Cut and Paste game.

[Khat]

In her spare time - when she has any – she loves to read fiction trilogies or continuing novels and play on-line Trivia games on “Kevin’s Watch”

[Brinn]

Pro Golf of America, Inc

[Cail]

Vikings versus

[Dragonlily]

You go, girl! We need to remind people

[dennisrwood]

Spyhopping: Grey whales are believed to have reasonable vision in the air as well as water, and occasionally extend their heads vertically from the sea, to check on obstructions or simply looking around. This behavior is called “spyhopping,” and the sight is an extraordinary one. Supported by thrusting flukes (or, in the shallow lagoons, by resting the flukes on the bottom), the whale’s head rises 8 – 10 feet above the surface, sometimes turning slowly to scan the horizon. Thirty seconds or more may pass before it slips back under the water.

Breaching: No one knows why whales perform this most spectacular of their behaviors. It may be part of a courtship display, a signal, an effort to dislodge parasites, an expression of stress, some combination of these – or just for fun! When breaching, ¾ or more of the whale’s body bursts from the water, pivots onto its side or back, and falls back with an enormous splash. Gray whales often breach two or three times in succession, and have been known to continue for a dozen or more displays.

Sounding: Following a series of short surface dives, gray whales normally descend for a single longer, deeper dive. Just before such a dive the dorsal ridge and knuckles will be readily visible. Usually the flukes appear, helping to thrust the whale’s bulk into a more steeply-angled dive to get below surface turbulence. Look for the barnacles and white scars (the results of too-close encounters with killer whales, other predators, or rocks) which may mark the flukes.

[Alynna Lis Eachann]

And oh, if only they would move to the next column, the identical stack of people, if only they would select her as well!

[Cail]

Randy Quaid loves Sam Donaldson

[Dragonlily]

[Note: I am informed that a sequel, ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT, will be released next month. It is to cover Elizabeth’s life until the death of King Henry.]

[drew]

I took my troubles down to Madame Ruth
You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth
She's got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
Sellin' little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine

I told her that I was a flop with chics
I've been this way since 1956
She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign
She said, now What you need is Love Potion Number Nine

She bent down and turned around and gave me a wink
She said, I'm gonna make it up right here in the sink
It smelled like turpentine, it looked like Indian ink
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink

I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed a cop down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine

I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink

I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed a cop down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine

Love Potion Number Nine
Love Potion Number Nine
Love Potion Number Nine

[Dragonlily]

Katrina@thelangleyhouse.com

[Alynna Lis Eachann]

en-mh1 duracell Nimh compatible

[Dragonlily]

64.231.85.208

[Cail]

SPCA REQUEST FOR ADOPTION
DOG #:_______ CAT#: _______ NAME: _____________ I.D. Tag #:_________
BREED:__________________ SEX: _______ AGE: ________ OTHER #: _______
Please Print Clearly:
Name of Applicant: ____________________________________________________ Age: ___________
Name of Co-Applicant: _________________________________________________ Age: ___________
Relationship: “ Spouse “ Parent or Guardian/Child “ Roommate “ Other __________________
Street Address:_________________________ Apt.# ____ City:___________________ Zip:_______
Home Phone: ______________ Mailing Address (if different from above)_________________________
Applicant’s Employer: ____________________ Position: ________________ Phone:____________
Co-Applicant’s Employer:__________________ Position: ________________ Phone:____________
1. Please explain why you wish to adopt this animal: “ Companion “ Gift “ Guard Dog
“ Mouser “ To Breed “ Personal Protection “ For Child “ Other _____________________
2. Do you live in a: “ House “ Townhouse “ Apartment “ Mobile Home “ Condominium
Do you: “ own “ rent
3. Do you have a fenced yard? _____ What type of fence? ___________ Height? _________
4. Where will this pet be kept during the day? __________________ At night? ___________
5. How many adults live in your household? _______ Children? (List ages)_______________
6. Is anyone home during the day? ________ Who? _______________________________________
7. Who will be responsible for the care of this animal? _______________________________
8. How many hours will this pet be alone on an average day? ___________________________
9. Have you ever adopted from the SPCA before? _______ If yes, when? __________________
10. List all of the pets you have owned in the past three years:(use the back if needed)
TYPE SEX AGE Spayed/Neutered? Where is it now?
_________ ______ _______ _______________ ____________________________
_________ ______ _______ _______________ ____________________________
_________ ______ _______ _______________ ____________________________
Please list veterinarian(s) used: ________________________ City: ________________
11. Anne Arundel County requires that all animals adopted from the shelter be spayed or
neutered. How you feel about this? _______________________________________________
12. How much do you estimate it will cost to care for this animal each year? Consider
the cost of vet. care, food, grooming, licensing, etc.: ___________________________
13. If adopting a cat, will it be declawed? ___________________________________________
14. If you move, what will you do with this animal? ___________________________________
15. Are you willing to take responsibility for this pet for the next 10-15 years? _____
I certify that the information contained in the application is true and correct.
I hereby authorize the SPCA of Anne Arundel County to verify the above information.
Signature of Applicant: ____________________________________________ Date:______________
Approved by: ___________________________________________________________________________
MD Driver’s License # __________________________________________________________________
Document/Method used to verify address: ________________________________________________
Landlord Approval: _____________________________________________________________________
Other Verification: ______________________________________________________________
Issues Discussed: ______________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
Application Pending:____________________________________________________________________
Reason: ________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Disapproved By: ________________________________________________________________________
Reason:_________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________

[Dragonlily]

www.jennifermacaire.com

[Edge]

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[Dragonlily]

This fits so smoothly with SRD's story that it might well have happened.

[Cail]

[quote="Cail"]

[Dragonlily]

From: "Joy Calderwood"
To: "Roberta Gellis"
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: THIS SCEPTER'D ISLE review

[dennisrwood]

I left the car by the side of the cathedral. It was inevitable, always, during the last days of holidays; but this time, more than ever before, I was aware of time having passed too swiftly, not because the days had been overfull but because I had achieved nothing. The notes I had written for the lectures I was to give during the coming autumn were scholarly, precise, with dates and facts I should afterwards dress up in language designed to strike a spark in the chill minds of inattentive students. But even if I held their flagging interest for a brief half hour, I should know, when I had finished, that nothing I had said to them was of any value, that I had only given them images of history brightly coloured, waxwork models, puppet figures strutting through a charade. The real meaning of history would have escaped me, because I had never been close enough to people. It was all too easy to lose oneself in a past half-real, half-imaginary, and so be blind to the present. And I would stumble from the cathedral, and be jolted out of time into the present, where there was nothing but a statue, and I an indifferent historian. As I drove, on the last morning, my dissatisfaction with the lectures I should give, and my realization that all I had ever done in my life, was to watch people, never to partake in their happiness or pain, brought such a sense of overwhelming depression, deepened by the rain stinging the windows of the car, that soon, although I had not intended to stop there and lunch, I changed my mind, hoping to change my mood. It was market day and the carts with green tarpaulins stood parked close to the steps below the cathedral, and the rows of stalls were crowded one beside another. It must have been one of the big market days, for the place was full of country people.

[Dragonlily]

BRAIN SHIPS
The Ship Who Searched / PartnerShip
Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, Margaret Ball
Baen, Reissued Nov 2003
Reviewed by Joy Calderwood

Science Fiction

In 1970, a series of short stories by Anne McCaffrey was gathered into one book and published as THE SHIP WHO SANG. If McCaffrey had gone no farther than the mental leap from placing people’s brains in mechanical bodies, to placing their brains in starships, space stations and engineered cities, it would have been an accomplishment. But she didn’t stop there. She made those transplanted brains piercingly human. Then she turned them loose in adventures so fascinating that THE SHIP WHO SANG became a beloved classic.

For twenty years it seemed to be a standalone concept. Suddenly, in 1992, McCaffrey released two brainship novels in collaboration with authors at the beginnings of their careers: THE SHIP WHO SEARCHED with Mercedes Lackey and PARTNERSHIP with Margaret Ball. BRAIN SHIPS is a combination volume of these two novels.

THE SHIP WHO SEARCHED

Seven year old Tia is already an oddity, dragged by her scholarly parents from archaeological dig to dig, on one isolated, unfamiliar planet after another. She has no child companions; her precocious mind has been trained by computers and her parents. Her best friend is the brainship who visits occasionally. When Tia is permanently paralyzed by an unknown virus, her only chance to fulfill her potential is to become a brainship herself.

As the brainship AH-1033, Tia has a personal mission: to find the homeworld of the dead civilization which harbored the virus that destroyed her body. With Alex, her eccentric “brawn” or human partner, Tia is sent on a series of assignments tracking down newly discovered plagues, a danger that must be expected in a civilization which is constantly exploring new planets.

I have read almost everything by Anne McCaffrey, and in my opinion THE SHIP WHO SEARCHED is her best collaboration. It has an emotional and literary richness which is rarely equaled before or since in her career. The story is especially deeply moving during Tia’s progression from human to brainship, and also in the relationship between Tia and Alex. My personal preference is for the type of relationship Helva has with Parollan in THE SHIP WHO SANG rather than the culmination between Tia and Alex, but that is because I love the idea of working out such mismatched matings as between ship and human.

PARTNERSHIP

Nancia, the XN-935, has an advantage most brainships don’t have. Her father is a highly-placed official and a member of the High Families. The idealistic Nancia would rather die than take advantage of this to “pull strings” for her own benefit, but such things do happen all the time. For example, her first assignment. She finds herself, a Courier ship with a Singularity drive, trained for high-speed essential services, assigned to ferry five High Families youngsters, just to save them the time of getting to their first jobs in a faraway star system at the slower FTL speeds.

The youngsters are all spoiled but bright, and Nancia wonders why each is being sent into what looks like exile. Gradually the five reveal what their crimes were and how they intend to enrich themselves in their new positions. By the end of the trip, Nancia has an entire criminal conspiracy recorded by her cameras – and she can’t show the tapes to anyone.

Nancia is only sixteen human years old. Already idealistic, her indecision is reinforced by the impracticality of her brawn Caleb and a too cynical brainstation. It takes a brawn change and extreme circumstances to resolve the dilemma presented by five High Families criminals whose ambitious plans are coming to fruition.

Character is the focus in PARTNERSHIP. The five criminals are varied, interesting, and chilling, especially in the cases of the beautiful Polyon and Fassa. A bonus for readers is the sheer joy that Nancia takes in Singularity flight, which she likens to wave surfing. A bit spoiled and arrogant herself, she will have to do some growing up in high pressure situations. By getting to know some of the older members in Central Worlds service, Nancia comes to understand and appreciate what it means to be a “softshell” human, instead of a nearly-invulnerable maiden in a titanium ship.


The sparkle of THE SHIP WHO SEARCHED can be enjoyed by readers as yet unfamiliar with the Brainships series. If you already like the series and haven’t read these, do so. It was time we got them back in print.

Feb 2005 Review