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They had arrived at the end of their term in 10th and nothing had changed in these few months... except Sneha's infatuation with Raj...which had just grown deeper with the passing time. She relished his company, loved to talk about him and resented it when Naina laughed and joked with Raj.
What made it worse for Sneha was that while Raj used to retort at her teasing, he never did that with Naina. Sneha had caught him many a times enjoying the way Naina pulled his legs. She had caught him staring at her friend quite a lot of times and the look in his eyes always proclaimed something different. She resented all of these. But instead of blaming it on Naina she used this opportunity to spread rumors against the girl among her batch mates. That something was cropping up between Raj and Naina was the talk of the town, but Naina was not aware of it.
Raj had started teasing and pulling her leg a little. He used to hide her books when she would leave her books on the desk and go out. She would in turn pull his pen from his hand and would not give it back to him. Life was fun until one day Raj took away her story book and she found it out after searching for it for half an hour. Although Naina laughed it off as a joke but she decided to pay Raj back in the same coin. A few days had passed and Raj had forgotten this incident. But Naina had not.
One day, during one of the free hours, Naina along with Sneha raided Raj's bag. As she searched through the various pockets, she didn't find anything worthwhile.
"Kya Karen Naina?"
"Pata nahi yaar... kuch samajh nahi aa raha... mai kuch aisa lena chahti thi jiske gayab hone se wo thoda to pareshan ho...humesha mujhe satata rehta hai... shaitan kahin ka..." she fumed to herself.
"Par kuch mile to sahi..."
"Mil gaya..."
"Kya... kya...? Dikha..."
"Ye dekh...ye CD... itna chhupa ke rakha hai to kuch na kuch to hoga jarur isme."
'Yahi lena hai...pakka?"
"Haan... isse wo pareshan hoga... isme arur kuch important hai...warna wo aise chupake nahi rakhta. Ab chal... ye mai rakh rahi hun... ab aane de usse... let's see kya karta hai...!"
The first thing which Raj did when he came back to the class room was to check his back, and as anticipated he found the CD missing. He looked over at Naina who was engrossed in chatting with Sneha. Naina was perfectly normal, but Sneha was bursting with hidden excitement. It confirmed his doubts.
He didn't know what to say. If Naina would run that CD, all hell would break lose.
"Naina... tu ne meri Cd li kya?"
"CD...kaun si CD...?" she pretended to be ignorant.
"Ban mat Naina...CD wapas kar."
"Arey kaun si CD...kya keh raha hai tu?"
"Dekh mujhe pata hai ki Cd tere bag me hai... de de mujhe..."
"Achha...itna pata hai to aake bag check kar le...mil jaye to le lena..."
Raj didn't know what to say He was too shy to approach Naina or even check her bag. So he fidgeted in his seat. Luckily at that time their teacher came and it put a rest to all further arguments.
Later in the evening, Naina and Sneha were sitting in Naina's study room having a discussion over the upcoming board exams when suddenly Sneha hit upon an idea.
"Yaar Naina... chal na wo CD dekhte hain."
"Kaun si CD?"
"Arey wahi jo aaj Raj ke bag se nikali thi."
"Nahi Sneha... nahi dekhna."
"Arey wo uski personal cheez hai yaar. Maine uske bag se usse pareshan karne ke liye nikali thi... par usse dekhkar mai uski privacy me dakhal nahi dena chahti."
"Arey yaar...tu bhi na... aisa kya hoga usme... chal dekhte hain..."
"Kuch bhi ho Sneha... par hai to uski cheez na... mai waise bhi 3-4 din me usse wapas kar dungi. Tuhe dekhna ho to usse mang lena... Mai nahi de rahi tujhe wo CD." Her voice was firm and Sneha knew that any further argument was worthless.
While leaving, Sneha wanted Naina to do something for her. "Ek kaam karegi Naina?"
"Haan bata."
"Raj ko phone karke bol dena na ki muhe call kare. Muhe kuch kaam hai usse aur mere ghar ke phone me kuch problem ho gayi hai...outgoing band ho gaya hai."
"okay...bol dungi."
"Bhulna mat please."
"Na re...bata dungi. Don't worry."
"Okay...chalo kal milte hain...bye..."
Raj was having his evening tea with his mother when the telephone bill disturbed their small meeting.
Raj's Mom: "Mai dekhti hun."
"Okay Maa..."
"Hello... arey hi Naina...kaisi ho beta...?"
Raj pricked his ear at the sound of her name. Not that Naina had called at his house first time, but then today was something different.
"Haan beta...mai achhi hun. Aur sunao...bade dino baad call kiya tumne."
"Haan mai samjh sakti hun...exams ki tension ho rahi hai na... don't worry beta...sab achha jayega..."
"Haan haan hai...wo yahin hai..."
Raj dug his head deeper into his plate as his mother looked over to where he was sitting.
\"Haan beta deti hun...Raj...Naina ka call hai."
Raj quietly took the call and looked around to see his mother settling down on the dining table to finish her tea.
"Hello..." He spoke into the receiver.
"Hi Raj..." he heard her chirpy voice at the other end.
"Sunn...tujhse kuch kaam tha..."
"Haan bata..."
"Sneha aayi thi mere ghar... madam chahti hain ki aap usse call Karen."
"Pata nahi...usi se puch lena jab baat kare to..."
"Aur haan... uss CD me kya hai Raj?" she asked mischievously.
His breath had stuck in his throat. Had she seen it... most certainly she had... the confident manner in which she questioned him pointed towards this fact. He was not sure how to reply to her question. Besides his mother sitting behind him made the matter worse. So he simply said... "iss bare me kal baat karne?"
"Your wish...bye..."
Naina slammed the receiver back on the hook and murmured to herself... "How rude... samajhta kya hai apne aap ko...ek to mai isse itne ache se bolti hun aur ye hai ki mujhe attitude dikha raha hai...kal discuss karte hain... (she mimicked his voice)...hunh... samajhta kya hai apne aap ko... mai Sneha nahi hun jo uske piche bhagun...hunh... mai nahi baat kar rahi ab usse..." she fumed to herself.
There at Raj's place, he sat down to finish his snacks. "Kya hua Raj?"
"Arey wo Sneha ko kuch kaam tha...par uska phn nahi lag raha hai...wahi batane ko call kiya tha Naina ne."
Her mother smiled at the mention of Sneha's name and ruffling his hair left the table.
He saw her walking down the road ahead of him all alone. This was the proper time to approach her. He didn't want to talk about this in the school. He quickened his steps. He neared her just as she was about to turn inside the school gates. He knew she would smile at him the moment he would see him. Her smile was magic.
But what would he say to her. He was sure that she had seen the CD. "Kya bolun mai usse...mere bare me pata nahi kya soch rahi hogi. He bhagvan...plz usne CD na dekhi ho...warna pata nahi kya soch rahi hogi mere bare me." He prayed silently.
But perhaps luck was not in his favour. Naina spotted him just behind her when she was nearing the school gates. She turned her face away, without even smiling at him and quickened her steps. Raj stood rooted to his spot. She had never behaved with him like this before. Even before he could recover from the shock, she had disappeared inside the classroom.
He closed his eyes in pain. "God...ye kya ho gaya... ufff..." He composed himself and walked towards the class.
He tried the whole day to talk to her, but didn't get a proper chance. And whenever he tried to even look in her direction, he found her facing the opposite direction. Even if by chance he would catch her eyes, she would look away.
The weeks that followed were horrible for Raj. He had never felt so frustrated before. He badly wanted to talk to her, to clear out the misunderstandings between them, but he never got a chance. He was too shy to make a start and given the way Naina was avoiding him, he didn't have the courage to make any moves towards reconciliation.
He had veiled the hurt and heart ache in the depths of his heart...not giving away anything to his family and friends. But he had grown more gloomy and temperamental. He tried his level best to control his temper...but it was not possible any more for him.
"Kya baat hai bte...kai dino se dekh rahi hun...hua kya hai...?"
"Kuch nahi Maa...bas aise hi...mann nahi lag raha."
"Exam ki tension hai kya?"
"Na Maa...aisa nahi hai..."
"To fir kya baat hai...?"
By now Raj was losing his temper. "Kuch nahi Maa... " he answered a bit roughly. "Bas mera mood thik nahi hai... mujhe akela chod dijiye."
"Par beta..."
He pushed back his untouched lunch and got up.
"Arey par tu khana to khata ja." She tried to stop him.
"Bhukh nahi hai Maa...Aap kha lijiye." And he swiftly left the room.
It had been a month since Naina had stopped talking to him. He had hopes that she might wish him on the New Year...but New Year came and went away and she didn't even look at him though she was laughing and joking around with others. He felt a stab of jealousy for his friends. He was not as lucky as them.
Although Sneha used to talk to him and even call him up gossiping with him for about an hour or so, he felt quite restless. He could not make out the reason for his temperamental behavior.
The pre boards were round the corner and Raj didn't even have the heart to study. He had anyways been paying less attention towards his study since last month. His mother had noticed his temperamental nature...but she had let it lightly as she knew very well about his moody nature. Only this time, the cause was something deeper.
That day again he wanted to avoid his mother and her questions. He had locked himself up in his room feigning a head ache. He didn't feel he had the courage to face his mom any more that day. Bearing a fresh stream of avoidance from Naina was anyways depressing...and on top of that the questions irritated him.
He switched off the lights and lay down on the bed.
"Aisa kyun ho raha hai mere saath... kyun miss kar raha hun mai usse itna." He had to confront his inner self today. He couldn't run away any more.
He looked at his cupboard for a long time, then got up and opened it pulling out an album from its inner recess. It contained all the pictures of Naina on the annual function day. He kept on looking at her bright, shining face, the beautiful kohl smeared eyes and the luscious lips. Unable to control himself any longer, he bent down and kissed her photograph.
"Mujhe kya ho raha hai...itna kyun miss kar raha hun mai usse... jab wo mujhse baat nahi karna chahti to mai kyun pagal hue ja raha hun... kyun uske bina mera dil nahi lag raha... ye kya ho raha hai mere saath... mai aisa kyun feel kar raha hun uske liye...jab wo mere paas hoti hai to aisa lagta hai jaise mujhe puri duniya mil gayi ho...aur uske jaate hi aisa lagta hai jaise kuch chin gaya ho mujhse... what's wrong with me..." He held his head in his hands in utter despair and closed his eyes in frustration. He could feel his eyes stinging and tried his level best to stop those betraying tears but could not. And anyways who would find out that he was crying.
He went over the moments he had spent with her... the anchoring practices and the final event, the drama practices, when he had seen her fully dressed and ready for the dance, when she had looked up and found him gazing at her and smiled at him... when she had paid him the compliment... his heart had stopped beating at that instance.
He could no longer deny the feelings of his heart... he loved her... yes...he loved her...
"Mai aur jhuth nahibol sakta khud se... mujhe pyaar hai tujhse Naina... I love u... I love you Naina... I really love you... par ye baat to mai tujhse bol bhi nahi sakta...ek to tu uss CD ki wajah se mujhse naraaz hai...upar se ye baat pata chal gaya to tu aur bhi khafa ho jayegi mujhse... abhi to tu sirf mujhse naraaaz hai...usse to mai kisi tarah jhel lunga...par agar tujhe ye pata chal gaya to pata nahi tera reaction kya hoga... mai tujhe khonanahi chahta Naina... tu bahut special hai mere liye... meri zindagi hai tu... meri jaan hai tu Naina...meri jaan hai tu...mujhe akela mat chod Naina...please mujhse dur mat ja..."
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Meri Duniya Mein Aake Mat Jaa Mat Jaa Kahin Mat Jaa
Meri Duniya Mein Aake Mat Jaa Mat Jaa Kahin Mat Jaa
Meri Duniya Mein Aake Mat Jaa Mat Jaa Kahin Mat Jaa
Kya Maine Pa Liya Hai Kya Maine Kho Diya Hai
Shayad Yeh Soch Kar Hi Dil Aaj Ro Diya Hai
Tu Hi To Tha Mera Apna Kaise Phir Yeh Toota Sapna
To Jo Mil Ke Kho Jaayega Jeena Mushkil Ho Jaayega
Meri Duniya Mein Aake Mat Jaa Mat Jaa Kahin Mat Jaa
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Yeh Ishq Ki Hai Raah Mein Jin Pe Chal Raha Hoon
Is Aag Mein Na Jaane Kab Se Main Jal Raha Hoon
Main To Hoon Tera Deewana Tune Mujhko Na Pehchaana
Dilbar Mere Aisa Na Kar Chahat Mein Tu Ruswa Na Kar
Meri Duniya Mein Aake Mat Jaa Mat Jaa Kahin Mat Jaa
Meri Duniya Mein Aake Mat Jaa Mat Jaa Mat Jaa
Meri Duniya Mein Aake Mat Jaa Mat Jaa Kahin Mat Jaa
Meri Duniya Mein Aake Mat Jaa Mat Jaa Kahin Mat Jaa
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
Ishq Ka Dard Hai Dard Hai Ishq Ka
He kept on weeping for a long time. Now that he had confronted his feeling, he knew what the matter with him was. But now another responsibility weighed on his mind... to hide this soul shattering truth from Naina... he didn't want to lose the last strings of trust which they had... he will have to keep quiet... He knew it was going to be difficult...but he had to do it. Resolutely he wiped his tears and got up. He took one last look at the album and showered kisses on her photograph. Then he locked the album back in his cupboard and lay down on the bed switching on the radio... A soft song began to play on it which somehow soothed his torn and bleeding heart as tears continued to flow incessantly from his eyes.
Aaoge Jab Tum Saajna
Aaoge Jab Tum Saajna
Angana phool khilege
Barsega saawan, barsega saawan
Jhoom jhoom ke
Do dil aise milenge
Aaoge Jab Tum Saajna
Angana phool khilege
Naina tere kajrare
Naino pe hum dil hare hai
Anjane hi tere naino ne
Waade kiye kaie saare hai
Saanso he leher madam chale
To tu kahe barsega saawan
Barsega saawan jhoom jhoom ke
Do dil aise milenge
Aaoge Jab Tum Saajna
Angana phool khilege
Ka ba ba sa sa re ga ga
Chanda ko uta lakho mein
Yeh zindagi tere haton mein
Palko pe jil mil tare hai
Aana bahri barsato mein
Sapno ka jahan
Hoga khila khila
Barsega saawan, barsega saawan
Jhoom jhoom ke
Do dil aise milenge
pa ni sa re ma ma ga ga ga
ga re re re ga re da ni re re ma da ni da da
da ni da pa ma ma ma da da ma re pa ga
ga ma da ni sa sa re pa ma ma ga ga ga re ga sa
Angana phool khile
pa ni da ni da sa re ma ma ma ma ga
Angana phool khile
ma ma pa ni da re ma pa re re sa da
re pa pa ma ma ga ga
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Slow Cooker Soups
The reason I'm mad about slow cookers is that you can use them for just about anything! Even soups. Really. I love soups that eat like a meal. With a slow cooker, you can prepare nice hearty bean soups that will amply fill every tummy in your family. They will keep everybody warm and cozy in these cold winter months as well. (And it all cooks in one pot. It doesn't get better than that, people.)
Do you tend to see things in black and white? I have two soups for you! White Bean Soup with Lemon and Garlic Corn Bread and Mexican Black Bean Soup with Spiced Tortilla Chips. These are the ying and yang of slow cooker soups, and they're both individually palate-pleasing.
If you happen to be a vegetarian, you'll love these fab soups because they're hearty, rich and pure veggie.
And speaking of beans, I am sure you will enjoy my Three Bean Vegetarian Chilli.
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The crisis manager
Brigadier Alex Birtwhistle was called in by Tony Blair to handle the safe disposal of animals.
The five weeks last March when Alex Birtwhistle, late Commander 42 (North West) Brigade and Colonel of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, led the Army's support for Maff in Cumbria proved significant in many ways. The brigadier's work in disposing of unprecedented numbers of animal carcasses was a turning point in the battle against the disease. It also probably did something to ensure Labour's landslide election victory, and it changed the brigadier's own life forever.
He was 10 days off his early retirement when the call came from the Prime Minister for him to take charge of the chaos of disposal that Maff had presided over in Cumbria. He'd been suffering from clinical depression for two years, and was planing to begin a new life by travelling around the world on a motorbike. 'That remains an aspiration,' he says, but for him at least foot and mouth shows no sign of going away.
He's just come back from Australia and the Far East, where he has been lecturing farmers and politicians on his experience of the disease. As a result of his sudden public profile in crisis management, he's been working with city firms and the cabinet office running leadership seminars. He still receives several letters a day from local farmers wondering if he has any idea how they might face the future (he helped one group, which turned up on his doorstep one night, to set up their own co-operative).
He's beginning to hope it might stop soon. 'In one sense, talking about nothing but foot and mouth for the last nine months has torn the shit out of me, really.'
But he must look back on those weeks as a personal success? 'Not at all,' he says. 'It's just not something you feel successful about. I've come to the conclusion that not many other brigadiers, perhaps, would have done it quite in the same way, because they would have had a very different element of personal risk. I had nothing to lose. I was leaving the army anyway. I just got the job done.'
The ways in which he got that job done, cutting down the time it was taking to dispose of millions of animals from several weeks in some cases to less than 24 hours in all cases, has become the subject of local myth. All he did, he says, was to show some leadership skills in an arena where they were so painfully absent.
'You just have to own the risk,' he says, 'and let people understand that you are owning that risk. I realised after half an hour that the problem was to pick up two types of item, one live and one dead, and take them from A to B. We were doing it on a massive scale and against a background of tremendous human tragedy, and with a general election coming up, but in management terms that's essentially what it was.'
He was paid £194 a day to organise 7,000 or 8,000 people and a budget, he says, of £55m. He did his plan on the back of a fag packet. 'I've often found,' he says, smiling, 'that analytical thought is applicable in any particular area. You find out what you don't know. Then you find someone who knows what you don't know, then you test his or her ability against other people in the same discipline. Then you make a plan and implement it as widely as you can and modify that plan only when you think need arises.'
One of the first things to do was to use the media to convey the message that things were going to happen. It was going to get better. No one seemed to have thought about that before. 'I got all the press in the bar in the first couple of days and said: "Look, I'll tell you what we are up to, but if you start rumour mongering it's just going to hold us up." I found that they respected you speaking frankly.'
The Brigadier's unusually honest communication skills have led to inevitable offers from television companies. 'The BBC asked me to do a programme where I renovated a lifeboat that was air droppable. It sounded like a cross between Fred Dibnah and Challenge Anneka . It never transpired, but during the screen test we got talking about art and they now want me to do a series on art in wartime. I'm working on a script...'
And a political career?
'Certain people up here have been frightened that I might do a Martin Bell,' he says. 'I've been asked by both main political parties to stand for selection. But I think I lack the moral certainty.' He thinks about that for a moment, then laughs. 'Anyway, at my age I don't think I want to be constrained by party whips.'
The landowners
Viscount and Lady Lowther believe that the government conspired to mishandle the epidemic.
Hugh Lowther looks out of the window of his ramshackle Georgian manor. Three of his Labradors are nosing around at his ankles (there are 16 more in the house). On a clear day, you can see all the way to the Pennines. He gestures out into the drizzle: 'There's no sheep now from here to there, and on to the coast. And there never will be again.'
The Lowther family has been the major landowners in this part of Cumbria since 900AD. At one stage, they owned 'maybe three-quarters of the county'. Now Hugh has 5,000 acres, on which he has 14 tenant farmers; the rest of the Lowther estate is split among his family. He's been here since the late 60s, but is thinking of getting out soon with his wife, Liz. They take a global-conspiracy view of the past year.
'The way its been planned out is this,' he tells me. 'The Netherlands will be the dairy producers, Germany will produce pigs and beef, northern France will farm sheep. We are destined for grain and turnips and potatoes. The Europeans and the government have been wanting the sheep off these fells for years. They tried to reduce farmers' subsidies. Then they tried to offer subsidies to get rid of sheep. And none of these things were getting them anywhere. So along conveniently comes this nasty little disease, a disease we're apparently not allowed to vaccinate against, and lo and behold, it wipes out most of the stock...'
'They planned it like a war,' Liz adds. 'First they gave us misinformation and panicked everyone. Then they released this propaganda that it was all farmers to blame - this one poor man in Northumbria with his dirty pigs - and then said we were all resisting. Finally, they forced their way on to farmers' land and killed their stock. It was martial law up here.'
The Lowthers made it their business to organise some opposition to what they saw as a state-sponsored campaign of terror. Liz scanned the farming papers and wrote to people who sounded desperate, urging them not to give up and not necessarily to go along with what they were being told. She had some solicitors draw up guidelines reminding farmers of their rights. 'I told them that as long as they had healthy animals they had their strength. I said: "Whatever you do, don't let people on to the farm."'
Many farmers who stuck to this advice, she suggests, kept their stock, but resistance was very difficult if the farmers were isolated. 'They wanted news, but were terrified of answering the phone in case it was Maff or Defra. If they did answer, the next day the slaughter team came in, and often there was no stopping them, because they'd just been on infected farms and were dangerous contact. So you're contaminated straightaway.'
Now that the sheep have gone from the areas where this battle was lost, there is, her husband explains, no way of replacing them. 'These are hefted sheep, which means they know their own territory, it's bred into them. The only way to do it would be for a shepherd to live on the fells with them 24 hours a day for two years. Who's going to do that? Refugees from Afghanistan?' He laughs. 'So what's the solution? My guess is this: they'll keep it all looking twee in the National Park and plant the rest of the fells with trees. They're worried, you see, about the timber situation in South America...'
Since last year, the Lowthers have been helping to put together a petition to force the government to have a full public inquiry. At one point, they enlisted the help of David Handley, of Farmers for Action, the man who organised the fuel protests. 'Since then, we've had all sorts,' says Hugh resignedly. 'Our phone system mysteriously went down, then engineers came and ripped it all out, and left it. It's been like that for weeks. Then all our computers got a series of viruses that wiped everything. People were skulking about on the land. You begin to wonder if it's worth it.'
He suggests I get hold of a book called Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse , from Tetrahedron. 'It's all in there,' he says. And then: 'I'm thinking of buying a house in France, taking all the dogs and animals with us. That way at least we know that they'll be safe.'
The hill farmer
Peter Allen, whose family has farmed the area for 17 generations, is the NFU's Cumbrian representative.
For the first month of the outbreak, and though he was confined to his farm, Peter Allen never really spoke to his wife. 'She'd bring tea up at six and I was already on the phone,' he says. 'And I'd still be on the phone at midnight when she went to bed.' Other farmers saw Allen, Cumbrian NFU representative, as someone who might have some answers, but he had none. 'All I could do was relay the scale of the fiasco down to Ben Gill, our president, in London. Keep telling him to get into the Ministry.'
As soon as the disease had crossed the Pennines, Allen, whose family has farmed here for 17 generations, could see that many things were 'just terribly wrong'. Neighbouring farmers were breaking down one after the other to him. 'First they couldn't get hold of vets, and then when a vet came on the farm and found ill animals he was having to send samples away and wait for blood tests. One farmer told me a vet stayed screaming down his phone to London for three hours. He said he'd done foot and mouth in 1967 and these were classic clinical signs; he wanted a slaughter team, valuers. No samples, no delays - but they wouldn't have it... I had another farmer crying on the phone, saying slaughtermen were tying gates to the front of tractors in order to pin his animals against the walls of his farm to kill them.'
By mid-March, Allen knew that the disease was winning. 'We'd adopted a slaughter policy,' he says. 'But that meant you must identify, slaughter and dispose in 24 hours. And it was taking three to five days to kill. And disposal was just not happening. There's a place out here, Newton Rainey, where there were hundreds of carcasses in the centre of the village for three weeks.'
On 15 March, there was an announcement from Maff of a 3km cull around each infected farm. 'We laughed out of sheer disbelief,' Allen recalls bleakly. 'Here they were trying to achieve phase one, which was critical, and failing badly, so how the hell were we to do this?' That night, he says, was the first time he had sworn on television. Jon Snow came up to Cumbria with the idea that the farmers were irresponsible for resisting the cull. 'But he saw the disaster on the ground, saw the real story.'
That Channel 4 programme proved a turning point. 'I know it was watched by the PM at Chequers,' says Allen, 'and he was horrified. So on the Monday, a month after it had started, we had our first visit from the chief vet. And then we had a meeting with the Prime Minister. The brigadier [Alex Birtwhistle] was stood outside, not actually invited to that meeting. I told him he was coming in with me.
'I said to the PM we'd had 20 cases up here, and we needed the resources to handle many times that number. And he looked at the brigadier and said: "Can you get those resources?" And he said: "Yes, sir." And Blair said: "You have my permission." The brigadier went off into the car park with his fag packet. The next day he acquired an airfield.'
From that moment on, Allen believes, they started winning, but he still had plenty to worry about. The disease finally caught up with his own stock on 10 August. 'We were under constant surveillance by then,' he says. 'And the vet had had a look around my cattle, and he wasn't happy - it was a bit thundery, low sky, and he said they were looking lazy. I was at a music festival in Penrith that night, already fearing the worst. The vet came at six the next morning and he was happy, but then we looked at them at 11am and they were in a dreadful state.'
Allen had the strongest bond with his cattle. 'There was stock there that descended from cattle of my great-grandfather,' he says, 'and much further back. But still, there were two I was ready to shoot myself, they were that bad. We'd been told by Defra we first had to sedate six, get tissue out of their mouths. The vet put his hand in one mouth and it came out with tongue and all sorts. And so we got on with it. By nine that night, they were all dead. When they shot my sheep I decided to go in the house. I went in and had a bath. I smelled of sheep and I wanted to get rid of that smell. I then went back out. I needed to know it was done right...'
Looking back, the worst of it was the next day when the animals were taken away. 'One of the sounds that was eerie was the sound of wagons reversing, that beep beep beep sound. Because in the valley you never hear that. But for months that was all we heard, and if I hear it now I still go cold. And suddenly, too, you could hear the crows.'
The marksman
Hedley Pollard killed 4,500 cattle. He has made so many friends, he is thinking of moving to the area.
'I was what they called an IP marksman. Infected premises. I killed 4,598 cattle, 159 sheep and 150 deer. This is all out in the fields with a rifle.' Hedley Pollard is 56, with a soft Cheshire accent. He's staring into the fireplace in the living room of a friend's bed and breakfast, where he's staying, near Penrith.
It all began for him last February, when he rang the foot-and-mouth helpline, told them what he was about. He'd always been involved in farming, and was something of a crack shot. 'I think they were interested because I'm not a youngster. They'd had a few ring up, but when you are talking about guns, you're wary of a cowboy element coming into it.'
Initially, Pollard suggests, when they started with the slaughter, there were all sorts of people using rifles, but slowly they were weeded out, until by the end there were only him and a couple of others. Pollard was by far the most prolific. 'I used three rifles, one good for three miles and one for five miles, so there was a serious risk element. And there's no formal training for what I was doing.'
The reason he was brought in at first was for cattle that had escaped, or where restrictions meant they couldn't be moved to be penned. Later, he says, the farmer might request a marksman. 'Because it seems less stressful, just one man.'
The common sporting shot, he explains, to kill an animal, is a heart-and-lung shot. But the danger with that is that the animal will not hold the bullet and there is no control over the direction the bullet leaves. The bullet had to stick. So, he says, 'there was the option of a straight on head shot, or a shot that is diagonal from behind the ear. And also a shot into the second vertebrae, which breaks the neck, and takes out the spinal cord.' He only missed these shots on five occasions, he says, sometimes shooting up to a range of 200m.
After a few weeks in Cumbria, Pollard's reputation was arriving at farms before him. 'They knew when I turned up it was terminal,' he says. 'There's something about a marksman, I suppose. So the first thing was I had to talk to the farmers. Explain what I was trying to do, and where it might go wrong. The difficulty with these animals is that they are human-friendly. Wild animals, if they sense you're there, they freeze. But with cattle, their heads are moving all the time, they're wandering about because they're used to humans.'
Pollard's advantage was that the cattle were also used to vehicles, so he'd manoeuvre his four-wheel drive Shogun as close to them as possible, move among them. Sometimes there might have been 30 people watching: vets, wagon drivers, the farmer, his family, detox units, field officers. 'I'll always remember one farmer,' he says. 'They milked the cows in the morning. Took photographs of them all. Then I had the whole family with me in the vehicle: the farmer, his wife and their son. Afterwards he thanked me for how cleanly it was done.'
On another occasion, there were101 cattle, in a barn. 'What I did in that situation is just walk among them. Just me. And I'd talk to them a bit, keep them calm. It was sad in one sense because they totally trusted me. Even when the shooting started. If there was a bull in there you'd generally shoot him first. Then I'd just walk through them quietly. You may get a case where, halfway through, one might be getting a little bit disturbed. And you'd make sure, no matter how long it took to get close, that that was the next one to go. You'd leave all the quiet ones to the end. And once I started, I never stopped until it was all over.'
When he got back to his hotel room at night, after detoxing himself and his vehicle , Pollard 'would have a drink and a bit of supper and then I'd lie in bed and I would relive every shot in my mind, and ask myself if I could have done it better'. He did this for nine months, in which time he had eight days off.
He can look back, he says, with some satisfaction. He shows me some Polaroids of fields with hundreds of neatly spaced carcasses. Defra has made a training video of his methods, and asked him to write a report 'for next time'. 'Farmers still come up to me in Tesco's to say thank you,' he says. 'I was in a pub the other day and I saw these two lads whose farm I'd taken out, pretty rum lads, you know, from out at Shap. And they came over, put their arms round me and introduced me to the bar as the man who'd shot all their cattle.' He's planning to move up here permanently, he's made so many friends.
The farmer's wife
Hilary Wilson married a sheep farmer at the end of the last outbreak. They were lucky that time.
'Our sheep were all perfectly healthy, but you got a form that said "Voluntary Depopulation". A form to sign. I can't imagine a more perverse title for it. Really it was signing a death warrant.'
Hilary Wilson married into her husband's farm at the foot of the Penrith spur in 1967, the year of the last outbreak of foot and mouth. That time, the epidemic stopped at Kendal, a few miles to the south. This time, they were not so lucky. 'Two lots were away wintering,' she says, 'One lot was due to lamb. They were actually shot the day they were due to start lambing. It's something you don't want to think about.'
The breed of sheep the Wilsons keep are called Rough Fell, and they are local to this area, to this valley. Wilson, who is a Quaker, refers to them as their 'family of sheep'. As a flock, they don't have scrapie and they are very resistant to disease. There were about 18,000 Rough Fell ewes in total and they are down to 8,000 now. The fear was always that they would lose them all, because there would be no way of replacing them.
Hilary was the one member of the family who went off farm in the months they lived with that fear; her son, brother-in-law and husband stayed behind. She works shifts at the local hospital as a nurse, and every night, when she got home at 10, at the top of the lane that leads down to the farm, she would have to get out and spray the car with disinfectant. 'Then before I got in the house, I'd have to dip my feet. Then when I got in, before I did anything else, I'd wash all my clothes and then get in the bath and wash myself and my hair. We were that extreme because no one gave you any suggestion of how extreme you should be. It felt like you were fighting a biological war, but on your own.'
The worst of it was that no one would give you the truth. 'We moved heaven and earth to get in touch with anyone at all, Maff, Defra, but no one returned calls or letters or emails. You felt as if there was a gun put to your head as well as your animals. And then what you saw on television appeared to be blaming farmers. It felt like being in the most dreadful hostage position, with everyone thinking you had brought it on yourself.'
Did it bring people together, in their valley, I wonder? She pauses for a long while. 'I think it divided people. You were frightened of what other people might be doing all the time.' I wonder if the episode tested her faith. 'You don't want to be seen as an angry person, but it's hard. You can't say you don't feel damaged spiritually. It's like a bereavement, but there's no burial site. We had a Hindu gentleman who came round to free the spirits of the animals, in their terms. I was very grateful for that. Otherwise there's been no way of recognising the atrocities, the effects it's had on people.'
When she thinks of the future, what does she imagine? 'The problem is,' she says, 'that there is just not a future for us at the moment. People say diversification. We've tried our hardest.' She smiles to herself. 'I have an orchard where I grow old-fashioned apples. I've about 70 varieties. And I was interested in doing a pack of six apples of different varieties. I sent away to find out what I needed to do. And I got six sheets back with all the EU regulations. And basically, no, it was not only not worth it, but not even possible.'
In the face of all the despair around her, she seems in herself quite optimistic, I suggest. Where does she draw the hope from? She laughs at the thought. 'Working shifts at the hospital,' she says. And then: 'But also from this place. When you come from the outside, as I did, you see it's quite a remarkable sort of community here. I smile when I see these things on television when they put people on an island and ask them to live together. They don't have trouble with resources, it's relationships that are the problem. Well, that's our lives. The poor old farmer round here had to get that sussed about 2,000 years ago. If you fell out with your neighbour, you'd had it. So there is something about that community, it seems to me, that ought to be preserved.' She pauses. 'It can't just be allowed to disappear.'
The ostrich farmer
Karen Peet, who runs a visitor attraction.
'My father-in-law, who has farmed around here forever, has this ability to come up with weird and wonderful ideas,' Karen Peet explains. 'And one day these ostrich eggs arrived. He was one of the first to bring them into the country and none of us knew anything about it at all. So we all just looked at these big eggs. Then we bought some incubators and things and after a while they hatched.'
Karen's husband's family has been farming cattle and sheep and ostrich now for nearly five years on their 500 acres in the Eden Valley east of Penrith. Karen herself looks after the visitor attraction which has grown up around the ostriches.They'd had 34,000 visitors in the year 2000, and last year they were hoping for 40,000 or more. 'We were due to open for the season on 1 March, but with foot and mouth we knew straight away that we would not be able to. We lost all our sheep and some rare-breed pigs and goats, but we kept our cattle.' They have a herd of red and fallow deer, too - another of her father-in-law's ideas - and they were the biggest worry. 'They feed from your hand, you see, and to get that now in a deer herd is almost impossible. But we held on to them in the end.'
Otherwise, everything went out of the window. 'We'd prepared for the new season and spent a lot on advertising. So we lost all the money on our advance bookings, and various special events we'd put a lot of effort into had to be cancelled.' More than that, Karen, raised in Manchester and still a secret townie at heart, thought she would go stir crazy. 'I have to have a goal, have to know what I'm doing, have to be organised - and everything just disappeared. We had to let our nanny go as well, so I could only work part-time while the kids were at school. And you had to do what you were told to do round here, of course, follow all the rules. I hated that.'
A bit of hope came in June from an unusual quarter.Their shetland pony gave birth to a unique zebra crossbreed. 'When we bought her from a wildlife park we didn't know she was pregnant, we just thought she was getting fatter from all the fresh grass. Then one day we went out and there was this stripey foal. We could not believe it. We had worldwide press. So that kept us going, really.'
I imagine that, despite all the problems, they were grateful that they had made the original decision to diversify. 'I'd like to think we'll always farm,' Karen says. 'It won't just be a visitor attraction. But things are changing, certainly. There's a lot round here won't go back into farming now.' And have there been inquiries from more traditional farmers about the merits of keeping the birds? 'There's always interest from farmers with smallholdings wondering about farming ostriches. But you need a special license because they are classified as a dangerous wild animal. So it's not just a question of buying a few ostrich eggs. It's a labour of love, really.'
She smiles. 'I don't think it's everyone's future. But hopefully it's still ours.'


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I have a lable that I want centered width wise on my screen even when the size changes. How can I set the label property to center that way? Or right justify for that matter?
Hello Donald,
One possible way (if you have the very latest release of App Builder published right now) is to use the "TextAlign" CSS property of the Label control. In the object inspector, you can view a "TextAlign" property in the "Normal", "Hover" and "Focus" tab. Just choose one of the available values for this property like "center", "right", etc.
Another possible way to align the Label can be using their "Classes" variable. In that variable we can put the value "text-center" or "text-right". These CSS clases are provided by Bootstrap CSS and has available from us.
Another possible way is to use the app's "Inlince CSS". Access to that from the app's options dialog or from the designer object inspector. In the CSS editor, write something like the below code, suposing your Label name is "Label1", change the identifier for your Label's name.
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Hope this can help you Donald. If you have any further question don't hesitate to post it.
Sweet! Really nice.
Thanks David
Always thanks you Donald.
I guess this is related, but how do I allign text in a pushbutton. My text is on the bottom edge of the buttton, so I tried the paddingbottom css but it does not do anything. I'm not sure what value it would be looking for anyway. Is it pixals? 10 or 10px or ?
I'm looking for way to get my text centered in all directions in a pushbutton, regardless of what size the button.
Ok maybe this is not an issue as I notice when installed on my phone the text seems centered but not so much in the debugger view.
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Hello Donald,
This is quite strange. The push button's text appear centered by default... how you get a button with their label not centered? Can you provide me a little sample application?
As I said, it does appear centered correctly in the installed app. But in the debugger view it is centered horizontal, but not vertical. I will send you an image by email.
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The MASTER auto-detection system at Kislovodsk detected a new transient source at the position (R.A., Dec) 01h 32m 41.20s , +34d 38m 09s.1, (J2000) with a typical uncertainty of 0.5" at 2010-12-09 16:31:09 (UT). The OT was seen at next image after ~45 min (2010-12-09 17:17:24 UT). There is now minor planet and any object brighter 21 mag in DSS at this place. We have a number images this field without OT. The one was made at 2009-10-14 21:38:56 and have the limit 19.0 (5 hours before detection).
The unfiltered magnitude is about 17.7 +-0.1 ( exposition 180s, mlim = 19.4 ).
There is significant fading OT on the late images 4 weeks:
The unfiltered magnitude at 2011-01-06 19:54:48 is about 18.8 +-0.2 ( exposition 180s, mlim = 19.2 ).
The spectral observations are needed.
The discovery image is available at http://observ.pereplet.ru/images/MASTER013241.20+343809.1/MASTER_OT_013241.20+343809.jpg


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This is an exciting week in Virginia, because it's Cider Week! That means lots of delicious local food, music, and of course – CIDER! Events and activities span across the state this week, allowing everyone to enjoy Virginia's best in food and drink in the beauty of cool, green landscapes draped in the rich russet of lingering oak leaves. Entertainment and music follow, and Cider Week is further highlighted by activities that allow you to learn everything about cider – What are the best cider apples? How do you make your own cider? If you are serious about Cider, this is the week to be in Virginia!
It is absolutely delightful to follow a fun afternoon in the crisp air with a warming glass of wine by the fireplace at Chester! Our own old oak tree is stunning as it drops its last leaves, and the inn is a cozy home base while you explore the many offerings of the season. Find out more about Cider Week and all the activities you can be a part of right here in the Charlottesville area – click here.
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The Light is still a little-known name in the world of multiscreen cinemas, with just one in the whole country.
With the second one being built here in Wisbech, Citizen reporter Emma McGuire headed to Liverpool to see what lies in store for the people of Fenland.
My first impression of The Light when I arrived in the Wirral was its size. It sits in a large complex that is reminiscent of the Wisbech coldstore, very clean and modern.
As soon as I walked into the cinema, I was impressed. From the small cafe area at the front to the original artwork on the walls, it has a sense of 'wow' about it.
The cinema has only been open for 18 months but it has already attracted a faithful following. You only have to look at its Facebook page to see the great reviews. When I asked people for their opinions on the cinema, I was overwhelmed with the response. The majority of comments were extremely positive, praising the range of shows on offer and the customer service.
Customer service is one of the things The Light prides itself on. Operations manager Jamie Atherton could not praise the staff enough and it is this customer service that has led The Light become the number one rated attraction in the Wirral on Tripadvisor.
Comfort has also been rated highly by people visiting the cinema. In each of the eight screens, which range in size from 74 to 251 seats, there are large comfortable chairs with plenty of leg room. Forget creaking flip-down seats and narrow sticky walkways.
I got the chance to see a film while I was there and the picture and sound quality were both spot on. The projectionists welcome feedback from people and adjust the sound levels dependent on the audience and film.
For example, they have started parent and tot sessions and autism-friendly screenings that have lower sound levels and brighter lights to make the cinema a less frightening experience.
But what impressed me most about The Light was not the plush seating or the freshly-made popcorn, but the sense of community and ownership from the small team that work in the cinema.
Jane Woodson is the Light Arts, Events and Education manager and has spearheaded a large proportion of the initiatives at The Light. She has worked closely with many community groups to see how they can benefit from the cinema, such as the local deaf society and LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) group.
The Light is part of National Theatre Live, screening live performances from theatres across the country to cinema audiences. It also shows music concerts and opera to cater for all tastes. Upcoming shows at The Light range from Othello to Robbie Williams.
It is hoped that the Wisbech cinema will also be able to offer these things and may even come up with some different ideas. Jamie said one of the benefits of working for a new company is the freedom to try new things.
And despite some angry calls from Fenland people defending The Luxe, Jamie added they are not trying to put the local cinema out of business and look forward to working together with the theatre in the future.
So with work progressing on the Cromwell Road site, I – along with many people – look forward to seeing what The Light can bring to Fenland.


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Mid-April is a good time to prepare to divide your perennials but only if they are looking congested, or losing vigour, or if you want more to make a better display.
Plants look best in threes, fives, sevens or nines but, when planting, you should always avoid straight lines.
Form a waving ribbon or drift - with one plant spaced away from the others - for a natural effect.
Agapanthus, kniphofia and hemerocallis can only be divided in spring, as losses occur if division is attempted in autumn.
All three produce dense clumps that need sawing or cutting into chunky pieces using a hand saw or large kitchen knife.
Autumn-flowering perennials (such as asters and heleniums) are also divided in spring, never in autumn. Many form loose clumps.
Lift the whole plant and use two forks back to back to lever the clump apart. Discard the middle section and use the more vigorous outer pieces.
Tighter clump-formers can be chopped into sections with a spade. Add a slow release fertiliser (such as blood, fish and bone) and replace, or move to fresh ground.
It's also time to cut back late-summer flowering shrubs (including buddleia and caryopteris) to strong lower buds. They flower on new wood.
If your buddleia is at the back of the border, you may want to reduce each stem by half to maintain height and give earlier flowers.
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Sign of Things to Come + Cookbook Update
I was eating cold slices of leftover grilled steak and just had to take a photo.
I love happy meat!
The arranged slices are out of order – I had already eaten half of the steak by the time I noticed. But wouldn't it have been fun to arrange them in order, fan through them like one of those kids flip sketch books and see the range of facial expressions!!
Or damn. If I wasn't so hungry, I could have sold these meat slices on EBay.
I could be a rich! famous! or just stupid and the subject of endless mockery.
but I do like happy meat. and there are SO many jokes that are running through my head right now but I'll just keep to myself because my mother reads my blog now.
This isn't the first time I've had my food smile at me:
Thank you Washington Post!
Food columnist, Kim O'Donnel from the Washington Post interviewed several female food writers and bloggers to share their favorite ways to cool off in the kitchen — suppers that are raw, uncooked or using as little stovetop power as possible.
Come read our answers! Bea of La Tartine Gourmande and Rachel of Coconut and Lime also contributed!
Cookbook update!
(rubbing hands excitedly) I've got 44 out of the 100 recipes ready for testing!!! I'm drafting email to send out to you all right now. I'm also including a little "Cookbook Update" tab in the box to the right, up on top….to keep you posted.
But I've created a new website with the recipes, notes, photos – and it's in a blog format so that you can submit comments, questions, etc. I'm really excited to have you guys start!
The site URL will be emailed to the list of testers who have signed up. If you are interested, please comment below and I'll add you to the list.


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Skip to comments.Council of Europe Adopts Dick Martys Albanian Organ-Trafficking Report
Posted on 02/09/2011 3:06:27 PM PST by Ravnagora
In Strasbourg on January 25th the Council of Europe voted to formally endorse Swiss senator Dick Martys report on organ-trafficking by the KLA mafia that the U.S. installed to run Kosovo. The resolution calls for an investigation by international judicial bodies as well as one by Albania (keep dreaming) into various serious crimes in post-war Kosovo.
At the PACE meeting (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe), the Albanian delegation tried to water down the resolution, with some lawmakers trying to either postpone debates on the issue or somehow smooth out the reports rather tough formulations, Voice of Russia paraphrased Russian rep Dmitry Vyatkin as saying. It is clear that neither Kosovo nor Albania will help the investigation, but will instead try to conceal or destroy all evidence. We also should not rely upon NATO occupation forces, which are also hardly interested in the probes success
Thats certainly not news to Balkans observers, and helps explain why, while denying the accusations and denouncing Marty, Kosovo prime minister Thaci feels safe in expressing support for an investigation. Albania has also said it would support a probe, either by EULEX or the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, in The Hague, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting.
The Albanian confidence in institutions like EULEX and ICTY is well placed. The ICTY has proved its loyalty over the years to Albanian and other anti-Serb ethnic causes, and EULEX of course is based in Kosovo, where it can easily be gotten to, as former chief ICTY prosecutor Carla del Ponte intimated in a recent interview in which she cited the Tribunals own experience with intimidation of its witnesses in Kosovo. I fear that EULEX will not be able to do this investigation because you can imagine the obstacles they would face...'
(Excerpt) Read more at juliagorin.com ...
Piano man myself.
This fiasco was Bill Clinton's work, fighting the war on the wrong side and helping the Albanian Muslim drug-smuggling terrorists. The trade in body parts is just an extra crime on top of the rest.
But George Bush did NOTHING to reverse clinton's evil misdeeds. And he signed on to handing over a stolen province to another country, against the basic principles of international law.
Very disappointing.
fyi, and likely good to ping the list which follows balkans items.
Agree with every word you just said, Cicero. Thanks.
Russian rep Dmitry Vyatkin ... saying.
It is clear that neither Kosovo nor Albania will help the investigation, but will instead try to conceal or destroy all evidence. We also should not rely upon NATO occupation forces, which are also hardly interested in the probes success
NATO is a moral and strategic train wreck at this point. It needs stake through the you know where...
Thanks, Wendy, but Ravna Gora has the list, too.
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From sugar cane to
your sugar bowl
Sugarcane arrived in Louisiana with the Jesuit priests in 1751 who planted it near where their church now stands on Baronne Street in New Orleans. Sugar cane plantations later grew up around New Orleans. Little did they know that the foundation was being laid for an industry that produces over 400,000 acres and contributes over $2 billion to the Louisiana economy.
In 1795, Jean Étienne de Boré, a French planter, successfully granulated sugar on a commercial scale, essentially making sugarcane profitable as a commodity crop. Like all crops, it had a few bad years: lack of production during the Civil War, a disease epidemic in the 20s, and freezing temperatures in the 90s. But through it all, the growers have survived, and continued to produce one of the world's main food staples.
During the early years of cultivation, the average yield of sugarcane in Louisiana ranged between 16 and 20 tons per acre. Later, as sugarcane varieties were improved through crossing seedlings, better varieties were able to produce better yields.
Today, Louisiana sugarcane yields range from 30 to 50 tons per acre, with recoveries ranging from 180 to 240 pounds of sugar produced from each ton of cane. These sugar levels rival yields obtained in the more tropical sugarcane-growing regions.
Because sugarcane is a tropical crop, the ability to rival tropical yields has been largely the result of sugarcane breeding efforts. These efforts began in Louisiana in the early 1920s. Breeding has not only increased the yield and the sugar recovery but also the number of years a crop is viable.
Sugarcane is planted vegetatively, using whole stalks of cane rather than true seed. Each stalk consists of several joints which each have a bud. Cane stalks are planted in rows during the fall of each year and the buds produce shoots of cane the following spring. After maturing into stalks during the late summer, the cane crop is first harvested that fall and is called the plant cane crop. Sugarcane is a grass and more than one cutting can be harvested from each planting. In Louisiana, two to four additional annual cuttings (called ratoon crops) are made before the land has to be fallowed and replanted.
All Louisiana sugarcane is mechanically harvested using either soldier or combine type harvesters. Soldier harvesters cut off the cane tops, cut the stalks from their attachment to the row, and lay them on heaps behind the machine. After the cane heaps are burned to remove excess trash, cane loaders place the cane in large wagons for transport to the raw sugar factories. Combine harvesters cut the stalks into short pieces or billets, while extractor fans remove a portion of the leaf trash. Billets are then transported to the factories.
At the raw sugar factories, cane is washed and crushed, with the juice being boiled down to a thick syrup. The cane byproduct is bagasse which is often used as a fuel to power the factories. The thick syrup is separated into sugar crystals ("raw sugar") and black strap molasses. The raw sugar is sold to refiners who melt the raw sugar crystals, remove the remaining impurities and color, and produce white or "refined" sugar.
Sugar Fun Facts:
Sugar is 100% natural. It's a pure carbohydrate. Vitamins and minerals are sometimes present, but only in trace amounts. Sugar contains15 calories per teaspoon. Sugar, or sucrose, is produced most commonly from sugarcane or sugar beets when the energy of sunlight along with chlorophyll in the leaves transforms water and nutrients into sugar. Although the processing is slightly different, there is no difference between the sugar from sugarcane or sugar beets. On an equal weight basis, there is very little nutritional difference between honey and sugar. Because it weighs more, a tablespoon of honey contains slightly more carbohydrates and calories than a tablespoon of sugar.
And lastly, only when you have eaten a lemon do you appreciate what sugar is.
Agri-Times NW, an agricultural newspaper, established in 1981, is published the first and third Friday of every month.
The newspaper contains news stories and columns pertaining to rural life and agri-business, designed to keep farmers and ranchers up to date with agriculture in their backyard. Agri-Times NW also keeps readers informed of fair and rodeo dates and times as well as other scheduled Ag events.


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Objective: To evaluate the occurrence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in patients with superficial vein thrombosis (SVT). [Note: superficial vein thrombosis is a clot that causes soreness and swelling in a vericose vein, usually in the calf. Deep vein thrombosis is a medical emergency. It involves formation of a blood clot (thrombus) in a deep vein, usually in the leg or pelvis, that can dislodge and travel to the lungs, becoming a life-threatening pulmonary embolism.]
Design: A prospective study in patients with sonographically proven SVT.
Setting: Outpatient department of the Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Graz.
Patients: Forty-six consecutive patients with superficial vein thrombosis were enrolled.
Intervention: Every patient underwent color-coded duplex sonography of both lower extremities at the beginning of the study.
Main Outcome Measures: Important risk factors (eg, history of thromboembolic events, recent immobilization, active malignant disease, and the use of oral contraceptives) were investigated.
Results: In 24% of our patients, a concomitant, mostly asymptomatic DVT was found. In 73% of these patients, the DVT occurred in the affected leg, in 9% in the contralateral leg, and in 18% in both legs. The calf muscle veins were most commonly involved. In all patients with DVT, the SVT was located on the lower leg and the D-dimer findings were positive.
Conclusions: Superficial vein thrombosis is not a life-threatening disease, but the risk of concomitant DVT cannot be ignored. Color-coded duplex sonography should be performed in patients with SVT to rule out DVT.
Source: Archives of Dermatology, Jul 2009;145(7):753-757. PMID: 19620555, by Binder B, Lackner HK, Salmhofer W, Kroemer S, Custovic J, Hofmann-Wellenhof R. Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Graz; Institute of Medical Engineering, University of Technology, Graz, Austria. [E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com]


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Speaking on a visit to India, Gordon Brown paved the way for the announcement when he said he expected the world's biggest sporting event to return to England for the first time since 1966.
"England is the right place to host it. By 2018, it will be more than 50 years since the World Cup was held in England and Germany has hosted it twice since then. We can offer some of the best facilities in the world." Mr Brown added that he would want England to win the World Cup, unless they were playing Scotland.
The chancellor said polling for the Treasury and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport showed overwhelming public support for the bid, even among Scottish football fans, with the boost to national unity and the economy the main reasons cited. Although the cost of hosting the London Olympics has already gone over budget, the Treasury is confident that the cost of the World Cup will be lower, since England already has enough modern stadiums to host a tournament of 32 teams. After the botched attempt to host the tournament in 2006, Mr Brown reassured the FA that a bid would get government backing, provided it was backed by a feasibility study and on the basis that planning started at once. Bidding for the 2018 World Cup closes in 2010, with the winner announced two years later. The 2010 World Cup is being held in South Africa, and Brazil - five times winners of the event - is the likely venue in 2014.
In a separate announcement in Mumbai yesterday, the chief executive of the Premier League, Richard Scudamore, said that Africa was being given the right to televise live games free, following lobbying from the chancellor. The move will allow 390 million people to watch live games, but will be limited to matches on Saturday and Monday evenings. Mr Scudamore said the Premiership had done well enough out of selling TV rights to live matches to help some of the world's poorest countries.
Mr Scudamore said: "We have decided because of the economic situation in Africa that they will be able to watch on a free to air basis. The Premier League is pretty much now the world's domestic league, with players from all over the world, particularly from Africa." Mr Brown has been pressing for the deal since visiting Africa in 2005, believing that it will help prevent the growth of anti-western sentiment, especially in Muslim countries. "This is part of our cultural diplomacy," he said. "Our message to the world is that we want to be friends and help."


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Fox Lake, located on the shores of beautiful Fox Lake, is the oldest community in Dodge County. The community has been a tourist destination for many generations, offering resorts, as well as excellent cafés and supper clubs.
An Aquatic Center, 18-hole golf course, downtown shopping, public library, several parks, and the areas beautiful lakes provide fantastic recreation throughout the year. Fox Lake has wonderful scenery, including six islands and is noted as an excellent fishing lake, as is nearby Lake Emily. Public hunting land around Fox Lake is known for giving up trophy-sized white-tailed deer. Fox Lake hosts great events throughout the year.
For complete information on all of these events, visit www.foxlakechamber.com.


text: I don't judge corners by picks and I don't judge De's by sacks for the same reason. Very rarely do either of those plays occur do to an incredibly athletic play. Usually the guy making the play gets a huge amount of help from the other defensive players. Most picks happen because the QB is under duress and most sacks happen because pressure was coming from more than one direction. I judge a guy by how well he does his job and the h=job of a DE is bigger than just getting sacks, impactful as they may be.


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Professor of Management Science:
Dr. Kleindorfer
Wharton School has announced the creation
of the Russell L. Ackoff Endowment funded
through support initially provided by the
charitable trust of Anheuser-Busch. With
a $1.2 million endowment, the fund will
promote research and practice in risk management
and systems science. In addition to the
creation of the fund, Wharton Professor
Paul Kleindorfer has been named the Anheuser-Busch
Professor of Management Science.
is a very important move for the Wharton
School. It provides our faculty and students
with greater resources for the study of
risk management and systems science," said
Dr. Patrick Harker, Wharton dean. "We
are grateful for Anheuser-Busch's support."
chair and the Russell Ackoff endowment reflect
the long-standing ties of Anheuser-Busch
to the Wharton School, as well as the fundamental
contributions that Russell Ackoff has made
to management and systems science," said
Dr. Kleindorfer.
are pleased to see Russ Ackoff honored by
the $1.2 million fund to promote research
at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision
Processes Center. We are also happy to endorse
the selection of Paul Kleindorfer to the
Anheuser-Busch Chair in Management Science,
which Russ filled so ably for so many years," said
August A. Busch III, chairman of the board,
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Anheuser-Busch Professorship in Management
Science was first established in 1977 and
has promoted the disciplines of management
and systems science over the years. The
chair was held by Russell L. Ackoff, now
an emeritus professor, who was a pioneer
in the application of systems thinking to
management, who retired in 1986.
Kleindorfer is the Anheuser-Busch Professor
of Management Science, Professor of Decision
Sciences, Economics, and Business and Public
Policy, as well as the chairperson of Wharton's
Operations and Information Management Department.
Dr. Kleindorfer and Howard Kunreuther, Cecilia
Yen Koo Professor of Decision Sciences and
Public Policy, are co-directors of the Wharton
Risk Management and Decision Processes Center.
endowment will be administered by Risk Management
and Decision Processes Center. The mission
of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision
Processes Center, founded in 1986, is to
undertake research to promote effective
risk management in industry and society.
Based in part on Professor Ackoff's approach
to action research, the center
has been concerned since its inception with
promoting a dialogue among industry, government,
public interest groups and academics through
its research and policy publications and
through sponsored workshops, roundtables
and forums. Potential near-term research
initiatives in the Risk Center to receive
funding from this endowment include:
Companies is a St. Louis based corporation
with subsidiaries that include the world's
largest brewing organization, one of the
largest U.S. manufacturers of aluminum beverage
containers, and one of the largest theme-park
operators in the United States. Anheuser-Busch
and its charitable foundation donate funds
to hundreds of charitable organizations
each year including colleges and universities,
health care institutions, social service
agencies, civic organizations and arts and
cultural groups.
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A trio in Kenya has come up with an unusual solution to a common situation. After falling in love with the same woman, two Kenyan men have signed an agreement to "marry" her in an effort to keep the peace.
It all began when Abdhallah Abdulrahman, a local police officer, found Sylvester Mwendwa and Elijah Kimani quarreling over Joyce Wambui, a widow who'd been secretly seeing both men for the past four years.
After Wambui could not choose between two, the trio decided to write up a contract that would "set boundaries" and hopefully help them continue to see Wambui peacefully.
According to Mwendwa, the agreement states that the trio will live with Wambui and help raise any children that may be born of their union.
Mwendwa told the BBC they created the agreement because the situation could have turned deadly: "It could have been very dangerous if the other man would have come to her house and caught me," he said. "So our agreement is good as it sets boundaries and helps us keep peace."
He added, "She is like the central referee. She can say whether she wants me or my colleague."
Mwendwa doesn't want people to get the wrong idea about his wife. While some may call the 20-something mother of twins a seductress, Mwendwa say she's a good person.
"It's not because she is a superwoman," he told Kenya's Daily Nation, "but because she is a hard worker and very beautiful."
The contract, which appears to be illegal in Kenya, reads:
"We have agreed that from today we will not threaten or have jealous feelings because of our wife, who says she's not ready to let go of any of us."
It adds, "Each one will respect the day set aside for him. We agree to love each other and live peacefully. No-one has forced us to make this agreement."
While the trio's arrangement has steadied their home life, some of their compatriots do not approve.
After Mwendwa went public about their arrangement, he lost his job and says he's had to go into hiding to escape the backlash. He's also angered his wife.
Although it remains to be seen if he can get back in Wambui's good graces, it doesn't look like the trio will be able to sustain their agreement. While polygamy—marrying two women—is legal in Kenya, polyandry—a woman marrying two men—is not.