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Samuel's breath caught in his throat and his knees gave away and he fell to the ground. He knelt there covering the wound in his chest as blood spillled out.
"Samuel! Are you alright?" Danielle asked.
"Yes," he replied. He looked into the bandit's eyes.
"It was long ago when I was seven years old. I lived in Sharpine with my mother and father."
So he's a survivor as well. Samuel thought.
"My father worked in the village as a trader. Somedays I would travel with him to the kingdom of Zilda to collect supplies and bring them back to the village. While on our stay in Zilda, I left my father while he worked preparing the supplies ready to be brought back. I snuck into the palace grounds and I met Prince Steven and Seth and we became freinds. I was called their secret friend for no one new of my exsistence. That is until Steven's older sister saw us playing together that she became my freind as well."
Danielle didn't know what to think when she learned that this man was her father's childhood friend. It bothered her that her father hid some things in his past. Like Andorra. She said she was her father's sister and she believed it. And now there was this bandit who said he was her childhood friend. He was also a survivor of the plague that swept through the village Sharpine.
"Years after our friendship had grown, we became more distant. I went to our secret place to meet them but it seemed they didn't want to do anything. They were too caught up in preparing for the future. Andorra, she became too quiet and cold that I couldn't speak to her. She became heartless." There was an awkward silence after that until Judas concluded.
"After a month of staying in Zilda, me and my father returned to our village but found that a illness affected everyone in the village. Even my mother who was already dead before we could say goodbye. My father was stricken with sadness that he told me to get away quickly before I could be affected. So I did and I met my gang." Danielle's heart ached and she gazed upon him with sadness in her eyes. Samuel was staring at the ground. Herman's hand clenched his sword and he gritted his teeth.
"And then you came and killed my family," he jeered. Danielle and Samuel glanced at him in shock. Judas looked at him as well.
"It was Bracken's doing not I." Herman scoffed and lunged at the bandit in rage. He blocked Herman's sword and spoke,
"I tried to stop him from doing it but he wouldn't listen!" Herman freed his sword and swung at him many times but Judas blocked him.
"Believe me, I didn't want it to happen," Judas said. Herman remembered that day when the bandits robbed his house. Judas and a taller bandit had trapped him and his familly in their room. Judas was arguing with the other bandit, Bracken, not to kill them and that they were only there to rob them of their posessions.
"Bracken's thirst for kill led it to disaster," Judas said. Herman stopped slashing.
"If that's the case then this past should be forgotten." Judas looked at him with surprise and felt the guilt begin to ware off.
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As the ballots are cast and counted in one of the closest U.S. elections ever, here are some things to watch for in the pivotal swing state of Ohio:
Early Voter Results
About a third of Ohio voters have cast ballots ahead of election day and the tally of those early votes will be announced shortly after polls close at 7:30 p.m. EST. It is expected that the results will show a lead for President Barack Obama, whose campaign has pushed for its supporters to vote early. Should the early results show a lead for Mitt Romney – or even show him a close second – it will be a long, and probably losing, night for Mr. Obama.
Perhaps caused by its frequent role as a bellwether state, Ohio is home to a large number of proud independent voters, unaffiliated with either main party. The Romney campaign believes it is doing very well among this 10 per cent or so of the electorate. If exit polls in Ohio show the independent vote breaking even or favouring Mr. Obama, it will be a clear indication the President will likely hold the state.
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Running around after a kill was a way for me to get my adrenaline down. It takes a lot of energy to kill someone with a whip, but that's never been a problem.
I happened to run past a barn where two other assasins were having a dagger fight. I slowed down and looked at them carefully as their fight stopped. I soon recognized them as people under the same leader as me. Walking carefully closer, I didn't want to startle them, as they would probably kill me on the spot.
"Ifrit? Camalot?" I called. They both whipped out their daggers toward me. I put my hands up in surrender. "It's ok, I'm in Leader Artemis's group too."
Camalot studied me. I pulled my mask off. A look of recognition flashed across her face. Ifrit put his dagger away. "Do you know what's going on in Leader Artemis's group?"
"Uh, assassinations as usual?" I shrugged. They both shook their heads.
"Everyone in Leader Artemis's group is supposed to be assassinated." Ifrit stated.
"Uh oh." I said.


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4 bed / 4.0 bath / 3,544 sqft.
Price/SF: $268
Property Description
INCREDIBLE VALUE! A Classic Circa 1852 Vermont Stone Cape thoughtfully renovated with 21st Century mechanical systems and updated amenities reflecting modern comfort and lifestyle in a historic farmstead. A separate 3-bedroom 'Caretaker' apartment provides space for income or assistance in operating a superb horse facility. A year-around 12+ box stall barn with 60'x 120' indoor arena is the centerpiece of a sustainable horse complex consisting of; an Equipment Pole Barn, Sawdust barn, 4 bay 'run-in' barn, outdoor arena, paddocks and 20+ acres of productive hayfield. The active Mill Brook meanders through the property and a secluded spring-fed pond offers a spot for quiet contemplation. Attractively priced for sale.
- Property Type: Single Family
- Acreage: 119.8
- Suitable Use: Agriculture, Bed and Breakfast, Farm - Horse/Animal, Field/Pasture, Orchards, Tillable
- Area: Mountain, Near Snowmobile Trails, Rural
- Zoning: Residential
- Frontage Road: 500
- Development/Subdivision: 0
- Driveway: Crushed Stone
- Roads: Gravel, Public
- Lot description: Agricultural, Country Setting, Farm, Farm - Horse/Animal, Field/Pasture, Level, Mountain View, Pond, Trail/Near Trail, View, Walking Trails
- Date Showings Begin:
- Delayed Showing: Unknown
- State: VT
- Street: Churchill
- Building Number:
- Zip Code: 05037
- County: VT-Windsor
- Town: West Windsor
- Elementary School: Albert Bridge School
- Junior High: Choice
- High School: Choice
- Square Feet: 3,544
- APX Fin Ag SqFt: 3,544
- Year Built: 1852
- Total Rooms: 9
- Bedrooms: 4
- Total Bathrooms: 4.0
- Full Baths: 3
- 3/4 Baths: 0
- 1/2 Baths: 1
- Foundation: Below Frost Line, Concrete, Stone
- Property Style: Cape, Farmhouse, Historic Vintage
- Construction: Existing, Masonry, Timber Frame, Wood Frame
- Heating: Baseboard, Hot Water, Multi Zone, Stove - Wood
- Cooling: Multi Zone
- Electric: 200 Amp, Generator Ready
- Sewer: 1000 Gallon, Concrete, Leach Field
- Heat Fuel: Oil
- Water Heater: Off Boiler
Interior Features:
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- Dining Area
- Fireplace - Wood
- Fireplaces - 3+
- Hearth
- Master BR w/ BA
- Skylight
- Vaulted Ceiling
- Walk-in Pantry
- Whirlpool Tub
- Window Treatment
- Kitchen Size: 20x20
- Dining Room Size: 13x19
- Living Room Size: 14x23
- Family Room Size: 15x18
- Office/Study Size: 12x12
- Master Bedroom Size: 14x17
- Bedroom Size: 13x14
- Bedroom Size: 11x18
- Bedroom Size: 11x18
- Basement: Bulkhead, Climate Controlled, Concrete, Frost Wall, Full, Stairs - Interior, Unfinished
- Exterior Features: Balcony, Barn, Fence - Full, Outbuilding, Patio, Porch, Shed, Window Screens, Windows - Storm
- Roof: Standing Seam
- Exterior Color:
- Exterior: Clapboard, Stone
- Accessibility Features: 1st Floor 1/2 Bathroom, 1st Floor 3 Ft. Doors, 1st Floor Bedroom, 1st Floor Full Bathroom, 1st Floor Hrd Surfce Flr, Access Common Use Areas, Access Parking, Bathroom w/Tub, Kitchen w/5 Ft. Diameter, Zero-Step Entry Ramp
- Garage:
- Garage # Cars: 3
- Services: Cable, Internet - Cable, Underground Utilities
- Dishwasher
- Dryer
- Microwave
- Oven - Double
- Range - Gas
- Refrigerator
- Washer
- Taxes: $22,543
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11% offer on-site massage therapy services.
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2% offer an on-site nap room.
5% offer free computers for personal use
21% offer paid time off for volunteering
8% offer a paid day off for your birthday.
3% that offer unlimited paid sick time
1% of the companies surveyed now offer divorce insurance.
The perk a lot of us are hoping for over the next month is working from home during the PanAm Games. Anything to avoid PanJam.
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My knee has been hurting for several weeks. It's some overuse injury so I stopped using it, but it still hurt. I iced it. Still hurt. I ignored it. Then I was sick and staying home from the gym so I really ignored it, but the last few days I'm been dressed in my gym shorts doing that dang Jillian DVD and when I go to do the lunges that I can no longer do, my knee really hurts. So I look at it.
And when I look at it, I see the backs of my thighs (my hamstrings) swinging and sagging with long dry lines. Obviously I need more lotion, but even without lotion, there is a true elephantine look to my sagging thighs. I did not lean in and inspect longer.
I did shave my legs yesterday in the shower. I do this on occasion. I like liberating the hairs and letting them grow, but sometimes there's something nice about a sleek look - a sleek lotioned look. I lotioned well after my shower and all my attention went onto my nice looking shins. (This was effective at drawing the attention away from my thighs)
When I did my jumping jacks in the mirror without my shirt and donned only in my sports bra (for the top half of me), I saw more elephantineness.
BUT, today I can feel the muscles tightening up around my core and in my legs. When I ran out to run an errand, I felt my butt and thighs contracting and stretching and feeling thinner underneath my snow pants.
I know my skin isn't the bounce back skin of yore, but I'm hoping that whatever connective tissue it's attached to will pull it in a little tighter as those muscles underneath tighten up. Who knows what will happen. For now I'm thankful to be feeling a tightening underneath the skin and I'll take whatever happens on the outside.
As for my knee - it's doing okay! I dropped down to some super light weights for Jillian and focused on doing all the stuff correctly and doing those horrible lunges and you know what, I think all the stretching and muscle building (of only three days) rather helped strengthen and reset whatever was causing the inflammation/out of alignment thing that was making my knee hurt.
My knee is not healed by any means, but it feels more solid. I have to say that it's kinda crazy how doing the exact opposite (exercising while injured) can actually get you back on track a little faster. Still kills me that my doctor told me I'm better off with a knee injury than heart disease and shooed me out of the office with promised to ice and stretch. He was right of course and my last knee injury never got worse.
And that's where I'm at - a semi stronger knee, sore stomach muscles and well lotioned elephantine skin.
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Chandigarh, Sep 22 (UNI) With the Haryana Horticulture Department taking several steps to encourage the farmers to diversify their crops, the area under horticulture crop has now reached to about 5.01 per cent of the total cropped area of the state as compared to 4.9 per cent in the year 2006-07.
''There is continual and steady increase in the area under horticulture crop in the state which is a healthy sign,'' Agriculture Minister Harmohinder Singh Chatha said today.
The farmers, he said, had been encouraged to grow vegetables which resulted in the area coverage under vegetable cultivation to 2,74,580 hectares in the year 2007-08.
The Minister said the farmers were also taking keen interest in replacing their traditional crops by other commercial horticulture crops such as flowers and spices which were more remunerative to the farmers.
He said a target of area under fruit production had been fixed to 40,410 hectares for the current financial year against which 36,375 hectares of area had already been brought under it till the month of August.
Similarly, total fruit production target of 2,75000 tonnes had been fixed for the year against which 1,13300 tonnes of production had already been achieved.
Mr Chatha said that the target of area and production under flowers for the current financial year had been fixed as 6000 hectares and 65000 tonnes respectively against which 2078 hectares and 2192 tonnes had been achieved upto August, 2008.


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Young men contemplate going to war
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
NEW YORK For baby boomers who grew up cynical of
government and doubting America's direction during the Vietnam War, the draft
was a dirty word. Now, during the nation's most dire hour in half a century
and after its bloodiest day since the Civil War, patriotism is rampant and the
public is spoiling for a fight. And boomers suddenly find themselves confronting
an all-but-forgotten specter not for themselves, but for their children.
"I just don't think that I could bear it," Ohio mother
Diane Flores, 48, says of anything that might take her 21-year-old son, Eric,
to war. A long-ago opponent of the Vietnam War and the draft, Flores today wholeheartedly
supports President Bush's vow to strike back at terrorism. But any thought of
reinstituting conscription, something that has haunted her since last week's
events and been the subject of talks with her husband, leaves her cold.
"Call me selfish if you'd like, because that's exactly
what I'm being," she says. "He's my only son, and I would not want to see him
While men still must register within 30 days of turning
18, the draft has been dormant since 1973. Nothing short of an act of Congress
would be required to reactivate it. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said earlier
this week that it is not under consideration. But neither, he says, has it been
ruled out.
Registration doubles
In the hours after the attack, a record 6,381 men registered
via the Internet, twice the previous daily record, says Lew Brodsky of the Selective
Service System. Online registration stayed busy, with 4,143 registrations Wednesday
and 3,701 Thursday.
"If they've been procrastinating, all of a sudden the kids
are getting real with us," Brodsky says.
About 5,000 boys turn 18 every day. Their liability for
selective service continues through age 25; there are 14 million men who fit
that category. Brodsky says if the draft were reinstated this year, normal procedure
would begin the induction process with men who are 20 or were born in 1981.
At recruitment centers across the nation, phone
calls, Internet inquiries and walk-in traffic have increased in the last week,
officials say, though it remains to be seen whether this will translate into
higher-than-normal enlistment. But for many who had initiated the process but
had not yet decided, the attack cinched it.
Renaldo Gibson, 21, a computer technician from Decatur,
Ga., was sworn into the Army the day after.
"I felt like I had to step up," he says. "I thought about
the danger. But what's danger when your own country gets attacked? That took
all the fear away."
Hard, duty-bound language from young men either
those contemplating enlistment or facing the draft was not uncommon this
week. But still the concept of being plucked out of routine and thrust into
the military, once such a familiar risk for boomers when they were college-age,
is an alien notion for their children.
"It's always been like stuff you read in history books,"
says Chris Hale, 19, of Denver, a freshman at New York University, "stuff that
you don't really consider is going to happen in your lifetime."
'What if I've got to go to war?'
On his campus, 20 blocks north of Ground Zero, some students
nervously kidded one another about being physically up to the military if there
were a draft. Others slipped into serious discussion about personal responsibility
and the obligations of service.
"We're not even used to thinking about 'What if I've got
to go to war,'" says Apurva Mehrotra, 21, a senior who, at his mother's urging,
shaved off his beard Monday morning as a safety precaution so that his Indian
features would not be mistaken for Middle Eastern.
"God, just the idea of it is kind of frightening," says
Evin Watson, 19, an NYU junior whose home is Washington, D.C. He said he would
accept the draft if it came, but believes it is a remote possibility.
"It would make it easier, but no less frightening, if they're
asking me to risk my life when the two cities I call home have been subjected
to violence," he says.
Tuesday, freshman Tyler Costin got a telephone call on
his cellphone from his mother back in Northern California, reminding him to
register. He turned 18 two weeks ago. And Matthew Santo, 21, a junior, has even
come to a decision on how to act should the draft return he would enlist,
rather than be conscripted, to preserve his choice of service and assignment.
"I've started thinking about it a great deal," he says.
"I think more than anything else, everyone here has felt powerless to do anything.
I mean, even volunteering (in disaster relief), we've been turned away. If asked
to do this, it seems like it would be the first way that we could actually help."
He has discussed it by phone with his father, Berge Santo,
56, a retiree living in Boca Raton, Fla.
Like some other parents, the elder Santo concedes that
if someone must change his life for the good of the country by being drafted,
he prefers that it be someone else's child and not his.
"I wouldn't want him to be drafted," he says. "But I certainly
wouldn't try to do anything to stop it. I think we have to pay for the liberty
we have."
In a USA TODAY/CNN poll over the weekend, nearly 80% of
Americans said they would support military action, even if it required the draft.
Many of those interviewed saw the likelihood as remote. But for those who have
draft-age sons and were pressed about their opinions, the issue was difficult
to reconcile.
Barbara Benson, 56, of New Castle, Pa., has three boys;
the youngest, 18-year-old James, is a student at Dana School of Music at Youngstown
State University in Ohio. She cannot bring herself to oppose a draft, if it
becomes necessary.
"What right do I have to say that my son shouldn't have
to go, but somebody else's should?" she says.
Pamela Boyd, 56, of Olympia, Wash. is the mother of two
sons, ages 24 and 17.
"I feel tremendous anger at the terrorists that
they've pushed us into this position. They've turned our lives upside down and
placed our own children maybe at risk," she says.
She did not oppose the Vietnam War, nor the draft then
and the possibility of it now.
"I'd support it. But I'd also be afraid for my own son.
I mean, that's the reality. I hope it doesn't come to that."
With her younger son approaching the age of registration,
she finds herself assessing the draft as cruelly weighted against men. Young
women and their parents need not wrestle with these issues, she says.
"I'm very aware that he's 17," she says of her younger
son. "I know he's not of age yet. But he's getting there. This is when I think
it's hard to be the mother of sons and not daughters. I would sacrifice myself
before one of my sons. It's just the thing you love the most. Nothing else matters
besides your children. Nothing."
Contributing: Andrea Stone


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Annabel Lyon takes the Magic 8
The author of The Golden Mean and the just-released The Sweet Girl tackles questions from the Canadian literati on glass houses, and the day job that's helped her writing the most.
1. Shyam Selvadurai asks, "What is the hardest thing about being a writer?"
It's not that hard to be a Canadian writer. If I were a writer in Afghanistan or North Korea, I might find things to complain about.
2. Helen Humphreys asks, "If you weren't a writer, what would you be, and why?"
A university professor, because I could still have a life built around books.
3. Peter Robinson asks, "How important is the sense of place in your work?"
Not super important. When I use an urban setting it's usually Vancouver because that's what I know, but I'm not a big landscape-describer.
4. Sharon Butala asks, "Do you know how the heck we separate the writer-self from the writer's life, that is, the writing from the writer's person?"
I think we file this one under "glass houses: people living therein not throwing stones." No?
5. Helen Humphreys asks, "What is the best piece of advice about writing that you have ever received?"
Treat it like a job. You work on days you feel like it; you work on days you don't. Real adults don't procrastinate.
6. Timothy Taylor asks, "No seriously: how important have your other work choices—i.e. the things you've done to make money—been to your literary writing?"
Teaching writing has been important to my literary work. I believe strongly in the value of making writing a conscious process. You should know what your tools are, and how to use them well.
7. Drew Hayden Taylor asks, "Do you think you or your books would have been successful, say... fifty or a hundred years ago? Or has the style of writing changed too much in the passing decades?"
I have no idea.
8. Greg Hollingshead asks, "Auberon Waugh (by way of Randall Jarrell) has described the novel as a story that has something wrong with it. If you agree, do you think it's because the novel is a difficult literary form to get right or because as a literary form it has something wrong with it? If so, why or what?"
No, I don't agree. Some stories need a lot of time and space to get told. Some don't.
Annabel Lyon's latest novel is The Sweet Girl. Her first novel, The Golden Mean, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award, the Ethel Wilson Prize, and the Commonwealth Prize. Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize, The Golden Mean has been translated into fourteen languages and became a #1 bestseller in Canada. Among Lyon's other work is Oxygen, a short story collection nominated for the Danuta Gleed Award, and The Best Thing for You, a collection of novellas that was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She lives in Vancouver with her partner and two children.
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Cursed Shirts
A girl is choked by her T-shirt. No, not just accidentally smothered, but suffocated ruthlessly by a shirt. And a boy who watched it happen wants to know why.
I picked absently at the hem of my shirt, slowly unraveling yet another thread. Little pieces of string hung from all parts of the shirt, due to all my nervous pulling (At least I didn't bite my nails). I was boredly tugging at it this time, instead of nervously, but either state was bad news for my old and faithful T-shirt. I was glad my garments couldn't complain about being yanked on all the time.
My brother was on stage acting in some stupid musical about a forest nymph or something. When I asked my mom about the nymphs, she looked at me with forced patience and said, "Sweetheart, it's Robin Hood, not the Swan Princess." I was about to tell her the Swan Princess had absolutely zero things to do with nymphs when she told me to be quiet, because my brother was coming onstage. I sighed dramatically, took a five second look at the stage, and then resumed tugging on my shirt with new-found zeal. That's when I noticed the threads weren't in the right place.
It probably wouldn't have bothered anyone else, but I was fairly meticulous. I had lined them all up neatly so I could judge their lengths, and when I looked down, they were tangled together and looked almost braided. Weird, I thought, and made them all straight again. I looked up for a moment because someone had coughed loudly in my ear. After giving a nice glare back at them, I looked down to finish lining the strings up. They were all tangled together, again.
That's when the shirt began to feel tight and itchy, something this T-shirt had never felt like before. I squirmed in place and tugged lightly on the shirt, thinking it was caught around my waist. It didn't loosen, in fact, as I wriggled, it seemed to grow tighter. I breathed in, and my breath got stuck there because the shirt was so tight. Oh dam oh my- I was afraid now, wondering if someone was pulling a prank on me, or maybe that God or someone was mad because I wasn't watching my brother's dumb play. I tried to tear the shirt off, but to no avail.
People began to notice, and the cute guy who had been sitting to my right scooted away in a very indiscreet way. Jerk, I thought. My mom turned to me with a glare on her face, prepared to tell me to sit still, surely. But when she saw my face, she said, "Sweetheart, are you okay?" I must look bad.
"No..My shirt got all tight and I-" I stopped because I couldn't breath. That's when I really started to panic. "Get it off!" I managed to scream with the air that was left. Everyone's heads snapped right down to where I was, and if the circumstances were different, the synchronized way in which they did it would have made me laugh. Now, however, I was fighting for breath. My mom had turned to me, trying to help me somehow, but like a snake wrapping around a mouse, the shirt held on tight.
"Call 911! She can't breath!" Someone screamed, possibly my mother, and all the music of the play crashed to a halt. I tried to tell them it was the shirt, and they only had to get it off, but I couldn't speak, and who had ever heard of a killer T-shirt? They were all trying to use techniques like chest compressions, and some guy said I might have a collapsed lung. Maybe I did, and I was hallucinating about the shirt because my brain wasn't getting enough oxygen. Somewhere deep inside, though, I knew my favorite old T-shirt was trying to kill me.
I was raggedly trying to suck in air now, wheezing, going into survival mode where nothing matters except living. My brother's face swam before me, and I thought it was sort of funny that he was dressed like a nymph, and then I was wildly trying to breath again. Anything for air, anything. I prayed and prayed that someone would just get rid of the shirt, but they all seemed focused on getting me breathing, not taking out the source. My eyes rolled back in my head, and I heard myself from far away, gasping and choking. The cute boy was talking, saying, "Someone get her shirt off! It's like, squeezing her!" I didn't think they heard him.
Someone started mouth-to-mouth, and it was painful when the air hit my lungs. They were being crushed by the shirt, and giving me mouth-to-mouth was only torturing me, prolonging my death. I screamed loudly and almost incomprehensibly, "It's the shirt!" With that last breath, and blacked out.


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|Reviews for You Gave Me A Scare
| Guest chapter 1 . 11/24/2015
I love it! Kyaaa!
| MartySmarty1111 chapter 1 . 5/26/2013
OMG lovely great story i adore it hehe :D
| gojyo-lover20 chapter 1 . 10/9/2011
this was sweet~
| fujikawaii10346 chapter 1 . 8/30/2009
KYA! *ahem... regains sanity* uh... KYA! sorry, i had to let that out... I LOVE THIS STORY! omg... sorry, total fangirl moment there... hehe... but you can't blame me! i'm a total yukimura fangirl! go you! keep writing!
| lokica chapter 1 . 2/26/2009
OMG Candy explosion!
This was so cute, fluffy and yet a tad bit dramatic (to me at least). I really really liked it! Nothing like good sana/yuki, and don't worry about mixing "you's" and "he's", it just added the charm (-)V
| Wanderer-Brown-Sheep chapter 1 . 2/9/2009
I like the way you told the story, it flowed perfectly well.
| elreen chapter 1 . 5/31/2008
so sweet!
| vierblith chapter 1 . 8/14/2007
wootness! (wow! I'm expanding my horizon! I'm reading something that's not TezuFuji. hurrah for me, ne? _)
Don't worry, dear, it's not too confusing. But, well, the thoughts were rather disjoint. But that's okay. hearts you for writing this fic. -hearts!-
| Animestar73 chapter 1 . 7/12/2007
*floats on marshmellow* so cute! I had a gaint grin on my face!
| ketchupblood chapter 1 . 6/21/2007
I love you. You've written my two favorite pairings now.
| MysticTenshi chapter 1 . 6/21/2007
excellent except for the slight change in viewpoints but even that was hardly noticeable i was so caught up in the story.
| The Blue Penguin chapter 1 . 6/20/2007
It's really very cute and very sweet! Wai! Fluff! SanaYuki fluff! It made me so happy today! I really needed this because I was sad a while ago, but after reading it, I feel warm and fuzzy all over!
I know what you mean about the POVs. But I'm sure with practice, you'll be able to reduce the shifting, ne? Great job Kana-san!
| c00kiesNm1lk chapter 1 . 6/20/2007
aw...that was really sweet. you did a good job for your first time writing a Sanada/Yukimura fiction. i hope you write more!
| Elves of the Moon chapter 1 . 6/19/2007
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So far, our homeowners is reasonable. Of course USAA is a company
that gets high marks and has a restricted subscriber-ship. And I live
in an area that, aside from the occasional tornado (given we live
high enough to preclude flood) has little other in the way of
catastrophe. Of course if the New Madrid fault decides to act up.....
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On Dec 28, 2007, at 6:21 PM, james singer wrote:
> Probably should explain a bit: The quote we got--provided the tree
> is removed and a couple of others are trimmed--is for $1,522. Of
> that, a tad under $600 is for the traditional homeowners stuff
> [fire, theft, liability] and a tad more than $900 is for "wind",
> i.e. hurricane, insurance. The wind insurance is through a huge
> mutual run by the state. Since most commercial insurance companies
> refuse to act like insurance companies--that is, take on the risks
> inherent in insurance--the state has stepped in with this socialist-
> communist program to insure its citizens against loss from wind
> damage. Now, it turns out that some, maybe all, commercial
> insurance companies will "write" wind coverage--but they don't
> really write it, they sell it to their clients and reinsure it
> through the state program, adding a management fee, of course.
> On Dec 28, 2007, at 6:50 PM, Kitty wrote:
>> Holy Moly!
>> My homeowners policy is $477 per year. I remember being upset
>> several years ago when it jumped 43% after Florida's Hurricane
>> Andrew. I thought they weren't allowed to penalize areas that
>> weren't affected by such disasters to make up their shortfall on
>> areas that experienced them. But from what you've quoted, I feel
>> I'm doing ok, premium-wise.
>> Indiana's been having near-riots lately over increases in property
>> tax assessments. To calm folks down, they've issued a refund. I
>> got my check the other day.
>> Kitty
>> neIN, Zone 5
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>>> A time ago I reported I'd found a couple of ripe sugar apples on
>>> our trees--not quite the same as sugar plums, but a nice yuletide
>>> present nonetheless.
>>> Today, I had a tree guy out to give me a price for removing our
>>> big Hong-Kong orchid tree--we need to get a new homeowner's
>>> policy and the tree's too close to the house, sayth the inspector-
>>> agent person. And while I was escorting the tree guy around, I
>>> noticed five more sugar apples ready to pick.
>>> This business with the homeowner's insurance has really put my
>>> nickers in a knot. State Farm raised our premium from less than
>>> $1,500 per year to nearly $4,500 per year--need I add that we've
>>> had a homeowner's policy with them for 20+ plus years without a
>>> claim of any kind?
>>> Anyway, we've located a policy that will cost a tad less than did
>>> SF last year, but the orchid tree's gotta go. Oh, well. But, I
>>> suppose, finding the apples means it's not a complete loss.
>>> We originally planted the orchid tree, which we raised from seed,
>>> to be a wind buffer on that side of the house. Since then, we
>>> planted a black sapote 20-25 feet farther out. The sapote is now
>>> big enough to take over the wind buffer role, and another 20-25
>>> feet beyond the black sapote, are the bismarck palm twins--and
>>> they are really getting big and gorgeous--argent, the color of
>>> moonlight.
>>> Happy New Year all.
>>> Island Jim
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Flint high schoolers start the new school year with a handshake By Steve Carmody • Sep 8, 2015 Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio It's the first day of school in much of Michigan. Dozens of men stood in the rain at the entrance to Flint's Northwestern High School greeting students as they stepped off the bus. From politicians to pastors, the men shook the students' hands and wished them "good morning". School officials fear proposed "early warning" for troubled schools may hurt more than help By Steve Carmody • Dec 10, 2014 Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio School officials are worried about the Legislature's latest plan to help financially troubled school districts. The state House Financial Liability Reform committee is expected to take up seven bills on Thursday that would create an early warning system to identify financially troubled schools. The bills would require enhanced deficit elimination plans and increase the cap on emergency loans to school districts. New scam targets Michigan schools with fake bills for "Common Core" materials By Sarah Alvarez • Sep 10, 2014 Images Money / Creative Commons http://michrad.io/1LXrdJM Here's how the scam works: A Michigan school might get a fake bill for new "Common Core standards aligned" language arts materials. The bill isn't huge; it's always been reported as $647.50, so it might slip under a school's radar. Lisa Dilg works at the Eastern Michigan Better Business Bureau. She says the other reason the scam might work is because the fake invoices closely resemble invoices from a known education materials supplier. Student demand change to Michigan school 'zero tolerance' policies By Steve Carmody • Apr 23, 2014 Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio Dozens of high school students have completed a trek from Detroit to Lansing to highlight their concern about 'zero tolerance' policies in Michigan schools. The students say violating even minor 'zero tolerance' policies may land them on suspension. MSU: More interest in buying locally grown food By Steve Carmody • May 5, 2013 Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio A new Michigan State University survey finds a growing number of school lunch rooms, hospitals cafeterias and other institutions are interested in filling their pantries with locally grown food. MSU's Center for Regional Food Systems has been asking institutions about whether they buy locally grown fruits, vegetables and other food staples since 2004. Center director Michael Hamm says the number of school cafeterias buying local has tripled in the last decade. But he says there's only so much more local farmers can produce now. Michigan schools mull Pledge of Allegiance, US flag bills By The Associated Press • Sep 15, 2012 Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio LANSING, Mich. (AP) - The time-honored tradition of students reciting the Pledge of Allegiance soon could be enshrined into Michigan law - along with a requirement that every public school classroom have a U.S. flag. 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A Michigan school district considers banning two books By Jennifer Guerra • Jan 17, 2012 user mconnors / morgueFile Two award-winning novels are at the center of a book-banning effort in the Plymouth-Canton school district. One of the books up for review is Toni Morrison's Beloved, a story about slavery, rape and the effects of trauma. Meredith Yancy, 16, is reading the book in her Advanced Placement English Literature class at Salem High School. She says she didn't have a problem with the book's mature content. Bill to allow more charter schools in Michigan stalls in Republican-led House By Jennifer Guerra • Dec 13, 2011 user jdurham / morgueFile Michigan's Republican-led Senate has passed a measure that removes the 150-school cap on university-sponsored charters. The bill is now stalled in the House. The way the current cap works: If a charter is considered "high performing," it is re-labeled a School of Excellence, and removed from the cap, which leaves a vacancy for a new university-sponsored charter school to fill. Schools can get $500 "bus grants" for arts and culture field trips By Jennifer Guerra • Dec 12, 2011 Photo by coopah / morgueFile Teachers across the state can now apply for grants to help cover transportation costs for field trips. The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs is providing schools with Arts & Culture Trek grants worth $500 to help cover transportation costs. Stacey Lind is with the Michigan Youth Arts, the group that'll be distributing the grants. She said there's an approved list of all organizations on their website, which includes "museums, orchestras, performing arts centers, dance organizations, [and] the Detroit Zoo." Lind said extracurricular activities like field trips are often the first things to go when a school is trying to cut costs: "Some students never go to the symphony; some students never get to see a live dance performance," said Lind. "These transportation grants provide an opportunity for those students to actually be able to see and experience things they might never be exposed to in school." About 100 grants are available, though Lind says more could be on the way. Each school can qualify for one$500 grant. Applications are available now through January 16 for field trips between March and May of 2012. Education for Michigan kids: Their future, and ours By Jack Lessenberry • Nov 17, 2011 The other day I was on a panel with Nolan Finley, the editorial page editor of the Detroit News, talking about Michigan's future. We've done this a couple of times recently. I think some of the people who show up are looking for some sort of liberal-conservative food fight, and go away surprised that we are in as much agreement as we are over a lot of issues. Oh, there is a lot we disagree on. Students sent home after possible school threat By The Associated Press • Oct 3, 2011 CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Students were being sent home early at Plymouth-Canton Community Schools' high schools after police say a note containing a possible threat was found. Police in Wayne County's Canton Township said in a statement that a "note indicating possible retaliation" was found before the start of classes at the suburban Detroit high school complex. Details of the note containing the "possible threat" weren't released by police. Police say the high schools went into semi-lockdown and students were being sent home out of an abundance of caution. An investigation was under way. The district announced the early dismissal for students at the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park on its website. School supplies not required, but encouraged By Lester Graham • Sep 6, 2011 Lester Graham / Michigan Radio For most Michigan kids, today is the first day back to school. And many are taking backpacks full of school supplies. They are not required to take school supplies. By state law the public schools are to supply everything students need for class. When you add it all up, the new school clothes, gym shoes, and all those binders, crayons, paper, pens and pencils, back-to-school shopping is big business. "It's really become probably the second biggest shopping period of the year, right behind Christmas." That's Tom Scott with Michigan Retailers Association. One national estimate puts back-to-school shopping at about 16 percent of retail business in a year. It's difficult to separate just how much of that is actual school supplies and not clothes or computers. The school districts always put out a long list of things kids might need for school and parents start hunting. U.S. Sec of Education Duncan to visit Detroit on Thursday By Jennifer Guerra • Sep 5, 2011 U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will make an appearance in Detroit this week, just days after a visit from President Obama. It's part of a three-day "Education and the Economy" tour Secretary Duncan is taking through the Midwest. Web site will give parents school info By Sarah Hulett • Aug 14, 2011 midnight_peace89 / flickr A new state Web site goes live tomorrow that will give parents better access to information about Michigan schools. The Web site, mischooldata.org, will compile data that parents used to have to hunt for in different places. Tom Howell of the Center for Educational Performance and Information says eventually there will be more information available – like graduation rates, and how well high schools are preparing students: Teachers' union is trying to change the direction of the legislature's push to alter tenure laws By Steve Carmody • Jun 28, 2011 (photo by Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio) The state Senate may soon consider bills to make it easier to fire veteran teachers. The state House has already passed the bills. House bill may make student achievement a big part of teacher evaluations By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jun 23, 2011 Tim Melton / Tim Melton All teachers in Michigan may be evaluated based on the success of their students. That's the goal of legislation introduced by state representative Tim Melton this week. He wants student achievement to be 50 percent of a teacher's annual evaluation. School health clinics in Michigan to get a boost By Lindsey Smith • May 27, 2011 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Health clinics based inside 3 Grand Rapids high schools will get $2.6 million over the next five years. Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids Schools, and the Michigan Department of Community Health pay for the program. The state is expected to announce grants for other school clinic programs soon. Lisa Lowery is a primary care doctor at Spectrum Health. She shows off the health clinic's laboratory, patient rooms, and the dental clinic. A high school senior getting his teeth cleaned gives us a thumbs up. "It's just not 'oh here's an ice pack' cause you hurt your knee." School cuts likley as budget rolls through Legislature By Laura Weber • May 25, 2011 Lester Graham / Michigan Radio The Michigan Senate handed a complete state spending plan over to the state House today. That leaves just a couple more steps before the budget bills go to Governor Rick Snyder for his approval. The arguments on both sides of the aisle in the Legislature have been cyclical in recent weeks; Republicans have offered up departmental spending plans with deep cuts, and Democrats have said the cuts help businesses and hurt working poor families and children. When talking about the K-12 schools budget, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer said: "Amidst a long day of voting on bad budgets, we find ourselves looking at the absolute worst of the worst." The K-12 schools budget makes additional cuts in per-pupil funding with the possibility of offsetting those cuts by consolidating services and by encouraging other Republican-proposed "best practices." Overall the complaints of Democrats have had little impact on the budget process. The party lacks enough votes to get in the way of a budget that has thus-far rolled quickly through the Republican-controlled Legislature. It appears any debate on this budget will be over by early next week. Michigan lawmakers seek compromise on next budget By The Associated Press • May 18, 2011 LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan lawmakers may be closing in on a compromise plan related to education spending. Republican Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville said Wednesday negotiators are working on a proposal that would lessen the projected cuts to K-12 school funding. Gov. Rick Snyder in February proposed cutting per-student funding by an additional $300 in the next budget year. The developing revised plan would provide $100 per student to all districts to offset or restore part of that cut. The cut could be reduced by another $100 per student if districts adopt so-called "best financial practices." The proposal would cut university funding by 15 percent and community college funding by 4 percent. Richardville stressed negotiators are still working toward the possible agreement. Talks are continuing between Senate, House and Snyder administration leaders. State House Education committee passes bill to 'decertify' teachers' unions that authorize strikes By Steve Carmody • Apr 27, 2011 (photo by Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio) The state House Education committee has approved a bill that would decertify a teachers' union if the teachers vote to go on strike. Individual teachers could also be fined or fired under the legislation. It's illegal for teachers to strike in Michigan. Doug Pratt is with the Michigan Education Association. He says state lawmakers want to silence teachers. Governor Snyder: Move education system into one built for technological age By Mark Brush • Apr 27, 2011 michigan/gov In a speech at the United Way for Southeastern Michigan's office in Detroit this morning, Governor Snyder laid out his plans for reforming Michigan's education system. It's a system that Snyder said needs to be transformed from one "still rooted in the days of a mostly farm-based society to one that prepares students for the technological age of today and jobs of tomorrow." Snyder says the need for reform is clear. In a message to the state legislature that outlined his broad plans, he noted the following statistics: A total of 238 Michigan high schools have zero college-ready students based on the spring 2010 ACT test Only 16% of all students statewide are college-ready based on the ACT taken in spring 2010 as a part of the MME Fewer than 50% of students are proficient in writing based on fall 2010 MEAP data in grades 4 and 7 and spring 2010 Michigan Merit Examination (MME) data for grade 11 Michigan ranks 21st in the country in total current expenditures per-pupil, yet it ranks 39th in the nation when it comes to fourth grade math proficiency and 34th in reading proficiency Here's a summary of Snyder's education plan: Snyder calls for lifting school rules By Rick Pluta • Apr 25, 2011 Governor Rick Snyder offered some hints as to what his soon-to-be unveiled education reform plan will look like. The governor addressed an education conference in East Lansing today. Governor Snyder says student test scores are both "startling and scary," and that Michigan is falling behind the country and the world in preparing young people for life after school: "We need to do better and that's something we need to focus on and we will," said Snyder. The governor says he wants to relax school regulations s to give teachers and principals more freedom and responsibility over educational decisions. And then he says the state will measure what happens: "We need to put much more focus on proficiency, on growth, on measurements and results than we have had in the past," he said. "It's about really delivering results for these kids. The whole system has to be geared to say, 'how do we make sure each and every child in our system gets a good year's education each and every year?' Think about all the great talent, all the great resources that we have in our system, yet we're not achieving the results that we have to achieve." The governor also says he wants to do more to keep gifted teachers in classrooms instead of promoting them into administrative positions. The governor says he envisions an education system that starts with pre-school and continues past college. The governor will roll out his education reform agenda on Wednesday in Detroit. Democrats: Don't tap School Aid Fund to balance budget By Rick Pluta • Apr 25, 2011 Sarah Hulett / Michigan Radio It appears Michigan may be in for a revenue windfall of about $500 million dollars more than it was expected to take in this year. The state Senate Democratic leader says Governor Rick Snyder and the Legislature should use that money to avert cuts to schools. The state Senate Democratic leader is calling for protections in the Michigan Constitution against using the School Aid Fund for any purpose other than K-through-12 education. Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer says she's looking for any way she can to avert school aid cuts as high as $470 per student. MSU finds one of its education professors guilty of plagiarizing By Jennifer Guerra • Apr 19, 2011 Jane M Sawyer / morgue file Michigan State University has found one of its education professors guilty of plagiarism in a 2010 report about school consolidation. The Booth newspaper chain commissioned MSU professor Sharif Shakrani to do a study about school consolidation. Shakrani's study found Michigan could save more than $600 million by consolidating school districts. Educators developing "next generation" of tests for Michigan students By Jennifer Guerra • Apr 13, 2011 jdurham / morgueFILE Education professionals from around the country met in Louisiana this week to talk about the "next generation" of student assessment tests. More than 30 states – including Michigan – are part the Smarter Balanced Assessment Coalition, which received $176 million from the federal government to develop these new tests. The online English and Math tests will be rolled out in 2014. The state will still use the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) and Michigan Merit Examination (MME) to test students in science and social studies, as well as students with cognitive disabilities. Joseph Martineau is with the Michigan Department of Education and was the the National Council on Measurement in Education conference in Louisiana. He says the new tests will not just be "end-of-year" high stakes tests. He says there will also be "interim assessments throughout the year so that people can track the progress of their students." Martineau calls the tests "game changers" because of their focus on higher-order thinking skills: "Things like analyzing data or synthesizing something to create an argument, or doing a project that requires you to do some problem solving while you're doing the task. Things like that that are typically costly for us to create on a test." The new tests will be for Michigan students in third through eighth grade, and eleventh grade. Pilot testing will begin in 2012. Pages1 2 next › last »


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