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Jan 11, 2014 at 11:00 pm #1312025
Steven DiogenesMember
I've always been skittish about animals I can't see.. whether I'm in the water surfing and thinking about sharks, or at night in the woods. It really unnerves me and I find it very difficult to be out in the woods alone. Is this something that everyone just gets used to? Like being in a new house and hearing new sounds enough to get used to them?
I'm getting more and more comfortable the more I do it– mostly from realizing that the little critters are just mice or raccoons. I still throw rocks at noises but I'm getting better. It didn't help when in Santa Cruz sleeping by the tracks, 4 or 5 raccoons in the middle of the night chased one directly towards me. Or in Florida when I found out I was taking an afternoon nap next to a snake den and that black racers sometimes mimic rattlesnakes by shaking their tail in dry leaves. I was overthinking in Montana when we kept hearing an elk very close, wondering if it was mating season, scared one would trample our tent. In contrast, I fell asleep in Atlanta surrounded by rats without being scared or bothered.
So, any tips? I try to keep things in perspective. eg, being aware that most predators are silent, so if I hear it, it's most likely nothing to worry about, or that most animals are wary rather than aggressive, or the statistics. It helps, but not too much.Jan 12, 2014 at 12:40 am #2062622
Bob GrossMember
@b-g-2-2Locale: Silicon Valley
"So, any tips?"
If I really want to photograph the wildlife at night, I set out a line of jingle bells tied along a black nylon thread, and I tie it about eight inches above the ground. The mice will run underneath it and not wake me up. The big critters will sound the bells and wake me up.
If that isn't sufficient, I have an electronic intruder alert system that I can put in a perimeter around my camp. When any big critter approaches, the system either wakes me quietly or else scares the hell out of the critter loudly.
Otherwise, use ear plugs.
–B.G.–Jan 12, 2014 at 5:06 am #2062634
Buck NelsonBPL Member
@colterLocale: Alaska
I think you have a pretty good feel for the issue. At first animal noises are unnerving for just about everyone.
Statistics should help a lot. People are far more dangerous than wild animals in North America. In the woods there are more animals and less people.
"Familiarity breeds contempt" as they say. As time goes on you should grow more and more comfortable. For example, people who have trouble sleeping starting out on the Appalachian Trail often hardly give it a thought at the end of their hike. It's all part of the adventure!Jan 12, 2014 at 7:06 am #2062646
Gary DunckelBPL Member
@zia-grill-guyLocale: Boulder
Here in Colorado, I never really worry about critters. I've not seen a bear or lion, ever, although they say they're out there. Once I had a herd of maybe 10-12 elk come by my tent in the middle of the night during mating season. They were pretty adroit at going around my tent. A huge moose once patrolled the lake shore near where I was sleeping, grunting periodically to remind me that he was still around. It was sweet to finally hear him go, "Harr-UMPH!", which in moose-talk means something like, "There, sucker, I'm outta here, and I win."
But Yellowstone is a different story. The first few nights I have a terrible sleep. I hear everything, and there's a lot of critters roaming around at night (especially during a full moon, it seems). I have taken to popping a couple of Benedryl with my late dinner, and this lets me sleep straight through until morning. At Shoshone Lake last July I woke up and fired up my stove for my morning Joe on the beach. I noticed some tracks in the sand along the water's edge–the biggest griz tracks I've ever seen. It was nice of him to leave me alone while he strolled past in the middle of the night. I like bears that do that. If I wasn't slightly drugged, I probably would have heard him and freaked out.
I'm thinking that almost all critters will pass right by, if you don't bait them or otherwise pose a threat. But moose might be a different story altogether. They're so territorial, unpredictable, and goofy. Mice, raccoons, and other rodents might scour your campsite during the night, looking for food, and deer might come by to see if there might be a sweaty T-shirt that they can chew on for the salt, but none of these guys pose a personal threat to you.Jan 12, 2014 at 7:15 am #2062649
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Kevin BurtonBPL Member
@burtonatorLocale: norcal
A couple tips:
1. make sure your tent/tarp don't rub up against each other. Same with your tent. Also make sure no branches , etc are rubbing up against your tent/tarp. If the wind kicks in they will make noise and it will SEEM like something is sneaking up on you.
2. ear plugs… but keep them half in.. the minor sounds will be blocked out but any major sounds like a bear outside trying to get into your food will still wake you up.
also, make sure to do the math on running into critters.
Realistically, a black bear is your main concern. Serious animal contact is rare and if you ever run into a mountain lion you should consider yourself lucky.
Also, you DO get used to it…Jan 12, 2014 at 10:09 am #2062701
Dale WambaughBPL Member
@dwambaughLocale: Pacific Northwest
The worst animal sounds we experienced were two raccoons fighting in a tree overhead while camped on the Olympic NP beaches. Like a cat fight on steroids.
I sleep through everything else. If you're freaky about bugs and critters, there are plenty of fully enclosed tents and hammocks.
@ Bob: what kind of perimeter alarm do you use?Jan 12, 2014 at 11:15 am #2062722
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Two summers ago some friends and I were on a 8 day canoe trip on the Teslin River. My girlfriend and I were familiar with living in bear country but the other 3 members of our group were not. My buddy Matt, who is your typical young, 'invincible' male didn't seem to be too concerned about bear safety. We kept hassling him to remember to take bear spray when he wandered off for a walk after arriving at camp. We also had to constantly remind him to keep all food, toothpaste, and other odours out of his tent.
One night he decided, without our knowledge, that he was going to take some crackers and sausage into the tent for a snack while he read before bed. It wasn't a bear he ended up having to deal with, but he had quite the story to regal us with the next morning. Apparently, as he was reading he heard a sound outside the tent. He said it sounded like an animal shuffling along at first. And then he heard several low grunts.
Of course, he assumed it was a bear and decided that his best option was to just stay quiet and wait to see what would happen. He reached for his bear spray but realized that he'd left it in his backpack which was down at our cook site with the food. The grunting continued to get louder and closer to his tent and as he looked out into the vestibule he saw a paw reach under the nylon and a snout followed shortly after. He yelled and began shaking the tent and thankfully the animal got scared and ran off.
The next morning, after he had finished telling us the story we had a look around to try to determine what it could have been. Though we can't say with 100% confidence, after looking at the tracks and listening to his story we deduced that it was likely a wolverine that was passing through.
Wolverine's are rare to spot, and I've yet to see one in my time up here, but I'm pretty confident that I'd prefer a bear rummaging around my campsite rather than a wolverine. Needless to say, Matt was far more careful with food for the remainder of the trip and he remembered to take his bear spray with him to bed from that point forward.Jan 12, 2014 at 1:12 pm #2062764
Bob GrossMember
@b-g-2-2Locale: Silicon Valley
"@ Bob: what kind of perimeter alarm do you use?"
Many, many years ago, I used an advanced intruder alert system in the military. It worked pretty good. So, years after that as I got into backpacking, some alarm would be useful in some areas, so I designed one myself. It is called a Break-wire Loop, and it uses one battery, one IC, a few other parts, one switch, one bright light, and one loud sound producer. As I recall, it can work with a perimeter up to about a thousand feet long.
–B.G.–Jan 12, 2014 at 1:56 pm #2062774
Stephen AdamsBPL Member
@stevemkedcomLocale: Northwest
While through hike the PCT this last summer I had an injury that forced me off the trail to recover for two months just south of Whitney. When I got back 2 months later I was literally the last through hiker on the PCT for the summer. A friend hiked with me through the JMT but once I got past Yosemite I was on my own and went days with out seeing anyone. The 2nd day out of Yosemite I encountered a big black bear standing in the trail just at sunset when I was going to make camp. It ran off but gave me the heebie-jeebies that night and every night from then on. I lost count of how many bears I encountered during the day along with one mountain lion and a Bobcat. The weather was good most of the time so I normally cowboy camped but twice I was awakened by something sniffing my hair. By the time I was awake enough to realize it, the animal was gone. I had a wool hoody so from then on I put that over my hair and never had that problem again. I also had some problems with mice and would wake up to little gnawing sounds. I would have to shoo them away from my pack. The straps on my pack are nearly chewed through in some places now and I even have tooth marks in my Iphone. I found that sleeping up high on an exposed ridge made me feel better than down in a deep dark forest where I could hear branch crack 100 yards away. I would tell my self it was most likely a deer or raccoon but it still would take me 10 minutes to calm down and go back to sleep. Also sleeping right next to a babbling brook or if it was windy would drown out the animal noises and I was much more relaxed. I did have some earplugs and some drugs I could take but I was thinking If I kept facing my fear it would go away but after a couple more months it never did until I caught up with another through hiker at Crater lake and we went the rest of the way together always camping with in 50 feet of each other, which for some reason made me feel much better about the sounds at night. I plan on hiking the PNT this summer and will probably just take the drugs and earplugs when I have to sleep in the woods.Jan 13, 2014 at 8:44 am #2062962Jan 13, 2014 at 11:32 am #2063009
David ChenaultSpectator
@davecLocale: The West Slope
My experience is that more nights out is the only solution. Eventually your mind will learn to be selective. It's been decades since squirrel farts woke me in the night, but I still wake up when larger things wander close (in Glacier, often deer looking for salty packs to chew on).Jan 13, 2014 at 4:57 pm #2063099
Michael RaySpectator
I started backpacking and camping with my dad when I was 6. I was about 13 before I realized that the animals i heard slowly walking around the tent in the middle of the night were in fact my eye lashes rubbing on the nylon sleeping bag as I blinked.
I worry a lot less these days.Jan 14, 2014 at 12:58 pm #2063299
Joe GeibBPL Member
@joegeibLocale: Delaware & Lehigh Valleys
Squirrel farts wake me up most nights too. But it's funny that I can't hear my 3mo daughter fuss and squirm at night, and she's 20' away in my quiet house.
But seriously, I have the same issue as the OP. It is difficult to acclimate to the sounds of the nighttime woods when you only get out a handful of times a year (I mean decade, not year). It is upsetting, because we love being outside, but those nights often result in the worst sleep possible.
I have no suggestions here, and just deal with it the best I can. I have to remind myself that most things I hear are small critters, and they want nothing to do with me. I haven't seen much megafauna on the trail lately too, so that reassures me that they are usually secretive as well.
Heck, I even did some AT in NH this past September, and stayed at the AMC Huts. That is even a "save" place, and all the farting, snoring and coughing of the other guests made it difficult for me to sleep as well.
Same goes for hotel rooms – new sleeping environments bring a heightened alertness. Only time (and drugs and plugs) can conquer this.Jan 14, 2014 at 4:01 pm #2063350
Reginald DonaldsonBPL Member
@worthLocale: Wind River Range
The more familiar you are with the type if surroundings, habitat and animals the easier it becomes. A few years ago on a canoe trip in the swamp we had a difficult time finding a place to sleep due to flooding. We slept on a small sandbar barely big enough for the tents and canoes. During the night I awoke to the sound of rustling and cracking twigs. My headlamp is only good for the task at hand. I have no idea what it was and was not about to step out blind into the dark. I suspect it was a gator.Jan 14, 2014 at 4:17 pm #2063351
Anthony HuhnBPL Member
@anthonyjhuhnLocale: Mid West
I would highly suggest an ipod shuffle (.56ounces) and earbuds (0.45ounces) or earplugs (~0.1ounce)
I think a 1.01ounce ipod is weight well spent. Or you probably have a phone already… you can get free "white noise" aps, you could even set it up with a sleep timer to turn it off after an hour or two.
AnthonyJan 14, 2014 at 9:21 pm #2063400
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Leave the earplugs and iPod at home and tune in, not out.
I'm confused that I hear people say they carry earplugs for when it's really stormy or raging outside. I always thought that listening to the weather raise hell all night was one of the best parts of being out. So what if you loose some sleep. I've never heard of a deathbed confession in which someone wished they slept more. I can get perfect, silent, dark sleep at home.
Thunderstorms in the High Sierra, windstorms in the Mojave, and summer rainstorms in Utah are some of my greatest pleasures in life. I wouldn't tune them out for the world.
As for animals, consider yourself to be lucky enough to be experiencing animals in the real world. Consider yourself blessed to have an encounter with an animal in its environment.
I woke in Mojave moonlight one night to the sound of a jackrabbit in a bush next to my bag. On the other side of me, another rustle. Turning slowly in that direction, I saw the coyote creeping in. I was caught in the middle, frozen and listening, until the jack made a break. The coyote was only a few feet from having to jump over me. It scared me silly when it bolted. One of the best damned nights I've ever had in the desert.
Nothing is going to eat you.
*And if anything is going to eat you, it's probably bigger, stronger, and you won't have much chance anyway. Better than in a hospital bed, I figure.Jan 14, 2014 at 10:44 pm #2063422
Nico .BPL Member
@nickbLocale: Los Padres National Forest
+ 1 what Craig said.Jan 15, 2014 at 6:49 am #2063446
Jim ColtenBPL Member
@jcoltenLocale: MN
skittish about animals I can't see
Skittish? I am one who was not skittish of nighttime forest noises … utter terror would be a much more accurate word.
Fast forward 50 years … I sleep "cowboy or under a tarp without a second thought (outside of biting insect season).
What changed? Small doses alone in the dark to start with and then incremental increases with conscious effort to be fascinated by the noises. That got me from terrified to merely uncomfortable. The next step was a slow two mile midnight walk through forest I knew somewhat without using lights (was equipped to camp safely if I got lost). After that the lingering low level unease faded with time.Jan 15, 2014 at 10:44 am #2063497
Andy FSpectator
@andyfLocale: Midwest/Midatlantic
Animals are the least of my worries. One snowy night, I awoke to the sound of alien lasers shredding my tent!
(Once awake, a quick investigation revealed that the noise was just snow sliding off the tent.)Jan 15, 2014 at 8:32 pm #2063684
Kelly GBPL Member
I've spent most of my life camping, and in recent years, backpacking. I hate the sounds of insects and mice at night, and they easily keep me awake. Ear plugs, a babbling brook, or a light wind, do help.
KellyJan 17, 2014 at 8:40 am #2064027
wiiawiwb wiiawiwbBPL Member
There are a number of different type of perimeters alarm systems. One I've used is a personal keychain alarm (130 decibels) and fishing line. Both ends will be tied to a tree and if something hits the fishing line the keychain alarm will be activated.
It's inexpensive and it works.
http://www.amazon.com/Safeguard-Activator-Personal-Emergency-Panic/dp/B002OOQ2P2/ref=pd_sim_sbs_lg_4/190-1931917-7323018Jan 17, 2014 at 3:03 pm #2064137Jan 17, 2014 at 3:08 pm #2064138
W I S N E R !BPL Member
Seriously? Sounds like a great way to wake the entire forest at 2AM over a baby raccoon.Jan 17, 2014 at 3:23 pm #2064140
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The year 1957 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1957.
- January 6 – Elvis Presley makes his final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.[1]
- January 25 – Steve Allen makes his final appearance as host of NBC's The Tonight Show.[2] He is replaced by Jack Lescoulie and the show is changed from a talk/variety show format to be more like the series Today, with the title Tonight! America After Dark.[3]
- February 16 – In the United Kingdom, the "Toddlers' Truce" (an arrangement whereby there were no TV broadcasts between 6 PM and 7 PM, to allow parents to put their children to bed) is abolished. It had been a major obstacle to the success of ITV.
- March 7 – Portugal begins the Rádio e Televisão de Portugal television service after several months of experimentation.
- March 31 – The first TV version of Cinderella, starring 21-year-old Julie Andrews, and with songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, is broadcast in color by CBS.
- April 1 – In Britain, the BBC's Panorama current affairs television programme presented by Richard Dimbleby broadcasts a spaghetti tree hoax report purporting to show spaghetti being harvested in Switzerland, believed to be the first April Fool's Day joke televised. Meanwhile, in the United States WYES begins broadcasting on channel 8 in New Orleans. WYES would later swap channels with WVUE in 1970.
- April 4 - CBS broadcasts "The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue" the 180th and final first run episode of "I Love Lucy".
- April 24 – First broadcast of BBC Television astronomy series The Sky at Night in the United Kingdom presented by Patrick Moore. This will be broadcast with the same presenter until his death in December 2012.
- June – On Tonight! America After Dark, Jack Lescoulie is unsuccessful, so NBC hires Al "Jazzbo" Collins as master of ceremonies. Collins doesn't last long; NBC is already planning to replace him and restore the original format as The Tonight Show.
- June 24 – Front Page Challenge, television's longest continuously running panel show, starts broadcasting on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation network. It runs for 38 years.
- July 29 – Jack Paar becomes the permanent host for NBC's The Tonight Show. The format reverts to a talk/variety show.
- August 5 – American Bandstand begins its 30-year syndicated run on US network television.
- August 31 – Central Scotland's independent channel Scottish Television goes on air, the first 7-day-a-week ITV franchise to do so.
- September 7 – NBC introduces an animated version of its "living color" peacock logo.
- November 26 – WHDH-TV/5-Boston begins broadcasting. It soon becomes involved in controversy about its license. It finally loses its license in 1972.
- December 25 – The British Royal Christmas Message is televised with the Queen (Elizabeth II) on camera for the first time.
- When Nat King Cole's television series is unable to get a sponsor, Frankie Laine is the first artist to cross TV's color line, foregoing his usual salary of $10,000.00 to become the first white artist to appear as a guest. Other major performers follow suit, including Mel Tormé and Tony Bennett, but, despite an increase in ratings, the show still fails to acquire a national sponsor.
- Gorni Kramer makes his first appearance on Italian television, in the program Il Musichiere.
- Cyprus began a limited television service, serving only three hours a day, twice-weekly. By 1960 a full service will be initiated.
- CBC Television begins nationwide broadcasting of NHL games as Canada's microwave network is completed coast-to-coast. Prior to this, broadcasts had been delayed.
- Westinghouse introduces the first rectangular tube color TV. Due to issues with convergence (aligning the guns to get a single image), the sets were withdrawn from the market. The first successful rectangular color tubes were sold first during the mid-1960s.
Series on the air in 1957Edit
- Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (1946–1960)
- Howdy Doody (1947–1960)
- Kraft Television Theater (1947–1958)
- Meet the Press (1947–present)
- Candid Camera (1948–present)
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971)
- Bozo the Clown (1949–present)
- Come Dancing (UK) (1949–1995)
- The Voice of Firestone (1949–1963)
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950–1958)
- The Jack Benny Program (1950–1965)
- Truth or Consequences (1950–1988)
- What's My Line (1950–1967)
- Your Hit Parade (1950–1959)
- Dragnet (1951–1959)
- I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951–present)
- Love of Life (1951–1980)
- Search for Tomorrow (1951–1986)
- American Bandstand (1952–1989)
- The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952–1966)
- Adventures of Superman (1952–1958)
- The Guiding Light (1952–2009)
- The Today Show (1952–present)
- This Is Your Life (US) (1952–1961)
- The Danny Thomas Show (1953-1964)
- Panorama (UK) (1953–present)
- The Good Old Days (UK) (1953–1983)
- Climax! (1954–1958)
- Disneyland (1954–1958)
- Face the Nation (1954–present)
- Father Knows Best (1954-1960)
- The Brighter Day (1954–1962)
- The Milton Berle Show (1954–1967)
- The Secret Storm (1954–1974)
- The Tonight Show (1954–present)
- Zoo Quest (UK) (1954–1964)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
- Captain Kangaroo (1955–1984)
- Cheyenne (1955–1962)
- Country Music Jubilee (1955–1960)
- Dixon of Dock Green (UK) (1955–1976)
- Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
- Mickey Mouse Club (1955–1959)
- The Lawrence Welk Show (1955–1982)
- This Is Your Life (UK) (1955–2003)
- Armchair Theatre (UK) (1956–1968)
- As the World Turns (1956–2010)
- The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford (1956–1961)
- Hancock's Half Hour (1956–1962)
- Opportunity Knocks (UK) (1956–1978)
- The Edge of Night (1956–1984)
- The Gale Storm Show, Oh! Susanna (1956–1960)
- The Price Is Right (1956–1965)
- The Steve Allen Show (1956–1960)
- What the Papers Say (UK) (1956–2008)
- Bachelor Father (1957-1962)
- April 24 – The Sky at Night (UK) presented by Patrick Moore (1957–present)
- May 1 – Junior Television Club
- May 7 – In Melbourne Tonight with Graham Kennedy on GTV-9
- June 19 – The Army Game (UK) on ITV (1957–1961)
- June 24 – Front Page Challenge (1957–1995)
- July – Tivoli Party Time (1957) on HSV-7 (Melbourne, Australia)
- August 15 – Australia's Amateur Hour (1957–1958) on TCN-9 and HSV-7
- September 18 – Wagon Train (1957–1965)
- September 21 – Perry Mason on CBS (1957–1966), The Polly Bergen Show on NBC
- September 22 – Maverick on ABC (1957–1961)
- October 3 – The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom on ABC (1957–1960)
- October 4 – Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
- October 10 – Zorro on ABC (1957–1959)
- October 13 – The Edsel Show, first full-length show to be recorded on videotape, first of many Bing Crosby specials
- November 6 – The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour on CBS (1957–1960)
- November 17 – Scotland Yard on ABC (1957–1958)
- November – Swallow's Juniors (1957–1970) on HSV-7 (Melbourne, Australia)
- December 14 - Hanna-Barbera's First Series, The Ruff and Reddy Show on NBC (1957-1960)
- December 25 – Royal Christmas Message first televised with a message from Elizabeth II
- Astor Showcase (1957–1959) on ATN-7 (Sydney, Australia)
- Divorce Court (US) (1957–1969, 1985–1992, 1999–present)
- The Gumby Show (1957–1968) on NBC
Ending this yearEdit
|February 24
|Annie Oakley
|February 26
|Noah's Ark
|April 1
|I Love Lucy
|April 8
|Life Is Worth Living
|April 20
|The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (UK)
|May 1
|Kukla, Fran and Ollie
|June 9
|The Roy Rogers Show
|The Grove Family (UK)
|The Three Stooges
|January 7
|Katie Couric
|Journalist, talk show host (60 Minutes)
|January 17
|Steve Harvey
|Actor & comedian, host (The Steve Harvey Show)
|February 16
|LeVar Burton
|Actor, host (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reading Rainbow)
|February 18
|Vanna White
|Game show hostess (Wheel of Fortune)
|March 30
|Paul Reiser
|Actor & comedian (Mad About You)
|April 13
|Gary Kroeger
|Actor, announcer (Saturday Night Live)
|May 5
|Richard E. Grant
|English actor
|June 12
|Timothy Busfield
|Actor & director (thirtysomething)
|July 21
|Jon Lovitz
|Actor & comedian (Saturday Night Live)
|July 23
|Jo Brand
|English comedian, actress, writer (Getting On)
|July 26
|Nana Visitor
|Actress (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
|August 16
|Laura Innes
|Actress (ER)
|August 18
|Denis Leary
|Actor & comedian (Rescue Me)
|August 24
|Stephen Fry
|English actor & comedian (Pocoyo)
|September 23
|Rosalind Chao
|September 29
|Andrew Dice Clay
|Comedian, actor (Bless This House)
|September 30
|Fran Drescher
|Actress & comedian (The Nanny)
|October 4
|Bill Fagerbakke
|Actor (Patrick Star on Spongebob Squarepants)
|October 5
|Bernie Mac
|Actor (The Bernie Mac Show) & comedian (d. 2008)
|October 11
|Dawn French
|Welch-born English actress & comedian (French and Saunders)
|October 25
|Nancy Cartwright
|Actress (Bart Simpson on The Simpsons)
|October 29
|Dan Castellaneta
|Actor & comedian (Homer Simpson on The Simpsons)
|November 6
|Cam Clarke
|Voice actor (original voice of Leonardo on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
|November 7
|Christopher Knight
|Actor (The Brady Bunch)
|December 9
|Donny Osmond
|Singer, actor & game show host (The Donny & Marie Show)
|December 21
|Ray Romano
|Stand-up comedian & actor (Everybody Loves Raymond)
|December 30
|Matt Lauer
|Television host (The Today Show)
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- ^ Karm, Bob. "Steve Allen's Last Tonight Show Appearance on this Date in 1957". pdxretro.com. PDX RETRO. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
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I moved in with my father three years after my parents decided to split up. They were not easy years. I was busy with school and work. He was busy with a new job at a new clinic. They were hectic years, but we spent many hours together. I never came home to an empty house.
That got old fast.
But eventually I became used to it. Then I was comfortable with it. Finally I required it. I think that's how things go sometimes. Adaption is a funny thing.
We'd talk about everything from how to bowl a proper flipper to the nature of greed and reasons for why people do things. I learned so much from him, but most of it just left more questions after the fact. Like all good conversations should.
My father was in the wars. He had a hernia, which would plop out whenever he stood up. He had a steel pin in one hip ever since he was 14, his other hip developed osteo-arthritis, which made a funny clicking sound when he walked, but the pain it put him in was not funny. His left leg had no ligament, after it snapped when he was 30 years old and never went to get it fixed. This and sausage rolls led him to become obese. His obesity led to leg ulcers as large as a thumb, which would weep constantly.
After a while I became his Carer. This put massive strain on my school work, social life and my own health. I'd wake up most mornings by 6am, and spend an hour dressing his legs and helping him put his shoes and socks on. Gradually he got worse. His hip became so bad that some days he couldn't even get out of bed, for any reason. I even bought special phones so that he could page it and wake me up at night. It rang about as often as Shane Warne's phone. For those of you who don't know the King of Spin, his phone rang a lot.
My father had a lot of legitimate medical whinges, but his hips and legs and hernia were never mentioned by him. The things he did complain about made him seem like a hypochondriac. Every cough was pneumonia, every sneeze the flu, every headache a brain tumour. He was never serious about it, but it was enough to blur the lines. To get through life without having to take anyone's advice.
The doctors wouldn't operate on his hips because of his weight, fearing he would die on the table. He couldn't drastically reduce his weight because of his hips. He tried, desperately, but he couldn't shift enough weight.
I resented the hold he had on my life through his vulnerability. I resented having to wake up every 2 hours to make sure he had some water, or had fallen asleep properly, or to re-dress his wounds. I resented a lot of things but I never resented him for it. How could it be his fault? He would get so upset about me having to hang around all the time to make sure he was alright. It was a vicious cycle that we couldn't escape.
One week was particularly bad. He spent nearly all of it in bed. I was constantly getting him stuff. He was talking about a bad headache the whole time, and he couldn't sleep. We tried more water, paracetamol, codeine, vallium, air-con on 24 hours a day. Anything we could think of. By the end of the week he was feeling much, much better. He was still getting cold sweats, but he could sleep. He even managed to stay awake for his favourite TV shows, something he hadn't been able to accomplish for weeks. I kept the phone by my bed, so that he could use the intercom. Just in case.
It stayed mercifully silent.
I remember waking up, fresh as a daisy for the first time in months. I must have gotten at least 4 or 5 hours straight of sleep. It was about 10am. I popped out of bed, stretching and yawning. I found a pair of clean shorts and went to the bathroom, as one does after a good sleep.
I knocked on his door as I went past, to see if he was up. When he didn't answer I just shrugged and went to put the kettle on. I'm a massive coffee addict. Priority one mission for the first 15 minutes out of bed.
I went back to his bedroom and opened the door a crack, to see if he really was asleep. The sunlight streamed right through his window at this time of the morning and I had to squint a little bit. He was lying on his side, so I watched him for a few seconds, looking for the steady rise and fall of his chest.
He wasn't moving.
My hands were shaking terribly as I went over to him, heart thudding in my ears. I felt his forehead and it was sticky and cold. His eyes were glued shut and his arms were sticking out at odd angles. I tried to roll him over but the bed skidded across the floor instead. I felt for his pulse, his hands were clammy.
The top half of him was white as his sheets, but the underside which he was sleeping on was purple. I raced to the phone and dialled 000 (emergency). I tucked the phone in my shoulder and I tried to heave him over again so I could start CPR, trying furiously to remember the steps. I was speaking autonomously to the robot on the end of the phone, asking which service I required. I remember thinking, "Well, which one do you think?" pretty unfairly. I finally managed to push him over. I heard a groan escape his lips and my heart leaped, thinking I might have a shot. But the way his arms moved, and the blueness of his limbs stopped me cold.
When the operator on the phone asked me where I was and what the problem is I answered as calmly as I could. The phone must have not been on the receiver for a while, so the batteries were low. They said not to worry and that help was on the way, and asking me for any signs of life at all. There weren't. That lovely lady on the other end of the phone advised me to wait outside for the ambos. I didn't need to be in there for the time being.
I started screaming at him to wake up. Typical stubborn dad refused. Neighbours were calling down, asking what was wrong and I burst out of the flat into the garden. My immediate neighbours rushed outside the house. A mother and son. They were extraordinarily nice people, most of the time. She came over to me while he ran into the house to check on dad.
The sirens were only a few minutes behind that. The ambulance pushed around the back of the car park, trying to get as close as they could to my flat. They jumped out and raced over with their gear. I stood up automatically and took them through the flat, wishing I'd cleaned up the day before like I said I was going to.
"Not a lot to do here," the evil, gnarled old hag of an ambo whispered to her partner.
"Sorry we ruined your morning," I said acidly.
Then the police arrived. A lot of police, now that I think about it. 3 patrols turned up. 3 patrols, one ambulance and 1 fire truck that didn't hang around too long. I laughed a bit to myself as they tried, unsuccessfully to turn around so the coppers could get on my street.
The constable asked me if I needed to ring anyone. I tried my mother first, with no answer. Then my brother, same again. I finally reached my sister.
"Dad's dead," I said, trying not to burst into tears. The first time I'd wanted to cry all morning. I remember also thinking at that moment that I would have to come up with a more tactful way of informing people in the future. It was rather abrupt.
"Ok," she choked, "I'm on my way. We'll be there soon. I love you."
"I am rather grand aren't I?" I said gloomily.
I went outside. Someone had made me a coffee, and gone to get cigarettes for me from the shops. That was my neighbour who lived on the top floor. She'd brought down a chair for me to sit on, so I slumped against the wall and fell backwards, as one does in these situations. I spilled my coffee on my clean shorts while I tried to light my smoke. I didn't want to leave my dad, so I just kept sitting there for a long time, the smoke burning down to the filter without me taking a single drag.
My mind was crystal clear. I knew I was in shock, and when it came it would destroy me. And it did, but that wasn't for a few days after. Another story for another time.
My mum rang and said she was on her way. She'd been out sailing with her then boyfriend, now husband. He's a good bloke, I like him. She asked me if I was alright, and I said I was doing pretty good, considering.
My brother appeared from around the corner, with my sister in toe. I got up and ran over to him. There was a loud slap of our chests as we hugged tightly and he was tearing up.
"Don't go in there," I said to my sister when I hugged her, even closer than my brother.
She nodded silently.
My top floor neighbour offered her house for us to sit and wait for my mother in. I agreed after some cajoling from her, my brother, my sister, and one of my mother's best friends. The constable asked me not to go anywhere, as I would need to give a statement after the coroners had shown up. That made me feel sick.
Had I somehow missed something that was tantamount to criminal negligence?
I went upstairs and slumped outside on their balcony. My brother lit me another smoke and my sister sat down next to me, putting her head on my shoulder. We sat there for about an hour without saying anything.
Outside the apartment I could hear the soft clip-clop of little piggy feet, and when I looked up I saw the constable, hat in hand and a form letter in his hand.
"We could wait for your mother if you want?" he said.
"No. It's alright. The sooner we do this the better." I replied.
My brother went downstairs to see my dad for one last time, and my sister went with him, leaving me alone with the copper.
He asked about the last week, and I told him dad had been feeling very weak, and had a bad headache. He asked me what the last thing he'd had to eat, which was a steak and kidney pie.
"Oh yum," the constable said, obviously without thinking judging by the look on his face.
We talked about his past medical history and other important details. He seemed satisfied.
"Your dad seems like he was a tough old bastard, mate. Two buggered hips, a buggered leg, and he still kept going. Bloody nurses, think they're superhuman eh? Not a lot anyone could have done to help him, but you know that don't you?"
I nodded and smiled at the constable.
My mother appeared at the door to the flat. I don't think I'd ever been so happy to see anyone in my entire life. She snapped at the constable for not waiting for her to show up but I told her it was my decision and that it was over and we could go now. I went out on the concrete parapet of the flats and looked down. A gigantic red bag on a gurney being hauled over the grass of the garden below. I almost vomited for the second time that morning.
I quickly took my hands off the rails and went back out to the balcony. My mother said she would go collect some of my things, then come and get me when they were done.
I've read, heard, and seen a lot about how those kinds of events get fuzzy after a day or so. It hasn't happened for me. The rest of the day was a blur.
But I remember that morning.


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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has helped seal victory at the High Court for client Alfa-Access-Renova (AAR) in its multibillion-dollar dispute with UK oil giant BP.
The dispute kicked off earlier this year when BP announced a £10bn share swap with Russia's state-owned oil company Rosneft in January, part of a lucrative deal that would also have involved a long-term agreement to explore oil reserves in the Arctic.
AAR is a consortium of shareholders with a 50 per cent stake in TNK-BP, BP's existing joint venture in Russia. AAR argued that the Rosneft deal would breach the terms of its shareholder agreement with TNK-BP and secured an injunction against the deal on 1 February.
At an expedited hearing at the High Court on 25 March, the tribunal upheld AAR's position.
AAR was advised by Skadden partners David Kavanagh and Scott Simpson and associate barrister Adam Baradon, with Skadden instructing Brick Court Chambers' Mark Howard QC.
BP turned to Linklaters London litigation chief Michael Bennett, who instructed another Brick Court silk, Mark Hapgood QC. Although it was not named in the litigation, Rosneft instructed Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer London partner Sebastian Lawson and Moscow associate Sergei Diyachenko.
Under the terms of the TNK-BP joint venture, BP must first offer any potential opportunities in Russia to TNK-BP. The UK company could now pursue the option of a share swap with Rosneft, but drop the Arctic oil exploration agreement.


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And:In every other respect we as humans act as individual organisms except when it comes to intercourse between men and women — then we work together as one flesh. Coordination toward that end — even when procreation is not achieved — makes the unity here. This is what marriage law was about. Not two friends building a house together. Or two people doing other sexual activities together. It was about the sexual union of men and women and a refusal to lie about what that union and that union alone produces: the propagation of humanity. This is the only way to make sense of marriage laws throughout all time and human history. Believing in this truth is not something that is wrong, and should be a firing offense. It's not something that's wrong, but should be protected speech. It's actually something that's right. It's right regardless of how many people say otherwise. If you doubt the truth of this reality, consider your own existence, which we know is due to one man and one woman getting together. Consider the significance of what this means for all of humanity, that we all share this.Now if one wants to change marriage laws to reflect something else, that's obviously something that one can aim to do. We've seen the rapid, frequently unthinking embrace of that change in recent years, described one year ago in the humanist and libertarian magazine Spiked as "a case study in conformism" that should terrify "anyone who values diversity of thought and tolerance of dissent."Are we sure we need to accept that lie? Are we sure we want to?Perhaps there should have been a bit of a burden of proof on those who wanted to change the institution — something beyond crying "Bigot!" in a crowded theater. Perhaps advocates of the change should have explained at some point, I don't know, what singles out marriage as unique from other relationships under this new definition. What is marriage? That's a good question to answer, particularly if you want to radically alter the one limiting factor that is present throughout all history. Once we get an answer for what this new marriage definition is, perhaps our media and other elites could spend some time thinking about the consequences of that change. Does it in any way affect the right of children to be raised by their own mother and father? Have we forgotten why that's an important norm? Either way, does it change the likelihood that children will be raised by their own mother and father? Does it by definition make that an impossibility for whatever children are raised by same-sex couples? Do we no longer believe that children should be raised by their own mother and father? Did we forget to think about children in this debate, pretending that it's only about adults? In any case, is this something that doesn't matter if males and females are interchangeable? Is it really true that there are no significant differences between mothers and fathers? Really? Are we sure we need to accept that lie? Are we sure we want to?
Far more than the political folks on either side, though, is the importance of what happened to the apolitical. In one sense, the most frightening aspect of the Eich termination was the message it sent to people throughout the country: Shut up or you will lose your livelihood. But in another sense, this dissident moment may spark something previously thought impossible.The place for dissidents to fight for freedom is in the space where the complex demands of the system affect the ability to live life in a bearable way.Havel says that party politics and the law are the weakest grounds on which to fight against group think. Instead, he says that the real place for dissidents to fight for freedom is in the space where the complex demands of the system affect the ability to live life in a bearable way — to not be fired for one's views, for instance. "People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being," Havel said.
It's in this sense that Eich's most important political work was not making a paltry $1,000 donation in defense of natural marriage laws. It was in refusing to recant.
Consider first the response of one of the activist's calling for Eich's head. After he resigned, activist Michael Catlin wrote that he never thought his campaign against Eich would go "this far" and that he wanted "him to just apologize." So he was "sad" that Eich didn't say the magic words that would have allowed him to keep his job. Yeah, he really said that.We see in Eich a dissident who forces us to think about totalitarianism and our role in making society unfree.And then think about how horrified people were that Eich lost his job for his views that men and women are different in important ways. Regardless of our previous views on marriage, we saw in Eich a dissident who forced us to think about totalitarianism and our role in making society unfree. Did we mindlessly put up red equal signs when we hadn't even thought about what marriage is? Did we rush to fit in by telling others we supported same-sex marriage? Did we even go so far as to characterize as "bigots" or as "Hitlers" those who held views about the importance of natural marriage?


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Getting rid of or reducing the size of chubby cheeks? (Photo)
I have had chubby cheeks for as long as I can remember, and their size has bothered me for a while. They protrude and make my face appear very round and chubby. Aside from my face, I'm fairly thin, so I don't think that losing weight will do much. What kind of surgeries or procedures would help make my face look thinner and get rid of my chubby cheeks? Thanks.
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Chubby cheeks are often from enlarged buccal fat pads and can be reduced surgically
The buccal fat pads are located in the mid cheeks and lie between the inner and outer cheek muscles. As people age, this fat pad often gets smaller. If this is a hereditary issue and chubby cheeks run in your family, you might consider buccal fat reduction surgery. However, as you age, the cheeks also get thinner. So, for someone who is in their early to mid 20's I suggest waiting to see if this gets smaller as you age. If the buccal fat pads are reduced too early, my might be back 10 years later to restore fat to aging, thinning cheeks.
Chubby Cheek Liposuction
What many people refer to as chubby cheeks is often a zone of subcutaneous fat over an area below the bony cheeks known as the perioral mounds. This can be treated by small cannula liposuction from incisions inside the corners of the mouth.
Web reference: http://www.eppleyplasticsurgery.com
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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World Refugee Day 2016: 4 MPs Reflect On What It Meant To Be Embraced By Canada
They came to Canada with precious little and now exemplify what's possible in this place.
On Monday — World Refugee Day — the Liberal party released a short video online showcasing four MPs who understand better than most what it's like to start over in a strange place.
Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef found safe haven after escaping Afghanistan, while Toronto MPs Garyanada Sangaree, Arif Virani, and Ahmed Hussen came to Canada from Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Somalia, respectively.
Ahmed Hussen and Maryam Monsef.
In the clip, Monsef notes that Peterborough, Ont. "seemed like heaven" when she arrived in 1996. Both Sangaree and Hussen remember the cold and the snow that marked their arrival.
All suggest that what makes Canada special is the way it embraces diversity.
"Everything was orderly, everyone got along," says Hussen, who arrived in 1993. "There were people of many faiths and ethnicities and yet there was harmony and cohesion."
"You can come from any part of the world, you can love anyone, you could be whatever you are… and still be the same," Sangaree says.
Virani says it's all part of what makes Canada "par excellence."
"A country that allows you to be whatever you want to be."
Watch the full video below:
On #WRD2016, @MaryamMonsef, @gary_srp, @AhmedHussenLib & @ViraniArif recall their experiences as refugees:https://t.co/7a58gR5SS9
— Liberal Party (@liberal_party) June 20, 2016
Monsef touched on many of the same themes in an interview with The Huffington Post last November, shortly after she was named to cabinet.
Monsef said the warm embrace of neighbours in her Ontario city made her family feel like they weren't alone when she arrived at the age of 11, homesick and unable to understand English.
Those who helped her widowed mother get by also showed Monsef and her sisters "that we had a community … that it was going to be OK, [and] that we belonged there."
"Twenty years later ... that kindness stays with me, and I hope that as a member of Parliament, I can repay some of that through my service," she said.
'Somber milestone'
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also released a statement Monday, calling World Refugee Day a "somber milestone" because of the estimated 60 million people — more than half of them children — who are refugees, internally-displaced persons, or asylum-seekers.
New figures from the United Nations' refugee agency put that number at more than 65 million.
"In a time of economic uncertainty and tightening security, it is easy for countries to shy away from the plight of those seeking shelter from conflict and persecution," Trudeau said in the release. "We must do better than that, and lead with open minds and warm hearts, not closed borders and cold indifference."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gives winter clothes to Syrian refugees, 16 month-old Madeleine Jamkossian and her father Kevork on December 11, 2015 in Toronto. (Photo: Nathan Denette/CP)
Canada was built by those who fled war and oppression, he said, and remains a nation of immigrants.
Trudeau lauded the fact that 25,000 Syrian refugees have been welcomed in Canada since December, with another 15,000 privately-sponsored refugees still to come.
But Trudeau also used the occasion to note "regrettable moments" when Canada has turned away those in need, from the Chinese Exclusion Act to the Komagata Maru incident, for which he formally apologized in the House of Commons last month.
"Today, tomorrow, and all the days to come, let us show the world that Canada truly is the compassionate, generous country that we know it to be," he said.
New @refugees data reveals highest displacement level ever recorded - https://t.co/0k4SSrUkxl #UN4RefugeesMigrants pic.twitter.com/DylZRwEhoV
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Joe Woodsworth, a senior manager with Surrey, B.C.-based Options Community Services picks up dozens of backpacks, each filled with school supplies for Syrian children. Operation Backpack is the idea of former 24Hours columnist Laila Yuile.
Malak arrived with her family in July after living in a Jordanian refugee camp for two years. Her teeth were so decayed the 5-year-old girl was kept up at night because of the pain until a local dentist stepped forward to help the family for free.
"Hopefully, together, we can prove that Canada in general and the Maritimes in particular are as generous and welcoming as the rest of the world thinks we are," P.E.I. artist Amy Seymour told HuffPost Canada.
In November, the Edmonton Oilers captain gave $10,000 to Edmonton's Mennonite Centre for Newcomers to support their work in helping to resettle incoming Syrian refugees. The donation helped the group meet its two-month goal in a single day.
The Guelph businessman made headlines last month after stepping forward to say he intended to spend $1.5 million to privately sponsor 50 Syrian refugee families to come to Canada. Estill explained he was tired of seeing refugee applications get snarled in long, bureaucratic processes. "I'm a businessperson, I'm very impatient, and we should just do it now," he said.
"It's really good to know that we're so compassionate and that we want to help," said Darrell McLeod of St. Clare's refugee family sponsorship group. "Everybody's very excited about it. Everyone's been really excited to make things happen."
Westbank Developments founder Ian Gillespie is behind many of downtown Vancouver's glitziest skyscrapers.A descendant of Irish immigrants, he made a pledge in November to furnish a 12-unit West End apartment complex and open it to incoming refugees. He also said he's exploring ways to help Syrians get jobs after they arrive in the city.
A small group of from the Keewatin Otchitchak traditional women's drum group gathered by baggage carousels to greet 17 Syrians to Treaty 1 with a song of welcome.
"I need to point out that the people who are desperate refugees are fleeing from the exact same people who perpetrated the kind of violence we saw in Paris and Beirut last week," the Calgary mayor told reporters a week after deadly attacks in France and Lebanon. "They're running away from the bad guys and, as such, we need to be able to open our arms to make sure that we can provide safety to these folks."
Christine Youssef (pictured) greets newly arrived Syrian relatives on a bus near Pearson International Airport in Mississauga on Dec. 11. Youssef and her mother are sponsoring 43 of their Syrian relatives to come to Canada. Thirteen have arrived and are staying at the family's small Scarborough, Ont. bungalow. Soon, nine of the relatives will move out, making room for more relatives to come in.
When CBC News reporter Eman Bare interviewed Mohamed Al-Noury, 21, and Athar Farroukh, 23, she realized the Syrian refugee couple had no wedding pictures. So Bare put a callout on soical media to surprise the high sweethearts with a wedding. Her request spread and within 24 hours people came forward donating a venue, suit, dress, and cake. "Grateful for a community that makes beautiful things happen," wrote Bare on Instagram below a photo taken at the couple's Saskatoon ceremony.
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- Free bottled water
- Room service (limited hours)
- Flat-panel TV
- Air conditioning
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Free local calls
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Hair dryer
- Soundproofed rooms
- Desk
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Shower only
- Phone
- Free toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
Hotel Policy
Know Before You Go
- This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
- No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Fee for cooked-to-order breakfast: MXN $135.00 por persona per person (approximately)
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.Show all hotel policy Show less hotel policy