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Throne of Glass meets Hunger Games in this epic fantasy romance with vampires!
Eighteen-year-old Charlotte Thorne survived the destruction of her homeland, the murder of her family, and the horrifying reign of vampires with nothing more than a crossbow and her wits.
After years of evading the bloodsuckers, she finally falls prey to a trap set by the Vampire Prince himself.
Captured and imprisoned, Charlotte will be sacrificed to the Hunt: an annual game of fear and feast attended by the most powerful vampires in the realm.
No human has ever survived.
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BY REGINALD KANYANE
NEWLY-appointed minister, Joe Maswanganyi will officially activate the 2017 Road Safety and Law Enforcement Easter Operations.
Maswanganyi will be joined by MEC for community and transport managememt, Dr Mpho Motlhabane during the event that is scheduled to take place in the Rustenburg Municipality.
They will be joined by Faith-Based Organisations who will conduct prayers in four different areas identified as accident hotspot areas.
“Eight people recently collided with a cement truck on the N4 road. The activation of the Road Safety and Law Enforcement Operations is an annual campaign aimed at intensifying road safety education and increasing traffic officers’ visibility on the roads.
“The operations are meant to reduce road accidents and fatalities across all major roads across the province. These are also informed by the global UN Decade of Action for Road Safety campaign aimed at reducing fatalities by 50% by 2020,” Motlhabane said.
He said that Maswanganyi will further address the law enforcement and road safety officials who form part of the provincial Easter Road Safety and Law enforcement operations.
“During these operations, the Department joins forces with all stakeholders in the transport sector to ensure that the citizens of the province enjoy road accident and crime free Easter period,” he said.

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VIDEO PODCAST: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Youth Involvement in Classical Music - this specially extended illustrated feature includes contributions from Christopher Morley, Gerald Fenech, Halida Dinova, Patricia Spencer and Roderic Dunnett.
In 2019, Buxton Festival had a runaway success with a new show in the tradition of an eighteenth-century pasticcio - drawing on numbers from several pre-existing scores by various composers - centred on the figure of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, resident of famous nearby landmark, Chatsworth House.
Now comes a follow-up, also with a book by Festival CEO Michael Williams, in a joint production with Norwich Theatre. It focuses on a more recent local figure, one-time Buxton resident Vera Brittain, author of the moving WW1 memoir Testament of Youth.
Most of the score draws on songs by Ivor Novello, taken largely from hit shows such as The Dancing Years, King's Rhapsody and Glamorous Night, many with new lyrics, also by Williams. The unstoppably talented Iain Farrington has contributed a couple of additional numbers, the skilfully arranged short overture, and all the orchestrations, which remove the sentimental varnish the songs have acquired over the years, and give them a new lease of life - Buxton Opera House, Buxton, UK, 7 July 2023.
The main action is framed by a Prologue and Epilogue set in London in 1944. We meet the older Brittain making a public speech against the bombing of German cities, being heckled by bystanders, and taken to task by George Orwell, no less, working as a journalist. A heckler angrily throws a copy of her book at her, and in one of the show's most touching moments, a soldier standing nearby picks it up and courteously hands it to her.
The twenty-year-old Vera then joins her, and we wind back to Buxton in 1914. In Act I, she is being prepared by her parents for 'coming out' as a debutante. Determined not to take on the role expected of her, and dreading an insignificant future, she has her heart set on a place at Oxford University, which her father dismisses as nonsense.
We meet the three people closest to her - her brother, Edward, Roland Leighton, later her fiancé, and Bobbie Jones, an invented character, gradually revealed to be Edward's gay lover.
A picnic cements their relationships, but they can't ignore the brewing war. Act I ends with music-hall star Vesta Tilley, in uniform, heading a show intended to boost recruitment (echoing a similar scene in Funny Girl), and the three men join up.
Act II begins on New Year's Eve, 1914, with imminent partings giving the celebrations a bitter-sweet taste. We watch the four friends as they negotiate their separations, via letters and such meetings as they can arrange. In a lighter moment, they explore Vera and Roland's misfortune in having to conduct their courtship always with a chaperone present, making witty use of Novello's 'And her mother came too'. But the darkness isn't sanitised. The show's title-song, with its original lyric, is a poignant duet for Edward and Bobbie. Later, Vera puts Oxford on hold to train as a nurse.
At the front, Bobbie's commanding officer gives him a stark warning that his love-letters to Edward inevitably go through the official censor, with dire implications. And it's no spoiler to say that the three men don't survive.
The Epilogue returns us to 1944. Vera comes home to her daughter - the future distinguished politician Shirley Williams, to whom the show is dedicated - who has been reading her memoir, and expresses support for her principled stand. Vera looks back to 1914, and the events that first brought the four friends together, then tore them apart.
'We'll gather lilacs' is kept in reserve for the finale, as the cast reassembles. Here the show rather overplays its hand, in a big finish, where a simple quartet would have been more effective, perhaps with the other characters silent at the back of the stage. And a reprise of the Act I showstopper 'Buxton Ragtime Band' - one of Farrington's additional songs - as an up-tempo play-out number further detracts from the effect.
As the young Vera, Audrey Brisson develops convincingly from ingénue to more experienced figure, though her singing voice has something of a sharp edge at times. Her breakdown after the news of Roland's death is powerful without being melodramatic. George Arvidson's Edward and Alexander Knox's Roland offer contrasting studies in youthful idealism, the one puppyish, the other more reserved. Edward's developing relationship with Kit Esuruoso's wary, restrained Bobbie is sensitively drawn, helping anchor the show in the social mores of the time.
As Vera and Edward's parents, Stuart Pendred and Bernadine Pritchett tend a little towards caricature in Act I. Julia Mariko plays Shirley, in the Epilogue, rather too young for a fourteen-year-old. Rachel Seirian gives Vesta Tilley just the right amount of showbiz bravado.
With Iwan Davies conducting, the Northern Chamber Orchestra plays with all the pizzaz of a West-End pit-band. Director Kimberley Sykes paces the action well, though an emotional breathing-space is needed between the end of Act II and the Epilogue. Nicky Shaw's designs keep the stage admirably uncluttered, with plenty of room for Michela Meazza's inventive choreography.
Reservations aside, The Land of Might-Have-Been strikes a fine balance between funny and sad, which it delivers with panache and conviction. And do you know what? I think I've been underestimating Ivor Novello all these years.
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Modifying cars has been well-liked ever since well, ever in the past the car was invented. These days, theres a big selection of aftermarket parts easily reached some of which are even improved than the parts that came like the car originally.
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*Headache Service, Department of Internal Medicine, II Clinica Medica, University of Rome, Italy.
HLA-B14 Antigen in Cluster Headache
Article first published online: 22 JUN 2005
Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain
Volume 24, Issue 3, pages 152–154, May 1984
How to Cite
Martelletti, P., Romiti, A., Gallo, M.F., Giacovazzo, M., Adorno, D., Valeri, M., Piazza, A., Monaco, P.I. and Casciani, C.U. (1984), HLA-B14 Antigen in Cluster Headache. Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 24: 152–154. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1984.hed2403152.x
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- Article first published online: 22 JUN 2005
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The relationships of HLA-antigens and Cluster Headache (C.H.) is described.
60 subjects (39 males and 21 females aged between 15 and 75 years - mean age 40.13 years) from Central Italy with Cluster Headache were examined. Three subgroups were identified, 29 Episodic Cluster Headache, 20 Hemicrania Cluster and 11 Chronic Paroxysmal Hemicrania. The 12 alleles of the Iocus-A and the 16 alleles of the Iocus-B were studied in the C.H. group and in 321 subjects, most of whom were blood donors, selected as a control group.
Typing was carried out with the microlymphocyto-toxicity technique used by N.I.H.
Genetic frequency, relative risk (R.R.) and “linkage disequilibrium” calculation were evaluated statistically. The statistical significance was corrected taking into consideration the number of observations carried out. The X2 test was used.
The data showed a decreased frequency of antigen HLA-B14 (1.66% vs 11.53% r<0.05) and HLA-Bw21 (5% vs 13.71%) in patients with C.H. compared to the group of controls. The R.R. was 0.19 and 0.33 respectively.

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The ruling AIADMK and the opposition DMK, a key UPA component, yesterday took credit for India's vote in favour of the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at a special session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
AIADMK supremo and chief minister J Jayalalithaa in a statement claimed that her continuous efforts in pressing the Centre over the issue yielded the desired result.
DMK president M Karunanidhi, who has elevated political blackmail to a high art and who held the UPA to ransom by threatening to withdraw support if the government did not support the US-sponsored resolution in Geneva, has reason to believe that his pressure tactics worked.
His unrealised dream, he said, was a “Tamil Eelam”, a separate homeland for Sri Lankan Tamils.
In Tamil Nadu, there was jubilation among both the Dravida parties as well as other smaller nationalist parties over the outcome of the vote coming as a shot in the arm for them in political terms.


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Steve Morgan, chairman of Redrow has called for stamp duty and Help to Buy changes to drive the housing market forward and keep the economy growing.
Redrow founder and chairman Steve Morgan has called for stamp duty and Help To Buy changes. Mr Morgan was speaking at the launch of Woodford Garden Village, one of the largest brownfield redevelopments in the North West, where local community groups, politicians and industry professionals had gathered to help Redrow celebrate its opening.
During the day he highlighted how housing transactions have gone down as stamp duty has gone up and the tax was affecting people’s mobility: “Stamp duty has a huge impact on the market. Not only do buyers have to raise huge deposits, they then have to find thousands more in stamp duty. The last two increases have been very damaging, particularly to the London market.”
He also called for Government to extend the time limit from application to completion on Help to Buy equity loans to 12 months from the current six. This would enable first time buyers to reserve a new build house farther in advance of its completion when using the incentive; allowing them to compete with investors who are free to reserve at an earlier stage.
Overall the Redrow chairman was positive about the housing market and saw the current climate as a good time for housebuilders, with land finally coming through the planning system – albeit still too slowly for his liking – and for customers, with mortgage interest costs remaining low.
He was particularly passionate about the much anticipated Woodford Garden Village development, on the former Woodford Aerodrome site, near Stockport, in Greater Manchester; a brownfield site that will eventually feature around 920 new homes, a new primary school, and significant green space.
Steve said: “This is the first garden village site for over 100 years in the north west of England and one of the first of a new generation of garden villages with Redrow leading the way.
“It’s important that we’re creating sustainable new communities that have longevity and Woodford Garden Village is a prime example of that. It will be a self-sustaining development with a new primary school, shops, a village pub and doctor’s surgery to name but a few of its amenities.”
He thanked officers and politicians of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council for their positive role in bringing the scheme to fruition.
For more information visit www.redrow.co.uk/woodford
Photo caption: Redrow Group chief executive John Tutte, Redrow NW managing director John Grime and Harrow Estates managing director Mike Riding with Redrow chairman Steve Morgan

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text: This weeks film is about an actually person who served during WWI his name was T.E. Lawrence. The movie revolves around how Lawrence helped the Arabs reclaim your freedom and life from the Turkish army. The reason why I mention such a movie is because it shows the psychologically damage that happened to one man and the blossoming of a nation from it. It is pretty long movie above 3 hours but I feel that you'll all enjoy the performances from it.

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Hand painted peony half long sleeved Kimono and obi
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A blue, wool komon kimono that has a woven pattern in different shades of blue and a pop of red. This is a versatile kimono that could pair with many different obi. Here we paired it with a reversible hanhaba kobukuro obi that is salmon pink on one side and has a deep purple floral pattern on the other side. …
This is an unlined, informal women’s kimono (komon) made from wool paired with a woven, hassun kagari Nagoya obi. Because this is vintage it is a little small by today’s standards, but is still very wearable. Good for both traditional and non-traditional styling or as a robe. The wool is very light and not itchy! Recommended for warm weather.
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A very interesting kimono! The pattern and colors are reminiscent of the 70s and not for the faint of heart. Because it is wool, it can easily be dressed more casually as in this set. We paired it with this deep purple hanhaba kobukuro obi which creates a nice balance of colors. The obi has pink on the reverse side.
Wool blend vintage komon (informal kimono) with dyed print. This kimono is lined but not too heavy or hot. Quite small if you want to wear traditionally, but for a more creative style you can wear shorter if you are tall or as a robe if it is too small around! A very pretty kimono that will pair well with …


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ELISA titer using peptide based assay: 1:62500. Western Blot: Suggested dilution at 0.25 ug/ml in 5% skim milk / PBS buffer, and HRP conjugated anti-Rabbit IgG should be diluted in 1:50000 - 100000 as second antibody.
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When I discovered the Newsflesh Trilogy by Mira Grant, I learned that she is the alter-ego for Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy writer, and I was of course curious: until that moment, my attempts at reading this particular genre had not ended well – the books I happened to pick up seemed centered on repeating clichés and cookie-cutter characters, so that I was convinced Urban Fantasy was not my cup of tea. But Mira Grant’s writing prompted me to give the genre another try: now, after seven books in the October Daye series, I’m very happy I did, because Seanan McGuire is the kind of author who gives Urban Fantasy a good name, to paraphrase the old song.
October “Toby” Daye is a San Francisco private investigator, and also a changeling – half human and half fae, therefore never fully belonging to either world: the fae generally despise mixed bloods, their contempt in inverse proportion to the percentage of fae blood in any changeling, while humans must be kept in ignorance of the differences – some subtle, some less so – in their appearance, because the secret of faerie’s existence is to be kept at all costs. When we meet Toby for the first time, she’s chosen her human side and tries to build a normal life for herself: a husband, a child, a job she enjoys. But one of her investigations crosses the purposes of a powerful fae who transforms her into a fish, condemning her to several years of this limbo while the world goes on without her. Once the enchantment wears off, Toby’s family has adapted to her sudden disappearance and moved on, and she finds herself alone and adrift, with no clear purpose in life and a defeated attitude that leaves little room for hope in her future. It’s only through her reluctant involvement with the fae world, due to a brutal murder she’s asked to investigate, that she starts – slowly and painfully – to come out of her shell, and to gain a new lease on life as she rebuilds herself literally from scratch, collecting friends and allies along the way.
The first book in the series, though still fascinating, feels somewhat slow, so I urge any potential reader to overlook that and to stay on board for the ride – it’s the same advice I followed when I started, and I’m glad I did: this series gets better and better with each following book. The world-building expands in concentric circles, creating a fascinating tapestry out of the intersecting – but never really touching – realities of our primary world and faerie, and presenting a huge variety of fae and changelings, all with their individual traits that make them alien in appearance and abilities, and at the same time very human in their passions and desires. With each following book I’ve become more and more invested in these stories and characters, in the parallel world of faerie, with its complicated, often cruel politics and interweaving alliances, with its powerful allure. And of course I’ve become invested in Toby, her slowly growing family and her evolving personality – the clear trend of this series is growth, and I’ve found my initial patience more than amply rewarded.
What makes Toby special? First there is her single-mindedness: once she sets on a task, she pursues it with relentless determination, learning from the mistakes she makes along the way. Yes, she’s not perfect, and that’s another detail that endeared her to me – she’s flawed, and fallible and accident-prone: unlike the cookie-cutter heroines I mentioned above, Toby is far from the all-powerful-ninja-warrior that seems the norm in this genre. She gets hurt, she bleeds, and she pays dearly for missing important clues, or for trusting people she shouldn’t or not listening to sound advice. There’s something approaching a death wish in her, more evident at the beginning and lessening as the story goes on. Or if not a death wish, then a grim determination in completing her chosen tasks, in fulfilling the obligations she takes upon herself with little or no regard for personal consequences, an attitude that speaks volumes about her psychological make up and also explains the strong loyalty she engenders in the individuals gathering around her like planets around a sun.
What’s more, Toby manages all that in spite of her shortcomings as a changeling – on the contrary, she turns what pureblood fae consider a limitation into her main strength: she can go where individuals of both worlds cannot, she can perform feats denied to others. In short, Toby non only does not make any excuses for what she is not, but shows the world – both worlds – that strength can come from those very differences. And she pays the price for it every day, by giving of herself for the sake of others, with constant demonstrations of dogged selflessness.
With these premises, and McGuire’s fresh outlook on the genre, it’s hardly surprising that these books are gathering increasing success and acclaim: my direct experience is that they deserve it in full. Let yourselves be captured: you will not regret it.
My Rating: 8,5/10


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BREAKING: Fear Grips Civil Servants As Tinubu Commences Merging Ministries, Agencies, Full List
Senator Iyiola Omisore, the national secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has made a suggestion that President Bola Tinubu may combine several ministries as Nigerians wait for his choice of cabinet nominees.
The APC leader stated that the president’s cabinet will have a size of 36 to 42 during a Tuesday appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today show.
“The Constitution says a minister per state, that is 36 and one per zone making 42, at the prerogative of the President. So it can either make 36 minimum or 42 the highest,” he said.
“We are still consulting with the party, we are looking at the structure of the ministries. We are likely to structure the ministries to reflect Nigerians’ yearnings today, either merging some, rebranding some, naming some just to gather the agenda of Renewed Hope.”
When asked if Tinubu will constitute a government of national unity with members of the opposition parties like ex-Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Omisore said the decision is at the President’s discretion.
He, however, noted that consultations between the President and the ruling party are ongoing regarding the final ministerial list.
“There are technocrats who are politicians too. Some of us, we are professionals. We read to the pinnacle of academics. So we are techno-politicos.
“By the time we look at the baskets together and what will pay Nigerians better, we can come out with a combined cabinet that you will be happy about,” Omisore stated.
During the interview, Omisore cleared the air on the comments made by the APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu on the health status of Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.
He explained that during a meeting with the APC states chairmen on Monday in Abuja, Adamu prayed for Akeredolu’s quick recovery.


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Rock and roll has engendered a whole myriad of subgenres-from metal to reggae, folk rock to funk, country rock to hip-hop, punk to grunge, rockabilly to soul. In assertive and original essays, Jon Pareles, the rock music critic for The New York Times, addresses what he calls the 'panopticon' of genres that grew out of the early traditions. He includes several of these seminal artists who laid the groundwork for later experimentation-Elvis, Chuck Berry, and Buddy Holly, for example. But he also ranges widely over some more unusual favorites: Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, James Brown, Public Enemy, Parliament-Funkadelic, Nirvana, U2, and Talking Heads. Pareles bases his selection of the hundred best albums on their innovativeness, historical significance, and pure listening pleasure. He tells us not just what the album sounds like but why it is so influential, and in many cases, why it's still a thrill to hear after all of these years. This latest volume in the Essential Library series captures perfectly the way that rock has shaped and shaken both our culture and our minds.
Jon Pareles is a rock critic for The New York Times. He lives in New York City.


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Breed: Domestic Short Hair
Approximate Age: 7 months
Approximate Weight: 10 lbs.
Personality: Playful, Curious, Snuggly
Observation with Dogs: Unknown
Observation with Cats: Should be the only cat.
Observation with Kids: Unknown
Currently in DC
Star is a young 7 mos. spayed female who is looking for her "forever" home. Like all cats Star loves to play with a toy feather, hiding in cardboard boxes, playing with squeaky toys or just sitting in front of a window watching all the wonders of the outside. Will never refuse a nice scratch under the chin or one or two behind the ears. Star would be best in a home as the only cat.
Hi my name is Star and I am looking for a home that will give me lots and lots of love! No one explained to me why I ended up in a high kill shelter and can't understand why anyone would send me here. It's a good thing DC PAWS rescued me and took me out of this scary place. I think I was named Star because my eyes are so bright and look like stars that twinkle. But if you adopt me I certainly will be your bright shiny star!
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Posted: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 15:00 by Thomas Lawley
Hello and happy New Year. Welcome to the first insight blog of 2020!
In the spirit of the main stream fashion of 'new year, new me'. The insight blogs will be changing slightly as we begin the New Year. The blogs will still provide you with all the good stuff like; funding bids, research projects, key projects provided by us at Sports Partnership Herefordshire and Worcestershire, as well as insight about Herefordshire and Worcestershire. However, to try and give this blogs more of a focus and hopefully make them more relevant, future blogs will be taking on a key theme for each month.
This month's theme is Women and Girls coinciding with the relaunch of Sport England's 'This Girl Can'.
Here at Sports Partnership Herefordshire and Worcestershire, we've just had our own This Girl Can conference. The aim of this conference was to educate leisure providers, schools and local development officers of the gender gap that we face locally and nationally when it comes to physical activity participation. Alongside tackling the participation gap, we are also looking to try and provide support for mental health issues that face women and girls in their everyday life, which in turn become barriers to participation.
The Active Lives May 18/19 report details participation rates across England. The report revealed that there is still a gender gap in terms of participation. Women (61%) are less likely to be active than men (65%). Conversely Women (26%) are more likely to be inactive than men (24%). More locally the picture remains the same – women (57.6%) across Herefordshire and Worcestershire are less likely to be active than men (63.9%). This gap is maintained when looking at both county's individually. With Worcestershire women (58.1%) being marginally more active than women (56.2%) in Herefordshire, but still are less active than their male counterparts.
As with adults, the gender gap always exists in children and young people. According to Sport England's most recent publication (academic year 18/19), under half (43%) of girls are active for 60 minutes every day. This, in comparison to boys, where just over half (51%) are active for 60 minutes a day. Although it is not all doom and gloom as both boys and girls saw an increase in participation from last year (Boys: +3.8%, Girls: 3.2%). What seems to be more concerning is that young girls (30%) are more inactive than boys (27%), evidencing a gender gap on both sides of physical activity participation. This trend where girls are less active than boys is seen across all ages, with the largest gap appearing in years 7-11 (9% difference).
Why is there a participation gap?
So, clearly there is an issue where women and girls are taking part in sport or physical activity. This on its own is useless to everyone. So why are women and girls less likely to take part? Research from Sport England has suggested that there are several reasons that can be attributed to the gender participation gap. Firstly, young girl's attitudes to sport are different to young boys. Young girls are said to have very binary views when it comes to participating in Sport or physical activity. By this it's meant that girls either see themselves as good or bad at an activity, and this has a massive impact on whether they are will take part or not. Boys however do not appear to hold as much relevance to their ability when deciding to take part in an activity or not. Secondly, girls are less likely to enjoy being active than boys. As part of Sport England's Active Lives Children and Young People survey detailed children's attitudes towards sport and physical activity. The results show that girls are less confident in taking part in sport or physical activity, which in turn impacts their subsequent enjoyment. Thirdly, research from Women in Sport has highlighted that pressure of school work and low confidence present themselves as substantial barriers to taking part for girls. Women in Sport's research stated that alongside pressure of school work, dissatisfaction with their body image represents a significant barrier to girls. Body image represents a larger problem for girls (1 in 3) at ages 14-16 years, than younger girls ages 13 and below. Finally, it has been reported that girls simply do not see the relevance of the skills they learn in PE to their lives (45% of girls compared to 60% of boys).
How do we solve these problems?
There is no catch all approach to solving the women and girls participation issue. However, there are steps that can be taken which can create a more positive environment for women and girls to feel safe and motivated to participate in sport and physical activity.
Recommendations for schools (from Women in Sport)
1. Make PE and physical activity relevant to girls' lives.
2. Empower girls through involving them in design and delivery of PE and physical activities.
3. Develop role models by using girls as positive influencers and advocates with their peer group.
4. Place developing self-confidence at the heart of PE and physical activity.
5. Recognise the power of friends to drive progress.
6. Take a long-term approach to engaging girls.
Recommendations for activity providers and organisations (Sport England)
1) Start where women are – being real and friendly will engage women
- Use their language: friendly and informal
- Use pictures and images of real women
- Show an understanding of real issues (looking sweaty, pressure of time)
2) Show women what sport can do for them personally – they want to feel confident doing sport
- Use real role models showing women confident being themselves (hot and not bothered)
3) Show women that sport is a good use of their time socially
- Communicate that this is a good use of their time – having some run time with the girls (or their kids)
4) Design the offer to make it easy for women to do sport – don't expect women to change to fit sport
- Right time – be open or run classes to suit women's lifestyle (work and family)
- Right place – close to where women are, with the right facilities (changing rooms, hairdryers etc)
- Right welcome – make sure the welcome is warm by reception/ class leaders
- Right company – ideally they should be with people like them
- Right gear – reduce the fear of the wrong gear
5) Focus on repeat participation – ensure you design the offer to keep women engaged, not just to attend once
- Once engaged, keep in touch with them
- Encourage communities of interest: women spending with their kids, with the girls (meeting up after for food or drink), or seeking to achieve more
- Make your communications personal
- Appeal to all the senses (music etc)
Thanks for reading, and make sure you get active yourself!
Links and references
Gender Gap – Attitudes towards physical activity in teenagers
Sport England – Sport for All? January 2020
Sport England – Active Lives Adult Survey – May 18/19, November 17/18
Sport England – Active Lives Adult Survey – Understanding behaviour
Sport England – Active Lives Children and Young People Survey – Academic Year 2017/18
Sport England – Active Lives Children and Young People Survey – Attitudes towards sport and physical activity
Sport England - Applying the insight – women & girls checklist
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This is a 1989 Land Rover Defender which has been fitted with a 3.5 liter V8 from factory, not one of those popular aftermarket conversions. It also came from the factory with a soft top and the desirable 5-speed manual transmission.
The vast majority of Land Rover Defenders that have been built were fitted with one of the company’s turbodiesel engines, 3.5-litre V8s are rarer and, thanks to their considerably higher power output, they are very fun to drive on-road and off-road. .
Quick Facts – A V8 Land Rover Defender
- The Land Rover Defender first appeared in 1983, although it originally bore the “Land Rover One Ten” and “Land Rover Ninety” badges. After the Discovery was released in 1989, Land Rover needed to differentiate its model ranges, so the name Defender was chosen and was used in 1991.
- The Defender was a significantly improved version of the Series 3 Land Rover that had preceded it, featuring a new suspension with coil springs instead of leaf springs, permanent four-wheel drive, a more modern interior, a taller compound windscreen from a single window. , and more modern engines and transmissions.
- Bringing out a new Land Rover is always a challenge, as Land Rover enthusiasts are often lifelong owners who have strong ideas about what a real Land Rover is. The Defender proved a smash hit, and it remains so today years after production ended.
- The Land Rover Defender you see here was fitted with the Rover V8 from the factory. A 3.5-litre gasoline engine that has its roots in the Buick 215 cubic inch alloy V8 of the 1960s. It offers excellent power and torque for its relatively low weight.
The Rover V8 and the Defender
The story of how the Rover V8 was born is fascinating, it started as the Buick 215 cubic inch V8 that was originally launched in 1961.
It was an exceptionally small and light V8 thanks to its aluminum alloy block and heads, and its 3.5 liter displacement, much smaller than most comparable American V8s.
Interestingly, Buick only kept the engine in production until 1963, when it was replaced by a similar engine with an iron block, and then later by engines with an iron block and cylinder heads.
British automaker Rover was looking for a more powerful engine for future production cars and so a deal was struck with General Motors to buy the tooling and rights to the defunct Buick 215 V8. Rover engineers extensively redesigned the engine to make it stronger, then launched it in a touring car in 1967.
They might not have known it at the time, but the Rover V8 would become one of the most important performance engines in British history. It powered everything from Range Rovers and Land Rovers to racing cars and high-performance sports cars built by companies such as TVR, MG, Morganand many more.
The engine’s low weight, good torque characteristics, reliability and simplicity make it an ideal engine for four-wheel drive applications as the defender – so much so that many aftermarket conversions have been made over the years. But collectors still tend to prefer factory-made examples.
The 1989 Land Rover Defender V8 shown here
The vehicle you see here is an upgraded 1989 Land Rover Defender V8, as mentioned above this vehicle came from the factory with this engine fitted but a number of other upgrades were undertaken to bring it up to speed. a modern level.
This Defender is also an original soft-top model, a rarer option than the standard hardtop and another common aftermarket conversion.
Among the upgrades that have been applied to this vehicle are a re-trimmed interior with black Exmoor Trim leather upholstery, a Mountney Classic steering wheel, smart USB output, an Edelbrock carburettor on a new intake manifold and paintwork has been updated. been repainted in the original Midnight Blue.
It now rolls on 16-inch steel wheels with gold center caps wrapped in Comforser CF3000 knobby mud tires. A tubular steel rear bumper was installed, as was a tow ball, and rocker guards were fitted on each side.
The car is currently for sale on Collecting Cars in a live online auction, if you would like to find out more or register to bid you can click here to visit the list.
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Leadership is issue
I found Editor Frank Denton’s dismissive comment with respect to the primary race against U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw curious.
Perhaps column space made it impossible to elaborate, or there is simply no interest in an opponent to a seven-term incumbent.
Let’s think about that. Candidate, non-career politician Ryman Shoaf, USN (Retired) was asked a question and replied that leadership is what’s needed in Congress. It’s my belief it is needed in all levels of government.
The response from Crenshaw is he intends to do “more” working with Democrats.
That surely hasn’t been effective or beneficial, has it?
While I am sure Crenshaw is a fine person and good public servant, I think it’s time for a change after seven terms. There’s nothing wrong with trying new leadership. Something has to jump-start this economy and the security of our country. Just maybe a new candidate can help.
Marty Cleghorn, Jacksonville
Only days after the latest tragic death on the Buckman Bridge I traveled on a recent morning to go to NAS Jacksonville.
For countless years, I traveled this bridge during my years on active duty and to my civilian job during the morning rush hour.
Now I wait until at least 9 a.m. to cross the bridge.
You would think that with only days since this well-publicized accident that drivers would pay attention to what they are doing at 70-plus mph.
Not a chance. I observed the worst examples of speeding, driving while on the phone, texting and driving with something other than hands because both hands were fluffing hair.
Countless drivers cut two lanes over to take the Roosevelt exit at the last possible second, one cutting off a day care van.
This happens every day on both sides of the bridge.
These tragedies will continue until our law enforcement officers enforce the law instead of just cleaning up after the next vehicular massacre.
Robert McVeigh. Jacksonville,
NEW VIDEO BOARDS
Users paid for them
In the front-page story about the new video boards at EverBank Field, the reporter wrote, “$43 million courtesy of city taxpayers.”
Come on Times-Union, get it right! The funding source of the new boards was bed tax money. I submit the vast majority of people who paid that tax are not Jacksonville taxpayers.
Furthermore, as the newspaper probably knows but doesn’t ever seem to report, that money is restricted and cannot be used for police, libraries and the like.
The story should have read, “$43 million courtesy of a lot of visitors to our city.”
Jacksonville City Council, District 13
Conservativism is slipping
I received a postcard that claimed that Rep. Ander Crenshaw of the 4th Congressional District was a proven conservative.
I checked and found out that it is not true. His votes have been rated by three major conservative organizations.
With Heritage Action, he rates at 45 percent compared to Rep. Ron DeSantis of the 6th Congressional District with 90 percent.
The Club for Growth 2013 Score Card rated him at 52 percent compared to DeSantis at 99 percent.
With Freedom Works 2014 Key Votes, he rates at 36 percent compared to DeSantis with 93 percent.
Robert Black, Jacksonville
There are five legitimate reasons for impeaching President Barack Obama:
1. The president has failed to get the U.S. out of the George W. Bush recession fast enough.
2. The president has failed to get the U.S. out of the Bush mess in the Middle East fast enough.
3. The president has failed to ignore the 2008 Bush immigration policy.
4. The president has used executive orders almost as many times as Bush.
5. The president has failed to enforce his own Obamacare policies, though the Republicans have tried to eliminate the program 50 times.
If you cannot impeach someone for these reasons. then who can you impeach?
Phil Mayberry, Fernandina Beach
To the letter writer who believes that a “living wage” is the answer to poverty and crime, who gets to decide what that living wage is?
Who determines what an acceptable standard of living is?
How often does the wage get adjusted?
Countless people have risen above their circumstances without a “living wage.” This is part of the debate about government and personal responsibility.
Mark Vause, Jacksonville
We need solutions
I want to commend the writer of a recent letter in the Times-Union outlining the expectations for good government in contrast to those of the tea party.
I also feel that this is the sentiment of millions of Americans across this country but is overshadowed by the radical right.
Members of Congress bring a bias for self preservation, responding to a local constituency that looks and talks just like them thanks to gerrymandering of congressional districts.
Members of Congress should look at the real issues facing this country and work together to solve them rather than obstructing every initiative presented.
Thomas W. Atkins, Jacksonville

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This article contains guidelines and instructions for controlling the spawning of stations and other encounters when a system is created. The features described here are implemented in 1.8 Beta 4.
Station spawning is complicated because Transcendence is extensible. Traditionally, stations decide where they should spawn. For example, Ares stations spawn in the Outer Realm. The problem is that when new areas get created, station spawning breaks. Should Ares station spawn in the Near Stars (Eternity Port)? How about the Frontier (The Stars Beyond)?
The fundamental problem is that a station definition can't be expected to know about every map region where it could spawn. But every map region can't know about every station type (because extensions can also add new station types).
The solution to the above dilemma is to add a level of indirection as follows:
- We add attributes to system topology definitions to define territory on the map. For example, we mark systems with the
aresSpaceattribute if Ares stations can spawn in that system.
- We add encounter rules to each station (or encounter) to require appropriate system attributes to spawn. For example, Ares stations would have rules saying they only spawn in systems with the
These two rules we can handle the common expansion cases. If a mod wants to add a new map region, the mod can set appropriate attributes on the map to cause existing station types to spawn. Conversely, if a mod wants to add new kinds of stations (e.g., a new sovereign), the mod can add appropriate attributes to existing maps.
<TopologyProcessor> element in a
<SystemMap> type to add attributes to system nodes. This is more flexible than hard-coding the attributes when defining the system, and can be done without overriding the original map.
For example, the
smHumanSpace map is used to define system nodes in Human Space. We use additional
<TopologyProcessor> elements to set attributes like
<SystemMap unid="&smAresSpace;" displayOn="&smHumanSpace;" > <TopologyProcessor priority="primaryColony"> <System criteria="+outerRealm;" attributes="aresSpace"/> </TopologyProcessor> </SystemMap>
The above type adds the
aresSpace attributes to all system nodes in the Outer Realm (all nodes with the
You may add any number of
<System> elements inside
<TopologyProcessor>, each of which can add one or more attributes to a set of system nodes. You may also have multiple attributes, separated by commas. For example:
<SystemMap ...> <TopologyProcessor ...> <System criteria="+outerRealm;" attributes="aresSpace"/> <System criteria="+ungoverned;" attributes="aresSpace, aresBorderZone"/> </TopologyProcessor> </SystemMap>
In addition to criteria, you may specify a set of systems in terms of distances from a node or set. For example, we might want to mark all star systems within 4 gates of Jiang's Star to be
<SystemMap ...> <TopologyProcessor ...> <System attributes="sungSpace"> <Criteria> <DistanceTo nodeID="C9" min="0" max="4"/> </Criteria> </System> </TopologyProcessor> </SystemMap>
Topology Processor Priorities
In some cases, you may want to specify nodes by attributes set in other processors. For example, imagine that I wanted to define a territory relative to Ares space. In that case, I would need to refer to
aresSpace in the criteria. But how can we guarantee that the Ares topology processor has already run?
The solution is to define a priority for the topology processor:
<SystemMap ...> <TopologyProcessor priority="secondaryColony"> ...
Different priorities run at different times. Topology processors run in the following order:
formation: Use this priority for geophysical formations, e.g., ores etc. Topology processors with this priority always run first.
lifeforms: This priority runs next. Use it for indigenous spacefaring lifeforms.
primaryColony: Use this priority for colonization that is independent of other sovereigns.
secondaryColony: Use this priority if you depend on attributes set by
tertiaryColony: This priority runs last. Use it if you depend on attributes set by
<EncounterType> elements can have an
<Encounter> sub-element that defines the spawning rules. This sub-element controls three independent set of rules:
- System Selection: Rules to pick which systems the encounter can spawn in.
- Location Selection: Rules to pick the specific location within a system where the encounter can spawn (e.g., in an asteroid field).
- Count Selection: Rules about the minimum or maximum number of encounters in a game or a system.
We describe each in the following sections.
System Selection By Level
The easiest selection is by level. We can choose the frequency with which an encounter will spawn depending on the system level (from 1 to 25). We use the standard
<Encounter levelFrequency="----- cur-- ----- ----- -----" ... />
Level frequency is expressed as a set of characters grouped into 5-character chucks. Each chuck represents five levels. The first chunk of 5 characters represents levels 1 through 5. The next chunk represents levels 6 through 10, and so on.
Each character represents a frequency:
c= Common: This is the highest frequency for spawning.
u= Uncommon: Uncommon is half as frequent as Common.
r= Rare: Rare is one-fifth as frequent as Common.
v= Very rare: Very Rare is one-quarter as frequent as Rare and one-twentieth as frequent as Common.
-= N/A: The encounter cannot happen at this level.
In the example above, the encounter is Common at level 5, Uncommon at level 6, and Rare at level 7. The encounter never happens at any other system level.
System Selection By Attributes
You may choose systems based on attributes using the
<Encounter systemCriteria="+aresSpace; -nearStars;" ... />
The criteria specifies that some attributes are required (
+) while other attributes are excluded (
-). The encounter will only spawn in systems that have all the required attributes and none of the excluded attributes.
In the example above, we spawn in any system that has the
aresSpace attribute but does not have the
You may refer to any attribute on the system set in the topology itself or defined in the
<SystemType> or set by a
If you use
levelFrequency=, then a system must match both requirements.
systemAffinity= parameter is similar to
systemCriteria= but gives you more fine-grained control.
systemCriteria= is binary: either the spawn can happen in that system or not. In contrast,
systemAffinity= adjusts the probability of spawning.
The syntax is similar, but you may use multiple
- characters to adjust the probability. For example:
<Encounter systemAffinity="+++aresSpace; --nearStars;" ... />
In the example above, we strongly prefer systems with
aresSpace and moderately reject systems with
nearStars. The adjustments to probability are as follows:
+++: If attribute is not present, reduce frequency to one-tenth normal.
++: If attribute is not present, reduce frequency to one-quarter normal.
+: If attribute is not present, reduce frequency to one-half normal.
-: If attribute is present, reduce frequency to one-half normal.
--: If attribute is present, reduce frequency to one-quarter normal.
---: If attribute is present, reduce frequency to one-tenth normal.
*: Attribute is required; frequency reduced to 0 if attribute is not present.
!: Attribute is disqualifying; frequency reduced to 0 if attribute is present.
You may combine
System Selection by Distance
In some cases you may want to select systems based on their distance from a specific system or region. For example, you might want an encounter to spawn only in systems within three stargate jumps from a node (or a region).
distanceFrequency= parameters can be used to control this:
<Encounter distanceCriteria="+nearStars;" distanceFrequency="ccccu|urv--" ... />
In the example above, the
distanceCriteria specifies all systems with the
nearStars attribute. The
distanceFrequency= parameter specifies the frequency relative to the distance of a given system from the boundary between
nearStars systems and non-
The vertical bar represents the boundary. The character to the left of the vertical bar represents a system with the
nearStars attribute that borders on a system without the
nearStars attribute. The character to the right of the vertical bar represents a system without the attribute that borders on a system with it.
Moving to the left or right of the vertical bar, we specify the frequency for systems at increasing stargate distances from the border. The
u character to the left of the vertical bar means that spawning is Uncommon on a system with the
nearStars attribute right on the border (i.e., one stargate jump away from a system without the attribute).
The character to the left of that, a
c, means that spawning is Common in systems that are at least two jumps away from a system without the
Currently, you must specify exactly 5 character on either side of the vertical bar, with no whitespace.
You may combine this with any of the other parameters described here.
Human Space Attributes
In Human Space we define attributes for each sovereign to control where they spawn. The following are some of the most common attributes used:
commonwealthCore: Set for systems of the New Beyond, Ungoverned Territories, and Outer Realm. This is the main territory of the Commonwealth, with the highest probability of encounters.
commonwealthSpace: This region is a superset of
commonwealthCoreand defines the greatest extent of the Commonwealth. In general, Commonwealth stations only spawn in systems with this attribute. If a system has the
commonwealthSpaceattribute but not the
commonwealthCoreattribute, then the chance for encounters is lower.
corporateCore: This attribute is set wherever
commonwealthCoreis set. It is used for Corporate Hierarchy spawns.
corporateSpace: This attribute is set wherever
commonwealthSpaceis set. It is used analogously for Corporate Hierarchy spawns.
cscOperationsSpace: This attribute defines the region where CSCs are encountered.
outlawSpace: This attribute is shared by all common outlaw sovereigns, including: Black Market, Charon Pirates, Death Drugs Cartel, Marauders, Outlaws, and Outlaw Miners.
ringerSpace: This attribute defines where Ringers are encountered.

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Helen Vlahakis knows sometimes if you allow a lifelong interest to simmer, it will organically come to the boil.
Helen, a solicitor and a mother of four, grew up cooking in her Greek grandmother’s kitchen. And when she and husband George, a lawyer, bought a 44 hectare property at Canyonleigh 10 years ago, she felt her childhood culinary roots stir.
“Being of Greek background, I grew up in a family which was really into cooking and had backyard veggie gardens,’’ says Helen from her kitchen in the couple’s home in Kangaloon, from where she runs her Mumma’s Country Kitchen cooking workshops.
“Both my mum and dad are from the Peloponnese and they were part of that Greek story of coming out to Australia with basically nothing and working two or three jobs while the grandparents babysat us.”
It was Helen’s maternal grandmother, Eleni who introduced her to the joys of cooking.
“My grandma used to babysit myself and my brother and our cousins and she would always plonk us on the bench if we would sit still long enough and she’d keep us there with her while she was cooking,’’ Helen says. “Whether she was chopping tomatoes or whatever … and she was a really good cook.”
Two years ago, Helen and George sold their Canyonleigh weekender and bought a 1908 farmhouse on 100 acres in Kangaloon.
“When we were living between Canyonleigh and Sydney, I had started my Mumma’s Country Kitchen blog,” says Helen.
“We planted a big veggie patch at Canyonleigh and we had an orchard at the farm and often during the week I would drop the kids off at school in the morning, drive down and tend to all the fruit and vegies.
“We had peaches, plums, pears, citrus and all sorts of veggies and I would come back to Sydney with 10 kilos of cucumbers and all the school mums would ask ‘what are you going to do with those?’.
“So I started blogging about how to use and cook with all these different ingredients, and then I held a few weekend cooking retreats and it sort of grew from there.”
Still practising then as a lawyer, Helen was also blogging for her husband’s legal firm but found the demands of parenthood and the law did not gel.
“It came time to focus on the kids and let go of being a solicitor, because I couldn’t do my job properly and be a mum, too,’’ says Helen. “Answering calls to clients, you can’t say, ‘sorry, I’m at a swimming lesson … you spend your million dollars on that house and I’ll get back to you’.”
The family made the decision to move permanently to the Highlands two years ago and Helen’s love of cooking shifted front and centre.
They keep chickens, goats, a few sheep and a black angus. A vegetable garden and an orchard supply much of the produce that appears in Helen’s day-long cooking workshops, which also include a farm tour, morning tea, a hands-on cooking workshop and then a lunch to enjoy the morning’s spoils.
Workshops in the run-up to Christmas include Edible Gifts For Christmas and A Christmas Farm to Table Menu. Workshops are limited to a maximum six people.
“I really like people who come on my workshops to get their hands dirty with each of the dishes we learn how to make,” says Helen.
“That’s how my grandmother taught me and that’s how I like to pass along her knowledge and love of cooking.”
These aromatic little cakes are a traditional Greek Christmas sweet. They are traditionally egg shaped but I love to use our Christmas cookie-cutters to give them a more festive feel. This recipe makes 30 to 35 biscuits.
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- ½ cup white caster sugar
- 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- 4½ to 5 cups plain (all-purpose) flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ cup finely chopped walnuts
- 1 additional cup finely chopped walnuts
- 1 tsp cinnamon sugar
- 1¼ cups honey
- ½ cup water
- 3 whole cloves
- Preheat oven to 160C (fan-forced). Grease and line two or three large oven trays and put to the side.
- Beat the oil and sugar on a medium speed in a stand mixer until the mixture starts going white. Will take about four minutes.
- Add the juice, cinnamon and cloves to the mixture and beat well.
- In the meantime, sift 4½ cups of flour and the baking powder and baking soda into a large bowl and mix in the ½ cup walnuts. Slowly add to the oil mixture and beat on the lowest speed just until the flour has been incorporated. Turn the machine off and test the dough with your fingers. If it sticks to your hands, add the extra ½ cup flour and test again. If it still sticks to your hands or can’t be rolled into a ball, add 1 tablespoon of flour at a time until it is the desired consistency. If you decide it is too tight, add a little more juice.
- Pat the dough into a square about 30cm x 30cm and 1.5cm thick. Use different Christmas cookie-cutters to cut the dough into shapes.
- Using a fork, lightly press down on each cookie to leave indents on the top. Re-roll and keep cutting shapes until you have used all the dough.
- Pop the trays into the oven and bake for about 30 minutes. Allow them to cool completely on the trays.
- Once the cookies have completely cooled, mix the extra walnuts and cinnamon sugar in a bowl and set aside.
- In a small saucepan, heat the honey, cloves and water until the texture is runny and it begins to simmer. Lower the heat to the lowest possible simmer point and place two to three cookies at a time into the saucepan, turning each biscuit a couple of times so begin to soak up the honey.
- Place them on a tray lined with baking paper and sprinkle with the walnut/cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Repeat for all cookies and enjoy!
Blueberry Pavlova Wreath
- 4 egg whites, at room temperature
- 1 cup white caster sugar
- 2 teaspoons cornflour, sifted
- 1 tsp white vinegar
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
Vanilla whipped cream
- 2 cups thickened cream, cold
- 3 tbsp icing sugar, sifted
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 3 x 125g punnets fresh blueberries
- 3 tbsp water
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 star anise
- 3 tsp lemon juice
Baby mint leaves to garnish
- To make the meringue, outline a 20cm circle on a large piece of baking paper and then a 13cm diameter circle within the larger circle. This will give you an outline of the wreath you will create. Turn the paper upside down on a baking tray and set aside. Double check your stand mixer bowl and whisk attachment are absolutely clean, dry and free from any traces of grease.
- Set the oven rack in the middle and preheat the oven to 120C (fan-forced).
- To make the meringue, place the egg whites in the bowl of your stand mixer and whisk until firm peaks. Add the cup of caster sugar, one teaspoon at a time, whisking well between each addition, until the mixture is thick and glossy.
- Add the corn flour, vinegar and vanilla paste and whisk until combined. Place large dollops of meringue within the circle markings on the baking paper to make the wreath, making sure the dollops just touch each other. Use a spatula to smooth down the surface a little.
- Place the meringue in the oven for 75 to 90 minutes or until it is lovely and dry and you are able to easily lift it off the paper without it sticking. Turn off the oven and leave the oven door ajar (I like to place a wooden spoon in the door to make sure it doesn’t open too much) for at least three hours or until the meringue is completely cold.
- In the meantime, make the compote by placing all the ingredients, except one punnet of blueberries, in a small saucepan and bring to a medium heat. Once it starts bubbling, reduce the heat and cook for about five minutes, stirring occasionally to mash the fruit.
- Add the remaining punnet of blueberries and allow to cook for a further seven to eight minutes, stirring occasionally, until the mixture has slightly thickened. Remove from the heat and completely cool.
- Just before serving, make the vanilla whipped cream by combining the chilled cream, icing sugar and vanilla paste in the bowl of your stand mixer. Whisk on medium speed until soft peaks form and it holds its shape. Be careful at this stage, as the cream can go from ready to overbeaten in seconds.
- To assemble the cake, place the pavlova wreath on its serving plate. Place the whipped cream on top of the wreath and top with dollops of the compote. Garnish with a few baby mint leaves if you like. Slice and serve immediately.

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A: An opioid overdose can be life-threatening, so it's important to be aware of the signs and symptoms so you can take appropriate action or seek medical help immediately if you suspect someone is experiencing an overdose. Common signs of an opioid overdose include:
If you suspect someone is experiencing an opioid overdose, it's crucial to take immediate action:
Remember that an opioid overdose is a medical emergency, and prompt intervention can save lives. Even if you administer naloxone and the person starts to breathe again, they should still receive medical attention to address the underlying issue and ensure their safety and well-being.
A: Illuminate NC is a dynamic and community-focused organization founded in 2023. Our mission revolves around addressing the profound impact of the opioid epidemic on our community. Initially established to provide a platform for collective healing and reflection through luminary events, Illuminate NC has evolved into a multifaceted initiative. We are actively engaged in harm reduction efforts, deploying Peer Support Specialists to provide on-site assistance at a local church in an underserved area of Henderson. Our Mobile Harm Reduction Safe Syringe Program ensures that essential supplies reach those in need directly. Collaborating with faith based community partners, we extend our impact through food assistance distribution days. Illuminate NC is not just about addressing immediate challenges; we're committed to addressing systemic barriers to recovery. This includes planned initiatives like expungement clinics and workforce development programs. Our overarching goal is to create a resilient, supportive community, navigating the complexities of substance use disorders with compassion and understanding.
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Whether you're an individual looking to volunteer your time, a business interested in collaboration, or someone eager to support our cause, there's a place for you at Illuminate NC. Together, we can make a meaningful difference in the lives of those affected by substance use disorders.
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Remember, Illuminate NC is here to support you, whether you're an individual seeking personal supplies or an organization advocating for community well-being. Together, we can make a positive impact in the fight against substance use challenges.
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Remember, seeking help is a courageous step, and there are resources available to support you on your journey. Whether you need counseling, medical assistance, or a supportive community, these resources are here to help you take positive steps forward.
A: Harm reduction is an approach that prioritizes the well-being of individuals engaged in risky behaviors, particularly those related to substance use. Rather than focusing solely on abstinence, harm reduction seeks to minimize the negative consequences associated with these behaviors. In the context of Illuminate NC, harm reduction is a key component of our mission to address the opioid epidemic and support our community.
Key principles of harm reduction include:
Illuminate NC's harm reduction initiatives, including our Mobile Harm Reduction Safe Syringe Program and partnerships with local organizations, exemplify our commitment to reducing the harm associated with substance use. If you have further questions or want to understand how harm reduction can be applied in specific situations, feel free to reach out to us.

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Thomas T. Taber Museum Lecture Series
September 12, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT
The ‘Show and Tell’ is part of a Lecture Series which features Collections and Collecting, Crafts and Craftspeople, and Decorative Arts. Guests are invited to bring in an example of their collecting interest or passion or a treasured memento from their past and be willing to share their story with the group. The program is free and open to the public.

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