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Author has written 3 stories for Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
Hi! I am a big reader and sometimes write fanfics. I am a grammar Nazi, though. The majority of my time is spent reading, either my sisters stories or other authors. My sister also has a fanfic. She's an amazing author, read her stories. Her pen name is Lynn Jones. My pen name comes from the same story as hers: Everything Changed. Read it if you are a TF fan. Oh, and I am the person who wears black to school in mourning for a fictional character in a book I'm reading. And I love making Google Chrome themes!!
A lot of my fanfics will be partnered with hers (if I get around to posting those stories). However, I plan to do more stuff with manga than novels (I wen through my profile recently and read this, I had to laugh because I haven't done a single thing with manga). I love the stuff. The majority of the stories I write are one-shots, though. I write a lot of the stuff for Gavin. I wrote his origin story and all that stuff, though it hasn't been posted yet. That'll be coming soon though.
My favorite authors are: Cory Doctrow (Little Brother all the way!!), Brandon Mull (Fablehaven is amazing. The first manly unicorns!), Rick Riordan (Percy is kick butt), Sherrilyn Kenyon (The Ambrosius Malachai forever!), Andrew Klavan (all of his books are amazing), and then the last one I can think of right now is Takeshi Obata (killing people with a note book sounds fun!! Oh, and L is better than Light).
Okay I've thought of more... Hiromu Arakawa (Ed can be very creative with how he designs his cannons), Sean Beaudoin (carrying a lighter that looks like a gun, very convincing), John Flanagan (you can't see me, I'm a Ranger), and that's it for now).
Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without mistake. The average person can't.
A black man walks into a cafe one early morning and notices that he is the only black man there. As he sits down, he notices a white man behind him.
The white man said, "Colored people are not allowed here."
The black man turned around and stood up
He then said:
But you sir,
And you have the nerve to call me colored?"
The black man then sat back down and the white man walked away...
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty
If you could read that put it in your profile!
Never knock on Death's door, ring the doorbell and run away, he hates that.
Heaven doesn't want me, and Hell's afraid I'll take over.
The cops never find it as funny as you do.
Education is important, school however, is another matter.
Don't look at me in that tone!
I'm not afraid of death. What's it going to do? Kill me?
I'm so gangster, I carry a squirt gun.
Therapist = The/rapist . . . Scary thought.
Remember what you just said, because tomorrow I am going to have a witty and sarcastic comeback and you'll be devastated then!
I'm not insane and the voices in my head agree with me.
I called your boyfriend gay and he hit me with his purse
Evening News is where they begin with "Good Evening" then proceed to tell you why it isn't
I'm sarcastic, what's your superpower?
A friend is a person that knows you are a good egg, even though you are slightly cracked.
What doesn't kill me better run pretty dang fast.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift--that's why we call it the present.
Have you noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anybody driving faster is a maniac?
I can insult my best friend, but heaven help you if you do.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it into a fruit salad.
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more
If you don't like me, there is nothing I can do. Here's a newsflash Honey, I don't live to please you!
When someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and punch the person who made you mad.
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? ..He's a mile away and you've got his shoes.
I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking so good either.
I'm sorry, yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.
If at first you DO succeed, try not to look to impressed.
Anger is one letter short of danger.
One day your prince will come. Mine? Oh, he just took a wrong turn, got lost, and is to stubborn to ask directions.
Excuse me... have you seen my sanity... I think I lost it.
If scientists were ever going to figure out how to travel through time, wouldn't we now be seeing people from the future?
If our body temperature is normally 98.6 degrees, how come when it's 98 degrees outside, no one is comfortable?
Since a running back runs forward, why is he called a running back?
Why is "number" abbreviated as "no"? When there is no "o" in number?
Why do we teach kids that violence is not the answer and then have them read about wars in school that solved America's problems?
If a bunch of cats jump on top of each other, is it still called a dog pile?
When a boy is named after his dad, he is called 'Junior,' but what do you call a girl that is named after her mother?
If your name is Mr. Crunch, and you joined the Navy, would you eventually be Captain Crunch?
If all of the Acme stuff doesn't work, why does Wile Coyote keep buying their products?
364 days of the year, parents tell their kids not to take candy from strangers, yet on Halloween, its encouraged! Why is that ?
If pinochio said "my nose will grow now" what will eventualy happen?
Here's a quote from a friend of mine who is somewhat into theater, because of his gf, that he uses on jocks-
"Yeah, I'm into theatrical arts. And you call me gay. 'Cause while I'm hanging out with a bunch of girls, your changing clothes with a lot of sweaty fat guys. I'm definitely the gay one here."
My favorite number of the alphabet is purple.
Just watched Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker. Alex Rider is a ninja!!! And Sarah Bolger (Sabina Pleasure) is _HOT_!!
NORMAL PEOPLE: rely on their local weatherman for the weather forcast PJO FANS: will tell Zeus to make it rain
NORMAL PEOPLE: say OMG! PJO FANS: say OH MY GODS!
NORMAL PEOPLE: go to a psychiatrist to tell their feelings PJO FANS: won't go to one because they will take away their awesome demigod powers
NORMAL PEOPLE: say shut up or I'll tell on you! PJO FANS: say shut up or my godly parent will vaporize you!
NORMAL PEOPLE: think PJO fans are stupid PJO FANS: know that normal people are just jealous
NORMAL PEOPLE: when being chased yell HELP ME SOMEBODY!!! PJO FANS: when being chased use their awesome demigod powers
NORMAL PEOPLE: get nervous/scared during thunder storms PJO FANS: yell at Zeus to calm down
NORMAL PEOPLE: would choose somewhere sunny to go for vacation PJO FANS: would try to find Camp Half-Blood
NORMAL PEOPLE: don't have this on their profile! PJO FANS: MUST have this on their profile!
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
92 percent of American teens would die if Abecrombe and Fitch told them it wasn't cool to breathe. If you're one of the 8 percent that would be laughing your ass off copy this to your profile.
If you are reading this, copy and paste this into your profile.
If you read people's profiles looking for things to copy and paste into your profile, copy and paste this into your profile.
If you ever wished you could live in a story, copy and paste this to your profile.
1.When there's only one other person in the elvator, tap them on the shoulder and then pretend it wasn't you.
2.Say "Ding" on every floor.
3.Push the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more.
4.Ask if you can push the button for other people, but push the wrong ones.
5.Call the Psychic Hotline from your cell phone and ask if they know what floor your on.
6.Hold the doors open and say your waiting for a friend. After a while, let the doors close, and say, "Hi Greg. How's your day been?"
7.Drop a pen and wait until someone goes to pick it up, then scream, "That's mine!"
8.Bring a camera and take pictures of everyone in the elevator.
9.Move your desk into the elevator and whenever anyone gets on, ask if they have an apointment.
10.Lay down the twister mat and ask people if they would like to play.
11.Leave a box in the corner, and when someone gets on, ask them if they can hear ticking.
12.Pretend you are a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the passengers.
13.Ask, "Did you feel that?"
14.Stand really close to someone, sniffing them occasionally.
15.When the doors close, announce to the others, "It's okay, don't panic, they open again!"
16.Swat at flies that don't exist.
17.Tell people that you can see their aura.
18.Call out, "Group Hug!"and then enforce it.
19.Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering, "Shut up, all of you, just shut up!"
20.Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask, "Got enough air in there?"
21.Stand silently and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
22.Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce in horror, "Your one of THEM!" and back away slowly.
23.Wear a puppet on your hand and use it to talk to the other passengers.
24.Listen to the elevator walls with your stethoscope.
25.Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
26.Stare, grinning at another passenger for a while, then announce, "I have new socks on".
27.Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers, "This is MY personal space!"
28. Go up to them, and say in an Italian accent, "Germany, I can't tie my shoes, will you carry me??"
FRIENDS:Call your parents by Mr. and Mrs. and Grandpa, by Grandpa.
FRIENDS: Would bail you out of jail.
FRIENDS: Would lend you their umbrella.
BEST FRIENDS: Take it and scream at you, "RUN, BITCH, RUN!!"
FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.
FRIENDS: Asks you to write down your number.
FRIENDS: Borrows your stuff for a few days then gives it back.
FRIENDS: Only know a few things about you.
FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing.
FRIENDS: Would knock on your front door.
FRIENDS: You have to tell them not to tell anyone.
FRIENDS: Are only through high school/college.
FRIENDS: Will confort you when the girl rejects you.
FRIENDS: Would ignore this letter.
This is a story about God. Read if you believe in him, and read even if you don't.
A teenage girl about 17 named Diane had gone to visit some friends one evening and time passed quickly as each shared their various experiences of the past year. She ended up staying longer than planned, and had to walk home alone. She wasn't afraid because it was a small town and she lived only a few blocks away.
As she walked along under the tall elm trees, Diane asked God to keep her safe from harm and danger. When she reached the alley, which was a short cut to her house, she decided to take it. However, halfway down the alley she noticed a man standing at the end as though he were waiting for her. She became uneasy and began to pray, asking for God's protection. Instantly a comforting feeling of quietness and security wrapped round her, she felt as though someone was walking with her. When she reached the end of the alley, she walked right past the man and arrived home safely.
The following day, she read in the newspaper that a young girl had been raped in the same alley just twenty minutes after she had been there. Feeling overwhelmed by this tragedy and the fact that it could have been her, she began to weep. Thanking the Lord for her safety and to help this young woman, she decided to go to the police station. She felt she could recognize the man, so she told them her story. The police asked her if she would be willing to look at a lineup to see if she could identify him. She agreed and immediately pointed out the man she had seen in the alley the night before. When the man was told he had been identified, he immediately broke down and confessed. The officer thanked Diane for her bravery and asked if there was anything they could do for her. She asked if they would ask the man one question. Diane was curious as to why he had not attacked her. When the policeman asked him, he answered, "Because she wasn't alone. She had two tall men walking on either side of her." Amazingly, whether you believe or not, you're never alone. Did you know that 98 of teenagers will not stand up for God, and 93 of the people that read this won't re-post it?
Re-post this if you truly believe in God, and even if you don't. God is our creator and savior, and even though sometimes I struggle with the fact, I still believe.
If you believe in Jesus Christ put this in your profile and don't just ignore this, because in the Bible it says if you deny Me, I will deny you in front of My Father in the gates of Heaven.
--Post this on your page if you're not embarrassed to tell others that you're a Christian.
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This is Bunny. Copy Bunny into your profile to help him on his way to world domination
There are 3 kinds of people: Ones who can count, and ones who can't.
We're not retreating! We're advancing in a different direction!
l\ .M. /l
"You mean besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica." - Fang, Maximum Ride
"What happened to the shield?" - unfortunate B1
"Get back up here, Sergant!" - other unfortunate B1
"Outnumbered? Wait. one, two..." yet another unfortunate B1
Funny Quiz: Student got 0% in his exam even when he didn't get anything wrong.
Q1: In Which Battle Did Napoleon Die?
Ans: *In his last battle
Q2: Where Was The Declaration Of Independence Signed?
Ans: *At the bottom of the paper
Q3: River Ravi Flows In Which State?
Ans: *liquid
Q4: What Is The Main Reason For Divorce?
Ans: *Marriage
Q5: What Is The Main Reason For Failure?
Ans: *Exams
Q6: What Can You Never Eat For Breakfast?
Ans: *Lunch and Dinner
Q7: What Looks Like Half An Apple?
Ans: *the other half
Q8: If You Throw A Red Stone Into The Blue Sea, What Will It Become?
Ans: *It will simply become wet
Q9: How Can A Man Go Eight Days Without Sleeping?
Ans: *No problem, he sleeps at night
Q10: How Can You Lift An Elephant With One Hand?
Ans: *You will never find an elephant that only has one hand
Q11: It Took Eight Men Ten Hours To Build A Wall, How Long Will It Take Four Men To Build It?
Ans: *No time at all, the wall is already built
Q12: How Can You Drop An Egg On A Concrete Floor Without Cracking It?
Ans: *Any way you want, concrete floors are very hard to crack.
16 THINGS TO DO AT WAL-MART ... or just about any store...
1. Get 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's carts when they aren't looking.
2. Set all the alarm clocks in Electronics to go off at 5-minute intervals.
3. Make a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the rest rooms.
4. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone,
5. Go the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M's on lay away.
6. Move a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
7. Set up a tent in the camping department and tell other shoppers you'll invite them in if they'll bring pillows from the bedding department.
8. When a clerk asks if they can help you, begin to cry and ask,
9. Look right into the security camera & use it as a mirror, and pick your nose.
10. Dart around the store suspiciously loudly humming the "Mission: Impossible" theme.
11. In the auto department, practice your "Madonna look" using different size funnels.
12. Hide in a clothing rack and when people browse through,
13. When an announcement comes over the loud speaker, assume the fetal position and scream..
14. Go into a fitting room and shut the door and wait a while and then yell, very loudly, "There is no toilet paper in here!
15. Get several bouncy balls and throw them down an aisle shouting "pikachu, I choose you!"
Repost this if you laughed...
I promise to remember Percy
whenever I'm at sea
I promise to remember Annabeth
whenever a spider comes at me
I promise to protect nature
for Grover's sake of course
I promise to remember Luke
when my heart fills with remorse
I promise to remember Chiron
whenever I see a sign that says "free pony ride"
I promise to remember Tyson
whenever a friend says they'll stick by my side
I promise to remember Thalia
whenever a friend is scared of heights
I promise to remember Clarisse
whenever I see someone that gives me a fright
I promise to remember Bianca
whenever I see a sister scold her younger brother
I promise to remember Nico
whenever I see someone who doesn't get along with others
I promise to remember Zoe
whenever I watch the stars
I promise to remember Rachel
whenever a limo passes my car.
Yes, I promise to remember PJO
wherever I may go
So all may see my obsession
because I know what the Olympians know! Now swear it on the River Styx!! *thunder*
I was walking around in a Target store, when I saw a cashier hand this little boy some money back. The boy couldn't have been more than 5 or 6 years old. The cashier said, "I'm sorry, but you don't have enough money to buy this doll." Then the little boy turned to the old woman next to him,
''Granny, are you sure I don't have enough money?'' The old lady replied.
''You know that you don't have enough money to buy this doll, my dear.'' Then she asked him to stay there for just 5 minutes while she went to look a round. She left quickly. The little boy was still holding the doll in his hand. Finally, I walked toward him and I asked him who he wished to give this doll to.
"It's the doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much for Christmas. She was sure that Santa Claus would bring it to her." I replied to him that maybe Santa Claus would bring it to her afterall, and not to worry. But he replied to me sadly. "No, Santa Claus can't bring it to her where she is now. I have to give the doll to my mommy so that she can give it to my sister when she goes there." His eyes were so sad while saying this. "My sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mommy is going to see God very soon too, so I thought that she could take the doll with her to give it to my sister.'' My heart nearly stopped. The little boy looked up at me and said, "I told Daddy to tell Mommy not to go yet. I need her to wait until I come back from the mall." Then he showed me a very nice photo of him where he was laughing. He then told me, "I want Mommy to take my picture with her so she won't forget me. I love my mommy and I wish she doesn't have to leave me, but Daddy says that she has to go to be with my little sister." Then he looked again at the doll with sad eyes, very quietly. I quickly reached for my wallet and said to the boy.
"Suppose we check again, just in case you do have enough money for the doll?''
"OK," he said, "I hope I do have enough." I added some of my money to his without him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for the doll and even some spare money. The little boy said: "Thank you God for giving me enough money!" Then he looked at me and added, "I asked last night before I went to sleep for God to make sure I had enough money to buy this doll, so that mommy could give it to my sister. He heard me! I also wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my mommy, but I didn't dare to ask God for too much. But He gave me enough to buy the doll and a white rose. My mommy loves white roses." A few minutes later, the old lady returned and I left with my basket.
I finished my shopping in a totally different state from when I started. I couldn't get the little boy out of my mind. Then I remembered a local newspaper article two days ago, which mentioned a drunk man in a truck, who hit a car occupied by a young woman and a little girl. The little girl died right away, and the mother was left in a critical state. The family had to decide whether to pull the plug on the life-sustaining machine, because the young woman would not be able to recover from the coma. Was this the family of the little boy? Two days after this encounter with the little boy, I read in the newspaper that the young woman had passed away. I couldn't stop myself as I bought a bunch of white roses and I went to the funeral home where the body of the young woman was exposed for people to see and make last wishes before her burial. She was there, in her coffin, holding a beautiful white rose in her hand with the photo of the little boy and the doll placed over her chest. I left the place, teary-eyed, feeling that my life had been changed forever.. The love that the little boy had for his mother and his sister is still, to this day, hard to imagine. And in a fraction of a second, a drunk driver had taken all this away from him.
Repost this if it touched your heart, or ignore it like this never happened and be known as a heartless jerk.
In case you need further proof that the human race is doomed because of stupidity, here are some actual label instructions on consumer goods:
On a Myer hairdryer: "Do not use while sleeping".
REASONS TO JOIN THE DARK SIDE (If you wish to join add this list to your profile):
1. We have cookies (last I checked there was hot chocolate too)
2. Meet the recruitment bunny!
3. You get a cool dark cape that covers your whole body!
4. You get a really cool crazy laugh! Practice with me, people: MWA HAHAHAHA cough cough!
5. You get to walk out of shadows mysteriously and freak out the good guys!
6. One word: UNDERLINGS! Someone to get things for you when you're too lazy to do them yourself... Now that's the life!
7. Money, Money, Money : Ever notice that we are usually much richer than the good guys?
8. WORLD DOMINATION! BEST reason
Copy and paste these deep, philosophical quotes...
1.) Boys are like slinkeys. Completely useless, but fun to watch fall down the stairs.
2.) Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
3.) Come to the dark side. We have COOKIES!
4.) You cry, I cry, you laugh, I laugh, you fall off a cliff, I laugh even harder
5.) Keep smiling- it makes everyone wonder what your up too
6.) Children... you spend 2 years teaching them how to walk and talk, you spend the next 16 years telling them to sit down and shut up
7.) I am NOT saying you're stupid...I'm just implying it.
8.) Best friends through thick and thin!
9.) There's nothing wrong with arguing with yourself. It's when you argue with yourself and LOSE when it's weird.
10.) I ran into my ex the other day, then I put the car in reverse and ran over her again.
11.) You wanna know why women always win 99.9 percent of fights? It's because they are mental terrorists. We are BRAIN NINJA.
12.) Don't upset me. I'm running out of places to hide the bodies.
13.) Relax, I'm just as sane as I look, which is not very sane at all.
14.) I believe in a world where chickens can cross the road, WITHOUT having their motives questioned!
FANFICTION- UNITED NATIONS!! Has anyone else noticed how a lot of us get along and make friends on here and we can be from completely different countries? WTF!? We're here making world peace on the INTERNET and we have all those ambassadors and senators and whatever struggling with it!! If you realize this (or read this and agreed) copy and paste this and add your name and country (country is optional) to the list. SPREAD THE PEACE!!: Naruto-fan-Okami-chan (USA), NaraTemari011 (Puerto Rico), Lala girl in Lalaland (USA), Kakashi Forever (England), NinjasWillRuleTheWorld (Australia),Shadowtheangel (Sweden), Ice Prince Hitsugaya (USA), Gaara of the Desert564 (USA), RebeccaUlquiorraCifer23 (USA), TheCursedOne (Colombia) Sheened (UK) Shadowed (UK) DrewTheSeagull (USA)
If ya can't beat 'em, join 'em.
If you have ever fallen up the stairs copy this into your profile
If you have ever pushed on a door that said pull or the vise versa copy this into your profile.
If you've been on the computer for hours on end, reading numerous fanfictions, copy this into your profile.
If you think those stupid kids should just give the rabbit the freakin' Trix, copy this into your profile.
If you ever read past two in the morning, copy and paste this to your profile.
If you know you're different, know that no one will ever understand you, and are proud of it, copy this into your profile.
If you've ever copied and pasted something onto your profile, copy and paste this onto your profile. (haha!)
If you've ever wished you could go into a book and strangle some of the characters for being so incredibly dumb, copy and paste this into your profile.
If you spend multiple hours each day reading and/or writing copy and paste this into your profile.
If you have ever just wanted to SLAP someone, copy this onto your profile.
For people that hate stereotypes: If you think people should just shut up and stop, put this on your profile. (BOLD the ones you are.) Add another if you want.
I'm PERUVIAN, so I MUST like llamas
I'm PAGAN so I MUST worship Satan
I'm Australian so I MUST hunt crocodiles and talk to kangaroo's
1. YOUR REAL NAME: Andrew Jones
2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle): Andizzle
3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (fav color and fav animal): Black Komo (komodo dragon)
4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (Middle name and current street name): Benjamin Drew
5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME (The first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name, last 3 letters of your mom's maiden name): Jonankle
6.YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favourite color, favorite drink): Silver Pepsi
7. YOUR ARAB NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, any letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your moms maiden name, 3rd letter of your dads middle name, 1st letter of your siblings first name, last letter of your moms middle name): Nneilen
8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother's middle name): Lynn
9: YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one your pets) Black Simmon, Black Smiley, Black Honey, Black Cometee
So what if we act like immature idiots? We're having fun.(yep dont let those words get to you)
If at first you don't succeed skydiving isn't for you.
Those who throw objects at crocodiles will be asked to retrieve them.
This is Bob. Bob likes sharp things. I suggest you run from Bob.
Definition of Your Mom: How to answer a question when you're bored
Definition of homework: Some form of crude mind control still used in some primitive areas.
You Know You're Obsessed With Percy Jackson When…
-You go to the Empire State Building and you ask for the 600th Floor.
-There's a thunderstorm going on and you scream, "CALM DOWN, ZEUS!"
-Every time you use the Internet, you thank Hermes.
-When you see Harry Potter, you think of Percy with glasses.
-You burn food to see if it smells good.
-You see an owl, you go, "Hi Athena!"
-Everyone else is creating a Twilightfamily and you create a PJO family.
-You go on a cruise and you hope the boat isn't The Princess Andromeda…
-You sometimes try to control water.
-You don't read anything but PJO for 3 months.
-You've gone to Google maps and looked up Camp Half-Blood's address.
-Even though notdiagnosed, you claim you have ADHD or dyslexia and blame it
-You yell "Annabeth!" everytime you see a NY Yankees hat.
-You make the PJO characters on Sims, as Miis on the Wii, and other video
-Anytime you see an orange shirt, you look at the front of it to see if it is
-You are a PJO character for Halloween.
-Recite lines randomly from the books.
-When you see/hear about anything myhtology-related, you talk about how it
-Buy anything New York or San Francisco-related.
-You are suddenly obsessed with Adidas shoes because they have the Hermes
-You claim that Percy IS real and lives in New York no matter how much your friends argue with you.
-You have dreams about PJO characters/events
-You carry a ballpoint pen in your pocket. (I did this, and sometimes uncapped it menacingly at people, but stopped when no one understood)
-That everytime you pick up a pen, you think it'll turn into a sword.
-In the beginning of your first History class, you burst out "Will we be
-You pretend (or actually) faint when someone asks "Who's Percy?"
-When someone mentions the name Percy (like Percy Weasley) you scream
-You are known to scream names of the characters at random times.
-You've got any copy of any book in all your backpacks/binders incase of
-And when you flunk said test, you blame her irritation on Percabeth.
-You make a list of characters never to anger, like this one and why:
-You write fanfiction constantly, even when you're not at your computer.
-You give all your siblings god parents
-You call the "Ares kids", or school bullies, Martians.
-You quiz fellow fans on the minor gods and win.
-You spend time doing pointless research at , just because Rick Riordan linked it on his site.
-You still think Thuke could happen.
You plan several statements to avoid Apollo's lines and remember he's a player, should he ever hit on you, and several ways to get out of being cursed.
You imagine the gods alone, and what they really do on the Superbowl.
Your mother thinks you need to get a boyfriend, as does your father to cure your obsession.
You read page 203 of BotL over and over again or say the lines in your head (PERCABETH!!)
You know exactly what someone means when they say LT, SoM, TC, BotL, tLO PJO and
You find yourself saying things like "Oh my gods!" and "What the Hades?"
When your boyfriend dumps you, you take the oath of the hunters
You cried when you finished TLO
You eat, sleep, and breath Percabeth
Every school book you own has PJO stuff scribbled on each page
You're in love with a fictional character (cough cough PERCY JACKSON cough)
You and your BFF call yourselves geeks because you sit around and talk about PJO
You own homemade replicas of things from the PJO series (a Yankees cap? :D)
You dream of going to Camp Half-Blood
If you want to push Rachel Elizabeth Dare off a cliff
If you think that people who don't like PJO are crazy/stupid/losers, copy this into your profile.
If you think that the PJO series is the best series ever paste this to your profile
If you really, really hate when people tell you to read stupid books when you could be reading PJO, copy this into your profile
If you have friends that fit the description of satyrs or children of gods, copy and paste this onto your profile!
You buy everything you see with an owl or trident on it.
You yell "Burrito Fight!" whenever you're in a Mexican restaurant.
You checked to make sure your vice-principal doesn't have a tail.
You know which pages the good parts are on.
You start hearing Percabeth in every song you hear.
You started calling your dog Mrs. O'Leary.
You start figuring out who your godly parent is.
You never looked at a ballpoint pen the same way again.
You have a plan to get out of school early on May 5th so you can buy The Last Olympian, read it, and still have time to do your homework.
You ask the cashier at the store if they stock Mythomagic cards.
You start doing pro/con lists in your head. During Math. When you're supposed to be taking notes.
You start spelling character names out of your spelling words.
You start loving blue plastic hairbrushes and anyone who wields them.
Each day you check every fan site you know of for new information.
You try to figure out how much food dye you need to turn chocolate chip cookies blue.
You make references to it in school reports and/or to friends that haven't read it.
The first thing you ask someone when you meet them is, "Have you read PJO?"
On your trip to Washington D.C. you thought of Annabeth every time you saw a monument.
You yell "Mizzenmast!" whenever you enter a boat.
You dream about PJO every night.
You have one (Or more) pictures relating to PJO in your room
You know PJO better then most sane people
You have links to every great PJO site
You add things to the list every day
You know what you would do if you were Percy
You argue with your friends about if Nico should turn evil or not
At least half of your friends have read all the PJO, or are going to in the very near future
You wish you could find a rainbow to see if Iris messages work
For April Fools, you put a piece of paper over a card/cards and told your friends that they were Myth-O-Magic cards and they understood
Your friends all have a godly parent, and so do you, and your family, and your extended family, and your far, far, far away cuzs'
You are trying to learn Greek
You keep thinking about one of the PJO books when you go on a trip.
Every language you know is some form of Ancient greek.
You shriek everytime you see a guy with black hair and green eyes
You have an instant crush on Nico!
You just have to research more about greek mythology
You call up the Camp Half Blood number in LT.
You want to learn Latin
You copy/paste this onto your profile
About 75-100 of your fics are PJO related, even if it is a cross over
You have taken every test you can find about what demigodly parent you would/do/should have, and your friends have as well or are going to
You make sure all of your friends (Or most of them), have an idea about what you say when talking about PJO
Your friends (At least one), think you are obbsessed with PJO, and you agree
A friend (or more), think you should start taking pills and/or going to a mental doctor, because you are so obsessed
You have one or more things related to PJO on your school stuff, and if someone asks you why, you tell them
You have something on your school things (Or home things), that says 'Daughter (Or son if you're a guy) of God/goddess', and you don't even try to hide it, even if it says daughter of Name of unliked god.goddess
You're nodding and smiling when you read this
You have done at least 15 (Or more) of the above things
You are so obessed with PJO and the couple Percy-Annabeth, that you are proud to call yourselves supporters of Percabethism!
Professor : You are a Christian, aren't you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?
Student : Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn't. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)
Professor: You can't answer, can you ? Let's start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Is satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor: Where does satan come from ?
Student : From … GOD …
Professor: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn't it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student :Yes
Professor: So who created evil ?
(Student did not answer.)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them ?
(Student had no answer.)
Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smell your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it is, were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Professor: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
That student was EINSTEIN.
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If you have ever forgotten what you were going to say, right before you say it, copy this into your profile
93 percent of American teens would have a severe emotional breakdown if someone called them a freak. If you're a part of the 7 percent who would ask the person, "What was your first clue?", copy this into your profile and add your name to the list: Sunlit Goddess of the C.O.C.A., Moonlit Goddess of the C.O.C.A., Evil Genius of the COCA, Invader Miley Phantom, dAnnYsGiRl777, BloodySalvation, Lady Lost-A-Lot, bellabookworm9, Bella Masen Cullen, Vampire Scooby, Alannaswarrior, SpottedLilly, Alleyanna Cullen, hugs.4.all.the.emo.boyz, WritingRocks6, GlindaFied26, XxXpurplelilyxXx, Bookluvrxoxo, Daydreamer897, The Friendly Chupacabra, Shorty and KG Inc., AVirgoGirl, xcheergrlx3, Mrs.DiAngelo, Nico's Future Wife, DaughterofPoseidon32498, A PJO Fan, Lil Mexican, ASSASSIN OF ARTEMIS, DrewTheSeagull
The Heroes Who Died In The Titan War:
Luke Castellan, who was a hero in the end.
Ethan Nakamura, who died to bring respect to the minor gods.
Silena Beuregard, who died to make things right.
Michael Yew, who died fighting for what he believed in.
Lee Fletcher, who deserved more mention than given for his death.
Zoe Nightshade, who went on the quest knowing she would die.
Bianca Di Angelo, who died to save her friends.
Charles Beckendorf, who died for the mission's sake.
And all the unnamed, unmentioned, and unknown. Rest in peace.
The Heroes Who Died In The Titan War:
Luke Castellan, who was a hero in the end.
Ethan Nakamura, who died to bring respect to the minor gods.
Silena Beuregard, who died to make things right.
Michael Yew, who died fighting for what he believed in.
Lee Fletcher, who deserved more mention than given for his death.
Zoe Nightshade, who went on the quest knowing she would die.
Bianca Di Angelo, who died to save her friends.
Charles Beckendorf, who died for the mission's sake.
And all the unnamed, unmentioned, and unknown. Rest in peace.
The Heroes Who Died In The Titan War:
Luke Castellan, who was a hero in the end.
Ethan Nakamura, who died to bring respect to the minor gods.
Silena Beuregard, who died to make things right.
Michael Yew, who died fighting for what he believed in.
Lee Fletcher, who deserved more mention than given for his death.
Zoe Nightshade, who went on the quest knowing she would die.
Bianca Di Angelo, who died to save her friends.
Charles Beckendorf, who died for the mission's sake.
And all the unnamed, unmentioned, and unknown. Rest in peace.
If you have ever threatened your computer, copy and paste this into your profile. (Though, I must say, that's isn't the weirdest thing I've seen people do to a computer. I swear that kid was fondling one...)
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and Maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6 year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get Parental consent to administer Calpol, sun lotion or a band-aid to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and or the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 3 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, Someone Else Is To Blame, and I'm A Victim. Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.


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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
My Bernina 801 ground to a halt during a workshop on Saturday. Dropped it off to be repaired and was told it was a bind in the shaft (would love to know more about what that means). She fixed it and cleaned and oiled it for me. So far it is moving like a hot knife through butter.
Cheers, K
I have found videos online that show how to take things apart. My hubby just took his laptop apart to replace a $12.00 cooling fan. He had found a pictorial tutorial. He was very slow and patient and it turned out fine. Moral of the story is maybe there is a video somewhere in cyber land that shows you how to take your particular machine apart.
Sounds to me like the DH is in favor of getting another machine. If that's the case, I'd be on that new machine like white on rice. THEN take the old machine apart and see if you can get it running. If so, you have a great back up machine.
Peckish aka Peggi
Yep...turn the power off get tinkering (with camera to see where bits go) and see what's jamming it. Sometimes it is something quite simple. You will be very pleased with yourself if you can get it going....and if all else fails put the $100.00 you would have spent on repairs toward the machine you want. Surely if you saved up the money to pay for a new machine it wouldn't be a problem for your husband.
A binding in the shaft means nothing more then the shaft was cleaned of whatever it was the was making it not turn or go up and down. I have taken the housing off every machine I have once it was out of warranty. No big deal. I can see immediately what the problem is for most mech. issues. The computer part of any machine is sealed on the inside. I don't have any fear of messing it up. It's just a sewing machine and I can get another one at Walmart to hold me over if need be.
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- Beds: 4
- Stories: 0
- Foreclosure: No
- Below Ground Sq. Feet: 1,004
- Estimated Annual Taxes: $1,844
- Middle School: John Adams
- Subdivision: Manor Woods West
- Style: Single Family
- Baths: 2 (Full: 2 3/4: 0 1/2: 0 Other: 0)
- Parking Type Description: Attached 3 cars
- Total Square Footage: 2,008 ($103.09 per sq. foot)
- Lot Area: 0.18
- County: Olmsted
- Elementary School: Harriet Bishop
- Year Built: 2003
- Status: Sold on 6/1/2015
- New Construction: No
- Above Ground Sq. Feet: 1,004
- Lot Size: 66x119
- High School: John Marshall
- School District: Rochester #535
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Appliances Cooktop
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Dining Open Floor Plan
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PARIS (AFP) – Lyon snapped Marseille's eight-game winning streak on Sunday thanks to a second half goal from Yoann Gourcuff which threw the Ligue 1 title race wide open.
The hard-fought 1-0 win at the Stade Gerland was harsh on Marcelo Bielsa's men, who dominated for large periods of the second half but were caught out by a counter-attack with 25 minutes left.
Marseille saw their lead at the top reduced to four points over defending champions Paris Saint-Germain, who brushed aside Bordeaux 3-0 on Saturday, while Lyon move ahead of Saint-Etienne into third on goal difference with both sides five points adrift.
Nantes are alone in fifth, and six back, after the Canaries won 2-0 at second-from-bottom Evian on Saturday.
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To enrich educational excellence through community outreach, financial development and ongoing funding of extraordinary educational programs.
KS - Johnson County
Ms. Joy Ann Ginsburg
Education, School, Student, Teacher, Grant
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Main Address
Blue Valley Educational Foundation 15020 Metcalf
Overland Park, KS 66223 USA
Elementary, Secondary Ed (B20)
Elementary, Secondary Ed (B20)
IRS Filing Requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
How does this organization make a difference?
Self-reported by organization
Top Accomplishments:Awarded a $5,000 grant to every Blue Valley school, a grant of at least $5,000 to each of 7 district-wide programs, and more than $39,000 in support for district-wide programs that promote student wellness, character education and personal responsibility in 2015-16.Awarded a total of $439,045 in grants, scholarships, awards and special programs to BVSD students and teachers during 2015-16, for a total of more than $4 million in grants, scholarships and special programs awarded since 1992. Adopted a new 5-year Strategic PlanCelebrated our 25th anniversary with special grants, a Lead Gift campaign and a special donor recognition event. Celebrated the 18th year of the Sunflower Ambassador Character Education program in every Blue Valley school. Top Goals:Raise funding to support teacher grants, district-wide program support and a new program to support new Blue Valley teachers.Increase Endowment Fund.Review and revise current grant criteria and application process.
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What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Program 1
District-Wide Grants
Funding of grants to administrators, teachers, parents and students to better support curriculum initiatives throughout the district and to support programs that promote Goal 2 initiatives, including student wellness, character education, and personal responsibility.
Program long term success
Implementation of funding district-wide grants by our Foundation to benefit the most students possible.
Program success monitored by
We request project reviews from all grant recipients and communicate the success of the grants with donors and district administrators.
Program success examples
We provided seed money for an elementary foreign language program and this has now been adopted by our Board of Education and spread to all elementary schools in the district. We funded a grant for a BVTV station which now produces its own community television shows put on by students throughout our district. We've secured nearly $400,000 in funding to establish a 30-acre Wilderness Science Center in our district which provided authentic learning experiences to 6,000 Blue Valley students last year. We are a PE4Life Academy that teaches K-12 students what is necessary to achieve fitness and how to maintain fitness.
Education, General/Other
Population(s) Served
Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
Program 2
Grants of Educational Excellence
Funding of Grants of Educational Excellence for individual classrooms that provide support for innovative and creative teaching and learning methods.
Program long term success
Successful BVEF funded grants are assumed by the school or school district for continued funding in future years. Examples include the Wilderness Science Center that was originally funded by BVEF. The ongoing expense of maintenance and salary has been assumed by the school district. BVEF has funded elementary broadcast studios in partnership with each school. Multicultural Trunks started as three trunks for Africa, China and Native American and have grown to 22 trunks that are shared throughout the school district.
Program success monitored by
The BVEF Grant committee reviews all grants. We request project reviews from all grant recipients and communicate the success of the grants to donors, teachers, parents and district administrators.
Program success examples
We developed a menu of successful grants that funded a grant at every Blue Valley School for the 2015-16 school year.
Education, General/Other
Population(s) Served
Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
Program 3
Sunflower Ambassador Program
This annual character education program is administrated by BVEF. Students and staff who exemplify the seven Blue Valley Virtues are nominated by their peers and recognized in their school and at the BVEF Community Breakfast.
Program long term success
This character education program that begins in fourth grade and continues through twelfth grade strives to instill the seven Blue Valley Virtues including; Compassion, Courage, Honesty, Perseverance, Respect, Responsibility and Self-Discipline in all students.
Program success monitored by
BVEF Faculty Fellows, BV Principals and BV staff monitor and judge the written essays and selection process.
Program success examples
Success is measured in the number of nominations each school receives. Parents, teachers and students continue to be very positive about the recognition of character. The school district supports the program by allowing school time for the writing and recognition processes.
Education, General/Other
Population(s) Served
Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
KS - Johnson County
Funding Needs
Funding grant requests of up to a total of $90,000 from individual teachers to better support curriculum initiatives throughout the district. Funding district-wide grant requests from administrators to implement new programs or expand current ones to better address education initiatives throughout the district. These requests range from $1,000 projects to support for multi-million dollar programs.Funding the BVEF endowment to support the district when state and local budget cuts negatively impact student learning.
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For additional information and adoption applications please visit our webpage at www.TinyTailsK-9Rescue.com
Tiny Tails K-9 Rescue is a small breed and puppy rescue. We do not sell dogs. We re-home dogs that come into our rescue via an adoption process. We have many breeds of dogs come to our rescue. Some are pure breeds and some mixed breeds. We always spay and neuter our dogs and cats and will be current on their vaccinations. Rescued dogs are not always neglected or abused dogs. We also take in dogs that the owners can no longer care for. Tiny Tails takes in small dogs and all breeds of puppies small, medium and large. Please adopt your next best friend from a rescue group.
Tiny Tails k-9 Rescue is teaming up with AHHA Approved Foothills Veterinary Hospital to provide low cost spay and neuter services to members of our community that would otherwise not be able to afford to get their animals spayed or neutered. You can find our Spay Neuter Registration form on our web pahe at www.TinyTailsK-9Rescue.com and email it back to us. Please fill out the form completely. We hold at least two vaccination clinics a year and also do vaccinations at our Spay Neuter Clinic. Spring and Fall. We work off of a waiting list so please contact us ASAP to find out when our next scheduled spay neuter clinic is. Low cost vaccinations will also be available for $15 for Rabies or Distemper + 5 booster shots...
Who We Are
Tiny Tails K-9 Rescue is a group of animal lovers that have gotten together to provide a safe loving place for neglected and abused small breed dogs to come recoup and get well enough for a new forever home. We also take in dogs that are in need of assistance (rehab) and foster dogs that need a temporary home until their owners get out of the hospital, back from deployment etc. Some vets ask us to rehab animals that need P.T. after surgery and their owners are unable to do the necessary treatments. We are a 100% volunteer group. We are non-profit. Working solely from donations, fundraisers and the kindness of our wonderful volunteers. If you would like to donate or volunteer please email us at email@example.com for more information.
Adopting a New Friend
Adopting your new best friend requires that you fill out an application. We call vet references, personal references and do a home visit. We sometimes get several application on one dog so we need to make sure we place that dog in the home that will provide the most perfect place for the dogs needs. Adoption fees are based on medical care provided to the dog in question. We are able to get spays and neuters done for a reduced price as well as vaccinations. However, if the dog needs surgery to repair a limb or a dental done the cost can be fairly expensive and we do all we can to off set these costs by having fundraisers to put funds into our emergency medical fund. If you would like to help with a donation please go to PayPal.com and donate to firstname.lastname@example.com. Funds will go directly our bank account. Donations of items like bedding, leashes, collars etc are always gratefully excepted as well as gift cards at Petsmart for food and medical supplies. Call or Text Diana at 406-580-2006 for pick up or additional info. Most dog/puppy adoption fees are $175.00.
Up coming events and fundraisers
In March and April we put on bowling tournaments at the Bowl in Bozeman, Montana. The March tournament is our annual "No Tap" tournament (meaning that 9 or 10 pins down on the first ball counts as a strike.) is a very fun event. The April tournament is our Strikes for Strays Bowling Tournament and is also a no-tap bowling tournament. There are lots of door prizes and food. Cost is $20 per bowler and includes shoe rental and use of a bowling ball (or bring your own). There are 4 different age groups so if you are 80 you will not be bowling against a 22 yr old. Awards are given for first thru 3 place in each division.
Tiny Tails always has a table at the Bozeman and Livingston Gun Shows. We sell great gift Items and home made candies for your Sweet Heart. Entry into the Gun Show is $5 for adults for all three days and children under 12 are free. There are tons of items of interest... Not only guns, but bow hunting items, fishing items. collectors items, antiques, jewelry, outdoor clothing, ammo and lots more. If you're in the area please drop in and see us. You'll be surprised as what you might find at the Gun Show.
Our headquarters are in Manhattan, Montana 59741, We are always in need of gently used or new collars, feeding dishes, and transport kennels. . We are a 501 c 3 non profit group and work from donations and fundraising. We get no city, county or state funding
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Post Office Box 257
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The renewed ruckus between Armenia and Azerbaijan has prompted calls for rehashing the international approach to finding a peaceful resolution to the 26-year-long Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. But, so far, it appears to be only Russian President Vladimir Putin who's planning to meet with the two countries' leaders.
The reasons for reviving the half-dormant ex-Soviet conflict remain moot. For years now, gusts of fighting have occasionally disrupted the 1994 ceasefire agreement, which ended a full-blown war over breakaway Karabakh. To quote Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian, Karabakh ever since has been a place of "no war, no peace."
But with a record number dead in recent weeks, a real threat of another ex-Soviet war is in the air.
With reports of casualties coming in daily, Azerbaijani military officials have claimed that volunteers have been stepping forward to help national forces with the "liberation of the occupied lands."
In Armenia, Defense Minister Ohanian said on August 5 that, so far, there is no need for mobilization or the deployment of an international peacekeeping force. "Karabakh is the only conflict zone in the world where relative peace is maintained through a balance between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces," Ohanian declared at an August-6 press-conference.
With Russia and Ukraine facing off over the fate of the small separatist region in eastern Ukraine supported by Moscow, the two countries have been using food policy as a way to punish each other.
This Russian-Ukrainian food fight actually already started last year, when Moscow banned the import of a popular line of Ukrainian chocolates, apparently to punish Kiev's overtures to Europe. In response, the Ukrainian government put a halt to the import of certain Russian sweets.
But with things heating up in eastern Ukraine, so is the use of food import restrictions as a weapon. In late July, Kiev banned the import of Russian pork products, citing a concern about the presence in Asian Swine Flu in certain regions in Russia. Not to be outdone, Moscow soon after announced a ban on Ukrainian soy and a few other agricultural products due to "a breach of phytosanitary requirements" (whatever that means).
But recent moves by the Kremlin are dragging Ukraine's neighbors into the food battle. After the European Union announced new sanctions against Russia last week, Moscow retaliated by announcing a ban on most fruit and vegetable imports from EU-member Poland. The move, the Kremlin said, was due to "sanitary reasons" and could be extended to the entire EU.
For Poland, the ban is serious business, as Reuters explains:
Generally seen as a warmonger in the Ukraine conflict, Russia plans to play the role of peacemaker in another ex-Soviet conflict that could be spiralling out of control.
Longtime enemies Armenia and Azerbaijan are feared to be back on the verge of war over the breakaway territory of Nagorno Karabakh and seven adjoining regions after the worst flare-up in fatal ceasefire violations in 20 years.
That gives an opening to Russia, one of three countries (along with the US and France) charged with keeping negotiations afloat between Baku and Yerevan. Russian President Vladimir Putin this week will meet in Sochi separately with Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev and Armenia's Serzh Sargsyan, Moscow has announced. A chat which, "when they all appear in the same place and at the same time," doubtlessly will get down to Karabakh, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the ITAR-TASS news agency.
As have the US and EU, Moscow has called for restraint. And — wink-wink — underscored the need for cooperation with the West to keep Armenia and Azerbaijan from coming to still more deadly blows.
"For many years, we have seen periodic flare-ups, but this time [the topic] is being perceived and will be taken up particularly strongly," Lavrov commented.
The dates for these chats have been set for August 8-9, Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian told reporters, according to RFE/RL.
Nobody much listened after separatists in Ukraine asked the world to recognize their newly declared People's Republic of Luhansk. But the call was heard loud and clear in separatist South Ossetia.
Call it bonding between the self-proclaimed types. South Ossetia's breakaway leadership announced on June 16 that they cannot stay indifferent to the will of the people of the so-called "People's Republic."
"Respecting the expression of the will of the people of the People's Republic of Luhansk, the Republic of South Ossetia recognized the results of the [May 11] referendum [on secession from Ukraine] and is ready to make a constructive decision," said Leonid Tibilov, the de-facto president of South Ossetia, the region's Ossinfo agency reported.
Tibilov's separatist counterpart in Luhansk, Valeriy Bolotov, promptly relayed the news to the Luhansk people. "Tomorrow, we will appoint an ambassador of the People's Republic of Luhansk to the Republic of South Ossetia," Bolotov proclaimed, reported Interfax.
But the so-called leader of the Luhansk people might want to hit the brakes here. South Ossetia's de-facto foreign ministry told the Russian Dozhd' (Rain) television channel that Tibilov's statement does not mean official recognition.
South Ossetia, which relies on Russia for everything from arms to aid, is unlikely to make its decision final without consulting the big boss, Moscow.
Abkhazia's hair-trigger uprising ended in less than a week, before it could be properly understood or even noticed by the outside world. The proximity to events in Ukraine, both in terms of geography and the pattern, grabbed attention, but in Abkhazia no geopolitical shifts are expected. Rather, it's a change from within.
De-facto President Aleksander Ankvab resigned on June 1 after putting up only token resistance to a diverse group of opposition groups who have taken over the building from which he governed. A new presidential vote was called for August 24. In the meantime, de-facto Parliamentary Speaker Valery Bganba is serving as the region's leader.
Local observers see this outcome as both the result of Ankvab's own policy-shortcomings and as a failure of the breakaway region's system of governance.
In commentary broadcast by the online Asarkia TV, Inal Khashig, editor-in-chief of the Sokhumi-based Chegemskaya Pravda newspaper, argued that earlier expectations that the 61-year-old Ankvab would serve as Abkhazia's "chief foreman" and fix all of the territory's many problems, ranging from limited jobs to a crumbling public order, had failed to be met. "What was expected of him was to set things in order in various fields," Khashig said.
Armenia may now sign on to the Moscow-led Eurasian Union by the end of April, roughly a month before neighboring Georgia is slated to enter a free-trade and political pact with the European Union. The signings of both agreements have been expedited as the competition for the South Caucasus picks up speed between Russia and Europe.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is scheduled to travel to Belarus on April 29 for a meeting of the council of the Eurasian Union, an economic bloc roughly modeled by Moscow after (and against) the European Union. Armenian officials say that Sargsyan will sign an agreement in Minsk on Armenia's joining the Customs Union, the flagship project of the Eurasian Union meant to create a shared economic space for Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and, Moscow hopes, more ex-Soviet states.
The new sign-on date is not a huge difference from the earlier deadline of May, but, apparently, as East-West ties deteriorate over Ukraine, someone feels the need to pick up the pace.
Wary of Ukraine-style pressure from Russia, the EU chiefs have been trying to fast-forward their plans with Georgia and Moldova. José Manuel Borroso, the president of the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, is expected in Tbilisi in June to sign an association agreement, which includes a free trade deal, with Georgia.
Gazprom, the Russian energy goliath, reportedly continues its shopping spree in Armenia; this time around, setting its eyes on the Caucasus country's power-distribution grid. Such a buy would get Gazprom closer to becoming the main source of light and heat in Armenia, second only to the sun.
This week, the Russian version of Forbes magazine reported that Gazprom is negotiating the purchase of Electric Networks of Armenia, 36,000 kilometers of power wires that supply electricity to some 950,000 customers out of the country's population of just over 3 million people.
If the deal is done, the electricity network will change hands from one Russian company, Inter RAO UES, to another. But then, Gazprom is, of course, not just another Russian company. It is the Kremlin's magic wand for political clout and foreign policy.
As the main supplier of Armenia's natural gas and security (and possibly electricity), and its main trade partner, Russia, some fear, practically owns the country.
In 2013, following Armenia's surprise decision to opt for Russia's planned Customs Union over closer ties with the EU, Gazprom took over 100-percent of Armenia's natural gas supply company, ArmRosGazprom.
Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili has become another Georgian leader to go to Washington in search of US protection from Russia. This time around, Georgia hopes that the US can help make sure Russia does not try to pull a Ukraine in Georgia to prevent it from entering the European Union's economic space.
"[The Sochi Olympic] Games are over, and we expect Russia to increase pressure on Georgia before signing the association agreement with the European Union," Gharibashvili said after meeting President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joseph Biden on February 25. "[W]e would highly appreciate the US administration, Congress, think-tanks…. [expressing] support [to] us through constant and proper messaging to Russia, upholding the European choices of Georgia," Gharibashvili commented at a talk the same day at the Atlantic Council.
The 31-year-old prime minister's tone is a change from the previous sotto-voce complaints about Moscow. But perhaps that is because implementation of the EU Association Agreement, which he dubbed a "master plan for Europeanization," is the prime minister's first major foreign-policy challenge.
The customs-free wonderland that Russia is busy building around itself to counterbalance the European Union will come with still more unrecognized or half-recognized lands. On December 10, the Russian Duma approved a 2012 agreement to drop customs duties between Russia and the twin breakaway territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
"Ratification of the agreements will become an important step toward intensifying trade turnover between Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Russia and members of the Customs Union," pledged Eurasian Integration Parliamentary Committee Chairman Leonid Slutskiy, ITAR-TASS reported.
The two tiny enclaves -- in Moscow's view, perfectly sovereign lands -- are tied to Russia's apron both by their economies and their claims to independent statehood. Now, they can export customs-free to Russia anything but sugar, tobacco and alcohol. Russia also cancelled export duties on set volumes of petroleum exported to Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Of course, there is more in this for the territories than for Russia, which periodically injects aid into both breakaway territories. The Kremlin is pouring so much money into Abkhazia and South Ossetia that it will not even notice a revenue-drop from the removal of duties on imports from and petroleum exports into the regions, said Slutskiy.
In 2014-2015, Moscow plans to invest over 3 billion rubles (about $92 million) in Abkhazia alone, according to the region's de-facto official news agency, Apsnypress.
A colossal, bronze Jesus Christ, cast in Armenia, has appeared in war-ravaged Syria "to save the world."
Soaring higher than Rio's famous Christ the Redeemer, the statue stands 39 meters tall in the mountaintop, Byzantine-era Cherubim Monastery, lording it over the city of Saidnaya, 27 kilometers north of Damascus, Armenian news outlets reported. Some Russian outlets said that the statue is one meter shorter than its Brazilian counterpart.
From its vantage point above the sea, the statue overlooks an historic pilgrimage route from Istanbul to Jerusalem. The statue, created by Armenian sculptor Artush Papoian, was installed on October 14, when Orthodox Christians celebrate a commemoration of the Virgin Mary, whose icon is a chief draw for the monastery.
But the statue was not born of recent events in Syria. While Syria's ethnic Armenian population has been fleeing the country in droves -- including to Armenia itself, which has built a "New Aleppo" to accommodate the arrivals -- the project has been in the works since 2005, Russia's Komsomol'skaya Pravda reports.
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Automata: Sci-fi vs. Reality
To begin with, one must briefly address the ethical issues surrounding robots: to create a new life and to call it 'living' would easily fall into a theist's interpretation of 'playing God'; one could imagine that God created the universe that man might be gifted with scientific knowledge, but not so that he might be the creator of an other race. As it is, in science-fiction literature, the robots are often slaves of the humans, a lower 'race'. I don't believe that, as Stewards, we were tasked with using our fantastic ingenuity to fashion slaves from raw metal.
If one were to consider the social implications of robots in society, as scientific journals[i] have already thought about, we would still be outcasts from them, as human-like as automata have been shaped.
It is not image, in fact, that makes us human, despite how different we have been made from other species, but it is the content of one's mind, something which cannot be calculated or tested empirically. Intelligence just is: as well as a bundle of neurones that cause a spark of knowledge and understanding (both indeed different from the exact quality of intelligence), intelligence is a metaphysical quantity that exists beyond the mind. Have scientists found the reason behind differing intelligence evident from young childhood, and that random occurrence of 'the genius'? No, not yet they haven't.
What I mention are thoughts. It is my belief that thoughts are the closest link between physics and metaphysics; thoughts are often depicted as being metaphysical – and, indeed, they come from a higher level of mental processing than the knowledge and memory that we retrieve – but they also possess a physical quality in that they must have a beginning, a cause, which is physical. In the little I know about neuroscience and biochemistry, it is the chemicals in the brain that react and anti-react[ii] to produce the feeling we experience as 'thoughts'.
Feeling...experience...thoughts. Those three words bring me back to the matter in hand: could an android ever experience the ability to feel in the same way that humans do? It can be programmed to think that it experiences this, but I don't belief that it will ever be able to go through the same metaphysical processes.
I think robots could eventually be 'human', in that they would share our emotive functions and our cognitive processes – that is, the scientific side of those things, but one must consider the bigger question.
What makes a human? Is it our skills and physical aspects, things which can easily be replicated and 'inserted' into the central processor of a machine built to look like us? Or is it, instead the metaphysical aspects of our being that cannot be tested empirically? The robots we currently encounter (and computers could be counted as one, as would 'smart' phones that appear to posses a contemporary type of artificial intelligence) don't think in the sense that we do, but they still operate efficiently. A robot could be fitted with a processor to generate random images, thoughts and ideas, but this would still be a poor imitation of what we know as 'imagination'. It's just not to the same.
Imagination is, by definition, an incredibly human 'thing'; it is part of our innate being. Just as no one will actually know what imagination looks like, there is no possible way to replicate the human mind and soul. In this way, robots will never truly be people, even at a time when they are socially accepted to be.
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11/09/12: Highlights of Haldane's 2-0 win over Tuckahoe in the Section 1 Class C girls soccer finals.
11/09/12: Haldane junior goalie Cali Schweikhart, junior Kate Lahey, sophomore Allie Monteleone talk about defeating Tuckahoe in Section 1, Class C Championship game.
Gregg Sarra and Carl Reuter break down the Long Island Championship games and discuss the Nassau County Awards Dinner.
Gregg Sarra and Carl Reuter discuss the fall's top student athletes, while Andy Slawson stops in to discuss Long Island wrestling.
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SASAH offers its students the broadest context for academic, cultural, and professional development through its participating in a growing network of Community Partners on and off campus. These relationships reflect our mission to make higher education in the Arts and Humanities an enriched cross-cultural experience. They offer valuable mentorship and learning opportunities through collaborations in programming, events, and internships (see Research and Opportunities), among other campus-to-community efforts.
As SASAH continues to grow we welcome the opportunity to work with future partners both close to home and farther afield. For further information, contact the SASAH Director at email@example.com.
Western's Student Success Centre is the go-to resource for SASAH students for community engaged learning, leadership education programming, internship opportunities, career counselling, and global opportunities.
SASAH is housed in Weldon Library Rm 109 through the generous collegiality of Western Libraries. Our libraries, in form and function are a dynamic, continuously evolving platform for learning, discovery, research, and community engagement. Western Libraries' spaces are a dynamic, intellectual and cultural milieu for the campus. In SASAH we welcome the opportunity for our students to participate in and benefit from this dynamic ever-evolving library learning environment. The Atrium in Weldon Library is also the major venue for an annual Western Performs! Concert series, co-organized by SASAH, the Don Wright Faculty of Music, and western Libraries. For this year's program, See Concerts
SASAH encourages its students to participate international learning experiences of all kinds, including study abroad and language acquisition, as well as internships. Apart from individual courses that offer students enriched international study -- French 39140 (Rwanda: Culture, Society, Reconstruction), English 4630G (Reading the City: Representations of New York City in American Literature), CS3010F/G (Study Tour to Greece), The Vindolanda Field School, among others – Western International is the main portal through which students can discover and plan these opportunities. Western International also orchestrates Western's role as one of the key partners in the Undergraduate Awards (http://www.undergraduateawards.com), the capstone event for which is the UA Global Summit held in Dublin.
The McIntosh Gallery sponsors SASAH interns and volunteers, and is a key collaborator in SASAH programming as well as generous host for SASAH public events and lectures. A university-based, public art gallery since 1942, the McIntosh collaborates with artists, curators and academics to develop innovative strategies to interpret and disseminate visual culture. Exhibitions, educational programs and special events provide a platform for engagement with visual art and artists.
Along with Western Libraries and SASAH, the Don Wright Faculty of Music is one of three co-organizers of the annual Western Performs! concert series. Our aim is to highlight the incredible talent of Western's Music students in collaboration with the organizational and cultural talent of SASAH's students to make beautiful music both on campus and across the broader London community. [See Concerts]
Founded and run by Western graduate students, The Public Humanities at Western, housed within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, promotes innovative forms of public scholarship, experiential learning, and community collaboration. By welcoming the volunteer assistance of SASAH undergraduates it provides invaluable opportunities for cross-generational mentorship both within and beyond the academy, and thus offers invaluable experience cultivating and coordinating campus/community dialogue. Among these opportunities, SASAH students will again participate in the annual Words: The Literary and Creative Arts Festival in London. Look for updated information about WordsFest 2016. For last year's event, see http://www.wordsfest.ca
Along with Public Humanities at Western SASAH partners with Museum London to host the annual Public Matters lectures series [see Research and Opportunities], held in the Museum's main lecture theatre. Past speakers include Jeff Melanson, Cameron Bailey, and Jillian Keiley. Our 2017 speaker will be Zita Cobb, businesswoman, social entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of the Shorefast Foundation in Fogo Island. [See Research/Public Matters]
Pillar Nonprofit Network strengthens the impact of the nonprofit sector. They connect the three pillars - nonprofit, business and government - to create community impact. They spark innovation in order to provide professional development, consulting, promotion of volunteerism, as well as encourage social enterprise and social finance.
Innovation Works is the only place in London, Ontario specifically designed to encourage collaboration and innovation. New innovations and cross-sector collaboration among nonprofits, social enterprises, social purpose businesses and entrepreneurs are key to turning economic, environmental, social and cultural challenges into opportunities. SASAH rents a permanent desk in Innovation Works' new (and newly renovated) space in downtown London, offering SASAH students invaluable opportunities for putting their own creative social visions into practice for the benefit of the broader public.
The ARTS Project is a non-profit art gallery, theatre and studio space for artists. Its mission is to bring arts and culture to the downtown core and to the wider City of London by providing the space and the means for artists to do their work and by providing a venue for the public to see their work. The ARTS Project is a generous community partner/host for the annual SASAH Culture Crawl, and this year also the venue for the final community concert for Western Performs!
DNA Artspace is a commercial gallery and exhibition space in downtown London and a community partner/host for the annual SASAH Culture Crawl.
SATELLiTE Project Space, located beside the DNA Artspace, is a dynamic partnership between four London, Ontario, arts institutions: bealarts, Fanshawe College, Museum London, and Western University, specifically SASAH and the Department of Visual Arts. SATELLiTE provides a flexible space for new and temporary projects, collaborations, and experiments in arts and culture. The four groups collaborate in the planning of yearly programming and student involvement, and in the production of exhibitions. SATELLiTE thus provides learning opportunities and mentorship for arts students in London: in education, curatorial work, exhibition and event programming, and arts administration, and invites the larger community to experience and participate in these programs.
The following Community Partners generously offer annual summer internships to upper-level SASAH students for course credit. These internships offer superb learning and training opportunities for our students to implement their intellectual, social, and creative talents in the public sphere, and often provide openings for future career development.
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Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language with Minimal Domain Knowledge
First Author, EMNLP 2016. Designed and trained novel Deep RNN for generating Regular Expressions given natural language descriptions of the user's intent. Paper here. Code+Data here.
Autodetection and Classification of Hidden Cultural City Districts from Yelp Reviews
Designed and implemented unsupervised learning algorithm that leveraged LDA topic modeling and Gaussian Mixture Models to detect and label cultural city districts. Submitted as part of the Yelp Dataset Challenge. Paper here. Code here
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Computer Vision Engineer. Developed automatic exercise classification from video with deep CNN's. Developed facial recognition login, barbell path and form tracking systems.
Software Engineer. Worked on Recommendations team building machine learning models with big data pipelines. Ran user-facing experiments on Re-Ranking Homefeed using Facebook data signals. Built internal debug tool for our machine learning ranking models.
Software Engineer. Worked on iOS team. Leveraged runtime meta programming to implement property-based wrapper for NSUserDefaults. Worked on experimental Notifications Center Widget.
My Projects
Chrome Extension that performs image captioning using deep neural networks to automatically provide alt-text for vision-impaired users.
Web app and deep learning system that listens to company meetings to monitor employee speaking habits and tendencies. Speaker + interruption recognition in a novel setting.
iOS photo sharing application. +200,000 users. +3 million photos sent. Unfortunately shut down by Snapchat legal request.
Node + Socket web app that gives professors real-time feedback during lecture. Also built an Internet of Things Arduino controlled LED Orb that changed color in real time to match the on-screen graph. Made for MIT's 6.170 final project. Code here.
iOS 2D action runner game. +150,000 downloads.
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2005 Honda S2000 - Consumer Review
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Vehicle2005 Honda S2000 2dr Roadster (2.2L 4cyl 6M)
ReviewEver since I was kid I always hoped to by a Porsche 911 as my dream car...That all changed after I purchased my 05 S2000! The car is TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE in every way. And when I see other S2000 owners that have previously plopped down the mega- bucks for a 911, and turn around and sing the praise of the S2000, well it makes me really, really happy! Like a Cheshire cat, I might add! When the engine hits 6500k it takes on an all together different personality. Its a little bit scary, in a real cool way. Its like getting 2 cars in one. Top speed is supposed to be 150. I've had mine up to 118 and it was more stable than anything Ive ever driven, (including a 911). I'll never sell it.
Best FeaturesThe V-tech engine is Special Indeed. I've also been told that they were hand crafted. Oh yeah, my wife who has a love/hate thing going on with speed loved being in the passenger seat and traveling down the highway at 111mph! Now that is the ultimate testimony.
Worst FeaturesNone really. And I really thought about it.
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... free guided tours of the complex to English speaking tourists. We were delighted to have been approached and very willing to accept a free tour. She was a fountain of knowledge with very good English, but most importantly she was appreciative of our constructive criticism at the end of the tour. She walked us around the complex for two hours, explaining then testing our knowledge. It is always nice to learn in more detail about the history and meaning behind the temples, however ...
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... Indonesian natives ran through our legs to take all the limited spaces. After 45 sweaty minutes at the bus stop we took the Mount Anville way out and got a taxi. It was painfully cheap. We decided to get him to wait while we explored the temple and kept the meter running. The grand total for a 90minute drive each way plus a two hour wait was €18 (300,000 Rupiah) between the 4 of us, although you would swear your man won the lottery when he ...
Viva le Via Via!
Une journee relaxe en perspective, apres le PT de JP et un autre succulent dejeuner (en notant que la majorite des internationaux mangent des toasts et des patisseries et que les asiatiques mangent du riz et des nouilles... Incluant JP), nous relaxons ensuite a la piscine pendant qu'aucun touriste n'y est. Christine se fait faire une pedicure (75min pour 23$).
Dans l'apres-midi, on part en ville visiter le Tamansari - Chateau d'eau - construit au 18e siecle et servant ...
The Carving is the Thing: Borobudur and Prambanan
... directly from Japan, a cool 3300 miles and a seven hour flight away from Jakarta, I found it fascinating that the Japanese esoteric Shingon Buddhism I experienced on Mt. Koya is very, very similar to the Javanese esoteric Buddhism I saw illustrated today on the walls at Borobudur. It turns out that there is a very good reason for this. In the religiously fertile 8th century in Asia a young Buddhist monk named Vajrabodhi left India for Java, studied and worked ...
Day 7 - Jojga
... we went for lunch in Bedhot Resto, recommended in lonely planet and also close to both our homestays. They food was really good. I had a dish called Sayur Lodeh which had tofu and tempe, with greens cooked in a mild coconut curry-ish sauce with rice. It was delicious. The girls - Svenja, Andra, Ines and Ilka - commented their food was extremely good too, and I took their word as they were currently living and studying for a semester in Bali, so presumably had had their fair share ...
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Ministry of CoffeeJln. Prawiritaman 15a, Yogyakarta | Hotelfrom $17
Metro Guest HouseJln. Prawiritaman No. 71, Yogyakarta | Hotelfrom $19
Mercury Guest HouseJln. Gerilya 595, Yogyakarta | Hotelfrom $11
Kampoeng Djawa HotelJln. Prawiritaman no. 40, Yogyakarta | Hotelfrom $10
- Super Service
House 37Jln. Prawiritaman 37, Yogyakarta | Hotelfrom $12
- Good Value For Money