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A  United States Patent has been awarded to me for my   New growing system:   'dual layer structural units' for growing farm crops with wide-ranging environmental and other benefits. This is described and explained in detail, with technical information, in the  Official Patent Document pdf file. I've also two  wide-ranging inventions which are Patent Pending in the USA:
(1) New window-door system provides multiple environmental and other benefits (eg security, fire safety) with multiple applications:  homes, offices, factories, very large as well as small buildings. It allows different materials (eg insulating, reflective, single or multiple) to be quickly and easily installed in windows and doors to substantially reduce the impact of eg very high or very low temperatures. 
(2) New roofing-walling system also has multiple applications and  benefits,   in ease of construction,  water collecting and conservation, mitigation of flooding and drought, and other areas.

PHD [Paul Hurt Design and Construction]: more and less recent gardening, building, and general projects.

 

NEW in the page Church donations: John Smyth and Justin Welby raise issues that go far beyond an abuser and an ex-Church 'leader,' requiring, I argue, recognition of a central issue: the  failure of Christian dogma, of what Jesus taught.

 

NEW,  Church Army. King Charles III is the Patron of the Church Army. Dr Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, is its President. My view is that they should reconsider their position and withdraw their support. I show that the Church Army has multiple flaws. See also  Church Army Mission Centre.

 

 

 

The pages on Christianity include Church Donations:   reasons not to give, and the multiple failures of the Church of England; The Free Speech Union discredited: reasons not to join; . Church Integrity: failures;  Church Documents: faith and practice, claims and realities; New Creations: photographing, filming, documenting clergy and congregations; Church Army;   Appointment of Bishop at Durham, Ely, Carlisle: problems.  See also: Security, Safety, Safeguarding, Survival;  Church Shame.  South Yorks Counter-Evangelism' is well established, active far beyond South Yorkshire.

Controversies includes  Ideology: fixity and fixation;   Oxford and Cambridge Universities: excellence and stupidity; Israel: defending;  animal welfare: activism; The Culture Industry  Ireland and Northern Ireland; Amnesty International discredited;  bullfighting: arguments against, action against;   veganism: against;  the death penalty;   Green Objections; , Sheffield universities;  Sheffield pro-Palestinian protest camp;   The Culture Industry.

 

Translations and versions includes texts in German, Dutch, Italian, Latin, classical / modern Greek and French, with my own translations and comment, and a  text in Polish. Kafka and Rilke  is a study in comparative literature and comparative reputations. Literary pages include Poems (my own);  Word-designs: PHD concrete poetry;   Innovations and new ideas: poetry and visual art.    Metaphor and Metre / Meter  are technical pages, introducing  new techniques.

 

Sheffield Dales  includes material on landscape and buildings. My experiences as cellist, violinist, violist is also about cross-country skiing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom, has

selected all of this site for preservation, in the Arts and Humanities /

Literature archive and the Computer Science, Information Technology

and Web Technology archive.

 

All  pages  use an innovation of mine in Web navigation, 'the rail,' a

long, thin band on the left margin. Clicking on the rail  gives a means

of reaching top of page very quickly. There,  links  are provided for

rapid page travel, travel within the page  (to different regions of the

page) and / or travel to other pages. Rails have other uses. Further

information at  Page Travel.

 

 

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Below, 1st photograph shows New Greenhouse Design. The core structure takes the form of a triangular prism (a shape with great structural strength.) Around the core structure are
extensions, here with curved panels. Three straight panels of the core structure are visible on this North-facing side. There are 3 panels on the South-facing side. The system has great

versatility. With all the panels in place, gutters and pipes at the base can divert water collected from the roof to water storage containers and ponds (dual-function, for water storage and to
benefit wildlife). Panels can be removed and put back very easily. When most or all of the panels are removed, crops inside the greenhouse can be watered with natural rainfall. The system
has many advantages for water conservation. It reduces reliance on mains water. It has many other benefits, e.g. for temperature control. Ventilation is very important, to reduce or
eliminate overheating when external temperatures are high and for other reasons. One or more panels can be removed and all the panels can be removed, to give maximum
ventilation. Plastic coverings don't enhance the appearance of a site, for most people. When polycarbonate sheets aren't needed, none need be visible. One of the panels on the South-
facing side has been removed permanently. A grape vine in the greenhouse grows inside the greenhouse, at roof level, and outside, higher up, above the roof.  The extensions shown
below, on the West side,  include a 'solar composter,' which speeds up the production of compost by the greenhouse effect, a wildlife / water storage pond and other growing areas.
There's a much larger wildlife / water storage pond outside the greenhouse and other water-collecting surfaces and water storage facilities.   An extension on the East side includes a
storage area for e.g. tools and supplies and a working area for e.g. propagation. A straw bale wall has been a feature of this extension (shown above, also with a straw bale storage area.)
The greenhouse has been featured in an article I wrote for the magazine of the  National Allotment Society.

 

My New Growing System for farms has the advantages of the New Greenhouse Design as well as many other features.  From the official U.S. patent document: ' ... the present invention

is a trellising system with modifiable components and configurations for growing, protected cropping, protected working, materials handling, water collecting and water conservation for

use in vineyards and orchards and as a polytunnel substitute.'  The New System has aesthetic advantages. The plastic sheeting which forms part of the system is needed to secure
environmental advantages but is unnecessary when external temperatures are high and no water can be collected. Unlike the plastic of polytunnels, the plastic used in this system can
be retracted. The plastic need not be visible when not needed. The plant growth on the unobtrusive supports will be seen all the more clearly.

 

              

 

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PHD, Paul Hurt Design offers

genuine innovation, practicality and a concern for aesthetics and the
environment in the design and construction of 

Agricultural growing systems, as in the invention which has now been
awarded a Patent in the United States. Further information: 
vineyard-orchard-polytunnel-growing-system and US Patent Office Document.

 

 New Window-Door System   is Patent Pending in the United States. This is a radical
system with a very wide range of applications, from small-scale domestic
 applications to industrial and large-scale architectural applications. It
offers unparalleled opportunities to install, very quickly, different surfaces
in window spaces which optimize insulation in cold weather, optimize air
flow in hot weather, to reduce or eliminate reliance upon air-conditioning
installations and allow the insertion of surfaces to achieve wide-ranging
benefits, including benefits in security, in fire control, and benefits in
storage and provision of working facilities inside  homes, offices,
workshops and factories.

 New roofing-walling-system  also has Patent Pending status in the United States and
has the potential to achieve massive benefits in mitigation of flooding,
water collection and storage on a large scale to address the problem of
drought and to reduce reliance upon mains water, and a range of other
benefits, including fire safety.
 

Other innovations (there's information about most of these on the page
PHD New - but it includes less recent work as well):

 

A variety of water-collecting surfaces, directing water to
storage containers, a pond or directly to plants.

Greenhouses -  greenhouses with presence, flexible, adaptable, with
large, removable panels to lower the internal temperature during heat
waves and to allow natural precipitation  to water the crops in the
greenhouse, reducing reliance on mains water, with water-collecting
surfaces to conserve water.
Implementing green roofs, eg, the roof of an extension to the PHD
Greenhouse, using grape vines / hop plants, with no need for bulky,
heavy soil or compost.

New bed-and-board systems in gardens / allotments, with many
advantages, including huge flexibility: boards can be quickly removed
and replaced, beds can  be modified very easily, become larger or
smaller, growing areas can be divided into beds or not. When large,
open areas are chosen, water-collecting surfaces can easily be
installed, if the areas are on a slope.
A  lightweight metal system allowing quick construction of various
garden / small farm structures for plant protection and support.
A solar composter, speeding up production of compost by the
greenhouse effect.
A solar wood store, speeding up the drying of wood for efficient
burning in wood stoves.

Wildlife aids - a bird table, swift nesting boxes of various designs,
all  very different from existing designs. The swift boxes are easily
constructed,  easily installed at a height without a ladder -  taking
hardly any time.
Hydraulic machinery for log splitting / apple pressing, elegant, useful
furniture when not in use.
Other domestic furniture- a table, a bookcase, storage systems - 
distinctive designs, not copies.
A radical new roofing system, allowing inclined roofs (including water
collecting roofs) to be constructed as easily as flat roofs, within (not above)
a new walling system.
Workbenches for woodworking / metalworking, easy to construct,
easy to dismantle, easy to move from place to place, but solid and
immovable in use, with ample storage space and versatile working surfaces.
A vice for woodworking, with pressure exerted by a ratchet strap, not a screw thread.
Van to Campervan conversions which can be implemented quickly and are 
cost-effective, practical and harmonious.
Van to Display Unit conversions, using telescopic and other components,
in particular display boards.  The boards can display material of many different
kinds, e.g. campaigning images and text, advertizing material. The displays are
static, for use when the van is parked, not moving.
Simple aids  to moving heavy loads up  slopes and  on level ground, in gardens / allotments.
Simple aids to safety in sheet metal work.

 

 Page-travel: new techniques in Website navigation  introduces innovations in navigation within
the page and between pages, in particular the vertical rail on the left side
of all the pages of the site. This, like horizontal rails,  can have many uses,

in particular, for navigation within the page. The presence of a vertical rail helps
to unify the page, to remove the feeling that the user is going into remote
parts, in the case of very long pages. Website navigation has linkages
with travelling in an area or travelling to more distant places.
 

None of my activities in connection with this
site, with my design and construction work or my work in growing
have ever earned me any money. My work has been carried out for
personal reasons but with the hope of giving wider benefits. I've no
idea if my work will ever earn me anything. I prefer to focus my
attention on other things. There are many, many demands on my time.

Linkages as well as contrasts underlie to a greater or lesser extent
most of this site. I stress methods, techniques, ideas, concepts,
values that are common to very different fields of activity, often
ones which unify, and not only in design / construction but far
more widely - the project TTL, 'Theme, Theory, Practice.'

 

A project which is a substantial part of my work, in the field
of comparative literature:  'literature, broadly defined, and other
spheres of human activity, including history, politics,
philosophy, art and science' and in multiple languages. Work in the
field of poetic technique and innovation in poetics is a separate, linked project. 

 

 One interest of mine, music, has no coverage in any detail.  I do
include brief information about some writing of mine on
an aspect of violin technique. It was included in a violin concerto
which received its world premiere at a Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
The concerto includes text as well as the music, obviously the main component
of the work. I had studied with the Hungarian violinist Rudolf Botta,
commemorated by the concerto. Before switching to the violin and viola,
I was a cellist, and played the cello in an orchestra which included
professional players, the members of 'The Lindsays' (The Lindsay String Quartet.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Images are an important part of the site. So too are  ideas and concepts,
particularly the concepts I call {themes}.  The project TTL,
'Theme, theory, practice'  involves practical applications as well as abstract theory. 

I discuss many, many applications of {themes} in pages of the site.
These two lists give some idea of their range and variety. 

 

 List 1 gives examples organized by {theme}. They range from the general to
the very specific. Each {theme} has its own page in the site and there are
links to the {themes} in the lists below.

 

List 2 gives examples which are all discussed in the page Interpretations.
The treatment  is generally more thorough, making use of symbolic {theme} theory.

  1.
  {adjustment}
  Pseudo-science
  Commercial pressures
  Nietzsche
  Goya and violence

  {completion}
  Mathematical proof
  Truth tables
  Digital electronics
  Biological taxonomy
  Aristotle's 'telos'

  {direction}
  Generalized linkage connective
  Implication
  Material conditional
  Teleological arguments
  Trends
  Vectors and directed lines
  Ferromagnetism
  Entropy
  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 3.144

  {distance}
  The key system in music
  modulation in poetry
  The unities of drama
  Narrative {distance}
  'Du' and 'Sie' in German
  Edward Bullough's aesthetic {distance}
  Wordsworth's boy at Windermere
  The subjunctive and optative in Thucydides iii, 22
  Web design and {distance}
  The law of negligence

 

  {modification}
  The Journey
  James Connolly and the Easter Rising
  Innovation
  Nietzsche
  Transformation in Rembrandt and Rilke
  Mind, body and the rest of the world
  George Orwell: capital and corporal punishment
  Activism and opposition
  {modification} by {diversification}
  The necessary, the impossible and the contingent
  The ship of Theseus
  Invariance
  Variables and pretensions
  Corroboration and falsification
  Typography and action
  Modal properties

  {ordering}
  Ethical decision-making
  Digital technology
  Military medicine: triage
  Priorities in politics
  Dependence
  Nietzsche
  {ordering} and {grouping}
  The mind and concentration

  {restriction}
  Limitation and limits
  Disappointment and imperfection
  Exemption: slavery
  Quantum mechanics
  Jokes
  Linkage schemata
  ((surveys))
  Framing
  Linkage isolation
  Isolation and abstraction
  Isolation and 'The Whole Truth'
  Isolation and distortion
  Poetry and prose
  Kant and the limits to knowledge
  Allowing and disallowing 

  {reversal}
  Thermodynamic reversal
  Elastic deformation
  Negation
  Undoing
  Inversion and musical intervals 

 

  {separation}
  Of people: Shakespeare
  Of people: Auschwitz-Birkenau
  Commuters
  Between past and present
  Vegetables and fruit
  Human characteristics and versatility
  Thermodynamic separation
  {separation} and application-sphere
  {separation} and separability
  Causation
  Areas of competence 

  {substitution}
  Evaluating the thing itself
  Mathematical and scientific {substitution}

  2. Interpretations
  Commutative operators
  Demarcation: science-metaphysics
  Endothermic and exothermic reactions
  Foundationalism and coherentism
  Implication
  Induction
  Inertia
  Infinitesimals
  Interchangeability
  Intervals
  Inverses of functions
  Kantian categories
  Mendelian factors
  Meta- and para-studies
  Newton's first law of motion
  Newton's third law of motion
  Particle in a box
  Polish (prefix) notation
  Referents
  Regions
  Selection: natural and artificial

  SI units
  Thermodynamic systems and partitions

 

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The page About this site  gives introductory information on a wide variety of topics, including use of images, and this: 'Emails sent to me are treated as confidential. Emails sent to me won't be released into the public domain, including publication on this site, unless with the sender's permission.' With only the most limited exceptions: automatic, machine-generated emails and any emails threatening action which is clearly extreme and illegal. The page includes information about my phone number, if you'd like to contact me in this way

 

Emailaddress: paulhurt100@gmail.com

 

Mikhail Bakhtin writes of 'Dostoevsky's passion for journalism and his love of the newspaper, his deep and subtle understanding of the newspaper page as a living reflection of the contradictions of contemporary society in the cross-section of a single day, where the most diverse and contradictory material is laid out, extensively, side by side...' ('Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics,' translated, Caryl Emerson.)

 

My approach is in part systematic and rigorous, sometimes at a high level of abstraction, but I see no contradiction between system and rigour on the one hand and on the other, passion, compassion, activism, humour, an intense concern for the health of language and the vitality of culture, a whole range of other concerns. A systematic study can reveal gaps very clearly. The meticulous work of cartographers helped to show explorers which regions were still unexplored, to suggest new areas for risk and discovery. Activism and activists -  deluded and  deranged activists as well as ones I respect and admire - politics and politicians, have a part to play in the pages of the site, but also journalists, poets, musicians, scientists, engineers, labourers, scholars, miners, and many more, including animals.                  

 

The 'diverse material' in this site covers a very wide range, some of it of journalistic, some of it academic, some of it personal, some of it practical - working with wood, metal, other materials, designing and constructing buildings, other structures and sometimes machines, the growing of a wide range of plants - and the design of pages, graphic design. Some of it is concerned with aesthetics, some of it  with ethics - with humane values and harshness, unavoidable harshness as well as harshness which can be reduced by reform or technical advances, harshness in peace and in war,  industry and nature.

 

Ethics is a page with technical and non-technical sections.  It introduces  symbolic notation for 'outweighing,' a fundamental concept  in ethics, for me, but with much wider applicability.

 

Pages concerned with value judgments include appreciation as well as criticism.  There's criticism of anti-feminists as well as radical feminists, criticism of people who oppose 'woke'  views as well as criticism of woke views, extensive criticism of  Christian beliefs  without assuming that non-Christians and anti-Christians have a monopoly of good sense, without assuming that they are incapable of stupidity (and worse, much worse), arguments and evidence in favour of 'conservative' views, but with significant reservations.

 

The pages  on universities contain criticism of some aspects of some universities (Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, the Sheffield universities and others) and many people at those universities. In other pages, I attempt to convey some of the astonishing achievement of universities, in science, technology and other fields. Very often, perhaps more often than not, the achievements outweigh the failures but obviously, the balance of success / failure is very variable. This is after all a massive subject, impossible to cover, to begin to cover, in the space available.

 

My poetry - very varied - appears on the page Poems. Some of the poems have been published in literary magazines. Word-image design contains my 'concrete poems.'

 

The study of linkages is one of the broadest of all studies. Linkages / contrasts, are fundamental organizing principles of the site. I discuss linkages in many different fields and create new ones - there are many innovations here. Many linkages are  problematic and disputed. Astrologers find a linkage between human personality and celestial objects whilst skeptics find no convincing evidence. Scientific advances involve new linkages: Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation proposed a linkage between all the bodies in the Universe, Darwin's Theory of Evolution  proposed new linkages between organisms.

 

Most of the material is non-technical. The page introducing {theme} theory (which includes linkage and contrast) is one exception. (Another is my page on Metaphor.) I explain some conceptual innovations and go beyond natural language, developing a symbolic notation with many uses and substantial advantages. Pages which make use of  this notation include  Interpretations, some helpful hints.  Most of these concern topics in mathematics, physics, chemistry, philosophy and logic, including commutative operators, thermodynamic systems as partitions,  inverses of functions, indeterminate logic, induction, prefix notation, foundationalism, coherentism, S.I. units.