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11. Accept your WORTH and your TALENTS– Embrace the gifts that you were blessed with. We all have different strengths. Don't be afraid to walk in the spotlight when your talent shines through. Be THANKFUL and USE it cause you can certainly LOSE it.
12. Be IMPATIENT to nonsense and things that won't help you grow – Whatever is toxic in your life GET RID of it. Whether it be friends, family, spouse, job, pet etc LET IT GO.
13. TRUST– I saw how important it is for my relationships. My distrust in people made it uneasy to have an honest relationship when I'm always expecting the worse. Give people a chance and allow them to prove themselves to you.
14. Love UNCONDITIONALLY– I cheat myself when I love with conditions. When I love because or do for someone because. I lose the authentic experience that genuine love gives. Don't love half ass, it's either you're in or out. We're too grown for that.
15. Let go of UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS – I noticed how much expectations I put on myself and especially on the people in my life. I expect people to think like me, love like me, do things the way I do it, love me in a certain way etc. That created so many disappointments and frustrations that I am slowly letting it go.
16. MEDITATE – I give myself a break during my day to just be. My mind is a never-ending stream of ideas, info etc. Taking at least 5 minutes just to sit and breathe and listen to your body is like a rejuvenation. You will feel refreshed, you might come up with the solution to a problem, your mind might spring a great idea, you never know the goodness of taking a time out to meditate until you try it. GO AHEAD, give yourself 5 mins to decompress.
17. Always be GRATEFUL – Say "Thank you", even when things don't go your way. By being appreciative of what you have you welcome the universe to bless you with more.
18. LISTEN to your INTUITIONS– you know that nagging feeling you get sometimes, that little tug on your heartstring trying to lead you in the right direction. But, nooo you're pig-headed and think you know better only to find out you should have stopped, paid attention and LISTENED to your inner being. I realize anytime I go against that 'feeling' things don't work out. I lean on my heart now and not my own understanding.
19. Be mindful of the beauty that surrounds you – I take more time to be present and admire the souls around me. The animals, the trees, the grass, the sun, the wind, everything that contributes to the evolution of life. Being one with nature serves as an antidote that calms your inner crazy.
20. Don't stop BLOSSOMING– Stunting your growth with negatives etc is a big NO NO especially when you're over thirty. Be childlike, be silly, don't be too serious about life, run in the rain, walk bare feet, go skinny dipping. Don't shrivel up, KEEP BLOSSOMING.
Love this ❤
A great life, these are even more thought provoking than he beginning of the list. Great food for thought 🙂


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Food miles to food metres
PUBLISHED: 10:46 28 February 2014 | UPDATED: 10:46 28 February 2014
Once only a few stalls selling vegetables, today's farmers' markets are often a grand day out, offering visitors the chance to get to know local produce and its producers and discover more about what you put on your plate. Ellis Taylor finds out more
On the right day, in many of our towns and villages you will find a cornucopia of local seasonal produce as well as a chance to chat to the growers and farmers themselves who take pride in their knowledge and their produce.
Today's farmers' markets are often a grand day out, turning the chore of a weekly shop into a pleasurable day, getting to know local produce and its producers while discovering more about what you put on your plate. The produce served up at your local farmer's market will generally come from no more than 30 miles away, but more often far less than that. Traditional products are a given, as fresh fruit and vegetables bring colour to the stalls, while cheeses, meats, and freshly baked bread and cakes will leave your stomach rumbling. At Grampound Local Produce Market, sales of certain products help a specific cause within the community. "Our cafe serves delicious coffee and home-made cakes and all the profits go to our village hall refurbishment," explains Caroline Cudmore. Other local markets also use the regular meetings as a way to help charities and causes. At Sennen market the coffee shop is run for local charities, whilst a well stocked second-hand book shop raises money for vital local charities. "The book shop has helped raise some £3000 for Shelter box," says Wynne Jones. At Coads Green Community Market local groups are given the opportunity to get involved with the market and raise money for their cause. "Refreshments are provided by a different group of people in the village to raise funds for their cause such as the playgroup, primary school, hockey club, pantomime group et cetera," explains Anne Langley, "It has become a venue for various village committee meetings." Coads Green Community market is also taking part in the rise of stalls which sell products other than food. Local industries and crafters set up stalls of gifts and goodies for the public, as well as other obscurities. "We even have someone who researches family trees or the history of property," says Anne. The increase in popularity of 'local' has meant that farmers' markets - and their newer cousin, the country market cooperatives - while remaining predominantly food based, have expanded and begun to involve other local trades and independent crafters. The sense of community fills the air at farmers' markets, particularly at Helston Country Market, "We are a cooperative market that any local producer may join. As we are a cooperative we work together to sell each others goods." Working together, the producers at this market are an example of what makes local farmers' markets so great. And today's the markets are not just about getting - and giving farmers - a good deal. In Cornwall's local markets the community comes together to help one another, learn about their local produce, and help charities which affect those around them – not to mention they're a good place to have a catch up and a taste or two of something delicious! Be inspired and head down to a farmers' market near you!
Bude Farmers' Market
Location: Lower Wharf, Bude EX23 8LG
Every other Friday from 10am to 2pm
Camborne Produce Market
Location: Commercial Square, Trelowarren Street, Camborne
Second Friday of every month from 9am to 3pm
Camelford Farmers' Market
Location: Camelford Hall, Cleave Road, Camelford
Every Wednesday from 12pm to 4pm
Carnon Downs Local Produce Market
Location: Carnon Downs Village Hall
Last Saturday of every month from 9am to 12pm
Coads Green Community Market
Location: Coads Green Village Hall
Fourth Saturday of every month from 9:30am to 12:30pm
Constantine Farmers' Market
Location: Constantine Church Hall
Second Saturday of every month from 9:30am to 12pm
Crocadon Producer Fairs
Location: Crocadon Sawmill, St. Mellion, Saltash, PL12 6RL Every third Saturday of the month Tel: 01579 350096
Falmouth Farmers' Market
Location: The Moor, Falmouth
Every Tuesday from 9am to 2pm
Grampound Produce Market
Location: Grampound Village Hall
Fourth Saturday of every month from 10am to 1pm
Heamoor Farmers' Market
Location: The British Legion, Heamoor, Penzance TR18 3EH
Every Saturday from 9:30am to 12pm
Helston Farmers' Market
Location: The Old Cattle Market, Porthleven Road, Helston.
First Saturday of every month from 9:30am to 1:30pm
Helston Country Market
Location: The Guildhall, Helston.
Every Friday from 8am to 12pm
Isles of Scilly Local Produce Market
Location: Town Hall or on Holgates Green depending on weather.
First Thursday of every month from 10am to 2pm
Launceston Farmers' Market
Location: St Mary's Hall, Launceston
Every Friday from 9:30am to 2pm
Liskeard Farmers' Market
Location: Mole Valley Farmers, Moorswater Industrial Estate, Liskeard
Every other Friday from 10am to 12pm
Lostwithiel Farmers Market
Location: Lostwithiel Community Centre
Every other Friday from 10am to 2pm
Mullion Farmers' Market
Location: Mullion School, Meavor Road, Mullion TR12 7EB
Third Saturday of every month from 9:30am to 1pm
Pendeen Farmers' Market
Location: The Centre of Pendeen, Church Road, Pendeen, TR19 7SE
First and third Saturday of every month from 10am to 1pm
Penzance Farmers' Market
Location: St John's Hall, Alverton Street, Penzance, TR18 2QR
Every Friday from 9am to 2pm
Perranporth Country Market
Location: Memorial Hall, Perranporth
Every Friday from 10am to 12pm
Sennen Farmers' Market
Location: Sennen Community Centre, Sennen, TR19 7AW
Every Tuesday from 9am to 12pm
St Austell Local Produce Market
Location: Aylmer Square, White River Place, St Austell PL25 5LX
Every Friday and Saturday from 9:30am to 3:30pm
St Buryan Farmers' Market
Location: The Village Hall, St Buryan, TR19 6ES
Second and fourth Saturday of every month from 9:30am to 12:30pm
St Erth Farmers' Market
Location: St Erth Methodist Church, St Erth, Hayle TR27 6HL
Every Saturday from 10am to 12pm
St Ives Farmers' Market
Location: The Guildhall, Street-an-Pol, St Ives
Every Thursday from 9:30am to 2pm
St Leven Farmers' Market
Location: Methodist Weslyan Chapel, Trethewey St, St Levan TR19 6LP
First Monday of every month from 10am to 12pm
St Neot Farmers' Market
Location: The Village Hall, St Neot First Saturday of every month from 9am to 12pm
Stithians Produce Market
Location: Stithians Centre, Church Road, Stithians TR3 7DH
Third Saturday of every month from 9:30am to 12:30pm
Stoke Climsland Farmers' Market
Location: The Old School, Stoke Climsland PL17 8NY
First Saturday of every month from 9am to 12:30pm
Truro Farmers' Market
Location: Lemon Quay Piazza
Every Saturday from 9am to 4pm
Wadebridge Country Market
Location: Town Hall, The Platt, Wadebridge. Tel: 01208 812643
Every Thursday from 7:45am to 12:30pm
There are many more local produce markets held in village halls throughout Cornwall - check your local information boards for times and dates. It is worth checking beforehand if you are contemplating a lengthy journey. Search online for your local market for more details.

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Ahead of the birth for Prince Harry & Meghan, Melissa Doyle is in London for Sunday Night.
Royal watchers are on high alert as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex prepare for the arrival of their first baby.
And if there's one thing we've learned watching Meghan and Harry, this couple doesn't mind breaking with tradition.
Their relationship was a fairy tale tailor made for the millennial generation. A beautiful American actress – the very modern Meghan Markle – meets and falls in love with the cheeky ginger haired Prince Harry.
16 months later, they were engaged. Marriage followed soon afterward. Then on their Australian royal tour, they announced they were expecting a baby Sussex.
As the big day draws closer, Sunday Night explores the history and traditions of royal births from Her Majesty the Queen to the latest generation of princes and princesses.
So… will it be a boy, a girl or maybe even twins? That's a close-guarded secret. What we can be sure of is that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will raise the seventh in line to the throne their way.
Sunday Night's Melissa Doyle heads to England to bring us all the pomp, ceremony and excitement of the impending birth and goes beyond the gates of Norland College – the most prestigious nanny training school in the world. These royal nannies in waiting have all the charm of Mary Poppins as well as the skills of a secret agent.
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Elaine Sweby
Having left school with a handful of O-levels and aiming to conquer the world, Elaine immediately took the job that paid the most money! This happened to be the Prudential in Croydon and hence she started what was to become more than 40 years plus in financial services. She has conquered the world insofar as she has moved from west to south Croydon!
Outside of the office music and holidays are Elaine's main loves. If she can combine the two so much the better. Find her a concert or somewhere to sing (out of tune unfortunately) and dance and that is all that she needs. With the family in tow, she has completed 30,300 miles this year on one holiday alone. Elaine is never happier than with blue skies, some sunshine, friends and family.Back to Team


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T-Mod scouts for partners
T-Mod Enterprise is hoping to gain a foothold into the 'fastest growing technology market in the world' via GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK.
T-Mod Enterprise is hoping to gain a foothold into the 'fastest growing technology market in the world' via GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK.
Eason Lee, Sales Manager, T-Mod says, "We are a new company for computer- and mobile phone-accessories. We have worked before as an OEM manufacturer for brands such as MSI, Iomega and others. All our products are designed and manufactured in Taiwan and we have partners in Taiwan, Australia, US, Japan and Malaysia. Our focus for the near future is on consumer electronics, and we are hoping to move into new markets. The Middle East is a fresh market for us and we are looking for distributors in the region."
The company produces an array of players, NAS enclosures, hard disk (HDD) enclosures, optical disk drive (ODD) enclosures, optical drives and laptop cooling pads.
While T-Mod offers a diverse array of products, each individual product category is also comprehensive in terms of what's on offer. The firm's optical drive range for instance consists of ROM and RW capable CD, DVD and Blu-ray drives. The manufacturer's media player line also consists of 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch products with the MP-1000 standing as the firm's latest 2.5-inch release.
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One Step Beyond: From Social Protection Recipients to Citizens
Tessitore, Savina
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This article confronts theoretical links between rights, citizenship and social protection, reviewing discourses on rights and citizenship and revealing fault?lines and trade?offs. Through the Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP), Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) cases, it outlines the political conditions for the uptake of social policies. It reviews the scope of action of civil society, governments and donors and their impacts on the politics of accountability, attempting to outline a role for social protection as a means to inclusive and democratic citizenship.
CitationTessitore, S. (2011) One Step Beyond: From Social Protection Recipients to Citizens. IDS Bulletin 42(6): 13-20
Is part of seriesIDS Bulletin Vol. 42 Nos. 6
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GP practice has emailed to say the existing facility for ordering repeat prescriptions online is being withdrawn end of April (they don't accept telepone repeat prescription requests) and it will be necessary to register for online access to order scrips, book appointments and access medical records. Registration is via a paper form accompanied by photo id and proof of address to be handed into reception and details how to create an account will be sent via letter.
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In Pat Barker's 10th novel, Double Vision, to be published next month, a foreign correspondent, Stephen Sharkey, hangs up his flak jacket after Sarajevo, Rwanda and the post-September 11 Afghan war. But retiring to the countryside near Newcastle, which has been ravaged by foot-and-mouth culls, he is haunted by flashbacks.
Barker's interest in writing about war grew from her research on the first world war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, who appear alongside fictional characters in the work for which she is most famous, the Regeneration trilogy (1991-95). The trilogy opened not in the trenches but in a mental hospital for shell-shocked officers, Craiglockhart near Edinburgh, where Sassoon was sent in 1917 for denouncing the war. "I wondered, is it possible to be a war poet today?" she says. "Poets like Tony Harrison have tried, but we're so carefully removed." Even Sharkey experiences the Kosovo war as distant smoke from precision weapons. "The only way you can write honestly," she says, "is not about war itself but the way it's represented; how we consume it on television."
Memory, trauma, survival and redemption are pervasive themes in her fiction, as is a past that "continues to haunt, influence, distort and occasionally redeem the present". As she said in accepting the Booker prize in 1995 for the final volume of the trilogy, The Ghost Road: "The Somme is like the Holocaust: it revealed things we cannot come to terms with and cannot forget. It never becomes the past." For the novelist Jonathan Coe, Barker's trilogy was "one of the few real masterpieces of late 20th-century British fiction". It has sold more than a million copies, and the first volume, Regeneration, was made into a film in 1997, directed by Gilles MacKinnon.
Barker's oeuvre began not in war-time history but on the domestic fronts of England's recent past. In her first novel, Union Street (1982), still one of Virago's top 10 bestsellers and published when she was 39, the women of Teesside, where she grew up, show an under-rated courage in the teeth of poverty and brutality, including child rape and wife-beating. In 1989 it was made into a Hollywood film, Stanley and Iris, starring in this sanitised version Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda as blue-collar Bostonians, though, Barker says, the name of Iris King was almost all that was left of her book. In Barker's fiction, which excels at building suspense, violence recurs as a constant of human nature. War shades into crime. "Killing in one context gets you a medal, while in another you spend years behind bars. Society makes out they're different, but maybe they're carried out in a similar state."
Double Vision forms a loose sequel to Barker's previous novel, Border Crossing (2001), in which Danny, a seductively manipulative young man released after serving time for killing an elderly woman when he was 10, stalks the psychologist who helped convict him. In the latest novel, with a new identity as Peter, he invades the lives and personalities of new "hosts". Although Border Crossing carried echoes of the Mary Bell and James Bulger cases, and was published amid the controversy over the release of Bulger's killers, it posed timeless questions of good and evil, innocence and responsibility, and the shifting borderlines between professional and personal involvement. Barker fears topicality can detract from more durable aspects of a novel. On a US publicity tour she felt an "almost complete barrier to communication" since "Americans were gobsmacked that Danny was allowed out of prison at all".
Present-day settings are more difficult to do than historical fiction, she believes, because it's what every colour supplement does. Yet literature, for her, has an edge: "Almost every way of thinking about human experience is about making valid generalisations. Fiction says no generalisation is valid: the recalcitrant human being is never going to fit; they're capable of expressing far more - which is why we need fiction."
Barker, aged 60, has spent almost all her life in the north-east of England, and lives in Durham with her husband David Barker, professor emeritus of zoology at Durham University, and three cats. "Some people think I sound entirely middle-class," she says, "but the vowels are still northern." David has heart and lung disease but often accompanies her to readings. Mostly, she says, "I keep my writing side very separate", though her Booker win pleased local people. "They said, 'Well done for the north', because it's starved of recognition." Perhaps for similar reasons, she accepted the CBE in 2000, though she couldn't say where her award is now.
Impeccably neat and self-contained, Barker can appear regal in public yet reveals an impassioned mind and a warm interest in others. A former editor and friend, Claire Alexander, describes her as infinitely curious; "she's never got remotely grand". For the Durham-born novelist Barry Unsworth she remains admirably direct and very no-nonsense.
The setting of "Subsidence", a rare short story by Barker, published in these pages last month, is the worked-out pits of the Durham coal field, where Tony Blair went to choir school. Distrust grows in a marriage amid eroding trust in government during the Iraq war. "I was trying to capture a mood, not make a party political point," says Barker, who does fear a collapse of trust in authority that would be "terrible for democracy - which we're exporting to Iraq when perhaps we should be persuading young people in this country to vote. I don't feel nostalgia for the Durham coal field; people died horrible deaths there, but it is the root of the Labour party, and it's not clear where its roots are now." Nor does she subscribe to all the myths of Old Labour. "I'm aware of the poetry of marching miners but also of them as the aristocrats of the working class: you don't have equivalent poetic imagery of women who are cleaners bringing up their kids alone; the Labour movement frequently ignored them. No one's ever made a banner out of what they do."
Barker was born in 1943 in Thornaby on Tees. Her mother, Moyra, and grandmother, Alice, were cleaners and breadwinners. Conceived when Moyra was an unmarried Wren in Dunfirmline, she grew up in her grandparents' home. When Pat was seven, Moyra left to get married. Pat could have joined her later, but chose her grandmother "because of love of her, and because my stepfather didn't warm to me, nor me to him". Her stepfather, a decorator, who died when she was 21, was violent, though never, she says, to her mother. Her stepbrother, in the army at 15, was often in jail for violent robbery.
Barker grew up thinking her father had been killed in the second world war. Her mother told an "incredible number of stories. She said she'd been raped. My great aunt, a terrible snob, said my mother had been raped by a famous RAF commodore." Like Colin, the 10-year-old would-be dramatist in The Man Who Wasn't There (1989), she fantasised that her father "was not really dead, and that he'd come back and my stepfather would leave". It was a fantasy of having her mother back.
Only at Moyra's deathbed in 2000 did Barker discover the truth from her half-sister Jackie: "My mother had no idea who my father was. She'd fallen in love with a very handsome marine who'd been killed. I was conceived six months later, on a drunken night out with the girls." War was the "happiest time of my mother's life, a great adventure, as it was for a lot of women - and I put a stop to it". Her mother claimed the marine was Pat's father, "but the dates don't work, though emotionally it was true: she'd almost had sex with a ghost - her head full of a dead man". It came as a relief that her paternity was an "absolute blank" but she was left with a "tremendous sadness that my mother couldn't tell me. I'm not easily shocked; I wouldn't have turned a hair. "
Barker is unsure what importance to attach to her mother's leaving, or not knowing who her father was, because her grandparents were always there: "The pain was against a background of stability; I was never not loved." Her step-grandfather, William, a slaughterman, had fought in the first world war but was "not a model for anybody, not even Geordie" - the 101-year-old war veteran in Another World (1998). He never talked of the war, and was deaf. Yet she was aware of unspoken mental and physical scars. When she was 15 and he was dying of cancer and haemorrhaging, "doctors - who treat the working class with contempt - said it was his bayonet wound leaking. He died thinking the war had got him in the end."
Barker helped out in her grandparents' chip shop: "Wrapping the fish and chips I became an avid newspaper reader." At the library, she read omnivorously and with gaps: "Dostoyevsky at 13 and a lot of trash". Her grandmother encouraged her at grammar school, and talked of her own past. Her first husband had been a medium after service in the trenches. Barker, in whose fiction seances recur, sees mediums as a metaphor for the writer, balanced between sincerity and trickery: "Writing can be genuine or faked."
She spent her teens on national assistance. "My grandmother dreaded the workhouse. It's useful to a historical novelist to have lived with that." Oral history unfolds through the octogenarian Liza in Barker's third novel, Liza's England, first published as The Century's Daughter (1986). After a semi-rural childhood, Barker moved to Stockton, to "not too bad a street, surrounded by boarded-up houses, slum clearance - the landscape I've ended up writing about. I always felt an exile there, which is why my characters shoot into the countryside at the first sign of trouble." Unsettled, she was almost expelled at 13 for failing exams, but never felt alienated from her family. "I never looked down on them, but saw them as remarkable people who'd come through difficult times."
After a year teaching at an infants' school on a Stockton estate, Barker read international history at the London School of Economics in 1962-65. "In finals, I was thinking, 'Thank God, I can read again'." She spent the 60s broke and returned home to nurse her bedridden grandmother, who died in 1971, while teaching English and history in further education colleges. "I've always liked working in a team; I'm not temperamentally equipped to be a writer."
In 1969 she was introduced in a pub in Teesside to David Barker, an academic some 20 years her senior, who left his marriage to live with her. They had two children together, and were married in 1978, after his divorce. The arrangement was "still slightly unusual", she says, but "we were happy then and we're happy now". He brought her, she says, "total devotion". She had wanted to be a novelist at 11, but began to write only after the birth of her first child in 1970. "I was so shy about my writing, but David believed in it and tried to mind the children so I could write. He's been marvellous. When I put Union Street into the bin, he extracted it." Claire Alexander says, "Pat's marriage is utterly key in her life". Both children are now married: John, 33, runs a gardening business in Cheshire, and Anna, 29, a journalist at the Journal in Newcastle, hopes to write fiction.
Barker's first three novels were never published and "didn't deserve to be: I was being a sensitive lady novelist, which is not what I am. There's an earthiness and bawdiness in my voice." She found that voice with the help of the late Angela Carter at a writers' workshop in Yorkshire, and abandoned her "middle-class novels of manners" to write Union Street, set in 1970s Middlesbrough. Carter showed it to Carmen Callil at Virago, who published it. "Pat has a rigorous mind and an undeluded eye. It's the mark of a great writer that her personality and her writ ing are one: she presents a world view, like Dickens or Graham Greene," says Callil.
Barker struggled with an absence of literary models. With the exception of Alan Sillitoe, she says of male writers on northern, working-class life, "the women characters were very dead, one-dimensional; 'me Mam' who got them up in the morning, or 'the girlfriend' who got pregnant". She found the African-Americans Toni Morrison and James Baldwin more useful, for their group chorus, revealing "close-knit communities under pressure". Though hailed as "Lawrentian" ("never a compliment," she remarks acidly), Barker found DH Lawrence a brilliant example and a warning: "He suddenly has a sentence of sociology and the prose goes dead." She saw the mediating, middle-class voice as a fatal withdrawal of empathy and decided not to mix working-class and middle-class characters, "but to throw the reader in with no footholds, to grapple with the characters. I'm grateful to Angela. She said, 'If they can't sympathise with the women you're creating, then sod their fucking luck'."
Union Street's dwelling on menstruation, childbirth and back-street abortion appalled one interviewer (a "very refined lady"), who found it "far too gynaecological". "It's Virginia Woolf's 'truth of the body'," says Barker. "As a woman, you have to tell that truth." The novelist Michèle Roberts admires her as "a trailblazer inspired by the new wave of 1970s feminism but critical of middle-class, metropolitan aspects of it. Part of her project was to name things honestly and unsentimentally." Barker quotes approv ingly the late Carol Shields: "Feminism is 'the belief that women are people'; it shouldn't have to be asserted, but it does." Men, on the dole or simply down the pub ("a man isn't drunk till he's on the floor"), are not unsympathetically portrayed but peripheral. For the Times's critic, the novel was bawdy and bitter. Yet Barker discerns anger not bitterness, directed at class iniquity and not at men. That goes with an openness to people from all social backgrounds, she insists. "I'm not irascible but I do get angry at injustice, and hope I always will."
For Unsworth, Barker is a terse, literary stylist: "There are no metaphorical flourishes, but it's highly wrought." Her perfect pitch for dialogue has drawn wide praise. The New Statesman hailed Union Street as a "long overdue working-class masterpiece", and she was named among Granta's 20 best young British novelists in 1983. Yet she measures success differently. "I'd be shown copies falling apart because they'd been handed around. Virago had sacks full of Union Street copies delivered every morning; it had a great impact on people's lives because working-class women are still walk-on jokes."
Blow Your House Down (1984) shows a community of prostitutes preyed on by a serial killer. It grew from Barker's fury during the Yorkshire Ripper trial that the women were "as demeaned by their treatment after their deaths as by what [Peter] Sutcliffe had done before". For Roberts, the novel spoke from a rage "we all felt, but that men didn't take seriously". Faced with volatile kerb-crawlers or the crippling assembly line of a chicken slaughterhouse ("killing's for the men"), the women make earthy jokes about interminable blow-jobs - the "female equivalent of trench humour", says Barker. She knew she risked collusion in a graphic murder scene, but says: "Any man with a sadistic streak would get an erection reading that passage, and others would likely get aroused. But men like that are hardly going to choose their reading from the Virago catalogue."
By the late 1980s Barker had published three highly praised novels, but she was pigeonholed as northern, working-class, feminist and gritty. "It's difficult to deny any of that, but it's not saying anything perceptive. You get to the point where people are reading the label instead of the book." In the 1970s, she adds, "people said, 'I have a new voice because I'm gay, black, working-class'. Nonsense. The only way is to chip away the accretions of cliché we all go around with." Fiction should assert "recalcitrant, bloody-minded individuality; every other way of thinking about people demeans them. Owen and Sassoon thought they were speaking on behalf of the inarticulate soldier. But many people are assumed inarticulate only because nobody is prepared to listen."
In Roberts's view, women's domestic lives are still sneered at as material for literary novels: "You're thought not to have an imagination. Pat was canny as well as talented in proving she could write outside her experience." Barker says, "I was painting myself into a corner. I knew I wasn't only writing about northern, working-class women, so I didn't see any reason to impose artificial limitations." Alexander published the Regeneration trilogy at Viking, and sees The Man Who Wasn't There (1989), written through a boy's consciousness, as being about "ideas of manhood that feed into the trilogy; she's always been interested in masculinity". Regeneration (1991), Alexander adds, was a "gauntlet to the world: Pat hates being bracketed, and she's struggled with people's perceptions".
From the fringes of a literary tradition, Barker cut straight to the centre, to a war British writers return to obsessively: "More than the Holocaust, it's when the modern world started and people woke up to what human beings were capable of." For depicting "gentry", she was accused of disloyalty to her roots. "You're loyal to your vision of the world," she insists. "The people who think it was a great departure have a problem with how they read literature: not for character and theme, but for surface - social background, region." As for a lack of female protagonists: "There is a woman on every page - me."
In 1916-18, she says, "manliness" and gender roles were under pressure. There was tension between generations and classes, and animosity from the front line towards the home front. Focusing not on "men marching home victorious, or crosses in a field, but the lingering gradations between", she broached what she calls a taboo against talking about the terrible state men were in, most of which went unrecognised - as in her own family. "Shell shock was seen as a failure of masculinity - mostly by men." From her neurologist husband, Barker learned of the anthropologist William Rivers, an army psychologist at Craiglockhart ("a living museum of tics and twitches"), and pioneering British practitioner of Freud's theory of the unconscious. By drawing parallels between shell shock and "hysteria" affecting women in peacetime, she says Rivers emphasised the similar powerlessness of men in the trenches. Through his moral dilemmas about curing men to return them to France, Regeneration questions a "manliness" founded on emotional repression, the antithesis of nurturing - an ideal that perhaps makes war possible.
Always drawn to unrecorded voices, in The Eye in the Door (1993) and The Ghost Road (1995) Barker developed the fictional Billy Prior, a working-class officer, bisexual; a chameleon who straddles divides. According to the biographer Peter Parker, author of the non-fiction The Old Lie, about the first world war, Prior "embodies fractures of the age thrown up by the war; he's a life force because he doesn't repress things". Parker sensed echoes of the 1982 Falklands war. For novelist Paul Bailey, rather than simply lamenting the lost promise of the officer class, Barker made Prior a hero: a "devious character not a plaster saint; an Everyman with a taste for sex wherever he can find it". Barker says she saturates her world in sensory impressions, because "the one thing that gets empathy is a cry of pain - the reality of other people's bodies".
The Wall Street Journal deemed The Ghost Road "full of anachronism". Others detected a "post-Vietnam" gloss on war neuroses, while some welcomed Barker's skill in making the past live in the present. Barker says history is "never a judge but a dialogue between past and present. The answers change because the questions change, depending on our preoccupations." Barker's reputation soared, and the Booker gave a huge fillip to her sales.
Her agent, Gillon Aitken, describes her stance towards London literary life as "suspicious: she prefers to keep a distance, though she's intrigued by the goings-on". To relax, she practises yoga and pilates, or goes walking. Religious in temperament, "without any particular beliefs", she confesses a tendency to slide into nature mysticism, and loves the local landscape: "Everything's deep in coal dust, and half a mile down the road there are cornfields."
Since Another World (1998), set in a 1990s Tyneside haunted by delinquents as well as the past, Barker has returned to the present. Though trauma haunts her fiction, she is "more interested in the process of recovery, rebuilding - people stitching themselves together". For Parker, her focus is "redemption and regeneration: how far can people be healed from traumas that ruin lives - the child who murders, the civilian fighting in a bloody war? There are no easy answers but an underlying optimism about human beings."
Barker has likened the novelist to a therapist, "totally involved but also totally detached... enabling you to take hot coals out of the fire without being burned". In her latest novel a sculptor fails to resist the invasive manipulation of Danny/Peter and her statue of Christ for Durham Cathedral ends up resembling him. In a sense, says Barker, "It's me questioning the nature of my imagination - not a comfortable one - and my fascination with this extreme character, who is more destructive than Billy Prior but from the same stable"; she feels she is not finished with him. Though she professes not to believe in metaphysical evil, for her, Danny/Peter is "not just a mixed-up kid; he's resistant to therapy in a way health-care professionals don't understand; he's everything in human nature that resists redemption."
The epigraph to her new novel is Goya's: "One cannot look at this. I saw it. This is the truth." For Barker, "looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer". Yet she heeds Nietzsche's warning that "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
Novelists, she says, "often have strong personalities - or you couldn't pour yourself into creating other lives. But writing, as I do, about war and violence, it would be easy to lose your balance and for darkness to take over." Writing her second book made her accident-prone: "Identifying with the mind of a serial killer is contaminating." But her saving impulse was to build into her life contrary experiences to those she was writing about. Among them are not only nature, but humour, sex and children.
Wondering how Goya survived, devoting his life to depicting extreme violence, she cites his zest for life. Perhaps, too, "what saves you is the practice of craftsmanship; trying to make it the best you can, even for yourself." One of her aims is to "enable people to think clearly and feel deeply simultaneously", and she trusts her craft to protect the reader as much as herself. "I hope they're not cast into the abyss, but given guide ropes and a way out."
Pat Barker
Born: May 8 1943; Thornaby on Tees
Educated: Grammar school, Stockton on Tees; London School of Economics
Married: 1978 David Barker (one son, John; one daughter, Anna)
Career: 1965-70 Teacher at colleges of further education
Novels: 1982 Union Street; '84 Blow Your House Down; '86 Liza's England (formerly The Century's Daughter); '89 The Man Who Wasn't There; '91 Regeneration; '93 The Eye in the Door; '95 The Ghost Road; '98 Another World; 2001 Border Crossing; '03 Double Vision
Awards and honours: 1983 Fawcett prize for fiction (Union Street); '83 20 best of young British novelists; '93 Guardian Fiction Prize (The Eye in the Door); '95 Booker prize (The Ghost Road); CBE 2000
· Double Vision is published by Hamish Hamilton on September 4 at £16.99.


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Drug Use after Brain Injury
Drug and Alcohol Use after TBI
By Flora Hammond, MD
Alcohol and drug use among persons with brain injury is a major problem. To give a simple example, persons with brain injury who drink alcohol or take drugs are at much greater risk of having another brain injury. Additionally, the use of drugs and alcohol following a brain injury can worsen recovery.
The body's tolerance level can change after brain injury. For example, drinking one alcoholic beverage may be equivalent to six drinks. Impaired tolerance levels affect coordination and balance increasing the risk of accidental falls and injuries to the brain.
Alcohol or drug use after a person has a brain injury may:
· Destroy brain cells over time
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· Worsen depression
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· Interact negatively with prescription medications
Alcohol, which is a legal drug, includes beer, wine, champagne, or hard liquors (such as vodka, whiskey, etc.) Illegal drugs include substances like marijuana, speed, crack, cocaine, LSD, heroin, and ecstasy, etc.
Be aware that prescription drugs are safe only if taken as prescribed. Never take any medication prescribed to someone else.
Flora Hammond, MD is the Project Director and Principal Investigator for the TBI Model System at the Carolinas Health Care in Charlotte, NC. She is also the Director of Research the Brain Injury Program.


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THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) launched on Thursday a sale tender for a residential site at Martin Place under the Confirmed List of the first-half 2016 Government Land Sales (GLS) Programme.
The 99-year lease, 15,936.1 square metre site is located within a well-established residential area, with existing condominiums such as Martin Place Residences and Martin 38. It is also located near the future Great World MRT station.
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Lee Seung Gi and Moon Chae Won Share Their Impressions of Each Other
On December 16, the director and cast of "Mood of the Day" attended the press conference for the upcoming romantic comedy film.
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Singer-actor Lee Seung Gi, who plays the role of Kang Joon Soo in his debut film, shared, "Moon Chae Won is a charming woman. [She] has a lot of charms, but there are two distinct charms that stand out. In her previous works, she showed a more deep and serious side, but through this production, you get to see her hidden aegyo (cuteness). She displays all of her brightness and cuteness."
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My name is James Lovegrove and I recently joined the Heritage Foundation as a Research and Data Analysis Intern, having previously worked across the Foundation's venues as a Crew Member for nearly a year.
My primary aim in my new role is to explore and chart the services, provisions and groups available in Letchworth for young families, specifically those with children under the age of five. Whilst this sounds like a niche topic, with around 2200 children under-five in Letchworth, the outcome of this project can have a positive effect on a large number of families and hopefully this research can help to improve the provision of these services across a larger demographic.
This work feeding in to a wider project the Foundation has been working on for a number of months, looking at how we can improve the lives of young families in the town by working with local service providers.
Having been doing the role for a couple of weeks now, it has become apparent that there is a vast array of activities and services for the under-fives' in and around Letchworth. However, what has become equally as apparent is that there isn't an easy way of accessing relevant, up-to-date, information. This is the primary objective of my project; to improve information on clubs, groups and services and help to create a single platform which parents and providers can both use with ease.
Part of my research so far has been to develop an understanding of an asset based approach to service mapping (essentially, finding out where people are and what services are on offer). This will be the foundation of the project and will involve using the assets which already exist in Letchworth to try and discover areas where service provision is lacking and to attempt to rectify the situation. To do this I will be engaging with the 'assets' - professionals, parents, venues, groups – over the coming weeks, to try and further my understanding of what provisions exist and where it is felt the Heritage Foundation can play a role in helping.
I have tried to keep this initial blog as brief as possible, as my first couple of weeks have been about primarily desk based research. But as the project progresses and begins to encompass the views of the town's parents, professionals and service providers, I will be writing further blogs to keep everyone updated with my progress – so make sure to keep an eye on this space!


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– n° 1 Review resources access policy, procedures, rules and challenges: The Italian experience and future challenges Antonia Ghiselli INFN-CNAF Workshop on eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids) The new foundation for knowledge-base Societies Roma, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 9 December 2003
– n° 2 Outline u Introduction: n INFN resource sharing experience in the past u INFN-Grid and the national research grid n Goals and Results u Italian-Grid present status n Resource access mechanism and management tools n production service :Management, operations and support organization u International Grid scenario: LCG and EGEE n Challenges: Multi-grids for multi-VOs n Multi–grids :definitions and issues u Conclusions
– n° 3 INFN Computing Resource sharing in the past u 80th u RJE to INFN resources by INFN users u Resource sharing within a single distributed community (agreement between sites based on common convenience ) u Access policy agreement: n low priority queues during the night n Proxy logins mechanism TORINO PADOVA BARI PALERMO FIRENZE PAVIA GENOVA NAPOLI CAGLIARI TRIESTE ROMA PISA LAQUILA CATANIA BOLOGNA UDINE TRENTO PERUGIA LNF LNGS SASSARI LECCE LNS LNL SALERNO COSENZA S.Piero FERRARA PARMA CNAF ROMA2 MILANO Network user VAX/VMS cluster
– n° 4 INFN Computing Resource sharing in the past u 90th : Condor – INFN collaboration u Condor submit to INFN desktops and workstations u Users Resource sharing by INFN users u Access policy agreement: transparent access through CPU cycle stealing u ~300 machines, still up. TORINO PADOVA BARI PALERMO FIRENZE PAVIA GENOVA NAPOLI CAGLIARI TRIESTE ROMA PISA LAQUILA CATANIA BOLOGNA UDINE TRENTO PERUGIA LNF LNGS SASSARI LECCE LNS LNL SALERNO COSENZA S.Piero FERRARA PARMA CNAF ROMA2 MILANO Condor on WAN user
– n° 5 INFN Computing Resource sharing in the past u 1999 u Globus evaluation on WAN u Preliminary grid tests to the INFN-Grid project. TORINO PADOVA BARI PALERMO FIRENZE PAVIA GENOVA NAPOLI CAGLIARI TRIESTE ROMA PISA LAQUILA CATANIA BOLOGNA UDINE TRENTO PERUGIA LNF LNGS SASSARI LECCE LNS LNL SALERNO COSENZA S.Piero FERRARA PARMA CNAF ROMA2 MILANO Globus test user
– n° 6 INFN-Grid – goals (started at 2000) 1.To promote computational grid technologies research & development: Middleware 1.Through european and international projects 1. DataGrid, DataTAG, GLUE 2.Internal R&D activities 2.To implement the INFN grid infrastructure 1.National layout: 20 sites 3.To set up the national Grid Infrastructure for the national research community 1.FIRB: Grid.it 4.To participate to the implementation of the global Grid infrastructure for the LHC community 1.LCG: Tier1 and n*Tier2 5.To set up the eInfrastructure for the European Research Area 1.EU FP6: EGEE, IG-BIGEST
– n° 7 INFN-Grid – collaborations and results u EU - Datagrid : middleware development n WMS = job submission to the Grid, s CE and SE selection on the basis of job requirements specification, CPU load, CE-SE network conditions….. s Support for interactive jobs s Job checkpointing s Support for parallel jobs n Virtual Organization authentication and authorization service: VOMS (VO Membership Service, EDG/EDT) u EU – DataTAG : inter-grid Interoperability; EU-US collaboration within the GLUE framework n Grid Resources Information modeling: GLUE schema for Computing and Storage Element n Authorization/authentication service : VOMS-VOX integration (EDT-Fnal/CMS coll.) n First WorldGrid demo by nov.2002 within IST2002 and SC2002 events n Grid monitoring system based on GLUE schemas extension u Italian Grid.it : Grid management and support infrastructure n First tools in production n R&D on Resource Utilization Policies
– n° 8 TORINO PADOVA BARI PALERMO FIRENZE PAVIA GENOVA NAPOLI CAGLIARI TRIESTE ROMA PISA LAQUILA CATANIA BOLOGNA UDINE TRENTO PERUGIA LNF LNGS SASSARI LECCE LNS LNL SALERNO COSENZA S.Piero FERRARA PARMA CNAF ROMA2 INFN CMS T2 T2/3 Atlas T2 T2/3 Alice T2 T2/3 LHCb T2 T2/3 Babar VIRGO T2 (50-80 nodes) T3 (10-15 nodes) T1 Cnaf (~200) grid.it resources INFN (15-25 nodes) INAF (5-10 nodes) INGV (NEC computers), BIO (tbd) general purpose resources (8-15 nodes) Italian – Grid now ( Site/resource map) MILANO National Grid (Internet) Tot. ~ 600 nodes, next year ~ 1000
– n° 9 Resource access policies: Basic grid Authorization, authentication mechanisms Security characteristics: u Login via X.509 certificates from PKI/Certificate Authorities (CA) u Single sign-on. n The user is not required to repeat login procedures on the grid more than once. u Delegation. n Once a user has successfully identified himself with the Grid, it is possible for grid services to act on the behalf of the user as if they were the user himself. u User-based trust relationship. n All trust mechanism have the users credential at their core. s If a user wants to access farms A and B, there should be no need for farms A and B to trust each other. u Integrated with local systems. n The grid security mechanism does not supplant the local authorization mechanism, but instead work on top of it. u New membership concept: user belongs to a Virtual Organization
– n° 10 User: CA, VO and Resource Providers u Certificates are issued by a set of well-defined Certification Authorities (CAs). u Grant authorization at the VO level. n Each VO has its own VOMS server. n Contains (group / role / capabilities) triples for each member of the VO. u RPs evaluate authorization granted by VO to a user and map into local credentials to access resources Authentication Request C=IT/O=INFN /L=CNAF /CN=Pinco Palla /CN=proxy VOMS pseudo -cert CAs CERN CESNET CNRS GermanGrid Grid-Ireland INFN NIKHEF NorduGrid LIP Russian DataGrid DATAGRID-ES GridPP US–DOE Root CA US-DOE Sub CA CrossGrid cert-request cert signing cert/crl update Service VO-Manager (administer user membership, roles and Capabilities) Resource provider (map into Local credential) CAs: Policies and procedures mutual thrust agreement
– n° 11 Resource access policies u Authentication/ authorization: coded and tested procedures and tools u New issue : resource sharing according to Service Level Agreement n first trials based on grid level priority queues n ongoing research on more sophisticated mechanisms based on accounting + resource utilization Policies management Grid management organization VO-users (Requirements Support) Resource providers / AA/SLA VO-managers (VOMS and SLA Control) Certificate Authorities Grid deployment planning Grid operations / support Grid release
– n° 12 Italian Grid organization : integrates all the actors to provide flexible and efficient grid computing service Experiments (VOs) GRID resources Projects/owners Coordination Committee Management coordination Operations coordination VO representatives, Grid technical coord., Operations resp. grid experts Deployment Planning resource Policy application ……. Central management Team Site-man Resource admin GridService support VO admin New VO admin & support VO User support User Application Grid Resource Coordination Experimemt or research org. support release Configuration management Release distribution, documentation and porting Grid Technical coordination Service level Agreement Resource availability Shared resources VO admin Support for New VO-users
– n° 13 Tools for Operations u Software repository : release maintenance and distribution u Installation and configuration: n Configuration and automatic installation tools for the production infrastructure sites u Release validation: n Integration/customization of middleware release with application specific software u GRID Site and GRID service validation n Testing programs to verify and validate site and services installation u Site manager support u Grid services, VO services support and User support u Monitoring: GridICE s Based on automatic resource discovery from Grid Information System s Dynamic monitoring of Grid services, Grid resources and Jobs s Customized view for n Grid Operation Center operators, and site managers n VO-managers and Grid Users
– n° 14 0perations Portal u User documentation u site managers documentation u Software repository u Monitoring u Trouble tickets system u Knowledge base http://grid-it.cnaf.infn.it
– n° 15 Get your personal certificate
– n° 16 How to register to a VO
– n° 17 Monitoring tool
– n° 18 VO server atlas VO server atlas Grid services INGV-Bologna Computing Element Storage Element GIIS GRIS1 GRIS Information IndexResource Broker User Interface GRAM BDII VO server ingv WorkerNode...WorkerNode INFN-Padova Computing Element Storage Element GIIS GRIS1 GRIS GRAM WorkerNode...WorkerNode Grid Monitoring (GridICE) RLS
– n° 19 Grid Service monitoring
– n° 20 Outline u Introduction: n INFN resource sharing experience in the past u INFN-Grid and the national research grid n Goals and Results u Italian-Grid present status n Resource access mechanism and management tools n production service :Management, operations and support organization u International Grid scenario: LCG and EGEE n Challenges: Multi-grids for multi-VOs n Multi-grids: definitions and issues u Conclusions
– n° 21 International Grids scenario u LCG : First international experience on sharing resources between national grids n Grid Resource sharing issues : s how to guarantee the committed CPU power and satisfy local needs s How to guarantee priorities on VO-owned resources n Different needs for different VOs (HEP experiments plans) n Management coordination n Support coordination u EGEE : project based on national grids interconnection for an increased number of VOs n Not only middleware but mainly policies, service level agreement and management coordination issues n Need to find a model …..
– n° 22 Grid access challenge: Grid and Virtual Organisations u The real problem at the basis of the grid idea is how to implement a coordinated resource sharing on a large scale for a multi-institutional and dynamic virtual organisation. - u From computer sharing to grid sharing u From multiple users to multiple VOs (INFN experiments + others research organizations)
– n° 23 Challenges: Capability to provide multi- Grid computing service to Multi-VO Shared Resources and Services VO services and private resources VO services and private resources VO services Shared Resources and Services VO services and private resources Shared Resources and Services General scenario
– n° 24 u International VO is a multi-institutional distributed user community u Etherogeneous grid environment n Dedicated VO services n Dedicated resources n Shared resources with different policies EGEE Italian-Grid US-Grid same middleware shared resources VO-User VO-Virtual Grid on top of Multi-Grids same core services RB VOMS VO-monitoring Vo-RLS VO - Virtual Grid RB National and International Grids Coordinated Vo-support
– n° 25 multi - grids : definitions and issues u National grid identity and authority boundaries n A coordinated set of shared resources and services providing defined SLAs. n A single management and operations organization n Specific authorization, accounting and monitoring tools n A collection of user communities (VOs) u Federation of grids, what doest mean? n Cooperating grids to provide services to the common VOs? s Which level of transparency to VO-users? n Which Interoperability Requirements: s common core services? s common or interoperable collective services? (level of service interoperability) s Common Resource sharing policies? n What level of management/operations/support coordinations?
– n° 26 Conclusions u Production grid does not mean only efficient, stable services but also: n A topology/organizational model capable to provide the most flexible and efficient computing service to VO-users across multiple grids n Sufficient level of service quality (SLA) n Operations and support coordination n the minimum level of interoperability in order to allow VO virtual grid configuration across multiple grids
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I've been wanting to try meditation for ages and ages and a couple of years ago signed up for a free trial at headspace.com … and did precisely nothing with it.
After settling on learn to meditate as a replacement for #20 on the 50 list, earlier this week I signed up again with a different account (I know not quite in the spirit of free trials) … and did precisely nothing with it – until I was sent a reminder to get started and I decided today was the day.
This time for sure
This morning I woke up with a quite horrible headache again after sleeping badly again. This has been going on for a week now. The thing is, I'm not particularly stressed or anxious, I've mentioned it has been quite mad at SML, but that's been really fun. So I have no idea where the headache is coming from. Okay, let's be honest I'm actually I'm fairly sure the headache is coming from reading late at night on the kindle without wearing my glasses – clearly having the typeface bumped up to old lady size is no longer working.
But I digress. I decided I was going to start this by sitting on the bed, up against the bedhead with the fan pointed at me (it's quite warm today), and would use my phone.
I settled myself and clicked through the link from the reminder email and … blank screen.
I decided that maybe the ipad would be better, so resettled myself, clicked through the link on the reminder email and yay – the website opened in safari.
Now to enter my email address and password. Password incorrect.
Try again. Password still incorrect.
Reset password. Back to email and click on create new password link.
Create new password, re-enter new password. Log in. YAY!
Click on play on first lesson. Nothing.
Click again on play on first lesson. Nothing.
Repeatedly mash play button on first lesson. Still nothing.
Maybe there's a problem with safari and open in firefox.
Enter email address and password – I'm in! YAY!
Click on play on first lesson. Nothing.
Click again on play on first lesson. Nothing.
Repeatedly mash play button on first lesson. Still nothing.
Decided maybe there is a problem with the web browser on mobile devices. Google same.
Find there is indeed a problem with website on mobile devices.
Try downloading app. Go to app store app. Search for headspace. Do not find headspace in search results.
Return to headspace website in browser, search for link to app.
Click on link to app, which takes me to the correct entry on the app store app.
Download app.
Open app and enter email address and password.
And we're in.
THIS WAS NOT AT ALL RELAXING! If I didn't need mediation before, I definitely needed it now.
Anyway, after finally downloading the app, I was good to go with the first lesson
After all that it went not too badly.
Matt's Andy's** voice is quite soothing, but not in a DFH* rainforests-crystals-whales-and-dolphins way. My thoughts drifted, but not too much. I credit that to the headache and not my superior mindfulness powers – my head was too hurty to drift much. I already know that if I concentrate on my breath for any length of time I tend to panic and veer toward hyperventilation – my long-time cure for that is to just focus on something else for a little bit, that worked. I felt slightly relaxed afterward.
I'm planning to do this every morning until the trial expires, so I've got a couple more days whether I'll take up the not-inexpensive subscription, or move onto another form of guided (or not guided!) mediation.
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Honeymooning in Costa Rica – Day 2 La Fortuna
After a fresh homemade breakfast of papaya, kiwi, banana, eggs, avocado, tomato and of course coffee, our hostess Marlene coordinated with the car rental company to have our vehicle delivered to her house. Her daughter Marisa was also visiting from Nicaragua and gave us a Chorreador (Costa Rican coffee "machine") that she made and painted as a wedding gift. These two are what you imagine when you hear of friendly locals. Marlene grew up in the house next door and her parents now rent it out to the kindergarten. They gave us hugs and blessings and then we said our goodbyes.
We stopped at a supermarket in downtown Liberia to get coffee, a large container of bottled water, cooler and ice and a some snacks for the road. I've read about the soda stands and how fresh and affordable they are. So we looked up the closest one and stopped for an early lunch. Our goal is to avoid getting hangry so we eat often. The soda was located in a market that sold fresh produce, meats and cheeses. Probably where the sodas shop. The meals are simple, coffee, rice, beans, cheese, bread. The local hot sauce, labeled salsa, reminds me of medium Taco Bell sauce but better (I know, it doesn't seem possible but it is). We will live off this simple meal as well as Casado, which translates to "married"!
The road to La Fortuna is winding, bumpy and full of single lane bridges. Last time I came to Costa Rica I had a stick shift and remember getting leg cramps from shifting so much so this time we splurged and got an automatic. We took our time navigating as the roads are narrow, walls of rain appear out of no where and retreat just as quickly. As you leave the city the landscape turns into mountain farm land with cattle, horses and sheep. Beautiful and quaint houses and even a wind farm. About half way along the drive we came to the start of Lake Arenal. It is about 33 square miles and the road winds high above the shore with tourist shops, sodas and tour companies. This area is extremely popular for the rivers, waterfalls and views of the volcano from the lake. We'll stop here on our way to Tamarindo area later in the week. Today we stopped once for drinks and continued to our next Airbnb.


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Look for panko, coarse Japanese breadcrumbs, in most supermarkets in the Asian foods section or with other breadcrumbs. Or use regular coarse breadcrumbs. For a browner top, broil the eggplants for about one minute before serving.
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Cut each eggplant in half lengthwise. Scoop out pulp, leaving a 1/4-inch-thick shell, and reserve pulp. Place eggplant halves, skin sides down, on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray; bake at 350° for 15 minutes.
Chop the reserved eggplant pulp into 1/2-inch pieces. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add reserved eggplant to pan, and sauté 8 minutes or until eggplant begins to brown. Place eggplant in a bowl. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add onion, and sauté 5 minutes or until tender. Stir in red and green bell peppers and the next 7 ingredients (through squash); sauté 6 minutes. Return eggplant to pan. Stir in 1 1/4 teaspoons salt and black pepper; sauté for 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in feta cheese and 1/4 cup panko. Cool slightly. Spoon about 1 cup eggplant mixture into each eggplant shell.
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Carlos Brathwaite and the sixes that clinched West Indies T20 glory
Carlos Brathwaite is mobbed by team-mates after his heroics sunk England.
It is April 3, 2016. Carlos Brathwaite is on strike and there is one over to go in the ICC World Twenty20 final in Calcutta.
West Indies require 19 runs to win a see-saw final that has ebbed and flowed like the nearby Hooghly River. Having recovered from a shocking start, England have a first limited-overs international trophy seemingly within touching distance.
They battled back from 23-3 to post 155-9. Having top-scored with 54, Joe Root claimed two of three early wicket to fall in West Indies' reply with his occasional off-spin.
Marlon Samuels and Dwayne Bravo put on a 73 for the fourth wicket, yet when Andre Russell and Darren Sammy both fell to David Willey in the space of three deliveries, England were the team in charge.
After Chris Jordan managed to deny the well-set Samuels from claiming the strike at the end of the penultimate over, Ben Stokes was tasked with seeing the job through.
His previous two overs in the game had gone for eight and nine runs respectively – combine those two together and it would still be enough for Eoin Morgan's side to be crowned champions.
Brathwaite, however, has other ideas…
When you need so many off so few, an early maximum quickly heaps the pressure back on the bowler.
Stokes appears to aim for a yorker but only serves up a half-volley instead, one he's shoved down leg so far that Brathwaite simply has to help the ball on its way, depositing it over the boundary at backward square leg with a flick of the wrists.
A gift. An absolute gift. Stokes should have sent it down with a bow on. West Indies now need just 13 from five.
Straighter – but still in the slot from Stokes. Brathwaite manoeuvres his front foot out of the way to clear space for the bat to come through and send this one much straighter down the ground – and several metres back into a now delirious crowd inside Eden Gardens.
Stokes pulls a face in response to suggest he either feels he was not too far off target or he's just eaten something that's way too hot. Either way, he's hurting. The once-taxing equation is now down to a seriously manageable sum of seven from off four.
Can England somehow claw this back?
No. Braithwaite does it again as the noise levels inside the ground rise even higher.
It's a similar stroke to the last maximum, only this time the right-hander manages to send his home run over long off. There is a brief moment after it departs the bat that you wonder if it is going to clear the fielder, like a golfer who initially fears he's taken the wrong club and could end up in the water. In the end, though, the man in the deep just watches it sail over him.
West Indies require just one to win and the rest of the squad are now off their feet out of the dugout and ready to start celebrating.
Forget knocking it into a gap to pinch a single. Brathwaite winds up again as he gets another ball on his pads, allowing him to finish the job in style.
As it sails into the sky to such an extent towards mid-wicket that air traffic control may need to get involved to help find a landing spot, the hero of the over stretches out his arms as team-mates rush out to the middle. What initially seemed a seriously tough challenge completed with room to spare.
"Carlos Brathwaite – remember the name!" Ian Bishop booms on commentary. Few who have witnessed it – whether live at the ground or on television – will forget it, least of all poor Stokes.
West Indies complete one of the most stunning heists in limited-overs cricket to be crowned T20 champions for a second time.


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To provide the first valid and reliable estimate of the health status of Gypsies and Travellers in England by using standardised instruments to compare their health with that of a UK resident non-Traveller sample, drawn from different socioeconomic and ethnic groups, matched for age and sex.
The objective of the present study is to describe the health status of Roma women in Spain. Population-based health data have become available for this group, and we can now identify differences with non-Roma women.
The objective of the present study is to describe the health status of Roma women in Spain. Population-based health data have become available for this group, and we can now identify differences with non-Roma women.
The status and problems of the roma (gipsy) population have been in the forefront in Hungary and have called for numerous benevolent interventions. Successful planning and implementation of programs aimed at the improvement of their health status must be based on solid facts regarding their problems and the causes behind.
The purpose of our study was to determine the content of trans fatty acids in early human breast milk as an indicator of dietary exposure in a sample of Roma breast-feeding women and in a sample of women from the general Czech population.
This research studied predictors of high-risk sexual practices and sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevalence among Roma (Gypsy) men's social networks in Sofia, Bulgaria.
OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the knowledge of HIV/AIDS among gypsies in Lahore and their preventive practices. STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: Four gypsy settlements around Multan Road, Lahore were surveyed from July to August 2009
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City managed to grab only their first back to back Premier League wins since October as they saw off West Bromwich Albion on Saturday, although they were forced to work for the result. As I suggested, Samir Nasri was handed his first start since being injured in October, while Pellegrini made several other changes with an eye on the return clash against PSG, including changes at both full-backs and Fabian Delph coming into midfield. Wilfried Bony was also handed a start as Pellegrini opted for his preferred 4-4-2 attacking formation. Despite the attacking line-up, City found themselves under the cosh early on and were inexplicably 1-0 behind after only 6 minutes when Stéphane Sessegnon gave the visitors the lead. Kolarov failed to block the speculative effort from the edge of the box, and an unsighted Joe Hart completely failed to react as the ball flew beyond him at the near post, a goal that will have to go down as a goalkeeper error for me.
Thankfully the goal woke City up as they began to string some possession together, and it was no surprise when they found a way back into the game, after they were quite rightly awarded a penalty after Kolarov was felled in the box. The ref could have stopped the play sooner after Agüero was crudely brought down by Sandro, but allowing play to go on, he was left with no option but to blow up the second time after goalscorer Sessegnon brought down Kolarov in the area. Agüero, still looking slightly uneasy at the earlier tackle, picked himself up to deliver a confident spot kick beyond the outstretched reach of Ben Foster, who went the right way.
City began to dominate possession, but were largely limited to blocked shots as they failed to take an advantage into the break, while West Brom lost Salomón Rondón to injury, Craig Gardner taking his place. The second half continued in a similar manner, City creating few opportunities, and making several changes in personnel, but struggling to beat the well organised West Brom defensive line until a moment of brilliance from Kevin De Bruyne gave the hosts the lead. A sublime piece of skill and quick thinking pass picked out Navas in the box, who in turn was able to turn the ball over to Agüero. Some last ditch defending prevented the Argentinean claiming his second of the game, but in came the returning Nasri on the follow up to slot the ball home from close range.
Despite taking the lead, City seemed to dip in confidence, and West Brom were creating the better of the chances in the closing quarter, and should perhaps have drawn level right at the death when James McClean dragged his shot just wide of the post with everyone beaten. Thankfully for the City faithful, the hosts were able to hold on to final put to bed that absolutely embarrassing stat regarding back to back Premier League games. With the result interjected with the impressive and potentially valuable 2-2 draw away at Paris in the Champions League, all eyes will now be on the return leg on Tuesday evening to see if they can continue their recent improved form, and make history in qualifying for the Champions' League semi-final for the first time in their history. Personally, I feel the away result gives them a great opportunity, but the outcome depends on which City turn up, and more importantly whether they can shake of the defensive frailties and the Champions League insecurities of recent seasons.
MOTM: Samir Nasri – the returning Frenchman seemed almost single-handedly intent on changing the game at times, and was duly rewarded when on hand to claim his goal. Added to his impressive work rate and passing stats, this game was a great advert for what City have been missing for so long.Share this:
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Viva Las Vegas! Umphrey's McGee announced today that their 6th annual four set audience interactive musical experience UMBowl will be in the city of sin May 1-2 2015.
UMBowl has four parts that rotate each year with different themes for each set such as the audience texting in a jam direction, selecting covers via mobile phones, and other innovative concepts.
Fan's will have to be mystified for a while at the two day announcement for this previously one night show as no further details have been announced. Put it on your calenders and remember, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!