Some Lesson's from a Legendary Blogger

Steve Jobs is the head of Apple Computers. The blog below is by someone who pretended to be writing Steve Jobs' Daily Blog. I think required reading for myself just in case Flintshire County Council pull up short with their traffic calming of Chester Rd, Penyfford.

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Dear Dave (Acting Flintshire Executive for Regeneration and Envirionment)

Hi there

The Rat Run has past through but still plenty of 50 mph speeders flying through

Hope you are enjoying The Eisteddfod

The Brass Bands have been very good

Buckley however didn't get far as they don't speak Welsh in Bwcle (Buckley)

I'm not sure if there if there is any Corporate Hospitality but if there is have

some smoked salmon and red wine on me the rate payer.

I bet it won't be the Tesco cheap stuff I drink.

Here is my offering from the weekend

http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.com/2007/08/three-musketeers.html

regards Colin

ps If the emails are too stressful get IT to send me an email address.

pps Someone from London keeps looking at the blog not sure if its

television, a newspaper or MI6

The Three Musketeers

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It's the school holidays. Here we have the 3 musketeers. They are opposite Penyffordd Junior School. Three cars coming down the hill. The yellow bumps are a token, modern cars can go over them fast. Locals speed up and down here taking and picking up their children to the school.

These three are part of a group of maybe ten who ride up and down this road. Chester Rd is at the bottom where cars do 50 - 60 mph. Many 100's each day. Parents are concerned they tell the children not to go into Chester Rd. Really they should be shouting at Flintshire County Council and our Councilors but they are not. (update my councilor tells me different, I ask for an update)

There should be a risk assessment of the village centre, there is not.

Six year olds do not do risk assessment, a lot of parents have too many things to think about.
Our councilors are not fully on the case.

Flintshire County Council has the data, they know how many speed. The measures currently being shown will NOT stop the speeding.

Oh, by the way, 5 year old children ( or maybe 10 yrs old) have started cycling on our 50 mph Chester Road , I have seen 2 of them this morning.
One of the children has a helmet on, these don't work with a 50 mph collision.

The 100 mph Motorbike Test

I've mentioned this before but perhaps I have a bigger audience. Rossett and Penyffordd are both
ex A roads or trunk roads now superceded by By Passes*. Penyffordd in Flintshire and Rossett in Wrexham.
A motorbike can ride through Penyffordd which is wide open and reach 100 mph before the end of the 30 mph limit.
A similar stunt in Rossett would make you brown bread dead. They have bumps and 20 mph Compulsory speed limit.
The mechanical method protects the village 24/7.
Proactive signs facing in the other direction do nothing.
Horses are ridden on this road by adults and children

* I am currently unaware of the true nature of Chester Road's designation

Old Motorcycle £800

Chirk Car Boot Sale

I'm going to concentrate on 3 new labels

At the risk of boring some.
1. Corporate Responsibility
2. FCC We have no money, all the extra money Flintshire County Council spend after telling Chester Rd, Penyffordd, there is no money left.
3. Fine Talk, this being the "vision thing" against the reality

North East Wales Border and Coast on Welsh Environment

Valuing our Environment

The Wales Spatial Plan was adopted in November 2004 and seeks to reflect the different challenges and opportunities faced in different parts of Wales. It is designed to ensure that we in the Welsh Assembly Government and others in the public, voluntary and private sectors can make the right investment decisions and interventions for the benefit of all Welsh communities and citizens.

Heritage and Culture

More needs to be done to ensure all buildings, new and existing, are sustainable. A high quality and attractive environment is crucial for environmental sustainability in addition to creating a safe environment which instils a sense of community and pride of place.

Flintshire County Council and Councilors please note, Chester Rd, Penyffordd is not a safe environment with 2000 speeders a day.

All quiet on the Western Front

Its 1300hrs, We have been in an hour an not one racing motorcycle down the by-pass. It's funny how human beings trivialise gruesome events into common phrases as in the title. The villages around Wrexham all have monuments to those lost in the First World War which were emptied of their men folk.

Buckley Band do The Eisteddfod

MBM Incineration

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As an additional safety measure, the MBM incinerated by Fibrogen does not contain any traces of spinal cord (the part of the cattle that could be infected).’ (Will our's?)

It added ‘Fibrogen have a number of very strict safety procedures in place to ensure that the ash is transported and disposed of in a safe manner. When the ash is transported to and from the plant, it is in sealed, airtight containers. It is then incinerated at 1200 degrees centigrade. The ash that remains is then transported, in sealed containers, to the landfill site where it is put into an airtight silo and covered with water to prevent any spread. It is then put into the landfill site and immediately covered with other material.’

They also noted that ‘Fibrogen regularly send samples of the ash for testing and those from the chimney beat the standards for emissions set by the environment agency. Fibrogen are currently looking at improving the standards in relation to the ash at the bottom of the grate, this is in accordance with new standards set by the European Union’.

Finally, it concluded, ‘any risk associated with the process of incinerating MBM at Glanford is less than one in 100 billion’.

Pretty long odds then by any standards. Even so, what matters is the perception of risks, and for many people it seems, statistical estimates are less convincing than what looks like real and present dangers. For good or ill then, the MBM issue goes to show yet again just how unpopular combustion is as a way of dealing with wastes of whatever kind. Maybe the technology can be improved. Certainly it must be if we are to continue with waste combustion. But, in an very competitive energy market, there is always the fear that, despite regulatory controls, corners will be cut, and errors made. In which case, given the post -BSE sensitivity of the public to health risks, the prospects for waste combustion of any type look grim.

The implications for waste strategy are clear, and might be positive if emphasis is placed instead on source reduction and recycling. But let's hope that the abandonment of municipal waste combustion and the doubts about MBM does not also undermine the UK’s green power programme.

Colin Bithell's CC Favourite Subject

Emissions from Chimneys.

Arsenic in Poultry Litter Incinerator Click here.
One of the most basic principles of incineration is that what goes in, must come out. There is no alchemy going on, so if there are toxic heavy metals like lead, mercury or arsenic going in one end, they must come out in the form of toxic ash and toxic air emissions.

Copper, iron and zinc are a particular hazard when placed in an incinerator, since they serve as catalysts for dioxin formation.
Campaign. Click here.
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Incinerators can be stopped.

• In 2005, after years of opposition, the Fibroned project in the Netherlands was stopped when the project's permit was rejected for the second time.
• In 2002, opposition to Fibrowatt's proposed "Fibromiss" incinerator in Magee, MS caused the company to leave town and try locating elsewhere in the county (Mendenhall, MS), where they have been opposed by local residents.
• Green Delaware, a grassroots environmental group in Delaware state has led the effort to ban incineration statewide in 2000, forcing Fibrowatt and other poultry waste incinerator promoters to move their plans outside of the state.
• Carl Strickler, a key player in Fibrowatt's U.S. operation (and Vice-President of the Fibrominn project) was defeated in 1998 when his previous company (Reading Energy) was kicked out of Morrisville, Pennsylvania - a small community outside of Philadelphia - when they tried to build a wood waste incinerator there in 1997.
• -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Incinerate Meat Bone South England Click here

Application to Burn waste here (PDF) Click here
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Green Peace - Click here

"Any politician who ignores the groundswell of public support for waste elimination initiatives should be reminded that Parliamentary seats are being lost on the issue of incineration, and councils changed control in Sheffield, Hull and Kidderminster as voters reject this polluting technology. Anti-incineration protests could very well make the road protests look like a dress rehearsal, as the ongoing occupation of the Basingstoke site shows. "

Anti-incineration links

England:
Defenders of the Oust Valley (DOVE)
Capel Action Group
Guildford Against Incineration
Redhill Incinerator
Basingstoke Burner Action Group
Stop Kidderminster Incinerator
RABID (Sheffield)
Sheffield Against Incineration
Byker & Newcastle Waste Group

Ireland:
No Incineration Alliance

Scotland:
Aberdeen No Incinerator Group

Wales:
Stop the Incinerator Campaign (Swansea)
Campaign Against the New Kiln (Many links to other groups )

Sources for international information:
Global Anti-Incineration Alliance

Sources for European information:
No Incinerators for Europe (Many links to other groups )

Implementation of European Council Directive 2000/76/EC on the Incineration of Waste
Click here.

Friends of The Earth - Chemical Release Inventory. Click here.

The Eisteddfod Has begun

Just looking at the highlights on the telly. Not quite my thing. The Brass Bands and The Choirs would be OK though. Flintshire County Council I think will have a Hospitality Marquee. The full works at my expense.........?

Japanese Trapdoor Pond Snails

This was an impulse buy off Ebay. This one's over an inch in length now . They grow to over three inches. Click on image to see better detail.

Colin Everett the New Chief Executive of Flintshire County Council

This is Newport County Football Club where Colin is a Director

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North Wales Safety Forum

I see the above are at The Eisteddfod. Forum member Sonia Thompson quoted "The Welsh Ambulance Trust has a passion to help reduce road deaths and become a key player in road safety education (a very large undertaking) The impact of young people dying within small knit communities is immense and if the Welsh Ambulance Service can contribute to the minimising those experiences and the loss, then that's a step in the right direction.

My thanks to Chester Chronicle.

Fine words from Sonia. Here in Chester Road we have the fine mix of children, Oap's and horses plus 60mph cars, 2000 speeders a day, the occasional 90 mph motorcycle.

Dear John

It's 2 days now and I'm still " at large". A nasty fright last night with a large knock on the door at 9.00 pm, I opened the bedroom window but it was only a friend from up the road. We have turned the house into a fortress, webcams and sensors pointing in all directions, buckets of water ready.
The traffic is quiet this morning just a few Saturday Workers and Arriva buses ploughing through the village.

regards Colin

ps. I have constructed a complaint against Flintshire County Council to give to the Police when they arrest me for sinisterly mocking Flintshire County Council and causing them stress. The complaint will point to Flintshire County Council's continued intransigence whilst Chester Road Penyffordd residents who are mainly very elderly suffer in silence and of the daily stress of unwanted traffic noise.

Spot An Arrive Alive Van Competition

As someone who drives a lot during the day I feel it a little unfair that I drive when Arrive Alive are most active. All the boy racers in their noisy cars don't have to deal with this as Arrive Alive have all gone home having their tea.
Anyway my main point is that I have gone past very few in the last 3 months.

In The Chronicle

Colin Bithell doing some grandstanding about travelers. The servers went down in the week with a momentary powercut. I start muttering about having a third world energy supplier, it turns out it was the travelers in the sub station cutting through live power lines. One of them must have known his electricity.

An armed robbery in Hawarden. It's a small estate, I have a friend there, I get Lisa to phone up to see if he's ok. he's fine. It was someone a few doors along. They even knocked around the pet dog.

A little steam pressure builds over the idea of a new town in Flintshire to deal with our UDP requirement. I have issues with Councilor Aldridge, he hogs all the money for Flint but his idea for a new town has merit. Tony Sharps CC joins him on the band wagon.

Meanwhile here in Chester Rd, Penyffordd the traffic continues to fly by fast and noisy. No sign of Flintshire County Council, Arrive Alive or North Wales Police.