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I'm Endorsing Mike Behm For Regent
So I'm about to break the no politics rule. I regret this, but…
1. If I'm going to run for regent that has to happen anyway.
2. I am only going to do this for Michigan regent.
3. I don't think regent is a particularly partisan position—see the lack of transparency as to how they operate and the lack of "no" votes.
4. I am not a registered anything. I don't like politics for the same reason I don't like coachspeak. I would strongly prefer regent elections to be nonpartisan, but they're not. This is life.
All right, that said: when the regents' candidate forum was canceled on October 8th (it is now Friday at 4 PM, be there or be square) for scheduling issues, one guy still came into town because he was planning to do so anyway. He did a number of previously-scheduled in-person interviews, then emailed me. We got a couple beers at Ashley's, and we talked about the state of the regents, what was wrong about the current setup, and how to fix it. That guy is Mike Behm, and I'm endorsing him for regent.
This is not because he uses MGoBehm.com for his web presence. Mostly not.
Behm is a lawyer who graduated from Michigan in '89 with a BA in English with deep Michigan roots—his dad played football and ran track in the 50s. He went to the Rose Bowl in '89 as a student, and he reads the blog. I asked him to boil down his philosophy and goals into a few hundred words, and he's done so.
Q: What is the most important issue facing the University right now?
A: Affordability and accessibility. Over the past four decades, the State of Michigan has drastically reduced its financial support of the University. Thirty-five years ago, the State of Michigan covered 70% of U of M's costs, with the other 30% being paid for by tuition and endowment. Today, only 30% of the costs are covered by the State. I would like to see the State of Michigan invest in one of its most valuable assets, and increase its funding for U of M. But because of today's economic environment, I don't believe there is going to be a drastic increase of state funding. This being the case, I believe it is very important to examine the present cost structure of the University and cut and reduce unnecessary costs at all levels, including administration and operations.
Next, I would like to investigate ways to lower interest rates on student loans. Presently, banks borrow money at a rate that is nine times less than the average student loan. New legislation that has been introduced recently (Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act) that would help to lower student loan rates. If the government is not successful in reducing student loan interest rates, I would act to direct U of M's newest endowment program (Victors for Michigan) to provide low interest loans to our students.
Q: What are your thoughts regarding U of M's compliance with the open meetings act?
A: While I understand the need to protect individual's rights of privacy when it comes to limited circumstances such as some personnel issues. I am a firm believer that the Board of Regents would benefit from seriously listening to the concerns of the public. In addition to having Regents meetings where decisions are made with public comment and public interaction, I would use other ways for the Regents to gather information. For example, while the composition of the Board of Regents cannot be changed without involving the State of Michigan Constitution, I would propose forming advisory committees. I am in favor of forming small separate committees of students, faculty members, and supporters of the Athletic Department so that they can meet with and advise the Board of Regents when it comes to making important decisions.
In addition to being an attorney, I serve as Chairperson of Business Forward Michigan, an organization that helps local business leaders from Michigan advise Washington on how to create jobs and accelerate our economic recovery. The present Board of Regents seems to conduct business like politicians in Washington, in an isolated and deaf manner. Like what I do with Business Forward, I will work to help the Regents make decisions with the help of many informed and concerned voices.
While the above issues are obviously more important than the athletic department, we talked about that, too, and he'd support a change at the top there.
The above language is a little stiff, I know, but in talking to him it was clear he deeply cared about the university and was basically just a guy who wanted to help out. He's not much interested in serious political office; the opportunity to help the U out was a different matter. I think you should vote for him, no matter your political affiliation.
Monday Presser 10-20-14: Greg Mattison
Two strong defenses here. I guess just looking at what Pat Narduzzi's doing in East Lansing compared to what you want to do, what this team is capable of, how would you size up the two defenses and as a coordinator are you excited to see maybe those two units be the difference makers on Saturday?
"Well, the first question, how do you size up the two defenses; I mean, I don't think you ever judge a defense until the season is over. I know you go game-to-game. I know we have goals each game that [are] how we want to play, the level we always want to have our kids play at. How do you judge a defense? Is it stats? Is it points? Is it points that your defense gave up? Is it points that the special teams gave up? Is it points that somebody else…I don't think you judge it that way. I think you judge a defense by what they do game-to-game, do they do what they have to do to win the game, and how they finish a season, what they do at the end of the year, what it all looks like at the end of the year.
"As far as playing against…you know, I never play against a person. We're playing- this is Michigan football playing their next game against an in-state rival and I'm excited about it and that's really how I look at it."
Michigan State's been known for their defense in the past but the offense seems to have made great strides this year, putting up big numbers. How much better are they this year and how big of a challenge are they for your defense?
"Well, they're a very good offense. They've done a great job first and foremost running the football. They've got some playmakers at wide receiver. They've got a very, very good tight end. They've got a good offensive line. They've done a good job, and it's going to be a very, very good offense to go against and I think they've done a very good job on offense."
Where have you seen Connor Cook improve?
"Well, Connor, he's a very good quarterback. I think the biggest place you've seen him improve is he doesn't get sacked. He seems like he gets the ball out quick. He seems like he knows where to go with it, and I think his maturity, his year-to-year, I think he's a better quarterback. I think he's a very, very good quarterback."
[After THE JUMP: Mattison watches some football, makes fun of some things, and scouts the Spartans]
Hokepoints Seeks Hope in Hazell
I know Hoke said they spent the bye week on Michigan's "identity," by which we're pretty sure he meant scrapping any semblance of sense again in favor of slamming fullbacks into people and praying for the turnover fairy to stop hating us. But for those people actually interested in how to defeat Michigan State's lauded/loathed defense, it appears to be vulnerable when you spread 'em out and test them deep.
Quarters redux
You should remember how their thing works. The defensive backs read the inside (#2) receiver; if that guy goes vertical the DBs play cover 4; if that guy goes horizontal they play Cover 2.
Red: #2 receiver goes vertical. Blue: #2 receiver doesn't go vertical
With that many guys reading, the defense can play "9 in the box," by which they mean the safeties are part of the run fits. Their run D is gap-oriented.
Just an example. They change up who's got what
Note that screens and such are treated as runs.
[After the jump: tripping them up.]
On Harbaugh, Brandon, And Other Such Things
ALL RIGHT, PEOPLE. We are probably embarking on a coaching search in the near future and also probably embarking on an AD search in the near future. When these things happen I get buckets of insider information from provenances both dubious and legit, and at some point they cross the threshold where I think they're useful to relate.
When I do this I want things to be supported by multiple people, or people I've heard from before and were accurate. I've learned over the years that when you get in these situations a lot of people stridently believe things that turn out to be wrong, so keep that in mind; I strive to be precise with my language to give people the right impression of how strongly these opinions are held.
ON JIM HARBAUGH. There are plenty of media reports suggesting that Harbaugh won't be with the 49ers next year; I've heard similar things. I've also heard that people within the 49ers organization think that maybe Harbaugh isn't an NFL guy, long term, and that Harbaugh is also coming to this realization as the guys in his locker room start getting more and more ornery. Michigan is not a far-fetched destination according to them.
ON DAVE BRANDON. I mentioned this on twitter and should clarify. There is the Big Ballers Meeting and then a Meeting With A Lot Of Big Ballers And Some Smaller Ballers And Some People Who Do Nice Stuff For The University. I got a report from the latter, in which Schlissel sat down for a Q&A session that was moderated by Stephen Ross. Nothing said was definitive, but almost all of the side chatter centered on how Brandon wasn't going to make it and Ross didn't seem like he was going to throw a hissy fit if a change was made. Even in this context away from the madding crowd the first issue addressed was the AD; Schlissel reiterated his point about a culture change; there seemed to be big baller chatter about who might be next.
Now: these people are not universally omniscient. There was chatter that things might go down last Tuesday. Obviously they did not. Don't take that as gospel.
ON THE COMBINATION OF HARBAUGH AND BRANDON. Never say never but I've heard from guys who know Harbaugh who say that Jim working for Dave is highly unlikely to happen. I do not have signed affidavits, but… yeah. As chatter goes this drumbeat is intense.
ON HOKE SURVIVING. This is likely to become moot this weekend, but serious people are asserting that he's not dead yet and could get by with a 7-5 record that includes a win over MSU or OSU, or even that 6-6 might be enough.
I don't think this is the case, as the powers that be know that season tickets are on a knife edge now and bringing Hoke back could see significant drops. It's impossible to know anything about Hoke's status given the uncertainty about the top of the department; the information being discussed is going to point strongly to a change no matter who is in charge.
ON AD CANDIDATES. Amongst the obvious Michigan Man candidates I would peg the pecking order as
- Jeff Long (Arkansas)
- Brad Bates (BC)
- Warde Manuel (UConn)
- Joe Parker (Texas Tech's associate AD)
There's a bigger gap between 2 and 3 than between 1 and 2 or 3 and 4. Michigan may go off the board, of course, but Long in particular seems to have the respect of the AD community—he's the CoFoPoff chair—and made a stunning hire of Bret Bielema after the Petrino situation blew up in his face.
Also worth noting that he handled the PR of that disaster as well as can be expected. Bates and Manuel have not had to face similar crises yet.
ON JABRILL PEPPERS. This is not certain otherwise Michigan would have announced it but I've gotten several seemingly independent sources asserting that Peppers isn't going to play again this year. Michigan just threw him on top of the depth chart at nickel and punt return, so I don't know… I just wouldn't be surprised if he didn't play this weekend.
ON LLOYD CARR. Lloyd Carr is a civilian. He is neither involved nor wants to be involved in the day-to-day of the athletic department, and if you have a conspiracy theory involving him it is ridiculous and you should just drop it.
Monday Presser 10-20-14: Doug Nussmeier
What's it like seeing this rivalry from the other side? Obviously you've coached at Michigan State. What's the view when you had never been a part of it before [at Michigan]?
"Well, it's one of the classic rivalries in all of college football and I'm very excited to get the opportunity to be a part of it and I know our kids are very, very excited about the opportunity."
When you were at Michigan State what was it like?
"Any time you play in a game, whether it be an in-state rivalry game or a conference rivalry game and some of them are out-of-conference rivalry games, the important thing is the focus on the game itself and you can get caught up and lost in the things that surround the game. Any time you're on either side it's about the players preparing. It's about preparing them the best you possibly can and giving them the opportunity to be in the right situations to play well."
Any of those games stick out to you from when you were there?
"I think any time you're a part of these games they all stick out to you. Obviously probably the one that was played right here [Ed.- he's referring to Braylonfest] was one that goes down as a great, great football game. Really was."
They obviously play pretty good defense. Without giving away what you want to do, what are the key things that they do that you have to combat?
"Well, I think when you look at them they're an outstanding defensive football team. They do a really good job of stopping the run and they get guys and they commit to the box and they do a really good job of tackling. They tackle well. You don't see a lot of missed tackles. And then when you do have a play you see their ability to make an adjustment and take that play away, so I think that the biggest thing about the game is we have to understand the plan very well. We have to understand how they're going to line up in the different blitzes and things that they're going to try and approach us with, and then we have to execute."
In the past Michigan has had a problem with Michigan State bringing linebackers through the A gap. I wonder if there's a standard way of dealing with that or is that a pre-snap read the quarterback has to make or-
"Well, when you look at their base defense that's one of their base blitzes that they run against everybody that they play against. One of the things it does [is] it creates obviously pressure on the interior of your line and pressure within the quarterback's line of vision. A lot of people that run that- I don't know their exact philosophy but it's to create problems and pressure in the quarterback's lap so he doesn't feel like he has a real pocket to step up into so obviously it's a blitz that's part of their base package and something that we'll prepare for."
[After THE JUMP: Why were the MSU coaches covered in glass after the '04 game and some strategy talk]
Monday Presser 10-20-14: Brady Hoke
News bullets and other items:
Devin Gardner fully participated in practice last night and should be ready to start against MSU
It sounds like Jabrill Peppers may have been a part of that practice
Hoke really likes Michigan State's offensive balance [Ed.- they're ~ 40/60 pass/rush]
Hoke's recipe for road success: "Don't turn the ball over. Get turnovers."
Hoke thinks bye weeks are good for healing injuries and not good when coaches tinker with systems too much. He prefers getting back to a team's identity after self-scouting. He again says the identity they want is as a team that runs the ball.
He likes how they've prepared and how hard they've worked
They had a good practice
Opening remarks:
"Number one, thanks for coming. This is an exciting week. The bye week I think was good for us. I think it's a benefit. Get some guys healthy. There's bumps and bruises. We've been at it since August and we are pretty competitive and pretty physical with what we do, so four weeks of camp and seven straight weeks, I think it came at the right time. You're able to rest some guys and I think that's a big part of it, and at the same time you're able to get some guys who are right on the line that you might depending on how you get beat up or bumped along you may have some other guys that have to get in there and represent.
This is a great rivalry and a great rivalry in a lot of ways. Obviously we have three great rivalries – two great rivalries, but the passion on both sides of either green and white or maize and blue, I think that passion you see, you hear, and you feel. We are playing the defending Big Ten champs who deserve that and have played very good football during the year on both sides of the ball. Going out to Eugene is their only loss and that's a difficult place to play. You're three times zones different and you're also playing in a pretty hostile stadium that can get pretty loud.
I think offensively, I think Michigan State [is] very balanced. I would think knowing Mark [Dantonio] he would feel very good offensively what they're doing from that balance standpoint. I think Connor Cook continues to impress and improve. You look at Langford and how he's improved and Nick Hill I think has emerged too back there in the backfield. Lippett I think has played like the best receiver in this conference I think when you see the big plays in big games that he's made.
Turnover margin; we're [on] two opposite spectrums. They're +11, I think we're -13 and turnover margin in pro football, college football, high school football, Peewee football, whatever football there is out there is a big part of who wins and who loses and we've obviously got to do a better job of creating. The last two weeks we've done a better job of taking care of the football but that's got to continue.
As far as the bye, we got out Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. Had a practice last night which was a Tuesday practice for us and was very good, very physical. It was good to get out there again. Like the timing because that's one thing you always worry about and I thought our timing was sharp. I thought the execution on both sides of the ball was pretty good. We got a long way to go though, so… that's the longest I've ever given you an opening statement. I just hadn't seen you in a long time."
Is there a downside to a bye week? You hear a lot of talk about upside but I wonder if there's downside.
"You know, I think they're probably have been. I can try to go back and think over the years as an assistant and then as a head coach. We had a bye one year at Ball State [where] we were playing really good and then we didn't play so good the next time out. One thing that we've always tried to do is the speed that you play with, the efficiency with the sharpness, the quickness and if you can get that… The other part is the communication that your team needs to have. That's the only way I know how to judge it. I was very pleased with what we did last night because we were in full pads and we compete against each other all the time. Obviously you've got some things you're working on [for] your opponent but it was more about us competing against each other."
[After THE JUMP: rivalries, edge, attitude, underdogs, gamblers]


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May 19, 2011
One of the more frequent questions that I see in my email runs something like this: "I'm about to start a gluten free trial because I think it may help with some of the symptoms I've been suffering with for years. What I don't know, and I don't know who else to ask, is when I should expect to see improvements. How long should I do a trial? A couple of weeks? A couple of months?"
I don't have a great answer to this question. I'm not a medical expert of any sort, so all I can offer is my personal experience which won't be all that helpful unless you have a wheat allergy that manifests in your gut (in which case, I felt better in three days). What I do have is an email list of thousands of people who for one reason or another are interested in a gluten free diet. So, I'm going to throw this question out to all of you. I'm sure that collectively we can answer this question.
So, if you'd like to help this person (and many others) out, add a comment to this post describing your symptoms, your diagnosis (if you have one) and how long it took you to see relief of your symptoms. I'd love to get a ton of answers from all of you and then compile it into one post, or a small free e-booklet full of anecdotal evidence of a gluten free (or gluten-free plus) diet making you feel better.
Categories: Living Gluten Free
Tags: gluten free diet, gluten free syptoms, gluten free trial
Hi, Diane. The thing about the 'cheating' is that it takes weeks/months to really heal from damage done by gluten, if you're allergic or intolerant. That's why just a little cheating is so undermining to the GF diet. I've never heard of acid reflux as being a symptom of gluten intolerance/allergy. It's so awful to have a chronic issue affecting your life and no one knows how to help you. I'm assuming you already do stuff like raising the head of your bed and using some kind of acid blocker. Best of luck to you…………..
Hi Joey and Jeanne, Thanks for your sound advice etc. It certainly helps to read about other people's experiences and symptoms. At least it's makes it a bit better to tolerate if you understand what's causing the problems knowing that other people have felt the same. As far as the detoxing symptoms go I certainly had a "brain fog" a few days ago. I was in Dr's surgery and couldn't remember my address when the receptionist asked me. My mind was a total blank. I will keep looking into this forum and will maybe be able to give some advice to someone at some point.
My best advice is "don't ever give up". Research and learn all you can about ways you can take care of yourself. I am convinced that I'm doing as well as I am because I keep learning and can take my questions to other patients or support groups or sites such as this. The medical community is important, but they have limited knowledge of how you feel, how your daily life is impacted, and practical solutions to coping. I use them for what they are best at but don't count on them for everyday practical advice.
Oh, no. Last night I started feeling bad. Today I've felt awful. Bad cramping/bloating/gas, nausea, migraine, brain fog. Trouble sleeping last night. It was my husband who said, 'maybe you've been glutened'. First time it's happened since I went GF a few months ago and had such a dramatic improvement in my health. And I've been so careful! I think I actually know what happened. Ate in our friend's restaurant—he's very determined to make sure I get no gluten. I hadn't the last time I ate there. But this time I think they fried my pakoras in the same oil that they fried the samosas–that's my best guess. Besides that, I've eaten at home, so I know all the other foods I've eaten recently were safe. But this really shows me that, yes, in case there was still any doubt, that is what my problem was/is, and that I really do need to be as careful as I have been being. Next time I'll skip the pakora. I can make them at home myself. My question for all of you is: when will I feel better? Is there anything I can do to speed the process of feeling better? Worked this morning (whole morning of piano students) while feeling dreadful. Need to work tomorrow morning too (choir director, etc.) I'd love your advice, friends!
I hope you'r starting to feel a little better! Being "poisoned" is horrible!! For me, it can be 2 to 7 days. The only advice I have is to drink as much water as you can stand, and drink ginger tea. Traditional Medicinals makes a digestive tea that soothes tummys. Or grate some fresh ginger and pour boiling water over it. Good luck!!
These are all the symptoms that affects me too when I'm glutened by mistake. I've been gluten free for 14 months now and I can say I felt better really fast, a few days once I quit. Problem is, at first you keep eating ingredients you don't suspect contain gluten, like ground SPICES, my worst enemy! As long as I stick to the right foods, I'm fine. I also eat little meals at a time.
Best advice I can give you all is see a nutritionist; this was the best $100 I ever spent in my life. She had lists of foods I should and should not eat specifically for my condition – I'm also lactose intolerant and suffer from IBS. She literally saved my life. That and Mary Frances GF pie dough recipe, lol.
Second advice: rush to buy peppermint herbal tea!! It is wonderfully soothing and caffeine-free. And finally, good old chicken broth. The GF ones they sell tastes like nothing but help to make a light sauce with soya, orange juice, etc.
I think multivitamines should help give energy, but in my case, I'm still getting used to pressure and cholesterol pills so my liver is busy enough for now. Some days, I accomplish a lot, others I'm really tired, go figure…
Last tip: Add fresh spinach (the baby ones are yummy) to everything. It melts fast in a stir fry, in any sauce and gives us good vitamins (I forget which ones) but it's easy. So anything easy is good, isn't it?
Good luck to all of you, it does get better.
Not only is gluten in food it can also be found in some medications. Some pharmaceutical companies are still using gluten based binders in pharmaceuticals including ones over the counter. If you have any doubt ask your pharmacist or call the manufacturer. It really saved me.
My house manager developed rheumatoid arthritis, and during her internet research, she kept coming across references made by others with this horrible autoimmune disease that they'd been allergic to dairy as kids. She was allergic to dairy as a child as well. I called an elderly aunt of mine with RA, the worst case I've ever seen, and she, too, was deathly allergic to dairy as a child. Definitely a probable connection, at least in my opinion, so people with food allergies may be unwittingly inviting life threatening autoimmune conditions if they continue to eat the offenders.
To support my dear friend, I encouraged her to give up dairy by giving up dairy with her. Please note that I had no idea I had a dairy sensitivity. I'd had diarrhea for years and thought it was just "normal" for me. I also had other symptoms, which I'll list in a moment. Anyway, long story short, I'd ordered a new diet plan, and in the book, the symptoms of gluten intolerance were listed. I was like, what? I could be a poster person for gluten intolerance! I had every symptom. So I essentially gave up both dairy and gluten at about the same time. Symptoms: horrific leg cramps, leg muscle weakness, severe itchy skin with no visible rash (I'd wake up to find I'd scratched myself bloody, and the itching moved to my back, which was miserable), diarrhea, abdominal cramping, flatulence, heart irregularity, headaches, brain fog, and on and on. To my surprise, after I gave up dairy and gluten, the symptoms all went away. I cannot recall now how long it took, but I believe I saw a huge difference in a week. The diarrhea left. The itching stopped. The leg cramps that awakened me at night and left me limping the next day vanished. I have been totally gluten and dairy free for over a year, except for a couple of exposures, both times because someone cooked for me and I didn't want to offend the person by refusing to eat. And, oh, boy did I ever pay for it! Once was at a friend's house who made risotto, which I can usually have without a problem because parmesan cheese doesn't seem to bother me as other dairy products do. Problem was, my friend made the risotto with barley. I ate a small amount and filled my plate around it with safe foods. But that small amount still got me. About two hours later, I was doubled over with abdominal cramps, awakened in the middle of the night to leg cramps, and just generally felt sick all over. Not worth it. The other time, I'd had surgery on my shoulder, and my dear son came to cook dinner for us. He made a fabulous nacho/cheese dish. The chips weren't gluten free, and the cheddar cheese was thick. I ate it. I mean, how can you not eat something when someone makes such a special effort, driving for an hour and then hitting the kitchen to feed you? In about thirty minutes, I could feel my heart bouncing all over the place. Later, stomach complaints. Leg cramps that night. Diarrhea the following day.
I have read that most people who are intolerant to dairy are also intolerant to gluten, and vice versa. I believe that is true in many cases. I am extremely sensitive to both dairy and gluten, yet I lived to the age of 62 without realizing I was. I wish now that I'd given up dairy for many weeks before cutting out the gluten because to this day, I'm not certain which one causes what. I think many of my symptoms occur with both of them.
One night I woke up hungry and decided to have some cereal. My rice milk was out in the garage and our security system was set, so I stupidly decided to have my cereal with regular milk. Hello, I indulged for years. It couldn't be that bad. Right? The cereal was gluten free. I awakened in the night with a cramp in my thigh that left me limping for days, and in the morning, I had projectile diarrhea. But slips into gluten land can produce similar reactions. I just need to avoid both of them. Since my two slips with gluten, which produced horrid reactions, I have never indulged again. I will never eat gluten simply to avoid hurting someone's feelings again!
An interesting note: My cholesterol last September was over the top at 319. I blamed the cholesterol medication for my leg cramps, so I had stopped taking it. Shortly thereafter, I removed gluten and dairy from my diet. In doing so, I find that I indulge in more high-fat things than I ever did prior–mayonnaise instead of fat-free sour cream, homemade coconut yogurt, and other things. My cholestorol as of this last week has, despite my sins, dropped an amazing amount, down to 261. It still needs to drop more, but hello, what have I done differently? I got online and did some research. Food sensitivites cause inflammation in the body, and the body reacts by producing LDL to heal the inflammations. When the inflammation goes away, the bad cholesterol usually drops. If you believe you may be sensitive to gluten, dairy, or whatever else, do you have high cholesterol? I found this perk of lowering mine without medication amazing. And, now that I'm dairy and gluten free, I am trying Crestor again. We'll see if my muscle pain and weakness returns, but I don't believe it will. I think most of my symptoms were from the foods I ate.
To the lady who got sick from a gluten slip, I think you'll feel better within five days. I usually do. But every body is different–reacting either more quickly to slips or reacting a bit more slowly, and depending on how your body deals with the poisoning, it can take varying periods of time to recover.
A word to the wise: If you suspect you may be sensitive to a food, you probably are. I didn't suspect, and I am now so glad I experimented with dietary changes! What a difference it has made in my life!
Catherine – I never got 'officially' diagnosed with celiac, but I've been working for over three years with an NAET type practitioner and have had to work numerous times on milk and dairy issues, tried to 'correc't wheat and gluten but to no avail, and then as time went by, even on the GF diet, became completely intolerant, even though we worked on foods and other things (chemicals, plastics, vitamin metabolism issues) as they came up, I eventually got a list of things which the NAET person was unable to help me aside from the usual suspects with celiac – the gluten grains, oats, cabbage, olives and coffee joined the list. I have happily used Bobs All purpose for three years but in recent months even that is no longer 'kosher' as I seem now to have become totally intolerant to the tapioca starch. I have had to virtually 'work' on every gluten free grain known to man except millet and amaranth and sorghum and of the three, sorghum is the only one I have eaten chronically. Quinoa and all the rest I have had to work on, so at this point, I figure the only way ahead for me is to start a quasi paleo/primal and then work my way into doing the specific carbohydrate diet since I think while going off gluten helped it didn't 'cure' me whatsoever and has just been really kicking the can down the road with my condition which has involved fibromyalgia and arthritis type pains and cramping – no fun. Since going off all grains over the last week my pains have diminished to nearly none. It's HARD but…I can do coconut flour and almond flour/meal and somehow I can figure this out. Just wanted to pass my experience on. I'm happy for those that just going 'gluten free' is enough but for me it has not been enough.
My GI symptoms went away almost immediately. I started noticing increased energy in the gym after about two months and now at three months I'm noticing more definition in my muscles despite not changing my diet much, not changing my work outs and not losing any weight. I've also seen an increase in libido.
My sensitivity isn't as bad as most. The low concentration of gluten in dressings and other condiments doesn't bother me.
I've been GF for just about a month now. I had abdominal cramping and pain, bloating, gas, migraines, brain fog, leg pain, joint pain, muscle weakness, migraines, extreme fatigue, and the list goes on. I have been diligent in making sure I'm not eating gluten but I have yet to see any improvement at all in my health. I started this challenge because I thought that I may have had a sensitivity to gluten, but since I've been doing it a month and have seen no results whatsoever, apparently i was wrong, so I'm thinking about re-introducing it back into my diet.
Hi Christina, thanks for writing that. I am in a similar situation. I have all the symptoms but after 2.5 weeks of no gluten, I don't feel like its made any difference. Its so frustrating as even though the gluten free life isn't as easy as just eating whatever is available, the slight inconvenience would be well worthwhile if it made the symptoms go away. I'm going to stick it out for the month then if still nothing, reintroduce a bit at a time to see if maybe it has done something but its the case of only noticing when things get worse, not better. I'd love to hear how you go. Good luck.
This comment serves as a reply to the question "How long before I notice physical benefit after beginning a GF nutrition lifestyle change"? I have not been diagnosed with Celiac disease and all of my diagnostic lab work was negative. I began a GF diet because I have Hashimoto's hypothyroid and learned that people with one autoimmune illness may suffer similar complaints caused by other autoimmune illnesses such as celiac disease. My signs/symptoms (s/s) included frequent headaches, constipation, excessive gas production, s/s related to allergies, and generalized inflammation (edema around my eyes, ankles, etc). It struck me suddenly one day (like a light switching on), approximately six months after beginning a GF nutritional regimen, that I had no headaches, suffered fewer s/s of allergies, and produced less gas & had normal bowel movements. The change was insidious so I'm sure the benefits occurred much sooner than six months but when I noticed the physical improvement, it was well worth the dietary adjustments I made. I would like to mention that I became deficient in B vitamins, particularly vitamin B12, so it would be recommended to periodically ask your healthcare provider to check your B vitamin level and take supplements if needed. Also remember that nothing replaces a thorough annual physical exam, so make any changes with assistance from your PCP. Women experience issues associated with age, menopause, etc, and the signs/symptoms of those issues may overlap with other health conditions. Hopefully, this helps.
I have some "feel better" within a few weeks. But the improvement continued. But what has happened is the longer I'm gluten free, the more I'm effected by a small amount of accidental or forced eating of gluten. The forced is when there is nothing to eat and I'm feeling bad effects from not eating (I'm also Type II Diabetic…..bad combination). It's been over 2 yeas now, and I'm still feeling stress with traveling or eating out.
I was diagnosed with celiac disease before I realized I had any symptoms. In retrospect, I realized that acid reflux was my symptom. I was having periods of weeks at a time that I would have to take acid reflux meds every night at bedtime so that I wouldn't wake up in pain. When both of my children and I were diagnosed (with a blood test), I went through my kitchen item by item and purged it of gluten. When I officially went on a GF diet, I never had to take meds for acid reflux again. It just…went away. The absence of it made me realize that it was a symptom. The only time I ever got it again was when I'd accidentally ingest gluten. I since have developed other gastro problems that manifest themselves when I get glutened. So, for some people, feeling better is instantaneous. But, there are some people, like my mother, who never really feel that great. Although, my mother is not as diligent as I am to avoid gluten. She has the attitude that "a tiny bit" won't hurt her. And, she is a breast cancer survivor, so it's hard to tell if her fatigue and depression stem from the after effects of cancer treatments or celiac or something else.
I had been sick for a number of years with a compromised immune system and diagnosed with Lupus, MS, fibromyalgia, arthritis and other diseases. In other words the doctors had no idea what was wrong with me. It took me ending up in the hospital with bacterial pnuemonia in both lungs before I was diagnosed. As I lay there I overheard the doctor telling my husband I may not make it. He ran a bunch of tests and as I started to feel better I was given a little bit of food. When I commented on the food taste the nutritionist was surprised I did not know what I was eating. She informed me the doctor had ordered a gluten free and dairy free diet for me. It turns out that I had celiac disease and a dairy allergy. After ten years of trying to find out why I was always sick it came to almost dying before the appropriate tests were done. After this visit I went through more testing and met with a nutritionist to begin eating the foods that would help me heal. I have been gluten and dairy free for five years now and I know when I have been poisoned by either. No more headaches, leg pain, brain fog, stomache issues, explosive diaharrea, etc. I hardly ever get sick any more and started riding a bike last year for the first time in years. I hike with my children and we even go camping again. I have my life back! It has taken a few years for all the effects to leave and the doctor says I may never be perfect but I am very happy to be able to do what I am now. When I first went GF and DF I was still very sick from the pnuemonia but I healed very quickly which was not normal. It only took me a month to feel better instead of months and as time went on I started to find less body pain and fewer headaches. Clear brain was a perk too. I can not tell you when you will feel better. I know people who feel better in a week and others, like me, it takes months. Follow up with your doctor and have some tests run. It may not be Gluten. It could be dairy or other allergies.
My diagnosis was complicated because I was diagnosed with both Celiac and microscopic colitis (which causes similar GI symptoms) at the same time. (Both with biopsies.) I had NO significant symptoms of Celiac for over 50 years of eating wheat. Then, all at once I had major GI issues. It took me several weeks of being on a gluten free/ reduced fiber diet before I started to feel better. BUT, I did not feel 100% better until I changed my lipstick, which contained gluten. In my experience, it can take a while to understand where all of the hidden sources of gluten are and, therefore, it may take longer than you think to be on a truly GF diet. Good luck!
Five years ago I was referred to a GI doctor for severe reflux. Surgical and lab testing revealed Stage 3 celiac. GF diet relieved the stomach cramps, and diarrhea but not the reflux. It took about a week for the intestinal symptoms to go away. I know it within hours if I am accidently exposed to wheat, barley, rye or oats. My brother-in-law was so careful to make gravy with corn starch but used beef boullion with wheat, ouch!


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Before Filing a Lawsuit
If you've experienced discrimination in the workplace or at school and you wish to file a lawsuit, you must first file a complaint.
If the discrimination took place at work, you must file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. If the discrimination took place at school, you must file a complaint through the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
Discrimination in the Workplace: Filing with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) investigates filed complaints of Title VII violations. Its mission is to promote equal opportunity in employment through administrative and judicial enforcement of the federal civil rights laws and through education and technical assistance. The commission handles roughly 75,000–80,000 charges annually.
Typically, EEOC complaints must be filed within 180 days of the alleged discriminatory act. (If you filed with the appropriate state agency first, the statute of limitation can be up to 300 days.) It is crucial to contact the EEOC promptly when discrimination is suspected because if you file late, you may be barred from pursuing your claim. Even if you miss the deadline, however, you should still contact the EEOC and attempt to file a complaint.
When you contact the EEOC (800.669.4000), you will be connected to the nearest field office. EEOC staff will provide you with the procedures for filing a complaint. Within 10 days of filing a charge, the EEOC must notify your employer that a charge has been filed against it.
The next stage begins with an investigation or fact-finding conference among the EEOC, you, and the employer. At this time
- Both sides elaborate on issues in the complaint.
- You articulate the type of relief you seek.
- The employer responds to the merits of the charges.
The EEOC will attempt to bring the two parties to some type of settlement. If a settlement is not reached, the charge remains with the EEOC. In most cases, regardless of whether or not the EEOC finds a cause of action, it will issue a "right-to-sue" letter to the charging party. This notice is a prerequisite for filing a lawsuit under Title VII. The charging party will then have 90 days from receipt of the letter to initiate a lawsuit.
EXAMPLE: Sally is a school janitor. Most of her colleagues are men. One of her peers who regularly works the same shift as Sally repeatedly touches and propositions her. She keeps telling him that he should stop, that she doesn't want his attentions, and that she finds them offensive. He persists, and Sally protests to her boss, who takes no action against the employee. Sally then contacts the EEOC and files a sexual harassment complaint with the agency. She subsequently obtains legal counsel. Upon completion of the EEOC's investigation and the receipt of her "right-to-sue" letter, she files a lawsuit in federal court under Title VII.
Discrimination at School: The OCR Process
The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) ensures equal access to education through enforcement of civil rights statutes. The agency resolves complaints of discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in all educational institutions that receive federal financial support. This includes elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, vocational schools, proprietary schools, state vocational rehabilitation agencies, libraries, and museums that receive federal funds. These pages focus only on Title IX sex discrimination complaints. For information on race, color, national origin, disability, or age complaints, please contact OCR.
A complaint of sex discrimination can be filed by anyone who believes that an educational institution that receives federal financial assistance has discriminated against someone on the basis of sex. The person or organization filing the complaint need not be a victim of the alleged discrimination, but may complain on behalf of another person or group.
To file a formal complaint with OCR, you should submit in writing the following information in a letter or on the Discrimination Complaint Form available from OCR enforcement offices:
- your name and address,
- a general description of the persons or class of persons injured by the alleged discriminatory acts,
- the name and location of the institution that committed the alleged discriminatory acts, and
- a description of the alleged discriminatory acts in sufficient detail to enable OCR to understand what occurred, when it occurred, and the basis for the alleged discrimination.
You must file a complaint with OCR within 180 days of the alleged discriminatory act in order to receive OCR legal support. You need not file with OCR before filing a sex discrimination claim in federal court. If you do proceed with your claim in court, OCR will not continue to pursue your OCR complaint.
EXAMPLE: In her middle school English class, Lisa sits next to a boy who constantly makes sexual comments about her appearance and touches her breasts whenever she walks up to the front of the classroom or during a break. Lisa reported the boy's behavior to the teacher, but the teacher did nothing. When the harassment continued, Lisa and her parents talked to the school principal, but still nothing was done to address the boy's behavior. Lisa contacted OCR and filed a complaint of sexual harassment.


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So� you�re a Windows user and you�ve decided that you�d like to try out Linux but don�t want to go through the process (or risk) of trying to install Linux on your Windows computer. The solution used to be to dig that old computer you�re not using anymore out of the closet and install Linux on that. But what if you don�t have an old computer or you don�t want to go through the hassle of installing an operating system that you�re not familiar with? The answer is easy (and free) now: VMWare.
VMWare uses a technology called virtualization to allow you to run one operating system (the �guest�) within another operating system (the �host�). It�s easy, it�s safe, and (did I mention?), it�s free.
Let�s say that you have Windows XP as your computer�s operating system. If you�d like to test out Linux you can download the VMWare Player and install it on your Windows machine. You can then download one of the Linux �virtual machines� (also from the VMWare site), fire up VMWare Player, point it to the Linux virtual machine that you�ve downloaded, and there you go � you�re running Linux on your Windows PC. And you�re not running some sort of Linux demo or emulator � you�re running Linux.
What�s the trick? The Linux OS has no idea that it�s running inside of Windows. Think of the Matrix movies. There was a whole artificial world created by the machines and billions of people lived in that world. They never had any idea that the world they thought was real didn�t really exist. That�s what VMWare does � it creates the artifical world that the guest operating systems run within and those guest OS�s have no idea that the world they see isn�t real.
What can you do with that guest OS? Just about anything that you could do if you went through the hassle of installing it on that old PC in your closet. Once you log into the guest OS you can make configuration changes, install programs, surf the web, listen to music � just about anything. Remember, the guest OS doesn�t know that it�s not running in a real PC, so there are not restrictions on what it will allow you to do.
But is it safe? Absolutely. The guest OS never touches the host�s hard drive. In fact, the guest doesn�t ever see anything in the host OS. If you�re using your Windows PC to host a Linux OS there�s nothing that Linux can do to your Windows operating system because it has no way of touching (or even knowing about) your Windows operating system. It only sees the world that VMWare created for it.
So, are you a Windows user that wants to try Linux, Solaris, or just about any other operating system? Install the VMWare Player, download a guest operating system, and find out what you�ve been missing.


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It seems like both the Broncos and the Chiefs are extremely happy with their decision to release and claim Kyle Orton, respectively.
Whether you're a fan of Orton on the field, you have to be a fan of his behavior off the field.
"Kyle has handled this as well as any player that I've ever been around," John Fox said. "He handled it with class and was a true pro, and I think he deserves an opportunity. I think it was good for both parties and I wish nothing but the best for him."
The Broncos will get to see Orton live and in person when the Chiefs come to Denver on the first day of the new year. Orton landing with the Chiefs is a move that the Broncos probably considered when releasing the 6-year veteran. With Matt Cassel on the IR, the Chiefs needed any kind of arm that has more experience than Tyler Palko.
"It's the risk you take in any move you make," Fox said. "When you're in that position you have to make tough calls. At the end of the day we feel it's best for the Broncos and hope it turns out the best for him."
Yes, so long as it doesn't turn out the best for him on January 1.
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Building the Community
Rees became a pillar of the new Queenstown community – the founding president of its first cricket club, first jockey club, first acclimatisation society, chairman of the first Town Committee and lay reader in the Anglican church.
In 1863, W.G. was operating no less than 14 businesses in the town – as a carrier, coach proprietor, lighterman, boat builder, hotel keeper, store keeper, contractor, sawyer, gold buyer, slaughterman, baker, land agent, runholder, and ferryman.
He showed his sporting form at the town's St Patrick's Day festival, when he won the "single sticks" fencing contest, his horse Bucanneer took first place in the hurdles event, and his yacht Young America led the fleet home over a 20 mile course in the main race of the regatta.
W.G's enduring passion for cricket produced an invitation to join the Otago cricket team in 1864 for their match against the first All-England XI to tour New Zealand.
The English team included another famous cricketing cousin, Teddy Grace, who was caught out by W.G. during the game. As Teddy said: "It was quite a treat to watch him."


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The inspiration for today's blog post is a recent conversation I had with another planner, who was questioning the assumption in the safe withdrawal rate research that clients annually increase their spending for inflation (as a part of the planner's viewpoint that the research is overstating how client spending rises over time). The planner noted - in a very similar vein to an article by Roy Diliberto in Financial Advisor magazine last fall called "Rules of Dumb" - that in 'the real world' clients never adjust their portfolio withdrawals each year for inflation, and that consequently an assumption clients do so in retirement planning projections and research is wrong.
While I will certainly not dispute that clients rarely make annual adjustments to their ongoing portfolio distributions for inflation, I do not think that means clients aren't experiencing annual inflation, though. They are. They're simply not compensating for it by making adjustments for regular portfolio distributions; instead, the action is in the client's bank account.
For instance, the client who spends $3,000/month might keep a checking account of $15,000, just to ensure that there's enough cash easily available for a short-term contingency. And in general, the account balance remains relatively stable, as roughly $3,000/month of spending goes out, and $3,000 of distributions from portfolios come in (or $2,000/month, or $6,000/month, or whatever your client's spending happens to be).
Over time, though, the checking account ends out bearing the brunt of inflation. As the client's $3,000/month of spending rises to $3,090 with 3% inflation, over the subsequent year the average account balance falls by about $1,000 (as the almost $100/month extra spending begins to eat away). In the following year, with another few percent of inflation, monthly spending rises to almost $3,200, and the average account balance whittles down by another $2,000 or so, to about $12,000. By the fourth year of this process, monthly spending is approaching $3,400/month, and the average account balance is below $5,000. So what happens? During a review meeting with the planner, the client indicates that the checking account balance is a little low and that it needs to be replenished, and that ongoing distributions need to be adjusted, as the client is spending about $3,400/month (heading towards $3,500+/month in the coming year) and monthly distributions are only $3,000/month. The end result: a $10,000 "extra" distribution out of the portfolio after 4 years, and an increase to future monthly distributions from $3,000/month to $3,500/month.
The net result of this process is that, in reality, the client absolutely did experience ongoing inflation! It's just that on a year-to-year basis, the brunt of it is born by the checking account and/or the client's cash allocation of the portfolio. The rest of the portfolio catches up irregularly by adjusting once every several years, with both a lump sum distribution to replenish the checking account and a 10%-15% jump in the ongoing distribution amount to make up for years of prior inflation adjustments. Nonetheless, it means inflation is impacting the client's spending, balance sheet, and depletion of assets from year to year.
In turn, this also means that if we really want to get a handle on whether or how much inflation clients are experiencing, it's necessary to look at changes in the checking/savings account balances over time, not just whether or how often clients change their recurring portfolio distributions. To get a realistic handle on this, it's probably appropriate to look on a yearly basis and see if there's been a change in the overall bank account balances (yearly is preferable, as month to month fluctuations are likely to occur for most clients, simply due to the timing of expenditures and the irregularity of certain expenses throughout the year).
But the bottom line is the fact that clients might not adjust portfolio distributions on an annual basis doesn't mean they're immune to inflation and that changes to the CPI don't affect them. It simply means that they're probably handling the smaller incremental changes over time from their bank account, and making it up infrequently with bigger adjustments over multi-year periods of time. Which also means that when looking holistically at the client's plan and balance sheet, annual inflation assumptions in retirement projections are not invalidated just because recurring portfolio distributions aren't changing every year.
So what do you think? Are your clients experiencing the impact of annual inflation? Is CPI is a fair measure for the average inflation your clients feel over time? Is the bank account phenomenon a fair characterization of how your clients handle short-term inflation? Do you monitor changes to your clients' bank account balances from year to year to keep track of the impact of inflation?


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37 Atlanta Avenue has a Walk Score of 51 out of 100. This location is Somewhat Walkable so some errands can be accomplished on foot.
Nearby parks include City of Winder Pavillion, Jug Tavern Park and Jackson Street Commerical Historic District.
Nearby schools include Aikido School of Athens Inc, Winder-Barrow Middle School and Barrow Prek School.
The closest grocery stores are Magnolia Farms, Publix Super Market at Winder Corners Shopping Center and Quick Pantry.
The closest coffee shop is Falstaff Cafe & Market. Nearby restaurants include Golden Corral, Popeyes Chicken and Asia Cafe.


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The sixth annual Great Start Program took place Thursday, just in time to get kids ready for school.
Kids from a few Michigan elementary schools had a reason to be excited about shopping all thanks to the McLoughlin Family Foundation and their event held at Target in Benton Harbor
"Like, I could bounce to the moon right now," said one student.
"We have 156 children from Cassopolis and Dowagiac schools grades one through four who have been invited to this shopping event," said Cyndy Gunpert, Executive Assistant at the McLoughlin Family Foundation.
Students were picked by their teachers, and then invited by the foundation for a fun day of shopping.
"These kids are chosen on certain criteria which includes their achievement in school, their attitude, and their work ethic and all kinds of things like that," said Gunpert.
Each student is given $200 to buy anything they need for back to school supplies, including books, shoes and clothes.
Target opened an hour early so the kids and their parents could have the store to themselves, an extra hour employees were more than willing to work.
"There is a lot of people that want to volunteer for this event even though it is early," said Chad Cutler, Target Store Team Leader. "So, we want to make sure we try to divide that up and get as many people here as possible to take care of the McLoughlin Foundation."
With the supply shopping done the great start event looks to give kids just that.
"We want to give these kids a great start to the new year," said Gunpert. "That they are going to be coming into school in a really cute outfit they are going to have everything they need for school, they are going to be all ready to go."
"When children have all the tools needed, especially that new outfit, that new pair of shoes, you know is important," said Cutler. "I think they go to school prepared and it transfers over into their day and hopefully throughout the year as well."
This was the largest group of children yet at the event, and the McLoughlin Family Foundation hopes it will continue to grow each year.


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The nine women and three men broke for the evening at about 8 p.m. Wednesday night, about three hours after they started considering the charges against Bradley, 48, of 189 Wakemans Grove Road, Edinburg.
He is charged with first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony in the Jan. 6 shooting of Brendon Manning Barker, the Strasburg High School student he shot in the attic of his Edinburg farmhouse.
Jurors must decide whether to acquit him of the murder charge, or convict him of first-degree murder, second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter.
The farmer took the stand in his own defense Wednesday afternoon. He has always acknowledged he shot Barker, who was dating Bradley's daughter, Sarah, against his wishes.
He said she came to live with him in May 2008. Last summer, Barker and some of his friends helped Bradley on his farm, he said.
Toward the end of summer, Bradley said he started trying to keep the two 16-year-olds apart after father and daughter fought about her marijuana use, he said. Bradley said he thought Barker was supplying the marijuana and perhaps stronger drugs, but on the stand Tuesday, Sarah Bradley testified she was usually the supplier, and she never did any drugs besides pot.
"At first, I grounded her," Bradley said. "Grounding her never seemed to work out, but I had tried it several times.
Besides the pot smoking, he said, his daughter's grades fell drastically, and she wouldn't keep her room clean.
"She just got to laying around," Bradley said. "If she did want to go anywhere, do anything, it was always with Brendon. It's the only place she wanted to be. It was always just a fight."
He began taking his daughter to see a counselor last summer, and she also was seeing a school counselor, he said.
Things came to a head in November when Bradley said he found Barker wearing nothing but his socks in his daughter's closet, and Sarah Bradley wearing Barker's shirt. Sarah Bradley testified a day earlier that Barker had boxers on and had been dressing up in girls' clothing as a joke.
"I explained to him if I caught him back in the house, I would shoot him," Bradley said.
He called Barker's mother, Janeen Johannsen, and made the same threat, both Bradley and Johannsen testified.
"I said, 'You can't just shoot Brendon,'" she said earlier Wednesday. "'Brendon is in love with Sarah.' He said, 'I'm telling you now, if I see Brendon again, I will shoot him.'
"His tone -- and that's one thing that I did tell Brendon -- his tone was very cold, his emotions were very even. I said, 'I do believe this is a real threat,' just in the quality of his voice, the coldness of it. We discussed by no means was he to go over there."
Barker's stepfather, Jimmy Johannsen, testified that he tried to reason with Bradley over the phone.
"Basically, he said he didn't have anything more to say about this, that everything had been said, that he would kill Brendon if he got a chance to do that," he said. "It seemed like Mr. Bradley was really meaning what he was saying."
Two other witnesses testified that they'd heard Bradley make similar threats. Licensed clinical social worker Donna Van Horn said she was treating Sarah Bradley for depression when her father said he'd shoot Barker if he returned.
"I said to him, do you really think you could do that, and his reply was, he didn't know what he would do if the young man was on the property again," she said. "He had made it clear that he didn't want the young man involved with his daughter and that he considered him keeping her from doing the things he wanted and hoped for her, keeping her from being focused on school and trying to cooperate with him."
Van Horn reported Bradley's statements to the Sheriff's Office, and he was advised to get a no-trespass notice against Barker. Strasburg High School Assistant Principal Holly Massie, who was assistant principal at Central High School when Sarah Bradley was there last year, also heard Bradley threaten Barker.
Massie testified that she'd called in Bradley because of his daughter's behavior and poor grades, and he commented on his daughter's relationship with Barker.
"[He said], he had weapons and was prepared to use them," Massie said. "Honestly, it's not a comment that hadn't been made by other fathers before. It wasn't said in such a way that it caused me to be alarmed."
Van Horn reported Bradley's statements to the Sheriff's Office, and he was advised to get a no-trespass notice against Barker.
"I really didn't want to go through all that," Bradley said, but said he did get the notice.
While he said he'd seen Barker several times on the public road near his farm, Bradley said he never caught him on the property until Jan. 5. He said he called the Sheriff's Office six to eight times, but they never found Barker on his property.
"There was not a whole lot you could do, it seemed," Bradley testified.
On Jan. 6, he heard something in the attic, he said. Bradley said he called his daughter's name, and didn't get a response, and put a hamper in front of the attic door so he'd hear it if someone opened it. He grabbed a pistol and a flashlight and opened the attic door, finding Sarah Bradley on the other side. She said she was up there alone.
"I had my handgun in my right hand and my flashlight in my left hand -- I'm right-handed," Bradley said.
He began searching the attic, which has low rafters.
"I caught a glimpse of a hooded figure," Bradley said. "It startled me. I had cocked my gun. I thought I had seen something. The hands were up front. The figure was crouched down, and I had cocked my gun and I fired.
"I had an idea who it was, but I really wasn't absolutely sure who it was until the figure fell back. Then, I shined the light in the face, and I was for sure who it was then."
He referred several times to Barker's figure as "it."
"It was as if it wanted to stand up at one point, but it fell back," Bradley said. "I just [stood] there for a while. I saw the pool [of blood] gather on the right side of the figure, the figure's left side. I stood there for a little bit. There was no movement once the figure hit the ground. The pool gathered.
"Then Sarah come up. She said, 'What did you do?' I didn't say anything to her. I went down the steps. She went towards where Brendon was."
Earlier on Wednesday, forensic scientists testified that Barker was reclining when he was shot from a distance of two to four feet away.
Bradley said he went downstairs to get a garbage bag.
"I thought it would catch the blood from soaking through more of it, but by that time, it was too late," he said. "I picked up the head with one hand by the point of the hood, slid it under there and set it back down. When I got finished [with] what I was doing, I happened to remember I had the handgun throwed on the bed and I was worried about Sarah getting it."
Bradley disassembled the gun because he figured the police would be coming, he said.
"In my mind, she was hooked on drugs and I felt that at that point that the supply of drugs would be over," he said.
After Bradley admitted he suspected the hooded figure was Barker, defense attorney Gene Hart asked why he fired the shot.
"I felt there was an intruder in the home, intruding on my family," he said. "It wouldn't stop. Sarah was hooked on drugs. She didn't know the scope of the type of drugs she was doing. She had stopped being Sarah. She was going nowhere. She wasn't doing her schoolwork. I felt that once she got off of drugs and the supply of drugs was no longer, that she had a chance."
When Bradley went outside to meet the police -- his daughter had called 911 -- he said five officers approached with guns drawn.
"One of them had a shotgun stuck in my face," he said.
In closing arguments, Assistant Shenandoah County Commonwealth's Attorney Kenneth Alger acknowledged the teens smoked marijuana together.
"But, does that give Mr. Bradley the right to shoot, to execute someone?" he asked.
Alger demonstrated the distance the gun muzzle was from Barker's face.
"He's hunted Brendon Barker down," he said. "His first response was to get trash bags to clean up the mess in his attic."
There were other actions Bradley could've taken, such as calling Barker's parents or the police, Alger said.
"He could've beat the crud out of this guy," he said. "He could've shot him in the leg.
"[Barker] died lying down, hiding."
Hart described Bradley as a "pretty simple guy."
"He's someone who has thrust upon him 16 years after the fact the responsibility of fixing a rebellious daughter," he said. "How many times did he scream for help? Brendon Barker is a drug distributor to Sarah Bradley."
Hart said Bradley came across a hooded figure crouched down in his attic at night.
"I thought that's what a burglar was, someone lying in wait in your home at night, shrouded," he said.
The fatal shot wasn't fired with malice, Hart argued.
"If it's fired with anything, it's fired with love for his daughter," he said. "He reasonably believes her life is being ruined."


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