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I thought I was obsessed. But no my body performed compulsions. I felt desperate, I felt possesive. I felt and wished the sphere of mine I sowed and watered would never extend and keep internally growing, the soul of my sphere growing sinless-everyday. But I realised I couldn't help it, I couldn't help myself beacuse the world is a nasty place and we all know it. I took the world a bitter place but people have sweet hearts. They occupy people even if it affects their personal space. Maybe I am too selfish to adjust with the sweet hearts but definitely I am not a bitter heart because atleast I pretend. My heart? Its HEAVY! If I do no wrong I believe I will get the fruit. And I know I will. I haven't come in this karma clan. If I did it will pay me. To the lord of universe grant me all the power to cope up with little minute things which affect me so much, give me the strength to never to disown those who I have loved and given my everything in life in here.
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The Almighty
There was a time I was unaware of myself. When now I give my time to nature I realise the mature part of me. I can discover some unknown places in my heart. Today when I sit again on the grey edge, practically uncomfortable but never leaving me I find a big part of me given to the almighty. Yes he is all mighty. I had enough of him when I lost his near and touched form and when I went away I saw how half broken I became. I saw the unknown part in me which was his. He was in me. I could feel it everytime I did something wrong. I was blessed to take birth and become a part of such a holy family tree but did I fulfill the holiness inherited? I did not blindly believe in him. Many a times I was blocked from my motive because others accompnying me were blocked. I didn't knew whatever I did was it right? I was quite mature for it. My inner voice which was so clear few years ago had slowly and steadily faded. It was rather possible to bring it back ony through devotion and lots of devotion. Fortunately, he will be the one always who would pull me up from the pits in my clear path to the abode of the greatest of all.
To the lord of universe.
The Last Letter
I know it may sound 'RIDICULOUS' and a letter to laugh upon further , but its better to know things about your best friend , right? I am your best friend. I have been completly happy and awesome these years but yes I won't say no complains.Afterall even I am a human and a human is never satisfied. I am an extremely introvert person in your words 'stupid' but I see and perceive things in a very diffent way as every human is unique. I like making stranger friends , I don't fall for anyone , and I am "formally" social on social networking sites. The reason is being formal is one of the grounds that I am allowed to surf and use social networking sites. So even if I sound a little carefree on such sites to you it would definitely sound serious to others and I cannot tolerate it.I know you are science scholars but then respect what I study , it is nothing to look down upon, its not easy. Nothing is easy. Plus adding to this I can only be an outgoing person between you people and not any other person in the world.I also know this will change your perception towards me but this is me.My mood changes -inside. I do not show it. You can try to take my things into serious consideration? I am still the peak of iceberg that you know rest lies immersed in the ocean of my thoughts. I choose to be calm and become a good listener than becoming a good speaker. For me Jaw-Jaw is better than War-War. I try to cool down heated matters than getting hyper and panicked like you people. You cannot compel me to show attitude or taunt. I cannot change myself. I know whatever you do is good for me and for my benefit. But, isn't it better to be yourself? Lets adjust! I wish you could read this and get to know how insanely crazy I am. I am going to majorly miss you both. For now, people who are same and in the same team cause destruction (you) its better to have someone who can deter you!(me) 🙂
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Looking for love
While I was looking for romance all my life and landed up realizing that there was nothing more romantic than staying alone and travelling.
Democracy at a clear stake
So here back in India, nothing is right. Yes I was the one who agreed Mr. Narendra modi's decision being correct. But no I did not think of it to such a large extent.
My sincere apologies to the statement. Well here it goes that something was not right with this enormous decision. How could he do this in one night. Similarly happened in India during the heartbreaking partition. Giving 50days to exchange your money with the bank and nothing is going according to the procedure. Well even if they have taken a decision so at least implementation should be in a flow.
Now let's say about the people in poverty? The people below poverty line! What about them. Okay, taking a very small example-people who must have fixed their daughters marriages and saved some amount of money for the marriage ceremony, what about them? What will they do? Is the money black? Folks, if this step was taken then their should be procedure laid down to recover it. But no Mr. PM is paying a VISIT to Thailand and Japan.
My staff who is so deprived of basic facilities or I must say he doesn't even accepts the facilities given to him by us was saving his money for last three years and now he has collected an amount of Rs. 80,000.
OK, so these examples basically sum up the condition of people psychologically and their perspective on this 'SHOCK THERAPY'.
It was a good step taken but first catch holds of the income tax, sales and goods department. Corruption starts there. I am not completely negetive but showing one of the aspects of this step.
Shock therapy
Elected on in the US and one in New Delhi. Thanks you India for taking such foolish steps. We cut the branch on which we are sitting.
Trump win projects quality of moral and ethical value humans carry nowadays. He has risen the global danger due to his denial. He will be punishing the vegans too. This should be openly said because he is going to affect my country and my people. We are going to get drowned in the river of destruction and inhumanity. We all know that America is one of the most seductive powers in the world.
Here back in India, we are facing a shock therapy of the shifting of our currency value. Well this step contains pros and cons in it self. I agree this should have been done because to remove corruption, of course. People are facing charges for investing money more than 2.25lacs, yes! Now this is what I call using powers in an effective way.
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A very good collection of vocation prayers may be found at the Invisible Monastery:
World Day of Prayer for Vocations Card
Lord Jesus, Good Shepherd,
may young people in our parish
hear your call and follow your voice
as they discern their vocations.
Lead your people to heaven
through the ministry of holy priests
and consecrated men and women.
Jesus, we trust in you! Amen
A Prayer for Vocations
God our Father, You made each of us
to use our gifts in the Body of Christ.
We ask that You inspire
young people whom You call to
the priesthood and consecrated life
to courageously follow Your will.
Send workers into Your great harvest
so that the Gospel is preached,
the poor are served with love,
the suffering are comforted,
and Your people are strengthened
by the sacraments.
We ask this through
Christ our Lord.
Children's "Prayer to Know My Vocation"
God, my Father,
You created me with a specific purpose
for my life; this is my vocation.
By following Your plan,
I will be happy on Earth,
earn the reward of Heaven,
and help others do the same.
Please help me to hear,
understand, and follow
Your call with my whole heart,
especially when it seems most difficult.
Mary, Mother of God and my Mother,
pray for me to know and accept God's will for my life.

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A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Jack Fischer, 43, and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, 58, lifted off at 1:13pm local time/3:13am EDT (0713 GMT) with a rare empty third seat.
Russia is scaling back space station staffing until its long-delayed science laboratory is flown to the orbiting outpost next year.
Fischer and Yurchikhin reached the $100 billion space station, which orbits about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth, arriving on schedule at 9:18am EDT (1318 GMT).
Fischer said he suspected the biggest challenge he faces in his first voyage into space will be learning how to use the station's zero-gravity toilet.
"It's all about suction, it's really difficult," Fischer said in a NASA interview before launch. "You just can't train for that on the ground, so I approach my space-toilet activities with respect, preparation and a healthy dose of sheer terror."
The rookie astronaut will be sharing the station with two seasoned veterans, a Russian cosmonaut on his second flight and a first-time French flier.
Soyuz crewmate Yurchikhin has made four previous space flights. Station commander Peggy Whitson, 57, in the midst of her third long-duration mission, is due on Monday to beat the 534-day record for cumulative time spent in space by a US astronaut.
She is expected to receive a congratulatory phone call on Monday from US President Donald Trump, NASA said on Wednesday.
Whitson, who flew to the station in November along with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, will remain aboard with Fischer and Yurchikhin until September.


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Could well be an Allium. did it have an oniony smell?
We have these on every tree. They do not seem to make much difference, sadly. In fact on most occasions there are no codlin moth adults in them, only other insects, stuck to the sticky trap, including bees.
Perhaps we use them wrongly.
This is the one I use Vitax 500ml Winter Tree Wash .
I use a Horticultural soap spray which is reasonably organic. You just do not spray when the bees are about. I am going to do a second spray in a while, at night, when the flowers are open. This ought to catch the newly hatched grubs before the fruit forms. Never tried it before, but we lost so much fruit last year that I am going to give it a go. If it works then it may reduce the number of moths around for consequent seasons.
We are in the very West Midlands almost in Wales and in a frost pocket (with a vengeance, latest frost we have had was July 7th one year). Our Akebia has been in for 20 years and has flowered and stayed evergreen with no trouble. It does cover a 12 foot long by 6 feet high trellis. We had to cut it down considerably recently after Doris blew down the support, but it has begun to grow back very quickly. This would be the second or third time we have had to really hard prune it. It flowers in about a months time for us, usually. Never seen fruit though.
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The grubs do less damage in the garden than they do in pots. They eat in a straight line so do not normally completely remove all the roots from one plant. In a pot they are forced to go round and round consuming all the roots.
The grubs themselves do not migrate from one pot to another.
The all female adults do wander about like any other insect, looking for food and egg laying places.
They lay their eggs at the base of a plant stem on the soil and the tiny grubs then burrow downwards. They will not lay their eggs if they cannot reach soil with their ovipositor (egg laying tube). On single stemmed plants you may be able to prevent this by putting a 2 inch deep layer of small gravel or grit on the plant pot surface.
Hope this helps.
Pseudopiptadenia are a genus of rather tall tropical trees as far as I can see.
It can get big. If the stems lie on the ground they will root as they go. I have never been able to discern any scent at all.
If you lived close enough you would be welcome to select yourself some of the Auriculas, I have lots which in the end will go on the compost heap as being not as good as ones already in commerce. They are good enough to plant out in the border, but not up to show standard is what I mean.
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Tweet: 3 types of people: 1) scenery (pass us by), 2) machine (serve us like ATMs), 3) people. I want to see, really see, more people people.
It's always fun to categorize the world into types of people, like "there are two kinds of people in the world: men and women;" or "there are two kinds of people in the world: Christians and non-Christians;" or "there are two kinds of people in the world: Elvis fans or Beatles fans." I'm not sure why this is fun, but it is, so I'm going with it for now.
I have borrowed this current type of people paradigm from Jamie Winship, an evangelist and missionary to the Middle East for more than 20 years. He said there are three kinds of people in the world: scenery, machines, and people. The paradigm goes like this:
Scenery people are the hundreds of people that pass us peripherally throughout our day. These may be our neighbors we don't notice as we get into our cars, or most of the people in line at Starbucks, or the co-workers along our walk to our office or cube. Scenery people are like trees; we are aware of their presence, and if they all suddenly disappeared, we might suspect an invasion of locusts had occurred, or a firestorm had ravaged through the area (I guess more so for the trees than the people). But we don't normally notice them.
Machine people are the tens of people that we interact with on a daily basis without really interacting. These are the cashiers at our morning coffee shop, or the rental car return guy, or the toll booth employee. Machine people are like ATMs; we simply make transactions with them. We might even engage in pleasantries with them, asking how they are and saying we are fine. But we don't really interact with them.
People people are the rare people we truly engage throughout our days. These are the friends we are interested in, or the co-worker we've been praying for who shares part of their story with us, or the person who asks how our day is going and gets an honest answer. We interact meaningfully with people people, but we do so infrequently.
Jamie told us a story about a machine person he knew for a year. She was the clerk at 7-11 where, when he was a DC-area cop, he stopped each morning. One night he responded to a call, where he found this girl with a stab wound in her stomach. Her blood was all over her shirt and the ground, and Jamie started treating her while he waited for the paramedics to come. When they finally showed up to take her away in the ambulance, Jamie asked them if she would make it. "Probably not," was their reply. He began thinking of all the chances to share the gospel with her that had slipped by. As the paramedics put her on the stretcher, one of them looked back at Jamie and said, "Hey, be careful—her blood is on your hands."
That was a sobering statement for Jamie to hear. Even though it wasn't meant in the way it was received, it puts people into perspective. All people are people people, if only we had God's eyes to see them in this way. So my prayer has been to see more people people, to see them through God's eyes, because more is at stake here than getting through the line faster or getting the correct change.
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I was talking with a guy behind the counter at a surf shop in Hermosa Beach one Sunday morning after church, and he asked me about the difference between the church that was across the street and the one that was further down the block. I told him how they were similar and how they were different, and we ended up in a conversation about God. He said he wasn't sure if he believed in God or not, that he was kind of spiritual but didn't like organized religion, which basically meant he wanted to sleep with his girlfriend and party that weekend. At one point in the conversation, he asked me about Jonah and the whale. "What do you mean Jonah got swallowed by a fish?" he said.
"Don't have a problem with God because of Jonah and the whale," I said. "Start with God. The Bible said God has always existed. And then He spoke the universe into existence and made everything. And that's how all of this came to be. Or take Jesus. The Bible said He is God and has always been God, and He was sent to become a man, and was born as a helpless infant to poor parents in a tiny town in a conquered country, and he lived a sinless life, and was crucified for our sins, and rose from the grave, and ascended back into heaven, where He exists in a glorified body, reigning over the universe, ready to come back again one day. Start with those things, and ask yourself if you believe them, because if you do, you'll have no issue with Jonah and the whale."
"I see your point," he said.
There's this beautiful video I have seen of a tornado swirling in a violent dance of wind and dust and shadows, and this scene is backlight by towering clouds rising into the air with beams of light bursting through small holes in the clouds. The tornado spins and bows to the sound of an unheard chorus that is drowned out by the thundering noise it creates as it rumbles through the sky. Undoubtedly, it is wreaking havoc on the earth wherever it draws near, but from the safety of distance, it appears peaceful, even graceful.
The funnel twirls and dances on and on, but eventually it tires, and as it readies to exit the stage, there's this moment where its shape begins to change. Not into a single form, but into two forms connected in a narrow middle. As the music fades, the video slows to show two fingers, one from above and one from below, grasping tightly to one another. And then they break from one another, the lower form drifting quietly into the darkness below and the upper form pulling softly into the clouds above.
If you have seen the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, you will know what this pictures looks like. This funnel is like the hand of God and the hand of man, so very close but yet so far.
Seeing this makes me wonder about Adam's sin, about the moment Adam and Eve first broke hands with their God. They must not have fully known the consequences of what they were about to do, for surely they would have thought better of it. But the fruit of that tree required two hands to take, and so they let go of God's hand which sealed their fate. They, like the lower finger of this funnel, fell to earth, a mere shadow of their former glory, and the hand of God withdrew to the heavens.
But the Son shined on in the distance, as God made a sacrifice to clothe their nakedness and promised a coming seed who would conquer the enemy of their soul. So this is where we live, in separation from the imminence of our God but restored by the light of His Son, eagerly awaiting the day we will rejoin Him in the heavens and renew our dance once more.
There is a part of me that loves fairy tales. Maybe there's something to the feeling of power that comes in constructing an entirely new world, one that is different, and sometimes better, than my own. I don't actually write fairy tales, but when I read them, I'm slowly building this new world sentence by sentence, as if I could just speak the words and the forest or cottage or carriage just materializes out of thin air. It's fun feeling powerful.
There are times when I've thought Christianity was just a fairy tale. It's embarrassing that I have these thoughts, and they actually come more often than you might suspect. I remember this one time when I brought my co-worker in the Air Force to an evangelistic skit on hell that was put on by my old church, and when I sat there and watched her watch this skit, I had a moment of pause where I wondered if we had just made up this whole notion of God.
In spite of these moments of doubt, I believe in God very deeply, and I even believe in Him superficially. I've grown up in this faith, and it's really all I ever believed since I can remember believing in something. What's interesting to me is all the things I take for granted: Jonah sitting in that fish, the parting of the Red Sea into two towering walls of water, Elijah running at 140 mph, God hovering over His people as a pillar of fire and smoke. And I've considered these stories to be strange but true facts, like Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. "What do you mean Jonah got swallowed by a fish?" people say. "What do you mean Neil Armstrong landed on the moon?" I think.
When I actually considered some of the things we Christians believe, and know, to be true, I get the sense that faith in God makes us a little different. And God would say the same thing. "For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God" (1 Cor 1:18).
Here is the wildest of all ideas that we believe, that this God who spoke into nothing, and nothing obeyed and became an eminently glorious something, came out of heaven to become a lowly man, a babe even, to live among such small creatures, to grow and learn and work like they did, to be murdered by them, to rise from the dead by His own power, and then to ascend back to heaven. This is the stuff of fairy tales.
And I agree, so long as fairy tales are true and the point of all existence.
Harvest House Publishers has created a video trailer for the upcoming release of Crave: Wanting So Much More of God. Enjoy!


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The victim, Thomas Cook, was a 43-year-old veteran police officer.
The crime occurred in 2006.
Jemetric Nicholson, of Harvey, Ill. is being tried in the case.
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The widow of a Metra police officer who was shot in the back of the head and killed more than nine years ago testified Tuesday in the trial of the felon accused of slaying her husband.
Jemetric Nicholson, 28, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Thomas Cook, a 43-year-old veteran police officer who had been working a special detail near the 147th Street Metra station in Harvey when he was killed.
Pam Cook testified Tuesday at the Cook County courthouse in Markham that she spoke with her husband on the phone about their son playing soccer about 7:30 p.m. the night of his death. She told the jury that she tried calling him back twice that night before four officers came to her home about 10 p.m. and told her that her husband was involved in a crime scene.
Cook, a father of two from Indiana, was sitting in a Metra police car near the train station in Harvey when he was shot twice in the back of the head. He had been working overtime as part of an effort to investigate robberies at the station. Cook had been with Metra police since 2003 and had served 10 years with the Riverdale Police Department.
He was the first Metra police officer to be killed in the line of duty.
Nicholson, whose trial began Tuesday, faces more than 60 counts of murder in Cook's death.
He already is serving consecutive sentences in Stateville Correctional Center on convictions that include attempted murder and wouldn't eligible for parole until 2145. Nicholson was 23 when the state's attorney's office charged him in March 2010 with Cook's slaying, and 19 when the officer was killed. Prosecutors are seeking a natural life sentence against Nicholson, according to court records.
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Advances in animal biotechnology have led to major increases in the human ability to control the process of life. Yet, biotechnology is controversial. While it has led to various new developments in medical science that have had a positive influence on people's lives, it has also incited disagreement on various levels. Along with developments in biotechnology have come questions about the moral impact of new technologies. Biotechnology has brought to the forefront questions about how we, as human beings, should behave towards nature, towards animals, and towards each other. Both in academic studies and in legislative practice, there has been a growing interest in alternative legislative approaches for addressing morally controversial issues. In particular, communicative, symbolic, or interactive techniques seem to hold promise as alternative ways of developing legislation on issues characterized by strong moral disagreements, such as life-altering technologies. This book examines three lines of research on the interactive legislative approach in order to reach an ideal-typical model that combines a descriptive perspective with normative claims about how best to engage with complex regulatory issues that have a moral impact.
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I dont know where to post. I have a nest of wasps or hornets that live inside my bedroom wall. I see them outside going into an area under my deck that has some holes. Tried spray at night, day and in the afternoon risking stings (never did) and plugging the area with cotton balls but they still seem to get in and not die. Trying for 2 weeks and went through 5 cans of killer spray. It only kills on contact and cant get inside the hole. Suggestions?
Wasp/hornets not bees
I think it might be time to call an exterminator... These are most likely yellow jackets and they can be pretty aggressive. I knew of someone that had them in her kitchen!
Many of these sorts can chew through sheetrock and end up inside the house. Call an exterminator.
What I used to do: (I was a beekeeper, and had the full suit for protection)
Aim one of those flea spray foggers into the hole. The ones you let spray and you leave the house. Must not breath it. Must keep it aimed into the hole. This can be tricky because they spray best right side up. If the nest entrance is sideways the can may lose most of the propellant yet not discharge all the active ingredient.
Read the labels. If it says something like "This product is highly toxic to honeybees..." That is a good one.
When you plugged the hole with cotton, did they remove the cotton, work around it, or make a new hole?
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They did not come back this year. Thank you.
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List price: $21.99Copyright year: 2012Publisher: Corwin PressPublication date: 5/8/2012Binding: PaperbackPages: 136Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall Weight: 0.638Language: English
� Jennifer Berne, PhD, is Associate Professor at National-Louis University, where she is also chair of the Department of Reading and Language Arts. She teaches courses in comprehension, the teaching of writing, and literacy methods. Dr. Berne?s publications include work on teacher professional development, the teaching of process writing, and comprehension strategy instruction. She spent 10 years in adult literacy, teaching underprepared college students the strategies needed for reading and writing in higher education. This classroom experience has anchored her interest in contemporary literacy practices and informs her work in pre- and inservice teacher learning. In addition to her work teaching, researching, and writing, Dr. Berne acts as a literacy consultant and professional developer in urban, rural, and suburban school districts working to refresh their literacy curriculum. � Sophie C. Degener, EdD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Reading and Language Arts at National-Louis University, where she teaches classes in beginning reading, reading research, and literacy methods to undergraduates, master?s students, and doctoral students. Her research interests include family literacy and primary literacy instruction, and her numerous conference presentations and publications reflect those interests. Prior to her work as a professor, Dr. Degener taught in the primary grades. It is her work with struggling readers and their families that has motivated her interest in helping educators at every grade level to understand the unique needs of each and every student and to design differentiated instruction that best meets those needs.
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Do your kids like baking? I know mine do. Miss R (4) in particular absolutely loves helping me with anything in the kitchen, especially when cakes or biscuits are involved. R (6) is not quite so keen on helping with everything but he does like to help with sweet treats, especially when he gets to eat them at the end!
They also love receiving things through the post. So I was really excited to see what they thought of the BKD Mini Bakers Club subscription box that we were sent to try out.
Here's Miss R examining the goodies in her box. R was at school when it arrived and I couldn't wait until 3.30 to open it myself! Luckily he didn't mind.
Inside were the following goodies: a pack of gingerbread biscuit mix, some biscuit pop sticks, white icing writing, a let's play bakery game to colour and cut out, coloured pencils, plastic gift bags, stickers and further suggestions of activities to do. There was also a certificate – these people clearly know what kids love! There's nothing my kids love more than a certificate. R sometimes asks me to make him one if he's been particularly good! He has one in his collection that says "Congratulations for not getting angry about the ice cream" – I can't for the life of me remember the story behind it now.
We tried to do all the activities in the box so we could give you a really good idea of what it's like. Both kids enjoyed the colour and cut out bakery game. Miss R was very considerate in only colouring in half of the pretend cookies and saved the rest for R to do when he got home. Then they had a brief fight involving a pair of scissors which resulted in the scissors being confiscated and me cutting out the rest of the items. They then made up and played bakeries happily together for a while. (If I'm honest, the two of them playing happily together – or just even co-existing without a fight – is my main aim in life at the moment!)
It was the baking itself that they enjoyed the most however. The gingerbread mix is included in the package and you just need to add butter and golden syrup. We actually used honey instead of golden syrup and the biscuits tasted great. They enjoyed the whole process, but especially cutting out the shapes and decorating them.
Here are some pictures of their creations:
We attempted to make some of the biscuits into flowers on pop sticks as there was a lovely suggested activity to make a spring biscuit bouquet using an aluminium can as a pot. This didn't exactly work out as they were both too excited and the biscuits just ended up getting eaten! Although we did manage to save a few to give to their friends in the decorated gift bags that came with the kit.
The Mini Bakers Club box would make a lovely present for the children of a friend who enjoys baking. It would also be good if you would like to bake more with your kids but struggle to get organised enough to make it happen. If you wish you baked with your kids but baking isn't really your thing then you'll find that the instructions are simple and the extra equipment that you need is basic (we needed a bowl, a wooden spoon, a few cookie cutters, a rolling pin, baking trays and greaseproof paper). The cost is between £9 and £10 a month, depending on the length of the subscription purchased, and there is currently a 50% discount on the first month so now is a good time to try it out.
BKD mini bakers club subscriptions can be bought at bkd-london.com. They also sell baking kits and hold kids baking workshops and birthday parties in London.
Disclaimer: I was sent a BKD Mini Bakers Kit to try out with my children. I received no other payment for this post and all opinions are honest and my own.


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April 11, 2008
There is no direct correlation between conventional measures of education inputs, such as expenditures per pupil and teacher salaries, and educational outputs, such as average scores on standardized tests, according to the American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) 2007 Report Card on American Education.
Other findings:
- Class sizes today are 15 percent smaller than they were 20 years ago, yet of the 10 states that experienced the greatest decreases, only one (Vermont) is found among the highest performing states in the rankings.
- Expenditures have risen nationally to an all-time high of $9,295 per pupil.
- Yet, student performance has improved only slightly; 69 percent of American eighth-graders are still performing below proficiency in math and 71 percent in reading, according to the 2007 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP).
Raising student achievement levels and improving our schools must involve new and innovative solutions, and examining the data in this publication is a step in the right direction, says ALEC Education Task Force Chairman, Sen. Nancy Spence (R-Colo.). We need to hold our schools accountable, demand results, and provide parents with more choices when it comes to their children's education."
Source: "National Ranking of State Education Released: American Legislative Exchange Council's Report Card on American Education," ALEC, March 13, 2008.
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For The Lawyer's first-ever HR survey we asked the top 100 firms and a selection of smaller firms to respond to an in-depth questionnaire. A significant number balked at the request. The reasons varied, from the familiar "we never talk about figures" (despite there being only one question relating to salaries) to the frankly astounding refusal to give information on training policies.
We are grateful to the firms that did respond, most of which did so in great detail. The following is an edited version of the comments made by a selection of the firms that responded. For any assistant looking to move, there is a goldmine of material here to help you make an informed choice.
Addleshaw Goddard
ASB Law
Barlow Lyde Gilbert
Beachcroft Wansbroughs
Berwin Leighton Paisner
Bevan Ashford
Blake Lapthorn Linnell
Bond Pearce
Browne Jacobson
Burges Salmon
Charles Russell
CMS Cameron McKenna
Cripps Harries Hall
Dickinson Dees
Dundas & Wilson
Field Fisher Waterhouse
Fladgate Fielder
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Gateley Wareing
Herbert Smith
Lewis Silkin
Mills & Reeve
Morton Fraser
Nabarro Nathanson
Pannone & Partners
Richards Butler
SJ Berwin
Taylor Wessing
Tods Murray LLP
Trowers & Hamlins
Watson Farley & Williams
Wragge & Co
|Clarification of terms
'Salary range' refers to newly-qualified to the highest available band set by a particular firm. For many firms the merit element of remuneration that is introduced for associates meant they felt unable to offer a top band and we respected that.
A feature of assistant monitoring that many firms are considering currently is the 360° review. Pioneered in the legal market by Herbert Smith HR head John Lucy, it involves one-to-one coaching and feedback on an individual from all levels within the firm, leading to a tailored personal development plan.
'Home-grown' partners, for the purposes of this survey, are those who either trained at the firm or joined on qualification.
'Youngest partner' is the age of the youngest fee-earner ever to make partner.