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Title: TOUCHED

Summary: Leah has always known she was different, it was hard not too when you see things that people normally don't. Not to mention, her family has a knack for disappearing...and ending up in the crazy house. When her mother disappeared from her locked bedroom on her ninth birthday, Leah knew whoever was after them meant business. After almost nine years of keeping her head down, one new student threatens her silence.

TOUCHED-12Down the Rabbit Hole

This was it.

This was the moment I’ve been waiting for since I was nine years old. A chance to get the answers to the questions that had haunted me night and day for more than half my life.

The moment that I had prepared for, had agonized over and had nightmares of.

Finally, almost to the day, I came face to face with someone that could answer all of my questions. And then some.

So I planted my feet, looked him in the eye…

…and hit him square in the face with everything I’ve got. And everything I've got was considerable.

So I went to checkout some of my subs on Youtube when I came across this clip of The Soup showing a Halloween clip of The Today Show. Ewoks attempt to get drunk, moonwalk and uh... Well, you'll just have to see this for yourself.

I'm living in a dilemma.. I'm 18 and really boggled about life. I'm as they call it, still in the closet and it's not working out real good for me.

I'm tired of living a lie and at this stage, I would really want to be with a guy... At least start looking... But it ain't easy coming out, especially when you're in an environment/society that is really shallow in this matter. I've been surrounded in a constant and stable, Christian environment but facing this sexuality problem. I'm just confused about a lot of things and never really found the help I need. I would definitely want to be out there, experiencing life but coming out in my position seems so out of reach.

I was thinking of only coming out when I'm older or at least when I'm legal and no longer living where I am. But I feel that I can't wait any longer. On the other hand, i fear rejection and persecution...

Any remarks or steps I could take? If I wait, is it worth it?

Hello all,
I am posting about my cat Smokey (i used to post about him quite a bit but got those issues under control) about a year ago he was diagnose with i think very early stages of renal failure. the vet prescribed him Hills science diet prescription food, KD. he's been eating the wet and the dry food of that but he doesn't like the wet very much at all. (he does like the dry, but if he eats too much dry food he throws it all up) I took him to the vet about a week ago where his kidneys were tested again, and the vet said his numbers greatly improved! So luckily his kidneys aren't getting worse!! i don't remember the creatinine number but it was actually in the normal range. the vet was very happy with the numbers and told me to continue him on the food.
problem is Smokey at this point won't go near KD :( i was given Iams renal health food to try and the first day smokey ate it and seemed to enjoy it. at this point he won't touch that either. he sniffs the bowl and walks away.
i am at a loss on what to feed this cat. He is also very skinny (6.5 pounds for a fully grown 13 year old cat) and the vet told me he has to eat and really shouldn't lose any more weight. he's more concerned about that then the kidneys at this point.

I think my vet only carries those 2 renal health prescription foods. Does anyone know of any other foods I could try? or at least talk to my vet about? I really want to keep him on this kind of food because his kidney problems got so much better than they were, that I don't want to drastically change anything.

he's the pickiest cat i have ever seen or owned. it is important to mention that he does have an appetite, because he meows at his bowl and when i'm eating he pretty much tries to grab the food out of my hands. he has treats that he likes and goes absolutely wild for them. when i'm desperate i put a little tuna on the KD and he does eat it that way but i can't continue doing that forever.

please help! thank you!

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Mm, I feel at a bit of a dilemma.

So I have this cat. She grew up being the only cat, amongst people and dogs. Through most of her life, I lived with my parents. When she was a kitten, she was around one dog, and when he passed we ended up with two more dogs (much sooner than I was prepared for, but anyhow!)

Since I moved out, she's been spending time alone a LOT. I work four ten-hour shifts a week, and with travel time, I'm essentially away for about 12 hours, sometimes more. On my days off, sometimes I'll spend half the day home with her, sometimes I'll be off visiting people or running errands. Essentially, I'm beginning to feel absolutely miserable over leaving her alone so much.

I fostered two cats a couple months ago, just to see how she'd get on with others. She did... okay. Not incredibly happy to see them around, very frowny-faced all the time. It didn't help that they were brothers, and one of them was EXTREMELY attention-needy. Like constantly in your face. He was always in HER face, and clearly didn't get the idea of boundaries. It didn't matter how much she spat and hissed and batted, he just wanted to snuggle with her ._. I had to have them removed early just because I could tell things were reaching a stressful peak for everyone.

Now I have a co-worker moving to Texas at the end of the month. She has a cat named Larry, who is the same age as mine. He was a stray, but has been fully vetted and neutered. According to my co-worker, his temperament sounds very similar to my cat's - he's shy, cuddly when you get to know him, but generally keeps to himself.

I'm very tempted to take him in, because it just worries me that I'm leaving my cat alone so much, and I'm concerned that it's a problem. When she can hear me coming home, she starts crying (I can hear her from outside my apartment). And she definitely comes running for me when I get inside.

So, what do you think? Am I projecting? Would it be a mistake to take in another cat, or is it worth the risk to give her some company?

I wish she could just TELL me :|

How many of you clean your cat/s' ears? If so, how often and what do you use?

I used to clean Jazzi's for her all the time, about every three days. She had arthritis, early onset, and loooooved to have her ears cleaned. She would sit in front of me, back to me, with one ear flat to the side when it was time. I first started with using a wad of toilet paper, then went to cotton swabs. She would purrrrrrr, and when I got just the right spot, her back leg would flail and twitch. Her ears would get icky-dirty about every three days.

Tiki hated it, and kept her ears pretty clean all by herself, thank YOU very MUCH, so I rarely needed to do hers.

Smidgie and Nox came with earmites, and bad cases. Nox had been at the shelter for over a year, and it's a good probability she had them the entire time. It's taken three dosages to stop the frantic scratching, and she's still very sensitive. Both she and Smidgie seem to get pretty dirty ears, and don't seem to do much cleaning, but Smidgie is just a baby and Nox probably isn't used to dealing with her ears much, since they bothered her so much. The shelter wanted me to clean them out everyday when they still had mites, using swabs and mineral or baby oil.  I had always used dry swabs on Jazzi, and I know the oil was to kill the mites, but I do wonder if the oil also makes cleaning more gentle on sensitive ears?

So therefore, I was wondering if anyone else cleaned their cat's ears for them on a really regular basis?

Hi, 2nd year student teacher here (I'm doing foreign languages teaching).
At the moment I'm writing a critique and a lesson plan.  One of the questions I need to answer in my critique: "How can James Bruner's idea that we understand experience through three modes of representation (enactive, icon and symbolic)  help you in planning this lesson? How can you use his ideas in your teaching?".

Maybe it's just the way the criteria is phrased, but I am really baffled. I cannot seem to think of a way in which I can use the "enactive" stage in a German class. I can think of examples for Science and PE of course, but not languages. I always have this problem when we're asked to use psychomotor objectives too.

Can anyone give me an enactive->iconic-> example?

My seven year old cat, Kaze, had an ear pollup removed on Wednesday. Her last full meal was Tuesday evening, and I'm having a hard time getting her to eat. The only other time she was ever under anesthesia was when she was around 7 weeks old and was spayed prior to being adopted from the animal shelter. I remember that being a struggle to get her to eat, and had to be force fed in order to get her to eat again. She also had a horrible URI when she was a baby, so I always figured that was the reason she didn't want to eat on her own.

I have tried more than 12 different foods, a wide variety ranging from her favorites to the prescription diet a/d, which I reluctantly fed. She ate a little of a tuna based food earlier tonight (BFF tuna/chicken), but other than that, has had no interest in food, and this is a girl who always has a healthy appetite. She also ate a few empty pill pockets and a few pieces of dry kibble (Evo), which I tried as a last resort. I also tried eggs, cheese, KMR, fish oil, oven roasted deli-sliced turkey, baby food, and the stinkiest of cans, but still nothing. Tomorrow I'm going to pick up Wysong's PDG, which is a meal replacement and enhancer, so I'll get some nutrition in her one way or another, but I hate to see her go this long without eating. I've already given her an appetite stimulant, but I haven't noticed a difference. She has been on a raw diet for a few months now, but still prefers canned any day. She can't handle beef, lamb, venison or shellfish, so I'm somewhat limited in what I can try. I'm going to get some chicken hearts tomorrow to see if she'll eat those. I have yet to try those with her.

If anyone has any suggestions, I would be more than happy to give them a try. Thank you in advance for any suggestions. And before anyone asks, yes, the veterinarian knows what is going on, I just spoke with him in person tonight when I took my pug in for her annual exam. $2000 in vet bills is enough for one week, wouldn't you think?

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So in this area, it's typical around Christmas for teachers to have students learn about Christmas around the world and how it's celebrated. It's the way they get in multiculturalism in for the December month. I want to do something different with my 5th graders though. The idea is exchanging letters with another class in a different country to discover how those students celebrate the winter holidays, and not just Christmas, as well as special traditions in those families as well, things that the Internet wouldn't always tell. Each of my students would write a letter that I would then collect and send out to another classroom. I know it seems early to ask, but I'd like to be able to have them do the project and have letters to see before our Christmas break in late December.

Are there any 4-6th teachers in other English speaking countries that would be willing to do this? My students are in rural WV for reference.

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