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Your Stories

I have had an idea for a while now that I keep trying to push away, and it keeps coming back.  So, I’ve decided to roll it out and see where it leads.  Maybe somewhere, maybe nowhere.

I want to create a resource from the stories of grief and loss borne by so many targeted parents, your stories of love for your children, your stories about the failure of the mental health system, and your stories of the failed court system.  Your stories of pain.

I know these stories far too well, because I’ve heard these stories far too often.  While each story is unique, each story is also the same, over-and-over they replay in families, the loss of children to the pathology of a narcissistic/(borderline) parent.

I want to send your stories to the APA, to child custody evaluators, to media representatives, and to state legislators, so they can hear what I hear; the grief and loss, and the enduring family tragedy of “parental alienation” that occurs surrounding divorce.

To do this, I want to compile your stories into a book that can be sent to the APA, and to custody evaluators, and to state legislators.  I want to say,

“Look.  Look at this, hear these stories.  Look at the lost love, the grief, and the nightmare of the failed mental health system and the failed legal system response to the malignancy of the parental personality pathology surrounding divorce; a child’s love that becomes twisted by the pathology of a narcissistic/(borderline) parent into unrecognizable anger, hostility, and rejection.”

Targeted parents are experiencing a form of complex trauma called “traumatic grief.”

Wikipedia: Complex Trauma

 A therapeutic approach to processing trauma is through journaling about the experience.  Being able to form the trauma experience into the structure of an organized coherent narrative – forming and telling the story – helps to heal the trauma, it helps integrate the incomprehensibility of the trauma experience.  Putting the chaotic emotions of trauma into words helps bring psychological organization to the experience, which then assists in the processing of the complex trauma experience.

But no sooner do I have these thoughts for compiling a book of stories, than sanity grabs ahold of me and says,

“What are you doing?  Are you nuts?  You already have way too much on your plate.  You can’t take on editing a collection of stories from targeted parents regarding their grief and loss, and about the failures of the mental health system and legal system.”

“They’ll send you 10, 20, 30 pages of detailed stories.  You’ll never have time to read them.  The mere attempt to compile these stories would be overwhelming.”

But, in spite of this immensely sage wisdom from my sanity, I’ve come to the conclusion that your stories need to exist, your loss needs to be recognized, your love and heartbreak needs to be heard.

So, I’ve decided to start a book project of compiling stories from targeted parents.  I have absolutely no doubt that each parent can write a full book, each of you on your own, regarding the wild roller coaster ride of tragedy created from your experiences, and many have.  My goal, however, is different.  It is to bring these stories together into a single powerful voice, each story unique, and yet all of them the same.  I want to say with these stories, “Look.  See these people.  Listen to their heartbreak.”

And I also want to give each of you a chance to begin processing your complex trauma – the traumatic grieving created by the failed responses from the mental health system and legal system to the personality pathology of your ex-spouse that has emerged through your child following the divorce.

So, I have decided to request your stories – in a very structured format.  I don’t have time to read pages and pages of each story.  There are too many of you and it is too much.

Bringing organization and structure to your story is part of your brain’s way of making sense of it.  If your experience simply spews forth, it remains disorganized and unprocessed.  I am asking that you structure your stories in a very specific way, and then to send your story to me at an email address I’m going to provide.

The Structure

The STRUCTURE is to tell your story in 11 paragraphs.

That’s all you get: 11 paragraphs total.  Your entire story in 11 paragraphs.

And here’s how these paragraphs are to be formed:

Paragraphs 1 & 2: Love and Light

In these opening two paragraphs (of 4 sentences each; that’s all you get, four sentences for each paragraph), I want you to describe the love and bonding with your children before the pathology emerged.

I want you to tell me how wonderful your children are, how much you love them, and the deep love, joy, and bonding that you shared with your children before the tragedy.  Help me to see your beautiful and wonderful children.  Tell me how your son loves peanut butter and bananas and how your daughter was so proud when she scored her soccer goal.  Let me love your children with you.

These are the paragraphs of light and love that will then devolve through paragraphs 3 through 9 into the dark night of the alienation and loss.  There is a flow.  Each story is unique, and each is the same.

Two paragraphs of 4 sentences each for love and light, that’s all you get.

This two-paragraph limitation is important, both for the processing of trauma and because that’s what the book needs, it’s not simply your story – it’s all of your stories together, each unique and yet each the same.  By each story remaining focused and structured, the love becomes accessible to the reader, the nightmare becomes accessible to the reader, and the tragedy of profound loss and grief becomes accessible to the reader.

Paragraphs 3 – 4 – 5: The Pathology’s Emergence

In three paragraphs of 4 sentences each, tell me about the pathology, how it emerged, how your beautiful children changed, how the pathology of your ex-spouse twisted your children into their anger, hostility, judgement, fearfulness, and rejection.

Tell me what happened to your children.  Tell me of their destruction.

Three paragraphs of 4 sentences each.  All of the pathology in only three paragraphs of 4 sentences each.

Paragraphs 6 & 7:  The Failed Mental Health System

Next, I want to learn about the failure of the mental health system, the failure by therapists and custody evaluators to identify the pathology and stop the pathology, and the collusion by mental health persons with enacting the pathology.

In two paragraphs of 4 sentences each, tell me about how the mental health system failed you, how no one listened, how no one saw, how no one made it stop.

Paragraphs 8 & 9: The Failed Legal System

In two paragraphs of 4 sentences each, tell me about the nightmare of the failed family courts, the financial bankruptcy created by the legal system, the endless delays, and the manipulation of the injustice system by your ex-spouse.  Tell me about the false allegations and imposed separation from your children, tell me about the unwarranted supervised visitation orders, tell me about the injustice system of the family courts.

Two paragraphs of 4 sentences each.  Hard, I know. But two paragraphs of 4 sentences each is all you get.

You can switch the order of Failed Mental Health and Failed Legal System if this order of presentation seems more appropriate to your family, but these two sections always follow the three paragraphs on the Emergence of Pathology.  You can also write less, but just not more than the structure I provide.

Paragraphs 10 & 11:  The Dark Night

In these final two paragraphs of 4 sentences each, share the dark night of your grief and loss.  Your love, your tears, your helplessness, and your grief.

Working with Structure

I understand that the limitations will be hard.  There is so much information, so much to understand in each of your stories.  How can you possibly describe the emergence of pathology in your children in only three paragraphs?  How can you possibly explain the injustice of false allegations and the nightmare of the legal system in only two paragraphs?

But that is the task.  Eleven paragraphs of 4 sentences each.

Here’s my suggestion.  Write six paragraphs on the Emergence of the Pathology.  Don’t send them.  Let them sit for a week.  Then go back and edit the six paragraphs down to four paragraphs.  Let it sit for a week, and then edit them down to three paragraphs.  This will help you in processing the trauma experience.  It will help bring psychological organization to the chaos of the trauma.

Each of your stories will be unique, and each story will be the same.  Your specific individual story may not find its way into the final product.  The universe will weave itself.  Yet your story is in all stories.

Over-and-over this pathology takes its own course in each family, and yet the stories all have the same core, the same pathology, the same failure of the mental health system and legal system.  The power is from bringing your stories together into a single voice that says, “Look.  See this.  We need to stop this.”

When you have your own unique story ready in 11 paragraphs of 4 sentences each, send your story to me at a special Gmail address just for this purpose:

I will read your stories.  If I receive enough stories, I will edit and compile them into a book of stories – all unique – yet all variants of the same story – told over-and-over again with new characters in new families.  Stories of your voice, your trauma, your helplessness, your grief and loss; abandoned by the mental health system, abandoned by the legal system.  Your stories.  In eleven paragraphs of 4 sentences each.

If this forms into a book of stories, then in my weaving of the presentation of your stories I will provide commentary on the pathology and the suffering it creates, bringing my professional voice to yours, amplifying and emphasizing your experience.

A book of stories may emerge, or it may not emerge.  This is all to the source of that which leads.  If a book of your stories emerges, what I then want to do is send this book to every Committee of the APA, to every licensing board, and to every state legislator’s office.  I want to say,

“Look.  Hear these parents.  See the sorrow, the tragedy, the pathology; over-and-over again and no one makes it stop.”

Your voices, your stories, together – all unique, and all the same.

That’s my idea that just won’t go away, a book of stories, your stories.  I have the email address to receive your stories (  Eleven paragraphs of 4 sentences each:

Paragraphs 1-2:  Light and Love

Paragraphs 3-5:  The Pathology Emerges

Paragraphs 6-7:  The Failure of Mental Health

Paragraphs 8-9:  The Failure of the Courts

Paragraphs 10-11:  The Dark Night

If nothing emerges, then the universe did not want to bring a book of stories into existence.  Still, in writing your story, in struggling to fit your story into the structure I laid out, you will be journaling about your complex trauma, bringing “cognitive mediation” to an overwhelming emotional experience. This alone will be a good thing.

If you send me a STRUCTURED story of 11 paragraphs, I will read it.  If you send me an unstructured story or a story longer than 11 paragraphs, I will not read it.  I don’t have time.  I wish I had time, but I don’t have time.  There is too much work still to be done.  With your stories, if you choose to tell me your story, you need to help me.  Structured – 11 paragraphs.

Once you complete your 11 paragraphs and send your story to me, if you then want to write your book, that becomes a “you thing.”  Turn each section into a chapter.  Write your story to full measure.  Just don’t send it to me.  I don’t have time.  I wish I had time.  I don’t.  There’s still too much work to be done.

Eleven paragraphs.  That’s all I have time to read from each of you.  There are so many of you, each story unique, and each story a variant of the same story told over-and-over again because no one is making this stop.

We will make it stop.  We can’t stop what happened to you, but we can stop it from happening to other families, other parents, other children.  Your stories can help make it stop.

But 11 paragraphs of 4 sentences each is all you get to tell your story.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Psychologist, PSY 18857

32 thoughts on “Your Stories”

  1. I’m bawling right now. Yes I can compile my story into 11 logical concise paragraphs. I am blown away by your efforts to fight the pathogen. Thank you just doesn’t seem like enough.

    1. RIGHT? HE’S and ADHD specialist.

      lol kidding….

  2. We need to work together. Ginger Gentile, the producer of the documentary is already collecting stories. In fact, in episode 4 of her you tube videos, she and her team teach targeted parents how to write their stories. Please go to Erasing for all of the information.

  3. I have so much respect for the outstanding work done by Dr Craig Childress concerning AB:PA however I believe more effective approaches to campaigning might be to:
    -high rates of child suicide and other mortality events;
    -family court induced murders of children;
    -children living without both their biological parents are much more prone to be physically and sexually abused;
    -the intergenerational aspect of the problem.
    -So much of our crime is committed by adults who as children who did not grow up with both of their parents;
    -The indirect financial cost to society of crime;
    -The direct cost to society of government services related to family breakdown such as, Family Courts, Family Violence courts, CPS, Police, Child Support Agency, income support payments, reduced income tax receipts.
    -the affect on GDP of family breakdown.

    I don’t believe that people who call the shots in our societies have any empathy for the upset and trauma experienced by the victims of the current family court system which fosters AB:PA.

  4. I am going the submit my story from the UK.

    I imagine, when the collection is used for lobbying in the USA, you’ll have to be careful how you present international stories.

    But given the commonality in the affected affected…the stories will be relevant…and representative. And you might consider saying to US lawmakers “this exists globally. Let’s lead and set an example” or an equivalent call to arms.

    TY for all your work. And this initiative

  5. I have wanted to write a book regarding our sons experience….but to be honest I am tired. This is a wonderful idea, it gives us all a chance to have a voice. Thank you. Your information throughout the years has been life saving for our family. This isn’t just about us, it never has been….its about every child who has been ripped away from the kind, loving compassionate sane parent. These children lose so much, trust, faith, innocence, they are changed forever, and many times they grow up and repeat what they have experienced….so the sickness continues. Blessings to you and every person who helps you with all you have taken on.

  6. MAY YOU BE ETERNALLY BLESSED, Dr. Childress, for being the ONLY professional and human being who TRULY understands our overwhelming, abysmal helplessness. THANK YOU for taking your precious time and energy to always take the CHAOS of AB-PA, MASTER it and bring it to ORDER. THANK YOU FOR LOVING OUR CHILDREN AS MUCH AS WE DO and for riding ahead of us on the stallion of Truth, championing for us and our children. Your encouragement and the love I have for my daughter, Sofia, are the ONLY encouragement giving me the strength to get out of bed and try another day. With so much love, gratitude and affection, Lisa Langton, Safe and Sound Foundation, Canada.

  7. I have two stories. One for myself, as a child, and one for my stepchildren. I wonder if I could do one for each as long as it follows the format?

  8. Craig,
    I have already written a book about this and it was set over a 12 year period 2000-2012. I will happily write another truncated story set in the perimeters that you have set above and making a precis of 11 paragraphs for the APA. Anything that will help.

    Since I wrote that book many interesting developments have happened. I would like to make a Sequel but don’t think I have enough material for it. ABPA wasn’t around in those days and it was set in the NM courts. I will share the most important one with you right now in that my 26 year old son (abducted/alienated at 10) admitted voluntarily to me that ‘he was made to say things that my husband and I didn’t do to them to the Judge). My elder son (very sensitive) became psychotic after the abduction – never been the same since and on strong anti-psychotic medication for this since.
    My ex is a Narc (no doubt at all) However, he was overindulged as a child – and only child spoilt rotten. I think you must include this as one of the reasons for the NPD/BPD result as an adult as well as all the other causes that you have correctly stated. Maybe rare but true.
    Yep, going to do this!

    Take care and thank you for all the wonderful work you do for trying to solve this tragic poorly understood family endemic.

    1. Hello Pamela,

      I ordered a copy of your book “Broken Lives, Broken Minds” as a result of this comment. Have read it for only a few hours yet, but I cannot believe how extremely similar your ex-husband’s alienating behavior was to my ex-husband’s, and what it did to our four children. It is truly as if these monstrous human beings are a form of failed artificial intelligence without human emotion, operating from the “Pathological Narcissist’s Manual.”

      I looked at the world differently after my husband turned on us. I had not previously realized that my normal middle-class milieu could contain such people. Saying he was a Jekyll & Hyde character does not begin to explain the shock of it. Something that I wish to point out — that I have learned in all of my thinking and reading since — is that pathological Narcissists tend to be attracted to either another such NPD type, or more commonly, to a partner who is as empathetic and caring as the Narcissist is not. Opposites attract, in this case. So the targeted/alienated parent is likely to have been one of those cannot-do-enough-for-others type of person. They may even be a grown child of a Narcissistic parent themselves, in an unfortunate re-enactment compulsion — not that this excuses the situation in the least.

      It makes this all the more surreal — that a parent/spouse so caring and compassionate should be falsely accused of child abuse. It is a double kick in the teeth — the world well and truly turns upside-down for you when you find yourself in this Twilight Zone. And yes, I too have found the Family Court system as bad as you describe. It is a terrible farce, as if they are all trained in devilry and stupidity. I kept pinching myself, saying in my own mind it could not possibly be real. But it was.

      1. I had meant to add that the whole experience of being parentally-alienated — both losing my children, and being falsely accused of abuse — hit like a major Trauma in my
        life. It was indeed. I feel as if I am a refugee from a once-normal existence (or perhaps it was never truly normal; my continual enforced doormat-hood just kept the worst of my husband’s Narcissism at bay for years).

        I liken this experience to being in a sudden war-zone, where your nearest and dearest betray you by turning you in to the enemy; you cannot work out what is worse — the heinous betrayal, or the subsequent torture. It is as if the signposts you had learned to read for meaning in life have all been tampered with. The resulting confusion is as bad as the accompanying emotional pain. Yes, this is without a doubt a major Trauma.

    2. For anyone thinking they may be a Caretaker/Empath type, and this is how they attract pathological Narcissists into their lives unknowingly, it hurts all the more to think that the better you have been, the worse you get. Appears to turn upside-down the values of our society, not to mention the old Golden Rule. I think that at least some targeted parents fall into this category.

      I recommend these books:

      “Human Magnet Syndrome” by Ross Rosenberg
      “Removing the Mask of Kindness” by Les Barbanell
      “Breaking the Addiction to Please” by Les Barbanell

      What I take from learning about this is that a move towards the middle of the Personality Spectrum of human life is the best way to go; extremes or polar positions (Pathological Narcissism at one end, Overly Empathetic Personality at the other) guarantee trouble.

      May help you; may help your children. I also recommend Juliet Butler’s story, “The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep” for a hard-hitting illustration of a relationship of the extremes: Psychopath + Empath. In this case, they happened to have been conjoined twins, and neither could simply walk away.

    3. Hello Pamela,

      I just finished reading your book. Your story had so many similarities to mine, I was astonished. Yes, I too experienced being related to as if I were invisible, or as if every valid piece of information and word of truth I offered was not seen or heard. I thought at times it was as if the professionals and I were living in a different dimension — we were not in the same reality. Truth bounced off of them while lies and deceit were welcomed with open arms. It is a very strange twisting of reality that is hard to explain to anyone who has not experienced this. The Group-Mind pathogen?

      I would be interested in knowing what has happened to date in your family situation. I recall a book on families caught in the awful “Satanic Panic” of the 1990s, and the fact that some children who had made the false allegations later recanted, while others did not.

      Craig Childress’s story idea is a good one. Dan Siegel advocates narrative therapy for trauma, which is what this is. Help yourself; help others.

      1. One more comment. Your son’s is the third case, Pamela, that I know of involving Shared Psychosis, or what has been termed “Schizophrenia” in a family with one or both parents who have Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). An uncle of mine was parentally-alienated in the 1930s (it is not a new phenomenon), never snapped out of it — quite the contrary — and then went on to marry a spouse with suspected NPD. They had a son who seemed normal in early childhood, but by early adolescence, he was psychotic. It was eventually deemed Schizophrenia, and he has wondered the streets homeless for much of his adult life so far, sometimes medicated, sometimes not.

        I always wondered whether his father’s delusional world due to parental alienation as a child
        had had an impact on him in this way. And that was long before I ever heard of the term “Parental Alienation.” Then I saw the concept touched on in your book. How many other cases might there be, where an undiscovered Shared Psychosis is at the root of such problems?

  9. Thank you for trying to bring attention to the problem some judges dismiss. Children need help emotionally when raised by this type of parent.

  10. Dr. Childress,
    I have had an idea that quite frankly I have always thought I would be able to initiate once I have the Court battle behind me… the process has delayed this initiattbut I would like to tell you I have always thought we parents should write a old fashioned letter or 11 paragraph story … put into a light blue or a light pink envelope. To make an enormous impact to the APA , as they would receive a visual imagery of the lost boys and girls .
    One color per child . Some families will have more than one color envelop with their story Per sex of child.

    Colored mailed envelopes standing out like. Sore thumb screaming read our plight!

    I don’t know if this idea can be collaborative, but I think we are both thinking about the impact of many voices being heard.
    Yours is a book of stories , mine is symbolic in nature but substantive in personal losses and trauma caused by the pathogenic ex and inept professionals and Court!
    Maybe it can be both! I thought I would send in this idea , hoping it may help.

    Tha you so much!
    Charlotte, NC

  11. Dearest Dr. Childress:

    I want to thank you for this wonderful idea you just shared with us. Although I live in Mexico and my story involves the Mexican mental health and legal systems, I still would like to participate in this idea of yours if you let me, to put out my story and that of my children, particularly the one of my son who died last May 27th in his narcissistic’s father home, alone, from a “fatal seizure” due to the neglect of the father to take care of my beloved son. I respect and will commit to the structure you give. All my gratitude and love for you and your loved ones in this Holiday Season. Yours sincerely,

    Paola Bustamante >

  12. Thank you so much, Dr. Childress! I am in! I am reading your book- An Attachment Based Model of Parental Alienation. Each page is a gift explaining what happened to our imploding family. Three therapists could not put into words what you have. I get it now and reading your book has helped heal some of my tramatic grief. Thank you so much! Rose Syroid

  13. I’m going to follow the progression of trauma and send a story from my view as a grandparent who has lost the company and love and companionship of her grandchildren, and has witnessed the grief and loss my son has endured. If it cant be used, that’s fine. Its out and on paper.
    Thanks for all the work you’ve done and continue to do.

  14. Excellent project. You will receive my story in the structured form. I have perused many good’s on the internet. You are on the very top’ including Dr Gardner. Above the genius level,for sure. Thank you, Frederick G Kaufmann

    On Dec 19, 2017 10:16 AM, “Dr. Craig Childress: Attachment Based Parental Alienati

  15. What an awesome idea.I would be honored to be included(if chosen ) in any of your endeavors that would help the future’s of all the abused children and targeted parents.
    I will attempt to do as you wish. I’m not very good at writing but as long as someone else can edit any boo boos!
    I will do my best.
    What a fabulous undertaking, thank you.

  16. Submitted today. I’ve been trying to write it for weeks now, finally just sat down and relived it. Damn it hurt.

    I hope it helps. Thank you for the opportunity to tell my story.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Developing the Dungeon through Progressive Elaboration

I'm a general manager these days, but most of my industry experience is in IT project management.  Software projects are notoriously high risk and prone to under-delivering or killing the budget.  Over the past 10 to 15 years, different approaches to structuring  software projects have come into vogue to help guide the creative process.  I always enjoy seeing how I can apply stuff learned on the day job to the night job - campaign creation.  Your campaign development is a work product.

Traditional project approaches use a structure called 'waterfall'.  All the activities of a phase are completed before moving on to the next set of activities.  In software terms, that would be identifying all the requirements for the software first, then creating designs and blueprints, then building it, then testing it, and so on.  The work product from the previous phase is an input flowing into the next phase, usually represented through a step chart (gantt chart), therefore the term 'waterfall'.  In campaign creation, you could imagine creating all the hex maps first, then maps for all the towns and cities, then descriptions of all the towns, and so on - exhausting one activity completely before moving on to the next thing.

Scrum (a type of "agile development") is focused on quickly getting a working iteration of software published, putting it in front of the customer, and moving on to the next iteration while incorporating feedback and customer insights.  If the waterfall approach had you building one large layer at a time, the Scrum approach involves a 'vertical slice of the cake' that has a snapshot of all the layers accounted for in that mini product.  In dungeon terms, imagine creating a few rooms, fully mapped and detailed and keyed and packaged, and then getting some players to experience those limited rooms.  You'd incorporate what you learned in the first game session when you prepared for the next session.  That;s a bit like a Scrum project.  I'd say most just-in-time campaign creation uses that approach.

The approach I've been taking with Taenarum involves "progressive elaboration".  There was a software project management approach championed by IBM in the late 90's called "RUP" - the rational unified process - that used progressive elaboration as a core method.  One of the driving metaphors was developing a walking skeleton, and slowly adding on to the skeleton the way a sculptor would add clay to a metal frame.

In Taenarum, I've started with expansive maps of the dungeon levels, without adding too many details - just the layouts and number of rooms.  I make some notes on the theme of the level, and a list of monsters to plug into the random stocker.  Then I use a random stocker to quickly add raw content to the rooms.  These few things give me that underlying 'metal frame' - the walking skeleton.  Sometime later I do another pass over the level, harmonizing  and rationalizing the random results to make it either coherent or interesting… (and sometimes even both).  Doors, secret doors, and other map objects get added in.  Treasure is added where appropriate - first as gross sums to balance the level, and then it gets decomposed into more interesting forms when time permits.

Here's an example.  After the first pass through the random generator, I'd have an entry like this:  Room 7, monster & treasure:  Traders.  Next it becomes a 'trader camp' with 5 traders and 800gp treasure.  On the third pass through, I decide to give the main guy a name and personality (table driven) and change the raw treasure total into something more interesting.  (Pro tip:  the ACKS book has handy tables for trade goods as replacement treasures for coins - the tables are massively useful, regardless of system).  Here's how the final room ended up looking in my notes:
7.  Trader Camp
Pillared chamber used as a camp by a party of traders led by Kyriakos of Gytheio - a handsome man with earrings and the attitude of a practical joker.
5 Traders (level 1 fighters) and 3 slaves (normal men).   Incidental weapons (spears, clubs) and leather armor
Trade goods:
6 bundles of fox pelts (90gp total)
2 casks of distilled wine (400gp total)
3 rugs (15gp total)
8 weeks of food, water (40gp value)
100gp, 1500sp
10 +1 arrows with bronze tips, carefully wrapped
I use a little excel sheet to generate hit points on the fly, and can improvise or derive combat stats as necessary, so I'd usually never put that kind of thing in my notes.

You may wonder - why bother with all those iterative passes over the same material, when I could have jumped right to creating the entry for room 7 on the first pass?  It comes down to balancing scope and detail.  The barebones version of the level, with a map and raw content, lets me improvise as necessary if the players wander farther into the dungeon than are fully prepared.  Any one of us could improvise a room like the Trader Room - the worst case is that it might slow the game down a little if you need to roll a bunch of dice at the table.  By starting with the skeletal framework, I've been able to sit down with a couple of hundred more rooms available than otherwise - Taenarum is over 300 rooms in just a few weeks of development.  The finishing details get added as time permits, or when I know there's a good chance the players will visit a given area in an upcoming session.

Back before I mused about becoming the Anti-Beedo, I was definitely a 'vertical slice of cake' kind of referee, who would have completely finished  Room 7 Trader Camp before moving on to Room 8 - I developed things serially.  Anti-Beedo wants to cover as much ground as possible, and is willing to leave the finer details ambiguous until time permits or it's necessary for clarity.  The approach is working, and I've been happy with Anti-Beedo's results so far.  I have more dungeon material in Taenarum in just a few weeks than I had in the Black City after many many months.

  1. ...And that's why I became a Business Analyst.

  2. Well begun is half done. A good BA saves a ton of grief down the road.

  3. Interesting approach. I think it makes a lot of sense.

  4. I took your idea and slammed it into a post I was writing. Thanks!

    Megadungeon Best Practices XIII

  5. I have been approaching my current mini-mega dungeon campaign in this way, although I've felt guilty about it until just now - having previously been a waterfall type.

    It seems to me this method maximizes the value of what little prep time I have.

    Many of the levels only have details for the areas nearest the level connectors - knowing that more likely than not, these are the rooms the PCs will encounter first. The closer a room is to a connector the more likely it is to have details filled-in, while the further away they are, the more likely they are to remain in the bare-bones status, possibly forever if the party never explores the level.

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  7. Just wanted to chime in and say thank you for sharing your processes. They really help energize my own thinking.

  8. Very inspiring! I've also stumbled in the past when attempting to create large dungeon levels with fully fleshed out rooms. This sounds like an interesting alternate approach.

  9. Would it possible for you to show some your iterations on the maps? I was curious as to what your layout maps look like versus the finished maps.

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Shannonville is the birthplace of Champions. Nelson circuit is one of Canada’s most commonly drifted circuits, and the track is home to some of the most exciting grassroots drift days in the country.

Ran unlike any other drift day we had ever experienced, Shannonville lets over 10 cars on track at once, with no regard to power level, car level or driving skill. Even though (depending on your perspective) it sounds scary, or even stupid, the sink or swim environment Shannonville provided has produced a ton of insane drivers over the years.

Aside from being able to do what feels like whatever you want, one of the cool opportunities a driver has participating in a track day of this format is being able to push limits and figure out what line works best.

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Drilling companies confirm work underway at West Newton-B

West Newton B location Rathlin Energy

Location of site (red triangle) and access track.

The oil and gas company, Rathlin Energy, has confirmed that it has started work at its second site in East Yorkshire.

DrillOrDrop reported on 8 April 2020 that site work appeared to have started at the West Newton-B site. But Rathlin Energy declined to respond to our questions about operations.

The company posted on its website yesterday (14 April 2020) that it was: “conducting preparatory work … in compliance with landowner and regulatory agreements, and consistent with government guidance on the COVID-19 situation.”

It added:

“Initial operations involve the completion of the access track and site along with activities that are pre-operational conditions of our Environment Agency and East Riding of Yorkshire Council (ERYC) permissions.”

This morning, Rathlin’s partners, Reabold Resources and Union Jack Oil, issued statements to shareholders.

David Bramhill, executive chairman of Union Jack Oil, said:

“We are very pleased that Rathlin are able to safely progress activities at the West Newton B site, especially in these challenging and unprecedented times.

“We anticipate West Newton to be a key driver for shareholder value during 2020 and beyond.”

Stephen Williams, Reabold’s co-chief executive, commented:

“During this period of global uncertainty and restrictions related to COVID-19, we are extremely pleased to be able to safely progress activity at the West Newton B site, where drilling will be a key driver of value for Reabold and its shareholders in 2020.  We are very excited by the potential scale and value of West Newton and look forward to providing further updates as operations move forward in due course.”

Reabold said the West Newton-B site would further appraise the hydrocarbon finds made at the nearby West Newton-A site in 2019 in the Kirkham Abbey formation. The new site would also target the deeper Cadeby formation, where oil had been encountered at West Newton-A.

Rathlin said it had informed East Riding of Yorkshire Council on 17 March that work was due to start within 14 days. The council has not published this notice on its online planning website.

West Newton B key facts and timeline

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  1. I guess the contractor has spoken to the police about the work so we expect no arrests or fines unless the activity breaches the Covid Regs?

    However, the OGA could have been pragmatic and given them some flexibilty in the timing of the development, should Rathlin have asked for it.

  2. “In compliance with landowner and regulatory agreement ….”
    What are regulatory agreements? Surely these are legal, enforceable requirements?
    An interesting admission that exploration takes place in a culture of negotiation and compromise rather than gold standard regulation.
    How will the archeological conditions be met in this particularly important part of Holderness. Is there an archeologist on site all the time they are digging the access road? (Overlooked at Crawberry Hill)
    Are the environmental conditions being met during a peak period of risk for nesting birds and amphibians. ( Numerous complaints about breaches at Crawberry Hill and WNA)
    Are traffic plans being adhered to?
    ( If so it will be a first because Rathlin and the wider industry ignore these restrictions every time)
    Once the site starts operating will HSE regulations be applied. ( Repeated breaches at CH and WNA)
    Will emission and pollution regulations be adhered to?( They we’re not at CH and serious breaches at WNA we’re the reason why Rathlin had to stop all operations.)

    • Johhn Mager

      All environmental and HSE regulatory requirements are legal (none are illegal? ), and they are enforceable (under the section titled enforcement in the relevant regs and or overarching Acts).

      Re a culture of negotiation and compromise, I would draw your attention to two relevant guides.

      The enforcement of the HSE and EA regulations apply to a large number of UK operations, including the onshore oil and gas industry as well as civil engineering (as building a roadway to a well site is a civil engineering task ).

      For those with an interest in both HS legislation i would recommend a read of the article below

      the article explores why the Robens Committee felt the need to emphasise a turn to greater self-regulation and non-prescriptive law, rather than more detailed regulation or more vigorous enforcement of the existing legal provisions……..

      Hence i do not see that there is an admission of a culture of negotiation and compromise (sic) as the regulations as they are, and in the case of safety regulations, have been that way since the 1970s. More the regulations are as they are, and admissions are as a reult of lack of knowledge?

      An example of the way the Safety regulations are being enforced is linked below. As this relates to pressure vessels and lifting equipment it is likely to be relevant during construction of th road should anything require lifting.

      It is worth noting that the HSE say how they will approach the issue.

      HSE will adopt a pragmatic and proportionate approach towards enforcement action for non-compliance with statutory requirements which are directly attributable to the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

      Our usual enforcement response will be to take no action if the only failing is that TE&T is not carried out by the required date.

      Equipment should only be used outside of its test regime if you can demonstrate that it is critical for essential work and that it can still be operated safely.

      You must be able to demonstrate that you have made all reasonable attempts to have the TE&T carried out, made a thorough assessment of the increased risk and taken appropriate action to manage it.

      Happy to take questions on any of that.

      I would note that the issues raised (archaeological, environmental, traffic plans etc ) are as relevant for H2S and the Lincoln bypass (which continues to be worked) as a very small road in Yorkshire.

      Plus, we still do no know if they will start bolting the drilling package together during the lockdown, or are just completing the civils.

      • Flippant and personal responses as usual Martin. You haven’t a clue about my experience and professional record and especially not for the local residents at WN who were successful in closing down WN precisely because of their detailed professional knowledge, experiemce and reputations.
        Stick to the facts. This is a cowboy operation in a cowboy industry with a long history of accidents and breaches of regulations.

        • Don’t think I made any reference to your experience and professional record, Jon, so how can I have made any personal response? Are you suggesting you are the sole individual objecting, or has objected at WN? Facts?

          If you want to suggest UK on shore oil and gas is a cowboy industry with a long history of accidents and breaches of regulations, that is your choice. However, most will recognise that is NOT the reality. Indeed, my “flippant” comment about farmers would direct many to understand there are industries which do have a much worse record, yet are accepted as essential for our well being, and controls are applied to keep the standards as high as possible. Often some will observe “breaches” in that industry-usually those who are Nimbys or just have no knowledge of the industry- that many will also observe and find totally acceptable. I know MANY farmers who “enjoyed” the visit of the EA knowing that an infringement would have to be found and recorded, however minor, to justify that a thorough inspection had taken place. They knew it, the EA person knew it, but that was the reality. It certainly did NOT make that farmer a cowboy farmer. Facts?

          Doesn’t seem to me that WN is closed down currently. “Work underway” seems pretty concise. And it was NOT “the” local residents at WN, but a few of them. Facts?

          Maybe not wise to suggest sticking to facts, when it is yourself who has just driven a coach and horses through them and left the evidence for all to observe.

          • Thank you for apologising for suggesting that I am not one of the ” not a few who have no experience and no record of being able to do better themselves”. Why make such personal comments in the first place?
            Not sure why you keep persist in going on about farmers.

            The first vehicle to approach the Crawberry Hill site when it reopened was owned by the farmer who leased the site.
            1. It approached from the wrong direction. Breach of the Traffic Management Plan
            2 It did not stop at the entrance. Breach of the Traffic Management plan and breach of the HSE guidance for agricultural vehicles.
            3. There was no banksman employed by Rathlin to supervise vehicle access to the site. Breach of the traffic management plan.
            4. A Protector standing by the gate of the site was knocked down and was taken to hospital.
            5. The driver was told by the police to go home and have a cup of tea.
            6. There was no inspection of the vehicle or check of its service record before it resumed work on the site a few hours later.

            Some farmers do not take environmental regulations seriously, many do care for wildlife.
            Some farmers have a lax attitude to HSE at work , most don’t.
            I am not clear how lack of concern for nesting birds or amphibians supports the oil and gas exploration industry in East Yorkshire.

            • No, I did not apologise, simply because there was nothing to apologise for! You changed my text to try and manufacture a grievance. That was your choice, not mine. Perhaps not the best signal of how you approach this subject?

              Why do I persist in going on about farmers? I thought it was obvious. They operate in the same area as this site. They conduct a lot of their field work in the Spring. They have the same wildlife considerations, and they manage their operations GENERALLY in a way that supports the wildlife as much as they can whilst doing so. Both have regulations they have to follow in these respects. Certainly better than those who wish to disturb the area to make their protests, who follow few regulations and whinge continuously about anyone who tries to say they should.

              Wildlife and on shore oil and gas sites are shown to be very comfortable together. There is good experience of that within the UK. You can even check out DoD for references to buzzards and butterflies-not from me, but from Ruth! Or, take a visit to Europe’s largest on shore active oil field, in the UK. There is also a very good history of health and safety with regard to UK on shore oil and gas sites, certainly superior to most countries that export oil and gas to UK currently. Yet, you claim it is a cowboy industry.

              You have your viewpoint, but it is quite different to others I can quote. Like a colleague who lived in a rural setting opposite an oil exploration site. I met with him in his home and asked how he was getting on with his new neighbours. Fine, he told me. A little bit of “lights at night”, as he put it, but no worse than he was used to from the local farm completing harvesting. A bit of a “hum” during drilling, but similar in his opinion to the hum he experienced from the local grain drier. He ate bread so he expected farmers to do their job to help produce it, he lived in the countryside with oil fired central heating so expected someone to do their job to enable him to be provided with the fuel he needed for heating and the fuel he needed for transport to run his business.

              Or, a lady who worked with me in Lincolnshire. She travelled to the office each day and drove past an active oil site, but had no clue it was even there. Maybe she would have, if she had lived there when it was first built, but then she lived in a new house in a neighbouring village that was built afterwards-and probably disturbed more wildlife during construction than the oil site. But, soon after construction, the wildlife returned.

              I still remember the false claims of rare snails to try and halt the Newbury bypass. They were re-housed at vast expense to tax payers, and then found to be as common as muck! Protestors have their own cowboy history. All those trees to be cut down-but more were planted to replace. Disturbance of wildlife? Yet, red kites have now used the A34 as a “corridor” to spread their way back to some southern counties that had not seen them for many years.

              “Cowboy” industries are emotive, but usually not supported by any significant data. The River Test has remained pristine in terms of any oil pollution whilst it has had a neighbouring oil extraction site at Stockbridge for many years. The last pollution scare I noted for the River Itchen was pollution that was tracked back to a salad washing facility! And the final irony is that the salmon run for both is ASSISTED by the oil refinery at Fawley helping to CLEAN the water in the Solent that the salmon swim through to enter both the Test and the Itchen.

              • There were many claims of breaches of safety, environmental and planning regulations and that Rathlin were a cowboy outfit during the work activities to drill the West Newton ‘A-2’ well.

                As a local resident I feel that it is vitally important to separate fact from fiction.

                Out of the various claims to the HSE of unsafe working practices on the site, only one was found. That being the method used for lowering a vent pipe during demobilisation of equipment used by a contract company to install the conductor casing.

                Tachographs displayed no evidence of speeding or other driver infringements. No vehicles or trailers where found to be unroadworthy. Police and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency inspections found a couple of minor advisory faults on only one trailer, no enforcement action was necessary.

                A number of different Compliance Officers from the Environment Agency visited the drilling site on several occasions as part of both scheduled and unplanned visits, no compliance issues found.

                • In 2016 Cuadrilla stated on their website,

                  ‘in accordance with the planning consent well plugging and site restoration work will be carried out after the wintering bird’s season, ending 31st March 2016 and before the deadline set by Lancashire County Council of 31st October 2016.’

                  That did not happened.

                  No reason given. A Biological Heritage site that could and should have been restored.

                  ‘Wildlife and on shore oil and gas sites are shown to be very comfortable together’

                • But, you have conflated Cuadrilla with many other sites, that are bog standard oil and gas, jP!!

                  Wonder why? Nobody will notice? Oh yes they did.

                  (By the way, has the site been restored?)

                • An example of an onshore oil site living in harmony with nature.

                  I note that while Cuadrilla breached their planning consents, I do not see evidence that there drilling affected the birds, and would ask if the still site is part of a biological heritage site or adjacent to one.

                  Good pictures can be seen below, though the story should be read with a pinch of salt, the oil field was fracked ( not HPHV Shale stuff ) and operates in harmony with its surroundings. The coal fired power station is still there and operational ( though not for long ).

                  So, there are examples of oil and gas fields living in harmony with nature, examples of operators breaching planning consents and presumably examples of where such sites do not.

                  Meanwhile I expect ( once the pandemic is over ), that onshore wind will be rammed through the planning process, though we need a few thousand of them to replace the power station. Whether It is in the teeth of local opposition or not is yet to be seen. Lots of good civil business to be had by civils building them, and a fair amount maintaining them.

                  Tho like Scottish wind farms, a lot of roads need building across land ( and good agricultural stuff in Lincs ) to install them.

                  Here is a I Tube video …. Constructing a wind farm base. Quite rightly so local companies are quite supportive if hundreds of these get built ( or thousands ).

      • Thank you very much for taking the time to provide a detailed response to my comments.
        Thank you for providing the analysis of the evolution of HSE culture in the UK which appears to bear out all I have observed in my engagement with the HSE during the Rathlin operations in East Yorkshire and Third Energy in Ryedale.
        In contrast to the repeated claims by Ministers, MPs, local planning officers and local councillors that the oil and gas onshore exploration industry is highly regulated and works to a “Gold Standard” the reality is self regulation and a marked reluctance by HSE officials to intervene when breaches occur and are reported with photographic evidence,
        Having been required to undergo annual HSE training and certification as the named senior executive responsible for thousands of employees I found the lax approach to safe working practices at West Newton and Crawberry Hill extremely concerning, not only for the workers employed but for the public because of the wider risks arising from gas exploration and production.
        Having worked in Aberdeen for several years I know something of the human consequences of a foreseeable and preventable disaster like Piper Alpha.
        Events at Cuadrilla’s first drilling site showed a contempt for the regulators.
        You are right to highlight the collaborative and self-regulating philosophy underpinning HSE culture. My experience is that this is not appropriate for the current onshore oil and gas exploration industry in the UK.

          • I do not disagree with any of the points you make but what you need to explain is why Rathlin were forced to stop work at West Newton A and why they had to abandon Crawberry Hill.
            You might also want to check why there have never been unannounced inspections by the EA or HSE when I challenged them directly on this issue.
            If you care to examine the Inspectorate sites for prisons or school you will see a description of the arrangements for unannounced inspections where there are reports concerning safety.
            May I suggest that an oil and gas exploration site is potentially a much more dangerous place an indeed the reason given for not having unannounced inspections is that it would not be safe to do so. Inspectors phone before they visit and the site is then shut down for safety reasons – so the reported operational breaches like workers climbing the rig without safety harnesses, working without any PPE etc or venting of gas cannot be observed.

            • According to the minutes from the community liaison meetings, the EA and HSE made regular visits to the West Newton site, including planned and unplanned ones during 2019.

              A quick read of the CAR documents on the EA website also indicate that the site was operational on many of the visits.

              Going back to 2014 site operations is interesting. This is taken from the HSE report following their investigation regarding the complaint of unsafe working at height on the workover rig (not wearing a safety harness) lodged under the name of Joe Public, by email with a video clip attached.

              The investigation included a site visit on the 17/10/2014 and interviews with the complainant, another witness and the main duty holders.

              The investigation concluded that only the derrick man knew for certain whether he was safely attached to the fall arrest equipment, but the evidence available supported the conclusion that he probably was.

  3. I see every year farmers on the roads who deviate slightly from what would be Gold Standard. Quite normal.

    There are plenty of organisations to determine whether any slight deviations are okay, or not, with much greater levels of knowledge and independence than so called “observers”, who have not exactly shown themselves to be very good at the job, let alone impartial.
    Nesting birds? Hmm. Seems it is okay for antis to prance about dressed up as owls.

    And as for Mr. Musk and amphibians! OMG.

    Nope, same rules and interpretation apply to all, and need the appropriate bodies to oversee, not a few who have no experience and no record of being able to do better themselves.

  4. Jon Mager

    There are a few conversations going on here so I will try and reply to those not in play.

    How worried should one be?

    The West Newton Site , as any onshore site has a mix of parts which deliver the whole. A part of the operation is exclusively oil and gas, a fair amount is not.

    Building the track.

    Whoever is building that will be a civils company contracted by Rathlin. What you see going on should be a reflection of the local HSE standard of construction for SMEs.

    Rathlin have a duty of care to ensure contractors comply with the law, but they ( presumably ) hire locally and the Safety culture that turns up reflects local conditions.

    Hence concerns relating to Health and safety due to that activity should be no more or less than any relating to work carried out for non oil and gas companies.

    Traffic management

    As a planning condition this is a generic requirement for many non O& G sites. Typically, as Martin has noted, for house building sites. The TMP for the three house building sites in our village is regularly flouted ( lorries speeding, on pavements, wrong way, wrong time, no wheel washers). A vexing issue for the parish council. One company has access to the site without going through the village, the other two have to go through The village. The troublesome 2 have building permission via a review.

    Traffic management is a local issue and reflects the local safety culture and acceptance of risk by what are in general local drivers. The employing company has a duty to enforce it, but on balance suspect that what you get is a reflection of the local culture .

    For drilling equipment a number of contractors haul this, a few up the road from where I live. They haul a variety of loads all over the UK as well, and follow ( or not it would seem ) traffic management plans.

    Hence the risks from O&G are no more or less than any development requiring one,

    If the site eventually produced loads of oil, and truck it off site, you would expect that regular drivers of oil lorries would be fully compliant with all relevant rules ( while more itinerant ones may make the odd mistake ).

    I wonder how UKOG are getting on?I

    This may look like statement of the obvious, but the issues above are well aired here on DoD. Primarily in my mind because they are generic issues to all developments ( and not subject to O&G specific regulation), resulting in a war of words between those against hydrocarbon development at all costs and those who focus on the specific risks O&G developments present.

    Happy for anyone to disagree.

    Next, more specific thoughts closer to the site, but general legislation to look at first ( WAH for sure ) and my thoughts on why un announced inspections do not do much in relation to O&G sites onshore ( and certainly offshore ), and why they work for schools and prisons.I

    Here is a link to a pdf . It discusses the improvements to Safety following piper alpha. See page 144 ( download the report not everything, the page 144 is a few pages in and a short read) which looks at the pre piper alpha regime. This was prescriptive, regulated by the poacher ( the DOE ) and understaffed. It was not in line with HSWA.

    Due to Piper Alpha the offshore O&G industry moved to a goal setting, Safety Case \ HSWA type regulation.

    • Have you been present on a daily basis when an exploration site is set up?
      More importantly have you been present when drilling equipment is mobilised on and off the site?

      When the rural setting of sites in East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire is taken in to account the construction involved is on an unprecedented scale which cannot be compared to a housing development.
      In addition, according to sworn statements of truth made by Ineos to the High Court the loads carried are highly dangerous, not just sand, cement, aggregate and some steel.

      Your comments about the arrangements for actually digging the access road may be correct but from the point of view of regulations it is Rathlin who hold the licence and the planning permission and they have overall responsibility for adherence. Not that this does much to protect the local residents, including small villages like Sproatley, because as you have pointed out, the regulations rely largely on self-reporting.
      It should also be noted that HSE have stressed they are only responsible for what happens on the site, not any accidents or spills on the roads to and from.

      There are two general objections to oil and gas exploration in the UK.

      It involves industrialisation of rural landscapes; thankfully few sites have been successfully developed but the disruption caused and the scale of activity in the small exploratory sites has given an insight into the large scale industrialisation which would happen if the thousands of wells envisaged in the fracking revolution ever did take off.

      Secondly the industry is too late to provide their claimed transition to a renewable future. The current world glut of oil and gas and falling prices underline the reality of huge existing global reserves and the developing climate emergency suggests we need to keep much of these reserves in the ground against very long term strategic needs where oil and gas are the only viable sources of energy.

      • John Mager

        I have not been present at a fracking site ( Gearing for fracking by installing a frack spread ). I know people who have.

        I have been present at sites gearing up and carring out exploratory drilling.

        This includes Road construction, pad construction, drilling, demob.

        I have lived next to onshore oilfield in production. I regularly walked aroundcthat 100 plus well development ( most now defunct ).

        I once lived in Long Riston ( where there was no oilfield but i know the area well).

        I see your point about fracking, but i thought your question related to Rathlin and the West Newton prospect which is not fracking nor a development relating to continuous source rock exploitation.

        Is that correct?

        That is why i popped the video of windfarm base construction in there.
        A few wells is small beer compared to what you need to get a decent wind farm in ( including 10s miles of access roads). I am ok with both. Solar and wind are industrialising the countryside. When visiting Donna Nook Seal Sanctuary ( Saltfleetby ) its easy to see the wind tubines and the static caravan parks, but you have to root around to find the gas field now operated by Angus ( which i did tho the family were grumpy about it).

        • Jon Mager

          Sorry missed the last point

          Rathlin and their small oilfield will not be part of the touted frack gas transition. They may produce a fraction of UK oil ( or a larger fraction of english oil ) while we try and reduce consumption.

          Plus re regulation of civils and traffic management, it is the same for any road building or traffic management system in the UK?

        • Rathlin had permission to frack the WNA and CH sites.
          (I managed to get a no fracking amendment to the WNB planning permission much to Rathlin’s disgust but they can still frack because the Govt changed the definition).
          Rathlin confirmed they drilled right through the Bowland Shale , why go to the expense if they weren’t part of the fracking strategy underpinning the Government dash for gas?
          Cuadrilla ‘s failures in Lancs have proved that fracking is unsafe in UK faulted geology and the slump in oil prices has made the project unviable.
          I respect your knowledge and research but can’t see the point of arguing for fracking and conventional oil and gas when the game is over for fossil fuels.

          • John Mager

            I think that John Harisson addressed the issue of drilling and shale although i need to look back through thd posts.

            Re the game up for oil and gas, that is more of a value judgement.

            I was addressing your point … how worrief should you be for your safety from the West Newton proposed oil field. This answer tied to the regulatory system and compared to other similar activities which are typically carried out in an area.

            I will carry on with the legal stuff, but will root around for the drilled through the shale bit although it may be picked up by someone else.

      • Sorry, Jon, but your comments are just strange and contrary to what is reality.

        There is NO connection to thousands of wells spoken about regarding fracking. The development in E.Yorkshire is nothing to do with that, as anyone who knows what a moratorium is can see quite clearly. It is just bizarre. Like referring to someone who is wanting to build a bungalow and trying to connect it to a new town project that is not happening!

        There are very successful on shore oil and gas sites operating within the UK , and are quite happily accepted by neighbours. Not saying they are everyone’s cup of tea, but no less so than many other operations that are conducted in the countryside. You seem to be trying to present a false image of the countryside. If people are living in the countryside they have already disrupted it in the same way, and will be there a lot longer. The countryside has always had a certain level of industry. Not all countryside dwellers want to work in agriculture, or travel long distances to get to work.

        With respect to hazardous loads, it depends upon your view point. There are MANY hazardous loads carried on rural roads. How do you think the chemicals used by the farming sector get to the farms, or from the farms to the fields? Every vehicle that travels these roads contains hazardous materials, whether they be diesel, petrol or electric. Add a small quantity of cobalt to most situations and you need to add a skull and crossbones, too, even though the car industry has been very quiet about that.

        You are also very confused regarding supply/demand and price regarding oil and gas. Yes, there is a large drop in demand for oil and gas currently because of Covid-19, just like there is a large drop in demand for many other industries. This is not new to the world, but Covid-19 is. We already have TODAY strategic needs where oil and gas are the only viable sources of energy. Most ambulances are currently run using diesel, most farm machinery operates using red diesel, aircraft bringing PPE from China and Turkey are able to fly because of oil. The demand today is due to Covid-19 and will change as quickly as and when Covid-19 is controlled.

        Interesting how the media is whinging so much about UK being vulnerable because it has relied too much on overseas supply chains, and you want to perpetuate that folly. Think you are backing the wrong horse there. Some neighbourhoods may end up with laboratories, some clothing manufacturers and others a small, discrete oil or gas site-that if successful, will produce not only oil and gas but some tax revenue to help pay for the NHS. Although, it seems from another section on DoD, some want to set out to delay such and cost the operators money, both of which would just delay and diminish that tax revenue. Somewhat different mind set to Captain Tom.

  5. hewes62

    Very useful.

    We have a number of new housing sites around us and what is quite a common feature is that during construction the deliveries to them are operating under different circumstances than after the site is complete. This is usually because the entrance is temporary rather than the finished article, so lorries frequently have to cross into opposite lanes to acquire sufficient turning capacity to enter the site. Noticed a few young drivers who are unaware of this and get into problems making a silly overtaking attempt. Of course, why make the entrance permanent until after construction is complete, as it would probably only need to be rebuilt afterwards?!
    The same turning issue also relates to farm equipment. It is easy to see a tractor on its own will operate through a gate in one way, with a large set of equipment behind it, another.

    A lot of this comes down to consideration of what other good drivers are required to do, and some allowance that they might not be that good! But then, most drivers do not have to put up with individuals making their lives more difficult by deliberate obstruction, or jumping onto their vehicles.

  6. The official statements from Union Jack Oil and Reabold say it all really.
    The fracking industry exists to create short term ‘shareholder value’. Honest but shocking none the less.

    • Stephen
      Looks like they have no interest in shale gas or shale oil industry then ( warning us against it ).

    • Why shocking, Stephen? You could define a load of industries in exactly the same way. It would be a very narrow and incomplete definition of each of those industries, like saying the football industry exists to get people to run around. Say it all? No.

      As for the reason the Internet exists, then you could define that as the opportunity for some to express extremely selected, and often fake “news”. I think even the really young are aware of that, and have ceased to be shocked even when encouraged to be angry and panic..

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Rest Days are Key to Staying Healthy

Planning a full rest day into your routine can actually make you a better runner. Here’s how it works.

August 26, 2020Amanda Smith

Whether training for your next marathon or your first 5K, there is something crucial that can sometimes be neglected by women with a lot of ambition—rest (especially in the form of one full rest day).

When rest is neglected, training suffers. Adequate rest and nutrition throughout any training process are the best ways to ensure not only performance, but overall good health and injury prevention. According to the 2020 National Runner Survey, half of all respondents had an injury that kept them from running for four or more days in the last 12 months.

Fitting in rest days are crucial to keeping your body going in the long run. “It’s extra time to allow for all the, essentially, mechanical repair to go on in the body; production of collagen to repair tendons, muscles, bones, all those tissues taking some breakdown in normal exercise,” says Robert Wayner, PT, DPT, and director of the Ohio Center for Running Performance. A rest day also allows the body to build energy stores back up. “We know that our athletes, over a six-day training period, they may start the week off with full tanks and really good energy balance. But as the week wears on then, especially since some of their workouts are more demanding than others, those more demanding ones are going to take a longer period of time to essentially recoup from caloric energy-wise,” he says. One consequence of continually skipping the rest day and not allowing energy stores to build back up is developing Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) that Wayner says he sees runners fall into inadvertently.

A lot of runners feel guilt around taking a rest day, which comes as a result of a society that glorifies productivity and hyper-competitiveness. Those feelings are especially felt by women who try to ‘do it all.’ The reality is that you cannot train to your full potential if you never let off the gas. Eventually something will break down. For that reason, a group of runners created an Instagram account dedicated solely to idealizing rest where they show how runners like Colleen Quigley, Amelia Boone, or Molly Seidel spend their rest days.

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Cold and Flu Season and Oral Health

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  COMING DOWN WITH the flu is never any fun, but it’s still no time to let up on your oral hygiene routine. The same applies if you get a cold. With flu and cold season starting up, we thought this was a good time to share some tips for maintaining good oral health through one of these common illnesses. Brushing and Flossing Can Help You Feel Better As well as you can while sick, try to remember to brush and floss as usual. It’s not just about the comfort of maintaining some part of your normal routine, or about getting some small sense of accomplishment out of it — no, brushing and flossing can actually make you feel better! Keeping your mouth as clean as possible is a real boost to your overall sense of well-being. A clean mouth helps you feel rejuvenated and refreshed, so don’t let the simple habits of…

Sugar, Its Many Aliases, and Your Teeth

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WHAT COMES TO MIND when you hear the word “sugar”? Probably your favorite type of candy or dessert, maybe your favorite soda. You probably didn’t picture barbecue sauce, granola bars, flavored yogurt, or fruit juice, but all of these and plenty more foods you wouldn’t suspect are loaded with sugar. That isn’t great news for our oral health. Sugar Versus Our Teeth Why are dental health professionals like us wary of sugar? Simple. The harmful bacteria on our teeth and gums like to eat sugar as much as we do. When they’ve enjoyed a tasty meal from the food fragments that remain in your mouth after a sweet treat, they excrete acid onto your teeth. This acid eats away at tooth enamel and irritates the gums, and if we aren’t careful, it can lead to issues like tooth decay and gum disease. Learn to Recognize the Many Names of Sugar If sugar…

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Consistent  good oral hygiene absolutely improves your health! Preventing dental disease and periodontal disease strengthens your immune system and allows your body to use its defense system to ward off all other pathogens. This keeps your body strong. This is a busy world and it is easy to engage in the “rat race” and become distracted from what is really important in life. Taking a few minutes a day to meditate can help to re-route your thoughts and come back to reality. Doing so can improve your health and your life as stress is greatly reduced. This must be done on a daily basis to have a true effect on healthier living. This has been known for thousands of years. Focus on your breathing and you will feel renewed and more relaxed. It is impossible to think about stressful daily events when you are totally focused on thin king only…

Why are x-rays important in orthodontics?

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Radiographs (x-rays) provide dentists of all types and specialists to see things that cannot be seen by the naked eye. All dental x-rays are used with low levels of radiation and are extremely important to evaluate your oral health. Family dentists can view early decay between the teeth and they can observe when bone loss is occurring. Additionally, unerupted teeth can be noted as well as extra or missing teeth. Finally, cysts and tumors are often discovered as they become evident on digital x-ray images. Orthodontists consider a panoramic x-rays (the one that scans the entire lower face) as the most valuable diagnostic tool in orthodontics. The overall dental and periodontal health can be observed as well as root positioning. All children should have a panoramic film by age 7. It shows us when developing teeth need more space to emerge so we can treat most conservatively to avoid the…

Orthodontic Treatment: One Phase or Two?

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As a culture, we tend to think of braces as a teenage experience, so it can be surprising to learn that the American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) recommends that children have an initial orthodontic consultation by age 7. If a child is starting to develop complicated orthodontic problems, this early checkup allows the orthodontist to head them off with Phase 1 treatment. Below are 5 conditions that you, as a parent/guardian should look out for.  Here are 5 conditions that warrant early treatment during mixed dentition (ages 6-9). 1. Mouth breathing /snoring This can cause narrow arches which delays and causes poor tooth emergence. Our patented Press-On expanders painlessly correct this condition. 2. Lack of Space for Permanent Teeth Permanent incisors normally emerge at age 6. Delayed emergence usually indicates a lack of space. This is easily corrected with painless expanders and or with short term braces (less than one…

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I use Zen and have copy/pasted the STARTERKIT to my foo template. Devel is enabled with the "Rebuild the theme registry on every page load" setting on.

In my completely empty template.php I type in the following and save:

function foo_process_node(&$variables, $hook) {

I then do drush cc all and refresh page. The message is not shown. If I refresh again the message shows.

If I change test to foobar on the 1st refresh I get the old test and on the second I get foobar.

Why does this happen and how can I avoid it?

Note that this lagging behavior is the same for preprocess and process but not there if I print the message from the foo_page_alter(&$page) function.

  • Hm. Maybe it's not a Devel issue but a more generic one because I'm getting the exact same behavior for error messages. I'm seeing the error message of the previous page load.
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This is a common issue people encounter when themeing Drupal (it used to drive me crazy).

In basic terms what's happening is that the messages held in the $_SESSION super global have already been committed to the page by the time the template file containing your call to dpm() is invoked.

This means that the messages are added to the $_SESSION but aren't dumped out to the messages area until the next page...as $messages has already been set up for/printed in page.tpl.php.

The normal way to get around this is to invoke the dpm() at an earlier stage of the process, like in hook_page_alter() as you mention, or hook_node_view(), etc.

Also I think if you implement your preprocess hook at the module level, rather than the theme level, that your calls to dpm() will happen in time for the messages to be displayed in that particular page request.

This has been an issue for me as well. Another workaround for this by using kpr($your_variable), which is also a function in devel and that seems to display the output on the first page load.

dsm method is called to dpm method. so we need to call dpm.

in dpm -- p indicate the print_r().

dpm is just show the array and object as print_r only difference is it show it in error display block. because internally it use drupal_set_message.

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Mobile Dental Service Center under the Royal Initiative of H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Mahidol University Faculty of Dentistry (MUDT) provided free dental services, most notably dental filing, scaling and extraction and impacted tooth removal for students and the general public at Baan Sri Sawad Border Patrol Police School in Sri Kaeo Sub-District, Loeng Nok Tha District, Yasothon Province from September 27 – 30, 2020. Those were performed in tandem with a reception hosted for H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn paying a visit to the border patrol police school to assess advancement of royal projects therein.

In connection to this, Prof. Waranun Buajeeb, MUDT’s Dean, gave a report on the mobile dental service center’s past performance to her majesty along with a warm welcome to her majesty from Emeritus Prof. Dr. Theeralaksna Suddhasthira, MUDT’s current Executive Advisor and Former Dean, dentists, dental assistants, and staff involved.


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