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Calico Bean Casserole
Total TimePrep: 30 min. Bake: 45 min.
Makes8-10 servings
- 1/2 pound sliced bacon, diced
- 1/2 pound ground beef
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 can (16 ounces) pork and beans
- 1 can (16 ounces) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (15-1/4 ounces) lima beans, rinsed and drained
- 1/2 to 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 2 teaspoons vinegar
- 1 teaspoon ground mustard
- In a medium skillet, cook bacon until crisp. Remove bacon to paper towel to drain. Discard drippings. In the same skillet, cook beef and onion until beef is no longer pink; drain. Combine bacon, beef, onion and remaining ingredients in an ungreased 2-qt. baking dish. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 45 minutes.
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I did a google search for this calico beans recipe that my mom made when I was a child and of course found it at Taste of Home. My husband loves this slightly tangy recipe and the kids eat it right up. So delicious! The only change we make is using a full pound of ground beef rather than half a pound. We eat it as a main dish and add corn bread or crescent rolls on the side. This also works great in the crock pot.
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Very delicious! My mother made this recipe and it has become a family favorite!
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This is an old recipe and I have seen many variations. I don't put limas in mine. I also use bacon bits instead of bacon. It saves alot of time, and I increase the hamburgerto a pound to make more of a main dish. Ilike it less sweet so I use less sugar and more mustard etc. You play with it until you get it just right. This is by far my best recipe and Ialways get asked to bring it. A true winner!!!
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I make this all the time ...it's one of my family favorites. I cahnge the kind of beans I use to pork and beans, black beans, pinto beans, northern beans etc. any kind of bean will do.


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Historical:SoC 2007 project New GUI Framework
New extensible modular GUI framework
The goal of this project is to build a highly extensible GUI framework for Panorama creation, with simple yet intuitive layouts that both beginners and advanced users would be comfortable to use. The application should stay cross-platform.
- Cross-platform Application
- Acceptable look-and-feel with every platform's standard
- Minimum amount of platform specific code
- Completely modular system for organising the functionalities
- Clear separation of the interface and implementations
- Intuitive GUI for displaying those modules suitable for different levels of users
- Designs of the modules to be implemented
- Specifications of all the basic modules
- Implementing all the modules would be impossible during the summer
- The whole community including myself would continue working on those implementations after the summer
- Specifications can include mock-up or illustration to guide the implementation effort
- Organisation of the modules that show where those modules will fit into
- How they will be presented to the users
- Possibly several sets of the organisation for users from different background
- Implementation of some modules to demonstrate how the new application works
- Template for the modules to be written
- At least one sample module for basic tests
- Specifications of all the basic modules
The new framework shall be constructed as such that users can edit/use various aspect of panorama project through modules (plug-ins) each of them providing one specific functions. The application should provide intuitive interface for the users to choose what to edit and display with what aspect.
The modular system is crucial because the panorama stitching is consist of several steps and the community comes up with new variations of each step every year, and each of them advances with new features every month.
Also crucial is the way those modules should be organised and presented to the users. Advanced users want to have access to every available feature, while there are many beginners and those who need access to only the basic tasks and options in simple and intuitive interface.
Since it would be impossible to implement the entire application in one summer, this project should focus on laying the foundation upon which the community can then work on further implementations and improvements. Once the modular framework is set and the specifications of the required tasks are presented, anyone can work on them independently in parallel. This is also why the good modular system is so important.
- - May 27: Decide the toolkit; specification of the end product with illustration or mock-up
- First half
- - Jun 03 (Week 1): Rough internal design of the system and interface between the components
- - Jun 10 (Week 2): Setting up the environment; installation of the toolkit and build system setup
- - Jul 08 (Week 3-6): Basic framework of the application; module handling, interface with lower level libraries etc.
- Jul 09: Mid-term evaluations begin
- Second half
- - Jul 29 (Week 7-9): Most implementations to be done except the modules
- - Aug 5 (Week 10): Some modules to be written.
- - Aug 12 (Week 11): Finalise the module interface and template, and the list of module specifications for the future development.
- - Aug 19 (Week 12): A week to spare if lucky; report to write
- Aug 20: Final evaluations begin
- Choice of GUI Toolkit: Qt4 is modern and has good support on most of major platforms. wxWidgets is okay, but best of all we have many lines of code that are written for wxWidgets. Scripting languages like Python may have advantages in debugging and module managements.
- Personally, I want to give Qt4 a try. Though its widgets look weird on Mac sometimes, it has more to offer outside the GUI itself. --Ippei 20:05, 17 March 2007 (CET)
- Qt 4.3 is getting the QtScript support as a default module; surely it's gonna be a powerful addition. --Ippei 00:59, 21 March 2007 (CET)
- Personally, I want to give Qt4 a try. Though its widgets look weird on Mac sometimes, it has more to offer outside the GUI itself. --Ippei 20:05, 17 March 2007 (CET)
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I'm on a canning frenzy. I love the sound of the "ping" as the jar seals. It is the most rewarding sound ever, and makes standing in a kitchen for a sauna forgettable, especially as the temperatures outside approach 100 degrees F. In fact, I think it was hotter in the kitchen than it was outside. But I digress.
I think an intervention may necessary soon because the pantry might soon be filled with canned jams, chutneys, and pickled vegetables. It is as if there was a Y2K nearing and I'm stocking up for the unknown. It's out of control. I spend my time off canning. I just can't stop. I still have a refrigerator full of mangoes, strawberries, and figs that I just picked up from the local farmer's market ready to be preserved.
I am addicted to canning.
Plum Jam Sans Pectin
1 pound of black plums, peeled and chopped into 1/2-inch dices (about 2 cups)
1/2 large lemon, zest and juice
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 tablespoon unsalted butter (reduces the foaming)
Put a few small ceramic dish into the freezer.
In a large, non-reactive saucepan, combine the chopped plums, zest and juice of one lemon, sugar, and butter. Slowly bring the mixture to a boil over medium high heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar. [Taste the mixture, and adjust the sugar to your liking. I prefer a little more tartness to my jam.]
Continue to stir occasionally as the fruit begins to breakdown, reduce and thicken, about 20 minutes. As soon as it thickens, start to test the preserves for the jellying point. Dip a large spoon into the mixture and hold it over the pot, and observe the syrup dripping off the spoon. If it holds onto the spoon and *slowly* drips back into the pot, then it has reached the jellying point.
Take out one of the ceramic dishes from the freezer. Ladle a small teaspoonful of the jam onto the cold dish and put it back into the freezer for one minute. Remove the dish from the freezer and draw your finger through the jam. If the jam does not close up the channel, then it's ready.
If processing, pour hot preserves mixture into a hot, sterile 1/2-pint glass canning jar, filling jar to within 1/4-inch from top; wipe rim and seal jar with lid. Put jar in water-bath canner or on rack set in a deep kettle and cover with hot water by 1 to 2 inches. Boil and process in a boiling water bath, covered, 10 minutes. Transfer jar to a rack using tongs and let cool completely. Store in a cool, dark place, up to one year.
If you are not interested in canning, ladle jam into clean jars and store in the refrigerator for up to 3 months.
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THE BRAZEN CAREERIST- Job jaunt: How to find an out-of-town job
Here is my advice about job hunting long-distance: Forget it. It's not going to work for most of you, and you'll need to relocate before you get the job. But for a few of you, there's hope, so here's some advice if you must make it work:
1. Pitch yourself as specialized
Most people are relocating from a city that is in low demand to a city that is high demand. For example: Tucson to San Francisco. Employers in San Francisco seldom have to look to Tucson to find specialized help, but employers in Tucson may need to hire someone from San Francisco. So, the first thing about getting a job in a city in which you don't live getting very specialized to boost demand for your services. The idea behind specialization is that you are so good at a very specific thing that people are unlikely to find someone as good as you locally. Sometimes, a good career coach can help you rewrite your resume to focus on a specialty. If you don't have one, a good primer for finding a specialty is reading about the funeral industry, where you have to specialize in something (sometimes weird) in order to survive.
2. Pitch yourself as a big-city catch
Some of you are trying to move the opposite direction: New York City to Tuscaloosa. In that case, you can pitch yourself as having big-city know-how that you can bring to a smaller city. I know from having a company in Madison, Wisconsin that when we hear a star performer from a big city is relocating to Madison, we automatically consider interviewing that person. It's a bias that stems from the fact that competition is so much tougher in big cities that people who have risen to the top are probably worth looking at because we don't see a lot of those people.
3. Get a reality check
If you can't pitch yourself in either of those ways, then you're going to have to relocate before you get a job. Think about it: Why would someone fly you in for an interview when there are plenty of local people who could do the job? It makes no sense.
4. Be amazing at building local networks
If you are still determined to get a job before you move, you should commit a lot of time to building a network. You know that most jobs come from networking. So you need to have a strong network on the ground where you want to relocate. This does not mean inviting 40 people in that city to connect with you on LinkedIn. Those are not the type of connections where the person goes to bat for you. You need a network of people you have real conversations with, and share real ideas with. After a while, these people will care about you and want to help you.
5. Consider your friends and family
Before you relocate for money, consider that the number-one factor for whether or not your next job will improve your happiness is whether you'll be moving closer to friends and family. Because, you already know this, but money does not buy happiness. And, you might not know this, but a job does not make you happy, either. A job can make you unhappy, but once you have the basics of a good job, it's your relationships that make you happy.
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The SPYRUS SPD Build Your Own Linux Program is extremely cost-effective. Users can expect to realize hardware refresh savings and increased security, as they will be able to reuse existing personally owned computers. The SPD boots quickly and easily from older computers that have been running Windows XP, even without a hard drive, to extend return on investment on these unused assets.
With the SPYRUS SPD Build Your Own Linux Program, multiple SPYRUS patents are used to lock the Linux OS to the device and provide cryptographic protection against modification to the boot loader and the operating system. The patented methods enforce on-the-fly integrity validation to enable fast and secure boot-up and enhance the user experience without suffering the performance or vulnerability penalties incurred by other bootable products. The patented Secure Pocket Drive was designed from the ground up with strong FIPS 140-2 Level 3 hardware, US Government-approved, next-generation cryptographic algorithms, and extensive built-in self-checking functionality to protect the device, the operating system, and the user.
SPYRUS will be previewing its Secure Pocket Drive for Linux in booth 2333 at the RSA Security Conference 2013 in San Francisco, CA, February 25-28.
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SPYRUS has had three years of tremendous success with strong demand in the public and private sectors for their bootable Secure Pocket Drive for Windows Embedded Standard 7 and Windows XP. This technical and industry leadership, combined with security-enhanced features and performance, makes SPYRUS a great choice for a Windows To Go platform. Secured by SPYRUS™ security-enhanced technology is proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in the USA to meet FIPS 140-2 Level 3 standards. SPYRUS is headquartered in San Jose, California. See www.spyrus.com for more information.
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Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. John W. Meyer
1955 B.A. Psychology Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana.
1957 M.A. Sociology University of Colorado.
1965 Ph.D. Sociology Columbia University.
Teaching Positions
1978- (emeritus 2001-) Professor of Sociology, Stanford University.
1966-1978 Assistant-Assoc. Professor of Sociology, Stanford Univ.
1959-1966 Instr. and Assistant Prof., Sociology, Columbia University.
Fellowships, Awards
2006 Niklas-Luhmann-Chair for Sociological Theory, U. of Bielefeld.
2005 Christian Wolff Professor, Univ. of Wittenberg/Halle.
1981, 2003 Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Inst. for Hum. Dev.
1982-1983 Fellow, Center for Adv. Study Berlin.
1985-1986 Fellow, Center for Adv. Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Member, National Academy of Education, Sociological Research Association.
1980-1981, 1996-1997 Chair, Soc. of Education Sect., Am. Soc. Ass.
1992-1993 Visiting Professor, SCORE, Stockholm School of Economics.
1994-1996 Spencer Mentor grantee.
1995 Waller Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Sociology of Education, Soc. of Ed. Section, American Sociological Association.
2001 Graduate Service Recognition Award, GSPB, Stanford University.
1996 Hon. Doctorate, Economics, Stockholm School of Economics.
2007 Hon. Doctorate, Sociology, University of Bielefeld; Sociology, University of Lucerne.
Research Areas
Sociology of Education; Political Sociology; Comparative Sociology; World Society; Organizations
Function within the Center
Alumnus of the Institute for Advanced Study (October-November 2011)
Research project "empirical social research"
Selected Publications
—. "The Effects of Education as an Institution." American Journal of Sociology 83, 1, July 1977: 55-77.
— and Brian Rowan. "Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony." American Journal of Sociology 83, 2, September 1977: 340-63.
—, John Boli, and George Thomas. "Ontology and Rationalization in the Western Cultural Account." In G. Thomas, J. Meyer, F. Ramirez, and J. Boli, Institutional Structure. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1987: 2-37.
—, John Boli, George Thomas, and Francisco Ramirez. "World Society and the Nation-State." American Journal of Sociology 103, 1, July 1997: 144-81.
— and Ronald Jepperson. "The 'Actors' of Modern Society: The Cultural Construction of Social Agency." Sociological Theory 18, 1, May 2000: 100-120.
David Frank and —. "The Profusion of Individual Roles and Identities in the Postwar Period." Sociological Theory 20, 1, March 2002: 86-105.
Gili Drori, —, Francisco Ramirez, and Evan Schofer. Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalizatión and Globalizatión. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.
Evan Schofer and —. "The World-Wide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century." American Sociological Review 70, 6, December 2005: 898-920.
—. John W. Meyer: Weldkultur: Wie die westlichen Prinzipien die Welt durchdringen (ed. by G. Krücken, trans. by B. Kuchler). Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2005.
Gili Drori, —, and Hokyu Hwang (eds.). Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
David Frank and —. "University Expansion and the Knowledge Society." Theory and Society 36, 2007: 287-311.
—. "Reflections: Institutional Theory and World Society." In G. Krücken and G. Drori (eds.), World Society: The Writings of John W. Meyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009: 36-63.
Ronald Jepperson and —. "Multiple Levels of Analysis and the Limitations of Methodological Individualisms." Sociological Theory, 2011.
Professor of Sociology, emeritus
Stanford University


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LITTLE ROCK — U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor filed for re-election at the state Capitol Friday, officially entering into one of the most closely watched congressional races in the country.
LITTLE ROCK — U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor filed for re-election at the state Capitol Friday, officially entering into one of the most closely watched congressional races in the country.
"I look forward to traveling our state over the next eight months and highlighting my work on behalf of Arkansans," said the Democrat, who was first elected to the Senate in 2002 and re-elected without a Republican opponent in 2008.
U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Dardanelle, filed for the office Monday, the first day of the weeklong filing period.
National political pundits see the U.S. Senate race as vital for Republicans seeking take back the majority in the Senate. Cotton and Pryor each reported raising more than $1 million for their campaigns during the fourth quarter of 2013.
Cotton reported raising $1.24 million and Pryor reported raising $1.1 million, according to campaign filing reports.
Friday was the fifth day of the filing period, which runs until noon Monday. Some 387 candidates have filed, including 35 Friday, for 265 federal, state, district and nonpartisan judicial positions up for election this year. The primary election is May 20 and the general election is Nov. 4.
Also Friday, Heber Springs Mayor Jackie McPherson, a Democrat, filed for the 1st District Congressional seat now held by U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro. Crawford filed for re-election earlier this week, and Libertarian Brian Scott Willhite of Cabot filed for the office earlier as well.
In the governor's race, Lynette "Doc" Bryant of Little Rock filed as a Democrat. Former U.S. Congressman and state legislator Mike Ross, a Democrat, filed for governor earlier this week, as did Republican Asa Hutchinson, a former congressman and undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Also Friday, a number of Libertarian Party candidates filed to run in a variety of state and federal races.
Frank Gilbert, constable of DeKalb Township in Grant County and former mayor of Tull, filed for governor; Ken Hamilton of El Dorado filed for 4th District Congress; Carl Hayes of Little Rock filed for state treasurer; and Aaron Scott Cash of Springdale filed for attorney general.


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A DIY backyard wedding in Sanger, CA
Alina is another fabulously talented DIY bride with amazing vintage style! She and Nico were married in June in the backyard of their ranch home underneath giant oak trees. iDropPHOTO captured all the fantastic decorations Alina and Nico made, as well as all the awesome vintage glassware. I absolutely adore Alina's gown, and Nico's paisley tie and boutonniere look fabulous, too! Both cakes were incredibly unique, with rhinestones and "vinyl" records decorating them. I also love how Alina got vintage postcards for the guests to write warm wishes on. Each and every table was different with a unique set of décor.
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Hilary Mantel will not win a third Booker prize with the final novel in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, after American writers made a near clean sweep of this year's shortlist.
Misery is learning that, in 1930, I could have earned the equivalent of $2,130 for one lousy review.
On a typical day, a long-time user of Goodreads, the world's largest community for reviewing and recommending books, will feel like they're losing their mind. Read more
The publisher of Jessica Krug, the white academic who revealed she had pretended to be black for years, says she is "sickened, angered, and saddened" and that all proceeds from Krug's book will go to a fund supporting black and Latinx scholars.
I adore a good gothic and a somewhat creepy novel (but not too creepy, mind you), so in June, when a reliable friend recommended Simone St. James's The Sun Down Motel, I ordered a copy immediately, and read it the moment it arrived. Loved it. It's in my recommended reading list for July. Read more
She's one of the world's most famous living authors - and recently, she's been using her platform to speak out on a highly sensitive area: sex, gender and trans issues.
Some have accused JK Rowling of transphobia, others have commended her "bravery" for discussing an issue they say is rooted in misogyny. One thing's clear: what she's said has sparked controversy and caused some pain. Read more
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"True Blood's" fictional town of Bon Temps has three new women coming to town – and co-star Jessica Tuck has been promoted to series regular.
The hit HBO series is adding Janina Gavankar ("The Gates," "The L Word"), Alexandra Breckenridge ("Dirt," "Life Unexpected") and Vedette Lim ("As the World Turns") to its lineup, a rep for HBO confirmed to AccessHollywood.com.
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How safe is 3D? Television sets that last year were turning heads with 3D touted as their killer future are now emphasizing online connectivity, with 3D being relegated as yet another feature. The promise of a 3D TV in every living room was burned by the often times expensive, and generally decried 3D glasses.
Glasses or no, Nintendo warned that playing in 3D could harm young children's eyes. Makes one wonder what it does to adult eyes. Every innovation comes with its own built-in dangers.
Ear buds are blamed for high decibel damage to your hearing, and so are power tools. Cell phones are said to be potential instruments of brain damage and you could, as AT&T showed, pay the ultimate price for texting while driving. Drinking river water will make you sick, and hospital stays can kill you. The list goes on.
Samsung's asymmetrically shaped 9 Series LED-backlit 3D monitor looks stunning, but did it fell prey of form over function?
One item that has escaped bad press are tablets, a novelty last year, which have proliferated. However, without a standard, many are adrift in the me-too land. One tablet that will be missing from the show is the popular iPad. Apple shuns CES for its own convention held, conveniently after the everyone-and-everything, Las Vegas event which keeps many tablet and cell phone enthusiasts holding their breathe waiting for Apple's later announcements.
Apple had to provide software controls to cap the volume on iPods due to cases of hearing loss. The European Union mandated under new law the default volume level on MP3 players – for our own good.
Smartphones will be seen morphing into remote controls. Unify4Life has a video, included below, of turning your Blackberry into such a handy tool. We are all still hoping for the one device that does it all. Who doesn't rely on their phone for taking snapshots? Camera companies never thought they'd be competing with telephones for customers.
Intel, AMD, Global Foundries, yes, chips will be announced that are faster, smaller, and whose manufacturing is safe for the environment. Of course, the "G" crowd will be well represented with 4G giving way to 5G and 5G giving way to ? what's next? What's next is generally an improvement or expansion of what has been. Rarely do we see innovations that are truly something new. So we'll be scouring the exhibit floor for that one thing that really is news, and not hazardous to your health.


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UPDATE: Full story; papal nuncio says updated text is "a step forward."
A new text revealed at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has in Jerusalem has softened the message regarding the actions of Pope Pius XII which has caused strife between the museum and the Holy See in the past.
While reportedly the new wall text still blames the pope for the Catholic Church not having intervened more forcefully to help save Jews from the Nazi persecution, it does paint a more complex picture of the situation, reports Catholic News Service correspondent Judith Sudilovsky in Jerusalem.
According to a report in the Ha'aretz newspaper, the text still includes veiled criticism of the Vatican for not opening its archives to allow historians to research the actions of the Holy See at the time.
The New York Times reports that the new museum panel is titled "The Vatican" instead of "Pope Pius XII." The new text reduces the role of Pope Pius XII in negotiating the agreement that recognized the Nazi regime whole preserving the Catholic Church's rights in Germany, explaining that it was reached under his predecessor, Pope Pius XI. Pope Pius served as secretary of state under his predecessor. The new text reads that Pope Pius XII "did not publicly protest." when Jews were deported from Rome; the old text said he "did not intervene," the newspaper said.
CNS is seeking comments from church officials and the museum and will post an update when they become available.


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Battle over plan to cap benefits ahead of Commons vote
It is unfair for benefits to rise at a faster rate than wages, the work and pensions secretary has said ahead of a key Commons vote on capping benefits.
Figures highlighted by Iain Duncan Smith show jobless benefits rose 20% in the last five years, compared with an average 12% rise in private sector pay.
He said benefits should no longer automatically increase with inflation.
But Labour opposes the cap and said jobseekers allowance had failed to keep pace with wages over the past 10 years.
MPs are due to debate legislation on Tuesday which is designed to break the link between benefit rises and inflation.
Instead there will be a three-year cap of 1% - which is below the expected rise in the cost of living - on most working-age benefits and tax credits for three years from 2013/14.
Child benefit, housing benefit and universal credit will be capped for two years from 2014/15.
Labour, which will fight the 1% cap, says that jobseekers allowance has risen by 32% over the past decade, whereas wages have gone up by 36%.
'Tightening belts'
These are not new figures from either the government or the Labour Party.
BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins said: "Both sides know it's vital for them to persuade the public at large that they have got this right."
Chancellor George Osborne told MPs in his Autumn Statement last month that the incomes of those on out-of-work benefits had risen "twice as fast as those in work" over the last five years.
Mr Duncan Smith said that working families had been tightening their belts after years of pay restraint while watching benefits rise - and that, he said, was not fair.
Increases had cost the taxpayer £6.3bn since the start of the 2008 recession, he said.
"The welfare state under Labour effectively trapped thousands of families into dependency as it made no sense to give up the certainty of a benefit payment in order to go back to work.
"This government is restoring fairness to the system and universal credit will ensure it always pays to be in work."
Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne said cuts to tax credits had pushed millions of working families into poverty and now meant thousands of part-time workers were "better off on benefits".
'Not justified'
Mr Byrne told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: "The lion's share of the savings from this bill will actually come from people's tax credits - on top of the £14bn that has already been carved out of tax credits, this bill is going to take about another £4bn out.
"Now that's going to hit hard-working people very hard and at a time when you're giving a £40,000 tax break to Britain's millionaires, that just doesn't seem justified."
He said Labour would reverse the cut in the top rate of income tax from 50p to 45p.
But Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps told the same programme the top rate tax cut was a "red herring" and pointed to the removal of millions of people on lower pay from income tax.
He said taxpayers should not feel that they are having to pay for people on benefits to get a higher increase than people actually working.
"This is an argument about fairness and what Labour need to work out is if they're going to say: 'Well, we don't agree with this, we think that these benefits should carry on going up twice the speed of average earnings'. That's fine. How are they going to pay for it?"
As tensions rise ahead of the vote next week, Lib Dem leader and deputy PM Nick Clegg also entered the debate, telling The Times that Labour was "learning the tricks of opposition" but "to oppose everything is to offer nothing and the country will not be duped".
He said opposing the 1% benefits cap meant Labour "believe welfare claimants should see a bigger rise than the 1% that public sector workers will get on their wages - which they support".


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NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectroscopy is a non-destructive method for determining the structure of organic and organometallic as well as to a lesser extent inorganic samples. NMR studies can be performed on liquids and solids.
To this end, the sample is placed in a strong magnetic field. In the case of magnetically active nuclei, i.e. atomic nuclei such as 1H, 13C, 31P, 11B, 29Si, 19F, which have nuclear spin and thus magnetic moment, this leads to a cancellation of the equal-energy states. The atomic nuclei can thus take on various energy levels. The occupation differences, and thus the differences in energy of the energy states affected, are so small that transitions between the energy levels can already be induced by exciting the sample with low-energy electromagnetic radiation (radiofrequencies in the MHz range). The difference between the energy levels and thus the resonant frequency depend on the immediate chemical environment of the atomic nuclei measured and thus enable direct conclusions to be drawn about the chemical structure of the molecules studied.
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The Kennedy family has eight hours of tape made by Jackie just months after JFK's death. To hear some outlets tell it, the tapes include the former First Lady's conspiracy theories about the assassination and tales of her own extramarital affairs. Others say they're not as salacious. We're about to find out.
The Daily Mail says Caroline Kennedy agreed to hand over the tapes to ABC in order to keep them from airing the miniseries The Kennedys. Predictably, the Mail's version of what's actually on the tapes is the stuff of soap opera:
They are believed to include the suggestion that Mr Kennedy was having an affair with a 19-year-old White House intern, with his wife even claiming that she found knickers in their bedroom.
And they go on to reveal that she too had affairs –- one with Hollywood star William Holden and another with Fiat founder Gianni Agnelli –- as a result of the president's indiscretions.
Knickers! Given the indiscretions of, um, later presidents, these revelations aren't all that shocking, although the Holden-Kennedy pairing is sure to yield some prime historical fanfic. This bit is a little more intriguing:
The secret tapes will show that the former first lady felt that her husband's successor was at the heart of the plot to murder him.
She became convinced that the then vice president, along with businessmen in the South, had orchestrated the Dallas shooting, with gunman Lee Harvey Oswald –- long claimed to have been a lone assassin –- merely part of a much larger conspiracy.
Except ABC says this is all bullshit. The LA Times quotes the network's statement:
The tabloid reports about the content of the tapes are totally erroneous. ABC News isn't releasing any content from those tapes until mid-September, at which point it will be clear how off base these reports are.
So no sex, no conspiracy theories. Remind us why we should watch again?
Explosive Jackie O Tapes 'Reveal How She Believed Lyndon B Johnson Killed JFK And Had Affair With Movie Star' [Daily Mail]
Secret Jackie Kennedy Tapes Not As Sordid As Reported, ABC Says [LA Times]
ABC Says Jackie Tapes Not So Sordid, But Won't Spill [Newser]


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Some £14 million of funding taken directly from criminals is set to provide services to help victims recover from the effects of crime, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has announced.
Mr Grayling and policing minister Damian Green are also setting up a Victims' Panel so that those who have been affected by crime can tell ministers directly how the criminal justice system could better serve people in their position.
TV presenter Charlie Webster, who has recently spoken out about the sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager, and Barry Mizen, whose son Jimmy was brutally murdered in 2008, will be part of that panel.
Mr Grayling said: "We've got to make sure we give victims the best support possible. This Government is doing more than ever to make offenders pay for their crimes and fund the services victims need to recover. But that doesn't mean we can't do more.
"We receive invaluable help and advice from people who work with victims every day, including the Victims' Commissioner.
"But I want to hear first-hand from those who have suffered personally about what we can do better to help them come to terms with and recover from the traumatic effects of crime."
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said an increase in the penalties judges can impose on criminals from 2012 is ensuring criminals are forced to pay the price for their wrongdoing.
They say this will contribute to the department's aim to double the funding available to help victims' services, which currently stands at £50 million from the MoJ.
They are also piloting pre-trial cross-examination to help young and vulnerable witnesses. This is being tested in three Crown Courts and will be rolled out more widely if successful.


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Twenty five young people aged 16 – 21 attended Stonewall's latest youth residential over Bank Holiday weekend.
The campaign training weekend – the third of its kind – took place from Friday 27 – Sunday 29 August at Woodrow High House in Amersham. Ten Stonewall staff and volunteers supported the young people in planning their own campaigns against homophobia, which they will now take back to their local communities. Young people came from across the country – including Manchester, Liverpool, Somerset and Bristol – to attend the event.
Campaigns included an idea by 19 year-old Jennifer Sernat from London, who is inviting students to sign a pledge committing to stop using the phrase 'That's so gay' as a derogatory term.
Stonewall Youth Coordinator Laurie Oliva said: 'This was our best youth campaigning weekend yet. It never fails to amaze me how creative and impressive young people are with their innovative ideas to tackle homophobia back in their local communities. Stonewall is proud to harness their energy into positive action plans which will help us campaign for lesbian, gay and bisexual equality – at home, at school and at work in every local community in Britain.'


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Grey's Anatomy Review: Burning LoveCourtney Morrison at .
Questioning of infidelity. Questioning of vows. Questioning of skill. All of these were tackled in the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy, "If Only You Were Lonely." So let's get to it; time to discuss!
Cases. A nearby coffee shop had an explosion with a machine, sending in some burn victims. How heartbreaking was it that the employee had no idea who her customer was that was so into her? What I do know is that they were some nasty looking injuries. Best part about the case is that it gave a chance for Sloan to have some screen time.
Speaking of... Mark wants to hook Jackson up with someone so he can relieve a little tension. First prospect = April. Even if this doesn't happen now, it needs to happen at some point! Second prospect = Julia's friend. Jackson is not interested. Sloan realized it's because he still is carrying a torch for Little Grey. Could this become a problem for the pair at some point?
Just want to make a note that Jackson and Avery are the new and official BFF/Bromance. Derek and Sloan hardly have any buddy scenes together anymore, even though we were treated to the hot docs and their babies in this episode. Which pairing do you like better?
13%. These are the chances for Morgan's baby, but if Alex has anything to say about it, he is not going to let anything happen to that boy. Having the parents both be doctors makes you wonder: How do you separate what you know as a doctor but what you want as a parent? That has got to be tough.
This case is showing a great side of Alex. He does his best with children. Now the question is, who is on board for an Alex/Morgan hookup? She gave Chris an out and he took it. Gil McKinney played this role and it took me a few minutes to place him. For any Friday Night Lights fans out there, he was Julie's TA in the final season. Looks like he is good at playing the bad guy because he was a jerk on both.
Heartbreak In The Home. Ohh, Richard. You cannot catch a break. Adele's condition keeps getting worse and even burned his arm. Meredith recommends checking out the home where Ellis went. I am not sure what is in the cards for these two, but I can guarantee that it will be a tear jerker if anything happens to Mrs. Webber. I have said it before and I am saying it again: Loretta Devine is amazing. This woman deserves an award for her work on this show.
"I Don't Have Time!" So Cristina is thinking that Owen is cheating on her. Is she wrong to make that assumption? Absolutely not. The signs are there. He isn't coming home at night, the nurse changed her schedule, they are going through a rough patch. But would Owen actually cheat? Not so sure. This is a good arc to give these two. Kudos to the writers for what is looking to be a well-developed story for the broken couple.
The nurse in question was guest star Summer Glau. I have seen her in a handful of things, but each time they showed her I couldn't help but think "Man, she looks like Winnie Cooper." Anyone else agree?
Here is hoping that she sticks around for a few more episodes, at least until we see resolution. If she doesn't, then what a waste of a guest spot. Did she even have any talking lines?
After Thoughts.
- Meredith and Derek are on a roll lately. Who else laughed at Miranda coming over to show Derek how to do Zola's hair??
- Teddy goes off again on Owen, this time in the OR. Callie is right, you can't have that happening when you are the Chief of Surgery.
- Not much happening for April lately. Time to get the girl a boyfriend or a big case.
- "I'm going to make the boards my b*tch!" Instant Classic.


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Managing Remote Workers
This story appears in the February 2005 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Work used to be a place where you went. But today, work is an activity instead of a location. And thanks to better, faster, cheaper and more flexible IT, employees and entrepreneurs can work from home, from the road, and from the other side of the world.
Long ago, telework passed from theory into practice. Now it's moving from unusual to ubiquitous. Fifty-four percent of companies worldwide reported having teleworkers in 2003, a number that will rise to more than 80 percent in 2005, says a survey conducted for AT&T by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business information arm of The Economist magazine. Forty-four million U.S. employees work from home at least part time--a number that will rise to 51 million by 2008, according to a 2004 survey by Scottsdale, Arizona, market research company In-Stat/MDR.
What's driving the boom? Studies have found many benefits for employers and workers. Employees are happier because they're close to their homes and families; productivity increases thanks to extended working hours; and costs decline because of savings on travel and real estate.
Entrepreneurs are leading the telework charge, according to Kneko Burney, chief market strategist for In-Stat/MDR. "Small companies are home to the greatest number of telecommuters, more than half the total," she says. "The nature of these businesses--nimble, more integrated with home life-makes them ideal environments for at-home workers."
Behind the advantages, however, are limits and risks. Employing distributed workers does pay, but it will cost you, too. "Maintaining productivity is the issue people worry about most," says Lilly Platt, president of Legato Consulting, a distributed work team consulting firm in Newton, Massachusetts. "The first question they ask is, 'How do I know they're working when I can't see them?'"
Other key issues revolve around maintaining a cohesive corporate culture and sense of identity among people who may rarely or never set foot in the same room, says Dr. Charles Grantham, founder and executive producer of the Work Design Collaborative, a Prescott, Arizona, firm focused on increasing workplace productivity. "Coordination of joint activities, such as appointments and the flow of information, becomes more critical," he adds.
Technology offers us some answers. Grantham says, for instance, that collaboration software can smooth out communication and coordination issues. But while better hardware and software make telework more affordable and effective (go to "Wherever You Go, There You Are" for more on the subject), better management of teleworkers tends to depend on slippery concepts such as trust.
The rest of the solution comes down to management techniques. Telework has been around longer than technologies such as broadband and VoIP telephony--the term telecommute was coined in the early 1970s. In the interim, much progress has been made on finding ways to manage distributed workers and integrate them into conventional staffs. But just because you're good at running your company now doesn't mean you'll be good at it when telework becomes more common. "People who were fair as managers in the regular workplace are going to be challenged when managing remotely," Platt says.
Not every company will or should embrace telework equally, so not every firm's challenges will be the same. To provide a closer look at this topic, Entrepreneur identified three companies using distributed work forces. They include a company whose president and founder regularly works from home and on the road; a company whose CEO lives in a different city from its main operations center and employs home workers and even offshore contract employees in India; and finally, a company using a fully distributed work force with a president who works from home, travels frequently, has a satellite office, and also employs road warriors and telecommuters.
Each company faces different challenges and employs different solutions. One thing all have in common is that they agree there is no going back to the way things used to be.
Homework for the President
Homework for the President
Weekday mornings and all day on Mondays and Fridays, Paul Purdue can be found working in the same room of his farmhouse where he started iFulfill.com Inc., a shipping company serving e-tailers, in 1998. The arrangement lets Purdue spend more time with his family, and VPNs, IM and internet telephony allow him to work from home, including managing the 31 people who ship thousands of packages daily from their Maumee, Ohio, warehouse.
"If an employee IMs me or dials my extension, they get me just as if I were sitting there," says Purdue, 43. "Frequently, people will communicate with me and then go into my office and be surprised by my 'absence.'" He's far from completely out of the office, however. By remotely accessing the corporate computers via a network at his house, he can tell when people arrive at work, how many packages are waiting to be shipped--even who last touched a misplaced shipment.
But technology doesn't have an answer when he is dealing with customer-relations issues and employee disputes when he's not in the office. "Sometimes, communication isn't clear when you're e-mailing," Purdue says. "So every once in a while, I'll ask people to call me, or I'll call them." For example, while he was on vacation once, he got an IM from an employee complaining about another worker. While he was reading that, he recalls, "another [message] popped up from the other employee talking about the first. The solution was to pick up the phone."
Many issues wait until Purdue is actually in the office. "A lot has to do with management structure," he says. "I used to do everything. Now I have a production team, a warehouse manager and a sales manager. The day-to-day things are overseen by managers in those departments. If we were smaller, this would be harder to do from home."
By monitoring workers electronically and in person, Purdue is following one of the tips laid out by Grantham: "Have regularly scheduled check-in times with your teammates." Perhaps more important is the can-do attitude Purdue has developed in growing his company to its current size, with $7.2 million in projected sales this year. "You have to have an attitude that says you can do this, you are in control," Grantham says. "All that leads to learning behaviors to minimize the stress and the uncertainty."
A Tale of Two Cities
In January 2004, Jennifer Fallon, 34, started My Wedding Favors, an e-tailer of wedding and party favors, as a part-time business run from her Atlanta home with her father's help. When her parents relocated to Birmingham, Alabama, My Wedding Favors went along shortly afterward. But rampant growth in the company's first year--estimated 2004 sales are $1.44 million, and projected 2005 sales are $2.1 million--has created a challenge for the former software sales professional, who still makes her home in Atlanta.
Here's the setup: There are six people at the Birmingham warehouse, one customer service representative working from home in Birmingham, an Atlanta-based web designer and an assistant who works in Fallon's home. To top it off, there are also several part-time contractors in Atlanta and India helping to tune up a search engine marketing effort that has proved to be essential to the company's success. Of all this, says Fallon, working from home in Atlanta has been the most challenging.
Like Purdue, Fallon is able to monitor sales and shipping in detail by using a fast internet connection and software that lets her tap into the company computers from home. E-mail is her primary mode of communication, supplemented with conference calls between her, the shipping manager, the office manager in Birmingham and the two lead customer service representatives when a sticky situation arises.
But she still drives to Birmingham every two weeks. One problem has been finding a reliable person to oversee the remote main office--one office manager already had to be replaced. "As a manager before, I felt it was important to evaluate whether [employees] were continuing to develop skills," she says. "Now I can't do that. I have to rely on my office manager and have more meetings with her."
Fallon's need to see employees is common, says Platt. "This is based on the way most of us have managed in the past," she says. "We've managed activity, and if we can't see activity, we don't know the work is getting done. When you're managing remotely, you need to manage results."
When the issue goes beyond results, it's usually due to a lack of trust, Platt says. And building trust is about conveying expectations--both ways. Employees have to know what the entrepreneur expects, and the entrepreneur has to know what the employees expect. Miscommunication of expectations led to Fallon's unsuccessful first hire.
"Talk not just about the work but about how you're going to work together," Platt advises. "Focus the discussion on the expectations, because that's where the trust breaks."
When researchers asked companies around the globe why they were using more teleworkers, the top answers had to do with better access to the network and better communication facilities at remote sites. Globalization, cost-cutting and business continuity (dispersing staff reduces the risk of a disaster at headquarters halting or slowing operations) all outranked pressure from employees.
Here are the reasons for increased use of teleworkers at companies worldwide in 2003 (as percentage of respondents):
Source: Economist Intelligence Unit on behalf of AT&T
On the Road Again
On the Road Again
Employees of Marty Kotis' 23-person commercial real estate development firm, Kotis Properties Inc., are spread between the company's main office in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a satellite office in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Kotis, 36, and his salespeople often find themselves traveling or, in the cases of Kotis and his marketing manager, telecommuting from their homes. Needless to say, Kotis needs tools to keep himself and his employees on the same page, even when they're all in different places.
An impressive array of technology, including handheld wireless PDAs and videoconferencing technology, ties most of these employees together. "I can work anywhere, and, through the technology, I've been able to empower my employees to do the same thing," says Kotis, who personally designed and tested the telework technology and trains employees to use it. Networked calendars, for example, allow Kotis' employees to schedule meetings they would like him to attend, and they also allow Kotis to see who and where his salespeople are meeting.
But even Kotis admits high technology is a blanket that doesn't cover all beds. Some low-tech solutions help with the issue of coordinating all these resources, especially when he spends as many as four days a week on the road. For instance, at the company's headquarters, whiteboards outside the offices of people who spend a lot of time away from their desks describe long-term projects they are working on. Employees at the main office are encouraged to help out with these projects when their own work flow temporarily lags. "Other people can walk around the office, see what those projects are, and talk to that person to see if there's anything they can do," Kotis explains.
For Kotis, however, it all comes down to trust. He has to be able to trust employees to be self-starters, which is something he focuses on during the hiring process. He pays special attention to a candidate's ability to work with technology and his or her personal organizational skills. "I've found that the more technology-savvy and organized a person is, the better [he or she will] be able to deal with this type of environment," he says.
Employees also have to understand others' roles. Office-bound workers sometimes resent what they see as the freedom of others to work from home or elsewhere. In Kotis' case, he keeps resentment to a minimum by making sure that office-based workers have access to the networked calendars, which show the phone calls, appointments and other activities that remote workers are engaged in. "And there's a lot of communication," he adds. "If someone's outside the office for a day, they're [still] talking to the people in the office."
The mode of communication isn't important. What's important is that communication occurs frequently and intensively, especially from leaders to employees, and that it deals with big-picture issues. Says Platt, "The leader has to work hard to see that the vision and mission of the company are in front of people all the time."
Telework in a Nutshell
If current trends toward increased use of teleworkers continue, then it may not be an overstatement to say we are entering a new era of management. It will be characterized by greater reliance on technological monitoring of employees' performance and results, and more emphasis on communicating expectations and long-term objectives. What is the entrepreneur's ideal result? "Engagement," says Grantham. "The outcome of engagement is employee satisfaction, long-term bonding, and increased individual productivity and business performance."
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Source: Accenture
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Carole's Diary
Ok another year start's this is my first entry in my diary.The allotment is in good shape apart from the wet of course, i have 2 sheds and a polly tunnel 3m by 2 although it has only been up 2yrs it has more holes than a sieve,so another cover needed for this year.The cover first started to tear where the screw on the frame rubbed on it i tried covering the screw heads with double sided tape but didn't help any suggestions for when i replace cover.My cabbage and cauliflower look quite good considering the cold and wet and onions doing well, i shared my plants with my friend on next plot and her's not so good,the answer must lie in the soil lol. Sown my leeks and peppers they nice and warm indoors going to try sweetcorn this year research needed. Ordered my potatoes 3 types,Jazzy,Manitou and Carolus never grown them before so should be interesting,will put pic's of progress on once iv'e been tutored in my new phone
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I think I might join you in a diary this year Carole.
I've grown sweetcorn for the last couple of years, I suppose it depends where you are as they do need sun to ripen. I think most of the taste depends on the strain though - I had fantastic success the year before last with a variety Asda were doing in pots (I think it was called incredible?) but they didn't do them last year and the ones from Wilkies weren't as nice but I was late planting them out (you will see why if you keep reading this post!). They are easy to grow though - I grow mine in small pots, then grow on until they are ready to plant out once the frosts have passed. Plant them in blocks, as they fertilise easier that way. Ideally in a sheltered and sunny place. And don't let chickens near them! (my fatal mistake last year)
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Hi KarenE, i did grow sweetcorn once but it was so long ago like 25yrs i can't remember.I do recall growing them in a block but that's it.Have you grown from seed or always young plants? I have discovered another bed on my plot that i think will be ideal it's the most sheltered spot there.I will be having chickens(but at home) so no problem,i'll just have to bring the corn to them
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hi Carole - hope you get good use out of your diary. I find it handy to look back on things I've posted such as the weather conditions, what I planted, what did well and what didn't, and of course at this time of year when glancing at photos, it can take you back to that moment in summer when it was warm and the plot was productive.
Have you tried the Anti Hot Spot tape? (click on the link) Basically you cover your frame with the tape before putting the cover over and the cushioned tape protects the cover from wear and tear, especially when the sun heats the metal frame. I just put the first link up I found but you can get it from all sorts of other gardening sites including Amazon.
Never tried those either - you will have to let us know how you get on with them and what they are like
The trick is warmth and don't sow too early either - once they start growing, you want to encourage growth rather than check it if you find they are getting too big before it's safe to plant out (they are not frost hardy, and if temperatures drop, sweetcorn will sulk and sometimes give up growing - I once started some off about mid-April in glorious warm spring sunshine and then put them outside to harden off ready to plant by mid-May. An occasional cold day was inevitable but I hadn't realised that day temperatures had dropped significantly and for a good week before bringing them back indoors. The damage done, they never recovered after that) The other check to growth can be the roots - once they start growing, avoid disturbing the roots too much when potting on or planting out. If weather conditions deteriorate before planting out, it's worth potting the seedlings into bigger pots so that the roots don't become pot bound as once the roots start to turn in, they don't fare too well when in need of water and nutrients when planted in the final bed. When planting out, sink the roots deeper than the original soil level and this encourages roots in the lower stem to grow and anchor the plants. They are also nitrogen hungry and need very fertile soil so dig in lots of compost/chicken manure, and also make sure they are never short of water especially during the growing stage but ease back when waiting for cobs to ripen. Finally, choose an (extra) early maturing variety to be sure of the cobs ripening before the weather turns cold and wet at the latter half of the season - a lot of the supersweet or sugar enhanced F1 varieties are suitable but I can recommend Lark F1 (yum yum) and Earlibird F1 did extraordinarily well during the very wet 2012 summer. It's important not to grow 2 different varieties close to each other as the pollen from one can affect the flavour of the other and lose its natural sweetness. Having saying all that, sweetcorn are generally very easy to grow LOL
Did you dig in chicken manure? My brassicas did very well last year (not that I had problems before) and I put it down to that. Also, another trick is to firm the soil round the roots when planting to prevent "rocking" in the wind.
Good luck with the gardening and hope this year works out well
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Hi Lancashire lass thank you for all the info i will get some tape for the new cover and hope i get more than 2yrs out of it.
The potatoes i mentioned were an offer from Thompson and Morgan i had 25 tubers and 5 pkt's mixed seeds for £9.99 no p&p so thought i'd give them a go they coming at end of month.
I used horse manure compost with the cabbage ect don't know if i was right or wrong but they all doing really well.
Your a fountain of knowledge any tip's on peas? for the life of me i can't grow them tried them in different locations but to no avail.I think the pigeons get more than i do despite netting.
I'll have a look in Wilko's see what sweetcorn they do, thank's for your help and good growing.
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Yes, sweetcorn are dead easy to grow from seed. I usually plant 2 up in a medium sized container then seperate and pot on when they're bigger. As LL says try not to pot on too much, and I agree about sowing too early. I've never had success with early sown ones, I always end up having to resow but it never causes a problem unless the chickens get at them
Peas - I find peas easy to grow, but less successful to pod. Again, sow 2 into a med container and pot out when they're sturdier. I don't find them prolific though (I've only tried experimental small batches) so you may need to grow a lot of plants and I think you need to successional sow if you want a continuing crop. French beans are much more reliable I've found, and great for constant cropping. Peas are lovely fresh out of the pod but I've found them to be more trouble than they're worth in the way of crop volume. Plus the slugs seem to really like them too and slug pellets are a no-no with the chooks until I know my chicken proof fending works (which it didn't last year)
There's not much LL doesn't know about gardening!
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Hi yes iv'e noticed she's a mine of info, i won't have the chicken problem going to have some in the spring but at home not on the allotment, so i'll have to bring the sweetcorn to them.I'm sure they'll be happy.
Don't like to wish time away but hurry up spring i'm itching to get planting do you put sweetcorn seeds on windowsill or in propagator?
I have fruit on allotment Blackberry,Cherry and Apple tree but no Rhubarb must add that to my list.
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Well, depends what you've got - either will do as long as they get warm and light.
If you can find someone on the allotment that is splitting their rhubarb, that'll do the trick. You only need a little crown with a couple of buds on but don't pick it for 2 years, give it a chance to establish itself. In the allotments near where we are, many people have it growing in neglected corners of their plots as it is so easy to grow.
My parents had a cherry tree for years and never got a berry off it - the birds used to scoff the lot the MINUTE the berries ripened. Might be worth thinking about how you'd net it or maybe build a fruit cage.
If you're looking for fruit to grow, I can recommend red gooseberries - absolutely gorgeous, especially when mixed in a crumble with rhubarb or apple. Blueberries maybe in a pot as they like ericacious compost. And raspberries are unbelievably easy but may take over your entire plot.
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I have to confess that I now follow Bill (from Norfolk)'s suggestion of "chitting" the seeds - like the pepper/chilli, you don't waste compost on seeds that fail to germinate and they also seem to germinate a lot faster. Use a tray such as what you buy mushrooms in from the supermarket, layer with damp paper towel, spread the seeds out (important hint - if they germinate quicker than expected, you are not then trying to tease the rootlets apart ... a lesson learned), then cover them with more damp paper towel. Place in a bag / put a lid on, and pop the tray into an airing cupboard or somewhere warm. Depending on the temperature, seeds can germinate within a couple of days. Then transfer and plant into pots of compost (as you know the seed has germinated, one seed per pot - I use the 5-6" size pots) Once the leaves come up, they will need warmth and good sunlight so a south facing windowsill will be fine and at that time of year, you may get away with putting them outside if the weather is very warm. Just remember to bring indoors at night when temperatures can drop.
Peas - I don't seem to have a problem with peas (touch wood) When I did the RHS pea trial, I followed their instructions to the letter as it had to be across the board for those participating, and as it worked so well I basically do it all the time now. They recommended sowing direct in the 3rd week in April (weather permitting of course - not much point sowing when the ground is frozen solid) The bed should be prepared and plenty of compost dug in prior to planting, with a scattering of Growmore raked in. Then make a flat shallow trench about 2 inches wide by about an inch deep. Place the seeds in a zig zag fashion about 2 inches apart (basically you are sowing 2 rows of peas in a single trench) Gently cover with the soil before watering in with a fine rose. As the slugs and snails are in full force then, I also put slug pellets down. The plants will climb so you need to provide something for their tendrils to grasp otherwise they grasp each other. Something like twiggy branches can be pushed into the row, but I go for the pea and bean netting (the one that has big squares rather than the diamond ones) tied to canes as then you can reach through the netting much easier - you can be guaranteed the ones that are ready for picking will be on the other side of the net.
Pea/Bean weevils are active then too but to be honest although the damage may look harsh (the leaves have scalloped bites out of them) the plants seem to recover - you could try a pesticide if you want but I've never bothered as friendly insects such as ladybirds are also out about then too and I like to encourage them on the plot to keep on top of the aphids etc. Pigeons and mice can be a problem too - sometimes netting the bed with something to keep them out might work until the plants get beyond seedling stage and then they are fine. If you have mice problem, I've read that soaking the peas in paraffin just prior to planting will stop them from eating the seeds. It's absolutely vital to never let the plants go short of water during the growing stage.
If you want fresh peas throughout the summer, sow a row every other week - as spring progresses into summer, you'll find some of the later sowings catch up with the earlier ones and you can end up with a glut especially during a mini heatwave. Always pick the pods regularly and this will encourage a second flush of flowers - thereafter, the plants die off. Personally I don't bother too much with peas now - too much hassle taking peas out of the pods for one - but I do like sugar snap and mangetout instead as they require very little preparation prior to cooking. Also, the risk of pea moth larvae is reduced too - the eggs are laid when the flower is out and as the peas develop, the larvae eat them whereas you pick the immature pods when growing mangetout. There is more information about it from the RHS website and how to avoid it.
As for variety - the early varieties such as Kelvedon Wonder, Feltham First and Hurst Greenshaft grow quickly and produce lovely sweet peas - I prefer the Hurst Greenshaft as you get more peas to a pod. The only downside to some of the early varieties is that they are "dwarf" type - another reason why I don't grow them now because it is back breaking when picking. There are some tall maincrop varieties (8 feet) such as Telephone and Champion of England - when providing the netting on tall canes, it is worth bracing the canes as the plants can be like a sail in a strong wind and knock them over.
Finally, if you do get a good crop of peas, let the second batch mature so that you can save seed. I find that when saving seeds, not only are you saving money but the plants that did well pass on their genes and in future generations, those are the ones that become unique to your plot. If you don't believe me, save some seed from the packet you buy and sow them in a couple of years and compare them with your own (2nd year) seed - your own will seem to grow bigger, better and more productive
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Thank you for all the info must take you ages to type,your very helpful. I grew sweet peas with the damp kitchen paper method they got roots so quickly but i didn't know you could do it with seeds as well.
My cherry tree on the plot was weighed down with blossom but like you a never saw a cherry,on the other hand the one in the garden had loads and i could leave them on the tree till they went lovely and dark,they made smashing crumble.I had a couple of gooseberry in the garden but they got some kind of disease like talcum powder to look at so i burnt them,think i'll get one or two more for the plot, i have rasberries at home but your right they take over if your not careful.
I'm glad i started this diary it will be useful to look back on as my memory is going
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We planted 3 cherries. The nicest is the Black Cherry - but we never get a taste of it. The white cherry is sometimes left by the birds, other years they take the lot, and I pick them as soon as they are reddish. The Morello is sharp, best for jam (OH likes it i don't much), but seems short lived, the second one is dieing (sp?).
Some years we get more gooseberry mildew than others, I just take away the bad fruit.
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Oh is that what the powder was and i got rid of the whole thing,mind you it was pretty covered,and ideas on getting rid of wooly aphid on my apple tree Mo? iv'e tried spraying it and even painted it with meths,my brothers idea but it didn't work pesky things were still there.Bet theyv'e been over wintering in the nooks of the bark and will be back this year.
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My usual approach to pests is to look it up, found it on RHS, then ignore all the chemical remedies and just pick off the nasty bits. RHS says use a stiff brush.
Judging by RHS again, we did the right thing (rather late) in thinning out our overcrowded gooseberry bushes. Makes sense that there will be more mildew when the air can't flow.
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All good on the allotment onions, cabbage and coli doing well loads of strawberry plants removed i only started off with 6 plants now there are hundreds took them up and left in a box for the other lotty holders to help themselves, beds dug over so now ready for spring.
The delivery of the potatoes i ordered has been put back to the end of this month so no chitting here yet,can't wait for them to arrive.
The leeks i started of in the propagator came up like rows of soldiers but i think they were too warm.I put them on windowsill and they went leggy and keeled over so iv'e started again, when they appear should i put them in greenhouse? there's a paraffin heater in there so wouldn't be to cold, i probably should have done that in first place, thought's please.
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Yes you could do as long as you've got light and heat, i think i'd be tempted to leave them indoors though as your greenhouse could chill if the heater goes out. I suffer from the same problem of early seedlings going leggy so I don't sow early now. I think I might start in march, my greenhouse is rather flimsy and doesn't hold heat very well
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