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People are coming to America--all kinds of people. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what is happening to them? Soon with the influx of so many people, thirteen unique colonies are born, each with its own story. Meet Pocahontas and John Smith in Jamestown. Join William Penn and the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Sit with the judges at the Salem witch trials. Hike over the mountains with Daniel Boone. And let Ben Franklin give you some salty advice in his Poor Richard's Almanac in this remarkable journey through the dynamic creation of what one day becomes the United States.
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A great read!.......2007-05-17
I love the writing in this series, it's such a pleasure to read, I wonder why are so many other textbooks so boring?
I'd love to give it five stars, except that there are recurring themes I find grating - some of her "fan club for the US government" stuff is just in totally inappropriate places. For instance, "American slavery was a horror. We should never pretend it was anything else. But the American system of government lets us correct mistakes. When you study history you see we usually do. Of that we can be proud." Gag me with a spoon, slavery was not abolished until more than 240 years after the first slave was delivered in 1619! Hakim does such a great job of fairly telling the story, why ruin it?
Another place I found disappointing was the perpetuation of the myth that the first settlers at Plymouth were called "Pilgrims" and that the Europeans started Thanksgiving. She has a box on Thanksgiving saying the story of the first Thanksgiving is a "real turkey", lists some other European Thanksgiving celebrations, and then neglects to mention that the Indians had been conducting Thanksgiving celebrations at harvest time for generations. I'd love to see someone do such a great job TELLING the story, who could also not perpetuate those irritating little false stories that schoolchildren are always taught.
Gosh, this doesn't sound like the positive review I inteded, but I see others have already told the good stuff. It's wonderfully well written!
Great Books for Teaching HIstory to Kids!.......2006-11-22
I just borrowed this book from the library and now plan to buy the whole set. As a home schooling parent, I am always struggling to find quality materials and this series is just that. Hakim's books are easy to read and comprehend. Most importantly, they give a realistic view of history, not the politically correct one so often taught.
As I teach my children U.S. history, I want them to know that, yes, the white people were sometimes violent and unfair to the Native Americans, but some Native Americans were that way too. Before the Europeans came, they kidnapped and killed each other. I want my kids to know the whole truth and these books are very fair. No matter what the race, some people are good and some are not.
I highly recommend these books for teaching history to children and even adults.
Fun Book.......2005-11-09
This book is very fun and imformative. It gives us information, but in a fun way...I recomend this book to anyone under the age of 13, and who enjoys history...if you get this book in school, dont be scared it is fun!
The English establish thirteen colonies in the New World.......2003-12-18
"Making Thirteen Colonies: 1600-1740" is the second volume in Joy Hakim's "A History of US." The first volume covered how the first Americans crossed over from Asia to become Indians and the first Europeans, mainly the Spanish but also the French and English, began settling the New World. This volume focuses on the narrow string of settlements established by the English that became the thirteen colonies whose people began moving westward and who also started to question the relationship they had with England (there is a small amount of overlap between this and the next volume, which covers period of American history from 1735-1791).
Hakim begins with a preface that looks at the vast mixture of ideas that were brought over from the Mediterranean world and took root in the Americas. Along with the first chapter, which talks about the comet that appeared in 1607 as a portent of great changes for the world, this preface sets up several key themes that will be revisited throughout this and future volumes. "Making Thirteen Colonies" has 42 chapters and it the book is divided into five main sections. The first (chapters 2-12) tells how English settlers came to stay by establishing the first permanent colony in Jamestown, Virginia. The second (chapters 13-23) looks primarily at the Puritans arriving in New England, although Hakim also touches on what was happening between the Indians and the Spanish in the southwest. The third section (chapters 24-30) tells about the mid-Atlantic colonies, most notably New Amsterdam/York and Pennsylvania. The fourth section (chapter 31-39) returns to the South, looking at not only Ole Virginny but also the two Carolinas and Georgia. This unit also looks at the Triangle Trade and other considerations that united the four southern and nine northern colonies. The final section (chapters 40-42) is a transitional unit, that looks at how the colonists began to move westward and the stage was set for the period of history that would make those thirteen colonies into a new nation.
One of the great advantages to writing a ten-volume history of the United States is that unlike most standard American history textbooks "A History of US" is able to clearly establish the unique identities of each of those original thirteen colonies. I recently finished reading an excellent series of books, each of which was devoted to an individual colony, and Hakim ends up being closer to those volumes than she does the standard textbook. Consequently, in addition to the traditional stories about Pocahontas and John Smith in Jamestown, William Penn and the Quakers of Pennsylvania, the Salem witch trials, Ben Franklin as the quintessential American, and Daniel Boone finding routes through the mountains, Hakim establishes an individual identity for each colony.
However, the main strength of this series is how Hakim engages young readers, the same way you would expect a "real" teacher to do in a "real" classroom. This shows up primarily in her ability to anticipate and answer questions that students might have (e.g., why the Indians were not enslaved). I can easily see why this series is popular with parents who are home schooling their children. The book is richly illustrated with dozens and dozens of historic paintings, etchings, drawings, maps, engravings, and assorted reproductions. The margins are crammed with interesting facts, definitions, and quotations, and features on topics such as Land Green and Africa: The Unknown Continent are sprinkled throughout the book. The After Words this time around are devoted to cartography and has some superb examples of 16th- and 17th-century maps. It is easily to see why this series has impressed so many people and why Hakim is able to get such good responses from young students who are used to getting their information from computers and the Internet.
Excellent resource.......2001-03-27
I love this series!! Told in story style, you get details and interesting tidbits that you wouldn't get in ordinary text books. I have always felt that history was a vital part of our school curriculum and these books make the going easier. Even if you are just a history buff, instead of student, you would enjoy these!
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Don't Believe Anything Else--This Book Is Good! .......2006-08-22
I COMPLETELY disagree with whoever wrote the review above. This book is very good and IS NOT BORING WHATSOEVER. Whoever wrote the other review must dislike history, which is one of the most important and underrated subjects in education today. Dennis Fradin's "Thirteen Colonies" series is not extremely in-depth, but that's expected, because it is a juvenile series! And for a juvenile series it has a lot of interesting and accurate information, as well as excellent illustrations. All major events in each colonies' history are covered, and for the book on Massachusetts, the author was at his best yet!
it was completely and utterly boreing.......1998-11-13
I found that it contained good information, but I'm afraid I dozed off more than once. I understand that a lot of effort must have been put into this piece, but i'm afraid it needs a lot of work!!!
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- A Useful, Unfanciful Reference for the Masonic Historian
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Freemasonry in the Thirteen Colonies
J. Hugo Tatsch
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Contents: Unauthenticated Accounts of Early American Freemasonry; Background of Eighteenth Century Freemasonry; Beginnings of the Craft in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Jersey and New York; Solomon's Lodge and Freemasonry in Georgia; Freemasonry in North and South Carolina; First Masonic Lodge in Virginia; Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire; Military Lodges of the American Revolution.
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A Useful, Unfanciful Reference for the Masonic Historian.......2000-02-09
A brief ogranizational history of Freemasonry in the American colonies. It offers no penetrating analysis - nor did it intend to, but it does illustrate some of the tensions among the players at the time. Some masons might appreciate the light it sheds on how different the organization was then from what we take for granted today. It met all my expectations, and I am glad to have purchased it.
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Well written account of the Colony.......2001-02-07
Like all of Fradin's books, this one is well written, informative, and interesting. My children both enjoyed listening to this as we studied colonial times, and liked the well chosen black and white illustrations. We especially enjoy the quotes from writings of the period at the start of each chapter, as they give a flavor for how real people of the time viewed things. We have read other accounts of Henry Hudson which seemed to include more information about his earlier life than the biographical sketch in this book, while Fradin states that little is known, but it is difficult to know for certain who is giving the correct information, as conjecture often gets labeled as fact in history books. The section on Hudson is only a one-page excerpt from the book anyway. We greatly appreciate the way this author makes information understandable to children through wise use of vocabulary, but never 'talks down' to them, and includes enough complex terminology to stretch their comprehension of history.
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First Rate.......2004-01-14
A well-written book that doesn't talk down to its readers. Ms. Hallinan's prose flows well; she knows her subject, too, and that's a very big plus.
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A Primary Source History of the Colony of New Hampshire (Primary Sources of the Thirteen Colonies and the Lost Colony)
Fletcher Haulley
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People are coming to America--all kinds of people. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what is happening to them? Soon with the influx of so many people, thirteen unique colonies are born, each with its own story. Meet Pocahontas and John Smith in Jamestown. Join William Penn and the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Sit with the judges at the Salem witch trials. Hike over the mountains with Daniel Boone. And let Ben Franklin give you some salty advice in his Poor Richard's Almanac in this remarkable journey through the dynamic creation of what one day becomes the United States.
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Excellent History Book on Pennsylvania Colony.......2001-01-31
This book presents a thorough but not overwhelming picture of Pennsylvania from its colonization through statehood. It reads like a history book, not a novel, but is well written and flows easily, so that my children did not get tired of hearing it before we finished. Influential people in history and their ideas are integrated into the book so that it seems to be almost a story, though it is written more in the style of a text. Unlike many 'story style' histories, the dates, places, and events are thoroughly presented in this work. The original inhabitants are covered to some extent, with the focus mostly on the Delaware tribe. The black and white illustrations are also interesting and contribute to the interest of the book. This was the first of this series we read, but we intend to read others after the good experience we had with this one!
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This radical new aesthetic vision from the founder of Adbusters Magazine looks unflinchingly at contemporary art and graphic design and implicates their seemingly innocuous practitioners in crimes against our culture and our planet. Design Anarchy pioneers a hybrid graphic/text language that is by turns intimate, anarchic, abstract and accusatory, to explore the responsibility of the visual designer and artist in the pollution and redemption of our mental and physical commons. It makes an urgent call for artists, graphic and industrial designers and architects to reengage with the world. And it includes work from some who have already heard that call: Jeff Wall, Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ryan McGinley, Gregory Crewdson and Barbara Kruger. Kalle Lasn is the founder of Adbusters Media Foundation, and as its head has launched international social marketing campaigns such as Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week, and has pioneered the spoof ads, billboard liberations and TV mind-melters featured here. In the battle for a new kind of meaning, Design Anarchy is a 400 page mind bomb without precedent.
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Change Your Paradigms.......2007-05-29
Awesome book, if you're just curious about it, it makes you more aware of what surrounds you, if you work with propaganda, publicity, marketing or is an graphic designer or something similar, it makes you think about the road you're taking, where you are and where you wanna be, or if it's all worth it.
is it what it seems to be?.......2007-02-19
in this book there are a lot of things i agree with. its a hard time right now for a graphic designer, if you really want to do interesting things and at the same time you have to manage to work for the right people and to be somehow "politically correct".
apart from the huge format and the shiny pages that are used (which are not really ecological) - without any doubt a pure design question... maybe i am just a young graphic design student without much experience, but the last page let me think:
"printed in china"
this fact just changes the sense of the whole book. credibilty is gone. kalle lasn is taking himself serious?
or did he eventually pay them the same wages as in western countries?
Purposeful Design.......2007-02-07
A book that reminds the artist or designer the importance of design, its purpose, and its message. The total collection of adbusters purposeful imagery is a wonderful treat, especially for those of us who are in agreement with all the anti-consumer, and anti-media campaigns.
Design Anarchy is a must have, its not a poster book, or just another graphic design book, since each image provides a pool of creative idea's that will keep you both politically and artistically active.
"Undesign".......2007-02-04
Design Anarchy- is one of those books which reminds a Graphic Designer's actual duty; how to speak visually?, how to make cool things uncool and vice-versa, how we "graphic designers" are helping our brothers and sisters to live a totally false life...an Uncool one!
DA is an eye opener and mind opener aswell. When i was a design student i used to love Tibor Kalman's philosophy and Adbusters activism... Now when i am teaching my students, DA is my weekly guide to breathe the air of Creative Activism towards Corporate Culture amongst my students and fellows!
If "Art of Looking Sideways" was the Design Bible for me... Design Anarchy is the [Resurrection of Designers] for me.
How to react when you accept reality..........2006-11-27
While I agree with an earlier reviewer that the title is in itself amusing, I would say that this bit of ironic self-reference is in keeping with the idea of detournment pioneered by Guy DeBord to which a chapter is dedicated. In an era when everyone wants to tell you what is going wrong with the world a perspective that offers suggestions as to what you might do right in it is indispensable. For making the attempt alone Kalle Lasn achieves 5 stars, but when you add to that the visual delights and practicality the book offers, one need not turn to the background to find a reason to give this work the highest possible rating.
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Most of us prefer to commute by the shortest route available, without taking into account the traffic congestion that we cause for others. Many networks, including computer networks, suffer from some type of this "selfish routing." In Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy, Tim Roughgarden studies the loss of social welfare caused by selfish, uncoordinated behavior in networks. He quantifies the price of anarchy -- the worst-possible loss of social welfare from selfish routing -- and also discusses several methods for improving the price of anarchy with centralized control.
Roughgarden begins with a relatively nontechnical introduction to selfish routing, describing two important examples that motivate the problems that follow. The first, Pigou's Example, demonstrates that selfish behavior need not generate a socially optimal outcome. The second, the counterintiuitve Braess's Paradox, shows that network improvements can degrade network performance. He then develops techniques for quantifying the price of anarchy (with Pigou's Example playing a central role). Next, he analyzes Braess's Paradox and the computational complexity of detecting it algorithmically, and he describes Stackelberg routing, which improves the price of anarchy using a modest degree of central control. Finally, he defines several open problems that may inspire further research. Roughgarden's work will be of interest not only to researchers and graduate students in theoretical computer science and optimization but also to other computer scientists, as well as to economists, electrical engineers, and mathematicians.
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Bringing Theory to Practice.......2006-01-03
Besides containing original results from the author's own PHD thesis, the book has complied results and concepts that can not only jump start a new comer in the field, but also give practical tools for network designers. Starting from the very simple description of Pigou's example, Braess's Paradox, the chapter 2 on preliminary [describing Nash equilibrium, optimal flow], and the most interesting author's note [at the end of each chapter] are very well articulated. Author is very careful about introducing any new term/concept so that he does not lose the reader's attention.
Chapter 3 describes the "worst possible" [the upper bound of the price of anarchy] ratio between the cost of a flow at Nash equilibrium and that of a socially optimal outcome. Author considers cost functions that are linear, quadratic, cubic, polynomial, and M/M/1 delay function.
Chapter 4 extends the results/ bounds from the previous chapters for more general and complicated situations like generalized selfish routing beyond networks [Nonatomic Congestion Games], approximate equilibrium [approximate Nash Flows], selfish routing with explicit edge capacities, and with finite number of network users each controlling a non-negligible amount of flow [that may or may not split]. Example 4.6.1 and the subsequent results shows that the "worst- case inefficiency (or the upper bounds of price of anarchy) of selfish routing should be achieved by only a particular finite range of traffic rates"
Chapter 5 & 6 addresses the interesting design aspects with practical implications, answering the questions how to use a modest degree of centralized control so that selfish routing results in a socially desirable outcome. General network design with arbitrary cost functions, linear network design with linear cost function, Polynomial and Incline network design are considered with and without taxes. In chapter 6, Stackelberg games/routing is studied to see how much central authority can reduce the price of anarchy in a network used by both selfish individuals and some authority. Even though, the strategy reduces the price of anarchy to a constant, the computation complexity is NP hard. However, author stated that there is a fully polynomial-time approximation can be used under certain conditions.
The book started with Pigou's example to show that "selfish behavior need not produce a socially optimal outcome", and Braess's Paradox -"with selfish routing, network improvements can degrade network performance". These statements can seem to be too strong if you ignore the caveats at the section 1.3.4, and the differences with the more general game theory issues beyond networks. Also some readers can correlate this "selfish behavior" with the power of individual dreams/greed that is driving the free market. The "selfish behavior" in this book is different than the one we see in the free market economy which is a closed loop system with feedback to promote sustainable win/win selfish behavior in the long run among the participants. On the other hand the author has considered "centralized optimization" as a separate entity from the selfish participants in the game resembling more like a centralized socialistic government. In an "ideal" free democratic society, "centralized optimization" is by the participants, for the participants.
Interesting overview of an important subject.......2005-12-10
Anyone who has observed the behavior of real networks understands fully the tradeoffs that are involved in performance versus cost. What is typically not understood in real business contexts is that such tradeoffs can be analyzed quantitatively using various tools from mathematics. Network managers frequently shy away from using these tools, usually viewing them as esoteric or too complicated to be practical. They instead rely on intuition or some vague notion of commonsense to guide their decisions on bandwidth assignments, load balancing, and so on.
That the latter approach can sometimes lead to trouble is exemplified by the results of this book. Throughout its pages, the author gives simple examples and straightforward mathematical theory to illustrate the issues that can arise in network traffic management. It is readily apparent when reading it, especially the discussion of Braess's Paradox, that a simple, commonsense belief, such as the belief that adding a link to a network will relieve congestion, should be viewed with caution.
What the author wants to study in the book is more general, as he is interested in finding out to what extent networks can be left to the users, and not managed centrally, in order to have the most optimal performance. When users of a network decide for themselves what paths to take in the network, and if their decisions are made without considering the effects on other users, this is called `selfish routing.' Will selfish routing result in the best distribution of traffic flow in a particular network? If not, what is the worst possible loss of social welfare that can result from selfish routing? What the author asks, is the `price of anarchy'?
To motivate his answers to these questions, the author begins with two examples. One of these examples, called `Pigou's example, deals with a simple source-sink network with two links, one of which has a fixed cost and the other a linear one. This example illustrates the fact that selfish behavior does not necessarily optimize social welfare. The second example is called Braess's Paradox, and illustrates the fact that making network improvements can actually adversely affect network performance.
Readers are expected of course to have the necessary mathematical background in order to gain anything from this book. Network design engineers typically have this background, but network managers typically do not. The book therefore will not get the attention it needs from the latter class of people. This is unfortunate since it is the network manager who typically needs to understand the issues and results discussed in this book. They are rigorous results from a mathematical perspective, but there are plenty of historical and empirical data that support them. Very important throughout the book is the notion of a network flow at Nash equilibrium and of an optimal flow. The price of anarchy is defined to be the worst possible ratio between the costs of these two flows.
The reader will find that it is the collection of cost functions that are most important to the calculation of the price of anarchy. He calculates the price of anarchy with cost functions that are linear, quadratic, cubic, p-th order polynomials, and certain functions used in queuing theory. An interesting construction he uses in his analysis is the `anarchy value' of a collection C of cost functions, which he shows gives an upper bound for the price of anarchy of every instance of the network with cost functions in C. This upper bound is independent of the complexity of the network and the number of commodities that are using it. Optimal and Nash flows are shown to be identical, but with different cost functions. One very interesting calculation that the author performs, and one that is very important for network managers, involves comparing the cost of a flow at Nash equilibrium to that of an optimal flow that must route additional traffic. He shows that this comparison is equivalent to comparing a Nash flow in a better network to an optimal flow in the original network. The conclusion of this analysis is that the benefit of central control is exceeded by the benefit of improvements in link technology. For the queuing cost functions (M/M/1 queues to be exact), one needs to double the capacity of every link in order to beat optimal routing.
Since Braess's Paradox is a real issue, it is important to design networks that do not exhibit it. The author approaches this design problem by finding a subgraph of the original network that minimizes the common cost of all traffic in a Nash flow for this subgraph. Because the number of subgraphs is exponential in the size of the instance the author has to resort to approximate algorithms. He calls these approximations `C-approximation' algorithms since they give a solution that is bounded above by C times the optimal solution, where C is a positive real number and is called the `approximation ratio' or `performance guarantee' of the algorithm. The author realizes that such approximations may not exist for NP-hard problems, the author tries to find upper and lower bounds on C. This allows him to find upper and lower bounds on the severity of Braess's paradox for the worst possible case. These bounds of course depend on the cost functions, and the author studies four versions of cost functions, namely where they are arbitrary, linear, polynomial, and "incline." All of these bounds are proven with the assumption that P is not equal to NP. For linear cost functions, he proves that for every e > 0 there is no (4/3 - e)-approximation algorithm and there is no ([n/2] - e)-approximation algorithm for arbitrary cost functions. In addition, he proves that there is no o(p/lnp)-approximation algorithm for polynomial cost functions of order p. For general cost functions and large networks, the conclusion reached is that Braess's Paradox can be arbitrarily severe.
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This beautifully designed exhibition catalogue explores the optically vibrant paintings of the late nineteenth-century Italian Divisionists, examining, for the first time, their relationship to Neo-Impressionism. Artists from both movements subscribed to a painting technique rooted in color theory; held left-wing political views; and pursued similar subject matter--from idyllic landscapes to timely social problems. Arcadia and Anarchy underscores the Italian artists' autonomy from their European counterparts and highlights their importance in pioneering Modernism. Published to accompany the premiere of the exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, which was curated by Vivien Greene and will travel to the Guggenheim Museum, New York in the summer of 2007, this focused study of 40 key Divisionist works is the first of its kind to appear in the United States. Featuring work by Giovanni Segantini, Theo Van Rysselberghe, Albert Dubois-Pillet, Georges Seurat, Vittore Grubicy de Dragon, Maximilien Luce, Paul Signac, Emilio Longoni, Camille Pissarro, Angelo Morbelli, Henri-Edmond Cross, Plino Nomellini, Charles Angrand, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Giovanni Sottocornola, Jan Toorop and Gaetano Previati, it includes essays by Greene, as well as by noted scholars Giovanna Ginex, Dominique Lobstein and Aurora Scotti Tosini.
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Anarchy (Graphic Guides)
Clifford Harper
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Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy
Abby Banks
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ASIN: 0810993317 |
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The “punk house” may come in any number of forms. The most common type is often where a large group of like-minded punks cram into a house usually intended to accommodate two or three people, resulting in low rent and, thus, extended hours of leisure for the residents to pursue their true interests.
Punk House features anarchist warehouses, feminist collectives, tree houses, workshops, artists' studios, self-sufficient farms, hobo squats, community centers, basement bike shops, speakeasies, and all varieties of communal living spaces. In over 300 images of fifty houses in twenty-five cities in the US, photographer Abby Banks finds the already weathered face of a seventeen-year-old runaway; the soft hands of a vinyl junkie (record collector); the mohawked show-goer; the dirty dishes in the sink; silk screened posters on the wall; and many other revealing glimpses of these anarchist interiors.
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up the punx.......2007-10-16
Abbie Banks came to my house and took photos of it and put it in the book she is the real deal. She did her dishes when she stayed over and even helped cook. Oi!
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