CONTEST is the United Kingdom's counter-terrorism strategy. It was first developed by Sir David Omand and the Home Office in early 2003 as the immediate response to 9/11, and a revised version was made public in 2006. Further revisions were published on 24 March 2009, 11 July 2011 and June 2018. An Annual Report on the implementation of CONTEST was released in March 2010 and in April 2014. The aim of the strategy is "to reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas from terrorism so that people can go about their lives freely and with confidence." The success of this strategy is not linked to total elimination of the terrorist threat, but to reducing the threat sufficiently to allow the citizens a normal life free from fear.
CONTEST is composed of the 'four Ps' - Prevent, Pursue, Protect, and Prepare - which aim to reduce terrorism at all levels through: Preventing more people from being radicalised; Pursuing suspects operationally and legally; Protecting the public through security measures, and Preparing to manage the response to mitigate the impact of an inevitable attack.
Homework Statement
You are a judge in a children's kite-flying contest, and two children will win prizes for the kites that pull most strongly and least strongly on their strings. To measure string tensions, you borrow a weight hanger, some slotted weights, and a protractor from your physics...
Stormy Weather
Here is a very broad easily interpreted topic. :smile:
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me...
junglebeast
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/9237/flyo.jpg
Andre
ZapperZ
colonelcrayon
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/3856/p3110203.jpg
Ok small list this week. Vote away! :smile:
Fly me away
Interpret as you will
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.
2. Please resize your...
Out the window
Interpret as you will
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1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.
2. Please resize your...
The blues
Interpret as you will
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.
2. Please resize your digital...
Hello stranger!
Photos of people you don't know.
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.
2. Please...
Wheels
Wheels are the theme this week. Sorry it's late.
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.
2...
Motion
Photos that convey a sense of movement or motion please.
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first...
1.Borek
A is for acid and alkali
2.ZapperZ
B is for baseball
3.George Jones
C is for C (the speed of light)
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/9248/lightspeed.jpg
4.Turbo-1
D is for ducks
5.Ms Music
E is for entertainment, and eeeeek!
6.Marzena
F is for fog...
Alphabetical order
Person one posts something beginning with A, person two posts something beginning with B, then C and so on and so forth.
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a...
This year's gravity essay contest results are in:
http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/announcements.html
The five winning papers are published in the International Journal of Modern Physics D:
http://www.worldscinet.com/cgi-bin/details.cgi?id=jsname:ijmpd&type=all
along with...
Night lights
Photos at night, with things that are light. Interpret as creatively as you like.
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is...
I'm glad I'm not the only one to risk a good soaking, risk my camera and in some cases my personal safety to get a good shot!
Vote for your faves
1.Matthyaouw
2.ZapperZ
3.Hypatia
4.Borek
5.Andre
Contest Thread
Info coming soon, have to go to lunch.
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Materials we are Given:
Raw Egg
2 Full Sheets of Newspaper
2 Rubber Bands
6 Toothpicks
Glue (Unlimited)
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You can only use materials from parts department. Materials cannot be returned.
You must eb able to take capsule apart during...
Wet foot photography
Wet foot photography is as follows. There's something you want to photograph. The best positon to photograph it from presents a significant risk of ending up in a body of water. You decide to go for it anyway. You can see where this is going...
This week's theme is for...
Duck Duck Goose
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.
2. Please resize your digital photo to no...
Jettys, piers, slipways...
I hope this week's theme isn't too narrow... I think piers etc make really interesting subjects for photographs. Hopefully you guys agree and have plenty of things to submit.
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme...
Four legs good, two legs bad
Something (or things) with 4 legs this week.
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with...
Easter!
Easter time again. Show me anything easter-related. Explain the connection if it's not obvious.
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the...
Sorry I'm late with this one! Without further delay:
Footprints in time
Something featuring footprints this week
Next week's theme shall be (surprise surprise) Easter, so I'm just giving you guys a heads up to make sure you don't miss any photo opportunities that arise this week...
Rock my world
As the self-confessed geology geek that I am, I love rocks. Pictures of stones, rocks, crags, outcrops, clifs, pebbles, etc...
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a...
Flower Power
Flower time! Yeah!
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.
2. Please resize your...
It's hip to be square
Square(s) please. How hip a square is entirely up to you.
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable...
Thanks for minding the contest for me Evo! Voting time :smile:
1.Binzing
2.Turbo-1
3.Hypatia
4.Brewnog
5.Marzena
6.ZapperZ
7.Matthyaouw
8.Andre
9.Borek
Contest Thread
Apparently Mensa and the Washington Post put together a contest (that I wish I would have known about), and asked participants to change or add a letter to a pre-existing word and define their new word. Some of these are hilarious:
The winners are:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a...
I struggle sometimes to think up good themes for the contest that we haven't already had. If anyone has an idea for a contest theme they'd like to see, please put it forward here.
We have already had:
-Your City/Neighborhood
-Food
-Things that go bump in the night
-I love a man/woman in...
Abandonment
Show me some building or structure that's abandoned, derelict or otherwise empty
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is...
You taking me for a ride?
Photos taken from a moving vehicle.
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first...
Beaches
Pictures from the beach
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.
2. Please resize your...
Creepy-crawlies
Insecty, spidery, bug-like things please.
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.
2...
http://fqxi.org/community/vote
Summer 2008 FQXi started an essay contest, about the nature of time.
They say they will announce the winners (first prize, second prize, etc...) in February 2008.
Which is half thru already.
Here's the essay context FAQ
http://fqxi.org/community/essay/faq
Does...
Valentines
Feb 14th is upon us again. Hearts, love, soppy tat. You know the drill.
Since valentines day is the Saturday, I'll leave this open for entries til Sunday.
Contest Rules:
1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest...