We Are Not Responsible For Our Addictions, But We Are Responsible For Our Recovery : A Qualitative Exploratory Study Of The Li

This is an exploratory, qualitative study of homeless, recovering alcoholics and the problems they encounter maintaining sobriety. Using semi-structured interviews, I analyze the experiences of ten men in their forties, who are in a recovery program designed for homeless men. I ask them how they stay sober without a place to live. Three kinds of problems are inferred from their narrative histories. First, the men have difficulty identifying as alcoholics. They have trouble fully integrating into the AA program. Second, the men struggle to form relationships with others, especially with a sponsor. Third, the process of working the steps is adapted complexly, more than in a normal twelve-step setting. The findings indicate that homeless men face special barriers to achieving and maintaining sobriety. I conclude by discussing the larger implications for sobriety, homelessness and social change within this community

Introduction to Pasture Ecology

Pasture‐based livestock production is an integrated process. Plants intercept solar energy, take up soil water and minerals, making carbohydrates and proteins to feed themselves. Animals graze the pasture. Microbes in the animal’s rumen digest the forage and are then digested by the animal to provide energy, protein, and minerals for animal maintenance, growth, and milk production. Dead plant tops and roots along with manure and urine provide energy and protein to soil organisms. The soil organisms maintain soil pore space and structure, provide water infiltration and soil water holding capacity, and cycle nutrients into forms that can be taken up by plants. The majority of minerals are cycled back to the soil in dead plant material and manure and urine from the animals. These nutrients are then used to grow another flush of pasture. The interplay of sunlight, plants, soil, and animals are parts of pasture ecology. Livestock producers who understand pasture ecology are prepared to be better managers since they understand how the system works and how to adapt to change and apply research and experience from other farms to their farm. This introduction to pasture ecology will discuss components of the pasture ecosystem: plants, animals, soil, and climate from an energy flow and nutrient cycling perspective

Caracteristic of Toponymic Generics in New Brunswick

Le Nouveau-Brunswick possède une grande variété de terminologies toponymiques incluant jusqu'à 10 génériques pour les eaux courantes, 30 pour les eaux calmes, 12 pour les terrains plats, 18 pour les parties élevées et 11 pour les dépressions. Bien que cette variété soit impressionnante, un même terme peut décrire des types de phénomènes très différents, tel gully qui désigne à la fois une dépression et un chenal côtier étroit. 90 des 132 termes exposés dans cet article sont issus de la langue anglaise, les autres appartenant à la langue française, à l'exception de bogan, padou et mocauque, dérivés de sources amérindiennes. Un bon nombre de toponymes ne se retrouvent que dans certaines parties du territoire, tels bogan et gulch au nord de la province, et heath et thoroughfare au sud du Nouveau-Brunswick. Il y a aussi quelques divergences régionales dans la description des traits du paysage, ainsi meadow près d'Oromocto et marsh près de Sackville identifient des phénomènes identiques.New Brunswick has a large variety of toponymic terminology including ten generics for flowing water, thirty for stationary water, twelve for flat terrain, eighteen for elevated features, and eleven for terrain depressions. Although the variety is impressive certain terms describe vastly different kinds of features, such as gully for both a terrain depression and a narrow coastal water channel. The English language has been the source of ninety of the 132 terms dïscussed in this paper, with the remainder from the French language, except bogan, padou and mocauque, which have been derived from Amerindian sources. Many of the terms occur only in certain areas, such as bogan and gulch in the north part of the province, and heath and thoroughfare in southern New Brunswick. There are also some regional differences in the description of landscape phenomena, examples being meadow near Oromocto and marsh near Sackville identifying similar features

A House to Please the Birds

If you would build a castle in the air, build a bird house. Birds are airy creatures so they must have their houses In the air. Whether it is a small log cabin among the vines on the back porch, a half cocoanut shell near the eaves outside the bedroom window, a many porched and windowed affair perched on top of a pole in the garden, or a swinging twig house hanging from a tree, it should be made attractive to both the bird dwellers and the good people who put it there

Why are YOU Taking \u3cem\u3eGender and the Law\u3c/em\u3e?: Deconstructing the Norms that Keep Men Out of the Law School’s “Pink Ghetto”

Disproportionately few men enroll in gender-focused law school seminars. Reasons for that reluctance may include that men fear jeopardizing their gains from the patriarchal dividend and that interest in gender issues violates the dominant culture\u27s sexist and heterosexist norms regarding proper masculine roles. While there are powerful reasons for believing men should not be in these courses at all, male feminism should offer a distinct voice that does not purport to speak for womyn or allege to have suffered oppression in the manner that womyn have. Exploring a new vocabulary in gender education, encouraging awareness of feminist issues, dismantling of male solidarity, and destabilization of masculine norms through utopian reconceptualization in fiction can mitigate the forces that prevent men from enrolling in gender focused courses. Many of these lessons translate well to feminist efforts beyond the law school classroom

Indian Summer—The Season for Picnics

Indian Summer is here, with its soft warm weather, its haze and its picnic atmosphere! For Indian Summer is the time of all times for picnics. There are picnics and picnics, ordinary and extraordinary, and they are all fun, but those which linger longest in the memories of most people are the good old wiener roasts held just in the height of Indian Summer