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Spotlight on Berry Hill, Rainworth & Blidworth Contents Health and Wellbeing A dose of sunshine 6 Motoring Crash free cars 8 Lifestyle and Leisure Be a Quitter 16 Recipe 10 Puzzle page 24 Home & Garden Computer 12 Gardening page 26 Community Information 28 Index of Advertisers 34
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A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL! Well thats that for another year! I hope you all had a good holiday and are all fired up for the coming year. I think if we all try and stay positive we will get to the other end in better shape than we started. Fingers crossed. We have plenty of good reading for you again this month. Some good advice if you are thinking of quitting smoking, timely pruning tips for your garden, and a reminder to take your vitamin D.
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A Dose of Sunshine....are you getting yours?
cientists are coming to the conclusion that we are more prone to colds and flu in the winter due to low levels of the “sunshine vitamin”, vitamin D, rather than colder weather, central heating, etc. Vitamin D regulates the immune system, preventing infections and inflammations due to autoimmune conditions. Most of our Vitamin D is formed under the skin in reaction to sunlight, but of course we must remember to limit our exposure in order not to burn. It is found only in a small number of foods, mainly oily fish (herring, salmon, mackerel, tuna, sardines and cod liver oil), cheese and egg yolks. Margarine, breakfast cereals and powdered milk are often fortified. It is also important to consume raw green leafy vegetables and a handful of nuts and seeds daily, to provide the minerals that support vitamin D absorption. Vitamin D deficiency is a real possibility these days due to low light levels, less time spent outdoors and an excessive use of sunscreens during the summer. Ideally, 15-20 minutes of sun exposure (depending on skin type) between 10am & 3pm twice a week, is recommended during the summer and longer during winter.
Vitamin D is best known for its role in calcium metabolism. Back in the mid 1880’s cod liver oil was recognised as a cure for the childhood bone disease rickets, however, not until 1921 did scientists realise that vitamin D was the component that cured the rickets. The encouraging thing about recent studies is the increasing list of chronic conditions that may be implicated in vitamin D deficiency such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, muscle weakness, osteoarthritis and some types of cancer. The Vitamin D Council has urged doctors to test the vitamin D levels of patients suffering the above conditions and treat with sunlight and supplementation. In the last century, tuberculosis patients were prescribed sunshine. Are Mediterranean people so healthy due to diet alone, or the extra sunshine they receive? More research is needed, but in the meantime we can begin to make any necessary changes to ensure a happy, healthy New Year! Sue Blain
You may need to take supplements if you work long hours indoors. Take care though, because you can over-dose on this vitamin as it is fat soluble, but scientists believe the recommended levels, 400 international units (IUs) or 10 micrograms (mcg), are too low and 1000 IUs or 25 mcg may be necessary to prevent disease. Others, like Heaney & Holick, recommend 3,000 IUs depending on a person’s bodyweight. In the UK, pregnant, breastfeeding women and anyone over 65 years old are advised to take a 10mcg supplement, and babies from 6 months 7mcg. Ask at your local NHS clinic about Healthy Start drops.
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Is the future car crash free?
f there’s one place where technology seems to be moving faster and faster it’s in the world of motoring – as evidenced at the Intelligent Transport Systems Congress in Stockholm this year. The congress sees around 2,500 delegates from around the world gather to discuss high-tech transport systems and how they should be integrated in to daily life. Not a thrilling subject for the average joe but prick up your ears; this is the event at which a totally car crash free future has been unveiled. In the UK where nearly 250,000 injuries ranging from minor cuts and bruises to fatalities the promise of a world in which driving is perfectly safe can only be looked forward to eagerly. But just how do the boffins at Stockholm intend to achieve such an incredible feat? And is it really a possibility? A German company is reportedly working as we speak on new technology which will make human error a thing of the past. Ibeo’s invention, already being touted around several major car brands, will allow manufacturers to construct cars which are wholly able to drive themselves. Based on laser sensors the product has already been tested in a 60 mile trial in the US without a driver. Meanwhile another product closer to being launched is Safespot. Showcased in Stockholm this incredible product has the capability to send messages to other cars in the area meaning that should a driver find himself in a sticky situation others would be immediately warned and thus able to avoid danger. Already coming under fire from those concerned about living in a so called ‘Big Brother Nation’ is the proposed introduction of road pricing. The scheme, which has been ruled out by the UK for
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at least the next five years but is already on its way to fruition in Holland, will ask drivers to essentially pay-per-drive, potentially using an in-car touch screen device, one of which was shown at the ITS Congress. However while road pricing may be anathema to many no one could argue with the other features which are found on the system which should retail at around £300 but may be fitted ‘as standard’ in some cars. As well as giving useful information to drivers about the next train running from the city they’re heading for or even the nearest available parking space, motorists would be warned when they neared a special area such as the Greater London Low Emission Zone, assisting in avoiding both fines and the stresses of every day driving. But that’s not all. When it comes to safety the same box can detect other nearby cars which could endanger the driver, warning them of, for example, a car approaching on the wrong side of the road. Self driving cars and knowing what’s around every corner may sound the death knell for driving for fun and will no doubt rile the Jeremy Clarksons of this world but nobody could argue that the possibility of safer roads is something that we can all look forward to.
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Food and Drink Caramel Squares Ingredients For the base: 125g (4oz) butter 1 cup self raising flour 1 cup desiccated coconut 1/2 cup brown sugar For the filling: 400g (14oz) can sweetened condensed milk 200g dark or milk chocolate Method Preheat oven to 180C (350F) Remove the label from the can and pop the unopened can into a deep pan of boiling water. Simmer for two and a half hours then allow to cool. When you open the can you have perfect caramel!
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Grease and line a 28 x 18cm (11 x 7in) tin. Melt butter and combine with dry base ingredients. Press the mixture into the base of your prepared tin. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden. Spread the cooled caramel over the base. For the topping, melt chocolate in a double saucepan or in the microwave on low heat and spread over slice.
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If you have a nice new mobile phone, you may want to print off some photos. HP have a new rage of printers available with e-print capabilities. These printers have their own inbuilt email address, so if you connect them to your network at home via wireless or Ethernet, they will automatically register with HP. Once you have taken your photos, you can simply email them to your printer and out they pop (similar concept to sending a fax to a fax machine). This is not just limited to photos, you can send any documents.
and copy the files, purchase a transfer cable and move them between the PCs or make the old hard drive into a large USB disk drive with the correct adapters. Remember, if you want to dispose of your old pc, remove the hard drive first. You have a wireless network but the new laptops run out of signal throughout the house? No problems, have a look at the Netgear WNR2000RPT repeater. It connects to your wireless network and regenerates the signal, increasing your network signal strength allowing you to use the laptop in places around the house where you ran out of signal strength. The A5 Mint Carpet Cleaning Leaflet:Layout 1 10/5/10 £65. 16:22 Page 1 WNR2000RPT is around
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Be a Quitter!
ach New Year countless people plan to stop smoking and discover just how difficult it is. Smoking is not just a habit but a full-blown addiction and quitting may require outside help. To give up smoking requires dedication and a plan. Your chances of success are increased if you employ all the extra resources you can. Some people can stop smoking instantly, but most need help in the form of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). The NRT you choose depends on your lifestyle, habits and the extent of your addiction, so seek advice from your GP or pharmacist. There are also new prescription medicines available to help you quit. The NHS runs nationwide Stop Smoking Services and their website http:// smokefree.nhs.uk is particularly useful to help you on your way to a smoke-free life. Enter your postcode to find the nearest service to you. Also included on the site are applications (apps) for download onto your computer, iPod or iPhone, to help keep track of your success. Alternative therapies provide excellent support in a quest for a non-smoking life. They include hypnotherapy, acupuncture and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Yoga and meditation are also recommended as a way of increasing mental stamina, to help cope with the effects of nicotine withdrawal. Tell friends and family that you are quitting - their support is vital. You are far more likely to quit for good if you have your very own team of supporters cheering you on.
Many people are put off giving up smoking for fear of gaining weight. Exsmokers can miss the comfort of having something in their mouth and often turn to sweets, which can cause the pounds to pile on. This need for oral comfort can be alleviated by CBT, hypnotherapy or sugar-free gum. Take it one day at a time and consider each day you don’t smoke as a major achievement. My friend had a novel way of successfully stopping: she emptied the contents of her last ashtray into a plastic bag and each time she wanted to light up, she took the bag out and sniffed it. It worked for her! Find a method that works for you. Don’t give up hope if you relapse. Most people who permanently quit smoking have made the attempt several times. If at first you don’t succeed, try - again and again. It can take a while, but if you’re committed to quitting, you can do it. Just keep trying and remain positive. As well as the many well-publicised health benefits you’ll gain from giving up smoking, the amount of money you’ll save is astounding. Many smokers spend over £2000 a year on cigarettes, think of the holiday you could take! Whatever your personal reasons for wanting to quit, there’s a wealth of help and support out there to help you. So make 2011 the year you become a quitter. Suki North
Be prepared for the withdrawal symptoms but understand that they will disappear after about two weeks.
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A Good Read You Choose – Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt This is a picture book in the very best sense of the word, one in which the illustrations take centre stage and provide the talking point - and talking is what’s needed here.
Far from being a traditional bedtime story, Goodhart and Sharratt’s collaboration is a stimulus for a bedtime (or anytime) chat! The premise is simple – on each page, the reader is invited to choose what they would do. Text is kept to a minimum, allowing Sharratt’s lively drawings to take up as much of your attention as possible. You
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start by choosing where you would go and the accompanying picture offers jungles, seas, forests, mountains, towns, cities, castles, cliffs and even a funfair, all in one landscape. As you read on, you are invited to select friends, food, clothes, jobs, pets and eventually, a bed to sleep off all the excitement. Children love this book because of the endless possibilities, one day you might be a firefighter in a pink tutu, the next an acrobat who lives in a lighthouse and wears dinosaur slippers. Even the very young can join in by choosing a picture for each page. Grown ups can play it as straight or as silly as they like, much to younger readers’ delight - and why not? I bet by the end you will be giving serious thought to which bed you’d like to have, but not the four-poster please - that one’s mine!
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Pruning: a gardening job that’s a cut above
ne job which lots of gardeners are reluctant to tackle is pruning. They are afraid that if they make a mess of it they will spoil, or worse still, kill the plant. But pruning is essential to the health and wellbeing of landscape plants. Any overgrown or struggling plant will benefit from a bit of cutting back and even a healthy plant benefits from a trim occasionally. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a tree or a shrub, a bush, flowers or your vegetable plants. They all benefit by pruning and trimming. Pruning makes your plant look better and feel better too. It allows the plants support system to send vital energy and nutrients to a smaller area and to prompt newer, more vigorous growth. The result will be a lusher, healthier and better-looking plant. Pruning is used to do the following: remove dead, weak, or unsightly branches; reinvigorate plant growth so that new leaves and branches grow faster; reshape the plant into a more desirable shape; produce a denser, bushier appearance; thin out growth, providing more air circulation and light; limit plant size. Autumn and winter are the best time to prune, as most species are dormant then. If you don’t prune them when they need it, some plants will get very ugly. Pruning a plant badly is not likely to ruin it forever. It’s a bit like a bad haircut, it may not look too good right now, but it will grow out. Rose pruning probably causes the most panic for most people. Begin by cutting out all the dead wood. Then open out the centre of the plant, removing any tangled or branches that cross over. This allows air to circulate, thus reducing bug and disease problems. You should reduce the remaining stems by at least one third. Using a pair
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of good quality, sharp secateurs, make a clean cut on an outward facing bud located between the leaf axle and the stem of the plant. Next remove the suckers which grow below ground from the original base rose that your variety has been grafted on to. Pull these suckers off rather than cutting them. If you don’t bother to do this, your rose will revert and become a little wild. Finally rake up and remove any old leaves to prevent the spread of diseases. If you have trees which need pruning and you think the job is too big to tackle yourself, the best thing to do is call in a tree surgeon. If nothing else, this expert can give you advice on how to go about your project and whether or not the tree is actually worth saving. For example, many flowering cherries have a finite life of about 25 to 30 years. After that they succumb to disease and the only solution is to dig up the tree and plant another one, replacing a large part of the surrounding soil at the same time. Before you start pruning make sure you have the correct equipment, as a bog standard pair of kitchen scissors just won’t cut it for this garden task. The following guide should give an idea. Hand pruners: commonly called pruners, these tools resemble a pair of pliers and come in three main types. An anvil pruner features a single, straightedged cutting blade that closes against an anvil of softer metal. A ratchet pruner also has a straight cutting edge but it has a ratchet mechanism that cuts through the branch in stages. Bypass pruners, the most popular type, cut with two curved blades that bypass each other in the manner of scissor blades.
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or the last year I, personally, have been using nutritional supplements to help me in the gym. I was frustrated by the lack of local outlets, narrow range of products and most of all the large prices. Ordering off the internet meant giving my card details to a third party and then hoping I would be in when the courier came. So in July 2010 I started Protein Shack after ordering supplements for myself and friends. How many times have you ordered something off the Internet and when it arrives it is not what you were expecting?
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Community Information Teenage Cancer Trust eachers and students from South Nottingham College have created a charity calendar for 2011, to raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust.
The initiative is part of the College’s Channeling Positivity campaign, launched at the beginning of the academic year and spearheaded by a College teacher and student duo Justine Drury and Kate Vines, who will attempt to swim the Channel in 2011. Called ‘The Big Name Drop’, the calendar uses photography and imagery of the letters ‘TCT’, which stands for Teenage Cancer Trust. The images have been created in different ways that are relevant to courses run at the College, such as Beauty Therapy and Mechanics, as well as images that Kate and Justine have created as part of their training programme.
students and staff could easily contribute. We certainly had a lot of fun with the different representations of the letters TCT – it really brought out everyone’s creative streak. But more importantly, as the calendar will last a year, we hope it will be a constant reminder of the great work that the Teenage Cancer Trust does, as well as raising funds for their East Midlands campaign.” The calendar will be on sale from 5 January 2011 at a suggested minimum donation of £2.50. To order a copy email enquiries@snc.ac.uk
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Community Information These are free pages to publicise your local events and information. We would love to hear from you if you know of any event in or around the Berry Hill, Rainworth and Blidworth area; copy deadline is the 1st of each month. Please email dave@spotlightlocal.co.uk Water Babies: award-winning specialist baby swimming classes at Annesley School (Wed,Thurs); Portland College (Tues,Thurs, Fri) and Kings Mill hospital (Mon, Fri, Sat) - contact Marie on 01636 815567 or check out the website www.waterbabies.co.uk for more information BLIDWORTH & RAINWORTH WOMENS INSTITUTE meet on the first thursday of each month at the Blidworth Methodist Church, main St, Blidworth at 7.30pm. New members welcome.
BLIDWORTH & DISTRICT HISTORICAL AND HERITAGE SOCIETY meet on the first Tuesday of each month at the Blidworth Miners Welfare 7.30pm. Contact Bill Hutton for more information. 01623 484189 1st Rainworth Scout Group meets 7pm each wednesday at SS Simon & Jude Church Hall . Beavers and Cubs meet Mondays 5.30 pm. The L.A. School Of Dance provides a variety of children’s dance classes (3yrs plus) and adult fitness classes (16yrs plus) in the Rainworth area. Classes, courses, one to one tuition and children’s birthday parties. Joseph Whitaker Sports College Tuesday Zumba 6pm – 6.45pm Tuesday Pilates 6.45pm – 7.30pm Thursday Latin American/Ballroom 4.45pm – 5.45pm Thursday Freestyle/Street Dance 5.45pm – 6.30pm Thursday Dance-Fit 6.30pm – 7.30pm Saturday Freestyle/Street Dance 10am – 10.45am Saturday Latin American/Ballroom 10.45 – 11.45am For further information contact Leanne Martin 07757119259 ladanceandfitness@hotmail.co.uk Puzzle Solutions
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