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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Limbaugh's Landslide

On Monday, Rush Limbaugh proclaimed that “Everything—except the polls—points to a Romney landslide.” Yes, everything—except the election results and every indicator of them—points to a Romney landslide.
But this is not just a story about Limbaugh's incredible stupidity, irrational conspiracy theories, and inability to grasp reality. It's also the story of how Limbaugh created Obama's landslide last night.
On Monday, Limbaugh declared his deep analysis of the race: “my thoughts, my intellectual analysis of this -- factoring everything I see plus the polling data -- it's not even close. Three hundred-plus electoral votes for Romney.”
Limbaugh declared that an Obama landslide was impossible:  “there's no way he's winning in a landslide. Halperin had it right. There are three outcomes here and two of them are bad for Obama: You're gonna have a narrow Romney win or a landslide Romney win or a narrow Obama win. But you're not gonna have an Obama landslide.”
Limbaugh has been using the word “landslide” a lot to describe what would happen to Obama: “I'm on record I don't know how many days in the past three months saying, quote, 'If the election were today, Romney would win in a landslide,' and I haven't wavered from that."
Limbaugh repeatedly said this even when the polls showed much larger leads for Obama than they did right before the election. He claimed that a liberal conspiracy of pollsterscontrolled by the media and universities was trying to fix the election: “Gallup. Rasmussen and Gallup, all they do is poll. The other outfits, they're attached to universities. What's the bias there? They're attached to news networks. What's the bias there? And we know that objectivity is not possible, especially these people.”
Living in a bubble of his own bubble-headed thoughts, Limbaugh and his Dittoheads convinced themselves that the rest of the country was just as crazy as they were, and that an Obama landslide in the Electoral College could never happen. But it did. And we really have Limbaugh to thank for Obama's re-election and the Democratic gains in the US Senate and House.
In the midst of an economic downturn that too many people forgot was caused by conservative policies and Republican politicians, we should have seen the party in power removed in the election. President Obama and the Democrats, in a normal political year, would have experienced the same unfair fate that Jimmy Carter did in 1980, and that so many Democrats in office faced in 2010. But Rush Limbaugh helped make the Republican Party abnormal.
Limbaugh helped create a far right-wing media and Tea Party movement that pushed the Republican Party far to the right. Mitt Romney lurched to the extreme right in order to win the Republican nomination, and moderate Republicans who didn't follow his pandering path lost in the primaries to Tea Party favorites like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock. Limbaugh helped establish a Republican Party that was far to the right of America.
And Limbaugh himself intervened to create the Obama landslide. In 2009, Limbaugh declared “I hope he fails” and pushed the Republicans to become the do-nothing party of pure obstructionism. And earlier this year, Limbaugh started a dominant theme of Obama's success, the Republican war on women, by declaring that Sandra Fluke was a slut and a whore.
So when Limbaugh gazes upon the Obama landslide today, he can truly say, “I built that.”
Of course, he won't say that because he lives in a world of self-delusion. Limbaugh declared that if Obama wins, “There will be some who are targeted for the gulags shortly after the election. The regime has plans, I'm sure.”
So if Rush Limbaugh finds himself imprisoned in a gulag later this month, he can take pride in knowing that he made it all possible.
Crossposted at DailyKos.

  1. Good job in pointing out how intellectually lazy and generally useless Limbaugh's so called "analysis" is.He doesn't know anything he just slaps nonsense conspiracy theories together like baloney sandwiches and passes them out for the ditto heads to dine on.When are they ever going to realize they've been duped by a snake oil sales douche?

  2. Another great Limbaugh read:
    "A Dog Named Rush Limbaugh",


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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Vid Of The Day: Black Sabbath Fan (NSFW)

I think he likes 'em, the fat fuck. And you thought Chris Farley was dead. Stick with it -- the closer he gets, the better it gets.

They were right to be afraid of him.

NSFW - language

Top 10 Wackiest Sex Laws In America

Yes, they are real. And I'm not ashamed to admit that I have broken one of them.

From Mr. Minimac and AlterNet.org.

1. In Bakersfield, CA,
you must use a condom to have sex with Satan.

2. Poking a porcupine is illegal in Florida.

3. In Minnesota, it's illegal to have sex a live fish.

4. In Dyersburg, TN, it is illegal for a lady to call a gentleman for a date.

5. In Merryville, MO, wearing a corset is illegal because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male."

6. It's illegal to purchase sex toys in Alabama.

7. In Washington state, you can have sex with an animal, but only if it weighs less than 40 lbs.

8. In Washington, D.C., engaging in any sexual position other than missionary is illegal.

9. In Massachusetts, you cannot consummate your love with a rodeo clown in view of horses.

10. In Utah, America's biggest Internet-porn-consuming state, sex with an animal is fine unless you're doing it for money.

Link of The Day: Test Your Color-Q

Take the Munsell Color Hue test (click the pic) and find out how well you can detect subtle differences in shade.

Me, I won't even bother -- I suck at color. For years I thought that oranges were yellow.

Genius Of The Day

From Yahoo.com.

Talk about half-cocked...

Man Shoots Own Penis To Impress Friends

All of his friends probably think differently now of 27-year-old Lukas Neuhardt, who, in an attempt to impress them, stuck a loaded handgun into his pants and pulled the trigger. He thought the safety was on.

Embarrassed, the German national told emergency medical personnel that he was the victim of a mugging; however, the police doubted this story from the beginning.

"Instead there was a charred hole in his pocket so either it was the shot of the century or he did it himself," said one police source.

Surgeons were able to stitch together the remains of his manhood, but Neuhardt faces up to 3 years in prison for violating Germany's very strict gun control laws.

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Hangover Cures (ha) Of The Day

From AskMen.com.

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To help avoid a hangover, try to eat or snack before or while drinking.

Rehydrating is the key to recovering from the hangover, and this cannot be stressed enough. You can even put some lemon in your water, it'll help soothe your stomach and will add vitamin C. Avoid water that is extremely cold or hot; drink water at room temperature.

Even though you're extremely tired and a cup of coffee seems like the best way to wake you up, try to stay away from it. Caffeine will only dehydrate you more, and since it's also a diuretic, it will not help your stomach. Milk and other dairy products are also not a good idea; they may make you feel more queasy.

Juice is also a good idea; vitamin C will help give you the energy you'll need.Sports drinks such as Gatorade have been known to work for some people.

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Have some tablespoons of plain honey, or add some honey to your water or cup of tea. It'll help soothe the dryness in your throat.

A Toast!
After drinking to just about every toast that could be made the night before, some slices of plain toast could be a good idea - avoid putting jam or butter on them.

Eating some fruit is also a good idea. It'll be refreshing and give you the vitamins and energy you'll need to replenish your body.

If you're not having fruit or drinking juice, take vitamin C or another type of multivitamin.

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Have an over-the-counter painkiller such as aspirin or ibuprofen, to help ease the headache. Do Not have acetaminophen-based pills; these can be dangerous when mixed with the alcohol in your system. Take the pills in the morning, not before going to bed when the alcohol is still prominent in your system.

Either sleep in, or wake up and take any of the above-mentioned measures and go back to bed. This is assuming, of course, that you have the luxury of sleeping in for that particular day.

Another effective way to alleviate the pain is to lie in a dark room, with a cool compress on your head.

Music Video Of The Day

This one's for all you hungover drunks who had too much fun at the cookout yesterday. Crank it and get that head really throbbing.

My old band, The New Impostors, played this song. And we rokkkkked that bitch, yo.

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Permaculture Credit Union

Phil Vergamini Phil at
Thu Aug 17 13:58:42 EDT 2000

	I guess I made an error in attempting to keep my original
message about the Permaculture Credit Union opening so brief.  To
help clear up your question, I've taken the following questions and
answers from the Frequently Asked Questions page on our web site.

Q.	What is the Permaculture Credit Union?
A.	The Permaculture Credit Union is a credit union of members
dedicated to the following ethics of

Q.	How is the Permaculture Credit Union different from a bank?
A.	The Permaculture Credit Union is a nonprofit financial
cooperative. It is solely owned and democratically controlled by its
individual members, as opposed to a bank, which is often run by
outside stockholders. As a PCU member/owner, your account represents
your shares in the PCU, with each dollar equaling one share.

Q.	Why should I invest my money in the Permaculture Credit Union?
A.	The Permaculture Credit Union is made up of members who have
made the decision to invest and control their money in a financial
institution that follows their code of ethics, not the ethics or
investment strategies of an outside stockholder group.

Q.	Can anyone become a member of the Permaculture Credit Union?
A.	Yes, as long as you are in the "field of membership" of the
Permaculture Credit Union. Our field of membership includes those
persons who have completed a Permaculture recognized design course,
are members of an affiliated Permaculture Institute and/or subscribe
to the ethics of Permaculture.

Q.	What kind of services will be available from the Permaculture
Credit Union?
A.	For the first year the Permaculture Credit Union will be
offering share (savings) accounts, certificates (certificates of
deposit), and loans.

Q.	How soon will the Permaculture Credit Union be able to make loans?
A.	Like most new credit unions, the Permaculture Credit Union
will make loans based on the amount of our deposits. The sooner we
take in sufficient deposits, the sooner we can make loans. We are
projecting loans will be made by Fall 2000.

	I should add that as part of our member education services,
we will be emphasizing sustainability and permaculture ethics as
applied to our loan program.  These issues are being discussed by the
board and loan committee.  If you would like to have your ideas
considered by the board of directors and committees, take a look at
the answer to the second question listed above and join the
Permaculture Credit Union.

	Thank you for your interest.  We look forward to having you
as a member.

	Phil Vergamini

>What about this makes it a "permaculture" credit union?  its not
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From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 04:09:16 -0400 (EDT)
To: Adam Victor Reed <areed2@calstatela.edu>
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Alt: Yes. (I had that at one stage, but this document has died on me a few
times.  Actually I think there are some wrong alt text things as well.
Hopefully I will have it cleaned up... hopefully, hopefully, hopefully.

Images themselves:
One of the ideas I had behind content generators and programming tools icon 1
(that is the set I did) was to try and put things that people who are needing
to read this will understand, or recognise, and people who are not needing to
understand it will easily distinguish thenm and not get them confused with
something that they think is intersting. (I am not sure exactly how to
express that as a general rule yet, but that's why we are having teh
discussion <grin/>)

I think for the context of this (identifying different tyypes of authoring
tool) I was trying to focus on what the product of the tool was, not what the
orignal algorithm might be. (Which means that I agree with what you said
about the content, but I am not sure how else to express it). Maybe it just
means that I didn't really think hard enough about that either.

Anyway, thanks for the commetns. - keep 'em coming. By the way, if you have
other icons to propose, please feel free - the Working group is looking for
the best set we can get...

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Adam Victor Reed wrote:

  I have an attention deficit, so I often use lynx to avoid distractions.
  Alt text appears in place of graphics, so it merges with other text if
  not set off with punctuation. It is NOT accessible if it appears as

      1. Markup tools icon one Markup tools icon two Markup tools icon
         three Markup Editing Tools: Tools that assist authors to produce
         markup documents. These include text-based and WYSIWYG markup

  Instead of alt="Markup tools icon one", could we please have
  alt=" [Markup tools](icon one) " now, and just alt=" [Markup tools] "
  when used as an actual icon in the future? (Yes, I'm willing to write
  a techniques document on writing accessible alt text.)

  As for the icons themselves, I think literal images of traditional
  tools (icon 2 (pen on pad) for markup and content, icon 1 (camera)
   for multimedia creation, icon 3 (programmers terminal) for
  programming) are more accessible (especially for readers with
  cognitive deficits) than abstract metaphors (such as pen-on-film,
  something never seen in reality but shown in icon 2 for multimedia;
  or the abstract schematics in icon 1 for content and programming).

Charles McCathieNevile    http://www.w3.org/People/Charles  phone: +61 409 134 136
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative     http://www.w3.org/WAI    fax: +1 617 258 5999
Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia
(or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (2003)
January 1, 2003

Ancoli-Israel S, Martin JL, Gehrman P, Shochat T, Corey-Bloom J, Marler M, Nolan S, Levi L.

Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2003 Mar-Apr;11(2):194-203.

OBJECTIVE: Preliminary data suggest that morning bright light might improve symptoms of agitation, a serious problem in patients with dementia. The authors expand on an earlier pilot study by evaluating the effect of bright light therapy on agitated behavior in a large sample of patients with severe dementia.

METHODS: Ninety-two patients were randomly assigned to morning bright light, morning dim red light, or evening bright light. Agitation was rated by research staff who observed the patients every 15 minutes throughout the treatment period and by caregivers at one time-point before and one time-point after treatment.

RESULTS: Morning bright light delayed the acrophase of the agitation rhythm by over 1.5 hours. Bright light was associated with improved caregivers' ratings but had little effect on observational ratings of agitation.

CONCLUSION: Although the result that light shifted the peak of the agitated behavior might be generalizable to patients with milder forms of AD, the fact that agitation was not ameliorated might not be. Because the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of patients with severe AD is likely to be more degenerated, and the circadian activity rhythms deteriorate as the disease progresses, it is still possible that patients with more intact SCNs, that is, patients with mild or moderate AD, might benefit from light treatment even more than those with severe AD.


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Thursday, May 20, 2010

The Librarian's Voice is Important!

Let Us Hear From You

During recent weeks, I've been talking with media specialists and librarians and they are telling me what they want in a blog:

1) A blog that doesn't go away after a month or two
2) Something beyond book reviews
3) No cost and low cost ideas.

Does this fit your needs? What else is on your "wish list"? The Literacy Ambassador wants to hear from you! We'll be addressing a wide variety of readers (preschool through 8th grade) to coincide the age ranges addressed through TLA's website and our products and services.

While you are thinking, here's a List of Summer Reading ideas:

An article originally written as part of my monthly column for educators, Summertime Reading has many resources and ideas for you as well.

Kids can earn free books (and perhaps even donate a few of them to your library) in Barnes and Nobles summer reading program. It runs May 25-September 6, 2010.

From our friends at School Library Journal comes a link to PBS Kids comes an activity calendar with tons of ideas for promoting reading.

Take a picture of a reading celebration at your school or library, a snapshot of readers in action, or a silly reading-related photo from vacation.

Send it to in a .jpeg format and we'll share. Include a short paragraph that highlights your idea's main components so others who see your great work can duplicate it.

No one makes reading more fun than Dr. Seuss! If you are in Orlando, FL this year, don't forget to go by Seuss Landing at The Island Adventure Theme Park, the Dr. Seuss Book Store, the Loews Portafino Hotel or the Dr. Seuss Memorial in Springfield, Massachusetts. Can't get there? Visit Seussville online!

Help me spread the news about this blog and tell me what you want. I welcome guest bloggers from among the ranks of librarians and media specialists. Together, we'll find the resources and share them with you!

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Easter Cupcakes, Sprinkles, Icing & Fun At Williams Sonoma!

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Oh my,  I have recently found the most perfect of Easter treats at Williams Sonoma!  My poor deprived children have not had sprinkles in a couple of years because I have not been able to find sprinkles with natural coloring sources.  Imagine, winter hot chocolate and whipped cream (homemade of course) and no sprinkles on top?!  The travesty of it!  No worries though, I have found the most loveliest of sprinkles, just in time for Easter.  I went to Williams Sonoma whilst on my traveling adventures this month and was so pleased to find these treats that I bought several jars of the sprinkles!  Yes, orange was involved.  And I of course picked up some fabulous other goodies and made these fun, colorful  Easter cupcakes.
Spring colors, sprinkles and jellybeans, Oh my!

My Espresso cupcakes cooling and waiting for their delish icing and sprinkles!
Pink natural sprinkles make the icing absolutely festive and fabulous!

As you can see, I had fun foodie shopping!  Lots of sprinkles made with natural coloring sources, Kilner glass jars, Espresso Powder, Salted Caramel Syrup, adorable yellow polka dots icing spreader and fabulous spring time apron with pink and orange stripes! (have I mentioned I love everything orange?)   I also had an adventure (story coming soon) at Trader Joe's and loaded up on their jellybeans.  They are absolutely delish and with natural coloring and from Ireland!
Yes, I feel super chic and Irish when I eat them. ;D

I made two different icings for the Easter cupcakes - regular cream cheese icing and salted caramel icing!  Both absolutely delish!

 My Easy Carmel Salted Icing:
1 1/2 cup of organic confectioners sugar
1-2 tbs of organic heavy cream (start with 1tbs and add a bit more as needed)

No, this is not a sponsored post.  I absolutely adore my William's Sonoma goodies (and the Trader Joe's jellybeans) and wanted to share with you my finds!!  However, should William's Sonoma be reading this, please contact me immediately, as I would be ever-so-happy to be your brand ambassador! ;) #willbakeforsprinkles

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Welcome to the Fishing Report.  It is overcast and 61 degrees in Townsend this morning.  It rained most of the day yesterday and last night.  I would call it a slow soaking rain.  May has been dry.  Even now, rainfall for the month is down ¾” from normal.  This wet front seems to have passed according to the radar.  The rain may be over unless some new storms develop.  The forecast is still calling for rain today, tonight and a slight chance tomorrow.

The Great Smoky Mountains are completely fogged in now.  It looks like we are living in the flatlands right now, now a hill in sight.

Little River is flowing fairly strong at 291 cubic feet per second (cfs).  Median flow for this date is 224 cfs.  There is some color in the water.  I would call it fairly turbid.  I checked it at 7:35 am so keep in mind the river could become further stained or it could clear up soon.  The water temperature was 58.5 degrees at 7:40.  We had .90” of rain in our gauge.

This would be an excellent day to fish in the Park unless there are some high water surprises I don’t know about.  I bet Little River will be fishing well especially if you are using nymphs or streamers.  The higher water offers cover for the larger trout so they should be out of hiding.  When the water is low they mostly stay hidden during the day, especially the brown trout.  They venture out at night.  But, on a day like this one you could catch the trout of your life.  The water temperature is a perfect 58 degrees in the valley.  It will be cooler in the mountains.  So, the conditions indicate excellent fishing in the Smokies today.

The lower stretches of the rivers exiting the park may be muddy.  It’s hard to say from here what the Little Pigeon or Abrams Creek look like.  Little River may be turbid downstream.  So, smallmouth bass fishing in the excellent rivers may be tough today.  Try tomorrow or later in the week.  Those lowland river should be in good shape later.

Smallmouth bass fishing was slow by most accounts last week.  Monday was good for me.  After the cold front moved in, fishing for bass in the lakes and rivers was slow.  It is going to get warmer by the weekend.  Smallmouth bass fishing should improve.

Hmm, it’s raining again.  The rain is heavy too.

We are going to be very busy this week putting out stock, tackle we ordered last week.  We are preparing for Troutfest weekend.  I’m going to clean my office too.  Yesterday I washed some windows.  We had our building sprayed for those boring bees and the windows were coated with bee repellent.

Keeping a fly fishing store stocked is difficult.  We base our ordering on two things, what we are low on and average sales over the past two years.  The first week of May caught us by surprise.  Our sales were up 39% over the prior year.  Last week was very slow as it always is before Troutfest.  This week will be slow too.  We get very busy Troutfest weekend, then business dies again for a week.  But, this weekend the store will be stocked better than any time during the year.

Tourism appears to be slow this year.  That’s what I’m hearing from motels, B & Bs and other accommodations.  The best source of information about tourism comes from our banker.  She talked to local business people every day.  She knows what is going on.

I wonder what gasoline prices are doing to the tourism business.  I read last week there was a drop in the prices at the pump.  And somehow I found this website, GasBuddy.com.  This map indicates what the average cost of gasoline is at the pump by County, all over the United States.  The green shades indicate low prices.  Tennessee is green, two different shades of green.  Gasoline is inexpensive here.  There are a lot of yellow counties.  That color indicates gas prices a little below average.  And red means you are paying over $4.00 per gallon.  The folks who live in California pay dearly for fuel.  It appears the average cost for fuel in our county is $3.35 to $3.47 per gallon.  Our prices are lower than most places in the United States.  I have no idea why.  Local taxes may be a factor.

Paula and I don’t use much gasoline.  I drive 6,000 miles per year.  She probably doesn’t drive more than that.  Our boat has a 20 horsepower 4 stroke motor.  We can run around the lake all day on 1 to 2 gallons of fuel.  We have a 5 minute commute to work.  So, higher gas prices don’t change our life much.  But I can certainly see how these gas prices affect the lives of others, and maybe us too, indirectly.

I guess the best way to offset high gas prices is to buy Exxon Mobile stock.

Have a great day and thank you for being here with us.

Byron Begley
May 14, 2012

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Friday, February 02, 2007

Shrimp Wonton Salad

Tonight's meal was full of flavor. We had Shrimp and Avocado Salads, Wonton Wrapped Prawns, and we even had light and crispy Meringues for dessert.  This shrimp and avocado salad is worth the effort it takes to fry the wontons.

Shrimp and avocado salad with crispy wontons
adapted from wok by Vicki Liley

Grapefruit Dressing
1/4 cup grapefruit juice
1/4 cup olive oil
2 t brown sugar
1 T white wine vinegar
1 t peeled and grated fresh ginger

2 T vegetable oil, plus 3 cups for frying
3 cloves garlic, crushed
20 jumbo shrimp
12 wonton wrappers
1/2 avocado, peeled, pitted, and chopped
1 tomato, chopped
1/2 red onion or 1 shallot, chopped
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro or parsley

To make the dressing, place grapefruit juice, olive oil, sugar, vinegar, and ginger in a screw-top jar. Shake well to combine and set aside.
To make salad, in a wok over medium-high heat, warm 2 tablespoons oil Add garlic and stir-fry until aromatic, about 1 minutes. Raise heat to high, add shrimp and stir-fry until shrimp change color. Remove. Heat 3 cups oil in wok until it reaches 375 degrees. Working in batches, add wonton wrappers and fry until golden and crisp, about 1 minute. Remove and set aside.
In a bowl, combine avocado, tomato, onion, and parsley/cilantro. Add shrimp and grapefruit dressing and gently stir. Cover and allow to stand for 10 minutes to develop the flavors.
Place one wonton on each plate and top with salad. Add another wonton and layer salad. Top with third wonton and serve immediately.

Meringueadapted from Bills Food by Bill Granger
4 egg whites
a pinch of salt
1 cup sugar

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Place the egg whiteand salt in a clean, dry bowl and whisk until soft peaks form. Add the sugar 1 tablespoon at a time, whisking until a glossy, stiff mixture forms.
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In the example below, donor #2 does not donate in this exchange which will allow many more people to receive a kidney transplant. Donor #2 is referred to as the “bridge donor” for the next “chain”. Donor #2 functions in the same role as the NDD did in this example. Additional chains could continue over and over again because each chain has an extra donor who becomes the new bridge donor.

Finding a donor, even one that’s not compatible gives me hope for the future. Perhaps you know someone who would like to find out if they are a match for me. If they’re not a match, that’s ok as it gives me optimism they can be a match with someone who has a match for me.

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Thursday, 17 May 2012

Flannel Friday: There's a moose loose aboot this hoose!

It has been a while since I've taken scissors to flannel and I've been wanting to make a Little Mouse flannel for my Toddler Storytimes like this one on So Tomorrow's blog for ages. Finally I found a little time.

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     Q: What is the connection between the title of this post and Little Mouse?
     A: The Scottish pronunciation of 'mouse' as 'moose' and a song...

... with the line, "There's a moose loose aboot this hoose". It comes from a vintage novelty song released in the UK called 'Hoots Mon' by Lord Rockingham's XI.  I wasn't born when it was released, but its one of those tunes that was played on kid's radio and at functions and celebrations throughout my childhood. You'll hear the phrase (mentioned just once) in this YouTube clip*.

Cover scan of Maw Broon's But An' Ben CookbookWith a (albeit contrived) Scottish influence, I wondered how my houses should look, and thought about using a But an' Ben as featured on the cover of Maw Broon's Cookbook.

A But and Ben is a Scottish two-roomed cottage with the but/butt end being the kitchen, and the ben being the bedroom. They do still exist. I lived in a larger and extended version for my first 10 years in Scotland.

The basic but and ben building forms the basis of lots of older granite homes all across the north of Scotland, mostly now extended. This photo of one still in original form (minus a thatched roof), taken by Karen, is of a former smallholding called Guildmuir Pendicle in Angus, and was once inhabited by a character called Hairy Nichol (great name, huh?)

Anyway, enough prattle, here are my houses with a template, and a mouse from clipart suggested by Miss Mary Liberry. Anne at So Tomorrow has instructions on how to play the game "Little Mouse, Little Mouse, Are you in the [...colour] house?" (I may adapt to "Wee Moose"), and Miss Mary suggests the use of a colour spinner for larger crowds. I'll be making one of those for our Family Storytimes.

The Flannel Friday crowd have come up with lots of variations on the game.
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Find out all about Flannel Friday on the new website. Features include past round ups and host schedule and how to participate.

Scan the Flannel Friday posts on Pinterest.

Search for flannels and storytime ideas at Mel's Desk.

Discuss storytime and flannelboards on the Flannel Friday Facebook Page.

This week’s round up will be hosted by Linda at Notes from the Storyroom.

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Monday, 7 May 2012

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Exciting news for Flannel Friday!

Introducing the Flannel Friday website!

As you know, Anne at So Tomorrow has been an amazing manager and archiver of Flannel Friday information for the past year. Anne and her husband are expecting their first baby in June (congratulations Anne!) so we wanted to give her a break from Flannel Friday during her maternity leave. So this spring, Anne and Mel from Mel's Desk and a small group of old and new Flannel Friday-ers worked to create a new web home for FlannelFriday.

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The new site will be the home of the Round Up Schedule, the archives, FAQs about FlannelFriday, information about how to get involved with Flannel Friday, and links to help new members get started with social networking and blogging. There will also be a link to the week's Round Up, but the Round Up will continue to be hosted on individual blogs.We'll just point to each Round Up from the site.

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The Flannel Friday community has grown continuously over the year, with new bloggers, new Round Up Hosts, and new members every week on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. We are building an amazing community and are grateful to each and everyone of you for your participation and enthusiasm. As the group has grown, you've probably noticed that so have the Round Ups! We've seen an inevitable increase in missed links and general confusion as the Round Ups are compiled. We thought that the launch of the new site was a great opportunity to take a page from other round ups in the blogosphere and establish one single method for building the Round Up each week.

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  • If a blogger can't make the 10pm EST deadline on Friday, we'll ask that the post be held for the next week's Round Up.
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Sharon / @ReadingChick at RainMakes Applesauce has the Round Up this week, 5/11, so she's going to tryout the new procedure with us and see how it goes!

If you have questions or comments, don't hesitate to share them via the new Flannel Friday email: flannelboardfriday [at]

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Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Six-Sided Sampler

Good Afternoon All

I hope that you're having a fantastic week so looks a little like Spring may be coming soon which in my eyes could not happen soon enough.

Now I've been dying to buy and use this stamp set for some time now.  I had the punch but thought that the stamp set would be a great addition and I was not wrong.  So nice to have some patterns to use with the punch and of course be able to use the punch by itself for plain card stock or DSP.  One happy bunny here :-)

Take a peak and let me know what you think.

Stamp set's used: Six-Sided Sampler, Papillon Potpourri
Punch used: Hexagon
Framelits used: Bitty Banners

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  1. Such a pretty card.
    I like the light colours against the brown background

  2. Oh what a delightful design Loraine.

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  3. Beautiful, love the hexagon shapes, bling and lovely papers. :)

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My dearest Mother,

I am very sorry to hear that you have to go to bed for a time but I am sure that it is the wisest course and not so unpleasant at this time of the year. It is certainly worth while if the treatment is going to do you good.

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We again have a hope of a flat. If this comes off, then when we are settled you will be well enough to come to see us and the boys will be on view at the weekend.

I am enclosing the notice of the meeting at which I gave the Wright Bros. Lecture. I will send you a copy of the lecture when it is published in full next month. Incidentally, Orville Wright is still alive & well & I went to see him in Dayton, Ohio.

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Matthew Hopper, in discussing how the term "conversion" is appropriate for Paul, notes that
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Yes: this should be taken as a given: Paul wasn't a soul-searching western. But just because he didn't convert for introspective reasons doesn't mean that he didn't convert at all. Matthew understands this, unlike (say) Krister Stendahl.

There are three sides to the question of Paul's conversion: (1) an objectively-analytical point of view, (2) mainstream Judaism's point of view, and (3) Paul's own point of view. According to the first two, I would say yes: Paul should be understood as a convert to something radically new. But if we listen to Paul himself, I think the answer becomes more murky; both yes and no. Let's take them in turn.

(1) Required reading is Zeba Crook's Reconceptualising Conversion, in which the author demonstrates that by the time of Hellenistic Judaism, it was possible to be called and thus converted: Paul was invoking the call of the divine patron-benefactor (which involved conversion by definition) and the call of the Hebrew prophets at the same time. In other words, Stendahl's distinction between being "called" and "converted" (recently followed by Malina and Pilch) is a false dichotomy. Objectively speaking -- and by non-introspective standards -- we can and should speak of Paul's conversion.

(2) Even assuming a valid distinction between being "called" and "converted" (just for the sake of argument) doesn't settle the issue, because while Paul naturally aligns himself with prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah, his rivals easily denied him his claims. Most of his contemporaries thought he was a radical apostate (on which see Philip Esler's Galatians).

(3) Paul's own view of the matter is tricky. On the one hand, he knows he has found something new, but on the other, his patron-deity hasn't changed. Zeba Crook discusses the phenomenon of synkrisis. In order to credit benefactors, clients always described their past as grim and bleak in comparison to the new and improved present -- except in cases where the patron doesn't change, in which case they "raise the stakes" by improving upon an already excellent past which in comparison to the present is actually worse than worthless. Says Crook:
If patronal synkrisis was meant to honor the patron by attributing to him or her a tremendous improvement in life by comparing the good one has received to the ill one knew previously, then Paul's synkrisis in Philippians does this all the more so... All that he has lost from his past he now regards as "shit"...Paul's past was excellent; it was a source of pride for him. Yet in comparison with Paul's awesome present status, even something as excellent as that appears so profoundly diminished as to call it "shit". (pp 181-182)
That's the irony we're stuck with. When a patron-deity stays the same after conversion, the past must remain positive and yet become worse-than-worthless at the same time. So Paul's Jewish heritage is good in and of itself (Philip 3:4b-6), but nothing more than "shit" when compared to the new revelations of Christ (Philip 3:7-11).

Paul knew that he was advocating something radically new with his version of the Christ-gospel, but he was caught between loyalty to past and present convictions -- again, he was still serving YHWH. I appreciate the way James Dunn characterizes the so-called "continuity" presented in Rom 9:6-10:21: "continuity by transformation, as when a caterpillar becomes a butterly, and the empty shell of the caterpillar is all that's left of the old stage of existence". It may be an ingenious argument by sectarian standards, but any mainstream outsider would have laughed themselves sick and treated it with the derision it deserved. So Paul capped it off with Rom 11:1-32, making clear that "continuity by extension" is what he really had in mind -- an olive tree rather than a butterfly. There will never be an easy way to resolve this tension. Who said being a convert was easy?

Blogger Rick Sumner said...

Thanks for this nice post. I think it captures the problem of Paul the "convert" neatly--he was torn between contradictory convictions, and struggled to reconcile the two.

At least one can take solace in the fact that it seems to have been as confuddling to Paul as it is to us!

Blogger Matthew said...

"Matthew Hopper has reservations about whether the term "conversion" is appropriate for Paul"

Loren, you hurting me, bro. My whole point was that Paul DID see his Damascus road experience as a conversion, and that he certainly saw his converts as converts.

Blogger Matthew said...

The only qualification I was making was that Paul's conceptualization of conversion was not the same as that of the Southern Baptists.

I gladly take the side of Baur, Sanders, and others, in viewing Paul as the one who made Christianity a religion in its own right.

Blogger Loren Rosson III said...

Loren, you hurting me, bro. My whole point was that Paul DID see his Damascus road experience as a conversion, and that he certainly saw his converts as converts.

Sorry for that, Matthew. I've edited accordingly.

Blogger Paul said...

One could, through squinting and some imagination, see this as a microcosm of the whole problem of Paul and the law. Was Paul opposed to the (OT)law or in favor of it? Did Paul feel there was essential continuity with the "mosaic covenant" (as we say in reformed churches) or discontinuity.

As someone who had for a while stressed the *continuity* lines in Paul, I had a very favorable reading of Stendahl (last summer). But I think the matter is probably at least as ambiguous as you say in your post.

I'm sure I would enjoy reading Crook when I get a chance. I know that there was an idea of conversion within (or more specifically "to") Judaism, since Jesus refers to the phenomenon himself. But I don't really know what sort of term Paul would have thought in regarding such a thing.

The fact that Paul and the other NT writers portray Jesus as the climax/centerpoint/fulfilment of OT teachings makes it difficult to see the christian faith, at least in the 1st C, as easily distinguishable from Judaism. But that's old ground, so I'll shut up now.

Blogger Matthew said...

Paul, you're right on target. This is nothing other than a discussion of Paul and the law, Paul and Judaism, yadda, yadda, yadda. Surely 99.9% of all "Christian origins" discussions revolve around these basic questions: From the beginning, where did the Christ-believers stand in relation to Judaism, in relation to non-Judaism, for how long, and why?

Yes, it is all ambiguous. There are many indicators in the NT that the Christians differentiated themselves and their faith from Judaism, and just as many indicators that they felt that they were nothing less than Judaism at its best. Famous names on the side of differentiation include, but are not limited to: F.C. Baur, Rudolf Bultmann, Ernst Kasemann, E.P. Sanders, etc. Those on the side of continuation include, but are not limited to: W.D. Davies, Joachim Jeremias, Martin Hengel, Ben F. Meyer, N.T. Wright; etc. Then there are those who say the real task lies in explaining why the early Christians rode both sides of the fence at the same time on so many fundamental issues: including but not limited to, James D.G. Dunn, and myself, Matthew Thomas Hopper.

Blogger Loren Rosson III said...

The fact that Paul and the other NT writers portray Jesus as the climax/centerpoint/fulfilment of OT teachings...

I strongly disagree with this (in the case of Paul, anyway), on which see my Romans commentary.

Blogger Paul said...

Sheesh--that's along post. To be honest it is difficult for me to read something that long on a blog (particularly one with relatively narrow columns). But perhaps I could raise a couple of points for the moment.

First, I'm not at all convinced that your use of the term "righteousness" is on target. Particularly I'm not persuaded by the claim that Abraham wa the ONLY example of "faith-righteousness" in Paul's mind. I would assume Abraham was picked due to his unique story and place as the father of Israel. What applies to him should naturally apply to all Israel since they are all his children. I'm not saying that Paul doesn't believe in a broad apostacy in Israel (of course he does), but just that he had good reason to keep coming back to Abraham as an example.

If I am wrong about that then there is certainly a MASSIVE disconnect in the early church between your Paul and the author of Hebrews (ch 11).

The other point would be that for Paul and the other NT writers Jesus represents God's judgment (or, the coming of God Himself), in both the positive and negative sense, as well as the redefinition of "God's people", as foreshadowed in Hosea and elsewhere. These themes are fairly pervasive throughout the NT and at the very least Jesus was considered the "fulfilment" of those OT ideas.

This is a pretty broad sort of thing though, so I think further discussion could probably get a bit complicated.

All of that to say I find Wright fairly convincing on the relevant subject and would need a LOT of persuading to show me that he is misreading things generally.

Blogger A superfluous man said...

Was Paul converting, or creating pace Hyam Maccoby's writings? People don't given enough credence to Maccoby, in my opinion, even though he is neatly over turning two millenia of intellectual custom.

And you e-mailed him, I see. Neat.

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Abreu spoils Vlad's return to Anaheim

Outfielder's three-run double in sixth scores winning run

ANAHEIM -- In a showdown of American League West powers, Bobby Abreu seized the moment against a former teammate and turned everything the Angels' way.

Abreu slammed a three-run double against the Rangers' Darren Oliver in the sixth inning on Tuesday night, and the Angels escaped with a 6-5 victory in front of 38,514 at Angel Stadium, but not without some drama provided by the one and only Vladimir Guerrero.

"That's what we are, who we are -- a team that never gives up," Abreu said, having played his role in Joel Pineiro's fifth consecutive win.

Guerrero celebrated his return with a two-run homer, his 16th of the season, in the seventh against Kevin Jepsen.

But the Angels prevailed when Fernando Rodney left the bases loaded in the eighth, thanks largely to a brilliant play by center fielder Torii Hunter, and Brian Fuentes worked a perfect ninth for his 14th save. One of Fuentes' two strikeout victims was Guerrero.

Texas' division lead was trimmed to 3 1/2 games.

"They're playing great baseball," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said, "and you have to play well in a lot of areas to beat them."

Oliver spent three years supplying leadership and outs in the Angels' bullpen, but he's on the other side now along with Guerrero and another ex-Angel, reliever Darren O'Day.

"Every-day Darren Oliver," said Hunter, who used his Gold Glove defense to snag Julio Borbon's drive to deep right center with two on and one out behind Rodney. "He's pitching every day and knows what he's doing. But Bobby got a pitch up and was able to capitalize."

Oliver came in with eight consecutive scoreless appearances, retiring 25 of 27 hitters. But he walked Howard Kendrick on four pitches to load the bases in relief of Scott Feldman, and Abreu worked the count full before driving a ball into the right-field corner.

"I threw a curveball 3-2 and it kind of hung a little bit," Oliver said. "He did what he's supposed to do with it. He's tough, man. You really have to make your pitches with him."

A 2-2 cut fastball was close, Abreu acknowledged, but the call went his way, and he turned Oliver's strike into a rocket.

"I took that one cutter, and I thought, `Oh, very close,' " Abreu said. "It could go both ways, and I'm glad it went my way. The pitch I hit was a breaking ball that stayed around the middle.

"We have to score some runs. When we do that, our pitchers are more comfortable. Pineiro always keeps us in the game, and Fuentes did a really good job closing it out against their 3-4-5 hitters -- especially with Vladdy as hot as he is."

Three times Texas took the lead against Pineiro, and each time the Angels came back to tie it against Feldman.

The rally in the sixth came with two outs. Kevin Frandsen singled and scored on Jeff Mathis' shot past shortstop Elvis Andrus after a wild pitch. Erick Aybar singled, Oliver was summoned, and Abreu delivered.

Pineiro, extending his winning streak to five games and moving to 8-6, had yielded just three earned runs in his previous 24 1/3 innings.

The Rangers had a chance to break it wide open in the fifth. But Pineiro exercised damage control by holding Texas to one run after they had loaded the bases with nobody out and the heart of the order on tap.

"That was the biggest turnaround in the game there," Pineiro said. "We got out of that inning with one run, and I trusted this offense to do what they do.

"My main thing there was keeping the ball down. No outs, bases loaded, I told myself to look for ground balls. That was huge."

Guerrero grounded into a force at home for the first out, a takeout slide by Andrus preventing Mathis from throwing to first.

Josh Hamilton, who had earlier extended his hitting streak to 22 games, produced a run with another force-out on a grounder snatched by Mike Napoli at first for the lead.

When Nelson Cruz flied out to end the inning, Pineiro had kept the Angels in the game.

It all started with a bang. Ian Kinsler, the third man to face Pineiro, homered to left center.

Aybar's legs got the Angels even in the bottom half of the first when he came all the way around from first to score on Kendrick's single down the right-field line. Aybar crashed into Texas catcher Matt Treanor while scoring but was uninjured.

Guerrero's sacrifice fly had the Rangers back in front in the third, and Napoli tied it with his team-high 14th homer to left in the fourth inning.

Guerrero capped his big night with his two-run shot to dead center on a 94-mph heater thrown by Jepsen with two outs in the seventh.

"It was Vlad," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "He got us a two-runner straight to center field against Jepsen with two strikes. It put us within one run, and the next three innings we fought pretty good and had opportunities but just didn't deliver."

Hunter had a big hand in that, outrunning Borbon's treacherous drive.

"I said, `Come on legs, don't fail me now,' " Hunter said. "When you see a ball like that, all you think about is going and getting it."

Reaching home plate in the first inning, Guerrero lifted his cap to the roaring crowd in appreciation.

"It was a very nice moment," Washington said. "I thought they treated him with a great deal of respect. He's done great things with the Anaheim Angels and they showed him respect. I got chills."

Lyle Spencer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Man Killed On The 101 Freeway After Getting Out Of His Crashed Vehicle

STUDIO CITY (CBS) — A male driver was killed Saturday evening on the 101 (Ventura) Freeway in the Studio City area.

The driver apparently crashed his car into the center divider on the westbound side at Lauren Canyon Boulevard. The accident was reported just after 9:40 p.m.

According to CHP Officer Patrick Kimball, the motorist got out of his silver, four-door vehicle and jumped over the divider into the eastbound lane where he was struck by another car and fatally injured.

The name and age of the driver were not released.

The CHP has closed the two left lanes on both the eastbound and westbound sides of the freeway.

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  1. ACD says:

    Lauren Canyon Blvd???

  2. Sonny says:

    That time of night, Even staying in or besides the car you risk
    injury or death
    Not saying trying to cross the freeway was a smart move
    Cars going over 65 mph can’t slow to avoid you

  3. BD McGee says:

    Smooth move, ex-lax.

  4. ginny says:

    Lived here for over 40 years and I have never heard of a Lauren Canyon off- ramp. Have I just gotten so used to knowing where I have to get on and off that I don’t notice a new ramp? Or do we have a growing number of people not familiar with the names of our streets? Maybe it’s just that there is no one proofing stories any longer.

  5. Aynne Pryce says:

    Last night at 9:40p my friend was driving, i was in passenger seat, on fwy, a man jumped in front of us, no time to react. We hit him, he smashed through our windshield, we saw him like in the movies. Stopped the car, told my friend to call 911, and I jumped out to the man. He didn’t have shoes or socks, no shirt, only shorts. His foot was curled up by his head, he had a huge whole in his chest. I immediately got down on the ground with him, in his blood, close to his face. I said, “If you can hear me, move your shoulder.” He moved his bare shoulder. I said, “Stay with me, my name’s Aynne, and I love you. Move your shoulder.” He moved his shoulder. I watched his eyes, staring straight ahead, it looked like he was struggling with death. I said, “You’re not going to die. Stay with me. I love you. Move your shoulder.” He moved his shoulder. I watched death take over as he was giving up the battle. He seemed as if he wanted to be with me. “Stay with me, move your shoulder.” He moved his shoulder. Someone said, his name is George. I said, “George, move your shoulder. I love you.” By that time, I noticed the fire dept standing around me, and the police. Someone said, “do you know him?” I said his name is George. No I don’t. They told me to get back, and they gave him shocks to his heart. I knew he gave into death when they took me away, he had no more reason to live, and death escorted him away. I wish I could have stayed with him longer. I came close to him, and called, “George! Move your shoulder!” but it was too late. I noticed his car on the other side of the freeway — the two sides separated by an enormously high wall — with its blinkers on and the door flung open. He must have jumped and run!

    They had stretched him out by this time, and threw a sheet over him. “There was nothing you could have done,” said the witness in the lane closest to George. “It all happened too quickly.” I hugged her and asked for her name and number. I believe they would have hit George if we hadn’t.

    Within minutes, everyone left but my friend and me, and a couple of cops. I was appalled that no one seemed to make a fuss or say prayers over George’s dead body lying across the lane of the freeway, just lying there alone, completely ignored.

    We waited until someone took my friend’s top of the line BMW away, the only two left. “I don’t want that car anymore,” said my friend. “What about George?” I thought.

    This morning I heard in the news that George was drunk and hit the huge divider. He probably had other DUI’s and didn’t want to get caught with yet another DUI. In his drunken stupor, George decided to jump over the divider wall into Saturday night 101 traffic. Bad choice, George. I wish I could have saved him but at least he had a friend as he was exiting this life. Who knows, maybe his only friend.

    I didn’t want to wash George’s blood off my hands when I got home. I wanted to keep him near me a little while longer but thought better of it and jumped into a hot bath, stunned.

    Rest well, dear friend George. God bless your heart and soul.

    Friends and loved ones, please don’t drink and drive. I love you.

  6. John Holmes says:

    Aynne, I am sorry that you and your friend hit this man and had to witness this mans’s horrible death. At least he only killed himself while driving drunk and you two could have been killed also. I hope this make others aware of what can happen to them when they drive buzzed or drunk.

  7. Mike says:

    We are truly grateful for your presence. I am sitting here with his ex-wife, now my significant other. Our only consolation is that you were there as he passed. He is survived by a large loving family. It was nothing less than tragic to tell his 5 and 6 year old boys that he died in a car crash last night. Again, thank you for telling George the most important thing anyone and all of us would have said givin the opportunity ” I Love You”. Thanks for saying it for all of us….

    1. Aynne Pryce says:

      Dear Mike and the former Mrs. George, I am dreadfully sorry for George’s passing, and please know he fought hard to stay alive. I sensed he was a gentle soul though troubled and confused. I can’t imagine what your family must be going through, the pain his four children are enduring. I’m sure they love him beyond measure and understand on some deep level that their father loves them very much and will continuing loving them from the healing place where he is now. I didn’t see despair in his eyes, I saw panic. I will always send you and your family light and hold George in prayer for his peace and enlightenment. May God Bless you and keep you always, Aynne Feel free to contact me if you need to talk. Please extend my loving and healing prayers to your family.

  8. Gail Law says:

    Aynne, I was a friend of George and I want you to know that he was a very kind and gentle soul. He did NOT drink but he was very troubled. I am so sorry that this happened to you and yet grateful that you were there with him. I know George will always be looking out for you as he is an angel now and hearing “I love you” before he passed will be with him forever. George was always trying to save other people but no one could save George. Thank you so much for everything you did
    You are truly an angel yourself and I would be honored to speak with you if you would like.
    Lovingly, Gail Law

    1. Aynne Pryce says:

      Thank you, Gail, I would like to speak more with you and will contact you. Thank you for such kind things you say about George. Here’s what I just wrote on my fb page:

      I heard today that George’s death was deemed a suicide by the coroner but I didn’t see that in his eyes. I saw confusion and a fight to stay alive. I saw gentleness, and a strong urge to communicate with me. I saw him receive and respond to everything I said to him, intimately, lovingly, powerfully. Such a shame. I know God and our angels wanted us there at that precise time to be the car he ran into because he smashed through the glass of our large brand new bmw. My friend knew to hang on tight against the force of the wheel and come to a slow stop. If it were any other car, his body would have gone through the windshield for sure. The car in the next lane, the fast lane, was an older car with two kids driving, and they would have slammed on the brakes, gone through the window, spun out, hit the divider, and there probably would have been a pile up. They could have died had that happened. My angels persistently said to go get frozen yoghurt after dinner, something unordinary. We were done with dinner sooner than usual so the stopping put us where we were. Thank God I always listen to the Small Still Voice Within. OM. Thank you Father-Mother God for always counting on me. ♥ Your faithful servant, Aynne

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1. I have made a long Two-era recs list for [livejournal.com profile] who_at_50. It is here if you are interested in lots of very good Second Doctor-related fanworks (fic and vids, really). Also, please add your own recs in the comments! My list can only ever be my limited list, plus there could be more fanart/mixes and things like that, if they exist. Anyway, I have finally contributed and hope to follow it up with *shock* a similar post for One next month.

2. The [livejournal.com profile] yuletide Tag Set is open. At the moment, it's still in the error-checking and challenging stage, so some things may need to be fixed/added/removed, but that's pretty much it. There are lots of lovely things in it, but mainly I am sad, because there really is no Blake's 7. I will go back and enjoy all the shiny things that are there soon but... no Blake's 7. I know I said I knew it was ineligible... but no Blake's 7. (I'll get over it in a decade or so, I suppose. Just, you know I miss the ten year rule a lot and hope they bring it back, or a twenty year rule. Or a thirty year rule. or even a forty-year rule, because it won't be that long.)

For those who don't know what Yuletide is - I always forget to explain because I came quite late to it and everyone else seemed to know, but this is actually not true - it is the largest fanfic exchange going and it is solely for rare fandoms and it is amazing. You can take part in several ways.

You can sign up! Sign-ups will start at some point this week and go on for a while. (Okay, details at the main collection profile.) You look at the tag set (linked above) and request fandoms and characters from that you would love to have fic written about and then you offer the fandoms you are willing to try writing for.

Or you can stalk the comms and the pinch hit lists and just write people requests anyway if something takes your fancy. (It goes into the main collection if it's over 1000 words. If it's under, you need to wait till the special treat collection "Yuletide Madness" opens for posting the week before Christmas.) You can also offer to beta for people - most people are writing in different fandoms, so may not be able to go to their usual beta for help. You can (for the moment) even still write for last year's requests and post them in the New Year's Resolution 2013 Collection (and the same will happen again next year with this year's requests).

And, of course, you can just watch the collection and read it when it goes lives and leave comments and kudos and love all over it.

I've done it the past three years, mostly while much too ill to take part, and it's been wonderful even so and I regret nothing (though it's always possible my recipients would disagree). So, if it interests you and several fandoms on the tag set appeal, you could sign up too! You can always default if you find you have to. (There's no penalty if you do it by a certain date). It's my most favourite fannish thing of all. (Tragic lack of B7 notwithstanding.)

You will need an AO3 account, but if you don't have one, I understand the queue for an invite these days is down to about 24 hours on average, so it's easy to get one. Or a friend with an account might have one to give you, anyway.

That doesn't explain the hippos, the bears, the flanicking and other such things, but you can ignore those. Or you could read The Tough Guide to Yuletide.

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I found a Ben/Polly fic languishing without any reviews. We can't have that! Especially when it's as nice as this one is.

Uncertainty by mithrel. (All Ages; 2401 words; Two, Ben, Polly, Jamie).

Ben is trying to work things out (including how to make a proposal when there's never a moment's peace from alien monsters). It's really quite sweet (and I like the Doctor's solution early on of paying Ben 'danger money' for War Machines, Daleks, Cybermen...). And the alien ring showing up Ben's true worth.
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I did warn you, didn't I? (Not yet up on Teaspoon, but in time...) Edit And now it's been approved, for all the world to see.

Title Five Times Polly Patched Up Ben (And One Time Ben Got To Do The Honours)
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Rating All ages
Characters Second Doctor, Ben Jackson, Polly, Jamie McCrimmon
Summary In which Ben gets injured by everything from Cybermen to TARDIS appliances. Luckily for him, Polly's always there to pick up the pieces. More or less, anyway. (Being an unashamedly Ben/Polly fic, of course).

Written to cheer myself up on a rainy morning last week and because I don't seem to be any nearer to writing anything sensible with Ben and Polly in it and there really can't be enough fic with the two of them in for my liking. It's bad enough that so many of their episodes are missing.

I met them first through novelisations and PDAs and so on, all of which coyly suggested that just possibly, maybe, Ben might like Polly and vice versa. Finally getting to watch The War Machines and discovering there was nothing coy or maybe about it amused me no end. (Although possibly not as much as Polly in The Power of the Daleks when she harangues her kidnapper for threatening a helpless female and tells him he wouldn't be so brave if he was facing "a real man - like Ben!" Mind you, Ben's worrying that Polly only wants a bit of rough to mess about with is also... Is this still Doctor Who? How can you not love them?)
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A quick drabble. This is entirely in aid of ensuring that this scenario is a cliche. Um, don't ask.

Quiet, Victoria! )
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Time for a This Time Round story, I feel.  And where else can I start but with this bit of fun & nonsense, even if it wasn't my first entry to the Round?

If you’re new to the concept of This Time Round, the pub outside reality where Doctor Who characters go when they're not in a story, then go to the main page of the site and do a bit of exploring.  The FAQ will give you the lowdown & recommend some stories to start with.

This Time Round info )

The story:

The Second Doctor’s got a copy of the book 'About Time 2' and finds the essay at the back: 'All Right, So Was There Any Hanky-Panky in the TARDIS?'

Needless to say it causes chaos, murder and outrage.  So, just your average night in the Round.

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so i was thinking about how the numbers had found their way outside of jacobs cave/lighthouse since at least 1977 when the DI put them on the swan hatch. so does that mean all of the other candidates had been crossed off already by then? so jacob had narrowed his candidates down to the 6 of them well before they got there? ive read theories that he could only see until his death, which makes me wonder why he himself didnt cross off locke. any thoughts?

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