The petition posted in David Rittenhouse Laboratory requests improvement on the recurring maintenance issues.
After a petition surfaced calling on administrators to improve the recurring maintenance issues in David Rittenhouse Laboratory, the University took steps to address the building's poor working conditions. Despite the progress, students do not think these actions will fix the long-term issues they continue to face.
Graduate students sent administrators a petition on Feb. 27 demanding Penn to solve the frequent ceiling leakages and pest infestations in DRL. The petition, which was signed by more than 150 students, faculty, and staff, was sparked by a major ceiling leak last month, which forced 10 graduate students to relocate out of their offices and resulted in damage to 18 rooms. The leak was caused by several abandoned pipes in DRL's cooling system, which are filled with pressurized chilled water that caused them to burst.
Since the petition was sent, Facilities and Real Estate Services removed the frozen pipes that caused the flooding on March 2 to prevent future leaks.
FRES also contacted the entomologist who surveyed the building in April 2017 to request that they do another analysis of pest control in the building. There will be a "multi-year and multi-phase effort" to update the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system in DRL, with some renovations currently underway, Faramarz Vakilizadeh, executive director of FRES Operations & Maintenance, wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Facilities also began doing restorative cleaning on the public areas of DRL, which involves stripping, scrubbing, and waxing hard surfaces and deep cleaning carpets.
Fourth-year physics Ph.D. student Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez, helped write the petition, said she and her fellow petition writers are "generally satisfied with the response," but they remain concerned that there is no short-term solution for the temperature control problem, which will only take effect after they graduate. She also added that the long-term temperature plans for renovating the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system were "vague."
Fourth-year physics Ph.D. student and petition writer Lucas Secco said that plans to improve pest control were also unclear. He mentioned that although the administration said they would get in touch with the entomologist and send the petition writers updates, the grad students have not received any updates almost three weeks after they sent the letter. Third-year physics Ph.D. student Guram Kartvelishvili, who also helped draft the petition, said pest problems remained even though Penn implemented recommendations from the last analysis conducted by the same entomologist.
Physics professor Gene Mele, whose office was flooded in the recent pipe burst, said he remained in his office until March 15, when the replacing of ceiling tiles and carpeting forced him to relocate to another office.
"I got an email here at home saying you ought to come in here, there's a leak, the door is open, you might want to salvage some stuff," Mele said. "When I got in, it was literally raining from the ceiling in my office. There were a number of things that were disposed of."
Mele said he appreciated the short-term emergency response, but the continuous maintenance problems are still an issue.
Fourth-year physics Ph.D. student Anushrut Sharma, who was an author of the petition, said the poor temperature regulation in their offices have also affected their health, leading them to develop colds. Sharma said he measured the humidity levels in his office and found it to be 10 to 15 percent, although normal levels are 30 to 50 percent.
College senior Ali Ghorashi said the short-term response to the petition was adequate, and that there is not much damage left in areas the undergraduate students frequently use, like the Math/Physics/Astronomy Library.
"I think we have to stress long term fixing of DRL, because these sorts of issues recur and then they're always fixed temporarily, but I think the real test will be if these sorts of repairs last long term," Ghorashi said.
Even with the long-term solutions in place, students and faculty said the building is still broken down and should be completely rebuilt.
Gonzalez said although she wants DRL to be renovated, she understands the logistics could be expensive and complicated because labs would have to be relocated. College senior Abigail Lee also said she thinks the best fix is for DRL "to be torn down and rebuilt."
Physics graduate group chair and professor Joshua Klein said an architect was commissioned in 2013 to provide a plan and estimated cost of completely renovating the building. The option was not pursued, however, due to budget constraints.
The petition writers and professors were worried the flooding damage would impact the prospective physics graduate student Visit Day, which took place on March 11. Despite facilities working to remove the frozen pipes and start restorative cleaning before Visit Day, prospective students still mentioned the poor building conditions during their visit.
Klein said prospective students brought up the building conditions on Visit Day, but said he told them that was not a highlight of the physics program.
"I can't say that any one student is going to say I'm not coming to your program because the building is ugly," Klein said, "But it does set a tone — if you walk around the building and it looks like an unattractive place to work, other things don't necessarily look so good either."
Mele, who serves on the graduate admissions committee, said he spoke to Klein suggesting that Visit Day should be canceled so the prospective graduate students would not see the remnants of the flooding in DRL.


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Freiburg 2020
Last Friday's Badische Zeitung had the obituary of a good friend. R.I.P. He was two years younger than me. This made me very sad, although his death reminded me that I am still living in this world. How lucky I am.
The mayor's letterhead according to former Mayor Otto Winterer's Maxime,
"A village has roofs, but a town sports steeples."
Then I received a letter from Freiburg's mayor. Here is the first paragraph translated:
Dear Dr. Höfert,
Gingerbread, cookies, fir branches, and the colorful hustle and bustle everywhere - Christmas is approaching with great strides. This is an appropriate occasion, too, to say thank you.
Many thanks for the good and trusting cooperation. Together, we have again achieved a great deal in a wide variety of areas in 2019. I am incredibly grateful for this and would be delighted if, after the well-deserved Christmas break, we could pick up in the New Year with great enthusiasm where we left off.
Well, well, Mr. Martin Horn I understood your broad hint and, health permitting, you can count on me for those small achievements throughout the jubilee year.
Freiburg 2020 is ante portas, and I am looking forward particularly to the Partnerschaftsmarkt during the festival week on July 10 and 11. From our sister city, Madison, we are expecting a strong delegation with whom we would like to celebrate the city's 900th anniversary. My help is guaranteed.
Enjoy the Christmas tree. I took the photo on November 21, when I was in Paris visiting the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci in the Louvre. Stay tuned for the blog to come.
I wish all my friends and readers a Merry Christmas and a Healthy* New Year.
*At my age, I have no apologies for this obvious Germanism
A Mystery Nearly Solved
In a previous blog, I presented the following mysterious poster:
Near the end of my deliberations, I wrote: Unfortunately, the poster does not show a historical event. Nevertheless, it makes me dream about some Freiburgers who - following the occupation of their city on July 7, 1849, by Prussian troops - fled and eventually embarked for the States on a ship of the Federal Navy flying the Federal Insignia and Freiburg's flag with St. George's Cross too.
What I wrote was fake news for, fortunately, the poster shows a historical moment of German-American history.
The poster was printed in 1983, the year when both countries celebrated the 300th anniversary of the German Mayflower.
The galleon you see on the poster was the Concord that set sail in Rotterdam on July 6, 1683, under the command of Captain William Jeffries and arrived at Philadelphia happily on October 6. Onboard there were 13 families from Krefeld on the Lower Rhine of Quaker and Mennonite faiths. Initially, the families probably moved to Dutch-controlled Krefeld due to religious persecution in Germany. They continued from there to America, where this first significant group of German settlers founded Germantown.
In 1983 President Reagan proclaimed October 6, as "German-American Day."
Here is an additional text from Wikipedia describing what happened in Germantown a few years later: In 1688, five years after its founding, Germantown became the birthplace of the anti-slavery movement in America. Pastorius, Gerret Hendericks, Derick Updegraeff, and Abraham Updengraef gathered at Thones Kunders's house and wrote a two-page condemnation of slavery and sent it to the governing bodies of their Quaker church, the Society of Friends. The petition was mainly based upon the Bible's Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Though the Quaker establishment took no immediate action, the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was a clear and forceful argument against slavery and initiated the process of banning slavery in the Society of Friends (1776) and Pennsylvania (1780).
Francis Daniel Pastorius is also the author of the poem printed on the poster.
In 1983 the American and the German postal services jointly issued commemorative stamps showing the Concord on the high seas. As on the poster, the ship has two flags: St.George's Cross indicates that Concord was an English ship. As far as the German flag is concerned, the anachronism is obvious.
Original German navy flag around 1850
seen at Dresden's German Army Museum
The flag flown is that of the German navy of 1848, showing black-red-gold and the imperial eagle. Already in 1853, the German navy was dissolved due to financial problems. There was a lack of interest by the mostly inner-German states.
In the meantime, I found an original poster on American eBay and ordered it. This does, however, not solve the problem of the copyright that we need when the Freiburg-Madison-Gesellschaft would like to use it for its contribution "Auswandererlieder" to the Freiburg 2020 jubilee. Can anyone of my readers locate the author of the poster, F. Dornstaedter?
Are Schools Too Dumb for Our Kids?
This was the provocative title of a lecture at Freiburg's university in the series Education Today. The speaker was Jürgen Kaube, co-editor of Germany's renowned newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine.
Everybody knows and talks about education because we all went to school, have our personal experience, ideas, proposals, and criticism.
Indeed, people were always dissatisfied with education like Professor Higgins when judging on Eliza Doolittle's quality of speech,
"This is what the British population,
Calls an elementary education."
Before the musical "My Fair Lady" was even conceived, Red Baron learned about British education. We kids were simply amused when our English teacher told us about the importance of the three "Rs" in the UK, "Reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic." We thought the alliterated "Rs" were just funny.
Much earlier Wilhelm Busch wrote in his cartoon Max und Moritz:
Also lautet ein Beschluss:
Daß der Mensch was lernen muss.
Nicht allein das Abc
Bringt den Menschen in die Höh';
Nicht allein in Schreiben, Lesen
Übt sich ein vernünftig Wesen;
Nicht allein in Rechnungssachen
Soll der Mensch sich Mühe machen;
Sondern auch der Weisheit Lehren
Muß man mit Vergnügen hören. An old saw runs somewhat so:
Man must learn while here below.
Not alone the A, B, C,
Raises man in dignity;
Not alone in reading, writing,
Reason finds a work inviting;
Not alone to solve the double
Rule of Three shall man take trouble;
But must hear with pleasure Sages
Teach the wisdom of the ages.
Daß dies mit Verstand geschah,
War Herr Lehrer Lämpel da. Of this wisdom an example
To the world was Master Lämpel.
Dr. Kaube started his lecture with a laconic remark, "Most people forget most of it," referring to knowledge acquired in school.
He continued insisting that nothing has changed concerning priorities. Primary education should concentrate on Kulturtechniken (cultural techniques), i.e., nothing else than the three fundamental "Rs."
He warned: Do not try to treat kids as adults conveying sciences to them but rather strengthen their abilities. What is the use of asking children to write about the African elephant when they don't even know how to spell elephant? Don't teach "early English" in the third grade when children do not master their German mother tongue.
The second aim of schooling is to make children think. On which one of my teachers used to say when a classmate started his answer with, "I think*...", "You should not think. Leave the thinking to the horses. They have bigger brains than you. Reflect!"
*Frequently understood in German and deliberately interpreted here in the sense of, "I think I'll have another beer."
Although the art of reflection requires some knowledge, it needs above all basic understanding, e.g., that of cause and effect.
There is a dilemma. While today's parents propose a whole catalog of skills schools should convey to their children, the latter instead demand that schooling must not disturb.
Two weeks before in his lecture," What is good education today?" the president of the German Teachers Association, Heinz-Peter Meidinger, showed the above slide, "What one still should and could teach in school."
I spare you the translation into English because you may have your own wish list. I only ask the question," What is the role of the Elternhaus (parental care) in all this?"
Freiburg Archaeology
Next year's anniversary is already casting its shadow. On November 23, the exhibition 900 Years of Life in the City opened in Freiburg's Augustinermuseum.
Red Baron participated in a special guided tour by one of the curators of the exhibition, Dr. Bertram Jenisch, the man who dug out quite a bit of the exposed objects.
Medieval Freiburg, as seen from the duke's castle on Schlossberg.
The river Dreisam on the left is in the south and
the still existing industrial channel runs near to the city wall.
Here is more than an artist's view of Freiburg around 1150. With Freiburg being the city that is best archeologically explored in Baden-Württemberg, the picture is based on actual findings. In the middle of the fortified place is the parish church in Romanesque style.
A closer look at the original parish church surrounded by the municipal graveyard in winter. When the construction of the Minster church started around 1200, the old building was removed in stages with the new construction progressing so that worship was always assured.
The building of the city wall was a Herculean task. In August 2018, Dr. Jenisch gave a talk at the Museumsgesellschaft.
Coming back to the long shot, the still existing Salzstraße is seen on the left starting at the Schwabentor, the gate to Swabia, from where salt, one of the most important trading goods of the Middle Ages, was imported passing along Salt Street.
Starting at St. Martin's gate, the Große Gass running south to north and west of the parish church crosses Salzstraße at the Fischbrunnen - today Bertoldsbrunnen. Broad Street was Freiburg's market place, so the fish basin at the fountain where live fish were kept for sale came in handy. In the Middle Ages, markets were the most important outlets for food and other goods like clothing and tools.
Double drinking cup made of rock crystal, gold-plated silver,
and enamel produced in Freiburg or Basel 1487
Already early, the water of the fast-flowing Dreisam not only was used to feed Freiburg's Bächle (brooklets, see below) but channeled for the operation of mills and gem cutting and polishing facilities located between the city wall and the river.
Rosary (15th to 17th century) made in Freiburg.
The beads consist of cut and polished Bohnerzjaspis, i.e.,
silicified beechwood mined, e.g., at Auggen near Freiburg
The picture illustrates some activities extra muros along the industrial channel. In the background, the city wall and the church of the Augustinian Monastery.
This brings us to the mystery and controversy about a re-leveling of Freiburg that is still not solved.
Note the double-window of the third house from the right on the second floor.
Here is a picture of Salzstraße around 1150. Two-story buildings partly timber-framed and with nearly flat shingle roofs border the south side of the street. These houses had basements dug into a layer of gravel.
Embrasure of narrow group windows.
They were beveled towards the outside
to improve the incidence of daylight.
Already Freiburg's precursor, an initial settlement of merchants and craftsmen below the Schlossberg, was built on a cone of gravel running downhill into the plain. The natural gradient of the deposits made the construction of artificial courses of water that were taken upstream from the Dreisam river easy. The talus of gravel on which the city stands actually has a thickness of up to 18 meters.
Around the year 1170, some street levels in the city were filled with layers of gravel and raised by up to three meters. Some experts assume that this elaborate construction project was aimed to raise the level of the system of Bächle as a whole, creating a sufficient gradient so that the emerging western suburbs could be supplied with surface water too. This assumption is bitterly contested by other experts, although without providing an alternative explanation.
On Salzstraße around 1200, houses show saddle roofs.
Building one and two from the right have merged
while the double-window of the third building is now on the ground floor.
Note the Bächle running in the street.
Houses from the first half of the 12th century aligned to a low street level on Salzstrasse suddenly had their entrance doors on the second floor for the benefit of two superimposed basements.
New buildings after 1175 were aligned to the higher street level. In fact, the number of new buildings at that time exceeds the number expected due to the natural growth of the city, presumably also because the elevation was used to replace wooden with stone buildings showing saddle roofs.
The interior of the Augustiner church is now a part of Freiburg's Augustinermuseum.
The Bächle is still running in the street.
In 1278 Count Egino II allocated a narrow plot of land between the salt road and the city wall to the ordo Sancti Augustini, the Augustinian hermits. For their monastery and church, at least eight houses and courtyards were demolished, the foundations of which were uncovered during the renovation of the Augustinermuseum in 2004. This is the basis of the above picture.
Magnificent fountain column with lion chapter of the von Andlau family
Because in Freiburg, the groundwater level is about 18 meters deep, and the water of the Bächle is not suitable for human consumption, the drinking water supply was channeled from the nearby mountains using wooden pipes. Drinking water was available at public wells, although wealthy people had outlets of their own.
Archaeology in Freiburg is not limited to the Middle Ages. The air raid on November 27, 1944, destroying most of the old city left a heap of ruins behind.
The content of a basement was dug up when a new building was constructed at the site of a destroyed house.
Maximilianus, the Art of the Emperor
On the occasion of Maximilian's 500th death anniversary in 2019, Freiburg's Alemannisches Institute had organized a three-day excursion to the exhibition with the above title at Tirol Castle in South Tyrol followed by a visit of Innsbruck where the emperor's (empty) tomb is located.
Approaching Tirol Castle from below
Traffic lights even for pedestrians ...
... and the reason why.
In olden times access by a bridge over a ditch
Tirol Castle in 1845
His profile showing the way to the exhibition
A tournament with Maximilian winning.
The exhibition at Tirol Castle showed original graphics, paintings, and printings glorifying the last knight as he was called for his love for knight tournaments.
The well-known woodcut by Dürer
Maximilian on horseback
During all his life, Maximilian strived in building up his memory for the posterity, "Wer ime (= sich) im leben kain gedechtnus macht, der hat nach seinem tod kain gedechtnus, und demselben menschen wird mit dem glockendon vergessen. (Who does not look after his memory in life has no memory after his death, and the same person is forgotten with the bell tone)." These are the final words of his autobiographic work Weißkunig (White King).
The White King dictates to four scribes from his life
and has a war campaign painted.
Here follows Maximilian's logical insight, "Darum wird das Geld, das ich auf Gedächtnis ausgebe, nicht verloren (Therefore the money that I spend on memory is not lost)." This is a bold statement considering that Maximilian was bankrupt during his whole life. Only loans by the Fugger clan kept him aloft who, in turn, got hold of Maximilian's assets.
Maximilian's triumphal procession
Maximilian's great triumph cart
The Burgundy wedding with Maria
Cart with statues of ancestors:
Rudolf I, Stephan of Hungary, Clovis I, and ´Charlemagne
Exotic people and animals
The bootmaker comes in handy at the end of the triumphal procession.
Maximilian's triumphal arch
A scene from the triumphal arch:
He then moved to the Netherlands to help the English king.
Soon they gathered a large army strangling the French.
Its army laid down, Terrauan was destroyed, and Tornay surrendered.
Getting kids interested in history:
Max was really cool! What a life he had!
He tried to capture it with his awesome corporate publishing
by woodcuts and copper engravings.
Make your selfie with Max, post it to your friends.
His epic profile is a brand that lets you be a self-promoter too.
When Maximilian died at Wels Castle in 1519, there was not even enough money to finance his funeral, as the abundant Tyrolean silver and copper mines were pledged to the Fuggers: Everything that carried money has been transferred. Only borrowed money enabled a modest burial in Wiener Neustadt.
Our group slept at Goldrain Castle.
The most famous Golden Dachl,
the initial residence of the Habsburgs in Innsbruck
Visiting the Hofburg with the dome of Innsbruck's cathedral in the background
A cross above Innsbruck's cathedral
To the left: Cafe Sacher. In the background, the cupola of the Hofkirche.
Well deserved: Sachertorte and Einspänner. This is a coffee covered with whipped cream.
The cream insulates the surface of the coffee, keeping it hot.
It is practiced by the Fiakers (the drivers of the one horse-drawn cabs in Vienna)
to keep the coffee hot when it was delivered from the cafés to their cabs.
At Sacher, being observed ©PBöhm.
The Hofkirche
Maximilian had planned to decorate his tomb with 40 statues cast in bronze, but only 28 were finished. The figure captions below are the copied inscriptions at the base of those statues.
Maximilian's ancestors
The Habsburgs started off when, in 1273 Rudolf I was elected German king. In 1291 his son Albrecht (Albert) followed. He was assassinated in 1298, the year when the House of Luxemburg took over providing the German kings. But when Emperor Sigismund, the last male member of the House of Luxembourg, died, he left only one daughter. She was married to a Habsburg, Albert, who became German King Albrecht II from 1438 to 1439. In 1440 the electors chose as successor Albert's cousin Frederick - and Maximilian's father - who ruled until 1493. Contrary to Maximilian Frederick III was called the Reichserzschlafmütze (arch-sleepyhead of the empire)
Kaiser Rudolf Graf v Habsburg
Kunig Albrecht der Erst Herczog
zu Osterreich (son of Rudolf)
Albrecht (II) von Osterreich
Romischer Hugerischer und
Bechaimischer Kuning Laslau Vater
Fridericus Tercius Imperator Divi
Imperator Maximiliani Pater
(father of Maximilian)
Maximilian's wives
They write that Maximilian had truly loved his first wife, Maria of Burgundy and that he married his second wife, Bianca Sforza, because of her dowry of 400,000 ducats.
Still, Maximilian kept incurring debts also during the imperial diet held in Freiburg in 1498. When Maximilian took leave from the city, he left Bianca behind as a pledge. She had to stay in Freiburg for some time until at least part of Maximilian's debts incurred during the Reichstag had been paid. Twenty years later, financial claims of over 20,000 guilders were still outstanding. Read more about Maximilian and his love for Freiburg in German.
Maria vun Burgund Kunigin
Frau Maria Blanka Ko Kunigin MDXX
The Burgundy Heritage
Ruling Burgundy acquired by marriage was important for the Habsburgs, also given French claims.
Duke Philip the Good had led Burgundy to bloom, but his son Charles the Bold wanted even more. So he went to war against the rest of the world. On 2 March 1476, Charles lost his hat in the Battle of Grausen (Grandson) against the Swiss Confederates and lost his estate in the same year on 22 June at Murten (Morat) against an alliance of Swiss, Lorraine, and Austrian troops.
That's not all, because, in the following year in one last show of strength when the Duke put all his eggs in one basket, he eventually lost his blood in the Battle of Nancy. Charles fate rimes in German: He successively lost his Hut, Gut, and Blut. He blew it all. Is this the reason that his statue is a head smaller than the others? Read about the history of Burgundy in German.
Philipp Herzog v. Burgund d. Gütige
Karl Herzag zu Burgund zu Brabant
zu Geldern Gave zu Flandern
There are two more historical spoliae inside Innsbruck's Hofkirche.
Tomb of Andreas Hofer,
a Tyrolean freedom fighter against Napoleon and his allied Bavarians
Commemorating the conversion of Queen Christina of Sweden to Catholicism.
Although the Hofkirche is run by the Franciscans,
this surely must have been a Jesuit ploy or even plot.

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Geek Girl Features October 28, 2011 Reviews
Opening against the "found footage" phenomenon that is "Paranormal Activity 3," is the swashbuckling action movie "The Three Musketeers." Hardly the first attempt at making the Alexander Dumas' novel into a movie, the film tells of young d'Artagnan, played by Logan Lerman, and his aspiration to join the Musketeers.
Once reaching Paris, he falls into the company of three disgraced Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. When faced with the threat of war constructed at the hands of the Cardinal Richelieu, played by Academy Award-winning actor Christoph Waltz, the three down on their luck warriors must stand up once again for the good of France, and Europe.
Orlando Bloom, in a departure from his normal good guy role, plays the villainous, and comical, Duke of Buckingham, who manages to steal some very important blueprints from the Musketeers with the help of double agent Lady de Winter, (played by Milla Jovovich, fiancée of the film's director, Paul W.S. Anderson). Together Buckingham and de Winter create a war machine that vies for control of power in Europe.
The plan to start a war encompassing Europe is put into place, and the Musketeers and d'Artagnan must race to stop the plan before a very important date. The King is fairly young during this period and insecure in his marriage, and the threesome attempt to use this to their advantage, by planting an item to arouse suspicion of the Queen's behavior.
The new adaptation of the classic book is more modern and more eyecatching than before.
The Musketeers succeed in saving the day, as well as d'Artagnan getting the girl. The movie's effects are terrific, with decent use of CGI and the 3D conversion. The acting is great, and the story is simple, with a few deviations from all the other adaptations of the novel.
It has a modern feel to it, with a steampunk aspect and modern language thrown in, as well as the utilization of slow motion during some of the fight scenes, reminiscent of the action sequences of "Sherlock Holmes" and "Resident Evil" (the latter of which Anderson also directed).
This movie is simple fun; reminiscent of a summer movie. It wasn't made to stick with the viewer, but to be a fun ride for the moment, and decent for most ages to view.
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Recognition for Lambeth's noise service
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Lambeth council's revamped noise service has been Highly Commended at The John Connell Awards 2019 which were held at the Palace of Westminster.
(left to right) Lambeth's Public Protection Officer Keith Badrick, Public Protection Officer Natalie Ariyo and Principal Public Protection Officer Michael Anderson receiving their award from Defra's Director-General Sonia Phippard.
The awards on October 23 were hosted by Colonel Bob Stewart DSO MP and presented by Sonia Phippard CBE, Defra's Director-General. Members of Lambeth council's public protection team were on hand to collect the award.
Lambeth council launched an improved noise nuisance service in September last year following a review of existing services.
Word from cabinet
Cllr Mohammed Seedat, Cabinet Member for Community Safety, said; "This council is committed to taking tough action on persistent anti-social behaviour and noise nuisance.
"Our revamped service is providing stronger enforcement and swifter responses for residents whose quality of life is diminished by noise nuisance, and I am delighted that this commendation recognises the efforts we have put in."
The awards are named after John Connell OBE, who lobbied the Noise Abatement Act through Parliament in 1960 when noise became a statutory nuisance in the UK for the first time. The awards acknowledge the importance of the quality of sound in our lives, and champion vital advances in reducing the negative impact of unnecessary noise for the public benefit.
The Highly Commended John Connell Local Authority Award handed to Lambeth Council for 'it's innovative and dynamic out of hours noise service' follows Lambeth's Public Protection Team developing a new operating model for dealing with noise nuisance.
Intelligence-led
The approach focusses on service users' experience based on customer insight and demand data, making it easier and faster for residents to log complaints and get resolutions. Lambeth's new out-of-hours noise service uses proactive intelligence-led interventions.
Residents receive a call-back within 30 minutes of logging their complaint and a single point of contact. While the team's work mainly aims to tackle noise nuisance, officers also now work to identify and investigate issues around Anti-Social-Behaviour, environmental crime and licensing.
Gloria Elliott, Noise Abatement Society Chief Executive, said: "NAS congratulates Lambeth Council for introducing this dynamic out of hours noise service for its community, a great example for other Councils to follow."


If the stitching is in the middle of the pages as on my scrapbook layout below "Some Creatures Are So Sweet," I use a needle to pull the threads to the back side and either tie off or cover with tape.
If the stitching runs to the end of the paper, I pull the threads taut on the reverse side and add either a dimensional or usually a photo split. Photo splits are made by Scotch. I buy mine at Walmart and use frequently for adhesive. They are relatively cheap and easy to control the application. The permanent ones hold well. Plus because they have a peel off layer, you can apply a photo split and then peel and stick when you ready to finish your layer which is perfect for dealing with loose threads! You have the added bonus of already having adhesive on the back of whatever you are working on. Sometimes the basic stuff is really the best.
Remember tomorrow is Veteran's Day in the US. It is a great opportunity to thank a veteran for their service to the country.
Ingredients: DSP: Western Sky by Stampin' Up!


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This week, Jason Inman sits down and reviews every comic released by Image Comics.
As some who likes Bedlam, I felt I had to comment. As a standalone issue, the reader isn't given enough background. The main character is the reformed Madder Red, who was the Joker of Bedlam. The event at the start of the book was just one of many atrocities.
The main shtick is that he is trying to be a normal person now, but has started helping the police catch other serial killers.
Also, all of these Image books would benefit from a summary page.
Agreed. If I knew more about Bedlam, I probably would have liked it more. But since I had no idea what was going on, I couldn't like it.
No problem. They've been great to watch! I have to watch them twice, once where I put my fingers in my ears and hum whenever you review a book I haven't read yet and then a second time when I've finished all my reading!
Future idea, Valiant. In order to do it you should read a whole month.


War Memorial called 'The Thinking Soldier'.
Broughton's War Memorial stands on the corner of High Street and Scawby Road, on land that was once part of the Red Lion. The owners "The Hull Brewery Co." gave the land to the village in 1924.
The Memorial was unveiled on Sunday 22nd of October 1923, by the Earl of Yarborough. It was paid for by money collected from the people of Broughton , who wanted to remember their dead from the first world war.


Julie Made This: What day is it again?
I worked through this weekend, upgrading a critical system and staying camped out at my desk for an ungodly number of hours. It was a fraught couple of days, with minor glitches getting in the way of the upgrade, which itself ran through pretty much as planned, but those glitches meant I lost hours sorting them out. So all in all, the weekend was long, stressful and incredibly tiring... The sort of tiring where at the end of the day I can barely string two words together in a coherent fashion. Not good.
I'm reliably informed that today is a Tuesday but to be honest I'm beginning to lose track of days. Part of my thinks it is a Wednesday, but I've been warned that Friday could be a long time coming and I have a whole lot more work to get through before then.
Having been at the office over the weekend and returning home in a poor state for anything more than eating and sleeping, has meant I'm not really progressing anything at the moment.
But... I have been slowly cracking on with my first attempt at a seamed knitted garment, a simple waistcoat (Ravelry Link) from 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders.
Here it is as of last Monday, just so you can see what the fabric looks like.
This waistcoat is a very simple knit, using something called a mistake rib, which is basically a 2x2 rib knit on an odd number of stitches. It is very easy and doesn't require much thought, although I have from time to time found myself knitting a proper 2x2 rib as my attention wonders.
I finished the knitting part of this on Sunday night and last night, I bravely tackled the side seams using matress stitch. Now, I've used matress stitch before but never on knitted fabric and I thought I did a fairly good job. When I held it up I couldn't see the join unless I used my fingers to feel for it by squeezing the seam, which to me was pretty much the idea. Picture a very happy me.
Until I tried the sewn waistcoat on, at which point it appeared to be far too small for me.
I'm considering this a learning experience.
No finished pictures as of yet, because I'm concentrating on trying to sort it out rather than waiting for good light and photo opportunities.
Sounds like you need some small friends who would appreciate a gift that if your crochet doesn't solve the problem.
Sizing knitwear seems to be a difficult task with pattern books not really getting it right, although off the peg cloths seem to have just as many problems with sizes.


CTLGroup was retained to evaluate structural steel plate material and connections during construction while structural steel tubular members were erected to support the scoreboard at the north end of the stadium. While inserting bolts into the end plate/gusset plate connection, the end plate fractured in a brittle fashion between the bolt hole and the edge of the plate. Subsequently, a second fractured plate was discovered and removed from the structure.
Based on conversations with key personnel, CTLGroup performed a cursory review of the erection sequence and procedures being used by the supply firm at the time the plate fractured. CTLGroup determined that the erection procedures being used were commonly accepted methods.
Our investigation indicated that the fractures occurred during a common erection procedure performed at low temperatures due to the presence of the inclusions. Additional testing was recommended to further define the behavior of the plate material under the service conditions.
Soldier Field is the oldest standing NFL stadium in the country, opening in 1924 with a capacity of 45,000.


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Saint-Valérien-de-Milton, Quebec (Canada)
Les Maskoutains, Montérégie
Last modified: 2020-07-18 by rob raeside
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image by Olivier Touzeau, 7 June 2020
Montérégie Administrative Region
Les Maskoutains
Saint-Valérien-de-Milton (1,800 inhabitants, 107.7 km²)
Olivier Touzeau, 7 June 2020
White flag with coat of arms and name below (pictures taken in 2011, 2016, 2018)
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"Vert a river argent in bend charged with a wheel azure surrounded in base by a wheat garb or tied azure in chief by a tree leafed or trunked and slipped sable. A chief or charged with two keys sable in saltire headed dexter with a fleur-de-lis azure sinister with an English rose gules. The shield supported with two branches each composed of four fleurs-de-lis azure on two maple leaves gules. Beneath the shield a scroll or inscribed with the motto "Fierté et prospérité".
The river argent represents river Noire, which was for the pioneers both an obstacle and the first industries' power. The wheel symbolizes the first mills and the municipality's present industrial increase.
Wheat recalls the work of the first colonists who cleared the land and sown crops. It evokes the parish's agricultural orientation through its numerous and diverse crops and animal farms. The tree represents the ancestors' first source of income: the commerce of Canadian hemlock bark, potash, timberwood, and maple sugar. It symbolizes the municipality's family that has been blossoming for more than 150 years.
The fleur-de-lis-headed key represents the church government, while the fleur-delis symbolizing France recalls the Roman Catholic religion and the French language. The rose-headed key represents the municipality established by the English colonial authorities. The crossed key represent the respective power of the two entities that act together with the citizens to carry on work started in the past.
The fleurs-de-lis, the emblem of the French monarchy, symbolize Quebec people, while the maple leaves evoke Canada.
https://grandquebec.com/armoiries-blasons/armoiries-st-valerien/
Histoire du Québec
Ivan Sache, 11 June 2020


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Milton Froehlich
Published June 13, 2021 11:14 PM
March 4, 1934 - Jan. 25, 2021
ANNANDALE, Minn. - Milton Froehlich, 86, Annandale, Minn., died Monday, Jan. 25, in Annandale Care Center.
Visitation will be from 10:30-11:30 a.m., followed by memorial services at 11:30 a.m., Saturday, June 26, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Annandale. The Rev. David Nelson will officiate. The service will be live-streamed on Dingmann Funeral Home's website. A celebration of life will follow the service at Cal and Denise Froehlich's home. Burial will be 2 p.m. Sunday, June 27, in Bethel Cemetery in Willmar, Minn.
Arrangements by Dingmann Funeral Care.
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