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Quality and usefullness of honey
About this event: Food for Talk

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[b]Quality of honey[/b]

It is important not to confuse the texture of honey with the quality. If you feel that the quality of your honey is poor, it will not be the fault of the bee, the problem will lie with whomever processed the honey or poor packaging.

[b]Texture [/b]
In reality there are an infinite variables to the texture of honey, each flower that the bee has visited will create a different texture of honey, in addition to that the processing of the honey also affects the final texture of honey as does the amount of time the honey has been stored.
If you have been in a position to buy honey direct from a beekeeper, you will be able to enjoy honey that has come from specific flowers, your choice of hard or runny honey will be greater. Example of flowers that create texture are heather honey which will set very hard, or clover honey that will stay runny.
Large honey distributors of honey invariably elect to provide blended honey. This way their end product will remain consistent from year to year regardless of the quantity of any species of flower that has been available to the bee.
As mentioned earlier the way that the honey is extracted from the comb or sold in the comb will affect it's final texture, the main variable is how high it was heated to melt it from the honeycomb. The beehive itself if always warm inside and the honey is always a liquid, and when the honey is heated, cooled and skimmed to remove the wax, how fast the honey cools also reflects how thick the honey in the jar is.

Honey is a most useful food product, in both making foods and as a food itself. Many of us are starting to focus on healthier eating habits, better and nutritious foods, and we are more conscience about where we are obtaining our foods – honey is one of the foods and food ingredients that you can trust to meet your all natural needs, with no preservatives needed, honey is going to add to your vitamin and mineral intake!

[b]Usefulness of honey[/b]
Honey is beneficial when you are dieting, watching your weight, and when you are having digestive problems or constipated. Using honey in your daily meals will lessen your stress and improve your sleep. With increased exercise and controlled eating habits, you can lose weight, be in control of your life, and feel better about yourself all around.
we have been telling you, all about the various benefits of using honey in your diet, in your life and for your family in so many ways. Now, in the following pages, you are going to find some easy to use and outstanding recipes that you can add to your recipe book for when you want to try something new, tried, and exciting.

While this is a very short listing of recipes, touching on many of the various ways that you can use honey is what these recipes are striving to show you. If you want to learn to use honey, you can look through your recipe books, convert how much sugar is added to anything, and use honey instead! Using honey is easy when you have just a few minutes to look over your recipes and make that small change.
Honey is one pleasure that is also good for you as well. Learning to cook with and make the best uses of honey in your daily life will include experimenting on your own with honey, replacing other forms of sugar that do not add much more than that sweet taste and calories to your daily eating habits.
Look for your favorite recipes, in your cookbooks, and substitute honey where sugar is called for – and you will be surprised at how much of a difference you can make by substituting just one ingredient for another. You can treat your family to great nutritious meals by substituting sugar with honey.

November 15, 2008 | 5:03 AM Comments  0 comments

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An attempted rape suspect
Related to country: South Africa

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Victim nabs suspect in queue

Thabisile Khoza

Sekhukhune - An attempted rape suspect who was arrested when his alleged victim spotted him standing in the same queue as her at a clinic, appeared briefly in court on Monday.

The 21-year-old man from Ga-Mashegwana village in Limpopo was arrested on Friday.

On Monday, he was not asked to plead to charges of attempted rape and assault with the intention to cause grievous bodily harm when he appeared in the Sekhukhune Magistrate's Court.

He was remanded in custody until November 3 for further investigation.

Sekhukhune police spokesperson Constable Dithomo Kgaphola said the alleged victim had phoned police from the clinic on Friday.

She claimed he had attacked her at about 11:00 that day.

"She told us that she fought back and kicked him in the testicles and bit his mouth to free herself," he said.

She didn't report the matter to police immediately as she first wanted to get help at the clinic for injuries to her face.

"When she was in the queue at the clinic, she noticed the suspect join the same queue, so she quickly slipped away and called the police with her cellphone," he said.

Kgaphola said the police allowed the suspect to get medical treatment first for his injuries.

"After the doctor finished examining him we took him to the police cell," he said.

- African Eye

October 15, 2008 | 5:50 AM Comments  0 comments

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An attempted rape suspect
Related to country: South Africa

Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

Victim nabs suspect in queue

Thabisile Khoza

Sekhukhune - An attempted rape suspect who was arrested when his alleged victim spotted him standing in the same queue as her at a clinic, appeared briefly in court on Monday.

The 21-year-old man from Ga-Mashegwana village in Limpopo was arrested on Friday.

On Monday, he was not asked to plead to charges of attempted rape and assault with the intention to cause grievous bodily harm when he appeared in the Sekhukhune Magistrate's Court.

He was remanded in custody until November 3 for further investigation.

Sekhukhune police spokesperson Constable Dithomo Kgaphola said the alleged victim had phoned police from the clinic on Friday.

She claimed he had attacked her at about 11:00 that day.

"She told us that she fought back and kicked him in the testicles and bit his mouth to free herself," he said.

She didn't report the matter to police immediately as she first wanted to get help at the clinic for injuries to her face.

"When she was in the queue at the clinic, she noticed the suspect join the same queue, so she quickly slipped away and called the police with her cellphone," he said.

Kgaphola said the police allowed the suspect to get medical treatment first for his injuries.

"After the doctor finished examining him we took him to the police cell," he said.

- African Eye

October 15, 2008 | 5:48 AM Comments  0 comments

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About Child Trafficking
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There are more slaves now than ever before according to the US Department of State, the United Nations, the International Labor Organization. Human trafficking is worse now than the Pharos of Egypt, the Roman Empire, or the transatlantic slave trade of the colonial era. Vatican Quote: “It's worse than the slavery of those who were taken from Africa and brought to other countries.”

Child Trafficking Defined Here

Widespread Child Trafficking occurs wherever there are ONE of three things happening: Extreme Poverty, Political Chaos, or War.

Child Trafficking works through Recruitment, Transportation, Exploitation
Children leave their home for a FEE, or to FLEE or to be FREE. Wherever it takes place the procedure is similar: A young girl or boy is brought from one place to another by someone who enslaves them. Years of exploitation and abuse follow. In the US, the young people are usually runaways. They are recruited in malls, bus stations, shelters and online.

Children are used for: Sexual Exploitation (prostitution, sex tourism, pornography, etc.) forced labor (cocoa, coffee, diamonds, rugs, silk, etc.), illegal activities (begging, selling drugs), child soldiers, forced marriage, adoption (sales), body parts.

Child Trafficking is the fastest growing crime in the world.
UNICEF values the global market of child trafficking at over $12 billion a year with over 1.2 million child victims.

Child Trafficking is the third largest crime in the world, for Transnational Crime, just after drugs and guns.

Domestically, it occurs in every community in America. This is Slavery in the Suburbs. The FBI has determined that the average age for females entering prostitution in the US is 13.

Why are children becoming the most profitable product for criminals?
A drug dealer can sell a little bag of drugs on the street just once.
A weapons dealer can sell a little hand gun on the street just once.
A trafficker can sell a little kid on the street 10, 15, 20 a day; day after day after day.

No one is going to let go of that kind of profit, unless someone takes it from them.

This is terrorism against children.

Child trafficking is characterized by three stages:

1. Recruitment of trafficking victims take place primarily in developing countries like Asia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Latin America and Africa. Countries of origin are generally marked by economic and political instability.
2. Transportation typically involves a complex route of travel and paid handlers. Depending on the length of transit and the political situation at the point of destination, smugglers pay widely varying prices for transport and bribes.
3. Exploitation. In the country of destination, trafficked persons are usually exploited by their recruiters for financial profit, and are sold or leased to others. Such persons usually hold their victims under conditions of physical captivity, and use force, threats, debt bondage, drugs, and coercion to subject them to different forms of exploitation. As with any illegal activity, information and data that convey the true scale of the problem is difficult to measure accurately. Typically, these children are taken – either through force or deception – and trafficked to distant places, sometimes within their own country, sometimes to foreign lands. There, they often join many other children already trapped in the commercial sex industry.

Of course, once they are taken their survival is unlikely. In fact, everything is taken away: their development, their rights to an education, to health, and to grow up within a protected and safe environment free from abuse and exploitation.

Traffickers are known to recruit their victims using a variety of methods. While abduction and kidnapping is often their tool, trafficking victims are very often trapped in more subversive ways. Typically, the traffickers promise their victims, usually girls and young women, that they will have respectable work as perhaps waitresses or domestic servants in another place or country. Traffickers may also persuade parents that their children will have a better life elsewhere: a secure job and the chance of a better education and future. In fact, they are often selling them to filthy brothels. Some of these parents or girls may even know, or suspect, that they will be sex workers, but desperate poverty and lack of both education and awareness can lead to their willingness to accept any offer – no matter the risk to the children.

What they do not know, however, is the extent of the abuse and degradation they will suffer, and the likelihood that they will be trapped in debt bondage. Either way, they go with these strangers only to discover upon their arrival in some strange land that they are victims of an evil deception. Simply put, they become slaves.

There is a difference between slavery and enslavement. In the modern world, few governments have laws providing for legal human ownership. This is the old model of slavery. So, the criminal factor takes over. The dynamics for slavery still exist, that is, the demand for enslaved human beings as a commodity, but the definitions and logistics for carrying it out have changed. Pro Slavery laws (mostly abolished throughout the world) have been replaced by Force, Fraud, and Coercion. This is enslavement.

Further, children forced to work in the sex industry are at considerable risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. For girls, there is the added risk of very early pregnancy and permanent damage to their reproductive health. Some trafficked children are also subdued and controlled with drugs to which they become easily addicted. They are then effectively trapped within the cycle of exploitation, because continuing with the work is seen as the only way to obtain their supplies.

This problem is not small or simple. It is a looming threat to children all over the world on several levels. That is why Ahava Kids works with the brave people who intervene directly in this vile trade.