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Horse makes deposit at German bank

I just love this story!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070425/tod-uk-germany-horse-0296dc8.html

Dear Mr. President

Sung by Pink and featuring The Indigo Girls, this is an "open letter to the President".

According to Pink, the radio stations in the US won't play it and Jimmy Kimmel was the only show in the US has invited her on to sing it.

It's a song that deserves to be heard and most of these images fit so well with the lyrics that I chose it over the official version.

Free Alan Johnston

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Took this picture on a road trip in France with a friend. It made us laugh, so we pulled off the road, turned around in a farmers field and risked our lives crossing a busy motorway, all for the sake of a laugh!

Beannachd Dia dhuit

Beannacht ("Blessing") by John O’Donohue

On the day when

the weight deadens

on your shoulders

and you stumble,

may the clay dance

to balance you.

And when your eyes

freeze behind

the grey window

and the ghost of loss

gets in to you,

may a flock of colours,

indigo, red, green,

and azure blue

come to awaken in you

a meadow of delight.

When the canvas frays

in the currach of thought

and a stain of ocean

blackens beneath you,

may there come across the waters

a path of yellow moonlight

to bring you safely home.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,

may the clarity of light be yours,

may the fluency of the ocean be yours,

may the protection of the ancestors be yours.

And so may a slow wind

work these words

of love around you,

an invisible cloak to mind your life.

Great Big C, if I'm lucky ;-)

Today I HAVE to complete a couple of projects for some on line classes I'm taking. The biggest lesson that I've learned is that I should not be taking on line classes! I'm no good at sitting or concentrating on classes that frankly, I don't care about any more. There's far better ways to learn than sitting alone behind a laptop, reading poorly prepared material and waiting for days for a response from the "Ask the Instructor" question I left when I got stuck. There's got to be interaction, voices, dialog, engagement, noise in order for me to learn.

Now, it's the last week of class, I need to focus, concentrate, have self discipline, be a grown up, set the example, put my nose to the grind stone, get 'er done etc. I decided what I really need to do is listen to Great Big Sea!!

2007 Pulitzer Prizes Announced

The 2007 Pulitzer Prize in the Breaking News category was awarded to Associated Press' Oded Balilty for this "powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank."

In the Feature Category, the prize went to Renee C. Boyer for her series of black & white photos of a woman helping her 10 year old son in his unsuccessful battle against cancer. They are poignant photos of the love and commitment of family. Deeply personal, technically beautiful and emotionally intimate. You can see the images here:

http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/feature-photography/works

This year, both prizes were awarded to photographers who showed the world the power of a woman fighting for what she loves.

Congratulations to both photographers!!

Runaway Rabbits

Reuters - Monday, April 16

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's busiest highway, connecting Budapest with the Austrian capital Vienna, was closed early on Monday after a truck carrying rabbits crashed, letting 5,000 of the animals loose on the road, police said.

The M1 motorway was closed around 40 km (25 miles) west of Budapest and could remain closed for hours while police try to capture the escaped animals, highway police spokeswoman Viktoria Galik said.

"There are thousands of them on the road but they're not using their newfound freedom well; they're just sitting around, eating grass and enjoying the sun," Galik told Reuters

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