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Calling all cooks and herbalists! Get thee to Cunningham's 21st Taster's Choice and Herbal Faire on April 5 and 6, 2014, between 10:00 am to 3:30 pm, at 2440 Lofberg Drive, Jacksonville, Florida.
DIRECTIONS: To get to Cunningham's Herbal Faire, find your way to PARENTAL HOME ROAD (PHR). From Beach Boulevard, go down PHR to Emily. Turn left. Continue on Emily down a dip in the road. Come up the dip and bear right. You are still on Emily but when you hit the curve to the left, you are on Lofberg Drive. Look for 2440 Lofberg Drive on the right.
From the Bowden Road/University side of PARENTAL HOME ROAD (PHR), take a right on Bowden and continue on Bowden to PHR. Take a left at the light (can't go right) and continue down PHR to Emily on the RIGHT. Yes, it's very confusing as you will first see Emily on the left. Continue on Emily down the dip in the road. Come up the dip and bear right. You are still on Emily but when you hit the curve to the left, you are on Lofberg Drive. Look for 2440 Lofberg Drive on the right.
The event is a weekend of all things herbal, including lunch from appetizers to desserts, vendors with soap, seasonings, dips, bees and honey, pressed floral designs, herbal cards, yard art, hypertufa pots, antique roses, berry bushes, olive trees, scented geraniums, unusual herbs, coleus, succulents and much more. Come take a walk through the herb gardens, enjoy lunch and wander through the swamp to Pottsburg Creek. For additional information, call 904.725.3106 or email "locun at att.net" or visit Cunningham's Herbs on Facebook.
Admission is free and open to the public. For insurance purposes, she asks that you please leave your animals home.
If for some reason, you can't make it to the April 5-6 Festival, there's another one, just in time for Mother's Day, on May 10-11, but that is probably the last one until the end of the year.

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> I ordered a new IBM T42 Thinkpad today for myself, which I am planning to
> load Linux on. Is there any particular version of Linux that works best
> with the T Series IBM Thinkpad? I was thinking of loading SUSE 9.2.
I've got Ubuntu on my T20 now, works great. Prior to that, i had
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Ways to have a simpler, more meaningful family Christmas
Christmas: Making Your Holiday Simple & Meaningful
The TDS Library
With a little creativity, you can have a warmer, closer gathering with family and friends without the credit card hangover that comes from holiday overspending. Here are some methods you can choose to use to save your holidays.Prevent a One Day Event and Lengthen the Holiday Season
Major holidays are important events. Let's give the family and the faith more attention and spend less time and attention on shopping. At one point, sales were held after the holidays. Now, with Black Friday's popularity, it is difficult to ignore the circus. Can family events diminish the need to spend holiday hours dashing through department stores?My Story: Recycled Christmas
Frugal and green living have always been important to me. An area that used to concern me for both reasons was gift giving at Christmas. The obsession of finding the right gifts and then watching the huge pile of wrapping paper grow made me crazy. So, a few years back, I decided to offer a new idea to my grown children. Everyone agreed to holding our first "Recycled Christmas."Best Christmas Ever
Best Christmas ever! Those are the words I always dreamed of hearing from my kids, but somehow "Bah Humbug" always came out of my own mouth before Christmas morning ever hit. But finally, last year, that magical moment came when the kids said it, and I had never uttered one bah humbug all month.
How to Unwrap Christmas Gifts
It is time to teach children to appreciate all that they receive: ribbons, papers, boxes and gifts. This year, when you gather around the tree to receive your gifts, pretend it is 1950 and use the "unwrapping values" from those "old" days.Instead of Gifts
Is your family considering some new traditions as an alternative to gift giving? Do you want to have special family time that will be meaningful to all? Maybe you have all that you need and even what you want. It's time to move beyond the hype and make the season more meaninful. Our readers share how to do just that.Shoeboxes for Christmas
At the age of four, we felt it was time for our daughter to begin learning about Christmas giving rather than just receiving. I explained what we were going to do and then took her to the local dollar store to select items for our shoebox. I was a little worried she would get the "gimmes." On the contrary, she had great fun picking out things for the shoebox. We enjoyed the experience so much that we have participated every year since then. As we collected items for our shoebox last year, a thought occurred to me. The concept of giving shoeboxes for Christmas has other practical applications. Here are a few applications.Create a More Meaningful, Less Expensive Christmas
Put your time and energy into creating a Christmas that focuses on people rather than on gifts. You can create a joyous, magical holiday for your family. In doing so, you will leave a legacy of wonderful memories that will linger after the holidays end. Here are some inexpensive ideas to help you create "more Christmas with less money."Second Chance Christmas
Does Christmas feel like it belongs to the mall and the advertisers more than anything else? Are you frustrated at how such a holy season has become about consumption of goods rather than celebration of spirit? Then maybe it's time to try an experiment. Why not find a different approach and actually enjoy this beautiful season completely and for all the right reasons?Counting Your Blessing
When you think about counting your blessings, what comes to mind? Your car, your home, your belongings? All those are definitely blessings, and we should be thankful for them. But what about the blessings that money can't buy?
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- Simple Family Holiday Ideas
- Simplify Your Holidays
- Making Spirits Light...
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- Christmas with More Meaning and Less Money
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The Casual Champion - Page 3
Hard-Edged Obsession
Meltzer attempted his first trail ultramarathon in 1996. That year, he registered for the Wasatch Front 100, a beastly race for even seasoned trail runners, with its 26,882 feet of climbing, oven-like heat and shivering, nocturnal cold. The rookie Meltzer accomplished his goal of cracking 30 hours. "I finished in 28:27," he says.
After that first ultra, Meltzer became obsessed with training. "The next year's race couldn't come soon enough," he said. "I was in it to win, but my IT band locked up at 82 miles and I walked it in. I did 23:35." That placed him seventh. Finally, in 1998 Meltzer ripped one. He lopped another three hours from his finishing time, snagging his first-ever ultra win with a course record 20:08.
Meltzer explains in his very popular blog, www.karlmeltzer.com ("1200 new hits per week," he says): "Ultrarunning became my life." Since then, he says, "Most of my days since then have been focused on, `I need to get my run in first, then I can do everything else.'"
Focused Lifestyle
Meltzer's day may always begin with a run, but that's not to say he's a slave to a training schedule. While other elite trail runners follow clearly defined plans, Meltzer eschews such regimens like a brewmaster recoils at skunky beer.
"I like quality over quantity," he says, "and I run what I feel like running that day. I try and run just below the level of being tired."
Torrence sums up Meltzer's approach: "To hell with the adage of peaking and tapering. Just run. That's how Karl thinks and works."
Meltzer admits he doesn't cover the same mileage as most—if not all—of the sport's other elites. "Those guys are doing 100 or more miles per week," he says. "Tony (Krupicka) does around 200. Is that good? I don't know. Not for me."
Meltzer's base miles are a modest 75 to 80 miles per week. "I'll run hard two or three times a week and try to get in as much vertical feet as possible."
How about the track? "I hate the track."
One of Meltzer's staple runs is a mountainous loop that links Alta and Brighton ski areas in the Wasatch Mountains. "It's a 14-mile loop, above 8500 the whole time," he says, "and it goes up to 10,500. It's 3400 total feet of climbing." Meltzer typically covers the circuit in 2:10.
"I think Karl has perfected his training, and he knows his body better now," says Hal Koerner, another friend and winner of several 100-mile ultras himself. "You need to have a laid-back approach to something that is so inherently long, if you want to remain in it long term."
French Fried
Meltzer brought his laid-back demeanor to France for the 2007 Ultra Tour du Mont Blanc. The 163-kilometer circumnavigation of the Mont Blanc massif is Europe's answer to the Hardrock 100, and Meltzer made the trip with some concern. "It was my sixth 100 of the year, and I didn't know how my body would handle it," he says.
Stateside, many Americans expected Meltzer or one of the other talented American entrants—Scott Jurek or Koerner—to win handily. Some expected a new course record.
Long after Jurek and Koerner dropped from the race, Meltzer climbed into second place by mile 60 and soon closed the gap on frontrunner Nicholas Mermoud of France. Many Americans, up late and closely following the online updates at home, predicted a Meltzer surge at the end, just as they'd seen at other major 100s.
In the end, Meltzer faded. He took a DNF at mile 85 and Marco Olmo, a 59-year-old Italian, won the continent's marquee race ahead of Jan Lukas from Germany, and Mermoud. "I think I dropped mostly because of mental frustration. Watching the other guys cut corners and not play by the rules psyched me out," says Meltzer. "My quads were also so freakin' sore at 75 miles that running downhill was out of the question."
Meltzer, along with other U.S. runners, had realized that European races allow athletes to seek out the shortest route, even if it means cutting switchbacks.
The blogosphere lit up with accusations of "ugly Americans". Wrote one person online: "The arrogance of the American guys did not go down well here. Their behavior on the start line was not worthy of top athletes, and they need to take a more humble approach to this race."
Meltzer tipped his cap to the winners of the race. "Europeans dominate the Tour Du Mont Blanc," he wrote. But the hard feelings had already percolated—and Meltzer was tagged with some unflattering labels.
The race's hype may have sapped the normally reserved Meltzer. Nikki Kimball, who won the UTMB women's race, points out, "Karl's not an extrovert—he usually runs alone out there in the front."
"I haven't run as well when the pressure's on," says Meltzer. "The hype gets to me —and that bums me out."
Hype, Envy and Sour Grapes
A razor-thin margin exists between confidence and arrogance, and between bluntness and outspokenness. Some feel Meltzer crosses the line on occasion.
Also in 2007, Endurance Planet, a popular website for triathletes and runners, ran an interview of Meltzer in which his live-for-today, bring-it-on philosophy was especially pronounced. "My wife, she'll will come home and yak about work and, you know, have a little vent session," he said in the interview, "and I'm like `forget about it ... you're home now. '"
Afterward, a visitor to the site wrote: "This guy sounds like a huge jerk ... Meltzer wins races, but he's certainly not a winner in my book."
Roch Horton, 50, of Salt Lake City and seasoned 100-miler, knows Meltzer well.
"There's a lot of people that are maybe envious," he says. "It's a typical position when you're his caliber to have people disagree with your style, approach and communications."
Torrence feels strongly that Meltzer "gets a bad rap from some folks because of his in-your-face comments and opinions."
Meltzer's straightforward way of communicating, seemingly without a filter, is likely what rubs some the wrong way. Throw in a dose of well-deserved self-confidence and it's easy to see why. Regarding races, Meltzer says, "I know that I'm always fast enough to win [any race]," he says. "Part of my success comes from not being too stressed about it." For some, those are harmless words. For others, that's fodder for online bulletin-board squabbling.
Does the chatter and nit picking bother Meltzer? "I adopted a `screw-it' attitude," he says. "I'm just going to run. It's just another run, just another day. What are we running for anyway? We're running for prestige, bragging rights and a belt buckle. I got plenty of buckles."


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MANSFIELD, Ohio – Leading 59-24 at recess, the Pikeville College Bears opened the second half with a 24-8 run to pull away for an easy 115-85 win over The Ohio State University-Mansfield Wednesday night.
The run pushed the Bears in front 86-32, which turned out to be the biggest lead of the game. The remainder of the night saw the lead bounce between 46 and 52 points.
Pikeville improved to 13-2 and ran its winning streak to 10 straight.
Five players reached double digits for the Bears, with senior Jeff Ferguson leading the way with 26. Freshman Justin Hicks followed with 21, sinking five three-point shots, to go with nine assists and three steals.
Junior Ewan Linton followed with his eighth double-double of the season, scoring 14 and pulling down 11 rebounds. Junior Haakim Johnson finished with 13 and sophomore Adam Simmons came off the bench to toss in 10.
Mansfield, 2-15 with only eight players in uniform, got 15 from Kevin Murphy, who was perfect in six free throw attempts. Andrew Rice tossed in 14.
The 24th-ranked Bears, playing their first game since Dec. 15, will have another 10 days off before returning to action on Sat., January 12, when they travel to Berea to play the Mountaineers in a 7:30 contest.


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Our Artisan Partners
At Global Girlfriend we are proud to sell products made by exceptional women artisans from over 20 countries. Telling the stories of our tenacious partners makes our handmade gifts even more meaningful, because buying products made by women in impoverished countries is one of the best methods to reduce poverty and to create prosperity for women, families, and communities.
Central America/Caribbean
El Renacer
ACTA Honduras
El Quinto Sol
Rara Bags
El Sol Maya
Haiti Projects
La ComUnidad
La Casa
North America
Women's Bean Project
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Bright Endeavors
Thistle Farms
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South America
Jenny Krauss Designs
Manos Amigas Peru
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The Leakey Collection { Kenya }
Based in The Rift Valley of Kenya, in East Africa, The Leakey Collection was founded by Katy and Philip Leakey, who live among the Maasai in the Kenyan bush. Katy and Philip wanted to help their neighbors and to provide work opportunities without changing the Maasai culture. They came up with an imaginative idea utilizing the excellent beading abilities of the Maasai women, using native grass, an available sustainable resource, as the primary element. Soon the women were harvesting grass, one blade at a time. The long grass is dried and cut into bead-size pieces and dyed multiple lovely color hues which were then strung into necklaces and bracelets. Today over 1400 hundred Maasai women make Zulugrass while continuing to lead their lives in their traditional lifestyle, and they can use their income to better their lives as they wish. Zulugrass provides much needed and desired opportunity for these wonderful women and their families.
Hillcrest AIDS Center Trust { South Africa }
Incorporating a holistic approach to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust was established in 1991 in the Valley of a Thousand Hills outside Durban, South Africa. Since its inception, they have grown to fund HIV/AIDS counselors, education counselors, a 24-bed respite unit, antiretroviral therapy and monitoring, a feeding program, and food gardens project. Hillcrest also runs an income generation program for women. It allows those in need to use their creativity and earn an income while at the same time regain hope and dignity. One artisan, Joyce age 55, has been beading and making Little Traveller pins for five years. Each little doll takes her less than an hour to make, but it is time well- spent, as each doll is a joy to create. It also means more money in the bank at the end of the month, in a region where money is hard to come by. Beading has changed her life, making her the primary income earner in her home. The Little Travellers have had a huge impact on her family: her husband, two sons, two grandsons, two granddaughters, and her cousin. They are less stressed knowing there will be money at the end of the week to buy food, and it affords Joyce the opportunity to follow her other calling as a traditional healer among the community.
Craft-Link Kenya { Kenya }
In Ukambani, a semiarid region in the Eastern Province of Kenya, women predominantly earn their living by weaving baskets using sisal as a raw material. Sisal is a natural fiber that grows wildly in the region. The rapid-growing leaves are plucked and crushed to produce the sisal fiber, which is then twined using traditional skills. Baskets and other sisal accessories are then handmade by the women using the open weaving method. Craft-Link Kenya is working with over 900 women across the Ukambani region to market their bags globally. They also provide support in the form of training and materials.
Divine Chocolate { Ghana }
Comfort Kumeah, a mother of five and a grandmother, lives in the small town of Mim in the Ashanti region of Ghana and owns Divine Chocolate. She is a member of Kuapa Kokoo cocoa growers' cooperative and was recently elected the national secretary for the Kuapa Kokoo Farmers' Union and the chair of the Farmers Trust which both provides cocoa for Divine Chocolate. "Before fair trade, we growers were cheated. People adjusted the scales. We got little money from the purchasing clerks and no bonuses. The growers' welfare was neglected. I joined Kuapa Kokoo because I saw it was the only cooperative which could solve some of our problems--they trade without cheating, with the welfare of the growers at heart. There are many problems with poverty. During the lean season there is no money. Here growers make their own decisions...and we are proud of our chocolate company Divine which gives us power and a Dividend." Divine is the only fair trade chocolate company which is 45% owned by the farmers. Fair trade ensures farmers receive a better deal for their cocoa and additional income to invest in their community, while company ownership gives farmers a share of Divine's profits and a stronger voice in the cocoa industry. That's good business!
Acacia Creations { Kenya }
Acacia Creations is located in Nairobi, Kenya where they've been making fun, ethical, recycled paper jewelry since October 2007. The organization follows strict fair trade practices - each of their jewelry artisans is paid a monthly salary in addition to receiving a percentage of each sale. At the end of every month the artisans of Acacia Creations receive their regular monthly salary. (It's standard practice in Kenya to pay an entire month's salary in one single payment at the end of the month). Throughout the course of a month, each artisan is also paid a certain amount for every single piece of jewelry they make. In other words, they receive a percentage of the sale of that item before it's even sold. Depending on the item, they earn between 5 and 15% of the item's wholesale price. This ensures that workers are paid throughout the month. In all, artisans earn a wage 5 times higher than the national average in Kenya. Acacia Creations also covers most medical costs for their employees and their families and provides lunch daily at their Nairobi studio.
Gahaya Links { Rwanda }
Gahaya Links was founded to train rural women after the devastating 1994 Rwanda Genocide that left over 1 million people dead. In the 1990s, sisters Joy Ndunguste and Janet Nkubana offered the women a small shop to sell their baskets and earn an income to meet their basic necessities. The sisters later offered to meet the women in their villages and learn how they could use an old Rwanda traditional skill to better their lifestyles. From a humble beginning under a tree in a remote village called Gitarama, the sisters organized about twenty women and taught them how to weave, how to enhance their weaving skills with new design techniques, and how to work together by looking beyond their ethnic differences. Today Gahaya Links is a growing network of over 4,000 weavers across the country organized in 52 savings cooperatives.
Wawoto Kachel { Uganda }
The name, "Wawoto Kacel", means "Walking together" in the local Ugandan language. The women of Wawoto Kacel Cooperative Society walk together on their journey to a better life. The organization was founded in 1997 in Gulu, Uganda by a group of HIV positive women with the help of the Ugandan NGO Comboni Samaritans of Gulu. The Cooperative has grown to 150 working members and has 6 working sections: embroidery, tailoring, tie and dye, weaving, beads and wishing cards. The art and crafts works produced are sold both on the local and international markets.
Tintsaba { Swaziland }
Tintsaba was created in 1985 by Sheila Freemantle with the purpose of improving the lives of rural women in Swaziland. With an academic background in development, Sheila believed that creating an income generating opportunity for the women will help them become happier, healthier individuals - women who could take charge of their lives.The small business that started with 12 women has to date worked with and trained more than 890 women. Their products are known for their beauty as well as the story of the women behind each product. Tintsaba is committed to excellence in every aspect. In the creation of the highest quality hand woven sisal products - in the service, in the teamwork, in the commitment to the earth and the holistic wellbeing of rural women in Swaziland.
One Mango Tree { Uganda }
While Uganda once had a thriving apparel manufacturing industry, over the past several years most of the factories have closed, leaving hundres of skilled seamstresses without work. One Mango Tree, which began in northern Uganda working in former conflict areas in and around Gulu, has expanded to the capital city of Kampala, empoying a small group of talented seamstresses living in the city's slums. The women in the Kampala apparel group are working to build an organic cotton apparel business based on fair trade principles that can sustain them long term. The women in Gulu create beautiful bags and accessories from traditional African wax print patterns and hand loomed fabrics. Many of the Gulu group not only care for their own families, but also for children orphaned during the war.
Global Mamas { Ghana }
Global Mamas is an organization in Ghana which has worked for over a decade helping women of Africa in attaining economic independence. Sales of Global Mamas products provide dignity to African women who are now able to earn an honest living through the production of handmade batik and beaded products. By helping women to help themselves, Global Mamas is taking small steps towards helping end Africa's dependence on foreign aid and creating a sustainable society.
31 Bits { Uganda }
Kallie Dovel traveled to Uganda in the summer of 2007, getting a first- hand look at life in Northern Uganda. While she was there, she met women making paper beads who lacked a plan to market and sell them. After spending time in their homes and hearing their stories, Kallie knew there had to be a way to give opportunities to her new friends. She brought a box of jewelry back to the U.S., and spent the next year finishing her degree and dreaming up the concept of a development organization. She brought a few friends on board and her ideas quickly evolved into 31 Bits. They traveled back to Uganda in August 2008, and selected six women to begin buying jewelry from on a monthly basis. Since then, 31 Bits has grown to 99 women; each with a unique story of suffering that has been overcome with joy and liberation.
Lulu Life { Sudan }
In 2005 Lulu Life established training projects that teach women better techniques of shea butter processing and helped set up shea nut processing and nut collection centers. Lulu Life integrated groups of women working in isolation of each other, using the capacity of the group to give each woman access to otherwise unreachable markets. Today Lulu Life has 40 women-owned and -operated shea butter processing centers. As a non-profit trust, Lulu Life sees that fair trade income reaches a total of 400 women in Southern Sudan, helping them maintain a healthy household with money for food, clothing, education and medical care. Sustainable living, coupled with a wide variety of productive investments, is contributing greatly to the development of the local economy.
Jorova Crafts { Kenya }
Jorova crafts was founded by three women living in the slums of Nairobi, Josephine, Rosemary and Eva hence the name JOROVA. Determined to make a better life for their families, the women cleaned houses to save enough for one shared sewing machine and a small market stall. Jorova has grown to employ several women in the Nairobi slums and has become a primary support for the women and their families. Today Jorova provides employment for several single mothers and widows. Jorova Crafts is made up of groups both in the slums of Nairobi and the peri-urban rural areas surrounding the city.
Shona Congo { Congo }
Life is difficult in Eastern Congo - especially for the disabled. Our fair-trade partner, Shona Congo, employs disabled women and offers them hope for a new life. Most of Shona's seamstresses were victims of childhood polio and lost the use of one or both of their legs, growing up without the ability to walk or stand upright. As teenagers, many underwent surgery and years of physical therapy at the Handicapped Center in nearby Goma to regain the ability to stand. Even so, almost all are forced to wear heavy metal leg braces in order to stand and walk only with the aid of crutches or canes. Though they face nearly overwhelming physical and financial obstacles, each has decided to stake her claim to a better life by working with Shona. As one seamstress puts it: "Each item we sew is our claim to a better world. A world where we are seen not only for the challenges we face but for the beauty we create." Shona is organized and run by the women themselves. The women believe Shona is about finding better ways of life, through prayer, teamwork, education, and reaching out to others. And, of course, through sewing too.
Living Life { South Africa }
Global Girlfriend is proud to partner with the wonderful women of Living Life of South Africa. The 21 women from the Basotho Tribe who work at Living Life come from surrounding villages to make a livable wage by handcrafting unique designs. The organization works to combat both AIDS and poverty - two conditions many of the women have experienced first-hand - through education, job training, support services and a sustainable income. Living Life also has provided funds for these women to purchase land for housing. Living Life's studio and workshop also functions as a small restaurant where the women serve fresh food from their garden.
Gertrude Protus Kita { Tanzania, United Republic of }
From the village of Usa River in north-central Tanzania, Gertrude Protas Kitia uses the ancient art of Masai beadwork in both traditional and contemporary designs and techniques. Gertrude has created these handicrafts as long as she can remember, and teaches them to local women of her rapidly growing village, which is in great need of economic development. With a strong determination to help struggling women survive and a passion for Masai arts, Gertrude eventually formed a women's cooperative with the aim of helping women in her community who needed employment. Gertrude's cooperative not only provides a better living for women through sales of their designs, it has also successfully preserved traditional beading techniques and patterns of the Masai people.
All Pure Nature { Ghana }
All Pure Nature of Ghana encourages the use of natural products among its customers, to provide continuous income for Shea butter farmers in northern Ghana. Women associations produce our Shea Butter using traditional processing methods thus, maintaining all of Shea Butters' natural active ingredients. Their practices include a creative achievement of combining Shea Butter-making techniques and natural herbs from Africa and using traditional African packaging methods with modern techniques.
Craftbeauty { Viet Nam }
Craftbeauty is an all-women artisan organization aimed at helping rural women earn a regular monthly salary to support themselves and their families. Working with a variety of fabrics in their native Vietnam, the artisans of Craftbeauty have managed to create opportunity where before prospects looked dim. Originally rice farmers living in a small cultivated area subject to the whims of weather; their farmland began vanishing to a new threat - development of apartment housing. They have a workshop where women can come together to work, but also have opportunities for women to craft from home. Now the primary source of income in their village, these women earn more than three times what they made farming rice, allowing them to provide a better future for themselves and their families.
Freeset { India }
Freeset is located in Sonagacchi, the largest, most infamous sex district in Kolkata, India. Within a few square miles, more than 10,000 women stand in line selling their bodies to thousands of men who visit daily. Many are trafficked from Bangladesh, Nepal and rural India. For others, poverty has left them without options. The cries of their hungry children drive them to sell their bodies. In India, prostitution is big business and thrives on exploitation and slavery, robbing the poor of dignity and innocence. Freeset is working to set women free from the sex trade through their fair trade business offering employment, safety, and dignity. Their goal is to see the 10,000 sex workers in their neighborhood empowered with the choice of leaving the profession they never chose in the first place.
Sacred Mark { Bangladesh }
Sacred Mark is an independent enterprise established by Mennonite Central Committee Bangladesh to provide alternative employment for women formerly trafficked into the sex trade. The stories of these women are punctuated with abuse, victimization, trauma, and pain - Sacred Mark has helped them escape this life and find hope for the future. Twenty-six women have been trained and are working full time at a job that offers them respect, pride, and legitimacy within society. The women receive job training, counseling, and sustainable employment. Each woman is a true survivor, rising above the suffering of their past lives and entering their new lives with inspiring courage and tenacity. (Because the women are trafficking and prostitution survivors we do not share their faces to secure their identities.)
Conserve India { India }
Anita and Shalabh Ahuja founded Conserve, an NGO that helps reduce trash in Dehli while helping extremely poor women find opportunity. With their life savings, the couple launched an amazing concept that started as a 'green' project but quickly developed into much more. Conserve India creates purses and other products from recycled plastic bags gathered from trash heaps and is a source of hope for low-caste women who are desperate and homeless, giving them the opportunity to grow through education and employment opportunity. Conserve now employs and empowers over 300 low-caste women who were without employment opportunities before the non-profit group was established. Conserve has developed an impressive system of production for their products. Women gather shopping bags from the dumps of New Delhi and bring them back to the shop where the plastic is thoroughly cleaned, dried, and then fused together by a process developed by Shalabh. The fusion process creates a durable fabric that is sewn into an array of accessories ranging from bags to day planners. The women of Conserve have refused to leave their lives to fate. In India's extreme poverty, many are forced to sift through the rubble to find shelter or food to survive. Conserve has created hope among that urban waste; because of Conserve, many of these women now have a greater potential for a better living.
Destiny Reflection { India }
Destiny Foundation, based in Kolkata, India, was founded with the mission to end slavery and sex trafficking through the economic empowerment of women. Aditi, one of the women impacted, is 19 and was born and raised in the Kolkata red light district, where she still lives. As a child, she was enrolled in school but was unable to continue her studies. Life in the red light district is one of fear and pressure--pressure to "join the line" and take over for your mother in prostitution. Luckily, Aditi's mother--who was recently diagnosed with HIV and tuberculosis--is very supportive of Aditi joining the Destiny Foundation, where she receives a stipend as a trainee. Every day, Aditi travels from the red light district to the office and back. The pressure from the red light area has increased, but Aditi is determined to stay off that path. She says, "I have seen that young girls have no other choice but to accept to work in the brothel, every day I have to safeguard myself. I wish to resume studying again and also learn to make beautiful products we are making at Destiny. I want to be independent."
Mata Traders { India }
Mata Traders is a fair trade women's cooperative that is democratically structured, providing benefits to women such as childcare, annual medical check-ups, overtime pay--even retirement plans. Every link in the production chain is completely managed by the women, and many use their involvement in the co-op as a springboard to becoming socially and politically active in their larger community. Mata Traders specializes in fashion with an impact. Mata dresses and skirts are handmade using artistic traditions such as block-printing and embroidery.
KABW { Nepal }
Nepali women have been weaving beads traditionally for centuries. KABW utilizes this traditional skill as an income generating source for women in need in rural Nepal. The group of about 18 women work from a home workshop among small crop fields beneath a view of the Himalayas. KABW creates beautiful and timeless pieces that provide women with a sustainable income. Bimala Rai has worked for KABW for 18 years. "Before I joined KABW I was totally unskilled and I never had my own income," says Bimala. "KABW provided me a platform to learn the skills and to become an income earner so I could support my family."
Afghan Women's Arts Association { Afghanistan }
In Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, the Afghan Women's Arts Association provides income, employment, and training to more than 30 women. Hand-crafting beautiful jewelry from local gemstones, these jewelry artisans can rely on steady wages in order to provide for their families. They receive vocational training and have the opportunity to take courses in health, literacy and women's rights.
Assisi Garments { India }
Assisi Garments is a women's non-profit in India run by an order of Franciscan nuns who employ and care for 120 disadvantaged and handicapped women. Assisi's garments are made from 100% organic cotton, which is farmed locally by a group of 300 organic cotton farmers in Maharashtar India. Each garment is lovingly produced from seed to sewing machine.
Tara Projects { India }
Tara Projects is a fair trade organization based in New Delhi, India. The project seeks to help craftspeople gain awareness, rights and human dignity in order to combat poverty. Tara provides women and men with economic security through regular work at living wages, craft training and marketing services. Founded in the early seventies with the goal of providing avenues of economic growth to economically disadvantaged artisans in Delhi, Tara has become a pillar of the fair trade community in India. Since its inception, Tara Projects has been committed to fighting exploitation, poverty, and illiteracy of artisans who are subjected to the social injustices of unfair trade practices. Besides training artisans in design, production and marketing of handicrafts, Tara also funds and maintains several adult literacy and vocational training centers, and has spearheaded numerous campaigns for ecological, environmental and female educational issues, and against child and bonded labor, illiteracy, and unfair trade practices.
Association of Craft Producers { Nepal }
The Association for Craft Producers (ACP) is a local, not for profit, fair trade organization providing design, marketing, management, and technical services to low-income Nepali craft producers. ACP is a resource to advance and globally distribute women's work in felting, block printing, weaving, and sewing. Association artisans receive fair wages and generous benefits. ACP blends traditional craft with modern design to give women the best chance at reaching a wider market and therefore being able to provide for themselves and their families.
Marketplace India { India }
MarketPlace: Handwork of India is an innovative fair trade, not-for-profit organization which combines the experience of running a business with a variety of support programs designed to effect real, meaningful, and lasting change in the lives of low-income women in India. The organization works with 480 artisans who are organized into 14 independent co-operatives which produce high-quality women's apparel and accessories. Being in charge of their own businesses, the women learn valuable skills and are able to earn a living and support their families. In addition, programs offer educational and enrichment opportunities designed to help the artisans overcome personal, cultural and financial obstacles. Empowered with independence and self-confidence, these women become agents of change.
Kumbeshwar Technical School { Nepal }
Kumbeshwar Technical School (KTS) is a non-profit educational and vocational training institute in Nepal. KTS provides training in knitting and carpet weaving, enabling women in need to make a living wage and care for themselves and their families. KTS also runs a free primary school for disadvantaged children and a youth hostel that provides full time care for up to 20 orphans.
Godavari Delta Women's Lace Cooperative { India }
Godavari Delta Women's Lace Cooperative of India provides a market vehicle for the lace making skills that the women of the Godavari River Basin have been perfecting for over 100 years. The cooperative provides work for over 650 women living in villages throughout the Godavari Delta. Having a sustainable income helps the women combat the poverty, caste system discrimination, and the economic impact of natural disasters that are all too common in the Godavari River Basin area. Additionally the cooperative helps to provide free medical care for the women and their children.
Blue Mango Trust { India }
Blue Mango Trust in southern India is run on the ten fair trade principles set out by the World Fair Trade Organization. Blue Mango's objective is to run a sustainable business by and for marginalized women who are disabled, deserted, widowed or living with AIDS. They offer a supportive infrastructure which enables women to gain financial stability and self-reliance. Because of their jobs at Blue Mango, women who are stigmatized find greater respect and support from their larger communities. All of Blue Mango's profits are reinvested in the program, improving the business and more importantly enhancing the quality of life for the women.
Community Friendly Movement { India }
Community Friendly Movement's mission is to create prosperity for artisan communities in New Delhi, India and surrounding villages through fair wages, a safe work environment, and the preservation of valuable traditional skills. By supporting local crafters, CFM helps artisans avoid migration for work, so they can remain in their villages to sustain the future of their families.
Bhaktapur Paper Craft { Nepal }
Bhaktapur Craft Paper was established in 1981 as a Community Developmet Project of UNICEF for the improvement of quality of life of low-income urban and rural families. Handmade lokta paper is a long held traditional craft of Nepal, and Bhaktapur Craft Paper's mission is to reduce poverty by employing women in the rural and urban areas through expansion of paper making. All of the paper artisans are also shareholders in the company and receive not only fair wages but company profit sharing. BCP additionally aims to protect Nepal's fragile ecology by using sustainable harvesting of the lokta bush, the raw material used to make their handmade paper. In total close to 400 people are touched by BCP as artisans, sourcing raw materials, or as family members who are afforded education, clean drinking water, and health care through BCP.
Sana Hastakala { Nepal }
Sana Hastakala in Nepalese translates as "small producer." This premier fair trade organization in Nepal provides women a good living wage, skills training, health care and added emergency financial support when needed. The organization works with several small women's cooperatives in order to create a market for their products. They also have an in-house production unit above their shop in Kathmandu where about 19 women do sewing, finishing, and packing of handicrafts from around the country.
Peace Handicrafts { Cambodia }
In Cambodia, a group of disadvantaged women, as well as a small group of both men and women victims of landmine injuries and polio, produce innovative recycled products from materials including recycled rice bags, magazines, and mosquito netting. This employment has helped create self-supporting, confident artisans who see themselves as individuals with abilities that contribute to their families and to the development of Cambodia.
Motif { Bangladesh }
For women who have been marginalized by society, Motif is a safe place they can call home while earning a living to provide for their families. Most of the women employed have experienced some form of discrimination or other scarring incident that has given them a social stigma, making it hard to find decent employment. Some of the women are former prostitutes, others have been affected by leprosy or other diseases, others still have been divorced or abandoned. At Motif the women find a safe place where they can earn a living, as well as share with the other women in a family-type atmosphere.
Arum Dalu { Indonesia }
Arumdalu is a fair trade organization based in Bali that has been supporting low-income artisans in Indonesia for over 25 years. Their goal is to help women develop a market for their beautiful handicrafts, in order to help them create sustainable incomes and keep traditional crafts and skills alive. Arumdalu also provides training and education, raises awareness of environmental issues and advocates for fair trade practices throughout the region.
Prokritee { Bangladesh }
Prokritee ("nature" in Bangla) is an organization dedicated to empowering disadvantaged women with little or no economic opportunity. Most of the women employed by Prokritee are the heads of their households due to being widowed, divorced, or separated, with little in the way of income or other assets. Prokritee provides artisan organizations with management, product design and development, and marketing assistance. By providing jobs and skills, they're able to improve their artisans' standard of living and help them send their children to school. The women are paid a fair wage, offered training in quality awareness, health, financial planning, and gender equality, and are provided with a medical allowance, maternity leave, bonuses and loan opportunities.
Pushpanjali { India }
Pushpanjali is a Fair Trade Organization based in Agra, India Since its establishment in 1982, They have provided marketing & financial support to small and marginalized producers to improve their living and working conditions. They support educational and medical programs in rural villages allowing girls to attend school that otherwise could not afford to.
Ethereal Crafts { India }
Etherial Crafts is based in New Delhi, Inida but many of the indigenous women artisas are from remote villagest in the North. Most of the women work from their homes or at local workshops and are skilled in following a blend of traditional techniques while trying to add a modern touch to their exquisitely designed scarves. Ethereal Crafts is committed to ethical practices and creating a sustainable platform for women in need.
Toucan Krafte { India }
Toucan Krafte is an artisan group of economically disadvantaged women from villages just outside of New Delhi, India. Besides providing the women with much-needed steady income, Toucan also provides schooling for their children, health care, and ongoing education and support. Many women are the sole income provider for their family, while others use the fair wage they receive to ensure their children can attend school and have the required books and supplies. Toucan focuses on educating women in order to break the cycle of poverty and dependence, and channels their profits into a trust that provides scholarships for girls' higher education.
Teddy Exports { India }
Founded in 1990 with 5 people in a hut, Teddy Exports has become a prime example of how a fair trade organization can truly benefit an entire community. It has grown to employ over 500 artisans (mostly women) in Tirumangalam, India. All employees receive a salary well above the local norm, and benefits including medical care, paid maternity leave, education for their children, subsidized meals, and a pension plan. Teddy's campus includes sewing workshops, a wood carving area, a cafeteria, child care center, and farm.Members of the World Fair Trade Organization, Teddy's profits benefit the Teddy Trust which provides health care clinics and education projects within their local community.
Sathwara Family { India }
Wanting to help at risk women in their community while pursuing their heritage working with traditional textiles, the Sathwara Family began making bags and accessories from recycled sari pieces in the late 1990s. Located in the northern New Delhi area, this family-run artisan group provides training and employment for women who would otherwise have trouble being hired. The women earn a fair wage, and work in a safe, caring environment. The gorgeous bags and accessories that they make are handcrafted from recycled and discarded saris the traditional dress of many women in India. They diligently tailor and transform these repurposed textiles into high-quality accessories, embellished with an arrangement of gorgeous sari pieces.
Au Lac { Viet Nam }
Wakami { Guatemala }
Wakami is a fair trade enterprise that collaborates with five rural artisan groups throughout Guatemala. Most of the women artisans live in very small villages where there are no jobs. Before Wakami they were forced to leave their children behind to take work in larger cities. For them, the income generated by Wakami is a dream come true, an opportunity to keep their families together and to send their children to school for the first time. A strong focus on community development, social entrepreneurship, and fair wages has vastly improved the lives of its eighty women artisans and their families.
El Renacer { El Salvador }
El Renacer Chalateco (the re-birth of Chalatenango) is a cooperative of women artisans from the surrounding areas of Chalatenango, El Salvador. Their communities were totally destroyed during the civil war that took place from 1978 to 1992 and the women and their families have had to rebuild. The cooperative is located right in the heart of Chalatenango and their main goal is to continue to provide sustainable work for all 50 members of the group. Through their crafts, the women have helped provide health care, education and basic food for their families.
ACTA Honduras { Honduras }
Located in the heart of Central America, Honduras has a very rich artisan tradition. Most of the indigenous and rural artisans are women, keepers of the pre-Columbian and colonial techniques, shapes and secrets. In the hands of Lenca, Miskito, Tawahka, Garifuna, Pech, Tolupan, Maya, Chort and Mestizo women, these traditions are experiencing a renaissance, thanks to the support and design work of ACTA DE HONDURAS. Their artisans produce beautiful pottery and recycled aluminum that they fashion into jewelry, ornaments, gifts and home decor. Lencan Pottery is one of the most known and impressive artisanry of Honduras. The Lenca women produce black pottery, 'spotted' pots recalling the spots of the moon, and artistic objects hand decorated using pre-Columbian techniques.
El Quinto Sol { Guatemala }
In Solola, Guatemala you can find a true representation of the Mayan traditions in the ceramic jewelry made by El Quinto Sol. They are known for their bracelets woven by women who learned this technique from their Mayan ancestors who made jewelry from ceramic or wooden beads and have passed it on from one generation to the next. Even when making new designs the women always use their Mayan heritage as inspiration. The group consists of twenty women that are the head of household and support their families.
Rara Bags { Haiti }
Traditional Haitian Rara bands play in the streets during the annual Haitian Carnival, using instruments created from coffee cans and other discarded items. In this same spirit, the tenacious women of Recycled Rara Bags construct their creations from 100% repurposed waste materials. Each bag is handmade from sliced chip and cookie wrappers woven under a plastic mesh typically used to bundle fruit. The designs are the brainchild of K. Lynn McCarthy, who trains underprivileged Haitian women to sew and weave, then employs them, so they can generate income and provide for their families--all while promoting environmental responsibility.
El Sol Maya { Guatemala }
El Sol Maya works with a group of fifty women in Guatemala. The women work to uphold their customs as Maya Ixil women, of weaving textiles with backstrap looms to generate income for their families. Women receive the thread, which is woven by them in their homes, as per their ancient custom. Their weaving tradition has been handed down from generation to generation, and now they are teaching it to their daughters so this tradition won't be lost. As their group has grown they have been able to open a workshop where women from the region have the opportunity to learn or to improve their textile techniques, and also learn to be businesswomen to improve their quality of life.
Haiti Projects { Haiti }
The Haiti Projects Women's Cooperative began in 1994, when founder Sarah Hackett was impressed by the embroidery skills of the local women in rural Haiti. But she found that they lacked even the simplest supplies, and by providing them with needles and thread, Sarah realized she was also giving the women the means to earn a living in an area where employment opportunities are scarce. Seventeen years later, the Haiti Projects Women's Cooperative employs nearly 100 women who make beautiful handcrafted embroidery and knit projects. For women like Yonie Jacques (pictured), a local farmer and mother of five, the additional income is life-saving for her and her family.
CreArte { Guatemala }
Crearte promotes and sells Guatemalan handicrafts. The production of handicrafts constitutes an important source for the generation of employment and income, especially for women in rural aeras. The women are indigenous people who combine long held traditional skills with contemporary elements. Create supports 500 artisans.
Oyanca { Nicaragua }
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La ComUnidad { Guatemala }
Arising out of Friendship Bridge, a non-profit organization that provides microcredit and educational programs to women in Guatemala, the artisan cooperative La ComUnidad creates beautiful, women-made crafts. The sale of these crafts improves the lives of the women who make them, their families, and their communities as a whole. Friendship Bridge is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that provides microcredit and educational programs so women and their families can create their own solutions to poverty. The organization blends the short-term economic development needs of women through access to credit and education with the long-term goal of breaking the generational cycle of poverty by providing educational opportunities for their children. Friendship Bridge has affected the lives of hundreds of thousands of rural people by investing in women entrepreneurs, first in Vietnam and now in rural Guatemala women who become leaders and agents of change for themselves, their families and communities.
La Casa { Guatemala }
Since 2000, La Casa Cotzal has designed a range of Guatemalan handcrafted produced by artisan communities throughout the country. Mayan women traditionally have been backstrap loom weavers, but increasingly they are learning to use pedal looms as well. In traditional Guatemalan weaving, the two main specialized techniques are ikat and supplementary weft brocade. Artisans at La Casa are versed in both weaving techniques as well as in intricate bead work. The work provided by La Casa is vital to the women's families and communities.
Women's Bean Project { United States }
Since 1989, The Women's Bean Project has been dedicated to helping women break the cycle of poverty and unemployment. The Women's Bean, as it's often fondly referred to in Denver, aims to teach workplace competencies through employment in on-site businesses to women who come from backgrounds of chronic unemployment or poverty. The organization helps women discover their talents and develop skills by offering job readiness training. With this stepping stone toward success, the women will be able to support themselves and their families, and create stronger role models for future generations. Jossy Eyre founded The Women's Bean Project as a result of her volunteer work at a day shelter for homeless women. Eyre saw that while the shelter kept women safe, it could not help them make lasting changes in their lives. Eyre bought $500 worth of beans and gave two homeless women work - the first step in building the social enterprise they are today. The training opportunities at the Women's Bean Project have expanded dramatically over the years and they now help many more women.
Rosie's Place { United States }
Rosie's Place, a sanctuary for poor and homeless women in Boston, offers both emergency and long-term assistance to women who have nowhere else to turn. Since 1996, Rosie's Place has run a successful microenterprise providing part-time, paid work to dozens of women, who create on-of-a-kind jewelry and accessories from buttons. The group provides a nurturing work environment to women who have worked little or not at all. Through introducing women to draft skills and the basics of merchandising, the cooperative aims to foster self-esteem and creativiy, along with employment skills and a source of income.
Bright Endeavors { United States }
Bright Endeavors is a Chicago non-profit social enterprise, manufacturing and marketing eco-friendly home and bath products, helping single parents (aged 17-24) transition into economic stability. Bright Endeavors provides on-the-job experience to some of Chicago's most at-risk youth. Bright Endeavors is a green business, using vegetable waxes, natural botanicals, Dead Sea salts and reclaimed and recycled glass. Each product is handmade and packaged by motivated program participants. All proceeds are used to support programming for new moms and to place participants into quality, permanent employment.
Thistle Farms { United States }
Thistle Farms is a social enterprise run by the women of Magdalene, a residential program for women who have survived lives of prostitution, trafficking, addiction and life on the streets in Nashville. By hand, the women create natural bath and body products that are as good for the earth as they are for the body. Purchases of Thistle Farms products directly benefit the women who made them. Thistle Farms employs 35 Magdalene residents or graduates. While working at Thistle Farms, women learn skills in manufacturing, packaging, marketing and sales, and administration. It is a supportive workplace where women acquire the skills they need to earn a living wage. Employees have the opportunity to put a percentage of their earnings into a matched savings account provided by Magdalene. Through Thistle Farms, the women of Magdalene gain much needed job skills, and learn responsibility and cooperation.
Mission Wear { United States }
Started in 2006 by Beth McWhirter, Mission Wear is a non-profit sewing business that hires women with obstacles to employment. They work to create reusable products: laptop bags, totes and messenger bags among other great products; all made from upcycled materials like marketing banners, denim, T-shirts, burlap coffee bags; as well as other scrap fabrics from interior designers; all fabrics that would otherwise be landfill! Mission Wear has a passion to provide a place for women who are in recovery and need the opportunity to begin building their confidence and sometimes for the first time, a job history.
Tomorrow Project { United States }
The Tomorrow Project is a work-readiness training program that specifically targets the unique issues of homeless women. Begun in 1994, the need for such a program grew out of Catholic Charities of San Diego's 14 years of providing day center, night shelter, and housing services for homeless women. It became clear the women could use more support to find employment, something that would offer hands-on experience. Thus, The Tomorrow Project was developed to give homeless women worthwhile work that offered opportunity for the women to change their circumstances. While at The Tomorrow Project, the women take advantage of skills assessment and opportunities to 'learn while they earn'.
Belart { Colombia }
Due to Colombia's ongoing civil war, the rural zones have become dangerous places to work with few opportunities for poor, unskilled, displaced workers, who seek alternatives to working in the coca production industry. Belart is a fair trade organization which works with these displaced and vulnerable communities of women, providing economic opportunities that also promote environmental conservation. Belart's women artisans make beautiful jewelry from the leaf fiber of the agave plant. The agave plant grows in the Serrania del Cocuy mountains. Agave leaves are cut at the base of the plant, then combed with a "carrizo" to separate the fibers, then dried and dyed with water based dyes into a fabric that is bright and beautiful for jewelry making. Jewelry making provides women a productive alternative to the more lucrative, though illegal and dangerous, cocaine trade.
Jenny Krauss Designs { Peru }
Jenny Kruass Designs started on a trip to Peru in 2008. Jenny fell in love with the traditional embroidery from a region called Ayacucho and soon grew into a social business that now employs1600 artisans. Most of the artisans are women who work at home with their children playing nearby. Jenny Krauss is committed to sustaining traditions and creating sustainable livelihoods through artistic collaborations. For the women the simple act of selling something they made with their hands gives them a sense of pride and accomplishment; something they had never experienced before.
Sapia { Colombia }
While Columbia has recently achieved a relatively good macroeconomic climate, people in the lower income brackets continue to face serious challenges. Colombia ranks low in income equality, and also possesses one of the highest number of internally displaced persons of any country in the world. Since 2000 Sapia has been working with low-income women artisans using recycled and natural materials to develop beautiful products that have made dramatic changes in the artisans' livelihoods.
Manos Amigas Peru { Peru }
Manos Amigas is a fair trade organization that works with small artisan organizations throughout Peru. By supporting artisans through training and finding markets for their products, they help to preserve the variety of handcraft traditions of Peru. Manos Amigas, which means 'hands of friendship', gives twenty percent of its profits of help fund social welfare projects, like school scholarships, uniforms, and a feeding program for poor children.
Pro Pueblo { Ecuador }
Pueblo of Ecuador creates work opportunities, and encourages growth and independent livelihoods for local artisans in their home villages. Diminishing employment opportunities have also left fewer funds for basic education and adequate healthcare. The escalating number of poor single mothers and widows combined with the increase of an already high incidence of male alcoholism prompted ProPueblo to start working to create sustainable economic opportunities. Artisans are offered support in developing new designs with their traditional skills and are offered business expertise in logistics and finances.
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These days -- Brent McNamara works on the computer a lot, but he always has to keep himself in check. Brent is a recovering porn addict. For 10 years, he spent almost every waking moment looking at Internet porn.
"My nickname was very well-known in porn circles.This addiction completely took over my life, and I'm not kidding when I say 24/7," said Brent McNamara.
The addiction started shortly after Brent enrolled in school to be a pastor! First-- it was the occasional magazine or movie -- but when the Internet became popular, Brent got hooked.
"Before those days, you had considerable risk if you wanted to go into an adult bookstore. You had considerable risk of being seen by somebody you didn't want to see."
It became more than just looking at porn. Brent took part in live strip shows and even hired prostitutes.
"I wasted a lot of years…really threw them away, messed up my life and hurt a lot of people."
Bill Larson knows that feeling. He's also a recovering sex addict.
Sex consumed his life. At one point -- bill had more than 10 partners at the same time. His breaking point came when they all found out about each other.
"I think people want to make a joke out of it, but it's no joke. It truly is a crippling disease."
Doctor Mary Ann Layden agrees. She believes sex can be an addiction -- similar to drug addiction.
"It's not the putting it in your body through the mouth or through a vein that produces the addiction. It's the getting hooked on, the brain reaction, knowing it hurts you and doing it anyway," said Mary Ann Layden, Ph.D., Director of Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program, Center for Cognitive Therapy, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Two new studies are offering evidence suggesting that sex may indeed be an addiction. The first found differences in DNA were linked to sexual behavior in young adults. Those with a variant of the DRD-4 gene were more likely to have one-night stands and affairs. The second study found that non-addicted people who looked at porn images had similar brain responses to cocaine addicts who looked at images of people taking the drug.
Previous editions of the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual haven't recognized sex addiction as a mental disorder. The next edition -- which comes out in 20-13 -- will classify both porn and sex addiction as "hypersexual disorder." Some wonder if this official label will justify cheating among so-called "addicts."
"It's not an excuse that says you get a pass on it."
Then -- there's the dilemma of treating sex addiction. Should doctors tell addicts to say no to all sex -- like they do with drugs? When treating porn addiction -- Layden recommends patients set up an Internet server that blocks porn at the server level and install accountability software that generates a list of all web sites visited. This info should then be forwarded to an accountability coach.
Brent is now an assistant pastor at his church. He leads an addiction recovery group and even wrote a book about his experience. Whether it's bad behavior or a true addiction, these men are happy they were able to end it and move on with their lives.
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WHAT IS SEXUAL ADDICTION? Sexual addiction is the term used to describe the behaviors of someone with an unusually strong sex drive or obsession with sex. Sex addicts often feel out of control, and partake in activities despite possible negative consequences, which can lead to feelings of guilt or shame. Like other addicts, sexual addicts often engage in risky behavior (such as unprotected sex) and rationalize it later, often refusing to admit they have an addiction or blaming other people for their problems. Sex addicts often get little satisfaction from their encounters, failing to make emotional connections with their partners.
BEHAVIORS: Behaviors commonly associated with sexual addiction are:
• Compulsive masturbation
• Sex with multiple or anonymous partners
• Consistent use of pornography
• Unsafe sex
• Phone or computer sex
• Voyeurism or stalking
• Multiple one-night stands
Sexual addiction can also lead to many illegal behaviors, such as exhibitionism, prostitution or use of prostitutes, obscene phone calls, molestation or rape. However, not all sex addicts become sex offenders.
HOW DO YOU TREAT SEXUAL ADDICTION? As with other addictions, a sex addict must admit to having a problem before he or she can be treated. Treatment of sexual addiction usually focuses on controlling the addictive behavior and developing a healthy sexuality, and can include counseling or marital or family therapy. In some cases, drugs such as Prozac are used to combat the compulsive nature of the addiction. Twelve step programs for sex addicts also exist, such as Sex Addicts Anonymous.
(SOURCE: http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/guide/sexual-addiction)
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Reports/Washington County
A 2-year-old Belpre Township resident received treatment Thursday at Marietta Memorial Hospital after she may have ingested a small amount of diluted bleach. The child's mother put diluted bleach in the toddler's cup to sanitize it and placed it out of the child's reach. The girl subsequently pushed a stool over to the counter and took a drink from the cup. She immediately spit out the liquid and vomited. Emergency room personnel stated the child was not injured.
Deputies responded Thursday to a domestic dispute at 441 Washington St., Macksburg. Carl Hart, 51, was angry with his wife, Tammy, 46, and accused her of having an affair. Carl broke his wife's phone, broke a coffee table and struck his wife in the face. Though Tammy continued to say everything was fine, the deputies noticed she appeared shaken and arrested Carl Hart for domestic violence.
Ben T. Ladd, 77, of 7432 Federal Road, Little Hocking, reported Thursday that at some point during the past month an unknown suspect(s) stole three shotguns and a rifle from a gun cabinet in his garage. Ladd estimates the guns have a total value of $400.
A deputy requested a summons Thursday for Charles Caldwell Jr., 38, of 2075 Barth Road, Belpre, for cruelty to animals. A passerby reported a dog in a kennel at Caldwell's residence was being neglected and mistreated. The dog was severely emaciated and appeared to be suffering from infestations of multiple parasites.
A deputy requested a summons Thursday for Kurtis Alkire, 23, of 251 Alloway Road, Little Hocking, for disorderly conduct by fighting. At his residence in the early morning hours, Alkire was involved in an argument with his sister's boyfriend and threatened to kill and assault him. A witness heard the two arguing and confirmed that Alkire threatened his sister's boyfriend.
Arrests/Washington County
The following people were recently processed into the Washington County Jail:
Jeremy M. Charlton, 34, of Reynolds Drive, Vincent, was arrested Thursday for two misdemeanor counts of assault.
Misty R. Mattocks, 48, of 4492 State Route 339, Belpre, was arrested Thursday for violating the terms of her probation, a misdemeanor.
Jeffrey T. Myers, 45, of 1635 McGill Road, Belpre, was arrested Friday for domestic violence, assault and child endangering, all misdemeanors.
Carl J. Hart Sr., 51, of 442 Washington St., Macksburg, was arrested Friday for domestic violence, a misdemeanor.


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RingTV.com spoke to junior middleweight contender Carlos Molina about his upcoming fight with hard-hitting James Kirkland, which is part of an HBO-televised double-header featuring junior welterweight titleholder Erik Morales against Danny Garcia on March 24 at the Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas.
The matchup is a big one for Molina (19-4-2, 6 knockouts), a 28-year-old contender who has been on the bubble of achieving noteriety throughout much of his career.
Molina has endured a draw as well as a six-round majority decision loss against current WBC middleweight beltholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in December of 2005 and 2006, respectively, and takes an unbeaten streak of 11-0-1 with just two stoppages into the fight with Kirkland (30-1, 27 KOs).
Kirkland rose from a first-round knockdown to stop slugger Alfredo Angulo in the sixth round of his last fight in November on HBO, earning his third consecutive knockout victory since, himself, being stopped in the first round by Nobuhiro Ishida in April.
Molina's run includes a victory over former welterweight beltholder Kermit Cintron in July and a draw with then-unbeaten Erislandy Lara in March. Between those upsets, the busy Chicago native scored a seventh-round stoppage of Allen Conyers in April.
During his streak, Molina has also vanquished welterweight fringe contender Ed Paredes by unanimous decision in April of 2009. Paredes has gone 7-0-1 with five knockouts since falling to Molina.
Molina's last loss was by eight-round, majority decision against current unbeaten junior welterweight contender Mike Alvarado.
RingTV.com: What opportunity is ahead of you against Kirkland?
Carlos Molina: I am most definitely happy. First card on HBO. It's against Kirkland. His career is running hot. I want the opportunity to fight him or anybody.
RingTV.com: What is your perspective on why you were selected?
CM: I've been asked that before, I guess. I think that they believe that I'm an easy opponent. That I won't be able to stop him. If anything, I think that they believe he will overwhelm me.
But that's what I get every fight. All of my opponents, they all think the same. But that doesn't really matter to me what they think. I just go out there and execute my fight.
RingTV.com: Are you comfortable with what you bring to the table, or do you feel that you have to make any adjustments in the style that brought you to this point?
CM: No, I believe that fighting the same way can work for me. You know, make him miss, work the body and work the head and adjust to what they're doing. I need to be smart and to fight him smart.
Of course, if we're going to try to knock him out if we see the chance and the opportunity to do that. If it's there, I'll go and get it. I'm ready for every fight.
I feel like I do have the ability to stop these guys, and I will. That's what we're working on. I'm still learning, and I feel that I'm putting everything together for this fight. We're always confident in what we bring to the table.
It doesn't matter who I have to fight or who I have to beat. You have to be confident going into any fight. If you're not, then you're already one step down and closer to losing the fight.
RingTV.com: Does Kirkland compare favorably to anyone you've fought before?
CM: Well, he's aggressive, I've fought a couple of guys with his aggressive style. But he's a southpaw, and he just keeps on coming strong. I mean, Mike Alvarado was kind of like that. He sort of bull-rushed his way in.
That's probably my closest fight similar to this one. Alexis Camacho was sort of like that, but I won a unanimous decision over him [in Feburary of 2009].
They were a lot like Kirkland. They say that Kirkland is in good shape, but I'm always in good shape also. I'm in tip-top shape, and I'm up for the challenge.
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The Onondaga men's and women's lacrosse teams have done it again – both teams battled their way through the regular and post-seasons to capture the 2012 NJCAA National Championship.
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A western Ohio man has been ordered to pay the state almost $32,000 after he was caught on camera defrauding Ohio's insurance fund for injured workers.
Attorney General Mike DeWine says Jason Dross of Celina pleaded guilty to one count of workers' compensation fraud in November.
The 39-year-old Dross was sentenced Friday to pay the state $31,736.98 in restitution.
Authorities received a tip that Dross was exercising with heavy weights after claiming a workplace injury left him unable to lift more than 10 pounds.
Bureau of Workers' Compensation investigators recorded video of Dross at a gym lifting several hundred pounds of weights.
"Many do have a difficult time finding employment when an injury has left them with certain physical restrictions," said BWC Administrator/CEO Steve Buehrer in a news release. "However, this video makes it very clear that Mr. Dross was not being truthful about his restrictions and he has now been ordered to repay the funds that he received deceptively."
Dross also sentenced to three years of community control, with nine months of jail time suspended.
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WARSAW–Poland's financial market regulator on Friday expressed disapproval at Fitch Ratings' downgrade of a Polish unit of Spain's Banco Santander SA, the latest attempt by Polish authorities to show local banks are fenced off from their parents in the troubled euro zone.
On Thursday, Fitch downgraded Bank Zachodni WBK SA's rating to BBB from A- after downgrading Santander due to a negative outlook for Spain. The agency said its downgrade of Santander "reduces its ability to provide support to Bank Zachodni WBK."
The Polish regulator said Bank Zachodni WBK doesn't depend on Santander for support, and urged "diligence and professionalism" in reviewing credit ratings of banks operating in Poland.
"Bank Zachodni WBK has high and stable profits and is a well-capitalized listed company, not engaged in euro-zone markets considered risky, including in the Spanish market," the regulator said in a statement.
Bank Zachodni WBK posted a 16% rise in first-quarter net profit to 314 million zlotys ($92 million). Fitch had no immediate comment Friday.
Poland has been the only European Union country to avoid recession during the global financial crisis that began in 2008, and none of its banks have needed public help to stay afloat.
Poland's central bank governor, Marek Belka, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal this month that Polish authorities are concerned foreign bank owners could be tempted to strip their well-funded Polish units of capital if the credit crunch in the euro zone worsens. Some 70% of the Polish banking sector is controlled by banks headquartered outside Poland.
"The Polish banking sector has no liquidity issues," Mr. Belka said in the interview. "Of course, I would get worried if big European banks that happen to have subsidiaries here get in trouble. But the subsidiaries are reasonably fenced off, supervised by us, well capitalized and liquid."
The central bank governor added, "Everybody remembers the Lehman Brothers case when days or hours before openly failing they managed to channel billions of dollars from overseas to the headquarters. This is a specter that haunts everybody."
Poland's banking sector net profit rose 12% to PLN4.23 billion in the first quarter, the financial market regulator said in May. In 2011, Poland's banks had record earnings of PLN15.8 billion, but this year's results are expected to deteriorate due to slowing economic expansion, and decreasing fees and lending levels.


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''Mahou Tsukai Chappy'' is an early MagicalGirl anime, aired in 1972. it's about CuteWitch Chappy who, becoming sick of the old customs of her people, leaves the Land of Magic for the human world wth her little brother Jun and their pet Don-chan. Soon her family sees how much she has in the other realm that they decide to join her in new home, facing normal life as much as they can without exposing their secrets.
Chappy is known for being the first witch to use a MagicWand (actually a magical baton, given to her by her grandfather). Her special chant is "Abura Mahariku Maharita Kabura". Chappy's closest human friends are tomboy Michiko and girly-girl Shizuko, much like her predecessor Sally's friends Yotchan and Sumire.
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* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Chappy's powers are revealed to her friends in the last episode. Their memories are erased, and Chappy's family has to move to another town.]]
* BurnTheWitch: Chappy and Jun's biggest fear is that this will happen if they're found out.
* CoolCar: Don-chan has one. A RunningGag involves Chappy's brother Jun always failing to hitch a ride.
* CuteWitch: Chappy, and Jun may count as a RareMaleExample.
* FishOutOfWater: For Chappy and her family, it's not easy to keep from using magic in public!
* FlyingBroomstick: Chappy has one.
* GirlishPigtails: Chappy
* MagicWand: Chappy's tool of choice, which she pinched from her grandfather. As said above, [[TropeCodifier she's the first one to use it]].
* MagicalIncantation: "Abura Mahariku Maharita Kabura"
* MagicalLand: Where Chappy hails from.
* MuggleFosterParents: Notably averted; Chappy is a rare CuteWitch who has her parents come with her to the human world.
* NonHumanSidekick: Don-chan
* TalkingAnimal: Don-chan is a talking [[PandaingToTheAudience panda]].
* {{Tomboy}}: Michiko, Chappy's first friend on Earth.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Michiko with both Shizuko and Chappy.
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A former Aiken County councilman is headed to trial.
47-year-old William Ferrara is accused of fondling a 23-year-old woman and asking for sex in exchange for rent.
He was arrested in July and charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, solicitation of prostitution, and two counts of indecent exposure and disseminating obscenities.
The charges of indecent exposure have been lessened to exposure of private parts in a lewd manner, and the charges of disseminating obscenities have been dropped.
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Virginia Education Association President Meg Gruber is in Atlanta, Georgia this week with other teachers from the Commonwealth and around the country. They're talking about such issues as class size, the federal sequestration, technology infrastructure in schools, and the future of the profession.
If you're a parent or grandparent with young children, you've probably heard about red-shirting – a term borrowed from the world of college sports.
It refers to keeping a child back in school, so he or she will be a little older than classmates and have some academic and social advantages.
The State Board of Education is moving forward with proposed "cut" or passing scores for Standards of Learning.
The new cut scores are to help implement more rigorous standards to promote college and career readiness.Depending on the subject, the cut scores will be applied to grades three, five, and eight for Science and grades five and eight for other subjects.
The Virginia Education Association is commemorating 150 years and 50,000 members. It was actually as the Civil War was raging in Virginia.
It began in a Petersburg church by a few men who wanted to make sure children still received an education in wartime.
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looking for shipley Warwick Queensland Australia
George and Sarah SHIPLEY arrived Australia on Board Boat Bulimba
Their Son Abraham married Mary they had 7 children one my Grandfather, ived Shipley Street Warwick Queensland Australia
The Queenslander Newspaper in the 1920s had a children's page, where children sent in letters and puzzles to "Aunt Fileuse. I know Abraham had a granddaughter, through Walter Neville SHIPLEY 1888-1959, Doris Isabel 1917-1998. so I believe thiis is one of your SHIPLEY decendants.
Below is a letter Which I have transcribed from The Children's Page of an issue dated Thursday 25 October 1928.
DEAR Aunt Fileuse.l am writing to you to tell you about- my school life. I like school. l am in third class, second half-year.
We have sewing on Friday and Tuesday, and also, on Tuesday we have games. We have a nice garden and also shady trees, where we have our dinner and lunch. I go to the Central School. We have a big playground to play in, where we can have a big run.
DORIS SHIPLEY (age 10 years). Waterworks-road, Warwick.
Thank you so very much, Walter Neville was my Grandfathers Brother.
Granddad (William Joseph) came out to New Zealand where he married, so any information on the Shipleys in Australia is very much appreciated.
There's a SHIPLEY monument in the Warwick General Cemetery inscribed on it are these names;
Abraham born 7 June 1856 died 26 April 1925 H/O MARY sHIPLEY
George born 5 April 1825 died 04 March 1884
John born 11 August 1868 died 31 May 1887
Mary born 3 April 1860 died 03 April 1884
Sarah born 1838 died 1909 W/of George Shipley.
Now according to the 1861 and 1871 census George was born in Teteschell, Staffordshire. He married Sarah MORGAN and according to the same census she was born in Bragley County Shroppshire. I have no idea who their parents were.
Their children were:-
1. Joseph 1853, *2.Abraham 1856, 3.George 1858,
4.Mary 18601884, 5.Sarah J 1864, 6.Albert 1866 and
7.John 1869 1887
*2.Abraham Shipley b: 7 June 1856 Bloxwich, Staffordshire died 26 April 1925 in Warwick, Queensland. m. Mary NEVILLE born abt 1857 (according to the 'Bulimba' Passenger list but marriage has the date as 1854) she died in Queensland. below are my sources.
Australia Death Index, 1787-1985
about Mary Shipley
Name: Mary Shipley
Death Date: 24 January 1940
Death Place: Queensland
Father's Name: William Neville
Mother's Name: Mary Ellen Craddock
Registration Year: 1940
Registration Place: Queensland
Registration Number: 000075
Page Number: 2121
England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1940
about Mary Neville
Name: Mary Neville
Gender: Female
Birth Date: abt 1854
Age: 23
Father's Name: William Neville
Spouse's Name: Abraham Shipley
Spouse's Age: 22
Spouse's Father's Name: George Shipley
Marriage Date: 27 Oct 1877
Marriage Place: Rushall, Staffordshire, England
The Bulimba arrived in Cooktown, Queensland on the 5 March 1883 after departing Plymouth on the 11 January 1883. her name on the passenger list is Mary SHEPLEY an obvious transcroption error.
Queensland, Australia, Passenger Lists, 1848-1912
about Mary Shepley Name: Mary Shepley
Age: 26
Birth Year: abt 1857
Ship Name: Bulimba
Port of Departure: Plymouth, England
Port of Arrival: Cooktown
Arrival Date: 5 Mar 1883
Mary and Abraham had 7 Children:-
1/Albert E. Shipley 1879
2/Mary Elizabeth Shipley 18811955 m.(1) James HAMPSON 1869-1928 (2) POLLOCK died as POLLOCK in Murwillumbah, NSW buried at Tweed Heads.
3/Georgina Bulimba Shipley 18831900
**4/William Joseph Shipley 1885
5/Clara Shipley 1886
6/Martha Shipley 1888
7/Walter Neville Shipley 1888
Abraham was the waterworks engineer in Warwick He retired in December 1920 owing to ill health. He had been on the Warwick Council for 37 years, ever since he arrived
If there's anything you would like to know about any of the above people, I'll do my best to try and find out for you.
Thank very much i can now fill in a few empty spaces on my family tree
Keep up the good work
Hi Moira,
Walter Neville and Mary Shipley were my grandparents,they had 12 children 5 girls and 7 boys one of which is my Dad Eric Noel Shipley. Only Dad (85 on 26th November) and 2 brothers Les and Arnold are still with us. Mum and Dad and myself live in Brisbane,I have an older brother Greg(works in Thailand) and a younger sister Deborah(Lives in Perth). Nice to see all this information and meet a a new relative.
Cheers Paul Shipley
Hi Paul great to here from you.
My Grandfather was William Joseph Shipley your Grandad Walters brother if you want information on his family please let me no.
I live in Taupo New Zealand
Regards Moira Stuart.
Hi Moira,
Thanks and yes any information would be much appreciated, Grandad Walter passed away in 1959 when I was 4 yrs old but I do have slight remembrance of him. Dad and myself are always interested in finding any family history so all this is wonderful. Look forward to hearing from you when you have time.
Cheers Paul
Hi Paul
William Joseph SHIPLEY (MY GRANDDAD)
Born 9th April 1885 Warwick Australia Died 11th Dec 1971 Masterton New Zealand
Married 11th Dec 1906 Dannevirke New Zealand
Wife Edith Daisy HOLBROOK
Born 9th Aug 1886 Sheffield South Island New Zealand
Died 29 th Oct 1956 Masterton New Zealand
They had 2 Daughters Pearl Ivy SHIPLEY Born 9th Jan 1910
Clara Edith Ruby SHIPEY Born 9th Oct 1912 (my Mum.)
Will send their details later.
Also have photos of Abraham and Mary, and their seven children.
I will check if its alright to give my email address to send these.
Take Care
Hi Moira,
Wow thanks that's wonderful information I'll print that out and show it to Dad,also love to see the pics that's a special find and much appreciated.
Take good care
Paul have more information on Shipley family and photos you can contact me at this email address
[email protected]
Take Care Moira
1894/1895 Queensland Post Office Directory.
Shipley, Abraham, overseer.
Shipley, Robert, grocer.
Abraham Shipley was appointed onto the East Warwick School Committee on 7th April 1899.
Queensland Post Office Directory 1900.
Shipley, Abraham, Engineer, Water Works.
Shipley, Albert, farmer.
My Grandmother was Martha Shipley, daughter of Abraham Shipley and Mary(Neville)and sister to William Joseph and Walter. Martha had 4 children, Edwin, Jean, Heather, and my father Harold. I have a copy of the Shipley family tree going back to George Shipley, born 5/4/1825, in Staffordshire England. If my records are correct he is my great, great grandfather.
Michael West
Bargara Queensland
Great to here from you.
I can remember Aunty Martha visiting my Grandad in Masterton New Zealand.Would be interested in any information on the Shipley family.
I am the Grand daughter of William Joseph so would be happy to share the information that I have and also happy to send a copy of the photo taken in New Zealand of Aunt Martha and Grandad.
Moira Stuart
New Zealand
Our husbands are also grandsons of Walter Shipley (Arnold's sons). We are trying to find information about Martha Shipley. We have found records where she married Charles Gordon in 1914 and had a son Edwin Nevill West (properly Gordon). We also have a marriage to Albert Rieck in 1935.
Can anyone give us information on the connection to the Wests (i.e. was there another marriage?) and are Jean, Heather and Harold from this marriage? Also, did Heather West marry a Kronk?
We're happy to share any information we have found so far.
Val & Jill Shipley
Bundaberg & Brisbane
Hi I am the Grandaughter of William Joseph SHIPLEY, the brother of Walter.
My Grandfather lived in New Zealand, he came here as a young man , married and went on to have a family.Yes I believe Heather did marry a Kronk, and and yes Edwin, Harold and Jean are all from this marriage , but the children also changed their name to West.
I can remember Martha well as she came out to New Zealand for several months to look after my Grand- dad after he lost his wife Also willing to share information that I have.'
Regards Moira
New Zealand
Thanks Moira. That's solved our biggest mystery so far. It's great to make contact with you.
Val & Jill
This was a very interesting read for me as it has answered some of our many questions regarding the mysterious Martha Shipley, and her children to Charles John Edwin Gordon 1871-1953. Martha is my great grandmother I have tracked her census records and her marriage records and can also confirm she married Albert Rieck (1876-1950) in 1935 when she was 47. The last traceable records I have for her is the 1949 census Martha Rieck Gin Gin home duties. Then in 1954 in Bundy (11 Wyper Street).
I am happy to share any information that I might have, and would welcome any information to help reveal some of the mysteries of my family tree.
Im looking for my brothers posible farther the closest name i can come up with from family friends is nevil shipley. My grandfarther seemed to think his farther worked in the vally on the trams i think.
My family is from the bulimba area brisbane. If that helps . Im notuch good at this family tree stuff. So this is a long shot but you never know.
I have a Neville Shipley on my family tree who worked on the railways at Swan Creek Warwick Australia .If you think this is the same family please get in touch.
It might be. I don't have much to go on. Was recently told he may have worked at the ekka in Brisbane in 1988.


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