Lack of Solid City Planning Laws Leaves Market in Limbo
Urban development regulations need to be finalised soon to avoid damage to the city’s real estate sector.
Bangkok was established as Thailand’s capital in 1782, but its evolution into a modern metropolis has been relatively recent, dating back to around 1960. Covering approximately 1,570 square kilometres today, Bangkok has grown dramatically from a small city with a population under two million to a metropolis of more than 10 million.
However, urban planning has not been carried out properly in Thailand’s capital and business hub,especially when compared to major global cities such as Singapore, London or Sydney. Bangkok’s growth does not have much direction or strategy. One reason is the lack of balance between the city’s growth against development of mass transport and environmental quality. The first mass-transit system started operation in 1999, and 11 years on, the total distance has increased only from 23.5km to 79.45km.
One of the most contentious issues in the Bangkok property market recently has been city planning regulations. The latest regulations expired in May and have been extended for an additional year, while the new draft regulations are at the public hearing stage and not yet definite.
The new draft raises many questions and uncertainty in the property sector, and will certainly have many short and long-term implications for the market, both positive and negative.
From my study of the draft regulations, the aim is to maintain the high-density areas in the city centre and in areas identified as commercial zones, but to lower the density in smaller roads and sois in both commercial and residential zones.
The new regulations involve changes in several areas including minor changes in zoning (colour zones identifying land use) and the reduction of the floor area ratio (FAR) in selected areas, mostly residential,but with allowances for higher FARs near mass-transit stations to maximise the use of these systems. There are also minor changes regarding environmental issues,such as allowing a higher FAR for developments with more public space, car parking space, or those with more energy-saving features.
The key changes that underpin the draft regulation involve land usage and restrictions on built-area based on road widths, with the overall aim of achieving lower density along smaller roads and in residential zones. Road width requirements have changed significantly for large high-rise buildings exceeding 10,000 square metres, from the current requirement of 10m in width to between 16m and 30m, depending on the zone. Building heights will also be more restricted where the road access is smaller.
In the immediate term, the draft regulations have raised concerns for developers and landlords holding land banks in areas affected by the rules. They face uncertainty about what can or cannot be built in the future, which is resulting in a panic rush by developers to plan, design and obtain construction permits before the new regulations come into effect.
As a result, we may see a surge in new supply that is rushed to market, where the projects are designed based on current demand ad maximising land use,rather than planning based on future market needs.This could result in undesirable products that will face slow sales and subpar achieved prices.
Stricter regulations also mean a potential loss inland value. Land prices are most likely to decline in specific areas where less can be built based on new road width requirements. This will negatively affect landlords and developers who have acquired sites based on current regulations. The uncertainty could also result in a slowdown in land transactions in areas affected by the draft regulations.
While land prices for areas affected by the regulations are likely to fall, land located on roads that are more than 16m wide and main roads in the city centre and suburban areas near mass-transit stations is likely to increase in price. This means future prices of buildings along these areas are likely to be pushed up in line with increased land prices. Existing large scale highrise buildings are also likely to increase in value, but this will vary depending on the building design, condition and upkeep.
In the long term, a decline in prices in some areas could make property more affordable, benefiting middle-level income earners.
At present, those who are earning low to middle level incomes with a budget of one to three million baht to purchase a home are forced to buy 30-squaremetre condominium units as their budget constraints do not enable them to buy a single house, even in areas outside the city.
Lower land prices will change this, making larger and more affordable housing available that will see an increase in people’s standard of living.
Another positive impact that will come as a result of stricter regulations is a controlled supply of new condominiums and offices in central Bangkok. Although this may sound negative to the market, restrictions on future supply should reduce the risk of overbuilding and a bubble.
However, I noticed one area in the new regulations that lacks proper planning, which is the allowance of more commercial space in the nodes of high-density residential areas. In a residential area, there is a need and demand for large-scale retail and commercial properties that are conveniently located close to the communities to support the growing suburban population, thereby reducing the need to travel into the city.
Unfortunately what works for the retail market in terms of design and usage are large shopping complexes that require a built area of more than 10,000 square metres per building, and these continue to be restricted.
Retail planning should be treated separately and subject to different regulations or exemptions to ensure that retail development supports residential expansion.Large-scale retail in suburban locations is equally important as the sector’s development in the city’s business districts.
Urban planning is a controversial issue and we need a city planning strategy that best promotes a high overall standard of living and environmental quality.
The new draft city planning regulation is a good step forward. Whether the regulation will impose more or fewer restrictions, it should be concluded soon, as the current uncertainty will not do the property market any good.
Source : Bangkok Post dated 23 October 2011 by Aliwassa Pathnadabutr, Managing Director of CBRE Thailand


How to Replace the EGR Valve on a Mustangby Cassandra Tribe
The EGR valve, or exhaust gas recirculation valve, in your Mustang is essential to its being able to pass emissions tests, maintain good fuel mileage and smooth idling speeds. The valve passes exhaust gas back into the engine to cool gasses, prevent a buildup of nitrogen gas and burn up any remaining fuel. During the life of your car, you will have to replace the EGR valve on a Mustang several times as they are prone to becoming dirty and blocked. Fortunately, not only is the valve inexpensive, it is easy to replace.
Park your Mustang on a level surface and open the hood. Standing in front of the car, locate the EGR valve. It will be just behind and above the drive belts at the front of the engine. There will be several vacuum hoses attached to the valve and the valve itself has a silver in color disc like "hat" on it and a "L" shaped body.
Disconnect the vacuum hoses from the EGR valve. The hoses may have squeeze type hose clamps on the ends holding them in place, pinch the two tabs of the clamp together to open it and slide the hose off. Some hoses may be held in place by the force of the vacuum only, grasp the hose near where it connects to the EGR valve and pull the hose off.
Disconnect the exhaust vacuum line, which is a metal hose that is connected to the bottom left of the EGR valve. Use a wrench to unscrew the lock nut.
Remove the two bolts holding the valve onto the engine block using a 10 mm socket and socket wrench. To install the new valve, reverse these steps.
- Change your EGR valve about one month before you will have an emissions test done on your Mustang. This will help your car pass.
Things You'll Need
- Crescent wrench
- 10 mm socket
- Socket wrench
- Don't work on a car that has been recently driven. Car engines heat up quickly and you can be seriously burned should you touch the engine block when trying to remove the EGR valve.
Cassandra Tribe has worked in the construction field for over 17 years and has experience in a variety of mechanical, scientific, automotive and mathematical forms. She has been writing and editing for over 10 years. Her areas of interest include culture and society, automotive, computers, business, the Internet, science and structural engineering and implementation.


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“It’s the only way I have learned to express myself, through other people’s descriptions of life” – Motion City Soundtrack
I can’t speak for everyone, but my life is kind of a constant attempt to “keep an even keel”, and I think it almost always has been. I have more coping mechanisms than I can even think of. For truly desperate times, there’s the old lie in bed, stare at the ceiling, and listen to music for several (hundred) hours. For more minor things, it’s little tricks like posting lists and gratuitously crossing things off that I’ve accomplished, putting down my work when I get too stressed, listening to the music of my early teens (MCR ROX!!!1) and eating all the cookies. One of my favourites is a line I picked up from my best friend: “It’ll get done”. And it does, it always does.
I have tons, but picking just one is easy. It’s writing, and it always has been. When I was 9 and I was first learning what anxiety felt like, I was co-writing my sister’s Harry Potter fanfiction (a comedy, script-style romance with plenty of author appearances). As I got older, I started writing my own self-insertion fanfiction, often co-writing with friends, and still hysterically funny to read today (although that might just be for me). A little older, and I started writing love stories, and started writing in paragraphs.
Now, I estimate that I’ve written upwards of 400,000 words of fiction in the past 6 years (so as much as 5 novels’ worth), and no one has read a word of it. It’s not that I don’t value feedback, or that I don’t ever want to be published. It’s that if I’m writing for anyone but myself, it doesn’t work as well to even the keel. I need to be able to tell it like it is in my head without censoring myself for what anyone else might think. I value that freedom enough to go into a completely unrelated field of study. I’m a writer, not by trade, but by nature.

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Fernand Jacopozzi, “Magician of the light”
Fernand Jacopozzi (1877-1932) is this Italian born engineer (he was born in Florence) to whom the French High command entrusted the task of illuminating the fake Paris; for this he was awarded the Légion d’honneur, although his creation to the North-East of Paris was never tested. However, his work did open the way for other similar projects, which, when the Second World War occurred, proved to be very effective.
At first one thinks of the Starfish sites, in the decoy-towns built in England during the Blitz to save the real cities such as Bristol, Manchester or Sheffield. Note that Starfish sites mean sites which were deliberately created to simulate the effects on structures for nuclear tests, notably in the United States as part of “Operation Teapot”, the so called famous Survival Towns. Little is still known about these Starfish sites, but a considerable amount of interest in them has started to develop in England, judging by a rather long and detailed article in the Daily Mail of 1 March 2013.
The other creation which is quite similar to that of Fernand Jacopozzi was the Disguise California project: in 1942, the Americans, fearing an invasion by air over the West coast, built a fake housing estate in California, which more precisely, was a collection of painted canvasses covering several hectares, placed over the top of the Boeing aircraft factory, to look like a part of a quiet suburb.
For all that, if the engineer Jacopozzi was to be left a place in posterity, it was not to his fake Paris that he owed it, but rather to ... to the real city of Paris. Indeed it turns out that it was the engineer Florentin who, after the Great War, illuminated the capital: it is him, therefore, that we have to thank for the illumination of the city’s most prestigious monuments: the Arc de Triomphe, Opéra Garnier, Place de la Concorde, Madeleine and finally and above all the Eiffel Tower.
For the exhibition of decorative Arts of 1925 in Paris, the Eiffel Tower company decided to illuminate the monument; it consulted painters such as Fernand Léger and Raoul Dufy, but also Fernand Jacopozzi; the latter who asked André Citroën to finance the project; promising him as his words had it: “Your name, and your name 20 metres in height, in illuminated letters, on the most illustrious of monuments... A flamboyant pylon bearing your name... A name visible from 50 kilometres away... An advert on a scale never seen before...It will be the torch of Paris, the city of light...”1 In the space of a month and a half, he erected a number of wooden structures on to which he fixed the sockets for 250,000 light bulbs of six different colours, fed by 90 kilometres of electric cable.
The exhibition of decorative Arts started on 5 May 1925 and it was quite some show that was put on for the people of Paris: the tower came alight for what was barely a minute, giving the impression of a gigantic firework, displaying the name Citroën in giant and flamboyant letters 30 metres high; Le Corbusier, who was ever so excited about the display, wrote in the review L’Art Décoratif d’Aujourd’hui : “In plaster Palaces where the decoration is twisted, it appears pure as a crystal”2. This awesome feat in advertising marketing would remain in place until the middle of the 1930s. The airman Charles Lindbergh explained how he even used the advert as a marker for landing at Le Bourget, at the end of his journey across the Atlantic in 1927. Although Jacopozzi’s illuminated decorations never got to be used as decoy for the German bombers, the idea was none the less there. Then , “in 1926, Jacopozzi added thousands more light bulbs to produce sparkling cascades giving the effect of water being sprayed out in harmonious jets”3, and “in 1927, the tower was decorated to simulate lightning and the tower on fire with flashes zigzagging four hundred metres down the tower. The tower looked as though it was being consumed by flames.”4
These successive illuminations of the Eiffel Tower earned Jacopozzi a long article in 1927 in L’Illustration, which wasn’t short on praise for the “person who has turned our Eiffel Tower, a simple and useless dark peak in the Paris night’s sky, into the most splendid and enchanted electric theatre that the world has ever seen”; the journal went on to enthuse: these magical delights “have superbly demonstrated a new form of decorative advertising. There has been nothing so great or so grandiose as this until now.”5
But the engineer Jacopozzi – who was nicknamed “the magician of the light” – was not content to stop at this feat; he carried on with his urban illumination company extending it to a number of other monuments: “After the Eiffel Tower, Jacopozzi went on to provide the illumination for the major Parisian shops at Christmas time and for the New Year: the Louvre, the Galeries Lafayette, the Samaritaine, the Bazar de l’Hôtel de ville, the Bon Marché.”6 He was the driving force behind the advent of illuminated advertising hoardings to the extent that in 1931, one year before his death, he had “become someone that one could not do without for any event involving lighting.”7 In 1930: Cardinal Verdier asked him to light up Notre-Dame and offered him 3,000 francs for his services; but Jacopozzi did it for free. A year later, he lit up the replica of the Temple of Angkor as part of the colonial Exhibition which was being held at the Porte Dorée in Paris, at the Bois de Vincennes.
So, Jacopozzi is the symbolic father of Paris by night, the person who contributed massively to the myth of the city of light, set on the silver plates by the photographer Léon Gimpel (1873-1948) who himself was in fact the author of a remarkable series of colour photographs of Paris in the twenties. He is in a way, the “Eugène Atget of colour”. But what is equally astonishing is that Gimpel was one of the first to have used the autochrome process, notably during the Great War; such that we have him partly to thank for the rare colour photographs that were produced at this time (notably the series of photos of children taken in the streets of Paris, playing with model aeroplanes). Jacopozzi and Gimpel are two little known figures in our History, but at the same time two key characters.
By way of conclusion: the illuminated decoy which was supposed to mislead the enemy and which never came to be would have its epiphany in the modern city as if the aborted project of an unreal Paris had triumphed in the illuminated derealisation of Paris; the planned war of appearances is bulging with the modern spectacle, and the magnificence of a product which has triumphed in the urban wonder-world.
1 Quoted by Pierre-Marie Gallois, The Hourglass of the century, Published by L’Âge d’Homme, Lausanne, 1999, page 23. More detailed information on Fernand Jacopozzi, to be found on pages 22 to 26.
2 Le Corbusier, Decorative Art of Today, Paris, Vincent and Fréal, 1959 , page 141.
3 Jean-Claude Daufresne, Celebration in XXth century Paris, the temporary Architectures from 1919 to 1989, published by Mardaga, 2001, page 171.
4 Op.cit. page 173.
5 L’ Illustration no.4423, 10 December 1927, page XXXI. This article has the very significant title of “Modern magic”.
6 According to Pierre-Marie Gallois in When Paris was a city of light, op.cit.
7 Op.cit. Ibid.


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The Lockheed Martin F-16 'Fighting Falcon' is a single-seat, multi-role fighter.
We've seen these jets at the Evansville Freedom Festival air shows.
The F-16 is considered a no-frills 'hot rod', a lightweight Superjet with a low price tag, flown by many nations including Israel.
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In July of 2001, another F-16 jet from the same fighter wing crashed in southern Illinois. The jet crashed into a cornfield near the Richland-Edwards County line. The pilot ejected, parachuted to the ground and walked to a nearby home to report what had happened.


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Having topped the classical music charts and performed before a global TV audience of hundreds of millions at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, Sheku Kanneh-Mason is spoilt for choice when it comes to picking the highlight of his year.
The 19-year-old cellist says far more modest, less public events were just as enjoyable as the headline-grabbing moments. “It’s all been really, really amazing,” he said. “I have just enjoyed each thing but sometimes the really small things, like playing for children in a school, are really special.”
Music education is a passion for Kanneh-Mason, who is using his new-found fame to highlight its value amid concerns it is being squeezed out of the national curriculum in England.
“I think it’s so, so important,” said Kanneh-Mason, who attended a comprehensive school in Nottingham. “I was very, very lucky that all of the schools I went to were supportive of music. I had the opportunity to experience music from a young age and I’d love for everyone to have that opportunity.
“I think it’s such an amazing art in expressing yourself and understanding other people’s expression. I play a lot of music by dead composers and through their music we can understand their lives. Life and music are very connected and that’s a really special thing.”
If his star was already in the ascendant before 2018, becoming the first black instrumentalist to win the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year in 2016, it has entered another stratosphere, largely thanks to his moving performance at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding. The cellist’s debut album, Inspiration, reached No 11 in the pop charts, he won two Classic Brit awards and also played the Royal Variety performance. Additionally, he released his first Christmas single, his own arrangement of In the Bleak Midwinter, with his sister Isata Kanneh-Mason – one of six siblings, all musical – accompanying him on piano.
His growing fame sits easily with the teenager, who says he just loves playing music and sharing it with others, although he is also keen to galvanise interest in the predominately white world of classical music in others from a BAME background.
Talking about Chineke!, Chi-chi Nwanoku’s groundbreaking ensemble of young black and minority ethnic musicians, in whose debut concert he played, he said: “It’s so important because it’s really easy to be inspired by someone you can maybe relate with because they look like you or have a similar background and that’s what the orchestra is trying to do. For me, playing in the orchestra, I was one of the youngest and it was really inspiring. I have always wanted to inspire others.”
Kanneh-Mason, whose album includes Bob Marley and Leonard Cohen tracks alongside Shostakovich, has put his money where his mouth is, donating £3,000 to his old school, Trinity Catholic School in Nottingham, to ensure the future of cello teaching there. He is also London Music Masters’ junior ambassador, promoting opportunity and diversity in classical music.
There is little doubt his cause has been boosted by his own rise, capped by the cellist’s appearance at the royal wedding, which was watched by 18 million people in the UK alone. He played three tracks chosen by the couple while they signed the register off camera.
Meghan called him personally to ask him to perform after Prince Harry saw him play at an event in support of the Antiguan charity the Halo Foundation. He was told to expect a call from her, he said, “otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have picked up”.
As a result, he says he is now recognised in the street, “particularly if I’m carrying my cello”. He met the couple again at a Royal Variety performance last month.
“They were happy to see me again and enjoyed the performance and thanked me for performing in May,” he said “It was really nice to perform for them and this time they were able to watch it.”
For other teenagers, the burden of living up to a life-changing 12 months might prove difficult but Kanneh-Mason is unfazed and his ambitions for the future remain modest. “I am still a student [at the Royal Academy of Music],” he said. “I enjoy discovering lots of music and learning. I think it’s something that will never stop, that’s one of the exciting things about classical music.”

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The duo – along with Romeo, 17, and Cruz, 14 – were proudly watching Victoria’s autumn/winter ’20 presentation on Sunday morning.
Like the loving dad he is, David cradled his eight-year-old daughter as they enjoyed the best seats at Whitehall’s Banqueting House.
Sitting next to Harper and David was none other than Vogue’s Anna Wintour (who sat next to Harper last season as well) while Cruz and Romeo got to chill next to British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful.
If Harper no longer wanted to sit on her dad’s lap, does that mean Anna has to move?
Eldest son Brooklyn, 20, wasn’t at the event as he was in Mexico City shooting with BMW Motorsport.
At the end of the show, Victoria stepped out onto the runway to enthusiastic applause.
The former Spice Girl rocked a white tiered blouse and high-waisted black flared trousers that would put flare king Harry Styles to shame.
Meanwhile, Victoria also recently got her very own Instagram filter where you can find out exactly which version of VB you are.
The high-flying fashion designer has many strings to her bow and her filter includes everything from the CEO, to the cover star, to the mum, the beauty boss and, of course, the Spice Girl #poshspiceforevs.
Obviously we’re itching to give it a go ourselves, but Victoria filming Harper finding out she is the ‘beauty boss’ version of her mum is the best thing you will see all day.
Can that girl seem any more chuffed with herself?
Victoria’s mini-me was sat there smiling away while waiting patiently for the filter to land on her chosen VB and when she realised it’s ‘beauty boss’, well it’s like Harper’s Christmases all came at once.
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LONDON — Britain’s economy grew just 0.2% in the first quarter of 2017, according to a second estimate from the Office for National Statistics released on Thursday, even lower than the preliminary reading released in late April.
The 0.2% growth in the first quarter marks the slowest growth since the beginning of 2016, the ONS said. The slowdown in the British economy in the quarter was largely driven by a drop-off in the dominant services sector, the ONS said.
“UK GDP growth slowed to 0.2% in Quarter 1 2017 as consumer facing industries such as retail and accommodation fell and household spending slowed. This was partly due to rising prices. Construction and manufacturing also showed little growth, while business services & finance continued to grow strongly,” it said.
Until the beginning of 2017, the UK economy fared better than all but the most optimistic of forecasters imagined in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit referendum, confounding predictions of an immediate recession, and virtually ignoring any uncertainty over the future.
However, as the falling pound has pushed up inflation in recent months, regular Brits have started to feel the pinch, spending less, and slowing the consumer boom that has fuelled the country’s economic performance in the past handful of years.
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Pascal Siakam led the Raptors to a big win in Game 5 against the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Toronto Raptors were down 0-3 against the Philadelphia 76ers and were on the verge of getting swept in the 1st round of the Eastern Conference Playoffs.
However, they have bounced back pretty well, and have won two straight games to force a game 6 back in Toronto to keep their season alive. Surprisingly, they were able to win game 5 against the 76ers at their home cour. As a result, it has brought a lot of confidence to the Raptors’ camp ahead of a Game 6 at home.
Pascal Siakam led the way for the Toronto Raptors in their dominating win away from home in Game 5 against the 76ers. He recorded a double-double, as he scored 23 points and recorded 10 rebounds as well.
In the absence of Fred VanVleet, he took the role of leader with perfection. He also set up his teammates as he dished out 7 assists as well for the Raptors.
James Harden’s playoff struggles continue
James Harden once again struggled in a playoff game. He was brought by the 76ers to help in case Embiid didn’t perform well, but so far he hasn’t been able to do that.
Harden scored an abysmal total of 15 points where he shot 4/11 from the field and committed 5 turnovers as well. Along with Harden, other 76ers players also had an off night which resulted in their second consecutive loss against the Raptors.
Joel Embiid is suffering from a thumb injury, and his performances have also dipped, which is a big scare for the 76ers. The Philadelphia 76ers need to win game 6 in Toronto at any cost, otherwise, pressure will be at an all-time high for them in game 7 back in Philly.
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From flooding to wildfires to off-season storms, humans have seen many consequences of climate change. But perhaps one of the least-known repercussions is the worldwide presence of tiny specks of solid particles and liquid droplets that have infiltrated our atmosphere. Whenever you take a breath, chances are you're inhaling many of these "aerosols."
NASA last week published a telling image that will give you an idea of how bad the problem really is:
This stunning visualization is based on data collected last Thursday, Aug. 23, as wildfires, cyclones, and hurricanes plagued our planet, Engadget reported Monday. Each brightly-colored area represents a worrisome concentration of aerosols in the air.
NASA modeled this map using data from the Goddard Earth Observing System, using different colors to represent different types of aerosols. Red signals carbon emissions caused by fires or vehicle emissions, blue represents the sea spray absorbed into the air during a hurricane, and purple indicates high volumes of dust particles, Inverse explained.
While it may look beautiful, the map paints a picture that has many experts worried about the quality of the air we breathe. Learn more about the map and what it represents at Engadget. Shivani Ishwar


CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A high school student has been caught, after CMS said he made a threat toward Phillip O. Berry academy of technology, claiming he would shoot up the school.
Channel 9 saw the threat, which was made on Instagram. It shows a teenager, with his middle finger extended, with a comment about "shooting up Berry" Wednesday.
CMS said an investigation found the threat was a hoax, but extra security was added anyway and some students left school early.
Several parents told Channel 9 they felt they should've been told about the threat Tuesday night, not in the morning after school had started, and they were already at work. Many of them, like Mary O’Neill, came right back to pick up their kids and take them home.
"It scared me. So I’m going to take my daughter home," she said. "This could have been handled a little better."
CMS said it notified parents Wednesday morning, because the incident was still under investigation last night. Students at the school said it was a crazy day on campus.
"There were cops everywhere. Every time you turned around there was a cop, even at the doors," said senior Myakeya Jamison.
Another senior, Nivar Reid, said he never felt unsafe at school Wednesday.
"I kind of feel sorry for the guy who did this. I don't think he meant to do anything at all, and he still got in trouble for it," he said.
CMS said the student responsible does not attend Phillip O. Berry, but another school. Some students told channel 9 that he used to attend Berry.
By early morning, CMS sent out an automated message to parents telling them the person responsible had been apprehended, and would be disciplined according to the rules of student conduct.
"It was crazy. Everybody’s been talking about it all day long," Reid said.
Principal Kennedy’s Connect-Ed messages:
Good morning Berry families. This is Principal Kennedy with an important message. It is my goal to keep you informed of important things impacting our school. Last night, there was a social media threat made against the school. Law enforcement is currently on the campus investigating. The safety of our students is extremely important. For that reason, we have extra security on campus today. I will keep you updated when more information is available.
Good morning, Berry families. This is Principal Kennedy with a follow-up to my previous message. CMS Police officers have concluded a thorough investigation of the social media threat against our school. While the threat was deemed not credible, CMS Police continued to take the matter very seriously. The person responsible was quickly apprehended and will be fully disciplined in accordance with the Student Code of Conduct. Our scholars have been exemplary this morning and all teaching and learning is proceeding as normal. Please know that there is nothing more important than the safety of our students and staff and we are committed to maintaining a safe learning environment at PO Berry. As always, thank you for your support of our school. Have a great day.
It’s not known if the teen responsible faces any criminal charges. Students said they were notified over the intercom, that someone had been caught, and the threat was not credible.
CMS did not have numbers on how many students went home from school Wednesday.
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Introduction: Hi my name is Kelleen Corsmeier, my friends also call me Kelly. I am owner and designer at Kelleen Corsmeier Interiors located in Cincinnati, Ohio. My passion has always been decorating, organizing and restyling. As a little girl I would restyle and rearrange my room weekly. As an adult, I spent my time doing the same to my entire house as well as my family and friend’s houses…thanks Pinterest. The designer in me was always there, but now she gets to fully bloom.
I love to get to know my clients on a personal level. This helps me really get to know the style they are picturing in their mind. Specializing in redesign and color consultation I will ensure you love your home. Using what you already have and sprinkling some new items I will give your space a fresh, updated look on a reasonable budget.
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This past year, we decided to update our kitchen. We had quartz countertops that were in excellent condition and we wanted to paint our oak cabinets to match the current countertops. What seemed like an easy task proved to be extremely challenging. Kelleen suggested we paint different areas of our cabinets with the samples that we chose. This way we could observe how different lighting changed the way the colors looked. Wow was she right!! Kelleen came back to our home multiple times until we got the perfect color. She also picked a beautiful wall color to coordinate with the new cabinet look. We changed the cabinet hardware and recreated the kitchen with a really fresh look. She also gave use the great idea to paint and refinish our kitchen table and chairs, desk and hutch as well as assisted in finding the perfect colors for all four pieces of furniture. I could not be happier with the final look. Kelleen was flexible, easy to work with, and full of creative ideas. I appreciated that she took the time to identify my style and vision for the kitchen space. I will definitely be calling on her again when it is time to redo my livingroom!
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John and Phoeba, I thoroughly enjoyed working with you both on your updated kitchen redesign. It looks amazing. I can't wait to work with you again.


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‘Have You Met…’ Is a series I started to originally interview restaurants, then I moved onto bloggers and now since moving to New York the series has turned to others who are new to the city and the USA trying to find out what they have learned and their favourite places to visit. To read my other interviews head here.
Have you met…Niamh?
What is your name / age and where are you from?
Niamh Mullan – 26 (25 when I started MB haha). Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Why did you decide to come to New York to study and work?
No idea. The chance to live in New York and work for a global company. The study was just a must do for me as I already have a Masters.
Where do you work/what is your role?
Thomson Reuters – Proposition Marketing Executive
How are you finding living in New Jersey?
NJ is better than I was expecting – quiet, clean, safe, cheap…cheaper. Sometimes it’s nice to remove yourself from the busy city after a long day and Hoboken is a cute wee place.
THE BEST BIT – the view. Every time you look at the view it makes you realize you’re actually living (well really working) in NYC .
THE WORST BIT- the PATH train at the weekends.
How are you finding having a roommate?
Honestly not as bad as I was expecting, you get used to it very quickly. Obviously I am super excited to get my own space again however I didn’t even apply for the single as I would rather a roommate with a big room and en-suite than the small noisy single with shared bathroom.
Have you been to New York before? (If so, has your perspective changed? If not, is it what you imagined?)
I came to New York in 2005 when I was about 15 and hated it. I thought it was dirty and busy and scary. I came back again in 2015, enjoyed it, did all the touristy stuff. Moved here for Mountbatten in 2017 and I LOVE it, living here is very very different from being a tourist here, you go from loving Times Square to hating it and begin to discover all the cool unique things the city has to offer that tourists wouldn’t normally stumble across.
What has been your favorite memory of your year so far?
Tough Mudder / Chainsmokers Free Concert in Central Park / Thanksgiving / Ice Skating in Central Park / Silly memories getting to know people.
What is your favorite area of New York and why?
Greenwich Village / Meatpacking / Tribeca region for bars & restaurants.
What is your favorite restaurant and why?
Mr Chow – Expensive Chinese but worth it (go restaurant week)
North River Lobster Boat Cruise – sales around the Hudson with seafood & beer (only in summer)
By Chloe – vegan
Jacks Wife Freda – brunch
Smorgasburg – summer food festival
Nom Wah Tea Parlour – cheap dim sum
What is your favorite bar and why?
Fat Cat: fun dive bar/games hall has pool / ping pong etc, Christopher Street
Lower East Side (LES) Bar Crawl: No Fun, Pianos, Hair of the Dog: all fun dive bars right beside each other (look rubbish but very fun, especially after a boozy brunch)
Greenwich Village Bar Crawl: Off the Wagon, Three Sheets Salon and Down the hatch: dive bars with great happy hours
The Frying Pan: bar that’s on a static boat
Mr Purple – Cool Rooftop
The Garrett – speakeasy
What is your favorite happy hour and why?
McSwiggans – all you can eat $5
Greenrock – $1 beers
230th Fifth – tourist rooftop cocktails & beers
Cubbyhole – Tuesday $2 margs / $4 most other days til 1am
If someone had one day to spend in New York what should they do?
Get subway to Dumbo (Brooklyn) have a coffee in a cool coffee shop walk down towards water see Empire State in the distance through the bridge, stop for pizza in Grimaldi’s walk back over Brooklyn Bridge towards the city and explore 9/11 memorial area. Chill then go out in Greenwich village area (can see the friends building and nice houses). Do a bar crawl around Meatpacking stopping to walk a bit of the High Line before going on a night out in Greenwich Village (possibly starting in the Comedy Cellar and probably ending in Off the Wagon).
Or if it’s summer definitely High Line Central Park and over to Smorgasburg in Williamsburg late afternoon followed by bar crawl around Brooklyn including Whyte Hotel/ West Light / The Woods/ Radegast Hall / Freehold Berry Park.
Have you traveled anywhere during your time here? Where and why?
Yes. Lots. My advice is travel as much of the east coast as possible whilst in NYC and save West Coast to your final month. I have done:
- Fall Foliage trip in the Berkshires
- East Coast Roadtrip – Providence, Cape Code Rhode Island, New Bedford, Portland, Maine, Acadia National Park etc
- Day Trips to Fire Island, Bear Mountain etc.
Booked to do
- Vermont Skiing
- West Coast Roadtrip – San Fran, Yosemite, Monterey, Big Sur, Santa Barbara, Las Vegas, San Diego, LA
Hope to go to
- New Orleans
What is something you didn’t know about New York/USA until you got here?
Didn’t know you couldn’t say Christmas party – it has to be holiday party. Didn’t know if you got a green card for USA and choose to move back to the UK you would have to continue paying taxes in the USA forever…even on property or money earned in the UK. Didn’t know how backwards the transport system is.
What is one thing you miss from home?
Other than the obvious friends and family answer probably the fire. New York is freezing and I miss cozying up in front of a fire in the winter.
After this year, if you could stay and live in New York, would you? Why?
Yes. I love the city. It’s maybe a very different experience without all my MB and GME friends though as I haven’t met that many Americans. I would definitely try it at least for 6 months as I love the city and would like to see what it was like to live in a real NYC apartment in Manhattan / Brooklyn.
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Once I found the lavender that I loved. I MEAN LOVED. I found that I could get the same lavender at the $28 per pound price, $17 per pound price or the $6.00 per pound price. Now, how can THAT be? It is the same scent.
It is simple.
The $28 per pound price it is 99% top shelf lavender raw materials and 1% carrier oil. (Picture B)
The $17 per pound is about 25% top shelf lavender and 75% carrier oils. (Picture A)
And well the $6.00 per pound is about 1% top shelf lavender and 99% carrier oil. (The exact opposite of Picture B.)
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Then there is the question of complexity. Any time you mix different scents together you run the risk of the scent not working. It takes more time and effort and thus, is more expensive.
Also, the more raw fragrance materials (scent) the deeper the scent throw. You can get a very strong smelling scent with just a mono note and a bunch or solvent. But it will always be "missing something". The depth of scent that comes with complexity is what makes truly interesting scents. Customers may not even know why but they are almost always drawn to the more complex scents.
And out of all of the candle making supplies that you use to make a candle I would have to say that the scent is the most important ingredient when it comes to creating the best smelling candle. Other factors are important. Don't get me wrong. But scent is THE most important. It is the reason that someone will buy your candle.
At Candle Cocoon we want the best candle with the best scent throw. So you can guess which price point we offer. Lavender Lullaby
You may also ask why any solvent would be used at all in a fragrance oil. To put it simply, a small amount is needed to help the fragrance oil stabilize. For more on this there are other blog posts.
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MR. F. A. O'KEEFFE (Limerick)
beg to ask the Under Secretary of Stat for War if, regarding the statement of the 678 War Authorities that it is their intention to send five regiments of Irish Militia to England this year for military training, he will consider the question as an equivalent of dispatching a similar number of English Militia regiments to Ireland for the same purpose?
THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Mr. J. POWELL-WILLIAMS,) Birmingham. S.
The only regiments of Irish militia brought to England for their training are artillery regiments, which are trained in the fortresses they would be required to garrison in case of war. There are no corresponding reasons for sending English militia to Ireland.

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My rating: 3 of 5 stars
A very early graphic novel from 1950, Fawcett Gold Medal 129, declares “A fascinating mystery, told in a new picture-book medium” on the back cover. It’s essentially a 195 page color comic book printed in typical paperback size. The plot is interesting enough telling the tale of a psychotic and highly regarded artist who kidnaps a young woman that happens to look exactly like his dead wife - who he accidentally murdered. A lot of padding here, a slew of unlikely coincidences that only serve to drag out the story, word balloons that needlessly state what is evident from the pictures, etc. The prose is pretty clunky - juvenile Golden Age comic book stuff with plenty of anachronisms and old slang. It’s an interesting enough oddity, but not really worth seeking out.
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What started as a scandal over the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups has broadened, with lawmakers and other critics now questioning whether other kinds of organizations were unfairly flagged for additional scrutiny.
Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., chairman of the House Small Business Committee, wrote a letter to Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel on Friday asking a series of questions about the agency’s audit practices for small businesses.
He made no specific allegation, but said that lawmakers’ investigations to date prompted the letter.
“(Congressional) investigations have only raised more questions as to the extent these practices may have extended beyond conservative groups,” Graves wrote.
Indeed, the scope of the IRS’ heavy auditing and scrutiny appears to go beyond Tea Party groups.
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD WANTS TAXPAYERS TO FUND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS’ ABORTIONS
In a statement published on May 22nd, Planned Parenthood criticized the adoption of a House amendment that would deny taxpayer funding for the abortions of illegal immigrants.
Referring to the amendment as “another attack on women’s health,” the press release states:
Planned Parenthood today strongly condemned the adoption of an amendment to limit access to women’s health care by banning the use of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement funds for abortion except in cases of rape, incest and life endangerment. The amendment also goes one step beyond current ICE policy to allow non-medical personnel to interfere with immigrant women’s access to care, without any exceptions.
This amendment to House Homeland Security Appropriations Committee bill, sponsored by Rep. John Carter (R-TX) and Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL), is unnecessary and an obvious effort to continue the attack on women’s health issues.
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Gateway Pundit: A Job Well Done… Top IRS Goon Who Wrote Threatening Letters to Conservatives Is Promoted
Just two weeks ago Barack Obama said the IRS targeting of conservatives was “Outrageous!”***Through 2012, then-Exempt Organization Specialist Stephen Seok signed many of the intimidating letters sent to conservative nonprofits. For example, this January 2012 letter sent to the Richmond Tea Party demanded the date, time and location of all group events, as well as copies of all handouts provided at the events, and the names and credentials of all organizers. Seok also demanded the names of all speakers and the contents of the speeches they made.
According to WXIX-TV/Fox 19 in Cincinnati, Seok is no longer an exempt organization specialist. He has since been promoted to “supervisor IRS agent.”
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Carlesii Viburnum 'Aurora' 'in Dutch "snowball," is a medium-sized semi-evergreen shrub with round upright form. Aurora blooms in April and May generously with strongly scented pink flowers that open from red buds. The efflorescence is sometimes pinkish. The leaves are broadly ovate and toothed. The leaves are dark green in summer, bronze in spring and red-purple in the fall, the underside of the leaves are velvety. Viburnum loves a pitch in full sun or partial shade and a slightly acidic to neutral soil. The plant is (sea) wind tolerant and tolerates air pollution.
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“When we present our concept to major urban authorities all over the world, the response is nearly always a version of ‘why haven’t we thought about this before?’,” says Erik Dyrkoren.
Dyrkoren is the CEO of Zeabuz, a Norwegian company developing zero-emission autonomous ferries for public transport in cities. He believes there is an obvious, yet untapped, solution to many of the urban transport woes that are, quite literally, floating around.
“Transporting people by road – and especially cars – is very inefficient in terms of space. Nearly every single city in the world is struggling with congestion. It’s not a problem you can solve by building bigger roads. And infrastructure for metros and trams is expensive to build. But while the roads are packed to their limits, the rivers and waterways are profoundly underutilised for transport.”
This is exactly what Zeabuz and multiple other innovative Norwegian companies are now changing. Their vision: a flotilla of electric, completely autonomous ferries transporting people on the many urban waterways of the world. Trials are already underway.
Zero-emission waterborne public transport also cuts costs and saves time for everyone.
“We want to use waterways to make it easier to get around, not look at it as an expensive barrier,” says Ketil Solvik-Olsen, CEO of Hydrolift Smart City Ferries (HYKE). (Editor’s note: Mr Solvik-Olsen left his post at HYKE and is now CEO of Seabrokers Fundamentering AS.)
“If we make it easy to use the waterways, I don’t think people will give it a second thought,” he adds.
Like Zeabuz, his company develops zero-emission autonomous ferries for waterborne public transport.
“Ferries are typically built one by one, tailored to each specific customer. That makes them a costly investment. Our goal is to make small and efficient, emission-free ferries that are available more or less off-the-shelf,”
HYKE promises an integrated, emission-free ferry solution, including intelligent dockside charging technology, varying degrees of autonomous operations, and integration with smart city systems.
“We’re just now approaching the stage where electric, small-scale and self-driving ferries are technologically and financially viable. We want to industrialise this to bring costs down,” says Solvik-Olsen.
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This is worthwhile in and of itself, but Solvik-Olsen points out that waterways offer the potential to significantly expand the scope of public infrastructure.
“For example, if you are developing a new residential area just outside the city centre, you’d probably have to build up new roads and pathways or at least improve existing infrastructure,” he says.
“As the focus on sustainable transport grows, things like bike lanes are becoming a requirement. These are expensive projects. But if you can offer good, sustainable mobility solutions on nearby waterways instead, you can cut costs significantly and at the same time improve flexibility and travel options.”
Public authorities aside, there is another group that Solvik-Olsen will have to convince to get on board with sustainable waterborne transport: urban residents themselves.
“People tend to adapt quickly to the best and most practical mode of transportation. Previously, cars have given people the flexibility they wanted. But when you give people the same flexibility with public transport, most will make the switch,” Solvik-Olsen states, before citing another example of mass adoption at breakneck speed.
“Case in point: that’s exactly what we’ve seen over the past year or so in Norway, where the use of rentable, electric scooters has exploded in Norwegian cities.”
HYKE is now busy building prototypes and setting up pilot projects.
“We’re taking a step-by-step approach, improving and expanding our solutions and services as we go. Although we are not going to revolutionise the ferry industry overnight, we have significant technological and industrial expertise on board and have a clear vision of where we are going,” Solvik-Olsen explains.
He acknowledges that the level of autonomy may vary from country to country, and the first ferries will therefore initially be launched with a captain on board.
“We are ramping up the autonomy part gradually, as regulations and people’s acceptance develop. So, while our first ferries will ‘only’ be heavily automated, I am confident we will have a fleet of fully autonomous vessels in commercial operation within a few years.”
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During that tour you will visit a region inhabited for centuries by Kashubians, who have maintained fidelity to their customs and language. The tour highlights will be the post-Norbertanian convent and church in Zukowo, the church of Carthusian Order in Kartuzy, and a museum – the Kashubian Museum located in Kartuzy. Kashuby region is known also as a land of forests, crystal-clear lakes and wooden architecture in Szymbark. The Wiezyca Peak – the highest one in Pomerania is also waiting for you, but don’t worry – the real level’s difference to take is less than 100 m. Take with us a day long tour to see some nature and historical highlights of Kashuby region.
Date: any in 2010, with few days exception only
Price: 145 USD / person
(three person group)
Price includes: transfers, our local guide service, entries according to the Kaszuby region tour program.

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The authentic version of this chair is $4,000 to $5,000 and is now manufactured by Knoll. It was created by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for the German Pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona Exposition. Mies van der Rohe designed the chair to serve as seating for the king and queen of Spain.


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U.S. government regulators may fine Google a second time this month, reports suggest.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is expected to decide on whether to fine Google for breaching user privacy, after it emerged the search giant bypassed privacy settings on Apple's Safari browser on iPhones and iPads, which left users vulnerable to tracking cookies.
A report in the San Jose Mercury News, citing sources familiar with the matter, notes the FTC is "deep into an investigation" of Google's actions, and could impose heavy fines within the next 30 days.
Google was accused of bypassing Safari's security by allowing sites to set tracking cookies, despite the security settings that should have preventing the practice. The website code which set the cookies was to allow users who had signed in to Google+ on Safari to access the '+1' button within advertisements, powered by Google's own DoubleClick network.
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Key Dates: 1957-1972
They originated in a small band of avante-garde artists and intellectuals influenced by Dada, Surrealism and Lettrism. The post-war Lettrist International, which sought to fuse poetry and music and transform the urban landscape, was a direct forerunner of the group who founded the magazine ‘Situationiste Internationale’ in 1957. At first, they were principally concerned with the “suppression of art”, that is to say, they wished like the Dadaists and the Surrealists before them to supersede the categorization of art and culture as separate activities and to transform them into part of everyday life.
At first, the movement was mainly made up of artists, of whom Asger Jorn was the most prominent. From 1962, the Situationists increasingly applied their critique not only in culture but to all aspects of capitalist society. Guy Debord emerged as the most important figure.
The Situationists rediscovered the history of the anarchist movement, particularly during the period of the First International, and drew inspiration from Spain, Kronstadt, and the Makhnovists. They described the USSR as a capitalist bureaucracy, and advocated workers’ councils. But they were not entirely anarchist in orientation and retained elements of Marxism, especially through Henri Lefebvre’s critique of the alienation of everyday life. They believed that the revolutionary movement in advanced capitalist countries should be led by an “enlarged proletariat” which would include the majority of waged laborers. In addition, although they claimed to want neither disciples nor a leadership, they remained an elitist vanguard group who dealt with differences by expelling the dissenting minority. They looked to a world-wide proletarian revolution to bring about the maximum pleasure.
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Here is the flipside of the live services industry.
I love how this article claims it's the players' fault too. As if the players were the ones who were pushing for this live services garbage where games get released 5% complete and you just have to hang on for two years before it finally turns into something decent.
It was the fucking game industry itself that wanted live services to try to stop people from returning games to Gamestop once they were done. And now waaaaah, all these live games are so much work. WELL FUCKING DUH???
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Mountain Biking Tips
Basic tips for braking on a Mountain Bike
Locking the brakes should be achieved by two fingers the most since the other three should be used in maintaining grip and control of the bike while braking.
Front brakes offer stronger braking capacity but beware not to slam on the front brakes. This will cause the front wheel to lock up thus setting you off flying over the handlebar!
The rear brake is less of a concern: if you over brake the rear wheel it will lock up and begin to skid. Although this is not as bad as when your front wheels lock up (you will fall off!). Skidding causes considerable trail damage, which should be avoided at all times.
A mix of both front and rear brakes is always the best way to stop. Unless, you are familiar with the characteristics of your front brake, don't use them during short descents, high-speed cornering, and loose terrain.
When on a long descent, do not apply brakes constantly for this will cause the brakes to over heat which may cause you to loose stopping power. Try to "pump" the brakes. Apply and release during the descent. This way, the brakes are kept cool and your speed is controlled.
Know which brake controls the front wheel. Of course you will know it of your own mountain bike, but if you are renting one or using your friends then please check if the left brake controls the front wheel or the rear wheel.
Don't brake before going over obstacles, SPEED UP. If the section is too steep, WALK.
Basic Gear Shifting Techniques on a Mountain Bike
- The right-hand lever operates the rear gear (moving the chain across the sprockets).
- The left-hand lever operates the front mechanism, which shifts the chain from one chain wheel to another.
- When the chain is on the big chain wheel you will be in a bigger gear - usually used for riding along the flat or downhill.
- The smaller (inner) chain wheels are used for uphill work, riding with luggage, or into a strong headwind.
- With the chain on the smallest rear wheel sprocket, you will be in a big gear, travelling further for each revolution of the pedals.
- The biggest sprocket provides your lowest gear for hill climbing or starting off from junctions.
- A derailleur mechanism needs you to keep pedalling to get the chain to shift from one sprocket (or chain wheel) to the next.


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While the Maharashtra government has decided to implement the ban on plastic bags and bottled water in government offices and star hotels from March, officials in the Environment department said it is unlikely to bring in a Bill for it in the Winter Session of the assembly. According to the Environment department, four teams have been formed to study the implementation and laws pertaining to the plastic ban in other states, including Sikkim, to implement the mechanism effectively in the state. “A team that went to Sikkim to study the plastic ban is back and is in process of submitting its report,” said an official.
“The plastic ban in Sikkim is being considered as the most successful. But, it turned out, there is a ban on plastic carry bags and all other material is available in plastic. Only thing is that people carry cloth bags to take belongings home. There is a huge awareness among people about not using plastic carry bags, which is why the state is successful in the ban,” said another official, who was part of the team that went to Sikkim.
A senior official from the department said that a cabinet proposal would be moved after receiving the reports from the four teams. “We plan to get the cabinet approval for the proposal in December. Introducing a Bill in the winter session for the ban seems unlikely. Also, we don’t want to do anything in a hurry as we have received a lot of flak over noise pollution norms. We don’t want to repeat that,” said the official.
The Winter Session of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly will begin on December 11. “We may take the ordinance route for the implementation of the plastic ban and bottles in government offices and star hotels from March,” added the official.
An official from the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board said that it has held the divisional-level meeting in Nashik, Aurangabad and Pune to discuss the ban with the stakeholders. “A meeting for the Konkan region will be held soon. Besides, the meetings of the two divisions — Amravati and Nagpur — in Vidarbha are likely to be held in the Winter Session,” said the official.


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The “vanishing trial” is resulting in less courtroom experience for Hawaii’s litigators as parties on both sides of legal disputes seek faster and cheaper ways to resolve their differences.
Only 17 civil jury trials were completed in the state’s circuit courts in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, according to the most recent data available from the Hawaii Judiciary.
Just eight civil jury trials were completed in Hawaii’s federal courts in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, according to Cynthia Aranador, jury administrator for the U.S. District Court in Hawaii.
Even as the recession caused a spike in the number of civil lawsuits filed in Hawaii’s circuit courts last year, jury trials continued to become increasingly rare.
In their place is alternative dispute resolution, in which businesses and individuals take their white-collar legal fights to a mediator or an arbitrator rather than trial.
As a result, the battle-weary litigators of years past are being forced to evolve or make way for a new crop of attorneys skilled in the art of negotiation.
Also replacing jury trials are court-backed initiatives such as the Hawaii Judiciary’s Court Annexed Arbitration Program, which handles all tort or personal injury cases with a possible jury award value of $150,000 or less, designed to clear cases off the dockets quickly.
In addition, judges, fed up with frivolous lawsuits, have little patience with cases that haven’t at least made the rounds of trying to settle either through mediation or arbitration.
Not all lawyers are pleased with the trend.
“This idea that trial is somehow an evil that must be avoided is a flawed vision of the process,” said Jim Bickerton, a partner with the Honolulu law firm Bickerton Lee Dang & Sullivan, who specializes in commercial and real estate litigation. “If you don’t periodically measure the value of cases through trial, how are the mediators and settlement conference judges able to tell you what your risks are for going to trial?”
In the past two years, Bickerton has won four civil jury trials in 1st Circuit Court including a medical malpractice case that took 10 years from start to finish, and personal injury cases involving a dog bite and automobile and golf course accidents.
“Every jury is a fresh jury,” he said. “Most times, they have never heard any case and as a group they’ve never done anything together. So they really are bringing a fresh perspective that is very important, because your case may not be the run-of-the-mill. I believe in the jury system because it gets you the wisest possible judge and, as a group, they bring the community standard into the courtroom.”
Bickerton even uses mock juries, similar to focus groups, to hear details of a case during his trial preparations. In each of his four jury trials, the mock jury arrived at the same verdict as the actual jury, he said.
The Honolulu law firm Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing handled eight trials last year, of which half were jury trials.
Paul Alston, head of the firm’s litigation practice with 38 years of experience, got his start in litigation at the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii’s Waianae office where he was in court two days a week defending clients in criminal and civil cases.
But it’s a different game in the private sector.
“The goal is to get the client’s problems solved as efficiently as we can,” Alston said. “We can get it done in a cost-effective settlement or we have clients who feel pretty strongly about defending themselves rather than become known as an easy target. The difficulty is, the reality is unlike 25 years ago, because there are now lots of opportunities to get an early, neutral evaluation of the case to help people become more realistic about settling.”
In 2008, Alston defended America Online co-founder Steve Case against allegations that he committed securities fraud when he bought the Grove Farm Co. on Kauai in 2000 for $26 million.
The case, in which former Grove Farm shareholders accused Case of using insider information to deceive them into selling him the real estate development company at a low price, involved more than 100 witnesses, dozens of experts, teams of lawyers and years of work.
After a month-long trial before a federal judge, Case won.
“Because of the nature of the allegations … that was a case that wasn’t going to settle,” Alston said. “You can’t make allegations against someone in that public a position without expecting that you’re going to go to trial.”
Today, most younger attorneys and litigators-in-training are getting their trial experience through pro bono work.
“There are different skills that are needed now than were needed 25 years ago when there were no alternatives to trial,” Alston said. “The ways you approach a trial are different and you have to become especially skilled in mediation and arbitration, which is where [young lawyers] are likely to spend most of their careers. Trials, you can count them on one hand over the course of a lifetime.”
After practicing real estate and business litigation for 39 years, Bernie Bays, a partner with the Honolulu law firm Bays Deaver Lung Rose & Holma, said settling cases through mediation and arbitration makes economic sense.
Some lawyers estimate that the cost of a typical civil jury trial in Hawaii starts at $45,000 and can run well into the millions.
“[Trials] are a very expensive and wasteful way to resolve disputes because it takes a lot of time and involves a lot of people and you’re going to have some number of citizens tied up for some period of time just listening to all this evidence,” Bays said. “So, the whole system has evolved to be structured to try and avoid the waste. It definitely takes away from the skills of future generations of lawyers, but is that really our goal, to provide lawyers with all this trial experience? Our goal is to efficiently and fairly resolve disputes, not to do trials that might be fun or entertaining for [lawyers].”


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