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Assemblyman John Ceretto, R-C-I-Lewiston, began the process of finalizing the New York state budget Wednesday by voting on the first budget bill. Ceretto noted that, throughout budget negotiations, he is still fighting to restore education funding that was cut in 2011. He is working in a bipartisan manner with the governor and legislative leaders to ensure these issues, which his constituents have indicated are the most critical to them, are fully addressed when the budget is finalized.
"As we close in on a budget agreement for this year, I'm continuing to push for an important issue to middle-class families: restoring education funding that was cut in 2011," Ceretto said. "Now that the state has a $2 billion surplus, we have the flexibility to accomplish both of these goals.
"The governor and I share a vision in which New York's middle-class families are able to keep their hard-earned money and our kids receive a world-class education. With that purpose in mind, we are closing in on an agreement that would advance those objectives."
The education funding cuts that occurred in 2011, otherwise known as the Gap Elimination Adjustment, were enacted to fix a $10 billion budget deficit. In the first year, the cuts amounted to $2.7 billion. Since then, local school districts have lost $6.5 billion in state aid. Now that the budget is balanced and the state has a projected $2 billion surplus, these cuts need to be restored, Ceretto said.
Ceretto is also pushing to relieve students and teachers from the Common Core mandates. His plan would fully restore the Gap Elimination Adjustment, place a moratorium on Common Core testing until a full review can be done, and put an end to sharing children's personal information with third parties.


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File Name: Campbell, G Morgan - Exposition on the Whole BIBLE Droid MySword Version
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WHY ANOTHER BOOK of G. Campbell Morgan Biblical exposition? There are two very good reasons for it. One is that any exposition from this source has the salty tang of freshness and the ringing tones of eternal truth. The other is that this particular volume reveals so much of the method and purpose of the author as he approached the Book.
It is "previously unpublished Morgan," in the sense that it has never before appeared in book form. Originally printed in a small British paper-The Christian-it was at first entitled "Highways of Biblical Revelation," which gives a clue to its intent. Dr. Morgan was one of those rare Christians who saw the Bible as a whole, and studied it as a whole, and not parts. He had little admiration for those "students" who open the Bible at random, close their eyes and point to a text -and accept the text as God's primary revelation to them. "Some people," he said, "juggle with the Bible. . . . I tried that once, and found my finger pointing to the story of Balaam and his ass. . . . That cured me of juggling the Bible." Nor did he care for the "proof-text" method that of lifting a fragment out of the context to prove a theological point: "That is not Bible study. . . . I can prove anything from the Bible [by] choosing my texts. I can prove that my audience . . . should go out and hang themselves. 'Judas went out and hanged himself.' 'Go, and do thou likewise!' "
We knew the Bible better than most men of his generation, and he saw in its pages something that most of them missed: that in this labyrinthian house of truth one could understand and find his way best by laying hold upon a golden cord that runs from Genesis to Revelation: the golden cord of revelation and redemption. Through it all, like Tennyson's "one increasing purpose," ran this emphasis and air.
Unlike the exposition of his Searchlights of the Word, in which he cast new light upon various great passages of Scripture, here he binds together the central thoughts of all the chapters, as a road-building engineer might bind together main and tributary avenues of travel into a cross- continental highway. Dr. Henry C. Thiessen, in his Introductory Lectures in Systematic Theology, puts it thus: "The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist-a body of unorganized and only partly related fads. God has not seen fit to write the Bible in the form of a Systematic Theology; it remains for us, therefore, to gather together the scattered fads and to build them into a logical system. . . ."
This, Dr. Morgan has done in this volume. It will be, to many, the crowning achievement of his amazing career as princely preacher and inspired teacher of the Word.
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Eredivisie Review: Ajax cut gap at top as PSV lose
Ajax cut PSV's advantage at the top of the Eredivisie to eight points with a 1-0 win over ADO Den Haag after the league leaders slipped to a 2-1 defeat at Feyenoord.
PSV suffered just their fourth loss of the season at De Kuip, striker Anass Achahbar netting two magnificent strikes in the space of four second-half minutes to put the hosts ahead.
Achahbar opened the scoring in the 59th minute with a hooked volley from Rick Karsdorp's long ball forward and then doubled his tally by lashing home from Jean-Paul Boetius' lofted pass.
Memphis Depay pulled one back in the 68th minute with a low effort from long range, but that proved to be nothing more than a consolation as Feyenoord hung on.
Ajax duly took advantage of PSV's slip-up, although they needed a stroke of fortune to see off relegation-threatened Den Haag.
The hosts had been profligate in front of goal in the first half, and it took an own goal from Xander Houtkoop in the 80th minute to settle the contest.
Davy Klaassen's header deflected off the unfortunate substitute to boost Ajax's faint hopes of a fifth straight league title with six games still to play.
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As usual, I jumped the gun last year when I went all crazy over flashlite and the ability to produce animated films, sites, and UI stuff for cell phones.I figured that the world was about to go crazy. Everyone will have web sites... ON THEIR PHONES! HOLY CRAP! So far that has not been the case.
But... Last week there was a story on NPR about a bed and breakfast in North Carolina that launched a .mobi site for their business. It has been pretty successful. Something told me that it was time to jump on registering nomadtoons.mobi. For those of you unaware of what I'm talking about, .mobi is the designation address for sites that are made for phones. The layout, UI, and design will be especially for cell phones.
The good news is that I already know how to whip out cell phone sites pretty easily. So all I need to do is sit down and do it. So for anyone trying to make a quick buck by purchasing a .mobi for my site... too bad! I beat ya!
Anyhow, another good thing I noticed is that ALL of Verizons top-selling phones now have flashlite capability. My advice for anyone in my line of work is to JUMP ON IT now. I plan on making nomadtoons.mobi into a true-to-the original companion but it WILL have a number of actual flashlite generated cartoons! hooray! The one thing that really gets me going is new technology and perhaps that's what got me off my ass to actually make some new cartoons.
Oh.. and another flash related thing: It would seem that flash muct now be searchable by browsers. I am actually pretty bad at marketing my site. I'm perhaps one of the worst Shmoozers out there which is kind of the way I prefer things. But having a flash site like mine be totally searchable will probably be pretty helpful.


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LOS ANGELES, CA — Drinks Americas (OTN: DKAM) a leading U.S. broker for authentic Mexican craft beer announces their newest brand Day of the Dead Craft Beer is now being served at 25 Taco Mac Sports Grills.
Taco Mac Sports Grill is a family-friendly casual dining restaurant serving delicious, All-American grill favorites, the largest selection of craft, imported and domestic beers on draft, and the best sports watching environment anywhere. It's the perfect place to get together with friends and family for a great meal and to watch the game in a lively, casual atmosphere.
Offering a large selection and wide variety of beers is Taco Mac's claim to fame. Taco Mac Sports Grill has 25 locations in Georgia, 3 in North Carolina and one in Tennessee. They offer regular events that educate patrons on the wonderful world of beer and spirits. These are excellent opportunities to learn more about the breweries and taste chef-inspired dishes.
Taco Mac's is always expanding their unique offering of craft beer and Day of the Dead most currently will be added to their menu of beers. Day of the Dead Craft Beer is an authentic Mexican beer brewed at a Mexican owned brewery Cerveceria Mexicana, whose packaging depicts this Mexican holiday and offers six variations including an Amber Ale, Pale Ale, IPA, Hefeweizen, Blonde Ale and a Porter.
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Drinks Americas is the exclusive United States broker for leading premium authentic Mexican beers currently present in over 32 states and is on target to be the leading broker for this growing category in each of the markets in which it operates. All the beers are brewed in Mexico's third largest brewery, Cerveceria Mexicana, which is proudly Mexican owned and uses state of the art processes, fermentation and aging systems. Drinks Americas leading premium authentic Mexican beer brands includes specialty craft beer Day of the Dead, MexicaliÔäó, Rio BravoÔäó, Crazy PigÔäó and Chili DevilÔäó. Drinks Americas (DKAM) brands continues to forge strong connections with consumers through some of the largest retailers and restaurants in the country.
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Some Amazing Teens…
This blog is a shout out to the teens in my youth group. They are amazing! They continually impress me with their hearts to serve and their love of Jesus. Whether to pray together, play together, or serve others, they choose to spend their free time week after week in positive ways.
MBC Youth…you ROCK!!
Last weekend, they fed the homeless in Richmond.
They pray unashamedly and publicly.
Competition gets fierce!
Helping others makes them happy.
Worship is an important part of their lives.
I love all of you! Thanks for allowing me to be a part of the best youth group around. Anyone who believes teens are lazy, uncaring, and/or disconnected needs to come spend a few hours with you.
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It all comes down to shooting percentage for the Mighty Panther! They need to shoot between 40 and 50% to win this game. Valpo has been a sharp, painful burr in the side of the Panthers. Kelm & Company will have to play well to win. Go Panthers!!!
Coach Jeter and his staff have earned another year, no matter the outcome of this game, to show us that they can earn a ticket to the Big Dance. This season brought life back in to the program….now its up to Lovell, Braun, and Jeter to keep moving this program forward. Lovell and Braun, don't screw this up. In order to move forward, you need to see where we have been. Nancy and Bud laid out a successful game plan……..you'd be fools not to pay attention to it. More on that later. Go Panthers!!!


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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Lamp re-do
Now that project move Sophie into Abby's room is a success, I want to continue to put the finishing touches on their bedroom so I can move on to decorating Aden's room.
When it came to re-doing the lamp shades I feel more satisfied with the girls shade than I do Aden's. I completed Abby and Sophie's lamp with a clear color theme in mind, keeping with the "Romantic Blue theme" as Abby calls it.
With Aden's lamp shade however I'm not as happy with the results, but I feel like I have time to tweak it or completely start over when I move on to his room. Was his lamp an attempt to make him feel like I am dividing attention and time equally to both rooms? Perhaps. Poor kid. I will get to it.
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The other night I was craving a kind of saucy pasta dish, but dairy-free of course. This rotini with a really simple vegan alfredo and a whole head of broccoli had me satisfied.
About half a standard box of whole wheat rotini pasta (or some other shape you like)
One head of broccoli, chopped
5-6 cremini mushrooms, finely chopped
1/4 cup vegan buttery spread, such as Earth Balance
1/8 cup all purpose flour
1 cup non-dairy milk (I used almond, unsweetend)
1 tablespoon of nutritional yeast
Salt to taste
1 tsp garlic powder (or more to taste)
1/4 tsp Paprika
1. Cook the pasta according to your taste (I like it al dente), but 1 min. before it's done add in the broccoli, then drain and set aside.
2. In a large skillet, sautee the mushrooms on medium until cooked, set aside in a dish. In the same pan, melt the vegan butter on medium low and stir in the flour til it forms a paste/roux.
3. Stir in the non-dairy milk until you reach 'sauce' consistency (about 1 min.), then add nutritional yeast.
4. Turn the heat to low and add salt to taste, garlic powder, and paprika for colour and a little flavour, if desired.
5. Add pasta and broccoli to the pan, along with mushrooms and toss to coat with sauce.
And you're done! It wasn't too creamy, but it was just enough for me. If you like it quite saucy, double the sauce recipe.
It serves 2 or one very hungry person and takes less than 20 min. to make once you have your ingredients ready.
Don't be afraid to play around with the amount of 'milk', nutritional yeast, salt, and garlic powder you use to get your perfect flavour. If you want a richer sauce, add more vegan buttery spread.
This would make a great quick dinner this weekend!


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Several IEEE experts predict that autonomous driverless cars will account for up to 75 percent of vehicles on the road by 2040. They called such cars "the most promising form of intelligent transportation" in a recent IEEE press release, and cited several benefits including minimizing traffic jams, energy efficiency, and faster highway speeds. However, the biggest barrier to widespread adoption is no small thing—acceptance by the public.
"Drivers and passengers are hesitant to believe in the technology enough to completely hand over total control," says IEEE Member Jeffrey Miller, associate professor of computer systems engineering at the University of Alaska in Anchorage, whose research is in intelligent transportation. Despite that concern, the way to driverless cars is already being paved. In September, California became the third U.S. state to affirm the legality of driverless cars—which allows for further testing of autonomous vehicles, like those Google, for one, has been developing.
Do you think most cars will be driverless by 2040? Would you trust an autonomous car enough to ride in one?


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In the interest of transparency, I have to tell you that I was asked to review this book - Friendship is Like a Seesaw. It is a book in the A BIG HUG series by clinical psychologist and author Shona Innes.
For my USA readers - we call teeter-totters 'seesaws' here in Australia. You can find these books stocked in the USA HERE
I didn't have to think twice, I didn't need to be convinced and I didn't need to go and buy the book! It was on my shelf already (you may have noticed that I shared it on Instagram last year). Furthermore, I had planned to do a lesson with this book early in our first week back at school.
Thinking back to when I purchased this book, I remember seeing it on the shelf and grabbing it swiftly and tucking it under my arm. Experienced teachers know straight away what is going to resonate with children. Instantly I knew that explaining friendship with the visual of a seesaw was simply perfect.
I adore how the book explains that sometimes in a friendship, someone is up, and the other person is down. It goes further to explain what might happen to make someone feel down, and how to go about getting things back 'in balance'.
So many books I have read in the past about friendship, have students thinking that things always have to be peachy-keen and cupcakes. I love that this book helps students understand that it is normal for friendships to be out of balance at times - and it is not the end of the world.
I could already tell that it would be a great staple to have on hand for all those times when students return from outdoor play, red-eyed and blubbering with tears. When they feel upset, hurt and frustrated that their friends have let them down in some way. Just reading this story will help them calm down and realise that things can be fixed.
I would suggest making a chart as you read this book for a second time, and as a class write down everything that you have learned about friendships. Ask students to contribute some of their own ideas as well.
Talk about how friendship looks when it is balanced and how we know it is working for both people. Talk about the sorts of things that happen to make someone feel 'down' and then how we work this out and repair it with some 'friendship skills' or 'tools'. Your students can draw a picture or write about each of these on this worksheet I made. It is a worksheet I have been using for years, but I added a seesaw visual to tie it in to the story.
Find the FREE worksheet on google drive HERE
I would love to build my library of books about friendship, especially for this time of year - if you have some favourites, please leave a comment and let me know.
Have a wonderful day.


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WASHINGTON India may grow at a faster pace this year if the latest predictions of higher rainfall in the country this year hold up, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday.
"I have seen in the last two or three days the predictions seem to be much kinder to us this year, and if that were to happen, we are capable of…improving upon our growth rate," Jaitley said in a speech on the nation's growth prospects at a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event in Washington.
India is currently expected to grow 7.5 percent this year and next, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Latest forecasts predict above-average rainfall in India this year. A good monsoon season is important to farm output in India, the world's second-biggest producer of rice, wheat, sugar and cotton.
Shares rose nearly 2 percent on Wednesday to their highest level in more than three months as easing inflation and the rainfall forecast bolstered expectations of higher economic growth and more rate cuts by the nation's central bank.
Jaitley is in Washington this week for the IMF and World Bank's semi-annual meetings. A meeting of the G20 major economies is also due to take place.
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Please join us Tuesday, March 14th, at 7:00 pm for the monthly DNA SIG meeting: "What DNA Can Teach You" presented by Stephanie Saylor.
Stephanie will discuss how genetic genealogy can provide additional documentation on your ancestors by expanding your family history tool box. We will focus on some basics information on different types of DNA so we can give reasonable expectations on how long and involved different research questions can be depending on your learning curve, specific questions and type of DNA you are using.
The DNA SIG meets under the direction of Stephanie Saylor, who holds a degree in biology with an emphasis in neuroscience. She combines her love of genealogy with a background in genetic research to put together and organize presentations for this group.
Presentations are facilitated online through GoToWebinar. Participants are welcome to ask questions throughout, and the recordings are made available for UGA member viewing. To register, please visit the UGA Webiste: DNA Interest Group/Register to Attend. (You must log in as a member to visit this page.)


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After a short period of sofa-bound flueyness, I just finished the body of the baby norgi. It's actually made me feel quite Christmassy, all those reindeer and fir trees. Am rather pleased with the stranded colourwork. One minor problem is, I didn't really think about it until I got to this part, but there are some alarmingly long floats required in the top section, like 10 stitches or more. In my past experience with stranded knitting, my attempts to weave in floats were a bit of a disaster. You could see it on the right side, it stubbornly refused to stretch by as much as a millimetre, and the knitting puckered up like it was trying to kiss you. So this time, I decided I was going to blithely knit on and leave huge gaping floats. I will report back on the wisdom of this when I have attempted to get it over the wee mans head and trapped various limbs in a forest of inverse reindeer. If it's a disaster, I may go back and tack them down. But right now, I can't really be bothered. Onward to the sleeves! I can't wait to attack this thing with scissors!
I also modified the neckline to accommodate the small fella's not-so-small head, which is the size of a planetoid. Added 10 stitches into the opening, front and back. It looks nice and roomy, so we'll see how it is after the neckband is added. Am thinking I might go with a sewn cast-off on that for added elasticity.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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Today's vintage children's book has lovely illustrations by the great Maurice Sendak. The illustrations are done in such a way that the characters feel gentle, soft, thoughtful... same with the color pallette; it feels cool, lush, tranquil.
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present
by Charlotte Zolotow
Pictures by Maurice Sendak
Harper and Row, 1962


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As you know during the past few months I have been focusing on the development of Neural Network (NN) trading techniques using images as inputs. Last week I posted my first 25 year back-testing results, suggesting several improvements that could take this NN technique even further. Today I am sharing with you some additional results from my efforts, particularly how this NN system has now reached a level of back-testing profitability superior to all my previous NN based systems. I am going to comment a little bit on how I managed to improve results so much and I will also show you some very interesting results that are obtained with this NN strategy that other systems are not able to achieve — mainly multi-instrument profitability. Let us now go into the world of image NN and what my results have told me up until now.
Last week I obtained the first reproducible long term profitable results for my NN image technique system (now called Tapuy). The system uses chart images as inputs and then attempts to predict next day directionality based on a histogram of possible trading outcomes. The use of a histogram as an output was fundamental to achieve these results as well as the modification of the image inputs in order to make them clearer (lines instead of candlesticks). After this achievement I then tried to improve on the results by testing different canvas sizes, scaling techniques, training sample sizes, etc. My tests showed – very interestingly – that images with larger numbers of data points showed worse results, even if the canvas size was also increased while keeping the data points constant and increasing the canvas size yielded almost the exact same output (although computationally much slower). These results agree with some of my previous NN research that shows that about 2-4 days of data are optimum when attempting to predict the directionality of the next day. Systems such as Sunqu and Paqarin never benefit on using more data points so it was actually good to see coherence here.
When this was clear it was easy to take a step in the other direction and test whether simpler models could yield better results. In order to do this I shrunk the image size to 15×15 pixels and used just 5 data points to train the NN on at least 50-100 examples after each trade. The result was a much cleaner equity curve that achieved higher profitability, increasing training epochs on this setup also increased profitability significantly until a point was reached where profitability started to decline (when overfitting starts to happen). Using larger numbers of examples didn't yield better results and using less pixels on the image also generated worse accuracy in the predictions. Indeed this point seems to be the best compromise between computational demand and profitability with larger canvas sizes not increasing profitability while greatly increasing the computational cost (as this scales exponentially with canvas size).
After improving the results with this change I then proceeded to change the output histogram structure (making it smaller) and redistributing the classes, achieving an important boost in system performance as well. The result was an equity curve that is better than Sunqu's and much better than the initial Image NN implementation I showed you last week. As a matter of fact this back-testing profitability is now high enough to consider live trading, bringing the Tapuy trading system to a new level. The Tapuy trading system has also been released on the unstable branch of the F4 framework, allowing Asirikuy members to play, test, modify and contribute to the development of this image NN trading technique. It is worth remembering that the source of all our systems is fully available to members so that we can further develop and improve our system implementations in a community environment.
Tapuy – contrary to what Sunqu does – behaves mainly as a trend following system that attempts to follow long term directionality. As you can see on the image above, Tapuy always attempts to follow the trend and even holds to some trades for weeks before closing the positions. During these times Tapuy actually makes a prediction on everyday but avoids closing the trade as the prediction remains coherent (same directionality is predicted). Within consolidation periods Tapuy becomes hesitant and only makes profits when larger ranges develop and some directionality can be seen. However it is worth mentioning that Tapuy is also not strictly trend following as it sometimes does act in a mean reverting manner, particularly when a trend has faced a significant fast extension (so the NN has learned that this graphical pattern may lead to a reversal). It is also important to remember that Tapuy is retrained on every new day, so this 25 year back-test is effectively entirely out-of-sample testing of the NN logic.
Finally I would like to also share with you some exciting results of Tapuy on the GBP/USD (exact same parameters for NN predictions) showing that this training technique is indeed much more powerful than my previous NN developments. As you can see the back-testing results for the GBP/USD are far less profitable than for the EUR/USD but they are in fact profitable through the 25 year test. This shows that the NN technique is able to cling to some fundamental aspects of the market on these pairs, allowing us to adequately adapt our trading on both of them. Granted, these results are not good enough for live trading on the GBP/USD but they do show that there is the possibility to have better results on this pair upon further improvements. Results for other pairs are also interesting, but only the USD/JPY achieves similar results to the GBP/USD. I am also interested in studying how the EA behaves on the USD/CHF, to see if it is able to properly survive the SCB interventions in 2011.
Right now I have a few ideas to improve Tapuy further but some ideas – such as a lack of automatic scaling – have already proved to be of little help in improving results. Going forward I will start experimenting with colours and different time frames to see if I can get even better results than the ones currently showed by this system. However I have to say that Tapuy is now our best NN trading technique, showing that the idea to use images in the training of neural networks in Forex is indeed a very good one (as you know this was not my idea but taken from an academic paper on the subject — see my previous posts on image NN). I have the feeling that we have only touched the tip of the Iceberg and great new improvements are yet to come. If you would like to learn more about neural networks in trading and how you too can implement a constantly retraining system based on FANN please consider joining Asirikuy.com, a website filled with educational videos, trading systems, development and a sound, honest and transparent approach towards automated trading in general . I hope you enjoyed this article ! :o)


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Friday, 9 July 2010
Everyday, everyday, everyday I read the book
The other goodies shown are birthday gifts I was lucky enough to receive. My sister in law made the fabulous button choker and the purse and brooch are from Ness. I am thrilled with my stack of books and I am really looking forward to doing some more patchwork and quilting, I am definitely an enthusiastic amateur! I am a little more experienced in the demanding and skilled field of shoe collecting. These are Oxygen shoes, in London style bought from E-bay- God I love these shoes.
I apologise about the lack of links- I should be putting dinner in the oven- but I figure every one's too hot to eat anyway....right?
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- NoodleBubble said...
Birthday !
And yes it is to hot to eat
- 9 July 2010 at 09:43
- NoodleBubble said...
I think I have those shoes in Purple - my sister bought them but they rubbed so I selflessly said I'd take them off her sore rubbed tootsies...
...I wonder where they are? Off to check the shoe mountain...
hope you're well?
- 9 July 2010 at 09:43
- faeryfay said...
I love your hairclips! Gorgeous!
- 9 July 2010 at 17:53
- twiggypeasticks said...
OOO you busy bee they are lovely hairclips. Love the cutie shoes!!
Twiggy x
- 10 July 2010 at 13:00
- wonderwoman said...
a very happy birthday!!!!! what lovely gifts - i love all those books and your hair clips are gorgeous!
- 11 July 2010 at 07:05
- Me salen alas (si me paras los pies...) said...
Wow!! A lot of things...
Kisses from too sunny Madrid
- 12 July 2010 at 03:49
- Griffin said...
Good to know there's another expert in the shoe collecting field. Love these... and usually I adore high heel shoes, but have some flats in my collection.
I knew a very experienced collector with over 250 shoes in her collection. Oh how I wished I'd got her address... I'd have been in there and got the lot - fiend that I am!!
- 12 July 2010 at 06:55
- Joan said...
You have been very busy making all of those beautiful hairclips. That would be a big task but a lot of fun if you weren't pressured for time. Well done!
- 13 September 2010 at 03:08


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Tasha the Cougar was once kept as an illegal "pet". Once she came to Popcorn Park, she made new friends with Cindy Lou, (now no longer with us), and Sheba, and had lots of room to roam and areas to climb. As Tasha's gotten older, she no longer loses her winter coat each spring.
So while she was down for a vet check-up and bloodwork, Larry and Karen from PetPals Mobile Pet Grooming of Bayville, NJ volunteered to shave her down. When our General Manager mentioned the idea to Larry, he jumped at the chance to do one of the Popcorn Park animals.
Karen and Larry get to work. Tasha has a towel on her to keep hair from getting in her eyes and ears. She is shaved inside her own den.
Larry with Popcorn Park General Manager, John Bergmann, watching the shaving operation.
The last step before Tasha wakes up - she receives some IV fluids.
A big thank you to Larry and Karen for helping Tasha feel more comfortable in the warmer weather. They are here once a week, every week, with their state-of-the-art mobile grooming van, volunteering to shave, groom, and give a whole new look to whatever dogs or cats may need it. Their contribution has made a big difference in helping many animals get adopted that had been passed over prior to their grooming. But for Larry and Karen, Tasha was their most exciting job yet!
And don't forget Tasha! You can help support her on the Wildlife Club and she's always happy to have new friends. Sponsor Tasha today! And be sure to visit, too!
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This is Thatch Cottage in the making...
Meanwhile outside the cottage was still in need of work.
Around the walls I stuck pieces of cardboard that I'd cut out into random stone shapes. I covered all this with tissue paper and PVA glue, you gota love PVA glue, its great stuff! When set I painted with a matt white.
I got some fake grass and set about deciding on where to place it.
That decided I continued with the gate and the paving. I had miniature paving stones which I laid dry first to check where they fitted. They didn't seem to be high enough so I raised them with some cardboard.Once I was happy I stuck the paving down and filled the gaps with grout.
To complete the effect I stained the gate, made a small step from card and tissue paper and added some moss growing in the cracks in the wall.
Now to make some flowers... this was my first every attempt at flowers, I learned a lot and know how I could make them ten times better in the future but for now, here they are along with a few other finishing touches such as a bird bath, a washing line post and a watering can, all made with my own fair hand lol.
Lastly I needed a garden table and chairs, I couldn't find what I wanted in the shops so I made my own.
Add the odd spot of moss and a few dirty plant pots and you've got a garden to be proud of :)


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Affirmative Action Some of Americas most historic Amendments and court cases have lead to the development of affirmative action. The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments which gave African American's they're freedom, guarantee's to equal protection and access to vote. The 1896 Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson which upheld a "separate but equal" doctrine. In 1941, President Roosevelt signed Executive order 8802 which outlawed segregationist hiring policies. Lyndon Johnson was the first to use the term "affirmative action" in his 1965 Executive order 11246 which requires federal contractors to " take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin". Later in 1967, Johnson expanded the Executive Order to include affirmative action requirements to benefit women. The end result is what we define affirmative action as today: the set of public policies and initiatives designed to help eliminate past and present discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Walter E. Williams, writer of the essay "Affirmative action can't be mended" develops the thesis that "affirmative action , in the forum of racial preference , has worn out its political welcome". Williams, in his argument, states that more than 70 percent of respondents to a Gallup poll which asked "should we make every effort to improve the position of blacks and other minorities even if it means giving them preferential treatment" opposed preferential treatment. Even among blacks themselves 66 percents still opposed preferential treatment and only 32 percent supported it. A zero-sum game is defined as any transaction where on person's gain necessarily results in another persons loss. Williams argues that affirmative action programs at The University of California, Berkeley captures the essence of a zero-sum game. Apparently blacks are admitted with considerably lower average SAT scores (952) than the typical white (1232) and Asian student (1254). Williams includes a number of strong premises that support his thesis. In the fourteenth paragraph he states " there is no question that preferential admissions is unjust to both white and Asian students who mat be qualified but are turned away to make room for less-qualified students in the "right" ethnic group. Most of Williams information comes from the university of California, Berkeley as well as UCLA. Williams also presents the fact that 70 percent of the 317 black students who were admitted into UC Berkeley because of affirmative action failed to graduate. Thus leading to another premise stated in paragraph 16. Williams says the fact that a special privilege cannot be created for one person without creating a special disadvantage for another. In the closing sentences of his essay William points out, what I feel is his argument in a nutshell, that even if affirmative action was not a violation of justice and fair play, was not a zero-sum game, was not racially polarizing, it is a poor cover-up for the real work that needs to be done.
Nathan Glazer, writer of "In Defense of Preference" supports affirmative action. Glazer develops the thesis that "racial proportional representation would be a disaster. But basically the answer is yes-the principle of equal participation can and should be given some role. This decision has costs. But he alternative is too grim to contemplate." Glazer supports his thesis with many premises. Glazer believes that affirmative action is owed to blacks because of slavery. The presence of blacks college classes immediately introduces another tone. Glazer is his essay spends a lot of time focusing on the influence of blacks in college as well as there admittance. Glazer states that excluding blacks from universities tramples the idea of democracy. His views are that powerful people support affirmative action so why shouldn't we?. Glazer in his essay pushes the point that today the U.S. is two nations, a white nation and a black nation. Affirmative action, in glazer's eyes join would join the two nations together.
Personally, as a minority, I would never want to be admitted into any college or given a high paying job because of my ethnic nationality. I honestly believe that accepting minorities into a college on a lower curve degrades blacks and other minorities. Its basically telling me and my people that we aren't "smart" enough to do get into a prestige's institution on our own. Williams essay, I felt was the stronger of the two. Although he used an abundant amount of fallacies. In the first paragraph alone when he talks about the percentage of blacks in college. The information is good for what it's worth, but he fails to look at other colleges and other minority groups. Glazer is also charged with the fallacy of questionable use of statistics as well as suppressed evidence. Glazer never once mentions any other minority group other than blacks. Affirmative action isn't only for minorities. There affirmative action laws protect women. Yet either of the essay's even came close to the subject of women. As a Hispanic I would have liked to see where the SAT curve was placed for Hispanics. From the two essay I would have to say I oppose affirmative action. I agree with Williams when he's claims affirmative action is a zero-sum game. Never would I want to tell a white person I received a letter of admission to a college I was less qualified for than him, yet he didn't get


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The first talk entitled 'Lock up your valuables' by Wayne Beynon of Capital Law covered data protection and IP issues, who started by pointing out that virtually every business stores personal information in some way - even if it is just CVs of potential employees - the handling of which comes under the auspices of the Data Protection Act, and he continued to explain the obligations of the business in handling the data; The majority of the points were reasonable and fairly obvious, but one that I found had surprising implications regarded storing the data outside of the 'EEA territories' - it's not allowed, which means that if you're using cloud hosting of some type (e.g. google docs) for these data, then you could be technically in breach of the Act.
The next part of Wayne's talk involved handling commercially sensitive information, and the ways by which it can be stolen - there's of course the more obvious external cyber-attack route, and also, (probably more pertinent to Wayne's profession!) theft by employees and business partners. Here he recommended various security methods from restricting access to physical hard-copy, information systems and logging accesses to the more draconian use of computer forensics experts when things really go awry. It was also pressed home the benefits of keeping your employees trained on your data security policies. Finally he finished off with a quick tour of trademarks and copyrights.
Up next was Liam Giles of Spindogs, with a great introduction to the considerations of choosing a mobile app over a mobile-friendly website. The gist of which was that to justify an app, you'll need a good reason to benefit from the extra effort of supporting several different platforms (iOS/Android/etc), the effort of app approvals and less responsive updates. Such reasons could be that you'll need to use some functionality of the phone, such as the GPS, accelerometer or local storage; or that the app paradigm fits better with your chosen marketing path. He then went on to show off how the Spindogs webpage responds to different form factors, and handles gracefully the transformation from big to small by resizing the browser window displaying it (go on, have a go yourself!).
To conclude, Liam presented a plethora of slides provided by Google showing how mobile use is growing for many reasons, and that everyone should pay more attention to their use - 20-25% of users accessing sites via mobile devices should be quite a convincing argument.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Friends and acquaintances on Wednesday described the man police say opened fire in a crowded Portland shopping mall as friendly and gregarious, not generally reclusive or bizarre.
But twice, Jacob Tyler Roberts disconnected from people close to him, according to friends. He abruptly announced last month he was quitting his job and planned to move to Hawaii.
When he last saw his ex-girlfriend Hannah Patricia Sansburn last week, the usually "bubbly and happy" 22-year-old "seemed numb," she told ABC News.
He was supposed to fly Saturday to Hawaii, Sansburn said, but he texted her that he got drunk and missed the flight.
"You can't reconcile the differences," Sansburn told ABC. "I hate him for what he did, but I can't hate the person I knew because it was nothing like the person who would go into a mall and go on a rampage. I would never associate the two at all."
Nobody answered the door at Sansburn's home, and she did not immediately respond to a phone message from The Associated Press.
Roberts had also disconnected from a neighbor last year.
Roberts developed a close friendship with Samantha Bennett after moving in to her suburban apartment complex in summer 2011. It's just blocks from the mall he's accused of terrorizing.
"He was outgoing, he would always be talkative," Bennett told The Associated Press. "He was like a rapper, he would rap all the time."
But a year later, in June, he abruptly moved out, Bennett said, disconnecting his phone and losing contact with the neighbor he'd talked to every day.
On a Facebook page that a friend identified as Roberts', a few photos show Roberts hanging out with friends, while the cover photo is of a wall painted with the message "Follow Your Dreams" with the word "Canceled" stamped across the message.
In the public portion of his page, Roberts wrote, "I may be young but I have lived one crazy life so far."
"I'm the kind of person that is going to do what I want," he wrote. "There is no reason for another person to tell you what to do, I'm the conductor of my choo choo train."
He added he was "a bit of an adrenaline junkie" who is "just looking to meet new people and see the world."
Authorities say Roberts arrived at the crowded Clackamas Town Center Tuesday with a hockey-style face mask, an AR-15 rifle taken from someone he knew and several fully loaded magazines. He entered through Macy's about 3:30 p.m., walked quickly to the mall's common areas and began firing randomly, killing two people and wounding another before fatally shooting himself.
The victims were identified as Steven Mathew Forsyth, 45, and Cindy Ann Yuille, 54. Kristina Shevchenko, 15, was shot in the chest and taken to a Portland hospital, where she was in serious condition Wednesday. Her doctor expected her to fully recover.
Bennett first met Roberts when they attended the same middle school, she said. But they weren't close until he moved in across the hall with a girlfriend who moved out when they broke up two months later.
Roberts decorated his dining room like a jungle, Bennett said. He was interested in guns and once showed her a black handgun, she said.
Another friend who said she had known Roberts since middle school, Shania Riley, described him as a "very compassionate and very caring person." Roberts could also be "mysterious" and "kind of a troublemaker."
"Like being young, skipping class, smoking pot out back — teenager stuff," Riley said. Everything seemed fine when she saw him at a bar last week, she said.
The only odd moment Riley could recall came about six months ago when she and her boyfriend were at Roberts' apartment "and he was pulling out guns and showing them to us."
She recalled seeing two handguns and what might have been a .22-caliber rifle.
Still, Riley didn't find it alarming. Roberts said he used them for target practice out in the hills, she recalled.
More recently, Roberts was living at a modest, single-story home.
Neighbor Bobbi Bates said he rented space in the basement. She said she saw him leave at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday wearing a dark jacket and jeans, carrying a guitar case. An occupant at the house declined to comment.
Another neighbor, Anthony Reyes, said he never noticed anything unusual about Roberts.
"He was relaxed and friendly," Reyes said.
The alleged gunman worked for a time at a late-night Mediterranean restaurant.
"He was always just joking around with customers," Ariana Johnson, a former co-worker, told The Oregonian. "I've never seen him act out of hand or poorly toward anyone."
Roberts abruptly quit in November, Johnson said, telling co-workers that he had recently inherited money from a relative and was planning to visit Hawaii and decide whether to move there permanently.
He missed a flight to Hawaii scheduled for Friday or Saturday, Johnson said.
Roberts spent one school year at Oregon City High School and graduated in 2008 after transferring from Milwaukie High School, the Oregon City School District said in a statement.
"He was known as a soft-spoken and polite young man who was often eager to be helpful," the statement said. "The motive for such a horrific act is likely to remain a mystery to us all."
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Genre: Dystopia, Science Fiction
Release Date: September 16, 2014
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No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now.
It's been 21 days since the hundred landed on Earth. They're the only humans to set foot on the planet in centuries...or so they thought. Facing an unknown enemy, Wells attempts to keep the group together.
Clarke strikes out for Mount Weather, in search of other Colonists, while Bellamy is determined to rescue his sister, no matter the cost. And back on the ship, Glass faces an unthinkable choice between the love of her life and life itself.
In this pulse-pounding sequel to Kass Morgan's The 100, secrets are revealed, beliefs are challenged, and relationships are tested. And the hundred will struggle to survive the only way they can -- together.
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I am absolutely loving The 100 series by Kass Morgan. Day 21 was the perfect follow up to book one. I loved learning more about the earthbounds. Sasha has me smitten. I find her to be refreshing and playful and I absolutely love the side of Wells that she brings out.
But before I get all "ship" happy, which by the way I totally am with this book, there are so many plot filled things to mention. Day 21 was super-sized on the plot. We learn so much about the characters in this book that my head is spinning.
I kind of wish I wasn't currently at work so I could start book three because oh my god, drama! I wasn't Wells' biggest fan in book one. But I liked him a lot more in this story. I also liked learning more about what things were like for him on the Colony and how his past is tangled with the other characters.
I don't think I need to say that Bellamy is by far my favorite character, but I will anyway. I love learning more about him and more about the person he was and how that's affected the way he is now.
One thing I really enjoy about Morgan's books are while they always leave me on the edge of my seat and wanting more they also wrap up enough of each storyline between characters and the universe within the books to seamlessly transition into new portions of the plotlines. I'm an avid fan of the TV show The 100 as well and they're also good at doing that within the confines of storytelling. It's awesome!
That being said I don't want to give huge plot points away or anything, but holy cow. There are like several hug twists and bombs that are dropped in Day 21 and I can't wait to see how everything turns out in Homecoming. If you're looking for a fast paced, page turner, The 100 series is definitely the series for you!
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- AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 3:38 PM
I've wondered about the genre issue as well. On my own personal writing I'd have to agree with you on the novella issue. Male perspective with equal amount of female perspective (jokingly not taking his crap). I've decided on the self-publishing route, and it's pitfalls, for two reasons; (1) to get it done and quit wasting time, and (2) "It's Bucket List time!"ReplyDelete
Hi, thanks for your comment and good luck with your book! Perhaps provide a link to it sometime...ReplyDelete
It's definitely a puzzler why our culture considers indie music and movies cool while indie books are not, though I think the ease of self-publishing has a major part to play. However, I think that the similarities end up outweighing the differences. All indie products suffer from the condition of being islands in a vast ocean of garbage; i.e. there are so many products that the odds of a random selection yielding a quality product are very small. On the other hand, if someone does discover a quality product, he or she will typically share it with friends and then it won't matter that it's independent; all that will matter is that it's good.ReplyDelete
Like you mentioned, one of the wonderful, largely unrealized aspects of self-pubbing is that you don't need to be restricted by genre. Not only do I typically write outside of any genre, but I'm turned off by books that fall neatly into the metaphorical box. Every book, regardless of label, has an audience; the challenge is in finding and connecting with that audience.
What do you think about these ideas? Have you come to any new conclusions since writing this post?Replies
Hi Aaron, thanks for your comment!Delete
I think you're right about the similarities, certainly. But, yes, it's a lot easier to self-publish a book which means less effort is needed, less conviction etc. It's likely to be a more polluted market.
I think cross-genre work should be a category on it's own, inviting the random - surely there's a readership for it and readers are missing out due to the publisher insistence on streamlining.
As for whether or not I'll self-publish, it really will depend on why I get rejected. If a weakness emerges, I think I'd rather address it than throw it on to Smashwords. We will have to see, in a few months time I think.
Thanks again. Good luck with your work.


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16May2013: James Hansen at LSE - spread the word
James Hansen in London this Thursday - spread the word!
Hi gang,
So James Hansen, possibly the world's most famous and well-respected
climate scientist, is going to speaking at LSE this Thursday.
Dr Hansen is a total legend. His was one of the first and strongest voices
to warn the world about the dangers of global warming back in the 1980s,
and his scientific predictions about the rate of climate change have
proved highly accurate. In recent years, he has led the way in calling for
scientists to speak up and challenge governments about the problem, and he
has himself been arrested several times on clim ate change demonstrations.
The talk this Thursday will be all about how do we turn scientific
evidence into action, and pressure governments to take the required steps
on climate change. It's going to be a little bit unmissable I reckon.
Public lecture: Itinerant Farming to White House Arrests: a scientist's
view of the climate crisis
The unfolding human-made climate crisis seems almost surrealistic from a
scientific perspective. As knowledge of a climate emergency improves,
policies change in ways that exacerbate rather than mitigate the
situation. The tragedy is that actions needed to stabilise climate, rather
than being painful to society, would have multip le benefits, including
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If our governments continue to fail to advance effective policy, thus
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A variety of options for making governments do their job will be discussed.
Date and location: Thursday 16 May, 6.30-8pm; Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
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Speaker: Dr James Hansen, former director of the NASA Goddard Institute
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A Love Letter to Watership Down
Dearest Watership Down,
Today I felt moved to tell you exactly what you mean to me. Sure, like so many lasting relationships, we got off to a bit of a bumpy start. But I know you understand -- I was so young when we first met! My dear Grandma introduced us when I was only eleven. She was so confident we were soulmates. But me? I wasn't so sure.
I studied your plain beige cover with little on it but your title and a rabbit in front of some sort of compass. Where were the girls in pretty dresses? I began to suspect that you did not hold for me orphans, or girls who wanted to be ballerinas or gymnasts or figure skaters. I was suspicious that you would not tell me love stories or about settler girls who were kidnapped by Indians and would come to love their way of life so much they would refuse to return home to their white families. What could a bunch of rabbits possibly hold for me?
But I gave you a chance, for Grandma's sake. I knew she loved me and only wanted the best for me. I would give you a fair chance and then gently break it to her that, though you were a really nice book, there just wasn't that spark. But you, my dear novel, had other ideas. I soon discovered that buried under that boring beige cover was an adventure story unlike any other. Who knew rabbits could be so fascinating? Well, you did, of course, and Grandma too. I read through your 400+ pages in record time. I was already a voracious reader, but you. . . you I devoured! When I was done, I wanted to start over from the beginning and read you again. I couldn't believe our journey together had ended so quickly.
And so it came to be that I found myself turning to you again and again over the years. I have read you at least once a year since I was eleven, making our relationship over two decades old now. I have long since read that boring beige copy of you to pieces and replaced it with an up-to-date version that is more aesthetically pleasing. And then I read the cover right off that one too. I am not sure how many copies of you I have gone through, and still, no matter what you look like on the outside, you never fail to spark that passion once more.
My mother gifted me a beautiful hardback version of you for Christmas one year when I was in college. It sits on the highest shelf of my bookcase, safe from clutter and cats and where I can gaze up at you lovingly whenever I am in the room. I purchased your sequel on a whim. I hadn't even know it existed until I saw it on the shelf of a discount bookstore that was going out of business. I was so broke at the time, being a student and all, but it was $6 well-spent. It only made me love you more -- not because your sequel is as good as you, but because it is an extension of you, giving me more time with your beloved rabbits.
Over the years you have been there for me. You comforted me when Grandma passed away, and I was living alone in Boston going to grad school. I didn't know a soul and couldn't afford to fly home for the funeral, but you, dearest one, were there waiting to comfort me through my tears. You gently reminded me of so many of the wonderful memories I had of her, and how it is impossible for me to pick you up and hold you without thinking of her.
You have been there for me as I struggle day in and out with this desire to be a writer. I aspire to write something that someday might ignite the same passion in someone else that you ignited in me. Oh to dream! You began my love for adventure stories and tributes to you are constantly finding ways into my stories, often so subtly, only I know they are there. But you, you will always recognize them and know I am only trying to find new ways to say I love you.
There have been some who have questioned my love for you.
"It's about rabbits?"
"Yes! A wonderful adventure story about rabbits. It's an epic tale!" Yes, I gush. Can you blame me?
"But what's it really about?"
I resent this implication that you are hiding something from me. That you were meant for bigger and better things than rabbits. That you have some hidden agenda that could change my feelings for you.
My response is always the same. "It will always just be about rabbits to me."
And today -- today my love for you was validated.
You see, modern technology has a way of changing things, and I was recently introduced to the joys of owning an e-reader. It is all just about convenience of course, as I still love the feel and smell of a good book. But now I get to carry so many with me. Some are good friends, some are good friends waiting to happen.
But today I couldn't focus on any new novel I tried. Nothing was clicking for me. I felt restless and couldn't get more than a few pages into any novel waiting in my queue. I realized that I was missing you. I checked the online bookstore and there you were, waiting for me, at the surprisingly high price of $12.99. Well, this was a dilemma. I have never paid more than about half that for a paper copy of you. Which of course I have waiting at home for me, waiting to be read for the umpteenth time at no additional cost. And most e-books are much cheaper than you. But most books do not hold the memories and joy that you hold for me. It was a battle between my desire to limit unnecessary purchases and a desire to have you with me at all times.
Of course you won. But you knew you would. My love for you is just too strong. And you rewarded me. The minute I opened you up, I was greeted, not with that familiar line about the primroses and the sight of two rabbits about to follow a premonition into a life altering journey, but instead, by an introduction by your author. Now I may have owned copies that Mr. Adams has written an introduction to before. But before I was always too eager to catch up with you and flipped past any unnecessary pages to fling myself heart and soul into you. But today, on my e-reader, I read the words he wrote about you. And I knew he had written them for me. In the very last line of his introduction, he confirmed with I always knew. "It is simply the story about rabbits. . ."
Thanks to Mr. Adams, my love for you is stronger than ever. I knew you wouldn't lie to me like that. He confirms that you were never meant to be an allegory or a parable. He created you for his daughters.
And for me.
I am looking forward to many more decades together.
With all my love,
Watership Down is one of my favorite books, but — like you said — it's always hard to explain to people why a book about rabbits can be so thrilling. I named our rescue kitten Fiver (http://fightforfiver.com) and I'm constantly having to explain that one. It's exhausting. ;)
2/28/2011 10:58:56 pm
In one of my novel outlines (for someday after I get my current WIPs done) I have a basset hound named Rabscuttle. I am actually surprised none of my real-life animals haven't ended up with WD names. :)
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July 2018
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text:
It's Spring Time in the South
It's spring and with that comes a new season on the farm.
We have been busy before silage season kicked off last week
building a new pack barn
with lots of help from these 2 farm boys.
practicing baseball,
running shavings from our new machine,
participating in the annual SAC #Run4Agriculture
welcoming new calves...
and kittens...
enjoying green grass...
fresh strawberries
and warm sunshine.
We have made a delivery of isolette covers to our NICU
spent countless hours at the baseball field
and been fishing...
I even got a bouquet of farm flowers from my 2 boys
What does spring look like where you are?