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Russia, October 20, 1998
Hunger Comes to Us All
Every winter everybody is scared of famine!Los Angeles Times October 20, 1998
Hunger in Russia's Heartland Devastating summer drought caused worst grain
harvest since 1953.
Despite official reassurances, many in impoverished regions fear winter will bring starvation.
By John-Thor Dahlburg
PALLASOVKA, Russia--In July the wheat crop failed, roasted alive in the dust as the sun baked the hard earth of Russia's southern steppe to 160 degrees. Soviet-era collective farms around here lie in ruins, the livestock killed and butchered, barns and dwellings pillaged by scavengers. The local administration of this isolated, semidesert area has run out of cash, and in the largest town, half of the adult population is jobless.
On the threshold of winter, when temperatures on the wind-scoured plains near the Kazakhstan frontier can drop to nearly 40 below, many families have no money and virtually nothing to eat. Some have resorted to making gruel from cattle fodder, or expect to perish from hunger or lack of fuel. In a macabre coincidence, the movie theater in Pallasovka is featuring a Stephen King horror film, "Thinner."
"Maybe we'll all die in the winter," said Svetlana Karakusheva, a 44-year-old mother raising five children in a rural settlement. Her kitchen garden has become an infertile dust bowl. Hunger and cold, ancient Russian fears that were supposed to be banished by capitalist abundance, are back to haunt many.
This year's harvest of wheat, rye, barley and other grains, withered by prolonged and fierce drought, was 49.7 million tons, the State Statistics Committee reported Monday. That was the smallest harvest nationwide since 1953, the last year of dictator Josef Stalin's reign. The committee also reported that more than 44 million Russians--30% of the population--last month were living below the poverty line of a meager $37 a month in income. Government officials have been reassuring a population already jittery because of economic turmoil that the situation is under control and that there is plenty of wheat and other food in storage to feed the nation.
That may well be the macro picture. But the harsh facts of life in the Pallasovka region, 600 miles southeast of Moscow, show that the stomachs of some Russians are far from full and that many fear they will have little or nothing with which to nourish themselves and their families in the months to come. "If you have money, you won't starve; if you don't, you will have problems, even in Moscow," predicted Andrei Y. Sizov, who runs a think tank in the capital that tracks the country's agricultural output. "To escape social shocks--hunger marches, hunger riots--we've got to take care of matters now."
Late last month, the Russian Red Cross and its international affiliate launched an appeal for $15 million in emergency aid. Millions across Russia--especially the elderly, the disabled, single-parent families, families with many children and rural dwellers--face the most trying winter in a generation, the Red Cross said. To avert "human catastrophe," the Red Cross targeted 1.4 million people in a dozen regions, from the republic of Buryatia in central Siberia to Kaliningrad on the Baltic coast, as urgent recipients of food parcels, soup kitchen meals, warm clothes and shoes.
'You Can't Exclude Mass Starvation'
"With the indicators we have seen now, the crop failure and the financial crisis, you can't exclude mass starvation," said Borje Sjokvist, head of the Moscow delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Those predictions are much more dire than most, and forecasts of cataclysm in Russia have been made before without coming true. But few doubt that nearly seven years after the world's largest country abandoned communism for what was supposed to be the general prosperity of the free market, many people will have to suffer grimly through winter--an ordeal that may well further sap support for post-Soviet changes.
Prime Minister Yevgeny M. Primakov said Wednesday that the government had allocated the sum of $600 million for the purchase of emergency food supplies--enough to feed a third of the population. Earlier this month, he had said he was counting on the private vegetable plots doled out to workers in Soviet times to help feed the populace through the long winter. The Defense Ministry has suggested that military units forage for berries and mushrooms, so soldiers who have not been paid for months don't go hungry.
How miserable life is for some is instantly visible here on the now- defunct Khutor Yesino farm, where 10,000 sheep once grazed. "There is no coal, no firewood, no work, no money," said Aiman Zukieva, a 41-year-old shepherd's widow frantically trying to raise her two children and a nephew.
The petite Chechen-born woman heats her small brick house by burning sheep dung, and a sympathetic neighbor regularly donates a pail of watery whey--sour milk strained through a sieve--to nourish the youngsters. But it is not enough. Zukieva keeps 15 chickens and trades eggs for other food. However, she has no feed to tide her fowl through the winter. Her children receive a single slice of bread each for breakfast, and one other scant meal a day. They suffer spells of dizziness.
"I don't like this life," said spindly Rakhmat, Zukieva's 10-year-old daughter, who nonetheless can manage a dazzling smile. "Mother says all the time we'll die in the winter. I don't want to die."
Anatoly I. Galichkin, head of government administration in Pallasovka, a rude border town whose 20,000 inhabitants have to fetch drinking water in buckets from tanker trucks, said he would not be surprised if mobs from the countryside arrive to loot shops and drag him from his office. "Crowds of 200, 250 people come to me, and I try to feed all of them with a single loaf of bread, like Jesus Christ," he said gloomily.
More than a month ago, Galichkin and his counterparts in five other regions east of the Volga River, where drought singed an area the size of Belgium, sent an open appeal to President Boris N. Yeltsin, warning that the situation was now "a state of emergency." To date, officials here say, they have received no reply from Moscow.
Authorities in Volgograd, about 120 miles to the southwest, have sent 200 tons of flour--a sixth of what Galichkin said he needs for the winter. Meanwhile, the government official said, people are dying because they are not eating enough and cannot buy medicines. "If there is absolutely no help from the government, then there is really just one option left for us--most people will simply starve," Galichkin said.
The food situation in Russia is a complicated good-news, bad-news story. According to Sizov and his SovEkon think tank, crop losses reached 68% in the important wheat-growing Orenburg region south of the Urals in what has been described as the worst drought in half a century. Outside Pallasovka, one kolkhoz, or collective farm, sowed 1,400 tons of seed and reaped a wheat crop of only 400 tons.
But this tableau is not as bleak as it appears, because roughly half of Russia's cattle, sheep, goats and chickens have been killed over the last five years. They were butchered for meat because increases in the prices of fuel and fodder, and the end of government subsidies for animal husbandry, have significantly raised the cost of meat and dairy farming.
So with fewer livestock, Russia now needs less grain. The country, which enjoyed an 88.5-million-ton harvest in 1997, also claims reserves of 20 million tons. The official in charge of coping with disasters, natural and human-made, has given his assurance that Russians will have plenty to eat for the winter. "I am totally sure that there will be no sort of famine at all, since there are sufficient reserves in the country," Maj. Gen. Sergei K. Shoigu, minister of emergency situations, said this month.
That may be true, one Western agriculture attache in Moscow said. On the other hand, "no one has seen these grain stocks they talk about," said the attache, who estimated that the reserves total no more than 10 million tons. Already strapped for hard cash, Russia will be forced to buy millions of tons of wheat abroad, the Western diplomat said.
Unpaid Salaries Worsen the Suffering Whatever the reserves, Tamara Redin, 38, knows her five children are hungry and too thin. Her 36-year-old husband, a diesel locomotive engineer's assistant in Pallasovka, has not been paid for four months. For want of anything else, Redin has had to give her children, ages 7 to 16, a porridge made from low-quality grain intended for use as animal fodder. They each get half an egg a day, along with a glass of milk mixed with water.
Day after day, the family, which lives along a dirt road near the town's grain elevator, has eaten an unsavory soup made from unripe tomatoes and boiled potatoes. It's been a month and a half since they've had meat. Redin digs her hand into a half-empty sack to show what's left in her larder--potatoes the size of big marbles.
The Redins are hardly an exception. Galina M. Milyokhina, head of family services for Pallasovka district, estimates that 70% of families in town are in similar straits. Local officials say a good share of the suffering could be alleviated if payment resumes of salaries, retirement pensions and child support, frozen for months because the Russian government has been unable to collect taxes. Although this is one of Prime Minister Primakov's avowed priorities, people in Pallasovka have seen few results. The top local government official has not been paid since April.
Some specialists contend that the new Russian government also has been recklessly slow to purchase the grain needed to feed armed forces members, Interior Ministry troops, prison inmates and patients in state hospitals. "The state needs to buy 4 million tons. It's only bought 1.3 million so far," Sizov of the think tank said. "Patients in hospitals can't feed themselves." When the Russian market was opened to consumer goods from outside, imported food products--from French yogurt to Danish salami--flooded in. Annual sales reached an estimated $11 billion. For most Russians, frozen U.S.-produced chicken legs became the cheapest meat. Foreign suppliers were meeting 70% of the meat and dairy needs of the 10 million inhabitants of the Moscow region.
Now, deliveries of U.S. chicken, which had been running at a yearly clip of $800 million, have ground to a virtual halt. Along with other imports, they stopped in mid-August after Russia effectively defaulted on treasury bills, and the banks used for most commercial transactions shut their doors.
A simultaneous tumble in the value of the ruble means that, even if imports resume, U.S. chicken legs will be twice as expensive for anyone paying in Russian currency. "We can do without animal products, but we can't do without bread," Dmitri F. Vermel, a senior member of the All-Russian Research Institute of Rural Economy in Moscow, said bravely. "We are not Americans, who cannot survive if they don't get their 300 grams [about 10 1/2 ounces] of meat a day."
To ensure basic sustenance for their people, at least 28 of Russia's 89 regions and republics have slapped embargoes on the shipment of grain and other foodstuffs. In the Volgograd region, which encompasses Pallasovka, officials have effectively banned outside sales of sunflower oil, wheat and 12 other commodities grown by their farmers.
In other parts of Russia, that could make it even harder this winter for people shopping for food. And, with the drop in availability of other foodstuffs, bread should be in even greater demand. "The grain harvest should be enough to meet food demands," Sizov summed up. "It's another matter how we distribute it. Winter will be difficult for Russia--very difficult."
Meanwhile, people already suffering from privations are struggling to get by, sometimes in circumstances that have more in common with Third World countries than the superpower that Russia once was.
Once-Thriving Farm Now a Shambles
Twenty miles outside Pallasovka, 38 extended families, totaling 200 people, are hunkering down amid the shambles of what was once a farm that had 500 cows. When state financial support for raising livestock stopped, the animals of Khutor Novy were slaughtered or stolen. Farm managers, residents and vandals ransacked the place for anything they could use or resell.
As a cold wind blew from the east, Safkulu Guseinov, 61, wheeled a rickety wheelbarrow containing pumpkins, red beets and carrots down a road to his house. The small load, the grizzled man said, was all he was able to harvest from his drought-stricken garden. Winter is shaping up as a time of hunger for the Khutor Novy man and the 10 members of his household. "They all come to me and say, 'Give me bread,' or 'Give me milk,' but how can I?" Guseinov asked. "I have no money."
During the drought, a woman from a nearby village hanged herself and her 3-year-old daughter with clothesline after being jilted by her husband and then by a live-in lover. "I can't live like this anymore," Olga Korobova, 22, said in a suicide note written with a mascara pencil. "I've got no way out."
State prosecutor Yuri A. Vlasov said that the single mother's troubles were personal but that the backdrop to her act of despair was depressingly common: no food, no income, no job, suspension of benefits for her daughter, Nina, because no government funds were arriving from Moscow.
"I'm frankly amazed that people are putting up with all of this," the prosecutor said. "We should have had an uprising a long time ago."
Emergency Appeal
These are the regions and republics in Russia for which the Russian Red Cross and its international affiliate have requested $15 million in emergency aid to help them get through winter.
Bashkir Republic
Khakassia Republic
Buryatia Republic
The Independent November 29, 1998
Russian red tape halts US aid to hungry Arctic
From Phil Reeves in Moscow
Farcial and outdated Russian laws are thwarting efforts to provide desperately needed aid to stranded inhabitants of the Arctic north, who risk starvation as winter tightens its grip.
Information gathered by Red Cross officials in Alaska, which has strong ethnic connections with the inhabitants of Russia's far north-east, has produced an exasperating picture of frustration and red tape. Concerned about the fate of their indigenous counterparts in Russia, Alaskans have been eager to send humanitarian aid across the Bering Strait, the sea which divides the prosperous far north-west of the United States from Russia's crisis-hit, perilously poor Chukotka region.
Finding out about the scale of the crisis in the most threatened parts of Arctic Russia is difficult, because of their extreme remoteness, but alarming information has been reaching international aid organisations about villages dotted along the Chukotka's coastline, some less than 100 miles from Alaska's shores. The most remote and harsh parts of the country are worst affected by Russia's economic maelstrom, which has severed fragile Soviet-era supply lines from Moscow.
The Independent on Sunday has learnt that reports gleaned by the US Red Cross include the following complaints:
Medical supplies offered to Chukotka by US hospitals have repeatedly been turned back by the authorities on the grounds that they were "outdated" - a clause that even applied to bandages and plaster.
Although some of the most beleaguered Arctic villages in Russia have received no new clothes supplies for three years, and are without heating, Russian officials insist that aid packages of clothing come with a certificate showing that they have been dry-cleaned. This is said to be a measure to prevent the spread of vermin, although the Alaskans say there is no risk of this. They also point out that Nome - the nearest sizeable Alaskan town to the Russian coastline - has no dry-cleaners.
Humanitarian food supplies over the value of $10,000 cannot be cleared locally but must be referred to officials in Moscow, more than 5,000 miles away. Yet, as shipping the aid from the US West Coast to Russia's far north- east is expensive, consignments worth less than $10,000 are not cost- effective.
The Red Cross has been told there is an "imminent risk" of starvation among a "large proportion" of the inhabitants of some villages in Chukotka, whose population of about 65,000 faces nine-month winters in which temperatures can fall below minus 50C.
Conditions have been worsened by a poor hunting and fishing season, the cancellation of one of three shipping lines between Alaska and the Russian far north-east, and the non-arrival of ships carrying supplies. Last week a Finnish-owned tanker carrying 13,400 tons of fuel finally made it to Chukotka's port of Pevek - on the peninsula's north coast - but only after spending a fortnight struggling through thick ice in the Arctic Sea.
Electricity in Provideniya, a regional centre on the coast, is off for 20 hours a day because of a coal shortage, a problem which is likely to be worse in the more remote areas. Among the villages known to be struggling for survival as the Arctic winter deepens are Lorino, Uelen, Inchoun, and Yanrakynnot. Most at risk are the elderly - who have not received pensions for up to a year - and the young.
Last week the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Moscow warned that Chukotka was facing "unprecedented hardship", which "could threaten the very survival of some indigenous minorities". Some officials say that life expectancy in the region has fallen as low as 40; others say it could be as little as 34. Cardiovascular problems, tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases are rife, but there is a dire shortage of medicines. The Red Cross has dispatched a five-member team to Russia's east and north on an assessment mission for a relief effort.
Komsomolskaya Pravda 12 November 1998
"Shall We Eat, Then?"
Feature comprising report by Yevgeniy Umerenkov, entitled "Agent 007 Counts All Our Potatoes...," and commentary by economic observer Yevgeniy Anisimov, "...But We Have Worked Out Where the Roots of This Fable Lie"; followed by "Incidentally" postscript
[Umerenkov report] A real Russian without his spuds is a goner. Staple No. 2, in other words. So British intelligence zeroed in when Her Majesty's Government received information through secret channels: In a cold winter Russia will not have enough of either staple No. 1 (grain) or staple No. 2.Obviously the government could not keep that secret for long. So an alarmed Robin Cook, British foreign secretary, informed the West that the trouble Russia has had with the grain and potato harvest is spine-chilling.
It is all a question of time: We have enough grain and potatoes to last either for several weeks or until spring. The only conclusion is Moscow must get urgent assistance or mobs of hungry Russians will first cause disturbances at home and then flood prosperous West European countries in search of grub, thus threatening their security.
This warning came when the Primakov government's negotiations with the European Union on food and humanitarian aid were in full swing: Concerning what we need and what we can do without and in what amounts, at what prices, and on what terms food imports will be supplied. And against the background of statements by Russian officials to the effect that we do not face the threat of famine, except for the odd interruption in the supply of "Bush's chicken legs." But, apparently, by spring there will be nothing to bake jacket potatoes with!
The reference to British and U.S. intelligence data is a serious matter. We asked our "competent organs' to explain. They confirm that specialists actually can estimate pretty accurately on the basis of photographs taken from space what kind of grain harvest Russia has grown. But it is a bit harder calculating how many tubers have ripened in the soil beneath the tops. And in fact how you can view from space all our plots, private, vegetable gardens, and dacha grounds where around 80 percent of Russia's potatoes are grown is a mystery. And we cannot see how they managed to count the sacks of potatoes stored in cellars in the countryside and apartments in the city.
In this case Western intelligence services have clearly stolen a march on their Russian counterparts.
The West's desire not to leave us in the lurch is a noble one, of course, and deserves gratitude. But there is certainly another motive behind their anxiety. Because of our crisis the Western countries could lose the Russian food market they have conquered. The question of continuing supplies to Russia is just as important to them as the problem of survival this winter is to us. And if you sound the alarm by predicting food riots in Siberia, you put a little pressure on Moscow to make it more amenable at the negotiations on the terms for providing it with aid. So a piece of bread and a potato become politicians' small change.
So do we have enough food or not? Who will answer this question? Why does our government say nothing? So if the Western intelligence assessment is true, perhaps we should also ask their James Bonds to calculate whether we have enough pickled cucumbers and sauerkraut to last until spring?
[Anisimov commentary] We were writing about the threat of famine in September. In October we had stopped. Perhaps British intelligence, which gets most of its information from open sources, based its calculations on pieces published in September?
We may face the threat of famine if Russia refuses to pay its state debt. Then all food imports would be sure to collapse. But the signs are that we will manage to avoid defaulting on the state foreign debt this year and will draw on Central Bank and Finance Ministry reserves to pay the $3 billion we are required to pay. It will be worse next year, when we have to repay $17-19 billion, but that will be in a year's time....
What has happen to the food market this year? People have stopped buying expensive imported food, producers of Russian sausage and other food have taken heart, have started producing as much as they can, have raised prices, and have been dashing all over the country in search of Russian raw materials. Prices of meat, milk, and grain have started to rise, which has pleased the peasants no end -- they were hoping for further price rises so that they themselves would not be operating at a loss. If this situation persists for a while longer, the countryside will be able to stand on its own two feet and provide the country with home-produced food. Not 100-percent provision perhaps, but provision nonetheless. Will Western agricultural producers then have to do without the Russian market? Where would they send their food, which, I would point out, they have already been paid for by their own governments, through subsidies?
The recovery of the Russian countryside is bad for the West both economically and politically: Not only does it lose a means of pressurizing Russia, but its own farmers, deprived of markets, will also start to rebel. So U.S. and European states benefit (!) from even giving us free food! It is a way of beating down prices on the Russian domestic market and not allowing Russian agricultural producers to find their feet.
Then, when the situation returns to normal, we will be offered food imports again, but for money. And we will have no option but to buy it, because we will have finished off our own peasants.
In conclusion, a few figures. In a year we consume 20-21 million tonnes of grain; next year we will consume a little more, because the food consumption structure will change and we will eat more cheap bread and less expansive meat. So we need 22-23 million tonnes of food grain. The harvest of this grain was not particularly good in 1998 -- 19-20 million tonnes. But there are stocks of around 10 million tonnes left over from past good years. In addition, past years have shown that peasants hide one-tenth of the harvest from officials' prying eyes for various kinds of barter transactions. So there is plenty of grain, for sure.
Personal plots provide 80-90 percent of people's potatoes. It is impossible to estimate the stocks, but there are no grounds for panic in this case either -- it was a good harvest, on average. OK, so if we have bread and potatoes, we are not going to starve to death.
[postscript] "Rumors of a probable famine in Russia are obviously exaggerated and they benefit only the food importers, who put them about in order to make money," Viktor Semenov, Russian Federation minister of agriculture and food, said yesterday.


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The Long First Winter
Work on the storehouses, quarters, and barracks continued through the fall and winter. The unit was redesignated as part of the 27th Infantry in November. Friendly relationships were established with the Crow, but Sioux harassment of soldiers and civilians when they were away from the fort itself resulted in the loss of four lives.
The snowy winter passed with infrequent mail. Stories were passed by the Crow to the soldiers at Fort C.F. Smith of the Fetterman Fight. Eighty-one soldiers who pursued attacking Sioux away from Fort Phil Kearney were lured to a larger force of Indians that killed them all on December 21st. Due to brutal winter weather, the details of the Fetterman Fight were not confirmed at Fort C.F. Smith until February 7, 1867. By May, the only food left at the fort was corn originally intended for the livestock. Life was hard and lonely at the isolated post.
On May 26th, a few Sioux charged the fort and ran off some horses. A detachment chased after them, but not far from the fort the soldiers stopped as they didn't want a repeat of the fate suffered by the pursuing soldiers in the Fetterman Fight. A suitable flag pole was finally erected on June 1st, and the United States flag flew over the fort for the first time. A supply train finally reached Fort C.F. Smith on June 11th, and another company assigned to the fort accompanied them, but the harassment by the Sioux continued.
Friendship With The Crow
Many different people entered the adobe walls of Fort C.F. Smith. From August of 1866 until the summer of 1868, Fort C.F. Smith was garrisoned by soldiers of the 18th Infantry, which later became the 27th Infantry. The command of the fort changed hands several times and with one of these command changes, in the summer of 1867, came the first women and children to live within the fort's perimeter.
A Crow by the name of Iron Bull was the mailman and his knowledge of the land, and of the Sioux, greatly improved the mail service. The Crow people were friendly towards the occupants of the fort, often trading goods and bringing news from the other settlements in the area. They also brought warnings of impending attacks by the Sioux and Cheyenne.
Timely Reinforcements
Lieutenant Colonel Luther P. Bradley arrived to take command on July 23, 1867, with two additional companies that were recently supplied with new .50-70 Allin-modified, breech-loading Springfield rifles. They also brought chests containing more of these new rifles to be issued to the men at Fort C.F. Smith. Just nine days later, these rifles played a major role in winning the Hayfield Fight.
On August 1, 1867, a haying party of nine men and a guard of twenty men were attacked in their log-fortified corral by approximately 800 Sioux. Repeated charges were beaten back. The Wagon Box Fight, near Fort Phil Kearney on August 2nd, was a defeat of other Sioux in a similar action. But these fights did not end the harassment by the Sioux.

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Premier League News from our rivals
Photo by Dave PayneTue 21 Oct 2014
Issued by the BSPA Press Office on Tuesday 21st October 2014
EDINBURGH added the Premier League Knockout Cup to the League Cup with victory over Ipswich last week, leaving the PL title itself to contest this weekend.
The Monarchs won at Foxhall and completed the KO Cup success at Armadale, with boss Alex Harkess saying: "It was a good meeting and I enjoyed it – eventually!"
GLASGOW boss Stewart Dickson is calling on his riders to attack the track as they bid to end the season with a flourish in Sunday's double-header against Workington and Berwick.
Dickson said: "I know Newcastle's Danny King smashed the track record to bits last time and as he left the stadium, he came over to me and a couple of track staff, and said to us, 'That track was perfect.' It's nice to hear that, but I'd prefer to hear that from my own riders."
IPSWICH bring down the curtain on their 2014 with the traditional 16-Lap Classic at Foxhall on Thursday – with the final race being a gruelling test of man and machine.
Co-promoter Chris Louis said: "I know from my own experiences that I faced the 16 lap final with dread and excitement in equal measure, a real mental and physical battle that can really only be attacked with one tactic. Qualify well, race from the back grid and attack from the off!
"Speedway is raced over four laps and that's how you get conditioned, it's really quite amazing how tough it becomes when you change that and each rider taking part on Thursday will be feeling the effects after just 6 – 8 laps, it becomes a mental battle and mind over matter from that point on!"
SOMERSET defend the Premier League title when they face Edinburgh home and away this weekend in a repeat of the 2013 Final.
Promoter Debbie Hancock said: "This is what we have been battling for all season. Having won the title last year, we are determined to make a successful defence of our crown, but by the same token Edinburgh will be looking to avenge last year's Final defeat.
"Our two matches against Edinburgh already this year have shown that there is little to choose between the two sides on aggregate and there is no reason to believe that the Final will be any different."
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Posted on September 12, 2013, Thursday
STUMBLING BLOCK: The new iPhone 5C is displayed during an Apple product announcement at the Apple campus in Cupertino, California. The pricing of what was expected to be a cheap model aimed at growth markets such as China and India has not only stumped investors, but also Apple aficionados in China, a country of 1.4 billion people and the world's largest smartphone market. — AFP photo
BEIJING/SINGAPORE: The world's biggest public company and the world's biggest country are at loggerheads over the price of a phone.
Apple Inc's new plastic-backed iPhone 5C will sell for 4,488 yuan (US$730) China, almost 200 more than the United States retail price of US$549 and only 800 yuan (US$130) less than its top-of-the-line sibling, the 5S.
The pricing of what was expected to be a cheap model aimed at growth markets such as China and India has not only stumped investors, but also Apple aficionados in China, a country of 1.4 billion people and the world's largest smartphone market.
"My original estimate of the 5S price was around 3,000 yuan, but more than 4,000 – I think for a budget version the price may be a little expensive. I don't think I can buy one," said Liu Donghai, a 25-year-old chemical engineer.
"If the 5S is around 5,000, then it's similar to the already-released 5 and 4S. I would accept this," he added.
Apple, whose market capitalisation of US$449 billion makes it the world's most valuable publicly traded company, unveiled the two new handsets at an event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California, on Tuesday.
For the first time, it held a launch event in Beijing hours later on Wednesday, a move seen as underscoring the importance of the Chinese market.
New Apple product releases tend to generate a great deal of buzz, but the 5C's reception in China, where fans have been known to queue for days for new products, was lukewarm at best.
"The iPhone 5C is so expensive. Originally I absolutely planned to buy it, now the price makes me uncomfortable. Isn't it just an iPhone 5 with a plastic back?" said Sina Weibo user Shangzhiruixin.
The phrase 'iPhone 5S' was the most popular search term on Sina Weibo, China's most widely used microblogging service, on Wednesday, while "iPhone 5C" did not appear on the top searches list.
Other users questioned why anyone willing to fork out well over 4,000 yuan for a smartphone would not just pay a bit more for the premium 5S model. — Reuters
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Schizoid personality disorder is a mental health condition in which a person has a lifelong pattern of indifference to others and social isolation.
Alternative Names
Personality disorder – schizoid
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Cause of schizoid personality disorder is unknown. This disorder may be related to
Schizoid personality disorder is generally not as disabling as schizophrenia. It does not cause the disconnection from reality (in the form of
A person with schizoid personality disorder often:
- Appears aloof and detached
- Avoids social activities that involve emotional intimacy with other people
- Does not want or enjoy close relationships, even with family members
Signs and tests
Schizoid personality disorder is diagnosed based on a psychological evaluation that assesses the history and severity of the symptoms.
People with this disorder rarely seek treatment, thus little is known about which treatments work. Talk therapy may not be effective because persons with schizoid personality disorder may have great difficulty forming an effective working relationship with a therapist.
One approach that appears to help is to put fewer demands for emotional closeness or intimacy on the person with this condition.
People with schizoid personality disorder often do well in relationships that do not focus on emotional closeness. They tend to be better at handling relationships that focus on work or intellectual activities and expectations.
Expectations (prognosis)
Schizoid personality disorder is a long-term (chronic) illness that usually does not improve much over time. Social isolation often prevents the person from seeking the help or support that might improve the condition.
Limiting expectations of emotional intimacy may help people with this condition make and keep connections with other people.


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Absolutely delicious even if I do say so myself. Make this. Do it. You'll love it, I promise. Sans pasta this lasagna is a total treat for your tastebuds.
Inspired by a commitment to self to eat mostly veggies, I decided to replace pasta for silverbeet and layered green, green and more green to create this recipe. Sidelining eggplant which traditionally replaces meat in vegetarian lasagnas, this version is rich in flavour, good for your heart, your hips, easy on your GI tract, guilt free and good for you.
Makes 4 serves
Prep time: 30 mins
Cooking time: 1.5 hours
3/4 bunch silverbeet
4 medium zucchini (alternatively replace 2 zucchini for 9-10 brussel sprouts)
700g plain passata
2 tbsp oregano
2 tbsp dried cranberries
425 grams goat's milk ricotta
1 tbsp grated grana padano (or parmesan)
2 tbsp finely chopped parsley
salt and pepper
1 tbsp grated grana padano (or parmesan) extra
Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees C. To begin drain excess water from the ricotta cheese by turning cheese out into a sieve and leave to rest over an empty bowl for at least 15 mins.
Prepare vegetables, washing and thoroughly drying silverbeet leaves, zucchini and parsley. Goat's milk ricotta is quite soft and watery in comparison to sheep's milk ricotta and it together with the vegetables will make for a lot of juice during the cooking process, so it is important to reduce or eliminate as much excess water as possible.
Prepare the silverbeet leaves for layering by removing the white stalk where it is at its thickest, slicing a v into the base of each leaf. Next slice each zucchini lengthwise into thin strips, approximately 2-3 millimetres in width.
Finely chop the parsley and in a medium sized mixing bowl, mix together parsley, ricotta, grated grana padano and season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
Pour enough passata into a baking tray, approximately 9″ x 13″ in size, to cover the base lightly. Next lay a double layer of silverbeet above the passata, followed by a layer of zucchini strips, slightly overlapping the zucchini. Next spread half of the ricotta mix to create the next layer, followed by a generous splash of passata and a sprinkle of oregano, salt and pepper.
Next add a second layer of doubled silverbeet, followed by the last of the ricotta, passata and oregano.
Sprinkle the cranberries evenly over the lasagna. Add the final layer of zucchini, again overlapping slightly to seal the top.
Drizzle any last drops of passata over the top, cover with foil and place in the pre-heated over to bake.
After 30 minutes of fan forced baking remove the foil, grate about a tablespoon of grana padano cheese over the top of the zucchini and cook for a further hour under the dual fan forced and grill setting on your oven. Once the zucchini have turned a deep golden brown, remove from the oven and leave to cool for 15 minutes before serving.
Yum!! Enjoy.
Alternative suggestions:
Brussel sprouts » I first cooked this meal in winter, when brussel sprouts were in season. To include slice 9-10 into thin circles and lay them in place of the first layer of zucchini in the recipe above. Then follow as normal.
Vegan » replace the goat's milk ricotta for cashew nut ricotta, see the simple veganista's recipe and replace grana padano with nutritional yeast. (FODMAP identifies cashews as containing high amounts of oligos, recommending intake be avoided).


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There's a cooking feudal system within our house. I'm at the top (obviously) – the Henry VIII of the cooking hierarchy. Alex and Lucia form the knight/bishop/nobleman inbetween, and at the bottom – the culinary layman – lies Guy. Meals for him consist of ryvita with mustard, fried mince with 'shit chucked in', and Fox's chocolate crinkles.
However, last week they decided it was time we dispelled of this derogatory system that declared the boys culinary novices, and so both of the resident males took on the skill of baking for a very brief amount of time. Here's my documentation of their efforts
- Alex's 3 ingredient oat and raisin cookies
An attempt at healthy baking as part of a gym-driven health kick. Very nice try at being both healthy and frugal, if only they were edible.
I think Alex's face below conveys the experience of biting into them accurately. Kind of like biting into a rubber ball. A good bounce on them. Useful if you have a wonky table and need something to put under, or maybe as one of those rubber stoppers you attach to a wall to stop the door banging when you open it.
2. Guy's fudge
Mm. Fudge. Colour was fine, taste was actually fine, but texture resembled extremely thick orange juice with bits.
One of the more disconcerting things I've tried in my lifetime. What the bits consisted of, we'll never know.
3. Healthy baking attempt no. 2: Alex's banana chocolate brownies
Undeterred by the kind of animal-dropping-like attempt at cookies, Alex ventured over to the dauntingly large world of the healthy brownie (via, fittingly, a recipe from Ambitious Kitchen). This one I think was made of some sort of combination of banana, cocoa powder and yoghurt, and we gave it a 4/10. Chocolatey, yes, but dryer than a fart in the desert (had to consult Alex as to whether that simile was too crude but it's my blog and it made me laugh). Maybe it needed less cooking, but regardless it definitely needed a bit of sweetness.
4. The Final Bake: healthy baking attempt no.3 – A quite nice batch of brownies
Eager to develop his recipe for a guilt-free brownie, Alex returned to the kitchen again – this time, armed with oats. The result of this one was much more pleasing, with the bulk from the oats providing more stodge than the spongey yoghurt ones. Squidgy, chocolatey and satisfying, though again lacking in a bit of sweetness. 7/10 in the brownie world.
So that concludes the week-long cooking frenzy that overtook the house – almost. I, cocky bitch that I am, had to come along and strut my brownie-baking stuff. So I made these babies (which I'll include the recipe for later). Despite my belief that no brownie is a brownie unless packed with sugar, butter, a little flour and proper dark chocolate, I was requested to bake a 'healthy brownie' and so a healthy brownie I baked (although I would take a look at the ingredients list and judge for yourself how 'healthy' these brownies are – 230g butter and 150g maple syrup doesn't sound too virtuous to me). Unanimous decision, these won. 10/10.
Even better the next day, these kept for about 4 days without drying out and crumbling. I didn't have the two cans of black beans required, so I subbed one can for a can of butterbeans and it made no difference as far as I can tell.
Order restored, I retain my monarchical status in the kitchen.
Black Bean Brownies (adapted from The Hemsley Sisters' recipe from The Art of Eating Well)
2 tins of black beans (or as I did, a tin of black beans and a tin of butterbeans)
230g butter
4 eggs
85g unsweetened cacao powder
150ml maple syrup or honey
2 tsp vanilla extract
130g chopped walnuts, hazelnuts or pistachios
- Preheat the oven to 170 degrees. Grease and line a 24x30cm baking dish.
- Drain and rinse the beans. Melt the butter in a pan and set aside.
- Put the drained beans, eggs, cacao powder, maple syrup and vanilla extract into a food processor with a pink of salt. Blend this until smooth.
- Add the melted butter whilst the machine is still running (slowly as to not scramble the eggs). I don't have a big food processor at uni, so I used a stick blender for all of this – just make sure you pulse it really thoroughly so you don't end up with rogue beans in your brownie.
- Stir in most of the chopped nuts and pour the brownie mixture into the prepared tin. Tap the tin on the counter a few times to spread the mixture out evenly. Sprinkle on the remaining chopped nuts.
- Bake for around 40 minutes, until the surface is slightly cracked.
- Leave to cool completely before cutting into squares. Best serves cold as it makes them even more fudgy.
Conclusion: For the ultimate indulgent-but-not-too-indulgent brownie experience, avoid brownies with yoghurt and oats, and opt for the more out-there sweet potato and bean. Plants & pulses never fail.


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Happy Resurrection Day!
We opened up our Easter Celebration honoring our Risen Lord and Saviour beginning with brunch and fellowship at 9:30am.
Sabbath School for adults and children continued on as usual.
Our Sabbath Worship was blessed with the various singing talents of our members. In between the singing and praising, Pastor Dave gave 3 sermonettes depicting the Promise of Hope, Hope Lost, and Hope Restored.


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Late Summer Salsa Mexicana
- Servings: Makes about 2 cups
- Provided by: Rick Bayless
- 1 small white onion, chopped into 1/4-inch pieces (about 1/4 cup)
- 1 red mirasol or jalapeno chile, stemmed, seeded (if you wish) and finely chopped
- 1 pound late summer tomatoes, chopped into 1/4-inch pieces
- 1/4 cup (loosely packed) chopped fresh herbs, lemon verbana, chives, cilantro (thick bottom stems cut off), or any combination of herbs you may like
- Juice of 1 lime
- Salt
Ingredients Print Recipe
Scoop the onion into a strainer, rinse under cold tap water, shake off the excess and transfer to a medium bowl. Add the mirasol chile, tomatoes, herbs and lime. Stir well, taste and season with salt, usually about 3/4 teaspoon. This salsa is best if eaten within an hour or two, but it will keep for a number of hours in the refrigerator.


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Have you Hugged your BOOKS Today?5:01 PM
I am back again with a layout today! :D
As soon as I saw this month's Crop Suey Challenge.. which was to get messy with inks and paints.. I KNEW I just cannot let me not participate! ;)
Supplies:- CS-Base Green; Paper-Navy Blue, storybook paper, green, yellow and orange paper scraps; Sramps-MSE!; Ink-Chestnut Brown; Embellishments-Pearls, Alpha Stickers, Paper sunflower, heart die-cuts; Photograph-Magazine cut-out; Others-Tag, twine; doiley; quilling strips{Yellow, pink, purple, red}, Black gel pen;
And since its the last challenge for My Favourite Things blog I really wanted to make a LO for that!..
I have always wanted to enter their challenge and unfortunately this is the last and the only time I do.. :)
The LO is for my books-collecting-hobby!.. I love collecting books.. But the FUN fact about me is this all started only a few years ago.. Before that I would never waste any time in my life in reading a book! *LOL*
{ Journaling reads:- I LOVE books!.. I read loads of them.. Most are chick novels.. Collecting them to re-read them later is something I love! }
--- Happy Crafting! ---
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We're thankful for a good doctor appt and that the doctor spent so much time with you. I hope Dave got a good night of sleep! We will continue to pray that the test results will show that he is CANCER FREE.
so happy you have found great doctors - you live in Los Angeles, so OF COURSE traffic is always the thing that sends us over the edge! hahaha
Hi Dave and Lauren,
Just praising the Lord that you found a great doctor. They are hard to come by. We check you blog for updates every couple of days and have been praying for you. Hopefully we can see you guys at PBC sometime soon! Take care!
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"The Court should give effect to a nuptial agreement that is freely entered into by each party with a full appreciation of its implications unless in the circumstances prevailing it would not be fair to hold the parties to their agreement."
The quote above is the fundamental proposition of the judgement in Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42 handed down by the Supreme Court on 20th October 2010. While, strictly speaking, pre-nuptial agreements are still not binding on the Court, Radmacher demonstrates the significant extent to which, if properly prepared, they can be relied upon in this jurisdiction. In future, if an agreement is properly prepared, there will be a presumption that the parties intend to be bound by it. The Law Commission, having waited for the Judgement to be handed down, has published a consultation paper on the issue. It seems unlikely, in our view, that the position we have presently reached will be reversed, and there is every possibility of legislation which might advance it.
This reflects the movement by the Courts over the past few years, particularly through cases such as Crossley and MacLeod, increasingly to take prenuptial agreements into account, such that in Crossley the agreement was held to be "a factor of magnetic importance". These cases emphasised that the agreement would be given weight if both parties had separate and specialist legal advice as to the law and how the agreement would impact upon it, full financial disclosure was made, and, finally, if the agreement was made at least three weeks before the wedding. Radmacher builds upon this and importantly brings to an end the suggestion that such agreements might be contrary to public policy. The case involved a French husband and a German wife, who entered into a pre-nuptial agreement in Germany waiving all claims to financial provision if they were to divorce. They married in London, and lived in England where they had two children, separating after eight years of marriage. The wife was extremely wealthy. The husband was a banker but became an academic after they had married.
When the parties separated, the husband applied to the Court forfinancial provision on the basis that he had signed the pre-nuptial agreement without legal advice or detailed financial disclosure. At first instance, the Judge agreed these were deficiencies, but that he had known both that it was intended that he should have nothing on divorce and also that the wife was very wealthy. Some weight was, therefore, given to the agreement, meaning that the £5.6m award made to him was significantly less than he would have received had there been no agreement at all.
The wife appealed, an appeal which the Court of Appeal allowed, finding that, despite the deficiencies in process the agreement should have been given "decisive" weight by the Judge. It substituted an award limited to the husband's need to provide for his children when they were with him (which had not been provided for by the agreement) rather than his own personal long term needs. The husband appealed to the Supreme Court, which, in its judgment laid down the approach that must be adopted when considering if a pre-nuptial agreement should or should not be applied.
The Supreme Court first considered if circumstances prevailing at the time the agreement was made indicated if it should – or should not – be given weight. Were the parties free from duress? Were they properly advised? Did they have all the material knowledge required to make a decision as to whether to enter into the agreement? Did they intend the agreement to have effect? Even though the husband had not received financial disclosure or been properly advised it was found that he intended the agreement to be binding on him. The Court then asked whether the circumstances at the time the parties divorced, made it fair to depart from the terms of the agreement. The Court made clear that this would be fact specific in every case. An agreement would be clearly unfair if it did not meet the reasonable requirements of any children of the marriage. Things are not so clear cut after that; would an agreement be ignored if it failed to meet a party's own needs? Perhaps, but Mr Granatino failed in just such circumstances, and it is far from certain.
Where does all of this take us pending any possible future legislation? While reserving the Court's flexible approach, it is clear that the Court wishes parties to a marriage to be able to regulate their financial arrangements so long as this is done on the basis of informed and freely given consent. Where this is shown to be the case, it is likely that an agreement will be upheld unless its operation will be unfair to one party or the other, as to which the threshold is likely to be set high.
This judgment offers many advantages to people who are planning to marry and would like to avoid financial uncertainty if the relationship breaks down in future. This is particularly so if people have significant assets that they wish to protect. Such agreements have to be handled sensitively and the more time that is allowed for their preparation, the better.
Our Matrimorial & Family Department has extensive experience in dealing with nuptial agreements. Should you seek advice on such matters please contact Henry Hood or any partner in the department.


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Monday, May 11, 2009
Another Baby P
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/articl....arn-danger.htmlWhy there will soon be a new Baby P scandal - by the woman who tried to warn of dangerBy Liz Davies, Senior Social Work LecturerLast updated at 10:45 PM on 09th May 2009Comments (2) Add to My Stories Tragedy: Warning signs were ignored before Baby P's deathI am a social worker and I teach social workers. But if my own child wanted to become one, I would be very afraid. I realised that sad truth last week when Lord Laming, the Government's child protection 'guru', rebuked social workers for spending too much time filling in forms. They do. But he largely invented that mountain of paperwork. I know better than most that Laming likes paperwork. I alerted him years ago to the involvement of a member of Baby P's family with paedophile pimps. He ordered a report, which confirmed everything, but it was kept secret. Shockingly, no action followed. Children's Secretary Ed Balls ordered Laming's latest report following Baby P's death. It confirmed the crisis in child protection work. But it does not admit the Government's earlier 'reforms', based on Laming's recommendations, are to blame. Following the announcement of Laming's review, my professional body, the British Association of Social Workers, asked him to invite submissions from social work academics such as me. The invitation never came. I made a written submission anyway, explaining what desperate social workers tell me. They spend up to 80 per cent of their time filling in forms, and have unbearably high caseloads. Inexperienced staff hold child-protection responsibilities, and care decisions are based on cost and targets. The service barely functions to protect the most vulnerable children from harm. Laming was first asked to overhaul social services after the death of Victoria Climbié in 2000. His report recommended the abolition of the Child Protection Register, and helped the then Children's Minister, Margaret Hodge, launch her controversial Every Child Matters agenda. This called for database profiling of all children, switching the emphasis from protecting endangered children to monitoring all children and providing 'family support'. With a 30-year career in child protection, I know the register has been invaluable in flagging up those at grave risk. But it was wound down last April. The database replacing it aims to log intimate details about all children. Social workers say vulnerable children are now lost like needles in a haystack. Today, increasing numbers of children are being abused and killed as beleaguered social workers quit the profession, overwhelmed by bureaucracy, lack of police support and public opprobrium. Yet Laming believes more forms, targets, jargon and checklists 'will drive improvements'. But what do tortured children really need? I have investigated many abusers and child sex rings. Tellingly, I have also previously tried to enlist Laming's help. When I uncovered a child sex ring in Islington's care homes in the Nineties, I found one of the homes included a young relative of Baby P who was introducing other children to pimps and appeared to be a victim himself. He needed the help of experienced social workers and dedicated detectives who could organise surveillance, intelligence and physical protection. The boy begged social workers for help. But Margaret Hodge, who was leader of Islington Council at the time, refused to believe a ring was active. Social worker Liz Davies says she gave Lord Laming, right, a 100-page dossier about a child sex ring in Islington care homes - but no paedophiles were caughtIn despair, I blew the whistle to Laming, then the Government's chief social services inspector. I gave him a 100-page dossier, warning children would die. His deputy promised that my allegations would be investigated. Laming arranged for a secret report on Baby P's relative. It confirmed everything - a copy was leaked but never published. Disgracefully, no children were interviewed or rescued, and no paedophiles caught. The cycle of abuse within the family was allowed to flourish. Child abuse is often a form of organised crime. Under the 1989 Children Act, social workers and police are legally obliged to investigate 'actual or likely significant harm' to a child. Yet police involvement in such investigations is now minimal. Why? Because one of the recommendations in Laming's 2003 report stipulates that police should only investigate crimes against children, not the risk of significant harm. That means that where social workers were once helped by police, now they are usually left to tackle problems - often involving violent, unstable adults - on their own. It has been reported that Baby P's 'stepfather' had a known history of violence and that his maternal grandfather was a twice-convicted paedophile. Surely these were good enough reasons for police and social services to focus on the harm they posed? Yet police responded to Laming's 2003 report by slashing their child protection teams. Child abuse investigation is no longer anyone's particular responsibility. Disastrously, the Government's new 'integrated' approach to children means that nowadays most social services are not even run by social workers but by former teachers, such as Sharon Shoesmith, who was in charge of the department in Haringey when Baby P died. The Tories have promised to abolish the huge children's database and restore a slimmed down Child Protection Register for genuinely at-risk children. I cannot wait. The way to retain good social workers is to give them back the tools to protect those they are there to serve. • Liz Davies, Senior Lecturer in Children's and Family Social Work at London Metropolitan University, was talking to Eileen Fairweather.Print this article Read later Email to a friend Share this article: Digg it Del.icio.us Reddit Newsvine Nowpublic StumbleUpon Facebook MySpace Fark Add your comments Comments (2)Here's what readers have had to say so far. Why not add your thoughts below, or debate this issue live on our message boards. Newest Oldest Best rated Worst rated View all You only have to read the every child matters framework to see that it's written by a complete moron who has taken advice from more complete morons, putting the emphasis onto loving families and using everything from showing too much 'affection and time spent with a child' a mother who stays at home as 'emotional harm' to missed dental appointment as 'significant harm' they can snatch away a loved child in an instant, and do, just to meet those 'targets' that they denied were real until Hazel Blears announced they were going last year (but just changed designations) while children such as baby Peter are allowed to be used and disposed off by monsters. But then Labour does not believe in the family, it's social engineering projects are well documented, past and present and now that they hav 'broken' the families apart with their nanny state and their secret courts can we trust social workers (left wing labour nuts) to do the right thing and put the child's best interest first?
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106-16 Chungdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
(강남구 청담동 106-16)
So yeah, this is the first time I encountered a picture of an SNSD member going to the building.
Or perhaps, I'm just not following enough SNSD stans on my dash. LOL
It's the SM Entertainment Building in Chungdam-dong.
Looking at this, I really am curious as to what they're turning the old building into. Heh.
You need a guide on the directions?
Here you go:
The closest subway station would be the Apgujeong-Rodeo Station.
You can choose to exit via Exit 1 or 2, both will have you end up at the Galleria Mall.
From there, you will have to walk FAR.
Yes, it's going to be far because the old SME Building is at the far end of the block where Galleria Mall is.
And then, you'll have to walk another four more to get to the main building.
But it's going to be interesting.
If you're a fan of Yongseo, you'll realize that the park in front of the building is where they constantly meet.
It is where Yonghwa gave Seohyun the scarf he knitted himself. :p
Now, if you're looking for a shorter way to get to the building,
you can just take the taxi and ask the driver to bring you there...
OR you can make use of the direction to get to FNC Entertainment.
This company of CNBLUE, FT Island, Juniel, AOA and N.Flying is located just on the block behind the SME :)
Exciting, right?
Looking for a nearby hotel? Check out Ellui Hotel. :)
Or you can just ask your travel agency for the best hotel in the area.
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On Friday, I finally grasped mindfulness. It's taken some time. This week has passed from positive to positive. And I am embracing it. My doctor told me on Wednesday how my whole posture was different, how bright I looked, how my demeanour was so uplifted. The Duloxetine is working and the depression is in the past. I am not naive, I have been here before, and I know depression has returned, but I feel good. For a moment I worried I feel too good. It's been so long since I have felt joy and happiness and contentment that for a moment I worried I was going into a hyper state, but then the joy, and the peace, and the contentment continued without increasing, and without my feeling the need to go out and be exciting and imaginative, and I realised how simple it was to still my mind, and to be in the moment, and finally, I can understand the power of mindfulness.
Friday saw husband and I taking a trip to Clifton Suspension Bridge. While he wandered and took pictures I stood on the bridge and watched sunlight dance on the Avon, listened to the traffic of the city below, and watched cars cross bridges below, and travel back and forth alongside the river.
Peace is something that has been elusive of late. But at this moment peace is in my grasp. Being in the moment, not worrying about what has passed, or what might be to come. Not concerning myself with what I need to become, or what I feel I should be, say, or do. Just being.
I am also feeling the power of the Sheros Journey with Rebecca Kane at the moment. The Energy Clearing Exercises have brought up thoughts and feelings that were buried, and I am allowing myself to watch and let pass visions and memories without judgement.
It really feels like there is nothing to worry about at the moment. What is, is, and what will be will be.
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Sunday, 11th March 2018
The Carriagework Theatre
Leeds Early Stages Showcase:
At The Carriageworks Theatre
DATE: Sunday 11th March 2018
VENUE: The Carriageworks Theatre, Electric Press, 3 Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 3AD
ARRIVAL TIME GROUP 1: 9.00am Registration
ARRIVAL TIME GROUP 2: 1.30pm Registration
WORKSHOP GROUP 1: StoryTelling Comes Alive with Jack and the Beanstalk
WORKSHOP GROUP 2: StoryTelling through Song with Jack and the Beanstalk
PERFORMANCE: 5 Minute Performance plus short Introduction
FINALE: Jack and the Beanstalk....The Musical!
STUDENT NUMBERS: Minimum 15 - Maximum 18
ARRIVAL TIME: 9.15am Act 1 or 12.15pm Act 2
PERFORMANCE: 5 minutes performance plus short introduction.
COSTS : £75.00 per student which includes the event, the workshops, 2 tickets and t-shirt and DVD/USB.
You will receive an Event Sign-up Agreement and an Invoice for the deposit in November 2017 and once this is paid and returned your Event Pack will be issued containing further details.
All Deposits are non-refundable and Non-transferable.
On completion of this booking you are agreeing to take up a place for your school at this event. If you wish to withdraw at any point please refer to your Event Sign-Up Agreement and ensure you inform the Events Team of your decision.
Event Pack
Once your deposit has been paid an Event Pack containing the information you will need to put together all elements of your Showcase will be sent to you, via email. All we ask in return is that you meet the deadlines required. The deadlines are important to ensure our department can meet your expectations on the day of the Show.
Starts: Sunday, March 11th 2018
Timezone: Europe/London
Bookings close: January 31st 2018
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A complete archive of Pakistan's Education news releases since 2007
Class XII students being forced to pay summer vacation fee
Karachi, April 09: A number of private colleges in the city are forcing
their Class XII students of science and commerce groups to pay fee for
June and July (summer vacation) despite the fact that their academic
session will end after their annual exams to be held in April and May,
Ironically, the affiliation of some of these
colleges with the Board of Intermediate Education (BIEK) has already
been suspended after the expiry of their registration period with the
education department's directorate of private educational institutions.
It is mandatory for both the public and private sector schools
and colleges to get their institutions registered with the directorate
of private educational institutions before seeking affiliation with the
According to rules, the examination forms of students
belonging to unregistered or those institutions whose registrations
have expired will not be entertained by the examining bodies.
A number of students of private colleges, including those whose
affiliation with the BIEK has recently been suspended, said that
the managements of their institutions were forcing them to pay the
summer vacation fee on the pretext that they need funds to get renewed
their registration with the directorate of private educational
"In fact, the management of our college is
threatening us to pay the fee of June and July summer vacation, though
our examinations are scheduled for May and we will no more be a student
of the college in June and July," said a Class XII student of Commerce
group at a college whose affiliation with the BIEK has recently been
Meanwhile, some private colleges whose affiliation
with the BIEK has been suspended have accused the officials of the
provincial directorate of private educational institutions of delaying
the renewal of their registration on the flimsiest of pretexts.
"We have already submitted all the documents required for the renewal
of our institution's registration. But the directorate's officials
concerned are delaying the issuance of a renewed registration
certificate and that has put the career of our students at stake," a
proprietor of a private college said.
Exams schedule
Karachi: BIEK controller of examinations Prof Agha Akbar Mirza, meanwhile,
announced that the first phase of higher secondary school certificate
annual examinations-2010 for the candidates in different categories
such as science (pre-medical, pre-engineering), general science, home
economics, medical technology, diploma in physical education,
improvement of marks/grades and additional subjects, and for special
candidates would commence on April 27 in morning shift.
second phase of the HSC annual exams-2010 for the candidates belonging
to humanities and commerce (both regular and private) groups would
begin on May 24 in morning and afternoon shifts, the official added. Dawn
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SU to celebrate founder's week
Dadu: The University of Sindh is organising the founderís week celebrations
from April 9 to 13 to pay homage to Allama II Kazi on his 42nd death
anniversary. The founderís week programmes will be arranged at the
Allama II Kazi Campus, Jamshoro, Elsa Kazi Campus, Hyderabad and Sindh
University Campus, Mirpurkhas.
KU hosts meeting of Nomination Committee
Karachi: University of Karachi (KU) hosted a meeting of the Nomination Committee to
recommend the recipients of the Shah Latif Exchange Award, Sheikh Ayaz
Award and Josh Malihabadi Award from the Culture Department, Government
of Sindh, on Thursday. Cash award of Rs100,000 will be given along with
the Shah Abdul Latif Excellence Award, for which, nominations were made
in four categories that included scholar and writers, poets, performing
arts and folk music (in Urdu and Sindhi), whereas cash award of Rs75,
000 will be given along with Shaikh Ayaz Award and Josh Malihabadi
Award for the categories of prose/fiction, poetry, research/critique,
translation and the Life Time Achievement Awards. The ceremony for the
distribution of these awards will be organised soon. The news
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The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned.Come and get me, coppers!
A second purpose of the meeting in Washington, D.C., according to the sources, was to ask Internet service providers how much it would cost to record details on their subscribers for two years. At the very least, the companies would be required to keep logs for police of which customer is assigned a specific Internet address.
Monday, March 05, 2007
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It is derived from the plants called Agave, which is a very strong natural fiber. The fiber could be called as the nearly all versatile thing in it. These are commonly used to make things like the rope and twine, also the fiber of sisal has the potential to stretch a lot but despite this attribute it remains durable for a long run. Besides rugs, sisal can be used in other consumer products such as mattresses, dartboards, specialty paper, and filters. These are also called as environmentally friendly options as the sisal material are often used additional and additional in the automobile domain that replaces the asbestos and fiberglass. Which have been proven to be a health risk for workers? Looking at the wild spectrum, the bees get simply attracted to the sisal especially when you see the pollen staying for a short supply. The honey that is produced using sisal is dark and emits a foul flavor.
Though the Natural Area Rugs usually find their sisal fiber from India and China, sisal could be called as the nearly all prominent crop for the nations plus Tanzania, Brazil, and Kenya. As per the FAO Fibers Statistical Bulletin, in 2007 additional than 240 thousand tones of sisal was produced . In the very same year, China too was seen contributing more than 6 percent of sisal fibers and Brazil was seen produced additional than 1113,000 tones.
The Natural Area Rugs is recognized to give additional than 40 unique weaves of sisal rugs. The popular ones include Rustic, Paprus, Tuscany and Sandstone. With a number of sisal rug types the customers are not going to have any problem for finding out the proper one.
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Although mainly neutral in color, Natural Area Rugs offers rug owners over 14 special color bindings to allow their sisal rugs to blend in or stand out in any room. Besides neutral colors, sisal rugs can come in dark brown, grey, or even black. As per the weave, the texture is seen varying. Some rugs will feel softer than others. With so many choices to choose from myriad rug owners will have a difficult time deciding which one to take residence with them.


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'Earls Colne Primary School really gives my children a wonderful learning experience. I have been so impressed with the energy and enthusiasm of both children and teachers.'
James Canton (Maplestead)
Our Catchment Area includes Earls Colne, White Colne and Bures Hamlet.
Our school has many pupils from the village, but we also welcome children from the surrounding areas. Currently we have pupils who live in Halstead, Coggeshall, Bures, Braintree, Greenstead Green, Colne Engaine, Pebmarsh, Sudbury, Wickham St Pauls, Stisted and Kelvedon.
This is what some of our children think of the school.
'At Earls Colne Primary School and Nursery we are like a family of hard working individuals.
We complete many exciting topics during our journey through school, such as; Chocolate, Carnivals, Deadly Disasters and many more.
Our classrooms are bright and colourful which helps to makes learning fun and enjoyable! As well as that, the adults in school are always there to help us if we need it.
We have many events to support the school during the year, such as: bonfire night with spectacular fireworks, show stopping year group performances and the Christmas Fayre.
At Earls Colne, staff and children are all friendly, thoughtful and considerate to each other.
However long your journey at Earls Colne Primary School, we will always be by your side.'
By Year 3/4
If your child is due to start school or transfer to secondary school then you need to apply for a school place. All the information you need for the process can be found on the link to the Essex Schools admissions page found below.
Admissions to the Primary School and Nursery are considered seperately by the Admissions Committee of the School's Governing Body. Although we would hope that most children will transfer from our nursery into the main school there is no automatic right of transfer.
Parents must complete a common Application Form (CAF) which they will reveive from the local authority and return it before the closing date.
If you wish to transfer your child to a school mid-term please look at the information on the Essex Schools Admissions page.
'Thank you for a most enjoyable morning! The children were most attentive and responsive - a delight! I think a lot of this must be down to the staff who are very enthusiastic and encouraging. Good to experience a school as good as this!'
Anthony Pedley (the BFG)
As a Foundation Primary School we accept boys and girls rising 5s to 11 years. In September 2014 we had 309 children on roll.
Our intended number to admit in September 2014 was 60.
To read our Admissions Policies for both the School and Nursery please go to the Key Information Page where you will find 'Policies' in the side sub-menu.
Dear Josh
Thank you very much for showing me round your school. It was a very thorough and informative tour, you are clearly very proud of everything.
Very best wishes.
Mr Peter Anderson Headteacher
Click the link below to access ParentPay.
Click here to find out about our amazing Fireworks Display. We raised a whopping £6758 for our school.
Earls Colne Primary School & Nursery
Park Lane
Earls Colne
Tel: 01787 222205
Fax: 01787 222010
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The UK food and drink industry is our largest manufacturing sector and accounts for 15% of all UK manufacturing GVA.
The sector employs 400,000 workers domestically, which is 15% of manufacturing workforce and exports over £12 billion of food and non-alcoholic drink products a year, of which over 75% go to the EU. UK food and drink businesses invested over £1 billion in R&D in 2011 which resulted in over 8,500 new products.
Technical Network's Food and Drink division focuses on specialist Manufacturing, Quality, Technical, R&D, Engineering and Supply Chain disciplines, supplying high calibre permanent and interim hires to a number of blue chip and SME clients across the UK and Europe.
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We want the song in your phone! Sing it, sing it! NO, MOMMY ALL THE WORDS!! Not just the ones you know, all of them!! Cuz everyone knows all the words to Let it Go when you have a 3 year old daughter in the house. Shouldn't she know all the words better than I do? No, because she's scared of Elsa's face. Really? Does my backseat have a mute button? These little cuties who know seem to know all kids of songs that I didn't teach them have zero desire to sing those songs to me, they want me to serenade them. How does that work? Aren't they supposed to want to show off all the fun new stuff they learned that day? No, those moments are saved for later and become underwear free, twirling serenades that don't start until after bedtime. And I love it! Somedays I love those crazy moments that happen after I think bedtime should have, because I missed all the daytime stuff. It's my extra sneaked in minutes, and although I'm not happy everytime it happens, I need to try harder for those times. They are getting so big so fast. I don't want to miss any more of it!
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Malawi national football team head coach Roony Van Geneugden has named a squad of local based players which will go into camp on Sunday to start preparations for a 2019 Africa Cup of Nationd qualifier against Morocco on 7th September.
RVG names Malawi squad for Morocco: TN Stars Dave handed first call up, Kabichi returns
RVG will name the list of foreign based players on Tuesday next week.
He has given a maiden call up to TNM Super League leading scorer Stain Dave of TN Stars while Nyasa Big Bullets midfielder Henry Kabichi returns to the Flames setup after almost four years on the side lines.
The Belgian tactician has also included two Under-20 youngsters in defenders Charles Petro of NMC Bullets Reserves and Hadji Wali of Silver Strikers.
"This is good blend of the old guys and the youngsters who are knocking on the doors and have shown the spirit to play at top level.
"It is important to bring the young players on board. I am impressed with Dave's performance in the local league and also happy that other, strikers Chiukepo Msowoya and Gustin Simkonda, are also perfoming and we hope they will translate that at the national team.
"We are still analysing the foreign-based players and the list will come out next week," said RVG.
Defender Precious Sambani and striker Peter Banda were supposed to be on the list but are out in Belgium for trials while Jack Chiona has been ruled out with an injury.
The team will camp at Mpira Village in Blantyre.
The following is the full squad
1. Brighton Munthali – Silver Strikers
2. Charles Thom – Dwangwa
3. Rabson Chiyenda – NMC Bullets
1. Stanley Sanudi – Be Forward Wanderers
2. John Lanjesi – NMC Bullets
3. Peter Cholopi – Be Forward Wanderers
4. Chembezi Denis – Be Forward Wanderers
5. Gomezgani Chirwa – CIVO Sporting Club
6. Ian Chinyama – TN Stars
7. Charles Petro – NMC Bullets Reserves
8. Haji Wali – Silver Strikers
9. Trevor Kalema – Silver Strikers
1. Chimwemwe Idana – NMC Bullets Reserves
2. Alfred Manyozo Jnr – Be Forward Wanderers
3. Mike Mkwate – NMC Bullets
4. Rafick Namwera – Be Forward Wanderers
5. Levison Maganizo – Silver Strikers
6. Henry Kabichi – NMC Bullets
1. Felix Zulu – Be Forward Wanderers
2. Chiukepo Msowoya – NMC Bullets
3. Patrick Phiri – NMC Bullets
4. Righteous Banda – NMC Bullets
5. Gustin Simukonda – Moyale Barracks
6. Raphael Phiri – CIVO Sporting Club
7. Khuda Muyaba – Silver Strikers
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Video Throwback Fridays! Jay-Z ft. UGK – "Big Pimpin'"
May 24, 2013 § Leave a comment
Jay-Z has always been in my top list of favorite rappers, but I do enjoy his older catalogue more than his new joints. So for today's video throwback, we're going back to 2000 for his hit "Big Pimpin'"!
Produced by the master Timbaland and featuring UGK, both the song and video (which was shot during Trinidad's carnival) will have you begging for the summer to come – so you swag on 'em in your drop top.
Get ready to bounce after the jump! more…
New Music: The-Dream ft. Beyonce & 2 Chainz – "Turnt"
May 21, 2013 § Leave a comment
In more Beyonce news…The-Dream snags the diva and 2 Chainz for laid-back track, "Turnt". The track, which will be featured on The-Dream's upcoming album IV Play, has a relaxed and cool vibe perfect for slow-sipping your favorite drink as the club winds down.
Get "Turnt" after the jump! More…
Music Bite: Coachella Announces 2014 Festival Dates
May 21, 2013 § Leave a comment
Coachella is arguably the biggest and most-talked about music festival in the world, so it comes as no surprise that promoters are already gearing up for its 2014 edition!
According to SPIN, the festival dates for 2014 will be another two-weekend music party: from April 11 to 13, and then April 18 to 20. Advance tickets will go on sale this Friday (May 24) at 10 a.m. on Coachella's official website.
As for future headliners – Daft Punk anyone…..?
In the meantime, click here to catch up on this year's Coachella fashion!
Listen Here: Beyoncé – "Grown Woman"
May 20, 2013 § 1 Comment
After months of excessive teasers, the full version of Beyonce's "Grown Woman" is finally here! Produced by Timbaland, the funky track finds the diva boasting about her best assests and why she can do whatever she wants. Aside from the lyrics, the African-inspired production is incredible. The drum-heavy rhythm laced with flutes and horns is perfect for a carnival.
Groove to it after the jump! More…
New Music: Britney Spears – "Ooh La La" (From 'The Smurfs 2' Soundtrack)
May 17, 2013 § Leave a comment
Hey, y'all – Britney Spears just premiered a new single! "Ooh La La", off The Smurfs 2 soundtrack, is a perfect pop gem fit for a kids' movie. The track, produced by Bonnie McKee and Dr. Luke, sounds a lot like Femme Fatale's "Seal It With A Kiss" combined with Madonna inspiration and tons of bubblegum pop sweetness.
Read on to listen! more…
Listen Here: The Weeknd – "Kiss Land"
May 16, 2013 § 7 Comments
After endless teasers and snippets, The Weeknd has now dropped a full-length track – "Kiss Land". The title song, for his upcoming debut album, has the similar sexual themes found in other songs from the singer. Yet the bold production that features many grimy layers is a different and welcoming sound.
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A young Celtic fan with Down's syndrome has won the Scottish Premier League's goal of the month for January after receiving 97% of the votes.
Eleven-year old-Jay Beatty won the competition for his penalty kick at the half time during Celtic's game at Hamilton Academicals.
The boy, known as Wee Jay, was given the opportunity after he asked Santa Claus if he could score for Celtic then celebrate like his hero, former forward Georgios Samaras.
Wee Jay first became something of a celebrity after Samaras plucked him from the crowds and took him on a lap of honour during Celtic's title winning celebration at the end of last season.
Since then, former Celtic manager Neil Lennon, also gave Jay his winner's medal and the youngster also received a trophy on behalf of Samaras at the Grand Gala of El Mundo Deportivo.
The Greek striker took time out from training to announce that the 11-year-old had won January's goal of the month in a landslide victory with a personal message.
He said: "Jay my friend, me and you are the same, scoring goals. I'm very happy to announce that you won the goal of the month.
"Well done pal, great job. I miss you and I love you. See you, Jay."
Despite losing to game 2-0, Hamilton Academicals recognised Jay's goal as officially counting, writing the match had actually finished 3-0 on their official Twitter account.


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This two-day course teaches students how to safely and effectively operate swimming pools and associated equipment. Nationally recognized as the premier certification in the industry. Must be 16 years and older to register.
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Another successful 'Ops Shop' in the books. Thank you to all of our great representatives from Endless Summer Aquatics, Pentair, our facilitator, Jim Durkee of AAA Pool Services and our lunch sponsor Harper & Co.
Thank you to our host: Brittingham Midtown Aquatics Center, Newport News, VA and our lunch sponsor: Harper and Co.
Congratulations to This Year's Winners! (not pictured)
To develop and facilitate educational and professional development opportunities statewide to; prevent fatal and non-fatal drowning and promote adherence to aquatic industry standards and best practices.
Let us know what type of training or services you would like to see in your area by contacting the Chair: Josh Schmidt.
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Eric Nielsen
Fairfax County Park Authority
Jimmy Lyon, Region Superintendent
Fauquier County Parks & Recreation
540-408-1456 Email
Sean Sepela, Aquatic Operation Manager
Freedom Aquatic & Fitness ctr
703-993-8538 Email
Kristin Lam, Aquatic Manager
City of Harrisonburg, Va
540-434-0571 Email
Kendall Evans
City of Norfolk Recreation, Parks & Open Spaces
Jim Heffel
Herndon Parks & Recreation
Sandy Kellogg
Fairfax County Park Authority
Brandon Ware
Leesburg Parks & Recreation
Tammy Yelmgren
Fairfax County Park Authority
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National Governing Body for the sport of swimming in the United States, USA Swimming is a 400,000-member service organization that promotes the culture of swimming by creating opportunities for swimmers and coaches of all backgrounds to participate and advance in the sport through clubs, events and education.