Paul Hurt's linkage site: home page

Most pages (but not this one) use an innovation 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. At top of page, links are provided for
rapid page travel, travel within the page (to different regions of the page) and travel to other pages.

About this site gives some recent Google rankings for pages of the site

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

I've been working on new, very demanding projects. The time I have available for other projects is restricted. Now, I'm
working on a very new project which is already at the prototype stage.

Pages I intended to revise / extend, pages with formatting issues, will have to remain for now in their present state.
Many of the images on this page without a link to a page will be provided with links and text explanations but again,
the demands on my time will delay this work.

The 'New Growing System' is one of the newer projects. It has been awarded 'Patent Pending' in the United States and
offers a wide range of benefits in vineyards, orchards and in the growing of various polytunnel crops. The advantages
include very substantial and wide-ranging environmental advantages. There's detailed information on the page
vineyard-orchard-polytunnel-growing-system. The invention title is 'Integrated dual layer structure and structure-group 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.'

New Window and Door Extension System (NWDES) is my most recent invention, with a very wide range of applications, from

small-scale domestic applications to farming, industrial and large-scale architectural applications. Like the earlier
invention given patent pending, it has the potential for substantial, multiple environmental benefits. The application
process for the granting of a patent pending for this invention is in progress.

The greenhouse I designed and constructed and the New Growing System (images of the greenhouse as well as the
New Growing System are included below) offer similar advantages, aesthetic as well as environmental. The practical
advantages include effective plant protection in cold weather, effective ways of reducing internal temperatures in heat
waves, facilities for collecting and storing water, essential at a time when drought has become a major threat, and ways of
making use of natural precipitation to a great extent in this protected cropping system.

A full page article on the greenhouse design which I wrote has been published, with photographs, in the magazine of
The National Allotment Society (Issue 2, 2023.) Obviously, publication of the article by the National Allotment Society
doesn't amount to endorsement of any of the diverse material on the site.

PHD/C, Paul Hurt Design/Construction - Innovations for
farms, gardens, workshops, construction of small buildings, the home

PHD/C, Paul Hurt Design/Construction, offers genuine innovation, practicality
and a concern for aesthetics in the design and construction of

Agricultural growing systems, as in the invention now 'patent pending' in the United States.
Greenhouses - greenhouses with presence, flexible, adaptable, with large, removable panels
to lower the internal temperature during heat waves and to allow rainfall to water the crops in
the greenhouse, reducing use of hose-pipes, with water-collecting surfaces to conserve water.
Other water-collecting surfaces, directing water to storage containers, a pond or directly to plants.
Implementing green roofs, eg, the roof of the PHD-C Greenhouse, with 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 new 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, a swift nesting box, very different from all existing designs -
easily constructed, easily installed at a height without a ladder - it takes a little over a minute.
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, eg 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 safe working, e.g. in sheet metal work.
As well as contributions to design / construction in fields other than these.

PHD/C (which began as PHD) has never been a business. I have never earned money
from my work. It has been carried out for personal reasons but with the hope of
giving wider benefits. The time may come when I do start a business, although the demands
on my time will make that not at all easy. Other factors will make it not at all easy.

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.)

South Yorkshire Counter-Evangelism is an addition to the list of projects. It makes extensive
use of earlier work and has close linkages with issues concerning freedom of expression.
Its object is 'Scrutinizing and holding to account selected Christians, Christian churches and
Christian organizations in South Yorkshire and beyond.'

South Yorkshire Advocacy for Israel is another project. My page Israel gives more information.

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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}. 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
ruth tables
Digital electronics
Biological taxonomy
Aristotle's 'telos'
Gothic and Renaissance architecture

{direction}
Generalised 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 as partitions

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