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Virtual ethnography – the Communication and Culture network
November 2, 2010 by Noreen Dunnett
Click on the image above to go to my virtual ethnography. Please could you comment on it on this blog. Thanks
19 Responses to "Virtual ethnography – the Communication and Culture network"
on 02 Nov 2010 at 10:10 pm1 martin
A superbly insightful ethnography…it must have been quite exciting to take a side step away from your work and analyse it from a different perspective. Great to see the positive comments, and the integration of social and informative seems to work very well with very positive results.
'A problem shared…' clearly is something which is true here 'respondents feel secure…benefit from expertise of experienced teachers'
Really enjoyed reading your work
on 03 Nov 2010 at 2:16 pm2 Jeremy Knox
Really impressive piece Noreen, and a very slick presentation. This ethnography felt quite objective, and I wonder how you worked with the fact that you were an 'insider' in this community?
Interesting suggestion here on community formation (the Ridings and Gefen quote): that the primarily motivation is the participant desire for information. I wonder how you see the social dimension in relation to this? For me, it is also the way that information is delivered in communities that is attractive to potential participants, in that it comes from other people, rather than static texts, or 'soulless' media.
Intriguing results from your survey, related to this. Sharing, support and security were valued, yet feeling 'part of a community' was not! Is there a misconception, or lack of faith in the term 'community? Would be interested to hear your thoughts on this.
on 03 Nov 2010 at 7:36 pm3 Dennis Dollens
Impressive survey design and implementation for research capturing original information from well planned workflow and organization. I was especially impressed with the dual goals for obtaining class and C&C data: that the project gave useful information back to the organization under study. The presentation maintains a smart flow between your activity, response and support from the likes of Kozinet and friends. Great work.
on 03 Nov 2010 at 7:52 pm4 Noreen Dunnett
Thanks for the comments Jeremy. Yes, I'm an insider but a privileged one, in the sense that I am the creator of the network and also the moderator and administrator. As the other members know that and I have set the agenda with my welcome messages it may be that this gives me too much power. I try to stay out of most of the forum discussions unless I have something unique to offer, for this reason, because I want members to feel 'ownership' of the network. However, I am still having to 'lead' a bit, putting up content, sending out regular messages to prompt members to come back and check out the latest discussions etc.
Your point about information being delivered to people in static texts was the very reason I moved on from the straight subject website to the social network idea. I have just instigated a simple, more visible text/file sharing facility on the network which I am hoping will increase participation and maybe encourage people in the social side of things. A lot of the respondents to the survey said they weren't interested in socialising which is why I came to the conclusion that Comms and Culture may be a 'community of practice' rather than a social network.
However, I also share your view that there may be a misconception or lack of faith in the term 'community'. I think people think that will involve more commitment and self-disclosure than they are willing to contribute! That is somewhat at odds with their comments that they valued colleagues advice and expertise, however.
on 03 Nov 2010 at 7:57 pm5 Noreen Dunnett
Hi Martin – thanks for the positive and complimentary comments. I enjoyed creating the ethnography, even if I don't quite have your gifts in the presentation area – yours was very cool!
Yes, it was interesting to use this network and it focused my attention back onto some of the practical problems we have been facing – a simple, visible way of collaborating and sharing resources. I've adopted an app called Box.net for a trial on the main page of the network and it is proving very popular with a selected sub-set of users so I may pay for a subscription and extend the facility to the rest of the teacher members.
The question of 'expertise' is a real matter of concern to the examiners who are members of the site because they were hoping more people would engage in a general debate about contemporary issues in cultural studies but people seem reluctant to do this and it may be a lack of confidence about subject knowledge since most Comms and Culture teachers are not specialists.
on 03 Nov 2010 at 11:08 pm6 Marie Leadbetter
Really great ethnography Noreen – I want to go back and revisit it in more detail as it has real professional relevancy for me too, at the moment!
on 04 Nov 2010 at 12:06 pm7 Michael Sean Gallagher
Let me join in here in the chorus of applause, Noreen. Well done and ethnographically speaking, I believe it gets to the heart of the community, as in as an outsider unfamiliar with this community, I feel as though I know it somehow. It really bridges the gap between insider/outsider and participants/observer. Well done.
I am curious as to the graphs of your statistics (Slide #6, specifically). Does the blue represent no of new students per month? Or active users/participants? I only ask as a person who does a lot of analytics work for JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/), this pattern ascribes almost perfectly to ours, ie the academic cycle of the year.
Blips in September (although interesting trend for September from 2008 to 2009 to 2010; why the spike in 2009?). Heady use in the autumn, dips in December (finals/papers/holidays) and then ramps up again to March (midterms, etc.). I could literally take this graph and map it over our use and it would be exactly the same. We schedule bug fixes, interface changes, other backend work around these use patterns as we know exactly when people are using it. Usage patterns are a big part of digital cultures, I think; they are the tools of the digital sociologist/anthropologist.
Fantastic work, Noreen.
on 04 Nov 2010 at 12:18 pm8 Noreen Dunnett
@dennis Thanks for the kind comments. It's nice that I have managed to make some of my research on this course relevant to actual practice. Since I left teaching in 2008, much of the work I have done on the Msc has been rather abstract, albeit highly enjoyable. Doing the ethnography has rejuvenated my interest in the Comms and Culture network and I have implemented a range of new features for members.
@michael – Yes the graphs show exactly what you said – overall membership growth against new members per month. The dips and rises do coincide with academic terms. I think the big spike in membership in 2009 was due to a concerted effort on the part of AQA (the examination board) promoting the network in their face-to-face teacher information sessions. I had a discussion with one of the principal examiners on the phone last night about linking face-to-face work with teachers with activity on the network in a more sustained way, as well as a number of other ideas such as monthly invitation blogs from different schools and colleges, a Twitter feed from the Chief Examiner etc. Be nice if they took up some of these ideas but it has to come from the community – I can only suggest!
on 04 Nov 2010 at 2:34 pm9 Sharon Boyd
Noreen this is fabulous – and I do think you've got a cool presentation!
It was wonderful to be taken through such a well-established community, and your strength as insider helped greatly with that. You were able to "take us" where we needed to go, and as with Michael's comments, I feel that I know it better as a result. I'm glad it also helped you, as you said, step back and get an opportunity to look at some of the problems that you had been facing.
Exceptional! Thank you so much
on 04 Nov 2010 at 4:20 pm10 Jen Ross
I'm really impressed also that you were able to make time to survey within your community, and with your willingness to take an ethnographic look at a space that you are responsible for. Nice work, Noreen.
Because the community has both students and teachers in it, I wondered about the range of power dynamics and levels of participation, and how this might play out – do students contribute to forum discussions? Are there 'student areas' and 'teacher areas'? If so, are these formally built into the community, or have they emerged? It seems like quite an unusual space – a non-classroom place for both teachers and students – that wouldn't exist in the offline world. Is this something you've noticed at all?
Both you and James (in his beekeeping ethnography) have noticed what Shirky calls the power law distribution of participation (also known as the long tail and the 80/20 rule) – that the vast majority of content in social systems online will be produced by a small minority of participants. It's pretty interesting that this appears again and again in all sorts of settings. I guess that's why they call it a 'rule'!
Shirky, C. (2008). Chapter 5: Personal Motivation Meets Collaborative Production, in Here Comes Everybody: the power of organising without organisations. London: Allan Lane. p109-142.
on 04 Nov 2010 at 4:52 pm11 Noreen Dunnett
@jen I've always had real misgivings about teachers and students being members of the same 'virtual community' and tried to deal with this unease in a variety of ways – by giving teachers their own 'group' within the network, membership of which was controlled by me and trying to get teachers to organise online activities within their particular institution group rather than on the main page forum.
I suppose I thought the students (who are 16-18) might start to see the virtual community as something other than social networking a la Facebook and start to see other uses for it and themselves as part of a community of practice. I think a few students have seen themselves this way and related very well to staff in this environment but it is the exception rather than the rule.
The other point of unease and ambiguity for members is the presence of exam board representatives – examiners, officials etc and the feeling of being 'watched'. On the other hand, these people's memberships allow other members informal access to information and advice about the specification and exam procedures and some debriefing.
The idea of a non-classroom space for teachers and students has always appealed to me but I have a non-hierarchical view of the teacher/student relationship as you may remember from discussions in SL in IDEL last year. I see teachers as facilitators, both off and online.
on 04 Nov 2010 at 9:00 pm12 Hugh O'Donnell
(Thanks for your feedback on my LATE submission!)
Well presented – clean, slick interface that I think my pupils would like…
I was particularly interested in the 'key' positive feedback features: sharing, security and expertise. To me this idea of security – which comes from openness and having someone there to help you – is KEY in the classroom, especially amongst less confident learners; something your study has highlighted is key to online engagement.
on 05 Nov 2010 at 4:09 pm13 James Lamb
Hello Noreen,
Great idea to get explicitly professional benefit from the ethnography!
On a different note, I'm interested to know know whether, having selected a community of which you're a part, you now perceive the community in a different way compared to before?
Not so much in terms of the statistical knowledge about the community, but whether having carried out the study you feel your place in the community has changed or whether you now look at it in a different way to before? Do you think you will now approach the community in a different way, or do you think people will interact with you differently?
I wonder whether your experience would be different to someone who focused on a non-professional (i.e. purely social) community of which they were a part?
As ever, interested to hear your thoughts on this!
on 06 Nov 2010 at 12:38 am14 Alison Johnson
Hi Noreen, yes great presentation. Really like the interspersed quotes, analysis and screen shots. This worked very well. Great points about core group and rapid growth in network demonstrating need. The fact some would donate money to maintain network also shows value. Also interesting points about level of personalisation of profiles reflecting level of embodiment or engagement with community. Did your analysis work out whether the core group all had richly detailed profiles or not?
Survey worked very well and great way of anonymising participants. – what did you use to produce it?
on 07 Nov 2010 at 1:23 pm15 Sindhu Radhakrishnan
A well refined work…
I got that nice feel from you as a 'MAKER 'and 'INSIDER' of this community. A community arise from shared interests and shaped to particular needs. Since this is a community for both teachers and students I may say it delivers that "Status Equilisation Effect" as well. From the survey results "Feeling supported and secure", "Feeling less isolated", I also receive a bonding touch. This has the potential to grow as a building community?
on 07 Nov 2010 at 3:04 pm16 Noreen Dunnett
@hugh I think I tend to approach most of my communication and interaction from my habitual teaching stance – as you point out, openness and trust, designed to make students or members of my network feel secure and supported. I'm really pleased it comes across that way to you too – must have got something right!
@james No, I don't think the study has changed my perception of the community greatly or the community's perception of me – I have always tried to portray myself as detached but interested outsider – I have been part of the community – I was a Comms and Culture teacher and student – but no longer in that role. I am still interested in the issues and the community but don't have the same emotional and instrumental stake in it. I think (or hope!) people value that objectivity but believe that I care about them and the community. Yes, I also think since this is a 'community of practice' it would be a very different experience from a purely social network – concerns are much more practical and based on the need for information.
@Alison – No strangely, the core group did not have richly detailed profiles – that is what drew my attention to this area. I expected the total opposite. I came to the conclusion that participants view this as a 'community of practice' rather than a social network and based their interaction on the practical need to exchange resources and information. I used Picasa with a free application called Autoviewer to produce the presentation.
@Sindhu – Yes, I saw this as a 'building community' too.
on 07 Nov 2010 at 10:27 pm17 Linda Matthews
The ethnography project conveyed a real sense of a learning community, with an ebb and flow of participation, underpinned by a solid central core. I really liked the way in which your own leanring and this project became a focus within the community itself and was then reflected back within this presentation. It was like a mirror to our own learning community, in a way we were 'present' through this work. Thank you.
on 11 Nov 2010 at 7:04 pm18 Charmaine McKenzie
Noreen, I really enjoyed this. As Linda said, there is a real sense of a learning community and the "ebb and flow" in participation she noted is something I saw in the community I looked at.
Like Alison, I like the way you interspersed the quotes, analysis and screenshots. The tool you used was also well used as it lent itself well to linking in a very meaningful way, the previous and following slides.
First class as usual, Noreen.
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Thurs 1 and every Thursday, Yoga in Wray Institute. 8.00 p.m.
Fri 2 10.00 a.m. to 12 noon - Feel good and be part of the
WORLD'S BIGGEST COFFEE MORNING At High
Ivah, Lowgill. This is one week later than the actual date.
Admission by donation. All proceeds to Macmillan Cancer
Support. For further details contact Carole Butcher Tel:
Wed 7 2.00 p.m. Joyful Noise in Holy Trinity Church, Wray. All
pre-school children, babies, parents, carers and others
Fri 9 An Auction of Promises in Aughton Recreation Room.
Viewing from 7.00 p.m. Sale starts at 7.30 p.m. Free
admission. Proceeds for St. Saviour's Church.
Sat 10 7.00 p.m. Tatham Fells Village Society Harvest Supper and
Domino Drive in the Old School, Lowgill. Adults £6,
Children £3.
Tues 13 7.30 p.m. Tatham Fells W.I. in The Old School, Lowgill.
Quiz Night. Annual Meeting. Visitors welcome.
Tues 13 2.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. Tooby's Electrical Digital TV
Switchover Roadshow. Your questions answered, and live
demonstrations. In Wray Institute.
Wed 14 7.30 p.m. Wennington & District W.I. in Wray Institute
AGM. Sales Table and Jacobs Join. Visitors welcome.
Thurs 15 6.30 p.m. in Wray Institute. The Friends of Tatham
Fells School present Loon Music with Theatre Mimi.
Five musicians and two miming artists travel magically
around the world in 80 minutes. Come and see them play
marimbas, saw, peanut tins and zither - not to mention
singing, accordian, bassoon, banjo, tuned wine glasses and
washboards. It will be an evening of joy, drama and music
adventure for all the family.
Adults £6, Concessions £3, pre-school children free.
Contact Kate Stone on 07802 440 106.
Fri 16 8.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. Waste Paper Collection at Lairgill
Car Park in aid of N.S.P.C.C.
Fri 16 7.45 p.m. The Countryside Society in Hornby Institute.
Simon Harlow will give an illustrated talk on "Wildlife
in Sacred Places"
Tues 20 2.00 p.m. Wray Over Sixties in Wray Institute. The speaker
will be Mr. Gavin Thomas from the Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds. Visitors welcome.
Sat 24 10.00 a.m. to 12 noon. Hornby & District Sheepdog &
Sheepshow Society Coffee Morning in Wray Methodist
Sunday School. Cake and Produce Stalls. All proceeds to
The North West Air Ambulance. Admission £1, Children
50p. For further details contact Margaret Wright Tel:
015242 21652.
Mon 26 7.30 p.m. Ewecross Historical Society in the Upper Town
Hall, High Bentham. Talk by Dr. Elizabeth Roberts "Food
in the early 20th Century". Subscriptions for the coming
year: £5. Visitors to individual talks: £2.
Sat 31 7.30 p.m. St James the Less Church, Lower Tatham. Tatham
History Society. A talk by John Wilson on 'Life in Tatham
300 years ago' explaining how we can find out about what
people did and what they had in their houses. All welcome.
Small charge for non-members. Light refreshments. The first
in a series of three winter talks (14th and 28th November see
page 5 ).
Advance Dates
Sunday November 1st 2009. 1.00 p.m. in Wray Institute FAREWELL
LUNCH to mark the retirement of our Vicar The Rev. Canon Roger
Hamblin. All welcome. For further information please contact Carole
Butcher for Tatham Fells (Tel: 63095), Mark Rowland for Wray (Tel: 22484) or Phyllis Holt for Lower Tatham (Tel: 21443).
Monday 2nd November 2009. 7.30 p.m. Cooking for Christmas with Grace Holland, in the Methodist Sunday School room, Wray. A cookery demonstration and tasting evening with a Christmas theme. Come and bring a friend and enjoy someone else cooking for you.
Saturday 5th December 2009. 12.00 p.m.Christmas meal for any over 60's in Wray village, more details nearer the time.
October 8th. 2.00 p.m. Ladies Meeting, Elizabeth Whitfield. Followed by tea.
Fellowship Meetings. 7.30 p.m. Supper to follow.
October 8th. Brian Ainsworth and friends from Capernwray fellowship.
October 15th. Mr. Bill Shane
October 22nd. Steven & Lynne Lawson and family
October 29th. Half-term. Family Quiz Night.
The old kitchen in the Institute is now not in use and one idea put forward at the last Institute meeting and supported by Dr. Sullivan is to convert this room into a more private consulting room for the doctor and possibly for physiotherapy and chiropody. If anyone has any other suggestions we would be pleased to hear about them.
The units in the kitchen are now not needed; if anyone could make use of some or all, please contact Lesley Wright Tel: 22311.
Police Lune Vally Pact Report August 2009
Your next PACT meeting is on Tuesday 3rd November 2009 at 7.00 p.m. in Cowan Bridge Youth Institute.
Speeding in the Lune Valley
Local officers are monitoring and conducting stop checks of speeding motorists in the Lune valley villages and will continue this campaign until Christmas. Persistent offenders can expect either fixed penalty notices which allow for their vehicle to be seized if caught speeding twice. This campaign is aimed at reducing and maintaining motorists speed to below the legal limit. Officers are also following up complaints made by the public of boy racers.
Poaching, Hare Coursing and Saboteurs
Officers are providing routine patrols to rural areas subject to recent poaching or hare coursing complaints. There have been no known offences committed during August in the Lune Valley.
Be aware of "conmen" from the North East selling large quantities of fish from vans and preying on the elderly. One lady in her 90's was recently conned into buying £900 of fish on the doorstep. You will be glad to know that the offenders have been identified and are in the hands of Trading Standards with an additional warning by the Police that if they return to this area selling such quantities again they will be arrested.
Can motorists parking in residential areas on pavements be particularly mindful of leaving sufficient space on pavements for disabled vehicles and pushchairs to pass safely.
Pc 327 Carl Wood, Caton Police Station. 01524 63333. 07769823181
Tatham History Society are holding three lectures at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday October 31st (see Diary Date) and November 14th - schooling in Tatham and November 28th Natural History of Tatham, the November
lectures will be in the Old School, Lowgill. The first AGM and a preview of new website on the history of the parish will precede the last talk. All welcome. Membership £2, or £3 for two at the same address. Membership secretary: Anne Wilson 63399.
Victoria Institute, Caton
Wine Tasting Evening. October 17th at 7.30 p.m. to raise money for the refurbishment of the Institute. Wine quiz, tasting and learn more about wines. Tickets £6 available from the Institute between 9.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. weekdays.
IT Courses. We are taking names for courses starting in January 2010, so please phone Judy on 015242 771733 to chat about how we can help you.
Family Photographs. Do you have any photo you'd like to copy or share with other people? We have a scanner at the Institute that will reproduce all your old prints - no negatives needed. Ony 20p per sheet, and we have photographic paper.
Drop-in Services. We have a great IT facility at the Institute, and many people call in for a range of services, photocopying or reading the local newspapers over a cup of coffee. Please come and visit - Judy will be there to welcome you. We are open Monday to Friday between 9.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m., so call in or ring us on 01524 771733.
Tatham Parish Council
The red Telephone Box in Lowgill Village has finally been listed thanks to months of work by Councillor Melanie Winstanley.
The Parish Council is working with County Council Highways to improve roads in Tatham, or at least to stop them deteriorating any further, an up hill struggle. Work is also in progress to designate more road side verges, as wild flower verges.
Tatham Parish Plan is being implemented with members of the public encouraged to attend Parish Council meetings, which are held on the third Tuesday of each odd numbered month, usually in the Old School, Lowgill.
Any problems can be reported to the clerk, Mary Tayor 61672.
Tatham History Society has been formed from the Parish Plan, Guided History walks have been a great success in Lowgill and Millhouses and a series of lectures have been held with more to be held in the Old School, Lowgill.
We want to say thank you to everyone who helped us to raise £3000 for research into Kawasaki Disease - a heart disease affecting children. Thank you for the generous sponsorship from everyone. Thank you to Ian Parkinson, Mike Briffett and Matt Buckland for being game enough to take on the Coast to Coast cycle with Ken. Well done!
With our thanks, the McGrattan family.
Twinning News. The Coffee Morning held in July for the African "Togo Project", raised £500. Many thanks to those who generously supported the event.
To celebrate 30 years of our Twinning, there will be a trip to Grez-Neuville next year, from April 9th to 14th. Are there any young people who feel they would benefit from staying with a French family? For more details, please contact Frances Hartnup 21465, or Chris Collins (Hornby) 21853.
Wray Produce Show Report
The Show went quite well but the total number of entries was down which was disappointing.
I wish to thank Brenda Mickle and Chris Conder for their continued support and help; to John Marshall who once again was a brilliant auctioneer; to the judges who have a very difficult job and especially to all those who entered and to those who left their produce to be sold.
Judith Wrigley
The Pottery. Workshops, Drop in, Commisions, Parties. Greenlands
Farm Village, Tewitfield, Carnforth LA6 1JH. Tel: 01524 784197
Em: email@example.com
Harvest Festival is a celebration of the food grown on the land. Thanksgiving ceremonies and celebrations for a successful harvest are both worldwide and very ancient. In England, we have given thanks for successful harvests since pagan times. We celebrate this day by singing, praying and decorating our churches with baskets of fruit and food in a festival known as 'Harvest Festival', usually during the month of September.
Harvest Festivals are traditionally held on or near the Sunday of the Harvest Moon. This is the full Moon that occurs closest to the Autumn equinox (about Sept. 23rd). In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September but in some years it occurs in October. With a number of churches in the Benefice our Harvest Festivals are spread over the later part of September and the first half of October.
Do come and join us in celebrating Harvest. There are special services and other Harvest Activities to which you are warmly invited.
Sunday 4th October. 11.00 a.m. Harvest Family Service
Monday 5th October - Harvest Supper in Wray Institute. 7.00 p.m. Tickets
Adults £6, Children £4 from Frances Hartnup 21465 by 1st October. The
supper will be followed by an auction of harvest produce.
Tatham Fells
Saturday 10th October. Tatham Fells Village Society Harvest Supper &
Dominoes, 7.00 p.m. in the Old School, Lowgill. Adults £6, children £3.
Sunday 11th October. 11.00 a.m. Harvest Family Service (with Tatham
Fells Schoolchildren)
7.0 p.m. Harvest Evensong.
Monday 12th October. 7.00 p.m. Sale of Harvest Produce in the Old
School, Lowgill.
Vicar's Last Sunday
The Vicar (Canon Roger Hamblin) will take his last Sunday Services in the Benefice on Sunday 1st November. There will be only two services on that day, 9.30 a.m. Holy Communion at Tatham Fells, and 11.00 a.m.
Holy Communion at Tunstall. (See 'Church Services' for details). These
will be followed by a lunch and farewell in Wray Institute (See Diary Dates for details).
4th October Trinity 17 (Wray Harvest Festival)
8.00 a.m. Tatham Holy Communion
11.00 a.m. Wray Harvest Family Service
7.00 p.m. Tatham Fells Evensong
9.30 a.m. Melling Family Service
11.00 a.m. Tunstall Holy Communion
11th October Trinity 18 (Tatham Fells Harvest Festival)
8.00 a.m. Wray Holy Communion
11.00 a.m. Tatham Morning Service
11.00 a.m. Tatham Fells Harvest Family Service
11.00 a.m. Melling Holy Communion
18th October Trinity 19 (St Luke)
8.00 a.m. Tatham Holy Communion
9.30 a.m. Tatham Fells Holy Communion
11.00 a.m. Wray Holy Communion & Baptism
9.30 a.m. Melling Holy Communion
11.00 a.m. Tunstall Holy Communion
25th October Last Sunday after Trinity
8.00 a.m. Wray Holy Communion
9.30 a.m. Tatham Fells Morning Service
11.00 a.m. Tatham Family Service
9.30 a.m. Melling Holy Communion
11.00 a.m. Leck Family Service
Church Services on Sunday 1st November 2009- All Saints (Vicar's Last Sunday - Note: Special Services)
9.30 a.m. Tatham Fells. Holy Communion. (For the lower part of the
Benefice, Wray, Tatham and Tatham Fells.)
11.00 a.m. Tunstall - Holy Communion. (For the upper part of the
Benefice - Tunstall, Melling and Leck.)
Vicar: Canon Roger Hamblin (21030). Readers: Ann Dawson (62936),
Peter Osborne (61029), Mary Winter (21784). Methodist - Liz Whitfield
Copy Date for the Wrayly Mail
Items for inclusion in the Wrayly Mail are collected from the tin in Wray Post Office on the 15th of each month. Diary Dates are free. Business
Advertisements are £2 per month. Announcements etc. £1. Please could a
name and contact number accompany each item.
Notice about the online edition of the Wrayly Mail
We put the September edition of the Wrayly Mail online but removed all the personal advertisements. We are planning to put the full edition online in January 2010. If you have any objections to your adverts being published online please could you indicate to Judith - 61455 or Chris 21588 or mark it on your advert, 'Not for online version'. If we don't hear from people before December 15th 2009 all current adverts will go online in January 2010.
If you would like a page on the village website please email
email@example.com or if you would like a link to your own website
on ours just ask. A link back to us is the only payment required.
Wray wifi network
Wray village is covered by a wifi network which is free to all. This is
provided by Lancaster University Network Research Special Projects unit. (NRSP) In return for free broadband we take part in their research and are what is known as a 'Living Lab'. The information we give them about how people use and need internet access is very useful for driving forward the agenda to get broadband out to rural areas. Currently the network runs on a 2 megabit symmetrical feed, which is slightly better than an ADSL one through the phone. Unfortunately (or fortunately) up to 180 homes are using it, and it is proving to be insufficient at peak times. This is proving that rural areas need more bandwidth that is currently available. BT have no plans to increase the feed, as rural areas aren't profitable. As you may know, many areas around Wray can't even get even basic broadband, and we are trying to help them as best we can. Our team is small, and more volunteers are always welcome. Contact us through the village site.
htpp://wrayvillage.co.uk or phone 21588 or 21978.
We hope to be rolling out the next generation network in the coming months. More details can be found on htpp://wraycomcom.org.uk
This new network is an experiment in P2P television delivery through set top boxes. It is part of a European project and will use 100 megabit backhaul to deliver TV programmes. If successful it could mean the end to tv antenna and satellite dishes! If you wish to join the Wray broadband network please ring 21588 or 21978 and you will be authorised for access.
The other ongoing project is the digital noticeboard in Wray Post Office. This holds an archive of very old photos of the area and also current activities. It can be accessed from home via the website, and you can upload any of your photos to it. You can also select any of the photos and send an Ecard to anyone in the world. The latest addition is a tickertape, which runs at the bottom of the screen showing upcoming events or information. If you would like to use the tickertape then just send a sentence to 'firstname.lastname@example.com and it will be added on for you.
Business Adverts:
Richard Hope - Wooden Gates. Specialist in Design, Manufacture and
installation of Wooden Entrance, Garden and Field gates. Robert Hall
Farm , Lower Tatham. Tel: (015242) 61455. www.woodengates.net
TEMPTATIONS- 31 Main St., High Bentham.
For: Clothing, Underwear, Post surgery bras, Swimwear, Nightwear, Hosiery, Knitting Wool, Haberdashery, Cash's Name Tapes, Sewing Machine Repairs & Service, Sewing Alterations & Repairs, Household Linen, Dolls House Miniatures.
Sole to Soul has a new home!
You will find us on Grasmere Drive, in the New building opposite the entrance to the car park.
As well as Chiropody/Podiatry, Reflexology, Massage and Healing, we
now also offer Food Intolerance testing, Detox Footbaths, Medical
Herbalism, Naturopathy, Counselling, EFT - and with more to come.
There are also a variety of courses and workshops available as well as
therapy space to let and a room for classes and courses and workshops.
Please contact us for information.
Our phone number is still 015242 63067 and the web address is
T. & P. Sedgwick. Windows, Doors, Conservatories.
Mobile: 07801441754 / Workshop 015242 21759
P. McLachlan - Plastering, Pebble Dashing, All general building
Maintenance. No job too small. For friendly service Tel: Paul
(01524) 730563 or mobile 07814149706
Mark Routledge PLUMBER from bathroom alterations to leaking taps, no
job too small. Ring Mark on 07900 558835 or Katherine Edge 01524
Jonathan Buss - Painter & Decorator. 015242 51809 or
07956 582565
Specialists in Stone & Brick Cleaning, Wet & Dry Blasting, Industrial &
Domestic, Steel Work, Graffiti Removal, Cleaning on or off site. Plant &
Machinery. Jobs of all sizes undertaken. TEL: 015242 21929.
Mob. 07795 456927
Massage for Health and Relaxation - The Smithy, Lodge Lane,
Wennington: Stressed? Sore muscles? Suffer from headaches? Is
everyday life becoming more of a challenge? Or perhaps you prefer to be
pampered? Massage; Reflexology, Thermal Stone Therapy and Indian
Head Massage treatments. Mobile/workplace visits possible. For further
details and appointments please contact Sarah Rycroft. Tel: 015242 21166
WRAY POST OFFICE-The local shop for magazines,cards,stationery,
wines and spirits, cigarettes, fresh produce, local Bowland sausage and
bacon. Small selection of mince, stewing beef, lamb & pork.
Fresh bread, sandwiches, pies and cakes. Fax machine @ 25p a copy.
Opening Times: Monday to Friday - 7.00 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.
Saturday - 7.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Sunday - 9.00 a.m. to 12 noon TEL: 21253
Trading Post - Animal Feed Store. We supply a wide range of feed,
bedding & accessories for all animals including, farm, horses, dogs,
poultry, birds & pets. Also fishing bait & tackle. Free delivery to Wray
and local area. TEL: 01524 781268
Greenhall Riding Centre, Tatham.
* Riding lessons. *Hacking. * Children's farm rides.
All now available by fully qualified instructor.
Telephone Rachael on: 015242 61594 or 07817918234
Steven Foster (CITB reg) Landscape & Groundworks.
Retaining walls, flagging, turfing, Gravel gardens, site clearance, ponds,
Drainage and groundworks, Digger, tractor and trailer work.
Free phone: 0800 955 8780 www.FostersLandscapes.com
Window Cleaning. Is your cleaner friendly & reliable? Does he clean
your window frames? Does he clean awkward windows? Does he clean
inside your windows if asked? Does he clean your conservatory & roof?
If the answer is no then call Nathan Harrison 22231 or 07775838719
Bridge House Farm Tea Rooms, Wray. Tel: 015242 22496
Open Tuesday to Sunday 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
"Wednesday Special" 2 course meal for £6.50. Sunday Roast Dinner
Served every week. WiFi access available.
Having a party? Let us help with your catering. Come and pick up a
menu for our takeaway buffet food. All made to our usual high standards.
Tel: 015242 22496
G. Walker - Local Handyman. Home Maintenance & Repairs,
Painting, Decorating, Floor & Wall Tiling, Gardening. Friendly, Reliable & Quality
Service. No job too small. For free estimate with no obligation call
Graham on 015242 22511 or Mob: 07704454264
Flat Roofing, Fibre Glass Roofing, Slate/stone Roofing, Velux Skylights
supplied and fitted, Insurance work, Storm damage, Like for like quotes
and a friendly service. TEL: 015242 22146, Mob. 07971387678 – Rod.
Kitchen Installations North West Ltd - suppliers of German Kitchens
by "Schuller". A local family firm with over 15 years experience and our
reputation built upon recommendations. Kitchens - Utilities - Studies.
Replacement work surfaces in laminate, granite, zodiac and encore. We
provide a complete intstallation service which includes joinery, building,
plumbing, electrics, floor and wall coverings. Visit our showroom by
Appointment. Unit 3, Low Mills, Mill Lane, Low Bentham. Tel:
015242 63388/61236 or 07831 151839.
email firstname.lastname@example.com
Bespoke Home Services: 1st class - Cleaning, Ironing, Shopping etc.
Hours to suit, reasonable rates. Phone (015242) 22239 or mobile 07999546776
Occasional Cakes. Orders now being taken for your top quality, Luxury
Christmas Fayre! Christmas cakes; Christmas puddings, Brandied Apple
Mincement; Pickles and specialist chutneys etc. Phone: Anna 015242
22239 for price list. It's never too early to place an order!
Steve Croft - Driving Instructor. High quality driving lessons from
experienced Grade 5 Instructor. Excellent pass rate - student discounts.
Tel: 07811 651590
Greenfoot Garden Centre at Bridge House Farm Tearooms, Wray. Tel:
21184. *End of season special offers on patio furniture sets and selected
pots. *Create a stunning spring display by planting bulbs now. We have
an exciting range in stock. * Plant up pots with pansies, violas, cyclamen
etc. now in stock. * Free container planting service. *Quality pots.
*Atlas untra lightweight garden gloves - an ideal gift. * Gift vouchers.
*Garden gifts. Free local delivery.
C-Hair. Claire Burrow Mobile Hairdressing. Specialist in cutting,
colouring, styling, perming, hair up. Wedding packages. Hair & Make-up.
Fudge-Wella-TIGI. Flexible appointments.
Tel: 015242 62383. Mobile: 07787325155
Farmstead - handmade jewellery designs to complete that perfect outfit or
for that special occasion/Christmas present. To book individual
consultation/parties in your own home or to view my collection.
Contact Louise 07900933652. Also jewellery repairs.
Yoga - Every Thursday 8.00 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. in Wray Institute. Mats
provided. All welcome. £5. Enquiries - Kathy Cartledge Tel: 61567
OLD SCHOOL, LOWGILL The Old School is a moderately sized
village hall behind the Church of the Good Shepherd, Lowgill and is in a
beautiful setting surrounded by fields. It is an ideal location for meetings
or parties seating around 40 people. The new kitchen is well equipped and
there is a good parking area outside. Rates on request. Equipment e.g.
tables, chairs, crockery, cutlery also available for hire at very reasonable
rates. Bookings/enquiries for meetings/functions are now being taken
By Gillian Middleton Tel: 62367.
Publications about the village:
The Wray Flood of 1967 - memories of a Lune Valley Community
A book written by a local historian with information from local residents
Wray and District Remembered by David Kenyon
David's phone number is 015242 21668,
David Kenyon, Kenmoor, School Lane, Wray, Lancaster. LA2 8QE
The book costs £15 plus p&p


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Former FBI director James Comey's much-hyped interview with George Stephanopoulos aired on ABC's "20/20" Sunday night, with huge ratings guaranteed.
What were the big takeaways?
It's on — Comey hit Trump full-force
Comey threw big punches from start to finish, beginning with some derisive comments about the president's appearance and concluding with the assertion that Trump is "morally unfit" to sit in the Oval Office.
There were many other extraordinary moments, including Comey's assertion that it's possible Trump is compromised by Russia; an acknowledgement that he considered Trump an outright liar since their first private post-inauguration meeting; and his insistence there is "certainly some evidence" that the president has obstructed justice.
There was also a shrugging dismissal of Trump's denial that he told Comey that he hoped the then-FBI director could let the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn go.
When Stephanopoulos noted that the president had denied saying such a thing, Comey replied with evident disdain: "Yeah, well, what am I going to do? He did."
The president and the former FBI director are now in a state of virtual war.
Trump has assailed Comey on Twitter in recent days as "a weak and untruthful slimeball"; "slippery" and "the WORST FBI Director in history."
There will be no cessation of hostilities anytime soon.
Did he go too far?
Given how Comey holds himself out as a paragon of ethical leadership — his book is titled "A Higher Loyalty" — it seemed incongruous to hear him mock Trump's hairstyle and facial coloring.
Comey repeated the detail, included in the book, that he assumes Trump has small white circles beneath his eyes because of the use of tanning goggles. Of the famous Trump hairstyle, he told Stephanopoulos that "it looks to be all his" and added wryly that "it must take a heck of a lot of time in the morning."
On a human level, it's easy enough to see why Comey would bear enmity toward Trump (and vice versa). And the president is, of course, famous for the aggressiveness of his personal jabs.
Still, Comey's overall approach is discordant with former first lady Michelle Obama's famous maxim: "When they go low, we go high."
Comey's assertion that it is "possible" that Trump is compromised by Russia will also likely draw some hot comment in the next 24 hours.
He provided no specific evidence to back up that claim. Critics will contend that a former FBI director should not make such an incendiary charge without providing his basis for doing so.
Fresh ammunition for both sides
Those who like Comey and those who loathe him will both find enough in the ABC interview to reinforce their positions.
The former FBI director offered plausible, detailed recollections of his meetings with Trump — and appeared to say nothing substantively inconsistent with previous accounts.
He also has at least some capacity for self-criticism, acknowledging the validity of other points of view and the fact that he has struggled with his ego for much of his life.
For those less favorably disposed toward him — on the left as well as the right — it's easy to see how Comey's earnestness can seem sanctimonious.
It's also noticeable that, for all the times Comey is willing to publicly agonize over whether or not he did the right thing, he almost always concludes that he did.
No big regrets
Comey was forthright about how he felt in the closing stretch of the 2016 election campaign, after he made his bombshell announcement that the FBI had reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
"It sucked," he told Stephanopoulos, adding that he "walked around vaguely sick to my stomach, feeling beaten down."
But he continues to defend his conduct in that regard, as he does his earlier public announcement that he had found nothing that would make a prosecutable case against Clinton. He also stands by his actions in relation to Trump.
In the full transcript of the interview, which includes many details that were not broadcast, he contends, "The honest answer is I screwed up a couple of things." But overall, he adds, "these were the decisions that were best calculated to preserve the values of the institutions. It was terrible for me, terrible. But I still think it was the right thing to do."
A shadow campaign is underway
The White House clearly sees the threat Comey poses. He has already proven himself to be perhaps Trump's most tenacious and dangerous adversary.
The pushback against him has come not only from the president's Twitter feed, but from the podium of the White House briefing room, where press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called Comey "a disgraced partisan hack" on Friday.
Media commentators on both sides have also joined the fight with glee.
The situation was ramped up further on Sunday night.
Just before the broadcast ended, the Republican National Committee emailed reporters with a rebuttal of some of Comey's points — a tactic more characteristic of debate nights than TV interviews during a president's second year in office.
One other curious quirk came when viewers, at least in the Washington market, got to see a TV ad defending special counsel Robert Mueller in one of the commercial breaks. The ad was paid for by a group called "Republicans for the Rule of Law."
If it wasn't clear before, it is now: We are right in the middle of a quasi-election campaign.
Instead of conventional candidates, it is Comey, Mueller — and Trump himself — whose fates hang in the balance.


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Jan Owen
CEO, Foundation for Young Australians
Jan is a highly regarded social entrepreneur, innovator, influencer and author who has spent the past 25 years growing Australia's youth, social enterprise and innovation sectors.
In 2012 she was named Australia's inaugural Australian Financial Review and Westpac Woman of Influence; in 2014 she received the Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of Sydney; and was awarded membership to the Order of Australia in 2000. She is the author of Every Childhood Lasts a Lifetime (1996) and The Future Chasers (2014).
Jan is the CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians and YLab, the global youth futures lab. Her lifelong mission is to unleash the potential of young people to lead positive change in the world.
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Tuesday, 30 April 2013
very quick post this week coz I have to finish what is on my 'desk' for tomorrow.
My good friend Lee is leaving our mutual work place for pastures new (boo hoo).
I left it a bit late to make her a leaving pressie.
I doubt if I will finish it unless I stay up all night . . . with the best will in the world . . . . it's not going to happen!
This is the desk or tray I am beading it on.... it is a small thimble box.
Here is my normal desk . . . looking very abandoned but has a fab pressie from Elisabeth the silver scrapper who has started fab giveaway every saturday. . . she is clearing out her massive book collection.
Lots of inspiration here so a BIG THANKYOU to Elisabeth
If you are kind enough to leave a comment I will get back to you . . . . eventually.
Usual rules apply please leave your Mr Linky no.
If you are wondering why I am showing this hop over to the stamping ground and see what WOYWW is all about . . . . the fab Julia keeps us all under control (almost )
see you on your desk very soon
PS I seem to hae deleted last weeks post . . . does anyone know if I can get it back?
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I love the colours you are using in the thimble box..very elegant indeed! And, lucky you winning that very useful looking book from Elizabeth...hooray!ReplyDelete
Sorry, can't help with the blog retrieval...I'm a techno dunce :)
Hugs, LLJ 27 xxxx
great looking workspace! I tend to procrastinate too and leave things till being Wonder Woman wouldn't get it done! I don't think you can retrieve a deleted post but if you can post it so all of us can know how. I don't know how many times I have done that! Hope you have a great week and thanks for sharing! Vickie #41ReplyDelete
Great post and nice to see such an arty mess to spy on. How lucky that you won such a great book from Elizabeth. Hope you made your gift in time for your friend. Check out LillyBo blog too!ReplyDelete
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I am not sure if you can get your deleted post back... perhaps ask on the blogger help forum? they are sometimes helpful...lol! Hope you get the gift finished soon....!! Helen 3ReplyDelete
Its very nice - great book too. Thanks for sharing. Sunshine Girl 31.ReplyDelete
Good morning, just popping in to say Hi.ReplyDelete
Loving your world this morning;
Hope you have a fun week.
Neil # 22
That's a gorgeous little box - such beautiful and intricate work.ReplyDelete
Hope you have a lovely week - looks like sunshine for a while over our way!
Diana #70
Wow, talk about picking a complicated make and leaving it to the last minute! It's amazing, and I know that Lee won't mind when you finish it, who would, knowing it was coming!ReplyDelete
beautiful beaded box. Happy woyww jenx 90ReplyDelete
Hi JanetReplyDelete
wow look at all those tiny seed beads you have been using my poor fingers won't let me play so much with them now. I think she is going to love the present it looks amazing. What a wonderful book
Happy WOYWW #204 and enjoy the rest of your week
Ria #44
Wow you sure make some fiddly detailed makes, beautiful! Lucky you to get such an inspiring book. Take care Zo xx 77ReplyDelete
Like the piece you were making- I always do the same, and think things will get done in less time than it will really take! Have a great week, Hugs, Shaz #81ReplyDelete
Your project is looking so detailed it will be amazing when finished. Enjoy your week.ReplyDelete
Sandra @101
I'm sure your friend will love your present, and I look forward to seeing it finished. It's awful when a deadline looms and you're running out of time, so hope you manage to get it done ok. Thanks for sharing and Happy Woyww Liz@57ReplyDelete
I hope you get your project finished in time.ReplyDelete
Karen #52
Hi Janet, your thimble box looks great - what a fab prezzie, hope you get it finished. MMx #56ReplyDelete
Your beading is beautiful. Thanks for stopping by. Happy crafting. #10ReplyDelete
What patience you must have to work that lovely beadwork. x JoReplyDelete
That is a gorgeous book and so nice of Elizabeth to surprise you with it. You'll have to go into your Dashboard or Design section and find POSTS and see if its still thereReplyDelete
Bridget #9
- Anonymous1 May 2013 at 21:13
Great desk! The mini album book looks very interesting. Happy Wednesday! SueC#107ReplyDelete
Great desk, the gift looks fantastic. Hope you get it finished in time.ReplyDelete
Sorry I am so late calling by but life has been manice here. I've been chasing my tail all morning trying to catch up with my sewing work.ReplyDelete
Love the beadwork you are showing this week.
A x # 37
That beaded thimble box looks awesome, love the idea of working on felt so the beads don't scatter, never thought of that! Thanks for visiting my blog, waving hi from the hills of North Carolina ♥ReplyDelete
Hope you got the pressie completed in time, Janet. It looks gorgeous and something your friend will appreciate. Thanks for the mention and I am so glad you are find the book useful. Love the photo you have taken of it ... maybe I should get you to photograph all my giveaways :)) Can't imagine how you have managed to delete that post and, of course, have absolutely no idea how to get it back ... the workings of blogger are a mystery to me. Hope someone can offer up a solution. Hope you have a great bank holiday weekend. Elizabeth x #92ReplyDelete
Love your busy desk and fabulous mini album. :)ReplyDelete


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Ideas within topic government,provincial: (click suns to rate or comment on ideas)
|States or provinces tend to spend all their income when the economy grows, then need to cut spending in a recession, just when more spending is needed. Countries should tax states in expansions and pay them in recessions in order to create balance.
|Put designs on the outside of concrete highway dividers for nicer landscapes.
|In case of fire or smoke in your hotel room, the safety instructions posted on your door should blink or light up to instruct you what to do and where to go for safety.
|To promote tourism, the tourism development agencies of developing countries can provide cheap interpreter-cum-guides. Teach the poor but intelligent youths some lesser learnt (in that region) foreign language. Help them & the region earn more.
|Governments should run shelters for all street children and supply basic food, clothing, health care, and education.
|When a 17 year old child gets a driving license, allow him to only operate cars fitted with GPS monitors to record where they are going, and how fast they are going. Monitor is merely a cell phone equipped with GPS system. Perhaps $250 for 6 months.
|Many tolled highways are avoided because of the cost. Instead, promote carpooling by exempting cars filled with three or more occupants. Prevents traffic jams and pollution.
|Bicycle with turning signals and green lights and a red brake light.
|Energy wastage fines. Thermal imaging equipment mounted on an aircraft could be used in winter over towns/cities. Wasteful buildings could be pinpointed and given a financial incentive to insulate.
|Send emergency SMS (short message service) alerts to emergency workers. Use special trigger that makes cell phone: beep loudly, override silence option, not rollover to voicemail. (disaster, tsunami, tornado, typhoon, cyclone, hurricane, earthquake)
|Change the food sales tax: instead of being proportional to price, make it proportional to calories. Like the tax on cigarettes, that would discourage consumption of fat food and boost vegetable consumption to reduce heart disease and stroke.
|Many elected representatives seldom participate in the debates of the parliaments/congresses. The media should publish some indexes of their participation in the parliaments at the times of elections.
|Prisoner mixing allows them to learn new crime methods and have the worst role models: other inmates. Instead, isolate all prisoners in cells (tiny, to save money) and provide job education and good role models via books and selected videos. (jail)
|Systemic corruption is partly due to inadequate rewards (compensation) for non-corrupt activity. Paying higher wages in areas where corruption is systemic will contribute to a reduction of the scale of the problem.
|To encourage more organ donation, distribute organ donor cards and pamphlets with documents everyone receives, such as driver's licences or ID cards.
|Given the problems that elderly people are having with declining retirement savings and having to work again, a temporary employment agency should be set up for old people that will focus on jobs they can do. (work)
|Send nutritionists along with the normal, required, health inspections to all restaurants and vending machine companies to advise on healthy nutrition. Many restaurants haven't changed their recipes in decades despite advances in health knowledge.
|The government should implement some sort of highly inexpensive electrified coil that would be strategically placed on major intersections to melt instantaneously all snow that falls, thus reducing the bulk of winter accidents. (driving safety)
|Heavily populated nations such as India face water on roads, canal jams, and mosquitoes. A solution is to construct drainage canals in a V shape so that the canals will not store mud and thus water. There would be free flow in canals and fewer mosquitoes.
|Maximum illiteracy is found in slum areas. Governments should require that all established schools have to open small branches in slum areas, providing free education by their teachers on weekends.
|Emergency plans are useless unless an actual test is conducted. National plans for dealing with pandemic outbreaks should be tested in as large a setting as possible. Percent of 1st responders who abandon their posts can be estimated from past disasters.
|To improve medical care in poor areas, use Barefoot Doctors--lesser qualified, lower paid practitioners trained to diagnose and treat simple conditions and to pass other cases to fully qualified doctors. Might be an additional nursing qualification.
|We need computer and camera control of evacuation routes. Do not let anyone onto highway unless they can drive route at 50 MPH. Make all drivers turn off engines until they are permitted onto highway. Do not allow cars with too little gasoline onto route.
|To reduce smoking, add the health care cost of smoking to the cigarette tax. Punish smugglers who tried to avoid the tax by making them aid nurses to care for lung cancer, emphysema, and heart disease patients who smoked.
|Smart cards are being impregnated into numberplates of cars by many city authorities for quick information retrieval about any vehicle and its owners. This can further be used to track cars violating speed limits. Tickets could be mailed to speeders.
|Hold credit card companies and credit reporting agencies criminally responsible for obviously negligent handling of credit info. The norm presently is getting your info wrong.
|Rather than having college graduates earn a degree with no professional experience, open a government-funded, university-related, charity business. Within this charity business, all aspects of professional work will be considered.
|To save energy and money and to reduce air pollution, set temperature in air-conditioned public and private buildings and transport (buses, trains) to no less than 26 degrees C.
|Judge schools not by testing, but by how interested the kids are in the subjects being taught. When you interest people in a subject, then they want to learn more, and more, and more. The fish that never bites never gets hooked.
|Liability (car) insurance should not be mandatory. Each person takes care of their own car and hospital expenses if a wreck occurs. (No-fault insurance)
|To reduce road accidents, require speed governors on large trucks and buses to keep them from exceeding the maximum regional or national limit.
|To discourage smoking, governments should produce advertisements with appeals by prominent people in society.
|Same phone number (with a prefix eg. 04 for the cellular) for the existing home and cellular phones, with higher charges for calls made from cellular. Simplifies storing numbers and paying bills.
|On multi-lane highways near an on-ramp, mark both sides of the white lane-boundary line (of the lane closest to the onramp) red to encourage traffic to merge left and warn them not to pass because of the danger of being forced off by merging cars.
|Make it compulsory under the Home Ownership Act for builders or individuals to install & use solar energy at least for heating water and external lights for home: a good way to reduce use of electricity. Roopa Karkhanis
|Mass produce hybrid vehicles to make them cheaper. Have a law that no non-hybrid car can be sold as of 2009.
|Repairs of pipes and wires under sidewalks require digging up concrete, which is very inefficient. Instead, install all utility lines under durable, removable plates, strips, or blocks of concrete or other material.
|The notion of having pedestrians point across the street when crossing should be revived. It not only alerts drivers to your intent, preventing collisions, but prevents otherwise-alert drivers from undeserved tickets which tend to be quite serious.
|It seems like double taxation to have to buy stamps from the government in order to send money to the same government. Perhaps more people would pay taxes if we were not required to put postage on the envelope to send it.
|To keep taxes from getting more complicated, pass a law requiring that any laws adding to the tax code must also delete at least as much text from anywhere in the tax code. Hopefully, this will also keep tax forms from getting longer.
|Reduce the number of staff people who work for elected officials. This will mean the officials will listen to citizens more, thus making democracies work better.
|Advisory eco signs should be put on traffic lights with suggestions to save fuel when driving, in an attempt to reduce the carbon footprint of drivers.
|To save energy, close the doors of air-conditioned buildings.
|To hasten the rescue of people in a disaster, emergency management agencies should have a couple of student interns watch TV and listen to radio to hear news of people needing help, and report immediately to the directors of the agencies.
|To quickly evacuate people from a dangerous region, make prior arrangements to order buses to designated pick-up points to take people to designated evacuation centers.
|Increase fuel efficiency: Use of digital cameras to identify cars on highways. 1. To automatically impose toll on road users without the need to stop car and then resume. Bill can be sent to address associated with plate. 2. To catch speeders.
|Non-Stop Traffic Tube Interchanges. An idea for traffic from all directions to proceed straight, diverging right or left and "U" turning in all road interchanges without stopping for traffic lights.
|To conserve water, require builders to replace old, wasteful toilets or other water "sinks" with more efficient ones to earn the right to build new homes or buildings. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA does this.
|Provide shelters (from wind, sun, rain) for people who are walking.
|In the present scenario of depleting ground water tables globally, it would be desirable to dig irrigation/transportation canals and to interlink various rivers as a measure of water crisis management. This way, the deficiency in water can be solved.


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Those planning to attend the Cross Road in Edenderry Orange Hall tomorrow (Saturday) at 8.15pm are in for a special treat.
Gospel singers New Dawn are back while Ashlene Wright will be along to relate how a Saturday afternoon phone call changed her young life completely.
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A Great Start to Grilling Season—Chicken Rhubarb
I know grilling season really could have started weeks ago, but in my house, the kickoff was last night—and it was fantastic! Most of the time, I'm one to sit at the dinner table and analyze tweaks that could have made the meal better. I try not to, because what I see as valuable analysis to help future meals comes across to Aurora as complaining, and she says it interferes with her ability to enjoy the meal at hand.
But that's another topic altogether…. This meal had almost nothing to quibble about—except for the fact that I was so wrapped up in making and eating it, I neglected to take any pictures.
Much of the meal was standard fare on my grill—grass-fed steak, potatoes, red peppers, garlic, mushrooms, mangoes, bananas… par for the course. But since Angstrom hasn't been much of a carnivore and one of the few animal proteins he'll eat some of is chicken, I got some chicken tenderloins and threw them on the grill; and because I had it in the fridge and I needed to cook it while it was still reasonably fresh, I cut some rhubarb into 3-inch lengths and grilled it, too.
The tartness of the rhubarb (seasoned with butter and ginger) went perfectly with the chicken (seasoned with salt and cinnamon). It was such a nice combination, I brought some for my lunch today—instead of leftover steak! Now, that's saying something.
If you want to grill rhubarb, too– a couple of notes from the session: I started it off over indirect heat, but it seemed to respond better to direct heat. This was fairly late in the grilling process, so the coals were already past their peak heat and on the descending side of the slope. One flip and pull them from the flame as they soften—you don't want it to overcook. It would also match well with pork.


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Mike Williamson is our Man of the Match for yesterday's game at the Hawthorns, when we suffered our second successive 1-0 defeat after Mathieu Debuchy had been sent off after 62 minutes for a two footed challenge, and West Brom won the game with a late penalty – their first win in 11 games – when they beat Crystal Palace 2-0 on November 2nd. 🙁
Mike Williamson – having his best season ever at Newcastle
Mike had another steady and stalwart game at the back for Newcastle, and with Coloccini now out injured for maybe over a month, Mike will continue to be an important player for Newcastle.
He has 43% of the vote and he's followed by Cheick Tiote in second place with 14%, and Cheick will likely take over the Newcastle captaincy in Colo's absence.
And it's interesting that Debuchy – who was sent off yesterday and will now miss the next three games – is still third in our poll with 7% of the vote.
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For me there are a lot of players I would sell before considering off-loading Cisse. I would trade him if it get us someone better though.
We should get rid off all or few of Obertan, Marveux, Jonas, Shola, Colo and S.Taylor in this window and try to get players can make us challenge for the big money.
I'm not worried about letting so much experience go now since we are in such good position in table that we can a survive worst case scenario.
If we fail get into money we might have to sell World-cup inflated player for big money in the summer.
Mike has been an unbelievable asset this season and really showed his commitment in games of late?
The forward line however need replacing ASAP and we can challenge for almost everything put in front of wor!
Hope we have a successful transfer window both in's & out's.
Our defensive players should be seeing more effect from our offensive play with a better margin of goals.
Need us back challenging foe Europa & More 🙂
Security footage from his office, top secret, got it from Belfast who's actually Indykalia….
Repost from previous thread but it seems relevant to recent posts on this one:
It'd have been good if we could have announced signings instead of reading of speculation and rumour.
Kinnear's been with the club since June and we've yet to see any evidence to justify him.
What is he for? What has he done that's of any value? Where're the signings he's asked to be judged on?
Answers on a postcard to Mike Ashley
Don't think anyone is any doubt over who controls the purse strings
But i think there's plenty of understandable doubt over exactly just what it is that JFK is currently doing to justify a wage!
In his words judge him by his signings, so far that's one loan player
Granted the window is literally just open but i certainly fully expect to see 1-2 signings, MA may not want to or see the need to make those signings given league position but it's JFK's job as our man with the "football knowledge" to convince why it is so very very important we add these few players and shift out some dead wood if were to maintain our current form and in there words continue to challenge
I have major doubts the JFK is up to the job tbh
Would def love to see that done as business! Get Marv and Obertan off the books and get in one quality player who actually makes the matchday squad
Someone earlier said about using Gosling as part of a deal for Ince, but why would Blackpool do that when they can get him for nout in the summer? In fact why did we even let him go out on loan why not just say £1 mil he's yours instead of letting him run down his contract elsewhere?
To be fair on Kinnear not signing anybody and bring Remy on loan is not that bad if you compare it buying couple of shit players on high wages just to sign somebody to prove he is up to something.
He addressed those issue he saw when he came lack of goals and lack of fitness.
Pardew probably did his best to convince him to give certain players a chance and wait until Christmas.
We missed few good deals in summer but a lot of them was bullets dodged.
True mate shame we couldn't do the same Obertan and Marvuex!
He didn't do much to address the lack of natural width which was the number one problem he identified
Remy was a deal that let's be honest can't of been that hard to do, we'd already had a deal in place once before and there were absolutely tonnes of people claiming a loan deal was essentially done before season even ended when it was painfully clear which way QPR were going
Faye Downey was appointed before kinnear so i don't think he can be credited with addressing the squad fitness either as that was identified the previous season and something Pardew had said he wanted addressed
I don't think he's justified his position in any way shape or form
Anybody think we'll bring anyone in? Remy seems to have faded a bit and really doesn't show much interest in staying with us past next summer. He wants a Champs League club which we aren't. We seem to be quite a streaky club in fact and we're in a losing streak right now unless we play brilliantly against Man City. It feels good to be back on the blog. A hello to everyone. I think a decent striker is in order with Shola in his thirties, Remy not interested in staying and only Gouffy and Cabaye to pot goals now and then otherwise. Surely we can afford one new player?


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Jane Carmody, DNP, MBA, BSW, RN, CENP, NEA-BC, has joined The John A. Hartford Foundation as a new Program Officer, the Foundation announced today. Dr. Carmody has enjoyed a long and successful career in health care with a focus on the care of older adults.
She has practiced in community social work, psychiatric inpatient nursing, intensive care, and community health care. She has held significant executive leadership positions over the years, including as Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) Health, formerly Alegent Creighton Health.
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