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Your Fear.
Your Fear.
So, this happens to me regularly and I was wondering what other people's experience with it is.
I live in a rural setting and when I go running I run along a road that has few houses and developed farm (re: undeveloped government land.) This particular thicket of forest I run past takes me about 10 minutes to get through and then I come to a couple farm house's and fields. If I run alone I bring my dog, a huge German Shepard. But no matter if I am running with someone or my dog, during this stretch of forest I am so freaking scared for my life. I have pictured everything from coming across a bear, coyotes, wolves and lately moose. I watched a special on TV not long ago called "Moose Attacks!", it was all about moose attacking people and how they are more dangerous than any carnivorous animal combined. I guess I should mention now that this forest area is kind of swampy and moose travel through frequently. Two months ago a Cow (female moose) and her Calf (baby) would be in this area every morning, I'd see them on my commute (driving). So, now all I can picture when I run is this moose barging out of the forest coming after me. Also, I learnt dogs will attract them to attack because they get defensive with their smell because their greatest enemy are wolves.
I realize that the more you concentrate on an emotion the stronger and larger it gets. So, the more I think about how scared I am and what that moment would look like the more real it becomes. The mind starts to not be able to decipher between real and imagined and then, low and behold, I am literally running for my life like my 10 000 year old ancestors. (disclaimer, I realize this part sounds crazy). I have even had the face of a knashing T-rex flash in my mind. I have a very creative, or maybe just intense, imagination. Doesn't help for something like this.
I haven't run here in a couple weeks because there were several cougars spotted in our area and we've been asked to not be out alone in the bushes. In the area I live cougars are on the rise. This is a valid fear and reason to not go because they love to stalk and chase.
Anyway, I am dealing with my fear and trying to work passed it but it made me wonder if anyone else in a daily sense feels this same intense fear. Not the worry kind, like their loved one will get in an accident or they might mess up at a presentation at work or school or something, but the fear where you are literally scared for you life in the moment.
I grew up in a city where I never really felt fear daily. I might be conscious of a stranger following too close behind or something, but I always was in a safe place so it didn't frighten me too much. Maybe I am just not a country person?
What are your experiences with fear? Maybe you are in a high risk job that makes your heart lurch? How do you deal in the moment? Anxiety and depression (something most of us feel at some point) I have coping mechanisms and skills to deal with- actual fear, not so much yet.
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RE: Your Fear.
I live in suburbia and have never lived in a rural area so I don't have any of that kind of fear but certainly feel for you
The only fear I have ever lived in is when I reported someone to the cops (for undisclosed reasons) and thought he may retaliate but I was ready for him if he came (which he didn't and I should've realised he wouldn't cos he's a fucking coward) but I no longer have this fear as it was over 20 years ago. I used to play out many scenarios in my head and what I would do in each of them which would, in turn, make my fear worse. I'm sure glad that's over.
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RE: Your Fear.
Yeah no kidding, that's what it's like- picturing every worst case scenario.
I should mention too that anyone I talk to about this locally tells me to pray and that God controls all the animals. Ha ha!
The other advice is to carry a gun. Yeah, because running with a huge shot gun on my shoulder will do the trick.
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RE: Your Fear.
Hi LadyJane.
I can't really relate to your worries about wildlife fear since as good as any really dangerous animal in Belgium is extinct. In the deeper east of Belgium (where my parents used to live) we still have wild boars in the forest but mostly, they learned that that 2 legged predator is a formidable hunter and they are more scared from you then you are from them. Thea are still dangerous when they have piglets. The idea is to keep a safe perimeter between you and the herd.
I realize that running in a forest can be considered an aggressive action by pray and a form of fleeing by predatory animals in which both cases they could react... uuhm... unpleasant. If I was in your place, I'd study the behavior of the spices I risk to encounter and try to view it their ways so you are prepared for the worst. I often find that getting realistic an unbiased information is a huge source of comfort for me.
As for fear...
Yes. I know what i'ts like. I am not afraid for wildlife predators, but since some months I am afraid from human predators. (I guess you know why) I know i'ts not really realistic but my safe feeling is gone. It ranges from a mild unnerving feeling to becoming really jumpy. I guess I am not much different then a wild boar fearing for the safety of his/hers young.
My therapist said that you have to give room to any emotion but just as much as you feel comfortable with. You should not let anyone tell you how you should feel.
If you are afraid of dark patches of Forrest at night, it is okay not to go there.
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Secular humanist
Emotional rationalist
Disclaimer: Don't mix the personal opinion above with the absolute and objective truth. Remember to think for yourself. Thank you.
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RE: Your Fear.
(14-04-2012 12:25 AM)Observer Wrote: I can't really relate to your worries about wildlife fear since as good as any really dangerous animal in Belgium is extinct.Same here in the UK, all save man.
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RE: Your Fear.
Tell you about that shit. God ain't kind to his prophets; says so right in the book. I have known fear, and a greater tranquility. That is to say, silence is louder than any noise.
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RE: Your Fear.
(13-04-2012 11:16 PM)LadyJane Wrote: So, this happens to me regularly and I was wondering what other people's experience with it is.
I get that feeling whenever I think about running. That shit'll give you a heart attack. Look what happened to Jim Fixx.
(13-04-2012 11:16 PM)LadyJane Wrote: I grew up in a city where I never really felt fear daily.
I'm guessing you didn't grow up in Baltimore, Philly, Detroit or Newark NJ then.
Who knew moose were so fuckin' ballsy.
Looks like you can take 'em if you have a big stick and can holler in Swedish.
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RE: Your Fear.
You should start playing World of Warcraft. It teaches you how to avoid moose attacks
I'm terrified of cockroaches if that makes anyone here less embarrassed of their fears btw
RE: Your Fear.
I know the few times I've gone out for a walk/run I've had some potential problems. One night, for who knows why, a group of people decided it'd be "fun" to stalk me in a park (when I left, they left, I was afraid to go to my house). No matter where I walked, they soon passed. In that case I decided to do something odd in the sense that I used them stalking me to learn their patterns, and then turned it around (they turned where they thought I'd be, only to find me waiting for them where they were headed--they quickly stopped [funny since they were on foot and in cars and in a group, and I was alone]). Come to find out, they were drunk, and headed to some odd "party on a bus" thing. If I had my phone on me, my response probably would've been different.
One night I even had a dog/wolf (not sure... it looked almost like a hybrid). It was sitting in the road and looked at me. Then it charged toward me, and leaped right beside, spun around, and started circling me like I was it's prey. In that case, I was close to my house, and was trying to walk "ignoring it" so I could get to something at my house to defend myself (granted, with injuries if it came to that). It decided to go after something else though as it ran toward the corn fields.
Now at the same time, there are some woods around where I go at times (probably a 15-20 acre patch of woods) that I have a fear of walking next to (corn/soybean field on one side, woods on the other)--but that's just because it's so overgrown it's hard to tell if something (animal) is in there. More than once I've seen deer leap from the woods and head towards the field. Not saying they'd attack, but I'm pretty certain that me running and being sideswiped by a running dear would not be very pleasant, and would probably require a call for an ambulance.
Fortunately, nothing bad has ever happened--although I do notice a quick flee response, followed by a logical response of sorts (or planning, whatever). Like with the wolf/dog it was more of a "oh crap, I'm dead" (heart racing, then a realization that I would show fear, and the animal would notice it, so I had to act like it didn't bother me) followed by a "oh good it ran off... or not" (when it circled) with me then planning on a defence. With the people, I was worried, scared to return home (didn't want them to know where I lived, otherwise I would've walked the 200ft to my house), but quickly started to turn it around.
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RE: Your Fear.
I fear commitment. Relationships scare me to death.
Does that count?
It was just a fucking apple man, we're sorry okay? Please stop the madness
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Written by Kyle Ferguson, Lexington Thursday, 07 March 2013 16:22
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It's January, 2000.
The world's communication channels did not cease, commerce did not
crumble, the transportation industry did not collapse, energy sources
were not turned off, the food supply did not go to waste and the world
did not come to a grinding halt. To top it all off, your PC still
works and there's some money left in your bank account.
The millennium bug will soon be forgotten; life goes on I suppose.
In years to come Y2K will be no more than game show trivia. So why did
this threat of catastrophe trigger such extraordinary measures and
spending from so many Americans?
I'm not referring to computer fixes for the double digit date error.
Extraordinary measures were taken by people who were literally scared
into a survival mode. The following excerpt from a Y2K website tells
the real story.
"They have 18 cans of Spam and two jumbo slabs of
Velveeta," the Washington Post said about us on the front page. "I never eat
Velveeta and Spam is only good for carving contests at science fiction
conventions. But I really did buy the Spam and Velveeta. Why? Because I'm
scared. The Year 2000 problem is real and might cause disruptions in our food
Personally I hope they chalk their mistake up to temporary insanity
and dump the Spam and Velveeta, thereby avoiding a heart attack
triggered by an extraordinary cholesterol load.
Actually what might seem somewhat humorous isn't funny at all. Yet the
rationale behind the panic can provide valuable insights and lessons
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Essentially people are motivated by two principle forces; pleasure and
pain. Most will do whatever possible to maximize pleasure and minimize
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The commitments you make now have the potential to halt the real
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The Vancouver Experiment
One study of Vancouver's injection-drug users has taken harm reduction to a level even beyond Insite. In 2003, the same year that the supervised-injection site opened its doors, an epidemiologist named Martin Schecter began planning a trial that had never been conducted in North America: heroin maintenance. Would a daily course of heroin, administered in a clinical setting, release users from the destructive aspects of maintaining their addiction? Would it benefit society and allow users to stabilize their lives? Similar studies had been conducted in Europe with positive results. Switzerland alone has 38 heroin maintenance centers, and they are a fully integrated part of its national health system; Germany followed suit last year. Schecter, who has worked in Vancouver since the first signs of the AIDS epidemic in 1983, wanted to see whether such a program would make a difference in Canada.
For the neighborhood's recovering addicts, the ability to escape the daily demands of supporting an addiction is often achieved with a dose of methadone. Methadone's relative benefits are well established: It is slow-acting. It greatly reduces cravings for heroin and blocks heroin's euphoric effects. When successful, methadone maintenance can give addicts their lives back. But there are high rates of relapse among long-term addicts.
Drawing from a population of addicts in Vancouver and Montreal who had repeatedly failed methadone therapy, Schecter began the North American Opiate Medication Initiative in 2005. The Vancouver trials were set up in an abandoned bank a few blocks from Insite; the Swiss pharmaceutical-grade heroin was delivered by armored car and stored in the empty vault. Addicts were given heroin three times a day and monitored over a three-year period. A parallel group was given an ordinary course of methadone, and the results were compared.
The results of the trials, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in August, were encouraging. Schecter found that 88 percent of the heroin maintenance group stayed on their course of treatment, versus 54 percent in the methadone group. Illegal activity in the heroin group was reduced 67 percent, versus 47.7 percent in the methadone group. Out of 89,000 injections, there were only 10 overdoses and no fatalities. Despite the positive results, the heroin maintenance program has not been adopted as part of a permanent treatment strategy. Schecter has begun a new trial, focusing on dilaudid—a synthetic opiate with similar effects to heroin, but which can be administered in a pill— to see whether that has similar results. In purely economic terms, Schecter claims opiate maintenance makes sense: An untreated heroin addict costs the state $45,000 a year in legal and medical bills; heroin maintenance costs $7,000. "Sure, it's easy to say, 'You're giving heroin to junkies,' " Schecter says, but he witnessed the stabilization of the heroin group firsthand. "A subject told me 'for the first time in 20 years I'm actually thinking about my life.' That was the line that blew my mind," he recalled. "They're actually thinking about the future. Normally they're thinking about eight hours."
Some scientists remain skeptical. Keith Humphreys, a Stanford-based clinical psychologist and senior drug policy adviser to the White House, dismisses the comparison of heroin and methadone, citing the superior safety and convenience of a newer drug, buprenorphine, in treating opiate addiction. "Bupe," in wide use since 2002 in the United States, was only approved in Canada two years ago and isn't yet covered by the national health system. "There have been multiple randomized trials, pharmacology trials, tolerance trials, showing that compared to heroin, it's way safer," says Humphreys.
As the world tunes in to the Olympics in the coming weeks, Vancouver's drug policies are sure to receive saturation coverage and stir debate. So could a supervised-injection program ever gain traction in the United States? While Insite has broad public support in Vancouver itself, criticism has at times spilled over the border. John Walters, the U.S. "drug czar" under George W. Bush, called Insite "state-sponsored suicide." Even under the new administration, there is little sympathy for supervised injection. Gil Kerlikowske, who served as Seattle's police chief before joining the Obama administration as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, is deeply skeptical of Insite's mission and efficacy. He visited Insite on Mother's Day, 2004, eight months after it opened, and found the experience depressing. "I thought it was just a failure," he says. "They weren't dying of overdose as much, but they were certainly dying a slow death in a lot of other ways."
These doubts are shared by Thomas McLellan, ONDCP's deputy director, whose own son died of a drug overdose in 2008. "I certainly wouldn't be presumptuous enough to tell Canada what to do with its money," he says. "I commend the government for attempting something, I commend them for evaluating it, and I will let the data say to the world and to them whether they're getting what they want out of it. I can't say I'm optimistic." McLellan opposes supervised injection, "not because it's immoral, not because we have a particular ideology or anything that we want to follow, but because I think there are many better, safer options." In McLellan's view, both Insite and Schecter's trial suffer from a more fundamental flaw: They don't get people off drugs, and would only be successful "in the context of ultimately bringing people to see that drug use itself is harmful and that there are effective ways of bringing it to an end."
The ONDCP is announcing its new national drug strategy in February, and Kerlikowske says his new mantra is "evidence-based policy": using hard science to guide decision-making. Determining which evidence to base federal policy on falls largely to Keith Humphreys, who will help draft the new ONDCP strategy. Humphreys doesn't trust the research that has been conducted into supervised injection, which he says is often nonrandomized and lacking control groups. "Those studies are not the kind you would ever approve a medical treatment for," says Humphreys. "They are very undeveloped, scientifically." He cites a phenomenon in which passionate commitment to a particular intervention, like supervised injection, within a small group of researchers skews their results. "Sometimes people feel that when folks are really troubled, you know, we need to make the science softer and weaker and just kind of go with our gut. I feel the exact opposite. When people are really vulnerable, you really, really want to make sure that you're giving them good health care." For David Marsh, Insite's Medical Director, the rationale for the site goes beyond scientific evidence. "We need to do things that save lives and treat drug users like real human beings who are part of society, and there's a real moral argument why that's the right thing to do."
Given the death-panel hysteria attending the health care debate, a serious discussion of applying Vancouver's policies in the United States seems unlikely. But to the proponents of progressive drug policy reform, there are a few signs of hope. New York has abandoned the mandatory minimums of its Rockefeller Drug Laws. It remains to be seen how far the new White House strategy will depart from the drug war, but President Obama has publicly declared that "drug addiction is a health issue" and has ordered the Justice Department not to pursue medical marijuana arrests in states that have legalized it. Congress has overturned the ban on federal funding of needle exchange, and a bill called the Drug Overdose Reduction Act may open the way to American policymakers studying Vancouver's experiment. Yet there is still no simple answer to whether that experiment is a failure or a success.
Gregor Robertson, Vancouver's 44-year-old mayor, knows well that the nightmarish scenes in the alleys of the Downtown Eastside are at odds with the Olympic image of Vancouver as a progressive green utopia. Handsome and athletic, Robertson came into office on an environmental and social-welfare platform, promising to deal with the city's homeless and mentally ill. "It shocks some people to see the pain and suffering in the community front and center," he says. He's ready for the world to arrive and isn't afraid of being judged. "I think our city, we're open and willing to share our biggest problems, and open to ideas from the rest of the world to help us solve them. We haven't figured them out, and we're certainly not going to hide it."
Vancouver is trying to avoid the mistakes of some past Olympic cities, notably Atlanta, which garnered criticism for pushing out its homeless in the months before its Games. As for the critics of Vancouver's harm reduction policies? "They're purely ideological," Robertson says. "Science is on our side here. And the community supports us." In any event, the Games will come and go, and the users of Insite will still be on East Hastings Street, waiting for the doors to open every morning at 10.
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CAMBRIDGE, UK – May 12, 2008 – ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)] today announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit summarily affirmed on Friday, May 9 that ARM's products do not infringe United States Patent No. 5,784,584 asserted by Technology Properties Limited, Inc. and Patriot Scientific Corporation. The Federal Circuit's decision confirms ARM's success in the litigation brought in Marshall, Texas entitled Technology Properties Limited, Inc. v. Fujitsu, et al. The ARM products covered by this binding decision of non-infringement include the ARM7™, ARM9™, ARM9E™, ARM10E™, ARM11™ and Cortex™ microprocessor core families.
TPL and Patriot previously admitted that ARM's products did not infringe the '584 patent unless the Federal Circuit overturned the lower court's decision in favor of ARM. TPL and Patriot previously acknowledged that ARM's products do not infringe the other patents asserted in the Texas litigation, United States Patent Nos. 5,809,336 and 6,598,148. Prior to ARM's victory, cases involving the three patents asserted by TPL and Patriot have always been settled out of court by the parties involved. This is the first instance in which the court has issued a final ruling in favor of either party.
The Federal Circuit's ruling of non-infringement does not impact the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office holding the asserted '584 patent claim to be invalid and anticipated by 11 separate prior art references in reexamination proceedings.
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n. - See Creese. 2
n. - A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced. 2
n. - One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker. 2
v. t. - To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling. 2
n. - The combination of four lines forming a rectangle inclosing either goal, or the inclosed space itself, within which no attacking player is allowed unless the ball is there; -- called also goal crease. 2
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Wilkin to face disciplinary panel
St Helens back-rower Jon Wilkin must appear before the League's disciplinary committee after being charged with striking an opponent at Huddersfield.
Wilkin was sin-binned and put on report after a challenge on Giants skipper Chris Thorman, and the case has been referred by the video appeal panel.
The 23-year-old will have his hearing on Tuesday before finding out what, if any, punishment he will receive.
It means he could miss St Helens' home clash against Harlequins on Friday.
However, asked if his player is likely to face any repercussions after his side's 18-10 win, Saints coach Daniel Anderson said: "I don't think so.
"He got 10 minutes in the bin and they got heaps of possession from it. They had opportunities to score tries. I think that was penalty enough."
However, Huddersfield coach Jon Sharp was adamant Wilkin should have been red-carded for the tackle, which left Thorman concussed.
Should he miss the game, Wilkin's place could be taken by Willie Talau, who is back for the Saints after suspension, while full-back Paul Wellens could also return after a leg injury.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/


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Social and natural sustainability are important for sustainable development
of human settlements (Yoshino, 1994). Coping with flooding and drought; getting
potable water, breathable air, and a stable environment; and so forth have been
prime concerns of urban planners, engineers, governments, and citizenry for
thousands of years (Priscoli, 1998). Climate change simply adds to the challenge.
Some of the adaptations probably would take place autonomously, but some adaptations
may be much improved by taking climate into account explicitly (Wood et al.,
Questions such as adapt to what?, who or what adapts?, and how does adaptation
occur? (Smit et al., 1998) are still difficult to answer in a strict sense.
Management, adaptation, and vulnerabilities have been discussed for settlements
in coastal (Fukuma, 1999/2000), arid, agrarian (Douguédroit, 1997; Douguédroit
et al., 1997; Le Treut 1997), and urban regions (Maunder, 1995). To be successful,
adaptations must be consistent with economic development, they must be environmentally
and socially sustainable over time, and they must be equitable (that is, not
have significantly deleterious effects on disadvantaged groups) (Munasinhge,
In most cases, human settlements have designed into them the ability to withstand
most of the consequences of some environmental variability. In most regions,
climate change would change the probability of certain weather conditions. The
only effect for which average change would be important is sea-level rise, under
which there could be increased risk of inundation of coastal settlements from
average (higher) sea levels. Human settlements for the most part would have
to adapt to more or less frequent or intense rain conditions or more or less
frequent mild winters and hot summers, although individual days weather may
be well within the range of current weather variability and thus not require
exceptionally costly adaptation measures. The larger, more costly impacts of
climate change on human settlements would occur through increased (or decreased)
probability of extreme weather events that overwhelm the designed resiliency
of human systems.
Much of the management of urban centers as well as the governance structures
that direct and oversee them are related to reducing environmental hazards,
including those posed by extreme weather events and other natural hazards. Most
regulations and management practices related to buildings, land use, waste management,
and transportation have important environmental aspects. So too do most public
and private investments in infrastructure. A significant part of health care
and emergency services exists to limit the health impacts of environmental hazards.
Local capacity to limit environmental hazards or their health consequences in
any settlement generally implies local capacity to adapt to climate change,
unless adaptation implies particularly expensive infrastructure investment.
An increasing number of urban centers are developing more comprehensive plans
to manage the environmental implications of urban development. Many techniques
can contribute to better environmental planning and management including: market-based
tools for pollution control, demand management and waste reduction, mixed-use
zoning and transport planning (with appropriate provision for pedestrians and
cyclists), environmental impact assessments, capacity studies, strategic environmental
plans, environmental audit procedures, and state-of-the-environment reports
(Haughton, 1999). Many cities have used a combination of these techniques in
developing Local Agenda 21s. Many Local Agenda 21s deal with a list of urban
problems that could closely interact with climate change in the future. Examples
of these problems include (WRI, 1996; Velasquez, 1998):
The following generic lessons from Curitiba, Brazilwhich come from the context
of sustainable cities under existing conditionsmay be applicable to future
adaptation responses (Rabinovitch, 1998):
The most effective pathways for adaptation that result in sustainable development
are likely to arise out of an informed evolution of existing institutions. Several
authors emphasize the importance of the support and will of local public officials
in developing successful environmental solutions (e.g., Gilbert et al., 1996:
Foronda, 1998). Others emphasize the need in traditional societies to build
from and integrate modern techniques into traditional management practices and
kinship and community networks, to effectively collect and disseminate data
needed for assessing impacts, to open public participation processes for formulating
policy, and to provide a process for strengthening financial, legal, institutional,
and technical elements (Huang, 1997).
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To the man I met, if not for Durango, wrote a female guest in a room journal at the Strater Hotel.
While in town on business, the California woman described falling for this amazing man. To whoever reads this, believe it or not, you can meet someone you can connect with in five days.
This man ends up being 20 years younger. Yes, I know. We ordered room service every night and drank some good wine. ... Not sure if I will ever see him again, but he put a dent in my heart.
The walls of the historic hotel cant talk, but its room diaries are filled with romantic tales to warm the heart on Valentines Day. These are lovers deep in the throes of passion.
Wow !! What a fabulous time we had !! We were here four days and barely left the room (wink)! The town was so cute driving in but we didnt see much of it this trip, wrote a couple from Phoenix.
Another couple wrote of meeting at the Strater as friends and checking out as lovers.
Drove five hours through some of Americas most beautiful landscape for a friendly rendezvous that became a romantic tryst in room 310 with an amazing, playful, radiant, beautiful woman. Advice sleep with the windows open.
His girlfriend added, This adventurous evening ended up being one of the most incredible nights of my life totally unexpected which makes it even more magical. The beautiful bright moon light and the fresh mountain air added a layer of beauty to an amazing experience. The stars aligned. I know its only the beginning of a long journey.
Stories written in hotel room diaries are difficult, if not impossible, to verify. Writers do seem to find their muse at the Strater, where most famously, author Louis LAmour, wrote many of his novels.
Thats one of the really fun things about the journals. Not only did Louis LAmour become a prolific writer while he was staying at the Strater, but our guests wax poetic from their experiences here, said Suzan Lane, human resource director.
A lot of people write about hearing people in the room next to them having romance, too, Lane said.
One guest in particular shared a Valentines Day story.
On Feb. 2, 2012, a man named Franklin wrote, I am from Cleveland, Ohio. This is my 63rd visit to the Strater Hotel. I come here every year on Valentines Day to remember my lovely Elaine who was here with me in 1950. We enjoyed a lovely night here. She sadly passed four days later of food poisoning. Things were much different in those days. But this place has remained the same. I return every year to see my love.
Staff could not corroborate his story. No one by the writers name had a reservation for the Strater this Valentines.
Hoteliers are not the only businesspeople who hear their share of romantic stories.
Florists during Valentines get an earful when taking orders over the phone for the romantic notes that will be attached to their lovers flower arrangements.
Valentines Day, along with Mothers Day, is the busiest time of the year for Aprils Garden, which will have 10 drivers delivering flowers today.
Their customers messages run the gamut from naughty to nice.
We see all kinds of things. We get some profanity, suggestive messages. People using puns. Oh, weve had a few, said Amy Long, owner of Aprils Garden. We get a chuckle out of them every once and a while. Its our comic relief.
We do get a lot that are touching and romantic, Long said. We think, Oh, I wish my husband or boyfriend would write that for me.


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Sea-Tac's existing signalling system was replaced by a Bombardier CITYFLO 650 solution.
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MACON, Ga. (Nov. 19, 2013) – The Atlantic Sun Conference announced its 2013 postseason awards on Tuesday, and the ETSU volleyball team had three players take home honors. Senior Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) and junior Meredith Hardy (Kingsport, Tenn.) received First Team All A-Sun accolades, while junior Katie Muey (Alexandria, Ind.) was selected Second Team All-Conference.
The group helped guide the Buccaneers to their second straight 20-win season, while earning a share of the regular season conference championship, marking ETSU's first regular season title since finishing the 2006 A-Sun campaign, 9-0.
This marks the third straight year Devine has been named first team all-conference, while Hardy landed the honor for the second straight campaign. Meanwhile, Muey, who was voted Preseason Libero of the Year by the fans, picked up her first conference honor.
"I am very proud of their accolades," said head coach Lindsey Devine. "These awards show the respect our coaches have for the players, and it's a testament of their work ethic and character. These three work hard in practice every day and have set the tone for our success throughout the year."
Devine, who will go down as one of the best players in ETSU and A-Sun history, was one of three first team unanimous selections this year. Prior to the season, the ETSU senior captain received a pair of honors as she was named A-Sun Preseason Player of the Year and was one of 30 candidates named to the Senior CLASS list. Throughout the year, Devine reached historic milestones as the outside hitter became the ETSU and A-Sun all-time leader in kills with 1,925, which also ranks second among active NCAA Division I players. Devine recorded 21 double-doubles, including 12 straight to end the season and 15 in conference-only matches en route to tying the A-Sun single-season record set a year ago by the Kingsport, Tenn. native. Meanwhile, Devine ranks nationally in kills (13th, 4.56) and points per set (16th, 5.04), and earned three A-Sun Player of the Week honors – the most by any player this season. Devine registered a career-high 28 kills in a five-set win versus Lipscomb earlier this month, and also posted the most kills in a three (22, vs. USC Upstate, Sept. 26) and four-set (27, at Tennessee, Sept. 14) match this season. Not only was Devine busy slamming home kills, but she made her presence felt on defense as she posted 359 digs, moving her career total to 1,459, which ranks third in ETSU history. On the season, Devine recorded double-digit kills in all 29 matches and double-digit digs 21 times for the Blue and Gold.
A day after being named A-Sun Scholar-Athlete of the Year and Defensive Player of the Week, Hardy continued adding more accolades to her resume. Like Devine, Hardy also enjoyed a historic season as she broke the A-Sun all-time blocks record and ETSU's all-time block assists mark. In 95 career matches, the Buccaneer middle blocker has tallied 468 total blocks, 398 block assists, and has posted at least one block in 90 consecutive matches. Hardy ranks seventh in the country in blocks per set (1.53) and is 66th in attack percentage (.353). Along with leading the A-Sun in blocks per set, Hardy averaged a league-best 1.65 blocks per set in A-Sun play. Hardy claimed four A-Sun weekly honors (three Defensive Player of the Week, one Player of the Week) in 2013, and also broke the ETSU record for solo blocks in a three-set match after finishing with seven in the win against Furman back in September. For the season, Hardy registered double-digit kills 17 times, hit over .500 seven times, and had two matches with 10-plus blocks. Her 11-block effort in the four-set win at Kennesaw State were tied for the most by an A-Sun player this season, while her 10-block performance against VCU tied the highest mark in a three-set match.
Muey played in all 30 matches for the Blue and Gold, and ranked seventh in the A-Sun in digs (3.80) and eighth in service aces per set (0.28). In conference play, the junior libero ranked seventh in digs (3.83) and 10th in service aces per set (0.25). On Oct. 19, Muey entered the 1,000-dig club, following ETSU's comeback win at North Florida, and currently has 1,145 digs in 97 career matches. This season, the Alexandria, Ind. native totaled double-digit digs in 26 matches, and tied a career-high with 22 in the five-set win at Marshall. In addition, Muey also registered double-digit digs in 17 of the 18 conference matches, while her 20-dig effort versus Furman were the fourth-most by a conference player in a three-set match this season.
Lipscomb's Jewell Dobson was tabbed Player of the Year, while her teammate Bri McCombs was named Libero of the Year. Kennesaw State's Kelly Marcinek was voted Freshman of the Year and Jacksonville's Michelle Collier took home Coach of the Year honors after guiding the Dolphins to a share of the conference title.
The Bucs now turn their attention to postseason play as ETSU begins defense of its A-Sun Championship Friday night at Kennesaw State. The Blue and Gold take on the winner of No. 3 Lipscomb/No. 6 Kennesaw State in the conference semifinal at 7:30 p.m.
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Connecticut residents spent Saturday digging out their cars and shoveling their sidewalks, but a return to normalcy was thwarted by still-impassable local roads that could take days to clear.
Towns and cities struggled to reach their less-traveled streets, in part because plow operators had to navigate around vehicles stuck in feet-deep snow. They also had pessimistic projections about how long it would take to reach every neighborhood, including many that stretched out for several more days.