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On Dec. 20, I was traveling alone from El Campo to Corpus Christi to visit my daughter.
I stopped at the Burger King for a break. When I returned to my truck it wouldn't start.
I called your local mechanic, and they refused to even talk to me. The other mechanic in town was on his way to Dallas. I was having no luck with my road service and could not reach the local wrecker driver by phone.
A very kind couple and their daughter (I assumed) overheard my attempts to find help and the lady offered to get in her car and go find the wrecker driver. After she left I tried one more time and my truck started (after over an hour).
In my excitement about it starting, I failed to get their names. If they read this, I would like them to know how very much their kindness meant to me.
If these folks are representative of the majority of folks in Refugio, then you have a great town.

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We hope this quirky sampler will alert you to features you might not yet have noticed amid Sherpa's abundant, ever-changing, and eclectic mix, and that it gives Sherpa creators a modicum of helpful feedback.
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Thank you, NarutoBase Staff
On second thought maybe there will be an all -out battle with everyone vs madara,juubi and obito
Originally Posted by ajflash
If the kages were to reach the battle field the entire story will turn into a disney fantasy with happy endings and no one dying
People are dying, have you not noticed how small the alliance force is now, the 'little guys' count too you know and main people like Neji are also dying or will still.. and who to say Kishi won't kill the Kages in the Battlefront, to make it even more emotional of an exit for them..
Anyone else think Larva style sounds disgusting?
Anyway, yea the kages on Kyuubi chakra would be epic.
Originally Posted by uchihaminato19
On second thought maybe there will be an all -out battle with everyone vs madara,juubi and obito
I wont like the repeatition of same battle, even madara would be bored to death
Originally Posted by swapnil5843
Obito is no doubt powerful but since he abilities of MS has been evaluated and can be used by Kakashi now; kakashi and guy can defeat him together.....
But only person who can do most damage atm is Madara so he needs to be handled first so it has to be Naruto and Bee ....
Rest of the ninja's and kage can handle/restrain the jubbi... :D
That's true bro + rep
They will still get owned by Madara and Obito.. Remember we have not seen what Madara and Obito can truly do because the were controlling the Juubi the whole time but things will change and you will see Madara in full strength.
Originally Posted by Narutoga
I wont like the repeatition of same battle, even madara would be bored to death
It won't even be close to the same battle just think about who all will be there and with enhancements thanx to Kurama
Originally Posted by Lost Age
If all kages get hyped up, idk if they could still beat Madara, he has infinite chakra
Tsunade will save them and might die.
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Could Hawaii's stricter safeguards on prescription drugs cause a spike in heroin use?
It has happened elsewhere and now some say that's what they are seeing on our streets.
Click here to watch Paul Drewes' report.
Before many addicts shoot up, they visit one of the state's free needle exchange vans. The vans are part of an effort to stop the spread of AIDS, hepatitis and other diseases by discouraging needle sharing by drug users.
The program has worked so well, its numbers are at an all time high.
"In the past year we've had over 800,000 syringes exchanged for the several thousand people that we service," said Heather Lusk with the Community Health Outreach Work project.
CHOW workers are encouraged more drug users are exchanging their needles, but they have also seen a discouraging trend on the street.
"It is disconcerting that the numbers are getting higher. We're also seeing more young people using needles, which wasn't common before," said Lusk.
According to some drug users and those who work with addicts, prescription drugs are behind the increase.
"What we're seeing is a movement from an addiction to pills like oxycontin to moving to heroin or injection of those prescription pills," said Lusk.
In recent years Hawaii has stepped up monitoring of medicines. Patients with multiple prescriptions for the same controlled substance or who see multiple doctors to get the same drug, raise the red flag of the State Narcotic's Division.
Now a program that started this month allows doctors to check patients' medical records even before writing those prescriptions. But some feel tighter control of the controlled substances could lead to even more illegal drug use.
"Because of the increase in prescription pill use, people are turning to heroin to get their withdrawal symptoms to stop. So therefore you are seeing an increase in young people using heroin," said Robin Olsen, a resident who lives on the streets of Chinatown.
A spokesperson for the Honolulu Police Department said heroin arrests and seizures have appeared to remain steady so far.
In other parts of the country where prescription narcotics became harder to get, there were increases in residents turning to illegal drugs.
The head of Hawaii's high intensity drug areas said our islands usually lag a little behind the mainland when it comes to narcotic trends. He added, the sign of more users shooting up -- could be an early indicator of what's to come for the state.


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Skyward files notice of protest over losing bid
State: Minn. company had better bid
A Wisconsin-based school software provider has filed a protest with the state over its losing of a $15 million contract to a Minnesota company.
Skyward Inc. said Friday it had filed the protest with Gov. Scott Walker's administration, saying its bid was lower than the bid winner Infinite Campus of Blaine, Minn.
The contract winner will be the sole provider of student information systems to Wisconsin's more than 440 school districts and non-district charter schools.
The state said that week that Infinite Campus had the highest scoring proposal based on several criteria, including having the highest technical score and the lowest cost.
Democratic Wisconsin lawmakers have complained that Skyward's losing of the bid could result in a loss of jobs in the state.
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People and businesses hit hard by the wet weather could be allowed to pay their taxes late.
The state Department of Taxation will consider extensions and could waive penalties and interest for people who cannot make payment because of the rain and flooding.
Also, if your employer's withholdings taxes are due Monday and they cannot make the deadline you will get a one-month extension.
People needing an extension need to mark their return with 2008 Oahu, Kauai, Maui Heavy Rains and Flood Relief.
Check the Tax Department's Web site for details about how you qualify for the extension.


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Hundreds of strangers attended the funeral of a 99-year-old World War II veteran who died alone.
More than 300 people packed a crematorium in Lytham St Annes in Lancashire, England, for Monday's ceremony to lay Harold Jellicoe Percival to rest, Metro reported.
A member of the Royal Air Force, he died in a nursing home in October with no close friends or immediate family, having never married or had children.
An appeal for mourners was posted by the crematorium in a local newspaper and soon went viral online.
It read: "A single man, Harold has no close family who can attend his funeral. He served in RAF Bomber Command as ground crew during the Second World War.
"Any service personnel who can attend his funeral service would be appreciated."
Percival was part of the ground team who worked with the famous Dambusters squadron No. 617 whose daring raids in May 1943 destroyed strategic German dams, according to The Independent.
His funeral took place as Britain marked Armistice Day with two minutes of silence.


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Last week I showed how to process TeX and LaTeX input files. Now that you're familiar with how to print and preview these files, we can start making input files using these simple, boilerplate templates.
To make a document with TeX or LaTeX, you generally use your favorite text editor to write an input file containing the text with the appropriate markup. Then, you process this TeX or LaTeX input file to create an output file in the DVI format, which you can then preview, convert or print.
For presenting a programming language, it's an old tradition among programmers to give a simple program that just outputs the text "Hello, world" to the screen; such a program is usually just detailed enough to give those unfamiliar with the language a feel for its basic syntax.
We can do the same with document processing languages like TeX and LaTeX. Here's the "Hello, world" for a TeX document:
Hello, world
If you processed this file with tex, it would output a DVI file that displayed the text "Hello, world" in the default font on the default page, with default margins. Here's the LaTeX equivalent:
Hello, world.
Even though the TeX example is simpler, LaTeX is generally easier to use for making structured documents, while TeX is better for more experimental layouts or specialized documents.
To write a document with a template, insert the contents of the template file into a new file that has a .tex or .ltx extension, and edit that. (Use your favorite text editor.)
To make sure that you don't accidentally overwrite the actual template files, you can make them read only, like this:
$ chmod a-w template-file-names RET
The bracketed, uppercase text in the templates explains what belongs there; fill in these lines with your own text, and delete the ones you don't need.
Then, process your file with either the latex or tex command as discussed last week, and you've got a typeset document!
Continue to the next page for the templates.
Note:You can download the templates below individually with the links provided, or view a listing of all of them here.
Use the latex command to process these templates.
This template requires that you have the LaTeX style file called "manuscript.sty", which most TeX distributions have installed at /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/manuscript.sty.
Use the tex command to process the these templates.
(There is a more advanced LaTeX style for printing many different kinds of shipping and package labels; it's normally installed at /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/labels/).
Here are some more complex template packages on the net that you might want to look at:
Next week: printing banners and signs.
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Find Your Passion: More Than Child's Play
By Margaret Bishop
When Tiara Dees picked up a video-game controller at the age of 2, she didn't know the pastime would become a passion. Dees, a senior from Jasper majoring in music and visual journalism, says her love of video games began as a toddler while watching her older brother play his Nintendo Entertainment System.
"As I watched him play video games, I realized that I wanted to learn how to play them too," says Dees, who is a co-founder and vice president of UA's ABXY Gaming Network.
ABXY is a student organization dedicated to providing students an outlet to meet other gamers, discuss gaming and the industry and play the latest video games, says Dees. ABXY has grown to more than 350 members in its first year on campus. The organization hosted 15 game nights in the Ferguson Center game room throughout the year. ABXY was founded by a group of students, Dees says, including the leadership of fellow students Adrian Morris, previous president, and Kelli Abernathy, current ABXY president.
Dees was one of the project leaders and music coordinator of ABXY's annual gaming convention PixelCon, held in January at the Ferguson Center. The innovative PixelCon convention was the idea of fellow student Erin Smelley, project coordinator, Dees says. ABXY also partnered with UA's Creative Campus — a UA initiative that encourages student collaboration — to present PixelCon.
As music coordinator for 2010 PixelCon, Dees organized a free concert that featured four performance groups and a few pieces of her own arranged music along with student composer Connor Vance.
"Around 200 people attended the concert," Dees said. "Our goal was to encourage people to listen to and appreciate the composers' music, so we gave them full credit for the work and posted all the information about the pieces performed."
Support from the Student Government Association has helped launch the gaming network. The SGA has been extremely supportive of ABXY, providing funding and resources for the organization, says Dees. "We hope to form a deeper partnership with their organization this year, including working more closely with the SGA Senate as well as providing our organization as a resource that the SGA can use to further reach out to the UA community," she notes.
Sharing games is a common bond among students who participate in ABXY, she has found. Students bring their own games to share, says Dees, with some of the most popular being battle/fighting games like "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" or "Street Fighter IV" and sports games like "Madden" or "NCAA Football." Dees recalls that her favorite game as a child was "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" for the Nintendo 64. The game taught her about having the strength to get through the tough times as well as having courage to face her own fears, she says. Her current favorite is "LittleBigPlanet" for the Playstation 3 because it encourages players to be creative and resourceful.
The ABXY organization has also worked with sponsors including EA Games, Tabletop Gaming, the University Union and the SOURCE. In addition to her work with ABXY and Creative Campus, Dees writes a column on gaming for The Crimson White UA student newspaper. She also serves as one of 23 students chosen to be UA Parent Ambassadors, representing the University during Bama Bound orientation, family weekend and other official events on campus.
"Tiara is the rare combination of intellect, enthusiasm and compassion. She is friendly and approachable which makes her an ideal Parent Ambassador," says Dr. Mark Nelson, vice provost and vice president for student affairs. "We are so fortunate to have Tiara on the PA team as she is an outstanding role model and represents UA very well," Nelson says.
Additionally, Dees' keen interest in video gaming has had an impact on her plans for the future. "I hope to work in the games industry in some aspect," says Dees. "I would like to compose music for games, work in advertising or public relations, or write for a gaming magazine or website."
After graduation, Dees plans to attend graduate school at UA to obtain her master's degree in advertising and public relations or journalism.
"Though gaming has always been my passion, I am so happy that the University of Alabama has helped me turn many of my dreams into a reality," says Dees. "The support and encouragement that I have received from professors, my friends, and staff has helped motivate me to keep pushing for my goals toward creating a campus that embraces gaming. They believed in our organization, they believed in our convention and, most of all, they believed in me."
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Margaret Bishop is a junior from Lewisburg, Tenn., double majoring in public relations and communication studies. She served as an intern with the Office of Media Relations during the summer of 2010.
This story is part of the Find Your Passion series. To learn more about how you can find your passion at The University of Alabama, please visit UA Undergraduate Admissions.


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While earnings are still the primary metric used to judge company performance and measure the attractiveness of a company's stock price, a growing wave of investors focus on cash. Cash levels help reveal the financial strength and resources of a company, while cash flow indicates the generation of new cash. Cash flow can reveal whether the company is generating or consuming cash in its normal operation, if it is investing for the future, and whether it is rewarding investors with dividends or seeking additional capital from the equity or debt markets. Cash flow analysis often provides advance notice that a company may be facing financial trouble even though earnings and sales are still looking strong.
We have examined a number of cash and cash flow calculations here in the stock screens area of AAII.com. "Screening for Cash Rich Firms" seeks out companies with high levels of net cash on hand relative to the company's market value. The principle underlying this screen is that the cash can be the ultimate safety net for a firm. With a large cash hoard, a firm should be able to weather an economic storm, undertake expansion, or fund productivity improvements for future growth.
Investors have turned toward cash flow because of its direct relationship to the firm's ability to operate profitably. Earnings and earnings multiples dominate standard measures of firm performance and stock price valuation. However, slight accounting differences make it difficult to track earnings over time or to compare firms. Cash flow avoids many of these problems of comparability across firms and consistency over time.
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Student newsFebruary 23,2013
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences announced that the following students from your area earned a place on the school's dean's list for the fall 2012 semester: Amanda Swift of South Barre and JenniferLermond of Barre.
Local residents made the dean's list at Bard College at Simon's Rock for the fall semester of the 2012 academic year. The following students earned a place on the dean's list for distinguished work overall: Simon Smith from Adamant and Pearl Weggler from Northfield.
The following students graduated from Clarkson University in December 2012: David M. Whitman of Bolton, bachelor of science in computer science; Derek Dzugas-Smith of Waterville, bachelor of science in environmental engineering, civil engineering.
The following local residents were recently named to the Northeastern University dean's list for the fall semester, which ended in December 2012: East Montpelier resident Matthew Connor, a student majoring in industrial engineering; and Middlesex resident Daniel Thompson, a student majoring in electrical engineering.
The following local students have made the dean's list for Franklin & Marshall College's fall 2012 semester:
Larissa Kehne from Adamant, who is the daughter of Richard Kehne and Melanie Kehne, and is a graduate of U-32 Jr-Sr High School.
Alana Warnke from Montpelier, who is the daughter of Andrea Warnke and Geoff Brumbaugh, and is a graduate of Montpelier High School.
The following local residents have been named to Emerson College's dean's list for the fall 2012 semester. The criterion to make the dean's list is a grade point average of 3.7 or higher: Calais's Caroline Fothergill, a communication studies major; and Middlesex's Hannah Reinish, a sound design/audio post prod major.
Students spend break globally
BURLINGTON — Early spring in Vermont is still cold and snowy, and students long to get away for spring break. With the busyness of the semester midterms just ending, and the constant consideration of the economic climate, many students are too busy to organize their own recreational vacation, so some have learned to take advantage of trips through Champlain College. From domestic community service trips to gaining a global perspective, Champlain students have countless options.
Eight students and two professors are getting ready to leave for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on Feb. 28. This trip, through the COR-330 Jordan Mojo course is similar to the China Mojo course and trip to Beijing last fall. Nearly all students in this course are taking it as an elective and are either juniors or seniors. They will be traveling with Professors Rob Williams and Miriam Horne to visit the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for 10 days.
Students will be visiting various sites including Petra, an ancient city carved out of rock, which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It is one of the least recognized of the seven wonders, but it is extremely well known from movies such as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
A popular choice in the past few years has been the Service in Action Trips (SAT) through the Center for Service & Civic Engagement. Formerly known as Alternative Spring Break, these trips are great opportunities for students to volunteer during a time where their peers usually choose recreational vacations. Instead, these students prefer to do something productive, inspiring, educational, and immerse themselves in a different community's culture.
This year, a group of eight students, two of which are student leaders, and two AmeriCorps Vistas currently serving in Champlain's Center for Service Office will spend their spring break (March 2-10) in an impoverished farming community in Apopka, Fla.
Contest celebrates military kids
BARRE — Want to help spread the word about how awesome military kids are? You can, and show off your artistic talent, too, by creating an art poster for the Annual Month of the Military Child Poster Contest.
University of Vermont (UVM) Extension's Operation: Military Kids (OMK) is sponsoring the contest, which is open to all Vermont youths, military and civilian, ages 5 to 18. The deadline to enter is March 20. Winners will be announced on April 1, the start of the Month of the Military Child.
Posters must be original artwork and fit on a 14- by 22-inch sheet of paper. You can use any medium you want, but your design must include the messages that April is the Month of the Military Child, and that children of military families serve, too. When creating your poster,keep in mind that the color purple represents all branches of military service. Only one entry per person is allowed.
You may mail your poster to Operation: Military Kids, c/o Lizzy Astrella, UVM Extension 4-H Office, 655 Spear St., Burlington, VT, 05405, or drop it off at this address during regular business hours.
Please include your name, age, home address and branch of service of your parent(s) or guardian(s) (if applicable). If you want your poster returned, be sure to include a self-addressed envelope with proper postage.
Three winners will be chosen. Prizes include one all-day adult pass for Bromley Mountain Ski Resort's Sun Mountain Adventure Park, Peru; one all-day family pass for Shelburne Farms, Shelburne; and three riding lessons at Rhythm of the Rein Riding Center at Water Tower Farm, Marshfield.
2013 Green Student Award
The Vermont Council for Gifted Education announced the 2013 Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Award. This award is made to a student in grade 3 through 6 who has distinguished him/herself in academics, leadership, or the arts. VCGE, an affiliate of the National Association for Gifted Children is the sponsor of the award. NAGC will give the student a certificate and the parents a free membership in NAGC. For more information about Nicholas Green and the award go to http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=558
An award will be made to one Vermont student for the 2012-13 school year. The student will receive a prize from VCGE and free admission to a future On the Road Enrichment program. An essay and a letter of recommendation are required. Students may nominate themselves or be nominated by parents, teachers, students or community or civic groups.
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Friday, April 6, 2012
FASD Parenting: It Isn't About Doing Everything Right.......
It's like being a cowboy working out on the range vs an employee at a commercial milk production facility. The cowboy responds to every storm cloud, injury, rattle snake and potential stampede while the milker follows rules, washes hands, reads handbooks and keeps the herd moving smoothly through the shoot.
I like to think of my kids with FASD's as free range long-horns. Wildly beautiful, unique and just a tad unpredictable.
I love my wild things.
5 comments:
- Blessed said...
I love reading your perspectives. You are "pro child" in all the best senses--treating each child like a unique, worthy person, and making your parenting idealism take back-seat to your kids.
Happy Easter!
- April 6, 2012 at 4:23 PM
- Kari said...
Great analogy. :-)
- April 6, 2012 at 9:41 PM
- tammy said...
This is so true and a lesson I need daily to remind myself of. I have only just started reading your blog, and as an adoptive mom of a sweet FASD boy, I have found great encouragement in your writing. Thanks,
- April 7, 2012 at 10:14 AM
- Old Salt said...
A fond and friendly, "Yee-HAWWW!" from our own ranch. Thanks for yet another fitting, honoring, and timely analogy. What is amazing is seeing one moment's brush-cut steer settle into the lovely barn-broken Guernsey she can also be...
- April 7, 2012 at 4:42 PM
I tend to see my child with an fasd as Predictible in the Extreme. Rarely surprises me -- call me cynical. But wait: I do believe there have been some unusual moments of self-control lately! So I am reminded again to Pay Attention -- growth is happening under the surface. Thank you, and Joyful Easter!
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We are Korean Moms in training dedicated to psycho-analyzing our moms, reliving horrible memories of embarrassment and dread for the benefit of the public...all the while laughing like a wheezy grandpa. Someone needs to pay for our therapy...
Thursday, August 28, 2008
#46 Extra Homework
Because of the educational delinquency that is America, Korean Moms have taken it upon themselves to make, prepare, and administer extra homework; and if they cannot, they will hire some poor starving college kid to do it for them. Korean Moms thank God everyday for places like Kumon, Sylvan Learning Center, and private tutors. It is secretly every Korean Mom's dream for their child to finish the highest book/letter level at their local Kumon center. To be able to brag to other Korean Moms 'Susie finished level 'H' in Kumon yesterday...aigoo...she doesn't sleep or eat, she only studies hard' is a dream come true. When I finally got the courage up to tell my Korean Mom I wanted to quit Kumon after level 'D', she looked at me like I had just told her I have a second butt hole that poops peppermints, then proceeded to give me Stank Eye. Quitting is not an option. It is not even a word.
Korean Moms do not simply want you to do extra homework, they want you to do it fast. They want you to be the Michael Phelps of Math or the SATs. If you cannot do long division at lightening speed and in your head, you are 'special', the bad kind of 'special'. Yes, that's right...I said it...you know your Korean Mom was already thinking it. Once my Korean Mom caught me using my fingers to count. She threatened to cut them off. I also hated riding in the car with my Korean Mom because as she would drive, she would randomly shout multiplication at me, 'What a beautiful day...What's 4x3?!! Bballee! Bballee! - Faster Faster! - What you want to eat? 5x7?!! Why so slow?!!" A few times I peed a little out of fear. I peed a little just now typing this.
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- AmyB said...
Exactly. But ask them for help on your vocabulary, spelling, or English test...and you get, "Do youuuu speaky two languagie perperectly??"
Your blog makes me feel SANE! I thought I was the only one...
- August 28, 2008 at 3:44 PM
- Julie said...
After reading that, all these memories came flooding back to me! I need a hug. Or a drink.
- August 28, 2008 at 3:45 PM
- mike.koo said...
I can't stop laughing. Thanks for the great post.
- August 28, 2008 at 3:49 PM
- Charming Handle said...
Ohhh yes, this takes me back. I had to do math classes during the summer for summer school because my mom wanted me to get ahead. I took Algebra 1 in the summer between 6th and 7th grades and continued on from there.
BTW, since there was no Algebra 1 class for my age at the time, I had to take it as a UCLA Extension course with college students. That was "fun"!
And did anyone else's mom make them also do scales on their musical instrument of choice 50 times a day? Yowza!
- August 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM
When I was 8, my mom did not let me come out of my room until I had memorized my multiplication tables up to 12x12. I was tired, hungry and depressed; I cried that deep gasping/heaving cry but she didn't care. But it worked. I excelled in math throughout the rest of my schooling. I love my sadistic KM.
- August 28, 2008 at 4:14 PM
oh wow.....flashbacks of multiplication flash cards....
- August 28, 2008 at 4:22 PM
- Ben said...
oh man the flash cards.
also, when my mom was "helping" me with my fractions, she would call 1/2, "one-twoths". i fucking said that in class, man!
- August 28, 2008 at 4:36 PM
- Koo said...
Haha. I know a bunch of people who make tons of money from crazy Korean moms and their unfortunate children. Undertapped goldmine right there.
- August 28, 2008 at 5:50 PM
You are a genius.
- August 28, 2008 at 11:55 PM
- Su Won said...
When I was young and naive, I thought these math, writing, and word workbooks my mom gave me were kinda fun. Then I went to school, discovered the horrible truth that is homework, and felt like a duped pawn forever more.
- August 29, 2008 at 12:41 AM
- hmmm said...
I love reading your blogs. They totally crack me up, because I thought my mom was the only one like that! Like when she says "waste money" Hilarious!
- August 29, 2008 at 3:40 AM
- enygma said...
I am counting on this to make a living until I figure out what I want to do. This latter part is driving my own KM crazy. Hee.
- August 29, 2008 at 10:18 AM
To the writer of this blog....
Do you have any children? I bet you DON'T. Wait until what your kids will write about you. I agree to some of your storeis but not all of them. You should NOT say Korean moms. You should refert this story to your mom. That's more acrutate. How many moms do you really have anyway?
- August 29, 2008 at 12:43 PM
KMs don't understand why the US doesn't mandate school after school (hagwon). In Korea, EVERYONE goes to hagwon... several hagwons even! Hagwon is technically optional, but it's practically grounds to call Korean Child Protective Services if you don't go. Oh wait, there is no CPS in Korea b/c Korean parents are always right.
- August 29, 2008 at 1:41 PM
not my korean mom but my KOREAN DAD used to make me do military style multiplication tables when i was 6 or 7 years old!! he'd give me like a sheet of 100 to memorize while he was at work during the summer and i used to DREAD his return home... cuz i'd have to face the wall while standing on a stool with my pant legs rolled up and recite them without missing a beat... and when I DID--WHACK!! needless to say, i was the king of multiplication tables in third grade. my little construction paper hot air balloon left for the land of division before anyone else's did.
- August 29, 2008 at 7:55 PM
this blog is as acrutate as it gets and it makes me love my KM more than ever.
- August 29, 2008 at 7:59 PM
- Blue Floppy Hat said...
This could actually have been my Indian Dad, who made me (age 8) learn the multiplication tables all the way up to 40x40 (this, when the rest of the class only got as far as 12x12), and who tried to make me learn every single word in the Oxford English Dictionary, going alphabet-wise (he failed, of course. But I still know large chunks of the 'A' section off by heart).
Despite all the crying and cursing of those days, I'm actually a wee bit grateful for the fact that I rock at mental calculations. Though Asian parents in general (East Asian or not) can be certifiable.
- August 30, 2008 at 6:41 AM
To the angry anon. up there:
Mate, chill really. It's all a big laugh, so I wonder why you take these entries so seriously. Oh, I'm sure you've never generalized about a group of people in duration of your life, so it's all fair. Of course, some of these entries are hard to relate, as I feel it's very America-centric (how about 'Stuff Korean-American Mums Like?'). Besides, I assume surely you've never seen the blog 'Stuff White People Like,' which sprouted many other blogs like this one in the same vein? Go figure.
(Hopefully, this is not a 'disrespectful' comment by Chiyo's standard.)
In regards to the post:
I'm sure many of you also experienced hagwons during school breaks/vacations, as KMs would shamelessly contribute their hard-earned earnings toward hagwon owner's benefit. One thing that is forbidden in the Korean culture is any type of break for children. No matter how (un)productive you may be, hagwon attendance is mandatory during vacations. Looking back though, I kind of understand, as few kids are really motivated to learn; given no other options, they'll end up doing stupid things...
- August 30, 2008 at 8:38 PM
i didn't need a parent to push me...i just needed one to believe in me...
i am second born son...
- August 31, 2008 at 12:53 AM
"an angel gets it's wings"
That should be "its."
If you did more homework, you would know this. :)
- August 31, 2008 at 10:17 AM
- AmyB said...
Anon: wrong, dumbass. You use an apostrophe to form possessives of nouns. "The angel's wings."
You're KM obv failed you.
- August 31, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Actually, amyb, "it's" is a contraction for "it is" or "it has."
And "its" is the possessive adjective and possessive pronoun form of the personal pronoun "it."
So it should be: "an angel gets its wings," not "an angel gets it is/has wings."
(It's a common mistake. Feel free to look things up yourself before calling people dumbasses.)
- August 31, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Okay, first I must say that the comments are getting a little ridiculous. (Although it IS its, not it's. But who cares? And yes, I just started THREE sentences with a conjunction. Kill me.)
Secondly, your KM must be much nicer than mine, because if mine read all of this and knew it was about her, she would pout and give the silent treatment for a very, very long time. Then would come the violent, ear-piercing screams and threats to kill herself (or at least begging for God to kill her) and lots of Korean words that I don't know. Trade ya?
- August 31, 2008 at 12:57 PM
"Although it IS its, not it's. But who cares?"
Since this post is about homework and studying, this mistake is a little bit more embarrassing than it would be otherwise.
As I said, it's a common mistake. If you get it right, it sets you apart from the plebeians (like the Oxford comma).
Just trying to help out a fellow Korean. Isn't it nice to learn something?
I do also want to say that this blog rocks. I laughed until I cried. And yet, my KM is nothing like this. (Except for saving the wrapping paper.)
- August 31, 2008 at 3:07 PM
This rings true for me as well. My KM would write out pages of multiplication and long division problems for me to do on Saturdays when I was at her gah-geh...I was 6. Unfortunately, this only inspired a deep loathing of mathematics in me, so deep that I became a liberal arts major!
- August 31, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Hey amyb,
"You're KM obv failed you."
That should be "your."
Did you flunk 1st grade grammar?
- August 31, 2008 at 9:13 PM
- seitzk said...
*years of repressed memories come flooding back*
- September 1, 2008 at 10:21 AM
- JKL said...
I had a tutor since grade school, including a mean SAT Korean tutor who yelled at me and lots of FOB tutors my mom would cut fruit for. I am also a recovering graduate of the Sylvan Learning Center. You would think I was a special needs child with all the tutoring I got.
- September 1, 2008 at 3:26 PM
My brother and I had a convo the other day saying that we both used to love Math until my KM made us both go to KUMON on Saturday mornings when the rest of the kids got to do stuff like girl scouts and play basketball.
I can do multiplication and long divison like nobody's business still, but other forms of math escape me... I've put up a mental block!! :)
But even if I did have to be up by 7AM to make the KUMON class on Sat mornings... And SAT prep classes starting from the 8th grade, absolute love to my KM who did the best she could to raise us in a country that was absolutely foreign to her. As she kept saying to me - math has no language barriers, it's the same where ever you go.
- September 1, 2008 at 11:39 PM
Wow... my mom was never like that, EVER, when it came to homework or school work, thank God. Although, she's a lot like some of the entries you wrote about. Thanks for the great, hilarious blog. =)
- September 2, 2008 at 1:06 AM
LOL My KM was reading this with me, and she claims that she asked me multiplication questions just for it to be "more fun". Heh.. Well, it definitely wasn't, if you ask me. T^T
- September 2, 2008 at 5:02 AM
I love it! The part where the KM brags "(Susie) doesn't sleep or eat, she only studies hard...." is the best! I hear my KM AND my KD saying this exact phrase um, let's see, since I can remember.
"Bam-jung kaa gee kong-bu hae" All through the night, she studies. HA!!!
- September 2, 2008 at 2:03 PM
HAHAHA, omg you are freakin' hilarious! (first time visitor)I love it!
And readers, we don't need to be so nitpicky about grammatical errors. It's just a blog.
- September 2, 2008 at 11:53 PM
- Yum said...
Oh Kumon. I used to hide pages and say I "lost" them, feign sickness, steal the answer guide...anything to avoid doing those damn math packets.
That must be why I'm not in Stanford fulfilling my KM's ultimate dream.
- September 3, 2008 at 2:33 AM
i dunno if this has been done already (i didnt see it): korean moms and saunas (bath houses) and living there, eating, watching korean tv, scrubbing each other, etc.
- September 3, 2008 at 3:22 AM
GOLF should have been #1 on this list.
- September 4, 2008 at 10:45 AM
- gee said...
This is the first time I have read your blog. I have to say, I literally laughed out loud, and I don't laugh out loud reading, watching TV, or movies. It takes alot to make me laugh out loud, and OH MY GOD!!! I was cracking up.
- September 4, 2008 at 8:24 PM
I have a suggestion for the next chapter.
Could you please include "Talking on cell phones?"
My oh-ma never gets off the phone or anything. She can spend upwards to 6 hours a day talking on the phone. If you want to narrow it down, Korean moms LOVE (not Like) T-Mobile. I know from experience.
- September 4, 2008 at 9:16 PM
Dear KMom Blogger, you are so brave--and we love you. I speak for your fan base in Seattle which consists of myself and my two cousins. Also the thirty friends in L.A. I emailed your link to.
Growing up in L.A. I also took that Algebra class at UCLA and a Korean College guy made a pass at me. I told my Mom and she laughed! She didn't try to protect me. I was in 7th grade.
BTW did you hear about the new Randy Newman song called Korean Parents? Seriously. Pull up the lyrics on Google and listen. The Korean parenting phenomenon has made oscar-award winner song-writing status.
Keep on truckin'. Viva La Raza.(I have to borrow a saying, because Koreans don't seem to have a saying of rebellion, or it was beaten out of me).
- September 5, 2008 at 12:16 PM
i could read and write and do math when i was four. i thought, everyone could do that. first day at school, i was the freaking only one!!! when all the other kids were playing outside, i was studying. my mom robbed me of my babyhood... but only thanks to her, i can out-math anyone except the ones trained by KMs...
- September 6, 2008 at 1:17 PM
- jessicaaaapaek said...
my korean mom gave up on kumon for me when she realized that my inability to process math is even greater than that of a korean mom's desire to have a mathelete child.
she doesn't know what she did wrong in raising me. i have piercings and i retook algebra I freshman year in high school and failed geometry sophomore year.
it is actually possible to be more stubborn than a korean mom!
- September 15, 2008 at 8:17 AM
- lilpandapaw said...
My co-worker (not Korean, but Chinese) is having her 8 year old son do Kumon...her son has already learned to go as slow as he can, to put off the advanced stuff as long as possible! LOL!
Literally, the most useful thing from Kumon was being able to figure out how much cheaper the clothing would be with the additional discount.
- September 17, 2008 at 1:33 AM
love the kid in the photo. that look of utter concentration, lol!
- September 24, 2008 at 3:12 PM
I never went to hagwon or did extra homework, and I'm fine! I have the best route on the garbage man team and i get to drive the truck at least once a week. See she was wrong...oh no.
I love this blog, keep it up!
- September 30, 2008 at 1:02 PM
It's so odd how I've run into this blog the very day my mom refused to let me go out of the house, even, and then she gave me a bunch of math problems to solve, FROM MY OWN HIGHSCHOOL'S TEXTBOOK.
But it helps us all out in the end. (:
- October 9, 2008 at 3:09 PM
LOL!! I read this with my KM and we were both laughing so hard we were nearly crying. Man, it's been a long time since I've read anything this funny =D
- October 19, 2008 at 1:16 AM
That's me.
I made it!
My three minutes of fame!
Thanks darling.
- October 23, 2008 at 12:37 PM
- Edward said...
I spent spring break (the whole freak'in week!) learning math in the house with my Korean mom. It was so painful watching the kids play in the neighborhood under the beautiful sun while I slaved over fractions and multiplication tables.
After break it all paid off. The school third grade genious was some girl named Patel. We had the same home room with a crazy Chinese teacher who made the smartest kid solve really long math problems on the chalk board.
Five kids in front slaving away at the chalk board... the white kids flame out when they can solve 13 digit long division problems. Me and Ms. Patel are grinding away at 22 digit long division problems and I smoked her! All thanks to my KM... ;)
- November 4, 2008 at 4:35 PM
- Euni said...
I could be the top of my class with the perfect grades and an awesome sat score, my grandma still talks about the time I couldn't memorize the 7 times table back in 5th grade... Let it go, grandma, I took friggin calculus, okay?
My Korean parents were really chill and didn't send me to hagwons or Korean school or tutors... all of my korean friends were extremely jealous.
- November 27, 2008 at 2:08 PM
I remember being 8 and sneaking a calculator to do my multiplication homework quickly right before school started so I wouldn't be caught using my fingers/visual help to do it at home.
And then I got CAUGHT.
"Why don't you know your multiplication tables?!"
"We started learning it a few weeks ago!"
Ohhh yeah. Trauma times. :D
- December 5, 2008 at 7:22 PM
LMAO!! I can just imagine them saying this!! hahahaha
I'm Mexican but I learned reading/writing/math when I was 4 years old and when I was older, my mom would drop me off at the library "for fun". When she picked me up, I had to have a stack of books checked out that I could read at home. And they had to be books that had to do with what I wanted to do when I grew up (dentist, doctor, etc...)
At home, I would WANT to do homework to get out of doing chores and would hide from her to read and do my homework.
She would also brag to her friends that my teacher told her that I would not go play at recess, instead I stayed inside reading or doing more work.... I don't remember that part. LOL!!
- January 14, 2009 at 1:36 PM
- .angela. said...
haha! so funny and I can relate -_-;, when I was younger, I had to study study study -_-;;;
I learned cursive, multiplication, division by 1st grade. . .
- March 6, 2009 at 12:32 AM
I remember teaching 6-12 year olds at a "hagwon" in Korea, and having them ask me for more homework. I asked a 9 year old girl, who got three 10-word vocabulary sheets from each of her English classes, what her work/sleep schedule was like. She told me she went from public school until 3:10pm, then hagwons from 3:30pm until 12:00am, then homework from 1:00am-3:00am, then sleep. I don't know how these kids do it! I taught my high school kids the Western concept of free time and they were baffled "oh, is that when you stop at a PC방 to play computer games on the way to school?"
- March 29, 2009 at 7:29 PM
I read this to my Korean Mom and she was like, "who wrote this?? why are they making Korean moms sound so bad? homework is good for you!" then in an accusing tone, "did YOU write this??"
haha....i think if i had said yes she would have beat me with a stick!
- April 21, 2009 at 7:01 AM
"I read this to my Korean Mom and she was like, "who wrote this?? why are they making Korean moms sound so bad? homework is good for you!" then in an accusing tone, "did YOU write this??""
LMAO!!! AHAHAHAHHA that is hilarious!!
Korean moms ftw lol.
- July 12, 2009 at 4:08 AM
Listen, you guys are lucky! My BFF has a KM, and I always wished she was mine. I remember her getting beat by hangers because she didn't hang up her jeans correctly.. LOL.
I still love her though. She always feeds us when we come over, and its always the best food.
- July 20, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- sol said...
my mom used to RANDOMLY ambush me with multiplication questions too!!!!!!
and those four wheel drive cars with the "4x4" stamped on the back...whenever we'd stop behind it, I would always pray that she wouldn't look there. but it failed every time.
it's only scary when I was younger, because I was really slow in math.
- July 25, 2009 at 7:06 PM
- JulieYeo said...
I sucked at math, science, the piano, and I have chosen to become a fine artist.
But this never stopped my mom from calling me over as she picked up my newborn brother, cradling him lovingly in all his boyhood glory, as she silently hissed at me, "3X8.."
I look for things I cannot relate to on your blog, and I have to say you have me and my friends' mothers down detail by detail. Except for Jesus, my mom is tradition Korean Shamanism.
Though.. I'm sure she feels she can relate.
You should do one about how KMs always freeze food. I write to you as I eat tuna salad sandwiched between two thawed and moist slices of bread.
Hope to read more, thank you for all the laughs and memory-induced tears.
- October 12, 2009 at 3:25 AM
- November 3, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- Elaine said...
Oh my goodness. Over the summer, I was not allowed to play with my friends throughout the entire day. First I had to play piano for one hour, and do 5 pages of math, reading, and writing wrokbooks each. She, too, was also all about yelling out random multiplication and spelling things. If I asked her to shut up, I got the stank eye.
- April 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM
Dude, this is soooo true, I'm part Korean, and it's like Asian parents OD. Have to gt over a 95 and stuff~
- May 27, 2010 at 4:16 PM
While I believe Kumon, ECC, and Elite Institute are the second coming of the axis powers to extended learning. I have to say that I have some fond memories especially with Kumon. There'd always be that girl who didn't like being there, crushed by the red circles and low scores. After the third or so time of redoing her packet, she'd day dream only coming back to pick up her twirled pencil or to her KM's voice. That's when I'd plop down next to her and give her a smile and help her with some answers. Maybe scribble a doodle or jot down a convo to kill the time. As an elementary school kid, Kumon was the korean pickup spot. It was uniquely balanced between the muffled giggles of the japanese game show Silent Library and the happenstance of the market produce section. When both your mom's run late. BOOM, it's parking lot speed date. To any Korean kids currently in Kumon. If you're smart and even remotely funny. You are now the alpha male.
- October 12, 2010 at 5:45 AM
With your permission, I use your blog in my reading class for my freshmen. They learn a great deal of vocabulary and love the posts. I hardly had control of the class with the laughing over this one.
Then I assigned them some homework. Hehehe...
Ken in Daegu
- October 25, 2010 at 12:43 AM
- unchienne said...
I think this is the first article I read that actually didn't coincide with my own life. My mother was never overly concerned about academics in our house. In fact, I went to college in spite of her protests. All she's ever wanted me to do get married (preferably to someone with money) and have babies.
- March 28, 2011 at 12:52 PM
- moonlightmenuett said...
OMG!!! I remember how my mom always nags about how my (german) school doesn't give me enough homework while chatting to other KM and after she was SO shocked and heart broken from my b- in . . . *gasp* MATH! yeah . . . she gave me 4 pages of math problems of multiplication and division in 2nd grade.
And Summer vacation *shudder* means the time she can torture me of 3-4 hours of math from stuff i would learn a year later in my school and then 1 hour of korean grammar everyday . . . sweet memories
- December 27, 2011 at 6:17 PM
- moonlightmenuett said...
I remember how my KM was so heart broken about the B- i got so she made me do 4 pages of multiplication and division in 2nd grade.
Oh and Summer vacation *shudder* the perfect chance to torture me with 4 hours of math and 1 hour of korean grammar and not to forget 1-2 hours of piano practice daily. um yeah I learned algebra and stuff like that when I was 9 :I . . . sweet childhood memories
- December 27, 2011 at 6:27 PM


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Ari stumbles into Adam's town from the Big Apple. She's hot on the trail of a mysterious crime boss who wants to exploit her telekinesis for his own evil ends. If she can't get Henry Blackwater off her back, she and her two most trusted friends in the world had better kiss the decent life they've built for themselves goodbye.
Ari's mission puts her on a collision course with the hottest cop in the RPD. Adam wants Blackwater too, but mostly he wants Ari. She seems to be the mate he's been yearning for all his life, though getting a former street kid into bed with the Law could be his toughest case to date.
When biology knocks boots with justice, more than bad guys go up flames.
But Nicolas has his own plans for the fiesty young woman. And Merry has no idea how hot it can get in an artist's studio.
Problem is, Belle gets a glimpse of more than he counted on. Will this down-to-earth junkshop owner decide an entitled prince of enchantments isn't who she signed on to wed? Can Duvall overcome his pride and bare his true heart to her?
Only a honeymoon fit for a faerie can settle this conundrum.
Q4): What are some of your hobbies and/or things that you enjoy doing when you're not writing or taking care of other author business?


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The prompt for this Sepia Saturday has a summer picnic feel to it, so Sepians might home in of teapots, primus stove, Chicken, a blanket on the grass, shy girls, or straw hats.
A memory of a photo of young girls in straw hats sent me delving into my files of photographs. Sure enough, there they were -- sometimes shy or best friends forever or a bit flirty, saucy, and a tad mysterious.
|1904 Graduation Photos, Walden School,
Richmond, Wheeler County, Oregon
|1904 Echo's graduation from Grade School
Echo Keyes on far left.
Echo, seated second from the left, was fourteen at this graduation from grade school, which probably meant from the eighth grade. Wheeler County's now nearly deserted town of Richmond, schooled all of the grade school children around Richmond. The family names of the students included names rich in my family history; Brown, Butler, Donnelly, Johnson, Keyes.
Yet, another photo of the graduates. This time, it's a family picture. Echo Keyes is again on the far right of the back row; next to her is her cousin Pansy Butler; next, her older sister Beth Keyes and on the left, Floy Johnson. The front row gentlemen are Echo's cousin Sam Butler, and brothers, Ray and Phil Keyes. According to one of the family history keepers, not all of these young people went to Waldon. Sam and Pansy Butler attended high school in Fossil, Oregon, which was 40 to 50 miles to the north. Floy's family lived near Canyon City and she most likely went to school in Canyon City or John Day. One thing is for sure, wherever they went to school, the young people were all dressed up for this set of graduation pictures.
I have always been curious about who was the photographer; a family member? or perhaps an photographer from Fossil or Canyon City? There were several other photos which had this same sort of "tacked-up" back drop and it seems likely that those photos were taken at the same time. Whatever the manner, this graduation time of 1904 was well photographed in the rolling hills around the eastern Oregon settlements of Mitchell and Richmond -- at least for the Keyes, Johnson, and Butler families.
|spring 1904, after graduation
back row, l to r: Echo Keyes, Pansy Butler, Beth Keyes, & Floy Johnson
front row, l to r: Sam Butler, Ray Keyes & Phil Keyes
The next two photographs are of my grandmother, Agnes Laura Keyes, at the time of her graduation from high school in the Willamette Valley. She was sister to Echo, Beth, Ray and Phil of the previous photos, and of course, cousin to Pansy and Floy.
A teacher who boarded with the Keyes family convinced Agnes' father to send her to school in the Willamette Valley. When my grandmother would tell me about going to school in the "Valley," I never thought to ask her the name of the school. Of course, I was only eleven when she died-- and it never occurred to me that she wouldn't always be there.
Although the Willamette Valley towns of Salem and Corvallis had more educational opportunities, both were still very provincial. Nevertheless, those few years at a "big city" school were very important to Grandmother Agnes Laura. In later years, she would often read to me from her school elocution book and found a rapt listener to her theatrical readings. I am sure that my mother did a few eye rolls as she was sure that I did not need any further encouragement towards drama and make-believe. Grandmother kept her elocution book tucked safely away in the glass-fronted bookcase until she died. I do wish I had that elocution book now.
|Agnes Laura Keyes, circa 1898
after graduation in Salem, Oregon
|Agnes Laura Keyes, circa 1898
after graduation in Salem, Oregon
|Sarah Almira (Duty) Brown
circa 1880, Wheeler County
|"Grandma Brown", Aug 30, 1912
aka, Sarah Almira (Duty) Brown
at the Richmond home of her daughter,
Jessie (Brown) Butler


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BOE discusses uniform colors
WATERFORD – Kelly green and white are still the only official school colors, but Wolf Creek Local officials agreed Monday to a little leeway when it comes to black uniform pants.
No formal vote was taken, but a majority of board members told Superintendent Bob Caldwell during the board's regular meeting in the Waterford High School library that they could accept black pants for sports that play outside and often get dirty.
"Would you go out and do your work in white pants," board President Hugh Arnold asked.
Four years ago, in response to a growing number of predominantly black attire and accessories related to school sports, black accents on uniforms and a national trend of more black in sports jerseys, Caldwell issued a memo emphasizing the importance of tradition and reiterating that the primary colors in uniforms were to be kelly green and white.
In April 2012, members of the high school band boosters approached the board about purchasing black pants for the band's new uniforms. Black pants without stripes reveal fewer alignment mistakes and could lead to improved scores at competitions, they said. As a compromise, two sets of pants were purchased – green for marching at games and black for competitions, Caldwell said Monday.
Recently, a member of the baseball booster organization contacted Caldwell about purchasing black pants for the Waterford High School team's uniforms, noting they would be easier to clean of dirt and grass stains than white ones.
"It was purely for sanitation," Caldwell said.
The superintendent then asked the board whether they wanted him to continue with the firm prohibition against black he's emphasized in recent years.
"I think your outside sports … should be allowed to go with a little bit darker color," board member Tom Kearns said.
"I think it stays green and white," board Vice President Neil Huck said.
One board member asked whether green pants would be an option over black, but Waterford Elementary Principal Doug Baldwin, the high school softball coach, said in some cases that can be significantly more expensive.
Board member Jeff Campbell agreed it made sense for outdoor sports to use black pants, but not others, like basketball.
"An indoor, clean sport, I don't think we need it," he said.


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HONESDALE, PA — When I decided to attend last Thursday's Family Game Night at The Cooperage in Honesdale, I was expecting to experience a blast from the past—a chance to play Monopoly, Clue, Sorry, Risk, or any number of classic board games. What I found, however, were about 20 people playing a selection of popular, new-fangled board games with names I'd never heard of: Carcassonne, The Settlers of Catan, Trajan, Terra Mystica and Tokaido, to name just a few of the board games available that night.
"There has been a real Renaissance in board gaming," explained Pennell Whitney, who was playing Carcassonne with Dave Harvey. He is one of the facilitators of game night, happy to teach anyone a new game. "I got caught up in playing these kinds of games in the 1990s," he said by way of explanation. He confesses to owning around 100 different board games himself.
Spread out on the floor nearby, a large-scale version of Carcassonne with five players was unfolding.
According to boardgamegeek.com, the committed board gamer's top online resource, Carcassonne is a tile-placement game. Players draw and place tiles to build a landscape of southern France, and then "people" it (with playing pieces called "meeples") to claim ownership of fields, roads and cities, etc. When an area is completed, a meeple scores points for its owner.
I was curious to know what drew these gamers to game night.
"Board games are expensive," explained Sandor Csontos, and the number of games offered at game night allows the chance to play a wide variety of them.
His brother, Cahir Csontos, added, "I love to learn new games, and besides, you get to meet new people."
The draw for Courtney Dowling is that "you get to be part of a community instead of just playing games online."
Carcassonne (first published in 2000) and The Settlers of Catan (released in 1995) are considered among the great-granddaddies of the current movement, "singularly responsible for the resurgence of board games all over the world," Harvey said. There are now many variations, add-ons and/or alternate rules for both of these games.
Gamers on this night include a tableful mostly of high school players, as well as two men who drove in from Eldred, NY to play "Trajan" (a game far too complicated for my feeble brain). Trajan (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan), set in ancient Rome, "is a game in which players try to increase their influence and power in various areas of Roman life such as political influence, trading, military dominion and other important parts of Roman culture…. [The goal is to] acquire victory points." (Again, see boardgamegeek.com)


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#28 - 05/28/05 12:09 PM Re: Words from newspapers of the world
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You cannot learn a language without learning about the culture. And IMO the more you learn about other cultures the wider your mind will be and the better you will be at judging your own culture and what it takes for granted.
I agree, whole-heartedly, however, does this mean the US takes its lack of one specific culture for granted... possibly taking diversity for granted... or is *it just continually confused?
#29 - 05/31/05 06:59 PM Re: Words from newspapers of the world
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I'll let a US'n answer for themselves. I think many Canadians esp. in smaller towns see Canada as having a culture with multiculturalism as the extras. Your basic steak and potatoes with a choice of buerre blanc, hoisin worcestershire or salsa. Those in areas with a larger immigrant population take for granted that the whole multicultural smorgesbord is part of our culture.
#30 - 02/26/07 09:07 AM Re: Words from newspapers of the world
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British culture, with modernization and a whole lot of extra sprinklings. That is America._________________________
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#170255 - 09/29/07 03:55 PM Re: Words from newspapers of the world [Re: Curuinor]
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I'm quite convinced that English is the most adaquate choice for being a global language.
I've read the newspaper daily while staying in your country and when I compare "obit" to our word "overlijdensberichten " when it's about obituaries it's pretty obvious who wins.
That's what made me wonder about an expression I read a lot:
"state-of-the-art" ... such and so.This seems to me leading to the opposite direction. Loosing adaquateness. Why not simply "the actual best". All those hyphens make for longer time writing.I think it a pretty pretentious and needlessly long expression.
#170256 - 09/29/07 04:27 PM Re: Words from newspapers of the world [Re: BranShea]
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But, it's a nice choriamb. Actual best reminds me of also ran._________________________
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#170263 - 09/30/07 07:48 AM Re: Words from newspapers of the world [Re: zmjezhd]
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#170269 - 09/30/07 02:36 PM Re: Words from newspapers of the world [Re: zmjezhd]
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Choriamb definition:
4-syllable poetic foot: a poetic foot consisting of two short syllables between two long ones or two unstressed syllables between two stressed ones.
't's all new to me.
And sota? eta? sounds like a Japanese noodle soup.
#170271 - 09/30/07 02:47 PM Re: Words from newspapers of the world [Re: BranShea]
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#183206 - 03/04/09 02:56 PM Re: Words from newspapers of the world [Re: conscious]
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In my opinion, language is a tool which carries forward the cultural values across generations. If Language is given less importance, ultimately the cultural values diminish over time.
I basically hail from South India, and my mother tongue is Tamil. I went abroad to pursue my university education. It was sad to note that many friends of mine who where originally speakers of Tamil, couldn't converse well in Tamil just because their parents insisted from the early age to use English at all levels(even at home). Also they patronized the West more, by means of watching American Sitcoms, shows, movies etc. I could see them losing their cultural identity over time.
#183211 - 03/04/09 04:10 PM Re: Words from newspapers of the world [Re: K_D]
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In that post five boxes up I should have said "lingua franca" in stead of "global language". I agree with you that it is very important to keep native languages alive. If only for the richness and fun of it. But English definitely was the easiest language to learn as a second language. (don't know how it is for Tamil speaking people)
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The Community Corrections program has found a new home in Buckhannon, just days after receiving a notice to vacate its current location.
Upshur County Commissioners approved a one-year lease between the Community Corrections program and Q4 Holdings LLC Thursday for a property at 31 North Florida St.
Q4 Holdings LLC is a Buckhannon company located on Mount Nebo Road.
The rent will be for $700 per month, according to the lease agreement, which is similar to what the program is paying for its current location. The Community Corrections program will also be responsible for paying utility costs.
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New National Flood Insurance Rate Maps were presented to Wayne County municipalities by Federal Emergency Management Agency officials recently. The Pennsylvania Floodplain Management Act (Act 166 of 1978) requires that all municipalities enact and enforce an ordinance to meet the requirements of the Pennsylvania Floodplain Management Act and the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
The Wayne Conservation District (WCD) is carrying out the program for the PA Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) in Wayne County. "Our new NFIP maps were released during the summer of 2011 and we will be reaching out to each municipality to assist them with updating their floodplain ordinances," said watershed specialist Jamie Knecht.
Ordinances have been received from approximately half of the townships. The WCD will review those ordinances with the townships during a 12- to 14-month process. At the end of that period, townships will adopt new floodplain ordinan-ces to reflect changes on the maps. Townships are asked to inform residents whose area may have changed.
"Residents should be checking the new floodplain mapping at their municipal offices as they advertise to do so, in order to assess whether or not they are in a flood-prone area," said Knecht. "Some maps have changes on them, while others do not have any major changes."
The process affects national flood insurance, which can be purchased at a less expensive rate than private flood insurance as long as the township follows the requirements. Homeowners with federally backed mortgages who are located in a floodplain are required to have flood insurance. "As long as the municipality participates in the NFIP, then its residents are eligible to obtain flood insurance through that program at a reduced rate before the new ordinances are adopted," explained Knecht.
Some of the tasks WCD will carry out in relation to the program include establishing a floodplain management resource library for use by local municipal officials; providing education on floodplain management and related topics; working with municipalities to amend outdated ordinances; and providing technical assistance with permitting, ordinance adoption, administration and compliance.
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June 7, 2010--Joshua Bailey, a junior at North Central College, received an award for an academic paper he presented at the 18th Annual Conference for Students of Political Science, hosted by the Illinois State University (ISU) Department of Politics and Government on April 28.
His paper, titled "Freedom or Slavery? The Harm in Legalizing Prostitution," won second place for Best Undergraduate Student Paper at the conference and will be published in ISU's student online journal "Critique." More than 60 graduate and undergraduate students in political science from 25 institutions participated in the conference.
Bailey carries a double major in political science and English writing at North Central College. He's the son of Brian and Patty Bailey of Galesburg, Ill., and is a graduate of Galesburg High School.
Founded in 1861, North Central College is an independent, comprehensive college of the liberal arts and sciences that offers more than 55 undergraduate majors and graduate programming in six areas. Located in Naperville, Ill., North Central is recognized as one of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report, which cites it as one of the top six schools in the Midwest for "Strong Commitment to Undergraduate Teaching"; as "a college for high-achieving students" by Peterson's Competitive Colleges; and as one of "America's Best Colleges" by Forbes.


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Many years ago (2003?), PBW did a set at the Stanford University coffeehouse.
At this point I don't even know where I found the MP3, possibly here on ST.com, possibly at KZSU, but I still listen to the mix regularly. Out in the wild you may come across the filename as "PBWolf Coho".
Would anyone know where I could find a set list for this mix? There are a couple of beats that he threw down underneath KRS, and I'm wondering if it's written down anywhere what they were...
I've looked around here, at KZSU, at PBWolf.com, no luck.
PBWolf set list - Coho
Started by throw , Oct 08 2013 01:37 PMPeanut Butter Wolf mixes setlist
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Posted 08 October 2013 - 01:37 PM
Posted 08 October 2013 - 01:39 PM
i thought this was PBWolf.com
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Posted 09 October 2013 - 07:48 AM
hook me up with the mp3 and i'll help
Posted 09 October 2013 - 10:49 AM
Good luck man. I tried to get my detective on but I only turned up some russian ass site that doesn't even have the mp3 of the set on its site anymore. If you could share the file with the community our collective ears will most definitely be able to piece together most of the tracks that aren't exclusives.
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Posted 09 October 2013 - 05:31 PM
yeah man throw down a little mp3 and im sure people will help out, myself included
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Posted 10 October 2013 - 11:55 PM
Here you are....the two beds I'm most curious about are the ones that start at ~7:35 (not KRS, but the one underneath him) and 9:42 (the horns).
Hope y'all like this set as much as I have. Tried to get PBW to shoot me a "Go ahead and post this" but haven't heard back, so I left it on stream. If I find out that he's fine w/it being posted, I'll switch it to downloadable.
Hope y'all like this set as much as I have. Tried to get PBW to shoot me a "Go ahead and post this" but haven't heard back, so I left it on stream. If I find out that he's fine w/it being posted, I'll switch it to downloadable.
Posted 17 January 2014 - 01:59 PM
Aight then....brentabousko, SunnyMeadows, Fake Krills....up to the plate with you, fellas.
Perhaps just throw timing comments in at SC itself?
Perhaps just throw timing comments in at SC itself?
Posted 18 January 2014 - 02:53 AM
At the 7:20 min mark it starts to fade from Nas Is Like to KRS-One Attacks. That's how the KRS track is already with the scratches. After that it goes to Boogie Down Production's Super Hoe.
Don't remember the 9:42 loop.
Don't remember the 9:42 loop.
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5They Declare You to Be the Guests of Honor
When visiting new places, pay attention to how you're received. Obviously, this will vary widely even amongst "safe" environments; some small places may have so few visitors that they'll treat all newcomers with great suspicion. Even larger, well-trafficked places can feel cold, places where the locals have grown resentful of the endless parade of tourists; Paris is notorious for giving off this kind of vibe.
"Cafe? But of course, monsieur. And would you like some ketchup with that, you big-assed American idiot?"
But perhaps even more dangerous are the communities that greet you too warmly. If your reception in town goes way beyond the limits of mere hospitality, it might be time to get back in the car, sharply.
As Seen In: Two Thousand Maniacs!
In Two Thousand Maniacs! a group of Northerners visit a small Southern community, and are mobbed the second they pull into town. With big, terrifying smiles, the townspeople let them know just how incredibly welcome they are; in fact, they'll be the guests of honor at the town's "centennial" celebrations.
That's some assertive friendliness, especially from blue shirt there on the right.
The centennial in question is the centennial anniversary of the year Union troops destroyed the town. And the celebrations in question are, as you'd expect, a series of games loosely based on the theme of murder.
A Practical Example:
Chad: Why is everyone smiling at us?
Nancy: They're just being friendly.
Chad: It's creeping me out.
Nancy: You said the same thing about Paris because they wouldn't smile at you.
Chad: That waiter put out his cigarette on my arm there. That wasn't creepy, that just hurt. This place is creepy.
Smiling Villager: Welcome, friends! We've been waiting for you.
Nancy: Really? How did you know we were coming?
Smiling Villager: -toothy smile- Why, through various means, of course!
4They All Disappear
Let's say you're walking through this new, slightly menacing town, and happen to duck into an abandoned chapel or disused bowling alley or something. Finding it depressing and kind of shady, you return to the streets, where you notice something really unusual.
The once-bustling streets are now completely empty.
People disappear all the time. Whether it's because an important sporting event is on TV, or it's nighttime, or everyone's going to the bathroom, there are many reasons why the streets might suddenly clear. But the most common reason by far is that the townspeople have just toddled off into the shadows, ready to pounce on and murder any outsiders who stray past.
As Seen In: Various Resident Evil Games
This happens most prominently in Resident Evil 5: Right at the start of the game, you walk past a half dozen suspicious-looking dudes whaling on a sack of ... something.
It's not clear what the sack did, but its day looks pretty ruined now.
A few seconds later, a siren sounds in the distance, because this is a Resident Evil game and that's going to happen. You turn around to find the streets empty. It's unsettling to say the least, and leaves absolutely no doubt that they will be back, this time with murder.
(Incidentally, the exact opposite happens in Resident Evil 4, where the townspeople have already turned on you and a bell in the distance causes them to disappear. Don't worry, though: They also come back, murder-laden.)
A Practical Example:
Nancy: Hey. Where did everyone go?
Chad: Somehow this is even more suspicious than all that smiling and hair stroking.
Nancy: Hair stroking? I thought that was you!
Chad: Why would I stroke your hair? We've been married four years, Nancy. No, it was the dude who never blinked who was doing that.
Nancy: And you didn't stop him?
Chad: YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT CONFRONTATION. Come on, let's get out of here.
-they return to the car-
Nancy: Oh no! All of our tires have gone missing, too! I wonder if this is related to the townspeople going missing.
Chad: ... Seriously?