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Home Weatherization Gets Snagged
It was thought that putting insulation in older homes was one way to help jump start the economy. (photo courtesy of the US Department of Energy)
The Recovery Act called for a multi-billion dollar home weatherization program. It was thought that putting insulation in older homes was the ultimate "shovel ready" project to help jump start the economy. But as Mark Brush reports, so far, it just hasn't worked out:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/spot_brush_030110.mp3
The Department of Energy's Inspector General found the data alarming.
Of the ten states receiving the most money for home weatherization – eight of them weren't even at two percent of their goal.
One reason for the hold-up is bureaucracy. There's a law that says if you get federal money – you have to pay workers a "prevailing wage" or a fair wage. And there was confusion over how much to pay people.
Don Skaggs is with Ohio's Office of Community Services. He says most states waited until the issue was resolved – but Ohio didn't wait:
"So we decided to go ahead and do production. And then once we understood what the requirements were, we would go back and retroactively adjust those wages for those staff, which is what we did."
So Ohio's on track – but most states are not. The Department of Energy said it's working on these problems – and expects things to ramp up soon.
For The Environment Report, I'm Mark Brush.
Learn more about the Weatherization Assistance Program
A related article from The New York Times
A copy of the US DOE Inspector General's report
Author Mark BrushPosted on March 1, 2010 Categories News SpotsTags billion, bureaucracy, department, dollar, economic, economy, energy, federal, fund, funding, funds, government, home, insulation, older, pay, payment, recovery, state, weatherization
More than half the houses in the U.S. were built before 1970. (Photo courtesy of the National Renewable Energy Laborator)
Reducing your carbon footprint
by using less energy can cost
money. Efficient cars, energy
efficient homes, and energy-saving
appliances all take money. That's
why some states are testing whether
homeowners would be willing
to borrow money to upgrade their
homes and, in turn, save a few
bucks in energy costs. In one
state, the plan is to get private
banks and credit unions to finance
energy efficiency. Peter Payette reports:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/feature_payette_021710.mp3
When you hear green building, you might think of a fancy new house with solar panels. But most homes are not new, so reducing the amount of energy communities use means doing something about old houses.
Max Strickland owns a business in Michigan that certifies green homes and buildings. He says more than half the houses in the U.S. were built before 1970.
"We had very little energy code requirements previous to that."
But upgrades cost money that many homes owners don't always have. And a lot of people saw whatever equity they had in their house disappear during the past couple of years.
Now, the State of Michigan is trying to help people find the money to make their homes more energy efficient. The program is called Michigan Saves. The state launched the pilot project in a rural area of the state. The pilot is a collaboration of a local credit union, an electric cooperative and a building supply company.
Borrowers will have their new payment tacked onto their monthly utility bill.
Trevor Williams is with Brown Lumber, the building supply company involved in the pilot. Williams says it's likely most of the improvements will be in heating costs. He says to begin with, home owners will be encouraged to have an energy audit.
"The audit it would say things that need to be done, the top three things that are recommended. Furnace replacement, ceiling ducts and weatherizing the house those going to be the three most common items."
But homeowners can also borrow money for new energy efficient appliances like refrigerators and hot water heaters. Sometimes loans like this are promoted as immediately paying for themselves. That is, it's suggested the money you save on your utility bills will fully cover your new payment. That's not necessarily the case.
Marc McKeller is with Members Credit Union which is financing the project. He says after a few years, people will be able to break even on the costs. Government tax incentives and other rebates will help that happen. But McKellar says people shouldn't expect to take out a loan, retrofit their house and not have more to pay each month.
"The only way it could be was if a government was to give zero percent loans out and that they received tremendous rebates from the utilities and that they received a tremendous government credit."
But, McKellar says it's still a good deal. The interest rate for project's loans will be a little bit better because the state is backing the loans.
And tight credit means not many banks are loaning people money to make their house energy efficient and not many people are putting money into a home that's lost value because of the housing market bust. That's one of the reasons they need to run a pilot project.
"They're trying to determine through this study, how do you get a consumer to actually do this and what are the benefits?"
The directors of Michigan Saves hope to roll out a statewide program later this year. So far no banks have agreed to participate but there are other credit unions interested in the concept.
For The Environment Report, I'm Peter Payette.
Michigan Saves
Information from the State of Michigan
More information about the program
Author Peter PayettePosted on February 17, 2010 Categories FeaturesTags appliance, appliances, bank, banks, bill, bills, consumer, consumers, cooling, credit, efficiency, efficient, energy, heat, heating, home, homeowner, homeowners, homes, house, houses, loan, loans, michigan, money, moneys, paying, payment, payments, purchase, purchased, purchasing, union, unions, utilities, utility
Keeping the Breadbasket From Drying Up
Bob Price is one of many farmers in Southwestern Kansas who signed up for a government program that pays farmers for their water rights and put portions of their land back into grass. (Photo by Devin Browne)
Right now, America's Bread Basket
relies on an aquifer that's nearly
drained. And, many say, it will dry
up if farmers keep pumping water
from it at the current rate. Devin
Browne reports the government plans
to pay farmers as one way to get them
to cut water use:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/feature_browne_091809.mp3
Bob Price is every bit the Heartland farmer. He's dressed head-to-toe in denim with a belt
buckle the size of a small plate. Just like his neighbors, he grows thirsty plants like corn
and alfalfa. But, the land is so dry and so sandy that many agricultural experts think it's
not suitable for farming.
When Price moved to Southwestern Kansas in 1973, it didn't seem to matter that the land
was so dry. In his pick-up, on the way to his farm, he tells me that it was the beginning
of an irrigation boom.
"Out here everyone was getting up early, going to work, and all along Highway 50 it was
irrigation pumps, irrigation pipe, engines; this was like a frontier back then."
At that time, the government heavily subsidized the costs of irrigation. The farmers were
getting an almost immediate return. Their land appreciated almost overnight once
irrigation was established.
Farmers began to pump water – and lots of it – from one of the world's largest
underground water supplies, the Ogallala Aquifer. They pumped two-feet of water for
every acre they farmed, right onto their crops.
"Meanwhile, the water table is declining and the water that we're pumping is coming
from farther and farther down and, even with the same energy cost, it cost more to suck
water out of the ground from 500 feet."
Last year, it cost Price more than $200,000 for the electricity to run the pumps to irrigate
about 900 acres of land. It's one of the reasons he started to consider other options.
At the same time, the government, on both the state and federal level, started to think of
how to save the water left in the Ogallala Aquifer. Rivers were drying up and several
states in the Plains were suing or being sued for taking more water than they're allowed.
Several states initiated water conservation programs as a response; Kansas was the first to
do it without the threat of a lawsuit. The program started in 2007. The strategy: pay
farmers to permanently retire their water rights.
Price had actually been wanting to take some of his land out of crops anyways. He's a
prairie chicken enthusiast and he wants to start a guided hunting business. Prairie
chickens need prairie grass.
"So we're farming one day, and we're thinking, 'sure would be nice to get that into
grass,' but that's an overwhelmingly expensive proposition."
It's not expensive to plant or grow prairie grass. You don't need any irrigation for either.
But you do need irrigation for a cover crop that the farmers are required to grow for two
years before they can get to the grass. Susan Stover is with the Kansas Water Office.
"If we did not get something re-established there, we could have potentially dust storms
again and sand dunes moving and really big blow-outs."
Blow-outs like Depression-Era, Dust Bowl blow-outs. So Price has to plant a cover crop
and pat double what he gets from the conservation program just to irrigate it.
Ironically, the government pays him sizeable subsidies to keep other land in corn, which
needs water from the aquifer to grow. So basically, one government program is paying
Price to stop using so much water, while, at the same time, other government programs
are paying him subsidies to grow the crops that need so much water.
Price would actually like more money to put the land back into grass, but if he wants to
lead hunting trips for prairie chickens and he wants prairie grass, there's only one outfit
willing to pay him anything to plant that grass – the government.
For The Environment Report, I'm Devin Browne.
Wikipedia's page on the Ogallala Aquifer
A related article from Scientific American
Author Devin BrownePosted on September 18, 2009 Categories FeaturesTags agriculture, aquifer, aquifers, breadbasket, corn, crop, crops, drought, farm, farmer, farmers, farming, farms, fund, funds, government, grow, growing, kansas, land, lands, payment, payments, prairie, prairies, water, waters
National Parks Get a Little Green
Junior Rangers-to-be explore the beach at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. (Photo courtesy of the National Park Service)
There was a time – not that long ago –
when a lot of the National Parks in the
country were strapped for cash. They
were cutting staff and cutting services.
But, Mark Brush reports, now Congress
is investing more in the parks:
It started changing in the last year or two of the Bush Administration. The Bush White House realized that the National Park System was coming up on its 100th Anniversary in 2016.
No one wanted the Centennial marred by crumbling roads or Parks that were understaffed. So Washington pledged to increase the overall budget for the National Park Service by 100 million each year until the Centennial.
And folks like Tom Ulrich say Congress has been making good on that pledge. He's the deputy superintendent at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Lake Michigan.
"A few years ago our discussions weren't, you know, 'Well, we got a little bit of extra money how are we going to spend that?' They were, 'We have to cut from last year. What are we going to cut?' And so it's nice to have those discussions change."
Ulrich says a lot of National Parks are also getting some money from the stimulus package passed earlier this year.
Find a National Park
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Info on stimulus funding for Sleeping Bear
Author Mark BrushPosted on September 4, 2009 Categories News SpotsTags budget, budgeted, budgets, cash, congress, cuts, economy, federal, fund, funded, funding, funds, government, grant, grants, money, nation, national, park, parks, payment, payments, political, politics, program, programs, stimulus
What Counts as Green Collar?
President Obama has said that a move toward clean energy production has enormous job creation potential. But some researchers say that's overblown. (Source: Kmadison at Wikimedia Commons)
At the heart of President Obama's economic recovery plan is the promise of new green collar jobs. Workers concerned about being laid off from their blue collar jobs are starting to wonder what those new jobs will look like. Julie Grant reports:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/feature_grant_060809.mp3
Michelle Forte has been a dye maker at the General Motors plant in Parma, Ohio for 15 years. She says everyone at work is worried about the future of the plant, and the prospects of the whole company.
"It's a scary industry to be in right now. They keep on sending our work to China. And my job could be next, you just don't know. It's scary to live in that environment every day. You go into work and it's negative all the time."
Forte hasn't gotten a raise in 6 years. And in the future, if she stays as autoworker, she's going to be making a lot less.
"I will tell you what I made last year, and that was $80,000. And this year, with the concessions that we've took and the overtime that we've lost, I will be lucky to make $60,000. So, yeah, it's a drastic cut."
Forte decided to take advantage of job training money available at GM. She gets up a five in the morning to start work, then after her shift she heads to school.
She and two co-workers have started taking courses at the new Green Academy at Cuyahoga Community College. They're learning what it takes to install solar panels, wind turbines, and to make buildings energy efficient. It's tough getting home after 10 at night. But Forte says learning to work in the clean energy field is a positive step for their future.
"Because we wanted to get in on the ground floor. If it breaks open like we think it is, we want to have the education under our belt already."
But most autoworkers aren't betting on an explosion of green jobs. At least, they aren't spending their time in training classes – even if they've already been laid off.
Joe Rugola is president of the AFL-CIO of Ohio. The union represents everyone from musicians to office workers to electricians.
Rugola says people who've been laid off have to make impossible choices if they decide to start training in a new industry – do they continue looking for jobs to keep the unemployment check coming in – or do they go to school for retraining?
"Am I going to go for training, if I'm already laid off, am I going to risk my unemployment benefits, and go for training in an industry that may or may not produce real work down the road? A person in that situation should not have to make that choice."
And that's the big gamble. Do they invest time and effort to retrain for jobs that might never materialize?
President Obama has said that a move toward clean energy production has enormous job creation potential. But some researchers say that's overblown.
Andrew Dorchak is a researcher with the Case Western Reserve University law library. He coauthored a study titled Green Job Myths.
The first myth: that there is a common understanding of what makes something a green job.
"We've figured out that there wasn't a really good definition of green jobs. Especially if there are political subsidies involved that might be problematic."
Problematic because many of the jobs classified as green today aren't making wind turbines and solar panels in the Midwest. They're lobbyists, administrative assistants, and janitors working for environmental organizations in New York and Washington.
And he's concerned the definition of green jobs will get even wider as government pockets get deeper.
"It's subject to maneuvering. To people fighting to classify their jobs as green."
Dorchak says companies will chase the subsidies. That could take away from government money to create productive jobs.
Jobs that could help people like Michelle Forte find work – and improve the environment at the same time.
For The Environment Report, I'm Julie Grant.
A related piece from PBS
A related article The Guardian
A related article from CNN
Author Julie GrantPosted on June 8, 2009 Categories FeaturesTags checks, collar, economic, economics, economy, employed, employee, employees, employer, employers, employment, green, jobs, losing, loss, lost, money, paid, payment, payments, recession, train, trained, training, unemployed, unemployment, work, worker, workers
Farmers to Help With Flooding
Farmers have until the end of this week to apply for a program that would pay them to let in more flood water (Photo by Keith Weller, courtesy of the USDA)
Some federal stimulus money will be used to help reduce reduce flooding problems. Chuck Quirmbach reports the government wants farmers to store more water in floodplains:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/spot_quirmbach_032309.mp3
Some federal stimulus money will be used to help reduce flooding problems. Chuck Quirmbach reports that the government wants farmers to store more water in floodplains:
The federal stimulus package has 145-million dollars to buy easements on farmland.
Farmers have until the end of this week to apply for a program that would pay them to let in more flood water.
Land that's flooded within the last year or twice in the last decade is eligible.
Don Baloun is with the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service. He says farmers would eventually stop growing some crops and instead allow the planting of water-absorbing trees or grasses.
"If it has been obstructed and farmed let's say with a dike or levee, we would breach that dike or levee and open up the floodplain, the field in particular, to store floodwaters and relieve the downstream damages."
Baloun says allowing more water back into floodplains might reduce the threat of flooding to towns and cities along rivers.
For The Environment Report, I'm Chuck Quirmbach.
A news release from the USDA
More information on the stimulus package
Author Chuck QuirmbachPosted on March 23, 2009 Categories News SpotsTags bill, bills, csrees, farm, farmer, farmers, farms, federal, field, fields, flood, flooding, floods, land, lands, money, obama, package, paid, paying, payment, payments, president, stimulus, water, waters
Not Much Green From Eco Jobs
A manufacturing job in a wind or solar plant sometimes pays as little as $11 an hour - much lower than the national average for workers making other durable goods (Source: Man-ucommons at Wikimedia Commons)
One of the big plans for kick-starting the nation's economy is to invest in green jobs: solar and wind energy projects, mass transit, and energy efficiency. But a new report finds some of those jobs might not pay as well as some people expect. Julie Grant has the story:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/spot_grant_020209.mp3
One of the big plans for kick-starting the nation's economy is
to invest in green jobs: solar and wind energy projects, mass
transit, and energy efficiency. But a new report finds some
those jobs might not be pay as well as some people expect.
Julie Grant has the story:
A manufacturing job in a wind or solar plant sometimes pays
as little as $11 an hour – much lower than the national
average for workers making other durable goods.
Kate Gordon is with the Apollo Alliance, a group that
advocates jobs in renewable energy. She helped to write
the report on green jobs.
"Just because something's a green job does not necessarily
mean it's a good job. There are a lot of jobs emerging in
renewable energy and energy efficiency companies where
the workers are being paid minimum wage or slightly more
or don't have benefits."
At the same time, the report finds that some U.S. wind and
solar companies are already outsourcing jobs to China and
Mexico.
But Gordon says the government can change this direction
with its investments – by requiring local job creation, labor
standards, and domestic content.
Good Jobs First
National conference on green jobs
Author Julie GrantPosted on February 2, 2009 Categories News SpotsTags cash, collar, dollar, dollars, employment, energy, green, job, jobs, labor, money, paid, pay, payment, sector, solar, unemployment, wind, worker, workers
Energy Tax Credits for Next Year
Tucked away in the bailout package were energy tax cuts for Americans (Source: Man-ucommons at Wikimedia Commons)
We've all heard about the 700-
billion dollar bail-out for Wall Street.
Getting a lot less attention was another
17-billion dollars for energy tax credits.
Lester Graham reports you can take advantage
of some of that money for your house:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/spot_graham_101308.mp3
Starting in January you can earn as much as $500 in tax credits for home
improvements that save energy. The credit will be taken right off the top of taxes you'll
owe for 2009.
Ronnie Kweller is with the group Alliance to Save Energy. She says the credits can
cover a lot.
"Energy Star windows. It also includes lower-cost products like additional insulation,
sealing and caulking and weather-stripping – all those kind of things to tighten up your
home and make it energy efficient. As well as highly-efficient heating and cooling
Kweller says her group has details on the new consumer tax credits on its website:
ase.org.
Keep your receipts, and you'll have to remember to file the right IRS form to take
advantage of the tax credits.
For The Environment Report, I'm Lester Graham.
A related article from Reuters
A related article in the New York Times
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Winter's Chill to Bring Bigger Bill
Due to the price of natural gas and crude oil, it is predicted that it will cost you much more to heat your home this winter (Photo by John Ferguson, courtesy of FEMA)
As summer winds down, you're
probably not thinking about your
heating bill. But that's something
market analysts are thinking about
right now. And reporter Kyle Norris
finds the predictions of what it will
cost to heat your home are going up
in a big way:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/spot_norris_082508.mp3
This year the average cost of heating your home is going to cost a good
chunk more than what it did last year.
Doug MacIntyre is an analyst with the US Energy Information
"We're estimating that, on average, the household using natural gas to
heat their home will be spending 24% more than last year. For heating
oil we think the increase will be even higher with house holds spending
about 36% more than they did last year."
Those predications are made by looking at the cost of things like natural
gas and crude oil. And by analyzing the weather forecast for the up-
coming winter.
MacIntyre says he does not expect these expensive heating costs to go
away anytime in the next few years.
For The Environment Report, I'm Kyle Norris.
A related article from The Boston Globe
The stats and figures from the US Energy Information Administration
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Faster Payback on Hybrids
High gas prices cause some hybrid vehicles to recoup prices faster (Photo by Ben VanWagoner)
Hybrid cars are generally more expensive than their gasoline counterparts. But as Lisa Ann Pinkerton reports, high gas prices mean several hybrid models are recouping their costs faster:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/spot_pinkerton_062308.mp3
Hybrid cars like the Nissan Altima and Toyota Prius take around 4 years to pay back their premium. That's according to the automobile research firm Edmonds.com. The GMC Yukon hybrid has the shortest payback period of the SUVs – almost five years. The hybrid that comes in dead last is the Lexus 600H.
John O'Dell at Edmunds.com says the Lexus could take over 80 years to recoup its premium.
"In that case you have a v8 engine that's hybridized you're really using the hybrid for some additional power and performance. You're not using it – well you are using it for a little bit of gas savings – but we compute those saving to be a mere $192 dollars a year."
That's compared to more than a thousand dollars a year in gas savings for the Yukon and the Prius.
For The Environment Report, I'm Lisa Ann Pinkerton
Read more from Edmunds.com
A related article from USA Today
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The Táncház method
A Hungarian model for the transmission of intangible cultural heritage (Hungary): The Táncház ('dance-house') model of teaching folk dance and music combines traditional forms of acquisition with modern pedagogical and folkloristic methods. Anyone regardless of age, competence or prior exposure can become an active participant. The aim is to establish a value-based, community-building, entertaining yet educational form of recreational activity through the practice and transmission of intangible cultural heritage. An annual National Táncház Festival and Fair constitutes the largest meeting of bearers, mediators and enthusiasts, and workshops, camps, playhouses and handicraft clubs have also developed.
Sztanó Hédi and Kallós Zoltán (photo: Kiss Gábor)
Hungary have been elected to the members of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Committe
Pál István – Master of Folk Art (Kétbodony, 1919–2015)
The fifth session of the General Assembly of the States Parties to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage took place from 2 to 4 June 2014 at UNESCO Headquarters. General Assembly having accredited 22 Non-governmental organizations, the Committee can now count on altogether on 178 accredited NGOs to advise it on diverse issues. Twelve Members of the Committee have been newly elected: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bulgaria, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Hungary, India, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Saint Lucia and Turkey.
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Fintech innovations such as blockchain, robo-advisory, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics, are challenging the existing industry hegemons and the antiquated operating models supporting financial markets. Calastone hosted a webinar on November 15, 2017 which explored a number of fintech trends and developments.
The facilitation of material improvements to user experiences has to be the guiding principle behind any technological innovation. "When I think about the future of fintech, I think it needs to solve two issues, namely removing the friction from financial services and broadening access for consumers. There is too much friction meaning people do not enjoy financial services. For example, it is not fun to make a payment so fintech needs to make these processes simpler. I remember the first time I took an Uber, and I got a massive kick getting out of the taxi and just walking away instead of sitting there and trying to pay the guy and get a receipt," said Reinier Musters, founding partner at Orange Growth Capital, a fintech investment firm.
Similar advancements are possible in financial services, provided the technology is adopted holistically and not in siloes. Ken Tregidgo, deputy CEO at Calastone, said he envisaged a future whereby machine learning tools comb through big data sourced from consumer bank accounts, which have now been opened up to third party providers following passage of the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2). With this, consumer buying patterns can be identified, mapped and analysed giving way for virtual financial assistants or robo-advisors to provide investment recommendations. "Investors would also benefit from a consolidated view of their portfolio across all asset classes in one place with access controlled by them", he said.
Blockchain is another enabler of change in financial services, although its impact will primarily be felt in the middle and back office. Katrina Sartorius, managing director at Aegon Institutional, said the shared nature of blockchain now meant all counterparties could have access to the same data sets, something which would streamline back office reconciliations. This is just one example of blockchain's applicability, with a number of test cases and proof of concepts being trialled across the industry. Calastone, for example, announced that it will transition its entire fund transaction network onto a DLT infrastructure, having undertaken a successful proof of concept in June 2017.
Thoughtful application of fintech solutions like blockchain is imperative. Having a bright idea is not tantamount to success. Fintechs need to understand the requirements of prospective customers if they are to monetise their products. Richard Street, head of EMEA, global client coverage at RBC Investor & Treasury Services, pointed out fintech fundamentally had to solve a purpose, adding that many existing problems at banks could be fixed without implementing a disruptive technology.
Musters agreed. "A lot of companies come into our offices and pitch blockchain, and we say that we do not invest in blockchain. We do, however, invest in companies that solve business problems. Blockchain may not always be the best technology available to solve a problem," he said. Innovations like blockchain should only be applied if they are the optimal solution to a business challenge. A detailed analysis of the issues that financial businesses face should always be the first step Fintech companies take. They also need to ensure they hire the right balance of people, between those who are entrepreneurial in nature versus individuals with financial services expertise in order to ensure they develop and deliver relevant solutions for clients.
Fintech providers also need to be sensitive to the business challenges in financial services. Banks are systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) entrusted with safekeeping peoples' deposits whereas fund managers are fiduciaries responsible for looking after the savings of retail and institutional investors. Risks are not taken lightly by these organisations, meaning any integration of fintech has to be done cautiously and safely. A failure to ensure technology interoperates with legacy systems could cause significant paralysis at these companies potentially endangering consumer capital.
"Fintech integration should ideally be undertaken in a way that is low risk, meaning migrations need to be gradual. It should not require a big bang adoption, but a phased transition which co-exists and interacts with legacy technology. Take Calastone, for example. We have encouraged STP (straight-through-processing) adoption in small steps, and on a conservative time-frame and business case which suits our clients," said Tregidgo. The same, he said, was true of blockchain. "Blockchain is being applied across the industry in micropayments and equity settlement and clearing, but the migration path has to be realistic, and the technology must interoperate with existing systems," said Tregidgo.
The industry's opinions and attitudes towards fintechs is maturing. Having once faced a barrage of hostility from large financial institutions, fintechs are gradually becoming more accepted, mainly because the industry has recognised its own weaknesses. Major banks and fund managers have internal structures and regulatory requirements that create an unfavourable environment for innovation to flourish. Such corporate shackles endemic at financial institutions are not a problem facing agile fintechs, paving the way for synergies to be explored between the two sectors.
However, fintech start-ups do face constraints in resources and capital, which is encouraging them to forge strategic partnerships with open-minded financial institutions. Through collaboration rather than competition, financial institutions and fintechs will be able to work together driving and developing interesting products for clients. While this is a positive development, Musters acknowledged these mutual agreements often took a long time to formalise due to banks' compliance policies putting serious financial strain on start-ups burning through seed capital. Most start-ups will operate with working capital to cover a 12 to 18-month time horizon, but discussions with established financial institutions occasionally drag on for much longer. This creates a poisonous cycle as delays facilitate instability at start-ups, prompting counterparty risk concerns at the financial institutions they are negotiating with.
The enablement of disruptive technology is also being augmented by regulators, who are taking a progressive approach to innovation. Many regulators have realised that technologies like blockchain and AI could potentially support major improvements in transparency and simplify inefficient reporting processes at financial institutions.
Regulators including the FCA are also motivating innovation through the establishment of sandboxes, which are safe environments for fintech providers to trial and test their products before going to the wider market. "The key for regulators is not trying to overly regulate or control innovation but working with technologists," said Sartorius.
Innovation needs to be ingested by the fund management community if it is to continue raising assets, particularly from technologically advanced next-gen or millennial investors. This investor demographic wants services delivered quickly, seamlessly and inexpensively, traits which the funds' world have yet to perfect. Fintech – including the application of blockchain – is going to play a big role in allowing this happen.
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I'm new to struts and am seeing something weird. I have an application which requires logon. I have set up LogonForm & LogonAction classes to handle this and have configured them in stuts-config.xml as needed.
Now the weird part, when I logon the browser goes to a logon.do page. Why would this be? Any help would be appreciated.
.do is the standard extension that the Struts Action servlet responds to. Forms submit to a target, and in struts this is automatically filled as login.do -- view the source of your login form to see it. Make sure the path is right. I would guess that the problem is either an exception (check the error log) or a lack of a .properties file for the app. Viewing the source and the server logs can be your best friends for getting started with struts.
"Write beautiful code; then profile that beautiful code and make little bits of it uglier but faster." --The JavaPerformanceTuning.com team, Newsletter 039.
I'm glad you brought the above up. Unfortunately, I've confirmed the *.properies file is there and I've also looked at the source of the logon form. The action places it to logon.do.
I don't think I've missed anything,have I?
You see in the web xml you are telling the web server that all url patterns ending with .do must be routed through the Struts Action.
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"I Was Part of That" – A Journey with Mission Health
Sara deLeon began as a Unit Secretary, Clerical Monitor Tech and Department Secretary for her first 19 years at Mission Hospital, which at the time was Memorial Mission Hospital. During that time, she got married and had three children that were all born at Mission, which she says each was a wonderful experience. During a difficult time in her life, she decided to leave Asheville and the Mission family, but after being away for some time, she missed her parents and found her way back to Asheville. "The mountains called me back home," Sara said.
Upon her return, she interviewed with Mission Health and was rehired in 2004. Now, she's been with Mission collectively for 33 years. These positions include being a Physician's Office Assistant in Children's Dental and Office Specialist for Senior Services. In 2014, she received the news that her department was closing. "Luckily, I was enrolled in the Student at Work program that helped me update my resume and prepare to interview," Sara said.
After interviewing for a few positions, she accepted what she says is the most awesome job ever – the Administrative Assistant for Facility redesign, also known as the project team for the Mission Hospital North Tower.
The Mission Hospital North Tower is the replacement hospital for St. Joseph that is 12 stories and is 630,000 square feet. It has 220 private patient rooms and a 94-bed emergency department. "I think it's beautiful, and I hope the staff, patients, families and visitors will love it," said Sara.
As the Administrative Assistant to this project, Sara manages up to 12 calendars, helps the construction managers get access to the different areas for work, sets up the commitment requisitions for every piece of equipment, furniture, signage, IT purchases, sets up meetings that are mostly executive level where decisions are made, and too many other duties to list.
While some days are so packed and Sara sometimes wishes things would slow down, she emphasizes that the Mission Hospital North Tower project team is an incredible group of people who have given her the freedom to grow in her position. "They have taught me so much," Sara said. "I feel I am prepared to face the end of this project."
Sara shared that it has been the best work experience of her life, so far, and although she will be sad when it ends, she is looking forward to the next adventure now that the North Tower is open for care.
"I know every time I pass that new beautiful tower, I will be able to point to it and say, 'I was a part of that.'"
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'Game of Thrones' was never a game: Why that shocking twist makes total sense
Revenge and nukes don't mix well.
By Chris Taylor on May 15, 2019
Fire and blood on 'Game of Thrones'. Credit: HBO
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War is a hell that reveals darkness in our hearts. Hate plus power makes a heady cocktail that turns people into monsters. Atrocities are committed by hotheads convinced of their own righteousness, and someone somewhere is always shocked that their child could have participated in a massacre.
None of this is news to anyone with a passing interest in human history, but it is apparently something we all need to keep re-learning, over and over. The latest lesson has arrived in the form of Game of Thrones Season 8 episode 5, "The Bells." Or, if we're going to name it Friends-style, The One Where It Becomes Clear This Was Never A Game.
Too many of us (I include myself and my power rankings in this) have treated Game of Thrones like it was the Super Bowl. We sit there with our popcorn and weigh the odds of a character ending up on the Iron Throne like we're discussing stats, or hyping our favorite player. All this despite -- or perhaps as a distraction from -- all that garishly simulated screen violence.
Dany's horrific turn was baked into the character from the beginning, no matter how much we loved her.
In its worst moments, Thrones has fed this sports fan mentality. In recent seasons especially, it threatened to become merely a story about teenage superheroes with revenge fantasies, instead of what George R.R. Martin intended -- a mirror that reflects the awful truths of our own history back at us.
The greatest problem in this regard was Daenerys Targaryen. She has become a powerful icon in the geek community and beyond, beloved by cosplayers, practically a Disney princess. She filled a gap in the culture: We were crying out, and still are, for more portrayals of strong female leadership. Her blend of fragility and steely charisma -- portrayed to perfection by Emilia Clarke -- won as many hearts and minds in our world as she failed to win in Westeros.
So much so that for years, it was hard to remember what she really is, and what she has always been in this story, worldwide fandom or no.
The debate about whether Dany's massacre of King's Landing was sufficiently foreshadowed has been raging online since the episode aired, so I'm not going to rehash it here. This video does a pretty good job of collecting eight seasons' worth of receipts:
SEE ALSO: 'Game of Thrones' series finale preview shows a city of ash
Sure, the showrunners could have given us a longer look at her inner turmoil. By killing off most of her main advisors, they painted themselves into a corner. Anyone she could have had that dialogue with was gone. Maybe she could have had a longer chat with Tyrion or Grey Worm. Regardless, it was still very clear that Dany was hungry, angry, lonely, and tired. As any addict or codependent knows, that state of mind portends the worst.
But the strongest argument for the episode's twist is this: It was baked into the character from the beginning, no matter how much we loved her.
Teens with nukes
Look at it from another angle. Let's say you're writing a story about a teenager. He's the ultimate scion of privilege: white skin, blond hair, blue eyes. His family celebrates inbreeding the way the Hapsburg monarchs did(Opens in a new window), so he's probably not the sharpest knife in the drawer. The family has fallen on hard times, and the teenager is constantly told he needs to take back control. He develops a penchant for revenge. All of a sudden, the teenager is gifted three magically reusable nuclear warheads.
In what universe does that story end well?
If your ending failed to fully explore the unintended consequences of using nuclear war to crush your enemies -- and as Martin has often said, dragons are the fantasy-world equivalent of nuclear power(Opens in a new window) -- your readers would very likely laugh you out of the room. You would have committed the classic novice writer sin of being nice to your lead character at the expense of the story.
We wanted Dany to win. We wanted Cersei to die. How does it feel to have everything you wished for?
Introduce a nuke in the first act, as Chekov might have said, and it has to go off in the last. Write a story about war, and you have to show the true horror of war -- the way plans go awry, the way the killing spirals far out of anyone's control.
Strategy never survives contact with the enemy -- and in any case, as we saw at the battle of Winterfell, Dany's strategy has never consisted of much more than the terrible "take my dragons out for a ride and burn stuff" tactic. (To be fair, Jon Snow's patented "just charge at the enemy" tactic has fared even worse.)
It is part of this story's profound success that it suckered us into supporting and excusing Dany at every bloody step on her road to tyranny. She watched, unflinching, as her husband killed her brother with a cauldron of molten gold, then merely declared that "he was no dragon"? That's okay, he was an abusive asshole. She locked Xaro Xhoan Daxos and his retinue in a Qarth vault to suffocate and starve to death? Well, he shouldn't have participated in a plot to steal her dragons. She literally crucified former slaveowners, becoming no better herself? She burned a hut full of Dothraki leaders? They deserved it! They all deserved it!
And then there was the burning of the Tarlys, one of the least noticed but most telling moments of season 7. I've seen otherwise reasonable people defend Dany for killing Samwell's father and brother in this grisly manner with arguments that don't withstand a second of scrutiny. They were enemy combatants! (Nope, they had surrendered; in our world, that would be a clear-cut war crime.) They refused to recognize her authority! (Okay, imprison them.) They were mean to Samwell! (So we're burning people alive for being mean now?)
Daenerys Targaryen: A teenager with nukes. Credit: HBO
All along, Dany has been telling us who she really was, and we should have believed her the first time. "I'm going to break the wheel," she said, and we thought she meant the metaphorical wheel that keeps the downtrodden down. What she actually meant was the metaphorical wheel that kept her family off the throne. She might as well have yelled "Targaryens forever!"
There were voices in the wilderness. There were viewers who noticed the problematic "white savior" narrative(Opens in a new window) that had developed by the end of Season 3, when Dany was literally crowd-surfing over freed slaves. Other viewers waved that away. Now we have good reason to reexamine it, and to be more wary of white savior characters in the future.
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We also have an excellent reason to reconsider the nature of war, violence and power. For the better part of eight years, we have been cheering for death and destruction. We wanted more dragon action. We wanted King's Landing to fall. We wanted Dany to win. We wanted Lannister soldiers to burn. We wanted Cersei to die. How does it feel to have everything you wished for?
The path of nonviolence is celebrated precisely because of how hard it is. It goes against human nature. In our hearts, we want our enemies to suffer for what they did. Time and again, we confuse punishment with justice, and perpetuate the cycle.
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Planned Parenthood Endorses Challenger to Sen. Susan Collins
Planned Parenthood Action Fund said Tuesday that Collins "turned her back" on women, citing her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Published on January 21, 2020 at 9:10 am
Planned Parenthood on Tuesday endorsed a Democratic challenger to Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, saying Collins "turned her back" on women and citing her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court as well as other judicial nominees who oppose abortion.
Sara Gideon, speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, welcomed the endorsement from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. "There's never been a more important time to stand up for reproductive rights," she said, in the face of "systematic attacks on reproductive rights across the country."
Collins, who was honored by Planned Parenthood as recently as 2017 as "an outspoken champion for women's health," is facing perhaps the toughest reelection fight of her career. Critics have vowed they won't forget her key vote for Kavanaugh, whose nomination survived an accusation that he sexually assaulted someone in high school.
"From her decisive vote to confirm Kavanaugh to her refusal to stop Republican attacks on our health and rights, it's clear that she has turned her back on those she should be championing," said Alexis McGill Johnson, acting president and CEO of Planned Parenthood . She said Collins "has abandoned not only the people of Maine, but women across the country."
The Collins campaign said Planned Parenthood has changed and become more partisan, noting that no Republicans have won its endorsement.
"Senator Collins has not changed, but leadership at Planned Parenthood certainly has," Collins campaign spokesman Kevin Kelley said. "It's sad that the group is now run by far left activists who would rather focus on partisan politics than bipartisan policies that provide health care to women."
The endorsement was one of several announced Tuesday, the day before the anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that made abortion legal. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund also is backing Democrat Jaime Harrison, who's seeking to unseat GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Democrat Barbara Bollier, who's running for an open Senate seat in Kansas.
In Maine, Collins and Planned Parenthood have had a complicated relationship.
Collins has supported funding for the organization, and she received its endorsement once before, in her 2002 reelection campaign. She was honored by the group in 2017 with its Barry Goldwater Award to a public official who has acted as a leader within the Republican Party to support Planned Parenthood.
"Senator Collins has been an outspoken champion for women's health. Thanks to Senator Collins' steadfast commitment to her constituents, tens of thousands of women in Maine and millions of women across the country still have access to essential health care," Cecile Richards, then-president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said at the time, about a year before the Kavanaugh vote.
The relationship with the organization has gone downhill since then.
The 67-year-old Collins said Kavanaugh, who denied the sexual assault allegation, vowed to respect precedent including the Roe v. Wade ruling. But Planned Parenthood contends 26 proposals to limit abortions have been adopted in 17 states since then.
Gideon, meanwhile, supports Medicaid expansion and expanded health care for women and has vowed to continue "the fight to protect and expand reproductive rights."
"As a former Planned Parenthood patient, she knows what it means to be able to get the care you need from a trusted provider and how hurtful it is to see your provider attacked by extremist politicians," Nicole Clegg, of Planned Parenthood Maine Action Fund, said in a statement.
Money is already pouring into the Senate race. Collins is considered among the most vulnerable Republican senators in the nation, a new position for her in a state where rising polarization and partisanship is clashing with a culture of independence.
Gideon is backed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. But she faces activist Betsy Sweet, attorney Bre Kidman, former Google executive Ross LaJeunesse and travel agent Michael Bunker in the Democratic primary.
Kidman expressed disappointment Tuesday, saying that when her team reached out she was told that Planned Parenthood Action Fund "intended to remain neutral in the primary."
"As one of the first greeters at the Planned Parenthood health center in Portland, I physically protected patients' rights to access reproductive healthcare in sun, rain, sleet, and snow — often bodily shielding people from encounters with protestors," she said in a statement.
Both Collins and Gideon already have raised millions of dollars for the race. Tracking firm Advertising Analytics projects that the candidates and outside groups will spend $55 million on ads by Election Day.
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Researchers Expose Secret Misuse of Personal Data By Mobile Apps
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As mobile applications have grown from collecting basic personal information to knowing intimate details of consumer's lives, computer science researchers at Baldwin Wallace University have developed a novel solution to inform mobile device users about the hidden misuse of their personal data.
The research, described in "SPEProxy: Enforcing Fine Grained Security and Privacy Controls on Unmodied Mobile Devices," identifies a way to expose the unauthorized use of personal data and boost the ability of consumers to shield their privacy. It was presented at IEEE UEMCON 2017, the 8th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference.
The research co-authors, Brian Krupp, BW assistant professor of computer science, and students Dan Jesensky and Amanda Szampias, tested their solution on more than 800 popular smartphone apps, ferreting out more than 40 that exploited personal information without the knowledge or permission of users.
"A smartphone user's personal data is at constant risk of being misused," says Krupp. "While mobile operating systems provide basic security and privacy controls, they are insufficient, leaving consumers unaware of how applications use the permissions they originally granted."
"As an example," Krupp says, "a weather application requests access to your location to give you a forecast, which is a legitimate use. However, behind the scenes and unknown to the user, it will also send that location information to advertiser servers."
The solution the BW researchers developed, SPEProxy, notifies consumers of misuse without requiring a modification to their phone.
"Our approach allows consumers to utilize the solution without requiring a high degree of technical expertise," says Jesensky, a triple major in software engineering, computer information systems, and network security. "SPEProxy can be adapted to different devices and operating systems — both iOS and Android — with a simple network configuration setting."
"SPEProxy gives mobile phone users the ability to understand how applications are using permissions beyond their stated intent and identifies fine-grained policies that can empower the user to protect their data," says Szampias, a software engineering major.
"Allowing access to your location is an example of coarse-grained policy," Krupp says. "A fine-grained policy might only allow app access to an anonymous version of your location, or your location data to be sent only to certain servers, or to limit access to your location during certain times of the day or from certain locations."
The BW research team tested the approach on 817 of the top-ranked applications on Google Play and in the iOS App Store. Their evaluation found SPEProxy to be highly effective across 86.55% of the apps and confirmed 43 cases of misuse including The Weather Channel, LinkedIn, and more.
Following their UEMCON presentation, the researchers will get to work on developing a publicly available version of SPEProxy, which currently lives on a BW server.
The undergraduate student co-authors of SPEProxy are both BW seniors set to graduate in May 2018 with an impressive research feather in their caps.


A 5 mile figure-of-eight walk around the woodland pasture of Ebernoe Common, just north of Petworth in West Sussex. The common, a National Nature Reserve managed by Sussex Wildlife Trust, is a wonderful dense ancient woodland with smaller patches of scrub and grassland. You will discover beautiful old oak and beech trees, long stretches of peaceful woodland paths, a classic village pub plus a lily-covered lake. There is plenty of history and wildlife along the way too.
As the walk is almost entirely in woodland with few landmarks, navigation will be tricky so the App's live GPS map will be particularly helpful. The route includes a few gentle gradients throughout, plus one steeper section. The surfaces are almost all un-made woodland paths which can be very muddy after periods of rain (and wellingtons are recommended for the winter months). Some stretches are very narrow and can be a little overgrown in summer. There is a total of just less than a mile of road walking along quiet country lanes, so take care of traffic on these stretches. The central part of the common woodland is used for grazing cattle, although the woodland is dense and the area is very large so you could easily miss the cattle altogether. You will need to negotiate several bridle gates, kissing gates, sleeper bridges, fallen trees, steps plus one stile (that has a very large fence gap which should be suitable for any dog to pass through). Dogs are welcome in the woodland, as long as they are under close control. Allow 2.5 hours.
Ebernoe is a tiny hamlet located about 4 miles north of Petworth in West Sussex. Travelling north from Petworth, follow the A283 and then turn right onto Streel's Lane. Follow this lane for 1.5 miles (eventually passing a red phone box on your left). Soon afterwards, turn right into the access lane for Holy Trinity Church (this turn is into a woodland track and the church sign is set slightly back into the trees, so it is easy to miss). Immediately before the church, turn right into the car park (which is used jointly for the church and the nature reserve). The nearest post code is GU28 9LD.
Before beginning your walk, it is worth spending a moment admiring the church. It is a Victorian gem, built in the 1860s from local bricks of three colours to give an unusual architectural design. The churchyard is surrounded by walls to keep out rabbits and is a haven for wildflowers. Standing in the car park with your back to the church, turn right through the car park to reach a junction with the access track (with the single cottage, the Old School House, ahead). Turn right to join the main stone vehicle track.
Follow the track leading you downhill into the trees. At the first fork, take the right-hand branch (not the one signed to Furnace Meadow). Follow this track leading you downhill, bending right and then left and then climbing to reach a cattle grid. On the left at this point is an information board giving more details about Ebernoe Common National Nature Reserve, the ancient pasture woodland.
NOTE: Once past the cattle grid you may come across cattle grazing within the woodland. Pass through the bridle gate (just to the left of the cattle grid) and, just a few paces further along you will reach a three-way fingerpost at a junction. Turn right here and continue only until you reach another fingerpost on your right. Fork left at this point, passing between some upright wooden posts to join the side-branch of the footpath.
Follow this pretty path leading you deeper into the woodland. This common has a long history of local people exercising commoners' rights. Centuries ago they would collect firewood and bracken for animal bedding as well as grazing their animals here. When commoner grazing ceased in the mid-1900s, the woodland soon became overgrown and the wood pasture habitat was lost. Cattle have now been reintroduced, restoring this scarce habitat where grazing prevents coarse grasses dominating the glades and also prevents tree seedlings taking over the lighter areas. This has recreated the wonderful delicate balance of trees, flowers, insects, fungi and birds that are thriving here today.
Further along, you will pass under the boughs of a particularly beautiful old oak tree, with far reaching branches. Immediately afterwards, continue ahead passing a fingerpost on your left, confirming that you are still on the footpath. Eventually you will come to the next bridle gate ahead, pass through this and follow the embankment path, crossing a small sleeper bridge between the two areas of marsh and pond.
Beyond this area, continue on the woodland path, soon crossing a long sleeper bridge and then winding on through the woods. Simply continue on the main path, following the footpath fingerposts. You will emerge out to a staggered T-junction with a stone vehicle track. Bear right to join the track and it leads you to an electric vehicle gate with a bridle gate alongside. Go ahead through the bridle gate (to leave the grazing common area) and a little further along you will pass the entrance drive and pretty grounds of Sparkes Farm on your left.
Keep ahead on the gravel-topped access drive, later passing the gates for Highbuildings Farm. Soon afterwards, at the junction in the gravel drive (with a white fingerpost on your left), turn right and follow the beautiful gravel-topped driveway passing between more beautiful oak trees.
You will come to a T-junction with a quiet road. Turn right along this, taking care of traffic and passing the entrance for Great Allfields on your left and then various properties on your right. At the end of this lane, Pipers Lane, you will reach a T-junction in the centre of the village of Balls Green. Turn right here (signed to Petworth) and pass the village pub on your right.
Keep ahead on the road beyond the pub, still taking care of traffic. Continue for a further 800 metres to reach the last cottage on your left (called Hollands). NOTE: The next footpath can be easy to miss, so pay close attention to the next directions. Keep ahead along the road edge for just 40 paces more and then look on your right for a narrow, subtle path into the trees. (This can be a bit overgrown at times, although a new waymarker was installed in early 2018). Turn right onto this footpath and follow it through the woodland belt.
Cross straight over a farm access track and continue on the footpath ahead (passing a fingerpost on your right). Follow the woodland path leading you through the beautiful beech trees and holly bushes. Further along the path swings left, leading you down to cross a small stream via a sleeper bridge. Immediately after crossing a second sleeper bridge you will reach a fork in the small path.
Take the right-hand branch and 20 paces later you will reach a fingerpost on your left. Turn right here (as directed by the fingerpost). The narrow path winds through the trees for some distance, eventually reaching a wooden gate (an elongated version of a kissing gate) which takes you back into the woodland pasture common (where you may come across cattle once again).
Keep ahead on the main footpath and eventually you will emerge to a junction with the stone track, directly alongside the electric vehicle gate which you should recognise from the outward leg. Turn left along the track (heading away from the gate and staying within the woodland pasture) for just 40 metres to reach a fingerpost. At this point, fork left onto the side footpath and follow the unmade path through the trees (soon bending right and then left).
Continue through a stretch of coppiced beech and hazel trees and stay on the main footpath, following the fingerpost and then a yellow and black arrow (ignoring a wooden gate across to your left). Later, the path continues with a wire fence on your left and a meandering stream within the beech trees to your right. Continue just until you reach the three-way fingerpost on your left, marking a junction with a path to your right.
Turn right here, initially with a wire fence on your left and soon bending right away from this. Soon you will come to the next fingerpost (marking only one official footpath). Turn left to follow this footpath and eventually you will cross a footbridge. Continue to reach a three-way fingerpost on your right (with an elongated kissing gate on your left). Do NOT take the gate, instead follow the main path as it bears right with wire fence on your left.
As you reach the next gate on your left, again do NOT take it, instead turn right heading directly away from it (signed as the footpath). The path leads you between some large fallen trees (the trunks have been cut to allow easy passage) and then crosses two footbridges to reach a bridle gate ahead.
Pass through the bridle gate (leaving the woodland pasture) and bear immediately left to follow the grass path with a fenced open glade running to your left. On your left, you will pass an isolated brick house with a wonderful mature orchard, Sibland Farm. Continue ahead on the track for just 200 metres, and look for a three-way fingerpost on your left. Turn left along a short stretch of track to reach wooden gates ahead.
Pass through the bridle gate and walk directly ahead through the pretty meadow, staying close to the hedgerow on your left. This meadow is a riot of colour and noise in the summer months with plenty of wild flowers, butterflies, bees and crickets. The insects that these glades support provide an important hunting ground for the bats that are resident in the woodland. The woodland is home to 14 of the 16 UK bat species, using holes in the ancient trees for roosts.
At the far side, cross the stile ahead and follow the path leading you steeply downhill into the next stretch of woodland. Walk only to the bottom of the slope (just to a point before you cross the first ditch and a second ditch with footbridge - do NOT cross either ditch). Turn right here to join a narrow path with the small ditch running immediately on your left. Further along this path, keep your eyes peeled through the trees to your left where you will have a view across the waterlily carpeted old furnace pond, a large woodland lake.
During the 1500s, production of iron was a major industry here in the Weald and furnace pond was constructed to drive the waterwheel and bellows for an iron furnace on the common. There was also a brickworks nearby, which continued working until the 1930s.
Eventually the path drops down, leading you alongside the edge of the pond and then crossing the footbridge across the water overflow. Continue on the woodland path to reach a junction. Take the left-hand branch (still alongside the pond) and climb the flight of woodland steps. The path passes the church on your right to emerge directly into the car park where the walk began.
3 Comments for: "Ebernoe Common and Balls Cross"
Started and of course ended at the pub in Bells Cross, where they do a decent lunch ( and a welcome ale). This walk is very easy with no uphills to speak of, and the directions easy to follow.
The waymarker after the Hollands cottage, between points 3 and 4, has been mended and is easy to spot from the road now.
ADMIN RESPONSE: Thanks for letting us know - we have updated the guide.
Great walk, even in February! Though I know the area well it's nice to have a purpose and I love spooky Ebernoe. There's nowhere quite like it!
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The shooting was reported just after 10 p.m. Wednesday at a home in the 4100 block of Sunrise Crest, which is located not far from North Foster Road and Binz-Engleman Road.
According to police, neighbors witnessed a dark colored sport utility vehicle pull up to the home just before someone inside fired multiple shots.
The man wounded was inside the home and was shot four times, police said. The 24-year-old man was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center with two gunshot wounds to his abdomen and one on each arm.
Police said the suspects briefly drove away but returned to the scene only to pick up shell casings before fleeing again.
The victim ran from the home following the shooting and a neighbor drove him to the hospital. His condition is not currently known.
Officers upon inspection said they found both blood and a shell casing in the street. The investigation into the shooting is ongoing.


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Pray For Vietnamese Christians on May 4th
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CBN.com -- SANTA ANA, CA (ANS) -- Open Doors is encouraging Christians worldwide to remember the Church in Vietnam on May 4. This special Sunday has been designated as the International Day of Prayer for Vietnam by several organizations concerned about the situation in this Southeast Asian nation.
We have a very simple theology, a leading Vietnamese pastor said. If you have problems pray. If you have more problems pray more!
While the laws of Vietnam promise religious freedom, in practice the government continues its policies of religious repression among the population of almost 80 million. Vietnam is No. 3 on Open Doors World Watch List which ranks countries according to the intensity of persecution Christians face for actively pursuing their faith.
Having spent a week in Vietnam late last year, I can attest to the persecution of pastors and other Christiansmany of those with whom we spoke with had been imprisoned at least once for their faith, says Jerry Dykstra, Media Relations Coordinator for Open Doors USA. Christians in Vietnam need our prayer and support; not just on May 4 but every day of the year as do millions of Christians around the world who are persecuted for their faith.
Persecution is intense among the minority tribal groups, or Montagnards, in the Central Highlands and northern mountain regions, where the church has grown dramatically in recent years.
And recent reports indicate Christian persecution is increasing. Hundreds of Montagnard churches have been closed and more than 50 pastors and church leaders have been arrested during the last few months. According to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, government officials continue to suppress organized religious activities and to harass leaders and followers of unregistered religious organizations, as well as clergy members of officially recognized religious groups.
In addition, the majority of Vietnams people have only known life under a communist regime with its inherent limitations on religious freedom.
Fifty-one percent of Vietnams population is less than 24 years old, which means that over half of the population was born after 1975 and the fall of Saigon, a Vietnam watcher told Open Doors. Thirty-two percent are between 11 and 14 years of age.
So this years International Day of Prayer for Vietnam is encouraging special prayer for Vietnams children. Focusing our eyes on the children reminds us how Jesus so dearly loves the children of this world. Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for such is the Kingdom of God, (Mark 10:14), records the International Day of Prayer for Vietnam website (www.pray4vn.com).
Pray for the minority tribal groups, particularly the Christians, as the level of persecution against them is increasing. More than 50 pastors and church leaders among them have been imprisoned, and an estimated 500 churches have been closed.
Pray for Christians in Vietnam who have suffered beatings, confiscation of property, harassment, intimidation; pray for those who have had their travel restricted.
Pray for the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (ECVN). While the ECVN has official recognition and is being allowed to train selected students for leadership, the government continues its policies of restriction and control.
An estimated 200 million Christians worldwide suffer persecution for their faith in Christ, with another 200 to 400 million facing discrimination for being Christian.
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An estimated 200 million Christians worldwide suffer persecution for their faith in Christ, with another 200 to 400 million facing discrimination for being Christian. Open Doors, founded in 1955 by Brother Andrew, author of the best-selling book, Gods Smuggler, seeks to serve and strengthen the Persecuted Church in the worlds most difficult areas through training, literature distribution, community development and personal encouragement. To partner with Open Doors call 949-752-6600, go to its USA web site at www.opendoorsusa.org or write Open Doors with Brother Andrew, PO Box 27001, Santa Ana, CA 92799.


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