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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

ER again!

This time it's due to abdominal pain. My white blood cell count is up too. Not good. They did an ultrasound and I am currently trying to choke down barium contrast for a CT scan. Loads of fun.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

An update

On May 16, I was rushed to the ER because I was having problems breathing and I had a Multiday migraine that wouldn't go away. After a discussion with the Nurse on call with my insurance, I was told to get my butt down to the ER ASAP, so we called an ambulance to get me down there because Teh_Bagder had to get the kids over to my parents and then he had to go to work.
This is only the third time we had to dial 911. The first time was back in 1999, Munchkin was just over a year old. She had vomited and some had gotten stuck in her esophagus, blocking off her airway (she vomited again to dislodge the blockage just before the ambulance got there, but that was one of the most scariest times in my life!). The second time in 2000, when our new house had developed a gas leak. This time the paramedics picked me up and took me down to the ER. On the way they gave me an nebulizer treatment and oxygen because my blood-oxygen ratio was about 90%.
At the hospital, they put me on O2, gave me a painkiller for the migraine and basically just monitored my heart rate and respiration for about six hours just to make sure that it was working. Everytime I took off the O2 nose thing, my O2 levels would drop within 2-3 minutes. It was not fun.
The ER doctor told me that time that when I was asthma and no longer bronchitis. My GP said more likely asthma, but it was when I saw him previously that he wasn't going to officially give me that diagnosis until we could do the actual asthma test. And he said that we couldn't do that asthma test till I was off all my inhailers for at least two weeks. He was treating me for asthma, so had me on a long time bronchodilator, as well as a combivent inhaler to help.
The Er doctor prescribed a nebulizer for me as well as the two medicines that are in the combivent inhaler which is what I was using with the long-term bronchodilator, to see if that would help with the wheezing and my problems breathing.
That was mid May. It is now the end of June. I am still coughing and wheezing, but not as bad as it was.
One of the major drawbacks of the nebulizer is the hum of the compressed and the vibrations it sends up the air hose really doesn't help my headaches. If I have a full blown migraine, I cannot use it, as it will make the pain in my head much worse. At those times, I just have to use the combivent inhailer I have and hope its enough.
Yesterday, I called the place that provided the nebulizer unit to refill the mouth pieces that I am to change to a mask from the mouthpiece that I was given. They told me that my doctor needed to prescribe it. UG! I did call my GP's office and gave them the info. I have to remember to call the medical equipment co tomorrow to see if they got the info they needed.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

History of how I met my husband.

Everyone knows what and are. But what happened on the Internet BEFORE those subscription base "dating" sites came about? Let me tell you our story.
As a teen, I was a member of Boy Scouts of America in their explorer program. After my first post closed, I joined the CompuServe Post. This was late 1994-early 1995 when the Internet was something only geeks and nerds really used and most websites were really only accessible by AOL keyword. If you were on line, you usually knew what you were doing, because it wasn't very user friendly and most chat boards were bulletin board type things (you post a message and then you get responses via email) or email.
CompuServe had live chat rooms, where you could enter and type (to talk) to other people. It was fully text based - no video or voice was used but it was live.
Being a member of the CompuServe post gave me a free CompuServe account, and I quickly found myself enjoying the chat rooms in CompuServe. There, I could be myself, and not be shunned or ridiculed. They poked fun at me, but they did that to everyone AND there was nothing evil or cruel in their teasing, just fun.
I found a place in on specific room called "The Village Elders". Many of the regulars were in their late 30's or older, but they welcomed me with open arms, even knowing I was only 16. There was 2-3 other kids my age in that room as well, and one specifically "Zombae" (real name David) and I hit it off well.
Fast forward to April 1997. I was completing my Freshman year of college. Fall term I basically flunked due to me being burned out, stressed out and room mate issues. So I was using CompuServe as an escape (when I became 18, I volunteered to be a chat room moderator called [Helper] mainly so I could keep a free CompuServe account. David kept urging me to get help because I was spiraling down further and further. One of my HS Friends was in some trouble too, so even with all my emotional issues, I was trying to help her out, too. My dad and I were basically at each other's throats since I was living at home, going to a local community college and working. To help me keep my sanity, I applied and was accepted to BGSU, which is about 90-110 min from where my parents lived.
It was May 1997 (I believe!) that I met ^oO^wolfie in The Village Elders. I think I was trying to sign off to start on some C programming homework. He saw that and opened up a private chat between us and asked what I was studying. I told him Comp Sci. He then said (and this is a quote!!) "MARRY ME!" I laughed it off, thinking it a joke. But that laughter was something I desperately needed at the time.
We chatted for 3 hours longer that day. He asked me to marry him I believe another half of dozen times in that first conversation alone.
He and I started exchange emails on a daily basis. Teh_Bagder sent me happy happy Wolfie messages almost every morning. Since he lived near Glagow, and I in Ohio, he was always up before me.
Around my birthday that year (July), there was a very rainy day. I was riding my bike to class, (breaks were wet) and a car stopped through a stop sign. The car hit my bike. I hit the ground hard on my hands and knees - luckily not my head. I limped my way to my class and told the prof what happened. Then I found a pay phone to call home. My middle brother answered, and I told him what happened. I made my way slowly back to my dorm. I called home again and had a bad argument with my dad. He was pissed that I didn't get their license number and never asked how I was doing. (I ended up with a soft tissue injury to one of my hips that forced me to be on crutches for 2 weeks, and it still hurts on occasion)
At that point, I lost all motivation for school. I was put on Prozac to see if it would help my volitial mood swings. The person who lived across the hall (also under 21) has a boyfriend who wasn't and he was easy to convince to buy us vodka and wine-coolers, and we spend most weekends getting smashed.
Then, mid August, Teh_Bagder just disappeared. No emails, not online to chat, nothing. He had my dorm phone number, but I didn't have his. (UK charges even local phone calls per minute I found out later). Two weeks of silence, he calls. Turns out that his phone was turned off because he couldn't pay the bill. He was calling from a payphone to tell me as soon as he got paid, he would pay the phone bill. He was very sorry for all the worry he caused me. I got his number at that time so I could call him if I needed to.
In September, David convinced me that I needed a getaway. At the time, David and I had been talking for over 2 1/2 yrs. he suggested that I fly to Glasgow to meet Teh_Bagder over winter break. If we didn't hit it off, I could spend the remainder of the trip in Edenbough with David, sightseeing.

So, I got plane tickets and a passport. Then, I asked my Wolfie what the weather was like there around new years. One must understand, he is very witty, and always has a comeback This left him speechless. (In the last 14 years, I have only caught him off guard like this a handful of times!)
Needless to say, I landed in Glasgow after 16hrs of flights on December 27, 1997. Upon entry, they gave me a 6 month visitors visa. We married May 20, 1998, and gave birth to Munchkin in the same hospital he was born in on October 1, 1998.
We applied for a spousal visa to the USA shortly there after. We landed in Cleveland in Jan, 1999. Since coming, we have had 2 more children.
Teh_Bagder applied and received his US Citizenship in Dec 2011. It has been a long road, with many detours, potholes and other hazards. I thank all my lucky stars that I have him. I thank every deity that allowed us to cross paths as we did, because, I know, if it hadn't been for him, his love and support, I would just be some headstone that people would visit.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

It seems most of my posts are very depressing. Yes, it is mainly because I am using this to vent my feelings and frustrations. I am hoping if I vent them that they will not fester and then, MAYBE help me feel better.
My counselor has told me on several occasions that I remind her of a circus act. You know the one that puts plates on sticks and spins them? I am balancing so many different things and have to keep everything going just right or everything will come down around my ears in shambles.
The kids - their schooling, keeping the house clean, making sure they eat healthily. My health - my medicines are taken on time, refilled and organized so I don't forget to take one. (and they are numerous! If I miss a dose by an hour on certain meds, it can trigger migraines or other bad side effects about as serous and painful as migraines!)
My stress levels are too high (one of my major migraine triggers). And I really can't do much exercise until my lungs clear out, but I am willing to bet that as soon as I get started, it will help some! With Teh_Bagder out of the house so much until the 2nd week of June, it doesn't help. But, after that, he gets his BSc (thus finishing the need to do school and work at the same time!). Summer, he will just work at his current job, but mid August he starts Grad School AND a GTA position so his only job will be school until he gets his PhD. We are ALL excited about this, because it means he should have most-if not all- weekends free and should have more dinners at home.
A month into my gluten intolerance diagnose, I am not seeing much positive difference yet in my migraines or my other emotional difficulties yet. My guts (IBS, GERD) are feeling better after the 5 weeks it has been since I went gluten free. Yes, there has been 3 or 4 occasions I have accidentally eaten wheat and it HURT for a day or two.
We did talk to our kids pediatrician about my gluten intolerance diagnosis, and that we wanted to test all three kids, because they all have symptoms that *could* indicate gluten intolerance. We finally got them to Children's Hospital yesterday to have their blood drawn. Poor, brave Mr. Monkey had to be stuck 3 times, and we are all hoping that it was enough blood to run the tests. Munchkin and Buddy got their stick and it was enough to fill all three vials. We should know next week if they have it.
One of my elder brothers is going to have the test done on himself, too, because he has some issues that are funky that could be related to gluten intolerance, too. He said we should call our other brother and suggest he get it done as well if my kids or he comes back positive.

Friday, May 4, 2012

May the 4th be with you

Today is Star Wars day. In celebration, teh_Bagder took Munchkin and Buddy to a friend's house to run a RPG session of Star Wars, leaving me here with Mr. Monkey.
The weather cooperated, by showing us that it is a master of the Dark Side (we have cookies!) making the power flicker and reeking havoc with Mr. Monkey's happiness. Neither of us are fond of electrical storms, and the more active they are, the more it upsets him.
Luckily, the power didn't stay off for more than 5 seconds.
But it did screw up the tv. We have BASIC-basic cable (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, FOX, TBS and some of those pointless shopping networks) and we used to get [fuzzily] USA and Nick, now-about 2 hours after the worst of the storm, we don't have any kind of signal from those two channels. :/ can't really complain about it as we weren't supposed to be getting those channels anyway, but we did watch them. I don't think it's worth the $25 call out fee plus the $15 a month per box (times 2 for both tvs) plus the $10 a month to upgrade us to just Basic cable.
Oh well.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Bronchitis <i>STILL</i>

Two weeks ago I went to see my GP about my chest and getting tested for asthma. In March we were talking and he thinks it's a good idea that after my chest clears out that I get tested for asthma. Since my mother has adult on set asthma due to allergies, it is not a stretch that I could be at risk of getting it myself. I first had bronchitis in September,I suffered through October and November with it and I kind of felt better in December and most of January.
The last weekend of January I started feeling really bad again so I went back to my GP and he said that my lungs were congested again. In December of my lungs had sounded clear so I thought I was good to go. So February I was back on inhalers full-time, and I was put on antibiotics just to make sure that it wasn't a bacterial infection since it was a reoccurrence of bronchitis within six months and I have been running mid grade temperatures every time I came in to see him.
I believe it was mid-March when the congestion in my lungs actually had moved down to my lower chest which is when he put me on a salfa antibiotic (which put me in the ER with a severe reaction to it, that wasn't fun)
At the beginning of April I got diagnosed with a gluten intolerance and so I went to see him to talk about that and have him listen to my lungs cause I was starting to feel better. He told me that I needed to be off of all of my inhalers for about two weeks before we could do a asthma test or the asthma test would not be accurate. So I started to walk myself off of the bronchial dilator and the albuterol inhaler slowly. I had been down to about half dose on the bronchial dilator which was one puffs twice a day instead of two puffs twice a day when all of a sudden, two days ago I couldn't breath. It was the elephant on the chest feeling so I immediately took my albuterol inhaler and my next dose of the bronchodilator I want backup to two puffs. I went back to my GP doc yesterday because of it. He says that my long's sound really really raspy and my wheezing has increased again. He wants me to increase my goes back to full strength on my bronchodilator and keep my albuterol inhaler handy. He says not to worry about the asthma test until later in the summer, hoping that the congestion in my lungs will have cleared out by then.
So now my bronchitis is almost up to nine months and counting. I am really getting very frustrated with the pain in my chest because it hurts to breath. And the problems breathing isn't helping my migraines much either.

Friday, April 27, 2012

An update.

If you're male, and/or don't like to hear about feminine issues, then don't continue to read this. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
This will be WTMI..
All of you know I have what the medical industry calls 'chronic migraine' (15 or more migraines a month) I tend just to try to keep track of the days I don't have one, much easier to do. Many sufferers only have one or two types of triggers for theirs, I, OTOH, have triggers in all categories (environmental -odors, bright lights, loud sounds, too hot/humid, emotional, stress, sleep or lack there of, hormonal, and food I believe are the major categories). One category is hormonal fluxes (ie
monthlies). So, my OB, and Neuro thought to minimize the number of
fluxuations with BC (VERY difficult because I am very senisitive to
artificial hormones. Vomiting up a bc pill would not help me in any way) and ended up with the NovaRing.
It worked fairly well for 9 months, but see, almost every morning I would get up to use the toilet and would have to reinsert the ring. I was putting it in correctly (my OB checked), it just was being ornery! After much discussion, hubby and I decided to try the Mirena IUD again. Last time I had one in (2002), my next PAP came back abnormal and eventually lead to a LEEP (2004), then 2 Laproscopies because my cervix sealed shut (2005). Which made us have an emergency C-Section (2008) for our third child. AND when my OB went to insert the IUD he had to manually dilate my Cervix. Needless to say, THAT was an experience I would care not to experience again.
With the Nova Ring, I was leaving it in for 4 weeks, then just changing it the same day (as per instructions from my OB). Since the Mirena IUD has a similar amount of the hormones, it should still react like I was wearing the Nova Ring. The procedure to put the IUD in happened in Jan. February, I was ok and March was so so. I spotted some, but nothing like what I was having before: 5 days of constant migraines so bad that rolling my head on the pillow was painful and cramps like someone was stabbing me and twisting the knife around.
Did you notice I didn't say April above?Right now I have cramping so bad I feel like I am going to vomit. And I have had a migraine that just won't go away for 3 days now.

I did get the results back from the blood screen for gluten intolerance. One of the two came back positive, so since April 3rd (Monkey's Birthday!) I have tried my damnedest to eat gluten free. It's been about 3 weeks, and I have noticed some difference in my guts, but that is all. My Neuro said it could take 3-6 months to notice a difference.
Also, my GP AND our pediatrician think its a smart move to get the kids tested too. Now, the trick is, how to do it so Buddy doesn't freak out?


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Quickie Wednesday Links

Time for some linkage. Haven’t done any in a long time. My apologies for that. John Ourand of Sports Business Journal speaks with CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus about the future of CBS Sports Network. Tripp Mickle of Sports Business Daily writes that Nationwide will not sponsor NASCAR’s secondary race tour after 2014. Jason McIntyre […]

Some Quick Monday Linkage

I have too many tabs slowing down my browsers, so that means I should do some linkage for you. Here goes. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch has his weekly Monday column which includes a talk with ESPN’s Jay Bilas and a look into NBC’s English Premier League coverage which kicks off in earnest this Saturday. Deitsch […]

Some Late Wednesday/Early Thursday Morning Links

I was going to do these earlier, but got bogged down after finding some great music on YouTube. Maybe I’ll do a Videos of the Week down the road for the stuff I was playing on Twitter and personally. Anyway, let’s do a few links before I shut it down for the night. Hannah Karp […]

Friday Megalinks

I’m trying something new to get the Friday megalinks in during the day. I hope it works. As always, we highlight the Weekend Viewing Picks and there are quite a few this weekend. The PGA Championship, golf’s last major of the year is taking place at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota. CBS is hoping […]

Sunday Stuff

A few things for you today. First, I went to my favorite bar in Seekonk, MA to find it had been sold and taken over by new management. Now, I had heard this was a possibility, but two weeks ago, the old owner had told me that the new liquor license for the potential buyer […]

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October 21, 2010

Fashion Questions!

QUESTION: Cindy asks, “I finally let myself go gray and the brown tones that predominate my wardrobe no longer seem to flatter me. Should I be wearing more grays and silvers? What other colors seem to compliment gray hair?

ANSWER: Well, you are right! Stay away from brown!

Try Ocean colors: blue, purple, soft pinks.

Red, Grey and black are also good colors for you...and that palate is very on-trend this season.

I suggest going to Shari Braendel's web site and request a free Color Analysis - she is THE color expert! I am sure she will have a ton of great advice for you.

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Sunday, June 1, 2014

Lucky Lady

It has recently been my Birthday and I was spoilt rotten! If you read my last What I want Wednesday post you would know that some French Sole ballet flats and a Michael Kors bag where on my wish list and I was lucky enough to receive both from my man.
The Kors is even more beautiful than I remembered it is pure perfection. The shade of green is just stunning making it a real statement bag. I tend to keep my outfit simple and neutral and let the bag do the talking and it definitely does. A pair of French sole ballet flats have been on my wish list for a long time they are the perfect ballet flats and a necessity for Parisian chic. I love a good heel as much as the next girl but I do tend to wear flats more as a day look and the quality of French sole is second to none just ask Olivia Palermo! I'm already beginning to live in these beauties and can see my French Sole collection growing fast. I was also surprised with these pretty Dahlia top I adore pretty much anything floral and this top ticks all the boxes for me.

What do you think of my Birthday gifts?

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  1. I am in love with the shoes - so beautiful! Lucky girl! x

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Diet or Exercise – Which is Your Preferred Weight Loss Choice?

The biggest challenge when you’re trying to lose weight is not in sticking to your exercise routine or following your diet without breaking stride or giving in to binges – the hardest thing you have to do is control what you eat even though you feel like you could eat a horse after you’re done exercising. It’s a vicious cycle – you work out intensely because you want to lose weight, you feel ravenous after your workout, you raid your fridge and satisfy your hunger, and at the end of the month you find that you haven’t lost any weight at all. On the other hand, if you control your hunger and nibble at fruits and vegetables and other foods low in calories, you find that you don’t have the energy to work out intensively. So you’re essentially in a Catch 22 situation – damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

This is why most people prefer to follow a sensible diet alone rather than try to lose weight through both diet and exercise. They know they’re able to control their hunger and prevent going on binges if they eat a normal diet, avoid snacks, sugary drinks, desserts, fried food and junk food. But others are foodies and/or exercise junkies – they love to eat and they don’t mind working out to prevent adding on the pounds. They don’t hesitate to run an extra mile or two if they’ve eaten too much the previous day, and they don’t hold back as well when it comes to food.

However, trying to lose weight and control it through only diet or only exercise offers success only in the short term. The drawbacks of adhering to any one include:

  • After a point of time, you find you hit a plateau and that it becomes harder to lose weight, or even maintain it.
  • When you eschew exercise altogether, your muscles and bones become weaker and your body is not well toned. Also, you find that you don’t have enough energy to get through your day and because your fitness level is low, even normal activities like climbing stairs becomes a huff-puff affair.
  • Too much exercise, or in other words, an intensive exercise program, causes wear and tear on your joints and puts you at risk for both short term and chronic injuries.
  • The right kind and the right amount of exercise boosts not just your physical health but also your mental wellbeing as well.
  • A healthy diet provides your body with enough nutrition to help it fight disease and lead a life of quality.

So no matter what you’ve been doing until now, from today, if you’ve been working out too much without paying attention to your diet, start according importance to what you eat too; and if you’ve ignored exercise in favor of a low-calorie diet, at least start walking every day for half an hour or so – it boosts your blood circulation, prevents heart disease, and makes you feel younger.

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Bathroom Humor

When I was getting ready to run my first 5k years ago, I had a co-worker who was a hardcore runner. She was training for a marathon, only ate organic and took running very seriously. Much more seriously than I did at the time.

I hardly trained for that 5k, ended up walking a large part of it and made a tragic mistake in her eyes: I stopped to pee in the middle of the run.

You see those few minutes I was in the porta-john shave valuable time off my final run time. My co-worker yelle at me when she heard me say I had to pee mid-run. Logically I looked at her and said what am I supposed to do when I have to pee?

Her answer: Wet your pants. She seriously advocated peeing your pants to save your final run time.

Me? I'm okay with an extra few minutes and dry pants.

Another fellow runner brought up another issue when it comes to running and heading to the bathroom.

That being the impact eating the wrong foods can have on you needing to sprint from the treadmill to the restroom or porta-john.

It's something that happens to most runners, sometimes just the act of running can lead to an intestinal horror experience. Haven't you ever noticed all the porta-johns at the end of a race track?

I read an article once that said runners experience this intestinal distress because your body is sending all the oxygen to your other muscles and neglecting your intestines.

For the friend and I discussing this occurrence it was different foods triggered the "Dumb and Dumber" moment halfway through a run. Greasy foods and dried fruit eaten hours before a run did us in.

Of course the plus side in this it'll make you run extra fast to get to the porta-johns at the end of the race... and you could shave some time off your final tally.

  1. ah, the "dumb and dumber" moment. very clever, accurate description:)

  2. When I ran regularly my running partner and I made a habit of talking about how awesome our poop was. There's just something about running that, I don't know, shakes things loose. Ha!

    She said she ran a marathon with a guy once who pooped his pants mid-race. Can you imagine?


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LoZ: A Link Between Worlds

December 6, 2013

It may have come up before a time or two but it's worth stating again; I got my start as a gamer on the SNES (that's the Super Nintendo Entertainment System for you young whippersnappers out there) with Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Secret of Mana, Illusion of Gaia, Chrono Trigger, Mario Kart and of course, Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. The 16 bit SNES sound and graphics hold a special place in my heart to this day, and I've spent hours combing through plastic totes at various second hand stores trying to get my hands on hard to find cartridges for my still running system. (Other than LoZ and Mario Kart, I have all of the above!)

You can imagine my delight then when I saw a preview for Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds a month or two ago, the first direct sequel in the Legend of Zelda universe! I picked up my copy today and shared the opening first bit with my son, Gabe. It took a couple of tries for his 3DS to read the game but as soon as that shining golden Triforce spun it's way onto the screen accompanied by the familiar (and yet somehow better!) tune, it was magic. Sheer nostalgia flooded through me and for a little while I was transported away from all the stress and bother of my life right now and into the world of my childhood. Who needs drugs when you've got Nintendo, amirite?

Seriously though, the gameplay is solid, the music is multi-layered and gorgeous, the graphics are clean and bright, and while the story is quite familiar (I almost feel not that I'm playing a sequel but a reboot) there are new elements that are quite refreshing. In an hour and some of gameplay I've already defeated the first dungeon and opened up the world for exploration both within the storyline and outside of it. At some point I know Zelda will get kidnapped and need rescuing (she IS one of the decendents of the 7 Sages after all) and there are 3 pendants I need to recover (again!) and the Master Sword (this IS a LoZ game after all) but I don't really care.

Unlike with the Mario franchise, which basically has no story but 'go rescue Peach using this new gimmicky item/gameplay/trick we created', the Zelda games have always centered on the story, and I'm a story hound at the core. RPGs are the meat and potatoes of my gaming experience and once again Nintendo has delivered exactly what I want in a game.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Criminal Minds

Go through my PC/ film collections what you will hardly find are chick flicks. I'm so in love with crime based tv shows, action packed movies, mystery,thrillers and sometimes a lil bit of horror. From Prison break to 24, Heroes, Greys Anatomy, How to get away with murder,Revenge et al. I'm totally in love with series. Well another one that keeps me glued to the edge of my seat all day is CRIMINAL MINDS. Here are few quotes from the movie.

1. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent.

2. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

3. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

4. Nothing is permanent in this wicked world.Not even our troubles.

5.Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

6. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

7. “There are certain clues at a crime scene which, by their very nature, do not lend themselves to being collected or examined.  How does one collect love, rage, hatred, fear…?  These are things that we’re trained to look for.”

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Motorola's Moto X Phone Will Be Made in America

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Motorola's next flagship phone won't only have sensors that will know when you are going to take a photo or when it is in your pocket, but it will be the first smartphone assembled in the U.S.

During an interview at the All Things D conference, CEO of Motorola Dennis Woodside revealed the company's plans for the long-rumored "Moto X" phone, which will have a OLED screen and will be released later this summer. Woodside wouldn't detail any other specifications of the phone, but said that it will have long battery life and that sensors on it will allow it to know when you are using it.

The phone will be made at Flextronics' 500,000-square foot facility in Fort Worth, Texas, which was once used to make Nokia phones. While the phone will be designed, engineered and assembled in the U.S., not all the components in the phone will be made in the U.S. The processor and screen, for example, will be made overseas.

"There are several business advantages to having our Illinois and California-based designers and engineers much closer to our factory," Motorola said in a statement. "For instance, we'll be able to iterate on design much faster, create a leaner supply chain, respond much more quickly to purchasing trends and demands, and deliver devices to people here much more quickly." Motorola told ABC News that 2,000 jobs will be added by August; Flextronics is busy hiring people now for the new Fort Worth facility.

The Moto X will be the first phone that the company has worked on from start to finish since being acquired by Google in August 2011. Woodside said though that the Motorola unit is still separate from Google and that Motorola is treated like any Android partner. "We're hiring out of Google," Woodside said on stage, "but once you come to Motorola you give up your Google badge. It really is separate."

Apple CEO Tim Cook has said he would like to build a phone it the U.S. Apple will begin making one of its iMac computers in the U.S. this summer. Lenovo also began making some of its computers and tablets in North Carolina earlier this year.

While smartphones currently aren't made in the U.S., a report released by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers on Tuesday revealed that the world's largest smartphone operating systems - Apple's iOS and Google's Android -- are developed in the U.S. According to the report, 88 percent of the world's mobile operating systems are "Made in the USA," compared to five percent in 2005.

Motorola has fallen behind smartphone rivals like Apple and Samsung. However, Woodside believes the Motorola products coming this fall will change that. The Moto X specifically will be carried by various carriers in the U.S., something Motorola hasn't been able to brag about in a long time.

"I'm pretty confident of the products we are going to ship throughout the fall," he said. "They are unlike other things out there."