National Poetry Anthology Competition(UK)

                  

Closing Date: 30th June 2016  We are delighted to invite FREE entries for the National Poetry Anthology. The competition aims to encourage more people to write poetry. It's open to all UK residents, young or old. A host of winners will be selected this year, each one representing a different UK town or area. All winners are published in the anthology and all receive a FREE copy of the book. Send up to three poems, of no more than 25 lines (including blank lines) and 160 words each, to United Press Ltd, Admail 3735, London, EC1B 1JB; email them to info@unitedpress.co.uk or http://www.unitedpress.co.uk/submit-poetry-online.

Suicide Bombers In Deadly Attack On Gas Plant

                               
Eight suicide bombers have carried out an attack on a gas plant north of Baghdad killing at least 11 people, including police officers.

Around 21 others were wounded in the early morning raid on the facility 12 miles outside the Iraqi capital, that has been claimed by Islamic State.
 Officials said three gas tanks were set alight in the assault, sending huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky.
A suicide car bomb went off at the entrance of the site in Taji at around 6am local time allowing another vehicle carrying the militants wearing explosive vests to enter the facility where they clashed with security forces, according to sources.
Reinforcements were called to the scene where a firefight lasted for around an hour.
The terror group has intensified its attacks on civilian targets in the face of losing ground to the Iraqi security forces in recent months.
According to the authorities, IS currently controls only 14% of Iraqi territory, down from the 40% it held in 2014.

United Nations Cries For Help Over Migrant Crisis

                              
The United Nations High Commissioner, Fillipo Grandi, says that the migrant crisis is now a serious global case that needs attention.
 Mr Grandi was speaking on Monday during a special live coverage to assess ‘how an age of unprecedented mobility is shaping our world’.
He told news reporters that more nations needed to come together to shoulder the burden of about 20 million refugees who have been resettled in other countries.
He appealed to the government of various nations and aid agencies to take up the responsibility.
“Last year, less than 1% of 20 million refugees had been resettled in another nation.
“More are fleeing conflict and hardship than at any other time in history,” he said.
The number of people seeking asylum in the European Union alone has risen to 1,255,600.

6 Keys to Breaking free from the Poverty Mindset

                                  
It’s all in the mind, they say – and on some level, they’re absolutely correct. Habits formed in your mind have kept you from financial success in life – so make this your time to start developing a healthy foundation for financial prosperity!
Do you have a poverty mindset? Take a look at these 6 quick tips from Dani Johnson to help you identify what a poverty mindset looks like – and how to break it once and for all!

1. Your Environment Is Everything
Dani grew up on welfare with parents who ran out of money continuously – then used what money they did have for drugs. There was abuse, no peace, no security. Growing up in that environment absolutely shapes one’s mind about money and life. There was no budgeting to help make their money last; they would blow it all on junk food, alcohol and drugs – then act like victims until the next check arrived. Change your environment – change your financial future.
2. Don’t Speak The Language Of Poverty
How many hours do we spend in school learning financial wisdom? Zero! So where do you learn your financial habits? From other adults, mainly your parents. If your parents spent foolishly, their actions taught you to spend foolishly. If your parents spent wisely, you would gravitate towards wisdom in finances. Dani grew up with the language of poverty that sounds like “we can’t afford it,” or “we don’t have the money” or “that’s for rich people, not us.” All those statements are victimized, poverty statements. Change your language, and you change your financial future.
3. Eliminate Unhealthy Financial Traditions

Unhealthy traditions pass from one generation to the next. If you are serious about breaking yours, you can succeed. How?

• Make a decision: Do you like where you are financially? Are you tired of the pressure of debt? If so, decide today to do whatever it takes to achieve financial independence.
• Learn some new skills to replace the poor skills you learned from those around you.
• Repetition is the mother of skill. Through repetition you learned poor financial skills; through repetition you will learn great financial skills. Beware who you learn from. You should learn from someone who has a lot of money – not just someone who looks the part. Most people are far from reaching their goal of financial independence.

Change your traditions, and you change your financial future.
4. Understand The Power Of Repetition
We learned how to walk, talk and eat by watching those around us. Everything we know how to do, we learned – or were at least were influenced by those around us. Have you ever said, “I will never be like…” or swore to do things differently from your parents, only to find yourself saying and doing those exact things? History repeats itself! Decisions made without establishing new skills will lead to failure of the decisions becoming a reality. Change your habits, and you change your financial future.
5. A Solid Financial Foundation Starts Early
Your children are always listening and watching, whether you realize it or not. Groom them for success instead of unintentionally grooming them for failure. Their success will come from you.Grooming the Next Generation for success will help you teach kids to succeed now and in the future. When they learn while young, success becomes a part of their very fiber instead of hoping they will succeed they will be groomed to succeed!
Help someone else succeed, and you change your financial future.
6. Take Action!
If you’ve gotten this far, know that you have been chosen to prevent those negative traditions from passing through you. Solomon, the richest man who ever lived, said: “A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.” Don’t be stupid! If thousands of Dani’s clients can follow her teachings and experience financial success, so can you. Don’t let this be another article you read and put away. Take action today. Start learning the difference between wise and foolish spending. Learn how to create assets instead of liabilities.

Written by Dani Johnson
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HOW MONEY CAN HURT YOUR MARRIAGE

                                        
Money is good; it is needed at home for almost everything. Expert says more than sixty percent of our income is known to be spent at home. But as good as money is, it can hurt marriages deeply if not handled carefully. Money is known to be one of the commonest causes of conflict in marriage. In fact, in U.S, expert told us that money is the number cause of divorce.
1. Lack of openness: When couples are secretive, when they are not open to each other, if they talkless about money, it will give room for suspicion, ill feelings, attack and counter-attack.
2. Lack of Provision: Failure to provide for one’s family is another way money can cause trouble at home. For a man to have money but fail to provide for his immediate family is criminal, and some wicked and ungodly men do it, this is very bad.
3. Lack of attention: You can be so overwhelm in the pursuit of money that you will get disconnected from your spouse. As soon as you allow money to take first position in your life, then it will start to hurt your marriage. Unfortunately, most men believe all what a woman needs is money, of course they need money, but they want the man first. You can never any wife by giving her money without attending to her. She didn’t marry you because of your money; she married you because of you.
4. Laziness: Failure to work productively with one’s hands to bring money home will definitely lead to serious problem at home. Lazy people want money but are too lazy to do anything, they love to sleep and rest, and they are full of day dreaming and wishful think but cannot lift a finger.
5. Stinginess: Some people are just stingy, they love to get but hate to give. It is not that they do not have, it is only that they’ve made money a tin God. I know a man whose wife must pursue for days before she can collect five thousand naira from him, he has the money he is only stingy, this very wrong and can destroy any home.
6. Lack of Focus: At the beginning of every year, government and organizations do tell the whole world their focus and what it will cost them to do it. They call it ‘budget’. This does guide them throughout the years. You may not be able to draw a comprehensive budget for the year but you must have a focus, you must know where you are going and were you want to be at the end of the year. Couple should set down a goal and how to reach it. Communicate it to each other without which there will be confusion.
7. Extravagancy: This can also lead to serious problem. You become extravagancy if you begin to buy expensive things you don’t really need, when you start to buy things just because others are buying them, when you become to live larger than life lifestyle, living above your income. If only one person is extravagant in marriage the other party will definitely react leading to conflict, if both party are extravagancy, their financial life will react leading to debt and bankruptcy.

Written by Bisi Adewale
Bisi Adewale is a family expert and president of college of marital success, He is an international conference speaker and an author of more than 30 books on marriage and family life, singles, love, sex and intimacy. He is the host of family T.V. program called Family Booster. You can also get his resources at http://totalfamilyresources.com. E-mail: familybooster01@yahoo.com.

UK-Bound Flight Grounded Over Bomb Scare

A Ryanair flight from Norway to Manchester was evacuated before take-off due to "suspicious behaviour" of two passengers, police have said.

Norwegian police spokesman Anders Stroemsaether said that the incident at Rygge airport, near Oslo, happened during boarding when the two passengers were overheard arguing in an airport toilet.
He said other passengers heard the word "bomb" being used and told the captain as they boarded the aircraft.
The captain informed police who evacuated the plane and took the two passengers in for questioning.
A bomb squad searched the aircraft but found nothing suspicious.
Police said that the two passengers were discharged after being interviewed.
"After questioning of witnesses and those brought in, the police have concluded that the situation is a result of a misunderstanding," police said.

America hold joint war games in Romania amidst missile shield rift with Russia

                                
Just days after switching on an $800-million missile shield in Romania, the US looks like further incurring the wrath of Russia by holding military drills to “promote regional stability” in the Eastern European nation along with five other nations.
 Around 350 troops from six countries took part in the military exercises at the Smardan shooting range near Galati in the east of the country near the border with Romania. The exercises conclude on May 16.
The drill, entitled ‘Platinum Eagle 16.1’, saw soldiers from Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, the UK and US take part. They were using light attack aircraft and SOCAT helicopters amongst other things, while one of the commanders said the exercise was being carried out to bring “stability” to the region.
"The 1st Battalion Marines is spread out over Eastern Europe, and the fact that we are to come here, in Romania, and train with five other nations, that really promotes regional stability. Training together in peace time, those who train together will fight well together,” Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Ansel of the US Marine Corps

America to station armoured brigade in Europe from 2017

                              
The United States of America will step up its troop presence in eastern europe in response to an "aggresive Russia" with continuous rotations of an additional armored brigade beginning in early 2017, the US military said.
The rotations will bring the US Army's presence in Europe to three fully manned combat brigades, the US European Command said. A brigade comprises about 4,200 troops.
"This Army implementation plan continues to demonstrate our strong and balanced approach to reassuring our Nato Allies and partners in the wake of an aggressive Russia in Eastern Europe and elsewhere," General Philip Breedlove, the top US commander in Europe, said in a statement.
"Our allies and partners will see more capability. They will see a more frequent presence of an armored brigade with more modernised equipment in their countries," he added.
Ash Carter, the US defence secretary, last month unveiled the Pentagon's proposed budget for next year, which includes $3.4 billion - quadruple last year's amount - for operations in Europe.
The cash will fund the so-called European Reassurance Initiative that aims to deter Russia from carrying out additional land grabs after its 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.

New strategy aims to tackle Irish obesity levels

                                        

Irish people face a new round of belt-tightening with Government plans to target a 5 per cent reduction in the average weight over the next decade.

Disadvantaged areas will be encouraged to shed the most as the plan aims to reduce the gap in obesity levels between the richest and poorest sections of society by 10 per cent.

The national obesity strategy, expected before Cabinet soon, aims to ensure Ireland does not become the fattest country in Europe, as predicted in international studies.

Implementation of the “A Healthy Weight for Ireland” strategy was identified as a health priority in the programme for government.

A sustained loss of 0.5 per cent a year in excess weight (averaged across all adults) is targeted in the first five years of the plan, according to a draft seen by Irish politicians..

A similar target has been set for reducing excess weight in children.

These overall targets will be reviewed every two years to take account of evidence on the likely impact of specific interventions to reduce obesity.

The way to achieve these objectives are set out as “Ten Steps Forward” in the plan.

These envisage a sugar levy this year as well as a “whole school” approach to health.

French Female Ministers Rise Against Sexual Harassment

                                   
                                                  Christine Lagarde.

Seventeen women who have served as ministers in France have signed a declaration against sexual harassment in politics, saying they will no longer be silent about the issue.
Among the 17 signatories to the declaration, who are current or former ministers, is the head of the International Monetary Fund and France’s former Finance Minister, Christine Lagarde.
The declarations read, “Like all women who have entered spheres that up until then were exclusively male, we have had to fight against sexism.
“It is not for women to have to adapt to these places, but for the behaviour of certain men to change.”
The women further said in the declaration, “We encourage all victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault to talk and complain. We ask our parties and our political groups to verify if such acts were committed and if that was the case, to help the victims to get to the truth.”
Last week, the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Denis Baupin, resigned over sexual harassment claims, which he denies.
Examples of some of the sexual harassment suffered by the women are also given in the article.
It explains that Fleur Pellerin, who was Culture Minister in Francois Hollande’s government from 2014 until this February 2016, rarely suffered harassment until she was appointed to office.
After her first appointment in government, she was asked by a male journalist if she was given the job because she is a beautiful woman.

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