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With an ever-growing roster of specialized scientific publications out there, how are scientists, funding agencies, and academic institutions supposed to decide which ones to take seriously? Anyone in the field and many outside of it know that we rate a publication in Nature as being more significant than one in The Journal of Obscure, Small Invertebrates, but what about all of the journals in between? Is getting something into Genes and Development more or less significant than success with plain old Development?
One solution to these questions that's become widely used within the scientific community is the Impact Factor, a measure of how significant a splash different publications make. Generated by Thomson Scientific, the Impact Factor is a measure of how often academic works in a publication get cited in all other publications. The more citations, the higher the impact.
Over time, Impact Factors have been adopted by everyone from granting agencies and academic institutions, which use them to weigh the significance of what otherwise might be a long and bewildering list of publications. They are even considered in the process by which British academic funding is allocated. In response, authors themselves have started considering impact factors when searching for a place to send hot results, and some journals have gone as far as placing their impact factor on their home page.
The BMJ has commissioned a series of articles (the first abstract has links to the remaining ones) taking a look at the Impact Factor system and all the issues with it. Many of these are structural: as few as 10 percent of a given journal's publications can account for the majority of its citations, while as many as half of the papers out there never get cited. Meanwhile, papers that are flawed or fraudulent can set off a series of corrections, correspondence, and critical responses, all of which can actually raise the impact of the journal publishing the questionable work.
But the collection of essays also open an interesting window into steps those in the publishing industry can (and apparently do) take to skew the impact factor. For one, you should note the vagueness in the term "academic works" above. Given that the impact factor is divided by the total number of articles included in the calculations, excluding anything that's unlikely to be cited can make significant improvements. Large publishers can afford to have some of their staff work with Thomson Scientific to ensure that as many articles as possible get excluded. Smaller publishers are probably out of luck.
There are other, positive steps that can be taken. Reviews of the current state of knowledge tend to be cited frequently in subsequent publications, so tweaking the ratio of review to data publication can up the Impact Factor. Research summaries that appear in many journals to highlight work appearing in the same issue also bump up the citations, even though these short summaries don't count as part of the total articles. Year-end summaries of research also perform the same function. All of this can be done without even getting into making editorial decisions regarding whether to avoid topics that are less popular.
It's clear that the Impact Factor does allow some discrimination; journals like Science, Nature, and The New England Journal of Medicine are widely respected and have a high Impact Factor. But that does little more than tell us what we already knew. Impact Factors have the greatest utility for providing a sense of the relative merits of the vast field of journals in the middle of the pack, where the differences among the journals are small. Unfortunately, these small differences are exactly the ones most susceptible to manipulations such as those described in BMJ.


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Hot Wine, Cool Conditions
I'll never forget the feeling of disappointment. On my twenty-first birthday, my uncle had chosen a wine from his cellar harvested in the year of my birth for us to enjoy. After careful decanting, he served it only to realize that the wine was not in good condition. In fact, it was awful. It tasted of oxidation and decay. Years of moving it from one makeshift cellar to another (one damp basement to another) had taken its toll on the wine. All that build-up and years of waiting had culminated in something that was more vinegar than vino.
In general, wine needs to be protected from swings in temperature and humidity, from exposure to sunlight, and from dry corks (the latter is achieved by laying it on its side). Intowine.com has a very complete post on the hows and whys of wine storage.
A recent Washington Post article states, "The wine cellar has become a must-have amenity for high-end homes, much like the home theater and the gym had been."
Unfortunately, my 450-square-foot Manhattan studio has no room for a proper cellar, much less one equipped with, "tasting rooms, cigar-smoking areas, bookshelves, fur rooms, commissioned art, and more."
So what is a wine lover without a huge collection or a $100,000 budget to do?
You have options:
- Buy wine from a reputable store that has back vintages and stores their wine properly. The Italian Wine Merchants in New York is extraordinary in their care of the wine and selection of Italian wines that date to the middle of last century.
- Get an inexpensive home cellar. This is one of my favorites: Wine Enthusiast 50-Bottle Wine Refrigerator
- Store your wine off-site. The back pages of any wine magazine list wine-storage services. There is usually a per-case and per-month fee. Check out the facilities first for conditions and safety.
- Take a class with Dr. Vino. Brilliant and prolific wine blogger Tyler Coleman (aka "Dr. Vino," a real doctor) will be teaching classes on how to collect and cellar wines on September 29 at the University of Chicago and three Tuesdays starting September 25 at New York University. For more information visit drvino.com.
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Welcome to Squadron Officer College
Commandant's Message
It is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to Squadron Officer College (SOC). Located at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, SOC is the Air Force's center for company grade officer professional development. The College fulfills this role by educating and mentoring its students during the most crucial period of their development; their early, formative years as current and future airpower leaders.
SOC houses a resident-education program specifically targeted at the developmental needs of junior officers. We also field an online version of the course that now includes facilitation by line instructors as well as peer-to-peer interaction.
Squadron Officer School (SOS), established in 1950, delivers primary developmental education for captains, international officers, and select civilian equivalents from the Department-of-the-Air-Force (DAF) and other interagency departments. In SOS, students identify and reflect on their personal leadership styles as they are exposed to educational and experiential opportunities that challenge them to become more effective leaders for our Air Force.
Although SOC has a long and prestigious history, we are not resting on our laurels. On the contrary, we are in the process of fundamentally transforming the College. We are partnering with leading institutions in the US to ensure our curriculum reflects the latest advancements in leadership studies. We are also adding intensive, experiential activities in our resident programs to inject realism and provide opportunities for students to apply the lessons we are teaching.
SOS students will recognize the changes instantly. Gone are the day-long lectures and unending decks of PowerPoint slides. Gone too are the activities that had become divorced from the College's leadership focus. Instead, students are treated to a graduate-level executive leadership seminar that helps them to identify their leadership strengths and weaknesses, provides them tools for improvement, and empowers them with opportunities to apply what they have learned.
In addition to these improvements, we at SOC are reaching beyond the walls of our facilities to transform our distance-learning educational opportunities. In this effort, we are leveraging technology to provide state-of–the-art, on-line curriculum to company grade officers and their civilian counterparts across our Air Force. The newest version of the SOS nonresident program features multi-media materials, avatar-based instructional items, and a completely renovated curriculum targeted specifically at leadership development. The program includes online facilitation by SOS faculty. Students spend part of their online experience communicating directly with instructors and peers through shared assignments and critical feedback, increasing the learning opportunities for all of our distance learning student body.
SOC is transforming itself to be more relevant to today's complex security environment and to be more responsive to the challenges that our junior leaders face as they lead our expeditionary Air Force to mission success. If you haven't seen SOC lately, then you don't know SOC. We are well on our way to realizing our vision of becoming our Air Force's premier leadership-development institution.
Colonel Wayne W. Straw
SOC's vision for the future is to become the premier leadership-development institution in the US. SOC will achieve this vision by creating and maintaining a team dedicated to:
- Coaching and mentoring airpower leaders today, preparing the senior leaders of tomorrow.
- Recruiting the right people in the right numbers to develop the most respected military faculty in Professional Military Education.
- Developing and wielding current, agile and engaging curriculum based on a defensible core that is focused on the specific needs of SOC's customers.
- Delivering unparalleled educational opportunities through robust academic partnerships and state-of-the-art learning environments.
- Identifying, obtaining and leveraging financial, manpower, physical and technological resources to ensure mission success.
SOC's mission is to Educate, Motivate, and Mentor Company Grade Officers as Current and Future Air Force Leaders.
SOC traces its earliest beginnings to Squadron Officer School (SOS), which was established in 1950 after the closure of the Air Corps Tactical School in 1946. In 1997 the Air Force established the Air and Space Basic Course (ASBC) and graduated its first class of Second Lieutenants in early 1998. ASBC shared Building 1403 with SOS until military construction later expanded classroom space for both schools. In 2000, both ASBC and SOS merged to form an integrated Squadron Officer College (SOC), with both schools sharing a common curriculum directorate and mission support staff. SOC's mission changed again in 2011 with a decision by the Air Force to eliminate ASBC, extend SOS from 5 to 8 weeks, and pursue 100% resident attendance opportunity for all Line-of-the-Air Force captains.
SOC is led by a Commandant with six SOS teaching squadrons. SOC also has a Dean of Academic Affairs curriculum directorate organized into academic departments, and a Mission Support Directorate organized into three SOC-unique support branches. In 2008 a major reorganization of Air University consolidated the information technology, finance, and personnel mission support units from the AU colleges on Chennault Circle into a centralized Spaatz Center.
The main SOC facility houses six student squadrons, resident and distance learning curriculum development staff, 62 flight rooms, Maxwell's largest auditorium (seating capacity 1222), and a smaller auditorium (seating capacity 240). SOC also hosts the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS) in one wing of the building. Other SOC facilities include the Ritchey Center field house, Project-X complex, Cultural Leadership Exercise complex, Team Leadership Problem pads, running track, volleyball courts, and athletic fields.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Charlotte's real estate market "alive and well," speakers say
10 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Mark Vintner is a cheerleader for the Charlotte Uptown crowd. He stated several times that because Charlotte real estate did not escalate as rapidly as other cities did, that we wouldn't experience a severe pullback in the real estate market. Think he got that one right too?
- March 27, 2012 at 5:42 PM
- Anonymous said...
Did Johnny Harris' comments come before or after the drinks were served? Likely the latter.
- March 27, 2012 at 8:36 PM
- Mark Dennis said...
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- March 28, 2012 at 12:37 AM
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- March 28, 2012 at 2:06 AM
- yizhantech said...
This is great news and it makes sense. I bought my first house after years of paying someone else with nothing in the end to show for my hard work. My rent was higher than my current mortgage payment. Shouldn't have waited so long to buy my own house. Even my friend who bought at the peak in end of '06 has already paid down so much principal, that he now has...
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- March 28, 2012 at 8:55 AM
- Commercial estate agents Dublin said...
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- April 4, 2012 at 8:15 AM
- new york city real estate said...
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- April 5, 2012 at 8:12 AM
- Anonymous said...
These pep talks do not change the fact that we are in dire state - economically.
I voted for Obama and the Democratic party and they misled me totally.
Obama wasted soo much time on health care legislation when the country needed solutions on
(a)banking crisis (b) real estate fiasco (c) jobs (d) energy.
Why is real estate flourishing in Brazil, China & India where free enterprise is at its height.
My old Democratic Party has now turned to socialism and I am shocked.
- April 16, 2012 at 10:46 PM
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- April 20, 2012 at 2:59 PM
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or plastic, plastic is the environmentally responsible decision.
Paper or Plastic? How do you answer? If you give what you think is the 'correct' answer, you say 'paper' or you've brought your own bags. Let's examine that choice.
The paper bags used in the grocery stores begin in the forest, with the clear-cutting of forests. Even though trees are a renewable source, there is more to producing new paper than planting new trees. The paper industry is one of the dirtiest industries we have. The chemicals used in the paper pulp process include sulfur, bleaches, and acids. The process uses huge quantities of water, which must be treated and cleaned, a process which also uses chemicals. According to a representative of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, paper manufacturing also receives a larger number of complaints than refineries on 'nuisance odors ' which is a term meaning that the facilities emit very strong, disagreeable odors, as unpleasant to live near as a feedlot. Processing facilities must control odors to the same extent that they must control pollutant emissions.
Paper has a limited ability to be recycled. On each trip through recycling, paper must be chopped and shredded, which shortens the fiber length. Eventually, the fibers become too small to use and must be land filled, as do the manufacturing byproducts.
What about plastic? Grocery stores bags are made of polyethylene, which begins as the ethane component of natural gas. The only emissions from polyethylene manufacture are from natural-gas fired heaters, which supply heat or steam for the process. Natural gas is the cleanest burning fuel, and natural gas wells are clean and low-profile - a valve sticking up out of the ground as opposed to the 'pumping units' associated with oil wells. The conversion of ethane into polyethylene is close to 99% efficient. Additionally, polyethylene can be recycled almost infinitely. Even though the molecular weight of the polymer chains will change with recycling, it's still the same plastic and can be reused. It is also inert- in some locations, polyethylene has been chopped into sand-sized bits and incorporated into heavy clay soils, to lighten them as you would do with sand.
Transportation adds more cost to the paper product than to plastic. Paper is heavier, so trucking costs are higher, as is the amount of pollution from the gasoline needed to transport the denser product.
The option with the least environmental impact is to carry reusable shopping bags, which are made of polypropylene, or carry personal bags. However, if you are faced with a choice between paper


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Convicted Abortion Doctor Given Third Life Sentence
(PHILADELPHIA) -- Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies, was sentenced Wednesday to a third life term.
Gosnell was handed two life sentences on Tuesday after a deal was struck with prosecutors, which spared him a potential death sentence. The third sentence was handed down on Wednesday. The 72-year-old was also sentenced to 2.5 to 5 years in prison for the 2009 overdose death of a female patient.
Gosnell was accused of performing late-term abortions on four babies who were born alive, but were then allegedly killed by Gosnell who "snipped" their spinal cords with scissors. He was cleared in the death of one of the infants.
The Philadelphia clinic run by Gosnell has been described as a "pill mill" for drug addicts by day, and an "abortion mill" by night. When Gosnell aborted the fetus of a teen who was nearly 30 weeks pregnant, he allegedly joked the baby was so big it could "walk to the bus."
The guilty verdicts against Gosnell came on Monday, the jury's tenth day of deliberations.
As part of the deal struck with prosecutors, Gosnell will serve three life sentences without the possibility of parole or the opportunity to appeal.
For two months, the jury heard often grisly testimony, including from members of Gosnell's staff. Eight staffers have pleaded guilty to several crimes. Prosecutors said none of the staff were licensed nurses or doctors.
Gosnell ran the Women's Medical Society in West Philadelphia for decades until February 2010, when FBI agents raided his clinic looking for evidence of prescription drug dealing.
Instead they found, as reported in a nearly 300-page grand jury report released in 2011, a filthy, decrepit "house of horrors."
Blood was on the floor, the clinic reeked of urine and bags of fetal remains were stacked in freezers. The clinic was shut down and Gosnell's medical license was suspended after the raid.
Despite repeated complaints to state officials over the years -- as well as 46 lawsuits filed against Gosnell -- investigators said in the report that state regulators had conducted five inspections since the clinic had opened in 1979.
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Today has been a weird one to say the least.
I woke up around 9 (Yes. I have MWF off. I like to sleep, so I slept in. Yes, I live like an undergrad. Might as well while I still can).
About 9:30, my dad called. He told me that he would be in town for work and that he would be free around 4 and wanted to stop by. It was fine with me, but we had laundry everywhere, dishes in the sink, hadn't dusted in weeks. Last week kicked both of our butts and this weekend did not go as planned, so house hold things got put on the back burner.
So I freaked out because my dad is a bit of a neat freak. His house is usually always in good order and I didn't want to hear comments about me slacking as a wife or whatever.
I had planned on spending today lesson planning. Instead, I did 5 loads of laundry, scrubbed the kitchen, vacuumed, hand vacuumed the steps, dusted the entire apartment, straightened up the place, folded 5 loads of laundry and put everything away. No idea why, but it did take me all day and our apartment isn't that big.
But while I was doing all of that, Mr. A had a big important lunch meeting and I was anxiously awaiting his call.
When he did, I wanted to scream from the roof tops out of joy!
Why you ask? Because Mr. A got the internship for the spring!!!
He will be doing actual attorney things and it can very well lead to a job, or at very leas, a fellowship next summer while waiting on bar exam results and such. And he will be making fantastic connections and I am so effing proud of him. He works so so hard, but hasn't always had the best of luck with some things panning out, so I couldn't be happier that this worked out for him and I know it is a HUGE weight off of his shoulders.
He will be living at one of my parents' houses and I should be able to make my schedule Tues/Thurs so if I want to go go or he comes down, I will have Fri-Mon. Also, he will only be 2 hours away, and knowing how wonderful this opportunity is, I will make the sacrifice for a semester.
So that was amazing, but of course we got some more bad news about his dad, so it was hard to balance being out of my mind excited, but also dealing with that drama.
But then my dad showed up and this was the first time he has seen this apartment, so I am happy that Mr. A and I have been working on making it more of a home for the last year and it doesn't look completely like a college apartment.
Now, my family is one that doesn't really talk about finances beyond "You should be saving your money". I have no clue how much my dad makes or what his financial situation is. I have a rough idea what my mom makes, but not much more than that.
So when my dad started asking us what our student loan situation was, I was a little confused and kind of waiting for a lecture on it all.
But then the conversation quickly turned to how many miles were on my car and all of that. Now, I drive a 12 year old Toyota that has over 230,000 miles on it. Yeah. That's a lot. It was my mom's before me and when she gave it to me in 2005, it had roughly 80,000 on it, but I was going to school three hours away and made trips home fairly frequently, so the miles racked up rather quickly.
Long story short, my stepsister is taking her mom's car that is a 2012, I'm taking her car that only has like 65,000 miles on it and is a very reliable car, and any money we can get for mine will go towards paying for the car since hers would have some value if they decided to sell it. Eventually, we'll pay my dad back for the car, but he put off us paying for a little over a year, and should circumstances prevent us from being able to afford it, he said we'd work it out.
I'll be cleaning out my car tomorrow and hope is to list it by this weekend and hopefully by next week I will have a new car!!! (Or new to me, but anything is better than mine at this point.)
And the other weird part of yesterday?
Remember when I told you guys that Mr. A and I decided to go on a cruise over Christmas break since it will be our last break together?
He gets a text message last night from a good friend (and those of you that know me IRL can easily figure out who this person is, but PLEASE do not say anything about it either to him or on FB because it isn't being publically announced just yet, but bc of logistical issues, we were told. Again, trusting you folks.). Mr. A then asked me when our cruise was, but wouldn't tell me why he was asking.
When I told him the date, he got a strange look on his face and then proceeded to tell me that his good friend had set his wedding date for during our cruise.
Not only just set a wedding date, but the wedding will be in India.
I'll let you soak that in for a minute.
This guy was one of our groomsmen and has been a friend of Mr. A's for a very long time. So Mr. A needs to go, but we can't really afford for both of us, just with flights alone. So Mr. A and his other good friend (who were best men for each other's weddings) are implementing the buddy system. Neither wife is going as a way to save some money. But believe me, Mr. A has been told he needs to be bringing me back some sweet stuff from India.
But what about the cruise?
Well if he gets to go to India, I am surely still going on my cruise. I decided to ask my MIL if she would be interested/would be able to go because she is a lot of fun and I'm sure I could handle being with her for 6 days for a beach filled vacation. She said she would check and last night she sent me a text saying that I had a cruise buddy and that she would be working on passport paperwork this morning.
SO. Yesterday was just bizarre. So many weird, but good things going on and this next year will be a bit of a whirlwind.
Now to just hope and pray and cross fingers and toes that next year we both have jobs and that we aren't unemployed and living in a box. Because we all know I need my hair straightener and access to twitter. ;o)


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As I suggested in my last post, my theory that my 4 x great grandfather James Blanch was the son of Thomas and Mary Blanch of Tewkesbury, still leaves a number of unanswered questions. One of them is why James moved from Soho to Holborn, after his second marriage to Sophia Atkins, and what connection if any did he have with the various Blanch families living in that area?
One possibility is that other members of the Gloucestershire Blanch family had also moved to London, and that some of them were living in the Holborn area. Some time ago, I came across records for the family of Thomas and Sarah Blanch, who lived in Holborn at around the same as James and Sophia, but I was unable to establish a link between the two families.
Now my eagle-eyed distant relation Jan Addison has reminded me that this Thomas Blanch is described in one record as a heel maker, the same occupation as that followed by James Blanch, as well as by the person I now believe to have been his father, Thomas Blanch of Tewkesbury.
In November 1791, heel maker Thomas Blanch and his wife Sarah had a daughter, Louisa, christened at the church of St Giles, Cripplegate. However, by the time their daughter Harriet was baptised in October 1795, they were living in Fetter Lane, Holborn (assuming that this is the same Thomas and Sarah Blanch, of course). Below is a complete list of the addresses we have for Thomas and Sarah, marked in bold, with the known addresses for James and Sophia Blanch marked in italics:
Nov 1791 St Giles Cripplegate Baptism of daughter Louisa
Mar 1792 St Anne, Westminster Marriage of James and Sophia
Aug 1794 St George, Southwark Baptism of daughter Mary Ann
Oct 1795 Fetter Lane, Holborn Baptism of daughter Harriet
Dec 1797 Saffron Hill, Holborn Baptism of son Thomas
1799 St Anne, Soho Baptism of daughter Sophia Sarah
May 1807 Saffron Hill, Holborn Baptism of son Thomas
Aug 1800 St Andrew, Holborn Death of daughter Sophia Sarah
Aug 1802 Saffron Hill, Holborn Baptism of son John
Apr 1804 York Street, Holborn Baptism of son William Henry
Dec 1807 York Street, Holborn Baptism of son Joseph
May 1810 York Street, Holborn Baptism of son David
May 1812 Saffron Hill, Holborn Baptism of daughter Sarah Ann Catherine
This means that Thomas and Sarah Blanch were in Holborn before James and Sophia. In 1791, they were in the neighbouring parish of St Giles, when James Blanch was still living in Soho. Thomas and Sarah had moved to Holborn by 1795 at the latest, whereas James and Sophia Blanch were in Saffron Hill, Holborn by 1797 at the latest, and remained there until about 1804, when they moved to nearby York Street. Thomas and Sarah were definitely in Saffron Hill between 1807 and 1812.
If we regard York Street as part of the Saffron Hill area, then the two Blanch families were close neighbours, certainly between 1807 and 1810, and probably for longer. It's even possible that they lived in the same house for some of this time.
So who was this Thomas Blanch? The most obvious answer would be that he was the brother of James Blanch, the same person who worked as a heel maker in Bristol and married Sarah Millard in 1770. However, Matthews' Directory places him in Bristol between 1785 and 1799: that is, if I'm right in thinking that the person listed in the directory was James' brother. What's more, we know that Sarah, wife of Thomas Blanch of Bristol, heel maker, died in that city in 1779.
Alternatively, perhaps Thomas Blanch of Bristol married again, and his second wife was also named Sarah? Or it could be that he was related to James Blanch in some other way. As always, more research is needed: but the fact that James and Thomas shared an occupation and lived in the same streets in Holborn at around the same time suggests some kind of family connection between the two men.
The records for Thomas and Sarah Blanch of Holborn come to a halt after the christening of their daughter Sarah Ann Catherine in 1812 (she was actually born in 1803). However, we know that Thomas Blanch was still alive in 1825, when he witnessed Sarah's marriage to Scottish-born tailor James Thomas Matthews at the church of St Luke, Finsbury. James and Sarah Matthews disappear from the records until 1871, when they re-surface in Deptford with three grandchildren: Fanny and James Hamilton, born in Sydney and San Francisco respectively, and Henry Munford, born in Deptford.


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8 civilians killed in NATO airstrike in Afghanistan
Afghan and U.S.-led coalition officials are investigating reports that eight civilians – including six children – were killed when their home in the eastern province of Paktia was bombed on Saturday by a coalition aircraft.
There were no survivors in the attack, which took place around 8 p.m. in Gerda Serai district, completely destroying the house of a local man, said Rohullah Samoon, a spokesman for Paktia's governor.
"The head of the family, Mohammad Shafi, his wife and six children were all martyred (killed)," said Samoon.
"Mohammad Shafi is not on the black list of our security forces," Samoon added. "That means he was neither Al Qaida nor Taliban."
He said that Afghan security forces in the area had not been contacted before the strike by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the formal name for the U.S.-led coalition.
"Our concern is that ISAF troops don't share these issues with the Afghan security forces," Samoon told McClatchy. "If they had shared this with us, this (tragedy) wouldn't have happened."
ISAF spokesperson Lieutenant Lauren Rago said initial coalition reports indicated ISAF troops in southern Paktia were attacked by a large group of insurgents and had responded by returning fire and calling for air support.
"More information may be released as appropriate," said Rago.
A statement from President Hamid Karzai's office said he had dispatched a delegation to investigate the reported bombing.
Coalition air strikes that result in civilian casualties have long been a source of intense anger among Afghans, including Karzai, who has repeatedly criticized such incidents. The coalition has in recent years introduced strict rules for air strikes designed to reduce the number of killed or injured civilians.
In other violence, two civilians were killed and one wounded Sunday in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack at Marjah district in the restive southern province of Helmand, said a statement from the Helmand governor's office.
The statement said security forces had arrested a suspect from Waziristan, a lawless tribal area in Pakistan that borders Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, ISAF confirmed Sunday that four of its service members had been killed on Saturday in four separate IED attacks in southern Afghanistan.
ISAF refused to release details about the location and nationality of those killed. However, Britain's ministry of defense confirmed that one of its soldiers had been killed on Saturday when his vehicle was hit by an IED in Helmand province.
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Flowers and furbabies. I have both, but getting a photo of them together proved to be a challenge! So we'll start with the cooperative ones that allowed me to photograph them as I liked. This is our central bed out front.
That's a tiny picture, I don't know why...Next is my salvia under the live oak. It's taken 4 years for them to finally look good.
And my pot on the front porch. I've had the pot since we were newlyweds, and I love it because of the adventure that took place to aquire it.
Now for the naughty boy that won't sit still for pictures. We have to snap them quick because he starts to jump as soon as he sees the camera. But I did get a quickie of him with my yarrow. You can even see my zinnia seedlings popping up back there. Ears back...wouldn't Ceasar say that shows a calm, submisive state? Only for a second maybe. This is Bruno. He's a 6 year old Boston Terrier.
This is where he prefers to hang out-by the pool. Just like his pack leader. :~)
And here he is, sporting another new collar... My favorite picture of him.
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Wooof, this has definitely been the most stretched out round of cookie posts yet! I started this seventh round of posts way back in January and I'm only now getting to the "Favorite Cookie" post, and it's almost April. That's no good. I've been lazy. I've failed at whatever New Years resolution I made regarding this blog. Whatever, who cares, at least I'm still baking a lot, even if I don't update in a timely manner. All cookies will be revealed in due time!
Anyway, here we are at the end of the seventh round of cookies, and ready to forge ahead into the eighth round. That's pretty cool! That means I'm about 40% done with this journey. I think that means I'm ahead of schedule, since I just passed my 1 year anniversary. Right on! I hope my math's right, or else I'm screwed.
Okay, enough meaningless banter. The favorite cookie? Duh...
1st place (Blue Ribbon!): Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies
Well I don't know what to say that I didn't already say in my glowing review of these cookies. Just click the link and read about them. Or if you're too lazy, here's the short version: These are insanely delicious and you need to make them. Done and done.
2nd place (Honorable Mention!): Chocolate-Black Pepper Cookies
Sure, these aren't very fancy looking or complex to make, but despite their simplicity, they have a pretty complex flavor. The espresso and cinnamon work really nicely with the chocolate giving it a deeper flavor, and then the addition of black pepper on top is really amazing. Surprisingly good, and super easy to make.
3rd place: Chocolate Mint Sandwiches
These will definitely wow your friends and enemies alike, but they do take time and effort to make. They taste good, but I'm not sure that their taste is really worth the effort in the long run. But if you're looking for a more in depth recipe for a party or something, these would be a really good choice.
4th place: Milk Chocolate Cookies
Simply really nice cookies. Perfect for people who are silly and don't understand why dark chocolate is far superior to milk chocolate. That being said, you could also substitute dark chocolate chunks into the dough and make a cookie with a little more punch. But either way, these are just really good cookies that will make you happy. Happy cookies.
5th place: Peanut Butter Cookies
This recipe is different than your usual Peanut Butter cookie being that it makes a buttery, shortbready cookie instead of a chewy, soft cookie like you'd expect. They are very peanutty, so if that's not your thing, don't make them. But, if you love peanuts, these are your cookie. Dip them in chocolate and you are my new best friend.
6th place: Hazelnut Thumbprint Cookies
These guys are nice, and they would look great at a tea party or some other equally frilly event, but they aren't very special in flavor. They taste nice, and you can really change them around by using different types of jam or curds, as well as different kinds of nuts. However, the actual dough of the cookie is rather lacking in flavor and is kinda boring.
7th place: Chocolate Charms
As I wrote in this cookie's post, these Chocolate Charms really benefit from the use of high quality cocoa powder. They have one flavor: chocolate--so don't cut any corners, or else the cookie will be lacking. I did just that and chose to use some lame-o Hershey's cocoa powder and I regretted it. On the brighter side, they taste like crunchy hot chocolate (a good thing? yes!).
8th place: Mocha Shortbread
I already forgot about these, even though I made them practically less than a week ago. They need way more espresso powder to earn the name "Mocha." But they would be great with a dollop of fancy vanilla bean ice cream or some other gourmet topping. An easy, boring recipe, but it has the potential to go places.
9th place: Brown Butter Toffee Blondies
I would have given these guys last place if I was judging them solely on their end result, but the batter for these blondies was so supremely tasty that I just can't. It was all my fault, I think, that these guys didn't work out--so obviously they don't deserve such a low ranking, but what can I do? I suggest you make these, but keep an eye on them as they bake!
10th place (Brown Ribbon!): Hazelnut Cookies
These did not work, and this time I don't think it was my fault. I've made meringues before out of The Book, and they worked amazingly, but these failed. I think it was the order in which Martha has you mix in the sugar--it turned the meringue into marshmallow paste. End result was awful, hard, chewy, strange. Boo.
Ta-da! Done! Great, now we can move on to bigger and better things, right? Right! And by the way, Happy Passover everyone! I'm going to make the Chocolate Chip Cookies for Passover to celebrate, but I won't get around to posting the recipe until Pesach is way way over. Unless you're one of the unfortunate ones that will be subjected to a painfully long seder; in that case, I might post the recipe before Elijah's breaking and entering into your home. Only time will tell.


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U.S. officials conclude LightSquared broadband would disrupt GPS
Testing by experts led U.S. officials to report that LightSquared's ambitious plan for a national high-speed wireless network would interfere with GPS signals. The company accused the officials of bias toward GPS manufacturers.
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WASHINGTON — Tests show that even the modified plans of the company LightSquared to start up a national high-speed wireless broadband network would cause harmful interference with GPS signals, federal officials said in a letter released Friday.
"There appear to be no practical solutions or mitigations that would permit the LightSquared broadband service, as proposed, to operate in the next few years months or years without significant interference with GPS," officials said in a letter to the Commerce Department. They recommended no further testing.
The letter was signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Deputy Transportation Secretary John Porcari, and released by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The conclusion was based on an analysis of testing by a panel of experts on behalf of nine government departments and agencies.
Their determination that LightSquared's plan can't be saved without dangerous interference with GPS could be a severe blow to the company's hopes to begin commercial service.
LightSquared accused the panel of bias and urged the Federal Communications Commission, which has jurisdiction over use of the electromagnetic spectrum, to retake control of the testing.
The expert panel has "deep ties with the same GPS manufacturers who have sold poorly designed equipment to America's farmers, public safety officials, military and government agencies," the company said in a statement. The statement said the panel didn't adequately investigate the impact of filtering technology on potential interference with precision GOP devices.
"The devices selected as part of the most recent round of testing include numerous obsolete and off-market GPS receivers that nearly guaranteed failure," the statement said.
LightSquared, which is based in Reston, Va., filed a complaint with the NASA inspector general earlier this week about the panel, the statement said.
The company has rights to use a section of the electromagnetic spectrum that abuts the portion used for GPS. Its broadband network would employ thousands of ground stations to receive satellite signals. The company has pitched the network as a wholesale alternative to existing broadband networks that could bring high-speed wireless to people left out today and lower the price.
The possibility of widespread GPS interference only became well-known to the GPS community — including first responders, agriculture, the military and aviation — about a year ago.
A coalition of business and other interests opposed to LightSquared's proposal welcomed the government agencies' conclusion.
"LightSquared has been afforded every possible opportunity to make its technical case and has failed to demonstrate that it can avoid interference to many critical GPS-based activities," said Dale Leibach, a spokesman for The Coalition to Save Our GPS.


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In the Wasiko district of Uganda near Kampala, 35-year-old Yudaya and her husband, a peasant farmer, live with their six children, who range in age from 1 to 12 years old. Yudaya only attended school until her father died when she was 10, and remains illiterate. She and her husband do not use family planning. They would likely have an even larger family, but she has breast-fed each of her children for at least 18 months, a practice that suppresses fertility.
Living on a small patch of land in a two-room hut, the couple's limited resources are stretched thin. Their children are often turned away from school because their school fees remain unpaid. Although Yudaya and her husband agree that they would like no more children, unequal gender roles in her society, combined with Yudaya's scanty education and lack of accurate medical information, inhibit her use of family planning. When Yudaya tried to use contraceptives in the past, she experienced side effects and ultimately stopped because of her husband's resistance. "I had to stop using family planning because my marriage was at the verge of breaking up. In my culture, marriage is a bond, the man will use you whenever he wants and you should have no excuse to deny him your body."
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Sophomore Taylor Cummings (Ellicott City, Md.) of the University of Maryland was named the Honda Sports Award winner for Women's Lacrosse as announced by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA) today.
The Honda Sports Award is presented annually by the CWSA to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA- sanctioned sports and signifies "the best of the best in collegiate athletics". With this honor, Cummings becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the prestigious 2014 Honda Cup. Cummings was chosen by a vote of administrators from over 1,000 NCAA member schools. Finalists included Shannon Gilroy (Florida), Alyssa Murray (Syracuse) and Kayla Treanor (Syracuse).
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A U.S. Women's National Team member, she earned All-ACC honors for a second time and was named to the ACC All-Tournament Team after Maryland captured its sixth consecutive conference title. Additionally, she was named the NCAA Championship Most Valuable Player after her performance in the final four.
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Attorneys for George Zimmerman have announced they are withdrawing as his counsel, after losing contact with the Trayvon Martin shooter.
The lawyers, Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig, say they last spoke to Zimmerman on Sunday, via text message, but that he has not returned phone calls, emails, or text messages since then.
The two attorneys also conceded that they have never met Zimmerman "face to face," and that their communication has largely been limited to "texts," an admission that raises questions about whether or not these lawyers even represented Zimmerman in the first place.
CNN reports that the lawyers never signed a written agreement to represent Zimmerman.
Although the two attorneys have had limited contact with Zimmerman, they emphasized that their former client has not fled, saying that they have a "pretty good idea" about where he is. They gave no clues as to Zimmerman's whereabouts, but said he is no longer in the state.
"If you are looking in Florida, look much further," Uhrig said.
In addition to ending contact with his lawyers, Sonner and Uhrig also indicated that Zimmerman has become increasingly unhinged, and recently started to reach out to the media and the special prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case on his own.
"George called Sean Hannity of Fox News off the record and he was unwilling to tell us what was said," Sonner told reporters.
The attorneys were clearly agitated by Zimmerman's media strategy (namely, the fact that he's been talking publicly at all). But they left the door open to future representation if Zimmerman explains his behavior and requests their services.
But the big red flag apparently went up yesterday, when Zimmerman launched a website that solicited PayPal donations for his living expenses and legal defense. Although Zimmerman's family and attorneys had announced last week that they planned to launch a similar website controlled by Zimmerman's father, the attorneys learned from reporters Monday that Zimmerman had launched his own site, under a different domain.
According to the lawyers, Zimmerman himself is in control of the Paypal donations to his site, www.therealgeorgezimmerman.com.
The lawyers suggested that Zimmerman has become increasingly unstable since going into hiding, and that he may be suffering from PTSD.
"We're concerned for his emotional and physical safety," Zimmerman's legal counsel said.
UPDATE, 5:30 p.m.:
Time magazine has a statement from Benjamin Crump, the attorney for the Trayvon Martin family:
"Trayvon's family was always concerned that Zimmerman doesn't try to skirt his legal responsibilities and become a flight risk. We always wanted this before a judge and a jury. We hope that [authorities] will take this under consideration that this a flight risk. If they go to press charges, is he really going to face them?"


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