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You could argue that Altoona Regional Health System's acquisition by UPMC is like the little-known middle-class girl who wins the heart of the rich and famous magnate who will set her up for life.
Who better to say how the magnate got to be rich and famous than the people who helped made it happen?
Thomas P. Detre, Jeffrey A. Romoff and Arthur S. Levine - who played key roles in the creation of UPMC, a $10 billion international company that is ranked No. 10 in U.S. News & World Report's 2012 hospital honor roll, helped write "The Relationship Between the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - A Profile in Synergy," published in the journal Academic Medicine in 2008.
UPMC's success grew out of a mutually beneficial partnership with the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine, according to the article.
It had its roots in a "pilot" project in the 1970s, that began after the state of Pennsylvania threatened funding cuts to Western Pennsylvania Psychiatric Hospital - the only Pitt-controlled teaching hospital, alongside five others that were independent and loosely grouped.
The state was dissatisfied with the hospital's "lack of responsiveness to new developments in psychiatry and to the mental health needs" of the region.
That led Pitt to obtain a $5 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, which it had been trying since 1947 to establish a first-rate health center in Pittsburgh.
Progress had been "painfully slow" toward that goal, as the Pitt medical school had remained a modest regional institution, while its affiliated teaching hospitals had remained "largely undistinguished," according to the article.
With the grant, however, Pitt recruited Detre from a tenured position at Yale, according to a 2010 obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
His vision was so compelling that 30 colleagues followed him, according to the obit.
At WPIC, Detre - a native of Hungary who lost his parents and 20 other relatives in the Holocaust - stressed the application of emerging science, rigorous research and business principles.
He negotiated control of the hospital's clinical revenues for reinvestment in the medical school.
It became a virtuous cycle, with clinical income promoting research in the medical school and research generating credibility that increased hospital income, according to the article.
In 1984, Detre's success led Pitt to place him over the entire medical school, leading to creation of interdisciplinary centers of excellence for cancer and transplantation.
The following year, the board of Presbyterian Hospital, a member of the teaching hospital coalition, asked Detre's management team to look at creating a stronger coalition, which led to a proposal for shared board governance between hospitals and the medical school, leading to the model that in 1990 became UPMC - an independent, non-profit corporation.
Romoff became UPMC president in 1992.
In 1997, Pitt became one of the nation's top 10 National Institutes of Health grant recipients, largely because of its medical school faculty, and it has maintained that status.
Around the same time, the medical school cured a deficiency in basic science research, hiring Levine as senior vice chancellor, leading to creation of medical school departments for immunology, structural biology, computational biology and biomedical informatics.
Additional hospitals began joining the system, and in 2008 UPMC became a "fully integrated delivery and financing model in 2008, with four core operating units: hospital and community services - there are 20-plus hospitals in all now; insurance; physician services and international and commercial services."
"UPMC's core mission is to deliver scientific evidence-based outstanding clinical care [that's where Pitt/UPMC relationship shines]," stated UPMC spokeswoman Susan Manko Friday in an email. "UPMC Altoona fits into that because our mission also is to extend the delivery of this care close to home out into extended communities beyond Pittsburgh."
Altoona Regional is looking to the merger to ensure financial stability and enhance services, its officials have said.
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Last week, Manko and Altoona Regional spokesman Dave Cuzzolina said they didn't foresee anything at the time that could derail the merger.
Still, the state Attorney General's office has been reviewing the transaction for antitrust issues, spokesman Dennis Fisher said recently.
Asked for an update last week, Fisher had no additional comment.
He had previously said that announcements by the AG's office of its plans to sue to stop hospital mergers it deemed illegal according to antitrust laws had led parties to abandon their merger plans.
There is no particular indication of that happening here.
Asked about the Attorney General's role in reviewing or approving the transfer of charitable assets from Altoona Regional to UPMC, AG spokesman Joe Peters said, through Fisher: "we generally work to accommodate the desired timeline of the transaction parties. But we always reserve our right to resolve any issues that may be presented and will take whatever legal action may be required."
According to Manko, no further AG approval is required, and there is no transfer of charitable assets involved.
There is also no need for approval of the acquisition in Blair County Orphans Court - unlike the approval granted recently in Erie County Orphans Court for Highmark's acquisition of St. Vincent Health System, according to Nathan Karn, the Blair County solicitor and Manko.
Neither knows why there was a difference.
The Blair County Hospital Authority, however, in May, consented to UPMC's assumption of Altoona Regional's debt in connection with the merger, said Karn, who is also solicitor for the authority.
The authority was the issuer of that tax-free debt, he said.
The authority's only interest in reviewing the merger is to ensure the liability for the debt wouldn't shift back onto the authority, he said.
Otherwise, "we're not going to stand in the way of other people's decisions," he said.
UPMC will be taking control of all Altoona Regional's affiliated companies - but there are no immediate plans to rebrand them, because there is value in the current brands, Manko said.
UPMC will also be taking control of Altoona Regional's real estate - including the former Bon Secours hospital property along and near Seventh Avenue, according to Manko.
There merger deal includes no "out" clause, executable if the affiliation doesn't work, she said.
Nason Hospital had previously been thought to be a likely subsequent partner in the UPMC-Altoona partnership. But when asked last week if that's still on, Manko wrote: "There are no current discussions about that."
The merger parties have been working on plans and specifications for sign and logo changes, according to Cuzzolina.
"First phase will be cosmetic changes only," he said. Large "high wall" letters and lighted letter changes will come later, he said.
Many of the myriad changes that will result from the merger will happen "gradually and many will be internal and go unnoticed by the public," Cuzzolina said.


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The national and conference awards continue to roll in for Stetson football's "dawg" (strong) safety Donald Payne. The Fayetteville, Ga. native was named the College Football Performance Awards' National Linebacker of the Week on Sunday night.
Also on Sunday, Payne was recognized with his third Pioneer Football League Defensive Player of the Week award in three games. For perspective, nationally just four Division I players (Rutgers' Khaseem Greene, Coastal Carolina's Quinn Backus, Georgetown's Robert McCabe and Arkansas-Pine Bluff's Bill Ross) were named their league's Defensive Player of the Week at least three times for the entire 2012 season. Those four are from a total of 22 leagues which present a weekly conference defensive honor at the Division I level.
It is still September, yet Payne's three PFL Defensive Player of the Week awards are unprecedented in league history for a single season. In addition to the current CFPA recognition, Payne was also previously honored nationally by The Sports Network which named him the FCS Freshman of the Week for his efforts in Stetson's season-opening and program-restarting victory over Warner on Aug. 31.
The latest accolades for Payne came on the heels of yet another box score filling line in Saturday night's 49-34 Hatter loss to Birmingham-Southern. Payne made seven tackles against the Panthers, including 1.5 tackles for loss, one of which was a sack. Payne forced two fumbles, recovered one of them for a touchdown, intercepted a pass, broke up another, and had a pass pressure. The touchdown came at a crucial juncture late in the third quarter, bringing Stetson to within a single point of Birmingham-Southern at 35-34.
On the season, Payne ranks fourth in the nation with his seven passes defended in three games (2.3 per game average). He leads Stetson with 28 tackles on the year (17 solo) while his four TFLs, two sacks and two interceptions all tie for the team lead. Payne has five pass break ups for those seven total passes defended, two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries (both for touchdowns) and one forced hurry. Payne's 12 points scored tie wide receiver Rob Coggin for second on the team behind only kicker James LaGamma's 24.
The Hatter captain's name is hard to miss on the league's latest stat report. Payne's 28 tackles (9.3 per game) rank fifth in the PFL this fall and first amongst defensive backs while his four TFLs (1.33 per game) tie him for fourth in the league overall. His 2.3 passes defended per game leads the league while his pair of interceptions tie for the most in the PFL. Payne also leads the league in both fumbles forced and fumbles recovered.
The Hatters (1-2) will play their first-ever conference game on Saturday when Stetson plays host to two-time defending PFL champion San Diego (1-2) at 1 p.m. at Spec Martin Memorial Stadium in DeLand. Tickets can be purchased either online at GoHatters.com, or by calling 386-738-HATS.

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The notion of a kindly doctor at your doorstep, black bag in hand and ready to treat your sore throat, seems as old-fashioned as a Model T. But for patients who are too sick or frail to make it to the doctor�s office, patient house calls are making a comeback in Colorado.
Just 10 years ago, the notion of doctors doing home health visits was all but extinct.
�Almost all primary-care physicians saw patients only in their offices. They might make an occasional house call for a frail elderly patient on their way home or something, but that was about it,� said Constance Row, executive director of the American Academy of Home Care Physicians in Maryland.
Yet according to the academy, between 2000 and 2009 doctor house calls for Medicare patients jumped 53 percent.
Dr. Christopher Unrein of Lakewood is one of the 4,000 doctors now making house calls nationwide.
�I enjoy what I do so much because I get to connect with people,� he said.
Demand is growing. Only a quarter of America�s homebound patients are lucky enough to have a doctor willing to treat them.
Row says the remainder may go without care because they can�t make it to the doctor�s office, and that raises the cost of their care in the long run. They may end up being rushed to the emergency room, and an expensive stay in the hospital.
In Colorado, the shortage is even more critical. Stephanie Hales, practice manager with the Colorado group House Call Physicians, estimates that there are currently fewer than 100 doctors making house calls in the state.
The revival of medical professionals doing house calls started on the East and West coasts � and is just starting to come into play in Colorado.
�Two years ago, when we started our business, we had 40 patients,� Hales said. �Today, we have 800. And there are a number of physician groups now considering adding house calls.�
Increasingly, physician�s assistants and nurse practitioners are making house calls as well.
In January, the federal government launched a three-year test program called �Independence at Home Demonstration,� which will research the effectiveness of treating thousands of chronically ill people at home.
The test is focused on patients in hospice care, the frail elderly and young people whose conditions range from mental illness to arthritis.
The incentive for physicians? If they can prove they�re cutting hospital costs by treating patients at home, they would share in the savings.
For example, at today�s rates, Medicare pays $150 for an in-home hospice visit � which is far less than the government would pay for a lengthy hospital stay.
Still, for many students fresh out of medical school, house calls are neither lucrative nor convenient.
�Physicians in an office can see 25 to 30 patients a day,� said Row. �Doctors making house calls only make about eight calls a day. The total income that is generated is woefully insufficient.�
Additionally, doctors are not paid for the time they�re in their cars, which can sometimes be an hour between house calls.
�The reality is, it�s down time,� said Unrein. �It�s wasted time from a purely economic perspective.�
Unrein, who is also the medical director of the Hospice of St. John in Lakewood, is on a fixed salary and doesn�t worry about tallying a high number of home patient visits. His average house call is 45 minutes, compared to 15 minutes or less he would spend with a patient in his office. Some days, he logs 100 miles in his Smart Car, making his rounds.
One of his patients is 64-year old Robert �Pep� Pepping, a Lakewood resident diagnosed with prostate cancer 13 years ago. The cancer has spread to his bones and he�s decided to spend his remaining time living at home, receiving medical care from Unrein and from his best friend, Steve.
�If I�d stayed in the hospital, I�d be dead,� Pepping said. �Not getting the rest. People waking you up every half hour. To have the love that I have here; you can�t replace that.�
During a recent visit, Pepping and Unrein discussed medications at the kitchen table. The doctor checked Pepping�s heart and blood pressure. Unrein dispensed advice about dealing with the good days, and bad days. As he left, he told his patient he�d return soon. �Don�t make it too long,� Pepping said.
Unrein says his satisfaction comes from helping people such as Pepping end their lives they way that they want to.
�I think this is the wave of the future, but to do it, we�re going to have to have a shift in thinking,� he said. �I call my approach high-touch, low-tech.�
Colorado Public News, a nonprofit news organization, reports on issues of statewide interest. It partners with Colorado Public Television 12, Denver�s independent PBS station.


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Explore basic quilting supplies -- sewing machine, rotary cutter, iron, rulers, needles and scissors.
Play with polka dots and implied motion as Peggy demonstrates the basic quick-strip paper-piecing technique.
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|Experimental Test of Self-Shielding in VUV Photodissociation of CO
One way to test models of the solar system's formation is to compare the isotopic abundances of the elements found in its constituent bodies. A case in point is oxygen with three stable isotopes dominated by oxygen-16, with minute fractions of oxygen-17 and oxygen-18. Primitive objects whose formation predates the Earth's, such as the calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions in the Allende meteorite, have relatively lower fractions of the two heavier isotopes than does the Earth's crust. Among the numerous explanations that have been proposed is the notion that chemical processes within the early solar nebula gave rise to the oxygen ratios, a leading candidate being a process called isotope self-shielding. But researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and Berkeley Lab have now shown that photodissociation of carbon monoxide (CO) caused by vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) light from the early sun could generate reservoirs of the heavier isotopes in the solar nebula without the help of self-shielding.
The self-shielding observed experimentally in molecular clouds of dust and gas in outer space occurs when energetic VUV light from a nearby star breaks CO molecules into atoms of carbon and oxygen. Different isotopes absorb VUV at slightly different photon energies. Near the edge of the cloud, the CO with the abundant oxygen-16 isotope soaks up as many of the photons as it can, thus shielding the oxygen-16 deeper inside the cloud. However, oxygen-17 and oxygen-18 are not shielded, so that inside the cloud relatively more CO molecules with the heavier isotopes are dissociated. As CO was the most abundant oxygen-bearing molecule in the solar nebula before planetary formation, it is reasonable that a similar process may have been at work early in the development of the solar system, either in a hot region near the young sun or in colder regions farther away.
To test whether VUV self-shielding really works under these conditions and, if so, what effect it has on the resulting ratio of oxygen isotopes, the San Diego researchers turned to ALS Beamline 9.0.2, where they sent ultrahigh-purity carbon monoxide through a test chamber and exposed it to a beam of VUV photons, with runs at four different wavelengths that were important for the self-shielding hypothesis. As the CO dissociated, the oxygen released quickly recombined with undissociated CO to form carbon dioxide (CO2), which was collected and taken to UC San Diego, where O2 was chemically removed from the CO2, after which the isotope ratios were determined by mass spectrometry. While the researchers found differences in the way the CO responded to the different wavelengths used in the experiment, they were not those predicted by the self-shielding hypothesis. Not only were they due to electronic properties of the CO molecules that were unrelated to self-shielding, the ratios themselves were still a good match for those found in samples like the Allende meteorite.
The authors concluded that cold regions of the solar nebula were indeed a potential site for the generation of some of the oxygen reservoirs with relatively high amounts of the heavier oxygen isotopes, but not via self-shielding. But identifying a possible source with larger fractions of the heavier isotopes does not end the story. For example, CO photodissociation in the early solar system together with water make for some intricate chemistry that locks the heavier isotopes of oxygen into minerals, both those that make up the oldest meteorites and those that subsequently formed all the other bodies of the solar system. One of the steps in the chemistry of oxygen that the group wants to test next at the ALS is the reaction between oxygen, water, and silicates, which produced the solar system's first rocks.
Research conducted by S. Chakraborty, T.L. Jackson, and M.H. Thiemens (University of California, San Diego) and M. Ahmed (Berkeley Lab).
Research funding: NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Operation of the ALS is supported by BES.
Publication about this research: S. Chakraborty, M. Ahmed, T.L. Jackson, and M.H. Thiemens, "Experimental test of self-shielding in vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of CO," Science 321, 1328 (2008).
ALSNews Vol. 296, March 25, 2009
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I like to cut the grapes and maraschino cherries in half.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Southern Ambrosia
I like to cut the grapes and maraschino cherries in half.
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I haven't seen the movie yet -- but I sure was engrossed in the book. (Got a recipe for caramel cake, too?) Love ambrosia. "You is kind."ReplyDelete
I loved the movie! I saw it with my Aussie husband and he missed the meaning of a few things but I was enthralled.ReplyDelete
I love ambrosia. We don't have whipped topping in Australia so I just use whipped cream but everyone here loves it. Especially me!
I love ambrosia! Sometimes Mom will make it without the "creamy ingredients" and it's still so delicious--especially with fresh coconut cake at Christmas. Yum! Your pictures here look delicious.ReplyDelete
It sounds like you live in a lovely state. I live in Western Ky. and somehow haven't made it over to Virginia yet! Kinda crazy, I know!
Also, I loved that movie! :)
Wow..Yummy one...Thanks for postingReplyDelete
Oh, yum! I love ambrosia! Can't wait to try this on the hubs!:)ReplyDelete
Your ambrosia is heavenly. I used to make a similar dish called 5 Cup Salad, because it just had 5 ingredients, 1 c sour cream, 1c coconut, 1 c pineapple chunks, 1c mandarin oranges, 1 c miniature marshmallows. I love your expanded recipe, and will have to try it soon.ReplyDelete
I haven't made this recipe in years, so thanks for jogging my memory.
I used to eat bowls of this when the dorm cafeteria served it in college...of course, the metabolism was much better back then! YUM!ReplyDelete
I love ambrosia and just about any fruit salad in the winter - it helps get you through those dark, dreary days. LOVED The Help, and took my kids to see it too. Great message - it's a movie I'll always remember.ReplyDelete
Mmmm, could go for some of this right now!ReplyDelete
I saw the movie and enjoyed it very much~ especially because I went to school with Viola Davis......she was a year ahead of me but we had home ec and gym together! I can say I knew her when!! ;)
My Italian grandma always made ambrosia, so it always makes me think of her. I don't know why I've never made it. I used to hate, hate, hate coconut, but I've hopped over the fence now. :) Oh, and to add to the list of things that I love: The Help. I could watch it over and over. Thanks for the recipe, Bran! I hope to make this sometime soon.ReplyDelete
I love this stuff...really takes me back :) I loved that movie (and book) too :)ReplyDelete
Oh I wanna come over and have a bite! I LOVE this kind of dish...hubby doesn't care for pineapple unless it's baked, so I don't make this kind of thing unless I'm taking it somewhere. I could eat it all myself for sure...and will be making a smaller batch soon. LOVED "The Help"...I even went to see it alone and cried and laughed myself silly.ReplyDeleteReplies
You could just leave out the pineapple, and maybe substitute fresh cut apple pieces, other drained fruits (peaches, apricots), banana slices if you're going to use it soon.Delete
Oh, I LOVED The Help!! Wow, it really made me think :) LOVE your ambrosia recipe too, looks YUMMY!!ReplyDelete
Yummy! I love ambrosia, but have never added grapes to mine! Will next time though :) Thanks for sharing at Church Supper, Brandie! Have a blessed week. ~EMMReplyDelete
looks like *heaven* thanks for sharingReplyDelete
I think I just found my side dish for Easter. Thanks can't beat a classic like Ambrosia!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 24, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Im watching The Help now (love it) & Aibileen's ambrosia looks delicious! Though I've never had the pleasure of eating it, I'm planning to make some for Memorial Day. My family isn't big on coconut but I plan to use its milk & substitute it w/other fresh fruit such as apples, bananas, or mango. Hope it turns out alright!ReplyDelete
Brandie, I just popped over from Twitter for a closer look at this Ambrosia. Admittedly, I'm not as familiar with this dish as I am a Waldorf salad—something my Mom used to make (she's from Bedford, by the way). While there are similarities between the two, I'm intrigued by the flavors represented in the Ambrosia. Love the lower sugar options too, because with all the cake sampling in my house, I've got to conserve calories somewhere! ;-)ReplyDelete
Thanks for a great recipe! Growing up, we always had Ambrosia at Thanksgiving. As an adult, I used to fix it for our Thanksgivings, but no one ever ate it but me. So the past few years, I quit making it. Your post has inspired me- it's back on the Thanksgiving menu, even if I'm the only one who ever eats it. :)ReplyDelete
I have been looking for this recipe for years! I had it and made it a couple of times and then lost it. I love this stuff. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
We always just called this fruit salad when I was growing up. The marshmallow fruit was always my favorite part. :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2013 at 7:36 PM
I like to add a little brown sugar to mine.ReplyDelete
love this loved the movie bf didnt cant please everyone .Im going to do this for his family for thanksgiving thank you for breaking this downReplyDelete
Looks very refreshing! I will try this Holiday season.Thanks!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2013 at 10:28 PM
I read the book the help first, then went to see the movie. I loved them both! The movie followed the book fairly closely, but I love to read the book before seeing the movie. My family is coming home for Thanksgiving, and I am going to make this. I am allergic to wheat, and I am always looking for gluten free recipes. Thank youReplyDelete
My Dad made a simple version of this. He only used fresh coconut, ground it himself, sugar, caned manderine oranges and fresh cut navel oranges. layered in the "Ambrosia Dish" (only thing that dish was used for once a year at Christmas) with sugar and the coconut milk from the fresh coconut. This one looks great though. Fresh coconut is too much trouble.ReplyDelete
Do you think it would taste the same or as good if I used homemade whipped cream (it's all I ever eat) & substituted greek yogurt for the sour cream?ReplyDelete
Actually, I'm going to try that out this weekend!
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Love the movie, and this desert looks yummy, I am from Saint Albert, Canada, and I am always checking out your pageReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2013 at 7:36 AM
Ambrosia is a simple and delicious dessert with many variations. We usually substitute small curd cottage cheese for the sour cream, as it adds texture, but I've also had it with cream cheese or plain Greek yogurt. We add any fresh fruits we have on hand and supplement with canned fruits as needed. You can add a box of any flavor jello for flavoring if you like. Chopped pecans, mini marshmallows and coconut add flavor and texture if you like them. Chopped apples hold up well in this fruit salad. If adding fresh strawberries or bananas, you probably want to eat it within a couple of days. Grapes (I prefer red) and either mandarin oranges or clementines are a must. Here in the south, just about anything goes. Enjoy!ReplyDelete
Laurie in Tennessee :)
I created a diabetic version of this for my husband who loves sweets. I use a box of White Chocolate instant pudding and mix it with enough water to loosen the mix...about a cup. Then I wisk in 8 oz. sour cream and wisk til smooth. Fold in 8 oz. cool whip and a can of mandarin oranges drained and a can of well-drained fruit cocktail packed in juice. I add pecans for texture and he loves it. I substitute fresh fruit if I have it on hand.ReplyDelete
- Aran WMarch 1, 2014 at 5:39 PM
Is it still ambrosia if you skip the marshmallows?ReplyDelete
Had to double take the jello for flavouring post as I'd forgotten that jello is powdered in America. Here, in Britain, it comes in a slab of already made up dense jelly (fun to eat like soft gumis) which is melted in boiling water (sucking up melting pieces is fun too, like eating hot boiled sweets/hard candy)diluted and poured into a mould.
Oh I could put chopped up into marshmallow sized bits jelly, hmmmm.
Just wondering though. Is no sugar fruit an American thing I have missed?
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2014 at 12:08 AM
my mom used to make ambrosia all the time at Christmas, but she used peeled oranges, bananas, apples and cherries, layered then she would put coconut all over the top and sprinkled lots of sugar on top and then cherries on top. My brother and I always called it embroidery instead of ambrosia. I love my mom's but I think I would also like this. This is similar to watergate salad which I also love. I will certainly try this. Thanks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2014 at 8:50 PM
I was given this recipe as a bride 50 years ago. However, the one I use is named 5 Cup Fruit Salad and only has five ingredients. It does not have the cool whip.......but then, Cool Whip was not around that long ago.....LOL.ReplyDelete
Can this be made a day in advance?ReplyDelete
- BrittanyMarch 11, 2014 at 7:59 PM
Just made this for our small group and church and it was really good! A big hit! Most recipes I've tried from Pinterest have gone in the garbage but this one is going in the recipe box! Thanks!ReplyDelete
So refreshing and good. Thanks! Pinned it!ReplyDelete
I love it, but people I make it for doesn't like coconut in it.....and I am beginning to dislike it too, seems the more you chew, the bigger the coconut gets and it never goes away :) I used to eat MOUNDS candy bars and love them, so I bought some the other day, and same thing with the coconut.....you could not chew it up enough,I've heard others say the same thing....could it be the coconut ? Does anyone know.....I think I used to buy CHOPPED coconut, but all I see now is SHREDDED.....that may be the problem.....or may have to buy a fresh coconut.....any ideas here?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 23, 2014 at 7:36 PM
I have been making this Ambrosia salad for years but we don't use cool whip in ours, My family looks for it every year at Thanksgiving and we use fruit cocktail. we just love it.ReplyDelete
- Lorrie ADecember 3, 2014 at 4:52 PM
I usually put marshmallows--(I like to use fruity pastel colored), coconut and sour cream in bowl over night. The next day, I add pineapple, fresh cut apple pieces, grapes, diced peaches-(drained), mandarin oranges, fresh diced pears, diced apricots(drained) and sliced bananas along with a small tub of cool whip, I accent with red maraschino cherries. Oh, yum! It doesn't last long, that's for sure!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2014 at 3:15 PM
Looks tasty. Am going to make some for Christmas. Thanks. Mother used to make an ambrosia but she used cooked rice as a base and hand whipped cream, cocoanut and M. cherries, pecans,oranges, can't remember what other fruits...I was often in trouble because I snuck in the fridge a lot, just for a bite. :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2014 at 12:31 PM
Thank you for posting up this recipe. My mom made this growing up, and I never really knew what she put in it. Not many references for it online either.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2014 at 5:58 PM
I use the flavored mini marshmallows and use drained crushed pineapple instead of the bits. For some reason, using the flavored marshmallows cut the sweetness and more people enjoy it!ReplyDelete
My husband's 103-year old grandmother always makes a big bowl of "rice" for Christmas. He just loves it! She dotes on him and he adores her. The recipe includes white rice, Cool Whip, fruit cocktail, marshmallow fluff, and sometimes, pecans. It is very airy and easy to eat. I don't want to know how many calories are in a portion!ReplyDelete
I love your blog,whenever i'm looking for a recipe i go straight to your blog.You make recipes simple and easy and i like that.I'm making your ambrosia salad for Xmas dinner.Merry,Merry Xmas to you and your family and please,please never stop with your posts.ReplyDelete
Hey there Amy, you sure did make my day! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and everyone enjoyed the Ambrosia Salad.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2016 at 11:14 PM
Will it still be just as good if I leave the sour cream out?ReplyDelete


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Kemin has completed construction of a manufacturing facility for MicroPEARLS® encapsulated amino acids at its global headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa. The patented MicroPEARLS spray freezing process is a highly effective method for encapsulating key nutrients that can bypass the rumen and be released in the gastrointestinal tract where they are absorbed more efficiently. The new $3 million facility will manufacture the company's encapsulated lysine, marketed under the name LysiPEARLTM.
"Our decision to build a facility in Des Moines was an investment in our customers," shares Kemin president and CEO Dr. Chris Nelson. "For several years, we have supplied dairies worldwide with LysiPEARL manufactured at our facility in Italy. Our expanded manufacturing capacity in Des Moines will allow us to meet the growing need for bypass amino acids in dairy cattle, particularly in North America."
LysiPEARL is designed to deliver a specific amount of intestinally available lysine to the cow. The LysiPEARL technology is supported by data-driven research using a sophisticated model that has been validated by university trials and proven results at commercial dairies. Utilizing encapsulated amino acids in feed rations permits dairy producers to better meet the specific amino acid requirements of the animal, allowing cows to reach maximum milk production and milk components.
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A combination of jizz/mold.
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4 Awkward Situations That Always Make You Look Like a Dick
#2. Observing Other People's Rituals
The worst part of most new relationships, barring the discovery of a history of murdering people on the third date, is meeting the family. Few people seem to set up their family in a nice way. Are you out there, people? Do you ever tell anyone you're dating that they're going to love your family? Like, all of your family? That's never happened to me. The best I ever got was "My grandma is on pills that make her really horny, so keep an eye out." In general, someone else's family is always weird and creepy, and even if 90 percent of them welcome you as one of their own, there's always that one cock wrangler who has to give you a hard time -- usually a dad or a grandfather.
Because you want to fit in with these people, you're probably willing to put up with all kinds of bizarre new shit when you hang out with them. Like you're having dinner and, for whatever reason, they make their mashed potatoes with peas in it. Well, that's wrong on a basic level, but what the hell, you go with it. Or maybe they like to go around the table and everyone expresses what they're thankful for that day and they decide to let you start because you're the guest and they want to pretend like they seriously have no understanding of how weird it is to be put on the spot like that. Fun!
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"And that's the story of my first erection. Now who wants turkey?"
Eventually, though, and this will usually happen during an extended stay, like Christmas holidays, you're going to hit a problem to which you have trouble acclimating. They sing in rounds on road trips. They're snake handlers and invite you to church. After dinner, the pants come off. Something like that.
Has this happened to everyone? Probably not. But when it does happen, if it happens, it's just the worst. In my experience, it was religion-based and uncomfortable on a spiritual level, which is a whole new kind of discomfort. Being a non-religious type, I'll happily wait quietly if your family prays before dinner, and I'll sit in your church on Sunday morning if I really, really like you for some reason, but please don't make me partake in your rituals. You go ahead and eat the body of your god if that's how your weekend plays out, I just want to sit on the back-misaligning wooden bench and read over the plan for this week's service again to see how long until I get to leave.
The moment you turn down the love of Christ in a room full of Christians who don't know you, you may as well be Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick and start barfing cherries across the congregation, because they all think you're hell borne anyway. Why'd you show up if you're not going to eat Jesus? What kind of weirdo are you? Eat that Jesus! Eat him!
Afterward you'll hear about how you embarrassed everyone and get shady eyes from the rest of Christ's chosen few as they ponder "accidentally" exposing you to holy water to see if it sears your flesh.
#1. Backtracking Sex
Turning down sex is the worst thing human beings can do to themselves short of watching MTV or imitating a video they saw on the Internet. This isn't to say that you should say yes if some bridge troll scuttles up to you and asks to leave its slime trail on your loins -- this is about those situations when you actively were pursuing the sex, and then when it became your time to shine, you realized that you'd taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque and ended up in Oh Shitsville.
For those not familiar, there are a handful of rare but serious circumstances that are worth rejecting sex over. For instance, you're in a hardcore, high-schoolesque make-out phase and it comes time to disrobe and treat somebody's crotch like a face cloth, and suddenly a rich olfactory miasma of aged Asiago and despair wafts into your face like a fist stored in the bowels of hell itself. You have just been confronted by the sex that hygiene forgot and, if you have any pride left, you'll not be able to force yourself to walk down that unhandsome road.
Nothin' says romance like a mouthful of bile.
Less stomach turning but no less questionable is the partner who takes you home and exposes you to what can best be described as "psycho decor." So you have a minute while standing in their bedroom appreciating just how many swastika flags they're using as posters, or the curious array of stainless steel and leather restraints attached to the bed frame and walls, to decide that maybe sex is off the menu for tonight.
Not wanting the sex is by far the easiest part of this scenario. If you genuinely intended to have sex and the other person knew it, finding a way out of it is now like tracking a jackalope across the tundra. Yes, we live in a society where everyone can and should feel free to say no at any time, but it doesn't make it any easier in what was, until a minute of stank or insanity ago, a mutually enjoyable experience.
Your option to be honest and tell them they smell like a boxcar full of hobos that someone threw up in is always there, maybe less so an option for the people who have now chilled your soul with some terrifying personal revelation, but it's also the most awkward of all awkward options. Likely you'll just want to think of a quick lie along the lines of "Be right back, I have to vomit. You know, from dinner," or the classic "Let me call my pastor to arrange the ceremony, is next week OK?" and then extricate yourself from there. You'll feel a sense of relief when it's all over and the bullet's been dodged, but man, that time from when you discover the boner-wilting (or lady-boner-wilting) horror to the moment you're back in fresh air is just brutal. Just, so very brutal.
To clarify, yes. I smelled that smell once. I then quickly feigned diarrhea, complete with loudly dumping a cup of water into the toilet to make it seem more genuine, and went home. Score one for Mr. Clay.


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LISBON - A Canfield man charged with domestic violence told a Columbiana County Municipal Court jury Thursday a very different story from the one told a day earlier by his son, the alleged victim in the case.
The 36-year-old father denied he had any problems with his now 17-year-old openly gay son's sexuality. Instead he said he has had problems with the boy's behavior in at least the year leading up to the alleged crime in the parking lot of the Trinity Playhouse in Lisbon on July 30, 2011. The son has accused the father of punching him in the face and shoving him face-first into a minivan window.
The father described several past instances where the boy had become aggressive, including once chasing his mother around in an attempt to physically take a camera back from her after she found questionable photos on it. He also accused the boy of hitting him in the head with a mirror once, causing a scar which he still carries above his eye.
On July 29, 2011, the father said his son became so enraged the teen ripped a towel rod off the wall and came after him with it, took the glasses off his father's face before throwing them down the stairs and then spitting in his father's face.
On the day of the alleged incident, the father said the son, 15 at the time, was told not to go to the theater without talking to family, but went anyway while the rest of the family was out. He left a note and after they verified the teen was at the playhouse a decision was made by he and his wife to allow the teen to be in the play so as not to cause a problem for the other actors, but make him come home instead of allowing him to stay for the overnight lock-in party.
However, when the father arrived at the theater, the boy did not want to come home and the father even spoke to the director, Candice Cleland, trying to convince her to help him convince the teen to leave. The son took his father's phone into the playhouse to attempt to call his mother and the father waited in the parking lot.
The father testified he twice saw a vehicle pull into the parking lot and start flashing high beams and honking the horn before leaving. The father said he had served as a police officer with Kent State University and in Canfield, has taught criminal justice and currently serves as dean for an unidentified school. At that point, he said, his law enforcement background caused him to believed the worst, possibly the boyfriend of some girl in the playhouse was there unauthorized. He followed the vehicle from the parking lot around the block and when he came back he saw the person inside talking to two girls leaning in the window.
That was when his son came out and the father approached him questioning who it was. He said his son responded with vulgar language, telling him it was none of his business.
"I thought it was an adult male who had had a previous Internet relationship with (my son)," the father said, trying to explain his reaction. "I was convinced he was there to pick (him up)."
It was not that man, but the 18-year-old makeup artist who testified on Tuesday. The father said in case his son left with the man, he tried to take a photo of the license plate and the flash went off, alerting and enraging his son.
The father then described a physical confrontation. He claimed his son hit him across his forearms and knocked his phone from his hand. The son then put his hand on the door handle of the man's car and his father said he responded by grabbing his son's shirt. The boy turned around and punched him.
At that point, the father said he "posted him," which he described as a move to push the boy away and gain space between them. When he "posted him" the father admitted he made contact with his son and at that point his son asked a girl standing there if she had just saw his father hit him. She responded she had.
Then the father said his son charged him and he stepped aside, using the boy's own momentum to push him down to the side. He landed face-first in the parking lot and the father said he straddled his son, put both hands on his shoulders and tried to convince him to calm down. With his glasses knocked off, the father said he attempted to find his phone to call authorities, but had to get up to find it. Again the boy charged him, this time knocking his father to the ground and causing an injury to the father's elbows, he said.
Getting up again and walking toward the street, the father said he heard two thuds and with the second saw his son hit the back window of their minivan, causing it to shatter.
Under cross-examination by Assistant Prosecutor Virginia Barborak, the father said his son at first called himself bisexual at the age of 13, then later said he was gay. The family responded by getting the boy a counselor, joining a gay support group and finding a gay mentor for the boy. The father said the family battled what he perceived as discrimination when his son did not make the high school soccer team despite earning numerous awards for his play in the past.
Barborak questioned whether he planned to also find mentors for his other sons if they turn out to be heterosexual. He responded he would if he learned they were "in contact with a 30-year-old female waitress" while still teens.
The father said he pleaded with police investigating the incident to take photos of his own injuries, call Children Services and get background information about problems with his son. The father admitted he has been accused of similar incidents before, but has not previously been charged.
"It was never proven, because it didn't happen," the father said.
Prior to the father's testimony, the jury heard from the investigating Lisbon police officer Jordan Reynolds and George Pecoraro, who has a doctorate degree in glass sciences.
Pecoraro claimed the eighth of an inch, fully tempered safety glass in the back window "backlite" of the minivan could not have broken the way the boy described. He claimed a skull would break before the window would due to the square inches of the human face. Someone who struck such a window with his face with enough strength to break it would have concussions, black eyes, a broken nose and a skull fracture, Pecoraro said. Instead he claimed it was more probably a fist or smaller object would more easily break it.
Although he claimed his findings were similar to those by a local highway patrol trooper, who conducted a field experiment and was unable to break the glass, Pecoraro said there were differences also. The glass was in a different type of frame and did not have a hole cut into it for the windshield wiper. Barborak showed him a photo showing very little damage to the teen's hand and questioned whether the boy could have tried to protect his face by going through the glass with his forearm, which did have injuries.
Pecoraro was being paid by the defense for his analysis and testimony, although he claimed he only testified to what he saw. At one point he admitted to working with the attorney and father to come up with the best defense they could.
Reynolds testified how he conducted the investigation and based on the boy's injuries came to the conclusion that the father was the aggressor in the case. He arrested the father the same night.
When challenged by defense attorney Constant Prassinos about why he did not wait until medical results and all the witnesses could be questioned before making an arrest, Reynolds said in domestic situation it is often necessary to make an immediate arrest to protect the victim from further harm.
"So you are telling me in the good old USA," Prassinos challenged, "in the good old state of Ohio, in the good old town of Lisbon, someone like (the father) with his position and reputation can get arrested for domestic violence with no more evidence than what you testified to today?"
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DB2 customers, partners and IBMers discuss important milestones, what makes DB2 so great and why DB2 is still around today!
Don Haderle - Father of DB2! Parents never know how their children will turn out. But if they turn out well, then we take credit for it. DB2 for z/OS, which will be 30 years old in 2013, has turned out well, and though I'd like to think it was all because of the parents, the facts are different. First let me assert that DB2 for z/OS is heavily used by enterprises worldwide to perform database functions for core business transactions and analytics - others can provide the statistics to back this assertion. The question is why this is so for a 30-year-old technology, when a few years is a lifetime in our business. I attribute it to six critical factors:
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- Integration with the Z-ecosystem:
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- Evolving DB2 as the world changes:
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Don Haderle - Father of DB2
Dr. Pat Selinger, IBM Fellow and "The Mother of DB2"
More than three decades ago, as we built the research prototype that became the foundation for DB2, we were determined to prove that the relational databases were usable and could perform well. Wow! Did IBM ever prove that! DB2 has become a dynasty, with the world's leading performance, flexibility, and reliability. With its ability to enable ever richer types of data and support not only high-performance transactions but also deep analytics and data mining, DB2 provides the capabilities that are critical for Smarter Commerce®, Smarter Banking®, Smarter Manufacturing, Smarter Distribution, and the whole broad range of capabilities our customers need to build a Smarter Planet®.
Curt Cotner, IBM Fellow, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Database Servers
Technology, and the IT industry itself, has changed significantly over the past 30 years, and despite all those changes DB2 continues to be a critical element of the IT fabric in most large enterprises. People often ask what we did in DB2 to remain relevant over such a long period of time. In my mind, the single biggest thing we did was to establish a culture in our development team that ensures that our technical leaders are deeply engaged with the DB2 customer community. Unlike some of our competitors, the key designers of DB2 are all well known by our customers. They travel to meet you at conferences and come for on-site visits at your company's place of business. Many of you have worked with the DB2 designers one-on-one to work out solutions to the technology challenges you face, and often these end up as product enhancements in the next release of DB2. Many of our customers can personally identify multiple features in DB2 that they had a hand in designing. It is this tight interrelationship with our customers that allows DB2 to meet your data storage needs, and without your help in this area we would not have enjoyed this longevity. I'd really like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for taking the time to work closely with us on these issues. It has been the single most important factor in making DB2 a successful and long-lived product.
Jeff Josten, Distinguished Engineer, DB2 for z/OS Development DB2 is still a vital product after 30 years mainly because of an extremely loyal and enthusiastic user community coupled with a highly skilled and experienced development team that listens and responds to customers. Another critical aspect to DB2's longevity that a lot of people probably don't appreciate is that the architectural foundations of the product are rock solid, and this allows us as the development team to easily (in most cases) extend DB2's capabilities to meet our customers' quickly evolving requirements. For this, we owe a big debt of gratitude to our product's creators, who had the foresight to understand that long lasting software must be easily maintainable and extendable. DB2 continues to succeed because it has adapted over the years to rapidly changing technology and requirements, and it is very well positioned to continue in this mode for years to come.
Manuel Gómez Burriel, Spanish Confederation of Savings Banks (CECA) - DB2 Customer
DB2 Version 3 partition independence for utilities changed the way and strategy for how historical information was managed . . . and it is still working right today. I also remember Roger Miller speaking at SpDUG in 2010 . . . it was a milestone for the Spanish community. DB2 is the most appropriate relational database management system (RDBMS) for the z/OS platform, capable of running any data management application - whether transactional or data warehousing or whatever. Because of the evolution of new versions and new appliance add-ons, DB2 has had, and will continue to have, a long journey in the IT world.
Frank Petersen, JN Data A/S - DB2 Customer
In the history of DB2, I would like to draw two things forward: First, around 1987, Provinsbanken in Denmark announced that they moved their core banking system to DB2. The whole world watched and went to huge presentations at the Provinsbanken site to see with their own eyes. Suddenly, the community could see that DB2 meant serious business, and the reputation of "too slow" and "too unreliable" disappeared almost overnight. The second thing was the arrival of DB2 data sharing in Version 4 around 1995. This masterpiece of design set the cornerstone of the scalability in DB2 that has made it possible to get to the point where we are now.
Sheryl Larsen, Sheryl M. Larsen, Inc.
I graduated college in 1994, and at my first job DB2 V1 fell into my lap. SQL performance consulting has been a passion of mine ever since. I love showing off the advanced technology of the optimizer and SQL features that can handle the most complex of business questions. My clients are moving more and more data and applications to DB2, not less and less, due to the sophistication and synergy of DB2 with the hardware it runs on. Appliances are the future of DB2 in the Data Explosion world, with DB2 seamlessly integrating with Netezza today and with many more appliances to come.
Zeljen Stanic, CA, Inc.
The milestone I remember the most is in DB2 V2.3 when packages were introduced. Working with the plans within CICS was not an easy task. With the introduction of packages, the DBA's job became much more productive. Enterprises are storing ever-increasing amounts of data that must be accessible around-the-clock. Downtime or delayed processing due to performance bottlenecks can cause more than a loss of productivity - it can mean losing customers. In today's business environment, organizations must ensure optimal performance for their databases and applications, and that's the reason why they have used DB2 as their preferred database for almost 30 years.
Kurt Struyf, Suadasoft
One of the most memorable milestones of DB2 for z/OS is the introduction of data sharing in Version 4. It makes DB2 scalable beyond the reach of any other relational database. DB2 for z/OS will be around for a long time because it's extremely reliable, cutting edge, and dollar-for-dollar cheaper than its competitors.
DB2 for z/OS continues to be the undisputed leader in total system availability, scalability, security, and reliability at the lowest cost per transaction.
DB2 10 and Beyond - Celebrating 30 Years of Superior Technology
Glimpse of DB2 11 by Jeff Josten, Chief Architect, DB2 for z/OS, and IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Software Group
IBM DB2: The Past, Present and Future: 30 Years of Superior Innovation
Don Haderle - Father of #DB2!
DB2 for z/OS Highlights
Business Value of DB2 10 for z/OS Query
This whitepaper covers the key DB2 optimizer design and operational aspects that enable DB2 10 clients to benefit from faster performance, reduced CPU usage and lower costs.
Planning for DB2 10 Upgrade - Best Practices by John Campbell
This paper focuses on the lessons learned from beta testing and from customers that have upgraded to DB2 10 for z/OS.
Revolution in IBM DB2 performance: IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator
Namik Hrle, IBM Distinguished Engineer, talks about work in the area of accelerating DB2 performance for Business Inteligence and Analytical workloads by exploiting new multi-core chip and Solid State Disk technologies.


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"It is a terrible accident. The car flipped, it's on its side," one person on the scene says in the recording, which includes calls from three different people.
A Walmart truck driver who, according to police, hadn't slept in more than 24 hours has been charged in the pileup, which involved six vehicles on the New Jersey Turnpike and killed Morgan's friend and fellow comedian James "Jimmy Mack" McNair.
The 30 Rock star, 45, was returning from a Delaware show with McNair and five others when the truck swerved into their Mercedes limo bus.
"It was like a movie in slow motion," one eyewitness previously told PEOPLE. "The Mercedes spun out of control and then flipped over and came to rest on the driver's side. … The windshield was broken. You could see blood everywhere."
Morgan remains in critical but stable condition at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, after undergoing surgery on his leg. Two other passengers were also injured and remain hospitalized.
Morgan's fiancée, Megan Wollover, took to social media Monday to thank fans and offer condolences for McNair.
"Thank you so much for the outpour of support following the accident. Your well wishes mean more than you can imagine, and I know that Tracy can feel the love and positive energy," she posted on Facebook. "And to Jimmy Mack, you will truly be missed. You have always been someone very special to Tracy and all of us, and the world will not be the same without you."
Wollover, the mother of Morgan's 11-month-old daughter Maven Sonae, also Tweeted, "My [heart] goes out to all the family and friends that were also in the car accident along with my fiancé #TracyMorgan. Pls pray 4 full recoveries."
FX Networks, which planned to begin production on a series starring Morgan in August, also offered support for the actor, saying "his show will be waiting for him."
"The only thing we are concerned with is the health and recovery of Tracy Morgan and the victims of this tragic accident," the statement read. "We will support Tracy and his family in every way possible throughout his recovery"


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GERRARDSTOWN - Amidst the rich history of the Eastern Panhandle sits the community of Gerrardstown. Residents and history buffs alike celebrated the town's 225th anniversary Saturday afternoon.
Ken Sarring, an architect and resident of the town, said the event was meant to invite others to see its historic offerings.
"This is part of Berkeley County, and this is something that's a unique corner that we're just happy to share," Sarring said.
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Reenactors from different generations chat as attendees of Gerrardstown's 225th anniversary celebration look on. The event will continue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. next Saturday, Oct. 13.
A town that was described as one of four crossroads to the west, Gerrardstown still boasts the original architecture of settlers and many of its residents' families have been there for generations. Listed as a national historic district since 1991, efforts have been made to preserve the town.
"We're trying not to damage the things that have been given to us," Sarring said. "We're trying to preserve the character in a sensible way."
Residents who were in attendance said they understood the historical importance of Gerrardstown. Lisa Lowden, whose family's presence spans several generations dating back to the 1800s, said her awareness of her heritage increased as she got older.
"My mom has always done our family history," Lowden said. "She has kept these records for years and I haven't been able to pay close attention to it all."
With her children having reached adulthood, Lowden can concentrate more on learning her family's history and listening to her mother's stories.
Trudy Slater, a member of the Berkeley County Historical Society, was part of the team responsible for getting Gerrardstown its designation. Slater said the town was becoming rundown and local government was not doing much to reverse that.
"They didn't appreciate thinking that anybody else would be interested in this place," she said. "We figured, as outsiders, we could see the importance of this village."
"It's all going to be lost unless something is done to preserve this area in some diligent way," Slater said.
Gerrardstown's 225th anniversary celebration will continue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 13. Activities will include storytelling, village tours and live music by the band Breach the Silence. There is no admission or parking fee, but donations to fund new signs at the entrance and exit of Gerrardstown are welcome. For more information, call 304-229-3560.
- Staff writer Rachel Molenda can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 215, or email@example.com.


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Note: Lunch menus for the week of April 1 subject to change without notice.
Choice of beverage included.
Carson City Senior Citizens Center, 911 Beverly Dr.:
MONDAY: Chicken alfredo over linguini, peas, fruit cocktail and rolls with margarine.
TUESDAY: Beef and bean tostada, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cheese, cinnamon applesauce and cookies.
WEDNESDAY: Cheese ravioli, garlic bread sticks, garden salad and peaches.
THURSDAY: Pork loin, sweet potatoes, green beans, oranges, banana pudding and bread with margarine.
FRIDAY: Honey mustard dijon chicken, steak fries, squash, blushed pears, cake and ice cream.
Dayton Senior Center, 320 Old Dayton Valley Road:
MONDAY: Breaded fish squares on whole wheat buns, Tater Tots, tartar sauce, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower and pears.
TUESDAY: Sweet and sour pork, chow mein, stir fry vegetables, pineapple and fortune cookies.
WEDNESDAY: Spaghetti with meat sauce, spinach salad, zucchini, garlic bread and apples.
THURSDAY: Turkey a la king noodles, carrots, biscuits and margarine, fruit cocktail and vanilla wafers.
FRIDAY: Spanish omelet, English muffin, orange sections, jam and margarine.
Douglas County Senior Center, 2300 Meadow Lane:
MONDAY: Meat lasagna, green beans, garlic bread, mixed green salad and spiced sliced peaches.
TUESDAY: Tomato soup, chicken salad sandwich, lettuce, tomato, fruit cups and banana nut muffin.
WEDNESDAY: Salisbury steak, red potatoes, green peas, apple walnut slaw and cookies.
THURSDAY: Roasted turkey with gravy, yams with apples, corn on the cob, whole wheat roll, colorful salad and plums.
FRIDAY: Beef stew, biscuits, orange juice, cottage cheese and peaches, pumpkin pecan spice streusel pound cake.
Storey County Senior Citizens Center, corner of E and Mill streets in Virginia City:
MONDAY: Kielbasa and cabbage, fired potatoes, salad and dessert.
TUESDAY: Clam chowder bowls, cantaloupe and salad.
WEDNESDAY: Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy and mixed vegetables.
THURSDAY: Lemon tilapia, avocado butter, broccoli and cheese rice.
FRIDAY BREAKFAST 10-11: French toast, bacon and watermelon.


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Pretty self-explanatory. See nsfw.
The link was subtitled not safe for work and my entire family was in the room. The only logical option was to click it.
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A phrase meaning possibly pornographic in respect or having horrendous language. Don't look at it in school.
The video of that slut stripping is totally not safe for work.
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The art of putting a cupped hand into the trousers for oderiferous transfer of flatulence to an unsuspecting bed mate.
Damn it Vance! Did you have to hand fart me during my beauty slumber!!!!
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A farting sound produced by clasping both hands together so that air is trapped between the palms, then squeezing so that the air must escape by vibrating the skin of the palms. This can also be produced by pulling air back into one's hands after the air has been squeezed out. Some people are so 'talented' at this that they can play rather complex music with it. One who is skilled at producing hand farts is called a 'manualist'.
Whoa! That guy just played the Star Wars imperial march with hand farts!
от I'm *so* not admitting that. 08 април 2007
The act of one wiping own arse with bare hand, then wiping said hand across a victim's face.
"ahh, dude.. You got a streak on my face from that hand fart!"
"I just hand farted Dan and he puked all over himself."
"Dude, your face smells like hand fart."
"I just hand farted Dan and he puked all over himself."
"Dude, your face smells like hand fart."
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on January 1, 2013 - 1:00 AM
, updated January 1, 2013 at 10:05 AM
At last, a fresh page. It is 2013, Jan. 1, and the year is about as unspoiled as it can get. That, alone, is a relief. If we cannot – should not – shake the dust of 2012 off our collective shoes, we can at least hope that this will be a better year than the dark one past.
It's not that last year was irredeemably grim. It had its moments, including a glorious summer, an improving national economy and a level of construction activity that Buffalo has not seen in decades. And for individuals, it may have been the best year ever, with marriages, childbirths, promotions and other life-changing events.
Buffalo's development is especially heartening, offering evidence that persistence and leadership can make a difference even in a city as hard-pressed as Buffalo. Construction is under way on the waterfront, with more projects in the offing. Several blocks north, the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is booming. Redevelopments are planned along the stretch between downtown Buffalo and the rejuvenated Larkin District. It's not just a new year in Buffalo, but a new day.
Still, the year was overshadowed by events that make it difficult to celebrate. Most recent, of course, was the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. It left a profound and disturbing mark on memories of 2012. And it was only the worst of several mass shootings last year, which included last week's cold-hearted murders of two firefighters near Rochester.
The wretched election season also left little to celebrate, beyond the evidence that American democracy can work even when its practice is execrable. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign lacked both seriousness and honesty and President Obama's was only marginally better. In Western New York, the race between Rep. Kathleen C. Hochul, D-Hamburg, and former Erie County Executive Chris Collins offered a master class in deceit.
But, enough. It's a new year and while we know it will certainly include more disappointments, there are signs that it could be better. For one, there are no regular state or national elections this year. Fewer people will be lying to us. That's good.
However, the troubling inability of Congress to cooperate on solutions to the nation's economic problems continued into the last hours of 2012. We still aren't sure whether we will start out the year on firmer economic footing or in free fall.
We can also hope that Americans have seen enough to act on the issues that have arisen because of the carnage in Newtown and other American places. First and foremost is to renew the ban on assault weapons. That won't prevent every nut with a grudge or a hallucination from committing mass murder, but it would be an appropriate and useful start.
Along with that, it would be helpful for the nation finally to put the National Rifle Association in its place. It is a lobby group for manufacturers, not gun owners, and when its loony leader, Wayne LaPierre, suggests arming teachers and putting armed police in every school, he is looking out for the bottom line of the industry, not its rank-and-file members and certainly not parents or children of America.
This will be a critical year for the Buffalo School District. The district and the Buffalo Teachers Federation have until Jan. 17 to hammer out a new teacher evaluation agreement or forfeit a staggering $59 million in state funding.
The auto-destruct relationship between the city and school district created multiple stresses last year – what year hasn't it? – so there is little reason to believe this year will be any different. But who knows? Despite the usual hyperbole, the union eventually agreed to a 2011 evaluation system. Maybe it will again. We will know soon enough.
In Albany, state officials are facing another challenging budget season. A $1 billion budget deficit loomed even before Hurricane Sandy slammed into the area around New York City. But there are also opportunities. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who recently vetoed an expansion of the state's historic tax credit, said he would revisit the issue this year, but as part of the budget. That development will be critical to revitalizing old structures like the defunct AM&A's department store in downtown Buffalo.
And there is plenty more, from the threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions to the problem of climate change, as documented by Hurricane Sandy. In the end, this year will offer what every year does: some mix of opportunity and setback, joy and sorrow, prosperity and difficulty.
In that, it pays to be philosophical but insistent that those who seek the mantle of leadership live up to the role. If Americans insist loudly enough, this could be a much better year than 2012.
In fact, 2013 starts out with a distinct advantage: No Mayans are predicting the end of the world this year. How could it not be a happy new year?


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Now that the 2011 NBA draft is in the books, it's time to start speculating on the kind of impact that rookies like Jimmer Fredette, Kyrie Irving, Derrick Williams and more will have on their new teams next season.
Some are coming into situations that will allow them to thrive and contribute right away. Others will have to wait a year or two to get their shot (if they ever do).
Typically, we can get at least a feel for the kind of player an incoming rookie will be by watching him play in NBA summer leagues. Unfortunately, this year's has been cancelled due to the impending lockout that will almost certainly go into effect on June 30.
So, trying to predict what kind of impact these players will have next season is based largely (if not entirely) on speculation. Here's hoping that we'll have a season next year for these rookies to display their talents.
You can follow Andy Bailey on Twitter @Andy_Bailey
For more 2011 NBA draft coverage, stay tuned to Bleacher Report for NBA draft results and NBA draft grades.


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new device was developed with positively Apple-like secrecy.
Only a handful of engineers worked on or were aware of the device,
whose development was led by Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices
tech chief and user-experience chief J. Allard. The device is
almost finished, with Microsoft currently refining the user interface
experience of the "late prototype" and showing it to
outside agencies.
The "Courier" touchscreen
prototype features a book-like design with two 7" screens --
kind of like a jumbo Nintendo DSi. Both screens support
multitouch, and you can write with either your fingers or a stylus.
The UI features traditional multitouch flair like flick gestures to
trigger actions. The GUI has battery and wireless signal
indicators by the rim of one of the screens, keeping them
unobtrusive. A particularly slick aspect of the UI is that
images can be moved to the hinge "pocket" to transfer them
between screens with ease.
The device also features a built-in
camera on its back. As no wires were seen, its rumored to
charge using induction, somewhat like the Palm Touchstone charging
dock for the Pre smart phone. Overall the device is smaller (7"
vs. 10") than the expected Apple device, but features a very
slick and chic look. Expect the device to potentially take on
e-book readers like the Kindle as well, as its interface seems
perfect for reading on the go.
As with the Zune and Xbox
before it, the Courier seems to be advancing rapidly through the
phase of Microsoft seeking outside help to round of the device's
features, software, and to develop service packages for it.
details are forthcoming on the product. It seems that with the
release of the much-anticipated Zune
HD, Microsoft's hardware division is eager to keep on a roll.
quote: let me preface this by saying I am not an apple fan. I hate the smugness of it all. My desktop is a PC I built, my laptop was made by me. one runs vista the other xp. I do have to say that form does appear to be pretty important (as witnessed by apple's success) and it seems like ppl on the PC side (my side) haven't started to get it. The iphone/ipod touch look cool and have a slick UI (give credit where it's due) and I think a 10-12' tablet would be very practical and have a pretty cool gadget factor to it.


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Puertorriqueño(a) is the "proper" term used to address a native islander from Puerto Rico. Do not confuse with Newyoricans, or anyone else born outside the island to Puertorriqueño parents. A real Puertorriqueño(a) knows the words to "La Borinqueña", speaks Spanish (FLUENTLY), has lived on the island, and cries to the words of "En Mi Viejo San Juan". Other terms used to refer to a person from "La Tierra del Encanto" are: Puertorro(a) = a shortened version, Borinqueño(a) = after the island's Taino name "Borikén"; and Boricua = a variant of the previous. The terms Boricua or Puertorro(a) can sometimes be insulting, particularly to an affluent person. However, average people, especially those from the "caserios", do not typically mind these terms.
¡Soy Puertorriqueño(a) y orgulloso! = I'm Puerto Rican.
If you really want to show pride, substitute Puertorriqueño(a) with Borinqueño(a).
Ex.: Ese señor es definitivamente Borinqueño. = That gentleman is definitely Puerto Rican.
¡Vaya Boricua! or ¡Vaya Puertorro(a)!: roughly translates to "Yo hommie from the island"
If you really want to show pride, substitute Puertorriqueño(a) with Borinqueño(a).
Ex.: Ese señor es definitivamente Borinqueño. = That gentleman is definitely Puerto Rican.
¡Vaya Boricua! or ¡Vaya Puertorro(a)!: roughly translates to "Yo hommie from the island"
viết bởi Orgullo Puertorriqueño 20 Tháng hai, 2010
Thats why I'm proud to be puertorican (BORICUA)Why Puerto Ricans are so cool... We are a mix of the best of every race. Our legal drinking age is 18. We can't care less what other people think of us. We are not only bilingual but we can speak 'Spanglish' Our women are the most beautiful in the world, (5 Miss Universe) We are LATIN, and yet AMERICANS Mofongo (that's all I have to say) In PR, any road will take you to a beach..... or a pub. We are the only 'territory' of another country with our own Olympic teams. We do everything under the sun... because we CAN! Because even though we are a territory we are still a whole NATION. We don't need to take vacations to be in a tropical paradise. In PR everything is really close. I can call you sir ('USTED'), and insult you in the same sentence. Our Spanish is completely different than any other Spanish speaking country. We all have cool nicknames. We have the best athletes in the world. We make some of the best coffee of the world. WE CAN DANCE!!!!!!!!! They come from around the world to hire our engineers and scientists. We are the country with the most roads by square mile (and there is still traffic). We have the longest swimming pool in the world (Cerromar) La 'Calle del Cristo' (San Juan P.R.) was the first road of 'The New World ' to be paved. 86% of the rum drunk in the U.S. is from Puerto Rico. We have more female engineers than any other country. (and you still call us machistas?) We know how to party, without absurd curfew laws.We are the major RUM manufacturer of the world. The bats for the Movie Batman Forever were filmed in Las Cuevas de Camuy, P.R. We invented the MayoKetchup! We kicked the DREAM TEAM's ass Puerto Rico has one of the world's highest productivity ratios. Salsa music was the fastest growing genre in the last 20 years. Four Puerto Ricans received the Congress Medal of Honor EurÃpides Rubio, Carlos Lozada, Héctor Santiago y Fernando Luis Ledesma GarcÃa. Only 4 baseball players have 2 Home Runs in the same Inning; 3 of them are Puerto Ricans (Roberto Clemente, Roberto Alomar and Carlos Baerga) Tito Trinidad never went to the Olympics but defeated 4 gold medal champions. A Puerto Rican, Nellie Toledo, designed the 1984 Camaro Berlinetta. We were the 5th country in THE WORLD to have a radio station. (before Washington D.C.) Junior Cordero (Puerto Rican) won the Kentucky Derby 3 times. There is only 7 fluorescent lagoons in the world; we have 4 of them. Giovanni Hidalgo is considered the best percussionist in THE WORLD. Jose Feliciano is in the top 3 guitar players in THE WORLD (don't forget he is blind). The Discovery 500; Solar car designed by the Mayaguez College won 41 awards en Sunrayace , Iowa in 1993. We established the first lottery system in the New World. NOT TO BAD FOR A 100 X 35 MILES ISLAND... plus we are from the island no from New York.
viết bởi Rfael 18 Tháng bảy, 2009
A person that has parents/grandparents who where born in Puerto Rico or still live there. mostly (in the US at least) don't give a crap what people think of them and think they can do whatever they want. and if you end up walking in the same line as one move out of there way or you will collide, because everyone knows they are way better then everyone else
Puerto Rican typing: y0 nikka wnna hng ut 2dy.
viết bởi lololumad? 07 Tháng tám, 2012
We're beatiful people with nice bodies and a nice skin tone. We get crazy and know how to have fun! Freakss ;]
"Damm look at those puerto ricans right there!, soo fine"
viết bởi [Ghetto Birdd] 30 Tháng một, 2009
Being lazy. Puerto Ricans are the laziest of all latinos.
Shit, Jamal, you ain't been to class all week, you gettin' Puerto Rican on me?
viết bởi C. Pumpkin 05 Tháng ba, 2008
"a bunch of flag stealing bastards"? What a dump Cuban. The Puerto Rican flag was adapted in the 19th century as homage to Cuba for its contribution to the independence of Puerto Rico from Spain.
Puerto Ricans are great people!
viết bởi inteligente 20 Tháng chín, 2007
The Latino people who are really over confident and obnoxious and like to fight like men whether they are men or women. Unfortunately Americans think all Latinos are Puerto Ricans and its humiliating because they act so ghetto.
"You looking at boyfriend bitch?! I'm Puerto Rican and ill rip your hair out!"
Actually I was looking at the clock on the wall behind you so pike down cause I wouldn't touch a man whose been with you."
Actually I was looking at the clock on the wall behind you so pike down cause I wouldn't touch a man whose been with you."
viết bởi Jss 10 Tháng sáu, 2013


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Swaziland turns to volunteers in providing home-based care
27 February 2007
UNAIDS estimates the national HIV infection rate of people aged 15 to 49 at 33.4 percent, the highest in the world, a demoralising environment that has led to nurses migrating to other countries in search of better salaries and working conditions.
The strain placed on the country's resources by HIV/AIDS has resulted in the public health service failing to care for the elderly, especially in the rural areas, and it is a gap being increasingly filled by volunteers within the home-based care network.
One such initiative, started by the Baphalali Red Cross Society in 1999 and orchestrated from the Sigumbeni Clinic, in rural central Swaziland. It sees community volunteers visiting homestead after homestead to monitor their clients' conditions, ensuring medication regimes are adhered to and, if required, arranging doctors visits to the home and providing transport for the collection of antiretroviral drugs and other prescription drugs. Any medical emergencies are referred to Swaziland's second city, Manzini, a 30km drive on dirt roads.
"Our responsibility is to respond to the health needs of terminally-ill patients. These are people with AIDS, tuberculosis, cancer, people who had strokes, and the bed-ridden elderly. It's all about bringing health services to the home," said Muzi Dhlamini, a male nurse who for the past two and a half years has headed-up Sigumbeni's home-based care programme for the Red Cross.
The majority of their patients are adults in the advanced stages of AIDS-related illnesses, or the elderly, an exception being eight year-old Khanya Dube (not her real name), born HIV-positive and severely weakened by chronic anemia. She has developed multi drug resistant TB, a condition, until recently, that would have been a death sentence, because the costs of taking the child to hospital for medication and hospital checkups would have been unaffordable for the family.
The health care provided by non-governmental organisations, including the Red Cross, has brought Khanya under the wing of the home-based care system, bringing life saving assistance to her and other people in isolated rural areas.
"The test found she had a resistant HIV/AIDS, and on Wednesday we switched her treatment. Generally, she is weak, weak, weak. It's the anemia. She needs transfusions, and we arranged these twice. Once she was unable to get the blood she needed because the hospital didn't have the pints," said Dhlamini, highlighting one of the public health care systems shortcomings. This week, Khanya was taken by ambulance to hospital in Manzini.
Hive of activity
Each day the Sigumbeni Clinic is a hive of activity, with small trucks and ambulances arriving and departing to take volunteer workers to far-flung areas and bringing others to the clinic for prescription drugs. About 88 home-based care patients were assisted this week, Dhlamini said, a sizeable number considering the sparsely-populated area of the widely-dispersed homesteads.
Ncane Kunene, a 26-year-old nurse co-ordinates the Red Cross's food security initiative in the area and was supervising the loading of medical supplies on a truck that will also distribute mattresses and food to patients. "Food is an element of home-based care, especially now when there is little food in this area," Kunene said.
Nomcibelo Dlamini, a 54-year-old Red Cross trained care facilitator, who dispenses aspirin, cough suppressant and similar non-prescription medications, said: "I work from a list of patients, and I must report to the clinic the state of each client. I see that the patient is feeling well. There are some ordinary tasks to perform, like changing the position of a patient in bed who has difficulty moving, to avoid bedsores. Sometimes I will feed patients."
Care facilitators are given about US$15 a month for lunches and bus fare, but their supervisor, Dhlamini, wants the amount raised to US$60 a month. Two-thirds of Swaziland's roughly one million people, ruled by sub-Saharan Africa's last executive monarch, live on US$2 or less per day.
"This will be an appeal to our donors. We face a crisis with care facilitators. They are devoting so much of their time to treating the terminally-ill that they cannot earn income to support themselves and their families. This is becoming a problem, because we need them and we are asking so much of them," he said.
The care facilitators also provide advice to relatives on how to care for the terminally ill, including the use of rubber gloves when bathing and tending AIDS patients and keeping accurate records of medicines taken.
"The families are thankful for this programme. It is scary to have a loved one ill and you don't know what to do. We offer moral support, and that is really an important part of what we do. When this programme started, there were people dying of AIDS without medical assistance. The need for home-based care is not new. But HIV/AIDS has accelerated the response," Dhlamini said.


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just finished the series its really great i love the ending (a little) did you like the series too? :D =D
can you give some more details on it? ~( Alucard God of Death. Otaku God. 10,000 points.)~
it's about this boy who becomes a half vampire to save his friend and becomes mr crepsley assistant and he goes on adventures and stuff with his master and he joins the cirque du freak and meets people and has more friends there are a lot of sad parts :D =D
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WAAAA! Plz don't tell me about the ending. Have only read the first four. I know, it's utterly shameful. I have been so busy reading other great things! XD
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For more than 100 years, eagles have been associated with Auburn University. From a static presence on the sidelines of Jordan-Hare Stadium to the rousing flights over the field, WAR EAGLE has become an Auburn Icon.
The role of Auburn University's eagles is to promote wildlife conservation as a part of the education initiatives of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serve and the College of Veterinary Medicine's Southeastern Raptor Center. The USF&WS permits the Raptor Center to house eagles and use them on hundreds of educational presentations each year – including Auburn's home football games. Currently, three flighted eagles and numerous other non-releasable raptors are used for these educational programs.Eagles stir emotions in many people as they have come to symbolize strength, power and courage as well as other important values such as freedom, American heritage and the reservation of our environment. Golden Eagles Tiger (War Eagle VI), Nova (War Eagle VII) and Spirit (a Bald Eagle) are the eagles who have inspired football fans with their graceful flights over Jordan-Hare Stadium.
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Would you buy a shirt for your baby that had nipple tassels on it? One company is hoping you will.
ParentDish interviewed the designer behind TwistedTwee, which is selling t-shirts for babies and preschoolers that include nipple tassels, among other items.
The designer, Suzi Warren, told ParentDish via email that "The Nipple Tassel t-shirt was designed as a response to my own distaste at seeing mini versions of sexy clothes on young children. Five-year-olds wearing slashed mini skirts and boob tubes, little thumb-sucking Britneys." I guess that's like wearing blackface to protest racism? Mostly Warren is doing it to make money. At least I hope that's why. If she honestly believes that this is an effective form of protest, I'd hate to think what she'd do with an issue like health care reform.
Personally, I think nipple tassels are tacky for anyone. If it's a stripper, I mean, whatever. She's a stripper. But otherwise it seems like a poor fashion choice.
On a kid? A little kid? Ew.
Here are some of the other items TwistedTee has for sale. "Infant Merit Badges" which are patches with phrases like, "Achievement in Noise Pollution." Meh. Something called "Equal Opportunity Baby Grows", with pink for boys and blue for girls. That one makes sense to me as a reaction to societal norms. "Sleepy head pillow cases" which are a little weird, but sort of cute.
Mostly the problem is the shirt with the nipple tassels. Oh, and the infant t-shirts that say "I've Done F*** All Today." And "B is for Beer." I wouldn't buy those either. The "No Pictures" shirt is sort of funny.
What do you think about the tassel shirt? Offensive? Funny? An effective form of protest against a society that is sexualizing little girls? Or just a blatant plea to sell product?
Source: ParentDish
Images: TwistedTwee