Breedon Hill

Breedon Hill forms one of the most prominent features in the landscape of north-west Leicestershire, standing up 50 m above the surrounding ground. That it has been a major landmark throughout recorded history is suggested by its name, which is derived from the Celtic ‘bre’ and the Anglo-Saxon ‘dun’, both words meaning ‘hill’. Viewed from the east, the rugged vertical western quarry face is crowned by the church that looks very precarious; it stands about 70 m behind the quarry face, but looks much closer from a distance. To see the quarry and its geology at relatively close quarters, the viewing platform at the north end of the quarry should be visited. There is also a footpath that follows the quarry’s eastern rim. Quarry visits are limited to organized groups, but a few small exposures are present along the footpath from Breedon village up the western slopes of the hill

Escape -- The Struggle Between the Real and the Unreal

In this paper, Fr. McInnes relates the drug mentality and The GodShaped Vacuum to the counterfeit experience of drugs and to the necessity of religious people and the Church being prepared to reveal to young people the deeper God experiences

How to achieve sustainability : regulatory challenges

The importance of designing sustainable buildings is gaining greater acceptance worldwide. Evidence of this is how regulators are incorporating sustainable design principles into building regulations and requirements. The aim being to increase the number of sustainable buildings and move from a traditional voluntary compliance to one that is mandatory. However, developing regulations that actually achieve these aims can be a difficult exercise. Several countries in South East Asia, such as Singapore and Malaysia, have performance based building regulations that are supplemented by prescriptive measures for achieving the desired performance. Australia too has similar building regulations and has had energy efficiency regulations within the Building Code of Australia for over a decade. This paper explores some of the difficulties and problems that Australian regulators have experienced with the performance-based method and the prescriptive or “deemed-to-comply” method and measures that have been taken to try and overcome these problems. These experiences act as a useful guide to all regulators considering the incorporation of sustainable design measures into their countries building regulations. The paper also speculates on future environmental requirements being incorporated into regulations, including the possibility of non-residential buildings being required to meet minimum energy efficiency requirements, and the possible systems that would need to be in place before such requirements were included. Finally, the paper looks at a possible way forward using direct assessment from electronic designs and introduces several software tools that are currently being developed that move towards achieving this goal. Keywords: Sustainable buildings, Performance-based, Regulations, Energy efficiency, Assessment tools

The Burnside Expedition

By Ambrose E. Burnside, Late Major-General, United States Army. Personal Narratives of Events of the War of the Rebellion being papers read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society. No.6 – Second Series. 1882. Written by Ambrose Burnside and read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society on July 7, 1880, the author discusses his military expedition along the North Carolina Coast between February and June of 1862. The expedition was part of General Winfield Scott’s overall Anaconda Plan, which was aimed at closing the blockade-running ports inside the Outer Banks.https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/ri_history/1001/thumbnail.jp