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This week's U.S. debut of Volkswagen's zero-emission, hydrogen-powered Tiguan Hymotion sport-utility in the Bay Area illustrates both the promise and the pitfalls of a type of alternative-fuel vehicle that many automakers are developing.
Hydrogen vehicles offer a clean alternative for the nation's highways and a way to ease our dependence on the gasoline engine, proponents say. That's important as motorists face record gas prices and the world confronts climate change caused by carbon emissions from cars and other sources.
But electrical glitches prevented the Tiguan from running at the opening of the new Capitol Volkswagen in San Jose on Wednesday evening, and at a news media event in San Francisco on Thursday. (VW execs said those problems were unrelated to the hydrogen technology but show that the cars are still a work in progress.)
A more serious challenge facing VW and other car manufacturers is the lack of hydrogen stations. Indeed, company executives said VW could be as much as a decade away from putting a hydrogen car into production because of infrastructure deficiencies.
"The issue that you come up against," said Mark Barnes, chief operating officer of Volkswagen of America, "is we can produce it, but where are consumers going to refuel?"
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ambitious plan for a statewide network of hydrogen stations called the Hydrogen Highway, unveiled more than four years ago, has been slow to materialize.
VW, which has a research lab in Palo Alto, won't put fuel-cell cars into production until hydrogen is "readily accessible" nationwide, Barnes said.
That will take seven to 10 years, perhaps more, said John Tillman, who heads VW's fuel-cell research program at the California Fuel-Cell Partnership in Sacramento.
Fuel cells produce electricity by taking hydrogen and oxygen, separating protons and electrons, and routing electrons to create an electrical current that powers the vehicle's motor. The only emission is water.
VW officials said the Tiguan Hymotion has run well during hundreds of miles of testing in Germany and California. But overuse prior to the Bay Area event led to battery glitches, they said.
General Motors and Honda have more aggressive plans than VW for introducing hydrogen cars.
GM's Project Driveway program has rolled out 80 Chevy Equinox fuel-cell vehicles, including 49 in California, for short-term test drives, spokesman Pete Barkey said.
Meanwhile, Honda will begin production of its FCX Clarity fuel-cell vehicle Monday in Japan, spokesman Sage Marie said.
Honda plans to lease about 200 FCX Clarity models in Southern California over three years at $600 a month, with the first leases starting in July. More than 50,000 people have expressed interest via Honda's Web site, Marie said.
The Clarity sedan has a 270-mile range and gets the equivalent of 68 miles per gallon.
While hybrids, plug-in hybrids and diesel cars get most of the attention today, hydrogen technology continues to make progress, said John Addison, who publishes the Clean Fleet Report.
But, Addison said, "There's a question mark over the next 10 years of how well it may do with consumers because both automakers and the average consumer want to see a nice, available infrastructure for filling up."
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As I Lay Dying tracks the journey of Anse, Jewel, Darl, Cash, Vardaman, and Dewey Dell en route to Jefferson to bury the late Addie. That makes five guys and one living woman in the family. Funny thing is, only one of the five guys ever mentions having a libido, and that's Darl (who mentions his nighttime masturbation). Dewey Dell, the only woman left in the family, is pregnant throughout the entire span of the novel. She desperately looks for an abortion and is predictably taken advantage of for it. Aside from the cotton-picking session that caused this pregnancy problem in the first place, there's really no sex to be found here. And in a novel in which women are little more than property or cattle, that might be a good thing.


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MORGANTOWN -West Virginia guard Juwan Staten had a feeling the Mountaineers second matchup with Baylor would be different than the first right from the start.
''They came out and really went inside. The first time we played them it seemed they were taking a lot of perimeter shots,'' the junior said. ''Even their bigs were taking perimeter shots. The biggest thing was, they came out early and got it going inside. Once you get two guys like (Isaiah) Austin and (Cory) Jefferson that start getting their touch and making shots and gaining confidence, it's pretty much at their mercy.''
Baylor outscored West Virginia 38-12 in the paint as the Bears (18-9, 6-8 Big 12) rallied to beat the Mountaineers, 88-75, inside a packed WVU Coliseum to avenge a late January home loss.
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West Virginia's Juwan Staten, front, drives to the basket during the second half against Baylor on Saturday. Staten finished with 16 points in the Mountaineers' 88-75 loss.
It was the second consecutive loss for West Virginia (15-12, 7-7) and third in its last four.
The Mountaineers, who led 42-36 at the half, started the second half shooting 1 of 6 and eventually ended 9 of 28.
The Bears, who have won four straight, took their first lead of the game when Gary Franklin hit a free throw to make it 50-49 with 13:41 to go and outscored WVU 14-8 over a five-minute span to take a 64-58 advantage.
WVU's Eron Harris, who finished with a game-high 32 points, hit back-to-back 3-pointers to get the Mountaineers back to within two at 67-65, but Baylor's Royce O'Neale answered with his fourth 3 and West Virginia never threatened again.
O'Neale led the Bears with a team-high 22 points and was a perfect 8 of 8 from the floor to go along with six assists and six rebounds. The junior entered the game averaging six points per contest.
''Royce O'Neale has never shot like he did (Saturday),'' WVU coach Bob Huggins said.
''They made shots. He hasn't made shots like that all year. That put them ahead.''
Austin added 19 points and seven blocks for the Bears, while Jefferson had 15 points and 12 rebounds.
Kenny Chery had 13 points and seven assists and Brady Heslip hit four 3s for his 12 points as all five Baylor starters finished in double figures.
Staten finished with 16 points, eight rebounds and six assists. Staten and Harris were the only WVU players to finish in double figures. Sophomore Terry Henderson, who has hit double figures in 15 of the last 19 games, did not play.
''In the second half, Eron was the option,'' Huggins said. ''He was pretty much the guy we looked to. Juwan's getting 17 a game, Eron is getting 18 a game, and Terry gets 13. We didn't have Terry and that hurt. They closed Staten and Harris off, so it was hard.''
West Virginia used an early 7-0 spurt to take a 17-9 lead with 12:32 remaining in the first. Baylor tied it at 31-31 on an O'Neale 3, but allowed a Nathan Adrian 3 with 20 second left to go into halftime with a six-point deficit.
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''We can take the easy road out and say it was because we didn't have Terry,'' Staten said, ''but there's been other games where we haven't had Terry. Terry wasn't playing with us earlier this season and we found ways to play through it. The guys that come in behind Terry have played enough minutes that it shouldn't really matter. It hurt not to have Terry, but that's not what killed us. The defensive end is what killed us.''
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Major General Harold J. Greene's death Tuesday in Afghanistan is noted in the press primarily for him being the highest ranking officer killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. It has been pointed out in a few stories that Greene was deputy commander of the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A), the primary group responsible for training of Afghan security forces. What I haven't seen anywhere yet is that it appears Greene only held this role a very short time, as his assignment to CSTC-A was announced on January 8 of this year. Greene was an engineer and held a doctorate in materials science. At the time that he was appointed to CSTC-A, Army Times says that he was "deputy for acquisition and systems management, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology), Washington, D.C".
One would presume, then, that Greene was sent to Afghanistan to help train Afghans to improve their notoriously bad system of supplying its troops who are being handed increased responsibilities as US troops draw down. Sadly, though, Greene became a victim of a problem in another part of Afghan forces training that reached its peak in 2012: the killing of US personnel by Afghan security forces, or Green on Blue killings. Although initial reports put the attack as having taken place at the British facility for training Afghan officers, the attack actually took place inside the same complex at Afghanistan's National Defense University.
Significantly, the Afghan soldier who shot Greene had been a member of the military for three years. More details of the attack come from the Washington Post:
The fatal attack on Tuesday was an acute embarrassment to the Afghan military leadership, because it occurred inside the Afghan equivalent of the U.S. military academy at West Point, and was aimed at a Western VIP delegation that had come to assess the army's progress in being able to defend the nation as Western forces prepare to leave.
Afghan officials said the shooter, who used the single name Rafiqullah, had just returned from a patrol around midday and was still carrying his weapon when he concealed himself in a bathroom within close range of the delegation, then opened fire. His weapon, described as either an assault rifle or a machine gun, would have been issued by NATO. More than a dozen people were wounded, including eight Americans, a German general and a top Afghan commander of the training facility.
Interestingly, the Post goes to lengths to say the Taliban wasn't involved in Greene's attack:
Officials said there was no indication that he was part of a conspiracy or had Taliban sympathies.
While that may be the case, it appears that Greene's death sparked new activities by Taliban sympathizers within other Afghan security force units yesterday. From the New York Times:
Two attacks by Afghan police officers who were collaborating with the Taliban claimed the lives of 11 police officers in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials reported. News of the so-called insider attacks came as the authorities were still grappling with the assassination one day earlier of an American general by an Afghan soldier.
In one attack, a police officer secretly working for the Taliban poisoned five colleagues at a compound in southern Afghanistan, then invited insurgents inside to shoot the stricken officers to death and steal their weapons, the officials said.
Gulab Khan, the provincial head of criminal investigations, said the other assault targeted a national police checkpoint on the outskirts of Tarin Kowt, the capital of Uruzgan Province, where Taliban fighters killed the guard on duty, then executed five others as they slept. One officer, believed to be in league with the insurgents, escaped with the militant fighters, according to Doost Mohammad Nayab, the spokesman for the provincial governor.
It's very difficult to see how things could be much worse for US efforts in Afghanistan. The election, which was to have produced a winner who would quickly sign the Bilateral Security Agreement granting criminal immunity for US troops to stay beyond the end of this year, is still mired in endless squabbling over the recount and shows no prospect for a rapid resolution. Taliban attacks are coming with higher frequency and now insider attacks appear to be restarting.
It looks increasingly unlikely to me that a route to a signed BSA will emerge with sufficient time to keep US troops in Afghanistan beyond the end of the year. If that turns out to be the case, Greene's death may well become the event historians hold up as the symbolic end of the US training effort in Afghanistan.
After there had been a lull in Green on Blue attacks in Afghanistan, I noted in describing an attack late last month that an extra layer of security has been added at training facilities for Afghan National Security Forces, so that foreign security personnel act as a buffer between Western and Afghan forces. Reports are just now beginning to filter in on a new Green on Blue attack today at a facility near Kabul. The facility, Camp Qargha, is a training facility for officers in the ANSF and is run by the British. It is often referred to as "Sandhurst in the Sand": a training facility for Afghan officers modeled after the British officer training school.
Although it is very early in the reporting on this incident (so all of this is subject to change as more is learned) there are at least two reports that suggest a US two-star general has been killed. This German article, using Google translate, tells us:
After the death of the two-star general of the U.S. Army was in NATO of a "black day" the speech Headquarters in Brussels. The ISAF announced that the incident was being investigated.
Further, Michael Yon has tweeted:
American 2 star general reported killed in Afghanistan. German general in bad condition. I asked HQ for more. Nothing yet.
— Michael Yon (@Michael_Yon) August 5, 2014
From the New York Times, we learn that those dead (reports vary from one to four, depending on the source) and wounded all appear to be high ranking officers:
An attacker in an Afghan army uniform killed at least three service members from the NATO-led coalition and wounded a senior Afghan commander on Tuesday in a shooting at a military training academy on the outskirts of Kabul, an Afghan official said.
Details of the shooting, which took place on Tuesday afternoon, were sketchy, and the coalition would only confirm that "an incident" had taken place at the Afghan National Army Officer Academy. An Afghan defense official said that at least three coalition officers had been killed, and that a number of other foreign and Afghan officers had been wounded. The dead coalition service members were believed to be senior officers, the Afghan official said.
The Der Spiegel article linked above confirms Yon's report that a German general was shot, describing his injuries as serious but also stating that he was out of danger and is receiving medical treatment.
The Times article goes on:
The Afghan official and a coalition official said that it appeared that the foreign casualties were high-ranking officers who were taking part in a meeting at the academy.
Lt. Gen. Afzal Aman, the director of operations at Afghanistan's Defense Ministry, said that the academy's commander, Brig. Gen. Ghulam Saki, was wounded in the shooting along with two other senior Afghan officers.
The most confusing issue for me at this point is that most accounts of the incident mention an argument between the shooter and other Afghan troops just prior to shots being fired. It seems very strange that both the shooter and the Afghan troops who eventually killed him in response would be armed in a spot so close to so many high ranking officers, which at this point would seem to be at least one general from Germany, the US and Afghanistan, all of whom appeared to have been shot in the disturbance. If shooting happened during a meeting, that seems like a lot of weapons to be present. Since reports are that the incident took place around noon, I am left to wonder if the shooting took place during lunch.
Since Qargha is a facility for training Afghan officers, I wonder if there is less emphasis on the buffer layer of security that we saw in the July Green on Blue event. The underlying assumption is that once an Afghan soldier is approved for training at Qargha, they would have been through more background checking than standard enlisted trainees. That then prompts the question posed by the strange juxtaposition of the headline and opening paragraph in the Khaama Press account of the shooting, as pictured above. Was the shooter an outside terrorist who gained access to the uniform (and presumably, some identification to go along with it) of an officer trainee, or was the shooter an actual ANA officer trainee who took advantage of an opportunity to inflict very high level damage?
I will track the story through the day and add updates as appropriate.
Update: The New York Times article has now been updated to confirm the death of an unnamed US general.
Update 2: The Washington Post has identified the victim as Harold Greene, who was Deputy Commander of CSTC-A. He was deeply involved in the training effort.
On the surface, today's suicide attack in Kabul looks like many others, but some details disclosed in the New York Times story on the attack illustrate the lengths to which the US has been forced to go to protect against green on blue attacks in which Afghans kill Americans. The attack took place at Camp Gibson. Those killed were described by the Times as guarding buildings occupied by trainers from Dyncorp at a facility dedicated to counternarcotics operations. Three guards who were killed were from Nepal and one was from Peru, according to the Times. The Washington Post says two were Nepalese, one was Filipino and one was of unknown nationality. The Times explains why there are both Afghan and foreign guards:
Security guards from countries like Nepal and Peru are common at foreign military and diplomatic compounds in Afghanistan. The guards, many of whom are Nepalese veterans of the British Army's Gurkha regiments, usually provide a layer of security behind the Afghan police and security guards, who man the first line of checkpoints.
The setup is used because of deep concerns about the efficacy and loyalty of the police, a force that is riddled with corruption and drug use. It also provides a final layer of defense should Afghan guards turn on the foreigners they are guarding.
So the outside layer of security consists of Afghan personnel, but the US must use a ring of foreign security personnel to protect against the Afghans turning their weapons on the US personnel they are "guarding". And it appears that the Afghan who carried out this attack had some help among his fellows in that outside ring of security. The attacker was Afghan, but the uniform he wore matched those of the foreign guards rather than Afghans:
An official from the NATO-led military coalition said there were suspicions that the attacker had inside help. An Afghan in a uniform worn by foreign guards would "strike me as more suspicious, not less, right?" said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid antagonizing his Afghan counterparts.
The Times article points out that previous attacks aimed at US personnel have killed only foreign guards, so this layered security situation likely has been described before, but I didn't have a full appreciation of how and why it is set up in this way until today.
An interesting detail offered by ToloNews is that the attacker was not new to the facility:
On condition of anonymity a security official said that the suicide bomber was an Afghan security guard working alongside foreign contractors.
"The suicide bomber was an Afghan security guard working alongside foreigners at the anti-narcotics office for many years," said the security official.
It would be interesting to know whether the attacker had planned all along to carry out such an attack or if he only recently decided to switch sides.
Meanwhile, the "auditing" of ballots from the runoff is proceeding much more slowly than the target rate, so look for more delays before a "final" vote count is released.
The Afghan Local Police program was a centerpiece of David Petraeus' counterinsurgency (COIN) program in Afghanistan when he took over command after Stanley McChyrstal was fired. The program came under extreme scrutiny this week when Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for the expulsion of US Special Operations forces from the province of Maidan Wardak after repeated reports of atrocities carried out by forces claiming to be allied with ALP forces trained by SOF. Today, there is further bad news for the ALP program, as seventeen people have been killed at an ALP post in what appears to be an insider attack. Since the attack occurred early this morning, it should be kept in mind that information is still coming in regarding the details of what took place. Today's attack was in Ghazni province, which is adjacent to Wardak, as seen in the map here.
Back in September, training of ALP was the first program suspended due to insider attacks. The (delayed by the elections from October) December 2012 "Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan" (pdf) informed us that the re-screening of ALP was already moving quickly by then:
To mitigate the risk of insider threats, SOJTF-A has taken active measures to re-validate all 16,474 ALP personnel. This revalidation process is currently 52 percent complete, with less than one percent removed due to nefarious activities or counter-intelligence concerns. This process, which is currently ongoing, is very similar in design to our initial screening/validation methodology. It begins at the local level by conducting shuras and intimately involving local elders, who must vouch for each ALP member, ensuring he remains in good standing. Each member's application paperwork is re-reviewed by various personnel from the Coalition, MoI, NDS, and the DCOPs. If any ALP member "flags" as suspicious, additional counter-intelligence (both Afghan and Coalition) measures are taken. If it is determined that an ALP member is unfit, he is removed from the program. These processes are non-negotiable. In addition, NDS plans to embed three agents per 100 ALP to identify possible infiltration by the enemy. The prevention/elimination of Insider Threats will remain COMISAF's top force protection priorities.
So Special Operations Joint Task Force-Afghanistan claimed in December that they had already revalidated just over half the ALP force and that less than one percent of the force had been removed due to potential nefarious connections. And yet, almost two months later, we now have a major attack on ALP that has the hallmarks of an insider attack. From the New York Times:
A group of 17 Afghan policemen were drugged by their comrades while on duty and then shot to death in their sleep in what appears to be the single worst incident in a string of similar attacks, according to Afghan officials.
The attack took place at a remote Afghan Local Police post in Ghazni Province, south of the capital, early Wednesday morning, according to General Zrawar Zahid, the Ghazni police chief.
Other Afghan officials said authorities had already arrested two policemen who they said were Taliban infiltrators who had carried out the attack.
The AP report carried by the Washington Post suggests that not all the dead were ALP:
The dead included 10 members of the government-backed Afghan local police, and seven of their civilian friends, said Provincial Gov. Musa Khan Akbarzada. He says there was a conspiracy of some sort but declined to confirm if poison was involved.
The previously mentioned December report from DoD has a remarkable level of detail on the status of the ALP, with a snapshot as of September 26, 2012: Continue reading
Citing a "former American official", the New York Times today dubbed insider, or green on blue, attacks as "the signature violence of 2012" as it provided information directly from an Afghan soldier who turned his gun on US troops on May 11 of this year in Kunar province, killing one US soldier and wounding two as the US soldiers were visiting the Afghan post where Mahmood, the attacker, was stationed.
The Times points out that despite the Taliban's claims that they have many infiltrators within Afghan forces, in the case of Mahmood, he took the initiative in approaching the Taliban once he decided that he wished to carry out an attack. It appears that local opinions where he was stationed played a role in shaping his decision:
But until May, he worked and fought alongside foreigners without incident. The change came in the Ghaziabad District of Kunar, where he ended up after the start of 2012, he said.
The area is thick with Taliban, along with Islamists from Pakistan. Many residents sympathized with the insurgents and often complained to Afghan soldiers about the abuses committed by Americans and the failure of Afghan soldiers to control much of anything beyond the perimeter of their own outpost, Mr. Mahmood said. The Taliban, they glorified.
Listening to villagers, Mr. Mahmood became convinced that the foreigners had killed too many Afghans and insulted the Prophet Muhammad too many times. He wanted to be driving them out, not helping them stay. The villagers' stories "strengthened my desire to kill Americans with my own fingers," he said.
The article provides hope that the military is finally gaining a real perspective on the issues highlighted in the seminal report "A Crisis of Trust and Cultural Incompatibility" (pdf), which the military first retroactively classified and then embraced as it raced to respond to the growing crisis of insider attacks by preparing "training materials" implementing (in a very crude way) some of the recommendations from the report. But it now appears that the military is stumbling its way toward a deeper understanding of how cultural flashpoints are symptomatic the larger problem that the US simply is not welcome in Afghanistan:
But behind it all, many senior coalition and Afghan officials are now concluding that after nearly 12 years of war, the view of foreigners held by many Afghans has come to mirror that of the Taliban. Hope has turned into hatred, and some will find a reason to act on those feelings. Continue reading
It would appear that even the Washington Post is beginning to see through the way that the Defense Department continues to make outrageous claims regarding the capabilities of Afghan National Security Forces. An article published last night to the Post's website carries the headline "Panetta, other U.S. officials in Kabul paint rosy picture of Afghan situation". The article opens in conventional news-as-transcription-of-government-narrative fashion:
With Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta in Kabul to take stock as the Obama administration weighs how quickly to draw down troops over the next two years, a senior U.S. military commander on Wednesday hailed the progress Afghan security forces have made.
Marine Maj. Gen. Lawrence D. Nicholson, the head of operations for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, said NATO troops have begun a radical shift in mission: doing the bare minimum to support Afghan troops, who, he said, are starting to operate unilaterally. "We're now un-partnering from" Afghan forces, Nicholson told reporters Wednesday evening. "We're at that stage of the fight."
The article then plants a hint, stating that if Afghan forces are seen as achieving capability to function on their own, the US withdrawal can be accelerated from the current plan of taking another two years.
Remarkably, the Post then moves on to provide some perspective for Nicholson's claim:
The assessment Nicholson offered, however, is far rosier than the one that U.S. officials have provided recently. They have been citing the resilience of the Taliban and the shortcomings of the Afghan government and military.
Just one of 23 Afghan army brigades is able to operate on its own without air or other military support from the United States or NATO, according to a Pentagon report to Congress that was released Monday.
But Nicholson wants us to believe that even though the Defense Department has been lying for years about Afghan troop capabilities, they really, really mean it this time and we should believe them:
Nicholson said that although U.S. commanders have made "disingenuous" claims in the past about the extent to which Afghans were acting as equal partners in joint missions, officials now see the Afghan army as ready to operate largely on its own, albeit with key logistical and financial support from NATO. The new strategy as the United States tries to transfer greater responsibility to the Afghan government and military is one of "tough love," Nicholson said.
Sadly, Nicholson's claims appear to have no more credibility than previous DoD claims on ANSF capabilities. Consider this exchange from the briefing held Monday at the Defense Department, featuring as speakers Senior Defense Official "[Briefer name deleted]" and Senior State Department Official "[briefer name deleted]" where we see that the Post isn't the only media operation that sees through the duplicity. This exchange starts with a question from Lita Baldor of AP [emphasis added]: Continue reading
Now that Ramadan is over, General John Allen and the rest of NATO will have to come up with additional explanations for why the rate of green on blue deaths is accelerating so rapidly. Besides the recent discussion of Taliban infiltration and Taliban coercion, another explanation that seems to be hinted at fairly often is that the attacks are going up because we are training more and more Afghan forces.
This explanation is offered outright by Peter Bergen in this CNN story:
Another likely cause of the increase in the number of green-on-blue incidents is straightforward: In the past two years the size of the Afghan army and police force has almost doubled from around 200,000 to around 350,000.
This explanation also was hinted at by Afghanistan's Army Chief of Staff, General Mohammad Karimi:
Karimi said Afghanistan would also reinforce a vetting procedure that had never been properly employed, allowing cursory or no background checks for new recruits.
A number of the attacks this year were carried out by individuals who faced little scrutiny in getting access to joint U.S. and Afghan bases. This month, an unvetted 15-year-old "tea boy" who had been living on a police base in Helmand province killed three U.S. Marines while they exercised.
"We had a policy for recruiting from Day One, but it hasn't been implemented. We needed too many people," Karimi said. "When you need 12,000 people each month — it's a number so high that we couldn't implement the policy,"
In order to test this hypothesis, I collected the number of green on blue killings over the years from this database developed by Long War Journal. The data had to be updated yesterday to reflect another three deaths. For Afghan force size, I relied on this database from Brookings (pdf). In order to have annual rates for comparison, this year's 45 deaths over eight months was adjusted to an annual rate of 67 projected over 12 months.
The number of deaths per year was then adjusted to reflect the annual number of green on blue deaths per 100,000 Afghan security force members. In table form:
Year Green on Blue Deaths per 100,000 Afghan forces
2008 1.4
2009 5.1
2010 7.9
2011 9.6
2012 19.5
These results are even more striking in graphical form:
NATO force size also has changed over the years as well. I was unable to find a reference with a table of total NATO force size over the years, so I had to rely on this New York Times reference for US deployment levels through late 2009, this article for 2010 and 2011, and finally this reference for current levels. Taking the numbers above and then adjusting the death rates per 100,000 US troops deployed gives numbers of 0.4, 3.5, 7.9, 9.1 and 16.4 for 2008 through 2012, respectively, giving essentially the same trend as seen when not adjusted for US troop strength.
Note that although the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001, and "training" of Afghan forces began as early as 2003, no green on blue deaths are reported before 2008.
NATO will have to find another explanation besides the rapid expansion of Afghan forces to account for why green on blue deaths have increased so dramatically.
Yesterday, I noted the dramatic increase recently in green on blue attacks in Afghanistan, where Afghan security personnel turn their weapons on NATO forces. This disturbing development clearly has rattled both the US military and the press, because their responses have been entirely bungled.
Late yesterday, we learned from CNN that all NATO troops will now be required to carry loaded weapons at all times, even while on their bases:
The uptick in attacks by Afghan security forces against coalition troops has hit home, with all troops at NATO headquarters and all bases across Afghanistan now ordered to carry loaded weapons around the clock, CNN learned Friday.
Gen. John Allen, the NATO commander in Afghanistan, ordered the move, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the orders. The order, made in recent days, was divulged amid two more so-called green-on-blue or insider attacks Friday.
This move sets the stage for accidental friendly fire deaths (blue on blue in this case) set off by an unexpected noise. If I were an enlisted US soldier with brown skin and black hair, you can bet I'd wear my uniform 24/7 on the base and be ready to dive for the floor quickly when the bullets start flying.
NATO official posturing on the attacks is at least changing slightly. Despite increasing documentation of green on blue killings and outright defections by Afghan forces, NATO now grudgingly admits some infiltration is occurring, but their estimate seems to me to be a serious lowball:
NATO says the majority of attacks by Afghan security forces against coalition troops are driven primarily by personal grievances rather than an infiltration by insurgents.
"Some 10% we know are related to the insurgency," Brig. Gen. Gunter Katz, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, said late Friday.
Perhaps the most stunning failure of all, though, in the surge of coverage of increased green on blue (I still can't get completely to the new official-speak of "insider") attacks, is this morning's brainless Washington Post article looking "behind the scenes" at an attack from last week. The Post opens by laying out a number of facts surrounding the attack:
The teenage assailant who killed three Marines last week on a U.S. military base in southern Afghanistan had easy access to the weapons arsenal of the Afghan police. He was in near-constant contact with U.S. troops, often when they were without their guns and body armor.
But although Aynoddin, 15, lived among American and Afghan security forces, he was not a soldier or a police officer. He had never been vetted. According to U.S. and Afghan officials, his role on base was hardly formal: He was the unpaid, underage personal assistant of the district police chief.
Officials would later learn that the quiet, willowy boy was also working for the insurgency.
Nowhere in the article, however, does the Post point out that it is the US, and specifically the "advisors" whom the infiltrator targeted, who had been responsible for training the Afghan security forces the youth infiltrated. Continue reading


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The pasta dinner will include spaghetti and meatballs, salad and dessert. There will be a cash bar, Karaoke and a raffle. Tickets for the event are $10 with free admission for children under five.
Proceeds from the event will be used to support the Vipers FC U12 Girls Soccer team, which is comprised of players from New Bedford, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Marion, Wareham and Westport.
The Vipers FC is a non-profit organization dedicated to the teaching of competitive soccer for Greater New Bedford youth. The Vipers FC is run entirely by volunteers (including coaches).
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"American Idol" Season 9 Top 12 Women Perform
"The vocals were all over the place. It was a mess," Simon Cowell moaned in one of his well-worn critiques. "If it was a mess, it was a hot mess!" Ellen Degeneres replied.
Welcome to the new dynamic of American Idol. Unfortunately, Simon and Ellen's back and forth was where the excitement ended. Simon has already predicted one of the girls will win this year, but warned during the opening segment that some of the rehearsals were bad. The girls' nerves clearly were on display.
Ryan Seacrest kicked off the usual pomp by walking through a gauntlet of Idols, declaring: "This is not just a stage. This is a platform that will launch one of these 24 faces into superstardom." Yeah, tell that to Taylor Hicks. And after a small comedy routine about Simon not being able to take his hands off of Ellen, it was on to the music.
Paige Miles couldn't wait to sing live — the rarely seen contestant finally saw the front end of a camera. Unfortunately, she didn't make good use of it. Her take on "All Right Now" by Free was flat, with the sleepy backup singer partly to blame. Simon still thinks she has the best voice of all the girls.
Ashley Rodriguez sang "Happy" from Leona Lewis. Kara DioGuardi thought it was too big a song, and the judges knew she would go for a big song. Typical criticism. But Simon — who manages Lewis — hit where it hurt, saying he thought she was sliding backward and was in trouble. Ashley welled up.
Did Janell Wheeler break some kind of record singing Heart already? Her arrangement for "What About Love" was just bad. The band, the back-up singers, Janell — they all seemed unsure of their place in the song. It was like they didn't rehearse. Janell really would have benefited from a Jewel song. At least she didn't sing "Alone."
Lilly Scott sang the first stage of a three-song Beatles arc. With a guitar in hand, scrunching her shoulders to the notes, Lilly looked the part. "Fixing a Hole" felt like the first performance delivered with confidence. "That's what we're talking about," Ellen said, relieved. But Simon bemoaned the lack of star power. No star power? She has platinum hair!
Katelyn Epperly chose the little-known (to me, at least) "Oh! Darling." The bass beat felt vintage, but the vocals weren't. Her scratchy soul was right on. Randy made an awesome point: At a time when young singers seem overly focused on their runs, Katelyn paid attention to the tone of her voice.
Interestingly, Ellen made one of her first admissions that the technical stuff is above her. She wasn't sure whether Katelyn was pushing too hard or choosing to sing slightly strained. I think Katelyn knew exactly what she was doing. Side note: Katelyn's red lipstick and leather dress sparked the first wardrobe squabble among the judges this year.
Haeley Vaughn rounded out the British invasion with "I Want to Hold Your Hand." This is a song built on perfect harmony, so was an odd choice. With a smile, she toned the song way down. But Haeley's modern take sounded goofy — particularly with such bubble-gum lyrics. Still, Haeley is so darn infectious. This was the "messy" performance that had Simon parting ways with Ellen.
Lacey Brown went with Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" — or was that the Dixie Chicks? Between her sometimes twang and nerves, it was hard to say. She tried to change up the notes too much, almost as if she was making it up as she went along. Randy was more direct than usual: "I thought that was terrible."
Call Michelle Delamor brave. She took on (there really is no other verb) "Fallen" by Alicia Keyes. She was respectful of the original but with a key change here and a held note there. Ellen called it safe, which seemed a bit crazy. Simon called it "very professional," which wasn't quite praise since Michelle is a corporate singer for a living. I think they got this wrong.
"The Way I am" by Ingrid Michaelson was a good choice for Didi Benami. It suited her made-for-the-coffeehouse voice. Unfortunately, Central Perk is a bit is crowded this season. "Too many people are trying to sound like the same person — Adele and Duffy," Simon complained. He had a point. Ellen summed it up well. "I thought you were great — everyone is great, it is the top 24 — but it was a little low key for a first impression." Simon equated it with a dull first kiss. Which, of course, was the perfect segue to the first awkward Ryan-Simon exchange of the year.
Siobhan Magnus chose "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak. Without hearing a note, she jumped to the top of my list. Siobhan is a glass-blowing apprentice with a Franco-Celtic name who sings Chris Isaak songs. She didn't quite pull it off. There is no place in this haunting song for runs. Simon was intrigued, though. "You really are a funny little thing.: At least he didn't call her a little minx.
The real mystery this season is Crystal Bowersox. She all but admitted in her pre-song video that she is only there to make more money for her kid. A worthy goal, no doubt, but that won't win votes. Her performance might. She set her self apart with a solid "Hand in My Pocket" by Alanis Morrissette. She had a guitar — and the attached harmonica. Her vocals weren't special, but they were clean. "If I am home, I am voting for you," Ellen said.
If there is a front-runner already, it is Katie Stevens, who closed the show. The camera caught glimpses of her during the two hours, and she looked like she was going to "sick" up. (In my household, we call it "Stevie Scott face," in honor of the past Idol who managed joint terror and resignation as her unavoidable dismissal drew near.)
Katie was in trouble the minute she chose "Feeling Good" by Michael Buble. Oh, she sang it well enough with some charisma. But Simon hates when teenagers choose old-skewing songs, saying it sounded like her parents put her up to it. Ellen wasn't thrilled either, saying "it was a little old for you." Katie agreed, which only made me wonder why she chose the song in the first place.
That was the first round. The three girls in trouble: Paige, Lacey and Haeley. The three best: Lilly, Crystal and Michelle.
Readers, what do you think?
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MAUMEE, OHIO – Homeowners looking for design inspiration for the holidays should focus on enhancing their windows and doors. That's the recommendation of designer David Bromstad of HGTV's Design Star, Color Splash and The White Room Challenge television shows.
"A home's windows and doors are a natural backdrop for encouraging holiday design elements," says Bromstad, president of David Bromstad Designs. "Especially during the evening, you get a warm glow coming from a home's interior that reaches out as an invitation to guests. I always recommend making that invitation go a bit further by decorating windows and doors as part of a family's holiday festivities."
Bromstad recommends that homeowners are careful with how they adhere decorations to key aspects of the home --- especially windows and doors --- that are used for exiting in case of an emergency. He suggests taking the advice of manufacturers, such as Simonton Windows and Therma-Tru Doors, regarding the proper way to decorate windows and doors in the home. Both manufacturers recommend never drilling into, or puncturing, the frame or sash of windows or doors. Such action can damage the units and void the product's warranty. Instead, use removable hangers or attach decorations from above the frames.
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My husband and I have this same conversation but about locking the door
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Senate panel, in big rush, adds a few billion to original budget
Senate budget writers, fine-tuning their addition of a few billion in extra spending, tentatively approved and sent to the printer a two-year state budget on Thursday.
The additional spending on schools, universities, two-year colleges, social services and prisons is believed to undo slightly more than one-third of the $12 billion in cuts lawmakers approved in bridging last session's $27 billion budget shortfall.
Specifics are not yet available, though. Senate budget writers do much of their work in private and, once they meet in public sessions, move with dizzying speed. In those meetings, only a select few are given the documents to which senators and legislative budget staff are referring.
On Thursday morning, for instance, a major agency was dispensed with in 30 seconds. The first 23 seconds, which we select just to illustrate the opaqueness of the proceedings, went like this:
"Christy Havel, Legislative Budget Board. On page 6, the Department of State Health Services. Item three, disease outbreak and disaster response. $4.1 million in general revenue, in priority two. Item 6a, waiting list for children with special health care needs, $23.6 million in general revenue in priority two."
Translation: Apparently, and we stress apparently, the department would receive nearly 60 percent of the $7.1 million it requested to hire 23 more epidemiologists and sanitarians — and contract with local health departments — to try to detect and thwart food-borne disease outbreaks and other disease outbreaks.
But its plea for nearly $24 million to serve 800 more children who are chronically ill or disabled went unheeded.
"Priority two" sounds promising but means an item gets no money at this stage of the budget process. Instead, it goes on a wish list contained in "Article XI" of the bill.
As of this hour, the only Senate decision documents on the budget board's website appear to be from the week of Feb. 11-15. And they don't say what the decisions were.
Chief Senate budget writer Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, has said he's proud of several items in the budget. We apparently won't have in our hands details needed to write about them, though, until next week.
"We'll be ready to vote this bill out on Wednesday," Williams told colleagues.
Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, said in an interview that the panel added $1.5 billion for public schools. Most of it would flow through the state's main aid formulas for school operation and maintenance, West said. A little bit goes to grant programs that were whacked last time, such as remedial help for children struggling with courses and standardized tests, he said.
That $1.5 billion would constitute restoration of just more than one-quarter of the $5.3 billion cut from public schools last time.
The Senate panel apparently has added more than $4 billion in spending of general-purpose state revenue to the bare-bones starting budget that GOP leaders filed in January, said budget watcher Eva DeLuna Castro of the center-left think tank the Center for Public Policy Priorities.
The starting budget would spend $89 billion of discretionary state dollars. Overall, it would dish out $186.8 billion, counting federal funds, dedicated state taxes and fees, and other state income.
DeLuna Castro estimated the Senate budget writers proposed to increase spending of general-purpose state revenue to about $93.4 billion. That would be just under the projected spending cap imposed by a 1978 constitutional amendment, according to budget board estimates.
Don't ask us to explain the spending cap. It's far too complicated to render in press-box prose, and just about every journalist who tries mangles it. Suffice it to say that the tea party and Gov. Rick Perry have said for years that it's too elastic, and should be tighter. Last fall, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Williams announced the Senate's budget would stay under the cap.
While it can be suspended by a simple majority vote by both chambers, the cap — much like keeping at least two-thirds of the money in the state's rainy day fund — has suddenly achieved a sort of holy status in the Legislature.
DeLuna Castro said adherence to the cap "means at least $3 billion more in general revenue cuts — or 3 percent — to the crummy 2011 budget."
The $1.7 billion that Williams allowed to be added to the starting budget for health and human services programs was only about half of what agency heads said was needed to maintain current services, she said.
"They're just creating another Medicaid IOU — not as big as the one last time, but it very well could be as high as $1 bilion," she said.


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Genie, a female weighing 2,292 pounds and named for the shark researcher Eugenie Clark, "pinged" the receiving equipment operated by Ocearch, the research organization
that tagged the shark in Florida waters in March.
Genie has rarely surfaced long enough to be tracked. It is when the tagged sharks break the surface with their dorsal fins that a signal is received. The last time her position was triangulated was Jan. 19.
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Are low cholesterol diet, as in reading labels and avoiding foods that contain cholesterol, or are you following a diet that promotes low cholesterol. A diet that promotes low cholesterol does not actually focus on the cholesterol content of foods as much as limiting saturated and trans fats, increasing dietary fiber, etc. You can read more about a diet to lower cholesterol here.
Also, if it's high triglycerides causing your cholesterol to be elevated, you need to take a slightly different approach. If triglycerides are a problem are for you, I recommend reading this article - Triglycerides: Why they matter and how to lower them.
It is possible for total cholesterol to be above 200 when you have an exceptionally high HDL (good) cholesterol and all other cholesterol components (LDL, triglycerides) within a normal range.
All the best,
Lisa Nelson, RD, LN
Hello Mshaw,
I am glad to hear that you eat well and exercise. Though these may not be helping lower your cholesterol as much as you and your doctor may like, they certainly make you healthier in many other ways!
One of the most important factors that determines a person's cholesterol level is genetics. If members of your family have high cholesterol, then you are likely to have high cholesterol, too, regardless of your diet. Especially if your cholesterol numbers are exteremly high, (LDL>300), you could have a familial cholesterol disease. These diseases (there are several variants) are fairly common (1 in 500 people), and usually need to be treated with medications, as well as diet and exercise.
Hope this helps.
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Given that Comic-Con 2014 is still months away, is anyone prepared to talk about Comic-Con 2015? Apparently, the folks at Team Coco are more than ready. Earlier today, the TBS network announced that Conan O'Brien's late-night talk show will broadcast from San Diego during Comic-Con week. In 2015.
"TBS's late-night show CONAN will be heading to San Diego July 8-12, 2015 for a week of shows during Comic-Con International," the cable network said in a release. "This marks the first time a late-night show has broadcast from San Diego during the wildly successful event. CONAN will broadcast a week of shows from the historic Spreckels Theater in downtown San Diego."
Does this mean Comic-Con 2015 would be taking place the second week in July? (This year's dates are July 23-27.) There is no word about 2015 dates on the Comic-Con International website, but a look at the San Diego Convention Center calendar shows that the Environmental Systems Research Institute convention will be held there July 20- 23, 2015 and HostingCon 2015 will be in the center July 27-29. If the 2015 Comic-Con lands July 8, it will be the earliest Con kick-off since 1996.


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Inductees to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park are selected from among Henderson County residents, past and present, who have significantly impacted our community by promoting racial harmony, enhancing cultural diversity and advancing opportunities for achievement. Each inductee has a brick with their name engraved on it in the parks walkway.
n Rena Jo Clay, 1924-2004, retired from the Henderson County Department of Public Health in 1998 with 47 years of service, working for the county longer than any other employee. She graduated from the former, segregated Ninth Avenue High School, and went on to attend Winston-Salem State Teachers College. She began working for the Health Department while Harry Truman was in office, becoming a CNA before retiring, nine presidents later. She was instrumental in promoting the importance of preventative health care in the African American communities of Henderson County. She also played a major role in the preservation of the old Mud Creek Missionary Baptist Church in East Flat Rock, one of the oldest African American churches in the county, pre-dating emancipation.
n The Rev. James McMinn, 1942-2007, was the founding pastor of Contemporary First Baptist Church of Hendersonville, whose message traveled far beyond the pulpit to students, teachers and the community. He was a mentor to hundreds of children, taking action by driving the underprivileged to the eye doctor and dentist and finding clothes and food for the less fortunate. He worked diligently in the area of drop-out prevention with the Henderson County school system, tracking and encouraging former students to re-enroll.
n Ruby Rivers, 1928-2001, was an educator for Hendersonville City Schools for more than 20 years, inspiring, guiding and tutoring children throughout her lifetime. She advocated for improved work conditions for teachers and support personnel during the early phases of school integration. She was instrumental in implementing academic programs for disadvantaged youth throughout Henderson County, serving on numerous boards and associations. Following retirement, she continued mentoring children, providing reading assistance and demonstrating genuine, un-biased love and concern.
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text: Okay, for one thing, you can't get away with saying Captain Crunch. It is, and always will be, Cap'n. It's gotta rhyme with happen, after all.He is the son of Admiral Horatio Crunch, Sr. and Gidget Runningstar, and was born and raised on Crunch Island in the Milk Sea. Cap'n Horatio Magellan Crunch's story started at East Point Breakfast School, the military training school for breakfast cereal mascots. A graduate of the class of 1969, Horatio Crunch quickly became Lieutenant Crunch. He saw action in the mascot wars of 1972, and suffered wounds to his head, which to this day, he keeps covered up with his trademark blue hat. For valorous actions in battle, Lieutenant Crunch was promoted to the rank of Cap'n, a title he currently holds today. The product he peddles is an exceedingly sugary corn-based cereal. Its been cutting the roofs of mouths of the millions of young'uns who've been bewitched by the Cap's lurid spell on Saturday mornings since the dawn of Crunch. According to Wikipedia, each individual piece of cereal is supposed to resemble a treasure chest, but to me they look like little mink hand warmers.Anyway, if my diet permitted me to eat cereal on a regular basis, I wouldn't be dealing with name brand stuff. I'm in college, so "generic" is a key word in my day to day life. I'd rather get a ten pound bag of the same exact thing, just called something stupider. (This applies to medicine and tuna, as well.)Okay. I did my part. Do hurry and explain, as I've always wondered about that extra vowel. Many girls want to be carnal with me... because I am such a premium dancer!


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(A) No person shall knowingly sell a perishable food product in consumer size packages unless the package is clearly marked with a sale date by the packager. No other similarly stated date may appear on the package. However, nothing in this regulation shall prohibit a coded date, such as a Julian date, which may be required by federal law.
(B) The sale date markings shall be legible to the average consumer under normal conditions of purchase.
(C) Label declarations - the sale date may be indicated by appropriate descriptive terms such as "sell before," "sell by," etc. Terminology used to describe the sale date of a perishable food product shall be easily understood by the average consumer.
(D) Method of dating - the combination of words, numbers and/or abbreviations used to designate the sale date shall be easily understood by the average consumer. Words, numbers or abbreviations or a combination of words, numbers or abbreviations such as Nov. 23, 11-23, November 23, etc. are acceptable.
Bakery products with a sale date of less than seven days from the date of packaging may be dated with the days of the week or abbreviations of same in lieu of the foregoing requirements, as follows:
Sunday SU, SUN Thursday TH, THU, THUR
Monday MO, MON Friday FR, FRI
Tuesday TU, TUES Saturday SA, SAT
Wednesday WE, WED
(E) Location of "sale date" information - "sale date" information shall be located on the package in a manner traditionally established by the trade and recognized by the consumer.
119.032 review dates:
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Statutory Authority: 3715.171
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by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight Chapter 16: Carlisle Summary
How It All Goes Down
- Bella gets Carlisle's full story from Edward.
- Over 300 years ago, when Carlisle realized that he'd become a vampire, he was horrified and tried to kill himself, but nothing worked. Refusing to feed off humans, he became weak, until he discovered that he could go on all-animal (no-human) diet.
- He spent his time attending universities in Europe and met painters and other vampires in Italy. But Carlisle never fit in with the other vampires because he refused to drink human blood. Lonely, he eventually moved to America, where, in 1918 as a doctor, he met Edward, dying from influenza. He saved Edward, and thus began the Cullen family.
- Edward admits to Bella that as a young vampire, he rebelled against Carlisle's no-human diet and took off on his own for a while:
"It took me only a few years to return to Carlisle and recommit to his vision. I thought I would be exempt from the…depression…that accompanies a conscience. Because I knew the thoughts of my prey, I could pass over the innocent and pursue only the evil. If I followed a murderer down a dark alley where he stalked a young girl – if I saved her, then surely I wasn't so terrible. […] But as time went on, I began to see the monster in my eyes. I couldn't escape the debt of so much human life taken, no matter how justified. And I went back to Carlisle and Esme." (16.80-82)
- Edward shows Bella his bedroom, which is crammed full of CDs.
- Alice and Jasper stop by. Alice says there's going to be storm tonight, so they're going to be playing baseball. She wants to know if Edward and Bella want to join, which they do.


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By Cindy Ramirez, U.S. Army Sergeants Major AcademyAugust 13, 2010
With the presentation of the colors for all the Army's components, its sister services and numerous countries from across the globe, Class 61 of the Sergeants Major Course was formally welcomed to the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy, Fort Bliss, Texas, on Aug. 12.
"Congratulations, this is a huge milestone in your career," Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth O. Preston told members of Class 61 during the Opening Day Ceremony at USASMA's Kenneth W. Cooper Lecture Center. "You are the best across the board, and you have a very unique opportunity to learn from each other here."
A proclamation by the City of El Paso, Texas, declaring Aug. 12, 2010, as "Sergeants Major Academy Day" was also presented during the ceremony.
Class 61 comprises 328 students, including 46 international students representing 38 countries. This year for the first time, the flags of the international students' home countries were presented as part of the opening ceremony.
"Standing here today, representing your country or your nation or your service component is quite an honor, and I hope over the next year you have an opportunity to reflect over that and your accomplishment in making it to this point," Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond F. Chandler, USASMA commandant, told the class. "But it doesn't end here. For us in the Army, lifelong learning is something that we're inculcating across the NCO Corp. For us, this is just a step in the journey."
Members of Class 61 said they were impressed with the ceremony, many of them noting the diversity of their peers in nationality as well as military background and experience.
"To see all those flags up there from all those countries and our sister services next to our flags, that really touched me," said Master Sgt. Ruth Potter, a member of Class 61. "It really struck me as appropriate at a time when we're talking about unifying nations."
Potter said she is looking forward to learning from her fellow classmates. "All of us coming together to share our knowledge and experience is what really has me excited."
Preston asked three things of the members of Class 61: that they learn, spend quality time with their families and build lifelong friendships. Preston told members of the class their selection was testament to their mastery of the "how to" at the tactical level and to their expertise in training and preparing Soldiers for their duties on and off the battlefield. Nearly 51 percent of the Sergeant Major Course students have served three or more deployments, and 57 of them have deployed five times or more in their careers.
More so, however, Preston said, the students' selection to the course is testament to their "potential as leaders at higher levels of responsibility."
The Sergeants Major Course will prepare students to lead in the operational and strategic levels, Preston said. He encouraged them to "capture lessons learned" from their instructors, peers and the numerous speakers from whom they'll hear during their time at USASMA.
Classes will officially begin Aug. 23, with graduation slated for June 2011 under an extended 10-month course schedule. The course was six months long before 1995, when it was extended to nine months. This year, the course was extended another 30 days to accommodate the vast amount of material presented and to allow students time to better absorb and understand the course curriculum, course officials said.
The Sergeants Major Course underwent a major transformation last year, with a tougher curriculum heavy on critical thinking and problem-solving, intense college-level reading and challenging writing assignments, said Command Sgt. Maj. David L. Yates, director of the course at USASMA. The course material was previously delivered primarily through lectures and multiple-choice tests, he said.
"Bring it on," said Master Sgt. Michael Clauss, a Class 61 student, adding that aside from the classroom lessons, he is eager to learn from his peers.
"The most powerful tool I get from NCO schools, and that I hope to get here, is what I learn from my fellow students. There's a wealth of knowledge to tap into."
Learning blocks in the course focus on joint, interagency, intergovernmental and multinational operations; counterinsurgency; force management; and advanced war fighting.
Yates said while the curriculum won't change much from last year's, the focus of many discussions will "go back to the basics, looking at the leadership manuals more than we have in recent years."
"We'll have to knock the dust off the field manuals and Army regulations," Yates said. "I think we had drifted away from the manuals and focused a lot on strategic concepts. We kind of lost focus on involved leadership, and that's what really counts."
Yates explained refocusing on strong leadership is especially important given the Army's suicide rates, increased on- and off-duty accidents, and other such issues that could be curbed, in part, with the help of stronger senior NCO leadership and involvement.
As the Army is expected to proclaim 2011 the Year of Professional Ethic, many of the discussions will also focus on ethics, Yates added.
Also new this year, the course will have two or three instructors per classroom, in some cases pairing Soldiers with GS civilians or contractors, many of them retired military.
"Having two instructors in the classroom is going to be great," Yates said. "You'll have twice as much experience to share with the students. And it's also easier on the instructors, to allow them to work closer with the students and have the support of a second or even third instructor who may have stronger expertise in a different area than they do."
The 328 students make up a much smaller class than in years past; Class 60, for example, had 600 students. The smaller number is due to changes in the Command Sergeant Major/Sergeant Major Management and Utilization Program, Yates said.
"The smaller class reflects how many open billets Human Resources Command thinks are going to be open in the next two years," Yates said.
The new noncommissioned officer career management program will centrally select Soldiers for command and key billet assignments through open competition and selection boards much like that of the officer corps. Under the changes, sergeants major must spend two years working in their military occupational specialties before they're eligible to compete for a command sergeant major position.
The Army will hold annual boards to select candidates to serve as command sergeants major at the brigade or battalion level. The selection preference window for the command sergeant major brigade selection boards in October opened in July and is available through Sept. 15. Board appointments will take effect in fiscal year 2012. Battalion-level boards will be held in January.
The Sergeants Major Course is considered the pinnacle of the NCO Education System, which was established in 1971. The Sergeants Major Course has graduated more than 21,000 students since its inception in 1973.


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Issue No.09 - September (1980 vol.29)
pp: 763-776
D.A. Padua , Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois
The purpose of this paper is to present some ideas on multiprocessor design and on automatic translation of sequential programs into parallel programs for multiprocessors. With respect to machine design, two subjects are discussed. First, a multiprocessor allowing parallelism at a very low level is sketched and then, a brief discussion on the interconnection network is presented.
vectorizers, Automatic translation, compilers, high-speed multiprocessors, interconnection networks, multiprocessors, parallel processing, pipelining
D.A. Padua, D.J. Kuck, D.H. Lawrie, "High-Speed Multiprocessors and Compilation Techniques", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.29, no. 9, pp. 763-776, September 1980, doi:10.1109/TC.1980.1675676


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linking with Tablescape Thursday
I'm in preparations for a Boo-tiful You birthday tea party in the woods for a friend..
gathering my things...
recipes, ideas,
when a cousin calls to say she is coming.
And that I don't need to feed her...
we'll just go out for lunch.
Oh no way, says I!
I secretly sling all my things on the table and whip up some
chicken salad...Waldorf Chicken Salad.
And grab my camera,
the table looks so cute!!!
I hope you feel Bootiful today and you let your light shine
all over the place!