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February 16, 2011
New NIE on Iran nuke program appears to differ little from 2007 findings
The U.S. intelligence community has completed a new National Intelligence Estimate for President Barack Obama and Congress on Iran's nuclear program. The key judgements, however, aren't being released like those of a November 2007 NIE that concluded that Iran had halted the development of a nuclear weapon four years earlier.
But that may not matter. Because logic and U.S. intelligence community practices tell us that Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper essentially laid out the new NIE's key judgments in the Annual Worldwide Threat Assessment that he presented today to the Senate Intelligence Committee and on Feb. 10 to the House Intelligence Committee. And in effect, the conclusions of the new NIE are pretty close to those of the 2007 NIE.
"We continue to assess Iran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons in part by developing various nuclear capabilities that better position it to produce such weapons, should it chose to do so," Clapper says in the threat assessment. "We do not know, however, if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons."
Translation: The 16 U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran's covert nuclear weapons work remains suspended for now, but could be restarted if the Iranian regime decides to do so. And if it does proceed, the United States may not know it.
Here's what the 2007 NIE said: U.S. intelligence analysts "assess with moderate-to-high confidence
that Tehran at a minimum is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons."
And this: "In our judgment, only an Iranian political decision to abandon a nuclear weapons objective would plausibly keep Iran from eventually producing nuclear weapons—and such a decision is inherently reversible."
That doesn't mean that Iran hasn't been aggressively pursuing the technologies that it would need to build weapons. That is especially so when it comes to centrifuges, the supersonic spinning machines that are used to produce both low-enriched urnanium for power reactors - which is what Tehran insists it's using them for - and highly enriched uranium for bombs. The effort centered at Natanz has been considerably slowed, however, by attacks by the computer virus known as Stuxnet, experts say.
"Iran's technical advancement, particularly in uranium enrichment, strengthens our assessment that Iran has the scientific, technical and industrial capacity to eventually produce nuclear weapons, making the central issue the will to do so," Clapper says in the threat assessment. "These advancements contribute to our judgment that Iran is technically capable of producing enough highly enriched uranium for a weapon in the next few years, if it choses to do so."
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February 15, 2011
U.S. civilian intelligence program budget request made public for first time
$55 billion.
That's how much the Obama administration wants from Congress in FY 2012 for the National Intelligence Program, which funds civilian U.S. intelligence agencies and activities. It is the first time that any administration has ever made that request public.
"Any and all subsidiary information concerning the National Intelligence Program (NIP) budget, whether the information concerns particular intelligence agencies or particular intelligence programs, will not be disclosed," said a news release issued on Monday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The administration was required to make the FY 2012 NIP budget request public under a 2010 law, although President Barak Obama had the option of using a waiver to keep the figure secret.
Steven Aftergood, who runs the Project on Government Secrecy over at the Federation of American Scientists, hailed the disclosure as "a new milestone in the 'normalization' of intelligence budgeting."
"It sets the stage for a direct appropriation of intelligence funds, to replace the deliberately misleading practice of concealing intelligence funds within the defense budget. Doing so would also enable the Pentagon to (accurately) report a smaller total budget figure, a congenial prospect in tight budget times," Aftergood said in Tuesday's issue of his blog Secrecy News.
As Aftergood noted, the disclosure follows years of contentious debate and litigation, including an unsuccessful 1999 court suit brought by FAS. In a sworn declaration to the court, then Director of National Intelligence George Tenet insisted that revealing the intelligence community's budget request would undermine U.S. national security by providing "foreign intelligence services with a valuable benchmark for identifying and frustrating United States' intelligence programs."
"From our perspective, Mr. Tenet was wrong in 1999, and the damage he foresaw would not have resulted from the disclosure that he prevented," wrote Aftergood. "More fundamentally, the changing official assessment of the need to classify this information reflects the subjectivity that is inherent in the classification process, which makes it possible for two intelligence community leaders to reach opposing conclusions."
The administration's request for the Military Intelligence Program remains classified.
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February 03, 2011
Central Asia on the brink?
Twenty years after emerging from the wreckage of the former Soviet Union, the five countries of Central Asia are grappling with an accelerating collapse of their physical and human infrastructure, threatening dire consequences for their near-term stability, warns a new International Crisis Group report.
"Quietly but steadily, Central Asia's basic human and physical infrastructure - the roads, power plants, hospitals and schools and the last generation of Soviet-trained specialists who have all this running - is disappearing," says the report entitled "Central Asia: Decay and Decline. "Post-independence regimes made little effort to maintain or replace either, and funds allocated for this purpose have largely been eaten up by corruption."
The crisis, the report finds, is most accute in the two poorest countries, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, where local experts say that in the next few years there will be no more teachers or doctors. "Experts in both countries are haunted by the increasingly likely prospect of catastrophic systemic collapse, especially in the energy sector," it says.
Things aren't that much better in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, and even Kazakstan, the best-off of the former Soviet Central Asian republics, is being "tested by infrastructure deficiencies, particularly in transportation and training of technical cadre," the report warns.
The bottomline: unless steps are taken by the regimes and their international donors to halt the deterioration, poverty and anti-government anger will deepen, fueling instability and providing Islamic radical groups with "further ammunition against regional leaders."
Central Asia's leaders, especially the aging despots, might want to read the report in light of events in Tunisia and Egypt. It's doubtful, however, that they will.
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February 01, 2011
Human Rights Watch: Iraqi units under Maliki running secret detention site
Elite security forces that answer directly to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office are running a secret detention center in Baghdad and have tortured prisoners "with impunity" at a different location in the Iraqi capital, an international human rights group says.
Human Rights Watch says the allegations against the 56th Brigade of the Iraqi Army and the country's Counter-Terrorism Service are based on interviews with former detainees and classified Iraqi government documents that it obtained.
The secret detention facility is located within a legitimate Justice Ministry detention center in Camp Justice, a former notorious intelligence compound during the rule of Saddam Hussein. More than 280 prisoners were transferred into the site in November from a detention center in the Green Zone that had come under public scrutiny following a Los Angles Times story last year on abuses and miserable conditions there, Human Rights Watch said.
The transfers took place just days before an international inspection team was to investigate conditions in Camp Honor, the Green Zone detention center, it said.
About 80 of the detainees in the Camp Justice site are in 56th Brigade's custody, while the remainder are being held by the counter-terrorism unit. The detainees have no access to lawyers or family members and prison inspectors are barred from the section of the facility controlled by the 56th Brigade, it said.
Human Rights Watch said that it had obtained 18 documents underpinning its allegations, including one from a prosecutor asking Maliki's office to authorize access to the detainees by lawyers and relatives. Another concerns a refusal by a 56th Brigade officer to allow Human Rights Ministry inspectors inside.
More than one dozen former detainees told Human Rights Watch in interviews that they were subjected to inhuman conditions and a wide range of abuses during interrogations at Camp Honor, including beatings and electric shocks.
Iraqi officials have previously denied such allegations and Maliki has previously promised to reign in abuses.
Human Rights Watch called on the Maliki government to close all of the facilities.
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Senate committee report sees security risks facing U.S. diplomats in Iraq
A new report by the Democratic majority staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee raises serious concerns about the security of hundreds of U.S. diplomats who will remain in Iraq to support the government after the departure of the last 50,000 American troops at year's end.
While Iraq has undergone a "remarkable transformation" since the height of the civil war in 2007, with a more than 90 percent reduction in violence and an elected government now seated, "these advances remain fragile, uneven and reversible," said the report released at a committee hearing on the issue on Tuesday.
Al Qaida's Iraqi affiliate remains a threat, serious sectarian tensions persist and the country has yet to resolve potentially incendiary issues like a new oil law and the status of the city of Kirkuk, it said. All that poses significant security risks to an estimated 17,000 U.S. diplomats, military trainers, support personnel and private security contractors.
"The diplomatic mission that remains will be an initiative of unprecedented size and complexity, currectly projected to consist of some 17,000 individuals on 15 different sites, including 3 air hubs, 3 police training centers, 2 consulates, 2 embassy branch offices and 5 Office of Security Cooperation sites," said the report. "The State Department is scheduled to assume full security responsibilities in a still dangerous and unpredicable environment."
The report said that the State Department and Pentagon bureacracies are having problems coordinating the transition from the military mission to the diplomatic mission, such as agreeing on how many helicopters should remain in Iraq or be sent to Afghanistan.
Finally, the report warned that the success of the State Department-run mission will require a "cohesive and sustainable funding mechanism" at a time when congressional support "has been undermined by a constrained fiscal environment and war fatigue."
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January 27, 2011
Mrs Obama to appear on Oprah to talk about military families
Michelle Obama will be on today's Oprah Winfrey Show to talk about military families and the stress they live under as the nation fights two wars. She will be joined by journalists Tom Brokaw and Bob Woodward to introduce some courageous military families. They are calling for those who do not have someone in service to support those who do. Mrs. Obama has said military families are one her priorities as the First Lady.
She said she was inspired as she met families during the presidential campaign and vowed to do more for them if her husband became Commander-in-Chief.
Talking about military wives, she said: "A lot of these women can use a girl's night out, a manicure, a pedicure, a break. ...There are things we can do as a nation big and small."
You can read more about her appearance here.
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January 25, 2011
Petraeus issues state of the Afghan war assessment
Only hours before his commander chief, President Barack Obama, was to deliver his State of the Union address, Army Gen. David Petraeus delivered a state of the war assessment for Afghanistan.
In a letter to the 100,000 U.S. forces, Petreaus said that over the last year, the U.S.-led counter-insurgency campaign had succeeded in halting "a downward security spiral in much of" Afghanistan and even reversed "it in some areas of great importance."
As evidence, Petraeus said that despite occassional attacks in Kabul, the Afghan capital and surrounding region "enjoyed impressive security throughout the latter half of 2010." He called the reduction in insurgent strikes there "particularly noteworthy given that nearly one-fifth of the Afghan population lives in the greater Kabul area and Afghan forces lead in all but one of the (Kabul) province's districts."
Petraeus said "hard-won progress" also was made in the southern Taliban strongholds of Helmand and Kandahar provinces, the focus of last year's surge of an additional 30,000 U.S. forces, and there were "advances" in areas of the east, west and north.
"While there clearly is a need for additional work in numerous areas, it is equally clear that ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) and Afghan forces inflicted enormous losses on mid-level Taliban and Haqqani Network leaders throughout the country and took away from of their most important safe havens," Petraeus wrote. "Now, in fact, the insurgents increasingly are responding to our operations rather than vice-versa, and there numerous reports of unprecedented discord among the members of the Quetta Shura, the Taliban senior leadership body."
Of course, it was Petraeus who reported in September that senior Taliban leaders had reached out to President Hamid Karzai's government to discuss holding negotiations on a much-longed for political settlement of the war. The intelocutor, however, turned out to be an impostor and no apparent progress was made on starting negotiations. That wasn't mentioned in the general's letter.
Nor did it say that 2010 saw a massive increase in violence and the highest U.S. casualties - at least 499 dead and more than 5,100 wounded - since the 2001 U.S. invasion, nor that many experts believe that the U.S.-led offensives in the south prompted insurgents to move to previously unaffected areas of the country.
Civilian casualties also hit an all-time high in 2010, with more than three-quarters blamed on the Taliban and other insurgent groups. The United Nations charted a 20 percent increase - to at least 6,215 - in civilian casualties for the first 10 months of 2010 compared to the same period a year earlier. And adjacent areas of Pakistan, where U.S. drone attacks rose by more than 160 percent last year, remained sanctuaries for the Taliban and allied groups.
None of that was in Petraeus' assessment either.
Petreaus said that to capitalize on the progress he outlined, U.S.-led forces will have to expand the "Kabul security bubble," solidify and extend the "gains in the south and southwest," connect and expand "areas of improved security in the east and west," and halt and reverse the insurgency's "recent advances" in the north and northeast.
He also acknowledged the need for progress on what many experts and U.S. officials and other experts regard as the Achille's Heels of the counter-insurgency campaign that Petraeus is leading: endemic corruption in Karzai's government and the lack of Afghan officials capable of providing good governance and services to people in areas regained from the insurgents.
"To capitalize on the security gains we achieved in 2010, we will also have to maintain our support for Afghan-led efforts to establish governance that can earn the support of the people," Petraeus wrote. "Additionally, we will have to expand our efforts to help Afghan officials implement President Karzai's direction to combat corruption and criminal patronage networks."
Left unsaid by Petraeus, however, was that Karzai's refusal to allow prosecutions of family, friends and allies is seen by many U.S. officials and others as a major impediment to the U.S.-backed anti-corruption efforts.
Petraeus warned that this year will see more intense fighting, a prediction that few will dispute.
"In sum, 2010 was a year of significant, hard-fought accomplishments," he wrote. "The year ahead is likely to be a tough one, too."
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January 20, 2011
How much did it cost to enforce DADT? On average, $52,800 per service member
Today's blog is courtesy of my fellow N&Ser, Jonathan Landay, who kindly pointed me toward an interesting report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office about the costs of implementing don't ask don't tell. The report studied separations between fiscal year 2004 and 2009 and found that on average it cost the military $52,800 (in 2009 dollars) for each service member forced to leave under DADT.
During that time, the military spent $193 million, including $185.6 million to recruit and train replacements, to remove 3,664 service members. That is, on average it cost $52,800 per separation. The Navy spent the most, on average $103,000 per removed service member.
As the report explains, "our calculations for the services' replacement costs amount to about $19.4 million for the Air Force, $39.4 million for the Army, $22.0 million for the Marine Corps, and $104.9 million for the Navy. The Navy recruiting and training cost calculation is larger than the other services' calculations because according to Navy officials, the Navy recruiting and training cost data contain both fixed and variable costs."
The report captures other costs of implementing DADT. For example, 34 percent of those forced out under DADT were women even though women make up only 14 percent of the force. In addition, 79 percent of soldiers removed from the Army held critical jobs in the military. And the Navy removed 57 seamen and women who had critical language skills.
It's the first report I know of that put an economic cost of implementing the law. You can read it here.
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30 years later, Iran hostages try to bridge gap between Tehran, Washington
It was 30 years ago today that American hostages who'd been held in captivity in Iran for 444 days, were released back to the United States and freedom.
To mark the anniversary, some of the former hostages have established a foundation, the Iran Study Group (Facebook page here) to try to bridge the gap between the United States and Iran. The group said in a statement that it was established "to support diplomacy efforts between the U.S. and Iran through education, public affairs, and policy support," and "adds a third option to the current official US Government policy of sanctions or military strikes."
The United States (along with leading European nations and others) remains deeply at odds with Iran over its suspected nuclear weapons program. Talks tomorrow and Saturday in Istanbul, Turkey are unlikely to lead to any breakthroughs.
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January 19, 2011
Lunch at the State Department
Well, it's not the State Dinner (that comes later this evening), but there was plenty of star power and fine dining at a lunch at Foggy Bottom for visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao.
The lunch got going quite late - after 2pm - thanks perhaps to that pesky problem with simultaneous translation that turned President Obama's press conference with Hu into a 1 hour, 8 minute affair.
A tasty lunch, nonetheless. The menu, according to the State Department (no, we weren't invited):
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup, Timbale of Pear and Sunchoke, Sage Toasts, followed by ... Fillet of Alaskan Cod, Horseradish Dijon Crème Fraiche, Lemon-Scented Rice and Winter Vegetable Medley, finished off with ... Gilded Chocolate and Plum Delight, Balsamic Ice Cream.
Among the invitees were figure skater Michelle Kwan, author Amy Tan, designer Vera Wang, first CHinese-American NFL player Ed Wang, along with Barbara Streisand and former secretaries of state Colin Powell, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright. After dessert was served, cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed.
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"Nukes & Spooks" is written by McClatchy correspondents Jonathan S. Landay (national security and intelligence), Warren P. Strobel (foreign affairs and the State Department), and Nancy Youssef (Pentagon).
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- U.S. civilian intelligence program budget request made public for first time
- Central Asia on the brink?
- Human Rights Watch: Iraqi units under Maliki running secret detention site
- Senate committee report sees security risks facing U.S. diplomats in Iraq
- Mrs Obama to appear on Oprah to talk about military families
- Petraeus issues state of the Afghan war assessment
- How much did it cost to enforce DADT? On average, $52,800 per service member
- 30 years later, Iran hostages try to bridge gap between Tehran, Washington
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October 30, 2017, 10:06 am
Jonas Valanciunas has been upgraded from out to questionable for Monday's game with the Blazers.
Valanciunas was hopeful to return on the team's western road trip, and this will be game three of six. His return would limit the minutes of both Jakob Poeltl and Pascal Siakam, who have been impressive in JV's absence. Even if the big man doesn't make it back tonight, he should return sometime soon.
Fantasy News
May 26, 2019, 11:48 amOG Anunoby - F - Toronto Raptors
The Raptors are expressing optimism that OG Anunoby will be able to see the floor for their NBA Finals matchup with the Golden State Warriors.
Anunoby's size and defensive versatility could make for a very valuable weapon against the Warriors' small-ball lineups. That being said, he has been out for nearly a month and a half, and the Raptors' eight man rotation has hit its stride in the crux of this playoff run. It remains to be seen if he will make it back, but in the event that he can, there is no guarantee that he will be able to crack meaningful minutes in Toronto's tight rotation.
Source: Ryan Wolstat on Twitter
May 26, 2019, 11:19 amMichael Porter Jr. - F - Denver Nuggets
As a symptom from his back surgeries, Michael Porter Jr. developed drop foot, and will wear to a leg brace to help stabilize it when he makes his professional debut in Summer League according to Mike Singer of the Denver Post.
Drop foot makes it hard for one to lift the front part of their foot and is a common symptom of back related ailments, of which Porter Jr. has had two surgeries to address over the last year and a half. Porter Jr. remains an unknown commodity with a laundry list of health concerns as an NBA player. There has been some recent success with young guys being able to bounce back in big ways after suffering year-long injuries, but Porter Jr. will remain a mystery until we see him on the court for his inaugural season.
Source: The Denver Post
May 26, 2019, 11:04 amJonas Valanciunas - C - Memphis Grizzlies
Jonas Valanciunas said that he wants to see who the Memphis Grizzlies hire as their next head coach before deciding on his $17.6 million player option.
Valanciunas saw his role increase in Memphis after being traded from Toronto, and actually played to compete with the Grizz trying to win enough games to convert their, at the time, low-end lottery pick to Boston. Valanciunas made it clear that he doesn't want to return to Memphis if their plans are to pivot to a rebuild and not compete again next year, saying, "I want to know, how we gonna look in 82 games. I don't want to be a tourist. I want to win.". The Hoop Ball favorite will be hard pressed to find a situation that will give him as much run, and fantasy value, as Memphis did, making this a decision fantasy owners everywhere should monitor.
Source: Dontas Urbonas on Twitter
May 26, 2019, 10:06 amKawhi Leonard - F - Toronto Raptors
Kawhi Leonard held Giannis Antetekounmpo to just .353 shooting from the floor with an offensive rating of 89.4 when guarding him in the Eastern Conference Finals.
This is needed to emphasize just how dominant of a defensive player Leonard really is. For reference, Giannis shot .578 from the floor with an offensive rating of 121 through the regular season. A total swing of nearly 23 percent and 32 less points per 100 possessions is preposterous for any player, especially an MVP caliber offensive juggernaut in Antetokounmpo. Keep these numbers in mind as the debate over Leonard being the league's best player continues to heat up.
Source: Micha Adams on Twitter
May 26, 2019, 1:17 amKawhi Leonard - F - Toronto Raptors
Kawhi Leonard posted a monster line in Saturday's 100-94 Game 6 win, scoring 27 points with 17 rebounds, seven assist, two steals, two blocks and six turnovers.
Leonard put the Raptors on his back and carried them into their first NBA Finals appearance. After losing the first two games of the Eastern Conference Finals the Raptors stormed back to take the next four to seal the series. Kawhi has been simply marvelous for this team and found a way to crank it up another notch, averaging almost 30 points per game this series. He was all over the court this game and dominated the Bucks from inside the paint. A 4th quarter dunk over Giannis Antetokounmpo punctuated this dominance and sent the hometown crowd in a frenzy. The Raptors will try to keep their hot streak going as they face the Warriors in the NBA Finals.
May 26, 2019, 1:14 amGiannis Antetokounmpo - F - Milwaukee Bucks
While Giannis Antetokounmpo will be eligible for a five-year supermax contract worth over $247 million, ESPN's Malika Andrews is reporting that the 2020 playoff run could swing whether or not Antetokounmpo stays with the Bucks long-term.
The Bucks have three of their starters and two key bench pieces heading into free agency this summer, so they might have to make some bold choices to keep the necessary parts around while also improving the team on a budget. It's possible that this is the Antetokounmpo camp's way of encouraging Milwaukee to empty the wallet and keep the current group together, but it goes against what Giannis has said publicly about the team and city from day one. The Bucks were eliminated mere hours ago but we're already having this conversation. The NBA news cycle is perpetual.
Source: ESPN
May 26, 2019, 12:59 amKyle Lowry - G - Toronto Raptors
Kyle Lowry posted a solid line in Saturday's Game 6 win scoring 17 points while adding five rebounds, eight assists, three 3-pointers, one steal and only one turnover.
After a pedestrian series against the 76ers, Lowry stepped it up against the Bucks, averaging almost 20 points per game in the Eastern Conference Finals. He did a great job making smart plays for the Raptors and they will need him to continue to operate at this high level as they head off into the NBA Finals next week.
May 26, 2019, 12:48 amMarc Gasol - C - Toronto Raptors
Marc Gasol scored six points, all from behind the arc, in Saturday's Game 6 win, adding three rebounds, two assists and a block/steal in 26 minutes.
Gasol continues to do what the Raptors ask of him though the years of grinding in the paint for Memphis are long gone. He has adjusted his game play and now acts as a facilitator for the rest of the team. Gasol continues to split time in the post with Serge Ibaka (25 minutes, nine points) and will see his minutes fluctuate based on the Raptor's offensive scheme heading into the NBA Finals.
May 26, 2019, 12:24 amFred VanVleet - G - Toronto Raptors
Fred VanVleet was a difference maker for the Raptors' series clinching Game 6, scoring 14 points off the bench on 5-for-6 shooting while adding two assists.
VanVleet played 34 minutes off the bench and continues to be a menace from behind the 3-point line (4-for-5 today). In the past three games he has gone an unbelievable 14-for-17 from behind the arc. The Raptors will continue to rely on his ability to stretch the floor as they head into their first NBA Finals and will square off against the Warriors and their own formidable shooters.
May 26, 2019, 12:08 amGiannis Antetokounmpo - F - Milwaukee Bucks
Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 21 points in Saturday's Game 6 loss while contributing 11 rebounds, four assists, two steals, three blocks and two turnovers.
Antetokounmpo did all that was asked of him on both sides of the ball but could not get past the Raptors this series. Giannis continues to operate at an MVP-level but his freethrow woes continue to plague him. He was "Shaq-esque" this series (55%) and shot 5-for-10 in tonight's loss. This is a tough break for Antetokounmpo and the Bucks as they head into the offseason with four of their five starters entering free agency.


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Cesarean Scar: Jennifer
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 03:25AM
My scar is still numb, almost sixteen years later. I'm still angry about it all, the whole thing should never have happened.
I planned for a normal, unmedicated, midwife assisted delivery and then two full years of unhindered breastfeeding no supplements.
That's not what I got!
What I did get was a midwife who had no idea how to support me, whom I saw twice throughout two days of being induced! She loved the idea of inducing me for big baby late date fears, then went on to breaking my waters to bring my baby down, she didn't allow me to have food for then entire two full days of induction,(my mother snuck me in a hamburger and fries when they turned off the pit that night!). I didn't want drugs of any kind, so no epidural or narcotics for the intense back to back contractions the pit brought. IV fluids of course, so swollen feet and legs, no mobility outside of using the restroom, 100% of the time being hooked up to a monitor which really annoyed me! I basically pushed flat on my back with no urge to push at all but being instructed to do so anyway.... for two in half hours!
I did finally get an urge to push, but I was already rolled into the OR and the doctor was already putting in the spinal, so I was YELLED AT TO STOP because they didn't want to have to shove him back up into the birth canal. They had to anyway, because being upright for the spinal was what I needed to help my baby get down. Nobody talked to me during my surgery or told me what they were doing, I felt like throwing up the entire time, then they sliced my bladder, so I now have chronic UTI's. I got postpartum infections back to back, mastitis so severe that I ended up bottle feeding. That surgery then lead to two more for adhesion's and then the third for a ruptured ectopic that resulted in removal of my right tube, not to mention almost dying.... The top of my left thigh is forever numb as well..... Good times!!
There are times however, even with all of that that I am indeed grateful that it did happen. Why? I went on to HBAC four beautiful children (whom were all bigger!). I am now very educated about my body and how it works and help others become educated as well.
All in all I'm still pissed........... fifteen, in June 16 years later. I don't believe that will ever change. AND I don't trust OB's as far as I can throw them!
tagged "Big Baby", Anger, CNM, Mismanaged Labor in HBAC, Primary Cesarean


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Network Working Group Bernard Aboba INTERNET-DRAFT Microsoft Corporation Category: Proposed Standard Jouni Malinen Expires: October 2, 2012 Devicescape Software Updates: 4072 Paul Congdon Hewlett Packard Company Joseph Salowey Cisco Systems Mark Jones Amdocs 4 April 2012 RADIUS Attributes for IEEE 802 Networks draft-ietf-radext-ieee802ext-01.txt Abstract RFC 3580 provides guidelines for the use of the Remote Authentication Dialin User Service (RADIUS) within IEEE 802 local area networks (LANs). This document proposes additional attributes for use within IEEE 802 networks, as well as providing clarifications on the usage of the EAP-Key-Name attribute, updating RFC 4072. The attributes defined in this document are usable both within RADIUS and Diameter. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on October 2, 2012. Aboba, et al. Proposed Standard [Page 1] INTERNET-DRAFT RADIUS Attributes for IEEE 802 4 April 2012 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Aboba, et al. Proposed Standard [Page 2] INTERNET-DRAFT RADIUS Attributes for IEEE 802 4 April 2012 Table of Contents 1. Introduction .......................................... 4 1.1 Terminology ..................................... 4 1.2 Requirements Language ........................... 5 2. RADIUS attributes ..................................... 5 2.1 Allowed-Called-Station-Id ....................... 5 2.2 EAP-Key-Name .................................... 7 2.3 EAP-Peer-Id ..................................... 8 2.4 EAP-Server-Id ................................... 9 2.5 Mobility-Domain-Id .............................. 10 2.6 Preauth-Timeout ................................. 10 2.7 Network-Id-Name ................................. 11 2.8 Access-Info ..................................... 12 2.9 WLAN-SSID ....................................... 13 2.10 WLAN-HESSID ..................................... 14 2.11 WLAN-Venue-Info ................................. 14Show full document text


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This year, I contributed a classic Thanksgiving feast to Rachael Ray Magazine {download here}, complete with a few tricks for making your bird the juiciest ever (hint, flip the bird halfway through cooking), killer mashed potatoes and a pumpkin pie I think you'd be super proud to call your own.
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Little Giants Play Shenadoah in NCAA Tourney Todayby Brent Harris • May 16, 2011 Share:
The Wabash baseball team will play Shenandoah University in the Millington, Tennessee Region of the 2011 NCAA Division III Baseball Regional. The Little Giants will play their first game of the tournament at 3:30 p.m. (CDT) Wednesday afternoon in Millington.
Wabash will be the number-five seed in a six-team South Region, while Shenandoah (34-5 overall, 11-1 in the USA Southern Athletic Conference) is the number-two seed. The Little Giants will be making their first appearance in the NCAA baseball tournament in school history after winning the North Coast Athletic Conference baseball tournament to secure the league's automatic bid, while Shenandoah returns to the national tournament for the third consecutive season.
The Hornets are fourth in the nation in the D3baseball.com/National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association rankings and third in the American Baseball Coaches Association poll. Shenandoah received one of 17 at-large bids from the NCAA DIII baseball tournament selection committee after the Hornets lost 5-4 to Christopher Newport in the championship game of the USA conference tournament. Christopher Newport (39-5, 10-2 USA) is ranked number-one in the ABCA poll and second by D3baseball.com/NCBWA, and will be the top seed in South Region. Christopher Newport will face Webster College (31-11), the six seed, in game one at noon on Wednesday.
Piedmont (30-13; third seed) and Salisbury (29-11; fourth seed) will join Wabash, Shenandoah, Christopher Newport, and Webster at the South Regional. Rhodes College will serve as the host school for the tournament.
Shenandoah is led by Greg Van Sickler, the USA Pitcher and Player of the Year. The senior hit .400 for the season, collecting 62 hits in 155 at bats. He hit 16 doubles, three triples, and seven home runs and had 38 RBI for the year. On the mound, the right-hander is 10-1 with a 2.02 earned run average heading into the NCAA tournament. He has 73 strikeouts and only nine walks in 80-1/3 innings on the mound, helping him Pitcher of the Year honors for the second straight season in the conference. Kevin Brashears tops the Hornets' statistics with a .404 batting average. He has 63 hits, including five home runs and a team-best 40 RBI. Clint DeHaven has smashed 11 home runs this year while batting .272 for Shenandoah.
Head Coach Kevin Anderson was named the USA Coach of the Year for the first time since he joined the Hornets in 2003. He has guided Shenandoah to NCAA DIII Regional baseball titles in 2009 and 2010.
Christopher Newport and Webster will open South Region play at USA Stadium in Millington, Tennessee at noon on Wednesday. Wabash and Shenandoah follow with a 3:30 p.m. first pitch in game two. Piedmont and Salisbury will play at 7 p.m. Wednesday evening. The two losing teams from games one and two will play an elimination game at noon on Thursday. The winner from game one and the loser of game three will play at 3:30 p.m., followed by the winners of games two and three from Wednesday. The tournament continues until a regional champion is crowned on Saturday.


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Seniors going to Jimenez dinner in style
At 7:30 a.m. Thanksgiving Day, more than a dozen buses will roll out from downtown's Union Stock Yards, with stops at senior centers, adult day cares and churches, where hundreds of seniors will step aboard, dressed in their finest for the annual Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner.
Started in 1979 by San Antonio restaurateur Raul Jimenez, the dinner is meant to provide a "community dinner table" for seniors and those in need, according to the organization.
For the past 15 years, City Tours Inc. luxury buses have delivered guests in style to the city's largest Thanksgiving dinner, held yearly at the Convention Center.
Mike White, a driver for the past five years, said he looks forward to helping folks gather.
"These are people not able to be with their family," White said. "But there is a place they can have Thanksgiving; no one has to be without Thanksgiving."
Each year, City Tours provides more than 1,000 guests free rides to the dinner, for food, fellowship and dancing.
Food prepared for today's meal includes 9,400 pounds of turkey, 12,500 pounds of stuffing and green beans, 32,000 dinner rolls, 3,000 pies, plus thousands of pounds of trimmings.
City Tours President Edward Torres and his drivers are among the 4,000 volunteers for the event, which serves more than 24,000 seniors and people in need each year.The Jimenez staff provides a list of pickup and drop-off sites for Torres' drivers. The in-kind donation amounts to about $15,000.
"I'm very appreciative of our staff. It means a lot to me," Torres said. He joined the effort after meeting Raul Jimenez's daughter, Patricia. The director of the citywide dinner asked if he would help transport seniors to the event.
"We are so very grateful to him and his almost 20 years of service to the dinner," Patricia Jimenez said. "He never hesitates to donate and he always gives us his best buses to ensure that all of the seniors ride in luxury."
Torres, a Jefferson High graduate, started City Tours Inc. at age 18, with one van carrying passengers on a tour of city sites he learned from his father, a 40-year tour guide with Gray Line Tours. He began to build his fleet after suffering a sports injury while playing basketball for St. Philip's College.
Twenty-seven years later, the company has 80 employees and 32 vehicles used for Alamo Sightseeing Tours, Trailways local and national charters, Grand Trolley Tours, and Go Airport Shuttle.
Torres said the value of giving has become a part of the business he calls "a family affair," with his wife Annette, two daughters and son-in-law helping with daily operations.
His reward comes in calls from passengers who say they wouldn't have been able to celebrate the holiday without his help, he said. His proudest moment, however, is watching the buses pull up to the Convention Center and the hundreds of seniors make their way inside.
"The rewards we get are personal, not public," Torres said. "It's the right thing to do."


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Until I got this map, it wasn't clear that there would be good instructions for connecting to the North Lakes route. In fact, there are, right on the map. If you're going to do the Northern Tier, but using North Lakes too, then the sequence is Northern Tier #6, North Lakes #1-3, Northern Tier #10-11. And if you take the Erie Connector, you still need all the above maps (unless you go with Google maps or AAA to make up part of your route). In general, the Adventure Cycling maps have everything a cyclist would be interested in, except possibly internet access. They do indicate where the Libraries are, which, along with Motel locations and town population, allow a guess at where there will be access.


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DUPONT, Wash. – Fumie (Alice) Jo never trailed in her 3-and-2 victory over Eun Jeong Seong to win the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship on Saturday.
The 15-year-old Jo is the first USGA champion from China.
She is the second-youngest champion in WAPL history, following 13-year-old Michelle Wie in 2003. She is also the final winner in the 38-year history of the Women's Amateur Public Links.
"In China, I think everyone will be talking about (my victory)," said Jo, a ninth-grader in Shanghai who was playing in her first USGA championship. "I'm just really happy."
Seong, 14, of Korea, also set a couple of records. She set 18- and 36-hole scoring records during Monday and Tuesday's stroke-play rounds on her way to earning medalist honors.
"My stroke-play (performance) was exceptional and I played really well," Seong said. "I could not play that well all the time. There were some ups and downs."
The Jo-Seong match was also the first all-international final in championship history.
Jo clinched the victory on the 16th green, the 34th hole of the final match. Seong's second shot flew over the back of the green, while Jo's ball sat in the front fringe. Seong's chip flew high and rolled 30 feet past the hole.
Jo sent her putt to 6 feet, and when Seong's par attempt slid over the right edge of the hole, she conceded the hole and the match.
Despite taking the loss after dominating stroke play, Seong was able to take some lessons from the week.
"I learned from watching other players play, especially putting and short game," Seong said. "That will help a lot for next week (at the U.S. Girls' Junior)."
With the win, Jo receives a gold medal and custody of the Robert F. Dwyer Trophy for one year. She also receives exemptions into the next two U.S. Women's Amateur Championships and the next two U.S. Girls' Junior Championships.
Since the U.S. Girls' Junior begins in two days, Jo has declined that exemption due to the quick turnaround.
However, she is expected to be in the field at the U.S. Women's Amateur, to be held August 4-10 at Nassau Country Club in Glen Cove, N.Y.
Seong receives also an exemption into the U.S. Women's Amateur and the U.S. Girls' Junior. She had already qualified for both championships.
This was the final competition of the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship. Beginning in 2015, the USGA will conduct the U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball Championship, with the first being held May 9-13 at Bandon Dunes in Oregon.


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To blame or not to blame, that is the question. Politics and science sometimes just don't mix, and now we have another example right out of the real life. You think politicians are sane or educated enough to cope with science? You think they actually understand what science is about? You better think twice. This is insane:
News out of Italy suggests that seven researchers who did not predict the L'Aquila earthquake in April 2009 are under formal investigation and may be charged with gross negligent manslaughter.
I wonder if they will charge Berlusconi for aiding and abetting because he cut funds for basic research.
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Joins Former Mentor Joakim Flygh; Also Brings NCAA Frozen Four Experience from Minnesota-Duluth
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Jessica Koizumi, who earned a gold medal as a member of the U.S. Women's National Team at the 2008 IIHF World Women's Championship, has joined the Yale women's ice hockey staff as an assistant coach. Koizumi played for the University of Minnesota-Duluth while Yale's new head coach Joakim Flygh was an assistant there, and she captained UMD to the NCAA Frozen Four championship game in 2007.
"We are absolutely thrilled to have Jess join our staff," Flygh said. "She will be a tremendous role model for our student-athletes and I am excited for her to start working with our players on and off the ice. She comes from a culture of winning and she is passionate about the game. As a player, Jess was meticulous in her preparation -- I have no doubt that this will carry through in her coaching. Jess is an important addition to our staff as we look to build a very competitive program."
In addition to her gold medal at the 2008 IIHF Women's World Championship in China, Koizumi also was part of the U.S. team's second-place finish at the 2007 Four Nations Cup. She was on the U.S. Women's Select Team in 2008-09 while getting her master's degree in education from Minnesota-Duluth. She also played for the U.S. Under-22 Select Team in the series with Canada in 2004 and 2006.
Koizumi has participated in six USA Hockey National Festivals (2004-2009) and four USA Hockey Player Development Camps (2000-2003). She has also participated in several USA Hockey Holiday Festivals and June Conditioning Camps, and has played for Team USA at three Women's World InLine Hockey Championships (2005-07). That included a gold medal in Detroit in 2006 and a silver medal in France in 2005.
In addition to playing for the U.S., Koizumi has also served as a head coach at multiple USA Hockey National Girls' Hockey festivals, working with the U14 team in Rochester, N.Y., in 2010; the U16 team in St. Cloud, Minn., in 2009 and 2010; and the U17 team in Lake Placid, N.Y., in 2007. She also served as an evaluator at USA Hockey's Pacific District tryouts in Seattle, Wash., from 2007 through 2009.
"I feel honored and grateful to Yale and UK [Flygh] for giving me this opportunity," Koizumi said. "I look forward to beginning my career in coaching, where I am able to contribute to the sport that has treated me so generously. I cannot thank my former coaches enough for preparing me beyond the athletic realm with their invaluable guidance and support. I am anxious to begin working with UK, as he has been one of my most prominent mentors ever since he began coaching me at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. The future for Yale women's hockey looks promising and I couldn't be more thrilled to be a part of it."
Koizumi, a forward, finished her career ranked No. 7 on the UMD career scoring list with 155 points (84-71-155) and was a team captain for two years. As a senior in 2006-07 she led the Bulldogs to the NCAA Women's Frozen Four championship game after coming back from a torn MCL midway through the season. She scored two goals, including the game-winner, in a double-overtime victory over Boston College in the national semifinal game and was named to the Frozen Four All-Tournament Team. She was also a third team All-WCHA selection that year, and was named to the WCHA All-Rookie Team as a freshman.
Koizumi finished in the top three in points on her team every year (second with 40 points (22-18) as a senior, first with 43 points (17-26) as a junior, third with 41 points (24-17) as a sophomore, third with 31 points (21-10) as a freshman).
A standout in the classroom as well as on the ice, Koizumi was a four-time WCHA All-Academic Team selection and a two-time WCHA Scholar-Athlete. She graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in psychology and a minor in coaching in 2007. She was a tutor for the Athletic Department from 2005 through 2007. She completed her master's degree in education in 2009.
Koizumi supplemented her experience of playing for Shannon Miller (fifth in the NCAA among active coaches with 291 career wins) at UMD by also serving as a graduate assistant coach for her alma mater in the fall semester of 2007. Additionally, she completed a coaching practicum with the Denfeld varsity high school boys' team in Duluth in 2007.
Koizumi spent last season as an assistant coach for the White Team at the North American Hockey Academy. She also played part-time for Montreal Stars in the Central Women's Hockey League, helping the team to the CWHL regular season title. She had 11 goals and 11 assists in just 17 games. This season she will play part-time for the new Boston team in the CWHL.
Koizumi also played two seasons for the Minnesota Whitecaps of the Western Women's Hockey League. In 2008-09 she ranked second on the team with 17 points (11-6-17) and led the team to the WWHL championship. That same year she also served as head junior varsity coach and assistant varsity coach for the Totino Grace high school girls' program in Fridley, Minn.
Koizumi founded the Tsunami Performance Zone Hockey Camp in 2005 and is the head instructor there. She also served as an instructor at Canadian Hockey Enterprises Hockey School in Michigan earlier this year, and at OS Hockey in Minnesota in 2009. She was the head instructor for power skating and dry-land clinics in Huntington Beach, Calif., from 2003 through 2006.
Koizumi, who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, is a 2003 graduate of Marina High School (Calif.). She played for the Cal Selects Hockey Club from 1999-2003, and was named the 2002-03 Cal Selects Player of the Year.
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Stem cells used to repair damaged eyes in world-first trial
A medical breakthrough by Australian scientists has shown how sheets of stem cells grown on contact lenses can repair damaged eyes.
The treatment transfers minuscule strips of adult stem cells from specifically designed contact lenses onto the eye, to help rebuild the surface of the cornea.
The world-first research could pave the way for an effective treatment for painful caustic or thermal burns, or severe inflammation of the surface of the eye.
Centre for Eye Research Australia researcher Karl David Brown said it was the first time they had proved cells had transferred from the contact lens to the eye to rebuild the surface.
During the trial, limbal stem cells, which function naturally to repair the eye, were taken from the edge of the cornea. Sheets containing hundreds of thousands of cells were grown on contact lenses.
They were inserted in the eye and left for four days. During this time the cells transferred from the lens to the wounded eye.
There are already experimental treatments using human amnion, a membrane that surrounds an embryo, but sourcing the donor tissue after a baby is born and ensuring it is of sufficient quality is difficult.
Brown said the benefit of this new technique was that the cells could be harvested from the patient's own eyes or, if they are too damaged, from donor tissue. Small human trials of the technique are about to start.
"I'm cautiously optimistic that the human trials will yield positive results," Brown said.


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If you're hunting for a new high-definition TV set, "plasma vs. LED" is only part of the equation. You'll also need to study the various features and specifications that today's HDTV sets offer. When you're ready to look at some specific models, keep the following shopping tips in mind.
Select the right size for your setup: Be sure to choose an HDTV that is the right size for your needs. If it's too small, you may find yourself shopping again in a year or two and moving this set to some other room where you can sit closer to it. On the other hand, if the set's too big for your room, standard-definition programs will look like a mess, and you may see lines of resolution if you sit too close. Also consider the seating arrangement in your living room: The further your couch or armchair is from the set, the bigger the HDTV you'll need. If you need a wide viewing angle, you may be best served by a plasma HDTV.
Even if you don't need 3D, a 3D set has benefits: 3D TV hasn't been a blockbuster success, as there's a serious lack of compelling 3D content. However, most HDTVs these days are 3D-ready. Even if you don't plan on watching 3D content, you may want to invest in a 3D LED set if you like to watch sports or fast action in 2D: These sets normally have high refresh rates of 240Hz or 120Hz, which means that on-screen motion should look very smooth.
Look at the black: All else being equal, pick the set that has the best blacks if you want to get the best picture quality. This is the key to getting good colors and great contrast. In general, plasma sets have deeper black levels than edge-lit LED sets. Full-array (backlit) LED sets with local-dimming technology and OLED sets also have deep blacks, but those types of HDTVs are very expensive compared to a plasma, especially at large screen sizes.
Test the set if you can: If the store will let you, bring a Blu-ray or DVD disc to test the set you think is the best. You can buy one of several test discs that will run the HDTV through a video obstacle course to help identify the set's strengths and weaknesses. Alternatively, bring in a movie that has plenty of dark scenes. The disc you use should be a live-action movie; avoid computer-animated movies, as they are "too perfect" and won't show you the subtleties found in live-action movies. Look closely for problems with scaling standard-definition content from a regular DVD, as a lot of movies and television programs still aren't in high definition. Check out the HDTV's configuration settings, and see how easy it is to fine-tune the set (and how easy it is to reset the HDTV to its factory defaults). You may also want to test the set's "Cinema" mode, which is usually the best preconfigured setting for watching movies.
Don't overspend on Internet features: Built-in Internet-connected features are great, but you shouldn't pay a premium for them. You can always add them later, and usually for much less money. Many of the same channels and apps are accessible with an Internet-connected Blu-ray player or a media streamer such as Roku. Unless you're really interested in the manufacturer-exclusive features, a custom remote control, or the ability to stream media without visiting the set's "Auxilary" menu, you can get the same experience by buying a cheaper set and getting a media streamer.
Get enough connections: Three or four HDMI connections is about the minimum these days. That's enough to handle a set-top box, a Blu-ray player, a computer or gaming console, and a network device. Make sure that you have plenty of connections for your future needs.
Don't overspend on cables: Resist buying everything at the store, because you're likely to spend more than you need to. In our testing, we found that a $12 cable off the Internet will often perform just as well as a $120 cable from the store. Save your money to pay for a Blu-ray player or to upgrade your television service to get more HD content.
Watch out for long-term annoyances: You will probably spend a lot of time with this television, so don't be swept away on the first date. While you can find third-party alternatives that will help make up for many possible shortcomings, it's better to get what you want from the start. For example, is the remote control easy to read and to use? Does it have lighted buttons? Will it also control your other devices, like a DVD player? Will you really be using price-inflating features such as gesture control, voice control, and a built-in Web browser? What about the set's sound quality? Is it good enough for your tastes, or will you need to add a home theater surround-sound system to bring the audio up to snuff? Will it be easy to connect the cables if you mount the set on the wall, and how will you hide them (or at least make them somewhat neat and tidy)? Little things can mean a lot in the long run.
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Clarkson University Student Renewable Energy Teams Win Awards in Korea
Two Clarkson University renewable energy design student teams, which were invited to present their research at the 2013 International Capstone Design Contest on Renewable Energy (CORE) Technology in Mokpo, Korea, have returned with awards.
The Clarkson team representatives, Bradley E. Borquist and Daniel H. Hilderbrandt, were flown to Korea by the competition organizer.
Borquist, a mechanical engineering senior from Rhinebeck, N.Y., has a team that investigated the feasibility of using wind energy to directly heat water, rather than generate electricity, for use in home space and hot water heating requirements. Their solution to this problem was to utilize wind power from a vertical axis wind turbine to directly drive a thermal churn system. A viable prototype using a spinning disk concept was built and ideas for utilizing the design for full-scale home were presented.
Hilderbrandt, a civil engineering grad student from Hilton, N.Y., presented research about a sustainable solution for small dairy farms in the Northern New York. The project consisted of the design, building, operation and performance assessment of a small-scale anaerobic digester converting farm waste into a useful energy source. The innovative design can help create a renewable energy source, along with reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
Borquist took the Gold Award, while Hilderbrandt won in the Special Overall Award category. The students received certificates and prizes of a digital SLR camera and an iPad.
Borquist and Hilderbrandt were advised by Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering Professor Ken Visser and Civil & Environmental Engineering Professor Stefan J. Grimberg, respectively, the former of whom accompanied the students to Korea.
"The graciousness of the hosts extended over several days, including tours of Hyundai Heavy Industries and cultural and historical locales," said Visser. "The evenings included social time with all the students and wonderful Korean cuisine and hospitality."
The CORE competition, held in January, was organized by the Leaders in Industry-University Cooperation Program (LINC) at Mokpo National University. A total of 75 teams participated, with only 15 international teams.
The objective of CORE is to provide students with an opportunity to exchange state-of the art energy information, strengthen the social networks and display innovative ideas, research results and practical experiences in renewable energy technology field. The competition encompasses areas such as biofuels, biomass, geothermal, hydroelectricity, solar energy, tidal power, ocean energy, and wind power
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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Photo caption: Two Clarkson University renewable energy design student teams were invited to present their research at the 2013 International Capstone Design Contest on Renewable Energy Technology in Mokpo, Korea. Team representatives Bradley Borquist (left) and Daniel Hilderbrandt recently returned with awards.


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Days after preliminary election numbers handed his opponent a decisive win, Beaufort County Council candidate Dan Duryea won't yet give comment or say if he plans to contest former developer Cynthia Bensch's registration in the Bluffton district she won.
He cites the as-yet unofficial status of the results, which were scheduled for certification Friday but weren't considered final on the S.C. Election Commission's website as of Friday evening.
Scott Marshall, executive director of the Beaufort County Board of Elections, could not be reached for explanation.
Bensch, the official Republican Party candidate, defeated Duryea, a petition candidate who also identifies as a Republican, by a margin of 73 percent to 26 percent, though about 38 percent of her support came from residents electing a straight Republican ticket. The redrawn District 7 that they fought to represent runs west of Buck Island Road to S.C. 170 between S.C. 46 and U.S. 278, with the exception of the Rose Hill community north of U.S. 278.
Bensch came under fire during the campaign for leaving out information on candidate questionnaires from local newspapers. She omitted two failed County Council bids from the 1990s for the Island Packet and returned her own questionnaire to Bluffton Today in place of the one delivered to both candidates.
At an open forum the week before the Nov. 6 election, an audience member questioned her true residency. The District 7 home where Bensch is registered is under her son and daughter-in-law, according to county records.
Bensch says her now-deceased father built a house on the lot owned by her son with her own money, and since his death she and her husband, Gary, have split time between an Eagle's Point home and the property at 29 Martingale West, which lacks the garage Gary uses at the rental in Eagle's Point to store equipment for his contracting business.
Bensch has not returned phone calls for comment since her Tuesday victory.
Protesting election results is typically reserved for irregularities and not candidate qualifications, Marshall said. The deadline to do so is noon on the Wednesday following certification.
But if Duryea challenged Bensch's voter qualifications on the basis of residency, the board of elections would hold a hearing within 10 days. There is no set deadline for this type of challenge. If the board sided with the challenger, who carries the burden of proof, the office would become vacant and a special election would be held.
"We're poised to handle whatever comes our way under the law," Marshall said.


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Marie Osmond: Showbusiness Isn't For Eternity, Marriage Is
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by Susan Easton Black and Mary Jane Woodger
May 11, 2011
Editor's note: This is an excerpt from "Women of Character: Profiles of 100 Prominent LDS Women," edited by Susan Easton Black and Mary Jane Woodger.
Singer Marie Osmond's faith does not come from her parents, she insists. "I am a member of my Mormon faith because I want to be." Her faith in God and his restored church is her anchor amid the storms that threaten her sense of peace. In 2010, after attending the funeral of a son who committed suicide, Osmond said, "Little did I know I would be relying on my faith, especially as much as I did this past week."
With faith in the eternal nature of life and a promise of a "forever family," Osmond, like so many times before, returned to the stage at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, where she was performing with her brother Donny. She told a standing-room-only crowd, "The way Osmonds survive is we keep singing, and that's what we want to do tonight."
The daughter of George and Olive Osmond, she was born Oct. 13, 1959, in Ogden, Utah, and she and her eight brothers were raised on Mormonism and show business. It was in show business that Osmond became a legend. At age 3, she debuted as part of her brothers' act on "The Andy Williams Show." With Marie seated on Williams' lap, Williams introduced her as "the youngest Osmond Brother."
Marie Osmond did her first show when she was 4, and she worked overseas at 6 and 7. Yet she laments that success cheated her "of a normal, happy childhood." For her, there was always one more performance.
"I had to sacrifice a lot. I grew up in a suitcase — I never did the things normal girls do." Her parents told her that "show business wouldn't be easy." She adds, "They were right."
"I didn't like show business at first," Osmond confesses. "I decided I wanted to be a secretary. I took shorthand and typing." But as her life unfolded, she realized, "I love crowds. It's nice to be in front of a television camera or to be in a studio and record."
Osmond made a name for herself at age 13 by recording "Paper Roses." The recording reached number one on the country hit charts. She was named the Best Female Country Vocal Performer and Best New Artist. She then booked her first concert performance at Madison Square Garden to a sold-out crowd. The title song of her next album, "Who's Sorry Now," climbed to number 20 a month after its release. "You know, in the recording business, it was all men; television was all men," Osmond said of the 1970s. But she knew then and now, "I'm one of the exceptions to the rule."
At age 14, Marie and Donny Osmond hosted the ABC television variety show "Donny & Marie." "I'm a little bit country," Marie announced at the beginning of each show. Donny answered, "I'm a little bit rock and roll." Together, the "toothy duo" performed comedy sketches and musical moments. By the time the show was canceled in 1979, Donny and Marie had endeared themselves to an international audience. They were celebrities and confronted with all the problems associated with fame.
Through it all, the duo maintained their Mormon standards. Marie Osmond turned down the lead role as Sandy in "Grease" due to the script's lack of moral content. She carefully selected which roles to take in television movies and serials, like "Ripley's Believe It or Not," and which children cartoon voice-overs met her criteria. In 1985, Osmond's and Dan Seals's duet "Meet Me in Montana" was named the number one country hit of the year. In 1986, Osmond and Paul Davis sang "You're Still New to Me," which also reached number one in the country hits.
Since then, Osmond has been in great demand for television performances, Broadway musicals, films, concert tours and authoring.
She is president and CEO of Marie Osmond Collector Dolls. In 1991, her first sculpture, a toddler doll named "Olive May" after her mother, set a collectible record on QVC. She is also co-founder of the Children's Miracle Network, a project that has raised in excess of $3.4 billion since 1983 for children's hospitals throughout the United States and Canada.
But domestic life has been a challenging road for the showgirl who said, "Showbiz isn't for eternity. Marriage is." She has been married and divorced twice. Last week, she remarried her first husband, Stephen Craig. She is the mother of eight children — five adopted — from these marriages. One biographer wrote, "So joyfully has Marie taken to adoptive motherhood that she insists she doesn't know which child is of her flesh." As to eternal marriage, she insists, "I have had many good examples of what marriage can be, and I see all the happiness in my parents' lives, in my brothers' lives, and I want the same. There are scars, however, and you just need to work through them and get on with life and learn to trust again."
In 1999, Osmond revealed that she suffered from severe postpartum depression. She co-authored the book "Behind the Smile" that chronicles her experience with depression. "I guess God never gives us anything we can't handle," she writes, "and through all of it, I keep saying there's got to be a reason you go though it. ... When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong, and you finally see the truth that a hero lies in you."
Since the book's release, Osmond has starred in an exercise video, published a beauty book and designed a line of clothing. In 2006, she launched a machine-embroidery line with Bernina and promoted the Nutri-system brand of weight loss. In August 2007, she danced on ABC network's "Dancing with the Stars." She joked, "There are worse habits I could take up going through a midlife crisis."
What's next? For this legend in the entertainment industry, happiness is the hope. She and her family were recognized as one of the most prolific entertainment families in the world when a star was placed in their honor on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At that time, the Osmonds had 47 gold and platinum records and had sold more than 100 million records worldwide. Yet Marie hopes for something more. Amid her ups and downs, she believes that her faith in God will bring her the happiness that she desires.
Sources: Fred Robbins, "Marie Osmond: Doing What I Want Now," "McCalls," July 1988, page 14; Oskar Garcia, "Marie Osmond: My Mormon Faith Got Me Through Son's Death," The Huffington Post, May 12, 2010; "Marie Osmond: about my family that TV didn't tell," Star, May 4, 1982; Larry King Live: Marie Osmond Discusses Her Battle with Depression and Her Work with Children, May 30, 2000 (viewed July 2, 2010). "Marie Osmond Biography," (viewed July 2, 2010).
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I learned how to crochet from my grandmother when I was a little girl and I love it. Grandma crocheted edgings on hankies, so she taught me how to crochet with thread first! I made Barbie clothes. No patterns, grandma never had patterns, so I made my own designs. Then it was on to yarn and my first ripple afghan. I taught myself how to read patterns, and when I lived in Japan I taught myself how to read symbols.


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UPDATE: Rafael Nadal clobbered Andy Roddick in three easy sets at the US Open this afternoon, bouncing the last American from the tournament.
EARLIER: Ouch. 6-2 Nadal takes the opening set of this men's quarterfinal match.
Roddick is the last remaining American after John Isner fell to Andy Murray in four sets today.
But his hopes of reaching the semis are looking bleak here.
UPDATE 5:40 p.m.:
Nadal just won the second set 6-1. Roddick looks uncomfortable out there — the announcers are saying he's nursing some sort of injury.


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Fisher, Roy, Iredale, Alison, Ollin, Ros and Robinson, Denise (2015) Evaluation and quality assurance. In: Teaching in lifelong learning : a guide to theory and practice. Open University Press. ISBN 9780335263325
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Iredale, Alison, Orr, Kevin, Bailey, Wayne and Wormald, Jane (2013) Confidence, risk, and the journey into praxis: work-based learning and teacher development. Journal of Education for Teaching, 39 (2). pp. 197-208. ISSN 0260-7476
Iredale, Alison (2012) Risk-taking in thought and in deed: towards a new conception of the development of professional knowledge and practice. In: The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity: Reconciling 'The Three narratives' Art, Science, and Philosophy, July 2 – 6, 2012, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. (Unpublished)
Iredale, Alison (2012) Down the rabbit-hole: Routinised Practices, Dewey and Teacher Training in the Lifelong Learning Sector. Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2 (1). pp. 54-62. ISSN 2042-3896
Iredale, Alison and Munro, Sonia (2012) tradition, innovation and the joint endeavour in cross cultural teacher development. In: Internationalising Higher Education: Going Global 2012, 13th - 15th March 2012, The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre Broad Sanctuary Westminster London SW1P 3EE.
Iredale, Alison and Mycroft, Louise (2012) Using and resisting Facebook for back channel discussions: two experiences, two views. In: Teacher Training and Technologies Conference 2012, 3rd February 2012, University of Huddersfield.
Iredale, Alison (2011) Pursuing excellence: risk, safety and practical wisdom for trainee teachers in the lifelong learning sect. In: 2011 International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET) World Assembly, July 11-14 2011, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. (Unpublished)
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Iredale, Alison (2011) Towards fairer university assessment: recognizing the concerns of students. ESCalate.
Iredale, Alison (2010) Trainee teachers' constructions of their learners' identities and participation in the post-compulsory education and training (PCET) sector in the UK. In: Promoting Equity in Higher Education, 27 - 28 January 2010, Eastwood Hall Nottingham, UK. (Unpublished)
Iredale, Alison and Schoch, Judith (2010) Coaching. In: Teaching in Lifelong Learning. Open University Press, Milton Keynes, pp. 206-212. ISBN 9780335234684
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Iredale, Alison (2008) Connecting inclusive learner participation within culturally responsive teaching in Higher Education. In: The teaching research interface: Implications for practice in HE and FE. ESCalate, Bristol, pp. 36-44.
Iredale, Alison (2006) Successful learning or failing premise? A situated evaluation of a virtual learning environment. In: The next generation. Research Proceedings of the 13th Association for Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2006). Association for Learning Technology, Oxford, pp. 1-10. ISBN 0-9545870-5-7
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