If we want to know what will happen over the next 5 years in China, we need to look at the China’s 12th Five Year Plan authorised by China National People’s Congress and CPC in March 2011. This preliminary review is based on those documents and on government and research institutes that have put out papers in response to those documents.
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Have you thought about getting fit but don’t know where to start? Sometimes the most effective way to start is with small changes to your daily life. The good news is that you need neither more time nor money to increase your general sense of wellbeing.
Yes, you can bluff your way to overall fitness! Here’s a cheat sheet to make an ordinary working day a day of health, vitality and smug self-satisfaction.
Auto-didactic musician, sound recorder, arranger, composer, video artist and multi-discipline experimentalist. As a musician plays theremin, one string fiddle, bazouki, guitar, cello, saz, percussion, yayli divan, three string pipa, and circuit bent toys.
As a producer/arranger/engineer/musician has produced the following albums of music:
Collar Up played several gigs in the Edinburgh Festival with Ragged Music when the initial idea was being test run. Utterly professional, driven individuals producing high quality goods. Here is what Muso’s Guide says about them…
Playing to launch their single – A Jam Jar Full Of Wasps – the trio of Collar Up grace the gathered throng with one of their finest performances, aided in no small part by the excellent sound quality that this venue continually achieves. Too often in the past it has proved impossible to hear song introductions and the like, but that curse is dealt with tonight so proceedings pass off pretty much by the book.
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The Henry Ibbs Band play ‘Mersey-sippi Gypsy Blues’, an eclectic assortment of music drawing from folk, swing, reggae, country and blues. T.H.I.B. are Edinburgh based, acoustic, energetic and fun.
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Arms Trade-Winners and Losers by David Turner
Name of speaker and subject: Paul Bruce, Scottish Short Film Distribution
Title of talk: The Long Tail and Scottish Short Films
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The term long tail has gained popularity in recent times as describing the retailing strategy of selling a large number of unique items with relatively small quantities sold of each – usually in addition to selling fewer popular items in large quantities. The long tail was popularized by Chris Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine article, in which he mentioned Amazon.com, Apple and Netflix as examples of businesses applying this strategy. Anderson elaborated the concept in his book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More.
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Although it is counter-intuitive, sleep and exercise present the brain with similar energy challenges, that of optimal provision of cerebral energy, via the liver. Failure to optimally provision cerebral energy in each of the above events results in chronic metabolic stress, and increased risk of metabolic diseases.
During the nocturnal fast this failure to pre-provision the liver (and therefore the brain), results in chronic activation of the HPA (stress) system and increased risk of metabolic syndrome (diabetes/obesity/heart disease and alzheimer’s disease).
The same ‘liver blind’ approach in sport results in osteoporosis, infertility, increased risk of infections and in American professional footballers increased risk of diabetes from age 35. Italian footballers express 5 times the national average for motor neurone disease.
This talk focuses on the way to optimally provision cerebral energy during exercise and during the nocturnal fast. The Exercise Theory of Relativity takes Einstein’s beautiful formula E = MC2 and reverses it to E = CM2
I have been a film-maker since the early 1990s, training and working with various film and media organisations in Edinburgh including Lothian Video Users Group, Video Access Centre, Leith Unemployed Media Group, Mediabase and others.
I was awarded funding in the early 1990s to make a film for Video Access Centre and the LUMG and have since made a dozen short films which have screened at festivals throughout the UK and around the world, have screened on satellite and cable TV and via on-line distribution networks.
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