The tutor is Wendy Buonaventura, who regularly performs at the prestigious Institute of the Arab World in Paris. Her teaching focuses mainly on Egyptian Baladi, the popular solo dance of women. It also covers dances from North Africa and the Middle East.A one-week course, including return flights, transfers, hotel with breakfast and all classes, is £495 per person, based on two sharing. A good pamperingThe contemporary definition of a good pampering goes far beyond just a face pack and a massage treat the mind, body and soul simultaneously or expect little reward.
Ayurvedic (Indian herbal medicine) treatments adhere to just this philosophy. Those seeking something a little less mundane than a spa hotel should consider a visit to Ulpotha, a village retreat in the middle of Sri Lanka.Ostensibly a “farming village” surrounded by forest and situated around a lake, Ulpotha opens for a limited number of visitors for a few weeks per year. It offers Ayurvedic oil treatments and massages along with native herbal steam baths and yoga. Accommodation is in asanas (open “huts” with pitched, palm-thatched roofs) and food is organic, grown within the village and cooked to local vegetarian recipes.The next open weeks are 10-24 June and the cost is £950 for two weeks, including full-board twin-share accommodation, all treatments, courses and transfers Flights to Colombo are extra reckon on £500 return. Contact Neal’s Yard, as above, or visit the website at www.ulpotha . Float all your troubles awayFor a holiday that treats medical conditions in a non-medical environment, try the Dead Sea between Israel and Jordan.
It is renowned not only for enabling you to float effortlessly while reading the newspaper, but also for its unique health-giving properties.Those suffering from arthritic, rheumatic or dermatological conditions benefit from the unique combination of salts and minerals, higher oxygen content and therapeutic mud.Another rather novel idea, in Turkey, is the thermal area of Kangal where those suffering from psoriasis can bathe with healing fish. The thermal springs here contain curative carbon dioxide along with Kangal’s fish (unique to this area of the world and capable of living in water temperatures of over 37C) which are said to draw out the infected areas of bathers.Blue Moon Travel (020 8202 2028, www.bluemoontravel.co.uk) offers breaks to the Dead Sea for £828 per person, per week, based on twin-share, and including return flights, transfers and half-board accommodation. Treatments at the Dead Sea MOR Clinic start from £105 per person, per week. A fortnight of treatment in Kangal for £999, including half-board accommodation, flights, transfers and treatments.. Yoga, acupuncture and Ayurvedic spa treatments, activities and practices that were once considered “out there” are fast being gobbled up by the mainstream holiday market. Unlike as little as a decade ago, the word “alternative” is no longer really applicable; “heal thyself” is increasingly becoming the holidaymaker’s tenet. It would seem that we all have well-adjusted chi, eat macrobiotic and meditate as a matter of course, but do we really know how to get the best out of a therapeutic break?
Heal thyself!Yoga, acupuncture and Ayurvedic spa treatments, activities and practices that were once considered “out there” are fast being gobbled up by the mainstream holiday market.
Unlike as little as a decade ago, the word “alternative” is no longer really applicable; “heal thyself” is increasingly becoming the holidaymaker’s tenet. It would seem that we all have well-adjusted chi, eat macrobiotic and meditate as a matter of course, but do we really know how to get the best out of a therapeutic break?But I’m perfectly healthy! Ah yes, but are you? And even if the answer is “yes”, as soon as you start thinking about a holiday, your stress levels are bound to grind up a gear or two. Planning a holiday can be one of life’s most stressful endeavours, especially for families. Perversely, it seems the less time you have to squeeze in a holiday, the more you need it. And if, three days into your hard-earned beach break, you find that you are still twitching and thinking about your in-tray, then perhaps a healing holiday is for you.Active relaxing, structured de-stressing or just plain old self-indulgence healing holidays cover everything from learning about alternative medicine in China to something as simple as taking a holiday from hotels by staying somewhere novel, say a tipi in Cornwall or a nomad’s tent in Turkey.Isn’t this all a little worthy? Doesn’t have to be. Those scared off by the thought of embarking on a pseudo-religious “learning experience” should consider something utterly indulgent instead.
Villa Tranquilla, in southern Spain, is a new property to come under the wing of the Ashburton Centre (01364 652784; www.ashburtoncentre.co.uk). This UK-based company, specialising in creative, cookery and health retreats, has just started seasons at a converted cortijo (farmhouse) in Estepona on the Costa del Sol.You can learn the art of Mediterranean cookery, using Moroccan herbs and spices to recreate ancient recipes, or alternatively indulge your creative side, on a writing course guided by writers such as Hanif Kureishi and Hugo Williams. Yoga, art and music courses are available at no extra cost during these one-week courses. Accommodation is in one of the cortijo’s three luxury villas, and the cost, per person, is £485 based on two sharing a twin room including full board and all courses. Flights to Malaga and transfers (which the centre can arrange for £10 each way) are extra; reckon on £200 return for a no-frills or charter flight in July or August.Where’s the most popular place to get yourself together again?A pilgrimage is the original “healing” holiday for both the body and soul. In the Christian world, nowhere does it quite like Lourdes even though this Pyrenean city is a relative latecomer to the pilgrims’ trail. Lourdes is Europe’s most popular pilgrimage site, attracting over five million visitors each year more, in a good year, than Rome.
MALPRACTICE SUITS Obama received a standing ovation when he raised the issueof doctors being afraid to practice because of lawsuits, butthere were a few boos when he said he did not support caps onmalpractice awards. Instead, Obama called for exploring a range of ideas toscale back “excessive defensive medicine.” Doctors have long complained they must pay high malpracticeinsurance premiums because of the lack of limits on suits, andthose costs are often passed to patients as higher fees. Obama said a public healthcare plan would “injectcompetition into the healthcare market that forces waste out ofthe system and keeps the insurance companies honest.” He acknowledged that expanding coverage to all Americanswould have a short-term cost but stressed it would not add tothe deficit in the next decade. But with some estimates puttingthe cost at $1.2 trillion, critics say the reforms will onlyadd to the country’s growing mountain of debt. The Congressional Budget Office said in a preliminaryestimate that a healthcare plan proposed by Democratic SenatorEdward Kennedy — closely mirroring Obama’s wishlist — wouldadd $1 trillion to the deficit over 10 years and still leavemillions uninsured.
[ID:nN15240598] “There are already voices saying the numbers don’t add up.They are wrong,” Obama said, outlining plans to pay for thereforms, including tax increases on wealthier Americans andspending cuts. A Senate Republican leader, Jon Kyl, predicted momentum forreform would slow as the public learns more about Democrats’plans. “He knows momentum will inevitably slow for something thatis extraordinarily costly, will deny people coverage that theyalready have, will ration their healthcare and could providesome kind of government insurance company that is going todrive out private insurance companies,” Kyl said. (Writing by David Alexander and Ross Colvin, additionalreporting by Andrew Stern in Chicago, editing by Eric Beech) Bonds.
By Jonathon Burch TALBOZANG, Afghanistan, June 16 (Reuters) – Fifty-year-old Abdul Wadud walked for two hours across Afghanistan’s remote northern mountains to hear a police commander give yet more promises of aid for those who turn their backs on growing opium Wadud does not grow drugs But if no money comes soon, he will. “Thegovernment told us several times they would help us and they didn’t,” he said, crouching barefoot on the ground in traditional Afghan loose shirt and trousers and explaining he feeds a family of 15 on occasional work as a day labourer. “If the government or the aid organisations don’t help us — yes we will have to start growing opium,” he said. “If they build us schools and roads we promise never to grow opium.” Wadud and around 30 other village elders from the area had gathered on a hillside deep inside the Hindu Kush mountains, to attend a “shura”, or meeting, organised by provincial authorities to dissuade the men from growing the drug.
Their Badakhshan province in remote northern Afghanistan has been a showcase for government efforts to battle the drugs trade, which accounts for nearly all the world’s heroin. Until 2006 Badakhshan was one of the main opium growing areas in Afghanistan, producing the country’s second biggest crop. But last year its output fell by 95 percent, to a mere 200 hectares under cultivation, close to being declared ‘poppy free’ by the United Nations, which credited government information campaigns and eradication programmes for the success there. The United Nations has warned, however, that last year’s improvement may not hold without more aid for poor farmers.
GABORONE (AFP) – Talks between the South African government and the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) ended without result here yesterday after the movement refused to suspend its armed struggle. A TWO-WEEK suspension from Leeds has cost the Great Britain captain, Garry Schofield, his place in the squad to play France on 2 April that will be named today. Contrast the reception accorded last week to two senior ministers, one of whom had been shuffled, one not. My feeling is that somebody, somewhere, got hold of a copy of the original text and leaked the offensive phrases which had not got into the final copy of the book. He said yesterday that the company was pursuing its strategy of focusing on its US packaging and labelling business, while trying to sell other activities.Porter’s UK consumer businesses, such as Head tennis rackets, luggage and footwear, have been particularly badly affected by the recession.Losses per share, before exceptional items, were 1p compared with earnings of 1.26p last time. They charge the policyholder 10 per cent of the payout plus VAT.They tend to rush into areas where they might find business.
But the real communication was musical: the Harmonie Band playing a specially written score by Paul Robinson.
From the line-up of clarinets, saxophones, sampled piano, accordion, cello and synthesiser, a whole orchestra emerged. Leaking is the story of motherhood told by a woman who starts out by saying that she doesn’t know what it means to be a woman. They include rare garganey, whimbrel and greenshank, as well as blackbirds, song thrushes, golden plover, curlew and redshank.’This decision threatens to blow the birds directive apart,’ an RSPB spokesman said last night.The European Court has three times overturned French attempts to allow hunting during the migratory season, causing a minor political crisis. Only days before the Broadwater Farm riot, he was commended for leadership and professionalism.
And to have gone through the Westminster follies on Maastricht with you in Brussels would have allowed the Euro-sceptics to scream even louder about Brussels being another plot to smuggle Karl Marx in through the Channel ports. This fall was caused by a decline in value of Burns-Anderson Recruitment, which is struggling because of the recession.The group had a consolidated net deficit of pounds 8.6m and short- term debt of pounds 14.6m at the end of last year.Derek Boothman, chairman, would not give details of what the restructuring was intended to achieve Discussions with bankers are still at an early stage. They communicate through sign language, giggle at secret jokes and twitch with a wicked mutual hysteria. Missed opportunities include monoclonal antibodies, discovered by scientists at the government-financed Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. One hopes those 300 million television viewers will see the funny side.If sympathy can be extended to armchair punters and trainers and jockeys, those at the track were particularly hard done by as they watched the proceedings under unremitting rain. I haven’t noticed too many strongly worded messages of support from fellow ministers, have you? In fact, in Mr Patten’s boots, I wouldn’t even be too sure about the horse.This is all the more unfortunate, since Mr Patten inherited most of his problems from other men, since he is genuinely concerned about the education system, and since all-out confrontation is not really his style He is a meritocrat and an enthusiast himself.
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For the threemonths ended March 31, 2009, cost of sales were $2.1 million forapproximately 3,400 ounces of gold sold at an average cost of $604 perounce of gold. There were nocomparable sales of precious metals in the same period of 2008.Cost of sales consist of mining and process costs, together withstripping costs that are variable costs of production. The increase in theconsolidated net loss of $0.7 million is largely due to $2.1million ofcosts attributable to sales, $3.9 million of stripping costs, a loss of$1.5 million attributable to the change in fair value of equity linkedfinancial instruments and an increase in depreciation and amortization of$0.4 million, partially offset by a $4.5 million decrease in explorationand land holding costs and $3.2 million of revenue from gold and silversales.During the first quarter of 2009, the Company sold 3,399 ounces of goldat an average price of $926 per ounce for $3.1 million and approximately4,375 ounces of silver for approximately $0.055 million. The program exceeded management’s expectations,expanding the oxide and sulfide, gold and silver resources at Hycroftsignificantly.
Allied Nevada and consulting geologists are currentlyanalyzing the data and identifying targets for the next phase of Hycroftexploration drilling. For the full resource update,please see the press release dated March 31, 2009 on our website at. It is anticipatedthe refinery will be in operation by the end of June, 2009, reducingoverall costs and decreasing the processing time for the production ofdore.Exploration and Resource Update:In March, 2009, a resource update was provided indicating a 244% increaseto measured and indicated gold resource, inclusive of reserves, to 5.9million ounces and a 298% increase to silver measured and indicatedresource to 117.5 million ounces of silver. The ore placed on the padcontained 31,000 ounces of gold, and the mine is on track to meet fullyear guidance of 90,000 ounces of gold production for 2009. Project todate, as of April 30, 2009, approximately 8,500 ounces of gold have beenproduced.The Company anticipates receiving an air quality permit imminently,authorizing the completion of the refinery at Hycroft. Approximately 1.7 million tons of oreand 5.4 million tons of waste were mined during the first quarter of 2009at an average grade of 0.0184 ounces per ton. Hycroftcompleted its second full quarter of mining operations in the firstquarter of 2009.
Resources,inclusive of reserves, increased to 5.9 million ounces of gold and 117.5million ounces of silver compared with the September 2008 resourceannouncement (see press release dated March 31, 2009 for furtherinformation on the resource increase).Operating Update:As of December 31, 2008, the Hycroft mine had reached the commissioningphase and the first gold pour occurred on December 7, 2008. Capital expenditures in the current quarter of $0.2 million werefor the purchase additional equipment.- For the three month period ended March 31, 2009, cash provided byfinancing activities was $6.1 million compared with $8.0 million in theprior year period. Allied Nevada closed the previously announced CDN$8.0million loan facility with Ionic Capital Corp. (“Ionic”).- Allied Nevada ended the quarter with a cash and cash equivalent balanceof $10.6 million.- Allied Nevada announced a resource increase at Hycroft.
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homeowners with mortgages, a recordshare, ended 2008 behind on payments or are in the foreclosureprocess, a mortgage industry group reported on Thursday. An expert panel of judges (me) was interviewed for this list All decisions are final and unassailable. He man handles JTG for three minutes just slamming him over and over again in the corner and on the mat. Milan Lucic, Blake Wheeler, Phil Kessel, David Krejci, and a handful of players hopping up and down between Providence and Boston.Experience? The Bruins have that, too. 2010 Safety prospect LaTwan Anderson, from Lakewood, Ohio, has got a Michigan offer. Big banks have also shed thousands of jobs in the past year as the prolonged credit crisis puts the brakes on deal activity.Goldman in particular has seen several senior bankers decamp, including media banker Joseph Ravitch, who earlier this month announced plans to leave.
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Could you picture Fabregas doing a Vieira-style bulldozing run through the defence?I didn’t think so. He’s considered one the best goalies in the league, but just how valuable is he to the Canucks?With Luongo out of the lineup this year, the Canucks are a brutal (for their standards, at least) 9-12-3 with a team GAA of 3.04. This year, the outfield has Adam Dunn, Lastings Milledge, Josh Willingham, Austin Kearns, and Elijah Dukes fighting for three spots.You would think that the fans would see the advantage of an overall higher caliber of outfielders, but you would never know it. (Magnificent Mile), as well as other potential placementsthroughout the Metro Chicago area. (If you didn’t have cable, you couldn’t afford the price of admission.)It was smiles and styles as season preparation began.
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Arizona is a talented football team that went through their ups and downs the whole season. Chauncey Billups and Nene led the Nuggets with 19 each, while Portland’s LaMarcus Aldridge took game honors with 20 points.Brandon Roy finished with just eight points, one game after scoring 52. In 2008, EDF said it would operate two reactorsin China’s Guangdong province. Today the word is that they Rockies would take one of the Twins’ starting pitchers and a prospect. who can also take over as the quarterbacks coach.That could be vital should Steve Sarkisian’s biggest fan decide to leave once his mentor is gone Who is his biggest fan?Mark Sanchez.. Or in this case, he moved the team to Oklahoma City, thus killing basketball in the Emerald City.
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He also contributed to a generous spread of other dictionaries, musical guides and periodicals in Italy and Great Britain, recently adding International Opera Collector and Tempo to his fora.But his reputation went around the globe, particularly for his work on the generazione dell’ottanta – the group of composers born around the 1880s, and including Respighi, Malipiero, Pizzetti, Ghedini and Casella: no matter where, if you were reading an article on the generazione dell’ottanta that wasn’t written by Waterhouse, the chances are that the author would have consulted him. John C G. Waterhouse was one of Britain’s most respected musicologists – though the label of “musicologist” was always one he resisted. The reason for that respect was straightforward: Waterhouse (the “C G.” distinguished him from his father, John F. Waterhouse, who wrote music criticism for the Birmingham Post) knew more about 20th-century Italian music than almost anybody else in the world.
His interest in Italy began early: after an education at Eton and Merton College, Oxford, he wrote his doctoral thesis (1966) on “The Emergence of Modern Italian Music, 1880-1940″, and he assiduously ploughed this furrow for the rest of his life.He was encouraged by the composer Luigi Dallapiccola to study the music of Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973), and his researches eventually emerged as La Musica di Gian Francesco Malipiero (Nuova Era, Rome and Turin, 1990), which he wrote straight into Italian.
This description provided “a valuable contribution to the solution of the problem” of landing mine-clearing “flail” tanks to clear underwater obstacles on D-day beaches in Normandy, and must have saved many a tank crew’s life. There can scarcely ever have been a more bizarre outcome of wide-ranging skills in bibliographical research than this.After retiring in 1961 Bertram Schofield moved with his wife, Edith, to Kidlington in Oxfordshire and lived there till the age of 101, on his own after her death in 1981, but sustained by a devoted home help. He is survived by a family of exceptionally wide-ranging talents, from nuclear physics and music to robotics, mathematics and oceanography.Bertram Schofield, palaeographer and musicologist: born Southport 13 June 1896; Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, 1922-47, Deputy Keeper 1947-56, Keeper 1956-61; CBE 1959; married 1928 Edith Thomas (died 1981; one son, two daughters); died Oxford 15 May 1998.. Though he was a tolerable shot, he could see to aim a rifle properly only out of his left eye, a thing particularly difficult to do with the old bolt-action short- magazine Lee Enfield rifle, and hence was sent to serve in Ireland, an experience he disliked.From 1919 to 1921 he continued his studies in Anglo-French legal and constitutional history at the Sorbonne, the Ecole des Chartes and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, which left him with an abiding love for France, and then returned to study in Cambridge, before joining the Department of Manuscripts in 1922.His greatest single achievement was during the Second World War when he was acting as liaison officer with Inter- Services Intelligence and found in the bookstacks of the Reading Room of the museum vol xxxv of the Bulletin de la Societe Prehistorique Francaise, 1938, which gave a “most detailed description of a clay patch on the beach at Luc-sur-Mer near Caen”, as noted by Chester Wil-mot in his The Struggle for Europe, 1952. A good relationship with Francis did not prevent Schofield standing up with vigour for the interests of the Department of Manuscripts, and there is a perhaps apocryphal tale of an occasion when he was said to have remonstrated forcibly and somewhat uncharacteristically with the director with the words “Don’t be a bloody fool, Frank.”!He did not have an entirely easy ride as keeper, and was saddened by the suicide of one of his colleagues and the divorce of two others, and though almost all his staff were easy, one or two, now dead, were not, and one of these indeed verged on the paranoiac. He went to Liverpool University from University School, Southport, secured a First in History and then became Charles Beard Fellow and later a University Fellow.In 1917 he joined the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry.
He was a wise delegator, and handed over the task of editing the Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, traditionally undertaken by the keeper, to his senior deputy keeper, who raised the standard of editing to an intimidatingly high level.Before ever he came to the museum, Schofield was marked down for success. He was responsible for acquiring the Tregian Anthology of Italian and for identifying the compiler as being that of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.Yet he took no narrow view of what should be acquired, and was equally keen on adding manuscripts of such composers as Elgar, Holst and Vaughan Williams, as well as modern literary and historical MSS.On taking office in 1956, he had to mend a few fences, for his immediate predecessor, a genial and charming man once released from the cares of office, found it hard to cope with the responsibilities of being keeper and had allowed this to affect his relationships with his colleagues in the department and elsewhere in the museum.No doubt it helped that Schofield, though some years older, had been at Liverpool University and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, not long before the then Keeper of Printed Books and subsequent director of the museum, Sir Frank Francis, in the days when the museum still had its own directors. He was a quiet but highly effective manager, and could correct a colleague without giving the faintest offence.
Though he held office as keeper only for six years – recalled by one of his staff as the happiest six years of his service in the museum – the acquisitions Schofield made included medieval manuscripts from Holkham and illuminated manuscripts from the Dyson Perrins collection. These were by no means the only examples of his skill in acquiring desirable items, especially in the field of music MSS, at a time when the funds available for acquisitions were far smaller than they later became.
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23, 2009)Emil Salomonsson scored an own goal to hand Helsingborgs the lead but Nascimento Anselmo brought them level after 69 minutes before efforts from Joe Sise (80) and substitute Mikael Rosen (90) secured the points. Hammarby 0-IFK Gothenburg 1 (Allsvenskan, Apr. Fiscal 2008 ended with a $665,000 operating surplus,and fiscal 2009 is expected to end with another modest surplus after officialstook corrective action midyear to offset an estimated $1.1 million revenueshortfall. They are more of a perimeter basketball team and they are a big pick-and-roll team. If you followed basketball in 1989 and fell into a coma, waking up today may shock you right back into one.Sure, the shorts are longer and no one is complaining. With the question marks at RB this season, however, Offensive Coordinator Mike Bobo should open up the passing game to give Cox more receivers to find.Though Figgins has not seen the field as a receiver frequently in his tenure with the Dawgs, he has all the tools to be a consistent producer on the field. This would be a bit more tricky because other teams offers were flying in The one we know about is the seven year…..
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Senior ministers say that his plans for radical reform of Whitehall are at the top of his agenda for the next Parliament.Senior civil servants told The Independent on Sunday that they are braced for a “cull” of posts at the top in Whitehall in Mr Blair’s second term in revenge for a failure to deliver on some of Labour’s promises in the first term.Sources inside Number 10 have confirmed that the Prime Minister’s staff have become exasperated with the resistance to change in the civil service. “Many were appointed during the Thatcher period and have many ways of slowing down reforms,” said one minister.To reassert authority over Whitehall, the Cabinet Office will be turned into an arm of Number 10, with the Prime Minister’s press secretary, Alastair Campbell, moving into a more strategic role. Mr Blair will stop short of renaming it the Department of the Prime Minister to avoid accusations of “control freakery”.John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, is negotiating a move to take charge of the Cabinet Office and wants it to become a powerful enforcer for delivering Government policy across Whitehall. It could be put in charge of crisis management following the failures of Maff to get a grip of the foot-and-mouth outbreak.Nick Brown, the beleaguered Minister for Agriculture, is tipped to survive with his department until after a review of agriculture is complete. Maff is then likely to be turned into a department for rural affairs, paying farmers as “custodians of the land”.The Social Security Department will be scrapped and merged with Employment into a new ministry for the working age, to emphasise the Government’s determination to link the payment of welfare benefits to the search for work.David Blunkett, the Education and Employment Secretary, who is likely to take over at the Home Office, has lost a battle to keep his department intact. The Education Department will stand alone again, to focuson reforming secondary schools.Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, has fought off a suggestion that there should be a Ministry for Justice.
Mr Prescott has stopped Downing Street breaking up the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. He will take responsibility for regional assemblies with him to the Cabinet Office.. An unusual ceremony will take place on the River Clyde next month. A Presbyterian minister and a Catholic priest will oversee a mass funeral for 50 strangers who died more than 35 years ago.
An unusual ceremony will take place on the River Clyde next month. A Presbyterian minister and a Catholic priest will oversee a mass funeral for 50 strangers who died more than 35 years ago.
It will be a sombre and lonely event. Muttering prayers, the clergymen will help to scatter the ashes of people whose remains have lain forgotten for decades in the storage rooms of a Glaswegian undertakers, some since the early 1950s.The undertakers, Jonathan Harvey’s, also has another 100 or so unclaimed urns dating back to 1965. These caskets will be kept for another few years, in the off-chance that the relatives will remember and reclaim the remains.It is a predicament which affects a large majority of Britain’s undertakers. In funeral parlours across the country, thousands of abandoned urns holding the ashes of people who died decades ago are being stored in the unlikely event they will be reclaimed. In time, the vast majority will simply be scattered by funeral parlour staff in the local crematorium’s garden of rest.Helen Johnson, a vice president of the Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors, said that in some cases, the relatives are too distressed at the death to face another ceremony. In others, a husband’s ashes are stored until his wife dies so their ashes can be scattered together In time, that arrangement becomes forgotten.
“I didn’t think about giving up because I was so committed, but I thought I would not be able to cope,” she says. “Giving up was not an option, although I thought I might fail.”According to the NUS, student parents face more hardship than any other group at university. But despite the difficulties, Sarah Goode and others like her find it worthwhile.”I saw myself as a student first and a mother second,” she explains. “If I was going to carry on with my life, Michael would have to fit in, as, in the long run, that would mean a better standard of living for both of us.”.
It’s Wednesday afternoon and Year Four is peacefully labelling a diagram of the human body, when young Johnny puts his hand in the air, “Please miss, what’s a vibrator?” For the unprepared teacher it’s time to tell Johnny to get on with his drawing, and pray silently for the bell. Of all the subjects that schools have to tackle, sex education is probably the most delicate and controversial; it certainly makes the most sensational headlines, especially when the under-12s are involved. Last year, we heard that children as young as 12 at a school in Scotland were getting free condoms from the school medical centre; the Family Planning Association had published a workbook for primary schools that included information about masturbation and oral sex; the Health Education Authority had to pulp 12,000 copies of its Pocket Guide to Sex for teenagers because it was deemed “distasteful and smutty”, and a nurse at a Leeds primary school had answered questions about oral sex and “Mars Bar parties”.
The nurse was later vindicated by a local authority report but not before John Patten, then Secretary of State for Education, had expressed his outrage and disgust: “I am incensed to think that very young children could be exposed … to things which at a particular age they should not even be beginning to understand, let alone understand.”Mr Patten probably felt he was speaking on behalf of most British parents – but was he? Do parents really believe their young ones can or should be kept in blissful ignorance until their teens or are they more realistic? And if primary schools are to play a part, what should they be teaching – when and how?While secondary schools are legally bound to provide sex education, in the primary sector it remains in the hands of school governors.
If they choose to provide sex education over and above what appears in the compulsory science curriculum, then the school must have a policy stating when, where and how it will be taught. At present, exactly who is doing what is unclear.Gill Lenderyou, who wrote the primary school workbook for the Family Planning Association, is currently running workshops on sex education around the country. “In the past couple of months, my workshops have been deluged by primary school teachers,” she said. “Many schools still don’t have policies, are just doing it in science or answering questions as and when they arise – which is simply not good enough.”You have to be proactive, create a climate where children can ask questions, because they quickly learn not to. Primary school is the best time to start, when they are curious and parents are much more likely to be involved.
If you stick to science, there’s no hope of getting in anything about relationships, values, feelings, which I would have thought is what parents want, rather than just the plumbing.”Ironically, while many schools are ignoring sex education altogether or producing vague policies to avoid provoking parental objections, most parents would actually like them to do something. A report published last year by the HEA showed that 94 per cent of parents were in favour of schools educating their children about human sexuality and most felt it should begin around the age of eight. Given that one in 10 girls starts her periods at primary school (some as young as eight), leaving all mention of puberty and menstruation until secondary school is plainly absurd.If schools need any more encouragement to grasp the nettle, they need only listen to their pupils’ playground-talk, Dilys Went, vice-chair of the Brook Advisory Centre, believes young children know an awful lot more than adults realise. “Children start seeing things on television from a very early age.
If adults won’t discuss it, they will invent their own stories and may behave in inappropriate ways. I’ve seen nursery children touch each other up and act out what they’ve seen.”Eight-year-olds can pick up condoms and bring them to school and words like Aids are used in games. Unless children are taught about it compassionately within a framework, they remain confused and embarrassed, and assume what they see on television is the norm.”For teachers who wish to discover how much their pupils know, Ms Went recommends an anonymous drawing and writing exercise. Allison Ward, who teaches at Alderman’s Green school in Coventry, recently asked her six and seven-year-olds to draw or write what they knew about where babies came from, and was amazed by the results.”I got far more information than I expected,” she says. “There was a range of knowledge (always a problem for teachers) and some confusion. One child wrote: `The female produces an egg and if a seed meets an egg in a special tube that’s what makes a baby’.
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