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LUDINGTON, Mich. – A pilot who volunteered to fly a man with cancer, his wife and a doctor to the Mayo Clinic on Friday was rescued by boaters in Lake Michigan hours after his small plane crashed into the water, authorities said. The search for a co-pilot and the three passengers was ongoing.
U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Brandon Blackwell said Jerry Freed of Alma was rescued hours after the plane lost power and crashed a few miles off the coast of Ludington. He was in good condition at a local hospital.
An air and marine search continued for co-pilot Earl Davidson, Alma schools' superintendent Don Pavlik, his wife, Irene, and Dr. James Hall.
Don Pavlik was diagnosed earlier this year with cancer of the esophagus and Freed and Davidson had volunteered to take to the Rochester, Minn., medical center, Costanzo said. Hall, he said, came along because he wanted to help his ailing friend.
Freed's wife, Carol, told The Associated Press earlier Friday that her husband and Davidson regularly flew people to Mayo on a volunteer basis. The Freeds owned the plane.
The plane left Alma, about 150 miles northwest of Detroit, Friday morning. It went down shortly after 10 a.m. a few miles off the shore the resort town on Michigan's west coast.
Randall Schmidt of Park Ridge, Ill., who was on his boat with his wife, Kristin Berg, said he heard a marine radio call about the plane going down nearby.
"We had made one pass south, one pass north and we were about to turn back south when my wife … saw a man in a yellow inflatable lifejacket close to our boat," Schmidt told the Ludington Daily News Friday.
Schmidt said Berg threw the life ring to Jerry Freed and brought him into their boat to wait for the local sheriff's department marine unit.
"They can survive for a while. There's always a chance to make rescues," he said.
Reached early Friday afternoon at Davidson's home, his stepson, Zach Everett, declined to talk about the crash until the family had information confirmed by the Coast Guard. The telephone rang unanswered later Friday.
About 10 minutes before the plane went down, the pilot reported a loss of power to an air traffic controller at the Minneapolis Center, the Federal Aviation Authority said. At the time, it was overcast with light winds and visibility of about 10 miles, the National Weather Service said.
A map of the plane's flight path from flightaware.com suggests problems developed about one-third of the way into the flight when the westbound plane doubled back over Lake Michigan. It then made a steep decline in altitude near Ludington.
"A lot of people have been coming out to see what's been going on," Locke said.
Friday's crash wasn't the first time a medical flight has plummeted in Lake Michigan. A Survival Flight plane carrying donor organs for a double lung transplant operation crashed in June 2007 into the lake near Milwaukee on its way to the University of Michigan Health System hospital in Ann Arbor. All six people on board the Cessna 550 Citation were killed.
Associated Press writers Corey Williams and Jeff Karoub in Detroit contributed to this report.


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Termination recommended for Marco Island 'Brady cop' due to inability to perform duties
Marco Island Police Chief Al Schettino has recommended terminating an officer currently on the state attorney's Brady List.
Termination recommended for Marco Island 'Brady cop' due to inability to perform duties Marco Island Police Chief Al Schettino has recommended terminating an officer currently on the state attorney's Brady List. Check out this story on marconews.com: https://www.marconews.com/story/news/2019/03/25/termination-recommended-marco-island-brady-cop/3266382002/
Devan Patel, Marco Eagle Published 1:34 p.m. ET March 25, 2019 | Updated 8:44 a.m. ET March 28, 2019
A Marco Island police officer whose credibility is so tarnished that the local state attorney's office refuses to call him as a witness is facing termination due to his inability to perform the duties of the job.
A pre-determination hearing for Officer Tige Thompson was held Tuesday after originally being slated for March 22.
In a memo to Thompson dated March 18, Police Chief Al Schettino advised Thompson that he was tasked by City Manager David Harden to determine if his inability to testify rendered him unfit for duty. Upon reviewing Thompson's history and the qualifications of the position, Schettino recommended his disqualification.
"Unfortunately, your designation by the SAO as someone whose credibility is so compromised that its prosecutor's office refuses to use you has a witness for any of its cases has rendered you unable to fully and faithfully perform the duties of the position," Schettino wrote.
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Thompson's credibility as a witness has been in question since 2011 when he was found to have provided inconsistent and untruthful testimony in a DUI with property damage case that resulted in the state attorney's office having to drop the charges.
As a result, the state attorney's office placed Thompson on its do-not-subpoena list, sometimes referred to as a 'Brady list,' which tracks officers with a history of dishonesty or who can be impeached if called as a witness.
The "Brady List" stems from the Supreme Court's 1963 decision in the case Brady v. Maryland, which established that prosecutors were required to disclose any exculpatory evidence, including evidence that would impeach a witness.
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On Nov. 25, 2013, Assistant State Attorney Richard Montecalvo sent a letter to then-Chief Don Hunter in which it was stated that "we can longer utilize Officer Thompson as a witness for the prosecution of criminal cases."
Montecalvo cited Thompson's dismissal from the Collier County Sheriff's Office as well as his testimony in the DUI case, where other police officers contradicted Thompson's account.
Thompson was taken off patrol and reassigned to investigations briefly but returned to patrol in 2015 even though Montecalvo wrote that the State Attorney's Office's position remained unchanged.
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While the Marco Island Police Department initiated an internal affairs investigation into Thompson's conduct that found he violated three policies involving integrity, truthfulness and non-compliance with directives, it could not impose discipline due to the internal affairs case surpassing the 180-day window to impose discipline after misconduct is alleged.
Once the internal affairs investigation was complete, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement also opened a perjury case into Thompson.
Perjury or making false statements are among the offenses that can result in suspension or revocation of credentialing due to violating the standards of professional compliance.
Despite Thompson's false statements, FDLE "no caused" the perjury case last year.
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In comments entered in its automated training management system, the investigator assigned to the case noted that evidence containing comments of the 911 caller reporting the alleged DUI could not be located and there was no GPS data to ascertain Thompson's exact position. The FDLE case file also noted Thompson was not interviewed as part of the internal affairs investigation.
Since Thompson returned to patrol in 2015, records show he was involved in 12 felony, 30 misdemeanor and 67 criminal traffic cases, none of which have gone to trial.
With the exception of about one-third of cases avoiding prosecution due to a pretrial diversion or early intervention program, the remaining cases have primarily not been prosecuted due to insufficient evidence to prove the charge beyond a reasonable doubt.
Asked to explain why Thompson was on patrol despite his inclusion on the Brady List, Harden wrote in a Feb. 19 email to the Eagle that "Chief Schettino removed him from investigations out of concern that every case he touched would be tainted. Chief Schettino placed Officer Thompson back in road patrol because, in his opinion, he did not have anywhere else to place him."
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Reporting by the Eagle on Thompson's involvement in recent high profile cases, including one where the state attorney's office did not prosecute a man who barricaded himself in his home with a cache of weapons and allegedly made threats against officers, ultimately led to a reevaluation of this employment as well as the city placing Thompson on administrative leave last month.
"The Department has no control over the SAO's Brady List, but the SAO's determination has nevertheless fatally undermined your ability to perform your job," Schettino wrote. "The reason being, the SAO has stated that you cannot testify. By extension, an officer who cannot be counted on to testify also cannot be counted on to make arrests, investigate cases, or carry out any other police functions that might lead to being a witness."
After the meeting was held, Harden advised the Eagle that he would take several days to make his decision. Until that decision is made, Thompson will remain on administrative leave.
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Publication in languages:
English: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=586
Russian: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=608
The Norwegian Nobel Committee informed the GHA President in a letter dated April 8, 2013 on the recognition of GHA as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 for the collective book The ABC of Harmony on the basis of the respective nominations.
Copies of this letter, as well as 11 nominations are presented: four in Russian on the specified page and 7 below in English.
Under the Nobel Committee's conditions, the publication of nominations is not recommended before the announcement of the Prize recipient on October 11. Therefore, our nominations were published on November 27, 2013.
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Subject: Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 of the Global Harmony Association on behalf of the co-authors international group (76 co-authors from 26 countries) of the book: The ABC of Harmony for World Peace, Harmonious Civilization and Tetranet Thinking, Global Textbook, by Dr. Leo Semashko, Project Manager, Editor in Chief and GHA 75 coauthors from26 countries (first published in English in India, New Delhi, Doosra Mat Prakashan, 2012, 334 pages, ISBN – 978-81-923108-6-2) as an unprecedented in world history scientific and spiritual peacemaking instrument to achieve world peace from conscious social harmony through a global harmonious education and enlightenment in this ABC.
The book contains the inscription: Nobel Institute and Nobel Committee for scientific literate understanding the ultimate cause of world peace as a global harmony, first disclosed in this ABC.
We wish to draw your attention to the phenomenal spiritual peacemaking achievement of 2012, presented in the enclosed book by the Global Harmony Association (GHA), created by 76 authors: The ABC of Harmony for World Peace, Harmonious Civilization and Tetranet Thinking, Global Textbook, by Dr. Leo Semashko, Project Manager, Editor in Chief and GHA 75 coauthors from26 countries: first published in English in India, New Delhi, Doosra Mat Prakashan, 2012, 334 pages, ISBN – 978-81-923108-6-2. The book is submitted also in the two electronic formats: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478 – HTML and
http://www.peacefromharmony.org/file/6079/ABC_of_Harmony_eng.pdf - PDF.
The authors' 27 reviews are at: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=489
The book may be ordered at: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=508.
The ABC of Harmony Contents:
I.The ABC of Harmony
II.Applications and Prerequisites. 2.1. Applications. 2.1.1. For World Peace from Harmony
III.Harmony Stars
IV.Harmony Poetry
V.The Authors. The ABC of Harmony Meaning
VII.References
VIII.Appendices
IX.Harmony Painting
The ABC of Harmony is represented on all continents in the libraries of hundreds of educational institutions: schools, colleges and universities, as well as at the GHA members and friends in dozens of countries.
The ABC of Harmony was prepared within GHA in 2011 and published in early February 2012 in Russian in St. Petersburg and in English in New Delhi, India. Among its 76 co-authors are prominent scientists, peacemakers, artists and politicians: former President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam; architect of Ronald Reagan's economic reform, Dr. Norman Kurland; head of the international organization of doctors (IPPNW), which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985, Prof. Ernesto Kahan; Chancellor of the Pedagogical IASE Deemed Gandhi University, Kanak Mal Dugar; Catholic Professor and the UN agent, Dr. François Houtart; President of World Esperanto Association, Prof. Renato Corsetti; President of International Association of Educators for World Peace, Prof. Charles Mercieca; President of International Forum for Literature and Culture of Peace, Prof. Ada Aharoni; Secretary General of "World Constitution and Parliament" Association, Prof. Glen Martin; prominent Russian Professors: Vladimir Bransky, Gregory Tulchinsky, Alexander Subetto, Dimitry Ivashintsov and many others. Five co-authors have the GHA highest honorary title: World Harmony Creator as explained at http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=513.
All of the co-authors, as well as all of the GHA members, are active peacemakers, each in his/her field. This is reflected on the GHA website Peace from Harmony (www.peacefromharmony.org), which was visited by more than 3 million people in 7 years.
The ABC of Harmony is the first book of this kind in the world history and the first global textbook on social harmony for the all nations, governments, presidents and the United Nations. The presentation of this book at the International Seminar of Teachers in New Delhi on February 11, 2012, marked the beginning of a new era of humanity: the Age of Harmonious Enlightenment and Education, which aims to overcome the total ignorance of the past history in regard to social harmony (www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=511).
This total ignorance was, and remains, the deepest cause of all wars and violence. For example, the UN's lack of knowledge of social harmony created, in 1948, the State of Israel without carefully considering and while ignoring the spiritual and social harmony of the two nations involved, Israel and Palestine. This UN decision generated a permanent fireplace of military tension in the world and has proved to be the cause of bloodshed in war, terror and violence for decades. This situation will continue to exist as long as both of these nations refuse to accept a unified program of harmonious education and enlightenment for future generations. Now, with the creation of the ABC of Harmony, the UN and the Jewish and Palestinian peoples have a real opportunity to correct this historical mistake and set in the region, even after 20 to 40 years of harmonious education, an eternal peace through harmony. (GHA created for this the special project: see below). Similarly, for the ABC of Harmony can be applied to all other military conflicts, beginning in the minds. They are needed to replace disharmonious, violent consciousness with a mentality of harmonious peacemaking through education in the ABC of Harmony. Harmonization of consciousness through education, instead of militarization, is the way to resolve armed conflicts in the 21st century.
The governments and presidents are also ignorant in regard to harmony; they do not know the way to create solutions for conflicts. They put their trust in so-called peace affairs that are not designed for harmony but for war. They do not know about social harmony and do not know how to apply it. The governments and presidents daily call each other to establish peace, and yet, every day, they increase military expenditures that are growing tremendously fast, feeding maximum profits into the military-industrial complex and ensuring sustainable development only for more weapons and more war. The result for society as a whole is the inevitable death of the human species.
The terrorists and the governments of any country who are fighting with each other are the most ignorant people in regard to the principles of harmony. They trample any thoughts about harmony, ultimately approving together the dominion of disharmony, chaos, violence and self destruction. This is the fruit of their neglect of harmonious education since childhood. They are not able to find peace because, in their minds and consciousness, they have no knowledge of harmony as deep, final cause of peace. Neither their families, their schools nor their universities taught them about harmony. Why? Because there were no textbooks about harmony.
The ABC of Harmony is the first global textbook for harmony. The ABC of Harmony removes this ignorance, this illiteracy. For the first time in history, this textbook on harmony fills the gap in the spiritual culture of society and person. Therefore, the ABC of Harmony has crucial peacemaking value. Its significance cannot be overstated nor can it be denied. In the words of Nelson Mandela: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." So, the ABC of Harmony, which arms humanity with the most important, harmonious, educational tool is the most powerful peacemaking "weapon" to change the world by freeing humanity from all wars forever. A more powerful weapon for peacemaking does not exist.
The ABC of Harmony rejects the dominance of war over peace. It debunks the old slogan: "If you want peace, prepare for war" as a false and militaristic principle, profitable only for the military-industrial complex, that completely eliminates the prospect for global peace. This principle subordinates peace to war, focusing human attention only on war, and turning peace into a slave and wretched appendage for war. This slogan denigrates peace to nothing more than a break and time of rest between the wars. But such a "peace" is false because tension and insecurity exists while nations prepare for new wars. This is how governments define peace to this day. Governments do not see that a different perspective is possible. on this principle of militaristic industrial pseudo-peace is built the traditional culture of peace, which is partial and excludes from its notion eternal, total global peace. The concept of "peace" installed through military build-up does not recognize that social harmony is the deepest and everlasting reason and cause for true peace (see the UN Declaration on a Culture of Peace 1999: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=84).
Therefore, the military-motivated culture of peace is not effective. It coexists in a stated of false peace along with an annual growing arms race. It does not prevent new wars but only masks them. Universal world peace cannot be found in a militaristic foundation. However, war or the war mentality is universally found in industrial societies not only in time but in space, capable of flaring up anywhere at any time. Peace, on the other hand, is found only in the consciousness of social global harmony, which was first scientifically unfolded in the ABC of Harmony textbook, which determines not only the advantages of peace but also war's natural shortcomings.
Nobody anywhere in world history, prior to creation of the ABC of Harmony, has unfolded the twenty elements of social and individual harmony that are necessary and sufficient fundamental to peace. Nobody anywhere in world history, prior to the ABC of Harmony, has created from these elements a coherent scientific picture of harmony in society and humanity. Nobody anywhere in world history, prior to the ABC of Harmony has built from these principles the scientific, integral genomes of harmony for society and individuals as a whole. Nobody anywhere in world history, prior to the ABC of Harmony has explained scientifically how the deep structural genomes of harmony are able to reproduce the eternal world peace on Earth. Nobody anywhere in world history, prior to the ABC of Harmony has shown that peace is possible only under one condition: that all people be educated in the principles of harmony so that humanity can and will consciously and competently use this knowledge at all levels from the individual and family to local, national, regional and global arenas.
APJ Abdul Kalam has expressed with genius this climb to global peace from harmony in his poem "Oceans Meet," published in the ABC by poetic imagery:
The wise sage Confucius said,/ "When there is beauty in the character,/ There is harmony in the home"./ The enlightened one, the Buddha added,/ "When there is harmony in the home,/ There is order in the nation,/ When there is order in the nation,/ There is peace in the world".
These brilliant lines, showing peace flourishing from harmony, became the ABC epigraph, revealing its most profound meaning. Science of global harmony in the ABC is at one time science of world peace from harmony.
Therefore, the ABC of Harmony is of paramount importance to achieve global peace. It opens a new, still unknown possibility to humankind, a path through social harmony and harmonious education. If it is true, as confirmed by UNESCO and the UN, that wars begin in the minds of humans and nations, then it is also true that, until the ABC of Harmony, humankind did not have a generally acceptable model for the expression of a harmonious global scientific consciousness among a wide diversity of peoples, cultures, religions and local civilizations that could and would forever eliminate war. The ABC of Harmony allows that nonviolent and peaceful solutions of any global problems of humanity can be attained without the very possibility of war.
The ABC of Harmony, for the first time in world history, synthesizes peacemaking intellectual richness of the past, gives to humanity a complex but accessible mechanism for understanding any human conflict, and provides to nations the scientific picture to achieve permanent peace based on social harmony as its most fundamental platform. This is the first textbook in the world to present a scientific understanding of the ultimate causes of global peace, which enables humanity and governments, to lift a culture of peace to a new level: the level of harmonious peace culture, the concept which was first introduced into scientific use by Prof. Aharoni in 2004. Knowledge of the 20 fundamental elements of social harmony in the ABC has raised this concept on a strictly scientific level. The ABC of Harmony creates the scientific foundation for entirely new peace culture: a culture of harmonious peace, the key idea of which casts aside the old slogan—"If you want peace, prepare for war."—and replaces it with a radically different, that is: "If you want peace, create harmony." This principle permeates all the Global Harmony Association projects, all of which are designed to create peacemaking through harmony and harmonious education.
Of course, the ABC of Harmony is not easy to understand because it represents "the fundamental revolution in science and paradigm shift in human consciousness," as defined by the outstanding American philosopher and co-author of the ABC and World Constitution Prof. Martin:
http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=489. The scientific revolutions and paradigm shifts require a new fundamental education for new generations beginning in childhood. It is for this reason that GHA's educational mission was created and that the ABC of Harmony was crafted as the world's first global textbook on harmony.
On the basis of the scientific concept of world peace from harmony, the GHA developed in the last seven years, ten direct peacemaking projects and nine additional projects of harmonious education aimed ultimately at forming a global harmonious peace consciousness among humanity. We call these projects:
• Magna Carta of Harmony, 2006;
• Russia-Georgia: Harmonization through Education Instead of Militarization, 2008;
• World Harmony/Peace Festivals similar to Olympic Games, 2008;
• Harmonious Competition-partnership of two Peace Academies: USA and GHA, 2009;
• Global Harmony as Guarantor for World Security and Nuclear Zero, 2009;
• Global Harmony International Treaty for Nuclear Disarmament, 2009;
• Harmonious Civilization Universal Declaration, 2009;
• The Future: Harmonious Civilization, or What? – Program for the World TV Broadcast, 2010;
• Harmonious Civilization Sculpture as a Symbol of Peace United Humanity in a New Millennium, 2011;
• Israel - Palestine: Harmonization through Education Instead of Militarization, 2011;
• School of Peace through Harmonious Education for Youth of Israel and Palestine, 2011,
(The full list of Global Harmony Association's 35 projects is published on this web site: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=472).
GHA has already proposed these projects, based on the ABC of Harmony, to the governments of China, India, Russia, Kazakhstan, Latin America and Africa. Thus, GHA initiated the harmonious global contest, if you will, "The Harmony Race", which is intended to supplant "the arms race". The harmonious global contest strengthens, develops and implements the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: "We must shifts the arms race into a peace race." Only with the advent of the ABC of Harmony can humankind realize this shift consciously, scientifically and systematically in every country and continent on the basis of global harmonious education in this ABC. only the advent of the ABC of Harmony will allow the United Nations to develop the Global Harmony International Treaty for nuclear, general and complete disarmament during the next 50 years by means of annual reductions in military spending in the world at 2% per year and to finance global harmonious education from these resources. only the ABC of Harmony will allow the peoples and governments of all countries to voluntarily recognize and consciously implement this treaty so that, 50 years after its approval, humankind can verify the achievement of world peace from global harmony. only the ABC of Harmony will allow research to restructure the UN itself to aim that global entity to ensure global harmony as the ultimate cause for world universal peace in the 21st century and humankind's subsequent future.
No other peacemaking document in the world—many of which are synthesized in the ABC of harmony in one way or another—provides humanity with any peaceful global scientific minds, any universal treaties of general and complete disarmament, or any harmonious global education. The ABC of Harmony is so vital to the survival all nations and to humanity as a whole, to provide sustainable development and prosperity in the eternal harmonious peace. The ABC of Harmony is a turning point in human history—from the history of eternal wars to the history of eternal peace through harmony. The ABC of Harmony turns the eternally elusive dream of peace into an eternal reality on Earth, where, until now, only war is real.
Therefore, we believe that the ABC of Harmony, as a source of new global peacemaking consciousness, which is the foundation for world peace, is worthy for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 more than any other peaceful achievement. Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 to the ABC of Harmony would be unprecedented and the most significant for all history of the Nobel Committee because none of the achievements of peace and no peace person of the past, despite their enormous importance for peace, has ever before opened humanity as a whole with this type of scientific perspective for eternal world peace. The ABC of Harmony will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only if the Nobel Committee will be aware its revolutionary and unparalleled peacemaking importance. None of the Nobel Peace Prizes since 1901 have been motivated by social harmony; rather, they have been motivated mainly by arbitration, mediation and peacekeeping efforts in the settlement of military conflicts, i.e., in the area of private military consequences and private humanitarian initiatives and not in the area of universal source for world peace. In this regard, the concepts presented in the ABC of Harmony are greater, grander, and more universally expansive than the concepts presented by all other previous Nobel Peace Prize recipients.
The Nobel Committee now has power to select one of two alternatives. The first alternative is: to give humanity a new and most effective spiritual and educational tool to achieve world peace—the ABC of Harmony—and place it in the mainstream of global peacemaking interests, human survival and sustainable peace development. The second alternative is: to deprive humanity of this instrument for an indefinitely long time and, thus, further enable the interests of the military-industrial complex and militarist forces. The choice is up to the Nobel Committee.
Global Harmony Association Members:
Leo Semashko, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, GHA President and The ABC of Harmony Editor in Chief, Russia
Kanak Mal Dugar, Chancellor, IASE deemed University, India
Erika Lazarova, PhD, Professor of History, Bulgaria
Matjaz Mulej, PhD, Professor of Economics, Slovenia
Madhu Krishan, Ph.D, Founder & Chairman of AUGP (Academy Of Universal Global Peace), India
Rudolf Siebert, PhD, Professor of Religion, USA
Charles Mercieca, PhD, Professor of History, USA
Renato Corsetti, PhD, Professor of Linguistics, Italy
Francois Houtart, PhD, Catholic Professor of Sociology, Belgium
Reimon Bachika, Professor of Sociology, Japan
Surendra Pathak, PhD, Professor of Education, India
Ernesto Kahan, Professor, Board member, IPPNW, 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, Israel
Ammar Banni, Professor of Education, Algeria
Vladimir Bransky, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Russia
Alexander Subetto, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Russia
Subhash Sharma, PhD, Professor of Management, Director, Indus Business Academy, India
Bishnu Pathak, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Center, Nepal
Mary Luz Robyo, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Colombia
And so on, more 60 GHA members
PS. This collective nomination will be supplemented to February 1, 2013 by individual nominations of persons named above and others.
Subject: Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 for the Global Harmony Association on behalf of the co-authors international group (76 co-authors from 26 countries) of the book: The ABC of Harmony for World Peace, Harmonious Civilization and Tetranet Thinking, Global Textbook, by Dr. Leo Semashko, Project Manager, Editor in Chief and GHA 75 coauthors from26 countries (first published in English in India, New Delhi, Doosra Mat Prakashan, 2012, 334 pages, ISBN – 978-81-923108-6-2) as an unprecedented in world history scientific and spiritual peacemaking instrument to achieve world peace from conscious social harmony through a global harmonious education and enlightenment in this ABC.
Note. This book was send to your Committee and it may be available here:
http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478 – HTML and
The authors' 27 reviews are here: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=489
The book may be ordered here: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=508
According to Alfred Nobel's will, "the prize should be awarded to individuals or groups that have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses" [1]. By those words Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, initiated his speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1985, to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War – IPPNW.
I understand that the Organization Global Harmony Association gathered all the conditions to merit such a prestigious distinction that influences the world politics.I am a former vice-president of IPPNW and guest at the ceremony of presentation of the Nobel Prize in 1985, join this petition.
"The ABC of Harmony opens before humanity the fundamentally new way to world peace through global harmonious education, which creates a global peace-making harmonious consciousness of mankind as the deepest and most solid pillar for the eternal peace. Therefore, the organization that created the ABC of Harmony for this global harmonious education - Global Harmony Association - certainly deserved and is worthy the highest world recognition in the Nobel Peace Prize."
Now the GHA based on the ABC of Harmony, revived the campaign for general and complete disarmament in 50 years by annual reduction of military spending at 2% per year in the form of the mass petition to the United Nations (www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=529).
The GHA also started, on the ABC of Harmony base, to create a new International peacemaking movement in the face of the threat of another world war, which may be in a result of military attack on Iran (www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=532).
The GHA also created on the ABC of Harmony base the Project of Interfaith Harmony and Schools of this harmony within the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week. In this project, the harmony of religions was substantiated as the most important and powerful tool for world peace: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=541
A simple list of the GHA Projects of world peace on the ABC of Harmony basis demonstrates its unique peace-making power. In the world there is not a single book that would open as many similar colossal perspectives for world peace. Therefore, once again, the organization that created this book - Global Harmony Association, is fully worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, which will repeatedly reinforce the global peacemaking role of the ABC of Harmony in our time.
SincerelyYours,
Prof. Emeritus Dr. Ernesto Kahan MD MPH
Prof. Emeritus Dr. Ernesto Kahan MD University Professor - Poet – Physician
Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Honorary President- Israeli Association Writers. Spanish Branch
1st Vice President & Secretary General- World Academy of Arts and Culture USA
Former Vice President of IPPNW (Association awarded the Nobel Peace Prize) and the actual president of the Israeli Branch
Honorary President of SIPEA – International Society of Poets Writers and Artists
Vice President Intl Forum for Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC)
Co-President -UHE- International Union of Hispano-American Writers
Former 1st Vice President. Global Harmony Association (GHA)
ekahan@post.tau.ac.il
Hanita 7/2. Kfar Sava 44405, Israel. Tel:+972-9-7671733 Cel:+972-52-2210028
[1] Presentation Speech delivered by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1985, Oslo, December 10, 1985. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1985/presentation-speech.html
Dr François HOUTARTDecember 21st, 2012
Avenue Sainte Gertrude, 5
B- 1348 Louvain-la-NeuveNorwegian Nobel Committee
BelgiumHenrik Ibsens gate 51
Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize of 2013
It is for me an honor and a pleasure to recommend for the prize of next year the Global Harmony Association, headed by Dr Leo Semashko of the University of San Petersburg and backed by so many intellectuals and peace-loving people around the world. The perspectives spread by the Association are intellectually quite useful for concrete actions in education and among social movements. It is also conducing to proposals for a peaceful universe, like disarmament and training sessions in specific areas of conflict.
Such a work merits support and the Nobel Prize for Peace would be a way of contributing to world's harmony.
Very sincerely yours.
Dr François Houtart
Professor emeritus of the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium)
Honorary PhD of Notre Dame University (USA) and La Habana University (Cuba)
Prof. Dr. Bishnu Pathak is a Founding President/Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Center, Nepal (www.pcscenter.org.np under construction)
PO Box 11374, New Colony, Sukedhara, Mahankal VDC-9, Kathmandu, Nepal. Tel: +977-1-4650696
Email: pcscenter.nepal@gmail.com; URL:www.cscenter.org.np
Chief Coordinator, Petition to the UN for Total Disarmament, Global Harmony Association, www.peacefromharmony.org
Norwegian Nobel Committee
Subject: Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 for the Global Harmony Association on behalf of the international (from 26 countries) group of 76 co-authors of the book: The ABC of Harmony for World Peace, Harmonious Civilization and Tetranet Thinking, Global Textbook, by Dr. Leo Semashko, Project Manager, Editor in Chief and GHA 75 coauthors from26 countries (first published in English in India, New Delhi, Doosra Mat Prakashan, 2012, 334 pages, ISBN – 978-81-923108-6-2) as an unprecedented in world history scientific and spiritual peacemaking instrument to achieve world peace from conscious social harmony through a global harmonious education and enlightenment in this ABC.
http://www.peacefromharmony.org/file/6079/ABC_of_Harmony_eng.pdf - PDF
The authors' 27 reviews are here: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=489/
Other reviews are here: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=506
Dear Madams;
The ABC of Harmony opens before humanity the fundamentally new way to world peace through global harmonious education, which creates a global peace-making harmonious consciousness of mankind as the deepest and most solid pillar for the eternal peace. Therefore, the organization that created the ABC of Harmony for this global harmonious education - Global Harmony Association - certainly deserved and is worthy the highest world recognition in the Nobel Peace Prize.
The GHA also started, on the ABC of Harmony base, to create a new International peacemaking movement in the face of the threat of another world war, which may be in a result of military attack on Iran (www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=532).
Prof. Dr. Bishnu Pathak
Dr. Norman G. Kurland, J.D., Lawyer, Political Economist, World Citizen
President, Center for Economic and Social Justice, U.S.A.
Co-author of Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen (2004) and
Curing World Poverty: The New Role of Property (1994) and author of "A New Look at Prices and Money: The Kelsonian Binary Economic Model for Achieving Rapid Growth Without Inflation", The Journal of Socio-Economics (2001)
Vice President, Global Harmony Association (GHA)
Co-Chair and Director, GHA Embassy of Human Rights from Harmony and Justice
Registered World Citizen, World Service Authority, World Government of World Citizens
Retired Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.
Former Deputy Chairman, Presidential Task Force for Project Economic Justice (appointed by President Ronald Reagan)
Former Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Economic Systems
Former Director of Planning, Citizens Crusade Against Poverty
Former Federal lawyer on Education, Civil Rights and War on Poverty Issues
Resigned commission during Vietnam War as a U.S. Air Force Officer
thirdway@cesj.org, P.O. Box 40711, Washington, D.C. 20016Tel. 1-703-243-5155
Subject: Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 for the Global Harmony Association on behalf of the co-authors international group (76 co-authors from 26 countries) of the book The ABC of Harmony for World Peace, Harmonious Civilization and Tetranet Thinking, a global textbook by Dr. Leo Semashko, Project Manager and Editor in Chief and its 75 other co-authors (first published in English in New Delhi, India, Doosra Mat Prakashan, 2012, 334 pages, ISBN-978-81-923108-6-2) as an unprecedented in world history scientific and spiritual peacemaking instrument to achieve world peace from conscious social harmony through a global ABC of harmonious education and enlightenment.
Please Note: This book was previously sent to your Committee and it may also be available at:
http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478 - HTML and
http://www.peacefromharmony.org/file/6079/ABC_of_Harmony_eng.pdf- PDF
The authors' reviews are here: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=489
The book can be ordered here: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=508
As Alfred Nobel stated in his will, "the prize should be awarded to individuals or groups that have done the most or the best work for the fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."The Center for Economic and Social Justice proudly nominates the Global Harmony Association for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.We believe the Global Harmony Association has met Alfred Nobel's challenge and richly deserves the prestigious distinction of being awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize for its unique approach to working for global peace.
Through the collaborative and creative initiatives of its expanding volunteer membership of religious leaders, social scientists, political leaders, artists, poets and spiritually oriented members now in 56 countries, GHA has produced The ABC of Harmony.This new global textbook will help re-educate global leaders and global citizens generally, based on universal and ultimate spiritual principles of personal and social Harmony, to encourage them to work together for Peace, Prosperity and Freedom for all.
The world design science architect R. Buchminster Fuller complemented GHA's vision with these inspiring words:
"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. … [Our challenge is to] make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone."
The ABC of Harmony presents to humanity the fundamentally new strategy for world peace through global harmonious education.This wil create a global peace-making harmonious consciousness of mankind for eternal peace.
The GHA, through The ABC of Harmony, is reviving the campaign for general and complete disarmament over the next 50 years, calling for each nation to reduce its military spending by 2% per year.This will take the form of a mass petition to the United Nations.Such savings to the taxpayers of the world could then be rechanneled into teaching peace as prescribed in The ABC of Harmony.(www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=529).
As Victor Hugo reminded us: "All the armies of the world cannot defeat an idea whose time has come.
The GHA also created through its ABC of Harmony initiative, the Project of Interfaith Harmony and Schools, as part of the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week. In this project, the harmony of religions was substantiated as the most important and powerful tool for world peace: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=541
What impressed our Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ) was the open-mindedness of GHA to the synergy between GHA's and CESJ's approaches to global peace and harmony.This resulted in an invitation to incorporate our ideas within The ABC of Global Harmony (pages 100-101), plus suggestions to form a GHA Embassy for Human Rights from Harmony and Justice based on the many writings available at http://www.cesj.org and add a new book to be entitled The ABC of Economic Justice.
Just as people are ignorant of the principles of Harmony, they are also mis-educated about the essential moral nature of Justice for minimizing conflict and creating sustainable and harmonious global peace. No wonder so many leaders do not apply fundamental principles of Justice, especially morally sound interpretations of terms like "Social Justice" and "Economic Justice" when trying to end conflict and war. Leaders have failed to apply accelerating scientific, technological and system changesto cure the cancerous economic roots of global poverty, war, terrorism and violence.
If we accept the challenge posed in the hopeful quote above by Bucky Fuller and are inspired by the monumental work of the Global Harmony Association, we should also think seriously about these words by Pope Paul VI on World Peace Day January 1, 1972: "If you want Peace, work for Justice."
If there is no Economic Justice, there can be no Social Justice.If there is no Social Justice, there can be no Peace.
Therefore, once again, the Global Harmony Association, having created a unique strategy for peace, is fully worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.The award of this prize will repeatedly reinforce the global peacemaking potential of The ABC of Harmony.
Dr. Norman G. Kurland, J.D.
DR. GLEN T. MARTIN
World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA)
www.wcpa.biz
President and Trustee
Institute on World Problems (IOWP)
www.worldproblems.net
International Philosophers for Peace (IPPNO)
www.philosophersforpeace.org
Advisory Editors Council
Journal for Globalization Studies
Published in Russia
www.socionauki.ru/journal/jogs_en/
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (Human DHA)
www.humiliationstudies.org/
Chair and Trustee
Institute for Economic Democracy Press (IED Press)
www.ied.info/
International Society for Intercultural Study and Research (ISISAR), Kolkata, India
www.isisar.weebly.com/
Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Program in Peace Studies
RU Box 6943, 106E Fairfax Hall, 706 Fairfax Street
Radford University, Radford, Virginia, 24142 USA
Office: +540-831-5897 Email: gmartin@radford.edu
Henrik Ibsens gate 51,
Dear Colleagues of the Committee:
It is my great pleasure to nominate the Global Harmony Association (GHA) for the Nobel Peace
Prize of 2013.
An international group of some 76 authors from 26 countries, under the leadership of Dr. Leo Semashko, GHA President from Russia, have published the book: The ABC of Harmony for World Peace, Harmonious Civilization and Tetranet Thinking as a global textbook to guide humankind toward a realistic actualization of world peace and a harmonious global civilization.
I believe this book has been sent to your committee. It is also available on-line at http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478. It was published in English from Doosra Mat Prakashan Publishers, New Delhi, India, 334 pages.
Under the vision and guidance of this book, the Global Harmony Association is leading worldwide projects in a number of areas essential to world peace:
First, it is promoting world-wide education directed toward human mutual understanding, nonviolence, and affirmation of unity in diversity. See the GHA website at www.peacefromharmony.org/.
Second, it leads an Interfaith Harmony Project in coordination with the UN Interfaith Harmony Week: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=541.
Third, in cooperation with IASE Deemed University and Gandhi Vidya Mandir in India, it is supporting the development of an Institute for Global Harmony that will promote harmony across the academic disciplines and worldwide education for peace.
Fourth, it has forged a world peacemaking movement dealing with current threats to world peace involving middle eastern countries and hostile military forces that threaten them: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=541.
In the light of the worldwide scope and energy for peace embodied in this movement under the
leadership of Dr. Semashko, I urge you to consider the significance for the future of humankind by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to this global peace movement.
Dr. Rudolf J. Siebert
Director of International Course on Religion and Modern Society
Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine
Director of International Course on The Future of Religion
Professor of Religion and Society
Comparative Religion Department
630 Piccadilly Street
rsieb3@aol.com
Personal Web: http://www.rudolfjsiebert.org/
I would like to nominate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 the Global Harmony Association on behalf of the Co-Authors International Group because of the book The ABC of Harmony for World Peace, Harmonious Civilization and Tetranet Thinking, Global Textbook by Dr. Leo Semashko, Project Manager, Editor in Chief and GHA 75 Co-Authors from 26 countries. The book is an unprecedented scientific and spiritual peacemaking instrument to achieve world peace from conscious social harmony through a global harmonious education and enlightenment.
The ABC of Harmony opens for humanity the fundamentally new way to world peace through global harmonious education, which creates a global peace-making harmonious consciousness of mankind as the deepest and most solid pillar for the eternal peace. Therefore, the organization that created the ABC of Harmony for this global harmonious education - Global Harmony Association - certainly deserves and is worthy of the highest world recognition in the form of the Nobel Peace Prize.
The GHA based on the ABC of Harmony, has revived the campaign for general and complete disarmament in 50 years by annual reduction of military spending at 2% per year in the form of the mass petition to the United Nations.
The GHA also started, on the ABC of Harmony base, the creation a new International peacemaking movement in the face of the threat of another world war, which may be the result of a military attack on Iran.
The GHA also created on the ABC of Harmony base the Project of Interfaith Harmony and Schools of this harmony within the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week. In this project, the harmony of religions was substantiated as the most important and powerful tool for world peace. There will be no peace among nations without peace among religions. There will be no peace among religions without discourse among them. There will be no discourse among the religions without mutual knowledge of their interpretation of reality and orientation of action.
Rudolf J. Siebert
Department of Comparative Religion
Dr. (economics), Dr. (Management) Matjaz Mulej, Prof. Emeritus (Systems and Innovation Theory)
University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Institute for entrepreneurship,
Maribor, Slovenia; http://epfip.uni-mb.si
International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, Vienna (vice-president),
European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg, member,
European Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Humanities, Paris, member,
IRDO Institute for Development of Social Responsibility, Maribor, President of the Experts Board; www.irdo.si
Home address: Gregorciceva 27, SI-Maribor, Slovenia
Email: mulej@uni-mb.si
Phone: +386-31-39-39-16
Subject: Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 of the Global Harmony Association on behalf of the co-authors international group of the book: The ABC of Harmony for World Peace, Harmonious Civilization and Tetranet Thinking, Global Textbook, by Dr. Leo Semashko, Project Manager, Editor in Chief and GHA 75 coauthors from26 countries (first published in English in India, New Delhi, Doosra Mat Prakashan, 2012, 334 pages, ISBN – 978-81-923108-6-2) as an unprecedented in world history scientific and spiritual peacemaking instrument to achieve world peace from conscious social harmony through a global harmonious education and enlightenment in this ABC.
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!
I wish to nominate the Global Harmony Association (GHA) for the Nobel Peace Prize of 2013.
Matjaž Mulej


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Is Aluminum Hydroxide Soluble In Water?
Aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH) 3) exists in nature as the mineral gibbsite (also known as hydrargillite) and its three rarer polymorphs: bayerite, stilbite and Norders Trang stone. Aluminum hydroxide is amphoteric, that is, it has both basic and acidic properties. Closely related are alumina hydroxide, AlO(OH) and alumina or alumina (Al2O3), the latter is also amphoteric. These compounds together constitute the main components of aluminum ore and bauxite.
Aluminum hydroxide is amphoteric-it reacts with acids and bases. Like any regular base, the OH radicals in Al(OH)3 neutralize H+ to produce water and aluminum salts. Al(OH)3 solid will also react with excess OH- to dissolve and form complex ion [Al(OH)4]-.
Under any ordinary conditions, Al(OH)₃ are solid. Above 300 °C it is liquid. It will decompose somewhere above this temperature, so it has no boiling point, so it cannot be a gas.
How does aluminum hydroxide dissolve?
Dissolve 0.10 g in 5 mL hydrochloric acid (~70 g/l) TS, boil, cool, dilute to 10 mL with water and filter.
What is the Molar mass of Aluminum Hydroxide?
Aluminum Hydroxide Wholesale tell you Molar mass of Aluminum Hydroxide 78 g/mol
Uses of aluminum hydroxide
Flame retardant filler
Aluminum hydroxide can also be used as a flame retardant filler for polymer applications. It was chosen for these applications because it is colorless (like most polymers), inexpensive, and has good flame retardant properties.
Precursors of aluminum compounds
Aluminum hydroxide is the raw material for the manufacture of other aluminum compounds: special calcined alumina, aluminum sulfate, polyaluminum chloride, aluminum chloride, zeolite, sodium aluminate, activated alumina and aluminum nitrate.
The newly precipitated aluminum hydroxide forms a gel, which is the basis for the aluminum salt to be used as a flocculant in water purification. This gel will crystallize over time.
Under the common name "algeldrate", aluminum hydroxide is used as an antacid for humans and animals (mainly cats and dogs). It is superior to other alternatives, such as sodium bicarbonate, because the insoluble Al(OH)3 will not increase the pH of the stomach above 7, so it will not trigger the stomach to secrete excessive acid. Brand names include Alu-Cap, Aludrox, Gaviscon or Pepsamar. It reacts with excess acid in the stomach and reduces the acidity of stomach contents, which can relieve symptoms of ulcers, heartburn or indigestion. Such products can cause constipation because aluminum ions inhibit the contraction of smooth muscle cells in the gastrointestinal tract, slow down peristalsis, and extend the time it takes for stool to pass through the colon. Some of these products are formulated to minimize these effects by including equal concentrations of magnesium hydroxide or magnesium carbonate, which have a balanced laxative effect. Contact us.
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iconic weddings in Westminster
The Refurbishment of The Old Marylebone Town Hall
Some of you may be aware that The Old Marylebone Town Hall, first opened in 1920, underwent a major refurbishment between 2014 and 2018. The older version was well-loved and saw many happy memories and the new version has only added to that legacy. To celebrate this work and the 100th year anniversary of the Town Hall this year, we spoke to Associate Partner from Sheppard Robson, Gavin Robinson, who lead the design team on the refurbishment. He explains why this was such a special project to work on…
The refurbishment of Old Marylebone Town Hall was an absolute joy for all the architects involved – partly as its adaptive reuse presented the team with a full range of construction challenges but also because the original iconic building proved to be a hidden gem. Through the seven-year project we got to know the building intimately and took great pride in helping to restore this iconic building for Westminster and the Capital.
On our first visit in 2010 we discovered that the Town Hall, although much loved, was downtrodden - its civic grandeur faded and cloaked by years of neglect. Part of our initial design work involved stripping back the contemporary additions and literally peeling back the layers in some areas. The rich finishes had been covered over in times when the Edwardian grandeur was less appreciated, however, due to the high quality of the original materials they responded well to restoration.
Both the Council House and the Annexe were designed by Sir Edwin Cooper (1874 – 1942) a prolific Edwardian architect. Originally from Scarborough, he delivered a large portfolio of civic and public buildings – it was said that he designed more buildings in the City of London than Sir Christopher Wren. In 1931 he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in recognition of a substantial contribution to architecture. He died at work, shortly after completing the Annexe building.
The Town Hall looks very much like a building of its period - solid, load bearing, Portland Stone clad walls in a greco roman style. The grand steps up to the main entrance, set in a recessed portico with Corinthian columns, with the tower posting the landmark building on the Marylebone Road. Internally the grand staircase, lined in marble leads up to the high status Council rooms on the first floor, beautifully lined in walnut panelling.
Our design carefully integrated modern elements within the period fabric, including the steel and glass entrance set between the two buildings and the new lecture theatre to the rear of the building where the original Council chamber was destroyed in the Blitz. Whilst these elements were critical for the new educational use of the building, the majority of the design work involved the faithful restoration of the historic fabric.
Working closely with the main contractor's team of specialist sub-contractors, we discovered that the original building was a rich tapestry of high quality materials formed and erected by skilled craftsmen – both externally with the carved stone and metalwork, to the splendid internal finishes of oak, walnut, marble and delicate fibrous plaster ceilings. The impact of many of these had been blunted by contemporary alterations, layers of polyurethane varnish or anaglypta, or simply lack of maintenance. The dedicated team brought an extensive knowledge of the existing materials, craftsmen and women who have a wealth of experience and a love for their trade, that not only restored the lustre of the finishes but saved the building for future generations to enjoy.
The rooflights
One of my favourite pieces of restoration are the two ornate rooflights directly over the grand staircase. These bathe the marble in natural daylight, animating the rich materials with the changing light through the course of the day, however, when we first visited the Town Hall, these had both been boarded up which completely diminished your appreciation of the quality of the space.
Breaking through the ceiling, we were excited to discover that the original steel frame was fully intact, an orthogonal design with a classical Greek key border, and in very reasonable condition. There were sufficient fragments of the Edwardian glass to determine the style of the original design. The frames were fully restored and the cast grape motifs in each corner cleaned and re-guilded. The new rooflights have completely transformed and enhanced the staircase, giving a true insight to Edwin Cooper's original vision, and restoring a truly grand experience.
Key moment
The whole of the back wall of the feature, marble staircase was demolished as part of the building of the new lecture theatre block for the School. Prior to the demolition the marble cladding to each level was carefully stripped off and stored for two years. It was with a huge sigh of relief that the War Memorial plaque was safely reinstated during the final stages of the build!
The Key Cabinet
Restoration projects require a different architectural approach than more traditional developments, as the design process involves an extensive research period as part of the preliminary stages. The architect explores the history of the building to understand both the technical side of its construction but also the social importance within its community. Working on the project for over seven years we fully understood the terrific responsibility that we had to restore the Town Hall to the best of our abilities, and as you would imagine we all became very attached to the existing building.
It was as important to preserve the marks of people who used the building as it was to maintain the fabric itself. When we carried out our initial surveys in 2013, we noted some of the evidence of the building's previous life. The glazed key cabinet in the abandoned Porter's Lodge for the Library, was still fully stocked with keys from forgotten locks. I photographed the keys in situ before taking them down and storing them in my desk for the next four years. In the week before practical completion, when the restored cabinet had been reinstated, it was a great pleasure to replace the keys and secure the door – protecting a fragment of the history of the building.
Photos by Gavin Robinson & Alex Upton Photography
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Q: Core Data sectionNameKeyPath with Relationship Attribute Performance Issue I have a Core Data Model with three entities:
Person, Group, Photo with relationships between them as follows:

*

*Person <<-----------> Group (one to many relationship)

*Person <-------------> Photo (one to one)

When I perform a fetch using the NSFetchedResultsController in a UITableView, I want to group in sections the Person objects using the Group's entity name attribute.
For that, I use sectionNameKeyPath:@"group.name".
The problem is that when I'm using the attribute from the Group relationship, the NSFetchedResultsController fetches everything upfront in small batches of 20 (I have setFetchBatchSize: 20) instead of fetching batches while I'm scrolling the tableView.
If I use an attribute from the Person entity (like sectionNameKeyPath:@"name") to create sections everything works OK: the NSFetchResultsController loads small batches of 20 objects as I scroll.
The code I use to instantiate the NSFetchedResultsController:
- (NSFetchedResultsController *)fetchedResultsController {

    if (_fetchedResultsController) {
        return _fetchedResultsController;
    }

    NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
    NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:[Person description]
                                              inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext];

    [fetchRequest setEntity:entity];

    // Specify how the fetched objects should be sorted
    NSSortDescriptor *groupSortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"group.name"
                                                                        ascending:YES];

    NSSortDescriptor *personSortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"birthName"
                                                                         ascending:YES
                                                                          selector:@selector(localizedStandardCompare:)];

    [fetchRequest setSortDescriptors:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:groupSortDescriptor, personSortDescriptor, nil]];

    [fetchRequest setRelationshipKeyPathsForPrefetching:@[@"group", @"photo"]];
    [fetchRequest setFetchBatchSize:20];

    NSError *error = nil;
    NSArray *fetchedObjects = [self.managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:&error];

    if (fetchedObjects == nil) {
        NSLog(@"Error Fetching: %@", error);
    }

    _fetchedResultsController = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:fetchRequest
                                                                    managedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext sectionNameKeyPath:@"group.name" cacheName:@"masterCache"];

    _fetchedResultsController.delegate = self;

    return _fetchedResultsController;
}

This is what I get in Instruments if I create sections based on "group.name" without any interaction with the App's UI:

And this is what I get (with a bit of scrolling on UITableView) if sectionNameKeyPath is nil:

Please, can anyone help me out on this issue?
EDIT 1:
It seems that I get inconsistent results from the simulator and Instruments: when I've asked this question, the app was starting in the simulator in about 10 seconds (by Time Profiler) using the above code.
But today, using the same code as above, the app starts in the simulator in 900ms even if it makes a temporary upfront fetch for all the objects and it's not blocking the UI.
I've attached some fresh screenshots:

EDIT 2:
I reset the simulator and the results are intriguing: after performing an import operation and quitting the app the first run looked like this:

After a bit of scrolling:

Now this is what happens on a second run:

After the fifth run:

EDIT 3:
Running the app the seventh time and eight time, I get this:

A: This is your stated objective: "I need the Person objects to be grouped in sections by the relationship entity Group, name attribute and the NSFetchResultsController to perform fetches in small batches as I scroll and not upfront as it is doing now."
The answer is a little complicated, primarily because of how an NSFetchedResultsController builds sections, and how that affects the fetching behavior.
TL;DR; To change this behavior, you would need to change how NSFetchedResultsController builds sections.
What is happening?
When an NSFetchedResultsController is given a fetch request with pagination (fetchLimit and/or fetchBatchSize), several things happen.
If no sectionNameKeyPath is specified, it does exactly what you expect. The fetch returns an proxy array of results, with "real" objects for the first fetchBathSize number of items. So for example if you have setFetchBatchSize to 2, and your predicate matches 10 items in the store, the results contain the first two objects. The other objects will be fetched separately as they are accessed. This provides a smooth paginated response experience.
However, when a sectionNameKeyPath is specified, the fetched results controller has to do a bit more. To compute the sections it needs to access that key path on all the objects in the results. It enumerates the 10 items in the results in our example. The first two have already been fetched. The other 8 will be fetched during enumeration to get the key path value needed to build the section information. If you have a lot of results for your fetch request, this can be very inefficient. There are a number of public bugs concerning this functionality:
NSFetchedResultsController initially takes too long to set up sections

NSFetchedResultsController ignores fetchLimit property

NSFetchedResultsController, Table Index, and Batched Fetch Performance Issue

... And several others. When you think about it, this makes sense. To build the NSFetchedResultsSectionInfo objects requires the fetched results controller to see every value in the results for the sectionNameKeyPath, aggregate them to the unique union of values, and use that information to create the correct number of NSFetchedResultsSectionInfo objects, set the name and index title, know how many objects in the results a section contains, etc. To handle the general use case there is no way around this. With that in mind, your Instruments traces may make a lot more sense.
How can you change this?
You can attempt to build your own NSFetchedResultsController that provides an alternative strategy for building NSFetchedResultsSectionInfo objects, but you may run into some of the same problems. For example, if you are using the existing fetchedObjects functionality to access members of the fetch results, you will encounter the same behavior when accessing objects that are faults. Your implementation would need a strategy for dealing with this (it's doable, but very dependant on your needs and requirements).
Oh god no. What about some kind of temporary hack that just makes it perform a little better but doesn't fix the problem?
Altering your data model will not change the above behavior, but can change the performance impact slightly. Batch updates will not have any significant effect on this behavior, and in fact will not play nicely with a fetched results controller. It may be much more useful to you, however, to instead set the relationshipKeyPathsForPrefetching to include your "group" relationship, which may improve the fetching and faulting behavior significantly. Another strategy may be to perform another fetch to batch fault these objects before you attempt to use the fetched results controller, which will populate the various levels of Core Data in-memory caches in a more efficient manner.
The NSFetchedResultsController cache is primarily for section information. This prevents the sections from having to be completely recalculated on each change (in the best case), but can actually make the initial fetch to build the sections take much longer. You will have to experiment to see if the cache is worthwhile for your use case.
If your primary concern is that these Core Data operations are blocking user interaction, you can offload them from the main thread. NSFetchedResultsController can be used on a private queue (background) context, which will prevent Core Data operations from blocking the UI.

A: Based on my experience a way to achieve your goal is to denormalize your model. In particular, you could add a group attribute in your Person entity and use that attribute as sectionNameKeyPath. So, when you create a Person you should also pass the group it belongs to.
This denormalization process is correct since it allows you to avoid fetching of related Group objects since not necessary. A cons could be that if you change the name of a group, all the persons associated with that name must change, on the contrary you can have incorrect values.
The key aspect here is the following. You need to have in mind that Core Data is not a
relational database. The model should not designed as a database schema, where normalization could take place, but it should be designed from the perspective of how the data are presented and used in the user interface.
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I cannot understand your comment, could you explain better?

What I've found very intriguing though is that even if the app is
  performing a full upfront fetch in the simulator, the app loads in
  900ms (with 5000 objects) on the device despite the simulator where it
  loads much slower.

Anyway, I would be interested in knowing details about your Photo entity. If you pre-fetch photo the overall execution could be influenced.
Do you need to pre-fetch a Photo within your table view? Are they thumbs (small photos)? Or normal images? Do you take advantage of External Storage Flag?
Adding an additional attribute (say group) to the Person entity could not be a problem. Updating the value of that attribute when the name of a Group object changes it's not a problem if you perform it in background. In addition, starting from iOS 8 you have available a batch update as described in Core Data Batch Updates.

A: After almost a year since I've posted this question, I've finally found the culprits that enable this behaviour (which slightly changed in Xcode 6):

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*Regarding the inconsistent fetch times: I was using a cache and at the time I was back and forth with opening, closing and resetting the simulator.

*Regarding the fact that everything was fetched upfront in small batches without scrolling (in Xcode 6's Core Data Instruments that's not the case anymore - now it's one, big fetch which takes entire seconds):
It seems that setFetchBatchSize does not work correctly with parent/child contexts. The issue was reported back in 2012 and it seems that it's still there http://openradar.appspot.com/11235622.
To overcome this issue, I created another independent context with an NSMainQueueConcurrencyType and set its persistence coordinator to be the same that my other contexts are using.
More about issue #2 here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11470560/1641848

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Emma stood in the doorway of her father's den watching out the windows to the acres of rolling grass. The fields seemed to flash from dark green to light-green as the breeze made its way toward the properties edge. Her family's farm was what she thought of as the typical Indiana farm. A large plot of land several miles out of town nestled in between acres of trees and vast fields of corn and beans.
From where she stood, she could just make out the edge of the property near the road. It was almost hidden from view, but the long stand of oaks that ran the length of the northeast corner defined its edge near the road that dissected the valley. She focused on her father's truck in the drive and then looked to her reflection in the window.
She ran her hand through her long brown hair and pushed her hands into her pockets as if she was trying to stretch her jeans. She huffed as she glanced to her reflection again all the while wishing she had put something on that morning that was a little less form-fitting than the jeans and a long sleeve shirt she wore. The outfit would have been perfectly fine for any other Saturday in the office, but as she tugged at her top, she anticipated her mother's comments about her being too slender.
She turned from the windows and walked over to the far wall that was covered with rows of photos. She could see a thin layer of dust on their frames and as she looked to the numerous shots, there didn't seem to be a pattern to how her father had placed them. Small photographs of friends and family seemed dwarfed by larger pictures of her father's prized sunrises.
She glanced over to the far side of the office, to her father's desk. It sat in front of several double-hung windows facing the doorway. Emma imagined him sitting there; she could see him running his hand through his thick brown hair and motioning to her to come to him as she and her mother were the only things that could distract him from his work. She sighed loudly as she crossed her arms and left the spot where she stood.
The old wooden floors creaked beneath her feet as she shifted her weight. Emma counted her steps as she walked, all the while thinking to herself that the room seemed to have gotten smaller over the years. As she moved over to the far side of the room, she studied several more pictures there on the wall and then she reached out to one in front of her adjusting it, so it hung level with the others.
Finding one of the few there with her father in it, she began to smirk as she remembered how he had been a consummate artist with his pictures. He relished capturing his subjects at exactly the right moment. But she also remembered how he never enjoyed being the focal point of anyone else's shots. That's what made this picture so special. It had been the result of an ill-placed camera and a mischievous Army friend who knew he hated having his picture taken. The photo showed him sitting atop a bulldozer clearing a landing strip on an island in the South Pacific. He hadn't even known the picture existed until he developed the film, and when he did find it, he had almost thrown it out. Emma had discovered the picture in a box in the attic and secretly framed it. It was up on the wall for days until he finally figured it out. He wanted it taken down once he saw it, but Emma and her mother insisted that it stay.
That photo and one other were all the evidence she knew of from his time in the military. Her mother had told her he had served as an engineer and photographer in the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. She said he had been in the Pacific theater for the war where he was dropped in to key locations that needed to be quickly developed so they could be used as forward operating bases.
Emma studied his face there in the photo. She reached her finger to her lips, kissing it and pressed it to the picture."Love you, Daddy," she whispered. Emma turned from the pictures and moved over to her father's desk. As she neared its edge, she ran her hand along it, feeling the nicks and grooves it had received over the years. She moved around behind it, where a large leather chair sat and rested her hands on its tall back. The soft leather still held the sweet and musky scent of his cologne. Emma tugged at the chair, rolling it from under the desk, and plopped down as she settled into the chairs soft leather. No one had been in the office since he had passed, and now as she looked at his undisturbed work, awaiting his return, she felt a lump in her throat. Emma swallowed hard, settling her heart, and then reached out, grabbing one of the photos directly in front of her.
The black-and-white shot looked like something from one of the local high school sporting events. Even though her father had retired years before, he'd stayed busy taking pictures for the local paper and even teaching the occasional class on the art of photography. She couldn't remember a time when he didn't have his camera.
Emma flipped the photo over, finding her father's writing on the back. She studied his words, written there in what he called his "chicken-scratch" handwriting and, as she began to read, she heard the distinct creak of the floor. Emma looked up toward the noise to find her mother standing in the doorway.
As she looked at her mother, she couldn't help but notice her slim frame. The black dress that had fit her only weeks ago now looked to be two sizes too big and the pain in her eyes let her know the toll losing her love was taking on her. Her mother glanced around the room as if she expected someone else to be there and then back to Emma.
Emma bit her lip and looked back to the photos. "He loved his pictures almost more than his sunrises." Her mother crossed her arms and cleared her throat. "You're just like him, same passion for your work, same…" Her voice trailed off. Emma sighed and looked back to the picture as she ran her finger over his writing. She and her father had always shared a special connection. Most of it revolved around pictures, and Emma had even gone into photography and journalism in college, but she had found more success through her writing.
During college, she had been chosen for an internship at Time magazine, and after several years of challenging work she had secured a regular position with the magazine. Emma had sworn her father had finagled the position for her somehow, but he would never own up to it. He had been very proud of her success, but she never believed her work was good enough for the accolades she received or the praise he poured over her.
Emma looked up from the pictures expecting her mother to still be looking on, but her attention was on something across the room. She studied her face for a moment and then looked to where her gaze fell.
She didn't answer. She only turned from the desk and moved closer to one of the bookshelves on the far wall. Emma watched as she walked over to it, wondering what it was that had captured her attention. Her mother now stood in front of a tall wooden shelf that must have been eight feet tall. She looked up to it as if contemplating its contents. Emma watched as she reached for a small step stool by the wall and placed it in front of the shelf.
She looked over to Emma, mustering a smile, and raised her hand. Emma stopped in her tracks and watched as her mother stepped up on the rubber tread on top of the stool. She placed her hands on the shelf in front of her and stretched out every inch of her five-foot-four frame as she reached for a large folder perched on one of the top shelves. Emma anxiously watched as she stood poised to run to her in case she fell. She watched as her mother grabbed the oversized folder, sliding it closer to the edge and, as she recovered it from its resting place, she pulled it closer to her chest.
As she stepped down from the stool, she inhaled deeply. Emma must have been holding her breath while watching her mother as she exhaled heavily at the relief of seeing her mother back on the ground.
Her mother scowled at her. "Your father put this up there for you." Emma looked at the folder and back to her mother.
Her mother mustered a smile. "I guess you'll have to open it and find out." She walked toward the desk, placing the folder on the corner, and looked into Emma's eyes.
"He said you would know what to do with it when the time was right." She studied her daughter for a moment and then reached out, touching her cheek. "You know, you have his eyes too." She mustered half a smile and then looked to the folder. "It's all there, Em." She looked at Emma, almost squinting.
She seemed to gasp for air as tears now flowed freely. Emma stood up wanting to comfort her, but her mother raised her hand again, stopping her. "No." She dropped her hand to her side. "You have work to do anyway." She paused there for a moment longer and turned for the door. Emma watched as she disappeared around the corner. She wanted to go to her.
She took a deep breath as she looked to the doorway. She felt helpless. Every time she tried to comfort her mother, she pushed her away. Emma tried to convince herself it was part of the grieving process, but it still hurt. She let out a big sigh and turned her attention back to the folder. Emma ran her hands over her jeans as if she were warming her legs and patted her thighs. She looked back to the doorway again and wished for a moment she could help her mother find some peace. She sighed heavily and then looked back to the folder, trying to imagine what was inside. She found the whole situation to be a bit peculiar because her father was not much for fanfare, and the mystery behind the folder made her feel intrigued, but apprehensive at the same time. She shook her head as she reached for it and then unwound the string on its front that held it shut.
As she folded back the top and peered inside, she found what appeared to be three large books. She pulled out the contents, setting the folder to the side, and studied the first book. It was the size of a large coffee-table book and was made of a heavy reddish-brown paper. It reminded her of something she had seen in a scrapbooking class one of her girlfriends had taken her to. Around the edge, there was a small band of gold inlay that served as a border for the front cover. Near the binding, large brass fasteners were inserted, holding the book and its contents together. In the middle of the cover was a small box with a title written on it in perfect, large, scrolling letters.
She read it aloud. "Lost Sunrise," Emma reached up, touching her cheek as she looked at the book. She didn't open it immediately as she turned her attention to the two other books. The second one looked much like the first, but on this one was written Guadalcanal. After Emma read the title, she glanced to the picture of her father there on the wall. She bit her lip and placed the second book aside with the other as she looked to the final one. This book was different from the other two. It looked more like something you would get from a bookstore. On the front of it were hundreds of small photos. Each picture was of young military men in what Emma assumed were World War II uniforms. She read the title on the book, The Lost Stories of World War II. She flipped the book over, hoping to find a description on the back, but only found more photos. Emma placed it back on the desk and looked at all three manuscripts in front of her.
She wasn't sure what she might find in the pages and, as she looked at the haunting pictures on the final book, a wave of sadness washed over her. She took a deep breath, settling her heart, and shifted around in the chair. She reached up, opening the large front cover of the first book. Inside she found the pages yellowed with age.
The edges seemed tattered from what appeared to be years of use and exposure to the sun. In the middle of the first page, she could see the edge of a picture covered by an envelope with her name on it. Even though her mother had told her the books were left for her, she was a bit surprised to find her name written there. She picked it up and, as she did, she looked to the picture beneath the envelope. Emma smiled as a photo of her mother and father on their wedding day looked back at her. Beneath the picture written in her father's handwriting was an inscription.
For my Elizabeth, without you, I would have been lost forever. November 8, 1952.
Emma studied their photo for a moment and smiled. She could see the happiness on both their faces. She turned her attention back to the envelope. Emma pulled the letter from inside, placing it on the desk. As she unfolded it, she smoothed it, so it would lie flat. She began to read.
I hope this letter finds you well but considering the circumstances I know this will be a trying time for you. As I write this letter, I'm picturing you there, sitting at my desk, reading away. I do have to say that part of me still sees you sitting there as a little girl whose feet barely reach the floor, but I know the young woman and writer is there wondering what all this is about.
Well, Em, there is a lot I wanted to say and should have told you in person, but I was always the guy that was better behind the camera and I was never the best with my words—that was always your area. I guess if you are reading this letter, my last sunrise has come and gone, and I know you probably have more questions than answers at this point, but I think what you want to know is there in front of you. I know this time will not have been easy on you or my Elizabeth, but as I write this letter, I take great comfort in the idea that your strength and love, along with your mother's, will carry you through. I want you to know that I was truly blessed to have had you as my daughter and there was never a father more proud than I was of you. If I do have a single regret in this life or the next, it is a selfish one, and it's that I won't be there to continue to watch you succeed.
Em, there is so much more I wish I had told you and so much I wanted to share, but now as my time has passed the best I can do is leave you with my stories. You will find them there in my notes and pictures. My hope is that they may serve to tell you more about who your father was and about a life I know you found to be somewhat of a mystery. Each of the books I left for you were very special to me, and they were something your mother and I worked on for years. In writing these stories I found great pain at first, but in the end, I believe they helped me find the peace that I sought for so long.
Em, I've never been brave enough to share these with anyone else other than your mother, and I struggled with the ghosts of war for years, but now in my death I am free, free of the pain and free from the memories that made me less of the father and less of the man I wanted to be. These stories are yours now and you may do with them what you will, but remember, in these pages, you will find me, you will find your mother and you will find a history of a life, that if not for my sweet Elizabeth, would have been lost to me altogether.
Em, when I wrote this letter, I wasn't sure how this would all turn out, but I think you will know what to do with all of this when the time is right. And remember, I love you, I am proud of the person you have come to be, and if by chance you do need me, I am always with you and never further than the sunrise.
Emma looked up from the pages.
"Damn it, Dad." She exhaled, trying to release the pain in her heart.
She started to laugh in frustration as she turned her attention from the letter and looked out the window to the fields. She heard her father's voice as she mulled the letter over in her mind. Emma watched once again as the wind rolled across the grass. She wiped her eyes and turned and looked back to the books. Part of her wanted to walk out of her father's office, go get in her car and drive back to New York as if she could run away from all that was facing her, but she knew her place was right there, behind the desk. She ran her hand through her hair and squared the book up in front of her. She let out a big sigh and turned the page. On the next page, she found one of her father's prized sunrise shots along with several sheets of handwritten notes. She picked them up, studied the photo for a moment and looked to the words written on the first page.
Emma turned the first page over, finding more pages written in beautiful script. She placed the pages in front of her on the desk and began to read.
It was late summer in 1950 when Joe pulled his truck on top of the hill at the back of his family's farm there in Harrison Indiana. He could just barely make out the tree-filled valley in front of him through the darkness. He reached for the Contex 35mm camera that lay on the seat next to him and stepped from his truck. He took a deep breath of the crisp morning air. The sweet smells of the maple trees in the surrounding woods filled his lungs. He glanced to the horizon; the thin clouds in the distance were beginning to turn light pinks and oranges as the sun made its way into the sky.
As Emma read the first words, she found herself to be very distant from his writing. It was as if she was editing some project that had come across her desk, some article by someone she barely knew. She wasn't sure why she had done this at first. Part of her thought it was natural for her to distance herself from the work she read. She felt it allowed her to maintain her objectivity, but as she read her father's writing, she felt guilty for having treated it like it was written by someone she didn't know.
Emma sighed heavily again. She reached up, rubbing her brow, and as she did, she heard a distinct chirp from her phone in her pocket. Her cell reception at the farm was anything but great so she was surprised by the welcome interruption. Emma leaned back, crossing one arm under the other as she brought the phone up and clicked the power button. The email icon refreshed and showed a red number thirty-two next to it. She tapped the screen, opening her mail, and glanced at several of the subject lines. She scrolled down through the messages, but she didn't open them as she really didn't want to hear from anyone from the city.
Over the past few months, things back home had become very difficult, and Emma felt that she had lost her way in her writing and her relationship. Things with her longtime fiancé, Steven, who her mother swore was perfect for her, had been pretty rocky and it seemed that their days were filled with more drama than joy. Steven was to have made the trip home with her, but when she left New York, she told him she didn't want him to come.
When she'd left him alone in the city, she felt very distant from him, but now as she thought of him, she felt she'd almost been cruel. Everything seemed to have come to a head with her father passing and now, as she sat there, she felt more alone than ever.
Over the years, Emma had developed a pretty good method for dealing with stress—or running away from it, as Steven had suggested. This usually involved long hours in the office pouring herself into her work and now, as she sat there at her father's desk, she scoffed as she, for a moment, believed that Steven might have been right. As she looked at her father's manuscript, she couldn't help but laugh at the thought of how her father had planned this moment. She couldn't run away; she didn't have her work or her office to hide in. Her phone and internet reception was terrible, and he'd known she would be left there with her thoughts and his notes. She put the phone down on the desk and reached up, rubbing her neck.
She cleared her throat and looked across the room to her father's picture. "Alright, Dad, you win." She picked up the pages again, taking a deep breath, and began to read.


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Q: Error para registrar una APP en Google Play Saludos amigos tengo un problema estoy tratando de registrar una APP que hice que es um botón de pánico. Cuando presionan el botón la APP manda un SMS a mi servidor y del servidor envio Emails y SMSs a los contactos configurados en la plataforma web.
Sin embargo estoy tratando de subirla al Play Store y me asignan este error.