The Wakes
Paul
Nicki
Dylan
Lauren
Brendan
Anne
Nicki
Dylan
Lauren
Brendan
Anne
As you can see, we are getting this site into shape. It provides a place for family members to put up web pages (although the pages the kids are building aren’t visible from here and are password protected), and also contains a genealogy site-within-the-site.
Computer rules and a set of approved external links help our kids explore the Internet safely. Paul and Nicki have their own set of links online, to help them quickly find sites from remote computers.
Wake Family History tells the stories of our ancestors. It’s something of a site-within-a-site, and it’s the best thing here.
How to Manipulate Juvenile Prosecutors: A Guide for Utah Defense Attorneys is something Paul wrote, and is the definitive guide to juvenile court law and procedure in Utah; Juvenile Defense in Utah is a shortened version. For the definitive cynical view of juvenile justice in Utah, Pictures for a Juvenile Court Calendar might be funny. If you think it is funny, look at The Willow Project as well. Utah Juvenile Defense is a video Paul made for training purposes. Juvenile Prosecutors Are Not Criminal Prosecutors is also something Paul wrote; it argues that the role of juvenile prosecutors differs from that of criminal prosecutors (which may or may not be the case). Publicizing the Prosecutor’s Web Site provides some tips Paul had for prosecutors setting up a web site.
Fundamental Principles, Individual Rights, and Free Government: Do Utahns Remember How to Be Free? is another thing Paul wrote, which discusses Article I, Section 27 of the Utah Constitution. It would have been nice back in 1995 to have had time to nail down the research a bit more. A Precious Birthright or Federal Porridge: Which Should Utah Lawyers Choose? is sort of a short version of “Fundamental Principles....”
Custom Search Engines provide three specialized search engines: the Wake Family Web Site Search Engine, the Utah Juvenile Justice Search Engine, and the Utah Constitution Search Engine. This is an experimental page utilizing a buggy new Google project, and because Google has been deteriorating generally, the search results may be suboptimal.
The Little Kettle That Could! is a wee page thrown together on a blustery winter day in anticipation of warmer days to come.
Paul Wake for Springville City Council is a copy of the www.votewake.org campaign web site that Paul set up for his unsuccessful 2007 run for a Springville City Council seat. Some people have asked if Paul is going to run again in 2009; here’s his answer: “I very much enjoyed walking many miles of streets and knocking on so many doors—I actually did—because it was good to learn from fellow citizens and to share something with you. However, without thousands of dollars it’s hard to take out incumbents, and my pockets aren’t that deep. Also, it is now too late to develop the interchanges, and city facilities downtown, in the way that would best help Springville over the long term, so I have few political goals left to pursue. Thank you for your support.” You Should Affect the 2006 Utah County Convention! was part of Paul’s effort to serve the neighborhood when he was elected as a party delegate. The 2006 elections are long over, but this page provides a reminder of why in Utah it is often more important to be involved in neighborhood caucuses and party conventions than in the general election. Pick your delegates carefully, because some of the 2006 delegates were easily conned, and some of them didn’t have your interests at heart.
Save Gregory Point! is our effort to get Chief’s Island (Lighthouse Island) added to the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge. Unfortunately, there was not as much support for the effort as would have been nice.
Troop 139 is the scouting arm of the Spring Creek Fifth Ward. Paul created this site when he became Scoutmaster of the troop. He left it up after the family moved across town and into another ward, even though it is largely archival, because some Scouters from around the country use parts of it.
Tapestry of Monogamy got Paul into a heap of trouble after the Deseret News and KUTV covered it. Don’t go there if you’re humorless or thin skinned. If you have a normal personality, though, and enjoy a good belly laugh, take a gander. It’s a parody of Tapestry of Polygamy / Tapestry Against Polygamy / whatever they’re calling themselves now’s web site. The page is a bit dated, since it was topical largely in the context of the Tom Green prosecution.
The Home Page of Paul Wake and its related pages are a now-archival site formerly based on a U of U server when Paul was a law student, back in the golden age of the Internet. It contains a collection of nifty Usenet .sigs, a satirical tribute to Rush Limbaugh with an early experiment in e-commerce, a page on Macintosh cryptography, a list of links that were cool in the mid-1990’s, and various other pages (most of which are outdated). It is here primarily for nostalgic purposes. A few of its links have been updated to point to restored pages transferred to XMission.
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