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Monday, 03 January 2011
First Communion Mystery
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I can tell that a lot of folks looked at their family photographs last week by the number of emails I received. Scannning, identifying and organizing your photos is a great way to start the new year. Remember to scan at no less than 600 dpi and select Tiff as the format. You can always re-size for various uses.
Let's ease into the year by discussing a photo with religious overtones.
Beth Hartley submitted this tintype photo with a question: "Is this my great-grandmother or her mother?" Beth's grandmother told her that she thought it depicted one of these two women with a younger brother, but she wasn't sure about the generation.
When you think you know who's in the photo, start with family history. In this case, Beth's great-grandmother Ellen McHugh was born in 1885, while Ellen's mother, Bridget Murphy McHugh, was born in 1855.
Photographic formats often help narrow down the time frame. A tintype is a photograph on a thin sheet of iron; they were popular by the late 1850s. The rounded corners on this image strongly suggest that it once occupied a frame.
Costume provides clues about the occasion. The girl's white dress and veil clearly indicate it's her First Communion. She's even holding a tiny prayer book. It's traditional in Catholic churches to dress girls in white dresses and veils for this event. First Communion dress styles mimic bridal fashions. The details in the white dress are unclear, but the veil suggests a date circa 1890. In this period, bridal veils hung from a small gathering of fabric or flowers on the top of the head. This information definitely rules out Bridget McHugh.
The average age for a First Communion is around 7. So if this photo depicts Ellen, then it was taken in the early 1890s. Ellen had an older brother born in 1883 and a younger brother born in 1887. The youngster standing next to her would be 5-year-old William.
There are always unanswered questions about photos. In this case, I'd love to know why Ellen's older brother John isn't included in this studio shot.
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Monday, 03 January 2011 14:49:59 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Monday, 27 December 2010
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I've had an iPad for a few months and I suspect that many readers of this blog own one too. I'm always on the look-out for interesting apps. Here are some that I can't wait to try. You can find all of these by visiting the app store on your iPad.
I can't wait to see if this one lives up to it's
review. It connects to
so you can browse photos, but it also lets you create a photo stack of images you want to save while you are looking.
Sort Shots
This photo-organizing app uses tags to quickly sort through images. It also lets you share photos using Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Picasa.
Just like the photo-sharing website
, you can search, sort and share images.
Foto Editor
It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, but you'll be able to make quick and simple edits on your photos on Foto Editor.
This app will let you put an opaque watermark on your image to make it clear who owns the picture.
The two apps I use the most on my iPad are Ancestry.com's app
Tree to Go
(free) and
($4.99). Blogshelf organizes all my favorite blogs like books on a shelf. I just love it.
Have fun with your new apps and be sure to mention your favorite apps in the comment section below. I can't wait to try out some new ones.
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Monday, 20 December 2010
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Thank you to all the readers of this column for another year of photo mysteries! I have a holiday card for you on my
channel. You can watch this photo become a colorized greeting.
The photograph, titled "Caught in the Act", is from the
Library of Congress
. It was taken in 1900. Santa's bag of presents hasn't changed too much—he's carrying dolls and a sailing ship. But I think he's a pretty scary-looking Santa.
I have a holiday habit that drives my family crazy—I take photographs of our Christmas tree. It's a picture time capsule. And I have proof that I'm not the only person who does it: The photo of this tree predates my lifetime.
December 1954 is written in unfamiliar handwriting underneath the image. I'll be watching for that couch and those curtains in other family pictures. This color photo is in serious need of some color correction. All the reds have taken over the image. That's a pretty typical problem with mid-1950s images.
Cynthia Cox sent me this image from her family collection. It's also dated 1954.
She labeled it, "Christmas morning at the Robert and Helen Cox Family Residence, Los Angeles." It was taken on Dec. 25. The doll was her gift and the fire truck was for her brother. Thank you for your submission, Cindy!
We've been photographing holiday traditions for generations. Last December, I explored the tradition of
posing with Santa
You can use the comment section below to tell me what holiday traditions you photograph.
Happy Holidays!
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Monday, 20 December 2010 16:20:14 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Monday, 13 December 2010
Immigrant Clues and Family Stories
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Terri Poore and her cousin have a lot of questions about this photo. Who, what, when and where is just the beginning.
Unfortunately, the original owner of the picture is currently unknown. Terri's cousin received a copy of it years ago and can't remember who gave him the print.
Terri and her cousin believe the folks in the picture are Felix Horvat (1884-1952), his first wife Sophie (1890-1918) and their daughter Anna 1909-1997). I agree with this identification.
There is a long complicated story about this couple. It's very important to write down the oral history of your family because you never know when all the pieces will link up. This photo is a perfect example of how stories and pictures are a natural match.
First the facts: Sophie's hat in this picture and her coat date the picture. She is very well-dressed in a heavy wool coat, fur collar and an oversize hat known as a toque. Her hat and clothing combined with the birth date of their daughter date this picture to circa 1910. Toques were all the rage at the end of the first decade of the 20th century.
Her husband wears ethnic dress that identifies him as a resident of Croatia. The family lived in Ljubljujana, Croatia.
Now here's where it gets interesting. Family stories relate how this couple met. He was a country boy who worked as a coach driver for a wealthy family—the Bahuneks. Their daughter ran away with the coachman! Sophie, her husband Felix and their daughter Anna immigrated to the United States in 1911 and lived in West Virginia for a time. The Bahuneks followed their daughter and also immigrated.
There is a sad twist to this tale. According to family lore, when Sophie gave birth to Terri's grandfather Nicholas in 1912, Sophie's mother was present for the birth. Her mother and the midwife decided she shouldn't have any more children with that "awful man" so they tried to perform a gynecological procedure to prevent more children.
The Horvat family moved to Michigan, but Sophie was so ill after the childbirth procedure that Felix allowed her family to move her back to West Virginia so they could care for her. He retained the children. In 1918, Sophie likely died from complications related to that botched procedure.
Family stories also relate how immediately following her death, her husband Felix and her father had a knife fight to determine the custody of the children. Felix won. He took the children back to Michigan and eventually married the children's caretaker, also named Sophie.
This photo is the gateway to an amazing family tale. Present in the image is pictorial evidence of the economic difference between the husband and wife. She's very fashionably dressed while he still wears his native dress. She's the city dweller and he's from the country.
Now Terri is trying to piece together the family history and try to locate living relatives.
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Monday, 13 December 2010 16:47:53 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Monday, 06 December 2010
Shipboard Clues, Part 3
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This week is another installment of Jake Jacoby's photo of a group in his collection. Two weeks ago in
Photo Mysteries, A Clue at a Time
, I discussed clothing clues. Last week in
Shipboard Clues
, I told you what I knew about the caption and the ship.
Photo mysteries take time to solve. I feel like I'm getting closer. After another conversation with Jake, we came to the conclusion that his grandfather might not be greeting a group of immigrants. It could be another occasion.
I've spent a lot of time calling folks knowledgeable about local history in both Mobile, Ala. and Pensacola, Fla., to learn more about the ship. I'm waiting for news.
Two readers of this column wrote to me:
Genealogist Drew Smith also used the search terms
german ship baltimore
and found a mention of a German ship named the
that sank at sea Jan. 24, 1897, en route from London to New York. Thank you, Drew! I followed this lead and discovered a couple of news stories about it. One was in the
New York Times
and the other is available through the
Kentuckiana Digital Library's
database of the
Daily Evening Bulletin
(Maysville, Ky.).
was commanded by a Capt. Hillman, but as far as I know, it didn't carry passengers. It sank with its cargo of chalk aboard. I'm excited to find a captain with that surname. Perhaps he also commanded a different ship at some time prior to the sinking. Hillman could be the name in the partially missing caption in Jake's picture.
Rachel Peirce's great-grandfather was a ship's captain, and she still has his books. There was a ship
listed in
List of the Merchant Vessels in the United States, 1896
(p. 217). It appears to have been in Mobile, Ala.
I'm also researching packet steam boats that might have operated between Mobile and Pensacola. Quite a few of these boats used Mobile as a port.
I'll end this week with another picture of Jake's grandfather:
This was a New Year's Eve affair at the Progress Club in Pensacola. The image was taken in 1894. From left to right are Charles Levy (seated), Lep Hirshman (standing), Joe Jacoby (seated with cane), Nathan Forcheimer (standing) and Ike Hirshman (seated).
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Monday, 06 December 2010 16:43:37 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Monday, 29 November 2010
Shipboard Clues
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Last week in
A Photo Mystery, A Clue at a Time
, I introduced you to a wonderful group picture of folks on a ship.
The Ship
What I didn't show you is the caption that runs along the bottom edge of the picture. Unfortunately, part of the cardboard is broken off, leaving us to guess at the rest of the information. I can't make out the first word, but there is a "....noon" or "roon" followed by "on board German Ship
." According to the owner of the photo, below the caption and cut off in the scan of the photo is "Capt. Hillr..." The rest of his last name is missing. So far, no luck in finding a man with a last name starting with those letters.
When you're faced with incomplete caption information, it's best to start with what you know. In this instance, I Googled
Ship Baltimore
. On
, I found a description. There was a German ship,
. It was built in 1868 for the North German Lloyd of Bremen and traveled from Bremen to Baltimore until 1872. In 1881, she was then used for the Bremen to South America service. The big problem with this ship being the one in the photo is the final date of service. This particular
was scrapped in 1894.
In the first column I dated the photo from 1896 to 1899.
There was another ship, the
City of Baltimore
that operated as part of the Baltimore Mail Line, but its dates of service are too late. It traveled from Baltimore to Hamburg in the 1930s. Not all information is online and I'm still looking for a good off-line resource.
There must be another ship with the same name that operated in the late 1890s. Just haven't found it yet.
The Location
Jake Jacoby's grandfather lived his whole life in either Mobile, Ala., or Pensacola, Fla. There is a BIG question about where this photo was taken. Mobile was a busy port and many immigrants arrived there, but right now we lack proof.
If you had an ancestor arrive at Mobile, the
National Archives
has an Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Ports in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, 1890-1924 (T517).
There is another possibility. The Sept. 1, 1904,
Canebrake Herald
(Uniontown, Ala.) mentioned Joseph Jacoby. He was a traveling salesman for his brother's business, Jacoby Grocery Co.. Since in the 1900 federal census, Jacoby lists his occupation as a salesman, perhaps he traveled, and this photo might have been taken on a trip during the last years of the 1890s.
While I've been able to date the photo and work with the owner to sort through clues, the final answer is elusive. Jake Jacoby thinks the photo was taken in Mobile rather than Pensacola. It's a good assumption. His grandfather had business and family connections in Mobile.
A single name of an immigrant depicted in this photo would help solve the mystery, but unfortunately no one's name appears on the photo.
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Monday, 29 November 2010 21:52:32 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Monday, 22 November 2010
A Photo Mystery, A Clue at a Time
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Complex image identification often requires examining each piece of a photo story—historical context, family history, and costume history along with a bit of common sense.
Jake Jacoby owns this wonderful image of a group of people onboard a ship. There is a caption, but I'll share that next week. I'm still working on it.
Jake knows that his grandfather, Joseph M. Jacoby is seated on the far right in the front.
What's he doing on a ship? Jake thinks he's welcoming a group of Jewish immigrants from Germany.
I can date the photograph by the hats and other costume clues. The width of this woman's sleeve and the birds and feathers in the women's hats suggest that it was taken about 1896 to 1899.
This is the woman standing directly behind Joseph Jacoby.
Joseph's life is well-documented. He was born in Mobile, Ala. in 1865, and in the 1885 Pensacola, Fla., city directory, he's working as a clerk at P. Stone. During the period of this photograph, Joseph still lived in Pensacola. He married Esther Myerson on Jan. 4, 1896.
Despite living in Florida, Joseph maintained his ties with family and friends in Mobile. He actually attended temple there. Approximately 60 miles separate the two cities. Jake knows his grandfather traveled between Mobile and Pensacola via wagon.
The big question regarding this photo is, where was it taken? Next week, I'll be back with some information on the caption and some tips for researching late-19th century passenger lists.
I'm planning a special column for the end of the year. Please send in your photos of family celebrating the holidays in the past. You can
them to me.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
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Monday, 22 November 2010 17:31:19 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Monday, 15 November 2010
Lookalikes in the Family Album
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I'll blame it on the holiday season. I'm feeling a little silly today. I laughed out loud when I saw Karen Thornhill's picture submission. Thank you Karen!
It's not the subject matter of the photo that made be chuckle, it's how she started the e-mail. First, though...who do you think the woman on the left looks like? Karen wrote me with the following opening line "Glenn Close, Abraham Lincoln and a baby."
It started me thinking: Do you have any celebrity lookalikes in your family album? Go ahead. Send them in to me in an
Just for comparison purposes, here's a picture of a young
Abraham Lincoln
from the Library of Congress. It was taken Oct. 1, 1858.
And here's a Wikipedia link to images of
Glenn Close
The actual subjects depicted in this family photo are Karen's grandparents and her aunt—Rosetta (Seeley) Eldred and Emmet Ernest Eldred with baby Emma (Eldred) Johnson.
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Monday, 15 November 2010 14:42:41 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Monday, 08 November 2010
Family Across the Border
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Like so many French-Canadians and Acadians, some of Marie-Josee Binette's family left Quebec in the 1890s to seek jobs in the United States. She owns a lovely photo album that documents this move in pictures, but she has no idea who the people are.
Marie-Josee knows that her great-grandmother Elina (Aline) Beaudoin spent several years in Lowell, Mass. with her husband Onesime Deblois. Both worked in area factories. After several years, some relatives stayed in the United States while others returned to Quebec. It's a familiar story to those of us with French-Canadian ancestry.
From the imprint on this photo, it also appears that someone either lived in or visited the nearby city of Lawrence, Mass. Its nickname is the Immigrant City.
In the album is this beautiful image of a young couple. The style of her sleeves and dress date the photo to the last years of the 1890s. The photographer, Amos Morrill Bean, appears in Chris Steele and Ron Polito's
A Directory of Massachusetts Photographers 1839-1900
Picton Press
, 1993). He was in business from 1868-1900.
It's a great picture and I've seen poses like this before. While the couple's hands aren't touching, it suggestive of a wedding picture. Both the man and the woman wear very nice clothing. On their hands are brand new rings. The light glints off them. The woman wears her ring on the traditional left hand while her "husband" wears his on the right. It's interesting.
My favorite part of this picture is the props. Both the man and the woman hold photographs on the table between them. Could this symbolize family that couldn't be there for the wedding? It's possible. There are any number of reasons to include photographs as props.
Marie-Josee might find she still has cousins living in this country. Two organizations worth contacting are the
American Canadian Genealogical Society
and the
American-French Genealogical Society
. Both organizations have extensive resources on families that moved here, as well as those in Quebec.
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Monday, 08 November 2010 16:44:17 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Monday, 01 November 2010
From My Mailbag
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Not everyone has owns a scanner or has access to one, so in the "
How to Submit
" link to the left, there are instructions on how to send me copies (not originals) of your mystery pictures.
Every so often I receive a package containing photos from the editors at
Family Tree Magazine
. This week, instead of digging into my e-mail backlog, I thought ... let's check out the real mailbag.
There was a problem. I'll show you two pictures in a minute, but first a gentle reminder. Please send me updated contact information when you move. I'm not sure what happened to the folks in my mailbag. All five of them no longer have active telephone numbers and don't appear to be living at the same address. My last attempt to contact them will be via their e-mail addresses. I'm not confident that those will work either. Sooo, if you know Mary Leal, formerly of Houston, or Christine Regan, formerly of Cincinnati, please let them know I posted their pictures here.
Mary Leal sent in this lovely photo of a young woman. Mary inherited a box full of unidentified photos from her mother. She has no idea who this is, but believes she once lived in the South Texas area because Mary's mother was from the Brownsville area.
Mary wanted to know why someone would cut this image. It's probably because it was once in one of those oval frames suitable for wall hanging or setting on a bureau.
The wide collar with pointed ends and the dress with the double row of buttons is in the style worn circa World War I, about 1915.
There's a long story associated with the picture Christine Regan sent in. She wasn't sure who was in this image, but hoped it depicts Louisa Whitford Hannay (1847-1897). Unfortunately, it's more likely Eva Grace Hannay Mitchell (born 1890). Just about everyone in Christine's family is gone and she's left with a pile of mystery images. It's a shame that no one in the family ever passed on the identity of these two young women. Eva lived until 1982!
As a young child, Eva's mother, Louisa gave her to an aunt to raise. Louisa had tuberculosis and couldn't care for her child. Instead, Alvilla Whitford Stanford (1848-1908) raised Eva, but according to family lore, the two never really bonded.
Could one of these women be Eva? Christine really wanted one of the women to be Louisa, but the clothing style with the short skirts, combined with their young ages, rules out a woman born in 1847. Both wear calf-length summer dresses with tiered skirts and ruffled bodices. Their pointy shoes, dresses and short hair all suggest a date in the late 1910s to early 1920s. Eva would have been 30 in 1920. If she's in this photo, then she's a young-looking woman, but perhaps there is another answer.
The identical dresses suggest an occasion or a relationship. I think the two girls look a bit alike. Similar mouths, and same-shaped face. Perhaps they're sisters. One of Louisa's daughters, Maude Hannay Sollitt (died in 1936) had three daughters born in 1898, 1902 and 1908. As for the occasion, that's still a mystery.
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Women's soccer wraps up preseasonAugust 25, 2009
Brevard, N.C. – Coach Shinohara's squad concluded their preseason today and is preparing for their first official game this Thursday, August 27 at home against Montreat College. The ladies worked extremely hard the past few weeks and are excited to make the wins count. The Tornados were undefeated in their preseason scrimmages and saw bright spots and improvements at every position.
What the players are saying...
The sophomores take up ten of the twenty two roster spots for the 2009 Tornados and will be a tremendous impact this season. The class includes one of the team's co-captains, Chelsea Freeman. Freeman says that their class and team has improved both individually and as a whole.
"We have the opportunity to make an impact on the program because of the size of our class, and we are excited to improve our record this year and help build the program," says Freeman.
Freeman is a midfielder from Charlotte, N.C. who started in all 19 matches last year as a freshman.
Classmate, Bailey Varely, played in all 19 matches, starting 18 times as a freshman and led the team in scoring.
Also part of the close knit sophomore class are Jordan Box, Alyssa Caracena, Caitlin Hubbard, Latoshia Hopewell, Chelsea Watson, Rachael Laughlin, Janet Basinger, and Danielle Burch.
Box is a goalkeeper from Hoover, Ala. Box played in six games as a freshman, starting one of them. Coaches will look for Box to step into the net more this season as she continues to improve and develop in goal.
Caracena is a Raleigh N.C. native who played in 18 matches as freshman, starting 13 of them. She recorded two goals both being game winners in 2008.
Also playing in all 19 matches as freshmen were Caitlin Hubbard and Latoshia Hopewell. Hopewell, a forward from Pigeon Forge, Tenn., brings great speed and quickness to the Tornado squad. She finished third on the team with four goals last year. Hubbard, hailing from Clayton N.C., pitched in a goal and an assist for the 2008 Tornados.
Janet Basinger is a Charleston, S.C. native who played in 18 matches during the Tornados 2008 campaign, attempting four shots on goal. Basinger will bring strength to BC's defense this year.
Chelsea Watson played in four games as a freshman and looks to play more this year. Watson knocked in a goal for the Tornados during an out of house scrimmage early in preseason and continued to improve through out the three weeks.
Also playing in four matches as a freshman was midfielder Danielle Burch. The Boiling Springs, N.C. native got a shot on goal off last year against Warren Wilson.
The sophomore ladies agree that this preseason was challenging for them, but in a good way. As freshmen, they had to come into a collegiate program and prove themselves, and now as sophomores, with a new coach, they have had to prove themselves again. This challenge has given them the opportunity to grow into better players and a better team.
Preseason Week 2
Following team pictures, the squad resumed practice on Friday evening. The team has been continually developing skills and improving since reporting for pre-season last week.
Practice began with skill developing drills. First the team went through passing and dribbling drills, focusing on ball control and quick turns. Then the drills were broken down by position with the defenders working on spacing, ball movement, and accurate passing, while the forwards and midfielders worked on shooting. The defenders' progress was evident in the in house scrimmage that followed. Not only has the team's passing and communication improved as a whole, but the defenders in particular have shown notable improvements.
The Tornados had an out of house scrimmage on Saturday, playing three thirty-minute periods against the Carolina Mountains Soccer Club, followed by a day off on Sunday for the players to re-energize and spend some down time together as a team.
Tornados to Watch
Coach "Shug" and Coach Brown could not be happier with the progress of their team as a whole and as individual players. Players have impressed the coaches with many different skill sets whether it is strength, stamina, leadership, scoring ability, or hustle.
Senior, Kelly Harris, has impressed coaches with her strength up top. She has demonstrated strength both physically and in her on ball ability. During Saturday's scrimmage Harris was one of five Tornados to knock in a goal.
On that list of scorers was Nikki Peacock, who has also been impressing coaches. Peacock has notable fitness, skill, and leadership ability. Coaches were so impressed with the junior from Ontario, Canada, that they named her as one of the team captains.
Also scoring during Saturday's scrimmage were Jessica Guadagno, Chelsea Watson, and Chantel Azevedo, who knocked in two goals for the Tornados.
What the players are saying…
Even though it's still early in pre-season, juniors Nikki Peacock, Cherie Haseltine, and Katie Donohue shared their thoughts on the team's pre-season progress all agreeing that this years team has come out strong and is continuously improving.
Nikki Peacock attributes a lot of the team's improvements to the new coaches and good team comradorary.
"We've come out strong, really connecting as a team. We are really bonding and you can see that on the field," says Peacock. "Everyone is adapting to the new coaches and they have really brought out the best in each player."
Midfielder, Cherie Haseltine also attributes some of the team's growth to the new coaching staff, saying that the coaches have brought confidence and the skills they need to succeed. Haseltine also notes improvements in the team's passing, communication, and skill in general.
"We're connecting passes really well," she says, "we're seeing the field quickly, making quick passes, taking less time with the ball, and talking a lot."
Teammate Katie Donohue adds, "We're passing a lot more to our feet. We're more on the ground more than we used to be, actually controlling the ball and not rushing."
The team resumed practice on Monday and will scrimmage once again on Tuesday afternoon when Milligan travels to Brevard College.
Preseason Week 1
The Lady Tornados took the field this week to begin pre-season training under the new leadership of Head Coach Shigeyoshi Shinohara and Assistant Coach Caity Brown. After reporting on Monday, the ladies faced two days of practice in the heat followed by a soggy day of practice in the rain on Wednesday. Then on Thursday the Tornados saw their first out of house action in a scrimmage against the Henderson Soccer Club.
Team Progress
On Wednesday, with a steady rain falling on the new soccer field at Brevard College, Coach Shinohara noticed many bright spots in his team's play, including better communication on the field as the ladies become more acclimated with one another and their new coach. As a result the ladies have improved the flow of their passing. Coach Shinohara has also been encouraging his players to play "attack soccer" urging them to take chances and go with their instincts. The team was able to get their scrimmage in just after the rain subsided on Thursday evening and Coaches were impressed with the progress of their team.
Week 1: Tornados to Watch
The Lady Tornados return many familiar faces and also welcome a few new faces. Coaches have been impressed with quite a few of their returning players and newcomers.
One of the new faces is freshman Chantel Azevedo. Coaches have commented that Azevedo showed up for pre-season workouts in tip-top shape demonstrating excellent play and great stamina on the field. Azevedo, a Maple, Ontario native, will most likely play as a midfielder or forward for the Tornados.
It's no surprise that returning sophomore midfielder Chelsea Freeman has also impressed coaches in week 1. Freeman started in all 19 matches last season for the Tornados and will be a key player for this year's team.
Another returner to watch out for is last year's leading scorer Bailey Varely. During the scrimmage, Varely impressed by putting a couple goals into the net.
Sophomore, Latoshia Hopewell is another Tornado to watch as coaches have been impressed with her tremendous speed and ability to sprint to the ball.
What the players are saying…
This week the senior class is talking about the upcoming season, their new coach, and expectations for this year's team.
The 2009 Tornados are led by five seniors, Sydney Douglas, Jessica Guadagno, Kelly Harris, Chelsea Shew and Kayla Yingst. All five seniors have said that this year's goal is to set the bar and begin a tradition for women's soccer at Brevard College.
Jessica Guadagno says the team has improved ball control and the speed of their game. "As seniors, we have seen the program develop and grow and it is constantly being built upon. We are ready to show everyone who Brevard College is and what we are about," Says Guadagno.
Hendersonville, N.C. native, Kayla Yingst says this year's team is stronger than ever before.
"This year's team, as a whole, is healthier and more positive. We are stronger on the field offensively and we are looking forward to making the conference tournament." Yingst adds, "The whole team wants it."
The seniors all agree that making the SAC Tournament is a goal they can achieve. Another Hendersonville, N.C. native, Chelsea Shew, adds that this is the year for Brevard College to make an impact on the conference.
"We want to prove that we are able to compete." Shew says, "We are focused on winning and we are looking forward to getting our first conference win."
The positive attitude of the 2009 Lady Tornados is evident. The team is even excited about fitness and conditioning. Midfielder, Kelly Harris says that the team is making progress and moving forward.
"We are moving up in the conference and we are excited to put it on the field every day. We look forward to matching up against conference rivals and winning." says Harris.
Coach Shinohara's positive impact has already begun to affect their attitude. They describe Shinohara as motivational, and the type of coach that they want to work hard for. Goalkeeper, Sydney Douglas says that Coach "Shug" has a way of pushing the players while still being positive. Kelly Harris agrees saying that not only is Coach "Shug" positive and a great motivator, but he is a strong coach and has a good head for the game.
Chelsea Shew says that Coach Shinohara is different than any other coach she has ever had, and she is learning a lot from him.
Kyla Yingst describes the unique coaching style as giving the players freedom on the field while at the same time giving them helpful direction. With a new coaching staff and a new attitude, the 2009 seniors plan on leading the Tornados into a new era. Sydney Douglas sums up the Lady Tornados' pre-season attitude, "It is going to be a positive season, everyone wants this and we are ready to grow as a team and individuals."
The ladies resume practice Friday before preparing for another out of house scrimmage on Saturday against the Carolina Mountains Soccer Club on campus at 2pm.


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text: From the moment it was published, Charles Portis's True Grit earned acclaim from critics as a classic Western tale. In the decades since, readers of all ages and fans of all literary genres have fallen in love with the indelible voice of Mattie Ross, as she recounts her youthful quest to avenge the murder of her father with the aid of a down-at-heels federal marshal named Rooster Cogburn. The rousing adventure story inspired two award-winning films, but on the page, readers will discover fully the rich humor, inventive prose, and compelling characters that have made the book a masterpiece of American storytelling.


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Lolo Jones has earned $741.84 bobsledding over 7 months
How much have you earned at your job the last seven months?
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As you may know, the track star has turned to bobsledding and, well, turns out pushing a sled down a hill doesn't pay as much as, well, anything. Not slinging burgers. Not digging ditches. Not folding T-shirts at The Gap. Not even collecting unemployment.
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Buggy Shady, a Scottsdale-born, mommy company, has recently launched a new line of organic products.
Buggy Shady is aware that moms are presented with the difficult dilemma of using natural and healthy products for their baby while staying within budget. Their eco-friendly product, the Buggy Shady, keeps babies shaded and protected from outside elements such as strangers' hands, bugs and rain.
Buggy Shady has 11 trendy designs to choose from, four of which are made from 100 percent organic fabric. This organic fabric is cultivated from cotton that has not been treated with pesticides or chemicals. The breakthrough of this organic product lies in its trendy and colorful patterns.
Buggy Shady co-founder, Tiffany Christianson, says, "Going green doesn't have to mean neutral shades and rough fabrics."
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"Our fabrics pop and prove that being eco-friendly is cute," she adds. "This new green line of products is an exciting development for Buggy Shady."
The Buggy Shady is made of transparent mesh that blocks 75 percent of UVA and UVB rays along with a lightweight, designer-print fabric layer. This shade's unique feature is its ability to fit both strollers and infant car seats; other shades lack this functionality. The shade is also easy to store on the stroller canopy so moms don't have to reattach it every time.
The Buggy Shady is not only eco-friendly, but affordable as well at $40 for the standard line and $50 for the organic line.
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Audie Award Nominee, Original Work, 2013
Six months ago, the world ended. The Baugh Contagion swept across the planet. Its victims were left twitching, adrenalized cannibals that quickly became know as Junkies. Civilization crumbled as people created isolated safe havens to hide from the infected... and the possibly infected. Now, as society nears a tipping point, lives will intersect and intertwine across two days in a desolate city.
The Junkie Quatrain is four tales of survival, and four types of post-apocalypse story, because the end of the world means different things for different people. Loss. Opportunity. Hope. Or maybe just another day on the job.
©2012 Peter Clines (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
My taste differs from kid books to gory horror books.
Four stories that are very interconnect and considered stand alone. All four stories are very good in this book. Two of the stories, if I had read as stand alone only, would not have been rated as high.
I like Zombie stories and this a twist on that theme, they are not Zombies. What I liked most about this group of stories was how the whole thing started and continued. This is my third Clines book and all three were very entertaining.
I loved Christian Rummel from the first hello and I am liking him even more with each listen.
Two great passions - dogs and books! Sci-fi/fantasy novels are my go-to favorites, but I love good writing across all genres.
"An awesome set of vignettes"
Just finished The Junkie Quatrain - didn't finish the laundry (thanks Peter!) because I was so engaged by these stories - and I am sitting here a bit awe struck. I'm not a huge monster fan especially the zombie type monsters with no individuality. But I picked up The Junkie Quatrain on sale because I enjoyed 14 so much and I am so glad I did. Nothing special about these monsters but there is something pretty special about 4 tightly written monster stories that could each stand alone but each connects to the others in such clever ways. In quick strokes, Peter Clines defines each of the central characters so that you invest in them immediately and each of these shorts then delivers a lot of punch. Mr. Clines can certainly write and Christian Rummel and Therese Plummer each do nice narrator turns with the material. It's not that the stories themselves are too short - each is a perfect length and locks in with the others almost with a "snap". It's just that the "snap" each time is such a "AHA" payoff in the brain you want it to go on and on. It's like watching a great dancer do a few quick amazing moves on the dance floor and then walk away before you can quite grasp what you saw. I totally loved this set of interlocking vignettes!
Favorite author: Alexander McCall Smith Favorite narrator: Gerard Doyle Favorite listen : Burton and Swinburne Trilogy
"Get down in junkie town"
It is four stories about post apocalyptic California. At some point each story intersects.I love the way the story unfolds. You get information from different points of view so you learn more in each story Very entertaining. It was short so I listened to it twice so I could pick up on more things. I enjoy Peter. Clines. The narration was very good too.I bought it on sale I thought it was fabulous.
Avid Zombie fan who's starting to listen to more and more Fantasy and Sci-Fi stories. So, my description is apt to change. Dog lover who's known to have cats. LOL C# coder, part-time prepper, B movie fan, AMC watcher, recovering but successful day trader, perpetual student, overjoyed uncle, former adrenaline junkie with a flare for cooking, and lots more. LOL
"a sneeze that never comes"
wish there was more! the 4 short stories are great. they weave together seamlessly. my disappoint is the clines could've made a full-blown book out of this material. the stories are great, but they just end. there's no resolution. the stories end just as the characters begin to reveal themselves. i was left frustrated, wondering what happens next. it's like clines wrote 1/3 of a book then just quit. i really hope clines publishes more, continuing the stories he started. i kind of feel cheated that it just ended! however, i sure did enjoy the ride while it lasted! it's like a rollercoaster- i was thrilled listening to the audiobook, but when it was over, i wanted to keep riding.

Each story has an interesting character. Each story reveals part of the overall plot- what has happened, how it has affected the world, and how different types of people have survived. Clines builds an interesting world that longs to be explored. We get just enough to start salivating, but he leaves us wanting more. Lots of potential.

so if you've got a few hours to burn, listen to these short stories. they're better than everything in the movie theaters and on the tube right now.

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"Dear Peter Clines,"
Write faster!!! I've listened to all your books so far. This one might be my favorite. So please, WRITE FASTER!!!
Sincerely,
Sara
"I'm okay. The rest of the world? Not so much."
I love Clines Ex-Heroes and Ex-Patriot novels (both awesome reads/listens), and decided to give the Junkie Quatrain a listen.
I'm glad I did! This is an apocalypse novel that has all the right elements to keep me listening. Good concept and delivery. Characters in whom I want to invest. Descriptive settings and direction. Good action sequences. Solid writing. And my favorite - engaging. Once you've engaged a listener, and KEEP them engaged, you've won.
Most apocalypse novels far short on all these, but Clines did this in the Quatrain superbly. One of the simple but brilliant concepts was to have these stories connect, so we see difference perspectives on the shared event. That's thinking out of the box as a novelist. Simply put, this is good writing for the genre' and I highly recommend it.
This apocalypse is based on a virus that reduces the infected carrier to a muttering, sometimes screaming, violent and animalistic maniac. Scientifically more believable than reanimated flesh, I'd say. So, it adequately suspends dis-belief. Only the sane survive, but barely, as the world becomes one large sanitarium for the utterly mad and canniballistic. Hey, it could happen!
This is escapism at its purest level. No big lessons here. Just gold old-fashioned adventuring. At times we NEED an adventure, and Clines definitely delivers in the Junkie Quatrain, as well as his other works, to which I've re-listened, catching nuances I missed in earlier listens.
I have only one complaint - Why, oh why, can't this be a full length novel?
Clines, get busy, and give us more!
1*=I didn't like it..... 2*=It was OK...... 3*=It was good but I will never read it again.......... 4*=Maybe I will read it again in the future.............. 5*=I will definitely read it again(maybe more than once)
"Great story !!!"
Great story.
I just want to point out 1 fact.
How can russia report 300 million dead, while it's population as of 2011 is 141.5 million.
Everything else is great.
"Post-Apocalyptic Fiction With Character"
"The Junkie Quatrain" took me by surprise. The reveiws I read were rather lukewarm, and while I've enjoyed some of Clines' other stuff, he's never wowed me, so I was essentially looking for something which wasn't awful.
Not only is TJQ not awful, it's pretty damn good. It's composed of four shortish stories, all of which function well enough on their own, but when taken as a whole provide a much richer experience.
This book features a diverse variety of characters, but they're believable and human, and are the real stars of the story. The infected are merely a facet of the environment and setting (although they're a big facet; never fear). The story remains rooted in people with whom we can, if only in some small way, identify.
Post apocalyptic listener with some thrillers mixed in. Follow me on twitter at @drewsant
"A glimps into the "Ex-Hero" World"
A series of four short stories "The Junkie Quatrain" which takes place in Clines' "Ex-Hero" world. Although it is not tied into those stories it helps with building a more accurate picture of the world and is a good jumping off point if you're not sure you want to start that series. The stories have a good amount of zombies and are well written, fun and interesting.
Zombies Books in order: 1. We're Alive 2. Day By Day Armageddon 3. Roads Less Traveled Series 4. Alaskan Undead Apocalypse 5. World War Z 6. The Walking Dead 7. Rise Again 8. As the World Dies 9. Zombie Fallout
"Wow, like everyone said its good"
Got it for $1.95 during a deal, if its still on, get it. At its regular price I'd still get it, now that I know how good it is.
As others have said, the stories cross paths, and because of that, it felt line a real book. So you feel like its a real book until the end when it, well, just ends when you thought it should go back to one of the other stories. Except they played music so you knew it wasn't coming.
I wish all books had both male and female narrators!
The zombies are more of the infected kind, not completely dumb and at least try to run.
Perked my interest in Peters other books, Ex-Heroes series which I have previously thought completely "no".
"Not a bad zombie story."
A great set of stories that build up and link together. I would have like the stories to have a little more depth, there is definitely scope for longer stories or a second book.
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University of South Carolina to welcome students Aug. 15
Opening weekend (Aug. 15 -16) and Welcome Week at the University of South Carolina offer print and broadcast media excellent visual and story opportunities. To help reporters, the Office of Media Relations has compiled a by-the-numbers document, a tip sheet with story ideas and a calendar with Welcome Week events. (See links at right.)
To arrange coverage and interviews, contact Peggy Binette or Margaret Lamb at 803-777-5400 or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com.
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Police seek The Ninja and The Bandit
Portland Police Bureau Burglary detectives are asking for the public's help in identifying two suspects involved in a September 2013 commercial burglary in Downtown Portland.
On September 30, 2013, at approximately 2:30 a.m. the two suspects broke into Check Cash Pacific, located at 418 Southwest 2nd Avenue, and stole several thousand dollars worth of gift cards.
The suspects also cut a hole in the wall between this business and the neighboring Big Town Hero sandwich shop.
The two suspects were caught on camera. One suspect was dressed in all black, including a face covering and the other wearing a dark-colored track jacket and a green bandana covering the lower half of his face. Detectives have nicknamed the two "The Ninja" and "The Bandit" based on their descriptions.
Anyone with information about the identities of these burglary suspects is asked to contact Sergeant Mike Frome at (503) 823-0408 or firstname.lastname@example.com, reference Portland Police Bureau Case #13-82294.


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The Honorable Ernest F. Hollings
The Honorable Ernest F. Hollings (b. 1922) has a remarkable record of service as an Army officer during World War II, a member of the South Carolina General Assembly, lieutenant governor, governor and U.S. senator. As governor of the Palmetto State, the Charleston native helped move South Carolina from an agricultural to an industrial economy and laid the groundwork for the peaceful integration of higher education.
A visionary leader, Hollings has focused throughout this long and active career on putting government on a sound financial basis and on economic development that creates opportunities for all. In the U.S. Senate, he became a recognized expert on the federal budget, space exploration, telecommunications, oceans and the environment, nutrition, defense and trade.
His generous support of the University of South Carolina Libraries have contributed to their stature as the only nationally ranked research libraries in South Carolina. Hollings was instrumental in securing $14 million in federal funds to build the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library. Additional funding came from private donations as well as a $2 million anonymous gift.
The Ernest F. Hollings Collection,
South Carolina Political Collections
The Ernest F. Hollings Collection is part of University Libraries' South Carolina Political Collections, which document the careers and contributions of many of the state's political leaders. Since the initial donation in 1989, the Hollings archive has expanded to include about 800,000 pages of paper, audiovisual records and memorabilia that document Hollings' political campaigns, as well as his service as governor and his 38 years in the U.S. Senate until his retirement in 2005.
Items in the collection include notable letters by and to Hollings, photos, speeches, campaign memorabilia, campaign license plates, nameplates, Hollings' 1970 book, "The Case Against Hunger," and a gavel given to him for chairing a budget conference.
Among the most significant treasures is a copy of Hollings' final address to the General Assembly in January 1963 in which he implored legislators and the public to accept the court-ordered integration of the public schools and the admission of Harvey Gantt to Clemson University.
Collectively, the materials document Hollings' career in public office, first as a governor of South Carolina and later as a U.S. senator who, from 1966 until his retirement, championed a range of issues that included fair trade, campaign financing, the space program, public education, transportation safety and security, hunger and poverty, oceans and the environment and telecommunications.


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I only know that this site is "up" as of this posting. I now nothing more about it.
Hope this helps
The questions pretty out there, but is there a site to pactice pentesting skills?
I mean a site that gives permission to 'hack' it. I remember a site like hackthissite.com or something along those lines, but i heard somewhere that that site is really hard or something (never actually tried it).
EDIT: well I signed up for hackthissite.org. I see there's a bunch of different hacking skills i can test out and try out.
Do you guys recommend this site or somewhere else?
EDIT2: I've been looking aorund on the site, and most of those 'hacks' are retrieve passwords from files, delete databases, etc. I'm just looking for something to get into (to build up metasploit skills). I haven't started learning about password cracking yet so I'd rather wait for that
I only know that this site is "up" as of this posting. I now nothing more about it.
Hope this helps
To be successful here you should read all of the following.
If you are new to Back|Track
Back|Track Wiki
Failure to do so will probably get your threads deleted or worse.
The PenTest Live CD's here are great
Plu PureHate has a great tutorial video for the both
Back when I was playing around with hackthissite.org it did allow you to hack the site itself as an additional challenge.
Not sure if that's still the case.
Like stated, most sites are puzzles but there are some, I believe one of the major ones is something like roothack.org, which do allow you to connect to their server, write your own exploits, compile them and execute them.
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According to pureh@te's advice, the best would be to set up a homelab using different subnets.
You don't need that many machines, with vmware you could also create set it up just on one machine (if it is a decent one).
Or you could get some lab access from offensive security to get some hands on experience.
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Hi there, if possible I would like some advice on behalf of my wife who is 9 wks pregnant with twins. Yesterday she experienced some loss of brown from her lower area and informed the midwife. They said this was perfectly normal and not to worry. But today she has lost a bit of blood, which is faint red. She said its nothing like a period and there is no pain or cramps but she has put a pad on to monitor the situation. Another call to the midwife and they are going to see her Monday at the hospital. My wife is going out of her mind and so am I because we had a miscarriage at 9 wks last year. Im also working away and cant get back until tomorrow so any advice would be gratful. Thank you in advance
22nd October 2013 05:48 AM #2
Dear ryan.e,
I'm so sorry to hear of your concern. Bleeding in pregnancy always needs to be checked by a midwife or doctor as it could be a sign of a problem. However, please keep in mind that bleeding can just occur in some pregnancies with no particular explanation. In fact, around 1 in 4 women are thought to experience some sort of bleeding in pregnancy and most of these are not a miscarriage. However, sadly one of the signs of a miscarriage is also bleeding in pregnancy (which I am sure you are aware of after your previous loss which I am so sorry to hear about). An ultrasound scan really needs to be performed to check what is happening.
Bleeding without cramps is less likely to be a miscarriage (although cramping can unfortunately start as a miscarriage progresses). However, many pregnant women carrying twins do experience some spotting (light bleeding) in the first trimester.
I see from your post you wrote this on Saturday (sorry I did not see this on this day) and it is now Monday - what did the hospital say?
You really are in my thoughts and I hope that you had good news.
Warm wishes,
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Thinking of you and your wife ryan.e, I hope your midwife appointment gave you good news.
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Johnson: Breckenridge Town Council & the Summit County community
November 3, 2012
I am writing this letter in response to the "Leftover old CMC space up for grabs" article in the SDN October 25th issue. I am a 30+ year resident of Breckenridge and I was fortunate to have spent more than a decade working with our youth in our K-12 schools. I can say without a doubt, the best use for the old CMC building would be an after school youth center.Over the years numerous individuals (including myself) have researched the idea and considered developing such a program in Summit. But, in the end, it seemed to always come down to money and lack of a location that prevented us from taking it to the next level. Well, now with the availability of the CMC space, there seems less to stand in the way of making this a reality.Did you know, according to a study in 2010 by the Afterschool Alliance, 31 percent (251,728) of Colorado's K-12 youth are responsible for taking care of themselves after school? Many of those last "728" are our children in our community.Breckenridge Councilman Ben Brewer could not have said it better when he said, his "bias would be toward underserved populations in our community." I think our children and senior/retired population should be included in this underserved population.That leads me to this: I see many of our seniors as the sadly unreached members in our community that have more to offer than most can imagine. I think they would be an invaluable resource who could make this center really work. Not only would this center provide a place after school where our kids are safe, engaged and exposed to an enriching environment, it could be with positive adult role models from our community who could share their many years of wisdom, knowledge and expertise by working with our kids. When I think about the space at the old CMC, I imagine a computer lab where kids without internet access at home can come and complete their homework and explore the word at their fingertips. I see a music and art area where we expose our kids to music and arts from around the world they may never knew existed. If there was a writing, reading and math area, students could have assistance with homework from adult volunteers. And maybe there should be an activity room where students can engage in fun activities like pool, ping-pong, board games and movies… Lastly, let the kids have input and help design their areas. If they have a say in what the center is, what it's called, how it looks and what activities are available – they are more likely to use it.It's true, "It takes a village to raise a child," and it takes all of us to get and keep our kids on the path to success. I know it's not so simple (nothing ever really good is), but if we take the initiative to provide these opportunities now, we are taking an active role in guiding our children towards becoming the sensible, caring, educated, responsible and confident adults of the future. Our children are the foundation of our community, and our community will only rise to its most potential if our children succeed. So, let's put our best foot forward and bring this historical icon, the old CMC, back to where it started at the turn of the 20th century… and make it a place for our greatest resource… our children. Sincerely,Rebecca Johnson, Breckenridge


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THE horror, the sordidness of the awful abuse of children by figures of spiritual authority is not much assuaged by current Archbishop Jose Gomez relieving Cardinal Mahony of "all public duties" after mounting evidence showed he shielded pedophile priests from law enforcement.
So Mahony won't be overseeing the Sacrament of Confirmation at Our Lady of the Angels anytime soon. But he is not only still a priest who can perform Mass - he is still one of the 120 cardinals who form the leadership of a church with more than 1.1 billion adherents worldwide, in a line going back to St. Peter.
Given what we now know about Mahony's active efforts to protect known and suspected sexual abusers in clerical collars, this removal of him from public life is not only not enough - it's no punishment at all.
And this crime deserves punishment. That was made clear by the heartbreaking letters that were made public last week.
Go to any one of over 100 of them posted last week at la-archdiocese.org. The very first one in this alphabetical order was written by a anonymous parishioner molested as a child at a Colorado Roman Catholic Church summer camp by the Rev. Leonard Abercrombie, who later worked in Los Angeles.
Dated July 18, 2003, it begins quite simply:
"Pope John Paul II, The Holy See, Vatican City, Rome, Italy.
"Dear Pope: In July 1993 I wrote a letter to you ..."
That long letter detailing the writer's sexual abuse as a child of 7 by Abercrombie was never answered over the decade, though it was copied to other bishops and to princes of the church, including Los Angeles' own Cardinal Roger Mahony, who oversaw Abercrombie's later pastoral career.
"I informed each of you that the Denver diocese of the Roman Catholic Church had covered up Abercrombie's predation of children making it possible for him to molest me and others that I knew of when I wrote to you. ..."
"I informed each of you that this horror was systemic in your church, and to you, dear pope, I wrote, `Your bishops have known about it and they have been covering it up as a matter of course. Apparently, they haven't informed you of their criminal complicity.' So I did.
"In the ten years that have passed I have never heard a word of apology from any of you" with the exception of a bishop who happened to be a family friend, who said: "I am sure the Holy Father will respond to your letter." He never did.
Joelle Casteix, western regional director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said the action to remove Mahony from some duties is simply "too little too late."
Most cardinals leave the college in just two ways: by death or by election to the papacy.
Though highly unusual, it is possible to resign. The last to do so was French Cardinal S.J. Louis Billot in 1927. The rub is that the pope has to accept such a resignation, so it's not known if any cardinal has tried to step down during these decades of the church's sexual-abuse scandals or at any other time during the last 85 years.
But, as a small gesture toward acknowledging these enormous crimes against over 500 Angeleno parishioners, Mahony ought to offer his resignation.
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(NEWSER) – Australian divers got up close and personal with a grey nurse shark that was in desperate need of saving last week in a "first-of-its-kind" rescue caught on tape, via 7News Sydney, picked up by GrindTV. Somehow the young female shark—spotted breathing heavily in a shark habitat off Sydney—had managed to get an elastic band wrapped around her body. The band acted like a noose, slowly killing the shark as it pressed in on her gills. That's when a vet team swam into action, wrestling the shark into a clear plastic "sock" that could bring her to the surface—"the first time that we've run this kind of operation in the wild," a SeaLife sanctuary worker said.
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Seriously, people use this thing to find caches? I guess it just takes some getting used to, because I'm really having a hard time with mine. I used it today to find a really easy cache and spent half the time fiddling with the little wheel.
When I got the Colorado, the first issue I noticed was that it does not let you select caches or waypoints by type. That is a pain for me, because most of the time I like to mark certain caches and find only those, ignoring the rest. But I figured out that I can upload those marked caches as waypoints, in addition to loading all nearby geocaches, so that if I want to find a marked cache, I can just look through the waypoints.
Another issue is that when looking at a geocache, I can't view the area around it. It just shows me the area near my car, with a purple line going off the screen in the direction of the geocache, which could be miles away. What good is that? I need to look at the cache area to see if it looks interesting, look for parking, see if there are caches nearby, etc.
So now I drive to the cache and park. Now what? I need to be in the automotive profile for autorouting to work. But automotive mode doesn't work for finding caches, because it's locked on road, and the map doesn't have north up like I want. Do I seriously have to switch profiles every time I get out of the car? I noticed that there is a profile item for "Off Road Transitions", where it can be "auto", "manual", or "distance". What do those do? I tried "auto" and it didn't seem to work.
And once I switch profiles, I have to find the nearest geocache again. I can't just press the find button twice and select the first item on the list, oh no. I also can't go through "Recent Finds", because geocaches don't seem to show up in that list either. So I have to scroll down to geocaches and select the nearest. Maybe with practice it'll be quicker, but right now it seems pretty tedious.
Having the description, hint, and logs right on the GPS is very nice, though.
Are there any tricks that I'm missing to make this process easier?? Is it not that big a deal after a while?
P.S. the screen is really hard to read, and the backlight doesn't automatically go on when you plug it into the car.
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Hey if he likes his GPS, good for him. I'd like to like it too, but I have found it very frustrating so far.
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I got my Colorado back in May and it gave me lots of headaches from day one, like turning itself whenever it felt like it. Sometimes it would freeze and removing a battery was the only way to turn it off. Garmin wanted me to send it in for repair, but I bought the thing to take to Alaska in June, so I opted to wait until I returned. Good thing I loaded all my Alaskan caches into my old Map60C and took it along. I got so tired of the Colorado problems I used the 60C more than the Colorado.
Garmin ended up sending me a new unit which functions much better(after a couple of software updates), but as pfalstad points out the basic operation seems much more tedious than my 60C. The unit now starts automatically when you plug it in the auto power, but you have to still manually turn on the backlight.
pfalstad wrote:
Do I seriously have to switch profiles every time I get out of the car? I noticed that there is a profile item for "Off Road Transitions", where it can be "auto", "manual", or "distance". What do those do? I tried "auto" and it didn't seem to work.
I have not come across the Off Road Transitions profile.
I also find the profile switching to be very tedious, but adding a profile button to each profile you use makes it a little faster. The following link has some pretty good tips and info:
Now I see Garmin has introduced the Oregon. The touch screen seems like a great improvement. The wheel on the Colorado is worse for typing a message than moving around a letter grid with buttons.
I mentioned to my wife that Garmin just came out with a new GPS that I just had to have.... All I got was silence. I told her some people collect stamps, I collect Garmins.
I'll probably have to wait until that Minnesotan model comes out. Maybe by then, they will have put back all the functions they eliminated from the older models and figured out how to make the nice new features easy to access.
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A bill named after Charlie and Braden Powell goes before the Washington State Legislature on Friday to protect children from meeting an end like theirs.
After the still unsolved 2009 disappearance of his wife Susan Cox Powell, Josh Powell and his two sons moved into his father's home in Puyallup, Wa. He killed Charlie, 7, and Braden, 5, last February in a premeditated fire that also claimed his own life.
Senate Bill 5162, also known as the Braden and Charlie Powell Act, would bar child custody awards to suspects in active murder investigations. It goes before the Senate Law and Justice Committee in a public hearing.
"To me, this really seems like common sense. If the police suspect that you killed someone, you shouldn't be granted custody," said the bill's sponsor Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, on the Susan Cox Powell Foundation website. "It's beyond unfortunate that this is a law that needs to exist."
The bill would require law enforcement agency to provide information on a murder suspect to the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, per the department's request, if it's relevant to a child dependency case.
Josh Powell was considered a person of interest in Susan Cox Powell's disappearance, but the West Valley City police never named him as a murder suspect.
Charlie and Braden's grandparents, Chuck and Judy Cox, are among those expected to testify at the hearing, according to the foundation.
Washington authorities removed Charlie and Braden from the Powell home and placed them with the Coxes, who were engaged in a custody battle with Josh Powell, 36, when he carried out the murder/suicide.
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Marana, Ariz. • Tiger Woods delivered a "State of the Game" on President Barack Obama's golfing prowess and the news wasn't all bad.
"If he ever spent after these four years spent more time playing the game of golf, I'm sure he could get to where he's a pretty good stick," Woods said Wednesday.
Woods comes into the Match Play Championship on somewhat of a winning streak. While he revealed very few details about his Sunday round with Obama at The Floridian, he at least made sure everyone knew that they won.
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Instead of having President Obama as his partner against Houston Astros owner Jim Crane and outgoing U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, the second-seeded Woods opens this fickle tournament against Charles Howell III in a match that takes both of them back to their youth.
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Rory McIlroy is the No. 1 seed and will play Shane Lowry, a friend and former partner on the Irish team that won the European Team Championships in 2007. In a similar match, former U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell (Northern Ireland) plays three-time major champion Padraig Harrington (Ireland).
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