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Memorial services for Helen P. Devalon, of Redlands, were held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, at Plymouth Village in Redlands. She was 96. Dr. Lloyd Howard conducted the services.
Mrs. Devalon was born July 17, 1901, in Salt Lake City. A graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, she was a homemaker. She lived in Idyllwild from 1968 to 1985 and was an active member of several local organizations, including PEO Chapter UE (Idyllwild), Associates of Idyllwild Arts Academy, 39ers Club, Izaak Walton League and Idyllwild Property Owners Association. She continued as a dues-paying member of several of the organizations up until the time of her death.
Mrs. Devalon died of natural causes on Feb. 8. Cremation arrangements were made. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Corbin Devalon.
Mrs. Devalon is survived by her son, C.C. Devalon Jr. of Palm Desert; two daughters, Judy Sockman of Idyllwild and Joan Serrao of Redlands; a sister, Dorothy Taylor of Hemet; eight grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.


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Japanese Farmer Builds High-Tech Indoor Veggie Factory. Humans have spent the last 10,000 years mastering agriculture. But a freak summer storm or bad drought can still mar many a well-planted harvest. Not anymore, says Japanese plant physiologist Shigeharu Shimamura, who has moved industrial-scale farming under the roof.
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NORTON, Mass. - The women's lacrosse team (4-7, 2-4 NEWMAC) closed out the regular season on Saturday afternoon with a 13-11 loss to host Wheaton College (7-6, 5-1 NEWAC). The Engineers, now with seven losses by a combined 11 goals, continued to struggle to win close games. With the loss, MIT secured the fifth seed and a first round matchup with Babson College (9-7, 3-3 NEWMAC) in the NEWMAC tournament.
The Lyons had three players record hat tricks. Meredith Hurd (four), Julia Coit (three) and Sara Dimick (three) provided almost all of Wheaton's offensive production. Coat also added an assist. MIT senior Deanna Lentz (three goals, two assists) and freshman Samantha O'Keefe also recorded three goals each, but it wasn't enough to keep pace with the Lyons.
Lentz set up O'Keefe at 28:43 and sophomore Laura Watson at 24:32 to put MIT out front 2-0 early, but the lead did not last long. Wheaton came right back with two straight goals to tie the game, and the team's continued the up and down fight throughout the first half. Up 4-3 at 17:14 after Coit's 31st goal of the season, the Lyons allowed three straight goals, including two by junior Mary Harding. Facing a two-goal deficit, Wheaton rallied and went on a 3-1 run to close out the half tied at seven.
The Engineers regained the lead as O'Keefe capitalized on a free position shot at 27:51 to open the second frame. After Wheaton sophomore Sara Dimick traded goals with Deanna Lentz, the Lyons took control of the game. Dimick scored again at 16:09 to tie the game, beginning a run on which the Lyons scored three straight goals and five of the next six to take a 13-10 lead with just over a minute to play. The run was highlighted by Meredith Hurd's 36th and 37th goals of the season. Junior Amanda Hunter added one goal for MIT before time ran out.
Juniors Kristin Konig and Mary Catherine Boll split time in net for the Lyons, but it was Boll who picked up her first win in the relief effort. The duo combined for four saves, while junior Hee Jay Kang turned aside 12 shots for the Engineers.
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im out of kibble as of today....ive got 45 dollars and need to go buy them some meat.
ive heard to just start them on chicken thighs for a week or so? what i need to know is how much to feed them, should i add anything else???? whatever i buy for 45 needs to last me 2 whole weeks. ive read so much about it my eyes are blurry. i need help from whoever has been feeding raw for awhile. also duges immune system is low and is on anti biotics for a skin infection. I picked up wegmans organic plain yogurt should i add that in??
duge 73lbs could gain a few lbs
ava 60 lbs a perfect wieght
lulu 43 lbs could gain a few lbs.
please tell me exactly what i should get and how much to feed each of them....think of it as you are talking to a 10 yr old!


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If I could make it all go away...I would. Please feel better soon. It saddens to me that you are having so many problems and so much pain (((HUGS)))ReplyDelete
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Let me start by saying I do enjoy your blog. I am 47 and diagnosed with RA 1 year ago, but problems for at least 3. also get the honor of sjogrens and lupus. Had extensive back surg 13 years ago that they NOW want to say was prob AS.
IT, all of IT SUCKS!! But let me tell you what I read in your post.
You DID get the tap on, you figured out a better plan and took a shower, even though you were alone. You managed to deal with the boot issue with your car. You recognized the need for the flu shot and did it! You didn't put it off. You baked cakes, therefor furthering your business. You did shopping, got gas, vacuumed, cleaned and did dishes. All with a sore wrist, hip, shoulder and body.
Sounds like the stuff a super hero is made of.
GIVE YOURSELF CREDIT for what you do do, what you have accomplished. You sound like an incredible young woman. Stop kicking yourself. No one else is.
I get upset everyday too. Then my husband says these same things to me. It's starting to sink in slowly. So, I'm sending you a hug from Michigan is the USA. I hope I can give you one in person one day, and have some cake!! Hang in there
Sounds like you need a warm bath, a good book and cup of hot cocoa. Hope tomorrow is a better day.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10 October 2011 at 12:26
Interesting blog this is the first time I've read it, funnily enough because I have some time on my hands as I'm off sick trying yet another cocktail of drugs! I was diagnosed when I was 11 years of age and here I am 40 years later and I can relate to the same frustrations you write about, they haven't lessened, I STILL get on my own nerves regularly but I can also laugh at myself afterwards. Keep going... :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12 October 2011 at 22:14
I'm so glad I came across your blog today. I'm 22 and have had RA since I was 19. I struggle day to day and some days just can't accept that it will never go away. I definitely relate to your frustrations and it made me feel much better knowing I'm not the only one going through this. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete


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G. B. Shaw said: "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is not more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." With so many believers about, what is a poor atheist to do? The ultimate insult is walking into the brand new offices of my dermatologist today -- he bought a modern, well-accounted professional building of five stories in the heart of town, partly on my money -- and reading on the wall, in huge chrome-like lettering, the quotation from the prophet Isaiah, 7th chapter, about the "coming Messiah." My only thought was, That's somewhat original. Many would would quote a canonical.
My dermatologist is as happy as anyone I've ever met. He is also a genius. I do not use that word loosely. To me, it implies a "God"-given talent for something, and by "God" I mean DNA. My dermatologist is a person of high I.Q. and outgoing disposition. Or so he seems. The Christian fundamentalism bothers me, though. I would complain, but, hey, he appears to be the only dermatologist in town (a city of about 375,000) who takes my Part B Medicare insurance. (We have a dozen or so dermatologists, including my mother's: DNA also provided me with her skin, which was fair and moley. Moles can develop into melanoma, the Big "M," one cancer that scares the devil out of me, you should pardon the expression.) Discretion was the better part of valor.
At least until I got to the huge reception room. On the tables were copies of a local megachurch pastor's silly book about, among other things, why we should not worship Baal. It seems that Baal was a god of fertility (which I knew) and that his celebrants reveled in pornography, prostitution, and all manner of vices. (Which I assumed all along.) These Baal worshipers sound interesting. The pastor cannot admit it but the Baal worshipers' only sin was in their type of yoga, preferring the Dionysian to the Appolonian, or the Shaivite to the Kirshnaivite. One suspects they may have been tantrics, and tantrics are the bugaboo of many a Hindi.
It so happens that even as I thumbed through the book by Pastor Bil [yes, he actually spells it that way] Cornelius' mixture of scripture and Prosperity Gospel, I had, sitting on my desk at the office, a copy of Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith by J. Anderson Thomson, Jr. and Clare Aukofer, a dynamte little book you can get from the Richard Dawkins Foundation. It so happens this book explains why we are compelled to create gods and communally worship them.
My dermatologist's religion is his security blanket. It may never have occurred to him that religion and science are incompatible; not just at odds with each other but pluperfectly inimical. He isn't the type to put a big O.T. silvery quotation from Isaiah on the wall of the alcove of his new building just to appeal to local Christians. In fact, I distinctly recall that when he excised a basal cell carcinoma he and the nurse shot me up with lidocaine and gave me a few minutes alone while the anesthetic took effect. Someone turned on the tape deck and the next thing I knew I was listening to a full TV soundtrack of none other than that hick of all hicks Rev. Osteen, a man so cornball you wonder if he hasn't been channeling Barney Fife. (We all know it is Victoria who wear the pants and tells him how to tie his shoe laces.) Imagine going under lidocaine and having to listen to that jive artist and Ponzi schemer?
I happen to believe that Prosperity Gospel = air conditioned dog houses and prayer letters that go into File 13 (making sure that the checks go into the bank). And it bugged me considerably that here was a man of science who believed. Prior to authorizing the use of the lidocaine as a local anesthetic, the laboratory had to find evidence of its effectiveness and any known side effects and precautions discovered through controlled experiments prior to putting the stuff on the market. Imagine my dermatologist demanding this same rigorous peer group trial and error documented process of proof of the wisdom of approving lidocaine from his religion. There is not one shred of proof for his beliefs; he accepts them on faith, which only moves mountains when Jihadist or drone-driven terrorists plant bombs in the hills.
It was putting Bil's book out on the side tables of the reception room that really bugged me, really tempted me to go to a non-signatory provider of dermatological skills. If nothing else, Bil's faulty reasoning should offend a man of science, even an MD. Why would the worship of Baal be any better than the worship of Yahweh-Jesus? At least the Baal Cult was a true monotheism: Christianity is the worship of three gods, four if you count its begaboo Satan, Lucifier, George Carlin. The devil is the god of any people you personally dislike.
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There is no god - right.
So he is a good doctor - despite his religious beliefs? As long as he isn't preaching to you during your doctor visit.
He's preaching by proxy making me listen to Joel Osteen, who is the most obnoxious creep I can imagine.
Sounds like time to get an MP3 player and listen to it in public.
Can you ask him to turn it off - maybe suggesting that you are so turned on by Osteen it's distracting, and ask for the tape to play in your car after you leave?
It's probably useless to tell him you find this display offensive. The fact that he has placed it where his patients will encounter it suggests strongly that he is "witnessing" and would even welcome being "persecuted" for his beliefs—it's a long happy Christian tradition.
When I was a teenager, I worked in a drug store next to a photoshop. The owner of the photoshop began to display Catholic statuary and pictures in his shop. Gradually these items took over and despite warnings from all his friends—including my boss who was also Catholic—that he was destroying his business, he couldn't stop. He had to close the store a few months later. People did not bring in their film with the idea of having a religious experience.
In a way, this happened to my own business during my "occult" period. Eventually, you wake up.
would even welcome being "persecuted" for his beliefs—it's a long happy Christian tradition. - what is the word for this - AutoSchadenfreude? Taking delight in one's own misfortune. I'm mixing languages there - there must be a better term.
Selbstschadenfreud? Suicide is selbstmörder, so it seems a reasonable formation.
You have a tough decision.
I'm changing doctors partially because of the same thing, but I have more reason to change than just religion. However, religion has become the final straw. In my last 5 visits, he has become more & more blatant in talking to me about god. He even said something to the effect that we will never figure-out the brain because it's the domain of god. Ugh! I think I'll bite the bullet and change within the next few weeks.
Thomson and Aukofer discuss this in their examination of dualism ("mind-body" split). This guy sounds like an "intelligent design" freak. Ask him why, for all the super brains we have had in history (e.g. Freud, Darwin, et al.) why have we also had the Mansons, Hitlers, and Pol Pots.
That a doctor would be proselytizing is reprehensible. If you leave, will you tell him that you are leaving because you feel unwelcome due to the religious proselytizing?
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Ten years ago, on Sept. 11, 2001, I lived in New York. Deeply saddened, mourning lost friends, and shocked to the core like everyone, I first did what I could to help others. In the days that followed, I gravitated to the city's museums, which threw open their doors and waived admissions fees, welcoming a population in mourning.
There was a new kind of camaraderie after Sept. 11, and I recall a sense that everyone around me, whether on the subway or in a museum gallery, was in the same state of mind, and we were all paying special attention to each other's fragility.
For me and for many others, the city's museums were a helpful focus in those days of intense emotions. Whether looking at Pre-Columbian ceramics or contemporary paintings, it was comforting to see that much art has been made over the centuries and across a great variety of media to explore how conflict, upheaval, and death are followed by the inexorable continuities of nature, social reorganization, and rebirth.
The loss has been profound, but 10 years later, New York is rebuilding, and lives have moved forward.
Since 2001, working in museums, I have learned that many people, and especially artists, responded to Sept. 11 by turning to art and active creativity, channeling the energy of their emotions into the process of making something.
Woodmere was recently given the magnificent, five-panel painting Aureole (2001), made in the aftermath of Sept. 11 by the painter and filmmaker Lynn Blackwell Denton, a longtime instructor in Philadelphia's art schools, including University of the Arts and Moore College of Art & Design. Like me, Denton was living in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, and Aureole was made there in the strange time that followed. It feels only right that it should be on view for this tenth anniversary.
And so, Woodmere has organized an exhibition, "Response, Remembrance and Reflection," which will be on view from Sept.10-18. With Denton's painting as a starting point, we have assembled an intimate collection of works that were also created in the aftermath of Sept. 11, including works by Charles Kaprelian, Peter Paone, Mark Salz, Bill Scott, and Stuart Shils.
We will also show works from the collection by Frank Bender, Julius Bloch, Diane Burko, Murray Dessner, Sam Feinstein, Louise Fishman, Frank Gorka, Razel Kapustin, Mitzi Melnicoff and Dona Nelson that seem appropriate to the reflective spirit of this moment. Nelson's painting Corner (1985) is a New York street scene, and the twin towers are prominent elements.
As director of Woodmere, I am writing this as an invitation to the community to visit "Response, Remembrance, and Reflection." Through the nine days of the exhibition, Woodmere's doors will be open free of charge.
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"Response, Remembrance, Reflection" is on view from Saturday, Sept. 10, through Sunday, Sept. 18, at Woodmere Art Museum, 9201 Germantown Avenue. Admission to the exhibition is free. Museum hours are: Tuesday through Thursday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m.–8:45 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.- 6 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. For visitor information, call 215- 247-0476 or visit www.woodmereartmuseum.org.
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Those of you who have been following our adventures in Asheville and Western North Carolina will know that James and I enjoy hiking but have had limited success so far in finding a really great hike. Chimney Rock was interesting but not very challenging (and crowded), we got lost trying to find the trails at Bent Creek, and Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway was a total disaster (our fault–not the location)!
Anyway, we decided to try one more time and this time we found it: John Rock Loop in Pisgah National Forest. We owe it all to a wonderful website: HikeWNC.info The website has a feature called "Best Hikes" which gives very detailed explanations of the hike, what you can expect to see, and also allows for feedback from people who have taken the trail (kind of a TripAdvisor for hikes). It also allows you to pick your hike by difficulty or special feature (i.e., waterfalls, etc).
I chose John Rock Loop because we only had half a day free and it seemed a good length (5 miles) while offering a variety of terrain. Since we had never used this website before, we decided to try a "more difficult" hike instead of a "most difficult" one.
This turned out to be a good call as the trail climbs over 1000 feet and is quite steep and rugged in some places.
The trails starts out at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education. Pisgah National Forest was originally owned by George Vanderbilt who donated the land to the National Parks Service.
(Mount Pisgah was the biblical name of the mountain Moses climbed to find the promised land. Our Mt. Pisgah was supposedly named by a "Scotch-Irish, gun toting, Indian fighting Presbyterian Minister", Reverend James Hall, in 1776. I have been unable to find out why John Rock is called John Rock.)
In 1933 Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corp and Camp John Rock was the first established in North Carolina. There is a monument to the men who stayed here and worked in the forest from 1933-1942 at the beginning of the trail.
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The hike is wonderful. It takes you over bubbling streams, past waterfalls, and through strangely barren forests before delivering you out on the large "pluton", or granite dome, that is John Rock. Unbeknownst to us, there is a shorter trail which can be used to ascend to the rock so we were rather surprised to find people there after hiking for two hours in total solitude!
The beginning of this hike is only 30 minutes from the Carolina Bed & Breakfast in Asheville, NC and while I would not recommend it to anyone who has difficulty climbing or hiking long distances, the more adventuresome will enjoy it. I have posted just a few pictures here. For more pictures please visit our Facebook page:
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By RAELYNN RICARTE
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August 5, 2006
Three public agencies agree that a waterfront park might not be possible without taxpayer help.
Neither the City of Hood River nor the Hood River Valley Parks and Recreation District have extra funds to pay the $45,000 of projected annual maintenance costs.
The city is climbing out of a $1.7 million budget hole and the parks district can only afford $53,600 a year to maintain almost 12 acres of parks and trails.
"It's going to take several years for us to get solvent and we need to fund police and other basic services first," said City Councilor Paul Cummings.
"It's a common challenge throughout Oregon that we have the money to build parks but not the money to maintain them," said Lori Stirn, director of the parks district.
The Port of Hood River already finances the upkeep of 63.6 acres for recreation along the Columbia River. Plus, the port board believes its fiscal share of the park plan was fulfilled by the donation of six acres valued at $1.7 million.
"Sometime soon we're going to have to be able to say, 'Whose park is this and how is it going to be maintained?' That's the nagging thing in the back of our minds as we move forward,'' said Christine Knowles, co-chair of the Park Development Committee.
On Wednesday evening, officials from all three agencies met at the Hood River Inn to discuss the issue. Their goal was to explore all of the available options and decide how to move forward. Also in attendance were Hood River County Administrator Dave Meriwether and Nick Hogan, finance director for the Hood River County School District.
Since all of the public entities owned green space, Stirn, felt their representatives would have valuable input to offer.
"There are some big challenges to maintaining the wonderful open space and park lands that we have. And that's what prompted this discussion," she said.
The group decided that if the voters were asked to approve a property tax for maintenance purposes, it should also include new ball fields. The parks district has an agreement to purchase 30 acres at the junction of Barrett and Alameda drives. The estimated yearly cost to keep the grounds in shape for heavy sports use is $200,000.
The preliminary conversation about a tax proposal yielded no firm numbers. The possible figures thrown about ranged from seven to 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation. It was also undecided about whether the levy should be presented just to city voters or citizens throughout the park district, which covers the entire county except Cascade Locks.
"We're talking about projects that benefit more than just the City of Hood River and I would not want the citizens of Hood River asked to foot the bill," said Mayor Linda Streich.
However, Glenna Mahurin and Ross Brown, members of the parks district board of directors, said residents in outlying areas would be hesitant to support a waterfront park.
"I don't think the majority of people in Parkdale are going to use this park and I don't think it's (levy) going to go countywide," said Mahurin.
Hogan said Hood River County had a history of nixing levies the first time — and then passing them on the second try. So, he felt that a reasonable request was likely to be approved at some point.
Renee van de Griend from the parks board believed that people were drawn to the rural area for outdoor recreation — and would be willing to support new opportunities.
"I just feel really strongly that all of the agencies need to come together and respond to the citizens. I think we can all work together and find a way to make things happen," she said.
The consensus of the group was to form a committee that pulled together some firm numbers. Once the financial amounts needed for maintenance of ballparks and a waterfront park is known, a decision can be made about whether to proceed with a levy proposal.
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It's june 28, so it's time for Fresh from the Oven challenge. This month it was hosted by Pei Lin a.k.a Mrs Ergül and it was a very good one. We made Turkish Pidé - a special Turkish bread for Ramadan.
We've eaten this bread before so we made it with a great delight as soon as Pei Lin posted the recipe. But then we had to make it again.
I saw it's going to be a big loaf but that didn't stop me to put it in my favourite 25x15 cm baking dish. Ivan had some good arguments contra but I had to do what I've put onto my mind. A little part of me knew I was wrong but it was out of spite ignored. The bread was rising and rising, and rising, and ... at the end we ended up with a huge loaf – 10 cm tall, 25x15 cm large. Of course I've whipped off some "I told you" eye rolls, but it was too late. And, yes, I was wrong. We had a huge bread but it was so creamy (because of the butter), soft and sweet, and simply delicious, that none of us argued. But we had to do the challenge again. No problem. No matter if the bread has the right shape, it is indeed so good that one could make it again and again without complaining.
This time we made half of the amount given in the recipe and we've got a great inspiration watching these guys.
So instead of scoring the pidé with a knife, we (Ivan, I've already missed my chance) did this with hands. Besides the dough is rather soft and it's easier to press it with hands than using a knife. This time we had a great shape and once again a great bread.
Turkish Pidé Recipe:
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- 4 cups (to 5 cups) all purpose flour;
- 1 and 3/4 cups lukewarm water;
- 1/2 stick butter (melted);
- 1/2 Tbsp instant yeast;
- 1 Tbsp sugar;
- 1/2 Tbsp salt;
- black and white sesame seeds for topping.
Knead the dough again until it is bubble free. Place a parchment paper on a baking tray. Take the dough to the tray and make it flat with your hands until it cover all of the surface of the tray. Dampen your hands with water if the dough sticks to your hands on this step.
Preheat the oven to 350F (180º C). Let the dough rise for half an hour. Then take a knife and give the dough square shapes going deep down or use your hands (watch the video). Sprinkle some sesame seeds on top.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) � A bus carrying teenagers returning home from a church camp in Michigan crashed yesterday afternoon about a mile from its destination, killing three people and sending 26 others to hospitals, officials said.
The bus came speeding off of Interstate 465 in northern Indianapolis, about a mile from the Colonial Hills Baptist Church that passengers attended. It struck a retaining wall as it tried to round a curve and overturned.
"They were not that far from home. ... That only adds to the tragedy," Indianapolis Public Safety Director Tony Riggs said.
The dead included a husband and wife, Riggs said. Authorities did not provide information on the third victim.
Indianapolis Fire Department Lt. Ato McTush said he did not have information about the third victim.
Riggs visited the crash scene with Mayor Greg Ballard before heading to the church. Riggs said there was no indication that the driver had a medical emergency and called the accident "a great tragedy."
WTHR-TV reported the bus driver told witnesses his brakes failed. McTush said police and fire officials had not determined whether the bus had mechanical issues.
Duane Lloyd told the TV station that he heard a loud noise behind him as he was traveling near the intersection and saw the crash around 4:15 p.m.
"I heard a skid. I looked back. I see this bus in the air and people falling out of the bus," Lloyd said. "I could have gone my whole life without seeing that."
Karen Woodard, a member of Colonial Hills Baptist Church, cried as she stared at the wrecked bus surrounded by pillows, water bottles and clothing. She said the bus was returning from a youth camp in Michigan and some of the teens had their parents with them.
"It's so terrible. I can't believe it," she said.
The Indianapolis Fire Department said crews had to free five people who were trapped inside after the crash. Four good Samaritans helped before first responders could arrive, including one man who helped pull the driver out of the bus, the agency said.
"People were stopping their cars. People were literally trying to lift the bus," Lloyd said. "You just try to do what you can do."
Fire officials said the bus was carrying about 40 passengers and that the injured included children and adults.
Nine teenagers were taken to IU Health Methodist Hospital, including one in critical condition. Four others, including three teenagers and a toddler, were in stable condition at Riley Hospital for Children, a spokeswoman for the hospitals said.
Many of the patients were suffering head, arm and leg injuries, fire officials said.
Roads near the scene were closed, and authorities were urging people to use caution in the area.
A hazardous materials crew was cleaning up diesel fuel that spilled in the crash.
Outside the church about a mile away, families gathered to hug and talk quietly as parents paced back and forth talking on cellphones. A yellow school bus with the church school's name was parked outside with piles of sleeping bags and suitcases nearby.


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Usually, solid fecal matter has been seen as worse than worthless -- stinky, dangerous, packed with deadly germs.
Guess who is fertilizing the food you eat?
You are.
Every time someone flushes a toilet in the Twin Cities, chances are the contents will end up on a farmer's field. In that way, the sewage system operated by the Metropolitan Council performs the ultimate in green alchemy -- transforming poop to payola, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports (http://bit.ly/UjSFbq).
"I don't use the word 'waste.' Nothing is a waste," said Harry Dessner, a southeastern Minnesota farmer who sells the human-based fertilizer. "We want to reuse and renew."
A new version of the fertilizer, called MinneGrow 5-4-0, just ended its first season of production at a plant in Shakopee. In Dakota County, a similar product -- a kind of processed human manure -- is growing more popular.
"We are very proud of what we do," said Carl Swaggert, who manages the MinneGrow plant. "It's a great story about recycling something that used to be a detriment, and it is now a positive."
Usually, solid fecal matter has been seen as worse than worthless -- stinky, dangerous, packed with deadly germs. It's the last thing anyone would pay for. But a transformation begins when the material flows into the Blue Lake sewage treatment plant in Shakopee.
On a recent tour, Met Council spokesman Tim O'Donnell said about 26 million gallons flow into it every day, enough to fill about 40 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
The sewage is put into huge tanks, where bacteria feast on it. Then it is dried. The material goes to a building alongside the plant, operated by the New England Fertilizer Company (NEFCO), which manages four sewage-to-fertilizer plants in other states.
Swaggert, NEFCO's plant manager, walked into the drying room of the MinneGrow plant, where a furnace heats the material to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. He pointed out the smokestack scrubbers that eliminate the mercaptans, the sulphur-containing compounds that give poop its uniquely bad smell.
"When it leaves here, it hardly has a smell at all," Swaggert said.
Last year, said Swaggert, a new environmental trick was put in place at the plant.
Flammable methane is captured early in the treatment process and used to dry the material later. Recycling the methane cuts natural gas use by 75 percent, saving about $500,000 a year.
The plant also got new tanks -- called "digesters" -- that allow bacteria to break down the sewage more completely, said Swaggert. He said MinneGrow is now a better fertilizer, plus it's less dusty and easier to apply.
And it's germ-free. At the end of a 10-foot-wide drying bin, Swaggert plunged one hand into a box of MinneGrow pellets, which sifted through his fingers like sand. The bacteria, which make up about 30 percent of the solid material in human waste, were dead.
Swaggert climbed up to a catwalk to watch as 40,000 pounds of MinneGrow spilled into a semitrailer, bound for farmers in southern Minnesota. One of them is Dessner of Kasson, Minn., co-owner of Sustainable Fertilizer Solutions, a distributor of MinneGrow.
Dessner said MinneGrow is cheaper than other fertilizers, partly because transportation costs are slashed when the fertilizer is produced locally.
Farmers who routinely work with cow and turkey manure are learning to work with a product from toilets. "I joke and I say this might be cleaner than your bathroom," Dessner said.
Right now, Dessner is facing one problem -- lack of supply. "We need more of the product. We would like to see this expand."
The fertilizer produced at the Met Council's Empire Plant in southern Dakota County is different.
It's not as highly processed and resembles moist soil. The plant has been producing it for 15 years, giving it away to a cluster of nearby farmers. From 2002 to 2012, output was increased by 60 percent to about 9 tons per day.
"It's a well-kept secret, but people who want it are getting it," said Bill Cook, who manages engineering at all seven Met Council sewage plants.
Cook said that "99.9 percent" of the bacteria are dead -- but it's not 100 percent germ-free like MinneGrow.
Jon Nielsen can see the Empire plant from the 200 acres he farms. He applies the fertilizer in the spring with an "industrial manure spreader," he said.
"I would say it's a little like putting on cow manure, only it's a little more earth-like," he said.
And the smell? "It smells a little soapy, a little bit like detergent," Nielsen said.
Human-based fertilizer is sold in gardening centers on the East Coast under the brand name OCEANGRO; and in many areas as Milorganite, produced by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.
There are no plans to distribute MinneGrow on the retail market, said plant manager Swaggert.
But there is no shortage of demand by farmers, said Dessner, so he is confident the use of human-based fertilizer will continue to expand to farms in other areas.
If it works well in southern Minnesota, he said, "where else would it be good?"


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Treasure Chest Thursday – Miei Tesori!March 18, 2010 at 01:43 | Posted in Carnival of Genealogy, family history, genealogy, Treasure Chest Thursday | 4 Comments
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My best treasure here on earth? My four sons. Each of them would by themselves would be a blessing to any parent. For me to have been so blessed has been joy beyond belief! Never, not even for one moment have we regretted being their parents! Four decent young adults now – but they were four rambunctious delightful boys growing up. We were never a wealthy family but we were rich in our identity as a family. I began my hobby turned passion of genealogy in order to teach my sons their heritage, to introduce them to family they had not met. When Valentino became disabled, all four understood we had to make changes and adapt. Later when I was forced into a wheelchair due to an injury, again they adapted. Whatever needed to be done, was accepted and done. Yes, of course they had moments they did not agree with or enjoy. We encouraged them to always speak freely and honestly even with complaints. We asked only they do so respectfully. Our lives revolved around home and church. They developed close bonds with one another. Yet they were typical brothers with disagreements, anger, frustrations. Their personalities like their looks were and are totally different. They could hardly be called "four peas in a pod." Still they loved one another then and now. A shared special bond that nothing will break. Each is opinionated and stubborn in their own ways. They voice those opinions freely to one another. Each is always eager to tell the other right from wrong, how to look, how to act, even how to react. But they are always brothers. They stand for one another against the world when it counts. And they love deeply. They are family, blood. They learned well the lessons of family we wanted them to know. Time, age, none of it matters. Only the bond of family stands the test of time. Nw as they look at the next generation in the eyes of children and nieces, they know well what family means. For me as a mother and grandmother, I could ask for no more. I miei tesori! These are my treasures! I thank God I was and am so blessed!
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You should be very proud of not only your sons but yourself and your husband. You were instrumental in instilling in them great values, morals and ethics and that is why they are such good boys. Ensure that you ask them to teach these things to their children so that you will be even prouder of not only your boys but grandchildren.
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What's News: Intel names Brian Krzanich as its next CEO to succeed retiring chief, Paul Otellini. U.S. jobless claims fall to five-year low. White House pushes for Plan B limits. Joanne Po reports. Photo: AP
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HOOVER, Ala. -- Pat Summitt still has a powerhouse team at Tennessee, and she's not going anywhere just yet.
That's good news even to the Lady Vols icon's coaching rivals after Summitt revealed in August that she had been diagnosed with dementia.
"Every day I can't wait to get on the court," the 59-year-old Summitt said Thursday at Southeastern Conference media day. "I'm not ready to retire. I may be old as dirt when I'm still trying to win games."
Winning games probably won't be a problem this season. Summitt's Lady Vols are unanimous favorites to defend their SEC championship.
Summitt would much rather talk basketball than about her illness, but she amiably fielded questions about her fight condition, sitting at a podium next to associate head coach Holly Warlick.
If anything, Warlick said, battling dementia has made Summitt even more focused and conscious of time management.
"She is fine, she is at every practice, she is heavily recruiting," Warlick said. "She is still our head coach, and she is doing a heck of a job."
Summitt's SEC coaching peers have rallied around her.
She's still just "Coach" to Nikki Caldwell, a former Lady Vols player and assistant who is now heading LSU's program.
"I see her as Coach. I don't see her any different than that," said Caldwell, part of one Tennessee national championship as a player and two as an assistant. "I see her as somebody who is still hungry as a teacher for the game, someone who still loves the game, someone who is still passionate about preparing her team for greatness.
"You're going to literally have to put Coach in a wheelchair and get her out of there. ... Only she'll know when it's time."
And that time doesn't seem to be anytime soon.
Summitt is every bit the coach when she talks about her "gameplan" for dealing with dementia.
"It doesn't really feel any different," Summitt said. "You get your gameplan and you go at it every day. You mix up things that you want to do day in and day out and go to practice, doing regular stuff.
"I don't think it's something that's slowing me down," she said. "I think if anything, it's revving me up."
She works brain teasing puzzles on her iPad for an hour or two in the mornings to keep her mind sharp, and Warlick said she even did a couple on the plane ride to Hoover. The daily business of coaching helps, too.
"It's not just doing puzzles, it's yelling at those players when they're not doing things the right way," Summitt said. "It keeps me involved."
Summitt smiled when asked if the experience of facing the microphones and TV cameras is as stressful as coaching, which she's done with the Lady Vols since 1974.
"I expected everybody to ask me about it," she said. "It is what it is. We will move on."
Her coaching peers and proteges would expect nothing less.
Georgia's Andy Landers said he went through shock and sadness when he learned of Summitt's diagnosis, then started the adjustment period. Talking to her, he said, "you realize that she's comfortable."
"She understands what the challenges are," Landers said. "She has excellent guidance and advice on how to meet the challenges. She's determined to do that, so all of the sudden you find yourself being a supporter, a fan if you will, in this fight, in this competition that she has going on with herself.
"But it's something that, it falls under the category of things you thought would never happen to you. I feel really good now about where she is and what's she's done."
Kentucky coach Matthew Mitchell got his start in college ball as a graduate assistant for Summitt's 2000 Final Four team. He calls that "the opportunity of a lifetime."
"The thing that people probably don't realize because you only see her maybe through the lens of a camera on the sideline when she's in the heat of competition, is she is such a generous person," Mitchell said. "She could've put me in a corner and said don't open your mouth for a year, and I would've been happy doing that, but she didn't do that. She really gave me responsibility and always made me feel included. That's what she's done for anyone that's ever worked for her."
In some ways, it's business as usual for the Lady Vols. They're the unanimous picks to repeat as SEC champions and is still one of the sport's statesmen.
"You think about what's she's done for the game of women's basketball," Mitchell said. "She's carried the banner by herself, singlehandedly for so long, we just all owe her a lot."
One group that shouldn't expect Summitt to ease up: Game officials.
"Don't worry about it," Summitt deadpanned. "I know those referees."


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NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has scraped away at some of the oldest rock it's examined and found the strongest signs for water it has ever discovered over its 9.5-year mission, scientists for the Mars Exploration Rover project said Friday. The scrappy little rover is now heading down Endeavour Crater's rim to Solander Point, on what is in some ways a brand new mission, officials said.
"We consider it 'Sol 1' all over again for Opportunity," said John Callas, the mission's project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A sol is a Martian day.
Just before leaving a spot called Cape York on its southbound journey, Opportunity examined a rock called Esperance using its X-ray spectrometer and microscopic imager, finding clear evidence that it held clay minerals that had been altered by water – a whole lot of it. It's a far cry from many of the previous findings on Martian moisture, said mission lead scientist Steve Squyres of Cornell University.
"We run around talking about 'water on Mars, water on Mars' -- in fact, what Opportunity has mostly discovered evidence for in the past was sulfuric acid on Mars," Squyres said. "What we have here is a very different chemistry.… This was water you could drink."
Esperance revealed signs of water whose favorable chemistry and low acidity made it potentially very friendly for life – paralleling recent results from NASA's Curiosity rover, whose drill pulled up clay minerals in Gale Crater that were rich in the chemical ingredients necessary for living things, including low acidity water.
But this evidence was not easy to uncover, Squyres pointed out. With what he called a "gimpy shoulder," Opportunity was unable to easily examine the minerals. Mars dust and debris obscured the true nature of the rocks, and a dust storm and solar conjunction – when the sun's bulk blocks lines of communication to Mars – interrupted their attempts. After several tries, they managed to use the rover's rock abrasion tool to scrape down to a clear, unaltered spot.
"This was really one of the most technically challenging and one of the most scientifically rewarding targets of our whole mission," Squyres said, calling the results one of the top-five most important findings of the 9.5-year mission. "This was really, really hard."
But Opportunity is moving on from Cape York; its few yards of exposed layers offer a relatively tiny slit of a view into the Red Planet's geologic history. Instead, the rover is heading down the crater rim to Solander Point, which will offer about 10 times as much layering. Solander could provide more evidence for the type of watery environment Mars was – and how those watery conditions changed over time.
Meanwhile, Curiosity is headed to a much bigger target – Mt. Sharp, the 3-mile-high mountain the middle of Gale Crater whose layers could provide a deep view into Mars's geochemical past.
(Getting to important rocks has been the source of friendly rivalry between the two rovers in the past, according to Times science writer Eryn Brown's story on Curiosity and Opportunity.)
Opportunity is going to have to hoof it down south to get to its destination before winter comes, officials said. Without the point's north-facing walls providing safe haven during the winter, it may be out of work.
But the rover, launched in 2003, is getting up in years, Callas said. It's been suffering from arthritis in its mechanisms and a little 'amnesia' in its flash memory.
So while Opportunity has outlasted its 90-day mission about 40 times over, the team isn't taking the rover for granted, he said.
"The rover could have a catastrophic failure at any moment," Callas said. "So each day is a gift."
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"Jesse Stone: Thin Ice" Is The Fifth Movie In The Jesse Stone Series Starring Selleck
Multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award Winner Kathy Baker ("Picket Fences") Returns
Multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award Winner Camryn Manheim ("The Practice," "Ghost Whisper") and Emmy Award Winner Joanna Miles ("The Glass Menagerie") Join the Cast
JESSE STONE: THIN ICE, starring Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Tom Selleck ("Magnum P.I.") will be broadcast Sunday, March 1 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Selleck reprises his role as Jesse Stone in the fifth installment of the Jesse Stone franchise from Sony Pictures Television, which includes "Stone Cold," "Jesse Stone: Night Passage," "Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise," and "Jesse Stone: Sea Change," the picture for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. The movies are based on the best-selling series of books by Robert B. Parker.
In JESSE STONE: THIN ICE, Paradise, Mass. Police Chief Jesse Stone finds himself in trouble with the Town Council when he inadvertently becomes involved in a shoot-out on a Boston street. His friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, is seriously wounded and Jesse comes under investigation by the Boston Police Department's Internal Affairs Division, which causes him to be away from Paradise for extended periods of time.
Jesse further alienates the Council by firing the Paradise Police Department's most prodigious ticket writer, resulting in a considerable loss of revenue for the town. His issues with the Council are further exacerbated when a celebrated out-of-towner shows up in Paradise in search of her missing child, and Jesse agrees to take her case. His continued defiance of the Council's wishes now begins to jeopardize his very job.
Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Kathy Baker ("Picket Fences") and Kohl Sudduth reprise their roles as the only police officers in Paradise. Stephen McHattie reprises his role as State Homicide Commander Healy, as does William Devane as Jesse's psychiatrist, Dr. Dix. Multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Camryn Manheim ("The Practice," "Ghost Whisperer") joins the cast as Elizabeth Blue, a desperate woman in search of her child, along with Emmy winner Joanna Miles ("The Glass Menagerie") as a woman in Paradise who helps Jesse with his search for the missing child and Leslie Hope ("24"), who stars as a beguiling and attractive internal affairs investigator.
Tom Selleck received an Emmy nomination for his role in "Jesse Stone: Sea Change." Selleck won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his starring role as Thomas Magnum on the CBS series "Magnum, P.I." His other television credits include "Las Vegas," "Boston Legal," a recurring role on the series "Friends," for which he earned an Emmy Award nomination, the four-hour mini-series "Scott Turow's Reversible Errors," on the Network, and the television movies "Ike: Countdown to D-Day," "Monte Walsh," "Louis L'Amour's Crossfire Trail," "Running Mates," "Broken Trust," "Ruby Jean and Joe" and "Last Stand at Saber River." His feature film credits include "In and Out," "Three Men and a Baby," "Three Men and a Little Lady," "The Love Letter," "Mr. Baseball," "Folks," "Quigley Down Under," "An Innocent Man," "Her Alibi," "Runaway" and "The High Road to China."
Kohl Sudduth appeared in the television series "Grosse Pointe," "Law & Order: SVU" and "Sex and the City." His feature film credits include "The Banger Sisters," "Road Trip," "Bowfinger" and "Rounders."
Stephen McHattie's feature film credits include the upcoming film "Watchmen," "A History of Violence" and "Secretary." His numerous television credits include the series "Walker, Texas Ranger," "Beauty and the Beast," "Kojak," all on the Network, and "Seinfeld."
Kathy Baker won three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award for her starring role in the in the critically acclaimed series "Picket Fences," on the Network. Her additional television credits include guest starring roles on "Touched By An Angel," on the Network, and "Boston Public," which earned her additional Emmy Award nominations, "Chicago Hope," also on the Network, "Nip/Tuck," "Gilmore Girls," "Medium," The Cleaner" and "Grey's Anatomy." Her film credits include "Last Chance Harvey," "The Jane Austen Book Club," "13 Going on 30," "Cold Mountain," "Inventing the Abbots" and "To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday."
William Devane, an Emmy Award and Golden Award nominated actor, was recently in the television series "What About Brian," "Crumbs" and "24." His additional television credits include "Stargate SG-1," "The West Wing," "The Monroes," as well as "Early Edition" and "Knots Landing," on the Network. His television movie credits include "Monte Walsh," Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story," on the Network, "Virus" and "The Preppie Murder." His feature film credits include "Space Cowboys," "Payback," "Marathon Man," "Yanks" and "Family Plots."
Camryn Manheim won both the Emmy Award and the Golden Globe Award for her role as Ellenor Frutt in the drama series "The Practice." She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role as Gladys Presley in the mini-series "Elvis," on the Network. Manheim currently stars on "Ghost Whisperer," on the Network. Her other television credits include the series "How I Met Your Mother," "Two and a Half Men" and "Chicago Hope," all on CBS, "The L Word," "Will & Grace," "Ally McBeal" and "Gideon's Crossing." Her feature film credits include "An Unfinished Life," "Dark Water," "Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School," "Scary Movie 3," "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion," "Happiness" and "The Road to Wellville." She recently completed shooting "Slipstream," a film written and directed by Anthony Hopkins. Manheim's long list of additional theater credits includes "Romeo & Juliet," "Missing Persons," for which she won an Obie Award, and her one-woman show, "Wake Up, I'm Fat!," which was also a New York Times best-selling book.
Leslie Hope appeared in the television series "Runaway," "Commander in Chief," "Everwood," "House," "24," "Private Practice," "Runaway" as well as "The Mentalist," "Knots Landing," "Chicago Hope," "The District," "Early Edition," "Judging Amy" and "CSI: Miami," on the Network."
Joanna Miles won two Emmy Awards for her role in "The Glass Menagerie." Her television credits include "Judging Amy," "Family Law," "Chicago Hope" and "Dallas" on the Network. Her additional credits include "ER," Strong Medicine," St Elsewhere," "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Cagney & Lacey."
JESSE STONE: THIN ICE was produced by TWS Productions II and Brandman Productions, Inc. in association with Sony Pictures Television. Emmy Award nominee Michael Brandman ("The Heidi Chronicles" and "Into the Woods") and Tom Selleck are the executive producers; Emmy Award nominee Steven Brandman ("The Heidi Chronicles") is the producer. Emmy Award nominee Robert Harmon ("Ike: Countdown to D-Day" and "Gotti," as well as the three previous Jesse Stone movies) directed from a script by Ronni Kern ("Helen of Troy"), Michael Brandman and Tom Selleck.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (Oct. 23, 2009) - Three first half goals proved to be the difference as the ETSU women's soccer team fell to Atlantic Sun Conference rival Florida Gulf Coast 3-0 Friday night inside the FGCU Soccer Complex in Fort Myers, Fla.
With the loss the Bucs fall to 5-11-0 overall with an even 4-4 mark in A-Sun play, while the Eagles improved to 10-5-3, with a 5-4-0 record in conference competition.
"Tonight our girls came out a bit flat and by the time we turned our play around in the second half, we already dug ourselves in such a hole," said head coach Heather Henson. "Tori (Head) had a quick shot that hit the post in the first five minutes of the match and if that goes in, maybe the match is a little different. That being said, after we got down, all girls continued to fight hard the remainder of the match."
After neither team found an offensive rhythm early Florida Gulf Coast midfielder Glna Petracco opened the score off restart rebound shot from teammate Amber McCall in the 22nd minute.
16 minutes later the Eagle attack was at it again as forward Lindsey Haw crossed a pass to McCall, who netted her first goal of the night in the 38th minute.
Just when it looked like Florida Gulf Coast would head to the half with a two-goal advantage, McCall converted her second goal of the half, - off of a late penalty kick - past driving ETSU sophomore keeper Megan Masch (Virginia Beach, Va.).
"Florida Gulf Coast is a team with a lot of speed throughout the field and they used it wisely in the first half jumping to their early lead," said Henson. "Now with this match behind us, our players need to focus on Sunday. We need to come out ready to play and pick up a win against a good team in Stetson."
Offensively, ETSU junior midfielder Kelly Brinkman (Clearwater, Fla.), junior forward Terri Miller (Cape Coral, Fla), and freshman forward Tori Head (Kingsport, Tenn.), led the Bucs with a shot a piece, while Masch posted four saves on the night.
With one final regular season match this season ETSU makes its final push for a spot in the A-Sun postseason tournament as it returns to action for a 1:00 p.m., contest Sunday at Stetson.
Currently, the Bucs sit with 12 points in league action, one spot behind Campbell who presently sits with 14. The Camels will take on league-leading Kennesaw State Saturday night.
For more information on the ETSU women's soccer team please visit www.ETSUBucs.com. Also you can follow daily post and updates on the official ETSU women's soccer team Twitter page at www.twitter.com/ETSUSoccer.


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Caldera de Taburiente National Park
Saúl Santos. Patronato de Turismo de La Palma
La Cumbrecita viewpoint. Caldera de Taburiente National Park. La Palma.
Clouds on the mountain slopes. Caldera de Taburiente National Park
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La Palma
(Canary Islands)
Tel.:+34 922922280
- Autonomous region: Canary Islands
- Province/Island: La Palma
A Canary Islands landscape with character
A number of streams criss-cross the palm-studded landscape of Caldera de Taburiente.
The most attractive feature of this National Park is its rugged landscape, the result of the dramatic difference in height. It is criss-crossed by numerous streams and waterfalls, and also has a significant presence of endemic plant species, including large expanses of Canary Island pines all over the park. Caldera de Taburiente is an immense crater surrounded by the highest peaks on the island: El Roque de los Muchachos (2,426 m), Pico de la Cruz (2,351 m), Piedra Llana (2,321 m), Pico de la Nieve (2,236 m), and Punta de los Roques (2,085 m), among others. From here, the terrain drops steeply into the crater in almost vertical cliff faces over 800 m high until a height of 430 m above sea level, with a difference in altitude of around 2,000 metres.
La Palma (Canary Islands)
It is situated on the island of La Palma (Canary Islands).
- Type of area National park
- Area 4.690 hectares
What you can do
- Routes around the Park
Access and surroundings
Cultural information
The National Park has a Visitor Centre outside the park boundaries, on the LP-3 road leading from Santa Cruz de La Palma to El Paso. The centre houses a permanent exhibition on the flora, fauna, geology and history of the park.
Environmental information
It is an enormous cirque with a diameter of eight kilometres and a difference in altitude of about 2,000 metres. It has the appearance of a crater due to its volcanic eruptions, landslides and the action of the water. Like the rest of the Canary Islands, the island of La Palma emerged from the bottom of the ocean as a result of several volcanic eruptions. The park contains excellent examples of geological formations and the most ancient lava flows on the island.
Information for visits
The National Park is reached on foot, although cars can go as far as the Los Brecitos viewing point, the Las Angustias gorge and the La Cumbrecita viewing point. The most recommended access is from the Los Brecitos viewing point on the PR LP 13 trail. There is a convenient 4x4 taxi service to take visitors up to the viewing point. To enter from the Las Anguastias gorge, visitors should leave their vehicle at the car park in La Viña and access La Caldera through the gorge. Finally, access from the La Cumbrecita viewing point is along the PR LP 13.1. This route is more complicated and tends to be closed due to rock slides, making it advisable to check the state of the road first at the Visitor Centre. More access information.
You'll find more information about the permits you need at the following links: Camping
Visitor centres
El Paso visitor centre
Carretera General de Padrón, 47
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It's Poetry Month, so I'm blogging at The Poetry Foundation, 4/2/12:
With nearly all pursuits, being a pro means you get paid, but in poetry, a professional poet is one who has paid quite a lot to attain that dubious title, with precious few seeing any return for their investment. Since I don't own a BA, MFA or PhD, and have never paid for a single workshop or sent a check to enter a book contest, since I've never coughed up any money to become a poet, in short, I can safely be called an amateur, which is fine by me. I join those legions who write poems when they feel like it, and except in extremely rare instances, I've stopped submitting to journals, since these are barely read anyway. Also, in what other endeavor must one submit just to have an overwhelming chance to be rejected? Talk about abject! Years ago, Clayton Eshleman's Sulfur taught me a few things, but that was years ago.
As an amateur poet, I enjoy meeting my peers, and in El Paso recently, I lucked into a gentleman who had a vaguely rhythmic specimen permanently lodged in his head. Poet and publisher Bobby Byrd will kill me for being in El Paso without seeing him, but I was only in the area for a day to photograph El Paso and Juarez. With no time to spare, I skipped out on Bobby, and at the end of that one day, I found myself at The Tap, a divey, old man's bar downtown. The dude to my left was friendly, so I talked to him. A retired Vietnam vet, he had spent 13 years in Juarez, but the increasing violence and extorting cops chased him back stateside. We did agree, though, that Juarez had its sweetness and charms. It's not just cops with assault rifles and flyers everywhere seeking loved ones. At any time of the day, it's more alive than El Paso, that's for sure. With its bustle and colors, Juarez reminded me very much of Vietnam, I told him, and he concurred, "But if they feel like shooting you, they'll shoot you right in the middle of a crowd. Even if it's sixteen bullets, they'll all hit you, with none hitting anybody else!"
After I admitted that I was more or less a writer, he said that he too wrote. He was a poet, to be more specific, "I've been writing since I was four!"
"Do you have any poem in your head you can write down for me?"
"Yes! In fact, I do. I'll write it down for you right now." And he immediately went at it.
Done, he motioned for the bartender to come over so he could declaim his poetry to her. She listenly patiently, though without much comprehension, even if there was no Norteno music in the background, yet at the end, she beamed in relief and shouted, "That's beautiful!" Before scramming away.
As he handed his poem to me, he explained how he managed to compose it, "I wrote this after my first wet dream. Yes, my very first, when I was already in my 30′s! I dreamt that I was back in Vietnam, and I was in a firefight, and it was one of those terrible firefights when you couldn't even think, when your mind went blank because you were so confused and terrified. My mind went blank, and I couldn't think at all, but suddenly the noises stopped, and I was in this hooch, and it was completely silent, and in walked six or seven Vietnamese women. You know, when I first got to Vietnam, I couldn't tell the women apart. The men, I could figure out, but the women all looked the same to me. I was sleeping with this one girl, and I thought I was in love with her, but then I couldn't tell if it was her I saw on the streets. Is that her? Is that her? Anyway, here I was in this dream, and in walked these Vietnamese women, and they were all beautiful, but I couldn't tell them apart, so I had to look at their legs. Suddenly, I could tell which woman was for me, because she had black legs!"
This vet was black, by the way, but as I started to comment how ironic it was that he couldn't tell Vietnamese apart, when racist whites, and Asians too, would say that they can't tell one black from another, he stopped me with volcanic irritation, "You have no rights to judge my feelings! This is my soul! My creativity! You're judging my art! You have no rights to judge my art!"
And with that, our conversation ended, but I still have his poem here. Like most, the chance of it being even slightly good or readable is very slim, but who am I to say? Nearly all of our poems are barely read now, much less in the future.


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So, i finally found it on a Chinese streaming site, I liked it, did not notice the VA changes really, and I like how they gave the story behind how Ken became 1st from last
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|2012-10-14, 06:20
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|2012-10-14, 11:07
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As someone who was a big fan of the first season, color me greatly disappointed by the first episode of lv2.
Really, this episode has nearly nothing close to the charm the first season had. Well, it was "interesting" to see how Ken went through his studies to get in the student council and all, but his interactions with Minase were borderline painful to watch. Really, there was nearly no flair in their antics, and it basically felt bland.
Meanwhile, I didn't have much complaint for Mafuyu's new voice, but Chizuru is definitely different in a bad way: she hardly gives any "nee-san" vibes in the pack, and it is difficult to imagine the S1 antics with that voice.
Good ol' Kurimi and Minatsu are back, although having them for just few minutes in the first episode isn't quite satisfying. I sure hope it isn't a reboot, otherwise we might get some snorefest...
|2012-10-14, 17:40
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Australia
Chizuru's new voice is awful. I expected to hear something different but not different enough that she feels like a whole new character. Like Klashikari said her Nee-san vibe is hardly there. No, just no. Mafuyu's was not much to my liking either but that's mainly cause I loved her so much in season 1. Everyone else also sounded a little different, probably due to the seiyuu being given different directions on how to handle the characters.
Comedy wise... I'll wait till next week when things are actually focused on the group. Either way I'm going to treat this as a different series from the first, even if it is a direct continuation.
|2012-10-14, 17:59
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Germany
Age: 26
even though I wasn't the biggest Chizuru fan in S1, I have to agree that her voice is really unfitting. Makes her seem "generic", even though that's a dumb way to put it.
I was fine with Mafuyus voices though, who was actually my favorite in S1. Maybe it's because I already enjoyed her seiyu in SnO and some other shows, but it didn't make me miss her old voice, at least not nearly as much as with Chizuru.
I loved the concept of the 00 episode, even though his classmate who works at the shop was pretty annoying. It was really nice to see how Ken gave his best to join the council and changed as a person overall. I got chills when he opened the door at the end of the first half and confessed his everlasting love to the councils members, already loved that moment in S1.
The song at the ending, dunno if it's actually the OP or whatever, was really great and gave me a typical SnI kind of vibe, which I consider very important. Especially since the art fails a bit to deliver on that aspect, maybe I'm just imagining things, but they totally overdid Kaichous hairstyle for example, I think it was a lot more subtle in the original show. Reminded me kind of a lion.
Seriously, a great start overall. I'm just wondering where they'll pick up with the next episode. If we assume that the previous 12 eps equaled 1 year, then Mafuyu and Minatsu should have to transfer soon if they want to continue the show from where it left off. I hope they won't just ignore stuff like that and go solely with comedy for 12 episodes, SnIs plot/romance is actually pretty awesome and I would like to see it progress somehow - allthough that's probably depending more on the LN. After this first episode I've found hope again that they indeed might not completely ingore it, but let's see how it goes.
Also, hopfefully the raws will show up sooner next week, I really hate streaming sites, allthough there won't be much of a difference in quality with this airing of course.
|2012-10-14, 20:31
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Staff changes are confusing. ANN listed that Mamiko and Ai not doing Todou siblings anymore. Will have to get used to new Chizuru and Mafuyu. And that new girl Minase gave me Kuwashima Houko's vibe. Her VA did really nice job hopefully more of her character will be in the future. Otherwise it was decent bridge episode.
|2012-10-14, 22:56
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Everyone sounded weird other than Ken and Kaichou.
Minase part is funny.
I can see myself shipping her with Ken.
I don't really like the idea of her also influence Ken to who he is right now.
It doesn't make the student council as 'special' to him as what I used to think.
|2012-10-15, 00:43
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|2012-10-15, 13:13
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The question was "How you feel when people say 'I'll pray for you' because something bad happened to you?"
In the end, it's a tough question to answer.
On one hand, the people that say these things to me don't understand that it means nothing to me whereas they firmly believe that their prayers (if they end up doing them at all) accomplish something that they obviously cannot. Of course, I would much rather they try to hire the best doctor/lawyer they could to help me out.
On the other hand, however, knowing that they are intending to pray for me to their god in a way that does not inhibit me from getting better means that they care. They certainly care enough to feel empathy for me in my time of need. It's not up to them to try to upgrade my situation on their own. They are not expected to pay my hospital bill unless it is their fault to begin with that I'm there.
So, while I would not like to have to deal with a chaplain coming to give me my last rites as I'm dying, I will appreciate every prayer, useful or otherwise, that people can spare. It may not do anything on its own, but I will be comforted by the fact that there is someone out there somewhere who cares about me in my hour of need.
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A. Call to Order
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1. Approve Proposed Rule Permitting Use of Technical College Student Identification Cards for Voting
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19.85 (1) (g) -- The Board may confer with legal counsel concerning litigation strategy.
19.851 -- The Board's deliberations concerning investigations of any violation of the ethics code, lobbying law, and campaign finance law shall be in closed session.
19.85 (1) (c) -- The Board may consider performance evaluation data of a public employee over which it exercises responsibility.
The Government Accountability Board has scheduled its next meeting for Tuesday, March 20 and Wednesday March 21, 2012 at the Government Accountability Board offices, 212 East Washington Avenue, Third Floor in Madison, Wisconsin beginning at 9:00 a.m. each day.
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Interface of Subler for Mac is very easy for use. Main dashboard enables easy loading of existing MKV, MP4 or MOV files, and listing of the files that are held in them. From there users can easily add new streams (more audio languages, new subtitles), remove existing streams from the video container (remove unnecessary audio tracks for example), or even edit data by adding new metadata which can even be automatically fetched from the internet database themoviedb.org. App also supports limited transcoding capabilities, all in line to enable your video and audio streams to be compatible with Apple standards. Those video and audio options can be tweaked in Customization screen that features tweaks separated in three main tabs – General, Sets and Audio (downmix to stereo or surround, with user-selectable bitrate per channel).
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2011-12: Competed and set season-highs in the 800m (2:18.68), 1000m (3:04.42), 1500m (4:50.67) and mile run (5:22.43)... made her ETSU debut at the Appalachian Invitational Indoor, taking bronze in the 800m final (Dec. 2-3)... took sixth in the 800m at the VT Invitational (Jan. 13-14)... won the bronze medal in the mile run at the 34th annual Niswonger Invitational (Jan. 27-28)... had an outdoor season-best finish of 11th in the 1500m at the Tennessee Challenge (April 7), and in the 800m at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships (April 20-21).
Prior to ETSU: Participated in track & field for two years at Mesa Community College in Mesa, Ariz., where she earned the NJCCAA 2010 U.S. Citizen All-American Cross Country Award... MVP of her cross country team in 2010, and MVP in track & field in 2011... ran personal bests of 2:15.97 in the 800m and 4:47.27 in the 1500m... went to high school at Mountain View High School in Mesa, Ariz., where she won two varsity letters in cross country and threee letters in track & field under head coach Bill Webster.
Personal: Born March 18, 1991... daughter of Anthony and Diane Peters... majoring in interdisciplinary studies.


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It would be understandable if Dynamo players were disappointed following Sunday's 3-1 loss vs. the Chicago Fire. The team is now on a four-game winless streak after not losing a match in eight straight. In only a month, the team has gone from first place in the Eastern Conference to a tie for fourth place with D.C. United and the Montreal Impact nipping at the heels. However, following Sunday night's match, the focus for Dynamo players was not on the match that just happened, but on the match that lies ahead.
"The way the last couple games have gone, it's almost like it's become playoff time in the sense that our descent from the top of the Eastern Conference has been fast," Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall told reporters after the match.
The top five teams in each conference make the playoffs. If the season ended today, the Dynamo would play Columbus in the Eastern Conference wild-card match. As the fourth seed, the Dynamo would host the match with Columbus with the winner advancing to play the first place team in a home-and-home semifinal series.
"We're still in a playoff spot, but we have to start winning games," Hall added. "We have to treat games like the end of the season, like we did last year. That's where we found success."
The Dynamo goalkeeper is referring to the run Houston went on toward the end of last season that propelled the club into the playoffs and all the way to the MLS Cup final. Houston went unbeaten in its last six regular season matches of 2011 and finished behind only Sporting Kansas City in the conference standings.
With seven games to go in the regular season, the Dynamo understand that every point is critical and that begins with Thursday's match against Salt Lake.
"Every point does count," midfielder Brad Davis said. "That's the mentality we need to have. If it ended today, we'd be in, but seven games is a lot of games and we have to continue to get points.
"We have a little patch here where we've been giving away some points. We aren't happy about it at all. Professionally, we have to turn it around come Thursday. It's a big game and we better come out with some fight and some spirit and win that game."


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It's possible to pare down the gist of "Magna Carta Holy Grail," the 12th solo studio album from New York rapper/businessman/new dad Jay-Z, to three simple words uttered in a track called "Tom Ford."
"I'm so special," declares the rapper, 43, and anyone who stayed up late Wednesday night to hear the record, issued first through a computer app available only to owners of a particular brand of smartphone, isn't in a position to argue. He's the man who can sell a million records with a minion's flip of a switch.
In addition to his wife being Beyoncé, what kind of "so special" is the man born Shawn Carter, exactly? Oh, he could go on and on. "It's Bordeauxs and Burgundies," he explains (dismissing Riesling in the process), while a minimal rhythm snaps around him. He later adds that he's the type of guy who'll spend "all my euros on tuxes and weird clothes — I party with weirdos."
Jay-Z partying with weirdos is always a good thing, especially if said sonic freak is Timbaland, a producer responsible for some of the best beats of the past two decades. The team is best known for an early Jay-Z classic, "Big Pimpin'," among others, but they had a falling out a few years ago. They've reconciled and harnessed this creative juice to construct some truly cool tracks — while lyrically traveling the world.
"Parades down Flatbush, confetti in my fur," raps Jay-Z on "F.U.T.W.," a lyrically disposable but aurally pleasing jam about winning, destiny and many other tropes he's tossed over two decades as a professional. On "Oceans," produced by Pharrell, Jay-Z and Frank Ocean roll on a yacht off the coast of Africa while pondering the lives of the ancestors who centuries ago traveled the same water on a tortuous route to America. On "Beach Is Better," he spends nearly $100,000 during a day along the sea.
Throughout "MCHG," beats jiggle with synthetic energy courtesy of the master of genre. Combined and at their best, as on "BBC" and "Heaven," the producer and rapper move with the coordination of expert magicians juggling Champagne bottles and knives.
They sample Biggie Smalls' grunt on "Jay-Z Blue," and its effect is spine-tingling. Justin Timberlake cameos and quotes Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the opening track. Jay-Z cites a line of R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" on "Heaven," begins the awesome "Versus" with a line from A Tribe Called Quest. He samples Faye Dunaway's "No wire hangers ever!" meltdown from the film "Mommie Dearest."
Like former protege Kanye West, Jay-Z shouts out the haunting song "Strange Fruit" on his new work. But unlike West, who samples the song about a lynching for a rant mostly about predatory women, Jay references "Strange Fruit" with respect to the power of its symbolism.
The lyricist also juggles names: Over a 16-song album that could have been cut to a dozen, Jay namedrops Julius Caesar, Pablo Picasso, Lucky Luciano, Mark Rothko, Billie Holiday, Jean-Michel Basquiat (and his graffiti alter-ego SAMO), Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson and the "Mona Lisa." He rhymes "Leonardo da Vinci flows" with "Riccardo Tisci Givenchy clothes."
But to what end? Other than to amaze us with his opulence, good fortune and undeniable skills, the answer is elusive. Despite its name, "Magna Carta Holy Grail" seems unconcerned with delving too deeply into either the democracy or the faith that the two objects symbolize.
For example, when he says, "Welcome to the magnum opus, the Magna Carta," he's implicitly connecting a foundational document of democracy to his new work (and making a play on his last name). But that's the only reference he makes to the pamphlet's history.
And the grail in English mythology was the chalice belonging to Jesus Christ's uncle, Joseph of Arimathea. Joseph, along with Nicodemus, took Christ's body down from the cross. In one version of the myth, Joseph and his chalice relocate to Great Britain.
For Jay-Z, this object, one rich with history and metaphor, is nothing but a fancy cup, one notable only because it's the Most Awesome Cup in the World, and only he can drink from it.
"Magna Carta Holy Grail" certainly is shimmering, heavy and at times sonically stunning, and Jay-Z can toss a brilliant metaphor like it's nothing.
But a true masterpiece harnesses intellect and adventure to push forward not only musically but also thematically. Which is to say, sure, call it a Picasso — but just don't compare it to "Guernica."
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As New Mexico continues to struggle through extreme drought conditions that show no sign of abating, ranchers, farmers, and even homeowners will increasingly have to make do with less precipitation and available irrigation water for their livestock, crops, and home gardens and landscaping.
A lack of water can also cause changes in ecosystems; for example, some poisonous plants and noxious weeds may outcompete grasses and other forages on rangelands, which can be dangerous for cattle.
New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service has a wide variety of educational publications to help New Mexicans face these issues. A new website, www.aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_drought/, provides easy access to the listing of these publications.
"Historically, people have accessed these publications through their county Extension office or through the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences website," said Jon Boren, NMSU Extension director. "But we wanted it to be easier for people to find the various publications that deal with issues associated with drought, so we created this new one-stop location."
Topics of these publications range from agronomy to livestock and rangeland management to home gardening and landscaping.
Subjects range from agronomic principles to help with farming during drought periods and drip irrigation for row crops; from various weed poisoning of livestock and horses to using byproduct food stuffs in grazing nutrition; and from landscape water conservation to how to build low-pressure drip irrigation systems.
The publications can be downloaded and read in various versions including html and pdf, and some are even available in eBook format for e-reader devices.
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Kazakhstan authorities have extradited Uighur schoolteacher Arshidin Israil to China, where officials have described him without elaboration as a "major terror suspect," according to Reuters and other news accounts. Israil and his supporters believe the detention comes in reprisal for reporting he contributed to Radio Free Asia concerning the July 2009 riots in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Israil, a native of Xinjiang, fled China after the unrest but was detained in Kazakhstan in June 2010, according to news reports. He was extradited on May 30 of this year, days after Chinese authorities censored reporting and restricted online discussion about ethnic unrest in Inner Mongolia--an autonomous ethnic region like Xinjiang.
The 2009 riots in Xinjiang marked an upsurge in unrest in the region, which is home to predominantly-Muslim Uighur, Kazakh, and other minority groups. Severe internet restrictions in the capital, Urumqi, and throughout the region continued for 10 months after the violence was quelled, according to CPJ research. Israil's detention is the latest in a series of punitive measures targeting Uighurs involved in reporting on the unrest. CPJ has reported on the sentencing of Uighur website editors Tursunjan Hezim, who was handed a seven-year prison term for unknown charges in 2011; Nijat Azat, Dilixiati Paerhati and Nureli, who were given 10, five, and three years in prison on state security charges in 2010; and journalist Gheyret Niyaz, sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2010 for an interview about the riots he gave to a Hong Kong-based newspaper.
Israil had provided details of a Uighur man beaten to death on September 18, 2009, while being held for his participation in the riots, according to Radio Free Asia. He fled to Kazakhstan where he was granted refugee status by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in March 2010, which arranged for him to be resettled in Sweden that April, according to a March 2011 report submitted by Juan Méndez, U.N. special rapporteur on torture, to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
International rights groups condemned Kazakhstan--a country where CPJ has catalogued systematic disregard for press freedom domestically--for detaining Israil and preventing him from reaching Sweden. New York-based Human Rights in China said China used the Shanghai Cooperative Organization--a multilateral security group including Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and China--to put pressure on Kazakhstan in Israil's case under the guise of terrorism accusations. Then the UNHRC reconsidered and revoked his refugee status on May 3, 2011, without disclosing the reason, according to rights groups and international news reports. Amnesty International said China and Kazakhstan had influenced the decision.
Official restrictions on Chinese media have intensified following calls in February for a "Jasmine revolution," and the October 2010 Nobel Peace Prize award to imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo. Israil's extradition and China's crackdown on reporting on riots in Inner Mongolia is part of a systematic targeting of ethnic journalists and sources reaching even further. CPJ's 2010 imprisoned census noted "a series of imprisonments of Uighur and Tibetan journalists that began in the latter half of 2009 and continued into 2010." Israil's detention, which like many of those cases lacks transparency and due process, bodes ill for other sources who try to shed light on ethnic minorities under Chinese rule.