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My dog bit a neighbor's dog on my property - legal question
So Friday night, I had some friends over. We were hanging in my front porch and I temporarily went in my house for one sec to grab a beer and use the facilities. When I went to go head back on my front porch, my 2 dogs (in the house) were barking crazy and I just assumed it was my friends being loud and getting the dogs worked up. I opened the door a crack and my smallest dog zoomed past my leg......turned out my meth-head neighbor was on my front lawn talking to my friends. Uninvited w her little Boston Terrier. My dog instantly clamped onto this dog in no time. He's territorial and this dog is constantly pooping in our yard. Like a ninja, I took a flying tackle and grabbed my dog's neck to choke him out before any damage was done. Even after I took him off and carried him inside my neighbor was crying and hollering and talking non-sense. About 3 mins later, I went nextdoor to her house to inspect dog and it had a small gash about the length of a quarter. Didn't feel it was my fault, but I said I'd take care of it and asked they wait until the morning to avoid a 24 hour emergency hospital. It wasn't that bad, I even helped bandaged the dog up and it seemed fine. Sat morning, I get up and go over to check on dog and they say they're worried and they're going to animal hospital. Annoyed, I said just let me know how it goes. I'm trying to not have problems w my neighbors and keep shit harmonious, that afternoon, I get a bill for $240 from the neighbor. No sutures, no stitches, no staples.....just a doc visit and a bunch of antibiotics. Still annoyed, but I'll take care of it. Don't want drama.
Today while at work, I get a call from my wife that they called animal services on us claiming all kinds of bullshit that my dogs are never on leashes and they run the neighborhood like they own it. ONE dog got out Fri and I grabbed him 12 feet out my door,,,,,never left our property. We ALWAYS walk them on leashes. I never invited the methhead on my property, especially w that dog. I have a "beware of dog" sign clearly visible on my porch. I no longer want to pay that vet bill.
I tried to be nice. I got stabbed in the back. My question is.....TX law, am I required to? My property, signs posted, she paraded her dog onto my lawn, they're playing dirty.
Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:36 pm
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So are they trying to get your dogs taken away or are they trying to get more cash outta you?
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That's what I'm unsure of. Animal Services just came by w a simple report of dogs running wild and the animal officer just checked our papers on their vaccinations and rabies status and went on his way.. If we hadn't had their papers, we would've gotten a ticket for tags being expired. He didn't show up in an animal transportation truck.....just a regular pickup.
He didn't even mention an animal attack. My wife is ready for war. I'm trying to stay levelheaded on the whole deal. The screwed thing is my wife has been bitten by their dog 2x (small nips) and we've always talked it all out, no authorities called. They only recently started walking their dogs on leashes. It took me 1.5 years to finally get them to leash their dogs up. They literally open the door and let their dogs run loose to poop all the time..... No freaking clue what brought this on.
I'm at a total loss what they're thinking here or how their claims are justified. We don't have a yard so our dogs are only out of the house when we walk them to the park or to the poo area.
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Google your city and county codes on animals. Oh look, this is what I found:
And since your dog bit another dog the neighbors might be considering your dog to be "dangerous." Then you might want to look at this:
There are numbers to call and they might be able to answer your question. Now, remember that they aren't lawyers and may not offer legal advice. I am not a lawyer, I just have time on my hands.
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And I noticed that you mentioned it happened in your front yard in the original post, but then claim to not have a yard in your second post. If you don't have a yard and your dog was not tethered then you may be fucked. I've mentioned this before but my ass was saved when a dog I was in control of bit another dog that was unleashed. That thread is here somewhere. They did bring on the lawyers, but thanks to advice I gathered from the legal forum on Craigslist and a copy of the quarantine report from the animal shelter I was able to squash all of that nonsense right away. This may be a chance for your neighbors to upgrade from the peanut butter to the ice.
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Sorry, I mean they're house dogs. We don't have a backyard for them to run around and play in. We do have some grass out by our front porch, but there's not a closed in area for them to play.
I think I might just say fuck it and pay the $240, but I'm not happy about it. Might be more trouble than it's worth. Knowing my shady neighbors I'll come out and all my tires will be slashed or something. Never trust a meth-head.
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Lawyers fees would amount to as much, I'm sure, not to mention the inconvenience. If I'm you though, I'd make sure that they sign something that says the $240 covers the damages. You don't want them to get a taste and then think they can milk it for even more. Let them know as well (after they've signed, natch) that if their dog is even on your property again you will call Animal Services. Since you were willing to pay the vet bill anyway, I'd just take that route as the easiest one.
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I cant really advise on the law side of things. I know UK laws and thats not gonna help.
Was her dog on a leash at the time? If it was then you will have to take full blame as your dog will be seen as the the one not under control. Even though she was on your property univited she was talking to your friends and all was civil conversation?...im guessing. Reason im saying this is because it could be viewed like she was also a guest with her dog. Does your neighbour have to go through a gate or a barrier that separates your property from hers?
Its a real fucky situation and i do empathise with you.
Unless your dog is getting taken away from you. I would write this one off as bad luck, take it on the chin and move on. In any case i wish you luck.
Oh and by the way "choking your dog out" to stop a fight! Such a wrong thing to do. I know it is a panic situation but you need to learn the rear leg flip or inside thigh pinch. Its safer for you and your dog.
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"Choking out" is a bad description. I applied pressure to his throat so he'd release. It's all that came to mind in the split second I had to respond.
I'm paying it and we're putting a fence up around the front porch to prevent this shit again.
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I guess my dog is just territorial of the front porch. He had to represent.
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Re: My dog bit a neighbor's dog on my property - legal quest
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this dog is constantly pooping in our yard.
Then you need to poop in theirs.
For balance.
And vengeance.
Mainly vengeance.
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I have weekening pain in the front of my left thigh. It actually starts at the top where the leg meets the torso. It is painful to sit and stand, and it stiffens when I sit too long.
I ran a 5k Saturday, and nothing was bothering me. This just started yesterday (Wednesday).
A little more history.... On Feb 11, I did a 10k (no pain). Because of circumstances (nothing physical) I was not able to run again until Feb 28, the Tuesday before the 5k. I do not run far at this stage; 10k was my longest distance this year. So on this Tuesday run I pushed past fatique and time off to 3.75 miles, hoping to stress myself a bit and recover by Saturday.
I felt this same pain in towards the end of that 3.75 mile run, but it was gone after a day. I felt no pain during the 5k and no pain after it. Now it shows up in the middle of the week.
Does anyone have an idea about this? Thanks!
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This stumped everybody, it seems.
Well, I saw my doc today. Xrays show "significant" arthritis. Yowsa!
Wish me well.
Thanks for your consideration!
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We all wish you well, of course, but there are many possible reasons for hip or thigh pain, the way you describe it. I'm not convinced that "significant" arthritis is the only possible cause, or at least the root cause. I might be convinced, if there is proof that what is seen on the x-ray can be shown to be directly and primarily responsible for your pain. An x-ray image is often a red herring that distracts attention from other factors of which arthritis itself may be only a secondary symptom.
Many people without pain show similar internal degenerative changes. It just so happens that people who feel OK don't need to get x-rays. When they do for some other reason, these "problems" are often found. Same thing happens when you take your car in for an oil change, and walk out with $1500 dollars worth of questionable repair estimates. If arthritis is your problem, and the degeneration is significant, how come you just started feeling it? Significant arthritic conditions don't just happen overnight, so you have been running with this condition for a long time. I'll bet the pain can be at least managed without drugs, if not sent packing for good.
You probably strained a hip flexor, adductor, or rotator, experienced some temporary inflammation, and went in for a checkup. Now, you have been gifted with indelible doubts about your ability to keep running. One of the worst things about x-rays, is they convince people that everything which can be seen, can also be felt. If this were the case, most of us would be on crutches. Don't get flim-flammed. There are plenty of people with arthritis who run, because in most cases, it is better for the joints than sitting around on medicines. In fact, there are a number of people out there who develop these problems long before they become active, and only find out about them when they strain something, and go for a checkup due to pain.
In many cases, the tight muscles that allow runners to bound hundreds of pounds off the pavement for thousands of footstrikes, exert tremendous pressure on joints when they no longer release during rest, causing inflammation at these focal points. The involved muscles produce pain of their own that is interpreted by the brain as coming from the joint - a useful evolutionary adaptation. This can resolve by itself, or via rest, stretching, and exercise, but there is more to know. Much more.
A hip joint, unlike the simple hinge joint of the knee, is a ball joint that must be held in place and stabilized by an elaborate network of muscles, tendons, and motor functions. Proper exercises, like the ones shown below, will help to fine-tune these motor functions. A proper diet and resulting healthy immune system should take care of the rest. Let's get down to some details.
Yes, I wish you well, but in a different way from many healthcare professionals. I hope that you are not persuaded out of your active life back into a sedentary one that produces even more problems. Don't be afraid, be informed. A great deal about the relationship between activity and pain, between exercise and arthritis, is sadly misunderstood. Arthritis is an auto-immune condition that responds to everything from improper nutrition to endocrine disorders, and is not a death sentence for exercise. In many cases, it can even be reversed with the right protocols, many of which I include in this post. First, some revealing moves to try...
While the above stretches and exercises are partly diagnostic and/or therapeutic, the nutritional aspects of handling arthritis need to be fleshed out some more. It's not just about taking glucosamine. In fact, the very concept of "taking" something for a condition is wrong. You may already be getting more than you can take of something else.
Hippocrates, who is often called the "Father of Medicne," as in the "Hippocratic Oath," was roughly translated as saying "let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food." He was not referring to taking any of 100 or more arthritis drugs out there. Such chemicals did not exist in his day. Instead, he was referring to the medicinal qualities of good nutrition, that the things we eat can be good for us, and that only the things that are good for us should be our food.
If you examine the average diet, even the average "healthy" diet, it is full of refined food-like substances that did not exist in Hippocrates' time. If he had been given a chance to weigh in on such things, he would have expanded on his advice. Perhaps he would have said, "do not let poison be your food, and do not accept an antidote for poison as a definition of wellness." Today's culture of food and medicine more closely resembles poisons and antidotes than medicinal food.
What we are eating in the Age of Arthritis is different from what most of us are genetically equipped to handle. Rapid population growth and the spread of industrialized agriculture have forced us to standardize on the grain, starch, and sugar-based diet. Even the animals we eat, are fed mainly a grain-based diet, reducing the value of their meat as food by changing their fat composition. While there are many good qualities in grains, these crops have survived the millennia because of built-in defense mechanisms that are diffcult to strip out, without throwing out the alleged nutritional "baby" with the bathwater. We tried this by refining grain products, also with negative results. We may have been unhealthy then, but we are fatter and unhealthier now. There is a reason for this.
While whole grains are often promoted as being healthier than refined grains, they contain more than beneficial micronutrients. They also contain substances that protect them from predators, including us. While a slice of white bread can produce some inflammation along with an undesirable rise in insulin levels, the gluten it contains can interfere with absorption of vital nutrients, causing us to eat more. We may think we are helping when we eat a whole-grain product instead, but a slice of whole-wheat bread still contains the starch and gluten. In addition, it can produce even more problems, because of the chemicals contained in the bran that protect the grain from predation, including lectins. Grains are not the only members of the vegetable kingdom to have this problem, but are in particular, a treasure trove of dietary no-nos. Hippocrates may have been able to observe these effects, prompting his analysis, but the science was unknown at the time. Now, we know the effects of a grain-based diet on inflammation, after thousands of years of the degenerative diseases we assume are inevitable.
So, first thing, resolve to cut your grain consumption way down for at least a month. Do this as a trial, with the commitment that you can phase these products back in when you feel better. Allow for the possibility that you may then feel worse, and will use the associated pain as your motivation to permanently alter your diet. Do not assume that "whole" is better, but containing good and bad things that may be tolerated by some, but risky for you.
Next thing, is to incorporate anti-inflammatory foods and oils in your diet. Just subtracting bad fats is not enough. To be able to live with your diet, it has to be enjoyable as well as beneficial, and good fats will help in both ways. Omega-3 oils from wild-caught deep-water fish top the list, and are also available from grass-fed meats. Interestingly, they are not well represented in grain-fed farmed fish like farmed salmon, even when the feed is supplemented with stale omega-3 oils and synthetic antioxidants.
Incorporate other beneficial oils by eating walnuts and almonds, coconut, including the saturated medium-chain triglycerides from fat-burning coconut oil, and use unheated extra-virgin olive oil (mono-unsaturated) as a garnish. Good fats are of many types and must be balanced. Cut way back on any vegetable-based oils and margarines, which are-pro-inflammatory. High-heat saturated or unsaturated fats from frying - in anything - are a must to avoid, because they become pro-inflammatory trans-fats.
You may have heard of the 100-year-old record-setting marathoner who runs ten miles a day. He credits his diet of tea and ginger curry, which contains two important seasonings: Ginger and Turmeric, both of which operate as mild but powerful anti-inflammatory medicines, using the same COX-2 inhibiting mechanism as NSAID drugs. The benefit here, is that the powerful taste of these spices makes it hard to overdose, so side effects of use are not a worry. Once again, let this kind of "medicine" be your food, and your lifestyle will keep inflammation at bay. Think of medicines vs. food as the risk of drowning vs. drinking an occasional glass of water. The risk of concentration is key.
FInally, a caution about allergies. Many potentially medicinal foods can provoke allergic responses, including what is happening to you now. Just as with drugs, not everyone benefits from everything equally, and some can suffer more. Phase every change in so you can observe the results. A shellfish allergy, for example, will contraindicate glucosamine. If you haven't tried them, a quality probiotic (intestinal bacteria culture supplement) in sufficient quantities to actually populate the intestine, has been shown to reduce allergies and improve intestinal absorption of important nutrients, by breaking them down and retarding the growth of pro-inflammatory microflora, and associated by-products of putrifaction. Research continues in this area, to better inform probiotic use and effectiveness.
To paraphrase Hippocrates once again, trying to remedy something we are simultaneously causing is not enough. Examine everything that goes into your body for its potential consequences, and you will get more out of your body. I hope you agree this makes sense.
By the way, the linked article above on medicines does a good job of placating the sponsors, but if you read on through the comments section, it is worth its weight in gold. Commercials notwithstanding, caveat emptor. Expect to be encouraged to "medicate." Expect also, to sometimes fail at any dietary revisions. As long as you are on target 80% of the time, with the exception of certain allergies and intolerances, you should realize 80% of the benefits. Deal?
Wow James. Thanks for the incouragement and info. And I haven't yet read the entire post. I'll digest it tomorrow.
I do have some questions for the doc when I follow up on Thursday. You have given me a few more, and some other things to consider.
Your post took some time to compose. It is appreciated, ....and you too.
Finish well!
James, you were correct right off the bat in your first paragraph. The orthopaedic doc looked at the xray, and couldn't understand how anyone could see arthritis.
In the meantime, an anti-inflamatory pill must have helped. I felt better every day, and after five days, I felt fine.
Last night I ran a couple of miles. I started to feel the same pain, so I stopped to stretched a bit, but not hard. I finished the two miles without any more problem. When I went to bed, I felt it a bit again, so I took the anti-inflamatory (I had stopped taking it Sunday). Today I feel fine.
The question still remains (in my mind) why that problem started four days after the 5k. Anyway, I'll be cautious for a while. Thanks.
Finish well!
Wow.. Hard to believe they were looking at the same image.. Was the other guy a GP? Most docs have the scans read by a radiologist, typed up and called an "impression." Depending on how much coffee they had that day (and maybe the bank account), "significant" could mean different things. Maybe he meant there was enough to barely be noticed, otherwise it would be "insignificant." But we and the GP might take that differently, hmmm?
Anywho, the Ortho probably reads his own, God love him. Probably lost a few pounds over that one, eh? I can tell you I've read scans done by one place and some by another of the same patient, and you'd think they were talking about two different people. Sometimes I think they are just gaming for follow-up angles. That industry needs to be cleaned up, methinks.
Back to the 5k, it's not unusual to have a solid effort stick with you for days after, even a week or two. Marathon burnout can last for months. A few weeks ago I ran an eight miler harder than usual, and it took me a couple weeks to shake it off. Was scared to do speed work during that period, but as of today, I seem to be back, if a wee bit slower for the rust.
Glad the combination of rest and meds seems to have paid off, and of course, for the good news. As long as you keep it light with the anti-flim-flammatories, you should heal quicker. Those things can do a real number on your gut if you get carried away. Happy trails, and keep us posted, Forrest.
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Streets that will be affected by the closure are Winder Road (from La. 1 to Nancy Court), Pamela Place, Parish Road (from Winder Road East to West Thibodaux Bypass Road), Trudy Place and Nancy Court.
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The Pierce-Streetsboro Library's book discussion club will meet Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. in the library's meeting room.
The group will discuss "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein, a New York Times best-selling novel. Light refreshments will be served, courtesy of the Friends of Pierce-Streetsboro Library.
Stop into the library to receive a copy of the book. For more details or to register for the program, call the Streetsboro library at 330-626-4458 or visit www.portagelibrary.org.


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STANFORD -- Stanford will need to go through UCLA in back-to-back weeks to win the Pac-12 championship, and at least for the first meeting Saturday at the Rose Bowl, the Cardinal appears to have a decided edge in motivation.
Just don't broach the incentive theory to UCLA coach Jim Mora, who took exception when a Southern California reporter tossed it at him for a response.
But first, here's the scenario in this compelling matchup of 9-2 teams. The 15th-ranked Bruins already have won the Pac-12 South and are assured of a spot in the conference title game next week, while No. 11 Stanford -- tied with Oregon atop the Pac-12 North but holding the tiebreaker edge -- probably has to beat UCLA to get there.
If Oregon wins at Oregon State, a game that starts at noon, UCLA would face an interesting situation. If it then beats Stanford, it would have to travel to Oregon for the Pac-12 title game next Friday. If it loses, it would travel to Stanford.
Moreover, the only real perk UCLA can get by beating the Cardinal relies upon an Oregon State win over the Ducks, which would net the Bruins home-field advantage in the title game against Stanford.
So, back to Mora. Last Sunday in a media briefing, a reporter at least intimated that UCLA has little to play for this weekend and might even be in a better position with a loss.
"Are you serious?" Mora asked the reporter. "No. Are you talking about thinking about losing a game this Saturday? No, no, no. Come on. Jiminy Christmas. If I thought that way, I should never be in this business."
Mora has a point. More important for the Bruins than arranging their most favorable matchup would seem to be sustaining their tremendous roll. Since a 43-17 drubbing at Cal on Oct. 6, UCLA has reeled off five consecutive victories for the first time since 2005, including last Saturday's 38-28 win over USC.
With redshirt freshman quarterback Brett Hundley taking his game to a higher level, UCLA has posted Oregon-like point totals the past four weeks, averaging 48.3 a game, albeit against shaky competition until USC.
As for motivation, Mora tried to put that to rest in one sentence.
"This team's motivation is to win as many games as it can and be playing its best football at the end of the season," he said.
Of course, Stanford's incentive would be similarly diminished if Oregon State beats Oregon, and that result should be known by the time the Cardinal and Bruins take the field. At that point, the latter two teams would be playing for home-field advantage in the title game that awards the winner a BCS spot in the Rose Bowl.
The trickier piece of the puzzle for Stanford would be trying to beat a tough conference foe twice in six days. Coach David Shaw's view on that this week was predictable -- one game at a time.
"As a group, we're only worried about this game," Shaw said. "We can't worry about next week. For right now, we have one game this week and if we play it well enough, we'll earn another one, and we'll deal with that when and if that happens."
That said, the Stanford coach noted he thinks his program is well-equipped to handle the same opponent in a back-to-back scenario.
"That's why I love the way my staff is built right now," Shaw said. "We have some NFL guys here that know how to prepare a team twice in one year. You have to do that in divisional games, so that's why I'm not worried about that next game."
Of greater concern might be avoiding an emotional letdown after a huge 17-14 overtime win at Oregon. But senior linebacker Shayne Skov doesn't think the Cardinal will be flat after knocking off the nation's No. 1 team on the road.
"It's going to be another challenge, but we've had one goal in our minds since the season started," Skov said. "And this week is literally all that matters if we want to get there. Everything we wanted to do this year is dependent upon us winning this week."
That's not necessarily so, though, which is why Saturday might present nothing more than a perplexing prelude to the potential real showdown next Friday.


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Mike Tomlin: Ben Roethlisberger had minor knee surgery Wednesday
Posted by Mike Wilkening on June 5, 2013, 12:35 PM EDT
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger underwent minor surgery on his right knee on Wednesday, head coach Mike Tomlin said in a team-issued statement.
The club recommended the procedure to ensure he will be completely healthy for the start of training camp, Tomlin said.
Here is the full text of Tomlins statement:
Earlier today, Ben had minor surgery on his right knee that was the result of slight discomfort this offseason. We advised him to get the surgery done to ensure he will be completely healthy for the start of training camp. This surgery will have no long-term effects on his health.
Roethlisberger, 31, threw for 3,265 yards with 26 touchdowns and eight interceptions in 2012. He appeared in 13 games, missing time after suffering rib and shoulder injuries.
While Roethlisberger has started at least 12 games in all nine of his previous NFL seasons, he has started all 16 regular-season games just once.
Mark Kaboly, a Steelers beat writer for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, reported that Roethlisberger has fully practiced throughout OTAs perhaps indeed a sign that the procedure is simply routine maintenance, so to speak.


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The season came to an end for the Seneca Indians on Wednesday as they fell to the Strafford Indians 70-50 in sectionals of the MSHSAA Class 3 State Tournament at Bible Baptist College.
Seneca closed the season at 21-8 overall.
Running their press defense from the opening tip, Strafford (24-4) forced seven Seneca turnovers in the first quarter and pulled out to a 19-7 lead by the end of the period.
Seneca would recover, however, as it tallied 12, 14 and 17 points in each of the next three quarters, but Strafford's offense was ultimately too much.
"They were a really good team," Seneca coach Will King said. "They just jumped on us in the first quarter. They really pressured us hard. It kind of snowballed."
Grant Boswell and Blake Alexander combined to do most of the heavy lifting for Strafford as they each scored 16 points, while Jacob Wade added 10, Dallas Hester six, Brady Collier five, Dylan Edwards eight, Dalton Taylor four and Kyle Foley five.
Despite the loss, King said he couldn't be happier with the performance of his team this season.
"I'm really proud of this team," King said. "They're a great group. Very unselfish, they all got along great all year. You can't take things away from them — conference champions, district champions. They're just a fun group and they've been great all year."
Kyler Ng paced the Indians in his final game with 18 points, while Chance Smith added 15, Elias Roelfsema six, Jason Mendoza two, Seth Harris three, Bradley Jumper two and Logan St. Clair four.
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Montalvin Manor is a case study of the changing face of America's suburbs, and Bob Van Bibber has been a witness to most of its six decades of history, as well as a tireless advocate for the people who call it home.
The 66-year-old retired landfill bulldozer operator was 12 when his family moved in 1958 to what was then a mostly white, working-class community, where he hunted ducks, frequented the local teen center and attended family picnics in Montalvin Park.
Today, the unincorporated West Contra Costa community of about 3,000 people is among the most diverse in the county. Most of the families from the days when Van Bibber met his future wife in sixth grade at Montalvin School are gone, many of the houses bought by investors who turned them into rental properties.
"My folks lived here, her folks lived here, and we stayed over the years," Van Bibber said. "I felt it was a part of my life."
Montalvin Manor is a stone's throw from San Pablo Bay but separated by two sets of railroad tracks. One blocks the view of the bay and separates the neighborhood from the MonTaraBay community center it shares with two other communities; and along the shore, tracks that carry Amtrak and freight trains also attract children bored by Montalvin's lack of recreational opportunities, with sometimes deadly results.
Sandwiched between the two railroad rights of way is a sliver of industrial property with a creek, across the Richmond city line. For more than a decade, Van Bibber prodded authorities to do something about the perennial flooding during wet weather near some low-lying houses on Lettia Road.
Years of finger-pointing among the county, Richmond, Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroads and the private landowner culminated in a lawsuit by some homeowners against the county and a slew of cross-complaints among the other parties. Finally, a resolution appears at hand.
In September, a judge found that the flooding was the result of sediment buildup and vegetation in the creek channel and the neglect of the landowner, and ordered Point Pinole to clear the channel.
The decision likely was influenced, at least in part, by Van Bibber's testimony.
"When I was subpoenaed, they asked me if I had ever witnessed a trench between the two sets of railroad tracks," Van Bibber said. "I told them it was a drainage ditch to the bay, a trench about 15 to 20 feet wide, and I used to stand in there and hunt ducks as a young man."
Montalvin Manor has had its share of quality-of-life issues in recent decades. Graffiti, much of it gang-related, in public areas. Drug-dealing and vandalism in the park. Truckloads of trash and debris illegally dumped at night. Meanwhile, police protection, from a resource-depleted Contra Costa Sheriff's Office, has been sparse.
"For years and years and years, they were putting Montalvin on the back burner," Van Bibber said. "Montalvin needed help. The people needed help."
The situation took a turn for the better in 2001 when changing population patterns triggered a redrawing of county supervisorial boundaries that placed it in District 1, represented by John Gioia, of Richmond. In 2003, the county, at Gioia's initiative, formed the Montalvin Manor Redevelopment Project, with an advisory committee that included Van Bibber and four other residents.
Gioia knew Van Bibber from the late 1980s when Gioia was a pro bono lawyer for the Pinole-Hercules Little League. Van Bibber was a league official, and his two daughters were players.
"Bob was one of the active leaders," Gioia said. "He's always been a strong community activist, not just on behalf of streets and sidewalks, but on behalf of young people.
"When my district's boundaries changed, and included Montalvin Manor, I began to hear from him about problems in the community."
During Van Bibber's years with the advisory committee, the county launched a program to bring houses up to code and removed a barricade that had impeded sheriff's deputies from driving into the park. The county redevelopment agency rebuilt Kay Road, a major feeder road into the community; subsidized sidewalk repair; built a barrier fence along San Pablo Avenue; and replaced a play structure in the park that had been torched by vandals.
"He's a good fighter for the community, always has been," a neighbor, Doug Hastings, said of Van Bibber. "He gets involved and stays involved."
Van Bibber also lost some battles. One that stung was in the aftermath of the death of 11-year-old Ruben Anthony Torres, a sixth-grader at Montalvin School who was struck by a train and killed in 2006 as he crossed the Union Pacific tracks with his bicycle. Van Bibber and fellow resident John Bieth organized the drive to put up a memorial to Ruben in the park, but when Van Bibber additionally put up signs proclaiming Ruben Anthony Torres Park, the county balked.
"I was told to take them down or I'd get in trouble," Van Bibber said. "So I took the signs down, and I gave them to Ruben's mom and dad and grandparents.
"We all know in our hearts that this is Ruben's Park."
Contact Tom Lochner at 510-262-2760. Follow him at Twitter.com/tomlochner.
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CLAIM TO FAME: Longtime community volunteer and leader
QUOTE: "I live in Montalvin. If I didn't have a love for it, I wouldn't be living here."
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There's something to be said when your mom blogs more than you do. I've just finished setting up a Wordpress blog for my mom, who has decided to start a topic-focused blog called The Business of Photography. We'll probably put Adsense on it, too. My mom, the problogger...
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I was amused to find that Google Alerts reported that an atheist blog linked to my Ph103.Reflection, a page of notes I made when I was reading for the undergraduate course I took in theology. The blog confused my notes about the article with my personal beliefs. Since I haven't thought about this in a while, I figured I might as well explore how I feel now.
The difficult thing about cold-reading me or trying to characterize me is that I can always find similarities and differences. Let's take belief systems. I can talk about grace and the experience of the sublime. I can talk about dharma and reincarnation. I can talk about existentialism and nihilism.
And I can talk about faith: not in any one particular thing, but in life, in the universe, in the love that I constantly experience. I know very well that I can choose to view things another way--see only a dark and depressing universe--but I *like* having a friendly universe, and it rises to my expectations. =)
So people's opinions of me depend greatly on what they want to think and whether I feel like being agreeable or contrary. If they want to separate themselves and look down on others, they'll find many points of disagreement. If we're inclined to find agreement, we'll agree. I might not completely agree with everything they say, but I'll probably find a way of understanding.
This is why cold-readers find me so difficult. <laugh> Everyone is a mix of different things. I'm just more in tune with my contradictions.
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Scarlet lips float through a dreamy azure sky in Man Ray's 1932 painting "Observatory Time --The Lovers."
They are perhaps the most famous lips in the history of art. That floating kiss has become a symbol of the allure of surrealism and the seductions of Paris. But few outside the art world realize just whose lips those were: They belonged to Man Ray's protegee, muse and lover, Lee Miller. Their tumultuous relationship is at the heart of "Man Ray/Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism," an exhibition on view at San Francisco's Legion of Honor through Oct. 14.
A tug-of-war between art and life, sex and power courses through the show, the first focusing primarily on the relationship between Miller and Man Ray. Their chemistry seems to embody L'amour fou, the crazy, obsessive love that drives people to the brink of madness.
"When Lee left Man (in 1932, after three years together), it sent him into a despair that he expressed through art," says Phillip Prodger, curator of the exhibit, which was organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. "He made some of the most memorable pieces of his career in that period."
Indeed Miller's body parts -- from her eyes and neck to her breasts -- played starring roles in many of Man Ray's photographs and paintings, as well as in Miller's own artwork. Sensitively installed by Prodger, this sexy and unexpectedly moving exhibition features 115 paintings, photographs, drawings and letters created by these two American mavericks and members of their Paris circle, which included Picasso, Max Ernst and Alexander Calder. For the record, Man Ray wasn't the only one besotted with Miller. Picasso created six portraits of her, including the cheeky "Portrait de Lee Miller à L'Arlésienne."
"You can't really look at Man Ray and not look at Lee Miller; you have to look at them together because they influenced each other so deeply for so many years," says Miller's son, Antony Penrose, who loaned many of the pieces on view here.
"These are extraordinarily charged objects," says Prodger, "There's so much emotion in them, so much pain."
Though brief, the love affair was as volatile as the art. Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was the toast of New York City's Dada scene before he decamped to Paris in 1921. The ravishing Miller worked as a fashion model in New York until she landed in the City of Lights, determined to become a photographer and perhaps to turn the male gaze on its head. Full of chutzpah, she targeted Man Ray, aspiring to become his apprentice. But he rebuffed her initially because he never took students. She followed him to Biarritz and wooed him into making an exception.
"Miller was such a force of nature, such a brilliant artist in her own right, that she didn't stay an apprentice for long," says the curator.
Man Ray, like most surrealists, pursued his art in the carefully controlled environment of the studio, while Miller longed to take her mastery of photography into the streets to capture the world as an objet d'art.
Working side by side, they invented the haunting "solarization" technique, which wreathes objects in a ghostly aura, but their artistic achievements were soon eclipsed by their relationship woes. She wanted to find herself. He wanted to call all the shots. She was a budding feminist. Seventeen years her elder, he was jealous.
Like other surrealists, Man Ray often celebrated the female anatomy in his work, treating a torso or a bosom as if it were a sculpture on its own terms. While these images, such as "La Prière" and "Shadow Patterns on Lee Miller's Torso," are undeniably beautiful, there is also something dehumanizing about shooting a woman's derriere and not her face. The last straw was when a famed Parisian champagne maker designed a glass modeled on Miller's breasts.
"She had enough of being commodified and objectified and dismembered by art," says Penrose. "You forget that behind the breasts there is a person with a heart and a soul and a mind."
Miller began taking her own portraits. If Man Ray pictured her as soft and sensual, a sex kitten, she saw herself as muscular and strong, a heroic figure. She even deconstructed the fetish for breasts in a grisly collection of photographs depicting a severed breast on a plate.
"He saw her as an object of desire," notes the curator. "She saw herself as an artist."
She wanted to be her own muse, not someone else's. After she left Man Ray for good, he was a wreck. He continued to hold onto her in his art, using her image in countless works. Her lips and eyes, in particular, show up again and again. In one particularly damning piece, he designed a metronome with her eye at its center and invited art lovers to smash it with a hammer. He called it "Object to Be Destroyed" but he could never bring himself to follow through.
"His memories of Miller could never be destroyed," says Prodger, "He never really got over her, and in a way, he never really wanted to."
Indeed, Man Ray hung the canvas for "Observatory Time ..." above his bed. For four years, the first thing he did upon waking was add another brush stroke to Miller's red lips.
They both went on to marry other people, but never lost their spark. Eventually, they reconciled and became friends once again. According to her son, this later bond was "closer than anything they had achieved when they were lovers."
Perhaps most significantly, this exhibition shines a light on Miller's work, so often overshadowed by Man Ray's fame. Although the surrealists considered themselves experimental in all things, when it came to women, they were as traditional as the rest of the art world -- a boys club in which females were marginalized.
While Man Ray's mystique has lost none of its appeal, Miller remains a more mysterious figure, elusive despite the ubiquity of her body parts. Her son now hopes to set the record straight about the depth of her legacy to photography.
"She was a very profound person," says Penrose, walking through the gallery during a press preview. "What impresses me about her is her honesty and her refusal to compromise."
When World War II erupted and Man Ray fled to California, Miller turned her lens on the conflict as a photojournalist, capturing haunting battlefield images for Vogue. From the London Blitz to the atrocities of Dachau to Hitler's bathroom (she famously photographed herself in the Führer's tub), Miller's images testify to her bravery. One of America's first female war correspondents, she put herself in harm's way to capture the war's horrors.
"She went from being a fashion model to the front lines," says Prodger. "But witnessing those moments in history took a toll on her."
Miller was tormented by what she had experienced for many years. She sank into depression and drink, packing away her camera and art in the attic. She married surrealist painter Roland Penrose and reinvented herself as a chef.
Only decades later did the art world begin to appreciate the depth of her legacy. But it's her fearlessness that her son remembers best.
"I don't have any of her bravery," he says, "but sometimes I look at my daughters, and I can see a streak of the warrior. That comes from her."
Contact Karen D'Souza at 408-271-3772. Read her stories at www.mercurynews.com/karen-dsouza and follow her at Twitter.com/KarenDSouza4.
'Man Ray/Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism'
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OAKLAND -- Sam Fuld took the long road to Oakland, literally.
The center fielder was with the Minnesota Twins on a road trip in Kansas City Wednesday night when he learned he'd been traded back to the A's, the team with which he'd spent spring training and most of April.
He got up Thursday morning while the A's were spending their time finalizing the trade of Yoenis Cespedes and a draft choice to Boston for Jon Lester and Jonny Gomes, got in a car with his wife and three kids and drove six hours from K.C. to Minneapolis. He then packed up everything he thought he'd need and caught the first flight to the Bay Area.
``It seemed like the right thing to do,'' Fuld said Friday afternoon before getting dressed in the green and gold uniform he was reluctant to leave when the A's designated him for assignment due to a roster overload in April. ``The last 48 hours, 36 hours have been a real whirlwind.''
The A's must do for the moment without Coco Crisp, who has ongoing neck issue as he tries to recover from whiplash suffered while running into a wall pole in center field on May 7. And Craig Gentry (broken hand) is on the disabled list for at least a couple of weeks.
Fuld is the center fielder of the moment. He goes from Minnesota, where he was having a good season (.274) for a poor team (the Twins started Friday 48-59 and 11 games out of first place) to Oakland, where he joins the team with the best record in the Major Leagues (66-41).
``It's exciting. It's why any of us play the game,'' Fuld said of playing for a team with a solid shot at going deep into the post-season. ``Especially more so as your career extends. I've had a taste. There's nothing that compares to that.
``I feel like I played well individually in Minnesota, but it feels like there was something lacking. The longer we were playing, the further out we got, and it's a little disheartening. Every player dreams of being in a playoff place like this.''


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LONDON (AP) -- Senior British politicians and some of the families of those who died in the 1988 airliner bombing over Scotland will gather in London and Scotland for memorials marking the attack's 25th anniversary.
Scottish leader Alex Salmond will lead a wreath-laying ceremony at Dryfesdale Cemetery in the town of Lockerbie, where Pan Am 103 exploded soon after takeoff from London on the evening of Dec. 21, 1988. The terror attack, the deadliest to have taken place in Britain, killed 270.
Later Saturday, other senior Scottish officials will attend a service at London's Westminster Abbey.
In the United States, where most of the victims were from. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and other officials will speak at a ceremony at Virginia's Arlington National Cemetery.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Two officials have told The Associated Press that a U.N. helicopter trying to evacuate peacekeepers and civilians was fired on and sustained significant damage on Friday in the same restive South Sudan state where a U.S. helicopter was hit Saturday.
Rob McKee of Warrior Security said the U.N. helicopter was hit by small arms fire and made an emergency landing while trying to evacuate personnel from a base in Yuai in Jonglei state. A second official who insisted on anonymity because the information hasn't been released said the helicopter was abandoned and remains unable to fly. No injuries were reported.
A U.N. spokesman didn't answer a phone call or email seeking comment.
U.S. aircraft were fired on Saturday in Bor, the capital of Jonglei. Four U.S. service members were wounded.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Attacks across Iraq today have killed 15 people, including a senior military commander who died during a raid on an al-Qaida hideout.
Police officials said army Maj. Gen Mohammed al-Karawi, a colonel and five soldiers were killed when they stormed the booby-trapped hideout in western Anbar province.
Also in western Iraq, gunmen in a speeding car opened fire at a police checkpoint in the city of Fallujah, killing four policemen.
In the north, near the city of Kirkuk, an army officer and a soldier were killed when two mortar shells struck a military camp.
And in the town of Latifiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, a mortar shell hit a group of Shiite pilgrims heading to the holy sites in the city of Karbala.
No one has claimed responsibility for any of the attacks.
BEIRUT (AP) -- Activists say Syrian rebels have gained control of a strategic hospital in the city of Aleppo despite days of relentless barrel-bombings of opposition-held areas in the northern city.
Two activist groups -- the Aleppo Media Center and the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights -- say the rebels captured the hospital on Friday.
Aleppo-based activist Abu al-Hassan Marea says the rebels who overran the shattered building of the Kindi hospital in Aleppo included both conservative Muslim groups and al-Qaida linked factions.
The hospital is close to Aleppo's besieged central prison, which rebels have been trying to capture for months to free their comrades.
Syrian warplanes, meanwhile, pushed on with dumping deadly barrel-bombs on opposition strongholds in Aleppo for the seventh day Saturday.
BEIJING (AP) -- China's military has lashed out at Japan's plans to increase defense spending, accusing Tokyo of raising regional tensions under the pretext of safeguarding national security.
Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said in a statement posted early Saturday on the ministry website that China resolutely opposes the five-year defense plan. Under the arrangement adopted Tuesday, Japan would purchase its first surveillance drones, as well as more jet fighters and naval destroyers, and set up an amphibious unit similar to the U.S. Marines.
China's strongly worded statement reflects the increasingly hawkish stance taken by its military amid a bitter dispute with Japan over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.
Geng accused Japan of maintaining a "Cold War mentality" that runs counter to the trends of peaceful development, cooperation and mutual benefit.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia says one more person has died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 56 the number of deaths in the kingdom at the center of the outbreak.
The Health Ministry said Saturday that a 73-year-old, chronically ill man had died in a Riyadh hospital. He was among 136 people who have been infected with the virus in Saudi Arabia since September last year.
The ministry also says three new cases have been detected, including two foreign women working in the kingdom's health care services and a Saudi man.
The new virus is related to SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which killed some 800 people in a global outbreak in 2003. It belongs to a family of viruses that most often causes the common cold.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A government official says gunmen have attacked an anti-polio vaccination center in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, killing a medic on duty.
The official, Iqbal Khan, says Saturday's attack took place in the Ghundi village of the Khyber tribal region. The slain medical technician was identified as Ghilaf Khan.
The health center is run by the party of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and has been known for its vaccination drives.
Imran Khan last week launched the latest anti-polio campaign. His party later reported receiving threats from Taliban militants.
Islamic militants oppose vaccination against polio and consider such campaigns a cover for spying. They have attacked and killed several anti-polio campaign workers in recent months across Pakistan.
Pakistan is one of only three countries where the polio virus is still endemic.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is urging the international community to ramp up aid for the Philippines' typhoon reconstruction, saying "we must not allow this to be another forgotten crisis."
He met Sunday with key ambassadors stationed in the Philippines and urged donor countries to provide more aid in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the central Philippines on Nov. 8, killing at least 6,100 people.
The U.N. is raising $791 million for a year-long recovery plan. The Philippine government has separately launched an $8.17 billion reconstruction drive over four years.
Ban told reporters at the end of his three-day visit that the U.N. stands firmly with the Philippine efforts to improve preparedness and resilience to natural disasters.
HAVANA (AP) -- President Raul Castro has issued a stern warning to entrepreneurs pushing the boundaries of Cuba's economic reform, saying "those pressuring us to move faster are moving us toward failure."
Castro has legalized small-scale private business in nearly 200 fields since 2010 but has issued tighter regulations on businesses seeing as going too far or competing excessively with state enterprises. In recent months the government has banned the resale of imported hardware and clothes and cracked down on unlicensed private videogame and movie salons.
Castro threw his full weight behind such measures in an address to the biannual meeting of parliament Saturday, saying "every step we take must be accompanied by the establishment of a sense of order."
He blamed inadequate government controls for "creating an environment of impunity."
CAIRO (AP) -- The Arab League says it rejects a continued Israeli troop presence on the eastern border of a future state of Palestine, a proposal Palestinians say was floated by the U.S. earlier this month.
Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby said Saturday no peace deal would work with Israeli presence in a Palestinian state.
Palestinian officials said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry proposed Israel control Palestine's future border with Jordan for at least 10 years to address Israeli concerns about a potential influx of militants and weapons.
Aides to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas have criticized the plan. One aide, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the negotiations, said Saturday the Palestinians are trying to soften the proposal to shorten the span of any Israeli withdrawal.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- A planned protest for the right to go topless on Rio de Janeiro's beaches fell flat when just a handful of women bared their chests for the movement.
More than 100 photojournalists stampeded across the golden sands of Ipanema beach when the first woman took off her bikini top on Saturday to flout Brazilian law. Just three or four other women joined in.
Brazil has an international reputation as a country of liberal sexual mores, where nudity is not only tolerated but enthusiastically embraced during Carnival parades.
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I just hope that I'm right here. If not, please do not equal stoning ...
Have on my Windows Home Server (WHS) to run the PMS as the Windows native version of the view to the client is totally useless in my opinion. The PMS shows beauti everything to the way I've sorted it on my server and without having to put on my space of time.
Now I have the following problem.
In WHS are 2 network cards, as well as 2 separate networks depend on WHS (2 apartments with separate networks and IP ranges).
To this end, I have the PMS also 2 times installed in different directories.
I can now start the PMS, it assigns an IP address to determine and save the whole thing. All this, I repeat after the start of the other installation and forgive where desired, different IP address and save it as well.
That works pretty well so far and just as long until the server is restarted times. Then there are still 2 installations, but both saved only with the last settings.
The reason I've found, the configuration is in a stored on the chosen installation location independent, common directory.
Since I was asked why I did it at all, the option to select a new directory?
But now to my question ...
Is there a way to configure it so that each instance only their settings (such as IP address, shared directories, etc) loads, or, if this were not possible, you can then in an instance and access more than 2 different IP addresses to allow? Then I could just share only the directories that should be shared by all.
Option 1 would make more sense
I just hope I have expressed myself as reasonably understandable.


text: So I have been a member of this lovely establishment for a good while now (over 2 years). In that amount of time I have posted a whopping 16 (now 17) times. I spend most of my time lurking and being jealous of all the wonderful things many on here are doing and accomplishing. For what seems like an eternity I have wanted to write. More so as a hobby than as a profession. I am an avid reader and love getting lost in worlds created from minds of interesting people. For a good while now I have been kicking around a novel idea. Well I have finally decided to buck up and get too writing! I have begun outlining and doing some worldbuilding but earlier this week I just had to sit down and write this scene that has been lodged in my brain for a long time. At this incredibly early stage it would be the opening scene of the novel or maybe a prologue. Not sure yet but it will happen very early in the book. What I was hoping was maybe a few of you writing buffs could give it a quick critique. Mainly letting me know of any huge grammatical mistakes and just your general feel for the scene. I can take criticism and gladly welcome it. I'm hoping that I can be more involved around here and participate in the FF contests (I did one a year back and really enjoyed it) along with some of the great discussion. Sorry for the huge set up and thanks for taking the time to read! ______________________________________________ Fear gripped him. For many long months he had dread this day. Standing but a few paces from the dilapidated shack, his body had finally given in to the fear. The dark night and cold wind did not help his confidence or strength either. He just stood there as a frightened sheep did when it knew a wolf lurked in the distant brush. Curse my greedy soul! I could be asleep in my warm palace were it not for my pride! He thought for what might be the hundredth time that night. He had traded his royal silks and glittering jewels for a weathered coat and some breeches. Instead of his golden staff, he carried a wooden walking stick. Tonight he was not the Lord of Valanor. Tonight he was the faithful servant of Lord Mashiak and he was close to being late. The Lord of Valanor was a good distance from home. Only his most loyal subjects knew of this secret trip and even fewer knew of the danger. None knew of the purpose. None but those that were left inside the shack. Whomever the Emperor hasn't already gotten.... The shack was at the edge of a simple town. The town held no other significance than being the perfect place to have a secret gathering. The shack had seen many days and the broken shutters along with the wilting roof showed it had not aged for the better. He took one more deep breath, slipped his mask over his face, and pushed his way inside. There he found only three other masked individuals. None spoke a word at his entrance. They never did. He did not know their names nor their faces only their voices. They were not allowed to know for the Emperor's questions could make the strongest man wilt. Glad that he had not been too late he settled in to one of the remaining chairs. The other three all sat as well. One wearing a bird mask, lounged more than sat in his chair as if he could slip off to sleep at any moment. He always had that air of non nonchalantness, as if none of what went on at these gatherings scared him. Or at least he hid it well. The other two were like him. Scared and nervous. The Lord of Valanor could tell by the constant looks the dog masked woman gave over her shoulder and the nervous twitching of the tiger masked man's hands in his lap, that they too were aware of the dangers of this gathering. Plotting against men of power was never safe, especially plotting against the Emperor himself. The lord grimaced. He felt the same way himself, the same way he had ever since the Emperor's assassins had begun to lower their numbers. Nervous and scared. A sudden pressure snapped him out of his thoughts. It felt as if the air around him was slowly crushing him to death. The shadows in the corner of the shack seemed to swell. They stretched slowly across the floor as breath became hard to get. Then just as suddenly the pressure was gone, breath had returned, and the shadows had retreated to their corner. Now standing just in front of the shadows was Lord Mashiak. Immediately the four travelers hit their knees and pressed their fists to their brows. "Blessings, Lord Mashiak." They all recited at once. "Peace my servants. Rise and be seated. We have much to discuss." They took their seats quickly. Every time the Lord of Valanor saw Lord Mashiak he had the same thoughts and reactions. He was amazed every time by the immense size of the lord. He towered a good foot above every person in the room and the broadness of his shoulders reminded the lord of a large bear. The common thought that Lord Valanor had every time he was in the presence of Lord Mashiak crept into his head. This is what a real emperor should look like. "So few of you remain," he said with sadness as he too took his place among the circle. "It appears the Emperor's traps and snares have either caught or scared off more of my servants. Only four now stand ready to inherit the world." Lord Mashiak's voice was strong. The sound of his booming voice rumbled inside the Lord of Valanor's soul. Every time he spoke, it was with such an air of authority that there was no doubt whom everyone in his presence answered too. There was power in his voice. Dark, terrible power. "We must press on my loyal subjects," he boomed. "The time has almost come for us to strike. The Centuriot is but a month away." Turning to his right he asked the bird masked man, "Are the pieces in place? Will Kalanth be ours when the time is right? A smile crept across the bird masked man's face, "It will be ours Lord Mashiak. Our people will be in place and will be ready when the time comes." "Good. It is crucial we take the capitol immediately. Cut out the heart of the beast and it will die quickly." Lord Mashiak then asked the dog masked woman, "And how about the east my dear? Will we have the chaos needed?" Her voice came out muted and in almost a whisper, "It will be as you command Lord Mashiak." The simple answer seemed to be enough for him as he gave a slow nod in response. Then facing the tiger masked man, he asked with a sly grin, "And what of the Gamot, my faithful servant. Will the Gamot rise when called?" The Lord of Valanor heard the tiger masked man take a deep breath before responding, "It has been challenging my lord but I am certain that it will be yours to control. The Gamot is not easily moved but their hatred for the Emperor makes them easier friends." "We need them my child. All of what we do will unravel if Oligamot becomes an enemy." Lord Mashiak said with a firm stare. The tiger masked man seemed to shrink in his chair but he gave a quick nod that seemed to satisfy Lord Mashiak Turning to the Lord of Valanor, Lord Mashiak asked, "And finally my dear friend, what of the western armies? Have they been held too long in Kalanth's grasp or will they rise at the chance we will give them." The Lord of Valanor steadied himself before responding, "Yes my lord. We have not stood in Kalanth's shadow so long that we have forgotten our roots. The west will rise when it is needed." His response earned him a grin from Lord Mashiak. "Then it is set. A month from this night, on the eve of the Centuriot, the Kalanthian Emperor will be murdered in his own chambers. At that moment the world will be open for control. And it will be us who seize it!" All four masked servants grunted their approval. The One protect us if we fail. They had schemed, debated, and hid in shadows over the past year putting together the pieces of Lord Mashiak's plan. They had started with twenty men but now only four had survived the year. But they were a month away from bringing the greatest empire to its knees. And in the process killing a demi-god and taking his place of power in the land. As if reading the Lord of Valanor's thoughts, Lord Mashiak roared, "Prepare yourselves my faithful servants! A dark storm is coming. It brings change but not without blood and destruction first. We must break down what has been made before building what is needed. Stand strong in the winds of change and you will be rewarded. Leave now and know that when we meet again it will be as rulers of this land!"


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awwwh how funny my name is KIM lol lol lol --- i'm technically due with my 4th baby in November but because i've had c secs they normally do these at 38 weeks which means i may creep into october, my last baby was born last oct because he came at 37 weeks he was due 2nd nov lol -- here we go again hahaha xxxxxxxx
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HI Everyone,
My first is due 10th November.... have been waiting for this post to find out who else I can compare everything with etc he he!
I am really nervous too and getting back and boob ache alot!
Am bloated too, my work trousers are really tight and my bras seem to of shrunk any one else know when best to start getting bigger ones as dont want to waste money too early!
Sam x
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that is so weird there's 3 kimberley'/kim' due in november!!!
im due on the 12th,
kim, yeah the cramps are normal, bit like period pains? i had tthen really bad when expecting my first, i was super parinoid andwas convinced i'd miscarry even got doc to give me an earlyscan at 7weeks. bloating is normal too.
sk1975, my boobs are killing me at the moment too! trya warm fannel that helps me. dont start buying new trousers e.c.t just yet wait till ur squeezing into things as bloating calms down after first trimester, then its baby from then on out. lol at least thats how it was for me last time.
anyone having bad morning sickness yet?? i haven't had any just yet, maybe felt a bit queasy but nothing major, but if i mind right that didnt start till around 8weeks for me last time. lol
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Thanks for the tip... was all ready to go and buy some work trousers this weekend... cant do mine up....am wearing the summer skirt!!!!!! Bbrrrr!
Will defo have to buy a bra that i dont fall out of though.
I have not actually been sick yet but very strong sicky feeling when driving or a passenger and when forget and rush round doing housework etc.
AM dreading this morning I have to let my boss know.... my job is very physical- lifting of 30kg bags and boxes etc and i can not get away any longer with making her bloke carry and fetch things for me he he.
Thing is her sister is preg again and due in september and wow yesterday i had to listen to her moan and cry about how unfair it all is - IS actually nothing to do with her/does not affect her in anyway! She has a 2yr old that she cant handle and everyone else has him - me included in the office within her house.
However, when i tell her - her life is going be tipped up literally - is a small company and i basically run the day to day side of it she signs the cheques type thing. As due in November - worst time too as oct through when we break up for xmas is when it manic! Me thinks she going to have to learn how to take an order!
Moan over better go to work.... sorry for the rant am just very nervous to her reaction - could be jobless by lunchtime he he x
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hi all just checkin in to see how the november mummies r feeling. I am sick as a dog cant ditch this nauseous feeling and been getting sick every morn for last 3 days never had this with any of the other 3 so am a bit shellshocked lol OH says he has a 'gutt' feeling this is a girl and so far his gutt feelings have always been right but I'm still certian its a boy lol -- any1 else had boys and girls and felt different in their pregnancies or was it pretty much the same? Hope the sickness stays away for those who say they not had it yet xxxx


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Dr. Eddie Hooker is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Louisville and at Wright State University. His areas of expertise include emergency medicine, epidemiology, health-services management, and public health.
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Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.
In this Article
- What is bioterrorism?
- What are the biological agents that can be utilized for bioterrorism?
- What are the causes of bioterrorism in food?
- What are other sources for detailed information on bioterrorism?
- How can I prepare myself for a bioterrorism attack?
- What are the warning signs of a bioterrorism attack?
- What should I do if there has been a bioterrorism attack?
- How do I know if I have been exposed to a bioterrorism agent?
- Should I have some antibiotics on hand just in case I get exposed?
What are the warning signs of a bioterrorism attack?
Although the government continues to search for an early detection system for biological, chemical, and radiation terrorist attacks, none of these systems have been perfected. The medical community is advised to look out for unusual diseases not typically seen in the area. Other potential clues that raise suspicion for a bioterrorism attack include new types of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, because some biologic agents are modified (weaponized) to make them more lethal, unusual numbers of cases of a disease, and atypical presentation of diseases.
The general public should constantly be vigilant for bioterrorism. Events that might suggest an attack include a large number of ill or dead people in a small geographic area, multiple dead animals of different species, and patients with multiple different diseases, indicating a mixed attack.
What should I do if there has been a bioterrorism attack?
If you think that you have been exposed to a biological agent, the most important thing to do is to quickly remove your clothing and wash off your skin. Most biological agents cannot penetrate intact skin. Showering with soap and water will remove most agents from the skin. If you have already inhaled or ingested the agent, decontamination using soap and water may not help you but might help prevent exposing other family members or coworkers.
If the biological agent has been released into the air but you do not believe (or do not know) you have been exposed, you can utilize masks to help prevent inhalation of the agent. The problem is that standard surgical masks offer little protection. Specialized high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) masks are available that offer better protection; however, they are more expensive, not easily found, and should be fitted to the person using them.
The two most important tools used by public health officials will be isolation and quarantine. Isolation is keeping people known to be ill away from other people. Quarantine is keeping people who may have been exposed away from other people. The problem is that many times we may not know who has been exposed. In these cases, the public health officials will likely recommend that everyone stay in their homes and avoid all public gatherings. By doing this, we will isolate those sick and quarantine those infected but who do not yet have symptoms. Those cities that utilized this technique during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 had much lower rates of death than did cities that did not practice good quarantine procedures.
If there has been a bioterrorism attack, the first important step is to get information immediately from the news media as to the right course of action. For some terrorist attacks, it may be correct to try and leave the area; however, for other events, it may be more appropriate to shelter in place. With bioterrorism, there may be the possibility of transmission of disease from one human to another (for example, measles, influenza, avian flu, smallpox, plague, and viral hemorrhagic fevers). In the case of either a bioterrorism attack or just a natural outbreak, it may be necessary to avoid contact with infected people or just remain inside for a period of time until the infected people are no longer contagious. Again, the key action is to understand the recommendations from public health officials as delivered through the news media.
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