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Feed Wrangler
The demise of Google Reader came as a surprise to many, but not David Smith. David had been working on an RSS service for a few months before Google announced the retirement of Google Reader. The timing of the announcement however, forced a significant change in his plans. He quickly ramped up development with the goal of an April release to give users plenty of time to migrate before the July 1st shutdown of Google Reader. After months of hard work, David's alternative to Google Reader, Feed Wrangler was released on Tuesday, April 30.
Feed Wrangler is not simply an RSS reader; it is an RSS platform. A Feed Wrangler subscription is $18.99 a year and gives you access to the Feed Wrangler website, the iOS (iPhone and iPad) app, and an upcoming Mac OS X app. David is also planning on releasing an API that will allow third party developers to integrate the Feed Wrangler service into their apps. Since the users are paying David directly for the service, he isn't concerned whether you are using the official Feed Wrangler apps or third party apps. I hope that Feed Wrangler develops a large following and the API garners a healthy ecosystem of apps and services built on top of it.
Feed Wrangler handled my migration from Google Reader nearly seamlessly. It did change my In Focus feed to the generic The Atlantic master feed, but this was easily corrected. One of the first things I noticed in Feed Wrangler was the lack of folder support. I was taken aback for a moment until I discovered the Smart Streams. Smart Streams are much more powerful than folders in that you can create a group of feeds based on a filter. For example, you could create an Apple Smart Stream that only contains posts mentioning Apple. I am currently using Smart Streams as I was using folders in Google Reader. I created a smart stream for Tech that only has feeds from a select group of technology-related sites that I manually selected.
The Feed Wrangler website is pretty minimalist. The website focuses on enabling users to quickly process their feeds and succeeds flawlessly in this goal. I find that I am able to scan through my feeds and process them faster with Feed Wrangler than I could with Google Reader. The only issue is that the website is lacking more powerful features like keyboard navigation, direct sharing, and mark unread. I would also like to see a small post preview beneath each title with one or two lines of the post content.
The Feed Wrangler Website
The iOS apps are also not as full featured as many other top RSS readers in the App Store today. I would like to see more gesture controls and a better focus on reading. Adding some additional fonts and possibly a dark theme for late night reading would go a long way. Despite lacking some of these features, the iOS apps are very fast and like the website, excel in allowing you to quickly get through your feeds.
Feed Wrangler for iOS
Overall Feed Wrangler shows some great promise. I know David has been working hard to get the service ready for launch and has a large feature-rich roadmap in front of him. Since the Feed Wrangler revenue comes directly from user subscriptions, he has every incentive to continue making Feed Wrangler a world class RSS service that will stand out in an ever more crowded market. Do yourself a favor and check it out. There is no trial version, but if you sign up for Feed Wrangler from the website, you are guaranteed a refund within 14 days if it's not the service for you.


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The father of the Constitution
Reentering the Virginia legislature in 1784, Madison defeated Patrick Henry's bill to give financial support to teachers of the Christian religion. To avoid the political effect of his extreme nationalism, he persuaded the states-rights advocate John Tyler to sponsor the calling of the Annapolis Convention of 1786, which, aided by Madison's influence, produced the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
There his Virginia, or large-state, Plan, put forward through Governor Edmund Randolph, furnished the basic framework and guiding principles of the Constitution, earning him the title of father of the Constitution. Madison believed keenly in the value of a strong government in which power was well controlled because it was well balanced among the branches. (See primary source document: A Plurality of Interests and a Balance of Power.) Delegate William Pierce of Georgia wrote that, in the management of every great question, Madison always comes forward the best informed Man of any point in debate. Pierce called him a Gentleman of great modestywith a remarkable sweet temper. He is easy and unreserved among his acquaintances, and has a most agreeable style of conversation.
Madison took day-by-day notes of debates at the Constitutional Convention, which furnish the only comprehensive history of the proceedings. To promote ratification he collaborated with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay in newspaper publication of the Federalist papers (Madison wrote 29 out of 85), which became the standard commentary on the Constitution. His influence produced ratification by Virginia and led John Marshall to say that, if eloquence included persuasion by convincing, Mr. Madison was the most eloquent man I ever heard.
Elected to the new House of Representatives, Madison sponsored the first 10 amendments to the Constitutionthe Bill of Rightsplacing emphasis in debate on freedom of religion, speech, and press. His leadership in the House, which caused the Massachusetts congressman Fisher Ames to call him our first man, came to an end when he split with Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton over methods of funding the war debts. Hamilton's aim was to strengthen the national government by cementing men of wealth to it; Madison sought to protect the interests of Revolutionary veterans.
Hamilton's victory turned Madison into a strict constructionist of the congressional power to appropriate for the general welfare. He denied the existence of implied power to establish a national bank to aid the Treasury. Later, as president, he asked for and obtained a bank as almost [a] necessity for that purpose, but he contended that it was constitutional only because Hamilton's bank had gone without constitutional challenge. Unwillingness to admit error was a lifelong characteristic. The break over funding split Congress into Madisonian and Hamiltonian factions, with Fisher Ames now calling Madison a desperate party leader who enforced a discipline as severe as the Prussian. (Madisonians turned into Jeffersonians after Jefferson, having returned from France, became secretary of state.)
In 1794 Madison married a widow, Dolley Payne Todd (Dolley Madison), a handsome, buxom, vivacious Quaker 17 years his junior, who rejected church discipline and loved social activities. Her first husband had died in the yellow fever epidemic the previous year. She periodically served as official hostess for President Jefferson, who was a widower. As Madison's wife, she became a fixture at soirées, usually wearing a colourful feathered turban and an elegant dress ornamented with jewelry and furs. She may be said to have created the role of First Lady as a political partner of the president, although that label did not come into use until much later. An unpretentious woman, she ate heartily, gambled, rouged her face lavishly, and took snuff. The Wednesday drawing rooms that she instituted for the public added to her popularity. She earned the nation's undying gratitude for rescuing a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington in 1814 just ahead of the British troops who put the torch to the White House in the War of 1812.
Madison left Congress in 1797, disgusted by John Jay's treaty with England, which frustrated his program of commercial retaliation against the wartime oppression of U.S. maritime commerce. The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 inspired him to draft the Virginia Resolutions of that year, denouncing those statutes as violations of the First Amendment of the Constitution and affirming the right and duty of the states to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil. Carefully worded to mean less legally than they seemed to threaten, they forced him to spend his octogenarian years combating South Carolina's interpretation of them as a sanction of state power to nullify federal law.
During eight years as Jefferson's secretary of state (180109), Madison used the words The President has decided so regularly that his own role can be discovered only in foreign archives. British diplomats dealing with Madison encountered asperity of temper and fluency of expression. Senators John Adair and Nicholas Gilman agreed in 1806 that he governed the President, an opinion held also by French minister Louis-Marie Turreau.

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PLATTSBURGH - State University of New York at Plattsburgh students will lead a concentrated day of service at several sites throughout the Plattsburgh area for the third time this academic year.
More than 100 SUNY Plattsburgh students are slated to complete volunteer projects Saturday, April 24, working in many instances side by side with members of the Plattsburgh community, benefitting individuals and organizations ranging from the North Country Cultural Center for the Arts and the Plattsburgh Community Garden Group to senior citizens in their own homes and in nursing homes.
SUNY Plattsburgh sponsored its first large-scale community-wide day of service Oct. 24, 2009, on National Make-A-Difference Day. The inaugural event saw more than 100 students volunteer throughout the community, receiving positive feedback from a number of organizations for their efforts. The college also backed a service day Feb. 13, an effort focused largely at helping local senior citizens at nursing homes and at private residences.
In addition, students working with Project H.E.L.P, a student-driven organization looking to engage interested students in volunteer experiences throughout the Plattsburgh area, have logged more than 4,000 hours of volunteer service at local sites.
As with the two previous large-scale service days, student volunteers will work in various capacities for a wide range of organizations. A work crew of 20 students will assist volunteers from the North Country Cultural Center for the Arts in maintenance work on the interior of the historic Strand Theatre. Another group will help members of the Plattsburgh Community Garden Group prepare the garden for the upcoming growing season. Another team will assist workers at Evergreen Valley Nursing Home by completing exterior maintenance tasks and playing games with the senior citizen residents.
Point au Roche State Park will also benefit from the service of SUNY students. A number of students will be assigned to the park to work with Park Manager Christopher Case in readying the site for the park's "Healthy Parks-Healthy People" eco-fair Saturday, May 8.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – There are some out there who might say that Marlon Brown's career was a disappointment, that he didn't live up to expectations. A 5-star signee out of Memphis, the 6-foot-5, 230-pound receiver never earned even All-SEC honorable mention honors or had 500 yards receiving in a season. But it could be argued that there is not a more beloved teammate among the Georgia Bulldogs than Brown, whose attitude on and off the field permeates everything he does.
Nowhere was that more evident than on Nov. 3 when Brown suffered a season-ending ACL injury in the third quarter against Ole Miss. Brown, the Bulldogs' leading receiver at the time, was in the midst of a huge game. He'd just made his third catch for 113 yards when a defensive back came crashing into his left knee and twisted it to bring him down. The best season of his injury-marred career ended right at that moment, with 27 catches for 469 yards and four touchdowns.
"It was good from the very beginning," Georgia coach Mark Richt said of Brown's attidute. "I remember calling him not long after it happened and was expecting him to really be in the tank, but he wasn't. He's a mature man now and he knows it's not so much what happens to you but how you handle it. He's handled it very well. Ron (Courson) said he has been phenomenal as far as his rehab. I don't think there's any doubt he'll be back really healthy and have a good chance to be drafted and have a chance to play NFL football. He ws having a wonderful season. It's just a shame that he got hurt, for him and for us, too. We missed him."
Brown took a moment before one of the Bulldogs' Capital One Bowl practices to talk about his rehab and reflect on the career he's had at Georgia. . . .
Q: So how do you spend your time these days?
A: "I usually just wake up and go right to rehab, first thing in the morning. I go out to practice and I lift weights. It's been the same routine for the pasyt six weeks now."
Q: Everybody on the team talks about what a great attitude you've had throughout this ordeal. What would you say is your philosophy?
A: "Things happen in life. You've just got to get over it. Right now I tore my ACL. I can't be too sad about it. I was sad about it when it happened, but by the next day I was working, trying to make it better. Usually in life you have to overcome things and right now I'm trying to stay positive and take it one day at a time."
Q: How do you think it might affect your pro prospects?
A: "I've put up some good film for the scouts to look at and see what I can do. I feel like I should be good."
Q: What is the timeline on your recovery?
A: "I should be running and jogging in February. By April or May I should be doing stuff on the field again."
Q: How are you going to remember your career?
A: "To be honest, I'm going to reflect on it as I went out there every day and worked hard. At the end of the day, that's all I could ask for out of myself. I feel like from my freshman year to my senior year, I've stepped up and made plays when my team needed me to."
Q: Do you think of yourself as unlucky, or unfortunate?
A: "Never unlucky, never unfortunate. I'm very blessed to be at the University of Georgia, to even be in college. I just roll with the punches."
Q: What do you recall of the play on which you were injured?
A: "The only thing I remember is catching the ball. I saw him coming and I was either going to cut back or keep going down the sideline. By the time I got hit, I thought it was just a regular little hit, like somebody grabbed my leg. I'm a pretty big guy and guys are always tackling my legs. I thought it was a normal hit. But when I leaned up to get up, I couldn't get up. I thought it was a little sprain. I didn't believe it was an ACL."
Q: What's your plan going forward?
A: "I'll be in Athens rehabbing 'til April."
December 30th, 2012
11:36 am
December 30th, 2012
11:36 am
December 30th, 2012
11:37 am
I made it here 1st. Good luck to you and your future endeavors M. Brown.
December 30th, 2012
11:38 am
Get well soon Marlon. You will always be a DGD!
December 30th, 2012
11:41 am
December 30th, 2012
11:42 am
Timing is everything.
December 30th, 2012
11:47 am
why aren't people like 'buckeye' banned? i mean 'freedom of speech' can only go so far. hate is hate.
December 30th, 2012
12:03 pm
DGD! Good luck in your future MB and thanks for your hard work and dedication as a Dawg!
December 30th, 2012
12:25 pm
Love your attitude Marlon!! You will be remembered as a DGD!!
GodSpeed to you in your rehab…
Do well in your workouts..
Have a nice career at the next level!!!
December 30th, 2012
12:38 pm
"Buckeye" is probably 15 years old. "Put in Timeout" (the former 5150 POAD) is over 50; we know this for sure. The first in immaturaty we might expect. The latter is just plain sad…
December 30th, 2012
12:46 pm
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December 30th, 2012
12:54 pm
I still remember the day you announce you were going to be a Dawg! Kudo's to grandmother for helping tear you to CMR. I think it as the right decision and a good match. I am sorry for the injury as you were starting to really hit your stride but know you wil bounce back with such a positive attitude. Best wishes to you and a speedy recovery. You have represented UGA well and very proud of all your accomplishments. God bless MB.
December 30th, 2012
2:18 pm
No, Chip, the Ole Miss defensive back twisted Marlon's knee AFTER he was down; if you don't believe me, watch the video. It was a deliberate attempt to injure. Why that kid (No. 3?) wasn't suspended by the league, I cannot imagine.
December 30th, 2012
2:24 pm
Great attitude by a fine young man.. Wishing you the best. Dawg Fans appreciate your work at UGA. You will do well in life with hard work and such a great attitude. Life is not about your circumstances but what you make of them.
GOD Bless you.
Go Dawgs!
December 30th, 2012
2:33 pm
Buckeye…..you're nothing more than a prick. You think you got all the answers but everyone's laughing at you behind your back. How old are you…nine.? Ten? You're certainly not married….what woman would want to live with someone who thinks he knows it all?…..Go away little boy…we don't care what you think!
December 30th, 2012
2:51 pm
Mr. Brown has been a credit to the team and the University. I very much enjoyed watching him play the game, and I enjoy hearing about his good work ethic and attitude.
Go, Bulldogs!
December 30th, 2012
3:14 pm
Marlon, your attitude will do wonders for you in life! Thank you for your outstanding play in your career and I know there is a lot more to come! Best of luck with your rehab and successful return to the playing field! We're looking forward to seeing you again!!
December 30th, 2012
3:38 pm
[...] Q&A with Marlon Brown: 'Never unlucky, only blessed' [...]
December 30th, 2012
4:07 pm
Thank Marlon Brown. You were a great Bulldawg.
December 30th, 2012
4:39 pm
CLASS Act!!!!
December 30th, 2012
4:43 pm
yep Class act and DGD
December 30th, 2012
5:15 pm
What a Classy guy!!! Thanks for being a DAWG Marlon.
December 30th, 2012
5:24 pm
I actually quit following Ohio St. as monitoring the bulldog blogs and being among the first to comment is my life's work now. It is vitally important to spend my waking hours throwing rocks and mud at UGA fans. Given the fevered rivalry between Ohio St and UGA my motives make all the sense in the world.
December 30th, 2012
5:56 pm
Marlon Brown is a DGD!
December 31st, 2012
1:28 am
I think Buckeye is actually Kirk Herbstreit…. He's still pissed he sucked too bad to beat the Dawgs.
Nice season. What time is you guys bowl game? I'd hate to miss it.
Now on to important matters:
Thanks to Marlon Brown for showing a great attitude. Sure would've loved to have had him and Michael Bennett vs Bama. I think people underestimate the loss of MIchael Bennett on the last practice before the SC game and the effect that had on Aaron Murray… Losing Brown hurt bad too. both those guys are tall and caused serious problems for defenses. We needed those guys. It's a shame that injuries play such a big part in football. But it is what it is.
Hope to see you making big plays on Sundays, Marlon! Can't wait for Michael Bennett to suit back up for the Dawgs next year. I like the direction of our program. We need to shut the haters up with ZERO offseason issues and suspensions. If we can do that, I like our chances to come back strong next year!
Go Dawgs!
December 31st, 2012
8:16 am
I would like to request that the AJC hold this Q&A in permanent archive to be trotted out whenever the sad little turds that call UGA players thugs rear their pathetic little heads on these blogs. Marlon Brown is not an exception but he is exceptional. DGD. The world still has a chance when we have quality young men like this walking the planet.
December 31st, 2012
9:08 am
Thanks for doing this article Chip and giving everyone an update on a DGD, Marlon Brown. UGA had a great season and was oh so close to the elusive MNC. Bennett and Brown wouldn't have helped the run defense, but with them UGA may have scored enough points to overcome.
December 31st, 2012
10:11 am
Sending my very best to Marlon and his family. Thank you for everything!
Marlon Brown = DGD
December 31st, 2012
10:18 am
MB is a stud.
December 31st, 2012
10:54 am
There should be a bullseye on that punk from ole miss. Thanks Marlon Brown its a great to know you will be a big dawg for life
December 31st, 2012
12:48 pm
Marlon Brown since he signed with UGA has been a fan favorite. This season he was facing his best year at UGA. Things do happen and if this young man does keep this MARVELOUS, POSITIVE outlook, he will do very well.
Thank you for your contributions to UGA.
UGA man, class of 71&73
December 31st, 2012
1:04 pm
Wasn't the knee twist done by the same OM player who was suspended earlier in the year for targeting?
December 31st, 2012
4:46 pm
Buckeye just maybe Kirk Herbstreit….That Florida Citrus Bowl back in 93 still hurts huh Herby!
December 31st, 2012
7:03 pm
well it is good thing coach Richt taught him about Christ. He learned SOMETHING during his time at UGa then I guess. If you can't be Blessed with NFL money then just be Blessed in the life you are living.
January 3rd, 2013
8:53 am
Thanks Marlon…Damn good Dog. Saved us at Vandy last year. Big catches at Missouri this year. Good luck in Pros.


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Thesis = Business: PROJECTiONE
Recent graduates of the Masters program at Ball State University's College of Architecture and Planning, Adam Buente and Kyle Perry have spent the last couple years developing their unique interests and ideas into a business of their own. Working with fellow students Elizabeth Boone and Eric Brockmeyer, they began a collaborative graduate thesis project focused on exploring the possibilities of design and fabrication via digital equipment as a business platform. After their first year out of school they have begun to independently manage their Indiana based company. PROJECTiONE recently produced the ACADIA competition winner HYPERLAXITY and boast other projects such as EXOtique, bitMAPS, and Radiance. Words and images from the PROJECTiONE team after the break.
EXOtique / PROJECTiONE
Architects: PROJECTiONE
Location: Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA
Photographs: Courtesy of PROJECTiONE
Straw Bale Eco Center / Students of Ball State University Department of Architecture
Located on an 80 acre field station on the prairie of Muncie, Indiana the Straw Bale Eco Center was a community project between Ball State University Department of Architecture students, professors, building professionals, elementary school students and the general public. The classroom and ecology center was a project of complete collaboration, resulting in immersion learning, education outreach and research initiatives, it is the first carbon neutral load bearing straw bale public building in the region.
The Straw Bale Eco Center was awarded the 2008 Merit Award for Excellence in Architectural Design by AIA Indiana, 2008 Alternative Power and Energy Award, 2008 Accent on Architecture Award, and 2007 Green Building Initiative Award.
More photographs and drawings following the break.
Architects: Students of Ball State University Department of Architecture; Faculty Coordinator Timothy Gray, Gray Architecture
Location: 5800 Bethel Avenue Muncie, Indiana
Client: Field Station Oversight Committee, Ball State University
Project Area: 500 sqf
Project Year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Courtesy of Gray Architecture
Drawings: Dan Bajor


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Syre says he's 'bullish' on Blaine
David Syre is bullish on Blaine's future though like Fairhaven developer Ken Imus, he says that Blaine's potential may take some years to fully develop.
Syre, 66, is president and CEO of the Trillium Corporation, an international development company that has interests in North and South America.
His first project was the Snowater Condominium project just east of Glacier built in 1974. Trillium also developed the Wilder Farm north of Bellingham into the Cordata office complex, adjacent to Whatcom Community College, and began developing the four-star Semiahmoo Resort and residential community in Blaine in the early 1980's.
Syre's interest in Blaine has to do with the resort's future. According to Dan Washburn, owner and CEO of Windermere Realty in Whatcom County, who was interviewed on this subject last year, to be viable for the long term Semiahmoo needs to find ways to increase customer traffic.
In a conversation earlier this week, Syre agreed, saying that a revitalized downtown Blaine would be key in not only the resort's survival but in going beyond that to creating a major destination resort at Semiahmoo.
"We can cooperate together to bring a new kind of retail experience here, one that I call organic," he said, "that emphasizes local and regional businesses instead of national chains." Blaine, in Syre's vision, would be unique, characterized by diversity, originality and planning that takes advantage of its natural setting.
When asked to provide an example, he said "Well, La Conner is a good example, and Fairhaven. There are models in the area for us to look at. And of course we'd be tying that into residential, though it's going to take quite a bit of time."
Syre said that he doesn't feel that Bellingham's rejection of so-called big box stores will affect Blaine, nor will commercial development currently planned for sites along or near Birch Bay-Lynden Road west of I-5.
"There's room for both. I'm not necessarily opposed to big box stores," he said, "but that's the kind of thing that should happen at the airport. To the extent that they're viable in Blaine, I don't know if they are." For downtown Blaine he said he envisioned "destination type uses, like spas and restaurants. La Conner doesn't have a large grocery store," he added, "and people don't seem to miss it."
Syre was careful to point out, when asked if he has plans for the airport property, that "first, it's a local decision as to whether or not there's to be an airport, and we can't participate in that in a meaningful way because we don't have all the information, but if the land were to become available then we'd certainly be interested in a long term land lease and in building something like Cordata, which would do well in diversifying the economic and social opportunities for Blaine."
Syre was understandably reluctant to discuss specific projects he may have in mind for the short term, but when asked about persistent rumors that he's given up on Blaine, he said emphatically that "No, I haven't given up, but I have gone back to property owners and have said that with the initial ideas about pricing, after we've analyzed them, they just don't work. We're getting lots of cooperation in this from landowners, though, and some very serious discussions are going on."
piece to this puzzle involves pedestrian-friendly
methods of moving visitors between
Semiahmoo and a revitalized downtown
Blaine. Syre suggested that one way
to do that would be to build a tram,
much like the one that serves Grouse
Mountain in Vancouver, though he
added that this is highly speculative at
this point.
Other suggestions for moving people across the harbor entrance, such as boats or bridges, have practical limitations.
Developer Joel Douglas has proposed a ferry connecting Blaine's downtown with Semiahmoo and Point Roberts, but Port of Bellingham officials have said that the necessary infrastructure to do this may be prohibitive, and that if the port were to build anything in the way of piers for a car ferry service it would expect to recoup the costs somehow.
Other Trillium employees have commented that an aerial tram is much less invasive than a bridge, especially a bridge that would carry automobile traffic, and could integrate well with a waterfront that allows for such things as access to downtown for boaters and mixed residential and commercial use in what has traditionally been a marine commercial district.


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Reaction to Paul Kelly's firing as executive director of the NHLPA continues, more than two weeks after his early morning dismissal in a Chicago boardroom.
NHL player agents J.P. Barry and Pat Brisson of CAA Hockey have tried to make sense of Kelly's fall, specifically the process in which it unfolded, to help the players they represent understand the sudden change in union leadership.
However, Brisson and Barry who represent a number of NHL stars including Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Patrick Kane, Dany Heatley, Daniel Briere and Mats Sundin, plus NHLPA executive board members, Robyn Regehr, Shawn Horcoff and Maxime Talbot, believe the "process" in which Kelly was fired was flawed.
The veteran player agents today issued a statement, outlining their concerns.
"We have had numerous discussions with our clients and other players around the League regarding the dismissal of Paul Kelly as Executive Director of the NHLPA. Some of the things we have learned about the process are very troubling to us. We are encouraging each of our clients to educate themselves with union matters so they can understand how these types of decision are reached. We believe that a strong and unified voice is necessary. In order for that to happen, the majority of players must be heard." - J.P. Barry and Pat Brisson, CAA Hockey
On Friday, Crosby released a statement to ESPN expressing his concern.
"I would just say that I agree with Pat's comments and that I definitely want to know how things happened," Crosby told ESPN. "I am part of the union like every other player and I think we all deserve a good explanation."
Add veteran defenceman Rob Blake's name to the list of NHL players eager to learn more about Paul Kelly's firing and why the PA's full membership wasn't included in such a significant shift in leadership.
"I don't think we can make decisions of that magnitude without complete involvement," Blake told TSN.
"It's going to take further discussion and investigation, but the timing was questionable. Had they (executive board) waited a few more weeks, teams would have been in camp and the players would have been easily accessible," Blake added.
Blake applauds Sidney Crosby and any young player who steps forward in search of information.
"They have a lot to gain from the players association and many of them will control the league. Crosby and other young stars need to understand and have their voices heard, so this is nice to see."
The current NHLPA constitution doesn't require the full memberships involvement.
The vote to dethrone Paul Kelly was determined by the 30 NHL player reps who make up the PA's executive board.
Veteran NHL defenceman Chris Chelios is a member of the executive board and he echoes Brisson and Barry's issues with how Kelly was let go.
"I agree that our abrupt vote was questionable without being able to explain our position to our teammates," Chelios told TSN.
"But, at the end of the day, we had advisors and PA staff and not once did they say...we need to wait. There's no doubt the procedure was questionable," Chelios added.
Chelios says his Red Wings teammates were very unhappy over the fact they weren't consulted before the board made it's move.
"As a player rep, my role is to gather information and report back to my team. Following that I speak to the board on behalf of my team and in this case, we didn't do that."
Chelios acknowledges he played a key role in bringing Paul Kelly in to the players association and recognizes the vote to have him fired included 22 in favour of the change; a sound majority.
However, his experience tells him more time was needed to make such a significant decision.
"We've been down this road before. We should have been more patient,"Chelios concluded.
Chelios believes the NHLPA may require some structural changes to give the next executive director more flexibility to do his job.
But Toronto Maple Leafs player representative Matt Stajan is confident the executive board made the right decision based on the facts of the situation.
"We had everything laid out in front of us," Stajan told AM640 Radio in Toronto on Friday. "I'm fully confident we made the right decision. I don't think anything I hear can change that."
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Looking to add a bit of natural, woodsy whimsy to your decor? Faux bois, or "false wood," is an artsy rendition of wood grain. You can style it to be bold and eye-catching, or demure and unassuming, but either way, it's timeless and classic. Come see ten faux bois floors — painted surfaces and rugs both — and get inspired to add a little bark to your floors.
1. A unique green faux bois rug adds depth and interest to this jewel-toned room from Colette van den Thillart in Canadian House & Home.
2. This bold, black-and-white version from Coastal Living is wild and appealing in its pairing of simplicity and chaos.
3. Okay, so this is just another view of the same floor from Coastal Living, but this straight-on photo showcases the pattern's intricate design.
4. Mandi from Vintage Revivals painted her concrete subfloor with a faux bois pattern — and she walks you through the process, step by step!
5. This gray and white rug version, captured by Kate at Centsational Girl, is a loose, abstract nod to the grainy pattern.
6. Soothing cream and brown tones in this rug from Martha Stewart complement a natural, neutral decor.
7. A raised faux bois pattern on this rug from Gavin's nursery on Apartment Therapy adds woodsy texture and interest to an otherwise neutral piece.
8. This slim rug from Flor lends a calming element to this little workroom; from Brooklyn Limestone.
9. A large faux bois rug adorns the inviting entryway of a remodeled 1852 Georgia farmhouse; from Southern Living.
10. Light colored faux bois complements this traditionally-decorated living room from Alice Lane Home Collection.
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• Creating a Faux Bois Finish
• Tips For DIY Faux Bois Flooring?
(Images: 1. Chris Tubbs for Canadian House & Home 2. William Abranowicz for Coastal Living, 3. William Abranowicz for Coastal Living, 4. Vintage Revivals, 5. Centsational Girl, 6. Martha Stewart, 7. Apartment Therapy, 8. Brooklyn Limestone, 9. Laurey W. Glenn for Southern Living, 10. Nicole Hill Gerulat for Alice Lane Home.)
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Fun! Tone on tone works best.
I have a tool for making faux bois on a much smaller scale, but these examples would require hand painting. And an artistic eye!
Not my thing, but I so love the color scheme of that first room!
I guess I have to resign myself that Post-Modernism is back. Give me real wood grain over this trendy stuff.
I'm not a fan. The only one I kind-of liked is the rug in the baby's room.
I don't like the floors but I like the rugs.
i'm a faux bois nut! i've tried to track down the flooring on coastal living, but with no luck. anyone have a tip? i read another article saying they were actually porcelain tiles, but couldn't find a source.


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The death toll of South Florida children at the hands of abusive, drug-addicted and negligent adults is stunning.
But just as outrageous is that at some point along the road to the fatal outcomes, the deaths might have been prevented had the state agency in charge of protecting Florida's children — the Department of Children and Families — had not so miserably failed them.
Jayden Villegas, two years old, died Sunday from brain injuries — and his father, a man with a record of aggression, was charged with his murder.
He told police he threw the toddler across the bed and against the wall because he would not stop vomiting.
Why was this child in this monster's care?
Jayden was taken away from his mother, a substance abuser who is pregnant again and has an older child as well. She lost custody of Jayden after she blamed the child's earlier injury, a broken thigh bone, on his "hyperactive" older sibling. DCF, suspicious of the explanation, gave Jayden's custody to the even less adept father.
And so Jayden became the fifth child to die, since May, whose parents were under scrutiny by DCF.
Bryan Osceola, 11 months, was left to die in a hot car by his alcohol- and drug-addicted mother. She had been investigated and cleared by a child abuse investigator of passing out drunk behind the wheel of the car with the baby in her lap.
Ezra Raphael, age 2, was beaten to death with a belt after his mother left him alone with her boyfriend. DCF closed its investigation despite finding that the child was at "high" risk with his mother.
Antwan Hope, age 4, died after being left alone, against a judge's order, with his mentally ill mother. And Fernando Barahona, only one year old, stopped breathing in his crib two weeks after the Department of Children and families returned him to his mother.
In all those horrific cases, there's one constant: DCF failed to act on, not just warning signs, but brilliant red lights flashing at everyone that these children were being harmed. Attentive and caring child welfare workers could have easily been clued in to these children's hellish worlds — and in some cases they were — but these alleged professionals, the investigators and their supervisors, were not listening, not heeding the signs, not acting as if these were life-or-death scenarios.
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Imagine a scenario this century that is very bleak for agriculture. What do you think we should do to address humanity's thrivability?
Suppose two things:
Suppose that the food producing carrying capacity (the number of people that can be fed from arable land) of the Earth within this century becomes less than one billion due to climate change, what do you think we should do to address thrivability? Suppose that you had all the necessary resources to act. For full credit, apply empathy, logic, and self-integrating system properties. Yes, this might be on the final exam.
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Thanks to everyone that participated. I apologize to anyone who might have felt slighted.
The answer I got here is that people are on many different islands of being about humanity's current reality. We all have hopes and fears but our paradigms I've found are unexpectedly different. Our perspectives and priorities sometimes don't even seem to have common ground.
I very much want to find that common ground, across cultures, across the globe, across everything that separates and isolates us. One way I plan to address this yearning is by tuning my questions to be more inclusive and collective.
I feel that art does this, pulls us together and gives us common ground, even across language barriers and across time. I want to be good. This sounds so strange but I want to be a good ancestor. I don't see myself as an artist but I would very much like to do something for the greater good the way a composer or an artist might leave behind an inspiring artifact.
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Dec 31 2012: To so many of these comments and ideas I'd want to add my original question: And what do you think we should do? I didn't ask "why do you think we are already doing everything right?" Nor did I ask "why do you think we're doomed." So to iterate: What do you think we should do? How do you think we can make this planet a better place, while considering the supposition that certain predictions may be accurate, as scary as they are?
Jan 1 2013: Easy answer Mark, hard to practice. If you want to have enough food for everyone, you need less everyones. No politician will admit that though, and individuals all want to do whatever they want, and have as many children as they want, so really, what can you do about it? Look at our reactions to China's one child policy. Many Americans I talk to think it is barbaric and horrible that a society would dare try to control the population. So, if populations just keep increasing, while resources keep diminishing, a lot more people are going to starve, simple as that. Last year, the world grew less food than it consumed. That can't go on forever obviously. What we COULD do, is to think about sustainability not in terms of buying shade tree grown coffee, but as not having too many children for the resources we have. But again, most people think it is in the constitution somewhere that they should have as many kids as they want. So, the real question is how to change peoples' minds.
Jan 1 2013: Everyone is seven billion.
And I still want to know what you think we should do now. Getting more food might help. Having a lower birthrate might help. Reversing CO2 venting to the atmosphere might help. Geo-engineering to lower global temperature might help. Finding ways to bond as a species team might help. Alternate sources of energy might help.
And education, particularly zero to five-years-old creativity and such might help change people's minds together.
What other possibilities are there?
There are political solutions, educational solutions, empathic solutions, collective intelligence solutions, technical solutions, business solutions, economic solutions...
But again, there are 7 billion of us with each a different perspective about what can most effectively be done first.
So the real question is: what do you have to bring to the table? Easy answers? Ain't no free lunch!
Jan 2 2013: Why would you consider any problem more easily solved with more hands and more heads, except for global warming?
I think we will solve it sooner, with more people.
People are not problems, they are problemsolvers.
Unpredictable and unknowable seem like reasons to not take drastic measures against it.
Btw latest evidence points to lukewarm, slightly beneficial, warming,
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I do not illustrate the 'problem'. I do think about it, quite a bit more than you guys have. As such I have written 3 blogs on it.
We have infinite resources:
As such there is no peak anything:
That's why overpopulation is a non existing problem:
And I do want to implore you to read more of the barbaric policy of China, where killing baby girls was not the intend, it is certainly the logical consequence.
Jan 2 2013: I would be interested to hear your explanation on the fact that we produce the most per capita food now than ever before. And more energy per capita than ever.
Far from diminishing resources, more people mean more resources available per person. Practically all resources are more affordable now than ever, thus less scarce. (In fact the only resource that has consistently become more expensive (and thus scarcer) are people)
It is not ' if populations just keep increasing, while resources keep diminishing, a lot more people are going to starve, simple as that', That's lazy thinking, dogmatic and with no scientific justification whatsoever. The more people we are, the more we all have, and you lot never seem to understand why.
And you should be ashamed hailing a policy that invoked the Chinese (poor) people to throw millions of baby girls into the dustbin, only seconds after their births, with mothers screaming for their new born; with hardly any noticable difference in birthrates in comparison with other Asian countries that did not have a 1 child policy (see Hans Rosling).
It is perhaps the greatest genocide in recent history. And you defend it, because you are (erroneously) under the impression that those babies will take a piece of your pie. Sickening.
Jan 2 2013: We produce more food per capita now than ever. Check. True. We provide more energy per capita now than ever. Check. True.
All that increase in energy use comes with the price everyone pays: the unpredictable tipping points of global warming. This includes a reduced carrying capacity of the planet.
Also true that a reduction in population would slow the approach of these unknowable tipping points or positive feedback dangers. It is one very cruel but possible means of avoiding the dangers. As drastic as it is, I would compare it to the need to diet in order to lose weight by eating 3 fewer donuts from your daily dozen.
See http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html for more on balancing a zero carbon equation.
CO2 = P x S x E x C
He didn't consider negative carbon footprints for biochar soil enrichment and reforestation.
Jan 4 2013: Victor, have you also noticed there was a huge drought and that the world actually produced less food than it consumed this year? How long do you think that can go on? Also, I ask you to read about peak oil. Our entire economic system is based on oil and sorry to say, it is a limited resource. The North Sea, Alaska, and even some of the gulf states production is sinking and they are having to pump a lot more water just to get those numbers (water, another limited resource). People in China and India are wanting to live like Americans, so where is all that oil going to come from? Also, if there is such a glut of energy, why is oil 5 times the cost of what it was 10 years ago?
You illustrate the problem perfectly. No one wants to think about controlling the population and say it is evil to even think of such a thing. So, that is why nothing will ever be solved. By the way, actually read about the one child policy in China. It is not about killing girls, or killing anyone.
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(SYRACUSE POST-STANDARD) Syracuse, NY – Doctors at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center were about to remove organs for transplant from a woman they thought was dead.
Then she opened her eyes. She was alive.
The state Health Department found St. Joe's care of patient Colleen S. Burns in 2009 unacceptable and a federal agency criticized the hospital for not properly investigating the cause. The hospital's mishandling of the case was part of the reason the state Health Department fined St. Joe's $22,000 last September — the largest fine levied against a Central New York hospital since 2002.


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When a rocket carrying a new crew vehicle lifts off at Cape Canaveral next year it will be the first big step in a decades-long odyssey to see humans travel farther into space than ever before.
That ambitious program, called Orion, has goals that sound as if they were lifted from the pages of a sci-fi novel the capture of near-Earth asteroids, bringing them into lunar orbit, a return to the moon, and putting astronauts on Mars.
Baby steps in the odyssey are already being taken in labs and testing facilities across the nation. One of those is at Aerojet in Rancho Cordova. There, inside solemn buildings surrounded by fields of dry grass, rockets destined for the dark reaches of space are being designed and tested.
Aerojet is supplying the large and small rockets that will allow the Orion multipurpose crew vehicle, designed to house four astronauts, to orient itself during space flight and during the re-entry to Earth's atmosphere, said Sam Wiley, head of human space at Aerojet.
The company is also supplying a launch-abort system, which would pull the crew module to safety if a life-threatening event happened during launch.
For Wiley, summer will be a crucial time. That is when the rockets his team has designed will get final testing inside a bunker-like building called the hot fire test assembly. Aerojet has built a structural mock-up of a crew module capsule inside the building one of the only facilities in the United States that can simulate high altitude conditions.
The pressure to succeed and meet next year's launch deadline is high. "It gets pretty nerve-wracking when you're getting close to testing these systems. You definitely get the butterflies," Wiley said.
Next year's test flight will be unmanned and will determine whether NASA is on target to safeguard the lives of astronauts when the crew vehicle craft speeds back toward Earth after orbit.
The heat shield has to be strong enough to protect the crew from the furnace-like heat that will surround the module as it re-enters Earth's atmosphere. For Orion, that return will happen at 20,000 mph. By comparison, the space shuttle entered at 12,500 mph.
A successful test flight would bode well for NASA's plans for a first unmanned lunar orbital flight in 2017. That flight would take four astronauts into high orbit 3,600 miles into space the farthest an astronaut has gone since Apollo 17 in 1972. A full-crew mission to recover an asteroid is slated for 2021.
After that, the milestones get more exotic, the risks more pronounced, and the plans and funding sketchier. Orion will be the taxi-like conveyer of astronauts from Earth to space. It is less clear what craft will take astronauts from the crew module to a landing on Mars or the moon.
This year's presidential budget request for NASA which seeks $2.7 billion for space exploration includes $105 million to identify asteroids for eventual capture.
Some in Congress, such as Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, RHuntington Beach, vice chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, remain skeptical about funding the massive Orion program and its launch system, as well as asteroid efforts.
In a recent editorial that appeared in the Orlando Sentinel, Rohrabacher stated: "I've never seen NASA accomplish a large mission on budget and on schedule. NASA should work on these projects, but it needs better cost estimates, and better program management."
Rohrabacher also criticized the program for piggybacking too much on established Apollo-era and shuttle rocket designs.
"When President (John F.) Kennedy announced the moon mission, the entire program was based upon technologies that did not yet exist. Now NASA is incapable and unwilling to include technologies that have not yet been proved in space. NASA has lost its edge," Rohrabacher wrote.
Regardless of the use of established technology, Orion is expected to travel to Mars and it moons, said Larry Price, Orion deputy program manager for Lockheed Martin, NASA's prime contractor for the Orion project.
"The biggest challenge is combining all of the technology and putting it into the largest spacecraft that has ever been built, other than the shuttle, and be able to sustain life for months and go great distances into the solar system," Price said.
"The point is to follow up on all of the groundwork that the Mars rovers have been doing, with human exploration capability," he said.
Having humans rather than rovers on the Red Planet will make use of the autonomous nature of astronauts, Price said. Humans can make decisions on the fly, and would not be constrained waiting for radio communication from Earth where a 20-minute delay in communication each way could come into play with Mars.
However, the introduction of humans brings physiological challenges.
The most vexing is the high radiation exposure astronauts would encounter on a months-long trip to and from Mars, as well as time spent on the planet, said NASA astronaut Stan Love. A former shuttle astronaut, Love is examining the feasibility of sending the Orion crew vehicle to near-Earth objects for NASA.
"We're still trying to understand what the exact radiation environment is out there and we're still trying to understand the effect of that radiation on people," Love said. "It's a kind of a tricky subject if you were studying this with rats you would irradiate a bunch of them, half would die and you would know what the dose is and you can adjust for that. ... We can't really do that with people."
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Man buys half-ton pickup with half-ton of spare change
Man kept his spare change, but didn't invest it.
We can hear the gears grinding in the minds of personal-finance bloggers everywhere as they process the following information: Paul Brant, 70, of Frankfort, Ind., used about $25,000 in spare quarters and dollar coins he had accumulated over 13 years to help pay for a $26,670 2008 Dodge Ram half-ton pickup.
Sheriff's deputies provided security as Brant drove the rolls of coins to the dealership. Brant, who works for Chrysler, decided to give his collection of spare pennies, nickels and dimes to his wife, Judy.
No, dear bloggers, Brant did not deposit his spare change periodically in a high-yield online savings account. He kept it in piggy banks and old cans and jugs. We don't know how he is paying the balance owed on the truck, but we know he could have paid the entire amount and had lots left over if he had deposited or invested the money and let compound interest work for him. (You may even be speculating that Brant could be living comfortably -- in retirement -- if he had different personal-finance habits.)
apparently isn't Brant's way. He bought himself a truck and his wife a
car 13 years ago, again with accumulated spare change. His unusual
savings plan was noted by readers of the Journal and Courier of
Lafayette, Ind. "If anything, the longer he held this change with 0
interest, he was potentially losing money," a reader names "Zoso"
Reader "lillyalex2003" said maybe Brant's method works best
for him. "I think the point should be that this gentlemen knew he
wanted a truck and saved for it, whatever the method, and was able to
pay for a good portion of it."
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Can urban beehives increase food production?
It has been estimated that somewhere between fifty and ninety percent of the colonies of bees in US beekeeping operations have collapsed from a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). This disorder is characterized by the disappearance of bees from a colony, but a lack of dead bodies to explain where they went. Some scientists believe that the culprit is a virus known as the Israeli acute paralysis virus (Cox-Foster et al, 2007). CCD is causing the collapse of bee colonies all over the world, reducing pollination rates, and causing essential food sources to become more scarce and more expensive. Noah Wilson-Rich, a scientist who studies bee diseases, has suggested an easy solution to the problem: urban beekeeping. In his Ted Talk "Every City Needs Healthy Honey Bees", Wilson-Rich shares that bees are actually surviving better in urban environments than rural ones. He suggests that increasing the number of urban beehives, along with introducing green roofs and urban gardens, will allow food production to begin to increase (while also reducing the prices of many crops). In many cities in the United States it is illegal to have a beehive because people are allergic and/or afraid of bees, but in some countries urban beekeeping is thriving (Paris, France is a great example!).
Do you think it is possible for the United States to develop an urban beekeeping industry? Would it have enough of a positive outcome to outweigh the downsides of urban beehives?
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After much conversation, I think it is safe to say that most people think that urban beehives will have a positive influence on honey bee populations and biological diversity in urban environments. However, many people pointed out that this will not solve the issue of colony collapse disorder that is facing bees. Much more research needs to be done to determine what the true culprit of this phenomenon is (possibilities are neonicotinoid pesticides, varroa mites, Israeli acute paralysis virus, etc), but in the meanwhile urban beehives can help to maintain populations. It was mentioned a few times throughout the conversation that many people will be opposed to the introduction of urban beehives due to the rather large portion of our society that is afraid of and/or allergic to bees. To get around this, many people suggested that schools implement some sort of program to teach the public that honey bees are actually nothing to be afraid of, and that they will only harm you if you harm them. In addition, keeping beehives in places that are out of public view will help to alleviate some issues relating to neighborly disputes and accidental stings. One good technique is to place hives on rooftops, which will force bees to fly at a higher elevation and reduce the amount of bee-human interactions. Another issue with urban beekeeping is that there are much fewer food resources for bees in urban environments than rural ones, so it was decided that an urban beekeeping industry will only be successful in places where urban gardens and/or green roofs are also successful. Overall, it sounds like urban beekeeping has a good chance in the U.S., as long as we begin to educate people about honey bees and how critical they are for food production.
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May 22 2013: I think it is possible for the United States to develop an urban beekeeping industry. Firstly, as mentioned, increasing the number of bees in urban can allow food production to increase. With more flowered being pollinated, the environment of urban will become better, more green areas, more fresh air. On the other hand, bees are not injurious insects, people don't have to be afraid of them. It is a common sense that bees do not attack people only if they feel they are in danger. So I think it has enough positive outcome to weigh the downsides.
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Not the way we would choose to spend either of those days, but it turned out so much better than we expected. Dave has been really hesitant to go to these things because he figures if it doesn't tell us how to fix BBS then why go. It can be pretty rough to go to these things because you can catch a glimpse of where your daughter may end up in the future and sometimes seeing all the other kids is tough.
We weren't going to go since I had recently gone to the one in England (back here), but we have "met" so many amazingly conscientious BBS parents through the Internet we ultimately decided it would sure be a great opportunity if we could all meet there.
The more we parents dealing with BBS band together, the stronger we can be to seek out the best care for our kids. And the more researchers will take us seriously. I think if we work together we can be a really strong force for good.
It was so good to meet these neat families who are so conscientious and on-the-ball. I wish I had pictures of all of them, but here are a few.
See that sweet girl in the front? She was our inspiration a couple years ago when my mom and I went to the conference. She is doing so great and her parents are so on top of things.The lady in blue above is the one who told me about TUDCA (more about that in this post) in the first place. She has the sweetest little boy a little older than Lucy and I'm mad I don't have a picture of him.
These parents below have taken such amazing care of their daughter (in the middle) who is now in her thirties. She has lost a ton of weight and has her own job at a consignment store.
Here are a bunch of my new friends.
It feels so good to know that I could email any one of them any time and feel understood and comforted, knowing that we are all working toward the same things, and all deal with so many of the same issues.
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On top of meeting so many wonderful people, we sat and learned so much as doctors and researchers went through all the things they specialize in.
I was really intrigued by the talk about speech in these kids. It all clicked to me because it was exactly how Lucy's speech development has been.
The woman who put this one together has a daughter with BBS and she has done so much research.
Her daughter spoke as well. She is a college graduate with BBS and has some serious will-power and spunk.
She gave me so much hope for Lucy's future.
But I will admit that seeing her mom and how on-the-ball she was to help her get to the point where she is made me tired.
We talked about kidney function:
…which actually made me super worried about Lucy's kidneys. Kids with BBS often have a lot of kidney problems and a large percentage have to end up with kidney transplants. We found out that issues don't generally manifest themselves before it's too late in kids with BBS because they have a high tolerance for pain and don't recognize the symptoms as easily.
Needless to say we came right home and got Lu into a renal ultrasound and even a VCUG. It was horrible, but it gave us a good peace of mind that things are still looking ok.
We talked a bunch about retinas and their impending degeneration.
…and discussed tons about cilia and "ciliopathies" (all kinds of problems that relate back to the cilia and how they function). In times like this I sure wish I had studied medicine in school. Wow, there is so much to take in for common folk like me.
We loved our "lab tour" and meeting many of the sweet research students from all over the world who dedicate all their time to studying BBS and all that goes with it.Here's the main researcher:
This is their simplified depiction of cilia on cells and how some don't have it and others are dysfunctional.
They do a lot of their work on zebra fish:
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Here are a couple of the wonderful presenters…both very specialized in eyesight. Their lectures were both fascinating and we are excited to stay in contact with them as we go through this journey.
This cute girl not only had her parents there, but both sets of grandparents. I loved getting to know them a little bit.
This boy was awesome:He's sixteen and has very little vision. I asked him what he would recommend to help Lucy at this age and he immediately told us working with her on Braille would be the best thing we could do. Kind of a dagger in the heart, but so true.
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Here's another conscientious mom we are so glad we got to meet. She and her husband are both researchers and although their daughter is relatively newly diagnosed, they already have so much great information. Some day we will all have to bring our kids so they can get to know each other.
I think the best thing was that we saw so many people who were dealing so amazingly well with the obesity issue. They are serious about exercise and food intake and vitamins, etc.
The hardest thing was that almost all of the older kids really have lost their vision.
I think up til this point Dave and I have just kind of hoped that Lucy is on the good end of the vision spectrum and that maybe she will keep that poor vision of hers for as long as possible.
But we realized that's not going to happen if we don't take some serious steps to push research more and seek our own answers. Blindness in BBS kids is very real.
And that makes us really, really sad.
At the end of the conference we had "elections" for a new board. Dave and I have a dear friend who we "met" through the Internet when Lucy very first got diagnosed. He has a son about a year ahead of Lucy and has helped us SO much through the last couple years.
Here he is with his family we finally got to meet: He became the new president and will do such an amazing job.
For some crazy reason I was nominated as the new Vice President. I really tried to turn that thing down at first figuring someone else could do such a better job. But I'll be so happy if I can help band people together to help generate more strength for the journey that lies ahead for all of us.
So happy we could come out of that thing with smiles. I had been so worried about Dave and how rough it would be for him but man alive we both came away so glad we went.
We couldn't get a flight out the night after the board meeting so we hung around Duke the next morning which happened to be Father's Day.I'm sure Dave was overjoyed to follow me around snapping away pictures with my iPhone but I couldn't help it.
I love that campus.
We got home that evening to super excited kids to help celebrate Father's Day and a babysitter we adore.
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WHAT'S AWFUL: No gloves, god knows what she just put on that girl's ear to "clean" it, I have serious doubts about that needle given the circumstances and the fact that I did not hear any packaging being opened AND I SEE THAT TOILET PAPER ROLL. YOU'RE IN A BATHROOM.
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The teams practiced on Wednesday in preparation for the games.
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