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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, a recognition of the comprehensive failings of Jesus, 'St' Paul, many others.

A United States Patent has been awarded to me for my New Trellising System with 'dual layer structural units' for growing farmcrops with wide-ranging environmental and other benefits, described 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.

Controversies includes issues listed in the first section of the column to the right, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities: excellence and stupidity, Israel: defending, animal welfare: activism, Ireland and Northern Ireland, Amnesty International discredited, bullfighting: arguments against, action against, veganism: against, the death penalty, Green Objections, Sheffield universities, pro-Palestinian protest camps at Sheffield, Oxford: the case against.

The wide range of pages on Christianity includes the 'Hub Page' Church Donations: reasons not to give, with criticism of the Oxford and Sheffield Dioceses and the Church Army, the general page Christian religion: criticism. NEW: Church Integrity.

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. Word-designs: PHD-C concrete poetry and Innovations and new ideas: poetry and visual art are detailed accounts. Metaphor and Metre / Meter include new techniques in literary analysis.

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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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'
Gothic and Renaissance architecture

{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

Email address: paulhurt100@gmail.com

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.

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,' translation of 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.