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Description: Chelsea is white, 5 feet 5 inches tall and 115 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes.

HAVE YOU SEEN CHELSEA KING?
Website: http://www.findchelsea.com/

Where: .”The Sheriff’s Department and search and rescue teams are concentrating in the same area they have been,” Caldwell said. “They haven’t stopped. They’ve been here (searching) the entire time.”

Search teams including helicopters and divers Saturday combed a large area in and around Lake Hodges.

Last seen Info: Chelsea hasn’t been seen since she left the school Thursday afternoon for a run on the trails around Lake Hodges at Rancho Bernardo Community Park, The hiking trails where Chelsea disappeared have been closed to the public since the search began..She routinely ran four to six miles along the web of trails on the southern shores of Lake Hodges. Her car, a black BMW, found in the community center parking lot on West Bernardo Drive after school Thursday parked in preparation for her run, said Caldwell, the sheriff’s spokeswoman. She did not return to her locked car, Caldwell said.

Volunteers can begin registering at 9 a.m. and throughout the afternoon Sunday at the Rancho Bernardo United Fire Recover Center, 11858 Rancho Bernardo Court in Rancho Bernardo. Those interested in volunteering with the group can call 858-485-8502.
Reward: The Deputy Sheriff’s Association of San Diego County announced Saturday that it is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to Chelsea’s whereabouts. The 2,100-member group is headquartered near Poway High School.

SAR, a volunteer group based in Texas, the Laura Recovery Center, has set up the Chelsea King Search Center at 11858 Bernardo Plaza Drive. The Laura Recovery Center describes itself as a group that works to “prevent abductions and runaways and to recover missing children by fostering a triangle of trust among law enforcement, community and missing child’s family.”

Hundreds of volunteer searchers, limited to those age 18 and above with valid identification, were dispatched to sites around North County on Saturday. The effort was coordinated with the Sheriff’s Department. Volunteers stood in line waiting to be assigned a search location.

Anyone with information is urged to call the Sheriff’s Department at 858-565-5200.

Many sites, including google.com, were inaccessible yesterday in the US because of a DNS failure at Comcast. A Google spokesman said that “Google engineers helped troubleshoot the problem and provided diagnostic information to the ISP. We believe the issue has since been resolved by the ISP.”
PC World reports that the problems affected people from the northeastern part of the U.S. It’s interesting to note that localized Google sites like google.co.uk were accessible.

Originally posted 2006-09-27 09:21:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Our nation recently lost a powerful voice and a wonderful novelist with the death of Bebe Moore Campbell, age 56. Her writing about topics such as race relations, interpersonal relationships, and mental illness, Ms. Campbell was able to touch her readers’ hearts as well as their minds.

Bebe Moore Campbell was an extraordinarily perceptive author who tirelessly explored the American experience through a variety of perspectives. Growing up in both the North and the South in the 1950s and 1960s, she experienced first hand the numerous ways in which fear and hatred are manifested in the form of racial segregation and oppression. She learned about living amid injustice, about the rage and sorrow it imparts, and about the dignity and resolve required to overcome it. Ms. Campbell drew much of her inspiration and strength from the strong bond she had with her parents.

Her second book, ‘Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad’, is a loving tribute to the warmth of extended family and friends, the strong women in her life who helped mold her character, and the heroic example of her father, whose perseverance after a car accident left him a paraplegic taught her courage and independence. The importance of family dynamics would be a guiding theme in Ms. Campbell’s work and stimulated her interest in the intricate nature of relationships. As Ms. Campbell continued to explore the parent-child relationship, she also delved into the complexities that exist between and within genders, races and communities.

She produced two critically acclaimed novels in the first half of the 1990s set against the backdrop of historical instances of racial violence: ‘Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine and Brothers and Sisters.’ In these novels, Ms. Campbell explored the issues of race, class and gender and personalized them in the form of characters we related to and cared for. Courageous and exceptionally talented, she captured the social and historical forces that cut through out society and divide us. She graphically demonstrated how America’s racial, economic and gender fault lines cut through the lives of individuals, often forcing people into difficult and painful conflicts with others as well as themselves.

Ms. Campbell focused in her later writings on the issue of mental illness. With passion and emotional depth, she explored the horrible consequences of mental illness and the strain that it places on those who love and depend on people suffering from a mental condition. Her work has helped to raise the nation’s consciousness about the issue and has made an invaluable contribution to our society’s efforts to improve the lives of people living with mental illness. Ms. Campbell was a founding member of the Inglewood branch of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and her children’s book, ‘Sometimes My Mother Gets Angry’, won that organization’s Outstanding Literature Award for 2003.

In her work, Ms. Campbell illustrated how oppression and injustice dehumanizes everyone involved. She challenged and inspired us to examine our preconceptions and fears and to open our hearts and minds to those around us. Her powerful voice will be dearly missed, but her legacy cannot be diminished. Surely, her spirit will carry on in the countless others whose lives she has touched both advertently as well as inadvertently.

Bebe Moore Campbell – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Author Bebe Moore Campbell Dies at 56

Originally posted 2006-12-13 00:03:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

USAT reports on government-made flashcards to help potential citizens learn about the U.S. Question 80 asks, “Name one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment.” Freedom of speech, religion, assembly and the right to petition thegovernment all make the list. You know what’s missing?

Originally posted 2006-05-17 09:36:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

It is normal for people to try to reduce their physical pain and emotional pain. There is no exception. A person experiencing deep emotional wounding or anxiety is extremely vulnerable and will do whatever he can to block it. When the helpful protector in one’s inner village (the inner self) runs out of ways to reduce pain and it can no longer provide protection, the next thing is to try substances or processes from outside the village. At first these often seem to work almost miraculously, so the process is repeated more and more often. But sooner or later the treatment starts to lose its effectiveness.

What is described as “an addiction” exists when someone finds himself trapped in a cycle in which he or she keeps increasing the amount of his (external) pain reducing medication because it is not working as well as it did at first. So, rather than using the term ‘addiction’ it would be more accurate to describe the nature of the cycle that is happening inside his village or thought processes.

In the same way, the person we typically call an addict could be more accurately described as someone who is ‘trapped in an addictive cycle.’ The addictive nature of the cycle is made worse as he or she starts suffering side-effects caused by his/her emotional pain-reducing “medication” yet, is unable to stop taking it.

The last thing needed at any point is for anyone to use a shaming and inaccurate term that labels the individual as for example an ‘addict,’ “substance abuser,” an ‘alcoholic,’ or judges him as a ‘bad’ person who has selfishly adopted a ‘bad habit.’ Worse still, is the shaming assertion that if the individual was a “good” person, he would easily be able to get rid of his “bad habit.”

It would be far more helpful, for instance, to recognize that he is a person who is trapped in the grip of an addictive cycle, and, at the same time, help him to become aware just how much he is suffering serious side-effects from the over-use of his emotional pain reducing medication.

Originally posted 2006-04-28 03:01:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

“They’re here:” the mechanism of poltergeist activity is revealed. Physicists say that they can explain the poltergeist phenomena and that pubescent kids are getting the blame.”

You only thought that I was kidding, didn’t you? I still experience electrical energy surges through me at times even at my age. Not only that, but my soon to be 17 year old nephew and his mother have the same ’stuff’ that happens to them and at the most oddball times, too. No TV is required in our family. We’re equal opportunity mediums.
NewScientist

Originally posted 2008-03-31 15:21:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

I’m greatly impressed with Dr Szasz, psychiatrist and academic. I enjoy his point by point logic in his argumentation regarding mental illness. On the same note, there is a difference between behaviors and misbehaviors. Both are choices and not related to disease. Each one is learned and what is learned can be unlearned. On the other hand, disease is a physical disorder. Disease is pathology; and, pathology is the scientific study of the nature of disease, its causes, its processes, its development, and its consequences.

“His title was not hyperbole. “Psychiatry is conventionally defined as a medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mental diseases,” he wrote. “I submit that this definition, which is still widely accepted, places psychiatry in the company of alchemy and astrology and commits it to the category of pseudoscience. The reason for this is that there is no such thing as ‘mental illness.’” Szasz’s attack targeted the cornerstone of modern American psychiatry: the marriage of mind and molecule, the notion that behavior can safely be classified as “sickness” and that the mind can safely be “treated” just like any other organ. Jerry Oliver, New Atlantis

The Myth of Mental Illness provides sound argument point by point with substantiated medical truths. Although as human beings there are many of us who have living problems. The problems aren’t necessarily mental health or brain disease issues. Problems experienced in life are arduous ‘living problems’ that most of us endure at one time or another, believe it or not. And as Dr. Szasz claims, it’s “a part of the vicissitudes of life.”

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A note:
Just for posterity sake, I’m not into Scientology nor am I actively employed in the mental health field. I had read this paper years ago and was greatly impressed with it then as I am still impressed with it still today. Actually, I’m impressed with Dr Szasz and how he delivers his point by point logic and sound reasoning.

Originally posted 2008-02-02 17:09:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Pip Wilson, author of his latest novel, ‘Faces in the Street’, has provided special permission to print out and read ‘Faces’ as a gift to our readers here at Maryannaville. I’ve personally read it and was enthralled with its richness in historical facts. The book is packed with history untold before and written in a delightful manner that grabs a reader’s pique. History buffs will not want to set the book down once started. It may be downloaded free at http://www.boilingbilly.com/faces_in_the_street.pdf — 2.13 Mb.

Pip also mentioned, “What I’m sending you is in PDF form, which to me is rather like reading a brick, but you might like a copy anyway. Some people say I’m mad to give it away. I disagree.

The book is about Australia’s most famous writer, Henry Lawson, his mother Louisa Lawson (‘Mother of Women’s Suffrage’), their radical and bohemian associates — terrorists, anarchists and seditionists, and Henry’s love affairs. It’s not what you might think.

The reviews are excellent — see http://www.lulu.com/content/446062 — even from the USA and Ireland, but the interest from Australian publishers is non-existent so far. It’s been suggested that the connection between an Aussie ‘icon’ and terrorism is too scary for them.

Don’t worry about copyright; if you wish to pass it on to anyone, feel free. In fact, I encourage it, as it was written to be read and I think word-of-mouth will help this book get published. Please send this far and wide to friends and email lists. The more, the better. Much appreciated.

Originally posted 2006-12-23 14:54:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Cargo of abandoned vessel destined for restaurants illegal trade drives species closer to extinction

Endangered, hunted, smuggled and now abandoned, 5,000 of the world’s rarest animals have been found drifting in a deserted boat near the coast of China.

The pangolins, Asian giant turtles and lizards were crushed inside crates on a rickety wooden vessel that had lost engine power off Qingzhou island in the southern province of Guangdong. Most were alive, though the cargo also contained 21 bear paws wrapped in newspaper.

The Guardian

Originally posted 2007-06-04 09:25:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Originally posted 2008-06-22 16:28:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter