Resources for sports

NHS advice and support on a wide range of conditions and other medical matters.

NHS advice & support on effects of alcohol and cutting down on drinking.

NHS advice & support to quit smoking.

Eat well. Move more. Live longer.

Free vouchers which can be swapped for milk, fruit and vegetables. Also free vitamins available.

Training tips from www.nhs.uk

A useful guide to help you understand food labels from www.food.gov.uk

Birmingham City University invited me to be an exhibitor at one of its recent events. I had a really enjoyable evening. Orgainsed by BCU MA students who are taking a course in Events and Exhibition Management itwas good opportunity to meet other SOE tutors and would be students. I look forward to taking part in other similar events.

Want to keep thinking up great ideas? Research has found that by controlling factors in your life, living to 100 is actually much more possible than previously thought. In total, the US has the most centenarians with current estimates as high as 72,000, leading website The Centenarian states. In fact, if the population of centenarians continues to increase at its current rate of expansion, there could be close to one million people of 100 years of age or more by 2050 residing in the US.

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Stop the press! School of Everything Bread Making teacher Tom Baker (Yep, that's his real name) made the front cover of the Birmingham Post Magazine last week. Tom is a busy man because he is also one of the first teachers to have signed up to our new gift scheme. You can now buy a Bread Making lesson with Tom for one of your friends or family - the perfect Christmas present.

In an unexpected move, the G20 summit today proposed the introduction of a new currency based on academic qualifications.

I've been teaching for 6 years now and getting busier every year...until October 2008.

As a knitting teacher, Sept-Dec is my busiest time of the year...classes book up up to six weeks in advance. But Oct 08 was like a ghost town for Knitting SOS. My years finances have averaged out pretty healthy due to a couple of big jobs last Spring, but I'm noticing that I can't fill classes as easily as I was 12 months ago.

Has anyone else found this and do they have any suggestions to inspire people to learn?

This is a digest (if you'll pardon the pun) of information on the gap between the typical modern Western diet and what our bodies are adapted for. There's certainly a big gap between what I eat and Ran Prieur's recommendations, but there's a lot of food for thought here.

Today I've been trying to get my head around how the US election tonight works.

Wikipedia is quite helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election

and I thought this slideshow was very good at explaining things:

http://www.slideshare.net/acordova/the-us-election-explained-presentation-695681/