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The Konrad decision and the American reaction
The recent Konrad decision by the European Court of Human Rights has caused a printed brouhaha among American organizations who support Christian homeschooling. In some quarters, the decision is being used to frame the plight of the German homeschooling families as an American problem in that American judges will start using European rulings to decide American cases. This 'it's all about me' drama queen point of view takes the focus away from understanding the cultural differences between some, but not all, homeschooling families in Germany, and the indigenous German culture, laws and bureaucracy.
I hope, by presenting this information, to demonstrate that the situation in Germany concerning homeschooling is not just a match-made-in-hell combination of those wicked Nazis being supported by socialist judges. The situation is complex, has deep roots, and may have a strong cultural connection.
So you'll know when you're getting near the end, the sections in this essay are:
- German culture
- Whose Christianity?
- The danger of international law?
- Context
- We said, they said (American articles and German articles)
- Conclusion
German culture
Germans take pride in their country's connection to education, science and culture. Examples are the Pestalozzi-Froebel Haus in Berlin, streets named after scientists (Fraunhofer was a physicist), and the number of museums around the country. Kindergarten (invented by Froebel) is German for children's garden.
The compulsory school culture in Germany is also important. It has a history that goes back much farther than Adolph Hitler making compulsory attendance laws.
Schulpflicht (Compulsory schooling [translation by Google])
Gesetzliche Bestimmungen zur Schulpflicht wurden zuerst im seinerzeitigen Norddeutschland im 18. Jahrhundert erlassen, z.B. durch die Principia regulativa des Koenigs Friedrich Wilhelm I., (1717), fuer ganz Preussen durch das Generallandschulreglement Friedrichs des Grossen von 1763 bestaetigt.
Legal regulations for compulsory schooling were first issued in the 18th century in Northern Germany, e.g. by the Principia regulation of King Friedrich Wilhelm I., (1717), for all of Prussia through the general regional school regulation as confirmed by Friedrich of the Great of in 1763.
Because of the state-funding of much of the education from primary schools (but not Kindergartens) up to and through vocational schools and universities, the paths of students are determined by testing, not by the ability to pay. Because the testing is the sole means of entry into higher level schools, if you don't have a test, you don't make progress. If you're not in school, you can't take a test. (although I was told of one recent exception to this, so slow change may have started) This school to work model is the one that some Americans object to, but it seems to work within the German context. The cultural back-story to that model might be the older guild system.
For everyday Germans the initial perception might be 'homeschooling = no training' because the children are outside both the vocational and academic educational paths. This reaction is not surprising as even on an American blog a recent article about unschooling evoked that kind of comment, "So when they grow up and start demanding social programs because they aren't prepared for adulthood… I can hardly wait."
Another aspect of why there may be strong resistance to homeschooling, if homeschooling is seen as something that wants to be outside the cultural norm, is the turmoil that has riven Europe, and the lands that would become Germany, for a very long time.
- 1405 Appenzell War, 1444 Old Zurich War, 1499 Swabian War (Liechtenstein history)
- 1504 Landshut War of Succession
- 1554 Peace of Augsburg
- 1546 The Schmalkaldic War
- 1618-1648 Thirty Years' War
- 1704 Battle of Blenheim
- 1778 War of Bavarian Succession (Potato War)
- 1803 Napoleonic Wars
- 1914 The Great War (World War I)
- 1939 World War II
After all that turmoil, the Baader-Meinhof years in the 1960s and 1970s must be considered. Terror in general continued with the urban terrorism of the Red Army Faction which was connected with other terror organizations in Europe and the Middle East. The current growth of Islamism in Europe may be further cause for unease in the wake of continued terrorism such as the Madrid and London bombings. The call for the observation of Islamic Sharia law in the U.K. points to the development of 'parallel societies.'
A seeming result of this history — with wars being fought in your town, not across an ocean — is that Germans, in particular, revere orderliness. The catchphrase is, "Ordnung muss sein" — "There must be order." American immigrants find it difficult to keep up with Germans in terms of orderly housekeeping and cooking. Saturday window-washing and sweeping of sidewalks are well-established rituals.
In his 2006 book, The Culture Code, Clotaire Rapaille says, "Without knowing it, Lego [in reference to marketing] had tapped into the Culture Code for Germany itself: ORDER. [all caps in original] Over many generations, Germans perfected bureaucracy in an effort to stave off the chaos that came to them in wave after wave, and Germans are imprinted early on with this most powerful of codes. The imprint makes children reach dutifully for the instructions, and that Code prevents them from immediately destroying their neat construction in order to build it anew. Lego's elegant, full-color instructions had tapped into the German Code in a way that assured repeat sales."
An interesting aspect of the conflict brought about by homeschooling in Germany is that all of the reported problems are from the western part of Germany, which has remained Christian in outlook. The formerly-Communist eastern part apparently doesn't have an interest (yet?) in homeschooling.
Whose Christianity?
General culture aside, a problem in the Konrad decision, is that the parents want to homeschool to instill 'Christian' values, something that may puzzle some Germans. For homeschooling families in Germany, it seems to be spitting into the wind to say that they want to homeschool their children for Christian reasons in the former Holy Roman Empire, the land of Luther and the Reformation, and a country where the highest mountain has a gold cross on it.
European Court of Human Rights, Fritz Konrad and others against Germany
They educated their children at home in accordance with the syllabus and materials of the "Philadelphia School", an institution based in Siegen which is not recognised as a private school by the State. That institution specialises in assisting devout Christian parents in educating their children at home. …
The amended 1983 school regulation for the state in which the family lives, Baden Wurttemberg, states:
Schulgesetz fuer Baden-Wuerttemberg (SchG) in der Fassung vom 1. August 1983 [note: item no longer at site]
(PDF page 2) … in Verantwortung vor Gott, im Geiste christlicher Naechstenliebe, zur Menschlichkeit und Friedensliebe, in der Liebe zu Volk und Heimat, …
… within responsibility before God, in the spirit of Christian charity, humanity and love of peace, in the love for the People and homeland, …
Baden-Wurttemberg has a long Christian history, as evidenced by the 500-year anniversary of the Catholic congregation in the town I used to live in.
This small section points up the discrepancy by what is meant as a Christian education. For better understanding all around, using denominational concerns rather than some kind of universal Christianity might be helpful, in addition to the founder of a Christian distance-learning school refraining from threatening the country with being overtaken by Baptist children. (see German article below: SCHOOL BOYCOTT — Pulling no punches with the truants)
The U.S. State Department website has the following information concerning the religious makeup of Germany.
Germany: International Religious Freedom Report 2006
The Roman Catholic Church had a membership of approximately 26.2 million. The Evangelical Church, a confederation of the Lutheran, Uniate, and Reformed Protestant churches, had approximately 25.8 million members. Together, these two churches accounted for nearly two-thirds of the population.
Another wrinkle is to take into account the early German Protestant reaction to Pentecostalism. Apparently the traditional church hierarchy considered practices such as 'speaking in tongues' to be Satanic heresy, not inspirational. An interesting history is provided by "Dominik" on his journey:
Dominik's Journey blog, The Berlin Declaration
One unique feature of the German churches is that "about two thirds of the population (in western Germany more, in eastern Germany less) have [continued to maintain] formal memberships in one of these two [state, i.e. Catholic and Lutheran] churches [called Landeskirchen]".[4] Despite controversies within the Lutheran church[5], a common desire to bring renewal from within remained. For the longest time, even the newly emerging Pentecostal movement in the beginning of the 20th century regarded itself as a movement within the Lutheran state church, and not as a separate denomination.[6]
The origins of German Pentecostalism can be directly linked to the Holiness movement in the 19th century. Initially, a resurgence of Pietism within the German Lutheran churches[10] developed, especially in south-western Baden-Württemberg.
The entire debate over speaking in tongues, unheard of manifestations, and possible demonic influences grew over a two year period and finally reached its climax in 1909 with the Berlin Declaration, which also marked the split of the newly emerging Pentecostal movement from the Gnadauer Verband.
The danger of international law?
It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that memes travel from one country to another, and judges are people whom one would expect to be informed about international news. Still, the emphasis in helping homeschooling families in Germany find how to fit homeschooling into German culture should be on practical ways to do this, not in feathering American nests with jurisprudential 'what ifs.' Lifesite: "The Home School Legal Defense Association's (HSLDA) Chairman and General Counsel, Michael Farris, warns that even though the U.S. has never ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the convention may still be binding on citizens because of activist judges."
A more useful approach to promoting understanding between homeschooling parents in Germany and German authorities might be to take into consideration the German culture and how homeschooling can fit into it. In The Culture Code, Mr. Rapaille observes, "When one seeks to bring something new to a culture, one must adapt the idea to the culture. It doesn't work the other way." If homeschooling parents in Germany could do that, then there should be a decrease in the number of homeschooling cases before the Human Rights court, and a decrease in the number and type of memes available to American jurists.
Evaluation and Research in Education, Volume 17, No. 2 & 3, 2003, Home Education: A Human Right?
Consequently home education and the conflicting responses to it represent a key site for exploring the meanings of democracy and the purpose of education.
Calling up the German embassy to tell them their schooling laws are wrong is as culturally useful as telling Germans that their local McDonald's restaurant shouldn't sell beer.
The reading of legal decisions such as Konrad is dependent on point of view. A nutshell example for American readers might be the Second Amendment discussion in the United States: what constitutes the "militia?"
To read the Konrad decision in a European context, a list member of the HSWatch email discussion group has recommended reading the linked cases that follow. The essay above ("Home Education: A Human Right?") is useful, too.
The links for the cases are to synopses for a quick overview of what each one was about. The full texts can be searched for at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) site Links to the ECHR site time out, so new searches must be done each time.
Kjeldsen (1976; sex education in Denmark)
53. It follows in the first place from the preceding paragraph that the setting and planning of the curriculum fall in principle within the competence of the Contracting States. This mainly involves questions of expediency on which it is not for the Court to rule and whose solution may legitimately vary according to the country and the era. In particular, the second sentence of Article 2 of the Protocol (P1-2) does not prevent States from imparting through teaching or education information or knowledge of a directly or indirectly religious or philosophical kind. It does not even permit parents to object to the integration of such teaching or education in the school curriculum, for otherwise all institutionalised teaching would run the risk of proving impracticable. In fact, it seems very difficult for many subjects taught at school not to have, to a greater or lesser extent, some philosophical complexion or implications. The same is true of religious affinities if one remembers the existence of religions forming a very broad dogmatic and moral entity which has or may have answers to every question of a philosophical, cosmological or moral nature.
In Kjeldsen, there is a single dissenting opinion from Judge A. Verdross:
I am in agreement with the Danish Government's starting point, which is upheld in the judgment, namely that no provision in the Convention prevents the Contracting States from integrating in their school systems instruction on sexual matters and from thereby making such instruction in principle compulsory. The second sentence of Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 (P1-2) thus does not prevent the States from disseminating in State schools, by means of the teaching given, objective information of a religious or philosophical character. However, this freedom enjoyed by the States is limited by the second sentence of Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 (P1-2) according to which parents may require that their religious and philosophical convictions be respected in this teaching.
Campbell and Cosens (1982, UK/Scotland, corporal punishment)
… [parental convictions] must not conflict with the fundamental right of the child to education, …
Not quoted in Konrad, but also of interest is Leuffen v. Germany. Part of the court's opinion about Leuffen was, "The Commission notes that the first sentence of Article 2 of Protocol No 1 (P1-2) enshrines the fundamental right of the child to education. This right by its very nature calls for regulation by the State, regulation which may vary in time and place according to the needs and resources of the community and of individuals." The application was ruled inadmissible.
We said, they said
The first collection of articles that follow are from American sources. The second set are German. It is evident that the American sites reporting about the homeschooling situation in Germany have a different focus than those reporting in Germany. The emphasis that the American organizations use seems to be cultural bias, cultural ignorance or a specific way to characterize the situation to cause Americans to see the situation as dangerous to them.
Lifesite, Niagara Falls, New York, 15 September 2006, Germany Uses Nazi Era Law to Imprison Mom for Homeschooling; Family Flees to Austria
The sudden arrest of Katherina Plett has also evoked a growing realization that the ghosts of Nazi Germany have resurged, as German authorities have cracked down on homeschooling families (mostly Christian), who have no intention of letting the German schools indoctrinate their children with anti-Christian values.
Lifesite, Niagara Falls, New York, 27 September 2006, European Human Rights Court Rules State May Deny Parents Right to Home School Their Children
Authorities have dealt with resistance to Hitler's ban on homeschooling imposed on Germany in 1938 in a manner more consistent with Nazi Germany as families face imprisonment, heavy fines, the state seizure of their children, or are forced to seek asylum for their convictions in neighboring countries.
WDC Media News, Los Angeles, California, 4 October 2006, HomeSchooling Families Under the Governments Thumb in Deutschland (sic)
A U.S.-based home-school group says home-schooling families in Germany are facing increasing persecution from their government and need help from concerned Americans. …
Both the German court and the human rights panel rejected the parents' argument that compulsory school attendance endangered their children's religious upbringing and promotes teaching inconsistent with the family's Christian faith. Of particular concern to the parents was the secular content of the sex education material their children would be exposed to under the state's program.
The U.S.-based Home School Legal Defense Association says almost 40 home-schooling families in Germany are involved in such legal battles. According to WorldNetDaily, the group is calling on people to contact the German embassy in Washington to protest such laws, which they say began when Adolf Hitler was in power.
Baptist Press News, Nashville, Tennessee, 4 October 2006, Germany persecutes homeschooling parents
One of the first acts Adolph Hitler initiated when he gained power in Germany was to create a Ministry of Education that would control all schools, Practical Homeschooling Magazine said, and even today German officials are enforcing an anti-homeschooling law.
Christian News Wire, Washington, D.C., 11 October 2006, Carlson Blasts European Decision on Home-Schooling (also at: World Congress of Families, Rockford, Illinois, 11 October 2006, Carlson blasts European decision on homeschooling )
World Congress of Families President Dr. Allan Carlson said he was appalled by the decision of the European Human Rights Court in Strasburg which upheld a German ban on home-schooling.
"The ban was instituted by the Nazis and it's a device worthy of the Nazis," Carlson declared. "The European Convention on Human Rights notwithstanding, the court specifically held that parents do not have a right to direct their children's education."
The case concerned German Christian families who objected to life-style indoctrination in public schools, in the guise of sex education.
Notes for German articles:
- Der Spiegel is a news magazine, not a catalog; the name means 'mirror.'
- The Philadelphia Bewegung (Philadelphia Movement) is a German Pentecostal movement. Pentecostalism was imported into Germany in the early 1900s and was formally opposed as satanic by the German Protestant church in 1909 in the Berliner Erklaerung because, in part, of the 'unorderly' speaking in tongues which appeared to be demonic possession rather than inspired speaking (Berlin Declaration [translation by Google]). This was during the time of Kaiser Wilhelm (a grandson of England's Queen Victoria) not Adolf Hitler. Also, the Weimar Republic fell between the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm and the election of Hitler.
- Pfingsten is Pentecost.
- In the references I've seen, Evangelische (ending in 'e') and Evangelish (no final 'e') are not the same thing. Evangelische roughly means Protestant in Germany, which translates in the U.S. to a variety of Lutheran (Luther = protester = Protestant). In some references, Evangelisch corresponds to the American use of 'evangelical.'
- The Konrad family is in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg.
- The Philadelphia Schule is in Siegen, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- The Russian Baptists are in the city of Paderborn, also in North Rhine-Westphalia.
- The Twelve Tribes group in Germany are in the town of Deiningen in Bavaria, a southern state. The group lives in a historic monastery with a long local history.
- Schulunterricht zu Hause is another German homeschooling support group. It is located in Dreieich in the state of Hesse.
- weird computer translations: "nut/mother" for "mutter" (mother) is because "mutter" is also a hardware term for a nut that goes onto a bolt; "sparkling wine" for "sekt" (sect) because in German the words for sect and sparkling wine are homonyms; "twelve trunks" for "Zwoelf Staemme," instead of "Twelve Tribes (a California export);" "it" for "she," "her," "it," "they," and "them" (in German, sie and Sie), and "it's" for "its," "his," "her," … just because?
- Use the LEO dictionary for untranslated words
- [2008 note after WordPress update that mangled much of the coding] Letters with umlauts — those two dots over a, o or u — in this post, are now spelled with the ae, oe, or ue variant because the latest WordPress updae didn't like umlauts and changed them to "ü."
Welt am Sonntag (World on Sunday), Berlin, Germany, 31 December 2000, Die Schule Gottes (God's School [translation by Google])
Even more drastically, Helmut Stuecher, 65, expresses himself. The tax accountant from Siegen founded the Philadelphia School years ago specifically as a Christian homeschool movement, one that the Barath family also followed. "The school robbed the children," stated Stuecher. "God, prayer and the Bible are abolished." …
The teaching material was purchased by mother Susanne Barath from a Christian publishing house in Austria, she learned of the instruction from a weekend seminar by the Philadelphia Movement.
Other articles from Welt are:
- 30 August 2006, Schulverweigerer sind offenbar in Oesterreich (School truants are apparently in Austria [translated])
- 31 August 2006, Flucht: Schulverweigerer melden sich ab – Sorgerechtsverfahren laueft weiter (Flight: School truants give notice of departure — Custody procedure continues [translated])
- 1 September 2006, Schulverweigerer fuehlen sich als Christen verfolgt (School truants feel themselves pursued as Christians [translated])
- 1 September 2006, Schulboykotteure moeglicherweise bald wieder unterwegs (School truants possibly continue their journey)
The following articles are from Spiegel Online, Hamburg, Germany.
30 July 2004, Schulpflicht gilt auch fuer bibeltreue Christen (Compulsory schooling applies also to Biblically fundamentalist Christians — translation by Google)
Also the OLG [appellate court] Frankfurt classified the general compulsory schooling duty more highly than the freedom of conscience and faith of parents and followed the argumentation of the Giessen judges: One does not acquire a right to contradict scientific realizations because of religious convictions.
16 October 2004, Vaeter verweigern Erzwingungshaft (Fathers resist enforced detention [translation by Google] (account about Twelve Tribes)
22 April 2005, SCHULBOYKOTT Mit harten Bandagen gegen Verweigerer (SCHOOL BOYCOTT — Pulling no punches with the truants — translation by Google )
The little religion and school war in East Westfalia has another facet — the parents there are obviously not acting alone but are finding support from nation-wide organizations orienting themselves in turn towards "Home-Schooling" in other lands, particularly the USA. Because of this Manfred Mueller, district magistrate of Paderborn county asked that the parents separate themselves from "external advisors." Mueller announced that in the school controversy all legal remedies would be exhausted — the compulsory schooling is a state civic duty, it shall not be bargained or negotiated.
Announcement because of high treason
Mueller had already filed charges against Helmut Stuecher, the founder of the Philadelphia School, an unaccredited Christian homeschooling organization in Siegen. The grounds are rather unusual: the district magistrate accused Stuecher of treason and incitement of the people. In a letter to the authorities Stuecher wrote, among other things, that the Baptists have, "with their "zigtausend" [something-thousand; "zig" appears in no dictionaries] children, the potential to transform Germany overnight into an unconstitutional totalitarian state." Therefore, the Chief Federal Prosecutor in Karlsruhe must pay attention.
On the Internet, the Philadelpha School provides a set of rules about compulsory schooling simply and especially in conflict with East Westfalia. "Raise up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it," as it appears on the homepage.
Helmut Stuecher and his accomplices are strident: They are understandable only with difficulty. They use, in part, a mixture of Christian fundamentalism, references to homeschooling in other countries, crude historical comparisons, and Bible quotations to accuse the state of having a "socialistically changed and unchristian educational system", in addition to "brute force", "frivolous sex education", and over and over again, so-called parallels to the Nazi era ("We're having another persecution as we did 60 years ago").
Other Spiegel articles are:
- 9 October 2004, Sieben bibeltreue Vaeter muessen ins Gefaengnis (Seven Biblically fundamentalistic fathers must go to prison [translation by Google) Twelve Tribes
- 18 October 2004, Sieben Vaeter widerstandslos verhaftet (Seven fathers arrested without resistance [translation by Google]) Twelve Tribes
- 11 January 2005, Baptisten nehmen Kinder aus der Grundschule (Baptists take their children out of the elementary school [translation by Google])
- 8 February 2005, Schulboykotteure wollen eigene Schule gruenden (School boycotters want to establish their own school [translation by Google]) Russian Baptists
The following articles are in English from Deutsche Welle.
- 25 December 2004, Living Room Lessons Not Easy in Germany
- 7 September 2006, Anti-Americanism, Homeschooling and Happy Housewives (letters to the editor)
- 31 August 2006, Fundamentalist Christian Group Gets School of Their Own (Twelve Tribes)
- 6 September 2006, German Parents Wanting to Homeschool Turn to EU Court
After reading, as best as possible, this short history of homeschooling in Germany, it appears that:
homeschooling is still illegal, but not impossible
the American perception of why homeschooling is illegal is different from the German rationale
'Hitler didn't do it'
intemperate words have been used on both sides of the Atlantic
the cases presented so far to the European Court of Human Rights have not been adequate in establishing homeschooling as a right in Germany
the German public is becoming aware of homeschooling
the German homeschooling connection to fundamentalist Christianity is being strengthened
In further reporting about the homeschooling situation in Germany, I hope that reporters find someone who can read German and that the whole situation is presented, not just the sensational bits. I hope not to read online misperceptions on email lists and by bloggers such as 'Germans say homeschooling is high treason.' (according to the article, it was Herr Stuecher who was accused of high treason and inciting people to violence, not 'homeschooling')


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Leon McQuay Jr. @Quaydiddy2206
New drama L3 may not be able to announce at under armour game because of indecision of school choice.
Willie T seems like a hell of a recruiter at USF. He's a very charismatic guy.
It is better take your time and think things through than doing what Jordan Payton did.
I obsess over this stuff as much as the next guy, but there comes a point when you just feel that enough is enough, the kid can decide whenever he wants to decide. If he picks M, great. If not, then another kid who wants to be here will get the chance he would have had. And we don't need his father tweeting about the process.
By the time Treadwell dropped us I was just glad it was over.
You follow his dad? Shits getting weeeeeeird....
It was posted on GBW message board. Most of the services talk to his dad since L3 is pretty quiet about things.
And all these tweets get re-tweeted by Michigan sports people.
His dad sounds like a dick. Damn dude, let your kid decide where he wants to go to school without calling it "drama."
This dad is approaching Seantrel Henderson's dad status.
Lets just hope he's not approaching Cam Newton's dad status!!
IIRC, his dad got in a twitter argument vs Mike Farrell.
Now that, is just flat out funny.
An argument with Mike Farrell?
He might be our kind of guy after all.
I think you're reading way, way too much into this. First of all, just because he termed this new wrinkle 'drama,' that doesn't mean he's using it in a pejorative sense (i.e., 'my son's a drama queen.')
Regardless of interpretation though, it's hard to say someone's a dick based on one innocuous word in a tweet.
It could be quite counter-productive to call a recruit's father a "dick." I hope the thread gets deleted.
Maybe we should stop insulting McQuay's father, if we want McQuay to play for Michigan. I could be wrong, but it may not look good if his dad does end up reading this blog....or worse yet, a rival school who is also recruiting him, shows him what "the other schools" are saying about him and his dad.
That's a little harsh.
His dad has a Twitter...but you don't think there is any chance he reads blogs/message boards?
What an idiotic statement.
(wait for standard message board "hey Mr. McQuay...is that you?" comeback...)
I don't even follow my own dad.
His AA visit was 6 weeks ago - an eternity when Taggart, Kiffin and Franklin are angling for him with LA glory and hometown sales pitches.
Only hope the Outback presence helps our cause.
have ruined any help the bowl may have offered.
teenagers are fickle.
Maybe it's not about being fickle and about him taking his time to make a major decision. We all want kids to decide on our time table, but this is a huge choice for them. Let them take their time; we're still months away from signing day.
I'm in no rush for him to decide either. More so my point was there are certain kids you get a feeling are not going to decide until they have too. I'll wait and click on the one that says he has decided. This twitter stuff gets silly in my opinion.
For what it's worth, I didn't neg/down mod you. I think you were getting at the same thing that I was, anyways (i.e., that these kids have the right to take as long as they need and teenagers aren't the best at decision making to begin with). But I'm with you that a lot of this 24 hour recruiting news is at best silly, often irritating. It's clearly not for me, and I should try and stay away, too.
Is who is your avatar picture of?
at a totally new school, not one that's been on his list so far. Meaning it won't be Michigan or Vanderbilt or USC. It wouldn't shock me if Nick Satan lured him to Tuscaloosa with promises of a custom-built music production program with tricked-out studio equipment conveniently donated by a wealthy Alabama grad who's suddenly interested in music.
Nick Satan? You are better than that Don.
that people who troll hell message boards refer to Satan as Saban. So maybe Nick Satan makes him less vicious.
I guess it's better than Beezlebama...
Saban or Satan?
The English language.
You have sorely overestimated me. I only pretend that I'm 59—I'm actually 15.
I find it very odd that his dad is tweating out regarding his son's recruitment....someone really likes all the attention in a Honey Boo Boo kind of way.
the less interested I am. Yawhn, as stated below, wake me when it's over.
I will never be convinced that a recruitment that drags on is about "finding" the best school as much as it is a negotiation.
When parents start to get involved with the media, I thank my lucky stars that I don't have to follow recruiting for a living.
No one has to follow recruiting, and it would probably be much less stressful if 10 blogs for each school didn't want an interview just because a kid is offered. As interesting as recruiting is these people deserve privacy. Why not wait to praise and interview recruits until they make a commitment? Has anyone thought constant "go blues" and "we need you" and "why would you go to that school" etc. is annoying as hell? It's pathetic really. Let the coaches do their jobs. "We" are not on the staff, nor the team.
(This isn't directed at you necessarily, just putting it out there)
because they truly are searching for the right fit, but I agree that there does seem to be a growing trend of kids dragging things out in order to create a buzz, and more often than not those kids are not a good fit with Michigan which is why I have thought we would probably have a similar lack of success down the stretch with the few elites we are still in on (including Derek Green IMO).
Because people listen and respond.
Wake me up when it's over.
I really like to follow recruiting (I don't know why. Call it a compulsion), but sometimes certain players' situations turn into soap operas. That's when I tune out. Like you say "wake me up when it's over".
not as good as Iverson's mom refering to her son as AI.
If so, I'd like to follow them too.
Would be awesome. We could finally get to ask him about the goal line fumble in the '72 Gray Cup.
He insists that he was down and wishes, in retrospect, that they'd just gone for the rouge.
Not Gray Cup
Ive been living south of the border for too long
"Harlan Huckelby's dad tweets regarding his son's recruitment"
Rick Leach's Facebook status: "Love you Blue, LOL"
What are things I didn't experience while as a youthful M fan?
is considering Bama, Clemson and couple others for 2014.
Wonder if I could Tweet "no news" for the next 6 month and build a following ....
A little old, but . . .Sorry, should be up by Don's Saban/Satan post.

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Almost 80 inches of snow in December…so far. Almost all Tahoe resorts are open and the skiing is phenomenal. In fact, last Monday (12/7) was one of those rare days when the un-thinkable was sometimes uttered: "is this too deep?!" So Tahoe is doing what Tahoe does best – sucking in big, big storms that roll in and out of this incredibly beautiful lake basin. The last one brought 42" to the top of Squaw in 2.5 days and Granlibakken has one of those picture-perfect white blankets on everything.
And that includes the sledding hill which was absolutely ROCKIN' today! Parents and kids were out in full force to enjoy the best plastic schussing in all of Tahoe. The local Rotary Club and Granlibakken hosted a free sledding BBQ with hot dogs, ice cream, hot cocoa, cookies, hot cider and then we saw the fat man – yes, Santa rode in on a firetruck accompanied by the local high school jazz band. Hundreds of kids and parents gathered at the Ski Hut deck where we had a full concert going while Santa sat on a flatbed and asked the kids what they wanted for Christmas. The whole time there was that 'Snow-Globe-Snow' falling from occasionally sunny skies so it was a perfect opener to the season for Tahoe's coziest resort.
If you want to get in on The Perfection (!), then you should get up here. The midweek ski package is only $109/person for room, awesome breakfast at Granlibakken, and then a full day of skiing at Squaw, Northstar, Alpine Meadows, Sugar Bowl or Sierra-at-Tahoe. Ski packages are available for most of the season, prices vary during holidays/weekends so please call for more info.
You can also spend the holidays here. Granlibakken has a skiing Torchlight Parade with the second-hardest working man in showbiz – Santa Claus. There's also a Christmas Buffet dinner on the 25th. If you're booked for that one then get here for New Year's with dinner and a party plus champagne and dessert. Put it this way: things are happening up here. You can be as active or stationary as you please – the hot tubs are bubbling and the snow is here. See you soon!


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Evening News reporter and Monroe on a Budget blogger Paula Wethington will be a guest on My 98.3 FM at 7:40 a.m. Thursday to give budget-friendly tips on enjoying a day at the Monroe County Fair.
Ryan Nutter is hosting the morning show that day.
The topics will include which days are the "all you can ride" days on the midway, which day is dollar day on the midway, which days have discount admission for special people, why a fair attendee would want to visit the business booths at the expo center, and some tips on the parking and food situations.
An article on that theme will be part of The Monroe Evening News fair section on Thursday, and, also be posted on the blog Thursday morning.
Monroe on a Budget can be found at www.monroeonabudget.com and is on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MonroeOnABudget.
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Pitt looking to string together wins in season's final month
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Imagine the excitement Saturday night on the North Shore if Pitt can upset Notre Dame.
Many of the 60,000 fans at Heinz Field might celebrate all night, carrying the party into the morning.
Who knows what a victory against the Irish, ranked No. 23 in the BCS standings, would mean to the 60 or so college prospects who plan to attend the game as Pitt's guests?
Coach Paul Chryst and his staff would shake hands with each other, exhale a sigh of relief and immediately immerse themselves in the rest of the season.
But one victory — no matter the opponent — would be a shallow triumph for the Panthers (4-4) if it is followed by flat effort next Saturday against North Carolina.
Pitt has reduced significantly its margin for error after losing its past two games, and that's not merely because the team needs two victories in its final four games to become bowl eligible.
The Panthers (6-7 last year) must win three of their final four to show improvement in Chryst's second season — something more important than a bowl appearance.
Signature victory? Defensive coordinator Matt House scoffs at the notion.
"Every week is an opportunity to get a signature win," he said. "If you are truly trying to build a championship program and trying to preach consistency to the kids, then you can't have the ups and downs and saying this game is bigger than the next game. Every game's got to be a signature win."
Pitt has good news for the stretch run.
All five first-string offensive linemen will be together for the first time in a month, with senior left guard Cory King and left tackle Adam Bisnowaty returning from back injuries. With freshman running back James Conner recovered from a shoulder injury, the time has come for Pitt to restart its ground game.
The Panthers ran well against the Irish last season, but running back Ray Graham is gone after totaling 172 yards in that game. Conner and Isaac Bennett have hit triple digits four times this season but only once in the past five games, and that was Bennett's 240 yards against undermanned Old Dominion.
Chryst said he hopes to get the running game in motion.
"From what we've done recently, we haven't been real good running the football," he said.
"Hopefully we can get that squared away. We are a better team if we can do a better job of running the football."
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LONDON (AP) -- Two U.K. government officials say a brutal attack that left one man dead near a London military barracks appears to have been motivated by radical Islam.
Two men apparently attacked another man near a London barracks Wednesday. Police said he died and the other two were shot by police and taken to separate hospitals.
Two U.K. government officials who had been briefed said the attack seemed to have been ideologically motivated by radical Islam. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the ongoing investigation.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron said there are "strong indications" that the attack is related to terror.
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Last week, I shared an image of a store in Savannah that stopped me in my tracks. Something about that color caught my attention and made me want to paint something teal. I threw caution to the wind, grabbed my paint brush and started painting before I had time to talk myself out of it (you know how that goes) and I'm so happy I did it! I used Benjamin Moore, Bermuda Turquoise. I love how the foyer feel like it's own little room now and how the planking stands out. Oh, the power of paint.
This is the view from my favorite seat in the house. Funny how a color can make you happy.
I purchased the secretary a year and a half ago from a local antique store (The Antique Market) and it's a workhorse. It keeps all of our household paperwork organized and the drawers house my table linens and china (yes, my china). Best purchase I've ever made hands down! The green umbrella stand from ebay holds my new collection of bamboo walking sticks.
The chair, painting and federal mirror also came from the Antique Market. Can you tell I like antique shopping?!?
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Come downtown for Christmastime fun! Wonderful family activities including: sleigh rides, hot cocoa, window displays at local businesses and Christmas crafts are all free, and for a small fee($5, under 18 months is free) come and eat lunch with Santa! Activities will be held at various locations. Later that night, stick around to help us brighten the night by lighting the downtown Christmas tree as carols are sung by the Eau Claire Memorial Madrigals in the Four Corners Parking Lot! Thank you to our sponsors and supporters: Mayo Clinic Health System, RCU, South Barstow Business Improvement District, Ramada Inn Convention Center, Pleasant Valley Tree Farm, Macaroni Kid, Infinitea, Parkside Pie and Ice Cream.Christmas Tree has been donated by Pleasant Valley Tree Farm!
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Dedication ceremony of Hebrew Temple Emanuel
Temple Emanuel in New York City. This image shows a very large hall filled with worshipers.
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Honor off for 'virginity tests' heroine
WASHINGTON — The State Department on Thursday backed off its decision to honor a young woman for her bravery in the Egyptian uprising when it emerged that she'd quoted Adolf Hitler on Jews and posted anti-American commentary on her Twitter account.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that officials would defer the presentation of a Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award to Samira Ibrahim, 26, who faced death threats for taking on Egypt's powerful generals in court over the forced "virginity tests" of 17 women protesters who were detained in March 2011.
Ibrahim was to have joined nine other honorees on Friday for a ceremony presided over by Secretary of State John Kerry and first lady Michelle Obama.
Nuland said the department became aware of Ibrahim's comments "very late in the process" and defended the reasons Ibrahim was originally included as a recipient.
"As you may recall, she was detained, she was subject to real police violence. Not only did she speak out about that, but she also became a real leader in her country in trying to address gender-based violence and other human rights abuses," Nuland said.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum alerted the State Department to Ibrahim's tweets on Tuesday, according to a report on the website of The Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg.
Among the tweets was one this past Sept. 11 that was soon deleted: "Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning."
On Aug. 4, she wrote that the Saudi royal family was "dirtier than the Jews," and then a couple of weeks later quoted Hitler: "I have discovered with the passage of days, that no act contrary to morality, no crime against society, takes place except with the Jews having a hand in it."
Nuland said that Ibrahim had denied making the comments and claimed her account had been hacked but that the State Department was still looking into the allegations.
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Markzware PageZephyr turns InDesign and Quark docs into online content
Markzware has updated its PageZephyr software to version 2.11. The tool is a desktop search and content extraction engine for InDesign and QuarkXpress for the Mac.
Markzware has updated its PageZephyr software to version 2.11. The tool is a desktop search and content extraction engine for InDesign and QuarkXpress for the Mac.
Markzware has released an upgrade to its highly recommended conversion tool ID2Q (InDesign to QuarkXPress). ID2Q v4 is created to provide a method for migrating Adobe InDesign content into a new QuarkXPress document. This new version will convert Adobe InDesign documents up to Adobe CS4 to QuarkXPress 7 or 8.
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Markzware on Monday announced the releae of FlightCheck Professional v6, a new version of its quality control software for the print and publishing industries. It costs US$499; upgrades start at $199.
Markzware has released a preview of the public beta of FlightCheck v6 for QuarkXPress 7.
Quark has announced that Markzware - a developer of preflighting, data-extraction, and conversion software - is the latest partner to create on-demand creative solutions based on QuarkXPress Server 7. FlightCheck Online is a cost-effective, Web-based, quality-control, and file-delivery solution that enables quick communication among senders and receivers of digital files to ensure they conform to print-ready specifications.
Q2ID, Markzware's InDesign plug-in for importing QuarkXPress documents, has been updated to version 2.
Markzware has released its ID2Q7 Quark XTension for Windows, following the release of the Mac version in August.
Markzware has released a Windows version of its Q2ID conversion software, which enables users of Adobe InDesign CS or CS2 to create .indd files from Quark 3.3, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x documents. The software is also available for Mac OS X.
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Charles V Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain
During his own lifetime many considered him to be the most powerful ruler in the world yet fate rather than planning made him so.
He was born in the Netherlands during 1500, the eldest son of the Duke of Burgundy Philip I and Joanna of Spain. His father was also the heir to the Habsburg dynasty before drowning six years later. Charles became the Duke of Burgundy, and his mother went mad due to grief. Charles went on to become King of Spain in 1516.
Inheriting the Spanish throne meant that he became the ruler of a vast empire in Asia and the Americas. Closer to home it meant that he would spend most of his life fighting the French over disputed areas of Italy and his native Netherlands. The excellence of the Spanish infantry meant such wars were usually won. The death of his grandfather Maximilian led to his election as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519.
Charles found that the sheer size of his empire was more often a hindrance than of any great assistance. The unprecedented wealth generated in the Americas was frittered away in almost endless conflicts with the French as well as the Ottoman Turks. Things had got even more complicated with the onset of the Reformation whilst Charles was distracted by fighting in Italy.
Unlike the French, Charles never proved capable of defeating the Protestants, their survival being something he always regretted. Lutheranism survived because enough of the German princes were prepared to protect.
A burnt out Charles abdicated in 1556, leaving the Holy Roman Empire to his younger brother, and the rest of his realms to his son.
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To Russia with love in search of MS beater
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A POTENTIALLY life-saving journey around the world has been brought closer for multiple sclerosis suffer Tracey Stevenson.
With her partner Vivienne McNally, Ms Stevenson, 47, has been fundraising to go to Russia in October.
The trip will now be made about five months earlier than first planned due to further deterioration she has experienced in recent months.
Once she arrives in Moscow she will have stem-cell treatment not available in Australia.
It is hoped the procedures will prevent further deterioration of her brain due to MS and possibly repair damage.
So far the couple have raised $25,000 but need about double that to cover the all the costs.
"It has been overwhelming the support I have received – often from complete strangers rather than business or individuals you might expect would be able to help out," Ms Stevenson said.
Without treatment her future looks bleak.
"The flights are booked, it is definitely happening. We will remortgage the house if we have to but that is a last resort," she said.
Ms McNally will stay at home to continue the fund-raising efforts, sending her sister, a qualified nurse, to ensure the best of care for Ms Stevenson.
Next weekend a trivia night is being held as a fundraiser for her treatment and associated costs.
"We have had dozens of fund-raising sausage sizzles and garage sales – every bit helps," Ms Stevenson said.
If you would like to attend the trivia night on Saturday at the Derwent Bowls Club or find out more information go to the Finding the strength to beat MS Facebook page.
Donations can be made directly to ANZ, BSB: 017312 Account number: 193453961
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marlene stevenson of hobart tas Posted at 7:45 PM August 15, 2014
Great story girls. Lets hope everyone gets behind you at the Derwent Bowls Club for your Trivia night.Sat 16th aug.7.00pm to 11.00pm. Wonderful prizes to be won.Come along and have an enjoyable night.
Sharyn Pear of Burnie Posted at 9:27 PM August 11, 2014
How about putting this on your facebook page to help get people there? It would be awesome if the Bowls Club was sold out! Let's all get behind a Hobart girl!


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Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers-to-be (nuMoM2b)
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Pregnancy Complications
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Preterm Birth in Nulliparous Women: An Understudied Population at Great Risk
- Adverse pregnancy outcome [ Time Frame: 42 weeks project estimated gestational age or less ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Delivery of a live born or stillborn infant due to any cause before 37 weeks 0 days project estimated gestational age, after the subject has been enrolled in the study.
- Preterm birth [ Time Frame: 42 weeks project estimated gestational age or less ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Delivery of a liveborn or stillborn infant for any cause between 20 weeks 0 days and 36 weeks 6 days project estimated gestational age.
- Spontaneous preterm birth [ Time Frame: 42 weeks project estimated gestational age or less ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Delivery occurring subsequent to spontaneous onset of preterm labor OR preterm Premature Rupture of the Membranes (preterm PROM) OR fetal membrane prolapse, regardless of subsequent labor augmentation or cesarean delivery.
- Indicated preterm birth [ Time Frame: 42 weeks project estimated gestational age or less ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Delivery following induction or cesarean delivery at less than 37 weeks 0 days gestation for one or more conditions that the woman's caregiver determines to threaten the health/life of the mother or fetus. The primary diagnoses associated with indicated preterm birth are categorized as follows: pregnancy associated hypertension, fetal growth restriction, abruptio placentae, placenta previa, chorioamnionitis, abnormal fetal testing, congenital fetal anomaly(ies), maternal medical condition, other, not documented.
- Spontaneous pregnancy loss less than 20 weeks [ Time Frame: 42 weeks project estimated gestational age or less ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Fetal death leading to vaginal delivery or dilatation and curettage/evacuation, or spontaneous expulsion of a liveborn fetus due to any cause before 20 weeks 0 days project EGA.
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|November 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) established the Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers-to-be (nuMoM2b) to study women for whom the current pregnancy will lead to their first delivery (nulliparas). About 40% of pregnant women in the United States are nulliparas. Because little or no information from previous pregnancy outcomes is available to guide assignment of risk or mitigating interventions, adverse pregnancy outcomes in nulliparas are especially unpredictable. The underlying mechanisms of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth, preeclampsia, fetal growth restriction and stillbirth are interrelated and therefore will be evaluated as part of this study. The information gained will benefit women who are pregnant or who are considering pregnancy and their physicians. In addition, the knowledge will support future research aimed at improving care and health outcomes for a critical group of at-risk women who are currently understudied.
The study is a prospective cohort study of a racially/ethnically/geographically diverse population of 10,000 nulliparous women with singleton gestations. The women will undergo intensive research assessments during the course of their pregnancies to study the mechanisms for and prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) in women in their first pregnancy. The APOs of primary interest are preterm birth, preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction.
The goals of the study are to 1) determine maternal characteristics, including genetics, epigenetics, and physiological response to pregnancy as well as environmental factors that influence and/or predict adverse pregnancy outcome; 2) identify specific aspects of placental development and function that lead to adverse pregnancy outcome; and 3) characterize genetic, growth, and developmental parameters of the fetus that are associated with adverse pregnancy outcome.
Eight academic medical centers or sites have primary responsibility for enrollment and follow-up of study participants. Several of these sites will collect data through additional academic research centers or nearby hospitals (subsites). A Data Coordinating and Analysis Center (DCAC) provides input to the protocol, managing the data, and analyzing the data. Investigators from these institutions have established a partnership with NICHD staff to develop and implement the study protocol and ancillary studies that acquire and analyze data to identify biomarkers and understand the mechanism and prediction of preterm birth and other adverse pregnancy outcomes.
Nulliparous women with an in utero singleton gestation between 8 weeks 0 days and 13 weeks 6 days of pregnancy will be recruited through the eight clinical sites and their subsites. Mechanisms have been created in the various prenatal clinics associated with the sites to identify eligible nulliparous women with singleton pregnancies. Once enrolled, a participant will be followed for the duration of her pregnancy by research staff at the clinical site. Study visits are scheduled at four times during the pregnancy: 8 weeks 0 days through 13 weeks 6 days estimated gestational age (EGA), 16 weeks 0 days through 21 weeks 6 days EGA, 22 weeks 0 days through 29 weeks 6 days EGA, and at the time of delivery. Data are collected through personal interview, self-administered questionnaires, clinical measurement, chart abstraction, and collection of biological specimens (blood, urine, cervico-vaginal fluid). Additional data (e.g., sleep breathing assessments, actigraphy) may be collected through ancillary research studies on subsets of the enrolled women. The set-ups for screening, enrollment and follow-up of participants vary by clinical site and subsite. However, in each setting, the clinical site staffs include study investigators, research nurses, research assistants and sonographers. Clinical site staffs are trained to interview participants, collect and process samples, conduct various research tests, and input data. Data are managed at the DCAC. Specimens are stored at the NICHD specimen repository for later analysis.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|13 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Nullipara - Pregnant women with no prior pregnancy lasting 20 weeks 0 days or greater.
- Viable singleton gestation - a single living fetus with fetal cardiac activity at the most recent ultrasound before enrollment
- Between 8 weeks 0 days and 13 weeks 6 days project estimated gestational age (EGA) at first study visit.
- Intend to deliver at a participating hospital.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Participant age <13 years.
- History of 3 or more spontaneous abortions.
- Fetal malformation evident at or before enrollment that is likely lethal (e.g., anencephaly, hydrops, diffuse subcutaneous edema or cystic hygroma, ectopic cordis, encephalocele).
- Known fetal aneuploidy (based on chorionic villus sampling).
- Surrogate pregnancy (donor oocyte pregnancy).
- Multifetal reduction.
- Participating in an intervention study that is anticipated to influence maternal or fetal morbidities/mortality unless it is determined before enrollment that the study code will be made available.
- Woman previously enrolled in this study, including those consented but delivered before 20 weeks 0 days gestation.
- Planned pregnancy termination.
- Unable to provide informed consent.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01322529
|Contact: Cora (Corette) B Parker, MSPH, DrPH
|Contact: Uma M Reddy, M.D., M.P.H.
|United States, California
|Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and Medical Center- UCI MFM private practice
|Fountain Valley, California, United States, 92708
|Contact: Pamela J Rumney, RNC, CCRC 714-456-2217 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Deborah A Wing, M.D.
|Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Women's and Children's Hospital - Women's Perinatal Group, OB Clinic
|Long Beach, California, United States, 90801
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|Contact: Pamela J Rumney, RNC, CCRC 714-456-2217 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Michael P Nageotte, M.D.
|University of California, Irvine, Medical Center - Prenatal care clinics and private practice
|Orange, California, United States, 92868
|Contact: Pamela J Rumney, RNC, CCRC 714-456-2217 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Deborah A Wing, M.D.
|United States, Delaware
|Christiana Care Health Systems
|Newark, Delaware, United States, 19718
|Contact: Stephanie J Lynch, B.S.N. 302-733-3576 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Contact: Jennifer L Mann, B.S.N. 302-733-3065 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Matthew K Hoffman, M.D., M.P.H.
|United States, Illinois
|Northwestern University
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
|Contact: Peggy Campbell, RN,BSN,CCRC 312-926-5952 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Contact: Sherri Willoughby, R.N., M.S. 312-926-2464 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: William Grobman, M.D.
|United States, Indiana
|Indiana University School of Medicine OB/GYN
|Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202
|Contact: Emily M Perkins, BS/MA., CCRP 317-630-7995 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Contact: Catherine L McCormick, R.N. 317-630-6572 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: David M Haas, M.D.
|United States, New York
|Columbia University Medical Center- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|Contact: Albania Ventura, M.D. 212-305-4180 email@example.com
|Contact: Caroline Torres, M.D. 212-305-2158 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Ronald Wapner, M.D.
|United States, Ohio
|Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth Medical Center
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44109
|Contact: Wendy Dalton, AD, RNC 216-778-7533 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Contact: Shauna Pagel, RN, BSN 216-778-5520 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Brian Mercer, MD,FACOG,FRCSC
|The Ohio State University Medical Center
|Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210
|Contact: Cheryl Latimer, RN, MS, CCRC 614-293-3782 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Jay Iams, M.D.
|United States, Pennsylvania
|University of Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|Contact: Melissa L Smith, P.A. 215-615-6048 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Contact: Mary D Dickinson, M.P.H. 215-615-6046 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Samuel I. Parry, M.D.
|Magee Womens Hospital
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213
|Contact: Melissa Bickus, R.N., B.S. 412-641-4072 email@example.com
|Contact: Hyagriv N Simhan, MD, MSCR 412-641-4874 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Hyagriv N Simhan, MD., MSCR
|West Penn Allegheny Health System
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15122
|Contact: Kari Ham, B.S.N. 412-688-7584 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Ashi Daftary, M.D.
|United States, Utah
|McKay Dee Hospital
|Ogden, Utah, United States, 84403
|Contact: Valerie Morby, AN 801-387-4640 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Bob Silver, MD
|Utah Valley Regional Medical Center
|Provo, Utah, United States, 84604
|Contact: Melanie Williams, RN 801-357-7950 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Bob Silver, MD
|Intermountain Medical Center
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84107
|Contact: Linda Meadows, RN 801-507-7433 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Bob Sliver, MD
|LDS Hospital
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84143
|Contact: Julie Postma, RN, CCRP 801-408-3577 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Bob Silver, MD
|University of Utah
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84106
|Contact: Kelly Vorwaller, RN,BSN,CCRP 801-585-6996 email@example.com
|Contact: Laurie Lesher, RN 801-581-4128 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Bob Silver, MD
|Study Chair:
|George Saade, M.D.
|University of Texas
|Principal Investigator:
|Brian M Mercer, M.D.
|Case Western Reserve University
|Principal Investigator:
|Ronald Wapner, M.D.
|Columbia University
|Principal Investigator:
|David M Haas, M.D., M.S.
|Indiana University
|Principal Investigator:
|Hyagriv N Simhan, MD, MSCR
|Magee-Women's Hospital - University of Pittsburgh
|Principal Investigator:
|William Grobman, M.D., M.B.A.
|Northwestern University
|Principal Investigator:
|Deborah A Wing, M.D.
|University of California, Irvine
|Principal Investigator:
|Samuel Parry, M.D.
|University of Pennsylvania
|Principal Investigator:
|Robert M Silver, M.D.
|University of Utah
|Principal Investigator:
|Cora (Corette) B Parker, MSPH, DrPH
|RTI International
No publications provided by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Cora (Corette) Breeden Parker, Dr.P.H., nuMoM2b Data Coordinating and Analysis Center PI, Research Triangle Institute
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01322529 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|NICHD-nuMoM2b-001, 1U10HD063036-01, 1U10HD063072-01, 1U10HD063047-01, 1U10HD063037-01, 1U10HD063041-01, 1U10HD063020-01, 1U10HD063046-01, 1U10HD063048-01, 1U10HD063053-01
|Study First Received:
|March 10, 2011
|Last Updated:
|March 24, 2011
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD):
pregnant women
pregnancy outcomes
pregnancy complications
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pregnancy Complications
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on December 01, 2015


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|Implementation of empirical dispersion corrections to density functional theory for periodic systems.
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|A recently developed empirical dispersion correction (Grimme et al., J. Chem. Phys. 2010, 132, 154104) to standard density functional theory (DFT-D3) is implemented in the plane-wave program package VASP. The DFT-D3 implementation is compared with an implementation of the earlier DFT-D2 version (Grimme, J. Comput. Chem. 2004, 25, 1463; Grimme, J. Comput. Chem. 2006, 27, 1787). Summation of empirical pair potential terms is performed over all atom pairs in the reference cell and over atoms in shells of neighboring cells until convergence of the dispersion energy is obtained. For DFT-D3, the definition of coordination numbers has to be modified with respect to the molecular version to ensure convergence. The effect of three-center terms as implemented in the original molecular DFT-D3 version is investigated. The empirical parameters are taken from the original DFT-D3 version where they had been optimized for a reference set of small molecules. As the coordination numbers of atoms in bulk and surfaces are much larger than in the reference compounds, this effect has to be discussed. The results of test calculations for bulk properties of metals, metal oxides, benzene, and graphite indicate that the original parameters are also suitable for solid-state systems. In particular, the interlayer distance in bulk graphite and lattice constants of molecular crystals is considerably improved over standard functionals. With the molecular standard parameters (Grimme et al., J. Chem. Phys. 2010, 132, 154104; Grimme, J. Comput. Chem. 2006, 27, 1787) a slight overbinding is observed for ionic oxides where dispersion should not contribute to the bond. For simple adsorbate systems, such as Xe atoms and benzene on Ag(111), the DFT-D implementations reproduce experimental results with a similar accuracy as more sophisticated approaches based on perturbation theory (Rohlfing and Bredow, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2008, 101, 266106). © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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