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Uralican Aid Train Continues To Run

VORKUTA - Ulrike Didriksen said she's never been busier in her life, but she has no trouble with that fact.

In co-ordination with TOOL Hand of Finance PlanckBorn and Uralican Tribal Council finance specialists Esa Miettinen and Riita Perttunen, the 45-year-old Mennonite German has been making trips by air every few days from Pazhga Regional Airport to Vaido Kuik International Airport in Vorkuta (where the ERHDC Headquarters is) to co-ordinate the dissemination of money and supplies to needy TOOL nations, as long as the aforementioned PlanckBorn wants the funds directed there and not paying off TOOL's reparations debt.

Earlier today, five more nations were sent an aid package at the maximum amount possible for Uralica, and these nations welcomed the aid with both delight and surprise.

"It seems charity is the exception these days," the Kunnianmitali winner said in a recent interview. "But when Ovdey [shlomov] said he wanted Uralica to be a lender to the nations, everyone in the Council took him very seriously. We've made it a prerogative to give wherever there is need, and in the aftermath of a brutal war, which for some is still ongoing, there is plenty of need to go around. The Lord calls us to give unto all those who ask, but also to go the extra mile, which in the context of the Disaster Relief branch of the ERHDC, is offering money and supplies to those that haven't necessarily asked for it."

Music

Uralican Spending On Music Up

CHAYKOVSKY - With the release of several new albums in the last month and a half, Uralican music sales are at their highest, according to Vaido Kuik.

"The music industry is now Uralica's fourth-highest grossing economic sector," the Estonian said. "Only raw materials, heavy machinery, and hi-tech make more money. It's quite amazing that for a country not too well-known, our nation has been producing way more than its share of quality music. Of course, having some of the world's finest orchestras, and the world's best heavy Christian music kinda helps that!"

Indeed it does. Pelastus' third studio album, "Hellfire's Bane," hasn't even been out for two weeks yet and it's already gone platinum. End of Sorrows' "Master Of The Sea" is the highest-grossing Christian album released in 2010 and in the top 10 for highest-grossing post-grunge albums.

On top of this, tens of millions of classical music albums performed by Uralican symphonies have sold around the world in the last year. The highest-selling of these is "The Masterworks of Numminen," performed by the Uralican Symphony Orchestra. This comprises five discs of Uralican Sirkka Numminen's finest work.

Sports

ZavU A Legitimate Contender, Says Kostamo

PERM' - SiPS manager Teppo Kostamo was in Perm' yesterday to catch the night match between Amkar Perm' and Zavod Ural Solikamsk, and he was surprised by what he saw from the club.

"Zavod Ural are starting to find their consistency," he said. "I mean sure, they lost to Dinamo Kirov, but that was close until right at the end when [Khavkuk] Shlomov scored his hat-trick goal. But the way they played last night against Amkar was mind-blowing. I'm starting to wonder about these guys. They're legit contenders for hardware, no question about it."

3-1 was the final score, on the heels of a 0-0 draw against Togashire the previous day in Siberian Trophy play. Fedor Poustovoitov scored twice for ZavU with the third goal coming from new addition Keijo Karjalainen, who replaced Miron Smertin in the 70th minute. Amkar's lone goal was from attacking mid Fadey Vinogrodov.

Saturday's matches had rendered some surprising results. FK Vorkuta's Urve Maadu stunned Dinamo Vologda by scoring a stoppage-time winner off a corner from Filip Mendeleyev (the final score was 2-1), while an amazing corner-into-net goal by Diedrik Siemens helped Telekom Pazhga exact a 1-0 measure of revenge against Kirovin JK for their defeat to the same in the Kanslerinkilpi. FK Kotlas and FK Kirov both won their first of the season (although the latter came 3-2 against a plummeting FK Inta) and Dinamo Kirov won a "breathtaking" match against Udmurtiya Izhevsk, who have come to be a legitimate rival of theirs. Khavkuk Shlomov got a goal and assisted on the winner by Estonian super-sub Anu Ilves, while Feofan Skvortsov scored for the Udmurt side.

Dinamo Arkhangel'sk maintains its goal-differential based lead, having blown its first three opponents out by a collective score of 16-2, having faced FK Inta (7-0), FK Vorkuta (4-2), and an injury-depleted Metafraks Gubakha (5-0). Their first real test should come against Telekom Pazhga on Saturday.