It's been a week full of news and events, so where shall we begin. A while back we had the spectre of our T.I.C. being threatened with closure, this caused a flurry of exchanges here in the blogosphere about how Ulverston needed a website that was aimed at the tourists that were going to visit us. I have been part of a small group of councillors that have been quietly going about making this happen. We now have a new official town council website dedicated to supplying the information that we think our tourists will find very useful. The address of the nattily entitled site is www.ulverstonfestivaltown.co.uk. Please go and have a look and tell us what you think, tell us what is missing, tell us what is spelt wrong, etc. Ok, so it's taken a while but I think it should admirably do the job.
Still on a UTC track we finally saw pictures streamed from the webcams in the Hoad monument. This has been a long and torturous task for the installers as they struggled to get the signals beamed from the monument to the town hall in Queen street. Originally they were going to be beamed to the coach house at Ford Park but for some reason the spec was changed, don't ask me why. The first week has been a little hit and miss. Logging on one sunny morning I found the stream showing a night time image, another morning, which was cloudy showed me the sun going down the previous day. But the last couple of days it seems to have sorted itself out. It's set to refresh every 15 minutes, so don't expect to see a lot of activity but I'm told this is to reduce the bandwidth required. You can view the webcam from a link on the ulverston town council website, www.ulverstontowncouncil.org.uk Once the stream has settled down we'll put a link to it on the Ulverston festival town site.
Away from the world of high tech and down in the council chamber on Monday we had one of our few exciting moments when at the end of the meeting, the bit when the public are allowed to speak, one of our councillors stormed out of the chamber. You see we're not allowed to comment or discuss things that the public may choose to talk about. Our erstwhile Mayor, Mr Lister was being particularly strict last Monday and when one of our long standing members tried to interject he was cut short by the Mayor, who in no uncertain terms reminded him of the rules, (silly rules I think) but that's how it is. Well, next thing we know our out of order member is stood up, saying he won't be talked to, or insulted, or humiliated, or something like that and promptly left the chamber, a gesture which left us all open mouthed. The woman carried on with her short speech and the meeting was closed, but just for a moment it was exciting to be a part of local politics...........wow.
Still on a UTC track we finally saw pictures streamed from the webcams in the Hoad monument. This has been a long and torturous task for the installers as they struggled to get the signals beamed from the monument to the town hall in Queen street. Originally they were going to be beamed to the coach house at Ford Park but for some reason the spec was changed, don't ask me why. The first week has been a little hit and miss. Logging on one sunny morning I found the stream showing a night time image, another morning, which was cloudy showed me the sun going down the previous day. But the last couple of days it seems to have sorted itself out. It's set to refresh every 15 minutes, so don't expect to see a lot of activity but I'm told this is to reduce the bandwidth required. You can view the webcam from a link on the ulverston town council website, www.ulverstontowncouncil.org.uk Once the stream has settled down we'll put a link to it on the Ulverston festival town site.
Away from the world of high tech and down in the council chamber on Monday we had one of our few exciting moments when at the end of the meeting, the bit when the public are allowed to speak, one of our councillors stormed out of the chamber. You see we're not allowed to comment or discuss things that the public may choose to talk about. Our erstwhile Mayor, Mr Lister was being particularly strict last Monday and when one of our long standing members tried to interject he was cut short by the Mayor, who in no uncertain terms reminded him of the rules, (silly rules I think) but that's how it is. Well, next thing we know our out of order member is stood up, saying he won't be talked to, or insulted, or humiliated, or something like that and promptly left the chamber, a gesture which left us all open mouthed. The woman carried on with her short speech and the meeting was closed, but just for a moment it was exciting to be a part of local politics...........wow.
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