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Brendan O'Rourke, the mentally ill man who opened fire on the playground of a Carlsbad elementary school in 2010, was sentenced Friday to 189 years to life in prison.
Judge Aaron Katz issued the sentence at a hearing in Vista Superior Court, where he chastised O'Rourke for terrorizing the Kelly Elementary School community.
"Your twisted plot has forever changed the lives of Kelly Elementary children, parents, teachers and staff members," the judge said to O'Rourke, who listened impassively at his lawyer's side during the 30-minute hearing.
"They won't ever forget the manner in which you terrorized their school."
A jury in March convicted O'Rourke, 42, of seven charges of premeditated attempted murder and seven counts of assault with a firearm. The same jury later found O'Rourke was sane at the time of the Oct. 8, 2010, noon-time attack at the school.
O'Rourke's lawyer had argued that his client suffered severe delusions brought on by mental illness.
Evidence presented at the trial showed that O'Rourke jumped a fence and walked onto the school's grass field. He then opened fire with a .357 Magnum revolver.
Two second-grade girls were injured but have since recovered. Three construction workers intervened and stopped the attack by wrestling O'Rourke to the ground before police came.
At the hearing, several parents and staff members at the school spoke about the shooting spree and how it still affects students 18 months later. Two said it was a miracle that no students were killed and that more were not hit and injured.
Jana Scott, a teacher at the school and a parent of a student there, said the attack shattered the quiet school.
Scott said she "never would have believed our beautiful little school would become a crime scene."
Some students still have nightmares and are coping with the fallout from the incident, she said.
Dan Segura, the lawyer for O'Rourke, told the judge that four mental health experts who testified during the sanity portion of the trial concluded O'Rourke was mentally ill. He urged Katz to take that into consideration when fashioning a sentence, saying O'Rourke's delusions were the fuel that motivated his attack.
O'Rourke believed at the time that he was being targeted by his former employer, AIG Insurance, as well as political figures in Illinois and others. According to a report by a probation officer prepared for the sentencing, O'Rourke told police he wanted to kill "white Christian children." He said he considered attacking Jefferson Elementary but decided against it because the streets around that school were too narrow, and Kelly was an easier target.
A psychiatrist hired by the court to evaluate O'Rourke testified he was a paranoid schizophrenic who was psychotic on the day of the shooting.
But Deputy District Attorney Summer Stephan argued O'Rourke was not insane but simply angry over being rejected by women and getting evicted from his home.
When handing down the sentence, Katz noted the "tremendous heroism" of the construction workers — Carlos Partida, Mario Contreras and Steven Kane — as well as staff at the school on that day. And he said that the children who testified at the trial about the shooting rampage showed great courage, and "serve as an inspiration to all of us."


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Sen. Mark Pryor decried Tuesday's decision, saying an "isolated incident" led to the ban. Pryor didn't say what the incident was, but birds on a Scott County farm tested positive for a low-pathogenic strain of avian flu in June.
Pryor said Arkansas poultry products are "safe, healthy and nutritious" and that his family would continue to eat them.
The USDA had a statement on its website that said Arkansas exports to China were stopped effective July 22.
Pryor spokesman Michael Teague said Tuesday the USDA contacted members of the state's congressional delegation about the ban. Arkansas is the nation's second-largest poultry producer. Pryor said he hopes for a quick resolution.

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Educational Background
B.S., Vanderbilt University (1997)
M.S., Vanderbilt University (1999)
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University (2002)
EE/ME 324 - Dynamical Systems
ME 341 - Mechanics of Machine Elements
ME 385 - Design of Electromechanical Systems
Research Interests
Dr. Fite's research interests lie in the area of dynamic systems and control, with specific focus in the design and control of electromechanical and fluid power systems. A major thrust of this work is in the development of self-powered human-scale robotic systems.
Applications of particular interest include upper and lower-extremity powered prosthetic limbs. The major goal of this work is the restoration of human-level functionality and performance to the amputee. One aspect involves the design of prosthetic limbs capable of force and power outputs comparable to those of normal human limbs. Such designs require the integration of the power supply, actuation system, and control electronics all within the volumetric envelope of a normal human limb. Another component of the prosthesis development entails the development of the communication interface with the amputee. Current work is investigating the use of EMG-based control approaches where measured muscle activity in the residual limb is utilized as input commands to the prosthetic limb. The objective is an artificial limb which behaves as a natural extension of the amputee's residual limb.
Other broad areas of interest include the development of power and actuation for portable power systems. The goal of this research is to improve upon the limitations inherent in battery-powered DC-motor actuated systems by investigating the use of alternative energy sources (e.g., compressed gas sources, liquid and solid propellants) and actuation systems (e.g., pneumatic and hydraulic actuators) that can be used to deliver controllable mechanical work outputs. Relevant applications include self-powered robots, portable power and rescue tools, and lawn care equipment.
Selected Publications
- C.D. Hoover, G.D. Fulk and K.B. Fite, "Stair Ascent with a Powered Transfemoral Prosthesis under Direct Myoelectric Control," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (in press, 2012).
- C.D. Hoover, G.D. Fulk and K.B. Fite, "The Design and Initial Experimental Validation of an Active Myoelectric Transfemoral Prosthesis," ASME Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 011005 (March 2012).
- K. B. Fite, J. E. Mitchell, X. Shen, K. W. Wait, T. J. Withrow and M. Goldfarb, M., "A Gas-Actuated Anthropomorphic Prosthesis for Transhumeral Amputees," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 159-169 (February, 2008).
- K.B. Fite and M. Goldfarb, "Multivariable Loop-Shaping in Bilateral Telemanipulation," ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 128, no. 3, pp. 482-488 (September, 2006).
- B.L. Shields, K.B. Fite and M. Goldfarb, "Design, Control, and Energetic Characterization of a Solenoid Injected Monopropellant Powered Actuator," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 477-487 (August 2006).
- K.B. Fite and M. Goldfarb, "Design and Energetic Characterization of a Proportional Injector Monopropellant-Powered Actuator," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 196-204 (April 2006).
- K.B. Fite, J.E. Mitchell, E.J. Barth and M. Goldfarb, "A Unified Force Controller for a Proportional-Injector Direct-Injection Monopropellant-Powered Actuator," ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 159-164 (March 2006).
- K.B. Fite, M. Goldfarb and A. Rubio, "Loop Shaping for Transparency and Stability Robustness in Time-Delayed Bilateral Telemanipulation," ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 126, no. 3, pp. 650-656 (September 2004).
- K.B. Fite, L. Shao and M. Goldfarb, "Loop-Shaping for Transparency and Stability Robustness in Bilateral Telemanipulation," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 620-624 (2004).
- K.B. Fite, J.E. Speich and M. Goldfarb, "Transparency and Stability Robustness in Two-Channel Bilateral Telemanipulation," ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 123, no. 3, pp. 400-407 (2001).
Selected Conference Proceedings
- C.D. Hoover, K.B. Fite, G. Fulk and D. Holmes," Myoelectric Torque Control of an Active Transfemoral Prosthesis During Stair Ascent, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conferenc,e WeBT6.1, pp. 1-8 (November 2011).
- C.D. Hoover and K.B. Fite, "A Configuration Dependent Muscle Model for the Myoelectric Control of a Trnasfemoral Prosthesis," International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (June 2011).
- C.D. Hoover and K.B. Fite, "Development of a Powered-Knee Trnasfemoral Prosthesis Prototype, ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC2011-53305 (June 2011).
- J.A. Dawley, A. Romanazzi and K.B. Fite, "Preliminary Evaluation of a Knee-Ankle-Foot Orthosis for the Emulation of Transfemoral Prosthesis Socket Loads," ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC2011-53302 (June 2011).
- C. D. Hoover and K. B. Fite, "Preliminary Evaluation of Myoelectric Control of an Active Transfemoral Prosthesis During Stair Ascent," 2010 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, TuBT2.3, pp. 1-8 (September 2010).
- M. R. Tucker and K. B. Fite, "Passive Damping with Electrical Power Generation for a DC Motor Actuated Transfemoral Prosthesis," 2010 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, pp. 13-18 (July 2010).
- K. B. Fite, T. J. Withrow, X. Shen, K. W. Wait, J. E. Mitchell and M. Goldfarb, "Progress Towards the Development of a Highly Functional Transhumeral Prosthesis," 10th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, pp. 205-211 (June 2007).
- K. Fite, J. Mitchell, F. Sup and M. Goldfarb, "Design and Control of an Electrically Powered Knee Prosthesis," 10th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, pp. 902-905 (June 2007).
- K. B. Fite, K. W. Wait, T. J. Withrow and M. Goldfarb, "A Gas-Actuated Anthropomorphic Transhumeral Prosthesis," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3748-3754 (April 2007).
- K.B. Fite, K.W. Wait, T.J. Withrow and M. Goldfarb, "Design of an Anthropomorphic Upper Extremity Prosthesis," Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, ref. 13604 (November 2006).


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The 'energy efficiency excise tax'
In January 2007 newly elected Senate leader Peter Shumlin declared war on the Menace of Global Warming. Shumlin said that failure to act boldly to combat the Menace will make our grandchildren's lives "unspeakably horrid". The leading component of that war on the Vermont front was to have been the creation of a new "thermal efficiency utility."
This new governmental bureaucracy was to parallel the electric efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, financed since 1999 by a tax on electric bills. Instead of (logically) taxing heating fuel, propane and natural gas, the utility would raise $25 million through a new tax on Vermont Yankee. This sum, Shumlin explained, would curtail waste, create jobs, and curb greenhouse gas emissions.
The 2007 legislature obligingly passed the thermal efficiency utility bill. But Gov. Jim Douglas, not sharing the Shumlin-VPIRG alarm at the Menace of Global Warming, vetoed it. The legislature let Shumlin's signature issue drop for the moment.
But now the Shumlin administration has revived the thermal efficiency utility as the centerpiece of next year's battle against the continuing Menace of Global Warming. The Public Service Department's Thermal Efficiency Task Force has unveiled a comprehensive draft report proposing sweeping new programs to educate, persuade, regulate, subsidize, mandate and tax Vermonters into spending less money on heat.
It's curious that the Shumlin administration is so determined to use all these tools to get Vermonters to spend less on heat, all the while declaiming against the very climatic effect -- global warming -- that, to the extent that it's occurring, is allowing Vermonters to spend less on heat.
A leading concern of the Task Force is that present weatherization programs only serve lower-income people. Upper-income households can afford to invest in thermal efficiency, but what about middle income families, with 80-120 percent of median income? How can the state in good conscience fail to subsidize them too?
To close this subsidy gap the report proposes a wide range of programs and services. But of course this requires new money. The Task Force's leading proposal for raising that money is a new "energy efficiency excise tax" on fuel oil, propane, kerosene and natural gas (but not biomass, since there's no easy way for the state to tax your woodpile.)
The Task Force proposes that the state collect $260 million from this new tax over next seven years. The tax would be paid by businesses, schools, hospitals and state and local governments, of course, and by the seventy percent of Vermonters who heat their homes with fuel oil or propane.
Matt Cota, executive director of the Vermont Fuel Dealers Association, pointedly argues that "we should not use a regressive tax that hurts the lowest income Vermonters, in order to fund retrofits for the richest." It's likely that the legislature would have to include yet another new rebate program to alleviate yet another regressive tax burden.
Back in 2007 Sandra Levine of the Conservation Law Foundation said "for every dollar you invest in energy efficiency, you save two or three dollars [on energy] that you would have had to buy." If so, the logical next step is for "you" to take charge and act.
But Gov. Shumlin, his Task Force, CLF, VPIRG and their Green friends in the legislature are determined that not "you", but the government, must take charge of making everyone's energy decisions - and send "you" the tax bill.
In a free society, people manage their finances in their own self-interest. Vermonters have been making energy efficiency investments at least since the 1973 oil shock suddenly raised their fuel oil and gasoline prices.
But in present-day Vermont, there are always voices clamoring to create new government programs to mandate and subsidize what government decides is the next "good thing" for everybody, and in this case extracting $260 million in new taxes over seven years to pay for it.
The Vermont Constitution states that "previous to any law being made to raise a tax, the purpose for which it is to be raised ought to appear evident to the Legislature to be of more service to community than the money would be if not collected." The "energy efficiency excise tax" on your heating fuel bill fails that test.
John McClaughry is vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute (www.ethanallen.org).
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It's still been a good season - Rosberg
Nico Rosberg maintains that it has been a good season for Mercedes despite the team having now gone five races without scoring a point.
An encouraging start to the season saw Rosberg and team-mate Michael Schumacher lock out the front row in China and Rosberg go on to win the race, while Schumacher took pole in Monaco before a grid penalty and Rosberg finished the race in second place. However, Mercedes has been less competitive since then and the United States Grand Prix was the fifth race in succession in which it failed to score a point, but Rosberg said the team was still showing signs of improvement.
"Our target for this year was to do better than last year, and in the first part of the season we managed to do that, definitely," Rosberg told ESPN. "With winning China - the first win for Mercedes in 57 years, and then the first win for the team and for me - it was a very, very special occasion. Then finishing second in my hometown of Monaco, that was also fantastic and we had the best car at that point in time, we had the fastest car out of everybody.
"Then unfortunately we got in to some difficulties and now at the end of the season we're struggling a little bit. But still, all in all it's been a good season because we're moving forward and that's nice to see, and that's very encouraging also for the future."
Rosberg put the recent lack of competitiveness down to Mercedes' failings developing its car compared to other teams.
"I think for us we didn't manage to quite keep up in the development race with other people, I think they just managed to improve their cars quicker than us and so we've fallen behind a little bit."
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Rahm Emanuel's Replacement Is Obsessed With Cats
Barack Obama named his former Senate chief of staff, Pete Rouse, to replace Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff today. What's this guy's deal? Well, he's a much quieter, behind-the-scenes type. And he's into cats. Really into cats.
We'd been hoping that Barack Obama would pick a nice, quiet Washington insider hack instead of a bold-faced name to this stressful, cynical position, and the president came through! Rouse (seen here fist-bumping the President in the Oval Office in 2009) knows pretty much everyone and everything about Congress. Before he joined Obama's Senate staff, he was Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle's chief of staff, a powerful role which earned him the nickname "101st Senator" around the Hill.
After Obama first hired Rouse in 2004, Amy Sullivan, a former Daschle staffer with Rouse, offered this cryptic advice for the Obama team:
As for Obama, I think I speak for all Daschle alums when I say: Learn to love cats. Or at least talking about Pete's cats. We've found cat-shaped sugar cookies to be well-received. Just saying...
Later, when he joined the White House as a senior advisor following Barack Obama's election, the New Republic's Michelle Cottle, too, brought up Rouse's famous cat thing:
Two big, silky Maine Coons named Moose and Junior, Rouse's beloved felines are a source of affectionate humor among current and former colleagues. The gruff 62-year-old keeps photos of the kitties scattered around his office. He obsesses about their well-being (when Moose's predecessor, Earl, passed away in 2003, Rouse was bereft), is a sucker for cat-themed knickknacks, and has guided fellow staffers into adopting their own furry friends (Maine Coons, naturally). Some observers suggest, ever so gently, that Rouse's cat devotion is related to his lack of a personal life.
Oh god, that last sentence was kind of sad! Rouse, you see, is an unmarried, childless workaholic — perfect for a White House chief of staff. His only hobby is to bury his face in cat fur and play with cat toys and eat cat cookies for maybe 15 minutes each day.
So there's your background on Pete Rouse: cats, cats, cats. He is the Catman. If you ever get a chance to meet him, give him a cat, and maybe your questionable tax returns won't get audited this year.


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Graphic design seniors exhibit work in The Gallery at Penn College
Ten graphic design students at Pennsylvania College of Technology will exhibit their work as part of "Design: 2014," an annual exhibition showcasing seniors' creative portfolio work in The Gallery at Penn College.
Posters, books, magazine spreads and logos are some of the featured items in this culminating project of the students' college curriculum.
A public reception for the exhibit's opening will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 9. The students will be available to discuss their work, and Thomas C. Heffner, assistant dean of sciences, humanities and visual communications: programs, will deliver a gallery talk at 5:30 p.m. The design work will be on display through May 16 in the gallery, located on the third floor of the Madigan Library.
Participating students are Emily C. Bigger, Trout Run; Kimberly S. Filko, State College; Stephen W. Houseknecht Jr., Montoursville; Morgan A. Hummel, Northumberland; Justin G. Kasubick, Houtzdale; Anthony P. Levan Jr., Herndon; Madison M. Miller, Danville; Ryan D. Mull, Watsontown; Brenna C. Richner, Spring Mills; and Erin M. Schlesinger, Lock Haven.
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With Red Sox at Wrigley, Epstein reflects
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
Theo Epstein exchanged pleasantries with David Ortiz, Adrian Gonzalez, Jon Lester and several others with whom he formed relationships during his 10 years with the Red Sox.
For the first time since taking over as president of baseball operations for the Cubs, Epstein saw his new team face his old one.
"Obviously, being there for 10 years, there's a connection and it will never go away," said Epstein, who grew up two miles from Fenway Park. "I don't feel like it's my team, so to speak, but I do root for a lot of people there."
While Epstein's tenure in Boston was largely successful -- highlighted by the club's first two World Series titles since 1918 during his tenure as general manager -- it ended with infamy. The 2011 Red Sox became the first team in Major League history to own a nine-game lead in September and miss the postseason.
"I think everyone moves on," Epstein said. "I remember stuff from 2003. I'll sit there and see Aaron Boone coming to the plate sometimes. Every time you have the opportunity to advance and do some damage in the postseason and get to the postseason, and you don't, that always stays with you -- last September in particular, because we not only failed to perform in the standings, but we lost our identity as a team.
"That was a tough pill to swallow. I think for everyone involved, it stayed with them. But at the same time, you move on and learn from it, and try to get better. I take responsibility for the team not getting to where we were supposed to go. But I think a lot of the people involved took responsibility and have moved on."
The fundamental things Epstein is trying to change with the Cubs are very similar to when he took over as GM of the Red Sox before the 2003 season.
The difference, however, is that the Red Sox were built to win when he started, led by established stars like Pedro Martinez, Manny Ramirez and Nomar Garciaparra.
At 21-42, the Cubs entered Friday's game with the worst record in the Major Leagues.
"We made moves at the big league level and had some success right off the bat, and that bought us time to commit to the Red Sox way of doing things, which we established there in scouting and player development," Epstein said. "The work is similar here, but there was clearly a mandate for change."
Valentine knows lineup is 'a moving target'
CHICAGO -- On Friday afternoon, outfielder Daniel Nava was out of Boston's starting lineup for a fifth straight game as he recovers from soreness in his left hand. However, the good news is that Kevin Youkilis was back in action after being plunked under the left ribs by a pitch on Tuesday night against the Marlins.
"Yeah, I saw him in the lobby yesterday and he was feeling good," Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine said of Youkilis.
Nava did pinch-hit in the ninth inning of Boston's 3-0 loss to the Cubs on Friday, striking out against Carlos Marmol. Valentine hopes Nava might return to the starting lineup by Saturday.
Youkilis started at third base, while David Ortiz played first and Adrian Gonzalez started in right field for the 16th time. Will Middlebrooks was the odd man out.
With so many players in and out of the lineup, Valentine appreciates the willingness of veterans to move around and even play out of position.
"It's not very versatile, but the guys have made it more versatile," Valentine said. "I wouldn't say that it's necessarily roster versatility -- it's a couple of individuals who are going a little beyond the call of duty to give us the best chance of winning. I think it's real important to have individuals who are willing to do the right thing and help the team win."
Valentine admits that it's been hard for the Red Sox -- who entered Friday with a 31-32 record -- to have a clear identity, given all of the lineup and roster flux.
"I don't know that a team necessarily has a personality, but I don't think this team has totally figured out what they are because there have been so many changing parts," Valentine said. "I don't know how they're looking at themselves. It must be a moving target."
Then again, adapting to the moving target is personality-forming, in a way.
"To their credit, we've learned to deal with it," Valentine said. "Sometimes guys start making excuses and using that as a crutch. I haven't heard any of that. It's more like what we were referring to earlier. It's part of the group's mentality and personality, whatever it is. They overcome stuff."
Red Sox may have Ross back next week
CHICAGO -- Red Sox outfielder Cody Ross, who has been sidelined since May 19 with a fractured navicular bone in his left foot, will start a rehab assignment for Triple-A Pawtucket in Buffalo on Sunday. Ross will then travel to Syracuse with the PawSox for Monday and Tuesday's games.
Ross could return to the Red Sox by the middle of next week if all goes well.
Ross was with the club in Miami earlier this week and clearly looked antsy to get back to work.
"Yeah, baseball is his life," said Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine. "He loves it. He didn't like not playing."
When Ross returns, the Red Sox could have some interesting decisions to make. It might be hard to continue playing Adrian Gonzalez in the outfield while having David Ortiz, Kevin Youkilis and Will Middlebrooks all in the lineup if Ross is also available.
"We'll see," said Valentine. "We'll see who else is in the mix when he comes back."
No. 37 pick Light among Boston's signings
CHICAGO -- The Red Sox announced on Friday that they have signed 11 of their selections from last week's First-Year Player Draft, including sandwich-round pick Pat Light, a right-handed pitcher.
Light, the 37th overall pick in the Draft, went 8-3 with a 2.40 ERA in 14 starts this season as a junior at Monmouth University. His deal is for $1 million, which is below the assigned slot value of $1.394 million.
Boston also reached agreements with right-handers Jamie Callahan (second-round pick), Ty Buttrey (fourth round) and Mike Augliera (fifth round). Buttrey signed for $1.3 million, above the assigned fourth-round value of $291,300.
Catcher Miguel Rodriguez, a 36th-rounder out of UNC Charlotte, was another signee. He is the son of Red Sox Minor League hitting coordinator Victor Rodriguez and the brother of club scout Victor Jr. Miguel made 20 starts behind the plate for Charlotte this year and caught 10 of 22 would-be basestealers.
Additional signings announced on Friday included right-handed pitcher Kyle Kraus (seventh round), first baseman Nathan Minnich (eighth round), infielder Mike Miller (ninth round), left-handed pitcher Dylan Chavez (14th round), center fielder Shaq Thompson (18th round) and first baseman Jake Davies (21st round).
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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PCAOB Warns on Internal-Control Problems
The U.S. accounting watchdog is telling corporate auditors they need to do a better job making sure companies' internal controls are working effectively to protect against fraud.
In an alert on Thursday, the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board said it has seen "significant audit deficiencies" in cases where auditors failed to identify and sufficiently test corporate controls. Such internal-control procedures are designed by companies to prevent material financial misstatements, or used by management to review corporate operating results.
The PCAOB found in a review of its latest year of inspection reports that audit firms failed to get enough evidence to support their conclusions about the effectiveness of internal controls in 15% of 309 audits inspected for its 2012 inspection reports.
"Auditors should take note of the matters discussed in this alert in planning and performing their audits, given the importance of the controls companies use to produce their financial statements," PCAOB Chairman James Doty said in a statement.
The PCAOB said auditors may want to consider additional training to make their internal control audits more effective. Audit committees on corporate boards of directors may also want to discuss their auditor on how to address these types of deficiencies, the regulator said.


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|On Jan. 21, Nintendo opens the doors of the Nintendo Lounge at the Sundance Film Festival to the public. The gaming lounge offers festival attendees and Park City residents the chance to take a break from the cold weather and festival events to relax in a comfortable environment and play a collection of the latest and upcoming Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games.
All games provide Sundance attendees with a wide variety of different play styles, perfect for the relaxing and fun environment of the gaming lounge. Wii U video games featured in the lounge include recent releases like New Super Mario Bros. U, Nintendo Land and SiNG PARTY, as well as Wii Fit U, the first installment in the Wii Fit series on Wii U. ZombiU and the upcoming Rayman Legends from Ubisoft will also be playable.
On the Nintendo 3DS XL hand-held system, many different games will be playable. In addition to New Super Mario Bros. 2 and Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, visitors can play the not-yet-released Brain Age: Concentration Training and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate from KONAMI Digital Entertainment, Inc., will also be playable at the event.
|Industry executives, VIPs, festival attendees, Park City residents, Nintendo and video game fans
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- The comfortable gaming lounge filled with Wii U consoles and Nintendo 3DS XL hand-held systems
- Fans and festival attendees gathered in the gaming lounge to socialize and play unreleased and new Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games
Nintendo is not officially associated with the Sundance Film Festival.


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a bigman-coach for rookie Tyson Chandler & rookie Eddie Curry for 4 straight seasons.
The Bulls organization depended on one player "Dale Davis" to teach two high school kids
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Adrift on the Middle East
WASHINGTON -- During his campaign and the early part of his administration, Barack Obama offered a theory about the disorders of the greater Middle East. One explanation, he argued, was the intervention in Iraq, which "fans anti-American sentiment among Muslims, increases the pool of potential terrorist recruits." Another was the failed Arab-Israeli peace process, which his administration would finally give some emphasis (as though other presidents had not really tried). Obama would refocus the war on terrorism more narrowly on Afghanistan and al-Qaeda and dispense with the Bush Doctrine, which sought to "impose democracy with the barrel of a gun."
The president's June 4, 2009, speech in Cairo summarized this critique, while adding an element of soaring ambition. With American combat troops still on the ground, Obama dismissed Iraq as a "war of choice." He catalogued various criticisms of American policy during the Cold War and the Bush administration -- if not an apology, then certainly an aggressive distancing. And he offered an antidote to anti-Americanism: himself. He had, after all, "known Islam on three continents" and had "heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and at the fall of dusk."
It was to be a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect" -- implying that insufficient American respect had been part of the problem. Obama's persona would be the bridge between civilizations.
After pumping up expectations to the size of a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon, the deflation has not been dignified. Large historical challenges do not yield to changes in tone and personality. And the matters that obsess liberal foreign-policy experts -- Iraq, the Arab-Israeli peace process, various policies in the war on terror -- have little relation to the current chaos in North Africa and the Middle East.
This is a region of dysfunctional societies, run into the ground by corrupt and oppressive autocrats. Leaders such as Hosni Mubarak undermined legitimate opposition, forced dissent into the radical mosque, produced economic misery and vast unemployment, and drew attention away from their failures by blaming outsiders and feeding conspiracy theories. It is hard to imagine a political system better designed to produce resentment, radicalism and riots with minimal provocation.
The collapse of the old order has released dangerous forces, exploited by sophisticated and unappeasable Islamist groups. But preserving the status quo ante was not an option -- as though Mubarak or his unimpressive son could have survived indefinitely if only provided with a few more truncheons. The autocrats fell because they failed. For many years to come, America will deal with the resulting disorder -- attempting to pre-empt threats and promote more reasonable political actors. The stakes are high and the levers are limited.
Obama's grand ambitions were naive. But how has he reacted to realities that resisted resetting?
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On security matters, Obama is hard to fault, and hard to distinguish from his predecessor. Threats to the American homeland are magnified by terrorist safe havens -- places to gather, plot and train. Terrorists in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere have been given every reason to feel unsafe by American drones and Special Operations forces. For the most part, Obama has continued to treat the global war on terror as an actual war, not primarily a law enforcement operation.
On aid to democratic transitions, Obama's record is mixed. In a May 19, 2011, policy address, the sworn opponent of the Bush Doctrine proclaimed "tyrants will fail" and declared the promotion of democratic reform a "core" American interest. Efforts in Tunisia and Libya have been relatively strong. Reaction to the Egyptian government's persecution of pro-democracy organizations has been limp. The promotion of reform in the Gulf States -- where political transition won't be delayed forever -- is weak.
The largest failure of Obama's approach to the Middle East is its apparent geopolitical randomness. Support for Iran's Green Revolution was late and grudging -- as though courageous reformers were intruding on Obama's engagement of the regime. The president dramatically escalated the Afghan War, before conveying an impression of heading for the exits. After wringing its hands, the administration took needed action in Libya. After wringing its hands, it has remained on the sidelines in Syria. The main consistency has been the wringing part.
In the absence of an organizing principle, flexibility becomes ambiguity. Other nations know exactly what Iran is after, what Russia is after, what Israel is after. They are left to guess at American intentions. The risk is that they will cease to care.
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(My latest book God vs. Darwin: The War Between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom has just been released and is now available through the usual outlets. You can order it from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, the publishers Rowman & Littlefield, and also through your local bookstores. For more on the book, see here. You can also listen to the podcast of the interview on WCPN 90.3 about the book.)
For previous posts in this series, see here.
Although the universe is mostly empty space (leaving aside for the moment dark energy and dark matter), there is quite a lot of matter in it. Some of it is in dense clumps that we call planets, stars, and galaxies. The rest is far more dilute and consists of interstellar gases and dust. And quite a lot of it is in the form of massless photons. So the question naturally arises: where did all this stuff come from? Doesn't it require a massive input of energy right at the beginning that violates the law of conservation of energy (also known as the first law of thermodynamics), one of the bedrock principles of science? The answer is simple: No.
The total energy of the universe consists of the energy due to the motion of all the particles (called kinetic energy), the energy that is stored because of the gravitational forces between the particles (called potential energy), and the energy associated with the mass of all the particles (usually referred to as rest energy).
The key feature to bear in mind is that the gravitational potential energy is a negative quantity. You can see this by realizing that in order to separate two objects, one has to overcome the attractive gravitational force and this requires one to supply positive energy from outside. This is why launching satellites into space requires such huge amounts of positive energy supplied by fuel, in order to overcome the negative gravitational potential energy of the satellite due to the Earth's attractive force.
This negative gravitational potential energy exactly cancels out the positive energy of the universe. As Stephen Hawking says in his book A Brief History of Time (quoted by Victor Stenger, Has Science Found God?, p. 148): "In the case of a universe that is approximately uniform in space, one can show that this negative gravitational energy exactly cancels the positive energy represented by the matter. So the total energy of the universe is zero." In other words, it is not the case that something came out of nothing. It is that we have always had zero energy.
Alan Guth, one of the creators of the inflationary universe model, points out that the fact that "in any closed universe the negative gravitational potential energy cancels the energy of matter exactly" has been known for some time and can be found in standard textbooks. (See The Classical Theory of Fields by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, second edition, 1962, p. 378-379.)
But what made the universe and all its mass come into being at all? The suggestion is that the universe began as a quantum fluctuation of the vacuum. It used to be thought that the vacuum was truly nothing, simply inert space. But we now know that it is actually a hive of activity with particle-antiparticle pairs being repeatedly produced out of the vacuum and almost immediately annihilating themselves into nothingness again. The creation of a particle-antiparticle pair out of the vacuum violates the law of conservation of energy but the Heisenberg uncertainty principle allows such violations for a very short time. This phenomenon has observable and measurable consequences, which have been tested and confirmed. (The Inflationary Universe, Alan Guth, 1997, p. 272)
Guth says (p. 12-14, 271-276) that the person who first suggested that the universe and its associated space may have originated as a quantum fluctuation was Edward Tryon in 1973 in his paper Is the Universe a Vacuum Fluctuation? (Nature, vol. 246, p. 396-397, 14 December 1973.) As Tryon says in that paper:
In any big bang model, one must deal with the problem of 'creation'. This problem has two aspects. One is that the conservation laws of physics forbid the creation of something from nothing. The other is that even if the conservation laws were inapplicable at the moment of creation, there is no apparent reason for such an event to occur.
Contrary to widespread belief, such an event need not have violated any of the conventional laws of physics. The laws of physics merely imply that a Universe which appears from nowhere must have certain specific properties. In particular, such a Universe must have a zero net value for all conserved quantities.
To indicate how such a creation might have come about, I refer to quantum field theory, in which every phenomenon that could happen in principle actually does happen occasionally in practice, on a statistically random basis. For example, quantum electrodynamics reveals that an electron, positron and photon occasionally emerge spontaneously from a perfect vacuum. When this happens, the three particles exist for a brief time, and then annihilate each other, leaving no trace behind.
If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum, the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
Note that our universe likely came into being with just a tiny amount of matter. But after that initial fluctuation triggered the start of the universe, what caused the avalanche that created the massive amount of matter that currently comprise our universe? The inflationary model of the universe takes care of that problem too, although the explanation is a little technical. As Stenger says (p. 148):
[I]n the inflationary scenario, the mass-energy of matter was produced during that rapid initial inflation. The field responsible for inflation has negative pressure, allowing the universe to do work on itself as it expands. This is allowed by the first law of thermodynamics.
In other words, no energy was required to "create" the universe. The zero total energy of the universe is an observational fact, within measured uncertainties, of course. What is more, this is also a prediction of inflationary cosmology, which we have seen has now been strongly supported by observations. Thus we can safely say,
No violation of energy conservation occurred if the universe grew out of an initial void of zero energy.
In the first century BCE, the Greek philosopher Lucretius wrote that "Nothing can be created from nothing" and this assertion exerted a powerful influence over subsequent philosophers. For a long time, science just did not have a good explanation for the existence of all the matter in the universe and it was assumed that the existence of matter was just a given, an initial condition that we just had to accept and proceed from there. Religious people seized on this "How can something come out of nothing?" question to try and argue that the very existence of the universe violated of the law of conservation of energy and implied the existence of a creator who can violate such laws. In other words, it was a Deep Mystery that science has no explanation for and that could only happen by the will of a creator.
But the hope of religious people that they had finally found a safe niche for god where he no longer risked being flushed out by those pesky scientists has been dashed, just like all the other similar hopes of the past. The creation of the universe does not violate the law of conservation of energy. God is once again found to be superfluous.
Next: Does the universe violate the second law of thermodynamics?
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text: Please check the rules The rule you are quoting to the best of my knowledge did NOT apply to the (non junior) version of US Open 2012 To the last of what I have heard: if she would like to play (non junior) version of Australian Open she could get a wild card via the program of wild card exchanges between USTA and Australian Tennis Federation I believe this would require a tacit support from USTA OR WINNING A CORRESPONDING TOURNAMENT (or a runner-up) It is NOT automatic for non junior version but I have been wrong before The issue will be clear in 2 months one way or another The cost of a travelling coach OUTSIDE of USTA is another financial issue see as well below ----> Australian Open to hold wildcard playoff in China Mon Sep 17, 2012 2:02am EDT (Reuters) - The Australian Open will hold a regional wildcard playoff for entry to the 2013 version of the year's first tennis grand slam in Nanjing in China in October, organizers announced on Monday. The male and female winners of the playoff, which will take place at China's National Tennis Academy from October 15-21, will gain entry to the main draw of the Melbourne Park tournament, which brands itself the "Grand Slam of the Asia-Pacific". The Asia-Pacific wildcards were previously decided by nomination, a spokeswoman for Tennis Australia said, and are part of the 16 up for grabs for the Australian Open, eight each for entry to the men's and women's draws. Two of the eight are allocated in a reciprocal arrangement with the French and U.S. Opens, one goes to the winner of a playoff restricted to Australian players, while the other four are awarded at the discretion of organizers. The playoff, which will not be open to Australian players, was announced by the Premier of Victoria Ted Baillieu at a news conference in Beijing on Monday, also attended by China's 2011 French Open champion Li Na. The Australian Open has moved increasingly to identify itself as a pan-regional tournament as Asia, and China in particular, has become a bigger player in the sport. The China Open, which now boasts a joint $8.3 million WTA/ATP event at the tennis centre built for the 2008 Olympics, has made no secret of its ambition to eventually become a grand slam tournament. Asia is also an important market both for attracting visitors to Melbourne to watch the tournament and for television audiences to bolster the value of media rights. "There has been a 400 percent increase in visitation to the Australian Open from the Asia-Pacific region over the past eight years," Tennis Australia's CEO Steve Wood said in news release. "More than half the Australian Open's global media value is now generated from the Asia-Pacific region and new broadcast deals include access to an additional 65 million homes," he added. "And when Li Na made her historic run to the final in 2011 we achieved the highest ever broadcast exposure throughout Asia ... with 135 million tuning in across the region." (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney in Sydney, editing by Peter Rutherford)


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Sheryl Sandberg Interview With Glamour
Sheryl Sandberg Talks Email Overload and Geeking Out
Whenever Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg does an interview, it's an opportunity to hear more of her infinite wisdom. One year after her book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, came out, she sat down with Glamour magazine for its March 75th anniversary issue to dish out more advice for women in business — and talk about the one thing that makes her a total geek.
On Misconceptions People Have About Workplace Equality
"[When people say] 'It's not an issue in my industry.' 'It's better in my industry.' Actually, it's not that good in any industry! Or people say, 'She's too aggressive' [about a woman employee, but not a man]. It happens all the time. Now, at least, people are seeing the problem. [Cisco CEO] John Chambers invited me to a senior-management meeting of his top 400 people. He stood there on the stage and said, 'I thought we were doing this well, and we're not. Every single senior woman in this company, we called all of you too aggressive. We're sorry, and we're not going to do it anymore.' From a CEO, that's amazing."
On How Men View Workplace Equality
"I'm excited that more people, especially men, are understanding that equality is good for them. I don't want men to want equality for women because they're being nice to their colleagues and daughters. I want men to want it because it's better for their companies and their lives."
On Being Able to Balance Work and Family
"It's not easy, though it's certainly easier for me than for a lot of people. I guess I also want them to know it's fulfilling: I want them to have 'and' language rather than 'or' language: Men feel like they can be a professional and a father. For women it's 'or.' That's offensive to me because 70 percent of mothers in this country work full-time. They have to! So this concept that it's not possible is crazy . . . "
On Telling Women How to Start Negotiation
"That's one option. Both men and women react negatively when women negotiate on their own behalf. Now, a man can just negotiate: 'I have a better offer. That's not enough to make my family's ends meet.' No one feels bad about it. But when a woman does that, there's a backlash. How do you get out of the backlash? You have to make it not only about you. You can explain that negotiating skills are something you bring to the table — that's what I did with Mark [Zuckerberg]; I said, 'You realize you're hiring me to run our deal teams, so you want me to be good at this.' Or you can ground it in an outside fact that is tied to the community — 'I know women are paid less, and I'm concerned about that.' Now women are grounding [requests for a raise] in the book!"
On Her Top Life-Organizing Strategy
"I always have a notebook. I'm such a geek. People think I'm crazy — I'm the only one [at Facebook] with a notebook!"
On How She Handles Email Overload
"My motto is 'Done is better than perfect.' I try to do it quickly. I think people really appreciate fast answers."
On What She Wants to Be Remembered For
"I think all of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to have meaning. For me that means making the world a little bit easier for women. Someone told me they went to their child's first-grade parent-teacher conference, and the teacher said, 'Last year I would have called your daughter bossy. But I read this book, and I'm going to say she has leadership skills.' That's what I want. I want that little girl not to be discouraged, at age 6, from leading, but encouraged. And if I can play a role in doing that, that's awesome."


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Thank you, thank you. I tried to find caves that are more modern and 'developed.' But it is difficult, much easier finding 'luxury' (as they call them) tree houses than luxury cave dwellings. I will keep my eyes open though and continue to share since this was really fun for me.
I really hope Hawk finds his love....and I hope her name is Una!
ETA: I just got this morning (28 August 2008) notice from Barnes and Noble that my copy of Dorian's book is ready for pick up!! *squee* YAY!!! Guess where I am going at lunch


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LOS ANGELES -- Dave Winfield was one of the first baseball stars to include charitable work into his contract. When he signed a free-agent deal with the New York Yankees in 1980, he negotiated a generous yearly donation be made to his David Winfield charitable foundation. Since retiring as a player in 1995, the Hall of Famer has kept on working with dozens of charities. On Saturday night he joined fellow Hall of Famer Vin Scully as two of the honorees at the 16th Annual Sports Legends Awards at The Omni Hotel in Los Angeles.
The awards ceremony is presented by the Paralysis Project of America to benefit spinal cord research. Other honorees at the ceremony include soccer star Cobi Jones, former long distance swimmer turned television reporter and producer Diana Nyad and jockey Ron Turcotte.
"I've had a wonderful career in baseball," said Winfield, who currently serves as vice president and senior advisor for the Padres. "I've done a lot of things and just giving back to the people, even though I haven't been playing for a while, I still contribute using my celebrity and accomplishments in the game to help bring attention to organizations like the Paralysis Project of America and to help them raise money.
"Over the last 16 years the project has continued to highlight and bring a focus to really finding some solutions and dealing with some of the urgent care needs of people who have been afflicted with paralysis. It's something we don't think of until someone who is close to us or someone in our family is affected. You see people who are here tonight in wheelchairs, but they are in good spirits and hopefully, the money raise and the focus we bring, will help bring about some relief for them as well."
"A lot of people don't realize what these ballplayers and athletes do after they retire," said Catherine Lepone, executive director of the Paralysis Project of America in speaking about Winfield and other retired athletes who help her organization. "I think they have the impression that they are just playing golf every day. These guys are incredibly busy, they're incredibly involved in their communities every day and they are committed to helping others. People like Mr. Winfield are not in it for the money, they are here because they want to help."
Sports Legends Awards honorees are selected annually for their contributions to sports by the Paralysis Project of America's Business and Sports Councils. Headed by chairman and former Olympic gold medalist Bob Seagren, the Sports Council includes former Sports Legends Award winners Pepper Davis, Jim Hill, Rafer Johnson, Jim Knaub, Jack Kramer, Ann Meyers-Drysdale, Joe Morgan, Don Newcombe, Bill Sharman, Gary Stevens, Al Unser, Rogie Vachon, Jamaal Wilkes and legendary college basketball coach John R. Wooden.
"Dave is a Hall of Famer in every possible way," said fellow honoree Scully, who received the John R. Wooden Lifetime award at the ceremony. "Dave was a magnificent athlete, when you realize, when he was coming out of college, he was drafted by three different teams, a baseball team, a football team and a basketball team. You can't get any better than that."
Winfield recently made a special trip to the Republic of Ghana to help promote baseball in Africa.
"It was a wonderful trip," said Winfield. "Omar Minaya, Dusty Baker, myself, Bob Watson, Al Jackson and others went over there, not only on a goodwill mission, but to see some of the kids play baseball.
"They are still in a nascent or early stage of playing the game, but they love it. You see these kids in old borrowed uniforms from Japanese teams, shoes that may not quite fit or work just right, but they are imitating American ballplayers and they love the game, there are smiles on their faces and we were impressed of the athletic ability of these kids. It was a high-level delegation -- we were there with ambassadors from the United States and they welcomed the Americans and the sport of baseball."
When the rest of the contingent returned to the U.S., Winfield and Padres owner John Moores stayed in Ghana to work with former President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center to bring medical supplies to the area.
Winfield also has a new book coming out in March titled "Dropping the Ball."
"It talks about baseball," said Winfield. "We've kind of taken our eye off of it being our National Pastime and what it contributes to our society and I have a lot of suggestions and solutions where we can continue to go strong into the 21st century and I want our kids to continue be involved in this game. I have a lot to say."
One way or another Dave Winfield finds a way to give back.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The suicide attack last March by a supposed Afghan ally was a sign of what was in store for Maj. Gen. Charles "Mark" Gurganus during his year in charge of international troops in southwestern Afghanistan.
Two days after the Camp Pendleton Marine took command, Gurganus and his British deputy were nearly run down by an Afghan interpreter employed at the airfield adjoining their main base.
The man stole a truck and sped down the tarmac at Camp Bastion, where Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had just landed in an unmarked plane. Gurganus and the welcome party scattered as the truck crashed into a ditch.
The attack was blown out of proportion in the eyes of the commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and some 30,000 NATO troops in Helmand and Nimroz provinces.
The Afghan man, who died after setting himself on fire, had no way of knowing the defense secretary was nearby, Gurganus told U-T San Diego during a broad-ranging interview looking back on the Camp Pendleton force's year in command. East Coast Marines are preparing to take command in coming weeks.
Yet the attack was a metaphor for a critical turning point in the war. Gurganus and his command staff had to dart in new directions amid rapid changes and gathering threats. They also were tested by a spike in "insider attacks" by rogue Afghans that, while relatively few in number, made an impact in the war of perceptions and eroded public support at home.
Most of the "surge" of 33,000 U.S. troops sent to Afghanistan in 2010 went to southwestern Afghanistan, where the Marine force doubled to a high of about 21,000. Helmand has been by far the deadliest area of the country for coalition troops, accounting for nearly 900 out of more than 3,250 deaths since the war began in 2001.
In preparation for the end of the U.S. combat mission in 2014, Gurganus and his staff coordinated the withdrawal of about two-thirds of the Marine force and most of the Corps' warfighting equipment, even as heavy combat continued in remote pockets of Helmand province.
This part of the country, like all of Afghanistan, has been scarred by decades of war. It is also riven by a fractured network of tribes and displaced migrants. Drug smugglers, gun runners and insurgents traverse the desert bordering Pakistan. Illegal poppy crops along the fertile Helmand river valley supply most of the world's opium, funding the insurgency and organized crime. Poverty and a scarcity of roads make it easier to bury homemade bombs in dirt paths and byways.
"You're dealing not only with insurgents, you deal with the narco-criminal here, you deal with corruption here. It is a far more complex environment than Al Anbar province of Iraq ever hoped to be," said Gurganus, who served in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2007 and 2008.
Out of 193 coalition bases in the region, 148 were closed or transferred last year to Afghan control.
The combat mission also shifted several times, from leading counterinsurgency operations to pushing Afghan national forces out front last summer to the recent step further back, forcing them to fight and supply themselves for the most part independently other than medevac and heavy fire support.
The changes were years in the making, but they came to a head last fall when the coalition turned off the spigot of food, water and ammunition and sent many Marines home.
Marine commanders leading infantry battalions from Southern California assigned to Musa Qala and Sangin conceded it was an uncertain transition — like giving your teenager the keys to the car for the first time.
"Marines are always looking for a good firefight, and when they deployed out here they were under that mind-set, 'Hey, we are going to seek and destroy the enemy,'" recalled Sgt. Maj. Harrison Tanksley, senior enlisted leader for the southwest regional command. "We had to take a step back and allow the ANA (Afghan National Army) to get out in front, and that required some patience on our part."
At least twice, Afghan commanders called in the middle of the night saying they needed immediate air support or many would die. Because of poor weather, they had to fend for themselves but did fine, Gurganus said.
"When we pulled the largest number of Marines out, there was real concern on all of their faces. If you talked to some of the leaders, they said, we are going to fail, we are going to fail. We told them, we just don't think you will, but we will be there if you have to have us.
"It was no time at all before they started realizing they could stand up on their own. ... It has really been amazing how little we have had to do to bail them out."
The somewhat counterintuitive pullback in the most violent area of Afghanistan was orchestrated by Gen. John Allen, the Marine who led the war campaign until last week.
Allen wanted the Afghans to get used to fighting on their own while a significant number of foreign troops remained to backstop them if needed.
Nearly a third of Afghan infantry battalions in the Helmand region are considered capable of independent operations coupled with U.S. advisers, up from none at the beginning of last year, the southwestern NATO command reported. A fourth brigade of Afghan soldiers began arriving last fall in Helmand, where 16,000 soldiers and more than 12,000 police are now fielded.
As the Marines pulled back, the Taliban overran some positions. But Afghan forces were able to retake all of them on their own, the Marines said.
Afghan troops absorbed a much higher share of casualties in the region last year — about 800 were killed, more than 10 times the number of coalition troops. But overall, violence was down from 15,271 incidents in 2011 to 12,214 in 2012. Despite spikes in two areas, Kajaki and Nad Ali, most other districts in southwestern Afghanistan had fewer attacks in 2012 compared with 2011, including the most violent in the country, Nahr-e Saraj.
However, the Marines suffered painful losses that hit them on both a strategic and a personal level.
Insider attacks
A relatively small number of tactically insignificant insider attacks against coalition troops by Afghan national forces were a strategic victory for the insurgency because of political fallout added to the unpopular war 11 years after it began.
In 2012, 61 were killed in insider attacks compared with 35 in 2011, according to NATO statistics.
The turncoat killings played much louder on the homefront than they did in Helmand province, but Afghan commanders understood the potential implications, Gurganus said.
"They did not want to see the acts of a very few destroy all the progress they had made, and much of it with the help of the coalition forces," he said.
On advice from the top local Afghan army commander, Marine advisers living among Afghan counterparts were relocated to coalition sleeping quarters, said Maj. Gen. David Berger, the Marine ground forces commander who worked closely with Afghan army and police.
Maj. Gen. Sayed Malouk, commanding general of the 215th Afghan National Army Corps, said, "We work very closely together every day and it's a good thing," Berger recalled. "But if we are around each other 24 hours a day, we are such different cultures it is hard for something not to be misinterpreted."
Malouk also toured bases speaking at length to his soldiers about the sacrifices coalition forces had made, about why they should fight for their country, and the true message of the Muslim holy book, the Koran. Where do you think your boots came from? Your weapons? Do you know how many people they have lost here, fighting to help our country?
"It was pretty touching," Gurganus recalled, and effective: "It had a huge impact. We had a very, very sharp drop-off not only of the attacks but those kinds of threats."
The most spectacular attack last year in Helmand province did not appear to be an inside job by rogue forces, but 15 heavily armed insurgents who infiltrated Camp Bastion the night of Sept. 14 dressed in old U.S. Army uniforms. Coalition forces on the flight line, most of them from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing who deployed from San Diego County and Yuma, dropped their wrenches and flight logs and battled the insurgents. They killed all but one, who was captured and interrogated.
Lt. Col. Scott Raible, the commanding officer of a Harrier squadron who led the counterattack, was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade explosion. Another Marine, Sgt. Bradley Atwell, also died. Six of the Corps' irreplaceable AV-8B vertical landing fighter jets were destroyed and two more heavily damaged — a more than $200 million loss.
No one was fired or removed from command because of the attack, Gurganus said, bristling at the question.
No one did anything wrong, he said, and there was no failure in security procedures to protect the base.
"What you had is you had enemy who got their part of it right and then the reaction of the Marines and soldiers over there was brilliant to contain it," Gurganus said.
Remaining challenges
About 7,000 Marines remain in southwestern Afghanistan. Their numbers will undoubtedly diminish next year under the command of Marine Maj. Gen. Lee Miller. How fast has not been decided, Gurganus said.
The U.S. and NATO combat mission is scheduled to end by late 2014. In the interim, the situation in Helmand is mixed.
Among the challenges reported by the United Nations: Despite intensive eradication and crop substitution programs, poppy cultivation rose last year in Afghanistan amid high opium prices; the number of Afghans paying bribes dropped from 58 percent in 2009 to 50 percent last year, but they paid nearly $4 billion for public services, a 40 percent increase; and civilian casualties continued at a devastating clip — despite a 15 percent drop in the first six months of 2012 — including a dramatic rise in attacks on schools educating girls. Anti-government elements were responsible for 80 percent of the casualties, the U.N. said.
In Helmand, governance and economic development are now the biggest hurdles, not security, the Marines said. Amid the bright spots: 10 of Helmand's 14 districts have governors, and the numbers of judges has more than doubled.
But the ability of the government to deliver basic services, such as electricity, education, water and courts, lags far behind security improvements, Berger said.
"If the government steps in to fill that void and the officials are accountable ... they will be fine," Berger predicted. "Their security forces are an absolute overmatch for the threat. I don't see any chance of the Taliban rolling back in there and taking over."
The insurgent sanctuary across the border in Pakistan complicates Afghanistan's future, but does not in his view make it untenable. "Until that is resolved, they are going to be in a fight long after we continue our drawdown."
One promising sign is an increased willingness of Helmand residents to defy the Taliban, Marine commanders said.
In January, the Helmand governor's office announced that residents of the Alokozoo area of Nahr-e Saraj drove insurgents out after a tribal leader was beaten, farms were laced with bombs and crop irrigation was cut off. Police added security checkpoints in the area and villagers formed a local defense unit.
"That's when this thing ends," Gurganus said. "We can't win this war. I think while the tool they will use to win will be their own security forces, the fighting here is really over when the people decide that it's over. ... When they actually stand up to them, that's when the insurgency ends."


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LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant scored 11 of his 34 points in the fourth quarter and hit the go-ahead layup with 9 seconds left, leading the Los Angeles Lakers back to .500 for the first time in more than two months with a 99-98 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday night.
Steve Blake stole Josh Smith's final pass in the waning seconds for the Lakers (30-30), who blew a 16-point lead in the second half before Bryant scored their last six points.
After Bryant scored the Lakers' final basket while driving directly at Smith, Blake swiped Smith's desperation pass from underneath Los Angeles' basket. Bryant threw the ball high in the air to run out the clock on Los Angeles' seventh straight home victory over the Hawks since 2006.
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The girls doubles team of Baylee Morgan and Mae Brown finished fourth in the state after advancing to the semifinals, earning all-state honors, and Matt Ridenhour finished in the top eight in the state.
Morgan and Brown defeated the team of Richardson/Richardson from Pine Bluff 7-6, 6-3 and defeated McAtee/Temple of Benton 2-6,7-5,7-5 to advance to the semifinals.
In their semifinal match, the Russellville duo lost to top-seeded Zane/Mix of Jonesboro 6-2, 6-0. In the consolation match, Morgan and Brown fell to Jivon/Parker of Benton 8-4.
Ridenhour defeated Lawson Smith of El Dorado 6-1, 6-2, but was defeated by Spencer Turner of Lake Hamilton 5-7, 6-2, 1-6.
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MUKILTEO — Neighbors who witnessed a shootout in Mukilteo on Feb. 16 told investigators they saw the suspect level his gun at officers before police opened fire.
Two men remained hospitalized this week in connection with the flurry of violence that day, which started with a double shooting on Camano Island and ended with a police chase and additional gunfire in Mukilteo.
Riley Leif Ottersen, 34, is under investigation for eluding police, plus four counts of second-degree assault for allegedly aiming a gun at officers in Snohomish County, according to a search warrant filed in district court. The man also is being investigated for first-degree assault in Island County.
Ottersen is accused of shooting two acquaintances on Camano Island and then leading police on a high-speed chase into Mukilteo.
Of the two people who were shot on the island, one, a 44-year-old man, remains at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. The other, a woman, was treated and released for a gunshot wound.
The victims were sitting in a car in the 500 block of Michelle Drive at about 3:15 p.m. when Ottersen reportedly approached the driver's side window and asked for cigarettes.
One of them handed Ottersen a pack of cigarettes. Ottersen grabbed the pack and then "pulled out a firearm and without warning or provocation shot (the male victim) in the head," detectives were told.
The bullet went into the left side of the man's face and out the right side of his neck, according to court papers. The same bullet went through the woman's arm.
The victims' injuries were consistent with their statements, detectives wrote in a search warrant affidavit.
The gunman then drove off in a 2001 Toyota Camry.
Two Snohomish County sheriff's deputies spotted the car a few miles away on Highway 532 near Stanwood. They attempted to pull Ottersen over but he took off eastbound, reaching speeds of 100 mph.
The chase continued onto southbound I-5 at similar speeds. Ottersen reportedly was weaving through lanes and using the shoulder to pass.
A Washington State Patrol trooper joined in the pursuit on I-5. An Everett police officer also joined as the chase wound westbound onto Highway 526 toward Mukilteo.
During the chase, Ottersent reportedly called 911 and told the dispatcher he had shot someone in Stanwood. He said he was in a pursuit and he "would not stop," according to the warrant.
He then drove into Mukilteo.
At the intersection of 92nd Street SW and 53rd Avenue West, a deputy tried to ram the Camry to cause Ottersen to lose control, an effort known as a "PIT maneuver." The PIT maneuver wasn't successful, and Ottersen continued northbound on 53rd Avenue West.
While turning westbound on 88th Street SW, Ottersen lost control and the Camry went into a ditch. That was at about 3:50 p.m.
Police caught up a few seconds later.
Three neighbors heard the commotion and looked outside.
The three reportedly told investigators that they saw Ottersen get out of his car and wait for officers to arrive. At first, Ottersen appeared to follow the officers' commands and put his hands up. Then he suddenly grabbed a handgun from his waist.
All three witnesses said Ottersen pointed the gun at police, according to the warrant.
The search warrant provides additional detail from the confusing conclusion of the chase. Shortly after the suspect's car was rammed, police-radio traffic captured officers reporting that shots were fired. Then the officers reported the suspect was at gunpoint. Seconds later, police again reported shots fired. They said the suspect was down and in need of medical aid.
Investigators have not yet said whether Ottersen fired his weapon at the officers.
As of Friday, he remained at Harborview. He is expected to face charges in Snohomish and Island counties.
The Mukilteo shooting is being investigated by the Snohomish County Multiple Agency Response Team. The team includes detectives from around the county who probe cases where police use potentially fatal force.
The SMART team sought a judge's permission to search the Toyota Camry for potential evidence. They especially were interested in Ottersen's cellphone and whether he still had the pack of cigarettes from Camano Island.
Four officers who were involved in the Mukilteo gunfire. They were put on leave pending further investigation, as is standard procedure.
Island County detectives continue to investigate the double shooting on Camano Island, Undersheriff Kelly Mauck said Tuesday.
Island County detectives have not yet been able to interview Ottersen or the victim because of their medical conditions, he said. Ottersen has no felony history in Washington.
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