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What happended after you stopped? The conditions under which the Standard Field Sobriety Tests or "STFST's" are adminstered. Is the officer trained to administer them? These questions and many others only begin to scratch the sufface of a drunk driving investigation.
As a police officer, former prosecutor and as an attorney I have the ability to view your case and your defense from a perspective most other attorneys lack.
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|Cost of annual auto insurance increase over 13 years
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|$270 (at least 5days)
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On your first OWI offense, you will face lesser punishments than that of repeat offenders. Yet, the sentence will still be stiff and may surprise you. More importantly how your lawyer handles this offense will have significant reprecussions in the unfortunate event you are arrested on a second or subsequent offense.
In 2006, the Michigan Legislature enacted "Heidi's Law, which eliminated the time limit for someone to be convicted of a third offense. Under this law, anyone with two prior convictions for Operating While Intoxicated or Operating While Impaired can be charged with a 3rd Offense regardless of when the preceding offenses happened. That means someone can get charged with an OWI 3rd even though their second conviction was twenty, thirty or forty years prior. A third Offense OWI in Michigan is a felony.
OWI 1st Offense:
If you are convicted of OWI in Michigan, on a first offense charge you will face up to:
- 93 days in jail
- 180 days suspended license
- 360 hours of community service
- $100- $500 fine plus court costs
- 6 points on your drivers license.
OWI 2nd Offense:
In addition to other court imposed programs and sanctions someone convicted of OWI 2nd Offense can face:
- Fines of $200-1,000
- At least 5 days and no more than 1 year in prison
- Driver's License revocation for 1 year
- 6 points on your driving record
- Possible vehicle seizure
- If vehicle is not taken, you will lose use of it for 90-180 days
- 30-90 days of community service
- $1,000 annual driver's responsibility fee for two years
OWI 3rd or subsequent offense: "Felony"
In addition to other court imposed programs and sanctions someone convicted of OWI 3rd Offense can face:
- Fines of $500-$5,000
- 1 to 5 years in prison
- 60-180 days community service
- 6 points on your driving record
- Possible vehicle seizure
- If vehicle is not taken, you will lose use of it for 1-3 years
- $1,000 annual driver's responsibility fee for two years
Operating While Visibly Impaired.
On a first OWI often the prosecutor will offer OWVI. OWVI provides essentially the same sentence with a few minor differences.
- $300 fine
- 93 days in jail
- 360 hours of community service
- 90 days of driving restriction (may restrict hours or destinations of your travel)
- Four point on your drivers license
If you have recently received a ticket, been arrested for OWI, DWLS, MIP, call for a consultation. Remember driving is an important privilege which you cannot afford to lose our office works agressively to protect your rights under the legal system.


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Herb infused honey is really popular right now. This is a great way to enhance the taste and increase the health benefits of the honey. You can put the honey on bread, desserts, fruit
and even over yogurt just to name a few. There are several ways to infuse honey for not only edible enjoyment but also for health benefits. The ingredients are simple, all you need is
your favorite honey and your favorite herbs. You can infuse the honey with a single herb or multiple depending on the use. Sage Honey for example is a great way to relieve a sore
throat just as chamomile is great to infuse with to promote relaxation.
There are two different ways that you can infuse the honey one taking longer than the other. The first way is pretty fast and is done by slowly heating the honey on the stove for 10 minutes however the heat tends to rid the infused honey of the health benefits. The second method takes longer (2 weeks to be exact) however the benefits stay intact. This is done by the herbs sitting in the honey for 2 weeks and then consuming.
Below is a great method I found at Thekitchen.com to make Herb Infused Honey.
Basic formula: Use about 1-2 tablespoons of dried herbs per 1 cup (8 ounces) of honey.
Honey: A light, mild flavored honey generally works best.
Herbs: Use a single herb or a combination. Rosemary, sage, thyme, mint, lemon balm, lavender, chamomile, rose petals, and pine needles all make lovely infused honeys. You can also use spices like vanilla beans, cinnamon sticks, and star anise. Herbs should be dry; see instructions below.
Clean, dry jars and lids (half-pint and pint mason jars work well)
Chopstick, wooden spoon handle, or other stirrer (avoid metal, which can scratch jars)
Clean cloth for wiping jar rims
1. Prepare herbs: Herbs should be dry (see safety note, below) and may be in the form of whole sprigs or separated leaves, buds, and petals. Chopped herbs may infuse more quickly, but they may also be harder to strain out. (To dry fresh herbs, use an air or oven drying method, dehydrator, or microwave.)
2. Combine herbs and honey: Place herbs in the bottom of a jar and fill the jar almost to the top with honey. Using a chopstick or other implement, stir to coat the herbs with honey. Top off with more honey to fill the jar. Wipe the jar rim with a clean cloth and cover tightly.
Tip: Label the jar with the contents and date so you don't forget!
3. Infuse: Let the herbs infuse for at least 5 days. If the herbs float to the top, turn the jar over a few times to keep them well coated. For a more intense flavor, infuse for another week or longer.
4. Strain: Strain the honey into a clean jar. Depending on the volume of honey and herbs and the size of the strainer, you may need to do this in stages. (Tip: Use the leftover herbs to make a tisane.)
5. Store: Store the honey in a tightly covered jar in a cool, dry place. It will last indefinitely.
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Although some people make infused honeys with fresh herbs, this process calls for dried herbs in order to limit water activity and the growth of Clostridium botulinum spores.
Fill a spotless container most of the way with crisp herbs or a quarter full with dried herbs. Top with nectar, blend, and top with a tight-fitting cover. Place in a bright windowsill, and turn the jug over once every day. Include more nectar if the herbs swell and transcend the nectar. Permit to mix for a week or more, at that point strain once the coveted flavor has been accomplished.
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Be honest … Have you ever Googled someone you just met?
Don't worry, you're in good company. In fact, your potential new employer is doing it too! That's right, 80% of employers Google a candidate before they invite them to interview. Think about that for a minute—before they invite them to an interview. That means qualified candidates are being disqualified every day because of Google search results and their online brand. Now is the time to take matters into your own hands and build your online brand, so when someone Googles you it doesn't disqualify you for a job, it makes potential employers pick up the phone and call right away.
1. The Vanity Search. Vanity searching is Googling yourself to see the search results. The Vanity Search is step one and the most important part of building your online brand. You want to know exactly what an employer is seeing when they Google your name, so click every link and examine it for potentially damaging information. If there is inaccurate info, contact the site owner and ask for it to be corrected or removed.
2. Keep a low social profile. Set all of your social media profiles, except LinkedIn, to private. Potential employers don't need to see your Spring Break photos. All social media sites have a robust Help section that give detailed instructions on how to set each profile to private. This will prevent anyone you aren't friends with, following or connected to from viewing your profile.
Now that we've mitigated any potential gotchas, let's talk about what you can do to set yourself apart in the right way.
3. Update your LinkedIn profile. Is the information accurate and current? Make sure you have an accurate job description for all positions. Recommend and endorse colleagues and ask them for recommendations and endorsements in return. If you get a recommendation that isn't exactly what you expected, you can hide it from your profile so employers can't view it.
Choose a great, professional photo. A good rule of thumb is you should be wearing your standard work attire in your LinkedIn profile, have a pleasant look and the photo should be well lit. Try and avoid a selfie by having a friend snap a photo against a professional background. Also, take advantage of the ability to upload multimedia and files. If you wrote an awesome case study or created a great PowerPoint, attach it to your profile.
4. Create and share content. Here is where most people don't want to put forth the effort, so it's a great opportunity to stand out. Write something about your area of expertise a few times a year. We're not talking a novel, half a page to a page is sufficient. Make sure it's well thought out, proofread and all your sources are cited. Then, share your thoughts on LinkedIn's publishing platform and submit it to industry publications. How fantastic would it look to have your name, photo and a published article show up when your next employer Googles you?
Not a writer? That's ok, share industry articles you find interesting. But, it's not enough to share a link. Make sure you take the time to write a short sentence or two putting the article into context, telling your connections why you think it's important, interesting or relevant.
A word of caution, be purposeful in what you share. Don't share content unless it's truly relevant and meaningful, otherwise you'll be tuned out as white noise.
5.Be social. Connect with the right people online to build your network. Who are the right people? People you think will advance your career, professional role models, those employed at key positions with companies you'd love to work for, the list is endless. When you publish and share industry articles your connections will begin to associate your name with industry knowledge and insight. Then, use those online connections to create real world, professional connections. Schedule meetings at conferences, grab coffee when you're in town on business, ask for help if you have a contact with subject matter expertise. Use the online brand you're building to leverage real world connections too.
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7 Things Digital Marketers Can Learn from Spirited Away
Spirited Away is a 2001 anime movie that was conceived, written and directed by the legendary Hayao Miyazaki. To say that the film was a success would be an understatement. Spirited Away won several awards and recognitions worldwide such as the Golden Bear in the 2002 Berlin film festival as well as being in the British Film Institute's 'top fifty films for children up to the age of 14.'
With only a budget of $19 million, the film grossed north of $289 million and replaced Titanic as the highest grossing motion picture in Japan. With such success, the movie is full of handy takeaways and lessons that can benefit the open-minded and ever ready-to-learn marketer. Below are 7 of them.
How to build on a good foundation
Before Spirited Away, Studio Ghibli gave anime fans worldwide Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro among other films that were very well received. As far as animated movies are concerned, the studio was, and remains one of the dominant names both among fans and professionals in the anime sector.
In this light, Spirited Away had a solid base on which to thrive, and thrive it did. Studio Ghibli, therefore, delivers the crisp picture that maintaining a success streak is easier when effort has already gone into developing a great name.
Experience is essential
Spirited Away propelled Hayao Miyazaki further into the limelight regarding developing and directing amazing animated motion pictures. This particular win was all the more important since it gave him more credibility regarding consistency. It proved beyond reasonable doubt that his touch of gold was no fluke and that he was like wine, only getting better with time.
This quantifies the obvious fact that in all undertakings, marketing included, experience is a gem. It, however, does not necessarily mean that experience is must to achieve success. After all, Hayao's very first movie was a big success.
The importance of having a competent team
As one progresses through the marketing ranks, building a team will eventually become inevitable to scale up. With a team in place, the probability of failing will increase (if the team is mediocre) or significantly increase (if the team is well constituted).
The success of Spirited Away showcases the success a prudently banded team can actuate. Moreover, it highlights the importance of upholding the team's purpose over the needs of an individual regardless of power wielded. Many are surprised to learn that before Spirited Away's script was accepted, Hayao had two proposals rejected.
The appeal of fantasy
Fantasy products, especially those that avail a momentary escape route from the vagaries of life tend to sell very well. In Spirited Away, the fantasy aspect is core. The film manages to immerse viewers in the gripping fantasy world of a ten-year-old looking to save her family from a wicked witch. It follows that such immersion in fantasy creations can be replicated with similar results. It is a strategy many companies take advantage of to drive sales, and equally, any marketer can do the same to drive product more effectively.
Having signature traits is wise
Studio Ghibli films have particular signature elements that betray their origin. The quality, depth of the narrative, character development and the uncompromising aesthetic appeal make it easy to categorize an animated film as a Studio Ghibli production for one familiar with the studio's works.
It is an approach replicated in cultured firms all over the world as a crucial brand identifier. Marketers who start out with determination and commitment to uphold certain traits of their value propositions may it be offering the utmost quality, having a personal touch, or being strongly customer oriented align themselves better for long term success.
Go after quality; the awards will come
Marketers are sometimes guilty of going after awards or angling for inclusion in certain prominent and respected lists and in the process, they lose sight of what is really important: quality. Spirited Away enjoyed various accolades, but it is only because Studio Ghibli focused on predetermined quality ideals and pushed everything else to the side.
Thus, continually maintaining a fixated gaze on offering the best and improving one's offering is the best and most sure way to earn recognition for a job well done: a truth that marketers should internalize.
Listen to your customers
One of Studio Ghibli's additional signature attributes is the studio's commitment to pleasing fans by listening to them and addressing their issues. It is by gauging audience reception as well as engagement that the studio has been able to take monumental steps in organizing successful festivals, and building thriving theme parks, etc.
In light of this, one of the best things a marketer can do to improve brand image and easily boost popularity while gaining useful insight is by listening to his/her client base.
Final thoughts
Even if the marketing educational value Spirited Away actualizes was nullified, the film would remain a must watch regardless of the movie genre one gravitates towards. The fact that it was ranked as runners up in New York Time's 'best films of the 21st century so far' puts the matter beyond discussion.
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|Effect van Sociale Verbondenheid op de Motivatie en de Prestatie door Gebruik van een Weblog
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|Social relatedness is a constraint to come to motivated learning: the selfdetermination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2008) states that naturally, one is meant for functioning within groups. To experience a relationship and connection with others is a basic psychological need. In motivation theories, importance is ascribed to social relatedness. The effort to perform learning tasks depends on students' motivation. Martens and Boekaerts (2007) reveal that intrinsically motivated students come to deeper learning. Moreover, Wolters en Rosenthal (2000) stress willpower to be an essential quality of motivated learning. Social relationship can be accomplished through learning communities (Sloep, 2008). Joint activities, interest and connection can make learning communities successful. Use of 2.0-applications, like weblogs, could simplify the communication, make online social network work, and connect the members. The interesting of a learning community is that members with distinctive interests, expertise and affinities share a common domain (Sloep, 2008). The aim of this research is to study whether the quality of theses, the social relatedness and the willpower of students could be fostered by the use of a weblog. Therefore, five hypotheses have been tested: 1. students who use a weblog feel socially more related than students who do not; 2. students who are socially related to a self-composed knowledge group through a weblog make more use of willpower strategies than students who are not; 3. the assessment of theses, written by students who are socially related to a self-composed knowledge group through a weblog are higher then theses of students who are not; 4. teachers and students perceive a weblog as an instrument that fosters social relatedness, willpower and leads to a higher quality of theses; 5. weblogs lead to social support and contributions concerning content. The research group consisted of 93 students of Iselinge College (75 girls and 18 boys). Two groups have been formed: an experimental group of 14 and a control group of 79 students. While working on their theses, the experimental students were connected with teachers, domain experts, mentors and fellow students through a weblog. They could also make use of a digital helpdesk. A questionnaire of 50 questions to measure social relatedness and willpower was developed, based on the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) of Ryan and Deci (2008), and the MSQL questionnaire (Pint Rich & De Groot, 1990). Furthermore, interviews were conducted with students, teachers and domain experts to examine their perceptions and two weblogs were analyzed. It was found that the social relatedness and willpower of students from the experimental group was not significantly higher then that of the students from the control group. However, compared with the control group, the average assessment of the experimental students' theses was significantly higher. Tempo of study of students from the experimental group was significantly higher then that of the students from the control group. Students, teachers and domain experts agree that the weblog is a 7 powerful means to enlarge social relatedness and to generate more quality. The weblogs invoke mainly contributions concerning content. The use of a weblog has proven its use in creating a knowledge group around the student. Students received feedback and tips from fellow students, other teachers besides their supervisor and domain experts. They were just in time provided with comments. The weblog offered opportunities to bring them in contact with teachers and experts from different organizations.
|Besselink, E. (2009). Effect van Sociale Verbondenheid op de Motivatie en de Prestatie door Gebruik van een Weblog. Oktober, 26, 2009, Heerlen, Nederland: Open Universiteit Nederland
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Sad to say, not only haven't I seen the 2003 (Season 2, 9th & 10th) episodes of the animated Justice League series that featured Despero, but I only just learned tonight that he also starred in an episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold earlier this year. So after you check out Victor Kraven's custom Despero page, which has a second image and explains how he made it, try the clips from B:TB&TB out. They feature a script by blog favorite J.M. DeMatteis. For the record, I'm down with both redesigns...
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Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani who was released from prison in Iran last week was summoned to court again, and subsequently rearrested along with 3 other Christians from the same church. He was previously arressted and charged with apostasy and sentenced to death. In 2012 his sentence was reduced and he was released after serving 4 years for the charge of acting ... Read More »
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Maryam Naghash Zargaran Attacked In Iranian Prison
Maryam Naghash Zargaran (Nasim) in Evin prison in Iran, has been under increasing pressure there from officials and fellow inmates. She has been placed into cells with criminals. A few days ago, an argument over phone time ensued when Nasim asked to use her time on the phone and a 54 year old woman, convicted as a thief attacked her ... Read More »
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By: @TaheriKaveh The voice of iranian christians(Vocir)Iran's security forces reportedly arrested 14 Christian converts citizens in a raid on a house church gathering in Varamin and Tehran on November 1. The attack took place during the Sunday service, Ramin Rad, co-founder of Voice of Christian of Iran, told BCR Group. He added that thirteen of those in attendance were taken ... Read More »
Iran: An Afghan Christian Convert Forcibly Fired Out
Iran: An Afghan Christian Convert Forcibly Fired Out 20 May, Tehran; an Afghan Christian convert who was threatened and interrogated by the Intelligence Service officers forced to leave Iran according to the news received by VOICR. Mr. Ilia Arab was beaten by the officials. Read More »


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R. Kelly and IFC Team up for more Trapped in the Closet
I'll start this out by saying R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet is one of the strangest and funniest things I've ever seen. It looks like we're going to get more madness as IFC is bringing Chapter 20 new chapters of the saga to the small screen next month.
It's been around 5 years since the last installment of the Trapped in the Closet which is way too long in my opinion. R. Kelly has already filmed 20 more chapters in the series, and they'll start airing the day after Thanksgiving on November 26th. Turkey and Pimp Luscious… awesome. The whole old crew is back including Sylvester, Rufus, Twan, Cathy, Big Man, Gwendolyn, and Pimp Luscious. It's pretty safe to say it'll be just as crazy as before, and it's something you won't want to miss if you enjoyed the first 22 chapters. It also should be noted that R.Kelly stated that the saga will last… forever.
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The week before a race is always a bit different. I am not training and I sit here wondering if I have done enough to prepare my body for 60 minutes of pleasure (pleasure??). There is always the temptation to go out for an extra run, and I am almost forcing myself not to let it happen.
Sunday, on race day, I will hit the road and in within few kms I will know if I am having a good day or not. The more you push your body and the more you are likely to get to the point where you want to stop. That's when I will dig dip into my mind, thinking about all the mornings that I woke up early to train, in the cold, with the rain, thinking about the reasons why I am running in the first place, and in particular I will be thinking about that reason called Mustagata which is only 76 days away. Up there, you cannot just give up when it gets hard and painful and I need to have the same attitude on Sunday. The result of this run is important to give me the confidence that I have reached a good fitness level, which allows me to move to the next stage of my training. With Monday I will start training on weights, on improving the strength of my upper body, back and shoulders in particular. I have scheduled a meeting with my trainer and hopefully he'll target my preparation so that my peak will by early July.
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Monday, 5 October 2009
'New' musical works
When I compiled the catalogue of musical works, 3 or 4 years ago, I spent a lot of time trawling through all of Gurney's letters endeavouring to locate all references to his music. This yielded information about a number of works for which manuscript material is no longer extant, some of which were verified by Gerald Finzi's catalogue of works collated in 1937, more than thirty works in which are missing presumed destroyed.
However, in my reading through the correspondence at that time I obviously missed a few letters/references, for I can now add some further works to that catalogue:
There is new song setting of Longfellow, being one of the sections from The Saga of King Olaf, 'Einar Tamberskelver', written at around the same time as the Longfellow/Heine setting, 'The sea hath its pearls', of 21 April 1925, which this letter also mentions, alongside the Frederic Mistral setting from this time, 'A la Raco Latino'.
In my original catalogue, a reference in a(n unposted) letter to Edward Elgar yielded the fact that there were further settings of Walt Whitman were made for what was one of Gurney's preferred vocal/instrumental combinations, baritone, string quartett and piano, over and above the two I knew about: 'Ethiopia Saluting the Colours' and 'In Cabin'd Ships at Sea'. To this can now be added what Gurney titles 'By the Bivouac's Fire', which must be his misremembering of 'By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame'.
A letter of 3 April [1926] notes that he has just completed two movements of an Organ Sonata in F# minor. Finzi lists a sonata slow movement in this key for 1925. This could be one and the same work, Finzi perhaps approximating the date, but it could be that this is a new work. It would also correlate with a page of sketches from around March 1926 in F# minor which I had hitherto suggested might be related to other known but missing organ works from this time: an 'Heroic Elegy' for organ and an 'Easter Rhapsody'. This letter also makes reference to the second of Gurney's symphonies: the 1925 Symphony in E major. Here, in April 1926, he writes that, 'Ivor Gurney, whose Symphony in E major would make Brahms gasp, is in Hell, and where that MS is (and how) he knows not.' The work is already out of his hands, a work of which, in September 1925, he had noted the completion of the first and second movements, with the scherzo being in progress. Finzi's catalogue notes the existence of a piano score of this work, but this is now missing.
The final addition to the catalogue is a curious reference to a 'MS Anthem (E. Dolber) of war truly, written 1920 (with New College Oxford).' No title is given; just the fact that it is a manuscript anthem. I am sure the letter reads 'Dolber', although I haven't yet found a poet of this name. The date would correspond with a time when he was making other musical works embodying, if not commemorating the war, such as the War Elegy for orchestra of November 1920. It would be nice if this work did indeed find its way into the hands of New College, who might perhaps have forgotten about it in some dusty corner of the music department...
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- Philip Lancaster said...
I have just been skating through some of the Gurney Collected Letters whilst dating some unpublished petters for the forthcoming Society Journal and have found a further reference that may (or then again may not!) relate to the elusive poet 'Dolber', whom Gurney claims to have set in his 1920 anthem. In letter 416 of the Collected Letters, which should date from about June 1922, Gurney writes:
'There is a book by a Sussex Poet beginning with D (Dolman?) patronised if not cut up by the Times which has a fine elegy on Edward Thomas'.
It may be relevant; it may not. Then again, this is 1922, not 1920; and if Gurney's set 'D's' work it may be odd that he can't recall his name. That said, it wouldn't be unknown given the evidence of the 'Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes', which Gurney attributes to Ernest Casson, who is in fact Edmund.
Another contender would be Ernest Dowson, but the handwriting certainly looks more like Dolber.
My thanks to Pam Blevins who has been searching through a number of her books for possible Dolbers, as yet without yielding any fruit; and also to Charles Moore who has been searching his files for any further information he may have regarding the works mentioned in this post.
- 13 October 2009 at 12:37
- Karen said...
"Dolman" sounded familiar so I looked at Elected Friends: Poems for and about Edward Thomas (Enitharmon, 1991)because Dolman made me think of it. Sure enough, Charles Dolman (1872-1938) had written a poem for ET "Elegy for Edward Thomas" and he was from Sussex (Shoreham). The Elegy to ET appeared in Dalmon's Poor Man's Riches (Methuen,1922) and in the 1944 Poems of Our Time. I've dipped into some of my old WWI poetry books but haven't come up with anything by him save the ET poem. IF Dolman is the source of the 1920 anthem perhaps Gurney saw the poem in a newspaper or magazine?? There is a 30 March 1938 Times obituary that might be helpful to you if you can access it.
- 18 October 2009 at 16:30
- notker said...
Are you sure it isn't Dolben? The poet Digby Mackworth Dolben died in 1867 aged 19 but his collected poems weren't published until 1915, edited by Robert Bridges. There's a PDF of the collection available through www.archive.org .
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Chapters One and Two Summary
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- A group of choirboys arrive, led by Jack Merridew. They are mostly older boys.
- Ralph is elected leader but Jack is not pleased. Jack and his choir become the hunters.
- Ralph, Jack and Simon explore the island. Jack almost kills a piglet.
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Chapters Three and Four Summary
- Jack takes delight in tracking pigs but fails to kill any.
- Ralph constructs shelters but with only limited success due to lack of help.
- Jack and Ralph argue over priorities.
- Simon goes into the forrest alone.
- Roger and Maurice destroy the smaller children's sandcastles. Roger throws stones at Henry.
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Whenever you go to writing conferences, you get a lot of great advice, instruction, and information. LTUE was no exception. I'll share more of that info with you as the weeks progress. But perhaps the most helpful panel for me was the very first one I attended called Overcoming Adversity.
As you all know, my life is busy, and finding or making time to write is very difficult. I am a part-time teacher (which, since it's teaching, that means nearly full-time), mom of a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old, Stampin' Up Demonstrator, wife, and homemaker. My kids are young enough they need fairly constant availability, so I can only write when they are not around. Evenings are the only time I get to spend with my hubby (once the kids go to bed), and I am so NOT a morning person. So I went looking for some direction.
I got some good answers, but mostly I got reassurance and encouragement. Exactly what I needed.
The panel consisted of four or five authors whom I would consider successful. They have each traditionally published at least one book; many of them have published several. Most of them were women with relatively young children as well, so I related to that, but they also had other family and health concerns, which added adversity into their writing lives.
The best question asked at the panel was, "Do you always write through adversity? And if so, how?" Every panel member said, "No." I perked right up. Suddenly, I wasn't alone. People who were successful didn't write "at least 15 minutes every day," like every other presentation at every other conference tells me I should be doing. That meant there was hope yet for me.
The panel members said they give themselves permission not to write some days, especially when other priorities take precedence (like family). One member said that she gives herself permission not to write, but she knows she also feels better about her life and herself if she will only write for 15 minutes. One member said that due to health issues, some days she physically cannot write. One member is well into his advanced years and just published his first book because he had to provide a living for his family.
Ah, reassurance, indeed. I can do it, even with my crazy schedule. I just can't give up and must keep working at the pace I am able. Even if I can't write every single day for an hour or two, I can still write and eventually achieve success.
But, I am sure you also want to know what other answers or suggestions I got out of this panel:
- Try a "weekly" writing schedule rather than a daily one. This is what I am trying based upon one panel member making an off-hand comment that the only time she has to write is when she goes to the library twice a week while her youngest is in preschool.
- Balance your life and make sure your family is first in your priorities.
- The people we help and serve give us stories to write, so don't neglect them.
- When you can't write consistently, keep a consistent writing journal, so you have your ideas gathered to work with when you can return to writing. This is what one panel member did while caring for an ailing parent.
- Writer shorter pieces to see success while still working on the longer ones. This is more of an impression that came through various panels and discussions throughout the whole symposium, and something I'm going to experiment with myself.
- Measure success by the things you can control, not the things you can't. (Easier said than done.)
- Writing can help -- or hinder -- our ability to solve our problems.
- When you get really stuck, walk away and try something else for a while.
- Follow Pablo Picasso's advice: "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."
- Don't give up.
That last one is my favorite: "Don't give up." The process may be slow and long, like mine, but you'll get there eventually. Just give yourself permission to get there at your pace and in your own way.


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What is the Supreme Court case Harris v. Quinn about?
The case, Harris v. Quinn, was brought by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTW), an extreme right-wing group with a political agenda to weaken the power of working people. The NRTW lawsuit started as an attack against Illinois home care workers, but has grown into a challenge of the right of those employed in the public service, including home care workers, to come together and form a union that will be their bargaining representative, to negotiate over matters that are commonly negotiated over, like wage, benefits and other conditions of employment, and to require that nonmembers pay their fair share of the cost of collective bargaining and representation of the workers.
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As our country grapples with an escalating long term care crisis, a bad decision will endanger the most basic choice of every aging American—to choose to live at home instead of an institution—by making it harder to build a stable workforce of home care workers
Who is the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation?
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NFG's Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships, with with our union allies, will keep our members and friends informed via webinar and email after decision.
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Knowledge is a tree, not a conclusion, and it has been a tree for all of time. Sometime, however, it verboten in the Bible with a didactic "tale" apparently by oligarchs telling the average religious person to view the tree of knowledge and its information as verboten. This is the beginning of the limits and control of information necessary for oligarchic dominance, as opposed to capital-type control which is more commodity-based --though information is now a commodity as "intellectual property." (With "intellectual" being a strong word for the slurry capital pumps into the population.)
The most important extension of this type of information control currently exists as academia with its early revival of control as the dialectic and didactic by academy founders Socrates and Plato in ancient Athens, and recently by Hegel to fit current capital. Important is that these instructors specifically used sexual abuse to control, which survived to our time as, for instance, the Aboriginal residence schools openly, and covertly elsewhere.
Causality is a rational reduction of the complexity of life saying that "if something happens in relation to something else, that something else caused the first thing." As a rational reduction, it is a "dumbing-down" of all the highly sophisticade life-system that affect us. Knowledge is naturally structured both in society and in our minds in tree structures, also called "complex data structures" Personally, I have never been "causal" (I believe) because I have been influenced by aboriginal knowledge organization, and also abstract art and music early on as a child with access to all of New York's museums and libraries (access has since been restricted to children.)
If I something is unavoidably causal, I say "simple math" --this causes that, w/o making a bid deal about it.
Empiricism is the scientific method (and system) built from causality and is considered the only (measurement) science, even by scientist who should know better. It suffers from being highly-fractured, as it is built from independent causal conclusions that also tend to be ego-vehicles from empiricist scientists. Another widely-misused term is "objective" as a synomym for "cruel" such that normal human thinking, such as the recollection of experiences, is excluded from empiricist conclusions; only empiricist numbers are used, often as an output of highly-purposed statistical systems. Dependance on statistics is such that statistics now often produce hypothesis and theory, that is validated by the same statistical systems. Information from other sources such as experience and observation, no matter how detailed, cannot test well against conclusive information produced specifically to test well by statistical systems. This statistical reality is most true for current control of the mind (both human and animal) in cognitive-behavioral strategies of CBT. Interestingly, in CBT, the dialectic method as the socratic method is also key for (as they say) "thought control."
Objectivism, such as Ayn Rand's and (current-capital's) Adam Smith's objectivism simply "objectify's" people to make then inanimate numbers rather than feeling people to allow for capital exploitation. As it happens, capital-supporting empiricism, as info-oligarchic, also leverages this, and fills its capital-supportive role by defining and maintaining it as its own from of exploitation, originally sexual abuse.
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Marijuana withdrawal syndrome: There is none
One study shows that craving was a withdrawal symptom, and that it can, under certain circumstances, prevent a user from stopping use (Ehlers, Gizer, Vieten & Wilhelmsen, 2010), which is a criteria for a withdrawal syndrome. Other criteria, such as tolerance and loss of social activities, are only specific to dependence.
Hasin created two groups of symptoms: "anxiety, restlessness, depression, and insomnia" and "weakness, hypersomnia, and psychomotor retardation" (Hasin, et al., 2008, para. 1). Anxiety-related symptoms, which are much more commonly cited as a withdrawal symptom, were associated in Hasin's study with panic and personality disorders. Bonn-Miller and Moos (2010) suggest that anxiety predicts long-term relapse, but does not mediate high relapse rates predicted by previous heavy use, which would probably go to the craving symptom. Therefore this research suggests that the anxiety component of withdrawal is due to another disorder, and therefore may not be contributing to marijuana withdrawal syndrome as specified in the DSM (Copeland & Swift, 2009; Preuss, Watzke, Zimmermann, Wong, Schmidt, 2010). Reuptake-inhibiting anti-depressants had no effect beyond placebo in a study that filtered preexisting psychiatric conditions from the test group, further supporting the idea that the anxiety-related symptoms either describe a separate disorder, or are too clinically insignificant to be affected by a reuptake inhibitor that reduces anxiety (Carpenter, McDowell, Brooks, Cheng, 2009).
This material supports the DSM's present assertion that there is no clinically-significant marijuana withdrawal syndrome.
American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV-TR. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
Bonn-Miller, M., Moos, R., (2011). Marijuana discontinuation, anxiety symptoms, and relapse to marijuana. Addictive Behaviors 34 (pp. 782–785). Retrieved February 21, 2011 from http://dionysus.psych.wisc.edu/Lit/Articles/Bonn-MillerM2009a.pdf
Carpenter, K.M., McDowell, D., Brooks, D., Cheng, W., (2009). A Preliminary Trial: Double-Blind Comparison of Nefazodone, Bupropion-SR and Placebo in the Treatment of Cannabis Dependence. American Journal of Addiction. 18(1). (pp 53-64).
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Thursday, September 6, 2007
Back at Work
Once I found my cubicle that Pete had actually set up for me (thanks, Pete!), my first day was a whirlwind. I volunteered to be on a review team for a proposal so then I was off to a meeting to discuss the project. I was also busy catching up with everyone and visiting. I also had to figure out my computer password that the IT guys changed on me a couple of weeks ago. I actually noticed because I couldn't log in to my email at home anymore. Thankfully Pete had been involved in the password change so he had my new password handy. I also had to take care of a bunch of stuff for Honeywell and complete some paperwork and take their ethics quiz. I'm still sorting out my desk because Pete did a great job setting up my desk, but he (rightfully) dumped other stuff in my desk drawer. I had a lot of junk in there that I forgot I had. It was like doing a time warp back to March and April when I suddenly ran out of work and into a new realm of wacky cancer reality.
Speaking of time warp, I found a bunch of emails from March and April from me or to me discussing my doctor visits prior to my echocardiogram. I had been sick for a few months with what I thought was a nasty cold or possibly anemia or possibly exercise-induced asthma. It was strange for me to read them, knowing now that it was cancer and not anemia. As I read through these emails, I kept thinking about how naive or blissfully unaware I had been that something evil was in my body. I also read an email I had written to Melissa right after the cardiologist had called urging me to leave work immediately to get my first of many CT scans. I remember now that I wrote her because I was freaked out and afraid and also because I wanted someone to know what the doctor found on my echocardiogram. I sent her an email because I didn't want to call her and say I was scared because I would have fallen apart and been hysterical on the phone. I saved the phone calls for Mike and my Mom. I remember that day clearly, and I had no idea how my life would change by the next day when I was diagnosed. I've saved those emails for now, but I might delete them sometime in the future.
I will say one thing about being back at work: I am not used to getting up at 6am! I do miss sleeping in until 8 or 8:30am when Riley would wake me up so he could go outside. I am so tired when I get home and fall asleep quickly when my head hits the pillow. I need to get to bed earlier and that will help tremendously. Whew, it's tough!
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- Mike J. said...
Honey - It is fun driving to work in the morning with one woman (wig on) and then driving home with another woman (wig off)!
You have done an excellent job in transiting from your cancer life, back into your professional life. Now your challenge is to merge those worlds.
This journey has shown me that you one tough cookie and posses an inner strength that even Wonder Woman would admire.
Your Hubby
- September 7, 2007 at 9:46 AM
Should your brief summary on the main page say you were diagnosed in April 2007 (not 2006)? Or am I in a time warp?
I've been away from your blog for awhile, so I'm catching up. Rock on with your bad self! Although being back at work leaves much to be desired, but good to get back in the ol' routine. We're thinking of you, and whenever you're up for a road trip, we're not far away!
- September 12, 2007 at 10:32 AM


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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar at the weekend stunned his audience in Geneva, Switzerland, when he relived how his late father was jailed for refusing to let him attend school in his hometown of Jada, Adamawa State.
Atiku spoke at a ceremony in the European city when he was conferred with an honorary doctorate degree by the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations.
"When my father was put in jail by local authorities because he needed my assistance with herding the livestock, it seemed like a harsh punishment," he said.
The former Vice President noted that "were he (his father) to be alive to witness this day and the last 30 or so years of my life, I am sure that he would exclaim 'wow! Education pays, after all'.
The founder of the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, recalled that as a boy growing up in his rustic village of Jada, he had dreams.
According to him, it was education that made his dreams come true.
Atiku said: "Education is what brought me in contact with members of the United States of America's Peace Corps when I was still a little boy. It was a contact and interaction that would have profound impact on my life, especially my love for education and service."
Underscoring the imperative of education to personal growth and development, the former Vice President said it gave him the friends he made across Nigeria as he attended high school and university; gave him a job in the civil service and provided him with opportunities to meet and form more life-long friendships from across the world.
Atiku attributed the modest achievements he has made in business and politics as well as his contributions to improving the lives of others to education.
He advised parents not to choose career options for their children but allow them to discover their innate potentials by charting their own disciplines.


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Love chocolate crackles? I used to, though I am not sure I could come at them now with the copha content. So happily I found this recipe, which reminds me of chocolate crackles, but is so much better, with its gooey choc caramel flavour and good quality chocolate topping. There'd be nothing to stop you from making them in individual patty cases for a more authentic chocolate crackle experience - indeed I am thinking of doing exactly that for DS2's next birthday.
Combine 260g chopped Mars Bars with 125g chopped butter in a saucepan. Stir over low heat to melt.
Once it is all smoothly melted together, stir the mixture into 4 cups of rice bubbles and then press into a greased and lined 19-20cm square cake tin. Place into the fridge to chill for about 3 hours or until set. I found it didn't need this long. 30 mins is adequate if you are eager to get the topping on so you can sample a piece ;) .
Melt together 200g good quality milk chocolate and 30g butter. I do this in the microwave on medium, but it could be done in a bowl over a pan of simmering water. I have made this recipe 3 times, using different methods - in the microwave, in a bowl over simmering water, melting them together, melting the butter and chocolate separately and then combining them - each time the result has been the chocolate seizes a bit when combined with the melted butter, and is then quite thick when I spread it over the rice bubble mixture. I suspect I may need to let the butter cool a bit before adding it to the chocolate, though next time I think I might just up the chocolate to 250g and dispense with the butter, though that would mean the topping will be a lot firmer when set - which could have its advantages, but would probably be easier to slice it it before the chocolate is fully hard.
Place in fridge again to allow the topping to set before slicing. Use a hot dry knife to slice into approx. 20-24 squares.
These are so much yummier than chocolate crackles, which tend to either be rock hard when they have just come out of the fridge, or else soft and melted and falling apart. This slice on the other hand is firm if eaten straight from the fridge (but not hard), or slightly gooey (in a scrumptious way - like soft caramel) if left to warm a little at room temperature. It also doesn't leave you with the unpleasant aftertaste that the copha in traditional chocolate crackles leaves. Very very moreish!
Source of recipe : Biscuit & Slice Bible by Virginia Heywood (2007).


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November 10, 1781. JVIy Dear Child,
WHEN your mamma and I come to see you, it must be pn a Monday, for more reasons than one} which it is not necessary for you to know : and as there is but one Monday in a week, something or other may prevent oftener than I wish. However I promise to think of you when I cannot see you, and sometimes we talk of you. " Christmas will soon be here ; then " we shall have her at home, and then who knows " but she will be so improved, and behave so nicely, " that we shall be sorry to part with her again." When we talk thus, I hope you will make good what we say.
Lately, for about a week, I was attacked by a company of pains. Some seized my face and teeth, some took possession of my back, and some got into my sides ; but they are all gone now, and they did me no harm. You know little about pains and cares yet. You are now at the time of life when you are especially called upon to remember your Creator and Redeemer, and have the greatest advantages for doing it. But, if your life is spared, to you likewise the days will come when yoji will say, " I have no pleasure in them." But I hope long before they come, you will have some ^experience of pleasures which do not at all depend upon youth or health, or any thing that this world can either give or take away. Seek the Lord, and you shall live ; and you have not far to seek for him : he is very near you ; he is. all around you ; about yourbed by night, and your path by day. He sees, he notices all you say and do- But I do not wish you tcv conceive of him so as to make the thought of him uneasy to you. Think of him according to the account the evangelists give of him when he was upon earth ; how gracious, compassionate, and kind he was. If he were upon earth now, would you not wish that I should lead you to him, that he might lay his hands upon you and bless you, as he did the children which were brought to him ? If he were here, and I could go with you and say, "Lord, bless my child likewise!'' I am sure he would not frown at you, and say, " Take her away, I will have nothing to do with her '." No, my dear child, he has promised, them that come to him he will in no wise cast out. Go to him yourself ; though you cannot see him, it is sufficient that he sees and hears you. Tell him, that you hear and believe he is a Saviour to many, and beg him to be your Saviour too. Tell him it was not your own choice, but his providence that removed you from C ■, and put you under my care, which gave
yon En opportunity of knowing more of his goodness, than yotr would otherwise have done ; and beg of him to give you his grace, that the advantages you have had may not aggravate your sins, but lead you to his salvation ; and do not let a day pass without thinking on his sufferings in Gethsemane and on Mount Go'gotha. Surely his love to poor sinners, in bleeding and dying for them, will-constrain you to love him again ; and if once you love him, then every thing will be easy, and you will account it your greatest pleasure to please him.
1 thank you for your letter. I conceive a hope from it, that you will improve in your writing. [ wish you not only to write a good hand, but a good letter ; and the whole art is to write with freedom and ease. When you take your pen in hand, pop things downjust as they come to your mind; just as you wouldspeak of them without study. Tell me something about the fowls in the yard, or the trees in the garden, or what you please; only write freely. The Lord bless you, I love you dearly, and wish you to believe me to be
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Also some comments from the Sydney Morning Herald.
Having served as a political adviser to some of the most significant figures in Liberal politics of their time, Marise went on to a career as a public affairs adviser in the finance industry.
In 1997 Marise filled a casual vacancy to represent the people of New South Wales in the Australian Senate, making her inaugural speech on 2 September 1997. She was then elected in 2001, 2007 and 2013.
Marise has served as Shadow Minister for Indigenous Development and Employment, Shadow Minister for COAG [Council of Australian Governments] and Shadow Minister for Housing. She plays an active role in the Senate and has been a member of both Joint and Senate committees, including as Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade and as Chair of its Human Rights subcommittee.
Outside parliament, Marise continues to work in the community on issues as diverse as human rights, emerging technologies and the implications of our ageing population.
Away from politics, she is a committed fan of the St George/Illawarra NRL team and the Geelong Cats, an enthusiastic supporter of the arts in Australia, spends as much time as she can in the Southern Highlands and she cooks for therapy. Marise and her partner live in a newly built home in Mulgoa."
Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure and Regional Development Minister - Warren Truss
Cabinet Secretary - Arthur Sinodinis
Indigenous Affairs Minister - Nigel Scullion
Foreign Minister - Julie Bishop
Trade and Investment Minister - Andrew Robb
Attorney General - George Brandis
Treasurer - Scott Morrison
Assistant Treasurer and Small Business Minister - Kelly O'Dwyer
Finance Minister - Mathias Cormann
Agriculture and Water Minister - Barnaby Joyce
Industry, Innovation and Science Minister - Christopher Pyne
Resources, Energy and Northern Australia Minister - Josh Frydenberg
Immigration and Border Protection Minister - Peter Dutton
Environment Minister - Greg Hunt
Health and Sport Minister - Sussan Ley
Defence Minister - Marise Payne
Communications and Arts Minister - Mitch Fifield
Employment Minister and Minister for Women - Michaelia Cash
Social Services Minister - Christian Porter
Education and Training Minister - Simon Birmingham"


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Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole.
1. Do I insist that there are only a few right ways of doing things in AA?
In aa there are no right ways or wrongs ways we all have the right to choose or as it says in tradition conform to nothing we have no rules or regulations this also applies to the traditions groups have the right to decide what they want to do I always try to follow the groups collective conscience on matters effecting the group or AA as a whole
2. Does my group always consider the welfare of the rest of AA? Of nearby groups? Of loners in Alaska? Of internationalists miles from port? Of a group in Rome or El Salvador?
My group always considers the welfare of all AA groups and yes we support the loners no matter where they my be again AA and the AA group is all inclusive never exclusive we all have that primary purpose of carrying the message to those who suffer
3. Do I put down other members behavior when it is different from mine, or do I learn from it?
I may express my feeling on any subject that comes before the group but I do not try to put others down because they differ from me free expression is a two way street every member has a right to share how they may feel on any subject before the group after everyone is heard on the matters a group conscience vote will put any disagreement to rest we all learn from each other
4. Do I always bear in mind that, to those outsiders who know I am in AA may I to some extent represent our entire beloved fellowship?
I try very hard to let all those who I come in contact with in or out of the program I can only speak for my personal experiences that no one at this can speak on behalf of the entire worldwide fellowship, or indeed any of the groups. We are the message how we carry it is an individual matter
5. Am I willing to help a newcomer go to any lengths - his lengths, not mine- to stay sober?
Yes we are all different and may have different ideas on how to work this program so if someone what to go to any length to stay sober all I can do is share my own experience strength and hope they may not agree with everything I did to stay sober some have different beliefs that me this should not stop me from reaching out to help him
6. Do I share my knowledge of AA tools with other members who may not have heard of them?
When ever I share one on one or from the podium it is always my knowledge of this program I learned from listening to others and now I try to give back to others what was so freely given to me some times when our in service work you have to share things with the general public through our public relations policy this is all part of carrying the message
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a measure Thursday renewing aid for American workers affected by international trade agreements.
The measure, known as Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), was voted down in the House earlier this month—an effort by Democrats to hinder President Barack Obama's trade goals. With those attempts ultimately unsuccessful, the House approved the measure 286-138 in Thursday's vote.
Without action by Congress, the worker aid program would have expired on Sept. 30, just as the Obama administration could be trying to wrap up a 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal encompassing 40 percent of the world's economy and ranging from Chile to Japan.


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To a certain point in my life, I was convinced that making sour pickles was some kind of magic that only mums and grandmums can do. Nothing could be further from the truth. Preparing fermented cucumbers is quick anf hassle-free and it will lead you to the best tasting sour pickles ever.
2 kg of cucumbers (the little ones, as shown on the photo, having small pimples on the skin)
2 or 3 bunches of fresh dill with flowers
1 packet of mustard seeds
1 head of garlic - split into as many parts as you have jars
approximately 15 cm of horseradish root - divided into as many parts as you have jars
optionallly: horseradish leaves
optional: 6-18 dried chillies (I always use dried chili peppers, but you can also experiment with fresh chillies)
boiling water
2. Prepare clean 5-6 large jars
3. In each jar place mustard seeds (divide share the contents are more or less evenly into jars)
4. Place dill flowers, garlic cloves, horseradish root, horseradish leaves and chillies if using at the bottom of each jar.
5. Put the cucumbers into the jar, vertically and fairly tight, so that after adding water they do not lift up.
6. On top of the cucumbers place some more horseradish leaves, , garlic cloves, lots of dill flowers and more chilli, if using.
7. Prepare the water for pickling (add 1.5 tablespoon of salt for each 1L of boiling water)
8. Pour water with salt over cucumbers filling them almost up to the edge.
9. Put on the lids and set aside on the tray at room temperature (you need a tray, since as soon as the fermentation process is started, some fermentation salty water may escape the jars, which is perfectly fine)
10. After one day, you have very light sour pickles, after two days you have light sour pickles and then further fermentation leads to fully fermented cucumbers. If at some point you put cucumbers in the refrigerator, the fermentation process will be slow down but remember not to refrigerate those jars with cucumbers earlier that 24 hours after preparing the sour pickles.


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Gershuny: the impact of paid work
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- Gershuny: The impact of paid work
- Three quarters of married or cohabiting women in the Uk are economically active, as against fewer than half in 1971.
- Man Yee Kan (2001) found income from employment, age and education affected how much housework women did: better paid, younger, more educated women did less housework.
- Every £10,000 increase in the woman's annual income reduces her weekly housework time by two hours.
- Gershuny: The trend towards equality
- (1994): wives who worked full time did less domestic work
- Wives who did not go to work did 83% of the housework and even wives who worked part time still did 82%
- Wives who worked full time did 73% of housework. The longer the wives stayed employed, the more likely that the husbands would do more housework.
- Couples whose parents had a more equal relationship were more likely to share housework more equally than themselves.
- Explains trend in equality in terms for gradual change in values and parental role models.
- Even though men are doing more housework, they still tend to take responsibility for different tasks.
- Social values are gradually adapting to the fact that women are working full time.
- Crompton (1997) accepts Gershuny's evidence but explains equality differently, in terms of economic factors rather than changing values or role models.
- However, earnings remain unequal.
- On average, women's earnings are only about 3 quarters those of men.
- Therefore, she concludes that as long as earnings remain inequal, division of labour will too.
- On average, women's earnings are only about 3 quarters those of men.
- However, earnings remain unequal.
- (1994): wives who worked full time did less domestic work
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|Me and Uncle Joe at the Lodge. Addie had Joe hold my
hand so I wouldn't fall off the side of the mountain.
Addie and Joe had no children of their own, so Addie was like a second Mama to all the Yates kids. Addie was one of the sweetest people you would ever meet, but she had one drawback - she was a worrier. She worried about whether or not we were warm enough, or cool enough, or worried that we might get sick from something we ate. Right now, she was worried about my eyes. There we would be, on top of that mountain, that much closer to the sun. But there would be no retinal damage on young Billy. Joe, give him your sunglasses.
|Uncle Joe and me riding the train.
So, Addie, Joe, and a sufficiently Ray-Banned Billy set out for Rich Mountain. The drive must have been uneventful, since I don't remember anything about it. But, as soon as we arrived at the top of the mountain, I spotted the miniature train. That would be our first order of business. So, my Uncle Joe and I waited in line for the train load up. Uncle Joe managed to pry his lanky frame into the seat beside me, and off we went. I was amazed at how long the train ride was. We passed through woods that seemed far removed from the rest of the park. When we'd come up to a road, the little train would let out a whistle just like the big trains did. Too soon we arrived back at the little train station.
Just a short distance from the miniature train was a real, full-sized steam locomotive. They must have had a time getting that thing on top of Rich Mountain, but it was a major attraction. I climbed all over it, operating the controls and pretending to blow the whistle. Aunt Addie made Uncle Joe climb up on there with me, just in case I got hurt. When I got tired of playing engineer, I walked over to the old military tank that was next to the locomotive. I climbed on top of it, but didn't go inside; the hatch was welded shut.
Addie and Joe are both gone now. They were very special to me and to the rest of my family.


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Hogwarts Castle
The new Harry Potter theme park, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, opened this morning to mobs of Harry Potter fans. While all the attractions look dazzling and fun for all ages, I'm wondering who can afford to take their family there. Prices are steep!
Per the website, Universal Orlando Resort theme parks include Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure, where the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is located.
Single-day, single-park tickets to Universal's Islands of Adventure are priced at $69 for children age 3-9 and $79 for kids age 10 and up and adults.
Single-day tickets with access to both Universal's Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios Florida are priced at $99 for children age 3-9 and $109 for kids age 10 and up and adults.
Believe me, I'd love to take my boys here more than anything. Looks amazing! However, that adds up to $296 for entry only to one park for a family of four with two kids under age 9. And if the same family wants to hit both parks in a single day, it'll cost them $416 for entry only. If you have tweens or teens, it could run you between $316 (single park) and $436 (both parks).
But don't fret, you can save $10 on multi-day tickets (up to 7 days) if you buy them online. Multi-day! Multi-broke!
Add in travel expenses and/or airfare, if you don't live in Orlando, food and drink in the park, which is no doubt overpriced, and a few souvenirs, and you could be looking at a few thousand dollars for a single-day family vacation.
More power to you if you can afford to make this trip (jealous!), but this adventure isn't going to make my family's summer vacation plans -- unless one of you finds an amazing price-cutting coupon deal.
Do you want to take your family to the new Harry Potter theme park? Will you pay this price?
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Clubs all over Canada are looking for experienced coaches and referees. Whether your experience comes from a para-sport or an able-bodied sport background, we offer several wheelchair rugby coaching and refereeing clinics to get you up to speed. To get involved, fill out the form on the below and we will contact you shortly. Thank you for your interest in wheelchair rugby!
What is the Wheelchair Rugby NCCP Coach Development Model?
To ensure that every wheelchair rugby coach has the skills necessary for success, the NCCP and the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association have worked together to develop a Coach Development Model. This model guides coaches as they develop their skills.
This is wheelchair rugby's NCCP coaching development model. As you can see, you can become one of three types of coaches: a club coach, a performance coach, or a High Performance Coach. A club coach is focused on grassroots, beginning, developing and recreational athletes, while a performance coach coaches athletes with a high-performance focus, such as a provincial or national team. High Performance Coach education is customized and personalized based on the needs of the coach, to give the coaches the knowledge to demonstrate advanced coaching skills, abilities, and attitudes. Either way, the instruction you receive under the NCCP Coach Development Model will help you become familiar with the unique needs of athletes with quadriplegia and/or multiple limb loss.
Wheelchair Rugby NCCP Coach Development Model
Each coach pathway has three stages:
In-Training: The coach completes several modules and attends a wheelchair rugby club coach course. After this step, the coach is classified as being trained.
Evaluation: The coach is evaluated by a learning facilitator and completes more modules. After this step, the coach is classified as being certified.
Professional Deveopment: To maintain certification, the coach earns points for completing professional development activities. Active club coaches must earn 20 points over 5 years, while active performance coaches must earn 30 points over 5 years.
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