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Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, once derided strategic communication as a "cottage industry." / Chad J. McNeeley, AP
WASHINGTON - Leaders of the military's services and combatant commands are scrambling to interpret a new initiative from the Pentagon that seeks to contain a poorly understood communication program that has taken root in some commands.
Strategic communication offices have proliferated throughout the military in recent years, including in the Army and at some of the military's geographical combatant commands. In essence, strategic communication was designed to help the military coordinate its operations with its messages.
In practice, some these offices "actually added a layer of staffing and planning â?¦ and resulted in confusion and inefficiencies," Assistant Secretary of Defense George Little wrote late last week in a memo to commanders. He added that the Pentagon would avoid using the term and that public affairs offices should take the lead in communicating for the military.
Late Thursday, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, the chief of naval information, told his public affairs spokesmen in an e-mail obtained by USA TODAY to seize the initiative offered by Little's memo and take the lead in communicating for their commanders.
"If I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times: "(Public Affairs) is tactical, reactive, short-fused. It's the daily grind. What the boss needs is strategic thinking. You guys just don't do that, and we shouldn't expect it of you," Kirby wrote. "Malarkey. We can be and should be providing more than that. And I'm convinced that in most cases we are."
Military leaders at the commands carved up geographically around the world also responded to the memo by Little, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's chief spokesman.
A sampling of responses from the military's geographically aligned commands:
The issue of strategic communication has been controversial since it began gaining momentum about 10 years ago. Contractors specializing in marketing began winning work to provide the military with advice on how to portray its activities to the public. Among them was The Rendon Group, which has earned more than $100 million in advising the military.
By the end of the last decade, a backlash against the strategic communication was evident at the highest levels of command. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, derided strategic communication as a "cottage industry." In an interview last year with the paper, he said the term itself had become meaningless and that he refused to use it.
"It has become a thing unto itself," Mullen said. "If it is taking resources from the fight, I don't have time for it."
On the website Foreign Policy, Rosa Brooks, a former Pentagon strategic communications official from 2009 to 2011, took issue with Little's memo and its portrayal in USA TODAY.
Strategic communication is a "simple plea," she wrote. The U.S. government should try to understand how its actions are perceived abroad, plan for it, and attempt not to antagonize foreign audiences unnecessarily.
"In fact, the memo isn't even a good example of 'communication synchronization': It's badly out of sync with the rest of the Defense Department, which for the most part has - slowly but surely - begun to integrate the concept of strategic communication into day-to-day planning and operations," Brooks wrote. "The good news? Combatant commanders are likely to give the memo the treatment it deserves, and place it right in the circular file."
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Hi guys, I haven't posted in a little while (work got SUPER busy) but I wonder if someone could give me a quick bit of help understanding how you define in a Syntax file how code should be folded.
If I understand correctly, anything between what the foldingStartMarker matches and what the foldingStopmarker matches will be folded (or to put it another way, fold arrows will appear at matches for the foldingStartMarker and collapse the code until the foldingStopMarker match). However, I've noticed that there seem to be hierarchies of code folding (Fold Level in the Edit -> Code Folding sub-menu). This would be really useful in the language I'm writing for and if it's possible I'd love to make use of it. Can anybody explain (or point me to a doc or something) how you define the level of folding? And just to be clear, this would allow you to do nested folding correct?
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Rochester-based optics company Bausch + Lomb has named a new president and chief financial officer.
Robert Bertolini, who was executive vice president and chief financial officer at Schering-Plough Corp. from 2003 until its merger with Merck & Co. in 2009, takes over immediately in the CFO post from Brian Harris, who remains with the company as an executive vice president.
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Woman steals iPad from 3-year-old
Houston Police said a woman knocked down a little girl and stole her iPad Tuesday.
The girl's mother said she took her 3-year-old daughter out of the car at around 1:30 p.m.at the Maxey Village Apartments Tuesday, and as she was taking her 9-month-old out of his car seat, a woman approached.
"When I turned around to grab the baby from the car seat, she came running towards her, knocked her down and took her iPad," she said. "They came over here and they were waiting for us to come through the breezeway I guess so they could take the iPad. So, I guess they didn't see me coming right away."
The mother said she had noticed a man and a woman walk to her apartment complex from next door. She said her daughter was okay, just shaken up.
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ARNOLD, Nebraska (KNOP) -- Remains found just outside of Arnold, Nebraska, have archaeologists buzzing, saying that it's a find that dates back centuries.
Blake Bierman was filling up a truck with corn when he noticed something sticking out of the earth alongside a trench.
Bierman called the authorities, and Custer County Sheriff along with Nebraska State Patrol turned the farm into an investigation scene.
After contacting the Nebraska State Historical Society, it was soon determined that the remains appeared to belong to a middle-aged, Native American male, that dates back to the 1700s.


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In 2005, the trustees of the Robert M. Fisher Memorial Foundation presented Towson University with a "transformational" $10.2 million to endow scholarships, establish a chair in the biological and physical sciences, and rename the College of Science and Mathematics in recognition of Jess and Mildred Fisher. Jess Fisher (see link to brief biography below), a Baltimore native who attended Towson in the 1930s and who later became a real estate developer and philanthropist, established the foundation in memory of his son, Robert. Two endowed scholarships now honor the memory of Robert M. Fisher and his sister, Cecilia Fisher Rudman.
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Undersheriff David Hunter said Zachery E. Lindsey is charged with two counts of fourth-degree felony motor vehicle burglary, one count of third-degree felony residential burglary, one count of fourth-degree larceny and fourth-degree disposing of stolen property.
Lindsey was jailed at the Otero County Detention Center in lieu of $35,000 no-10 percent bond pending his appearance in court.
Hunter said OCSO deputies responded on Nov. 23 to a residence in Dog Canyon in reference to stolen property.
He said through investigation, deputies learned that property had been removed without the owner's permission.
Hunter said deputies also learned through investigation that Lindsey had been hired to feed and water livestock on the property.
"Lindsey also admitted to removing automobile parts from a vehicle located on the property," he said. "Deputies learned through their investigation that Lindsey took tools from a tool box located in the cab of another vehicle on the property."
Hunter said deputies also learned through the investigation that a flat-screen television had been allegedly removed by Lindsey from one of the buildings on the property.
He said deputies learned the flat-screen television; automobile parts and various other items taken from the Dog Canyon residence had an estimated value of about $2,000.
Hunter said the television was returned to the owner.
"Residents are urged to be vigilant in their observations of suspicious activity in their area," he said. "The city and county law enforcement agencies are experiencing increased reports of burglaries occurring. Residents are encouraged to report any suspicious activity to law enforcement and Crime Stoppers.
At this time of the year, criminals take advantage of opportunities to burglarize vehicles and residencies if they believe there is valuable property in them."
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The Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band has been supporting Sooner Spirit for nearly a century. Unlike many other college bands, which began as military drill units, the Pride of Oklahoma had its beginnings as a pep band.
In the early years of the 1900s, both townspeople of Norman and students of OU participated in a band that played for football games.
Professor John Merrill started the first band in 1901, which was composed mostly of townspeople and disbanded after each football season. Lloyd Curtis founded the first continuous student band in 1904.
Today, the 300-member Pride of Oklahoma has members representing virtually every college and major on campus. The Pride of Oklahoma stands for excellence in musicianship, academics, school spirit, and commitment to our role in the surrounding community.
"Boomer Sooner" rings out at the end of each rehearsal, and that song is still the defining element of the University of Oklahoma.
Maybe that is why Sooner fans love the band so much: There is nothing that can compare to the first "go-go" at a football game when the Pride of Oklahoma marches the interlocking "OU" down the field playing "Boomer Sooner.
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|matthew.bassett says:
I recently discovered that you can give a day name when specifying 'after' for repeat, for example:
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|matthew.bassett says:
Also discovered the following-- you can give more than 1 day name, e.g.:
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|emily (Remember The Milk) says:
Hi Matthew,
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|freeminder says:
Nice tip indeed, thank you!
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|robert.ward says:
Is there a way to use this but for two weeks out? For example I don't want to Vacuum every week, just every two weeks on Saturday.
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|patchouli_grl says:
Great tip! Definitely one I didn't know about and can certainly use. Thanks!
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|brendan says:
Hi robert.ward,
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|echarles says:
Very nice! That will definitely be useful for some of mine where the actual getting done day is a bit flexible.
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|kirsten.miller says:
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|kunal.n.bhatia says:
In this case, wouldn't the behaviour be same if Repeat was set to "Every Sunday" ?
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|osarjeant says:
After won't create the second instance until the first one is complete. It also, won't copy notes over. It's a small difference from every.
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|gordonzano says:
The Help at https://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/?ctx=basics.basics.repeatformat
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Jeanine Pirro on election night in 2006. / Journal News file photo
For the record, I pledge to defend to the death Jeanine Pirros First Amendment right to say anything she pleases even if its a disjointed, knowingly false scold that is delivered with a sneer and pointed finger.
The former Westchester County district attorney, who hosts the Fox News show Justice With Judge Jeanine, has been on a hyper rant for nearly a month, capitalizing on the public condemnation leveled against The Journal News and its infamous gun-permit map.
Her voice has been one among a national chorus of criticism, but it has been especially shrill, not to mention repetitive.
With festive relish, Pirro, 61, has devoted show after show to the controversy. One could say its actually been an obsession. She simply cant get enough of the newspaper.
There are those who have made well-reasoned arguments against the decision to publish the database, and, to be fair, some of those arguments have been raised by Pirro.
But Pirros performances have made it obvious that her principal motivation is payback against a local paper that over the years has continuously documented her epic public embarrassments among them a failed run for the U.S. Senate and problems with a philandering husband, Al, who served a federal prison term for income-tax fraud. And by the way, lets not forget that Jeanine signed the very same incriminating tax returns that sent her husband away.
The closest shes come to admitting her long-standing beef came when she said on the air that, during her law enforcement career, she was both criticized and idolized by The Journal News. Well, she got that half right. To borrow a line from her cable network, You decide.
So perhaps the TV diatribes are understandable, if not all that illuminating. While it may be said that revenge is a dish best served cold, Pirro has been dishing it out with red-hot sarcasm.
Cowards, losers and hypocrites those are her favorite epithets for the editors and publisher of this paper. When she calls them champions of free speech, its meant as irony. (Her novel, Sly Fox, was supposedly a ghosted effort, so its more than likely that writer, toiling on the low end of the pay scale, is feeding her those snappy lines on Fox, as well.)
I wouldnt go so far as to bounce the hypocrite charge back at Pirro. But it did strike me as amusing that she repeatedly, not to mention proudly, stated how she was among the gun-permit holders outed by The Journal News.
The truth is, she has always bragged about owning guns. She never made a secret of the fact. Looking into the newspaper archives, I found a news item from 2006 that proves it.
Having earlier botched her Senate bid, she opted for plan B by running for attorney general and was trying to get the state Conservative Party endorsement. Speaking at a party event, she listed the weapons in her personal arsenal a .38, a .22 and a German-made Mauser. This elicited applause from the throng of well-wishers.
Incidentally, she lost that race too. Soon after, she was born again as a well-paid TV personality and the rest is history, albeit a footnote.
Anyway, the point is, if three-gun Pirro is so concerned about her safety now, she might consider how she outed herself seven years ago. Ill bet anyone five bucks that that wasnt the only time she publicly bragged about packing heat.
On last Saturdays show, Jeanine threw another round of rabbit punches with some B-roll, courtesy of an outfit called Veritas, which is Latin for truth.
In an amateurish effort to embarrass the newspaper, a squad of oddballs from Veritas spent a recent Saturday going to several homes of Journal News and Newark Star-Ledger employees, purporting to be members of an organization called Citizens Against Senseless Violence.
They secretly videotaped people who answered the door. In many cases, the employees werent home and the agents of truth spoke instead to relatives. Its hard to discern exactly what they were trying to prove, but their main purpose was to see if the alleged gun haters were willing to put signs on their front lawns declaring, This house is gun-free, or words to that effect.
Its a shame nobody turned a garden hose on them, which would have been a sensible act of nonviolent fun. But they were weird enough to rouse the suspicions of one employees mother, who called the cops on them.
Pirro thought the undercover gambit was really cool. Taunting The Journal News executives, she said, Even your own employees felt your newspaper put them at risk.
With that came a videotaped snippet, but it wasnt of a Journal News employee. It was Bob Braun, a columnist with the Star-Ledger.
And he said nothing about being at risk. Believing the visitors at his door were for real, Braun, an outspoken gun-control advocate, said, I agree with you. The rest was garbled, as was most of the audio in the Veritas production.
Braun told me this week that he did not see Pirros show but thought that using him to make a point about The Journal News was strange. Indeed, he had never expressed an opinion in print about the gun-permit controversy.
I did not write anything about you, about your paper, he said. Not a word.
However, the Star-Ledger did publish an unsigned editorial saying that it doubted that the interactive map posted by The Journal News made gun owners vulnerable to burglars.
That assertion will be debated to the end of time. But its worth noting that Newsday Westchester, citing nothing more than unnamed sources, irresponsibly linked The Journal News to at least one home burglary. Their report was later termed pure speculation by police officials.
There seems to be plenty of shoddy journalism going on.
But, like I said, I will defend Pirros freedom to express herself even if its a primal scream.
Since I am a firm backer of the Second Amendment, I will even bear arms in the cause. Give me a Mauser.
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Sinclair (6-1/0-0) Men's Basketball wins a non-conference match up against Wright State University - Lake (3-5/0-0) 83-57.
Dayton, OH – Sinclair Men's Basketball team won it's second straight road game on the strength of solid defense.
As Sinclair enters this stretch of 7 straight road games that will have the Pride playing in three different states over the next month, the Pride pulled away in the second half to go 2-0 in this stretch.
Making a late first half run, Sinclair pulled out to a 7 point margin only to see that balloon all the way up to as many as 28 in the second half. Defense and bench play seems to be the common theme this years as Sinclair collected 47 points off the bench and held Wright State Lake to only 17% shooting in the second half (6-35). Solid full court man to man pressure and a plus 9 rebounding margin kept the home team at bay as the Pride scored several buckets in transition.
The Sinclair Men's team will continue this stretch of the 7 game road swing with a Tuesday afternoon game in Philadelphia against the University of Pennsylvania JV team in the Palestra. After the game, the Pride will continue down the east coach for a off day in the Nations Capitol. Sinclair will spend the day visiting the Capitol and the Supreme Court as well as all the monuments before departing for Wheeling WV for a Thursday evening match up against West Virginia Northern C.C.
Kevin Vest 21 points 8 rebounds 6 assist
British Alexander 15 points 6 rebounds 2 Blocks
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Rhubarb and strawberries perfectly combine together to make delectable desserts.
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As strawberry season nears, we're looking for some great, simple recipes to share with readers - sauces, salads, shortcakes or whatever.
Readers are invited to exchange simple recipes, cooking tips and kitchen shortcuts with The Clueless Cook. Ideally, recipes should require no more than five ingredients. Readers' best suggestions will be featured in this weekly, online-only column.
Email email@example.com or, if you prefer, send mail to Gere Goble/The Clueless Cook, Mansfield News Journal, 70 W. Fourth St., Mansfield, OH 44903. On Facebook, look for www.facebook.com/geremarie.goble.
In response to a request for rhubarb recipes, Angie Cronebach shared this recipe via Facebook.
5 cups rhubarb
5 cups sugar
one 20-ounce can crushed pineapple (do not drain)
two 3-ounce boxes of strawberry Jell-O
Cook rhubarb, sugar and crushed pineapple (including liquid) together until rhubarb is soft, appoximately 20 minutes. Add strawberry Jell-O. While good and hot, put in jelly jars and seal. Makes approximately eight jars.


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Urinary incontinence can be an uncomfortable and embarrassing experience for many women. For some, it may be the unfortunate byproduct of a difficult labor. For others, its caused by the weakening of support tissue for the bladder as they age. Whatever the reason, there are many simple treatments that can ease the discomfort caused by this condition.
There are two types of urinary incontinence: stress and urge. Stress incontinence is caused by weak pelvic floor muscles, which provide support for the urethra. Patients may undergo bladder training techniques, which are offered at Riverview Rehabilitation Center. With these, patients learn how to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles that support the urethra using biofeedback and other techniques.
Another treatment option for stress incontinence involves the placement of a transvaginal sling system. This is a mesh support that is inserted under the urethra through a single-incision inside the vagina. The procedure is very quick, and has about a two-day recovery time. Patients require only a light anesthetic for the procedure. As a result of the slings added support, patients can be assured that when they create abdominal pressure from coughing or sneezing for example they wont leak urine.
Urge incontinence is a strong and sudden need to urinate caused by bladder contractions. It can be treated with several types of medication, like fesoterodine, which works to control the contractions. Again, the bladder training techniques of pelvic floor muscle training and biofeedback provided at Riverview Rehabilitation Center would be beneficial.
A second line of therapy for urge incontinence is InterStim Neuromodulation. This new technique involves inserting an electrode into the patients lower back. The electrode delivers a slight electric charge to the nerve that comes from the bladder, helping to make the bladder less overactive. This procedure is often called a pacemaker for the bladder.
So ladies, please do not just live with urinary incontinence. There are many quick and relatively painless options for treating the condition. The first step is talking to your doctor.
Yolanda Jones, M.D. is a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology with Riverview Family Clinics Wisconsin Rapids office. To schedule an appointment with Dr. Jones, or another Riverview Family Clinic OB/GYN, call 715-421-7474.


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It won't sell because it is terrible. the market has already spoken. The UI is beyond unusable. The Zune software is complete garbage...it has failed now for how many years? The proprietary Silverlight platform is horrible...even Microsoft is abandoning it with Windows 8 in favor of industry standard web technologies.
Windows Phone OS is already at the top of the "anything but Apple" class...
On what planet? Windows Phone OS is on the bottom, below Android, RIM, and even the cancelled Microsoft Windows Mobile. Can you share some sales numbers? Oh yeah, Microsoft won't release any because they are so bad.
and Mango will just extend that lead, and Nokia make rock solid yet beautiful and compelling devices.
Ah, the dreams of a Microsoft fandrone... If you start with a turd,you can polish it however you like, but it is still a turd. How will Nokia's phones be different from the other Microsoft Windows Phone cloners?
So that rules out the software and hardware as a potential problem, which leaves... what? Problems with advertising? The sales channel? Simply the name "Microsoft" being attached to a phone?
Microsoft Windows Phone OS is a complete failure; it does nothing iOS and Android don't already do, and do better. The hardware is terrible (love the forced crappy BING buttons. Guess Microsoft knows no one in the right mind would choose BING over Google so they force the phones to lock to BING), terrible software (Zune failed how many years ago?), and not to mention all the text scrolling off the right of the screen...LOL. UI design 101 fail much?


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MADISONVILLE, Ky. (11/12/13) — Madisonville Fire Department crews were summoned to the parking lot at Baptist Health Clinic around 3:07 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11 to extinguish a car fire.
According to a MFD report, heavy smoke was coming from under the hood of a 2001 Pontiac upon arrival. Firefighters used both water and foam to extinguish the blaze.
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The use of spent grain as feed for cattle is one more example of how Western North Carolinas brewery industry benefits other businesses.
Oskar Blues, currently the areas largest brewery, sells its spent grain to Commodities Specialists Co., which in turn sells it to the local farmers. Highland Brewing Co. gives its grain to a local farmer.
Martin Morgan has been feeding his cattle with spent grain from Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. for 15 years. They love it, he said of the milled barley he obtains from the brewery.
Morgan recently has closed the circle by selling beef to Asheville Pizza & Brewing, which now serves it at its locations on Merrimon Avenue and Coxe Avenue. Growth in the spent-grain supply is just around the corner. Oskar Blues turned out 3,500 barrels of beer in February, and it plans to expand its operations. And it is only a fraction the size of the Sierra Nevada facility set to open later this year in Mills River or the New Belgium brewery being built in Asheville.
WNC Communities, a support agency for community development and agricultural initiatives, has formed a separate company, WNC Brewers Grain LLC, to help handle the increase.
When our network of farmers learned the big boys were coming to town, they recognized there was going to be a supply of livestock feed locally and in pretty good volumes, said L.T. Ward, vice president of WNC Communities.
They wanted to find out how they could have access to it without having a national company come in as a for-profit middleman.
WNC Communities estimates the brewery waste can support 12,000 to 16,000 head of cattle. Thats roughly the number of beef cows in Buncombe and Haywood counties. The industry is growing in the mountains, compared with a steady decline statewide.
WNC Brewers Grain will contract to ship the grain at below-market costs. The savings could be reinvested in their herd to increase production, increase farm labor jobs and also increase family income for rural farmers, Ward said.
Spent grain is not enough by itself to feed cattle. Morgan also provides grass and hay for his herd. WNC Brewers Grain is working with N.C. State University to come up with a formula for feed containing spent grain.
New Belgium has granted WNC Brewers Grain a $10,000 startup grant. The brewer also had pledged cash to Bent Creek Institute to develop ways to extract a high-value cellulose. Spent grain also can be used in baked goods, in biofuels and as a pill coating.
The message in all of this is that an industry cluster brings an area benefits beyond that of the core industry itself. The presence of breweries already has spawned research on expanding a Western North Carolina hops industry that now consists of three farms. N.C. State has been operating a hops yard in Mills River since 2010.
Some results have been promising, according to localbeerblog.com. For example, theyve found that most varieties of hops seem to grow better in Mills River than in Raleigh, possibly because of Western North Carolina's higher elevation and lower over-winter temperatures.
Were pretty sure this is something that can grow and help more beef producers in Western North Carolina, Morgan said of the spent-grain project. Hops farmers are cautiously optimistic that the same can be true of their industry as demand increases.
The brewing industry already is providing a lot of jobs, with a lot more to come when Sierra Nevada and New Belgium are in operation. The industrys presence also is benefiting beef cattlemen and hops growers. Who might be text?


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It may not have seemed so at the time, but the conference scandal that rocked the General Services Administration this year was the best thing that could have happened to the federal buying service.
It toppled GSA's leadership and ushered in reform-minded Dan Tangherlini with a mission to refocus the agency on its No. 1 mission: saving the government money.
GSA had clearly lost its way.
Under its previous administrator, Martha Johnson, conferences had devolved into self-aggrandizing branding events. More concerned with achieving "net zero" energy consumption than cutting the cost of goods and services, Johnson's leadership produced egregious new leasing and construction deals, even as excess property ballooned. New contracts grew GSA's portfolio without creating better value for customer agencies. And industrial-sized bonuses were paid to not just top GSA performers, but virtually every employee, regardless of how reckless or wasteful they may have been.
Tangherlini put a stop to all that.
After a monthslong, top-to-bottom review, Tangherlini has now launched a series of much-needed reforms.
He scaled back, and even canceled, conferences, tightened financial oversight, reviewed the bonus program and dramatically downsized GSA's leasing and construction agenda.
Now he says he will shrink the federal supply schedules program, phasing out more than 8,000 schedule contracts that get little or no business and consolidating 31 supply schedules into eight. The move will save GSA $24 million a year, the agency claims. Vendors may complain, but streamlining GSA's complex and bloated schedules is the right move.
In recent years, agencies have been taking more of their contracting business in-house, moving away from the supply schedules program. In fact, after six years of growth, supply schedule sales actually declined in 2011 for the first time in recent memory.
Meanwhile, GSA's plan to add more strategic-sourcing contracts — that is, bulk purchase contracts for rental cars, janitorial products and more — makes sense. The agency will expand from four strategic sourcing contracts to 10 in the next three years, likely saving hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming years.
This is what GSA should have been doing all along. It shouldn't be that way, but sometimes it takes a scandal to get an organization back on track.


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Free Nemours BrightStart Screenings for ages 3 - 5
Thursday, October 8 from 10am - 12:30pm
Children ages 3 - 5 are invited to receive a free, 10-minute Early Literacy Screening at the library, courtesy of Nemours BrightStart. Registration is taken on a first-come, first-serve basis by a Nemours representative. Utilize this free screening to find out where your child's literacy strengths lie, and what you can do to help them improve in any other areas before they start school.


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2 Grimm W, Muller H. A randomized controlled trial of the effect of fluid extract of Echinacea purpurea on the incidence and severity of colds and respiratory infections. Am J Med . 1999;106:138-143.
3 Vonau B, Chard S, Mandalia S, et al. Does the extract of the plant Echinacea purpurea influence the clinical course of recurrent genital herpes? Int J STD AIDS . 2001;12:154-158.
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I'm keen to hear if anyone feels the redone preferences menu is a step backwards rather than forwards: it's back to a simple menu structure, but it provides more direct access to the parts that are important to customise.
Not mentioned in the release notes is the addition of per-project options to the API (accessible via window.project().options()), and a 'Tools/New Plugin' menu command that fills in a simple template, and sets the current directory to the Packages/User directory.
The new format for .sublime-build files (old format ones are still supported) is also much saner, here's the contents of JavaC.sublime-build:
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The 'build' option is the command line to run, and the 'lineNumberRegex' option is used when double-clicking on the output window (first group is the file name, second is the line number, and third, if any, it the column number).


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Indianapolis is on pace this year to record about 150 homicides, a level of violence we haven't seen since 2006. The number is even more discouraging and frightening when placed in the context of what's happening elsewhere in the nation.
New York City, with a population about 10 times Indy's size, is on track for about 300 homicides in 2013. New York's homicide rate in the first six months of the year dropped about 25 percent, at the same time murders were surging in Indianapolis. The nation's largest city is on course in 2013 to register a homicide rate of 3.8 per 100,000 residents.
That's a trend repeated in other major cities - including Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston, which saw significant declines in homicide rates during the first half of the year. The national rate, including urban and rural areas, could drop to 4.1 percent this year, the lowest level in decades.
Sadly, that's not the case here. The Marion County rate so far this year? A staggering 17.5 per 100,000 residents through June 30.
And that was before Thursday night's violence, when a 16-year-old was shot to death on a busy Downtown street corner, with hundreds of thousands of people in the area to watch the annual Fourth of July fireworks display.
Clearly, we have very serious problems - in particular with gun violence and youth violence - in this city.
The Rev. Charles Ellis, pastor of 25th Street Baptist Church and interim director of the Ten Point Coalition, assessed the causes of those problems well on Friday. He pointed to a high poverty rate in the city, a low level of educational attainment, and far too easy access to guns.
"The reality is until some of the really root problems are addressed," he said, "violence can continue to happen."
How do we confront the root causes? The quickest way is for police to target problem areas and, in doing so, take more guns and more gun-toting criminals off the streets. New York City police officials credit concentrating on special "impact zones" with dramatically cutting that city's homicide rate. Public safety leaders in Indy also hope to pour more resources into high-crime areas, but the city has been hurt by its inability to deploy enough officers on the streets due to budget constraints.
The long-term efforts, as Ellis noted, must focus on reducing poverty and opening avenues to better-paying jobs through education. The city was saddled with high dropout rates for many years, and we're reaping the consequences of that failure today.
What happened Thursday night in Downtown, and what's happened far too often in other parts of the city, is simply unacceptable. Mayor Greg Ballard and police leaders must respond quickly and forcefully to reduce the violence. And the entire community must respond to help rebuild our schools and reduce poverty to ease tensions on the long-term triggers of violence.


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The elephant in Ms. Goodling's room
Sandy Levinson
Eric Lipton has an extensive story in today's (May 12) New York Times about Monica Goodling. titled "Colleagues Cite Partisan Focus by Justice Official." It details many of the ways that she thoroughly corrupted the process of hiring within the Department of Justice by taking a rabidly "partisan focus" for what is supposed to be a non-political process of hiring. Still, the story walks on eggs with regard to one of the most important aspects of Ms. Goodling, her religious zeal. Lipton mentions that she graduated from Regent Law School, '99, and notes that that is Pat Robertson's law school. But there has still been no genuine examination of the extent to which Ms. Goodling used her remarkable clout within the Justice Department to focus on hiring not only conservative Republicans, but also persons who were equally opposed to what she no doubt believes is the sinful secularism of modern society. I doubt that she was preferring Evangelical Protestants as such; rather, I think the key to being hired might well be a strong religious identification, and one proxy for that was attending identifiably religious law schools, including, for example, Brigham Young, Regent, Catholic University (though not Georgetown, I strongly suspect), or Marquette. Sooner or later, someone should go through the bios of people hired over the past three years or so, i.e., since the triumphalist election of George W. Bush in 2004 (I refuse to call it a "re-election"), and see how many of them graduated from such schools, as against more secular schools (and, of course, how many of those hired from the latter had been vetted by virtue of their affiliation with the Federalist Society and the like, apparently something highly important to Ms. Goodling). Just to be clear, I think that the DoJ should be hiring lawyers from all sorts of backgrounds; it would be outrageous if a strong religious identity or memership in the Federalist Society were a disqualification. But I think that it's ever more clear that with the Bush Administration we're not remotely talking about genuine respect for the mosaic of American culture. They are eager participants in a full-scale culture war and should be recognized as such.
Sandy: I think you understate the problem. Democracies work because those out of power believe that the electoral rules will provide them a fair opportunity to regain power. The elephant in the room is how Goodling's actions, which I doubt were those of a rogue agent, have undermined that trust. One of Bush's legacies will be a poisoning of the electoral process which will prove difficult to cure. Miguel
I have a piece of ancedotal evidence. One of my friends at law school applied for a 2l summer position with the Civil Rights division of the DOJ. He has impeccable credentials and should have been a shoo-in. But, his resume screams hardcore lefty. He really wanted that position and he was a strung along for a while before being rejected. I'm pretty convinced he should have gotten the job--of course I have no way of proving it.
I had fun watching Bill Maher's version of the story.
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The efforts of conservative religious schools to funnel young grads to public service was discussed in "God & Country" by Monique El-Faizy.
It's a bit hard, I'd think, to prove something like this. It is akin to racism -- the "in" crowd here favors certain religious universities since they promote a conservative message and a gung ho desire to put it into policy (perhaps also more loyal and single focused them some others, also favored by loyal Bushies).
So, it might be difficult to prove exactly why they were chosen. That is, their religion or their partisan/policy bona fides.
As to the Catholic bit, this bothers me since it tends to be voiced stereotypically. Justice Brennan is Catholic. Various other Catholics in public service are pro-choice as a legislative matter. As are many run of the mill Catholics.
If any, evangelical/fundamentalist Protestants often are more gung ho about criminalizing abortion ... consider that the Roman Catholic Church isn't gung ho about contraceptives and homosexual unions either. Kennedy, however, wrote Lawrence v. Texas.
The "five Catholics" comments I have heard/read have failed to note such things, including on liberal radio shows. This is honestly very bad pool.
Professor Levinson:
Sooner or later, someone should go through the bios of people hired over the past three years or so, i.e., since the triumphalist election of George W. Bush in 2004
The recent appointees appear to be your usual elite law school grads. Sorry, no cabal of attorneys from religious law schools here.
Since last March, the administration has named at least nine U.S. attorneys with administration ties...They include:
Tim Griffin, 37, the U.S. attorney for Arkansas, who was an aide to White House political adviser Karl Rove and a spokesman for the Republican National Committee. [Tulane]
Rachel Paulose, 33, the U.S. attorney for Minnesota, who served briefly as a counselor to the deputy attorney general and who, according to a former boss, has been a member of the secretive, ideologically conservative Federalist Society. [Yale]
Jeff Taylor, 42, the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., who was an aide to Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch and worked as a counselor to Gonzales and to former Attorney General John Ashcroft. [Harvard]
John Wood, U.S. attorney in Kansas City, who's the husband of Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Julie Myers and an ex-deputy general counsel of the White House Office of Management and Budget. [Harvard]
Deborah Rhodes, 47, the U.S. attorney in Mobile, Ala., who was a Justice Department counselor. [Rutgers]
Alexander Acosta, 37, the U.S. attorney in Miami, who was an assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil rights division and a protege of conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. [Harvard]
John Richter, 43, the U.S. attorney in Oklahoma City, who was the chief of staff for the Justice Department's criminal division and acting assistant attorney general. [University of Virginia]
Matt Dummermuth, the U.S. attorney in Iowa, who was a Justice Department civil rights lawyer. [Harvard].
Rick White, the appointee which Karl Rove recommended, graduated from Dartmouth Law.
"Bart" ignores that the top-tier U.S. attorneys are only a small fraction of the people that were hired (and of those that Goodling may have had a hand in vetting). One could even say that underlings have even less reason to be "vetted" for political leanings, not being "political" appointees that are^h^h^hshould be confirmed by the Senate, and that should be non-partisan administrators of justice.
And I note that Prof. Levinson followed his question up with: "...and, of course, how many of those hired from the latter [non-Regent-type school grads] had been vetted by virtue of their affiliation with the Federalist Society and the like, apparently something highly important to Ms. Goodling)" "Bart" doesn't answer that one.
Say, I was student treasurer of the Boalt Federalist Society. Maybe I ought to float my resume around the DoJ. Actual qualifications seems to be bare-bones, so I ought to be a shoo-in.
Arne Langsetmo said...
And I note that Prof. Levinson followed his question up with: "...and, of course, how many of those hired from the latter [non-Regent-type school grads] had been vetted by virtue of their affiliation with the Federalist Society and the like, apparently something highly important to Ms. Goodling)" "Bart" doesn't answer that one.
I linked to the bios of the recent US Attorney hires. I agree they were hired because of their conservative credentials. Bush should have done this from the beginning like Clinton.
Say, I was student treasurer of the Boalt Federalist Society. Maybe I ought to float my resume around the DoJ. Actual qualifications seems to be bare-bones, so I ought to be a shoo-in.
Being a Federalist or a member of the various conservative public interest legal groupsis a qualification if you are looking for conservative lawyer or jurist. This is no different from a Dem like Clinton looking for someone with the liberal legal background of a Ginsberg.
It would be a mistake to underestimate the effectiveness of graduates of new religious law schools like Regent. The Boston Globe just had a piece on the law school and Barry Lynn warned not to underestimate Regent graduates, who are successfully litigating against his Americans for the Separation of Church and State around the country.
The law has been dominated by the left for a generation or two now and you folks have become complacent and a little condescending. We Federalists were on the receiving end of your disdain in my generation, but we are now in positions of power throughout the legal system and are changing the law. The Christian lawyers have been doing the same thing for the past decade or so and are winning in court. By all means, keep (mis)underestimating us.
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[Arne]: I was student treasurer of the Boalt Federalist Society.
The mind reels at the thought.
Why? Someone had to keep an eye on them (and encourage them to set up debates rather than just bring in speakers from the Federalist Society™ "approved" [read "subsidized"] list, which I succeeded at, getting Rachel Moran to go up against Linda Chavez on bilingual education, for instance).
Plus it gave me a subscription to their newsletter (got to know who the major names and players were, like Meese and C. Boyden Gray), and a subscription to the HJLPP ... until they figured out I wasn't going to pay them any more dues or contribute....
Plus, it might come in handy should business taper off and I need a job in DC....
FWIW, my sweetie spends more of her time around the big RW muckety-mucks nowadays than I do (she wisely keeps me at a distance from the social functions so I don't end up going nose-to-nose with them over dinner).
"Bart" DePalma:
Being a Federalist or a member of the various conservative public interest legal groupsis a qualification if you are looking for conservative lawyer or jurist. This is no different from a Dem like Clinton looking for someone with the liberal legal background of a Ginsberg.
It's not a "qualification". It's mandatory in some instances. Ferinstance, Clarence Thomas will hire only FedSoc clerks (maybe that accounts for the bizarreness of his opinions).
We Federalists were on the receiving end of your disdain in my generation, but we are now in positions of power throughout the legal system and are changing the law. The Christian lawyers have been doing the same thing for the past decade or so and are winning in court. By all means, keep (mis)underestimating us.
What's this "we" there, "Bart"? Got a mouse in your pocket? Tell me what some small-time DUI lawyer in a town that should by all rights claim to have no such clients has to do with the levers of power....
I'm grateful to Bart for his list of US Attorney appointees, which cuts against my hypothesis. I confess that I was thinking of less visible hirees, i.e., people brought into the Honors Program or initial hirees at the DOJ. It would not be surprising if there are at the present time relatively few graduates of religiouis schools with the requisite experience to be US Attorneys. But my surmise is that Ms. Woodling has been salting away a cadre of such people in the DOJ (and that at least some of this cadre have been hired over the conventionally-credentialed people listed by Bart, which in itself is scarcely cause for concern, depending on the numbers). But, of course, one can also describe such hiring, if it has been occurring at the rate I suspect, could be described as an "affirmative action program" for religious applicants, which obviously raises at least a couple of constitutional problems regardless of one's ordinary political affiliations.
Professsor Levinson,
I agree that its troublesome if the hiring process becomes too politicized, see my earlier post.
Nevertheless, from all the professors and attorneys that I know who worked in the DOJ, the vast majority that are conservatives worked in Republican administrations and the same goes for liberals in Democratic administrations. Is it just purely self-selection? Whether it has been or not, it seems that they has not been very much cross-over regardless of the politicization of the process.
Edit: Whether it has been or not, it seems that there has not been very much cross-over regardless of the politicization of the process.
Here's a somewhat clearer example of what's going on. Apparently the Administration has decided to appoint an unqualified (per statute) lawyer to the number two spot in the USPTO.
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Q: Why pick a qualified GOP lawyer when you can pick an unqualified GOP lawyer?
A: Because, as with Harriet Miers, loyalty is trumps. Just ask Alberto.
Just a note to Arne Langsetmo:
Could you stop with the quotes around Bart DePalma's name. He's a schmuck but still, it's a bit much. Do you refer to "Sandy" Levinson?
Just make your points and leave it at that. I could do withour the "cheers" as well, since it's both unnecessary and false given the context, but it's not worth arguing.
D. Ghirlandaio:
Could you stop with the quotes around Bart DePalma's name. He's a schmuck but still, it's a bit much. Do you refer to "Sandy" Levinson?
I call him "Prof. Levinson" (or occasionally "Prof. Balkin" when I'm not watching the attributions carefully enough). You can call me anything you want.
"Bart" calls me "Arne Langsetmo" or "arne", as the case may be.
I could do withour the "cheers" as well, since it's both unnecessary and false given the context, but it's not worth arguing.
Maybe you're making an assumption you shouldn't (have you checked out my typing skills, ferinstance?). FWIW, there's others that sign their names at the end, even when the same as their login. Perhaps if you're of the opinion that there's better things to argue (such as "Bart"'s various dishonesties), you should do so first yourself.
"Bart" calls me "Arne Langsetmo" or "arne", as the case may be."
Only you use scare-quotes "Arne."
I'm not opposed to insult. I'm not a polite person by nature, but I'm annoyed by biting passivity: If someone made a comment about the Democrat party in my presence, I'd probably knock him on his motherfucking ass.
Coy superiority is an affectation: it masks something. It's a form of cowardice.
If you can crush Bart's arguments just do it. But your manner annoys me almost more than his ideas, and that's not an easy thing to do.
Bart writes:Bush should have done this from the beginning like Clinton.
Bart, your incessant attempts to somehow vindicate gWb by reference to Clinton are not only tired, but serve to discredit your reasoning by virtue of reveling it as political and nothing more.
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Bart writes:Bush should have done this from the beginning like Clinton.
Bart, your incessant attempts to somehow vindicate gWb by reference to Clinton are not only tired, but serve to discredit your reasoning by virtue of reveling it as political and nothing more.
I had no problem with the Clinton Administration firing George I's US Attorneys and putting in his own folks. Elections have consequences, these are political appointees and Clinton had every right to put in his own team to pursue his policy objectives like suing the suing the tobacco industry.
Are acts like suing the tobacco industry political? Of course they are. The claim that the DOJ is completely apolitical and US Attorneys may not be removed for political reasons is partisan hogwash to justify a baseless investigation against Mr. Bush. Mr. Bush hardly needs to point to Mr. Clinton for justification for anything. I am merely illustrating illustrating the truth of my argument by citing to the actions of the past two Presidents.
D. Ghirlandaio
you're in the wrong place. your psuedo-macho knock'em on their ass stupidity belongs down at the monster truck rally.
no one cares if you like arne's style or not.
maybe we can all agree that arguing about it is even more stupid than paying attention to bart's childish willful denial of reality for whatever pathetic motive.
they're called verbal skills man...
but hey feel free to knock me on my ass... maybe i will learn not to annoy you....
Bill Clinton replaced all US Attorneys upon coming into office, as did a whole string of Presidents before him. George W. Bush did the same when he came into office, despite your attempts to imply otherwise. All Presidents install US Attorneys who will pursue their objectives. No one is criticizing Bush for that.
What we are criticizing Bush for is strong indications that he was using the Justice Department and US Attorney prosecutions as tools for swaying elections. In the words of Bart De Palma, stop being willfully obtuse.
D. Ghirlandaio:
If you can crush Bart's arguments just do it....
Who ever said it's an "either/or"? I use ridicule, sarcasm, devastating debunking, plenty of cites, a person's own words against them, or whatever seems to be called for.
... But your manner annoys me almost more than his ideas, and that's not an easy thing to do.
You need to get your priorities straight, man. I personally get annoyed by deliberate misrepresentiation, demonstrably false assertions, and outright hypocrisy. They are, to my mind, far more poisonous to the social comity (and to rational discourse) than some violation of Judith Martin's rules.
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3. Can you tell me about your company's benefits?
This is a genuine job-seeker query, but hold your horses. "It's too early in the process to be talking about this," says Hannah Morgan, a career strategist at CareerSherpa.net. "Many times the hiring manager doesn't know how it works, or even has the scope of expertise to communicate it. You're putting the cart before the horse."
Of course, you want to know how much the company contributes toward health insurance and how much vacation you will get. "For the average job seeker 50-plus, vacation time, for example, is very important," says Morgan. They're at the stage where four weeks of vacation is probably what they've had in the past, and thinking about less is a concern, she says. Plus, the employee out-of-pocket cost of health insurance is increasingly a worry as you get older. You also want to know how fast you can get vested in a 401(k) plan and qualify for matching employer contributions.
But don't ask yet. Instead, Morgan suggests networking with people who currently work there to find out what their experience is. Benefits can vary by department and seniority, but it will give you an idea of what to expect. Save this question for when you are negotiating the offer.
Collamer says you might be able to get benefits information by taking a different approach. "It's fine to ask open-ended questions, such as 'Tell me what you enjoy most about working here,' that might lead to information about the company's benefits, but keep the initial interview focused on job-related questions and save the questions about benefits for subsequent discussions."


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