This is how I feel right now (my SOS sign was backwards and unsuccessful)lol.

Ever month we apply the flee-repelent on my dogs little body, per the doctor to fight any flees.

Just as I thought my pup’s flees went away, I was laying on the couch with him an hour ago and saw the bug with my own eye running towards his butt from his belly side.

I ran for the flee brush and it was too late- it was gone, lost in his baby hair, and hopefully did not run into his butt. Is that possible?

I feel so bad for the poor guy he has this bug running all over his body and I can’t catch it.

The most horrifying part for me is the image of that insect running. I feel like it is running all over my body.

I showered, I already did laundry, and I am itching.

I have had these bites on my arms from him last last couple days. 1 of them finally swelled down. Last night it looked like a giant spider attacked my arm.

I also have a stuffy nose and stared sneezying. Could this be related to a flee reaction?

Is this normal? I hope its not ticks.

As you may be able to tell, I want to scream!!

This is back from June, but I had no idea, I had to share!!!

By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 1, 2008

CHATEAUBELAIR, ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES -- When two men wielding cutlasses and a third brandishing a gun burst onto their yacht at 1:30 in the morning, Allison Botros and the seven others aboard suddenly realized that "Pirates of the Caribbean" is not just a movie.

“Give us your money or we will kill you,” Botros recalled the robbers telling them during the 15-minute ordeal. The mother of three from Cleveland was cruising with Swedish and American friends aboard the 70-foot Sway, which was boarded as it was anchored in this pristine harbor that is shadowed by the La Soufriere volcano and rimmed by swaying palms.

After shaking down the passengers for thousands of dollars in cash, watches, cameras and cellphones, the robbers ordered skipper Harald Krecker to motor out to sea or be hit with rocket-propelled grenades.

More than five months after the Dec. 22 incident, the robbery victims have yet to receive a police report, the pirates remain at large, and the sleek yachts that ply the teal waters of the Windward Islands have gone elsewhere, making a ghost town of scenic Chateaubelair.

Attacks on yachters across the Caribbean have marred the luxurious cruising life with increasing frequency as the number of vessels sailing the lush islands grows year to year, and with it the lure of valuables for thieves and drug traffickers in the region.

At least three other attacks were reported in Chateaubelair in a two-week period in December, all involving three men, two long knives and a handgun.

“What is new in the last two to three years is an increase in the use of weapons,” said Melodye Pompa, administrator of the Caribbean Safety and Security Net website, a sailing community endeavor that logs thefts, robberies and assaults committed against boaters. “It’s becoming more violent. I’ve tracked that across the region we cover.”

Most of the hundreds of incidents collected from 30 countries and territories over the last four years involve dinghy and outboard motor thefts or burglaries of boats while passengers were ashore. But guns and knives are being used more frequently, and dozens of incidents involving beatings and stabbings are among the crimes reported to the website, which compiles its statistics from charter operators, marinas, harbor masters and the victims.

No one on board the Sway was hurt, but the captain of another yacht, the Chiquita, which was attacked here the next night, suffered multiple cuts, including two head wounds that required stitches at a hospital in Kingstown, the island nation’s capital.

“There are times when it’s happening and you think it’s not real,” Botros said. “At one point one of them said, ‘If you don’t find your wallet, I’ll kill you,’ and I was so traumatized I forgot that I hadn’t brought my wallet on the trip. I was saying, ‘Oh my God, I can’t find it! I’ve got to find it!’ thinking about our kids at home.”

Yachting visitors and the local suppliers who cater to them are the mainstays of many Caribbean island economies, including St. Vincent’s. A week’s charter of a luxury sailing vessel such as the Sway costs more than $13,000 plus expenses, and mega-yachts, with their onboard swimming pools and helicopters, are increasingly dropping anchor and treasure at the beautiful harbors of the region.

The December crime wave prompted some added vigilance by the coast guard and police, but specifics of the response were unclear. Representatives of the St. Vincent police did not return calls or answer e-mails after receiving a request for an interview on what they were doing to combat crime against yachters.

The attacks also galvanized the island’s sailing businesses. Fearing for their livelihoods, yacht charterers and provisioners anted up funds for a patrol boat and published a list of do’s and don‘ts for prospective cruisers. Some said that only put the dangers in black and white.

“If I got this, I would get on the next plane out of here and go home,” Mary Barnard, managing director of Barefoot Yacht Charters, said of the brochure, which essentially advises sailors to stay locked up, on board and under guard at all times.

She produced a letter from a Canadian couple who had been customers for years, in which they said that their June 2006 assault and robbery by men armed with machetes had compelled them “to stop all cruising in your area.”

At the Beach Front Restaurant & Bar on Chateaubelair harbor, waiter Felix Granderson said he thought it might be safer these days because of stepped-up security but that it was difficult to tell because sailors no longer anchored here. He said the pirates were holed up in the towering mountains above the harbor.

“Everybody knows who’s doing it. It’s guys who don’t want to work, from Fitz-Hughes,” he said, referring to a remote village on the flanks of La Soufriere.

Even if arrests are made in such crimes, the victims are seldom able to return to identify or testify against their attackers, said Chris Doyle, author of popular cruising guides for the Caribbean.

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New Law in Indiana!

You are not allowed to smile in your drivers license picture...or wear glasses!

MUNSTER, Ind. (AP) - Don’t say cheese at your next driver’s license photo.

The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles is restricting glasses, hats, scarves, and even smiles in driver’s license photographs.

BMV officials told The Times of Northwest Indiana that the new rules imposed last month are needed so that facial recognition software can spot fraudulent license applications.

The applicant’s photograph will be compared with old photographs on file to protect customers from identity fraud.

Indiana is one of about 20 states using the technology.

BMV customers can petition to leave on headdresses in photographs for religious reasons and can petition to have a non-photo license or identification card.

A BMV spokesman says there have been few problems implementing the new rules.

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New Law in Indiana!

You are not allowed to smile in your drivers license picture...or wear glasses!

MUNSTER, Ind. (AP) - Don’t say cheese at your next driver’s license photo.

The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles is restricting glasses, hats, scarves, and even smiles in driver’s license photographs.

BMV officials told The Times of Northwest Indiana that the new rules imposed last month are needed so that facial recognition software can spot fraudulent license applications.

The applicant’s photograph will be compared with old photographs on file to protect customers from identity fraud.

Indiana is one of about 20 states using the technology.

BMV customers can petition to leave on headdresses in photographs for religious reasons and can petition to have a non-photo license or identification card.

A BMV spokesman says there have been few problems implementing the new rules.

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Sept. 27 (Bloomberg)—Paul Newman, the singularly handsome actor with the ice-blue eyes who starred in such films as ``The Color of Money‘’ and ``Hud‘’ while pursuing his interests as a racecar driver, businessman and philanthropist, died yesterday at 83 at his home in Westport, Connecticut, his spokeswoman said.

Newman received a diagnosis of cancer more than a year ago.

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