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in 'Superdwellings', architecture, Bad councils, culture, Federation style era, heritage, history, overdevelopment of Sydney, st george heritage, suburban, sydney, Sydney heritage, Uncategorized
Truly a once in a lifetime opportunity, Bexley's most Iconic Residence… This Federation Masterpiece is full of Period features, including High Ornate Ceilings, Wide Hallways, 4 Original Fire Places, Tiled Foyer Entry, Lead Light Windows and Main Entry, Slate Roof, Pressed Metal Ceiling and much, much more…
Not my words, the real estate agent's… And this gracious description accompanied by bright and airy photoshoped images obviously went some way in selling the unique residence… Late in 2015 the house at 580 Forest Rd Bexley known as 'Brandlesome' traded at auction for $2.77 Million. It was owned by the Formby family for four generations prior, but unoccupied for many years and as a result both cocooned as a period time capsule, while also showing some signs of decay such as rising damp that inevitably result from such lack of use.
Brandlesome represents an outstanding example of Federation architecture that has rapidly disappeared from the local area. The building exhibits some fine ornate features consistent with the era, including herringbone brickwork, high chimneys and terracotta features, and those wonderful lead light windows that worked as a selling point for the real estate agent… Even rare examples of half-timber work are present, and this is not seen on many local Federation buildings.
Additionally, the very layout of the building is unique, being transversely designed, with a central front porch and large looping 'keyhole' arch. This is highly unusual among the regular rectangular or square shapes of Federation housing common of the time.
The fact that this house has been owned by four generations of the Formby family adds immensely to the heritage value for the local community, not to mention the original front boundary fence and the fact the house is basically complete and unaltered over the decades as many others have been.
All this would point to local heritage listing. But there is none.
Naturally a certain sense of speculation surrounded the future of Brandlesome when it was put on the market after being tightly held for so many years. But all bets were off just a short time after when a DA was presented offering complete demolition of the Federation beauty, subdivision into three land parcels and construction of three separate modern 'superdwellings'.
580 Forest Rd. Three oversized boxes proposed to replace one heritage marvel. DA image by ZTA.
The development would be acceptable IF it didn't involve destruction of a historic building. DA image by ZTA.
This could be seen as 'very disappointing but very predictable'– words used by St George Historical Society president Bernie Sharah to describe the somewhat unsurprising outcome… Old house, big block of land, development biased council? We have seen it all before.
But one question still has to be asked, and that is this: Can this house be saved, and can it be saved while still making the new owner some financial gain?
The answer is Yes.
It has happened in other council areas such as Marrickville, whereby the development controls have been slightly altered to allow retention of the heritage property while adding value to the land by allowing more development in the surrounding parcel. In the case of Brandlesome, being slightly off centre on a large 2000 metre block of land, townhouses could be substituted down one side and along the back in an L-shape around the existing building, offering a better range of housing, and potentially increased profit for the developer, while most importantly retaining the heritage item.
This can be seen as a successful alternative to complete demolition, and one that offers a win-win-win situation by allowing the developer to increase their financial return, Rockdale Council to set a new standard for heritage retention mixed with quality new construction, and of course community benefit by preserving an extremely important piece of local heritage.
Far too many unique iconic houses are being lost in the area, as can be illustrated by another recent announcement that historic Halstead House in Mortdale, the oldest building in a heritage listed precinct, will be demolished in exchange for two modern dwellings. The owner says he doesn't want to live in a heritage home, but then he should move out and leave it for somebody else. The reality is he wants to make a profit from the size of his land. And he certainly isn't the first nor will he be the last. This will go on and on until many of our historic homes are lost.
Another St George grand home to go, Halstead House, which was removed from heritage listing in 1999. Image Fairfax Media.
And that is why we need councils such as Rockdale to act creatively, to work with developers for best results, to be strict and consistent with guidelines, and to put local heritage retention at the forefront when determining DAs. This isn't happening at the present time, but we need it to, as the stakes are so high. Heritage only gets one chance. And houses like Brandlesome are way too precious to sacrifice for the financial gain of single owners who came in at the last minute just to turn a profit. That is no way to treat our architectural assets that mean so much to us all.
The fate of Brandlesome rests with Rockdale council. This is now a litmus test to see if a local council has the will to ensure survival of its historic buildings. The new owners have already decided to neglect their building, filling it with bags of rubbish, leaving the windows wide open and the lights on day and night. But not all is decided, and there is still time to write a letter of objection to council, or a quick email to rcc@rockdale.nsw.gov.au (quote Ref Number: DA-2016/137).
Images above by Ray White Real Estate. Title image Inheritance 2016.
in Bad councils, culture, environment, overdevelopment, overdevelopment of Sydney, protest rallies, st george heritage, suburban, sydney
More than 200 men, women, and children packed the Kogarah School of Arts today to talk about the proposed LEP changes soon to be passed by Kogarah Council. Over the course of nearly two hours they heard from speakers including young gun MP for Kogarah Chris Minns, local residents and members of Kogarah.org, an umbrella group formed to address the shortcomings associated with the LEP and educate more people into standing up against unwanted overdevelopment within their area.
Clearly the proposed LEP for Kogarah is all about overdevelopment, and badly planned overdevelopment at that… Issues such as 21m (7 stories) height limits nowhere near railway corridors, highrise up to 39m all through the shopping and business precincts, density increases along the already congested Princes Highway and Rocky Point Rd. among others, removal of waterfront buffers, and total lack of consultation and transparency by Kogarah Council has forced these people to come together and fight what they see as an indignity being wrought upon their suburban lifestyle by the very ones in power who were elected to represent the residents interests, not walk all over them.
No Kogarah councillors chose to be present.
The fact Kogarah Council has not included a biodiversity study seems grounds to make the LEP invalid, said one speaker, a former lawyer with the Land and Environment Court. Not only illegal but also a bold statement by a reckless council who chooses to flaunt the rules in their arrogant push to quickly and quietly steamroll this bloated LEP through while the doors are wide open.
Member for Kogarah Chris Minns voices his concern over the LEP. When even a state MP says it is an overdevelopment then you know something is not right.
I think there is a moment in time when it becomes blindingly clear that the ones we are meant to trust to do the right things for us we can no longer trust, and this moment is now for Kogarah.
Perhaps it underpins a broader social problem nowadays, when even the local council can't be trusted to bring the best results for its residents, then who can we believe in? Are we at that point where municipal pride has not only flickered away like some 1900s candle, but been highjacked by the deeds of wayward councillors who have clearly forgotten their role in the community, the reason for their position, the pride in their own job?
That lack of public confidence translates into somewhat of a breakdown in society, or at least in society's values. Is it too much, after all, to expect that our cities and our suburbs, our streets and our schools, won't be stretched to breaking point by the unwanted development we now find ourselves being repeatedly jabbed with, forcing residents to either scatter like rats or come together in bands to try and salvage what we can of what we see as our right to control our own destiny.
Well today, in Kogarah, the people didn't scatter… They came in silently, queued on the stairs contently, and crammed the little School of Arts to physically demonstrate their opposition to a flawed and greedy piece of legislation which would only bring gains to council, government and those set to benefit financially from the mass rezoning of land parcels. The average resident can only lose here. And so their voices were heard, in numbers…
I would like to congratulate those involved with Kogarah.org, and all those who took time from their Sunday afternoon to come out and fight for their suburb, to fight against the greed and insanity of this overdevelopment. To fight to have a voice in what happens to their environment, their surroundings, to fight for what happens all around them, for their community. Yes, we all still have a community and it appears nowadays we do have to fight for it. It just seems a shame that the ones we are fighting are the very people we chose to represent us in the first place.
This is the exact type of development we DON'T want for Kogarah – 'La Vista', 79-83 Princes Hwy.
Check the Kogarah.org website here for the facts. Get submissions to Council by Friday May 29.
in Bad councils, Barry's blunders, environment, NSW Planning White Paper, NSW state governmet, overdevelopment, overdevelopment of Melbourne, overdevelopment of Sydney, protest rallies, suburban, sydney, Uncategorized
20 REASONS I HATE 'URBAN RENEWAL'
By Inheritance 2015, inheritance.org.au
They call it 'Urban Renewal.' The politicians love it, developers love it, foreign investors love it, my average neighbour doesn't really want to know about it, but I hate it. And here are a few reasons why…
Urban Renewal is the reason I have to sit in traffic for 25 minutes just to get from one side of my suburb to the other. By car.
Urban Renewal is the reason I have to stand on the edge of the road for 10 minutes and then play chicken to get from one side to the other.
Urban Renewal is why I am forced to look up at overbearing nondescript cheaply constructed boxes of up to 10 stories high in suburban growth ghettos with inadequate parking, natural lighting and open space. Meanwhile affordable blocks of land and perfectly good houses are being swallowed up and kids have to make do with honing their ball skills on Sony Playstations.
Urban Renewal is the reason the sun now sets in my mother's backyard at 2pm, as it is totally eclipsed by the dark side of a neighbouring block of 'townhouses' (ie. units).
Urban Renewal is the reason my favourite row of Federation shops has just been chewed up by bulldozers and reincarnated as some ugly monolithic drab grey box with concrete cancer and render peeling off like snakeskin after only its first full year of inception.
Urban Renewal is why I have to park two streets away if I'm not home by 3pm and three streets away on bin night.
Urban Renewal is just another name for a marketing ploy that sees foreign investors take over our housing stocks and inject large sums of capital into the market to drive prices up and outpace many local buyers out of the possibility of owning their own home, most probably ever.
Urban Renewal is a quick way of propping up the local and state economies by giving people the false impression that it is boom time in the building industry and consumers have got way too much money to burn on housing.
Urban Renewal is the reason there are no more backyards in my neighbourhood. No more trees, no front yards, no side yards, no sparrows, no fairy wrens, no caterpillars, no Green Grocers, no Brown Bakers, no Black Princes, definitely no Yellow Mondays and no butterflies. There is a lot of concrete though, and concrete cancer, and the odd dwarf shrub for border embellishment.
Urban Renewal, funnily enough, assumes everyone wants urban renewal… I don't. I like my suburb the way it is. That's why I chose to live there.
Urban Renewal is why there are torrents of rainwater flooding down the gutters of my street from duplex driveways every time the heavens open up. There is nowhere else for the water to go.
Urban Renewal is the reason property developers cruise my suburb in black Audi Q7s eyeing off their next blue ribbon investment that will make them another big brown envelope full of money.
Urban Renewal is a sweeping term that demands blanket slash and burn mentality. Nothing is left of my old neighbourhood – no heritage, no community, no environment, no funky warehouse conversions, no links to the past, no resonating cultural vibes, nothing.
Urban Renewal is a way of turning one block of land into two, three or four and then charging more for each subdivision than the original.
Urban Renewal is why I have to basically fight my way to drive into my local shopping centre/school/health care service. I then have to virtually compete in hand to hand combat in order to find a parking spot, and defy all odds Indiana Jones-style to get my choirs done and return to the car in time before I get a ticket or worse, have to battle through peak hour.
Urban Renewal is the reason I try and stay away from driving anywhere on weekends now. It's just not worth the effort.
Urban Renewal is why I am too scared to invest all my hard earned savings into the house of my dreams, as who knows what will be built next door to the house of my dreams the minute I move in.
Urban Renewal is why I try not to get too excited about a beautiful old heritage building in my neighbourhood. I find it makes it a lot easier when the thing is replaced by a gaping big hole in the ground next time I jog by.
Urban Renewal is a fallacy that would have us believe the only way to make our suburbs pretty and safe is to knock everything down and build everything new again, this time with dinky shops on the bottom and multiple stories of residential dwellings on top (and lots of basement parking to store our black Audi Q7s). That way we can all be proud of our suburbs. Give me a break.
Urban Renewal is probably the reason why I have to put my child's name down three years in advance to get her into some overpriced childcare facility. Same with school. It's probably why I have to get to the train station at 5am to get the only parking available. It's probably why I have to stand in the train too. And wait at the pharmacy, and the ATM. And get to the park three hours early to reserve a picnic table on a Saturday morning. And line up ten-deep outside the Vietnamese bread shop that does those special pork rolls I like. In fact it's probably responsible for every little part of my life that I find shitty and annoying.
So thank you, Urban Renewal, you are making such a difference to my life, and will continue to do so, I'd imagine, for some time yet…
in architecture, Bad councils, culture, environment, heritage, NSW state governmet, overdevelopment, overdevelopment of Sydney, suburban, sydney, Sydney heritage, Uncategorized
DISAPPEARING SYDNEY
Sydney is disappearing… The city we know and love is being lost before our very eyes, sold off and torn apart, opened up and ripped into pieces.
Inheritance the blog was created to document this change and show some of the things we are losing across our city and our state. Inheritance Society and NSW Heritage Network were incorporated to allow like-minded individuals to come together and share their collective views and work towards turning the tide around.
Disappearing Sydney has now been created as a Facebook group to share photos and alert people visually to the loss throughout their own areas.
If you have a camera or a smart phone, you can be part of this group and make a contribution simply by uploading your own photos of buildings and places that are disappearing, sharing them with a wider audience.
It is not fair nor right that our city is being treated this way. Much of the high-rise development that is being pushed by local and state governments is a direct result of offshore foreign investment. Our state government in particular are willingly selling off prime assets and promoting NSW as being 'open for business', indulging in high density building frenzies and population growth spurts just so they can stand tall at the next election and claim how viable the economy has become.
But we have our eyes open. We are weary of the fact that they have become addicted to excessive residential building as a tool for injecting large scales of money quickly into the economy. We are aware that they have created an artificial housing boom by promoting foreign investment into exclusively new building projects, a boom that has left many of our next generation of Australians wondering how they will ever be able to afford their own piece of the pie.
We are aware they have watered down heritage and environmental laws to allow full exploitation of real estate potential across the state. And we are aware that our society and our lifestyles are being irreversibly altered and constantly threatened by this excessive race to grow the economy at all costs, in the most aggressive way possible, not by creating new industries and fostering smart technologies, but rather by simply injecting more people and pushing more concrete into the sky.
Indeed we have witnessed the shameless selling out of future generations. Rather than growing to become part of society and working towards a common goal of home ownership, many are left scratching their heads and saying "how will I ever own my own home?"
So much of our heritage is being lost to the building boom and we are constantly watching priceless treasures disappear forever, denying future generations a sense of place and perhaps a sense of understanding of our cultural identity – the visual links of layers of architecture laid down over decades.
All this disappears every time a developer decides to buy up in an area and flaunt lax heritage laws by bulldozing everything within site. Like great trees in the forest that have taken many years to grow and only a brief minute to cut down, so too are our heritage assets so carelessly sacrificed. And what remains is merely a testament to the greed of rapid economic expansion at any cost. What we are left with is an altered sense of culture and identity, a collective mindset that is severed , one that has difficulty reconciling the place of its own heritage in a rapidly changing world. What governments often try to make people forget is that all of this is also completely unsustainable within the context of life on this planet over the coming decades.
Heritage is important… Tangible evidence that people were here before us, often doing the things we do, living their lives, building our society to what it is today. For us to turn our backs on all that and simply bulldoze everything in sight for the quick growth of economy is unjustifiable. Inheritance and Disappearing Sydney seek to address these issues that confront us, not just for now but for generations to follow, because we want to endow these generations with the same chance of discovery that we have had ourselves. We want the cycle to continue. And we want them to be identified and feel a sense of belonging. For without our heritage we certainly are nobody…
in architecture, art deco, Bad councils, culture, heritage, history, overdevelopment of Sydney, suburban, Sydney heritage, Uncategorized
LIFE AND DEATH OF THE FULL SERVICE STATION
If you are a lover of Art Deco as am I, you may be slightly miffed by the loss of one of Sydney's only remaining original 1930s full service stations. If you have been swayed by the Petrolmania craze that has taken over our televisions you may be a little saddened by the closure of one of the last purveyors of oil from glass bottles and classic automobile nostalgia. And if you are simply a fan of good old-fashioned driveway service you may just miss the welcoming sight of the Salisbury Service Station at Stanmore for it is about to be wiped from our motoring maps and minds forever.
You certainly won't miss the rising concrete frame of yet another block of boutique apartments with an overzealous moniker, this time known as 'The Radius', perhaps as some kind of bizarre lip service homage to the semi-circular floorplan of the Art Deco structure it is destroying.
The family-run business is set to shut up shop and leave the Percival Road location it has graced since 1930, having being sold to a developer who will make full use of the prime inner west location and valuable crossroads pocket of land.
Owner Norm Iacono. No wonder he's smiling. Image Daily Telegraph.
Current owner Norm Iacono doesn't seem to be all too upset with the outcome. He took over the reigns from his grandfather in 1997, ran the shop for several years and is now happy to be moving the business to Summer Hill while selling the Stanmore site for a king's ransom. Pointing the blame at higher running costs due to petrol storage laws, his comments to media that "A lot of people come in and say what a great building it is, but the building was built in the 1930s, so there is no real significance for architecture" initially struck me as slightly odd for a small business owner who has traded not only in petrol but also nostalgia for so many years. After all, you don't see too many Art Deco service stations from the golden era in such original unchanged working order. But when you consider he is set to benefit financially by the full demolition of the site you can see how quickly nostalgia is pushed to the side like some old rattle gun that has come to the end of its useful life.
The vintage oil bar at the Salisbury still in use, but not for long. Image Daily Telegraph.
Norm is hopeful however that the developer will pay some sort of tribute to the heritage of the site, by displaying the oil bar near the entrance to the restaurant or something to that effect… It could have a Model T Ford parked in the foyer for all I care, it will still be just another oversized concrete box with a Model T parked in its foyer. There is simply no substitute for the original item.
It would have been nice to retain at least the drive-through frontage part of the structure and re-purpose that as an outdoor cafe – I mean, we are talking a matter of a few square metres for pity's sake, would it be so hard to retain at least that much heritage within the total area of the site?
A 1951 photograph of the Salisbury service station. Image Daily Telegraph.
Unfortunately this buy-up of prime service station sites across Sydney is not confined to just this fine example. It is happening all over and many old independent stations are being bought and converted into apartments as developers fight to get hold of these prime main arterial slices of land. Among others, another Art Deco workshop at Princes Highway Tempe recently closed and is slated for residential redevelopment.
This Art Deco former service station at Tempe is set to disappear.
And sadly the lack of understanding and protection of Art Deco is not limited merely to the destruction of petrol stations. Retail shopfronts of the era are also making way for the modern. This one in particular at Liverpool Rd. Ashfield, a beautiful example of 1930s expression, is set to go. A DA for the total removal of the Koles Foto/Manchester shopfront was approved in August by Ashfield Council who don't seem to appreciate the beauty of their own area enough to respect its architectural merits. What will rise in its place will undoubtedly not share the same level of pizazz this shopfront exudes. Sad times indeed for fanciers of Art Deco and Sydney heritage moreover…
Stunning Art Deco shopfront in Ashfield, set to go.
Main title image Daily Telegraph.
in architecture, Bad councils, culture, heritage, history, overdevelopment of Sydney, suburban, sydney, Sydney heritage, Uncategorized
'GUNYAH' STILL UNDER A THREATENING CLOUD
Having endured in recent times an allegedly corrupt mayor, excessive developer-biased rezoning and a rapid changing of the character of their suburbs, Sutherland Shire residents now face the very real prospect of losing their oldest building, thanks to an errant council who seem determined to dig up, sell off and knock down as much as they possibly can during their time in the sun…
Sutherland Shire Council seems intent on pushing through its draft LEP, which will not only raise the building densities of many of the beachside suburbs, but also seeks to remove its oldest house from the heritage list. The worker's cottage, at 5 Evelyn Street North, known as 'Gunyah', dates from c.1870 and formed part of the vast Thomas Holt Sutherland Estate. It is in fact the only remaining physical link to the estate and widely recognised as the oldest house standing in the Shire.
All this hasn't stopped council from seeking to de-list the building, claiming restoration costs as being prohibitive. But there are a few fishy smells coming from Sutherland Shire's reckless decision making… remembering council actually owns the site, and has let the building slip into disrepair over a period of more than a decade through total lack of maintenance.
And also remembering that the entire draft LEP springs from the troubled tenure of former mayor Kent Johns, who resigned both his mayorship and pre-selection for the state seat of Miranda in disgrace after allegations of corruption following his famous last-minute Mayoral minute, these are all reasons for concern. He remains on council, and many of his Liberal colleagues are still running the show, such as Cr Kevin Schreiber.
And the fact that this decision contradicts advice from not only council staff, but also the State Government independent review panel means councillors intend acting without any given mandate, neither from the public, nor state government, nor even their own council officers. This simply defies logic.
By de-listing the house they stand to now make a massive profit by on-selling the land as a greenfield development site. Perhaps rezoning is on the cards, as has occurred directly across the road where townhouse-units are now being built. The property minus the cottage would be worth a pretty penny (reportedly up to $1.8 million), considering its proximity to the shoreline and desirability of location.
Cr Kevin Schreiber, a Liberal councilor who served as deputy mayor 2012-13 next to Johns, told Fairfax "As much as we like to keep our heritage sites, … the cost far outweighs the benefit to the community." But we can take what he says with a little grain of salt. Schreiber himself was referred to ICAC for questionable development approvals and political donations back in 2008, along with three other Liberal councillors including our friend Kent Johns.
Schreiber and Johns denied the claims, which related to 30 non-compliant approvals within two years, but all the councillors were de-listed from the Liberal party at the time and forced to register as Indepedents. That makes three times since 2002 by my reckoning Kent Johns has been involved in ICAC referrals, and yet this character remains a B ward councillor in the Shire still making planning decisions. Is there any wonder the LEP has turned out like it has?
Two peas in a pod, councillors Johns and Schreiber, both part of the Liberal team, both with corruption allegations against their names. Image Fairfax Media.
Current deputy mayor Tom Croucher, another member of the Liberal dream team, claims the council can't afford restoration. "The council has no funds to restore it. I ask it be removed from the heritage list," he said. Simple as that…
Okay let's assume that to be true. That they can't afford it. It may well be… So what gives them the right to de-list the building as a heritage item? Just because they can't afford to fix it? It makes no sense to me at all, am I missing something here? If you or I own a heritage-listed house, and we decide we can't afford to renovate it, does it then get de-listed, and sold to the highest bidder as a development site? Is that how it works? I really don't think so. I could be wrong, but I didn't think it worked that way. If it did there wouldn't be many heritage listed homes left.
The clear and logical solution for Sutherland Shire Council is, if they really can't afford to renovate the cottage – this asset to the people of the area, this visual link to early European settlement – then don't. Sell it as a heritage listed item for somebody else to renovate, or lease it as a museum for people to enjoy. Don't destroy the very local heritage you are meant to protect just to turn a bigger land sale profit, that is not the right thing to do. It may sound clichéd but once it is gone, it is gone for good, there is no bringing it back. And buildings of this vintage, in this locale, with heritage links to our founding forefathers, are already few and far between.
I implore people, residents and non-residents alike, to contact Sutherland Council, and ask that they not go ahead with de-listing and demolishing this important cultural asset as it would be an irreversible loss to a community so closely tied with the early European settlement and growth of Australia.
Email Sutherland council ssc@ssc.nsw.gov.au
The safety fence has already gone up around the house, this is not a false alarm.
Please sign our change.org petition here.
See previous posts on the Thomas Holt cottage here.
A vital link to the Shire's history, under a threatening cloud. Image Inheritance.
in architecture, art deco, Bad councils, culture, heritage, history, overdevelopment, overdevelopment of Sydney, protest rallies, st george heritage, suburban, sydney, Sydney heritage, Uncategorized
OUR SECOND BIRTHDAY & HERITAGE BRIEF AUGUST 2014
Well, time flies and we've already notched up two years within the blogosphere here on these pages of Inheritance…
It seems just about ripe for a format change too, as it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with the state of heritage loss currently being enacted all around us… time constraints, life getting in the way, etc. etc. and more openly it's getting a little monotonous writing the same old story that generally reads something like this: "beautiful building neglected, beautiful building acquired by developer, developer knocks down beautiful building, ugly big building rises where beautiful building once stood…"
I had thought we would be learning collective lessons by now and while I believe the general public may be cottoning on ever so slowly, single-minded politicians and the development lobby still hold the trump cards and aren't afraid to use them to keep the current wave of urban renewal riding off strongly into the sunset. Meanwhile residents are held to ransom and left to watch in horror as wonderful heritage assets are systematically stripped from their neighbourhoods wherever the wrecking ball of developers decides it wants to swing.
So now we will take a more general overview of current heritage issues, in order to cover more ground more succinctly and keep updating while still maintaining the original focus of publicizing heritage neglect and destruction that keeps people like me in business and gives us something to do with all our otherwise misguided energies…
Heritage Brief August 2014
Art Deco waste in Chatswood
Another day, another demolition… This time it will be a beautiful art deco block of units at 745 Pacific Highway, Chatswood which sold in late 2013 for a reported $3.5 million and will be replaced by, you guessed it, another modern block of shop-top apartments reaching five stories in height and no doubt maximising real estate value of the highway frontage by leaning right over the footpath and every border of the property.
A shame to see the beautiful stylised brickwork of this building and symmetrical forms sacrificed for more faceless monolithic residential stock. No building that replaces it will ever have the same level of workmanship or quality of design that this art deco wonder had, that much I can guarantee. So it's overdevelopment 1: heritage nil.
Google streetview of the address.
If anyone is local and handy with a screwdriver I would suggest going over and salvaging this beautiful set of art deco doors from the jaws of the bulldozers. The owners obviously don't care and shame on council for not making removal of doors and fittings part of the deal.
Image Dominic Kennelly
Ramsgate shops lost
Not much was left of this charming row of Federation shops along Rocky Point Road in Ramsgate. A real estate agent in a shopfront to one side had originally opposed the DA (surprisingly), and for some time their little corner of the site was left standing. Now they too have decided it was a better option to get out, leaving nothing behind of the heritage architecture but a gaping hole in the ground soon to be filled with more units that actually rise above what the local DCP allows for by a massive two stories. With Rockdale council controlling one side of Rocky Point Rd. and Kogarah Council the other, it seems both parties have engaged in a race to decide who can ruin their side of the street the quickest. (For more info read here). Overdevelopment 2: heritage nil.
These charming heritage shopfronts are now gone .
Princes Hwy, Highway to Hell
Further along at Princes Highway Rockdale, the story emerged of an elderly couple who decided they didn't want to sell their family home of 60 years, when a massive eight storey development took shape next door. Instead of bowing to the pressure by developers, Barry and Betty Dickson decided to stay put, and after several months of jack hammering and earth moving going on just over the fence, health effects are starting to take their toll on the resolute couple… perhaps they regret not moving after all.
But then again, "you show me where there's a house on a corner block with room to park five vehicles close to the hospital and with a shed" said Barry to Fairfax reporters. Let's hope he can continue to live the way he wants to, without too much bad karma from the ruthless encroachment of land grabbing all around. Overdevelopment 3: heritage nil.
"Honey… I think the neighbours have moved out…"
Nearby on the corner of the rapidly changing Gray St, an old converted Federation doctor's surgery is about to make way for ever more units. This street is also home to the yet to be opened new Emergency Department of St. George Hospital, and every house opposite (currently old cottages) is on the chopping block. Quite an interesting planning strategy, putting a new ambulance thoroughfare on one side and multiple blocks of units on the other, considering the street is already gridlocked during peak hours. I hope nobody I know will be waiting for an ambulance once this is completed, it may be a nervouse wait… Overdevelopment 4: heritage nil.
Corner Gray St. and Princes Hwy.
The old and new rub shoulders uncomfortably on Gray St.
The sun sets on these Princes Highway cottages.
The sign says it all. Princes Highway, Kogarah.
Kogarah is gone…
Expect to see much more desecration around Kogarah. At the council meeting of July 29, the motion to send the new 'Kogarah Housing Strategy 2031' to the NSW Department of Planning to go on exhibition, was won by 10 votes to 1. One councillor, Lachlan Mclean, who prides himself on not supporting overdevelopment, made these comments against the motion:
The proposal is an extreme overdevelopment of North Ward and I refer to 3 key examples that will anger residents and ultimately detract from our lifestyle:
1) The change to allow buildings of up to 11 storeys or 33 metres in peaceful residential streets such as Palmerston Street, Victor Street, Victoria Street and Stanley Street.
2) The change to allow buildings of 39 metres on Railway Parade backing onto Bellevue Street and the Kogarah South Heritage Conservation Area.
3) The change to allow buildings of 21 metres or up to 7 levels on the Princes Highway backing on to John Street in Kogarah Bay and Wyuna Street in Beverley Park.
…Some will say, let the proposal go to the Department and then let the residents have their say. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that so many North Ward residents will be outraged by these changes and I don't want to put them through the stress of having to justify why 11, 12 or 13 storeys shouldn't happen next door to them.
…This proposal doesn't strike the right balance and won't provide residents with a better lifestyle. It is all very well to speak about the needs of future generations, but there is no evidence that the necessary infrastructure will be in place to support these changes – our roads will be gridlocked and will struggle to cope with future population growth.
Wise words indeed from the North Ward councillor. Yet his thoughts are clearly in the minority on this council. Kogarah, unfortunately, like many other suburbs, has NO chance of a sensible planning strategy now. Well done Lachlan for rejecting the draft. Shame on you, Kogarah Council, for burying your ratepayers in high rise, many of whom, wouldn't even see it coming.
Sports Club calls last drinks
South Hurstville Sports Club has become the latest casualty in the shrinking world of bowling clubs closing its doors after 57 years of service. The struggling club called for last drinks on Saturday June 28 as they move to amalgamate with nearby Peakhurst Bowling Club. The classic Art Deco building is owned by the Catholic Education Office, and we strongly hope the owners will be able to repurpose the wonderful architecture, however no plans have been announced for the site. I will be personally contacting the Catholic Education Office to suggest this.
This news comes on the back of the St George Bowling Club at Rockdale being completely demolished by council after arsonists caused damage to the roof structure. This was a superb piece of architecture on a prime 'development site' and it appears Rockdale council have done nothing to save it. (For more info read here).
The club's closure after 57 years. Image John Verge, Fairfax.
It never ceases to astonish me that every time a club like this closes, more isn't done to protect the site from private development. The local population are losing amenity, a place to congregate, a place to mingle, to socialise, and to gather… When that former social space becomes a closed door development, the whole community loses out, especially the elderly.
Kyle Bay's future outlook
Nearby at picturesque Kyle Bay, residents are fighting to keep their leafy bay 'leafy', after a hushed rezoning push-through and development has been proposed for the 24,000 square metre Kyle Williams estate. The privately-owned bushland site that currently occupies much of the expensive hillside is much loved by locals who fear the loss of natural amenity. Indeed this is one of the last natural areas of remaining bushland so close to the mouth of Georges River.
The land was bequeathed by Caroline Milne Williams who ran a respite home for convalescing children until her death in 1939. Currently the heritage-listed Legacy House continues that tradition on site, however the Greek church-affiliated Estia Foundation is proposing a massive and potentially uncapped expansion via the rezoning. More than 200 objections have been sent to council.
For those who water down concerns of residents stating they only want to hold on to their million dollar views, well, wouldn't you? If you invested into a house and suburb with a certain natural outlook, and all of a sudden that outlook is threatened, and the prospect of watching new development rise up becomes a reality, then why wouldn't you complain… Amenity of the estate is not the issue here, it is suitability of the site. Overdevelopment 5: heritage nil.
The (currently) bushy vistas over Kyle Bay. Image Kyle Bay Residents Association.
Outside Sydney
Gosford council recently looked at a motion to rename Brisbane Water and the Broadwater 'Mariners Cove', however the motion was defeated after observers including our own NSW Heritage Network scrutinized the renaming in connection to the Central Coast Mariners football club, of which Gosford City Council is an official major partner. And rightfully so – if renaming of geographic sites starts here, where will it end – 'Bluetongue Bay' or 'The Coffee Club Ranges'…?
In Eden, the case of Hotel Australasia has gone before the Land and Environmental Court recently as a Section 34 mediation, as the developer Great Southern Developments tries to sell the merits of a third supermarket in a town that doesn't really need it, on the site of the historic and characteristic local pub. The result as it now stands will see the hotel completely demolished.
The developer had indicated they would spare the 1951 front skin of the building while seeking financial compensation of $460,000 for lost rental space as a result of retaining the facade, but council decided this was too much to pay, leaving concerned residents and local heritage with nowhere to stand. Hotel Australasia has long been described as the 'heart and soul' of Eden, now the township will have to survive without it.
This is what happens when mediocre councils shy away from heritage listing in the first instance – you lose old pubs and so forth, you get big developments cropping up, parking and congestion issues to boot, and supermarkets nobody needs. Not the best outcome for a town like Eden. (For more info read here).
The Hotel Australasia as it stands now. Image Inheritance
And the saga of Avoca Beach Theatre continues… It has been reported that council is seeking donations from the cinema owner under a Voluntary Planning Agreement (or VPA) to allow for a redevelopment of the cinema that, again, none of the locals seem to want or need. These costs will cover refurbishment of adjoining Hunter Park, and resurfacing of a nearby carpark (without providing extra parking spaces). It should be noted that the redevelopment will not include any onsite parking for theatre-goers or staff… None. It should also be noted that the redevelopment also includes luxury apartments that will directly overlook the park.
And so it appears that the owner may well be able to do whatever they want, provided they throw generous amounts of money in the general direction of council. Ahhh democracy, it's a wonderful thing… (For more info read here). (For an interesting video link click here).
If you have any local issues to cover, please email inheritance@tpg.com.au with the subject Heritage Brief.


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Lankford, B. A. 2003. Irrigation-based livelihood trends in river basins: theory and policy implications for irrigation development. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (28): 817-825.
Lankford, B.A. 2004. Irrigation, Livelihoods and River Basins. In Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Policies (eds. F. Ellis, and H. A. Freeman) Routledge, London. Book chapter.
Lankford, B.A. 2002. Irrigation, Livelihoods and River Basins. LADDER working paper No. 14. University of East Anglia, UK.
KYRGYZSTAN 2003. Irrigation Study for Aral and Chest-Tobe Communities 2nd Input, Talas Oblast. For DFID Project Sustainable Livelihoods for Livestock Producing Communities, SLLPC. 50 pp.
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Lankford, B.A. 2007. The Rise of Large Scale Formal Smallholder Irrigation Schemes in Swaziland; An Appropriate Solution for Rural Livelihoods and Agricultural Production. DEV Working Paper No.1. School of International Development, University of East Anglia.


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Q: FB.login() called before calling FB.init() - Facebook Canvas app Am developing a facebook canvas app.
Url to my canvas app
https://apps.facebook.com/bayern_app/
Everything works good but sometimes i got an error when i click the login button, ie, FB.login() called before calling FB.init(). Its very hard to replicate the issue, i got this one in some cases only, Am placing my login code at the end of the page, ie before closing body tag. I got this error fired in my ipad also.
I googled the issue, and got similar threads in stack, they all mention about all.js calling twice. But in my case am calling this only once in my page.
I also suspect about like button code in my page
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    {
    FB._https = (window.location.protocol == "https:");
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    cookie: true,
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    oauth: true});
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    }
    {literal}
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                FB.login(function(response) {

                    if (response.status === 'connected') {

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                    }

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            }
    {/literal}
</script>

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Q: sensu mailer and pipe i'm switching over from nagios to sensu.  i'm using chef to automated the process.  everything is working great except the mailer or actually, i narrowed it down to the "pipe" that is suppose to redirect the json output from the check to the handler.  it doesn't.  when i use
{
  "handlers": {
    "email": {
      "type": "pipe",
      "command": "mail -s \"sensu alert\" alert@example.com",
      "severities": [
        "ok",
        "critical"
      ]
    }
  }
}

i get a blank email.  when i use the mailer.rb handler, i get no email whatsoever. i made sure to include mail to and mail from in the mailer.json.  i see the logs have the correct information for the handler and email parameters.
so i've concluded the "pipe" isn't working.  can anybody help with that?  i would greatly appreciate it.  i wish there was a sensu community, but it may be too new to have one.

A: With regards to the mailer.rb, have you checked the server logs (by default in /var/log/sensu/sensu-server.log) for errors? If there is an error in any of the handlers, they will show up in those logs.
mailer.rb requires several gems in order to run. To find out if you are using sensu's embedded ruby or not, check /etc/default/sensu for EMBEDDED_RUBY. If that is false, you will need to make sure your system ruby has all those gems (sensu-handler, mail, timeout) installed. If it is set to true, do the same with sensu's embedded ruby:
/opt/sensu/embedded/bin/gem list
Make sure the gems are installed, try again, and check the sensu-server.log for errors.
If you have more issues, there is in fact a community - check out #sensu on Freenode.

A: You can write you own event data JSON and pass it through a PIPE as follows:
cat event.json | /opt/sensu/embedded/bin/ruby mailer.rb

The easiest way to get the event.json file is from the sensu-server.log.

A: To use mailer.rb you need your own mail server ! if you'll post sensu server logs i think i can help you.

A: I've done some testing and the mail into pipe does not with GNU mail/mailx (assume you're using Ubuntu or something?).
Two solutions:
1) install BSD mail:
sudo apt-get install bsd-mailx

2) Or modify the command slightly get mail to read from stdin you'll need to do something like:
{
  "handlers": {
    "email": {
      "type": "pipe",
      "command": " echo $(cat) > /tmp/mail.txt;  mail -s \"sensu alert\" alert@example.com < /tmp/mail.txt"
    }
  }
}

The idea is normally that you read the event json from stdin within a scripting language and then pull out bits of the event.json that you want to send. The above will e-mail out the entire json file.

A: You can use sensu mailer handler. Please find below steps to setup:-

*

*sensu-install -p sensu-plugins-mailer

*apt-get install postifx

*/etc/init.d/postfix start

*cd /etc/sensu/conf.d/
when we install this plugin will get 3 ruby files.
This time we are using this file:- handler-mailer.rb
First we need to creat handler file in this location /etc/sensu/conf.d/ :-

*vim handler-mailer.json

{
     "mailer": {
         "admin_gui": "http://127.0.0.1:3000/",
         "mail_from": "localhost",
         "mail_to": ["yourmailid-1","yourmailid-2"],
         "smtp_address": "localhost",
         "smtp_port": "25"
     }
  }

Now we need to create one mail handler file in this location /etc/sensu/conf.d/:-

*
{
     "handlers": {
         "mymailer": {
             "type": "pipe",
             "command": "/opt/sensu/embedded/bin/handler-mailer.rb",
             "severities": [
                 "critical",
                 "unknown"
             ]
         }
     }
  }

in above file handler name is mymailer we need to use this handler name in our checks.

A: Use bin/handler-mailer-mailgun.rb or bin/handler-mailer-ses.rb or bin/handler-mailer.rb
Example:
echo '{
"id": "ef6b87d2-1f89-439f-8bea-33881436ab90",
"action": "create",
"timestamp": 1460172826,
"occurrences": 2,
"check": {
  "type": "standard",
  "total_state_change": 11,
  "history": ["0", "0", "1", "1", "2", "2"],
  "status": 2,
  "output": "No keepalive sent from client for 230 seconds (>=180)",
  "executed": 1460172826,
  "issued": 1460172826,
  "name": "keepalive",
  "thresholds": {
    "critical": 180,
    "warning": 120
  }
},
"client": {
  "timestamp": 1460172596,
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "socket": {
    "port": 3030,
    "bind": "127.0.0.1"
  },
  "subscriptions": [
    "production"
  ],
  "environment": "development",
  "address": "127.0.0.1",
  "name": "client-01"
} }' | /opt/sensu/embedded/bin/handler-mailer-mailgun.rb

Output:
mail -- sent alert for client-01/keepalive to your.email@example.com


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We arrived home last night after 8 nights on the island of St. John located in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands are located a little southeast of Puerto Rico and consist of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John. The British Virgin Islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda and Jost Van Dyke are also in the same area. Steve and I have previously visited all of the islands but decided to revisit St. John because we think it's the most beautiful of all of them.
We flew from Dallas to Miami for our connecting flight to St. Thomas. Then a cab ride and a ferry to St. John. The only way to reach St. John is by boat and it does not have a dock that can accommodate cruise ships so it tends to be quiet and peaceful there. Before Hurricane Irma, there were two nice resorts on the island, Caneel Bay Resort and The Westin Resort, which both remain closed. The Westin will be reopening in October 2018 and Caneel Bay is still negotiating its insurance and lease so it likely won't reopen until 2020.
So, given the limited hotel options on St. John, we rented a private villa just above the main town of Cruz Bay and we loved it! We rented this villa, called Ginger Thomas, through VRBO and the set-up and location were perfect, it was in great shape, super clean, had A/C and the owners were very nice. We had a huge private patio with a plunge pool, which we enjoyed every day. It's a one bedroom villa with a separate downstairs apartment (which we never used) so it would be great for two couples as you each have your own bed/bath and privacy but can hang out together at the large plunge pool patio too.
What is there to do on St. John? Well, there is lots of hiking you can do all over the island as 75% of St. John is a National Park. There is also the town of Cruz Bay which has many shops and restaurants. You can go snorkeling in several areas and you can charter a boat to visit other islands. My favorite part of St. John are its beaches. This is a beach lover's paradise. We have been all over the Caribbean and I think St. John has the best beaches by far. Below are some of my favorites.
Hawksnest Beach. This was our favorite because it still offered plenty of shade, had sugar soft sand, had a small reef you could also snorkel and had some basic facilities (i.e., a bathroom which wasn't the greatest but got the job done). The water here was crystal clear as well – it was like swimming in a pool.
We also visited the island's most popular beach, Trunk Bay. Trunk Bay is gorgeous and the water and sand are also perfect but it suffered more hurricane damage than Hawksnest and lost 99% of its gorgeous palm trees so there is very little shade on Trunk Bay. You definitely need an umbrella or sunshade which is one more thing to carry to the beach each day. It also can get a little windy on Trunk Bay as well. Everyone stops at the overlook on the way to this beach for pictures and we were no exception – it IS a great view.
We then visited Maho Bay Beach. You may have noticed how many great beaches are on such a small island, which is one reason we love St. John. Unfortunately, Maho suffered the most damage of all from the hurricanes and much of the beach was washed out and there was literally no vegetation left. People actually created makeshift shade shelters from debris which we used during our visit. It was kind of sad to see the beach in this condition but the water was still beautiful. Maho has a turtle nesting area so turtles are frequently here but we didn't spot any.
Our shelter on Maho – you can see the construction sign behind it – the hurricane washed out the entire road and parking lot. All of this used to be palm trees but, alas, no more.
The last beach we visited was a tiny little bay that you had to hike into (when I say "hike" I mean a 5 minute walk down a very short hill) that was also lovely. Jumbie Bay Beach was just a slim little crescent beach that was so quiet and peaceful.
Most of our trip was spent getting up early and having coffee on the patio and reading the news on our ipads (wifi at our villa was screaming fast). The villa owners provided us with all the beach accessories we needed, including towels, chairs, sun shade, cooler, etc… We would load up the cooler with waters (and a few beers or a bottle of white wine) and head to one of the beaches. We would usually spend 3-5 hours at the beach and then head back to the villa for a swim in our plunge pool and to relax with a few sundowners. Sometimes we stayed in and ate leftovers or picked up some food to go (like pizza from the local pizza place) and some nights we showered up and went into town for dinner or a late lunch. It was a great "no plans, let's just do whatever we feel up to" kind of vacation.
I will say that I couldn't get enough of the sunset views from our villa. I really highly recommend renting Ginger Thomas if you visit St. John. Also, the owners own the exact same villa layout just two houses down and that villa is called Ylang Ylang and has the same patio, pool and views.
We actually did do more than just sit on the beach all week. We chartered a private boat and captain one day to take us over to the British Virgin Islands and we visited Jost Van Dyke for a full day, which was great. Steve and I used to stay on Jost Van Dyke back in our younger days so it was nice to revisit but I took a lot of pictures so I'll write a separate post on that day trip. Also, we visited many restaurants on St. John so that deserves a solo post just for the pictures of all my fruity rum drinks that I had.
Overall, we had a fantastic vacation. The USVI, and St. John in particular, are wonderful islands with very friendly people. Are they ready for visitors post-hurricane? Yes. I would say that the USVI is ready. 90% of the restaurants and shops on St. John have reopened. Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas looked the same as before for the most part. The Westin on St. John will be reopening very soon (we drove by and it was looking great). The beaches are still incredible, the roads are in great shape and the hiking trails are all open. Yes, you will still see some visible damage here and there and many houses still have blue tarps on their roofs but in many cases you would never know that two Cat 5 hurricanes tore through here just 7 months ago. The recovery says a lot about the people that live here.
I will say that we drove to the other side of the island, Coral Bay, and the destruction was more pronounced there. They are also using that area as a staging ground for removal of debris and the electrical lineman who are replacing all the wood utility poles with steel poles so it's basically a construction zone/dumping zone so you can imagine how that looks. However, there was never much to do in Coral Bay anyway and the main beach areas and town of Cruz Bay look great. Unfortunately, the BVI still has a long way to go. Their infrastructure was already not as robust as the USVI and they haven't gotten much support from the government so rebuilding is slow going over there. However, if you're thinking of a visit to the USVI, just go! It's absolutely worth it!
Beautiful St. John – it's safe to return!
Next posts – day trip to Jost Van Dyke and Where to Eat on St. John….


If the double liquid injection pump grouting pipe plugged in the construction of the time, can't be grouting, or even the case of burst pipe, it will seriously affect the construction quality and progress. So double grout grouting pipe plug what is the reason? How to deal with it?
(1) For a long time without grouting, the grouting pipe is not cleaned, and the grout is jammed in the pipe to block the grouting pipe.
(2) The pressure of two kinds of grouting machine does not match the pressure, the pressure of liquid B is too high to enter the liquid of A, causing the liquid in liquid pipe A to be hard and block the grouting pipe.
(3) When there is a straight tube in the pipeline, there is no way for the cleaning ball to clean the area, causing the slurry to settle and solidify in long term accumulation.
(2) The balance of pressure and flow.
(3) There is bifurcation part in the pipeline, the cleaning ball can't be cleaned, and should be regularly cleaned by hand.
The blocked parts of the grouting pipe removed for cleaning, and then reinstall the recovery grouting.


Vanity, Greed, Lust (including hedonism, a lust for money etc.), Wrath, Gluttony, Envy, Sloth – these seven cardinal sins or "deadly sins" continue to be well-known in Western culture. Some of them we find not only in private, but also in professional contexts. These capital vices are responsible for many other "sins" that we may commit in training and profession.
Plagiarism means stealing someone else's intellectual property. It includes the use of unreferenced text passages, pictures or a combination of both. The discovery of plagiarism in publications may lead to high fines. If plagiarism is discovered in your thesis during the correction process, it must be written anew. If the fraud becomes evident after your graduation, the consequences will be a withdrawal of your academic degree – as the cases of German politician zu Guttenberg & Co. show.
Quotes are mandatory in any academic paper. However, don't overdo it! Turning four books into a fifth cannot be considered work of your own, but rather as summary of individual aspects. This "diligence work" will usually not cause you to fail, but tends to be graded with the worst passing grade – a 4.0.
Mistakes happen. Even after a very diligent correction, the paper may still contain some mistakes. However, if the spelling mistakes become too many and if punctuation is virtually non-existent the best grade a paper can receive is 3.0, no matter the quality of its content. A mass of spelling and grammar mistakes as well as bad diction make it impossible to derive the content of the paper.
High-quality illustrations are the cornerstone of every good presentation. They must not be neglected in term paper or final thesis either. The most common mistakes are: wrong insertion of pictures (copy & paste), distortions, low-resolution and low-contrast pictures including very small fonts, as well as the use of pastel colors that do not stand out much. Pictures like that are not legible and therefore useless.
When starting an academic paper one sets out exploring the subject area with great enthusiasm. We gain a vast volume of new information and wish to include every bit in the paper. We lose track of what is essential and the paper will end up having little to do with the initial subject. Think of the toolbox metaphor: If you want to do any crafts, you need to choose the right tools. A circular saw will not do much good for doweling a screw into a wall! Only the necessary tools are put in the toolbox (literature review) and used later (in the discussion). Every tool that does not contribute to success is useless and therefore a waste of space and time. Always apply a counter-check: Did I actually use all the sources from the introduction and literature review in my discussion?
A lack of specific differentiation of one's own research subject and its placement in the current state of research is a frequent mistake made in academic papers.
Often students neglect to present the current state of research and only describe their own subject (in the focus/out of the focus). If the overall context is missing it looks as if you did not comprehensively familiarize yourself with the subject. The opposite is bad as well: A poorly specified subject raises expectations that your paper's scope will be unable to meet.
Business-related papers consist of a theoretical and a practical part. The challenge is to find the right length for both of them. Dealing intensely with the basic theories often tempts one to exaggerate the theory part's length and shorten the practical part. Ideally, the practical share in a business-related paper should be at approx. 2/3, corresponding to a scope of 50-75%. This should not be undercut. All methodically developed results are considered and evaluated in a discussion. Then the author recommends a course of action giving specific instructions on what to do. If the recommendation is missing or presented insufficiently, the paper is useless.
The practical part of the academic paper must be based on a research method. One common mistake is to choose a method that does not live up to the subject. If the method is correct you have to make sure that your data sample is representative or statistically secured. Students often draw conclusions from data based on much too small sample. This common mistake falsifies your results. For example, when deriving a strategy for a company based on 3-5 expert interviews, applying it would be very risky.
When using data in academic papers, it must be made clear where it comes from. If you collected it yourself, make sure to enclosed it with the paper. If you refer to statistics, you must name its source to make connections and references comprehensible. When clear evidence of the original data is missing, the argumentation based on it is not trustworthy.
There are some rules for choosing suitable literature: Google and Wikipedia articles are no academic sources. Publications of consultancy firms also must be handled with care. Textbooks should not be quoted because they usually are secondary literature. However, they are a good source to identify relevant primary literature on your topic. Peer-reviewed journals and recently published academic articles are a good choice. When quoting, always quote from the original year of publication.
A paper's grading is also influenced by the number of sources. Too few sources being considered will have a negative effect on the quality of the academic paper and its grade. As a reference: Seminar papers should have at least 30 indicative literature quotes, Bachelor's theses at least 60 and Master's theses at least 100.
One or several of these mistakes will always negatively influence the grade of your paper or thesis. Unfortunately, there is no chance for absolution here. If you keep these potential deadly sins in mind, you are well on your way towards writing a proper academic paper.
Have fun and good luck for your next paper or thesis!


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Q: Problem in understanding the process of calculating the rotational inertia As we know, rotational inertia is the mass-equivalent in rotation.

For a discrete body, it is measured as $$I = \sum m_i{r_i}^2 $$ . But when a continuous body comes, $$I = \int r^2 .dm$$ which implies $$I = \phi + C$$ where $\phi$ is the function that gives the change and C is the initial point.

This is what my book writes. Ok, that's the pure definition of indefinite integral. But at what I am confused is that what is $\phi$ dependent on and what is $C$ here. $C$ , in general, gives us the initial condition so as to give us the original function. But what is $C$ representing here?? What is $\phi$ dependent on??
If we use proper limits , then it becomes $$ I = \int_{a}^{b} r^2.dm \implies I = [\phi(b) + C] - [\phi(a) + C]$$ . It is different that $C$ is cancelled here. But it does exist. So what does this $C$ represent in case of calculation of moment of inertia??
Please explain.

A: Unless I have the rest of the book, it is difficult to understand what he meant. But many books have equations that could make not much sense or whose explanations are very unclear (no author is perfect). The only thing you really need to know is what you already seem to know. In an actual calculation you use a definite integral, and the constant $C$ doesn't matter, it always goes away.
My guess is that the author meant that $C = \phi(a)$, because you can write
$$I = \int_{a}^{x} r^2.dm=\phi(x) - \phi(a)$$

A: I think the book authors might have the Huygens-Steiner theorem in mind when saying that.
The theorem says that if the body has moment of inertia $I_{cm}$ with respect to axis crossing its center of mass, then moving the reference axis to another parallel axis gives a new moment of inertia $I'$, related to original one by
$$I'=I_{cm}+md^2,$$
where $d$ is distance between axes. So I suppose the $C$ in your quotation is $md^2$.
I wouldn't think that it really is the constant of integration, because normally moment of inertia is not an indefinite integral, and usually not even a definite one: it's instead a multiple integral.

A: Where are you getting these books? Here it makes absolutely no sense to mention indefinite integrals and I have never seen such confusing statements.
You need definite integral, usually in multiple dimensions (ideally 3D, as we live in 3D space, but you can simplify in some cases). The integration goes over the entire volume of the object, you have $dm=\rho\,dV$ and if the density is constant, it's just a regular integral over volume. No additional constants, nothing. Indefinite integral in multiple dimensions is a weird concept anyway.
However, result depends on selection of your rotational axis (usually you make it go through coordinate origin so $r$ can be the $\sqrt{x^2+y^2}$ if you are looking for the moment of inertia around axis in the direction $z$). If you calculate the momentum of inertia around the center of mass, then you get the  inertia around another axis by using Steiner's law:
$$J=J^* + mr^{*2}$$
if $r^\ast$ is the distance between the axis and the object's center and $J^*$ is the moment of inertia around the mass center. However, this relation has nothing to do with indefinite integrals. It follows immediately from
$$\int(r+r^*)^2dm=\underbrace{\int r^2 dm}_{J^*}+2r^* \underbrace{\int r dm}_{\text{mass center}=0}+r^{*2}\underbrace{\int dm}_m$$
You see that you only get Steiner law if your $r$ coordinate frame is put in the object's center (otherwise the middle term would not be 0).
So... find another book.


Danuta Kot grew up with stories. Her Irish mother and her Polish father kept their own cultures alive with traditional tales they shared with their children. For many years, she worked with young people in Yorkshire who were growing up in the aftermath of sudden industrial decline. She uses this background in her books to explore some of the issues that confront modern, urban society: poverty, alienation and social breakdown, using the contexts of the modern crime novel. She now works as a senior education consultant, work that involves travel to establish education and training in other parts of the world. She is a regular academic speaker at conferences and literary festivals and has appeared on radio and television.
LIFE RUINS will be published by Simon and Schuster in February 2019 as e-book and library edition hardcover, with the trade paperback following in July. The second book in the series, SOMEONE WHO ISN'T ME will be published the following year.