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British Scones Tutorial
Try my Cranberry Spiced version of my authentic British Scones comprehensive recipe & video tutorial, with tips on how to achieve the perfect rise for this classic British bake.
After the success of using my original British Scones recipe in the global bake-along in a Facebook group I help admin (Great British Bake Off Fans), I was asked for a recipe with some flavour additions to the scones. So here are my Cranberry Spiced British Scones.
FLAVOURED SCONES TIPS
Adding Too Much Extra Ingredients
If you read my recipe, you will be aware that adding too much additional weight (be it in the form of dry fruit for example), can be heavy and impede the rise of the scone and the end result being that they don’t look like classic British scones. So I did some more testing and you can use chocolate chips if you want (about 60g/2 oz) but for this recipe I used dried cranberries. In subsequent tests, I also used mixed dried fruit (Cranberry and raisin mix from Aldi that flame raisins in it!) and also added some spices to pump up the flavour profile.
Adding Flavourings To British Scones
So this recipe includes pics of these different flavours. You can also add things like lemon or orange zest and as much as you want without affecting the rise. If you want to add extract, add it when making up your liquid, so that the dough doesn’t get too moist.
A Savoury British Scone
I also developed a savoury version – Cheese Scones. There is Extra Mature Scottish Cheese (like extra sharp cheddar), in the dough and also topping the scone in the final stages of the baking process.
VIDEO TUTORAIL – REAL-TIME
Now I also have a couple on videos on the process of scone making (not on these Cranberry Spiced British Scones).. One about the things not to do, as this is where most problems arise. For more details on that, see this video on scone tips.
For an almost real-time video, go to my Classic Scones Tutorial below. (My 2020 one is still on my Youtube Channel, but I made a better quality one this year which you can view below). This shows how little and gentle handling is required. Many people who joined in and used my recipe, have now got the rise to their scones just from watching this video.
A NOTE ON INGREDIENTS
Just a little note on the ingredients in these cranberry spiced British scones. I generally use self-raising flour and you can also use self-rising if you have it. But you can also use Plain or All Purpose flour. These scones were successfully baked in the States in the bake-along with generic all purpose flour.
Even gluten free flour works too, (with the addition of Xanthan Gum), and some even used coconut and goats milk because of intolerances. Both worked but give less of a golden finish to the scone.
The recipe also uses caster sugar. Now it is only a small amount and is purely there to help with the structure of the bake and also preserves the bake a little too. Extra/ultra fine or bakers sugar is a perfect alternative or you could just pulse the sugar from regular granulated sugar. Just note that US granulated is a little finer a granule size than our UK equivalent. See photo below of our sugar in the UK.
Click also if you want to learn more about Differences Between UK & US Baking Ingredients. My recipes ALWAYS include tested measurement conversions, but if you are needing help with other recipes, check out my Conversion Of Common Baking Ingredients article. It includes a handy table, easily shared or saved.
Scones Made By My Son
Here are some scones baked by my 15 year old son. Our scones are traditionally made with round cutters, but he made this time with a square cutter and he got a great rise. He made them for me on Mother’s Day. I wanted to show you them, as I was so proud. He has made them for Mother’s Day for the last 3 years.
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Without further ado – let’s get baking!
- Scales or Measuring Cups
- Measuring Spoons
- Chopping board
- Small Jug
- Large Mixing Bowl
- Pastry Cutter (optional)
- Large Spoon
- Cookie Cutter (round, straight edged, 5-6cm or 2 – 2 1/3″, mine is 5¾cm or 2¼)
- Baking Tray – 1 Extra Large or 2 medium
- Baking/Parchment Paper
- Pastry Brush or Artist/Paint brush
- Small Bowl
- Timer or Phone Timer
- Cooling Rack
- OVEN: 220c/200c Fan Oven/425f/Gas Mark 6.
Cranberry spiced British scones with cream & jam,
- 450g Self-raising Flour (15.75 oz)
- OR (3 & 2/3 cups Self-rising Flour)
- OR (AP/Plain Flour plus 5 + 1/2 (level) tsp Baking powder + scant 1 tsp salt) *See above
- 2 tsp Baking Powder (rounded)
- 1 tsp Mixed Spice (or Pumpkin Spice)
- 3/4 tsp Anise (optional)
- 75g Butter, unsalted, cubed & at room temperature
- (2/3 stick or 1/3 cup, 2.5 oz)
- 50g Castor Sugar
- (level ¼ cup, 1.75 oz) *See above
- 80g Dried Cranberries, OR Mixed Dried Fruit, chopped (2.8 oz, 2/3 cup before chopping)
- 2 Eggs (med – large)
- 225ml Milk (up to 1 cup, approximately. 7.5 fl oz)
1. Weigh out the butter whilst cubing it and leave out to come to room temperature. I like to cut my butter to about 1 1/4cm (1/2″) size as smaller surface area will soften quicker. But if you are short on time, try this hack I reviewed, for softening butter in about 11 minutes. See Photo 1.
2. Place baking/parchment paper on top of the baking sheets/trays. (Hold in position with some baking spray/butter/lining paste if they are flat and have no lips or your bake can fall off – this has happened to me with cookies 🙁
3. Weigh or measure in the flour into the bowl, spoon in the baking powder, give it a mix through before you drop in the butter. See Photo 1.
4. Using your fingertips, rub the butter into the flour & continue to do this until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs, (tiny pieces). See the video for how this is done. I use a pastry cutter for this job as my fingers get sore. You push down into the bowl and do a squishing motion whilst turning the cutter left and right. Repeat this until all the butter is now in very tiny pieces coated by the flour. Alternatively, you can use two butter knives and cut through the butter (this is where the term ‘cutting in’ comes from). See Photo 2.
5. Then add/weigh in the sugar & mix till distributed evenly. Then add in the spices if using. See Photo 2 with no spices added.
6. Next roughly chop the dried cranberries, or mixed fruit (which ever you are using), like in Photo 3.
7. Add in the chopped cranberries/dry fruit and mix till coated in the dry mixture.
8. Beat the eggs in a jug and then top up to the 300ml (10 fl oz,1 1/4 cup) mark with the milk, (depending on the size of the eggs, you might not need as much milk).
9. Give the liquid a good whisk and then take 2 tbsp of it out and place in a small bowl to use later.
10. Gradually add the egg/milk mixture to the dry ingredients, mixing with a wooden spoon or spatula, until a soft dough is formed. Be aware that the dough being a little bit sticky is good for the scones to rise. But only add enough of the liquid until just sticky. **So you may not need all the liquid. See Photo 4 (spiced dough left, just cranberries on the right). Do this by hand and don’t use a food processor as it can make the scones tough. Same goes for kneading, only bring the dough together until combined and soft. (See video)
11. Next flour a pastry board or worktop/counter or use some baking/parchment paper with a little flour on top.
12. Heat up the oven to: 220c/200c Fan Oven/425f/Gas Mark 6, (or do so sooner if your oven takes longer to come to temperature).
13. Meanwhile put the dough down and flatten gently with your hands until you have a level piece of dough about 1″ (2.5cm) high. Try not to go smaller than this – you can make slightly deeper. Don’t be tempted to roll out the dough as this won’t help the scones to rise. (If too sticky, just pat some flour on your hands and on top of the flattened dough. Do not roll back up or knead). See Photos 4 & 5.
14. Flour the cutter or glass and cut out the scones. Push the cutter down and DO NOT TWIST the cutter. I know it’s tempting, but twisting can ruin the outer structure of the scones – you want that characteristic ‘rise & split’ appearance of a good cranberry spiced British scone. Use a spatula or knife to very carefully transfer to the prepared baking tray, (or let it fall onto the prepared tray). Try to touch the sides of the scones as little as possible. See Photo 6.
15. Gently roll up the scraps of dough by hand and flatten out to cut out however more scones you can get, remembering only lightly knead and handle as little as possible. (I usually get about 14 cranberry scones per batch). See Photo 6. (Note that the scones from the rolled up off-cuts, will not look as perfect as the first lot and it’s because of more ‘handling’ of the dough. As an alternative, you can divide the dough in half and then cut out and bring the 2 lots of scrap dough together at the end.
16. Now using a pastry brush, very carefully brush the egg/milk liquid you reserved earlier, onto the tops of the scones only. If the liquid goes down the sides, it can ruin the rise of the scones. So, the best way to avoid it is by shaking/tapping the brush before moving to the scone and then starting to brush from the centre and going outwards, so there is less liquid on the brush to spill down the sides. Watch the video for a visual of how to do this.
17. Bake the cranberry spiced British scones for 8-14 minutes until well risen and golden in colour. For an even bake and colouring, and depending on your oven, turning and rotating the trays can help. You can also bake just one tray at a time if you want. At the 8 minute mark, check if they are done. They should be golden on top and bottom. Keep an eye on it as it can turn quickly. Mine were ready after a total of 10 minutes in my old oven but nearer to 14 in my new one! Leave on the baking tray 5 minutes. See Photo 7.
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18. Cool a little on a cooling rack and enjoy the cranberry spiced British scones warm with whatever fillings you enjoy.
**You can freeze Cranberry Spiced British Scones and once defrosted, heat a little in a warm oven. Alternatively, slice in half and heat in the microwave for about 20 seconds.
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Hitman: Absolution video – cast and developers discuss motion capture, smoking, story
Hitman: Absolution bad guy Benjamin Travis is voiced by well-known actor Powers Boothe, and in the latest behind-the-scenes trailer below, Boothe discusses how he needed to invent new smoking techniques for the character.
IO Interactive also explains how it created the story, how important story is in an interactive medium, and other cast members discuss the “challenges of doing a full performance capture at the famous Giant Studios in Los Angeles.”
Hitman: Absolution is out on November 20 for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

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Multicolored Crochet Pattern
The quantity of sts is multiple 6.
1st-6th rows: 1 single crochet in every crochet, turn;
Change the color of yarn.
7th row: * 1 single crochet in the 1st st of the 6th row, draw the yarn from the next st of the 5th row to the level of work, make 2 sts on the crochet hook together (= single crochet from the st of the 5th row), 1 single crochet from the st of the 3rd row, 1 single crochet from the st of the 2nd row, 1 single crochet from the st of the 1st row*; repeat from * to * .
For the next color the 7th row becomes the 1st row.
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As Christmas fast approaches, please spare a thought for Britain’s children, past and present.
A lost generation of innocents, traumatised from childhood into adulthood.
Thousands upon thousands snatched from loving parents by vile social workers.
Thousands upon thousands abused by powerful paedophiles over the decades.
Thousands upon thousands bearing the pain for a lifetime.
Suffer the Children of Britain.
In care homes.
In guest houses.
In seedy rooms.
In luxury flats.
In BBC studios.
By social workers.
By family members.
By religious leaders.
Suffer the children of Britain.
It’s only a matter of time…

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Getting Involved with Home Health Care
Getting involved with a career in the healthcare industry has become a very desirable business option for many. With rising health care costs, many are turning to home-based healthcare to solve a lot of the problems faced by individuals and families in today’s society.
As the cost of health care continues to grow year after year, many facilities are being forced to take measures to reduce costs wherever possible. Hospitals and rehabilitation facilities are now finding that they need to discharge their patients earlier than they normally would. For patients, time spent recovering in the hospital or rehabilitation facility is being dramatically cut down and people are being forced to go home before they may feel comfortable (or before they may be able) to do so. As a result, many individuals now require short-term assistance at home as they recuperate. Home health care provides the necessary help that individuals who have been discharged from their health care facilities and still require care at home are in great need of. Hospitals and other health care facilities are always looking to safely discharge patients in an attempt to minimize re-admissions, and home health care makes earlier discharge an option.
While patients may be discharged from their treatment facilities, they can still recuperate and receive care and assistance in the comfort of their own homes. This is advantageous to patients because not only is home health care a more cost-effective option for individuals versus receiving care in hospitals and institutions, but it also improves the quality of life for those people who are able to remain in their own homes. Recovery is often times easier in a person’s home; they have more flexibility, more privacy and dignity, and an increased sense of comfort in their own homes. It also provides benefits to the individuals family as well, especially those family members who are tasked to provide care. Physically, emotionally, and financially – home health care provides caregivers respite. Home health care can help to keep families close together.
If you are interested in a home health care business option, then Executive Care could be the Home Care franchise opportunity for you. Learn more about franchising opportunities with us by visiting our franchise section of our website at https://franchise.executivehomecare.com/.

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An often stirring folk/blues guitarist and vocalist, Roy Book Binder has been playing country blues since the mid-'60s, when he began recording for Blue Goose. Greatly influenced by Rev. Gary Davis and Pink Anderson, Book Binder played in East Coast coffeehouses in the early '60s, then began accompanying Rev. Davis on tours in the mid-'60s. He also played with Larry Johnson, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, and Homesick James. Besides constant concerts and tours, Book Binder has made additional recordings for Blue Goose, as well as Adelphi, Rounder, and his own PEGleg label.
Book Binder began playing blues guitar while he was enlisted in the Navy. Following his discharge from the military, he enrolled in Rhode Island Junior College. After a brief spell there, he attended New York's New School for Social Research. Book Binder quit school in 1967, after he met the Rev. Gary Davis. Book Binder became Davis' chauffeur, during which he took extensive lessons from the blind guitarist. He started his recording career slowly, cutting some singles for Kicking Mule and Blue Goose in 1968. In 1969, he toured England with Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup and Homesick James. The following year, he released his first album, Travelin' Man, on Adelphi. After the release of Travelin' Man, he began touring America extensively.
Book Binder began playing with fiddler Fats Kaplin in 1973, recording Git Fiddle Shuffle the same year. Roy and Fats were a duo for three years, playing numerous concerts and recording a second album, Ragtime Millionaire, in 1976. Following the release of Ragtime Millionaire, the duo stopped performing together and Book Binder bought a motor home, which became his permanent residence. Live performances became his primary concern after the release of Goin' Back to Tampa in 1979. For nearly ten years, he toured the country in the motor home, driving himself from club to club, hitting numerous coffeehouses and festivals along the way.
Book Binder returned to recording in 1988, releasing Bookaroo! on Rounder Records. In addition to his constant touring, he recorded regularly in the '90s and remained active into the new millennium; his albums during this period have included The Hillbilly Blues Cats (1992, Rounder), Live Book...Don't Start Me Talkin'... (1994, Rounder), Polk City Ramble (1998, Rounder), Singer Songwriter Bluesman (2001, PEGleg), and Live at the Fur Peace Station (2005, PEGleg).


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Today I want to talk about using a camp oven trivet, 10 years ago when I started Camp oven cooking, everybody told me to go out and buy a trivet and put it in the bottom of the camp oven, instead of teaching me heat control.
So that way your food doesn’t burn and being a beginner right you listen to those around you as you think they have more experience than you do.
But further on down the track, when I learned more about heat control, I figured out the didn’t need to use a camp oven trivet.
What is a camp oven trivet?
Basically, a Camp Oven Trivet is used to keep the food up off of the bottom of your camp oven, the camp oven trivet is a metal rack that creates a space from the bottom of the oven to the food you are cooking.
What is a camp oven trivet for?
A Trivet is primarily used when cooking meat or dampers or other food that you generally bake or roast in a camp oven to prevent burning.
Some reasons people use a trivet.
Should I use a camp oven trivet?
The short answer is No, you don’t need to use one, however, it totally depends entirely on personal preference. I recommend that you hone your camp oven cooking heat control skills so that you don’t need one.

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Sitka gives $300 to residents for tourism inconvenience
January 3, 2024
Sitkans received a $300 credit on their December utility bills after the city assembly voted to share some of the higher-than-expected sales tax revenues with the public.
The assembly voted to spend just over $1 million on the program, distributing the money to every residential utility account in town.
Sitka saw a record number of cruise ship visitors last summer, swelling the sales tax coffers but also inconveniencing residents.
In passing the appropriation in November, assembly members said they wanted citizens to receive some compensation for the inconveniences they endured in the visit...

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H.S. FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: Duxbury's Roberts throws 5 TDs
John Roberts threw five first-half touchdown passes Friday night as the Duxbury High football team did all its scoring before the break in a 35-6 home win over Plymouth North.
Tim Landolfi had two of the TD catches, covering 7 yards and 42 yards, for the Green Dragons (3-1, 2-0 Patriot League Keenan Division).
Roberts hit James Miele with a 35-yard scoring pass to kick things off.
Landolfi’s 7-yarder made it 14-0 before North (1-3, 0-2) found the end zone.
John Jacobson caught a 15-yard TD pass from Roberts to make it 21-6.
Landolfi’s second score pushed the lead to 28-6, and Will Prouty capped the flurry with a 25-yard TD catch.
Roberts finished with 175 yards passing. Landolfi had four catches for 60 yards.
In other football action:
Scituate 24, Plymouth South 14: The Sailors (3-1, 1-1) picked up a Patriot League Fisher Division road win over South (0-4, 0-2) as Aidan Sullivan was 6 of 7 passing for 111 yards and two TDs.
Plymouth South struck first on Elijah Ramos’ 6-yard TD run and Carlos Cruz’s PAT.
Sullivan then sandwiched TD passes of 5 yards to Peyton Crosby and 58 yards to Daniel May around a 3-yard scoring run by Andrew Blanchard (22 carries for 78 yards) to make it 21-7. Jake Bridgeman, who kicked three PATs, added a 25-yard field goal for a 24-7 lead.
South’s Alex Cohen threw a 44-yard TD pass to Connor Holbrook late.
Blue Hills 20, Cape Cod Tech 6: Junior fullback Brendon Lima scored three touchdowns, carrying the ball 31 times for 135 yards, to lift the Warriors (1-3, 1-1) over the Crusaders (2-2, 1-1) in a Mayflower Athletic Conference Vocational Small game.
Senior quarterback Andrew Bryant was 3 for 5 passing for 91 yards for Blue Hills, and senior linebacker Dan Pelligrino had an interception.
Governor’s 34, Milton Academy 28: The Mustangs (1-1) fell behind 26-0 at halftime and could not climb all the way back in an Independent School League road loss at Governor’s (2-0). Senior receivers John Minicus (four catches for 89 yards) and Greg Livingston (5-65) starred for MA.
North Quincy 20, Hanover 19: The Raiders (2-2) pulled out a win in their Patriot League Fisher Division opener, beating the Indians (2-2, 1-1) on quarterback Tim Layden's 10-yard TD run with 30 seconds left. Layden ran 14 times for 84 yards and completed 7 of 12 passes for 186 yards and a pair of TDs -- a 76-yarder to Nelson Walinjom and a 60-yarder to Nate Sleiman. Kieran O'Driscoll hit PATs after the TD passes. The Raiders trailed 19-7 in the third quarter.
Dennis-Yarmouth 34, Pembroke 6: The Titans (2-2) suffered a non-league loss to D-Y (4-0).


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Environmental Sustainability and Economic Development: Cost Benefit Analysis for Sustainable Development
Anastasios Xepapadeas ()
No 1413, DEOS Working Papers from Athens University of Economics and Business
Sustainable development, environmental sustainability, green economies and green growth are issues which are of great importance for both the research and the policy agenda. The present paper clearly defines the concepts of sustainability and environmental sustainability and provides a conceptual framework for developing sustainability-founded cost benefit rules. It shows that a certain policy cannot necessarily simultaneously satisfy sustainable development and environmental sustainability objectives, the development of green economies, and the attainment of development or green growth.This is important for decision makers because it suggests using more than one criterion depending on the combination of the objectives to be pursued.The cost benefit rules presented in this paper could provide a basis for a clear distinction among objectives and for project selection mechanisms that promote single or multiple objectives.
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THE USE OF CARBON PLASTICS INWIDE-SOWING MACHINES
- 1 Факультет механизации сельского хозяйства, Днепропетровский государственный аграрно-экономический университет, Украина
Conducted field tests of seed complex Agro-Soyuz Turbosem II 19-60, equipped with maintenance-free disk-anchor openers.
Developed materials have low indices of relative wear in a fairly wide range of operation with such variables as pressure and surface roughness. Some properties of the developed composite materials, which have made possible the creation of an innovative product. In the first season of the complex sowed 9179,5 ha without maintenance of the modernized units.


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A flawless cast and the dreadful imagery of director Ari Aster aren’t the only reasons Hereditary has quickly become the year’s most buzz-worthy horror movie. Composer/saxophonist Colin Stetson ratchets the film’s tension up even further with his film score, an Oscar-worthy quiet storm of strings, chimes, and drones.
“Staged in the mind field (think: a field of tall grass),” explains Walter, “this work depicts the play between the voices in our head that seek to become (flowers and such things in a field), and the totality they are a part of. Trumpets and trombones sing out in slow calls to one another, partnering with a less familiar, more abstract voice that meanders its way, almost searching for what it wants to say. Together they slowly gather momentum and ascend atop the the darker, more abstract background of our primitive past.”
“Justin and I have toured together many times,” adds Stetson, “and I’ve always adored the wonderful ways which our respective musics have complimented each other, both solo on bills together and in the SORROW ensemble. In his remixing of my ‘Hereditary’ score, hearing him take these sounds and themes and explode them into his own world has been truly thrilling and inspiring for the many future collaborations between us to come.”

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The good folks at Red Planet sadly remind us that as long as there is evil in the world there will be those who choose to ignore it. The War on Terror is no different.
The jihadis weren't the first to have their apologists; when America was fighting for it's life during World War II, the Nazis also had their champions in the U.S., most notably Joe Kennedy and Charles Lindhbergh.
Leading up to World War II, Dr. Seuss ripped the America First isolationist/anti-war movement almost daily. It would be interesting to see what kinds of cartoons Dr. Seuss would be turning out if he were still with us today.
As for Dr. Seuss’ original caption: “We always were suckers for ridiculous hats.” This might have been the earliest known sighting of a moonbat hat.
If Dr. Seuss were alive today, liberals in particular and the Harry Reid/Nancy Pelosi crew would already have cranked up the Great Progressive Smear Machine.
It's better that the beloved Doctor is peacefully in repose.
DBKP.com - Bigger, Better!.
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

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Celebrating the Earth and the Day…One Flower or Image at a Time!
It was a beautiful San Diego day last Sunday, April 23, 2017. I was meeting friends from the East Coast at the San Diego Zoo. Little did I know that Balboa Park was celebrating Earth Day, and it was extremely crowded! Parking took forever! But lo and behold, I finally was able to park and decided to capture some images of the afternoon at Balboa Park en route to meeting my friends.
Most of the images are flowers. That’s celebrating the Earth, right???
Feel free to enjoy these images by clicking on each one.
I recently spent some time strolling on the beautiful campus at San Diego State University (SDSU). Our daughter is enrolled for Fall, 2016 and we love taking the time to explore every chance we get!
Here are some photos I captured that gloriously beautiful day! I wish I could have photographed the entire campus! Perhaps I will visit again soon to capture much more! Feel free to click on each photo.
Subscribe and leave comments and let us know if you have any links, photos or blog posts about SDSU as well! Enjoy!
This morning I enjoyed a wonderful hike with my friend Ninon at Torrey Pines State Reserve. We walked up the hill from the parking lot. (Usually $12/day, but for locals like us, it pays to buy a “California Explorer” Annual Pass which gives access to California State Parks).
A lone Torrey Pines tree at Torrey PInes State Reserve


text: Good morning, friends! So many musicals are right around the corner and I’m excited. The next 4 weekends will be full of performances and I cannot wait to celebrate every single one. If you’re looking to enjoy some amazing highschool talents, send me a message and I’ll happily point you towards my students who are in upcoming productions of Into the Woods, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and 42nd Street, respectively. I kicked things off, yesterday, with a little recon for my own show and saw Beauty and the Beast with my fellow production team friends. It was produced by a neighboring park district and was a fantastic time! With a little luck, I’ll figure out how to squeeze in Something Rotten and Mamma Mia, both at local highschools. So many opportunities to enjoy theater; tis the season!


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CARE Australia’s Takara Morgan spoke about youth, education and CARE’s programs at the Oaktree Foundation’s event ‘The Future of East Timor’ on 2 October 2012.
Education in Timor-Leste
I first visited Timor-Leste in 2008 when I stayed with a local family and conducted some research in Ainaro on education, particularly around language. From this research I began to gain a deeper understanding of some of the education challenges facing Timor-Leste. These well documented challenges include lack of funding for books, classrooms, equipment, well trained teachers, a good curriculum, water facilities, electricity and road access.
Timor-Leste is a multilingual society with at least 19 languages spoken throughout the country. The official languages of Timor-Leste are Tetum and Portuguese, with English and Bahasa Indonesia recognised as important working languages. The selection of the language of instruction in Timor-Leste is one of the most challenging and contentious decisions facing education policymakers, since it has far-reaching effects and implications. The role and status of languages in the Timor-Lesteese school curriculum has dominated debates about educational quality since independence.
With the challenges faced in the education sector and external factors such as food shortages and family circumstances, there is often low enrolment and high dropout rates. As a result, many youth often finds themselves on the street without a complete education and often without a job. Given the post-conflict context of Timor-Leste, this can lead to trouble unless youth are given direction and the opportunity to gain some skills which will enhance the likelihood of them gaining employment.
Despite the challenges, there are many opportunities for this young nation. Democratic elections were recently held without major incident and the Government of Timor-Leste including the Ministry of Education are open to discussing development issues and how they can be addressed. Infrastructure continues to improve with ongoing road rehabilitation and electrification works helping to make basic services available to more people. In fact, I once joked with a colleague that I actually could get better mobile phone reception in rural Timor-Leste with Timor Telecom than with an unnamed telecommunications provider in Canberra’s inner north – suffice to say I have since changed providers.
Seriously though, it is amazing the changes I have noticed since I first went to Timor-Leste in 2008. Back then we drove past internally displaced people’s camps when going in to town, I helped my home stay family wash clothes in a UNHCR bucket, my classroom was often under a tree in the school compound with a blackboard on a chair leaned up against the tree trunk as there were insufficient buildings to house the classes, and I vividly remember my taxi getting stuck in a pot hole on my way to Tetun class. Now, the IDP camps are gone, you only see the odd UNHCR tarp which thrifty locals are using as house extensions or little garages. Businesses are popping up and roads are improving. However, there is still a lot to be done to improve access to basic infrastructure and services particularly outside Dili and especially in the more remote parts of the country.
There are many choices that will need to be made in the future to steer Timor-Leste in the right direction – that is why educating youth is so important as they are the ones that while ultimately drive the development of Timor-Leste forward in the future.
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In the AusAID-funded Young Women, Young Nation project, parent-teacher associations are taught about the importance of education and events are held to publically acknowledge parents who participate in their children’s education and encourage them to complete their schooling. This public acknowledgement empowers other families to also encourage girls and boys to go to school. It is one thing to get students to attend but if they do not enjoy school then they are not getting the most from their learning experience/education. CARE is also working with the Ministry of Education in select schools to make schools more welcoming through the provision of water and construction of toilets.
CARE’s USAID-funded School Dropout Prevention Project aims to identify the causes of student dropout and then work with schools to reduce dropouts by changing attitudes and behaviours towards education among families and communities.
As mentioned earlier, language of instruction is a crucial issue in Timor-Leste. Some of you may have attended Kirsty Sword Gusmao’s recent talk over at the John Curtin Medical School where she talked about the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education Project. CARE, with support from the Harold Mitchell Foundation and in partnership with the Repete 13 consortium, is currently working on this project, which seeks to introduce local language instruction at the preprimary and primary levels in three districts of Timor-Leste: Lautem, Oecusse and Manatuto. The project seeks to improve the quality of learning outcomes by encouraging students and teachers to use their own languages in their teaching and learning process and building a good bridge to the national languages. The Consortium is achieving this through: 1) improving capacity of teachers in pilot schools to teach in mother tongue; 2) getting community members, especially parents who may not speak the school language to take an active role in their children’s education (for example by activating parent teacher associations); and 3) creating and accessing resources in the mother tongue (as a number of the languages are mainly spoken agreeing on an written alphabet is an interesting process – they go out to the community and get some butchers paper and decide on L for leaf. They then take all this back to Dili and publish it to make resources.)
In December 2000, CARE started producing a children’s magazine called Lafaek to promote child rights in Timor-Leste. Following its early success and considering the lack of print material available in schools at the time, in 2004 the Ministry of Education and CARE collaborated to continue to produce the magazines as the curriculum supplement materials. Four type of magazines were produced bimonthly, a teacher guide, pre-primary to grade 2 primary school, grade 3-4 primary school and grade 5 to pre-secondary school magazines. These magazines were distributed to primary schools throughout the country. Now, the magazine which is currently funded by NZAid has become a community magazine with a ‘did you know’ section (where various forms of messaging can be placed), a section on managing finances, let’s count, agriculture, kids section, learning to read and write, and a story telling section.
Helping girls get an education: Young Women, Young Nation
Girls are usually the first to be taken out of school, with parents often prioritising a boy’s education over a girl’s. Yet, when a girl completes primary school, she is more likely to have children later, send her own children to school, have a healthier family and earn a greater income. This is why CARE is working to increase the value of girls’ education in communities in Timor-Leste, and removing the barriers that prevent girls from going to school and staying there, including by providing water and toilet blocks.
Once in school, the girls are encouraged through the introduction of activities like traditional dancing, singing, sport and quizzes to help them build their confidence. CARE also produces books with stories about positive female role models for the girls to aspire to.
Developing the vocational skills of youth: Youth centres
CARE has strong ties to the community of Bairo Pite in Dili, having acted as a refuge during the 2006 crisis and conducting peace-building and youth empowerment work in the years that followed. CARE realised that for young people to participate meaningfully in their communities, they needed increased educational opportunities and access to employment through services.
With support from AusAID’s Australian NGO Cooperation Program, Count Charitable and the Greenlight Foundation, CARE supports the Bairo Pite Youth Centre. The centre is one of 5 established in 2008 with an overall goal of improving the coping strategies for conflict-affected youth following the end of the 2006 urban crisis. CARE has been supporting the centre since 2010. The Bairo Pite Centre is one of only 13 government accredited national vocational training centres.
Students are 15-30 years old and have dropped out of school or have not been able to complete formal primary or secondary education. Many of these young people had to leave school due to civil conflict, to care for family members or to provide household labour. In many instances they are heads of household or single mothers.
A large number are at risk of being enticed into anti-social activities, martial arts groups or other non-productive activities. That is why these centres and the vocational training courses they provide are so important.
Students must initially complete the Youth Centre’s 5 ½ month Foundation course (High School Equivalency) which involves education in life skills, literacy and numeracy, basic English, human rights and peace building, hospitality, tourism, agriculture and administration before undertaking one of the national accredited courses in Hospitality (Certificate I & II) and Administration (Certificate I & II). Courses include a work placement at a prospective employer which is a highlight for the students as they put their skills to practice and build up vital networks.
It’s easy to see why the students enjoy coming here, away from the streets of Dili where idle youth often wander and hang out. The Centre exudes a feeling of warmth and safety; there are smiles and friendly chatter amongst the flourishing gardens tended by the agriculture students and the delicious smells wafting from the hospitality kitchen.
The students put their newfound business skills to use by making the items they produce available to the public for sale – including biscuits and cakes from the hospitality students, and organic pesticides and fertilizers from the agriculture students.
The students are provided with a nutritious breakfast and lunch every day at the Centre at no charge, a huge source of motivation for them to attend every day. The food is prepared on site in the hospitality kitchen by a male kitchen–hand, a deliberate choice by the administrators to try and break down gender stereotypes that are still prevalent in Timorese society.
I want to develop my skills, so I can develop my future, so I can develop my country
I would like to leave you with a quote from one of the girls I spoke with at the Youth Centre. Her name has been changed to protect her privacy but her words have left a lasting impression on me and I thought were particularly appropriate for tonight. When asked what she wanted to do after completing her administration course she replied emphatically, ‘I want to develop my skills, so I can develop my future, so I can develop my country.’
For me this was really powerful, and demonstrated the importance of investing in youth and education in Timor-Leste. Ultimately, youth are the future of Timor-Leste so we need to ensure they have the skills and education to fight the underlying causes of poverty and to develop their nation.
Find out more about CARE’s work in Timor-Leste.


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Fall and Winter Watering
Marianne C. Ophardt
Washington State University Cooperative Extension
Area Extension Agent
When irrigation water is turned off and systems blown out in the fall, your landscape plants still need water. Foggy mornings, heavy frost, and cloudy skies often give a false impression that plants have adequate soil moisture. Relatively dry air and low or no measurable precipitation lead to dry soils. This means that even in the fall and winter... trees, shrubs, and lawn grasses need water to avoid drought stress. This is particularly true during the fall and early winter when there is little or no snow cover... or when there is an extended warm fall.
Fall and winter watering can be crucial to having healthy plants in the landscape. During the summer we are clued in to water stress by wilting and dropping leaves. Plants that experience fall and winter drought can’t tell us something is wrong until the next year when they fail to thrive the next year. Fall and winter drought can lead to root injury or death. These drought-injured plants may not show symptoms of the problem until the next season or even the next year. In fact they may leaf out and flower just fine in the spring, relying on stored food reserves. Once that energy supply runs out plants weaken and start dying back. Even if a plant isn’t killed outright, it is made more susceptible to insect and disease attack.
This type of “winter” injury seems to be more common than we realize in this area. For the past several years, we have been losing many of our area birches. This has been attributed to past winter droughts and cold temperatures without the benefit of insulating snow cover. Birches are particularly sensitive to fall and winter drought. Weakened by this, the birch trees that weren’t killed outright have become increasingly susceptible to attack by the bronze birch borer, which attacks and eventually kills weakened birch trees.
Other shade trees are also susceptible to winter drought damage, especially those with shallow root systems. This includes Norway maple, silver maple, linden, Colorado blue spruce, Norway spruce, and many other evergreens. Shrubs are also vulnerable to winter drought damage, especially those growing up close to the house or in a warmer location. This includes junipers, Oregon grape-holly, and euonymus.
So what’s the answer? It’s simple.... water the landscape in the plants and the fall. Yes, it will be work and you’ll have to use your domestic water but, the effort will be worth it when you see that your plants survive and others around you don’t do as well as yours. I’m not talking about watering plants every day. .... you’ll probably only have to water a couple of times in the fall to prevent damage.
The most critical time to water is in the fall just before cold weather hits or during extended warm weather. It’s interesting to note that not so many years ago, horticulturists thought it was a good practice to insure dormancy by drought stressing plants in the fall and this decreased the chance of winter injury. Research since then has indicated that the reverse is true... so now we try to insure plants aren’t drought stressed in the fall. The soil should be kept slightly moist down to a depth of 18 inches for most shrugs and a depth of 18 to 24 inches for trees. Water only when the air temperature is above freezing and the soil isn’t frozen... which isn’t usually much of a problem during the fall but can be during winter dry spells. Water early in the day to allow water time to drain away from the bases of plants. (Frozen water next to the bark can physically damage trees and shrubs.) Soaker hoses work well for applying the water slowly and where needed.
Since fall and winter watering will be more labor intensive for you, apply the water where it counts the most... in the root zone. Consider that established trees have roots that go out at least as far as the tree is tall and usually further. It is in the “dripline” and just beyond where most of the water should be applied. The “dripline” is an imaginary vertical line that is perpendicular to the longest side branches of the tree and perpendicular to the ground. Water applied at the tree trunk base is wasted because there are no water absorbing roots there.
Watering recently planted trees and shrubs is a different story. Their roots don’t go out that far yet. In this case you will want to water the root ball zone and just beyond. The aim is to water where the roots are. This makes sense doesn’t it?
Keep in mind that even if we do get lots of rain during the fall, shrubs and trees close to the house foundation or located under eaves may still need watering. Located in these areas, they receive little precipitation and they lose more moisture than other plants because of their proximity to the structure and reflected heat from the walls.

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MANLY-WARRINGAH Sea Eagles will have to wait until tonight's final result before claiming a finals position, after blowing their chance losing 30-24 to a determined Bulldogs outfit at Brookvale Oval on Sunday afternoon
THE Roosters have prepared for their first finals campaign since 2008 with a scratchy 18-8 victory over the North Queensland Cowboys at Dairy Farmers Stadium
THE Brisbane Broncos are in danger of missing their first finals series in twenty years following a heart-breaking 36-4 loss to the New Zealand Warriors at Mt Smart Stadium.
IT could be a cliche, but it was most certainly a game of two halves today as the Canberra Raiders continued their recent run of dominance over competition leaders St George Illawarra Dragons, inflicting a 32-16 scoreline against the heavyweights at Canbe
THE Manly Sea Eagles have moved up the ladder once more, putting their top eight opposition New Zealand Warriors in doubt of a top four finish following a convincing 19-16 victory at Brookvale Oval.


The Clevo P870TM or Sager NP9877 is possibly the fastest laptop on the market. Equipped with the six core i7 8700k CPU and up to 2 x GTX 1080’s in SLI, up to 64 GM RAM, up to 10TB of storage the barebone manufacturer, Clevo, (the case is called P870DM) incorporated as many as five USB 3.0 ports and a USB 3.1 Type-C port with Thunderbolt and DisplayPort support.
Those who want to connect their external display in a conventional way can either use the HDMI 2.0 port on the rear side or one of the two Mini-DisplayPorts on the right side, which are unfavorably placed in our opinion (use of a mouse).Certainly, a multi-monitor setup from several displays is not a problem.
Thank to cutting-edge technology, all display-outs are capable of 4K in 60 Hz. The four audio ports, which allow connecting a surround system, are praiseworthy, too. In addition, there is a card reader and a Kensington lock slot. On top of that, two RJ-45 connectors are on board.
One of the biggest highlights of the P870DM barebone is customer-friendly maintenance. While it takes a while to remove eleven screws and the underside (the mechanism is somewhat restive), the buyer can reach all the inner components. First of all there is the desktop CPU, which is supplied with a fan and three heatpipes and can be replaced if necessary.


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It’s easy to look around at the fast food landscape in 2021 and assume that every major chain is currently preoccupied with trying to invent a bigger and better chicken sandwich. But lest you think the whole world is just one big poultry party right now, we wanted to shout out some of the other great fast food items we’ve tasted this year. A person can’t survive on chicken alone, after all, and this array of less celebrated offerings is well worth your time, money, and stomach space. Here are our favorite non-chicken-sandwich fast food items of 2021, so far.
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MassDOT is transforming the Methuen Rotary area. Major improvements at the I-93 and Route 110/Route 113 Interchange, also known as the Methuen Rotary, will replace the rotary with a partial cloverleaf interchange. The reconfiguration will address congestion and safety problems at the rotary, where most intersections operate at level of service F, or failing, during peak hours. The new configuration will eliminate dangerous merges at some locations in the interchange area that contribute to a crash rate 7½ times higher than the statewide average.
MassDOT conducted a number of studies over several years to evaluate alternatives to improve the interchange. Close to 20 alternatives were studied, and the alternative that replaces the rotary with a partial cloverleaf was selected in 2009. For reports and other documents from the preliminary design and environmental permitting phase and the feasibility study, visit the Archives page.
The key features of the alternative include:
- Four realigned/reconstructed I-93 on- and off-ramps;
- New I-93 southbound loop on-ramp and I-93 northbound loop off-ramp;
- Realignment of Route 110/113 including construction of new signalized intersections on the east and west sides of the interchange;
- Construction of a new bridge carrying I-93 over relocated Route 110/113;
- Removal of the two existing I-93 bridges over the existing rotary roadways;
- Reconstruction of the Route 110/Riverside Drive/Bolduc Street and Route 113/Branch Street intersections on the west side of the interchange;
- New traffic signal equipment at the Route 113/Forest Street and Route 110/Burnham Road/Green Street intersections;
- Mitigation for unavoidable wetland impacts will transform former Loosigian Farms site on Lowell Boulevard;
- New sidewalks, bicycle lanes, and shoulders; and
- Noise barriers at two locations.


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Bilbao is bidding to host the headquarters of the Secretariat of the United Nations Local2030 Coalition
This afternoon, at the United Nations High Level Political Forum currently being held in New York, the Basque Government presented the project it has drawn up for Bilbao to become the headquarters of the Secretariat of the United Nations Local2030 Coalition.
The presentation of the candidacy was given via a video, with the participation of the Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu, the Mayor of Bilbao, Juan Mari Aburto, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, and the Minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, Ione Belarusra. The Delegate of the Basque Country in the USA, Unai Telleria, was also present at the event.
In the words of the Lehendakari, the Basque Country's experience and history in the field of Sustainable Human Development; the fact that the 2030 Agenda is a Country objective shared by all institutions, the business sector and civil society and the “auzolan” culture that feeds the project, make Bilbao, “with humility and conviction, the best option to host the headquarters of the Local 2030 Secretariat”.
The global process of localising the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs aims to embed the Agenda in every local and regional government around the world, promoting multi-level government coherence, and mobilising multi-stakeholder and trans-disciplinary public-private partnerships for effective bottom-up implementation.
To this end, the United Nations has launched the Local2030 Coalition platform, co-chaired by UN Habitat, and designed to support and accelerate the implementation at sub-state (local) level of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
This Coalition plans to have a global focal point for its Secretariat. The Basque Government, in collaboration with the Spanish Government, the Bilbao City Council and the BBK Foundation, has presented Bilbao’s candidacy to host the headquarters of the Local2030 Secretariat.


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so gun control….
the fact is, there are attempted school shootings like every other day in the US. and there are successful ones frequently enough for it to be a problem. somethings gotta give, somethings gotta change.
two week waiting period between the initial purchase of the gun, and the actual aquiring of it. license guns like you would a car, with checkups in order to ensure everything is in working order. mental health checkups would be helpful. might even prevent suicides.
the license for guns would help ensure people understand gun safety, and how to keep it safely locked up in a house with children. a load of school shootings are because a parent doesnt keep the gun properly.
the 2nd amendment and gun control can coexist, yall
That’s all well and good but do you have an evidence any of that would prevent school shootings and not just violate people’s rights?


Jason Weigandt pretty much learned to read because he wanted to know more about dirt bikes, trucks, ATVs, and pretty much anything that runs on dirt. Hey, he was young back then!
He eventually focused more squarely on motocross, reading the magazines, and then proudly taping every supercross and motocross race that ever aired on TV and stashing it in his cryogenically frozen vault, location unknown.
Who knew this useless knowledge and information would eventually find a use? Certainly not Jason himself, who studied Public Relations at Rowan University in his native New Jersey, and figured he'd end up working at a PR firm in New York City, wearing a suit every day. Before officially going corporate like that, he sent a few emails to the Racer X staff, hoping to become an intern for one summer, just so he could say he was cool. Once. He ended up with a job here in 2001, and has been on the team ever since.
And why did Jason major in Public Relations in college? Because he really likes public speaking, and since most people hate it, he figured it would be easy to get a job. Such interest led him to try announcing while doing PR for the Grand National Cross Country Series, which eventually resulted in doing TV work for the tour. Today, he still announces for the GNCC Series, and is also the play by play voice of the AMA Arenacross Series and the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship.
Between the races, he runs this website.
- July 3, 2022 Jason Weigandt walks and talks from round five.
- July 4, 2022 Check out possibly the best post-race show ever with Marshal Weltin as Jason Weigandt, Kellen Brauer, Wes Williams, and Troy Bendgen break down all the action.
- July 4, 2022 On his first win, an amazing second-moto charge, going slower to go faster, and writing "I Love USA" on his stomach.
- July 1, 2022 Talking points and storylines along with interviews with Ryder DiFrancesco, Marshal Weltin, and Max Anstie leading into the 2022 RedBud National.
- July 1, 2022 Jason Weigandt walks and talks from round five of Lucas Oil Pro Motocross, including the year's first Scouting Moto Combine.
- June 30, 2022 Team not yet announced for Roczen in 2022 World Supercross.
- June 29, 2022 He takes his first-career GNCC win at the gnarly Snowshoe venue, and the points lead, too. Here’s an underdog story in the making.
- June 28, 2022 All 16 motos from this year’s Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship (so far) have hit YouTube. Check them out before racing resumes.
- June 28, 2022 A crash left the KTM factory rider paralyzed, but he kept pushing. He has built a successful eBay store from the ground up, with hard work as the foundation.
- June 22, 2022 Jason Weigandt chats with the two long-time title contenders in this podcast and video.
- June 22, 2022 OSET brand of electric kids bikes now part of Triumph's move into the off-road market.
- June 22, 2022 The former amateur star talks about battling prime Alessi at Loretta’s, and how motocross helped his real job skills today.
- June 20, 2022 Weltin and Hartranft were actually listening to the announcers during their race to track Dungey's progress! Plus post-race chats with Tomac, Sexton, Anderson, Hunter and Jett, Shimoda, Roczen, AMart, Cairoli, Mosiman, Vohland, Savatgy, Dungey and more.
- June 19, 2022 Jason Weigandt walks and talks through the pits after the High Point National.
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As a former Special Constable myself I have seen some of the pressures, stress and strain that police officers face first-hand. I have seen how officers simply cannot leave the job at the door. They take it home with them to their families.
When officers retire, many of the experiences, particularly the traumatic ones, stay with them. That was first recognised way back in the early 19th century, when Police Officers were amongst the first of any profession to get an embryonic pension scheme for what they described then as “officers worn out through length of service”. Though we perhaps wouldn’t describe it in those terms today, in essence that still happens.
In fact, we’ve never before had the number of officers leaving the service as we have had since 2010. 34,000 officers have taken retirement and 4,400 have taken medical retirements, with that figure almost doubling year on year to what we saw less than a decade ago. Over 25,000 officers have been forced off work due to sickness or stress.
To me, it’s not surprising. The service is almost unrecognisable to what I encountered as a Special Constable in the Met in the early part of this decade.
That’s exactly why the Pensions for Life campaign being run by the National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) is so important. If a partner or spouse dies in the line of duty – very often having displayed heroism and commitment beyond most of us – it is an unimaginable tragedy for the family. Because of the nature of the job, very often these families will be young.
The least those officers would expect is that if their young widow went onto re-marry, they will still be looked after by the Government through the police pension. How can it be right that only those who remarried on or after 1st April 2015 are entitled to a pension? As far as I can see, it is a bureaucratic deadline pulled out of thin air.
The truth is this is a basic question of fairness. All widows and widowers should be treated the same regardless of their personal circumstances following the death of their partner or spouse.
It speaks to a broader point. Do we value those who serve as firefighters, police officers, NHS workers? And does that value extend into their retirement?
Just this week I questioned the Police Minister on the pension changes which came into force after 2015 and have affected the lives of so many. The courts, confirmed by the Supreme Court, found that the changes where unfair and discriminatory. Not only that, they were illegal.
I would urge the incoming Government to urgently right this wrong. Give the loved ones of the police officers who worked hard and paid their contributions what they are entitled to.


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New Fashion. –The Lady Do-nothings of society are beginning to wear sleeves so short as to leave half the arm exposed, that being the newest and most aristocratic cut; little thinking that the Lady Do-somethings in our factories and kitchens have had that fashion ‘long time ago,’ and that they are thus treading in plebeian footsteps.
A handsome girl, in the bloom of youth, died at Hinckley on Thursday week, in consequence of tight lacing. How many girls in the bloom of youth are fast following in her footsteps.
As to dress, decency is becoming to all; but extravagance opens a door to want; follow the fashion of the day as far as decency and good sense will approve, but avoid singularity. Be not troubled for what you have not. A Leghorn hat loaded with flowers will not cure the headache, nor a gold watch prevent the consumption.
Reader, says the Democratic Expositor, if you would learn the value of a dollar, go and labor two days in the hot sun, as a hod carrier. This is an excellent idea, and if many of our young gentlemen had to earn their dollar that way, how much less dissipation, folly and crime, would we witness every day. So of fashionable young ladies. If they, like the poor widowed original of the song of the shirt, had to earn their dollar by making shirts at 16 cents a piece how much less foolish finery would we see about them, and many more truthful notions would they have of the duties of life, and their obligations to the rest of the world.
Independence. –It is not the greatness of a man’s means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
Beauty is a captivating, but fading flower, which often leads its youthful possessor into many dangers, many distresses. Happy is it for those who are distinguished for their outward charms, that they are sheltered under the parental roof. Happy for them that the watchful eye regards them with rigid circumspection. Few in the early periods of life are insensible to flattery, or deaf to the voice of adoration. Beware of the flatterer; be not deceived by fair speeches. Be assured the man who wishes to render you vain of your outward charms has a mean opinion of your sense and mental qualifications. Remember, too, that a young girl, whose chief sturdy and employment is in the decoration of her person, is a most contemptible character, and that the more you are distinguished for the charms of your face and the graces of your form, the more you are exposed to danger. – The rose is torn from its parent stem in the pride of beauty; the jasmine is scarcely permitted to blossom before it is plucked; and no sooner are the beauties faded, than the merciless hand which was eager to obtain them, throws them away with contempt; whilst the primrose, the violet, the lily of the valley, and the snow-drop, less exposed to observation, escape unhurt and uninjured by the spoiler’s hand.
Learn fair daughters of beauty, from the primrose, that your best security can be found in retirement. If you wish to be admired, be seldom seen; and if you are desirous of having a sincere lover in your train, let the virtue modesty, sweetness, be the only lures you make use of to ensnare.
You may then, perhaps, by your good, qualities, retain the heart, which was at first captive to your beauties, and when time has robbed you of the graces and the innocent cheerfulness of youth, secure, a sincere and tender friend, to console you in the hours of affliction, and watch over you when deprived of those charms that first made him solicitous to obtain your love.
Repine not, my young readers, though your virtues be concealed in a homely form. If you have secured the virtues of the mind, you need not envy others the beauties of the face. And ye, who are decorated with outward grace, be not vain of such fading externals, but tremble lest they should tempt the designing to lead you into error.
Neglect not, then, in the giddy-hours of youth to make your mind a fit companion for the most lovely. Personal charms may please for a moment; but the more lasting beauties of an improved understanding can never fire. We are soon weary at looking at a picture, though executed in a masterly style; and she, who has only beauty to recommend her, has but little chance of meeting a lover who will not grow indifferent to a mere portrait, particularly when its colors are faded by the subduing hand of time. Then it is that modesty and sweetness of temper are particularly observed; and the loss of beauty will not be regretted by him in first made captive.
Happiness. That state of life is most happy, where superfluities are not required, and necessities are not wanting.
What man in his right senses; that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want, who has enough? Or what is he better for abundance, what can never be satisfied?
Cast an eye into the gay world, what see we for the most part, but a set of querulous emaciated, fluttering, fantastical beings; worn out in the keen pursuit of pleasure; creatures that know, own, condemn, deplore, yet still pursue their own infelicity? The decayed monuments of error! The thin remains of what is called delight!
There are certain stores that modest, unassuming ladies will not enter to purchase goods. The reason they give is this, “The salesmen hang on to us – determined we shall buy the goods whether we want them or not. They seem determined that we shall not leave the shops without laying out our money. If we tell them we wish for different articles, they will declare they cannot be found in the city.” Such a course may succeed for once, but it prejudices the mind of females, who generally know what they want and how much, and they will seldom call again. Young clerks should be taught better and never insist on selling an article that a person does not want. An accommodating, but not too talkative person will sell double the goods and secure better customers than one who is full of gab and will not permit a customer to leave the shop. “To he has tried to talk her as more disagreeable, a sensitive a shop-keeper hangs on and insist on selling goods.” Depend upon it; females who are thus importuned will ever after avoid the store and go any where in preference to purchase her goods.
In form the Italians excel us. Larger, fuller, they naturally acquire a finer gait and bearing. It is astonishing that our ladies should persist in that ridiculous notion, that a small waist is, and par necessita must be, beautiful. Why many an Italian woman would cry for vexation if she possessed such a waist as some of our ladies acquire only by the longest, painfullest [process]. I have sought the reason of this difference, and can see no other than the Italians have their glorious statuary continually before them as models, and hence endeavor to assimilate themselves to them; whereas, our models, are those French stuffed figures in the windows of millmer’s shop’s. Why, if an artist should presume to make a statue with the shape that seems to be regarded with us as the perfection of harmonious proportion, he would be laughed our of the city. It is a standing objection against the taste of our women, the world over, that they will practically assert that a French milliner understands how they shall be made better than nature herself.
–Headly’s Travels in Italy
Extravagance in fine clothing is too often a recommendation to the eye, but not to the understanding of men. Dr. Franklin used to observe that “a fine often covers intolerable ignorance, but never conceals it.”
The man who never knows when he has enough; is sure, sooner or later, either to want or have too much, and one is as bad as the other.

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Will Hawkes works on The Independent's Sports Desk. He writes about beer in his spare time.
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A large crowd gathered in a small east London bar the other week. Well, free beer will do that. The Strongroom was celebrating the arrival of unpasteurised Pilsner Urquell, a version of this original golden lager several leagues better than the stuff you'll find elsewhere.
12 March 2014 12:00 AM
Fewer than one in 50 fathers take their full parental leave, fearing for their careers. Will Hawkes did four months and developed a strong bond with his son – but says never again
22 February 2014 12:00 AM
It used to be simple: there was Budweiser and Miller and Coors and they all tasted of, well, not very much at all.
25 January 2014 12:00 AM
Plenty of whisky will be drunk to celebrate Burns Night, which is all well and good. But would it be treasonable to suggest that Scottish beer is worthy of as much attention as its world-famous cousin?
28 December 2013 12:00 AM
I've never really understood why people give up alcohol for January. Of all the months to avoid hooch, why choose the grimmest, darkest, most spirit-sapping of all? It's the time of year when a glass is most welcome, particularly if it involves a warm pub and some friends.
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A winter's break in the Estonian capital reveals snowy scenery, a Christmas market and small craft stores for picking up one-off gifts, says Will Hawkes
30 November 2013 12:00 AM
As excuses for a pub crawl go, it was a cracker. The Somerset brewery, Moor, took seven casks of their porter, Amoor, to London last week and handed them to seven different pubs.
14 September 2013 12:00 AM
Industrial-scale drinking at the city's beer festival is all very well, but what about a quieter brew? Will Hawkes goes in search of Gemütlichkeit
Climate change: 2015 will be the hottest year on record 'by a mile', experts say
'Women only' train carriages: Jeremy Corbyn unveils radical move to tackle public harassment
Black holes are a passage to another universe, says Stephen Hawking
Tony Blair attacks Jeremy Corbyn's 'Alice In Wonderland' politics
Theresa May says migrants should be banned from entering the UK unless they have jobs lined up
Iain Duncan Smith 'should resign over disability benefit death figures', says Jeremy Corbyn
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Boorowa Landcare Grazing Group Bus trip
Boorowa Landcare Grazing Group warmly invites you to our annual bus trip to visit properties around Wombat, Young & Monteagle.
We know how much you love getting out to visit each others properties to kick the dirt...
All welcome to join us on this full day bus trip.
Our hosts for the day are:
- Jake & Gemma Chandler at 'Tumbleton' Wombat at their mixed enterprise family farm running shorthorn X angus cows and non-mulesed SRS self-replacing merinos, canola and grazing wheat.Their business vision is simple and productive, promoting a relaxed atmosphere with diverse plants, animals and people.
- Chris Hall from Hall Family Orchards at Wombat, who started to introduce regenerative horticultural methods to improve the soil health and biodiversity within his 20ha orchard and 200ha farm. In 2019, Chris was awarded a National Carbon Cocky Award from demonstrated improvement in carbon management in horticulture or viticulture. Chris was also a finalist in the National Carbon Cocky Award for outstanding performance in soil carbon sequestration.
- The Fowler Family has been farming in Monteagle, near Young since the late 1860’s at 'Rosewood' and 'Coolegong'. Its main enterprises being merino sheep, wool, cattle, and cropping.The family completed extensive RCS training last year and plan to move the farm in a regenerative direction with a focus on rotational grazing, improved soil health and tree planting.
The farm is also home to a soon to opened brewery – the Bulla Creek Brewery which is run by Tony and Mary-Louise’s daughter Stephanie and her husband Mike. They will be happy to offer a casual beer tasting at the conclusion of the farm visit.
Catering contribution will be $20 per head.
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Friday 18th November 2022
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In the fourth century, as Constantine’s policy of toleration allowed the Church to emerge from the catacombs and a growing number of people joined the ranks of what was becoming an increasingly influential institution, the perceived loss of fervor among rank and file believers led a few committed Christians in Egypt and Palestine to leave behind their lives in the world, withdrawing into the desert and pursuing a life of stillness and prayer. W. Harmless’ Desert Christians is one of a series of recent studies exploring the legacy of a movement, which left an indelible mark on the development of Christian spirituality, and whose radical countercultural nature continues to inspire and fascinate fifteen centuries after its apogee. More ambitious in scope than Chryssavgis’ similar venture In the Heart of the Desert, this work opens with an overview of the theological controversies of the time, surveying the history of the Arian crisis and the ancestry of the Christological settlement of Chalcedon, while also charting the emergence of the Alexandrian Patriarchate as the leading power in the Egyptian church (pp. 30-43). The reader is then introduced to the main themes of Athanasius’ Life of Antony, whose inspiring, albeit rather imaginative portrayal of the father of desert spirituality was imitated for centuries by Christian hagiographers in the East and in the West. Antony’s rigorous asceticism, modeled on the prophet Elijah (p. 70) is contrasted with the more communitarian approach to the spiritual life found in the Life of Pachomius, whose monastic koinonia constitutes one of the earliest examples of monastic coenobitism (pp. 122-124). Harmless’ narrative integrates excerpts from a variety of primary sources that include less known manuscripts and papyri, and the impact of recent path-breaking archeological discoveries is also carefully considered.
The central part of the work is devoted to the Apophthegmata Patrum, an arresting collection of sayings on the spiritual life as well as an extraordinary anthology of edifying tales and miracles. Its publication marked “an important milestone in the literature of late antiquity” (p. 169) and its approach to asceticism and spiritual discipleship have remained central to the Christian tradition until the present day. Harmless sensitively tackles a number of important questions, such as the effective authorship of individual sayings (p. 170), the centrality of Scripture in desert spirituality against claims to the contrary (p. 244), and the virtual absence of Christological references from the extant versions of the sayings (p. 250). He also notes how the personalities of different Abbas sketched in the Lausiac History dovetails with the different spiritual approaches present in the Apophthegmata (pp. 194-211, and again pp. 284-290). The author proceeds then to explore in greater detail the thought of Evagrios Pontikos, perhaps the greatest speculative thinker among the desert fathers, and of John Cassian, who more than any other was responsible for the transmission of their teaching to the Christian West. Without being overly technical, Harmless charts the impact of the Origenist controversy on the legacy of Evagrios (pp. 359-363) and absolves John Cassian from the accusation of Pelagianism (p. 396). Discussing the role of the desert mothers, Harmless distances himself from what the tendency of what he calls “creative” contemporary scholarship to overestimate their importance and their position in society, though he admits that the phenomenon of female monasticism was substantially underreported (p. 440). The last part of the volume surveys the different theories that account for the birth of monasticism in the Middle East, though Harmless warns us that “reconstructing early Christian monasticism” from surviving texts and archeological sites is “inescapably difficult and necessarily tentative” (p. 448).
Harmless’s study is admirable for its breadth and clarity, which make it an excellent resource for the non-specialist reader, but also for the scholars of theology and church history wishing to explore a period, whose influence on Christian spirituality is now being rediscovered. Antony, Pachomius and the Abbas who figure in the Apophthegmata can still move us after fifteen centuries with their uncanny ability to chart the mysterious movements of the human heart, and Harmless fully succeeds in showing us the enduring relevance of their insights. The material is arranged in short sections accompanied by very detailed sets of notes and ample bibliography, while the excellent graphs and maps scattered throughout the volume help readers find their way through the myriads of authors and texts. It might have been useful perhaps to include a section on the conflicting–Stoic and Aristotelian–approaches to the role of the passions in spiritual life, as well as a more extensive appraisal of Evagrian trichotomous anthropology; equally, the theme of deification–mentioned only once on p. 358–would have deserved a more detailed discussion. Despite these minor omissions, Harmless’s study is sure to become a classic work, and should be required reading for anyone studying the history of Christian spirituality.

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Film buff or not, you’ve probably seen and loved Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – especially if you’re an 80’s baby. It’s one of the most celebrated films for so many reason. For the film’s Director, John Hughes, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1985) was a “love letter” to his hometown of Chicago. He said,
“I really wanted to capture as much of Chicago as I could. Not just in the architecture and landscape, but the spirit.”
Well, Hughes nailed it and made a movie that will be forever adored. Check out our guide to Chicago through the lens of Bueller [Bueller]!
1. GRANT PARK // 5 South Columbus Drive
In 1986, Millennium Park was an empty space (construction for the park started in 1998). However, aerial shots in the film show the empty, open space that would become Millennium Park a decade or so later.
2. 333 WEST WACKER
Right before the scene at Ferris’ dad’s office, viewers catch a glimpse of 333 West Wacker Drive. The building’s standout curved glass tower was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and was just a few years old at the time of filming and was super cutting edge, cool.
3. LAKE SHORE DRIVE
Make way for CLASSIC scenes of teenagers cruising along the iconic Lake Michigan/skyscraper lined LSD in his Dad’s Ferrari! In the movie you’ll see Ferris, Cameron, and Sloane driving south with the John Hancock building in front of them.
4. ITALIAN VILLAGE // 71 West Monroe Street
Italian Village on Monroe Street opened in 1927 and is still rocking Tuscan fare today! After the crew exits LSD, there’s a shot of them driving past the restaurant’s legendary neon sign.
5. PARKING GARAGE // 172 West Madison Street
The garage where the teens drop off the stolen Ferrari (followed by the attendant who can’t help but take the convertible for a spin) is here on Madison Street.
6. WELLS STREET // West Madison Street & South Wells Street
Picture this: Ferris leaves the parking garage and the attendant and his sidekick bolt. Hughes shot the beginning of their joyride on Wells Street— we love the image of the red hot Ferrari with the very Chicago el tracks in the background.
7. WILLIS TOWER // 233 South Wacker Drive
First stop downtown: The Sears Tower observation deck [now the Willis Tower Skydeck]! Ferris mentions that it’s the tallest building in the world which was true throughout the ’80s. When the Petronas Towers in Malaysia were built in 1996, the Sears Tower lost its title 🙁 BUT it’s still super cool!
8. CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE // 141 West Jackson Boulevard
The Board of Trade from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off looks very different from this board of trade. In the ’80s, traders wore yellow and red jackets, completed sales on paper, and yelled across the pit. Now, computers have taken over and that same room is filled with digital screens for electronic trading!
9. CHEZ QUIS // 22 West Schiller Street
Hungry for a fancy meal? Sorry, not an option — this fancy French restaurant doesn’t exist (but Chicago has several REAL and delicious options instead). The exterior shots of the restaurant are from someone’s private home in the Gold Coast neighborhood (which has since been remodeled and the ivy covered wall was removed – sad!). The interior shots were filmed in Los Angeles.
10. ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO // 111 South Michigan Avenue
One of Hughes’ favorite places was the Art Institute. We love when Cameron (after goofing around) sees Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte and has a tender moment. Meanwhile, Ferris and Sloane find Marc Chagall’s America Windows.
11. WRIGLEY FIELD // 1060 West Addison Street
Thank you Ferris for setting the ultimate example of what it means to play hooky, Chicago style. A Cubs game is a MUST.
12. DALEY PLAZA // 50 West Washington Street
The Von Steuben Day Parade is one of the greatest movie scenes of all time (and was Hughes’ personal fave moment)! You’ll catch the Picasso sculpture at Daley Plaza and cool views of Dearborn Street. The scene required nearly 10,000 extras!
13. FEDERAL CENTER // 230 South Dearborn Street
While Ferris is serenading the Germans at the parade, Cameron and Sloane walk through the plaza at the Federal Building (designed by Mies Van Der Rohe) and Post Office to talk about what’s next post high school graduation!
Worth a drive: The North Shore of Chicago is not far and an easy drive. There, you’ll find:
CAMERON’S HOUSE // 370 Beech Street, Highland Park, IL
Cameron Frye lives in an all glass, super modern home in Highland Park designed by A. James Speyer. This is where you see the Ferrari shoot through the glass garage before crashing into the ravine below. This house was on the market for five years before it sold in 2014.
GLENBROOK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL // 2300 Shermer Road, Northbrook, IL
Remember when Ferris and Cameron race to school in the Ferrari to pickup Ferris’ girlfriend?This school – GBN – still stands today (even the concrete stairs that Sloane walks down remain – of course current students love recreating scenes from the movie on those steps). Hughes also attended Glenbrook North!
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Chelsea's Cech sidelined in Turkey game with broken finger
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Chelsea's Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech (L) during their team's training session ahead of the a FIFA Club World Cup game. EPA PhotoChelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech has broken his little finger and will miss the Czech Republic's friendly against hosts Turkey in Manisa Feb. 6, national team head coach Michal Bilek said today.
"Petr is not flying with us," Bilek told reporters as the Czech team met in Prague, adding Cech had broken the finger during Chelsea's 3-2 Premier League defeat at Newcastle on Feb. 2.
The 30-year-old Cech arrived in Prague but a scan showed a fracture. Bilek said he would try Dnepropetrovsk keeper Jan Lastuvka against Turkey, with Hamburg stopper Jaroslav Drobny on the bench.
The Czech Republic are third in World Cup 2014 qualifying Group B, trailing leaders Italy by five points and Bulgaria by a point.


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As a homeowner or business owner, one of your biggest expenses each month is likely your electric bill. With the cost of electricity constantly on the rise, it can be tempting to look for ways to reduce this expense or even write it off on your taxes. But is it possible to write off electric bills? The answer is not a simple yes or no, and it depends on several factors.
Let’s dive into the details of this question and explore the various scenarios in which writing off electric bills may or may not be possible.
Writing off Electric Bills for Businesses
If you operate a business, you may be able to write off your electric bills as a business expense on your taxes. This is because electricity is considered a necessary expense for running your business. However, there are some things to keep in mind when it comes to writing off electric bills as a business expense:
- You must be able to prove that the electricity you are writing off was used solely for business purposes.
- If you work from home, you can only write off the portion of your electric bill that is used for your home office.
- If you rent your business space, you cannot write off the entire electric bill unless you are responsible for paying it.
It’s important to keep detailed records of your electricity usage and expenses if you plan to write them off as a business expense. This will help you avoid any issues in case of an audit.
Writing off Electric Bills for Homeowners
Unfortunately, homeowners cannot generally write off their electric bills on their taxes. Unless you are using electricity for a home office or another business purpose, it is considered a personal expense and not deductible.
However, there are some exceptions to this rule. If you have installed solar panels or another form of renewable energy in your home, you may be eligible for a tax credit. This credit can help offset the cost of your electric bill, although it does not allow you to write off the entire expense.
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