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There's a restaurant on site, as well as a coffee shop/cafe. You can enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge. WiFi is free in public spaces. The business-friendly Little Duke Hotel also features tour or ticket assistance, concierge services, and express check-in. This 3-star 's-Hertogenbosch hotel is smoke free.
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Little Duke Hotel offers 16 accommodations with minibars (stocked with some free items) and laptop-compatible safes. This individually decorated and furnished accommodation includes desks. Flat-screen televisions come with premium digital channels and Netflix. Bathrooms include a shower, complimentary toiletries and hairdryers. This 's-Hertogenbosch hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Housekeeping is provided on a daily basis.
For a fee, guests can enjoy continental breakfast on weekdays from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM and at the weekend from 8:00 AM to noon.
Little Duke Hotel has a restaurant on site.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on-site or nearby; fees may apply.
If you have any requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
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There is no front desk at this property. To make arrangements for check-in, please contact the property ahead of time using the information on the booking confirmation. If you are planning to arrive after midnight, please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation. Guests will receive an email with check-in instructions and lockbox information prior to arrival. Guests can access their accommodation through a private entrance.
This property does not have a front desk. To arrange for check-in, guests must contact the property in advance of arrival using the information on the booking confirmation. Guests arriving after midnight must make advance arrangements by contacting the property using the information on the booking confirmation. Guests will receive an email with check-in information and lockbox information prior to arrival. Guests can access their accommodation through a private entrance.
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Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
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The official trailer for the musical, Love in a Different Key is here. The stage play was written by Essence Mason, with music and lyrics by Ana November and Venor Yard. The show was presented to two sold-out New York City audiences in December 2019. The trailer features original music from the show and soundtrack (full length trailer available on YouTube).
Cast: Ariel Blackwood, Bosa Mora, George Ross II, Norlette Nichols, Imani Gooden, Rene’ Henry and Jazzy Mason.
Team: Chanel Samuels (Co-Director), Malcolm Smith (Co-Director), Simone Smith (Assistant Director).


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Tens of thousands of people have signed up for professional service with the Russian military since the start of the year, state media quoted the country's former president as saying Sunday.
Citing the Defense Ministry, Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of the Russian Security Council, said that “about 280,000 people have been accepted into the ranks of the armed forces on contract service,” the state news agency Tass reported.
He clarified that some people were on reserve, while others were volunteers, the agency said.
NBC News could not independently verify his claim. Last year, Russia announced a plan to expand its combat personnel by more than 30%, to 1.5 million.
President Vladimir Putin ordered a “partial mobilization” of 300,000 reservists last September, prompting hundreds of thousands of others to flee Russia to avoid being sent to the war in Ukraine.
He has since said there is no need for any more people to be drafted, although in July, Russia extended conscription for compulsory military service from age 27 to 30, increasing the number of men obliged to serve in the army for a year at any one time.
The number of deaths Russia has suffered in what the Kremlin terms its “special military operation” in Ukraine is a closely guarded secret. A White House assessment in May estimated there had been 100,000 Russian casualties, with 20,000 killed.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said in an intelligence briefing Sunday that Uzbek migrant builders in the Russian-controlled Ukrainian city of Mariupol “have reportedly had their passports confiscated upon arrival and been coerced to join the Russian military.”
The daily update posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, added that Russia had “been appealing to citizens of neighbouring countries with recruitment adverts for individuals to fight in Ukraine” since late June.
"Online adverts have been observed in Armenia and Kazakhstan," it said, adding that some of them had been designed to appeal to Kazakhstan's ethnic Russian population.
The briefing added that the recruitment drive was probably an attempt “to avoid further unpopular domestic mobilisation measures in the run up to the 2024 presidential elections.”
Around 6 million migrants from Central Asia — primarily from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — are believed to live in Russia. Rights groups have said the imported labor force is frequently subjected to discrimination, stigmatization, hate crimes and police brutality.
Inside Ukraine, the country's military has said it has made gains on the front line in the southeast, a rare success as the slow-moving counteroffensive against well-defended Russian troops grinds on.
Brig. Gen. Oleksandr Tarnavskiy told The Observer newspaper in Britain that his troops had decisively breached Russia’s first defensive line near the city of Zaporizhzhia.
After weeks of mine clearances, he said, “we are now between the first and second defensive lines.” He added that Russia was “pulling up reserves, not only from Ukraine but also from Russia,” and as a result would “run out of all the best soldiers.”
Video that circulated online last week and was geolocated by NBC News also appeared to show Ukrainian forces fighting near Verbove, a village just over the front line.

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Avenging a 2-1 Champions League home loss at Anfield might not have been an impossible task for the FC Barcelona team of 2005-06, but it certainly looks a tall order for this year's team, which still
contains most of the same players despite its slumping form. All credit should go to Liverpool, which responded positively to going down 1-0 early in the match. Barcelona certainly had its chances,
though for the most part Liverpool defended well after a shaky first 20 minutes.
The loss is Barcelona's second in a row, and its third in its last five matches in all competitions. Indeed,
2007 hasn't been kind to the defending Spanish and European champion, which has only three wins, two losses and three ties in eight games in the league since Jan. 1, and is now staring down second-leg
deficits in both the Copa del Rey and the Champions League.
Indeed, poor defending is to blame not only for Wednesday's loss but for Barcelona's poor overall form. This may be partly due to the
fact that Coach Franck Rijkaard has failed to lockdown a consistent first-team defensive lineup all season. That said, it'll be all about offense for Barcelona in the return leg at Anfield. The big
change could be the reinsertion of Samuel Eto'o, Spain's leading scorer last season, in the central striking role.
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The Automobile, July 2021
'The story is captured here in more than 300 large-format pages, packed with colour images, technical drawing, press cuttings and more. Informative, concise and entertaining.'
Classic & Sports Car, February 2021
'One of the very elite club of Rocket owners, author Clive Neville finished writing this book as long ago as 2011 but only recently completed the project, such was the scale of the text. With invaluable contributions from both Craft and Murray, this really does go into every nut and bolt of the amazing story from start to finish. Murray even granted unlimited access to his personal archives of notes, pictures and drawing so everything is explained in great detail and will appeal to fans of both the car and superb engineering.' DC
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'There's a section on every Rocket made, which is weirdly fascinating even though the cars all look largely the same. It really is the full Rocket story.'

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GSTAAD, Switzerland - In a stunning ruling, Roman Polanski was declared a free man on Monday - no longer confined to house arrest in his Alpine villa after Swiss authorities rejected a U.S.
BERN, Switzerland - The 32-year legal saga that began with a child rape charge against Roman Polanski headed for a decisive moment Monday as the Swiss government prepared to make an announcement about whether to extradite the fugitive director to the United States.
GENEVA - The Swiss parliament on Tuesday approved a treaty with the United States that will hand thousands of files on suspected tax cheats to U.S.
GENEVA - A Swiss businessman detained nearly two years in Libya amid a dispute over the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son accused Libyan authorities Monday of kidnapping and holding him and a Swiss colleague in solitary confinement for 53 days.
BERN, Switzerland - Swiss President Doris Leuthard says her country is close to finalizing an agreement with Germany to exchange information on suspected tax cheats.

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Luna — Dean Wareham’s reunited post-Galaxie 500 dreampop act — today debuted a Rose McGowan-starring video for its new cover of The Cure’s “Fire in Cairo,” which will appear on its new covers album A Sentimental Education, due out next month. Watch it here.
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In a bit of holiday synchronicity, former Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham today shared video of himself and some fellow musicians performing his old band’s melancholy 1990 song “Fourth of July” on the Fourth of July itself (“4th of July on 4th of July,” he wrote). Watch the performance, and the original video, here.
Dean Wareham will step out of his ongoing Luna reunion next month to celebrate his earlier band with a one-off performance of Galaxie 500’s 1988 debut album Today in San Francisco — a concert Wareham is calling a “one time only” event. Tickets are on sale now for the July concert.
Luna — Dean Wareham’s reunited post-Galaxie 500 dreampop act — will put out its first new music since 2004 in September with the simultaneous release of a 10-song covers album called A Sentimental Education and a 6-song instrumental EP titled A Place of Greater Safety.
For our first post-hiatus installment of Vintage Video, we spotlight a band that, at least in its live incarnation, is sadly underrepresented on YouTube: dream-pop icons Galaxie 500. So here’s a 7-song, 40-minute set that finds Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang performing material from 1988’s Today and 1989’s On Fire.
Last fall, Dean Wareham announced plans to reunite his post-Galaxie 500 band Luna for the first time in a decade for shows this coming spring in Spain. Today, though, he followed that up with big news for U.S. fans: The band’s reunion will open with an April 13 show in Los Angeles, with more American dates this fall.
This week’s new releases include the first-ever solo album from Galaxie 500 and Luna frontman Dean Wareham, plus a live DVD from John Foxx filmed in 1983 and a new anthology from The Jasmine Minks that contains all four of the band’s albums plus a new song.
This week’s new releases include brand-new studio albums from Kitchens of Distinction, Gary Numan and Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham, plus live set from The Chills and John Foxx and The Maths, and a compilation of 30 years’ worth of material from Trevor Horn’s electro-pop label ZTT Records.
Dean Wareham, former frontman of dreampop favorites Galaxie 500 and Luna, today released a new solo single — “Love is Colder Than Death” b/w “She Want Walking in the Rain” — in advance of a mini-LP he’s prepping for release this fall, according to Pitchfork, which premiered the single.
That concert in Atlanta featuring ex-frontman Dean Wareham ‘performing the Galaxie 500 songbook’ that we told you about last month won’t be a one-off after all: Wareham and his Dean & Britta bandmates have announced a scattered string of such shows between August and December.
Former Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham will commemorate the recent re-release of the seminal dream-pop act’s catalog with a special one-off concert in Atlanta this fall at which he will be ‘performing the Galaxie 500 songbook.’
Dream-pop trio Galaxie 500’s three studio albums have been remastered and reissued on vinyl for the first time in 20 years, the band’s members recently […]


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Many of the new comics publishers hitting the scene over the past few years seem to be fighting over the same audience: genre fans who have outgrown superheroes but not superhero-style comics storytelling. Z2 Comics, an independent graphic novel publisher that evolved into its current business model in 2019, is forging a different path to market while sticking closely to the aesthetics that hardcore comics fans know and love.
Z2 has published more than 50 titles over the past two and a half years, almost all based on IP licensed from the music industry. This material ranges from prestige-oriented biographies of figures like jazz legend Charlie Parker to a just-announced collaboration with RZA from Wu-Tang Clan, and includes forays into rock, country music, EDM, heavy metal, thrash/punk, hip-hop, and more. In doing so, Z2 has opened the door to a new audience, a new distribution model, and new relationships between two pop culture cousins—comics and music—that have rarely spent much time in each other’s company.
To date, some of Z2’s bestselling titles have been graphic novels featuring musical performers such as Anthrax, Gorillaz, King Diamond, and Machine Gun Kelly. In the first half of 2022, the house will bring out new graphic novels featuring Tori Amos, Melissa Etheridge, Gwar, Pantera, Spiritbox, and several others. The company hopes to have 25 new titles out by year’s end, expanding beyond music to include figures from sports, podcasts, television, and comedy. The company is also branching out into toys and collectibles, and has hired industry veteran Clint Weiller to spearhead a new line of merchandise aligned with the imprint’s focus on music.
Z2 is the brainchild of four boisterous cofounders with a shared passion for music and comics: CEO Josh Frankel, publisher Sridhar Reddy, senior v-p Josh Bernstein, and chief counsel Kevin Meek. Frankel and Reddy are comics veterans who know how to bring creators into the fold, Bernstein has music industry connections, and Meek is instrumental in nailing down the licensing agreements that are fundamental to Z2’s cross-media strategy. Z2 has around 30 employees, and while the privately held company does not disclose financials, it characterizes its growth as very strong, tripling annually since its inception.
Z2 is guided by a rigorous data-based business strategy and a relentless search for content partners beyond the usual suspects that feed the comics industry. “Doing great creative work is a big part of our strategy,” Frankel said, “but a lot of companies can package good story and art. We noticed when we started the company that there wasn’t much interest in musicians in comics; there was actually kind of a stigma about it. But people have a real emotional attachment to music, stronger than that of almost any other media.”
Reddy added, “There are common wavelengths between the worlds of comics and musicians. We’re both forms of geek tribes, outcasts—and if you bring up the idea of graphic novels to musicians, a lot of them get very excited, because it’s just another extension of the kind of storytelling they do through their music.”
Marketing and distribution are also key components of Z2’s strategy. “We’ve built a really robust digital marketing apparatus,” Frankel said. The company developed a direct-to-consumer channel as well—including deluxe limited editions only available via the Z2 online store—just in time to give homebound readers access to its titles as the pandemic set in.
Z2 brings in fan-favorite artists to create its books and give the creators wide latitude to interpret aspects of the underlying music property. For example, to riff on Ronnie James Dio’s early 80s album Holy Diver, Frankel brought in writer Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) and artist Scott Hampson, whose attractive painting style has graced many mainstream books, with a cover by the ever-popular Bill Sienkiewicz (Moon Knight, New Mutants).
Licensors do not subsidize the graphic novel projects and have only limited creative involvement. “Our restrictions are generally more about avoiding superhero tropes or things that might be sales-averse, but we let our artists have final verdict and edits on the writing, art, marketing, and more,” Frankel said. “Their fingerprints on the projects make it all the more authentic and official.”
This approach helped Z2 gain a beachhead in direct-market comic stores to supplement its other distribution strategies. “We have fairly decent sales at comic shops and bookstores,” Frankel said. “Direct-to-consumer is the core, but we have a very big retail component.”
Frankel said Z2’s sales success has come in spite of adverse conditions: convention and concert shutdowns. “We can’t implement our most valuable marketing and retail strategy, which is having artists doing signings and tours and events,” Frankel said.
The company gave a little preview of the excitement that could generate by having hip hop legend Chuck D and the band Anthrax appear at their booth for NYCC. “One of the biggest expansion points for us in 2022,” Bernstein said, “is to have a more robust retail strategy for pop-ups, conventions, retail, and presence at certain live concerts and locations.”
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Once the live music scene gets going again, Z2 executives believe the company’s growth will accelerate. “We hear from a lot of music fans who don’t usually buy comics but who love our books,” Frankel said. “That’s exciting, because that’s a huge market that no one else is serving.”


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WSU veterinarians prepare eagle to be released back into the wild
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University veterinarians will release a two-year-old bald eagle back into the wild on Friday.
According to Public Information Officer Charlie Powell, the female eagle came to WSU’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital in August emaciated and unable to fly.
Powell said diagnostic tests did not reveal any injuries or illnesses that may have caused the condition. The eagle was given supportive care immmediately and started to molt soon after.
As a result of the molting, WSU could not release the bird until it grew back a full complement of feathers necessary for protection and flight.
Under federal law, protected species like bald eagles must be released back into the wild whenever possible at or very near where they were found so they may resume their migratory life. The eagle will be released from East Park in Quincy at noon Friday. The public is welcome to join.
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The Houston Chronicle's Brian Rosenthal was named the winner of the George Polk Award for education reporting Sunday for the seven-part series that showed how thousands of disabled children in Texas were denied specialized instruction guaranteed by federal law.
The 68th annual George Polk journalism awards are provided by Long Island University, which credited the coverage with the subsequent rollback of arbitrary limits.
The university noted that his 10-month investigation, "Denied," had exposed a long-standing but previously unreported Texas policy setting a quota denying special education services for more than 8.5 percent of students in any of the state's 1,200 school districts. It said the series "sent shockwaves through the state and led to a federal edict barring the practice, established as a budget-balancing tool in 2004, and the state has agreed to end it."
"We are so proud of this body of work, which has made a real difference in the lives of thousands of Texas families," said Nancy Barnes, executive vice president and editor of the Chronicle. "At a time when journalists are under attack, this work is also an important reminder that we are here to serve our community."
Winners will be honored at a luncheon ceremony on April 7 in Manhattan. The awards were established in 1949 by the university to commemorate George Polk, a CBS correspondent killed in 1948 while covering the Greek civil war. The awards are meant to celebrate the impact of courageous and authentic journalism on our national and global discourse.
Rosenthal last week was named the winner of the 2017 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting by the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Journalism.
Rosenthal, 27, a reporter in the Chronicle's Austin bureau, began his investigation after an advocate told him that the Texas Education Agency had established an 8.5 percent benchmark that had become a de facto cap on special education enrollments, unbeknownst to legislators, federal education officials, parents and even many educators.
Rosenthal amassed state and federal data that showed how special education enrollments had plummeted from just under the 13 percent national average in 2004, when the 8.5 percent benchmark went into effect, to precisely 8.5 percent in 2015, by far the lowest in America. Rosenthal, an alumnus of Northwestern University, joined the Chronicle in 2014 and was named the Texas Star Reporter of the Year for 2015 by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors. Previously, he worked in the capital bureau of the Seattle Times.
Read the full series below:
Denied: In 2004, Texas arbitrarily decided what percentage of students should get special education services. Today, tens of thousands of children are paying the price.
- PART 1: How Texas keeps tens of thousands of children out of special education
- PART 2: Schools push students out of special education to meet state limit
- PART 3: Mentally ill lose out as special ed declines
- PART 4: Facing pressure to cut special education, Texas schools shut out English Language Learners
- PART 5: Unable to get special education in Texas, one family moved to Pennsylvania
- PART 6: Houston schools block disabled kids from special ed
- PART 7: Special ed cap drives families out of public schools


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Los Angeles police have identified a man suspected of gunning down Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle outside his clothing store in Los Angeles. Police said they are searching for Eric Holder (29) who is suspected to have fatally shot Hussle.
Rapper Nipsey Hussle was killed after being shot multiple times in broad daylight outside his store on Sunday.
The 33-year-old rapper was shot on the street where his store Marathon Clothing is located in the Hyde Park neighbourhood.
Hussle was rushed to a hospital after the incident, where he was pronounced dead. Two other persons were also injured during the shooting but they are said to be in stable condition.
The LAPD said the investigation is being handled as a homicide and they are looking for one male black suspect.
The rapper, whose real name was Ermias Davidson Ashedom, hailed from Crenshaw, Los Angeles. He was nominated for a Grammy for best rap album earlier this year for his debut studio album, ‘Victory Lap’.
Hussle is survived by his two children and his girlfriend, Lauren London, who just gave birth to their son Kross in 2016. (NL Web Desk & Agencies)


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North Tahoe Arts: The Weekly 30 Year Anniversary Exhibit
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If you're a vintage buff, then be sure to check out the exhibit of Lake Tahoe's local magazine, The Weekly, at North Tahoe Arts Center in Tahoe City from January 5th to February 27th!
The Weekly celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2012, and pays homage to its history by displaying one cover picked from every year of publication from its inception in 1982. An Opening Reception for the exhibit is January 13th from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Arts Center, is free to the public and locals and tourists alike are invited to attend.
The 30 years of covers on exhibit feature winter and summer recreation, local faces, local events and a fantastic look at Tahoe and Truckee for the past 30 years. The highlight of the exhibit is the first edition, which published on February 18, 1982, as "North Tahoe Week." The first edition was 12 pages and featured a photograph by Vance Fox of a skier cliff jumping near the horse trails in Squaw Valley.
The Weekly is celebrating its 30th year with a redesign of the magazine, debuting on January 12th, along with a special 30th anniversary edition on February 9th. They will host a 30th anniversary party on February 11th, for all attend. At this time the location is TBD.
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Reg and Len are outsiders, and I recognize them, too, as I consider the ways in which we exclude and include in this house, in this town, in our family, in our country—different versions of a history that feels too familiar.
“I never need to write my own memoir about Eagles Mere,” I tell my sister. “Sarah Blake has already written it much better than I ever could.” I am melancholy, sad to have missed the opportunity to write such a luminous novel.
“But you will write your own story, our story” my sister offers, just as if she were giving me a hand up as we used to scramble up the steep incline from a hike to Haystacks. There she stands, smiling--my older sister, the image of our mother, elegant and confident, more certain of herself than I have ever known her. She lives here all the time, not just summers. We have changed, the two of us, shifted the way we interact. It’s as if, when our mother died, we realized it was time to lay down squabbling that had comfortably defined our dynamic, separated by seven years. Without our mother as referee, we realized we had been on the same side all along, tucked into our pew at church each Sunday, our mother in between us in the prayers. She is here in birdsong, in the doe that steps neatly into my sister’s yard this morning as I print a document, in the hummingbirds that visit our feeders, in the glorious mountain sunsets.. Our mother did not like to referee. We, my sister and I, are conscious of how lucky we are to have each other, to have this place we love, this place that connects us to our past and future.
We are here, all of us, in Eagles Mere, generations of ghosts knocking about, contentedly and less contentedly, in this house, on this lake. Our brother. Our mother’s brothers. Our grandparents. Our children, my sister’s grand children. We are all here walking to the Sweet Shop for ice cream cones—mint chocolate chip. We are playing Pinball, ping pong, tennis, breathing in the smell of ashes in the fire place, walking softly on the emerald moss along the Laurel Path, the sound of the water lapping at the dock in the fog. “Mist before seven; clear by eleven,” intones my sister, her voice an echo of our mother’s.
On the way into the house to write this at my mother’s desk, which was once my brother’s desk, I stop at Grannie’s desk—even my children who never knew their great-grandmother—call it Grannie’s desk. The green leather guestbook lies on the ancient blotter underneath the Book of Common Prayer that I, by accident, purloined from our church last week and must return tomorrow. In between the guest book—my mother’s quavery hand unmistakable in blue Flair, noting who came and went each season—are four hankies I am pressing like flowers I used to press with Mommy to make books each summer. Carefully, I would glue the pressed flowers or feathers to construction paper, and together, we would label each page and attach the pages with brass brads she always seemed to have a store of. If I look hard enough, I would not be surprised to come upon those little albums tucked into a drawer or shelved between books no one has opened for fifty years. And a trove of brads, themselves, may lurk in an unopened drawer.
This summer, we have had three bedrooms painted, have thrown away a lot of old clothes, have swept and dusted and arranged for new carpet to be installed and to fix the pinball machine. Our daughter will be married here next summer, thirty-five Augusts after her father and I were married here. What to keep and what to toss? I am in the middle, looking forward and back, full of love.
And when I am tired of ministering to this old house, there is the porch waiting full of rockers and a settee and a hammock, and a book like The Guest House, which makes me weep and murmur, “I know them. I know them all.”


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If you’re going to chow down on a Travis Scott meal at McDonald’s, you might as well have some new music to go along with your dining experience, right? Weeks after Travis, 29, rolled out his partnership with the fast-food giant, La Flame teamed up with Young Thug and M.I.A.(!) to drop “Franchise,” Trav’s first “solo” single since 2019. And along with the new track, he released a music video as well, featuring some amazing visuals. Filmed in Michael Jordan‘s home (the “23” on the gate was a dead giveaway), Travis lives like a franchise player, sipping Michael’s award-winning Cincoro tequila, golfing like “His Airness,” and just being an all-out baller.
Though “Franchise” boasts M.I.A. and Young Thug on the track, it’ll be considered Travis’s first “solo” outing since “Highest In The Room.” Travis has been busy, but it just hasn’t been under his own “Travis Scott” brand. La Flame dropped the JackBoys project last December and teamed up with Kid Cudi to form The Scotts (and release a chart-topping, eponymous track) in April. He also joined Rosalía for her song “TKN” in May, and shared his song for the Tenet soundtrack, “The Plan,” in August. Travis has also been featured on Migos’s “Give No Fxk,” Nav and Gunna’s “Turks,” and Kanye West’s “Wash Us In The Blood.” He was also supposed to do something with T-Pain but unfortunately, that didn’t work out.
Prior to “Franchise,” Travis teamed with McDonald’s for the fast-food giant’s first celebrity collaboration since 1992’s Michael Jordan-inspired McJordan. The “Travis Scott Meal” includes a Quarter Pounder with cheese, lettuce, and bacon; a side of medium fries with tangy BBQ sauce; and a medium Sprite with extra ice. The Travis Scott meal – affectionately known as the Cactus Jack burger by his fans – also came with a Travis Scott x McDonald’s capsule merch collection that includes, of all things, a $90 body pillow in the shape of a chicken nugget.
There was also a plastic Cactus Jack x McDonald lunch tray with the phrase “I’m loving it’ scribbled across it, as well as a “Billions and billions served” brown work jacket. In a second merch drop, Travis also rolled out a Cactus Jack-branded McDonalds long-sleeved uniform, a t-shirt bearing the likeness of the Travis Scott doll from the collab’s commercial, a pair of branded sweatpants, and fuzzy brown slippers. It was the biggest thing to hit Mcdonald’s since Rick and Morty talked about Szechuan sauce.
Travis elaborated – or tried to – on why people are drawn to his numerous fashion collaborations. La Flame has worked with brands like Been Trill, Bape, Helmut Lang, and Nike. “I’m trying to just cook, trying to create,” he told GQ. “It’s so hard to speak for people because I’m always moving forward like, ‘What are we cooking next?’ …I do have a mission statement. Everything is for the performer and the performance athlete. Performing is a sport, and it’s a drive. It’s so dope to play on the same fields as sporting events. So the whole mission is just to create—whether it’s footwear, or whether it’s apparel—for that mindset. For just living your life on the go.”Click to Subscribe to Get Our Free HollywoodLife Daily Newsletter to get the hottest celeb news.

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Harbor Bay Real Estate Advisors didn't unveil specific development plans for the land, but said it expects the project will feature "versatile" housing options.
The Ramsey County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to demolish the vacant Ramsey County Government Center West building and former Adult Detention Center that overlook the Mississippi River on Kellogg Boulevard.
Liberty Property Trust’s two-story, 345,000-square-foot 7075 Flying Cloud building is unique for its size and layout in the Twin Cities.
Harbor Bay Real Estate Advisors, co-founded by Opus' former VP of development, plans a 148-unit apartment complex overlooking Lake Superior.
The purchase is the last of three real estate deals for the grocery chain's initial push into the Twin Cities.
The former site of Ace Seven Corners Hardware and a church could be redeveloped into a six-story building with a hotel and 180-unit apartment building.
The supermarket chain, which is expanding into the Twin Cities, has a deal to buy land once occupied by a New Hope Kmart store and build a grocery store and gas station.
The world's largest sports architecture firm will move its 240 Kansas City employees into the former Board of Trade Building in 2015.
The bad luck and unquestioned bad timing that seemed to plague an office building in Rocklin appears to have finally abated.
Founders Properties LLC has sold a 102,000-square-foot Olathe office building to Griffin Capital Corp. for $19.1 million, or about $187 a square foot.
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Several Dinkytown small businesses are closing in the coming week due to the six-story Opus development apartment complex on 14th Avenue SE.
Keith Bednarowski has retired from the board of directors of Opus Holding as well as from board and officer roles with other Opus companies.
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The aim of the study is Foucault, Lyotard and Bauman’s views on power. The views of the mentioned thinkers on power were examined in the context of their general theories. In this study, which was based on qualitative data analysis, the document analysis method was applied. In this method, which is based on the systematic analysis of written documents, from the texts which were written by the thinkers themselves and the books and articles written by others were used. As a result of the study, it has been understood that the power will not only rely on oppression, but will also produce knowledge and pleasure and reinforce its own dominance correspondingly. It has been reached the point of view that meta-narratives based on history caused to Hitlerist fascism in Germany and totalitarian governments as in the Soviets, therefore small narratives should dominate instead. It has been determined that the capital has become internationalized and dominated new places, especially depending on the development of the information industries, whereas the political powers that remained local could not take effective measures. It has been understood that the political powers, who cannot implement structural solutions against the uncertainties and insecurities that people face, reduce the issue to unsafety and try to solve the problem with increasing inspections and controls, and these measures also prevent overcoming real problems.

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It’s July, which means the return of Green Bay Packers training camp is almost here.
Rookies will report to training camp in less than two weeks, and we’ll finally get to see the Packers players back on the practice field. Head coach Matt LaFleur will be aiming to lead this team beyond the NFC Championship Game, the round where they’ve suffered consecutive playoff exits.
The season opener against the New Orleans Saints isn’t all that far away. After a long offseason, it suddenly feels like the return of football is just around the corner.
So when training camp officially gets underway a couple of weeks from now, which Packers players should we be watching closely?
10. Devin Funchess, WR
After opting out last season, we’ll finally get to see Devin Funchess in action this year.
Funchess has the talent to make an impact in LaFleur’s offense, but it’s not guaranteed he’ll make the 53-man roster. Funchess has only played in one regular-season game since 2018, so it’ll be interesting to see how quickly he gets back to his best at training camp.
Outside of Davante Adams, it’s unclear how LaFleur will distribute the snaps at wide receiver this season now that Funchess and rookie Amari Rodgers are added to the mix.
Funchess can have an important role for the Packers. I’m interested to see how LaFleur uses him during training camp.

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The best game: Texas over Kansas State.
The coach I wish I was: Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy.
The coach I wouldn’t want to be: Purdue’s Ryan Walters.
The team that impressed: Georgia.
The defensive slugfest: Iowa over Northwestern.
The offensive shootout: Washington over USC.
The team that disappointed: Nebraska.
The Heisman favorite: Washington’s Michael Penix Jr.
The best conference: Pac-12.
The worst conference: Big 12.
The best team: Michigan.
The underrated coach: Arizona’s Jedd Fisch.
The overrated coach: Oklahoma’s Brent Venables.
The underrated player: Alabama’s Jalen Milroe.
The breakout performance: Washington’s Dillon Johnson’s 256 rushing yards and four touchdowns.
The biggest upset: Clemson over Notre Dame.
The upset no one saw coming: Indiana over Wisconsin.
The team that wants to hit the reset button: TCU.
The blowout everyone predicted: North Carolina over Campbell.
The underrated team: Oklahoma State.
The overrated team: USC.
The feel-good story: Mike Gundy winning the last scheduled Bedlam series.
The horror show: USC’s defense surrendering 52 points and 572 yards.
The must-see game in week 11: Michigan vs. Penn State.
The team nobody’s talking about: Kansas.
The team with an elite offense: Alabama.
The team with an elite defense: Iowa.
The team that was desperate for a win: Michigan State.
The surprising blowout: Penn State over Maryland.
The surprising close game: Oregon State over Colorado.
The best comeback game: Houston over Baylor.
The narrow escape: Stanford over Washington State.
The defense that got exposed: UCLA.
The coach with the most to prove: Baylor’s Dave Aranda.
The dangerous Group of Five team: James Madison.
Cool in the clutch: Texas’ Maalik Murphy.
Give that coach a raise: Duke’s Mike Elko.
Man, they’re good: Georgia.
Wow, they’re bad: Arizona State.


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After two projects in 2018: the famous French Bakery Vol 2 on which he had invited very beautiful people: Roméo Elvis, Di-Meh, Slimka, Jok’air, 13 Block … and La Potence with his friend Biffty, DJ Weedim has returned to the stove and will put the cover with a new album scheduled for April 5 entitled French Bakery 20/20.
DJ Weedim x Alkpote: winning combination To teaser the project, we first got the video of Coup de fil Feat. Captaine Roshi and now the pastry chef of French rap regale with the Macintosh clip feat the inevitable Alkpote and this is the dinguerie we hoped for.
The Dirty Emperor does the same thing every time and it’s cool to hear the Weedim voice playing his verse. For the visual it’s 420 workshop that has been responsible for staging the two acolytes who turn into computer experts who charcoal and concoct recipes in their lab.
A project that is expected to stand firm because he should have a huge cast. We do not really know if it will come out, but there is an incredible connection King Heenok x Alkpote x DJ Weedim who is in the oven ready to burn our ears.


What do you get if you take the specs of the latest Android superphones and stuff them into a case that’s nearly the size of a tablet? Apparently ZTE wanted to find out, because that’s a pretty good description of the company’s Nubia X6.
The ZTE Nubia X6 features a 6.44 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, 3GB of RAM, up to 64GB of storage, and a 4250mAh battery.
It has a 13MP rear camera… and a 13MP front-facing camera.
The phone also features dual-band WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, and dual SIM support in China. It’s not clear if ZTE plans to sell this phone outside of China.
ZTE will offer two models. The cheaper version will have a 2.3 GHz processor and 32GB of storage, while the high-end model has a 2.5 GHz CPU and 64GB of storage.


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Do reclaimed areas within natural gas fields augment deer mouse body condition and abundance?
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Habitat loss and fragmentation from anthropogenic activities alters habitat availability for wildlife and can result in changes to wildlife behavior, space use, and fitness. Discerning both how and why populations change in response to habitat alteration can improve our understanding of community structure and species interactions across trophic levels in disturbed systems. Energy development is a growing source of habitat alteration worldwide. Some small mammals, including deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), are known to be more prevalent in areas with increased habitat loss from natural gas development, leading to increased predation rates for co-occurring songbirds. Why rodents may be more abundant in gas fields, however, remains unclear. We investigated whether mice receive fitness benefits from living near development. We hypothesized deer mouse populations are augmented by food subsidies in reclaimed areas adjacent to well pads. Accordingly, we predicted increased abundance and improved fitness for deer mouse populations adjacent to reclaimed areas compared to populations far-removed from reclaimed areas, and increased abundance with grass cover in reclaimed areas. Although we found no difference in abundance or fitness metrics between mice living near and far from development, we found higher abundance of deer mice near reclaimed areas with higher densities of grasses (an important food resource). Understanding mechanisms underlying small mammal abundance near energy development will facilitate development of targeted management strategies to protect vulnerable species of songbirds breeding near energy development.


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The Analogues will return to the Ziggo Dome on Saturday October 5th, 2019! This show is sold out. Tickets were available via Ticketmaster.
On 5 October The Analogues will play the last studio album of The Beatles, Abbey Road live. It is Abbey Road's 50th 'birthday'. More than 2 years ago The Analogues gave a sold out show in honor of the Sgt. Pepper album.
Bear in mind that it is forbidden to bring a bag with you to this show. Only handbags that aren’t bigger than the size of an A4-paper (8.27 x 11.69 inches) and no thicker than 10 cm (3.9 inches) are allowed inside. If you do bring a bag bigger than this, you will not be allowed to enter the venue. The organizer of this event will do its best to reduce queues much as possible. We politely ask for your understanding and cooperation.
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Innovation for Sustainable Sheep and Goat Production in Europe (iSAGE) aims to enhance the sustainability, competitiveness and resilience of the European Sheep and Goat sectors through collaboration between industry and research. We are investigating the sheep and goat sector because it is sensitive to general socio-economic, demographic, and ecological and market challenges.
The 2018/2019 winter edition of the iSAGE newsletter has just been published. This newsletter concentrates on initiatives to improve the consumption of sheep and goat meat and our work on climate change impacts and sustainability. It includes an article on our work assessing sustainability across the sheep and goat sectors in Europe, using the Public Goods Tool
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New eatery in the Owyhee Building will debut next month.
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Slightly under the radar (possibly), but of enormous significance, the ONS has re-classified housing associations (or private registered providers of social housing – in the new language which I can’t get used to) as private sector, and in so doing has wiped around £60billion off the public sector debt. It is this re-classification which has given Hammond room to manoeuvre in the coming budget (although the rumours are that he is going to put £5billion only, and that appears to be going towards home ownership – plus ca change), which kind of proves the value in spreadsheets and the significance of audit practices.
The reason for this change is a result of the provisions in the Housing and Planning Act 2016, ss 92-4 (reducing social housing regulation), and regulations laid under s 93, The Regulation of Social Housing (Influence of Local Authorities(England) Regulations 2017.
There has been some discussion as to whether the ONS re-classification might affect whether associations are public bodies for the purposes of public law and human rights (as in Weaver). Given that the ONS re-classification as public was put before Davis J in R(Macleod) v Peabody and did not stop that judge problematically (imho) categorising the act there concerned (a transfer) as private, I doubt very much that the re-re-classification as private will be of any real significance. After all, as Andy Lane points out in this note, the public function question is multi-factoral (and, of course, Weaver was decided when housing associations were regarded by the bean counters as private any way).
The real significance, however, of these changes which has gone remarkably unremarked is that these changes have made incredibly important alterations to the influence that local authorities can have on associations. For example, by reg 5(1) of the 2017 regs, “a local authority may not hold or exercise any local authority voting rights in relation to a private registered provider”; reg 3 restricts the number of local authority officers at a housing association; and Schedule 4 to the 2016 Act makes significant alterations to the disposal powers of associations. The loosening of local authority control takes place against the following backdrop: (i) associations are now responsible for a much greater proportion of the social (and affordable) housing stock, (ii) many of the larger associations at least began life as large-scale voluntary transfers of local authority stock, (iii) nominations agreements are the principal mechanisms through which local authorities access housing association stock, and (iv) all the evidence over the last 35 years suggests that the operationalisation of those agreements is fraught in practice. To add to this, there is also the evidence compiled by the excellent work of Tony Manzi and Nicky Morrison (paywall, I think, sorry, but the abstract is accessible and provides detail of the study), which demonstrates just how much the risk, business and entrepreneurialisation agendas have infiltrated into housing association practices; we also are becoming more aware of housing association responses to welfare reform (ie exclusions); and, finally, the kinds of mega-mergers that are going on suggest a potential weakening of state regulation at least as far as compliance practices go. As Manzi and Morrison put it (in the abstract):
Housing organisations face a stark dilemma about whether to continue a strategy of ‘profit for purpose’ or to embrace an unambiguously commercial ethos. The article contends that the trajectory of decision-making (although not unidirectional) leads ultimately towards an increased exposure to risk and vulnerability to changes in the housing market. More fundamentally, the attempt to reconcile social and commercial logics is likely to have wider consequences for the legitimacy of the sector.
In other words, this is precisely the time when, rather than reducing social housing regulation, we should be tightening it up. Giving the government budgetary room to manoeuvre appears rather more important than considering the roles and legitimacy of “social housing” providers.


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Who pulled off better: Kourtney Kardarshiyan or Deepika Padukone during Gehraiyaan trailer launch?
Deepika released the virtual trailer wearing a gorgeous red key-hole halter leather dress by Milo Maria.Author : Priyanka Vinayak
The makers of the upcoming film 'Gehraiyaan' unveiled the trailer on Thursday and showcased an intense but complex human relationship.
Directed by Shakun Batra, Amazon Original Movie 'Gehraiyaan' stars Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Ananya Panday, Dhairya Karwa as leads along with Nasseruddin Shah and Rajat Kapur in pivotal roles.
Deepika Padukone’s upcoming movie Gehraiyaan is all set to release on Amazon Prime on 11th February 2022. Apart from the film's trailer, fans also loved Deepika's bold red avatar for the trailer launch. The actor released the virtual trailer wearing a gorgeous red key-hole halter leather dress by Milo Maria. However, Deepika’s red dress reminded us of Kourtney Kardashian's dress from Halloween.
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Of all the field maintenance mistakes one could possibly make, this one is pretty much the worst.
It happened to St. Edward High School in Illinois when the company who tends to the field applied the wrong chemicals. St. Edward now has to decide whether to continue playing on the field or to relocate for the remainder of the season
According to the Chicago Tribune:
“The company we have for maintaining our field mistakenly put down a weed killer instead of a fertilizer and a portion of the grass on the field is dead,” athletic director P.J. White said.
“It was an honest mistake made in the mixing of chemicals for the field and they feel terrible about it,” White said. “Someone grabbed the wrong bottle when they were mixing chemicals.”


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Background/Aims: The mechanisms underlying neurological deterioration in patients with acute lacunar infarction in the lenticulostriate artery (LSA) territory are currently unclear. We aimed to identify predictors for progressive neurological deficits using diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI). Methods: We studied 40 consecutive patients who were classified into two groups based on their NIHSS scores: progressive infarction (PI) and non-progressive infarction (NPI). We calculated the size of DWI abnormalities and evaluated clinical characteristics on admission for both groups. Results: 19 patients (47.5%) exhibited neurological deterioration. Time from onset to MRI was 8.2 ± 6.7 h for all patients. DWI area was significantly larger in the PI relative to the NPI group (1.1 ± 0.5 cm2 for PI vs. 0.7 ± 0.3 cm2 for NPI; p = 0.002), although patients' NIHSS scores at admission were not significantly different between both groups. The optimal cut-off value of infarct area between PI and NPI was 0.98 cm2. Multivariate analysis revealed that an infarct area on DWI ≥0.98 cm2 (odds ratio 10.57; 95% confidence interval 2.24-68.32; p = 0.006) was a significant independent predictor of PI. Conclusions: A large infarct area on initial DWI was an independent predictor of neurological deterioration in patients with acute lacunar infarctions in the LSA territory.
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The premiere of the updated Hyundai Genesis took place in 2011. This model is a full-fledged representative of premium cars. Sedan completely renewed, it has a new platform and drive the rear wheels. Hyundai's engineers were able to achieve better handling and stability due to the optimum hanging back and front. It should be noted quite modern technology combines traditional welding with an adhesive used in the production Hyundai Genesis.
Interior of the car is characterized by luxury, comfort and spaciousness. At the interior decoration of the car used materials such as polished metal inserts made of light, nice wood, leather. The driver's seat has 12 adjustment positions, making a trip to the Hyundai Genesis is incredibly comfortable. The car is equipped with a wide range of electronic equipment. Safety while driving carried out by such systems as the EBD, EBA, ABS and so on.
However Hyundai Genesis in the domestic market exhibits only the most luxurious and complete «Luxury». The car is equipped with the V6 engine of 3.8 liters. And the eight-speed automatic transmission. Consumption of fuel for the vehicle - 9,8 l. At 100 km, which is a very good result.
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What Sleep Is Best?
Sleep is a vital part of life, and it's something that we all do. But when was the last time you thought about how much sleep you should be getting each night? Or what types of sleep are best for your body? We're going to take a closer look at the different stages of sleep so that you can have a better understanding of what type of sleep is best.
Sleep is the foundation of good health, but what does that really mean? What does sleep do for us in the first place? And how many hours should we be sleeping to feel rested, alert, and energized throughout the day? These are all important questions to ask yourself if you're trying to improve your sleep habits—and hopefully, one day even get enough shut-eye so that you can wake up without an alarm clock!
Before we cover what type of sleep is best, let’s figure out how much sleep you need. This question is probably on everyone's mind when they're thinking about their daily rest and recovery schedule. The answer depends on several factors including age, gender, and how active or inactive someone is during their waking hours (i.e., exercise). Considering that most adults only get six hours on average (according to a recent poll), it's fair to say that our society doesn't prioritize getting enough shuteye as much as some other countries around the world!
How Much Sleep Do You Need?
- 7-9 hours. This is the recommendation of the National Sleep Foundation, but it's a broad range and you may need more or less sleep depending on your age, body size, lifestyle, health, and environment.
- If you're under 18 years old: You should get 9-13 hours of sleep per night.
- If you're over 18 years old: You should get 7-9 hours of sleep per night.
- The amount of sleep needed decreases with age until about 50 years old when your need for deep sleep increases slightly again until about 70 years old (when it decreases).
The Stages of Sleep
There are five different stages of sleep:
- Stage 1 - Very Light Sleep
- Stage 2 - Light Sleep
- Stage 3 - Deep Sleep
- Stage 4 - Very Deep Sleep
- REM (Rapid Eye Movement)
Sleep Stages 1, 2, and 3 are the lightest and most common stages of sleep. If you have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, this is almost certainly why. When you're in a lighter stage of sleep your brain activity slows down, but muscle activity increases to prevent you from acting out your dreams if they become too intense. For example, if you're dreaming about having an accident while driving and suddenly jerk awake violently with your hand on the brake pedal, that's an example of what happens when muscle tension gets too high during light-stage sleep.
Rapid Eye Movement (REM)
REM sleep is when you are most likely to experience a dream. It is also the stage of sleep where your eyes move rapidly from side to side and up and down. REM sleep makes up about 20% of total sleep time for adults, but it can vary between 10-25% depending on your age.
Your brain enters REM during the last third of your sleeping period—so if you're going to bed at 10 p.m., then you’re likely to enter REM at around 2:00 in the morning. It doesn't happen all at once; instead, it happens in cycles throughout the night with each cycle lasting approximately 90 minutes (but again, that can vary based on age).
During this stage of sleep, our brains are active but we don't physically move around much (if at all); this makes it easy for us not only to have vivid dreams but also hallucinations or false perceptions—which explains why some say they can see ghosts while they're asleep!
The Bedfan will help you reach REM sleep faster and allow you to stay there longer.
The more time spent in REM the better rested we will feel when we wake up because our bodies release hormones called growth hormone during these periods which helps regenerate tissues such as muscle fibers and bone cells
In the end, while you can't choose what stage of sleep you'll spend the most time in during sleep, making sure that you are aiming to get an age-appropriate amount of sleep each night will increase your chances of spending the right amount of time in all of the sleep stages.

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There’s a climate emergency, and the planning system is not helping
The climate emergency is the most pressing challenge of our times. With the UK keen to trumpet its climate action credentials, our planning system is sending out very mixed messages.
With the COP26 global climate conference hosted in Glasgow in 2021, you’d expect the host country to be leading on climate crisis-busting plans with flying colours – including by adapting the rules that govern new building here.
But put simply, it’s just not doing enough to drive progress.
Let’s start with the good news. The government has led the world by setting a legally binding target to achieve net-zero carbon by 2050, meaning that our carbon levels work out as zero thanks to cutting emissions and carbon-capture methods.
And the government’s also ramped this up further by committing to get 78% of the way there by 2035, and announced that the UK is on track to achieve this 2035 target.
For the first time, international aviation and shipping emissions will be counted into this budget – something CPRE has been demanding for years, and a really important step forward.
Local authorities want to get to net-zero even faster, which shows great ambition. We love to see it! Over 80% of councils have now officially declared a climate emergency and set local targets for carbon reduction. In most cases, they’re aiming for net-zero by 2030, twenty years ahead of the UK government’s legally binding date.
So far, so good. So how does planning fit in?
The planning system, the name we give to the toolkit of rules that govern what gets built and where, should naturally fit into this progress, right? Erm… Right?
And in theory, that’s the case: the planning system should support the quest for net-zero. The sectors that emit the most carbon are housing, industry and transport – which happen to also be the main forms of development that planning helps to regulate.
And the rules governing planning, the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), require planning to ‘shape places in ways that contribute to radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions’. Local authorities’ development plans are also bound by a legal duty, under the Climate Change Act, to contribute to achieving net-zero.
And there’s more.
The NPPF also contains useful hooks to hang climate-friendly policies onto: for example, poor design should be refused planning permission, and development should be focused where it’s accessible by public transport and offers scope to reduce private car travel.
So surely local authorities are only allowing new building that’s doing lots to tackle the climate emergency… aren’t they?
Local heroes… and the rest
Some local plans (the document created by local authorities and, ideally, residents which lays out the principles for new development in the area) are rising to the climate crisis challenge.
Plymouth & South Devon Councils have already adopted a joint plan which commits to implementing their carbon reduction target. Hurray! And we know that at least Lancaster, Leeds and Bradford are aiming to follow suit – double hurray!
But… that’s where the good news ends. There are plenty of signs that, in practice, the planning system is well behind the curve on climate action.
What’s not working
Here are four things that we know are going wrong:
1. Car and plane-addicted councils
Despite powerful evidence that car use needs to be reduced by between 10% and 60% to achieve net-zero, all across the country, councils are still earmarking land for new housing and commercial development in car-dependent locations, planning for new roads, and pinning their economic ambitions on the continued growth of airports.
A landmark 2020 report by Transport for New Homes found that new ‘garden communities’ were being built that were overwhelmingly car-dependent and the government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund is regularly used to fund roadbuilding projects. This is not a recipe for reducing car use.
2. The homes we need – but make them green
When local plans are examined by government-appointed inspectors, the remit is considered on very narrow criteria – and is purely about housing numbers.
The inspector asks, ‘Will this local plan provide enough development land to meet the council’s housing target?’ If not, the council must go away and find more land.
But there are no such penalties for not having a convincing strategy to reduce carbon emissions. Providing the homes people need and tackling the climate emergency are both important objectives, yet it seems that plans are judged against one and not the other.
3. New rules for planning – but silence on the climate
The much-vaunted planning reform programme, which began in summer 2020, made bold claims about speeding up and simplifying the planning system, but soon became bogged down in controversy about top-down housing numbers (the ‘mutant algorithm’) and the risks to local democracy.
But, as CPRE and many other groups pointed out, there was little mention of climate action in the new proposals – in fact, they didn’t even commit to setting a firm date for new development to be zero-carbon.
Considering that the government had previously cancelled a 2016 zero-carbon date for new housing, this was incredibly disappointing.
4. Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads
The government is also currently reviewing its Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) regime, which delivers big projects mainly for energy and transport. The review says it wants to halve the time it takes to make decisions on proposals, and cites the need to move towards net-zero carbon super-speedily as a key objective.
But nearly a third of these large projects already approved or awaiting decisions are for major road schemes – such as the Lower Thames Crossing – or for airport expansions, all of which will inevitably cause increases in carbon emissions and work directly against meeting the government’s net-zero target.
There are solutions. Now we need action
Each of these problems has an obvious solution – if the government has the will to act. Local plans should place extra focus on urban brownfield locations for new development (read what brownfield is, and why we care about it so much, here) and stop enabling homes and commercial premises to be built in car-dependent locations.
Plans should be judged on their emissions-reducing credentials as much as on housing supply. Cutting carbon should be a basic criterion for major new projects to be considered, negating new roads or airport expansion and following the moves to this effect already made in Wales. Business as usual is not an option.
And, as Mr Gove looks to make his mark on his role as Minister for Housing, he could explicitly make moving to net-zero carbon one of the key purposes of planning reforms.
Will the government give the planning system a real role and purpose in tackling the climate emergency? It’s high time.


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