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We encourage past and current users to retrieve any information you want to retain from the Community Forums for both Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. The shutdown will occur on October 29, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. PT. We want to provide enough time for our forum members to move their content, and we recognize that given our forum's vibrant user base and extensive history, this may take time. Any information still on the forums on the cut-off date will be deleted.
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I've been busy recovering from my fall (huh?! … Read all about it here), and I'm glad to say I'm feeling a whole lot better. It's easy to get lost and basically just break down and give up, and I did have a little bit of a melt down, but…. I"M BACK BITCHES! ;)
With a brand new a fall/winter look, including a short OOTD video. Hope you like it!

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Talk about miracles. I've watched one happening before my very eyes over the last week.
You are about to meet baby Gwyneth Rose Lawrenson.
You may have seen "The Lawrensons" on my 'praying for....' sidebar. If you haven't checked out Nate's blog yet....man, you are missing an incredible blessing.
Here is the long story broken down into the bare minimum facts: Gwyneth's mom, Tricia, has Cystic Fibrosis. If you don't know what that disease does, it basically eats away your lungs until they can't function anymore. (It is incurable.) Tricia was all set to begin the process of a double lung transplant, which would, in effect, cure her, when she found out--SURPRISE! She was expecting. And, no longer eligible for transplant, at least not while she was pregnant.
Now, talk about faith--against all medical advice, the Lawrensons continued the pregnancy, knowing full well that they were putting both the baby's and Tricia's life in danger. To quote Nate, they understood full well that God was the maker of life....and only He should be able to take it away. So, keep the baby it was.
Tricia fought as long as she could to keep Gwyneth in utero. But one week ago, Gwyneth made her grand entrance into the world! She was born via emergency c-section (for Tricia's health sake) at an astounding 24 weeks, 5 days.
No, that was not a typo--24 weeks, 5 days. She was one pound, six ounces at birth.
Here are some amazing pics to give you some perspective (you can see more really good ones here) of how tiny baby Gwyneth is:
Nurse's hands turning her over
Next to Daddy's hand
And my absolute favorite (you can click on this and see the amazing detail of her fingers--it is so neat!), clutching Daddy's finger:
The pics may look a little scary (she is off of the UV lights now--that was a precaution against jaundice) but little Gwyneth is doing incredible well for a 24 weeker. Tricia is fighting hard as well, but has a long road of recovery ahead of her.
I know that this family would appreciate your prayers as well--take a minute to visit them and be incredibly encouraged by their faith. Pray with me that God will continue to take care of them, as He already has!


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Garmin-Sharp sports director Charly Wegelius is blogging for Cycling Weekly from the 2013 Giro d'Italia
The "office" where I spend my working days is dominated by radios. Everybody knows that the riders race with communication earpieces, but these are not the only radio lines in my car.
By far the most important radio sits in the glove compartment. This is the famous "radio corsa". In many ways it is like the rope a deep sea diver clings to, linking him to the boat waiting above.
Without "radio corsa" I am totally lost in the race, floating around like a ship with no sails. All crucial information is relayed about the race, breakaways, dangerous points, and even reprimands from the judges are communicated to the Sports Directors.
On a couple of occasions, in smaller races, I have had a faulty radio in the car, and the feeling of being cut off is really bizarre. You truly have no idea of what is happening in the race, or to your riders.
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The voice of the speaker of race radio becomes like a close friend. His voice describes the race in minute detail day after day, and you can even feel from the tone of his voice when the races is entering into a crucial or dangerous faze.
I met the man in question at a hotel, but long before I could identify his face I could pick his voice out of a crowd, so familiar was I with his speech.
Nowadays race information on the Giro is given first in Italian, then English, and finally French.
This may seem a small detail, but for the world of cycling this is a sign of the massive shift there has been over the last years towards the Anglo Saxon culture.
There are probably more Sports Directors in the race who are fluent in English than in French.
Compare this to my early days at the Giro as a rider when I struggled to find someone to speak English to and my mother complained that my English was getting "rusty", and you begin to understand how the peloton has changed.
The second radio in the car links me to the second team car, which travels behind us.
This is another crucial line of communication. I can consult with the other DS about tactics or plans for the race. If we have a rider in a break, he moves up to support the rider, and through this radio can tell me how it is going, and give me vital information on the roads that the riders in the pack will come across.
The range of this radio is limited, and it can frustrating trying to raise the DS in the break that is 10 minutes up the road in an area with no cellular coverage.
A third radio is used to speak to the Masseurs at the finish line or the bus driver.
They can give me info on how the riders get from the line to the bus, which is often no easy task, especially for tired bike riders.
They can also inform me if we have a rider called for doping control or podium. This helps to avoid a rider unknowingly leaving the finish area when he is needed.
The same radio is used to give us info on where the masseurs will stand in the feed zone, which in the case of high winds or technical roads can save the riders a lot of stress.
Lastly, but not least, is the famous rider radio. I use this to pass info to the riders and give instructions. It has been debated a lot lately, but I doubt it makes as much influence as people may think.
These radios are very temperamental, and the peloton is not an easy place to hold a conversation.
The fans, helicopters, and wind often make it very hard to understand the riders. I have lost count of how many times a rider has angrily told me he wanted a rain jacket, and not a bidon, as I have sped up to the bunch fully convinced that I have understood their requests.
Most of the crucial info is given in the bus, also because it can happen that other teams can hear what I am saying. There are 22 teams in the race, and the lines are busy.
The other day, Luca Scinto [DS at Vini Fantini] came and told me that they could hear none of their riders, but that he could hear everything I say. Luckily he can't speak a word of English, but still I try to keep things simple off the radio.
What is the biggest challenge of all this? Making sure you pick the right microphone! No rider in a Giro stage wants to hear me ordering pizza from a masseur at the feed zone…


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Just a few weeks back it looked like "Fringe" might be on the fringe of cancellation. But with a fourth season pickup and major plans for the third season finale (airing May 6th), the cult favorite series is ready to deliver for its loyalists.
"The puzzle pieces are in place now for us to really go deep to advance the storytelling to be more adventurous," says executive producer Jeff Pinker. "Things that we've always tried, but we now have the confidence that our audience is now with us and we can go a little faster and a little further."
After a mind- (and genre-) bending episode in which Leonard Nimoy returned, sort of, as William Bell in a computer animated world within the mind of Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), "Fringe" is moving full throttle into its alternate universe intrigue as Season Three climaxes.
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"'Fringe' always does things the way you don't expect – at least we try to," says executive producer J.H. Wyman. "In the last three episodes we're always trying to sort of finish the season off with opening a brand new chapter for next season and sort of put the show in a new context for our viewers. So we've tried to achieve that this year as well."
"Hopefully it will be wholly unexpected and also re-contextualize the story of Season Three in a really cool way, and be fun and entertaining and mind-blowing," agrees Pinker, who addresses various rumors bouncing around the Internet. "Somebody who we all love deeply will die. We're NOT introducing a third world. There's our world, and then there's the world that Peter was taken from as an eight-year-old, and we still have plenty of story to tell just in those two worlds. Maybe at some point in the future there will be a third world, but not yet."
"We had so many emotional things to pay off," says Wyman (among them, the long-simmering triangle Olivia, Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Olivia's alternate universe counterpart "Faux-livia," who's carrying Peter's child). "We've been really cognizant of finding all the emotion that we can to logically come to a conclusion that would be satisfying, and at the same time sort of suggest things are going to go further in a different direction. We had a very good idea where we wanted to go, even from the beginning of the season."
"The run-up to the finale and the finale impacts both universes directly," adds Pinker. "We will be going back and forth within episodes."
And then there's that universe-spanning bambino. "The baby will be part of it," says Wyamn. "But how it's handled – now remember this is 'Fringe' – definitely cannot be normal."


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California frogs once used for pregnancy tests carry deadly fungus
Frogs that were imported for pregnancy tests and set loose in California carry a deadly fungus responsible for wiping out vast numbers of amphibians worldwide, scientists have found.
Populations of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) have thrived for decades in the state's drainage ditches and ponds, but their link with the deadly Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis fungus was unverified until a research team from Stanford University and San Francisco State University recently tested museum samples for the fungus.
"Until this report, there had been no conclusive evidence that Xenopus laevis had been carrying the disease," said Sherril Green, a Stanford veterinarian who was part of the research team.
The pathogen's spread through amphibian populations is contributing to one of the greatest disease-caused losses of biodiversity in recorded history. Entire species of amphibians, which are among the oldest vertebrates on Earth, have been driven to extinction since the fungus first was described in 1999.
"This pathogen is like no other pathogen we have seen," said Vance Vredenburg, a biologist at San Francisco State who led the research. The discovery in the African frog populaton in California "tightens the noose around the idea that humans really are responsible for moving this pathogen around," Vredenburg said.
The fungus causes amphibians' skin to harden, interfering with the regulation of electrolytes and eventually causing cardiac arrest.
The African frog's role in the rapid decline of California's amphibian populations is uncertain -- American bullfrogs, also introduced here, could have infected the African frogs, researchers say. And other factors have affected amphibian populations, including loss of habitat, climate change and human consumption. But the presence of the fungus in a hardy and thriving populaton that has proved difficult to eradicate has raised alarm among conservationists.
African clawed frogs don't appear to succumb to the pathogen's deadly effects. Native to an arid region of South Africa, the frogs are extremely hardy, can adapt to cold and drought, and can survive for several years burrowed in mud. Efforts to eradicate them here and elsewhere have proved fruitless.
"Once they're established in the wild they're very difficult to eradicate," Green said. "I don't know of any place in the world where they have been introduced that has had success in eradicating them."
Two of 23 archived specimens of wild-caught frogs from California, preserved in 2001 and 2003, tested positive for the fungus, according to the research, published Wednesday in the online journal PLOS ONE. The frogs, in a Stanford collection at the California Academy of Science, were caught in San Diego and San Francisco counties.
Because they have a hormone system similar to that of humans, African clawed frogs were used for much of the last century to detect pregnancies -- the frogs ovulate in response to serum or urine from a pregnant woman. The practice ended in the 1970s, when more sophisticated blood tests were introduced. Many hospitals simply released their frogs.
"We weren't as conservation-aware in those days," Green said.
Because of its biological similarities to humans and its hardiness and prolific reproduction, the species remains a mainstay of biological research.
"There's a cell biologist down the hall from me who has a colony of Xenopus laevis that she has had for years," Vredenburg said. "Actually, they're getting stem cells from them. This species is very, very important. We're not saying this species should be banned. We're saying we should be very, very cautious."
Importation and use of Xenopus laevis are tightly controlled -- unlike the situation for American bullfrogs, which are still widely sold for food or as pets.
Solving the mystery of the fungus has vexed biologists, who consider it a potential harbinger of emerging diseases that could affect domesticated species critical for food, such as cattle and poultry.
"Science thrives on predictability," Vredenburg said. "We have very little predictability in this. In the very same habitat, sharing the same lakes and streams, you have frogs that are surviving. They've been infected and are doing fine. For every rule that we put down we find an exception to it."
Even within the same species, some frog populations appear to survive the fungus, Vredenburg said. A South African researcher found that the fungus was not causing mortality in the wild frogs that carried the pathogen. The fungus and frog populations there could be evolving to adapt, a common evolutionary path for pathogens and their hosts. The mechanics of such a process could be crucial to solving future pandemics.
"We really need to understand the fundamental biology here," Vredenburg said. "That same biology is occuring in other kinds of pathogens."
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FACETIME- Coastal crusader: DeBlieu's change begins at home
In 1988, Mobil Oil threatened to drill off the coast of North Carolina's Cape Hatteras, with pollution, the destruction of wetlands, and the industrialization of the coast being the very likely result, says author Jan DeBlieu.
Not if DeBlieu had anything to do with it.
When she first moved to the Outer Banks in 1985, she didn't plan on settling there– mainly just "writing about nature and natural systems," the focus of her books, including Wind and Hatteras Journal.
But the islands enchanted her.
"It was like I found my home," says DeBlieu, emphasizing that last word. "It's a place that I fit very, very well."
When faced with Mobil's impending drilling, DeBlieu joined forces with an activist group, LegaSea, lobbying fiercely to keep them out. "The Outer Banks communities closed ranks against the oil companies," she relates. "We had traditional environmentalists joining forces with real estate brokers and tourist boosters."
In 2000, LegaSea was victorious: the oil companies gave up all of their Outer Banks leases.
"It took a lot of people and a lot of time and sweat and blood to keep the ocean natural and pristine," DeBlieu says. "I mark that as a pretty significant accomplishment."
Activism– environmental or otherwise– has figured prominently in DeBlieu's life. She spoke out about depression in her book Year of the Comets, and recently helped found a homeless shelter.
But first and foremost, "I've always been a writer," she says. Writing fiction was her original focus, but as a reporter she "found the true stories I encountered more interesting than anything I could make up in my head," she recalls.
Around 1985, nature began deeply fascinating her. "Specifically," she explains, "in the way people interact with their landscapes."
Since 2003, DeBlieu, now 53, has worked as the Cape Hatteras Coastkeeper for the North Carolina Coastal Federation, where she strives to build unlikely alliances with the traditional farmers and fishermen of this very conservative region.
"I believe strongly that environmentalists need to engage everyone– not just political liberals– in our fight to preserve the natural world," she says. "This is especially true here on the coast, where sea level rise threatens the very ground on which we walk."
And engage she does. Wind won her the 1999 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing, the highest national award presented for nature writing.
"Jan has the fire of an activist," says Derb Carter, director of the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, chapter of the Southern Environmental Law Center, "and a deep knowledge of nature and mastery of the power of the written word. That is a unique combination in an individual."
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JEFFERSON CITY – Rep. Jason Smith pre-filed a constitutional amendment today to protect the right of Missourians to hunt, fish and farm. This amendment comes in the wake of a recent regulatory movement, spear-headed by career bureaucrats and Washington DC special interests, to force state agencies to implement regulations reducing the ability of citizens to hunt, fish and farm.
"While Missouri state agencies can create rules to restrict our ability to hunt, fish and farm, these rules have to comply with our constitution," said Smith, R-Salem. "One way to ensure out-of-state special interests don't pass rules restricting the number of cows that a rancher can own, or pass rules making it illegal to hunt deer, is to protect the right to hunt, fish and farm in our state's constitution."
Smith's proposal is very similar to a constitutional amendment that recently passed in North Dakota. There, outside special interest groups representing vegan and animal rights activists poured millions of dollars into a ballot measure designed to alter that state's animal laws. Smith's amendment is seen as a firewall, protecting Missouri from these outside groups.
"This amendment will preserve Missourians' choices at the supermarket and enshrine our long-held traditions of agriculture, hunting and fishing. Consumers and producers alike deserve the right to raise and consume the food of their choice without interference from big-money special interests and out-of-touch bureaucrats."
The constitutional amendment has been co-sponsored by more than 30 of Smith's colleagues including House Speaker Tim Jones.


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I heard that Obama is trying to use his position to interfere with this and stop the documents from being released. of course he is probably afraid that he will be booted from office. He's probably right about that.
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Who Is John Galt? Now We Know!
On financial meltdowns and government shutdowns.
Quite a lot of things have to be regulated if we are to enjoy our non-regulated freedom. A Tea Party member cannot go to an anti-Obama protest if he is busy choosing his water company (the ONLY good argument for water supply deregulation I can think of!)
What is the ongoing U.S. government shutdown really about? In the middle of April 2009, I was taking a rest in a hotel room in Syracuse, N.Y. and jumping between two channels: a PBS documentary on Pete Seeger, the great American country singer of the Left, and a Fox News report on a country singer of the anti-tax "Tea Party," who was performing a populist, anti-Obama song full of complaints about how Washington is taxing the hard-working ordinary people to finance the rich Wall Street financiers.
There was the weird similarity between the two singers. Formulating an anti-establishment populist complaint against both the exploitative rich and the government, they called for radical measures, including civil disobedience. It was another painful reminder that today's radical-populist Right strangely reminds us of the old radical-populist Left. Are today's Christian survivalist-fundamentalist groups, with their half-illegal status, seeing the main threat to their freedom in the oppressive state apparatus, not similar to the Black Panthers back in the 1960s?
The difference is the fundamental irrationality of the Tea Party agenda: to protect the interest of the hard-working ordinary people by way of privileging the "exploitative rich" and thus literally countering their own interests. One of the weird consequences of the 2008 financial meltdown and the measures taken to counteract it (enormous sums of money to help banks) was the revival in the work of Ayn Rand, the closest one can come to the ideologist of the "greed is good" radical capitalism. The sales of her magnum opus Atlas Shrugged exploded again. According to some reports, there are already signs that the scenario described in Atlas Shrugged—the creative capitalists themselves going on strike—is being enacted. The ridicule of this reaction is that it totally misreads the situation: Most of the gigantic sums of bail-out money went precisely to the Randian deregulated "titans" who failed in their "creative" schemes and thereby brought about the meltdown. It is not the great creative geniuses who are now helping lazy ordinary the people, the ordinary taxpayers, who are helping the failed "creative geniuses." One should simply recall that the ideologico-political father of the long economic process that ended up in the 2008 meltdown was Alan Greenspan, a card-carrying Randian "objectivist." Now we finally know who John Galt is—the idiot responsible for the 2008 financial meltdown and, consequentially, for the ongoing shutdown.
How long will this masterful ideological manipulation continue to work?
An opinion poll in the United States at the end of June 2012 showed that a strong majority, though they oppose Obamacare, strongly support most of its provisions. Here we encounter ideology at its purest: the majority wants to have its (ideological) cake and eat the (real) cake. They want the real profits of the healthcare reform, while rejecting its ideological form, which they perceive as the threat to the "freedom of choice." They reject the concept of fruit, but they want apples, plums, strawberries…
Some of us remember the old infamous Communist tirades against the bourgeois "formal" freedom. Ridiculous as they were, there is a moment of truth in the distinction between "formal" and "actual" freedom. A manager in a company in crisis has the "freedom" to fire workers A or B, etc., but not the freedom to change the situation that imposes on him this choice. The moment we approach the healthcare debate in this way, the "freedom to choose" appears in a different way. True, a large part of the population will be effectively delivered of the dubious "freedom" to worry about who will cover their illness, to find a way in the intricate network of financial and other decisions. Being able to take basic healthcare for granted—to count on it like one counts on the water supply or electricity, without worrying about choosing one's water or electric company—they will simply gain more time and energy to dedicate their lives to other things. The lesson to be learned is thus that the freedom of choice is something that actually functions only if a complex network of legal, educational, ethical, economic and other conditions exists as the invisible thick background of the exercise of our freedom.
This is why, as a counter-poison to the ideology of choice, countries like Norway should be held as a model: Although all main agents respect a basic social agreement and large social projects are enacted in solidarity, social productivity and dynamics are at an extraordinary level, flatly denying the common wisdom that such a society should be stagnating.
Not many people know—and even a lesser number of them appreciates the irony of the fact—that Frank Sinatra's iconic song "I'll do it my way," supposed to render the American individualist attitude, is the Americanized version of the French song "Comme d'habitude," which means "as usual, as it is customary." It is all too easy to see this pair of songs as yet another example of the opposition between sterile French manners and American inventiveness (the French follow established customs, while Americans look for new solutions)—but what if we drop the false appearance of opposition and discern in the habit the hidden sad truth of the much-praised search for new ways? In order to be able to do it my way, each of us has to rely on quite a lot of things going on comme d'habitude. Quite a lot of things have to be regulated if we are to enjoy our non-regulated freedom. A Tea Party member cannot go to an anti-Obama protest if he is busy choosing his water company (the ONLY good argument for water supply deregulation I can think of!)
So we are confronting here a tough choice. One often hears that the shutdown is the result of narrow partisan bickering, that politicians should learn to rise above it and find broad bi-partrisan solutions for the good of the nation. Not only the Tea Party people, but also President Obama is accused of dividing the American people instead of bringing them all together—but what if this, precisely, is what is good about him? In situations of deep crisis, an authentic division is urgently needed—a division between those who want to drag on within the old parameters and those who are aware that change is necessary. Such a division, not opportunistic compromises, is the only path to eventual true unity.
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1. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, by Lucy Knisley
Lucy Knisley's new book Relish is, as far as I know, the first of its kind: a graphic memoir of culinary experiences. Lucy takes us through a childhood growing up with parents who loved to cook, eat, and grow food. She celebrates her early love of squid and smelly cheese, and bemoans a parental lockdown on sugary cereals and all junk food. Several recipes are studded throughout the book, beautifully drawn and delicious-looking even in cartoon form. The book's illustrations are both adorable and expressive. Knisley is a truly talented artist who made me believe more food memoirs should be illustrated - after all, we eat with our eyes.
2. An Illustrated Guide to Cocktails, by Orr Shtuhl and Elizabeth Graeber
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Along the illustrated theme, Orr Shtuhl and Elizabeth Graeber's An Illustrated Guide to Cocktails is a bar gem. Penguins and historical figures make repeat appearances in this recipe book and stories of alcoholic drinks. You'll accumulate fun facts, like the origination of the phrase "the real McCoy," and delicious recipes for traditional cocktails. Shtuhl's lighthearted tone and Graeber's drawings give the book a childlike quality not often found in books about drinking.
3. The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage
This collection of essays in The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage highlights the many ways that families use food to share stories, bridge divides, and pass on legacies. In the title story, a couple addresses marital strife through a cassoulet party each week. Other authors share their struggle with food heritage and how food memories shape their identities. The stories are touching and at times brutally honest. Anyone who's ever argued and celebrated with family over a kitchen table can relate to these stories.
4. Kosher
Timothy D. Lytton's book Kosher documents the history of kosher certification in the U.S. It exhaustively covers the legal challenges created by the five major kosher certification companies. Lytton describes how consumers have rallied around consistent and transparent certification, and how the consumer base for kosher products has expanded beyond the Jewish community. Highly recommended for policy wonks or those interested in how private certification works in this competitive industry.
About the Author: A student in Providence, Rhode Island, Leah Douglas loves learning about, talking about, reading about, and consuming food. Her other work can be found at her website.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends screening all infants for hearing loss before six months of age to prevent permanent damage such as speech and language impairment, learning disabilities and much more. In Brazil, the government has gone so far as to mandate screenings for all infants, but despite these efforts many infants go without testing due to limited medical resources.
A new telemedicine solution called Sana AudioPulse allows health care providers around the world to screen for hearing impairment through a simple mobile phone application. The Sana AudioPulse team, which is made up of students from MIT and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Harvard, Northeastern and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) in Brazil, was recently honored as the winner of the GSMA Mobile Health Challenge. The team competed against students from universities around the world at the GSMA Health Alliance's Mobile Health Summit in Cape Town, South Africa, this summer to win the competition.
"The team's victory is a tribute to the energy and intelligence of volunteers working on a challenging and important clinical problem motivated by the promise to improve health care through innovation," said Sana program faculty advisor Peter Szolovits, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and health sciences and technology and a CSAIL principal investigator. Sana is a student organization at MIT that is dedicated to revolutionizing health care delivery for rural underserved populations through mobile platforms.
The Sana AudioPulse technology, which is being developed as part of the Sana program, employs the Sana mobile health platform to provide community health care providers the ability to test infants for hearing loss.
"While hearing loss is a very serious issue around the globe, not every infant is screened because of resource limitations like limited access to screening equipment and prohibitive costs. Using the Sana telemedicine technology platform we are able to give access and care to those who couldn't get it before," said Dr. Kenneth Paik, a postdoctoral fellow in biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School and the Laboratory of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital and director of operations for Sana. "Our focus is on putting the device, which requires a highly trained audiologist to administer, into the hands of community health workers or nurses and making it simpler and cheaper to use."
The idea for the project came from Dr. Ikaro Silva, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), who became interested in applying the Sana platform to his research in audiology. A native of Brazil, Silva was well versed in the health care needs of the country and passionate about seeing what could be done to improve access to hearing screenings for infants across the nation. A student team was them assembled to devise a sustainable business plan for the project under the guidance of Paik, Dr. Ana Guerreiro (UFRN) and Silva. The multinational team consisted of MIT students Marzyeh Ghassemi (CSAIL) and Andrew Schwartz (HST), Northeastern University and MIT HST.S14 student Lauren Scanlon, and UFRN students Talis Barbalho and Anna Giselle Ribeiro.
The Sana AudioPulse technology will remove the need for a trained audiologist to be on site for every screening by allowing users to employ the open-source Sana mobile platform. The test is simple to operate and utilizes a two-channel speaker and microphone that have been calibrated to perform a distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) test, a standard method for analyzing hearing. The device is hooked up to a mobile phone and a probe, which is inserted into the patient's ear. The probe plays a stimulus into the patient's ear and the response emitted back by the patient's ear is recorded.
From this recording, which is uploaded onto a remote server, a trained audiologist can analyze the results to see if there is any evidence of hearing loss. By using a cellphone to send test results to off-site audiologists, the Sana AudioPulse team will be able to significant lower the cost and expand the accessibility of hearing tests, according to Silva.
Uploading tests to a remote server for validation by a trained professional not only removes the burden from rural health care providers, but also "allows audiologist to access thousands more patients than they would be able to see in a day or a week at a hospital," according to Lauren Scanlon.
Buoyed by their win at the GSMA Mobile Health Challenge, the team is now busy finalizing their prototype and testing how the system operates in a real hospital. A pilot will be conducted this year at a rural hospital in Brazil. A parallel test also is being planned under the clinical guidance of audiologist Cheryl Edwards at Children's Hospital in Waltham to compare the effectiveness of the Sana AudioPulse system against state-of-the-art medical equipment. The team also hopes to extend their work beyond infant screenings in Brazil.
"Sana AudioPulse is also scalable outside Brazil, we have people in Mexico who are interested, as well as people in Asia," Silva said. "What's important about this is if you don't catch a baby that has hearing loss within six months and give the child a hearing aid, later on it's already too late, the damage is already permanent. This is why it's so important to be screening all infants for hearing loss so we can prevent permanent cognitive problems."
For more information on Sana AudioPulse, please visit: http://sana.mit.edu/audiopulse/.


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Under Its Original Owners, Webshots Reincarnates as Smile (Video)
There are two very different ways to look at this story. First, it's an incredible tale of entrepreneurs founding, selling, buying, selling, and now buying again the very same company: Webshots. And second, it's an interesting take on intimate family photo-sharing that automatically sucks up and streams new photos in a nice mobile, desktop and Web interface.
Both of those descriptions apply to Smile, a new photo-sharing service debuting today that will attempt to bridge that gap for Webshots' millions of existing users and potential new ones. There's not a ton of continuity between the two services, except that they're both photo products aimed at the mainstream.
Webshots founders Narendra Rocherolle and Nick Wilder have bought back the company with a pretty impressive group of investors: True Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Lowercase Capital, Resolute.vc, Biz Stone, Max Levchin, Shervin Pishevar, Greg Yaitanes and Matt Mullenweg.
Rocherolle and Wilder are busy running their email infrastructure service Message Bus, so they've hired a team to relaunch Webshots as Smile, led by Grouper co-founder Mike Sitrin, who was also previously at Spinner and FYI Living.
Smile — which is not yet fully ready to launch — is built around the idea that people are continuously taking photos throughout their lives, but the photos are siloed in different folders and among different people. The desktop app sucks up users' existing photos into a searchable interface, and the mobile app adds new photos to a shared folder that can be seen in real time by the closest family and friends.
The most obvious use of the new Smile might be in a young family, where both parents each take their own photos of the kids, and grandparents are interested in seeing everything that gets taken. If everyone in the family has Smile, this all happens automatically and unfiltered.
Of course, that requires buying into the Smile system, which is iPhone-only for now. Smile will cost $10 per year and up for photo backup.
And there are an increasing number of alternatives, including other start-up apps and Apple's new shared photo streams built into iOS 6. Rocherolle called that product "conservative," in keeping with Apple's hesitant social strategy. "My big takeaway is that it is buried in the UI, not cross-platform, and it requires active sharing for new ones, so it really isn't continuous," he said.
Here's the wacky story of the ownership of Webshots, by the way, according to the company:
In October 1999, Webshots was sold to Excite@Home for $82.5 million in stock. The service continued to grow and when Excite@Home declared bankruptcy at the end of 2001, the Webshots assets were purchased back by the founders for $2.5 million. By 2001 Webshots was profitable, with a combination of revenue streams that included advertising, merchandising and a premium service. By 2004, when the company was sold to CNET Networks for $71 million, Webshots was the #1 photo sharing site and top 50 media property per comScore. On October 25, 2007, CNET announced that it had sold Webshots to American Greetings for $45 million. On October 2, 2012, led by two of its original founders, Narendra Rocherolle and Nick Wilder, Webshots was purchased by Threefold Photos. Smile will launch in Fall 2012.
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DALLAS — A study estimates that 65 million Americans or one in three have high blood pressure. That's up 30 percent from the 50 million who did in the previous decade.
Data comes from a report in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. While reasons for the increase were not cited, the aging population and increasingly overweight and obese Americans most likely played a role.
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is defined as 140 over 90 or higher. Ideal blood pressure is less than 120 over 80. High blood pressure can be treated with medicine and lifestyle changes including being more active, eating less fat, eating more fruits and vegetables and reducing salt intake.


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A Missouri man is behind bars after a failed attempt at hiding from the police. In a viral Facebook post, the Clay County Sheriff's Office explained how officers managed to track down the suspect, who had a felony warrant out for his arrest.
Deputies from the Liberty Police Department were searching the area using K-9 units but were not having much luck locating the suspect, who has not been identified. While they were searching the wooded, residential neighborhood, the suspect farted.
His fart was so loud that officers were able to find where he was hiding and he was taken into custody.
If you've got a felony warrant for your arrest, the cops are looking for you, and you pass gas so loud it gives up your hiding spot, you're definitely having a 💩 day. 🚓 #ItHappened
The sheriff's office told Fox2 in St Louis that the suspect was wanted for possession of a controlled substance.
"We've gotta give props to Liberty PD for using their senses to sniff him out!" the sheriff's department joked to the news station.


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in 4 feet of snow?? WTF?
Maybe Benny Hinn came to town and Healed the owner??
unprepared. no block heater. no snow tires, no winter survival kit. but very little chance of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Now that's a cool ride. ;)
I hope it's not just a ride left behind after a death. That would make it sad instead of amusing.
Funny. Unless there's some poor debilitated person snowed in in his/her apartment.
I'm guessing that one was staged.
Probably got buried when they plowed the street.
It was a huge snowstorm in Boston around january 2001 outside my university on a busy street. That unfortunately is not the work of the plow (the plow buried cars up to the roof that year). There was (ironically) a gym and a PT center nearby, but the chair was left for the better part of a week.
THAT'S where I left my wheelchair!! [smacking myself in the head]
Is my face red!!!
What did the guy do carry it there?
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For the tenacious, at least. That's the translation of the Latin motto etched into the 18k rose gold face of Dutch supercar maker Spyker's new ultra-posh watches. Tenacity isn't all you'll need, though. A hookup at Spyker might help too, because with each style (there are four available) only 100 examples will be made. The timepieces celebrate Spyker's participation in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and are full of styling cues from the cars themselves, like the exhaust pipe-inspired pushbuttons, and steel dials inspired by the turned aluminum finish of the dashboard.
Forget that it's one of only eight made, and that it's the last known survivor. Ignore the fact that its instrument panel is chock full of priceless Jaeger-LeCoultre instruments. The real selling point here is its original owner: Sir Winston Churchill. Winnie's Whip, a 1939 Daimler DB18 Drophead Coupe, the car he rode around in before and after the Great War, is expected to fetch a cool half mil, though some estimates put it higher, considering its rarity and unique history. Happy bidding.
What puts a bike's price tag just south of $100K, you ask? For starters, the carbon and Kevlar monocoque chassis of Renard's new Grand Tourer weighs in at a lean 24 pounds. Then there's the Moto Guzzi 1,200cc Quattrovalvole V-twin engine, belting out 130 horses at 8000 rpm, and the fact that all other metal pieces on the bike are CNC machined from a solid block of aircraft-grade aluminum. If the thought of the 143-mph top speed doesn't terrify you, maybe Renard's tagline will. They call it a surgeon's blade on two wheels. On second thought, maybe you should sit this one out.
Walter de'Silva, the man who brought us some of the most iconic Audi, VW, Bugatti, Lamborghini, and Bentley designs, apparently felt his portfolio needed something a little more impressive. And the result is this, the be-all, end-all rangefinder: the Leica M9 Titanium. Suffice it to say that technical specs are top-notch, but what you're paying for here is pure photographic sex, and the exclusivity that comes with it; only 500 will be made, and you know they're all gonna sell.
That theory that says the simplest explanation is most likely the correct one is fittingly accurate here. Baxter of California has foregone the gimmicky let's add another blade trend in razors and opted instead for simplicity. Baxter tapped blade makers Hart Steel to produce a limited-edition run of these black beauties. With a 14k gold 45 inlay on the spine of the blackened steel blade, a nod to 45 years in business, and a bespoke Makr leather sleeve, you'll be on the cutting edge of style.
Estonian sculptor Mati Karmin's work is the bomb. Literally. The guy is taking decommissioned Russian AGSB-type naval mines found off the coast of his homeland and turning them into ultra high-end furniture. Talk about one man's trash being another's treasure. You could theoretically deck out your entire house with the stuffhe's making mines into desks, chairs, toilets, beds, fireplaces, and chandeliers.
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Duke's Waikiki is one of those restaurants that goes far beyond the food. It lets you feel a little history as well as experiencing what is behind the name Duke's. Being hailed as Hawaii's official "Ambassador of Aloha" is a big billing, but one that was fitting of Duke Kahanamoku. Duke's Waikiki takes on all that Duke was, you not only get a sense of his historical significance in surfing, but also all that he meant as a human being and that all translates into the one restaurant that you must experience while in Waikiki.
As you approach Duke's located on the beach at the amazing Outrigger Waikiki, the first sense you get of what a fabulous restaurant is the number of people everywhere. It is a pretty good clue that you might be in for something special when you have to jostle your way through a crowd just to put your name in, which leads me to some words of wisdom, get to Duke's early whenever you are dining. Although, when you consider the view it is a pretty good place to grab a cocktail and wait for you name to be called.
Duke's is not a one-time visit type of restaurant, but considering you are on vacation and have a lot of things going on we will give you two times to make sure you visit Duke's. The breakfast buffet, there is really no better way to start your day off. A little coffee, maybe some POG (passion-orange-guava) to go along with the ocean breeze and a little sunrise glistening off of the ocean as you watch the surfers trying to catch some early waves, you might just never want to leave. This is a breakfast buffet so no worries in terms of getting enough to eat. You can have an omelet to order, a wide variety of fresh fruit, pancakes and French toast that you can douse with tropical strawberry, coconut or maple syrup just to get you started. My favorite item that I have never come across before was "Duke's Own Pina Colada Bread Pudding." Normally a bread pudding at a buffet is something I would pass on, but I was glad I gave this one a try as it was prepared properly and was still fresh and you really could taste the pina colada flavor without it being to overpowering, this was a real treat and worth trying. Duke's also does a lunch buffet from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. that features island style fish and kalua pork and cabbage.
The other time to visit Duke's would be Sunday night and either make a reservation or get their early and hope for the best. People line up early for this 4:45 dinner kickoff and they don't mind waiting. If you can get a table you are in for a great night, Duke's clears off what is normally the pool/beach deck for the Outrigger and they turn it into a live entertainment venue with a beer garden feel. This event is standing room only as the locals know this is the place to be on Sunday night and travelers if they don't know it, soon learn of it and join in the fun. You can't go wrong eating dinner, taking in the music, people watching as well as stunning view of the ocean as the sun goes down. If you can't get a table right away, head out to the deck, grab a cocktail and dance, make new friends, just have a great time. Just a warning, if you want a quiet dinner, Sunday night at Duke's is not for you.
Once you do get that table if you are a connoisseur of prime rib don't waste anytime ordering it, as it is spectacular and it does not last very long. This is Hawaii and it is hard to turn down some of the freshest and best tasting fish in the world and Duke's does not disappoint. To make sure you have the freshest fish, the Duke's menu will vary but whatever is available at the time you get some tasty variations in how it is prepared. You can go with the baked "Duke's" style in which your fish is baked in garlic, lemon and a sweet basil glaze or try the sautéed mac nut and herb crusted version. If you are looking for the best of both worlds, do as Duke's suggests and take your steak surfing by adding a ¼ pound roasted Tristan lobster tail. Duke's serves up an incredibly tender steak to go along with a perfectly prepared lobster tail that in not lacking in meat. Duke's also adds their salad bar to every entrée so come to dinner with an appetite. Plenty of fresh fruit, a wide variety of salads including a nice and light Caesar salad and a kale salad with walnuts that you aren't likely to find at any other salad bar.
Hopefully you have a big group so you can finish off your dinner properly by order Kimo's Original Hula Pie. They say this is what the sailors swam to shore for in Lahaina and after one bit you will know why. A monster piece of a vanilla ice cream pie, topped with hot fudge and macadamia nuts and it also had a cookie crumb base. The only problem for you is trying to get a little of each flavor in every bite. This is the only way to end of the evening.
If you want to take in some history of Hawaii, fantastic food, a view that is right off of a postcard and service that is good as it gets, well Duke's is the place for you. You will leave not only with a memorable meal, but an experience that is defined by the name Duke's.


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Bren Herrera is a professional chef and owner of the award-winning culinary blog Flanboyant Eats, where she documents her life as a food writer and private chef. Bren also hosts the travel webseries, "Dine Out," where she lends her cooking expertise and explores different cuisines from across the globe.
Originally from Cuba, Herrera adds her own unique Latina flavor to all of her dishes. Now living in Atlanta, GA and Washington, D.C., Bren has experienced loads of sweet success- appearing on NBC's Daytime morning show, CNN en Español, and even appeared with Emeril Lagasse on the Discovery Network. Herrera also writes for Cuisine Noir, NBC Latino, Mamiverse and many other publications - and has even been featured on Latina.com!
In addition to her thriving career, Bren has received a B.A. in Political Science and English Literature from The University of Virginia. Thanks to her passion for culture and her drive and determination, Bren Herrera is this week's Inspiring Latina!


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TMingyur wrote:Isolated Tibet with its isolated truths. What happened in India? Obviously the experience that "the isolated truths of isolated Tibet" is not "all".Will wrote:Before the Dalai Lama left Tibet he thought Buddhism was the "only true religion". But his attitude changed when he visited India in 1956. What happened in India?
From Toward a True Kinship of FaithsMy visit to the Theosophical Society in Chennai (then Madras) left a powerful impression. There I was directly exposed to people, and to a movement, that attempted to bring together the wisdom of the world's spiritual traditions, as well as science... After more than three months in what was a most amazing country ... I was a changed man. I could no longer live in the comfort of an exclusivist standpoint that takes Buddhism to be the only true religion.
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What is the ESL Major Series?
The ESL Major Series is a series of prize winning eSports tournaments hosted by the Electronic Sports League. Since the summer of 2007 we have hosted a total of ten seasons with over 30 games, 218.000 Euros prize money and an incredible amount of teams and players involved from national qualifiers until the finals. The tournaments are the highest level of online European competition for a number of deserving gaming titles that are not included in our Intel Extreme Masters.
The tournament kicks off with national and international qualifiers spead over the whole of the Electronic Sports League, with only the best of each region surviving each phase of qualification to win themselves a slot into the main round, the groupstage.
While the ESL Major Series is European based, we accept teams and players from all over the world if the competitive side of the game (ping, etc.) allows it ( League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth, etc.).
There are two types of groupstages in the EMS, depending on the size of the game and popularity based on the many different country sections here on ESL, they either have a 24 or 16 participant groupstage. Once more only the best will make it out and move on to the playoffs stage and eventually the grand final.
The basic principle in the ESL Major Series is that everyone gets at least one chance and each season we strive for the best of each game.
We have our trusted strong titles in the league such as Counter-Strike: Source (first person shooter), Call of Duty (first person shooter), FIFA (sports) and Trackmania Nations Forever (racing) and we have a number of sponsored titles each season.
Heroes of Newerth
League of Legends
World of Tanks
Avalon Heroes
Before the start of every edition we look at the activity from the games here on ESL and decide if one or more titles need to be changed or added. If you don't see your favourite game in the list, then do what you can to make it more active and it could be included. Counter-Strike 1.6 and StarCraft 2 are exclusive to the Intel Extreme Masters.
Live Streaming and other BroadcastsWe continuously look for different media partners in all of our games of all broadcasting platforms in as many languages as possible. We already have several partnerships, cooperation's and individual streams are made every day (keep an eye on your favourite matches). Our in-house IPTV ESL TV is also covering some of our most prestigious matches.
Three random shows ESL TV has hosted for the ESL Major Series:
League of Legends
Grand Final
World of Tanks
Grand Final
Heroes of Newerth
Grand Final
What is eSports?
It is an acronym for electronic sports. This refers to the competitive aspects of computer game tournaments. Players train hours after hours to become the best in their game. The ESL Major Series features the best players and teams from across Europe and beyond whose matches are followed online by thousands of players.
How can I take part?
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Economic Quarterly Report Dutch version
World order turned upside down: what is the impact on growth?
We expect moderate global economic growth of around 3 per cent in 2017 and 2018. American protectionism will expectedly have a negative effect on world trade growth. Political developments in the US and Europe constitute the biggest source of uncertainty.


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On the occasion of its 150th anniversary, this article explores the background and the story of Kentucky v. Dennison, 65 U.S. (24 How.) 66 (1861), an important extradition case that the Supreme Court decided on the eve of the start of the Civil War. The case arose after Kentucky indicted a "free man of color" in Ohio for the crime of aiding the escape of a Kentucky slave. The Governor of Kentucky requested that Ohio extradite the defendant, and the Governor of Ohio refused. Kentucky brought an original mandamus action in the Supreme Court against the Ohio Governor in the fall of 1860, the case was heard in February, 1861, and decided in mid-March of that year, only a few weeks before Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter. Chief Justice Taney wrote the unanimous opinion of the Court, which held that the Ohio Governor had a clear constitutional duty to turn over the fugitive Kentucky sought, but that the Court and Congress lacked the constitutional power to compel the Ohio Governor to do so. The article examines the events surrounding the case, and offers some comments on "Marbury v. Madison moments," the legacy of Chief Justice Taney, the subsequent career of Governor Dennison, and the principles the case established, one of which the Supreme Court expressly overruled 125 years later.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
McAllister on Kentucky v. Dennison (1861)
A Marbury v. Madison Moment on the Eve of the Civil War has just been posted by Stephen R. McAllister, University of Kansas - School of Law. It appeared in Green Bag 2D, Vol. 14, p. 405, Summer 2011. Here's the abstract:
Posted by Mary L. Dudziak at 9:38 AM
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- Shag from Brookline said...
While the entire article is quite interesting, the part that struck me between the eyes (page 410) is this excerpt from Kentucky Governor Magoffin's June 4, 1860 letter to Ohio Governor Dennison:
"It is sufficient to say that the federal Constitution was the work of delegates whose almost entire constituency were citizens of slave States. It may, in truth, be said that the Constitution was the work of slaveholders; that their wisdom, moderation, and prudence gave it to us. Non-slave-holding States were then the exception, not the rule. The organic law of the nation recognized by its provisions, in unmistakable terms, the right to slave property, some of which provisions were designed for its protection."
- October 22, 2011 at 6:59:00 AM EDT
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Carol Lamont, the manager of East Palo Alto's rent-control program, tendered her resignation March 12, after the City Manager's office commissioned an audit of her program that many rent-board members and the City Council did not even know about.
Without directly relating her resignation to the audit, Lamont told the board that May 10 would be her last day. But she told the Weekly on Wednesday that her written response to the audit summed up why she is departing.
"I was very explicit in stating my reasons in my response to the review of the rent-stabilization program that the city manager has conducted by a consultant," she said.
The City Manager's office referred a request for Lamont's response to the City Attorney for review.
Lamont's resignation, and the discovery that City Manager Magda Gonzalez had commissioned the audit without other city officials' knowledge, surprised and dismayed some board members and council members. Lamont is highly qualified for her job, they said.
The consultant, Nadine Levin of Municipal Resource Group in Wilton, Calif., was hired for a high-level review of the program's efficiency and effectiveness and its financial structure.
The audit does not show anything illegal on Lamont's part, but the consultant was critical of Lamont, who is not directly named in the 16-page report but is identified as the program administrator.
The city's rent ordinance was established in 1988 to protect tenants from unreasonable rent increases, arbitrary, discriminatory or retaliatory evictions and to assure landlords the right to a fair return, according to the city's website. The program allows tenants who live in neglected, hazardous or unsanitary conditions to petition the board, and for landlords to also file petitions regarding disputes and evictions.
Perhaps the most stinging criticism of Lamont accuses her of "a perceived lack of neutrality" in working with landlords.
The consultant interviewed landlords and tenants, and tenants found the program's services "very good." But landlords perceived inconsistent treatment and delays by program staff in providing information, such as tenant petitions. The result was that the tenant had to wait for resolution to the problem.
Some landlords said they felt the administration did not tell the tenant to contact the landlord first regarding complaints, but instead told the tenant to file a petition or directly report the landlord to regulatory agencies without giving the landlord an opportunity to respond.
City Council member Ruben Abrica said he wants to know about the audit's methodology. The auditor interviewed only 15 persons, including rent stabilization board members, city attorneys, tenant legal-assistance organizations, program staff, landlords, tenants and the city manager -- leaving some question as to the depth of the responses.
Abrica and some rent-board members questioned why they weren't asked to review the contract and weren't privvy to how much the consultant was paid, he said.
"Fifteen years ago, there was a review of the program. It was all above-board, and the rent board knew what was going on. This all came out of nowhere. East Palo Alto is not such a huge bureaucracy that the city manager could not communicate to the council and the board," he said.
The audit recommends achieving better financial health for the program, whose expenses exceeded revenue by $152,000 or 27 percent, according to a preliminary fiscal year 2012-13 budget. The program has a projected deficit of $107,000 or 18.6 percent for the adopted fiscal year 2013-14 budget. The program is funded by annual fees. East Palo Alto's program has 2,325 regulated units and a $717,000 budget.
The city should also establish specific guidelines for the administrator's role so that she understands who is her supervisor and the limits of her job, the report notes.
But staff, and in particular the administrator, may also have too-heavy a workload.
Lamont's announcement of her departure has stunned rent board members, who praise her work as exemplary.
"Nobody but Carol could have gotten this program going the way she has," board member Midge Dorn said. "It's going to be very difficult to find somebody else to step into her shoes."
In light of Lamont's resignation, Dorn raised doubts about the city manager's supervision of the program.
"It would be better if the program was being supervised by the city attorney. It's a law that was passed, and the city attorney should oversee it, not the city manager, because her job is to handle policy and not law," she said.
The city manager has not come to any board meetings, but the city attorney regularly helps the board. The audit is a public document, and it should have been released, she added.
Gonzalez did not return a request for comment.
Board member Shryee Randolph, one of two members interviewed for the audit, said she supports Lamont.
"I feel like Carol is a very dedicated, hardworking person. She cares about the community and she is doing a good job. She's very professional. Even if you talk to landlords, she tries to work with them and she tries to be fair," she said.
Randolph said the audit interview took about five minutes and the interviewer only asked a few minor questions.
"I told (the interviewer) the same thing I'm telling you," she said.
"If we lose (Lamont), the rent stabilization board would suffer so much," she added. "The City of East Palo Alto needs the rent board and someone who cares about the people in this community. Carol loves the people of this community. I'm not sure she wants to go. There may be something going on that she feels she has to leave. Maybe she can't work under certain conditions."


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1. General Description. - Trenton Dam is located on the Republican River about 2-1/2 mises west of Trenton, Hitchcock County, Nebr. The dam is a rolledearth structure approximately 8, 600 feet long and rises 144 feet above the lowest point of the excavation. A spillway with a maximum discharge capacity of 126,500 secondfeet, constructed through the left abutment, protects the structure from possible flood damage. A river outlet is provided through the spillway structure for river regulation. At the opposite end of the dam another outlet works is provided to meet irrigation requirements. This outlet works forms the headworks for the Meeker Irrigation Canal. An aerial view of Trenton Dam is shown in figure 1.
The dam is one of the key storage and flood control features of the Missouri River Basin project. Among the benefits derived from the construction of Trenton Dam are flood control, diversion for irrigation, storage, sedimentation control, fish and wildlife preservation, and recreation.
2. History and Authorization. - The extreme drought of the 1930-1940 decade focused nationwide attention on this and surrounding areas in Nebraska and the midwest. Periodic floods with accompanying loss of lives and property damage in the Republican River Valley stimulated further interest of State and local groups in providing protective measures against nature's elements. In the flood of 1935, over 100 lives were lost and much property destroyed. Heavy property damage was also caused by a series of floods in 1947.
The Frenchman-Cambridge division, of which Trenton Dam is part, was authorized as an approved division of the Missouri River Basin development plan by the Flood Control Act (Public Law 534) of December 22, 1944, 78th Congress, 2nd Session. Enders Dam and Medicine Creek Dam, both Bureau dams, are also parts of the Frenchman-Cambridge division. Enders Dam is located near Enders, Nebr., and Medicine Creek Dam 8 miles northwest of Cambridge, Nebr. This development plan was outlined in Senate Document No. 247 as a coordinated plan of the Bureau of Reclamation and the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. In July of 1947, funds were appropriated by Congress for an accelerated flood control program, including a specific appropriation of $300,000 for early construction of Culbertson Dam and Reservoir. The names of these features were changed to Trenton Dam and Swanson Lake, respectively, by Congress upon enactment of Public Law 61 on May 12, 1949.
3. Alternative Sites. - A tentative dam site was selected on the Republican River about 8 mises east of Trenton, Nebr., and 2 miles west of the confluence of Frenchman Creek and Republican River near Culbertson, Nebr. Extensive studies and exploration of the dam site were accelerated by the Congressional action in 1947. Results of studies disclosed unfavorable foundation conditions, a higher than anticipated railroad relocation cost, and necessity for a protective dike at the head of the lake for the town of Trenton. Alternative sites west of Trenton were studied and a site 2 miles west of Trenton was finally selected as the best suited topographically and geologically, which also afforded the most economical railroad relocation. (See fig. 2.)
4. Geology. - In the vicinity of Trenton Dam sedimentry deposits extend to a depth of about 7,000 feet and rest on pre-Cambrian granites. The lowest and oldest formation exposed during dam construction was Pierre shale, which at the damsite has a thickness of about 1,000 feet. This shale, deposited during the Cretaceous period, is overlain in the river valley by alluvial sands and on the valley abutments by Ogallala sand and gravel deposits. These deposits at both abutments are capped by a Loveland loess strata about 15 feet thick which is overlain by Peoria loess that forms the upper and surface layer of the region.
The loess encountered at both abutments is composed primarily of fine, loosely cemented, angular grains of fine sand admixed with calcareous particles and small amounts of clay and organic materials. It has low unit weight and varies considerably in density because of the haphazard arrangement of particles and inconsistent amounts of cementing clays and calcareous materials. The average mineralogical composition of samples taken from the abutment is as follows:


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PALM COAST, Fla. – A preliminary investigation blames catastrophic engine failure for the plane crash into a Palm Coast home two weeks ago that killed a pilot and his two passengers.
The plane crashed and burst into flames on Jan. 4 about a mile short of an emergency landing at Flagler County Airport.
Pilot Michael Anders, 57, and Duane Shaw, 59, both from Kentucky, and 42-year-old Charissee Peoples, of Indiana, died in the crash.
DOCUMENT: NTSB preliminary report
The plane went down at 2:19 p.m., less than 10 minutes after the pilot declared an emergency and reported smoke in the cockpit, telling a Daytona Beach air traffic controller: "We're just getting a little vibration. We have oil pressure problems. We're gonna have to drop quickly here."
Based on the last radio communications with the pilot and evidence at the crash site, the initial National Transportation Safety Board report says the single-engine Beechcraft H35 lost all oil pressure.
The pilot got an airport surveillance radar, or ASR, guiding him to runway 29 at Flagler County Airport in Palm Coast. The NTSB said the pIlot did hold an instrument rating, but minutes later, he reported that engine oil pressure was zero with "cool cylinders." The NTSB report says Daytona Approach cleared the pilot to land, but two miles out from the runway they heard no other transmissions from the plane.
The report says witnesses saw the plane flying low on final approach and about one mile from the approach to the end of runway 29, they lost sight of the plane behind tall pine trees.
As the plane neared the airport at an "unusually low altitude," it clipped a tree and fell almost vertically into the house, which was about 4,200 feet southeast of the airport.
The three on board died at the scene. The wreckage and the home were mostly destroyed by flames.
The homeowner, Susan Crockett, bailed out a bedroom window to escape the crash and subsequent fire. She was shaken up, but uninjured.
Crockett said Friday she's doing as well as she can after a plane crashed into her house. She said she hadn't looked at the NTSB report, but her lawyer did and said the issues with the plane's oil is something they will explore.
"We would assume that e crash would have resulted as a result of pilot error, but now there is also indication that it could have been something mechanical," Crockett's attorney, Marc Dwyer, said. "And so that will be something that we will be following up with."
Crockett said her life is much different since the crash.
"Not sleeping well, having nightmares, sleeping a lot during the day, can't go back to work, loud noises make me jump and they scare me," she said.
Crockett, who lost everything from clothes, appliances, food and her bed, has been staying at a retirement home where her daughter works and said right now she can't see herself moving back into the home where she nearly lost her life.
"It was just unreal to look at it or if I see a picture of it in the newspaper, that I actually got out of there," she said.
NTSB says this is just the beginning of its investigation. For Crockett, it's the beginning of the long road ahead.
"I know my belief in God is going to take me through," she said. "I don't know what in have in store, but I know that it's going to be a long and rocky road."
The plane had taken off from Fort Pierce that morning headed to Knoxville, Kentucky. The three were returning from spending the Christmas holidays in the British Virgin Island, were the plane was registered.
Anders taught Spanish at Clinton County High School, and also coached golf and sponsored the chess club.
The NTSB says the airplane wreckage was moved to a nearby storage facility for examination. The engine will be shipped to the manufacturer's facility at a future date for additional examination.


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Today's guest post is from Tressie McMillan Cottom, PhD Candidate at Emory University, an expert in for profit education and a former admissions and financial aid counselor in two for-profit schools. Ms McMillian Cottom took some time to share with our readers some insight into her research and insights on the growing for-profit college industry.
There are a lot of factors to consider your sophomore and junior year of high school when you embark upon your college application planning. Do you want to move as far away from home as possible or be close enough for Sunday dinners? Do you want the intimate environment of small, liberal arts colleges or the rush of a large, urban campus? What fields of study should your dream college offer? What kind of social life can you build once you get there? The list goes on and on.
One thing rarely considered but, perhaps, equally important to those other considerations is the institutional type of your dream school. Institutional type refers to the mission of the college. By college mission I don't mean "to live and serve" but "to profit or not to profit." If you don't know the difference between a for-profit college and a not-for-profit college don't feel badly. You're not alone. A new research report found that among adults enrolled in online college degree programs, 17 percent had no idea if their school was for-profit or not-for-profit. More importantly, the question you might be asking is why you should care about the institutional type of your college.
Good question.


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Violence prompts lockdown through end of school year
CINCINNATI -- A rash of daytime violence around a local elementary school has prompted a lockdown through the end of the school year and has some worried the school may permanently close.
Officials Lincoln Heights Elementary School at sent a letter home to parents this week explaining the decision. The lockdown began Wednesday after a school board decision Monday night. The school year ends June 2.
It came about a week after two people were shot nearby on a nearby street corner. That mid-morning gunfire occurred just a few months after a random bullet soared into the back window of an empty school bus at a middle school stop, lodging in the front of the bus next to the driver's head, said Princeton City Schools Superintendent Gary Pack.
In August, right after the school year began, a young child was shot inside a vehicle, he said.
"We feel that it is necessary due to the continued random shootings in the neighborhood and the fact that bullets don't have eyes," Pack said. "Those are continuing to happen in the village, and they are happening during the day when school is in session."
The lockdown eliminates recess and extracurricular activities for the school's 200 students in preschool through fifth grade. Visitors must be buzzed in at the main entrance.
"We must ensure the safety and security of all students, visitors and staff," the school's principal wrote in the letter to parents. "Please be aware that the violent acts within the community are random, and still occurring with some frequency."
District officials have asked Lincoln Heights village leaders to step up patrols around the school and supply a school resource officer to walk the halls. If that is not approved, the school district plans to ask the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office to do it.
"We are trying to do our best to finish the school year and keep folks as safe as we can under the circumstances," Pack said, adding that the school's 20 staff members also have expressed concern for their safety as they drive in and out of the village.
Lincoln Heights Police Chief Conroy Chance declined an interview request from The Enquirer and referred questions to Village Manager Stephanie Summerow Dumas. She said school officials are unhappy with the time it takes officers to notify them of nearby shootings.
Parents and community members attended a meeting Friday afternoon at the Lincoln Heights Municipal Building to discuss the situation. One possible solution discussed was to shut the school down all together and distribute the kids among neighboring elementary schools, but residents do not consider this a valid option.
"They're getting ready to sign petitions and let the board members know they don't want the school closed," Dumas said.
Neema Coleman attended Lincoln Heights Elementary School and has two children who attend it now. She walks her kids to school every day and does not want them to have to leave the community for school.
"They've been talking about closing Lincoln Heights for two or three years now," she said Friday. "It started in a little ball, and now it's just erupted."


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Rusty Hardin, Roger Clemens's attorney,
said Tuesday night that he and other attorneys working for his firm have begun their own investigation into allegations that link Clemens to the use of steroids and human growth hormone. ...The only way Billy can win this is if he's 100% innocent -- and that seems highly doubtful. The allegations are way beyond anything for which Clemens can offer some Pettitte-esque "I did it once (or twice) and didn't like it" BS.
Hardin said the investigation of the allegations had found several individuals had not spoken with Mitchell's investigators, but who were around Clemens during the time in which he is alleged to have been using illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
"We are convinced the conclusions in Mitchell's report are wrong and are investigating the findings ourselves," Hardin said in a telephone interview.
A total assault on the charges may be the only way he can fight this. It's more than a little risky. This should be one hell of a crash and burn.