user: Seattle survivalist on the run after being charged with murdering family

A survivalist from the Seattle area is on the lam in the Pacific Northwest after being charged with killing his wife and daughter before setting the family home on fire.

Peter Keller, 41, of North Bend, located 30 miles east of Seattle, faces two counts of first-degree murder and a single count of arson, but he remains at large, according to a report in the Seattle Times. Family and friends told the newspaper that he was an avid outdoorsman who often went on long hikes and bike rides.

Court documents also show that his daughter, 19-year-old Kaylene, had told her boyfriend that Keller was preparing for doomsday and had created a stockpile of supplies in the woods.

At a news conference on Wednesday, King County Sheriff Steve Strachan told the press that Keller could be hiding in numerous places around the country and nearby Cascade Mountains and that the public should keep a lookout for his faded red Toyota pickup truck.

"We believe he used that truck habitually and regularly to go out on these long hikes, where he may have been setting up some sort of a fort or something in the woods," Strachan said. “If somebody saw that vehicle on several weekends, or regularly, that would begin to pinpoint a location."

Authorities told the Times that on Friday, Keller turned his cellphone off and withdrew $6,200 from his bank account.

Read the full story at The Seattle Times.

summary: A Seattle-area man is believed to be using his survivalist skills to stay on the lam after being charged with killing his wife and daughter before setting their home on fire.

Does Online Time Hurt Kids' Face Time?

Are kids spending too much time online? It’s a question posed by parents around the country, as they try to raise thoughtful, intelligent and well-behaved children in today’s busy world.

A new study from the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future found more and more parents are concerned that increased amounts of time their children spend online, social networking, twittering and instant messaging each other is decreasing their face time with family members and even the very same friends they are communicating with digitally. According to the study, which queried roughly 2,000 families, more than half of parents now restrict Internet use as a form of punishment. In addition, it seems the amount of time families spend with each other face to face has gone down 25 percent over the past three years.

“They should be encouraging their kids to do other things,” says Robert Myers, a child psychologist. “As far as brain development goes, playing with toys, building things for younger kids, fantasy play are much more important in child development than what you’re going to watch on a screen,” adds Myers.

But other experts in the field disagree. Karen Sternheimer, a sociologist who works on kids issues, says she’s concerned about the flipside of this issue. “It’s the kids who never have been on Facebook, MySpace, who don’t know the logic of social networking. I am more concerned in the long run that they will be left behind in the market place,” insists Sternheimer.

The study also found that parents who are concerned about their kids spending too much time in front of a screen have begun to apply supervisory approaches to the new medium, much like they do with television.

The report doesn’t offer any solutions, but researchers who worked on the study agree that parents should set guidelines, and look for ways to spend quality family time together. They say even one family dinner a week can make a difference when it comes to engaging in conversation and promoting verbal skills and the all important “face time.”

summary: Are kids spending too much time online? It’s a question posed by parents around the country, as they try to raise thoughtful, intelligent and well behaved children in today’s busy world.

Death of Myron Winslow, D.D., L.L.D.

This distinguished Missionary and Oriental scholar, as we learn of the last arrival from Europe, died at the Cape of Good Hope, while on his way from India to England. He was seventy-six years of age, and had been forty-five years in the service of the American Board. No just conception of his valuable and eventful life can be given in this place, and we merely give a few facts of his career.

Dr. WINSLOW came from the old WINSLOW family of New-England, inheriting all their vigor of intellect and purity of character. But recently we recorded the death of his brothers. One of them was the late Rev. Dr. WINSLOW, of the Sanitary Commission, and the other Rev. HUBBARD WIHSLOW. D.D., the eminent divine and author who died last August.

Dr. WINSLOW graduated at college with the valedictory, and after a course of study at Andover, Mass., sailed in 1819 for Ceylon, where are laid the first scenes of his missionary career. He was a pioneer in the work of Christianizing India, and no man has so impressed that land with the influences of truth and religions liberty as has Dr. WINSLOW.

The chief labors of Dr. WINSLOW were at Madras. As General Secretary of that and other missions, as President of the Madras College, and the head of the native schools, he had abundant and incessant labors to perform. The college numbered several hundred students. The care of a native church also devolved upon him. But Dr, WINSLOW accomplished other objects of importance. He published a "History of Missions," "Hints on Missions," and translated the Bible into Tamil, A short time since, he was enabled to bring to a successful close his great "Tamil and English Lexicon," upon which he had labored over twenty years. The work has been, by competent authority, pronounced the greatest achievement of any American scholar and missionary. It is a quarto of 1,000 pages, and 68,000 words transmitted into English, of which one half were collected by the author. The dictionary is a complete one, containing the mythology of India, names of heroes, poets, warriors, &c., definitions and illustrations of the Brahmaic tongue. It is a work greatly needed in christianizing and civilizing that people, and the native and English press have been loud in their expression of thanks to the author.

Dr. WINSLOW has closed a long life of the most eminent usefulness and devotion. How well he has fulfilled his mission, the work and labors of nearly half a century declare in influences which never die. The friends of missionary enterprise ail over the world will not soon forget the name and the works of MYRON WINSLOW.

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assistant: This distinguished Missionary and Oriental scholar, as we learn of the last arrival from Europe, died at the Cape of Good Hope, while on his way from India to England. He was seventy-six years of age, and had been forty-five years in the service of ...