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There is something special about stairs. Each floor is its own world and the stairs provide an easy pathway joining worlds. OK, I can't express my feelings about stairs any better than that right now.
November 17. I started the stairs to the second floor way back in March when I built the landing, so I am excited about continuing this part of the house. I found a great stair calculator here:
It works like this: I type in the length and height values, rise and run, and the calculator provides the measurements required to lay out the points at the tips of the stair stringers making it easy to draw the pattern on a 2x12. I used the brass guides on the carpenters square that I used when I designed stairs for the garage to make the drawing even easier:
I cut the stringer and tested it for fit, from the second floor to the landing:
Satisfied, I used the first stringer as a template to draw a second pattern:
Lots of sawing, I put a new blade in the circular saw to make sure I would get clean, straight cuts. I used the reciprocating saw to finish each cut to the notch. If I cut the notch out with the circular saw, it would weaken the back of the stringer.
I nailed 1/2" and 3/4" spacers to the studs to allow for the finished wall and a skirt that will slip behind the stairs later:
I cut 1/4" off the bottom of the stringer to allow for a 1" thick tread above 3/4" flooring. I mounted the first stringer by predrilling it and nailing it to the studs with 20 penny nails. I framed the east wall of the stairwell and mounted the second stringer:
The middle stringer has no supporting studs, so I cut a notch in the top o the stringer and nailed a 2x4 cleat to it. It hangs on this cleat which is secured to the header with 16 penny nails:
The three stringers:
A work light view:
November 18. I cut up some scrap 3/4" plywood left over from the floor to make temporary treads, nailed them to the stringers:
Then I went upstairs and repeated the exercise for the attic stairs. I pulled the temporary stairs from the first landing since they were only approximately correct and used them on the attic landing:
Attic stairs from the landing going up:
From the first floor looking up:
I still have a couple little stringers to cut to complete each little stairway to the landings, but I can now walk from the basement to the attic without a ladder.
December 22. I ripped out the basement stairs:
These have to be redone to have an even staircase. I need a ladder again.
December 22 - 23. I cut two stringers for the basement steps. These will suffice because I will use 2x12's for treads, ripped down to the correct tread width. I used the same stair calculator webpage that I used for the first and second floor stairs. Here I mark the board using the carpenter's square with brass stair gauges attached:
Low 40's outside but it's comfortable working in the sun room :-)
First stringer cut. You can also see the stringers I cut for the little staircase to the west room off the sun room in the background:
The basement stringers fit after I chiseled away some of the concrete wall in the stairwell. Noisy and jarring work with a hammer drill, but it's done:
I bolted two pressure-treated 2x8's to the walls using wedge anchors, then nailed the stringers to the 2x8's. I extended the sump pump pipe and screwed on temporary treads so I wouldn't need the ladder anymore:
December 24. More treads for a safer temporary stairway:
March 23. I built a temporary landing and steps to comply with safety code, to get a temporary certificate of occupancy:
We will back fill around the back of the house to bring the ground level up to the first step. Two steps up will not require a hand rail.
March 26. The basement stairwell will need something above it to keep people from falling into it. Railings? How about half walls? I drilled into the concrete where the concrete company poured some extra. I tapped in two anchors bolts on each side and secured 2x8's to the tops of the walls. Here is one:
Here's a wall:
The walls are nailed to the 2x8 and also to the far wall, nailed to studs and the bottom plates. From the basement:
April. We need stairs everywhere, and they have to meet code for rise height and run width, they need hand rails and they must have enough clearance above the nosing. Here are steps into the kitchen area from the sunroom:
Here are the steps with a railing. I threw these steps up to meet code. I will finish them later, after we get our certificate of occupancy. The stairway height is short enough that balusters are not required:
The stairs in the living room to the landing will require balusters. I took off the construction treads:
I cut the bottom of the wall to allow for the newel posts:
Dry-fitting the unfinished oak treads and the newel posts:
No time to finish the treads now - must get a temporary certificate of occupancy so we can live in the house! Here I rip a tread to the correct width using the old radial arm saw:
After cutting, priming and painting risers, I finish nailed them to the stringers, then glued and finish nailed the oak treads. I used wood glue though construction adhesive would have been a better choice, more flexible. Live and learn:
Each baluster had to be custom measured and cut. To get the correct height and angle, I set a baluster on the tread, plumbed it with a level and marked it with a pencil:
I numbered and marked several balusters at a time, then cut the tops with the radial arm saw set at the correct angle. I drilled the bottoms of the balusters for wooden pins:
Drilled and marked the treads:
The stairway to the landing is built, though unfinished:
We got our temporary certificate of occupancy at the end of April. Move in!
June. Oak stair treads ready to finish:
Three coats of polyurethane, sand between coats, wipe with tack cloth before applying each coat.
Pull off the plywood constrution treads:
Lay a bead of Liquid Nails subfloor glue first, fit the finished treads:
Shoot in 9 finish nails per tread:
All done but the trim:
(After walking on these for 6 months, still very quiet.)
Here are the attic stairs, 3/4" plywood, solid and quiet simply finish nailed to stringers:
Half walls for railings:
Inside stairs all done.

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What is the problem?
During a year and a half of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, about 2.5 million people were left homeless and became displaced people. Often, even in the liberated Ukrainian territories, people simply had nowhere to return to as the Russians destroyed their houses.
Housing reconstruction should not be a personal problem but a joint task of Ukrainians. This is not only about housing and walls but also about restoring community ecosystems and environments where young people will feel comfortable returning and developing.
What is the solution?
When Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014, Kramatorsk was among the first cities to receive the blow. From April 12 to July 5, intense battles for the city continued, ultimately ending with the victory of Ukraine. There were also the first destructions as a result of the war. When three members of the Lviv Educational Foundation, Vitaliy Kokur, Andriy Levytskyi, and Yurko Didula, came there, they wanted to help restore the destroyed buildings. From this impulse began the organization's history that united more than five thousand volunteers in nine years of work — the non-governmental organization "Building Ukraine Together."
Since the beginning of the war in the east, the NGO has been organizing BUT camps — week-long volunteer reconstruction activities with the participation of young people from all over the country and abroad, as well as short-term programs with local youth.
BUT started as a volunteer action. At that time, BUT sought to restore the houses destroyed due to Russia's war against Ukraine in the east. However, the initiative transformed over time into an all-Ukrainian non-governmental organization. Now, BUT has regional branches, local short-term volunteer movements, long-term volunteering programs of three to six months, a project management school, a mentoring program, and other non-formal education programs.
Service learning is an international educational practice that combines learning with public service and solving public needs. This is how BUT grew into a national organization that creates opportunities for development and volunteering for young people throughout Ukraine and contributes to the reconstruction and development of communities, says Marta Benyshyn, head of the "Building Ukraine Together" NGO.
BUT's strong community of volunteers, partners, and friends did not get lost even after February 24, 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion. The team began to solve humanitarian issues and help members of the association who decided to defend Ukraine at the front. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, BUT has handed over equipment worth more than ₴8 million to the army. It helped save more than one life.
Return to reconstruction
However, very quickly, the NGO fully returned to its primary program. Today, as nine years ago, BUT is engaged in reconstructing and restoring various objects. Moreover, the organization understood that today's challenge was not only the restoration of buildings in the territories from which the Ukrainian army drove out the Russians but also the psychological state of young people related to the war, the difficulty of integrating IDPs into new communities and preserving the connections of refugees and the diaspora with Ukraine and the Ukrainian context. This is how the new strategic goal of BUT was formed — to work on these problems through the involvement of young people in volunteering, non-formal education, and further community development.
For this reason, various volunteering programs have been developed in BUT so that young people can choose the most comfortable and suitable format for themselves. The most popular is the youth volunteer camp format, which unites community representatives, local youth, and those who came to help the camp from all over Ukraine and even from other countries.
Immersing in reconstruction
Traditionally, the BUT camp consists of two parts: volunteer and cultural and educational. In the first half of the day, volunteers work at the facility. In the second half, they will get to know the people at the camp and the area and engage in social and other activities. If you decide to work remotely simultaneously, there probably won't be enough time. Volunteers only have a few free hours a day.
"Currently, we offer a wide and systematic range of volunteer opportunities for young people throughout Ukraine," says the head of the NGO, Benyshyn.
Indeed, in BUT, you can choose different types of activities — a one-day event within your community's framework, a two to three-day repair program, and the reconstruction or restoration of the site as part of a seven-day BUT camp in another corner of Ukraine. This is how they arrange public spaces, youth centers, and shelters, rebuild infrastructure objects destroyed due to the war, and arrange housing for people who have lost their homes.
To select objects for reconstruction, the organization collects community applications to restore sites or create other projects with BUT. In the questionnaire, activists or community representatives describe the need and details of the site they want to work on. They also outline the idea of volunteering to solve a social problem in the community.
Next, with the selected communities, the organizers outline the scheme of future works and prepare an estimate. BUT seeks funds for implementation or attracts them from the currently won grant. Next is the most exciting thing: attracting volunteers and starting cooperation.
Volunteers at BUT build and paint walls, restore windows, and clean. It all depends on what the restoration facility itself needs.
Each camp is a collaboration with those who are activists in their community in the first place. Other NGOs, local activists, representatives of local self-government bodies, and educational institutions can also partner with BUT.
How to become a BUT volunteer?
To do this, you need to go to the website of the NGO in the volunteer section, where there is a calendar of current volunteer activities. Depending on the season, there may be up to ten of them at the same time of different durations in different regions. Choose a date, duration, and region and apply.
One session lasts seven to ten days. The initial task and complexity of the site determine the number of sessions. Something can be restored in a week, and something needs a month or more. Benyshyn notes that it is difficult for volunteers to allocate more than seven days, so long sessions are divided into visits. The BUT itself provides accommodation and meals for the volunteers. Professional masters work at each camp and teach volunteers the necessary skills and knowledge.
"It is important that people from different parts of Ukraine come. The participation of residents interested in rebuilding and restoring their communities is valuable. We are also actively developing long-term volunteering," Benyshyn told Rubryka. Participants go to the chosen community for three months to help develop youth initiatives on the spot: participate in strategic sessions, organize events and career guidance projects for schoolchildren, develop youth centers, or launch a youth council.
This is a new trend for Ukraine, and BUT is the first NGO that systematically offers this type of volunteering and self-development. The organization strives to develop practical skills and social mobility and promote the change of social roles.
Benyshyn adds that for BUT, an organic combination of two components is essential: building physically, that is, working with hands, and carrying out the restructuring of consciousness, that is, strengthening the understanding of the importance of personal responsibility in the restoration of the community, the formation of the state at various levels. A cultural and educational program is being prepared at the volunteer camps. Participants listen to lectures on current topics and participate in interactive activities and reflections. They watch films about historical events, have tours of the region, etc.
Leadership development is another community challenge. Therefore, upon completion of the camps, BUT volunteers have the opportunity to further develop with BUT, take on more responsibility — become masters or camp leaders, complete a project management program, and even apply to organize their own camp.
Does it really work?
Change yourself and the country for the better
From 2014 to 2017, most camps took place in the east. Now, the movement has expanded to the west and north. The next step is to work in the south. BUT is already carrying out activities in this direction, and they recently carried out an Expedition to the South, identified and evaluated sites for the potential restoration and reconstruction of housing. Camps are supposed to start there in September, while the community is actively looking for funds for their implementation.
This year, BUT has already held 21 volunteer reconstruction and recovery camps. By the end of the year, more than 90 are planned in more than 50 communities. The results of the community's activities are impressive — for the entire time of its existence, with the help of more than 6,000 caring people, BUT has created comfortable living conditions for more than 5,000 people from communities affected by the war.
According to Benyshyn, there were many interesting facilities in the last year. This is, for example, arranging a shelter in Kolomyia for people from affected communities or those who were forced to leave their homes; restoration of the school in Hostomel; reconstruction of the family's house in Lukashivka, the Chernihiv region, after being hit by a shell; reconstruction of the part of the State Emergency Service in Makariv, the Kyiv region.
The camp in Odesa ended very recently. Here, volunteers worked on restoring and furnishing the premises for the first Military Leadership Center in Ukraine — a space for informal education and leadership for future officers. The activities of this center will be aimed at developing essential skills among cadets of military educational institutions and military personnel. A volunteer hub will also function on the basis of the center.
Many volunteers become participants in BUT camps more than once. Volunteer Sonia visited the camps in Motyzhyn (Kyiv region) and Mshanka (Lviv region).
"BUT warmed my heart to the temperature of absolute self-belief. Like in childhood, it lit up my eyes from the diversity of people, opinions, and stories. This community is incredible, and this admiration for all people helped me a lot morally," Sonia shared with Rubryka. "I received enormous support in creativity, for which I am infinitely grateful. Before BUT, I was on the edge because I felt no opportunities. Here, I gained experience, faith in my abilities, and feedback, thanks to which I noticed previously invisible sides. Another plus is that participation in BUT also helps me a lot in other projects. The most important thing: BUT gave me the opportunity to contribute to the support of the country!"
Vyacheslav joined the long-term volunteering program after returning from the service. For three months now, he has devoted himself to working with the community and with teenagers in Berezhany, in Ukraine's Ternopil region in the west. Vyacheslav is a professional builder graduate from Lviv Polytechnic. After February 24, he went to serve, was wounded, and underwent treatment. For several years, he followed the activities of BUT on social networks. During rehabilitation, he learned about the long-term volunteering program and decided to join. He wanted to be useful and needed physical but also moral and psychological rehabilitation. He called volunteering in BUT a step towards returning to normal life. Previously, he had prejudices about the effectiveness of NGO activity, but during the war, he appreciated the importance of such work.
"Now I'm interested in getting out of my bubble, and I want to expand my worldview and interact with young people. We have a lot to share and learn from each other. We always have a work plan: we develop a strategy, communicate with city representatives, and solve tasks," says Vyacheslav.
Locals, who at first were wary of the appearance of a camp on their territory, gratefully accept the help of volunteers. Someone can come up and ask what and how is happening here, offer support, and bring food or materials. In the villages, they often treat people with jam or bring fruits and vegetables from the garden. Some offer a ride or a tour and tell interesting facts about the community and its residents.
Sometimes, the BUT team admits, there are not too friendly people and rather curious cases.
Once, in the Chernihiv region, the BUT team was making a fire, and one of the neighbors came to argue with the volunteers because he mistakenly decided that they had damaged something near the well. The conversation began with aggression and attacks, but in the end, it was possible to convince him that the camp participants were not involved. As a result, the man joined the volunteers, shared his challenging experience of life in the occupation, and later, he and his family supported the volunteers in every possible way — shared fresh vegetables and milk and brought tools.
The head of BUT adds: "It is important to communicate with people, to listen to others, to conduct educational work in any way, because we can influence the worldview, support each other and in this way change the country for the better."
Even more useful solutions!
If not us, then who?
"Our mission is to create a country of capable citizens included in public life. Now, Ukraine needs united actions, and the youth is the driving force that is able not only to implement the necessary changes but also to master the key principles of proactivity and personal responsibility regarding their role in the future life of the country and community," says Benyshyn. The slogan of BUT is "If not me, then who?" could now be supplemented with a quite appropriate continuation: "If not now, then when?"
She believes the main thing is the desire to participate in changes, and the tools can be selected according to desire and opportunity.
"You can take part in the long-term volunteering program, become a friend of BUT, and send a certain amount every month for the reconstruction of the country — every ₴100 counts!" Benyshyn told Rubryka. Currently, a large community of BUT friends will donate monthly, participate in networking, receive gifts, and meet together at various locations. These are mostly those who seek change and share the team's values but have a heavy workload and cannot volunteer physically.
In addition, BUT invites you to initiate changes within your community, find a project or a facility that needs changes, and submit it to the BUT camp. All programs are described in detail on the BUT website. You can familiarize yourself with them and learn more about the projects and opportunities of BUT on the website and social networks of the community: Instagram, Facebook, and Telegram.
*Veronika Karachevska, PR-lead of BUT, helped Rubryka learn more about BUT.
The material was created within the framework of the Life of War project with the support of the NGO Laboratory of Public Interest Journalism and the Documenting Ukraine project at the Institute of Humanities in Vienna (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM).
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Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper (pictured) has said the government should listen to calls for change from Martha Lane Fox, after the Labour leadership contender backed the Lastminute.com founder’s plans for more women in technology.
Cooper said the government should do more to get more female web designers, coders and technology investors into public and private sector jobs.
“So many of our future jobs will be digital, so much of our lives already depends on new technology, yet women aren’t at the heart of it,” she said. “People are looking for the next Steve Jobs, but where’s the Stephanie Jobs?”
“It’s crazy that 98% of the code the internet uses continues to be programmed by men. Women cannot and should not be locked out of the jobs of the future and the digital economy we should be embracing,” she added.
Former government policy adviser Lane Fox has previously campaigned for more women in IT. In April, she said women should be at the “heart of the technology sector” during a Richard Dimbleby Lecture.
Lane Fox used the lecture to air her idea of creating a national institution called Dot Everyone to make Britain “the most digital nation on the planet”, and urged the nation to sign an online petition demanding the prime minister gets started on building the institution.
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- Women have personality traits that thrive in startups, says Anthemis president.
- IT trade association CompTIA prepares to launch a range of initiatives to encourage more women and young people to consider a career in IT.
Lane Fox said Dot Everyone aims to educate on how the internet works, but it also plans to put women at the forefront of the movement, because she is concerned none of the big internet businesses relied on by the public were founded or are run by a woman.
According to Lane Fox, fewer than 10% of investors in the technology sector are female, meaning some of the biggest internet companies used every day do not reflect the diversity of their users.
Recent O2 research found over half (59%) of women working in IT believe there are not enough women in senior roles within their company, compared with 45% of women across all industry sectors.
Furthermore, 24% of women said they believe it is impossible for a woman to reach senior management positions, compared with 17% across all industries.
Of the women surveyed, 63% said they believe all the decision-makers in their company are male, compared with 48% across all sectors.

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NeNe Leakes flashed her dazzling smile only hours after it was announced that she had landed a new reality beauty series, “Glamsquad Showdown.” The reality vet will host alongside Brad Goreski on the E! competitive glam series, which will “celebrate the best ‘glam squads’ in the business.”
NeNe Leakes is also appearing on TBS series, “Celebrity Show-Off,” another reason to put her rumored exit from RHOA on the back burner.
Rumors shading NeNe Leakes’ return have been swirling in recent weeks, with many fans calling her out for directing racial slurs at her cast mates. NeNe might have landed on Bravo’s hit list, after she threatened to expose other Bravolebs in the wake of the firings of four Vanderpump Rules stars. Many viewers encouraged NeNe to spill the network tea, but others called her out for calling RHOA alum, Claudia Jordan, a “half breed” years ago.
Interestingly, fans blasted NeNe Leakes‘ makeup artist last week, after the RHOA star’s skin appeared lighter than her normal tone.
“Who is doing your makeup? Asking for the people, is her name Karen?” one follower remarked.
“WHO’S DAT WHITE WOMAN?” another snarked.
“I love you sis but that’s the wrong shade of foundation,” commented another.
Fans threw merciless shade at the reality star — but NeNe Leakes’ career shows no sign of slowing down.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta is on hiatus.

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THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our contest to celebrate Children’s Dental Health Month!
The children who entered by submitting their answers to the following question won a Target gift card.
What is the one thing you learned from our educational dental video about visiting the dentist and caring for your teeth?
Here’s what the children said:
Brush your teeth twice a day.
Brushing your teeth will remove germs and keep your mouth fresh.
February is children’s dental health month and the small mirror the dentists have help them to look at the back of the teeth clearly.
Broccoli and water are good for your teeth. Candy and chips are bad for your teeth.
Always keep your teeth clean.
Flossing helps protect teeth from cavities.
Broccoli, carrots, strawberries and milk are good for teeth.
If you don’t brush your teeth you will get cavities and wholes in your teeth.
Brush your teeth 2 times a day.
I learned about brushing teeth. Brushing all of the teeth for two minutes. I brush at night and at day.
An explorer is used to check your teeth for cavities.
Brushing your teeth is good.
Fluoride is like vitamins for your teeth.
I learned how to brush my teeth front to back!
I learned that there was a happy tooth and bad tooth and there are good foods for our teeth and bad foods. A good food is raspberries. A bad food is lollipops and cheez balls.
Juice boxes chips and candy are bad for my teeth.
I learned to brush my teeth 2 times a day. I also learned from the video that a good thing to eat is strawberries. A bad thing to eat is chippies. Great video! I enjoyed having the dentist come to my preschool today.
A lot of candy is not good for your teeth and dinosaurs need to brush their teeth also.
The contest is over, but you can still have some fun watching our educational video with your child about what happens at the dentist and what you can do to care for your teeth at home.
It is our privilege to care for your and your family’s dental health!

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Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:33 am
I have a carburetor for a Ford 2000 offset that I need to clean and rebuild. What's the best way to clean the carb? I vaguely remember something about soaking in vinegar? What's the best primer to use? Thanks!
Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:37 am
Joey - carburetor cleaner is available from better automotive parts stores such as NAPA. You can buy it in a gallon can with a strainer basket which will allow you to soak the carb and not have to fish around for parts.
I don't pretend to know anything about paints and primers but I believe the choice of primer would depend on your choice of finish paint. If you know what you are going to use for the final finish, see what primer is recommended for it.
Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:49 am
I heard vinegar is bad for the aluminum. I use carb cleaner from walmart or autozone.
Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:47 pm
After dipping and cleaning with carb cleaner, do the pieces have to be rinsed off before priming and painting?
Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:16 pm
The body would have to be rinsed and prepped for paint. However, I never saw a carb that really held paint well. Most of them peel almost immediately. Some have talked about trying to powder coat them or use clear sealer. I just leave them natural.
Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:10 pm
Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:02 pm
I've used Chem-Dip in the paint can w/basket, and it works great at cleaning up really dirty carbs. But, you MUST take all non-metallic parts off the carb.
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Lyttelton tenures in Englysshe [microform].
- Littleton, Thomas, Sir, -1481
- Uniform Title:
- Tenures. English
- Imprynted at London in Fletestrete : By me Roberte Redman, dwellynge at the sygne of the George, nexte to Saynt Dunstones churche, [1540?]
- Physical Description:
- 1 unnumbered page, CCiii, 2 unnumbered leaves
- Numerous errors in foliation.
Date of publication suggested by STC (2nd ed.).
Imprint from colophon.
Imperfect: tightly bound, with print show-through and loss of text.
Signatures: A-X p8 s, 2A-2D p8 s, 2E p7 s.
Reproduction of original in: Harvard University. Library.
ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
- Other Forms:
- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.
- Reproduction Note:
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1986. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1900:15).
- Reviewed/Cited In:
- Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.). 15761.8.
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SEOUL (Reuters) – Dozens of South Korean conscientious objectors were released from jail on parole on Friday after a landmark court decision that conscience is a valid reason to refuse mandatory military service.
The Supreme Court, South Korea’s top court, overturned earlier in November about five decades of precedents that punished conscientious objectors, a change that is in step with shifting attitudes as relations with North Korea thaw.
An official from the Ministry of Justice said on Friday the ministry decided to release on parole 58 conscientious objectors who had been in jail for six months or more.
That would reduce the number of conscientious objectors in jail from 71 to 13, South Korean online media Money Today reported, citing an unidentified law enforcement source.
The parolees will be doing community service, the justice ministry official said.
Among those released, eight clean-shaven young men, some dressed in suits, stood in front of Daegu Detention Centre to pose for media photographs. The parolees were released from several detention centers around the country.
“I fully understand critical views on conscientious objection, given that in South Korea we have a duty of national defense,” one of the men, a 26-year-old surnamed Kim, told Yonhap news agency.
“Whether it’s alternative service or community service, we hope to diligently do the work given to us and change views from negative to positive,” he said.
The 58 released on Friday had been serving jail terms of up to three years under the Supreme Court’s previous interpretation of the Military Service Act that said religious beliefs or conscience were not valid reasons to refuse mandatory service.
Conscientious objectors were soon expected to have the option of alternative service, although the period and type of service have yet to be decided.
South Korea’s defense ministry is holding its second public hearing on alternative service on Friday, a ministry statement said.
The hearing is discussing whether requiring conscientious objectors to serve 36 months of alternative service is punitive or is needed to deter potential abuse of conscientious objection to shirk mandatory military service.
The 36 months of alternative service compares with 18 months of mandatory army service by 2022.
Reporting by Joyce Lee; Editing by Paul Tait


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One of the many highlights of our trip through the San Juan Islands with Puget Sound Express was a visit to Sucia Island, a Washington State marine park. The island is a gem. Parts of the landscape have the mood and beauty of a large, perfectly composed Japanese garden.
There are beaches and picnic tables. Walking trails circle much of the island.
There were brief light rains while we were on the island and we had the island entirely to ourselves after the only other boat departed. Weather in April is unpredictable but it means that many popular spots are uncrowded.

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Microbes are revolutionary. These ‘invisible’ cells vastly outnumber plants and animals and they have repeatedly and dramatically altered our planet and the course of human history. They were the first forms of life on our planet. They produced the first oxygen gas in our atmosphere, allowing the evolution of more complex multicellular life. Today, they continue to make our planet habitable through nutrient cycling, breakdown of organic matter and bioremediation.
Microbes provide us with food, and with drugs to maintain our health. They cause deadly diseases, but they also help develop our immune systems. Understanding microorganisms allows us to better understand our planet, control pandemics and improve the lives of people all around the world.
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Couple tackle Wild Warrior course
Intrepid couple Steve and Helen Piper have completed a gruelling obstacle race and mud run to rack up cash for a cause close to their hearts.
The pair completed the Wild Warrior run and raised £1,145 for The Brain Tumour Charity in memory of Helen’s mum Janet Roche, who died in March last year following an eight-month battle with brain cancer.
The latest amount takes the family’s fundraising total to more than £6,000. Steve, an assistant site manager with Warwick based AC Lloyd, said: “My mother-in-law was a wonderful woman who spent the vast majority of her life caring for those who were suffering and needed help the most, so it felt only right we gave something back to this wonderful charity.
“My in-laws had lived in Spain for five years until Helen’s mum collapsed and was rushed to hospital. She was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour, namely a glioblastoma multiforme high grade, and had a short course of radiotherapy in Spain before returning to the UK for end-of-life care. It was a really tough time and made more difficult by the fact Helen was nearly nine months pregnant with our second child at her mom’s funeral.
“We both wanted to fundraise for The Brain Tumour Charity since not as much money is spent on researching this form of cancer. Helen’s brother, Lee, completed a sky dive and Helen has taken part in a couple of 5km mud runs with friends, but the Wild Warrior was a bit different and we enjoyed the obstacle race even though it was very muddy and raining.”
Alistair Clark, AC Lloyd director, said: “We pride ourselves on creating relationships and partnerships with our colleagues and everyone we work with, and we were pleased to support Steve and Helen to raise funds for a cause close to their hearts.”


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Child You're Not Alone
Child, You're Not Alone is an album of orginal music written, arranged and produced by Cheri Milam Roman to benefit the TAYLOR BERRY HEART TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION. All songs are piano-based with a bluesy, gospel feel. Jake Ward, Cheri's son and lead vocalist for THIRD COAST of Corpus Christi, Texas adds a youthful, alternative Indie feel on two of the tracks, Sweet Child of the Kingdom and Corpus Christi. Hilda Lamas, guest vocalist courtesy of Hacienda Records, sings the gospel blues on Lord, Send an Angel. Cheri Milam Roman has a unique style of writing and arranging reminiscent of Carole King and Diana Krall with a gospel twist.

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Frontier Airlines was incorporated on February 8, 1994, by a group that included executives of the original incarnation of Frontier Airlines in response to the void left by Continental Airlines' 1993 shutdown of its Denver (Stapleton) hub. Scheduled flights began five months later in July 1994 using Boeing 737-200 jetliners on routes between Denver and four destinations in North Dakota: Bismarck, Minot, Fargo and Grand Forks. By January 1995, Frontier had expanded its route network from Denver and was serving Albuquerque, New Mexico; Billings, Montana; Bismarck, N.D.; Bozeman, Montana; El Paso, Texas; Fargo, N.D.; Great Falls, Montana; Las Vegas, Nevada; Missoula, Montana; Omaha, Nebraska; and Tucson, Arizona with 737's. Like the original airline of the same name, the new Frontier operated a hub at Denver (DEN) and for the first nine years used the slogan "The Spirit of the West" which was displayed above the windows and just behind the cursive letters "Frontier" on the fuselage of their aircraft. In 1999, Frontier signed agreements to begin purchasing and leasing Airbus A318 and A319 jet aircraft and had also added Boeing 737-300 jetliners to its fleet as well. Also by September 1999, the airline was serving destinations from coast to coast in the U.S., having expanded its route network to include Atlanta (ATL); Baltimore (BWI); Bloomington/Normal, Illinois (BMI); Boston (BOS); Chicago (MDW, Midway Airport); Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW); Phoenix (PHX); Los Angeles (LAX); Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP); New York City (LGA, LaGuardia Airport); Orlando (MCO); Portland, Oregon (PDX); Salt Lake City (SLC); San Diego (SAN); San Francisco (SFO); and Seattle (SEA), all served from its Denver hub.
In 2008, jetBlue partnered with Irish flagship carrier Aer Lingus to allow passengers to switch between airlines on a single ticket for flights with connections in New York–JFK or Boston Logan. Unlike traditional codeshare agreements, the companies cannot sell seats on each other's flights, so customers initiate the purchase on one airline's website and then are transferred to the other site to complete the transaction.
In July 2013, Frontier started service from New Castle Airport near Wilmington, Delaware to five destinations, which Frontier markets as Wilmington/Philadelphia. Again, this airport had no commercial service prior to Frontier's entry. New Castle Airport lies roughly 30 miles southwest of Philadelphia International Airport and 75 miles northeast of Baltimore–Washington International Airport.
Various consumer rights organizations and activists called for the creation of a government mandated “Bill of Rights” to protect air travelers from future experiences similar to the one previously described. On February 20, 2007, jetBlue released an apologetic response to the events that had taken place less than a week before with the creation of their Customer Bill of Rights, which offers financial reciprocation if a customer's flight is delayed or cancelled.
Today, it serves 77 cities on 176 routes. They cover destinations like Bellingham, Washington, Vancouver, British Columbia, Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Nevada, Los Angeles, California, Myrtle Beach, Orlando, PhoenixMesa, Arizona, San Francisco Bay, Fort Myers and Tampa Bay or St. Petersburg-Clearwater. They have their operation bases at Bellingham International Airport, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, Oakland International Airport, Orlando-Sanford International Airport, PhoenixMesa Gateway Airport and St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport.
March 27, 2012: Flight 191 en route from New York City, to Las Vegas performed an emergency landing at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport after the captain, Clayton Osbon, was locked out of the cockpit and subdued by passengers after he started acting erratically and ranting about terrorist. It is believed that Osbon suffered from an unspecified mental breakdown, and was treated by Northwest Texas Healthcare System. There were no fatalities.
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How lucky are we to be able to enjoy live Sax right in our own living rooms/offices, Trowzer Boa will be performing live tomorrow .. Tuesday, May 3, 2022.. at Nats Jazz Club at 4 pm slt.
Nats jazz Club is an upscale Jazz club owned and operated by the lovely talented Linda Sautereau – please dress code formal – semi formal.
steve who? shows this week beginning w/c 2nd May;
Wed 4th—>8am slt at BORDERLESS;
Wed 4th–> 11am Moonlit River;
Wed 4th—> 12noon Foggy Docks
Thurs 5th 8am at SLEA7,- caffe d’essai-MACHINIMA.LAND;
Thurs 5th 1pm at Midnight Cove Club;
Friday 6th 1pm at AFRICA LIVE;
Sat 7th at 12 noon at Black Thai
Sun 8th 1pm Jazz Beau’s
The Trowzer Boa “Experience” is a happening. If you’ve missed it … take note, it is Trow playing Sax with an abandon that is freeing for all of us who love to dance, and move to his magical and intoxicating rhythms. Last night he was at the Music Factory where the atmosphere and dance floor is conducive for freestyle or dance movements that allow for artistic expression in movement.
May 10 th. Trow will be at Le isle Du Noir on the red carpet (Voodoo Lounge), this is another venue where we (avatars who love to dance) can shine. Here you can give full expression to your dance moves. Dress is informal, you can show case your moves with outfits that make YOU looks sensational.
There are those who would imitate Trow, but there is only one Trowzer Boa, his style his way of playing is unique and his alone.. He is like the pied piper of dance. He puts that Sax to his lips and plays in a manner that defies resistance. Don’t be shy, we all love to showcase our personal style, if you have questions, I (China) will be happy to help you, or direct you to who can. Trow is taking his sets to another level so we can enjoy not only by listening to his music, but participating. The more you move and get into the music, , the more he’ll lead you into unknown heights of dance utopia.
Isle du Noir is a mysterious and magical place. A lot happens there, book your time there May 10.2022 at 6 pm slt. come early, explore. Maybe find a place to call your own..
The landmark I’ve provided for you today will take you to the Silhouettes club on Isle Du Noir where at noon today from 12- 2 pm slt. DJ Evie will provide 2 hours to music, blues, swing, jazz and more for you to enjoy.,
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If you want a case study in how well-intentioned government actors and NGO activists can royally screw up the lives of those they claim to be helping, you’d be hard pressed to find a better example than this — an obscure provision in the Dodd-Frank act meant to ensure that minerals bought from Africa didn’t benefit warlords.
Unfortunately, the provision simply stopped companies from buying minerals in conflict regions altogether — because no one wants to be accused of funding homicidal warlords. The provision devastated the economy of the eastern Congo and, in a sad twist, actually empowered local warlords even more.
From the New York Times:
For locals, however, the law has been a catastrophe. In South Kivu Province, I heard from scores of artisanal miners and small-scale purchasers, who used to make a few dollars a day digging ore out of mountainsides with hand tools. Paltry as it may seem, this income was a lifeline for people in a region that was devastated by 32 years of misrule under the kleptocracy of Mobutu Sese Seko (when the country was known as Zaire) and that is now just beginning to emerge from over a decade of brutal war and internal strife.
The pastor at one church told me that women were giving birth at home because they couldn’t afford the $20 or so for the maternity clinic. Children are dropping out of school because parents can’t pay the fees. Remote mining towns are virtually cut off from the outside world because the planes that once provisioned them no longer land. Most worrying, a crop disease periodically decimates the region’s staple, cassava. Villagers who relied on their mining income to buy food when harvests failed are beginning to go hungry.
Meanwhile, the law is benefiting some of the very people it was meant to single out. The chief beneficiary is Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, who is nicknamed The Terminator and is sought by the International Criminal Court. Ostensibly a member of the Congolese Army, he is in fact a freelance killer with his own ethnic Tutsi militia, which provides “security” to traders smuggling minerals across the border to neighboring Rwanda.
Well, that’s a real tragedy, but there’s no way the U.S. government and the advocacy groups pressing for the provision could have predicted this outcome, right?
The Rev. Didier de Failly, a Belgian priest who has lived in Congo for 45 years, insistently warned Western advocacy groups of the dangers posed by their campaign. He told them it was no defense for them to claim that they weren’t proposing an embargo, since what they were doing would inevitably lead to one.
But once the advocacy groups succeeded in framing the debate as a contest between themselves and greedy corporate interests, no one bothered to solicit the opinion of local Congolese. As the leader of a civil-society group, Eric Kajemba, asked me, more in confusion than in anger, “If the advocacy groups aren’t speaking for the people of eastern Congo, whom are they speaking for?”
Answer: their own smug little selves.


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How Do You Feel? A Sex Toy Material Guide Part 2
Welcome to part two of our material guide! In this portion, we'll be talking about glass, stone, and metal sex toys, as well as how to clean them. These three materials needed their own moment to shine and enough space to really stretch out what makes them ideal and unique materials! Let's start back up with glass and make our way through the last 3 materials. If you haven't read part one yet, feel free to head back and read that first for a brief description of the materials we'll be talking about. Let's get started!
So glass is a big topic. There's a lot that can go wrong and a lot that can go right, but if made cheaply, there will be much more that can go wrong. One of our favorite sex toy bloggers is Dangerous Lilly and she personally tested brands like Woozy, Lovehoney and Icicles using a polariscope, which is a little lens used to detect internal stress in glass. Pretty handy, huh? Clearly, you don't have to get yourself a polariscope to determine if your glass toy is body safe or not. Dangerous Lilly has done that for you! Keep in mind manufacturer when purchasing glass toys. Place of manufacturing and brand have a lot to do with the quality of your glass toy. All that information can usually be found on the box, or your sex toy retailer can research it for you on their end.
Most importantly, good glass products will be annealed. Anal what? No, not anal, annealed! Some toy experts have said that it’s nearly impossible to anneal away all stress in thick glass sex toys. Some “internet experts” have gotten the terms annealing and tempering confused; you probably wouldn’t find a tempered glass dildo, there's no need for that. Tempering makes it so the glass can handle intense heat, while annealing makes it so the glass can handle intense stress, be it pulling, pushing or trusting. Here's an excerpt from Dangerous Lilly's blog all about glass toys and glass testing:
"This is pretty much the one time in life where rainbows are bad. In my testing, I only ran across 2 mass produced brands that had pieces that weren’t filled with rainbows. It doesn’t matter which side of the filter you look through, if the piece is mass-produced in China with no tempering or annealing in any way then you will see rainbows. This means the piece is holding on to a lot of stress at various points and can break easily. It can be fine for a few years and then one day break easily – Sunny Megatron described this to me with a dildo that was great for a couple of years and then one day it took a light fall 2 feet from the bed to the carpeted floor and it broke."
Glass is really amazing for temperature play. You can boil or freeze glass to make the toy have a warm sensation or be freezing to the touch! Cheaper, stressed out glass has an easier time of cracking due to change in temperature, but that isn't as common as pulling too hard and having a handle snap off. This is why the quality of glass toys matters so much, and why you'll find a big difference in the price of glass toys by specific brands. As much as your wallet might be begging you, you'll thank yourself later when you purchase a high quality glass toy and not something that has the inevitability of breaking.
Metal toys are hard, smooth and tend to have a nice weight to them. Like glass, they can be cleaned easily and used for temperature play! Most of these toys are made of stainless steel or aluminum, but there are some luxury toys made of silver and gold as well. Aluminum is virtually the same as stainless steel, but if you're not a fan of the weight, aluminum is the material for you. Not only are metal toys non-porous, but they can be completely sterilized! While silicone is medically non-porous, metal is the safest to share with partners between cleaning. Metal can be cleaned a multitude of ways, and we'll be diving into that very soon!
Specifically talking about silver sex toys; in short, yes! Silver is a safe metal for sex toys. This statement comes with a few conditions, though. Generally speaking, silver is a good material to use because it’s precious and toys made of it are typically well-crafted. Silver is also very durable, so the next time your hands are all lubey and you drop your silver sex toy on the tile, usually the tile gets the bad end of that arrangement, not the toy. Silver, however, can also be the source of an allergy. First of all, there are people allergic to silver. If you are one of those people, then silver sex toys are not your lane of luxury sex toy. Since silver is a common material for, example jewelry, chances are that you'll know whether or not you're allergic to it before hand.
In the piercing world, gold has some stipulations and conditions as well. We're getting our material information from this realm since a fresh wound is about as sensitive as your booty or vulva. Gold is body safe only if it is 14k or higher, nickel-free, and alloyed for bio-compatibility. Gold higher than 18k is too soft to make toys out of because it can easily be scratched or nicked. Gold is also, get this, an anti-inflammatory as well as an antioxidant. Right? How cool is that? Gold is super good for your body! Gold is a nonferrous material, like copper which is used to conduct electricity, therefore it may be putting up a magnetic field just by being in close proximity to the magnetic field produced by our bodies! So it's a positivity magnet! Maybe I should be wearing gold more often...
I love crystal sex toys! Talk about loving the toy you pick! Chakrubs is a brand we carry in the store that makes dildos, butt plugs, and yoni eggs out of genuine crystals like rose quartz, black obsidian and amethyst, and were kind of obsessed with them! If you're interested in crystal healing or collect crystals yourself, you might fall as far in love with these toys as we are. Crystal is non-porous and when polished smooth, they're as friction-less as metal toys. You can use any lubricant on crystal, just like plastic, metal and glass.
Technically, these too can be used for temperature play, but if you're buying a crystal dildo, it isn't exactly for that reason. These toys are more about the material itself, and what kind of gem you'd like for yourself. My personal favorite gemstone is rose quartz. It promotes positive energy, self love, lowers stress in the body and heart, and helps heal old anger/deep wounds. These are all things in my life I'd love to carry around every day, and that's why I love rose quartz! Having a Yoni egg or sex toy made of a crystal that promotes happiness or whatever pick-me-up you need in your life is a great way to promote positivity in your life! Do a little research into which gemstones call to you, or come pick up "Crystal Healing & Sacred Pleasures" by Vanessa Cuccia, the creator of Chakrubs! In this book, Vanessa talks about all different types of crystals and their positive properties, as well as how they work with your body.
Cleaning Your Toys; By Material
- Silicone: If it’s meant for anal play, consider boiling it every few uses. While silicone is considered non-porous, it’s actually microporous and can hang on to odors. If it’s a vibrator and not covered 100% by a silicone skin, then you need to pay special attention to the groove between the silicone portion and the plastic portion, around the buttons, etc. If you share your toys, then you’ll want to consider the cleaning options that sanitize, like boiling for dildos and plugs or 10% bleach solution rinse or alcohol wipe down (unless the manufacturer prohibits it).
**Vixen, maker of awesome dildos and creator of dual-density Vixskin, tested cleaning their dildos with rubbing alcohol. Even a day-long soak in the rubbing alcohol didn’t do a thing to the material. However some manufacturers specifically warn against it, these are usually the type of silicone vibrators that have a silky-soft feeling. Always make sure to read the box/user manual before you clean your sex toy!**
Bioskin is a silicone, but since [Fun Toys Bioskin Toys] are magnetically charging, I would keep to a simple wash with cleaner and warm water, rather than boiling with a bleach solution. Alcohol wipes should be fine if you need to sanitize.
- Cyberskin/TPR/Elastomers: Cleaning is best left simple, a gentle soap and water method followed by a dusting with cornstarch. Make sure these are 100% dry before you store them, as they can mildew. DO NOT clean these sex toys with harsh chemicals – the chemicals can stay in the pores of the material and when they come in contact with the delicate tissue of the vagina or anus, you can experience a multitude of uncomfortable side effects. TPR Elastomer isn’t really a material but more of a description, and isn't considered safe for everyone. Many cyberskin/TPR toys also use paint to add color to veins and heads and it does come off with cleaning. This is a good sign that you should replace your dildo and get a new one or try some different, safer materials.
ABS Plastic: ABS plastic is non-toxic and non-porous. Sometimes you will see it listed as having a PU coat – this means polyurethane, or you'll see it called "Velvet" which refers to the soft outer coating of the material - no it's not made of actual velvet. So far I have not seen PU coating peel or chip. No boiling here! Use the wipe-down method or soap and water. Shiny ABS plastic can handle rubbing alcohol, PU coated might not. Refer to the manufacturer’s instructions if they have any. The only problematic hard plastic toys are those coated in a metallic paint – this can chip off!
Metal: Yet another non-porous material, so you can use any cleaning method! I’d say feel free to boil (place a dishtowel in the pot with it, metal against metal in a rolling boil could cause damage to the surface) and dishwasher top rack. Metal has amazing temperature-retaining properties, so let it cool down! Never use anything abrasive to clean your toy, and when traveling be sure to keep it in a storage pouch.
**Quality Stainless Steel shouldn’t have any pits or rough patches on the surface, won’t have a perfect mirror-like finish like chrome does, and is usually not magnetic.**
- Glass, Stone, Crystal: To be on the safe side, I wouldn’t expose stone, crystal or cheaper glass toys to the high temps of boiling water or a dishwasher – you just never know and you’d be really sad to ruin a beautiful toy. Most glass toys would be fine in boiling water or the dishwasher, but please keep in mind that the glass used in sex toys holds onto temperature really well, so it will be extremely hot for a little while. Best practice for boiling glass would be to include a small hand towel in the pot to prevent the glass dildo from cracking up against the side of the pot (just like metal). Always refer to the manufacturer’s instructions, though, before putting these through the extreme temps of boiling water or dishwasher. A 10% bleach rinse should be fine for these, as would a simple soap and water wash if you have no reason to sanitize.
Thank you for educating yourself on all these wonderful sex toy materials and how to clean them! As always, we hope you learned something new and I hope this blog shed light on a few sex toy material myths like cyberskin, bioskin, silicone and all the elastomer variables. When shopping for a new toy, as we've said 100 times by now, just do some brief research on the brand you're looking at or ask your toy retailer about the true quality of what you're interested in. Here at the Boutique, we give honest answers to find exactly what toy is meant for you, and we pride ourselves on not talking everything up to be the "best." Whats best for me isn't your fit and vice verse, so if you need help determining your best toy, just come on up and ask!
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2014 was another remarkable year for Rochdale Town Centre, with dramatic changes to the skyline a powerful visible reminder that Rochdale is on the rise.
As part of our round up of the year, we look back at the many changes which are shaping a town centre finally ready to realise its potential.
On the right track – Metrolink comes to town - March
It was full speed ahead for Rochdale’s regeneration when the Metrolink rolled into the town centre in spring.
The extension created a modern, state-of-the-art public transport hub in the heart of Rochdale, with the town centre stop opening just across the road from the new £11.5m bus station.
The River Street taxi rank, which opened alongside the bus station in October, completed the integrated transport system.
By the end of October, tram ticket sales to Rochdale had more than doubled, peaking at over 20,000 people buying tickets to travel to either the Rochdale railway station or town centre stops in September this year.
The Black Box comes down – June
The Black Box, known to many as one of the worst examples of 1970s architecture, started to come down in the summer.
It was the end of an era for the well-known building which has dominated the Rochdale skyline since it was built in 1978 to bring local authority workers together in the administrative centre of the new Rochdale borough following local government reorganisation in 1974.
It took until the end of October to finally remove the building, which was once voted one of the top six eyesores in the North West.
The area on which the Black Box stood now acts as a thoroughfare to link the different parts of the town centre, with plans to open a new town centre market on the site in February.
Despite its removal, the Black Box will live on in its own way, with 90 per cent of the materials removed from the building being recycled.
Big business shows its support – Tetrosyl on the way – August
Rochdale’s regeneration started to deliver big results when Tetrosyl, the largest manufacturer of car care products in Europe, announced plans to move its headquarters to Newgate House on St Mary’s Gate.
The move, which saw the Council and Rochdale Development Agency work together to persuade the international company to make Rochdale its home, was hailed as a coup for the town, with the relocation set to bring 150 jobs into the borough.
Securing Rochdale’s past to create a better future – Cabinet approves ambitious town hall plan - September
The Council revealed its plans for the future of Rochdale’s favourite building, the stunning Grade I Listed Town Hall, in September.
The proposals to revitalise the much loved hall centred around bringing closed off sections of the building, including the old police cells, back into use.
The Council is also hoping to restore some of the town hall’s most significant pieces of art, including the Magna Carta mural in The Great Hall.
The plans, which seek to enhance the town’s key asset and increase visitor numbers, will be worked into a Heritage Lottery Fund bid which, if successful, would be phased in over a five year period.
Rochdale hits the national stage – October
Rochdale’s flagship customer service centre, office and library building, saved the best till last, with its most recent design award, The British Council of Offices – best corporate workplace and best of the best, being the biggest in the business.
Number One Riverside scooped the award partly because of the building’s ability to act as a catalyst for wider regeneration in the town centre and the win opened people’s eyes to the idea that cutting edge design doesn’t just belong in the big cities.
The judges also praised the building for ‘meeting an exacting brief for a great looking and energy efficient building.”
The council’s service director for economy and environment, Mark Widdup, summed it up when he said: “Rochdale deserves a building like this.”
Private sector investment pours in – throughout the year
This was the year that businesses signalled their support for Rochdale’s regeneration plans in the most tangible way.
Hot on the heels of Tetrosyl’s announcement was a move by Morrisons Local to open a new store at Number Two Smith Street, formerly the Nile nightclub, just next to the Transport Interchange. The store, which is expected to open early next year, will bring 20 jobs for local people.
In October, fast growing grocery chain Aldi, submitted a planning application for a new store on the former Carter Brother’s site on Mellor Street, close to the town centre Asda store.
At the time, representatives for Aldi cited the town centre regeneration as a key reason for choosing Rochdale, saying : “We have a successful track record of working with Rochdale Borough Council across the borough, following the opening of our second store in 2010. The significant regeneration works in the town centre led us to explore the option of a third store and this site presented the ideal opportunity.”
Construction of the new store, if approved by the Licensing and Regulatory Committee in January, is expected to begin in the summer. The store opening would create 40 local jobs.
In a further boost, Lidl submitted plans just days before Christmas to knock down their town centre store and rebuild a significantly larger one using the footprint of the old Blockbuster shop.
River reopening on course – December
The Heritage Lottery Fund gave Rochdale’s regeneration an early Christmas present with the announcement that the river opening, a flagship development project for Rochdale, would receive a vital £1.2m cash injection.
The scheme to uncover Rochdale’s 800-year-old medieval bridge, which has been hidden for more than a century, aims to create a visitor attraction, which will be unique in the wider area.
Alongside the town hall and proposed traditional market on the Butts, the site will help form a heritage quarter in the heart of the town centre.
The Environment Agency and Regional Flood and Coastal Committee also gave their backing to the scheme, which will reduce town centre flood risk.
The project was revised earlier this year to create a more cost effective scheme which would maintain the heritage and environmental benefits of the original.
Supporting local business – free parking and innovative new business rates scheme - December
The council threw a lifeline to Rochdale’s high street by pledging a £100,000 cash injection to pay for a pilot scheme to drastically cut business rates for new businesses from April next year.
The scheme would offer an 80 per cent business rate reduction in the first year and a 50 per cent cut in the second year for businesses opening in vacant units in a selected area of Rochdale town centre.
At the same time, the Council announced free parking for three hours in all town centre car parks from next April.
Key industry watchers have heaped praised on the schemes, with Simon Edmondson, from the Federation of Small Businesses, saying: "This is fantastic news for all retailers in Rochdale, and will hopefully help the authority address the high vacancy rate in the town centre.
"This should be seen as a boost for existing shops too, as boarded up, empty units look unappealing and harm the potential of existing traders to do well. Once this rot sets in it's difficult to stop, with other potential retailers reluctant - for good reason - to set up in a ghost town. Rochdale's fresh thinking recognises this and is an extremely sensible gesture that will no doubt attract in new businesses in.”
He added: “"For far too long local authorities have viewed car parks as cash cows, with the predictable result being diminished trade. We'd like to see every authority across the region who hasn't yet done so take a look at Rochdale's lead."
Rounding up the achievements of 2014, Councillor Richard Farnell, Leader of Rochdale Borough Council, said: “Rochdale’s ongoing £250m regeneration gained real momentum this year and anyone visiting the town centre couldn’t help but notice the remarkable physical transformation which has taken place in 12 short months. Ugly old buildings which blighted the skyline have been swept away, as final preparations for the arrival of our new town centre leisure and retail development took place. 2014 was also the year that big business sat up and took notice, with a string of well-known companies signalling their intention to open new stores or expand in Rochdale. This private sector investment means that Rochdale’s short term future is looking positive while we work towards our longer term goal of having a town centre which our residents can be proud of and which visitors will want to come and see.”


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Eoghan Harris: 'Time to let go backstop tiger before it eats Irish economy'
The Government and the Green Groupthinkers will be glad to hear I was tempted to take a week's leave from the backstop, but when my country needs me, I believe, like Commander Ericson in The Cruel Sea: "Leave is a form of treachery".
As the backstop pushes us towards the abyss, let me repeat what I believe with every bone in my body, and make another appeal.
I believe the Irish Government, not the EU, has been driving the hard line on the backstop for electoral reasons.
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I believe the Government could avert a British crash-out but is not doing so for fear of losing face.
I believe the Irish media, having backed the backstop, are rigging the result with selective news and partisan comment.
I believe the British government when it pledged last week it would "not put in place infrastructure, checks, or controls at the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland".
I believe Tommie Gorman was being disingenuous when he airily told Morning Ireland last Friday: "There is nothing new in this." It was certainly new to me, and to every single person I met in Skibbereen.
I believe we can easily pin down the British offer with a bilateral treaty.
I believe Johnson effectively offered such a treaty when he added the UK "would be happy to accept a legally binding commitment to this effect and hope that the EU would do likewise".
I believe the EU could not oppose such a treaty because it would look like bullying two island neighbours.
I believe that having discharged Britain's obligation not to put up a physical border, we cannot credibly demand the UK somehow ensures the EU does the same.
I believe that when Simon Coveney keeps bigging up the backstop, he must think Johnson will blink - or sell out the unionists.
I believe both these positions are delusional and will lead to disaster.
Let me repeat three predictions I made here in the past year.
First, I predicted Johnson would leave without a deal rather than back down on the backstop.
I believe he has no choice. The backstop would confine Britain to the single market until we and the European Union were happy about the Border - which we might never be.
Second, I predicted Johnson would win the coming general election with a comfortable majority. Last week's polls show he is up 17pc - and destroying rivals both to left and right.
Third, I predicted that even if he does not need the DUP, he will not dump on Northern unionists - as our tribal Government and media hopes he will do in a betrayal of both republican principles and the Good Friday Agreement (GFA).
To me these are not predictions but rational conclusions from facts our Green Groupthink have refused to face.
For three years Green Groupthink has clutched at a series of straws in which the recurring default hope is that the UK would betray the majority of unionists.
Let me list these forlorn hopes: a second referendum, (dump the unionists), Corbyn would rescue us, (dump the unionists), John Bercow would save us (dump the unionists), parliament would save us (dump the unionists), Nancy Pelosi and other Adams admirers will save us, etc.
But now it just boils down to hoping Johnson will betray the unionists.
In pursuit of this tribal hope, our Government and Green Groupthinkers and their BBC fellow travellers are playing a dangerous game in Northern Ireland.
First, in defiance of the GFA which rejected majoritarianism, Coveney keeps repeating that "most of the political parties in Northern Ireland support the backstop".
Coveney brazenly ignores the hard fact that a huge majority (81pc) of unionists are against the backstop.
Gorman reinforced Coveney's line on RTE's Nine O'Clock News, referring to the letter from MLA's to Donald Tusk supporting the backstop.
He listed the parties - Sinn Fein, SDLP, Greens, Alliance - then paused and added "the middle ground", before telling us the two unionist parties had not signed it.
Does Gorman think of Sinn Fein, but not the UUP, as the "middle ground"?
This cavalier dismissal of 81pc of unionist opinion is compounded by the casual way some media blamed the Fermanagh bomb on Brexit.
The current tensions in the North are fed by many diverse factors. They include three years of green flag-waving by the Government and conflating Brexit with the GFA.
But mostly they are fed by Sinn Fein continually demanding a united Ireland poll, and by inflammatory speeches such as those of Martina Anderson.
Let me remind the Green Groupthinkers, who imply Brexit is feeding the Recurring IRA, of the following facts.
The dissidents are not motivated by a desire to keep Northern Ireland under EU law - they are against all laws, Irish or British or European.
The dissidents are not angry because Boris Johnson won't listen to the Irish Government - they are angry because there is an Irish Government.
The dissidents are not protesting against a "hard border" - they don't recognise any Irish border - despite it having been accepted by every mainstream party and the UN since 1998.
The dissidents are not a product of a "vacuum" created after SF collapsed the power-sharing executive. They oppose the very principle of power-sharing and made that clear by bombing Omagh in 1998.
The dissidents are not products of "the failure of politics". They despise politics as we understand it.
That is why neither the British nor Irish Governments should make pacifying the dissidents a matter of national policy.
Let me conclude with the appeal I mentioned at the start, an appeal addressed to the Labour movement.
Professor Brian Lucey recently wrote an apologia for the Government's policy in the Irish Times titled: "A hard Brexit and a hard border are bearable, at a national level."
Bearable by academics in permanent and pensionable posts maybe. But I doubt working people will find a hard Brexit bearable.
That is why the Labour and trade union movements have a solemn duty to take off the green jersey, don the red jersey, challenge Fine Gael's gormless green flag waving and look after Irish working people.
Time the Labour movement told our Government to tell the EU we wish to begin bi-lateral talks with our neighbours. Brendan Howlin has loyally backed the Government but surely there are limits to that loyalty?
Labour has little to lose by taking its head out of the green jersey - and it has a huge constituency to win. It has history behind it too. The national bourgeoisie have never been a friend of Irish working people. James Connolly warned about the green flag over Dublin Castle. Today a green jersey flies over Government buildings.
Time all true republicans and social democrats remembered that the tricolour also has an orange band as an earnest commitment to a future brotherhood when the backstop will be only a bad memory.


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PYONGYANG, North Korea — A satellite launch North Korea had hailed as a moment of national pride ended in failure Friday when the rocket disintegrated over the Yellow Sea, earning Pyongyang embarrassment as well as condemnation from a host of nations that deemed it a covert test of missile technology.
The launch is a setback for new leader Kim Jong Un, whose government had projected the satellite as a show of strength amid North Korea's persistent economic hardship. Kim is solidifying power following the death of his father, longtime leader Kim Jong Il, four months ago.
The U.N. Security Council said it deplores the launch, saying it violated two council resolutions.
In a rare move, Pyongyang acknowledged that the rocket did not deliver a satellite, but it also pressed ahead with grandiose propaganda in praise of the ruling Kim family.
The United States and South Korea declared the early morning launch a failure minutes after the rocket shot out from the North's west coast. North Korea acknowledged that some four hours later in an announcement broadcast on state TV, saying the satellite that the rocket was carrying did not enter orbit.
North Korea had held up the launch as a scientific achievement and even a gift for its late founder, Kim Il Sung, two days before the 100th anniversary of his birth. It pressed ahead even as world leaders vowed to take action in the U.N. Security Council against what they called a flagrant violation of international resolutions prohibiting North Korea from developing its nuclear and missile programs.
The rocket's destruction suggests the country has yet to master the technology needed to build long-range missiles that could threaten the United States. Still, worries remain about North Korea's nuclear program amid reports that it may be planning an atomic test soon.
The launch was condemned by the foreign ministers of the Group of Eight industrialized nations meeting in Washington, including Russia.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the launch "is in direct violation" of Security Council sanctions "and threatens regional stability," spokesman Martin Nesirky said.
The U.N.'s most powerful body, the Security Council, said in a brief press statement after a closed meeting on Friday that members agreed to continue consultations "on an appropriate response."
U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, the current council president, refused to speculate on whether a response might include new sanctions against North Korea. The council imposed sanctions against North Korea after its first nuclear test in 2006 and stepped up sanctions after its second test in 2009.
Washington said it was suspending plans to contribute food aid to the North in exchange for a rollback of its nuclear programs.
The Obama administration believes U.S. sanctions against North Korea, particularly on its ability to obtain advanced electronics for guidance systems, have restricted its proliferation activities.
Experts say the Unha-3 carrier was the same type of rocket that would be used to strike the U.S. and other targets with a long-range missile.
Greg Thielmann, a former intelligence officer with the U.S. State Department, said it now appears the North Koreans haven't mastered the technology they need to control multistage rockets — a key capability if the North is to threaten the United States with intercontinental ballistic missiles.
North Korea has tested two atomic devices but is not yet believed to be able to build a nuclear warhead small enough to be mounted on a long-range missile.


By J’nelle Agee The Chicago Police Memorial Foundation announced the return of the Horses of Honor Campaign. The public art exhibit will debut this summer and is a continuation of last year’s collection. All proceeds will benefit the “Get Behind the Vest” campaign, which buys new bullet-proof vests for active-duty Chicago police officers.
By Lukas Voss Wedged between Cris Collinsworth´s analysis and Katy Perry´s elaborate halftime extravaganza, a 911 call involving a pizza delivery halted the usual Super bowl commercial landscape. The NFL, in collaboration with NO MORE, a campaign to raise awareness and end domestic violence, used its airtime during the biggest television event of the year […]