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H.R.3343: To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to clarify the rules regarding the determination of the compensation of the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia.
|Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-DC
|1 (All Republicans)
|Oct. 28, 2013
|House Oversight and Government Reform
Bill Progress
- Bill introduced in the House
- Bill passed in the House
- Bill passed in the Senate
- Bill signed into law
Bill Actions
Last Action
|Dec. 25, 2013
|Signed by President.
|Dec. 25, 2013
|Became Public Law No: 113-71.
|Dec. 22, 2013
|Presented to President.
|Dec. 19, 2013
|Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
|Dec. 19, 2013
|Message on Senate action sent to the House.
|Nov. 18, 2013
|Received in the Senate.
|Nov. 18, 2013
|On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7162)
|Nov. 18, 2013
|Mr. Issa moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
|Nov. 18, 2013
|Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7162-7163)
|Nov. 18, 2013
|DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3343.
|Nov. 15, 2013
|Reported by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 113-267.
|Nov. 15, 2013
|Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 190.
|Oct. 28, 2013
|Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
|Oct. 28, 2013
|Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
|Oct. 27, 2013
|Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.


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Does anyone have an idea of how to brew a homemade tea?
The idea is to take tea leaves and boil the water to get the tea base . What do Ido from here???
Does anyone have an idea of how to brew a homemade tea?
The idea is to take tea leaves and boil the water to get the tea base . What do Ido from here???
You can't ferment straight tea, because the yeast won't have anything to eat. You need to add some kind of fermentable (sugar, honey, etc) and some yeast. You're probably better off taking a recipe for something that's already fermentable (beer, wine, mead) and adding your tea to it for flavor.
I had a pretty decent hard iced tea made by a fellow homebrewer one time. Don't remember his exact recipe, but it consisted of fresh brewed organic black tea, a whole bunch of brown sugar and some yeast nutrient (and yeast, of course!). 1 lb per gallon of brown sugar should yield a brew of about 4.5% ABV.
Here is a good list of fermentables you could use with your tea.
Basically, you need something with sugar for the yeast to eat to ferment anything.
If you're trying to make Kombucha, you just need sweet tea and a starter SCOBY. Here is a good how-to A scoby is a Symbiotic Colony Of Bacteria and Yeast (SCOBY). The yeast eat the sugar, making alcohol, and the bacteria eat the alcohol to make a vinegary tasting beverage.
If you're trying to brew tea like you would beer or wine, I'm not sure how that will turn out taste-wise. Seems like the yeast you would use for beer and wine would make a weird tasting brew, using sweet tea.
I'm a total noob at wine making, but i think you would need wine or champagne yeast and yeast nutrient to start it since tea leaves wouldn't have much unless you want to mix it in with a juice. Not sure if you know about airtight containers with an airlock but thats needed to for making in general.

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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Bernie Krause Gorillas in the Mix
This is a classic. Before digital sampling became the norm, Bernie Krause pioneered it all, with his environmental recordings, with hydrophone technology and technique, with his superb ear for pitch and timbre, and with his ideas for meshing their occurrence in natural and animal sounds with human-made music. Kids love this AND adults do too. Bernie Kraus's "Gorillia's in the Mix" may be saturated with "punny" names, but the sheer wonder occurs when you realize that EVERY SINGLE SOUND you hear is an ANIMAL--there are NO HUMAN SOUNDS or instruments on any of these remarkable cuts! My favorite (listed incompletely here) is "I'm In Trouble, Turkey Corwin" (to the tune of Paula Abdul's smash hit, "Straight Up" which came out a year before). A Parrot from the San Diego Zoo takes the vocals to the swishing tails of shrimp, the smacking lips of horses, the ruffling of turkey feathers and 30 other animal sounds! This is NOT one of those gimicky animal records like "Meowy Christmas by Jingle Cats". This is exotica taken to it's higest level - naturally. This was played at SeaWorld for years over the pa.
1. Trout from Ipanema - Bernie Krause, Mills, T.
2. Jungle Shoes 3. I'm in Trouble, Turkey Corwin - Bernie Krause, Michael, P.
4. Gaia Dreams
5. Ape No Mountain High Enough
6. Animal Farm
7. Fish Wrap
8. Stomp in the Name of Love - Bernie Krause, Ward, Ma
Labels: electronic, exotica
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- Johnny Suede said...
Hello! Thank you for all these great records! Could you please re-up this one please ? It's quite hard to find!
Thanks again,
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Happy harpy 02 by dark-tarouWatch
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EDIT: wow, a DD! I saw it quite early in the morning I thought I might be still asleep or something haha.. Thank you uchuubranko for suggesting it, that is super sweet of you ;A; and a big thanks to KovoWolf for the feature!!
Another harpy!
*next time I want to draw a flower field just kick me in the knee…*
Another harpy!
*next time I want to draw a flower field just kick me in the knee…*
Daily DeviationGiven 2013-11-14
Happy harpy 02 by ~dark-tarou ( Suggested by uchuubranko and Featured by KovoWolf )
I've featured your wonderful work in my journal: andreeaiuliana.deviantart.com/… hope you don't mind!
thank you & happy new year!
Such an amazing work, well done! I love the colors <3
Ahhh haha! I love the textures and subtle blending of colours.
She's beautiful :"D : u for some reason it reminded me of Hera.
Very beautiful work!
This is just a fantastic piece of artwork, really stand-out from the crowd stuff!
Very beautiful! Nicely done!
Very nice love the colors!
wonderfull piece
One doesn't usually think of Harpies as happy! Congrats on the DD!
I like!
but i want you to draw more flowers
Oooooh!! So beautiful!
Congrats on the DD!
Have a nice day!
Have a nice day!
Congratulations on having your piece featured as one of today's Daily Deviations! <3


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WASHINGTON — A year after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is hobbled and hunted, too busy surviving for the moment to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil.
But the terrorist network dreams still of payback, and U.S. counterterrorist officials warn that, in time, its offshoots may deliver.
A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that has cost the U.S. about $1.28 trillion and 6,300 U.S. troops' lives has forced al-Qaida's affiliates to regroup, from Yemen to Iraq. Bin Laden's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, is thought to be hiding, out of U.S. reach, in Pakistan's mountains, just as bin Laden was for so many years.
"It's wishful thinking to say al-Qaida is on the brink of defeat," says Seth Jones, a Rand analyst and adviser to U.S. special operations forces. "They have increased global presence, the number of attacks by affiliates has risen, and in some places like Yemen, they've expanded control of territory."
It's a complicated, somewhat murky picture for Americans to grasp.
U.S. officials say bin Laden's old team is all but dismantled. But they say new branches are hitting Western targets and U.S. allies overseas, and still aspire to match their parent organization's milestone of Sept. 11, 2001.
The deadliest is in Yemen.
"They are continuing to try to again, carry out an attack against U.S. persons inside of Yemen, as well as against the homeland," White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
"We're working very closely with our Yemeni partners to track down all these leads," he said.
Brennan says there's no sign of an active revenge plot against U.S. targets, but U.S. citizens in Pakistan and beyond are being warned to be vigilant ahead of the May 2 anniversary of the night raid. U.S. helicopters swooped down on bin Laden's compound in the Pakistani army town of Abbottabad, killing him, one of his sons, two couriers and their wives.
The last view for Americans of the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks was that of a wizened old man sitting in front of an old television, wrapped in a blanket.
The world may never see photographic proof of his death. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in Washington ruled last week that the Obama administration, under the Freedom of Information Act, would not have to turn over images of bin Laden during or after the raid.
"Verbal descriptions of the death and burial of Osama Bin Laden will have to suffice," Boasberg wrote in his ruling on the lawsuit by the public interest group Judicial Watch.
Bin Laden's killing and al-Qaida's stumbling efforts to regroup are now the national security centerpiece of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
The White House frequently cites the president's decision to approve the raid, with only a 50-50 chance that bin Laden was even at the compound. Obama could have gone down in history as the man who put the Navy SEALs and the relationship with Pakistan in jeopardy, while failing to catch the al-Qaida leader.
"Al-Qaida was and is our No. 1 enemy," White House spokesman Jay Carney said last week. "So it's a part of his foreign policy record, obviously, but it's also part of a very serious endeavor to keep our country safe."
How safe remains in question.
U.S. officials say al-Qaida is less able to carry out a complex attack like Sept. 11 and they rule out al-Qaida's ability to attack with weapons of mass destruction in the coming year. These officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they say publicly identifying themselves could make them a target of the terrorist group.
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The Bastrop Police Department and The Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office are asking for your help in solving residential burglaries in the past week.
BPD has reported that five vehicles were broken into on Dec. 27. These vehicle burglaries were random, not in any particular area of town. They also have reports of several homes being broken into and items such as laptop computers, televisions, games, and even a washer and dryer stolen from the homes.
On Dec. 28 at 1:30 a.m. the Dollar General Store on North Washington was broken into by two unknown suspects. At this time, the BPD does not have a list of what was taken from the store or the total amount of damages.
The Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office received a call at 7:30 a.m. on Dec. 23 from the owner of a farm shed on the Mer Rouge-Collinston Highway. The owner reported several items were taken, including 12 batteries taken from farm equipment and a cutting torch with gauges valued at $2,700.
At 11 a.m. on Dec. 23, the MPSO responded to a call at a church on the Mer Rouge-Oak Ridge Highway. Someone had taken the meter box and wires from the church building. It is estimated that to replace these items will cost $1,000.
On Dec. 25 at 2 p.m. a business on Hwy 425 North, close to the Arkansas line reported a break-in. The suspects destroyed vending machines and took all the money out of them. A business truck was also stolen, but it has been located in Springfield, Missouri.
At 10 a.m. on Dec. 27, deputies from the MPSO responded to a call from a resident on Patrick Lane. The home had been burglarized with the suspect or suspects taking a 32" Visio television valued at $1,100, a Playstation 3 valued at $300, 12 Playstation games valued at $50 each, a red GameBoy, two GameBoy games valued at $50 each, a Tashiba DVD player valued at $120, a set of 22" rims and tires valued at $1,100, a gold chain with a cross and diamonds valued at $1,500.
Crime Stoppers of Morehouse will pay up to $1000 for information leading to the arrest or grand jury indictment and conviction of the suspect sought in connection with this crime or other crimes in Morehouse Parish. All information shared with Crime Stoppers is confidential.
Anyone with information regarding this incident or any other crimes in the parish should call Crime Stoppers at 281.0050 or the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office at 281.4141. For crimes within the city limits of Bastrop, contact the Bastrop Police Department at 281.1322.
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Price, color, shipping, softness.... FANTASTIC! But when you take it out the smell of plastic is overwhelming. It doesn't get much better smelling. DEcorative, great. Cuddling, nope.
Love the fabric and color - a nice throw for my bedroom.
More of a sage green than what it looks like in the picture.....nice weight and the quality seems decent.
This is a nice change from fleece.A little more sophisticated.
This throw is not only soft and comfortable the color is exactly what I was looking for. It looks perfect on my chaise lounge in my master bedroom.
great quality...color true to picture, warm..little/no shedding! nice weave
I looked for months to replace a much loved throw and sent two back because they were not soft and were too light. This is just right and I love it!
I bought two of these and I love them. They are so soft and cuddly without being too heavy. It's the exact color I was looking for and never expected to find. Thanks, Overstock for a great deal.
received the throw in about 1 week, the color is spot on to the picture on the site, to me it is the perfect weight it is not too thin or too heavy, some people described it as sheer but not at all
I have been looking forward to this blanket coming. I love throw blankets and I really love the color. Once I got my blanket in the mail. there was a hole in the packaging and the "fringe" was all tangled and in a huge knot. I was un able to get the huge knot out of the blanket and the hole in the blanket really made me upset. after paying this much for a blanket it should come in good condition. the blanket feels great. very nice fabric and the color is true to the picture. If it didnt come like this I would think about ordering another one BUT because of the condition it came in I am very upset and now trying to deal with a replacement. I HAVE NOT EVEN had it a few hrs and had to much of a headache trying to get my blanket to be in good condition. : ( fail!!!!
Ordered these to match my new furniture. It was an exact match! Love them!
Lovely green, wonderful weight. In all a lovely product.
Bought as a gift, I am very happy with the quality and softness of the throw. The color is true Basil, I love it.


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