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Edinburgh Building News Autumn 2016: Property
Edinburgh Architecture News Autumn 2016, Lothian Buildings, Architects, Images, Scotland, Design
Edinburgh Building News Autumn 2016
Scottish Architectural + Construction Updates July to November 2016 – East of Scotland Property
September to November 2016 Archive
Edinburgh Architecture News
Scotland's Construction Expo
Day Two features (24th):
The Women in Construction Afternoon Tea is at 2.30pm – 4pm – FREE tea, coffee and pastries.
The Sustainability Summit featuring top level speakers from BRE, Energy Savings Trust, Glasgow City Council, MEARU, Atkins and many more.
Conference Sessions with key presenters including speakers from the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre, Balfour Beatty, Transport Scotland, Institute of Civil Engineers Scotland, McTaggart and Mickel, Austin Smith: Lord, ECD Architects.
2 CPD Workshop Areas running all day with training sessions on Business Development, Marketing Tools & Skills and Sustainable Building.
120 Booth Exhibition showcasing their products and services.
Cairngorms National Park Authority Architecture Awards
22 Nov – The Cairngorms National Park Authority have moved to recognise the best design within the park area, designating a private home at Newe, Strathdon, with their top honour, reports Urban Realm.
Strathdon House by Brown + Brown Architects was praised for its 'compelling, simple design' which saw it recognized as best residential new build. Runner up was Tigh an Uillt in Nethybridge, an extension to an existing property.
HRI's Russwood offices at Newtonmore claimed top honours in the commercial category. Corndavon Bridge in Deeside picked up the infrastructure prize.
Am Fasgadh at the Highland Folk Museum, also in Newtonmore, was recognized for its place-making qualities.
Scottish Building of the Century
17 Nov – Scotland's favourite building revealed.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop will be in Dundee tomorrow to reveal the winner of the Scotstyle building of the century, as nominated by the Scottish public.
Part of the Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design, Scotstyle is one of the Festival of Architecture headline exhibitions celebrating the top 100 Scottish buildings from 1916 to 2015.
Scotland's home builders respond to review into declining home ownership
16 Nov – Responding to the findings of the Redfern review into the decline of home ownership, Homes for Scotland Chief Executive Nicola Barclay welcomed the focus on a "long-term, cross-party approach to housing issues", saying:
"The conclusions of the Redfern Review echo the joined-up approach to increasing housing supply which we are calling for in Scotland. With all political parties acknowledging the fundamental national need for more homes, the report further reinforces that the challenge of delivering more homes on the ground can only be achieved by working in partnership with all levels of government over the long term.
"It is important that we fully recognise the housing needs of our growing population, whether that be the aspiration of the majority to own their own home or by increasing access across other tenures in order to create and sustain a healthy market for all."
Tour a Unique Mezzanine Apartment in Edinburgh
16 Nov – Installing a mezzanine floor in a double-height apartment to transform it from a one-bed flat into a two-bed home. Architect Jonathan Thomas and his wife were first-time buyers. When they came across this one-bedroom flat in a 19th century former nursing home in central Edinburgh, however, Thomas tapped into some potential that possibly only an architect could spot:
Mezzanine Apartment in Edinburgh
Vote for the Best Building in Scotland
If you go to the www.foa2016.com/scotstyle website before the 18th November (this Friday) you have the opportunity of voting from a list of ten for the best building in Scotland from the last 100 years.
Buildings include Dundee Contemporary Arts by Richard Murphy Architects, The Scottish Parliament by EMBT / RMJM and the National Museum of Scotland by Benson + Forsyth.
Richard Murphy's House
Richard Murphy's own house at Hart Street Edinburgh is one of 20 to feature in the forthcoming Channel 4 RIBA / Grand Designs "House of the Year 2016" programmes.
The four week series starts on Thursday 24th November with Hart Street featuring the following week, Thursday 1st December at 9.00pm. If shortlisted for the final it will also appear on Thursday 15th December at the same time.
Carolina Cruz Guimarey. Walking In Circles
11 – 26 November
Opening: 11 November, 6 – 8 pm
The Spanish artist Carolina Cruz Guimarey will arrive in Edinburgh in order to walk. She will trace circular routes, an action vested with multiple meanings. We walk in circles when we are lost, as if trapped in an endless cycle. It is also a statement of resistance, or a reflection of nature: walking in circles while the earth turns on itself and around the sun, while the moon turns around the earth.
We walk in circles like an imprisoned dog around his house, like a protagonist in endless repetition of life and seasons. Walking in circles makes us Taoists; it keeps us from getting lost, calms our mind and heart, and allows us to rediscover meaning in meaninglessness.
Interview Room 11 is housed in Ocean Terminal, a shopping mall. This context, goal-oriented in its focus on commercial transactions, enhances Carolinas work by standing in stark contrast to the diffuse, inquisitive action of wandering with no particular goal.
In addition to circular walks, Carolina will exhibit her previous photographic works. The relationship between body and nature is central to all her photographs, where she explores the intersection of natural and human landscapes in order to create a new, hybrid universe.
This project is supported by Acción Cultural Española (PICE, Programme for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture) Furthermore, the gallery thanks for the generous help of Consulado general de España en Edimburgo
Interview Room 11
Ocean Terminal Level 1
EH6 6JJ
http://www.ir11.org.uk/
Scottish Civic Trust My Place Awards for 2017
11 Nov – The Scottish Civic Trust is calling for nominations from local civic trusts, amenity societies, community councils and other heritage or community groups around Scotland for new buildings, restoration projects, landscape designs and other placemaking projects for the annual My Place Awards. The trust is also looking for nominations for a winner of the My Place Civic Champion award.
Riccarton Mains Village
11 Nov – Planning permission in principle is being sought for an 'independent village' for students and permanent residents at Heriot-Watt Universities Riccarton Campus, reports Urban Realm. Led by landowner H&H Group Riccarton Mains Village will involve provision of 200 homes, 200 student flats, a community centre and supermarket on 12 hectares of land using designs intended to respect the area's 'rural character'.
National Galleries of Scotland Fly Through
11 Nov – fly-through of The National Galleries of Scotland redevelopment by Hoskins Architects:
Scottish National Gallery Transformation
Paul Curran appointed Chairman of the Scottish Property Federation
10 Nov – Paul Curran, Managing Director of Edinburgh-based Quartermile Developments, has been announced as the new Chairman of the Scottish Property Federation (SPF).
Succeeding current Chairman Chris Stewart, Chief Executive of the Chris Stewart Group, Paul took up his new position at the SPF's Annual Dinner at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on 10 November 2016.
Paul, as the SPF's figurehead in Scotland, will use his new position to advocate the benefits of the real estate sector to the Scottish economy but also emphasise the importance of attracting global capital to Scotland which can in turn be invested locally.
David Melhuish, director of the SPF, said:
"We are delighted to welcome Paul Curran into his new role as Chairman. Chris Stewart has done an exceptional job over the past year, raising both our profile and engagement with government, particularly on the importance of the capital markets to the Scottish real estate industry. This is something I think Paul's experience in working on large-scale developments and attracting investors to local Edinburgh developments will take forward.
"We look forward to working with Paul over the next 12 months to continue to strengthen our growth strategy set to benefit the property industry in Scotland."
Paul Curran said:
"Scotland's real estate industry contributes just under £6bn a year to the economy. Its continued growth is essential for further financial and societal benefits, including a better built environment and job creation.
"As Chairman of the SPF, over the course of the next 12 months I will focus on how we can further positively develop the industry for the nation's advantage. In particular, we need to consider how we can make development and investment in Scotland much more attractive.
"We need to secure international capital to invest in property and infrastructure across the country. This in turn will create opportunities and drive growth in our local communities.
"In addition, we will explore how the private and public sectors can work closer together to secure this type of international investment for Scotland. The impact of land tax and business rates will form part of this dialogue to help us forge a way forward.
"I'm looking forward to working with David Melhuish and the team over what will be an extremely important 12 months for Scotland's economy and the real estate sector."
Paul is responsible for both Quartermile Developments' strategic direction and the company's successful project delivery. The business is based within its flagship Edinburgh city centre development.
Quartermile has a gross development value of £650m and is expected to be completed in 2018. When finished, the development will provide Edinburgh with 1,050 apartments – of which more than 630 are already occupied and another 176 under construction – along with 370,000 sq ft of Grade A office accommodation, 65,000 sq ft of retail and leisure space and seven acres of open landscaping.
Paul has over 20 years' experience in the industry. Before joining Quartermile Developments in 2005, Paul worked as a chartered surveyor in both the public and private sector and was involved in a number of high profile developments throughout the UK.
In 2013, Paul led the corporate acquisition of Quartermile with the backing of the London-based private equity fund Moorfield.
In 2014, he was responsible for an £82m funding deal with M&G Real Estate for the speculative development of the Quartermile 3 and Quartermile 4 office buildings. This represents one of the largest forward funding deals ever achieved in Scotland.
Last year, Paul secured Edinburgh's two largest consecutive commercial pre-lets for ten years with back-to-back deals within the £50m Quartermile 4 office building.
In addition, Paul led a deal which saw the University of Edinburgh acquire the Category A-listed Surgical Hospital building in December 2015. The building will provide a home for its new interdisciplinary hub that will unite business and public policy to address societal and environmental challenges.
About Scottish Property Federation
As a membership organisation the Scottish Property Federation (SPF) is the voice of Scotland's real estate industry. Established in 2007, SPF represents 185 organisations operating in Scotland. We include among our members: property investors including major institutional funds, developers, landlords of commercial and residential property, and professional property consultants and advisers. The SPF works closely with those who advise and decide on public policy in Scotland to ensure that they are aware of the consequences of their decisions for the property industry and wider economy.
As part of the British Property Federation we also benefit from close links with the leading UK property companies and investors in the UK as well as the BPF's contacts with Westminster.
For more information, please visit http://www.scottishpropertyfederation.org.uk or follow us on Twitter @ScotPropFed
Dakota Deluxe Hotel
8 Nov – Edinburgh's 3DReid announce our recent success at The Glasgow Institute of Architects' Design Awards 2016 where the Dakota Deluxe hotel in Glasgow won top prize in the Commercial category.
Dakota Deluxe Hotel Glasgow
Maggie's Centres Buildings
7 Nov – BBC Two's Building Hope: The Maggie's Centres TV programme last night featured all Maggie's Centres including the two in Glasgow and some shots of the new one emerging at the Forth Valley designed by Garbers & James, plus a very brief interview with architect Richard Murphy about the very first Maggie's Centre, in Edinburgh, which he designed.
Calton Hill Observatory Building News
photo : Jonathon Fowler
7 Nov – Esh Border Construction are to begin work on a £3m transformation of the Calton Hill observatory, Edinburgh, later this week, realizing long-held plans to create a new restaurant and gallery space within the hilltop observatory:
City Observatory Building on Calton Hill
Carnegie Museum and Arts Centre Building
photo from architects
4 Nov – Carnegie Museum and Arts Centre Dunfermline Building by Edinburgh's Richard Murphy Architects
Scottish Civic Trust Annual Conference, 15th November, Celebrating Civic Pride
4 Nov – The next Scottish Civic Trust annual conference will showcase and celebrate the work of local civic trusts, amenity societies and heritage volunteers. The people that make up these groups work tirelessly to promote and protect local heritage, places and spaces. The conference will provide them with a platform to show what they have achieved, explain why they do it and set out the challenges and difficulties they face.
Architecture Website
4 Nov – We apologies for the downtime this week. It was due to some heavy DDOS attacks, sadly a sign of the times, security ramped up again.
The Saunders Centre wins RIAS Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture 2016
3 Nov – The Saunders Centre, Glasgow by Page\Park Architects has been awarded the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award 2016.
Building An Architectural Resource
29 Oct – Today we passed the 20,000 pages mark! That is across our four architecture websites.
Ignoring architecture and design websites – like Dezeen and designboom – our platform is the largest European architecture resource in terms of traffic.
New Appointments to Historic Environment Scotland Board
28 Oct – The Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop, today – Friday 28th October – announced the appointment of Ian Brennan and Ian Robertson as Trustees and the reappointment of Ken Thomson and Janet Brennan to the board for Historic Environment Scotland (HES).
Ian Brennan is Director of Finance and Risk at the Scottish Housing Regulator. From November 2013 until July 2016 he was a member of the Board of Glasgow Kelvin College where he chaired the Financial Control Committee. He was also a member of the Board of Cardonald College from 2005-2013 and served as vice chair from 2011 to 2013. Ian has previously held positions in higher education, the NHS and the Accounts Commission and holds a degree in Business from Strathclyde University and an MBA from the University of Glasgow.
Working for over 30 years in the international energy business, Ian Robertson has held positions at Vice President and Executive Vice President level and retired in 2014 when he was CFO and Executive Vice President for Dutch Shell's global and downstream business. He has extensive experience across many cultures of business strategy. A business management graduate and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Ian is currently working part-time, consulting on a commercial basis.
These appointments are regulated by the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland. Both appointments and reappointments for HES are non-remunerated and hold a time commitment of 20 days per year.
Building Hope: The Maggie's Centres BBC Scotland Documentary
27 Oct – Building Hope: The Maggie's Centres – tells the fascinating story of Maggie's – a unique cancer charity which began life in Edinburgh 20 years ago. In 1993, Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was told she had three months to live. On hearing this devastating news she was left to sit on a plastic chair in a hospital corridor. The only place she could find to cry was a toilet cubicle.
Building Hope: The Maggie's Centres
Sunday 6 November
BBC Two Scotland, 8.00-9.00pm
Her husband Charles Jencks, who is co-founder of the charity, said: "I think that initial shock was certainly the moment when Maggie thought we can do better than this. You don't have to suffer in a corridor on death's row having just been told that you are going to die.
"That was the moment architecture and medicine met in our minds."
Maggie, from Dumfriesshire, realised there had to be a better way and spent the last year of her life working on an idea for a cancer care centre which she hoped would change the lives of other people with cancer, as well as their family and friends. The blueprints for the original centre in Edinburgh were lying on her bed the day she died in 1995.
Maggie's family and friends were determined to turn her vision into a reality and the first centre in Scotland's capital opened just over a year after Maggie died, with her friend – and former oncology nurse, and now Maggie's Chief Executive – Laura Lee at the helm.
Since then the most prominent names in architecture have designed astonishing landmark buildings bearing her name across the UK, including London, and internationally in Japan and Hong Kong.
This BBC Scotland documentary features interviews with world-renowned architects Frank Gehry, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers.
This year Maggie's celebrates its 20th anniversary, and will soon open its 20th centre in Larbert, Forth Valley.
As well as that centre and the original Edinburgh building, other Scottish centres featured in the programme include Dundee, Lanarkshire and Glasgow.
Heart of the Campus Building News
24 Oct – Work completes on major element of £30m Glasgow Caledonian University Heart of the Campus Building by Page\Park Architects.
Pennywell and Muirhouse Civic Centre Building
23 Oct – Edinburgh City Council is considering plans to build a £26m civic centre and 160 affordable homes by Barton Willmore on the site of a dilapidated shopping centre in the Pennywell and Muirhouse area of North Edinburgh. Thirteen shops, office space, cafes and public services centred on a new civic square will be delivered by Willmott Dixon in a phased programme of work through to 2020.
Shawfield Masterplan News
23 Oct – Norr have put forward detailed plans for one of the first plots to be developed under a masterplan by Edinburgh architects 7N for Shawfield on the south bank of the River Clyde.
21st Century Homes Small Sites Programme
20 Oct – Barton Willmore have rounded off a hat-trick of submissions for The City of Edinburgh Council's 21st Century Homes Small Sites Programme with the pending submission of plans for a four storey infill block and terraced housing at Hailesland Place, Wester Hailes, reports Urban Realm.
Edinburgh Buildings Article
20 Oct – An unusual pairing – Craigentinny Marbles and Scottish Parliament Building – feature in very brief 'articles' by architect Adrian Welch, about "less-famous marvels that have yet to step out of the shadow of Britain's major landmarks":
Edinburgh Architectural Wonders
"Building Our Islands" – Outer Hebrides' Favourite Buildings to Mark Festival of Architecture 2016
Boatman's House, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis © John Maher
14 Oct – An Lanntair and The Western Isles Architects Group have been celebrating architecture in all its forms in the Outer Hebrides. From modern architecture to 17th Century ruins, the project asked people to take a look at the architecture that surrounds them. Photographer (and former Buzzcocks drummer) John Maher has been documenting the shortlisted buildings and other architectural gems for the project. Over 500 people voted for their favourite building in the islands.
Scotland Policy Conferences Keynote Seminar
The future of housing in Scotland – delivery, demand and the impact of policy
Lesley Fraser, Director for Housing, Regeneration and Welfare, The Scottish Government
Nicola Barclay, Chief Executive, Homes for Scotland; Kay Blair, Chair, Scottish Housing Regulator; Amanda Britain, Associate Director, Craigforth and Chair, CIH Scotland; Dan Cookson, Head of Research, PRS 4 Scotland; June Gilles, Head of Planning, Davidson Chalmers LLP and David Melhuish, Director, Scottish Property Federation
Douglas Cochrane, Lloyds Banking Group; David Goldie, Highland Council; Hew Edgar, RICS; Adam Lang, Shelter Scotland and James Strang, Parkhead Housing Association
Chaired by:
Kate Forbes MSP, Member, Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee
@ScotlandPolicy | This seminar is CPD certified
Timing: Morning, Wednesday, 7th December 2016
Venue: Central Edinburgh
Details on our events page
Orkney Hospital Building
image from architect
12 Oct – £60m integrated health facility to be built on the outskirts of Kirkwall secures approval from the Scottish government. The new facility has been designed by Keppie Design to incorporate a number of relocated GP practices as well as a dental surgery.
Hearts Main Stand Approval
12 Oct – Hearts Football Club has secured consent from the City of Edinburgh Council to rebuild the main stand at Tynecastle Stadium.
Hearts Main Stand
Broad Street Development News
11 Oct – Aberdeen City Council has given the green light to the transformation of Broad Street into a 'pedestrian priority' route extending Union Street to the Gallowgate/Upper Kirkgate junction.
Crewe Road Gardens Homes
11 Oct – Barton Willmore has prepared plans for a 26 home development at Crewe Road Gardens, Pilton, as part of the City of Edinburgh Council's small sites programme.
Clermiston Homes
10 Oct – The City of Edinburgh's small sites urban infill programme is continuing to bring disused land back into productive use with the submission of plans for 44 homes at Parkgrove Terrace, Clermiston.
Dundee Hilltown
10 Oct – Plans have been brought forward by Collective Architecture, Robertson Partnership Homes and Hillcrest Housing Association on behalf of Dundee City Council to regenerate Derby Street.
Cooper Cromar Practice News
7 Oct – Cooper Cromar announce, as of the 1st September 2016, the successful completion of a Management Buy Out by the existing senior management team of Steven Carroll, Simon Walsh and Graham Forsyth.
RIBA Stirling Prize 2016
7 Oct – No award for the only shortlisted entry from Scotland – Glasgow Riverside Campus building by Edinburgh's Michael Laird Architects & Reiach and Hall Architects.
DIA Awards
7 Oct – McKenzie Strickland Associates have been recognised by the Dundee Institute of Architects for their Hot Box sauna at Taymouth Marina, after picking up their best commercial project award.
Lochrin Square Office Building
6 Oct – UBS Asset Management is nearing completion of a major refurbishment of Michael Laird Architect's One Lochrin Square to provide 62,416sq/ft of Grade A office space.
Boroughmuir High School
5 Oct – CALA Homes and Michael Laird Architects have teamed up for a residential conversion of the B listed Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh, together with construction of a new build apartment block.
Build to Rent Housing Funding News
6 Oct – Scotland's Build to Rent (BTR) sector is today being boosted by the announcement of an extension to funding for the Scottish Government-supported Private Rented Sector (PRS) Champion, tasked with driving forward initiatives which could see a rapid increase in the supply at scale of new purpose-built, professionally-managed, energy-efficient properties to rent across the country.
The funding will see the work of BTR PRS Champion Gerry More, supported by a Working Party of experts, continue for a further 12 months, focusing on how such schemes could be rapidly delivered with the backing of institutional investors, offering tenants improved customer experience and choice. It will also support the launch of a dedicated Build to Rent in Scotland "opportunity" document in early 2017, outlining the potential benefits on offer to investors, local authorities, developers and other associated organisations.
More details on the Glasgow Architecture website's news page
New Portobello High School Building
5 Oct – new photo of soon-to-complete Portobello High School:
Planning system failing to deliver the homes Scots desperately need, latest statistics show
5 Oct – Responding to the publication of latest Scottish Government statistics showing the time taken to decide major housing developments was almost 18 weeks slower in Q1 2016/17 than the previous quarter, industry body Homes for Scotland's (HFS) Head of Planning Tammy Adams said:
"These figures show that Scotland's planning system is becoming less well equipped to deal with applications for major housing developments, which are key to providing the thousands of homes which our growing population desperately needs.
"The delivery of these homes should be seen as a golden thread running through the planning system but, with average decision times slowing to 48.3 weeks (three times the statutory period of 16 weeks), this is simply not the case.
"These statistics confirm the urgent need to ensure the planning system responds effectively to address Scotland's significant housing shortfall. It must do better to support the Scottish Government's aspiration to see a significant increase in home building to ensure housing requirements are met across the country – and enable it to meet the First Minister's ambition of delivering 50,000 new affordable homes over the course of this Parliament.
"HFS is committed to working with the Scottish Government and other stakeholders to get to the root cause of the problem and ensure effective solutions are identified and put into practice."
Contemporary House on the Solway Coast
4 Oct – Taigh Sonas, Kippford, Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland by Simon Winstanley Architects added. This house is sited in a rectangular natural hillside plot accessed off the main road into Kippford on the Solway Coast. Principal views range between the south-west and north-east enjoying a spectacular landscape setting of the River Urr valley and hills beyond.
Pecha Kucha EDI v.35
26 Sep – next session this coming Friday 30 Sep, for tickets follow venue link on website.
Pecha Kucha EDI v.35, 7pm, Fri 30th September 2016 @ the Epworth Hall, 25 Nicolson Square, EDI, EH8 9BX
http://www.pechakucha.org/cities/edinburgh/events/56f67893792d605f01000003
Homeowner Website Launched
26 Sep – Under One Roof, a major new free website – www.underoneroof.scot – designed to help the half million plus private flat owners in Scotland with the complex and important task of carrying out repairs to their shared properties, has recently been launched by Scottish Government Housing Minister, Kevin Stewart MSP at an event in Glasgow.
Written by Annie Flint and John Gilbert, the authors of the acclaimed Tenement Handbook originally published by the RIAS over 20 years ago, the site contains over 100 articles on flat owners' legal responsibilities towards their co-owners and over 70 technical information articles that enable owners to identify repair problems and understand quotations from builders.
More details on the Glasgow Architecture website news page.
The Under One Roof Steering Committee and The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland wish to thank Glasgow City Council, whose financial contribution and early support and promotion were so vital to this website being developed. Special thanks also go to the Factoring Commission who worked closely with the authors.
Hacking and Paterson's senior partner, Neil Watt commented;
"Hacking and Paterson is delighted to be associated with this valuable and educational website, the first of its` type. It is a fantastic reference point for anyone owning property, helping them understand what it means to be a responsible homeowner, and guiding them towards others, such as property factors, who can assist them in caring for, and retaining the value of their property".
Lorraine MacDonald, owner of Speirs Gumley, property managers of the launch venue at 33 Dalintober Street/53 Morrison Street said:
"I am delighted that this beautiful B-listed building has been chosen as the venue for the launch of this vital new website. The restoration of this building is a living example of the best practice that Under One Roof advocates, and shows just what can be achieved when owners, property managers and local authorities pull together – in this case saving this iconic Glasgow building from falling into serious disrepair. I really believe this new website will help make shared repairs and maintenance less daunting for homeowners. As property managers, we'd always advise that prevention is better – and cheaper – than cure."
Authors and Steering Group
The authors are Annie Flint BSc Housing consultant and researcher; co-author of the Tenement Handbook, Common Repair Common Sense and many other guides for owners, community organisations and professionals.
John Gilbert BSc MSc RIAS DUniv, an RIAS accredited conservation architect. John has 40 years experience of repairing, improving and maintaining tenements and a variety of housing types.
The creation of the site has been driven by a steering committee whose members include funders, technical experts and user representatives. It is chaired by the immediate Past President of the RIAS, Iain Connelly, former Chief Architect of Fife Council. The committee membership is:
• Iain Connelly (Chair), Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
• Alasdair Balfour, Royal Institute Chartered Surveyors
• Neil Baxter, Secretary, Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
• Tony Cain, Association of Local Authority Chief Housing Officers
• Tessa Clark, Changeworks
• Jocelyn Cunliffe, Conservation Convenor, Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
• Roger Curtis, Historic Environment Scotland
• Liz Dickson, Scotland's Housing Network
• Louise Glendinning, Royal Institute Chartered Surveyors
• Eleanor McAllister, Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
• Alison McDiarmid, Property Managers Association Scotland
• Frank Plowright Glasgow Factoring Commission
• Jackie Reilly, Partick Housing Association
• David Stewart, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
The new website has been promoted by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) as part of the Festival of Architecture 2016. The RIAS is a registered charity and the professional body for all of Scotland's chartered architects. It was established to benefit the people of Scotland through its endeavours to improve the built environment.
The site is sponsored by both public and private sector organisations. The wide raft of funding enables the site to remain impartial and independent. While the majority of funding comes from local authorities and the Scottish Government, private and housing association factors (property managers) are also key contributors. The site is supported by:
• Argyll and Bute Council
• City of Edinburgh Council
• Clackmannanshire Council
• Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar
• Dumfries & Galloway Council
• Dundee City Council
• E. Dunbartonshire Council
• East Ayrshire Council
• East Lothian Council
• East Renfrewshire Council
• Falkirk Council
• Fife Council
• Glasgow City Council
• Inverclyde Council
• Midlothian Council
• North Ayrshire Council
• North Lanarkshire Council
• Orkney Islands Council
• Perth & Kinross Council
• Renfrewshire Council
• Scottish Borders Council
• South Ayrshire Council
• South Lanarkshire Council
• Stirling Council
• The Highland Council
• West Dunbartonshire Council
• West Lothian Council
National and Regional Bodies:
• Glasgow & West of Scotland Housing Association
• Historic Environment Scotland
• Property Managers Association Scotland
• The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
• Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
• Scottish Government
Property Managers:
• Hacking and Paterson Property Managers
• Your Place
• Southside Housing Association
• Spiers Gumley
There are approximately 600,000 privately owned flats in Scotland, forming almost four in ten of all homes. The majority are in need of repair, many of urgent repair. One third of shared properties have no formal management support. Between one third and a half of pre1919 tenement flats are privately rented. Only one in three flat owners have a maintenance fund for their flat. Only one in three flat owners regularly maintain their roof. Over half of all flat owners only do roof repairs when it's an emergency.
Edinburgh Architectural Photographers
a rare picture of Parliament Hall Edinburgh interior:
photo © Our Dream Photography
24 Sep – Our Dream Photography added to our Edinburgh Photographers page
Scott Monument new LED lighting design and installation by KSLD:
Granton Harbour Buildings
22 Sep – Hackland + Dore submitted a new planning application earlier this month for an exciting new scheme in Granton, for Port of Leith HA:
Granton Harbour Residential Development
The Glenlivet Distillery Bridge
21 Sep – The engineers behind the design and build of The Glenlivet Distillery road-bridge in the heart of "Malt Whisky Country" in Speyside, have confirmed that the iconic structure is now ready for crossing.
Robertson Civil Engineering, who delivered the project alongside architects Archial Norr and engineers Blyth&Blyth expressed their delight with the end result.
Tony Fry, managing director of Robertson Civil Engineering said: "The fact that Chivas Brothers wanted something that was 'old style stone' has made this particular bridge so unique. It's not often we're asked to do bridges like this one, but when we are, it is a real privilege.
"Their desire to tie the structure into their brand signifier has made it a very interesting project to work on, and the end result is sure to be admired by visitors to the distillery for many years to come."
TK Maxx Edinburgh Central Shop
21 Sep – more photos with sunshine taken late yesterday afternoon:
view from north west, showing facades to St Andrew Square (left) and South St David Street (right):
view from north, showing facades detail onto St Andrew Square:
photos © Adrian Welch
TK Maxx Edinburgh St Andrew Square
Dome Edinburgh
21 Sep – photograph taken late yesterday afternoon from the north of Dome Edinburgh Restaurant:
photo © Adrian Welch
Aberdeen Aquatic Centre Building
20 Sep – The latest phase of a major sports village development has been completed: the £18.2m Aberdeen Sports Village Aquatic Centre. The new Aquatic Centre includes a 10-lane, 50m Olympic standard pool with seating for 600 spectators, and a 25m x 16.5m Olympic standard diving pool.
25 years of Richard Murphy Architects
19 Sep – Murphfest – 1 & 2 October – a celebration of 25 years of Richard Murphy Architects in Practice.
Murphfest includes an afternoon conference in the National Museum of Scotland in Chambers Street, Edinburgh, a party and an open house afternoon at Richard's home in 2B Hart Street.
The party and open house are by invitation only, but the conference is available by applying for a ticket in advance by emailing kj(at)richardmurphyarchitects.com
Disappointing news on housing as supply slips down
13 Sep – On the day MSPs were debating levels of investment for more homes, new official statistics revealed a two per cent decrease in the number of new homes completed in Scotland for 2015-16.
Responding, Karen Campbell, Director of Policy at industry body Homes for Scotland said:
"On this important day of discussion on our country's housing crisis, the Scottish Government has pointed to the 'stability' in new supply when figures actually show a decline.
"The simple fact is that whilst Scotland's population has increased to its highest ever level, the supply of housing continues to lag ever further behind.
"This is hugely disappointing news for all those looking for a new home and will place further pressure on rents and house prices as demand continues to grow.
"We want to see a return to pre-recession levels of building around 25,000 new homes a year by the end of this parliament which requires a year-on-year increase of at least ten per cent. We all have a valuable part to play in achieving this if we are to meet the diverse needs, aspirations and life journeys of all those living in Scotland."
HLM at BIM conference in Edinburgh
12 Sep – Paul Tunstall, associate at architectural practice HLM joins a panel of industry experts, architects and technology leaders at the BIM in Scotland conference in Edinburgh this month to illustrate how BIM theory can give competitive advantages to companies in Scotland.
Pecha Kucha Edinburgh
Next session is Friday 30th Sept at the Epworth Hall, 25 Nicolson Square.
Oriam at Heriot-Watt's Edinburgh Campus
e-architect's Isabelle Lomholt and Adrian Welch attended an opening event yesterday evening at Reiach and Hall Architects' latest building, Oriam, Scotland's Sports Performance Centre with speeches and a tour: building photos now online.
An Lòchran Enterprise & Research Centre Building
9 Sep – An Lòchran Enterprise & Research Centre has completed on the Inverness Campus.
The building design is by Sheppard Robson Architects, based in Glasgow.
The office, academic, business and research hub is intended to encourage collaboration.
It is for the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI).
The Inverness Campus opened in May 2015. Occupants include Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Scotland's Rural College which offers research and consultancy services.
New Brunstane.Development
9 Sep – Planning submission to build more than 1,300 homes over a 48-hectare site known as New Brunstane.
The residential development will be on greenbelt land separating Edinburgh from Musselburgh.
Developer EDI Group has lodged an application for Planning Permission in Principle to construct 1,330 houses, a school and leisure facilities. A 'parkland' setting means 23% of the land area will be green spaces.
The application is one of the key Local Development Plan (LDP) sites defined by the council and the Scottish Government.
A Proposal of Application Notice was issued back in December 2015.
EDI Group is an arms-length company of the City of Edinburgh Council and has helped develop areas such as Edinburgh Park.
West Dunbartonshire Council Office Building News
9 Sep – Work has started work on the £15.4 m West Dunbartonshire Council offices in Dumbarton.
The design by Keppie retains the A-listed facade of the historic building. New offices will be constructed by contractor Lend Lease at the rear.
Around 500 staff based at Garshake will be relocated to the offices.
The facility will include a public area with multi-use civic space, training and meeting rooms with a substantial new building to the rear containing office space.
The former Dumbarton Academy building is located in Church Street.
hub West Scotland are due to complete the works in late 2017.
The council secured a £500,000 grant to help pay for the restoration and discussions are ongoing with Historic Environment Scotland over this element of the project.
Edinburgh Development Plans 2016 Event
29 Sep – five of Edinburgh's leading development figures will be presenting their investment/development plans for the next few years:
– Andrew Kerr, Chief Executive at City of Edinburgh Council
– Eric Adair, Operations & Finance Director at The EDI Group
– Jestyn Davies, Managing Director at Murray Estates
– Alex Muirhead, Development Director at Ecosse Regeneration and
– David Peck, Managing Director at Buccleuch Property
see our events page for details.
BIM in Scotland Conference
Wednesday 21 Sep 9:30am – 4:00pm at the Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh – The Caledonian
With the aim of the Scottish Government to adopt a BIM Level 2 approach across public sector projects in Scotland by April 2017, hear the latest from industry experts, architects and technology leaders. They aim to explain what implementing BIM has done to help drive their businesses forward.
This is a free event on BIM.
See the Edinburgh Events page for more details.
Queensferry Crossing News
8 Sep – The Queensferry Crossing is on target to be opened by May 2017 and remains within its £1.35 billion budget.
Project director David Climie warned MSPs that bad weather could still make it "challenging" to hit the target and accepted there were "certain circumstances where it could be after May" though he added that "everything that can safely be done is being done".
The contract for completion of the bridge runs until June 2017. It was originally hoped the crossing could open by December 2016 but this deadline was revised when high winds forced work to stop for 25 days in April and May.
East Lothian Council Proposed Local Development Plan
8 Sep – East Lothian Council has approved a plan which sets out how it will deliver over 10,000 new homes in the next 10 years.
The finalised Proposed Local Development Plan (LDP), approved by councillors this week, sets out the council's planning strategy, sites and policies to guide and manage future development within the county.
In November 2015, councillors considered the draft Proposed LDP and approved it subject to the following amendments including plans to release sites to allow for the construction of hundreds of affordable homes.
Amendments included:
– removal of the proposal for 1,000 homes at the Goshen Farm site, plus corresponding secondary education proposal on this site;
– allocation of Dolphingstone as an allocated site for 600 houses;
– allocation of Howemire, Wallyford for 100 homes;
– allocation of land at Craighall for mixed use development;
– allocation of Dolphingstone North, Prestonpans for up to 160 homes;
– removal of safeguarded land at Longniddry South; and
– consideration of sites in the North Berwick area for employment use allocations
The LDP will be published for representations from interested parties from 19 Sep to 31 Oct.
http://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/info/204/local_development_plan/1769/local_development_plan
Photos of Key Edinburgh Buildings
8 + 7 Sep – Parliament Square arcade:
Radisson Edinburgh hotel interior space:
TK Maxx store, opened in August, the largest retail opening in the city centre since 2011:
TK Maxx Edinburgh store
City Chambers building and war memorial:
City Chambers Edinburgh Building
Advocate's Close buildings:
Advocate's Close Edinburgh Building
St Giles' Cathedral Edinburgh Building
Schools for the Future programme
6 Sep – First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited the site of the new Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh today to highlight a record year for the Scottish Government's Schools for the Future building programme.
The £1.8 billion programme will involve 112 schools being rebuilt or refurbished by 2020.
Ms Sturgeon said that twenty nine newly built or refurbished school buildings will open to pupils during this academic year, the highest number of school buildings to open in any one year since the programme began in 2009.
The announcement comes on the same day the First Minister unveils her 2016/17 Programme for Government later at Holyrood.
Scottish Borders Design Awards
6 Sep – A new sports hall in Peebles and the conversion of a cottage in Gattonside were among the winners at this year's Scottish Borders Design Awards.
Announced at a ceremony held at Scottish Borders Council headquarters yesterday, the award scheme was first established in 1984 and runs every two years. This year the awards scheme is part of the national Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design.
Organised by the council's planning and regulatory service, the purpose of the scheme is to recognise examples of good building design, educate and inspire all those involved in new developments and raise the overall standard of building design.
Scottish Borders Design Awards 2016 Winners:
Design Award for New Build (Residential): The Wave, Kirkton Manor – Commendations: Little Lindisfarne, Hawick; Maple Tree House, Darnick
Design Award for New Build (Commercial): New sports hall, Peebles High School.
Design Award for Works to an Existing Building: Blakeburn by Gattonside – Commendation: Born in the Borders, Lanton Mill
Design Award for Placemaking: Leet Haugh, Coldstream – Commendation: Old School Place, Lauder
Special Award for Conservation and Design: Marchmont House, near Polwarth
Councillor Ron Smith, SBC's executive member for planning and environment and chair of the planning and building standards committee, said: "Once again the entries for these awards have highlighted the high quality of building design right across the Scottish Borders.
"The judges have had a difficult task in selecting winners from the large number of entries. Hopefully the winning and commended designs, which are innovative, contemporary and forward thinking, will inspire future projects in the region and beyond."
A total of 30 entries were received across the various categories. The independent judging panel was chaired by Andy Millar, former SBC built and natural heritage manager, from Peebles, with David Suttie representing the Royal Town Planning Institute Scotland (RTPI) and Iain Connelly representing the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS).
Mr Millar said: "We shortlisted then visited 13 entries. Many thanks to all entrants and especially to those we met on the visits. These two days were rewarding and inspiring and the panel is pleased to announce the five awards and four commendations."
Homes for Scotland News
5 Sep – Home builders respond to approval of Edinburgh Local Development Plan
Responding to today's approval by councillors of Edinburgh's Local Development Plan, Tammy Adams, Head of Planning at industry body Homes for Scotland, said:
"Whilst this morning's meeting represents six difficult years of plan-making for our capital city, the unfortunate fact remains that the sites that have been allocated will not deliver the number of new homes that are needed quickly enough. This has obvious social and economic implications for our capital city and suggests a continuation of the 'planning by appeal' that has caused unrest in recent months.
"With the council now having an additional year to produce improved statutory guidance on infrastructure, we are concerned that this could lead to a further vacuum during which any new sites are refused as a matter of principle – rather than being welcomed as a way of better meeting housing need.
"Critically, however, with a national planning review underway, there are important lessons to be learnt from Edinburgh's experience – not least the need to identify and resolve major problems, such as the failure to fully plan for new homes and infrastructure, much earlier in the process. Otherwise it is not entirely unreasonable for people to ask 'why plan at all?'."
Scottish National Gallery Building Renewal
1 Sep – Work on a £16.8 m extension to the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh started this week after the City of Edinburgh Council formally approved the planning applications.
The planned redevelopment of the Scottish National Gallery, will triple the exhibition space available to the Scottish collection from 440m to 1320m, vastly improve visitor access and circulation throughout the SNG complex, and create a more sympathetic setting and entrance for the SNG within East Princes St Gardens.
Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice
1 Sep – The new Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, is to start on site on 12 September. It is designed by Ryder Architecture. The facility employs the Sengetun model of care which places the needs of patients and their families first. Completion is due by 2018.
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Q: Converting string to date in numpy unpack I'm learning how to extract data from links and then proceeding to graph them.
For this tutorial, I was using the yahoo dataset of a stock.
The code is as follows

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import urllib
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
import datetime

def bytespdate2num(fmt, encoding='utf-8'):
    strconverter = mdates.strpdate2num(fmt)
    def bytesconverter(b):
        s = b.decode(encoding)
        return strconverter(s)
    return bytesconverter

def graph_data(stock):
    stock_price_url = 'https://pythonprogramming.net/yahoo_finance_replacement'
    source_code = urllib.request.urlopen(stock_price_url).read().decode()

    stock_data = []
    split_source=source_code.split('\n')

    print(len(split_source))

    for line in split_source:
        split_line=line.split(',')
        if (len(split_line)==7):
            stock_data.append(line)

    date,openn,closep,highp,lowp,openp,volume=np.loadtxt(stock_data,delimiter=',',unpack=True,converters={0:bytespdate2num('%Y-%m-%d')})

    plt.plot_date(date,closep)
    plt.xlabel('x')
    plt.ylabel('y')
    plt.title('Graph')
    plt.show()

graph_data('TSLA')

The whole code is pretty easy to understand except the part of converting the string datatype into date format using bytesupdate2num function.
Is there an easier way to convert strings extracted from reading a URL into date format during numpy extraction or is there another method I can use.
Thank you

A: With a guess as to the csv format, I can use the numpy 'native' datetime dtype:
In [183]: txt = ['2020-10-23 1 2.3']*3
In [184]: txt
Out[184]: ['2020-10-23 1 2.3', '2020-10-23 1 2.3', '2020-10-23 1 2.3']

If I let genfromtxt do its own dtype conversions:
In [187]: np.genfromtxt(txt, dtype=None, encoding=None)
Out[187]:
array([('2020-10-23', 1, 2.3), ('2020-10-23', 1, 2.3),
       ('2020-10-23', 1, 2.3)],
      dtype=[('f0', '<U10'), ('f1', '<i8'), ('f2', '<f8')])

the date column is rendered as a string.
If I specify a datetime64 format:
In [188]: np.array('2020-10-23', dtype='datetime64[D]')
Out[188]: array('2020-10-23', dtype='datetime64[D]')

In [189]: np.genfromtxt(txt, dtype=['datetime64[D]',int,float], encoding=None)
Out[189]:
array([('2020-10-23', 1, 2.3), ('2020-10-23', 1, 2.3),
       ('2020-10-23', 1, 2.3)],
      dtype=[('f0', '<M8[D]'), ('f1', '<i8'), ('f2', '<f8')])

This date appears to work in plt
In [190]: plt.plot_date(_['f0'], _['f1'])

I used genfromtxt because I'm more familiar with its ability to handle dtypes.

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McNelly speaks at the STEP Ahead Awards April 21.
Jennifer McNelly took a bold stride with the first STEP Ahead Awards in 2013, highlighting real stories of women in manufacturing. She had been promoted to lead The Manufacturing Institute just the year before, and it had never recognized a segment of the industry's workforce this way.


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Report of Racist Incident Hits Suffolk DA's Desk
by Laura Plummer • November 19, 2020 • 0 Comments
Resident Lee Fich has a big back yard on Shirley Street where she likes to host socially-distanced gatherings. But according to her and her friends, their coffee talk has recently been disturbed.
Fich alleges that five separate times between July and October, a man drove by her property and shouted racial slurs at whoever was in the yard. Three of her neighbors corroborated her claim, saying they were present when it happened.
"I think it's because I have a Black Lives Matter sign," said Fich. "It's the only connection I can think of."
On one occasion, two of Fich's friends wrote down the driver's license plate number and encouraged Fich to call the police. Officers made contact with the vehicle owner on Oct. 24, according to Winthrop Police Chief Terence Delahanty.
Lee Fich stands in her yard with her Black Lives Matter sign. (Photo credit: Laura Plummer)
Based on the online police log, the Transcript was able to identify the driver as a longtime Winthrop homeowner. He spoke to us at his home on Nov. 12, when he admitted to a confrontation with Fich and her friends, but denied that it included any racial language.
"They yelled at me to slow down and I said something back," he said. "It might not have been nice, but it wasn't racial or anything. Why would I do that? There were no Black or Asian people."
The man denied seeing the Black Lives Matter sign, but added that he doesn't agree with the movement. He called the incident "a minor traffic dispute" that happens "a thousand times a day."
"There's nothing to look into," he said. "I didn't do anything wrong. Why are they making a big deal out of it?"
The retiree said that he hadn't driven by the address since the police spoke to him and told him not to.
On Nov. 3, 43 Winthrop residents sent a letter to town officials, urging them to take reports of racism seriously.
"We implore [you] to address this issue in a comprehensive and public manner, and introduce policies and practices to ensure that the public is made aware of any incidents of racism or other hateful biases that cross your desk," their email states.
On Nov. 4, Winthrop police reported the incident to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which is currently investigating reports of racist abuse by first responders in the region.
"We will be carefully reviewing each of these incidents," said DA Rachel Rollins in a statement Nov. 5. "Hate and bigotry will not be tolerated within Suffolk County and certainly not within the ranks of first responders."
The incident was also on the agenda for the Nov. 16 meeting of the Winthrop Commission on Diversity, Inclusion and Community Relations. Chief Delahanty could not discuss specifics, as the matter was still under investigation.
Commissioners voted unanimously to adopt Town Councilor Tracy Honan's Pledge against Hate and to present it to the Town Council at its Nov. 24 meeting.
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National Hydrography Dataset Plus High Resolution (NHDPlus HR) v1.0 Distribution Data Model, dated April 13, 2018. The poster shows The Catalog View, Burn Components, Annual and Monthly Precipitation and Temperatures, Flattened Data Model, 3DEP Elevation Data, NHD, and WBD.
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"Have you heard about the North Korean tunnels?" a friend asked me one day in 2014. There was panic in her voice.
When I snorted, she thrust her phone at me. I saw a video of a grey-haired man in an air force uniform, delivering a lecture in a church in Gyeongju, a city 280 km southeast of Seoul.
It turned out the video was doing the rounds on KakaoTalk, South Korea's ubiquitous messaging app and a favorite means of spreading political stories among conservative Christian groups (to which my friend belongs).
The man was retired air force general Hahn Sung-chu, a controversial right-wing activist who rose to fame that year for his claims that the ground beneath South Korea was riddled with North Korean invasion tunnels deliberately concealed by "traitors" high up in the South's political and military establishments.
Hahn had held a series of high-ranking positions in the ROK Air Force before retiring in 2010. Two years later, he began his crusade to reveal the extensive North Korean tunnel network. In 2014, the publication of his third tunnel-related book, The Treacherous Generals, gained him some traction in South Korea's mainstream media, even if much of the coverage seemed aimed at trying to debunk his claims once and for all.
What fascinated me about Hahn was the vehemence of his widely-dismissed allegations. Right-wing nationalists with long military careers in South Korea don't make a habit of disturbing the hierarchical order. Yet here was Hahn accusing his former military superiors of deliberately aiding and abetting North Korea — treason of the highest order — in the most public manner. Naturally, the government prosecuted him for libel, and he was found guilty and given a suspended sentence.
Does Hahn represent all South Korean conservatives? No — nobody does. But he commands a certain degree of influence: While his tunnel evangelism has been a thorn in the side of the conservative establishment, his allegation that current president Moon Jae-in is a communist or North Korean sympathizer is a more common mantra among fellow right-wingers.
In April, Korea Exposé met Hahn in his office in Gyeonggi Province, where he records "current affairs briefings" and other videos for his YouTube channel, to hear his take on tunnels, Park Geun-hye's impeachment and the coming North-South Korean summit.
The following interview contains Hahn's views, most of which cannot be verified, as a sample of how some South Korean conservatives view the current situation on the Korean Peninsula. They have been edited for length and clarity.
Korea Exposé: Please tell us about the tunnels.
Hahn Sung-chu: When Kim Il-sung saw how the North Vietnamese successfully used tunnels against the United States during the Vietnam War, he said, "One tunnel is more powerful than 10 nuclear bombs." In 1971, he ordered his own forces to dig tunnels [to the South]. Today, there's a checkerboard grid of tunnels under South Korea, as my dowsing-based investigations have shown.
In 2014, I published a book called The Treacherous Generals. The main culprit in covering up the existence of the tunnels was the director of the National Intelligence Service. Then there was the Army chief of staff, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the minister of national defense. The existence of the tunnels is still being covered up today.
KÉ: Wouldn't the people you named in the book consider that libel?
HSC: I was sued for libel, lost my final appeal at the Supreme Court and was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for two years. That sentence is still in force.
KÉ: What's their aim in covering up the tunnels?
HSC: There are two types of person [in the South Korean military]: Some are taking orders from North Korea and must cover up the existence of the tunnels, and some have been deceived, so they don't know.
KÉ: Did you say there are now between 24 and 28 tunnels?
HSC: Those are the ones coming straight down south. There are more tunnels connecting them laterally, and others leading up closer to the surface. They form a lattice.
KÉ: You've argued that there's a tunnel leading to the Blue House.
KÉ: Do you think Park Geun-hye knows about the tunnels?
KÉ: Park Geun-hye is in prison, Moon is president, and North Korea is about to have summit meetings with South Korea and the U.S. Where do South Korean conservatives go from here?
HSC: Conservatives now have to unite, go into the Blue House and drag out Moon Jae-in. We need a civil revolution. If we don't do that, he'll hand the country over to Kim Jong-un. Since he's a North Korean spy. Of the two people due to meet on Apr. 27, one is a man who murdered members of his own family and the other one is a fraudster who stole the presidency. I'm calling for us to enter the Blue House and remove him before Apr. 27.
The U.S. has been fooled by North Korea about its nuclear weapons for 25 years. We're appealing to it not to let itself be deceived again on Apr. 27, and to eliminate Kim Jong-un before then. We're demanding that the U.S. bomb North Korea.
KÉ: Is that why you went to the U.S. recently, to give Trump that message?
HSC: Yes. Moon and Im Jong-seok, his chief secretary, are North Korean spies, following orders of Kim Yong-chol [North Korean vice chairman for South Korean affairs] and, ultimately, Kim Jong-un. I call the Apr. 27 summit the "North-South Master-Servant Summit." Since Moon is a North Korean spy. The meeting is a huge scam and will be broadcast to the whole world.
KÉ: On what basis do you call Moon a spy?
HSC: Recently, during the Pyeongchang Olympics, he hosted Kim Yong-chol, the man who controls all North Korean spies in the South, on the 17th floor of the Walkerhill hotel [in Seoul], and had the North Korean spies within South Korea's National Intelligence Agency visit Kim to receive orders.
KÉ: What evidence do you have that NIS agents took orders from Kim Yong-chol at the Walkerhill hotel? Was a recording made?
HSC: I couldn't record it. I'm making a strategic deduction.
KÉ: How will you go about dragging Moon out of the Blue House before Apr. 27?
HSC: It will be possible if we can get 50,000 or 100,000 people who are ready to risk death for the future of their children and grandchildren. So there's a chance that it could succeed, like the French Revolution, or Yeltsin's revolution in Russia, or the Apr. 19 revolution. Nobody knows.
KÉ: Where will you get your weapons from?
KÉ: What will you do with Moon once you've dragged him out?
HSC: He'll be executed as a traitor, after being tried in a civilian court, according to Article 93 of the Criminal Act [for aiding an enemy of the state].
KÉ: And then will you hold elections to form a new government?
HSC: Yes, I suppose so. New leaders will emerge from the military and from the right-wing camp. We'll show that we're being moved by the invisible hand.
HSC: The hand of God.
KÉ: In that case, will Park Geun-hye's impeachment become void, so that she's restored to the presidency?
HSC: I think that would be the most reasonable course of action. She was illegally imprisoned through a sham impeachment, so she will be restored to power. The revolutionary leadership must decide how long her term lasts.
KÉ: What's your ideal vision for the future of the Korean Peninsula from now?
HSC: Now is the perfect time for South Korea to achieve unification, but Moon Jae-in has kicked the chance away. He's become an accomplice to North Korea in achieving reunification on its own terms.
KÉ: So what kind of unification is needed?
HSC: Absorption of North Korea by a free South Korea.
KÉ: You mean an invasion of the North by the South?
HSC: No, not an invasion. By absorption, I mean liberating the people of North Korea.
KÉ: When the North Korea regime collapses?
HSC: Letting the regime collapse by itself is one way. The other is invading the North, but 'invasion' is the wrong word. It would involve a counter-invasion northwards in the event that the North invaded the South.
KÉ: So if neither of those things happened, the status quo would have to be maintained?
HSC: Yes, all we could do is carry on as now. But now is the easiest time ever for reunification by absorption by the South.
HSC: Now Trump and John Bolton and Mike Pompeo have to solve the North Korean nuclear problem. North Korea is not likely to suddenly give away the existence and location of its nuclear weapons. It will carry on deceiving [the U.S.] as it has for the past 25 years. In that case, the U.S. still has the military option of threatening to totally destroy North Korea. At that point, South Korea could contribute to that as part of a unification strategy.
If Xi, Putin, Abe and Trump agreed on a diplomatic level that this was a golden opportunity for unification by South Korea, then I believe the invisible hand would guide events.


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The new landmark building for the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University provides students opportunities to think big, learn by doing, and show the world they take the academics of business seriously.
It creates an identity and a unified space for the Spears School, which previously had faculty and staff spread across four buildings on the OSU campus. Students now have a cool place to hang out, meet their future business partners and learn the best business practices.
The Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching and Research Center is a new project that builds on established and growing programs within the University of Central Oklahoma's College of Math & Science. The project focus is on constructing space that allows for enhanced student participation in both research and simulated work environments. In addition, there is a directed emphasis placed upon interdisciplinary interaction amongst both students and faculty.
Oklahoma Contemporary has begun construction on the state's next cultural destination, a contemporary arts center at NW 11th and Broadway in downtown Oklahoma City. The 4.6-acre arts campus will become the north gateway to downtown Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center will be home to a new 53,916 square-foot building, a renovated 9,839 square-foot historic warehouse, a three-block arts park and space for outdoor exhibitions, education programs and public performances.


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Statement of the Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson to the Development Committee of the European Parliament on 17 March 2005.
Trade is the third leg of the development triad. Actions on trade, aid and debt need to complement one another. Action on one dimension alone is not enough. Neither are all three sufficient in combination.
Mr Mandelson underlined that trade can help promote development, but only if accompanied by the right domestic policies, and only if developing countries integrate trade into a broad programme of development that includes action on infrastructure, killer diseases, education, better governance and corruption – something the Commission for Africa report, published last Friday, has unambiguously brought home. First, market opening must be properly sequenced and adapted to development situations and needs. In other words, in contrast to the neo-liberals, don't expect open markets to work like a magic wand. Second, open markets must be underpinned by an open, equitable, rules-based multilateral trading system, that has protection of the weaker nations of the world explicitly built into its rulebook and modus operandi. That principle has to become second nature to all involved in trade negotiations. Third, the creation of new opportunities to trade must be combined with the active support for building the necessary capacities to trade for the poorer countries. That means in practice - aid directed at promoting trade. 2005, with the Monterrey and United Nations reviews, with a G8 Presidency focussed on Africa, is presents a real window of opportunity for progress – in all meanings of that word. The EU must through its trade policy make a strong contribution.
On Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA's), he declared that the multilateral route is not the only route to development. We must also nurture and renew our traditional bilateral relationship with the ACP family, using the Economic Partnership Agreements under Cotonou as positive development tools. This is why he decided, in agreement with Commissioner Michel in charge of Development, to put in place a new monitoring mechanism, to check on a systematic basis what benefits our money and assistance and money is actually bringing our ACP partners in terms of capacity building. In other words, is it addressing their 'real needs'? Is there enough help available? And is it being effective in what it aims to do? Within the Commission a dedicated structure of people will be in place to review the progress of our aid programmes to our EPA partners and identify any possible bottlenecks that may arise across the whole range of programs and projects that constitute our EPA-related assistance. We have to be coherent if our aid is to be effective.
The European Council held in Brussels yesterday and today examined, among other issues, the climate change.
– developing a medium and long-term EU strategy to combat climate change, consistent with meeting the 2ºC objective. In view of the global emission reductions required, global joint efforts are needed in the coming decades, in line with the common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, including significantly enhanced aggregate reduction efforts by all economically more advanced countries.
Today the European Commission took stock of the EU legislative framework on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). During the debate, the Commission confirmed its full confidence in the existing regulatory framework on GMOs, one of the strictest in the world, which provides for a high level of scientific assessment and at the same time safeguards the consumers' right to choose. The Commission concluded that it would continue to comply fully with its legal obligations and proceed with the approval of pending authorisations as appropriate. While continuing to fulfil the responsibilities imposed on it by the EU legislative framework, the Commission has reflected on the need to develop consensus between all interested parties.
- What are the principles introduced by Directive 2001/18/EC?
- What is the procedure for authorising the placing on the market of GMOs as such or as a component in products?
- What is the procedure for authorisation of the experimental release of GMOs into the environment?
- How does the environmental risk assessment procedure work?
- Have GMOs already been authorised for release into the environment?
- Have GMOs already been approved for use in food products?
- What are the rules on co-existence between transgenic crops and traditional or organic crops?
of 15 July 2003 on transboundary movements of genetically modified organisms is attached.
For Europe to meet the Lisbon and Barcelona targets of increasing research investment and to offset the "brain drain" of recent decades, much more must be done to bring non-EU scientists into the European research area. On Wednesday the EP Civil Liberties Committee gave its backing to plans by the European Commission to create a special residence permit for non-EU researchers, although MEPs called for greater protection of rights such as family reunification and direct access to social security systems.
The aim of the draft directive is to make Europe more attractive to international researchers by offering them a renewable residence permit with some privileges which differ from a normal visa: once a scientist is invited by a host research organisation in the EU to conduct a research project for more than three months, this person would be entitled to obtain in less than 30 days a residence permit for the duration of the research project in the Member State in question, without needing to apply for a work permit.
Parliament is only being consulted on this legislation and any amendments it adopts are non-binding on the Council of Ministers. The Civil Liberties Committee, in a report by Vincent PEILLON (PES, FR), is urging that mandatory provisions be added on family reunification so that direct family members (spouse or partner, children under 21 or dependent parents) will have the right to join the researcher. The Council wants these measures to be optional for Member States. MEPs would also like the researcher and relatives to have full access to the national sickness insurance scheme. MEPs see mobility as an essential factor in the transfer of knowledge and formation of scientists' networks, so they passed an amendment to allow the visa holder to conduct part of his/her research work in another Member State. However if the researcher wishes to stay there for more than three months, the second Member State may require a new hosting agreement.
This new directive will be a small but crucial step in the achievement of the ambitious agenda set in Lisbon and Barcelona in 2002, where Member States committed themselves to invest 3% of the national GDP in research and recruit 700,000 researchers in Europe by 2010.
Louis Michel was pleased that the UK placed illegal logging on the agenda of the G8, as the practice is responsible for vast environmental damage in developing countries and impoverishes rural communities which depend on forest products for a living. It is estimated illegal logging costs governments in developing countries of an estimated €10-15bn every year in lost revenue. It is also closely associated with corruption, and serves to fuel the cycle of bribery and graft which does so much to curtail growth and prosperity in the developing world. However, Commissioner Michel expressed disappointment at the lack of new concrete outcomes.
To build on a commitment taken at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, in May 2003 the Commission published an EU Action Plan for Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT). The Action Plan sets out a new and innovative approach to tackling illegal logging, which links the push for good governance in developing countries with the legal instruments and leverage offered by the EU's own internal market.
The core components of the Action Plan are support for improved governance in wood-producing countries, and a licensing scheme to ensure only legal timber enters the EU. This licensing scheme will initially be implemented on a voluntary (but binding) basis, through a series of partnerships with wood-producing countries. Other areas where the Commission proposes action include co-operation with other major consumer markets to stop the trade illegally-harvested timber; and efforts to ensure on legally-harvested timber is sourced through public procurement contracts in the EU.


AZAM FC Head Coach Hans Van Pluijm has said his side should fully charge the battery, if they want to defeat Kenya's Gor Mahia in today's CECAFA Kagame Cup semifinal clash at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam.
The 'Ice cream makers' side kept their dreams of reaching into semis and probably into the final of the regional tournament alive, following a deserved 4-2 thumping of Rayon Sports from Rwanda.
Azam's rising striker Shaaban Chilunda netted all the goals for his team in the 19th, 33rd, 39th and 64th minute respectively but it was his last match for the club as he is expected to travel to Spain, where he is set to join Second Division side Tenerife FC on loan.
It will be a repeat of the 2015 final of the same tournament in which, Azam emerged 2-0 winners to lift their first regional title, thanks to two decisive strikes from John Bocco and Ivorian striker Kipre Tchetche.
Mighty Azam lifted the glittering trophy without conceding a goal and at the same time, ending Gor Mahia's unbeaten run in the tournament.
However, both teams have transformed a lot in terms of tactical play since they have lost key players and replaced them with new blood.
For instance, Meddie Kagere who was the main target man at Gor Mahia has been teamed up with his former opponent John Bocco at Simba, hence the match is totally unpredictable.


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Are school soda bans effective?
Banning only soda in school is not effective in reducing consumption of sugary drinks, a new study has found. In the absence of soda, students turn to other sugar-sweetened beverages such as energy, sports or juices that are available at school.
When schools banned all sugar-sweetened beverages such as energy, sports drinks and sugary fruit juices, students bought fewer of these items.
Yet, about 85% of students, regardless of what kind of policy their schools had, drank sugary beverages weekly, according to the study published this week in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. And 26 to 33% of students reported daily consumption.
"This indicates the school environment is healthier, but that kids are able to compensate in some way, whether they get it at a convenience store, home or fast food restaurants," said lead author, Daniel Taber, postdoctoral research associate at the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
State laws that restrict sugary drinks in schools have "done what they're designed to do - they can only go so far. They need to be complemented with other laws," he said.
The Institute of Medicine recommends drinking water, and limited servings of 100% fruit juices and skim or non-fat milk. The institute, an independent, nonprofit organization that gives advice to decision makers and the public, also recommends that all sugar sweetened beverages be banned from schools. This is because soda accounts for more calories than any other food or beverage groups for teens between the ages of 14 to 18.
Overall, 24 states have laws banning soda or sugary drinks from being sold in schools.
The study looked at almost 7,000 students from 40 states. They were sampled in fifth and eighth grades (2004 and 2007) about their beverage consumption habits and whether their schools permitted sodas and other sugary drinks.
"Schools are huge pieces of the puzzle, but they're not the only pieces of the puzzle," he added.
The study found that when the students' access to sugary drinks became restricted, the infrequent soda drinkers reduced their consumption. But the frequent sugary beverage drinkers increased their consumption "suggesting that heavier consumers compensated to a greater extent with increased consumption outside of school," wrote the authors.
The American Beverage Association called the paper "effectively useless," because the study looked at data from 2004 and 2007. This was before the industry made changes by only offering juice, low-fat milk and water in elementary and middle schools, according to a statement by the association.
Taber responded by saying that while many changes have taken place to provide healthier beverages, sugary drinks are still available in high schools.
"Despite the incremental progress, there is still a lot of room for improvement as we try to provide students with healthier school beverages," he said.
So once again a subject like sodas rates for the publishing of an article while bullies still assault other children at will. Sodas represent MONEY gained by corporations SELLING soda to children for corporate PROFIT. Preventing the brutal assaults of children every day is just a big COST that nobody wants to properly address, along with bullying in general.
Of course. New rule: no reporting on anything short of murder in schools while bullying is still a problem. Obviously those problems, even if schools are spending money to address them, are beneath public notice.
@JLS639 Children being ASSAULTED should rate high enough to actually get resolved, in which case there wouldn't be a priority of articles issue in the first place. Publishing an article about S-O-D-A P-O-P rather than focusing on PROTECTING children from assault trivializes the later and reveals diseased priorities.
Don't even think about reporting on either soda or bullying until the problem of ONE MILLION DEATHS PER YEAR from malaria is resolved! How DARE you trivialize ONE MILLION DEATHS PER YEAR by talking about soda or bullying? At least kids being bullied lived!
JeramieH: How dare you?! You realize that more people dies from heart disease than any other cause, and you want us to report malaria! Obviously you do not care how many people's mothers, fathers and even children die as long as CNN writes about your petty plasmodium infestation. CNN should become the Coronary News Network.
Voltairine...I don't agree. Childhood obesity increases everyday. This is life threatening. Look up the statistics of heart disease in children or the increases in diabetes. You might be amazed. Although bullying is a serious problem, it is not the only problem to be solved.
That is a DIRTY EVIL WORD. How dare anyone make a profit!!!
Hey, i am a kid who attends a small high school, I am thin bordering just barely underweight, not unhealthy, but because of this stupid law, I can't get a soda when I think it's a good enough day to treat myself to one, Ive worked for almost every electronic I have except my family's wii, and about everything else through my year round and summer jobs. It is not fair that I am punished for the wrongs of others cut around the stupid "don't single anyone out or they might feel bad" of this era and tell people they themselves have a problem and directly apply stuff to help them and not hurt everyone else without that issue! Oh no, We're worried they will ruin their self esteems, give me a break.
Wow, when something is banned in schools people buy less of it in schools. Color me stunned.
When schools and government agencies offer nutritional education and advice then follow it with bans, they're effectively saying that they never really intended for the campaign to be voluntary, they did not trust the targets of their educational efforts to make their own choices, nor do they trust that their own educational effort would have the desired effect.
What's the point of spending time and money teaching and advising to make different choices if, shortly after, you're going to deny any choices that don't conform to the advice?
Just skip straight to the ban and save time and money. Even better, have the guts to come right out and say "We know what's best for you, individual differences in diet and exercise don't matter, and we don't want you having this choice anymore."
If allowing the choice means abandoning a third of children to be obese, as it stands currently, then what do you suggest? You can't regulate good parenting. School curriculum can only go so far. Lessons at a school desk have a hard time competing with the bright red shiny sugar bomb machine.
I agree that trying to regulate what people, even children consume is a hopeless fight. Banning these things from schools is silly, but ultimately doesn't bother me that much. The idea that they want to pass more laws to restrict children from eating this stuff outside of school is just crazy.
I'd think the best approach to keeping kids, and people in general, from consuming so much sugar in their drinks would be to provide good, cheap, and readily available water. In the last ten years I've worked in places with bad water quality, and vending machines that sell soda cheaper than bottled water. The only time I usually take a sugar drink over water anymore is when it's already priced into my meal and I feel like I need to drink it or I'm wasting my money, which I realize is a silly psychological hangup, but it's there none the less.
"Wow, when something is banned in schools people buy less of it in schools. Color me stunned."
Yeah, they probably paid someone a whole bunch of money to study that and reach a conclusion. That's why government is so inept. They check their common sense at the door in the morning when they report to work.
Gee, children have all sorts of restrictions put upon them BECAUSE they are children. Attending school of some sort is mandated by state laws. Schools restrict children in many numerous ways just like parents do. So if the school is trying to teach students better nutrition and then turns around and sells sugary drinks, what do you think that the students will think?
I think it makes a huge difference – my HS had a ban on all sodas and junk food. We went from having candy bars and costco muffins in the student store, to having mini bags of gardettos. It was really sad. But I probably would have eaten a lot more crap if it had been readily available like it used to be. I say go forth with the bans.
Banning sugary drinks will make a few kids mad (such as me) but at my school we keep sugary drinks in our lockers and take them to lunch and I don't see very many sugary drinks at my school and sugary drinks keep me awake in school, I'm not an early bird and other kids aren't either so i wouldn't ban them.
Put down the sugary drink and pay attention in English class. Your lack of sentence structure is appalling. May I introduce you to the concept of the run on sentence? How about a comma? Maybe even a period?
I agree there should be a ban on sodas and sugary foods. The less wound up a kid is the more he wont fight back. Then on to the next. Times are tough and there ain't as much lunch money out there to go around.
Wouldn't it be a better measure of success to compare sugary drink consumption at a school without soda to a school with soda, instead of stating that "some kids do it daily even in a soda/free school = failure"?
Banning soda and other sugary drinks does nothing to address the underlying cause of obesity, which is bad eating habits and a lack of any sort of concept of proper nutrition. Soda alone does not make one obese– my high school had vending machines with soda and other sugary snacks and yet we did not have an obesity issue at all, likely because we were taught proper nutrition in our health class. It's far more effective to teach kids proper nutrition and good eating habits (something that will serve them well for their entire lives) than it is to not allow them to drink soda for part of the day. The study even showed that kids drank more soda outside of school when it was banned.
Me thinks the banning of sodas kid just another attempt by overzealous health nuts to save the world from fat people. Soft drinks have been around for almost a century, yet the onslaught of obesity has only occurred more recently. It's not the soft drinks...especially those sans sugar, its the crap that people eat with it. You want to blame someone or something for fat kids. Blame the schools for no PE classes. Blame the indoor video games or TV. Blame neighborhoods with no open space to play. A can of cola never made anyone obese!
I think you have some valid points Tony. But whereas soda has been around for a long time, the marketing and placement of soda at schools has been on the increase. Over the past 10 years many schools (or school boards) decided to start letting soda companies provide them with new gym equipment and scoreboards in exchange for exclusive vending rights. So the availability has increased as a result. That being said, the most likely "cause" of the child obesity epidemic is as you said: increased sedentary behavior due to lack of PE, TV, video games, etc. This behavioral trend needs to be reversed.
Baning sodas in school is not affective. Theses students obtain them wether at school or not. Diet soda are use because of the tougher acids.
Even though sugary drinks are bad for you, I think that they should allow them in schools. Kids need to learn how to be responsible for themselves, and if they are held away from sugary drinks, they will want them more when they get ahold of them. For example I have a friend who is not allowed to have soda and when he comes to my house, where I'm allowed to have soda, he drinks like three cans. If he was allowed to have it, he could handle it because if you are held from something you want it more. Therefore,I think they should allow them in schools.
I don't get it. When I went to high school in the late seventies, we didn't have access to any soda machines. The school offered milk in the cafeteria and that was it. There was one soda machine and that was in the teachers lounge. Kids were alot smaller too!
Yes, funny how that happens. Sadly, some kids will get their only lessons in healthy eating at school. So, if banning soft drinks helps them in any way, then ...why not?
And when I went to high school, we had vending machines with soda and other junk foods, yet we did not have an obesity problem in my school. We also had mandatory physical education and health classes. You can't blame poor overall health habits on a single food or drink; it's a mindset that needs to be changed.
I think sodas, sugary, artificial crap drinks should be provided in schools, markets, everywhere. Otherwise, we may risk to start being healthier and the drug companies and big corporations that provide all this junk food for us will be out of business, many people will be unemployed, people will be living longer, no money for paying them social security, etc.
As you can see, things are not as bad as they look. What is wrong with obese children?
Could it possibly be that the soda had NOTHING to do with obesity in the first place? Soda at school isn't new, however the obesity problem is growing. Until prices of healthy food go down and kids aren't always in front of the TV/Computer/Video game, just maybe the problem will go away.
I think it is ok to have sugary drinks. The people who are trying to stop it are doing the wrong thing. I think having enegy in school is right.
Banning soda and other sugary drinks in school has both positive and negative effects. The positives are that students will stay awake easily and be able to pay attention. They will also learn to be responsible with their money by knowing how much they spend on sodas each week. The bad side is that students who are more affected by sugar than others are more likely to crash in the middle of the day. Furthermore, sugary drinks cause tooth decay, and although that may not have an effect on school, it will not look very good. So, as long as students can limit how much soda they have, sugary drinks should be OK. But as soon as sugar crashes start affecting grades, it is time to get rid of the sugery drinks.
If the schools keep the ban, it's their choice. The students just need to make the choice if they take the sugary drinks into thier body. It's the students decision to ruin their health with sugary drinks or not.
Drinks are sugary and it will hurt their health you are right. But kids will not make the right choices because they are used to their parent making desitions for them. So that leads to them thinking it is ok.
it think its okay to have a sugary dirink once in a while but not during school. only because students will be over energized and to hiper during class!
I think that soda drinks should NOT be band! Bacause if people want to have a soda during school now and then, that's fine! Just don't take soda drinks!
i think schools should have the soda avaliable, but students should have to make the choice on wether or not to make the choice of eating healthy, which is a decision they will have to make in the future.
I love how they say "sugar sweetened". The truth is, these drinks are all sweetened with a laboratory created chemical known as "high fructose corn syrup". It is worse than sugar because it destroys the liver over time and gets converted into fat.
Actually, it is chemically about the same thing as regular sugar. The "high" part is a misnomer. It has no more fructose than regular sugar. The FDA makes them use that label because it contains more fructose than traditional corn extract has. It is not a lab-made. Instead, it was created by selective breeding of corn plants. Nature could have made it that way given enough time. Plants mutate in nature all the time and even create hybrids with weeds. Rye was created by "accident," for instance. It started out as an inedible weed that seemed to prefer wheat fields. As winnowing was used to sift out the rye grain, it gradually mutated to become more like wheat, and it even started to cross-breed.
Gluten and aspartame are a worse concern, and both poisons, which have no known biological role, are in high amounts in products marketed to children.
Yes. Please more stuff like this. I don't want any more responsibility in raising my child because its turned to be really, really hard.
Or get rid of diet fanatics, anti-fat fascists, and anorexic lovers.
Nothing the school bans is gonna be effective. All its gonna stop is around half of the stuff theyre trying to ban. Our school banned pop machines so people bring pop to school. Some girls have like 50 dollars worth of mtn dew in their lockers. Our school is putting so many restrictions on the dance coming up (cameras, brethalyzers, strict rules, etc.) that people are trying to get everyone to pitch in money to rent out an arena and just have a dance there thats bs free.
u can ban all the sugary drinks in the world at school but if these kids parents continue to but them sugary drinks at home ( energy drinks, sports drinks, sodas, etc. they will continue to drink them just not at school so the problem still exists it just not taking place at school.
What kids eat is ONLY the family's business. A boy can give another boy a BJ, and that is supposed to be his right, he "cannot help it," it is his body, and he gets protection to make sure he doesn't get bullied or beat to death for his choice. Likewise, a girl can be the school ho and get abortions every other month without her parents knowing, and it is her right. But let a student have a softdrink, and it is a high felony. Why doesn't their right to privacy apply here? Why the bigotry against this choice, but not the sexual ones?
My health is MY responsibility and business alone. And I think healthcare should be each person's responsibility, not the government's. If I trash my own health, I should be forced to pay for fixing it out of pocket, and if I am too poor to do that or too stupid to avoid bad choices, then I should die. It should be my right to live or die as I see fit.
I wish this blog had properly cited the study to which it refers. I can't find it, and I would like to read it for myself.


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