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ChildLife Liquid Multi Vitamin & Mineral Reviews
My children (1 and 3) happily took the ChildLife Liquid Multi Vitamin & Mineral, they enjoyed the taste. Really happy to find something that you can give a child younger than 2, I have been looking for some time. This helped support my babies transition from formula to cow's milk as I was able to give her the additional vitamins she was losing when cutting back on formula.
Haylee from Auckland - 05/12/2017
From a fussy almost 2 yr old to myself, all of my family loved this ChildLife Liquid Multi Vitamin & Mineral. I was a bit dubious about the smell but the taste satisfied. The kids preferred taking it over the normal multivitamin tablets and when I compared ingredients list I was impressed. I will be purchasing in future.
Arielle from Hamilton - 29/11/2017
My kids were sick when the ChildLife Multi arrived so I waited for them to get better. I have 3 kids under 5; 1 who is very extremely fussy eater who has to have iron supplements. My youngest still doesn't sleep the whole night.
So finally decided to start trying it, we started with 1 teaspoon first; been sick often they have lots of medicines so reluctantly they didn't want to open their mouth. They put their lips on the spoon and licked their lips, after a little thought they loved it.
After watching them for a week, miss 5 feels great, she is not so tired, she concentrates more when doing homework and not sleepy throughout the day. Miss 13 months slept 3 nights out of 7 which was a dream come true. Overall all 3 of my kids are more bubble energetic, not so grumpy because they aren't so tired towards the end of the day and I feel great knowing miss 5 is getting supplements for other vitamins she is missing out on. I always wanted to buy these for my kids but I didn't want to waste money that wouldn't work or they wouldn't drink but I will definitely get this even if it puts us out about. Thank you guys !
Samantha from Auckland - 09/11/2017
This ChildLife Multi Vitamin & Mineral is great, I will continue to buy! I struggle to get vitamins etc into the children; this one they take, no problems.
Sarah from Hawera - 09/11/2017
When we first received the ChildLife Essentials Multi Vitamin & Mineral Liquid Formula I read the instruction and decided to dilute it into water thinking that would be how my kids would be most likely to enjoy it. I did this, offered it to my kids and no success, they didn't like it, so I persevered trying different ratios of the liquid and water. Regardless of the strength of the 'drink' my kids would have a mouthful and put the cup down saying it tasted funny. At last I just offered it to them undiluted, they LOVED it! They ask for their 'medicine' every day now and are getting great benefits from it, sleeping better, more energy during the day and my 5 year old is concentrating more at school! While they are given a well-balanced diet they are incredibly fussy so I love the peace of mind that I am getting from knowing that they are getting their essential vitamins and minerals!
Sarah from Te Awamutu - 05/11/2017
We were excited to receive the Childlife Essentials Multivitamin and Mineral liquid formula to trial for Master 6 and Master 8. We have had a dreaded few months of illness, fevers and low health in spite of living a healthy lifestyle and eating well. I gave it to my children out of the bottle in the syrup form and one child liked it the other one, not so much. It has a sweet orange flavour that can be a bit sickly but knowing it is full of goodness we carried on. The other doses I gave to them in the morning with breakfast watered down a little bit and it was easier for them to stomach. We've used it for 9 days now and the children seem to be well and filled with their booming energy. We will carry on using this product as it has more goodness in it than off the shelf vitamins from the supermarket. Thank you for introducing me to a new healthy product that benefits my children. As parents we are always trying to ensure they have all they to keep them growing in a healthy and happy way and anything can add to the daily goodness we provide for them is comforting.
Nikki from Taupo - 02/11/2017
I was over the moon to be chosen for this product and am very grateful as my daughter loves it! Right balance of flavour and sweetness and the vitamin and minerals present in it give an excellent coverage health wise for anything she might be lacking in. Peace of mind for a Mum who does her best to get a good, balanced diet into my kids but am battling sensory issues with food developed following prematurity. Also loved the personalised wee card put in with the pack. I like to support companies that care about their customers and this company is definitely one I will support! I highly recommend their product and will be buying in the future! Thanks again.
Angela from Upper Hutt - 02/11/2017
Thanks so much this liquid Multi was a delight to try, my daughter loved it and she looks forward to her spoon full each morning
Sharon from Nelson - 31/10/2017
Thank you for the chance to try the ChildLife Multi Vitamin & Mineral. I have been giving this to my 11 month old just on a spoon and he happily takes it, and even opens his mouth for more! It smells strongly of Vitamin B (I think) so I wondered if it would go down well, but I tasted it before giving it to him and thought it actually tasted pretty good (orange and mango, not too sweet and rather pleasant). I can imagine fussier bubbas might need it diluted perhaps. It's been really good peace of mind because he doesn't drink loads of milk and has been off his food a bit with teething lately. In the future when buying a multi-vitamin for my baby, Childlife would be my first choice. Some of their other products on the little pamphlet look tempting too!
Gemma from Orewa - 29/10/2017
I actually purchased this ChildLife Multi Vitamin & Mineral a couple of weeks ago after extensive research in what I wanted in a supplement. I find the taste to be VERY strong (as well as having that B vitamin complex lingering taste). I think for most kids it would be pleasant as 'juice' (i.e. diluted in water) but for Miss 3 (ASD) I am now using it successfully in what I am calling 'orange mango poppy seed cupcakes' but are actually reinforced with the liquid multi vitamin and almond meal and linseed etc…
Nicola - 26/10/2017
Thank you for this ChildLife Multi to trial. My 3 year old loves this and is always asking every morning to have it. She loves the taste and this is a winner in my books as she is a fussy eater. Be definitely buying this again. Thanks again for the opportunity.
Vanessa from Papakura - 26/10/2017
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CLEVELAND- Cleveland police Monday explained their pursuit policies after a mob of illegal ATV and dirt bike riders recently took over city streets. The city also released body cam video of a traffic officer on a dirt bike being hit by an ATV.
The incident happened Sunday, August 11, and shows a Cleveland police officer trying to stop an illegal ATV rider at East 55th Street and St. Clair Avenue.
As the sergeant approaches, the rider rams the officers bike, knocking him off of it.
The officer gives chase and catches up to him, but the rider refuses to pull over. Two officers continue, but after several minutes, they terminate the chase.
"In the event that someone, be it the person being chased or the officer does go down, there's a high risk for injury, so obviously we want to limit the amount of pursuits out there," said Cleveland police Sergeant Jennifer Ciaccia.
Also on Sunday, a resident's home surveillance camera on West Boulevard shows more than 100 dirt bikes and ATVs parading through West Boulevard, even on tree lawns.
"Our officers get very frustrated that they can't enforce the laws that these guys are breaking," said Jeff Follmer, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association.
Follmer says many officers disagree with a city policy that does not allow them to pursue off road vehicles with police cruisers.
"They cannot pursue in a car because that's extremely dangerous and it's not effective," said Sgt. Ciaccia.
"The whole Edgewater was terrorized by these motorcycles and there's not a thing we can do; in my opinion, some of the actions that these motorcycle people are doing rise to felonies," Follmer said.
The officer assaulted on Sunday was patrolling with one of seven special bikes that Cleveland police have for off-road enforcement.
"When the dirt bikes go off road to grass or through field, we're able to do it. It's multi-purpose bike; it can go on-road and off-road," said Cleveland police Lt. Gordon Holmes, who oversees the city police dirt bike unit. The police division received three of the bikes as part of the increased security during the Republican National Convention in 2016.
City leaders say they are still studying how to build an off-road track that could also include educational opportunities, allowing riders to turn their passion into a profession.
"These are people who have a passion for doing what they do, so the question of whether or not we can create opportunities to allow them to do it legally," said Cleveland's chief operating officer Darnell Brown.
"We're not going to chase our way out of this problem. If you are in the neighborhood and you know maybe where these bikes are parking or you know where they're gathering to go out into an organized drive, that you would call our officers," said Ciaccia.
Ciaccia says cities across the country, especially in the Midwest, are dealing with the issue.
Several Cleveland city leaders traveled to Baltimore last week to look at a program where they help off-road bike enthusiasts learn trades and train for careers related to bike riding.
The city of Cleveland also plans to hire a consultant to look at building a bike track that would not cost the city to operate. Although CPPA President Follmer believes the riders get a thrill from breaking the law and questions how effective a track would be in deterring their actions.
Anyone with information about illegal ATV or dirt bike activity is asked to contact Cleveland police on a special hotline number: 216-623-5230.

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POMPANO BEACH -- Three environmental experts will discuss the impact of the county's planned north Broward garbage incinerator at 7:30 p.m. Friday at City Hall.
Jack Lauber of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation; Carl Scheller, a retired combustion chemist; and Laurence Locker, a professor of chemistry at Florida Atlantic University, will present their environmental concerns about the garbage-burning plant and field questions from the audience.
"We're not in the position to fight the plant. We have to be realistic. It's got to go someplace," said City Commissioner Michael Gomes, who organized the seminar. "But we certainly have the wherewithal to fight for safeguards. . . ."
Gomes said he wants to educate the public about the incinerator that will be located just 1 1/2 miles north of the city and is designed to burn garbage and generate electricity while recovering glass and metals.
"The government has been remiss about educating the people about this thing," Gomes said. "Maybe after this, the people will tell other people and we'll get the controls we need."
Both proponents and opponents of the incinerator agree that it will emit some acid gases and air contaminants.
The disagreement is whether the county's planned controls will be sufficient to filter the toxic gases and particles, or if additional "scrubbers" will be needed to filter the smoke.
In the past, county officials and attorneys have argued that the Best Available Control Technology (BACT) is too expensive.
But Lauber has taken issue with that.
"Broward County officials are either ignorant or do not care about using BACT to properly protect the public from toxic emissions," Lauber said. "It seems that your county is proposing not BACT, but CACT -- Cheapest Available Control Technology, circa 1970 standards."
Gomes said the discussion at City Hall, at Dixie Highway and Atlantic Boulevard, is free and open to the public.


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Beautiful set of Bakelite/Catalin inlaid two tone poker chips, 100 yellow, 100 dark blue, 99 red (one rolled away sometime in the past I'm sure). The chips are in excellent condition, regular size of 1 1/2 inches and all about the same thickness for uniformity and weight. The case unfortunately is showing wear and tear, especially the outside of the box, and a corner of the box has separated at the joint (see last picture).
It is made of wood, but I don't know what kind, and seems to have an overlay of a veneer. The chips fit nicely into 3 trays, that fit the box perfectly.The playing cards are not included in the set, and are only included to show in a picture what a complete set would look like. Terms and Conditions of Sales. If an item is not paid for within 5 days the sale is void and the item will be relisted. I package all items with special care so your item is protected in transit. All sales are final and "as is" unless there is a gross misrepresentation of an item. I do my best to describe the item accurately and honestly. ENJOY YOUR NEW FOUND TREASURE.
The item "Vintage 299 Two Tone Inlaid Catalin Bakelite Poker chips in box caddy set" is in sale since Monday, November 06, 2017. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Casino\Chips\Poker Chips".The seller is "mollycm*" and is located in Peoria, Arizona. This item can be shipped to United States.


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Art on wood By the Artist Shmuel Dan,
"Hamsa" with a birkat kohanim Priestly Blessing and nice ornaments around it.
Hand made Print by a special technique of image transference to a high quality pine wood.
cover all around with mat varnish and glossy varnish on the front, and little hole in the back
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The essential accessory for anyone owning a Newtonian telescope.
This premium combined Cheshire Collimator with Sight Tube is manufactured for us here in the UK to a very high standard. Beautifully machined and anodised with a clearly etched cross on the target face and a precisely centred wire reticle.
The sighting tube's narrow field of view and crosshairs provide a centring reference for the telescope's optical elements. The Cheshire eyepiece has a means of providing illumination to a target face (set at 45 degrees to the illuminating hole) that will be used to collimate the primary mirror.
Brilliant piece of kit, well built but I havent had chance to use it yet.
As the title says, worth every penny!
Cant see how this does a better job than a basic collimating cap but perhaps Im missing something. With no instructions provided I was left searching google and YouTube for how to use this, unfortunately I found numerous different ways of collimating which just confused matters, would be nice if the manufacturer gave their guidance
I just received and tested this collimator. It coincides totally in the collimation with my old Cheshire Intes. This Premium Cheshire I see it very robust, effective and elegant. Very good.Greetings.
Very well made item delivered very efficiently by FLP.
Arrived in good order and well packed. Pleasure to do business.
This is a very well built bit of equipment and has style as well as functionality. I have used it. My telescope required a bit of tweaking to be spot on. Images so far are crisp and clear so I am assuming it did it's job.I would have given 5 stars if it came with even a tiny bit of info as to how to use it!!! Instruction leaflet please!!! Other than that - would highly recommend.
Built like a tank but it's just so delicate. The Cheshire is in a high quality all metal housing ,has just the right length to see what you need, and also might survive an asteroid impact!
Very well made!
I'll straight away admit that this is my first Cheshire Collimator, so I can't say I have any experience of any others.I did research them however, and I noted that this "premium" model has a stepless barrel, so could be inserted over a wide range of lengths. This made it easy to regulate the space around my primary and secondary mirrors, to aid in their initial centering, (on my 10" Dobsonian).The eventual view through the pinhole opening showing everything centred was very reassuring.(Secondary edge, primary clips, primary centre spot, and Cheshire target hole).
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- Our first look is at the refrigerator – many new models equipped with upper, wide open refrigerator space and lower freezer compartments.
- Automatic water and ice dispenser are a bonus – something you want to consider during those hot summer days.
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- Cooktops are very popular in newly designed kitchens – especially those with attached pot water dispensers.
- Selecting between gas or electric is up to you – pros and cons for each – and whether you have access to natural gas.
- The pot filler is nice for filling up cooking pots with water without have to drag the pot from the sink – make sure the dispenser is long and flexible enough to reach any cooktop area.
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Kitchen island give you additional space
- Cooking islands are a nice addition to any kitchen that has space for both island and kitchen counter.
- The island can function as a cooktop area (with overhead hood), food preparation area, and/or sit-up counter for eating.
- Kitchen islands can be stationary or mobile. It all depends on the island's function.
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- But if you are thinking of a kitchen renovation, you might consider separating these two with a counter cooktop and wall ovens.
- These three ovens can include a regular over, convection oven and microwave – or any combination.
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Kitchen monitor for those cooking guides
- Not normally thought of as a major kitchen appliance – but in newer kitchens, the kitchen monitor in coming into play.
- The monitor allows the "chef" to view recipes, kitchen guides, and cooking programs – plus function as a shopping module for online food shopping and delivery.
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The first day of spring was March 20th and our area is beginning to feel the warmth and joy of spring! Now is an exciting time for spring cleaning and bringing the lawn and landscape back to life. If you haven't started planning your spring and summer landscaping or if you are unsure if it's something you even want to tackle at all; we are here to remind you of the many benefits it can offer! In addition to looking and smelling amazing, there is real, tangible value in proper landscaping; well-managed landscapes offer tremendous benefits for people and for the environment. As the expert landscaping company for Buffalo and the surrounding areas, we would like to offer up some of the most exciting benefits to investing in landscaping for your home or business. And, when you're ready to get started this spring, don't hesitate to give us a call and we can plan and install a beautiful landscape custom tailored for your unique property.
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A growing body of research has demonstrated how important it is to incorporate tree canopies, grasses and parks into cities and towns. They provide a wide range of lifestyle benefits that improve the quality of life for residents. So, don't neglect this beneficial aspect for your own landscape. Grasses are natural environmental cleaners that can even play a vital role in cleaning up the air around your home. It can capture dust, smoke particles and other pollutants as well as produce oxygen. In fact, grasses absorb carbon dioxide and break it down into oxygen; producing clean air to breathe for you and your family!
And, grass is also much cooler than blacktop and cement. With green grass and a canopy of trees surrounding your home, you can enjoy a cooler environment that can even help reduce your cooling costs.
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New details surrounding the death of the musician known as Prince have been released. Several pills that were found at the singer's home after his death have been reported to have been counterfeit tablets containing the dangerous and deadly drug Fentanyl.
Prince's death could have been prevented
As previously reported, Prince died in April unexpectedly from an accidental Opioid Fentanyl overdose at the age of 57. Investigators on the scene reportedly removed a number of prescription and over-the-counter medication containers from the singer's home.
One unnamed investigator told AP that an Aleve container was removed containing close to two dozen tablets labeledas "Watson 385" which is stamped on hydrocodone and acetaminophen tablets used to ID drugs. It has since been revealed that at least one of the pills in the bottled contained Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid said to be 50 times stronger than heroin.
Is foul play behind Prince's death?
Following the "Purple Rain" hitmaker's autopsy, it was determined that the cause of death was due to an overdose of Fentanyl.
It has also been revealed that Prince did not have any prescriptions for any controlled substances in Minnesota for a year prior to his death. It is unknown at this time how the singer obtained access to the medications. The medications were said to have been found hidden away in the singer's travel bag that he carried on his person. There was even one prescription bottle found that had been prescribed in someone else's name.
As the investigation into the singer's death continues this new information has sparked many questions in fan's minds, who, are beginning to wonder if some sort of foul play was behind the entertainer's death. At the time of Prince's death autopsy reports released reveal that he had the drug acids of diazepam, lidocaine, and hydrocodone in his system. Regardless of the outcome of this investigation, it will not change the fact that the singer's death could have been prevented.
It also reveals one other thing, someone, somewhere had a hand in helping him obtain the illegal pharmaceuticals, and it is only a matter of time before the whole truth will be revealed.
Do you believe foul play was involved or was Prince just a clever addict chasing his next high using whatever means possible?


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2016 Airstream NULL NULL - Montana
- Year: 2016
- Make: Airstream
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- Condition: Excellent
- Country: United States
- State or Province: Montana
- City: Missoula
- Zip/Postal Code: 59808
- Type of Sale: Private Seller (Individual)
- Listed: August 25, 2016 3:04 pm
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- Member Since: August 5, 2016
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Pendleton Airstream Limited Edition, 31/100, a complete masterpiece. This brand new Airstream is in mint condition, and has never been taken off the lot. I'd love to keep this beauty, however, I need to sell. Taking this amazing rig on a trip would be the best feeling.
My favorite feature on the Pendleton is its back door; the living room/dining room rear wall opens up similarly to that of a SUV, providing open views, better air flow, and quick exit. I think it wise to make this a standard feature.
Includes a Blue Ox hitch set up, a surge protector, a portable waste tank, sewage and fresh water hoses, leveling blocks, towels, pillows, blankets, dish ware, and Rock Tamers mud flaps for the tow vehicle.
Unit being sold by an individual.
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Hope you are enjoying our Windows Phone app development tutorial series! In last tutorial, we learnt more about Silverlight layout controls; now in this tutorial we will learn about Silverlight events and input controls.
To start with an event, let's understand first what an event is! An event is any method that is executed when user interacts with our application. Each control has a number of events it can respond to. So as a developer we can choose any event provided by that control. If you want to see all the events exhibited by any control just place that control on designer area and go to properties window. Besides that property tab, you will see another tab named "Events". On clicking that tab, you will see all the events that can be used for that specific control.
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Some events are triggered by actions performed by users, for example, clicking on a button while some events are triggered by something that application does for example, starting any application triggers "Loaded" event. As a developer, it's up to you which ones to use and which ones should be ignored.
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Up till now, we have just seen all standard events. Let's now study some advance events. Here are some controls which are important for any application.
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- Checkbox: Suppose we want to limit the users reply to just "yes" or "no" then we can do that using checkboxes. The checkbox has a "content" property which displayed text next to checkbox. The checkbox has default property known as "checked".
- Radio buttons: If you want to give few options to users out of which only one of this can be selected, radio buttons are used. Once you define set of radio buttons, you can bind them together using "GroupName" property. So only one radio button can be selected within a group.
- ListBox control: If you want to present user with a list of options and want user to select one or more choices and later retrieve them, you can use list box. ListBox exhibits "selection changed" as its default property. You can add more items to list using property windows or through code using "ListBoxItem.Content" property.
These are some input controls which can do a lot of things. Obviously, there are many more other controls on toolbar but covering all of them is outside the scope of this tutorial series. Meanwhile you can learn more things about these controls. In our next tutorial we will talk about Image Control in Silverlight.
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Meeting: Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Abstract number: 52
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To cite this abstract:Young, RS; Munchhof, A; Arseven, A; Skopelja, E; Counsell, S . GERIATRICS EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS FOR HOSPITALISTS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. Abstract published at Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev. Abstract 52. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2017; 12 (suppl 2). https://www.shmabstracts.com/abstract/geriatrics-educational-interventions-for-hospitalists-a-systematic-review/. Accessed April 3, 2020.
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I got a little bit stuck on this sentence: 'It's the shirt my boyfriend Ben told me I was wearing the day he fell in love with me.' Maybe this would work better from her perspective i.e. 'the day Ben and I fell in love' - the 'Ben told me' aspect bogs it down a little bit IMO.ReplyDelete
'That shirt gave me confidence, something I lacked at times. And I really wished that I had worn it to the party that night.' I think, possibly, we might be focussing a little too much on the shirt. The opening paragraphs do have some telling, which can work, bit I think it needs to be limited - too much about the shirt is slowing things up, I think.
'My heart somersaulted in anticipation of seeing Ben.' Maybe consider dropping the second half after somersaulted? I think the rest is implied.
'I missed that fresh-from-the-dryer smell of the sweatshirt he always let me wear.' Nice touch!
I think overall you've got a nice start here and a good contemp concept. I do think you could make it much, much stronger in terms of telling and flow, but it's hard to judge in 250 and the query promises good conflict to come!
I think this could be really fun. You deff have a contemp voice, that's for sure. Fun concept with the lottery tickets- but is she actually winning the lottery? Or just obsessed with the chance that she might win?ReplyDelete
Thanks for the comments :) Lindsay, no she isn't winning the lottery. That's why she keeps buying the tickets--to keep the dream alive. I tried to allude at the end to the fact that Mallory "wins" something from the lottery that isn't millions.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your question!
I really like the premise here - the idea of pinning so much on a winning lottery ticket (who hasn't done that, even briefly, at some point in their life?). Your query stands out as a unique idea for contemporary YA. For the first 250, I'd suggest tightening up the first paragraph (maybe less about the shirt).ReplyDelete
You already have some great comments here, so I'll just add - this sounds great. I hope I get to read it one day!ReplyDelete
I really like this premise! ANd I think that teens who see their parents buying lotto tix will definitely be able to relate to it! It's a great idea.ReplyDelete
I thought the query was very well done. The only thing that dragged for me was the first few sentences of the second paragraph--the "setup." I'm not sure if it's possible to trimt hat down (I know sometimes the setup is the most important part for us as writers!). But I was a little overwhelemd by all the detail. It didn't make me want to stop reading (which is good!), but it definitely slowed the pace for me in that spot. Just wanted you to know, for what it's worth. Could be a subjective assessment.
As for the first 250, I thought it was great! I totally remember having "lucky" items of clothing back then (and still do now, LOL). I think you've found a good place to start with that. And the way the backstory was woven in was seamless, in my opinion. It didn't feel info-dumpy at all. Only one sentence stood out to me as a potential problem: "I'm convinced that magic lived in every thread." The use of "I'm" kind of threw me because everything else in the submission is past tense. You might want to change it to "I was," unless you're doing it intentionally as a kind of "narrator commentary in present tense" thing. I actually had a problem with this in my sub, too. I'm #58. If you read through to the last few comments on my sub, you'll see a discussion between me and my first round judge, Jessica Taylor about this. She was very helpful in figuring out how to handle that technique.
Best of luck! This sounds like a great book! I'd love to read it one day.
Okay, you had me at Her brother drags a shadow of misery around the house. OMG! That is AWE-cue Barney Stinson here-SOME!ReplyDelete
I love that she buys lottery tickets and escapes into her fantasies. And that she has different fantasies for different tickets (hopefully I understood that right?)
I think this has great potential but had a couple of nitpicks--
It's the shirt my boyfriend Ben told me I was wearing the day he fell in love with me. ** I had trouble with this one too. And I agree the shirt plays a pretty big part in the beginning of the book, unless the shirt is a minor player later on.
My giant smile led us up the....I think this is akin to "My eyes rolled across the ceiling" I just pictured this animated smile leading them up the walkway. Kind of like the Jimmy Dean Sun in the commercials but a smile.
But otherwise, I think I'd pick this one up and keep reading.
Thanks so much everyone for the comments. I truly appreciate both the critique and the kind words.ReplyDelete
I've changed the two lines that lately seem to be bringing up the most issue. So here's what i have:
"My boyfriend Ben told me I was wearing that shirt the day he fell in love with me."
""Hurry up!" I tapped my foot impatiently as I looked back at my friends moving at a snail's pace up the walkway."
Hopefully those two lines are an improvement!
Thanks again :)
I agree with the others that the opening paragraph could use some tightening - I'm a lot less interested in the shirt than I am in your main character, and the setting, and the anticipation of seeing Ben again after a month apart.ReplyDelete
I also think the first paragraph of your query could use a bit of tightening, though it's difficult to identify where without having a better sense of the story.
My first thought, however, is that this line:
Her father hasn't had a job in ages, her brother drags a shadow of misery around the house, and her sister is missing
reads a little bit like Plot Soup, AND throws me off your entire premise because her sister missing is A BIG DEAL, and I expected that to be the plot. If it's not, I'd leave it out, because all her other problems seem much diminished by comparison.
You have a fun premise, though, and I think there's a lot of good stuff to work with here!
The query starts off strong, but I think Rick has a point about the Plot Soup in the middle--I got a little lost. I figured her missing sister would weigh more heavily into the book, like Sara Zarr's ONCE WAS LOST (which combines a missing girl case with the main character's own struggles). Maybe it does but it's not evident in the query?ReplyDelete
This line: "Soon, though, her lottery pipe dream becomes an absolute necessity, and Mallory's habits and hopes lead her astray." I think you should say why it's a necessity so the conflict is more apparent and then you can show the stakes--what if she hangs all her hopes on the lottery, what will happen if she doesn't win?
Good luck with your writing, it sounds like you have a good premise but maybe it's just the query that needs strengthening. :)


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In 1980 Norah Carlin, historian and member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) published her essay Marxism and the English Civil War[1]. In 1983 she released a second called the First English Revolution. Both articles were of a polemical nature. They exuded the need for a complete change in how we saw the English revolution. While Carlin did not express it the most important conclusion to be drawn from them was the need for new Marxist historiography based on the work of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. This need was palpable.
Carlin in both compositions makes some critical points worthy of much further study, three of which stand out. She believed that England witnessed a bourgeois revolution, that so-called Marxist historians have not done enough to stem the tide of revisionism that undermined both Whig and Marxist historiography and the need for a more precise understanding of the class nature of the radical groups like the Levellers and how they fit into the concept of a Bourgeois revolution. Carlins work did not sit very well with the SWP's orientation to Historians like Hill and Manning.The SWP rejected Carlin's historiography and adopted of the genre of "Peoples History" which was developed by the Communist Party Historians Group (CPHG). This essay will examine the SWP's refusal to pursue Carlin's call to action and why it instead collaborated with historians that were associated with the Stalinist Communist Party of Britain.
If Carlin thought defending a Marxist theory of the English Revolution was hard in the 1980s, she should try doing it now. For nearly four decades any historian who sought to favour Marxist historiography has come up against a battery of revisionist historians with their heavy weapons of anti-marxism. When challenged, the revisionists have been able to hide behind an academic establishment whose anti-Marxism has become legendary.
Given this near-unanimous global academic hostility to Marxism, it is surprising that Carlin fails to place this anti-Marxism within the context of the broader "Marxism is Dead" campaign.In the field of study of the English revolution, Carlin traces the beginning of this anti-Marxism to the 1950s. Perhaps the most famous and nastiest attack on the Marxist conception of the English Bourgois revolution came from the typewriter of Hugh Trevor-Roper. Roper was a very right-wing historian and politician. He had a habit of being an offensive, personally abusing any historian he did not agree with, especially if that historian had any connection with Marxism.
Another titan of revisionism was Conrad Russell who in the introduction to a widely-used textbook[2] said "for the time being ... social change explanations of the English Civil War must be regarded as having broken down.' Also during the 1970s, John Morrill put forward his theory that war was precipitated in 1642 by local interests and local rivalries in particular provincial areas. Morrill's work was useful to a point but said nothing about why such conflicts developed.
Carlin cites another historian who went even further complaining that Marxist historians have over explained the past and that 'We must allow,' he says, 'for the role of sheer muddle and misunderstanding in history[3].' Unfortunately, this muddle and misunderstanding have followed us right up to the present day. Today's revisionists are clear what they are against but have nothing to replace Whig or Marxist historiography except what Carlin calls "craftism".
In both essays, Carlin spends some time trying to understand why it has been difficult to defend and expand Marxist historiography as regards the concept of the English Bourgeois revolution. She is correct to say that outside of the CPHG very few "Marxists" have written on the subject. This goes for the Trotskyist movement as well. Outside of Leon Trotsky himself and a small contribution from C.L James nothing much substantial has been written.
If a significant new Marxist historiography is to be developed, then it must take on board the best of the old work. This work must have as its foundation a solid exposition of Marx and Engels writing on Historical materialism. After that, the best is undoubtedly from a Marxist standpoint the work of Christopher Hill. His most outstanding work was the seminal essay written in 1940 The English Revolution, 1640 (part of a Communist Party education pamphlet. It was reissued in 1955. Apart from this work how much has been written from an orthodox Marxist position.Carlin believes far too little. Despite Hill's significant contribution, the fact that no other historian has even come close to developing orthodox Marxist historiography is troubling.
On this Carlin makes this point "Hill left the Communist Party in 1957 after playing a not very memorable role on the Commission for Inner-Party Democracy and ended up as Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Given the nasty and personalised tone of the right-wing attack, it is hardly surprising that defending Hill should come to be almost a significant activity in itself, yet the striking fact is that when a collection of essays by former pupils of his was got together to mark his retirement at the end of the 1970s, not one article made any explicit reference to Marxism, only one contributor (Brian Manning) could be regarded as in any sense a Marxist, and several (including the advocate of muddle quoted above) were openly anti-Marxist. There is something slightly odd about 'Britain's greatest Marxist historian' (as he is described continuously in journals such as New Left Review and History Workshop) raising no successors".
Carlin believed it became easy for revisionist historians to mislabel other historians as Marxist even though they were patently not. One glaring example is that of R H Tawney. Tawney it must be said is well worth reading and was a historian of note.It has however been effortless to attack his work on the gentry. As Carlin notes "The other major influence on the Marxist orthodoxy of the last forty years has been R.H. Tawney's work on the rise of the gentry. Though Tawney did not see himself as a Marxist, he identified the English Civil War as a bourgeois revolution; but in his version, the bourgeois revolution was made by and for the landed gentry. Whatever the precedents for this view in passing remarks by Marx or Engels, Tawney's treatment of the question has caused utter havoc for the class interpretation of the English Civil War. It has shaped the development of right-wing history, in the concern to deny it, as well as the stagnation of Marxist history in the concern to defend it".
The mistake made by Tawney was to see the gentry as a class in itself. If the matter of class was so clear cut then why were there gentry on both sides of the civil war? For that matter why was the bourgeoisie on both sides.This stagnation of Marxist historiography had some consequences. Firstly it allowed the revisionist's historians to consolidate and develop their arguments. Secondly, the historians that came out of the Communist Party instead of deepening the study of the common nature of the revolution started to do work around the radical groups of the revolution such groups as the Levellers, Diggers and to a lesser extent the Ranters at the expense of a more orthodox Marxist historiography.
This type of history appealed to the SWP who promoted it at every opportunity especially when one of its most capable exponents Brian Manning came into their party. While much of Mannings work is worth reading, it is not explicitly Marxist. As Carlin points out "Manning, for example, states his position on the nature of the class struggle in the Civil War in nine lines of his preface, and in a form which makes it almost impossible to recognise it as Marxist. Left-wing historians seem more concerned to establish their fair use of evidence than to engage in the development of a Marxist understanding of the class struggle".
The Bourgeois Revolution
Carlin correctly states that "The 'rise of the gentry' thus becomes a gaping trap for Marxists into which perhaps only Perry Anderson of New Left Review has jumped with both feet. For Anderson, the English Civil War was 'a "bourgeois revolution" only by proxy', because it was made by a section of the ruling class. But if a bourgeois revolution can be made by proxy from above, can a proletarian revolution? If a section of the ruling class could break the last bonds of feudalism on behalf of the bourgeoisie, could not a part of the bourgeoisie set up socialism on behalf of the working class?".
How do we get out of this trap?. As Carlin states a Marxist analysis of the gentry and for that matter, the bourgeoisie has to be made not via Tawney but Marx and Engels. Also at some point, an orthodox Marxist appreciation of Hill must also be made. After all, he was the only historian that consistently made a defence of the notion of a bourgeois revolution.
Hill like Marx was clear that the revolution paved the way for a victorious bourgeoisie and we witnessed the rise a new social order. This was a victory over feudal property relations. Marx correctly states "it is certainly true that feudal relations were not delivered one concentrated blow. Feudalism [in England – eds.] was destroyed but disappeared only gradually. This process extended over many centuries during which certain aspects of the feudal order displayed surprising adaptability and vitality". This approach was indeed taken on board by Hill and to a lesser extent Manning.
Carlin in her essay elaborates that the "new class of merchants and manufacturers played a crucial role in the development of the revolution.They represented new wealth and wanted political power to go with it. They made their money not out of old feudal rights of land and peasants but out of the profits from goods produced by the growing wage workers. Carlin correctly believed that this process of reducing all the workforce to the level of wage-labourers began at least two centuries before the industrial revolution and Marx called it the 'primitive accumulation of capital".
Who was the leader of this new class and the revolution? Carlin was in no doubt that without Cromwell and his New Model Army the revolution would not have been the same. Carlin believed that Cromwell made England safe for capitalism. The Russian Marxist Leon Trotsky was very clear on this point "At a certain moment in political history the fate of 'democracy' hung not upon parliament but -- however terrible this might be to scrofulous pacifists! -- upon the cavalry, Cromwell very quickly realised that the fate of his class would be decided by cavalry. He said to Hampden: "I will raise such men as have a fear of God before them and make some conscience of that."
The Left and Revisionism
According to Carlin, Hill and Manning must take some blame for the rise of revisionism. On the surface of things, it would seem that Carlin had a contradictory attitude towards Hill and Manning. This not the case. Carlin praises Hill and Manning for their work on the English bourgeois revolution and that any new historiography should incorporate much of their best writings.
However, when it comes to taking on the revisionists attack Marxist historiography, their contribution does leave a lot to be desired. It is clear that the SWP saw these two as bulwarks against the revisionist onslaught. At best this a was lousy piece of judgement at worse they sacrificed a struggle against revisionism over a closer relationship with these two historians who were in one way or another closely tied to the apron strings of the Communist Party.
If you examine Hill's role, to his credit he did albeit in a lesser extent play a role in the "storm over the Gentry" debate. His defence of Tawney is still worth reading today. In many senses, this was a missed opportunity to do some severe damage to the anti-Marxists. The fact that Roper was able to walk away from this debate mostly unscathed merely emboldened further hostile attacks of Marxist historiography.
Gifted as a historian as Hill was he did not understand the need for a consistent struggle against revisionism. This stems not from his understanding of history but his complete lack of Marxist political consciousness. When the SWP did try to prompt Hill into a more active role in the struggle the results were not good. In an interview with John Rees and Lee Humber, this question was asked, How do you see the development of the debate around the English Revolution over recent years? Would you agree that the revisionists have taken some ground?
Hill's answer was "they have made a lot of useful points, but their more extreme views are now being attacked by the younger generation of historians. Although the revisionists had all sorts of useful ideas, they had a narrow political approach in that they tried to find the causes of the English Revolution solely in the years 1639–41. This simply assumes what you are setting out to prove. If you look just at those years then, of course, it's a matter of political intrigue and not long-term causes. I think people are reacting against that now. The better of the revisionists are themselves switching around a bit. John Morrill, for instance, who thought everything depended on the county community and localism, is now taking a much broader point of view. And Conrad Russell has become aware that long-term factors have to be taken into account – he doesn't like it, but he recognises that religion has some long-term effects on what happened in 1640, a rather elementary point but he left religion out altogether in the early days. Now he's bought it in. He still leaves out the cultural breakdown in society of that period, but he is moving a bit. I think a consensus will arise and then there will be another explosion in 20 years or so. These debates occur regularly – ever since 1640 people have been arguing about what it was all about".
Not a bad answer but when asked about dropping some of his earlier jargon. And how important is the Marxist approach in studying history? Again his answer gave too many concessions to the revisionists, he said "I took a conscious decision in the 1950s to guard against political jargon after a lovely young woman from the Communist Party told me she thought my book on 1640 had done more harm than good because of the language I used. I've striven not to use sectarian language since. Some words can have an amazing effect on people. Using the word 'bourgeoisie' is a red rag to most academics. Even the most intelligent of them, Lawrence Stone, for example, believe that the bourgeoisie must have something to do with the towns and that if you can prove that the gentry were the main capitalists in England in the 17th century, you've disproved the idea of a bourgeois revolution. But to have to explain this every time you use the word bourgeois is a bore. It's much easier just to leave out the word bourgeois – but of course, it's very easy to slide from dropping the word to dropping the idea. Initially, I thought I had to drop the jargon to get people to take me seriously. I have changed some of my ideas, naturally, but not I hope my basic approach"[4].
Carlin took exception to Hill's approach inside the SWP. To what extent this was discussed inside their party I cannot tell at this moment, but as will be brought out in the third part of this essay it cut across their overtures to Hill and Manning.
Radicalism and the English revolution
Carlin also calls for a class analysis of the radical groups that formed the left wing of the revolution.One gaping hole in the historiography of these groups has been the failure to examine what Russian historians wrote on these groups. To be more precise those historians who opposed the Stalinist bureaucracy and paid for it with their lives.
Hill to his credit at the beginning of his career started to examine Russian historians. As early as 1938 he wrote Soviet Interpretations of the English Interregnum published in The Economic History Review. Hill took a big chance with this article in the sense that he quotes the brilliant Soviet Writer Evengy Pashukanis who in 1937 was denounced as a "Trotskyite saboteur in 1937 executed by Stalin.
It goes without saying that any starting point when dealing with the radical groups should be Hill's early work on the bourgeois revolution and the Soviet historians. Caution should be taken with Hill's early work as he was still a member of a party that supported the mass extermination of the best elements of the October revolution.
Carlin correctly states that the vanguard of the revolution in 1642 was the radical groups that carried out political work in the early party the revolution. To what extent these groups were organised as a party has been open to fierce debate only recently a new revisionist work by Gary De Krey denies they were assembled as a party but were one element in a broad independent movement.
Another matter that needs to be solved is the correct terminology when describing the class nature of the radical groups. So far they have been variously described by Marxists as 'the petty bourgeoisie', 'the middling sort of people', 'small independent producers' and 'plebeian elements.'
While Carlin does not like the term petty bourgeois to describe the class base of the say the Levellers in this paragraph, she describes precisely this class,
"Many of those who took part in the revolt of 1640–42, in the New Model Army during the war and in radical movements later, were indeed small independent producers. In feudal society, the small producer enjoyed ownership or possession of the means of production, and wage-labour was typically a temporary or supplementary source of livelihood – for the near-landless peasant family, for the journeyman on his way to being an independent master craftsman, and even for domestic servants, who saved their wages for marriage and a household of their own. Under capitalism, wage-labour has become the norm, and the small independent producer exists only in competition with large-scale capitalist production.
"England in the seventeenth century was in transition from feudalism to capitalism, and the separation of the labourer from the means of production was the crucial issue for the development of the capitalist mode of production. As Marx recognised, this proletarianisation of the labour force preceded the accumulation of capital on a large scale: it was the essence of 'so-called primary accumulation' or 'the first revolutionising period of feudal production".
Another contentious subject raised by Carlin is the extent there was a working class involved in the revolution. It should be pointed out that this was a working class at the beginning of its existence and bore no relation to the working class today. According to Carlin, there was a substantial number of proletarians. But how you quantify what part they play is difficult.
It is clear that further research is needed. But Carlin insists that " large numbers of wage-earners must have taken part in the riots and demonstrations of the period. Unfortunately, the bias of contemporary propaganda is compounded by that of recent historians, both Marxist and non-Marxist, who seem determined to belittle working-class participation."
She continues "he reputation of the Levellers has fallen low in the 'orthodox' Marxist version in the last twenty years. The view that they were not such radical democrats after all, that they would have denied the vote to the whole of the working class, and that their political theory foreshadows bourgeois rather than socialist thought, originated with C.P. Macpherson in 1962. It is still propagated by Christopher Hill among others. Coupled with this is the idea that Leveller democracy was premature because the potential electorate was backward and even reactionary".
When she says it is wrong to see the Levellers as merely the most revolutionary section of the bourgeoisie, I cannot agree with it. They were precisely that. That does not mean that we should not recognise their struggle and deepen our understanding of the class nature of all these radical groups
The Diggers, or True Leveller according to Carlin were a far more revolutionary outfit. According to her they "went further than the Levellers in identifying the fact that private property was at the heart of their problems. She believes that "it is wrong to dismiss the Diggers as backwards-looking 'agrarian communists'. Their great achievement was to go beyond medieval ideas of the redistribution of wealth to propose the continuing creation of wealth by collective production
Carlin, The SWP and History from Below.
To what extent Carlin's substantial essays were discussed inside the SWP is open to conjecture. In my opinion, her essays should have been given far more attention that they were. If that were to happen, they would have had to tone down their overtures towards the Stalinist Communist Party and its "Peoples History."
As Ann Talbot succinctly puts it " the Communist Party sponsored a form of "People's History", which is typified by A.L. Morton's People's History of England in which the class character of earlier rebels, revolutionaries and popular leaders was obscured by regarding them all as representatives of a national revolutionary tradition. This historical approach reflected the nationalism of the bureaucracy, their hostility to internationalism and their attempts to form an unprincipled alliance with the supposedly democratic capitalists against the fascist Axis countries. People's history was an attempt to give some historical foundation to the policies of Popular Front—the subordination of the working class to supposedly progressive sections of the bourgeoisie and the limiting of political action to the defence of bourgeois democracy—which provided a democratic facade to the systematic murder of thousands of genuine revolutionaries, including Trotsky. It was the approach that Christopher Hill was trained in, along with E.P. Thompson, Rodney Hilton and Eric Hobsbawm, who were part of the Marxist Historians Group and came under the influence of Maurice Dobb and Dona Torr".
This turn towards the Peoples History also fitted in with the SWP's political perspective at the beginning of the 1980s. The SWP leadership drew some pretty negative conclusions from the series of defeats suffered by the working class in the 1970s. The downturn in the class struggle which saw the victory of Thatcher meant for the SWP that for the task was not to build a revolutionary leadership, but to develop "a broader radical left that can begin to present a credible and principled alternative to capitalism."
Tony Cliff wrote in an infamously pessimistic article. So, the downturn continues. There are not going to be set-piece confrontations. The question of intervention means individual intervention in individual disputes. In ninety cases out of a hundred, we will do it from outside. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, we'll do it in a very low key[5]. Two years after he wrote this piece the biggest strike in working-class history outside of the 1926 General strike broke out in 1985-86.
In the field of history, this took the form of a closer relationship with Hill and Manning with the SWP publishing some of his books and him speaking at their Marxism conferences. Manning Joined the SWP from the Labour Party, and the majority of his work was published by the SWP.
Other radical groups also opposed Carlin's attack on Hill and to a lesser extent Manning. Workers Liberty sprang to Hill's defence "the SWP's Norah Carlin, herself a gifted historian of the 17th century, is surely wrong and sectarian to say flatly that Hill was "not a Marxist". I think we might, instead, read Hill's oeuvre as a rather heroic example of the development of a Marxist research with Hill constantly seeking to renovate theory in the light of new empirical evidence and critique, developing falsifiable hypotheses on the foundation of the "hardcore" of the research programme"[6].
Carlin remained unrepentant and in a further attack on the genre of Peoples History. In a review of People's History and Socialist Theory-History Workshop Series.Carlin writes.
"Many contributors do regard themselves as committed Marxists, and explicitly discuss the relationship between Marxist history and political activity. But the conclusions they come to (except feminist 'fragmentism') are always negative. 'Given the political formlessness and difficulties of our times,' says Ken Worpole, it is better to concentrate on the 'long-revolution' which seems to be composed of working-class autobiographies. Robert Colls regards the History Workshop forum as 'a surrogate politics for those depressed by the dismal political options of a country which no longer has a radical movement worthy of the name.' Bob Scribner, though he admires the 'People's History' work of the German Communist Party in the early 1920s, thinks that 'In so far as ... the historian is actively involved in politics, there is a problem of time and resources to carry out historical investigations with the necessary rigour.'
What the high point of Carlin's defence of her political position came with the joint article was written with Ian Birchall called Kinnock's favourite Marxist-Eric Hobsbawm and the working class-(Autumn 1983)[7].
Carlin writes of Hobsbawm "the working class that Hobsbawm now sees vanishing never really existed; it was a myth of the Stalinist era. For Hobsbawm is not so much a prophet as a casualty, the product of an age which distorted Marxism until it became unrecognisable. From Hobsbawm the historian we can still learn much, though his work needs a more critical assessment than it has yet received. But we should be extremely unwise to take him as a guide in the present struggle".
In summing up, her work Carlin is correct to say that we are no nearer an answer to the development of genuine Marxist historiography on many historical topics, not just the English revolution.It is also correct to say that for too long The struggle for Marxism inside academia has taken a defensive position.
Carlin concludes "the reflexes of the siege mentality – uncritical defence of ideas or personalities because of their long-standing identification with the Marxist cause, and the refusal to even examine anything new revealed by a hostile source – have not helped our understanding of class struggle in the past or the present. "The restoration of Marxist theory to the history of the revolution is an essential requirement. This is a historical field in which theory has disappeared perhaps more thoroughly than in any other. The mechanical orthodoxy of the Stalinist period was followed by a period of adaptation to bourgeois academic 'standards' in which theory was apparently regarded as too provocative to mention. This has now been overtaken by the 'poverty of theory' debate in which some Marxist historians are claiming lack of a theoretical perspective as a positive virtue. A full and free discussion in explicitly Marxist terms is the touchstone by which both old ideas and new ones must be measured".
Further Reading.
Kinnock's favourite Marxist-Eric Hobsbawm and the working class- Norah Carlin & Ian Birchall-www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/birchall/1983/xx/hobsbawm.htm
The Levellers and the Conquest of Ireland in 1649-Norah Carlin-The Historical Journal
Vol. 30, No. 2 (Jun. 1987), pp. 269-288
3. C. Russell, (ed.) The Origins of the English Civil War (1973)
4.John Rees and Lee Humber-The good old cause-An interview with Christopher Hill-From International Socialism 2 : 56, Autumn 1992, pp. 125–34.Transcribed by Christian Høgsbjerg.
5.Building in the downturn-(April 1983)-Tony Cliff -www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1983/04/building.htm
6. http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/christopher-hill-and-making-english-revolution
7. https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/birchall/1983/xx/hobsbawm.htm


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Melissa L. Lawrence
Melissa Lanet Lawrence of Sullivan, MO departed this life in Fenton, MO on January 18, 2018, having reached the age of fifty-three years, eight months and twenty-seven days. Melissa was born in St. Louis, MO on April 21, 1964, daughter of Jerry Dean Dodd and Freeda Fay Dodd nee McKay.
As a young woman she was united in marriage and blessed to have four daughters. Melissa is survived by her daughters, Emilee Lawrence and fiancé, Keith Davis, of Sullivan, MO; Elizabeth Lawrence and boyfriend, John Maierhoffer, of Sullivan, MO; Elainey Lawrence and boyfriend, Tyler Reeves, of Sullivan, MO; and Ellie Lawrence of Sullivan, MO; by her former foster daughter, Rose Freeman of Rolla, MO; by her adopted daughter Tara Morrison and children Serenity and Destiny Minard and Lennox Biesner, of Festus, MO; by her adopted sons Brian Garrett and Heath Bacon both of Sullivan, MO; by her former spouse and friend, Mark Lawrence of St. Clair, MO; by her father, Jerry Dodd and wife, Jean, of Londell, MO; by her brothers, Jeff Dodd and girlfriend, Tamra, of Pendleton, IN and Curtis Dodd and wife, Dianna, of St. Peters, MO; by her sister, Kim Vogelsang and husband, Jason, of Lake St. Louis, MO; by her grandchildren, Mason Burks of Sullivan, MO; and by Tytan and Ember Reeves, both of Sullivan, MO; by aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews, cousins, other relatives and many, many, many friends.
Melissa was preceded in death by her mother, Freeda Dodd; by her sister, Angela Dodd; and by her soulmate, Elmer "Bud" Cox.
Melissa was a Christian, having been raised in the Baptist faith and believing in the Lord as her Savior. As a young woman she worked as a waitress at Coach's Restaurant in St. Clair, MO and later went on to teach pre-school at Holy Trinity Day Care in St. Clair for many years.
While her children were in school she was a room mother and also had slumber parties at her home for the girls. Melissa loved the outdoors and enjoyed going camping and on float trips. She also had a passion for reading and writing, often sharing her own poetry with loved ones. What meant most to her, though, was time spent with her family. Her children and grandchildren held a very special place in her heart, as she did in theirs. The memories they created will never be forgotten. A kind and loving mother, foster mother, grammy, daughter, sister, sister-in-law, aunt, great-aunt, cousin and treasured friend, she will be sadly missed and lovingly remembered by all who knew and loved her. Memorials and donations may be made to the family in care of the Russell Colonial Funeral Home in St. Clair, MO.


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If working in Excel were a group dance, it might be called the Spreadsheet Sprawl. "You put your numbers in, she takes your numbers out, he puts more numbers in, and you shake it all about…" Unfortunately for you (or fortunately, depending on your dance skills), spreadsheet sprawl is a real thing—and it's not a dance.
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