“When I was at school in the 80s, I associated dogs with skinheads; round where we lived, the racists delighted in unleashing their alsatians whenever they saw brown-skinned boys like me. Dogs may have been man's best friend, but they were an Asian's worst enemy.”When I was young we were constantly threatened by the racists with their dogs. They would get their dogs to run after us, and my cousins have been bit too. So I don’t think our fear is baseless, it is based on the terror that racists unleashed towards us.
Ethiopian children eating food cooked in iron pots are less likely to have iron-deficient blood than their playmates who eat similar foods prepared in aluminum pots, a team led by researchers at McGill University in Montreal reports in the Feb. 27A journal article from Science Direct also supports the above point.
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I need to get hold of one now. La Crueset have a Cast Iron range which can be used on the hob and in the oven. This looks nice and pricey (and the colour is just gorgeous) from La Crueset:
Courtesy of Shukr : The abaya ordered
Tesco has caused a great amount of controversy in my city. It wanted to open a local store on a busy road and there was great opposition to it, with locals petitioning against the opening of the store; worried and concerned about the impact a Tesco store could have on the diverse range of independent shops on the road. This was almost a year ago, and even though Tesco have set themselves up there, some locals still don't shop there. Full stop.
I haven't watched the movie as yet but here's an interesting perspective to it:"Mer-Khamis confirmed the incident and added in the newspaper Maariv: "No one dares to make the real analogy. 'Avatar' is one of the bravest films made. It portrays the occupation, but people aren't making the analogy. Many would like to be like the blue people but don't understand the meaning. This is why people got angry at the movie theater. It is no secret that I think the Israelis are occupiers and the Palestinians occupied. Israel sits forcefully on lands that belong to others and this is exactly what the movie is talking about."Read more here:
Some politicians don’t want to talk about their views on university fees at this election.
We think that’s what elections are for.In a matter of weeks the British public will be going to the polls, and every vote will make the difference.
Students represent nearly 15% of the voting population, and in some constituencies students will determine who wins and who loses.But who has your interests at heart? Which candidate will protect and preserve education?
NUS is calling on all students, parents and concerned members of the public to pledge to use your vote.
Vote for a candidate that will fight for a fairer education system.
Vote for a candidate that will oppose an increase in top up fees.
RENOWNED Swiss politician Daniel Streich, who rose to fame for his campaign against minarets of mosques, has embraced Islam.
A member of the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) and a well-known politician, Daniel Streich was the first man who had launched a drive for imposition of ban on mosques minarets, and to lock the mosques in Switzerland. The proclamation of Streich’s conversion to Islam has created furore in Swiss politics, besides causing a tremor for those who supported ban on construction of mosques minarets.
Streich propagated his anti-Islamic movement far and wide in the country, sowed seeds of indignation and scorn for Islam among the people, and paved way for public opinion against pulpits and minarets of mosques.
But now Streich has become a soldier of Islam. His anti-Islam thoughts finally brought him so close to this religion that he embraced Islam. He is ashamed of his doings now and desires to construct the most beautiful mosque of Europe in Switzerland.
Read more here.
£5bn National Identity Scheme
Originally budgeted at £3bn, the Government’s plan for new identity cards, containing biometric data and linked to a central database, soon came under heavy criticism from civil liberty campaigners. As the costs spiralled, so the Home Office began to water down the aims of the scheme to assuage the critics. In July, Alan Johnson announced that the cards would no longer be compulsory, while moves to force all airport workers to use the cards were also abandoned.
More on the ID Card Scheme to come ...
"Fat around the hips and thighs is good for you but around the tummy is bad."
He said in an ideal world, the more fat around the thighs the better - as long as the tummy stays slim.
"Unfortunately, you tend not to get one without the other," he said.
Source: BBC
