Girl: Giada Gabriella Marie
Boy: Bourne Jones
Siblings: Otto & Max

Girl: Evangeline-Vesper Lynne
Boy: Kaevan Daniel

Girl: Verity Rose
Boy: Médéric Robert Stephen

One of these kids just doesn't belong here: Ourania, Konstantinos, Mary.
I feel a little bad for little Mary. She isn't flowery at all.

Girl: Xanthe Jane
Boy: Colby John

Girl: Willa Tziporah
Boy: Tenzin Rio
Siblings: Strummer Rose, Nesta Solo & Djagger T. (last two are male)

Girl: Island Emme
Boy: Lydon Edward
Siblings: Fenix, Gryffyn

Girl: Ellasyn Arden
Boy: Zephan Duke
Siblings: Ainsley & Millasyn
Twins: Isaiah Christopher & Fiona Apple

Girl: Yasmine Violet Raine
Boy: Bauer Roy Douglas

Girl: Fyfe Ann
Boy: Broaglan Louis

Siblings: There's a couple of sibs, I have to note this week, Bryte & Ephram obviously have parents who were fans of Everwood. Phaedra & Kyra, I simply liked.

Any Prince To Any Princess
By Adrian Henri

August is coming
and the goose, I'm afraid,
is getting fat.
There have been
no golden eggs for some months now.
Straw has fallen well below market price
despite my frantic spinning
and the sedge is,
as you rightly point out,
withered.

I can't imagine how the pea
got under your mattress. I apologize
humbly. The chambermaid has, of course,
been sacked. As has the frog footman.
I understand that, during my recent fact-finding tour of the
Golden River,
despite your nightly unavailing efforts,
he remained obstinately
froggish.


I hope that the Three Wishes granted by the General
Assembly
will go some way towards redressing
this unfortunate recent sequence of events.
The fall in output from the shoe-factory, for example:
no one could have foreseen the work-to-rule
by the National Union of Elves. Not to mention the fact
that the court has been fast asleep
for the last six and a half years.

The matter of the poisoned apple has been taken up
by the Board of Trade: I think I can assure you
the incident will not be
repeated.

I can quite understand, in the circumstances,
your reluctance to let down
your golden tresses. However
I feel I must point out
that the weather isn't getting any better
and I already have a nasty chill
from waiting at the base
of the White Tower. You must see
the absurdity of the
situation.
Some of the courtiers are beginning to talk,
not to mention the humble villagers.
It's been three weeks now, and not even
a word.

Princess,
a cold, black wind
howls through our empty palace.
Dead leaves litter the bedchamber;
the mirror on the wall hasn't said a thing
since you left. I can only ask,
bearing all this in mind,
that you think again,

let down your hair,

reconsider.

Girl: Malykah Lynn
Booy: Calahan Murray

WOW.
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So say we all.

Girl: Chaisy Madeleine
Boy: Elliot Troy
Twins: 8 sets were announced this week, so I thought I'd pick the most original combo which were boys, Lincoln Edward & Ronald Brian.

Alliterative siblings of note: Josselyn & Jackson, Holly & Harrison, Jenna & Jayden, Natalie & Nicholas, Michael & Madison, Matthew & Mya, Lachlan & Lucy

For those of you who don't know about this Bill please click here for commentary or here for a web-version of the bill.

My view:
Freedom of information means freedom of information and each time we implement a so-called blocking technique what it actually means is that real time is spent UNblocking sites for teachers and students. This inevitably means the creation and use of un-blocking passwords that eventually leak to the students and have to be changed and the process begins again--usually amidst utter confusion while the passwords are blocked and unblocked and password protected again. What SHOULD be happening is that parents and school staff educate students about appropriate seach techniques, search engines, web use, etc. This is the very basis of media awareness. Furthermore, the problem, as I see it, is that students knowingly and with forethought TRY to access inappropriate sites. Addressing the reasons behind these attempts and calling students on/making them responsible for their behaviour and computer-use is far more useful in the longterm than simply applying a blanket policy.

The really disturbing part of this bill to my mind is the bit about blocking access to web-chat and email programs because they could conceivably be used to access or engage in inappropriate conversations. More often than not, students are bringing their own access to the web into the classroom in the form of cell phones or other hand-held devices. If parents don't care enough about their elementary aged children not to let them have access to these unrestricted forms of internet access, why tie the hands of teachers trying to access valuable information?

Girl: Chloe Roisin Gwenyth
Boy: Sachin Elliot

Oh (((((Helo))))))!

Girl: Abrielle Olivia
Boy: West Stanley

Girl: Alyshia Hazel
Boy: Xianen

Girl: Atlin Blair Elizabeth
Boy: Rohan Jeremie

Battlestar Galactica!!!!!!!( Read more... )