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Scottish pub groups warn against early introduction of test purchasing
15 February 2007 by Daniel Thomas
A group of hospitality trade groups have written an open letter to the Scottish Executive expressing opposition to plans to allow the early introduction of the Test Purchasing of alcohol north of the border.
Test Purchasing, targeted at licensees who sell alcohol to under-18s, will be implemented in full in 2009, but legislators have proposed bringing it in early.
In the letter, addressed to Lewis Macdonald, the deputy minister for health and community care, Patrick Browne, chief executive of the Scottish Beer and Pub Association confirms support for the legislation, but outlines a number of concerns over the proposals to go live early.
"Primarily, the fact that many of the new requirements of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 on issues like, for example, the mandatory training of staff and a mandatory condition of 'no proof no sale' will simply not be in place," the letter says.
"Similarly, as you may be aware it is currently lawful under the terms of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 1976 to sell alcohol to 16 to 18 year-olds in licensed premises in certain specific circumstances, namely with the consumption of a meal.
"This will remain the case until the introduction of the new licensing regime amends the law to make it unlawful to sell alcohol to under-18 year olds, although again it will still be lawful for them to consume it in on-licensed premises under certain limited circumstances where the alcohol is ancillary to a meal."
Browne also highlights the lack of success of a similar scheme for tobacco purchases, and contrasts this with the 360 offences for underage alcohol sales achieved in 2005-06 with existing police powers.
He calls for a meeting to discuss the matter prior to the Executive taking any final decision on any early implementation.
The letter was countersigned by Paul Waterson, chief executive of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association, BEDA Scotland chairman Eddie Tobin, John Loudon, legal adviser at the British Hospitality Association in Scotland, and BII Scotland's Janet Hood.
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Easter is over, spring break has officially ended and the next big focus is Earth Day, coming up on April 22nd. For the second time in a row our school will be celebrating it as a part of Earth Week.
During Earth Week classes from across the school find interesting ways to focus on taking better care of the Earth. As well, short workshops are run each day after school for students and teachers. Last year we worked on making recycled bottle blocks, recycled paper creations, we held a butterfly release, worked out our carbon footprints and planted a tree in front of the Learning Resources Centre. This year we are hoping to create a recycled materials structure with the help of students and teachers from across the school.
While thinking about this, I felt compelled to begin compiling list of great Earth Day resources for teachers and students. The initial work is now parked on our LRC Website with new additions due shortly. These sites contain a rich variety of interactives, videos, photo galleries and lesson plans. Most of these are for 6-12 but there are a few lesson plans and resources for Primary school teachers and students too.


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When we're doing two dives a day the photographers keep their cameras in their underwater housings until the end of the second dive, so we have to be patient before we can see what photos they've snapped. But it's always worth the wait! They are experts at getting up close and personal with little critters that I haven't even noticed.
During a dive they've always got their head hidden under the Sargassum seaweed as they fossick for interesting shapes and colours to photograph. Here are some small – and not so small – creatures that Malcolm captured caught on camera. Starting at the big end of the scale – this crayfish came wandering out to meet Malcolm and kept coming until it actually bumped into his camera!
This warty wobbly blob is the size of a tennis ball – and it's a wandering anemone. You see anemones all the time in rock pools around New Zealand, and they are stuck in one place. When they sense danger they retract into a small ball, and when they are relaxed and feeding they wave their tentacles around in the water. This guy, however, can get up and move around! It may not be the fastest kid on the block, but it can shift from one place to another.
there are lots of lovely solitary corals, such as these orange beauties, which I think look a little like dried apricots.
Nice to see your images hot out of the camera Malcolm, look forward to seeing more images from the Kings trip.
How deep did you dive?
What is sargassum seaweed?how deep is it ?
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The United States is a remarkably religious nation. It is inevitable that clinical social workers will encounter clients whose self understanding has been shaped, or impacted, troubled and or soothed by their faith. Our religiously minded clients need us to be able to speak to the questions of deep meaning their faiths challenge and answer. Yet, we are not clergy. We have a different and important role. Moreover we may be atheists ourselves. In addition we live in a religiously pluralistic country. There is no single faith language that can accommodate all religious people. Even if a social worker were able to speak a given faith with eloquence they could not hope to be equally articulate in all religions. Fortunately, there are theories in the psychoanalytic tradition that will allow the social worker to frame questions of deep meaning in a way that will resonate with religiously concerned clients while preserving the essentially non religious character of our clinical work. This thesis is a cross-disciplinary approach utilizing particular theology and psychodynamic theories toward working with religious clients.
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IBM Uses Computer Hard Drives to Predict Earthquakes & Tsunamis
Zachary Shahan - November 2, 2010
IBM has now developed an earthquake- and tsunami-tracking system using the sensors in your computer that could really save lives.
This breakthrough could especially help in the case of tsunamis, since the information can travel fast enough to give people time to get out of a dangerous situation, but it can also be of great help in earthquakes. With the system IBM has developed, first responders can be notified of an emergency more quickly and can also be more quickly directed to strongly hit areas.
"It tells them I need to worry about this school I don't need to worry about this bridge," Bob Friedlander, a master inventor for IBM, said in the video below. "They can focus their efforts, their energies and their resources to do the most good."
On how the system works, PCMag reports:
The patent and technology uses the sensor in your laptop's hard disk to detect seismic vibration, and to communicate the data back up to the Internet, at faster speeds than the earthquake can travel. Hard drives have contained these sensors since about 2004, fixing the read-write head in place to prevent scratching the disc media in case the laptop is jiggled or actually falls.
IBM applied for the patent for this system back in April 2007 and was awarded it in April of this year.
"Following rapid analysis of the hard drive data, it can be determined exactly when a seismic event started, how long a seismic event lasted, the intensity of a seismic event, the frequency of motion of a seismic event, direction of motion of a seismic event, etc," IBM said in a statement on the system. "The information is then delivered to decision makers for action, including the emergency response representatives, such as police, firefighters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency or other service providers."
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Just started with Lumion 7.5 trial. Imported a revit model, it came in at a height above the terrain. Tried to select the model and move it down - it won't let me select it. What I am missing?
Models are placed at the Lumion Placement Point/Insertion Point. If the physical model is above the placement point, then that's because on export the building is also above, and at distance from the Revit Base Point or Survey Point.
1. Amend the Base Point (temporarily), but that is not always practical in Revit to do so all the time. And moving the building closer to, or at the Base Point, is not always desired in Revit.
2. So the easy way is to correct the height in Lumion. See our Knowledge Base Article: My model is high above the terrain. How can I change it's height?
I can not select the imported revit model and therefore can not move it up or down.
Ah, selection problem, sorry missed that from your earlier description.
After placing it in a Scene it should be sitting at ground level, but just to check it is not far below ground level, please check if you can see the models Object Icon by moving the camera higher up and away from the model.
I can see the model - it is 50-60 feet above the grade plane.
I can't select the model and therefore can't move the model back down to the grade plane.
Hi herm57, try to select the model in the 'Imported models' browser window in Lumion and then place it in the scene again.
Do you see a small circular object insertion icon at the point where you clicked when placing the model?
I appreciate the help, but my 7 day trial has expired. Not enough time to test out the software and work on client projects at the same time, thanks again.
Did you know that there are two different trial versions? You might want to consider getting the Lumion 8.0 Pro Trial version instead. It's the full unlimited version.
I will look into it, thanks again.


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Past and present range of the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby.
(DECC 2008 – NSW Recovery plan for the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby – Petrogale penicillate)
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Distribution of records of Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby.
(Australian Government DEH 2004 – Draft National Recovery Plan for the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby 2004/05 – 2008/09)
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Howes Percival has once again won the award for the Professional Services category at the prestigious Milton Keynes Business Achievement Awards 2018.
The annual awards celebrate the success and achievements of businesses across Milton Keynes in a wide variety of industries and sectors.
It is the second win for the firm which won the award for the Professional Services category in 2017. Howes Percival was also shortlisted for the 'Best Use of Social Media' award this year.
Earlier this year, Howes Percival played a key role in the sale of cider maker Aspall to American brewing giant, Molson Coors and advised Mazars Financial Planning (MFP) on the acquisition of chartered financial planning firm, RCL Consultancy Limited. The firm also completed a series of transactions in the property and development finance and refinancing sectors with a total deal value in excess of £300 million.
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Woods reflects on missed Open chances
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Tiger Woods didn't entirely hurt his chances in the British Open.
Better yet, he didn't hurt anyone in the gallery.
Woods still walked away Friday realising he made it a little tougher on the weekend at Carnoustie if he wants to end a decade without winning a major. A rugged start, a strong recovery, a few putts for birdie, a few he missed for par, and it added to an even-par 71.
"I could have cleaned up the round a little bit," he said.
He was tied for 29th, six strokes behind leaders Zach Johnson and Kevin Kisner.
The wildest moment on a wet day in Scotland came on the second hole, when Woods hit his drive well to the right on the side of a dune. The grass was deep enough that it was certain to twist the club on impact. Woods asked the gallery to move back because he would have to start it to the right with the golf ball well above his feet.
The shot came out hot and right at them. There was no evidence it hit anyone - no one was hurt, anyway - because the ball at least kept going in the rough.
Woods was thankful.
"I was trying to play for the grass to wrap the shaft around there and hit it left, and I was just trying to hold the face open as much as I possibly could. It grabbed the shaft and smothered it," he said. "I was very, very fortunate that it got far enough down there where I had a full wedge into the green."
He still made bogey. He made another bogey on the next hole, and just like that he was on the cut line.
Woods answered with a pair of birdies, and it was give-and-take the rest of the way.
The only time he was under par for his round was after a five-iron easily cleared the Spectacle bunkers on the par-5 14th and rolled onto the green to a front pin, leaving him an 18-foot eagle putt. He missed and made birdie.
Two holes later, he found a pot bunker right of the par-3 16th and made bogey.
And on the final hole, he hit an approach he judged perfectly to about 10 feet pin-high. He missed.
"I played a little bit better yesterday," Woods said of his matching scores for the opening two rounds. "Today wasn't quite as good, but I finally birdied the par 5."
He was six shots behind when he finished and figured the margin would be a little wider, which it was. Woods and the rest of the early starters faced an entire round of light rain, while it cleared out for the afternoon.
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Catalytic and reaction engineering studies on organic liquid phase oxidation of Cyclohexane
posted on 2017-02-24, 02:09 authored by Unnarkat, Ashish Prabhudas
Liquid phase oxidation of hydrocarbons has been used for decades in converting the available feedstock to commercially viable products of importance in petrochemicals and polymer industry. Cyclohexane oxidation is among the ones that have been studied extensively and is of interest to researchers because of the challenges involved due to various side reactions which lower the selectivity to the desired compound. Oxidation of cyclohexane yields cyclohexanol (A) and cyclohexanone (K); commonly referred to as KA oil. It is an important chemical intermediate and is the starting materials in the preparation of adipic acid and caprolactam that are in turn used in the manufacture of nylon-6 and nylon-66 polymers. Conventionally, oxidation of cyclohexane is carried out on an industrial scale worldwide with air as an oxidant either without catalyst or with dissolved cobalt salts (cobalt acetate or cobalt napthenate) as the catalyst. In view of the decreasing selectivity of KA oil by various side reactions, the process is restricted to 4-5% conversion. KA oil selectivity is maintained 75-80% in the process. With the available knowledge in the literature, present research was focused towards developing a better catalyst that gives a better conversion, maintaining high selectivity to KA oil. Transition metals, cobalt and molybdenum are used for the study because of their proven activity in hydrocarbon oxidations; however, they are not explored before as mixed oxide for cyclohexane oxidations. Thesis is divided into three parts; the first part focuses on the catalytic oxidation of cyclohexane using molecular oxygen over cobalt molybdenum oxide (CoMoO4) catalysts in solvent free conditions. In addition to the pure oxides, the mixed oxides with different Co:Mo ratio are synthesized and evaluated for cyclohexane oxidation. These catalysts were characterized using different techniques including; surface area analysis (BET), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The effect of different parameters like oxygen pressure, reaction temperature, reaction time and catalyst loading on the performance of the catalyst is evaluated. These oxide catalysts were observed to deactivate during the course of the reaction and the reaction terminates after some time. The causes for the deactivation were traced and studied in the second part. Along with experimental verification supported with characterization techniques of thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) on the spent and fresh catalyst, the underlying deactivation phenomenon was studied. Activity of the catalyst was regained after re-calcination and was comparable to the fresh catalyst. In third part, CoMoO₄ mixed oxide was supported on three different mesoporous silica, namely SBA-15, KIT-6, and LPFDU-12. The use of support was to increase the dispersion of oxide and provide high surface area. The oxide supported catalyst were studied for change in pore size of support, change in calcination temperature, and change in loading of oxides/g silica support using KIT-6 as support for study. The performance of supported catalysts is reported for solvent free oxidation of cyclohexane in the oxygen environment. The study finds its application in designing the catalyst by optimizing the synthesis parameters. The study concludes with modeling of reaction kinetics for cyclohexane oxidation based on the scheme proposed by Suresh et al (1988). The results have shown good agreement between the experimental data and model prediction for all the supported and unsupported catalyst. The values of the rate constants and the activation energies were evaluated as per the Arrhenius plot. The study has come out with a transition metal based Co-Mo oxide catalyst that has shown a potential in organic liquid phase oxidation of cyclohexane and finds as an alternative to the conventional counterparts. Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India and Monash University, Australia.
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Climate Adaptation Practices in Fiji Are Influenced by Social Norms and Cultural Values
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Fiji, as a developing small island nation, is very vulnerable to extreme climatic conditions. Strong cyclones resulting in floods visit the country regularly, causing widespread damage and losses to property, livelihood, and infrastructure.
The paper examined the climate adaptation strategies of indigenous Fijian communities and households in the lower Ba River Catchment in Western Viti Levu and how are they influenced by socio-cultural values and access to resources, information and power. The study was jointly authored by Andreas Neef, Lucy Benge, Bryan Boruff, Natasha Pauli, Eberhard Weber, Renata Varea.
Researchers have carried out a series of field studies to examine climate adaptation strategies of the downstream communities and households of the Ba River Catchment after they were affected by two major flood events in 2012. The area was also hit by major cyclones – Cyclone Evan in 2012 and Cyclone Winston in 2016.
Data showed that Fijian's local adaptations are not necessarily based on scientific knowledge but instead "have developed in socially and culturally relevant ways."
Fijian communities' climate adaptation practices revealed in the study consisted of mobility, storage, diversification, communal pooling, and market exchange.
The first one, mobility, refers to the movement of livestock and fields and relocation of individual household and communities to new areas, whether on a temporary or permanent basis after a flooding event.
According to the study, relocation can be hampered by senior members who are reluctant to leave because of cultural and historical ties. Other reasons would include lack of provision of external support and resources. Younger generations tend to turn away from subsistence farming and wage labour and wanted to relocate.
Storage refers to the community's capacity to store water, food, fuel, livestock and household items in preparation for disasters. Research data show that communities have limited storage capacity during a disaster and have expressed a desire to construct the community's food and water storage to increase their resilience against floods and disasters.
Diversification refers to the changes that communities made in their livelihood practices, behaviours and beliefs to become more resilient. Communities have diversified their agriculture and have adapted their fishing practices to maintain a basic food and income security level.
Communal pooling refers to a community's joint ownership and pooling of its assets, resources, labour, information, and knowledge during floods or disasters.
In Fiji, village schools are used as evacuation centres. Members pool their labour for reforestation, planting mangroves, and constructing drains to channel floodwaters. Those who have access to food and water share these resources with the rest of the community during disasters.
These adaptation strategies show that the community's ability to cope with disasters is closely linked with their social networks or through a pre-existing network of trust, communication, and support.
Lastly, market exchange refers to the community's access to the market, insurance, and trade for adaptation.
After a flooding event, the study finds market exchange plays a limited role in adaptation after disasters. Instead of selling their agriculture crops and fish harvest in the market, they keep it for household supply and consumption. However, household savings work as insurance and help to strengthen food and income security.
The study reveals that Fijian communities and households' climate adaptation strategies can vary widely and are deeply embedded in a complex set of social norms and cultural values that can either enable or restrict adaptation.
The study attempted to understand how highly localized adaptive practices have shaped the community's long term risk reduction. The study says that when rolling out adaptation strategies, it pays to recognize the complex socio-cultural norms of the community and their "diverse local practices rather than attempt to shape their practice according to a standardized metric of disaster risk reduction and adaptation."
To view the study, click the link below:
CLIMATE ADAPTATION STRATEGIES IN FIJI: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL NORMS AND CULTURAL VALUES
If you want a copy, please contact, Andreas Neef ([email protected])
Source Citation:
Neef, A., Benge, L., Boruff, B., Pauli, N., Weber, E., & Varea, R. (2018). Climate adaptation strategies in Fiji: The role of social norms and cultural values. World Development, 107, 125-137
PHOTO CREDIT: Andreas Neef
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Our runner-up pick, the Wenzel Cardinal Sleeping Bag, is discontinued so we've moved it to the Competition section.
After spending more than 30 hours researching 46 rectangular sleeping bags and testing 13 of them in the Topatopa Mountains above Ojai, California, we think the Coleman Oak Point Cool Weather Sleeping Bag is the best sleeping bag for most people who car-camp frequently. Of all the models we tested, the Coleman Oak Point offers the best combination of comfort, price, warranty, and durability for basic camping.
The Coleman Oak Point is warm, enveloping, and well-made despite its affordable price.
The adage "you get what you pay for" is as true today as it has ever been, but with some clear exceptions. For this review, we found that you simply don't need to pay that much for a comfortable, functional sleeping bag for car camping. After hours of testing, we believe that the Coleman Oak Point Cool Weather Sleeping Bag is the best car-camping sleeping bag for most people: It's inexpensive but filled with a lofted hollow-core polyester, and it's comfortable at temperatures as low as 30 degrees Fahrenheit. The bag's spacious design is wide enough to accommodate many sleeping positions without feeling constricting. Plus, despite this bag's affordable price, Coleman still backs the Oak Point with a limited five-year warranty, protecting you against equipment failures.
The Siesta 30 is worth the higher price if you need a bag that is moisture resistant, easier to clean, and easier to stuff away.
The REI Co-op Siesta 30 Sleeping Bag is lighter, more comfortable, and more adjustable than our top pick, and it comes in three size options, too. The Siesta 30 is as warm as (if not warmer than) our top pick, and its slim and adjustable stuff sack won't take up as much room in the trunk of your car—a pertinent detail for large families. Additionally, REI's polyester fabric is more water resistant than Coleman's, and REI's return policy is more generous.
However, the Siesta 30 is also three times as expensive as our top pick at this writing, so we recommend it only if you need a bag that can accommodate wetter weather, or if you plan to take longer hiking trips and might want to bring this bag along. If you're flirting with the idea of backpacking farther afield and want a bag that you won't outgrow as your ambitions progress, the Siesta 30 could be an excellent choice for you.
Made with thick polyester fill, the Country Squire 20 remains comfortable on rough and open ground—but it's best for indoor sleeping.
The Slumberjack Country Squire 20 is not a bag for backpacking or trips in small cars. Its oversize shape and bulk, even when rolled up, means that it needs to be carried in its own extra-large duffle (which measures nearly 16 by 42 inches). The bag took up a significant part of our not-too-small trunk space when we packed for a camping trip.
However, sleeping in this bag is a true pleasure. If space considerations aren't a concern or you tend to camp in a cabin or on a cot (as you might during a hunting trip), this plush Slumberjack model—which is practically a full bed on its own—is a very good option. Comfortable down to 20 degrees Fahrenheit, it's the warmest bag we tested. Plus, the removable liner means you can wash your in-the-woods-for-a-week scent remnants from the bag without having to wash the entire bag itself.
I've worked for Wirecutter for four years in various capacities, writing about everything from backpacks to cooking gear to luggage to road-trip gear to car-camping tents. I've also written for Popular Science, The Awl, The Metro, The Observer, and Fortune.
I've camped and slept in bags similar to the ones in this guide for the past 20 years. In that time, I've spent days avoiding midges in the Scottish Highlands and crashed in half-built homes in Crete. I also lived in a tent in Hawaii for seven months, and I used a sleeping bag as a blanket for most of that time.
In addition to leaning on personal experience for this guide, I pored over online reviews of car-camping sleeping bags, polled car-camping friends about their sleeping bag preferences, and took several overnight camping trips with our top picks into Southern California's Topatopa Mountains, where we encountered late-summer temperatures of 35 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit at night. We also plan to continue testing these bags throughout the year all over the US, and we will update this guide accordingly with our findings.
We tested these sleeping bags with car campers in mind. Although two of our picks can compress a good bit, this style of sleeping bag is not meant for stuffing into a sack and packing deep into a traditional backpack. Most of the sleeping bags in this guide aren't made of advanced materials, either, and they would be considered heavy by through-hikers. If you're planning on hiking down the trail for more than a mile, or if you're sleeping in colder weather, or if you want a bag designed for women, we think you'll be better served by one of the picks from our mummy bag guide. Mummy bags are usually warmer, and they're easier to pack away for overnight hikes.
If you're looking for a good sleeping bag that's comfortable in most moderate conditions and suitable for locations and situations ranging from public campgrounds to family road trips, or if you dislike the restrictive design of a mummy bag, this guide is for you. Belly- and side-sleepers will especially enjoy the spaciousness of these rectangular designs. These car-camping sleeping bags are as close as you can get to tucking into your own bed outdoors without bringing a set of sheets, blankets, and your mattress to a campsite.
Belly- and side-sleepers will especially enjoy the spaciousness of these rectangular designs.
If you always camp with a partner, you can find purpose-built double sleeping bags made just for you (like those we cover in our review here). It's important to note, however, that many of the single rectangular bags in this guide can zip together with another twin bag to create an impromptu double sleeping bag. Bags made for couples are great if you always camp and sleep with a partner—but if you're likely to use a sleeping bag on a solo trip, you probably want a single bag like the ones in this guide.
Top row (left to right): Marmot Yurt, Rei Siesta 30, Slumberjack Country Squire 20. Middle row (starting from the large amber model): Cabela's Mountain Trapper, Big Agnes Hog Park 20, Wenzel Cardinal, Coleman Oak Point, L.L.Bean Camp Sleeping Bag. Bottom row: Kelty Discovery 30, Sierra Designs Frontcountry Bed, Redcamp Cotton Flannel, REI Kingdom Sleep System, The North Face Dolomite 40/4.
We spent six hours reading and evaluating every online review of rectangular "classic" sleeping bags that we could find. The most informative reviews were from Switchback Travel, OutdoorGearLab, and Active Junky. We compiled an initial list of 46 models from that research. Then we visited company websites to compare bag specifications, including materials, price, and features, and we read additional owner reviews on forums like Thru-Hiker and Hiking Camping Guide.
We wanted bags that felt like beds away from home.
Down versus synthetic: In this style of car-camping sleeping bags, synthetic bags are far more common than down ones, and they're far less expensive. For comparison's sake, we chose a single down model to test, the Marmot Yurt. It isn't outrageously expensive, and we wanted to see if it offered a distinct difference in feel and experience in comparison with the synthetic bags. Usually, down-filled bags pack smaller and are warmer for their weight than those with synthetic filling. However, unlike mummy bags, rectangular down sleeping bags aren't designed to keep you as warm as absolutely possible. Their rectangular shape, loose fit, and usual lack of a head cover limit their overall ability to retain heat. We figured that, except as a luxuriant upgrade pick, down filling was too expensive and unnecessary for a bag of this design—and our testing bore that out.
Temperature range: Most of the models we tested came with ratings for a variety of temperatures. For our testing, we focused on bags that fell between 30 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit, which should be warm enough for most camping from late spring to early fall. Some bags are good for warmer or cooler temperatures, but we figured that most car campers would be out and about in three seasons (fall, summer, and spring), not four. Unlike backpacking bags, which receive their temperature ratings through a standardized process, ratings for these kinds of casual sleeping bags are not universal and—based on our analysis—are actually pretty variable. We found inconsistencies and divergences between very similar bags from different manufacturers, so we needed to test them to see how warm and breathable they really were.
Comfort: This is a subjective criterion, but to evaluate it, we first compared notes from relevant review sites for each bag, looking specifically for comments on comfort and warmth. Slowly, we started to see some amount of consensus form across a few major brands and designs, which we used to narrow our focus. We wanted bags that felt like beds away from home—bags without sticky zippers, and bags made with comfortable liners and ample loft.
Packability: A bag's packed size and weight are less of a concern for a car camper than for a through-hiker out on a month-long excursion—and it might not be a concern at all for some car campers with larger vehicles. However, if you're packing a small car with a weekend's worth of stuff, you may be fighting for every inch you can manage. That's when packability becomes important.
Bag style: We eliminated mummy bags right away, as we already feature those in our mummy bag guide. We also eliminated double sleeping bags. Eventually, we narrowed the style down to rectangular bags, but we added a few of the increasingly popular "system-bag" models. These sleeping bags have sleeves or inserts sewn onto their bottoms that pair directly with certain-length sleeping pads to stop the pads from moving around beneath you as you sleep. Essentially, a sleep-system bag gives you a mattress, pillow, and sleeping bag all in one. We tested the REI Co-op Kingdom Sleep System Bedding, the Big Agnes Hog Park 20, and the Sierra Designs Frontcountry Bed, all of which are popular sleep-system models. Spoiler alert: While this sleeping-pad-plus-bag design impressed us in our couples bag review and makes sense when two people are jostling for space and comfort, we found its individual application to be unnecessary and no more comfortable than regular individual bags and sleeping pads.
Ultimately, we narrowed our list down to 13 test models: Big Agnes Hog Park 20, Cabela's Mountain Trapper 40°F Sleeping Bag, Coleman Oak Point Cool Weather Sleeping Bag, Kelty Discovery 30, L.L.Bean Camp Sleeping Bag Cotton-Blend-Lined, Marmot Yurt, The North Face Dolomite 40/4, Redcamp Cotton Flannel Sleeping Bag, REI Co-op Kingdom Sleep System Bedding, REI Co-op Siesta 30 Sleeping Bag, Sierra Designs Frontcountry Bed, Slumberjack Country Squire 20, and Wenzel Cardinal Sleeping Bag.
You can see how they all compare here.
We started our testing by evaluating each bag's shape and design, looking for design flaws and basic issues such as cheap zippers or inconsistent filling. Then, we got into each bag over the course of two days, napping, reading, and generally hunkering down for the afternoon and evening to see how comfortable each bag felt.
After selecting six finalists, we headed out on a weekend camping trip in the Topatopa Mountains near Ojai, California. We also had several lifelong friends and a few siblings in town at the time of testing, so they took on the task of field-testing these bags with us. We added their judgments and experiences, especially while sleeping and resting in each bag, to this guide.
Cozy in Southern California's Topatopa Mountains.
During testing, we took notes on the bags' inner and outer liners, as well as on how they felt against our skin, how well the insulation blocked any breeze from passing through the zipper teeth, and how the overall shape and size of each bag felt as we slept. We didn't score our findings numerically, since we felt that our testing pool was too small for that, but all our winning bags received a unanimous thumbs-up from our testers for their warmth and feel.
Additionally, we plan to continue testing these bags throughout the upcoming seasons and will update this guide with any extra findings. We're also distributing the bags among a few friends who live in various locations and have differing levels of camping experience to get their general reactions and feedback about each pick.
A smart balance of price and utility makes the Coleman Oak Point Cool Weather Sleeping Bag our top pick for a sleeping bag to take on any car-camping trip. Coleman is known for selling good-enough gear at a nearly unbeatable price, and this bag is no exception. Rated to 30 degrees Fahrenheit, it fits most body types with room to spare, and unlike other models around this price, it has a cotton-flannel liner that's comfortable enough against bare skin. Our testing panel tried two other bags under $50 and unanimously selected the Oak Point as their favorite. In fact, even when comparing it against bags twice the price, such as the Kelty Discovery 30, our testers preferred the Oak Point.
The Coleman zipper is equipped with a plastic "plow" to keep the fabric from catching as you open or close the bag. It worked well enough, but it wasn't completely snag-free.
Unrolled, this Coleman bag measures 35 by 76 inches—similar to our other picks, except for the much broader Slumberjack—and is wide enough to allow for any sleeping position without constraint. I'm 6 foot 3, and I slept well inside this bag without feeling hemmed in; I always had plenty of bag length to fold over my shoulders, too. Coleman appears to overestimate the size of this bag on its website.
The Oak Point's polyester outer shell was not the strongest we tested, but it's good enough for most car-camping trips. Our testers enjoyed how smooth the outer shell was, noting that it didn't feel uncomfortable to the touch (which can happen with some synthetic fabrics). After testing all the models we had, we found that you'd have to spend nearly three times this Coleman bag's price to see any marked improvement in material quality.
The Coleman bag features a small pocket in the inner flap for electronics or personal gear.
The Oak Point is filled with a hollow-core fiber called Coletherm, which does a decent job of insulating you from the cold outside (even when temperatures dip into the 30-degree range). After we squeezed the ribs of this bag and compared it against other models (such as the Redcamp Cotton Flannel), we realized just how much loft this bag's filler material captured. Once we were zipped up, we found that it had plenty of fill to seal the gaps along the zipper's edge, comfortably insulating us from any drafts that might work their way through the small gaps in the zipper teeth.
Instead, you secure the Coleman bag with an attached cord.
It's a simple solution, though using the cord sacrifices overall compression in comparison with some of our other picks.
With an item this inexpensive, there are bound to be flaws. Do we prefer the nylon runner along the zipper of the REI Co-op Siesta 30? Sure—it's much better at stopping zipper snags than the Coleman Oak Point's plastic zipper plow. Would we love it if the Coleman bag's flannel interior were more comfortable? Of course. We also found that the cheaper nylon made a noticeably louder swishing noise than our other picks when we were trying to sleep at night—so if you like a quieter sleep, you might consider our other picks. Plus, instead of a stuff sack, Coleman designs all its sleeping bags around a built-in pull string, which locks the rolled-up bag into place. It's a simple solution that avoids the problem of wrestling with a stuff sack after a night's sleep in a tent, but that also means you can never (at least, not without purchasing a third-party stuff sack) compress this bag as much as you might like. Weighed against the bag's overall price, however, every aspect of the Coleman Oak Point is simply good enough.
The REI Co-op Siesta 30 Sleeping Bag usually costs nearly three times as much as our top pick, but we think it's worth the investment if you're planning to up your backpacking skills in the near future, or if you're planning to sleep somewhere wet. The Siesta 30 comes in three size options to accommodate nearly any size sleeper without excess weight and material. This REI bag's polyester taffeta shell is the same as its liner—and it's a soft material that makes barely any noise at all. A few of our testers reported being able to slide in and out of this bag at night without stirring their sleeping partners.
No catches: A sturdy nylon ribbon runs the length of the zipper, protecting against snags while you get in and out of the bag. We found it to be the most effective design of all the bags we tested.
A no-snag strip along the zipper and ample draft tubes along the edge of this sleeping bag are thoughtful touches. While the strip didn't prove to be totally snag-proof in our tests, it was the best design of any model we tried at stopping those annoying catches. And the draft tubes were very good at keeping breezes from breaking through the long zippered bag.
Like our top pick, the Siesta 30 has a gear pocket sewn into its front flap for small personal items.
This rectangular bag is easy to stuff into its included stuff sack, which you can leave expanded with a mesh wrapper to help ventilate the bag while it's in storage, or compress for backpacking or overnight hiking. However, compared with our other picks, this bag has less overall padding inside. It's not as noticeable if you have a thick sleeping pad or air mattress, but next to a down sleeping bag or some of our other, thicker picks, it stands out.
Unique among all our picks, the Siesta 30 is designed around a forward folding flap, which approximates the feel of a folded-down blanket. Our testers overwhelmingly noted this comfortable and homey design.
The REI stuff sack can hold and aerate the bag with a minimal footprint or compress further for longer backpacking trips or when you need extra space.
The Siesta 30 is surprisingly warm for how thin it feels. In heat retention, it came in second only to the Slumberjack Country Squire 20 on our list, and it tied with the Marmot Yurt. However, if warmth is your absolute top priority, we suggest the Slumberjack as your best option. We do appreciate that the top of the Siesta 30 comes equipped with two drawstrings that, when pulled, create a hood of sorts that helps trap heat in colder weather. The feature is not nearly as good as a mummy bag, but it's better than nothing.
The Slumberjack Country Squire 20 is a specific type of sleeping bag. At nearly 11 pounds, it's one of the heaviest bags we tested. The insulation alone weighs more than 4 pounds—but that's what makes this bag so comfortable to sleep in. The Country Squire 20 is designed to fit anyone under 6 foot 6, too, and it's wide enough for almost any girth. If anything, the Country Squire 20 is so large, it has room to spare. However, the one downside of this bag is that it doesn't pack down small; instead, it packs into a duffle bag that could quite possibly fill your trunk in one go.
The detachable duffel bag is a great feature, but its large size—42 inches wide—means it might be difficult to pack in smaller cars. This is especially true if you're traveling with multiple bags.
The cotton duck shell on this bag isn't as water resistant as the shells of our other picks, but it is sturdier and more rugged. It feels as if you could carry this bag through a thorn thicket without a scratch, whereas our other picks would come out in ribbons. It's not just the durability that our testers enjoyed, though: The heavy weight of the cotton duck, plus the overfilled stuffing, was comforting against the night air. Sleeping in this bag felt like nestling under a thick duvet on a cold evening.
It feels as if you could carry this bag through a thorn thicket without a scratch.
The removable liner in the Slumberjack bag is simple to clean—you don't have to wash the entire bag. However, the cream color is susceptible to dirt and residue stains.
OutdoorGearLab selected the similar Country Squire 0 as a top pick for its unparalleled warmth and strong construction. "This bag is ideal for trailer, tent, truck-bed, or right-on-the-ground camping," the reviewer writes. "Its impeccable construction, makes this bag something you could use for a lifetime. However, we wouldn't recommend sleeping out under the stars if you suspect rain or snow." We agree that this bag is best for indoor sleeping on a hunting trip or while nestled on a cot, or for sleeping under the stars on a warm summer day.
The Slumberjack bag is very easy to unroll because of its well-made, if overly large, removable carrying case.
The interior liner of the Slumberjack is made of a poly-cotton blend, and you can remove it for washing. It's a handy feature for a bag this size, which would intimidate even the largest home washing machines.
Usually a loose liner plus a nearby zipper is a recipe for snags, but we found that this bag's large, #10 zipper head largely avoided the issue.
The Country Squire 20 is definitely best suited to a safari tent, a trailer, a lodge, or down-on-the-ground camping. But it stood out during our testing because of its unusual design, hefty weight, and enduring comfort.
The Wenzel Cardinal Sleeping Bag was our runner-up pick but it's been discontinued. We thought that its comfort and price made it a good entry-level bag; anyone could get a decent night's sleep in it. If you do manage to find one—and it remains less expensive than our top pick—we still think it makes a good purchase.
Redcamp Cotton Flannel Sleeping Bag: Despite this bag's nice length and similar price, its materials and construction felt cheap in comparison with our top pick.
Kelty Discovery 30: For the price, we preferred the smaller compression and more comfortable design of the REI Siesta 30.
The North Face Dolomite 40/4: The fabric of this comparatively ultralight sleeping bag model created a strong static charge that we found distracting while sleeping. If you need to save weight, consider one of our "also great" picks, or look at a proper mummy-style backpacking bag.
L.L.Bean Camp Sleeping Bag Cotton-Blend-Lined: This bag typically costs about as much as the REI Siesta 30, but the latter is more comfortable, easier to pack, and better for longer treks than this model.
Cabela's Mountain Trapper 40°F Sleeping Bag: This bag is similar to the Slumberjack Country Squire 20 in size and price, but we found the Country Squire 20's inner liner to be a little more comfortable than the flannel of the Mountain Trapper. We also preferred the removable carrying case of the Slumberjack over the wrap-and-strap stowaway system of this model.
REI Co-op Kingdom Sleep System Bedding: This design is more of a traveling bed setup than a sleeping bag, so we're not entirely sure when it would be most useful. You can find plenty of better camping blankets for sale, and you can unzip any of our top picks for use as a blanket. Additionally, anyone can pack their own sheets and pillows on a camping trip and make a bed much more suited to their idea of comfort than the thin sheets included in this package. Save your money and use what you already have on hand rather than investing in this offering.
Big Agnes Hog Park 20: We were unimpressed by the brushed-cotton liner of this bag, which felt unpleasantly abrasive against our skin. The sewn-in slot for an individual sleeping pad was cumbersome. And we weren't sure that a pad system like this or the one in the Sierra Designs Frontcountry Bed solved that big of an issue except for the most restless of sleepers. That said, a similarly designed larger model by Big Agnes is the top pick in our couples sleeping bag review, so your personal experience may vary.
If you're sleeping in clothes, try to make sure they're clean. Over time, body oils, sweat, and dirt can create a musty smell and break down your bag liner.
Consider using a sleeping bag liner. Not only does a liner add to the warmth of a bag, but it's also easy to clean, and it increases the lifespan of your bag.
Make sure to fluff your bag after it has sat compressed at the bottom of your pack all day. This step helps you get all the loft, and therefore warmth, you'll want while sleeping.
When you're not using your bag, store it unstuffed and inside out so that the liner doesn't trap smells. Down bags specifically tend to come with an oversize sack for long-term storage.
Never leave any kind of sleeping bag in its compression sack while in storage—doing so destroys the overall loft and heat retention of the insulation.
The safest way to wash a down bag is by hand in a bathtub, or you can use a front-loading washer (avoid using a top-loader, which will rip the stitching). Nearly anyone who regularly washes sleeping bags has a preferred favorite soap; for down, we like Nikwax's Down Wash Direct, and for synthetics, we go for Nikwax's Tech Wash. Air dry your bag, or insert a couple of tennis balls and dry it on air fluff—no heat!—in your clothes dryer.
REI partners with Rainy Pass Repair to offer a bag-laundering service. Never dry clean your sleeping bag.
Make a patch out of adhesive gear-repair tape or duct tape. Be warned, however, that if you want to repair the hole later, the sticky adhesive may remain once you remove the tape, and the rip might get worse.


I decided over the Christmas break that it would be a nice idea to swatch one colour per week from my eyeshadow palettes. This will give you the opportunity to view each colour properly.
Rather than me blending them into makeup looks, you will be able to see each colour individually in detail. This will form part of the new #MakeupMonday segments which I will be presenting on my blog.
I never use the lightest shades from palettes as an all-over color but I actually quite like it on you, it really brightens up your eyes.


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Bail Out Bonanza
Double Brownie points for the Fed, courtesy of the US Treasury...
THERE HAS BEEN much talk in the media recently about the Federal Reserve and the actions it has taken over the past few months, writes US Congressman Ron Paul.
Many news pundits have been bending over backwards to praise the Fed for supposedly restoring stability to the market. This interpretation of the Fed's actions couldn't be further from the truth.
The current market crisis began because of Federal Reserve monetary policy in the early 2000s, during which the Fed lowered the interest rate to a below-market rate. The artificially low rates led to overinvestment in housing and other malinvestments.
Then, when the first indications of market trouble began back in August 2007, instead of holding back and allowing bad decision-makers to suffer the consequences of their actions, the Federal Reserve took aggressive, inflationary action to ensure that large Wall Street firms would not lose money.
It began by lowering the discount rate (the rate of interest charged to banks who borrow directly from the Fed), and also lengthening the terms of such loans. This eliminated much of the stigma from discount window borrowing, enabling troubled banks to go to the Fed directly for funding.
They could now pay only a slightly higher interest rate but also secure these loans for a period longer than just overnight. And after the massive increase in discount window lending proved to be ineffective, the Fed became more and more creative with its funding arrangements.
The Federal Reserve has since created the Term Auction Facility (TAF), the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF), and the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF). The upshot of all of these new programs is that, through auctions of securities or through deposits of collateral, the Fed is pushing hundreds of billions of dollars of funding into the financial system in a misguided attempt to shore up its stability.
The PDCF in particular is a departure from the established pattern of Fed intervention. It targets the primary dealers, those largest investment banks who purchase government securities directly from the New York Fed.
These banks have never before been allowed to borrow from the Fed, but thanks to the Fed Board of Governors, these investment banks can now receive loans from the Fed in exchange for securities which will in all likelihood soon lose much of their value, including subprime mortgage-backed bonds.
The net effect of all this new funding has been to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the financial system and bail out banks whose poor decision making should have caused them to go out of business. Instead of being forced to learn their lesson, these poor-performing banks are being rewarded for their financial mismanagement, and the ultimate cost of this bailout will fall on the American taxpayers.
Already this new money flowing into the system is spurring talk of the next speculative bubble, possibly this time in commodities. Worst of all, the Treasury Department has recently proposed that the Federal Reserve, which was responsible for the housing bubble and subprime crisis in the first place, be rewarded for all its intervention by being turned into a super-regulator.
The Treasury foresees the Fed as the guarantor of market stability, with oversight of any financial institution that could pose a threat to the financial system.
Rewarding poor performing financial institutions is bad enough, but rewarding the institution that enabled the current economic crisis is unconscionable.


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Take away headlines from the Eurordis Conference Edinburgh May 2016
Linda Story
The European Conference on Rare Diseases & Orphan Products is a biennial conference and a unique opportunity to come together to connect and share information and thoughts with other members of the rare disease community. This year it was held in Edinburgh and united all rare disease stakeholders from all European nations and beyond- patients and patient representatives, healthcare professionals and researchers, industry, payers, regulators and policy makers alike- in the fight against rare diseases.
I attended the event for the trust and found it particularly inspiring as well as giving me the opportunity to network and raise awareness of the trust and of NETs in general. The theme of the conference was Game Changers, " Game Changers in Rare Diseases Delivering 21st century healthcare to rare disease patients: Together we can change the future!" The key themes were Game Changers in Research, Game Changers in Diagnosis and Game Changers in Drug Development & Authorisation. It was very interesting to hear how many similarities there are accross rare diseases. While the conference did not focus on any particular diseases we did hear common themes, such as isolation felt by patients and carers, access to treatments, the need for education. Many of the issues I heard could have come from our own members. It was particularly interesting to hear from a lady from Luxembourg who said that due to their size they have only a very few specific disease groups and most meet under the banner of Rare Diseases.
A keynote address was given by Maureen Watt, MSP, Minister for Mental Health in the Scottish Government. She highlighted how the Scottish Government are very supportive of rare diseases. The Scottish Government have allocated partnership funding of £6M for Genetics and whole Gene sequencing. The NHS in Scotland have started with photosensitive outreach work. The Minister explained how health professionals in Scotland are changing from asking "what is the matter with you" to "what matters to you", and this was picked up many times as a game changing ethos. She emphasised how collaboration is the key to changing the future. This theme of collaboration and working together ran through most of the conference.
Alastair Kent, Director of Genetic Alliance UK, welcomed Scotland's commitment to Rare Diseases, gave a history of medical advances and how the last few years have seen a sea change, from "Rare Disease - why should we bother?" To now we realise people with rare diseases represent a significant expenditure but treating them results in maximum health gain. His clear message was we have won the argument, now we are partners and we will be the drivers.
Tom Shakespeare, Senior Lecturer Norwich Medical School was predictably controversial, suggesting that drug companies are exploiting patients, because orphan drugs are big business. His point was really that addressing rare disease is multi-factorial, yes we need to keep doing the science and developing drugs but the costs need to come down. We also need to bring down barriers citing his own example, where it is more cost effective to lower the light switches than to develop drugs to make him taller.
Hearing from a panel of young people was particularly interesting. One of the panel explained how yes modern technology and social media is great for bringing people together but we still need to talk to people face to face. The three things young people want most is Independence, Inclusion and Control. They also need age appropriate information.
I attended a session on Genetics which was absolutely fascinating. Prof Mark Caulfield, Chief Scientist, gave a presentation on the 100,000 genomes project. I was also lucky enough to speak to him on the margins and came away rather star struck. It seems that it will soon be as cost effective to carry out whole genome sequencing as to test against known mutations as we tend to do at the moment. This despite the fact that the human genome takes up the space of a small hard drive. To my mind this will be a big game changer. The other area he thought would yield results was in testing tumour tissue for somatic mutations and this may lead eventually to more personalised medicine. One word of warning about the commercial companies who are now doing genomic testing. It is important to know that while this may be an attractive proposition for some, they tend not to have the back-up support, such as treatment options or genetic counselling. The other big issue here is data protection.
Gareth Baynam Clinical Geneticist, Genetic Services of Western Australia Head, Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies gave a presentation on a phenotyping project in Australia. This project has had some interesting results where they have matched patients with the same or similar pheonotypes to arrive at a diagnosis for rare conditions. Phenotyping is something doctors do everyday, it occurred to me that actually doctors are the only people who can comment on your appearance and still be politically correct. However by digitising the information it makes it easier for the computer systems to match these characteristics up. So for instance he showed a slide of a boy with a slightly deformed foot, which could easily have been missed but the system matched it to someone else with a similar deformity and so a diagnosis was made and successful treatment was possible.
A session on clinical trials sparked some interesting debate on how to design trials for ultra rare conditions. Should we lower the standards for trials where the patient population is very low? If so what standards should be used? Do we actually need to test every drug against placebo? Could we not have one drug tested against placebo and use the placebo arm of that trial to test other drugs against? This session was very supportive of the need to include patients and patient groups in clinical trials, and also the need for training for those patients.
If anyone has any questions I am happy to discuss or to elaborate.
linda@taect.scot
Content from the European Conference on Rare Diseases & Orphan Products 2016 is all available at the following links.
The European Conference on Rare Diseases & Orphan Products 2016 (ECRD 2016) was a great success with over 700 participants from more than 40 countries coming together in Edinburgh. See the conference photos, press release, posters exhibited, presentations and watch videosof the opening, plenary and closing sessions (including speeches from: Maureen Watt, Minister for Mental Health, Scottish Government;George Freeman MP, UK Minister for Life Sciences; testimony from rare cancer survivor Igor Ban; Professor Tom Shakespeare; Alastair Kent, Director of Genetic Alliance UK; and a youth advocates panel).
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108 MINUTES – Resolved – That the minutes of the proceedings of this panel held on 5 March 2012, having been printed and circulated amongst the members, be taken as read and correctly recorded and signed by the chairman.
109 PUBLIC REQUESTS TO SPEAK – There were no requests received.
110 (28) CO-ORDINATION OF THE NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH NETWORK – The Director of Corporate and Community Services circulated the findings from the Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinators questionnaire. Members also considered a spreadsheet detailing the attendance of Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinators at meetings of Neighbourhood Action Teams and a briefing paper from the Assistant Director Democratic and Legal Services on the legal issues surrounding members' access to the database of Co-ordinators details.
Members then engaged in a discussion with the Director of Corporate and Community Services, Head of Stronger Communities and the Corporate and Community Services Cabinet Member on the aforementioned documents.
Resolved – (a) That the findings from the Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinators questionnaire, the spreadsheet detailing the attendance of Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinators at meetings of Neighbourhood Action Teams and the briefing paper from the Assistant Director Democratic and Legal Services on the legal issues surrounding members' access to the database of Co-ordinators details be noted; and (b) that a special meeting of the Places Scrutiny Panel be convened on 12 April 2012, commencing at 1.00 pm, to which the Assistant Director Community Safety be invited.
111 CABINET MEMBER AND SERVICE AREA PRIORITIES – The Chairman welcomed Councillor C Sherwood and Neil Laminman to the meeting, the council's Cabinet Member for Corporate and Community Services and Director of Corporate and Community Services respectively. Councillor Sherwood and Mr Laminman had been invited to the panel meeting to update members on any key decisions, important business or key developments which had occurred during the last quarter.
The council's Domestic Abuse service being awarded the Government's Quality Assurance mark. The first service in the country to receive the accolade.
Resolved – (a) That the oral update be noted; and (b) that the council's Cabinet Member for Corporate and Community Services and Director of Corporate and Community Services be thanked for their attendance, oral update and for answering members' questions.
112 (29) POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONERS – BULLETIN NUMBER SIX – The Director of Corporate and Community Services circulated the Police and Crime Commissioners Policy Briefing Number 6 for members' information.
Resolved – That the publication be noted.
113 ADDED ITEM – There was no added item for consideration at the meeting.


Leonie and Ben had a beautiful wedding at Palm Cove. The day was much windier than expected, which wasn't a problem, the ceremony just over from the beach to poolside at the Reef House. Leoni'es dress and shoes were stunning!
Leonie's hair and makeup were do by Louise Gill.
It was a big day, for some, and little Neville needed a helping hand from the fabulous wedding planner Bec of Dragonfly Weddings and Events.
Ben had to shuffle around Neville before he could kiss his beautiful bride.
Ben & Leonie didn't want to spend too much time away from their guest so we had a lovely little shoot in the resort and around Palm Cove.
The lunchtime reception was fantastic. Speeches were funny and heartfelt, and the food from the Reef house kitchen was amazing!


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One of the most important things when dealing with any ceramic knife is to ensure you do not drop it, as it could break or chip. This is very important. You should also ensure that you do not turn the knife onto its side and strike it (to crush garlic for instance). Again this could result in the blade breaking.
Please keep your fingers out of the way ! This may sound obvious, but these knives are much sharper than any steel knife you will have used and this often takes people by surprise when they start using our knives.
Ceramic knives should be considered as a slicing rather than a chopping, so for best results use a slicing motion when cutting and avoid cutting bones and frozen foods or anything that may result in you striking the blade hard onto a surface. This is not a boning knife and should not be used as such.
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I was pretty skeptical ordering a mirror off of Etsy because I had never ordered 'furniture' pieces there and was unsure whether a glass article would make it through with delivery people literally just throwing it places (that probably doesn't happen but, you never know). So, I was so happy when it arrived, safe and sound.
I guess what inspired my craving of this mirror is when I stayed a hotel on the west coast. They had a vanity table and a beautiful mirror like this, making for the most comfortable makeup-applying situation ever. I wanted to recreate that area in my room since I do my makeup almost everyday and wanted a comfy spot since honestly...doing my makeup isn't my most favorite thing in the world, especially when I need to run out the door for class. This way, I can relax and...maybe feel like I am in Paris again.
I also thought that if I ever have a marble fireplace (hey, a girl can dream) that this would be the perfect mirror to put on the mantle with other decorative items. Would be so nice and classic, I think.
Also my favorite part about this mirror is the gold detailing. I didn't even realizes that roses, one of my favorite types of flowers, were etched on the sides until I took a closer look. I hope you guys won't get sick of the pictures I take in this mirror, hahaha!
Anyway, I wanted to share this new addition with you because I am genuinely so happy about it. It truly has transformed my room, and it also adds height to that corner since my mirror was so small before. I promise, a proper updated room tour is headed your way soon. Can't wait!P.S. This mirror was from AssemblageCo on Etsy, they have so many beautiful vintage pieces.
Such a beautiful corner and mirror! Love it!