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Canton, GA - Jackie Eugenia Loyless Terrell, passed away on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at her home in Canton, Georgia. Mrs. Terrell was born January 10, 1938 to the late Julian Loyless and Freddie Loyless Whitcomb. She went to nursing school at Georgia Baptist and was a registered nurse. She retired from Haywood County Hospital's OBGYN Department. Jackie was a military wife moving and making a home for her family across the US and Europe for 30 years. She was a member of Longs Chapel United Methodist Church of Lake Junaluska, North Carolina.
Preceding her in death, in addition to her parents and two sisters, were her husband, Luke L. Terrell; a son, Marc W. Terrell; and a daughter, Melanie L. Smith. She leaves behind her son, Matthew Terrell and wife, Harriet, of Canton, Georgia; granddaughters, Charity Terrell Gilliam and her husband, Frank, and Sarah J. Terrell; great-grandchildren, Brady and Reese Gilliam; one sister, Net Thomas of Dothan, Alabama; and a brother-in-law, Joe Terrell and his wife, Frieda, of Clyde, North Carolina.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 on Saturday, October 19, 2013 at Longs Chapel United Methodist Church with Dr. Charles Wilson, II officiating. Burial will follow at Fincher's Chapel Cemetery in Clyde. The family will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. on Friday at Wells Funeral Home of Waynesville.
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Oporto Center Private Room
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|Travessa Fontinha, 4000 Porto, Portugal
|Property type
|Private room
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Free WIFI internet.
Includes towels and bedding.
The house has three floors.
-The guest room is in the middle floor. I have two more bedrooms guests on the same floor.. The rooms Share a bathroom, 1Wc and a fully equipped kitchen to prepare your meals.
-I live on the ground floor which has a garden and our guest can enjoy a barbecue. We have a dog that loves to play.
The house is located 300 meters from the metro stations of the Trindade. and Bolhão (this is the easiest to get to the house).
The house is located next to Rua Santa Catarina, is located 300 meters from the metro stations of the Trindade and Bolhão (this is the easiest to get to the house).
Given its exceptional location allows you to move on foot beginning to explore the surrounding area: from sights, shops / shopping, the traditional business, Ferreira Borges market, Avenue of the Aliados,, emblematic monuments, art galleries river Douro, Porto Wine Cellars and area nightlife.
Fast access and wide range of public transport.
- Subway: Line (E) directly to the airport. 27 minutes travel
- Train: Both train stations have direct lines underground. Campanhã 10 'and St. Benedict 5'
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House rulesDo not make much noise, respect other guests.
Keep the kitchen clean after use.
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Very lovely and helpful hosts! The House is modern and very tasteful, beautiful garden. Great location. I would come back any time!
Porto is a beauty of many faces we visited for 2 days.
I think it was the best choice to rent the accommodation of Paula and her husband Sergio. Both of them are excellent. They provided us with different routes through the map to explore the city and places for breakfast and dinner. They are a great couple and very nice hosts!
The room is clean and comfortable and simply tasty. It has also a chill out area in the wintergarden or the garden. The kitchen and the bath room have everything you need for a shorter or longer stay. A big plus is, that the accommodation is well placed in the center of porto. From the house to Mercado do Balhao it is a walk of 5 minutes (there you can get the best pasteis de nata)!!! By the way - for an excellent and cheap breakfast go to the Café Andaluza. It is on the way from the house to Bolhao.
We sadly missed the dog but maybe we can see him the next time! If we ever visit Porto again - and we will - we will definetly rent a room from Paula and Sergio again!! :)
This property is beautiful, well located, quiet, very comfortable bedding, sanitary impeccables.L'accueil is friendly, attentive and plans provided for access to the apartment or the one to visit the city very well want to faits.On return !!
Thank you !!
Ce logement est superbe,bien situé,calme,literie très confortable,sanitaires impeccables.L'accueil est chaleureux,attentif et les plans fournis pour l'accès a l'appartement ou celui pour visiter la ville très bien faits.On a envie de revenir!!
The room was very nice. The beds were superb and the kitchen and bathroom were also very clean. In addition, we received very friendly and welcoming and we got lots of tips.
De kamer was heel fijn. De bedden waren super en de keuken en badkamer waren ook erg schoon. Daarnaast zijn we heel vriendelijk en gastvrij ontvangen en kregen we veel tips.
Courteous host and great room
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The host couple was very friendly friendly and helpfulness. The room, kitchen and bathroom was very clean. It was a pleasure.
Das Gastgeber-Ehepaar war sehr freundlich freundlich und Hilfsbereitschaft. Das Zimmer, Küche und Bad war sehr sauber. Immer gerne wieder.
Really nice flat and really nice company. Paula and her husband are great. And their house it is very confortable and nice. The common areas are just great!!!!
Paula runs a quiet place, close to city center (7 minutes walking to main shopping street and 'mercado'. Good location. She is very friendly/hospitable and offers touristic advice after arrival. Room was good size, good bed and a nice kitchen en nice garden for having a freshly bought breakfast. Good balance in price and quality. Definitely recommended!
How do you say, your house in the heart of Porto's your colorful picture, warm and inviting, a thousand thank you for your welcome and that of Serge!
We felt like in a cocoon!
Comment te dire, ta maison au cœur de PORTO est à ton image colorée, chaleureuse et accueillante, mille merci pour ton accueil et celui de Serge !
On s'est senti comme dans un cocoon !
A beautiful room in a house very well located in Porto! Very easy access to the metro level. A wonderful stay and thank you to our guests who know how to receive to perfection !!
Une chambre superbe dans une maison très bien située dans Porto! Très simple d'accès au niveau du métro. Un séjour magnifique et merci encore à nos hôtes qui savent recevoir à la perfection!!
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Thanks to the creators of the incandescent filament lamp, we are able today to illuminate our streets, homes and businesses with the flip of a switch, thereby extending the "day" long past sundown. Yet turning night into day has not been without its drawbacks. Astronomers decry excessive light levels for obstructing the view of the skies. The International Dark-Sky Association seeks to educate the public about light pollution—the unnatural luminescence created by a combination of urban sky glow and glare—which it calls a "growing threat to the nighttime environment."
Nonhuman organisms can be affected as well. Research in Florida has shown that near coastal cities, sea turtle populations are often threatened by unnatural light. New hatchlings, which instinctively head toward the brightest spot on the horizon, confuse urban lights with the ocean's reflection of moonlight, starlight and bioluminescence in the water. Led inland, the young turtles frequently die from unfortunate encounters with cars or predators.
Some migratory birds that use the constellations to navigate at night are attracted to brightly lit skyscrapers or towers; collisions with or exhaustion suffered from hovering around such objects in confusion can lead to a bird's death or injury. The Fatal Light Awareness Program, a Canadian organization established to care for injured birds and to educate others about the problem, estimates that "every year, some 10,000 birds are killed or injured in Toronto's downtown core alone" from such disasters.
For all the buzz, little research has been done on other ecological effects of light pollution—for instance, its impact under water. One aquatic ecologist, however, is currently investigating the effects of light pollution in lakes. Marianne V. Moore of Wellesley College says these areas, along with coastal waters, are at higher risk than other habitats in developed areas because they are unshielded and openly exposed to light.
Beginning in 1997 with the freshwater zooplankter Daphnia, Moore and her research team explored the relation between light pollution and the species' daily vertical migration. Samples were taken from enclosures in Lake Waban, a suburban lake 16 kilometers southwest of Boston, at night during a new moon period (when no moonlight was present). Black plastic enclosures designed to block 96 percent of nighttime downwelling irradiance as well as control enclosures of clear plastic were used to compare a dark and light nighttime environment, respectively.
This study, forthcoming in the Proceedings of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology, found that "the movement of Daphnia was significantly greater in both amplitude (2 meters higher) and magnitude (10–20 percent more individuals) in the black enclosures than in control enclosures within the lake." Because the zooplankton responded more normally in the black enclosures simulating a dark night, Moore and her colleagues concluded that light pollution—as seen in the clear control enclosures—reduces both the amplitude and magnitude of Daphnia's movements near the water's surface. As a result, increased amounts of surface algae left unconsumed by the zooplankton could potentially lead to algal blooms and poor water quality.
The same fate could result if augmented light levels in urban areas cause changes in the behavioral cues of organisms. Daphnia, for instance, have typically relied on reductions in light at dusk as a signal to begin vertical migration. Nighttime light levels also determine the height to which they ascend. Yet as nighttime lighting becomes brighter, Daphnia may not be triggered to rise as near to the water's surface.
Are light levels within lakes really increased significantly by light pollution? Moore finds that they are. Her group has recently quantified how incident levels of light intensity vary among five lakes along a rural to urban gradient. Testing during the new moon period, Moore and her research team "found that the intensity of light pollution striking the surface of the most urban lake (Jamaica Pond in Boston), is similar to that emitted by a full moon and 100 times that striking the rural lake (Mirror Lake in central New Hampshire)."
In a related experiment, Moore studied the spectral quality of light pollution reaching lakes. The most prevalent wavelength found, Moore claims, is yellow light, which reaches the deepest in a typical freshwater lake (and interestingly enough "matches almost perfectly the spectrum of the most common type of street lamp—high pressure sodium lamps"). Moore will use this information to determine the depths to which various wavelengths of light pollution can permeate throughout a typical lake. Here's hoping continued work will shed further light on the ecological effects of light pollution.—Aili Petersen
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The Digital Video Pocket Guide is concise, easy to use, and is overflowing with the techniques you'll need to know to create great movies. This book is organized, like the popular Digital Photography Pocket Guide, into three chapters: "What Is It?", "How Does It Work?", and "How Do I...Tips, Tricks, and Techniques". Its compact size, organization, and detailed illustrations make it easy to find the information you need.In the first chapter, "What Is It?", you're introduced to the ins and outs of your DV camcorder. Author Derrick Story builds the solid foundation that helps you better understand the camera you have now, and will prove invaluable when shopping for your next camcorder. For instance, what is a tally lamp, and do you need one? What is the difference between the optical and digital zoom? Should you spend the extra money for a 3-CCD chip?Chapter two puts the tools in action. It maps out, step by step, a sure-fire approach to successful movie making -- including home videos, tutorials, and even short features. This chapter takes the worry out of organizing and lets you focus on creativity.Next, you'll accelerate your prowess by learning the rock-solid techniques of video experts. Among the tips and tricks featured in chapter three are how the pros shoot action video, arrange lighting for an interview, and capture clean audio. Finally, the Appendix is packed with well-organized tables and charts on a myriad of topics and includes: a color temperature chart, a guide to color correction gels, a table of everyday lux ratings, a handy cable connector guide, a reference for microphone patterns, and much, much, more.Completely indexed, beautifully illustrated in color, and more compact than those bulky books that never make if off your bedside nightstand, the Digital Video Pocket Guide is the ultimate shooting companion that will help your create the videos you want to show to friends, family, or even the world at large.
Derrick has been interested in photography since age 11, and a computer nut for decades. He's been waiting for years for these two passions to converge, and now that they have, it's everything he thought it would be. Managing editor of O'Reilly Network, Derrick focuses on Web authoring, digital media, and mobile computing. Favorite projects include O'Reilly DevCenters for Web Development and for the Mac. Derrick's experience includes more than 15 years as a photojournalist, a stint as the managing editor for Web Review, and a speaker for CMP's Web conferences. He is the coauthor of iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual and author of the Digital Photography and Digital Video Pocket Guides. Derrick also manages his online photo business, Story Photography.
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Digital videography is challenging and this useful pocket guidebook makes taking videos more exciting and fun. By following many of the suggestions and tips throughout this small reference book you will find it helpful when preparing for your next home movies. This is one of the few books dedicated to digital video. Most current publications like magazines keep you up to date with the latest gear but this book is more in-depth on the art of video productions. The author Derrick Story has written many books and provided photographs for countless others. The pocket guide is a series of small books that includes titles like digital photography, Macintosh Troubleshooting, Extreme Programming and over 200 other pocket guide titles. As a video producer I found this book very easy to read and understand and felt this reference book would offer any level of videographer benefits from this information. The book is broken into 3 chapters and one reference guide. The first chapter starts with "What is it". This chapter covers the camcorder basics and may other more advanced concepts including time-code, analog line-in, aperture, image sensor, interlaced video and progressive scan. I was quite surprised that these subjects were covered since these are new features found on the newest camcorders and the average videographer may not be familiar with the concepts. It is nice to read about some of the newest features and how they can benefit the end user. This first chapter is very comprehensive going well beyond the camcorders instruction manual.The second chapter covers the physical camera and its features, how does it work explain concepts and techniques for today's digital video shooting. The section on time-code and logging was invaluable. The third section is how do I...Tips, Tricks and Techniques offers 12 very helpful and modern information on what the average shooter may encounter. One concept that often overlooked in the wave of new technology is the fundamentals. The art of storytelling is true regardless of the latest and greatest camcorders and accessories. The author emphasizes the camcorder is just the tool that allows the individual to create and visualize your message. I found myself revisiting several techniques that I have used in my video business on a recent trip to Baltimore for the US Open table tennis championships. I took my camcorder and candidly interviewed several players and officials. When taping my subjects I utilized the walking interview tips in the final section. The ability to change background offered variety to many of the candid comments. I also used the technique of entrances and exits. This allows the subject to enter the frame follows them for a period of time and then let them exit the frame. This clean shooting transition is a bridge commonly used in movies and TV shows. Overall this book is very useful and I found several of the tips very informative. I recommend this book for the beginner and intermediate level digital video user.
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Book Review: "Digital Video Pocket Guide" by John Suda "Digital Video Pocket Guide", by Derrick Story, is another in the series of "Pocket Guides" from O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Like the others, (including "The Digital Photography Pocket Guide" reviewed here favorably a number of months ago), it is a well-written, comprehensive introduction to a technical/aesthetic area. This is a small, pocket-size book of 113 pages, including index, published on bright, glossy paper which provides brightness and contrast for its included photographs and makes it easier on the eyes for reading. I have been contemplating investigating digital video myself for some time and found this little volume to be a near perfect introduction for a couple of reasons. First, the substantive material contains about everything one needs to get a start in digital video, from buying a camera, to learning and understanding its controls and features, to using the equipment, and tips on how to get some quality production from the camera. The second reason is the unusual (for a computer book) author's "voice". Story's style is casual, friendly, clear, simple, encouraging, and even soothing, Imagine attending a 2 or 3 hour presentation by an informed camera salesperson who knows how to produce videos, who has the personality and presentation of Mr. Rogers. It's the substantive material which is most important however. Story walks the reader through the entire movie-making process, from start to finish. Even technical concepts like "black the tape", "bumping", and "zebra patterns" are made simple and easy to follow. The book has three parts encompassing explanation of the equipment, how to use it, and how to produce some quality product. There is an appendix of a handful of quick reference tables pertaining to color temperature charts, types of microphones, and other incidental matters. The best sections deal with learning how to shoot scenes including how to light a scene, and how to prevent wind from ruining your audio. There is a nice 10-step movie production checklist which details all one needs to start and complete a beginner's video project. For a small volume on a technical topic, this is an unusual good read.
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It is one of the excellent book I read on Digital Video and Photography, author did a great job of explaining the concepts very well and how it improves the quality of a picture if we implement the authors suggestion. I implemented few of his suggestions and got very good photos. It talks about Digital video and digital photography, but the same techniques can be implemented for 35mm cameras too.It is a must for a Beginner and Intermediate level photographer.
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I wasn't paranoid or scared about taking my kids hiking until I had my third son. How do you get past a fear that paralyzes you mentally? Maybe I am asking the wrong people, but I need to get past it.
The background:
Our 3rd son turned 18 months old today. He has severe (life-threatening) food allergies and has been in the ER twice for anaphylaxis. I have to carry a full med kit for him, wherever we go, including Epi-Pens (which I had to use during the second time). If I go places with my husband I am OK. We do hike with the baby, but stick to shorter trails (also because our 3.5 year old can do about 3 or 3.5 miles and then peters out). (I don't talk about this much in hiking forums or on my Trailcooking blog, but I do on my personal blog)
But I cannot find the ability to overcome my fear of being alone with all 3 boys on the trail. I don't know what I would do if he a reaction while hiking – and I was the only adult. Once you use an Epi-Pen, you have to get to at least an EMT asap, in case they need more – or need more medical help (his last ER visit he had to have steroid shots after all his meds – that was when we found out he was allergic to tree nuts…oh joy). With just him I could run, with a 3 YO along? It can't. If something happened on a family hike, I know Kirk would run with baby.
While Alistaire has had extensive allergy testing (life-threatening to peanuts, tree nuts and eggs, severely allergic to gluten/wheat and all dairy) we don't know where he sits for stings. I have been careful to keep him away from yellow jackets/wasps/bees.
I have removed from our lives/home/backpacks/van anything that could cause an issue in theory. Yet I live in fear of him grabbing a peanut candy on the trail or having to be THAT parent who nearly strip searches backpacks of friends for anything that could cause issues.
Anyone else with kids with TN/Peanut allergies? How do you get over the fear? I feel blue at times. I backpacked with my oldest son so many nights I can't put a count on it (he is nearly 16 now). Yet, I cannot imagine even car camping with Alistaire :-( It is that overwhelming and radically changed our entire family's lives. (It is the hiking that is the only issue for me – as long as I am reasonably near civilization I am OK)Aug 8, 2013 at 9:40 pm #2013790
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My son has nut allergies, though his reactions aren't quite as severe as your son's. It only took a couple of exposures when he was young for him to realize they weren't any fun. From the time he found out it was nuts that caused the bad stuff, he was more careful about what he ate than we were. We never really had to worry much about it. He's 20 now.
At 18 mos, your boy will need to be watched closely for a while yet, but make sure he learns what to watch for and associates it with any bad experiences he's had. It's easier to relax when you know he knows what not to eat.Aug 8, 2013 at 11:16 pm #2013811
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Any phobia can be minimized and often eliminated through repeated exposure in calm, relaxed settings. You are okay in the city. Great. Go to a county park, or whatever is the edge of your comfort zone. Repeat and repeat while doing whatever calms you (music, exercise, playing with the kids, whatever) until that slight level of exposure to your trigger gets boring. Then slightly increase the exposure, stay calm, wash, rinse, repeat, repeat, repeat. Small steps. Repeated exposures to your triggers (by which I mean Sarah's fear, not tree nuts!).
Recognize the various irrationalities. Dad running with the kid doesn't solve all problems. Sarah being with three kids doesn't preclude running with the kid (16 year olds can run, 16 year olds can babysit a 3 year old). Practice not YOUR response, but YOUR FAMILY'S response to an incident like you would practice CPR – carefully, calmly, reviewing your collective performance afterwards. Maybe take a bit more gear to bivouac the other kids during an evacuation, but practice that scenario as well. I hated blood and gore until I knew enough first aid to know how to respond and had practiced enough to be desensitized to my fear/anxiety.Aug 9, 2013 at 1:06 am #2013821
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Sarah, I don't know if what I say is any help at all, and I don't have experience with kids possibly being in danger. I do have two experiences, one long-term, the other one of the biggest events of my life, that might touch upon what you're asking about.
First, my insulin-dependent, type 2 diabetes. For me there is always the fear of getting a hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) attack while hiking. Twice now I almost died due to not paying proper attention and taking too much insulin, one of those times I realized I had run out of food and had nothing to bring my blood sugar back up. Luckily I was coherent enough to dig out my garbage bag and scape together all the scraps and leftover sauces and creams to get enough food to stabilize my blood sugar. But I only just made it off the mountain.
The fear of that happening again is with me every time I head out. What I try to do now is carefully prepare everything that I need way beforehand, and to keep an emergency food bag permanently in my standing hiking box. I also try to go over, in my head, everything I did wrong then, and how to minimize it, and keeping in my that if I stay alert there is no reason why the emergency should come up. It doesn't always work, though, and sometimes the fear is great enough that I, too, can't get myself to move, especially when I haven't hiked in a while. For me part of what helps me get past my fear is just stepping out there and moving. Things have a way of settling down once you get started.
The other experience is of being here in Tokyo two years ago during the three giant disasters. After the initial giant earthquake, we had big earthquakes everyday, all day, for six months afterwards. I never got used to them, and to this day I'm terrified of being in a tiny enclosed space with the door closed. But one thing I did learn was that with time I was able to "catch" myself whenever another earthquake occurred (we still get earthquakes of course), and to anticipate my own reactions and the way the tremors would follow through. I've prepared my apartment for immediate escape with emergency kit if need be, so I always stand up, grab my essentials like wallet, keys,, diabetes kit, and glasses, turn off any electrical or gas device, open the doors, including the front door, and wait. During the waiting period I consciously look inward and try to calm myself down, control my breathing. A hanging plant in the living room swings at the slightest tremor so I watch that for any further shaking. If the tremors grow bigger, I find cover under the lintel of my bathroom, until the tremors stop, and then grab my emergency kit and head outside away from walls and houses. If the tremors subside I just take a deep breath and return to whatever I was doing.
The thing is you can control your fear if you mentally turn straight toward it and accept that you are feeling it. There will always be things to threaten you and your loved ones. It's part of being alive. Home just seems like a safer place, until an earthquake or tornado or fire hits it. So if there is a way to keep your child safe, perhaps there is a way to face the fear? I know how much you want to go hiking with him.
Or perhaps just face the reality of his condition (part of what having a chronic disease is about) and stay away from those places that might cause harm, until he is old enough to realize the danger and take care of himself. Perhaps your wanting to go hiking with him is the problem and not the allergies themselves? I know it's a hard decision, especially when you love hiking.Aug 9, 2013 at 8:00 am #2013875
Miles BargerBPL Member
@milesbargerLocale: West Virginia
My brother and I both have severe allergies to peanuts and all tree nuts, and I'm very allergic to lots of legumes and seeds. It's scary stuff. I've never had to inject myself or go to the hospital for a reaction, but my brother nearly died just from sitting in the corner while some kids were making peanut butter pinecone bird feeders (just the number of molecules in the air was enough).
Obviously, your son is still young enough that he can't take responsibility for what he eats and touches. It won't be long, though, before that will change. Severe reactions are horrible—as a kid, they make a lasting impression! I wasn't very old before I started being VERY cautious of touching or taking food from ANYONE, even close family members, unless I knew they understood my allergies and, again pretty young, even then I would always verify food labels for myself.
I don't have any advice to offer re: the fear and paralyzing effects. I don't have children and so won't venture to imagine what that must feel like. But know that it won't be long before your son will be old enough to do a lot more watching out for himself. And I also remind myself that I'm very careful about what food I bring with me, and the chances of somehow accidentally coming in contact with or ingesting stuff I'm allergic to in the backcountry is a lot lower than the civilized world of offices, schools, stores, and on and on.Aug 9, 2013 at 4:48 pm #2014030
John S.BPL Member
In your case Sarah, if it were me, I would not hike without your significant other until the child is older (if he is on the hike). You could get wilderness first aid training to give more confidence in handling a situation on the trail. Also look into any special course on handling anaphylaxis while away from home. As a last resort you might look into behavioral modification techniques for phobias as David mentioned.
You have my sympathies Sarah.Aug 9, 2013 at 9:45 pm #2014086
I should have added that I am getting out on adult only hikes with friends. Not often, but I get out. I also got out backpacking recently with no kids. That helped a LOT. I know that as the years go, I will get more comfortable – as he gets older and whatnot. And my "me" hikes help me out, I come back refreshed and able to deal with life.
As for my teen….while he is a good kid, intelligent and all, he is a highly-functiong Autistic/Aspergers. He follows orders well and is a great hiking partner, but is brittle under stress (when I had to go to the hospital in Feb of 2012 to have my 3rd son, he was at school and was so fearful that he had to spend his day with his 504 handler.) He doesn't do well in panic times. He did not come to the hospital with us before the birth of each brother, it was too much for him to handle – he was in near panic I wouldn't come back. He takes great care of his little brothers – to the point of being a second Mom at times I swear, but isn't capable of administering emergency meds to his brother – the stress would be too much. He lives in his own world, which is OK 99.99 of the time.
And yes, more training is high on my list. I do though have to laugh a hollow laugh when I realize just how much in meds I carry – no UL for me…lol!!Aug 10, 2013 at 9:09 am #2014149
Paul McLaughlinBPL Member
What seems to me to be the real questions, Sarah, is not how do you deal with your fear but whether it is a rational or an irrational fear. A rational fear keeps you from doing something that is too dangerous to attempt, while an irrational fear keeps you from doing something that you can safely do. You have a complex situation here, with the allergic infant and the special needs teen. If this fear is irrational you can deal with it by having a well thought out plan to execute in the case of an allergic reaction emergency. I would suggest that you enlist the help of someone who knows you and your children well, and can be an objective counselor, in forming such a plan. You may find that you can't come up with a plan that seems safe and reliable to both you and the objective person. To me that would mean you are dealing with a rational fear, and you may not be able to take the baby out as you would like to do without an unacceptable risk. But if you can form a plan, then knowing that you are prepared should help to calm your fears.
And even if you find that you just can't find a way to safely take the kids out by yourself, that may change as your kids all grow, so you'd want to keep looking for ways to make it work based on the changing situation.
Best of luck.Aug 10, 2013 at 10:19 am #2014161
Dale WambaughBPL Member
@dwambaughLocale: Pacific Northwest
I think your fear is reasonable. I don't see a good answer to hiking with all your kids right now. In time you'll have a better grasp of managing your child's issues and he will be able to participate in the process.
In the meantime I would rotate baby duties with your husband and try to get as much balance in your life as you can. I'm sure your eldest could help with the middle son while you tend to the youngest in an emergency.
Perhaps there is a support group that you can participate in? You might check with Seattle Children's Hospital to see what resources they have. It will get better, but it's hard with a toddler. Breathe!Aug 10, 2013 at 2:23 pm #2014206
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Hi Sarah
Of course, the flip side is that maybe the fear is beneficial. Maybe your fear in this case is really quite rational. Maybe it is telling you that you are going to have to take extra care of this lad for a while.
So maybe you should do a little 'time-share' over walking trips with husband and others for a couple of years. You can still go walking; you just have to adapt a bit. Accept it, go with the flow, etc etc.
Best wishes with bringing them up.
CheersAug 10, 2013 at 7:11 pm #2014263
Dale, I will look into that. The Seattle Children's is a wonderful place (in the most horrid of ways). Alistaire saw them for a heart murmur at 6 months and a CTScan awhile back. Thankfully both issues were ones that didn't lead to worst things – but we found the hospital to be a wonderful place. Really caring staff! I am considering going to a blogger conference for food allergies this fall as well (yes, this actually exists…lol!). I figure the networking with other moms will be priceless.
Today my good friend Ladyblade came over (she is one of my long time hiking partners) and our backpacking trip this weekend got called off due to the lighting in the Cascades – but we had a great time shopping for new trail food items and then made jam. Fun indeed! Which when i thought about it, she doesn't like the risk of lighting, so it helped me look at my fears – in a good way.Aug 10, 2013 at 7:18 pm #2014264
Jerry AdamsBPL Member
@retiredjerryLocale: Oregon and Washington
when you make jam, do you sccop the foam off?
That seems like a waste of time. The foam is just as good as the rest of the jam. Why do people do that?Aug 10, 2013 at 8:04 pm #2014279
Lol…not me! I work it in. Wasted flavor otherwise ;-) I am sure it isn't pretty as jam from a store but is beyond good. We made gingered peach jam today. 25 pounds of peaches from Eastern Washington, picked yesterday – I had to get moving!
BTW, this is me and my 3 boys from last month :-) The photo in my avatar is from the same place – when my oldest, Ford, was around 11.
Aug 10, 2013 at 10:51 pm #2014307
Miguel ArboledaBPL Member
@butukiLocale: Kanto Plain, Japan
Which when i thought about it, she doesn't like the risk of lighting, so it helped me look at my fears – in a good way.
Now I'm very curious (just imagine a German Shepherd cocking his head with his tongue lolling out): Do you then NOT mind the risk of lightning?Aug 11, 2013 at 7:31 pm #2014507
Oh I do! I guess I view it like bear attacks…..I weigh the risk versus hiking. But then I look at that and realize that maybe my other fears are somewhat irrational :-PAug 12, 2013 at 8:11 pm #2014793
Kirk and I took the two youngest out on Sunday. It really helped me with some of my fears – since it was high bloom on the trail and lots of buzzy bees out. It was a good hike –
At 18 months he is a big boy. He weighed in today at his checkup at 30 pounds and nearly 3 feet tall. Carrying him is not UL by any means….Aug 20, 2013 at 10:03 pm #2017164
Nick GatelBPL Member
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
As I started to read your OP, I thought of your older son and his special needs. The situation, at this point in time, is that either you or your husband hiking alone with all 3 kids is not a good idea. The likelihood of a problem on the trail is too great.
Nut allergies in young children is nothing to take lightly. I won't go into the tragedies I have seen.
Good for you for approaching the situation with concern for the well being of your family.
In a few years it will probably all work out.
There is a huge difference between fear and responsible parenting. I am glad you actually realize the difference even though your title suggests different.Aug 21, 2013 at 8:52 pm #2017480
Nick, I'll say this: talking about my fears has been good. Kirk and I have hashed a lot out in the past few weeks and come to a realization. That until he is older we don't see backpacking as a family happening. Just so many risks.
But! It kind of turned on a light in our heads. We went bike riding on Sunday, it was so much fun. And more so, we can take all 3 boys, with the 2 youngest in trailers :-) We have one trailer and they fit in pretty tight but are happy enough together. There are so many rail to trails here – and most are close to hospitals or medical help. Some even have camping and go through state parks. We can do miles as a family and not be in fear. We can also carry a cooler, with Alistaire's foods and be able to shop at grocery stores. His diet is so limited and a lot of it is fresh foods that I cannot get in shelf-stable.
On my choosing of a pediatrician for my 2 youngest, I was very fortunate. He is proactive and has nut/PB allergies in his direct family. He has been an amazing doctor and never hesitates to have anything looked at and signing referrals. Alistaire has a hole in his heart as well, which was caught when he was little.
When we found out about the peanut allergies he talked in length about a child he nearly lost to allergies. The child went into anaphlaxipas in a car and the mother never gave a shot, even though she had them with her. She froze mentally and sat on the side of the highway, waiting for the paramedics to show up.Aug 31, 2013 at 1:20 pm #2020489
Diane PinkersBPL Member
@dipinkLocale: Western Washington
That example of the mother sitting there waiting for her child to die shows the necessity of thinking ahead, postulating worst-case scenario, and making a pro-active plan on how to deal with the problem. Having the equipment does you NO good if you don't have the knowledge to implement it. And planning goes a long way to dispelling panic. This is where mock scenarios are so important in training health care workers, and even if you don't have a full-scale "what do we do if Alistaire has an allergy attack" family scenario, just going through the mental "if-then" questions can make you feel more fully prepared.
That poor woman needed some training: what does an allergy attack look like in my child, what does epinephrine do, how do I give it, what other emergency steps do I need to take while waiting for help? Hopefully, her pediatrician family member helped her with those things after the fact, because when it happens again (and it will), what will she do the next time? And, those sorts of questions are what you and Kirk need to consider, and find answers for, to help you deal with the same issue with Alistaire.
Your fears will help you be prepared, and you have already started some planning that will make things manageable. Consider Cape Disappointment State Park in Ilwaco for a family camping destination: all sorts of campsites, beach access, walking trails, bike trail on the Discovery Trail–and a hospital right there in Ilwaco!Sep 1, 2013 at 12:15 am #2020605
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I think this is a very deep and multi-faceted topic, which in my mind ultimately relates to belief systems and consciousness growth, but i will try not to dwell there too much for various reasons.
Anyways, this topic sort of hit home with me, as i drove my motorcycle to the beach today (a little over a hour and a half ride one way). I didn't have just one, but two harrowing experiences, but oddly elicited two different kinds of fear reactions. One body based, and one more belief system-theoretical based.
The first scenario was a car in front of me put it's blinkers on, and started to turn into the other lane and as it did so, i sped up, but right as i was getting to the space they were just at, they decided last moment to turn back into the lane nearly clipping me in the process. I was somewhat at fault as i had accelerated quite quickly and wasn't driving defensively enough.
Anyways, that was body fear, the adrenaline rush of "oh shite, oh shite, i'm about to crash" because when braking the bike, it started wobbling uncontrollably, almost losing steering control.
That was on the way to the beach (i got over that very quickly). The 2nd experience happened on the way back from the beach to home and about half way or so while on the highway, i went to downshift temporarily and noted with disbelief that my gear shifter was no where to be found, hmm that's odd, maybe my foot is just not well placed, look down, "umm, what is my gear shifter doing hanging down?!"
Immediately i start envisioning a horrible future wherein either 2 or 3 scenarios are likely. 1. i'll have to pull over, pay a crap load of money to get a tow and get home really late, 2. try to make it as far as i can and walk it the rest of the way home, 3. meanwhile possibly get into an accident with a compromised drive system.
Well, i took a few moments, some deep breaths, and sort of (metaphorically speaking) let go and gave it over to a higher power and prayed for help. I decided on option 2. and trying to get as close to my house as possible. Something told me to try to make it.
For this to be the case, I would have to experience no stop and go traffic on the highway, and once off the highway and the rest of the 3 or 4 miles to my house with some 4 traffic lights or so, not encounter a redlight, and pull onto my street, which happens to be a small, gravel road, gracefully and at higher than average speed. Part of me said, "dude, you're f*#&$!"
Much to my grateful surprise, i actually somehow made it fully home in the highest gear, and i didn't have to run a red light or once fully stop (though coming onto the gravel road and not stalling or losing control of the bike was a bit challenging).
Realistically, would it have been the end of the world if situation 1., 2., or even 3. had happened? No, mighty inconvenient and in the last, possibly quite painful (or death). But really, so what? Did i really need to get all stressed out like i briefly did, nope. And not because "it worked out" but because i could have handled the other situations in reality.
Fear, especially fear of the future and of things we can't control, really needs to be put in perspective sometimes. I've found that the more one has faith, and trusts that this universe is basically a good place designed to grow our souls through challenge, but rarely more than we can bear, one can more effectively weather life's storms, deal with fear, and on the occasion call for and receive help when it's actually needed. Well it's hard to not get all spiritual about a subject which is basically spiritual in essence.
Suffice it to say, not even death is really a big deal if you understand what it really means and entails. Speaking as someone who had someone very close to them and beloved, die while transitioning from childhood to adult hood. And someone who has come close to death themselves (not from these incidents, more serious ones).
With many events (even the difficult ones), there is a bigger Plan! But learning to more fully transform fear, that for most takes many lifetimes and lot's of experiences and even the more mature occasionally fall prey to that collective consciousness of the earth. And fear isn't always bad, sometimes it plays a helpful purpose. It becomes limiting when it becomes over prevalent, controlling, or cyclical in nature. An intuition or bad feeling to not board a certain plane or bus, or what not, fine, but starting to worry and fret about the prevalence of plane and bus accidents and limiting exposure based on that..unrealistic, limiting, and fear is controlling you.
Tuning into the bigger Love, naturally and innately dispels fear, they are like oil and water. This is why the man Yeshua Ben Yosef could knowingly go to his torture and murder, because he was so tuned into that bigger Love.Sep 1, 2013 at 5:24 am #2020620
Donna CBPL Member
@leadfootLocale: Middle Virginia
+1 on what Diane has posted. The best thing to alieviate fear is knowledge. If you don't know how to do CPR, then now is the time to learn or to refresh. There have been some changes in administering it in the past few years. Have the family members know it as well and understand that is is not a scary thing to do. Practice the scenario with everyone. There are also portable AED devices if you want to keep one at home. While this may sound like overkill, it is a good thing to have and it works. We have drills at work using this thing yearly and it happened that a coworker was in the early stages of cardiac arrest. Everyone knew exactly what to do, kept a level head and things worked out in favor of the patient.
Personally, I think your fear is a responsible one…a mother's love for her family.Sep 1, 2013 at 9:41 am #2020663
jeffrey armbrusterBPL Member
@bookLocale: Northern California
Agreed, excellent post by Diane.Sep 1, 2013 at 10:18 am #2020671
just Justin WhitsonMember
It's interesting to see how our perception changes with our cultures and ways of living.
Take the North Native American tribes, for thousands of years up until rather recently in the grand scheme, lived very close to nature and while i'm sure to some extent their children were shielded from the more challenging aspects of nature, probably nothing close to what our modern, westernized children are. We can say their lifestyles was lesser and not as good as ours… BUT, while not ideal (admittedly more dangerous in some ways), it seems that many were basically a happy and fulfilled people. The more objective of first white folks over here, noted how often how vital, happy, and healthy many were.
The same cannot be said of our times and our peoples (look at America and how many are on prescription mood altering drugs), and i think part of our spiritual malady besides our collective over selfishness and overwhelming materialism, is how utterly cut off from nature our culture is. For us, it's something to fear and fight against, or at best to periodically enjoy on vacation and under special circumstances with special gear, equipment, etc.
I can't speak for others, but for myself, i will raise my children as much in nature as i can and from a young age. If something difficult happens, surely i will feel bad, but there are many dangers in the modern world that i cannot fully control either, like school shootings, molestation or kidnappings, car or bus accidents, etc, etc.
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Lending Programs for Charter Schools - Revolving Loan Program and the Charter School Facilities Program
California has two lending programs for charter schools - a revolving loan program and a bond-initiative (see descriptions below).
California's Charter School Revolving Loan Program (CSRLP) helps meet the objectives established in a school's charter, such as leasing facilities, making necessary improvements to facilities, purchasing instructional materials and equipment, and expanding programs. This program provides loans for up to $250,000 per school to non-conversion charter schools that have been numbered by the California State Board of Education, but have not been in operation for more than five years or had their charters renewed. The loans must be repaid within five years, beginning with the first fiscal year after receipt of the loan. Loans shall be made at the interest rate earned by the money in the Pooled Money Investment Account (PMIA) as of the date of disbursement of the funds to the charter school. The PMIA Rate varies but is typically three to five percentage points below the rate that would be available for a loan from a private lender. (The PMIA Rate is the rate earned on various pooled funds in the State Treasury.)
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The Superintendent of Public Instruction of the California Department of Education (CDE) must approve all loans. The CDE may consider the following when determining whether to approve a school's loan application:
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Since the program's inception in FY 2001, CSRLP has underwritten 93 loans totaling over $20 million in funding. The statute enacting this program is Senate Bill 1759, (SB 1759, Chapter 586, Statutes of 2000) and can be accessed at: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html [search site] (1999-2000 session).
Charter School Facilities Program (CSFP or Program) The Program is funded from proceeds of two state bond measures - $100 million from Proposition 47 (November 2002) and $300 million from Proposition 55 (March 2004). California School Finance Authority (CSFA) staff and Office of Public School Construction (OPSC) staff jointly administer the Program.
The CSFP provides site-based charter schools with new construction or renovation funding. The Program funds 50 percent of project costs as a grant, and the charter school is responsible for paying the 50 percent balance through either a lump sum payment or through payments due on a long-term lease obligation. The school district in which the project is located retains ownership of the project for the benefit of the public education system.
When an application for funding is initially filed with CSFA and OPSC, the applicant is not expected to have designed the project, acquired a school site, etc. Therefore, the Program is set up to provide charter schools with a reservation of funding known as a Preliminary Apportionment, which is sized using a project cost estimate prepared by OPSC. Charter schools that are awarded funding have four years to design the project, acquire a site, receive approvals from the necessary agencies and file a funding application with the OPSC to convert the Preliminary Apportionment to a Final Apportionment.
In July 2003, 26 applications requesting a total of over $438 million were received for the $100 million in Proposition 47 funds. Six charter schools received Preliminary Apportionments from Proposition 47 funds in January 2004. All six awardees selected the lease-payment option to satisfy the 50 percent local share requirement.
CSFA staff is finalizing its recommendations to its board regarding the financial soundness of 40 program applications for the $300 million in Proposition 55 funds. In late January 2005, the State Allocation Board will determine which charter schools will receive Preliminary Apportionments from Proposition 55 funds. The Program was established in 2002 pursuant to the California Education Code Sections 17078.52 through 17078.66. Sections of the California Education Code that pertain to the program can be found through the following link: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.
California was one of four grant recipients of the State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grants Program. With a first year grant amount of $9,850,000, California will use its Federal grant to provide cash grants to CSFP recipients in addition to the grants they receive under the CSFP.
Charter School Facility Grant Program - Reimbursement for Rental or Lease Costs
California enacted the Charter School Facility Grant Program in 2002 to provide per-pupil facilities funding to reimburse for charter school rental and lease costs in low-income areas. This program is targeted toward schools and communities with high proportions of economically disadvantaged students. Charter schools are eligible to receive these funds if they either.
- enroll a student population where 70 percent or more of the students are eligible for free or reduced price meals; or
- are physically located in the attendance area of a public elementary school in which 70 percent or more of the students enrolled are eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Eligible charter schools may receive reimbursement for facilities rent and lease costs in an amount of up to $750 per unit of average daily attendance. However, the total amount of funds provided to a school may not exceed 75 percent of its total annual facilities rent costs.
In the last three fiscal years, the program has awarded approximately $20.9 million to charter schools throughout California. For 2003-2004, the program provided $7.7 million to 119 schools based on an estimated 16,123 students in average daily attendance. The Charter School Facility Grant Program was restricted to three years by law and ended in 2003-04. A description of the Charter School Facility Grant Program can be found in the California Education Code Section 47614.5 accessible via: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.
Proposition 39 - Mandate For Districts to assist Charter Schools with Facility Needs
Proposition 39, which passed in November 2000 and went into effect in 2003, requires school districts to provide to each charter school having a projected average daily attendance of at least 80 or more students from that district with "facilities sufficient to accommodate the charter school's needs." Districts can provide charter schools with existing facilities; use discretionary funds; or use other revenues, such as local school bonds, to satisfy this requirement. The school district may charge the charter school a pro rata share of the district's facilities costs which are paid with unrestricted general fund revenues, based upon the ratio of space the charter school uses divided by the total space of the district.
Since 2003, an estimated 50 charter schools have received facilities from school districts under the terms of these laws. The text of Section Six in Proposition 39 may be viewed at vote2000.sos.ca.gov/. Details on the requirements under Proposition 39 can be found in the California Education Code Section 47614 and the California Code of Regulations, Title 5, 11969.1-11969.9.


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How should the game start?
I would like to start out playing as a clicker, ready to attack an innocent person. Maybe have the whole segment play out in a couple of minutes, in a dark house. Then the intro credits would roll in, I think it would set the mood fr this game perfectly.
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On topic though, I can see something like a Red Dead Redemption opening.
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20 year old Joel is farming in his family's ranch, when suddenly... things become a little crazy.
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You play as a random dude during the infection outbreak. Then insues (is that how you spell it?) a tutorial as you learn the basic things (movemement, cover, perhaps melee) trying to survive. You then have a swarm of infected running after you and you gotta find a gun, but its hopeless. There are too many, and you get overwhelmed, and... DIE. You then fast-forward to I-dont-know-how-much-further and you are now in the shoes of Joel. So the story begins.
Personally I think this could be a cool start to the game as it would serve as a good way of showing how much the world has gone to s*** and it'll simply be pretty exciting and tense.
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Joel," My parents told me "Son,you're special,you were born to do great things."
Joel,"You know what? They were right."
-You hear gun fires in the background and sounds of runners and people screams in the background,and than The Last of Us appears on the screen with a black background with fancy effects happening to the text.-
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Fifth Guilty Plea in $163,000 Theft from the Department of Education
Washington, D.C. - United States Attorney Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., John P. Higgins, Inspector General for Department of Education, and Van A. Harp, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office, announced that Silvader Denise Estep, 49, of Fort Washington, Maryland, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court before the Honorable Thomas F. Hogan to the charge of conspiracy in connection with a scheme to steal $163,000 from the Department of Education ("Education"). Sentencing is scheduled for May 21, 2003, before U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Estep could face between 30 and 37 months in prison.
According to the government's evidence, from 1996 through 1999, Estep, along with co- defendant Jean Williams Stancell, both of whom worked for the Department of Education, and others stole property and money in the amount of $163,000 from Education by charging government issued purchase cards (credit cards) for items and services from vendors which benefited themselves. Stancell, 53, also from Fort Washington, MD, previously pled guilty to conspiracy for her role in the theft and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 3, 2003. Three vendors or their employees have also pled guilty for their respective roles in the theft, bringing the total to five persons who have pled guilty to various charges as a result of this investigation.
During the conspiracy, Estep worked for the Quality Workplace Group ("QWG") at Education. QWG was the facilities management component of Education. Estep's job and the mission of QWG was to hire contractors to perform maintenance work at Education buildings and to purchase furniture and office supplies for Education employees. Education provided VISA credit cards to certain QWG employees in order to pay for these goods and services. Education relied upon the employees to use the credit cards for official government business only. Education developed the following procedures to prevent fraudulent use of credit cards: employees were required to obtain invoices from contractors and vendors when possible; maintain logs of charges; reconcile monthly statements; and certify that the charges were legitimate. Estep was assigned one of these credit cards. In April 1998, she became the Acting Team II Leader of QWG.
Estep approached various contractors and asked them to work at her house but to charge the government issued credit cards for work performed. To hide the theft from the government, Estep at times would create false invoices claiming that work was done for Education. Estep also purchased furniture with government-issued credit cards. The furniture was not for the benefit of Education, but rather was used by Estep or her friends and co-workers. Estep asked the furniture salesmen to create false invoices which deleted references to residential furniture but instead inserted office-type furniture descriptions as the items purchased.
Estep has since resigned her position from the Department of Education.
In announcing the guilty plea, United States Attorney Howard, Inspector General Higgins, and Assistant Director Harp commended the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Education's Office of Inspector General, specifically, Special Agents Lauren LeMay, George Blissman, Ross Campbell, and supervisor Valerie Schwarzenbach. In addition, they praised Paralegal Specialist Jeanie Latimore-Brown, Auditor Sandra Henderson, and legal assistants Shavonne Jennings and April Peeler. Also commended were Assistant United States Attorneys Ann Rosenfield, Elizabeth Coombe, and Virginia Cheatham.


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Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, an author, translator, and photographer. He has lived, studied, and worked in the Himalayan region for over forty years.
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Since 1989, Matthieu has served as the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama. He is an active member of the Mind and Life Institute, an organization dedicated to collaborative research between scientists and Buddhist scholars and meditators. He is engaged in the research on the effect of mind training and meditation on the brain at various universities in the USA and Europe.
Matthieu donates all proceeds from his books and much of his time to humanitarian projects in Tibet, Nepal, and India (www.karuna-shechen.org) and to the preservation of the Tibetan cultural heritage (www.shechen.org). For more information, visit www.matthieuricard.org.
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Indian cartoonist jailed for images criticizing government
New York, September 10, 2012--Indian authorities should immediately drop all of the charges against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi and release him from detention, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Police in Maharashtra state arrested Trivedi, a 25-year-old freelancer from India's central Uttar Pradesh state, on Saturday, according to news reports. The cartoonist faces charges of sedition, violating Internet security laws, and insulting national honor for publishing cartoons mocking national symbols and criticizing corruption on his website, Cartoons Against Corruption, news reports said.


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See the Quad Cities on two wheels – on a bicycle or on an electric vehicle called a Segway.
See the Quad Cities on two wheels on a bicycle or an electric vehicle called a Segway.
Mott: Ok everything is in your feet, ok? When you put the weight on your heels you go backwards. Put the weight on your toes, you go forward. When you want to turn it is not turning your body, it is in the column itself.
Kaercher: Once the basic driving instructions are down for this two-wheeled electric vehicle called a Segway, the tour of Davenport begins. Riders start out on a trail that parallels the Mississippi River with stops at many points of interest.
Mott: Right here is one of the Quad Cities and Davenport's prominent pieces of artwork. It is the Dillion Fountain. Also you will look right across here and we have the Figge Art Museum. This is one of the most well-known museums in Iowa. They offer a lot of Grant Wood paintings, and now we will go towards the lock and dam.
Kaercher: While I wasn't on this particular ride. I did get a chance to talk to the owner of Iowa Segway who started his business after taking a Segway tour in Spain.
Mott: I had such a great time that I - the whole plane trip back I was thinking about how I could bring this to Iowa. We can stop at multiple spots easily. Like if you are on a bus you have to make a stop and get everyone off and then get everyone back on. But a Segway you can just move around. You can stay right on the Segway.
Kaercher: So instead of stopping, Segway riders idle during tours thanks to the vehicle's unique design.
Mott: They stay up by a computer system with a gyroscope which basically holds the rider's balance at all times. It recalculates the weight distribution several times a second. That is why it holds the rider in place.
Kaercher: It is a novel way to be a tourist and it has at least one rider sold on Segway sightseeing.
Weaver: Well, I ride bicycle almost every day and this is almost like riding a bike. You kind of lean into it and use your knees and - I took right to it. I am not winded, my legs aren't sore; it is a good way to get around. I want one.
Kaercher: The Segway looks fun. But if you prefer a more traditional two-wheel ride, Davenport is also a great place to bicycle. There is a riverfront trail and a scenic way to transport you and your bike across the Mississippi to reach the trails on the Illinois side.
Wine: We have a lot of trails in the Quad Cities. It is a wonderful amenity for connecting people to the water which is what River Action is all about. We started this 27 years ago for advocacy for trails. We had two and a half miles at that time. We have 60 now. Yes and you won't find anything easier to ride because it is all flat. It is flat and wide and in most cases beautiful views.
Kaercher: Kathy Wine, whose River Action Group works on among other things trail development says navigating the trails is easy. There are kiosks showing trail maps as well as other signage. Bike rentals also are available. Trail users can learn about local history from a cell phone audio tour. There are RiverWay Art displays including the storm fallen trees used to create a replica of part of the famous Sunday Afternoon Painting by French artist Georges Seurat. While the art is certainly worth a stop a big draw is the river itself.
Wine: Any way you want to do it you can get across the Mississippi here. We built ramps up to the Government Bridge, built a separate bridge across the slue-- and ramped it down and these are open, these trails open every day of the year, 24 hours.
Kaercher: Bikes and pedestrians can cross the river on land or on the river on the Channel Cat Water Taxi.
Wine: It is a wonderful people mover and it is a peoples' bus really. And we designed it and had the vision for a way for people to get across the river without a reservation, inexpensive, ride all day if you want, get on and off, river hopping if you will, and also hold bikes so that people can do trails as well as hit restaurants or shopping and that kind of thing. When there is festivals going on in both sides of the river this is the way to get there without having to park and things like that.
Kaercher: And if you are lucky there will be a knowledgeable passenger on board to give a little tour.
Bolton: Up here there is a pier and there is - used to be several of them along here that they would put kerosene lamps in them. And that is how they would mark the channel at night.
Kaercher: People can get on and off the boat all day, but you may just choose to stay on board for the hour long route. Then it is off to keep touring whether on foot or your choice of two-wheeled traveling around the Quad Cities.


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May 23, 1973
Albuquerque, NM US
University of NM
Includes: Rock and Roll, Celebration Day, (Bring It On Home intro) Black Dog, Over the Hills and Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song, Dazed and Confused (incl. San Francisco), Stairway to Heaven, Moby Dick, Heartbreaker, Whole Lotta Love.
Press Review: Rock Lovers Get Treat at U. Arena
What is powerful and exciting enough to pack University arena full of summer happy-rock lovers? Led Zeppelin was the answer Wednesday night.
As one of the loudest raunchiest exponents of hard rock, the English group is touring America in the most expensive musical jaunts ever, after months of rumors that there were breaking up.
Their re-appearance did not disappoint the extremely well behaved crowd of over 14,000. Backed by carnival style distorting mirrors and led by right suited lead guitarist Jimmy Page, the Zeppelin rocked around the arena stage driven by solid electricity – personal and instrumental.
There was nothing intellectual or sophisticated about the music the group played. It was just heavy, make – your - adrenalin – start – pumping rhythm mixed with familiar Zeppelin style vocal. And as the crowd's reaction attested, there is nothing wrong with that.
The feeling one got was that the group pounded their instruments for all they were worth. And if the lead singer's dance-like gyrations were a bit too slick and the drummer a bit too uncontrolled, the concert proved for the umpteenth time that Jimmy knows his guitar. (Albuquerque Journal- 5.24.73)


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|Bret Michaels
Rock of Love Bus star Bret Michaels took a break from licking his fake-tittied whores' assholes to pose on the cover of BIllboard's latest issue and despite that it looks like someone just copied and pasted his face on some model's body, he's still insisting it's him, just a result of some light touching or some shit like that. Via E!:
"I said, 'Listen, I have two requests—good lighting and a warm room. That's all I'm asking for,'" Michaels tells me. "If I'm walking out with it all f**king hanging out there for the world to see then, well, I need good lighting and a warm room."
And some sit-ups! "I didn't eat for a day and I did about 2,000 sit-ups."
Well apparently this guy clearly knows a thing or two about photoshop. He knows what kind of lighting and tweaks to use to remove his flabs. The Photoshop fuckers was doing an alright job except for his asshole they misplaced as his belly button.


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Landscape painting has historically ranked low in the genre hierarchy in the post-Renaissance Western world (landscape painting was already well established in China by the fourth century CE, however). It outranked only still life in the hierarchy, superseded by history painting, portrait, and genre painting (scenes from everyday life). These rankings were established in 1669 by Andre Felibien, secretary to the French Academy.
Those in the art world--patrons, teachers, and artists--did not take landscape painting seriously, placing greater value on historical works, portraits, and genre pictures. Renaissance (and later Neoclassical and academic schools) followed the lead of Greek art in focusing on figure drawing and figure painting of the human body, especially nudes. In comparison, landscape was insignificant. Until the early/mid-16th century, landscapes were included in painting purely as a backdrop for human activity.
More about the development and evolution of the genre can be found at visual-arts-cork.com/genres/landscape-painting.htm, where I retrieved most of the above information, among many other sources on the Web.
The word, which derives from Middle Dutch "landscap," is a combination of "land" and "-ship, condition." According to the Online Etymology Dictionary: "-ship Old English -sciepe, Anglian –scip, "state, condition of being; from Proto-Germanic -skapaz (cf. Old Norse. -skapr, Old Frisian -skip, Dutch. -schap, German -schaft), from base skap, "to create, ordain, appoint," from Proto-Indo-European base *(s)kep- (see shape [v.]).
etymonline.com notes that the word was originally introduced as a painters' term. Its meaning of "tract of land with its distinguishing characteristics" dates from 1886. The verb meaning "to lay out lawns, gardens, etc., plant trees for the sake of beautification" was first recorded in 1927 and derives from the noun, as is often the case with verbs, as "to gesso."
The noun "landscape" originally meant a patch of cultivated ground and, later, an image. It was incorporated into English at the start of the 17th century as a term for works of art; it wasn't used to describe real vistas before 1725, per Wikipedia.
So much for the brief history and lengthy etymology of landscape.
arts-cork.com concludes that how landscape will develop in this century remains unclear, inquiring speculatively: "Will the demands and disciplines of academic art stimulate a return to traditional, naturalistic canvases, or will the fashion for abstract and discursive art--involving figures and actions, as well as modern delivery methods like video--continue to dominate? One wonders what type of landscapes Turner and Monet would be painting, if they were alive today."
The post-Renaissance art world may not have taken landscape painting seriously or placed it high on the genres spectrum, but a look at local galleries demonstrates that--from a purely quantitative perspective--it's number 1. By far, landscapes outnumber any other type of art locally, although the percentage varies from gallery to gallery, with naturalistic canvases predominating and a particular promontory in the local geography appearing with great frequency.
John A. Barry is a writer and avocational artist. To share anything art-related, call him at 314-9528 or email email@example.com
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Original post made by John Barry, Danville, on Apr 1, 2011
Like this commentPosted by Kevin
a resident of Danville
on Apr 6, 2011 at 9:18 am
Bob Ross was the man!
Like this commentPosted by Bill
a resident of San Ramon
on Apr 14, 2011 at 11:29 am
The fact that landscape is #1 in this community is a testament to the intolerance and exclusivity that exists in this town. Actually, there is great professional aesthetic diversity that exists but rarely is acknowledged.


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This roundup summarizes some notable recent items about
scientific research, selected from news reports compiled in
Sigma Xi's free electronic newsletters Science in the
News Daily and Science in the News Weekly. Online:
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Altruism on the Brain
People with heightened altruistic tendencies probably have a
greater-than-normal ability to perceive purposeful action in others
and to empathize with them. Because perception of such
"agency" in others is known to correlate with activation
of the posterior superior temporal cortex, two investigators
hypothesized that functional MRI would reveal especially large
amounts of activity in this part of the brain when an altruist
perceives the actions of another agent. Two experimental trials,
each involving about two dozen subjects, confirmed the prediction,
at least in general terms.
Tankersley, D., C. J. Stowe and S. A. Huettel. Altruism is
associated with an increased neural response to agency.
Nature Neuroscience 10:150–151 (February)
Piscine Pecking Order
Male fish of the species Astatotilapia burtoni regularly
fight with one another as rivals for territory. Those that lose in
such bouts descend the social ladder, losing their normally bright
coloration and becoming reproductively dormant. To test whether such
fish could demonstrate a form of reasoning known as transitive
inference, investigators from Stanford University placed one fish in
the central compartment of an all-glass tank and allowed it to view
pairwise clashes between a total of five rivals. The experiment was
manipulated so that the five fish on display won or lost their
battles according to a prescribed pecking order, with fish
A beating fish B, who in turn conquered fish
C, who dominated fish D, who could rough up fish
E. What these investigators found was that a spectator fish
could use its observations to discern the overall ranking. They
determined that such reasoning was going on, because when they put
the spectator in a tank that contained two other fish, the spectator
would consistently gravitate toward the weaker one, even when it had
not seen those particular two rivals in battle together. That is, it
could not draw on its memory of past bouts to determine which of the
two others it would be best to steer clear of. Instead, the fish had
to determine that using transitive inference, an ability that animal
behaviorists formerly believed that only primates, rats and birds
could boast.
Grosenick, L., T. S. Clement and R. D. Fernald. Fish can infer
social rank by observation alone. Nature
445:429–432 (January 25)
Arms and the Chimp
Investigators studying wild chimpanzees have long observed these
animals using tools for various purposes: stones to pound open nuts,
say, or thin stalks of grass to lure termites out of their mound.
But two anthropologists have now discovered that chimps also make
and use tools for hunting—an ability that was formerly thought
to be uniquely human. The epiphany came from their observation of
Senegalese chimps that fashioned branches into crude spears,
removing the smaller side branches, leaves and sometimes the bark,
and then sharpening the tips with their teeth. The chimps then
forcibly jabbed these weapons into hollow branches and trunks in an
effort to skewer anything that might be hiding inside. The
investigators observed this behavior 22 times and in one instance
saw how it served to immobilize the chimp's prey, a bush baby
(a small noctural primate), which the hunter then extracted and ate.
Pruetz, J. D., and P. Bertolani. Savannah chimpanzees, Pan
troglodytes verus, hunt with tools. Current Biology
17:1–6 (March 6)
Clouds of Rock?
Astronomers have succeeded in probing the atmosphere of a very
distant world, extra-solar planet HD 209458b. They did so by aiming
the Spitzer Space Telescope on the planet as it was passing in front
of its parent star (which this "hot Jupiter" orbits
closely) and also while the planet was out of view behind the star.
Then, by subtracting the second set of measurements from the first,
they were able to generate a spectrum that was representative of the
planet's searing atmosphere. One spectral peak delineated in
this way suggests that HD 209458b may be covered in clouds of
silicate material—that is, the stuff of rocks. Another
spectral feature, the astronomers tentatively suggest, may signal
the presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Richardson, L. J., D. Deming, K. Horning, S. Seager and J.
Harrington. A spectrum of an extrasolar planet. Nature
445:892–895 (February 22)
a Cause: Allopregnanolone
Although popular wisdom attributes the mood swings of teenagers to
raging sex hormones and the stressful psychological changes of
puberty, neuroscientists are now offering a new explanation: a brain
chemical called allopregnanolone. In adults, this stress hormone
reduces anxiety by targeting certain receptors on brain cells, but
experiments with mice suggest that it may act quite differently in
adolescents, increasing brain activity to produce a state of
heightened anxiety.
Shen, H., Q. H. Gong, C. Aoki, M. Yuan, Y. Ruderman, M. Dattilo,
K. Williams and S. S. Smith. Reversal of neurosteroid effects
at σ4β2δ
GABAA receptors triggers anxiety at puberty.
Nature Neuroscience (Published online March 11)
Ancient-Bird Biplane
A recent study of Microraptor gui, a 1-kilogram
dromaeosaur, helps to answer the question of how birds evolved their
ability to fly. This feathered creature lacked a structure called
the supracoracoideus pulley and thus could not elevate its wings. So
it probably could not take off from the ground and must have used
its wings only for gliding. What's remarkable is that its
wings were staggered, with those attached to the feet positioned
lower and somewhat farther back, much like the arrangement found in
a typical biplane.
Chatterjee, S., and R. J. Templin. Biplane wing planform and
flight performance of the feathered dinosaur Microraptor
gui. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of
the U.S.A. 104:1576–1580 (January 30)
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[Article]-A Rant About Hacking Labs
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By Thomas Wilhelm, ISSMP, CISSP, SCSECA, SCNA
One of the more frequent questions I see on EH-Net pertains to creating pentest labs. Individuals new to the topic of hacking often have a limited understanding of what type of equipment is required, or how to go about setting up a lab to practice all of the cool attacks they have watched on YouTube. Details on how to get started using a single system and virtual machines are numerous – including some I have done. However, I think there is one question not being asked enough when discussing hacking labs… "Why do you want a lab?"
Most people create a lab containing a single host system and include virtual images of various Operating Systems. Unknowingly they have just restricted themselves to a very finite portion of real-world hacking – system attacks. I'm not even sure I can classify these "system attacks" as internal (within the corporate network) or external (Internet-facing services), due to a lack of support systems typically found in corporate networks. Absent are the routers, firewalls, IDS/IPSes, windows networks, switches, etc. Without these, we don't really have a good example of what someone might face during a real pentest, nor do we create an effective learning environment.


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"We wouldn't have so much trouble if we weren't so rich." This is a common sentiment in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to author Adam Hochschild, who returned to the war-torn nation to follow up on his 1998 bestseller King Leopold's Ghost. (The resulting article, "Blood and Treasure," appears in our March/April issue.) That quote, of course, is 24-carat irony, since Congo's people are desperately poor—not in spite of, but largely because of the Pandora's box that accompanies their nation's fabulous resource wealth.
To produce this photoessay, which accompanies Hochschild's piece in the print magazine, Marcus Bleasdale spent eight years documenting the lives and conflicts of the Congolese. His dedication has resulted in two photo books, One Hundred Years of Darkness and, out in March, Rape of a Nation—the source of the images you see here. It's easy for Americans to remain oblivious to the troubles of people in faraway lands, but Bleasdale's photos manage to pierce our cynical gaze. And that's only fair, since American consumers and investors are among those who profit most from Congo's misery—be they the Wall Street mogul who owns 12 percent of mining multinational AngloGold Ashanti, or simply everyday folks who like electronic gadgets and sparkly jewelry.
In the foreword to Rape of a Nation, bestselling novelist John le Carré sums up the country's human hell as:
...fourteen hundred and fifty tragedies every day. It is countless more than that if you include the orphaned, the bereaved, the widowed, and all the ripples of truncated lives that spread from a single death. It is you and me and our children and our parents, if we had had the bad luck to be born into the world this book portrays. But Congo has one secret that is hard to pass on if you haven't learned it at first hand. Look carefully and you will find a gaiety of spirit and a love of life that, even in the worst of times, leave the pampered Westerner moved and humbled beyond words.
You can also find a multimedia presentation of Bleasdale's work at MediaStorm.


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Convicted killer Ryan Ferguson takes case to court of appeals
Ferguson maintains his innocence in 2001 murder of Kent Heitholt
COLUMBIA, Mo. - After spending nearly a decade behind bars, Ryan Ferguson's fate is in the hands of the Western District Court of Appeals in Kansas City, Mo.
The appellate court heard arguments from both the state and Ferguson's defense team Tuesday.
Ferguson, 28, and his friend, Charles Erickson, were both charged with robbing and killing Columbia Daily Tribune sports editor Kent Heitholt as he left work on Halloween night 2001.
Erickson accepted a plea deal and testified that he and Ferguson committed the crime together for drinking money.
Ferguson was convicted of second-degree murder and robbery in 2005 and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
He has maintained his innocence the entire time.
His attorney, Kathleen Zellner, says there is no physical evidence connecting Ferguson to the crime.
In January, Ferguson's legal team filed a writ of habeas corpus, meaning his team believes he is being held on insufficient evidence.
"This was a case that was built on the testimony of two eyewitnesses and they both admitted perjury at Ryan Ferguson's trial," Zellner told ABC News. "So there's no evidence left."
The only evidence linking Ferguson to the murder were the testimonies of Erickson and a janitor, Jerry Trump, who testified he saw Ferguson at the murder scene.
Erickson later recanted his story and in April 2012, Trump told a Cole County court that he lied as well. Trump said he had been pressured to identify Ferguson as the killer.
During Tuesday's hearing, attorneys received 15 minutes to argue Ferguson's case then the state's attorneys argued their side for 15 minutes. Ferguson's legal team then got a five minute rebuttal.
The judges heard about the witnesses recanting their testimonies as well as Brady violations, where the prosecution doesn't provide information to the defense before trial.
Both Zellner and Ferguson's father, Bill Ferguson, told ABC 17 News Tuesday that they are extremely encouraged by the judge's knowledge of the case and the line of questioning during Tuesday's oral arguments.
"The judges came in prepared and asked good questions of the attorney general who wasn't prepared to give good, valid answers," said Bill Ferguson. "I'd say it was a bad day for the attorney general and a good day for Ryan."
Depending on the outcome from the Western District Court of Appeals, Ferguson could be granted a bail amount. That means he could walk out of prison within weeks.
Support to free Ferguson has gained momentum in recent years. Currently, there are more than 56,000 followers of the "Free Ryan Ferguson" Facebook page.
His case has also garnered national attention, with several network television specials.
Ferguson's father is also planning to tour in a vehicle wrapped with Ryan's photo and the slogan "Wrongfully Convicted. Time for Justice." to spread awareness.