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B&B Week of October 25, 2010
At Forrester, Taylor warned Brooke to never lay a hand on her son again. She insisted she is protecting Thomas and doesn't want them working together. Thomas countered that he is lucky to be working with someone with Brooke's expertise. He told his mother he is still not happy she gave her 25 percent over to Steffy but that he let it go and she should let this go. Taylor left, but not before telling Brooke not to drag her son down. Thomas apologized to Brooke, who suggested they hold a press event for the Men's Line. Taylor then spied from the doorway as Thomas modeled his first design for Brooke. She was impressed and suggested a few alterations to the fit. Brooke complimented his sculpted body and called him handsome just like Ridge. Thomas left for alterations and Taylor barged back in, declared Brooke a predator and accused her of groping her son. Their argument escalated and Brooke slapped Taylor when she mentioned Brooke's romp with Oliver.
Amber arrived at Jackie M and overheard Nick, Aggie and Whip discussing her lackluster designs. Nick told Amber that making her lead designer might have been a mistake. He flipped through her pile of uninspiring designs and found one he loved -- the one she stole from Oliver. Nick requested more like that dress for the just named Amber's Hot Line. Amber told him she could get more. In the hallway, Sally Spectra's photo asked her, "Knocking off Forrester originals?" Amber told Sally she'd return to her Spectra roots and would make her proud. She called Oliver and asked him to meet her at Bikini Beach.
At Bikini Beach, Katie and Bill dined with Hope and Liam. Hope informed Bill that this season's Hope for the Future is the best collection yet. To Hope's surprise, Oliver showed up at Bikini Beach with Amber. At the bar Amber ordered two kamikaze shots and offered to help Oliver take his mind off Hope. Amber eyed Hope across the room and planted a kiss on Oliver. He asked if she was trying to push Hope's buttons. Amber admitted that it's fun to mess with Hope but she also wanted to kiss him. Oliver left to make a call; Hope followed him outside and warned that Amber is nothing but trouble. Back at the bar, Amber checked Ollie's bag for more designs.
Ridge embraced Brooke, observing that something's on her mind. She flashed
back to her fight with Taylor and he warned her not to hold back, as he
always finds out. Brooke admitted she'd lost it and slapped Taylor. "Did you
have your filthy hands on him?" Ridge wondered, dryly. Brooke explained the
whole fight, mentioning Taylor and Rick's liaison and concluding that's
why Thomas was concerning Taylor so much. "She was really pushing my
buttons," Brooke sighed. Ridge was amused and weary about his two women's perpetual battles. He then dialed Taylor and put her on speaker. Brooke begrudgingly apologized. "Good job, ladies!" praised Ridge, after they played nice.
At Bikini Beach, Liam vented to Bill about Oliver and Hope. Outside, Oliver
stroked Hope's face and said he wanted more for her than a guy who would
grow to become just like Bill. Oliver then apologized for getting too
familiar and Hope said she doesn't want to lose him, as he's her best
friend. Well, Oliver wanted to be her boyfriend, but was content to enjoy
his thing with Amber in the meantime. Indoors, Amber rifled through his
unattended designs and then asked Brendon the bartender for a round of
kamikazes. Nearby, Rachel the waitress gave Hope some advice: "Nobody gets
between me and my man!" Hope came inside and assured the Spencer men
she was firmly on Team Liam. Bill suggested his son start training in Mixed
Martial Arts with him and Katie put forth the idea of a family trip. A
distracted Hope's attention was drawn to Amber and Oliver pounding drinks.
Then, Amber took a drunken Oliver home. When everyone caught Hope
woolgathering, she admitted she was worried about Oliver and Amber. Bill
muttered that Liam should've gone and "lit" Oliver up. Hope got huffy,
noting that she finds Liam "sexy as hell" and he doesn't need martial arts
or motorcross to make him a man. She stormed out. Back at Oliver's, Amber
poured them more drinks and they got to know each other better. Then they
had a makeout session! Amber cooled it before it got too hot and heavy,
eyeing his bag of designs. She got a call from Nick and assured him she was
"working on" her line. When Oliver passed out, she took cell phone camera
pics of all the Hope For the Future designs! "Sleep tight," she whispered,
covering Oliver with a blanket and leaving.
Eric, Brooke and Ridge brought Stephanie home from the hospital. Stephanie was not interested in an easy convalescence. She was raring to get on with her life...and her mission! She outlined her directive, pointing out that the homeless were fighting every day to survive and many were "worse off than I am." Eric told her they'd talk when he got home and urged her to get some rest. Once alone, Stephanie called Dayzee to find out where she is and told her to stay put so they could meet up. Then, Stephanie told a moved Brooke that "as long as there's no major screw up...I will admit that you are a member of my family." Stephanie praised her as being wonderful and someone who is like "a daughter who gives me a lot of gray hairs." Ridge looked on as his mom and his wife had a lovefest. Later, Ridge and Brooke hugged and Ridge got a text from Stephanie. She'd given them the slip and gone down to see Dayzee. Downtown, Stephanie met Dayzee at a homeless shelter, assuring her she's 100% committed to helping.
At Jackie M, Whip, Nick and Aggie admired the sexy, sensual lines of Amber's new design...not realizing it was a Forrester one! They hoped the rest of the line would be as impressive. Nearby, Amber got a call from Oliver, who apologized for dragging her into his drama the night before. She assured him it was no big thing — she'd gotten "plenty" out of the encounter. She offered to help him move on from Hope and "be more than a good friend." Hungover Oliver hung up and stared at the Hope For the Future drawings. Then, Hope came in, remarking upon the shape Oliver was in. "This isn't good for you," she observed, of him being holed up staring at pictures of her. "It's my job," he shrugged. "Maybe it shouldn't be," she countered, suggesting he take a leave of absence. Oliver refused to "bail" on her. Back at Jackie M, Taylor came by to see Whip. Taylor told a stunned Whip about Stephanie's operation and cancer diagnosis. Nick, too, reeled from the news. Taylor admitted she's worried about Stephanie having the strength to get through treatment. A bubbly Amber burst in, and Nick filled her in. Amber admitted her relationship with Stephanie is "complicated," and struggled to marshal her emotions. Then, Nick told her the new designs were "hot." Amber took this as yet another sign he approves of her shenanigans. Impressed, Nick told her he wants the fashion show to be next week. "You are going to steal the show!" he grinned, as she laughed. Back at Forrester, Eric told Hope how excited he is about the Hope For the Future line. They admired one of his drawings and Eric called it "one of a kind."
A voice-over from Susan Flannery (Stephanie) declared this a very special episode of B&B, noting that none of the homeless people in the subsequent scenes in Skid Row are actors. All their stories are real. Then, viewers saw Stephanie and Dayzee preparing to speak to people at the shelter. Back uptown, Brooke explained to Taylor where Stephanie had gone off to. Taylor was mind-boggled! "You just allowed Stephanie to run off?" she gasped. Brooke was certain Stephanie would be safe, sharing some of the information that Dayzee had given her. "This is what she needs, Taylor. It's better than medicine," said Brooke. Taylor was impressed by her sensitivity and insight.
Back in Skid Row, Dayzee introduced Stephanie to Kevin, who runs the shelter, and he led them inside. Stephanie met a reverend who ministers at the mission, who explained the contributing factors to homelessness. Stephanie listened to several people relate their stories of how they'd ended up on
the street and gained a lot of perspective. B&B took the cameras all over Skid Row and even to the minister's congregation, where he preached hopeful messages. Stephanie heard about the positive things in the community and what people are doing to make things better. Energized and deeply moved, Stephanie told Dayzee she wants to learn everything she can so she can help.
A voiceover from Susan Flannery (Stephanie) noted that the visit to the
rescue mission in Skid Row is real, as are the people. Then, the scene moved to Stephanie and Dayzee discussing Dayzee's work. At the Forrester mansion, Pam came by with food for Stephanie and Brooke revealed that Stephanie was downtown with Dayzee. Brooke and Pam discussed the plight of the homeless and Dayzee's strength. Brooke noted that Stephanie's purpose would "keep her living for a very long time." Back at the mission, Stephanie got a tour and met some more people. Brooke called Stephanie's cell to check up on her and let her know that she and Pam are worried. Stephanie wasn't ready to leave! "Go back there and get her!" Pam pleaded, reminding Brooke that Steph just had major surgery. Brooke left for Skid Row.
Stephanie and Dayzee continued to explore the mission and speak to people who had lost their jobs and found themselves in hard times. Brooke arrived to see Stephanie volunteering in the cafeteria, serving food (complete with a hairnet). As the mission's keyboardist and singers began singing "Lean on Me," Brooke joined Stephanie behind the counter. They traded smiles. Stephanie flashed back on her remarkable journey to Skid Row, and then she and Brooke took in the whole scene around them.


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To Bach, or Not to Bach?
Since it arrived at NEPR last week, we've given plenty of airplay to mandolinist Chris Thile's new CD of J.S. Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, the first of a projected two volumes. If you've missed it so far, tune in at about 1:45 Monday afternoon for the Sonata No. 1.
Bach's Sonatas and Partitas, the summit of the violin repertoire — on the mandolin? That shouldn't be a problem, especially in the hands of a virtuoso like Thile, the McArthur genius grant-winning virtuoso, known both his work with the Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek, and for such classical collaborations as "The Goat Rodeo Sessions" with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan and Edgar Meyer. They're at Tanglewood this Thursday, FYI. The mandolin is basically a manual violin, so the transference of music for one instrument to the other shouldn't pose insuperable technical challenges. And heaven knows, we've broadcast Bach's unaccompanied violin and cello works played on all sorts of un-Bachian instruments, from the modern grand piano (e.g, Glenn Gould, Rosalyn Tureck, András Schiff, Angela Hewitt) to guitars of every description (including the Pioneer Valley's archguitarist and Bach maven Peter Blanchette), from the banjo of Béla Fleck to the synthesizer of Wendy Carlos — never mind Leopold Stokowski's orchestrations, the Jacques Loussier Trio's improvisations or the too-cool-for-words scat of the Swingle Singers. As these and other superb artists demonstrate, Bach's music doesn't just survive being played on the "wrong" instrument, it positively thrives on it. To a greater extent than than that of any other composer, the genius of Bach's music is in the notes, not in one particular sound. It retains its integrity no matter what you do to it, and reveals different facets of itself in each unique rendering.
But different though their instruments may be, there's one thing all the above performers have in common: They speak Bach. They articulate the notes to make them dance, knowing which ones to stress, which to lighten up on. They phrase the notes to make them sing, grouping these into a clause, those into a sentence, inserting a breath at just the right point. They tease out the multiple lines implied in a single series of notes, subtly nudge the tempo forward or back, and generally perform myriad acts of seeming alchemy (otherwise known as musicianship) to make pieces once regarded as dry excercises into the most joyous expressions of the human spirit ever put into sound. Do I gush? That's was well-played Bach does to me.
And here is where Thile lets me down. But before I tell you why, listen for yourself. Here's the opening Adagio from the Sonata No. 1, the piece we'll play for you Monday afternoon on NEPR:
What did you hear? I'd love for you to tell me in a reply. What I heard was a plodding, metronomic tempo, with almost none of the rubato (rhythmic push-pull) that helps the music flow. I heard a relatively unvaried attack, as if Thile's musical alphabet were missing several consonants. I heard an instrument whose dry tone and rapid decay (i.e., the way the notes die away more quickly than on most instruments) do not necessarily disqualify it from Bach, but which require a lot more resourcefulness from the player than Thile musters. Basically, what I heard was exactly the kind of dry excercise the performers I praise above show this music not to be. While the fugues and faster movements on Thile's CD go better, they're not really any more idiomatic. It's just that that the faster speeds emphasize Thile's virtuosity while somewhat mitigating his and his instrument's shortcomings.
Why, you mighty fairly ask, would I take off this way on an accomplished musician like Chris Thile? Isn't this a case of "those who can, do; those who can't, criticize?" Mostly it's because of my belief that whatever praise I gave Thile for his Bach would be dishonest. Here and elsewhere, praise would be meaningless if there is no possibilty of criticism. Whatever false applause I gave Thile would be an insult to the many great Bach perfomers I've admired and/or befriended. They worked hard to get their Bach right. It's unfair to them if I said someone else's Bach was as good as theirs when it wasn't.
You can't just play Bach's notes and say you're playing Bach. His music takes a lot more than that; indeed, Bach will test your musical abilities more than anything else you'll ever play. By that standard, great as he is in other music, Chris Thile is a Bach neophyte. Pablo Casals, the legendary cellist whose youthful discovery of Bach's then-little-known Cello Suites changed his life, and who practiced this music every day of his adult life, waited until he was in his sixties before recording his interpretations. Would that Chris Thile showed equivalent modesty.
And now for something better, found utterly at random on YouTube: A musician named Jeff Stern, playing the same Adagio from Bach's Sonata No. 1 — on the marimba! I'm not ready to pin the Great Bach Performer medal on Mr. Stern quite yet. But to my ears, he makes a heck of a lot more sense out of the piece than Thile. Once again, Bach lives!

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Kitty Ludes?
anyone who has a cat, especially anyone who has more than one, knows that it must be statistically impossible to get them all to sit there without attacking each other, licking their butts, or jumping off.
Coud Howard have gotten that good at PS that he took a million different shots and then made it into one? is that even possible?
Childless-ness = insanity, growing feverishly month after month.
It goes against female nature- this is like those sci-fi movies where the monster is getting more and more filled with rage and is about to lash out at the world in an apocalyptic way.
MAybe it is the pic from the advertisement of the cat tree she bought with NSAL donations.
Strange coincidences?......
It'd require a stationary camera, a static lighting source and countess hours.
If anything, Howard (or somebody) shopped the cats into the photo. Which wouldn't be terribly hard to do, but it's above Howard's paygrade. Unless he's improved significantly over the last year.
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A look at the Atlanta - Seattle NFC Division playoff matchup for this weekend.
Even with the surging
Seattle Seahawks
standing in the way, the
Atlanta Falcons
are confident they can end their recent playoff struggles.
The top-seeded Falcons look to avoid a fifth consecutive playoff defeat while the Seahawks try to continue their postseason run with a seventh straight victory in Sunday's NFC divisional contest at the Georgia Dome.
Atlanta (13-3) is 56-24 in five seasons under coach Mike Smith, but 0-3 in the playoffs over the previous four. The Falcons have totaled 441 yards and allowed 884 while being outscored 72-23 in their last two playoff contests, including a 48-21 loss to Green Bay two years ago when they also held the NFC's top seed.
Though the Falcons' playoff futility has been a dark cloud hanging over Smith's otherwise successful tenure, they believe they've learned from the past playoff.
"We're a much more mature team because of our experiences,'' Smith said. "I think you learn from your previous experiences in the playoffs. This is a team that has been very focused from the very beginning of the season and we've got a lot of guys who have experienced the playoff atmosphere. They're going to be able to help some of the younger guys who haven't.''
Paced by quarterback
Matt Ryan
, receivers
Roddy White
Julio Jones
, and future Hall-of-Fame tight end
Tony Gonzalez
, the Falcons were sixth in the NFL in passing (281.8 yards per game) and seventh in scoring (26.2 points). Ryan tied
Peyton Manning
with a league-best 68.6 completion percentage and recorded career highs of 4,719 yards and 32 touchdowns under first-year offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter.
Ryan's teammates are confident he'll be that same quarterback and not the one who averaged 194.7 yards, threw three TDs, four picks and was sacked 10 times while posting a 71.2 rating and 0-3 playoff record.
White feels Ryan, who threw four TDs and one INT while winning at Seattle in 2010 and 2011, has "been mentally prepared throughout the whole season for this stretch run."
"He knows we have to win a playoff game," White added. "Everybody knows that, and not to put any pressure on him, but I just think that at this point in the season, everybody knows they have to play their best football right now.''
White and Jones combined for 171 catches with 2,549 yards and 17 touchdowns while Gonzalez is coming off the most productive of his four regular seasons in Atlanta with 93 receptions for 930 yards and eight TDs.
Under first-year defensive coordinator
Mike Nolan
, Atlanta tied for fifth in the league with Seattle and Washington with 31 takeaways.
Despite his team's recent playoff history, Smith does not plan to change much.
"To me it's no different than any other game,'' he said. "It's 100 percent on our football team to go out and play our best. We feel like we accomplished what we needed to accomplish to get here and we are looking forward to playing against Seattle.''
Though Atlanta has won three straight against the Seahawks (12-5), the visitors are filled with confidence heading into the teams' first postseason meeting.
After winning its final five regular-season contests, Seattle overcame a 14-0 deficit to snap an eight-game road playoff skid with a 24-14 victory at Washington last Sunday. The Seahawks are in the midst of their longest winning stretch since an 11-game run Oct. 9-Dec. 24, 2005.
"We haven't been as solid as we are now,'' coach
Pete Carroll
said. "We're much more solid in our thinking and mentality and just the resolve about everything we're doing.''
Though the Seahawks will be without sack leader
Chris Clemons
(torn ACL), it was a group effort that helped them allow 15.3 points per contest, the fewest in the league. Their stout defense, which features big cornerbacks
Brandon Browner
Richard Sherman
, against Atlanta's potent passing attack figures to be the game's most intriguing matchup.
"I might be in the minority, but I look at it as strength on strength,'' Koetter said. "Heck, let's go. They've got a good defense, and we have a good offense. I know their team is running hot right now, and I know our guys are looking forward to the challenge.''
While the Seahawks try to join the 1989 Los Angeles Rams as the only West Coast teams to win back-to-back playoff games on the East Coast, the Falcons don't think travel will make their opponent any less formidable.
"It's not like they're going to be going to the moon or anything,'' tackle
Tyson Clabo
said. "They have a schedule they follow when they travel and I'm sure they're going to keep it the same.''
Seattle started 1-5 on the road before outscoring Chicago, Buffalo and the Redskins 97-48 to win the last three away from home. Paced by Pro Bowler
Marshawn Lynch
and rookie quarterback
Russell Wilson
, the Seahawks have averaged 223.3 rushing yards in those contests.
Lynch, who tied a franchise playoff record with 132 yards on 20 carries at Washington, has averaged 116.8 and 6.9 per carry while topping 100 yards in each of the last five contests.
Wilson threw for 187 yards with a TD and rushed eight times for 67 last week. The Falcons know they are in for a challenge trying to stop Wilson, who passed for 3,118 yards and ran for 489 while posting a 100.0 passer rating - fourth in the NFL - during the regular season.
Wilson threw 17 TDs and just two INTs over his final nine games, and his 116.9 passer rating since November is the league's best.
"You have to keep covering guys for a long time on the back end,'' said Nolan, whose defense ranked 21st in rushing at 123.2 yards per game. "That's one of the tougher things about him because when he's running around, you'd better stay with your man.''
Clemons, meanwhile, wasn't the only Seahawk to suffer a season-ending injury against the Redskins. Seattle on Wednesday signed veteran kicker Ryan Longwell after placing Steven Hauschka on injured reserve with a calf injury.
Hauschka made all 23 attempts from inside 50 yards this season. Longwell, who last kicked with Minnesota in 2011, is 17 of 23 on field-goal attempts in the playoffs throughout his 15-year career.
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Hundreds of thousands of Floridians are currently afflicted with something critics of the Affordable Care Act long have warned about: rate shock. It's the unpleasant experience of seeing your health insurance rates jump as a result of the healthcare reform law — in contradiction with President Barack Obama's often-repeated promise that, "If you like your plan, you can keep it."
This month, Florida Blue, the state's largest and oldest health insurer, notified 300,000 members that when their plans expire in 2014 they must enroll in new plans that comply with requirements of the ACA that insurers offer coverage to everyone, regardless of pre-existing conditions, and that plans cover 10 "essential health benefits'' such as hospitalization, prescription drugs and maternity care.
Florida Blue executives insist the company isn't dropping the members — it's only dropping their plans, which no longer qualify under the law.
"We're not terminating anyone's coverage,'' said Jon Urbanek, Florida Blue's senior vice president of commercial markets. "We're essentially going to go through a transition to qualified plans.''
It's a distinction that some Florida Blue members have a hard time seeing — especially when the new plan costs more and offers benefits they don't necessarily want.
But there are others — generally older, sicker people who had a harder time finding health insurance in the past because of pre-existing conditions — who welcome the change. A qualified plan is likely to lower their monthly premiums and improve their coverage. And still other members will experience little or no change in their costs or coverage level.
"Each individual will experience very different impacts,'' said Douglas Lynch, vice president and chief actuary for Florida Blue.
Urbanek said that more than half of the estimated 200,000 individual and family policies affected by the change have comprehensive benefits comparable to those required under the health law.
But it's unclear how many Florida Blue members will pay more and how many will pay less for their new, qualified plans, because an unknown number of those policy holders also may be eligible for federal financial aid to help pay their monthly premiums. That aid is available to individuals and families earning up to four times the federal poverty level, or $45,960 a year for an individual and $94,200 a year for a family of four.
Another factor affecting the cost of health insurance rates is the ACA itself, which requires that insurers now cover anyone who applies, even with a pre-existing condition — a requirement known as "guaranteed issue."
"Guaranteed issue and no pre-existing conditions will impact practically all of our members,'' Lynch said, "and represent a significant portion of the overall impact our members will experience."
But it was the Florida cancellations, followed by complaints of rising prices, that caught the public's attention, triggering another onslaught of criticism of the ACA. Obama had promised many times in 2008, 2009 and 2010 that Americans could keep their health insurance if they liked it.
What the president did not say, and what many Americans were unaware of, is that insurance companies could close those plans at their discretion, said Julie Bataille, press director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that oversees the public health programs and the online insurance exchange.


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Special ReportFearing a Forced ReturnThe Situation of the Lao Hmong Refugees in Petchabun, Thailand May 22, 2008Thailand 2007 © Greg Constantine "I will never go back to Laos. I would rather die here than go back to where so many of my family died." BV, a 20-year-old woman in the Huai Nam Khao camp Nearly 8,000 ethnic Lao Hmong currently confined to a guarded, barbed-wire enclosed camp controlled by the Thai military in the village of Huai Nam Khao in Petchabun province in northern Thailand face the imminent threat of a forced return to Laos. Many of these refugees have told the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the sole nongovernmental organization working in the camp, of a life in Laos spent fleeing violent attacks and persecution, witnessing the murder of family members, suffering rape, surviving bullet and shrapnel wounds, and enduring malnutrition and disease. Recent actions taken by the Thai and Lao governments—including the involuntary return to Laos of 11 refugees in the camp—have heightened the anxiety, psychological distress, and fear among the camp population. Four of the refugees have attempted to commit suicide since January 2008. Some refugees receiving psychological care have told MSF that facing the Thai military during the screening process—even anticipation of the meeting—has triggered flashbacks and nightmares recalling abuses suffered in Laos. This state of desperation has been fueled by the Thai military's near constant threats to the refugees of an imminent return to Laos. Out of grave concern for their safety and well-being, MSF is calling upon the governments of Thailand and Laos to immediately stop the forced repatriation of these Lao Hmong refugees without independent monitoring and guarantees for their safety. MSF began providing humanitarian aid to this group of refugees in July 2005. During medical and psychosocial consultations, MSF has found extreme fear and psychological distress among this population, which has only been exacerbated by the threat of a return to Laos. Refugees have told MSF field staff about recent abuses suffered in Laos, which are consistent with reports by human right organizations1 and independent journalists2 who have visited the areas of Laos (Borikamxai, Xieng Khouang, Xaisomboune, and Vientiane provinces) where many of the Hmong refugees have fled. At least 181 refugees in the camp bear physical scars, such as bullet and shrapnel wounds, from alleged abuses in Laos. The Thai government proceeded in December 2007 and January 2008 with a screening process without the participation of any third party and its results have not been communicated to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The purpose of this operation was to separate refugees fleeing persecution in Laos from those migrating for economic reasons. Despite repeated requests, UNHCR has not been allowed to access the camp or to monitor the screening process at any point over the last three years3. The repatriation process agreed upon by Thailand and Laos seriously threatens the legal and fundamental right of non-refoulement—whereby people fleeing persecution must not be sent back to countries where their lives or liberty would be threatened4. The government in Laos has continually prevented nongovernmental organizations and international organizations from monitoring and assessing the safety of Lao Hmong returnees. Since December 2005, more than 370 Hmong have been forcibly returned to Laos. Some of these individuals have been held in arbitrary detention, and there have been credible reports of torture5. The Lao government has made the firm demand that no third party should be included in the repatriation process. This was made a condition of any negotiation with Thailand on the issue of Hmong returns. Additionally, MSF also requests that the ASEAN presidency and members, key regional stakeholders, and the French and US governments to ensure that Thailand and Laos resolve this issue in accordance with international standards for the protection of refugees. BackgroundThailand 2007 © Greg Constantine The Hmong refugees that MSF assists in Huai Nam Khao in northern Thailand are originally from Laos. According to the Lao government, more than 450,000 Hmong live in Laos, constituting 8 percent of the population and making them the third largest ethnic group in the country after the Lao and the Khmou. Ethnic Hmong also live in Cambodia, southern China, Thailand, and Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, certain Hmong were recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States to support the American army in Vietnam and Laos. In the first decade following the US departure in 1973, approximately 300,000 people6, including many Hmong, fled Laos to Thailand where they sought refugee status. The majority resettled in third countries, particularly in the US, which received some 250,000 Lao people between 1975 and 19967, more than half ethnic Hmong. Because of the involvement by some Hmong with the CIA-trained army, the Communist government in Laos has treated this group with suspicion since it came to power in 1975. Thousands of irregular Hmong soldiers retreated to inaccessible forest areas with their families out of fear for their safety. According to people living in the camp and human rights organizations, up to a few thousand Hmong, including women, children and elderly people, still live in the jungle today and continue to be subject to attacks and persecution by the Lao military. As a result, Hmong have continued to flee Laos since the end of the war. In May 2005, Thailand closed a Hmong refugee camp, prompting approximately 15,000 to seek refuge at the Wat Tham Krabok Temple in Saraburi, central Thailand. The US government eventually agreed to accept roughly 15,000 Hmong for resettlement. The Huai Nam Khao Camp in ThailandIn late 2004, a portion of the current refugee population of Huai Nam Khao camp – an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 ethnic Hmong – began fleeing from Laos across the Mekong River into Petchabun province in search of safety from what they claimed as violence and persecution in Laos. Thailand 2007 © Greg Constantine Many of these refugees first lived in the forest on the village's outskirts and were provided food by local residents. Some worked on local farms to support their families. Others used the little money or resources they had to buy or trade for food at the local market. In June 2005, local Thai authorities allegedly began forcing the Lao Hmong refugees to leave the forests surrounding Huai Nam Khao and started pressuring the village residents to stop assisting the refugees. During the first week of July 2005, MSF learned of their plight through several articles published in the Bangkok Post. MSF dispatched a medical and logistical team to assess the situation, where approximately 5,000 to 6,000 refugees were now settled on both sides of the town's main road. The refugees had little access to shelter, food, safe drinking water, or health care. The MSF team immediately opened an outpatient clinic. By mid-2007, with new arrivals, the population of the makeshift camp in Huai Nam Khao had grown to approximately 7,800 people. These arrivals included an estimated 1,000 Hmong from the former refugee camp in Wat Tham Krabok. In June 2007, the refugees were relocated to a new site, approximately three kilometers from the village center. The new camp, roughly 20 hectares (49 acres) in size, is enclosed with barbed-wire fencing and lies on a hillside. Access is controlled by the Thai military. The refugees have better living conditions, but their movements are confined to the camp and there are no adequate educational facilities for the children or employment opportunities for adults. According to an MSF registration from April 2008, at present there are 1,451 families and a total of about 7,850 people living in the camp. The Current SituationThailand 2007 © Greg Constantine Having completed its screening process, the Thai government continues to refuse any independent monitoring or review of the protection claims made by Lao Hmong refugees. On February 27, 2008, four Hmong families—11 individuals—were sent back to Laos. According to Thai authorities, the four families were registered on a list of voluntary returnees. But statements given to MSF from witnesses in the camp do not corroborate this account. On that day, Thai soldiers examined their registration cards and screened them. They then separated 12 people from the group and had them board military vehicles. According to these witnesses, several people were clearly being forced to board the vehicles. A woman with 5 children, ages 2 to 15, was compelled to leave even though her children were still in the camp, making the claim that she was returning voluntarily to Laos doubtful. She managed to escape and her whereabouts remain unknown. She is still separated from her children in the camp. Thailand 2007 © Greg Constantine MSF was able to interview four families registered that day. None of them expressed the desire to return to Laos. Indeed, they fear for their safety if they return. A 27-year-old man registered on the list told MSF, "I never said I wanted to go back to Laos—no one has told me why I'm on this voluntary list. I don't want to go back to Laos—I'm afraid of what will happen to me if I go back there." A 50-year-old man who is the head of a family of 9 said, "I don't know why I'm on this list, but I do not want to go back to Laos. If I return to Laos they're going to kill me." On April 10, 2008, another 67 Hmong were again allegedly voluntarily returned to Laos. However, their protection claims were never reviewed by any third party. These incidents, in addition to the repeated denial of any involvement of an independent third party, challenge the legitimacy of Thai government's screening process. UNHCR has not been allowed to enter the area since the beginning and despite numerous official requests the agency was not allowed to assess the conditions of the refugees, review their claims for protection, or take part in the screening process. The Lao government has made the firm demand that no third party should be included in the repatriation process. This was made a condition of any negotiation with Thailand on the issue of Hmong returns. Thus the forced repatriation process may continue without any monitoring of the humanitarian conditions or respect for individuals' rights—a prospect that has increased the level of fear and anxiety among the population and caused families to regularly flee the camp since August 2007. Fearing an Unsafe Return to LaosThailand 2007 © Greg Constantine The alleged abuses perpetrated against Lao Hmong refugees who have been forcibly returned to Laos have intensified the stress and anxiety among an already traumatized population. In December 2005, 27 Lao Hmong children (5 boys and 22 girls) from Huai Nam Khao were arrested by the Thai police and sent back by force to Laos. Twelve of the girls managed to come back to Thailand and join their parents in the camp in May 2007. They told MSF staff of enduring repeated beatings, rapes, and other abuses during their detention in Laos. Ten girls and five boys are still in Laos, their whereabouts and fates unknown. Such incidents have only heightened anxieties among the population living in the camp. Following a mental health assessment in the camp to obtain some indicators of the prevalence of psychological disorders among the Hmong refugees, MSF began providing mental health counseling in November 2007 to the most traumatized refugees. The adults interviewed presented various psychological disorders as well as a high level of psychological distress: pathological mourning due to death or disappearance of multiple family members, psycho-traumatic disorders due to exposure to numerous highly traumatic situations (being forced to hide, flee under dangerous conditions, live under constant threat of attack and sexual violence), anxiety disorders due to the uncertainty of their future, and the inability to control their present living conditions. In clinical interviews, patients presented several symptoms related to post-traumatic stress disorder as well as anxiety-related depressive disorders. Their main symptoms are persistent sadness, anxious mood, crying easily, sleeping disorders, recurrent nightmares of traumatic events, feelings of hopelessness, difficulty concentrating, and somatic complaints such as headaches and other chronic pains. ConclusionThailand 2007 © Greg Constantine For nearly three years, MSF has been providing medical care to the refugees living in Petchabun, a population completely dependent on outside aid. The main need voiced by the Hmong refugee population is protection from forced repatriation to Laos. MSF patients say they are extremely afraid about the prospect of a forced return to Laos. For many of them, this situation produces intense stress and psychological suffering. Though the MSF team provides psychological support for this population, it cannot respond to the real need the people are voicing; the need to be protected from a forced return. As the sole international organization present in Huai Nam Khao camp, MSF is urging the governments of Thailand and Laos to immediately halt all repatriation proceedings against the Lao Hmong refugees living in the camp and to allow an independent third party to monitor and assess the fears of the population, ensure that guarantees for their safety are in place, and any repatriation to Laos is voluntary and secure. International standards state that repatriation cannot be forced or imposed on individuals fearing for their safety and any repatriation must remain linked to guarantees for safety upon return. For the Lao Hmong refugees, none of these conditions have been met by either the governments of Thailand and Laos. Additionally, MSF urges the ASEAN presidency and members, key regional stakeholders, and the French and US governments to ensure that Thailand and Laos resolve this issue in accordance with international standards for the protection of refugees. Mental Health Status – Hmong RefugeesThailand 2007 © Greg Constantine The stress of life in the camp for refugees who report a long personal history of traumatic events in Laos continues to intensify in the face of ongoing uncertainty about their future and lack of any economic opportunity. So far, 96 patients have been seen for psychological consultation. MSF staff living in the camp report there are many more whom suffer symptoms of stress but are not yet referred. Nearly every day, new faces come to the consultation room door and ask to be seen. Of those seen, 93 percent report a lifetime of loss, torture, running, hiding, and starving in the mountainous jungles of Laos. Patients present extensive documents showing photos of the dead and relatives in military uniforms, papers showing the family's connection to the CIA, and maps of hiding places and routes of escape from attacks. While many details differ, the elements are quite consistent. Of the 96 patients seen for consultation nearly 50 percent threaten suicide if they are forced to return to Laos. They make statements that vary in intensity, from: "I would rather die in this camp than return to Laos" to: "If I am forced to go back to Laos I will kill my family with a knife and then hang myself." Or, "I will force the soldier to shoot me." One patient who tried to kill himself by drinking wood staining liquid reported that he was tortured by thoughts of the past suffering in Laos, humiliated by his present circumstances of being poor and unable to provide for his family, and hopeless about the future, convinced he will be killed anyway if he is sent back. "At least I can choose my time to die and join my father (who recently was reported killed in Laos)". Another male patient expressed suicidal thoughts and a plan to kill his family if forced to return: Since I was a small child, my life has been running from the war, hiding and starving in the jungle, and seeing my family killed. Now I am afraid of being sent back to the same suffering, and I have to beg for protection. I thought I would find a better life. Living in Living in Constant Fear: Refugees' TestimoniesA pervasive fear stalks the Lao Hmong refugees in Huai Nam Khao camp because of the prospect of a forced return to Laos. In testimonies provided to MSF staff, many of these refugees tell of facing a daily struggle to survive targeted attacks, witnessing the murder of family members, suffering rape, and surviving bullet and shrapnel wounds, as well as malnutrition and disease. They endured these hardships and acute stress for prolonged periods with little or no access to any health-care services or medicine beyond herbal remedies harvested from the jungle. During these interviews, many of the refugees repeatedly stated to MSF staff members that they feared death, torture, and imprisonment if returned to Laos. Further attesting to the intense and overwhelming stress felt among the refugees, some of the interviewees expressed suicidal thoughts when asked about being sent back to Laos. Hiding in the ForestYH, 22 years old, used to live in the forests of Xieng Khaouang province in Laos. She fled to Thailand in May 2005 after five cousins and two sisters had been killed during attacks on her family. She lives with her husband and their three-year-old daughter in Huai Nam Khao. "I lived all my life in the forest in Laos. We were chased by the Lao and Vietnamese soldiers all the time. All my family members were killed by soldiers. Sometime the planes attacking us would drop bombs that produced a poisonous, yellow-colored gas. We would have to run and hide among the trees. I saw a lot of people die. Sometimes the soldiers would accidentally kill one another, and some of the adults would see their bodies and the uniforms that they were wearing. During one attack, one of my younger sisters breathed in poisonous gas and she passed out. My mother had to carry her. Eventually, all her teeth fell out. My husband decided we could no longer stay in the forest. He thought we should try to come to Thailand. We were still constantly being chased by the Lao and Vietnamese soldiers. When we finally made it to the Mekong River my husband paid a fisherman to take across the river. Then we paid some more silver to a driver and my husband told him to take us where the Hmong were living. He dropped us in Huai Nam Khao. All we had when we arrived was my husband's Hmong knife that he used to dig for roots. Some of the Thai Hmong in the village let us live with them. Then we were forced to live with the other Lao Hmong along the roadside. We started to receive food from MSF. Ever since we fled Laos our life has gotten better because we have had food to eat and we don't have to hide from attacks. But I am so afraid that we will be sent back to Laos. If I think about it too much I faint. I don't want to be sent back to Laos to be killed. Everyone is saying we are going to be sent back." Surviving Detention and RapeKL lived most of her life in the forest in Laos' Xieng Khouang province. Her father fought alongside other Hmong who were allegedly trained by the Central Intelligence Agency of the U.S. government. She and her family were later captured by Lao soldiers and sent to a camp. She was repeatedly raped by the soldiers and later escaped to Thailand. "In 2002, the Lao military surrounded the area where my family and I had settled in the forest. The soldiers arrested me and my husband. Our four children were also brought to the camp. The soldiers took us to a village and we stayed there for about one month. Then, the military took my husband and another man into the jungle with them to try to find other Hmong groups. I never saw my husband again. About five months later, the soldiers asked me where my husband had gone. I told them I did not know and they beat me. Two days every week the soldiers would march me to the local commander's compound for questioning. They would rape me. When the soldiers realized I was pregnant from the rape they put me in jail. My children stayed back in the camp. I knew if I stayed in the jail that I would be killed. I had no choice but to runaway from the jail and leave my children behind. When I fled into the jungle I came across the rotten body of the other man who had been taken into the forest with my husband. His throat had been cut. I assumed they had done the same to my husband, but I couldn't find anything to indicate if he was alive or dead. I fled to Vientiane. Some people told me that the army was looking for me. I asked them what I should do and they told me to take a boat across the Mekong River and travel to Petchabun province in Thailand where other Hmong were living. When I got to the Mekong River I went into labor and delivered my daughter. I just wrapped her up in cloth. Even though she was born out of rape, she is part of my blood and I really love her. The military keep on scaring us that they will send us back to Laos. I don't want to go back to Laos. I cannot sleep at night. I am always scared. And as long as we have food to eat we will stay here. When we lived in the forest we didn't have much to eat. I had never tasted rice before coming here. We were just eating the insides of trees. Everyday, I prayed to heaven but nobody could hear me. Now that I have told my story I hope someone can help me." Fleeing ViolenceCY is 18. She is originally from Bolikhamxai province in Laos. She arrived at Huai Nan Khao refugee camp on October 4, 2006, accompanied by her three-year-old brother. "Laotian soldiers attack us regularly, at least four or five times a year, particularly during the dry season. Laotian helicopters fly over the jungle to find groups of Hmong. Failing that, they drop troops down close by and the soldiers search for us, surveying the area for several days. To find us in the jungle, the military look out for signs of us, particularly marks made by machetes on the vegetation - so we try to leave as few traces as possible. When there is an attack, we separate, and we normally get together again a few days later, in a predetermined place. Generally, the soldiers systematically kill the men and capture the women. To defend ourselves, some of our group were armed [one weapon to 3 or 4 men], some groups possess a few machine guns (M16s); in my group we only had a few old rifles, but it is very difficult to obtain ammunition. 'Since my childhood, several of my cousins in my group have been killed. In 2002, one of my elder brothers was killed by soldiers when he was out collecting fruit with my cousins. One day in 2004, at around 8 in the morning, Laotian soldiers found our camp. That day, my mother and two men from our group were killed, the soldiers set fire to our camp, but my father, my two younger brothers and I managed to escape. We later found the rest of the group; we use a sort whistle made of leaves to find each other after we have dispersed. 'In March 2006, soldiers attacked us again and my father and I had to separate, each taking one of my younger brothers. We had arranged to meet at a place. I waited for my father for two days but he never arrived; I was terrified, alone with my brother. Then I decided to walk and, after a day and a night of walking, I came upon a Hmong village on the edge of the jungle. The village chief introduced me to some cousins [among the Hmong, the same surname means you are from the same clan, i.e. cousins; two people with the same surname cannot marry each other]. I stayed there for eight months, working, but the village chief then asked me to leave as he considered it too dangerous for him and for the village if the Laotian authorities discovered me there. He told me there was a Laotian Hmong camp in Thailand, where I would be safe." Dangers of Being Sent BackIn December 2005, 27 Lao Hmong children (5 boys and 22 girls) from Huai Nam Khao were arrested by the Thai police on their way to celebrate Christmas and sent back by force to Laos. Since then, in May 2007, 12 of the girls managed to come back to Thailand and join their parents in the camp. Their testimonies collected directly by the MSF team attest to the harsh treatment those children had endured during their detention in Laos. PHY is one of the girls who returned to Huai Nam Khao. Her statement was taken in the presence of two other girls, PKY, 16, and MY, 16, who were also among the group sent to Laos. During the interview, they occasionally added details and information regarding their own experience. Ultimately, all three girls endured the same situation. PHY describes their experience after being deported to Laos. "Six policemen arrived and started asking us questions, beating us at the same time. They questioned each girl privately (one girl after another in different rooms). They asked, 'Where do you come from and what are you doing?' We answered that we were from Huai Nam Khao in Thailand and that we were telling the truth, but the police wouldn't believe us and they beat us even more. They asked us our religion and we told them that we believed in Jesus. They asked who the priest at Huai Nam Khao was and if he was an American priest. They asked if we had been sent by the Americans or the Thais to talk to other Hmong about Jesus. The police also tried to force us to say that we were being paid by Thailand or the Americans to go to Xieng Khouang province to find other Hmong. They also asked who the leader of our group was, but we told them that we didn't have any leaders. They accused us of trying to meet the Hmong who live in the jungle to start a war in this country. They accused us of being spies and things like that. The more we said no, the more they beat us. They hit us in the stomach, grabbed our hair and beat our heads on the floor. They tore our clothes and touched our private parts, saying they wanted to make sure that we weren't hiding anything. One of the policemen held my legs while others raped and beat me. They did that for an entire day, one man after another. There were six rooms in the prison. Every day, we would experience the same treatment. They would beat us until we were nearly unconscious, let us recover, sometimes for a day, and start over again. They also terrorized us with a revolver. The policemen told us that the boys had already confessed and so it would be a good idea for us to tell the truth. They made us listen to a recording. You could hear each boy being beaten, crying and answering, "Yes, yes," to the questions the police were asking. They asked, "Were you going to Xieng Kouang? Were you going to the market to take the money the Americans gave you to support the war in the jungle? Are you from Xieng Kouang?" The boy was just crying, and saying, "Yes, yes, yes." MSF Assistance to Hmong Refugees in Huai Nam KhaoThailand 2007 © Greg Constantine Since November 2005, MSF has been the only international humanitarian agency providing medical and relief assistance to the Lao Hmong refugee population in Huai Nam Khao. Besides providing medical care, MSF also runs the water supply system and sanitation services, distributes relief items (blankets, plastic sheeting, cooking sets, charcoal, and soap), runs an immunization program, and provides reproductive health services (antenatal care, family planning, and safe birthing services). In mid-2006, in order to prevent the deterioration of the nutritional situation, MSF began providing targeted food distributions to children under five and pregnant and lactating women. This was later expanded to a general food distribution of a full ration, which now serves 1,451 families in the camp. Patients requiring emergency medical services or specialized tests or examinations are referred to local health facilities. These comprehensive services and activities have helped to maintain the health of the refugee population and prevent the outbreak of epidemics. In June 2007, the Thai government relocated the refugees to a new site approximately three kilometers north of the village. The camp, roughly 20 hectares (49 acres) in size, lies on a hillside with only one access point that is controlled by the Thai military. The camp is enclosed with barbed-wire fencing. MSF was allowed to build an outpatient clinic and logistical warehouse inside the camp in order to continue providing assistance to the refugees as well as designing and implementing the water supply and sanitation system at the new site. Living conditions in the new camp are much improved. There is more space, better access to proper drinking water, better sanitation, and better shelter. Health services have also been improved, notably by MSF's provision of 24-hour maternal health services. Thailand 2007 © Greg Constantine Every day, the MSF medical team provides around 100 consultations, including nearly 15 antenatal consultations. The maternal health team manages about 25 births per month. The main pathologies are upper respiratory tract infections (30 percent), diarrhea (15 percent), skin and eye infections (9 percent), and dental problems (7 percent). Since MSF started to provide tuberculosis treatment (mid-2006), 24 patients have been registered and 22 have successfully completed their treatment and one died due to complications, leaving only 1 patient currently under treatment. On average, MSF refers 115 patients per month to the district or provincial Thai hospitals for consultation or admission. MSF maintains the EPI (Expanded Program on Immunization) program in Huai Nam Khao camp. A vaccination survey done in May 2007 shows that the coverage is very good; 100 percent of the children have vaccination cards, and the average coverage among children is above 95 percent. MSF provides a full monthly food ration of 2,200 calories per person per day; this ration is composed of rice, soybeans, dried fish, salt, sugar, oil, and chili peppers. Since MSF initiated the monthly food-ration distribution, the level of malnutrition has dropped significantly. As of March 2008, only 5 people were receiving treatment for malnutrition. MSF also provides non-food items such as charcoal, soap, plastic sheeting, blankets, cooking pot and stoves. And the MSF logistical team manages appropriate water supply and sanitation services (latrines, drainages, elimination of domestic waste and vector control activities). The cost of this operation for 2007 is €1,560,000.
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Hostel is located on the very top of a flat. Very cosy place, staff are friendly and helpful but doesn't seem to smile often. Kitchen is WAY TOO HOT, around 28-30C! main hall is not as hot, dorm rooms are pretty cool. Worst part is, there's no microwave to heat your food...I had to eat my chicken cold. Despite all that, I did enjoy my stay at this hostel. Thank you!
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