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A Vacation Bible School lesson is not truly done until the children have had a chance to review and to share what they have learned.
Review: After a lesson has been taught, it must be reviewed to be retained. Some of the review will be pretty much immediate; some of it will follow a bit later.
Sharing: Technically, sharing also works as review for the learner. It cements ideas in the child's mind — but it also takes it a step further.
When we share, the lesson we learned is now presented to a new learner. This is how the Gospel was meant to spread!
While many use skits and plays and such to accomplish these tasks to some degree, last time we spoke of several of the main objections to using drama in your Vacation Bible School. But we must not leave it at a "don't"!
This time, let's look at the "other side of the coin," so to speak. The alternatives have some beautiful benefits! Let's consider those benefits first; then we will get very practical and learn just how doable it really is to review and share without the use of drama.
5 Benefits of non-dramatic activities
As we noted last time: the question with drama is not "Can it work?" but "Is it best?" Really think on this list of some of the benefits of using non-dramatic activities for review and sharing at VBS.
- It frees up time.
- They appeal to the mind.
- They feed love for simple pleasures.
- They encourage a personal relationship with Jesus.
- They equip for witnessing.
Perhaps the most obvious point: Omitting drama (which can involve an awful lot of preparation time for designing sets, creating costumes, memorizing lines, etc.) opens up more room in the schedule for other activities.
Non-dramatic activities appeal to the mind rather than emotion. Decisions made through reasoning tend to be much more solid and long-lasting than those made based on emotional reactions.
Non-dramatic activities feed our God-given love for the simple. We tend to enjoy (and even crave) what we spend more time with. Spending time singing, praying, studying God's Word, contemplating His power as seen in nature… will encourage the children's love for these things; whereas drama and entertainment will quickly tend to do just the opposite.
In turn…
The non-dramatic activities encourage the children's personal relationships with Jesus. They teach the children how to spend time with Him, how to get to know Him, and how to discern His will in their lives.
Finally — and this one might be one of the easier to overlook — non-dramatic activities are much easier to reproduce on the spot when the Lord opens doors for the children to witness to others. They will know what to do because it is the very thing you have been doing with them.
7 great ways to review and share what the children have learned
So what opportunities should you give the children for reviewing and sharing their VBS lessons? Here you go. You will notice that many of these activities overlap and generally work great together!
- Story-telling
- Study it out
- Songs
- Scripture (memory verses)
- Worksheets
- Review games
- Crafts
Story-telling is often part of the lesson itself, but it can also be a great way for review — and especially for sharing.
The children can re-tell the story to you to test their memory and reinforce the story in their minds. This is a good one to couple with worksheets.
You can re-tell the story to them, along with a nice sprinkling of thought questions, as you do a follow-up activity. This works especially well coupled with crafts.
You and/or the children can re-tell the story to someone else. Another time, we will discuss how you can use this approach as a very nice foundation for a VBS closing program for family, friends, and the community to attend.
There are several ways to approach studying out the VBS lesson. You might simply show the children where to find the story or message in their Bibles so they can read it for themselves. You might provide them with some related Scripture passages to look up, or ask them for questions and pursue some of them.
This is another activity that couples very well with worksheets.
Songs are an excellent memory tool. Carefully chosen, they can add life to a message and increase a child's depth of understanding. Choose a song that sums up the story or lesson you have been studying, and/or find (or make up!) a memory verse song to make those precious Words that much easier to recall.
Perhaps besides crafts, songs are probably one of the most likely things a child will bring home to share with his family and friends! 🙂
Memory verses should always be a part of our lessons. The verse itself can be chosen as sort of a summary of the lesson. Put to memory, that lesson is hid in the child's heart. Depending on just how you go about it, memory verses may stick in a child's mind for hours, days, or even years to come!
It is by contemplating God's Word that we learn Who He is, that we learn that we can trust Him, that we learn what He expects of us, that we gain hope for the future. A full Christian walk is built on God's Word.
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
2 Timothy 3:15-17
Memory verses are one of our most powerful witnessing tools, as well. Coupled with a godly life, prayer, and concern for others, memory verses become tools in the child's hand to win precious hearts for Christ.
Memory verses can be coupled with songs, crafts, worksheets, studying, story-telling — well, I guess just about everything! God's Word is a sure foundation to build on!
Worksheets should be an integral part of review, if at all possible. They help give structure to your program. Well-designed worksheets will bring out deeper parts of the lesson as the children are able to understand, as well as help to cement the basic lesson idea.
Use worksheets to learn and review memory verses, to facilitate subject study, to get the children thinking about life issues and Bible promises — even to give little hands a related picture to doodle on while you talk together about what you have learned.
Review games can explore the children's understanding of a lesson, test their recall of facts, and help them remember Scripture quotes (memory verses!).
A game can be as simple as writing a verse on the white board and one by one erasing the words as the children recite over and again. It can also be more complex, like "Bible Jeopardy," for example. (Incidentally, Hasten Home's VBS curriculum sets include a fun, age-appropriate review exercise for each day. 😉 )
At Vacation Bible School, crafts can be a nice way to teach children a handiwork skill they may not otherwise get to learn. Crafts also happen to be a fun way to incorporate Bible lessons with play.
They provide a casual environment for talking about whatever might be on the children's minds: a point about the story, their VBS experience, or even a more personal issue that has been weighing on their heart.
Plus, craft time usually ends up with a piece of work the children are excited to show all of the people they love the best.
The closing program
The really neat thing is that these very activities that work so well for reviewing and teaching the VBS lessons lead very nicely into a first-class VBS closing program that every child will have a part in.
One day soon I will have to show you how I pull that all together — and how you can, too!


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Main Global News Gilmore Girls' Date Night With Mom — Netflix
"Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life" hits Netflix on Friday, Nov. 25. At the same time, what I love about all four chapters that Amy [Sherman-Palladino] and Dan [Palladino] wrote is that it's just so ideal in terms of where the characters have been, where they are now, and where they're going.
Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Luke (Scott Patterson) are back together in Netflix's "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life".
The "Gilmore Girls" are known for their quick wit and even quicker dialogue, so Ellen DeGeneres made a decision to put star Lauren Graham's speed talking skills to the test. While Lorelai and Emily face Richard's death in their own way, they also find their relationship affected by it.
Rory then lists all the books she has brought with her, including the entire works of Shakespeare and Moby Dick.More news: Alabama heads the group, Ohio State, Michigan and Clemson in Top 4
Alexis Bledel, who stars as Rory, said that the new episodes have allowed her character to have "closure" with her series love interests - Dean, Jess, and Logan - who have all returned for the revival.
Sitting across from Bishop, clad in a silky black, bedazzled blouse (the most tasteful bedazzling you could possibly imagine, I should add) and with the subtle curls her character is known for, she looks just like Emily, only slightly softer. The story is told through 90-minute chapters - each spanning one season: winter, spring, summer, fall. They say yes, but as a condition, her mother (Kelly Bishop) insists that they come to dinner every Friday night.
In an interview with Glamour, star Lauren Graham stopped our "Where You Lead"-loving hearts when she suggested that the show might abandon its classic opening credits given the jump to Netflix". Years later, with series creator Amy Sherman Palladino back at the helm, its great to see that the dialogue is as wonderful as ever. "I really tried to take up the cause for the fans, because I know they wanted it so badly and deservedly so". In particular, Fallon's theory that the whole town is in a snow globe and showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino's plan to end the beloved series with four words. "It's worth it", she said. The townspeople's lives are intertwined with one another, and most are set to return in the revival. Sherman-Palladino plays verbal dodgeball with the question: "It's what it is right now". There was still the sidewalks that we put in.
Fair point. But "Gilmore Girls" is still a pretty big deal. I watched the show when it originally aired from 2000-20007, but have spent the past decade rewatching and rewatching.

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- A relative absence of stress and depression.
- Progress towards important personal goals.
- Higher levels of determination and energy.
- Closer relationships and desire to build stronger relationships.
- Increased happiness by 25%.
- Ephesians
5:20 (New Living Translation): And give thanks for everything to God the Father in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Chronicles 16:34 (New Living Translation):Give thanks to the LORD, for he
is good! His faithful love endures forever.
- Hebrews 10:25 (New Living Translation): And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
Sandie leads a team of writers in creating the Living It Out daily Bible study for CedarCreek Church. Today's devotion is based on the Living It Out study on the importance of gratitude. If you enjoyed it, feel free to check out the daily studies by e-mail or audio podcast by clicking HERE.


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One in a continuing series spotlighting real estate markets in the region's communities.
It was a Sunday morning in Runnemede, and everyone in the Camden County borough seemed to be at the Phily Diner, which rises, with the Phily Sport Bar, from the intersection of Clements Bridge Road and Black Horse Pike.
Everyone, that is, except the people who were mowing the lawns surrounding their pre-World War II bungalows and postwar ranchers - postage-stamp-size yards that remained green thanks to a rainy summer.
On this particular Sunday, a brilliantly sunny one in mid-August when you'd think folks would be at the Shore, Phily Diner owner Petros Contos had opened his doors to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Barbara Buono. She walked from table to table, filled with multiple generations of families, to chat.
Contos, who came here from Greece in 1970, ventured from his office, escorted by Runnemede attorney Robert A. Del Sordo, to meet Buono.
"If you'd like to have a fund-raiser here this fall, we can have it here," Del Sordo told Buono.
Contos, whose place is a destination for students from Camden County College up the road, many of whom also work at the eatery, affirmed the offer.
In Runnemede, where everyone knows everyone else and has for years, his generosity was hardly unusual.
When people move here, they tend to stay, and their relatives usually follow.
Councilwoman Patricia Tartaglia-Passio has lived here all her life and calls Runnemede a place with "deep roots."
"My parents came here from Philadelphia, and then my aunts and uncles followed," she says, "adding up to seven families."
"It isn't uncommon for people to have been living here 50 years or more," says Tartaglia-Passio.
Like any number of locales in South Jersey, Runnemede remains in the housing doldrums - what veteran agent Patrick Bocchiccio, of KingsGate Realty in Mount Ephraim, calls a "soft market."
"There is still a lot of inventory and, as is the case in many blue-collar neighborhoods, still a lot of short sales and foreclosures that tend to pull down comparable prices," says Bocchiccio, who has been selling real estate for the last 17 years.
Short sales are transactions in which the mortgage lender agrees to accept less than the seller owes on the house. Though such sales have decreased with the improving market, some towns in which prices increased more than was sustainable over the long term have had trouble whittling down distressed inventory.
Many real estate agents say communities such as Runnemede have an oversupply of short sales and estate sales, the latter because some homeowners in these places live in the same houses all their adult lives.
"When we do land a nice price for a house, we have trouble meeting appraisal, which often is not the problem just a couple of towns over," Bocchiccio says.
Runnemede's houses are older and smaller, with almost nothing newer than 55 years old, he says.
"It is a resale market," Bocchiccio says, with prices averaging about $190,000 to $210,000.
With most of what's available under $200,000, "people who buy here aren't looking for more than three bedrooms and 21/2 baths," which is what they will find, he says.
Condition depends on how individual houses have been maintained by the owners, with distressed sales probably not in good shape. Most houses show just the normal wear and tear.
Harris Gross, of Engineers for Home Inspection in Cherry Hill, says he likes inspecting houses in Runnemede because they tend to be uncomplicated.
"The houses don't usually have crawl spaces, they are smaller, and issues are usually similar: horizontal wall cracks and plumbing leaks, for example," Gross says.
Typically, buyers here are first-timers - the group, Bocchiccio says, that has been most affected by the changes in home financing that followed the housing bubble's pop: stricter debt-to-income ratios, and the drop in seller-assistance allowances to 3 percent, from 6 percent.
"Getting a mortgage has become increasingly more difficult for first-time buyers," he says, "and when fixed interest rates go up one percentage point, it will take many of them out of the market."
That said, Bocchiccio notes that interest rates are better than they have been in the 17 years he has been selling real estate and "this is such a great time to be a buyer."
Those who live here see Runnemede as a good bet.
"As a government, we try to do our best for residents," Tartaglia-Passio says two days before Christmas, as she waits for an engineer to inspect the borough's new restrooms.
"We try to be as transparent as possible, and our meetings are videotaped and posted on YouTube," she says, listing some of the things the borough offers: a week for students to observe government (including a free trip to Washington); a Christmas tree lighting, and a Halloween party at the community center, among others.
Businesses, too, stay in town for years - not only Contos' enterprises, but also Mister Softee, which the Conway brothers brought from Philadelphia in 1958, and Deluxe Italian Bakery, opened by the Racobaldo family in 1949.
"They are icons," Tartaglia-Passio says.
By the numbers
8,468 (2010)
Median income: $62,899 (2010)
Area: 2.12 sq. miles
Homes for sale: 97
Settlements in the last three months: 22
Median days on the market: 110
Median sale price
(all homes): $128,000
Housing stock: Bungalows and rowhouses, most built pre-World War II
School district: Runnemede
SOURCES: U.S. Census Bureau; City-Data.com; Zillow.com; Berkshire Hathaway Homes Services Fox & Roach HomExpert
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Escape Hua Hin, Hua Hin
- Free WiFi and free parking
Main amenities
- 45 guestrooms
- Near the beach
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Full-service spa
- Outdoor pool
- Breakfast available
- Free childcare
- Free area shuttle
- Free use of bicycles
- Terrace
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Free WiFi and free parking
For families
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Babysitting or childcare
- Children's pool
- Babysitting or childcare (free)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
What's around
- In Nong Kae
- Hua Hin Railway Station (1.7 mi / 2.7 km)
- Hua Hin Night Market (1.8 mi / 2.9 km)
- Khao Hin Lek Fai View Point (2.8 mi / 4.5 km)
- Wat Khao Takiab (2.8 mi / 4.6 km)
- Bluport Hua Hin Resort Mall (0.4 mi / 0.6 km)
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At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 45 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- Children (11 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Free babysitting/childcare
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free train station pickup
- Free self parking
- Free area shuttle within 1 km
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In the hotel
- Breakfast (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Free bicycles on site
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Pool sun loungers
- Pool umbrellas
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Wedding services
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of buildings/towers - 7
- Year Built 2004
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Designated smoking areas
- Garden
- Terrace
- Television in common areas
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room massage available
- Balcony
- Private bathroom
- Rainfall showerhead
- Shower only
- Bidet
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 30-inch LCD TV
- Cable TV channels
- DVD player
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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Troyes picked up a crucial point with a 1-1 draw at Nantes.Troyes picked up a crucial point in their battle against relegation with a 1-1 draw at Nantes.
The game burst into life 15 minutes from time when Troyes goalkeeper Ronan Le Crom was sent off.
Nantes took full advantage of their numerical superiority when Claudiu Keseru broke the deadlock on 79 minutes.
The home side were reduced to ten men when goalkeeper Mickael Landreau was dismissed seven minutes from time and Benjamin Nivet (pictured) converted from the resulting penalty to earn Troyes a point.
Nice moved into the top half of the table with a 1-0 victory over St Etienne.
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Me and Kyle were in the cafeteria a few days later having lunch. He was telling me some story about this girl, Cindy, who also worked for the school newspaper. He was going over every detail of their last conversation to convince me, and himself, that she was interested in him. All I could do was shake my head and smile. If she only knew how good he was getting in the sack she'd really be interested, I thought.
"What's so funny?" he asked when he finally caught on at how amused I was.
"Dude! You're acting like a little girl. If you're interested in Cindy then ask her out. You'll never know if you don't do something about it." I smiled at him to take the sting out.
"Yeah, maybe you're right," he admitted with a bemused smile. He knew I was right but I could tell he wanted to talk about her some more. Just in the nick of time I was saved by a vibration from my cell, an incoming text message.
I sneaked the phone out of my pocket since we weren't supposed to have them turned on while on campus. I was surprised to see it was a message from the Sheriff. I'd never have guessed the man knew how to send a text let alone write one. Well, it was just a simple one. 'You okay?' it said. I put the phone back in my pocket and stood up.
"I'm gonna hit the bathroom, Kyle. I'll be back in a few." He just nodded as he stared off towards Cindy and her pack of nerdy girls at another table.
I let myself into the johns and made sure they were empty for the moment. All clear, I took my phone out and dialed Jack. It only rang once.
"Hey, it's me," I told him.
"Hey, you. I was starting to worry. I haven't heard from you in a few days."
"Yeah, sorry... I've had a lot on my mind. Are you busy right now?" Just hearing his voice made me realize how much I'd been missing him.
"Just going over some reports and budget stuff, eating lunch in my office. It's been a slow day over here."
"Can I come see you?"
"Right now?" he asked.
"Yes. I really wanna see you."
"What about the rest of your classes and baseball practice?"
"I'm a senior, no one will care if I skip one afternoon. Besides, I'm eighteen so I can sign myself out. And Baldwin owes me, he won't say anything if I miss a practice."
"I don't think it's a good idea, Kenny." Ever the responsible sheriff.
"I'll see you in fifteen minutes, Jack. Let me worry about my responsibilities. I really want to see you so I'm coming over." I clicked the phone off before he could try to talk me out of it. I paused to send a text to Justin and let him know I was gonna miss my second practice in one week. I hoped Coach Baldwin would get over it even while I headed to the main office to sign out.
Just like I'd promised, I pulled up to the sheriff's station fifteen minutes later. When I came through the front doors Deputy Wentworth looked up from his newspaper and grinned when he saw me.
"Hey, Kenny. You visiting the cell in back?" he asked eagerly in a quiet tone. Wentworth liked to stand on the other side of the closed cell door and watch me suck his cock through the bars.
"Not today. I'm here to see Sheriff Walker." I tried to make it sound impersonal and hoped he didn't question it.
"Okay, well... let me know if you decide to stick around for some fun," he said as he opened the counter to let me pass through. He managed to get one of his hands on my ass while closing the counter behind me but I pretended to ignore it. I was in a strange mood and part of me wanted to slug the deputy when usually the move would've turned me on.
I faltered a little when I saw an older woman sitting at the normally empty desk outside Jack's office. "Um, hi, ma'am. I'm here to see Sheriff Walker," I said.
"It's okay, Rachel. I'm expecting him. Come on in, Kenny," Jack's voice sounded from inside.
When I got through the door he was leaning back in his chair with his hands resting behind his head. Just like always he took my breath away for a second. His uniform shirt stretched tight over his broad chest and his arms made the tight fabric of his sleeves look ready to burst. The smile on his handsome face made my heart skip. Once he got a good look at me he jumped out of his chair and rounded the desk in a few quick steps.
"What the hell happened to you?" he asked as he touched my face near my right temple. It took me a moment to think of what he meant. I wanted to kiss him, put my hands on him. I wondered if I'd ever be able to walk into a public place and kiss a man I liked, a man who liked me in return.
"Oh yeah, it's nothing." He traced the outline of the bruise that stained the outer edge of my eye socket. "Just an accident that happened at the gym the other day."
Jack reached for the door behind us and pulled it closed without taking his eyes off me. He led me over to one of the chairs facing his desk.
"Brady was showing me some stuff in the sparring ring. I let myself get distracted and forgot to keep my guard up."
"Damn Brady. I'm gonna bust his ass when I see him."
"No, really, it wasn't his fault, Jack." Behind the closed door I felt comfortable enough to drop the Sir and Sheriff act.
"Still," he said and I could feel him looking at my shiner. "I'm going to have a talk with Brady when I see him."
I shrugged and let it go, figuring I could bring it up again later. I wanted Brady to take me back to his gym without worrying about what his boss might say.
"It's good to see you," I said.
"Shit, it's been almost a week and we only talked that once. I was starting to think maybe I scared you away or something." He wore a self-deprecating smile and I felt a little guilty for making him worry like that.
"It's not you, Jack. Don't ever think that. I've just had a lot going on... I... came out to my parents," I said. I was feeling a little worried about how Jack would react to the news, that maybe he wouldn't like it.
"How'd it go?" he asked, genuinely curious.
I told him the whole thing, every detail of the past weekend. He'd known about my trip to Lake Wiley with my uncle so I started there. I left out the fact we'd had sex but he may have suspected. Especially when I described how intimately I'd talked to Jerome. I relayed his parting advice and what happened after. I wanted to make him know how it had felt with my mom and then my dad. Finally I told him about my sister and how it all led up to the call with him.
"So, that's when I called you. I was serious then and I still mean it, Jack. I've just had more to think through, you know? I needed some time to work it out in my head."
He stared at me thoughtfully for a long moment and nodded, like he'd come to some sort of decision.
"I'm really proud of you, Kenny. Every time I think I'm getting to know you..." He sighed and rubbed a big hand through his short-cut hair. "You're becoming quite the man, right before my eyes. It's a little scary," he said and dropped his eyes away.
"What? Why?" I couldn't figure out why that would be a problem.
"You're going to outgrow me," he said, still without looking up. "I'm just a phase. An older guy to show you the way," he said and waved his hand, gesturing at the future.
I didn't know what to say to that and felt a tightening in the back of my throat. All I could think was to do something, get rid of his crazy fears. Standing, I turned to the window. The blinds were already down but I grabbed the little stick and twisted them closed. I did the same to the window in the door and gently turned the lock. When I turned around he was watching me, his eyes wary.
As I came around his desk he swiveled in his chair to face me. I dropped into a squat and put my hands on his where they rested over his thighs. We locked eyes and I wouldn't be letting him look away again. Of all the adult conversations I'd been having that week this one felt like the most important.
"I'm not your son, Jack. And I'm not some dumb kid. You said it yourself, I'm a man; same as you. And you're one fucking stud of a man. No way will I ever get tired of you. I'm the man you've been fucking for almost two months. Do you think I don't know what I want?" I could see his struggle not to look away, his fear of letting me see what was plain in his eyes. I reached up and held his jaw, giving him an excuse to hold that intimate stare.
"I'm sorry," he finally whispered.
"I... really like you, Jack. That's not gonna change." I don't think either of us were ready for what I'd been about to say. But I could see in his eyes that he knew the truth and let it go for the moment.
"I like you, too, Kenny. An awful lot."
There wasn't anything else to say and I rose up. My hand left his jaw and slid around to the back of his neck. I leaned forward and he did the same, meeting me halfway. Our lips touched and then opened. I kissed his top then his bottom lips before using just the tip of my tongue to trace each. Jack's breath sighed out and I drew back to look at him.
His eyes were closed and he looked... innocent, happy, dazed – a million things I couldn't describe. That I'd put that look on the rugged and savagely handsome face made my dick throb into instant hardness.
"I'm giving up those other guys," I told him. The idea had been percolating in my head since the weekend. Jerome's words echoing in my ears, followed by my parents' unconditional love and their support had empowered me. Made me want to be more than someone's quick fuck. Then there was Jack and the way he showed me that sex could be about so much more. Even Brady and the way he accepted my desire had an effect. When I said the words I realized that I meant them.
Jack's eyes opened but the look he wore didn't fade away. "All of them?" He asked it without any judgment or doubt and that made my heart swell more.
"No more gang-bangs in the showers," I promised. "No more secret visits to the back cell for your deputies. I'm still going to be with Justin... and Brady. Maybe Luis and Kyle. But only because they mean something to me."
"You don't have to do that for me, Kenny. I don't own you and I don't want to take away your freedom."
"No, it's not like that." I heard a whisper of Jerome's words, "Never be ashamed," and I knew he was right. "Listen, Jack, there's...," I bit my lip and thought of the right way to say what I was thinking. "There's always going to be a small part of me that wants to be... used. By men, any man." I had to pause again and get my bearings. "But there's a time and place for that. In the future? Who knows?" I shrugged my shoulders and continued, "But now I know that I want to mean something to whoever I'm with. That... that I'm worth more. Do you understand?"
"You are worth more and you do mean something... to me you're something." He leaned forward again until our foreheads met. His next words fanned over my face, "Something so special." And wasn't that better than hearing a hundred fucking I-love-you's? My throat felt hot and tight but I held his head and met his lips fiercely. There was no more holding back.
I found the buttons of his shirt and started working them open as we kissed. We had to part to breathe and when we did his hands found my wrists to stop me.
"We shouldn't, not here."
"We're going to," I promised.
"No, we can't, Kenny."
I pulled my hands free of his grip and pulled my t-shirt off. His eyes widened as he took in my naked torso but his face took on a look of firm resolve.
"Kenny, stop," he said in that commanding voice that always made me so hot.
"Didn't we just determine that I'm not your son, Jack?" I asked as I stood and opened my jeans in a matter of seconds. My cock, feeling harder than it had ever been, bounced in front of his face before standing up against my abs. I stepped out of my jeans, boxers and my worn-out sneakers and kicked them aside. Only my ankle-high socks kept me from being completely naked.
"Kenny," he warned. I could hear the crack in his resolve from the way he said it and the way his eyes stayed on my ultra-swollen red cock.
Before he could react I reached into the wide open collar of his uniform shirt and found his nipple through the tight undershirt. I gave it a light pinch and felt it harden under my fingertips. He sucked in a breath and let it go on a soft moan. Having the advantage, I grabbed him under his arms and hauled him to his feet to take his mouth again. He opened for my tongue while I made quick work of the rest of his shirt buttons.
When I reached for the clasp of his belt--his duty belt was hung on a hat rack behind us--he stopped me and wrenched himself away from me. He bolted around the corner of the desk and stared at me. His skin was flushed and I could see the pulse in his neck beating so fast. He watched me watching him like a cat watches a mouse. Heat spread up into my face. It wasn't the blush of embarrassment but a flush of excitement. The thrill of the hunt.
Jack looked over at the door and I asked him, "Where are you gonna go, Jack?"
He met my eyes and I saw the idea of running away skitter through his mind before his back straightened and his eyes sent me a challenge. Jack Walker doesn't run, they told me.
I stalked forward till I was close enough that he had to feel the heat of my nude body. I should have felt different with him clothed and me naked but I felt wild, free of everything. Christ, so free. Hell, we were in the sheriff's office, for chrissakes.
I reached for the button of his dark khaki uniform pants and he didn't even try to stop me. I turned him side-on to the desk and got behind him. I pushed the trousers and underwear down to mid-thigh so I could press my so-fucking-hard dick against his hairy ass. Pre-cum was practically boiling out of the slit and left wet streaks over his cheeks before I found the tight crack between.
"I'm gonna fuck you, Jack." I made my pronouncement just before I bit into his skin. Right above the collar of his undershirt I sunk my teeth in and sucked at his flesh, wanting to leave a mark. He groaned from deep in his chest and I released the bit of skin to lick over it.
With one hand on his hip and the other on his shoulder I bent him over the paper-strewn desk. He let me. I spat twice into my right hand and held the base of my cock in a tight grip with my left. I was afraid I was going to lose my load before I could get inside him.
I smeared the spit into his crack. I found his hole and pushed two fingers in. He grunted and I could hear that it hurt him but he pushed back on the fingers so I dug in deeper and found his lovenut. I worked it just as mercilessly as he or his son had ever done to me. I knew I wouldn't be able to hold back much longer and I really needed him to want it.
"All I got is spit," I told him. I worked some up to put on my cock.
Jack groped over the side of the desk and found the drawer. He yanked it open and searched around until he came up with a black leather bag that looked like a shaving kit but flat. He pulled the zipper open all the way around and the two sides fell open. Distantly I recognized it was for cleaning a gun. Among the little metal rods and tools was a bottle that looked like eye-drops but bigger. He pulled it out of its place and passed it back to me.
I popped the lid open one-handed and looked at it while working my fingers in his hole. Beneath the name it said something about Teflon lubricant and that was all I needed to know. I squeezed the bottle right over the head of my cock and a tiny stream came out. I pulled my fingers free of his tight ass and stroked the stuff over my cock, amazed at how slick the little bit was. I thumbed the cap closed and threw it on the desk.
Jack's breathing stuttered when he felt my cock move into position, the head barely kissing up to his asshole. Despite how crazed I felt on the inside I couldn't fucking hurt him. I had to bite my lip to keep from pushing in.
"Please, say something," I told him. My voice was broken and cracked.
"Do it," he replied. But I was already straining into him before he got the last word out.
"I need to be inside you so bad," I told him by way of apology. Then the flared head popped inside him and I felt powerless to do anything but shove the rest of the way in. Jack released a whoosh of air as I filled him up. I had to force myself to stay still, to give him some time to adjust.
"Fuck," he groaned, his voice gone so deep I almost couldn't hear; more felt it in my chest. His tight hole clenched and worked around my cock. He managed to spread his legs a little wider in the confines of his lowered pants. The need to move built like a tidal wave. "Move, already," he said at the edge of my endurance.
I pulled back so slowly and then slammed forward, my hips working on the directive of my cock. I had to close my eyes as his body enveloped me. Snorting through my nose like an animal I fell onto him and latched onto his shoulders.
As I fucked him I knew words were falling out of my mouth directly from my brain but I couldn't find it in me to care. "So hot... So slippery... and smooth... inside. Fuck, fuck – Jack. God, Jack." There wasn't any finesse or control. Certainly it showed less experience than the one and only time I'd fucked him before, not long after the orgy and his nephew Michael. If I could have thought, I would've been embarrassed.
Everything inside me focused down to my cock. There was the tight grip of his muscles at the opening as they milked my shaft in and dragged along it on the way out. The palpitating soft-clench of his silky smooth guts each time I rammed home. The smell of our sex and his familiar scent from being so close together made me pound him harder.
That kind of intensity can't last long. I fell into a hard plunge that kept my dick mostly inside him. The pressure built quickly. It couldn't have been more than a few dozen of those deep strokes before I unloaded into his guts. It hit so hard that it was painful, like tiny pieces of glass being forced through the long tube in my cock. I muffled my sounds against the shirt at his shoulder and fired over and over. If he made a sound I didn't hear it.
The seed washed out of me and it went from unbearably intense to wonderfully intense and tapered off to holy-shit-that's-good. When I could open my eyes again I felt like a new man, and a shitty fucker.
"Sorry, Jack... You okay?"
"Don't be sorry. Who the fuck are you and where's Kenny?" He chuckled softly and let his head fall to the desk. I reached under our bodies and found his cock, hard and leaking. I stroked my hand over it and his body shuddered against mine. It made his hole squeeze my embedded pole and I discovered I was still very fucking hard too.
"Little Kenny's inside you," I said as I worked my cock out of his tight hole. "And Big Kenny's getting a second wind." I rode my load of cum back into him. He was slicker and tight but not as tight as before. Jack gasped when I bottomed out but it sounded like nothing but good for him. "Second round... I'll make you cum."
"Yeah, kid, make me cum," he gritted out.
I let myself up from his back and held his hips. I was hard, amazingly hard for just cumming, but more in control. I held his hips and hammered at an angle to catch his prostate. Jack's hands moved to the sides of the desk and held on with white-knuckled force. Each thrust in I pulled back on his hips, trying to get in deeper. A whirring moan worked its way up out of him.
I paused and took a long outstroke. I watched his tight ring pull out over my emerging manhood. When I saw the rim of the head against the pinkish hole I gave a steady shove that was slow but hard. It earned me a breathy "Fuck, Kenny!" I gave him another, then another, steadily and deeply long-dicking the hunky lawman.
"Aww, yeah. Oh yeah... You're killing me... turning me inside, umph, out. Fuck me, Kenny. Give it to me harder." They were the sweetest words I'd ever heard.
"Better keep it down, Jack. The whole station's gonna know you're getting royally fucked."
He released one side of the desk and pressed his mouth into his forearm against the desktop.
Without missing a beat I gathered the loose material of his uniform shirt in my hands over his back. When I had all of it, the tails bunched in my fist, I pulled back on it. The tan cloth stretched tight over his shoulders and under his arms. I held it like a jockey holding the reins of a stallion. I used the extra leverage to give him what he wanted, I fucked him harder.
My whole body moved with each hard plunge as sweat poured off me. I felt it the moment his tight hole gave up to me. It fluttered and gripped but not in rhythm, beyond the point of conscious control. The idea of it made my cock throb with each trip into his depths.
"Such a hot fucker, Jack. I love fucking you... wanna fuck you forever. Wanna feel you cum... cum for my cock."
"Christ, God yes," he spluttered. His channel turned into one big grasping fist and he was going off. I felt it like an earthquake in his chute, aftershocks from his body. I rode him through it, making sure to hit that sensitive spot inside him with deadly accuracy. A strangled scream started from his lungs. I felt each pulse of his cock as it shot from the inside. My own orgasm began within seconds of his, shocking because it was totally unexpected.
It felt like a long time before either of us could move. I found my feet first and eased my rubbery dick out of his ass. A flood of cum followed it, running down the insides of both his hairy thighs. I reached over him and pulled a handful of tissues from the box on the corner of his desk. I did my best to mop him up. He managed to grab another handful and pressed it into his messy crack.
He was a little wobbly when he stood up and I grabbed his arms to steady him. He looked down at the pool of his cum on the papers over his desk.
"Shit, that's gonna be hard to explain," he croaked with dry laugh.
I pulled up his pants and helped him back to his chair. He collapsed with a sigh and leaned back as far as it would go. I stepped back to the desk and got more tissues to mop up his jizz.
"Don't sweat it, Kenny. I can print more reports," he said to my back.
"I'm sorry, Jack, I don't know what got into me," I managed to get out. I was torn between one of the best and most intense experiences I'd ever had and afraid I'd hurt him or overstepped some boundary.
"Jesus, you fucked me," he sighed.
I turned around to face him and he was still leaned back. His eyes were closed and a soft smile lit his face.
"Yeah," I started but he snorted a laugh.
"No, I mean you fucked me. Damn, Kenny, you've been holding back." His eyes popped open and he grinned wider. "Come here."
I took his outstretched hand and he pulled me in for a kiss.
"Good thing you already decided not to run for re-election," I told him when we broke apart. For the first time I saw the great Jack Walker actually blush.
When I was leaving he asked me if I'd applied for a passport. "You don't need one for the US Virgin Islands," he said, "but you'll need one to travel to the other islands, and to get back in the United States.
"I'll do it tomorrow," I said.


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By Bria Donnell
The Kitchen
Readers of Julius Lester's novel, Day Of Tears, may run into several themes. When viewing through a historical lens, one finds that the ease of racial tensions in America may have prompted Lester to write this well-crafted novel in 2005. In chapter 4, "The Kitchen" Lester gives a great portrayal on how slaves' feelings are never counted for anything. Master Butler takes his children and Emma to a slave auction, telling no one that he is secretly planning to sell Emma.
Analysis: "Silence"
The largest auction of slaves in American history is when he decided to sell Emma, on March 2nd and 3rd, 1859. In his demented mind, not telling at least Emma's mother about his plan is perfectly fine. Returning from the auction,without Emma, he shows no remorse from what he has done as he calmly ambles by Emma's mother, Maddie. Silence floods the room as Maddie's heart fills with sorrow. People tend to forget this side of abuse when it comes to slavery. Slaves were not only hurt physically, but mentally and emotionally.
Silence, a 7 letter word so delicate saying its name destroys it so rapidly. People never ponder the thought of how dead inside slaves were from being emotionally drained. Slaves were never able to show their true emotions, in Maddie's case, grief. Sarah's bellows and cries for Emma echo throughout the house as Maddie begins to lash out at Master Butler for selling her only daughter, but all they get in return is,silence. Not only were slaves confined physically to slavery, but their souls were just as much slaves as their bodies were. Imagine having to cry to one's self in the dead of the night so you weren't seen as weak, the only thing around to comfort you was, silence. In today's world, the ignorance towards the truth in slavery grows greater through generations, in this novel, Lester teaches the truth behind slavery. Schools don't teach kids, teens or young adults how brutal life was for slaves. The recurring theme and statement learned in schools were how "whites owned slaves." Never going into detail of how each day was really struggle to survive, not only because of the physical exhaustion, but the challenge of wanting to live through another day with grief and depression coating their souls. Lester also reveals to the readers that not all white people were evil dictators when it came to this time period. Master Butlers, eldest daughter, Sarah was devastated at the lost of Emma. Sarah believed that it was wrong for anyone to have slaves. She looked up to Emma as a mother figure. Master Butler sold Sarah's only best friend, and she never forgave him for that. Growing up, never seeing Emma ever again, the love she had in her heart for her never grew old. Many years later she names her child "Emma" after the strongest woman she ever loved in life.
In conclusion, Lester educates his readers on the lives of everyday slaves in his masterpiece, Day Of Tears. Hoping his novel touches the lives of the non-knowing readers of slavery and shines a light on why having an ease on racial tension is wrong. Now seeing how slaves lived for years, why should ease on racial tensions be allowed ? Hopefully now readers can take a stand and break their silence.


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Sick pay for childs doc appointment?
Started by Cat© , Feb 13 2013 08:02 PM
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Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:02 PM
Anyone know if you give sick pay when a staff member has the day off for a childs general paed appointment (not emergency just general waiting for month type thing).
I know if the child is sick or has an emergency its paid under personal carers and compassionate leave as a sick day but unsure if its just a doc appointment? or should they use holiday pay?
thanks - I did google but it doesnt specify that example
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:03 PM
with my kids appointments i have generally booked leave for the day, sick leave is usually unexpected leave.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:10 PM
If its planned appt then it can not be sick/carers leave. We have to use flex or annual leave at my work (fed gov).
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:12 PM
My workplace always used personal leave (sick/carers) for these sort of appointments. It's not like you can make these appointments out of hours.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:14 PM
I took carers leave (paid) a few weeks ago when my daughter had to have a procedure done in hospital. It wasn't an emergency, but it was still defined as caring because she couldn't go alone.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:14 PM
I always booked annual leave as I knew in advance, but I also have the option to use sick leave.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:21 PM
For me, if I took time off work to take one of my kids to a booked appointment I'd be taking FACS (family and carers leave- government job). It's not like they can take themselves there.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:23 PM
Any time I need to take the kids to the doctors I use personal leave, which encompasses sick and carer's leave
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:29 PM
I thought perhaps sick pay, but at my husbands work anytime any of the kids have had an operation or neurological assesment where my husband has needed to be there his boss always put it under holidays and said it wasnt sick pay as it wasnt an emergency and it was pre-booked so therefore holidays.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:30 PM
I work for a govt dept. I obtain a carers certificate and use carers leave.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:33 PM
At our workplace, all doctors' appointments, including specialists' appointments, be it personal or for children, are expected to be taken as booked leave or flexi time. It's when a child is actually sick, including being called half way through the day by school to come pick up child 'cos child had an accident, etc, that it can be taken as a sick day / carer's leave. So, only adverse unexpected events.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:42 PM
Carers leave (aka sick leave) in my workplace.
where my husband has needed to be there his boss always put it under holidays and said it wasnt sick pay as it wasnt an emergency and it was pre-booked so therefore holidays.
The simple solution is to ask the medical staff to write a medical certificate. If your DH presents that then they will have to give it carers leave.
Edited by liveworkplay, 13 February 2013 - 08:45 PM.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:45 PM
Carer's/personal leave - just like booked in advance medical appointments (eg operations) for you are sick leave.
Assuming they get a drs certificate for the child/carers cert for them that is.
But it would be unusual to need a whole day for one appointment, so I'd probably just call the appointement time my lunch break.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:50 PM
I would use personal carer's leave. Just as I would if I had a specialist appointment.
I used several carer's leave days last year when DS had his grommets out (one day at hospital, then two recovery days).
Re PP comment about not needing a whole day, it all depends on what time the appointment is and whether your child will be attending any school that day. It is certainly possible to need a day for one appointment.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:51 PM
At my workplace it would be classed as personal leave (sick leave), this would be paid if the worker had to take their child, parent, parent in law or spouse to the doctors
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:53 PM
carers leave at my work.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:54 PM
I would take that as 'family leave'. It is separate to my own sick leave.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:55 PM
Carer's leave at my work.
They can't force you to use your annual leave for it, but if you have exhausted your allowance for the year, you can choose to have it as annual leave or unpaid leave.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:56 PM
Our personal/carers/sick leave is counted in hours, so we can take it in hours. The previous time my daughter had to have a hospital procedure, she didn't need to be there until 1pm, so I worked in the morning and left at 12.30pm, which was the start of my lunch break. My shift that day was to finish at 3.20pm, so I had 2 hours and 20 minutes paid carers leave.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:57 PM
I get a certificate of attendance for my sons appointments and take it as carers leave. Sometimes I may have appointments at home (occupational therapist and physio) and I generally take those as annual leave.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 09:03 PM
If it is an appointment booked ages in advance I would try and schedule an RDO or A/L day.
My DD has heaps of appointments and we have found that hubby can have a hard time accessing carers leave to attend them as he is not the "primary care giver" in that why is he needed if I too am there (grrrrrrrrr some of these appointments have involved major decisions re her health and treatment)
Whereas when I was at work I could access it C/L no worries provided I had a Carers cert which essentially said That I was required to attend said appointment or provide care for the person attending.
Regardless of the fact the appointment is booked in advance it is still needed and sometimes you literally have no choice in date or time..either that one or wait another upteen months
Posted 13 February 2013 - 09:08 PM
I think it is reasonable to take carers leave for these appointments, but since it is planned you should normally only have to take half a day or a few hours.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 09:12 PM
From the National Employment Standards:
Personal / carer's leave and compassionate leave - 10 days paid personal (sick) / carer's leave, 2 days unpaid carer's leave and 2 days compassionate leave (unpaid for casuals) as needed.
Obtain a medical certificate for you child's appointment - the dr will be used to doing this and it is perfectly acceptable. My employer offers separate carer's leave of an addition 5 days, pro rata, so I would use that. It does not have to be an emergency or unplanned, it simply has to be for caring duties. Do you have an enterprise agreement or award? If you do, check it and see if you have other provisions for carer's leave or family leave.
I work part time and my child has heaps of appointments. Normally I try to book them on my days off or swap my work days so i dont miss much work. Today I had to book an appointment on one of my work days and because of other appointments that week I cant swap. So I will use a half a day of carers leave to attend the appointment with my son.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 09:23 PM
Personal (sick/carers) leave at mine & my DFs work too.
My DF is taking a day of carers leave next month to take me to the hospital to have my wisdom teeth out and to drive me home after/look after me.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 09:55 PM
Carers/sick leave for both my husband's and my work (we checked with our managers). We're professionals in tech consultancy.
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Network of Freelance and Volunteer Shipping Carriers (idea created by Casey Van Tieghem)
or Network of Logistics Volunteers (Nickname: relayers)
This is a very exciting idea, because it's fun, positive, and anyone who has a car can be involved.
Here is a fictional story that describes many aspects of this idea:
"I wanted to deliver a package that was a gag gift to my friend in Los Angeles, and I live in San Diego. Every year we give each other back these old dirty shoes as a gag gift, it's an old inside joke. I was in no particular hurry, and I found about through a search engine that there was this this Network of Freelance and Volunteer Shipping Carriers website. I found out that it cost nothing to register and to ship. I registered my package there, and dropped off my package at the processing center at a UCSD. I checked on the internet to see if the package had been picked up, and a volunteer carrier picked up the package and had registered this event on the website. I kept tracking the delivery, and this package was carried by several volunteers to destinations all over San Diego county, almost endlessly back and forth, then finally about a month later it ended up in Los Angeles, where another carrier finally placed the gift in a processing center at UCLA. My friend in LA was tracking the package the whole time too, but I didn't tell him what it was. When he called me it was hilarious that all this effort was made to deliver some stupid shoes. But seriously I thought this was a great idea, and I started donating some items to poor children in Mexico using this system. I also have volunteered as a carrier myself, and occasionally pick up items at processing centers near my residence and deliver them at no cost to the processing center at my place of work, now that I told my co-workers about it we have our own processing center! Some of the packages you can view the progress of online to see the progress of the delivery, and some of my packages that I helped deliver went as far away as New Foundland in Canada on the east coast. The network is getting better and better. The volunteer system is still a bit of a joke, but for low dollar amount packages and if you are not in a hurry to deliver them, you can't beat the price. And there are carriers that you pay a small amount to that have a good rating, and good comments on the website. To make a little extra money I'm starting to deliver used auto parts from a junkyard near my house to people near my doctor's office downtown. It pays for the gas, so why not? At my work place, the IT developers have gotten into improving the website on their spare time, and creating a special group that does charity work on behalf of our company."
Brief description of idea.
The idea is rather abstract, like describing baseball.
The core of this concept is to have a system that is internet based, a website of all volunteer programmers in an open code system that keeps track of shipping carrier volunteers in a profile like facebook, tracks the shipping of packages like UPS, allows customers or organizations to comment, or rate carriers like eBay.
But not all of the concept is just the internet. The internet is a tool that is used to organize the network.
The real network is a network of non-paid volunteer, non-profit paid, and for-profit paid carriers that do this with one to many motives.
Just like the internet, this network is not owned by anyone, but is a co-operative effort of various organizations, charities, and commercial enterprises in the same way the internet has non-profit, for profit, and individual users.
Motives of the carriers are:
To volunteer to help a cause or help donate items to charity, or deliver charitable goods to destinations.
As a hobby to build community, and make new friends and have fun tracking the progress of items that are being delivered.
To reduce pollution of the environment by transporting items that would require a fuel consuming vehicle to be dedicated to.
To defray costs of transportation.
To make small amounts of money with minimum effort and hassle.
To develop a network and show that the carrier is a responsible person that can be employed.
To make money advertising a products, or selling products.
Purpose - The variety of purposes of this network is almost as varied as the purpose of the internet.
As a hobby, similar to facebook, or twitter.
To build community.
To deliver packages at a low cost.
To get donated items, or gifts delivered at low cost, and give others the opportunity to contribute to the charity with little time, money, or effort needed.
As an educational experiment that has many aspects to it, from technical such as developing the website for the network, and the social aspects of it.
To make small amounts of money with little effort, or to cover the expense of gas in a persons travels.
To advertise products, or sell products in a way that is non-intrusive, or interesting.
To raise awareness of various charity causes, or religious messages.
To give people hope that society can work together for a common good.
For entertainment to see lists of top carriers in various categories, and winners of various package delivery stories that are funny.
(The voluntary carrier packages may go to multiple destinations in a very unusual and comic manner, for example, if you wanted to deliver a package from San Diego to Boston via voluntary carriers, if you are lucky enough to get the package delivered, you might see the package go to Los Angeles, then back To San Diego, then to Phoenix, then to Salt Lake City, then Seattle, then San Fran Cisco, then back to Los Angeles, then to Las Vegas, then to Dallas, then to Chicago darting all over the map until possibly even years later it lands in Boston. This is like a reality show in the kind of entertainment, dramatic, funny, suspenseful, and interesting.)
Network - This is not a single-owned shipping carrier, it is a network of individual paid and un-paid shipping carriers
Freelance and Volunteer - Small amounts of money can be made mainly to cover the cost of gas, or for special delivery methods. Also goods may be sold, or advertised to make money. Volunteers can commit very little of thier time, or much of thier time.
Shipping Carriers - Carriers vehicles are not necessarily dedicated to delivering packages. Carriers register into the network with a given route, and pool thier resources which is mainly a vehicle, a driver, and a regular route that they already drive. For example in thier periodic or daily commute to work, school, church, the library, etc. Carriers can also notify the network of special trips, such as vacations.


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I'm curious what is the status of this? did everybody lose hope and stopped asking when this idea would crystallize or it is in the making?
@Alexei: the problem is that it's both technically and functionally difficult to implement. See the link I posted above for background info.
Please implement this.
Developing an application in Outsystems will be more fun. :D


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"Our campers come from all over Southern California and look forward to this week all year long," says Debbie Ball, Easter Seals' regional vice president, in a media statement. "Many who attend Easter Seals Camp Oakes have been doing so their whole lives. A lot of our campers experience significant limitations in their daily lives due to their individual disability. Camp is their one opportunity to stretch and grow-to experience freedom to explore personally, emotionally and socially. The experience is truly life-changing for campers and volunteers alike."
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Ghostin' Edition: The Delta Queen
Season 1 Episode 11
With exclusive new footage and insider updates: The Delta Queen, was relocated to Houma, LA for extensive renovations, setting off paranormal activity. The Ghost Brothers' mission is to find out what spirit is inhabiting the historic riverboat.
- 42 min
- Premiered 11/02/2016


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How did this get 3 good 5 star reviews? It's not just dumb, it's the most lame persona ever. It's a tiny picture in a tiny corner, that you can't even make out & that's all there is. It's probably the worst persona I've ever seen. Plus the subject is really stupid anyway.
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