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Terrific Testimonials from Maine WSB Programs
"The WSB is a fantastic program . . . when I first heard of it I figured "What the heck, it's only a half hour or so of my day." I thought it was some crazy sounding idea and the appeal to the children would soon decrease as soon as the novelty wore off . . . it has in fact, been just the opposite as it seems each semester — regardless of the weather — we have gained in popularity."
This quote from a volunteer walk leader is one of many that we received from a recent survey that we sent out to the 6 walking school bus programs (WSB) that we work with in Bangor, Portland, Norway and Lewiston. We wanted to find out what some of the WSB coordinators, volunteer walk leaders and parents of kids who participate thought and felt about the program. Here are a few examples of the Terrific Testimonials we received:
"I joined in November of 2016 when I realized I had too much free time on my hands. I work a typical 9-5 in an office setting and I've noticed that my most productive days in the office are the days I do WSB. That has made me such a believer, if that walk starts me off on the right foot and gets me engaged in my work, I can only believe that it does the same for the kids at school…I imagine along the walk they are paying attention to everything around them- learning how to navigate busy intersections, noticing that some cars don't always slow down immediately, even if there is a person in an orange vest, waving a flag in the middle of the road. I enjoy being able to observe their growth, their development of safe behaviors along the walk and hearing about their observations along the way."
"There are so many good things to list . . . the idea of encouraging children to do some physical activity, allowing the children to burn off some energy before the start of school, allowing the children to see community members in a different light . . . but the best part has been interacting with the children and being able to integrate important life lessons whether it be an impromptu discussion about bullying, fire safety, pedestrian safety, role of emergency providers, etc."
"I have watched children's entire mindset about the day shift from listless, teary, or angry to flat out enthusiasm in the space of a half-mile walk with peers of multiple ages and backgrounds–and I have never seen the children's mindset do the reverse. Did I mention the mix of ages and backgrounds, which leads to all sorts of unplanned lessons and growth in racial and class diversity, socio-emotional learning, and community-building. And by community-building, I mean the whole community–not just the participating kids. My family and I have formed relationships of varying degrees with other parents and volunteer walkers, with the children and their families, and with other community members who see us walk each day and want to know more, or contribute in some other way."
"I see a lot of social benefits. I think that having the mix of grades k-3 in the program gives the older students an opportunity to support younger students who may be more shy when they first join the walking school bus. I also love the community impact. Our WSB route passes the city bus route and the city bus driver always waves to the kids and says hi. I think fostering that sense of community in young children can have long-term benefits."
"Given all the positives (both easy and hard to measure) for kids, adults, school, environment, and community at large, I remain a bit puzzled that WSB is not an embedded and essential part of every school and every student's experience. I stand ready to help make that happen in any way I can."
These are all outstanding reasons to promote and support Walking School Bus programs!
Four new WSB Programs open for 2017!
The Maine Walking School Bus (WSB) Program – a partnership of the Maine Center for Disease Control, the Bicycle Coalition of Maine and the Maine Department of Transportation – is excited to announce that Vine Street (Bangor), Abraham Lincoln (Bangor), Farwell (Lewiston) and Riverton (Portland) elementary schools have been selected to receive grants for the coming school years beginning in the spring of 2017! Congratulations!!
Vine Street, Abraham Lincoln, Farwell and Riverton will join five other schools across the state of Maine that have worked with the statewide program to launch daily walking school buses: Portland's East End Community School, Norway's Guy E. Rowe School, Ellsworth's Elementary-Middle School, Waterville's Albert S. Hall School, and Bangor's Downeast School.
East End Update!
The East End Community School in Portland was selected as the pilot location for the Maine Walking School Bus Program in the Fall of 2014. Being in its final months of grant funding, East End is showing that its Walking School Bus program is going strong.
The East End Community School's Walking School Bus celebrated Winter Walk to School Day back in February with schools in Canada and other Northern Tier States! Portland minor league sports mascots Crusher and Slugger joined the students on their walk to school, while the Cat in the Hat accompanied walkers to commemorate Dr. Suess' birthday on Read Across America Day.
East End Walking School Bus Coordinator Elise Moody-Roberts is constantly out in the community spreading the word about the Walking School Bus. Elise was recently invited to speak at Portland Trail's Annual Meeting, a TED-style forum of ideas, with snappy, dynamic presentations from speakers engaged in work and play related to Portland Trail's mission. Elise did an amazing job celebrating the program's success as she only had 15 slides–with 15 seconds per slide!
East End Community School is currently exploring a variety of avenues to sustain the Walking School Bus program for next fall. The administration, students, and community all agree that the Walking School Bus program is an asset and a staple within the school as well as Portland's community.
For additional questions about the East End Community School's Walking School Bus Program, please contact Elise Moody-Roberts, Walking School Bus Coordinator via e-mail: email@example.com or phone: (207) 671-9207 or visit the Portland page on the Maine Walking School Bus website.
Schools in Waterville & Bangor Join the Maine Walking School Bus Program
The Maine Walking School Bus (WSB) Program is very pleased to announce that the Downeast School in Bangor and the Albert S. Hall School in Waterville are the two latest recipients of grants to start daily walking school bus programs in their communities. The 2-year grant will provide a stipend for a WSB program coordinator who will be based in each school and receive ongoing technical assistance from WSB Program staff.
Both schools scored very highly on their WSB Program applications submitted this past fall – and during their site visit meetings and route review walks in December. The two communities have participated in Safe Routes to School activities in the past – for example, holding walk to school events and conducting bicycle and pedestrian safety education. These help foster a successful Walking School Bus Program.
School principal, Al Mooers, said, "The Downeast School is excited to be able to offer our students a safe, fun and organized way to walk to school and community members are eager to be a part of this program. Together we can organize and implement a Walking School Bus program which will benefit students, parents, the community and the school"
The schools recently held their WSB program community workshops and we were very impressed by the extent of community support and enthusiasm for the program shown by participants.
Both WSB programs are due to launch in the spring. They join the three schools currently running WSB programs as part of the state-wide program: Portland's East End Community School, Norway's Guy E Rowe Elementary School, and the Ellsworth Elementary Middle School.
The Maine Walking School Bus Program is funded by a grant from the Maine Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and is administered by the Bicycle Coalition of Maine and the Maine Safe Routes to School Program. The program also partners with the Maine Department of Transportation. Interested communities will have another chance to apply to the program in Fall 2016. For more information please sign up for our e-mail newsletter in the right sidebar.
New Maine Walking School Bus Videos Released!
Thanks to financial support from the Maine Center for Disease Control and the Maine Department of Transportation and the able assistance of filmmaker Terrence T. Wolfe, the Maine Walking School Bus Program now has four informational program videos!
The videos consist of three short (1 minute) video segments featuring interviews and shots of existing Walking School Buses for three audiences:
(1) prospective community applicants:
Maine Walking School Bus – What Schools are Saying from Bicycle Coalition of Maine on Vimeo.
(2) potential community volunteers for each local program:
What Volunteers are Saying from Bicycle Coalition of Maine on Vimeo.
(3) local students and families who are prospective participants:
What Students are Saying from Bicycle Coalition of Maine on Vimeo.
A longer (2.5 minute) compilation video presents all of the clips together in a single informative video:
Maine Walking School Bus – The Walking School Bus Program from Bicycle Coalition of Maine on Vimeo.
Feel free to utilize these videos to share more about the program, start your own Walking School Buses using our Online Toolkit, and encourage your local school(s) to apply!
Application Now Open - Due November 13 | October Info Calls
This fall, through another competitive application process, the Maine WSB Program Team will be selecting up to 3 new schools with which to work to launch Walking School Bus programs in the spring of 2016.
Please sign up for one of our Informational Calls on October 15, 20, or 29 here.
Application deadline is November 13, 2015. See Application and How to Apply here.
Fall 2015: Walking School Buses Underway & Great Press from Ellsworth, Norway, & Portland!
With the launch of the new school year comes the relaunch of the Walking School Bus! Students and volunteers are making their way to school each day at Ellsworth Elementary-Middle School, Guy E. Rowe Elementary in Norway, and East End Community School in Portland.
We've been excited by growing awareness of these Walking School Bus programs:
- Norway was off and running as soon as school started – see this great piece with photos from the Lewiston Sun Journal
- Ellsworth celebrate its relaunch with another nice article and photos in the Ellsworth American
- And for a great description of Portland and other local WSB program activities, see this Maine Sunday Telegram article. The author, Shoshana Hoose, was the former communications director for the Bicycle Coalition of Maine and also reported on local Safe Routes to School efforts as the communications director for the Portland Public Schools.
Hats off to these programs and their 2015-2016 school year efforts!
They look forward to being joined by other schools around the state via informal family-led Walking School Buses and also up to three new schools to be chosen for funding this fall by the Maine Walking School Bus Program!
Daily Walking School Buses Underway in Ellsworth and Norway (and Portland)!
Students in Ellsworth and Norway have another way to get to school this spring. They are using the Walking School Bus, a program in which groups of local elementary school students join trained adult volunteers to walk as a group along particular routes to school. It's a healthy, cost effective addition to a school transportation system that kids and their adult "bus drivers" also find fun. The program is supported by a partnership between the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention, the Bicycle Coalition of Maine, the Maine Safe Routes to School Program and the Maine Department of Transportation.
Guy E. Rowe Elementary School in Norway and Ellsworth Elementary-Middle School are the two most recent recipients of grants from the Maine Walking School Bus Program to start daily walking school bus programs in their communities – see a recent Bangor Daily News article on the programs here. The 2-year grant provides resources to get the Walking School Bus (WSB) started in the communities so the program will continue after the grant is complete.
"Norway and Ellsworth have done a lot of related work in the past – walk and bike to school days, making sure students are taught bicycle and pedestrian safety, coming to previous Walking School Bus trainings we've held and working on improvements to sidewalks, crossings and other infrastructure in their communities. All of these help foster a successful Walking School Bus Program," reported Darcy Whittemore, the Bicycle Coalition's Central and Western Maine Safe Routes to School Coordinator.
In partnership with Coalition staff, the schools held WSB community workshops in February and the local support and enthusiasm for the program was impressive. Local partners for the program include school administrators, police, parent-teacher organizations, hospitals, school transportation directors, the YMCA, Rotary Clubs and other civic groups, a bank, and the local press. The WSB coordinators have been working hard since February to recruit and train volunteers and enlist students and families in the effort. Both communities launched their programs in late April.
David Norwood, the Physical Education teacher and WSB Coordinator in Ellsworth, shared, "We're taking our time to build a strong local program and plan to grow the number of students and routes as we go. The Ellsworth community is really excited about this initiative and wants to see it succeed." Both schools welcome community members to sign up online at walkingschoolbus.me/Ellsworth or walkingschoolbus.me/Norway to walk with students one morning a week. Volunteers are background-checked, then trained and placed with at least one other volunteer on a route.
"We had eight students registered before the first day," reported Rebecca Powell, the Norway WSB Coordinator. "I thought, okay, we'll start with that. But then as we walked the first morning, more and more students showed up on the route with their registration forms ready to walk with us. We ended up with 22 students – it was amazing!"
Portland's East End Community School piloted a WSB program starting in 2013 and is now funded through the statewide Walking School Bus Program as well; it continues to be an excellent example of success. Interested communities will have another chance to apply to the program in fall 2015 (sign up to receive notice in the right-hand sidebar of this site!)
The Walking School Bus Meets the Portland Children's Film Festival
Last Friday, the East End Community School's Walking School Bus Program teamed up with the Portland Children's Film Festival for a showing of one of their films, On the Way to School – which tracks four groups of children in far-flung locations as they each set off on impossibly long, arduous and sometimes life threatening journeys to attend class in distant schoolhouses.
The Walking School Bus (WSB) students were responsible for introducing On the Way to School and started by sharing a short volunteer-created film of their own on-the-way-to school experience via the Walking School Bus. What a great piece that really captures the program!
To get to the event, volunteers walked with the WSB students from school to the library downtown. In addition to introducing the films, WSB students thanked program funders (Maine Center for Disease Control, Bicycle Coalition of Maine, Maine Department of Transportation) and others (volunteers who share the walk with the students each day, the filmmaker (Terrence Wolfe) etc.) publicly. A number of volunteer Walk Leaders were in the audience and the WSB students had them stand for applause, then invited participating students and Terry the filmmaker to stand as well.
On their walk with volunteers back home to the East End, students shared their excitement about their experience.
The Portland Children's Film Festival also showed the Walking School Bus video at the Young Filmmaker's Contest Red Carpet event on Thursday night and then at the Nickelodeon Cinema on Sunday – even though it wasn't an official entry because it was not specifically student-led/driven. So it was a wonderful surprise to see it up on the big screens as well!


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Not sure where I want to go with this weeks blog. I'm kinda all over the place creatively.
This week, I finally busted open the writer's block I had solidly formed in my brain concerning one of the modules I wanted to write for GamerNationCon 2016, down in Dallas, Texas in April. I knew I wanted to try and write up something for Fallout, an urge that got even stronger once the damn game released last November. I'm not even done with the damn thing, I'm still playing, possibly only half way through the main story-line. I keep getting side-tracked by side quests, exploring the Commonwealth, building up the settlements I have founded, and answering all those damn "requests" from Preston telling me that there's another Settlement that needs my help.
"Did the Minutemen send you?"
"...you mean did I send me? The, apparently, only fstarking Minuteman member in this whole fstarking Commonwealth? In spite of the fact that I've got a frikkin' Castle with about two dozen guys in it who's labels state they're Minutemen? Me, the same guy who was here last month, saving your collective asses from those Raiders holed-up half-way across the map? Even though I've got 3 settlements within a much shorter distance, they traveled across Feral Ghoul Infested ruins and a Deathclaw warren to attack this settlement? And even though I've set up a defensive tower with enough Rocket Launchers and Auto-Lasers to bring down a Legendary Mirelurk Queen, a group of Raiders with pipe pistols and armor made from tires and kitchen utensils are somehow are able to bypass the defenses and raid your mutfruit trees! Yes, the Minutemen sent me; you long-term-memory-damaged incompetent half-wit!"
"Oh good, because we're having a real problem with these Raiders!"
"...tell me more."
...that rant too far too much time to sculpt. I need therapy.
So yeah, dam busted. Creativity flowing. This is good because if I can get this module done, it means I'm no longer dwelling on it and other projects can get up and running like my bi-weekly Wednesday night Skype game that my PCs are probably a week away from laying siege to my house with pitchforks and dice bags.
Ah, who am I kidding. I'm the only one with dice in this group. They use the app or EotE Hangout Tools to roll.
The Despair Session
Lets step back to my TFA/FFG campaign conversion. In my head, I like to think that a couple PCs from the GM's last Star Wars campaign that he ran back in college heard he was running some new PCs through FFG's Edge of the Empire and wanted to play their old characters. The GM allowed it, feeling that FFG is a nice system to allow more experienced players to game with new PCs (and it is, I can tell you). So at the start of Session 2, PCs Han Solo and Chewbacca join up to make a foursome. They have some nice intro RP interaction, and once all the PCs seemingly agree to work together to move along the GM's plot, the GM moves to the next scene.
Two things happen during this adventure; first, the GM rolls and triggers Han's Debt Obligation. Bala-Tik and the Guarvian Death Gang board Han's larger freighter looking for their money. Han tells the new PCs to hide while he and Chewie handle things. It's at this point that the second memorable event starts; the fickleness of the dice.
Every now and then, you'll have astounding luck in this system, either good or bad. There will be sessions where every die roll that could generate a Triumph will. It'll be like there's a two for one sale at Fizwaloo's Triumph Emporium. The opposite is also true; there will be sessions sponsored by Bachota's Discount Despair Shop. If you could roll a despair, you will.
This session turns out to be the later.
Han attempts to Deceive Bala-Tik, trying to appease him and give him more time. He fails, and rolls a Despair. Not only does Bala-Tik see through his lies, but the GM decides to have a little fun with the Despair and has the Kanjiklub gang board Han's freighter. While trying to calm down Kanjiklub, he rolls another despair, and both groups realize the Droid is the one the First Order is looking for, and have the insight to guess that the two fugitives the First Order seeks may also be on board.
Finn and Rey, not wanting to be idle, assess the situation. Rey comes up with a phenomenal idea to try and slam the blast doors closed, isolating and trapping the two gangs. It's a relatively easy check, one that the GM flips a Destiny point on to add some tension to the roll. It works; failure with advantage, but also Despair. The GM decides that she didn't close the blast doors to the hallway; she opened the blast doors to the rathtar holds. With the Advantage, the GM allows that to be spent on having the rathtars attack the two gangs first.
Hilarity ensues, and I think the only way the scene could be better presented was if Yakkety Sax was playing in the background.
The PCs have a few narrow escapes, Chewie takes a nasty shot and critical injury to the arm, and they all board the Millennium Falcon to escape. One of the rathtars attaches itself to the cockpit, obscuring the view and preventing a proper take off. Suddenly Han's player announces he wants to go to light speed from a resting position in a hanger bay. The GM, who would have flat out said "no" in previous editions of the game, has bought in to the "yes, and..." atmosphere of the FFG system. He affirms that the attempt can be made and pushes three red Challenge Dice and two purple Difficulty dice across the table. He also adds two Setback dice, because the view-port is blocked by a slobbering rathtar trying to eat the Falcon's cockpit. Han, a high "level" character with many sessions of XP under his belt, picks up his three yellow Proficiency dice and two green Ability dice to make the roll. He does; and after cancelling out a boat load of success, failure, advantage, and threat ends up rolling a net success with a Triumph and a Despair. The Triumph is used to rip the rathtar right off the cockpit and scatter the remaining Death Gang members across the ship. The Despair is used by the GM to cause a critical failure in the Hyperdrive that will scatter pieces of the Falcon across three sectors if they can't get it fixed. Fortunately, Rey is a whiz mechanic and makes the repair check to bypass the compressor on the Falcon's hyperdrive.
Finn, meanwhile, is trying to treat Chewie's critical injury but fails...and rolls a Despair, causing so much pain and discomfort that he enrages the wookiee. Chewie's player announces that he's throttling Finn as a way of displaying his displeasure at Finn's skill with Medicine.
The GM elects to ends the session there, with the PCs arriving at Takodana (he knows that there will be a huge fight at Takodana and doesn't have time to run it). Han's player says that this game is really rough on melee fighters and has his character hand Rey a blaster pistol. Rey grudgingly takes it, and spends some of this session's XP on buying some skill in Ranged (Light) weapons. She also spends 20 xp to pick up Force Sensitive Exile, and is now officially Force Sensitive.
Not sure if I'll continue this next week, or if I'll keep this on an every three or four week rotation.
I am having fun with this tho...
May the dice be with you.


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Are you like me, wondering how it got to be New Year's Eve (or NY Day) already? It wasn't that long ago that writing "2000" as part of the date seemed awkward and now we're into the next decade.
The greeting below is from Jacquie Lawson. If you aren't familiar with her work, I hope you will find it as charming as I do.
Best wishes to everyone, not just for tonight and tomorrow, but always.
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Happy New Year!
Posted by Knitty at 11:16 AM
7 comments:
- Kelli said...
Here's to hoping that your 2010 is happy, prosperous and blessed! :)
- December 31, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- Chatty Crone said...
I love Jackie Lawson - I subscribe to her. And I can't believe the year has gone by so fast either - and I'm with you - George Clooney - yum!
- December 31, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Time seems to be going faster and faster these days. Sometimes it feels like a whirl wind. I hope you and your family are blessed with an incredible New Year! I look forward to blogging with you in the New Year.
- December 31, 2009 at 12:16 PM
- Nettie said...
HAPPY NEW YEAR Knitty...hard to believe it's now 2010...where have the years gone?
- December 31, 2009 at 7:36 PM
- Olde Dame Penniwig said...
2010 -- can it truly be?
Happy New Year!
- December 31, 2009 at 9:51 PM
- andrea said...
happy new year!!!! :)
- January 1, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- The Quintessential Magpie said...
Knitty, here's wishing you ALL the best for 2010! Happy, Happy New Year to you...
Sheila :-)
- January 1, 2010 at 11:46 PM
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I don't like to be wet and I really hate to sweat. If I sweat, then I'll have to shower and get wet again, only to do something else that will make me sweat. Then I'll need another shower.
Do you see the cycle here? Before you know it you've spent
your whole day wet (sweating and showering)!
If God wanted us to spend the whole day in a cycle of
wetness, He would have made us live in the water instead of on land. We would
be wrinkled, puffy, grey, bloated and bulging marine mammals.
But I can't live in the
water because I would get wet. See the problem?
I'll have to learn how to roll in the sand to sandblast the crud
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#Blessed? Pope Francis begins 'new journey,' joins Instagram
He's already scored himself more than 750,000 followers
Pope Francis has upped his social media game yet again. This time, he's gotten himself an Instagram account.
The pontiff joined the social media app Saturday under the moniker @Franciscus — which is Latin for Francis. While he's only had the account for a few hours now, he has already scored himself more than 750,000 followers.
His first Instagram post was a photo of himself, head bowed and hands clasped in a praying position, coupled with the caption "Pray for me."
Another photo posted a few hours later shows the Pope bowing his head again behind a large gold cross.
The Vatican says the Instagram feed will include photos and videos from the Pope's daily life that highlight "closeness" and "inclusion."
"Instagram will help recount the Papacy through images, to enable all those who wish to accompany and know more about Pope Francis' pontificate to encounter his gestures of tenderness and mercy," said Monsignor Dario E. Viganò, the prefect of the Vatican's Secretariat for Communications, in a written statement.
The move to Instagram comes after the Pope met with Kevin Systrom, one of the photo-sharing app's co-founders and current CEO. Systrom visited the Pope at the Vatican in late February, where they discussed the power of photographs.
Systrom wrote about Pope Francis joining Instagram, calling it an "incredible moment."
"Your messages of humility, compassion and mercy will leave a lasting mark," he said in a photo he posted on his Instagram account on Saturday.
But he was far from the only one talking.
It started with the Pope on Twitter, where he announced his arrival to Instagram.
The Pope is already a social media star on Twitter, where his English-language account @Pontifex has nearly 9 million followers.
I am beginning a new journey, on Instagram, to walk with you along the path of mercy and the tenderness of God.—@Pontifex
His words led to a lot of excitement ...
POPE FRANCIS HAS AN INSTAGRAM THIS IS NOT A DRILL @Pontifex—@monicastgeorge
@Pontifex @antxvx What a time to be alive.—@greyxgordon
... and some obligatory Instagram/papal-themed humour.
Great news @Pontifex. Can't wait to see what you're having for dinner.—@acsdawson
@Pontifex pic.twitter.com/P8uFix9jZH—@ArmyAndStuff
@Pontifex What filter would Jesus use? (Answer: Rise)—@jasemurphy
There were also a few guesses about which social platform the Pope turns to next.
Despite admitting he is a technology "dinosaur" that doesn't know how to work a computer, the Pope recently called social media and text messages "a gift of God" if used wisely.
The real miracle will be Pope Francis figuring out Snapchat before I do 😩 https://t.co/b9fiEGCFr2—@RyanJL
@Pontifex @JohnyHelzapopin he will be on tinder next.—@stoney_utd
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Then, raising his head to face her, he says in a vindictive tone, "You do know that you're going to pay for this little prank, right?"
luv it! ^^
i've always been your stalker here and i will forever love your fanfics...
great job with this.. i miss KS2H.. ^^
love love love it... been waiting for ur update with this topic because i know u will surely make one hehe... thanks so much! it's been quite a while since i've made comments here.... just been busy with work lately... keep it up girl, u're just amazing!
oh am so glad i zipped my lips yesterday and stopped yapping!
wonderful job! as always!
now if only you can give us a peek on how ks made sh pay for that prank!!! lol. now that i have to wait and see!
There goes the goddess who spins magic on a whim!! Ioved this one to the last word!! Thanks much sister for not neglecting our couple.
Raine, This is funny and lovely reminds me so much of when ShinHye was so jealous of the Kimi Wa petto script. Lovely. Thank you.
Tita Girlie
chill ~ my favorite word on the start of a busy week. and maybe my song for the week should be "hey jealousy", yeah? to be consistent? lol!
ahhh, thank you for going back to good ole sukkiehye, raine. i badly wanted to read a new one about them. =D
i can't wait for Taiwan..!
i love all of your entries in this blog. i like your blog very much. i even thought that JGS and PSH were real couple after reading each story here...
Why do you stop writing? Are you busy or they ve already broken up :(( ? I hope you are allright and they are sill happy togetther :D
Keep writing. I look forward to new entry of yours.
I miss you and your fanfics.
Hello, Nhu Anh, thanks for your concern.
Hmm, I took a hiatus (still taking a hiatus) from SukkieHye fanfic writing because I feel I have already written all there is to write about them...and no, I don't think they broke up already because they still haven't admitted they were on in the first place.
I miss writing about them, too. And I miss my readers and comments like yours.
Who knows one of these days, I will hear their voices in my head again...
I am still writing, everyday, only about a different couple. Yong Hwa and Seo Hyun.
I'm giving Shin Woo his happy ever after post TK-MN, see? haha
hi, i hope to read your next fic since today is sukkie's seoul fm with the rest of the anjells as guest..shin hye will be there for sure so there will be a basis for your next episode...shin woo will also be there, i remember he said at the japan fm that he miss shin hye and would want to see her..
hi, i hope to read your next fic since today is sukkie's seoul fm with the rest of the anjells as guest..shin hye will be there for sure so there will be a basis for your next episode...shin woo will also be there, i remember he said at the japan fm that he miss shin hye and would want to see her..
hi, i miss your fan fic already..isn't it today's sukkie's seoul fm and the rest of the anjells are the special guest...shin hye will be there so i hope that you could write your next episode by then...also, in one of shin hye's recent interviews, she said that her relationship with sukkie is that sort of brother-sister only BUT she also mentioned a supportive sukkie...ISN'T IT A CONTRADICTING STATEMENT? WHAT DO YOU THINK? i wish that they are a real life couple..


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Selections by Sebold (The Almost Moon, 2007, etc.) tend to grapple with the issues of the day, rather than concerning themselves primarily with the formalistic edicts of academic programs. "Each of these twenty stories is risky in its own way," comments series editor Pitlor in her foreword. Many of the entries, she continues, "demonstrate the human ability to endure crises and to regenerate afterward." Two fictions inspired by the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina couldn't be more different. "Rubiaux Rising" is the shortest piece here (eight pages) and one of the most powerful. Compressed details deliver a visceral jolt in Steve De Jarnatt's narrative about an Iraq veteran, addicted to pain killers since he lost an arm and a leg to an IED, who has been locked in an attic by his mother to detox when Katrina (never mentioned) strikes. It's the first story the author ever submitted for publication, one of the discoveries that makes this series so valuable. The 40-page "Hurricanes Anonymous" by Adam Johnson is the volume's longest piece and one of its richest, detailing connections made and lost in the emotional aftermath of two Louisiana storms. "Rubiaux" did not need to be a syllable longer; "Hurricanes" could have sustained the reader's interest for many more pages. Other tales concern war, past as well as present, and foreign affairs. Another contributor being published for the first time is Zambia-born Namwali Serpell ("Muzungu"); the usual roster of familiar names includes Jill McCorkle, Richard Powers and Annie Proulx; and the collection features multiple selections from such reliably discerning publications as the New Yorker (four) and Tin House (three).
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I'm always after a low point dessert recipes which I can whack out at dinner parties without anyone knowing its 'diet food' but I never thought something as luxurious as chocolate mousse would be so low in points. This is a really easy and tasty recipe, looks really impressive and most importantly, is nice and low in points. I served this as part of my three course meal (mentioned below!) and it went down a storm! n.b this recipe has gone up from 4pp to 8sp since the introduction of the new plan. Whilst its a bit higher, I still think it could work as part of a meal if factored in correctly.
Serves 4 = 8sp (previously 4pp) each
85g dark chocolate (50-70% cocoa solids, I used Green and Black's)
1 tbsp cocoa powder
½ tsp vanilla extract
2 egg whites
1 tbsp golden caster sugar
50g low fat Greek yogurt
12 raspberries
Break up the chocolate and pop into a bowl over a pan of simmering water. After a minute add the cocoa and vanilla with 2 tbsp cold water and remove the pan from the heat. Let the chocolate melt from the residual heat of the pan and give a stir to help it along.
Once melted stir in 2 tbsp boiling water. This will thin down the chocolate and make it nice and silky. Remove the bowl from over the pan and leave it to cool slightly.
Meanwhile whisk the eggs whites into soft peaks then add the sugar until glossy.
Next beat the yogurt into the cooled chocolate til evenly combined. Then add a third of the egg whites, folding in carefully. Next fold in the rest of the egg whites carefully so it keeps its volume.
Pour into small ramekins or dessert bowls and leave to set in the fridge for a couple of hours (or overnight if you are uber organised!).
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In unrelated cooking news- the pink batter was yet another failed attempt to make a pink strawberry cake. An entire cup of fresh beet juice didn't do the trick. I'm at a loss. But the cake tasted great anyway.
M2's Summer sweater is finished. Its made with Lorna's Laces sock yarn. I did a little wave pattern on the bottom and a little ruffly hem and short sleeves. I happened to find a matching cotton ribbon in my vintage stash so I forwent any buttons. I love the way it turned out. I'm not very experienced with skinny yarns so it's always fun to get some practice.
I got 10 oz. of fiber (also Lorna's) on sale at my local yarn shop. I'm trying to spin it pretty thin so it creates a sweater suitable for Summer.
I'll post recap from our first official week of Summer this weekend too.
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Episode 25: Flashing Lights Against The Sky
Release Date: 11/19/2016
Episode 25. Or 6 to 4. Whatever the hell that means. Also It's TEOTWAWKI whatever that means. What are your favorite apocalyptic songs and/or movies. What does the Doomsday Clock say right now, anyway? Has anybody checked? Anyway we're in this mood because, well, reasons. This show is just one segment and it's us kvetching about the election. Sorry/Not sorry.
Trump wine tastes like it should come from a box. Election results theater should also come from a box. The Lens does a really great results map. Also everybody was super-wrong about how this thing would go. But somehow it is all Jeff's fault.
Or maybe it was Hillary's fault. Or maybe it was something else. We get deep into it. This NYT story about a Carrier plant in Indiana comes up. So does this Advertiser article about Cameron Parish. Voters there are worried about jobs in offshore drilling. David Hammer's latest investigation shows that "regulations" aren't really what's slowing that industry down right now. How do you reach the voters Hillary couldn't?
How bad can Trump actually be, by the way? (It might be very bad) Does he know or care what he is doing or what a President is supposed to do?
What do we do next? One thing would be to not elect John Kennedy to the Senate, although that will be hard when Caroline Fayard is still causing problems. Beyond that, though, how do people find ways to organize both inside of and independently of their political parties? Alli has some ideas inspired by this Jonathan Schwarz article. Lance has a short sermon on constructive communication.
Twitter responds to our call for Trump cabinet suggestions.
Finally Varg has a question about Williams Supermarket.
Other than that, there's no regular features. No Jivewire or SOSO. Just needed to get the Trump stuff out this time. We'll be back in form next time out.
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Eight days after getting roundly-chastised for holding an all-male anti-contraception, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) admitted on Friday that the episode did not go as well as he expected.
"I won't call it my greatest success to get a point across on behalf of the American people," said the six-term congressman.
Issa, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, held a hearing on February 16 to discuss the Obama administration's new regulation that requires employers and insurers to provide birth control coverage. During the hearing, Issa prohibited a woman who supported expanding access to contraception from testifying.
However, after enduring more than a week of embarrassment in the media, Issa was chastened while speaking at the California Republican Party's Spring Convention in Burlingame:
ISSA: Right now there are attacks on the Constitution. Some of them are subtle, and some are less subtle. I'm just going to relate one thing to you. Last week there was a hearing that was spun, it was terrible spun. We all saw it. I won't call it my greatest success to get a point across on behalf of the American people.
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One need look no further than a picture of the witness table at the hearing on women's health to recognize why the episode was heavily criticized:
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City officials this week upped the repair estimate for water damage to the Central Library — including nearly 1,000 spoiled books — to roughly $125,000.
The main branch reopened on Monday after officials closed the building for a week to repair the water damage, including new piping, carpet and dehumidifying the interior at a cost of nearly $100,000. Another $25,000 worth of nonfiction books, some of which can't be replaced because they're out of print, were destroyed by the water, officials reported.
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Seems like I'm moving blogs again .... finally going to keep this one semiregularly updated, particularly as I'm now a graduate of UC Berkeley with a BA in Astrophysics. So, faithful few (any?), head on over to blog.revealedsingularity.net for more prattlings and ponderings from this end of things.


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The survey of 1,498 people found more were able to identify a picture of Alex Reid, the new husband of Katie Price, than recognised Gordon Brown, the prime minister.
The study, in which respondents were asked to put names to photographs of well-known public figures, showed that David Cameron is the best recognised opposition politician, with 73 per cent of people identifying him as the leader of the Conservative Party.
Gordon Brown was the most recognised politician with 81% of people matching his face to his name, but Alex Reid, the cage fighter was still better known, with 84 per cent of respondents recognising him.
The survey, by the money-saving website MyVoucherCodes, also showed that 41 per cent of people identified a photograph of Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, as the Dragons' Den entrepreneur Peter Jones.
Katia Ivanova, the former girlfriend of Ronnie Wood, also proved more recognisable than a number of leading politicians. Mark Pearson, managing director of the money-saving website, said: "The fact that Katia Ivanova, who is famous for having slept with a Rolling Stone, is better known that Jack Straw and Alan Johnson put together is indicative of the fact that the public are heavily influenced by the media."
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Judy Dore, a member of our Board and the manager of the Newton Farmers Market, organized a fundraising night for Mass Farmers Markets recently, and it was a hit! Everyone that came went home with a brand-new farmers market bag that they painted themselves. While the design was the same for each bag, each one turned out just a bit differently. I'm sure we'll be seeing these bags at our markets this season!
Barb Hamilton also made sure everyone left with a belly full of delicious brownies, due to a generous donation on her end. I'm sure they paired well with the beer and wine available for purchase at the Paint Bar 🙂


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It may be asking too much for the Stroudsburg Area School District and the Monroe County Commissioners to sit down and think outside the box and plan for the future, not the present.
What I'm proposing, seems like a viable solution to both of their problems. It certainly seems very plausible to me "� that is, if they can set their big egos aside and think about the voters instead of what they want.
The Ramsey Elementary School should be closed. They are busing kids to the school just to keep it open because of sentiment, which in today's atmosphere won't pay the bills. The county commissioners on the other hand want to take property out of the tax base, which will not only hurt the school district but also Stroudsburg. Now I ask is that good government thinking?
Let me answer that "� of course not. What I propose is the school district should sell the school to the county, which will save money; the county then will have a very viable place for their offices with plenty of parking, and room to expand in the future.
Of course this may be just common sense thinking and I'm sure those who are against it will find a way to shoot it down or put roadblocks in the way. But there is no reason in my opinion why such a deal cannot be done.
What the county may pay to upgrade or make it usable to their specs would be a drop in the bucket to what they can save not only today, but in the future.
And it will keep valuable property on the tax rolls, benefiting all. Of course, that might just be too much common sense.
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CSz Houston Announces Move And Temporary Location
CSz Houston, home of ComedySportz, Houston's longest running show, will relocate from it's current home at 901 Town and Country Boulevard. The building has been sold, and the new owners will develop a residential complex in it's place. The last shows at this location will be Saturday August 30, 2014. "After ten years in this location, we'll say goodbye to the bricks and mortar with a huge ComedySportz match to include many of the current and former players on the field. We expect over 25 improvisers to hit the ComedySportz field that night," says Founder Dianah Dulany. "This west Houston location has been great to us, and we will remain in the neighborhood." Although not ready to announce the new address just yet, Dulany says: "We are excited about the possibilities this move will bring. We expect to move into a larger space so we can better accommodate our patrons."
Until the new location is ready, CSz will produce it's world-renown ComedySportz matches at the Holiday Inn Houston West-Energy Corridor, located at 1112 Eldridge Parkway at Enclave, just south of Memorial Drive. Easily accessible to a number of dining and shopping options, this hotel offers award-winning hospitality experiences. The Holiday Inn Houston West-Energy Corridor also features plenty of parking, their on-site Sporting News Bar & Grill, and expanded concessions offerings for the ComedySportz matches, including a full bar and ballpark concessions
Much like the television program "Whose Line is it Anyway?," ComedySportz is fast-paced fun for everyone. During a match, two teams of comedians battle for laughs and points as they make up scenes, games and songs on the spot. The audience votes for the winners and a referee calls the fouls. Each match is different since new games are played and new suggestions are taken from the audience every time.
ComedySportz Houston was founded in 1990 by native Texan Dianah Dulany, who was a member of the original ComedySportz troupe in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Now a Heights resident, she returned to Texas to open the franchise and continues to act as Artistic Director and Producer of the show. The Houston troupe competes annually at the ComedySportz World Championship, having placed third in the League of twenty-four clubs this year. The troupe is also active in the community, bringing the ComedySportz games and format to high school students. The current High School League consists of teams from Cy Fair ISD, Houston ISD, Katy, ISD, and Spring Branch ISD. These schools compete with each other throughout the academic year, as well as participate in a local tournament in May.
Csz will present ComedySportz matches at the Holiday Inn Houston West-Energy Corridor every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm starting September 5, 2014. Admission is $18 for adults, $16 for students, seniors and military. Discounts for groups and students are also available. The public information number is 713-868-1444. As always, CSz Houston is also available for corporate and private events as well as corporate training and team building.


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The SoC is an upgrade to the Armada 1500, which was the designated SoC for Google TV 2.0 set-tops and smart TVs. It is expected that the Armada 1500 Plus will be one of the principle SoC pairings with the upcoming successor to GoogleTV, rumored to be called Android TV. However, it is also likely Google will work with a variety of SoC platforms as part of a move to loosen up previous Google TV requirements that many vendors found too restricting.
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Jesus told a parable in Matt. 13:45-45.
"The Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. (v. 45)". The merchant traded in pearls – fine pearls. He traveled all over from country to country, most likely around the seaside towns and villages looking for the most beautiful and perfect pearls.
Pearls are graded by shape and size – the ideal pearl will be perfectly round, have a very high luster and be at least 95% free from defects
The world's largest natural pearl weighs 34 kg and is valued at $130 million – 2 ft x 1 ft in the shape of a clam.
The world's largest and most expensive round pearl is 33 carat, natural saltwater pearl and is valued at $1.4 million.
Matthew 13:46, "When he found one of great value, he went away and sold all he had, and bought it."
The merchant gave up everything – possibly even his house, to have the pearl.
Who is the Merchant?
I always thought that the merchant was us (Christians), who found the great treasure of salvation and reconciliation to God, through Christ.
I.e. We give up everything to follow Jesus and to serve Him above all else.
I once heard Derek Prince say that the merchant is God – I considered this, but wasn't really convinced.
However, during worship and prayer this week, the Lord suddenly opened my understanding.
I sensed the Holy Spirit say to me, "The merchant is God and the pearl is people – you and me."
This actually made perfect sense to me. Jesus said, "The kingdom of heaven is like this…" It is like a pearl merchant who found such value in a single pearl, he sold everything to have it.
God (God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit) saw such value in us, when He looked down and saw the lost state of mankind, in the grip of sin and death – prisoners to the devil, God sold or gave everything he had, in the form of His only Son (John 3:16) to buy us back from the devil.
The Bible tells us that the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life – Romans 6:23.
The cost of our salvation was high and this shows how valuable we are to God. So much so, that there is rejoicing in heaven over one person who repents and turns to God! (Luke 15:7).
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Re: What would you do? (Older male teacher with young female student)
If the young woman in question was of the age of consent, then the conduct, however distasteful to me personally, was probably lawful.
ON THE OTHER HAND, if she was underage and their relationship was anything other than platonic, then we are discussing criminal and predatory behavior in almost any culture or jurisdiction. If that was the situation (and Angry Father isn't clear on this), his current relationship is irrelevant to his future behavior. These guys are on the hunt and stay on the hunt until they are stopped. Many, if not most, sexual predators I've dealt with over the years were in significant relationships and still continued to seek out victims. Allowing such an individual to continue training and teaching speaks volumes about that dojo and its' leadership.
Since Angry Father hasn't been entirely clear, I won't throw stones, but this situation has alerted my Spider Sense.
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How NOT to Join a Roleplay in Second Life
Late night on my favorite roleplaying sim and we have a few different scenes going on in various places across the realm. A couple - who we will call False King and Silent Queen - came in to wander around. Really, no harm no foul - non-roleplayers are welcome, there isn't really a dress code if you're out of character and even in character it's pretty broad. Their behavior was a little odd; they kept walking around us as we were in the frozen-position norm of paragraph roleplay. Several attempts were made to engage with them in good faith in both local and IM.
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[Admin]: ((Heyya guys, feel free to browse the sim, but please don't interrupt the RP!))
At this point the couple walks away from the initial roleplaying group to a secondary location inside of a tavern. On the way they changed form modern clothes to medieval style and put on crowns. When they entered their behavior was very much of a piece as before - they walked all over, never keeping still except when the male half typed into open chat.
[False King]: the kind (sic) DEMANDS a jar or the finest ale
Deoridhe Quandry: ( If you want to enter a roleplay, you need to pose your entrance and be reaosnable with your demands. )
Deoridhe Quandry: ( Otherwise, please observe but don't interrupt us. This island doesn't have any kings. )
[False King]: the king valiantly enters the cavern, accompanied by his platonic queen friend
Deoridhe Quandry: ( This island doesn't have any kings or queens. It's rule by a council and you are not on that council. )
[False King]: well it has a king now
Deoridhe Quandry: ( I'm happy to help you in IMs, but not to let you interrupt our roleplay. )
[False King]: and i had the council executesd
Deoridhe Quandry: ( If you continue to interrupt I will have to ask the sim owner to help you leave. I don't wish to do this. )
Around this time they walked out of the building again and ended up wandering around elsewhere. I took it to IMs, but the two people I was playing with had some reactions.
[Roleplayer 1]: ((-sobbing- whatthefuckwasthaaaaattttttt))
[Roleplayer 2]: ((An adventure!)
Deoridhe Quandry: If you would like I can point you to the website with the history of the island. Deoridhe Quandry: Walking into a sim and making yourself a ruler of it is highly impolite, however. Please don't do that.
[False King]: the history was written by my gravest enemies, as the rightful king i own this land
Deoridhe Quandry: No, you don't.
[False King]: you know nothing of my royal struggle
Deoridhe Quandry: I know that your manners are extremely poor and won't make you any friends.
Deoridhe Quandry: I'm happy to help you actually roleplay with other people; I am not happy to have you undermine the work my friends have put into this sim.
[False King]: you are but a lowly fairy wench, quell your tone or i shall have you executed
Deoridhe Quandry: I'm bored with you. If you ever want to actually join the rp, let me know.
They went over to disrupt another roleplay and the owner of the sim finally ejected them. They returned several times until being banned. I got one final message from the "king".
[False King]: how dare you do this to the king
Roleplaying sims are their own creatures on the grid - individualistic, rule-heavy, and often with solid stories people have put serious time into. It's not uncommon for someone to come in demanidng a position of power - but claiming to be a non-existant king on an island without them is certainly novel!
Also, something you shouldn't do.
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More details of what has become a worldwide 'bailout' of financial institutions are emerging. Are we seeing the return of Roosevelt's New Deal for the U.S. version, at least? Governments are actually taking ownership of many of the troubled financial entities that caused the subprime debacle. The European Union and United Kingdom recently announced that their governments would not only guarantee bank deposits and interbank lending between banks, but offer unlimited amounts of dollars to commercial banks as well!
As if to reinforce this perception, this year's Nobel Prize in economics was just awarded to Paul Krugman, not only a 'liberal" (his words) economist, but author of "The Great Unraveling", which documented the attempt by conservatives to dismantle the New Deal, including privatization of social security.
The New Deal was based on a new economics of that time, formulated by Britain's Lord Keynes, a British economist and expert on financial markets. He postulated that governments should intervene not only during wartime, but bad economic times to prime the economic pump. It should cut spending during good times, on the other hand, so that inflation and excess consumption would not take place. His most famous work was "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" published in 1936.
"…there will be no means of escape from prolonged and perhaps interminable depression except by direct state intervention to promote and subsidize new investment," said Keynes. "Formerly there was no expenditure out of the proceeds of borrowing that it was thought proper for the State to incur except for war. In the past therefore, we have not infrequently had to wait for a war to terminate a major depression. I hope that in the future we shall not adhere to this purist financial attitude, and that we shall be ready to spend on the enterprises of peace what the financial maxims of the past would only allow us to spend on the devastations of war."
Since the Roosevelt Administration governed during the worst of times—the Great Depression and World War II—it created massive government programs to support the economy, as well as modern financial regulation, the FDIC, housing programs and social security. More than 6,000 banks were re-capitalized with government funds at that time, according to historians. It was as much as is being spent today, in real terms.
Today, we find that history is repeating itself. The U.S. government is having to push back against the excesses created by too little government, as in the 1930s—especially too little regulation of financial markets. But no one thinks we will return to the monolithic measures of the New Deal, when there were fewer private institutions to spur economic growth.
Modern economic theory reflects this mix of private and public enterprise. We now know that so-called 'free' markets don't work without regulations, for instance. Financial institutions do not regulate themselves, as Alan Greenspan and other classical economists believed. But private capital markets—such as bank deposits, pension and insurance funds—are now the best providers of jobs, not governments.
We also know why the markets collapsed after the subprime and housing meltdowns. Banks and consumers took out too much debt. But few will talk about the why. Fareed Zakaria,. Newsweek's International Editor in chief, tells us that governments wouldn't or couldn't raise taxes to cover their increased spending. That is why the federal government now owes $10.2 trillion, whereas it owed just $3 trillion in 1990.
And consumers continued to spend, even though 'real' (after inflation) household incomes have been falling for decades. Household debt ballooned from $680 billion in 1974 to $14 trillion today. The average household now has 13 credit cards, and 40 percent of these carry a balance, up from 6 percent in 1970. In fact, consumers spent $800 billion more than they earned just in 2007.
The current financial dilemma is therefore a wakeup call for both government and consumers to spend within their means.
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