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National Honor Society for Radiologic and Imaging Sciences
Chapter Bylaws template can be found on the 'start a chapter' page here
Lambda Nu
National Honor Society for the Radiologic and Imaging Sciences.
Arkansas State University
PO Box 910
State University, AR 72467-0910
Fax 870-972-3485
Article I
Name, Location, and Color Identity
The name of this organization is Lambda Nu, the national honor society for the radiologic and imaging sciences. Lambda Nu is organized exclusively for educational purposes. The national office is at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas. Lambda Nu is herein identified by the organization.
Lambda Nu's name is derived from the lower case Greek characters in the formula λv, which represents the physics of the inverse relationship between wavelength (λ) and frequency (v), an essential parameter across the diversity of modalities comprising the professions.
In a similar manner, Lambda Nu uses the upper case Greek characters Λ and Ν to represent the inverse relationship and delicate balance required between the art and the science inherent in the radiologic and imaging sciences professions of radiography, radiation therapy, medical dosimetry, nuclear medicine, diagnostic medical sonography, cardiovascular-interventional technology, mammography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, quality management, and bone densitometry.
Lambda Nu's colors are maroon for the radiologic sciences, forest green for the health professions, and gold, the ancient color of honor.
Article II
The purpose of the organization is to:
- Foster academic scholarship at the highest academic levels
- Promote research and investigation in the radiologic and imaging sciences
- Recognize exemplary scholarship.
Article III
Accredited Radiologic and Imaging Sciences Programs may start a local chapter at their institution. Membership into the local chapter should be offered according to the following standards:
Section A. Professional course GPA 3.0 or higher on 4.0 scale after one full time
semester (or equivalent) of a professional program.
Section B. Enrollment in a radiologic or imaging sciences program as a full time
student for at least one semester.
Section C. Evidence of commitment to the profession.
Section D. Faculty members are eligible for membership by actively teaching at
the institution.
Section E. All members must register and pay national dues as well as meet all
Chapter obligations.
Section F. Honorary membership may be achieved upon evidence of
professional Recognition. Honorary membership is limited to 1 per
every 100 members per chapter.
Article IV
Board of Directors
The activities and affairs of the organization shall be conducted by the Board of Directors.
The Board of Directors will consist of 5 members at large. Vacancies shall be filled by action of the Board of Directors.
Qualifications of the Board of Directors:
Section A. Must have been a chapter director for at least one year.
Section B. Must support the purpose of the organization
Section C. Must agree to meeting twice annually
Section D. The Board of Directors shall elect a chair from its membership. The
chair will serve at the discretion of the Board.
Section E. The Board of Directors will appoint the following officers to serve the
Executive Director
The duties of the Executive Director are to:
1. Represent the organization, and speak only in its best interest 2. carry out the
purposes of the organization
3. Act to ensure the welfare of the organization
4. Preside at business meetings
5. Serve as ex-officio member of all committees 6. maintain financial records
7. Approve chapter by-laws
Executive Secretary
The duties of the Executive Secretary are:
1. To record and preserve the proceedings and records of the organization.
2. To provide for the safekeeping of funds, and assure expenditures are
according to the by-laws and the will of the Board and membership.
3. To assist in carrying out the purpose of the organization
Article V
Section A. The Board shall meet twice per academic year.
Section B. The following business will be conducted at least once per year:
- Review and approve policies, procedures
- Review and approve financial records and transactions
- Conduct of the business of the organization
- Award scholarships and/or research grants
Section C. A quorum for the purpose of conducting business will consist of a
majority of those members present at a meeting announced by the
Board of Directors through email at least 7 days prior to the meeting.
The presence of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum at all
meetings of the Board of Directors
Article VI
Section A. All funds collected will be handled through the national office at
Arkansas State University.
Section B. Expenditures must have the approval of the Executive Director,
Executive Secretary and Board Chair.
Section C. No part of the net earnings of the organization shall inure to the
benefit of, or be distributable to its members, directors, officers or
other private persons, except that the organization shall be authorized
and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services
rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of
the purposes set forth in Article II hereof. No substantial part of the
activities of the organization shall be the carrying on of propaganda,
or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and the organization
shall not participate in, or intervene in any political campaign on
behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office.
Section D. A financial audit will be conducted annually by an outside accounting
Article VII
Parliamentary Authority
Business of the organization shall occur according to parliamentary procedure practices as described in Robert's Rule of Order.
Article VIII
Amendments to the By-Laws
Section A. Proposed by-law amendments must be distributed to all Board
members at least 7 days prior to the meeting at which the proposal
is to be presented for vote.
Section B. A 2/3 majority is required of those voting for a by-law to become
Article IX
Validity of By-Laws
These by-laws are valid only when they have been accepted by the national Board of Directors.
Article X
Every director and contract laborer shall be indemnified by the organization against all expenses and liabilities including attorney's fees, in connection with any threatened, pending or completed proceeding in which the above-named individual is involved by reason of being or having been an officer, Board of Director, or contract laborer of the organization if the above named individual acted in good faith and within the scope of the above named individual's authority and in a manner reasonably believed to be not opposed to the interests of the organization. In no event shall indemnification be paid to or on behalf of any above named individual going beyond or acting beyond the powers granted by authority of this organizations bylaw. The foregoing right of indemnification shall be in addition to, and not exclusive of, all other rights to which such officer, Board of Director, or contract laborer may be entitled.
Article XI
In the event of dissolution or final liquidation of the organization, all its assets remaining after payment of its obligations shall have been made or provided for, shall be distributed to and among such corporations, foundations, or other organizations organized and operated exclusively for scientific and educational purposes, consistent with those of the organization as designed by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors selected the American Society of Radiologic Technologists' Education Foundation as the recipient of any remaining assets.


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Paul D'Arcy: If People Love Your Product: It's Time to Invest in Your Brand
Here's the secret: you are already building your brand every day.
Your brand is an extension of your product and customer experience. It's shaped by the commitments you make, the values you emphasize, the messages you communicate. Think of your brand as the way the rest of the world thinks about your company or product.
In a perfect world, a better product or a rational business proposition might be all that you need for success. But in this world, likeability and emotional connection matter. Strong brands inspire passion. New brands have the challenge of overcoming a natural human suspicion of things that are unfamiliar.
Shaping a great product into a great brand requires disciplined marketing execution that begins with research. You need to understand what your target buyer wants, what they think of you, and what they think of your competition. If you understand how your audience makes decisions, you'll be able to shape a message or experience that helps people fall in love with your product.
This, of course, assumes that you are doing something that really matters to your audience. If you offer a bad product or bad customer experience, it will be very difficult to build a good brand. You may build awareness but it will be hard for your brand to be loved.
See what other startup mentors have to say about marketing tactics.
At Indeed, a job search site, we hope to reach more job seekers by investing in our global brand. To measure our progress we track two simple metrics: "awareness" and "preference". To understand awareness, we survey people in our target audience, presenting a list of job sites and asking which ones they have heard of. This is "aided awareness," because we're prompting them with options. We also ask them without a list, what sites they think of when they think of job sites. The list that comes back is "unaided awareness." We pay particular attention to the answer they provide first because it's probably the one they know best.
Since awareness doesn't tell us what people actually think about the brand, we also measure preference. To understand preference, we survey people and ask them to make a choice: "If you could use just one job site to look for a job, what site would you use?" Then we ask them why.
When you do this sort of basic research, you'll find that there are people who aren't aware of your brand or don't really understand what you do. Hopefully, you'll also find people that love your product and can articulate the aspects that they are passionate about.
This is where the real work begins: you'll need to develop a strategy to win more people over. It's not about advertising or just telling a different story: it's about making the right changes to drive more passion from the people you serve. You may need to make product changes, refine your business model, invest in the customer experience or change your messages.
When you have this right, you'll be ready to share your story with the world. At this point, measurement becomes essential. We separate marketing results into two categories: short-term business results (new customers, revenue, etc.) and the long-term value of a stronger brand (awareness and preference). This allows us to look at our brand-focused investments in terms of net cost -- the total investment minus the immediate business results -- and to start with the activities that are positive ROI in the short-term whenever possible.
The challenge is that the results of brand investment are realized over years and not days. While there is a natural temptation to check daily revenue after a big investment, it's more important to understand the long-term impact of your brand on your business. At Indeed, we now measure the ongoing impact of brand investments on awareness and preference. But because Indeed's purpose is to help people get jobs, we also model the long-term effect on the number of job searches, applications and ultimately people getting hired.
For a product-oriented company, it can be difficult to make your first brand investment even when the business case is obvious. Prior to the launch of our first global brand campaign last month, Indeed avoided traditional marketing. As a company, we've grown to 140 million monthly users mostly through word-of-mouth.
For this reason it was important that our first campaign tell the story in a way that felt authentic to Indeed, our clients and job seekers. The campaign we launched, titled "How the World Works", celebrates the things that happen when talented people come together to do a job. While the campaign uses a broad range of traditional and digital media, one of the most visible elements was a TV spot that looked behind the camera to see the jobs that come together to make a commercial work. Instead of using actors, we featured real professionals that we hired directly from Indeed.
While this sort of research-driven brand building may seem beyond the resources of a startup, it isn't. You can email a quick questionnaire to a list, conduct an inexpensive online consumer survey, or conduct in-person interviews wherever your target customer might be found. By understanding the basic dynamics of your brand and investing to build more passion, your business will become stronger.
Mr. D'Arcy is SVP of marketing for Indeed, a job search site. He is a marketing entrepreneur and a former executive at Dell.

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Homework Vs Study
Homework v Study
These notes summarise the key points of a Study Skills Presentation by Ticking Minds.
This session highlighted the difference between homework and study, stressed that effective study involved having clear goals and suggested some strategies to help students with key skill.
Homework: the work a teacher sets every student in their class to meet course requirements and to prepare them for assessment
Study: what a student works out they need to do themselves to improve their understanding and skills.
Study =
- Understanding = what I need to know
- Skill = what I need to be able to do
- Recall = what I need to be able to remember
Skills across a wide range of subjects
- Define
- Describe
- Explain
- Select
- Determine
- List
- Use
- Compare / contrast
- Provide an example
- Evaluate
- Identify
- Justify
- Demonstrate
- Discuss
- Outline
- Name
- Interpret
- Be able to remember
- Be able to explain well
- Be able to use (examples, formulas, procedures)
- Be ab le to complete answer in a limited time
Effective study: Don't measure study by time passed, but by goals achieved
Setting specific goals for study sessions
- Examples
- 10 quotes memorised
- Improved the detail in m written maths answers
- Understood better what glycaemic index is
- Read and annotate
- Read the summarise
- Read then represent visually
- Read then create an analogy
- Read then explain to someone else
- Pick a subject , pick a concepts
- Tell someone else about it
- Record and listen back (iPod)
- Use flash cards (car, iPod, iPad)
- Create posters and put where you frequently see them
- Use acronyms
- Put to music
- Represent visually, explain verbally
- Submit something once for feedback
- Submit it again to improve
- Memorise
- Timed activities
- Use examples
- Use formulas and procedures
- Write
Planning time for homework and study
At the study skills session conducted by Deakin University, students were given with information about planning time for study and homework.
to download a weekly and semester planner produced by Deakin University, along with hints on how to use a weekly planner to help manage time effectively.
A 2017 yearly and weekly planner is also available for download on the VCE information page
Some study tips for VCE
Have a plan
Have specific goals for each subject, each week
Short bursts frequently over the course of the week
Some study tips for VCE from Deakin University
More VCE tips from Department of Education and Training
Studying for success in VCE involves more than re reading the class texts or student notes. Subject teachers will be suggesting strategies throughout the year and there are many strategies provided on web sites. This link is to " How To Study.org" which students may find helpful.


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Hitch-sail the Atlantic Ocean
ETA: Spring 2017
How to
Hitch-sail the Atlantic Ocean
Complete guide to ocean travel, crewing, and conservation
From West to East & from East to West
Why cross an ocean?
When to search and go?
How to find a boat?
What to expect?
What do captains expect?
What skills are useful?
How not to do it?
How to prepare?
What to pack?
What's it like?
How to deal with seasickness?
and last but not least,
how to make a meaningful mission out of it?
I have figured it all out! 3 crossings, 4 boats, how NOT to do it and how do it all over again. I've interviewed 40 hitchsailors and 30 captains to hear their story. I'm compiling all this information and inspiration into a guidebook so I can help you to make your dream happen as well! Including loads op tips to make minimize the negative impact and maximize positive impact for the ocean.
The ocean, our playground, our life, needs us more than ever!
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KISSIMMEE — Responding to what appears to be diminishing opposition to sex education in the schools, people involved with prevention of child abuse and school officials this week said they will work on preparing a special curriculum.
Sex education, per se, does not exist in Osceola County schools. A life management course, required for graduation, may touch on some aspects of sex education and fifth-graders are given a one-time class in growth and development.


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The latest love on the sewing blogosphere at the moment seems to be the beautiful patterns from Victory Patterns. I'm sure most of you have now heard of these, but if not, do check them out – they are really lovely. My favourite is probably Hazel, or Ava…but it's hard to choose, they are all lovely!
Do check out the blog too – it seems to be early days there, but already there is the most gorgeous tutorial for a smocked skirt up, which I'm sharing as our Tutorial Treat for today:
Link HERE
I haven't included smocking in my 12 in 2012 new sewing skills list…but now I'm tempted to swap it for something else I've got in the list!


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Alita Care, LLC ("Alita" or the"Company") is a leading national provider of behavioral health services with 15 differentiated treatment programs across the country. As the parent holding company for both Sunspire Health ("Sunspire") and Meadows Behavioral Healthcare ("The Meadows"), Alita operates two independently branded treatment providers with the highest standards of clinical excellence. With 10 treatment facilities across seven states, Sunspire utilizes evidence-based clinical interventions and an abstinence-focused approach to provide individualized treatment plans in intimate settings. The Meadows, operating from its 150 acre campus in Wickenburg, Arizona, has five clinically-renowned programs to provide treatment for complex substance abuse,eating disorders, process addictions, and trauma. Both The Meadows and Sunspire provide full continuum of care services and are able to support patients through inpatient and outpatient treatment modalities, enabling improved recovery outcomes.
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We smelled the tiki torches before we saw them. The faint smell of burning oil beaconed us the last few hundred yards, ending what had been a three-hour hike under an inky black sky and a billion stars.
The uphill walk was supposed to take 90 minutes, but the crunch of snow and the eerie blue light from our headlamps made the world feel completely foreign, and we were in no rush to hurry past the ghostly high-elevation scenes.
It would have been much easier to reach Scottish Lakes High Camp if we'd hitched a ride on one of snowmobiles, but the decision to arrive on foot seemed appropriate, given where we were headed: a remote, stripped-down alpine retreat 17 miles east of Stevens Pass, created for people who love nothing more than to play in the snow.
Soon the smell of the torches gave way to the ethereal glow illuminating a collection of quaint cottages under heavy blankets of powder. Tucked into the cleft of a squatty valley, half buried A-frames protruded like mushrooms, with only a hint of chimney smoke disclosing life within.
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It was near midnight, and we'd found our home for the weekend. The silence, and the glow of torches created a dreamlike world — perfect for those like us who believe that heaven can be found in the backcountry of the Cascade Mountains.
Not your average retreat
Scottish Lakes High Camp isn't your typical winter retreat. It's not the kind of place you go to to find ski valets, chairlifts, massage therapists or even electricity. If using an outhouse is a deal breaker, you should probably stop reading now.
But if you can get past the lack of pampering, and embrace the rustic mountain living, you'll discover a unique Northwest retreat, with alpine charm in spades.
Cabins are mostly bunk-style, single-room A-frames, surrounding a main lodge. Guests cook for themselves using propane stoves (weekend potlucks are frequently organized) and sleep under thick sleeping bags.
The result is a feeling of genuine mountain living, far from civilization, where guests break from their urban malaise with days of choose-your-own-adventure skiing, and nights huddled around a woodstove.
Explore at will
We awoke the morning after our arrival to bright sunny skies, with gently rolling hills surrounding us. Where trees once stood, timber companies had cleared large swaths of forest. But given that we were at 5,000 feet, more than 100 inches of snow made the scarred clear-cut look like smooth, enchanted meadows.
The founders of Scottish Lakes High Camp took forestry lemons and made lemonade, building a base from which backcountry skiers and snowshoers could roam among the peaks, then relax at night in the camp's wood-fired hot tub and sauna.
My companions discovered a pile of sleds near the central lodge, and we decided our first order of business was to follow one of the 26 marked trails to the promising sounding "Wild Bill Hill."
With skis strapped to my backpack and backcountry sleds in tow, we snaked up the hill, pausing every few minutes to gape at the panorama of jagged mountains that ranged as far we could see.
Soon though, the untouched powder beckoned. Sliders could be heard for miles shrieking with glee as they plummeted down obstacle-free faces. My "earn-your-turns" run was short, but very, very sweet.
Huge annual snowfalls mean that boulders and small trees are largely covered, leaving occasional pockets of mature trees to ski around. And surprisingly, for a high-altitude camp, we found a wide variety of avalanche-free terrain to explore: flat trails for when we were feeling lazy, steep and deep runs when we were seeking an adrenaline rush.
We spent the remainder of our weekend exploring a sampling of the trails that spread out like spokes on a wheel. Typically we would snowshoe for an hour or two until we were high enough to slide back to camp. Minutes later we would cozy up to a roaring fire in the main lodge with hot drinks and books in hand.
With a little more planning, we could have trekked the all-day route to the challenging slopes of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area, or a half-day loop through the open glades of McCue Ridge.
End with a bang
With most retreats, leaving is the saddest part, but at Scottish Lakes, your exit is nothing but a long glorious backcountry ski run. If you wish, you can ride one of the snowmobiles, but many guests choose to strap on skis and swoosh back to the parking lot.
Three different routes cut across wide, steep, untouched fields, bouncing through clearings and down little chutes. Advanced skiers can search out big, gnarly slopes, highlighted by drops into waist-deep powder.
It may not be a place for pampering, but with wide backcountry opportunities like these, who needs a ski valet?
For more photos of Scottish Lakes High Camp visit Jeff Layton's blog, www.MarriedToAdventure.com.


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Jacobstow Events
Jacobstow area Events and Actions, past and future:
Feel free to add whatever events you are aware of.
To add events just click on 'add new comment' and type in the details. To respond to an existing entry, press 'reply' at the bottom of the item and type ...
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Community Action Plan for Jacobstow?
Submitted by PaulS on 5 December 2008 - 4:01pm.
Here is an example of such a plan developed elsewhere. Could we at Jacobstow make use of it? Rather then re-inventing the wheel, we could start with this and change it as we see fit.


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On the morning of the 11th of March, a fire swept through a large portion of the Imizamo Yethu township near Hout Bay. The fire destroyed 3500 homes - one of which belonged to one of our part-time employee's, Nesta. Along with MAAK architecture studio, we are engaging with the issues at hand in order to best use our skills and energy to help Nesta and others like him.
If you are wanting to help but not sure how, we have built an interactive fund-raising installation that accepts snapscan payments. We are using the incoming funds to appropriately help those in needs. The installation is situated outside Rosetta Roastery in the Woodstock Exchange. Thank you in advance for your donation, as well as to Rosetta Roastery.
Our thoughts go to those affected by the fires and we are looking forward to collectively making a positive impact the best we know how.
To keep up to date with how our efforts are progressing follow updates on:
UPDATE 17 March 2017:
From: Crystal West
Subject: IY Update: URGENT Meeting tomorrow (Saturday) @10am
Date: 17 March 2017 at 11:32:39 GMT+2
Dear colleagues (kindly forward the email to the affected people in your organisation)
Things are moving fast in IY. The City, Province and National feel assured that they've sufficiently consulted the community in their proposed resettlement strategy (super block plan). On Wednesday the 3 spheres of govt presented themselves as a 'collective', working in partnership with the community. They'd apparently co-designed the layout plan during the day. It was interesting to note that after the completed layout plan was presented to the leaders/stakeholders meeting, the HoD of Province challenged the knee-jerk, short term proposed interventions. He asked why the adjacent sports field that was currently availed for the marquee tents (which by the way is not being used by the community for the purposes of sleeping) could not be used as an IDA whilst the IY settlement undergoes a thorough and permanent upgrading intervention. The City officials were furious and tensions between the 2 tiers of govt were clearly visible.
As per our agreement, Habitat (on behalf of the NGO's/Social Movements) shared our offer to partner alongside the City and the resident community in order to support them in a community led design process that will ensure that all members of the community are involved and take ownership. Our offer was noted by the City (!!!). We also sent a communication to this effect, to the City and later to HoD Thando Mguli (I copied you all in).
Essentially the City's plan is to have the site cleared by Saturday and for site marking to commence by Sunday. They will issue emergency fire kits once the sites are marked.
In the interim the leaders are reporting disturbing realities on the ground. Many residents have started to rebuild already. They've been asked to take their structures down in line with the City's plan. Certain individuals are inciting residents to ignore this and continue building (apparently due to their own personal agenda's). Thus, conflicting messaging is spreading and residents are becoming increasingly unsettled with tensions rising as they still do not know how many people will be accommodated in this new layout plan; and where the balance of the residents will be relocated to.
I've chatted with Moegsien earlier and we agreed that it is important that the intermediary organisations determine exactly what our role is now - since our offer to partner has not yet been responded to. We would need to ensure that we've taken sufficient actions to let the community know what was offered and if we are not requested to support them, then we should terminate our involvement publicly. The way in which things are being done at the moment poses huge risks for a disastrous outcome.
Having spoken to some of the leaders it was agreed that the NGO partners meet with the community leaders tomorrow, Saturday, 18th March @ 10am at the Fire Station in Hout Bay (just after the Police Station at IY).
Please let me know who of you will be present at this meeting. It is imperative that as many of the NGO's are there tomorrow as the City officials will also be at the 10am meeting.
Crystal West
Head of Advocacy, Habitat for Humanity South Africa
4th floor Letterstedt House, Newlands on Main, Cnr Main & Campground Roads, Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa
office: +27 21 657 5640 ext. 119 • cell: +27 82 327 4271 • fax: +27 21 671 1315
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Good morning...hope everyone had a great weekend...i sure did
today we have a new challenge over at Cupcake Inspirations
sponsored by Pink Cat Studio
photo of inspiration
i chose my owl image called owls clip art pack
colored with my bic markers
my papers are from colorbok "melon ball" stack also espresso stock
i also added some googly eyes, i just love those!!
i also added some googly eyes, i just love those!!
i added a today is the day sentiment
cute and simple
join in on this fun challenge and see what the rest of the sweeties have created @ http://cupcakeinspirations.blogspot.com/


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Wednesday, 20 July 2016
Yet another tidy up!
5 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Hi Loulee wow your sewing room is looking fantastic ,lucky hubby could pick your parcel up for you,have fun with your quilting machine,hope your day is a good one my friend xx
- 20 July 2016 at 13:48
- Janice said...
Looking good. The shelves look perfect there. Do you want to come and sort mine out? Have fun with all that batting. It should keep you quiet for a little while.
- 20 July 2016 at 23:47
- Diane-crewe said...
SO much easier to be tidy when you have shelves and cupboards to put "stuff" in and onto xx
- 21 July 2016 at 02:43
- Chookyblue...... said...
It's great when everything is organised......
- 22 July 2016 at 08:59
- nancy Murphy said...
Your sewing room looks great. I've just retired and am looking forward to spending lots of time in mine. Unfortunately it is a mess right now, but I'm going thru all those unfinished projects now to see which ones I no longer love. The unloved will be passed on to quilting friends. What brand is your quilting frame? I curently have a older Grace wooden frame for machine quilting and am looking for something a little more sturdy. I only do machine quilting on my own tops. I'm not very good at it hope to improve with practice. Thank goodness my family is just happy to receive them. Thanks for any info
on your frame.
- 22 July 2016 at 11:49


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Some of you might remember my post discussing the jump in Kershaw prices versus Verlander prices, basically it was all about me complaining that chasing Kershaw cards was getting too pricy. Well, the flip side of that argument was that Verlander prices were coming down hard. Trying to benefit from this I bid on the cool card below and to my surprise I won this one fairly cheaply !!
I hope Verlander will turn things around this year !! Let's hope he won't be to distracted by ice creams this year !
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Here comes the mother of all eco-wars
As we scrape the earth for every last drop of oil we can get out of it, there are going to be some big tradeoffs.
As we scrape the earth for every last drop of oil we can get out of it, there are going to be some big tradeoffs.
Having been born and raised in an oil town in Arabia, I've thought about this subject my whole life. I was thinking of something my Dad told me once. He really thought of economists as just a few notches above witch doctors and he said they had assured him oil had an inelastic demand, only to find out if the price is high enough, demand fluctuates dramatically, which is a little reassuring. I'm really excited to see what we can do here on the demand side. I think the world uses something like 86 million barrels of oil a day and that sounds crazy as all hell. My Dad would always lament burning it for fuel when we could use it to make jazz records as well as millions of other products. God, I miss him.
Anyway, I had an experience a few years ago. I was at the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago on a weekend looking out for miles and I could see endless freeways packed with cars. On a weekend. It dawned on me that there was no future in this. I might as well have been looking at the great herds of buffalo that used to roam the Midwest. The era of cheap oil is over.
You know those oil rigs with the arms that go up and down? I never saw one of those in Arabia. The stuff used to blast out. The hard part was capping the damn thing. Now they pump water in to help flush the oil from the field.
You know the truth about oil? It is as strong an argument that there is a God this side of Jessica Alba. I mean think of it. All this stuff just sitting underground waiting for us to use for energy. I've always doubted it was dinosaurs - I just can't go there. Maybe it was some kind of non-organic process or a methane producing organism, but ferns and dinosaurs giving us 86 million barrels a day? I don't get that. Maybe it was God or Allah or whatever.
Oil is one of the great mysteries and if we don't get a new energy system and the reserves dwindle, it will mean a population reduction in the billions. We are cheap oil. It might as well be in our blood.
When people get high and mighty about how much they disapprove of burning fossil fuels, I can only smile. Where would we be without it? What else have we got? Believe me, when this stuff starts running out, we'll see it for what it really is: heaven sent.
There is this intersting link on that site:
If the price of oil had inflated in the last few decades, along with other items we encounter daily, we wouldn't have our shorts in a knot right know.
Another good look at the tar sands is here:
What the people who want to pour more money into auto sprawl -- to build new bridges and expand roadways -- don't seem to get is that pedestrians, condo dwellers, transit users, and bicyclists are not your enemies -- they're your friends, because they aren't competing with you for gas. They're letting you have it, and you get it at a much lower price than if they were in the market with you.
Now that we are at the peak of global oil production, there will never be any slack until there is huge demand destruction -- which is only accomplished via high prices. Even if you consider the number of trips on Max and Tri-Met and bicyclists to be small, when there is no slack in the supply/demand balance, every person who willingly acts to reduce their demand helps all those who still use gas a great deal.
condo dwellers
Not if they commute to or from the 'burbs.
Their six or eight elevator rides a day worry me a little, too.
The elevator ride reference is quite interesting because it centers on gravity - where I think this is all going. First, we have to think big here and maybe spend big. These alternative fuels like ethanol and hemp oil are stop gap measures of which hemp oil is probably the best. But that's still like saying we're running out of horses to pull our carriages - let's try zebras. We need to make a leap along the lines of horses to cars and I think it has to be unlocking zero-point energy or being able to create a gravity field outside the main one. When people talk about UFOs many roll their eyes, but think of it this way: If we don't come up with something that slick billions of us will not survive. The ideal scenario would be that we already have the technology but it's secret. If we do, humanity could begin to migrate outwards. That's what we do best. You could argue that the problems mankind is facing right now are fundamentally a stifling of spirit as our explorer souls bounce up against the confines of a finite planet. I'm sure if you could go back to the horse and buggy days, and talk to people about cars, they would roll their eyes, too. It would all seem outlandish and even ridiculous. We need a major leap forward here or we are in so much trouble. I don't get too anxious about it, because humanity has a great track record at enormous leaps of progress. Just think where we were 100 years ago. Besides, wouldn't it be great to make that phone call to the Middle East: "Um, the world would like to cancel all our oil orders. Yeah, we've got a new energy source here." I bet we'd suddenly lose all interest in spreading democracy to the region, as well.
Alberta is a lovely and economically prosperous province, having been there several times myself over the better part of the last three decades. As for breaking the Kyoto treaty, even the Europeans are not living up to the worthless piece of paper.
Remember. Green is for pansies. And for plants and trees, carbon dioxide...well it happens, god willing.
P.S have you heard of the recent advancements in oil drilling called horizontal drilling. A lot fewer wells to tap the same amount of black gold down below.
Live, you who are drunk on guilt.
Bob, as someone who has had a long 25-year career in the oil and gas biz, it's clear that horizontal drilling has been a fabulous technological improvement that minimizes environmental damage to surface land in most applications. But this technology has almost no relationship to the tar sands oil extraction process described in that Mother Jones article, which cannot be extracted without heavy use of heated water (steam) which then, once befouled in the process, must go somewhere. You might consider reading the material first next time.
> but ferns and dinosaurs giving
> us 86 million barrels a day?
Well, it took a few billion years. That's a very long time. Amazing things can happen in such a long time period -- such as the creation of life.
I realize given a long enough time even the slowest processes could build up huge results, but I think it was more along these lines from a news story 6 days ago:
"Microbes have been discovered thriving more than 5,000 feet below the ocean floor, making them the deepest-living life forms known. The primitive organisms inhabit a place where temperatures reach 100C. They are thought to be archaea, a distinct family of non-bacterial microbe.
Scientists found the organisms in 100 million-year-old sediment samples drilled out of the ocean floor off Newfoundland, Canada. The deeper samples were hot and contained high concentrations of methane and hydrocarbons, which can be used as an energy source by some organisms."
When a dinosaur died, I imagine it got eaten more often than buried and pressed into oil with the oil eventually pooling together into vast amounts. I never have been able to believe that.
Bill, I'm assuming you read "The Deep Hot Biosphere", written by the late Thomas Gold? Fascinating theory on the origin of oil...
the North American Deck Chair Rearrangement Committee meeting is now in session.
I haven't read that but I've seen articles along those lines. I always used to ask if it could just happen geologically, but I was told that there were biological remnants in oil that proved it was ferns and dinosaurs. This alternate theory you mention makes a lot more sense. I'll use the term my Dad always used for anything tiny like microbes, etc: Critters. I think he got it from Pogo which he was a major fan of along with Mad Magazine. I have read articles about a depleted oil field that refilled although we're too far ahead of the curve to wait for anything like the world oil supply to be replenished. Cheap oil was a free lunch. We devoured it and our population soared. Some scientists call us Petroleum Man - that's how tightly our success has been tied to all this. In a way it's a race for survival. Oil gave us the numbers and I hope one of them out there is smart enough to get us to the next thing.
Cheap oil bought us time as a species but that time is running out.
Bill, (mostly), there is no 'forward' to leap. Space/time in fact has an absolute limit, a 'wall.' We the Humankind, are there, up against it. As an example, we split the atom, released 'atomic energy.' There is nothing smaller to 'split.' Gravity goings-on has got some good 'upside' potential, but, really, without going all quantum-quacky on you, not really. 'Really' as in reality. Just saying, scientists say 'this far, and no farther.' Any hoping that they're wrong, that there is something there they haven't seen yet, and so some miracle breakthrough opens in the nick of time to save us, is the same as praying for a transcendent (meaning: beyond real) 'God' to materialize fuel in your tank ... let us know how that works out for you.
About abiotic oil: 'Abiotic' is no biology, oil not made from dinosaurs and algae. Instead, oil made like lava, somewhere hot and heavy in deep geology, coming to the surface like in volcano caldrons. Science shows (and proved) it is possible; the only 'stopper' is the generation rate of abiotic oil. It took quite a few centuries to fill the underground reservoirs we drained in one century. Wait. They'll fill up again. ... wait for it ... you wait here, I gotta go get something to eat ...
About supply and demand: "... huge demand destruction -- which is only accomplished via high prices." That says lower demand is when fewer people have the cash extravagance in hand, to pay the exorbitant price for gas, so the customer line is shorter. Good theory, except for the word 'only'. The Bushbutchers thought of another, shorter way, 'via' which to 'accomplish' demand destruction and have already headed off that way -- and I say this gravely serious: fewer people. Literally they said to each other their plan is mass homicide, murder about half of humankind -- ever heard of 'ethnic cleansing'? how 'bout 'genocide'? how 'bout 'armaggeden'? how 'bout 'Master Race'? -- then the supply is twice as much oil for everybody left alive, which is as it should be for God's chosen Master Race, eh? (Sorry about the 'headed off that way' pun.)
The irony of it all is that after Bushbutchers murder Earth's human population, the oil still runs out. Besides, it kills off the 'workers' who 'produce' the oil, or research new energy inventions science. So the Master Race psycho-sociopathic misanthropes wind up back in the fields planting seeds and pulling weeds along with everybody else ... if all the water on the planet hasn't been poisoned first.
It really would be easier, and better for all of us, to just impeach the Bushbutchers and all the neo-con Republicans FOG (Friends Of George), and slam 'em in prison to talk amongst themselves the rest of their life. ... Now I gotta go get something to eat ...
Here is another look at the oil sands stretching from Sasketchawan to South Dakota. It's a primer on the 'production' process, too. The Bakken Formation: How Much Will It Help?, Posted on April 26, 2008, by Piccolo, a petroleum engineer working in the petroleum industry.
Also see this: TheOilDrum.COM/node/3839
April 15, 2008 - Unconventional Oil: Tar Sands and Shale Oil - EROI [Energy Return On Energy Invested]
Also see this: TheOilDrum.COM/node/3969
May 12, 2008 - Shell's Shale Plans...? (or Why I Am an Oil Shale Skeptic) -- "...it is going to take energy to process the oil. Even if the EROEI was 2 to 1, and I doubt it is, that would mean it would take almost a trillion barrels - all contributing more pollution to the environment - to process the [shale's] 1.8 trillion barrels."
Now I knew it was all Bush's fault, but Squatman, you are really slipping up here!!!
Narry a reference to LIARS? Man, you missed that one by a mile!
I really think that you may be getting yourself hinged, rather than comepletely unhinged.
Fix that will ya? Larson will be getting off easy without the Ten-hut Squatman on the job.


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As Windows Server and SQL Server evolve, Microsoft has hardened the products in terms of security. With Windows Server 2008, just being a member of the local administrators group is no longer enough. In the old days, that would give you administrator rights across SQL Server and all its components on that server. Those days have gone and rightly so.
Windows Server 2008 now limits the overuse of elevated permissions by actually removing administrator permissions when accessing applications. Of course, this does not apply to THE administrator. This gives the effect of a "super" administrator when using the actual administrator account. Other members of the local administrators group, for instance, will not have access to SQL Server Reporting Services until the administrator grants access explicitly within the application.
This is as it should be, but we had become complacent with the past ability of simply giving membership to the administrators group. This had serious implications as SQL Server became more diversified. Just because you are a system administrator for Reporting Services does not mean you should also be sysadmin for the SQL Server itself, or for that matter Analysis Services too.
Of course, this makes our administration of SQL Server more difficult, but appropriately so. For instance, to give a user administrator rights in SSRS, we need to explicitly assign the role of system administrator within Report Manager. We then need to add the user to the Content Manager role for the Home folder, assuming we want to give the user that role across all folders and reports.
So this is a big wake-up call for SQL Server DBAs. It's forcing us to apply security accurately. We need to focus on giving minimum permissions to do the job – nothing more, nothing less.
For more information, check out this how to article: Configure a Report Server for Local Administration on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb630430.aspx


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Subsequently we were able to find someone who could provide lasercut painted plates to cover it.
The first idea was in december, the plates arrived at the beginning of july. Because the "Tour de France" was passing by in Poelkapelle I could convince some people to help plating the framework in time to have it outside just in time for the Tour. And there it is and will stay as dummy tank on a pile of debris, stuck and immobilised like a tankrelict after the war as there were numerous, waiting for the real riding tank to appear, in honour of all those tanks and crews who so bravely tried to conquer Flanders fields full of mud, but had to wait for Cambrai to be show what they were able of and later on were so instrumental in turning the wave.
I want to express my sincere thanks to the volunteers who made this possible in one or another way and especially the newly involved people : Olivier Petillion for the hospitality, Peter Seys for advice, immense help and his tools, Chris Courtens for the plates and the help, Jozef Courtens for the help and the moving with his oldtimertractor, Stijn Butaye for the help and of course Dirk, supervising the works as he made the plans also. In the photo's you will see I did for once also use my hands ;-)
I may not forget the firma Parrein for lifting the tank on the debris, just at the opposite side of the road !
After the small tank on the roundabout made bij Stijn P. and installed in 2012, we now have a second full-size dummy at the outskirts in a beautifull environment not so far away from the road the real tanks passed trying to pass the Lekkerboterbeek, the small stream nearby. We are now waiting for the riding beast to be finished and indeed, several projects are in their planning phase to finish it. More news on it later.
a first trial plate, work of Chris and Peter
arrival of the beautifull lasercut and painted plates
Peter busy sorting them
positioning the plates
Johan, Peter and Chris fastening the plates, if you don't see Stijn B. working it's because he took the photographs, but was working as much as us, believe me !
Jozef and Chris fastening
the most difficult positions, I tried to do a lot of them myself, did not feel my arms anymore afterwards, I know not used to physical labor ;-)
Dirk and Peter taking measurements for the sponsons
discussing intermediate results
finished in time in the workshop
Jozef moved it with his oldtimertractor
like a real landship, Chris taking the steerwheel
delivered, but not yet at it's place
firma Parrein from the opposite side of the road in action
and there it is in it's right position
what a beautifull environment at Oliviers
a dummy stuck on a pile of debris, waiting for the real tank to come


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Yeah... this is a weird one. It's not really music, it's really just well recorded environments in different places in Japan. It's not weird in the sense that this stuff doesn't exist all over the place, it's just weird for me to post something like this. Each song title describes where & what is going on in the track. This particular album I have here has a lot of different locations, all of which are really chill. There's free downloads for this and other albums on their bandcamp, so go grab some good sounds to sleep to!
1. #2 Birds, Forest Reverb
2. #4 Birds, Early Morning
3. #1 Thunder and Hailstone
4. #3 Small Stream
5. #5 Stream and Bird
6. #6 Blue-and-white Flycatcher
7. #7 Gentle Ocean Waves
8. #8 Higurashi, Summer in Japan
9. #9 Rain, Totoro Forest
10. #10 Beach and Motorbike
11. Sound Portrait Sampler Vol.1


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Tarkan's Wembley Arena Show
Kick-starting his 2008 Metamorfoz Tour, Tarkan's Wembley Arena show is being hailed as a fantastic turn-out by last Sunday's audience and the Turkish media, even though the prestigious venue wasn't at half capacity, and the artist had suffered some serious setbacks, including a humiliating welcome at the hands of British customs officials a day earlier.
Attendance at the Arena
Attendance figures for the concert in domestic press channels show that less than half of the available spaces were filled at the prestigious venue. The organisers Absolute Events only managed to push 4,500 seats in an arena with a top capacity of 12,500 seats - which is reportedly next hosting a sell-out performance by US artist Beyonce.
It's rumoured that the failure to fill at least half of the places available at the world famous arena has been due to high ticket prices pushed by the organisers, and in large part to mismanagement from Tarkan's Turkish team in their slow response to take full advantage of some extra publicity opportunities that had been made available to the artist.
These are thought to have included additional TV and magazine reports alongside the BBC London radio interview that would have helped to raise Tarkan's profile in the UK - which is almost non-existent outside of the Turkish community with no international release or appearance in the country for over seven years - and that this subsequently contributed to the low turn-out.
Those that did attend the show and emailed Tarkan Deluxe, nevertheless, expressed that Tarkan had not failed to delight, as they had a spectacular time and that the price had been well worth the experience. The audience, alongside the Turkish diaspora and some English fans, included devotees from America, China and Spain - amongst other places - travelling far from home to see him perform live at the prestigious venue.
"I love you all very much. I'm not saying this to make you love me. It's straight from the heart, I really love you. Let's not leave it so long next time," Tarkan is quoted to have said to those attending the show by Turkish paper Milliyet.
The article also mentioned that Tarkan memorabilia were on sale, including T-shirts with Tarkan's image that many fans bought to wear for the event.
Singing his classic and newest Turkish hits (along with two of his English tracks), the artist's show lasted for two hours and began early when the scheduled opening act, rock group maNga, decided not to play citing technical reasons.
Reportedly, they had not been given the chance to carry out adequate sound-checks before the audience were allowed into the venue and so refused to perform.
Wembley Show and Public Reaction
Even though Tarkan had mentioned in his BBC London interview that there might be some surprises in store for fans, the artist sang no new songs and there were no surprise guests featuring on stage, although male and female dancers did accompany him during the live rendition of his classic hit "Hüp".
Tarkan's costumes were comprised of his latest suit fads, with three subtle wardrobe changes made during the performance. The artist's outlandish designs of previous years were not to be seen this time around.
The light effects were the usual displays used, with no exceptional differences from past international concerts, even though it had been rumoured Tarkan was preparing to dazzle his fans with some new special effects for the Wembley outing.
Turkish paper Hürriyet provides a gallery of photos of the event from the lens of London based photographer Fuat Erman, and those interested can view the photos at the end of this post.
In the last two days, Tarkan Deluxe has been inundated with emails from fans and readers sharing news links and personal experiences directly after the show, but an editorial decision had been made to delay publication.
This was so as to get the necessary publishing permissions and to give those Tarkan community members, that spent their time and money to participate in the event, a chance to share their memories and information of the day with others first.
Fans have also been asking whether Ali Yildirim was at the concert. Mr Yildirim is currently away spending quality time with his family and was regretfully unable to attend the show.
Turkish Media Coverage of the Visa Violation
The Turkish press, while giving wide coverage to Tarkan's Wembley Arena concert in England last Sunday, also included news that Tarkan was almost refused entry into the UK because of visa problems.
Tarkan had flown to London from Istanbul a day before his hotly-anticipated 13 April Wembley Arena concert with British Airways.
"Tarkan's English Torment"
Turkish news agency İhlas Haber Ajans ran the news as "Tarkan's English Torment", reporting that the artist managed to give a show that "shook London", despite being forced to experience the humiliation of being kept for over two hours at British customs a day earlier.
"...You know they were almost going to send me back, I swear. I'm being honest. There was a problem with the visa. Supposedly I applied for the wrong sort. Everyone was let through, but me actually. The whole band went through, I was left. I waited two and half hours. I had a permit too, a working permit. But sometimes the English can cause problems.
"To be honest, I was secretly hurt a little. I'm of the opinion that they should make it easier for people like us. We go through a lot of difficulties when travelling," Tarkan was quoted as having said to reporters after the concert, which can also be seen in the video footage provided along with the İHA report.
The video is a montage of excerpts from the day of the concert, and includes reporters questioning the artist after the show. It also shows maNga on stage apologising for not performing before Tarkan takes to the stage, and it can be viewed, courtesy of the İHA, at the end of this post.
Other News Reports
Meanwhile, NTVMSNBC gave a short account of Tarkan "having filled Wembley Arena" with almost 5,000 fans, though failed to mention Tarkan's problematic entry into the country, preferring to focus on the news that press photographers' cameras were collected by the venue's security personnel, which other news reports claim was done at the request of the star himself.
Haberturk covered both aspects of the story, however, in a re-print of the NTVMSNBC report and by following the news lead released by İHA about the UK's near-block to the artist entering the country.
Turkish paper Hürriyet's magazine supplement Kelebek also went with two articles; one followed the original story published by the İHA, while the second gave more information on the visa problems the artist encountered while trying to enter the country.
Press Rumours: Passport Confiscated, Ordered to Leave
Detailing that Tarkan's passport was confiscated by British customs officers, the Kelebek article revealed the artist's fear of almost not showing up for the concert and alleged he was only allowed to enter the country after the Turkish Embassy intervened on his behalf, with the harassed artist ordered to leave the country straight after the show was over.
However, Tarkan denied any such intervention by official channels when asked whether the rumour was true by reporters on the video footage provided by İHA.
The Kelebek article went on to publish rumours that visa difficulties were not the only problems endured by the artist that day. To add insult to injury, British Airways reportedly also lost Tarkan and his girlfriend's luggage, which had been left in Istanbul and were sent over on a following flight.
Tarkan Talks to Turkish Press
Hürriyet's magazine supplement goes on to transcribe in part some other issues that Tarkan talked about with reporters after the show, as provided by the İHA's video footage.
Amongst other things asked by reporters, Tarkan responded to questions on marriage, future concerts, his English album venture and relationships with female song-writers Sezen Aksu and Nazan Öncel.
Marriage and Mentors
Saying of the concert, "It was a super concert. When time allows, I'll always be with him at his concerts," Tarkan's long-term girlfriend Bilge Öztürk denied marriage rumours : "We didn't get married, we don't have a date for the wedding. We've been together for seven years and we're very happy. If we get married we'd tell you, why should we hide it..."
Tarkan, on the other hand, reportedly responded by saying: "Who invented marriage, I'm really curious to know. I don't see any successful marriages in my community. There's no possibility of a marriage date."
However, when a journalist on the İHA's video queried whether his girlfriend, after seven years, was "probably expecting a marriage proposal", the article writes that Öztürk reportedly replied from inside the car to say, "You bet!"
On a question about where Tarkan was going to appear next in the world, the artist was filmed replying that he believed he had dates in Russia and Antalya in Turkey. These might be the two festivals that have been circulating in the press, although a Russian outing has yet to be confirmed by the artist's official site.
Turning to issues with other artists, when Tarkan was reminded about his turbulent relationships with musical collaborators Aksu and Öncel, the Kelebek article wrote that he responded by saying, "I love both of them very much. Currently I'm on speaking terms with both of them. I get offended, hurt and angry, but I have a deep connection of hearts with them. I love them both."
In the video footage, Tarkan also mentioned the Aksu collaborations that he removed from the 2007 album, stating that Aksu herself told him to take them out as the album had taken a different, more pop-heavy direction.
In relation to a respected folk artist's comment that his English album had been a mistake, "I tried the English album, good or bad. Maybe I'll try again. The important thing is to try," he explained.
And finally, when the artist was questioned about any Turkish TV appearances, specifically the campaign by Turkish talk-show host Beyazıt Öztürk (known as Beyaz) to get him on TV, the artist was evasive, merely commenting that he sometimes watched the show, and blew the presenter a kiss - prompting fans to speculate that Tarkan might make a surprise appearance on Kanal D's late night entertainment slot.
News had been released of plans for Tarkan to appear at MTV's Turkish studios, however, Turkish fans are still waiting for their favourite pop idol to appear on their home screens.
Video and Photographs of Tarkan at Wembley Arena
|Video footage (5.31 MB/06.38 mins) courtesy of IHA, pictures from Hürriyet Fotogaleri
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Massive increase in police use of terrorism stop and search
Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:42:00 GMT
Chris Grayling reacts to new Home Office figures revealing a huge increase in the number of people being stopped and searched by the police as potential terrorists.
Many people, particularly amateur photographers, have said that the Government has allowed the police to misuse counter-terror powers to target innocent tourists and bystanders.
"Gordon Brown and Labour have trampled our civil liberties for far too long", said Grayling.
"Whether they're trying to impose ID cards, or allowing hundreds of thousands of innocent people to be stopped and searched under Terrorism powers, they always seem to think the state knows best".
Figures show:
The number of people stopped and searched increased by 66 per cent between 2007/8 and 2008/9, the most recent year for which figures have been released.
210,000 people were stopped and searched in 2008/9 under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Yet only nine people were arrested for terrorism offences. That is 0.004 per cent of those who were stopped and searched under Section 44.
There has been a huge increase in the use of the powers in the last few years. In 2006/7, the year after the 7/7 bombings, only 42,800 people were stopped and searched.
"We can't go on like this", added Grayling. "Conservatives will end the abuse of stop and search powers as part of a full review of all Labour's counter-terrorism laws".


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*From The Mary Sue a helpful guide to reading crossover events (Via The Mary Sue)
*Another handy guide from Jordan at TMS about the importance and unimportance of continuity in comics (Via The Mary Sue)
*Need some more help working out what comics to read? Here's a handy list of some of the web's best comic sites (Via Make Use Of)
*An interesting article on the portrayal of mental illness in comics (Via Slate)
*Varying slightly, this article looks at the use of comics and superheroes in children's therapy (Via The Daily Beast)
*Moving into the science world, can comics ever replace scientific journal articles? (Via Science Nordic)
*Comic demographics are shifting and the increase in female audiences is having a huge impact on the comic world (Via Business Week)
*Wired wraps up the best comics of 2014 (Via Wired)
*shifting away from comics proper, Empire runs through 40 surprising films that have comic book origins (Via Empire Online)
*Marvel films had a bumper year in 2014 with the release of GotG and Cap America and their announcements for the future of the MCU. According to Devin Faraci, 2014 was the year Marvel redefined themselves (Via Badass Digest)
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Olav Fjell new Nofima chairperson
The outgoing CEO of Hurtigruten, Olav Fjell, has been elected as the new chairperson of the Board of Directors of the food research institute Nofima.
Fjell, who holds a Master's degree in Business Administration, has previously served as CEO of Statoil, Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk and Postbanken. He also has a number of board positions in Norwegian industry.
"Nofima is a large and important institution in both a Norwegian and international context. The institute's role as a research partner for the fishery, aquaculture and food industries is extremely important and has a large growth potential," says Olav Fjell.
"Norway is one of the world's leading seafood producing nations. It will be exciting to work with developing this position and also work to strengthen our domestic food industry."
Nofima is Europe's largest industry-oriented research institute which engages in research and development for the fishery, aquaculture and food industries. The institute has around 420 employees and has an annual turnover of about NOK 500 million.
The main office is located in Tromsø, and the research activity occurs in Averøy, Bergen, Stavanger, Sunndalsøra, Tromsø and Ås.
Other Board members
- Eirik Selmer-Olsen, R & D Director, Tine (re-elected as Deputy Chairperson)
- Åse Berg, Chairperson, Agricultural Food Research Foundation (new)
- Einar Wathne, Deputy Group Managing Director, EWOS (re-elected)
- Renate Larsen, Managing Director, Lerøy Aurora (new)
- Janne Merete Rimstad, Sunndal Municipality (re-elected)
- Stig Fossum, University Director, University of Nordland (re-elected)
- Jan Egil Pedersen, Leader, Norwegian Food and Allied Workers Union (re-elected)
- Bjørn Inge Bendiksen, Scientist, Nofima (re-elected)
- Kristin Hollung, Scientist, Nofima (re-elected)
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"Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a kayak, his memory of who he is and how he came to be there is all but shattered. Now he must pit himself against the pain and rely on his instincts to get back to shore, and to the woman he dimly senses waiting for his return."
The publisher's blurb describes your latest novel "Cove" as the story of "a man locked in an uneven struggle with the forces of nature". Now the image that immediately springs to my mind reading that is of an action-packed adventure with the hero facing huge mountainous waves and maybe a killer whale or two thrown in for good measure, but I'd have imagined wrongly! How would you describe it?
Cove is about attrition, and faith. Those are the two things you need in the face of overwhelming odds; and Nature is overwhelming.
At ninety-five pages 'Cove' certainly isn't a long novel, and there's a feeling of everything being pared down to the merest essentials. How did the writing of it progress; was it always going to be this short, or did you start with a massive epic and chip away at it till the very bones were left? Could it even be a case of more words would not have added anything?
At one stage the manuscript was 30,000 or so words. There was more before the storm, and the story travelled past the point is ends now. But something wasn't right. I kept trying to write around that. It got worse. Eventually, I stepped away, let the book settle in my head until I saw it clearly, and went back to the desk months later. The story found its form around 11,500 words. That's why it wouldn't work at 30,000…
There's a thank you at the end which infers that at least some of this novel is written from personal experience. How much did that experience add to the story? Could you have written it without this having happened?
The thank you at the end is chiefly allegorical, but a number of personal experiences found their way into the book. I was on the beach when a lifeboat came searching the shore; I've been thrown out of a kayak in a squall (something about that here); I was visited by glow-in-the-dark dolphins while night fishing as a teenager.
The idea of casting a man out alone on a kayak, bringing in my experiences on the water, was in my head for some time, but it took years for that idea to fuse into a story. The lightning strike delivered the point of fusion.
One moment particularly terrified me – a point at which the kayak has drifted out of sight of land, absolute emptiness on all sides with no sense of which way to paddle to safety, then the man looks down into the depths – and it seems like he's balancing on the edge of a cliff and could easily fall over. I'd never seen water this way but as a person with a fear of heights, I'm never going to forget this image!
The surface is everything, in Cove. It's the place of awareness. The point where depth and space meet.
Dare I ask you to elaborate on that?
It is, absolutely, a physical thing too, the surface. But there's so much meaning in it - the meniscus that physically supports him; the place two elements (we are not able to inhabit properly - water and air) meet... it's both the tightrope and the safety net.
That image of a man precariously balanced (which again terrifies me) leads nicely to the next question ...
Although 'Cove' is the story of one man, I saw a wider relevance – that this is a story for any of us that feel we're out of our depths - and an echo of Stevie Smith's "I was much too far out all my life/And not waving but drowning". Where you thinking in this way when writing or am I being guilty of reading too much into it?
I was absolutely thinking this way. Ostensibly, I wanted the narrative to be straight forward and physical and limited to the capacity of one damaged character. But beyond (below, and above) that, it had to be massive, universal, ambiguous and faceted.
And lastly, although it's difficult to discuss without spoilers – how did you see the ending... I saw it as hopeful, other reviewers say it isn't. Can we agree that's it's at least ambiguous?
Ah! I just used that word ambiguous. I know what happens to him because the first drafts went past the point the book now ends. So why end it where it ends? Because the story should always go beyond the book. And that happens in the reader's mind. Would you survive? Make it back? Give up? Much of the ending relies on the character of the reader. Clearly, you believe in the outside chance. There's hope. Right?
Definitely! When all else is gone, there's still hope, or so I believe. It's interesting though that reviews may be letting us inside the reviewer's head ...
Thanks for dropping by, Cynan, and giving me possibly even more to think about!
Maryom's review of Cove can be found here
Cynan Jones' website can be found at www.cynanjones.net and you can follow him on Twitter as @cynan1975
Cynan Jones' website can be found at www.cynanjones.net and you can follow him on Twitter as @cynan1975


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Rather like chavistan or chavdad but with just the right number of syllables.
A place occupied by the scallyban
A place occupied by the scallyban
I'm not going to that fast-food outlet because it's chavganistan in there. There really is a scallyban regime going on in there.
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NEW YORK — A revamped financial rescue plan unveiled Tuesday by the Obama administration landed with a thud on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down almost 400 points to its lowest level since November.
Financial stocks were hit the hardest as investors vented frustration at the dearth of specifics in a speech by Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner.
Billed as a major policy prescriptive, Geithner's address gave little more than the broad contours of the plan, many of which already had leaked out in recent days.
That raised not only the specter of a substantial delay in the long-awaited recovery of the banking sector but also doubt about the ability of President Obama's economic team to deal with the challenges posed by the deteriorating economy and faltering markets.


text: This set of "Organ Miniatures" is a treat in so many ways. First, my favorite organist, Christopher Herrick recorded by the recording genius Paul Niederberger (whom I mention due to his technical wizardry in making this difficult to record instrument sound so life-like). Next, the running time for this set of discs is one-hundred fifty-six minutes, six seconds! There are too many high points on this disc to comment but I especially enjoy the Three-part and the Six-part Ricercare from the Musical Offering. I've never heard them performed on and organ and they sound superb. The 'Couperin' aria is another gem. Bach must have really enjoyed writing these pieces and it sounds like Herrick had a grand time recording them. One feature of Herrick's playing that impresses me so much is this: Whereas many musicians succumb to their egos and pompously try to stamp their mark on the score, making the music something it wasn't intended to be, Herrick allows Bach's music to speak for itself; Nothing flashy or gaudy here, no excessive ornamentation to ruin the music. He allows Bach's music to speak on it's own terms and this is what clearly seperates him from the crowd. There is a certain integrity in his playing. Another must-have disc, highly recommended.


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"Possessed of a voice with natural depth and resonance, Foster can nail any song, delivering it straight from the heart and soul. Her strong, open face; her beautiful smile and her easy presence, joking comfortably with the audience, make her a captivating performer." -The Reading Eagle
Payomet welcomes back Ruthie Foster! Foster is an award-winning player and singer, a warm and engaging performer who is taking several music forms regarded as classic and breathing significant contemporary fire into them. Her ability to tastefully whip out a bluesy guitar riff upon which she'll lay a soulful vocal should not be underestimated!


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April 21, 2011 in Copyright, Privacy
Once more users start engaging with the Lazy Cookbook I'm expecting to run into issues with recipes appearing here that the users don't have permission (from the original sources) to post here.
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Title: Screwed
Author: Laurie Plissner
Release Date: May 18th 2013
Publisher: Merit Press
Source: NetGalley
Flattered by the attentions of Nick, the cutest guy in school, seventeen-year-old Grace Warren, captain of the math team, lets down her guard and gets pregnant the night she loses her virginity. Hopeful that Nick will drop to one knee and propose when she breaks the baby news to him, Grace is heartbroken—Nick wants nothing to do with her. Her best friend, Jennifer, thinks she should get an abortion, but Grace is certain that her morally upright parents will insist that she keep the baby. After she comes clean to her super-religious, strait-laced parents, they surprise her by insisting that she terminate the pregnancy to avoid humiliating the family. But when she sees the fetus on the ultrasound, she decides she can't get rid of it. Deciding to save the tiny life growing inside of her, Grace must face the consequences of being that girl - the good girl who got knocked up.Starting a book with the prose version of the "How can you call it murder if it doesn't even have a heartbeat yet?" debate might make it boring for some people, but this certainly wasn't the case for me. That argument was the first amongst the many dilemmas for Grace, the main character here in Screwed, and even though I'm very much against abortion, I'm sure I would consider it too if I were in her shoes.
Grace was a typical goody-two-shoes with straight As, but even so, I never disliked her. I actually sympathized with her, enough to make me shed a handful of tears. She was naive and sometimes downright stupid, but it was nurture, not nature. I liked how she, for the most part, kept herself level-headed—the most obvious exercise of which was her choice to keep the baby. She also never made sure to blame the baby for her five-minute lapse of judgment, and she really surprised me when she decided to go through her senior year with her bulging baby bump for everyone to see. If that didn't prove the strength inside this twelve-year-old-looking seventeen-year-old, then I don't know what would.
But aside from understanding for Grace's situation, this book also gave me some characters to hate. First were Grace's parents, the kind of people I hate the most: church-going hypocrites. They volunteered for the soup kitchen and whatnot, but being the local head advocates of chastity before marriage, they were even worse than angry and disappointed with Grace when she told them about her pregnancy—they were hateful, all the time worrying about what their whole town would think of them in the face of the scandal. And second was Nick, father of the "bean" inside Grace, who thought of girls as conquests and planned to conquer twenty-one properties before he went off to college.
Although getting knocked up on her first time having sex—with a condom, no less—was nothing short of unfortunate, Grace still had luck on her side in the form of her personal support group. Her BFF, Jennifer, who was practical and sassy but ever-supportive; Helen, the ridiculously rich, loving, and helpful old woman who lived right across the street; and Charlie, who was a very nice surprise. I had absolutely no idea about his character because he's a no-show in the blurb, so forgive me if this is a little spoiler-y. Anyway, Plissner sure knows how to create an attractive gentleman of a character. Even if the growth of the romance between him and Grace wasn't shown very well, it was still believable enough to be sweet.
Admittedly, the plot could've used more complexity, but the characters shone enough to overshadow that. Also, the ending left me wanting a tad bit more, but it was still satisfying. Screwed definitely made me question a lot of my previously-solid opinion on teenage pregnancy and whatnot, and it has nailed down Laurie Plissner in my list of auto-read authors.
MY FAVORITE PART was when Grace went into labor—or, more specifically, that scene from Jennifer's perspective :))


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Leaflets and Resources from Local Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Services
Linked below is a leaflet for professionals from United Against Violence & Abuse. UAVA is the Domestic Abuse & Sexual Violence Service for Men and Women living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. This service began in December 2016 and includes a helpline and crisis and recovery service for primary victims aged 13+
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We met with friends the other night for a Merlot tasting party. The main dish was grilled salmon and I was tasked with bringing an appetizer. I decided to bring prosciutto wrapped prawns. It was a beautiful hot summer evening and I wanted something that was quick, easy and would compliment the wine and our dinner.
I've made this recipe by wrapping prosciutto, pancetta or even thinly sliced bacon – it's all good!
I was short on time so I opted for the prosciutto and I did not marinate my tiger prawns and the dish still received rave reviews.
Here's the recipe.
In equal parts:
- fresh cleaned, shelled and devined prawns (I used tiger prawns)
- fresh basil leaves
- prosciutto (pancetta or bacon) slices – cut to be around 1/2 inch thick and long enough to wrap around a prawn
- lemon zest, olive oil and pepper
If you have more time than I did the other night, place prawns in a bowl and drizzle with olive oil, fresh lemon juice, pepper and salt. If you like things a little spicier, you can add some red pepper flakes. Let marinate for 15 – 20 minutes while you clean basil leaves and the oven is preheating to 425.
I sprayed a cookie sheet with olive oil cooking spray. I'm not sure that I needed to do this – I couldn't afford a "do over" with my appetizer sticking.
This is so simple, it's *almost* embarrassing.
Take a prawn and place a basil leaf (stem removed) along the outside curve. Wrap a slice of prosciutto around the prawn. I start at the larger part of the prawn and work my way towards the tail. Place the wrapped prawn on the cookie sheet with the seam side wrap down. No toothpicks are needed.
Once you've done this with all of your prawns, place in the hot oven for around five minutes. Keep a very close eye as you do not want to over cook your prawns. I sometimes opt to broil the prawns instead of baking as it gives the mean a nice crunchy finish.
When the prawns are cooked through (flesh is white) immediately remove from the oven and place on serving platter.
Add a little drizzle of olive oil, fresh pepper and lemon zest.
Wasn't that easy? By the way, this picture does NOT do this dish justice.