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Sardine packers, Lubec, ca. 1976
Contributed by Edith Comstock through Lubec Memorial Library
Not available for reproduction or licensing. More info.
From left are Nellie Campbell, Edith Comstock, and Thyra Cheney packing sardines at R.J. Peacock Canning Co. in Lubec.
The identity of the child in foreground is unknown.
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- Title: Sardine packers, Lubec, ca. 1976
- Creation Date: 1976
- Subject Date: 1976
- Town: Lubec
- County: Washington
- State: ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 12.5 cm
- Object Type: Image
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Lubec Memorial Library
55 Water Street, Lubec, ME 04652
(207) 733-2491
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Canned fish industry--Maine--Lubec
Fish canneries--Maine--Lubec
Food industry--Maine--Lubec
Campbell, Nellie
Comstock, Edith
Cheney, Thyra
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By Nicole Heifferon
It was 8:30am in the morning and I was walking into work, my coffee in hand. As I was entering our front office, I noticed one of our residents standing there on the office phone. I quickly realized something was wrong; she was crying and visibly upset. I immediately set my coffee down and asked her what was happening. She then proceeded to tell me about some recent setbacks in her recovery, how she had left her phone in her friend's car the night before, she needed to call her probation officer, but their number was in her phone, she was anxious about some legal meetings that day…you get the idea. I sat with her, and tried my best to just create space for her to be.
I was at a loss for words in that moment. I didn't know what she needed. As she left for her meeting at JAMLAC (Justice and Mercy Legal Aid Clinic), I simply prayed. That's all I knew to do. When she came back from her meeting she was not only visibly calmer, she had a renewed sense of hope. Our partners at JAMLAC provide more than just legal services; they also create safe space for clients and help them process their thoughts and emotions. I'm so grateful for the role that they play in our residents' lives.
She was about to leave for some more meetings that day and was becoming more nervous once again. And once again, I had no words. Before leaving, she asked for her mail. As I pulled it out of her mailbox, I noticed a handmade card. It was made from construction paper, in the shape of a heart, and some things written in crayon. I then recalled that a school in the area had donated some items and the handmade cards for each resident. This card was made by a elementary student who had never met our resident, and probably never will. I glanced at the card and noticed it said, "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go" (Joshua 1:9, NIV). At the bottom of the card, this young person had written, "I am praying for you."
I handed it to our resident, she read it, and immediately began to weep. With tears streaming down her face, she looked me in the eyes and said, "This is exactly what I needed to hear right now." The space between us was so sacred in that moment. The tears this time were different than they were early that morning; this time her tears seemed to almost be healing and a release. It was nothing I said, nothing my own human strength mustered up. I simply was trusting the Spirit, trusting how God goes beyond our own human capabilities or limits. He makes the space sacred, reaches out and touches the deepest parts of us. I sent our resident off to the rest of her meetings that day and said "We love you, we support you, we are praying for you." And I sent her off with peace inside my soul knowing she had those words from the book of Joshua tucked away in her purse.
Moments like that one make me reflect on how beautiful and crucial community is in the process of healing for our families. If one of our staff members hadn't of connected that school to Joshua Station, that card would never had reached her hands. If she didn't have JAMLAC, her legal process would be much more overwhelming. If it wasn't for her family advocate and the rest of the Joshua Station staff, she wouldn't have the support she needs. I could go on and on. But this is the work we do…we walk in the confidence that there's a God who is in all and through all. He's in the tears, the space between us, and even cards made out of green construction paper.


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Istanbul:On the eve of the 2005 Champions League final, players from AC Milan and Liverpool FC made their first appearance at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul. Having surrendered the Serie A title to Juventus, AC Milan will be looking to finish their season on a high with victory in the Champions League. Defensive lynchpin Paolo Maldini is hoping to win Europe's premier club title for a fifth time. If Milan are victorious in the Turkish capital then Milan's left back would become only the fourth player to do so. Carlo Ancelotti's side, who won the Champions League in 2003, will be looking for a solid performance from their defence. With Ukrainian Andriy Shevchenko in the side, Milan will be more than capable of grabbing what could be a vital goal. The European footballer of the year has scored 108 times in 179 Serie A matches and his accuracy could prove to be the difference between the two sides. Wednesday's final will be the tenth time that the Milan have competed for the European Cup. Having already overcome rivals Inter, Manchester United and PSV Eindhoven in the knockout stages, Milan will have little to fear on the night. Brazilian international Kaka may have to produce a magic trick or two in his first major European final if Milan are to break down a resilient Liverpool defence, though, and the Rossoneri will be without the services of Massimo Ambrosini, who scored the vital away goal in the semi-final win over PSV. Nothing to lose With a disappointing domestic campaign now behind them, Liverpool have nothing to lose as they contest the European Cup for a sixth time. Rafael Benitez's shrewd tactics have taken the Reds to the brink of another European success, but captain Steven Gerrard will have to put in a commanding performance if Liverpool are to get the better of their illustrious opponents. Liverpool go into the game as underdogs, but they have flourished from a similar position in the knockout stages, with Juventus and Chelsea both struggling to breach Jerzy Dudek's goal. The Reds are likely to play with a single striker up front, so either Djibril Cisse or Euro 2004 golden boot winner Milan Baros are going to be left on the bench. With Sami Hyypia lining up alongside Jamie Carragher, Liverpool's defence are more than capable of repelling Milan's strike force. But it is in midfield that Liverpool will have to make their mark and with Xavi Alonso prompting their attacks, Benitez's side will hope to be able to match Milan in the centre of the pitch. With both sides comfortable in defence, goals may come at a premium and the prospect of a goalless draw is a realistic one. Milan's last Champions League victory came after a successful penalty shootout win over Juventus, and it wouldn't be a great surprise if Wednesday's final was also decided on spot kicks. (AP)
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is it possible to get a better signal for the horror channel without having to move my dish?
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my ex contract sky hd box allows me to watch programmes but not record. can i connect the box to my pc and record onto my hard drive.
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Hi, I've been recording the re-mastered original Star Trek series currently being run on the horror channel. From the start it has been missing the first couple of minutes and last couple of minutes - very frustrating as we miss the punch line on every show. We are subscribed to Telewest - would really appreciate it if you could point us in the right direction to resolve this issue. We have tried cancelling the recording schedule and resetting - to no avail.
Cheers, any help much appreciated
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a) as various people have pointed out again and again, this website has NOTHING to do with any broadcaster, so you and anyone else who asks a similar question are totally wasting your time, and perhaps should learn to use Google.
b) Your recorder is missing the start and end - you can normally change the settings to top and tail.
c) rather than be cheap, have to edit out all the ads and then watch it just in SD, you can get the whole series on Blu ray for 30 quid, which works out at less than 40p an episode.
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What's In A Name?March 30, 2010
Hottie, Gorgeous, Suave. Three words, same meaning. Two words, different meanings, Ocho Cinco. Eighty-five, the highest jersey number ever retired in baseball. Eighty five, the percentage of ethanol used to produce gasoline. Eight five, the year that Mike Tyson made his professional debut. Eighty-five the number on the back of Chad Johnson's Bengals jersey. Or should I say, Chad Ocho Cinco's jersey?
Cincinnati Bengals Wide Receiver and Dancing With the Star gorgeous celebrity athlete Chad Ocho Cinco was born Chad Javon Johnson. Confused? Best to start from the beginning.
Born in Miami Florida in 1978, Chad Johnson grew up with the gift of game. A standout wide receiver from Miami Beach Senior High, football wasn't Johnson's first priority upon graduation. He began his education at Langston University, a historically black University located in Oklahoma. While at Langston, Johnson kept up with his grades, yet spent his freshman year sans sport. Realizing his talent had fallen stagnant, Johnson transferred to Santa Monica Junior College to complete his associates degree and preview his talents to the NCAA Gods (otherwise known as college recruiters). Santa Monica Junior College is commonly known as the incubator that holds the most talented future NCAA stars, particularly via the Pac-10. It wasn't long before Chad Johnson transferred his talent to Oregon State University starting as wide receiver for the Beavs. Chad Johnson's tenure at Oregon State was absolutely stellar to say the least. He and teammate T.J. Houshmandzadeh, who he would later play with in Cincinnati, led Oregon State to an 11-1 season and shattered OSU records upon entry. Johnson and Houshmandzadeh (Housh) would go on to beat Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl their senior year. In addition, Chad Johnson, to this day, holds the longest yardage for a touchdown-reception in school history. Johnson's NFL career was imminent.
Chad Johnson was picked up in the 2001 draft by the Cincinnati Bengals. His first two years of play were so-so, just aight, it wasn't until 2003 that he really etched his name into the NFL playing field. Four straight seasons, Chad Johnson led the AFC in receiving yards. He earned himself a Pro Bowl spot a whopping six times. In 2007, Chad Johnson broke an NFL receiving record, to become the first Bengal ever to lead the NFL in receiving records.
As time progressed, Johnson earned himself a name off the field as well. He kept it sassy to say the least, and had an air about him that irritated his fellow teammates. In 2006, Fox Sports listed Chad Johnson on their top ten list of "showboats" in professional sports, of course he was crowned King.
In 2007, after a Monday Night Football game, Chad Johnson wore a jacket that resembled the Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee's jackets. On the back of the jacket questioned... "Future H.o.F 20??"
In 2007, after a Monday Night Football game, Chad Johnson wore a jacket that resembled the Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee's jackets. On the back of the jacket questioned... "Future H.o.F 20??"
His fellow players, including quarterback Carson Palmer were less then impressed, and deemed Johnson as nothing more then a distraction. Rumors circulated regarding a potential trade, and Chad Johnson went on a radio show to request a change of scenery. Though the wheels were in motion for Johnson to transfer to Washington, and play for the Redskins, nothing transpired, and he continued to play in Cincinnati.
So who is Chad Ocho Cinco? Chad Ocho Cinco is Chad Johnson. He requested his fans and teammates call him "Ocho Cinco" Spanish for his football number, eighty five, in 2006. Pre-game late October, just before Cincinnati would play Atlanta Falcons, Chad Johnson came into the locker room with a label on the back of his jersey that read "Ocho Cinco" instead of "C. Johnson." Rumor has it that Cincinnati Quarterback Carson Palmer was less then amused and immediately ripped it off his jersey. In addition, Chad Johnson was fined $5,000 by the NFL. Chad Johnson was given strict order that he wasn't to use the name "Ocho Cinco" for anything NFL related unless he legally changed his name through the court system. Of course that's exactly what he did, Chad Javon Johnson was granted the name Chad Javon Ocho Cinco just before the 2008 NFL season. Having gone through the proper procedures, The NFL allowed Ocho Cinco to allocate a name change on his 2008 jerseys. However, because of legal obligations to Reebok, he donned "C.Johnson" throughout the 2008 season, and didn't request the offical jersey change until 2009.
Rumors have since surfaced that Chad Ocho Cinco may undergo yet another name change. He announced on USTREAM broadcast that he's seeking to legally change his name to "Hachi Go" which is Japanese for eighty-five.
Today, Chad Javon Johnson is Chad Ocho Cinco, star of the tenth season of Dancing With the Stars, partner to Cheryl Burke. Over the past two Mondays, Ochocinco has kept women swooning... and their men... busy voting. Chad Ocho Cinco always puts on a show. He's been dancing on endzones for years, this time he performs his moves in the ballroom. The changes he'll have in store will surely surprise us all. Chad Tonioli or Chad Goodman perhaps?
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So today I thought I'd be useful and post pictures of the new lalalala 'roof' for F1 cars, using pictures from here:
See? First error: usually when I posted I link, the forum automatically converted it to the hyperlink format,Code:http://nl.motorsport.com/f1/news/raikkonen-test-als-eerste-rijder-lalalala-cockpit-bescherming-677016/
...but now it no longer does that. Second error was that while using the [img] tags as usually, the pictures from the website above would not show up, not even when using Chrome's Element Inspection to go all the way to the image (this trick always worked for me when images were part of galleries etc).Code:[url = www.duck .com] DUCK [/url] without the spaces ofcourse
And then there's SCS Blog posts. They have a blog with a dark background, meaning their font is light grey in color. What I usually did was simply select the text and use the font color box in the post editor to make the text black. But now, it splits up the whole quoted blogpost, and I even had double font color codes in the post.
See below how it split the quote in two quotes, by adding a [/quote][quote] thing in front of the video link as I highlighted. I can remove it, save the change, and it will return automatically. Also see at the bottom that the link is no longer automatically converted.
Is this on purpose or is this a bug?
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Link is a 404 now.
If the forum cannot grab the title within a set time it will default to the normal behaviour of just linking it normally.
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You are deliberately using [code] tags to show off these examples yeah? (you can surround items with [noparse][/noparse] tags to show them as typed)
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It's not just Steam Workshop support, there is another important feature coming with the next ETS2 and ATS update. Compared to where we were only a year ago with the whole wheel being just one monolithic truck part, there's no other way of putting it: we're going to provide you with ultimate wheel customization!
We were never quite happy with the existing system, it was too limiting. Customizing wheels should be more varied, more flexible, more fun! We have split our wheels into multiple components: Tire and Disk separation was introduced recently, in addition to it we have now added customization sub-components of the disk: Hubs, Hub Covers and Nuts.
Check out this little video clip that we have made. Rather than from static screenshots, this feature is easier to appreciate in motion:
Advanced wheel customization will come simultaneously to both Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator with the upcoming update. Just splitting the existing wheel models into parts that you can recombine according to your wish will already give you a vast variety of different looks. On top of it, we'll soon release a small but cool DLC with extra wheel tuning options - things like paintable metal parts or crazy nut designs. Stay tuned!
SCS Software's blog: Ultimate Wheel Customization
The video is a bit of a strange one but easy to remedy: when you paste into here, right-click the video and Copy video URL then highlight the video and delete it. Paste in the copied url and remove the s from the https:// so that it shows http://youtu.be/BLAHBLAHBLAH and then either continue on with your post or Preview Post. The video should now be showing as it used to.
YouTube videos are currently recognised when entered as:
Note that there is a fix for this non-recognising of the short https video URL but I will need to take the forum down in order to do it and so will do this later during our more quieter times.
I couldn't completely understand all you were saying but by going with the pics and my own testing I think this is what you were mentioning with this thread and so I hope the above helps you figure out what was wrong and how to go about fixing it.I'm a bit mental.
For the first issue, there's a word in the URL that's being caught up in the swear filter. PM me what the word is with an extra symbol in it so I can let D know, or PM him yourself but tell him why you're PMing him so he doesn't ban you.
Were you doing an quick edit without it loading another page when doing the link for the second time? This may be the cause of an issue as it will require a page refresh to work properly. I'll do a bit of testing to see if I can replicate it.
The copy/paste thing sounds like a formatting problem where your browser copies the format from scsblog and tries to replicate it in BB code. This usually doesn't end well for me so I use the basic text editor rather than the what you see is what you get editor(top left button in the post box)
I was beaten to a helpful.
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But the challenge would be slightly crazy, thus fitting in with our ethos. *ponders*
I forgot about the name-of-the-brace thing being filtered hahaha. Actually rather brilliant
I guess I'll just see with further quotes/articles if the issue is solved, looking closely at what's in the links.


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This was a very long project, starting with some basic sketches of the object to be done and ultimately producing a realistic technical illustration in Illustrator of the object "exploded," that is, with all of its parts visible.
I began with these pencil sketches of my chosen object, a Mr. Coffee French press, which produces my husband's lifeblood every morning. Then the work in Illustrator began. This was the first draft of the object, just a simple line drawing on an isometric grid, with a color background so that the transparencies could be seen.
Next to that is the second in-progress version, also shown with a draft mockup of the product's presentation. It's clear that some things were developing well, like a couple of the gradient meshes used on the lid and the flat plates, while some things were still eluding me, such as the right gradient to use on the cylindrical frame and smoother shaping of the handle.
(If you click that image to embiggen it, you can also see the false starts with fonts and layout of the annotations, and the messy spirals on the spiral plate that I gave up on that night. They were hard, dangit!)
But after lots and lots of work on those things, and much refining of the gradient meshes (during which I learned A TON about using them: namely that I'd been doing it wrong from the beginning and really needed to start over!), this was the final result.
This is just the exploded object by itself, clean with no background or mockup, although the purplish reflected light is kind of obvious. (I used that purple because of the background colors in the mockup, which are based on Mr. Coffee packaging.) That handle's looking a lot better, as are the linear and radial gradients on the cylindrical shapes and the meshes in general. The spirals on the spiral plate look more spirally AND connected to the plate. Plus! There are glinting edges on the frame and carafe, so they don't look two-dimensional. But you can probably see them better in…
The final mockup!
Shadows and reflected lighting and light flares, oh my! Plus a font overhaul (thank you, peers who suggested doing so), and a return to my original idea for the layout.
Were this to be printed, it would need a specialty size, but there is a standard-ish specialty size for it, as I found. But this is a tall object fully exploded, and I decided to work with that instead of against it.


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I have added a few more blogs to the Bolivian Blogs list. And, since the list is getting longer and longer, that is an encouraging sign that blogging is taking off in Bolivia. I also think that it is time for me to, instead of listing any Bolivian blog, start being a little picky. So, from now on, I will tighten the requirements to enter the list.
The basic requirements will sitll be there:
Any blog written by a Bolivian who lives in Bolivia or anywhere else in the world.
Any blog written by a non-Bolivian who is living in Bolivia or writes mainly about Bolivia.
And the blog has to have regular posts, which can be articles, opinions, poems, music, etc. The main thing would be a visitor can read something interesting and decent.
So there you have it. If you know of new Blogs about Bolivia or authored by Bolivians, please let me know, so I can add it to the list.
I thank, many of you who have been telling me about new blogs.
Finally, I also would like say to anyone who wants to get this list for their own blog, to please go ahead and take it. It is compiled under CC licence, much like everything in this blog. BUT, please, please, give some credit where it's due. Mention where you got it. I have seen at least one site who took the list and nada, zip, not a mention of where he got it.


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Lock your doors, bolt your windows, and be prepared to never sleep again!
"Aileen Wuornos: Life and Death of a Serial Killer." The follow-up to Nick Broomfield's earlier documentary from 1992, "Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer." The look in her eyes during the interview when yells for the Supreme Court to sign her death warrant will haunt you for weeks!
"Cropsey." An exploration of the urban legend of "Cropsey," a boogey-man like figure who haunts the woods of Staten Island, New York, and how it relates to convicted kidnapper and suspected serial killer Andre Rand, whose victims included the most innocent of people – mentally handicapped children.
"Confessions of a Serial Killer: Jeffrey Dahmer." Stone Phillips interviews Dahmer and his parents as to why they think he committed such horrific crimes. No spoilers, but the part about "The Box" is the stuff nightmares are made of.
"This is the Zodiac Speaking." This one is particularly creepy, because of the unproved local connection: The Zodiac is presumed to be the murderer of Riverside Community College student Cheri Jo Bates in 1966.
"H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer." The story of a sadistic doctor is terrifying enough, but the ominous voice of the narrator will also leave your hair on end!


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– In our one-hundred and fiftieth show, AsphaltRanger, Sparkstalker and I talked about the usual. Battlefront II is returning as expected and it's covering all era's of Star Wars. Call of Duty is returning to their WWII roots. And the Scorpio spec's were released. They are awesome.
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Disclaimer: I do not own or possess any copyrights in relation to this story, nor am I being compensated in any way … unless you count warm fuzzies from reviews. Sadly my bank does not accept those as currency.
Fair warning: There is violence, cussin', and sexin' ahead, so read at your own risk ... be prepared for MA/NC-17 content.
A little over six months later, Rachel dove shallowly into their pool in the gorgeous summer sun, surfacing only when she ran out of air. Peeking over the edge, she smiled at the picture of Happy and Peanut. Happy was eating grapes at the table, under the now forest green umbrella, and occasionally flicking one out into the yard for their weird dog to chase.
"You know he won't actually eat those, right? He'll get it in his mouth and freak out that it's round and slimy," Rachel giggled.
Happy quirked a single brow at her and replied, "Why do you think I do it?"
Standing up as she floated away on her back, Happy made his way to the edge of the pool, eyes fastened on her. "You all packed?" he asked, as he eased himself into the warm water.
"Mmhmm, and I already dropped Annabel and Lily off at Luann's. Peanut is already packed too and has a few bags of food at the clubhouse. We're going to get back and he's not going to want to come home. All those Sons to love …"
Allowing herself to float gently away from the man slowly stalking her, Rachel hid a smile.
A few weeks after they had returned from Ireland, the house was almost completely repaired. Rachel spent long days cleaning and repainting walls, then refinishing the hardwood floors in the kitchen and hallway to remove all traces of blood. Happy had stopped grumbling about her doing all the work when she explained that it would help her get over what had happened, that it would be their house again, not marred by what she had been forced to do.
The refinishing of the floors helped Rachel in more ways than one. It did allow her to purge the memory of what had happened, but it gave her time to finally process everything else that had happened recently. She was able to finally grieve for Kip too. Using the repetitive motions, she slowly started calming down from the high of the stress, letting go of all the shit she had been carrying and bottling up.
Hanging the new patio doors was a treat. Redwood Originals had picked up two new prospects a week after they returned and neither of them were skilled in the art of home repair. Rachel had ended up doing a great deal of it herself and using them for the muscle. They all conspiratorially agreed not to mention that to anyone.
Writing up a grocery list, trying to get ready for the huge combo party SAMCRO was holding next weekend, all weekend, Rachel was humming along with the radio while leaning over the counter and swaying to the beat. Hearing the door, she smiled a tiny little smile and made sure her swaying twitched her hips.
"Hey lover, be careful, I hear my boyfriend is a jealous man," she said when she felt the hands come around her hips and a lean body press into her.
Pulling her up straight and wrapping his arms around her, Happy bent down and nipped her neck. "Oh he is, a very jealous man," he growled into her ear, watching as she shivered in reaction. Spinning her around and lifting her up onto the counter top, he fit himself in between her legs.
"Nooner? We haven't had one of those in a long time …" Rachel purred as she wrapped her legs around his hips and leaned forward to scrape her nails across his scalp.
Cupping her face and laying a gentle kiss on her lips, Happy smiled. "Baby girl, I'm always up for you, morning, noon, and night. Wanna talk though."
Eyebrows shot up and a concerned expression instantly replaced the growing arousal that had been forming on Rachel's face. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing is wrong," Happy said as he chuckled. Squeezing her tightly around the middle, he took a deep breath. This is harder than I expected, shit.
Looking into her eyes, he explained, "We talked once about you getting the crow, but you were right, I wanted to do it for the wrong reasons. Thank you for stopping me, because that would have been something that always had that shit attached to it."
Eyes still confused, but showing relief that nothing was wrong, Rachel smiled a little at him. "You're welcome Hap. I don't understand what you're …"
"Now I want to do it for the right reasons Rachel," he said simply, watching her.
Blank shock appeared on her face, before a slow smile replaced it, starting in her warm blue eyes. "Ok. I have a condition though."
A bark of laughter startled Lily who had just bent down to get some food. "Of course you do. Let's hear it."
"I want it on both sides. I know how you fuckin are and if we put it on my back, I'll never see your damn face again when we're having sex. So whatever you put on, it has to be mirrored on the same spot on the other side of my body," she said impishly, eyes twinkling at him.
Staring at her in shocked disbelief, he finally started laughing, a laugh that began deep inside and forced its way out of his body. "Damn Rachel, you are something else. I accept your condition, like it was ever in any fucking doubt." Pulling something out of his pocket, he handed it to her expectantly.
Rachel leaned forward and gave him a quick kiss before opening up the folded piece of paper. "Oh Happy, it's beautiful!" And it was. She had to admit, she had never really warmed to the crow. She'd accept it, because that was club tradition now that he was patched into SAMCRO and not a Nomad, but it wasn't really her. This … this was.
It was still a crow, but it had flashes of color along the wings that lightened it from being so serious. Instead of the normal spread wings, this crow was standing up almost majestically, proudly. The absolute best part was the little apricots and smiley face's scattered around the crow's feet. She could see this on her body … it rode the line between serious and playful very well.
"You really have a thing for that body lotion I use, don't you?" Rachel said as she threw her arms around his neck. "Thank you for making it something I'd like too."
"Tig helped, believe it or not. Asked what I thought of first when I thought of you and you were far away. Fucker laughed and called me a pussy when I told him, but this is what we came up with. Got any idea where you want it?"
"I'll have to thank Tig as well then. Oh I might have considered the idea a time or two," she said with a nonchalant air. More seriously, she touched the area below her collarbone on her left side. "Here please, with a reverse on my back, same spot. That way I'm yours all the way through."
Leaning down to kiss her deeply, Happy murmured against her lips. "Rach you've always been mine all the way through."
Seeing Rachel drift off into thought, he wondered what she was thinking about. Leaning against the edge of the pool, enjoying the warmth of the day and hearing the buzz of a lawnmower from a few doors down, Happy reflected that shit had definitely changed.
Watching the way the water beaded up on her crow, he remembered the party the weekend after he put it on her. Neither of them were the type to show off or talk about their private lives, which is why it took people so long to figure out they were together. And I had to fuckin kiss her in the middle of the clubhouse for them to get a fuckin clue even then.
The weekend after he inked her, on both sides as she had requested, he wasn't surprised to see that she wasn't wearing an outfit that would immediately show it off at the party. It didn't bother him, they both knew it was there, and what it meant.
When he had finished that letter the night they returned, Happy forced himself to let her keep sleeping. He hadn't even been sure what the hell he'd have said to her anyway. Part of him wanted to scream at her for even preparing for shit like that, expecting it, accepting it. Another part of him was battling the urge to fuckin cry, something he hadn't done since he was small.
Sitting in the window seat that night, staring at her face where it was illuminated in the moonlight, Happy realized that she was right. This shit wasn't temporary. Maybe it hadn't been from that first talk, where they had shared secrets and stripped themselves bare for each other just long enough to give them a glimpse of who they really were.
It had taken months before they were able to trust each other enough to show more than those temporary glimpses, but now it was when they were around other people that they pretended. At home, together, they were simply themselves. They were still the same people, but they had smoothed each other's rough edges, made them fit. She was right.
So yeah, they both knew what it meant when, for the first time in his life, he claimed a woman as his. He wasn't like some of the younger brothers, who did shit like that and then paraded her around. Neither of them would be comfortable with that many fuckin people staring at them. He would have been fine with someplace only they would ever see, but he knew why she picked the place near her heart.
A few hours after they had arrived at a party that felt like it had every Son in the country attending, Happy heard Gemma's voice ring out in disbelief and annoyance.
"What the fuck Rachel, why the hell didn't you tell anyone? Lemme fuckin see that."
Tilting his head slightly, he could see Rachel drop her head as she realized what she'd just done. From what he could see, it looked like Abel had spilled something on her outer shirt and she had taken it off, leaving her in one of those sexy little tank tops that showed a lot of skin. As she held still while Gemma peered at her back, he saw her smile slightly at something Gemma said to her.
Turning around, she straightened her spine and tried to ignore all of the eyes pointed her way, catching his look and giving him a 'Sorry, I fucking forgot' expression that she wiped before Gemma caught it. Gemma was now holding her shoulders and twisting her front and back so she could compare the crows.
He had altered the sketch slightly when he inked her, so that when you saw the crow on her back it looked like you were seeing the back of the front tat. Like it truly went all the way through. Took awhile to get all of the details right and make it so you could still see the defining elements on both, but he had to admit it came out well.
Giving her a hug and letting her hide her face in his t-shirt after Gemma finally let her go, he leaned down to whisper to her. "Once they've all seen it, they'll leave you alone. I know you hate having all of this attention on you girl, but it was going to happen today anyway because of how you helped Abel and shit. May as well get it all over with at once."
Startled out of the past, Happy opened his eyes when he felt her small hands slide up his abdomen to his chest. Snaking his arms out and catching her to him, he grinned when she squealed. Holding her slippery body and staring into her darkening eyes, the mood slowly shifted from playful to sexual.
Leaning back farther against the pool, he lifted her up slightly and wrapped her legs around his hips, nestling her against his cock. Closing his eyes for a second when she moaned and bucked her hips at him, he palmed her ass and rocked her slowly against him. Neither of them said a word as she leaned away from him and using only her legs and stomach muscles, slid herself over him until they were both breathing hard.
Pulling her closer so he could untie her bikini, he bit down gently on her fabric covered nipple as he fought with the wet tie before finally pulling it away. Jerking his hips up when he felt her hand slide down into his trunks and wrap around him, he abandoned her bottoms to push his own trunks down. Sliding her silky bikini covered center against his now free dick, he ran a finger along the inside edge, but not touching where she wanted until she was shaking slightly and pleading silently.
Still not talking, they stared into each other's eyes as he slowly peeled her bottoms off of her and resettled her against him. Sucking at his bottom lip, Rachel held Happy's hands against the edge of the pool with her own. Letting her take control, he was rewarded a few seconds later when his dick was suddenly inside her tight hot heat. Trying not to move, letting her control shit, he almost lost it when she didn't move at all.
Then he felt her start to squeeze him rhythmically, over and over, as she clenched and seemed to ripple around his dick, but still didn't move; just leaving her hips pressed tightly against his. Biting down on the plea to ask her to fucking move, please move, and locking his hips in place, Happy leaned his head back, still watching her with hot dark eyes.
Fists clenching and muscles starting to strain against themselves, he lost it when her body started shaking and he could feel her spasming uncontrollably around him. "Jesus Christ Rachel," he grunted as he felt her milking him. Leaning forward and slanting his mouth over hers, he slid one arm around her waist, anchoring her to him as he jerked his hips in small thrusts, still deeply buried inside her.
Swallowing the cries that were now escaping, as he broke her control as well, Happy pulled her head back so he could run his lips and tongue over that silky neck. Keeping those short jerky thrusts, slamming his pelvis against her clit, he brushed a kiss against the ink that marked her as his.
Hearing the whine in the back of her throat, he curled both of his hands around her shoulders and started pulling her down at the same time as he snapped his hips forward. Watching as the flush deepened again over her neck and traveled down to the top of her chest, he looked into those deep blue eyes that were fastened on his.
Knowing he didn't have much longer, that his control was slipping fast, he pulled her forward so her entire body slid against his as he pulled her down over and over again. Sucking on her lobe, and biting gently, he could feel the trembling start deep within her. Lips pressed against her ear, Happy huskily whispered, "Come for me wife."
Just as most of their relationship hadn't been traditional, the proposal wasn't either. Happy had inked her six weeks earlier, and it was now completely healed. Rachel was just coming back from a run and smiled as she saw him asleep on the couch with a book on his chest.
Annabel was staring at him from the top of the couch, and Rachel hoped she remembered what happened the last time she jumped on him when he was asleep. Thinking back on that, she pointed her finger at Annabel and stared until the obviously suicidal cat finally walked away from Happy. Eyes softening as she looked back at him, she went to take a shower.
Staring into the mirror after taking her shower, she ran her fingers over her tattoo and bit her lip. It was stupid to feel nervous. He fucking branded her for god's sake. Which by the way, made her inner woman want to both cheer and bitch slap herself. Her inner monologue was becoming increasingly psychotic in her opinion.
Hearing a shout as she walked back down the hallway after throwing on some clothes, she moved out of the way as Annabel came skittering past with what she'd swear was a feline grin of satisfaction. "Idiotic cat," she muttered, as Rachel went into the living room to assess the damage.
Happy was sitting up with his shirt yanked to his chest, examining the brand new holes in his stomach. Looking up at her as she fought to keep the smile off of her face, he scowled. "We're putting a fuckin bell on that one. That's the second time this month that she's ambushed me, the little shit."
"Constant vigilance!" Rachel quoted with a laugh as Happy threw a small pillow at her.
"Fuckin Harry Potter, I don't know how the hell you convinced me to read those."
Rolling her eyes and pushing his shirt back down, she made herself comfortable straddling his lap, smiling inwardly as his arms automatically came around her and held her close. Taking a deep breath and filling her lungs with Happy scent, she reached two fingers into the pocket of her shorts and removed something.
Leaning back a bit so she could see his face, even as he made a protesting noise, she slowly opened her hand and watched him. Dark eyes stared at the simple gold band for a long moment before sliding up to her eyes.
"You asked me to be yours forever with ink, the way you do it in your world. I'm asking you to be mine forever, the way I do it in my world," she explained softly. The actual answer was lost in the crush of his mouth against hers, but she was pretty sure it was yes.
One week later, standing in an ecstatic Rosa Lowman's living room, with only Happy's family and Quinn in attendance, Rachel and Happy quietly married. No one noticed their rings for almost a month.
Coming down off of her orgasm, feeling Happy trying to catch his breath against her neck, she ghosted a kiss against his temple. Even while they had made their commitment to each other, to their relationship, a public one, things hadn't been all sunshine.
With the wisdom that comes from age and the surety that comes from being loved by a man like Happy, Rachel knew that the fights and arguments they had would never really stop. In private they were both passionate people, with opinions and experiences that were often completely opposed to the other. It didn't lessen what they had, didn't break it down, because they knew that eventually they'd figure out a way past it.
Where it really mattered, they weren't that different at all.
Feeling him shift and one of his strong hands start to rub up and down her back, Rachel leaned back enough to gently kiss him. Cupping his face, she rubbed her nose with his and said, "Thank you."
Knowing she wasn't talking about the sex, his eyes held a faint question.
"Thank you for waiting until tonight. So we could spend the day doing things like this. I know that's why you changed the time we were leaving. You knew I'd miss it and you wanted to give me a chance to say goodbye."
A quick smile flitted across his face, but she saw it. She always saw it. "I just didn't want to start the trip with it being so hot out, figured you'd be more comfortable if we left tonight instead. Had nothing …" he trailed off as she pinched him.
Pressing her lips against his she murmured, "It's rude to lie to your wife when you still have your dick inside her," holding on tight when he started laughing. One of her goals in life was to make Happy laugh as much as possible. Best sound in the fucking world.
Letting him move her around slightly, she nestled her head in the crook of his neck and relaxed into his warm body. Happy had patched into SAMCRO not long after they returned from Ireland, but told her that he still wanted to go on the road occasionally, for things other than jobs. She agreed and then said that he had to take her with him on at least the first one. If they both had fun, then it could be their vacation. If they didn't, then he could go and she'd do something else. Tonight they'd be leaving for two weeks to go on the road, visiting various charters along the way.
In return for his trips, solo or not, she had gotten the concession that he stop being such a man about her money. She pointed out that if they didn't use it, most of it would end up in government hands when they died anyway, because it's not like they would ever have kids to leave it to. They had set up substantial trusts for Abel and Thomas, who had been born just a week ago, so that when they turned 18 they could use some of it for college. If they choose not to go to college, they would receive it all at 25. They hadn't mentioned it to Tara or Jax yet.
Right now it simply meant that they used a combined account to pay for Rosa's care and their bills. Later, when Happy started slowing down and she was retired, they had discussed exploring the world together. Neither of them had been out of the country more than a couple times, and always for work. The idea of buying a bike and traveling Europe together until they got tired of it had a pretty powerful appeal.
Today though, smiling as her husband rubbed a hand gently up and down her back, they were still in Charming, quietly drifting and enjoying the peace before the next storm hit.
A/N: Warning, excessively long authors note follows which says a lot while not saying much at all. =)
This is the end of Rachel and Happy's story. Yes, it is open ended enough to revisit their world if I want, but I don't know that I will. I've got an idea, but it hasn't really compelled me yet, which is one reason I think this came out so well. I had to write this. In any case, if I don't, I'm happy with where they are and god knows they fought to get there.
I promise if I do write anything more in this world, I'll put an excerpt/summary on a new chapter here so that those who are following this get a notification.
When this originally came to me, the idea of a woman who could fit with the Happy in my head, I hadn't really envisioned much of her other than some basic personality traits. I think the Rachel that emerged is someone that is realistic, who I'm proud of creating, but hopefully she doesn't come across as a Mary Sue (I think that's what the term is). These two are always going to have issues.
Their life together just isn't ever going to be sunshine and roses – it's going to be small moments of peace, like the ones detailed in the epilogue, surrounded by violence from the club (legitimate earnings will never take over completely) and stress from life. It will be endless compromises, complete with arguing. It's bending some of the things that make them who they are, like her independence and his need to protect, until they can work together.
I apologize to Kozik and Chibs fans. I couldn't quite figure out how to work Kozik into the story any deeper, although I did want to. Chibs … I love Chibs a lot, believe it or not, but I can't write that accent for the fuckin life of me. I spent more time fucking with the accent portion of those chapters than I did anything else. I was kind of relieved that he was hurt for so long, as horrible as that sounds, so I could ignore him.
I wrote this, abandoning my husband in the process, in 17 days according to the date stamps on my Microsoft Word files. I probably left plot holes or dangling strings and I'm sure there are plenty of places my grammar and/or punctuation is off. Of course writing for characters who speak like the Sons made sentence structure a lot more forgiving. I am still very proud of it considering this is the first piece of fiction I've ever written.
I've enjoyed writing this and sharing it with you all. I know I've said this before, but I really did only write this for me in the beginning. Well, I said it and then later edited out all of my old A/N's, but the point remains. To know that so many other people thought it was worth reading was something of a surprise, but the best kind. I got a pleasurable thrill out of every single review or PM, favorite and follow notification.
Even if I never write again once this is completely posted, I'll never forget this experience, and a lot of that has to do with you.
Thanks again for coming along,


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There is a sound processing technique, the details of which are kept secret by Philip Clemo, the keyboard player and all-round studio don of soundzero, whereby the common frequencies of two different sounds (bowed cymbals and a moving train, say, or a choir and a shortwave radio) are combined and all the other frequencies are discarded. What do you get? Brilliant noises. soundzero is full of them.
Philip Clemo and Mee, a Royal College of Music graduate who plays a unique instrument called the 'metal violin' are the two core members of the group and produce an electric-organic species of moving 'jazz electronica' (in the words of Mee) that references – however unintentionally – electric period Miles, Bill Laswell with his left-field internationalist head on, The Necks, Robert Fripp, early Trilok Gurtu, Don Cherry and experimentalists like Paul Sch¸tze. Assembled from field recordings made globally and from the performances of musicians like the tabla player Bobby Singh, the percussionist Pete Lockett, the drummer Mark Sanders and an extensively processed Cleveland Watkiss, Mee and Clemo's second album is multi-textured, surprising and altogether unorthodox.
"I'd build a structure for a piece, starting with sound recordings and manipulations, and then Mee would come and improvise to what I'd done. Then I'd rework the whole structure to adapt to what she'd done. Eventually it sounds live because everyone's responding to each other", explains Philip…"Things come in and out of focus, and often sounds and instruments are separated from their cultural references, so people will ask "is that a voice or an instrument?"
Mee and Philip have splendid ears for space and the dynamics of rhythm and sound too, and the result moves. It's serious stuff. You can catch them live in London with Coldcut and the Aphex Twin at Bar AKA in West Central St WC2.
Neil Bennun, Straight No Chaser, UK