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		<title>A New Year haiku or two&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new year begins/ may it bring joy and peace for/ you and those you love Year of the dragon/ So be bold and not humble Water for wellness<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caroslines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10856604&amp;post=277&amp;subd=caroslines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GONG XI FA CAI</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chinese New Year]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gong xi fa cai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the Chinese would say, Happy New Year! Yes, I know, the Scots have &#8220;first footing&#8221; where they bring luck into a house by being the first person over the threshold carrying a lump of coal&#8230;but the French leave themselves until the end of January to wish &#8220;bonne année&#8221; ..So yes, for many I am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caroslines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10856604&amp;post=271&amp;subd=caroslines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media &#8211; are you in control or is it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food and fodder for thought]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been far too long since I last wrote a post for East West&#8230;I am not going to make excuses because there really aren&#8217;t any to make. The other day I went to a talk on the social media handshake. The presenter made it all sound so simple: just spend 8 minutes a day updating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caroslines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10856604&amp;post=255&amp;subd=caroslines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing ideas &#8230;in the Athens of the North</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Athens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Hazlewood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edinburgh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ted.com]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Athens of old was at one time the capital of the ancient world and an amazingly vibrant nest of learning, ideas and knowledge. The Athens of the North, as Edinburgh is sometimes known, lived up to its nickname in July this year when it hosted TEDGlobal, a conference whose very straight forward aim is to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caroslines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10856604&amp;post=244&amp;subd=caroslines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The stuff of life&#8230;a great summer holiday !</title>
		<link>http://caroslines.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/the-stuff-of-life-a-great-summer-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[brain spa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the highlights of my summer so far has been a week at a conference centre. Yes, there are some people who pay a premium to go on a Caribbean luxury cruise with 3000 people and there are others, like myself, who prefer a week with 800 or so people exchanging ideas on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caroslines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10856604&amp;post=249&amp;subd=caroslines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing ideas &#8230;connecting community</title>
		<link>http://caroslines.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/sharing-ideas-connecting-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centre for Haitian Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Little Haiti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had the most amazing meeting. Thanks to a friend who works on women&#8217;s health and is conducting a study with a group of Haitian women, I discovered more about the amazing island of (Little) Haiti. So far my roamings have led me primarilly to the Haitian Cultural Centre but today I went to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caroslines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10856604&amp;post=245&amp;subd=caroslines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Wedding &#8211; a haiku or two</title>
		<link>http://caroslines.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/royal-wedding-a-haiku-or-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[April showers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haiku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miami Herald]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today and for many days to come, the Royal Wedding will be the subject of many a spoken and written word. Difficult not to write something on the media event of the century (so far).  I was asked by a friend here (who also happens to be the British Consul) to compose a haiku for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caroslines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10856604&amp;post=235&amp;subd=caroslines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sugar (and some frightening facts about fructose)</title>
		<link>http://caroslines.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/sugar-and-some-frightening-facts-about-fructose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fructose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Daubes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high fructose corn syrup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Oliver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Yudkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Lustig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sugar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Corn syrup, corn sugar, crystalline fructose, dextrose, fructose, fruit juice concentrates, galactose, glucose, barley malt, brown rice syrup, high fructose corn syrup, glucose-fructose syrup, invert sugar, isomalt, lactose, levulose, maltose, maltodextrin, maple sugar, saccharose, sucrose, syrup, turbinado sugar, xylose…in a word: sugar. Obsession ? Passion ? Addiction ? Probably all of those things&#8230;and yet, had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caroslines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10856604&amp;post=231&amp;subd=caroslines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Japan, when the going gets rough&#8230;all is calm, respect and resilience</title>
		<link>http://caroslines.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/japan-when-the-going-gets-rough-all-is-calm-respect-and-resilience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[calm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Red Cross]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few days, like so many of us, I have followed with horror, shock and despair, the effects of the earthquake and tsunami that shook Japan to the core last Friday. The country is facing one of its most difficult situations since the Second World War, families in the Tohoku region are now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caroslines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10856604&amp;post=228&amp;subd=caroslines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine’s Day – what exactly are we celebrating?</title>
		<link>http://caroslines.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/valentine%e2%80%99s-day-%e2%80%93-what-exactly-are-we-celebrating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[14th February]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early onset diabetes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high fructose corn syrup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[juvenile diabetes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valentine's Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 14th February has always been a special day for me simply because it was the day I was born. I would however like to suggest that we reconsider and rename Valentine’s Day. I bet you have no idea what it really is all about…none of this love and pink roses nonsense…oh no…Valentine was, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caroslines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10856604&amp;post=223&amp;subd=caroslines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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