tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76569425382017913502024-03-13T03:54:51.375+00:00IdeasI want to share good article thai and english on this blog.lillyconwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01134631742363660706noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656942538201791350.post-75764922821154118962013-01-12T13:14:00.003+00:002013-01-12T13:14:48.061+00:00Some western men think about buying a Thai Bride!Friday 8th June 2012 1:22pm<br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Death of UK man in Thailand highlights Thai Bride stereotype in British press</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">In March this year a leading UK newspaper reported the murder of an elderly UK man and his 'Thai Bride'. The 'Thai Bride' was 52 years old and the couple had been married for a number of years.<br /><br />Most foreign men and Thai women who are married and are located in foreign countries report that the single biggest obstacle to the success of their relationships is not cultural differences or language barriers but a real prejudice towards such 'Thai Bride' relationships which often takes them by surprise. 'I'd seen Fred on Corrie and I knew that many people would look at me a bit strangely but what I didn't anticipate was the hostility particularly from other women here,' says Andy from Chester in the United Kingdom. 'But my wife was great, she was stronger than me, she just wanted to make new friends.'</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">In most cases the Thai bride and her relationship partner simply 'get on with it' and despite the prejudice research shows that the divorce rate for such relationships is about 15% for marriages between Thai women and foreign men registered from 1992 to 2012 in Bangkok whereas a similar divorce rate for relationships in the United Kingdom was 33% and in some European the countries the figure is well over 50%.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">It is quite normal to hear Thai women who marry European men referred as their 'Thai brides' rather than as their wives? There is a great deal of stereotyping of Thai women that borders on racism, yet Thailand and its capital city Bangkok are no more immoral than any other city in the world.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Thailand appears to have had a bad press in some quarters relating to Thai women and their motives for marrying Western men. There are many examples of this, not only explicit, but also implicit in Thailand being regarded as the sex capital of Asia by most Western men. In fact, that is nonsense, and before discussing the reasons for that statement let's have a look at some examples of the way in which a Thai bride is stereotyped and how Thailand, and Bangkok in particular, is maligned.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">How much is a Thai Bride?</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">American TV serials and Hollywood often portray the hapless Thai Bride and the abusive US husband (or foreign husband). The truth is that most relationships between Thai women and men from developed countries in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia are happy and constructive marriages. Some are more old fashioned relationships while others involving marriages between younger Thai women and western men are comparatively modern. It is the success of these Western Thai relationships and marriages that is causing other women (and men) in Thailand and partners from developed countries to expand the phenomenon through word of mouth and recommendation. Nothing succeeds quite like success. If the horror stories about Thai Brides and abusive western men were the norm the trend would not continue to grow.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"> However there are certainly cases or even patterns of abuse in marriages between Thai women and foreign men particularly in northern European countries. The marriages and relationships which fail result in suffering for all parties. In many of these cases the foreign husband has entered into the relationship with the old fashioned concept of a 'Thai Bride' who can be bought.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">'There are many older guys out there still trying to find out how to buy a Thai Bride! These men see this as an opportunity to exploit and not surprisingly these are the relationships that fail and it usually is more grief for the guy in the first place,' says a Canadian journalist who works for a leading newspaper in Bangkok. 'I wouldn't necessarily say these guys are looking for sex slaves but they often have a rigid idea of what they want and it is not exactly a meaningful loving relationship. Many of these guys think that they can find a Thai Bride without even coming to Thailand! All they want to know is what is the price of a Thai Bride!'</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Documented cases of abuse of Thai women have been unearthed in Germany, Sweden and Australia in recent years where wronged Thai Brides have been rescued from lives of abuse but who successfully pursued their rights in court.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">However the authorities in nearly all western countries have developed programmes to deal with these situations beginning with strict vetting of all visa applications. In these countries measures have also been taken to protect western men from abuse at the hands of Thai Brides who have deliberately entered into sham marriages in order to exploit visa regulations and spousal property rights in foreign countries. Some commentators feel that such measures are unjustly weighted against the Thai Bride denying her the same rights as that of indigenous brides. A Thai Bride married to a UK man with a university education and who had worked in Thailand's media scene was held by UK border police in a holding cell in Glasgow Airport after flying in from Thailand when her husband repudiated their marriage. The Thai woman sued the UK authorities and won her case but still faced difficulties obtaining a visa to travel to the United Kingdom to pursue her interests including a divorce from her UK husband. She is now reported to be taking a case to the European courts.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"> 'I think that the governments are in a tricky position and are simply not really up to speed with what is going on. Part of this is poor media coverage. I feel most of these cases arise from the old fashioned mail order bride syndrome. It's quite different for many of today's Thai women, who are educated and prospects, just that they are looking for something more promising; they search for relationships through the internet. In fact I know of some Thai Brides who help support Western men living in Thailand but you'll never hear any Thai woman admitting this. I know of a few cases like this,' said our Bangkok based journalist.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Death of a UK man and his Thai Bride</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">The report, by the UK's Daily Mail newspaper in March of 2012, concerning a UK man and his wife who were murdered in Thailand caused quite a reaction.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"> 68 year-old Michael Raymond and his 52 year-old wife Suchada were found dead in their beach bungalow on the Gulf of Thailand. Three suspects admitted to the murder: a local fisherman, chef and security guard. They had robbed Mr. and Mrs. Raymond of a cell phone, an ATM car and 2,000 baht.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">It is not so much the murder that inflamed expats living in Thailand, but the way the UK press reported the incident. The headline referred to "British Pensioner and Thai Bride". The couple had been married for two years and had been living in Bangkok since their marriage. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Expats, many with a Thai Bride themselves asked why the couple was they not referred to as Mr. and Mrs. Raymond, rather than as Mr. Raymond and his Thai Bride, Suchada Bonkamdi - are Thai wives not worthy of taking their husband's name in the British press? This is an explicit example of how Thai brides are treated differently to wives of other nationalities - and borders on racism. Why could they not have at least been referred to as husband and wife, which is precisely what they were?</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">The headline was a form of disrespect that inferred marriages between Thai women and Western men to be a sham, and arranged only for sex or money. Mixed marriages are not uncommon in Asia, and it seems only in the West that they are regarded as abnormal enough for the wife to be referred to as the man's 'bride' and not his 'wife', even after years of marriage. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Is every woman in the UK who has been married for only two years still referred to as a bride? Absolutely not, so why this stereotyping by people ignorant of the true situation in Thailand? What is it about Thai women that some should regard their marriages to foreigners with suspicion? It all started with the Americans back in the Vietnam War!</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Thai Brides and American R&R</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">In the 60's and 70's, Thailand was used as a huge airbase by the U.S. during the Vietnam War, from where they launched air strikes on North Vietnam. Thailand was requested by the government of the USA to provide rest and recreation facilities to the American airmen, known as R&R. The Americans relabeled this to I&I: intercourse and intoxication, which appeared to be permitted by the Thai authorities because the financial benefit of the occupation to Thailand was significant. It is important to note however that prostitution in Thailand was made illegal by the government in 1960 and this remains the position. However a law was introduce in 1966 which seems to have allowed the establishment of the sex industry which thrived in this era. It was the birth of what we see now as the infamous Thai sex industry. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">The 'year after year' $16 million cash injection into the Thai economy became an essential part of the country's income, and after the war it had to be replaced somehow. This was achieved by rising tourism which in turn fuelled increased 'I&I', with growing numbers of Thai women flocking to the capital and other tourist centers to make some extra money - keep in mind that there was, and still is, a vast gulf between the rich and the poor in Thailand.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Although many American men married Thai women, many also used them as mistresses and looked after their financial needs. However, once the Americans left many women were left destitute and had only one way to make money. Many American men, and those from other Western countries plus Australia, returned to Thailand after the war seeking more I&I, and the myth grew.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">In fact, the truth is that Bangkok has only three red light districts, and is no more immoral than Amsterdam or the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. Are Dutch and German women stereotyped in the same way as Thai women? Of course not. How many people are aware that the concept of bargirls and go-go bars originates in China? Is China declared immoral, and do we hear of Chinese 'brides'? </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Also, why is it when a British, Dutch or American man states that he is marrying, or even has married, a Thai woman, he is asked if she works or has worked in a bar - or even if she is or was a prostitute? If they don't ask it outright you can bet that's what his friends and family are thinking! How would you feel if your friends asked you if your fiancée or new wife used to work in a sex bar? It's the same thing - and if you don't think so then you, yourself, are guilty of stereotyping young Thai women. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Prejudice and Racism about Thailand</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">In fact, the word 'degrading' would be more appropriate than 'stereotyping'. Europeans and Americans appear to be completely ignorant, both of the Thai way of life and of their social structure. The vast majority of Thai families are hardworking and completely respectable, and those Thai women that marry Western men do so both for love and to improve their social and financial standing.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Yes, there are bargirls that will take advantage of westerners, but such young women are not restricted just to Thailand - you find them in every city in every country in the world. It appears to some to be both prejudice and racism that is involved here. The question has been asked many times - if a white man married a young white woman living in Thailand would she be referred to as his 'wife' or as his 'Thai bride'? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">The problem actually goes further than that - young Thai women are generally regarded as being of loose morals. Whenever discussions get round to Thailand, the sleazy comments and sexual innuendos are endemic. Thailand appears to be regarded the country of sleaze, even though the country offers no more paid sex than most others in the world. The problem with Thailand's image is that the authorities are seen to support the Thai sex trade because it is thought to represent a significant part of the country's imported income. However the authorities in Thailand do take steps to deal with the sex industry and prostitution is not legal in Thailand as it is in some European countries. Even the attitude towards the Thai authorities needs to be examined.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Thailand is a developing country where corruption is on the decline and there is evidence that many deprived young women in Thailand are now opting for education and work opportunities as the Thai economy is improving. Part of the reason for this is the internet which has assisted many younger Thais particular Thai women. It is true also that many poorer Thai women use the internet to find friends, boyfriends and even life partners abroad. But this is not confined to poorer Thai women but also extends to more affluent Thai women. It is sometime difficult for those outside Thailand to understand the trend among this generation of Thai women and Thai men to look further than Thailand to embrace western culture and to learn. Many Thai women and Thai men using Thai dating sites simply want to interact with foreigners and learn English. Internet research shows that 75% of those using the internet outside Bangkok are Thai women.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Moral and Religious Thai women</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">The reality is that only a very small proportion of Thailand's population is involved with the infamous Thai sex industry, so it doesn't say much for the education or the morality of European men if they regard Thailand as the place to go for sex - particularly for underage sex. What many do not realize is that Asians look younger than Europeans and Americans and your 14 year-old Thai is likely to be aged over 21! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Next time you are in London, Paris, New York or Melbourne, check out the classified ads and men's magazines. You will find just as many massage parlors and escort agencies as you will in Thailand, and that's without looking at the sleazier areas of New York, Paris and London.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">The stereotyping of Thai brides is a sign of the way that westerners are uneducated about Thailand as a land of beautiful temples, wonderful art and strong family relationships. The people are largely very moral and religious, and Thai families as supportive of each other as anywhere else on earth.</span><br /><br />ThaiLoveLines.comlillyconwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01134631742363660706noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656942538201791350.post-27568616386779462532013-01-12T13:12:00.000+00:002013-01-12T13:12:03.046+00:00Thai culture and the position of women in Thailand<br /><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><u>A little understanding helps in marrying a Thai woman</u></span></strong> <br />
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Western men are advised to do a bit of homework before setting out to marry a Thai woman.<br /><br />'I think any western man thinking of marrying a Thai woman should do a little homework,' says Pat Dawson a feature writer for one of Bangkok's leading newspapers. 'It wouldn't hurt to start by looking at Buddhist culture,' he says.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Before marrying a Thai woman he says it is important that you understand the position of Thai women in society and her potential motives for marrying you. While most Thai women will marry you for the same reason you are marrying her, and make fabulously attentive and loving wives, there are cultural differences that you should know about.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Marrying a Thai woman: Thai women in society</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">If you are considering marrying a Thai woman, you should first make yourself aware of the role of Thai women in society, and how they expect both you and them to behave. Because Thailand is fundamentally a Buddhist society, the women are regarded as inferior to the men, and they do not have the same rights or position in society as men do - including their husbands.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Thai women cannot be expected to act and participate in society in the same way a western woman would, and in some cases men marrying a Thai woman are disappointed in the way they participate in their Western-style society. However, if you understand the reasons for this, your marriage could be as wonderful as you want it to be: a little understanding goes a long way.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">One of the major problems when western and traditional eastern cultures meet is in the way that men and women regard each other. For example, even today, sex before marriage is frowned upon in Thailand, and is not a normally occurrence. In Thailand, boys and girls want each other to be the first for each other when they marry, while they believe that with eastern young people the male wants to be the first man for his girlfriend, while the female wants to be the last woman for her boyfriend.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">In Thai society, men and women are not traditionally used to displaying acts of affection in public, such as kissing or even holding hands. It is generally not acceptable for Thai boys and girls to stay overnight together unless they are with others in a group. However, likely because of exposure to western TV and movies and also the internet, these norms are being broken, and young Thais now openly show those signs of affection that are commonplace in the west.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">When marrying a Thai woman, the Western man should be aware of these norms and of the place held by Thai women in society. Although young Thais are getting a feeling of the Western ways from the media to which they have more access, they also believe that most foreigners are rich in comparison to themselves. For many young Thai women this is likely true.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Understanding Thai women in society is very important for anybody from the USA, Australia or Europe who intends marrying a Thai woman. The following are some reasons for young Thai females agreeing to marry foreigners. They may also involve feelings of love, but because of their culture it is important that you understand these things:</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Western men are rich</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Most Thai girls believe Western men to be rich, and has already been stated, this is often the case in terms of relating the average earnings of a Westerner with the average Thai male. In some cases the woman will agree to the marriage simply for the money, and such marriages are certainly not made in heaven. They often end in tears and the loss of a great deal of cash by the man.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">However, you should be able to tell if the girl you have chosen feels the same about you. Thai women fall in love with Western men just as they with young people from their own country, and while the initial attraction might have been your wallet, it might not be why they marry you. You should take the same time to get to know them as you would a girl back home. Many American and European women will fall for a very rich guy - you just have to learn to tell the difference!</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Family obligations</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Most Westerners fail to understand the family ties of Thai women. For some women, marrying a foreigner is a way out of certain poverty for her and for her family - even if she does love you. This is not a mercenary obligation as many Westerners claim, but is simply an example of the close family relationships that exist between the members of Thai families: if a Thai bride has married a moneyed groom, then the family would expect to be cared for, even if the groom was a Thai. The same would be true if a rich woman married a poor Thai man. You might feel the same if you married a wealthy Thai woman.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">The Dowry or Sin Sod</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">The dowry, or sin sod, is an integral part of Thai culture, and is tended as a gesture of honor to the bride's family for bringing her up well. The dowry also signifies that the groom is able to look after his bride financially. The average dowry you would expect to pay for an educated young woman would from $3,000 - $10,000, though some ask for up to $30,000 and more. More than $10,000 for a university educated Thai bride is excessive. The dowry is today generally no more than a symbolic indication of the wealth of the groom, and returned in full, or sometimes in part, after the wedding.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Thai culture</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Women have very defined roles in Thai society and within marriage. The expansion of education in Thailand and improvement of women's rights has opened the door to younger Thai women to take up posts in the civil service and in commercial organisations. At present, it is estimated that over half those working within the Thai civil service are women. However even prior to this there is a long cultural tradition in Thailand where women are seen as responsible for handling the financial affairs in families and the engagement of commerce. A Thai government survey in 1946 found that 75% of all registered small traders were women.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Despite this, the role of women in society has been slow to change and there is a strict moral code. Despite the infamous Thai prostitution industry, only a minute percentage of Thai women have ever been involved in the industry. It is important to remember this. Although Thai society has a different or 'softer' attitude towards prostitution and it is accepted that many poor families will send daughters into the industry, no Thai man would ever consider marriage to such a woman. In Thai society there is also a stigma attached to women who are divorced or separated from their husbands.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">A Thai wife is expected to be supportive of her husband as we see from the phrase that the husband is the front legs of the elephant while the wife is the hind legs, driving and supporting decisions taken by her husband.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Thailand is still a patriarchal society although it is changing but it is changing very slowly.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">The acceptance of prostitution highlights this. It should be noted that the prostitution industry in Thailand exists primarily to service Thai men. It is not simply an invention to satisfy sex tourism as often portrayed in the media. Indeed there are some forces within the prostitution industry in Thailand who fear the westernization of Thailand as it offers Thai women, who do not fit into Thai society, more options. The internet, a western influence, is one of the key tools that are helping to empower under privileged Thai women.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">We have seen compelling stories of some women driven by forces in Thai society into prostitution who have opted instead to find foreign husbands. One example of this is Sommai, formerly a sex worker in Pattaya who married a Danish man 15 years ago, who has now gone on to create a large community of Thai women married to Danish men in an isolated part of Denmark. </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Thai women in general are becoming more educated, many now going on to third level education. However, the power of Thai culture is difficult for westerners to understand. It is very difficult for Thai women to actively go against their own culture including key principles that have been ingrained since birth. Many of these principles are Buddhist.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"> It is often pointed out that Thailand was never colonized but this has led to a living and powerful sense of culture and identity which reaches down to all levels of Thai society.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"> The westernization of Thai society can be seen in Bangkok and urban centres in Thailand where it is not uncommon now for Thai women to work outside the home but most Thai wives still play a supporting role to their husbands.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">In July 2010 Thailand elected its first female Prime Minister in Yingluck Shiniwatra. This is a step, and a big one, although the country is still very traditional and still largely patriarchal. It will be a while yet before women control the marriage bed, although many men married to Thai women believe they do that now. </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Understanding Thai women in society is most important before you make the decision that marrying a Thai woman is what you want in the long term. If you do, then you will be marrying a woman who will take good care of you for your entire life, as long as you also take care of her. She is marrying you so that she will feel secure, personally and financially, and if you can do that then you will have a wife for life!</span></strong><br />
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<br />lillyconwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01134631742363660706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656942538201791350.post-16384664978298038682013-01-12T13:08:00.001+00:002013-01-12T13:08:38.797+00:00 Relationship breakdown driving Western men to seek love and marriage with Thai Women Tuesday 14th June 2011 11:33pm<br />
<strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Relationship breakdown driving Western men to seek love and marriage with Thai Women</span></u></strong> <br />
<br /><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">It is now estimated that Western men immigrating to Thailand are supporting over one million jobs in the Thai economy with over one hundred thousand foreign husbands in Thailand's North Eastern provinces alone.<br /><br />UK man Martin Wheeler 47 came to Thailand over 17 years ago and married his Thai bride Rojan from Khon Khaen in Isaan reputed to be one of Thailand's poorest areas. A graduate of London University, Wheeler began his new life in Thailand's north east working as a laborer before progressing to working in a rural development project which promotes agricultural self sufficiency in Thailand.<br /><br />'My wife warned me about Isaan being one of the poorest places in Thailand, but I thought 'if this is poor, I'll have some of it.' Wheeler says that if people can accept a lack of education and the prospect of earning a lot of money then Thailand's provincial countryside has a lot of appeal as a way of life. While Martin Wheeler is like many UK men who are opting to settle in Thailand,there has been an explosive growth in the number of Thai Brides in the UK in the last two years. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Wheeler acknowledges the attraction of Western men to Thai women and the corresponding appeal to a Thai woman living in Thailand's poor countryside of marriage to a western man. 'It's a win win situation, but it's not a love story,' Wheeler says. 'It's finance, and it's sex. It's a mirror of what is wrong with the West, not what's wrong with Thailand.'<br /><br />Although Wheeler lives in Thailand with his Thai bride, Australian Graham Chappel and his bride have settled in Australia and he may disagree that his marriage is not a love story.<br /><br />Graham from Brisbane met his Thai Bride Yosita on ThaiLoveLines in July 2008 and the couple has lived in Australia together for the last eighteen months. He describes himself as 'utterly surprised' everyday that he has a Thai born wife but also experiences a 'sense of wonder' at how happy they are together.<br /><br />The self employed businessman, in an article written for the ThaiLoveLines News Centre calls for a debate on 'where western society' is going. 'I am so thankful for my Thai wife that I almost feel I have a duty to tell other people about it and try to figure out what is wrong. I'm a decent bloke, I've loved women in Australia, in fact, I love women in general, the women here Australia are living a nightmare too. I know it's the same in very western country, 'society has gone nuts.'<br /><br />'I know there are many men like me and younger men too, they're almost afraid these days to marry,' he says. 'I believe the cause of it is the feminist movement and the kind of government policies that we've all had to put up with since the sixties.'<br /><br />Mr Chappels statement comes days after divorce lawyers in the United States confirmed that social networking sites like Facebook and My Space are now used as evidence in 20% of divorces as, increasingly; online behaviour is being used as grounds for divorce. In the United States 71% of all divorces are instigated by women. In his book 'Fatherless America' the author David Blankenhorn describes the crisis as the 'most destructive trend in our generation'. Studies conducted by US universities have found that children of relationships that break down are four times more likely to divorce themselves.<br /><br />'It has definitely become more common (Thai women marrying Western men) but it is wrong to think that Thai women are not feminists or weaker then women in western societies,' says a female lawyer in Bangkok who has become an expert on Thailand's growing number of interracial marriages. 'In Thailand the feminist movement is also active in promoting women's rights but at a more practical level', she says. Although she affirms the increased incidence of Thai women marrying western men, she also points out to a spike in divorce rates among this group in courts throughout the North east provinces of Thailand. 'Divorce is not just something for western countries; in fact Thailand's divorce codes are quite progressive in many ways.'<br /><br />Some Thai academics are quick to underline an economic link to the surge in Thai women marrying western men and it may also be said that the breakdown in marriages in western countries may too be linked to increased economic development. Buapan Promhakping, an associate professor of humanities at Khon Khaen University has studied interracial marriages between western men and Thai women in Isaan and concludes that it has created a huge income gap between cross culture couples and villagers in the region. She has concluded that it has fuelled increased materialism and consumerism. 'Nowadays in the villages, parents will say to their daughter: 'If your Thai husband is no good you can divorce him and find a farang (foreign) husband.'<br /><br />Despite the economic downturn slowing somewhat, the rate of divorce in western countries, in some US states, over 50% of marriages end in divorce. Commentators agree that this is one of the key drivers in the flight of western men seeking Thai women to marry or as relationship partners.<br /><br />But what is the attraction between Western men and Thai women? Is it literally a marriage of convenience? Or is it a cross cultural phenomenon? Some Thai women say that they are more attracted to Western men because of the increased level of care and attention that western men are perceived to given their wives or girlfriends. It should be noted that only a very small percentage of Thai women are interested in finding western men or husbands. Thailand's society has traditionally been unusually paternalistic in nature with Thai men often exercising their rights to mistresses or second wives in a culture that historically differs from that of western countries.<br /><br />Some Thai women express the view that they prefer western men because:<br /> •Western men are perceived as more faithful and less promiscuous (jai choo) than Thai men by this group of women<br /> •Western men are seen to be worldlier at a time when Thailand is beginning more and more to look outwards.<br /> •It has to be said that some Thai women, particularly those less well off, see western men as having more financial resources and this is the key factor for some Thai women.<br /> •Although objectionable for most westerners and Thais, there is an opinion out there among some Thai women that expresses a preference for non Asian men with 'white skin'. This deplorable perception may be encouraged by increased globalization and the increasing prevalence and attraction of western culture.<br /><br />In return Western men see Thai women as:<br /> •More easygoing and easy to get along with. Thai people have a very easy going nature which is linked with Thai culture and Buddhism.<br /> •More traditional and family orientated. Thai culture places great emphasis on the family in particular on respect for the elderly and duties within the family.<br /> •More feminine in their appearance. Many western men feel western feminism has made western women less feminine and certainly less concerned on looking attractive for men. It should also be said that Thai culture underscores a need to be more polite and soft spoken which contributes to the allure of Thai women as being more feminine.<br /> •Some western men simply see Thai women as more exotic and beautiful<br /><br />It may be true to say that the growth in relationships between Thai women may be representative in a growth throughout the world in interracial marriages. There is also increased evidence that younger western men are following this path. It is insightful to note that the median age of those forming successful relationships online has dropped on ThaiLoveLines surveys from 44 years in 2007 to 39 in 2010.</span>lillyconwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01134631742363660706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656942538201791350.post-46878939277528411672011-05-07T22:31:00.000+01:002011-05-07T22:31:19.663+01:00Butter Cookies<h1>Butter Cookies</h1><br />
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Happily, maintaining a healthy heart is relatively simple, and it's never too late to start. Do you smoke? If you do, the first step is to quit. Even occasional smoking has been proven to be detrimental to the health of your heart. Regular exercise is essential to help maintain weight and keep the heart strong. It is also important to limit fats in the diet particularly animal fats derived from meat and full fat dairy foods.<br />
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Oatmeal. Opt for coarse or steel-cut oats over instant varieties, they contain more fiber. Oatmeal is great for breakfast over sugary cereal; it is full of omega-3 fatty acids, folate, and potassium. This fiber-rich superfood can also lower levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol and help keep arteries clear.<br />
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Legumes/Beans: One serving of dried beans/legumes a day can reduce cholesterol by up to 10%. The fiber and other compounds present in legumes and beans can lower cholesterol, blood clotting and improve blood-vessel function. These are also a great source of folate, which keeps homocysteine levels (an indicator of heart trouble), in check.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;"><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">It is not surprising that people are interested in what are the best vitamins and foods for heart health. The heart is one of the most important organs in our body. We cannot live without it and when disease strikes the heart, the results are serious. Much research has been down about the importance of vitamins and foods for heart health. There are many, many healthy foods, many not so healthy foods and some foods that you should avoid entirely.<br />
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When it comes to low cholesterol foods, choosing the right foods is not as hard as you might think, it can be as easy as finding something in the pantry or refrigerator and cooking it up, or it may not involve cooking at all. Foods like fruits and vegetables lower bad cholesterol. This can be a smart choice. Instead of going for cookies in the morning on your way out, grab a fruit, at lunch instead of going to a fast food restaurant, pack your own lunch such as a sandwich made with whole wheat bread, whole wheat blocks back cholesterol.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSWtCjcWBAnJmeJtLEq1P6hUw_CmU9q4XWjyjhyphenhyphenS0mfM3Ak38et5nI0Ct1V4qXPYpOqWeHfRf-l-3iTTfP3b3syxzq7-oiLne-0kxpgZNfcqnYoa8ntGPwbINRxWQ-HshWWn_P5Kavf5eF/s1600/healthy-heart.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSWtCjcWBAnJmeJtLEq1P6hUw_CmU9q4XWjyjhyphenhyphenS0mfM3Ak38et5nI0Ct1V4qXPYpOqWeHfRf-l-3iTTfP3b3syxzq7-oiLne-0kxpgZNfcqnYoa8ntGPwbINRxWQ-HshWWn_P5Kavf5eF/s320/healthy-heart.gif" width="250" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><br />
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Increase food sources of omega-3 fatty acids which target high triglycerides in the blood. Good sources of omega-3s include fish such as sardines, mackerel; nuts and seeds; green leafy vegetables; grains like wheat, bajra; legumes like rajma, cowpea, and black gram.</span></div><br />
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If you have unwanted brown spots, dark spots or dark patches spreading on your face or other places, and you want them to vanish completely, giving your skin lasting clarity and beauty, then you'll want to treat your brown spots with our Miracle Cure.<br />
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Epilators like Silk Epil from Braun remove hair from the root, and so they are similar to waxing, as waxing also removes hair from the root. However, you may get more in-growths if you use these machines, so you should scrub your body with a pumice stone while bathing to counter this problem. You need to give more details about the brown spot. Is it a freckle or is it a mole? How big is the spot? If it is a mole, you should visit a dermatologist.<br />
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Prevention is the easy part—apply sunscreen to your hands, arms, face, and scalp (if not covered with hair) every day, whether you plan to go outside or not. You see, sun damage comes in two forms: UVA and UVB. Ultraviolet A rays are known as “aging rays”; UVA sunlight makes up 90-95% of all sunlight that reaches the earth’s surface. It penetrates windows of houses and cars; it gets through clouds; it’s present 365 days a year. Even more troublesome is the fact that UVA exposure is “silent”. You don’t get a tan or sunburn from UVA exposure. UVB rays, also called “burning rays,” cause tanning and burning of the skin, so you know when it’s happening. Enough said? So from this day forward, you’ll apply sunscreen with an SPF of 30?<br />
A laser generates and intense beam of light. This beam brings energy to a specific site, through a small hand piece connected to the laser. The laser light is absorbed by oxyhemoglobin (bright red blood cells carrying oxygen) and melanin/pigment (black or brown pigment found in the skin) causing decomposition or destruction by heat of unwanted cells while leaving healthy cells intact.<br />
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Microdermabrasion is another way to remove brown spots. By gently abrading the skin with ultra-fine crystal particulates, microdermabrasion can reduce unwanted pigmentary changes and age spots. It can also benefit our acne patients. <br />
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Sunscreen, protective clothing, and sunglasses help prevent further sun damage. Exposure time in the sun should be limited and seek shade when outdoors. Try to avoid outdoor activities between 10 am and 3 pm, when the ultraviolet rays are strongest. See a dermatologist yearly for a skin examination to check for any abnormal moles or skin cancer.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;"><br />
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A platform bed is a bed which consists of a mattress placed on a solid platform raised off the floor by legs or framing. The space below the platform bed can be utilized for storage purposes. Platform beds do not have springs. </span></div><br />
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One can select a platform bed from the two varieties available. <br />
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* The wooden platform bed - Wooden platform beds are usually made from oak wood or maple wood. They offer warmth as well as beauty to any type of bedroom decor. They are available in many different sizes like full size, king or queen size, and twin size. Though they are usually designed to support a mattress, they can be changed and customized for use with box springs. Altering the height of the headboard and lowering the size of the slate board allows for this. The wooden platform bed is generally given a Danish oil finish. <br />
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* The metal platform bed - Metal platform beds come in many varieties from the contemporary metal platform bed to the traditional ones and they are all available in a variety of colors. The beds have predrilled holes to allow for the adjustment to the height of the bed. <br />
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* Special quality steel is used for more strength and durability of the bed. To avoid stripping and over tightening of the bolts a special Allen key is used. Steel cross bars sheets of Masonite are used for support at the side railing. <br />
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* DIY beds, from plans and instructions available on the internet <br />
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Advantages of platform beds: <br />
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1. You can make a platform bed yourself from readily available plans found on the internet <br />
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2. They provide a better mattress support area since it does not have a box spring underneath. <br />
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3. It increases the storage space and makes the room looks clean and tidy. <br />
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4. These beds are very affordable. <br />
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5. Allergies to dust can be avoided, as dust does not get collected under the bed. <br />
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6. They are portable and comfortable. <br />
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There are many web sites and on line merchants from where you can buy a platform bed. These web sites offer the latest designs for platform beds at very reasonable prices. <br />
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They are available in a wide range of prices so its very easy to choose a bed that suits our budget. Alternatively you could make a platform bed, the plans are readily available on the internet<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>A CV is a sales document; it conveys succinctly the information of what you are looking for and why. Why you are qualified for such work </strong></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>and a story as to how you got to this point, covering your previous <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">work experience</span></strong></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>, education, qualifications and interests.</strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>I believe a CV should be a succinct story backing up a tag line about yourself. Often in interviews the main asked of the candidate is:</strong></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>"Tell me about yourself"</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>This answer and the CV to back it up should be made as succinct, clear and relevant as possible to the position sought.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Obviously life is not as clear and simple as this and many of us have a complicated and confusing history in regards to </strong></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>, education and life story, but effort should be made to make this as clear as possible in interview and on the CV. To present only the relevant facts to sell you most effectively for the post in which you are applying.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #009900; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">work experience</span></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><u>Profile</u></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>The profile should be a short sentence stating clearly:</strong></span></div><ul><li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>What <span style="color: black;">work</span></strong></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong> you are looking for</strong></span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>What you have to offer (why you are qualified)</strong></span></div></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>I believe in starting the CV with a profile. This explains to the employer or recruiter what you are looking for and summarises all of the attributes that can be found in detail on the rest of your CV.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>The recruiter will know what they are looking for and if your profile states this in summary then you are making their job a lot easier and they are more likely to put you in the "yes" pile, as they quickly check a large volume of CVs.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Remember the recruiter is human too, think how frustrating it is when you look at a website that is not clear and it is hard to find the information you need quickly. Now think of the recruiter who has to look through a large volume of CVs for any advertised positions, if they have to look at a large number and it takes too long for them to find the information they need from your CV they may not take the time to do so.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #009900; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Work Experience</u></span></strong></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Work experience should come directly after the profile in reverse chronological order.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>The first thing a recruiter or prospective employer will look at is the last job you have had and if you had the relevant experience or achieved something relevant to the job you are applying for in previous roles.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Do them and yourself a favour and put this experience where they can find it easily. I.e. your most recent job at the top and your previous roles below this.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>There will always be gaps and times when you worked for a short time, temping, travelling etc. It is your call as to how to include these but remember your story needs to be made as clear as possible, so if you worked somewhere for a short time then make the story relevant as to why or consider omitting some</strong> <strong>jobs</strong></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong> altogether. Maybe include one line with the dates and mention what happened, e.g. temping role, or went travelling between these dates etc. This answers the question quicker than leaving gaps and having to explain them in interview.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><u>Education</u></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Education should be also in reverse chronological order.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><u>Other Qualifications</u></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>If you have attended any training courses or have industrial qualifications they should be entered here. Remember this is a sales document – list everything you have done here – sell yourself!</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><u>Interests</u></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Qualify your hobbies and interests. Do not mention generic things such as ‘I like to go running' without qualifying it as to what has been achieved. For example, it would be better to say: "I am part of the Harriers running club" - or "I recently completed the Great North Run"</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>lillyconwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01134631742363660706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656942538201791350.post-16752932714519190862011-02-25T15:48:00.001+00:002011-03-07T19:53:52.494+00:00The Way to Lose Weight<span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;">The author of the acclaimed “Mucusless <span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana;">diet</span> Healing System”, Prof Arnold Ehret once said “If one way is true...it is the way of Nature!” It will be an understatement to say he was and is so correct.<br />
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In this day and age when everyone desires to be slim or slimmer as the case may be, only very few people know that one sure-fire, all natural, method can lead to a slimmer and more importantly healthier person. <br />
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This method is as old as the mountains and is known as Fasting.<br />
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It is by far a greater cure of our ills-both physical and mental-than all of the drugs of the medical fraternity combined and when combined with an exclusive mucus-binding (alkaline forming) diet of mainly fruits, leafy and root vegetables (raw and cooked) and even basic exercises that involve the use of one’s own body weight for resistance such as Yoga, Calisthenics and<span style="color: #674ea7;"> <span style="color: #00ad00 !important; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #00ad00 !important; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: relative;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">pilates</span></span></span></span>, a well conducted fast can reap untold benefits for those seeking to lose weight.<br />
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There are several types of fasts that can be beneficial for weight loss.</span><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><br />
</u>1. The complete water fast: This, admittedly, should be conducted with extreme caution or in a specialized sanitarium if undertaken more than 3 days.<br />
2. The Juice Fast: This is much easier for the general populace and can be undergone as long as you feel like it.<br />
3. The Fruit Fast: This, well, is really not a fast per se…but when one lives exclusively on SEASONAL ORGANIC fruits for days on end…meaning mono meals (2 at the most ) of only one kind of fruit say Apples in Fall, Melons in summer for a week plus, you will be bound to see the benefits.<br />
4. The Dry Fast: This is another camouflaged fast where one consumes ONLY dry fruits such as dates; figs etc for 3 days or thereabout and then breaks the fast with a laxative. Though highly praised in some quarters, it’s not so common.<br />
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The second and third choices are by far my personal recommendations for those seeking to lose weight. A friend of mine tried the second choice after months of badgering and was able to eventually see the awesome cuts in his abdominal cavities. You should have heard him exclaim on the phone to me: “Foras…I got a six-pack man…and I didn’t even do no sit-ups…!” Moreover, his supposed hereditary red-eyes cleared up after several eye-doctors had told him it was just a genetic trait…yeah, right!<br />
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Being radical in nature, it must be undertaken with care and although I have covered it in chapter 17 of my e-book “fitness: inside and out”, do feel free to do some research before undertaking a fast or a restricted fruit diet.<br />
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Here are a few tips:<br />
1. Prepare yourself for a fast by gradually tapering off of acid-forming aka “junk foods and commence to consuming raw and cooked fruits and veggies to begin a milder cleansing process as these items are the best intestinal brooms for the colon.<br />
2. Every now and again, 3 hours after supper and say an hour or so before retiring to sleep, drink an herbal tea laxative such as “Smooth Move Herbal Tea” during this preparatory stage.<br />
3. Drink 1-2 quarts of unflavored lemonade in the mornings to balance the chemical reactions within the body and to restore it to an alkaline state.<br />
4. Be mentally prepared for the task ahead of fasting.<br />
5. Take things a little easier while fasting or on a mono-diet of fruit.<br />
6. Avoid using microwaves at all costs. I touched on this subject in the free section on controlling acne in my site.<br />
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Though not a conclusive list of the dos and don’ts of fasting be well informed that when undertaken properly, you’d not only lose the undesired weight, but you’d be well on your way to a cleaner and better you in no time.<br />
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For weight loss, Fasting, my friends is the ‘fastest’ way to improved health! </span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Written and Photos by Tipakson Mapati, Prachadhrama News Net and Siriluk Sriprasit, Localtalk</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Translated by Tipakson Manpati</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Sugarcane is not only an important raw material for sugar industry. Nowadays it is more important concerning production of Ethanol fuel. The Ethanol is another means toward energy’s security improvement that many countries all over the world are focusing on, especially when the price of fossil fuel is soaring and will be exhausted from the earth by decades.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rakbankerd.com/kaset/Plant/1315_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" j6="true" src="http://www.rakbankerd.com/kaset/Plant/1315_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sugar cane</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In the Northeastern Thailand, sugarcane has been promoted by the government as a commercial field crop for 30-40 years. Numerous rice farmers began cultivating sugarcane as their extra earnings. Throughout decades, the farmers have diminished and expanded sugarcane fields from time to time, depending on the force of government’s policy and market demands. However, only few numbers of farmers who cultivate sugarcane for the factory have succeeded or become a wealthy. Meanwhile, several of them are caught in a trap of debt that hardly to disengage.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://media.thaigov.go.th/Sitedirectory/471/1781/32322_images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" j6="true" src="http://media.thaigov.go.th/Sitedirectory/471/1781/32322_images.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sugar cane</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Moreover, it is worrisome that supporting bio-fuel plantation without specific framework and appropriate procedure of land management will corrode capacity of the self-reliance on food of the farmers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">According to our fieldwork studies on sugarcanes cultivating of the farmers in Dong Dib village, Pontong district, Roi Et province. The studies found that the government’s policy in promoting bio-fuel plantation for Ethanol producing is a key factor that increases the demand of villagers in cultivating sugarcane. Moreover, sugar factory nearby the village also launched a price motivation strategy actuating farmers in expand sugarcane cultivation into the rice fields and orchard fields. Besides, dry evergreen forest-the nature food resource of the community, such as vegetable, indigenous herbs, mushrooms, and etc, is to be concerned that bio-Ethanol plants will invade it in the near future.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The country’s area of Thailand is 320 million Rai (1 Acer = 2.2 Rai). The land can be categorized into agriculture area 131 million Rai and it divided into the area of 15 main plants by the definition of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative as follow: Corn, Green bean, Cassava, Sugarcane, Sunflower, Soybean, Peanut, Palm Oil Trees, Onion, Garlic, Durian, Pineapple, Coffee trees, and Rubber trees, covering 41 million Rai.The area of the Northeastern is 105.5 million Rai. It is categorized into agriculture area 37.43 million Rai. In comparison, the totaling area of sugarcane cultivating in the country is 6 million Rai while the Northeast has 2.65 million Rai. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Source: Biothai Foundation</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY72scz3fGm-wUdAWiq78MTf3963uNWaeoRxQgPKv8TzfRRt1PMTrO2gpmGj0XeyIlIdzOMfrdyQJ_lyYY0DvjW28rI21Px1exoTzBNIP1vRTF-Fi-FUXRBW3IYuOSed0g8yCPzHwm-sY/s1600/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%87.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY72scz3fGm-wUdAWiq78MTf3963uNWaeoRxQgPKv8TzfRRt1PMTrO2gpmGj0XeyIlIdzOMfrdyQJ_lyYY0DvjW28rI21Px1exoTzBNIP1vRTF-Fi-FUXRBW3IYuOSed0g8yCPzHwm-sY/s320/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%87.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sugar cane</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Diminish Rice Field to Cultivate Sugarcane: Hopeful or Risk?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Many farmers hope that commercial plant that government has been promoting such as sugarcane will increase their earnings. Conversely, agriculture procedure needed quite a big cost of investment. The farmers do not earn even benefits and some have faced deficit that trap them into debt, causing effect and deterioration to health, mentality and environment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Mr. Pongsiri Srikammueng, Village chief of Dongdib, Pontong district, Roi Et province says that the village habitation is 153 households. The habitation area is 4,655 Rai that can be divided into:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1. Rice fields (highland and lowland rice fields) 1,655 Rai</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2. Field crops (sugarcane and cassava) 1,892 Rai</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">3. Orchard fields such as mangoes and longans (the area is not mentioned) and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">4. Others, such as public land, forest, and water sources (the area is not mentioned)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Since 2006, both highland and lowland rice fields have been decreasing because villagers have expanded cultivating sugarcane and cassava in the rice fields, totaling 100 Rai.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Since 2006, the sugar factory has subsidized farmers to expand sugarcane cultivating in the rice fields. Sugarcane cultivators are subsidized 500 Baht/Rai/ head. In addition, in 2007 the factory displayed billboards of sugarcane-selling price tendency that it will reach to 1,000 Baht/ton. This helps encouraging villagers become interested in sugarcane cultivating for the cultivating season during 2006/2007. However, when the harvest time comes, the sugar factory purchased the sugarcane only 800/ton” Pongsiri said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Cultivating sugarcane and cassava in the rice fields are clearly divided into 2 parts. Sugarcane is cultivated in lowland rice fields because it has long trunk which length around 3 meters, so it bears in flood for approximately 1 week. On the other hands, cassava is cultivated in highland rice fields because it is not suitable for damped-soil.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pongsiri adds that most of the rice field in the village is located in lowland where has flood every year, during August-September for 7-10 days. Therefore, growing rice in lowland has a unique pattern. The farmers usually preparing rice seed bedding for 2 times. The first rice seed bedding is in May and then farmers will begin transplant it during May-June. The second rice bedding began before August, in order to prepare young rice plant for re-transplant the rice that is dead from the flood. The farmers will re-transplant the rice after the flood gone, around October and then harvest it in early new year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Many rice farmers might feel that growing rice in lowland has many things to manage, while the rice output is not much. Especially today’s family expenses are high, so the villagers who own the rice field in lowland have turned to cultivate sugarcane instead because they think it should bring more earnings” Pongsiri said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Weerapon Sorrasit, farmer of Dongdib village says that though lowland rice field has flood every year, in the past it was not a serious problem because the rice farmer’s families still had sufficient harvesting as the rice were local species and quite bear to flood, such as Kampai rice, Sanpatong rice, Etam rice, Ehom rice. However, nowadays, those local rice species are not popular. Moreover, pesticide from the rice farming that contaminated in the water could also be a cause that causes the rice perish when the flood came.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">At present, the area of sugarcane and cassava has been expanding into the rice fields. Especially replacing sugarcane in lowland rice field since the sugar factory promoted subsidy. As cassava is unsuited for damped-soil, sugarcane has become more popular field crop for lowland area.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“I have cultivated sugarcane in my lowland rice field since 2006. At that time there were not many villagers wanted to take a risk. The output of sugarcane that grew in lowland was fine, but not very successful. However, I think maybe because I am not accustomed to cultivate it yet” Weerapon said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Cost and debt follow up</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Prayad Suriyo, farmer of Dongdib village says that cultivating sugarcane in the season is called ‘yeared-sugarcane’ or ‘overed dry season-sugarcane’. Most of the yeared-sugarcane cultivate in highland fields. The cultivating season begins in late November-December. By contrast, off-season sugarcane cultivates in the dry season and is called ‘watering-sugarcane’. The cultivating season begins in January-April.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Watering-sugarcane needs water-control system because it begins to cultivate in the dry season when the soil becomes harden. So, it is necessary to cultivate the sugarcane near water sources, such as brooks or in lowland rice fields” Prayad said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Watering-sugarcane that cultivate in the lowland rice field after finish harvesting, will be cropped in late October-November, as same as yeared-sugarcane. The reason is because the sugar factory will start purchasing sugarcane in November-April. Some years if the amount of sugarcane output is abundant, the factory will extends purchasing period to May.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Watering-sugarcane aged 7-10 months must be cropped and sells to the sugar factory. However, comparing the watering-sugarcane to the yeared-sugarcane, it has many disadvantages such as short-trunked, lessen-weight and low-sugary” Prayad said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Chompoo Nampob, farmer of Dongdib village adds that when the rice farmers decided to replace sugarcane in the lowland rice fields, that means they must lose the rice field at least 2 years. This is because usual harvesting period of sugarcane is utmost 2 years, that crop once a year. However, some farmers can crop it in year 3 and 4, but to do that they must rely on nourishing the sugarcane with a lot of fertilizers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Cultivating sugarcane in lowland rice field needed a big cost for nourishing. For example, to provide water pump lifting into sugarcane beds, especially at the beginning of its cultivation. After that, farmers have to urge fertilizing the sugarcane for its growth before the flood season comes” Chompoo said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He adds that most of the sugarcane cultivators have owed fertilizers credit from the sugar factory. Usually, nourishing formula of sugarcane that specify by the sugar factory is to put fertilizers 3 times/year. To do this, the sugarcane output in the first year could be at least 12-15 ton/Rai. While fertilizing sugarcane less than 3 times/year, its output in the first year gives 8-10 ton/Rai. Mostly sugarcane output in the second year is less, about 10 ton/Rai.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Cost of Sugarcane Cultivation</span></b></div><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; width: 332.25pt;" valign="top" width="443"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pre-planting Period</span></b></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; width: 332.25pt;" valign="top" width="443"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1. Purchase sugarcane plants1 Rai of the sugarcane plants has 800 trunks (1 bunch of sugarcane plants = </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">10 trunks), 12,000 Bath. A trunk of sugarcane plant will be cut to length 40-50</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">centimeters. 1 Rai of sugarcane plants that is already cut can cultivate for 6-8 Rai.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2. Labors for carrying and lifting sugarcane plants into truck, 1 bunch = 1 Baht</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">3. Truck transporting the sugarcane plants (distance from purchasing place to field)</span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2-3 kilometers from Dongdib village, 1 bunch = 1 Bath</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">More than 3 kilometers, 500-1,000 Baht/round depending on the distance</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">4. Plough the field (price in year 2007)</span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">First plough, 380 Baht/Rai</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Second plough, 220 Baht/Rai</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Third plough, 250 Baht/Rai</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">5. Pre-planting</span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Put fertilizer in the bottom of the pit, 1 sack/Rai (1 sack = 1,000-1,200 Baht). Some farmers might add carbofuran (Furadan) Chemical in the pit to prevent termites and grubs drilling the sugarcane, 150 baht/kilogram.</span></li>
</ul><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Labor for cutting sugarcane-trunks, 5 people/Rai (150 Baht/day/head) either use planting machine (use credit service from sugar factory) 720-800 Baht/day</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Two meals for the labor in planting sugarcane, 5 people tolling 300/day</span></li>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; width: 332.25pt;" valign="top" width="443"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Planting and nourishing Period</span></b></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; width: 332.25pt;" valign="top" width="443"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1. Either spraying weed-killer or grass birth-control pesticide </span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Grass birth-control pesticide 200 Baht/liter (1 liter can be used for 1 Rai)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Hiring the pesticide sprayer 200 Baht/Rai</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2. First enriching by putting fertilizer since the sugarcane has planted</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">3. Removing grasses and weeds out from the sugarcane field before rainy season. There 2 ways as follows:</span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Mow the grasses (if the grass is not too thick will hire 4-5 people/Rai, but if it is too thick will hire 10 labors)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Use weed-killer, 160 Baht/liter and hire pesticide sprayer, 200 Baht/Rai (1 liter can be used for 2 Rais, price in 2007). Most farmers choose this way because it is convenient and faster than mowing</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">4. Second enriching by putting fertilizer formula 16-16-8 or 21-78, 1 bag/Rai (1 bag = 1,000-1,100 Baht). Some farmers might add uria fertilizer 2-3 bag/Rai (1 bag of uria fertilizer = 1,100 Baht)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">5. Removing grasses again, using weed-killer (August-September)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">6. Third enriching by putting fertilizer, 1 bag/Rai</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; width: 332.25pt;" valign="top" width="443"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Cropping Period</span></b></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; width: 332.25pt;" valign="top" width="443"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1. Cropping period (October-November) </span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Labors for cutting sugarcane, 1 Baht/trunk (1 trunk = 10-12 strips)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Labors for carrying sugarcane into the truck (50-60 Baht/ton) either hiring labor for cropping and lifting take it to the truck (180 Baht/ton)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Two meals for labors (breakfast and lunch) 30 Baht/day/head</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Transporting truck from the sugarcane field to sugar factory (if the distance is between 15 kilometers cost 120/ton and the transporting cost higher depending on the distance)</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Remark</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <span style="color: #351c75;">The sugar factory offers higher price for fresh sugarcane 10-27 Baht/ton because it has more sugary than fired-sugarcane. The sugar factory will make deduction on fired-sugarcane 20 Baht/ton. If the farmers cut the sugarcane trunk too long, its price will be deducted 20 Baht/ton</span></span></div></td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Supplying Sugarcane for the Sugar Factory: The contract of debt</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">According to the basic cost of sugarcane cultivating, most farmers have made a credit loan from the sugar factory, such as sugarcane plants, tractor renting, fertilizers, pesticides, labor payment, and etc. The factory will note down those credit loans for evidence and then will debit all debt after the sugarcane are sold to the factory.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Chompoo says that the sugar factory provided agricultural input factor to service sugarcane farmers as credit loan, such as sugarcane plants, cash credit to plough the land, agricultural instruments renting, cash credit for renting the cultivating land, cash credit for; hiring labors, fertilizers, pesticide, and etc. According to most farmers do not have cash to invest in agriculture, so they rely on making credit loan from sugar factory.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“All credit loans will be noted down and debit the debt after the farmers sold sugarcanes to the factory. The earnings are very small amount of money, no need to mention about any profits. Some farmers are suffering with deficit and debt, so they even have to sell their own land. I think the tendency of sugarcane farmers is not going well” Chompoo said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He adds that the farmers can ask for detail information of the credit loans they have made, however, auditing it by themselves is not possible. That is why the farmers do not know how much debt they have owed until they have sold sugarcane to the factory.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Besides, the farmers have to pay additional fees for The Sugarcane Farmer Association. Moreover, they have to sign the contract that the factory specifies its rules to deduct the amount of money from the totaling price of sugarcanes. However, it seemed that the contract let the factory takes advantages over the farmers.</span></div><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; width: 332.25pt;" valign="top" width="443"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1. Additional fees for the Sugarcane Farmer Association</span></b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The sugar factory deducts money from the totaling price of sugarcanes that each farmer could sell, 3 Baht/ton. The money is additional fees for the Sugarcane Cultivator Association</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; width: 332.25pt;" valign="top" width="443"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2. Personal insurance contract </span></b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The insurance contract payment is a 1-year contract between each farmer and the sugar factory, in order to guarantee the amount of sugarcane that farmer committed to sell to factory. The factory deducts 10 Baht/ton in advanced since the sugarcane was sent in, to ensure that the farmer could make at least 80% of its amount according to the contract. In case the farmer could make it, the factory will reimburse money after 45 days of purchasing period has closed.</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; width: 332.25pt;" valign="top" width="443"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">3. Quota insurance contract </span></b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The quota insurance contract is a 3-year contract to ensure the amount of sugarcane that the quota committed to sell to the sugar factory. Usually, the quota is free to gather its membership. The contract requires the quota to make sugarcane output at least 1,000 ton/year, however the factory deducts 100 Baht/ton in advanced since the sugarcane was send in. In case the quota can make complete amount according to the contract, they will be informed by factory to prepare some documentation for reimbursement and then the quota’s memberships will allot money in their group.</span></div></td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Chompoo says that the advanced deduction and reimbursement afterward according to the quota insurance contract<b> </b>causes inconvenient and conflict for the quota’s membership. This is because the deduction counts for all membership just incase someone cannot make the sugarcane output according to this contract.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He repeats that “Each quota member could make different amount of sugarcane product. Most of the farmers committed to sell 10 ton/Rai. If the member cannot make at least 80% of the output, the factory will deduct his/her sugarcane price 10 ton/Rai. However, the problem is that the factory also deducts money in advanced by counting from the whole amount of sugarcane output of the quota to ensure that the amount of sugarcane is according to the contract. If the amount is completed, the factory will reimburse the money. However, to do this way causes many inconveniences and conflict among the quota’s members” Chompoo said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He adds that the quota reimbursement given as posted date cheque that farmers have to wait about 1 month to cash the cheque. However, this is not convenient for the farmers because they need cash, so they have to pay the fees service for cashing the posted date cheque.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Queuing Sugarcane to the Sugar Factory: Forcing down the price of the fired-sugarcane</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In transporting the sugarcane into the sugar factory, the farmers have faced with several means of deduction, such as reducing the price of the fired-sugarcanes and the sugarcane that was cut too long. While the process of sugarcane cropping forces and urges farmers to burn the sugarcane field. The reasons of burning sugarcane are because it is more convenient and helps speed up sugarcane cropping.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The sugar factory opens the purchasing period from November-April. Some years if there is abundant amount of sugarcane, the factory will extend purchasing period until May. Usually, in the first 4-5 days in the purchasing period is free queuing for selling sugarcane. During this time, the quota that already completed their cropping can sell the sugarcane directly to the sugar factory.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">After that the sugar factory will organize queuing for sugarcane quotas. While each quota is obliged to provide sugarcane outputs 1,000 tons, it is unwanted to crop sugarcanes beforehand too long due to the queue date. The reason is because it affects to the sugarcane’s heaviness toward decreasing its sugary.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Chompoo says that 70-80 percent of the farmers burn the sugarcane fields as it helps cropping more easy and increasing the amount of sugarcane that can be crop per day. For instance, fired-sugarcane 3-4 Rai, demanding 4-5 cropping labors to finish it within 1 day. In another word, 1 labor can crop fired-sugarcane in average 100-300 trunks or 2-6 tons (50 trunks = 1 ton) within morning time. To fire the sugarcane can also help saving some expenses, such as labor hiring and meals for them. By contrast, cropping fresh sugarcane is much harder.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Fired-sugarcane 8 Rai (average amount of sugarcane 8 Rai is 100 tons) demanding 4-5 labors for cropping and they can finish it within 2 days. Although fresh sugarcane costs higher than fired-sugarcane, it is very hard to crop. Comparably, 1 ton of fresh sugarcane that a labor can crop in the morning, is excellent work” Chompo said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Reducing toxic chemical before debt overflow and environment collapse</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Chompoo believes that most farmers are willing to live sufficiency. However, they just cannot do that for now, because many of them have been trapped in the debt circle. The old debt resulted by previous deficit of agriculture investment has yet repaid. Accordingly, family’s expenses have been increasing. Therefore, theses factors have forced farmers to owe money from different credit loaners, such as the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives, National Village and urban Community Fund, The Provincial Agricultural Co-operative, and another informal loans.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“In fact, the farmers have invested a lot of money, almost 100,000 baht on sugarcane cultivating. However, after subtract investment cost, only 20,000-30,000 Baht have left in each year. Moreover, some farmers encounter to bankrupt, as they owed services credit from the sugar factory more than earnings from sugarcanes. The sugarcane-selling price in 2006 was 820 baht/ton, 2007 was 800 Baht/ton and the price in this year is decreased to 638 Baht/ton. I am very stressed when the selling price in this year is very low” Chompoo said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Apparently, agricultural farming that relies on chemical fertilizers and pesticides has destroyed the community environment. The moisture of the underneath soil has gone and it became harden dirt without any earthworm livings.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Chompoo emphasizes that “The rain has rinsed toxic chemical from the soil and it run to the village’s brook. Relatively, the toxic has affected to animals such as fish and frogs have got an ulcer in its body and the villagers dare not eat it. Therefore, the villagers have to buy food in the market outside instead. In addition, the abortion has been increasing among the cows and buffaloes that drunk water in the brook and eat grasses in sugarcane fields. Furthermore, burning sugarcane fields resulted an air pollution though the farmers have no choice to avoid it, because of the selling time limited.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Lastly, Weerapon adds that what the villagers can do best for now, concerning to sufficiency living and caring for environment is that to reduce basic cost investment by lessening pesticides and try to use organic fertilizer instead. Conversely, keep on using chemical fertilizer, it will be a hard burden more than they can shoulder.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/180804_1565944916231_1463642336_31186222_3284226_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j6="true" src="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/180804_1565944916231_1463642336_31186222_3284226_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://koohasanehblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post_6405.html"><span style="color: black;">รอยแผลแห่งรัก</span></a></span> </h3><div class="post-header-line-1"></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-size: large;">วันหนึ่งในฤดูร้อนเมื่อหลายปีก่อนที่ตอนใต้ของรัฐฟลอริดา เด็กผู้ชายตัวน้อยๆ คนหนึ่งตัดสินใจที่จะไปว่ายน้ำเล่นในธารน้ำหลังบ้าน ด้วยความรีบร้อนที่อยากจะกระโดดลงเล่นน้ำเย็นๆ จึงวิ่งออกทางประตูหลังบ้านโดยถอดเสื้อและรองเท้าทิ้งไว้ตรงประตูนั่นเอง เขาพุ่งตัวลงน้ำทันทีโดยไม่รู้ตัวว่าในขณะที่กำลังว่ายออกไปกลางลำน้ำนั้น จระเข้ใหญ่ตัวหนึ่งก็กำลังว่ายตรงมา</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">คุณแม่ที่อยู่ในบ้านกำลังมองผ่านหน้าต่างออกไปข้างนอกและเห็นการเผชิญหน้าที่กำลังจะเกิดขึ้นในไม่ช้านี้ ด้วยความกลัวสุดขีดเธอจึงวิ่งออกไปจนถึงริมน้ำพลางร้องตะโกนบอกลูกชายด้วยเสียงอันดังเท่าที่เธอสามารถทำได้ เมื่อได้ยินเสียงตะโกนของคุณแม่ เด็กชายตัวน้อยก็ตกใจและหันหลังกลับว่ายไปหาคุณแม่ทันที ทว่ามันสายเกินไปเสียแล้ว ทันทีที่มาถึงตัวคุณแม่ จระเข้ก็มาถึงตัวพอดี เธอคว้าแขนลูกชายไว้ในขณะที่จระเข้งับเข้าที่ขา ตรงนั้นเองที่เกิดการชักกะเย่ออย่างรุนแรงระหว่างผู้เป็นแม่กับจระเข้ตัวนั้น แต่จระเข้ย่อมมีแรงมากกว่า ส่วนผู้เป็นแม่ก็รักลูกเกินกว่าที่จะปล่อยมือ ชาวนาคนหนึ่งบังเอิญผ่านมาและได้ยินเสียงกรีดร้องของเธอจึงรีบวิ่งลงจากรถไถและยกปืนเล็งไปที่จระเข้และยิงทันที</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">เด็กน้อยคนนั้นฟื้นตัวอย่างรวดเร็วในขณะที่รักษาตัวอยู่ในโรงพยาบาลนานหลายสัปดาห์ และเขาก็รอดตาย ขาทั้งสองข้างของเขามีแผลเป็นใหญ่และลึกมาก และที่แขนทั้งสองข้างก็มีรอยข่วนลึกจากการโดนจิกจากเล็บของคุณแม่ที่พยายามยื้อลูกชายที่เธอรักสุดชีวิตไว้เต็มกำลัง ผู้สื่อข่าวหนังสือพิมพ์ที่ไปสัมภาษณ์เด็กชายคนนั้นก็ขอดูรอยแผลของเขา เด็กชายคนนั้นก็ดึงขากางเกงขึ้น และเขาก็พูดกับผู้สื่อข่าวอย่างภาคภูมิใจอย่างยิ่งว่า “แต่ดูที่แขนของผมสิฮะ ผมมีแผลเป็นขนาดใหญ่ที่แขนด้วยนะฮะ แผลนี่น่ะเกิดขึ้นเพราะคุณแม่ของผมจับผมไว้ไม่ยอมปล่อย”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ท่านและข้าพเจ้าก็มีแผลเป็นเหมือนอย่างที่เด็กชายตัวน้อยมีบนแขนทั้งสองข้างเช่นกัน แต่มิใช่รอยแผลจากจระเข้หรือการถูกจู่โจมอย่างอื่น ทว่า...เป็นแผลเป็นแห่งอดีตที่แสนเจ็บปวด บางแห่งเกิดขึ้นจากการไม่ไตร่ตรองให้รอบคอบก่อนที่จะลงมือทำบางสิ่งบางอย่าง และผลของมันก็ทำให้เราเสียใจและเจ็บปวดอยู่ในทุกวันนี้ แต่พี่น้องที่รักในพระคริสต์ บาดแผลบางแห่งเกิดขึ้นเพราะพระเจ้าทรงรักเราเกินกว่าที่จะยอมปล่อยพระหัตถ์ของพระองค์ที่ทรงรั้งเราไว้มิให้ถลำลึกลงไปสู่ห้วงแห่งบาป ในระหว่างที่กำลังปล้ำสู้อยู่นั้น พระองค์ทรงจับแขนของเราไว้แน่น พระคัมภีร์สอนว่าพระเจ้าทรงรักเราทั้งหลาย หากท่านมีพระคริสต์ในชีวิตของท่าน ท่านก็กลายเป็นบุตรของพระเจ้า พระองค์ทรงต้องการที่จะปกป้องรักษาท่านและทรงจัดเตรียมสิ่งที่เป็นความจำเป็นของท่านในทุกเรื่อง แต่บางครั้งเราก็เดินพลัดหลงเข้าไปสู่เส้นทางชีวิตที่เป็นอันตรายอย่างยิ่งด้วยความโง่เขลาเบาปัญญา หลุมพรางชีวิตนั้นเต็มไปด้วยภยันตรายใหญ่หลวง และเราก็ลืมไปว่าศัตรูตัวร้ายกำลังคอยท่าอยู่ที่จะจู่โจมเราทุกขณะ ตรงนั้นเองที่สงครามฝ่ายจิตวิญญาณเริ่มต้นขึ้น และหากคุณมีแผลเป็นแห่งรักบนแขนของคุณ จงขอบพระคุณเถิด พระองค์ทรงไม่และจะทรงไม่ปล่อยคุณให้ตกลงไปในหลุมที่ศัตรู (ซาตาน) ขุดล่อไว้อย่างเด็ดขาด</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ท่านลองสำรวจตัวเองดูสิว่าท่านมีแผลเป็นแห่งรักบ้างไหม ถ้าท่านสัตย์ซื่อกับตัวเอง ท่านจะเห็นว่ามีแผลเป็นปรากฏอยู่อย่างแน่นอน แผลเป็นเหล่านั้นไม่หายแต่จะจางลงตามกาลเวลา มันจะเป็นเครื่องเตือนใจเราว่าในอดีตนั้นเราก้าวพลาดไปตรงไหนบ้าง แต่ด้วยพระคุณความรักขององค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า เราได้รับการช่วยกู้และได้รับการฟื้นฟูให้กลับคืนสู่สภาพเดิม เรากำลังดำเนินไปกับพระองค์ ดำเนินตามรอยพระบาทของพระองค์ และดำเนินในน้ำพระทัยของพระองค์ ขอให้เหลือบมองแผลเป็นเหล่านั้นสักแวบหนึ่งและรับรู้ว่าแผลเหล่านั้นเกิดขึ้นจากความรักที่ไม่มีเงื่อนไขของพระเจ้า ข่าวประเสริฐเรื่องการไถ่บาปบนกางเขนของพระคริสต์เป็นข่าวประเสริฐที่ประกาศเรื่องความหวัง แต่มันก็เป็นข่าวประเสริฐที่ประกาศเรื่องรอยแผลแห่งรักด้วยเช่นกัน รอยแผลที่เป็นพยานหลักฐานแห่งการพลีพระชนม์บนกางเขนของพระเยซูเพื่อไถ่บาปคนทั้งโลก เมื่อคริสเตียนมองดูรอยแผลที่ปรากฏบนมือ เท้า สีข้าง และหน้าผากของพระองค์ เราต้องมองเห็นสิ่งที่อยู่ลึกกว่าภาพที่ปรากฏต่อหน้า ในรอยแผลเหล่านั้นคือความรักขององค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ทุกครั้งที่เราเห็นแผลเป็นที่แขนของเราให้มองเห็นความรักขององค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าด้วย ความรักของพระองค์ยิ่งใหญ่เกินกว่าที่จะเข้าใจได้ด้วยความรู้ของมนุษย์ ความรักนั้นไม่มีสิ่งใดเคลือบแฝง เป็นความรักที่บริสุทธิ์และเป็นพระคุณล้ำเลิศ </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">ทุกครั้งที่ต้องเผชิญกับการทดลองที่น่าลิ้มลองและแทบจะอดใจไว้ไม่อยู่ ขอให้ทูลขอการเสริมกำลังจากองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าและผ่านพ้นการทดลองนั้นไปให้ได้ อย่าให้แขนของเราเต็มไปด้วยแผลจนไม่น่าดู แต่จงใช้เวลาที่เหลืออยู่นี้ติดสนิทกับพระองค์ เชื่อฟังพระองค์ และยอมรับและทำตามน้ำพระทัยของพระองค์ ข้าพเจ้าหวังว่าในเวลาที่เราทั้งหลายกลับบ้านถาวรของเราเพื่อไปเฝ้าพระบิดานั้น แขนทั้งสองข้างของเราจะมีแผลเป็นเหลือยู่น้อยที่สุด </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">สิธยา คูหาเสน่ห์ </span></div></div>lillyconwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01134631742363660706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656942538201791350.post-54350899315286674662011-02-14T13:26:00.000+00:002011-02-14T13:26:43.935+00:00สิ่งเล็กๆ ที่ยิ่งใหญ่ในคุณค่า<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">สิ่งเล็กๆ ที่ยิ่งใหญ่ในคุณค่า<br />
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กรวดเม็ดเล็ก ๆ รวมกันเป็นภูเขาสูงใหญ่ <br />
ก้าวเดินก้าวเล็ก ๆ เป็นระยะทางได้หลายกิโล <br />
การกระทำเล็ก ๆ ด้วยความรักความกรุณา <br />
สร้างโลกให้สดใส สดสวยด้วยรอยยิ้ม <br />
คำพูดเล็ก ๆ สามารถบรรเทาปัญหาที่แสนจะยากเย็น <br />
อ้อมกอดเล็ก ๆ เช็ดน้ำตาให้เหือดแห้ง <br />
เทียนไขเล็ก ๆ ส่องแสงนำทางในความมืดมิด <br />
ความจดจำสิ่งเล็ก ๆ คงอยู่นานหลายปี <br />
ความฝันใฝ่เล็กๆ นำไปสู่ความยิ่งใหญ่ <br />
ชัยชนะเล็กๆ นำไปสู่ความสำเร็จที่ปรารถนา <br />
สิ่งเล็กๆ ต่าง ๆ ในชีวิต <br />
นำมาซึ่งความสุขอันยิ่งใหญ่ <br />
ถ้าเราได้คิดสักนิดถึงสิ่งเล็ก ๆ เหล่านี้แล้วหละก็ <br />
ความอบอุ่นเมื่อคิดถึงเธอก็ผุดขึ้นในใจ <br />
มันเป็นความสุขใจอันสุดแสนจะบรรยาย <br />
.. เสมอและตลอดไป </span></span></div>lillyconwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01134631742363660706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656942538201791350.post-73183827720705982232011-02-14T12:43:00.000+00:002011-02-14T12:43:23.072+00:00The Paradox of Our Time--George Carlin's Tribute to His Late Wife<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><strong><span style="color: navy; font-size: medium;">The Paradox of Our Time</span></strong></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><strong><span style="color: navy; font-size: medium;">George Carlin's Tribute to His Late Wife</span></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">A Wonderful Message</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">by George Carlin</span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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''<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;">A message said to have come from George Carlin on the occasion of his wife's death and his commentary on the nation after the Attack on America on September 11, 2001. ''</span><br />
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<div><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black;">AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE!<br />
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GEORGE CARLIN POST 9-11 (His wife had recently died...)<br />
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Isn't it amazing that the George Carlin - gross and mouthy comedian of the<br />
70's and 80's - could write something so very eloquent.... and so very<br />
appropriate post 9-11.<br />
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A wonderful Message by George Carlin:<br />
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The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but<br />
shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more,<br />
but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and<br />
smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees<br />
but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more<br />
problems, more medicine, but less wellness.<br />
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We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little,<br />
drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too<br />
little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our<br />
possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and<br />
hate too often.<br />
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We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to<br />
life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but<br />
have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer<br />
space but not inner space.<br />
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We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air,<br />
but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.<br />
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We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less.<br />
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We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold<br />
more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less<br />
and less.<br />
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These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small<br />
character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of<br />
two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.<br />
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These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one<br />
night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer,<br />
to quiet, to kill.<br />
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It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the<br />
stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time<br />
when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.<br />
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Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going<br />
to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to<br />
you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your<br />
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</span></div>Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.<br />
Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.<br />
Remember, to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.<br />
Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.<br />
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.<br />
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</span><span style="color: #351c75;">เขาเขียนขึ้นในวันที่ 11 กันยายน ( ตึกเวิรด์เทรดถล่ม) <br />
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หลังจากที่ทราบว่าภรรยาของเขาเสียชีวิตในตึกนั้นด้วย . ทำ..ในสิ่งที่อยากจะทำ อยากให้ทุกคนได้อ่าน ข้อความนี้ มี <br />
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ความหมายดีนะ <br />
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ทุกวันนี้เรามีตึกสูงขึ้น มีถนนกว้างขึ้นแต่ความอดกลั้นน้อยลง <br />
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เรามีบ้านใหญ่ขึ้น แต่ครอบครัวของเรากลับเล็กลง <br />
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เรามียาใหม่ ๆ มากขึ้น แต่สุขภาพกลับแย่ลง <br />
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เรามีความรักน้อยลง แต่มีความเกลียดมากขึ้น <br />
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เราไปถึงโลกพระจันทร์มาแล้ว แต่เรากลับพบว่า แค่การข้ามถนนไปทักทายเพื่อนบ้านกลับยากเย็น..... <br />
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เราพิชิตห้วงอวกาศมาแล้ว แต่แค่ห้วงในหัวใจกลับไม่อาจสัมผัสถึง <br />
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เรามีรายได้สูงขึ้น แต่ศีลธรรมกลับตกต่ำลง <br />
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เรามีอาหารดี ๆ มากขึ้นแต่สุขภาพแย่ลง <br />
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ทุกวันนี้ทุกบ้านมีคนหารายได้ได้ถึง 2 คน แต่การหย่าร้างกลับเพิ่มมากขึ้น <br />
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ดังนั้น …… จากนี้ไป …… ขอให้พวกเรา อย่าเก็บของดี ๆ ไว้โดยอ้างว่าเพื่อโอกาสพิเศษ <br />
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เพราะทุกวันที่เรายังมีชีวิตอยู่คือ …… โอกาสที่พิเศษสุด …… แล้ว <br />
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จงแสวงหา การหยั่งรู้ <br />
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จงนั่งตรงระเบียงบ้านเพื่อชื่นชมกับการมีชีวิตอยู่ โดยไม่ใส่ใจกับความ ….. อยาก … <br />
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จงใช้เวลากับครอบครัว เพื่อนฝูงคนที่รักให้มากขึ้น ……. <br />
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กินอาหารให้อร่อย ไปเที่ยวในที่ที่อยากจะไป <br />
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ชีวิตคือโซ่ห่วงของนาทีแห่งความสุขไม่ใช่เพียงแค่การ อยู่ให้รอด <br />
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เอาแก้วเจียระไนที่มีอยู่มาใช้เสีย <br />
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น้ำหอมดี ๆ ที่ชอบ จงหยิบมาใช้เมื่ออยากจะใช้ <br />
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เอาคำพูดที่ว่า ……. สักวันหนึ่ง …….. ออกไปเสียจากพจนานุ กรม <br />
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บอกคนที่เรารักทุกคนว่าเรารักพวกเขาเหล่านั้นแค่ไหน <br />
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อย่าผลัดวันประกันพรุ่ง ที่จะทำอะไรก็ตามที่ทำให้เรามีความสุขเพิ่มขึ้น <br />
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ทุกวัน ทุกชั่วโมง ทุกนาที มีความหมาย เราไม่รู้เลยว่าเมื่อไรมันจะสิ้นสุดลง <br />
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….. และเวลานี้ ….. </span></span></span></span></div></span>lillyconwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01134631742363660706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656942538201791350.post-49724197712472178492011-02-08T23:03:00.001+00:002011-02-08T23:07:15.650+00:00SEO Lies and SEO Truths - Jagadeesh M Nambiar | SEO Tips, Tricks PodCast Blog<a href="http://www.myseoarticle.blogspot.com/2010/04/seo-lies-and-seo-truths.html"><span style="font-size: x-large;">SEO Lies and SEO Truths </span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">SEO deals with research and analysis and one can call him as a </span><a href="http://knol.google.com/k/jagadeesh-m/jagadeesh-m-nambiar-biography/1m1scw95niudm/28"><span style="color: #334477; font-size: large;">SEO specialist</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> only through good long-term experience in various theme based industries and business sites.<br />
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I read many lies around the web and I would like to share my point of view here to </span><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/SEOPodCast"><span style="color: #334477; font-size: large;">my blog readers</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Lie one</strong> - Come to us with $ we will get you #1 position for your keyword by a day, a week or a month. And some proudly say that if an SEO company doesn't guarantee then they don’t know SEO. So funny, may be they have the access to the Google organic listing Database or they might be talking about Google Adwords (PPC)</span><br />
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</span>lillyconwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01134631742363660706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656942538201791350.post-86901726713779112932011-02-08T22:10:00.003+00:002011-03-07T19:56:07.377+00:00Top 10 Best Article Directories<a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/Top-10-Best-Article-Directories"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>Top 10 Best Article Directories</strong></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>You may have seen these initials (SEO) throughout your research for making money online.</strong></span><br />
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</strong>SEO stands for ….. Search Engine Optimization.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">SEO is a process to ensure your website or blog is designed to ‘attrack’ the search engines so that you can be ‘ranked’ higher when people are searching for you, your product or service.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This process includes such things as doing research for the appropriate keywords for your business. These keywords are descriptive to your business and is very important to optimizing your site. Keywords must be targeted words or phrases that best describes your business and products.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It isn’t difficult to research and find the keywords. However, you should expect to spend some time to produce as many keywords so that you will have a better chance of ranking higher with the search engines. When someone searches your keyword or phrase you want to be listed on the first page of the search. Ranking at the number one position is attainable but does take some time.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><span style="font-size: large;">Testing of your keywords and phrases is also essential to knowing what will work for your ebusiness. And along with keywords that will connect your site to a higher ranking, link building is another essential part of SEO. The more 'links" pointing to your site, these are called backlinks, the more the search engines will see lots of activity to your site and will want to rank you higher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The most popular search engines are Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing, AOL and Ask Jeeves. Search engines keep their methods and ranking algorithms secret, to get credit for finding the most valuable search-results and to deter spam pages from clogging those results. A search engine may use hundreds of factors while ranking the listings where the factors themselves and the weight each carries may change continually. Algorithms can differ so widely that a webpage that ranks #1 in a particular search engine could rank #200 in another search engine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your new website or blog should be 'submitted' to each search engine. This will begin the search engines to 'spider' its contents and begin to start looking at your site for ranking position. It can take a few days to even weeks from referring of your site for all the main search engine spiders to commence visiting and indexing the new site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are unable to research and choose keywords and work on your own search engine ranking, you may want to hire someone to work with you on these issues. Outsourcing this task will save you time, however, be sure the individual you select to do this work understands your specific requirements.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are also search engine marketing and promotion companies that will look at the plan for your site and make recommendations to increase your search engine ranking and website traffic. If you wish, they will also provide ongoing consultation and reporting to monitor your website and make recommendations for editing and improvements to keep website traffic flowing to your site and your search engine ranking high. Normally your search engine optimization experts work with your web designer to build an integrated plan right away so that all aspects of design are considered at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For those just starting out and on a strict budget, consider researching keywords and building links to your site on your own at first. Once the site produces profitable income, consider outsourcing or hiring a professional team to manage and maintain your site and SEO.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">One way links will help you gain better rankings in the major search engines. Here are 7 ways to get them : <br />
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1. Write articles<br />
Writing articles alone won’t get you one way links, but if you submit it to articles database online, you will gain many one way links. The article database site will give you a link back AND the webmasters who reprint your article on their site will also give you a link back! If you write and article with a catchy title or in-demand content, you can get published hundreds of times online, which will give you tons of backlinks. <br />
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2. Participate in forums<br />
In forums, you can usually have a link in your signature. This used to work extremely well about a year ago. Today, it is not as efficient, but it can still be good to do it sometimes on highly popular forums. <br />
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3. Participate in blogs.<br />
Blogs are similar to forums. They get spammed a lot, but if you take the time to write useful comments on some of them, you can get some good one way links out of it. <br />
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4. Ask for it!<br />
Do some research online for sites in your industry with a high ranking in the search engines. Send an email to the webmaster and tell them you think your site could be of interest to their readers, and ask them to put a link up! This can be time consuming, but it can sometime get you link on very high ranking sites. <br />
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5. Submit to directories<br />
Also a time consuming job, but manually submitting to directories will get you many owe way links because a lot of them don’t ask for a link back. Don’t use a software to automate the submission though, because you can actually hurt your ranking doing that. <br />
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6. Write useful content<br />
If you have very interesting content, or a cool tool on your site, people will naturally link to it! <br />
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7. Give testimonials<br />
If you use a product, or read a book, and really like it, send a nice testimonial to the website owner. Many will give you a link back on their sale page. This gives you a one way link and often, quite a bit of traffic because people are curious to find out more about the person who gave a testimonial! </span><br />
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