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CAPE CORAL, Fla. - Right now, crews are repairing one of Cape Coral's many aging bridges. The city is using $200,000 of your money to maintain them, but officials say that's not enough.
There are 158 bridges in Cape Coral the city maintains 139 of them. But a lot of the bridges are aging at the same time many built 40 years ago.
The sound of construction fills the air on Hancock Bridge Parkway and NE 13th Avenue. Crews are preparing to replace the bridge joints which are wearing away, thanks to the elements, and the pressure of thousands of vehicles.
Chris Camp is the city's maintenance division manager. He says, while the the roadways and bridges of Cape Coral are the city's largest asset. Its estimated to be 2 and a half and 3 billion dollars if they had to be recreated today with today's standards," he said.
He admits funds for these necessary projects are tight. This fiscal year, crews got $200,000 to maintain the bridges, and Camp says they use every penny. "We've been fortunate that we've never had to close a road or a bridge because it was unsafe," he said.
Robert Brennan drives over this bridge twice a day and says he was surprised to see the construction. "I've never noticed it needing repair," he said. But says he understands that the city has to work on a tight budget. "I would image everyone has to budget, you know, and when money is short like all of us, we have to budget," he said.
The city also has a bridge maintenance crew who visits every bridge in a cycle checking for cracks and wear.
The work on Hancock Bridge Parkway is expected to be done by the end of next week.

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Children in Hiding is a dystopian trilogy, consisting of Get on Board Little Children, Come on Home Children, and City of Hidden Children. The first two are available on Amazon. They are set in the Pacific Northwest some 30 years from now, in a future in which an unlicensed pregnancy is a felony.
I am so sorry to hear about Brittany's ending her life. I am reminded of Robin Williams, who recently made a similar yet very different decision.
What is the difference? Robin apparently suffered from depression, a mood disorder. He had been suffering for years and it seems that one night it became too much for him. Ideally he would have taken a different road: contacted his friends, asked for help, and received therapy and medication for relief. If he had known how much pain he inflicted on all his friends, relatives, and the whole country, he might have stopped and thought again.
Brittany's choice has also affected all of us, although we don't feel that we knew her as well. We only knew she was a beautiful young mother with a terrible burden to bear. Many of us have admired her courage. Others can only pray for her, that she may rest in peace and that her family may find comfort.
We would have interceded with Robin and stopped him if we could have. Almost any of us, because we know that depression can be alleviated if not cured. Some of us would have stopped Brittany if we could have, even knowing there was allegedly no cure for her – although doctors have been mistaken before, often, in fact. We would have tried to intercede because we know that we are not the owners of our own lives, we belong to God our creator, and he alone has the right to choose the hour of our death. We do not know what tasks God has for us in the last days and moments of our lives, or who we might influence.
My greatest fear though is that Brittany's choice will help pave the way for more laws favoring assisted suicide. And when I am eighty-five, and perhaps feeling depressed, will my grandchildren come to me and ask, "Why are you being so selfish? When are you going to take the easy way out, so we no longer have to shoulder the burden of caring for you, paying for your medicines, wasting time talking to you?"
Of course I hope they will have been raised better than that. But that question may still resonate in their minds, and in the minds of the elderly who feel they are a burden. It is an honor and privilege to care for the sick and the elderly, a sign of a civilized and humane society, and we should not make laws that guilt people into choices that lessen our humanity.
I appreciate Terry Wilson's invitation to follow him on his blog hop. Here is Terry's website.
The blog hop, titled My Writing Process, covers the following four questions:
1. What am I working on?
2. How does my work differ from others in my genre?
3. Why do I write?
4. How does my writing process work?
1. What am I working on?
Currently it's the third book in my dystopian thriller trilogy, titled City of Hidden Children. All three books focus on a future America (specifically Washington state) in which an unlicensed pregnancy is a felony. The first, Get on Board Little Children, is about a woman who discovers she's expecting, and she and her husband can't yet afford the license although they've been saving up for it. It's about the trials she goes through to protect her unborn child from the Population Management police.
The second, Come on Home, Children, is about a young woman who was one of the kids raised in the Children's Center, which is where the unlicensed kids are taken when the state "rescues" them. She escapes, and has a child, and the focus is on her efforts to protect her daughter when her little girl is confiscated by the state.
The third, City of Hidden Children, is about that little girl when she is older, and begins to learn what happened in her past. It looks at the older teenagers, who are farmed out to factories to work for slave wages. I keep thinking my scenarios are too far out, and then read another news story about the corruption in corporations and government and the widespread trafficking in human beings, and realize anything is possible.
2. How does my work differ from others in my genre?
I've avoided reading others in my genre lately, since I don't want to steal anyone else's ideas. However the future is so full of possibilities, both for good and evil, that there is room for infinite speculation.
I like to make my future reasonable, to have solid rationale for what happens, so I postulate that it all started with a book written by a woman, Deirdre McCallum Moran, titled The Unwanted. Just as Uncle Tom's Cabin is said to have sparked the Civil War, Mrs. Moran's book was influential in the passage of legislation making it illegal to have a baby unless you could afford to buy an expensive license. And of course, in typical fashion, legislators didn't consider all the ramifications and consequences of the law.
I like to think that my books are different in that they focus on the individuals who are affected, rather than a panoramic sweep of society. I like to include pertinent details but not too many. I prefer minimalist literature, haiku rather than epic poems.
3. Why do I write?
Because I enjoy it.
Because I have something to say, Actually when I wrote my previous book, The Ring of the Dark Elves, several years ago, I thought I had said everything I had to say and stopped writing for awhile. Not to mention that we had just adopted two children and were a bit preoccupied for some time.
The Ring of the Dark Elves is the story of Sigurd Fafnirsbane, the Dragonslayer, set in the land of Norse legend. What I had to say in that book was simple, summed up in the words of Brynhild: "To live well and die bravely is all; it does not matter how long or short our lives may be."
But some years later I realized maybe I had something else to say, since I don't care much for some of the directions our society is going. And there is a dearth of fiction from a Catholic worldview. I don't care for "religious" books, and I love science fiction, but I like it to be grounded in the Catholic view of the universe, because other philosophies seem so barren. My favorite books are ones like C.S.Lewis' space trilogy and Charles Williams' supernatural thrillers. I hate didacticism, so entertainment comes first.
4. How does my writing process work?
I write when I should be doing housework or sleeping. I work full time as a nurse so it's hard to fit it in. Sometimes I break down and hire a lovely person to mop my floors every other week. More often I just ignore the floors. I have to stop writing a novel every so often and write a couple of flash fiction stories, because they're relaxing.
I work on the plot first, because that's the most important part. If it doesn't make sense, the book won't work. And I concentrate on the motivations of my characters, because they are crucial.
Scenes start coming together in my mind, and I'll take notes on them – on scraps of paper, when I'm falling asleep, at all kinds of inconvenient times. Then I'll pull it all into one place and start working on it, on one small part at a time, while trying to keep the big picture in mind simultaneously. It's kind of like trying to juggle while walking though a very noisy and crowded train station.
I'm excited to introduce two other dedicated authors who will participate in this Blog Hop next Monday August 18th. Susan Spieth and Amy Bennett. They will answer the same four questions on their websites. Information for these authors follows:
Susan Spieth speaks from experience. She graduated from West Point in 1985 and served five years in the Army as a Missile Maintenance Officer. After completing her military service, she attended Seminary where she earned a Master of Divinity degree. She is an ordained clergywoman in the United Methodist Church, having served five churches as Pastor/Associate Pastor for seventeen years. Susan and her husband have two children and live in Seattle, WA.
Gray Girl is her first novel, a fictionalized account of her first year at West Point. She blogs on Goodreads here.
Amy Bennett is the author of the Black Horse Campground murder mystery series. She admits shamelessly that she is addicted to books. "I have a lot of books I can't wait to read. They sit on my desk, like the little next-door-neighbor kid who hangs around on the front porch while you're inside having dinner with your family. Going for a day without reading leaves me feeling like I haven't eaten and my refrigerator is empty."
Amy has worked as a cake decorator, a clerk for a medical supply company, and retail sales clerk for her in-laws' religious gift shop. She began writing in earnest in 2004. Currently she works at Wal-Mart of Ruidoso Downs (not too far from her fictional Bonney County) as a cake decorator and at Noisy Water Winery (where you can find some of the best wines in the state of New Mexico). Her blog is here.
When writing, especially science fiction and fantasy, we create another world. J.R.R. Tolkien called this process sub-creation. My question is that since Christians already believe in another world all around us, inhabited by denizens both good and evil, are we handicapped in world creation?
It's hard to write fantasy when the world we live in is so fantastic already, so far from the mundane world of shopping malls, fast food, and monthly paychecks. If I believe that an angel stands at my shoulder, how can I write about elves with a straight face? Unless you are Tolkien, writing about elves as a symbol of something more magnificent and amazing, who really cares about elves anyway?
If I believe in a hierarchical universe filled with saints, angels, thrones, principalities and powers, full of light and shadowed by darkness, it may be hard to get excited about unicorns. Creatures of myth and legend may find themselves crowded out.
I read a fantastic tale once, in which the "what if?" was what if miracles really happened. The miracle in question was something about an apple tree that bloomed in winter. My response to that question can only be: "Duh?" Knowing about the miracle of Lanciano, the tilma bearing the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, the undecayed bodies of the incorruptibles, and various miraculous "coincidences " in my own life, I can only assume that writer had little life experience.
Having an angel possibly reading over one's shoulder does limit an author's ability to write about supernatural entities. I'd be embarrassed to write some of those sexy angel novels, and I want nothing to do with the inhabitants of the dark side. My only comfort is that I'm sure my angel has better things to read than my scribblings.
Are we handicapped? Maybe. But our world is richer and deeper than the one we can see with our eyes, and we can take it as a starting point, a springboard to something beyond.
Come on Home, Children, the second book in the trilogy Children in Hiding, is now available on Amazon. It treats of the same dystopian society as the first one, in which women are required to purchase a license to have a baby. If they don't have a license, the child is subject to confiscation by the state, to be raised in a state- run Children's Center.
There are certainly many excellent orphanages throughout the world, but as in any human endeavor, both bad and good people will engage in it. And the not-so-good people may try to take advantage of the situation for their own pleasure and profit.
Miss Amberton is one of my favorite villains. Here is a snippet of her conversation with four-year-old Katy, the heroine's daughter, who has been taken by the Population Management police to the Children's Center where Miss Amberton is the director. Mrs. Baker, her assistant, is trying to help her snap a photo of Katy.
"Smile, Katherine," said the woman with high black hair combed back. She stood pointing a camera at Katy, who she had placed in front of a white wall.
"Don't want to," said Katy, tightening her lips. "My name's not Katherine."
"Of course it is, you're just not used to it. Now smile for the camera. Don't you want your picture taken?"
"No. Are you a witch, like in Hansel and Gretel?"
"There are no such things as witches, Katherine. That is rude."
Mrs. Baker hovered in the background, rubbing her hands nervously together. She did not seem to like what the other woman – Miss Amberton – was doing. "Maybe she will smile for me," she said in her soft voice.
"She's a stubborn child." Miss Amberton handed the camera to Mrs. Baker. "See what you can do."
"Are you going to put me in an oven and turn me to a cookie and eat me?" asked Katy. "That's what witches do."
"No one is going to eat you," Miss Amberton said through her teeth. "Give us a smile."
"Please," Mrs. Baker coaxed. "Then you can go and play."
Katy grimaced, showing her teeth for a split second. "Okay, can I go?"
"No, sweetheart, we need to take a picture," said Mrs. Baker.
Miss Amberton stood tapping her foot and breathing heavily through her nose.
"You know," Katy said to her, "you aren't supposed to steal kids. When I see a policeman, I'll tell him what you did. Policemen are our friends, except for the ones with green shirts."
"We didn't steal you, we rescued you," said Miss Amberton. "Someday you will appreciate the difference."
"And when I tell the policeman, you will be toast." Katy giggled. "That's funny. I won't be a cookie, but you will be toast."
"My, aren't we precocious."
"What's precoshus?"
"Too smart for your own good." Miss Amberton's lips were tightly compressed. Katy did not think she would make a good picture either.
The thought made her smile a tiny bit. Mrs. Baker snapped the picture as she did. She straightened up with a sigh. "I think that's as good as we're going to get." She showed the camera to Miss Amberton.
"It's fine. She looks a little pathetic. We'll use that one."
You hear complaints on occasion in reviews of books or films, that the writer ruined the project by forcing a "Hollywood ending" on an otherwise compelling adult tale. Happy endings, it is implied, are what the unsophisticated common man insists on. But real life is grim and tragic, and we should man up and accept it.
My books for the most part end happily. That is because I am aware of enough grief and loss every day. I see it in the media and I hear it from my clients. My profession as a nurse puts me in touch every day with people who are dealing with diagnoses of terminal illnesses, accidental deaths of children and grandchildren, loss of their limbs or their eyesight, and other traumatic difficulties. I am continually astonished at how most people rise to meet these challenges with grace and courage.
But when I watch a movie or read a book, I don't want to be taken through the wringer again. I want solace, the assurance that things may look bad but through the cloud-wrack a white star is still shining, giving us hope, as Samwise saw. And those are also the kind of books I write.
I also do so because I believe that the foundation of reality is a primordial eucatastrophe. This is a term that J.R.R. Tolkien invented to mean an ending involving an abrupt and unexpected change, in which evil is thwarted and good triumphs. The ending of his book The Lord of the Rings is a eucatastrophe. "Tolkien calls the Incarnation "the eucatastrophe of human history" and the Resurrection the eucatastrophe of the Incarnation."(Tolkien, J.R.R. (1990). The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays. p.156)
I love the good news of the gospels, and consider it the basis for almost all works of literature. Elements of this tale are found in every best seller from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities to the latest Dean Koontz thriller. These include, among other things, the hero in disguise, the toilsome journey, the imprisoned or mistreated bride, a conniving enemy, a heroic sacrifice, redemption, and final triumph.
Every best seller, every fairy tale, every good movie contains at least some elements of this tale, and the more it does so, the more closely it corresponds to reality. Because this is the tale told from before the foundation of the world.
Of course, not all happy endings are immediately evident. I just finished reading "The Doomsday Book," by Connie Willis, [ Spoilers] one of the best books I have read this year, which ends with a great deal of grief and death. But it is redeemed by the vindication of faith of the main characters. It is made clear through this book, as through my experience with my patients, that death is not the ultimate tragedy.
I will stand by my happy endings, because they are the stuff of real life, despite all that seems to argue against it.
One of my relatives said my book, Get on Board Little Children, is Propaganda. An interesting comment, which made me think. Is it?
What is propaganda? Google says: "information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view." Merriam Webster Online says: "ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated, . . .spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc."
An article titled "Propaganda" by The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum has these comments:
• "[Propaganda] simplifies complicated issues or ideology for popular consumption, is always biased, and is geared to achieving a particular end. . . .In contrast to the ideal of an educator, who aims to foster independent judgment and thinking, the practitioner of propaganda does not aim to encourage deliberation by presenting a variety of viewpoints and leaving it up to the audience to determine which perspective is correct. The propagandist transmits only information geared to strengthen his or her case, and consciously omits detrimental information.
• Not all propaganda is bad. Propaganda is used to shape opinion and behavior. Public health campaigns, for example, can utilize propaganda. . . . The real danger of propaganda lies when competing voices are silenced – and unchecked, propaganda can have negative consequences. . . ."
A book written for the express purpose of pushing a political or other agenda is clearly propaganda. But every author is biased; is all writing therefore propaganda? Is The Lord of the Rings propaganda because Tolkien espoused a Christian worldview? Is Little House on the Prairie propaganda because Wilder held up the blessings of a united family and community? Is Romeo and Juliet biased because Shakespeare indicates that suicide is a bad idea with tragic consequences?
I think we would say not, because these writers presented their ideas merely as an outgrowth of their own point of view, and the main point was the story, the exploration of a created world or community.
We live in a culture that, to a large extent, acts as if we believe that unborn children are expendable commodities, whose worth depends on whether they are wanted by the mother or not. Kind of like lean hog futures, a commodity whose worth depends on their trading value. I say "acts as if we believe" because we do not give support to pregnant women, instead in many cases we push abortion on them as their only solution. Many people don't believe this is right, but we still act as if we do, we still put up with it in our culture.
My book presents another point of view, the view that an unborn child is valuable in his or her own right, and deserves the same chance at life that all of us enjoy. It's also fiction, set in the future, and attempts to present the point of view through the behavior of a variety of characters who respond in different ways. Is this propaganda?
It does present a biased point of view, with the goal first, of presenting an entertaining story, and second, of encouraging people to think about the subject, rather than accepting our culture's viewpoint blindly. In that respect, it seems to me to be in line with the goal of the educator rather than the propagandist; the educator "aims to foster independent judgment and thinking."
Like Wilder and Tolkien, I attempt to explore a fictional world. I don't think it is propaganda, as I went where my characters led me. My next book in the Children in Hiding series, Come on Home Children, explores the subject from the point of view of one of the unlicensed children. I will see where that takes us.
We are constantly being given advice on all the urgent activities we must do each day, mostly from well meaning experts in their fields.
My dentist says to brush my teeth twice a day while singing Twinkle twinkle little star, to make sure I brush for the requisite number of minutes.
"If you're a serious writer, you will block out [so many] hours each day to practice your craft."
We are advised to exercise, cook from scratch, get enough sleep, pray daily, spend quality time with friends and family, keep up to date on advances and publications in our field, walk the dog, feed the ferret, entertain the cat, not to mention the pesky detail of several hours at work, commuting if that's necessary, or doing the housework that never comes to an end.
Follow all these well meant directives, throw in a little housework if you haven't already, and you've got about 25 hours in each day.
So unless you want to live like a robot, maybe creating a spreadsheet and checking items off as you race from one to another, something will have to go.
What is really essential? I asked a few people, and the answers I got depended on their ages. My son says the essential thing for him is to check his phone for messages first thing.
My husband says family is most important. Also sleeping and eating. He would say that.
I have decided to make a list of what's essential to live the best life possible, so here it is. What qualifies me to weigh in on this is that I've been a registered nurse for a quarter century, and have seen the results of all kinds of lifestyles.
1. Get enough sleep. Seriously. Your life will spiral down into the toilet if you try to get by on less than you need. Sleeplessness sucks all the enjoyment out of a day.
2. Exercise. It's essential to keep blood moving and keep the brain functioning. Ideally, walk half an hour a day outside or even in a mall, or if you can't go out, walk on a treadmill or up and down stairs. If you are stuck in a wheelchair or in bed, you can use stretchy cords or isometric exercises.
3. Touch base with nature. Trees or plants are good to commune with. We evolved outside, and it still soothes, calms, excites, enchants, heals and gives us hope. Take your walk outside, or talk to your dog or guppie. I'm fond of my ferret, who never complains or tells me to quit wasting my time on the computer.
4. Talk to your family or friends. We are social creatures, and need to bounce our emotions off other people to stay sane. You can use books, I suppose, if real people aren't available. But TV doesn't work for this; that's like trying to get nourishment from the pictures in a cookbook.
5. Eat right. Most Americans eat a lot of junk, a lot of high fructose corn syrup, a lot of white flour and sugar. That tears our bodies down instead of building strength, so by middle age we need medicine just to keep going, and within a few years we start to disintegrate, need more meds, and can't function well, so we find ourselves stuck in front of the TV all day. Eat vegetables.
6. Pray or meditate. We wake up on this planet hurtling through space, and have to figure out what's up with that as we go through life. It's kind of like regaining consciousness as the roller coaster groans its way to the top of the high curve, and you look down at the track dwindling into the distance, and you have no idea how you got there. So it's helpful to try to plug into the ground of our being. My belief is that if we are searching for Him, He will be looking for us, and we will be found.
7. Do something enjoyable, creative if possible, every day. Read to your kids, write a story or work on your novel, practice drawing or painting. Strive to achieve the state of flow, in which time ceases to exist and we become fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus.
You may have other essential activities. Whatever they are, try to focus on what you regard as essential, because otherwise the non-essential but urgent will overwhelm us.
My book is available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and other online bookstores now! It will also be available in book form soon. My son Brandon Graham is the cover artist, with some help from his lovely wife Marian.
They just got back from a trip to the Oslo Comics Expo in Norway, and a gallery show in Amsterdam. For a thoroughly illustrated view of his trip, check out his blog.
I really like the cover he did for Get on Board Little Children. I think the color and artwork capture my heroine's feeling of terror as she realizes there is no place to hide. It's not slick and sexy like many covers, but his work usually is not slick, which is part of its charm.
My favorite graphic novel of his is King City, a wildly imaginative tour de force involving a laid-back pickpocket who is a Catmaster, his weaponized cat, his best buddy who wears a ski mask, the buddy's girlfriend who is an alien water-breather, and assorted other oddities which combine to make a strangely touching novel of danger and lost love. He says he draws "as if everything is made out of bubblegum," but in reality, his style is a combination of graffiti, Japanese manga, and his own inimitable lunacy. I feel fortunate that he did my cover.
"You are old, Father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head—
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
"In my youth," Father William replied to his son,
"I feared it might injure the brain;
But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again."
This poem, from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, pretty well describes my status, as I approach my seventh decade.
So I thought I'd start a blog to promote my book, get in touch with the roughly 2 billion people on the internet, and save me the trouble of explaining individually to those 2 billion why I don't eat sugar. Mostly. Of course that leaves another 4 billion or so, but that's life.
My book is Get on Board Little Children, by Victoria Randall, and it's a futuristic thriller that begins in Seattle.
The title comes from the African-American spiritual of the same name celebrating the Underground Railway, which in the nineteenth century helped slaves escape from slavery to freedom in the northern states. I'm proud to say that my alma mater, Oberlin College, was a way station on the underground railway.
I got the idea from reading our local newspaper, and noticing that every time an article appeared about child abuse or neglect, many people posted "We should have to get a license to reproduce!" A lot of people seem to feel that would be a good thing, and indeed, it does seem reasonable. After all we need a license to marry, to drive a car, a motorcycle, or an airplane, to practice as a physician or dentist, even to sell hotdogs at the stadium. If a license were required to have a child, it seems reasonable that only dedicated parent-types would apply for it, and the amount of child neglect would decrease.
Of course the state would be involved, since the license would have a price, and the state could set any price it deemed fit, in fact even a price so high that only wealthy or really devoted would-be parents would apply for it. And a psychological exam of course would be included, to make sure only stable people were licensed.
You would of course ensure that accidental pregnancy was very rare, by implanting a mandatory birth control device in every teenage girl. Although such devices are not 100 % foolproof.
Then you would have to figure out what to do in case people flouted the law and went ahead to get pregnant without a license. Would there be fines? Jail terms? Confiscation of the child?
All this led, not through a rational process mind you, but sort of one-thing-after-another, to my dystopia. I only later realized I had created a dystopia.
I wondered what would happen if an average middle class young woman and her husband found themselves in that situation. What kind of lifestyles might evolve in such a state- would there be an underground group raising their children in secret, without social security numbers or public schooling? If the state confiscated illegally born children, what would become of them? And would organizations develop to help pregnant women escape the consequences of their criminal status?
We don't think it can happen here in America. But then who would have thought 24 ounce sodas would be banned in New York? (I hate soda – they're terribly bad for your health. But still . . .)
I only touch on some of these questions lightly. But they are there, as Sophie and Josh try to deal with their problems in a world characterized by a high living standard, high-tech surveillance, full surround virtual reality entertainment, but shadowed by the dark underbelly of loss and despair on which it is founded.
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One of the most contentious aspects of General Motors' 2009 bankruptcy was the forced closing of 1,160 dealerships across the country. GM brass and the Obama Administration Task Force insisted that a smaller dealer body was necessary to make the Detroit, MI-based automaker viable again, while also helping to make the remaining dealers stronger. Opponents of dealer closings pointed to the thousands of dealership employees who would lose a job at a time when jobs are harder than ever to find. Dealers are also often among the most powerful small business owners in small towns, and that meant that the local congressmen were put in a tough spot, indeed.
Congress was able to appease its constituencies to a point by pushing through legislation that gave dealers a second chance at life. Ultimately, it looks like 661 GM dealers have been given a new lease on life after going through the arbitration process, which, it seems, would make the National Automotive Dealers Association mighty happy, but The Detroit News reports that recent comments from President Obama have NADA spokesperson Bailey Wood hopping mad.
The President reportedly gave The General a pat on the back for reinstating the 661 dealers, adding "a year later, GM is hiring again, on the verge of reopening hundreds of dealerships." President Obama brought up the dealer reinstatement in part to show that the U.S. government's $50 billion loan was the right thing to do. But Wood was upset that President Obama would bring up the dealers after the administration spearheaded the effort to cut dealers in the first place. Even as the legislation that led to the arbitration process was taking hold, the administration was reportedly against the bill.
Does NADA have good reason to be upset over President Obama's comments? Maybe, but we're thinking the dealers NADA represents would have been in much worse shape had the administration not stepped in and bailed out GM in the first place. It's hard to sell cars when no one's making 'em.
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Middletown, Ohio, Wednesday, December 12, 2007 – Atrium Medical Center opened on Sunday, December 9, with the transfer of 125 inpatients from Middletown Regional Hospital to the new medical center. After the departure of the last patient, James W. McClain of Lebanon, Middletown Regional Hospital officially closed its doors as a full-service hospital.
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Ancestors with a criminal past
In an earlier post , I talked about my genealogy buddy Robyn and how I would sometimes get genealogy envy when she discussed her ancestor's many accomplishments. Robyn recently wrote a great post on Joseph Harbour, one of her ancestors with a criminal past. Since I had written about the many accomplishments of Robyn's ancestors, I thought I would share this story to remind everyone that almost every family has some ancestors with a shady past. When we are researching and preserving our family history we must document the good and the bad. One thing I love about Robyn is she always has an interesting story to tell.
Robyn also wrote a great post on Alabama Convict Records which gives great tips on using convict records to locate ancestors who seem to have disappeared for a few years.
Telling Your Story: Tips for Writing Your Memoir
Writing your memoir is a great way to preserve family history. Many people think their life is too mundane to share. You don't have to have lived a miserable childhood, suffered some tragic fate or hobnobbed with the rich and famous to write your memoir. Everyone has a story to tell. Telling your story is a great way to preserve your legacy and show others how you came to be the person you are today. In addition others will learn valuable life lessons from your experiences.
It does not have to be a Pulitzer Prize novel like Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes or a great family saga like Alex Haley's Roots that is published for the world to see. Just write down your recollections of people, places and events in your life and share it with your family and friends.
My mother wrote her memoir in which she described her life growing up and living in Washington, DC from the 1920′s forward. She wrote it out in long-hand on notebook paper. We typed the information, supplemented it with pictures and other memorabilia and had it copied and bound at the local copy store. My mother's memoir is truly a family treasure that can be passed on to future generations.
In addition to preserving family history, writing your memoir is also a great way to preserve local history. Florence Coleman Bryant wrote her memoir titled Memoirs of Country Girl which contains her recollections of growing up in a farming community in Caroline County, Virginia during the Depression. I used the book as a resource when researching Union High School in Caroline County, Virginia in preparation for writing a book. Ms. Bryant's memories of Caroline County and Union High were a value asset to preserving the history of the county and school.
Here are a few tips for writing your memoir:
- Pick an area of focus. It is not necessary tell your life story in chronological order starting at birth. You can write about a particular time period in your life, a particular event, or a person who influenced you. Your memoir can be a collection of unrelated stories about your life.
- Just write. Your first objective is to get your memories on paper. You can either type or write them, whichever you find easiest. Make a list of memories as they occur to you. Don't worry about the details, spelling, grammar, punctuation. You can make changes later. Just let your thoughts flow and write.
- Be Yourself. Write in the first person in your natural voice.
- Take Your Time. Don't' try to write everything at once. Write for awhile, put it down and come back to it later. Some people find it useful to write every day for at a certain time in a special place. Others write whenever a thought comes to them. Keep a pen and paper or digital recorder with you at all times so you can record your memories when they occur.
- Be truthful but tactful. You want to be truthful but it is not necessary to write a tell-all novel that spills the family secrets or divulges all your personal business. Some information may be too personal or painful to share.
- Be gracious. Refrain from make disparaging remarks about others. Be aware that the statements you make will impact their life. Be sure you are able to support what you say.
- Use photographs and memorabilia to jog your memory. Look through photo albums, scrapbooks and memorabilia and write down what you remember.
- Use periodicals to jog your memory. Browse magazines and newspapers and make a list of national, state and local events. Write down your memories of these events and the impact they had on your life.
- Listen to music. Listen to old songs and write your memories as they come to you.
- Fill in the details. After your finish the draft add some background to put your story in the proper context. Searching the internet is a good place to find information. Search for events, people and places you mentioned in your story. Do research to confirm your recollection of historical facts or well-known events is accurate. For each story you have written, ask yourself: What was the occasion? Who was involved? When did the event occur? Where did it take place? How was my life impacted by the event?
Getting the Most from Your Library Research
One of my early childhood memories is practicing writing my name so that I could get my own library card. I wanted to be a big girl like my siblings and check out my own library books instead of having my mother check them out for me. Once a week my mother would take my siblings and me to the local library where we would check out shopping bags full of books, magazines and records. For big research projects, my mother would take us to the main library downtown where we had access to a larger selection of materials.
The library system has grown a lot since my childhood days. It is now possible to obtain a library card for a variety of library systems. In addition to providing access to items in the library, the library card also provides access to a wealth of online resources.
Here are a few tips for accessing resources outside of your community library.
- Community College – The community college in my county allows residents who don't attend the college to obtain a Community Patron library card. Check with the community college library in your community to see if they have a similar program.
- Reciprocal Library Agreements -Some library systems have reciprocal agreements with the library systems in nearby communities which allow patrons with a library cards to obtain a free library card by showing a card from their library.
- Nonresident/Out-of-Region Access - Library cards are not always limited to residents of the community. Some libraries will also give library cards to people work, go to school or own property in the community. Other libraries will give a library card to nonresidents for a small fee. I do a lot of research in Caroline and Spotsylvania County, Virginia. These counties are serviced by the Central Rappahannock Regional Library (CRRL) system. Since I have no ties to the state or counties, I do not quality for a free library card. However, I am able to obtain a nonresident library card for an annual fee of $30.
- College Libraries – Many college libraries will grant library cards to alumni and staff. Additionally they may have Friends of the Library Program which will give library cards to people who make donations to the school. College libraries are excellent source for research because they provide access to theses, dissertations and other resources not available at your community library.
- Library of Congress – For those you who live near Washington, DC, the Library of Congress provides access to prints and photographs, historic newspapers, maps, manuscripts and film and a host of other materials. Most material must be used onsite, but the Library of Congress is an excellent place for research.
- Interlibrary Loan Program (ILL) and Worldcat - Most libraries have an interlibrary loan program (ILL) which allows the user of one library to borrow books from another library. Worldcat (http://www.worldcat.org) provides access to library collections around the world. I use Worldcat to locate books of interest and then request them through my local library's interlibrary loan program. The books are sent to my local library branch where I can pick it up and return it when I am done.
If you follow the above suggestions you will have access to a wide variety of materials in libraries all over the country which will greatly enhance your research.
History Makers in Our Midst
Summer is almost here. Families will be gathering for barbeques, cookouts and reunions. There will be many stories of days gone by and lots of photo albums and memorabilia to share. As you are visiting with family this summer, why not use it as an opportunity to preserve history. Not only will you learn family history, you may also learn that you have history makers in your midst.
Beryl Jackson is such a history maker. She shared her memories of being in the first group of students to desegregate the Caroline County School system when I interviewed her for a book I was writing on Union High School in Caroline County, Virginia. In 1965, Beryl and a few other students transferred from Union High (the high school for Blacks) to Caroline High ( the high school for Whites). Although her experience did not make national news and is not recorded in history books like the story of the Little Rock Nine, it did change the Caroline County School system forever.
Your family member's memories have historical significance, not just for your family but for the community as well. Here are a few topics that are likely to come up during family discussions:
- Way of Life –What was the lifestyle of the people living in the community?
- Employment – How did people in the community earn a living? (ex. farming, working in steel mill)
- Migration – Did family members come to America from another country? Move from one area of the country to another? What was their experience?
- Clubs/Social Organizations – How did family members socialize with other members of the community?
- Institutions – Where did family member go to school or church? What impact did these institutions have on their lives?
- Community/Neighborhood –Communities change overtime. What was the community like when your family member lived there?
The next time you go to a family gathering be sure to take your digital recorder and/or video camera and preserve history.
Genealogy Gems in Confederate Citizens Files
My last two posts contained self-publishing tips. I decided to take a break and publish a research tip. The next post will continue with the self-publishing tips.
I recently discovered information on three of my ancestors in the Confederate Citizens Files while performing research using fold3.com (formerly footnote.com). The Confederate States of America (aka the Confederacy) was a government established by the eleven southern states that seceded from the United States during the Civil War. The Confederate Citizens Files were created during 1861-1865 and mainly consist of papers relating to civilians who were members of the Confederate States of America. These files contains papers such as bills and vouchers from individuals for services and supplies provided to the Confederate Government and claims against the government for damages.
The document titled Perpetuating evidence of slave abduction and harboring by the enemy is of particular interest when seeking information on enslaved ancestors. In 1861, the Congress of the Confederate States of American passed "an act to perpetuate testimony in cases of slaves abduction or harbored by the enemy, and other property seized, wasted, or destroyed by them". This act allowed slave owners to appear before a judge or appropriate representative and make an affidavit of the loss of their property. Other individuals could submit oral or written evidence in support of the person's claim. After all the evidence was collected the judge or his representative would state in his certificate of authentication whether the evidence was credible. This act was not meant to imply that the Confederate States were liable for making compensation for any of the property.
I located several documents in the Confederate Citizens File of Jefferson Flippo that provided information on three of my ancestors. My 3rd great grandparents, Sancho (aka Sanker) and Lucinda Shakespeare and their children were enslaved by Elijah Wigglesworth in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Elijah died in the 1840's and the Shakespeare family was separated in 1846 when his estate was divided among his wife and children.
Three of Sancho and Lucinda's children: Richmond, Nancy and Matilda were then enslaved by Elijah's daughter Almira and then Jefferson Flippo of Caroline County, Virginia when Almira married him in 1854. I have found a lot of information on Matilda both during and after slavery and have located some of her living descendants. However, I have not found much information on Richmond and Nancy.
The perpetuating evidence document for Jefferson Flippo was filed on October 21, 1862. It contained a list of individuals who were enslaved by Jefferson Flippo and secured their freedom by leaving with the Union soldiers. As I scanned the list I noticed the names of three of my ancestors: Richmond (age 26), Nancy (age 20) and Susan (age 1). From early research I believe that Nancy had a daughter named Susan in April 1861 while she was enslaved by Jefferson Flippo. Based on their ages I believe Richmond, Nancy and Susan listed in this document may be my Shakespeare ancestors.
As I looked further through the document I found several statements by individuals that provided additional insight. There was a sworn statement signed October 7th 1862 from Jefferson Flippo where he stated he was the legal owner of the slaves, Richmond, William, Nancy and Susan [illegible] until about the 1st day of Jun 1862. His statement also indicates that Richmond and William left on or about the 1st day of Jun 1862 and Nancy and Susan left about the middle of July.
Another page of the document contains the oral evidence given by Nelson Beasley and John T. Goodwin, neighbors of Jefferson Flippo and provides further insight. In addition to corroborating the information provided by Jefferson Flippo, they also indicate my ancestors were last seen in Fredericksburg. The final page in the document contains the certification of legal ownership by Philip Samuels, Justice of the Peace.
I now have some insight into what happened to Richmond, Nancy her daughter Susan but I still do no know what became of them. I now have many more questions. What surname did they use after they obtained their freedom? Where did they go? The oral evidence states they were last seen in Fredericksburg. Did they remain there or move to another location? Did they ever reunite with their family? Many of my Shakespeare ancestors did reunite in Caroline County, Virginia after slavery. However, I have not found any information to indicate Richmond and Nancy joined the rest of the family.
My great grandmother Louisa (who is Nancy's sister) had a daughter named Susan whose age is very close to Nancy's daughter named Susan. Are Louisa's daughter and Nancy's daughter the same person or different people who happened to be born around the same time? If they are the same person, does that mean something happened to Nancy? If so, what happened to her? These are all questions I must answer as I continue my quest to locate my Shakespeare ancestors.
Confederate Citizens Files are an excellent resource for researching the family history of both slave holding families and the individuals they enslaved. Unfortunately, the names of slaves are not indexed; therefore, those searching for their enslaved ancestors will have to search for the name of the slave owner and read each document to locate their ancestors.
Division of the Negroes and Money belonging to the Estate of Elijah Wiglesworth and Lot No 6. Drawn by Almira W. Wiglesworth. Will Book R, 1843-1846 Part 2 Page 271 Repository: Spotsylvania Court House, Spotsylvania, Virginia.
"Confederate Papers Relating to Citizens or Business Firms, 1861-65," digital images, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : accessed 26 November 2011), record for Jefferson Flippo, Caroline County, Virginia, Papers of Jefferson Flippo for perpetuating evidence of slaves abducted and harbored by the enemy, filed October 21, 1862, National Archives Record Group 109, War Department Collection of Confederate Records.
Taking an Active Role in Preserving Local History
I started researching my family history in Caroline County, Virginia in 2004. I was frustrated by the dearth of information on African Americans. As I talked to African Americans in the community I would hear interesting stories of their lives growing up in the county. As I listened to their stories, I would often think what interesting information it was and that someone should preserve it.
In 2009 I decided to become that someone and take an active role in preserving the history of the communities where my ancestors lived. My first project would be to preserve the history of Union High School – Caroline County's only secondary school for Negroes during the era of segregation.
I knew nothing about the school and had never written a book; however, I decided to take on the challenge. Once I began to spread the word about the Union High History Project many people were eager to participate. The result of the project is a book titled Memories of Union High: An Oasis in Caroline County, Virginia, 1903-1969. The book available at amazon.com and my website.
In addition to writing a book, I have collected a large amount of Union High memorabilia and ephemera including hundreds of photographs, a complete set of yearbooks, commencement programs and school newspapers. I plan to donate these items to libraries and historical archives. Because of the collaborative efforts of numerous ordinary people, the history of Union High School has been preserved for posterity.
You many not want to take on the monumental task of writing a book. Here are some ways you can help preserve local history on a smaller scale:
- Donate items to libraries, historical archives and genealogy societies. When going through family members' belongings, save old documents, papers, photographs, memorabilia and ephemera and donate them to a local library or archives. A lot of historical items are classified as junk and thrown away because the person who is cleaning out an elderly or deceased person's home is not mindful of the significance of the items.
I urge people to donate original items on a regular basis and keep copies for their records. Using this method, you or your family members will not be faced with the daunting task of sorting through a large amount of information years later. You don't have to organize the items just put them in a box and take them to the organization. Some organizations may even send staff to your house to retrieve the items if you have a large amount of information.
L. R. "Jack" Davis, the funeral director of Davis Funeral Home (which later became Storke Funeral Home) in Bowling Green, VA, was responsible for moving graves after the government purchased land in Caroline County, to establish the AP Hill military reservation. Mr. Davis kept very detailed records in a 250+ page document which provides information of the location of graves before and after the move.
Many years later, his daughter made copies of the document and distributed it to libraries and the Caroline County historical society. This document is an excellent resource for anyone performing genealogy research in Caroline County. Because of the generosity of Mr. Davis' daughter, numerous family historians and genealogist have been able to obtain valuable information about their ancestors.
- Write articles for newsletters. As I research my family history I also collect information about the communities in which they lived and the organizations in which they were members. I have written several articles for the Caroline Historical Society newsletter in order to share this information.
- Create a website or blog. I acquired several documents from the Fort A.P. Hill Environmental Office that continued valuable information about the people who lived in the community prior to the establishment of the military reservation. I uploaded the documents to my website to make them more accessible. I have been contacted by people all over the world who were very grateful for this information being on the internet since it was not feasible for them to travel to Caroline County to perform research. Some information may be copyrighted so be sure to get permission from the owner before you post any information and documents on the internet.
- Give speeches and make presentations. I have made several presentations on the subject of researching, documenting and preserving local history. I share my experience from the Union High History Project and give tools and tips for preserving local history.
- Share research strategies and information with staff at libraries and historical archives. Performing genealogy research for African Americans can be a frustrating experience, especially when researching our ancestors who were enslaved. Because slaves were considered property, the traditional methods for performing genealogy research can not be followed.
I frequently perform research at the Central Rappahannock Heritage Center in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The staff is very friendly and helpful. On one occasion I struck up a conversation with several staff members who inquired about my research. I told them I was searching through documents about my ancestor's deceased slave owner (Elijah Wigglesworth) to learn more about my ancestors. I explained how I had to research my ancestor's slave owner family in addition to my own
family in order locate my ancestors. I showed them how my ancestors were listed in the Inventory and Appraisement of the slave owner's estate, and how the document showing the distribution of his estate showed my great great grandparents family being separated when the slave owner's estate was divide among his wife and children. I then explained how I had to search for slaves in wills, inventories, and other court documents for each of the new slave owners to trace my ancestors' movement during the slavery.
I pointed out that since the names of the slaves were not provided on the summary for documents in the collection I had to spend hours reading through documents in hopes of finding information on my ancestors. They agreed this was not an easy task since many times the documents were handwritten with poor or fancy penmanship, faded and very difficult to read.
Once the CRHC understood the research strategy they began including the slave names on the summary for documents in the collection that is published on the CRHC website. I find most staff at libraries and archives are very helpful and open to suggestions. I recommend that you share your research strategies and ideas whenever you have a suggestion for improvement.
- Participate in activities to preserve the history of the communities you are researching. In 2007, the Fort A.P. Hill Environmental Division initiated the AP Hill Oral History Project to preserve the history of the communities that existed before military reservation was established. I was one of several individuals hired to interview people who had lived in the community. The end result of the project was a book titled Wealthy At Heart: Oral History of Life Before AP Hill.
Although I live over 100 miles from Caroline County, I was still able to contribute to the project by interviewing former residents who lived near me. All interviewers were required to take an oral history training class. Therefore, not only did I help preserve the history of the community where my ancestors lived, I also learned techniques for performing oral history research that I still use today.
- Support genealogy and historical societies. Most genealogy and historical societies rely heavily on volunteers and donations. I urge you to volunteer at the genealogy and historical societies where you perform research, become a member and make financial donations.
Preserving local history is not just the responsibility of professional historians. It must start with the ordinary people who live, work and have an interest in the community. I urge you to follow the above steps to help preserve the history of the communities where you and your ancestors lived.
Genealogy Tips in Memory of My Mother – 2011
My mother is the person who piqued my interest family and local history. As a child I loved looking through her photo albums and memorabilia. I can remember looking at her 4th grade report card where the teacher wrote "Needs watching" and thinking "Oh, Mama was bad in school!!!" As a child, I got a kick out of knowing that my mother sometimes got in trouble too.
One of my favorite pictures was of Howard University's 19th Annual May Festival from May of 1946. My mother was an attendant in the queen's court and to me she and the other ladies looked like princesses.
My mother would also share her memories of growing up in Washington, DC. As we traveled around the city she would point out landmarks (or where landmarks used to be) and share tidbits of information.
When my mother passed away I wrote an article containing genealogy tips in her memory in my Woodfork Genealogy newsletter. Today is the 3rd anniversary of her death and so I am posting the newsletter to my blog in her memory.
Genealogy Tips in Memory of My Mother
My mother, Dorothy L. Woodfork, passed away on Sunday, November 16th. She had been in a nursing home for four years and had numerous health problems. I watched as her health continued to deteriorate with each passing day. Her passing was not a sad occasion for me because she is finally free and at peace.
With her passing, the number of elders on the maternal side of my family tree has been reduced. My mother was 82 and one of the oldest in her family. Fortunately, she had done an excellent job of preserving her family history. In honor of my mother's memory, this Woodfork Genealogy Newsletter shares some of the steps she took to preserve our family history.
Document What You Know
My mother had written down all of the family members she could remember in a notebook. After my grandmother's funeral, the family members had gathered at her house for the repast. My mother passed around the notebook and asked everyone to document their family. This notebook has been a great asset to my genealogy research and I treasure it today.
In 1997, at the age of 71, my mother wrote her memoir. She wrote it out in long-hand on notebook paper. In it she described her life growing up in Washington, DC from the 1920′s forward. She gave it to my daughter to type. Everyone got busy with life and the document was put on the back burner. In 2004, I started cleaning out her house after she was moved to the nursing home. I remembered the document and resumed work on it again. By this time, my mother's memory had started to fade because she had dementia, so completing the document was a race against time.
My mother and I worked on the document together through the fall and winter. I had a hard time reading some of her handwriting (she had Parkinson's disease which made her handwriting small and shaky) and she had a hard time remembering what she had written. But between the two of us, we were able to figure out much of what she had written. I supplemented the information with pictures and other memorabilia she had saved. The result was a document that not only gave great insight into my mother's life, but also the history of Washington, DC. I made copies of the document and gave one to each of her children and grandchildren as a Christmas present from her in 2004. This would be her last Christmas present to them. On Christmas Day, I brought her from the nursing home to my house for Christmas dinner. She looked on anxiously as my daughters unwrapped their gift and whispered to me, "Do you think they like it?" I assured her they did. My mother's memoir is truly a family treasure that can be passed on to future generations.
Preserve Family Memorabilia
My mother saved EVERYTHING. She believed that everything could be used again "one day". When I was cleaning out her out house I found all sorts of stuff. There was a four foot tube full of plastic grocery bags. As I pulled the bags from the tube, I kept thinking that there must be something else in this tube, but it was not. There was a huge box of cardboard boxes of every shape and size you could imagine. There was also a huge container of twine and string. You name it and she probably had saved it.
In addition to all these items, my mother had preserved many family treasures: her report cards from elementary and high school, as well as her college transcript; wedding and funeral programs from every event she had every attended; obituaries that she and my grandmother had saved; birth, marriage and death certificates; every personnel action paper she had been given when she worked for the government. She had photo albums for many, many years, including photo albums that belonged to her father. There were newspaper clippings and notes that she had written that gave insight into her thoughts. The list goes on and on. She had carefully labeled all of the documents and neatly organized them in boxes. My mother's house was a genealogy gold mine.
I am glad I started cleaning out her house before she passed. The process took me over a year. Since there was no rush, I was able to carefully go through all her belongings (and there were a lot of them) and preserve the necessary items. A lot of family history is lost when people who are not sensitive to the importance of preserving the family history clean out an elderly person's home. Many genealogy gems are thrown away as "junk" because the person is not mindful of the significance of the documents.
In conclusion, I suggest that you talk to your family members and urge them to preserve their memories. This can be done in many ways, they can write a memoir; you can interview them and preserve the information on audio or video tape. Also, go through their possessions with them and help them organize and preserve family memorabilia. Label all photos and determine the significance of artifacts they have saved. I urge you to take these steps today.
Take Care,
Marion Woodfork Simmons
Woodfork Genealogy LLC


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Fresh rambutan anywhere?
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- Doug Dec 27, 2005 02:12 PM
Has anyone seen fresh rambutans for sale this week anywhere in the east bay or SF? In particular are they available at the 99 ranch market in Albany or anywhere else? And if so how much $$?
Please be as specific as possible. I want to get them for my wife for her birthday. It is one of her favorite foods and she is otherwise very hard to buy presents for. A friend of mine who was in Hawaii said he could not bring them back due to quarantine.
Thanks very much.
I think there would be thousands of Bay Area people who are from southeast Asia who would love to enjoy fresh rambutan (among other many tropical fruits) which are simply not available in California due to agricultural protection laws.
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Thanks, I have tried calling all of these places but none of them seem to have fresh rambutan right now. My friend who was in Hawaii was visiting his dad, who has a rambutan orchard and he assured me they were in season. They just can't ship them here. Doh! If anyone hears anything please post!
I have seen them in the summer @ Dai Thanh Supermarket 420 S 2nd St, San Jose, CA 95113 (408) 287-3744. Though I'm not sure that rambutans are in season.
Doug - if your wife is from South-east Asia, she is probably won't be too happy with the variety of rambutans that are imported into the US (mostly from Honduras I think). They are just not the same. Of course it is a matter of personal taste. Rambutans come in all sorts of taste, texture & colors in Malaysia and surrounding countries. I prefer the Thai variety, really sweet, firm, cling-free, slightly oval in shape, bright red in color and with long hairs. Unfortunately, we don't know the names of all the varieties. Typically, we would just taste before buying. I know rambutans are grown in Florida but have no idea what variety, ditto for Hawaii. Rambutan season in SEA starts around May and goes for about 3-4 months. You can get them off season but they are not as good in my opinion.
Has anyone seen rambutans yet anywhere in SF Bay Area? I saw posting in Florida board they have one from Honduras, just wonder if they made it here. Thanks.
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I just saw them at Trader Joe's too; they are tiny, much smaller than regular rambutan. I didn't try them for taste.
I saw them at Trader Joe's in SF SOMA last week, but didn't note the price, nor did I try them for taste.
Fresh Rambutan at the Alemany Farmer's Market this morning. Don't quite remember the price - I think it might have been as much as $10 a pound.
The Oregon St. Berkeley Bowl had fresh rambutan today for I think it was $7 a pound. The sign said non-irradiated from Guatemala.
Saw some at Berkeley Bowl West last week. They looked a little old though--the skin was a bit tough to crack open.
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On Sunday I was at the 99 Ranch Market Mall in Richmond for Dim Sum at Asia Pearl. Afterwards we stopped by the 99 Ranch Market and they do have fresh rambutans. I did not notice the price.
I just saw some really nice looking fresh rambutan at Berkeley Bowl West.
Berkeley Bowl West
920 Heinz Ave, Berkeley, CA
Bought fresh rambutan from Marina Foods in Milpitas for $2/lb. The posted flyer said the special price was $2.49/lb. But there were prepacked trays with $1.99 stickers on them that weighed a little over a pound.
These are from Mexico. No info in the store on whether they're irradiated or not. But since non-irradiated rambutan can be imported from Mexico, I hope for the best.
The fruits are quite fresh and in good shape. Some variability in juiciness with some lacking enough moisture. But overall, quite good with nice balance of tart/sweet flavors. I'd buy these again.


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In particular, my husband and I have been amazed by the offerings at locations run by The Four Seasons and The Ritz Carlton, and I know similar programs are offered at various Marriott and Wyndham resorts and hotels. You can find out lots about them online or by calling ahead.
A personal note: When we were at the Four Seasons in Palm Beach this past Christmas, our children wanted to spend so much time at the kids' program, we began wondering where our "family time" was going! But really, with the kids happy and entertained, my husband and I were actually able to sit back and enjoy the vacation. After all, that's what it's all about!
Schedule travel around your kids' natural schedule
Some people think that traveling at night is best in hopes that their kids will sleep through the trip. I find that logic works for car rides but not for air travel. In fact, kids always seem to be crankier at night, especially because their bedtime routines have been disrupted. I prefer to travel first thing in the morning, when my kids are perky and ready to start the day.
Pack for "getting there"
I find the actual travel to be the most challenging component of a vacation '- and have made sure to pack for it specifically. On every trip I take with my kids, I bring along my "bag of tricks." In it, I include favorite snacks, drinks, coloring and activity books, storybooks and small toys. The variety and the quantity of the items in the bag are crucial; having a good combination helps to keep the kids distracted for the length of the trip. No matter how much they love a given book or game, one activity alone is not going to get them through a multi-hour plane trip.


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Denison University has announced that Lawrence W. Sherman, a member of the Denison class of 1970 and the Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, will present the keynote address at the college's 173rd commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 17.
Sherman is director of the Institute of Criminology, the Police Executive Programme, and the Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology at Cambridge. In 2013, the United Kingdom Home Secretary appointed him an independent director of the new College of Policing, whose mission includes developing evidence of "what works" in policing.
Sherman was elected honorary president of the Society of Evidence-Based Policing at its founding in 2010 and holds honors from the American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Society of Criminology, American Sociological Association, Academy of Experimental Criminology, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Campbell Collaboration, the German Society of Criminology, and universities in three countries. His 1998 proposal for evidence-based policing launched a global professional movement, for which he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts.
Sherman worked with the New York City Police Department in 1971 and 1972, and since that time he has conducted more than 35 randomized controlled trials in policing, prosecution, prison and probation services in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Sherman has received the Alumni Citation from Denison, the college's highest honor bestowed upon a graduate or friend of the college. While a student, Sherman was a member of the varsity men's soccer team, the concert choir and the Denison Campus Government Association.
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Now that's what I'm talking about! Cheap being the operative word I've found it's the little (free) things that make people happy. For example, if you clean your room, your parents go wild! Now, I know I hate cleaning my house. But I've found if I clean even just one spot, say take all my junk off the kitchen table, so you can actually eat on it, my husband is so excited! Hardly any work for me, but I've got a happy husband! So, you could always clean say, part of your bedroom and your parents would be so excited, they probably wouldn't bug you about the rest of the mess for awhile Quick tip: when that spot gets messy again, clean a different spot. If you keep cleaning up the same mess, your parents will catch on. Besides, let them think you care about cleaning your room. It makes them so happy
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DETROIT (AP) - A federal prosecutor says a Nigerian charged with trying to blow up an international flight was on a terrorist mission to kill nearly 300 people and earn a place in heaven as a martyr.
Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (OO'-mahr fah-ROOK' ahb-DOOL'-moo-TAH'-lahb). The 24-year-old Nigerian is accused of wearing a bomb in his underwear aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas 2009.
The trial opened after a delay of more than 70 minutes while Abdulmutallab consulted with his attorney. There was no explanation in court.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel began his opening statements by telling the jury that virtually everyone on the plane had holiday plans but Abdulmutallab wanted to kill them all.
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Auburn board makes quick work of budget questions
One school board member quipped that the 17 minutes it took to conduct the meeting might be "a record."
The first article up for debate was the collective bargaining agreement reached between the Auburn School Board and the Auburn Education Association. The agreement provides three salary and benefit increases over the next three years: $82,270 increase for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, $111,433 increase for 2014-2015, and an $85,245 increase for 2015-2016.
Resident Gilbert Oriol inquired on the reason for the spike in the second year of the agreement.
He was answered by board member Alan Villeneuve, who said that while the second- and third-year raises were both 1.75 percent, there are changes in the health insurance burden which account for the discrepancy.
"In the third year, the health insurance percentages change," said Villeneuve. "The teachers pay an additional 2.5 percent health benefit, so that's why the number goes down.
The district's proposed operating budget followed. The budget comes in at $11,609,192, with the default budget falling at $11,437,610. Kathleen Porter, the board's representative on the Auburn Budget Committee, opened the discussion by thanking the Budget Committee.
"It's a lot of work," she said. "We actually do have a very good working relationship. We actually have fun, and I enjoyed it a lot. It's another successful year, and we bring forward our budget."
Resident and Planning Board Chairman Stoney Worster questioned school officials on several details of the budget.
One was an increase in student transportation cost: For the current school year, $558,730 was raised and appropriated. The transportation line in the proposed budget 2013-2014 school budget calls for $683,405. Kathleen Porter answered that the increase was due to the district's high school students currently being split between Memorial High School in Manchester and Pinkerton Academy in Derry. Two buses are being added to the district's transportation schedule.
The only change made to the warrant was a minor grammatical correction.
The final warrant article, which would take $25,000 from an undesignated fund surplus and place it into the School Construction Expendable Trust Fund, received no discussion. The fund finances construction, renovation, and expansion projects on school buildings and grounds.
The session's relative quiet may in part have been due to sparse attendance. Not counting school officials, only 14 people were present.
Porter used the opportunity to recognize several school officials who were present. Becky McCarthy, district clerk, District Moderator James Andrus, and School Board member Nancy Pelton were presented granite sculptures carved in the shape of the state.
The Auburn School District ballot will be presented alongside the town ballot at the Auburn Town Election March 12 at Auburn Village School, 11 Eaton Road. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.
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France / Germany / Spain / Thailand, 2010 (MIFF 2010, Neighbourhood Watch)
"More than my other films, Uncle Boonmee is very much about cinema, that's also why it's personal. If you care to look, each reel of the film has a different style - acting style, lighting style, or cinematic references - but most of them reflect movies. I think that when you make a film about recollection and death, you have to consider that cinema is also dying - at least this kind of old cinema that nobody makes anymore." - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave - the birthplace of his first life… From the director of Syndromes and a Century, Tropical Malady and Blissfully Yours.
Winner of the 2010 Cannes Palme d'Or.
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