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I fallen a little behind in getting the 12 Days of Christmas Ornaments up so I'm going to get caught up!
On the 4th Day of Christmas, Stampin' Up! gave to me beautifully coordinated card stock. This ornament is a fun little snowman using a variety of punches and a few scraps of fabric and trim. I started with the extra large ornament punch and punched several ornaments using Whisper White. I folded each one in half and then glued them together for a three dimensional effect. I also fed some fishing line through the center of ornaments. I punched two additional circles from Whisper White using my 1 3/8″ punch to make the head. I drew the face free hand using my Stampin' Write markers. For the arms and legs, I actually used the Build-A-Bear punch, using my Stampin' Write markers to add the mittens and shoes. I glued the arms to the ornament body and tied the legs on using the fishing line I had ran through the body. The head pieces were glued to each other with the fishing line in between. I also added some Clear Tinsel Trim. For the scarf, I used some of the Candy Cane Lane Designer Fabric that I originally cut with Tasteful Trim. Every snowman needs a top had so I cut two squares and two rectangle strips from Basic Black and assembled my hat, still sandwiching my fishing line in between. I finished it off with some more Candy Cane Lane Designer Fabric.
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|"Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows…"
Although not today as it happens. On Wenlock Edge the wood's unruffled; barely a breeze disturbs the canopy of the trees, just a never-ending symphony of birdsong. No chill from the east, no squalls from the west; atop the ridge things are as calm and sedate as they are down in the secluded hollows. The May sunshine, following the long, wet weeks preceding it, has released insects in huge numbers, and for nesting birds, with youngsters close to fledging, the timing could not be more opportune.
The number of lightning-blackened stumps where the ridge stands at its highest above the surrounding land, suggests that the edge catches the brunt of its fair share of storms. A variety of woodland birds are not slow to exploit the weakened timber and excavate themselves a nesting place; among them the confusingly named marsh tits, which are, in fact, a woodland variety.
Expert birders might consider this to be cheating but the National Trust have built a hide, just off one of the main paths, and positioned feeders with a variety of seed mixes in a small cleared area. As a couple of non-expert birders, we were grateful for both the facility and the rest. One thing we did notice was the striking colours of the birds in the area, particularly those with any shade of red or red/brown in their colouring. Chaffinches, nuthatches and particularly a greater spotted woodpecker were all vivid against the pale green of the woodland. Whether that can be attributed to something in the soil (mostly limestone), the vegetation, or simply the quality of the seed in the feeders is anybody's guess.
What are those blue remembered hills?"
Wenlock Edge isn't a place I know particularly well. Sometimes, on the drive home from Wales, I'd use it as a stopping off place, pull onto one of the car parks dotted along its length for a quick brew, and then stroll a couple of miles or so before returning to the journey. I've never pieced all of those short sections together into a single day out; it's really more a case of half-remebered hills for me.

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Current Projects
The Learning Walk routine, developed by the Institute for Learning (IFL) at the University of Pittsburgh, is a form of "walkthrough" or "learning walk" practice in which school leaders conduct brief classroom visits on a regular basis for the purpose of observing classroom instruction. The purpose of this research is to assess the efficacy of The Learning Walk routine, structured by IFL as a strategy for developing school leaders that centers on developing leadership practice through the structured and scaffolded implementation of a kernel organizational routine.
This project examines the relationship between teacher instructional quality, student achievement, and the distribution of learning opportunities. Instruction will be measured through the content of daily logs and the ratings of assignment quality. These instructional measures will be used to predict differences in student achievement and learning outcomes.
This project's purpose is to develop and document the feasibility of a school-wide policy for documenting and sharing lesson plans, observations, and reflections. Through an iterative design process, the project will establish both a suite of electronic tools for creating lesson plans that promote known characteristics of effective instruction, as well as the social practices that support collaborative creations of and reflection on lesson plans. The final objective is to create a viable prototype of a systemic, integrated set of routines rooted in lesson planning that (a) improves the school organization; (b) improves the quality of professional conversations in teacher professional communities; and (c) improves the rigor, coherence and evidence base of instructional practice through deprivatizing, deepening and systematizing the ways in which teachers prepare for and deliver lessons.
This project is an investigation of (a) the policy demands within which the call for early algebra is rooted; (b) the ways in which the problem is currently being addressed by states, districts, schools and teachers; and (c) the effect on students' opportunities to learn algebra of the activities that are continually being put into place to deal with the problem. Despite scores of policy documents and increasing numbers of studies on early algebra, a clear and useful synthesis of where we are and what needs to be done next is not available. The purpose of this project is to assess and report what is known and what needs to be known about the "Algebra Problem" in order to mount an effective response to this challenge.
This study is designed to understand and assess factors associated with the development of cohesive school leadership programs. The project will document the development and implementation of cohesive leadership systems in 10 states and 15 districts within those states.
This project is a longitudinal randomized controlled trial designed to investigate the effect of a literacy coach training program on reading comprehension instruction and student learning in the upper elementary grades.
The purpose of this study is to identify the learning demands on teachers of various standards-based elementary mathematics curricula and to examine the relationship between those demands and district strategy, teacher human and social capital, instruction, and student achievement.
The MetaStudy focuses on ways in which the relationship between research and educational practice can be productively reconfigured. The approach is to empirically study nationally visible research-and-development projects that embody promising integrations of research and practice (e.g., the National Writing Project, Success for All, Lesson Study) and to extract lessons that can guide policymakers, funders and researchers.
A longitudinal study in California, Pennsylvania, and Georgia is being conducted in order to assess the impact of standards-basedaccountability (SBA) on math and science instruction and achievement.This project seeks to identify factors that enhance implementation ofSBA, foster positive changes in school and classroom practice, andpromote improved student achievement.
CaLL is a unique research and development community that will study three related robotic technology learning programs. This project willdevelop research findings and a set of design resources that will help informal learning organizations create and sustain programs that userobotic technologies to facilitate fluency in public program audiences.


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INsPIrE project: an action research project
In six European cities (Brussels, Barcelona, Cluj-Napoca, London, Mechelen and Tübingen), high education institutions and universities create partnerships with non-formal educational programmes and civil society organisations. By organising common courses in journalism and art, they involve young people who are usually under and misrepresented in the mainstream media and have them collaborate with students in journalism. This action research project aims at exploring innovative participatory educational and media practices, fostering media-pluralism as well as assessing the role of journalistic expression for strengthening young Europeans' social and civic competences. The project is co-funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union.
From 22 to 29 June, INsPIrE project and its media ENGAGE, organise their Summerschool. The programme includes media and artistic workshops dedicated to young Europeans from the 5 countries taking part in the project (Belgium, Germany, Romania, Spain and UK) as well as academic and professional conferences on media, education and citizenship.
We are interested in confronting INsPIrE outcomes and challenges with European researchers and professionals active in the fields of media education, citizen journalism, popular education.
This can be done by taking part in the formal academic conference on 22 June 2018, that will be followed by a further publication. This can also be done by joining panels within more informal debates, workshops and conferences on 27 evening, 28 and/or 29 June.
The languages of the conferences will be English and French.
As described in the enclosed call, we plan to organise debates around three main pillars. The first pillar discusses the principles, practices, aesthetics and impact of "citizen media". The second pillar concerns the role of media education in active citizenship. The third one proposes a reflection on the relations between high education and civil society. Communication proposals can be presented either as reflexive analyses based on empirical research, or as analyses of professional practices – testimonies about practices and analysis of the conditions of the action, its justifications, and its impact.
We also want to add a fourth session on local level European journalism and citizenship.


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Here's the newest version of the Rancor Monster. It's amazing how things evolve over time. I can barely see the resemblance:
|The answer will be posted at the bottom.
Woot, woot! A Ryno rookie! A Sandberg super collector can never have enough rookie cards!
Other cards for my player collections! Kyuji Fujikawa and Kid K. Nice.
Vintage? Why of course! And all are new to me!
I just showed off some '82 Topps yesterday, and here's a couple more of my faves.
Step back a few years in time and here's some '79 Topps. I think most know Davey Johnson, Dave Kingman, and Bruce Sutter. I threw Mick Kelleher into the picture because even though I know better, I want to believe he is the owner of a local watering hole I like to frequent.
Hack Wilson sure is getting a bunch of love on my blog lately. The Joe Niekro card, well, that's odd.
1969 set. Now it's in my possession again. I guess he already one!
I'm not sure if 1983 Donruss counts as vintage, but Lee Smith is one of my favorite pitchers. I've paired him with Greg Maddux, because they are two of the best to pitch for the Cubs during my timeline and I love how different their pitching styles were.
Here's a trio of Maddux shots from Bowman. They're all pretty similar; '89 on the left, '91 in the middle, and '92 on the right. For what it's worth, the 1990 Bowman card of Maddux is not a view of him pitching like the other three.
1990 Donruss! The Girardi is from the Opening Day subset, thus the blue border. I think most of you recognize the red bordered ones on the right, like the Dwight Smith.
Here's two of the sweetest swinging first basemen in Cubs history. One was a well-groomed lady killer (at least my grandmother thought so) and the other one possessed some of the bushiest facial hair in Major League history. Bushiest ever, perhaps? I suppose it's debatable. But, that's my stance.
Minis! The Hawk, another Grace, and . . . Marlon Byrd? Well, two-out-of-three isn't bad.
Topps Finest once put out a green set? Huh. That's... um... different.
A couple more of my favorites, but neither of them really ever caught on in Chicago. Although, Fukudome did earn an All-Star appearance.
I'll be taking these with me to Arizona for spring training next month. I wonder if Villanueva will be sporting the mustache again this spring?
And what about the hits? Sure! Here's a Luis Montanez, a former #1 draft pick, on card autograph!
Oh, and one more big score! My second one-of-one card and my first printing plate to add to my collection!
Jose Ceda pitched for the Chiefs in 2007 and wound up being the closer at the tail end of the season. He was pretty dominant and struck out 12.8 batters per 9 innings. The Chiefs' ballpark staff picked up on his success and when he would enter the game the scoreboard would flash "It's Ceda Time!!" He quickly became a fan favorite. It's pretty cool to have a printing plate of a player who actually has meaning to me and my fandom.
Wes, that was quite a package! Thank you my friend!
Whoops, I almost forgot! Here's the answer to riddle from above:
|Darn straight he does anything he wants. He's a Rancor Monster!


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From Physical Therapy to Egoscue July 5, 2009Posted by jeffrooney in Egoscue.
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I just came across a brief but interesting discussion from two women for PTs who now have a practice using the Egoscue Method in Virginia. They talk about the journey they took from having an active Physical Therapy practice to an Egoscue Method practice, what prompted their journey and the difference it has made in how they work with chronic pain conditions. Worth a look. The video is about 7 minutes long:
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Animal Drills July 5, 2009Posted by jeffrooney in Uncategorized.
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I am always on the lookout for movement drills and exercises that promote functional joint interaction, with emphasis on hips. I came across these drills from a site on youtube. There are many different animal movements simulated that offer fun and challenging ways to move the body. By the way, youtube has tons of stuff regarding exercises and movements that are helpful in promoting functional strength. Some the the Egoscue "Patch" routines are available there. In addition the Tibetan 5 Rites sequence is available, another routine I incorporate. Just keyword in the youtube browser.
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This is by far my favorite all-time mascara. I have never been this faithful to any particular mascara before but once I tried this, I fell in love and have never looked back since.
Iconic Extreme is an addition to the already popular range of Dior's Iconic mascara range. Let's jump straight to why I love this mascara.
- Comes off easily with lukewarm water
- No more tugging on lashes to remove mascara which means no/lesser lash fall
- Important when you have oily lids
Lengthening & separating power
- The wand is like a comb and lashes are easily separated while lengthening
Smooth consistency
- It never clumps, even after 3 coats
- Or after 4 mths of usage when I'm done with it
Curling & staying power
- My lashes get curled and stays up
- I have not used my eye lash curler in years
- Looks exactly the same even after 8 hours
This is after ONE coat of mascara. Enough said.


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Hello everyone, I hope you are enjoying the holydays, with your family and friends… Hope you been nice and that Santa had brought you lots of presents…
I took some free time to re-read This Man by Jody Ellen Malpas
Young interior designer Ava O'Shea has an appointment for a first consultation at The Manor with the owner, Mr Jesse Ward. She is expecting nothing more than an overweight, cravat wearing, well-to-do countryman, and on arrival, nothing would suggest otherwise.
How wrong could she be?
This Man is devastatingly handsome, charming and confident. He is also a conceited, hedonistic playboy, who knows no boundaries.
Ava desperately does not want to be attracted to him, but she can't control the overwhelming affect he has on her. Every instinct is telling her to run, so she does, but Jesse Ward is not so willing to let her go. He wants her and is determined to have her.
She knows she is heading for heartbreak, but how can she run when he won't let her?
When I re-read the book I couldn't help but feeling the same again, everything is there. A men who is a sex God wanting this young desingner doesn't matter what, I felt again the butterflies, the suspense, the sensuality, and the hottnest, the intensity… I was definitely back on Central Jesse Cloud Nine, and If I wasn't maybe Jesse could make me a remind fuck… Lol
Once again the story left me conflicted, there are things that I love about it and there are some WTF? moments, but I love the story anyway, you can put the book down once you started, you want to know how it ends, the story is full of romance, a dominat character and a lot of mind blowing sex scenes that would make you sweat…
Jodi has an unique way to write, I love the British style of the book (I keep telling ARSE, Lol) the location and all the terms used. She writes and describes incredibles, direct, mind blowing sex scenes, and then take us to the sleepy, love making sex – both outrageous, sensuals and hot hot hot! Jesse, well he is way to bossy, he has zero respect for Ava's privacy, but he has his reasons, and it is that Ava make him crazy, sometimes he is unbearable but I love him… In the other hand Ava doesn't let to be intimidated by this man, she has her opinions, and like me at the end she falls for the Lord of the Manor.
It's easy to be charmed by Jesse , after all, if you don't, he would remind you 🙂
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"Medea," a 2,500-year-old Greek tragedy written by Euripedes, is coming to life on the local stage as a classic tale of revenge from a woman scorned. The title character, Medea, doesn't have a happily ever after after betraying her family to retrieve the Golden Fleece for her hero, Jason. He's brought her and their sons to Corinth — with plans to marry the princess there. This ultimate betrayal brings even more devastating consequences when Medea reacts.
Stars nationally acclaimed classical actress Franchelle Stewart Dorn in the title role.
Details: Opens 8 p.m. Wednesday. Various times through March 6. $18. Rollins Studio Theatre, the Long Center, 701 W. Riverside Drive. 512-474-5664,thelongcenter.org/event/medea.


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About OPNFV
Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) is an important open source project aiming to provide a basis for NFV technology to the telecom and networking communities. It creates a reference platform for Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) and Virtual Infrastructure Management (VIM). With several of the world's largest operators and equipment manufacturers as active project members OPNFV is considered a de facto standard for NFV in networking and telecom.


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Nifty spot opened at 9590.65 , made a low of 9581.20 and then made a high of 9635.30 before closing at 9624.55 which is a new life time high close .
Had mentioned that long positions for the day can be taken above 9631 and short positions for the day can be taken below 9579 . Nifty initially triggered our long trade and but could not complete any target . Swing traders got to trade between the range of 9631 - 9579 for the day .We should mostly see a break of this narrow range in tomorrows session .
Now for this week Nifty Spot needs to break and sustain above 9667 for long confirmation, then we can expect a move till 9712 - 9743 initially and closing above 9763 we can expect the next move till 9828 - 9900 . Similarly this week Nifty spot needs to break and sustain below 9523 for short confirmation, then we can expect a move till 9479 - 9447 initially and closing below 9428 we can expect a further move till 9362 - 9290. Nifty has in the last 2 sessions stayed within our long and short confirmation levels of 9667 - 9523 and breaking beyond this range now should give a bigger move on either side.
The geopolitical issues is what can cause some concern for longs as and when it escalates . Nifty has a strong support near 9355 - 9335 currently and bigger correction can be expected only on closing below this range . Nifty has its immediate resistance near 9650 - 9670 zone and above that near 9750 - 9770 zone and those who had taken longs last week with a cbsl of 9335 should look to book near these levels after seeing the price action . Nifty has its immediate support near 9550 - 9520 zone and below it near 9480 - 9460 zone . Those who had entered longs last week with the cbsl of 9335 and have not yet booked should now move up their trailing cbsl to 9540 .
For today if Nifty spot sustains above 9651 we can see a initial move on the upside till 9679 & on sustaining above 9686 we may see further move till 9737 . Similarly if Nifty spot sustains below 9598 we may see a initial move on the downside till 9570 & on sustaining below 9563 we may see a further move till 9513
Nifty Spot Levels for the day are
Long above 9651 for 9667 - 9686 - 9737 , SL 9616
Short below 9598 for 9582 - 9563 - 9513 , SL 9633
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Nato and US-led troops are failing to co-ordinate with their Afghan allies and thereby causing civilian deaths, President Hamid Karzai has said.
He criticised his Western allies' "extreme" use of force and said they should act as his government asked.
"Innocent people are becoming victims of reckless operations" because the troops had ignored Afghan advice for years, Mr Karzai told reporters.
He was speaking after a week in which up to 90 Afghan civilians were killed.
"You don't fight a terrorist by firing a field gun 37 kilometres (24 miles) away into a target. That's definitely, surely bound to cause civilian casualties," he said.
More civilians have been killed this year as a result of foreign military action than have been killed by insurgents, correspondents say.
The south of the country has seen the worst violence since the Taleban were ousted from power in 2001 by US-led troops.
Accusing international forces of consistently failing to co-ordinate with their Afghan colleagues, Mr Karzai said that, in future, every military operation should be co-ordinated directly with his government, in accordance with written plans he said already existed.
"As you are aware over the past several days, as result of indiscriminate and imprecise operations of Nato and coalition forces, our people suffered casualties," Mr Karzai told reporters in Kabul, looking visibly angry.
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"We are thankful for their help to Afghanistan. But that does not mean that Afghan lives have no value.
"Afghan life is not cheap and it should not be treated as such," he said.
'One too many'
There are two international missions in Afghanistan: the Nato-led Isaf, with 37,000 troops from 37 countries including the US. Its aim is to help the Afghan government bring security, development and better governance.
The US-led coalition - under the banner of Operation Enduring Freedom - is a counter-terrorism mission that involves mainly special forces.
Both have recently been involved in heavy clashes with insurgents.
On Friday, Nato's secretary general called for an investigation into the latest incident in which 25 civilians were killed in an air strike in the Afghan province of Helmand.
Speaking in Quebec City, Canada, Mr de Hoop Scheffer said no Nato, coalition or Afghan soldier would knowingly take aim at a civilian, and accused the Taleban of using civilians as human shields.
"Each innocent civilian victim is one too many," he said. "Unfortunately it happens."


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Possibly the first time I've had my monthly reviews done bang on time. Shocking stuff!
Readers will know by now that I love a good war story, and if it's a WWII one, even better. So of course, I loved Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks. It's the third on a loosely connected triology, which began with the powerful Birdsong. I have bought the middle book, The Girl at the Lion D'Or, and intend on reading that soon.
Charlotte's father made an appearance in Birdsong, but you don't need to know that to enjoy this book. A young, insecure woman, Charlotte travels from her native Scotland to London to help with the war effort. She feels she must do something, even if she's not sure what. She meets two men on the train, and one takes a shine to her, and when she mentions she speaks French, he offers her a job, helping the French Resistance.
Charlotte is unsure, but when she becomes involved in a passionate love affair with Peter Gregory, a RAF airman who subsequently disappears on an assignment, she takes up the offer. She can find him on her mission.
Faulks has written the kind of book you can gladly get lost in. Everything is wonderfully real; the casual, almost party atmosphere of the London war effort set Charlotte finds herself part of; the French village of Lavaurette where Charlotte dyes her hair and takes a job. A tale of love, loss and endurance, Charlotte Gray lingers long in the mind.
Again, regular readers know I'm a huge Neil Gaiman fan. His most recent short story anthology, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances doesn't disappoint. As he explains in the introduction, the title comes from internet-speak for a potentially disturbing link or image, especially for those who may have certain phobias, illnesses or life experiences. And some of these stories are very disturbing.
'The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains' is a chilling tale of dark magic set in the Scottish Highlands, and a particular image from that tale is still rattling around in my head. 'Clack Clack Goes the Rattlebag' is another spinetingler, and 'The Thing about Cassandra' is a creepy examination of the nature of fiction. There's also another installment in the ongoing adventures of Shadow, the hero of American Gods, and it's brilliant. Shadow finds himself in rural England, where the belief in Black Shuck still lingers in the air. It's a brilliant, thrilling and dark tale.
Not all the tales in Trigger Warning will keep you awake in terror. There's a great Doctor Who story (Gaiman has already written two episodes of the long-running series), and the tale of the 'uninventor', Sherlock Holmes with bees, and the great 'A Calendar of Tales'. Gaiman, a prolific Twitter user, asked for suggestions for a series of flash fiction pieces based on the month of the year- the result is fantastic. There's also 'The Sleeper and the Spindle', a wonderful reimagining of Sleeping Beauty. This has been released as a standalone book. I need it.
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan is so short and compulsive I read it in one sitting. Irish literature can often feel a bit stuck in the past. There's always priests and funerals in the rain and misery. This novel is set in the Ireland of today, and in parts, it's so painfully accurate it hurts- especially when it details the impact the closure of Dell had on Limerick.
Each chapter is narrated by a different person, all affected in some way by the failure of Pokey Burke's construction business. The effect of the recession in Ireland has been explored in art, theatre and film, but literature has been slow to catch up. This, however, is the novel of the Celtic Tiger collapse.
Ryan captures the claustrophobic rumour-mill of small-town Ireland incredibly well, as well as the tensions in a tight-knit community. He makes the correct decision to go for a low-key, realistic ending in a story which could have become lurid and far-fetched, and despite bleak moments, the story ends on an expression of love.
If there is a criticism, it would be that not all the narrators seems relevant to the main plot; the inclusion of a young man who is planning to go to Australia feels like Ryan just wanted to include the emigration angle. Eastern European immigrants have become a part of modern Ireland, but the author makes the bizarre decision to tell us about a member of a Siberian nomadic tribe who somehow winds up in rural Tipperary. Perhaps Ryan felt Pawel from Krakow would be a cliche, but this chapter does feel a bit false.
Overall, though, The Spinning Heart is a stirring and affecting depiction of modern Ireland.
Rivers of London (called Midnight Riot in the US, for some odd reason) by Ben Aaronovitch is one of the straight-up enjoyable and entertaining books I've ever read. It follows young police constable Peter Grant, who alongside his friend (and putative love interest) Lesley May is about to find out what section of the London Metropolitan Police he will be assigned to. Peter is not a good a copper as Lesley, who tends to not let her mind wander from the task at hand. So when Lesley gets assigned to the Murder Squad and he gets shunted to an administrative role, he tries not to be too upset.
But Peter has other talents. When a series of gruesome murders and assaults blight the city, he finds he can take witness statements from ghosts. He then gets sent to the Folly, under the supervision of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, head of the Met's supernatural unit.
It's a joy, not least because of Peter's dry, sardonic narration. Aaronovitch has done his research on the police too, but the prose doesn't get bogged down in facts and figures. London itself bounces off the page, and the supernatural and mundane are beautifully balanced. There are more installments in the series, I'll be reading those soon.
Like Rivers of London, The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas, is compulsive, but it's nowhere near enjoyable. It's a very, very strange book, and at times I wondered why I was still reading.
Ariel, a somewhat disagreeable lead character, is doing a PhD in English literature. She wants to examine 'thought experiments' and needs to get her hands on a book by the mysterious Victorian writer Thomas Lumas, called The End of Mr Y. The only thing about this book is that it's cursed; anyone who's ever read to the end, dies.
Saul Burlem, her thesis supervisor, hasn't been seen for months, and one of the last things he told her was to forget about Lumas's book. Ariel finds a copy in a second-hand book shop, and reads it. There's a formula in it for getting into a mysterious dimension called the Troposphere. She tries it, and it works.
But she is in grave danger in this world, both from sinister enemies who want the formula and from her physical body, which is in danger of shutting down the longer she stays. And when she meets Adam, the first man she's ever had an emotional connection with, she inadvertently puts him in harm's way too.
This book is very dark. Ariel is a troubled character, with a tendency to self-destruct- and to talk at length about Derrida and Heidegger. She's hard to spend time with, to be frank, and her tortured promiscuity gets wearying also. It's not a feelgood read. However Thomas' brazeness just about pulls the novel through; she throws the kitchen sink at it; unethical CIA experiments, religion, video games, the Matrix, time travel, mice- it's mad stuff. There were things I really liked. The idea of a "train of fear" is a stroke of horrible genius, and the character of Apollo Smithneus, a mouse-god being kept alive by the faith of six believers, is glorious too. I gave it four stars on Goodreads for those concepts alone.
I am not sure that the book is as clever as it thinks it is. As an English grad I approach those who quote postmodernists in reality with more than a shade of caution, so my heart sank when I read the first Derrida interpretation. What's more I'm not sure that Ariel actually understands a lot of what she spouts. It's a very weird book which overreaches itself, and while such ambition is to be admired, it's perhaps not always advisable.


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Amanda writes contemporary adult fiction, with a common theme of the world of art, craft and design. Amanda is a graduate of Chelsea School of Art and completed a MA in Writing the Visual at NUCA.
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Hugh is a writer and curator with interests design, science and material culture. His latest book is Anatomies:The Human Body, Its Parts and The Stories They Tell (Penguin). Hugh's next book is a biography of Sir Thomas Browne, due out May 2015.
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Born in Northern Ireland and winner of Rethink Press's New Novel Award 2012 forThe River and the Sea. Set in colonial Canada, it tells of Irish individuals during the rise and fall of the British Empire.
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Author of Standing Water (Yeovil Literary Prize winner 2010).
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Margaret Ashby
Steve Baker
Steve Baker is a Norwich-based independent writer, researcher and artist. His academic books include Artist Animal (Minnesota UP, 2013) and The Postmodern Animal (ReaktionBooks).
Saumya Balsari
Saumya Balsari's debut novel The Cambridge Curry Club won the first ever Cambridgeshire Book of the Decade Award. Summer of Blue is her first novel for young adult readers. She was named Author of the Month (June/July 2013) by Cambridgeshire Libraries. Balsari is currently researching her third novel as Writer-in-Residence at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge.
Elspeth Barker
Elspeth Barker is a journalist and the author of acclaimed novel O Caledonia which was recently republished. A collection of her journalism, Dog Days, was published in 2012.
Richard Barr
Lawyer and writer. For more than a quarter of a century I wrote a regular back page article for Solicitors Journal which closed in September 2017. Author of The Savage Poodle published by the Ark Group which contains a selection of my articles. Regular broadcaster on BBC Radio Norfolk.
Telephone (W) 01692 650829 (M) 07747 620747
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Legal (clinical negligence) website: richardbarrlaw.co.uk
Writing website: richardbarr.org
Holiday accommodation: theapplehousenorfolk.co.uk
Robin Barratt
Robin Barratt is the author of five true crime books, one biography and one travel anthology. He has also written hundreds of articles, has ghostwritten books on commission and has published security industry manuals.
David Beake
Kathleen Becker
David Bedford
Teresa Benison
Neil Bentley
Terence Blacker
Piers Blaikie
Philippa Blake
Philippa Blake was born and raised in Africa. The continent still inspires her writing, currently a fifth novel plus some non-fiction based on the field experiences of a UN Peacekeeper.
Gill Blanchard
Gill Blanchard has written Tracing Your East Anglian Ancestors, Tracing Your House History and Writing Your House History (Pen and Sword). Professional genealogist; house historian; tutor and biographer.
Website: pastsearch.co.uk
Margaret Blanchard
Jean Boase-Beier
Jean is a translator of poetry from and into German and a specialist on Holocaust poetry. She is translations editor for Arc Publications, and Emeritus Professor at UEA.
Website: uea.ac.uk/literature/people/profile/j-boase-beier
Ann Bossingham
Sarah Bower
Sally Bowler
J Bridges-Adams
P Brooks
Beryl P Brown
Beryl P Brown has an MA in Creative Writing. She lives on the Suffolk/Essex border and is a novelist and writer of short fiction.
Richard Brown
S Brownjohn
Julie Bruton-Seal
Matthew Bruton-Seal
Nick Caistor
Jeremy Cameron
Jeremy Cameron is the author of five 'nasty, funny crime novels' (one of which, It Was An Accident, Simon & Schuster, 1996, was filmed starring Chitiwel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton), one tennis book and Never Again, an account of walking from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Kate Campbell
I spent many years in academia writing academic publications, including Matthew Arnold (2008). I now wish to broaden my output, as well as produce more biography.
Email: email@example.com
Mary Chapman
Mary Chapman is a children's writer. Her published work includes picture books for young children, and novels for both struggling and confident teenage readers.
Website: marychapmanchildrensbooks.co.uk
Caroline Charles
Cathy Charles
Mary Charles
Rachel Charles
Jane Chittenden
Jane Chittenden is a business writer living and working in Norwich. Her day job is a mix of writing, editing and research on business-related topics. Her secret passion is Norwich's extraordinary history and present.
Charles Christian
Charles Christian is a barrister turned technology journalist, newsletter editor, blogger, gossip, diva, sometime-poet and fantasy & science fiction writer. His latest book is a short story collection.
Website: charles-christian.com
Cathy Christopher
Mary Christopher
Karen Clarke
In 2006, Karen started writing poetry and soon went on to also write short stories for children. Her books link with personal, social and emotional early learning skills.
Susanna Clarke
Theo Clarke
Archaeologist and historian with special interest in Suffolk. Journalist writing about archaeology, books, comics, games, IT, libraries, theatre and travel. Author of Ebb and Flow: Heritage Walks along the Alde and Ore.
Gaynor Clements
After many years as a lawyer I have finally realised my long-held ambition to write, and have completed an MA in Creative Writing at the UEA.
Rory Clements
Rory Clements lives near Norwich and is presently writing a series of Elizabethan thrillers which take real historical events and add a twist. His latest book is Traitor (fourth in the series). Full details of publishers, agent and email address on his website: roryclements.co.uk
David Cobb
Suzan Collins
Suzan Collins is a consultant and trainer in social care. She writes fiction and non-fiction, and her book Beyond My Control was shortlisted for the 2014 People's Book Prize.
Website: suzancollins.com
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
David Collison
Victoria Connelly
Victoria Connelly is the author of many novels including The Rose Girls and The Austehn Addicts series. Her first novel, Flights of Angels, was made into a film in Germany.
Website: victoriaconnelly.com
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Tom Corbett
Andrew Cowan
Ralph Crawshaw
Ralph is a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, and writes books on human rights and the laws of war for police and those monitoring police.
Jim Crossley
Jim Crossley read modern history at Cambridge and worked for 40 years in engineering and consultancy. He now writes factual books about naval affairs and historical novels. Voices from Jutland has just been published to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland (31 May 1916).
Email: email@example.com
Susan Curran
Olga Daniels
Linda Davies
Linda Davies is an award-winning children's author and best-selling thriller writer. She lived in Peru for 3 years and more recently in the Middle East for 8 years. She now lives in Suffolk. Her latest children's book, Longbow Girl, won the Mal Peet Award in the 2016 East Anglian Book Awards.
Gary Dexter
Jean Dorricott
Jean's latest book is a bioterrorist thriller, Ruin of the Soul. She has also written the SCM Studyguide to Science and Religion.
She runs a short story website for published stories.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Websites: jeandorricott.com and strange-tales.co.uk
Publishers: New Generation Publishers, SCM Press
Elizabeth Drayson
Elizabeth Drayson is a lecturer in Spanish at the University of Cambridge. Her monograph The King and the Whore: King Roderick and La Cava was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2007, and her latest work, The Lead Books of Granada, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in November 2013, available on Amazon. She also writes fiction as Gardner Drayson, and her novel The Menorah is available at Lulu
Professional website link: mml.cam.ac.uk
Publisher's website link: palgrave.com
Email address: email@example.com
Joyce Dunbar
Norwich-based Joyce Dunbar primarily writes books for children and has had more than seventy books published. She is perhaps best known for Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go To Sleep, This Is The Star and the 26-volume 'Mouse And Mole' series. Her latest book is Squiglet Pig (Egmont, 2013). She is currently writing a memoir.
Agent: Hilary Delamere, The Agency, 24 Pottery Lane, Holland Park, London W11 4LZ. Tel +44 (0) 207 271346
Email email@example.com
Website: www.joycedunbar.com
Mike Elliston
I am an award-winning playwright and occasional TV writer with 30+ years experience. I like to write about challenging subjects and to engage my audiences in a conversation with me.
Website: www.mike-elliston.co.uk
Geraldine Evans
Geraldine Evans is the author of the Rafferty & Llewellyn and Casey & Catt humorous police procedural series.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Michael Evans
Former head teacher, now prolific freelance journalist and author, specialising in educational management and curriculum; health and safety; environmental topics; travel; and military history. Latest book: East Anglia at War.
Derek Fenwick - see under Jack Scott
Melvyn Fickling
Professor John Fletcher
Patrick Forsyth
Patrick Forsyth writes extensively for business, also having travel writing, humour and a novel (Long Overdue) published. He also writes and gives talks about writing and is a Writing Magazine columnist.
Website: patrickforsyth.com
John Gibb
John Gibb's published books are Who's Watching You?, Legacy and Blind Love and Other Stories. He wrote on crime for The Standard and currently writes features for the FT. Please see Society of Authors website.
John Gordon
Rebecca Goss
Rebecca Goss is a poet, tutor and mentor. She has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, the Warwick Prize for Writing, and the Portico Prize for Literature. She won the Poetry category in the 2013 East Anglian Book Awards, and in 2014 was selected for the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation Poets.
Website: rebeccagoss.wordpress.com
Andrew Grant-Adamson
Andrew Grant-Adamson is a journalist, now retired, and author of non-fiction books with a wide range of interests. He now blogs from time to time and is researching another book.
Lesley Grant-Adamson
Colin Greenland
Colin Greenland is an author and reviewer.This is his page at Goodreads. He can always be contacted via his agent, Josie Stapleton at MNLA: firstname.lastname@example.com
Katherine Gregor
Katherine Gregor is a Norwich-based literary translator (from Italian, Russian and French) who has also been a theatrical agent, publicist, EFL teacher, thespian and general factotum. She is working on her first novel.
Susan Grossey
Susan Grossey writes historical fiction, general non-fiction and journalism.
Website: susangrossey.wordpress.com
Margaret Gullan-Whur
Website: spinozaauthor.wordpress.com
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Sheila Hardy
Writers never retire! Here I am, in the last two years in my seventies and I've never been so busy. Five commissions since 2009.
Arsenic in the Dumplings – 2010
The Real Mrs Beeton: Eliza Acton, the founder of English cookery – 2011
A 1950s Housewife: marriage and homemaking in the 1950s – 2012
And two more to come in 2013. All for The History Press.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Peter Harclerode
Peter writes military and geopolitical history, and recently (as Michael Lansbery) has begun writing historical fiction.
Sally Harris
S.A. Harris is a lawyer and writer. Her debut novel, Haverscroft, is published by Salt Publishing in May 2109.
Linda Hartley
Geraldine Hartnett
Gabrielle Hatfield
Rosemary Hayes
Rosemary Hayes has written numerous books for children, is a reader for a well known authors' advisory service and runs writing workshops. Her latest books are:
The Blue Eyed Aborigine (Frances Lincoln 2010); Loose Connections (Frances Lincoln, 2012); The Mark (Troika Books 2015); The Travellers: Book 1 Tess; Book 2 Mike, Book 3 Lizzie; Book 4 Ben (Ransom Publishing 2015).
Website: rosemaryhayes.co.uk
Anthony Haynes
Anthony writes about writing and publishing. His books include Writing Successful Academic Books (Cambridge UP) and 100 Ideas for Teaching Writing (Continuum).
Website: professionalandhigher.com
Sue Heaser
Author of 15 major craft books on jewellery making, polymer clays, metal clays and other crafts. Sue is also an artist and illustrator and teaches art classes in North Suffolk. Website: sueheaser.com
Stephen Henning
Stephen Henning is a former journalist and currently runs his own technical writing and web design agency. He is a self-published author of the 'Class Heroes' young adult thriller series.
Website: www.classheroes.com
Jeanette Hewitt
Jeanette Hewitt is a crime fiction author with a Chernobyl-based thriller due for release in 2016.
Website: www.jmhewitt.com
Carola Hicks
Jo Holloway
Amanda Hopkinson
Rachel Hore
Novels include A Place of Secrets (a Richard and Judy Book Club choice) and A Gathering Storm. Rachel lives in Norwich.
Website: rachelhore.co.uk
Agent: curtisbrown.co.uk
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Kim Hunter
Andrew Ings
Writer of comedy, rock & roll history, theatre reviews; broadcaster and advisor to Shakespeare;s Globe; board member of Red Rose Chain Film and Theatre Company; appeared in the final episode of Blackadder.
Ralph Jackman
Prize-winning author Ralph Jackman was born in Norfolk in 1981. With an MA in Creative Writing and a first class honours Classics degree, his genre is historical fiction.
Website: www.ralphjackman.com
Jaqueline Jaques
Jaqueline Jaques is the author of six novels, who is now exploring her dark side with crime novels set in and around Victorian Walthamstow from the point of view of a police artist.
Margaret Johnson
Margaret Johnson has had 16 readers, aimed at people learning to speak English, published both by Cambridge University Press and Cengage Learning, two of which were finalists for Language Learner Literature Awards. Her stage play, Goddess, was produced and performed at Cambridge Drama Centre.
Margaret's novel The Goddess Workshop is published as an e-book on Amazon.
Website: www.margaretkjohnson.co.uk
Dan Jones
Dan Jones writes science fiction and fantasy, from short stories through novellas to novels. His debut novel Man O'War will be published in summer 2017 by Snowbooks.
Website: http://danieljones6.wixsite.com/danjonesbooks
Garry Kilworth
Garry Kilworth writes science fiction, fantasy, young adult, non-fiction and historical novels. His latest publications are The Iron Wire (historical novel), The Fabulous Beast (fantasy stories) and On My Way To Samarkand (autobiography). Pseudonyms are: Richard Argent, FK Salwood, Kim Hunter.
Website: garry-kilworth.co.uk
Kathy Kincaid
Gary Kissick
Past editor of the Hawaii Review, Gary has published Outer Islands (winner of the Pacific Poetry Competition), Another Kissing Couple Has Exploded, the novelWinter in Volcano, and much more.
Natalie Knight
Children's fiction with a background in TV and radio broadcasting
The Old Crown House, Suspension Bridge, Wisbech,
Welney, PE14 9TJ
Publisher: Macmillan Caribbean.
Email: email@example.com
Ken Lake
Ken didn't start writing until a traumatic near-death experience in 2009. Since then he hasn't been able to stop. For details of his work, see his website: kenlake.co.uk
Sandie Lea
Maureen Lee
Dr Grace Lees-Maffei
Dr Grace Lees-Maffei is a design historian, author and editor whose publications address design historiography, design history methodology, domesticity, gender, Italian design and the public understanding of design.
Website: go.herts.ac.uk/gracelees-maffei
Website: jdh.oxfordjournals.org
Email: email@example.com
Anna Levin
Paeony Lewis
Paeony lives in Norwich and is a children's author. Her picture books have been translated into over ten languages.
Website and contact info: paeonylewis.com
Maggie Ling
Previously published as a children's book illustrator, humorous illustrator and cartoonist, Maggie Ling abandoned dip pen and ink for note book and iMac to concentrate on words alone, currently favouring the short story.
Website: www.maggieling.com
Trevor Lockwood
David Lowe
Karl Ludvigsen
Sometimes called a guru of the world of cars, Karl Ludvigsen has authored/edited some 60 books and countless articles. An American living in Suffolk, he is currently revising his histories of Porsche and Corvette and entering the military field, in which his latest title is Professor Porsche's Wars.
Website: www.karlludvigsen.com
Lucy McCarraher
Lucy is currently Managing Editor of Rethink Press. She has been a writer, journalist, editor and agent. Her books include The Work-Life Manual and novelsBlood and Water, Kindred Spirits and Mr Mikey's Ladies.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Mary Mackie
Author of seventy books, both fiction and non-fiction, Mary lives in West Norfolk with her husband. She is a popular speaker, too, illustrating her talks with PowerPointshows.
Website: stillscribbling.co.uk
Email: email@example.com
Peter McLean
Peter McLean writes fantasy and science fiction novels for adults, always with strong crime fiction elements. He is published by Jo Fletcher Books at Quercus in the UK.
Agent: Jennie Goloboy, Donald Maass Literary Agency, New York
Website: Talonwraith.com
Kate Macrae
Kate Macrae was born in Liverpool. She has published several short non-fiction stories and is currently an MA student in Creative Writing at UEA.
Maria Malone
Maria Malone is a non-fiction author with a keen interest in popular culture and a ghostwriter of high-profile celebrity autobiographies.
Website: www.mariamalonebooks.com
Nicholas Manthorpe
Nicholas Manthorpe is a reporter-turned-press-officer now trying his hand at fiction rather than fact. One of his hands, at any rate. The other remains in PR.
Victoria Manthorpe
Feature writer and author with a special interest in Victorian, Edwardian and Norfolk history. BA History, U of Toronto; MA Biography, U of East Anglia (Distinction 2004)
Sandy Mitchell
Jenny Morris
Mark Mower MBA, BA (Hons)
Mark Mower is a member of the Crime Writers' Association and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. He has written a large number of true crime books and in 2015 began to write Sherlock Holmes pastiches. His latest published collection is Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Case-Files (MX Publishing, 2017).
Wendy Mulford
Writer, poet, editor. Website in development, including history of publications/interventions from the 1970s to the 1990s, Cambridge and London, awards, Life, etc + Street Editions, avant-garde poetry publisher.+ ongoing Welsh connection and suddenly, supposing: Selected Poems (Etruscan Books 2002) The Land Between (Reality Street 2009)
Email: email@example.com
Agent: Curtis Brown
Jacqueline Mulhallen
Jacqueline's plays include Sylvia about Sylvia Pankhurst (1987-1997), now revived, and Rebels and Friends (1989-1991) for Lynx Theatre and Poetry and The Battle of the Bridge for Wissey Valley Arts (2007). Books: The Theatre, of Shelley (Cambridge, Open Books, 2010), chapter in the Oxford Handbook to the Georgian Theatre (OUP, 2014), Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet and Revolutionary (forthcoming, Pluto, October 2015). Her poem Debt was commended in the 2014 Artemis Poetry Competition.
Patricia Mullin
Novelist, artist, workshop leader and creative writing tutor.
Website: patriciamullin.com
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Laura Napran
Ian Nettleton
Ian Nettleton has a doctorate in Creative & Critical Writing from UEA (2003). His first novel, The Last Migration, was runner-up in the 2014 Bath prize for literature.
Shelly Newstead
Shelly Newstead writes books and articles for adults who work with children, particularly in playwork, childcare and education. She is also the Managing Editor of Journal of Playwork Practice.
Email: email@example.com
Dannie Nicholas
Katharine Norman
Katharine Norman is a writer and composer, often in the digital domain. Previously an academic, Katherine has since supportef her writing through writing for trade publishers and editorial management for bioscience and health research journals.
Website: novamara.com
Stephanie Norris
Writer, columnist, journalist. Author Secrets of Colour Healing (Dorling Kindersley 2001), co-author The Door Unlocked, An Astrological Insight Into Initiation (The Wessex Astrologer 2009). Can be contacted via societyofauthors.org
Natascha Norton
Patrick (Pat) O'Keeffe
Pat lives in Essex and is both a fiction and non-fiction author, a member of the CWA and the SoA. Publishers: Hodder & Stoughton and Summersdale.
Website: www.pat-okeeffe.com
Dominic O'Sullivan
Dominic O"Sullivan lives in Ely and is a writer of short stories, plays (one performed) and poems. He studied at UEA under Dr W G 'Max' Sebald.
Penny Parks
Penny Parks is a psychotherapist, trainer and motivational speaker who pioneered and developed the first 'inner child' therapy model to successfully resolve childhood and trauma issues.
Website: ppfoundation.org
Edward Parnell
Edward Parnell has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. His first novel, The Listeners, won the 2014 Rethink New Novels Prize. He also writes extensively about nature.
Website: www.edwardparnell.com
Agent: Jane Conway-Gordon, tel 020 7371 6939
Sarah Passingham
I write to be read, spoken or sung, but above all, I write to be enjoyed. Find out more at sarahpassingham.co.uk
Representation: Rachel Calder sayleliteraryagency.com
Maggie Pearson
Fabienne Pessayre (aka TAMARIK) is a French writer of fiction (crime, comedy and theatre) and non-fiction (humorous guide-books). She is a practising anglophile living near Norwich.
Email: email@example.com
Website: tamarikz.com
Publisher: scrineo.fr
Keiron Pim
Keiron Pim is a non-fiction author and journalist best known to many East Anglian writers as the former books editor at the Eastern Daily Press newspaper. His biography of David Litvinov, Jumpin' Jack Flash, was published in 2016 to great acclaim.
Email: email@example.com
Website: keironpim.co.uk
Mike Pitman
is a retired science teacher who has a lifetime interest in the relationship between science, philosophy and religion.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Alison Pressley
Non-fiction author, book editor and publisher, freelance journalist and ex-magazine editor. Email: email@example.com
Kevin Price
Kevin Price is the Norwich-based author and publisher of four fun and rhyming children's picture books, two of which are educational and curriculum compliant.
Website: kamapublishing.co.uk
Leslie Ray
Anna Reckin
Anna Reckin's poems, essays and book reviews have been published in the UK and US. Her first book-length collection, Three Reds, appeared in 2011.
Website: annareckin.com
David Redfield
David Redfield is a poet, writer and performer whose books include Stretching Horizons and Utter (both Hawthorn Press).
Jean Rees-Lyons
Jean Rees-Lyons is artistic director of The Word Garden: Creative Development in Writing and Drama. She is a playwright and a published poet, and has run many poetry and drama writing workshops.
Jacqueline Reiter
Jacqueline Reiter is a freelance historian specialising in late-18th-century political history. Her first book, The Late Lord, is a biography of Pitt the Younger's elder brother, Lord Chatham.
Mary-Jane Riley
Mary-Jane Riley worked for too many years as a journalist but now writes about crime. Her first crime novel, The Bad Things, is published by HarperCollins/Killer Reads. She lives in Suffolk with a golden retriever and a television journalist husband.
F K Salwood
Chantal Schaul
Jack Scott
Jack Scott is the author of Perking the Pansies: Jack and Liam Move to Turkey – the best expat book in a generation (or so he thinks). The sequel, Turkey Street, Jack and Liam move to Bodrum is hot off the press from Springtime Books for 2015. Jack now lives happily in Norwich with his husband, Liam.
Website: jackscott.info
Publisher: springtimebooks.com
Email: email@example.com
Sally Scott
Having started out writing and illustrating children's books, then moving on to historical fiction, Sally is now concentrating on her new Young Adult novel.
Natascha Scott-Stokes
Natascha Scott-Stokes is an author and translator (German/ Spanish > English specialising in travel, biography and social history, whose work has been published by Random House, Rough Guides and Baedeker, among others.
Phyllida Scrivens
Childhood compositions, drafting correspondence for managers, dabbles in journalism, features and playwriting, MA studies; all unwittingly preparing me at age 60, for my debut biography Escaping Hitler, to be published by Pen and Sword in 2016.
Website: escapinghitler.com
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Matthew Seal
C P Sennett
C P Sennett is a Suffolk-based author who writes fantasy, crime and thriller fiction along with a range of non-fiction business books.
Robert Seymour
Robert Seymour was formerly a criminal lawyer and military judge. He has written two novels, Wig Begone and Wig Betrayed, under the pen name Charles Courtley. A member of the SoA, he is presently working on a memoir.
Website: courtleyprocedures.wordpress.com
John Shelley
John Shelley is an award-winning illustrator and picture-book writer based in Norwich, having formerly spent many years living in Japan.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.jshelley.com
Jimmy Lee Shreeve (aka Doktor Snake)
Jimmy Lee Shreeve (aka Doktor Snake) is a bestselling cult author, musician, artist and internet entrepreneur. Books include: Blood Rites, Cannibals, Doktor Snake's Voodoo Spellbook, Hash Brownies.
Email: email@example.com
Olga Sinclair
Ann Kennedy Smith
Ann Kennedy Smith has an MA in Creative Nonfiction and Biography from UEA. She has published articles on Cambridge's first university wives and is working on her first biography.
Sandra Smith
Translator of Irène Némirovsky's novels, including Suite française, and a new version of Camus' The Outsider (June 2012).
Author's page on Amazon:
Email: email@example.com
Penny Speller
Mandy Stanley
Mandy Stanley is a fulltime writer, illustrator and designer who has published more than 200 books for children. She was awarded the Book Trust Early Years Best Baby book in 2006 for How Do You Feel? (HarperCollins). She lives in Beccles, Suffolk.
Website: mandystanley.com
William Starling
A chartered engineer with a PhD in cybernetics – unlike credentials for the author of Strings Attached, the authorised biography of guitarist John Williams. Three very different projects currently underway.
Susan Stevens
Alex Stewart
Ashley Stokes
Ashley Stokes writes literary novels and short fiction. He is the author of the novelTouching the Starfish and the story sequence The Syllabus of Errors, and the editor of Unthology. His website address is ashleystokes.net and he can also be contacted through unthankbooks.com and unthankschool.com
John Swinfield
MA maritime history; Journalist, producer, director, ex-Daily Mail, ITV, BBC TV; Controller Arts & Features Anglia TV; editor Artists & Illustrators; author Airship and The Trade (Anova Conway); Sea Devils: Pioneer Submariners (History Press).
Website: johnswinfield.com
Susan Sydney-Smith
Previously an academic, I have taken an extensive sabbatical from my second book, The Great British Copshow: national identity and the police series. I am an Associate Researcher of the University of Central Lancashire.
George Szirtes
George Szirtes's books include Reel (TS Eliot Prize Winner 2004) and most recently Bad Machine (shortlisted for TS Eliot prize 2013). He has also won prizes for various translations.
See: georgeszirtes.blogspot.co.uk
Nicola Talbot
Nicola writes children's fiction, adult crime fiction and tertiary education textbooks. She has a diploma in creative writing from the University of East Anglia.
Website: dickimaw-books.com
D J Taylor
Rosy Thornton
Rosy Thornton writes contemporary women's fiction, and has published five novels. She lectures in Law at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of Emmanuel College.
Website: rosythornton.com
Johnny Tipler
Johnny Tipler is a car journalist and author of 35 books. He writes for specialist magazines and covers historic races such as the Mexican 'Carrera Panamericana' in which he recently drove a Porsche 914.
Website: johntipler.co.uk
Richard Toye
Evelyn Toynton
Evelyn Toynton is an American-born writer who has lived in North Norfolk for the past fourteen years. She has published novels, literary journalism and a brief biography of Jackson Pollock.
Paola Trimarco
Playwright, linguist, author. Plays include Virginia Woolf Gets a Makeover andMonsoon Season. Publications: short stories, essays, three Penguin EFL Readers and Digital Textuality (textbook). Shortlisted for Wasafiri Life Writing 2014.
Bill Troop
Ann Thwaite
Award-winning biographer of Frances Hodgson Burnett, A.A.Milne, Emily Tennyson, and both Emund and Phillip Henry Gosse. One-time children's writer; always concerned about children and reading. Her biography of A.A.Milne has been turned into the film Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017).
Anthony Thwaite
Poet (Collected Poems 2007, Late Poems 2010), joint literary executor Phillip Larkin Estate (editor Larkin's Collected Poems etc), former literary editor The Listener, New Statesman, Encounter, keen archaeologist manqué.
Carol Twinch
Author of agricultural, social and local history books – also freelance magazine articles, theatre and book reviews. Member: Society of Authors and Guild of Agricultural Journalists. Email: email@example.com
Catherine Turnbull
has been a journalist for 22 years and is an award-winning newspaper editor and short story writer/blogger and arts reviewer. She lived in Orkney for the last four years where she researched her novel in progress set there in the 1840s and is now writing the book in Suffolk.
John Vost
John Vost is a fine art valuer living in Norfolk. He has written three crime novels and has published numerous technical articles relating to his work.
Philip Ward
Rachel Ward
Rachel Ward translates literary and creative texts from German and French to English. She specialises in crime fiction, children's and YA, and also undertakes proofreading, editing and reviews. Website: www.forwardtranslations.co.uk
Andrew Waterman
Details of Andrew Waterman's collections of poetry, other publications, and samples of his work are on his website at andrewwaterman.co.uk, along with his email address. His telephone number is 01603-762952.
Julia Webb
Julia Webb is a graduate of UEA's poetry MA. She teaches creative writing in Norwich and is a poetry editor for Lighthouse. Her collection Bird Sisters was published in 2016 by Nine Arches Press.
Tessa West
Tessa's four novels are all set in East Anglia. She has also had poetry published, a biography of John Howard and a fiction/non-fiction mix. She has worked for The Literary Consultancy for many years, and regularly gives talks about her writing.
Candy Whittome
Candy is a trained barrister and work psychologist. The Last Hunter, which won the East Anglian Book Awards 'Book of the Year' for 2012, is her first book. She loves to listen to ordinary people talking about their lives - and finding the extraordinary therein.
Dr Stephen M Williams
Email: email@example.com
Heidi Williamson
Heidi Willamson is a Norfolk-based poet with an interest in science. Her first collection (Electric Shadow, Bloodaxe Books 2011) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Website: heidiwilliamsonpoet.com
Website: bloodaxebooks.com
Email via heidiwilliamsonpoet.com/index.php/contact/
Sheridan Winn
Sheridan Winn is a freelance journalist and children's author. Her Sprite Sisters books, aimed at readers aged 7-13 years, have sold over 500,000 copies. She is currently writing volume 13 in the series. Sheridan gives regular talks and workshops in schools and was judge for the Mal Peet Award in the East Anglian Book Awards 2015 and 2016.
Website: sheridanwinn.com
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Christopher Woodall
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Traditional Medicinals, Women's Teas, Organic Healthy Cycle, Raspberry Leaf, Caffeine Free Herbal Tea, 16 Wrapped Tea Bags, .85 oz (24 g)
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Traditional Medicinals, Women's Teas, Organic Healthy Cycle, Raspberry Leaf, Caffeine Free Herbal Tea, 16 Wrapped Tea Bags, .85 oz (24 g)
- Expiration Date: April 2023
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- Non-GMO Project Verified Tea Bag & String
- Since 1974
- Created by Herbalists
- Supports A Healthy Menstrual Cycle
- Naturally Caffeine Free Herbal Tea
- Herbal Supplement
- Fair Trade Certified Ingredients
- Non GMO Project Verified
- USDA Organic
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Organic Healthy Cycle
Personality - Feminine, healthy and empowering.
Herbal Power - A wholesome tea that supports healthy menstruation.
Reason to Love - Our herbalists tapped into a traditional herbal combination of raspberry, and nettle to create this beneficial and refreshing herbal tonic. Herbal tonics gently nurture the body to promote balance and good health. We love this tea's ability to support women's wellness and vitality, so "that time of the month" can integrate more seamlessly into the rest of your days.
Taste - Pleasantly herbal, with hints of citrus and mint.
Some of our favorite raspberry leaf grows wild in the Gorazde region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where it is harvested by hand by multi-generational family collectors. The young leaves are best when picked in early summer - at the height of their herbal power- before the fruits develop.
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We raise the bar. The quality standard of the herbs use is hard to pronounce, difficult to meet, and it's what makes us different, better. We're not ashamed to say it. Pharmacopoeial: It's the only quality standard our herbalists can rely on when blending teas for your health and wellness.
Compostable Tea Bags - Tea bags are compostable and Non-GMO Project Verified.
Suggested Use
To Enjoy:
- Pour 8 oz freshly boiled water over 1 tea bag.
- Cover cup & steep for 10-15 minutes.
- Squeeze tea bag to ensure maximum goodness in your cup.
- Enjoy 2-3 cups daily.
Do not use if you are allergic to plants within the daisy (Asteraceae) family, like chamomile, echinacea or blessed thistle. Do not use this product if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, unless directed otherwise by your healthcare practitioner.
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|Serving Size: 1 Cup Brewed Tea
|Servings Per Container: 16
|Amount Per Serving
|All Herbal Ingredients:
|Organic raspberry leaf†† [DAC]**
|270 mg
|Organic licorice root††
|150 mg
|Organic stinging nettle leaf [PhEur]**
|60 mg
|Organic dandelion leaf & root [PhEur]**
|45 mg
|Proprietary Blend:
|975 mg
|Organic spearmint leaf†††
|Organic rose hip
|Organic lemon verbena leaf
|Organic West Indian lemongrass leaf
|Organic ginger rhizome†††
|Organic chamomile flower†††
|† Daily Value (DV) not established.
†††31% Fair Trade Certified ingredients by dry weight.
††28% FairWild Certified ingredients by dry weight.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
African Wax Prints
African prints hold special meaning in the hearts of Africans. They each tell a story to the wearer. In Africa, clothes are often more than clothes. The colors and designs are unique and each has its own history and story. My understanding is that the art of wax printing on fabric originated in Indonesia and was exported to the Gold Coast and spread over West Africa to Central Africa. These prints are plentiful in Kinsasha where Sara's been living.
While we don't know the story behind each one of the prints she brought home, I know there is a story and that these fabrics have more significance than simply surface value.
SOOOO, in case you don't know about Etsy, it's a web site where people sell handmade products. I plan to open an Etsy store soon and begin to sell the goods I will make out of these fabrics. This is gonna keep me occupied for quite some time. Wow, I have a LOT to do!
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Looking through the 'Islamic window': RBI's suggestion draws mixed reactions
While community members are polarised on the RBI's suggestion to draw Muslims into the banking system, banks are vehemently opposed to the idea
(From left) Raihan Shaikh, Saeed Khan, Aamir Edresy and Amzad Shaikh discuss the RBI's Islamic window proposal. Pic/Suresh Karkera
A week after the government dropped its demonetisation bombshell, hoping to bring black money back into the country's financial system, the RBI proposed the idea of an 'Islamic window' at banks to ensure 'inclusion of those sections of society excluded because of religious reasons'. The suggestion, however, has drawn mixed reactions. While members of the community feel the move could be both beneficial and detrimental, banks are fervidly opposed to the central bank's proposal.
Maulana Saiyad Atharali
Both good and bad
The community feels that the Islamic window will not just create more transparency, but take money out of the control of a few and disperse it to those in need. Maulana Saiyad Atharali, a noted leader of the community, said, "An equity-based system where the bank and customer work together will bring in transparency."
Though some fear religious disputes over the window, the community begs to differ. "If we stop looking at everything from the religious point of view, things will be different. Around 70% of the country's Muslims don't register with banks because, for us, making more money [through interest] is unethical, and is hence treated as haram. This step will not just bring those 70% but also Islamic banks in Kuwait, Dubai and other gulf countries, into the banking system. Foreign capital is a big reason why the government has proposed it now," said Aamir Edrasy, president of the All India Muslim OBC Association.
While Sharia forbids interest in any form, some community members said for the kind of system and society we live in, an interest of 5 per cent, called the 'tolerable' interest, is allowed.
Sharia says, but...
The Bohri community, which has a large business community, supports the RBI's decision. "The RBI should certainly implement this plan. The late Syedna Dr Mohammed Burhanuddin had launched the Burhani Qardan Hasana scheme for Dawoodi Bohras in the 1960s. Under this, the account holders and those running the scheme share all profits and losses," said Zoeb Bootwala, activist and a member of the Bohri community.
Mumtaz Shiekh, a well-known CORO (Committee of resource organisation) activist, has trashed the idea, saying opening a window is not the solution for inclusion. "There are people from slum pockets of Mumbai who find it extremely difficult to even open a bank account. Bankers come to the middleclass to open accounts, but the poor have to go to a bank 10 times to open one account. If you can't solve that problem, how will this even work? I don't believe it when community leaders say 70% of Muslims don't open bank accounts. I am witness to a bank being flooded by Muslims when it was opened at Govandi. They are not averse to the interest system. Grass-root problems should be solved first before proposing such ideas," Sheikh said.
Farhat Ali, from the NGO, Majlis, said, "The idea is a good one but this government proposing it just feels wrong. Muslims don't trust this government at all."
No need for word 'Islamic'
Though the Islamic window follows the guidelines of Sharia, Muslims don't want the window to be tagged 'Islamic'. Advocate Rashda Sohail Ainapore, who has studied Islamic banking in depth, said, "As long as it takes care of the needs of the people, why does it have to be called anything? This window is a must in present times. The 150 million Muslims out of the system will start coming in with the money, which in turn will prove lucrative for the entire country."
Bharat Nayak, a Khar resident, said, "Indian texts also talk about an interest-free economy. Why name it Islamic window then?"
At the end of the day, if it is a beneficial plan, the public will not hesitate to go to an Islamic window, believes Subhajeet Mukherjee from Charkop. "I would not bother which religion's framework it is in, as long as it keeps my business alive and gives me benefits?"
Thumbs down from banks
Banks, however, have panned the idea. "The RBI hasn't communicated this to us yet, but we are sceptical about whether this will work," said a State Bank of India official. A senior official of Bank of India said, "The idea is against secularism. If we keep allowing this, more and more religions will want their personal laws to be implemented. And, this would only put pressure on banks. But, if the RBI tells us, we will have to implement it."
What the RBIâÂÂhas proposed
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently wrote to the Finance Ministry proposing the opening of an 'Islamic window' in conventional banks for the gradual" introduction of Sharia-compliant or interest-free banking in the country. The introduction of full-fledged Islamic banking with profit-loss sharing complex products may be considered at a later stage on the basis of experience gained in course of time, the RBI's letter said.
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I Pledge Allegiance to Myself
- Artist: Lizzie West
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- Release Date: 4/18/2006
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A seriously hot new artist whose hook-laden, pop flavoried folksongs have been featured on HBO and mamor TV shows. Her first outing on Warner Bros, received a big response from AAA. "Her music is rooted and deep with a restless promise - NY Times" "Aretha, Grace Jones and PJ Harvey rolled into one. - Hits Magazine" I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO MYSELF marks her indie label debut on Appleseed Recordings.
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Set among the rolling foothills of western Maine, just to the west of Varnum Pond, the 75±-acre Varnum Mountain Tract offers an attractive woodlot, private recreation area, or large-parcel residential opportunity just 15 minutes from the small city of Farmington. Located in the town of Temple along the town line of Wilton, the property is accessed from the Magrath Road originating from both the Varnum Pond Road and from Route 156. The timber resource is an early mid-rotational hardwood resource including maples, birches, oaks, and aspen. The topography is gently rolling to moderate as the property ascends to the mid slopes of the small Varnum Mountain. Western Maine offers a number of options for traditional outdoor recreation including fishing, hunting, snowmobiling, skiing, and much more.
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Lucid Customs
Apollo 2 - Wall Powered - Walnut
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Apollo 2 Updates:
Following the successful launch of the Apollo, we bring you the Apollo 2. Updated features include:
- New coil design for better vapor production
- New capacitor prevents intermittent switch activation issue seen on the first Apollo
- Improved magnet adhesion
- Optional rechargeable battery that last up to 60 clicks before recharging
The Apollo 2 is a Dynavap induction heater engineered from the ground up by Lucid Customs specifically for use with the Dynavap. Enjoy smooth, fast and consistent hits in 6-12 seconds every time with stainless steel or titanium tips. It's simple to operate: just press the Dynavap into the chamber until you hear the heat-up click. A momentary tactile switch is built into the chamber to ensure the heater is only activated when a Dynavap is inserted. An automatic shutoff feature will only allow heating for 15 seconds at a time and dual automatically resettable fuses protect the circuit from over current situations. The Apollo features a laser engraved cover accent and authentic Dynavap magnet on the top. Included with each Apollo heater is an instruction guide and a 120-240V power supply or charger with USA style plugs. They will work worldwide with plug adapters.
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Wolf population in Northern Rockies dips for first time in 15 years according to FWP
March 23, 2011
The gray wolf population in the Northern Rockies dropped in 2010 — the first annual decline since the animal was reintroduced to the region 15 years ago, federal wildlife officials reported Friday. At least 566 wolves now live in Montana. The latest wolf management report by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks indicates that is an 8 percent increase in 2010 compared to a 4 percent increase last year and an 18 percent increase in 2008. FWP says it verified 108 packs and 35 breeding pairs.
Read the story in Magic Valley Times-News.
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