Children, protected from all hazards in the nanny cocoon will ultimately rebel,
seeking freedom, take risks and causing trouble. We are all familiar with acts
of vandalism against sundials in public places. This link shows this is a
worldwide phenomenon. The pictures show a couple of examples in
I bet, in 20 years, people with rickets from lack of Vitamin D will be suing
schools for not letting them get enough sunshine when they were kids out in
the school playground!
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…….I would like to know the real, truthful reason these sundials are being
banned, and it better be a good one.
Don’t ponder on this with logic too long or you will get a headache. I hope
nobody under 18 reads the email. I’d hate for this forum to get sued for
being too dangerous.
The legal t
Good morning Martina,
I've been following the various replies, and I agree wholeheartedly with the
sentiments expressed about stupid attempts to reduce risk to zero.
We all have our favourite stories, but I think that these examples will top the
list. I understand that one of the largest mining
That is even more ridiculous. Almost daily some child in my school is falling
down and skinning a knee, arguing with others or getting in a small pushing
match. We have over 460 kids, its going to happen. And if 20 years from now,
getting skin cancer, prove it that it came from standing on a
Martina:
Do you have any documentation (letters, newspaper articles, policies, etc)
that show these decisions? I can't find a reference on the web.
Thanks!
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Q: How can you tell Spring is here in Oregon?
A: The rain is warmer.
My daughter is racing a triathlon to raise money for her swim team
Hi Martina,
How about contacting the Health and Safety Executive (think that is what
they are called). I have heard that they get a bit annoyed with being used
as reasons for not doing things. They sponsored the conker championship
after people were saying it was too dangerous for children. Ask
Sorry Fabio, but I wouldn't let children anywhere near this, unless:
a) they had had training in its use
b) they held a current licence to operate it
c) it was permanently screwed down to a large heavy bench (just think of the
litigation if it was dislodged and fell on a toe)
d) they wear p
Very nice. -Bill
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Mac Oglesby wrote:
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> Hello friends,
>
> Last Saturday I repainted the analemmatic sundial I installed a few years
> ago outside the west entrance to my town's Municipal Center. You can see
> the lower parts of the doors in the background. (The
And it’s five o'clock somewhere.
-Original Message-
From: Roger Bailey
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8:55 PM
To: Tom Laidlaw ; Kevin Karney ; Mac Oglesby
Cc: Sundial List
Subject: Re: Why are schools, across the world, 'banning'
analemmaticsundials ?
I know nothing about the Beam and S
Dear John, Frank, Kevin, et al,
I remember a letter from Charles Aked in Antiquarian Horology circa 1970
showing his son (then about 8?) at one of the Scottish lighthouse dials
in situ.
I believe they were all (?) sold off perhaps about 15 years ago and
think I have a cutting somewhere from
Dear Frank et al,
Thank you for the extract from the General Order for lighthouse dials. The
thing which surprises me is that it is the EoT value engraved on the sundial
that is being taken as the correction figure, rather than one for the date in
question published in the current Nautical Alm
To all,
At the site of De Zonnewijzerkring you may see three sundials on a child
friendly public square.
The main goal was:
"The plan was to be suitable for children, and to provide for several
educational elements."
For example:
The long hourlines are for practicing balance.
The blocks to cli
Greetings, fellow dialists,
I know of two particular instances where dials were used to regulate
clocks. The first is the noon line of 1829 in the cloister of Durham
Cathedral. Obviously its only purpose was to mark the time of noon for
the purpose of correcting the Cathedral clocks. The second
Dear Martina,
Perhaps you should construct your analemmatic sundial on a large plastic
roll-up mat. Then you could put it out in the playground at specific
times on sunny days (no great point in having it when the sun is not
shining anyway, or when the kids are in lessons). That way the 'poor'
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