Stop logging native forests and invest in recycled products. For our future, and our children's future.
At some time people will recognise this is wrong, let's not waste a second in explaining what is occurring, and stop this vandalism of our planets future.
I'm in full support of action groups who support a stop to destroying forests and habitat. The planet belongs to all living beings on this planet, not just humans. Forests, habitat and nature are worth more then jobs and profits. Forests are life and need to be protected from human greed! A high proportion of the devastation that is happening is for the earthly pleasures of humans, nature is coming to an end and we will all pay the price. The more voices that join together the bigger the impact, and every voice counts.
The Forest for Life Plan is a well researched, realistic and legitimate plan to transition the timber industry from logging and clearing High Conservation Value Native Forests, into a farm forestry industry, indigenous and eco tourism, and food production. Its not a case of forests vs jobs, FFL proves that the two can exist alongside each other in a truely sustainable and profitable way. Currently the Forests Products Commission operates at a loss, and has clearfelled our forest resource to the point that the industry is in serious decline, and regional forestry workers are losing their jobs.
Our forests are worth far more standing….
Please stop logging native forests.
It is too parasitic on nature. There is no need, even though a few may profit many more suffer.
Why can't we say we are saving the trees and forests for all the animals and the planet. When will the human race learn to stop destroying and killing everything. Humans are the only animal on earth that goes against Mother Nature.
Time to re address Bauxite mining in the Jarrah forest. 1000 ha is destroyed every year due to mining activity. There is still 50 years on Alcoas mining lease. This is madness, we are mining the lowest grade of bauxite mined anywhere in the world and loosing the Jarrah forest to pay for it.
There is sufficient plantation timber in Australia to meet our needs. Further plantings of hemp and establishment of value adding infrastructure will provide construction materials and fibre. The great forests of WA are far too valuable to be logged. Consider a WA forest university , the amazing forest to wild flower landscape. Most of all these forests are in our care for our children. I am sure there are some wonderful collaborations going on in local communities involving Aboriginal people who are artists and others including musicians. There may be enough energy to put on a concert of new songs about country and forests, some of the songs could, maybe be sung in local language.
Without diversity of life there is no wonder and joy. Without trees there is no air. Without air there is no life.
Please leave the old growth forests. Source timber from easily renewable sources.
There is no excuse to destroy invaluable native forests! Plantation timbers and hemp, for example, should be used and developed, instead. Please give up on this destructive policy.
It's way past time to get out of native forest logging. We have a glut of plantation timber in this country that is more than enough to supply ALL our timber needs, including pulp for paper making and export.
Its disgraceful that no thought is given to the native animals who need the forest for their very existence.
Thank you to WA Forest Alliance for all their work.
The unique, beautiful, important resource for wellbeing and tourism, and habitat essential for the survival of many endemic species – old growth and native forests – are what brought me to WA. The destruction of them is nothing but shame and 'criminal'. Wake up government, wake up people – protect and preserve the irreplaceable forests.
I have just spent a week based at Peaceful Bay exploring locations of giant forest trees between PB and Walpole and plan to return in the last week of May. I find it unconscionable that logging these magnificent trees continues by Governments impervious to public outrage, though not so to civic action determined to stop environmental vandalism. More strength to your campaign to do just this!
It just doesn't stop, just as we finish fighting to keep one precious area, we have to fight for another. I absolutely support the protection of our forests. This is the heritage we leave our children and grandchildren.
I spent 10 years living in Manjimup and the forests are amazing there. Surely the tourism industry can benefit from keeping old growth forests. Not to mention the other benefits to health of ourselves and animals. I do believe that a more sustainable way to harvest timber can be utilised over logging of these increasingly rare natural habitats.
Trees are not just commodities to be exploited willy-nilly.
They are the embodiment of nature and support life in all its forms.
I support Forests for Life.
Thank you for this most important work. I stand with the nonhuman animals and trees against short-term human need and greed.
we need our forests. we need the earth and the animal to be left in peace. WE need to stop damaging nature by consuming less.
Thank you WA Forest Alliance for continuing to support WA forests. WA people demonstrated clearly in the 1990s that they wanted to preserve our remaining forests. We should not have to "vote" for this over and over. Government policy should protect forests and not repeat the mistakes of the past.
We need to act as custodians of the land. Thank you for your work on behalf of trees and wild places. Trees are us.
We need to change our old ways of dealing with the environment. It should be illegal to touch old growth forests.
Like you said, native forests store more carbon and mitigate climate change best when they're left alone. Please spread the word and grab a copy of 'The Hidden Life of Trees' (https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate-Discoveries/dp/1771642483) — share it with everyone you know!
These trees cannot grow back for another couple of centuries…….. Please stop the short sightedness of this, and many other, such environment impacting decisions.
These great tracts of forest are abundant in diversity of species and UNKNOWN species that provide rich understandings about balance, harmony and ecological welfare. Whilst we all love to ACCESS the great southwest, I think most of us agree that the current roads are servicing the areas sufficiently and do not NEED additional routes that devastate the very forests that attract the visitors. Think carefully before you erase that which we cannot replace.
I support FFL fighting for the future of this country and the planet – planet and people over profit!
Thankful to have individuals and organisations like yourself fighting for our forests!
Can understand how this is still happening, why is it?
We need trees for a healthy balanced world.
We need forests; the lungs for all life on earth.
It's good to know people are still looking out for the wilderness and its inhabitants.
The only people who benefit from logging are the filthy rich commissioners of the projects. not the population or the country. Oh and the scabrous politicians who end up on the board of the company when they finally get kicked out of office.
Not even those employed in the practice will have a future in the industry, which by definition will be no more upon the felling of the last tree in the area.
Logging forests with the notion that "there's plenty more trees and wood out there yet" is faulty reasoning: tipping points to ecosystem collapse aren't visible right away. Biodiversity, carbon sequestration and a viable tourism industry all need old growth forest now, not regrowth or plantations of the future. Thank you FFL, for being a voice for the forests.
In a time when the earth's temperature is increasing wouldn't it be more beneficial not to log our forests? Shouldn't we be looking at Alternative industries such as Hemp Cultivation etc.?
May our newly elected state government put a stop to this, soon we will have no environment left to fight over. We need our forests, we need nature, our world sometimes is such a sad place to live in.
They think they can trick us by lining our roads with what's left of remaining bushland. We know what they're up to and will hold them to account. We, the people, want and need these forests. They should, kindly, leave them be and use their money and their brains to find other things to do… but hands off our trees.
Please save our precious forests. We need them! The animals do too.
We need forests more than we need whatever rubbish is being made from them. Please stop logging our irreplaceable forests. They are unique to Western Australia and are invaluable not only for the animals that live there but for tourism now and in the future.
I'm very glad that there is an independent body of people dedicating time and energy to improving the forrests and the associated industries, towards a sustainable future. We need biodiversity and the diversity of employment which can work in harmony with the natural world, a real progress which will leave a legacy for future generations.
Wood can be one of the most sustainable materials we have access to. It is renewable and stores carbon! We need to work on plantations and stop cutting down old growth.
Thank you for bringing this to light. The destruction is awful and senseless. May our elected representatives see sense and bring an end to clear felling our native forests.
Thankyou for your hard work and vision.
I currently volunteer full time at Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre in the Perth hills. Each year the number of cockatoo's rescued increases due to them flocking to the city in search of food due to loss of habitat. To save these and many other native species a big change in current practices is needed. It's not about stopping all forestry industry but changing the current practices. At the Forest for Life campaign I learnt how this can be done and it gave hope for the future of our native species.
Those trees and bushland does not belong to us. Endangered species live there and they're not going to have a chance at survival if this continues to happen.
Now is the time to stop logging native forests! South west WA is globally important for its ecosystems, and it has lost enough forest already. What value are WA citizens getting out of that activity anyway? As a regular visitor with family in the area, I can't see why the logging can't be replaced with a more innovative industry, in particular other ways to produce fibre or building materials.
Every time I hear about another healthy forest being decimated I feel sad. Sad for the trees, sad for the wildlife losing their lives, habitat and reducing the chances of their continued survival. We need trees for a healthy balanced world. We are reducing our beautiful unique environment for economic gain and a disappearing natural environment for future generations to enjoy. We are the caretakers of this land and we are doing a terrible job. Forest alliance please get this sorted.
Logging our native forests is nuts. It has to stop, that means leave them alone! We've already lost too much. It's time to plant not tear down.
Sending support to WA Forest Alliance our native forest is so important to this region.
The work this group does is of paramount importance and should be promoted and supported.
The executive committee of the MRCCI has resolved unanimously at our recent meeting, to fully support WA Forest Alliance's campaign "Forests for Life".
Our region's economy is underpinned by tourism and one of the key features of what brings people to the Margaret River Region is our native forests and all the wildlife that abounds within.
Unless these assets across the South West of Western Australia are appropriately managed this aspect of what brings people to the region could be threatened which would have a deleterious affect on the economy of our local businesses that rely on tourism.
We are in support of a transition to more sustainable sources of this precious commodity and wish WA Forest Alliance every success in their efforts.
Keep up the good work. A forest is not just trees, it is an ecosystem, a community. We do not need to trash forests for timber. We know better.
Retrain the loggers to maintain what we have left of our natural and old growth forests.
Utilise renewable resources instead and reward folk for the reforestation of their land.
We are creating our eco-village in the South West of WA as much because of the native forests as anything else. Why log them; it does not even make dollars let alone sense. The effort put into Forests for Life is to be highly commended.
Forests are essential for human existence, and to the survival of the many many species that live in and on them. Forests for Life is doing important work proposing sustainable alternatives to forest logging.
I love the natural environment and think it's ludicrous that our forests continue to be targeted for logging.
If the government was serious about climate change it would leave what's left of our forests and plant more trees.
I support the FfL campaign. Good luck with your meetings this week with the new ministers.
I am absolutely sending my full support behind the Campaign to protect our unique forests here in Western Australia. Now is the time to do this, right now, before more logging and bauxite mining destroys what can never ever be replaced. Wise and forward looking policy makers know that there is no other way to ensure that our grandchildren and great children will be able to enjoy the sound of a flock of black cockatoos skimming the tree tops.
I thank Forests for Life. Our govts do not appreciate our beautiful and unique environment. Destruction of our forests has to stop.
Need before greed. We need forests for our health and the planet's health. These companies have to stop acting like they can just replace entire ecosystems that took thousands of years to develop. Technology has allowed us to have so many alternatives, it's high time they stopped ignoring them.
Forests for Life. I am extremely grateful that someone is thinking ahead. Thank you.
We need forests not only for their beauty and our general wellbeing, but also for the "ecological services" they provide. By now we should understand that we continue to destroy forests at our own peril.
My full support for the forests which give us life, and oxygen to breathe, let us preserve them so the generations to come can stand in awe of the beauty of them.
What a great initiative from Forests for Life. They offer a solution and a great plan as an alternative to logging our beautiful native forests. It's time to move forward and protect WAs natural resources. The time is now to stop logging!
Wonderful work from the Forest friends- FORESTS FOR LIFE!
I fully support Forests for Life and their commitment to protect and fight for our ecosystem. Among their beautiful sight and sound, they are the lungs of our earth and protectors of extreme weather. This should be the highest priority of this world.
When our earth is so ruined that it is hard to substation any life you will understand. Then it will be too late.
The forests that remain on this planet Are our lungs, they filter out what the greedy society we live in puts in the atmosphere you cut down these forests you are cutting into human existence. And don't forget the existence of biodiversity that will go forever.
A plan which should have been implemented years ago. Every year that we delay in ceasing logging destroys more of our support systems. Destroy the forests and we destroy the rivers, and the people and wildlife who depend on the ecosystem.
There is simply NO valid reason to decimate our few remaining forests. Just STOP!!
Australia has very little timber left standing. We need every single one of those trees left in place for shelter, air and soil quality and the preservation of unique flora and fauna. Trees also help to maintain the water table. But you know all of this!
Grow hemp! Hemp is just like the Troffula trees from The Lorax. You can make anything out of them and they grow like weeds!
I give my full support to save these forests. I am a primary school teacher and am so saddened to learn that more native forests are to be lost. When I teach my year 2 children, they have so much wonder and awe at the trees around them. Teaching them about the giant trees down south inspires them and make them happier human beings. The forests must be saved for our children. Climate change is real and we must protect these carbon stores.
I offer my full support to the Forests for Life plan especially when it provides a plan for salinity control, income diversification, environment, cultural values and a health landscape. The plan is aspirational and achievable with a fundamental that we have to change and value every hectare of SW land.
A brilliant plan. Simple but workable. Please let's stop logging our life support system. Cherish our native forests and bring wealth and jobs through farm plantations.
I applaud the efforts of all concerned, thank you.
Please for the Sanity of our Planet and all who Live we Need to Create more Utopian Societies and Environments for Everyones Future.
Looking ahead, I could only see bleakness and despair. Now a shaft of light in the gloom. I support this initiative 100% ++++. May it grow and flourish in leafy abundance, and spread and spread. I'll help.
Wonderful work and progress over the years… Our forests are so precious…. For many reasons. Thank you on behalf of future generations and the planet ?
Logging old growth forests with machinery is never sustainable. You can't sustainably replace something that takes many lives of men to re-grow, and that perhaps never will grow so large again now that the climate is changing. Let's find a new way to get the timber that we need and leave the precious old growth forests alone. I'm all for this plan!
The tragedy of the 21st century is the way that the catch-cry 'competition' is so prevalent. There are alternatives. These include compromise, conciliation, sharing, and sometimes even just leaving things alone, letting them be what they are. This strategy can go under the term custodianship.
Forests for Life is not quite custodianship, but it is definitely a step in the right direction. And it may lead to the possibility of custodianship, rather than 'management' of native forests (too long a pseudonym for imposing a capitalist vision: forest as RESOURCE). Anyway.. a step forward.
I wholeheartedly support the sustainable production of timber in the area and the protection and expansion of native forests. With constant and unhindered human population growth there is incredible pressure on our land. You only need to look at the ever expanding poorly planned, hideous housing developments devouring our fertile and once forested native land. We need to have open discussions about sustainable population growth and together we can help protect this valuable resource before it s too late.
Forest for Life is a wonderful initiative to help protect our valuable forests for us and for those who come after us. These superb ecosystems are so important for our health and our connection to nature.
I wholeheartedly support initiatives which increase plantation timbers [esp Casuarina species] so that our remaining native forest may be protected.
As a child I my I often went for holidays in the forests of the south west. They were a beautiful experience and I want future generations to be able to enjoy the forests as well. It is so important that our forests are protected so that they can be there for current and future generations. The Forests For Life campaign is an important part of the fight to protect our forests and the work they are doing is so important.
I fully support the plan to stop logging native forrests and to increase the production of sustainable plantation timber.
The result will be that there are increased jobs in the industry and are remanant forrest receive protection.
Forests for life is a great initiative.
I offer my full support for the "Forests for Life" plan.
I have lived in the Southern Forests of North Walpole for 36 years – and as an artist I live, breathe and paint this incredible part of our planet.
Protect our trees/forests and ecosystems for all who follow.
The "Forest for Life" plan looks like a great idea! Current practices are unsustainable and not working. It is time for change and the solution has been developed! Great work!
Fantastic and timely! The 'Forests for Life' plan is an important step for not only protection of native forests but also the health of our communities.
Creating jobs and vibrant futures for people!
A positive solutions based approach, lets go – get on board everyone!
Thanks for all that you do, bunch of legends!
Yes, please some good news for our environment and not some shortsighted profiteering. Australia needs to step up and address environmental threats and changes and cannot go about things the "old" way as if we were still living in the 19th century. Keep the good work coming!
I am extremely grateful to Forests for Life and all those who support the protection of our native forests and the establishment of a truly sustainable, plantation based timber industry. Forests for life provides such a clear and comprehensive blueprint to achieve this. Love your work.
Why we can't live in harmony with nature and protect our forests and the wealth of unique life within them I do not know. Well done you.
We now live in Tasmania where forests are in need of protection too. All forests should be protected.
Our native forests are a unique and valuable environment. We need to keep them for our children and ourselves.
The "Forests for Life" plan is an important step for our forests future.
Having been a Natural Resource Management Officer in four WA shires, I have encouraged farmers to plant 5-25% of their farm with potentially commercially trees. Such plantings have numerous environmental benefits to the farmer and adjoining properties.
Casuarina species are often overlooked as commercial trees but are sought after for timber crafts and furniture manufacturing. The trees will generally tolerate low rainfall yet also waterlogging and have some resistance to salinity.
I wish to see greater use of plantation residue as mulch or a component of commercial composting schemes.
We should be aware that despite the best hygiene used in logging in jarrah forests, we have yet to demonstrate that the industry can log without introducing or spreading dieback (phytophthora cinnamomi). Once introduced to a forest setting, it is there forever.
'JOBS AND GROWTH' could be a meaningful slogan for 'Forests for Life'.
Adrian Price, former Bunnings Logging Supervisor.
A much needed deeper understanding on how to look after the precious and life giving resource that are our native forests. Forset for life offer a trully sustainable approach…long term thinking !
A fabulous initiative. Thank you for your wonderful work.
I would like to support you in your endeavours to stop logging completely in our native forests. Moving into managed growing of trees is a great idea and I fully support it. There has been so much destruction in the forests already and it is definitely time to stop completely.
Great scheme and you are a great voice for the trees.
Forests are the lungs of our beautiful planet. Without them, we will all perish. I fully support the 'Forests for Life' initiative. Save the trees! Please.
The forests have been under stress for years without also being under attack from the logging industry. It would be a huge achievement if the "Forests for Life" can at last stop the destruction of our forests.
Thanks for standing up for our forests.
A great campaign. Thank you.
I am so thankful for this initiative. The forests of the south west are precious in so many ways, and are extremely deserving of respect and protection so that all future generations can enjoy them as much as I have had the privilege to.
We condemn Indonesians for destroying their rainforests while turning our backs to the ongoing destruction of our own forests. Add to this the mindless annihilation of road verges, crucial corridors for wildlife and natural vegetation in our rural landscape, We desperately need a change of attitude!
The name "Forests' for Life " says it all – from an environmental, economic, social, political and ethical level. Thank you for leading the way.
The protection of our precious natural places is the most important task our generation faces. Loss of biodiversity is irreversible and it is critical we work together to ensure our forests remain for the benefit of all.
Nothing is as important for a species as habitat and that includes our own species. Forests are so important and once they're gone they take a long, long time to return (if at all.) Thanks for standing up for the forests and all the species they support.
Loving the forest for life campaign, the big picture thinking. Thanks for doing this work.
My family and I have watched the slow decimation of the native forests here in the southwest where we have lived for many generations since first settlement. With dieback, logging, mining and fires, the destruction has increased exponentially under recent governments, with more advanced machinery and workforce, and greater political and corporate agendas, and less respect or allowance for conservation and the environment.
This present "industry" is not sustainable, especially when we see the destruction of trees that it has taken many of our lifetimes to grow, trees that cannot be replaced in centuries.
The damage being done is all encompassing and long term, and at the point of being irreversible, especially as more and more legislation is brought into place to silence or hinder those who care with wisdom about the future of our environment and natural resources, while giving greater freedom to those who don't care or who wish to benefit or profit from it in one immediate way or another.
When in the local forests, at scenes of logging activity, we can witness the damage done to the ground, with the natural cooling effects of mass areas of tall timber/native forest, and the natural ecological systems contained within, are being broken up by gaping holes of industry that allow in the heat and erosion, which in turn creates long term degradation and change – I truly wonder what our "Environmental" agencies are even thinking!
I am so grateful for the "Forests for Life" initiative as it speaks for all of us who value the natural environment and know it is critical for our future to protect it and keep it healthy. Congratulations to the team behind Forests for Life, for standing up for what is truly important. You are doing the job our government is failing abysmally at. I support you totally and I know in the years ahead, my children and grandchildren will be grateful for the good work you do today. Thank you!
For the future generations! Save the forests! Great work here. BIG UPS.
Forests provide so many important ecosystem functions. Without them, earth systems will change and we will struggle to adapt. We can no longer hide behind ignorance because we know better. We know more than past generations – its time to change old ways. I support Forests for Life.
I fully support the protection of native forests and bushland.
Thank you for developing this plan to protect our precious native forests.
Thank you for taking this initiative. I fully support the need for more appropriate forest management so that our native forests will be permitted to survive.
Australia can't afford to remove any more native bush if we want to preserve/protect the flora and fauna that depend on it.
The claim that the forest industry has developed 'sustainable forestry' is ignorant in the extreme.
We have not yet been on this land for the life cycle of a eucalyptus tree!
The First Australians who have lived in harmony with Aussie forests for many generations did so by nurturing them and harvesting from them for food, medicines and tools.
In contrast we harvest the forests!
First Peoples saw the forests and all of nature as something like a church.
Our society looks at nature as a magical bottomless opportunity for economic exploitation.
Our modern society needs to get smarter and learn from the values underlying First Nations' societies.
Now is the time to finally put to rest the myths around logging native forests. Congratulations on the Forests for Life plan and best wishes for the ongoing campaign.
Congratulations on the Forests For Life initiative. This has been a very long journey and putting forward a plan for the future that protects high conservation forests, protects plants animals fungi and their habitat.
Forests for Life is such a wonderful initiative by WAFA, and long overdue. Farm forestry is the way to go, Protection of our native forests is essential for the continued existence of millions of rare species, both flora and fauna. Our Governments need to get on board with this, NOW!
Tree farming provides the necessay plantation crops for the various wood industries, supports our honey industries and conserves our forests for wildlife.
Together, we CAN all make a difference.
The essence of a healthy planet is in its natural environment – Forests are our Life!
We fully support the Forests for Life initiative, and urge our government to adopt this plan wholeheartedly.
Sustainable farm forestry is undoubtedly the way of the future, and the future is now!
It is long past time to transition out of native forest logging and into sustainable farm forestry.
We fully support the WAFA Forests for Life initiative and urge our government to get on board NOW.
We require oxygen to live.
Trees make oxygen, and the population is always increasing, it never decreases.
SO… we need MORE TREES, not less.
Thank you Forests For Life, you are protecting my children's and grandchildren's air.
We need to change current forestry practices for everybody's health and especially for future generations, including my granddaughter's!
I fully support this Forests for Life initiative because it is good for people, good the environment, and it makes economic sense. Timber is good money, but the investment cycle is 20+ years. Farmers and major landholders are not adverse to the idea of incorporating timber into their portfolios of land use production systems, but they shouldn't foot the bill alone. The Forests for Life initiative rightly identifies how the government, private sector and communities can work together for positive environmental and economic development in the high rainfall region of southwest WA. Let's turn this plan into action.
Its time to get our forest management right, Forest for Life is ready to do it!
Totally a common sense plan that is a win-win-win for all parties involved – the forests, for jobs and communities and also for the economic aspect.
To reject the Forests For Life plan would be to reject reason and logic and also to reject the reality that the native forest logging industry is collapsing under the weight of its own foolishness and if there are not very fundamental and significant changes made very soon then everyone loses.
Under the current budget deficit conditions it absolutely makes sense on many levels to change the industry as described in WAFA's Forests for Life plan and begin the transition as soon as possible, hopefully after the next State election in March.
Give our forests to FPC for nothing, give FPC $110 million, and they still make a loss! Get out of native forestry and go farm forestry, a no-brainer.
Forests for Life is what the community has needed for a long time.
An overarching strategy to protect, conserve, and educate about the true value of our forests.
Biodiversity conservation is inescapable if we want a healthy planet.
Current forestry practices are unacceptable – because they do nothing to maintain a broad biodiversity – instead focusing on a failed economic strategy by the FPC.
The time for change is now and Forests for Life can implement that change.
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We think you are awesome!!
Because we need to breathe.
This inspiring proposal renews our commitment as a WA community to protect our remaining treasured forests and at the same time achieve sustainable farming and positive climate outcomes. It feels very good to sign onto greater protection of our environment, it is time critical to do so.
I studied at UWA and Utrecht University, Dept Physical Geography.
I became a Associate Researcher. My study focussed on Forest Management in WA since 1992. The forest destruction since then is enormous and the impact is irreversible.
I'm inspired by the Forests for Life campaign. We know how important forests are globally and locally, in our shared struggle to deal with the vicissitudes of climate change. So it's crucial to renew our efforts to sustain our life force by protecting this very precious and fragile resource.
Biodiversity conservation doesn't only mean saving species from extinction but aiding their recovery and increasing populations. It also means looking after common species so that they don't become endangered. Forests For Life is a grand idea for our biodiversity – it addresses the environmental and social imperatives and deserves our full support.
Protection of our native forests makes sense on so many levels and we need to act with vigour and with urgency. in fact we need to grow and connect the areas of biodiverse reserves so that wildlife can migrate freely again, carbon sinks can be developed and important investments make in future value – in flora, fauna and pecuniary – for the benefit of all our descendants.
The great thing about this campaign is that it protects the environment and sequesters carbon while also having a plan to expand forestry employment and diversify farming income. It's a win-win-win. Get on board!
What a wonderful plan to protect our native forests, wildlife, health and well being. And create jobs! Forests for life! Please spread the word and help create a better future today.
Every year, Western Australia's forests produce approximately $10 million dollars worth of honey and bee products (conservative estimate). They are also essential for rehabilitating the bees used to pollinate tens of millions of dollars worth of horticultural crops and, as such, are an extremely important contributor to Western Australia's economy and food supply. Forests for Life is a very important initiative that the beekeeping industry is proud to support.
Western Australian honey is in demand all over the world, because of our disease free, food safe, pollution free status. 80% of our WA honey comes from the State forests. The pollens in these flowers are very good nutritionally which results in healthy bees. These bees will play an integral part in the pollination of crops currently performed by feral bees which will be wiped out by disease like varroa mite. The industry as a whole is trying to develop medicinal types of honey which if progressed creates a high economic value to the states economy. It also provides health benefit to the community. There are approx. 200 Jarrah sites with a potential value of $30million in a flowering year (usually a biennial crop). It can take 25-30yrs from seed to blossom for a mature Jarrah tree to produce the honey required to replace logged trees. A 200yo jarrah will produce far more nectar than a 30yo one as they have finished growing and will put their energy into reproducing not foliage. Other trees that our industry relies upon are Marri (Redgum), Blackbutt, Bull Banksia , Dryandra and newly discovered species of leptospermum(WA Manuka). Logging of these forests is not sustainable. When a beekeeper clears a path to a bee site minimal disruption is caused to the environment. Our footprint is extremely low yet we leave behind a pollinated good healthy living forest. As we work bush land and forests we don't have contamination issues that are plaguing the rest of the world opening up unique marketing opportunities.
Following a difficult start to the year with the destruction of jarrah sites during the Waroona fire, the industry is hoping to get honey out of jarrah this year. As a biennial crop which is due to flower this year, jarrah honey is a rarer and more sought-after product than some of the state's more reliable Eucalypt crops.
It also has the same, if not better, medicinal qualities that make it a highly desirable product. Jarrah honey is high in antioxidants, does not crystallise for long periods of time due to its low glucose, high fructose content and, being a dark honey, it is favoured by a lot of overseas consumers.
However, this high value added income could be put in further jeopardy due to the logging of forests and burning of apiary sites.
In Western Australia, a jarrah crop can produce up to 500 tonnes, which translates to a figure in the vicinity of a $7.5 million farmgate price. On a business level, the loss of the jarrah honey crop this year could cost local businesses in excess of $500,000 in honey production alone.
Beekeeping is one of the most sustainable industries, but by constantly burning and logging this resource, the State Government is jeopardising a growing, important and valuable industry.
Our tours offer customers visiting the region a glimpse into the landscapes of old, as the original settlers discovered the forests of the Southern Forest Region. There are not many left in the condition of the forests we visit – so this beauty and uniqueness needs to be protected.
Personally I feel that the forest we have in this area greatly benefit the community as we are dependent on tourism and the forests are a strong draw card. The forest walks, bike trails, especially the mountain bike trail bring tourists from all over the world. The Cape to Cape track is also a great draw card for tourism. Tourism brings jobs and opportunities for the local community to be involved. The forests in this area are beautiful and hopefully we can keep them that way. Local groups work hard to keep them like that. We need the forests as habitat for local animals and birds, especially the red and white tail cockatoos and the ringtail possums. Habitat decline is already having an impact on these animals. I strongly support forest protection.
Native forest protection means a lot to my life. I love it and value it. Every bush walk means rejuvenation to me.
Out of our garden group we have started an Organic Garden Trail around Margaret River, which is now spreading to Nannup, Bridgetown and other towns in the SW, and interest much further abroad. This concept, we believe, is a first for Organic Garden Trails and fits in with all other groups having forest and bush walks. Without our small forest areas, Australia becomes drier and less diverse and it will not be the wonderful place we now have. Margaret River has a huge tourist input, and they are mostly impressed with our space. Our economy at this stage is reliant on this tourism and has grown a lot because of this increasing numbers of people coming to enjoy real space.
Native forest protection is critical to the saving of wildlife including endangered species such as the western ringtail possum. Habitat is vital to their survival and the diminution of this has seen a drastic reduction in the viability of certain species. Development and clearing are as dangerous as feral cats and foxes. All forests need to be preserved now before the tipping point arises and is beyond change. Old growth trees are essential to the wellbeing of all wildlife and new plantings cannot and do not mitigate clearing.
Wildlife organisations such as FAWNA are run by volunteers and many put in above 30 hours per week trying to save injured and orphaned animals as a result of man's interference with nature.
Wildlife have been and should be considered an asset to any community, and tourist dollars would follow meaningful wildlife experiences if they were developed rather than clearing of these draw cards. Once the species are lost they can never be returned. I endorse all efforts to cease further clearing or harvesting in our last Forest areas. Growing timber on already cleared land is far more supportable than continuing to clear the last vestiges of native forest.
I wholeheartedly offer my full support to Forests For Life. As a tourist operator forest protection allows means a lot to me. It allows for more genuine advertising and experience for our customers. Since the Gallop Government protected the Walpole Wilderness Area, which we adjoin, I no longer have to feel the dread that they might wander to the wrong side of the highway and into a clear fell where all of the devastation undermines our calls to come and enjoy the beautiful southern forests. However, this is still the case some 60kms north of us. Our tourism industry funds the opportunity for many cottage and boutique businesses, but it is essentially the environment that visitors come to experience and enjoy. Thank you for everything you're doing. I am totally on board.
It is with pleasure and conviction that the executive committee resolved unanimously at our recent meeting, to fully support WA Forest Alliance's upcoming campaign "Forests for Life".
It is a well known fact among all local tourism industry operators, as well as support industries, that visitors come to our region predominantly because of the beauty of our native forests. Without appropriate protection of these key assets (all native forests in our region) our local economy could be threatened.
We believe that an essential component of the long-term viability of many local communities, businesses and industries, relies heavily upon the professional management and care of our native forests and the hasty transition to more sustainable sources of this commodity.
There is a significant cultural and social benefit gained from the many intrastate, interstate and international visitors that frequent our region, specifically to experience our native forests. This benefit, along with so many others, could be further enhanced by a successful campaign to protect our remaining native forests.
We wish WA Forest Alliance every success in their efforts.
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We often wonder how the death of child affects his siblings. Or, at least, bereaved parents often wonder.
Are they okay? What do they think? Do they remember him? Does it bother them?
Melanie and I are Bible study together. I met her and her mom at church. They are both full of joy! Laughter. And life. But some days they hurt.
Melanie's little brother died of cancer. He was two.
Here is what she wrote today. She gave me permission to share it.
"32 years ago was the worst day for our family. My baby brother Matthew passed away from leukemia.
"I hate cancer. I hate today, I hate to think about it. I hate that I don't remember his personality. I don't remember little things like the stuff that I got to see my kids do in their first two years of life. I don't remember playing with him. I don't remember his voice. I hate that the only thing I remember about him are terrible events. I remember his cry. I remember how it made me feel. I remember being sad, sad like nothing else I have ever experienced. I remember missing him and my parents when he left town to get treatment. I remember visiting him in the hospital.
I love Melanie. And her mom Aletha. Today I cried for them.
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I can feel the pain she feels in her passage. I see it in the way she see things that remind her of her brother. I see pieces of my own grief in her grief. I can't entirely say I relate to her pain but I can see myself in some of her grief. May God be with her.
Grief is hard. Especially on children who can't understand. The feel it so long.
I'm not sure I have words.
I've lost from cancer and it stings way too long. I'm sorry your heart still hurts.
My friend Melanie is so full of joy and laughter. Yet the pain of loss is there.
Joy and grief can coexist.


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       localisé dans le département de Rhône en Rhône-Alpes. Elle totalisait 112 habitants en 2008.

Si vous pensez demenager à Saint-Jacques-des-Arrêts, vous pourrez facilement trouver une maison à acheter.

À coté de Saint-Jacques-des-Arrêts sont positionnées géographiquement les villes de
Jullié située à 6 km, 403 habitants,
Vauxrenard localisée à 6 km, 304 habitants,
Saint-Christophe localisée à 4 km, 232 habitants,
Trades située à 3 km, 100 habitants,
Émeringes localisée à 6 km, 224 habitants,
Tramayes située à 5 km, 952 habitants,
 entre autres. De plus, Saint-Jacques-des-Arrêts est située à seulement 19 km de Mâcon.

Le parc d'habitations, à Saint-Jacques-des-Arrêts, se décomposait en 2011 en cinq appartements et 93 maisons soit
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Ask Geoffrey: A Look Back at Chicago's Streetcar Era
Why was the streetcar system scrapped in Chicago? Was there a streetcar tunnel under the Chicago River? And are there any remnants from the Brookfield Zoo streetcar? Geoffrey Baer tracks down answers for these three questions about Chicago's bygone streetcar heyday.
I read that Chicago once had the largest street railway system in the world. Why was the system scrapped? Were the tracks pulled up or covered over?
– Martin Rowe, Lincolnwood
Chicago at one time did claim to have the largest streetcar system in the world, with a fleet of over 3,200 passenger cars and over 1,000 miles of track – a claim backed up in several sources we found.
It all started in 1859 with a horse-drawn car running along a single rail track down State Street. By the 1880s, a handful of different streetcar companies were in operation across the city. Gradually, the horse-drawn lines were replaced with cable cars – so called because they hooked to a constantly moving cable underneath the street. Electric streetcars powered by an overhead trolley line gradually replaced the cable cars.
In 1914, the streetcar companies unified under a new name: Chicago Surface Lines. A nickel would get you a ride to just about anywhere in the city.
The advent of affordable automobiles in the 1920s caused streetcar ridership to decline – but streetcar operators weren't going to just give up. In 1929 they formed the Presidents' Conference Committee, or PCC, which determined that the way to stop the decline in ridership was to make streetcars as fast, smooth, convenient and comfortable as the family car.
Chicago was chosen as the guinea pig city to test two experimental designs. The winning design became known as the PCC car and was used in cities all over the country. Chicago ordered 600 of them in 1945 and 1946. Here they were nicknamed Green Hornet streetcars because of their speed and the Chicago Surface Lines' green paint job.
At almost the same time the Chicago Surface Lines and the 'L' were consolidated as the CTA – and the CTA's general manager Walter McCarter wasn't a fan of streetcars and their unsightly web of overhead wires. He oversaw phasing out streetcars in favor of buses starting in 1947, just a year after the Green Hornets went into service. The last Chicago streetcar click-clacked down Vincennes Avenue on June 21, 1958.
There are still lasting vestiges of the streetcar system in Chicago. Many of today's CTA bus routes and route numbers are the same as they were in the days of streetcars. And as for the tracks – a few of the streets had the tracks pulled up, but most were covered with asphalt and are still in the streets under pavement.
PCC streetcars are still in operation in a number of places including Kenosha, Wisconsin; San Francisco and at the Illinois Railway Museum.
Our key source for this answer was "Chicago Streetcar Pictorial," a book just released by the Central Electric Railfans' Association. It details just about everything you could want to know about Chicago PCC streetcars.
I am 84 years old. I grew up in Chicago and have a memory of riding on a street car as it went through a tunnel under the Chicago River. Is the memory of this old man accurate or a fantasy?
– Ron Graham, Bensenville
We've actually done this question before, but we thought we'd bring it back for this segment. Our viewer's memory is 100 percent accurate – there were in fact three tunnels under the river.
The tunnels were proposed in the mid-1800s to solve a traffic problem. There were so many ships traveling up and down the river that the old swing bridges were constantly opening, causing huge traffic jams on land.
The first tunnel opened in 1869 on Washington Street. The LaSalle Street tunnel opened in 1871, just before the Chicago Fire. It became a vital escape route for people fleeing the fire after the wooden bridges burned.
The tunnels originally were for carriages and pedestrians. Later, the cable car companies ran tracks through the tunnels because they couldn't run cables across movable bridges.
A third tunnel was built at Van Buren Street specifically for streetcars.
When the river was reversed in 1900, the current in the river exposed the tunnels that had been 18 feet below the riverbed so new tunnels had to be built at a lower depth.
The LaSalle Street tunnel was fabricated of steel above ground, then floated into place and then lowered into a trench in the river bottom. You can still see the entrance of that tunnel today north of the river, but it now leads to a parking area. That tunnel was closed to traffic in 1939.
The Van Buren tunnel closed in 1924, and the last one at Washington Street closed in 1954 as the streetcar era came to a close.
During WW II there was a streetcar route that went into the Brookfield Zoo from the east side. I believe that it originated from a terminal at Archer Avenue and 55th Street. Are there remnants of this line existing today?
– Frank Coyle, Romeoville
The line that ran beginning in the 1920s to Brookfield Zoo was not a Chicago Surface Lines streetcar, but was operated by the Chicago & West Towns Railway.
It ran from Cermak and Kenton in Cicero and passed through what were then the somewhat rural suburbs of Berwyn and North Riverside, past Brookfield Zoo and ending in LaGrange. The streetcar one was replaced with a motor bus in 1947.
According to the Central Electric Railfans Association, today's PACE buses follow the same route to the zoo.
As far as physical relics there are concrete bridge piers where the streetcar line once ran over Salt Creek.
A restored blue and white 1924 streetcar, #141, is at theIllinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. A different railway historical society had purchased the car in 1959 but it sat unrestored under a tarp in Lisle for more than 10 years until a rail enthusiast named Frank Sirinek stumbled on it.
It took 30 years to restore the car, using parts like a controller found in Milan, Italy, and a fare register found in San Diego. Other parts were re-manufactured based on original schematics. The restored car made its first run in 65 years at the Railway Museum on March 3, 2013 with Frank Sirinek as motorman.
Photographed: Frank Sirinek
For more information and to watch the entire Ask Geoffrey segment please click here.
OT: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Streetcars Making Comeback After Nearly Going Extinct
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 3:48 PM | Jeff Wien (Administrator)
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WASHINGTON — With the February opening of streetcar service along the 2.4-mile H Street-Benning Road corridor, Washington joined a national trend of major cities rebooting what was once considered an antiquated mode of urban transportation.
Far from being an exercise in nostalgia, the rekindled love affair with the streetcar is not only bringing public transportation to under-served areas, but is also aimed at stimulating economic growth in key commercial districts.
Since 2000, seven major cities in the United States have installed streetcars. Besides Washington, the cities are Seattle; Portland, Oregon; Salt Lake City; Dallas; Tucson, Arizona; and Atlanta. Several others are in the planning or construction phases.
All seven systems are modern, second-generation streetcars on new lines, not part of so-called "legacy" systems that in some cases, such as New Orleans and San Francisco, have been running for more than a century. Nor are the second-generation streetcars throwbacks to a bygone age, such as CityLYNX Gold Line, in Charlotte, North Carolina, which opened in 2015 using replica historic streetcar models known as heritage cars (they are slated to be replaced in about three years).
Streetcars are a type of "light rail" service. Each system uses single cars that run along city streets on tracks, usually in mixed traffic, as opposed to exclusive rights of way.
Each of the new DC Streetcar vehicles is 66 feet long and 8 feet wide, capable of holding approximately 157 passengers.
The streetcar service runs Monday through Thursday from 6 a.m. to midnight and on Friday and Saturday until 2 a.m., with no current Sunday service. It will be free to all riders for the first few months of its introductory period.
An average weekday in April saw 2,285 passengers on the DC Streetcar. Saturday ridership averaged 3,235.
Washington had streetcars for 100 years, from 1862 until 1962. Initially drawn by horses, the cars switched to electric power in 1888.
Only a few years after the last streetcar rumbled down Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington began construction on a new heavy rail/subway system known as Metrorail, administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which also runs the regional bus system.
"From 1890 to 1930, the streetcar was prevalent throughout urban America before going through a decline the following 40 years with the advent of the automotive age," said Art Guzzetti, vice president of policy at the American Public Transportation Association.
Mass transit networks incorporating commuter railroads, subways and bus systems accompanied the expanded use of cars.
But streetcars like Washington's are filling in transit gaps. The H Street segment is envisioned as the first part of a larger streetcar system that the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) plans to construct in coming years.
In an era with diverse mass transit options in cities throughout the country, the need for streetcars might not be as apparent to the casual commuter. But Guzzetti said that streetcars offer added value to urban transit.
"The premise is to provide the ridership capacity of a larger train for a manageable route of a bus service," Guzzetti said.
Unlike the farther reaches of light rail and heavy rail networks that connect suburbs to central cities, streetcars "will circulate around downtown or commercial districts," Guzzetti said.
Experts argue that there is also a psychological boost, as well as potential increases in real estate values, in communities that become part of a streetcar system.
"A streetcar, or trolley, communicates a message of permanence," said Ken Rucker, president of the National Capital Trolley Museum. "The tangibility of tracks expresses commitment to an individual transit corridor."
Portland began operating replica vintage streetcars in 1991. But when it came time to replace them, the city decided to buy modern cars that were equivalent in expense but higher-tech.
The Pacific Northwest city opened its new line in 2001, becoming the first North American city to have a second-generation streetcar system.
"The city of Portland, as well as several prominent business owners and developers, saw a need to also provide circulation within the core of Portland, as there was not the high-capacity, permanent transit available once you were downtown," said Julie Gustafson, a spokeswoman for Portland Streetcar.
Using the same Czech-inspired United Streetcar (now built by Oregon Iron Works) vehicle brand as Washington would later implement, Portland chose cars that are approximately 20 meters (more than 60 feet) long and 8 feet wide, with low floors that make it easy to board and exit and are accessible to disabled passengers.
"City leaders saw what streetcar systems had done in the past as well as what they continue to do in Europe and believed that this vision fit well with the desire to increase density in the central city of Portland," Gustafson said.
Fifteen years in, Portland Streetcar has an average ridership of 15,000 a week. As of December 2014, $4.5 billion worth of new development had sprung up along the line.
Washington's plan was similar. In 2003, the city began plotting the streetcar system routes to serve several economically depressed neighborhoods.
The DC Streetcar website states that "fixed rail lines have demonstrated they can be catalysts to attract investments in housing, retail and commercial properties."
According to the District of Columbia Transit Alternatives Analysis published in 2005, traffic was another factor. The bus services, in particular, were not ideal for transporting heavy amounts of people through active thoroughfares, thus contributing to further congestion.
Although Washington has had Metrorail and bus service, both were reaching their maximum capacities.
The current line runs through slowly gentrifying areas east of Washington's Union Station.
Because of delays over funding, planning and several changes in city administrations, the DDOT spent more than $200 million on the project.
Washington could possibly look to Atlanta for insight concerning the assets and liabilities of a modern streetcar system. The Georgia capital opened its streetcars in December 2014, 65 years after closing its original streetcar network.
"The Atlanta Streetcar project has received the majority of its subsidization from city and federal governments, while the downtown business community has also pitched in with a total commitment of $20 million over 20 years, including $6 million towards construction costs," said A.J. Robinson, president of the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District.
So far, the Atlanta Streetcar makes a 2.7-mile loop through downtown. The addition to the city's transit network has boosted real estate values, increased tax revenue and helped create jobs, Robinson said.
"We're tracking more than $2 billion of new and planned real estate investment within a five-minute walk of the track alignment," he said.
"Many businesses have invested in new renovations to area real estate right around the time it was announced that the city would be moving forward with the streetcar," Robinson added.
Atlanta has dealt with safety issues, instances of the homeless taking shelter in the cars, and recent ridership drops as the streetcars started collecting fares at the beginning of this year.
"We don't have space in the urban core to support more or altered bus routes," Robinson said.
"Atlanta is historically a car-dominated community," he added. "To see this kind of innovation in transit is something new."
New York City has recently proposed joining this trend, with Mayor Bill de Blasio formally unveiling a plan in February to build a new streetcar line dubbed the BQX: the Brooklyn-Queens Connector that is supposed to connect the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.
The line would run on a 16-mile circuit along the East River waterfront, which lacks sufficient access to public transportation. The streetcar would cost about $2.5 billion, far cheaper than digging a new subway line through the densely populated boroughs.
"The BQX will be a state-of-the-art streetcar that ... has the potential to generate over $25 billion of economic activity for our city over 30 years," de Blasio said.
Unlike some other Northeastern cities, New York had shut down its last streetcars by the 1950s for mass transit options that addressed its high-density sprawl. Competition from the car and bus, as well as other factors, helped kill the city's once-ubiquitous streetcars.
But cities such as Boston and Philadelphia were able to preserve their streetcars, integrating them with their heavy rail and subway systems.
Philadelphia's Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), which includes legacy and heritage vehicles, boasts the nation's largest streetcar system by route mileage. Its eight legacy streetcar routes (two of which venture out into the suburbs) are unique in that "they operate as a hybrid of trolley and high-capacity commuter rail," according to SEPTA's director of innovation, Erik Johanson.
"Although they have their [rights of way] the majority of their trips, once they arrive in Center City they function as traditional trolley services like a bus on rails before funneling into subway tunnels," Johanson explained.
Philadephia's Girard Avenue Line is the city's only heritage line, using rebuilt 1947 PCC II-type streetcars. "We are actually looking to modernize many of our trolleys to meet current [disability] standards," Johanson said. "One of our major goals is full accessibility throughout the system."
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Milwaukee Seeks $20 Million Grant for Streetcar Extension
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 8:51 AM | Jeff Wien (Administrator)
This is a rendering of a Brookville streetcar in Milwaukee's Third Ward. The city is applying for a $20 million federal grant to extend the Milwaukee Streetcar north along 4th St. Credit: Brookville Equipment Corp.
The city is applying for a $20million federal grant to extend the Milwaukee streetcar north to the new Bucks arena.
The route extension would run on N. 4th St. from W. St. Paul Ave. to W. Highland Ave.
"We're taking one extension at a time," said Ghassan Korban, Milwaukee's Department of Public Works commissioner.
He said the proposed extension would also move the streetcar route closer to Bronzeville.
The earliest the extension would open would be 2020, Korban said. The downtown streetcar route is expected to be open for passenger service in 2018, with the lakefront loop opening in 2019.
Korban said that the federal grant announcements are typically made in late September, and he expects the same this year.
The northern end of the planned extension would reach the "doorstep" of the new Milwaukee Bucks arena, which is expected to break ground this summer.
Korban said the city is excited about the extension because it would be shovel-ready, and will connect key attractions such as existing hotels as well as planned attractions.
"The idea all along has been that the original route needs extensions to make the streetcar route more successful and efficient," Korban said. "And this is the first next step in terms of having a meaningful extension to add to the success of the streetcar increasing connectivity downtown."
He said that if the city receives the $20 million grant, it would cover about 50% of the estimated costs for that extension. The city could cover the rest using a tax incremental financing district, like how it financed the first phase and lakefront loop.
"We're very excited about this opportunity, and trying to keep the momentum going," Korban said.
The federal grant money would come from the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER, grant program.
The city in November picked Brookville Equipment Corp. to build its first four streetcars.
Earlier this month, the city opened bidding for companies hoping to oversee the streetcar project. Contractors have until June 1 to submit proposals to lead the project, which would involve serving as construction manager and general contractor for the 2.5-mile downtown streetcar route and lakefront loop.
City Opens Bidding to Lead Milwaukee Streetcar Construction Project
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 12:05 PM | Jeff Wien (Administrator)
Service for the initial downtown Milwaukee street car route is expected to begin in the fall of 2018.
The city has opened bidding for companies hoping to oversee the Milwaukee streetcar project.
Contractors have until June 1 to submit proposals to lead the project, which would involve serving as construction manager and general contractor for the 2.5-mile downtown streetcar route and lakefront loop.
The winning company will oversee all the construction activities for the first phase of the streetcar project. That will include installing the track, building the overhead contact system, and handling all necessary civil and road work for streetcar stops and the operations and maintenance facility.
City officials say construction for this phase of the streetcar and the maintenance facility will begin in late summer or early fall, and will continue until 2018.
The first streetcar, which is being built by Brookville Equipment Corp., is scheduled to arrive in Milwaukee in December 2017. The $18.6 million contract calls for Brookville to initially build four cars, but the company may be tapped to make a fifth vehicle for the lakefront line in the near future. City officials say the company could eventually manufacture as many as 24 vehicles for Milwaukee.
Service for the initial downtown route is expected to begin in fall 2018, and the lakefront line is expected to start operating in 2019.
The streetcar plan, which aims to connect the Milwaukee Intermodal Station with the city's lower east side, was approved by the Common Council last year. The project's capital budget is about $128 million for a 2.5-mile route, with an estimated $3.2 million operating and maintenance budget.
The City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works said the contractor would be chosen based on price, qualifications and approach to the project.
This request for proposals can be found online, and companies interested should call (414) 286-3314.
Proposals are due by 4 p.m. June 1.
East Troy (Wis.) Railroad Is Going Big In 2016
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 9:13 AM | Jeff Wien (Administrator)
Former electric interurban line says it will operate more trains on a longer route
RELATED TOPICS: MIDWEST | STEAM/PRESERVATION | RAILFANING | TOURIST RAILROADS | OPERATIONS
East Troy Electric Railroad's former Chicago South Shore & South Bend cars carry a load of passengers eastward on a Christmas-themed train in December 2015.
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EAST TROY, Wis. — Photographers and railfans will be able to enjoy more trains and a longer train ride at the East Troy Railroad Museum in Wisconsin this year. The railroad recently unveiled its 2016 schedule that will include more trains, added dinner trains, and a longer operating route that features a stop at Indianhead Park in Mukwonago, Wis.
The new schedule is part of the railroad's 2016 season that officially opens for regular business on April 30. The museum will operate up to seven daily departures each Saturday and Sunday from East Troy. Trains will also be departing from Indianhead Park this season.
In addition to its regular weekend schedule, the railroad says that its popular dinner and pizza trains will continue in addition to several new "theme trains" designed to appeal to different food heritages. Italian, Mexican, German, and classic American foods will be among some of the dinner items on board the special theme trains in 2016.
A series of special events are also on the itinerary for 2016, including a Railfan Day on June 25 that will feature different sets of railroad cars.
More information is available on the railroad's website.
CTA Board Approves Contract to Replace Half of Rail Cars
Thursday, March 10, 2016 8:36 AM | Jeff Wien (Administrator)
The Chicago Transit Authority board voted Wednesday to approve a $1.3 billion contract for 846 rail cars — representing about half of the CTA's total fleet. Mary Wisniewski, Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Transit Authority Board voted Wednesday to approve a $1.3 billion contract for 846 rail cars — the biggest rail car purchase in the agency's history, representing about half of its total fleet. The contract also will create a manufacturing facility on the Southeast Side, the first of its kind in the city in 35 years.
The winning bidder to build the 7000 Series cars is CSR Sifang America, whose partners include the Chinese state-owned rail car manufacturing company CRRC Qingdao Sifang and CSR America, which handles North American operations. The same manufacturer is currently building cars for the Boston transit system.
The last batch of CTA rail cars, known as the 5000 Series, were designed in the last decade and built by Bombardier Transportation, which lost this year's bid.
The new cars will replace 2600 Series cars produced in the 1980s.
The 7000 Series cars will have a different seating arrangement than the 5000 Series cars, which have mostly aisle-facing seats. The wider, New York-subway-style aisles were intended to provide more standing room during rush hour, but have proved unpopular with some riders, who do not like getting their feet stepped on while seated, or having their views blocked by standing passengers.
The new cars, with LED lighting and 37 to 38 seats each, will be a hybrid of the 5000 Series and the 3200 Series currently seen on the Brown and Orange Lines. The front of the cars will have aisle-facing seats to maximize standing space and make it easier for passengers to get on and off, while the rest of the car will have a mix of forward and rear-facing seat pairs and the popular single seats.
The contract is expected to create 169 jobs — employing mostly union, high-skilled, sheet metal and electrical workers — at an assembly facility at 135th Street and Torrence Avenue, city officials said. The facility is expected to build the 7000 Series cars over 10 years — with prototypes coming out in 2019, and cars going into the system in 2020, said CTA spokesman Brian Steele.
The facility would be the first rail-car assembly facility in Chicago since the Pullman-Standard plant closed in 1981.
In a buoyant news conference at CTA headquarters after the board's vote, Mayor Rahm Emanuel called the deal historic and said he hoped the facility could also be used for other rail car orders from around the country. He expects suppliers to be drawn to the Hegewisch facility, bringing even more jobs. He said the deal was an example of the city using its purchasing power to create local employment, as it did when Chicago Police ordered its new cars from the South Side Ford plant.
"It's one thing to order new cars and the customers will get a great experience. It's another thing to order those cars and create great manufacturing jobs in the city of Chicago, and bring back rail-car manufacturing to its proper home," Emanuel said.
CTA president Dorval Carter said the purchase will give the CTA one of the country's youngest rail fleets — with the average age of a car dropping from 26 years in 2011 to 11 years once all the cars are delivered — and save $7 million annually in maintenance costs.
While the board approved a $1.3 billion contract, the cost over time could be about $1.4 billion because of inflation as the CTA exercises its options to go beyond an initial purchase of 400 cars, Steele said.
The CSR Sifang America bid came in $226 million lower than Bombardier's.
Like the 5000 Series cars, the new cars will also convert the direct current supplied by the rails to an alternating current for propulsion, which provides a quieter, smoother ride, Steele said.
The new cars will be bought with a mix of federal and local funds, the latter provided by a bond issue.
The CTA first asked for proposals for the rail cars in February 2013, but the next year rejected the initial bids as incompatible with the 5000 Series. The agency then asked for the bids again, dropping the compatibility requirement and including a "U.S. Employment provision," asking bidders to provide the number and type of new jobs they planned to create.
Jorge Ramirez, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, said he hopes Metra would also consider using the facility for rail car manufacture.
Texas Museum to Turn Chicago Highliners Into High-Tech Classrooms
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 9:15 AM | Jeff Wien (Administrator)
RELATED TOPICS: RAILFANING | COMMUTER RAILROADS
FRISCO, Texas — A Texas museum might be the last place you'd expect to find ex-Illinois Central Highliner electric commuter cars from Chicago, but the Museum of the American Railroad has just acquired 10 of them. Instead of static displays, the museum intends to use the cars as immersion classrooms at its museum in Frisco.
While two cars will be preserved in their original state, plans call for others to be outfitted with the latest technology to assist with classroom instruction. Select cars will receive audio-visual enhancements, digital learning spaces, and interactive exhibits. The museum is currently seeking funding and sponsorships for the improvements.
The Highliners will be branded the Stream-Liner, an acronym emphasizing science, technology, railroading, engineering, arts, and mathematics components of the Museum's educational programming. Construction of the first three of ten exhibit tracks totaling 6,000 feet is underway. Upon completion, the cars will be placed on Track No. 7 for permanent display and use.
The museum acknowledged the generosity of Metra Electric in assisting with the cars acquisition. BNSF Railway provided reduced rate transportation of the cars from Chicago to Texas.
The St. Louis Car Co. built the original 130 Highliners for the Illinois Central in 1971-72. More information is available from the museum's website.
Metra Electric's Original Highliner Cars Officially Retired
Friday, February 12, 2016 3:51 PM | Jeff Wien (Administrator)
Final Train Makes Last Run
(Feb. 12, 2016) – Forty-four years after the debut of the original Highliner cars on the Metra Electric Line, the last six of them carried their final passengers today from Chicago to University Park. State Senator Martin Sandoval, State Representative Al Riley, Metra Executive Director/CEO Don Orseno, members of the Metra Board of Directors and other guests took part in the official send-off from Millennium Station.
"These cars have served us well and have been a central part of the history of the Illinois Central and Metra's Electric service," said Orseno. "But while letting them go is somewhat bittersweet, it's time. The new Highliners enable Metra to provide our customers with more reliable service, better amenities and reduced maintenance costs."
The original Highliner cars began serving customers on the Illinois Central (IC), now the Metra Electric Line, on May 31, 1971. The cars were purchased in two separate orders. The first 130 cars were purchased from the St. Louis Car Company by the newly formed Chicago South Suburban Mass Transit District and leased back to the IC. Federal funds covered two-thirds of the $40 million cost and the IC paid the rest. In 1978-1979, the newly formed Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) bought the second order of 36 cars from Bombardier Inc. for $28 million. Metra took ownership of the railroad and the Highliners in 1987, rehabbing the cars and changing the color scheme from orange and brown to silver and blue.
The original Highliners offered air-conditioning to customers accustomed to riding in cars with open windows during the summer months, and cushioned seats rather than the wicker benches provided in the 1920s-era cars they replaced. However, the original Highliners did not have onboard restrooms and their carbon steel construction proved less durable than the stainless steel cars that became the industry standard.
The push to replace the original Highliners with more modern and durable cars began with the delivery of the first 26 new generation stainless steel Highliner cars in 2006, purchased with $76 million in funding provided through the state's Illinois FIRST bond program. In August 2010, the Metra Board approved a contract with Sumitomo Corp of America/Nippon Sharyo to purchase 160 more Highliner cars. Funding for this purchase totaling $585 million was provided through another state bond program.
The new cars are propelled by alternating current (AC), which supplies more power and requires less maintenance that the direct current (DC) propulsion used by the original Highliners. About half of the new Highliner cars are equipped with restrooms and every train on the Metra Electric now has at least one bathroom.
After today's final run, museums will be the only place that rail fans will be able to view the original Highliner equipment. Twenty-four Highliner cars have been sent to museums including: Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Ill.; Union Depot Railroad Museum in Mendota, Ill.; Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad/James H. Andrew Museum in Boone, Iowa; and the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum in North Judson, Ind.
City picks streetcar manufacturer
Sunday, November 15, 2015 6:57 AM | Jeff Wien (Administrator)
A rendering of a Brookville streetcar in Milwaukee's Third Ward. Milwaukee's streetcars will be manufactured by U.S.-based Brookville Equipment Corp.
The City of Milwaukee has chosen a company to build the first four vehicles for its streetcar project.
Brookville Equipment Corp., a nearly 100-year-old Pennsylvania-based company that manufactures streetcars as well as locomotives and mining equipment, was picked in a Friday vote by the city's streetcar committee.
The $18.6 million contract calls for Brookville to initially build four cars. The company could be tapped to make a fifth vehicle for the streetcar's Lakefront Line in the near future, and may eventually manufacture as many as 24 total vehicles for Milwaukee.
Mayor Tom Barrett celebrated the news as "another major milestone" for the streetcar project.
"We had a thorough review, and we're moving forward," Barrett said Friday.
Each streetcar will be 66 feet long and 8 feet 8 inches wide, have 32 seats and hold up to 150 passengers. The vehicles will have two doors on each side, provide access for wheelchairs and bicycles to be transported, and at some point could be equipped to offer Wi-Fi. The cars will each weigh about 79,000 pounds when empty.
The contract calls for the first vehicle to be delivered to Milwaukee in about 24 months.
Michael White, a sales manager for Brookville, said the company's streetcar projects include New Orleans, San Francisco, Dallas and Disneyland.
White said 70 Brookville streetcars are in operation.
The car, known as the Liberty Modern Streetcar, is a "very safe car" and is designed to have a "30-year life," White said. The maximum speed is 42 miles per hour, but it could go higher in the future, he said.
The streetcars will be manufactured at the company's Pennsylvania plant.
The vote by the Joint Committee on Downtown Streetcar Implementation to authorize the contract with Brookville came about three weeks after Ghassan Korban, commissioner of the city's Department of Public Works, said the city was close to finalizing a deal with its preferred vendor.
The proposals were evaluated using four criteria: budget, qualifications, technical capabilities and aesthetics. Korban said Brookville's proposal was deemed to be the "best value," and was also the cheapest overall.
He praised the "modern and sleek" look of the cars, and said he was confident in their safety and performance.
"We are very confident that this vehicle will be able to run 365 days a year in Milwaukee," Korban said. "So during the hottest days, and during the coldest and snowiest days."
The agreement came less than a month after the city was awarded a $14.2 million federal grant for construction of a line connecting the streetcar with the lakefront.
The streetcar plan, which aims to connect the Milwaukee Intermodal Station with the city's lower east side, was approved by the Common Council in February. The project's capital budget is $128 million for a 2.5-mile route, with an estimated $3.2 million operating and maintenance budget.
Late last month, local and federal officials announced the city had been awarded a $14.2 million federal grant for construction of the spur connecting the streetcar with the lakefront. The award was from the federal TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) program. The Lakefront Line, which was approved by the Common Council along with the first phase of the streetcar in February, would connect Cathedral Square to the lakefront using Broadway and Milwaukee, Michigan and Clybourn streets. It will also link the streetcar to the Couture development, which has a stop planned.
Initially, it was anticipated that the city would break ground on the project by late 2015, but the groundbreaking now is expected to occur sometime in spring 2016. The streetcars are expected to start running in fall 2018.
The streetcar project has faced some vocal opponents who question the cost and how many riders it might have. Barrett repeatedly has touted the key role it will play as development projects spring up throughout downtown.
"We think this is going to have a positive impact on property values and economic development," the mayor said Friday.
Barrett added that a millions of dollars in federal grants being used for the project were awarded years ago, and cannot be used for other expenses.
Also on Friday, Jeffrey Kober, the CEO and president of Cudahy-based Milwaukee Composites, announced that his company was donating flooring for the four vehicles.
Brookville was one of four companies that submitted proposals. The three other companies were Inekon Trams, in the Czech Republic, and German companies Siemens and Vossloh, Korban said.
RAILFAN Magazine review of CERA's Chicago Streetcar Pictorial
Friday, October 30, 2015 1:35 PM | Len Marcus (Administrator)
Please click the following link to see the RAILFAN Magazine review of CERA's Chicago Streetcar Pictorial
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Erdinger Dünkel is a brilliant beer, deep full flavours. This beer has a deep roasted malt taste, with hints of slight coffee and chocolate. This beer starts off with a bitter note, which slowly moves across the tongue and develops into a nice sweetness. This is also a really smooth beer, with very little carbonation, making it a easy drinking beer. Erdinger Dünkel is also a very refreshing beer, that has a moreish quality to it, making you want to go back for more and more, which to me is a great quality in a beer. This is also a bottle conditioned wheat beer, so there will be a slight sediment in the bottom of the bottle. This is a really delicious beer, that I would highly recommend to anyone that enjoys a deep, full flavoured beer, with a moreish, warming quality to it. I really enjoyed this beer and would recommend people give it a try.


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Following his PGEN PS2 on PS4 Emulator Port and SMS PSP Emulator for PS4, today PlayStation 4 developer @Markus95 released via Twitter two new RetroArch PS2 on PS4 versions of the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator QuickNES and the Sega Master System / MegaDrive emulator Picodrive to enjoy your favorite retrogaming ROMs with.
To quote from the blog post on Logic-Sunrise.com, roughly translated: They are both compatible on PS4 4.05, 4.55, 4.74, 5.05 and 5.07, moreover thanks to Fltrujy (developer of PS2 versions) CDFS support: / is now functional, so you can add your own fullset if needed for each emulator.
Cheers to @DEFAULTDNB on Twitter for the heads-up of this news earlier today!
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Is there a N64 emulator?
He didn't have much luck with DaedalusX64, but there's a Mupen64plus N64 emulator on PS4 Pro 5.05 PSXITArch Linux v2 Demo video HERE.
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do you have any news about the native retro arch ps4 - because its a while ago that a read somthing at twitter.
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I prefer them to make a scratch emulators only for PS4.. Not from Emulators PS2 ported to PS4. No thanks.
Seriously though, You should be grateful for what was shared. Have patience. It will come. There's enough games to play on 5.05 and PC to keep everyone busy for quite awhile.
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The proposed Birmingham University of Bell Ringing
The Birmingham University of Bell Ringing is a proposal to create a bell ringing training centre as part of a community facility in Birmingham, working in partnership with the Cadbury Barn Trust and with the support of the Friends of Manor Farm Park. The proposal is for it to be located at the entrance to Manor Park Farm providing a use for the empty and dilapidated Lodge building. It would provide a ringing training facility for the very successful Birmingham School of Bell Ringing as well as facilities available to the general public. The Council is currently consulting on the future of these buildings at Manor Farm Park with our proposal specifically considered. You can support the proposal by following this link.
The facilities in the Lodge will all be simulated bellringing, still with rope and wheel but without an actual bell on the end, along the lines of the training centre at Worcester Cathedral. It will provide facilities for individual learning and group practice.
Phase 2 of the project will see the building of The Pyramid Stage – an iconic piece of architecture that would be a talking point in its own right, complementing its setting, and adding real value to the community. Although this belltower would contain real bells, the tower would have 'variable sound control' – adjustable so that the bells are barely audible outside for practice sessions, but capable of being opened up for instance if ringing for a special occasion merited it.
Key features of the project:
* A step change in bellringing training
* Dedicated facilities for the Birmingham School of Bell Ringing
* Bell ringing training away from a church setting – opening up the art and science of change ringing to a new audience
* Use for an otherwise empty building
* Complementary use to the rest of the Manor Farm buildings
* Iconic piece of architecture at Park entrance
The Birmingham University of Bell Ringing – a game changer in teaching ringing.
George Cadbury loved bells. A visit to the famous belltower and carillon in Bruges was the inspiration for the Bournville Carillon


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Environics strengthens creative team with new hires
Julie Martinson and Ella Potyrala-Singleton join as associate creative directors.
Danny Kucharsky with files from Dan Taccone April 16, 2015
Julie Martinson and Ella Potyrala-Singleton have joined Environics Communications in Toronto as associate creative directors.
"Our firm was one of the first PR agencies in Canada to hire a creative director, and as work for our clients continues to grow, our team is growing too," said Bruce MacLellan, chairman and CEO of Environics Communications.
Both were previously at Union Advertising, where Martinson was a copywriter and Potyrala-Singleton was an art director. While at Union, they worked on various projects for Kraft Foods, Revlon and Shopper's Drug Mart.
"We feel we can compete with anyone to create razor-sharp strategies and compelling content, be it digital or analog," says creative director Stephen Creet. "Ella and Julie have insights and skills that belie their years, and we were already strong in digital creation and production."
Environics has beefed up its creative presence over the last couple years. In 2013, the firm added Creet, former CCO of BBDO Toronto and Young & Rubicam San Fransisco, as creative director.
In June 2014, Environics opened a digital marketing agency, Agnostic, with the aim of serving Environics' own clients and building its roster. Environics veterans like Andrew Kinnear (previously VP of customer experience at Delvinia Interactive) and Jonathan Litwack (previously the digital planner at Trapeze Media) moved to the new office, in addition to giving new creative hires a home.
Creet, as well as Martinson and Potyrala-Singleton are all listed on the Agnostic site masthead.


Businesses that don't control their costs don't stay in business. How well are you doing? Is everyone in your organisation sufficiently aware of costs, managing them effectively and maximising opportunities to reduce them? If there is scope for improvement, this course will help get you back on track. It will demonstrate that cost reduction is so much more than cost control and cost cutting. True cost management is about being aware of costs, seeking to reduce them through good design and efficient operating practices whilst taking continuing action on overspending.
A thoroughly practical two-day course involving exercises, formal tutorials and trainer-facilitated discussions.
For maximum benefit, this programme can be tailored to reflect your organisation's internal budgeting and control systems. The examples can also be adapted for specific business sectors. The cost reduction action plans that participants will prepare in the final session of the programme guarantee that this course will pay for itself very swiftly indeed.


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Bones Park Rider
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Promoters and venues: Thanks for booking us! Below are a few essentials to help with the pre-gig preparations (logos, publicity material, stage-set up etc). If you need anything else, just ask.
Band logos and artwork:
Click HERE for artwork. Please help yourself to any of the images for the purposes of gig posters, flyers etc. Please ask if you need support with publicity material such as poster design.
Biog:
Here's a brief summary of the band for you to use/adapt for gig publicity:
BONES PARK RIDER: "Awesome alt-punk" (Vive Le Rock).
BONES PARK RIDER are widely regarded as one of the most exciting and proficient bands to emerge from Sheffield's thriving underground music scene. Known for their fiercely energetic stage show and intelligent, skin-tight, textured songs, the seasoned four-piece conjure a rare and varied brand of alternative, high-octane rock n roll. After excellent receptions with the likes of The Beat, Dead Boys and UK Subs they recently released their loosely conceptual and highly acclaimed second album 'There But for the Grace of God' which achieved a heady 9/10 in Vive Le Rock magazine. Correspondents say they are a supreme power punk force with some of the best lyrics around today.
Album download codes or CDs are available on request (for promoters/airplay etc). You can also LISTEN TO OUR NEW ALBUM HERE.
Please feel free to use our videos as part of the event promotion. See our VIDEO VAULT for a selection of content. ('Right click' over the videos to copy the URL or embed code).
Stage Plan and Backline:
We are 4-piece band with a conventional/standard on-stage set-up:
Guitar/Vox—Lead Vox— Bass
(Front of House)
...So we require two vocal mics please.
The GUITAR cab should please be mic-ed up for the PA.
The BASS can be DI-ed from the DI tap on our bass amp.
We are happy to collaborate on backline arrangements (such as shared cabs or drums, excl. breakables). Please contact us in advance about this, so we know what's what.
Please note that we don't provide PA, lights, mics or stands - and we come equipped with backline only.


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Q: Reformatting SQL output I have data that looks like this
Name  XX YY
alpha 10 77
beta  10 90
alpha 20 72
beta  20 91
alpha 30 75
beta  30 94
alpha 40 76
beta  40 95

If I use
select * from scores order by Name, XX

I will get
Name  XX YY
alpha 10 77
alpha 20 72
alpha 30 75
alpha 40 76
beta  10 90
beta  20 91
beta  30 94
beta  40 95

At the moment, I'm retrieving the data in this form and using some C coding to format it like
Name   xx=10  xx=20  xx=30  xx=40
alpha  77     72     75     76
beta   90     91     94     95

Assuming that there will always be entries for 10, 20, 30, 40 for every name, is something like this possible in SQL without creating a new table like in SQL Reformatting table columns

A: You need to use PIVOT to get your desired results. Before using PIVOT, some customization required in your value in column XX so that the final column output can meet your expectation.
SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT Name,'XX='+CAST(XX AS VARCHAR) XX,YY
FROM your_table
)AS P
PIVOT(
    SUM(YY)
    FOR XX IN ([XX=10],[XX=20],[XX=30],[XX=40])
) PP

Output-
Name    XX=10   XX=20   XX=30   XX=40
alpha   77      72      75      76
beta    90      91      94      95

The same output can be also achieved with this following query-
SELECT Name,
[10] AS [XX=10],
[20] AS [XX=20],
[30] AS [XX=30],
[40] AS [XX=40]
FROM
(
    SELECT Name, XX,YY
    FROM your_table
)AS P
PIVOT(
    SUM(YY)
    FOR XX IN ([10],[20],[30],[40])
) PP

A: You could use dynamic PIVOT to achieve the same result which would be more robust,
CREATE TABLE #table1 (Name varchar(100), XX INT, YY INT)

INSERT INTO #table1 VALUES
('alpha',10,77),
('beta',10,90),
('alpha',20,72),
('beta',20,91),
('alpha',30,75),
('beta',30,94),
('alpha',40,76),
('beta',40,95)

DECLARE @pvt NVARCHAR(MAX) = '';
DECLARE @dynamicCol NVARCHAR(MAX) = '';

SELECT @pvt +=  ', ' +QUOTENAME([XX]) FROM #table1 GROUP BY [XX];
SELECT @dynamicCol +=  ', ' +QUOTENAME([XX]) + ' AS ' + QUOTENAME('XX=' + CAST([XX] AS VARCHAR(25))) FROM #table1 GROUP BY [XX];
SET @pvt = STUFF(@pvt,1,1,'')
SET @dynamicCol = STUFF(@dynamicCol,1,1,'')

EXEC ('
SELECT [Name],' + @dynamicCol+'
FROM #table1 a
PIVOT
(
  SUM([YY])
  FOR [XX] IN ('+ @pvt+')
) PIV');

The result is as below,
Name    XX=10   XX=20   XX=30   XX=40
alpha   77      72      75      76
beta    90      91      94      95

A: Another solution with case
SELECT Name
  ,SUM(CASE when XX = '10' then YY else 0 END) AS 'xx=10'
  ,SUM( CASE when XX = '20' then YY else 0 END) AS 'xx=20'
  ,SUM( CASE when XX = '30' then YY else 0 END) AS 'xx=30'
  ,SUM( CASE when XX = '40' then YY else 0 END) AS 'xx=40'
  FROM temp_0
  group by Name

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