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I was chatting the other day with a character who posts recycled publicity images from the Pentagon onto Flickr (it takes all sorts).
At one point I complimented him on his Tora Bora photographs, recording as they do the efforts of the coalition forces to capture a completely non-existent cave complex, taken straight out of a James Bond film; complete with Blowfeld style international criminal mastermind and everything.
The conversation changed direction.
Bizarrely, he was still under the impression that the cave complex actually existed.
Which gets me to the end of my line of thought about the mixed blessing that is the Internet. If it wasn't for the Internet I would probably still believe that Tora Bora crap and lots of other crap as well. The very existence of the Internet has turned the notion of keeping abreast of current affairs by passively consuming media on its head. It's much harder work and much more interactive than any of us would reasonably want it to be.
Whether there is any real point to keeping abreast of current affairs or not is another subject.
And why stop at Tora Bora? Mainstream coverage of the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq has consisted of almost pure horse manure from beginning to end. And why presume that the horse manure is restricted solely to the War on Terror? It seems unlikely. Without the Internet I would have suspected that. With the Internet I am certain of it.
Favourite examples from Iraq and Afghanistan that come to mind, aside from the now obvious ones, include:
- Saddam's statue being toppled at the instigation of a US Army psyops unit after the fall of Baghdad
- The Jessica Lynch fable and the Jerry Bruckheimer inspired rescue video
- The Pat Tillman story – didn't play too much in the UK but it is an interesting tale. I was particularly tickled by the news that Tillman's own men burned his uniform and body armour after shooting him because they considered it a biohazard
- The blatant misreporting of Iraq soldiers' corpses from the Iran Iraq war as being Saddam's torture victims
- The Kurds being gassed at Halabja story
And a blast from the past
- The story that Iraqi soldiers tore Kuwaiti babies from incubators and left them to die. As told by a cute 15 year Kuwaiti girl who happened to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the States (not reported at the time)
I won't go on but I could, for a very, very long time.
The Saddam killed his own people story was especially crucial in justifying the 2003 war. Whilst it is rarely articulated, the government and the media are presumably aware that military intelligence is composed of two elements; capability and intent. We know for sure that lots of countries have WMDs but we do not perceive them as being a threat as we have judged that they do no intend to use them on us. So when it came to lying us into a war in Iraq it was necessary to exaggerate the Iraqi intent side of things as much as the capability aspect.
That's why we kept hearing the same mantra time and time again 'He used chemical weapons on his own people'. The plain fact that Saddam didn't use his supposed WMDs when we kicked his arse and ripped through his army the first time was simply ignored.
I don't know if Saddam gassed Kurds in Halabja. The article I linked to above raises questions that no one is answering. I know I can't trust anything Saddam says. I also know I can't trust anything the Kurds say on this either. They have a stake in perpetuating the story whether it is true or not. And the fucking pisser is that I can't trust my own government or newspapers.
Up until the start of Saddam's trial I tried to maintain an open mind on the subject. And then, surprise, surprise, it turns out that the Halabja atrocity and none of the other incidents that proved what a wicked regime we have overthrown will be aired in a court of law.
Saddam is going to be tried for reprisals made after an attempt was made on his life almost 25 years ago. If he's found guilty he will be executed without any further hearings. In particular, nothing will be heard about the really big stuff the bastards responsible for the war still cite as being a justification for that war. Our wonderful news media and opposition politicians apparently see nothing wrong with that.
What's a boy supposed to think?


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Rhys Jones
Teenage gang warfare in Liverpool claimed the life of an 11-year-old boy who was shot to death by a stray bullet on his way home.
On August 22, 2007, 11-year-old Rhys Jones was shot in the back by a stray bullet in the midst of a gang war that had plagued the Croxteth and Norris Green estates in Liverpool for almost a decade. Rhys Jones had no affiliation to the gangs in Liverpool and was merely making his way home from football practice when he and his friends made the fateful decision to cross the Fir Tree Pub car park.
Some time earlier in 2007, a "young scally," as the locals would say, named Sean Mercer had received an Anti-Social Behaviour Order from the Courts for terrorising a security guard at a local Shopping Centre with close friend Dean Kelly, age 17. Mercer was 16 at this time and was keen to make a name for himself among the leaders of the "Crocky Crew" gang to whom he was affiliated. His desperation to escalate in the ranks of the Crocky Crew and his hatred of the rival Strand Gang member –Wayne Brady – is what eventually would lead to the untimely death of Rhys Jones.
The Crocky Crew was formed around the turn of the millennium and its rivalry with the Strand Gang had slowly simmered since. Petty incidents of beatings and criminal damage were regularly exchanged between the two. This escalated to a much more serious level on New Year's Day in 2004 when Crocky Crew member Danny McDonald was shot dead in Liverpool's Royal Oak Pub. The murder was never solved by the authorities but is widely believed to have been carried out by a Strand Gang member. This incident accelerated a rise in the tension between the two gangs and a spate of shootings ensued. It is important to stress, at this stage, that the gangs in Liverpool had very little organizational structure and were based more on hatred and "territory" than on financial gain: as Chief Superintendent Steve Watson stated:
"We wouldn't want to overstate the sophistication of the gangs: They are an amalgam of dysfunctional teenagers,"
Despite a lack of organization and structure, it would quickly become apparent that the gangs in Liverpool were capable of extreme brutality in their efforts to obliterate one and other. In retaliation to the murder of Danny McDonald, Liam Smith – a 19 year old member of the Strand Gang – was blasted in the face with a shotgun when 12 Crocky Crew gang members arrived at Altcourse Prison on August 23, 2006, where Liam was visiting a friend. His injuries were fatal and served to deepen the hatred between the rival gangs. The shooting of Liam Smith saw three Crocky Crew members convicted of murder in 2007 but this did little to stem the flow of revenge attacks and retaliations on both sides as new feuds were created and hostilities between the gangs grew.
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Sean Mercer was first seduced by the allure of gang affiliation in his early teens when a pupil at De La Salle school. Here he witnessed peers, such as future accomplice Melvin Coy, leave the school and earn fearsome reputations as gang members. Coy drove around in an expensive Range Rover and was considered to be a major player in the Crocky Crew during the run up to the murder of Rhys Jones. This skewed romanticism of gang life also proved tempting for Mercer's fellow classmate Wayne Brady. Brady was from the Norris Green estate and this single factor was enough to determine that his loyalties would lie with the Strand Gang and that he and Sean Mercer were rivals. This rivalry was intensified by the fact that Wayne Brady had begun a relationship with former a Miss England contestant and an ex of Sean Mercer, Victoria Smart. Being from the Croxteth Estate, Smart, according to popular opinion amongst gang members, should have been off-limits for a Norris Greener such as Brady and this compounded the animosity shared between him and Mercer.
Mercer often spoke of his desire to attack Brady. For him, Wayne Brady was not only a figure of intense hatred but also the key to enhancing his reputation amongst Crocky Crew members. However Mercer was not the only Crocky Crew member who targeted Wayne Brady. Brady had been shot twice for straying onto Crocky territory in 2007. On both occasions he was attempting to meet Victoria Smart. This however, did not deter him, and on the eve of August 22, 2007, a day before the anniversary of Liam Smith's murder – Mercer received a phone call from Melvin Coy that would spark a chain of events which would change the course of his future.
Coy called Mercer at approximately 6:45 p.m. to inform him that he had seen Wayne Brady meeting Victoria Smart in the car park of the Fir Tree Pub. Mercer responded instantaneously, meeting James Yates, 20, to borrow his pistol before stopping off at fellow gang member Dean Kelly's house to ask Kelly to join him on his mission to shoot Wayne Brady. Kelly declined because he had "just bought some chips" and so Mercer set off on his own, using a mountain bike as his method of transport, to the Fir Tree Pub car park.
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At around 7:15 p.m., Rhys Jones arrived in the Fir Tree Pub car park with a few of his friends and unwittingly kicked a football against the wall of the rear of the pub: not knowing that the person in the car on the far side of him was Wayne Brady or that a gangland shooting was about to commence. At 7:30 p.m. Sean Mercer emerged from an alley that borders the pub at the far side to Wayne Brady. CCTV footage later showed that he was wearing tracksuit bottoms with a green top, his hood up and his face covered with a scarf. For a few moments he surveys the car park before catching a glimpse of Brady. When he sees Brady he extends his right arm with the .455 Smith & Wesson and he fires three shots that ring out across the car park. Panic ensues. Hearing the shots, Brady ducked down and escapes harm. Mercer, having missed his target, quickly accelerates back down the alley he emerged from.
When Rhys Jones's friends turned around to survey the damage done by the shots they noticed their friend awkwardly laying face-down in the car park. It was later established that one of Mercer's shots had ricocheted off of a car and struck Jones in the back. Jones's mother was quickly informed of what had happened by local residents and rushed to her son's side. At this point the boy was unconscious and soon after the ambulance arrived, he'd stopped breathing. He was transferred, with his mother, to Alder Hey Children's Hospital where, after an hour of attempted resuscitation, he was pronounced dead.
Meanwhile Mercer and his accomplices meticulously began to cover their tracks. Mercer met with Melvin Coy and Gary Kays almost immediately after the shooting and they took him to the house of Boy M* in nearby Kirkby. This served as a rendezvous point. There they were joined by Dean Kelly, Nathan Quinn and James Yates – the five accomplices helped Mercer destroy forensic evidence tying him to the shooting by burning his clothes and bathing him in petrol (this was done in an attempt to wash off any gunshot residue on his skin). They then concocted an alibi which involved claiming that Mercer was watching DVDs at the home of Dean Kelly when the murder took place. It was then decided that the murder weapon would be hid in the dog kennel of another friend named only as Boy X.
The crime stunned Liverpool and attracted nationwide media attention. National campaigns to tighten gun control laws were launched by tabloid newspapers and a zero-tolerance policing response to the criminal gangs was called for. Further pressure was mounted on the police when they were met with a proverbial wall of silence in their investigation. This continued, despite pleas from Rhys' family, up until a reconstruction of the shooting was aired on the BBC's "Crimewatch" program a month after the shooting. This appeal led to 12 phone calls naming Sean Mercer as the killer. Mercer was also named online and in graffiti as the killer. However, it was widely reported at the time that Mercer, whose name could not be published for legal reasons, basked in the notoriety of his connection to the murder. The pattern of his existence did not change and in the months following the murder he was seen on a regular basis loitering with other Crocky Crew members.
Meanwhile, detectives slowly built a case against Mercer and his accomplices and from the April 15-18, 2008 17 arrests were made in connection with the case. These included the arrests of Mercer and the five accomplices who rendezvoused at Boy M's house on the night of the murder. All six were charged and remanded in custody and a trial date was set for September of that year. In the time between the defendants being charged and the date of the trial Boy X, who was apparently frightened of the Crocky Crew, agreed to testify against them in exchange for immunity and anonymity. This dramatic turn of events helped strengthen the case of the prosecution in the run up to the trial. Further evidence was gathered from bugging devices in the homes of the defendants.
This evidence was then presented by the prosecution over the course of a nine-week trial. During this time Mercer refused to take to the witness stand – a move which drew accusations of both cockiness and cowardice from the media. Details of mobile phone calls and information gathered from electronic bugging allowed the authorities to piece together the movements of the defendants on the night of the murder. Mercer and his accomplices pleaded not guilty in response to the accusations which ranged from murder to assisting an offender. However, this show of defiance proved to be in vain when all six were found guilty of their respective charges on December 16, 2008.
On hearing the guilty verdict, it was reported that Mercer's face paled and that he began to repeatedly puff out his cheeks. Emotions also ran high in the public gallery: his mother sobbed into her husband's arms and Mercer's estranged father mouthed "I love you, son" as Mercer was lead away by the usher.
Following the verdict, the parents of Rhys Jones expressed their satisfaction and thanked those who had supported them throughout the process. Rhys's father stated:
First we would like to record our enormous gratitude to Merseyside Police for their professionalism and perseverance in securing this outcome, especially for Detective Superintendent Dave Kelly. From the day Rhys died, the kindness shown by the people of Liverpool has been immeasurable, for which we will always thank them from the bottom of our heart. Over the months we have found strength in messages of support from the many thousands around the world. As a family today it is not the final chapter but we can begin the challenge of rebuilding our lives.
The sentences handed down to Mercer and his accomplices were as follows:
- Sean Mercer was sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 22 years.
- Gary Kays, James Yates and Melvin Coy were each sentenced to seven years for assisting an offender.
- Nathan Quinn was sentenced to two years and Dean Kelly was sentenced to four years for an accumulation of four offences related to the murder of Rhys Jones.
- 16-year-old Boy M was sentenced to a two years of Supervision Order for his role in the cover up.
However this did not bring the case to a close. The police investigation, which included the use of wire taps at the homes of the Crocky Crew members involved in the murder, brought to light the fact that certain relatives of the Crocky Crew members involved also assisted in the cover-up of the crime. The mother of Sean Mercer – Janet, was prosecuted along with the parents of James Yates for perverting the course of justice. All were found guilty in 2009 and given sentences of up to three years imprisonment. Then in October 2009 the Court of Appeal deemed the sentence of James Yates to be too short and therefore lengthened his sentence from seven years to 12 years imprisonment.
This concluded the investigation and Merseyside Police closed its case files on one of the most senseless crimes to have taken place in Great Britain since the turn of the millennium.


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Elizabeth's Valentine
Bantam Books, 1990 - Juvenile Fiction - 73 pages
Identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield can't wait until Eva, the new girl in their second-grade class, arrives from Jamaica. When Elizabeth is picked to show Eva around school, the two become friends, and Jessica begins to feel left out. After all, she and Elizabeth are supposed to be best friends.
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While this is a great trail for hiking my husband and I felt it was way too narrow to share with bikers and hikers. We had to stop riding whenever someone was coming in the opposite direction. We found we were too busy concentrating to enjoy the views. Not a good bike trail.
My wife and I road from Newfields to Rt. 125 and then back (the eastern part of the trail). The trail was in good shape and we saw turtles and raccoons. We were on Hybrids, but saw other people on road bikes. Others were walking and some jogging. All in all a beautiful day to be out on the trail.
My wife and I had our first experience biking this trail this week. We found it very enjoyable until we both had a bad accident. There are several areas on the trail where you have to cross the rails which are sticking above grade and will through you off the bike.
I sustained a 2 inch laceration and multiple abrasions and contusions which required an ER visit. My wife injured her shoulder and knee.
After reading past reviews complaining of this same problem over several years, I can not understand why this problem has not been corrected since it would be easy to remedy!!! Disappointed that peoples safety is not of paramount importance!!
I hope that this will be addressed in the near future.
I rode this trail several years ago, when it only extended 3-4 miles east from Wolfeboro. However, this summer I rediscovered the trail, which is now 12 miles long extending all the way to Turntable Park in Sanbornville (completed summer of 2017). What a beautiful trail it is now. I have ridden the trail 7-8 times this summer and am really hooked on it! The natural beauty from causeway lake crossings to very bucolic meadows & wetlands on the western end are some of the best I've ridden in awhile!
As far as trailside features, you have the lakeside Town of Wolfeboro with many restaurants and a great bike shop (Nordic Skier) in town. When leaving Wolfeboro you pass by the restored train depot (restrooms, tourist info) close to town. This first 2 miles tends to be busy with walkers, cyclists, and people sailing remote controlled sailboats by the soccer fields (kind of neat).
The trail continues east crossing Route 28 (kind of busy, but slower traffic with a painted crosswalk so cars tend to stop for pedestrians and cyclists) but still use caution because it is hard for motorists to see around the foliage and buildings close to the road.
After Route 28, the trail continues on to two lake crossings on old railroad causeways, this is where cyclists must start to pay attention for the rest of the trail in regards to the trail width. Due to the narrowness of the RR causeway, and the fact the tracks have not been removed, cyclists must ride on a wonderful hard dirt surface , BUT as good as the surface is, the path is less than 5 feet wide between the two rails. It's great if it's just you on the trail and no-one else is around, but the trail tends to be busy near Wolfeboro. Oncoming cyclists must be very careful passing each other, I have seen many have dismounted to pass, and also you must call out a friendly warning when approaching other users on the trail.
The trail alternates from between the rails to being beside the rails, and a few times the trail will meander away from the rails altogether (especially near Albee Beach (restrooms, beach). This is where CAUTION must be exercised when crossing rails. Signs on the trail suggest dismounting when you must cross the steel rails. Even though there are wooden platforms built up at the crossings, riders must hit the rails as close to a 90 degree angle as they can (I seem to do fine at 45 degrees with 26" x 2.1" tires). The 7-8 times I rode this trail I came across minimum of 4 cyclists that went down, and they had the bruises and cuts to show for it!! (BTW, I counted, and I think 30 crossings of the steel rails is pretty accurate count for the whole trail)
About 3 miles from Wolfeboro, you will cross State Route 109, a bit quieter than Rt 28, but traffic tends to be a little faster.
Also at this crossing there's the restored Fernald Station (parking,porta-potty), which is also home to the "Putt-Putt cars" (Cotton Valley Rail Trail Club). The putt-putt cars on this trail is very unique, they are motorized 2-person railcars that run from Fernald Station 8 miles to the west and State Route 16. I only saw them in action on one of my rides, they always give a big wave and travel at about 10mph. This is why the rails are still in place on this rail trail, and we owe the 80 member club a big thank you for the maintenance of overgrowth they perform.
Beyond Fernald Station, the trail continues west for another 8 miles to very busy SR 16. The trail continues to alternate "between the rails" and "beside the rails" for this section. This is my favorite section, the 8 mile stretch is very quiet and features natural meadows and wetlands, and there are just minor road crossings with one section of 4 miles with no road crossings at all - it is very enjoyable!!
The last mile before reaching busy State Route 16 features some pretty good short up and down whoopee hills. At Route 16, there is a parking area, and the Miss Wakefield Diner is just south of the trail on Route 16 (no need to cross the highway).
If you do decide to cross 16, be aware traffic travels faster than it's 55mph posted limit, and tends to carry a lot of traffic. Crossing the highway gives you one more mile of trail to downtown Sanbornville and it's Turntable Park, featuring an old turntable used to turn locomotives around. There are also restaurants located in Sanbornville. I have crossed the highway a few times, but in all honestly, the last mile on the other side of Route 16 is not that attractive, even though the Town of Sanbornville is kind of nice, it may not be worth crossing the busy road.
(There is parking on Route 16 on the west side of the highway, so a good option is to park on 16 and ride to Wolfeboro!)
Overall, this is a great and beautiful ride, just watch the rail crossings!
Went to this trail today. Waste of time. It's only open for about .5 miles and stops. Nothing like the description of this trail.
Our family rode the trail from Wolfeboro to around mile marker 4, a while past the Cotton Valley Rail Trail Club on Rt. 109, in October 2018. There were a lot of great water views including a couple stretches with water on both sides, and winding parts through very pretty woods from about 1.5 miles just before Albee Beach onwards. The trail surface was very hard and not bumpy and presented no problem for hybrid-style bikes, basically as good as pavement (or even better than some paved trails I have been on that haven't been resurfaced recently). All of the crossings over the rails were clearly marked with signs instructing to walk your bikes and painted arrows indicating to do so at a right angle. After walking over many of them and them seeming very solid I began to slowly ride over them at 45 degree angles and never had a problem, and none of the several kids in my group did either. The parts of the trail in between the rails are narrow enough that you need to take extra care. If you are looking to go fast I wouldn't recommend this trail but if you are looking for a very scenic and leisurely ride I would highly recommend it. On the return ride I noticed that there were no signs for westbound bikers so this might explain some other peoples' complaints (although I still found the crossings vey obvious and good). I hope to return and ride the eastern portion of the trail another time.
It's early fall and a great time to ride this trail. The leaves are turning, the surface is dry and flat. There are many street crossings, most of them easy. We started in Raymond, off Onway Lake Road. If you map this using the RTC map, it gives you the address for the Gordon Cammett Recreation Area. If you turn in here, it takes you to a large parking lot and ball fields. This is where we started. The trail runs parallel to the ball fields but you can't see it from the parking lot. If you ride your bikes back up the hill you drove down, to the left at the top of the hill, there's a small cut-through. The trail is right there. If you look to your right, you'll see a tunnel (Manchester, or westbound). We rode to our left (Newfields, or eastbound). This is a 30-mile roundtrip ride. The trail has a few different surfaces, most well-packed and rideable with a hybrid. Some of the sandy patches and looser gravel (not many) might be more difficult with road bike tires. In Raymond, there is an old train station with train cars, a one-room schoolhouse, as well as stocks and a jail cell. There are 2 or 3 street crossings near various services if you need a drink or bite to eat. The trail ends at a parking lot, and fittingly, at the railroad tracks. There are no mileage markers along the trail. A trail kiosk in Epping will tell you the mileage to your destination in both directions.
Most of this trail is over packed earth, which is satisfactory, except following rain. The 4.5+ miles through Biddeford are poorly marked (download a map) and often hazardous. Scarborough marsh is beautiful and the rest of the trail is pleasant, often scenic. I rode the entire trail north one day and south the next. If I were to do it again, I would cut it into two smaller trails, and avoid Biddeford.
I started at the Massabesic Lake trailhead which offered plenty of parking as well as a beautiful start to my ride. There were no mile markers or any history signs on the trail so mileage is difficult to track. The first four to five miles of my ride were very rough with large rocks strewn all over the trail and three tunnels underneath roadways. The rocks in this section are all very well marked by orange spray paint, I just had to take my time on my hybrid bike. A hybrid bike will do just fine on the trail but a mountain bike would offer more confidence in this section.
After this first section of trail I found the rest of the trail to offer beautiful scenery as well as a much smoother ride. There are a fair share of road crossings but all but two are very quiet roads that had very little traffic. Raymond offers the perfect mid-trail stop to take pictures as well as a place to get food. Epping also offers more places to get refreshments. The last stretch of the trail from Epping to Newfields was my favorite part of the trail and offered an easy finish to my ride.
I rode the entire trail starting at Bug Light Park in South Portland and ending at Kennebunk; roughly 30 miles each way. I knew about the on road gaps and found them to be a positive as it added variety to the trail. The on road sections are fairly well marked and I only had an issue finding my way through Biddeford. The shoulders are very wide and I must say I found Maine drivers to be very courteous to me at every road crossing.
The off road sections of the trail are very well marked, shaded and very flat. I rode through forests and marshes and around residential neighborhoods. There is a fundraising effort to close one of the on road gaps on this trail. If that gap is closed I would give this trail five stars. I still highly recommend this trail as you can have a nice ride no matter what section you chose to ride.
I was delighted to read about the Cotton Valley Rail Trail from Wakefield to Wolfeboro. I picked up a copy of Rail-Trails, read up on the route and search Trail-link to read the reviews. I was aware of the switch over crossings on the trail and the dangers from what I read. Starting my ride in Wakefield at the Railroad Turntable I enjoyed a short ride to Route 16 and crossed over. I found the trail to be well maintained and walked over the first switch over crossing, I made a mental note that they might not be marked for hazards and continued riding. I was right! With the forest canopy and sun filtering through I came up on one with little notice and continue to cross and my back tire slipped out and I had crashed. Needless to say that ended my ride and caused an injury. I have ridden on many different surfaces and was shocked by what looked like an easy cross over. Please mark all switch over crossings as Hazards to avoid accidents. I am looking forward to riding this trail again after my recovery. If I had finished my ride I would have rated it a 5 Star, as I have heard it is a beautiful trail with a lot of great historical sites.
Disappointed to read that there is still a hazard on this trail. This could be so easy to fix by putting cement in between the rails or putting mats on the crossings. I will not go on this trail until this is fixed as I took a bad spill due to the rails.
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A dog which had been missing for than four days was rescued by lifeboat after being swept into the sea this morning (February 4).
The lifeboat was called into action at around 9.30am, after members of the public reported seeing a dog chase a seagull into the water at Hastings.
The crew - assisted by the Coastguard – quickly found Storm, a seven-year-old long-haired German Shepherd, who had been missing since Sunday, January 31.
The waterlogged dog was pulled from the sea and reunited with his happy owner at the lifeboat station, before going to the vet for a check-up.
Storm's owner said that he couldn't thank the UK Coastguard or the RNLI enough. He said, "I have been out looking for Storm since he went missing on Sunday and last night I was out until midnight searching for him.
"When I got the call this morning that he was on the beach, I was over the moon.
"But when I got down to the beach he'd already swum out to sea. I was just frantic to get him back.
"The Coastguard reassured me the whole time, talking me through the rescue process and keeping me updated on how they were conducting the search. I just can't thank them all enough for bringing him safely home."
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Israeli forces fired on a U.N. aid convoy Thursday in Gaza, killing at least one contract worker and prompting the U.N. to halt some of its operations in Gaza, U.N. officials said.
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A student team from the University of Hawaii at Hilo recently won the prestigious 2013 U.S. Microsoft Imagine Cup Championship held in San Jose, California.
The team now heads to St. Petersburg, Russia for the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in July.
Imagine Cup is Microsoft's premier student technology competition that honors technology innovations addressing the world's toughest problems as student innovators from around the world use Microsoft resources to take their one-of-a-kind, ground breaking application ideas from concept to the marketplace.
The national finals featured the top 10 U.S. teams pitching their ideas and solutions to investors, entrepreneurs, and technology professionals for a chance to win cash prizes and support for their businesses.
UH Hilo's Team Poliahu, comprised of seniors Mike Purvis, Kayton Summers, Wallace Hamada and junior Ryder Donahue from the UH Hilo Computer Science Department, topped the field of competition with their application entitled "Help Me Help," which focused on community help for disaster relief efforts.
The program aids the community and emergency response personnel in disaster situations by allowing users to upload images of nearby hazards through the use of smart phones.
Team Captain Purvis said the idea grew out of a senior project to design software that could track native and invasive plant species.
"We realized tracking that kind of information could be applied to a larger scale with more impact," Purvis said. "So we decided to rewrite our entire idea for disaster response."
Team Adviser Dr. Keith Edwards, associate professor, computer science, said the student's achievement is evidence of what hard work and creative thinking can accomplish.
"As a professor, I am always the most pleased when students are able to transcend the material taught in the classroom to develop knowledge and capabilities beyond what is presently known," Edwards said. "The success achieved by these students is a perfect representation of how the tremendous creative possibilities at the University of Hawaii at Hilo can have a worldwide impact."


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Mom vs. bomb: A mother of 12 lives out her faith through peace activism
Jean Gump has been taking a stand against violence, even when it caused a blow-up at home.
Last fall, at age 85, Jean Gump was released from prison after being arrested and jailed with 12 other protesters. They were caught trespassing at an off-limits federal area at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, home of the atom bomb.
"Periodically, I put myself on the line for what I believe in," she says, reflecting on her history of civil disobedience. "Killing people with weapons of mass destruction is inappropriate, so I feel I need to be on the front line of resistance."
Gump has been imprisoned about 20 times for taking a stand for social justice causes and has been arrested on so many occasions she's lost count. However the petite mother of 12 children didn't start out that way. In 1950 she and her husband, Joe, were married and settled in the pleasant, working class town of Morton Grove, Illinois, northwest of Chicago, population 25,000. Back then they led rather traditional Catholic lives: daily Mass, fasting, meatless Fridays, and confession on Saturdays.
Activist lifestyle: "I was brought up as an absolute bigot," says Gump, who later decided racial prejudice was unacceptable for herself or for her family. "I always told my children that they should defend anyone on the playground who was being bullied," she says.
One day while her kids were watching TV, they saw a news story about the poor treatment African Americans were receiving in the South. Her son John turned to his mother and asked what she was going to do about it.
"I was puzzled at first," she says. "Then he reminded me of my own advice about helping those hurt by bullies. I took the next available plane to Alabama and marched with Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery."
In the 1970s Gump began attending anti-nuclear weapon meetings while Joe, their teenage daughters, and her sister-in-law took turns babysitting the younger children. But she was always home in time to cook dinner. In the 1980s, with the children all grown and the arms race heating up, Gump joined Plowshares, a peace group founded by Catholic activists Daniel and Philip Berrigan.
Plowshares seeks to rid the world of nuclear weapons through acts of civil disobedience. One such action has been to pound the lid of missile silos with a hammer as a witness to Isaiah 2:1-6, "They will beat their swords into plowshares . . . nation shall not lift sword against nation nor shall they teach war anymore."
The war at home: On Palm Sunday 1986 a priest picked up Gump at her home and they headed for Holden, Missouri. She didn't tell anyone where she was going, and Joe didn't hear from her until the evening news reported that "five activists had symbolically 'disarmed' two Minuteman II missiles on Good Friday."
Authorities charged Gump and four young Catholic men with conspiracy and destruction of government property. The judge sentenced her to four years at the Correctional Institution for Women in Alderson, West Virginia. During that time she spent 63 days in solitary confinement.
This time the reaction of the Gump children ranged from the objection of daughter Mary Pat, a senior counsel for Bank of America, to the support of Kathy, a hippie who loved it all. Nevertheless, all the children visited their mom in prison.
But Joe, at the time a chemical engineer for a company that made automatic control equipment for nuclear power plants and intercontinental ballistic missiles, was not happy with his wife's actions. "Joe was so against what I'd done," says Gump. "He knew something was going on, but I didn't discuss it with him because I didn't want him to be brought in on conspiracy charges."
Life at their church was more difficult. Some parishioners shunned Gump, while others called her unpatriotic and even a traitor. Her pastor remained a silent supporter.
Gump's trial and sentencing both disgusted and consumed Joe, who ended up quitting his job in June 1987. Two months later he and a priest went to the K-9 missile silo in Butler, Missouri (near Kansas City) to perform the Plowshares ritual himself—landing him in federal prison for 42 months.
Peace be with you: The Gumps' devotion to peace and justice has consistently been inspired by the Beatitudes and rooted in their Catholic faith.
"We're pacifists," Jean Gump says with no apologies, regrets, or doubts. "Our judgment may not always be right, but we leave it up to God to take care of the consequences. We have to be sure about what we do and say. This is our moral obligation."
She realizes that not everyone will agree with her views on the business of war-making, nor are most willing to go to prison over the issue. Gump also recognizes that one person can't always create change, but that doesn't deter her from pressing on.
"Accomplishment is very seldom a consideration when we take these actions," she says. "If something good happens, we're glad. But our main objective is for the public to know about the dangers of nuclear weapons. We are people of conscience who know that nuclear weapons are immoral, so we make our statements and expect to be found guilty at our trials."
This article appeared in the September 2012 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 77, No. 9, pages 47-48).


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Ann Schunior's work is inspired by traditional crafts around the world. Her pottery forms come from the unfailing shapes of simple functional ware, but her surface designs come from animal imagery on petroglyphs, wood carvings and fabric paintings of Native American and African cultures. Ann travels widely to meet craftspeople that still work in the old ways.
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Google chairman thinks it should be easier to wipe information off the Internet. He, more than anyone, knows that Internet is like an elephant, never forgetting anything.
Even if you think you've deleted an embarrassing photo or tweet, chances are someone, somewhere can find a copy, potentially even years later.
"The lack of a delete button on the Internet is a significant issue. There is a time when erasure is a right thing," Schmidt told attendees of an event at New York University in Manhattan on Monday, reports CNet's Shara Tibken.
He used the example of a person who committed a crime as a minor that was expunged from his record when he became an adult. But information about that crime could remain online, preventing the person from finding a job.
This is an about-face from Schmidt's attitude toward privacy a few years ago. In 2009 he caused a stir by more-or-less dismissing privacy, saying during an in an interview with CNBC, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
In 2009, he went on to say that if the authorities came calling, search engines like Google, which retain data for a long time, could be forced to hand that information over.
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Looking for a tennis partner to play at hudson river park. Need to play there because I don't have a tennis permit. It would be great if we could play at off-peak times, like at night to reduce/eliminate wait time for a court.
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Hi Jonathan,
I would be available, but only early weekend mornings, starting 8:30/9. Are the courts accessible from or close to the subway lines?
Hey Danny,
I think it's a five minute walk from the 1 train stop @ houston street. I could do 830, but I could only play till 930, which is probably not a big deal since you're limited to 1 hour of play time when people are waiting (which there probably will be on the weekends). Not sure how many people will be waiting for the courts at that time, but we could try going on Saturday and see?
Would it be possible to do it Sunday? I am booked this coming Saturday, but would be available at 8:30 AM on the 5th.
Sunday works. would you up be up for playing just a bit earlier, like around 8? Might need to be somewhere at 10.
Sure. The earlier the better. My mobile number is 510 773 0479 should you need to get in touch with me.
In that case, maybe we should try for 7 :). My mobile is 917-439-2151.
That's a little too early, even for me. I'll see you on the court at 8 next Sunday.
okay sounds good.
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This falls under the category – I wouldn't do it but it works very well for him.
I do think the importance of his hair to complete this look cannot be overstated.
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This falls under the category – I wouldn't do it but it works very well for him.
I do think the importance of his hair to complete this look cannot be overstated.
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his hair is done to perfection, agreeed.
I think I am, perhaps, in love.
Yes yes, his hairstyle is really beautiful! He look really good, although I'm not crazy about the loose fit of his suit.
Very long and lean silhouette, very rich, luxe color, very styled hair…this is a welcome and pleasant déjà vu. Round and round it goes…
absolutely gorgeous…his eyes also make the look- dark, soulful and a bit sad.
He looks great!
It's interesting how you can see the colors and styles shift from varied to monotone as you scroll up this month's blog.
Hi Scott,
I just love the photos from your German trip.
They have that August Sander touch – brilliant !
It's hard to see beyond the fit of the suit, which is, shall we say, poor. Though the color makes a nice point.
great look! but: "spandau ballet romantic" spandau is a district of berlin and not hamburg!
All the boys I crushed on in school had hair like this, but they weren't half as cute or as stylish* as this guy.
*This was possibly due to the hideous school uniform we had to endure, but they could have made an effort!
His hair is definitely part of the look and I respect that effort and commitment to one's style.
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gorgeous!! beautiful color. the hue resonates.
funny you should say spandau ballet – I heard song from that band a couple days ago and wondered when we might see that look again…..it seems fresh now.
yeah, this guy has a lot to work with. the slim physique, the hair and eyebrows…i dont think i could ever pull that look off. but he did. good for him.
i'm sure you were making a reference to the band…not the district. nice job. i always like your little headings…clever, but not too much so.
I love the timelessness of these pics; how they could be from post WWII until the timeless NOW. What a great look, and it looks unstudied and real to him, without artifice. Another super-duper one, sart! xoxo, Lady
I believe Sart means Spandau Ballet the BAND, not the area. And, I am totally with you on this. Gary Kemp/the lead singer Tony was what I first thought too. Though I guess this shows our age…
Paint me down, but this guy looks absolutely incredible. What soul. I don't even notice his clothes.
Speechless really.
this is the sound of my soul.
I like the colour of his suit, but the cut is not quite right considering his hairstyle would look best with a retro tightly fitted suit with shorter trousers. I also question his choice of shoe colour, but I think the look works well.
And You've NAAIILED IT again Sar…..couldn't agree more….who dresses like this anymore ….and the ones that can pull it off
(like this one) know how to.
thx sar!
I know ….his much…..is Truuuue!
Love the color. Wish I was brave enough to wear a cranberry blazer. Seemed to be more popular decades ago. Bring it back, I say.
the man with the suit and the pace…
i am LOVING the look (hope it catches on) and everyone's apropos use of gary kemp's lyrics…
total perfection.
The first word I thought of was "dandy". For me dandy is a good word, he looks great. Very stylish, everything comes together.
such beautiful hair, and great face. and of course the suit isn't half-ass
Both,sleek and romantic,and the slightly misfitting fits him. Great portrait of somebody who knows to talk by clothes.
For some reason he reminds me of Morrissey from the Smiths.
Wow. Hurray for Hamburg! Bravo to him!
This takes me back to my college days and the boys in the English and art department that I crushed on.
something very charming in his eyes…
He's very handsome, but his suit color bothers me.
Just so long as the goofy dance doesn't also make a comeback…
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i agree, with Butch.
the fit is sloppy.
handsome devil though.
love how the color of the suit continues on the shoes!
plus that HAIR, i wish i could get my hair to do that! reminds me of the spring ysl hairstyles (for women)… so retro and yet totally modern.
handsome devil, indeed!
Beautiful. The whole package. I'm definitely in love.
Spandau Ballet indeed. I wish I could track him down and, well…never mind.
His hair is amazing and so is the suit color. Your pics of Germany are turning out to be some of my all time favorite.
Oh my goodness, it's me in 1980! If only I could fit in those suits now… :)
Sart, you're dating yourself. Only people in the late 30s know how Spandau Ballet looks like. :-)
That said, he does look very much like one of the Spandau Ballet.
He reminds of me a much better looking version of the main character in the Science of Sleep. Only because of the suit. =)
He pulls off this color quite well. A revival of new romanticism.
the real fact of the matter is that i really really want his haircut. in fact, i'm probably going to take this very photo to the hairstylist as a reference when my hair has grown out long enough to have it.
like always, mr. sartorialist, thank you for finding the people you do.
"I bought a ticket to the world
But now I've come back again"
I can imagine him in a darkly wooded bar sipping Jägermeister and Red Bull from a crystal goblet.
I love the suit. In his case I disagree that it is ill-fitting…it has a relaxed vibe that works well with his physique. The only thing that prevents this from being perfect is the length of his trousers which I wish were at a no-break point.
why aren't there any men like that in amsterdam?
Nothing wrong with the suit at all, just a bit unusual color though fits him well.
The fellow, with his Byronesque looks is a bit feminine looking and could use a prop to revitalize his appearance.
Perhaps a cigarette would help or perhaps a bit less attention to each carefully placed curl.
Otherwise, well done.
the hair leaves us speechless.
very cool
i would agree with everything except for the hair comment. i think this suit works great in size, color, and fit. regardless of his haircut.
what impresses me most about the look is the compatability of the shoes. they are perfect. black shoes would be wrong. white, too flashy. light brown, too whacky.
but these the burgondy ones are perfect.
I adore him and his fringe.
I feel the pants a bit too long
but I like it in general! Great colour and hair style and
right attitude!


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yey..new car! well....
new to me anyway..lol.
It's a 1972 Cadillac ambulance/hearse combo. 8 cylinder, 475 engine (i think?)
it's evil on gas..but beautiful. I did keep my tercel so i can utilize the 32 MPG.
Asher wrote:it has a PA system on it thats...indescribably fun. It doesnt quite have enough get up and go to -truly- have a good time..there's the possibility of being chased down with relative ease during the rod runs lol.
really..all i need is my ass kicked by a gang of angry cowboys.
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Earlier, we reported Ronald Poppo, the man attacked by the Miami cannibal, was awake and walking in a Florida-area hospital.
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A giant rubber duck that has been drawing crowds to the Port of Los Angeles since its arrival last week will be staying in town a few more days, organizers said Monday.
The 11-ton rubber duckie – part art project, part boat – headlined the Tall Ships Festival this weekend, and proving incredibly popular for gawkers who flocked to see it.
It drew so many fans who wanted to take selfies with it before the festival that event organizers moved it into the World Cruise Terminal so visitors would have to stroll through the rest of the event's offerings to see it.
The six-stories-tall duck will now remain in LA at the Downtown Harbor until Sept. 6, with daily events centered around the giant fowl, including "Make Your Best Duck Face" day, "Selfie" day and "Dressed Like a Duck" day.
Philanthropic fundraising events have also been added to the duck's calendar, including a canned food drive and a save-a-bird day.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican congressional leaders on Monday repeated their demand that increases in borrowing authority must be accompanied by spending cuts, despite President Barack Obama's insistence that the two issues be dealt with separately.
Obama must get "serious about spending and the debt limit is the perfect time for it," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell in a statement just moments after Obama concluded a news conference in which he said he would not negotiate on the debt limit.
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Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves Parent Guide
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After two previous movies, it seemed all combinations of shrinking the Szalinski family members had been exhausted, and with Disney execs opting for a video only release on this episode, they may have the same fears.
This time, Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) manages to get his brother and both their wives in front of his famous machine, reducing the couples to the size of a wallet after a trip through Disneyland. The kids assume that mom and dad have left for the evening and don't waste a minute in their new found state of freedom. Daughter Jenny (Allison Mack) quickly organizes a party while the boys, Adam (Bug Hall) and Mitch (Jake Richardson), construct a volcano using only beans, a balloon, and a microwave. All this while the parents watch helplessly from below.
The concept of what children would do if their parents disappeared is the main story in this movie. Although nothing of major consequence takes place, the children make choices that they know are opposite to their parents' instructions. But the typical happy ending script offers the kids opportunities to make good, the most dramatic example involving a sudden kiss that's planted on Jenny from a boy she admires. Unaware that her mini-mom is watching from the counter top, Jenny tells the boy to take a hike and cool his lips.
In this regard, the script does well in encouraging young people to stand up for themselves. On the other hand, once the parents are returned to normal, little mention is made of the violations of family rules, although Jenny is praised for the way she handled Mr. Fresh.
One scene may frighten young children as Szalinski's wife Diane (Eve Gordon) is nearly consumed by a cockroach, and there is one minor curse in the film. The highlight of the movie is a wild ride on the kid's Hot Wheels tracks, but otherwise things are tame and predictable. Only 75 minutes long, and with few high points, a better title may be "Honey, We Shrunk the Script."Directed by Dean Cundey, Raymond N. Stella. Starring Rick Moranis, Eve Gordon. Running time: 74 minutes. Theatrical release March 18, 1997. Updated October 3, 2013


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Google has just released the too-long-in-coming Chrome for Android browser, and Phil from Android Central wasted no time loading it up on his Galaxy Nexus, and putting it up against an iPhone 4S running Safari, for a classic head-to-head, phono-e-phono, Mobile Nations browser showdown video.
Safari and iOS in general still offer smoother, more closely-tracked multitouch scrolling, panning, and zooming. (No doubt due to iOS placing priority on interface rendering tasks, while they're left to fight as equals on Android.)
Interestingly, Chrome, like Safari, offers no support for Adobe's Flash player, or any other internet plugin.
Chrome is still in beta and only available for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right now. No doubt the release version will be even better still.
Likewise, Apple isn't slowing down. With iOS 5.1 on the horizon, Safari will improve as well.
Heck, now that BlackBerry has their new WebKit-based Torch browser, and Microsoft has embraced modern Internet Explorer builds on Windows Phone, it's getting harder to find a bad browser out there.
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Channel Kate Bush for Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever
KEEP an eye on the wiley, windy moors this month as thousands of people around the world channel their inner Kate Bush.
Kimberly O'Sullivan, 61, jumped at the chance to take part in the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever – a day where people celebrate the pop star by dancing to her song Wuthering Heights.
"I love dancing, I love Kate Bush, I love flash mobs and performance art, and I love the book. It ticked all the boxes," Kimberly said.
For those who don't know the 1978 hit and its music video, it features 18-year-old Kate Bush in a bright red dress, performing some contemporary dance moves while singing about the messy relationship between Heathcliff and Cathy, the lovers from Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering Heights.
Kimberly, from East Maitland, NSW, donned a red outfit and joined the Newcastle event for the first time last year.
When she spoke to The Senior, Kimberly was keenly practising the steps. "You high-kick on Heathcliff," she explained.
The choreography is the same for every event, modelled off the moves Bush performs in the music video.
After participants register for an event, they receive a link to a video so they can learn the steps before the day.
Kimberly said it doesn't matter if you can't high-kick, as people of all dancing abilities can take part.
"It's very inclusive. Even if you can only do part of the dance, you can take part."
Previous events have welcomed people using wheelchairs and other mobility aids. Dancers of all shapes and sizes join in, with men, children and even dogs dressing up as the English singer.
The most important part is that you have fun – and call all the other dancers Kate.
Kimberly said she'd like to see more women over 50 get involved.
"I feel as a woman, we're told our whole life we can't do this, we can't do that.
"I thought, no, I'm putting on a red dress and high-kicking as long as I can.
"It's really important for women of any age, especially over 50, to remember to play and have fun."
The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever is on July 14.
This year's event marks several milestones. It's the 40th year since the song came out, Kate Bush will celebrate her 60th birthday on July 30 and it also marks 200 years since author Emily Bronte was born – coincidentally also on July 30.
Events held in most major cities globally.
For details on your nearest event, search for The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever on Facebook.
This article originally appeared on www.thesenior.com.au
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I'll make this disclaimer: because I don't yet have a signed contract (she's sending it back to me as I'm writing this) I'm not going to disclose who they are, just yet. But I'm going to relate some of what transpired because not only did I help them, but they helped me to better understand the process of putting together a family's history through pictures, documents, ephemera and most of all, empathy.
When I arrived, I found they have not one but two houses. Well, one's a house and the other is a cottage that sits in front of the house right on the water. It's a lovely location. After warm greetings and getting the lay of the land, my friend took me over to the cottage to show me the 'Stuff'. You know, the Stuff that's accumulated over a lifetime. In this case, it was mostly photographs and photo albums that had been owned by my friend's grandmother and then passed to her mom. There were about four large boxes; realizing that it wouldn't take me that long to go through and do a quick assessment, I did just that. Lots of older photos, some clearly from the first half of the 20th century mixed in with more contemporary stuff from the later half of the 20th century. Photo albums with those horrible plastic pages or sticky pages; framed material that would need to be unframed. All the usual suspects.
As I was explaining some of the technical aspects of Archives to my friend, her mom came over and joined the conversation. I explained that in my experience, I can easily go through a single banker's box of documents in 6 - 8 hours; photographs usually take me less. Looking at what they had, I felt I could finish up in the two days I'd expected to be there (Saturday/Sunday). My friend's mom then divulged that, 'oh, by the way, the "good" box is up at the house.' Heh.
We went up to the house, and sure enough, she had a nice sized box of photos, most of which were taken before 1950. There was an album from the late 1930s as well as a few documents. They started showing me individual photos, explaining who the people were in them and the events that were taking place. At some point, not long into the process, I stopped them and asked, "Do you have a family tree that's been done?"
Nope, everything they had was verbal; stories passed down. In this case, I thought it would help me more quickly process the photos to have an outline of who was who. So, I fired up my Family Tree Maker. I put the caveat on what I was about to do by explaining what a Professional Genealogist's job is, and how having names and information from oral family history does not a genealogy make. With the understanding that we would work together to ensure the best quality information, I started to add names into a brand new database.
Saturday morning arrived quickly and I started the work of organizing what they had in the boxes. I was able to start picking out individual people I recognized and put them in their proper context. As I continued to work, they joined me to tell me more stories. What amazed me was that this family had an important role in the local area and that the history of the area was intertwined with the family. As we delved deeper into the boxes, more and more stories were uncovered and shared. They laughed when, on seeing a picture of someone with a huge fish I said, "That's Calvin!" My friend's mom quipped, "You're gonna know our family better than we do." Yep, that's my job.
This particular family had an unusual thread that ran through it: in each generation there was at least one person who had married multiple times. We're not talking just twice. Three seemed to be the magic number, although there's a family with two daughters who have both been married 4 times, and they're only in their late thirties. What a complicated tree with crazy branches of multiple spouses and children and step-children. At the same time, they are a very loving and fun family.
At one point on Saturday evening after everyone else had gone to sleep except for my friend's mom and I, she quipped that she would've never been able to get through the material as quickly as I had. Having listened to the stories and thinking about my own 'Stuff' that sits unorganized in my office closet, I realized that it is so much easier to work with other people's material. With our own, there are emotions attached to the people and events, whether good, bad or indifferent, that cause us to slow to reminisce or tease out if our memories are weak. As an outsider, I can work quickly without the emotional attachment. At the same time, I realized that having the ability to be empathetic to the family, to have an appreciation for the oral history that I may be poking holes in, that it's important to be respectful of the feeling that the material generates in my clients.
I ended up staying Sunday night in order to finish up some detail work on the newly foldered photographs. When I left, the 'Stuff' had been neatly foldered, labeled and stored in three Archives boxes. My friend's mom kept asking if I'd thrown anything away because she couldn't believe it all fit into that small space. I assured her nothing went in the bin; properly organized material takes up a lot less space. They also have the beginnings of a nice genealogy database with 85 individuals, mostly unsourced, for now. And I took a 45 minute detour on my way home Monday to head to Barry County Courthouse to pull a land record for the family. One of the cornerstone stories passed down was that their great-grandfather had purchased land from the Indians at some time after 1878, when he came to the area. I knew that it was unlikely to be true and they really wanted to know.
Of course, the deed I pulled was a treasure trove of information that included another generation back on the tree, confirmation of that generation's State of origin and the fact that, unless the Indian's were lawyers in an East Coast State, the land was purchased from an individual who was most definitely not a Native American.
So, as I sit here writing this blog post to avoid delving into my own 'Stuff', I have a very happy new client. They have other projects for me to work on, and I hope that I have the opportunity to help them uncover more of the roots of their tree. For me though, getting the family photos organized and arranged was my first goal and top priority. The images we archived can now be scanned and shared with many, many others without detriment to the material. It will also be ready, eventually, to be passed to the next generation without having to be separated, which dilutes the stories they tell. Have you thought about having your own material Archived?
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BasketWorks/79Gifts or its designated courier hand delivers most gifts in the greater Chicago area.
Residential deliveries are made Monday through Friday between 9.00 am and 7.00 pm. Residential deliveries made when no one is available to receive the package will be left at a secure location or left with a neighbor.
Commercial deliveries will be made Monday through Friday between 9.00am and 5pm. Our courier service guarantees delivery by the close of the business day, but is not able to guarantee a specific time.
Packages outside of our hand delivery are are shipped via UPS Ground. If you prefer to use another carrier, please contact us. UPS ground deliveries can take up to 5 days, depending upon the final destination (even a bit longer during the holidays). To check on time in transit, click here. Origination zip code is 60062.
Shipping and delivery costs average $18 for local courier delivery and are $18 (except for very heavy items) anywhere in the 48 contiguous states via UPS Ground.
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BasketWorks/79Gifts is a woman owned gift basket company, located in the north suburbs of Chicago (specifically Northbrook, IL) since 1997. We are proud to offer a variety of gifts and gift baskets appropriate for all occasions. Each of our packages is built to order, allowing for customization at no additional cost to our clients.
Our staff attends half a dozen or more gift and gourmet shows each year to search out new products, take continuing education classes and identify trends. We are not part of a franchise, but we do work closely with other independent gift basket companies from across the country.
Lise opened BasketWorks after catching the entreprenuerial bug and leaving Human Resources in 1997. She has degrees in Business Administration and Labor and Industrial Relations, but enjoys the creativity involved in the gift basket business.
Lise also has Crohn's Disease, an inflammatory bowel disease, and is open to speaking with anyone who needs more information. She enjoys reading several books a week, designing cross-stitch, crocheting, stamp collecting and advance square dancing. She has two boys, two weiner dogs, and one (very patient) husband.