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If you're going through hellKeep on going, don't slow downIf you're scared, don't show itYou might get outBefore the devil even knows you're there-Rodney Atkins In February 2007, HSBC shocked the analyst community when it put aside $10.6 billion to cover future losses on bad mortgage debt. Other lenders were in a similar situation and a cascade of dour mortgage market predictions kicked off the - take your pick of names - liquidity, consumer leverage, credit quality, stock market, bond market, CDS market, sovereign debt, mismatched funding, euro, trade deficit, currency reserve, and interest rate crisis (whew!).In response, Washington focused on health care legislation. For the life of me, I still can't find a significant connection between health care and any of the crisis descriptors above or others used to describe the last three and a half years. But this week, our elected representatives and their associates launch into debate regarding the structure of the mortgage market. Specifically, Tuesday brings President Obama's Conference on the Future of Housing Finance.A quick glance at the link above should prove that nothing significant will actually come out of this conference except perhaps attention. But that is really all this problem needs. The issue of the day is whether and how the government will interact with the $13 trillion mortgage market. Eventual decisions will be made regarding which types of borrowers the government will assist and how it will set the ground rules for this sector going forward. Once these decisions are made, the private sector will fill in the gaps of needed financing alternatives leading to a stable and effective mortgage market where capital is allocated based on risk and reward.Perhaps as a reminder of why this is so important, last Thursday, the Obama administration announced two new, so-called "foreclosure-prevention" programs designed to keep unemployed homeowners from defaulting. It's exactly the multitude of ever-changing support programs that is keeping the private sector on the sidelines. However, only with a broad and, unfortunately, long-lasting debate will we come to conclusions on how Washington will support the homeowner. We must go through what will feel like an extended period of bureaucratic debate before a new, improved mortgage market can emerge.Like the old adage that you can only walk halfway into the woods (after that, you are walking out!), I am hopeful this significant step forward kicks off serious debate on the issue most important to the economy. Perhaps we can get out of this hell before the devil knows we're here.Key DevelopmentsOn Aug 10, the Fed left rates unchanged at zero to 0.25 percent, noting that the pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed in recent months. Federal Reserve officials decided to reinvest principal payments on mortgage holdings into long-term Treasury securities. "The pace of economic recovery is likely to be more modest in the near term than had been anticipated," the Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement in Washington. "To help support the economic recovery in a context of price stability, the Committee will keep constant the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities at their current level." The Fed retained a commitment to keep its benchmark interest rate close to zero for an "extended period." Voting against this action was Thomas Hoenig, who judged that the economy is "recovering modestly, as projected."Sales at U.S. retailers rose less than forecast in July, indicating Americans lacked confidence in the economy and their finances to boost spending. The 0.4 percent increase, led by autos and gasoline, followed a revised 0.3 percent drop in June, according to figures from the Commerce Department in Washington. Economists projected a 0.5 percent gain, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey. Excluding auto dealers and gasoline stations, purchases fell 0.1 percent.On August 11, the Obama Administration announced two additional support programs targeted at those out-of-work homeowners having trouble making their mortgage payments. Also, on August 12, the Obama Administration announced additional details about its August 17 Conference on the Future of Housing Finance, This event will provide a forum for public input as the administration continues its work developing a comprehensive housing finance reform proposal for delivery to Congress by January 2011.
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A 3-pointer at the buzzer in the third quarter seemed to give the Grove Lady Ridgerunners the lift they needed to hold off the McDonald County girls, 43-34, in a varsity basketball tilt on Saturday at McDonald County High School.
After the Lady Mustangs pulled within 24-21 late in the third, Lady Ridgerunner Libby Morris pulled up for a trey in front of Grove's bench and found the bottom of the net as time expired. That shot gave the Lady Ridgerunners a little more breathing room (27-21) entering the fourth quarter.
As it was, that shot turned out to be the only one Morris would hit in the game, as she finished with three points. Also scoring for the Lady Ridgerunners were Emilee Iverson with 12 points, Mason Jeffries 10, Taylor Dodson nine, Justina Mouse six and Karah Bassett 3.
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Wednesday, 06/30/1999
Sandstone Amphitheatre, Bonner Springs, KS
Soundcheck: Twist, Funky Bitch, Mountains in the Mist (x2), Beauty of My Dreams, Glide Tease, Limb By Limb (outro), Back at the Chicken Shack, Dogs Stole Things, The Wedge
Set 1: GinBathtub Gin, Farmhouse, Tube, Horn, BOTTBack on the Train[1], Maze[2], LxLLimb By Limb, GolgiGolgi Apparatus
Set 2: CoilThe Squirming Coil > Free, BOAFBirds of a Feather > Simple > Swept Away > Steep > Piper, Bug[1] -> My Left Toe[3], Stash
Encore: Bouncin'Bouncing Around the Room, SampleSample in a Jar
[1] Phish debut.
[2] Ended with several reprises of the song's signature lick in a mock duel fashion between Trey and Page.
[3] Debut.
· Bathtub Gin tease in Maze
· Super Bad tease in Tube
Noteworthy Jams: Back on the Train, Maze, Limb By Limb (highly recommended), Free (highly recommended)
Average Song Gap: 10.65
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: This gig featured the Phish debuts of Back on the Train and Bug as well as the debut of My Left Toe. Trey teased Super Bad in Tube. Maze contained a Bathtub Gin tease from Trey and ended with several reprises of the song's signature lick in a mock duel fashion between Trey and Page. A revised stage setup debuted at this show with Page, Mike and Trey aligned from front left to right and Fish to rear center.
Song Distribution:
4 Farmhouse
4 Stash
3 Billy Breathes
3 Lawn Boy
2 The Story of the Ghost
2 Rift
1 The Siket Disc
1 Hoist
1 A Picture of Nectar
1 Junta
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This show was part of the "1999 Summer U.S. Tour."
Set II gets off to a great start with Coil > Free. This Free needs to be heard to be believed. Like the version on 7-31-98, this groove is THICK. Also of note in set II is the debut of Bug and My Left Toe, an ambient masterpiece that sounds so good slicing through the Kansas sky.
Check this show out when you have some time to sit down and listen closely, it will be rewarding.
Phil and Friends (w/ Trey and Page)+ Classic TAB (tour debut) = 6 months of no Phish...
The entire show from note one was surreal; bomb drops concluded every 1st set number, but for Maze when they musically bantered our minds.
My Left Toe from the Siket Disc debuted at this show. Familiarity with the album could best describe the vibe from this 2nd set; and one word: Catatonia
No covers were played.
Each set and the encore led off with a cut from Lawn Boy.
It's your typical summer shed. No covered seating that I recall. I remember being happy about the Gin opener; Tube was cool(although nothing stellar) BOTT was fun and I knew at the time, that I didn't know it. That's about it for musical memories from this show. Bouncing> Sample Encore= "Let's go get a burrito!"
Sidenote: The girl I was with had seen some shows(Spokane-Portland 96) but wasn't a regular. Anyways I mentioned we were rockin the "car-temperature" PBR cans in the lot pre-party style. Well we were CHUGGING em'. So we're dancing sometime in the middle of set I and although it was an over-cast day in Kansas, it is still HOT and HUMID. She stops and says "I need to go to the bathroom." And I'm like(casually) "Yeah, we'll go at set break." Well what she meant was is she needed to throw up. Well, she made it to set break and bless her, she mad it to the tarlette to excercise them PBR demons.
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"Champions for Education" is the theme for the 2012 Fall Forum for Local Education Foundations and Youth Mentoring Programs, slated from 9 a.m. till 2 p.m. Oct. 23, at the Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave., on the University of Oklahoma's Norman campus.
Registration and continental breakfast will begin at 8 a.m.
For 22 years, the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence has presented the Fall Forum as the state's premiere event for school foundation leaders and school administrators seeking to improve the quality of public education in their communities. As part of its Boren Mentoring Initiative, the Fall Forum will again include sessions on youth mentoring.
University of Oklahoma women's basketball coach and Healdton native Sherri Coale, who has led the Sooner women to six regular season Big 12 titles and four Big 12 tournament titles, will help tip off this year's Fall Forum sharing her insights on public education and mentoring.
Coale, who earned a United Nations Positive Peace Award in coaching, has made it her top priority to maximize the potential of her players on and off the court by encouraging academic excellence and service in the community. Coale herself was an Academic All-American who graduated summa cum laude from Oklahoma Christian University.
Fall Forum registration is $50 per person if received by Oct. 9 and $60 for late registration. Session descriptions and registration forms are available online at www.ofe.org.
To ask questions, call Karen Rose, director of Local Education Outreach, at (918) 743-5533.
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Ok, good Poor Heart to start things off including a call out for Cactus. Ice was ok, still needs polishing. Sparkle was good, with a call out for Sam? Sounds like Fishman and Trey calling for him? Wilson is very rusty sounding as is Dinner. The gap chart proves this. Bouncing is just ok, very uninspired. Maze picks things up a bit. Pretty good but, not great, as is Guelah. Rift is back again with it's new structure. Much better tonight. Horn is rough for Trey. All the antics in the begining of Bowie causes them to blow the actual intro to Bowie itself. Not sure what the deal with Blue Bayou is tonight? Listen carefully at about eight minutes in, it sounds like the actual solo section to My Soul, how many years before they really play it? Bowie itself is ok, not great.
Can't quite tell what Trey is singing before the start of second set? Jim is a good opener. They have been playing this one well. Woo hoo! Weigh is back! I love this song, it shows some rust but, it's great to hear anyway. A second set Landlady? That's different and this one is good with the Santana tease. Fluffhead is pretty good. Then another rarity shows up with TMWSIY>Avenu>TMWSIY. Lots of rust to knock off and another call out for Cactus! Llama rips as usual. Sounds like a Mission Impossible tease from Page. Glide is good, as is Paul and Mike's Song. Hydrogen has it's problems as usual. Weekapaug is a good, solid jam to close tonight.
Again we have multiple Blue Bayou teases before a proper encore of Squirming Coil which is pretty good tonight.
Pretty good show overall with a few sloppy ones thrown in and some more rusty ones pulled off the shelf. Getting ready for some Santana openers!


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SACRAMENTO -- His grandfather helped start the Palo Alto Medical Clinic in 1930, when the idea of a physicians' group was so revolutionary that critics called it anti-competitive, even "communist." And decades later, the Johnson administration recruited his uncle to help roll out Medicare, prompting new attacks from fellow doctors opposed to any slide into "socialized medicine."
Now, Peter V. Lee, as executive director of Covered California, the state's new health exchange, has the daunting task of executing a key part of the new federal health care law in the nation's most populous state. And if the law succeeds here, many health care experts agree, it will likely succeed in other states.
Lee, 54, is a man of boundless enthusiasm and passion for health reform who says he welcomes the challenge. Yet in the weeks since the Oct. 1 nationwide debut of the health exchanges, his critics say he too often has taken on a cheerleading role and downplays the problems facing Covered California.
In an interview with this newspaper, Lee admitted that the exchange's website doesn't have "all of its kinks ironed out.'' But he noted that California's rollout has been much smoother than that of the federal government, whose website is much more complex and must handle the Internet traffic from the residents of 36 states.
In any case, Lee said he knows the stakes in California are high -- and that the pressure to succeed is enormous.
"We need to get out of the gate," he said.
Lee is the youngest of four children born to Dr. Peter Lee, who taught medicine at the University of Southern California, and his ex-wife, Sharon Girdner.
While the younger Lee was growing up in Pasadena, his mother became immersed in civil rights causes, fighting school segregation and racist housing policies. His father, like his uncle, was scorned by fellow doctors for his ardent support of Medicare.
"I was raised to be very socially and politically active," Lee said. "I didn't know that I would be working in health care, but I knew I would be doing something in the social services world."
Lee has plenty of family support nearby as he manages a $910 million federal grant and about 1,000 employees. In addition to two uncles -- Dr. Philip Lee and Dr. Hewlett Lee, who live in Palo Alto -- his three sisters also live in the Bay Area.
"He's as well-prepared as anyone could be for managing a complex thing like this," said Philip Lee, a retired internist and former U.S. assistant secretary for health and welfare who was a top adviser to President Clinton's failed attempt at health care reform. "I would say California is very lucky to have Peter."
When Covered California's five-member board was searching for an executive director, Lee's training as a lawyer, his decadelong tenure at a San Francisco business coalition trying to drive down the cost of health insurance, as well as Lee's health care policy work in the Obama administration, led the board to select him in August 2011.
"He had a completely unmatched combination of experience," said board Chairwoman Diana Dooley, who also heads the state's Health and Human Services Agency.
But it was a specific experiment at the Pacific Business Group on Health, the San Francisco-based nonprofit, that most intrigued the board.
The business coalition leverages 60 large businesses and government employers such as Wells Fargo, Safeway and CalPERS to negotiate health care coverage for more than 3 million employees, retirees and dependents in California alone.
While there, Lee created an insurance exchange for small businesses that Dooley said "came within a whisker of actually being successful." Yet it ultimately failed because it attracted many employees who otherwise could not obtain medical insurance but not enough healthy employees to counterbalance them.
The experience at the nonprofit taught Lee an important lesson because the same threat hovers over the federal health care law, particularly if too many healthy young adults opt to pay a minimum $95 penalty rather than sign up for an insurance plan by March 31.
Lee's biggest critic is prominent health policy expert Robert Laszewski, who has faulted Lee for not being more forthright with Californians about a range of issues, including the sticker shock many will experience upon learning that the rates they pay now for health coverage will rise because their plans no longer comply with the new law.
He also said Lee should have been more upfront about the fact that to keep insurance rates on the exchange low, the number of doctors and hospitals in some plans will be considerably reduced.
Laszewski's most recent complaint is over Covered California's decision not to publicly update the number of state residents who have signed up for the new insurance plans until next month. "What kind of person running an organization in our democracy does not put a premium on transparency?" asked Laszewski.
Lee accepts some of the criticism but scoffs at other attacks. And he notes that he has plenty of experience with other dire predictions that never pan out.
Looking back on the Medicare headlines of the '60s, he said, naysayers argued that the program would cause a shortage of physicians and jack up costs to the point that Medicare would collapse. "There was claim after claim that the sky was falling," he said.
Decades ago, his grandfather, Dr. Russel Lee, who had advocated for national health care insurance as a member of President Harry Truman's Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation, had convinced all five of his children to get their medical degrees. But he was less successful persuading most of his grandchildren.
At age 19, when Peter Lee was studying politics and economics at UC Berkeley, he told his grandfather that he thought he could "do more to affect people's health and improve their health through policy than I could being a doctor." Lee recalled how his grandfather paused, saying: "Well, Peter, I think I agree with that."
So far, the California website's biggest issue has been the delay of long-promised lists of doctors and hospitals available under each insurance plan.
Lee concedes that sometimes his staff needs to rein in his enthusiasm, which in this case forced Covered California to spring a website tool on the public before it was ready for prime time.
Still, he said, "Don't blame us for system failure, but for being overambitious."
Contact Tracy Seipel at 408-275-0140. Follow her at Twitter.com/taseipel.
Age: 54
Education: B.A. in politics and economics from UC Berkeley; law degree from University of Southern California
Position: Executive director of Covered California; named in August 2011
Salary: $257,500
Previous jobs: Deputy director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in Washington, D.C.; director of delivery system reform at the federal Health and Human Services' Office of Health Reform; executive director and CEO of the Pacific Business Group on Health; executive director of the Center for Health Care Rights; attorney at Tuttle & Taylor; director of programs for the National AIDS Network
Home: Sacramento
Family: Single
Hobbies: Hiking, swimming, kayaking
Sources: Covered California; Peter Lee


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Over the past month, 3 of the 5 Stolsnek male lions started moving north from their normal territory into the Jock Prides area.
Theyve been extremely vocal and it appeared as if they won a few battles with the ruling 2 males, the Mlambane Boys. The Mlambane Boys took this territory over 3 years ago and produced a few litters of which 4 juveniles are still alive (3 males and 1 female).
On Saturday morning the Guides found one of the Jock females mating with one of the Stolsnek males close to the edge of the 2 prides territories. This is possibly an indication that they now rule this part of the Kruger National Park.
The rest of the Jock pride has not been seen for a few days and we hope that the juveniles werent killed by the new males. It often happens that male lions kill younger lions when they take over a territory.
We will keep you posted as this new chapter in the lion dynamics of Kruger unfolds at Jock.
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If you are in preterm labor or think you may be, your doctor may do some tests to monitor you and your baby. These tests include:
If you are at risk for preterm labor, your doctor may recommend that you rest. The amount of rest you need will depend on personal factors. You may be told to avoid certain stressful activities or to rest several times a day. You may be advised to stay in bed at all times. Your may be able to sit up in bed, or you may need to lie with your feet elevated and your head down. In some cases, you may need to stay in the hospital for bed rest. Lying on your left side enhances uterine relaxation and blood flow.
If you are on bed rest for a long period of time, you may lose muscle tone. After delivery, you will need to take steps to regain muscle strength. Brisk walking is a good way to do this. Extended bed rest can also increase the risk for blood clots. Therefore, do not stay completely still. Stretching and other relaxed movements are helpful. Ask your doctor what types of movements are safe for you.
During bed rest, it is important to keep your mind occupied. Some women catch up on reading, paying bills, phone conversations, emails, sewing, or anything else that can be done while in bed. To limit walking, be sure to keep what you need close by.
Late-Preterm Infants. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Committee Opinion No. 404, April 2008. (Reaffirmed 2011)
Premature labor. American Pregnancy Association website. Available at: http://americanpregnancy.org/labornbirth/prematurelabor.html. Updated May 2007. Accessed April 23, 2013.
Preterm labor and birth. March of Dimes website. Available at: http://www.marchofdimes.com/pregnancy/preterm_indepth.html. Updated September 2012. Accessed April 23, 2013.
Preterm labor. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists website. Available at: http://www.acog.org/~/media/For%20Patients/faq087.pdf?dmc=1&ts=20130423T0923201528. Accessed April 23, 2013.
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The theft happened in the 1200 block of Convention Center Boulevard on Dec. 2.
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Anyone with information on the suspect's identity is asked to call NOPD 8th District Detective Jaime Roach at 504-658-6704 or Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111.


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A group of would-be car thieves in Massachusetts is thwarted after realizing none of them could drive a stick shift.
The men held up a delivery driver in Springfield on Tuesday night, demanding his food and the keys to his car, police told The Associated Press.
Then they realized the car had a manual transmission.
The men argued among themselves for a bit before making off with the food, The Republican reported.
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Julia Roberts' half-sister ripped the actress and wrote that her family "abandoned" her in the weeks leading up to her death on Sunday, according to the New York Daily News.
Nancy Motes, 37, was found dead Sunday in a bathtub at a Los Angeles home where she was pet-sitting. The News reported authorities found evidence of drug use.
Motes reportedly struggled with her weight for years, while having a rocky relationship with her Academy Award-winning sister, who canceled a scheduled appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and skipped an Academy Award luncheon on Monday. Roberts was doing promotional rounds for her latest film, the Oscar-nominated "August: Osage County."
Authorities were called to the house about 2 p.m. Sunday after Motes' body was found by John Dilbeck, a film and TV locations manager whom she was supposed to marry in May, a law enforcement source told the Daily News. The source said police suspect a drug overdose.
Motes sounded despondent on Twitter during the weeks before her death.
She tweeted on Jan. 19, "So my 'sister' said with all her friends & fans she doesn't need anymore love. Just so you all know, 'America's Sweetheart' is a (expletive)."
On Jan. 22, she tweeted "(M)y own family has abandoned me."
Craig Harvey, chief of coroner investigations for Los Angeles County, told The News that Motes "was found in a bathtub that contained water. There were prescription and nonprescription drugs found at the scene. The role the drugs may or may not have played is not yet known."
An autopsy was scheduled for Monday, but Harvey said additional toxicology tests would likely be needed to determine a cause of death.
The law enforcement source told The News that Motes didn't leave a suicide note. "There was no evidence of foul play, no note, nothing like that," the source said. "It's too soon to say that it was a suicide."
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North Augusta officers are searching for one or more burglars after multiple businesses were hit late Thursday night. (WRDW-TV)
AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW) -- At the back of Merle Norman in North Augusta, there's still a crime scene.
Worker Bethany Mock has never seen anything like it.
"The back room was pretty well destroyed, and there was a hole in the wall," Mock said.
Sometime late Thursday night or early Friday morning, a burglar or burglars broke in by smashing holes in the walls of adjacent businesses to get to Merle Norman, which sells cosmetics and jewelry.
"So I come in about 8:30, and when I come in the front door, I hear the police officers yelling, telling me to stay where I am and not to move," she said.
North Augusta Department of Public Safety officers say the chain of break-ins actually began at a closed-down phone store next door. The burglars couldn't smash through a concrete wall there, so they went down to a nearby Chinese restaurant, the China Chinese Restaurant. They pried open the door and smashed the first hole there. They then climbed through the hole, bringing them into a neighboring H&R Block. There, they smashed another hole in the adjacent wall and entered Merle Norman next door.
"They knocked a lot of things off our shelves and just kind of spitefully destroyed it back there," Mock said.
Mock can laugh. The store itself was untouched. Only the back room was ransacked. Computers weren't stolen in Merle Norman or in H&R Block, either.
Officers say they only took about $7 of change at the cosmetics store. The owner of the restaurant said only a dollar bill was taken there.
"We were very fortunate that nothing else was messed up and that no one was here," Mock said. "Because, I mean, they could have very easily done a lot more damage than what they did."
Lt. Tim Thornton with North Augusta says they currently have no leads, but they're processing some surveillance video. Anyone with information is encouraged to call the NADPS at (803) 441-4320.


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I played guitar for a while, I got on piano. I also play bassoon which is the supposedly hardest instrument in band, I'm saying supposedly because it's really easy for me," explained Alex.
Now back to that lesson.
Aside from talent shows, Alex has performed in two comedy shows in New York.
"At first I feel very very nervous, then after my first two jokes I get to where I am very comfortable on stage and it helps a lot when the audience laughs."
"Some jokes just come up right off the top of my head," said Alex.
Yet most of the time, Alex says he starts off thinking about what he wants to make a joke on.
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"He doesn't just perform, he really lives it," said Ruth Jeffers Alex's mom.
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"I used to not laugh as near as much as I do now."
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By Lisa Belkin
Published: October 26, 2003
The scene in this cozy Atlanta living room would -- at first glance -- warm an early feminist's heart. Gathered by the fireplace one recent evening, sipping wine and nibbling cheese, are the members of a book club, each of them a beneficiary of all that feminists of 30-odd years ago held dear.
The eight women in the room have each earned a degree from Princeton, which was a citadel of everything male until the first co-educated class entered in 1969. And after Princeton, the women of this book club went on to do other things that women once were not expected to do. They received law degrees from Harvard and Columbia. They chose husbands who could keep up with them, not simply support them. They waited to have children because work was too exciting. They put on power suits and marched off to take on the world.
Yes, if an early feminist could peer into this scene, she would feel triumphant about the future. Until, of course, any one of these polished and purposeful women opened her mouth.
''I don't want to be on the fast track leading to a partnership at a prestigious law firm,'' says Katherine Brokaw, who left that track in order to stay home with her three children. ''Some people define that as success. I don't.''
''I don't want to be famous; I don't want to conquer the world; I don't want that kind of life,'' says Sarah McArthur Amsbary, who was a theater artist and teacher and earned her master's degree in English, then stepped out of the work force when her daughter was born. ''Maternity provides an escape hatch that paternity does not. Having a baby provides a graceful and convenient exit.''
Wander into any Starbucks in any Starbucks kind of neighborhood in the hours after the commuters are gone. See all those mothers drinking coffee and watching over toddlers at play? If you look past the Lycra gym clothes and the Internet-access cellphones, the scene could be the 50's, but for the fact that the coffee is more expensive and the mothers have M.B.A.'s.
We've gotten so used to the sight that we've lost track of the fact that this was not the way it was supposed to be. Women -- specifically, educated professional women -- were supposed to achieve like men. Once the barriers came down, once the playing field was leveled, they were supposed to march toward the future and take rightful ownership of the universe, or at the very least, ownership of their half. The women's movement was largely about grabbing a fair share of power -- making equal money, standing at the helm in the macho realms of business and government and law. It was about running the world.
''We thought there would be a woman president by now,'' says Marie Wilson, director of the Ms. Foundation for Women and president of the White House Project, who has been fighting to increase the representation of women in work and politics since 1975. ''We expected that women would be leading half the companies in this country, that there would be parity on boards.'' Instead, Wilson has just finished a book that includes an examination, in her words, of ''how far we haven't come,'' titled ''Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World.''
Arguably, the barriers of 40 years ago are down. Fifty percent of the undergraduate class of 2003 at Yale was female; this year's graduating class at Berkeley Law School was 63 percent women; Harvard was 46 percent; Columbia was 51. Nearly 47 percent of medical students are women, as are 50percent of undergraduate business majors (though, interestingly, about 30percent of M.B.A. candidates). They are recruited by top firms in all fields. They start strong out of the gate.
And then, suddenly, they stop. Despite all those women graduating from law school, they comprise only 16 percent of partners in law firms. Although men and women enter corporate training programs in equal numbers, just 16 percent of corporate officers are women, and only eight companies in the Fortune 500 have female C.E.O.'s. Of 435 members of the House of Representatives, 62 are women; there are 14 women in the 100-member Senate.
Measured against the way things once were, this is certainly progress. But measured against the way things were expected to be, this is a revolution stalled. During the 90's, the talk was about the glass ceiling, about women who were turned away at the threshold of power simply because they were women. The talk of this new decade is less about the obstacles faced by women than it is about the obstacles faced by mothers. As Joan C. Williams, director of the Program on WorkLife Law at American University, wrote in the Harvard Women's Law Journal last spring, ''Many women never get near'' that glass ceiling, because ''they are stopped long before by the maternal wall.''
Look, for example, at the Stanford class of '81. Fifty-seven percent of mothers in that class spent at least a year at home caring for their infant children in the first decade after graduation. One out of four have stayed home three or more years. Look at Harvard Business School. A survey of women from the classes of 1981, 1985 and 1991 found that only 38 percent were working full time. Look at professional women in surveys across the board. Between one-quarter and one-third are out of the work force, depending on the study and the profession. Look at the United States Census, which shows that the number of children being cared for by stay-at-home moms has increased nearly 13 percent in less than a decade. At the same time, the percentage of new mothers who go back to work fell from 59 percent in 1998 to 55 percent in 2000.


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TALLAHASSEE | There are plenty of reasons why Florida State's football signing class could fall short of expectations.
Internal issues, such as six departed assistant coaches, have had a dramatic affect on things — most notably former Florida State offensive coordinator James Coley now recruiting student-athletes to the University of Miami. And there are external concerns, such as Florida's resurgence and Alabama's strength as a two-time defending national champion that recruits in Florida well.
When all the national letters of intent are finally received by the Florida State coaching staff this afternoon, this likely won't be a top-5 class. And it may not even be a top-10 class, something that would be a significant drop-off from the past few years.
There may be just one five-star prospect that signs with FSU, as coaches are hoping that Miami Booker T. Washington linebacker Matthew Thomas chooses the Seminoles over Miami, Alabama and Southern Cal.
But FSU coach Jimbo Fisher is hoping that he has built some strong relationships through the years and was able to solidify verbal commitments from the state's football stars despite the staff turnover this offseason.
"The 2013 recruiting class at Florida State is not as flashy as the last couple of years, but it does appear as if they will hit their basic needs," said Scout.com recruiting analyst Geoff Vogt.
FSU already has a few signees that enrolled in January, including four-star defensive end Demarcus Walker of Jacksonville Sandalwood and three-star linebacker Freddie Stevenson of Bartow.
Walker flipped from Alabama to Florida State, and his signing helps provide immediate depth to a defensive end unit that lost star pass rushers in Bjoern Werner, Tank Carradine and Brandon Jenkins to the NFL.
Stevenson was an early verbal commitment to Florida State, and he maintained his plan to go to Tallahassee even after defensive coordinator Mark Stoops said in late November that he would take over as Kentucky's head coach.
Another position of need will be on the offensive line. FSU returns four starters, all of which are juniors or seniors, but needs to find a right tackle and must develop quality depth. Coaches are hoping to reach into Alabama to grab either Austin Golson or Wilson Bell.
The Seminoles have received verbal commitments from a group of four-star prospects like tailback Ryan Green, guard Ira Denson, wide receiver Isaiah Jones and linebackers E.J. Levenberry and Tyrell Lyons.
And on Monday, defensive back Jalen Ramsey flipped from Southern Cal to FSU.
But today will provide a nervous morning of watching and waiting. Fisher and his assistants have spent the past few weeks crisscrossing the state in an effort to secure the commitments of several top prospects.
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A woman from Atlanta faces multiple charges, including DWI, after a High Point man was killed in a head-on crash on Christmas Eve.
Ashleigh Lynn Mellon, 32, was charged in a crash on Fleming Road near Clarkson Road around 3:25 p.m. Dec. 24.
Ronald John Beardslee, 29, died at the scene of the crash, while two others, including a 3-year-old, suffered non life-threatening injuries.
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Food allergy affects adults and children in the United States and appears to be increasing in prevalence. Food allergy is associated with severe allergic reactions and is the most common cause of emergency room visits for anaphylaxis. Even though persons with food allergies attempt to avoid known allergens, reactions from unintentional exposure are relatively common.
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On March 13-14, 2006, at the request of Congress, an expert panel of national and international food allergy experts was convened by NIH on behalf of the HHS Secretary to address issues in food allergy research. In its report, the panel examined the current state of NIH-funded food allergy research and developed and prioritized a list of recommendations to the HHS Secretary on key opportunities and research directions.
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Lincoln University Cooperative Extension and Research (LUCER) will host the Alternative Agriculture Field Day at 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 30, 2013 at Alan T. Busby Farm. The event will feature presentations and demonstrations that promote, support, and encourage sustainable and organic agriculture for small farms. Researchers and guest speakers will address organic blueberry production, integrated pest management, multispecies grazing, food waste composting, prairie restoration, hydroponics, silvopasture, and the establishment of the FINCA (Families Integrating Nature Communities in Agriculture) project. A complimentary meal will be served at 6:00 p.m.
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In Burundi, children are flocking to school in order to receive their only meal of the day: beans and micronutrient-fortified rice.
Daniel, 9, is one of 10 children in a Burundian family. His mother, Capitoline, has no money for food, medicine, or clothes.
"If we are lucky, we eat. If we are not lucky, we go to bed hungry," Capitoline explains.
Capitoline's despair turned to relief when some of her children began receiving lunch through a school feeding project, supported by World Vision and the World Food Program.
"It helps that my children get rice and beans from school; then I can worry about less mouths to feed. Also, I know that they will not starve," she says.
Daniel doesn't miss a day of school at Ngogomo, where he attends with three of his siblings. "I love the rice, because it gives me the energy to stay and study in class," he says. "When I eat at school, even if there is no food back home, I can last until the next day."
Daniel eats half of his school meal and carries half home to share with his siblings, particularly his 2-year-old sister.
Many children are flocking to these schools in order to get their only meal of the day: beans and micronutrient-fortified rice.
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"If they did not have this…they would not have the energy to stay in class and learn," he says. "If we stopped feeding the children with this nutritious rice, you will not find them in school."
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SOCHI, Russia -- This was not as easy as Brian Boitano made it look.
He stood on the balcony of a seaside hotel here Friday, dressed in a sharp gray suit with necktie and looked almost ... well, presidential.
Which was fitting. He is part of President Barack Obama's official delegation to the Sochi Olympics. There he and others who looked the part were standing alongside each other on the balcony. There was the U.S. ambassador to Moscow. There was a former cabinet member. There was a White House aide. There was another former Olympic athlete who happens to be gay.
And there was Boitano.
"We feel very strongly about our message: tolerance and diversity," Boitano said to a small group of reporters. "But I don't feel like we need to say anything, really. Everyone knows why we're here. People get it."
Boitano, a Sunnyvale native and San Francisco resident who won an Olympic figure skating gold medal in 1988, was smooth and polished. But in a one-on-one conversation inside the hotel after the balcony session, Boitano acknowledged that this isn't really his thing. He might wear a suit and tie five times a year. Until recently, he had never ventured into the political waters of gay rights in public.
In fact, until two months ago, he was not officially out as a gay man.
"This is a different direction for me," Boitano said. "It's something I never anticipated. But when I agreed to it, I knew what it would mean."
Of course he did. Everyone did. When Obama decided not to attend the Sochi Games, likely for security concerns, he chose to send a message rather than send himself. Russia has a law against spreading "gay propaganda," and many of the nation's politicians, including President Vladimir Putin, support the law -- even if it's rather unclear what it means to "spread gay propaganda." Basically, the law allows police to intimidate the gay community at will.
In response, therefore, Obama delegated several high-profile gay former athletes as his representatives here. Billie Jean King, the former tennis star, was one. Caitlin Cahow, a former U.S. hockey Olympian, was another.
Boitano, too, had tentatively accepted the president's invitation. But in December, he was on a European trip when the news broke prematurely. Reports implied that Boitano was selected because he was gay, although he'd never publicly acknowledged that. His friends and family knew. He just preferred to keep it quiet to the larger world, if only to make his life simpler.
When the delegation appointment story surfaced, however, Boitano had two options. He finally could publicly acknowledge his sexual orientation. Or he could withdraw from the delegation.
"I could stick with the privacy route," said Boitano, who had 48 hours to decide. "But it just didn't feel right. You know, look at this platform. This is huge. This is worth it for getting past the privacy stance."
But now that he's here, what does his commitment mean? More or less, it means he is now Mr. Famous Gay Ex-Athlete Shaking Hands While Attempting To Make An Important Subliminal Point. Which is this: America has all sorts of great sports competitors. Some are gay, some are straight. They are of different skin colors. But all of them make the USA a better team and a better nation.
"Ultimately, it would be great to change perceptions," Boitano said when asked for his main goal here. Then he paused.
"I don't even know what the average Russian's perception of this is," he said. "It's kind of hard to get a sense for that. I know what my friends in Moscow have told me. But not here."
That's the only unfortunate part, Boitano said. Because of all his official handshaking, he won't be able to go out and visit local neighborhoods or mix with many Russian citizens.
The delegation's schedule is tight. Members arrived here Thursday. They leave Sunday. They go from event to event. Thursday night, they attended a USA flag-raising ceremony at the Olympic Village, then visited a Team Great Britain reception hosted by Princess Anne. Friday, there was a State Department briefing, then a session with USA athletes before the Opening Ceremony. Saturday, the delegation was scheduled to visit competition sites to root on American athletes. Members will leave the next day.
Boitano, therefore, will almost surely not be visiting one of Sochi's two or three gay bars -- unlike one gay politician from Canada who showed up at one as a show of solidarity. Boitano said he is not a hanging-out-at-gay-bars sort of guy, regardless.
"But if a group is going to go there, I might," Boitano said.
If athletes stage some sort of gay-rights demonstration while he's here, Boitano said he might also attend. At the same time, he noted, such demonstrations by athletes are banned in the Olympic charter.
If Boitano's attitude appears to be remarkably healthy, it's perhaps the result of his upbringing, which he says was free of taunting or bullying or parental disapproval.
"I never got made fun of," Boitano said. "Everybody was supportive, family and friends. You know, my dad was a semipro baseball player. When I told him I wanted to give up baseball and go skate, he said, 'All right, let's go.' "
But what about when Boitano was a teenager at now-defunct Peterson High at Sunnyvale? What about when he was rising to fame and the gold medal? Perhaps because of his athleticism and his status, Boitano avoided the low tides endured by some gay men.
"I wasn't conflicted," he said. "I'm not that guy."
But what about when he became more famous? Once more, it didn't become an issue because he chose not to make it one.
"All the guys were straight that I skated with," Boitano said. "I think when I did the Champion on Ice Tour after the Olympics, I think I was one of only two gay guys on the tour. This just wasn't what we talked about."
He is talking about it now, though. Networks are lining up to interview Boitano, both here and when he returns to the States. He is receiving numerous invitations to speak on gay rights. He might be wearing that suit and tie a lot more often than he expected.
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Super Bowl: Local fans follow their favorites via TV
February 4, 2013
Super Bowl XLVII was showing on all six screens Sunday night as football fans at the Boathouse BBQ restaurant in Marietta watched the championship contest between the San Francisco 49ers and......
I am very happy that Art Modell did not live to see his team win the Super Bowl.
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The Ravens also won the Super Bowl in 2001, Art Modell was alive and well for that one.
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Really? Fans watched the game "via TV"? Such technology breakthroughs!! What is next, watching it on a "smartphone"? Oh, the possibilities. I am glad this made the top of the list.
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I know that but having him dead, not seing the Ravens win and not in the hall of fame made for a good weekend.
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by Edward Fraser - November 13, 2008 10:55 AM UTC
Listing a few blue-chip prospects who have a couple NHL games under their belts, but haven't become full-timers, yet.
Surely I'm biased, but I think we have a plethora of great features here on THN.com. Among the stand-outs is Ryan Kennedy's weekly prospect countdown, The Hot List, an inventory of 10 youngsters from near and far who are sure to one day make it to The Show.
by Edward Fraser - November 6, 2008 10:46 AM UTC
Relocation is always a topic of conversation, but recently a few players from Minnesota chimed in... and boring Crosby.
Peruse any Internet article referencing relocation or expansion and fans post in droves with suggestions of cities that should and should not be home to NHL teams.
by Edward Fraser - October 30, 2008 9:56 AM UTC
Tampa Bay goalie Mike Smith is striking fear in opponents with his fast start and his horror movie-themed mask.
At 2-3-3 after eight games, the drastic turnaround some expected after the Lightning's off-season overhaul hasn't come to fruition.
by Edward Fraser - October 23, 2008 11:22 AM UTC
Scoring has been falling in the NHL since its spike after the lockout, so what can we do to see more red lights lit?
I consider myself a hockey purist. Rule changes – or even rumors of rule changes – that alter the fabric of the game I grew up with and hold dear to my heart get my proverbial panties in a bunch.
by Edward Fraser - October 16, 2008 10:50 AM UTC
From Fabian Brunnstrom's fabulous opening to Chris Pronger's scruff, here are a few things this author is thankful for.
With Canadian Thanksgiving still fresh in my mind – thanks to copious amounts of leftovers still filling my gullet on a daily basis – it feels like a good time to follow in Ken Campbell's footsteps and list a few of the things I'm thankful for early on in this NHL season.
by Edward Fraser - October 9, 2008 12:07 PM UTC
The Lightning's trade with Vancouver wasn't a logical one... pre-season fighting is for dummies... and cap may hinder trade deadline activity.
As we head full-steam into the NHL regular season tonight – it'll be nice to have a bread-and-circuses reprieve from the crumbling financial situation – three things caught my attention as the pre-season wound down: BOLT OF INSPIRATION? They may have lost a pair of games to the Rangers, outshot 80-40 in the process, and had their new coach tear a strip off them publicly, but the most embarrassing thing coming out of Tampa this week was trading highly touted prospect Logan MacMillan for depreciating defenseman Lukas Krajicek…in a round-about way.
by Edward Fraser - October 1, 2008 4:04 PM UTC
Long-known as the worst overall division in the NHL, the Southeast has quickly transformed itself back into respectability.
The Washington Capitals, defending Southeast winners, have become a sexy choice to make more noise in the East this season. And for good reason.
by Edward Fraser - September 24, 2008 2:27 PM UTC
From the very top to the very bottom of the Eastern Conference, New York's three NHL teams are all over the map.
As the NHL season draws tantalizingly near, the hockey mind can't help but be consumed with thoughts of days to come, both near and far.
by Edward Fraser - September 19, 2008 1:37 PM UTC
Scott Niedermayer's indecision last year is still having a negative affect on the club and it isn't going to be getting better any time soon.
Thanks a bunch, Mr. Niedermayer. Due in large part to the all-world defenseman's dithering last season, Anaheim GM Brian Burke is surely in a fowl (sorry, couldn't help it) mood in the days following Mathieu Schneider's waiver-wire clearing that leaves the Ducks short of the cap space necessary to bring Teemu Selanne back into the flock (apologies again).
by Edward Fraser - September 9, 2008 11:36 AM UTC
A fight will always bring a crowd to their feet and raise the excitement level of a game, so here's a list of some of the NHL's best.
Coming off a week that put me in a fighting mood, I figured it was a good time to have some fun and look at 10 of the NHL's top pugilists.
by Edward Fraser - September 5, 2008 1:24 PM UTC
Brandon Sugden has been told he can't play in the NHL despite receiving an invite from the Islanders.
A recent email from a reader alerted me to the story of Sugden, a 6-foot-4, 225-pound pugilist drafted by the Maple Leafs in the fifth round back in 1996.
by Edward Fraser - August 29, 2008 9:48 AM UTC
Watching the defenseman's development since his junior days has developed a connection that's hard to break.
What he did is unforgivable, but regardless past troubles that will always taint my opinion of the former Calder winner, I still hope Bryan Berard catches on with the Flyers.


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Eating the Atkins Way May Help Stem Depression
A new study finds that what you eat can affect your mental health
According to Michael Berk, a professor at the Deakin University School of Medicine in Australia, there's a strong link between "diet quality and mental health." A ketogenic diet, restricts carb intake and has also been shown to benefit those suffering from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and cancer.
Doctors still aren't sure what the relationship is between diet and mental health. "There seems to be a clear link, but it's an association," said Rif El-Mallakh, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. "It doesn't tell you cause and effect. We don't know which is the chicken and which is the egg."
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According to one woman who tried the diet change, "I noticed within a day or two the marked difference in my head," she recalls. "It felt clear for the first time in years and years." Since adopting the diet, she says she's been symptom-free.
Doctors, though, are cautious about making a correlation and attributing too much to diet change. "We can't say [that] if we improve your diet, you'll feel better," Felice Jacka, International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research, said. "We have circumstantial evidence that suggests this could be true, but we can't say for sure." [Daily Mail]
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SAN JOSE -- Just how bad has crime gotten in San Jose? Once known as America's Safest Big City, the capital of Silicon Valley has a higher crime rate than California or the United States as a whole, while the city's police force is catching half as many criminals as it did just a few years ago.
That's according to a new analysis by the city's independent auditor, which also found the city was clearing a far lower percentage of crimes than the average U.S. city and had seen police response time for some emergency calls more than double in eight years.
The new data come as the six major candidates for mayor each jockey to make public safety their top priority heading into the wide-open June primary. And police Chief Larry Esquivel, sworn in last week, confronts a department with low morale as officers continue to flee for better-paying jobs elsewhere.
"What we're seeing is the effect of 10 years of skyrocketing costs" for police officers, Mayor Chuck Reed said of the depleted force. "I believe it has an impact on the crime rate -- I think we're seeing that in the deterioration of services. We need more officers."
Among the findings from auditor Sharon Winslow Erickson's annual report:
San Jose's crime rate is still far lower than those of San Francisco and Oakland. And an unusually large share of San Jose's crimes are burglaries, vehicle thefts and other property crimes, while its violent crime rate is still lower than Los Angeles and San Diego.
Several mayoral candidates are vying to recapture San Jose's oft-boasted "safest big city" award, bestowed by independent groups until 2006.
The politics are tricky, however, as voters want both crime and taxes to stay low.
To balance its budget, the city imposed a 10 percent pay cut for police officers, and voters approved city employee pension cutbacks last year. But San Jose has lost or laid off hundreds of officers, and its active duty force has dropped to about 920 officers. Erickson said the dwindling police force has likely contributed to the recent sharp drop in arrests.
The City Council last week approved a 10 percent pay restoration for police officers, while the Police Officers Association union is fighting the pension changes in court.
"Every (mayoral) candidate will fall over themselves to tell voters how they will restore staffing in the Police Department," said one mayoral candidate, Councilman Sam Liccardo. "The truth is that none of us will. It's going to take a lot of time no matter who is in office -- the question is, 'What are we going to do in the meantime?'"
Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese, the union-backed mayoral candidate, wants the city to spend more on its employees to beef up the police force and increase morale. Termed-out Reed's five City Council allies running to replace him -- Pete Constant, Rose Herrera, Liccardo, Madison Nguyen and Pierluigi Oliverio -- have backed the more moderate approach officials have taken in recent years, saying controlling employee cost is vital to keeping services, including police, intact.
"We can talk all we want about rebuilding the Police Department, but the reality is, if we don't have the financial resources to do so, we're not going to do any meaningful reform," said Nguyen, a strong backer of pension reform.
But while voters have preached fiscal restraint in the past, now they are increasingly aware of the police problems, too.
A new city-sponsored scientific survey of 219 San Jose residents, cited in the report, found that 27 percent of respondents had a member of their household who was a victim of a crime last year, up from 12 percent each of the prior two years. Favorability ratings for the Police Department also fell from 61 percent two years ago to 51 percent now, while fewer people said they felt safe around town and in their own neighborhoods.
Among the candidates' ideas: Constant wants to spend a bigger portion of the budget on police; Liccardo favors implementing predictive policing software; Nguyen is seeking to re-establish the burglary unit; and Herrera wants more administrative staffers to free up officers for field work.
"I don't think San Jose can take for granted that it's always going to be a safe city," Herrera said. "It takes a lot of work."
Contact Mike Rosenberg at 408-920-5705. Follow him at Twitter.com/RosenbergMerc.
Average police clearance rates for major crimes:
San Jose: 30 percent
U.S.: 47 percent
California: 44 percent
Arrests by San Jose police:
2007: 36,172
2012: 17,278
Emergency calls to San Jose police
July 2009-June 2010: 368,905
July 2012-June 2013: 454,919
Average San Jose police priority two emergency response times
2005: 8.2 minutes
2013: 20.3 minutes
Source: San Jose Office of the City Auditor, annual report: http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/24941 (police section starts on page 83)


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