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Robert Stanford Award AGM The Robert Stanford Award winner this year is Ben Khoo for his principal authorship of the paper “A cortical-bone structural geometry phantom: dental plaster as a convenient and radiologically similar fabrication material”, published in the Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine Volume earlier this year. Congratulations to Ben, and thanks to the sponsors of the award, Nucletron. The ACPSEM AGM will be held on Tuesday December 11 at the Department of Medical Engineering & Physics at 5.15 pm. Sandwiches and the sort of beverages that usually gets served with sandwiches will be provided. The 2007 committee has nominated the following people for committee posts in 2008: Chairperson: John Burrage Vice-Chairperson: Nikki Caswell Treasurer: Peter Rampant Secretary: Simon Woodings Spokesperson: Janette Atkinson Ordinary Committee Members: Sean Geoghegan, Rob Day, David Causer, Roger Price Other nominations are welcome. They must be seconded, must include the written consent of the nominee, and must be submitted to the branch secretary by no later than 10 Dec 2007. Ask the Leningrad Cowboys As part of MQD’s long-time commitment to continuing education, we present the Ask The Leningrad Cowboys segment, where members of the cult rock band answer your questions. If you have a question about health, engineering, physics, or anything really, send it in and we’ll let the boys take a swing at it. This time we have a letter from regular correspondent Peter Henson from Nedlands. He says: Dear Editors 3 To update Your Editorships on my NHMRC funded project, Svetlana the tractor and I have met with disaster. Things went well with the initial experiments and we were rewarded with significant and valuable results (did you read the reports in the prestigious Joondalup Community journal, p10, 2007?). Incidentally, I can’t remember mentioning the actual field of study and now there seems to be some sort of scurrilous rumour about ram raiding but, hey, sheep stealing!? As that great CONTROL agent and sadly unrecognised philosopher, Maxwell Smart, may well have said; ‘would you believe - potatoes?’ Well, we were on our way to a new experiment site but someone must have grassed on us. The tractor had a bug in it and we were ambushed by the Anti Free Potato gang. Svety did an amazing impression of a quantum superposition of states by trying to go in four directions at once while I made a more mundane incoherent exit. I haven’t seen her since. Anyway, I’m sure she’ll show up somewhere and, hopefully, not reveal all. However, the potato work has now gone pear shaped and I must go inconspicuously where many others have gone before i.e. overseas. Oh dear, I think I hear someone coming and if it’s Svety, I don’t want to become number 7 on her hit list, so, where the hell’s my sombrero, adios amigos, felice Navidad. Yoursinahurry PHen MQD Sep 2007 Page 2 of 3
Svetlana answers: Hello. Oh dear, things not really work out as planned. Party look disapprovingly on grant money which have been wasted, so not much happiness towards Peter or myself right now. Such a beautiful letter but sadly I have not time to write proper reply as am heading towards Kursk in stolen combine harvester. So much sadness in Svetlana’s life right now; the sorrows grow legion in number, like so many dead exhusbands. In the meantime, can I just say - why not buy a Leningrad Cowboys LP or tape!! The perfect Christmas present for loved ones and party officials alike. Only 20 roubles! Cheap at half the price! (A saying which I never understand really, since most things cheap at half the price except items in David Jones.) Bye for now! Svetlana News That Will Be Breaking At Some Point in the Future, Perhaps – Election Special – Election Special Australian Zombie Party’s “eat brains” policy failing to gain traction with voters. Nervous Rudd to spend election eve alone in front of TV with large tub of earwax. The Garrett gaffe: a dark day in Australian politics when is the sanest man in the room is Richard Wilkins. Terrorists apprehended, beaten, under mistaken belief they were the Chaser team. The Amazing Wuzho Howard strenuously denies Liberals running “scare campaign”. MQD Sep 2007 Page 3 of 3
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