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SFBI baguette weekend workshop - a photo report
I have wanted to take classes from SFBI for so long, but TX is not exactly close to SF, and my day job really gets in the way of scheduling. When I saw they started offering some weekend workshops, I jumped on the opportunity. And of course, I picked the baguette class, since that's my main obsession.
Arriving early to be greeted by friendly classmates, teacher, and lots of fresh croissants. While we were going through our class, the students were just producing breads nonstop the entire time, and lucky us got to sample a few.
Hmmm, I wonder if I can ask for this to be my birthday gift? I am sure we can fit one in.... if we tear down our living room and den!
Would anyone notice if I just take a couple?....I AM KIDDING!
Now, let's get to work, 3 types for the first day: straight dough, poolish, and sponge. All done with minimal mixing (hand mixed to incorporate), and 3 sets of S&F.
I have done S&F every weekend, but handling 7.5KG of dough is decidely different from handling 1KG. Note to self, must lift weights.
We had lectures while waiting for the dough, but my favorite part is the hands on part. Look at the big tubs of dough, this is when I realized that professional baking is a very very very physical job. Oh, I also would like a kitchen that's as big as this!
Teacher Frank is showing us how to divide and preshape. Even pieces, even tension, repeat.
We make 5 pieces for each type of baguette, my preshaping is far from perfect
Many many many trays of dough - 15 pieces per person per day
It's almost 2pm, we are starving. Let's get these babies shaped already! My batch of straight dough baguettes here - with my name on it!
Lunch , thank goodness. We inhaled that one. On 2nd day, we had pizza (yum!) and wine for lunch. Let's just say there were a lot more giggling in the afternoon session.
Well fed, let's check on the dough, ready to be scored and baked!
Loading is "interesting". Frank also showed us the home oven method (baking stone, cast iron skillets underneads to create steam etc.).
Best part, time to taste and critique! These are Frank's, hole-y and beautiful
These are mine. The dough is about 68% hydration, not so wet, so scoring was not difficult, I am semi-happy with the left two, no idea what happened for the one on the right. Seems that I loaded it too close to the right edge, didn't get browned on that side. It's straight dough, poolish, and sponge from left to right.
Not as open as Frank's crumb, need more practice with the new shaping method.
We all like the taset of sponge one the best, but all three are delicious.
We did 3 more formulas on the 2nd day (With teff, with sunflower seeds, and ww with wheat germ), and tried epi too.
All in all, a great experience! A lot of the info were familiar to me thanks to the knowledgable people here at TFL, but it helps tremendously to see close up how a professional handles the dough , and practice on 15 baguettes each day. Frank was very helpful answering questions and helping too. The shaping and preshaping methods are slightly different from what I have been doing previously, I like this new way better, will keep practicing at home for sure. Everyone ended up with loads of bread at the end of each day, since I was from out of town, I gave most of mine away to a classmate, who then distributed to elders in her neighbourhood - makes me happy.


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A Racine man accused of twice spray-painting graffiti on the Federal Courthouse in downtown Milwaukee has been charged.
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HOT SPRINGS Though the scene may seem chaotic on opening day at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, the preparation begins well before the crowds arrive.
David Longinotti, assistant general manager for Oaklawn, said the first order of business is to make sure the horses are scheduled to race.
"We open the stable area in mid-November," Longinotti said. "Gate training starts a month out, with the workouts ... So it's long, involved process."
Belinda Castleberry, food and beverage director for Oaklawn, also had the food and catering staff working months in advance to prepare for not just opening day but the entire opening weekend. That includes Saturday's special of 50-cent corned beef sandwiches and 10-cent soft drinks. Castleberry said her staff cooks had stocked 5 1/2 tons of corned beef for the weekend.
"Prep-wise though, it's a team effort," Castleberry said. "It takes a lot to get kitchens that have been closed down for nine months back up for the live meet."
On Friday, the crowd was sparse at first but more filed in as race time neared.
Fans came from around the region and state for the races, including Nicholas Soho, a native New Yorker who has lived the last 30 years in Slidell, La.
Oaklawn officials said they see the actual opening day as a relief given all the prep that has gone into it.
The winner of the day's first race was jockey Robby Albarado aboard Congenial.
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Damp-loving needle cast disease thriving this year
Most narrow-leaf evergreens will shed their old needles, some more often than others. In the fall each year, you can anticipate that white pine, Virginia pine, red pine etc. will develop yellowing needles that fall and accumulate on the ground beneath the branches. Evergreens such as arborvitae, chamaecyparis, Leyland cypress and white cedar trees will also shed their needles but at a much slower rate.
Most pine trees will retain their old needles for 18 months or so depending on species and amount of new growth. The new growth shades out the older needles, causing them to turn yellow and drop. If you prune away the new growth in mid summer, then the pine trees will retain their old needles through a second growing season.
Arborvitae retain their old needles, or scales, until the new growth completely shades the old foliage. The older needles turn brown and remain attached to the branches. New gardeners often become upset when they look into the inner stems of their arborvitae and see large sections of dead-brown foliage inside the plant. This is a normal process, and there is nothing that you can do about it. However, if you see needles that have emerged since spring turn brown and drop, you have problems.
The hurricane and tropical storms this summer helped to develop a disease called needle cast in many narrow-leaf evergreens such as junipers, fir and some spruce trees. If you can predict that this disease is going to occur, you can prevent it from becoming established by spraying with a fungicide such as copper sulfate. However, most people don't realize that the trees are in trouble until they are losing most of their foliage. If the tree had already developed strong vegetative buds along its branches, it will survive, looking ugly, until next spring. But if needle cast disease occurred before the tree had a chance to develop strong vegetative buds along its branches, the tree will most likely not survive and grow next spring.
Don't give up the tree for dead if there are pointed buds lining the branches. The heavy rains came after the buds for next year's growth had developed, so many trees with needle cast disease have strong, well-developed vegetative buds and will resume normal growth next spring.
Q I read your Oct. 13 article on wetting compost with keen interest. I have some kind of what, for lack of knowledge and recognition, I call small maggots. When I turn over the pile, which is wet, they are prolific indeed. The pile is warm and it does decompose significantly from week to week, even though I add lawn clippings regularly. The maggots don't seem to bother the process, and as far as I've noticed they don't hatch. If they do hatch, they don't stick around for very long.
My question: Is this a harmful process? Should I abandon the pile and start anew? I add eggshells, vegetables, fruit rinds and peelings as they accumulate. The pile otherwise seems fairly ordinary. Thanks for any advice. Enjoy your column very much.
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A The maggots that you see are mostly fly maggots that do no harm. I have them in my pile, but they disappear as soon as the worms take over. I add egg shells and vegetable and fruit trimmings to my compost almost daily. When I turn the pile, the maggots disappear because of the heat generated in decomposition.


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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities ordered an EgyptAir plane on its way to Damascus to turn back on Monday because of the "bad security situation" at the Syrian capital's airport, an official from the airline said.
The announcement came a day after the airline said it had decided to lift a suspension of flights to Syria, put in place because of fighting around Damascus International Airport.
The airport is close to Sunni Muslim towns and suburbs that have been at the forefront of the revolt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The Osama Bin Zeid Brigades, one of several Islamist rebel units operating around the capital, described the 20-km (12 mile) airport road as a "battleground territory" and warned civilians not to use it in a statement.
"Egyptian authorities told Flight 721 to go back to Cairo, based on information received from Damascus," the EgyptAir official said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Joie (JOH'-ee) Chen is returning to television as host of the new Al-Jazeera America network's flagship newsmagazine, "America Tonight."
The network, which premieres on Aug. 20, announced the hire on Wednesday. Chen has worked at CBS News and PBS but is best known for a decade spent at CNN. She's been out of television for the past couple of years.
Paul Eedle, Al-Jazeera America's deputy launch manager for programs, called Chen "a strong journalist with a natural, warm presence on screen."
"America Tonight" will air each weeknight, but Al-Jazeera hasn't said exactly when. It is one of the few specific programs announced in advance of the launch.


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Summerlander wrote:I have a suggestion for people who want answers to certain questions but don't trust or resonate with the opinions and explanations of others. Have a lucid dream and ask a dream character any question you want. Ask the dream itself, even, to show you something that will bring you to a great realisation. See what you get.
Perhaps you will be shown a perspective that you wouldn't normally consider and be surprised. Don't be alarmed or mystified with what you get though. We are the universe and those answers may not be as inaccessible as one might think. Search the depths of your unconscious mind, reach within, find the source of what you have become and you might just realise that you are at one with everything.
Yes, if the theory that we are stardust is true, we are connected with everything. Stars, I'm sure, were formed from other explosions of other stars, or w/e. And in turn, created our galaxy, or w/e. I don't feel much like a star, though. I mean, I'm hot, but not that hot


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Alexandre Pato has stressed that he is keen to remain AC Milan's first-choice penalty taker, regardless of his miss from 12 yards in the 3-1 Serie A loss against Fiorentina at the weekend.
The 23-year-old has received his fair share of criticism in the past few days for blasting his attempt over the crossbar against the Viola, but he is eager to continue having spot kick responsibility.
"I am very sad about the penalty miss and the defeat in general. Missing a penalty is never nice," the San Siro attacker told Milan Channel.
"However, I am the designated penalty taker. I was on the pitch. Whenever I am playing, I take the penalties and I have no problem taking penalties. Unfortunately I missed."
The Brazil international only recently returned from a lengthy spell on the sidelines due to injury, and he has stressed that he is not fully recovered just yet.
"I have only just made my way back after a long time out with injury. I have been on the sidelines for a long time, but I cannot say that I am really back. I am still on the road to full fitness.
"I am here at the club and I always have been working hard to try and get back into good shape. But I will only get back to being 100 per cent when things start to go well."
Pato has made six official appearances so far this term, scoring once in the process.


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text: In the April issue of Scientific American, veteran planetary scientist S. Alan Stern writes about how private spaceflight companies aren't just going to open space travel to wealthy tourists—they're going to revolutionize the way scientists study the environment around our planet. One of the programs that Stern and others are so excited about is SpaceX's Dragon space capsule. Last year the company became the first to launch to the International Space Station. In the future these capsules will offer space access to anyone, and at a price that is much lower than researchers currently have to pay to ride on a traditional rocket.


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Redefining "renewable" to get a clean energy bill through Congress
Seven times since the 101st Congressional session in 1989, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., has sponsored or co-sponsored some bill establishing a national energy policy to reduce global warming. Each in some way called for U.S. utilities to get a certain percentage of electricity from renewable sources by a certain year; a few had bipartisan support. As recently as 2010, Bingaman had four Republican senators on board, including Kansas' Sam Brownback.
But somewhere along the road to law, every one of those bills died. Environmentalists complained that the 2009 legislation asked too little when it set the standard at 15 percent renewables by 2020; many Democrats withdrew their support. The next year, a nearly identical standard lost Democrats, too, but for the opposite reason: In the run-up to the 2010 election, with his own seat in jeopardy, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., considered it too extreme to even bring to the floor.
All the energy mandates Bingaman had pushed up to then had defined "renewable sources" as non-fossil fuels such as wind, solar, geothermal, tidal power and certain kinds of biomass. Republicans, and some conservative Democrats, objected: In 2007, Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., sponsored a "clean" energy bill to promote low-emissions fuel, renewable or not; in 2010, Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., proposed more ambitious targets -- 13 percent by 2012 and 25 percent by 2025 -- but included nuclear power and low-emissions coal.
Bingaman opposed those efforts. "He wanted to see emerging energy technologies achieve better penetration in the marketplace," says spokesman Bill Wicker. But after the 2010 failure, "we decided (a renewable energy standard) wasn't the highest and best use of our time." Bingaman, who will retire in 2013 after 30 years in the Senate, realized that if he wanted to get any kind of climate-friendly energy standard to the floor before he left, he had to give up on the word "renewable." When President Obama in his 2011 State of the Union address set a "clean" energy goal of 80 percent by 2035, Bingaman "promised he'd try to get that passed."
On March 1, Bingaman introduced the Clean Energy Standards Act of 2012, which would require most large U.S. utilities to produce a certain amount of their electricity without emitting greenhouse gases: 24 percent by 2015, 84 percent by 2035. The bill specifies no particular means of producing electricity; it simply allows utilities to earn credits toward their percentage goals for whatever emits less carbon than a modern, efficient coal plant. Solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal and nuclear get full credit; natural gas, which burns about half as clean as coal, gets half credit. Utilities with an abundance of clean energy could sell credits to utilities having trouble making the grade.
Environmentalists aren't completely happy: Although the bill calls for a study of energy efficiency, there's no direct provision to give utilities credit for using fewer watts per customer. And although utilities could never meet an 84 percent clean-fuel goal with natural gas alone, the legislation would give it at least a temporary boost. "It's giving windfall profits to an industry that needs no support at the policy level," says Jeff Deyette, assistant energy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists. The same goes for nuclear. "(Uranium) is not a renewable resource," he says, "and nuclear already supplies 20 percent of our electricity. Including it does nothing to diversify our power supply."
Nor does the bill quell Republican opposition. Even Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who worked with Bingaman last year to define the energy mix, said she'd support it only if the Environmental Protection Agency withdrew its plans to regulate greenhouse gases from new coal plants.
"That's the irony of the whole thing," Wicker says. "Republicans in Congress used to complain that 'renewable energy' was too narrow and picked winners and losers; we needed a broader approach. So we say, 'OK, let's do a clean energy standard.' And now none of them want anything to do with it."
So why fight for a federal energy standard at all? Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have some sort of renewable energy mandate; four others have non-enforceable goals. Even George W. Bush, while he was governor, supported Texas' push for renewable energy -- rightly so, as wind brought "enormous investment," says Richard Caperton, an energy expert with the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. "It's also had a positive impact on grid reliability," he says.
But that's also the very problem with leaving renewable energy goals to the states: The ones who stand to benefit economically will embrace it; the ones that don't, won't. In coal-dependent states like Wyoming -- which lacks a renewable energy mandate or goal -- an emphasis on sun and wind energy looks like a job-killer. Even in states with robust renewable energy industries, eligible fuels have proved fungible as economic circumstances change. Washington recently allowed wood products from pulp mills built before 1999 to qualify as renewable biomass, an explicit effort to boost suffering timber-dependent rural economies.
For similar reasons, Republican state legislators in Colorado have tried to open up the state's renewable standard to include electricity generated with methane that coal mines would otherwise vent. Some environmentalists support it, arguing that because methane is 21 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, it's better to burn it than release it into the atmosphere.
Others worry that including coal-mine methane in the definition of "renewable" is just another attempt to cut into the wind and solar industries, a charge leveled at Arizona Republican State Rep. Debbie Lesko two years ago, when she tried to add nuclear to Arizona's renewable mix. Pro-solar Republican Gov. Jan Brewer diplomatically strong-armed Lesko into dropping her campaign, but Lesko continues to fight the state's renewable goals -- for, she says, the consumer's sake: Electricity from wind and solar costs more per kilowatt hour.
Theoretically, that's true: For now, it costs more to put wind and solar on the grid than to continue burning coal, a cost consumers have to bear unevenly in states with renewable energy mandates. But the best way to solve that problem, Deyette says, is to establish a federal standard. "It would mean that everyone, in every state, shares the financial burden of bringing new technologies onto the grid," he says. A U.S. Energy Information Administration analysis of Bingaman's 2010 proposal projected that, in 20 years, the renewables standard would raise the national average price per kilowatt hour by a mere 2 percent.
The EIA will analyze this year's bill, too, which is partly why Bingaman introduced it, however doomed the cause. The language in the Clean Energy Standards Act has been meticulously crafted to render moot the bickering about solar and wind subsidies that's hamstrung Congress; it focuses the debate, laser-like, on climate. "It's a starting point for a longer conversation," Wicker says. "When the 113th Congress comes in, they'll have a legislative history they can build on. Ultimately, something like it will succeed."


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State Department emails from day of Libya attack show Al Qaeda-tied group on radar
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Published October 23, 2012
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A series of internal State Department emails obtained by Fox News shows some some of the initial assessments of last month's deadly consulate attack in Libya, including one email within hours of the attack that noted that the group Ansar al Sharia had claimed responsibility.
Ansar al Sharia has been declared by the State Department to be a an Al Qaeda-affiliated group. A member of the group suspected of participating in the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi has been arrested and is being held in Tunisia.
The emails obtained by Fox News were sent by the State Department to a variety of national security platforms, whose addresses have been redacted, including the White House Situation Room, the Pentagon, the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence.
Fox News was told that an estimated 300 to 400 national security figures received these emails in real time almost as the raid was playing out and concluding. People who received these emails work directly under the nations top national security, military and diplomatic officials, Fox News was told.
The timestamps on the emails are all Eastern Time and often include the subheading SBU which is shorthand for Sensitive But Unclassified.
The first email indicates that U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and other personnel were in the compound safe haven. Officials later discovered that Stevens and three other Americans had died in the attack.
The first email was sent at 4:05 p.m. ET with the subject line U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under Attack (SBU).
The Regional Security Officer reports the diplomatic mission is under attack," the email reads. "Embassy Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well. Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four COM personnel are in the compound safe haven. The 17th of February militia is providing security support.
"The operations Center will provide updates as available.
The second email came at 4:54 p.m. ET, with a subject line Update 1: U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi (SBU)"
Embassy Tripoli reports the firing at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi has stopped and the compound has been cleared. A response team is on site attempting to locate COM personnel.
The third email came at 6:07 p.m. ET and was sent to a different email list but still includes the White House Situation Room address and a subject line of Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack (SBU).
Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli," the email reads.
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Jonathan S. Tobin 10.26.2012 - 9:30 AM
The father of Tyrone Woods, the ex-Navy SEAL who died while trying to defend Ambassador Chris Stevens in the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, made the rounds of some radio shows yesterday, and the tale he told of his meetings with top administration officials doesnt put any of them in a flattering light. Speaking to radio talkers Glenn Beck and Lars Larson, Charles Woods expressed his belief that, given the revelations about real-time intelligence about the attack being funneled to Washington, its clear that someone gave an order not to save those trapped in the consulate by the terrorists.
But as upset as he is about the failure of the administration to come clean about what happened, his account of his personal contacts with them is just as bad. He described President Obamas condolences as insincere, said Vice President Joe Biden made a wildly inappropriate remark about his son and that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised that, were going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video.
Woods account of the presidents attempt to console him may be put down as the angry reflections of a grieving father, but it does dovetail with much of what we know about the presidents personality.
On Becks show, Woods described the encounter in this manner:
When he finally came over to where we were, I could tell that he was rather conflicted, a person who was not at peace with himself, Woods said. Shaking hands with him, quite frankly, was like shaking hands with a dead fish. His face was pointed towards me but he would not look me in the eye, his eyes were over my shoulder.
I could tell that he was not sorry, he added. He had no remorse.
As for Biden, the blundering veeps attempt to praise the slain ex-SEAL did not go over very well:
Woods said Biden came over to his family and asked in a loud and boisterous voice, Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?
Are these the words of someone who is sorry? said Woods.
But perhaps most damning of all were the words of Clinton, who not only attempted to promote the story of the video being the cause of the attack, but went so far as to promise to have the man who produced it jailed. While the White House has been furiously trying to persuade the country that it always knew that what happened was a terrorist attack, Clintons comments are another reminder of the administrations effort to falsely blame it all on the video. That Clinton would go so far as to push for the mans arrest for exercising his free speech rights is chilling, especially given the State Departments prior and subsequent efforts to appease radical Islamists.
Woodss complaint is especially heart-rending because he knows that his son was not at the consulate at the time of the attack, but rather a mile away in a safe house, yet responded to calls for help. As Alana reported yesterday, the latest revelations about real-time information coming in about the attack makes the failure to respond adequately even more puzzling. Woods is demanding answers that have not been forthcoming:
I want to honor my son, Ty Woods, who responded to the cries for help and voluntarily sacrificed his life to protect the lives of other Americans. In the last few days it has become public knowledge that within minutes of the first bullet being fired the White House knew these heroes would be slaughtered if immediate air support was denied. Apparently, C-130s were ready to respond immediately. In less than an hour, the perimeters could have been secured and American lives could have been saved. After seven hours fighting numerically superior forces, my sons life was sacrificed because of the White Houses decision. This has nothing to do with politics, this has to do with integrity and honor. My son was a true American hero. We need more heroes today. My son showed moral courage. This is an opportunity for the person or persons who made the decision to sacrifice my sons life to stand up.
The administrations apologists have told us that it is too soon for us to expect answers about a complicated matter. It is true that the fog of war made it difficult for the president and his team to respond effectively. But we also know that they seized upon a lie about the video and promoted it relentlessly for as long as they could get away with it. They were determined to do anything to suppress the facts about the revival of al-Qaeda-related groups in Libya. Rather than Woods or Republican critics speaking out of turn, it was an administration that was campaigning on the idea that the death of Osama bin Laden ended the war on terror that was playing politics. Charles Woods testimony only adds to the justified anger that many Americans feel about the presidents handling of the tragedy in Benghazi.
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EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz2AQ9GAadl
Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that three urgent requests from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. Consulate and subsequent attack nearly seven hours later were denied by officials in the CIA chain of command -- who also told the CIA operators to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.
Former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were part of a small team who were at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. Consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. When they heard the shots fired, they radioed to inform their higher-ups to tell them what they were hearing. They were told to "stand down," according to sources familiar with the exchange. An hour later, they called again to headquarters and were again told to "stand down."
Woods, Doherty and at least two others ignored those orders and made their way to the Consulate which at that point was on fire. Shots were exchanged. The quick reaction force from the CIA annex evacuated those who remained at the Consulate and Sean Smith, who had been killed in the initial attack. They could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight.
At that point, they called again for military support and help because they were taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex. The request was denied. There were no communications problems at the annex, according those present at the compound. The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound. The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Specter gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours -- enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.
A Special Operations team, or CIF which stands for Commanders in Extremis Force, operating in Central Europe had been moved to Sigonella, Italy, but they too were told to stand down. A second force that specializes in counterterrorism rescues was on hand at Sigonella, according to senior military and intelligence sources. According to those sources, they could have flown to Benghazi in less than two hours. They were the same distance to Benghazi as those that were sent from Tripoli. Specter gunships are commonly used by the Special Operations community to provide close air support.
According to sources on the ground, the special operator on the roof of the CIA annex had visual contact and a laser pointing at the Libyan mortar team that was targeting the CIA annex. The operators were calling in coordinates of where the Libyan forces were firing from.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday that there was not a clear enough picture of what was occurring on the ground in Benghazi to send help.
"There's a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on here," Panetta said Thursday. "But the basic principle here ... is that you don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on."
Fox News has learned that there were two military surveillance drones redirected to Benghazi shortly after the attack on the Consulate began. They were already in the vicinity. The second surveillance craft was sent to relieve the first drone, perhaps due to fuel issues. Both were capable of sending real time visuals back to US officials in Washington, D.C. Any U.S. official or agency with the proper clearance, including the White House Situation Room, State Department, CIA, Pentagon and others, could call up that video in real time on their computers.
Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, were part of a Global Response Staff or GRS that provides security to CIA case officers and provides countersurveillance and surveillance protection. They were killed by a mortar shell at 4 a.m. Libyan time, nearly seven hours after the attack on the Consulate began -- a window that represented more than enough time for the U.S. military to send back-up from nearby bases in Europe, according to sources familiar with Special Operations. Four mortars were fired at the annex. The first one struck outside the annex. Three more hit the annex.
A motorcade of dozens of Libyan vehicles, some mounted with 50 caliber machine guns, belonging to the February 17th Brigades, a Libyan militia which is friendly to the US, finally showed up at the CIA annex at approximately 3 a.m. An American Quick Reaction Force sent from Tripoli had arrived at the Benghazi airport at 2 a.m. (four hours after the initial attack on the Consulate) and was delayed for 45 minutes at the airport because they could not at first get transportation, allegedly due to confusion among Libyan militias who were supposed to escort them to the annex, according to Benghazi sources. The American special operators, Woods, Doherty and at least two others were part of the Global Response Staff, a CIA element, based at the CIA annex and were protecting CIA operators who were part of a mission to track and repurchase arms in Benghazi that had proliferated in the wake of Muammar Qaddafi's fall. Part of their mission was to find the more than 20,000 missing MANPADS, or shoulder-held missiles capable of bringing down a commercial aircraft. According to a source on the ground at the time of the attack, the team inside the CIA annex had captured three Libyan attackers and was forced to hand them over to the Libyans. U.S. officials do not know what happened to those three attackers and whether they were released by the Libyan forces.
Fox News has also learned that Stevens was in Benghazi that day to be present at the opening of an English-language school being started by the Libyan farmer who helped save an American pilot who had been shot down by pro-Qaddafi forces during the initial war to overthrow the regime. That farmer saved the life of the American pilot and the Ambassador wanted to be present to launch the Libyan rescuer's new school.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz2AQ9SAJsj
Oh, I forgot, it's not a cover up, it's a riot over a video. There is no scandal.
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For before this event, for denying security when terrorist activity was proved to be increasing.
For during the event, for absolutely doing nothing for our fellow Americans there and they ended up being killed.
For after the event, lying and trying to cover this whole mess up.
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the public still doesn't care. Very few of the wingers on my fb feed have mentioned this, and none have more than once.
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This President is a joke, as are people like you that will blindly support him regardless of stuff like this.
You and yours would be wise to just keep your heads down and your mouths shut when this topic comes up. You're right - the public isn't going to care. The public is also a largely uniformed mob of easily manipulated, ignorant half-wits that ought not have a say in how this government is run.
The fact that the public doesn't care about this really says all that needs be said about the quality of our electorate. Then again, the fact that they put Obama in office in the first place is pretty damning in its own right.
Though not nearly as damning as the fact that they're going to do it again.
Congrats on your boy getting another 4 years. Afterall - that's all that matters. Getting the win is far more important than actually running the nation.
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The hyperventillating over this when we still don't know exactly who was responsible and what all happened is absurd.
I made comments to several people after 9/11 happened that we had no idea of what happened so it was premature to say "bomb (countryname here). I feel the same about this.
Aside from that, do you any of you really think this made it to Obama's desk BEFORE the ambassador was killed?
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Intake date: 3-16-10
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Hazel needs A LOT of training. She's a sweet dog with no manners at all. Staff have tried to work with her but haven't gotten far. A "trainer" was brought out but that didn't last long. She loves to chase tennis balls but doesn't get them or bring them back. She just likes to chase them. She has kind of a border collie-ish face. I'm not sure. Cute, big girl. She came in and we thought she was preggo. She was spayed ASAP but wasn't pregnant at all. I'd like to see this girl go to someone that will give her a job.
Intake date: 4-3-10
Type: Surrender
Bruiser is a very hyper dog. All he wants to do is run and play. Bruiser is a medium sized dog and probably won't grow anymore. Bruiser has a funny bark? more like a yodel. He loves any kind of attention and really is a big baby. Sometimes, he doesn't get along with other dogs right away. He did make some doggie friends though. He is neutered and was when he came in. He was obviously someone's dog. We think he might be mixed with Shar pei or something similar. He has bowed legs like bulldog and has a funky gait.
Intake date: 5-14-10
Type: A/C
Babygirl came in because animal control was told that she killed a small dog. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT ONE BIT. Babygirl really lives up to her name. She's a big baby and LOVES other dogs. She's mostly calm but in the mornings and before bedtime, she gets a hyper streak. She just spins in circles! She is such a lover. Babygirl is a very sweet girl and loves kids and who ever will give her attention. She likes to walk with you and you cannot get to far out of her sight before she is looking for you. Babygirl is waiting for the right person to come and make her part of a family where she will be loved and cared for. Babygirl has the cutest ears that point straight up, like a bunny rabbit. She gets along with other dogs and loves to play with her best friends at the shelter. These aren't the best pictures of her. She's very submissive... as you can tell. He ears are down in every one of them. Babygirl ALWAYS have a smile on her face.
Intake Date: 8-17-10
Type: A/C
Tank is a sweet boy! No where near a "tank." He's tiny! Probably only 40 pounds. He's solid muscle. He has the cutest but muscles! Tank was brought in as a stray. We scanned him for a microchip and he had one. He was registered to a man who lives over 3 hours away. We gave him a call and left a message and we also gave the emergency contact a call and her number was disconnected. They obviously didn't want their dog back. The chip said Tank's real name is Thunder. I think it's more fitting but who am I to say that? Tank is a lovely seal color. He looks black sometimes but most of the time he's dark brown. It's an interesting color that I've not seen before, not even for a seal. He is fantastic with other dogs. He does play really rough though. He's in a play group with Babygirl, a puggle, and a Labrador. He doesn't pull on the lease at all. He'd make a great couch potato for someone or a running partner.
Intake Date: 9-9-10
Type: A/C
Tiger is a lovely pit bull mix with an underbite. He's white with orange brindle that really does make him look like a Tiger. Animal control brought him in on what this one officer said was a bite hold. I don't know how much we can believe him because this is the same officer that has shot two pit bulls for "going after him." It was later found out that he provoked them. As far as I'm concerned, until this this acts aggressively towards someone, he's not an aggressive dog. He's a sweet boy. Just a big puppy... probably about 9-10 months old. He's really tall so I wonder what he could be mixed with.
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This sounds terrible... and it is. The freezer is being emptied tomorrow morning. That means new euthanasias can occur.
Please help these dogs!! Mickey is just a puppy and he's second on the list!
Please help these dogs!! Mickey is just a puppy and he's second on the list!
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Mickey was adopted!!!!
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Hazel and Riley are my favorites in the lot. Aw, I really hope Hazel gets a home!.
Any updates?.
Any updates?.
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Brody (info not posted) and Riley were adopted on Saturday! We had a huge adoption event out of county with super low adoption fees. I guess that helped pursuade people. Lol
I'm so excited for Riley. Her new mom is such a great lady. I can't wait for her to go home tomorrow.
That said, we had 10 adoptions on Saturday and 2 on Sunday at the out of county event. Yayayayayayay! They are all going home tomorrow. I can't wait!
I'm so excited for Riley. Her new mom is such a great lady. I can't wait for her to go home tomorrow.
That said, we had 10 adoptions on Saturday and 2 on Sunday at the out of county event. Yayayayayayay! They are all going home tomorrow. I can't wait!
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Awesome news, I really love it when dogs get adopted
If only I had more space
If only I had more space
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BOSTON — After six games as a scratch, Joe Corvo will get a chance to return to the Bruins' lineup tonight against the Washington Capitals at the TD Garden, head coach Claude Julien confirmed after his team's morning skate.
Corvo will replace Dennis Seidenberg, who's going to miss his first game of the season due to an infected cut he suffered against Los Angeles last Saturday.
The Bruins are 5-1-0 since Corvo went out of the lineup, first due to a cortisone shot in his right hand and then as a healthy scratch once the hand felt better. This season, Corvo is a plus-7 with 4-21-25 totals. Julien wanted to make sure this morning that no one was blaming Corvo for the Bruins' struggles prior to their recent stretch of improved play.
"Joe was pulled out when our team wasn't going well. So I'm going to say it was easy to pick on him," said Julien. "But Joe does a lot of good things offensively, and he makes good plays, he skates well. That's something that our team's always needed. And Joe knows that when we work with him, it's more about working in the corners battling and not getting beat back to the front of the net and those kind of things in tight around our net area. But the other part of his game has been good. He's as mobile as any defenseman we have here, and probably one of the best. And he skates the puck up the ice well, also.
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•While the Capitals, who are two points out of eighth place in the Eastern Conference, will not have Nicklas Backstrom or Joel Ward back from injury tonight, goaltender Tomas Vokoun is expected to return after missing six games with a lower-body injury. Vokoun stopped 30 of 33 shots in a win at the Garden March 10.


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BUCHEON, South Korea – Kim Se-rin is sure he'll recognize his sister when they reunite — if they reunite — in North Korea this week, more than 63 years after war drove them apart. And he knows what he'll say.
"I will first hug her and tell her that I thank her for having lived so long," the 84-year-old retired Seoul City official said. "Then, I will ask her when our father and mom passed away and when our sister and brother died."
What Kim doesn't know is what he'll do if their reunion — one of hundreds planned Thursday through Tuesday between North and South Koreans — falls victim to the ever-volatile relations between the two countries. Kim, who has chronic heart problems, got sick after North Korea abruptly scrapped reunions in September, and he hasn't slept well since.
"I think this will be my last chance," Kim said during an interview at his home in Bucheon, just west of Seoul. "How much longer can I live?"
Kim and hundreds of other South Koreans plan to visit the North's scenic Diamond Mountain resort to see relatives for the first time since the bloody Korean War ended with an armistice in 1953. No reunions have been held since late 2010, and if these meetings take place, it will be a positive sign for inter-Korean relations and a tearful relief to families separated by the world's most heavily fortified border.
The rival nations struck a deal last week to go ahead with brief meetings of war-divided families, though there's wariness in Seoul that Pyongyang could back out again. It is an intensely anxious moment for the elderly Koreans waiting to take buses to Diamond Mountain, still not assured that they will be able to see long-lost relatives' faces before they die.
"I was really shocked last time when North Korea canceled the reunions. My health condition has worsened because of the stress from the cancellation," 85-year-old Lee Geun-su said Monday. He had planned to go to North Korea to see his younger sister, but on Wednesday, South Korea's Unification Ministry announced that he was too ill to go.
North Korea is pushing for better ties with South Korea, and has ratcheted down harsh rhetoric that swelled last spring with a torrent of threats to launch nuclear strikes against Seoul and Washington. Analysts say the North hopes better relations with Seoul will attract badly needed foreign investment and aid.
There is still a risk the reunions could be scrapped. The North earlier threatened to cancel the reunions due to upcoming annual military exercises between Seoul and Washington, which North Korea calls a rehearsal for invasion. Pyongyang also has previously cited critical South Korean news reports as a reason to distrust Seoul.
Millions of Korean families have been completely separated since the war. Both governments ban their citizens from visiting each other or even exchanging letters, phone calls and emails. During a previous period of inter-Korean rapprochement, about 22,000 Koreans have had brief reunions — 18,000 in person and the others by video.
In 2000, South Korea created a computerized lottery system for South Koreans hoping for reunions, and since then nearly 130,000 people, most in their 70s or older, have entered. Only about 70,000 are still alive.
Those selected for the aborted reunions in September get another chance this week. However, two of the South Koreans selected and three of North Koreans have died since then, according to South Korea's Red Cross, which is helping arrange the meetings along with its North Korean counterpart.
Time has already robbed Kim of the chance to reunite with his parents and two of the siblings he left behind on Dec. 4, 1950, shortly before the Korean War broke out. Red Cross officials told him that only his 80-year-old sister Kim Yong Suk is still alive, though he also is expected to meet a son of his brother.
Now a frail, gray-haired octogenarian, Kim had taught Korean at a middle school in Hwangju, south of Pyongyang, and his sister was among his students. She was smart and pretty with thick, bobbed hair, and Kim remembers a fellow teacher who jokingly asked to marry her after graduation.
"She resembles me. We will recognize each other when we reunite," he said, smiling.
Kim said he fled his homeland with two friends because they worked for an anti-communist organization and were afraid of being caught by the North Korean authorities. He said he left in such a rush that he couldn't even tell his family members about his departure, and he had no idea how permanent his decision would be.
"I thought I could have dropped by my home ... I didn't know (the separation) would last this long," Kim said.
Kim joined the South Korean army after fleeing to the South, and said he thought seriously about death during fierce battles with Chinese soldiers. China intervened in the war to help North Korea, while the American-led U.N. forces fought alongside South Korea.
He said young Chinese soldiers got drunk on kaoliang, a fiery, throat-burning liquor, then climbed a hill in human-wave attacks, aiming their recoilless rifles squarely at the office of the South Koreans' battalion commander. "So many people died," he said.
He said huge numbers of Chinese soldiers were wiped out by bombs dropped by American B-29 bombers. "A reservoir turned into a pool of blood because it rained and mixed with blood from the corpses," he said.
Kim thought then that it would be his destiny to die in the South, away from his hometown. That has not changed: "I've told my grandchildren to move and bury my remains next to my parents' at our family gravesite after the unification."
He said that if he meets his sister, he will at least be able to pass on a message to his parents in the meantime.
"I'll ask her to go to the graveyard for our parents to say that she met me and that I've been living well in South Korea, because I cannot go there, and this reunion will be our last meeting," Kim said. "I will feel very relieved then."
Associated Press writer Kwon Su Hyeon contributed to this report from Seoul, South Korea.


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Mar. 31, 2011
SAUGUS, Mass. — When many people in Massachusetts think of Saugus, they think of a place to go through. The mid-size town, nestled between urban outgrowths like Lynn and Revere and decidedly suburban Melrose and Wakefield, is plonked right on Route 1. It's practically unavoidable if you're headed fairly north of Boston.
For decades, the town has able to traded on a steady stream of Route 1 traffic, says Town Manager Andrew Bisignani.
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"The far majority of our development has been retail. We have a shopping mall in town, we have numerous strip malls, we have over 130 eating establishments," Bisignani said.
This forest of commerce has powered Saugus' economy -- and filled its coffers. Thirty-three percent of the town's tax levy comes from commercial properties, which is much higher than most of the state's towns. That's helped Saugus offer the residents of its mostly-single-family homes full-service at one of the state's lower tax rates.
But as the town faces down a $1.5 million budget gap for this year, some Saugonians say there could be more to their town's economy than Route 1 retail.
Town Meeting member and lifelong Saugus resident Peter Manoogian is driving a straight, reed-lined highway called Route 107. He stops at a spot many outsiders don't know about: Saugus' riverfront.
"This is lobstermans landing, this is a yacht club here," Manoogian said.
Functioning lobster boats line the river's edge, moored next to a beautiful dock and a small boat house. But one lot over, there's a dilapidated, empty restaurant for sale.
"There's vacant parcel next to it, that you can see. Across the street, that red a-frame roof, that's vacant. There's a junkyard over there, that's the incinerator, used cars there, used cars here. This is the entrance to the community," Manoogian said.
Manoogian is not the only Saugonian who might like to see this area transformed into a buzzing waterfront, with shops and restaurants, like you'd find in Newburyport.
But here's the thing about Saugus. The town hasn't significantly updated its zoning bylaws since the 1970s. And those bylaws go back even further, to the end of the 19th century, when you had to set aside riverfront property for industrial buildings, like mills.
"Some retail use, manufacturing, light manufacturing, the very things that the state has lost jobs on are pretty much the only things that are allowed for under the zoning by-laws," Manoogian said.
It worries Steve Nelson, another Saugus lifer who I spoke to at the town's Hammersmith Diner – the place you go if you want to talk politics in town.
"We're not going forward with the economy, or the way the town is shaped, staying status quo," Nelson said. "We're kind of like, putting ourselves back."
Janet Leuci has been working for ten years to bring affordable housing to Saugus. Among other initiatives, she's interested in converting the town's Central Mills – currently occupied by some light factory operations – to combined apartments, stores and art studios.
She's constantly navigating zoning – and says that what's missing in Saugus is a vision for town planning.
"I think a comprehensive plan is necessary for the future of the town. I think that we'll continue with haphazard zoning, haphazard projects that aren't connected, that really don't benefit the town," Leuci said.
Saugus doesn't have a full-time community planner. And the last time planning legislation was taken up, in the mid 1990s, it was decided any plans would be non-binding: A guide, not a plan.
And although Saugus' retail sector has grown without such a plan, businesspeople who make their living off retail want to have a comprehensive discussion about zoning and development, too.
Take Cory Berkowitch, who has owned Sachem Signworks since the late 1980s. Most businesses interested in coming to Saugus have to go to him first -- since they can't open without signs.
Berkowitch said, in his view, there are a number of old rules that need to change.
"No balloons, no banners ouside your store, no flags, um, no a-frames, no awnings," Berkowitch said. "It kind of hurts my business, cause I have to tell people when they come into town that they can't have a lot of things."
Berkowitch says he's seen a number of businesses turn away from Saugus when they learn those rules.
Town Manager Bisignani said signage rules do need to be looked at – and agrees the town could benefit from a more centralized approach to town planning. He said there just aren't any resources to do that now.
"When the economy improves, and we do have some additional revenues, then we probably will go forward and bring in an org to formulate some sort of a central, long-term plan for the town. But as it stands now, we're more focused on just maintaining our level of services and standard of living in the town," Bisignani said.
But Selectman Scott Crabtree thinks now might be the right time to push for a plan. Saugus's crime rate has dropped in the last few years, and its schools became something of a success story when they improved from a state-designated Level 3 school to a Level 2.
"We're at a crossroads here. I think that we've really made some progression," Crabtree said. "There's been a change in the sense of understanding that investing money towards different ideas like the town planner, parks and playgrounds, or the schools, uh, is actually something that pays dividends."
Crabtree is holding a forum to showcase these investments, and he hopes the town may come to see that investing in a community plan can pay dividends for them, too.
Manoogian has big ideas about what the right plan could bring to Saugus.
"The question that many ask, that I ask, is, what if. What if we had a different zoning bylaw or master plan with the incentives to attract less intensive uses that would yield more tax revenue," Manoogian said. "If Google's looking for a place to go, or Genzyme, why do they go to Cambridge? Why wouldn't they want to bring those jobs here?"
"It's not my decision to make, it's a community conversation," Manoogian continued. "One that we haven't had in quite some time."
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SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked California from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law that bars licensed psychotherapists from working to change the sexual orientations of gay minors, but he limited the scope of his order to just the three providers who have appealed to him to overturn the measure.
U.S. District Court Judge William Shubb made a decision just hours after a hearing on the issue, ruling that the First Amendment rights of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals who engage in "reparative" or "conversion" therapy outweigh concern that the practice poses a danger to young people.
"Even if SB 1172 is characterized as primarily aimed at regulating conduct, it also extends to forms of (conversion therapy) that utilize speech and, at a minimum, regulates conduct that has an incidental effect on speech," Shubb wrote.
The law, which was passed by the California Legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in October, states that therapists and counselors who use "sexual orientation change efforts" on clients under 18 would be engaging in unprofessional conduct and subject to discipline by state licensing boards. It is set to take effect on Jan. 1.
Although the ruling is a setback for the law's supporters, the judge softened the impact of his decision by saying that it applies only to three people -- psychiatrist Anthony Duk, marriage and family therapist Donald Welch, and Aaron Bitzer, a former patient who is studying to become a counselor who specializes in clients who are unhappy being gay.
The exemption for them will remain in place only until Shubb can hold a trial on the merits of their case, although in granting their request for an injunction, the judge noted he thinks they would prevail in getting the law struck down on constitutional grounds.
Complicating the outlook is that another federal judge in Sacramento is considering similar arguments from four more counselors, two families and a professional association of Christian counselors, but has not decided yet whether to keep the ban from taking effect.
"We are disappointed by the ruling, but very pleased that the temporary delay in implementing this important law applies only to the three plaintiffs who brought this lawsuit," National Center for Lesbian Rights Legal Director Shannon Minter said. "We are confident that as the case progresses, it will be clear to the court that this law is fundamentally no different than many other laws that regulate health care professionals to protect patients."
Lawyers for the state argue that outlawing reparative therapy is appropriate because it would protect young people from a practice that has been rejected as unproven and potentially harmful by all the mainstream mental health associations.