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Road crews in Medina County's largest city will be using salt sparingly over the next few weeks in an effort to help saltless communities in Cuyahoga County.
The Ohio Department of Transportation reported that most of Ohio is experiencing salt shortages. As a result, Brunswick Service Director Pat McNamara said the city will ration its salt.
"We're still good for a couple of storms, but there are communities in Cuyahoga County that are not being served," McNamara said.
Communities like Lakewood, haven't received any salt, McNamara said, and because cities get their salt through a state bid, the state is putting salt orders to communities like Brunswick on hold while it fills orders in areas that have depleted their reserves.
"They just advised us we've got to help each other out," McNamara said.
Brunswick received a shipment of 200 tons of salt on Monday morning, bringing their salt reserves to around 1,500 tons, but McNamara said the city can use about 600 tons during a snowstorm like the one that hit last week.
So for the time being, with little precipitation in the forecast, McNamara said the city will only be salting major intersections, hills and bridges, to maintain its salt in case another storm comes before another shipment of salt.
"We've got several more orders (for salt) placed, but we don't know when they'll arrive," he said.
Medina also is trying to conserve salt, city Service Director Nino Piccoli said.
"We're being a little more frugal. We've been kind of restricting applications recently," he said.
Piccoli said three tractor-trailer loads of salt, totaling about 66 tons, were delivered Monday, bringing the total on hand to between 600 and 700 tons — about 40 percent of the full capacity of about 1,600 tons.
Piccoli said the city spreads about 200 tons of salt for each snowfall.
"We're OK for now," he said. "If we get a big storm, it could be cause for concern."
Temperatures are expected to remain below freezing through the rest of the week; however, there is no significant snowfall in the short-term forecast.
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RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks will be without starting cornerback Walter Thurmond against the Buffalo Bills in Toronto on Sunday.
Thurmond injured his hamstring during practice Wednesday and has been officially ruled out. The Seahawks will be forced to start their third cornerback in as many weeks against the Bills. Either Byron Maxwell or rookie Jeremy Lane will start, with both expected to play extensively.
Wide receiver Sidney Rice returned to practice Friday after missing the first two days of practice this week with a bruised foot. Rice is expected to play Sunday.
Safety Kam Chancellor and defensive end Red Bryant were full participants in practice and are listed as probable. Running back Marshawn Lynch was limited with back and foot injuries but is also expected to play against the Bills.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. -- The No. 30 Oregon women's golf team completed the first round at the Pac-12 Championship on Friday, battling a loaded field and frequent inclement weather. The Ducks carded a 300 (+12) at the Trysting Tree Golf Course in Corvallis, Ore., and are tied for eighth place.
The Ducks played the front nine at 3-over par amongst their counting scorers. The backed nine provided a stiffer challenge for the field, and UO played the final nine at 9-over. A hail storm delayed action for nearly an hour and a half in today's round, while rain showers persisted throughout most of the day.
Second-ranked UCLA leads the field after firing a 3-under, 285. The Pac-12 Championship consists of nine ranked teams, including six teams ranked in the top 11 by Golfstat. Stanford's Mariko Tumangan sits atop the individual leaderboard after firing a 5-under, 67.
"We're looking forward to revising our strategy on a few holes we played poorly today and dropping a few more putts tomorrow," said head coach Ria Scott. "We were proud that our players didn't complain once about the conditions Mother Nature presented today. In fact, we were quite lucky that the weather held off as long as it did."
Junior Cassy Isagawa led the Ducks with a 2-over par 74 and is tied for 20th individually. The two-time All-Pac-12 selection carded a 37 (+1) on both sides, turning in a clean scorecard with 16 pars and two bogeys. Isagawa's 16 pars was tied for the most by any competitor.
Sophomore Caroline Inglis and freshman Cathleen Santoso are one stroke back, tied for 29th on the leaderboard after each carded a 75 (+3). Inglis went even par on the front nine and finished with birdies on holes No. 6 and 17. Santoso carded steady nines of 37 (+1) and 38 (+2), making a birdie on the 17th hole while notching 13 pars.
Freshman Marcella Pranovia fired a 4-over 76 and is tied for 36th. The Bali, Indonesia, native got to 1-under par through five holes with birdies on holes three and five, and finished with sides of 37 and 39.
With an opening round 77 (+5), senior Raphaela Dyer is tied for 44th. Dyer birdied the ninth hole and went 1-over on the front nine with seven pars. She had a streak of three straight bogeys on the back side, but finished with a steady round just one stroke away from providing a counting score.
Tee assignments for tomorrow's second round from Trysting Tree will get underway at 9 a.m. (PT). The Ducks will tee off hole No. 10 from 9-9:32 a.m. (PT), and are paired with No. 35 California.
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My DH and I have been trying to conceive for about 1 1/2 years now. (It is so frustrating to see other people "accidentally" get pg, btw.) Anyhow, I am on my 3rd month of clomid, but we haven't had any success yet. Each month my dr has raised my dose. This last week I took 150mg, and the side effects were pretty interesting. (Hot flashes, visual trails. Yay! lol) I'm probably just being impatient, but what happens if clomid doesn't work for me? Is there another medicine they give in addition to clomid? If anyone else has been through this, I would appreciate any info you can give! .
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hi aj011704- i was on clomid for 3 months about 3 years ago and gave up on it as it did not work for me. but i did experience weird side effects - hearing voices when i know no one was around. Just this past January 2010 dh and i decided to go back and seek more help with our fertility issues - My husband and i have been trying for almost 5 years (i am 33, he is 28) with no success. basically unexplained infertility. feb of 2010 i was put on clomid again 150mg again with no success so i told my dr we wanted a more aggressive approach so he put me on menopur (injectables) for 6 days with iui to follow after - it seems that with menopur i have more follicles but still no success in getting pg. i started my 2nd time around of menopur on 5/24 and going in for bloodwork on sunday with ultrasound on monday 5/31 and iui prob wed 6/02 - hope this helps. There are many drugs out there for us to get pregnant we just need to stay strong and keep trying - I know I am not giving up that easy. GL!posted 05/27/2010 by ehernandez1998
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Two distinct diet armies have formed in the battle against obesity. One side, backed by the USDA food pyramid, argues for low-fat diets that contain grains, veggies, fruit and moderate amounts of protein. The other side, backed by a growing number of physicians and nutrition experts, contends that low-carb diets high in fat and protein with moderate amounts of vegetables win for weight loss and health. Now a leading heart scientist has entrenched himself in the low-carb brigade to emphasize that saturated fats are not the enemy, reported the London Telegraph on March 6.
Low-fat diets neither reduce the risk of heart disease nor lower cholesterol, says Dr. James DiNicolantonio of Ithica College, New York. Instead, this heart expert attacks carbohydrates and sugar as the enemy in the war against weight gain, and wants a public health campaign to educate consumers.
"A public health campaign is drastically needed to educate on the harms of a diet high in carbohydrate and sugar," declares DiNicolantonio.
There is no conclusive proof that a low-fat diet has a positive effect on health. Indeed the literature indicates a general lack of any effect, good or bad, from a reduction in fat intake.
What does exist, he says, is evidence that eating too much sugar and starchy carbohydrates contributes to weight gain and accompanying conditions such as diabetes.
Agreeing with him: Chris Kresser, practitioner of integrative medicine and author of "Your Personal Paleo Code: The 3-Step Plan to Lose Weight, Reverse Disease, and Stay Fit and Healthy for Life" (click for details).
Chris views refined cereal grains as one of the "major dietary toxins that trigger diabesity." In a recent blog, he notes their emphasis by many organizations:
The major cereal grains – wheat, corn, rice, barley, sorghum, oats, rye and millet – have become the staple crops of the modern human diet. They've also become the "poster children" of the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet promoted by organizations like the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Diabetes Association (ADA).
And yet, says Chris, these grains produce toxins. He contends that "gluten damages the intestine and makes it leaky...A leaky gut is one of the major predisposing factors for diabetes and obesity."
Neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter takes the argument against grains and sugar even further in his book: "Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers."
By eliminating all grains and sugar, you can lose weight easily and safely while protecting yourself against conditions ranging from diabetes to dementia to depression, says Perlmutter. And in a recent interview with the Atlantic, he explained the link between brain health and grains:
Most grain foods, whether we're talking about quinoa, amaranth, the very popular grains of the day, the reality is they still are associated with a carbohydrate surge. They have a fairly high glycemic index, meaning that after 90 to 120 minutes, your blood sugar is going to go up, and that is detrimental to the brain.
Perlmutter's ideal diet resembles that of Chris: Paleo, with healthy fats, protein and vegetables dominating the plate.
Also concurring in the argument for low carb diets and against sugar: Dr. Mark Hyman. After researching the impact of sugar on our waistlines and health for two decades, he's created a detox diet book intended to free dieters from their sugar addictions while achieving rapid weight loss: "The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast."
In an interview recently with the New York Daily News, Dr. Hyman declared:
Sugar is the new nicotine. Sugar is the new fat — except fat is not addictive in the way that sugar is. And worse, sugar actually causes diabetes and obesity.
These arguments are being made both in the United States and in the United Kingdom. In the latter, a group of physicians and health academics is demanding that food manufacturers reduce the level of sugar in processed foods by 30 percent to reduce disease and obesity.
In an exclusive interview, the Science Director of Action on Sugar, Dr. Aseem Malhotra, who is an interventional cardiologist, explained to me the group's goals and his views on why sugar, not saturated fat, is the enemy.
Dr. Malhotra's views and those of his supporters mark a sea change in the view that saturated fat is to blame for obesity and heart disease. No evidence exists to support the anti-butter brigade, he contends.
"The best evidence based diet for cardiovascular health is one based on the traditional Mediterranean diet consisting of oily fish, nuts, extra virgin olive oil and plenty of whole fruit and vegetables," according to Malhotra.
And for those who feel that grains are healthy, he says that the high fat, high protein, low carb ketogenic diet provides for the "consumption of fats and protein (that) are essential for life. Refined carbohydrates are not."
As a result, he has cut out white bread, pasta, potatoes, white rice and all forms of sugar from his own diet. Dr. Malhotra believes that many health professionals have "unfairly demonized saturated fat from non-processed foods."
He recommends "butter, full fat cheese, full fat yogurt and eggs as part of a healthy diet in moderation."
Bottom line: While not all these weight loss warriors concur on dairy (Paleo proponents typically advise against it), they do all agree that sugar and gluten must be excluded to succeed with optimal health and weight loss.


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Child be on your way to me here
You whom I made new...
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Myths about the Corn Mother are found throughout the world. In Germany, when the stalks of corn wave in the wind, it is said that the Corn Mother is running through the field. Throughout Europe female dolls are made from the last sheaf of the harvest, in honor of the Corn Mother.
Some people believe that the name Demeter means Corn Mother. She is known throughout the world by many different names -- Demeter, Persephone, Cerridwen, Bride/Bridget, The Callieach (Old Wife), The Corn Maiden, Mother Corn, The First Mother, Selu and Kahesana Xaskwim. These are just some of her names. She is the Goddess of fertility and life, guardian of all growing and blooming things, and also Goddess of death and rebirth. She sacrifices herself at the harvest, only to be reborn in the spring.
In one Corn Mother tale of the Cherokee (Native American) People, The Corn Mother, Selu, gave birth to two sons who were always hungry. She told her sons she would go find food and she returned very quickly with a basket full of corn. She continued to do this every day, leaving to find food, and returning shortly, with a full basket of corn. Her sons were very curious and mischievous, so one day they decided to follow her and find out where she was getting the corn. They followed her to a small hut, and peeped through the gaps in the logs to see what she was doing. Inside the hut, the Mother set down her basket and squatted above it, filling it with corn.
That night after dinner, the boys told their mother that they had followed her and knew where she was getting the corn. Sadly, the Corn Mother told her children that now that they knew her secret, she would have to die. She told them that after her death, they must drag her body through the field, then corn would grow. She also warned them that from then on, they would have to work for their food. Then, she lay down and died.
In another version of this story, The Corn Mother was said to be the First Mother to the people. Her children were hungry and to feed them, she asked her husband to kill/sacrifice her and bury her in the field so that crops would grow. In other stories, her sons or husband actually have to dismember her and plant the pieces of her, as seeds. The Lenape People called the Corn Mother Kahesana Xaskwim.
In one legend of Kahesana Xaskwim, people took her gifts for granted and stopped believing in her. Hurt by this, Kahesana Xaskwim gave all the corn seed wings, and it all flew away. With no corn the people began to fight and panic, because winter was approaching. Feeling sorry for the people, the Creator detained winter for them and sent an old wise man from the spirit world to help them. The wise man taught the people how to get enough oysters to help them survive for awhile.Then, taking a young boy from the village with him, the wise man set off on a journey to find the Corn Mother.
The old man and the boy set off across the frozen sea. After some time, they came to a hole in the ice and jumped through it. Instead of there being water beneath this hole, there was a huge barren corn field. In the middle of the field was a small hut. The wise man told the child that this was the home of the Corn Mother, and that they would visit her after they ate. They made a small fire and began to cook some oysters. The scent of the cooking oysters brought the Corn Mother out to them, and she asked them if they would share since she was nearly starving. They willingly shared with her, and after they all finished eating, the old man and the boy sang and danced for the Corn Mother.
After this, the old man asked the Corn Mother for corn seed to take back to the village. Sadly, Kahesana Xaskwim said that she could not give the people any corn because they were greedy and were not thankful for her gifts. The child began to cry and plead with the Corn Mother, telling her how other children, like him, would starve to death with no corn. This made the Corn Mother cry, but instead of tears falling from her eyes, corn seed fell. She told the boy and the old man that they could each take a handful of the seed back to the people, but that the people must sing songs and dance dances to thank her for her gifts. She said that when she heard these songs and saw these dances it would make her very happy and she would know the people were grateful, so then she would bless them with an abundance of crops. The boy and the wise man returned to the people and taught them the songs and dances to honor the Corn Mother.
All over the world, people believe in the Corn Mother, and she plays important roles throughout the year. This harvest season, thank the Corn Mother for her gifts of food to sustain us through the winter. Honor her with songs and dances. Plant seeds and bulbs to blossom in the spring, when she awakens. As the cold and rain set in and she begins to wither and die, remember that she will be reborn in the spring.
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DIXFIELD - M. Haldon Lovejoy, 96, passed away Sept. 12, 2013, at the Rumford Hospital. He was born Feb. 19, 1917, in New Sharon.
He attended Farmington Schools, played football at Farmington High School, and graduated in 1935. He then went on to attend Farmington Normal School, UMF, graduating in 1938 with a degree in Education. He taught school before enlisting in the U.S.
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Home Is Where the Job Is?
Of course, he's right. It's not that Grad School City was particularly welcoming to foreigners of all stripes (I'd say, quite the contrary), but just the fact that we went to grad school, and were surrounded by other grad students from all around the world, made the barriers to forging friendships fairly low. There were also some people from our home country that we hung out with, but we made a number of American friends and a number of friends from different parts of Asia, Latin America, and Europe. We were quite broke (raising a kid on grad school stipends) but overall it was fun.
The part of the country where we moved is populated by very nice people. They are actually a bit too nice for my taste. I find that all the nicety makes an impenetrable front to honest human communication -- if you are going to have a relationship with someone that goes beyond chitchat and pleasantries, the guard has to come down at some point and you need to show your true colors.
I was actually fairly surprised by some aspects of life in Uni City and State. There are a number of faculty who are from the state or the general area (neighboring states), and came back here to be close to family. Also, from the experiences with the parents of my son's friends, a great number of them too are from the city or its close vicinity, and have the support system of extended family close by. This pattern is common in Europe (people not moving far away from their ancestral homes) and I was surprised to find it in Uni City and State. For outsiders like my husband and me, these close knit circles are quite hard to penetrate; certainly, not helped by the fact that we are actually foreigners, so we must seem, well, foreign to people whose families have lived here for generations.
In terms of making friends at work, this hasn't really worked out all that well. I have two colleagues from the department whom I would perhaps call friends, one is from Northern Europe and the other from East Asia. With my friend from East Asia, we've invited him and his family over a couple of times, and they do come and we have a great time, but it's never reciprocated. It is my impression that their real friends, those with whom they do visit regularly, are all from their home country, so my family does not qualify. My Northern European friend and his family have been quite nice, but his significant other (from a different country) has been pulling to get back to Europe and we've also had some friction as described here, so we have cooled down a bit.
I have close collaborators and a couple of mentors. One of them tells me that you should never have friends from the university -- it's not safe. I agree that on the tenure track you should keep your anxieties and doubts to yourself, because your colleagues do end up evaluating you, but after tenure? Is it still not safe? Perhaps by then it's just too late and the relationships are set in stone. I hung out with some junior faculty who started in other departments at the same time I did, but most were single or married but childless by choice (so different lifestyles) plus everyone was so laser-focused on work and busy that I always ended up looking like a major slacker for actually wanting to get lunch together.
I have some good close collaborators, but we've never crossed the line of actually going to each other's homes. I suppose that's where we will stay. I have a couple of other collaborators with whom all nontechnical communication is so superficial and coated in so much sugar that I am afraid I'll end up with diabetes. I have tried several times to penetrate the sugary barrier of nicety and actually connect with them as real people, but my efforts have always been greeted with additional layers of aloofness, so eventually I gave up.
My husband has an academic staff position and works with a very small group of people, so his pool of acquaintances is not particularly large to draw from (plus, he's not a very social person; he only talks to me because he must and because his tongue will atrophy if he doesn't use it :-). So neither one of us meets anyone outside of work. Perhaps it's true for most people. The people we do meet are our kids' friends' parents, but they never seem interested in hanging out with us.
But, I see that American faculty who are not from here seem much more integrated with their neighborhoods and communities. Part of it is perhaps their church attendance (another thing I did not expect -- a very large percentage of faculty are regular church goers), which is yet another aspect that makes my family ever more foreign. We are not religious at all. Likely, there are other aspects, and it does probably boil down to being foreigners -- I am sure there are many pan-American aspects of the culture that we are simply not familar with, secret handshakes or something..? If there's "Fitting in for Dummies," someone send me a link stat!
I have a friend who's a faculty in a CS department some 5 hours drive from here, at a great school. He also recently complained to me that "there is no one here who ever asks you how your day is going." He says he's contemplating leaving for this reason alone, to get to some place where he and his family wouldn't be so isolated. Someone said that we should hang out with people from my home country. There are three problems with this suggestion: there aren't any around (mine is a small country); if I wanted to hang out with people from my own country, I would have never left it to begin with; just because someone is from my country certainly does not mean we can automatically be friends.
I am not sure what the solution is. I have a good job, we have a nice comfortable life, and the kids are happy and well-adjusted. For my older son, this is home, and he's always very much against moving whenever I mention that we might. Perhaps, as immigrants, this is simply how it has to be: we have to suck it up with no support system so our kids would be comfortable and feel they belong. But it sure would be nice to have someone in real life to vent to.
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Searching for friends from your own country seems like a narrow focus but what about other immigrants in general? Perhaps primarily from your own general region of the world or people from other small countries who might have the same difficulties. Is there an immigrant association in uni town where you could become active? I probably offer only obvious suggestions but since I am currently on a lonely, but brief, exchange away from my own home country I wanted to write something.
- May 6, 2011 at 1:25 AM
- Chris said...
That's what I also fear. As a student, making friends is relatively easy... after that though, not so much. Problem I've seen family members encounter is that people you meet outside your job just don't understand your priorities and workaholic habits... maybe one day you'll get lucky and move house to a friendly neighborhood? Neighbors tend to make the best friends if you find the right ones.
- May 6, 2011 at 3:21 AM
- Clarissa said...
" if I wanted to hang out with people from my own country, I would have never left it to begin with"
-I know how you feel! I'm sick and tired of well-meaning Americans who keep trying to introduce me to "this really nice Russian lady on their bloc". If I were so interested in meeting "nice Russian people", why would I have ever left my own country?
- May 6, 2011 at 4:05 AM
- prodigal academic said...
This post rings true for me, and I was born in the US (but not in Prodigal city). It is much, much harder to make friends on the TT than either in school or when I was a postdoc at National Lab. Most people make friends at work, which is more complicated by the tenure process. Also working an intense job (especially with kids) means not much free time to develop a personal network. I am also very introverted (and not particularly good at socializing anyway), which doesn't help. I haven't really come up with a solution for myself, but I do completely understand your feeling here.
- May 6, 2011 at 4:48 AM
I have the same problem as an American in the UK - but I'm not sure it's because I am an American as my husband is British. I think in grad school (and even my post doc) making friends was fairly easy as there were lots of new people moving into the area at the same time. Here, everyone already seems to have their circle of friends/family and don't extend it to necessarily include us. They are all quite busy and don't seem to realize how difficult it has been for us to make the same sort of connections and friends.
- May 6, 2011 at 5:42 AM
- Alyssa said...
Do we live in the same city? I definitely could have written this post. DH and I have lived here for 6 years now (him 7 - we didn't know each other when we moved here), and we still don't feel like we have close friends. Sure, we get together with certain people once in a while, but it's not a lot.
We are not religious, but have contemplated starting going to church just to meet people! We decided that might be a bit strange though.
I also think making friends in adulthood is a lot harder in general. In school (like you said) you're thrust together with a bunch of people going through the same thing. It's easy to find commonalities. It's just different once you have a "real job" and such.
I don't have any tips - just wanted to commiserate.
- May 6, 2011 at 6:51 AM
I hear you, I hear you... I'm American but most of what you said resonated with me.
- May 6, 2011 at 7:01 AM
That's what bugs me about so-called nice areas of the country (I grew up in one). It is all about the veneer of being civil and upbeat. It's almost ritualistic, and rarely goes beyond basic chit-chat interactions. Folks can be polite, while still being very insular and not particularly welcoming. You example with the collaborators is a good one.
- May 6, 2011 at 7:27 AM
- Meadow said...
In my previous position at a large state university I was there many years and just couldn't break into the local culture. One of the things that really got my goat was the lack of reciprocity. People were happy to take, take, take, but no giving and no apparent reason either like being overwelmed or family crisis. Ironically I made a few friends just as I was leaving only to start all over again.
We professors are like those iterant sufi scholars going from place to place practicing our trade.
It has taken me three years to settle in here. Stangely enough I fit into a group I never thought I'd fit in -- my friends are in an economic class well above "professor." But I don't feel any pressure to compete or anything -- well I do want a pair of diamond earings, oh well never mind on my salary...
It is hard to make friends as an adult. Need a new begining of sorts. For me that occured last semester when my kid started kindergarten. I spent a lot of time at the school and got to know several parents quite well.
Kindergarten may be the only time something like this happens. It certainly didn't happen with the parents of my older kids. They are just friendly parents. Add to this the few parents I know from the preschool and I have a respectable little circle of friends.
I do not consider my colleagues my friends just friendly colleagues some of whom I genuinely like but a good number who just get on my nerves. Most belly sneetches are certifiable (probably myself included).
- May 6, 2011 at 7:31 AM
- Meadow said...
Oh and one more thing. You all are the only people I can vent to about academia which is a huge part of my life. The issues are too specific for my friends. Thank heavens for virtual friends.
- May 6, 2011 at 7:36 AM
I understand what you are talking about. I am also a recent immigrant with two children (~5years). One of things helped me is to make friends with my children's friend's parents. I know you said that it didn't worked with you, but I would say that is still more open option than the other options. I constantly invite different set of parents with whom I think I will be comfortable and over the years, some of them has evolved in good relationship. I guess at later age, it just take additional time to make friends as compared grad school. My children go to different activities, and I also meet other parents there as I hang out for an hour sitting and waiting. This has provided some good friends as well.
Another option could be to join club with other hobby, like music or something. These are places where you will meet other normal people, not just academics.
- May 6, 2011 at 8:48 AM
"if I wanted to hang out with people from my own country, I would have never left it to begin with"
I thought you are some kind of economic migrant, and moved where the money was.
But, if you (and the Russian commenter) are determined to deny that, and pretend that you ran away from your kin, it's time to ask yourself why would anyone in their right mind will want to accept you as a friend. After all, your nation is one of jerks. I don't know much about them, but anybody listening to you will get that idea. You that you had to change continents to run away from them! Or so you say.
I can't stand this sort of snobbery. I am surprised you got so far in this society, while denying your value for so long.
"just because someone is from my country certainly does not mean we can automatically be friends"
Well, same goes for Americans. Just because they are Americans, it doesn't follow they are friends, or that they have friends. And churchgoers too. You overestimate the friendship between American people. Just because they talk about weather doesn't mean they care about the people they talk to. The conversation places a different social role in America than in most other countries.
Better accept that people at your age, with children, and with a baggage of foreign culture that they despise, cannot go too far in forming new friendships. It's not high school romance time anymore, it's not dorm party time, it's time to work and provide for your Cost Centre(s).
If you still want to be gratified by quite lame conversation with random Americans, try food. Even in a diet-worshipping place like Boston, I saw their eye sparkling at the mention of whatever dish. If you also feed them, they will gratify you with many benign words about weather and baseball.
This works especially well if you serve them anything bland, that won't shock their tongues, but pretend the food is from your country. But wait, you can't, because you hate your culture!
- May 6, 2011 at 9:10 AM
Wow, someone is bitter! (at 9:10am)
My dad is an immigrant and my mom is not, and I grew up in the Midwest in a town that I now live in and went to grad school in and work near. I am one of those Americans who doesn't want to leave and is strangely attached to the European-ish model of staying where you grew up. We'll see how that works out in the end... it helps that there are 7 SLACs within 20 minutes of my house.
I understand very much what you mean in your post. I have a lot of networks beside academia: "church," my cultural networks from the immigrant heritage, sports, high school, some college (even though I went to college in California). I did not need to develop them primarily through academia, and my academic friends from elsewhere are having trouble.
Anon9:10, calm down. My grandfather for years introduced me to every (insert ethnicity here) man under 36 as a match-making endeavor. I did eventually marry one of them... but there were a lot of boring or rude or uninteresting (insert ethnicity here) men in the meantime. It's a rather artificial binder, just like being a Cubs fan.
- May 6, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Anonymous at 9:10, what is that huge chip on your shoulder?
I am in a similar situation, but single and childless, so I don't even have the company of immediate family. Communities here also center on church and family, neither of which work for me. I'm American, but born and raised far away from here, and all of my close friends live on the opposite side of the country.
I do have one tip, which is that if there are specific activities you and/or your spouse like to do, that can be a good way to make friends. I posted some personal ads looking for activity partners and met some very nice people in other departments with whom I hang out occasionally. It's not as good as having close friends, but it's much better than it was.
- May 6, 2011 at 11:57 AM
- GMP said...
Anon at 9:10, for all your Russian-bashing or otherwise xenophobic needs, I recommend you find another outlet. I will happily delete such comments in the future. (Btw, I am not Russian, not even close.)
No one here hates their own culture. However, immigrants cannot be expected to want to hang out with people from their own country exclusively (btw, those who do are then accused that they don't want to assimilate; those who don't are graced with comments about hating their own country *eyeroll*). I do know a number of people who would never consider emigrating precisely because they don't want a life without the social support they enjoy in their home country.
To everyone else, thanks for your thoughts and comments! Making new friends once out of school does seem hard, seemingly irrespective of one's origin. Loneliness is probably much harder on single people, as Anon at 11:57 says. I know several recently divorced people in their 30's or 40's (some single parents, some not) who say that it's really really hard to meet new people.
- May 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Thanks for this post - my husband and I have a similar struggle. We know that we are somehow contributing to it. I graduate in one year and making friends at this point seems like it is more work than it would be worth. I am a female mathematician and often when I get introduced to other female mathematicians there is an awkward pause on the part of the person making the introduction that makes me feel they are thinking "Look! I found another female mathematician! You can be lifelong friends! Aren't you so excited?" Just because a woman is a mathematician does not mean she and I are a good match for friendship.
- May 6, 2011 at 12:23 PM
I hear you, GMP. I miss my childhood friends, in my home country, to whom I could vent and really connect to. Even to them I am strange now, as they did not follow an academic path and their culture has not changed I have. Being a mom, with a career, I just don't have the time to invest in making personal friends anymore. We do have quite a few family friends, though not the "close friend" kind.
I am in a mid-size school, with lots of young people with kids in the same department. I must have lucked out in that respect (actually, this was one of the most appealing things about this university. I remember interviewing at places where nobody had young kids in the whole 25-30 person department). We just invite people we like for dinner (or just pizza if I dont have time, or the inspiration to make dinner), and perhaps a trip to the local park with the kids, on weekends. Most times it gets reciprocated, sometimes it doesn't, but we don't really care. We too have been unable to connect to any of the locals, either within or from outside the department - this too is one of those sugarly nice places where everything is wonderful and disingenuous.
In grad school, I did have a few friends from my home country. However, my husband was born in this country, so he did not really fit in with those friends, or even speak the same language when we got together. Goes both ways, I guess.
- May 6, 2011 at 12:35 PM
- FrauTech said...
Oh man this could have been written by me with a few minor changes. I'm not an immigrant, and in fact live in the same town where I grew up. When I went to college I ended up losing most of my high school friends. In college I was working and had a similar social situation to what is described with grad students working together in labs and it was easy to make friends. But when I moved on I lost those friends as well (as we no longer had much in common).
Now any "friends" I have are through work, and like others have advised, you can't get TOO personal with those you work with, especially the closer they are to your department. Even then I work 50-60 hours a week, commute, want to see my husband, and don't know if I have time for friends because the level of commitment they'd probably want from me is much higher than I can handle. My husband sounds like your husband, anti-social and mostly happy with our lack of friends, and we also are not religious. Most of my social network therefore is coworkers, my family, and of course the blogosphere to whine and complain and vent where we can't anywhere else. I feel lucky with the family I have in town, but at the same time family is not friends and it's always a little weird to me to not have a real "friend" anymore. Btw to the commenter who suggested living in a home area, that only works if your neighbors are people you might actually get along with. All mine are super-religious, unemployed (by choice I think, unemployment or government welfare type programs would not support a mortgage in this area) and we've learned mostly to keep to ourselves.
- May 6, 2011 at 12:39 PM
- Doc (The Healthy Ph.D) said...
I think this resonates with people from all backgrounds. I am American and don't live close to my family regionally, so I have to forge my own friendships. I find that with the growing age of technology, I am able to keep friendships and relationships with people who are quite far away, so maybe you could rely on Skype, Gchat, etc with your friends in other locations.
- May 6, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Like others here, I'm American and living in the US and I feel the exact same way.
I've moved around a lot in the course of my academic career, every few years or so. What's also very frustrating is that I seem to meet really cool people *right before* I leave a particular place. Just this week, I met two awesome women that I think would make fantastic friends, but here I am, looking for jobs because my postdoc is ending soon. Sigh...
- May 6, 2011 at 2:11 PM
What can the better-integrated do to help, if we find ourselves in that situation with you? It'd be helpful to have a clear understanding of that, at least in order to articulate our resentments of unwelcoming colleagues.
- May 6, 2011 at 2:21 PM
- inBetween said...
I don't think it is much better for those of us who are American. My university and dept are full of people who are not friend material, in that no one trusts each other and like you said, if you invite someone to lunch they think you are a slacker. I think this is just academia and has much less to do with your being an immigrant. It is a lonely and cut throat unfriendly profession.
- May 6, 2011 at 10:47 PM
I'm sorry - being isolated is hard - we all (or most of us) want connections to other people that go beyond work. I am an American living in a small Uni town and in an isolated position for the time being (I hope it's just that). Few people in my dept have reached out and my husband and I have sort of hunkered down together. Reasons other than the social situation are forcing us to look at moving on and it just feels like too much work to reach out to people and make friends. My husband's theory is it takes 3 years in a place to really have friends - maybe it takes longer if you have kids, a TT job, and are an immigrant - so I hope you are at the tipping point where real connections start to get made. Good luck!
- May 7, 2011 at 4:51 PM
About finding friends at work: It can be tricky, but if you can find a friend who shares the same excitements and frustrations about work, that is incredibly valuable. I have a work friend like that, and it's invaluable to have somebody to tell me that I'm not crazy when I see unethical behavior, when I see laziness, when I see low performance. When I see things going wrong and everybody else is "Eh, whatever" my one good friend at work is there to agree with me, and likewise when she notices something wrong and needs somebody to tell her she isn't crazy. My wife and I spend a lot of weekends hanging out with her and her husband.
On the other side, I have a lot of cow-orkers who are happy and smiley and on superficially good terms with everybody. The problem is that they are incapable of making necessary distinctions, they cannot recognize poor performance or unethical conduct, they just think everything is great. Whatever a person does, or doesn't do, they think it's great. If that's the price of being everybody's friend, I'll stay lonely and keep my soul in the process.
Oh, and you said that Russian-bashing isn't allowed, but how about this awesome picture of Putin with a sniper rifle?
I thought it was amusing.
- May 7, 2011 at 7:03 PM
- GMP said...
Alex: I have a lot of cow-orkers
Ahahaha! Cow-orkers! A Freudian slip?
Thanks everyone for the thoughtful comments.
- May 8, 2011 at 9:53 AM
- Barefoot Doctoral said...
Kids, 2 body problems, never staying more than a few years in one city, who needs it? Ah but for the love of our fields....
Thank you for writing this. I am not an immigrant, though my parents are, and I vowed as a child not to live as isolated a life as they chose. So what do I do? I've lived on 3 continents in my adult life, and may emigrate semi-permanently from the US soon. And of all the careers, I choose academia... My partner and I have been having similar discussions recently. Especially since we haven't had the energy to make a lot of friends in our respective cities with a current toddler, and TT searches coming up. Just venting. Thanks again.
- May 9, 2011 at 12:48 PM
- Z said...
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- May 30, 2011 at 11:57 PM
- Z said...
OK, sorry about that test comment, I tried with real comments twice and failed, so I did a test.
I came from SpanishProf's blog where I'd comment, too, if a window would open up ... I am having technical problems, it seems.
Anyway - I relate to SpanishProf's post, she's from Buenos Aires and in US has lived in South and Midwest, and I'm from SF/LA and elsewhere in US have lived in South and Midwest, and my impressions and experience in these areas are the same as hers.
Where I live now in US, I understand culturally a lot better than I would have done had I not lived in northern Brazil first. My culture shock there was huge, but oddly enough, figuring things out there socially paid off in an unexpected way, i.e. I was able to understand people here almost intuitively when I arrived.
I've lived in various countries and everywhere, school/work were never the best places to find friends. I tend to find more through outside activities - recreational, civic, whatever.
In my field, many faculty are foreign and they came to US brought to a PhD by a professor from their country who had a job here. They got an automatic social life from their department, and lived in a sort of cocoon. Then as assistant professors they expected this to continue and it just doesn't in the same way -- by that time people have more complicated lives and may also just want a break from work and all work related people after work.
Right now I've got 2 new hires who are a little disappointed I am not hanging out with them more. It's not that I don't like them, I do. But there are recreational things I do and would take people along, but it becomes non recreational if I'm functioning sort of as tour guide. And I have a lot of other responsibilities they don't, and also what they want to do is talk non stop about the department, and I am just so over it. Then there's this third new one, also foreign that I relate to on a deeper level and know we would be real friends, but she's as overcommitted as I am at this point, so we just smile in the halls so far.
- May 31, 2011 at 12:32 AM
- Spanish prof said...
I hear you about the "church" thing. When we first move to my current town, my husband (American and agnostic) and I (cultural Jew) tried the Unitarian Church to see if we could make friends. We got bored, and none of us likes waking up to go to Church on a Sunday. My husband is an illustrator and graphic artist, so he found a circle of colleagues in the city with whom he hangs out and I occasionally join. I like them, but sometimes they "geek out", spend an hour talking about a certain comic artist. I guess he can say the same about my colleagues. However, if you ask him, his two best friends are not in town: one lives in New Orleans, the other in New York.
I don't think there is a solution. At least for me, I made I choice to come to the US. It was for a combination of reasons (getting away from a too-absorbing family, learning to know myself independently, a country that every 10-12 years seems to implode, etc). I don't regret my choice, even if sometimes I feel lonely. I am lucky enough that I get to go back to Buenos Aires once a year, for almost a month. I wish I had a bigger support system in the US, but no situation is perfect.
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pretty good! do you mind if instead of being a hero, he think's he's one and always getting into trouble for "saving people"?
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Soon you may be putting on contact lenses that give you infrared vision without the need for a contraption covering your face. And the new technology also has medical applications, such as letting doctors monitor blood flow. So will night vision contact lens become a reality at last? Thanks to research at the University of Michigan, such a contact lens is a real possibility, says the March 21, 2014 news release, "New Sensor Could Make Night Vision Contact Lenses A Reality." The new study is "Graphene photodetectors with ultra-broadband and high responsivity at room temperature," published online March 16, 2014 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. A team of researchers recently embedded an inorganic light-emitting diode directly into an off-the-shelf contact lens, explains the article, "This contact lens could eventually make Google Glass obsolete."
The ability to detect light over a broad spectral range is central to several technological applications in imaging, sensing, spectroscopy and communication. But Graphene is a promising candidate material for ultra-broadband photodetectors, as its absorption spectrum covers the entire ultraviolet to far-infrared range.
The only issue is that the responsivity of graphene-based photodetectors has so far been limited due to the small optical absorption of a monolayer of carbon atoms
Integration of colloidal quantum dots in the light absorption layer can improve the responsivity of graphene photodetectors. What happens is that the spectral range of photodetection is reduced because light absorption occurs in the quantum dots. In the new study, researchers reported how an ultra-broadband photodetector design based on a graphene double-layer heterostructure, according to the study's abstract.
The detector is a phototransistor consisting of a pair of stacked graphene monolayers (top layer, gate; bottom layer, channel) separated by a thin tunnel barrier. Under optical illumination, photoexcited hot carriers generated in the top layer tunnel into the bottom layer, leading to a charge build-up on the gate and a strong photogating effect on the channel conductance.
The devices demonstrated room-temperature photodetection from the visible to the mid-infrared range, with mid-infrared higher responsivity is required by most applications. These results of the new study address key challenges for broadband infrared detectors, and are promising for the development of graphene-based hot-carrier optoelectronic applications. For the average consumer, this means contact lens could eventually be made that would let you have night vision.
Infrared contact lens that lets you have night vision?
The Michigan researchers turned to the optical capabilities of graphene to create their infrared contact lens. IBM last year demonstrated some of the photoconductivity mechanisms of graphene that make it an attractive infrared detector. Graphene is capable of detecting the entire infrared spectrum, with visible and ultraviolet light thrown in. But where graphene giveth, it also taketh away. Because graphene is only one atom thick, it can absorb only 2.3 percent of the light that hits it. This is not enough to generate an electrical signal, and without a signal, it can't operate as a infrared sensor.
"The challenge for the current generation of graphene-based detectors is that their sensitivity is typically very poor," said Zhaohui Zhong, assistant professor at the University of Michigan, according to the press release. "It's a hundred to a thousand times lower than what a commercial device would require."
In research that was in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the Michigan researchers devised a new method for generating the electrical signal. Instead of trying to measure the electrons that are released when the light strikes the material, they amplified an electrical current that is near the electrical signals generated by the incoming light.
To achieve this amplification, the researchers started by sandwiching an insulator between two sheets of graphene
The bottom sheet has an electrical current running through it. When light hits the top sheet, electrons are freed and positively charged electron holes are generated. The electrons are able to perform a quantum tunneling effect through the insulator layer, which would be impenetrable in classical physics.
The electron holes that are left behind in the top layer generate an electric field that impacts the way electricity flows through the bottom layer. By measuring this change in the flow of current in the bottom layer, the researchers could derive just how much light hit the top layer.
The device's sensitivity
This device has very nearly the same sensitivity as cooled mid-infrared detectors, but achieves it at room temperature. The researchers have already been able to produce infrared sensors the size of a pinky nail, or a standard contact lens.
"If we integrate it with a contact lens or other wearable electronics, it expands your vision," Zhong said in the news release. "It provides you another way of interacting with your environment."
Military infrared vision lets soldiers see in the dark
Most of us are familiar with the military applications of infrared vision, which allows soldiers to see in the dark. But the technology also has medical applications, such as letting doctors monitor blood flow, the news release explains.
Whether the ability to see in the infrared is an attractive feature for the rest of us remains to be seen. But that may become a possibility since the fundamental mechanism underlying the technology could become a mechanism for other material and device platforms. Is infrared vision mode for Google Glass in the offing? This story originally appeared on IEEE Spectrum. You also may wish to check out articles such as "Superpower vision lets cats and dogs see in ultraviolet," and "Most animals can see the flashing and glowing of power lines."


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Stacie Parsons, a twenty-five year old Texas mother killed her four-year-old daughter, wrapped her in a trash bag and stuffed her in the trunk of her car.
On Monday July 21, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Stacie walked into Athens police station and confessed to killing her own daughter.
Investigators went to her home and found Stacie's deceased daughter wrapped in a garbage bag.
Victoria Wyatt, the four-year-old girl, appeared to have suffered injuries to the head and chest yet an autopsy will determine the exact cause of death.
What would cause a mother to kill her own daughter just a day before she was supposed to enroll her into pre-kindergarten program?
While the exact motive is not clear, Stacie's common law husband, Gary Wyatt, told a Texas news station that his wife was jealous of their daughter since the day she was born.
Reportedly, the night before Stacie and Gary were supposed to enroll their daughter in the pre-k program, Gary told his wife that he wanted a divorce.
According to the couple's friend, Randy Dyess, Stacie allegedly made a threat against Victoria just few days before the murder saying, 'I'd rather kill Victoria and spend the rest of my life in prison than to put up with you.' (Referring to Mr. Wyatt)
If Stacie was indeed jealous of her daughter, she very well may have been narcissistic.
A narcissistic mother may perceive her daughter as a threat. Someone who is narcissistic craves attention and anyone who draws attention away from that person can cause envy and hate.
The mother may be jealous because of her daughter's looks, youth and even the relationship she has with her father.
When Mr. Wyatt expressed to his wife that he wanted a divorce, she knew that he would continue to have a relationship with his daughter and she would be left out.
Perhaps, Stacie not only retaliated by killing Victoria but also gained the attention she desired by committing such a heinous act.
The day of the murder, Mr. Wyatt woke up after Stacie already left with Victoria and he thought she went to enroll her in pre-k without him. When Stacie came home, she parked the car and started walking away.
Gary chased her down and asked where Victoria was at and his wife replied, 'I wouldn't be in that car if I were you.'
Mr. Wyatt went to the car and found his little girl in the trunk wrapped in plastic with her head bashed in and foam coming out of her mouth.
It is such a tragedy to lose a child especially when he or she is murdered by his or her own parent. Mr. Wyatt will have a long road of recovery ahead of him to conquer.
As for Stacie, being in Texas, she will likely get the death penalty for this relentless crime.
Hopefully this will be a lesson to parents who discover the other parent is jealous of their own child and will take the necessary steps to keep the child safe. A narcissistic person has no regard for other people and in some cases even their own children.


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- Take a culinary tour and cooking class in Hoi An
- Enjoy a scenic boat journey on the Hoi An River to the Red Bridge Cooking School
- Shop at the Hoi An market with an experienced guide and learn about the fresh ingredients used in Vietnamese cuisine
- Learn to cook several dishes and then enjoy the delicious meal that you prepare
- Walk through the Red Bridge Cooking School's herb garden and see the plants that give Vietnamese dishes their distinctive flavors
- Bring home recipes and inspiration to share with your family and friends!
What You Can Expect
Next, board the Red Bridge boat for a leisurely 30-minute cruise along the Hoi An River to the Red Bridge Cooking School. Along the way, enjoy photo ops of local life on this scenic river.
Upon arriving at the Red Bridge Cooking School, walk through its abundant herb garden and learn about the herbs that give Vietnam's cuisine its distinctive flavors. Then head to the school's open-air riverside building, a beautiful and breezy location for your cooking class. The chefs demonstrate the preparation of each dish (see menu below) and help as you learn to prepare the dishes yourself. To finish the day's lesson, which takes about two hours, observe an introduction to Vietnamese plate decoration or food carving, which is truly an art in itself.
After the class, sit down and enjoy eating the delicious meal that you have made! At the end of your culinary tour, your guide will take you back on the boat to your starting point in Hoi An where your guide will pick you up and drop you off at your hotel.
Rice paper (making)
Fresh spring rolls with shrimp
Crispy Hoi An pancakes with shrimp, herbs, bean sprouts and peanut sauce
Seafood salad with mixed Vietnamese herbs served in a half pineapple
Vietnamese eggplant in clay pot
Food decoration (pineapple boat, tri-colored flowers and Vietnamese hand fan)


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Had the chance to take the nephew out again today. Spent over half the day running around back roads having a blast, looking for coyote sign, and watching quail fly all over with another member on here before finally feeding the kid "lunch" at 5:00pm, at which point he was tired and not sure if he still wanted to shoot . Are we still related?! But after lunch/dinner he was recharged and ready to shoot. And boy howdy did he shoot!!! After seeing him shoot, there is no way anyone would believe he has been shooting a shotgun for less than nine months . I didn't think it possible but he is still getting better with every trip. , it's embarrassing be out shot by a 12 year old . For about half a second . I had fixed a friend of the family's broken firing pin Friday along with some tweaking/shimming/machine work on the kid's old 20ga O/U that we started calling the ice cream gun after one of the old ice creams, the 50/50 Bar. It worked about 50% of the time . Well they both shot just as flawless as the kid. One of these days I will have to try to video him, he is quick and accurate! Throwing as hard as I can with an extended hand thrower he is on them and breaking them within 25-30 yards, and that's with his back turned and the gun cradled! And with any gun I put in his hands. I hate him! And if that wasn't bad enough, for the next couple hours, every time we shot, the quail that we chased away on the way to our shooting spot would call again. That's just wrong .I would have to say again, getting him out there with us last year was probably the best thing to happen to both of us, ever. Every day all we can think about is the next bird season now. Sorry you had to leave Mike, you missed some fun shooting, but still had a great time. Hope you enjoyed it also. Now, lets see, how many days left until dove opener.............
One Proud Uncle
Started by Bisley , Apr 28 2012 11:50 PM
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 11:50 PM
Posted 29 April 2012 - 12:52 AM
Hey BisleyHad a blast with you guys today gave me a lot to think about. After I got home I kind of passed out for a while, boy was I tired. Then after a little relaxation I was hitting up my maps and google earth looking at all the places we went to. I wish I had a better off road vehicle those places were awesome. I am definately going to revisit those areas and see how well my P/U does out there.Talk to you some more later !!
Posted 29 April 2012 - 07:20 AM
Good for you Bob.I can understand how proud you are. My 19 year old grandson in a natural shooter, and he has been shooting ever sence I can remember. Infact he wants me to take him to the range next week.Tom
Posted 29 April 2012 - 07:46 AM
It's great to see a couple of members here getting together to explore and hunt some. I know your nephew enjoyed himself. This is the reason I keep the doors open here at the site. Always hoping members can get together to keep hunting alive in our state. Way to go guys glad you had fun.
Posted 29 April 2012 - 10:33 AM
Hey, Bob, I see you are l e a r n i n g that we cannot beat a 12 year old at their game. It really is embarassing (& irritating), isn't it? LOLAnyway, glad to hear you & your nephew getting out again, & that everyone had a great time. Always do (have fun), right?! Good job
Posted 29 April 2012 - 10:50 AM
Right on! I can't wait until my nephew is old enough to start shooting. I have a little side by side Stevens 20 ga. for him. Hopefully he will enjoy it as much as I did when it was given to me as my first gun.
Posted 29 April 2012 - 11:15 AM
Ive had my ass handed to me more than once by a 12 year old, a couple of times by a 12 yr old girl. A friends daughter can shoot anything I hand her, And shoot it well! Just rember You tought him to do that! DR
Posted 29 April 2012 - 01:00 PM
Thanks guys, yes it was fun. I even enjoy rediscovering places I haven't been to in a while. We'll have to try and your kid out there too MackMan. I have also come to realize that women and children shoot much better than us guys, even though I will never admit to either of them. I am all but certain it is because they don't tend to overthink things like we tend to do. They just point and shoot, like you are supposed to. Wish I could learn to be that simple.I can't wait to hear the stories from all you guys with kids that are just waiting for them to be big enough to go out. Doing it is an absolute blast, but I even Love hearing about it. Hang in there guys, it is totally worth the wait .And thanks to SJ again for making it possible for us to meet new people and do things like we did yesterday.
Posted 03 May 2012 - 07:22 AM
It's fun talking kids hunting and fishing.On my last fishing trip I put my caller in the weeds and when we were walking back to the truck at night i played hog in distress and the kid beat us to the truck..we laughed our ass off over that one.
Posted 03 May 2012 - 03:48 PM
I gotta remember that one! It's kind of like a rite of passage being messed with by the adults. I will still never forget my first "snipe" hunt .
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Catherine Roy
2004: Appeared in 39 games and finished with 10 service aces and 35 digs...picked up three kills and two service aces against Cleveland State on September 25th...earned four kills and finished with a hitting percentage of .600 (4-1-5) against Bradley on October 11th...had two service aces against Cleveland State on October 22nd...notched four service aces in a five-game win over Youngstown State on October 23rd.
2003: Recorded a career-high 46 kills and collected 101 digs...posted four kills against Valparaiso on September 13th...tied a career-high with 11 kills along with 10 digs against Stony Brook on September 13th...collected a double-double of 10 kills and 12 digs against Charleston Southern on September 19th...pounded home eight kills and 10 digs against East Tennessee State on September 20th...tied a career-high with 15 digs against Clemson on September 20th...again tied a career-high with 15 digs against Youngstown State on October 3rd.
2002: Made her collegiate debut against No. 16 Wisconsin on September 21st...notched a season-high 11 kills in a three-game sweep of IUPUI on October 22nd...recorded double-digit dig efforts in three contests...narrowly missed a double-double with an eight kill, 10 dig performance against UW-Milwaukee on October 19th...had a season-high 15 digs against Youngstown State on October 12th.
Prep/Personal: Helped lead St. Georges to three straight top-four finishes at the Collegiate AAA league Provincial Championships...propelled St. Georges to a seventh-place finish at the 2001 Canadian Junior championship...selected as the best student-athlete at St. Georges...three-year starter for Team Quebec...named to the All-Tournament team at the National Challenge Cup in 2000...turned in three top-three finishes at the Junior Championships from 2000-2002...born on April 6, 1982...son of Louis-Michel Roy and Judith Poulin...majoring in industrial design.
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The junior senator from Kentucky held a press conference on today to announce his plans to file a class-action lawsuit against the Obama administration and the National Security Agency (NSA). The lawsuit is in protest against their surveillance program of American citizens. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is joining forces with former Attorney General of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli who will serve as lead council for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Cuccinelli recently lost his bid to become governor of the state of Virginia.
Paul has been threatening for months to file such a lawsuit and he made his intentions official today by holding a press conference and asking American citizens to join in the lawsuit and help protect our 4th amendment rights under the Constitution. The suit also will name National Intelligence Director James Clapper, outgoing NSA Director Keith Alexander, and FBI Director James Comey.
Paul is hoping that the lawsuit will work its way through the lower courts and eventually make its way to the Supreme Court.
Paul said in his statement:
"The Bill of Rights protects all citizens from general warrants. I expect this case to go all the way to the Supreme Court and I predict the American people will win.".
"This class action suit isn't about Republican versus Democrat, or progressive versus conservative. This is about defending the basic civil liberties of every American from a government that has crossed the line," he said. "Never in American history has there been such a warrantless gathering of citizens information. We believe it is time to put this before the courts."
Paul made the announcement through his political action committee RandPAC who is planning strategies to launch Paul into the 2016 presidential race. Paul has recently gone on the offensive against the Clintons by referring to former President Bill Clinton as a sexual predator. Hillary Clinton is considered to be the front runner on the Democratic ticket if she decides to run for the office of president.
With the demise of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in recent polls, many political pundits are considering Rand Paul to be the most likely person to survive and become the Republican candidate for president.
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Nabisco is at it again, and when we say "at it" we mean birthing new Oreo flavors. This time around Oreo will be rolling out new "cookie dough" and "marshmallow crispy" flavors in February according to Today.com on Jan. 23, 2014.
The "cookie dough" Oreo consists of the classic chocolate Oreo cookie wafers complete with cookie dough filling including tiny chocolate chips. The "marshmallow crispy", or the Rice Crispy treat wannabe, is made up of the Golden Oreo cookie wafers topped with a marshmallow filling with crisped rice.
The "cookie dough" and "marshmallow crispy" flavors are a part Oreo's limited edition universe. Limited edition Oreos are no stranger to consumers as Nabisco releases them rather regularly (remember last summer's "watermelon" or 2012's "birthday cake").
The new Oreo cookies will hit shelves in Wal-Mart, Target, and other major retailers on Feb. 3, and as with the other limited edition Oreos, will be available for about six to eight weeks or until they're gone.
An Oreo commercial with a secret hashtag will also be revealed before this, in an ad airing during the Grammy Awards on Jan. 26. This secret hashtag will allow viewers to tweet in order to receive a free sample before the cookies make their formal debut.


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Junior Seau, a 12-time NFL Pro Bowler, shot himself in the chest in 2012 after suffering for years with traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a debilitating brain condition triggered by repeated hits to the head. The condition brings an onset of depression, aggression and dementia.
Now, Seau's family has rejected the NFL's latest settlement proposal to an ongoing lawsuit, reports Reuters via Yahoo! News on Friday, saying that the proposed amount of $760 million is "not enough."
The lawsuit represents thousands of former NFL players who have suffered debilitating and permanent neurological injuries caused by their NFL career.
Despite the fact that the National Football League has made significant changes to rules governing the way a player can hit another player, the changes have come too late for the family of Seau, as well as the families of former NFL players Paul Oliver, Ray Easterling, Dave Duerson and others – all suspected or confirmed of suffering from CTE before they took their own lives.
Two weeks after Seau's suicide, his family filed the wrongful death lawsuit against the NFL, saying the league downplayed the risk of concussions and did not properly protect its players. A settlement proposal of $760 million was brought to the table, but was recently rejected.
"Mr. Seau's children have their own claims for the wrong the NFL did to them. His children are not suing for their father's pain and suffering, they are suing for their own," the family's attorneys wrote in conjunction with their rejection of the settlement.
While the settlement would currently set aside around $5 million for each of the approximately 4,500 players and families who are plaintiffs in the suit, a staggering 20,000 players could ultimately be eligible for any proceeds, which would reduce the individual settlement amounts to a pittance.
Concussions and head injuries continue to be a paramount challenge facing the NFL.
Adam Chandler of The Wire reports:
"On the field, this year's NFL postseason has been marred by a slew of head injuries. Nine different players suffered concussions in the first five playoff games, including three members of the Kansas City Chiefs in one game. David Bakhtiari and Keenan Lewis, two of those nine players, refused to leave the sideline and were later cited by the league for violating concussion protocol during playoff games, a violation that carries no consequence for the players or their teams. "