Has anyone else seen that video of Laura and Yas singing "you stole my test tube!"? it's really good. They should be in a broadway show. Like yes.
Lottie, is really really really big. If you ever meet her, you will surely spend several hours staring at her and saying "you are realllly big, I feel realllly small."
Also, I saw a hot guy in Beaties (So hot I nearly reordered just to keep sitting there and staring at him) and his name is RYAN. Not Oliver, RYAN.
I have been eating too many sugared almonds, I produce them from my pocket from time to time, it is vair vair amusing.
Urrrrg I sooo need to get a grip, my school work is going so far downhill that it's in a swampy pile at the bottom of the garden and all my teachers are like "are you ok?" and I'm like " LEAVE ME ALONE I WANT MY TIME!" and then I try to go to sleep and my mum is like "it's too early for you to go to sleep" and I object to this blatant ageist notion that I have to go to bed after nine o clock.
My friend Minal got hit by a bird. Ok not really, but she totally could have, and I told our chemistry class that that was why oh no my mum is here bye now
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Friday, November 17, 2006
Sugared Almonds!
Today I am updating my blog, because I have not been updating my blog. The reason for this is threefold. Actually, I don't think it is, but I like the word "threefold." Anyway, basically, when I am not doing homework, or feeling guilty about not doing homework, I am obsessing about either ISWAK or Buffy, season six of which I have recently purchased spikeissohotohmygodcantbreathenowonderimnotgettinganyworkdone which although well worth it, means that I spend all night watching (and rewatching) episodes, and then all day in a Buffy flavoured daydream, which is wonderful for General Studies, but not so great for Biology which is so amazingly information heavy that if you don't pay 100% attention and then go home and lesson review then review again at the end of the week and then test yourself at the end of the next week then you are screwed and this represents my situation with much clearness.
Anywayz, look t
here are some sugared almonds on this page, just for you. Actually, I am going to put up some other pictures of other sweeties I like! Oh yay the joys o
f sugarness ness ness. Megan is so awesome, she's on episode fourteeeen and loving it. Charlotte (harlot) is awful, don't speak to her. Bobbo has clearly lost it and gone power crazy, but we always knew he was edging towards that way so it's not the biggest surprise ever.
Oh...I forgot this was open..I got ...distracted..with some youtube clips...
STOP JUDGING ME
Anywayz, look t
here are some sugared almonds on this page, just for you. Actually, I am going to put up some other pictures of other sweeties I like! Oh yay the joys o
f sugarness ness ness. Megan is so awesome, she's on episode fourteeeen and loving it. Charlotte (harlot) is awful, don't speak to her. Bobbo has clearly lost it and gone power crazy, but we always knew he was edging towards that way so it's not the biggest surprise ever.Oh...I forgot this was open..I got ...distracted..with some youtube clips...
STOP JUDGING ME
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Watch these too!
Shame on you who didn't want the full episode! You are missing out I tell you! Megan is on episode 7, which is fairly good, and she loves it, don't you meagan! Just read her blog and it'll tell you! Lottie-love, here is all of episode 2, let me know when, and I'll post the rest :) Alternatively, you could search for it on Youtube. Jessss, I don't know why you don't understand it, it's awesome! Ok, the first episode isn't great, but it's worth it just to get into the series! HONEST. These have better quality so maybe you'll be able to enjoy them more.
Episode 2 -1/2
Episode 2 -2/2
Aiyyooo! They are so good. I've just watched the last, episode 20, and it's so sad! Honestly, I'm an emotional wreck after this series, but it's all good And it's not like it leaves a great gaping hole in your life like somethings. Not to mention it's insanely funny.
Here is an essay for you
Sarah Murano 12Y November 2006
Question 2: Read the following source and then answer the questions.
From King James P. Croft, 2003
"Another issue that caused unease was the fear of "undertaking". A group led by the Commons veteran Sir Henry Neville promised before the opening of the 1614 session to manage the Parliament more productively for the king."
a. Comment on the "manage" in the context of preparations for the Addled Parliament of 1614.
The First Parliament had ended quite unsucessfully, with James being let down on the issues that he had wanted to discuss (The Union) and Parliament feeling that they were being bypassed, particularly as James frequently mentioned that he only used Parliament as they were "convinient." For this reason, to make the second parliament "more productive" would most likely mean to make the parliament more organised, so that issues were discussed more efficiently and more agreements were arrived upon. The "group led by the Commons veteran Sir Henry Neville," therefore "undertook" this task, but the fear was that "manage" meant to fix Parliament in the favour of the King.
b. Explain why the Addled Parliament ended so quickly.
James called the Addled Parliament because he needed money for his son's funeral and his daughter's wedding, but his court was not united in the desire to call Parliament. The Howard Family represented a very strong pro-catholic faction who were against the calling of Parliament, and beforehand attempted to persuade James to do otherwise because Parliament was strongly protestant and would critisize the faction in front of the King, which might cause them to loose favour. Before Parliament was called therefore, they employed "spoiling tactics" such as suggesting that the King would get more money with impositions, rather than with Parliament. They also insinuated that when Henry Neville had promised to "manage" the parliament for the King, he meant that he would pack it with the King's men so that the outcome would be more favourable to the King, although many historians are unsure as to whether this was the case, or fully disagree. Due to this, when Parliament opened, the house was full of mistrust and suspicion towards the King.
After the Bates' Case which had been raised in the First Parliament, in which James used the courts to create a precedent and therefore practically create a new law, Parliament felt that they were being sidestepped because they weren't agreeing with the King's wishes. They knew that the King's main reason to call parliament was for money and so were relucatant to provide him with a large sum, as this would make them redundant for a time, and there was also the worry that James would simply splurge on gifts and banquets as he was well known to do. For these reasons, although James called the Parliament for a subsidy, they did not grant him one. Instead they began discussions on impositions.
The issue of impositions, which were additional taxes "imposed" by the King without being sanctioned by Parliament, had been initially settled in 1606, with the Bates' Case, where the precedent created meant that impositions were to be paid, and not paying them was an illegal offence. However, by this time James was recieving around £70,00 a year in impositions which was about the equivalent of one parliament subsidy, and this bothered Parliament, as they were, as always concerned that James would dissolve them permanently and rule absolutely, without their aid. For this reason they restarted discussions on impositions, but this infuriated James as he felt he was going in circles. The reason for starting the Parliament had been money, and not only were they refusing it to him they were also reviving a topic which had been settled years ago. Granted, England was expiriencing the hardest depression of the centuary, so even if Parliament had been so inclined, they would not have been able to give him an acceptable subsidy.
With Parliament refusing him money, James could not afford to give up impositions, and Parliament also stood firm, refusing to let the issue drop, and so the session went around in circles until James dissolved it only a few weeks later, it having issued no subsidies, and no legislation.
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Episode 2 -1/2
Episode 2 -2/2
Aiyyooo! They are so good. I've just watched the last, episode 20, and it's so sad! Honestly, I'm an emotional wreck after this series, but it's all good And it's not like it leaves a great gaping hole in your life like somethings. Not to mention it's insanely funny.
Here is an essay for you
Sarah Murano 12Y November 2006
Question 2: Read the following source and then answer the questions.
From King James P. Croft, 2003
"Another issue that caused unease was the fear of "undertaking". A group led by the Commons veteran Sir Henry Neville promised before the opening of the 1614 session to manage the Parliament more productively for the king."
a. Comment on the "manage" in the context of preparations for the Addled Parliament of 1614.
The First Parliament had ended quite unsucessfully, with James being let down on the issues that he had wanted to discuss (The Union) and Parliament feeling that they were being bypassed, particularly as James frequently mentioned that he only used Parliament as they were "convinient." For this reason, to make the second parliament "more productive" would most likely mean to make the parliament more organised, so that issues were discussed more efficiently and more agreements were arrived upon. The "group led by the Commons veteran Sir Henry Neville," therefore "undertook" this task, but the fear was that "manage" meant to fix Parliament in the favour of the King.
b. Explain why the Addled Parliament ended so quickly.
James called the Addled Parliament because he needed money for his son's funeral and his daughter's wedding, but his court was not united in the desire to call Parliament. The Howard Family represented a very strong pro-catholic faction who were against the calling of Parliament, and beforehand attempted to persuade James to do otherwise because Parliament was strongly protestant and would critisize the faction in front of the King, which might cause them to loose favour. Before Parliament was called therefore, they employed "spoiling tactics" such as suggesting that the King would get more money with impositions, rather than with Parliament. They also insinuated that when Henry Neville had promised to "manage" the parliament for the King, he meant that he would pack it with the King's men so that the outcome would be more favourable to the King, although many historians are unsure as to whether this was the case, or fully disagree. Due to this, when Parliament opened, the house was full of mistrust and suspicion towards the King.
After the Bates' Case which had been raised in the First Parliament, in which James used the courts to create a precedent and therefore practically create a new law, Parliament felt that they were being sidestepped because they weren't agreeing with the King's wishes. They knew that the King's main reason to call parliament was for money and so were relucatant to provide him with a large sum, as this would make them redundant for a time, and there was also the worry that James would simply splurge on gifts and banquets as he was well known to do. For these reasons, although James called the Parliament for a subsidy, they did not grant him one. Instead they began discussions on impositions.
The issue of impositions, which were additional taxes "imposed" by the King without being sanctioned by Parliament, had been initially settled in 1606, with the Bates' Case, where the precedent created meant that impositions were to be paid, and not paying them was an illegal offence. However, by this time James was recieving around £70,00 a year in impositions which was about the equivalent of one parliament subsidy, and this bothered Parliament, as they were, as always concerned that James would dissolve them permanently and rule absolutely, without their aid. For this reason they restarted discussions on impositions, but this infuriated James as he felt he was going in circles. The reason for starting the Parliament had been money, and not only were they refusing it to him they were also reviving a topic which had been settled years ago. Granted, England was expiriencing the hardest depression of the centuary, so even if Parliament had been so inclined, they would not have been able to give him an acceptable subsidy.
With Parliament refusing him money, James could not afford to give up impositions, and Parliament also stood firm, refusing to let the issue drop, and so the session went around in circles until James dissolved it only a few weeks later, it having issued no subsidies, and no legislation.
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Friday, November 10, 2006
Watch this
Ok, I know the quality is not great, but it's so worth struggling through the first episode, because they just get better and better!!!
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