Can anyone help me to contact Paul Ratto ?
Could anyone on this 'Mailing List' help me with finding Paul Ratto ? My daughter would like to create a twin-ring Analemmatic sundial, for her Girl Scout Gold Award - as shown on the NASS website page, at the URL of: www.sundials.org/index.php/sundial-registry/onedial/819.html It seems the "North American Sundial Society" do not have any contact details for Paul, but he is mentioned as being the 'designer' of that particular layout - and we understand from NASS they are popular with Scouts (both boys plus girls), to achieve Community-related awards. If anyone in North America can be of help, I will look forward to any information which may assist my daughter to contact Paul Ratto - for example a telephone number (if possible), or even a website address. With my grateful thanks in advance, for whatever details you can give me - plus I take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Sincerely, Isabella McFedries. -- --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
Re: Permanent DST
In message <cacouayqb2vmbu9l9tcs9bsv_yqmn-wsveul89cx9k9racyt...@mail.gmail.com> Dan-George Uza <cerculdest...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear group, > > We are witnessing a few interesting developments! After Turkey decided a > few months ago to remain on Daylight Saving Time all year round, Hungary is > now considering to do the same. > > http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/hungary-mulls-staying-on-daylight-saving-time-all-year-round/ > > If the measure passes, neighboring countries Hungary and Romania will share > the same official time for half of the year although they are located in > different time zones (CET and EET respectively). For eastern Hungary the > sun sets at about 15:40 during winter, i.e more than an hour ahead of > Paris, which shares its time zone. > > I'm wondering: aren't EU member states supposed to equally follow DST by > law? > > > Dan Uza Hi, Dan You are PARTLY correct - but (as I understand it), all EU member countries must CHANGE their clocks on the SAME date, although they still keep their individual Time-zones. For example, UK and Ireland are on GMT, whereas France/Germany are on CET, and countries such as Greece on CET + 1 hour. There are other examples of locations which are on PERMANENT 'Daylight Saving' time - for example here in Canada, the province of Saskatchewan should really be in the 'Mountain' zone (GMT-7), but always STAYS in the 'Central' zone (GMT-6) and so does NOT change its clocks twice a year. I am afraid that these things are always for the Politicians to decide! Sincerely, Isabella McFedries. -- --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
Re: Sundisc Sundial
In message eaeb4bb4dcec47ce8a4834fe7e7d6...@astrovis0299e2 Astrovisuals m...@astrovisuals.com.au wrote: So now I've made 2000 of them and am having trouble selling them! Any ideas about where I could try? Sorry for posting a commercial email, hope it isn't bad form! Dear David, As with ANY sundials these days, the biggest 'market' is within the Educational Sector - as schools will regularly use them, to fulfil various requirements in different areas of the overall curriculum. If you have not done so, already, then I would suggest you contact some School Supplies companies - or perhaps have a chat with the relevant 'purchasing' person, at your local Educational Authority. If you are looking towards other 'gardening' outlets in Australia, then try Leaf and Stone (www.leafandstone.com.au) - who market a range of sundials, in connection with what they term 'garden art'. Alternatively, you could try George Marshall in the Brisbane area, (sunclo...@exemail.com.au) - an Australian distributor, for one of the world's most successful sundial businesses Modern Sunclocks. As another possibility, 'Boy Scout' groups might be interested in your Sundisc - and there is a fairly large market for items like this in the USA (connected with camping, and/or outdoor leisure). Wishing you well - please let us know how you get on, with these. Yours sincerely, Isabella McFedries. --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
RE: Do the Police really object, to interactive 'Human Sundial' features?
In message 6bc2c93551.linda.r...@fastmessage.co.uk Linda Reid linda.r...@fastmessage.co.uk wrote: Do the members of this 'List' have any comments (good or bad), about installing such interactive sundials - since we do not want to go to the time and expense of creating this, if local people do not really want it. Most people said they would be happy, (although we did not mention any of those negative factors, when conducting short market research - because we were totally unaware of them, at that time). I shall very much look forward to receiving feedback, on the above. Sincerely, Linda Reid. I have only just picked-up on this message, but have several comments. Yes, it seems that the whole world has gone mad, with a combination of 'Health and Safety' - plus those lawyers and accountants, as well! We wanted to have a Human Sundial, at a local Observatory Park in the town of Montville (Ohio) - but we simply could not get approval from our legal advisors, because they felt it was too 'risky' (since they might be sued if somebody got hurt, using this interactive feature). We even tried to get one into a local school - but were again denied the opportunity to do this, just in case of potential injury claims. Like yourself, Linda - we wanted to get the layout plans from Modern Sunclocks, but they would only supply them if we had a 'disclaimer' letter (because they had similar incidents with other installations, plus had even been sued due to an increase in the amount of litter). I remember them saying that schools in Australia had actually banned the use of Human Sundials, since these could increase the chances of children developing skin cancer in the future - and the educational authorities did not want any litigation cases, resulting from this. I also seem to recall Sunclocks saying that a few well-known public locations in the UK had to move their Human Sundial features into a better 'monitored' area, (or even remove them altogether) - as people were regularly fighting, over having any souvenir photographs taken. It appears that these are simply 'too popular for their own good', or could attract undesirable people - which is no doubt why Sunclocks let people know in advance, what they are letting themselves in for. I had also noticed on the website page which you mentioned, that some people feel that a Human Sundial will 'lower the tone' of their area! I think that it is totally ridiculous, that we are being discouraged from making useful and decorative public features - just because the powers that be are too scared of 'one in a million' chance of risk, which might result in some person deciding to take any legal action. Regards, Isabella McFedries. --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
