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Christmas Easy: Home-made Christmas Mincemeat
You can buy some very good mincemeat, but when it is home-made it really is in another league, and once you make it yourself, you'll never look back. This makes enough for the Easy Mince Pies and Mincemeat and Apple Jalousie, which will feature in weeks to come. There is also enough to give some as gifts or to add it to apples for crumbles in the new year.
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All you do is combine all the ingredients, except for the brandy, in a large mixing bowl, stirring them and mixing them together very thoroughly indeed. Then cover the bowl with a clean cloth and leave the mixture in a cool place overnight or for 12 hours, so the flavours have a chance to mingle and develop.
After that pre-heat the oven to gas mark ¼, 225°F (110°C). Cover the bowl loosely with foil and place it in the oven for 3 hours, then remove the bowl from the oven. Don't worry about the appearance of the mincemeat, which will look positively swimming in fat. This is how it should look. As it cools, stir it from time to time; the fat will coagulate and, instead of it being in tiny shreds, it will encase all the other ingredients.
When the mincemeat is quite cold, stir well again, adding the brandy. Pack in jars that have been sterilised (see below). When filled, cover with waxed discs and seal. The mincemeat will keep for ages in a cool, dark cupboard - I have kept it for up to 3 years. NOTE: To sterilise jars, wash the jars and lids in warm soapy water, rinse well, then dry thoroughly with a clean tea cloth, place them on a baking tray and pop into a medium oven, gas mark 4, 350°F, 180°C, for 5 minutes.
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When they flick off light switches or ease off the gas pedal, many Americans feel they are doing their part to save energy. But the authors of a new survey say that consumers consistently ignore larger changes—buying more efficient appliances or vehicles, or insulating their homes—that would cut fuel consumption far more dramatically.
The research from Columbia University's Earth Institute and the university's Center for Research on Environmental Decisions is the latest attempt to probe the psychological roots of the energy problem, and to understand why it has been so hard to realize reductions in greenhouse gas pollution.
The Low-Impact Approach
The survey of 505 people from 34 states, which appears in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that consumers gravitate to "low-effort, low-impact" actions on energy, rather than big-ticket investments that might reap higher rewards. The largest group, nearly 20 percent, cited turning off lights as the best approach to save energy—an action that the study authors said actually could affect energy budgets relatively little. Similarly, the respondents overestimated the energy saved by reducing highway speed from 70 to 60 miles per hour on a 60-mile trip. The authors said that speed reduction likely would save less than a half-gallon (1.5 liters) of gasoline.
But only about 3 percent of the survey respondents cited more efficient cars or appliances, and about 2 percent cited insulating their homes—buying decisions that could in fact cut U.S. energy consumption dramatically if done on large scale.
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"When people think of themselves, they may tend to think of what they can do that is cheap and easy at the moment," said lead author Shahzeen Attari, a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University's Earth Institute. She said the people surveyed tended to believe in "curtailment" rather than efficiency. "That is, keeping the same behavior, but doing less of it," she explained. "But switching to efficient technologies generally allows you to maintain your behavior, and save a great deal more energy."
Of course, some energy experts points out that in a large house with inefficient incandescent light bulbs, turning out lights in fact can amount to a large cut in consumption. "If you're using 100-watt light bulbs, that's not an inconsequential amount of electricity," said Tom Simchak, research associate at the Alliance to Save Energy, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. He said it's understandable that consumers would think first of turning off lights or unplugging appliances to save energy, "since those are free."
"If you're calculating the payback of a new air conditioning unit, it may be two or three years until you see the savings, even though it may save lots of energy," said Simchak. "But the moment you flip the light switch [off], you are getting your money back."
Simchak said, however, that the paper points out a legitimate concern: "People don't recognize how changing out appliances can save a lot of money," even though the payback can take time.
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One of the factors that could be skewing perceptions is the way that energy efficiency information has been communicated, both by policymakers and by industry. For instance, Attari's team cited a 2008 paper by Duke University researchers, "The MPG Illusion," which showed the use of "miles per gallon" as an efficiency standard can be misleading.
What seems like a modest change in mpg terms, a switch from a 10-mpg gas guzzler to an 11-mpg sport utility vehicle, would actually save 100 gallons over 10,000 miles. That's the same as a switch from a relatively high efficiency 33-mpg car to a 50-mpg hybrid-electric model. "Even small improvements in mpg can be a lot of gas savings if you're driving a really inefficient car," said the study co-author, Richard Larrick, professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
The survey by the Columbia University researchers, Larrick said, points out the need for people to get better information on the changes that would make a big impact in their home energy use.
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"You need to look at your refrigerator or your air conditioner and realize it's the SUV of your house, and there is an opportunity for big savings if it's 10 or 15 years old," to switch it out for a newer efficient model, Larrick said. "I do sometimes worry that the focus on light bulbs is creating a lot of 33-mpg-to-50-mpg" results—smaller savings than would be realized by a focus on appliances that are using far more energy.
Ironically, survey respondents who reported that they engaged in more energy-conserving behaviors actually had less accurate perceptions on the best steps for reducing fuel and power consumption. Attari said that might be a reflection of unrealistic optimism about the actions they personally were choosing to take. Also, "single-action bias" might be at work—meaning that people tend to be willing to take one or two actions to address a perceived problem, but attention fades after they believe they have done all they can.
"Of course we should be doing everything we can," Attari said. "But if we're going to do just one or two things, we should focus on the big energy-saving behaviors. People are still not aware of what the big savers are."
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Well you can have 2 div's with the same name provided one is an "div id" and the other is a "div class".
But you can't have the same name for two "divs" or "classes".
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The answer is 'NO'. DIVs are just a generic block element and have no requirement as such. It depends on your styling intentions.
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To clarify, if you want to style ALL DIVs so that their BG is pink you can do this:
div{background: pink;}
Now if you wanted only certain divs to have a pink background you can do this by a dding a class:
.pinky{background: pink;}

if you INTEND for only one THAT SPECIFIC div to be UNIQUE then you can target it by giving it an ID, as such
#pinky{background: pink;}

Again, your layout and styling intentions will determine how you will want to target and address each div.
Hope that helps.
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Im not totally sure I understand this. If I want to make a DIV background Pink I can do this easily. However If I can only use a DIV once how can I look for commonalities.
What is the difference between a DIV and Class.
Should I turn the 2 homesocialtopcell into classes?
You can use multiple DIV they are just standard HTML elements like many other tags such as a paragraph "P" element, with no special identification with regards to applying CSS. A plain DIV is just as a DIV (clones). However, a DIV with an associated class attribute and name value differs since it has the attribute 'class' which you can specifically target with CSS.
Albeit each ID attribute acts as a UNIQUE IDENTIFIER and each value acts like a serial number so you cannot have two ID within a HTML document called: id="dog" and id="dog". But you may have one called: "dog" and another one called "cat".
With "Class" values you can have MULTIPLE occurrences; so you could have: class="donkey", class="donkey", class="donkey" infinitum.
If you want both those two "homesocialtopcell" to appear 'pink' or whatever then yes you'd "sensibly" have to change the ID to Class (due to HTML rules on ID naming, i.e. no value duplication). The CSS will then apply the SAME style rules to ALL occurrences of the 'class', "homesocialtopcell" so theoretically every time you had that specific 'class' name match "homesocialtopcell" you'd get pink applied.
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Brilliant thanks, so in the instances where I have multiple DIVS do I just change the # to a .
On both the HTML page and the CSS page or is their anything else I need to do?
Asking the difference between a div and a class is like asking the difference between a car and blue ... they aren't even the same type of thing. Pretty much every time you've asked about a div, what you should be asking about is an ID.
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 is an HTML element, and is a generic container for text, images and other elements, used to group them together or as a hook for styles and scripts where there's nothing more specific that would be suitable (eg a paragraph or heading).
IDs and classes are used to apply styling or scripts to
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...but in a nutshell, for styling purposes, IDs and classes are used in similar ways, but there are a few key differences.
- An ID can only be used once on a page, a class can be used again and again. So if you want to apply the same styling to multiple items, you'll need to use a class.
- An ID is more specific than a class, so if you have conflicting style rules (where two rules giving contradictory styles apply to the same element) then a rule that uses an ID will usually outrank a rule that just uses classes.
- You can only apply one ID to an element, but you can apply multiple classes to an element (even if you've given it an ID as well), so you could have
, where 'article' and 'box' are separate classes.
- You can use an ID for an internal link (eg  jumps to the item with id="section1".
- If you're using it as a Javascript hook, getElementByID is better supported than getElementByClass, so you should use an ID.
So if you're not using the last couple of points there, then yes I would recommend changing homesocialtopcell to a class.
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The best way I found to get my head around classes and id is to think about objects.
For example, imagine a chair. When you think about chairs, there are many different types of chairs. There are swivel chairs, high chairs, reclining chairs, stools, sofas. Even though they're all different, you still classify them all as 'chairs'.
So in this case, 'chair' would be the class. It's common attribute would be the fact that it's something you use to sit in. It's unique attributes would be it's colour, shape, size etc. These would be in the 'id'.
With this in mind, only turn both 'homesocialtopcell' divs into classes if they share the same attributes (eg, height, width, color etc). If they don't, make them unique ids - 'homesocialtopcell1' & 'homesocialtopcell2'.
On the HTML page, you can have

repeated as many times as you like, but this

should only be used once. It doesn't affect your style sheet at all, because in there, you would just have styles set for
.something { ... }
#anotherthing { ... }
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You need to understand div. You can use as many divs in a single page as you want. but their are some rules to follow. Decompose the whole webpage in seperate sections e.g. header, footer, sidebar, navigation and footer.
you should write some rules in css to make them unique on a page and apply id attribute on these elements. ID selectors should be unique and used on page only one time. For example to make the Header and Footer unique in one page, you should apply the id selector. I am sure are you not going to make a web page with 2 headers or 2 footers.........lolz.
so you can compose your page like this in css
#Header {.......}
#Container {......}
#Footer {.....}
and use in html like this:

for class selector, CSS classes are a block of CSS rules and you can apply them many time on a single page. For example you have 2 classes.
.smallText {...... }
.bigText {..... }
now you can use them in html like this:

hope this will help you to understand the basics of html/css


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Ok, as per all my usual sales this one is no different.
Don't have the money to buy right now? Talk to me, leave a deposit and we'll make some arrangements for payments, untill balance is paid off. ;-)
If you live local and wish to collect, please do so.
All items are located within the UK, I will ship anywhere in the world as I always do.
I am a very genunie and honest seller, I have done many many deals over the years, please see my feedback thread, though many haven't left feedback due to it being a rather new feature.
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Playstation 2 TEST. DTL-H30002
Very nice unit, has the odd mark on it but overall condition is good. Looks as though its been previously opened, I assume to have a new laser fitted.
Good working order, no cables etc supplied, just the unit as per the pictures.
Price = £90 GBP + shipping.
Playsation 1 Debugging station. DTL-H1002
Lovely unit, in good condition has the odd mark as expected for what is now such an old unit.
No cables supplied, just the unit as pictured.
Price = £90 GBP + shipping. - SOLD
GameCube NPDP reader, this is the NTSC / JAP switched model.
Nice condition unit as pictured, perfect working order.
Comes as unit only, no other cables supplied though standard GameCube ones work fine.
Price = £200 GBP + shipping. - SOLD
Xbox 360 Devkit with sidecar!! (+ AV cable and genuine sidecar power supply)
This is a brilliant kit, never had any issues at all in the time I have owned it.
There are a few cosmetic issues, which I will address now. The sidecar has at some point obviously had a knock, the front has been superglued and it appears the whole sidecar has had some superglue around it. The unit does have other cosmetic marks and scratches which I hope can be seen easy enough in the pictures. Also worth noting, someone has used a marker on the sidecar, it says 'BUZZARD' I am making the assumption this was once its dev name.
I assume the marker could be removed using nail varnish remover, though I have left it as it forms part of the machines history.
Over-all this is a brilliant bit of kit, again no issues with it at all.
Currently this has a few bits and pieces on the HDD, one of which appears to be something like an Live! game in progress, one option when you load has all stats down the left hand side of the screen which is pretty cool.
This comes with a genuine dev 200-240v power supply which is quite rare. This runs the machine flawlessly.
Also comes with an AV lead, which looks as though it has S-Video out aswell.
No controller is included.
Here are the pictures:
Due to the slight costmetic issues I am selling this at a bargain price, hopefully I have mentioned everything relevant above.
Price = £600 GBP + shipping. - ON HOLD
Nintendo DS dev cart with what I believe to be an unreleased game from Mere Mortals.
From my research, I believe the game this cart contains is an unreleased one. Its a Mere Mortals game, which was part of a set they were making before they went under. As far as i'm aware, this never saw a public release and is the only one I know to exist.
The game is of the series pocket puzzle, the actual game is puzzle pack, which basically explains it all.
From what I have seen, it appears relatively complete, though the 'help' bit appears non-existant.
Heres some pictures:
The above description I believe to be correct, anyone with any further information is welcome to come forward.
Price, i'm asking £180 GBP + shipping or best offer as it is difficult to put a price on. - SOLD
Playstation 2 Test
Probably the best condition Test I have seen for some time..
Comes in its original box which is in good condition, along with its original packing materials to hold the PS2 in place.
Comes with controller and cables and some paper document as shown in the photo.
Very rare to find one in such nice boxed condition.
Price = £210 GBP + shipping. - SOLD
Playstation 2 TOOL.
Brilliant bit of kit, perfect working order.
Sadly the stand has a little piece missing from it, purely cosmetic only. I have taken a photo to show this. Other than this its in great condition.
This lovely kit will come as seen in the photos, no leads included, though just uses standard type cables.
Price = £240 or best offer. - ON HOLD
Unreleased game 'Wizards' for the GBA!
Undumped on original cartridge with the memory board.
This is the sequal I believe to a game called 'Warlocked' on the GBA, very much anticipated, then dropped.
I don't know how complete the game is, I expect this is quite early as I think some menu functions are not available, although multiplayer awaits other players (please see pictures attached.) If memory serves, Campaign mode isn't available, though 'Play' mode does work.
It appears the game is somewhat playable at least, I basically put it in a DS, powered it on, took some pictures and turned it off. GBA unfortunately doesn't interest me much.
I'm sure someone out there will appreciate this far more than myself and hopefully make some good discoverys within.
Please see the pictures for further details.
Price = This is very difficult to 'put a price on' so I will set an asking price of £260 GBP Or best offer + shipping. - price dropped. - SOLD
NPDP cartridge
Good working order, has some software on it, a version of sponge bob square pants, I think last time I loaded this it wasn't in English. I don't know if there is anything else on it, don't have time to mess around with it.
Price = £180 GBP + shipping. - SOLD
Now with the boring bit, let the sales begin. :-)
Xbox Debug kits, I have 4 kits for sale, they will be from the right hand stack in the picture. Debug kits currently have no software on, ask nicely and I might put something on as a freebie for you to play with. ;-)
Kits are as a 'bare unit' no accessories. I have some other kits with software, some are boxed with all cables, feel free to PM me and i'll try and dig some info out for you.
Price = £80 GBP + shipping. - ALL 4 SOLD, PM FOR OTHER POSSIBLE DEALS.
Good working order, nice condition also.
Will come as it is in the picture, no other leads included.
Price = £90 GBP + shipping. - SOLD
NPDP Gang Writer.
Good condition and working order, will come as seen in the picture, no other cables included.
Price = £SOLD
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GUILDERLAND –– Cross-country skiing can bring Laurie Knapp a lot of pain during a race, but the amount of accomplishment she feels from finishing well makes all that suffering worth it. Skiing since her freshman year at Guilderland, Knapp, now a senior, will compete at States for the first time.
"You fall apart, but recover," Knapp said of cross-country skiing. "It feels good. After I'm done racing, I feel like I did something that I didn't know I could do."
The last female Guilderland skier to make the state competition was Courtney Davis in 2009. Head Coach Barbara Newton said that Knapp's overall fitness is her biggest asset.
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Knapp finished seventh at the Section 2 championships on Feb. 13 and will be one of 12 girls representing Section 2 on Feb. 25 and 26 at Harriet Hollister Park in Canandaigua for the state championships. Knapp had five top 10 placements during the regular season's ski schedule.
"This is new, exciting territory," Knapp said. "It's my last race, so I'm going to leave it all out there."
When Knapp is racing, she tries to focus on her long glides and keeping her fast tempo. Her mind doesn't wander too much because she's trying to catch the skiers in front of her.
"Mentality is the most important thing when you're out in the woods by yourself," said Knapp. "You have to push yourself and keep yourself going."
A downhill skier before taking up cross-country, Knapp got her hands on cross-country skis as a freshman and noticed that they were much lighter than downhill skis, but also longer. Still, she thinks the balance of being on cross-country skis and downhill skis are similar.
"I picked it up pretty quickly," Knapp said of cross-country. "I'm an athletic person, so I just got it down after a while. My technique got better and I started doing more with less effort."
Knapp said she does her fair share of running while playing soccer year 'round. She was a key piece on Guilderland's soccer team that went to the state semifinals last fall. She would like to play soccer at the State University of New York at Geneseo next fall while studying to become a physician's assistant or something in the health profession.
"I'm definitely bringing my skis to college even if the school doesn't have a team," said Knapp. "Originally, before I fully understood cross-country, I used it to stay in shape, but now that I've done it so much, I really do love it."
Newton said that Knapp is competitive and very coachable. "She takes this stuff seriously," she said. "She wants to perform well."
Knapp will ski at States, but there probably was a moment in the past when she thought something like that was unrealistic. She kept skiing on the weekends in her spare time so she wouldn't lose touch with the snow.
"I'm a little different than some other skiers," Knapp said. "A lot of skiers glide up the hills, but I'm more of a stomper. I'm kicking my way up the hills."


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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of WWII
In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga
- By Mike Dash
- Smithsonian.com, January 29, 2013, Subscribe
Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of straggly pine and birch forests scattered with sleeping bears and hungry wolves; steep-sided mountains; white-water rivers that pour in torrents through the valleys; a hundred thousand icy bogs. This forest is the last and greatest of Earth's wildernesses. It stretches from the furthest tip of Russia's arctic regions as far south as Mongolia, and east from the Urals to the Pacific: five million square miles of nothingness, with a population, outside a handful of towns, that amounts to only a few thousand people.
When the warm days do arrive, though, the taiga blooms, and for a few short months it can seem almost welcoming. It is then that man can see most clearly into this hidden world—not on land, for the taiga can swallow whole armies of explorers, but from the air. Siberia is the source of most of Russia's oil and mineral resources, and, over the years, even its most distant parts have been overflown by oil prospectors and surveyors on their way to backwoods camps where the work of extracting wealth is carried on.
Thus it was in the remote south of the forest in the summer of 1978. A helicopter sent to find a safe spot to land a party of geologists was skimming the treeline a hundred or so miles from the Mongolian border when it dropped into the thickly wooded valley of an unnamed tributary of the Abakan, a seething ribbon of water rushing through dangerous terrain. The valley walls were narrow, with sides that were close to vertical in places, and the skinny pine and birch trees swaying in the rotors' downdraft were so thickly clustered that there was no chance of finding a spot to set the aircraft down. But, peering intently through his windscreen in search of a landing place, the pilot saw something that should not have been there. It was a clearing, 6,000 feet up a mountainside, wedged between the pine and larch and scored with what looked like long, dark furrows. The baffled helicopter crew made several passes before reluctantly concluding that this was evidence of human habitation—a garden that, from the size and shape of the clearing, must have been there for a long time.
It was an astounding discovery. The mountain was more than 150 miles from the nearest settlement, in a spot that had never been explored. The Soviet authorities had no records of anyone living in the district.
The four scientists sent into the district to prospect for iron ore were told about the pilots' sighting, and it perplexed and worried them. "It's less dangerous," the writer Vasily Peskov notes of this part of the taiga, "to run across a wild animal than a stranger," and rather than wait at their own temporary base, 10 miles away, the scientists decided to investigate. Led by a geologist named Galina Pismenskaya, they "chose a fine day and put gifts in our packs for our prospective friends"—though, just to be sure, she recalled, "I did check the pistol that hung at my side."
As the intruders scrambled up the mountain, heading for the spot pinpointed by their pilots, they began to come across signs of human activity: a rough path, a staff, a log laid across a stream, and finally a small shed filled with birch-bark containers of cut-up dried potatoes. Then, Pismenskaya said,
beside a stream there was a dwelling. Blackened by time and rain, the hut was piled up on all sides with taiga rubbish—bark, poles, planks. If it hadn't been for a window the size of my backpack pocket, it would have been hard to believe that people lived there. But they did, no doubt about it.... Our arrival had been noticed, as we could see.
The low door creaked, and the figure of a very old man emerged into the light of day, straight out of a fairy tale. Barefoot. Wearing a patched and repatched shirt made of sacking. He wore trousers of the same material, also in patches, and had an uncombed beard. His hair was disheveled. He looked frightened and was very attentive.... We had to say something, so I began: 'Greetings, grandfather! We've come to visit!'
The old man did not reply immediately.... Finally, we heard a soft, uncertain voice: 'Well, since you have traveled this far, you might as well come in.'
The sight that greeted the geologists as they entered the cabin was like something from the middle ages. Jerry-built from whatever materials came to hand, the dwelling was not much more than a burrow—"a low, soot-blackened log kennel that was as cold as a cellar," with a floor consisting of potato peel and pine-nut shells. Looking around in the dim light, the visitors saw that it consisted of a single room. It was cramped, musty and indescribably filthy, propped up by sagging joists—and, astonishingly, home to a family of five:
The silence was suddenly broken by sobs and lamentations. Only then did we see the silhouettes of two women. One was in hysterics, praying: 'This is for our sins, our sins.' The other, keeping behind a post... sank slowly to the floor. The light from the little window fell on her wide, terrified eyes, and we realized we had to get out of there as quickly as possible.
Led by Pismenskaya, the scientists backed hurriedly out of the hut and retreated to a spot a few yards away, where they took out some provisions and began to eat. After about half an hour, the door of the cabin creaked open, and the old man and his two daughters emerged—no longer hysterical and, though still obviously frightened, "frankly curious." Warily, the three strange figures approached and sat down with their visitors, rejecting everything that they were offered—jam, tea, bread—with a muttered, "We are not allowed that!" When Pismenskaya asked, "Have you ever eaten bread?" the old man answered: "I have. But they have not. They have never seen it." At least he was intelligible. The daughters spoke a language distorted by a lifetime of isolation. "When the sisters talked to each other, it sounded like a slow, blurred cooing."
Slowly, over several visits, the full story of the family emerged. The old man's name was Karp Lykov, and he was an Old Believer—a member of a fundamentalist Russian Orthodox sect, worshiping in a style unchanged since the 17th century. Old Believers had been persecuted since the days of Peter the Great, and Lykov talked about it as though it had happened only yesterday; for him, Peter was a personal enemy and "the anti-Christ in human form"—a point he insisted had been amply proved by Tsar's campaign to modernize Russia by forcibly "chopping off the beards of Christians." But these centuries-old hatreds were conflated with more recent grievances; Karp was prone to complain in the same breath about a merchant who had refused to make a gift of 26 poods [940 pounds] of potatoes to the Old Believers sometime around 1900.
Things had only got worse for the Lykov family when the atheist Bolsheviks took power. Under the Soviets, isolated Old Believer communities that had fled to Siberia to escape persecution began to retreat ever further from civilization. During the purges of the 1930s, with Christianity itself under assault, a Communist patrol had shot Lykov's brother on the outskirts of their village while Lykov knelt working beside him. He had responded by scooping up his family and bolting into forest.
That was in 1936, and there were only four Lykovs then—Karp; his wife, Akulina; a son named Savin, 9 years old, and Natalia, a daughter who was only 2. Taking their possessions and some seeds, they had retreated ever deeper into the taiga, building themselves a succession of crude dwelling places, until at last they had fetched up in this desolate spot. Two more children had been born in the wild—Dmitry in 1940 and Agafia in 1943—and neither of the youngest Lykov children had ever seen a human being who was not a member of their family. All that Agafia and Dmitry knew of the outside world they learned entirely from their parents' stories. The family's principal entertainment, the Russian journalist Vasily Peskov noted, "was for everyone to recount their dreams."
The Lykov children knew there were places called cities where humans lived crammed together in tall buildings. They had heard there were countries other than Russia. But such concepts were no more than abstractions to them. Their only reading matter was prayer books and an ancient family Bible. Akulina had used the gospels to teach her children to read and write, using sharpened birch sticks dipped into honeysuckle juice as pen and ink. When Agafia was shown a picture of a horse, she recognized it from her mother's Bible stories. "Look, papa," she exclaimed. "A steed!"
But if the family's isolation was hard to grasp, the unmitigated harshness of their lives was not. Traveling to the Lykov homestead on foot was astonishingly arduous, even with the help of a boat along the Abakan. On his first visit to the Lykovs, Peskov—who would appoint himself the family's chief chronicler—noted that "we traversed 250 kilometres [155 miles] without seeing a single human dwelling!"
Isolation made survival in the wilderness close to impossible. Dependent solely on their own resources, the Lykovs struggled to replace the few things they had brought into the taiga with them. They fashioned birch-bark galoshes in place of shoes. Clothes were patched and repatched until they fell apart, then replaced with hemp cloth grown from seed.
The Lykovs had carried a crude spinning wheel and, incredibly, the components of a loom into the taiga with them—moving these from place to place as they gradually went further into the wilderness must have required many long and arduous journeys—but they had no technology for replacing metal. A couple of kettles served them well for many years, but when rust finally overcame them, the only replacements they could fashion came from birch bark. Since these could not be placed in a fire, it became far harder to cook. By the time the Lykovs were discovered, their staple diet was potato patties mixed with ground rye and hemp seeds.
In some respects, Peskov makes clear, the taiga did offer some abundance: "Beside the dwelling ran a clear, cold stream. Stands of larch, spruce, pine and birch yielded all that anyone could take.... Bilberries and raspberries were close to hand, firewood as well, and pine nuts fell right on the roof."
Yet the Lykovs lived permanently on the edge of famine. It was not until the late 1950s, when Dmitry reached manhood, that they first trapped animals for their meat and skins. Lacking guns and even bows, they could hunt only by digging traps or pursuing prey across the mountains until the animals collapsed from exhaustion. Dmitry built up astonishing endurance, and could hunt barefoot in winter, sometimes returning to the hut after several days, having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost, a young elk across his shoulders. More often than not, though, there was no meat, and their diet gradually became more monotonous. Wild animals destroyed their crop of carrots, and Agafia recalled the late 1950s as "the hungry years." "We ate the rowanberry leaf," she said,
roots, grass, mushrooms, potato tops, and bark, We were hungry all the time. Every year we held a council to decide whether to eat everything up or leave some for seed.
Famine was an ever-present danger in these circumstances, and in 1961 it snowed in June. The hard frost killed everything growing in their garden, and by spring the family had been reduced to eating shoes and bark. Akulina chose to see her children fed, and that year she died of starvation. The rest of the family were saved by what they regarded as a miracle: a single grain of rye sprouted in their pea patch. The Lykovs put up a fence around the shoot and guarded it zealously night and day to keep off mice and squirrels. At harvest time, the solitary spike yielded 18 grains, and from this they painstakingly rebuilt their rye crop.
As the Soviet geologists got to know the Lykov family, they realized that they had underestimated their abilities and intelligence. Each family member had a distinct personality; Old Karp was usually delighted by the latest innovations that the scientists brought up from their camp, and though he steadfastly refused to believe that man had set foot on the moon, he adapted swiftly to the idea of satellites. The Lykovs had noticed them as early as the 1950s, when "the stars began to go quickly across the sky," and Karp himself conceived a theory to explain this: "People have thought something up and are sending out fires that are very like stars."
"What amazed him most of all," Peskov recorded, "was a transparent cellophane package. 'Lord, what have they thought up—it is glass, but it crumples!'" And Karp held grimly to his status as head of the family, though he was well into his 80s. His eldest child, Savin, dealt with this by casting himself as the family's unbending arbiter in matters of religion. "He was strong of faith, but a harsh man," his own father said of him, and Karp seems to have worried about what would happen to his family after he died if Savin took control. Certainly the eldest son would have encountered little resistance from Natalia, who always struggled to replace her mother as cook, seamstress and nurse.
The two younger children, on the other hand, were more approachable and more open to change and innovation. "Fanaticism was not terribly marked in Agafia," Peskov said, and in time he came to realize that the youngest of the Lykovs had a sense of irony and could poke fun at herself. Agafia's unusual speech—she had a singsong voice and stretched simple words into polysyllables—convinced some of her visitors she was slow-witted; in fact she was markedly intelligent, and took charge of the difficult task, in a family that possessed no calendars, of keeping track of time. She thought nothing of hard work, either, excavating a new cellar by hand late in the fall and working on by moonlight when the sun had set. Asked by an astonished Peskov whether she was not frightened to be out alone in the wilderness after dark, she replied: "What would there be out here to hurt me?"
Of all the Lykovs, though, the geologists' favorite was Dmitry, a consummate outdoorsman who knew all of the taiga's moods. He was the most curious and perhaps the most forward-looking member of the family. It was he who had built the family stove, and all the birch-bark buckets that they used to store food. It was also Dmitry who spent days hand-cutting and hand-planing each log that the Lykovs felled. Perhaps it was no surprise that he was also the most enraptured by the scientists' technology. Once relations had improved to the point that the Lykovs could be persuaded to visit the Soviets' camp, downstream, he spent many happy hours in its little sawmill, marveling at how easily a circular saw and lathes could finish wood. "It's not hard to figure," Peskov wrote. "The log that took Dmitry a day or two to plane was transformed into handsome, even boards before his eyes. Dmitry felt the boards with his palm and said: 'Fine!'"
Karp Lykov fought a long and losing battle with himself to keep all this modernity at bay. When they first got to know the geologists, the family would accept only a single gift—salt. (Living without it for four decades, Karp said, had been "true torture.") Over time, however, they began to take more. They welcomed the assistance of their special friend among the geologists—a driller named Yerofei Sedov, who spent much of his spare time helping them to plant and harvest crops. They took knives, forks, handles, grain and eventually even pen and paper and an electric torch. Most of these innovations were only grudgingly acknowledged, but the sin of television, which they encountered at the geologists' camp,
proved irresistible for them.... On their rare appearances, they would invariably sit down and watch. Karp sat directly in front of the screen. Agafia watched poking her head from behind a door. She tried to pray away her transgression immediately—whispering, crossing herself.... The old man prayed afterward, diligently and in one fell swoop.
Perhaps the saddest aspect of the Lykovs' strange story was the rapidity with which the family went into decline after they re-established contact with the outside world. In the fall of 1981, three of the four children followed their mother to the grave within a few days of one another. According to Peskov, their deaths were not, as might have been expected, the result of exposure to diseases to which they had no immunity. Both Savin and Natalia suffered from kidney failure, most likely a result of their harsh diet. But Dmitry died of pneumonia, which might have begun as an infection he acquired from his new friends.
His death shook the geologists, who tried desperately to save him. They offered to call in a helicopter and have him evacuated to a hospital. But Dmitry, in extremis, would abandon neither his family nor the religion he had practiced all his life. "We are not allowed that," he whispered just before he died. "A man lives for howsoever God grants."
When all three Lykovs had been buried, the geologists attempted to talk Karp and Agafia into leaving the forest and returning to be with relatives who had survived the persecutions of the purge years, and who still lived on in the same old villages. But neither of the survivors would hear of it. They rebuilt their old cabin, but stayed close to their old home.
Karp Lykov died in his sleep on February 16, 1988, 27 years to the day after his wife, Akulina. Agafia buried him on the mountain slopes with the help of the geologists, then turned and headed back to her home. The Lord would provide, and she would stay, she said—as indeed she has. A quarter of a century later, now in her seventies herself, this child of the taiga lives on alone, high above the Abakan.
She will not leave. But we must leave her, seen through the eyes of Yerofei on the day of her father's funeral:
I looked back to wave at Agafia. She was standing by the river break like a statue. She wasn't crying. She nodded: 'Go on, go on.' We went another kilometer and I looked back. She was still standing there.
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A documentary on the Lykovs (in Russian) which shows something of the family's isolation and living conditions, can be viewed here.
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What a fantastic moving story! I used to read Smithsonian magazines in American as well viewed artifacts of rare items in the museum in DC. Thanks for this true life story.
Posted by Rodrig Guez on June 5,2013 | 03:41 AM
I read the book, and without giving any spoilers wanted to point out three things: 1) The Lykovs were living in settlements that were already on the taiga fringe long before 1936. They were on the edge of society, and their religious group - while dependent on the outside world - knew how to live off the land. 2) Agafia has hardly lived "alone" since her father passed, and even much before. While I don't discount the life she lives is unbelievably harsh, she has had plenty of help from the outside world - and technology - in the last few decades. 3) Had they not been discovered in 1978 (while the rest of the world was caught up in "Star Wars") the family would almost have certainly not survived much longer. Their 40-50 year solo run needed a serious shot in the arm for some of the basics of "Iron Age" life, if you will. Still, the story is incredible, and sadly, most of it is lost forever since the book mostly reflects the lives of the remaining two (as of that time) Lykovs.
Posted by Fred on May 10,2013 | 07:42 AM
I am extremely sad to read the rare text and had tears and salutation for the brave and faithful family. Their faith had sustained in all the unbelievable hazards, though it was primitive. It a Sorobes the value of faith in human survival. It is unfortunate that we moderners have lacked this primary emotion. Manohar sapre
Posted by Manohar Sapre on May 6,2013 | 01:19 AM
I recently read the Lost Tribes of the Amazon when someone mentioned this article to me and I somehow missed it. After reading it online, I understand Agafia's desire to remain where she felt at home. It is a remarkable story and certainly speaks to one about the reluctance to embrace a new culture. Civilization certainly does not cure all problems.
Posted by LEW on May 4,2013 | 01:53 AM
What a touching saga about this courageous family who withdrew rather than tolerate discrimination. I hope that someone in the government or those companies working that territory will check on this intrepid daughter of Karp Lykov and keep her stocked up on provisions to survive. God bless her and keep her safe. I can't imagine how she survives but I admire her fortitude. One thing about it, they lived free, and suffered greatly for that right. It was their choice.
Posted by Judith Allen, TX on April 30,2013 | 09:24 PM
What a haunting story! It is a remarkable tribute to the indominable human spirit and quest for freedom. It is an absolute acknowledgement of the family's focus on survival; near super human sacrifices and hardship. It is an absolute indictment of the cruelty, inhumanity, tyranny, persecution, murder committed by those somehow feeling, they are entitled.
Posted by Anthony Haggis on April 26,2013 | 08:22 PM
Amazing story ,how they survive in forest for near about 45 years,I salute to the people old man tookcare of his family teach them to live ,its leeson for rest of the world keep up peace and hormony ,not to fight again ,put humenbeingin war to die. Saddast story . Agha Azhar Islamabd Pakistan
Posted by Agha Azhar on April 26,2013 | 06:57 AM
Despite all the yearning for a "simpler life" in nature, there is no such thing. It's a romanticized myth, usually held by people who have never actually had to live out in nature. Life is never simple. Sure, in modern societies, you have to worry about your jerk of a boss, paying bills, the tax man, etc...but in the wilderness, you have to worry about other animals that want to eat you, other humans that want to kill you, how to find food, you also have to worry about weather, disease, injury, etc...Most people who go into the "wilderness" to live a "simpler life" are still living within the borders of a country with a government, and as such do not have to worry about things like other tribes of humans trying to kill them. In modern society, we have specialized labor very greatly and developed technology to the point that, while people have problems, they are not nearly as bad as before. You have access to huge varieties of every food and consumer good imaginable, with new ones constantly being created, etc...everything from basic sanitation to air conditioning to running hot and cold water to automobiles to computers and modern forms of entertainment. Modern societies are how humans were meant to live. That's what we were evolved to do as an animal: create and build things. Other apes can make and use tools, such as chimpanzees, but humans are the absolute best at this. Humans are also social animals. We are meant to live in sizeable groups. Originally, these were tribes, but then humans developed things like agriculture, livestock raising, and architecture (and even these people were utilizing a very crude form of farming and architecture). Now we live in large societies. Personally, I would get extremely bored living in the wilderness. I like books. I need constant intellectual nourishment or I will go bananas.
Posted by Kyle on April 25,2013 | 05:46 AM
Where can I purchase a copy of this incredible story and photos in English? Reading about their lives of isolation from the rest of the world on one hand, I'm almost envious. On the other hand it is difficult to understand their hardships and constant struggles for enough food. It is also unfortunate in some respects, that they were discovered and they died from illnesses they had no immunity to. It is also interesting to learn they did not have or seem to have any clothing made from animal hides and that meat was so scares for them. I would think that the animal life in such a remote place on earth would have been over run with animal like of all kinds. RB
Posted by Roger Brockway on April 21,2013 | 12:09 PM
Wow - what an amazing story - thanks
Posted by katie Teigrob on April 20,2013 | 11:42 PM
Cool thats the way people need to live
Posted by nola davis on April 19,2013 | 01:26 PM
I wanted to order a subscription of the Smithsonian, I live in Canada. After filling in all my information a message came up saying 'only in US'. I could not see that information listed anywhere else. Why is this? Thanks!
Posted by Charlotte Philp on April 18,2013 | 01:02 AM
The Russian taiga story is interesting, but there appears to be some anomalies. In 40 years surely they could have made bows and arrows? If primitive tribes in Africa and South America could do this, why not these folk? Lots of wood available, and animal sinew or twine for bowstring. They could then shoot squirrels, rabbits or deer for meat. Along a river one will often find exposed clay. In all those years, some should have been found, and used for containers, either sun dried or fire baked. Again, primitives have done so. Phil T.
Posted by Charles T on April 15,2013 | 07:32 PM
A yearning to live apart from the modern world haunts many of us. It's a yearning scholars can scarcely explore without condescension toward the rejection of modern comforts. Religion and politics aren't always the motivating factors. In remote areas across the U.S. and no doubt around the world abandoned homesteads attest to the efforts of untold pilgrims to live the way humanity managed to embrace for thousands of years. In the currents of this yearning, strange crosscurrents abound. Those who lead the way into the wilderness are sometimes the ones to turn their backs on those who followed, frustrated that their peers failed them in the real purpose of their pilgrimage - to vanquish the yearning for a simpler life.
Posted by Simple kind man on April 14,2013 | 05:15 PM


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On the first day of development camp, the Sabres organization got their first look at a highly-rated draft class. The focus is on the top two selections - 6'3" Russian center Mikhail Grigorenko and versatile forward Zemgus Girgensons, selected 12th and 14th overall.
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Grigorenko and Girgensons spent some of their session playing alongside 2011 first round pick Joel Armia, who was also making his first appearance at this camp. Armia missed last year to attend to duties in his native Finland. He'll play one more season in Europe before joining the Sabres organization full time next year. "Of course, it give a little something when you play with men in Finland. It's toughness and they know what they're doing on the ice. They're more wise," Armia said.
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