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We are delighted for business owner Sarah & team member Ruth who both recently welcomed (non fur) babies into each of their families. Baby Enzo is already showing a love for dogs by giggling at them constantly whilst baby Fern currently just sleeps through any barking and madness like she's used to it already.
Its that time of year again -Fireworks!
Noise Fears and Phobias – advice on reducing the impact of trigger events
We have put together a general advice sheet but, owing to the fact that November is round the corner, we will focus on fireworks in particular but the advice can also be used in relation to most noise phobias.
There are many signs that your pet is anxious and worried – the most common signs of fears and phobias that are exhibited during trigger stimulus events are:
There are 4 main treatment options when it come to combating the upset for you and your pet and a long term solution for reducing or removing noise phobias. These are:
Natural anti anxiety / behavioural modifying drugs.
Our behaviour in response to our pets fear responses.
Creating a calming environment.
Desensitisation and Counter conditioning – the long term solution (needs to be implemented months before fireworks start).
We recommend using drugs that have an anti-anxiety effect not ones that sedate your dog. It is important to test your pet's individual response to therapy initially, as there can be a variation in how each pet will respond. All pets will need a full health check with their veterinary surgeon before medication is dispensed.
Xanax is suitable for short term use. As well as a good anti-anxiety affect lasting around 6 hours they also have a memory blocking affect that can stop your pet remembering a traumatic event. This memory blocking affect can be very useful especially if you unexpectedly are faced with a high level of the trigger and are working through a Desensitisation and Counter conditioning program. If the drug is given within one hour of the incident the brain will not form a long term memory and hence will not set you back on your path to resolution. We only advise this route if necessary and much prefer natural products as a first port of call.
We would always recommend using either an ADAPTIL collar/plug in and/or Zylkene along side any other medication and a BMP. These are natural and have proved very effective with many of our clients pets.
In the long term, regardless of if the problem resolves completely, we would recommend using Zylkene and/or ADAPTIL during predictable trigger events like fireworks night.
Our behaviour
Myth buster!! = you cannot reinforce your pets fear. It used to be the school of thought that if we cuddled and comforted our pets when stressed then we would be making them worse by reinforcing their fear. This, however, is simply not the case! A good human related example – Someone tries to break into your home in the middle of the night, what a frightening experience that would be! So you call on a friend to come and sit with you whilst you are still feeling worried and scared. Your friend hugs you and brings you a cup of tea – do you feel more frightened by this hug and tea?! Or comforted and cared for. Its ok to cuddle your pets people!
However, we would still advise that you are calm and settled yourself during these triggers. Try to act normally, for example – watch a movie with you pet cuddled on the sofa or potter around the house as usual.
A calm environment
For dogs: Adaptil = Dog Appeasing Pheromone (ADAPTIL) diffuser
Dog appeasing pheromones are secreted by bitches when they have puppies and serve to reassure the puppies especially at times of stress. It has been shown that this appeasing effect is still present in adult dogs.
This is the basis for the ADAPTIL diffusers/collars and they have been used successfully in combating firework phobias when used in conjunction with a behaviour management plan.
The diffuser works best if plugged in 2 weeks prior to the firework season beginning but will still have good localised effect in 24 hours. Ideally plug them in where your dog likes to hide or rest in stressful times and not near a window or external door.
Zylkene is another natural product proven to be effective in dogs and cats. It is a synthesised version of a product that is present in the milk fed to their young. Again like ADAPTIL this is something designed by nature to calm and relax young, this is just a manmade version. There is no lactose to bother tummy's and it has no flavour so cats don't mind it and it can be even sprinkled on dry food.
Make a den
This should be done ideally a few days or weeks before you need it so they don't learn the den making means the fireworks are on the way. It can be a permanent or temporary structure. Ideally set it up near to where you sit to relax or where the dog seeks out to hide. Some suggestions would be a dog bed in the under stairs cupboard or a sheet over a dog bed in the lounge near where you sit. The sheet can be secured from the arm rest of the sofa over a coffee table or you might wish to get a dog crate and put the sheet over that. If using a dog crate always leave the door to it open. Once the den is made hide treats in there and favourite toys when the dog is not looking and whenever they choose to rest in there tell them in a calm voice 'lovely settle' or something along those lines. If your dog likes tummy strokes and massage spend lots of time offering him/her these things when he/she is in the den, providing you give them space if they're sleeping.
Reduce the presence of trigger stimulus by shutting curtains, if your curtains are thin then double up with sheets and light weight dark blankets. You should also leave lights on to dilute the flashes of light.
During the day and evening play classical music in as many rooms as possible. Research shows that classical music increases rest periods in dogs.
For cats: Feliway diffuser
These are synthesised facial feline pheromones which, like the ADAPTIL diffuser, are released into the home by a diffuser.
They have a reassuring effect on most cats. They should ideally be used in conjunction with a behavioural modification programme.
For the best results plug in for 2 weeks prior to the season starting but it can be plugged in as little as a day in advance if necessary.
Zylkene can also be used as described above.
If your cat has a favourite cupboard they like to get into even if you don't like them in there on fireworks night leave the door ajar and put a cosy throw for them to snuggle into. Spray the throw with feliway spray if you have any and make sure it's not brand new rather something that is kept around the house so that it has comforting home smells.
Please note diffusers last for one month and refills will also last a month. Every 6 months the whole plug in should be completely replaced. They must be plugged in and switched on permanently. They most not be covered and must be kept free from hair.
Small pets
All small pets should ideally be brought onto the house or moved to a covered or sheltered area like a lean-to or garage providing it is safe to do so. You can use hutch covers to help reduce the visibility of flashing. If you bring them inside the home they must not be near the radiators and, as they get used to the heating, they cannot then be put straight back outside due to the sudden change in temperature difference.
Desensitisation and counter-conditioning
Desensitisation: This involves gradual exposure of your dog to the sounds of trigger stimulus i.e. fireworks under controlled conditions. It is possible to purchase CDs/Downloads of the sounds – these come with instruction booklets and must be used at such a low level that the dog does not respond / notice and is happy to offer normal behaviours. Over time, when they are ready, you start to build up the level and exposure.
We recommend the CD 'Sound therapy 4 pets' but there are many out there that supply these sound treatment programs, just make sure they are recorded in surround sound for authenticity.
Counter-conditioning: This involves actively training your pet to engage in a more appropriate behaviour when they hear the trigger noise (relaxing tummy stroke time for example) and completes the behavioural modification work for a long-term solution. Collectively, desensitisation and counter-conditioning work as a behavioural modification programme (BMP).
For a long term fix please contact Jo on 07958011127 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
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Busy & wonderful times – 2017
We have had a very exciting last few months for Pet-Professionals…
Sarah qualified as an ABTC Animal training instructor (!!)
We were named in the top 3 as the best dog trainers in Worthing AND Brighton by threebestrated.co.uk
We were also name in the top 3 dog walkers in Worthing by threebestrated.co.uk
We have added 3 new wonderful team members and had a successful and enjoyable training day with them.
Long standing team member Ruth Hancock passed her Natures Menu raw feeding expert exam and is able to offer advice to anyone interested in feeding raw to their pets.
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I have something I want to share with all of our fantastic clients and hopefully their friends and family about a wonderful discovery I have recently made.
My old and very faithful best friend Finn just celebrated his 13th birthday. He is a wonderful black Labrador.
I truly believe we would not have reached this milestone had it not been for the specialised care of a great team of people.
Our articles in Sussex Life Magazine
We are very excited about writing some articles for Sussex Life magazine. For their February edition we wrote about Rabbits and gave great tips on how to care for them properly. March's edition is a double page spread on how to manage multi cat households as well as how to meet the needs of cats on their own.
Welcome to Anneka – our newest member of the team!
A warm welcome to Anneka Tier, our newest member of the Pet-Professionals team!
Anneka lives in Worthing with her gorgeous labrador Summer.
Anneka is an experienced dog owner and has worked in a large veterinary referral hospital for the last few years. She is qualified in animal first aid and trained in animal handling.
Henry the stuffed stooge dog!
We have another new member of the Pet-Professionals team – well, sort of…. its Henry – the stuffed stooge dog!
It is well known that behaviourists occasionally have to use what we call a 'stooge' dog when we are working with dog reactive dogs. Traditionally a well trained, very well rounded, non reactive live dog is used to assess the 'threshold' of the reactive dog we are working with.
Introducing Susi!
We are very excited to have a new member of the Pet-Professionals team – Ruths new dog Susi!
Susi is a stunning Northern Inuit puppy who was looking for a home due to no fault of her own.
It just so happens that Ruth had her heart set on this particular breed so when she heard that Susi (formerly named Shadow) needed a home she went along to see her – and came home with her the same day! Susi is Finnish for Wolf, which we think is very apt.
Northern Inuits are not a breed for the novice owner, they need experienced and kind handling and do not do well if left alone for long periods. Ruth leads the perfect life for Susi – they are together all day and enjoy lots of walks and games 🙂
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Pittsburgh Composer Benjamin Barson Receives the ASCAP Foundation 2017 Fred Ho Award
June 28, 2017
NEW YORK, June 28, 2017: The ASCAP Foundation is pleased to announce Benjamin Barson as the recipient of this year's Fred Ho Award. Barson is being recognized as an innovative composer whose work defies boundaries and genres. His selection honors the spirit of visionary composer, saxophonist, writer and activist Fred Ho.
Benjamin Barson is a composer, baritone saxophonist, historian, and political activist. He was mentored by Mr. Ho in baritone saxophone technique and composition and partnered with him to produce several mixed media musical projects just shortly before Ho's passing in April 2014.
A resident of Pittsburgh, Barson and his wife Gizelxanath Rodriguez run the Afro Yaqui Music Collective, an ensemble combining Ho's Afro-Asian political and musical influences, and the music of the Yaqui of northern Mexico. Barson is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh's Jazz Studies program, where he carries out investigative research supporting Fred Ho's theory that the music of the African diaspora has been a social force for the liberation of oppressed peoples across the world. More info on Barson can be found at http://benbarsonmusic.com.
The ASCAP Foundation Fred Ho Award was established as a gift from Flora, Florence, and (Mrs.) Frances Houn, Melanie West and Ann T. Greene in honor of Fred Ho. The award supports and encourages the innovative musical work of emerging artists with limited financial resources. It is meant to help pay for travel to a performance of recipient's work, hiring of musicians or other career-related expenses connected to the award recipient's own original work. More info is available at: https://www.ascapfoundation.org/ascapfoundation/programs/awards/fred-ho-award.
Fred Ho (1957-2014) was well-known for his work in African American music and was part of the Asian American and avant-garde jazz movements. During his nearly three-decade career, he helped innovate a new American multicultural music. His works have been featured at Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, the Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the San Francisco Jazz Festival among many other distinguished presenters and venues. He received awards, fellowships and honors from the National Endowment for the Arts for Opera-Musical Theater and Jazz Composition, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, the Harvard Arts Medal, the American Music Center (which is now New Music USA), Chamber Music America, New York Foundation for the Arts and the Duke Ellington Distinguished Artists Lifetime Achievement Award.
About The ASCAP Foundation
Founded in 1975, The ASCAP Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to supporting American music creators and encouraging their development through music education and talent development programs. Included in these are songwriting workshops, grants, scholarships, awards, recognition and community outreach programs, and public service projects for senior composers and lyricists. The ASCAP Foundation is supported by contributions from music lovers throughout the United States. www.ascapfoundation.org
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July 21, 2019 • Lead Pastor Joe Skiles Sr
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Happy in an Unhappy World
Part I • June 30, 2019 • Lead Pastor Joe Skiles Sr
We live in an unhappy world. There is a sense of desperation and anxiety being born in America today. A spirit of gloom and doom and it will invade the church if we let it. God has a formula for happiness that you can receive.


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How To Do "New"
2014. Kind of hard to fathom how much time has passed. If you're anywhere near my age, you probably recall looking ahead at the year 2000 and thinking, Surely, we'll have flying cars, ray guns, and teleporters by then. Of course, we didn't and still don't. But time has passed and a lot has happened in the world of speculative fiction. In fact, a case could be made that Speculative Fiction has ruled the entertainment world for quite some time now. Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Percy Jackson, Divergent, Twilight, Hunger Games, Jackson's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, Game of Thrones, A Cast of Stones … on and on.
But what's next?
What will be the next work of speculative fiction to capture the world's imagination? And perhaps, more importantly, what role will Christians have in the speculative fiction literary universe? We are, after all, fashioned in the image of our Creator, who by definition is The Creative One. And we are exhorted to bring God glory, mostly by reflecting his character to the world. So what will we do with this new year? Will we write something new?
I hope so.
We've all rued the Christian Publishing tendency to see what's hot in the world and put out a Christian-friendly complement. Nothing wrong with that. It's market analysis and trying to turn a profit. Heck, my pirate adventures: Isle of Swords and Isle of Fire would never have happened if it weren't for Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean movies becoming so popular. Still … there's so much more to writing than imitation. So much more to being creative.
So how do we do it? How do we write something new?
It doesn't help to read articles that tell us there really are only 10 different plots. Or, something that says you cannot be original because it's all been done. That's just balderdash. It's not like Tolkien was the first writer to ever use elves, dwarves, or wizards. But Tolkien was original. He was creative. He did write something new. We can as well. In the rest of this article, I'd like to explore how we do "new."
I. Observe: the best writers soak in the world around them. Conversations on the metro, storm clouds approaching, a neighbor whose chihuahua has only three legs. Life is full of quirks, and quirks are fun to read about. They make characters connect with us and entertain us.
II. Embrace Conflict: when we rub any two materials together, we get friction. In our homes, in our schools, in our workplaces, there is bound to be conflict. Conflict usually comes from unmet goals or expectations, clashing of goals and ambitions, or needs for power or attention. I don't suggest you start conflict on purpose, but rather that you experience it on a new level. Analyze it afterward. Why did the conflict occur? What goal did each party seek? Why did it hurt? Fuel your story with such conflicts, goals, and motives, but drop the conflict into a different context. You might have been passed over for a promotion at the law offices of Grab, Tackle, and Snark, so you know how that feels. You know the hurts. You know the motivations. Take all that good, raging stuff and give it to a raptor pilot in a steampunk pirate adventure. No matter how new the concept, the successful stories will share conflicts we all experience.
III. Genre Mixing: We love to categorize, don't we? It makes things more manageable. As an English teacher, I've spent a lot of time with students analyzing the characteristics of genres. What makes a story a fantasy versus mystery verses historical, etc.? But recent blockbusters have stepped all over genre boundaries. One of my favorite series is Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. It's a mash up of hard-boiled-detective and horror and Celtic mythology and every movie monster you can think of. It's fantastic fun and feels very fresh.
IV. Research: Put it this way … the Discovery Channel rocks! Look at the newest technologies or technologies just on the horizon. Excellent fodder for building a story that feels new. I happened to catch a video about brain science and dream research. It was remarkable, and it lead to a new story idea: Dreamtreaders. Turns out, Thomas Nelson liked the idea as well, and now I have a new trilogy coming out. Dreamtreaders #1 should be out May 2014.
V. Ask What If? So many hit stories aren't really new in their entirety, but they succeed in altering some key element, twisting it off center, and therefore, making it new. Stephen King was credited with the technique of simply asking yourself, What if? Begin with the usual, the mundane, the everyday, and ask what would happen if some variable changed or inserted itself into the situation? Shopping in a grocery store did it for Mr. King. While shopping and politely nodding to people he vaguely knew, he wondered what would happen between them all if they were trapped in the grocery store. Trapped by, oh … I dunno … a mysterious fog full of man-eating creatures. Yep, that would amp the tension a little and give it that fresh feel that we're all looking for. So ask "What if?"
So, here's to hoping you write something -new- this year. Honor God by reflecting His creativity, and watch your stories soar.
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Wayne Thomas Batson is the Bestselling author of fourteen adventure novels including the fan favorite Door Within Trilogy, the pirate duo Isle of Swords and Isle of Fire, the 7-book fantasy epic Dark Sea Annals, and a supernatural thriller for adults called Ghost. A middle school Reading and English teacher for 23 years, Batson loves to challenge—and be challenged by—his students. So, when he began writing stories to supplement the school district's curriculum, it was his students who taught their teacher a lesson. Batson's students were so taken by one of the stories that, over a thirteen year span, they pushed him to make it into a full-length novel. That story became The Door Within. Since then, Batson's students continue to be his frontline editors. Says Batson, "Two things you can count on from middle school students: Intelligence and Honesty. Kids are so much more perceptive than a lot of us 'Big Folk' give them credit for. And when something's not right in the story, they'll tell you about in very clear terms." With over half a million books in print, Batson believes his books appeal to so many kids and adults because, at a deep level, we all long to do something that matters, and we all dream of another world.
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I've been reading about how high concept is what sells, no matter the genre. Harry Potter was popular because it was about school. Everybody can relate to school. It's high concept. School, first love, parents, bullies, food, laundry, heartache, feeling like an outcast–that's all high concept that everybody can relate to. Stan Lee has this down to a science. Think of X-men. A group of outcast young people who get superpowers at puberty. High concept! We've all felt that way.
I've been reading some truly excellent Christian epic fantasy recently. I'm working on a trilogy. Will mine become genre changing? I doubt it. But it might, it is unique. All I know is that I believe the Lord wants me to write it. The results are up to Him. I can only do it if He anoints me, and it's fun ride.
Good stuff. 🙂
"There is nothing new under the sun" Ecclesiastes 1:9
Just a little counter point here for Wayne Thomas Batson's thoroughly cool tips, that I hope will take away any pressure to write something "new" which might make writers like myself, choke up and not write at all.
There are between 30-40 plots that exist in the storyteller's library.
Let me say that again, there are no new plots, only new twists on the old standbys.
To that, a writer can add roughly 12 master character archetypes, and 3 different narrative points of view (first person, second person, third person)*.
So that means every writer has in their recipe/story box the same ingredients:
30-40 plots
12 character archetypes
3 narrative voices
These are the same ingredients that ever storyteller has had to work with since one person sat down at a fire and said to the others "A long time ago in place quite like this one…" And yet from that moment until now, people have been telling stories. And not the same story either.
So how can a writer come up with something exciting?
There's one piece which is different in each story, and that is the tale-teller.
We each get the same ingredients; plot, character, and narrative voice. It is our unique perspective and experience that makes the stories different. It's the writers choices of how much of each item, and which of each item to use that makes the story memorable.
The writer is the secret ingredient, the piece that makes the story a different flavor than the others. This is true, even within a genre.
Here's an example:
Dream Treaders by Wayne Thomas Batson
Wake by Lisa McMann
Gossamer by Lois Lowry (author of The Giver)
Dream Hunter by Elizabeth Knox
All of the above books are about people who can enter/manipulate/use dreams to get to another country. All of them are different, because of their writer took the ingredients and shifted them around in a unique way to come up with their own tale.
So be bold! Be daring! Study your ingredients and offer your stories to the rest of us, we can't WAIT to taste what you've "dreamed" up.
* Omniscient Narration is a type of third person and there are other types of third person as well that I'm not listing here.
Hello Wayne,
Excellent discussion! I set out to write Christian fantasy for tweens, having already had a six book kids' fiction series published. I knew very well my latest work needed to be fresh, since I wanted the project to go book-to-film. I'm also a screenwriter.
My corner of Hollywood was watching. I applied all of the brainstorming techniques that film pros use to make the next blockbuster. But since when is human effort ever enough? I brought my need to the LORD, as specific as prayer can get: "Lord Jesus, will You give me this new idea? Make it a grabber, please?"
I'd been looking at angels, but you can't have an angel protagonist no matter what TV has done with them. Real angels don't have angst! They know what they're about!
But as I prayed, the LORD gave me two words: "The Nephilim."
His idea hit so hard that I went face down on the kitchen floor in worship. You want a "what if?" What if the genes of the Nephilim–those "heroes of old" born of angels and women–resurfaced in a few young teens of today? (Genesis 6 & Numbers 13).
My novel Children of Angels, Winepress Publishing, has won the Gold Medal in the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Young Adult/Religion/Spirituality category and Honorable Mention in the Hollywood Book Festival Spirituality category. To the praise of His glory!
New ideas can also generate controversy, and I've taken heat for the fantasy premise that Nephilim DNA is angelic rather than demonic, as many Christians insist that is was. I shrug and smile, heft all criticism over to the Lord in praise, and gently remind my few critics that my story is, after all, make-believe. (And, um, the Nephilim are described as "heroes of old, men of renown" in Genesis. I respect archaeologists and ancient language experts, but still, there it is, as the English say.)
My point, and you as much as said this, Wayne, so I'm just reiterating: if you want a fresh idea, seek hard after the giver of all good gifts, whose creativity is unimaginable and who delights to give good things to His children. (James 1:17; Matthew 7:9-11)
Kathryn Dahlstrom


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Barry's life
Barry's mother, a doctor, was the first woman to win the gold medal for surgery at Glasgow University, his father (a former international footballer) ran Scotland's Kelvin Hall Exhibition centre and Barry's first few years could not have been happier as a Glasgow boy in the 1960s. But by the time Barry was eight his father had died of lung cancer and his mother then moved him to an English boarding school. Six years later his mother too fell ill with cancer and by the time he was seventeen both his parents had died.
Barry returned to Scotland as a student and lived in West Pilton with his childhood sweetheart bride, Caroline, on what was one of the roughest council estates in Europe (later immortalised in Irvine Welsh's book "Trainspotting"). He intended to seek ordination as a priest, but Barry's sense of vocation changed when Edinburgh Council sold off 718 houses, including his own, without the courtesy of letting residents know!
"I saw the contempt with which ordinary people were treated by the council and it made me want to change things"
But politics had to wait. He graduated top in his year in Moral Philosphy and won a John F. Kennedy Scholarship to do research at Harvard, under John Rawls. It was only when he returned from America to do his Doctoral studies at Cambridge, that Barry became active as a councillor where he Chaired the City's Finance Committee and became the youngest mayor in the City's 800 year history.
Barry's political career was not the only thing to flourish in Cambridge. In 1985 their first son was born. Caroline though suffered difficulties during the pregnancy. Premature and weighing only 2lbs 13ozs the baby needed seven weeks of round the clock nursing in the Special Care Baby Unit.
"Nothing taught me the value of life more than those seven weeks. I will be for ever grateful to the NHS. They saved both Caroline and Jesse."
Three more children followed and Barry left academic life for the City, joining "Mediterranean", a company of Maritime arbitrators. He ended up as the senior partner within eight years, having established the business all across the newly opened-up countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
"I know what it feels like to fill out my monthly VAT return and to have the staff's salaries depend on my performance."
Barry for Brent
- Delivering free nursery places for all three and four year olds
- The building of the new Wembley Primary School, and the Jewish Free School
- Helping to secure £80million pounds for the complete rebuild of Alperton CommunitySchool and Copland School.
- Obtaining funds for the rebuilding of the new Wembley Central station, which has rejuvenated the whole of Wembley High Road.
- Taken up over 30,000 cases for constituents.
Barry in Westminster
Barry is Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade and Shadow Minister for International Climate Change. He has been serving in this role since October 2016. Barry was first appointed to Labour's shadow cabinet in June 2016, leading on energy and climate change. With changes in government departments after the vote to leave the European Union, he was appointed the Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade, Europe, Energy and Climate Change in July 2016.
Prior to these positions, Barry served on Labour's front bench as the Shadow Minister for the Natural Environment and Fisheries from 2013 and then Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change from September 2015. Barry was previously Ed Miliband's Special Envoy for Climate Change & the Environment. His first appointment was as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in April 2004, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Trade and Industry in May 2005 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at DEFRA between May 2006 and June 2007. He served as the Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Forestry between 2007 and 2008 and as Private Parliamentary Secretary to Lord Mandelson in the Department for Business, Innovations and Skills between 2009 and 2010.
Barry has always been very active in parliament, serving on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee, the Energy and Climate Change Select Committe, the Public Accounts Select Committee and on the Broadcasting and Procedure Select Committees. He has stood on the Finance Standing Committee and scrutinised the budget for three years in a row and played a significant role in scrutininsing the Energy Bill through his membership of the Energy Bill Committee. Barry has also been a member of many parliamentary groups including chairing the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sports and Leisure and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Commonhold and Leasehold Reform.
Barry founded and currently chairs Labour Friends of India and the All-Party Parliamentary Group UK – India Trade & Investment as well as the All-Party Parliamentary Chinese in Britain Group.
Barry is the European Vice-President of the Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE International) and served as the international Chairman of the Board until 2013.


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Wet Mode. No, it's not what you need to engage if you spill your no-fat soy mocha coffee drink on the carpets. It's what Porsche thinks will help keep you out of the ditch and on the pavement. But how exactly is Porsche planning on throwing the laws of physics aside, damming the lowered coefficients of friction, and making the car handle better when things get damp? Listen up, because this is how it works.
No, really. Listen up. Because the 992 will be listening. It starts with sensors in the front wheel wells. Those sensors listen to the rain splashing. And while there's no doubt that listening to the sound of puddles is relaxing, the car isn't trying to mellow out after years of madcap performance. No, the 911's computer is listening to determine just how much water is on the road.
Porsche said that just by using their virtual ears they can tell how much water is on the road. The frequencies of the noise change based on what's going on. Plus, if they hear fish noises, that's probably a pretty good hint as well.
If you're thinking "how good can this be, after all my automatic windshield wiper settings can't tell the difference between light fog and a monsoon," then that's a fair question. Those sensors look through the windshield, searching for distortion in the light passing through. But lots of things can affect the light. The new listening sensors are much more difficult to fool.
They aren't exactly just microphones. Think of them like a combination of a microphone and a radar parking sensor. Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only. Well, not quite, but you get the idea.
So what does the car do with that info? It raises its hand hesitantly and waits for you to address it. Then it suggests, suitably meekly, that the roads might be a touch damp, and that perhaps, should it please you, you might like to activate Wet Mode.
If you do activate wet mode, the computers get to work.
The system will do a few things to help try and keep you out of trouble. Though it won't actually defeat the laws of physics as we may have slightly implied earlier.
For a start, it calms down the throttle response. When you've got all this turbo torque, it's easy to ask for a little too much, a little too quickly. So Porsche requires you to open it wider to unleash all the boost. And when you do unleash hell, it feeds it in a touch more slowly to keep the rear wheels from spinning.
If you're in a PDK-gearbox car, it'll keep it in a higher gear. That, again, helps reduce the chances of the power getting to the wheels too quickly, keeping them from spinning.
The system also reduces the limited slip rear diff's lock-up. That helps stop it from biting and kicking out the rear when grip is regained. If you're in an all-wheel drive 4S, more power is sent to the front wheels. Not because front-drive is necessarily more stable, but because the narrower front tires are less likely to hydroplane than the massive rear tires. The ABS system will engage more quickly, because the car knows that traction will be easier to lose and more difficult to regain.
Even the active aerodynamics come into play. Up front, the aero flaps open fully. In the rear, the spoiler extends to the Performance Position. Both of these give the car more downforce. That means more aerodynamic stability, helping keep the car inline even with less mechanical grip. That rear spoiler doesn't normally come all the way out to play until over 100 mph.
Finally, the stability control system is given a nudge. It, and the traction control, will be more eagerly waiting for you to mess up. And they'll act more quickly to sort things out and bring the car back into line.
In short, Wet Mode helps you drive in the wet by making sure you can't drive like an idiot. Sounds like something you could have just done yourself. But clearly, we've shown that we're not, as a whole, capable of being responsible behind the wheel. So we get Wet Mode. But you have to turn it on, and you can turn it off. Smarten up, or maybe next time it'll be mandatory.


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Delighted Wheels Unblocked is a video game with ragdoll physics where personalities use different and mostly unusual automobiles to take a trip across the many levels in the video game. The video game is best known for its graphic physical violence as well as the quantity of user-generated material its players produce often, with game maps being shared on a public web server. The major goal of the video game is to reach you could throughout a particular level without wounding your character. So if your character loses blood or a body part, it implies that your goal has fallen short. Prior to you could begin playing Unblocked Happy Wheels, you have to choose your character as well as game degree.
The video game in fact has a morbid collection of personalities, and also you begin with four characters that you can choose from. As you remain to proceed in this video game, you can unlock morecharacters. The basic characters include a durable old man using a mobility device, a entrepreneur using his personal automobile, a individual using a bike with his guest and a huge lady riding on a disabled individual's scooter. All these characters go well with the very harmful levels in the video game.
The key control keys on your keyboard include the area bar, 4 arrowheads, Ctrl, change and also letter "Z". Anticipate visuals violence in the gameplay because you could locate characters being decapitated, fired or even crushed by items. Computer animated blood loss and also loss of arm or leg are other graphic aspects of the video game. The video game includes user-created levels and so you could find many levels in the game, which can be upgraded each day. A degree editor permits gamers to develop their very own personalized levels, as well as there are lots of devices that can be made use of to create these degrees. These tools consist of blocks, vans as well as harpoon guns. As soon as you have actually created a personalized degree, you can submit it on a public web server where other players could access it.


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It's been a tough week. The nausea subsided on about Sunday and the mania set in. It was in that mania that I set this page up. I wrote the 'About' section over the course of a morning, in between making cups of tea, going to have a lie down, sitting down to meditate, putting on washing, planting seedlings in the farm, the list goes on. I couldn't read more than a sentence at a time; I couldn't sit to meditate for longer than a minute and I couldn't type a full sentence in one sitting.
By Wednesday I was beside myself. The medical team I've been allocated weren't able to provide an explanation. I was afraid that I would be like that FOREVER. And then I remembered that I need to allow my meditation experience to happen as it is, without judgment. So I sat. I made myself sit for 20 minutes. After a huge wave of emotion, I found I was able to relax for a few moments, but deep down remained an agitation, a surge of energy waiting to be released.
It was then that the idea of doing a shaking meditation came to me. I was introduced to shaking at the retreat I attended late last year. After bringing myself into the space through deeply breathing, I allowed the music to wash over me and the energy to express itself. I closed my eyes, I shook my legs, I shook my arms and hands, I shook my head. I felt the energy rushing to my extremities and being released into the space around me. At the end of the meditation, I lay on the floor, imagining healing light filling my body and creating a comforting warmth. Next time I might even put down a mat – the wooden floor was a little uncomfortable.
The effect? I was more accepting of my mania. I had found a way of being that didn't need focus or concentration. I had found a way to release all that hyperactivity. And what's more, I felt happier. I felt so happy I decided to move more joyously and DANCE! On went my theme song, I've Got the Music In Me and dance I did for about 20 minutes. Good for my soul and good for my oxygen levels.
The music I shook to was the track 1st Stage on Osho Kundalini Meditation. It has 4 stages in all, designed to give you a full hour meditation. Osho was an Indian mystic and spiritual teacher about whom I know very little. The Kundalini meditation is said to enable blocked and repressed energy to "flow, dance and be transformed into bliss and joy". There is no doubt that this was my experience on Wednesday. I did a quarter of it knowingly and believe it or not, another quarter unwittingly. I actually danced to 2nd Stage just because it appeals to me, not because I had any instruction to do so. I'm going away next week and will take the album with me to do the entire meditation.
Apparently hyperactivity is a side effect of chemotherapy. By yesterday, it was passing and I felt like I'd been up for 4 days. I've rested most of today, but at least I know now how to help pass the time when I don't quite know what else to do with myself. And if happiness is the result, that's even better.
PS You can find the entire Osho Kundalini Meditation on iTunes here. Since I wrote this last year I have used all the tracks to move energy through. The last track is actually silence to sit in meditation and observe any shift that may have occurred.


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Traditions often come and go.
However, the tradition of making paper flowers for occasions, such as Tet, went from the village of Thanh Tien and then came back.
This was because some people made a special effort to get old people to remember how to make them.
They then told others how to do it.
Now, people in the village make paper flowers like their ancestors once did.
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Elders in Thanh Tien Village usually shake their heads in some puzzlement as they tell the story of how their village became famous for making paper flowers.
For them, it is a tale with surprising twists and turns, but they are more confident now that an art they acquired over hundreds of years can have a stable future.
The story begins in the 16th century with the founding of the village on a stretch of land along the Huong (Perfume) river in the lower part of Hue.
Along with the neighbouring villages of Tien Non and Bao Vinh, Thanh Tien received rich alluvial deposits every year, and villagers found growing flowers for Tet (Lunar New Year) and other festivals would help them earn a living.
As time passed and life became more complicated, villagers discovered that the weather in Hue was also a bit too complicated for earning a stable income from growing flowers. So, sometime in the 18th century, Thanh Tien turned to producing paper flowers. Again, the focus was on meeting the demand for flowers for home decoration during the Tet festival season.
It proved to be a smart move, and the village became the sole supplier for Hue.
Explaining the large demand for flowers in the central city, researcher Tran Duc Anh Son said that the earliest migrants from the North had to confront a tough life, fearful of both natural and supernatural dangers. Thus, they relied a lot on worshipping gods and built many temples for the purpose.
The demand for paper flowers boomed in such a setting, and the village prospered.
Every year, just before the grand royal ceremony at the Nam Giao Pavilion, villagers received orders for thousands of flowers for the rituals.
During Tet, a holiday for both the living and the dead, paper flowers came in very handy as decorations for altars dedicated to ancestors, the Buddha, the Kitchen God, the Mau (mother) Goddess and other deities.
War and aftermath
Understandably, the tough living conditions brought about by the wars forced on the country by colonialists and imperialists in the 20th century made it difficult for most village crafts to survive, and the art of making paper flowers was all but forgotten.
When peace returned after the nation's reunification in 1975, freer trade allowed fresh flowers to come in Hue from Da Lat and Ha Noi, and there was no real incentive to revive the forgotten trade.
So, for about half a century, the art of making paper flowers in Thanh Tien Village became a mere memory in the minds of its elderly residents.
In 2006, Than Van Huy, a local artist who specialised in painting lotuses, decided he would try and revive the craft.
"I had a strong desire to bring the craft back. What we inherited from our ancestors should not be forgotten easily," he said.
Huy was well aware that the revival would not be an easy task because so much had changed in the last fifty years, especially since the country embarked on its economic renewal policy in the late eighties.
"I was afraid that the traditional paper flowers that the villagers used to produce would not be able to stand firm in the market. So I decided to focus on the lotus, a favourite flower for many Vietnamese."
Huy and his younger brother Than Dinh Hoai spent a year with the elderly residents of the village, trying to jog their memory of techniques used in making the famous Thanh Tien paper flowers.
This led to the revival of a technique that villagers used to make creases on a paper sheet to make the lotus petals firm.
"That was the key to our design and we are happy we have been able to preserve the technique," said Huy. "Traditional flowers in our memories had a round shape and some layers of petals, but now we need to make lotus buds as well."
After months of designing and testing lotus flower samples, the siblings launched their paper lotuses in 2007. The lotuses were of different colours including pure pink, the colour of the original flowers in Hue. What he had learnt many years earlier at the university helped Huy come up with a viable dyeing method.
In 2008, their flowers were exhibited for the first time at the Hue Festival, which attracts people from around the country and abroad.
This kicked off a spate of fresh orders for the paper lotuses, and they made their market presence later that year.
"It's a paper lotus but it looks like the real flower. My friends in Da Nang love it and often ask me to bring some home," said Le Thi Thuy An, a Da Nang native working in Hue.
The flowers now can be seen in hotel lobbies, living rooms of luxurious houses and spaces for cultural performance sites.
For some, the paper lotuses are more than a decoration.
Nguyen Khoa Lan Anh said the flowers provide some relief from homesickness for her father, a Hue native living in HCM City.
"It 'blooms' all year round and recalls the countryside of my father's home village," she said.
Huy and Hoai have since created various kinds of lotuses, including lotus buds and lotus lanterns. They also have flowers in different sizes for different decoration purposes.
"The diversity of products will help attract customers and boost demand," Huy said.
Last year, he opened a training class for 30 young trainees in the village, resulting in about 10 households adopting the craft as their livelihood.
For Huy, a special delight is when Hue natives around the country seek out the traditional Thanh Tien flowers for altar decoration during Tet.
From 2009 onwards, the art of making paper flowers for rituals has made a strong comeback, and the village bustles during the Tet season.
Thanh Tien's flowers have now found firm markets in Ha Noi, Hue and HCM City.
Huy said: "I am happy because this gives us the base to expand the business throughout the village. The revival is for the whole village." — VNS
To shake your head in puzzlement means to do so in a way that tells people you are confused about something.
To be confident means to believe in yourself, or in something you are involved in.
Acquire means get.
A stable future is one in which things do not chop and change too much but stay in much the same state.
Alluvial deposits are things of value that are left in river areas after having been washed down.
As time passed and life became more complicated, villagers discovered that the weather in Hue was also a bit too complicated for earning a stable income from growing flowers.
If something is complicated, it may be involved and confusing.
A stable income is an amount of money that is received, which is much the same amount every time it comes in.
Again, the focus was on meeting the demand for flowers for home decoration during the Tet festival season.
A focus is something to which attention is given.
To meet the demand for flowers means to provide enough flowers for everyone who wants them.
If the village is the sole supplier to Hue, it is the only place that supplies Hue with flowers.
Explaining the large demand for flowers in the central city, researcher Tran Duc Anh Son said that the earliest migrants from the North had to confront a tough life, fearful of both natural and supernatural dangers.
Migrants are people who move in great numbers from one place to another, sometimes to live there forever.
To confront a tough life means to face a tough life.
Things that are supernatural are spiritual and exist in a world different to the one in which we see, feel, touch and hear things.
A ritual is a ceremony.
Altars are special tables that are decorated for religious purposes.
Colonialists are people who come to a country from another country and take it over, making themselves rich by helping themselves to what is in that country.
Imperialists are people who change other countries to become like their country as part of an effort to make their own country more wealthy and powerful.
An incentive is a reward offered to someone to encourage them to do something.
To revive a forgotten trade means to bring it back to life.
"What we inherited from our ancestors should not be forgotten easily," he said.
When you inherit something, you take ownership of it after it is passed on to you by someone who has died and left it to you.
A renewal policy is an approach to changing things. In this case, it is things to do with economics.
After months of designing and testing lotus flower samples, the siblings launched their paper lotuses in 2007. The lotuses were of different colours including pure pink, the colour of the original flowers in Hue.
People born to the same parents as you are your siblings. In other words, your brothers and sisters.
What he had learnt many years earlier at the university helped Huy come up with a viable dyeing method.
To dye something means to change its colour using special colouring liquids, called dyes. A dyeing method means a way of changing something's colour by dyeing it. A viable dyeing method is a dyeing method that works.
Abroad means overseas.
The lobby of a hotel is the hall at its entrance.
People get homesick when they long for their homes when they are away from them.
Trainees are people who are undergoing training.
Hue natives are people who come from Hue and nowhere else.
Find words that mean the following in the Word Search:
1. A ceremony.
2. The feeling people get when they are missing their homes.
3. Overseas.
4. Another name for the Huong River.
5. A type of flower.
© Duncan Guy/Learn the News/ Viet Nam News 2015
1. Ritual; 2. Homesickness; 3. Abroad; 4. Perfume; 5. Lotus.


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Witches have used dolls since time immemorial.
It is our belief that the doll is given an identity by the witch, and becomes our shadow, relieving us of our worry, harm and other difficulties. The Dolls take these problems gladly and they are housed within them. They deal with them and become alive. Great care is taken by them lest those problems should return. If the doll is kept safe, all remains well. in other cultures they are referred to as worry dolls. They act as guardians and protectors for you. The Dolls are handmade here on site at Spellbound and have been enchanted with Magick before they leave the workshop. Each doll has so much detail and care put into it. We see them as so much more than simply a doll...


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Instagram has recently rolled out an update letting its users add funny, animated GIF stickers to their Stories. All thanks to GIPHY integration with the Facebook-owned image sharing platform, there're thousands of moving stickers available as a part of the Stickers tab in Instagram Stories. You can add as many stickers to your stories as you'd like from the GIPHY database. Also, there're hand-curated sticker suggestions to transform your dull, humdrum moments into expressive, fun, and artistic moments to share with your friends. Don't know how to add GIFs to Instagram Stories for Android? Need not worry! We've got your back.
Here, we'll make you aware of the process to add a GIF to your Instagram Story. Let's lay down the steps for you.
Add GIFs to Instagram Stories on Android
Take a Photo or Load One from Your Gallery
First of all, launch the Instagram app on your Android device and swipe in from the left side. Doing so will take you to the Camera app for Stories. Here, you can choose to capture a photo or video as per your preferences.
However, you can also pick an image from your gallery. All you need to do is just select the box in the lower-left corner of the screen and find your desired photo.
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Locate and Add a GIF
Once you have the perfect image, it's time to add a GIF. Just like you add any other sticker to your Instagram Stories, tap on the square icon with a smiley face on it resting on the top side of the screen. Next, tap on the GIF button to add GIFs to Instagram Stories on Android. You can merely browse through the animated stickers to choose the one for you. Alternatively, you can use the Search field to find whatever GIF you want to add. Once found, tap on the GIF and it will be added on top of your original photo or video. You can move it around and resize it on your story in the same manner as you'd any other sticker.
Share with Your Instagram Followers
Once you're done with customizing your photo, you can share it on Instagram Stories. To do so, you can either tap on the Your Story option at the bottom of the screen or opt for the Send to button. The latter option will enable you to quickly share it with your Story as well as provides you the chance to send the image directly to someone on your friends' list.
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