Dear all,
Below is a link to a video from today’s ‘Online Cancer Awareness Session’ covering the importance of early cancer detection. They noted that many people have been avoiding contacting their G.P during lockdown and that this has led to an increase in cancers being detected at a later stage than would have happened normally.
The aim of the project who made the video is to encourage the people of Leeds to make use of the free NHS cancer screening services that are available i.e. bowel, breast, lung, prostate and cervical cancers, as well as helping the public to recognise early signs and symptoms and raise awareness of the importance of early detection and the need to contact their G.P.
Spotting Signs and Symptoms of Cancer – click on link (may have select sound)
Join the Facebook Live session on Wednesday 4 November from 6 to 7.30pm on NHS Leeds CCG Facebook page www.facebook.com/nhsleeds
Questions to the speakers can be sent in advance of the live session, they can be sent by email leedsccg.comms@nhs.net or by Facebook www.facebook.com/nhsleeds or Twitter https://twitter.com/nhsleeds
Happy November! Grab a mug of whatever you enjoy and get ready for our November-themed workout to find out how well you know the 11th month…
1. Can you fill in the blank?Remember, remember the fifth of November,Gunpowder _______ and plot.
a) Veggies b) Explosions c)Treason
3. What are the birthstones of November?
a) Peridot and spinal b) Pearl and Alexandrite c) Topaz and Citrine
a) The Bus b) The Sandwich c) The Speedboat
5. Who had a hit with ‘November Rain’?
6. November was originally the ninth month?
True or False
7. Bonfire Night is celebrated on the 5th of November, but in which year was the Gunpowder Plot?
a) 1405 b) 1505 c) 1605
8. November has always had 30 days
True or False
9. How many times was November mentioned in Shakespeare’s work?
a) 1 b) 10 c) 0
10. What is it you are supposed to grow in November?
a) Carrots b) A beard c) Parsley
11. On November 22, 1990, which British Prime Minister resigned after 11 years in office, the longest term of any British Prime Minister in the 20th century?
12.If you were born on the 26th November, what would your Zodiac sign be?
a) Leo b) Sagittarius c) Capricorn d) Gemini
13. Which famous British children’s author was born in November?
a) Ian Fleming b) C S Lewis c) Edgar Rice Burroughs d) Charles Dickens
14.Up until 1959, it was illegal to not celebrate Bonfire Night in the UK
True or False.
15. Which century were fireworks invented?
a) 10th b) 12th c) 14th d) 15th
Below are 5 firework anagrams:
16.WHEEL IN TEACHER (9,5)
17. REP LARKS (8)
18. NORMAL DANCE (5,6)
19. CAMP JUNK JIG (7,4)
20. A FUNNEL VISITOR (6,8)
If you have an interest in transport in the region both how it’s working during the current covid crisis and the future plans you can attend this Café Economique talk on Zoom to hear more and have an opportunity to ask questions
Speakers:
Liz Hunter is currently the Head of Transport Policy at the West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Councillor Kim Groves has been Chair of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s Transport Committee since June 2018 working to improve public transport in West Yorkshire.
Be it tackling the climate emergency, enabling inclusive growth or boasting productivity – transport has a role to play. Our speakers, Liz Hunter and Kim Groves, will talk about the very immediate transport challenges during the Covid19 pandemic and the investments which are already being worked on as well as looking to the future of transport for the region from the major schemes such as High Speed Two and Northern Powerhouse Rail to the regional and local connectivity needs.
This talk is organized by Café Économique, as part of a monthly series of talks and debates on current social, economic and environmental topics. There will be opportunities for questions after each talk.
PLEASE NOTE
Due to Covid 19, the talk will be online using zoom. Anyone wishing to join the talk needs to join the Café Economique members’ list by emailing a request to: cafeeconomiqueleeds2019@gmail.com.
A zoom link and password will be sent to the email list close to the date of the talk.
Dear all,
I was out on a walk last week and came across this amazing garden display for Halloween. It was in Woodhouse, LS6 near the ridge. Not sure they got the message regarding social distancing!! Stay safe everyone.
Wednesday 4th November 7pm-8pm
Letters from a Generation Dreaming follows on from the sell-out Windrush Day event, Generations Dreaming. It will feature extracts from the musical Sorrel & Black Cake, discussion around the significance of letters and a live musical performance.
Letters have been used to connect African-Caribbean families and friends for generations. Letters pass on joy, grief, opinions, advice and instructions. They document lives.
Join Khadijah Ibrahiim and Emily Zobel Marshall as they explore the value of letter-writing in passing on family history and cultural traditions.
To book tickets: https://www.gcfoundation.co.uk/Event/letters-from-a-generation-dreaming
This is an online event and will take place on Zoom. Please book a ticket and you will be sent the details for how to join the event. Tickets to the event are free but there is an option to donate to the Geraldine Connor Foundation if you wish to https://www.gcfoundation.co.uk/about-us
STARTING FROM 10AM TO 6PM SATURDAY 31st October:
Shiver Fest is a Halloween book festival that encompasses thrillers, horror and ghostly cooking. Do you dare let it into your home?
The line-up includes authors: Allie Reynolds, CD Major, T.J. Payne, Laura Purcell and Matt Ruff, SJ Watson, Helena Garcia, Isabel Ashdown, Lisa Howells & Louise O’Neill.
Enjoy the treat with these direct to Theatre links and invite the authors into your home – if you dare!
All FREE! You do have to register with My Virtual Literature Festival in order to access this event – this is also free at https://myvlf.com/ . Once registered click on the shiverfest poster in the virtual lobby or you can see more details about each of the events here and the authors taking part here: https://myvlf.com/blog/shiverfest-october-31st
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The Shows Must Go On this weekend brings us Strictly Come Dancing’s Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace with their hit show ‘Midnight Tango’
Showing from 7pm tonight (Fri 30th) and then available to view for 48hrs
Midnight Tango: Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace have dazzled television audiences for six series of the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing with their stunning Tango routines. Now they have created their own live show – Midnight Tango – a breathtaking evening bringing all the drama, sensuality and elegance of this most exciting of dance forms to life.
Set in a late night bar in downtown Buenos Aires and featuring some of the finest Tango dancers in the world, Midnight Tango, takes you on a journey into the heart of this intoxicating city. As danger and excitement, joy and jealousy, pain and passion all combine – this is a spectacular and explosive evening not to be missed!
During lockdown, parks became more important to us than ever – as gyms, pubs and nightclubs. From dawn to dusk at Woodhouse Moor, is so essential now.
If you have not seen this already please click on the link below an article in The Guardian from late September 2020.
Dear all,
I’ve long, well since about the 1960s, been a close follower of American politics, so I can remember the names of several defeated US presidential candidates without consulting Professor Google, which I think makes me Mr Geek.
Usually they were uninspiring party workhorses like George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis (cousin of the more famous film actress, Olympia Dukakis) or Bob Dole and made little lasting impression on non-geeks, even though coming second in the world’s most scrutinised and significant leadership election ought to be something to be remembered.
This time round, things might be different because the party workhouse candidate, trusty old Joe Biden, has a strong chance of avoiding the runner-up position which, because it’s very hard to remove a sitting president, would be his expected fate if times were normal.
After 36 years in the senate and then eight as vice president, he can’t plausibly offer the nation a vision of a fresh beginning, as Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton and Obama (who are all big enough not to need forenames) did. Joe Biden’s slogan, although it doesn’t sound like an election-winner, would have to be something like: ‘At least I’m not a menace to public health.’
But President Trump, although he seems to have ballooned since his recovery from covid-19 (steroids?) isn’t about to be blown away by the ridicule of the liberal elite, who, judging by their failure to combat the American right, have more in common with a bunch of wusses than with anything that deserves to be called an elite.
Trump’s great achievement is – I think through genius-level cunning rather than luck – to have built a base so solid that it’s like one of those heavy-bottomed tumble toys which, when you knock them down, stand straight up again, the grins still on their faces.
I imagine Democrat Party strategists might have convinced themselves over and over again that they had nailed the President, over, for example, hush money to Stormy Daniels, insults to war veterans, criminal convictions for some of his cronies and a trail of ludicrous lies starting with his inauguration and continuing through his imagined Nobel prize(s) and his apparently brilliant handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
But his support has barely shifted downwards since he was elected on a minority of the votes cast (which can happen quite legitimately under the American system) and is probably solid enough for him to wrangle a victory even if the opinion polls, which universally predict a Biden win, turn out to be wrong, or are overturned by presidential edict.
In which cast Joe Biden, a decent and intelligent man with decades of blameless public service (I don’t believe the lately-confected stories about his son’s business dealings) and some ideas on how to cope with a changing physical and economic landscape, will lose his hard-earned place in the public consciousness.
By contrast, Donald J Trump, whether he wins the election or not, will always get the attention he craves and demands.
