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Anyone used these? If so, did you use them alone or with something else? I just ordered the set and am really intrigued, but was looking for reviews.
What about using LOF as spine and supplementing with math mammoth blue series?
We've read Apples and my boys love Fred. Judging by this one I would not say that it could be a stand alone curriculum, but a fun way to introduce concepts and why they work. They are also full of snatches of other interesting info that may or may not be related to math. My boys are well beyond Apples, but are very interested in reading the rest of the series, and I am sure they would eventually find their level if we did. I wish I could afford the whole set. We are wondering if the original series is more complete in its instruction as I think my older son would especially like them. He's not a strong Math student at this point. We have just swtiched to math mammoth, so I hope that will change. We were using MM light blue series. Good program – worked very well — for my younger especially, but I think my older son will benifit much more from the multi-sensory approach.
Actually my LOF order just arrived this afternoon. I only ordered 2 days ago!
I ordered the elementary set, the Fractions book and the Decimals and Percents book. In my very quick glance, I'd agree it would be hard to be a stand alone, but I think if I added the dark blue Math Mammoth to it, that might work.
DS8 has been using Math Mammoth light blue for 2 years now. He likes it fine and does well. I could just add LOF to his daily reading and have him work the problems for each chapter as a bonus to help with the why. Hmmm, I'll have to noodle on that one.
For DD11, she will be using Systmatic Math, module 6 for next year, but i'm going to have her work through the LOF Fractions and the LOF Decimals and Percents books, too. She is highly visual and the story will appeal to her. I'm not sure how to put the two programs together the best way just yet. More to think on.
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Life of Fred has been an answer to prayer for our family. We currently have the complete Elementary set, Fractions, Decimals and Percents, Beginning Algebra and Advanced Algebra in our personal library. My 10 year old son is begging me to skip ahead and purchase Calculus so that he can read the beginning of Fred's story. :0) Three of my children are using it as a stand alone Math, while my mathematically challenged 13 year old son is reading thru the elementary series as he completes MUS Delta. My 16 yo son is completing the Algebra books and I am AMAZED at his understanding. For my younger students, we do make flash cards to correspond with the math facts presented in the elementary books. We also use a Judy clock with moveable hands during the "telling time" lessons, and actual coins during lessons involving money. My just turned 6 year old daughter is finishing Math U See Primer, and I plan to start her in Apples. If I sense any difficulties in understanding, I plan to have her work MUS: Alpha alongside LOF. I guess it can be said we use it both as a stand alone AND with something else. :0) I know that when I first researched the books I planned to use them alongside MUS, but for us it has morphed into LOF being our primary math curriculum. Life of Fred really does teach the "why"!
Alana, we use Math U See and like it fine, but I like the idea/reviews of LOF, but am not sure about the topics and when they cover them? I looked at the LOF website and the table of contents for each book seems so overwhelming. Are they full of challenging concepts, or just use harder names to describe what they are doing? I also couldn't tell which book had which topics because of the funny names: for example: Whole Numbers, Cardinal Numbers, Trillion, Quadrillion and Quintillion, Sexagesimal and Decimal Systems, Square Feet. Those were in the pretty early elementary books, so maybe I don't know what age you start them in these books? Thanks so much!
Alana, thanks for your perspective. I really think LOF will be a good fit for us, too. My ds8 is very math-minded and it may be enough for him on its own. DD11 struggles in math a bit and will likely need a bit more, but LOF will really engage her.
Right now, because of life situations, I have my 10 year old and 7 year old, doing LOF – stand alone. I can't say it's really enough but they are learning and enjoying math. (This has never happened.) In fact, my 10 yr old son fell asleep with his LOF book last night. He loves it. Eventually, we will add other math back in. But for now it's giving them a good attitude about math.
Hi, we have worked through Apples and are almost done with Butterflies. I plan to continue the whole series. My 5 year old is doing them along with Miquon Math. These work really well together. The Miquon gives her the hands-on, concrete demonstration of the math and the LOF gives her the verbal explanations to go along with it. Looking back, I wish I had been able to do this combo with my other kids. I think it is ideal for early elementary. My other kids, aged 7, 10, and 11 use Strayer-Upton math and are all at different spots in the first book. I am having them go through LOF even though they are beyond most of the concepts, simply because they enjoy the books and I think he gets the kids to think mathematically. The Strayer-Upton books are very inexpensive and you could definitely pull from them to supplement the Fred lessons. For example, if they need more work on their 2's times tables, you would teach that section from the Strayer Upton and have them do some of the problems. We have also thrown in the Simply Charlotte Mason pet store math for good measure, and because my kids think it's really fun.
The elementary series is meant to be read by the parent to the child. I don't think you would get nearly the effect that you should if you have the child read them alone. Discussing the question and answers at the end of the chapter and possing other similar questions would help you to evaluate understanding and ability is important.
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The books are impressive and filled with a LOT more information that just math facts. However, the online descriptions DO, at times, use harder names to describe what the child is learning in the books. :0) I have even learned things while reading the elementary books. :0) As far as the age of the child, I feel confident that my 6 year old will have no problem with them, but I will add hands on manipulatives. I read the books to my dyslexic 9 year old son who is still learning to read. Although he still writes some of the numerals the wrong way, he has no problem enjoying or understanding the books. I am having my 10 year old son work quickly thru the elementary books up to Fractions. He is reading the books and writing the answers on paper, as is my 13 year old. My 16 year old will read any Fred book that comes in the door…oh, and so do I. :0) The author did not intend for the books to need a supplement, but that's the joy of homeschooling… customizing books to fit the needs of your family. Is all that as clear as mud? :0)
We have just started in to these this past week and {heart} them! DS7 is doing Apples, DD10 is doing Edgewood. I can see these being a brilliant addition to out Teaching Textbooks. It is too early to say if they would become a spine. I agree with reading them aloud and doing it together though. A fun learning time together.
We are also using Miquon and Fred. I haven't figured out the best way to combine them though. Suggestions? Right now I am waiting til my daughter completes one workbook then we'll work through one Fred book. I tried some other combinations before using Miquon and just couldn't come up with a good plan. Using Fred only once per week seems to interfere a little with the story line, but I like a little more practice between each chapter. Would love to hear your "schedule."
Thank you Alana:) So it sounds like these usually need a little supplementing, so I'm wishing I hadn't even looked at them since we already use MUS and the budget is fine the way it is:) It sounds like what everyone is saying though is that kids should read all of them, even if they are too easy, just to get used to the style before jumping into fractions. Thanks ladies
I would love to tell you that I have a great plan integrating the two curricula, but the truth is that I don't. We do one chapter of Fred per day, along with one or two pages of Miquon. We were about halfway through the Miquon Orange book when we started Apples. Right now we are almost done with Orange and we are on chapter 11 of Butterflies. So far it has worked out well. I realize I may have to tweak in the future, but for now, my daughter is connecting all of the concepts in her mind.
You do not need to read the elementary series to be able to jump into fractions, unless that is the only elementary math you are doing. However, they are interesting reads and do teach the concepts. We've enjoyed Apples and would love to read all the rest, but financially I can't justify the cost. The older LoF series (fractions and so forth) are the original series and have been available for several years. I am thinking of using them in the future for my oldest who is a Fred Fan, but we've only just started MUS for the first time (he's fast tracking through the first half of Gamma until we find where the challenge is going to start for him) so we're going to see how MUS works for him first.
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I did say I was trying to clarify my ideas.
And, like all learners (yes, even you), I have to go thru a learning phase.
Life, Perl and REST are all topics to be learned.
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If I get things wrong, it doesn't matter. What matters is whether or not I get feedback in a form which helps me correct my misunderstandings.
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Another biochemical study on aging makes the long life spans recorded in Genesis 5 and 11 scientifically plausible. Researchers demonstrated that the adverse effects of aging on the immune system can be delayed by caloric restriction. Such a measure has been known to dramatically extend the life expectancy of model laboratory organisms due to the mediation by the sirtuin family of enzymes. It appears that indirectly affecting the activity of these enzymes delays aging in primates. If scientists can significantly influence life spans by simple biochemical intervention, it is not unreasonable to think that a Creator could adjust human biochemistry to permit long life spans and then shorten them after the Flood. In light of this study, the long human life spans described in Genesis are scientifically reasonable.
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DutchAmsterdam.nl, Jan. 7, 2013 — British warehouse Marks & Spencer is returning to Amsterdam and will once again set up shop in the Kalverstraat, one of Amsterdam's busiest shopping streets.
Update, November 8, 2016: Yes, you heard it right: M&S is closing its store in the Kalverstraat — reportedly by September, 2017. No, we don't expect the chain to open up another store anywhere in the Netherlands any time soon. Nothing to do with Brexit, by the way. What then? We don't know.
All we can say now is 'Goodbye, and thanks for all the clotted cream!"
Update: April 17, 2013: Marks and Spencer's Amsterdam store is now a fact.
The store, located at Kalverstraat 226 [map], opened Wednesday, April 17, 2013.
Marks & Spencer (M&S) itself is mum on the move, but Distrifood — a Dutch trade publication for supermarkets — says the company is opening it's Amsterdam location in early April.
Until 2001 the iconic retailer of 'British Quality Goods' had a store in the same shipping street, as well as in The Hague. But that year a sudden slump in sales in the UK led the company to close its stores on the Continent.
Currently M&S — whose boss, Mark Bolland, is a Dutch national — has stores in 41 countries.
Staffing agency Randstad is recruiting personnel for the company.
Its recruiment material refers to Marks & Spencer's Amsterdam location as a 'Flagship store, with a luxurious ambiance and high standard of service.'
Randstad says the store is a supermarket and an E-boutique for various clothing brands. Aside from a regular assortment of goods the supermarket will also stock luxurious and exclusive products.
In the E-Boutique fashion items will be sold in an innovative way using tablets.
Expats (the wife of Dutch Amsterdam's publisher included) already look forward not just to the clothes, but also to a steady supply of genuine clotted cream (hard to come by in the Netherlands), bangers, streak and kidney pie, and real cheddar cheese.
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Famous Pakistani climber Shaheen Baig has set out to scale Mt. Ama Dablam (6864m) with his Italian companion Elena. He is the first Pakistani who is attempting to scale a mountain in Nepal in autumn season.
Both climbers reportedly spent three days at the base camp, preparing their climbing gears and also to get themselves acclimatized to the environment around the Mt. Ama Dablam. The two climbers set out on the expedition on Oct. 22 and established camp-I the same day.
Shaheen Baig, who succeeded to scale K2 (8611m) during the Golden Jubilee celebration year of K2 in 2004, has also scaled G-II (8035m) in 2001. He has been a part of several challenging expeditions, including winter attempts of G-I and Broad Peak. It is another challenging expedition to climb nearly 7000m high peak first time in autumn. It is pertinent to mention here that autumn is the a callous time to climb a mountain in Nepal because the weather becomes extremely unfavorable, making climbing more difficult and challenging.
Shaheen Baig- a mountaineer, mountain guide and climbing instructor- hails from Shimshal valley, known as the valley of climbers in the district of Hunza Nagar in Gilgit Baltistan. He started his mountaineering career in 1995 as a high altitude porter with a Korean expedition.
In 1997, he scaled Muztagh Ata (7546m) with a Japanese team. Shaheen's first expedition to an 8000m peak was with a Japanese team that attempted Gasherbrum II in 2001. He successfully reached the top. Later, Shaheen attempted Broad Peak in 2002 and Nanga Parbat in 2003. In 2004 he scaled K2, the second highest peak of the world.
Shaheen Baig was climbing partner of world renowned climber Simone Moro during the winter expedition of Broad Peak in 2007-08. They achieved the significant height of 7800m. Shaheen also participated in two successful Polish winter expeditions, in 2011/12 (first winter ascent of GI) and 2012/13 (first winter ascent of Broad Peak)
Shaheen Baig and Qudrat Ali established Shimshal Mountaineering School in 2009. Female students of the institute bagged first winter ascent of Mingling Sar (6050m) in 2010/11
Rescue Operation: Shaheen Baig was the first Pakistani to conduct a rescue operation on Lady Finger in Hunza in 1997 to bring back the body of a Japanese climber. He was a member of a Japanese expedition to Passu peak to bring the body of another Japanese climber from camp-II from a height of 5,500m in September 3, 2003. In 2004 he participated in Magic Line Spanish expedition on K-2 to bring the body of a Spanish climber from a height of 6400m.
Awards: Shaheen Baig have received shield for scaling K-2 during Mountain Festival in Islamabad in 2005. He received K2 and Nanga Parbat Golden Jubilee shield from the Alpine Club of Pakistan. He also bagged an achievement Medal from the Aga Sports Board and has been nominated for Pride of Performance Presidential Award.


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Boy Genius Report has received screenshots showing Verizon Wireless' upcoming cell phone plan changes. The new plans will take effect on January 18th. Users have long complained that while Verizon may be the best when it comes to coverage and service, their prices are far from affordable. It seems that this may still hold true, even with the changes coming to their plans.
Below are the pictures taken from BGR. You will notice that Verizon has added a pre-paid service, ranging from $44.99 for 450 minutes of just talk, to $94.99 for unlimited talk and text. The big change is in their data plan pricing. Now, certain phones are required to be activated with a data plan. For $9.99 a 3G enabled multimedia phone (such as the enV3, Alias2, etc.) will get 25MB of data, plus pay-as you go data for $1.99/MB. A 3G enabled smartphone (such as the Droid or BlackBerry) will require a $29.99 unlimited data plan.
Verizon, for some reason, is touting their 30% price drop for their new unlimited talk plan like it's something extraordinary. This plan will run $69.99 for unlimited talk, and $89.99 for unlimited talk and text. Of course, if you want data, it'll still cost you an extra $29.99, making their truly unlimited plan $119.99 a month. This may be cheaper than AT&T's $129.99 plan, but Sprint's $99.99 and T-Mobile's $79.99 plans seem to have been completely ignored by whoever made the final decision about Verizon's price changes.
Verizon says that "these new plan are designed to attract and retain high value customers in the marketplace and recognize the growing popularity of devices with more capabilities than ever before." See for yourself if they will achieve that goal or not...
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UNIVERSITY 'A' retained their division one status after defeating second division runners-up Shepherds 'A' in a thrilling York & District Table Tennis League play-off match.
Andy Fletcher won two points for Shepherds, including an excellent victory over Agoston Hoffmann, but it was Isaac Beevor who led the way for the students, not dropping a game in an unbeaten performance.
Richard Crowther beat Geoff Leafe in a last-game decider as York RI 'A' beat York RI 'J' to lift the Shepherd Trophy.
RI 'J' took a 3-1 lead, but they were pegged back to 3-3 by RI 'A'. The next two were tied to set up the decider.
The man of the match was Mikey Arnold, who won two and a half points for the losers, while Crowther led the way for the winners with two wins.
The Machell Trophy final was also tied at 3-3 before Lewis McCarthy and Ivan Guilliat took the next two for York RI 'F' to take the title 5-3 against Bootham 'D'.
McCarthy was the star man, winning all three of his matches for the winners, while Dave Robinson contributed two wins for Bootham 'D'.
The trophies were presented by Steve Tindall, of sponsors Northern Powergrid.
Meanwhile, Coneysthorpe won the Yorkshire Seniors Club competition in Hull.
The Ryedale side defeated Leeds 6-3 and Dewsbury 5-4, before they beat Hull 5-4 in a pulsating final.
Martin Lowe won seven out of his nine sets, with the two he lost both going to five games.
Ashley Hodgson won five from nine, and 15-year-old James Rule won four from nine.


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Andy Roddick has advanced to the third round at Wimbledon by beating Igor Kunitsyn 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.
Playing on sunny Court 1, the No. 6-seeded Roddick hit 18 aces Thursday and lost serve only once. He'll next play No. 26 Jurgen Melzer.
Roddick, one of only three American men left in the tournament, was runner-up to Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2004-05. Roddick has 65 grass-court wins, second only to Federer among active men.


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We stumbled across an interesting concept of customized engagement ring boxes while surfing the information highway. It's not an uncommon idea, indeed, but the idea of the groom commissioning a ring box in the shape of his other half's movie obsession, Up, is very thoughtful. Furthermore, isn't Up a heart tingling storyline about a match made that somewhat transcended "death do them part"? How apt.
Themodelmaker.net, Michal Miszta, is based in Ireland, and I'll let his wonderful work speak for itself. I also believe there are model makers in Asia, it might be that they haven't received commissions to do ring boxes yet.
Leave your comments on our Facebook post if you wish to share about anybody you know that can do commissioned one-off wedding boxes. On a note closer to home, we recommend Card Blanche in Singapore for customized wedding stationaries. I will also let their very lovely work speak for itself.


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I brewed 5 gallons of Irish Red Ale last week along with 5 gallons of a Belgian Dubbel.
After 8 days in the primary fermenting, I racked them to a secondary for the next few weeks to age gracefully.
We hope to have fine brew to celebrate the birth of our daughter, our 3rd child. We also hope to celebrate Jennifer's and mine birthdays.


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Khloe Kardashian was spotted enjoying a day out with her family yesterday afternoon in Studio City, and wore an interesting outfit choice.
The 27-year-old, who was with sisters Kim and Kourtney and mother Kris Jenner filming scenes for Keeping Up With The Kardashians, looked lovely in a pair of flourescent yellow skinny jeans teamed with a loose aztec-style blouse.
Despite showing off her enviable slim figure, Khloe believed she chose the wrong outfit to wear with tons of paparazzi taking snaps close-up.
"Man camel toe is a bitch... Sneaking up on me like that.... Wowzas. I thought I told you to stay inside today! Bad girl!!!" Khloe wrote on Twitter.
"Note to self: if you are typically prone to a puffy puss... Do NOT wear neon yellow skin tight jeans... Sincerely Khloé."
"Hey what's the point in living if you can't laugh. Right?" she added.
Meanwhile, sister Kourtney lifted her spirits with a cheeky message about her supposed wardrobe malfunction.
"At least u have a pretty puss!" Kourtney wrote.
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Project : Lauras Sampler
designed and stitched by
Laura Ziock
|We have a very special project designed and
stitched by a fellow ANG member committed to sharing her love of
needlepoint with children. This project is more challenging than previous
projects featured on this site, so help from a special person, like mom,
grandmother or a favorite aunt may be helpful.
The sampler will be presented in two parts starting this month. The second half of the instructions for the sampler will be available in two months. You may choose to use the color scheme shown below, or pick your own favorite colors.
Click on sampler to see larger version
1 piece of 18 count eggshell canvas cut to 13"x13" size
2 pairs of 13" stretcher bars
masking tape
brass thumb tacks or staple gun
1 skein Caron Watercolours, color shown is Wildberries
#18 tapestry needle
If you would like to change the colors in the sampler
pick one skein of each of the following types of threads:
Now choose a canvas color that goes with your thread choices, or use eggshell like the sampler above.
Step 1
Each horizontal section of different stitches in the sampler is called a band. The first band is the Bargello Stitch. The second band is the Straight Stitch Flower. The third band is the Waffle Stitch Variation and the Initials and Date. These bands will be covered in this set of directions. The directions for the remaining bands will be presented in an installment in two months.
A stitching length of thread is about 18".
The threads and the number of plies that you will need to use to stitch your sampler:
Tape the edges of the canvas with masking tape to prevent fraying. Using a staple gun, or brass thumb tacks, attach the canvas to the stretcher bars.
Using the tape measure, measure 3 inches down from the top and 3 inches in from the left side of the canvas. Mark this spot somehow, perhaps tying a short length of sewing thread to the canvas here -- this is where you will begin stitching.
Samplers are presented in charts, so you will be learning to read charts. The important information that you will need to understand in order to read a chart is the distance between certain stitches or bands, measured in the number of threads on the canvas, and the length of a stitch, measured in the number of threads long or wide that a stitch covers. As shown in the diagram below, a line on the chart represents one canvas thread on the canvas. This can be either a vertical or a horizontal thread.
Many times you will need to count the distance between bands or between stitches, this concept is illustrated below with the numbers 1 and 2. The distance between the number 1 and the number 2 is 3 canvas threads because there are three horizontal lines between the numbers 1 and 2. At other times you will need to count the length of a stitch on a graph and then stitch that on your canvas. The red line on the graph below represents a stitch that covers 2 canvas threads because there are two horizontal lines between the start of the stitch and the end of the stitch.
Step 2
Bargello Stitch
The first band of stitches is called the Bargello stitch. This stitch lies vertically on the canvas and you will be stitching 4 rows of Bargello, one in each type of thread. The order of threads used are:
Row 1 : Felicitys Garden
Row 2 : Watercolours
Row 3: Silk & Ivory
Row 4 : Spring II
|Starting at the marking point, the blue sewing thread on the chart, begin stitching with Felicitys Garden. Cut a length of your thread. Thread the needle and begin with an away waste knot. As you can see from the chart, the bargello pattern is like a wave and symmetrical about the top middle point. Each stitch is 4 threads high. You will start at the bottom of the wave. Your needle will come up at the hole marked 1 and go down in the hole marked 2. Complete 4 stitches side-by-side then travel up two holes and complete 3 stitches side-by-side. Travel up 2 more threads and complete 2 stitches side-by-side. Again travel up 2 more threads and complete 2 stitches side-by-side. The top of the wave is 3 stitches wide; again travel up 2 stitches to complete the top of the bargello wave. Now you will come down the wave, following the chart. Your stitching will be symmetrical about the center of the wave top.
|Notice from the above picture that you will complete 5 waves, and then
do 4 more stitches as if you would start a 6th wave. These added stitches
balance the bargello pattern for the band.
The second row is stitched in the Watercolours; make sure that the rows are completed without any canvas showing between them as shown on the right. Only a portion of the bargello wave pattern is shown, but you should complete as many patterns as you did for the first row. Remember to go up in the hole marked 1 and down in the hole marked 2. Go up in the hole marked 3 and down in the hole marked 4.
Complete the remaining two rows in a similar manner.
|Step 3
Finding the center of your canvas
Cut an 18" length of your sewing thread and thread your needle. Find the center of the bargello band, the middle stitch of the third wave, as shown on the right.
From this point, stitch a straight line down to the bottom of the canvas, leaving long tails of thread at both ends so that if you accidentally pull on the sewing thread, it will not come all of the way out. You can stitch this line over as many canvas threads as you like, perhaps going over 5 threads and under 5 threads at a time. This is the center line of your canvas and will be important in starting some of the remaining bands.
|Step 4
Straight Stitch Flowers
|Cut a stitching length of your Watercolours thread. Thread the needle as you did before and begin with an away waste knot at least 6 inches away from the flower that you are stitching. You will stop and start your thread new each time you stitch a flower so that you will not be carrying the thread on the back of the canvas between the flowers. If you did run the thread between the flowers you would be able to see it on the front of the canvas, which is undesirable. When you are done stitching a flower, you will end your thread by running it under the flower on the back of the canvas that you just stitched and cutting the thread off. Then you will take your unthreaded needle and cut off the away waste knot that is left on the front of the canvas from the start of your stitching of the flower. Thread the needle from the back of the canvas. Run this thread under the same flower to hold it in place and cut off any excess thread.
|Each flower will be centered under the Bargello wave at its top-most point. As you can see from the illustration below, you will begin stitching at the hole labeled 1 (this hole is 6 threads below the center of the Bargello band above it) and go down in the hole marked A (this hole is 12 threads below the start of your stitching points 1 and 2 and centered between them). Each time you will bring your needle up in a numbered hole and put your needle down in the hole marked A. Follow the pattern shown below and use the picture above for reference, and repeat four more Straight Stitch Flowers under each of the Bargello centers.
|The green lines are used as guide lines for counting distances between stitches on the chart; they are not to be stitched.
|Step 5
Center Waffle Stitch Variation
|As shown in the figure below, the Waffle Stitch Variation is to be started down 3 threads from the center Straight Stitch Flower and left 2 threads from the center of the canvas (previously marked with your sewing thread.) The first thread to be used will be the Silk & Ivory and you are to begin with an away waste knot in the same way you did with the Straight Stitch Flowers. The figure below shows the first set of stitches to be done using the Silk & Ivory.
|The blue dotted line is the center line of the canvas and the green
lines are to be used as guidelines in counting where to begin your
stitching. Bring your needle up at the hole marked 1, and put it down in
the hole marked 2 -- the distance between 1 and 2 is 11 threads down and 16
threads to the right. Continue in this way until you get back to number 8
and then end your thread as before in Step 4.
Next, thread your needle with the Spring II and begin again with an away waste knot. Using the diagram below, complete the stitches numbered 9 through 16. These stitches will lie next to and over your previous stitches.
Again, end your thread in the stitches you just completed on the back of the canvas and then cut off the away waste knot and secure that thread on the back of the canvas in the same way.
Next, thread your needle with the Watercolours and begin again with an away waste knot. Using the diagram below, complete the stitches numbered 17 through 24. These stitches will lie next to and over your previous stitches.
Again, end your thread, securing it on the back of the canvas in the stitches that you just completed and then cut off the away waste knot and secure that thread in the same way.
You will be stitching the Waffle Stitch Variation twice more, the numbers are shown on the diagram above, but the stitched lines are not shown for the sake of clarity. Next, thread your needle with Felicitys Garden and begin again with an away waste knot. Using the diagram above, complete the stitches numbered 25 through 32. These stitches will lie next to and over your previous stitches. End your thread in the same way as before.
Next, thread your needle with the Silk & Ivory again and using the diagram above complete the stitches numbered 32 to 40. Begin and end your thread in the same way as before.
|Step 6
Initials and Date
|The initials and date are done using the Cross Stitch. The Cross Stitch is two diagonal stitches that, when put together, form an X. You will bring your needle up in the hole marked 1 and down in the hole marked 2; then up again in the hole marked 3 and down in the hole marked 4 as shown in the diagram below. Each diagonal stitch is two threads high and two threads wide.
|Thread your needle with a stitching length of Silk & Ivory. Start the initials 8 threads below the first Straight Stitch Flower and 1 thread left of the center of the first flower. Each initial is 5 cross stitches wide and 7 cross stitches high. Shown below are the initials that Laura Ziock used for her sampler.
|Your initials will of course be different. Below is a blank grid so that you can chart your own initials. Use a block lettering form just like the L and Z above. Each letter should be 5 cross stitches wide and 7 cross stitches high. Leave 3 canvas threads between your first initial and your last initial.
|Again thread your needle with a stitching length of Silk & Ivory. Start the date 8 threads below the last Straight Stitch Flower and 1 thread right of the center of that last flower. Each number is 5 cross stitches wide and 7 cross stitches high. Laura used the date of 99 because she stitched her sampler in 1999, however, since this is 2000, the dates to be used will be 00. If you stitch your sampler in another year beyond 2000, then just adjust the numbers in the same way that you charted your initials.
|We will stop here since this is a lot of information to present and understand at one time. Next time we will continue with the rest of the instructions for Lauras Sampler and finish it.


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Managerial Challenges In The Relationship Between Performance And Efficiency
Descendents of the original model based on democracy, transparency and closeness to the client as an associate member and co-owner, cooperative banks contribute to stability and competitiveness of the economic and financial system. This role was stressed by all financial analysts who believe that the cooperative banks have an important and unique role within the banking community trough their capital ownership structure based on the principal of 'one –man, one vote' trough the structure of central organisms and trough guarantee mechanism. Transparency in decision-making and the participation of cooperating members in the daily management of capital is an alternative to the model of anonymous companies.
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Volume (Year): 9 (2009)
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It's been a very long time since I have written the "Thursday thirteen" - my thankful Thursday post. So here goes.
Today I am thankful for:
1. The long conversation I had with my brother, Darryl, today. He is a very cool dude that I don't talk to nearly enough.
2. The telephone message left by my brother, Otis, a pretty cool dude in his own right. I'm sorry I missed his call, but it is an honor to be thought of and called by two of my three brothers. The third lives in the middle eastern country of Qatar, so it's far less likely that he will call me...
3. Time at the library with my daughter. To collect books to read. To sigh over all the books I'll never get to read. To give thanks for the wonder that is the public library. To finish another volume of my journal: one chapter ends. Another begins.
4. An excellent vegetarian meal, prepared and enjoyed with my daughter. My son at soup my mother made a few days ago, and my hubby was not yet home.
5. The seminar I attended this afternoon about estate planning and design. I had no idea there were so many options for how to distribute our estate to our children, to our church, and to other charitable organizations when we pass away. How exciting to know that decisions we make today about our finances can affect people for many generations beyond our own. And it doesn't take a lot of money to make a big difference.
6. Milk chocolate almond clusters from Trader Joe's. Yum! I balance the less-than-ideal milk chocolate with the dark chocolate almond bark. It all evens out in the end - at least, that's what I tell myself.
7. New clothes purchased while in the company of my best friend last weekend. Thanks for the awesome shopping extravaganza, Karen. I hope you are wearing your new stuff every day.
8. Spending a brief amount of time with Karen's family, her parents, her sister, and her very cute and very quiet niece.
9. The half-hour the children and I spent in prayer this morning. Today is the national day of prayer. First we quietly wrote in our journals the names of people and situations (like the war in Iraq) that we wanted to lift before the throne of grace, seeking grace and mercy to help us in our time of need. And if ever there was a time of need in our nation and our world, it is now.
Then we went around in a circle, the three of us, and for nearly TEN MINUTES we named people, friends, politicians, situations, families in need of prayer. Out loud. My children's memories for people's names and needs are amazing. Their compassion runs deep. The tears flowed. Lord, listen to your children praying. Lord, please, have mercy.
10. The children's California Achievement Test results. The outcome of the CAT has served to affirm and confirm our decision to homeschool them. They both did extremely well. I am proud of them and of myself. Together we are learning from each other, about each other, from the world around us, and about the world. The Silvermine Academy Rocks!
11. An ongoing friendship I have with a young man named Daniel Sanchez. I am amazed that a man who will spend most of the next 20 years behind bars is in such high spirits in every letter he sends to me. Today I received a packet of beautiful drawings, each of which wished me a Happy Mother's Day along with eleven pages hand-written and typed communication. He admitted to his crime and was sentenced to more than 20 years for an act that would normally earn less than 10 years. I pray that someway, somehow this young man's unjust sentence will be reduced. May God have mercy on him and his family.
12. The testimony of a friend who was sexually assaulted by two men about three years ago. She told me that in the midst of that horrible act, she felt the presence of God as never before; she said it felt like He was holding her in the palm of His hand. She has since been able to help other women who have gone through similar horrors. No, she would never wish her circumstances on anyone else, but she told me, through tears, that her belief that even the worst of situations eventually work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose would not be as strong as it is if she had not gone through those dark and painful moments and all that has followed. What a story!
13. The beautiful days we have had here in Charlotte of late. The bright sun warms us by day. The full moon brightens our spirits by night. The grass is green. Flowers are in bloom. Trees are casting shadows and swaying in the breeze.
Thanks be to God.


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I have been getting a lot of calls from a number on my cell phone. I know its a telemarketer, so I don't answer anymore. My cell phone number is on the "do not call" list, if that means anything… I guess not.
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The Consumer Ethicist: Stop The Telemarketers!
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Six weeks ago, the Arizona Wildcats entered spring practice with far more questions than answers.
Spring ball is now in the books and the Wildcats have found resolutions to some and are still searching for remedies for others.
"Some of the concerns we had coming in are still concerns in some respects," coach Rich Rodriguez said after Saturday's spring game. "I think we will have a deeper team coming into the fall than last year at this time, particularly on defense."
Before spring practice opened, we gave you the 13 most intriguing storylines. Here are 13 things we know now.
1. Ka'Deem Carey is in good standing. Carey rebounded from a rough December and January and impressed his coaches during spring practice.
Read more in Monday's Arizona Daily Star


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She recommends: "Thirteen Moons" by Charles Frazier (Random House, 2006; 422 pages; $26.95)
Why? William Cooper, a 12-year-old orphan boy living in the Appalachian Mountains, is given a key, a map and a horse. He is then sent out to a wilderness trading post in the Cherokee nation. During his long and interesting life, Will is adopted by a Cherokee elder, becomes a prosperous merchant and a self-taught lawyer, and is eventually elected state senator. At age 90, Cooper reflects on wilderness, first love, Native Americans who fought in the Civil War, the Trail of Tears, Davy Crockett, President Jackson and much more from his seat on his front porch, while taking shots at passenger trains that cross his property. I borrowed this novel a second time on CD — listening to this book is as much of a joy as reading it. If you enjoy adventure and historical fiction, this book is a must-read.
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She recommends: "Legend" by Marie Lu (Putnam; 336 pages; $17.99)
Why? In a time where dystopian novels seem to be running rampant, it is hard to imagine picking up yet another futuristic post-apocalyptic novel, but trust me when I say "Legend" is worth it. Set in North America, a rather dark future awaits — one where a totalitarian government rules with an unyielding grip, plague decimates the poor, and children's futures are limited based on test results, "Legend" follows two teens, one an infamous criminal, the other the government's prize pupil, as they traverse webs of deceit and dangerous assignments in an attempt to survive. This is fast-paced, full of adventure, and just downright fun to read. Perfect for fans of "The Hunger Games."


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the below is the sample that i get from the internet, one thing that i can't find
on the net is that ..if let say i don't want to just hardcode the fileName like sample
below..what command should i use in c# to read and get the file path automatically
without hardcode the filename? the reason is because i want to write a ftp program
using c# to upload file to ftp server, so i want the program to automatic get the
file from the drive and upload, that is why i can't hardcode the filename in
program, appreciate if u have sample sourcecode on this, thx
fileName = @"C:\mypath\myfile.txt"
path = @"C:\mypath\"
result = Path.GetFileName(fileName);
you can use Directory class to get the files
string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(path);
it will return all files under your path. and to get the files name
foreach(var file in files)
filename = Path.GetFileName(file);
My sugesstion if your requirment is to upload a file automatically,
1. you can write a service scheduler to check directory, then upload the files to the ftp server,
2. you can use the FileSystemWatcher class under System.IO. This class will cath any changes of your files and fire an event based on those changes (in your case, you can implement your upload method when a file was created, updated, or changed)
Hope this help.
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My husbands friend and girlfriend are having their first baby boy. I don't remember much of the after delivery due to immediate post pardon depression so what kinds of items did you get. I want to put a nice gift basket together
For baby? Or mom?
a few outfits for the baby.
I didn't get one, but I put one together for my SIL. I gave it to her before she had the baby. It had lotion, chapstick, cozy socks, nursing pads, milk storage bags... I can't remember what else.
no for the mom
sorry about that
We have lots of stuff for baby
if shes BFing n****e cream! LOL I had to send someone to the store for me when I Was in the hospital cause I needed it ! It was something I def didn't think of! I agree with like cozy socks/ and or slippers those were super nice to have! Maybe a giftcard for a food place near to the hospital so SO can grab food? I did not want hospital food at all being in the hospital!
any baby products always come in handy and are gratefully received. Some friends also gave me some toiletries and lotions which was very thoughtful/
I would put yoga pants and a nursing tank top, Chapstick, socks, magazines, and some lotions.
Earth mama angel baby new mama bottom balm and spray
Pajamas. Slippers. Body wash. Lotion. n****e cream if she is breast feeding. Nursing pads. Gift cards for food. Snacks.
You're due on my birthday!!
I never have gotten one but if I did I would want soft socks, a soft lightweight robe, some fabric hair bands, hand lotion and sanitizer, Chapstick, lanisoh cream, breastpads, and probably a cute little keep said box for our hospital bracelets or a picture frame for the "moment of birth" photo.


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.45 Gap
What's your opinion on this ammunition? I'm finding in many places here in Texas folks just aren't stocking up on it as much, is there something I don't know? What's the reason for this?
It is designed as a low recoil option to .45 ACP. It doesn't carry as much energy as .45 ACP and is much less accurate than .45 ACP.
Gaston Glock wanted his name on a cartridge.
It was designed to fit into a smaller frame size.
I shot a demo one at the IDPA nationals and was very pleasantly surprised how nice it was. Not nice enough to get a gun in that caliber because of ammo/brass availibility.
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i disagree with matt g
the ballistics tables shows the 45gap is just a good as an ACP
for ammo - midway usa has several options to order the cartridges!!!!
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This summer, we were faced for the first time with more kids capable of mowing the lawn than we have lawns to mow. Last year, with Teleri and Aerin mowing the lawn, it was pretty easy to simply have them work out who wanted the front yard and who wanted the back. They had distinct preferences so things were pretty smooth. This year, we needed to add Rhys to the mix.
Facing this organizational headache, and the prospects of argument and recriminations, I was struck by inspiration (which is not, as Melissa claims, best described as "an episode"). How about establishing parameters that allow them to work it out themselves? So that's what I did and since it has worked out pretty well all summer, I share the results with you now.
The communist back-stop was needed because the kids aren't motivated that much by monetary concern. Doing work for free when they could get $5 for it, on the other hand...
I did find that it wouldn't work properly until I created a bid-sheet that they could use easily. For your edification, and in case you want to try something similar yourself, I provide it here for your very own use and adaptation.
I've just done an informal poll and the kids all seem to think that it has worked out well this summer (informal in that it wasn't anonymous or anything—just me asking them how they thought that it went). At least, they does an abortion hurt like it better than having me decide, or even mediate, who gets stuck mowing the lawn.
We had one or two times where I got multiple bids for a weekend, but for the most part they colluded to determine who would submit the winning (i.e. only) bid. I even had Aerin push for a larger budget one weekend after the lawn had been neglected the previous week with the added justification that I knew she would do a good job on it—do I even have to tell you how I responded to that one? (with pride I wouldn't dream of displaying except in acceding to the request, of course!)
Melissa has been grooving on the jewelry thing for a couple of years now. It's an activity she enjoys, both the design/layout/planning and the actual act of putting it all together. Which is a good thing, even though it removes an entire category of things I can safely buy for her.
Well, she now has more than any single non-rap "singer" can reasonably wear in a lifetime so instead of despair and waste, she has begun offering her skill to the masses. Or to discerning individuals at any rate. You can view her after morning pill shop at Etsy, Rogue Impressions, if you want to see what she has made available.
My personal favorite are the crystal-form d8 sets. I don't see the earrings listed, but she's done those as well. She has a whole section dedicated to her designs using gaming dice—each named after a character from our roleplaying games (uh, I hope that wasn't a secret. I guess I'll find out...)
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I gripe about it enough that most people know that Melissa and I are not fans of camping. Unfortunately, we are a small minority with our family and friends so we end up doing our share of it. This year, we've managed to keep our camping commitments to a single outing to Cherry Campground near Springville, UT.
I brought a camera. As has happened in prior posts, I choose to share. This time, I'm using a photo sharing site so that you can click the images and choose how big you want to see the photos. Not many photo hosting sites would actually give me access after the fact abortion shot to my originals, but Ovi turned out to have the right mix of utility and price (uh, free).
You can check out the whole channel if you've a mind (if you're a member, let me know and I'll add you as a "participant" to the channel so you can post comments, your own tags, view the original high-def images, and even upload your own photos to the channel). Below is the embedded slide show version of that channel (click on a picture to view it in full).
We had a family dinner/weblos activity tonight. Since I had my new toy, I thought I'd share the results. The kids generic abortion pill were completing their Outdoorsman Badge or something and that involved putting a pack together and putting up a tent and cooking an outdoor meal. I arrived late, so all I really have is the tent stuff.
My mom wrote me an email recently saying that she missed reading my blog. Things have been sparse here lately, so I think I'll crib one of those TMI memes from a friend of mine.
Not on last one yet.
It was good. I went with a girl I haven't heard from since graduation. It was a "friends solve mutual problem" situation.
Not really. Had one fall off the Mayflower, but that's more of an ancestor than a risk of abortion pill relative.
A bill of some kind.
Water. And a swallow of milk this morning.
I can't remember ever having actual surgery. The stitches in my lip kinda hurt, but my memory of it is weak. When I was a baby, I had Pyloric Stenosis, but I don't remember the surgery to correct that at all.
A deck and an awning.
Also some kids.
Most Saturday nights will find me playing D&D with friends.
No. I kind of hate it, actually. Fortunately, when you're hanging out at the beach, who cares what your hair is doing?
How do you not know what a planetarium is? I went to Hansen Planetarium when I was a kid (when did it become Clark Planetarium? Clark, you do something last time you were up here?)
Tapioca. Seriously.
There are two rings, a lot of keys, and an LED flashlight that looks like a USB drive.
In Melissa's purse.
Four months ago in Church.
A big fluffy one with a lining I can remove.
I don't remember. Since it was May in Phoenix, it's safe to assume it was sunny.
Yes. My daughter's pencil case.
Uh. Cheese on a plate?
Surprisingly, no.
Ew. And no.
Forest green.
Four years of piano lessons, a year of guitar, and a year of drums (in a band, not the cool kind). All when I was a kid. A better question would be if I've ever played an instrument well. That answer would be no.
No. I wasn't aware that Bigfoot had founded a faith. I'll ask him about it next time we talk.
Not formally, no.
Of course not.
People will believe any stupid thing.
My children. I kid! I kid! My biggest disappointment is more private than I'm going to share in a blog post.
I like water. And Dr. Pepper. And milk. Not all at once.
Not really. My conscience a little over the children quip.
Yes. Once in Las Vegas. A couple of times in both Italy and Germany.
None. I've never actually drank alcohol. I've had rum candies and there was a nasty vodka-based glaze on some ice-cream I had once, but that doesn't actually constitute drinking.
We finished the first season of Angel with my oldest girls. Also, my Dark Templar made it off Tortage.
Good question. I'm not sure I have a favorite. Domino's thin-crust pizza, maybe.
Okay, ya'll know that I'm a sucker for a new internet quiz, right? What I can't understand is medication abortion how I scored the same as my friend Tungsten. He's way nicer/gooder/kinder than I am.
I always perk up when I see a list of books. A friend recently posted an interesting blog entry with a list of books with the challenge to highlight those she had read. I was all set to follow her example when the question occurred to me: "who the heck made this list?"
What followed was an interesting diversion in random weirdness. It started when I tracked down the original claim made by someone named Jill that "The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
This piqued my curiosity further, prompting all kinds of new questions. Like "What's the Big Read?" and "What criteria for selection were used for their list?" and "How do they know that on average people have read 6 of their 100 books?"
Well, the eventual answers have proven interesting enough to make the rest of this blog post (though I do mark those I've read in the end).
The difficulty started at once because it turns out that while there really is an organization called The Big Read and it really is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, they unfortunately don't actually have a list of 100 books. They have a list of books they recommend, but there's only 16 of them with another 6 "coming soon" (though I can't imagine what is holding them up since all of them are already in print—some of them for over a hundred years). That's some 78 shy of the list of 100 books being put forth as admirable.
Undaunted, I searched some more. Eventually, I found a five-year-old initiative by the BBC that is also called "the Big Read". Plus bonus: they have a list of 100 books. Even better, the list of books starts off roughly similar. The list was voted on by folks in the U.K. which turns out to be significant. Still, the list simply doesn't match and the BBC seems to have abandoned the Big Read after the single go 'round, so it is unlikely that I'm looking at a yearly variation that later (or earlier) produced the precise list in question.
Well, at this point I abandoned the Big Read as a likely red herring and went for list composition. The ordering of the list is specific and that should be something I can search against, right? After all, how many lists start off with Pride and Prejudice, right?
Well, more than you'd think.
However, this line of enquiry eventually turned up an article in the Guardian from March of last year. The article mentions a number of books and gives their ranking. Better still, the numbers and titles all match "my" list. Best of all, the Guardian tells us where they got the list right in the subtitle of the article, "World Book Day poll places enduring quality of classics ahead of recent triumphs".
So the list was put together by a bunch of stuffy Brits*. Unfortunately, World Book Day, while they have a spiffy website, doesn't actually provide handy things like the results of their polls anywhere I could find (let alone anything so prosaic as how their list was gathered). The Guardian had another article that included the complete list so at least I was able to verify that they are the same. That's something, right?
Still, I hate it when people/organizations don't keep copies of things they've released to the public around. Have they no pride? No self-respect? And what about methodology? The best indication about their methodology that I could find is again from The Guardian. They include this little snippet in the original article "[the poll asked people] the most precious book they have read". There's no indication for how the people were selected or sampled, but I guess I'll take what I could get.
Which leaves us completely in the dark for the claim that the average person has read 6 of these 100. Frankly, I can't fathom where that claim comes from. It looks completely made up to me. I suspect that it comes from the common statistic that the average person reads six books in a year. (Being the suspicious sort, I looked that up, too, and it turns out to be true according to the NEA's "Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America" from 2004 (page 17 of the PDF document, page 4 of the report). I don't know if that's actually where this spurious-seeming number comes from, though.
All that aside, I still like the challenge so here's my rendition of the list. Books I've read are highlighted.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (well... most of them...) 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie for abortion and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
So there you go. 47 of 100, though I have to admit that a good many of those came as assigned reading while obtaining my sometimes-useful education. I might also mention that if I had actually done all the reading I was assigned, I could have highlighted an additional half-dozen. And hey, if you counted posh movie versions I'd chock up another one or two here and there...
Well, Jannalee tagged me so I'll respond, safe abortion pill I guess. Um. Am I a procrastinator? Lessee, I meant to respond when I first read her post and that was very nearly a month ago. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that I qualify. What do I win?
I'm not a fan of these meme things as a general rule, so I'll refrain from tagging others. Unless someone wants to be tagged...
One of the joys of parenting is having the opportunity to mess with your children. I always wanted to be like Calvin's dad (from Calvin & Hobbes) when my children were young, for example. It's no wonder Calvin has such a unique perspective on reality when his dad explains that the sun is really only the size of a quarter and that we know how much weight bridges can take by driving progressively heavier trucks over them until they fall down.
But that only lasts while they're still gullible young.
I'm discovering a new, related, joy as my kids enter adolescence. I might, if I were pretentious, call my new hobby "forming their taste", but I'd just as soon have the word with the bark on (as Georgette Heyer's characters would put it) and call it what it is: indoctrination. I have the opportunity, as they begin exploring the worlds of art and entertainment, of expounding at length on those things I consider interesting or of value. The result is gratifying and evident in such things as Teleri's latest school paper (a research paper this time, so I put it up in its own file).
I half expect to be brought up on charges of child abuse for things like celebrating Pratchett's birthday yesterday with all the kids. Even so, I can't express how fun it is to see Teleri devouring his latest, even if that means she becomes competition for the family copy (hey, being able to take her in a fair fight has to be useful sometimes, right?).
Our newest tradition, for which I fully expect to spend time in the hell of syrup and fire-ants, has been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the older kids. We haven't set an age on the tradition, or anything. When we think they're mature enough to be capable of rational discussions of sex and violence and moral agency, we watch our DVDs with them. We have a similar (sometimes concurrent) tradition with Firefly.
This is certainly a controversial tradition. I mean, both shows have sex and violence and many lifestyle choices we are officially against. The thing is, on a deeper level, I think that both shows are also deeply moral. They explore things like family, the nature of evil, and doing what you believe is right even when doing so is likely to be both hard and painful.
Which isn't to say that we hand them the DVDs with a jaunty "Knock yourselves cost of abortion out." and hope for the best. We watch them together and discuss things we think are important or interesting. This probably robs some of the fun out of it for the kids, but hey, we are still parents and we have a natural right, obligation even, to be pedantic whenever fun threatens to obscure important life-lessons.
And heaven knows that Joss Whedon didn't flinch from difficult moral choices, so our discussions are wide-ranging. It isn't likely that any of us will face the particular choice between sending a loved one to hell and saving the world, but there are plenty of relevant topics there (starting with "love isn't always enough" and "deus non machina"). I guess what I'm saying is that we palliate our consciences by pointing out the obvious. Hey, they're kids. They might not connect all the right dots; my favorite of which remains "if you have sex before you are married, your boyfriend will turn into a monster."
Okay, that was way too easy. If you were quick enough to catch the small warning post I put up before the change you can rest easy, uncross the fingers, and put the chicken down. It looks like we migrated seemlessly.
And in case you're wondering what happened, I'll explain a bit. My previous web host had an outage last week. They were pretty uncommunicative during the outage, referring all trouble tickets to a forum post that was a one-sentence "we're working on it" kind of post. After more than 24 hours, they finally updated that with "it should be fixed now". Which would have been good if it had been true of my account. Worse, my new trouble tickets were referred back to the same forum post that claimed everything was all right now.
You can guess how well that all sat with me. While they eventually got things working, the amount of time and complete lack of explanation left me feeling somewhat raw. In short, I went looking for a new hosting provider. It didn't take that long to find one that was about the same price range with the same features. As a pro abortion facts bonus, it looks like some collegues are here as well.
I'm not sure if webhost4life is any better or not, but so far things seem to be working okay. Time will tell I guess. By all means, if something botches up, please let me know.