state ideology, traditionalism can surely be regarded as an impediment to country's ability to transit from low-income and poor living standard strata into a higher one, be it in the former 'second world' or elsewhere.
In contrast, smart use of unique historical chances for creative destruction followed by long-term stability afterwards with elites' attention paid to bringing formal and informal institutions closer together into certain harmony, reflected through rule of law and law enforcement, vivacious market economy and competitive political system
Firstly, when analyzed from a distance of 25 or 30 years, the post-Communist transit can be evaluated as a relative success – especially when taking into account long-term development patterns discovered by Angus Maddison. Large groups of nations within the former 'second world' have made their choice between modernization and traditional way of life and this choice has determined their political processes and integration reference points for decades in the future.
Secondly, a number of post-Communist countries, many of them newborn – have withdrawn from traditionalist social organization but their results are somewhat contradictory. That phenomenon can be interpreted through Austrian school theoretical contribution and interdisciplinary institutionalist research, focusing at drama of path dependency and instruments of stabilizing complex processes of social change.
Thirdly, historical defeats of modernization that we can observe, to some degree of credibility in large countries of North and Eastern Eurasia (partially also belonging to the battlefield of Marxist experiments in the past), in the Middle East and in Latin America – can translate into deficient institutional effects which prove to be very difficult to overcome outside rare opportunities of social implosion. Such implosions, however, could not serve as a sole guarantee and background of sustainable social progress.
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Mykhaylenko Maksym Valeriyovych – Doctor of Political Science (PhD), Research Director of Kronos Institute for Social Research (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Михайленко Максим Валериевич – доктор политологии (PhD), директор по исследованиям Института изучения общества «Кронос» (Киев, Украина).
E-mail: maksym.mykhaylenko@gmail.com.
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17.10.2005 Education
Asantehene urges traditional councils to establish education fund
Kumasi, Oct 17, GNA - Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has called on traditional councils to establish education fund to assist needy school children and provide school infrastructure for their communities. He said there were many deprived communities without school infrastructure for children while those with the infrastructure had no furniture or textbooks and stationery for the children. Otumfuo Osei Tutu made the call when executive members of Oguaaman Union paid a courtesy call on him at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi at the weekend.
The visit was to introduce the new executives and brief the Asantehene on the launching of Oguaaman Education Fund in Accra. The Asantehene advised traditional councils that had established education funds in their communities to sustain the fund by employing proper management practices.
He said citizens in the communities must be educated to contribute to the fund to ensure sustainability since donations from corporate bodies were not often regular.
The Asantehene said it was important to educate the youth to prevent them from engaging in social vices, which could affect the country's development and advised executives of the union to always monitor the performance of beneficiary students.
Nana Brew-Butler, former Chairman of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) who led the executive members said the association, formed about a year ago, was to sensitise the youth in Cape Coast to embrace education and prevent them from engaging in negative behaviour. Other members of the delegation were Miss Georgina Quaisie, Mr Robert Quansah, Mr Dick Nelson and Mr Bo Amissah.


Whenever an index is created, rebuilt, or dropped, disk space for both the old (source) and new (target) structures is required in their appropriate files and filegroups. The old structure is not deallocated until the index creation transaction commits. Additional temporary disk space for sorting operations may also be needed. For more information, see Disk Space Requirements for Index DDL Operations.
In this example, disk space requirements to create a clustered index are determined.
The existing table (heap) contains 1 million rows. Each row is 200 bytes long.
Nonclustered index A contains 1 million rows. Each row is 50 bytes long.
Nonclustered index B contains 1 million rows. Each row is 80 bytes long.
The index create memory option is set to 2 MB.
A fill factor value of 80 is used for all existing and new indexes. This means the pages are 80 percent full.
As a result of creating a clustered index, the two nonclustered indexes must be rebuilt to replace the row indicator with the new clustered index key.
In the following steps, both temporary disk space to be used during the index operation and permanent disk space to store the new indexes are calculated. The calculations shown are approximate; results are rounded up and consider only the size of index leaf level. The tilde (~) is used to indicate approximate calculations.
Determine the size of the source structures.
Determine the size of the target index structures. Assume that the new clustered key is 24 bytes long including a uniqueifier. The row indicator (8 bytes long) in both nonclustered indexes will be replaced by this clustered key.
Total disk space required to support both the source and target structures for the duration of the index operation is 816 MB (363 + 453). The space currently allocated to the source structures will be deallocated after the index operation is committed.
Determine additional temporary disk space for sorting.
Space requirements are shown for sorting in tempdb (with SORT_IN_TEMPDB set to ON) and sorting in the target location (with SORT_IN_TEMPDB set to OFF).
When SORT_IN_TEMPDB is set to ON, tempdb must have sufficient disk space to hold the largest index (1 million * 200 bytes ~ 200 MB). Fill factor is not considered in the sorting operation.
Additional disk space (in the tempdb location) equal to the Configure the index create memory Server Configuration Option value = 2 MB.
Total size of temporary disk space with SORT_IN_TEMPDB set to ON ~ 202 MB.
When SORT_IN_TEMPDB is set to OFF (default), the 250 MB of disk space already considered for the new index in step 2 is used for sorting.
Additional disk space (in the target location) equal to the Configure the index create memory Server Configuration Option value = 2 MB.
Total size of temporary disk space with SORT_IN_TEMPDB set to OFF = 2 MB.
Using tempdb, a total of 1018 MB (816 + 202) would be needed to create the clustered and nonclustered indexes. Although using tempdb increases the amount of temporary disk space used to create an index, it may reduce the time that is required to create an index when tempdb is on a different set of disks than the user database. For more information about using tempdb, see SORT_IN_TEMPDB Option For Indexes.
Without using tempdb, a total of 818 MB (816+ 2) would be needed to create the clustered and nonclustered indexes.
When you create, drop, or rebuild a clustered index online, additional disk space is required to build and maintain a temporary mapping index. This temporary mapping index contains one record for each row in the table, and its contents are the union of the old and new bookmark columns.
To calculate the disk space needed for an online clustered index operation, follow the steps shown for an offline index operation and add those results to the results of the following step.
Determine space for the temporary mapping index.
In this example, the old bookmark is the row ID (RID) of the heap (8 bytes) and the new bookmark is the clustering key (24 bytes including a uniqueifier). There are no overlapping columns between the old and new bookmarks.
Temporary mapping index size = 1 million * (8 bytes + 24 bytes) / 80% ~ 40 MB.
This disk space must be added to the required disk space in the target location if SORT_IN_TEMPDB is set to OFF, or to tempdb if SORT_IN_TEMPDB is set to ON.
For more information about the temporary mapping index, see Disk Space Requirements for Index DDL Operations.
The following table summarizes the results of the disk space calculations.
*This space is deallocated after the index operation is committed.
This example does not consider any additional temporary disk space required in tempdb for version records created by concurrent user update and delete operations.


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A Day in the Life of TCEC
Rethinking High School
Our New Approach
The 2018-19 year was a turning point in our school's history. Among our achievements in the 2017-18 year, we had been nominated to be a part of The Global School's Alliance. There are only 14 schools, now including ours, who are members of this group. We were also awarded an "A" grade by the Department of Public Instruction and exceeded growth for the first time in the school's history. Only 4% of North Carolina schools achieved this designation.
We recently made facilities and personnel changes as well. Joe Thorley, Patricia Matthews and Ben Owens, who were an influential part of our school for years, have left to pursue exciting new opportunities. Mr. Thorley has moved to Panama to work with family members on a world-renowned fishing resort. Meanwhile, Ben Owens has become a consultant, who will be helping ignite innovation in schools around the globe. He went to Cambodia to represent TCEC for the GSA conference in September, which led to our confirmation as a member. Patricia Matthews became the principal of Peachtree Elementary school, which will put her decades of experience to use in a new administrative role. Their places are taken by Justin Bristol, who is teaching American History 1 and 2, Laura Gaines, who is teaching Spanish, and Brian Byrne, who is teaching Math 2, physics and robotics.
We have also recently moved into a newly renovated space on the TCCC campus that houses a large common room and two new classrooms.
Moreover, in Spring 2018, TCEC was given $200,000 from the NC legislature to build an Innovation Lab that will allow students to use state-of-the-art equipment to create their projects. To cap a historical year in our school's history off, on October 8th, 2018, we received news that Cherokee County won a $20 million grant to build a multi-purpose Career Academy. It will house the Oaks Academy and Tri-County Early College and give newfound vocational opportunities to Cherokee County Students. It will be built within the next three years.
We have recently implemented various changes to the school model. Some of them are described below:
We have implemented a new vision for the school where we are trying to connect students to the world beyond the classroom.
We have changed our grading to a competency-based model that is flexible enough to allow each student to master the knowledge and skills they need when they are ready.
TCEC will now only do one cross-curricular project per quarter.
Rather than random and different due dates for various projects, we will hold four Exhibition Days per year to present all student PBL work at the same time, to a public audience of experts and community members.
Students will meet on a bi-weekly basis with their Learning Guide Adviser to ensure they are making the progress they need on their projects and their mastery of competencies. This is also a time of structured reflection, analysis, and synthesis of academic skills with TCEC's survival skills. Students will do certain activities on each day of the week around a given theme like mindfulness, career exploration, "genius hour," etc.
TCEC is now formally known as an Open Source Learning School and as an XQ Super School Finalist, where we will share what we do and how we do it with other innovative schools across the country – a completely transparent model for helping rethink high school across America and allow us a way to partner with schools and experts across the world.
TCEC will create a powerful teaching and learning environment through a personalized education that prepares students for college, careers, and life.
The TCEC Learning Community will equip students with the skills, knowledge, and inspiration needed to thrive in a changing world and to accomplish any dream imaginable.
Nothing Less than Success
OUR HANDBOOK
OUR SCHOOL'S HISTORY
TCEC was the result of a tireless effort from a dedicated group of visionaries from throughout the community to offer a high school of choice within the Cherokee and Clay County Public Schools. With start-up support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, TCEC opened its doors in 2006. Located on the campus of its postsecondary partner, Tri-County Community College, the school is one of over 40 North Carolina early colleges created to carry out then Governor Easley's Learn and Earn Initiative. Affiliated with North Carolina New Schools Project and accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, TCEC was ranked a school of distinction in state ABC measures and met federal AYP goals in 2006-07 and 2007-08.
More recently, our school has shown consistently positive results in a variety of measures including End-of-Grade test scores, college staying rates, and much more. In 2016, we earned the distinction as a School of Innovation and Excellence within the NC New Schools network. We continue to push the envelope of innovation in public education consistently and our alumni are forging successful futures around the country.
We are a school of choice.
TCEC is on the Tri-County Community College Campus.
All students will have an opportunity to complete an associates / 2-year college degree.
We have a non-traditional schedule, with small class sizes offering personalized learning.
All students are expected to achieve mastery or better in all courses.
Students must meet and maintain minimum academic requirements to enroll and remain in good academic standing with TCCC.
Full tutoring support is built-into the program.
Students enter formal college classrooms on the community college campus at the age of 14
Unlike "Learn & Earn" at a traditional high school, our students experience face-to-face college instruction.
We have several intramural sports and club options available through TCCC.
See a presentation about our differences in approach.
A rigorous and relevant course of study - most high school courses are Honors level and college courses start from day 1.
A significant focus on hands-on, project-based, integrated instruction, with built-in tutoring.
A strong emphasis on job shadowing / career development throughout their high school career.
A unique Global & Community Perspective.
Instruction from a highly dedicated group of professional teachers, with strong educational and workplace experience.
Only have your child attend TCEC if he/she wants a different kind of education.
Parents and students are responsible for expenses related to second attempts on required college classes and non-required college classes.
Attend students-led parent/teacher/student conferences on a biannual basis.
Support off-campus student immersion activities.
Provide transportation when Clay or Cherokee County busses are not running, on "Extended Day" , and when your student needs after school academic support.
Support student fund-raising activities.
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The Rebirth of River City
100 Years – Celebrating the People, Places and Community
There is much to celebrate about living in the Beaches. But this year is particularly special, we celebrate, explore and look back on the last 100 years of a Toronto community. We will honour the residents, businesses, schools and community organizations, while presenting many historic buildings and landmarks in the area that were established in 1914 or earlier. We will celebrate people whom you might know, and perhaps even relate to.
We celebrate 100 years of Beaches living and commemorate 100 years since the beginning of World War I. 1914 was a momentous year for communities across Canada and around the world. We chose to celebrate 100 years in the Beaches this year as it coincided with the beginning of a war that changed our community. We explore the effect of the Great War on the local area and its residents. It is the people and buildings featured in this edition that helped this area become a thriving community.
Standing Still for Over a Century
Offiially Designated Heritage Conservation Districts
Heritage Houses that have been Homes for Over a Century
Thre are dozens of historic Beaches buildings constructed in 1914 or earlier. Many of you will know these historic buildings as they stand, but they were often known by diffrent names or used for very diffrent purposes earlier in their time. Perhaps you even live or work in a grand old building
In 1850, a community was established to the east of the fldgling city of Toronto. Norway, a tiny village at the intersection of Kingston Road and Woodbine Avenue, was one of the fist settlements in the area. Th eventual commercial centre was at the busy intersection of Main and Gerrard. East Toronto was incorporated as a village in 1888 and at that time had a population of about 800. Rapid growth ensued and it was elevated to town status in 1903. Th town of East Toronto was annexed by the City of Toronto in 1908 when it had a population of about 5,000.
Many houses from that time still stand today. A signifiant number of those are single-story bungalows that were built during the Beaches' transition from a periodic to a permanent community. Th streets were often named after prominent families or landowners of the time. For example, the early community of Ben Lamond at the corner of Kingston Road and Benlamond Avenue (now Main Street) was named in the late 19th century after landowners James Lamond-Smith and Benjamin Morton.
The Lyall Avenue Heritage Conservation
District was enacted by City Council in July 2006.Residences on Lyall Avenue between Main Street and Malvern Street are part of that District. Th street features a mix of high Victorian, Edwardian Classical and Toronto bungalow designs. Whereas the Grand Trunk Railway developed neighboring streets in East Toronto, individual landowners developed most of the lots on Lyall Street
Lyall Avenue is an area with many attractive homes built from the 1880s to 1914. Plans to build on Lyall Avenue were formulated in 1884 in response to the housing needs impelled by the development of the Grand Trunk Railway yards between Lakeview Avenue and Danforth Road. At least fie houses on Lyall Avenue have survived from the 19th century:numbers 22, 38, 50, 62 and 74.
The Kingswood South Heritage Conservation
District covers an area of properties fronting Kingswood Road, running from Queen Street East in the south to Bracken Avenue in the north. Th homes built in this area date back to 1909 but most were built between 1910 and 1920. Thse Kingswood Road homes exhibit an eclectic mix of architecturalstyles including classic Edwardian, Toronto bungalow, English cottage and colonial revival
Although not a heritage conservation district, there are 33 heritage buildings – many of them residential – on the section of Queen Street East that is considered part of Th Beaches
Today, many historic homes at least 100 years old stand in the area. A number of them are designated heritage properties of the City of Toronto. Here are some of the area's historic homes.
1444 Queen Street East
Ashbridge Estate, built 1854
Ths main house at the Estate is the earliest known site of habitation in the east Toronto area. A member of the family continued living there until 1997. Ashbridge Estate was the home of the Ashbridge family for over 200 years.
62 Laing Street
The Maple Cottage, built 1873
Ths is a historic house and worker's cottage. It is claimed that a maple tree on the property inspired Alexander Muir (1830-1906) to write 'Th Maple Leaf Forever'. Maple Leaf Forever Park is at the rear of the property
57 Benlamond Avenue
Reverend William Darling House, built 1876
Th Reverend William Darling was rector of Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity. Th house was probably built by the architect Frank Darling (1850-1923), William Darling's son. Th gardener's cottage for the estate is at 35 Benlamond Avenue.
16-18 Kimberley Avenue
William Brown House,built 1889
Ths house was acquired in 1896 by Brown, a Grand Trunk Railway employee. Brown's family owned the house for over a century. Th property's coach house was also built in 1889
93 Balsam Avenue
William J. Gardiner House, built 1899
William J. Gardiner was a Toronto jeweller. It was the residence of Toronto artist Nancy Caudie Wright from 1940 to 1997
45 Glen Stewart Crescent
Reverend William S. Darling House, completed 1890
Th construction of the house is also attributed to Frank Darling.Alfred Ames bought this house from Darling after his death in 1866. It was also known as Alfred E. Ames Residence
1903 Queen Street East at Woodbine Avenue
Henry Hogarth Residence, built 1893
Th three-story red brick dwelling was the home of Henry Hogarth, a plumber. Th fist owner lived there until at least 1926.
2190 Gerrard Street East
northwest corner of Gerrard Street and Road, Donald Stephenson House, built 1894
Donald G. Stephenson (possibly born in 1837 and married in 1866) was a lumber merchant, realtor,loans offir and the Reeve of the Township of Scarborough in 1865 and from 1877 to 1880.
Farmhouse, built late 19th century
Th brick building is enlivened with iron ornamental work and is often these days hidden by foliage. Currently Main Street Clinic
79-81 Waverley Road
Inglenook, built 1899-1900
Beaches architect C.F. Wagner (1862-1934) designed the house and was the original owner. Wagner worked for the Ontario government. Local historian Mary Denoon (1908-2001) grew up here.
2204-2206 Queen Street East
at Balsam Avenue built 1902
Today it used for commercial use
30 Lee Avenue
Kew Williams House, built 1902
Th Lee Street dwelling was built by Kew Williams, youngest son of Joseph Williams, owner of Kew Gardens. Also known as the Kew Gardener's Cottage.
Beach Telephone Exchange, built 1903
It was originally the Beach Telephone Exchange and became St. Michael's College in the 1930s. Currently an apartment building.
1975 Queen Street East at Waverley Road
John Wright House, built 1903
A store was added around 1925. John Wright (1847-1922) was an electrical engineer and genial electrical pioneer. He was also the fist president of the Canadian Electrical Association in 1891 to 1893. Educated at Shireland Hall in Birmingham, John J. Wright arrived in Toronto in 1870 as a millwright
94 Pine Crescent
Pinecrest, built 1904
Alternate address: 132 Balsam Avenue. C.F. Wagner designed the house. A Toronto gentleman named Mr. Valleau was one of the early owners
at Balsam Avenue,
Mrs. Ames house, built 1905
Mrs. Ames was perhaps wife of investment dealer Alfred E.Ames (1866-1934). Ames was the youngest ever President of the Toronto Stock Exchange and owned summer homes in the area (see notes for Reverend William S. Darling House).
(near Spruce Hill Road) Hiram J. Dingman House, built 1905
Th home of Hiram Jasper Dingman (1874-1947). Dingman appears to have written a book called "Th Unemployed: A World Problem" published in 1914
Alexander McLeod House, built 1909
Local builder Alexander McLeod built and originally owned the house.
4 Norwood Avenue
The Gatehouse for Mrs. L Davies, built 1911
Th house's design is attributed to well-known Toronto architects Henry Sproatt (1866-1934) and Ernest Ross Rolph (1871-1958). Th property's fence is also heritage listed.
1A Hambly Avenue
Alternate street numbers: 2072, 2074, 2076 and 2078 Queen Street East. Built by Frederick McBrien. Th red brick structure is currently an apartment building.
Balmy Beach Club
360 Lake Front, Foot of Beech Avenue, opened 1905
Lawyer, politician and judge Sir Adam Wilson (1814-1891) deeded land at Beech Avenue to residents of the area. Th Balmy Beach Club on that land was incorporated in 1903. Th non-profi organization for amateur athletes opened its doors in 1905. Fire destroyed the Club House in 1936 and again in 1963. Th present Club House was reopened in 1965.
Toronto Hunt Club
1355 Kingston Rd, founded 1843
Th Hunt Club moved to its current location in 1895.Membership was (and still is) prestigious, and Toronto's business elite, including distillers George Gooderham and James Worts,comprised the early membership roles. Th Hunt commissioned the prominent architectural fim of Darling and Pearson to build the fist clubhouse, completed in 1895. Unfortunately, the grand clubhouse could not escape the misfortune of fie. On November 6, 1910 the building burned to the ground
Toronto Fire Services, Station 226, built 1910
It was originally known as Toronto Fire Department Station 22. Th original fie hall next door was demolished in 1911.
Toronto Police Services, 55 Division,now Community Centre 55, built 1911
Ths building is on the site of the East Toronto Town Hall built in 1888. East Toronto was annexed by the City of Toronto in 1909. In 1911, the Town Hall was replaced by Police Station Number 10 of the Toronto Police, which was later renamed Station Number 55. In 1973, the police moved to a larger building. It became Community Centre 55 in 1977. Th '55' was kept to pay respect to the building's history
Thre are two historic fie stations built before 1914 in the Beaches area. Still operates as a fie station, it was originally known as Toronto Fire Department Station 17 but was also called Kew Beach Fire Hall.
East Toronto Library
137 Main Street, opened 1903
A public library was opened in East Toronto in 1903 in a room above Fire Hall Number 3 on Dawes Road north of Danforth Avenue. Members paid an annual fee to use the library. It closed in 1912. On December 15, 1914 the branch opened in a rented space in the Y.M.C.A. at Gerrard Street East and Main Street.It then relocated to its current location in 1921.
Toronto Public Library
2161 Queen Street East (near Lee Avenue), opened 1914
TPL's fourteenth branch was originally located in a storefront on Queen Street East, near the north-east corner of Hambly Avenue. It opened in early 1914. Th library eventually moved to its current home and opened on 13 December, 1916. Th oneton cast bronze owl at the front of the building was installed in July 2005 and its historical plaque in 2006.
The Beach Hebrew Institute
109 Kenilworth Avenue at Queen, built 1895
Th former Kenilworth Avenue Baptist Church was purchased by Jewish residents in 1920 and transformed into a synagogue. Th building was used as a warehouse and a community centre after the Baptist Church moved to a diffrent location circa 1908 (see below). After the purchase, the building was moved a short distance south on Kenilworth and re-oriented to face east. In the mid-1920s, the building was renovated.
Waverley Road Baptist Church
129 Waverley Road, built 1909-1910
Phillip Whitlock started Sunday School classes at his grocery store at Queen and Kenilworth in 1891. From this beginning came Kenilworth Avenue Baptist Church, which was built across from the grocery store. Th Baptist congregation bought land at Waverley Road in 1908. Many congregation members served in WWI.
The Beach United Church
140 Wineva Avenue, built 1914
Ths church began in 1882 as a Methodist Mission. Th church moved to its current location in 1905 and the current structure was built in 1914. It was formerly known as Kew Beach United Church. In 2007, the Kew Beach United Church and Bellefair United Church amalgamated their congregations and became Beach United Church
The former Bellefair United Church
Queen Street East at Bellefair Avenue, completed 1923
Th church's construction begun in 1914 but WWI interrupted its progress. It was sold in early 2011 and converted to residential and commercial space. New home to Shoppers Drug Mart.
St. Aidan's Anglican Church
corner of Queen Street East and Silver Birch Avenue,built 1910
Originally established as a mission of St. John's, Norway in 1891. Th church's Memorial Hall, a tribute to those who had served in WWI, was dedicated in 1923. Some of the Church's stained-glass windows are over 100 years old and serve as memorial to deceased parishioners.
1961 Queen Street East, southeast corner of Kenilworth
Whitlock's Restaurant, built 1891
It was originally Whitlock's Grocery Store and became a cheese factory in 1925. Th building was renovated and opened as Whitlock's Restaurant in 1991. It is believed to be the only wooden corner building still standing in Toronto.
2232 Queen Street East, at Beech Avenue
Ross Drugstore, built 1902
Originally Ross Drugstore, in the 1950s the building became a pub called Th Chalet. Tht pub was the fist in the Beaches area to obtain a liquor license. For many years, it was known as Quigley's and now it is the Outrigger restaurant
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Designed and perhaps built by eminent Canadian architect John Lyle (1872-1945). Ths two-storey heritage property is now a Coles store, part of the Indigo Books and Music chain.
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It was for many years known as Th Prince Edward, and it is the oldest continuously operated movie theatre in North America.It was named Th Prince Edward in 1914 as a response to Britain's declaration of war on Germany. It has been called the Fox since 1937.
Paul Simone, centre,behind son, Lawrence,stands by Mike Nasello,left, in 1926 at the Main and Gerrard Streets store
Family grocery store on Gerrard Street in 1926, published in Toronto Star, January 10, 1993 -Our Yesterdays Series.Toronto Public Library Beaches Branch
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It all began when I was deep in PS13 build once again, faced with the realisation that I shouldn't start any new projects; I should finish those that I started, I got a call from Harley Davidson Australia and commissioned to quickly build something out of the ordinary.
What I do out of my backyard has never been about money or focused on corporate exposure, but when Harley Davidson gave me the opportunity to have some fun on their budget then I jumped at the opportunity. They wanted a Hill Climber and they needed it fast!
It began with many hours of planning, researching the history of hill climbing, the heritage that Harley Davidson has in the sport and the parts that I can make to set this bike apart from the rest.
I wanted to remove the engine and build a chassis from scratch, I had so many good ideas that could have made this something amazing, I didnt have the time and Harley didnt want me to go that far, instead I had to work with the majority of the stock bike, sometimes this is much harder than starting from scratch.
Four things jumped out at me.
1. The lengthened swing arm, the longer aesthetic of a hill climber is paramount to its performance, the longer the bike the more traction it can have without looping out. I didn't want to upset any of the factory mounts, controls or hoses so I shifted the rear wheel back 200mm to make the rear brake stay shift from the front of the shock mount to the rear.
2. Wheels and Tyres, the factory wheel set on a Street 500/750 is 17 inch front and 15 inch rear, its not appropriate for a stretched hill climber, I got HD to send me down a set of 19/17 rims off a brand new Dyna, these rims are the perfect match for my tyre of choice. I really wanted a paddle tyre for the rear wheel but with none available in Australia in a 17 inch I was forced to run the trusty TKC80 thanks to Peter down at Road and River motorcycles.
3. Exhaust, this needed to be loud, visually appealing and fitting for the motorcycle, I have made so many 1.75 inch S/Steel exhausts in my time and this one was set to be the longest, more on that later though!
4. Bars and Bodywork, I wanted that motocross feel to this HD Hillclimber, the factory fork gaiters, black wheels, black aesthetics all lent themselves to the late model motocross look.
First up was making these wheels fit and converting to chain drive (you can't stretch a belt 200mm) HD supplied me with the sprockets and two chains, so that was easy but I needed to machine the spacers for the rear wheel and the countershaft sprocket, not a huge job but one that needed precise measurement. The front wheel just needed the hub face to mimic the factory Street 750 front wheel, the disk PCD was the same and in HD fashion there was enough meat to machine the faces down 7mm each end to suit the factory spacing.
Once the wheels were machined and the tyres fitted up I could put the front wheel in and sit the bike up on the table to attack the rear end.
The factory swing arm was left untouched, I simply made an exact copy of the rear section and then an internal sleeve to press the three together, a few welds for good measure too.
With the rear end together I could plan the bodywork, I had an old KTM rear fender in orange, I sat it on and BAM the length, the fit and everything was perfect, I quickly ordered one in black (for $65) and went to work making everything around it fit.
Now that the rear end was sorted I could make the controls suit the new position of everything, I made mounting plates out of steel plate and got rid of the linkage shift from the factory mid controls, this gave better shift feel and to be honest less is more.
The brake side needed the master to be shifted well back, I incorporated this into the control mount, then made the brake lever to suit, the factory brake line fits perfect and everything works nicely.
The front end was pretty sorted, I got rid of a heap of things, the Street 500/750 is a metric bike so the bars are 22.7mm not 25.4 like all other Harleys, this meant I could order some motocross bars and mounts to suit the factory hand controls, some of my favourite Renthal full diamond medium grips and a stadium plate originally made for a CRF450.
When the rear guard arrived the bike started to look complete, the final job, the pipes!
I get in moods all the time, some days I struggle at the simplest jobs then some days I work cleanly and precisely, just ticking away at the job without any worries, its these days I choose to do the important work. You can't rush exhaust systems like these, they have to be well thought out, the fit MUST be perfect and the finish on everything needs to be flawless.
I start at the header and make the flange, then start getting the pipe to take on its path rearward keeping in mind it needs to clear the vital areas of the bike and also stay well enough away from your legs.
With this setup I wanted to fill the negative space in front of the rear wheel, I made the pipes the focus and then the black bike in the background the backdrop.
I wanted the twin pipes to expand out to twin 2.5 inch 45 degree tips that make a feature out of the well fitting KTM rear fender.
So far its all about looks, so hows it work?
Robbie from RidePark set me up with a little test track, when I say little I mean BIG!
I wasnt sure how these chains were going to go.
I didnt ease into it, 2nd gear limiter launches proved them to work, check out the puffs of dust from the exhaust pulses.
Time to hit the hill, 2nd gear, limiter and then drop the clutch.
It would rocket up the incline.
Throwing the largest rooster tail.
Then backing off because it was a sheer drop off the other side.
Just had to work out how to get down.
The hard work didnt stop there though, HD wanted a lift table aswell to display the bike on, it went to the Sydney Motorcycle Expo.
I wish I took more photos but I was really stressed out at this point, I would come home from work and do two all nighters in a row to complete this, my brain was fried.
But I got it done, it worked great, was safe and the bike was mounted securely.
Minutes after completion the sun came up and a truck arrived to take it all back to Sydney, I was so burnt out, I didnt have a 10 minute break in almost three weeks.
I learnt so much from this project, it was my first major undertaking for a corporate company, working on a brand new bike on someone else's budget gave me the freedom to do a lot of things I would have normally never done myself. It also gave me a taste of the real world, having a deadline, meeting others expectations and pushing the limits to meet all criteria.
Big thanks to Marcus at Harley Davidson, Robbie from Ride Park and Dean Walters for the photos.


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First things first, the obvious, smaller companies have smaller budgets and less resources to implement technology changes. Even changes that increase efficiencies and throughput. The challenges are similar for large and small organizations, it is just larger organizations generally have more resources available. The relative impact is generally equal though.
For smaller organizations the stakes are relatively greater and the margin for error much smaller. For example, a budget overrun or deadline exception will have a negative impact on a budget for a larger organization, but it can be devastating for a smaller organization and effectively put them out of business.
Ironically technology itself can help.
When it comes to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, there are many different variations that are tailor made for many industries. Often the variations came from home-grown solutions from companies that could not find the right solution and built their own and over time starting selling that to other companies in their industry.
With so many solutions and so much history now, you have to wonder why budget and time overruns occur. The reality is it happens all the time. Much too often. Somewhere there was a breakdown in communication.
There are three basic categories to ERP solutions. Each category has many components, but they all funnel into these three.
The software or programs are module oriented where modules are based on departmental or functional roles in the organization. It is responsible for the collection and presentation of the information the solution stores. ERP software typically has an initial license fee and annual maintenance. I have had conversations where a prospect just could not justify why the software cost so much, after all it was already written. I did my best to explain that the annual fee, perhaps more so than the initial fee was for future support and not so much for what was already written. Business needs change and ERP software solutions need to change to match the business landscape.
Remember that ERP solutions are designed to integrate the organization, the entire organization. The more of your company that is included in the solution, the greater the efficiencies can be and therefore cost savings and increased profits.
The second component is the hardware or physical equipment the software is designed to run on. This includes a central database of information that is shared by a server and distributed to clients. The clients are everyone that accesses the information at one level or another including web delivery.
In some cases companies will choose a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution which is a subscription based solution where someone else manages the infrastructure. This type of solution is talked about a lot lately and is referred to as Cloud solutions. For many, if they are not already using a hosted solution, they are one or two generations of software or hardware away from this type of solution either in part or in whole.
On premise or hosted in the Cloud is a personal choice that really is dependent on more details than can be discussed in an online column. It is not the point of this writing and there is no one right answer. Each challenge needs to be matched with an appropriate solution.
Cloud is irrelevant. The solution as a whole is the important part.
Here is the point. With some careful planning and analysis the software and hardware costs can be estimated fairly well. The solution usually falls into a range that is predictable and can be clearly documented as to why it is smaller or larger than estimated. For example, the solution is now expanded to cover another division and there are more users, clients and the need for more robust database server solution. This, by the way, is a particularly great benefit of Cloud solutions in that the vendor should be able to scale the solution resources easily (either up or down).
So where is the problem? What is the third component? Where do so many organizations lose control of their budget, their time, their patience?
Implementation which includes training, conversion and support. In a rush to close deals or fear of limited budgets and losing a deal this component of the solution is often given too little analysis. Granted some of the components are harder than others. How much training do your users need? Do you learn to swim by jumping in the water? That is sink or swim. Sinking is not a good option for most companies.
Conversion, if it has been done before between the From-Solution to the To-Solution can be estimated fairly well. If it is a new conversion, there is still historical averages that can be used. Some solutions are programed, some are re-keyed, and some are a combination of both methods. A big category is the decision on how much and which type of history should be converted. Do you phase out one system and build history in the new solution or do you convert everything so everyone uses the new system.
Support is relative to everything else. Too little training and planning means more support later. More support up front usually means less hiccups later. You cannot bypass support. New ERP solutions are a series of complex interrelated components. They are not off the shelf box or quick download solutions.
Your organization is not simple and neither will your ERP solution be simple.
Technology can help collect and organize information. Information you need to make decisions in deciding what solution to select and implement as well as manage the implementation project. Information you collect and analyze to manage your business with the solution you select.
Information is key and technology is a vehicle for collection and delivery. The solution is the important part and the technology is the delivery mechanism. There are no shortcuts in implementation and it is the most variable component in a solution and therefore needs the most attention to prevent unpredictable budget overruns.
Dolvin Consulting works with your team and brings together industry experts to help you manage the chaos associated with ERP solutions. Contact us today to learn how we can help.