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Ever since Google first purchased Motorola, the Android faithful have been waiting for this report. We've all been wondering when Google would finally jump in and make a device in-house, using its newly acquired hardware manufacturer, and it looks like the time is coming. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google and Motorola are working on a so-called "X Phone" and a tablet, both of which will be released next year...
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1. roscuthiii (Posts: 2217; Member since: 18 Jul 2010)
Nexus X? I'm there.
10. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
It will probably be only availble on VERIZON no one else gets like like the RAZRS on Verizon
30. ayephoner (Posts: 850; Member since: 09 Jun 2009)
i think google has made it clear that vzw isnt worthy of the pure google experience. they are far too motivated to cram bloatware onto their handsets.
i plan on leaving vzw to get this phone (hopefully).
67. dan86 (Posts: 298; Member since: 17 Mar 2012)
Quad core 2.5 GHz
1080p display with 32 bit color support
Key Lime Pie 5.0
5000 mAh battery
21 MP camera with advanced optic and 1080p video at 120 fps, xenon flash and over sampling
F1 and aircraft grade aluminium and Carbon materials
This would be dream moto of google!
68. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
Then why Verizon and Sprint have the GALAXY NEXUS should be on every carrier. if they will RELEASE IT ON ALL CARRIERS it would drive the sales up and everyone can get a pure GOOGLE PHONE EXPERIENCE
37. Dr.Phil (Posts: 1176; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
I think Google has shown it wants to focus on selling devices unsubsidized. Now, there is always a possibility that a carrier will get the device but I wouldn't say it will ONLY be available on Verizon.
Who knows? By then we could be looking at Google-Dish Wireless.
12. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Motorola radio, build quality, and quick updates if its indeed a Nexus phone will probably make tech geeks counting the days until Google I/O.
15. roscuthiii (Posts: 2217; Member since: 18 Jul 2010)
That is exactly what I'm looking forward too... Just hope Verizon keeps their grubby little paws off of it.
Because of Verizon's control freak nature though, I wouldn't be surprised to see it on a different carrier instead.
But, I can dream of a stock Android OS, Moto built phone, free of bloatware from Big Red can't I?
31. Nadr1212 (Posts: 741; Member since: 22 Sep 2012)
The future: HTC will sue Motorola/Google 4 having X in the name
46. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
You see that everytime you reboot a nexus phone ... by the time HTC really decides to sue google who knows HTC would be struggling to survive :)
50. iDroidWin (Posts: 117; Member since: 07 Dec 2012)
No, I don't think so. But if it had an "i", moto should see lawsuits coming.
73. SupermanayrB (Posts: 571; Member since: 20 Mar 2012)
The Motorola Droid X came out in 2010 when HTC had the Evo, Inspire, Droid Incredible & whatever they had on T-Mobile. 2011 the X2 was out while HTC had the Evo 3D, Vivid, Thunderbolt &, again, whatever they had on T-Moble. HTC sueing Motorola over the letter X (which will most likely NOT be in the name of this phone), doubtful.
33. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5711; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
well we on Verizon hope that they get it but uphold with Nexus tradition. it'll be sad if we don't get it because since we've been getting the best Moto has to offer we'll really know what we're missing.
40. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Got my days left widget already set up :)
16. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3797; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
'The X' sounds better...i mean without the 'phone'.
Nexus X doesn't sound bad too.
21. kidtronic (Posts: 13; Member since: 29 Nov 2011)
They're obviously not going to call it 'X Phone'. That's just the alleged project name. Don't be surprised if X is nowhere in the final release name.
28. HTCOE (Posts: 632; Member since: 20 Nov 2011)
not the nexus x it will be called the neXus they'll make the "X" the ten within
43. MeoCao (unregistered)
Larry Page told Motorola to think big, and Motorola will concentrate on making a single phone. Maybe this is the phone that will defeat iPhone in US.
GS3 is a great and successful phone but many US consumers still prefer style over substance, Nexus X can offer both style and substance.
An offer that's hard to refuse.
57. sithvenger (banned) (Posts: 371; Member since: 25 Aug 2012)
U sound as if you've seen it already, but u may also b right. I recently sold my ip5, and bought the galaxy note 2. I love it, but I do miss some things about my iPhone. Maybe this can bridge them. iPhones r more stylish, android more substance... Good point.
2. nnaatthhaannx2 (Posts: 820; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
Hope it works out.
I'd like to see a quad core lte phone with a massive battery. Add in Motorola's nice builds and this will be a very good phone.
41. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Quad core 1.7+ GHz A15 processor (maybe new custom Snapdragon S5?)
4.7-5" 1080p S-AMOLED/ColorBoost display
3,500 mAh battery
Kevlar back and water resistant
Famed Motorola antennae
It will be beautiful :)
51. iDroidWin (Posts: 117; Member since: 07 Dec 2012)
Add to that no skin of their own to slow Android down or interfere with Pure experience. Features like Samsung. Its a sell for me. I will ditch my GN2 for it. Nah, I will keep them both.
59. iDroid8 (Posts: 155; Member since: 16 Oct 2012)
Either you keep the UI and enjoy the features that come with it or you buy a nexus and root your device/get some apps that get you close
60. iDroidWin (Posts: 117; Member since: 07 Dec 2012)
I am saying stock UI + extra features from this phone is my expectation. Like S-Pen integration and plug and play, best face etc. I, over a period of time get bored of touchwiz or sense. I guess, their UI slows down the phone, not the features.
61. nnaatthhaannx2 (Posts: 820; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
Motorola added very few additions to the ICS UI, and I like most of them.
62. ronjr123 (Posts: 79; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)
This just sounds like the next Gen razor.
Having owned only Moto phones since the nineties, I just recently went to the GN2. I have to say the TW stock interface I don't care for but all of the little performance enhancements they have incorporated have greatly expanded upon stock android. I actually like the user experience better. Stock Android isn't enough anymore IMHO.
As for build quality in android Moto is really hard to beat. Their radios are second to no one.
What I am trying to say I guess is that a stock looking interface with the best of user experience tweaks and motor build and radio would be great. Of course all of this without the need to root would be fantastic!
3. gwuhua1984 (Posts: 1237; Member since: 06 Mar 2012)
OOOOOH... The X Phone... Sound good...
4. sithvenger (banned) (Posts: 371; Member since: 25 Aug 2012)
Xphone? Sounds too familiar to... Wait if I say it I'll get sued.
11. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Your comment had no meaning whatsoever towards his comment and the article.
23. sithvenger (banned) (Posts: 371; Member since: 25 Aug 2012)
So what?
5. kdealltheway (Posts: 94; Member since: 21 Oct 2012)
Now we're talking!
6. lauremar (Posts: 181; Member since: 29 Feb 2012)
I'm all for it... Bring it on!!!
7. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
This is the Nexus I've been looking for...Moto's reception, battery life is gonna make it a great phone.
8. stychill (unregistered)
i'll be looking forward to this for sure.
9. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Oh man.. I sense something great coming out.
I'm happy with Samsung, but definitely see this as worth waiting for, before deciding on my next phone
13. reyenrique (Posts: 99; Member since: 07 Oct 2012)
it about timetheir came with a product thoses two
14. jan25 (Posts: 470; Member since: 26 Feb 2012)
as excited as i am, i doubt another Nexus phone would come as early as next May.
17. roscuthiii (Posts: 2217; Member since: 18 Jul 2010)
Ugh... some let gallito or sith have a red marker again.
44. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
This actualy sounds like a phone I may considder... but Moto better not let Verizon ruin this phone ...
18. user312 (Posts: 68; Member since: 21 Aug 2012)
This sounds like a Nexus for the other 3 carriers. Honestly I got a little upset seeing that the Nexus 4 was going to be using HSPA, and many others probably were too. This is probably Google's way of getting everyone else their Nexus.
19. mas11 (Posts: 1034; Member since: 30 Mar 2012)
Sounds like it could be my next phone. Since I can't take the leap and jump ship from Verizon because of the quality of their network hopefully it will come with on contract pricing, which in the US is very important for a phone to be successful and Google will finally stand up to the carriers to create swift and bloat free updates.
20. techguy22 (Posts: 227; Member since: 09 Aug 2012)
no it wont be on VZ. thank god. i hope vz learned a lesson.
22. user312 (Posts: 68; Member since: 21 Aug 2012)
In that case, I'm glad I'm on Sprint!
25. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Please tell me you are guessing. I wont ever jump ship over a phone....but damn....this is the Nexus I've been looking for...
AT&T...I might try out.
24. HTCOE (Posts: 632; Member since: 20 Nov 2011)
ooooooooohhhhh i just jizzed on myself....thank god ! it's about time "neXus" im ready
26. imkyle (Posts: 1073; Member since: 18 Nov 2010)
So happy I did not upgrade from my Galaxy Nexus to the Nexus 4. Motorola is gonna be sick.
27. HTCOE (Posts: 632; Member since: 20 Nov 2011)
29. Naviiin (Posts: 14; Member since: 10 Oct 2012)
Hoping for a Droid 5!
34. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5711; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
you and me both pal.
35. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5711; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
these are what i've been waiting years for. let their arrival be soon.
36. N.Reynolds (Posts: 257; Member since: 15 Feb 2011)
I have a Verizon Galaxy Nexus running 4.2.1. I don't see why everyone complains about the Nexus on Verizon. Get over the fact that you don't get OTA updates right away. You can still get the newest software right away just not OTA.
42. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
What does this have to do with the article?
48. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5711; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
he's talking about the people commenting that Verizon shouldn't get this.
38. dan86 (Posts: 298; Member since: 17 Mar 2012)
Expecting something really big which will take a huge bite in Apple's lunch.
39. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
This is great. Google + Motorola = success
53. iDroidWin (Posts: 117; Member since: 07 Dec 2012)
I think Google had to do it. So if like Amazon, Samsung decides to fork their own version of Android, Google will have someone to count on.
45. haroonazeem638 (Posts: 141; Member since: 29 Mar 2011)
This may become my first Motorola phone. JUST don't mess up like LG did this time.
47. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
In fact my first phone was a Motorola phone way back in 1996.
49. techloverNYC (Posts: 601; Member since: 20 Nov 2012)
Does this mean every andriod phone maker is in trouble?
P.S: I mean andriod is google's own operating system, they can choose if they want to release the next major update to the other manufacturers. If they have their own phone, I dont see any point in giving updates to your competitions
54. iDroidWin (Posts: 117; Member since: 07 Dec 2012)
Lol. Android is open source. When developers can fork their own versions, why can't others update their versions. If google makes it propriety, which I doubt, I might say goodbye to it.


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A local sixth-grader has worked his way to the top of a field of rabbit exhibitors.
Matthew Boes, a student at Hopewell-Loudon Elementary School, achieved a first-place ranking for the meat pen rabbit category through American Federation of New Zealand Rabbit Breeders, according to information from his family.
Boes said his family has about 100 rabbits, and most of them are of the New Zealand breed.
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Matthew Boes, a sixth-grader at Hopewell-Loudon Elementary School, stands with his
reserve grand champion meat pen at the 2011 American Rabbit Breeders Association
convention in Indianapolis last year.
The family also has thrianta and Holland lop rabbits.
He said his family started raising them four years ago after his sister got a small Dutch rabbit for a pet rabbit project for the fair. Ever since that time, the number of rabbits has increased, he said.
Boes said he started showing rabbits about two years ago. He shows them all around Ohio, including at county fairs in the area, and in Indiana and Michigan, and goes to shows about every other weekend.
Going to shows is a lot of fun, and the best thing about rabbits probably is showing them, Boes said.
He said an exhibitor meets a lot of people when he or she shows and gets to know a lot of people from different states. Also, he or she gets to see a large variety of rabbits, from small to large, he said.
"Some of the rabbits I name, but not too often. ... We have so many," he said.
Boes showed the grand champion meat pen at last year's Seneca County Fair and had the reserve grand champion meat pen at American Rabbit Breeders Association's convention in Indianapolis last year.
He said it was fun to win grand champion at last year's county fair.
"(The judge) was taking his time," he said. "I got nervous."
Boes, who also shows hogs at Seneca County Fair and Attica Independent Fair, said his favorite breed of rabbits is New Zealand.
"They're a lot of fun," he said.


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Novavax, CPL Biologicals (CPLB), and the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) established a collaboration to develop a malaria vaccine based on Novavax' virus-like particle vaccine technology, for use in India. The public-private partnership will combine the Novavax platform with the malaria vaccine research expertise of the ICGEB and vaccine manufacturing capacity of the CPLB.
The initiative is being funded by India's Department of Biotechnology Vaccine Grand Challenge Program, and will be managed by the Malaria Vaccine Development Program, a nonprofit organization based in New Delhi that supports the development of malaria vaccines. CPL Biologicals is a joint-venture biotech firm established by Novavax and India's Cadila Pharmaceuticals.
Under terms of the agreement, the collaborators will initially develop and evaluate VLPs that express the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein (PfCSP), which they point out forms the basis of the only recombinant malaria vaccine that has shown efficacy in field trials to date. Once feasibility of the Novavax technology has been demonstrated, the partners will work to generate VLPs against other antigens from other stages of malaria parasites. They suggest that a multi-stage VLP vaccine could provide higher efficacy than those based on a single antigen or that target just one stage of the parasite's life cycle. CPLB will be responsible for the manufacture of constructs for advanced preclinical studies, clinical trials, and commercial supply.
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Novavax already had three VLP-based vaccine candidates in clinical trials. A seasonal influenza vaccine is in Phase II development, and vaccines targeting A/H5N1 avian influenza pandemic flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are in Phase I development. Two Phase I studies with the pandemic flu candidate have been initiated this year. Data from the Phase I RSV vaccine trial were reported earlier this month, and confirmed that the Fusion (F) protein nanoparticle candidate was generally well-tolerated, highly immunogenic, and triggered the production of functional antibodies that neutralized RSV.
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The annual Upshur County Elementary Student Art Show is currently on display at the Main Street Art Gallery in Buckhannon.
The show features work from more than 60 students from all elementary schools within the county. Examples of artwork include prints, paintings, weaves, masks and 3-D sculptures. The elementary art teachers responsible for bringing out the enormous creative talents of the young children are Joe Merrifield (Union, Hodgesville and Tennerton elementary schools), Heidi Thompson (Rock Cave, French Creek and Washington District elementary schools) and Virginia Hicks (Buckhannon Academy Elementary School).
Families and friends may visit the gallery to view the artwork during regular gallery hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, throughout month of May. The show will be judged by the Board of Directors for the Main Street Gallery. Ribbons will be issued to first, second and third place and an honorable mention, at each grade level, kindergarten through five.
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The 2013 Upshur County Elementary Schools Annual Art Exhibit will be displayed at Main Street Gallery from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday during the month of May. Some of the artwork is shown here.
A winner's reception will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. May 25. The art teachers said they would like to thank Tom Lynch and all persons involved with the Main Street Art Cooperative for generously hosting the art show. They also wanted to congratulate all the students to took part.


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Good video.
That expression evaluation is great. How helpful. To be able to test your code without having to create a tester class is genius!
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WayneB wrote:Why can't I just have SOME of the productivity enhancements of VB (like optional parameters and easy event handling) without feeling like an idiot everytime I type "MyBase" or "My Project", etc....?
You'd think that MS would want VBers to feel like real programmers instead of children!!!
As if VB programmers didn't get made fun of enough, you have to dumb it down like this.
Thanks for nothing.
Great Video indeed.
Using tags to gain more functionality like that was demonstrated is very innovative way to customize the code implementation. I only wonder how to get to know the functionality of the tags demonstrated?:O
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I haven't written much about Penn State this year because I was/am so hurt by what the university and the football program have gone through as a result of Sandusky. I still think that PSU and the football program are being unfairly punished for the horrible acts of Sandusky, but that's not what I want to talk about now.
The point I want to make now is that the football team and Bill O'Brien are doing an outstanding job of performing under very difficult circumstances. When I watch the New England Patriots I sometimes think, "Belichick seems to know stuff about football that other coaches have yet to figure out."
The Patriots have won more than their share of games over the last five years with a team that has only a few outstanding players. I think that the biggest reason the Patriots have been so successful is because of coaching and playcalling. Belichick seems to have an uncanny talent for recognizing the skills (and the shortcomings) of the players that he has available, and designing the Patriots offense and defense according to what his players can do. He then customizes from week to week depending on that week's opponent.
I'm starting to think that O'Brien has that same knack. O'Brien learned from Belichick while he was a Patriots coach, and now he's applying those same ideas at PSU.
Does anyone think that PSU is winning because of superior talent? Matt McGloin is a walk-on. But now he's considered one of the top quarterbacks in the Big Ten.
O'Brien has taught McGloin how to read defenses and make smart throws. The PSU running backs are a bunch of average players with above-average guts. O'Brien puts them in a position to do well by calling plays that take advantage of the defense's weaknesses. The PSU defensive secondary was generally considered in the preseason to have more holes than Swiss cheese. But O'Brien has worked with Ted Roof to design defensive schemes that use the best players he has available.
For example, instead of going with an extra defensive back (nickel), PSU has been adding an extra linebacker and inserting Gerald Hodges in obvious passing situations. It's unconventional, but it has been effective and it customizes the defense to best use what PSU has available. I give a ton of credit to the coaching for that.
Lastly, I love seeing the team sing the alma mater at the end of each game. I think it shows love for the school and respect for the fans who are supporting the team through this difficult time. I wish the team continued success.
Tod Jacobs
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Last week was one of the most exciting and well-coached Penn State games I've ever attended.
The team ran 99 plays and committed only two offensive penalties (and no false starts or delay of game calls). The only defensive infraction was a phantom pass-interference call.
It's hard to believe that this team, with a more sophisticated offense, has had no trouble getting plays before the clock expires. They now take timeout to discuss strategy, not to avoid delay of game calls.
How refreshing.
I'm disappointed that the sellout crowds of the past who sat through years of uninspired playcalling and coaching have not returned to watch and pay tribute to the kids who stuck around, and the coaches who are making them better players every week.
McGloin as the best quarterback in the Big Ten? Who would have thought?
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I was very saddened to learn about the death of former Mirror sports writer Frank Polito.
Frank was truly one of the real good guys who made this earth a better place by his presence.
For years he covered my team's basketball games while I coached at Bishop Guilfoyle. Players and coaches were always happy to see him. He was always positive in his approach, treated everyone fairly and never wrote anything that would hurt any of those young players at that stage of their lives.
In victory, he was almost as excited as the coaches and players and was genuinely happy for them. Who could forget his contagious smile, his enthusiasm for his work, and most of all his kindness and compassion toward all he came in contact with?
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To tag or graffiti on the wall. Real tagging or bombin is art, not no gay gangster tagging which is skinny and ugly.
Bombin ain't a hobby, its a habit in LA, Chi town, and New York.
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People who are extremely good looking all around who are characterized as 'bomb'. bombin' is when they are looking good right in a specific situation.
Matt is bomb. but Matt was bombin' in that one picture.
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Rashard Alston says hes been having a blast playing football on the world stage in Kuwait.
But now play time is over, he adds.
The United States team will take on Canada on Wednesday at 4 p.m. for the IFAF U19 World Championship.
It will mean everything to me, said Alston, a running back for the USA team. This isnt about me anymore. Its such a bigger picture. Im playing for my teammates, my family and, most importantly, the country. Anything less then a gold medal will be a failure and I will feel like a letdown to my country. We absolutely have to do this.
Both USA and Canada were 3-0 in pool play, with nothing less than dominating performances showing up on the slate. USA has beaten Mexico (49-14), Germany (54-0) and Japan (43-0).
Canada has hammered France (56-0) and Kuwait (91-0), along with a 36-7 win over Austria.
Alston has totaled over 100 yards rushing and three touchdowns for the USA. He scored on runs of 8 and 4 yards against Germany and plunged ahead for a 2-yard touchdown run in the win over Japan on Sunday.
Alston is a sophomore at Newberry College and in line to start this fall for the Wolves.
At GCHS, Alston was a three-sport athlete. He also played basketball and ran track for the Gators.
As a senior running back, he rushed for 786 yards and nine touchdowns to help power GCHS to a 13-0 record.
As a junior, he had 256 yards and one touchdown during the Gators state championship season.
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Instagram, Lately
I'm loving this wine rack... Unfortunately, I'm sticking to my no shopping January.
M's aunt let me have this little framed poem. It was given to her as a gift in 1974!
I ran a 10k on Saturday, and even though it was my slowest time yet,
I was really happy with how I raced.
M and I browsed in a little shop yesterday, and they had this sign.
I want to replace "mom" with Amanda.
And I'm loving this photo of the two of us from two weekends ago after dinner.
28 comments:
- Jessica said...
Congrats on the 10K!
My goal is to do a 5k this year - who knows maybe I'll get to a 10k someday.
And the poem that you got from your aunt is too sweet - I love that!
- January 9, 2012 at 8:26 AM
- Katie said...
thats a great picture of you two! Sounds like a fun weekend, love that sign!
- January 9, 2012 at 8:53 AM
- Adam said...
cool wine rack
- January 9, 2012 at 10:03 AM
- amy b.s. said...
congrats on another race! i can't wait to get back into it and i never thought i'd say that! and that wine rack is so cool!
- January 9, 2012 at 10:19 AM
- ♡ Beverly {Preppy Wife Preppy Life} said...
Congrats again on your race!! I love the last picture of you and M! ADORABLE!!
- January 9, 2012 at 10:23 AM
- Hilliary@ Happily Ever Healthy said...
Wonderful pictures, you and M are adorable! And congrats on the 10k!
- January 9, 2012 at 10:37 AM
- Lauren said...
Congrats on the 10k...I ran a pretty slow 1/2 on saturday myself so let's just say it was a slow race day for the whole world and leave it at that. I am also trying to do a "no new clothes" January...we will see how that goes.
- January 9, 2012 at 10:44 AM
- sherri lynn said...
I love that framed poem! and congrats on your 10K! :)
- January 9, 2012 at 10:51 AM
- Ruthie Hart said...
10k...you GO girl! And wowzas you would need to drink a lotta wine to fill up that wine rack haah!
- January 9, 2012 at 10:59 AM
- Dayna Leigh said...
That's a great wine rack - could definitely use one of those ;)
- January 9, 2012 at 11:18 AM
- Style Servings said...
I love the framed poem!!
- January 9, 2012 at 11:26 AM
- Punctuation Mark said...
amazing wine rack... have a nice week!
- January 9, 2012 at 11:43 AM
- Nicole said...
wow! go girl with the running. i really admire that.
- January 9, 2012 at 12:26 PM
- Meg {henninglove} said...
congrats on the 10K girl! that is awesome. i love that photo of you two as well, so beautiful. happy monday amanda!!
- January 9, 2012 at 1:11 PM
- Neon Blonde Runner said...
Woohoo 10K!
So proud that you raced well...it's totally not always about the time, it's more rewarding when you feel awesome about the experience.
Love how you just sneak in all those races when I'm not looking :)
- January 9, 2012 at 1:17 PM
- Alisha said...
Congrats on your 10K run. That's awesome!! And that picture of you and your beau is absolutely adorable!
Happy Monday, my dear!
- January 9, 2012 at 1:22 PM
- Carrie {Living It Up in U.P.} said...
Cute photo of you and Matt! I just read part 1 of your first date. Such a good idea to recount that story!
- January 9, 2012 at 1:41 PM
- Delta Daisies said...
Congrats on your race! Proud of you! Love the photo with the wine ;) You know I love my wine!
- January 9, 2012 at 1:43 PM
- Natalie said...
What a cool poem! And a sweet photo of you and M. Glad you had fun running your 10k...Happy Monday!
- January 9, 2012 at 1:49 PM
- Elle Sees said...
Congrats! And I'm doing the no shopping thing too.
- January 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM
- Claire said...
Be strong with your no shopping because I'm currently at -3 for January HAHA!
- January 9, 2012 at 7:23 PM
- Elizabeth said...
Love that picture of you and M! And congrats on your 10K!
- January 9, 2012 at 8:12 PM
- AudreyO said...
I am forever telling my kids it's my house my rules. It doesn't matter if they don't make sense, they are my rules :)
- January 9, 2012 at 8:39 PM
- Amy Powell said...
I love that wine rack! So amazing! Good luck with your no shop month!
And that last pic of you two is adorable!
- January 9, 2012 at 9:37 PM
- The Sweet Life said...
You two are so cute!!! I have never ran a 10k. Gotta master a 5k first. What running shoes do you have? I need some recommendations. Also, I wish you were coming to blissdom!!!
- January 9, 2012 at 11:03 PM
- Ashley {hudson's happenings} said...
Love following along with you on IG! That wine rack is soo cute!!
- January 9, 2012 at 11:48 PM
- Chelsea Elizabeth. said...
Aw! These are great instagram pictures! And what a cool poem!
<3Chelsea Elizabeth
- January 10, 2012 at 12:42 AM
- Bad Joan said...
Love these instagram shots!
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
A young couple with a child in common got into a fight one evening, and the female left the house for the night.
She went to a male friend's house that evening and the next day, asked him to escort her back to her home.
According to a police report, when they pulled up, her boyfriend came out of the house with a shotgun pointed at their car.
He began to pump the shotgun and they drove away "in fear for their lives."
A witness told police that she had been having cocktails with the man all day and he told her prior to their arrival, "if she brings another man to this house I will shoot the &^#$@#$."
She was able to talk him into taking the shells out of the gun which he did.
They were having a beer when the car pulled up and the man said, "That (&^%$# actually brought him to my house."
The witness said in her statement that he then got the gun and went outside.
Police questioned the man about the incident and he admitted to it.
They then searched the house, retrieved the gun and charged him with Criminal Domestic Violence of a High and Aggravated Nature and Pointing and Presenting a Firearm.
Hotel employees realized their cash drawer had been compromised one day and called police.
The manager explained to officers that a suspect stole money from the cash drawer and it was all caught on tape. At 5:15 in the morning, a man entered the hotel while the front desk clerk was in the kitchen preparing breakfast.
The man hopped the counter and rummaged through drawers until he found a key. He then used that key to open the cash drawer and allegedly steal money.
It wasn't until going to clear the cash drawer at 7:45 a.m. that the employee realized the money was missing.
That's when they viewed the security footage, saw what happened and called police. The theft took less than four minutes to execute.
According to the police report, when officers viewed the security footage, they were able to identify the suspect due to having dealt with him in the past.
The suspect is currently homeless and has been involved in other similar incidents.
Later in the morning, an officer spotted the suspect who had on the exact outfit as he did earlier on the video tape. The officer began questioning him and asked him where he stayed the night before.
Brilliantly, he came up with the name of the hotel he just allegedly robbed.
The officer then asked him if he rented a room.
He responded that he had not, but he slept on a lounge chair by the pool.
After further questioning, the suspect then admitted to jumping the counter and taking the money.
According to the incident report, he admitted to taking about $150.
In his pocket was $145.
He said $5 was missing because he bought a beer earlier. He then added that he was not a criminal and had simply just needed money for a place to stay.
He was arrested and booked for larceny.
Police were called to a local bank because a man was there trying to cash a fraudulent check.
The check was from a hospice facility in another part of the state.
The account this check belonged to had been victimized recently and the account closed, making the check invalid.
The bank employees detained the suspect, called the hospice company owner and waited for police.
The suspect said he did not know anything about the check, according to a police report.
He said two men, who he didn't know, were giving him checks and then having him cash them.
He said they would give him a cut of the check.
This particular check was for $1,028.28.
Of course not knowing anything about the check didn't get him out of trouble.
He was arrested, questioned and booked in the jail house for forgery.
Three men left a local bar recently and started walking down Coleman Boulevard. But one of the men in the group just had to have that last sip of his drink.
Instead of finishing up the drink in the bar, he took it with him, in the glass they had served it in.
Much to his surprise a police officer driving down Coleman Boulevard saw the glass in his hand and stopped to have a little chat.
When the officer parked and got out to speak with the man, the drink had already been poured out.
It was a rum and coke, according the a police report. He was a issued a ticket for drinking in a public place.
The glass was returned to the bar.
Police were called to a home because a woman was having a "bi-polar incident" according to her sister who was the complainant.
When officers arrived the complainant explained to them that her sister was picking at her arms and had not been taking her medicine.
She said her sister thinks she got crabs from her boyfriend.
According to an incident report, the complainant told police her sister was trying to pick the crabs off of her arm.
The officer went inside the home to find the sister with her boyfriend.
She explained to officers, as detailed in the incident report, that she was upset with her boyfriend because she thought he had cheated on her and had given her an STD after they had relations prior to the officer's arrival. She told the officer she just wanted to leave the residence and go home.
She said she had been taking all of her proper medications and had not been picking at herself. Since there was no disturbance at the residence, the case was closed.
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Dorito Taco Salad
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I love, love, LOVE Doritos in Taco Salad....I think it just gives it a zip you can't get from plain tortilla chips. I haven't had Taco Salad in forever....I must put it on my menu soon!ReplyDelete
I agree Sigs! We have always eaten it with Doritos - in fact this is what we had for dinner last night...hee hee.ReplyDelete
Love Taco salads! It is such a great leftover meal to have when you have tacos too! I love to bring taco salad in for lunch at work the day after I have made tacos. Thanks for sharing this!ReplyDelete
I absolutely love taco salad, and love the way you made it. Catalina dressing is an old all time favorite of mine, that I have a great chicken recipe for, but taco salad? ...yummm!ReplyDelete
It's a healthy meal, by itself.
Thanks for sharing, following your blog, I invite you to visit mine, have a giveaway too!
I'm a HUGE fan of Taco salads. I usually avoid them because they are so high fat, but sometimes they are totally worth it!ReplyDelete
I love Taco salad too..yours have wonderful combo of flavors..I love it, and it looks awesome!ReplyDelete
Yum! I love taco salad... yours looks amazing!ReplyDelete
Oh yummy! My mom makes something close to this that is a taco dip but it also calls for french dressing. I will have to give this a try!ReplyDelete
That looks beautiful! I love how taco salads are so versatile and you can put anything you love on there. Good job!ReplyDelete
Yum! This looks tasty and easy to put together! I'll have to keep this in mind for this semester when I've spent 3-4 hours with a cadaver in anatomy lab and I'm exhausted! ;)ReplyDelete
Haley - way to gross me out - thanks...LOL.ReplyDelete
never had a taco salad like this! it looks amazing!ReplyDelete
Sorry, I didn't mean too! Please forgive me :) I was just trying to emphasize that after a crazy day like that, I'm gonna need something yummy like that to help have a good rest of the day!ReplyDelete
This looks great, I could dive right in. I kind of stumbled on your site and I love it! Great recipes:)ReplyDelete
Love the simplicity of this yummy meal. And using Doritos wouldn't occur to me, but I bet it's great!ReplyDelete
Among all the mexican food i have tried, taco salad is still my favorite. There is something about this crunchy, spicy cheesy combination that i just can't get enough of. Your taco salad looks wonderful!ReplyDelete
You had me at taco salad!ReplyDelete
I haven't had taco in so long. I'll have to resurrect it, with chicken or ground turkey! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
That looks like it will be perfect for dinner this week!!!ReplyDelete
I love taco salads!! This is one of those meals that I could eat nearly every single night!!ReplyDelete
I haven't made a taco salad since my kids left for college! They used to love taco salads. Thanks for the happy memories. I'll have them over for dinner and make this again for old times sake!ReplyDelete
I adore taco salads. I love any of that stuff. And I think kids do because it's messy and allows them to be messy too! Thanks for this great recipe.ReplyDelete
I have made something like this but we would use fritos and packaged ranch dressing and prepare that to directions and no beans. Always easy and tasty meal. I love itReplyDelete
Oh my good lord. I love love love Taco salad!!ReplyDelete
I like this and when I was a girl my Mom used to make something similar. I remember it was very tasty.ReplyDelete
How bizare is this? A co-worker of mine gave me this recipe about 15 years ago...and it's almost exactly the same. Only difference is that mine uses cabbage instead of lettuce and tortilla chips instead of the doritos. Try the cabbage sometime, it really gives a crunch to the salad and lets you keep left overs (without the dressing) for a couple of days without wilting!ReplyDelete
This is always a crowd pleaser. I haven't had it for a while, so thanks for reminding me about it.ReplyDelete
We love doritos with taco salad recipes come see what I shared at http://shopannies.blogspot.comReplyDelete
I love Taco Salad too! We always made ours with Fritos...ReplyDelete
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This is how we make taco salad too, but with grnd turkey. email@example.com
- AnonymousJune 2, 2011 at 5:47 AM
Love, lovr, love taco salad. For anyone who is not stoo crazy about french dressing, try thousand island dressing, regular or lo calorie..yummy!ReplyDelete
We love taco salad only instead of Doritos, it has to be Fritos. We always use the Catalina dressing too!ReplyDelete
I like how taco salad can be made to fit what you have to add to the basic salad.
We make something similar to this pretty often. I add 1 can of Bush's Chili Magic beans to my cooked meat and we have it over Fritos sometimes, sometimes tortilla chips - with whatever toppings people like. Haven't ever tried with Catalina dressing before - I'll have to try that.ReplyDelete
Awesome - just found your site and have bookmarked a bunch of recipes! I was a navy brat too, and we also made the same recipe - but with thousand island dressing - and it was tossed together. Looks dreadful but oh so yummy!ReplyDelete
I grew up having pretty much this same dish minus the Catalina and the kidney beans replaced with chili beans. We just called this tacos. It was an easier, somewhat cheaper version of tacos to serve to a family of 5. So much easier than stuffing taco shells. The beans also helped to make the meat go further. I still make this today, except I sometimes add a cheese sauce on top.ReplyDelete
I make Taco salad with these same ingredients except I omit the doritos and mix Fritos in with the entire salad.ReplyDelete
Everyone always wants the recipe and their's never any leftovers.
My Mom used to make this but instead of Catalina dressing, she used a mayo & ketchup combo! So good!ReplyDelete
My Mom used to make this same taco salad but instead of Catalina dressing, used a mayo/ketchup dressing. So good!!ReplyDelete
Hi All, love your site. I always add the juice from a can of Hunts brand (personal favorite) diced tomatoes to the taco seasoning ground meat mixture when cooking instead of water. It adds another great layer of flavor,besides I will be using the canned tomatoes, unless I have summer fresh tomatoes in the recipe topping. Brandie looking forward to trying more of your recipes. You have great instructions and photos!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 23, 2013 at 7:03 PM
I have always used Fritos and Catalina Dressing and pinto beans on my Taco Salado. My boys always said I was burnin' them out with that recipe. Funny that those guys always ate every bite!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 23, 2013 at 9:50 PM
Great recipe! I make this every so often, but when they have a throw back & the original Taco flavored Dorito's are available, I make sure to make this!ReplyDelete
I like to toss the kidney beans in with the meat & let them cook a little with the taco seasoning.
I got the recipe from my cousin, she brings it to family gatherings, I always look forward to hers, made the same, but hers just always seems better.
My grown children's families come home on Christmas Eve to exchange presents & we like to have a few appetizers & things, this will be part of it this year! Thank you! Diana
I'm salivating!!!! Love me some taco salad!! I'd throw in some black beans, too and use my fave healthy Tex-mex "dressing" of equal parts plain Greek yogurt and verde salsa... Yum! I'll make this soon, Brandi. ThanksReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 20, 2014 at 7:51 PM
A family favorite, we mix half Catalina and half taco sauce or salsa for the dressing. Delish!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2014 at 1:44 PM
Never had a taco salad without lettuce of some kind, interesting.ReplyDelete
- Sandy OMay 21, 2015 at 4:55 AM
My family loves Taco Salad, but we kick it up a notch by serving it with Cheese Dip poured over the top. We make a cheese dip that has a basic roux as a starter, then a pound of velveeta melted into that along with some shredded cheddar. Then we add a can of Rotel tomatoes with green chilies (pureed in the blender first. It is delicious!ReplyDelete


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Traveling to earthquake-ravaged northern Pakistan last Thanksgiving, Angelina Jolie, then 30, boarded a private plane for the 20-plus-hour journey from Los Angeles without a single Louis Vuitton suitcase in sight. Instead, the actress-activist-object of Brad Pitt's affection grabbed a lightweight field bag and, as she usually does, packed the bare minimum: one Pakistani dress and head cover (to honor local custom); one pair of sturdy boots (for mountain climbing to distribute blankets and food).
For the three nights she was in the field, Jolie – who was accompanied by Pitt, then 43, but left kids Maddox, then 4, and Zahara, then 16 months, back in town – was her typical low-maintenance self, sleeping on the frozen ground in a tent shared with three other workers and wearing the same clothes day after day. No hairbrush. No makeup. Not even a toothbrush. "She really blends in and is very unassuming," says Guenet Guebre-Christos, representative in Pakistan for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for which Jolie serves as a goodwill ambassador. "She could have passed for any other Pakistani person."
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The author is professor of animal sciences at Kansas State University, Manhattan.
Traditionally, bull fertility is difficult to evaluate in the laboratory, although many attempts have been made to assess differences among bulls. Part of this difficulty exists because sperm are exposed to many varying environments during collection, processing, freezing, storage, and thawing before A.I. breeding actually takes place.
These changes may alter a laboratory test for assessing the inherent fertility of the sperm. In addition, A.I. organizations apply strict culling standards to cull inferior ejaculates and bulls, thus creating less variability in semen samples to which any laboratory measure for fertility is applied. Some bulls have improved fertility when more sperm are packaged per straw, whereas fertility of other bulls does not improve when more sperm are packaged into the breeding unit.
Since the advent and availability of sex-sorted semen and timed-A.I. ovulation control programs, questions have arisen about whether some bulls offer better fertility. The questions focus on when sperm doses are limiting, as is the case in sex-sorted semen or when semen placement may not be ideal for all cows or heifers in a timed-A.I. program. Keep in mind that sex-sorted semen doses are considerably smaller than doses of conventional semen (2 million versus 12 to 30 million sperm per straw).
These questions of bull fertility were examined to some extent in a recent study (Journal of Dairy Science 93:420-425) where the objective was to evaluate the effects of synchronization (timed A.I. versus estrus A.I.) and semen sorting (sex-sorted versus conventional semen) on the fertility of processed semen of A.I. bulls.
One of the concerns addressed in this study was the observation that some bulls may perform better when A.I. bred to females in heat rather than at a timed A.I. Another concern was that some bull semen may not be well suited for sex sorting.
Study findings
More than 543,000 services in 438 herds were included in the study. Fertility was based on nonreturn rates (larger nonreturn rates are equivalent to greater fertility). Some facts from the study were generally consistent with previous findings:
- Overall decline in fertility of about 2 percent with synchronized versus nonsynchronized services.
- Decline in fertility from first to third or more services was greater in synchronized cows than in nonsynchronized cows.
- Eighty-five percent of the sex-sorted semen was used in heifers and 15 percent in cows.
- Nonreturn rates for heifers were 15 percent greater than in cows.
- Nonreturn rates for females inseminated with conventional, nonsex-sorted semen were 12.7 percent greater than with sex-sorted semen.
Synch versus natural
The greatest variability in fertility is associated with herd effects as also pointed out by this study. Herd effects include many things done at the farm level that may influence pregnancy outcomes, including nutrition, cow comfort, climate, insemination technique, and semen thawing.
When one compares the variation associated with fertility in this study, cow and herd accounted for 25 to 31 times more variation than individual sires used for A.I. breeding. A.I. technician accounted for about the same amount of variation in fertility as individual sires. The results also indicate that some bulls may be more fertile when used in timed-A.I. programs than others.
Bulls were ranked in the study based on their fertility in synchronized versus nonsynchronized situations. About 19 percent of the bulls changed rankings by at least 10 places when their semen was used for synchronized versus nonsynchronized services. Care should be exercised in interpreting rankings of bulls because the relative difference in fertility of all 117 bulls in the study was rather small and ranged from 0.5 to 2.9 percent.
When a large percentage of bulls are within a very narrow range of fertility, as is the case for most A.I. sires where >90 percent are ±3 percent of average, a very small and meaningless change in the fertility deviation of only 0.1 or 0.2 of a percentage point may result in large changes in the rankings.
Using the most recent sire conception rate (SCR) evaluation as an example, a bull that changes from +1.0 to +1.1 would boost his ranking by 40 to 50 positions, but in the big picture his fertility really has not changed.
Sexed versus conventional
Differences in fertility for bulls whose semen was sex-sorted versus conventional ranged from -1.8 to 15.2 percent. Another important point identified by this study was the significant interaction of bull by type of semen inseminated (sex-sorted versus conventional). This interaction explained as much of the variability in fertility as the bull himself but accounted for much less variability in fertility than was accounted for by herd, cow, or A.I. technician.
The author interpreted this interaction to mean that conventional bull fertility evaluations using nonsex-sorted semen may incorrectly rank bulls for their sex-sorted fertility. This information is not likely new to our A.I. organizations but validates some of their present thinking.
The A.I. organizations do their very best to provide dairy producers with the most fertile semen possible from bulls of high-genetic merit. We know that high-fertility bulls generally will rank high in fertility whether their semen is used in females that are inseminated at estrus or at a timed A.I. But some bulls may be better choices for timed-A.I. programs than others. Your A.I. organization can help you in making some of those sire selections.
But remember, bulls that have graduated from young sire programs represent a highly selective percentage of all possible dairy bulls. Only 8 to 12 percent of all young sires meet the standards to become proven sires. Differences in fertility among sires exist but it is rather small compared with all the other things within your sphere of control on the dairy farm to produce the best possible pregnancy outcomes.


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''I just didn't know how else to do it,'' former Ohio state school Superintendent Stan Heffner told investigators looking into the scandal that forced him to resign earlier this summer.
Heffner referred to his use of an aide, paid by taxpayers, to perform purely personal tasks for him.
While serving as interim school superintendent in spring 2011, Heffner was offered a job with a national testing service in Texas. He planned to accept, changing his mind only after he was hired as Ohio's permanent head of public schools.
While he was considering the Texas job, he testified before a legislative committee on a bill that might have benefitted the firm for which he planned to go to work. That was an outrageous conflict of interest.
More abuse of taxpayers' trust occurred in the process of Heffner being recruited for the Texas job and after he accepted it. He used an aide in the state Department of Education to coordinate trips involving his hunt for a private-sector job. He also used her to help arrange his schedule so he could look for a house in Texas.
State investigators got Heffner to admit freely to misuse of a state employee and state equipment. ''I wasn't thrilled about it,'' he admitted before adding he didn't ''know how else to do it.''
How about doing it the way nearly every taxpayer in Ohio would have in a similar situation?
The overwhelming majority of people looking for new jobs do so on their own time, with their own resources. Those in positions of authority don't ask assistants to help for a simple reason: That would be wrong. It would amount to stealing from one's current employer.
Heffner resigned after investigators concluded he misused tax-funded state resources and was involved in a conflict of interest through his testimony to lawmakers.
His behavior alone was outrageous. More disturbing was his apparent inability to see at the time that what he was doing was wrong.
It should not have been surprising, we suppose, given the number of other scandals involving government employees and officials that have been in the news during recent months. They seem upset only once they've been caught defrauding taxpayers.
Perhaps more of them ought to be punished severely for their misbehavior. Heffner would be a good start. He should be required to reimburse the state for every dime of public funds he misspent.


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Angela Dawson Denmark was fun to be with. She had a bright personality. She was knowledgeable about fashion and the latest hairstyles. And she baked great blueberry muffins.
But it was Denmark's inclination to nurture people that endeared her to so many, says Elesia Moore, her sister-in-law. Denmark's open heart caused her to meet more people in the nearly 25 years since she married Ronald Denmark and moved to Huger than people who've lived there all their lives.
Denmark, who was born in February 1959 and died Feb. 10, could bond with people while discussing produce at a market stand or in any other situation, Moore says. Afterward, she would always treat those people like family. It never mattered to her that they were not blood relatives.
"She wanted to guide and protect everybody," Moore says.
Denmark would listen to people from all demographics talk about their problems and help them to deal with those problems. Her in-laws sometimes joked that she was like a psychiatrist because everyone who had trouble coping seemed to end up discussing it on Denmark's couch.
She gave moral support, financial support, even the furniture from her home, Moore says.
But she'd also listen carefully and help them to craft solutions, especially when resolving a problem would help to keep a family together.
She also was passionate about helping children, Moore says.
"Her house was always where all the kids gathered," Moore says. "She and her husband would host parties just so the kids would have something to do. She made sure to provide a safe haven for the teens."
Brandon Ford, who grew up near Denmark, says any young person who entered her home became her child. She was a trusted adult, and many felt free to discuss anything with her.
They also knew they could ask her for favors, time and time again.
"In high school, I went to the prom three years," Ford says. "Three years in a row, I wanted to drive her car and she let me drive it each time. It was a Cadillac Escalade, one of those cars that's like three colors in one. They change shades depending on the light."
People are going to miss her bright personality and deep desire to see that people felt loved and accepted, says Frank Bailey, Denmark's brother.
"Over the years, when she came home to North Carolina, she and her husband brought other kids with them," Bailey says. "Almost every trip she would bring at least one other child. All of these young kids looked at her as a mother figure."
Early on, Denmark thought she would not be able to have children of her own and started tending to other people's kids, Bailey says. But even after being blessed with her triplets, she continued to help others.
In at least one case, she took into her home a child whose family was having difficulties, Bailey says. She also provided assistance to the child's parents in an effort to help them strengthen their family ties.
Bailey admired his sister's strictness when it came to teaching her own children values to live by.
"She was relentless and unapologetic about it," he says.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
I have a grievance to express.
It's the weather. It's January and I'm complaining about the weather, and I'm holding to my vow not to complain about it being too cold.
Last summer when temperatures reached 115 degrees and I swore if it touched 116 degrees my clothes were coming off. I made a promise I would no longer complain about cold weather.
How can I complain about cold weather when winter is almost a month old and it hasn't even gotten cold yet?
Maybe it's dipped below freezing for 10 or 15 minutes, but that's not cold, that's just chilly. That's sweater weather. I want cold. I want snow. I don't want 85 degrees on Jan. 12.
It's hot enough down here from February through November, at least give me December and January. My sweat glands need a break. I sweat enough during summer months to fill a bathtub. My poor boys are tuckered out by Thanksgiving.
They need a couple months off to replenish and resupply, but 85 degrees in January? That's ridiculous.
Unless I'm having lunch with Fidel Castro it shouldn't be anywhere near 85 degrees in January. It actually reached 85.6 degrees on Saturday.
I made another vow. I vowed if temperatures reached 86 degrees in January and I'm not rubbing elbows with Mickey Mouse at the Magic Kingdom my clothes were coming off.
My clothes were coming off and I promised to run down Main Street dressed only in what the stork saw. Thankfully, I did not have to fulfill that promise.
I know I threaten to remove my clothes a lot and I promise I don't have exhibitionist tendencies. Trust me. It's not a sight for the weak at heart.
I understand it's the subtropics and we have palm trees and alligators here. It's not supposed to get that cold here. We haven't had any measurable snowfall in 20 years until we had eight inches dropped on us the weekend before Valentine's Day in 2010.
But that's okay.
In the South the snow hangs around like company. It's gone by noon tomorrow. I don't mind that.
When I moved south in 1981, I left the snow shovel leaning against the garage for the next sad sack who wanted to live inside the Arctic Circle. Where I lived they measured snow in feet not inches, or not decades since it last snowed.
I was going where it's warm.
I lived in the North Georgia foothills of the Appalachians for 20 years and the snow there often capped the mountaintops. It made for great viewing because it was 25 miles away.
If it did snow, like it did over Christmas, it snowed enough for us to say, "Hey look it's snowing," and then it quit.
I counted eight flakes on my windshield.
The word "snow" down here is pronounced "ice water."
I'm not complaining about the lack of snow. I just want cooler temperatures. Five years ago when I moved here I told everyone, "Hey, I'm moving to the beach where it's 85 degrees in January."
When I got here the thermometer read 13 degrees with a wind chill of 2. Now it's 85 degrees outside and I wish it were more like 13.
I want cold. I don't want to camp out in the freezer.
Temperatures will hover near 80 degrees the rest of this week and then it will get "cold" over the weekend. Down to 60.
This is Al Gore's fault. He's still ticked about the election.
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Dr. Robert McLay with some of the virtual reality equipment used for treatment. Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press
By Taylor Poor, NAMI Education Program Coordinator
Dr. Robert N. McLay's recent book, At War with PTSD: Battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Virtual Reality (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), offers a valuable lesson about treating people rather than diseases. After all, as the author says, "doing mental health is not just about biology."
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a type of anxiety disorder associated with the direct or indirect experience of a traumatic event, and often involves memory disturbances, emotional detachment, hypervigilance (abnormally increased arousal) or insomnia. Though soldiers have endured the psychological consequences of armed combat for millennia, PTSD has gained credence only recently as a biological disease with a potentially measurable impact on the brain, a disease that can occur at any age, following any type of traumatic experience, from assault or rape to war or a natural disaster. But the increase of PTSD's validity as a clinical diagnosis does not protect service members and veterans from the shame of the stigma they face from comrades-in-arms—and from the civilian population once they return home.
At War with PTSD: Battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Virtual Reality
By Robert N. McLay
Dr. McLay emphasizes the importance of looking at where patients are coming from before starting treatment, whether that's the battlefield, a prison, or a home with domestic abuse. He draws from countless individual testimonies ("psychiatric fables") to illustrate the diversity of patients who are looking for different solutions and who require different approaches. Maybe the same basic treatment techniques will find success with both service members and non-service members experiencing PTSD, but for those service members, the idea that "somebody else gets it" is important; it's helpful to talk to a military psychiatrist rather than a civilian doctor.
However, the distinction between combat PTSD and other types of PTSD isn't necessarily clinical. Dr. McLay explains that combat PTSD is typically a version of "complex PTSD," involving multiple, compounded traumatic incidents; unlike "simple PTSD," which involves a single incident. However, the unique components of combat trauma, combined with the military atmosphere ("no problem marines can't solve by more yelling"), demand a fine-tuned and circumspect treatment approach.
Dr. McLay always intended to join the military as a scientist, but "put it on the back burner" while at work on his B.A., M.A., Ph.D. and M.D. When the Navy offered him a job, he found the perfect arena for his psychiatric expertise: directing development programs for new technology to assist service members experiencing the stress of deployment. In 2008, he took a virtual reality machine with him on deployment to Camp Fallujah, Iraq, where he tested the effectiveness of virtual reality therapy on soldiers living with PTSD in the field. From the service members he treated, he learned about the values of confronting traumatic experiences head-on, through reconstructed combat landscapes, as well as the limitations of any form of treatment in the face of stigma and skepticism.
At the end of his book, Dr. McLay talks about the future of PTSD treatment for service members. He asks about two components of this future: reduction in stigma and scientific improvements in treatment.
Regarding stigma, the current landscape remains bleak: the world of psychiatric treatment for military veterans is a murky swamp of "perverse incentives", Dr. McLay explained on the phone at the end of October. On the one hand, he believes initiatives to officially grant service members with PTSD eligibility for prestigious honors such as the Purple Heart (an unsuccessful political cause since World War I, and one NAMI supports) are well-intentioned efforts to reward bravery and to recognize that PTSD represents a real war wound, thereby reducing stigma.
However, Dr. McLay also believes that the difficulties of separating valid PTSD cases from "malingering"—faking illness to avoid duty—mean awarding the Purple Heart for PTSD could in fact worsen stigma as an unintended consequence. Meanwhile, service members who face discrimination when they apply for disability benefits without a visible wound are unlikely to then seek treatment, and thus possibly lose those hard-won benefits.
On the other hand, continuing advances in research and technology paint a brighter picture. Dr. McLay has cautiously gained confidence in virtual reality treatments since his return to the U.S., but is "convinced VR is not going to solve all our problems." Other promising possibilities include: stellate ganglion block, or an anesthetic injection to a spinal nerve cluster that alleviates pain and some other PTSD symptoms; transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which involves producing weak electric currents in the brain; and "third location", or staged, decompression, where instead of being transported straight back into civilian society, service members returning from duty can spend a period of time in a non-combat zone outside of their home country. All of these techniques serve to widen the array of treatment options that can be personalized to reflect an individual patient's hopes and priorities.
The reason Dr. McLay's book doesn't feel like the typical treatise on a controversial mental health diagnosis is his unassuming tone. There is no pedagogy about symptomatology or the complexities of PTSD: he seems to be simply taking the reader along for the ride as he figures out the answers—or some possible answers, at least—to the very questions he's just asked in the text. His final message, which he reiterates on the phone, is similarly simple: the only way to reduce stigma is "to get the word out" about mental illness, and particularly PTSD. With the help of accessible, informative and compelling books like At War With PTSD, that goal seems more reachable than ever.


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Young girls should not have access to Plan B
A letter writer's assertion that teen pregnancies are at higher risk for dangerous and expensive complications ignores the fact that his solution (Plan B, unrestricted and available to all ages without prescription) is itself a risk that no woman, especially young girls, should take. Kathleen Sebelius refused to lift restrictions because the drug manufacturer had not shown that it could be used safely by young girls, some of whom are capable of having children by 11 years of age. The cognitive and behavioral differences between older adolescents and very young girls are significant, she said. If one wants to understand just how safe and effective these "emergency" contraceptives are, a reading of the package insert should make it abundantly clear.
Inherent in the lifting of restrictions on access to birth control is a societal acceptance that even very young girls engage in sexual activity. What parent wants to support that notion? Why not redefine "minor"? Why not remove statutory rape laws? In addition, it's chilling that so many refuse to acknowledge that contraceptive sex education is not a formula for "responsible" behavior, but rather a catalyst, encouraging self-absorbed, immediately gratifying, consequence-free behavior, which too often leaves the vulnerable to pick up the pieces.
It's disgraceful that OB-GYN and pediatric organizations are now on record condoning these abortifacients, and urging they be made available without restriction. What are they thinking?
Sarah Zilbauer
Grand Island


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- Sign for purchases using the Check Card
That's all there is to it. When they open an account, you earn a royalty of $50.2 Every time they use their Check Card for qualifying purchases3, you earn additional royalties. So start earning money the easy way with the Compass For Your Cause program. Contact us today to get started.
1 Accounts and check cards subject to approval. $25 minimum opening deposit required. Organization member must make 5 transactions (deposits, checks, online bill payments, ACH transactions or check card purchases) within first 60 days of opening the checking account in order for the organization to qualify for royalty payments. Organization member must be a resident of AL, AZ, CA, CO, FL, NM or TX and must be at least 18 years of age (19 in AL) to qualify.
2 Royalties will begin accumulating immediately upon opening of a new checking account. Accumulated royalties will be deposited into the organization's BBVA Compass checking account 60 days after opening of organization member account. After the initial deposit, royalties from checking accounts will be deposited into the organization's account on a monthly basis.
3 A "Qualifying Purchase" is any signature-based purchase, Internet purchase, phone or mail-order purchase, bill payment, contactless purchase (purchases made by holding your Visa card or other device up to a secure reader instead of swiping your card), or small dollar purchase for which you are not required to sign, made with an enrolled Visa card, which is processed or submitted through the Visa U.S.A. Inc. payment system. A Qualifying Purchase does not include a purchase made using a Personal Identification Number (PIN) or purchase you initiate through identification technology that substitutes for a PIN.
BBVA Compass assumes no tax liability for royalties earned or paid under the Program. Organization shall solely be liable for any tax consequences of or in connection with their participation in the Program. BBVA Compass gives no warranty and accepts no responsibility as to the ultimate treatment of any potential tax on royalties paid under the Program.
Organization must be approved and enter into an "Affinity Card and License Agreement" Program subject to terms and conditions of Agreement.