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By KATHRYN FLAGG
ADDISON COUNTY — Despite national trends of rising public school enrollments, Vermont schools are struggling to balance high costs and shrinking student populations — a problem that could prove especially trying for Addison County schools, where the total number of students has dropped slightly faster than the state average.
Between 2000 and 2008, the county's student population fell 11.6 percent. Statewide, public school enrollment dropped 10.5 percent over that same period. Nationally, enrollment for public primary and secondary schools over that eight-year stretch rose over 4 percent.
With state education funding dependent upon the number of students attending a school, falling enrollments can be problematic for officials charged with balancing school budgets. The revenue generated by enrollment supports overhead costs like transportation and building maintenance — costs that continue to go up, despite shrinking student populations.
"We definitely are paying attention to (these trends), with enrollment numbers going down and the cost still increasing," said Jill Remick, the communications director for the Vermont Department of Education.
And in a year when school budgets are bound to be tight — and new legislation could make the budget approval process more difficult — the state's spending-per-pupil yardstick could be more important than ever.
Addison Northeast Supervisory Union Business Manager Greg Burdick said that he is keeping his eye on that all-important spending-per-pupil number — the number against which the state measures every school's spending plan.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — A major and long-awaited Vergennes project on a 12-acre parcel off Monkton Road that would include 25 senior housing units, a childcare center and 24 affordable single-family condominiums is beginning to wind its way through the city permit process.
The developers of the project — the first phase of which would be a 25,000-square-foot, $5.8-million elderly housing complex that would provide a community center and services as well 25 living units — are Addison County Community Trust, Housing Vermont Inc. of Burlington, Habitat for Humanity and Mary Johnson Children's Center of Middlebury.
The site is accessed from the north side of Monkton Road by Armory Lane, and lies directly west of American Legion Post 14. Housing Vermont bought the land several years ago, and the project has been on the drawing boards since.
It has now almost completed a site plan review before the Vergennes Development Review Board, and Zoning Administrator and Interim City Manager Mel Hawley said a public hearing could be called as early as December.
Hawley said a hearing could have been called in November, but developers wanted to clarify the elderly housing "density bonus" the area's Medium Density Residential zoning allows.
That zoning allows more units per acre than otherwise permitted if a project exclusively offers elderly housing. In Hawley's opinion, that means the elderly housing component may need to be separated from the other parts of the larger Planned Unit Development (PUD).
"It's my opinion to qualify for the bonus, the senior housing complex needs to sit on its own 4 acres ... so that it is not part of a PUD," he said.
Hawley said the board could have a different interpretation, and a DRB discussion scheduled in November will focus at least in part on that issue.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury merchants on Saturday, Oct. 25, will give area adults and children a sweet preview of Halloween — and all that the downtown has to offer — in the first annual "Middlebury Spooktacular."
The event, which kicks off at 3:30 p.m., is the brainchild of the Better Middlebury Partnership (formerly known as the Middlebury Business Association). The Spooktacular is somewhat of a throwback to Halloweens gone by, when a children's parade used to meander its way around the downtown and Court Square and when the Middlebury Inn used to host a haunted house.
"It's been several years since there's been a Halloween celebration of any kind in Middlebury, and we felt it was something we should have again," said BMP Coordinator Gail Freidin.
With that in mind, members of the BMP's promotions committee set to work on a new event that could involve adults and kids alike. They came up with the Spooktacular, which will feature, among other things:
• Hay bales, luminaries and lit pumpkins and other Halloween décor adorning the town green on Oct 25. A rain date of Oct 26 has been set.
• Carved pumpkin and costume contests, family fun games, a "monster-mash" dance party and prizes.
• A children's trick-or-treat sidewalk parade along Main Street that will leave the green at 4:15 p.m. Accompanied by parents and the Middlebury Police Explorers, the procession will cross to the post office, continue along Main Street to Cannon Park, cross to the Ilsley Memorial Library, and return to the green, stopping at each shop along the route.
Main Street merchants will have plenty of treats on hand and may even greet the parade participants at their doors in costume. Businesses not located on the parade route will be handing out goodies in Cannon Park.
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 5, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- If you feel especially hung over after a night of drinking, you may have to blame more than the booze: New research suggests that smoking while drinking may worsen hangovers.
The findings, published online Dec. 5 in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, don't confirm that smoking makes hangovers more intolerable. And even if it does, it's not clear why that might happen or what might counteract the effect, other than not lighting up in the first place.
Still, it's important to understand how hangovers work because they can affect workplace safety and academic performance, said study co-author Damaris Rohsenow, an associate director at Brown University's Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies.
Overall, she said, the study provides "another reason why heavy drinkers may want to quit smoking, both to reduce the discomfort of a hangover and reduce the brain dysfunction that happens when heavy drinkers smoke."
Hangovers may not be a popular topic in the world of scientific research, but they're certainly discussed in society at large. The research that has been conducted suggests that hangovers kick in for more than half of people after their blood alcohol level reaches about 0.11, she said. That's slightly above the legal limit for driving in the United States.
However, she said, about 20 percent to 25 percent of those who drink enough to get a hangover actually don't experience them.
In the new study, researchers used online surveys to track 113 students from an unidentified American university for two months. The students recorded happenings like drinking, smoking and hangovers.
After adjusting their statistics so they wouldn't be thrown off by other factors -- like tobacco-using students drinking more overall -- the researchers found that students who smoked on the same days that they drank were more likely to suffer from hangovers and to have worse ones when they did.
The design of the study didn't allow the researchers to pinpoint exactly how much worse they were, but Rohsenow said the hangovers remained in the mild range even among the smokers. "It's not a whopping effect," she noted.
There's no proof of a cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and worse hangovers. It's possible that something other than smoking -- like, say, the diets of smokers -- could explain the difference, she said.
If smoking while drinking does worsen subsequent hangovers, it may have something to do with the parts of the brain that process both tobacco and alcohol, she said. Or smoking could add to the sleep-depriving effects of drinking too much.
Other research has shown that smoking and drinking together worsen the effects on the brain of alcohol alone, she said.
What should you do if you have a hangover?
According to Rohsenow, doctors recommend drinking plenty of water, taking something to calm your stomach and taking a painkiller such as aspirin or ibuprofen -- but not acetaminophen (Tylenol) -- for a headache. Alcohol may raise the risk of liver damage from acetaminophen.
As for the "hair of the dog" -- downing more booze -- Rohsenow said that hasn't been officially studied. But common sense suggests it's a good idea to stay away from bottles -- not to mention cigarettes -- the day after a night of heavy drinking.
More information
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The Enzo Ferrari Museum complex in Modena, Italy, is designed for energy efficiency and environmental sustainability using bioclimatic principles, innovative materials, a geothermal system that supplies radiant air-conditioning, solar thermal for hot water, natural daylighting and photovoltaic panels. It - perhaps ironically - celebrates the life and work of one of the giants of the automobile design world: Enzo Ferrari. The two main elements of the museum include an organic, modern gallery space and a restored 1800s brick building that was Ferrari's birthplace. The sculpted, yellow, waterproof, gallery roof with its 3,300 square meters of double-curved slats, is smooth and without seams, mimicking a car hood. It is comprised of aluminum double-curved slats and is attached to the underlying structure via 5,000 anchor devices which allow independent thermal movement and an isostatic structure. The distinctive bright yellow roof has ten, glazed incisions, intentionally analogous to air intake vents on the hood of a car, that allow for natural ventilation and day lighting, while taking into consideration the aesthetic values of car design. Yellow was chosen for the roof because it is also the background color for the Ferrari prancing horse emblem and also the color of Modena, Italy. (Scroll to bottom for additional resources)
The glass entrance façade is supported by thin, pre-tensioned steel cables that can withstand 40 tons of wind and snow pressure; it is curved in plan and tilts at an angle of 12.5 degrees. The roof's curve is supported by a concealed grid of narrow eight-part trusses and, at the museum's 'receiving' end, by two massive columns that splay into asymmetrical Y-forms. The result of the building's envelope construction, devised by Arup's Sean Billings, is a massive clear volume of light-filled space in which the translucent ceiling membrane spreads an even light from the roof's ten partially glazed scoops. The technical specification of these panes and cables means that greater transparency in the façade is achieved with maximum functionality. In the summer months a thermo-sensor activates the windows in the façade and roof allowing cool air to circulate.
The curved roof structure drops into a bermed grassy landscape with an edge-to-edge solution, providing an effective contrast to the steel space-frame infrastructure that is based on a static pattern of a segmented, tied arch. The roof was constructed by cladding specialists and boat builders due to their familiarity with organic sculpted forms and waterproofing, using a patented tongue and groove system. The gallery structure surrounds an old house on the site that was the birthplace of Enzo Ferrari. Because half of the building's internal volume is below-ground, it keeps the museum's maximum height at 12 meters, the same as the neighboring Ferrari family's workshop and home on-site. The light shell features high thermal and noise insulation, and heating and cooling systems are based on natural geothermal energy. Photovoltaic panels are installed in the sound barriers next to the railway lines.
The Enzo Ferrari Museum was designed by the late Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems and his associate Andrea Morgante who directed the project from concept to detailed design, and was appointed to complete the interiors and oversee the construction after Kaplicky's death in 2009. The contemporary, organic Enzo Ferrari Museum is expected to attract approximately 200,000 visitors per year, and managed by the Casa Natale Enzo Ferrari Foundation.
The whole of the museum's open internal volume – the entrance area is connected to the exhibition level by ramp and staircase – is visible the moment you enter the building, as are the 21 historic sports and racing cars, set on slim platforms raised 450mm above the floor. At the bottom of the ramp, under the shelf formed by the entrance area, is teaching space, an audiovisual room and a conference hall. Everything, apart from the cars and the yellow pods that contain the shop and lavatories, is white. It will hold temporary exhibits of historic racecars of all makes -the first exhibit had 21 cars, a mix of Ferraris, Maseratis, Alfa Romeos and Fiats that Enzo Ferrari raced in and built, including a 1914 Alfa Romeo 40-60 and a Ferrari 125S from 1947, the first car to carry its maker's name. This main exhibition gallery also houses a Documentation Centre, an Educational Centre, a conference room, a bookshop , cafeteria and represents an elegant place to exhibit beautiful cars, and a large hall for conferences, launches and cultural events.
Visitors have uninterrupted views into the entire exhibition space - a large, open, white room, where the floor transitions into walls. The stretched, semi-transparent ceiling membrane spreads light evenly across the space, recalling the language of a car interior. A bookshop and café are situated to one side of the entrance and facilities to the other, each painted the same Modena yellow as the roof. A gently sloping ramp gradually leads the visitor around the building from the ground floor to the basement level, with display stands along the circulation path. up to twenty-one cars can be displayed in this open space at any one time.
The Barrisol Stretch Ceiling gallery comprises of 2,700 square meters of Barrisol sheet Blanc mat, and 270 square meters of Barrisol sheet Blanc Venus. The walls of the studio are covered with Barrisol sheets Lumiere and Lumiere color and have images, movies and historical documents projected in multimedia as a permanent part of the exhibition, representing the stages of the life of the passionate creator Enzo Ferrari. Barrisol is made from a strong polymer that can be stretched to shape but once installed will still stay strong. They are 100 percent recyclable and re-usable, and a recycled line of sheeting is made from recycled Barrisol sheets. The production process uses no water and uses 20 times fewer resources compared to conventional building materials.
The House
When Enzo Ferrari was 22, he sold the house where he was born to buy a racecar, and although he failed in several attempts later in life to buy back that house, it is now a museum in his honor. The two-story house and workshop built by Ferrari's father in the 1830s has been completely refurbished. Later additions to the house and workshop have been removed and, with the exception of two internal bracing structures that have been inserted in accordance with Italian seismic regulations to give structural rigidity, no other alterations have been made.
The main gallery space in the old house is located within what was the double height workshop. Architect Andrea Morgante designed a contemporary exhibition display system that incorporates digital projections, objects owned by Ferrari, information panels and other material. The display system in the house was conceived as a large-scale vertical book that allows the visitor to read the different chapters of Ferrari's life through various media; a three-dimensional immersive biography. The system takes the form of a sinuous wall separated into pages, so that as visitors progress down the room, they are able to gradually discover each page and chapter in sequence. This organic landscape stretches through the entire length of the 40-meter-long space and soft, low-level backlighting gently illuminates both it and the room.
The following article was written by Jonathan Bell, Wallpaper, March 2012
Enzo Ferrari Museum by Future Systems
The Enzo Ferrari Museum is a bold building that marks the end of two eras. On the one hand it effectively fossilises a structure that is as dear to any auto aficionado as the Vatican is to a devout Catholic; the original office and workshop of one Enzo Ferrari. This architectural reliquary is achieved with the construction of another milestone, the final building by Future Systems.
Jan Kaplicky's pioneering practice never really achieved the technological revolution it promised. When Kaplicky died in 2009, the monographs full of ambitious space age concepts remained on the page, with only a few signature buildings - Birmingham's Selfridges, the Lords Media Centre - to show for it. It was left to Kaplicky's former partner, Amanda Levete, to deftly take the sleekly futuristic and commercially viable elements of Kaplicky's obsessions and absorb them into her own highly accomplished designs and practice.
This final Kaplicky work, won in competition way back in 2004, is the Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena, €18 million of highly polished auto nostalgia. Described as a 'bonnet', finished in yellow aluminium in homage to Modena's city colours, the same yellow chosen by Ferrari as the background colour to the Prancing Horse badge, the curved roof has vents inspired by the air intakes of his famous sports cars.
Born in 1898, Ferrari made his name as a racing team manager in the inter-war years - principally for Alfa Romeo - before eventually emerging as a full-fledged manufacturer in his own right in 1947. The new museum structure reaches around the original house like an 'open hand', its glass façade reflecting the traditional architecture of the restored offices, now serving as a gallery space.
In the display space beneath the soaring bonnet roof is a collection of significant cars - not just limited to Ferraris - tracing Enzo Ferrari's career from the early twentieth century onwards. After Kaplicky's death, the construction and detailing was skillfully managed by Andrea Morgante, formerly at Future Systems but now at Shiro Studio.
Opened in March 2012, the new museum will become an instant place of pilgrimage for Ferrari's faithful global congregation. But rather than take a one-dimensional view of the company's own output, the exhibits are a welcome overview of the great interwar motor-racing era and its evolution into the road and race cars of the post-war period - the era that Ferrari himself has come to define.
It's only appropriate that the main building of the Enzo Ferrari House Museum, which opened this past Saturday, resembles the hood of a race car. The new museum, located in Modena, Italy about 100 miles southeast of Milan, pays homage the founder of the iconic sports car company. The museum includes the birthplace and childhood home of Ferrari, who was also an avid race car driver.


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NEWTOWN, Conn. — Bells and lights and gifts: These have always shown us it's Christmastime. But this year, in this town, the bells toll in mourning. The brightest lights glare from TV satellite trucks. And gifts? Some around town suggest that presents and other rituals really ought to be put off in this joyless season.
NEWTOWN, Conn. — Bells and lights and gifts: These have always shown us it's Christmastime. But this year, in this town, the bells toll in mourning. The brightest lights glare from TV satellite trucks. And gifts? Some around town suggest that presents and other rituals really ought to be put off in this joyless season.
Could anyone imagine celebrating Christmas under the pall that has spread here since the horror at Sandy Hook Elementary School?
The answer, somehow, is yes. The spirit of Christmas has pushed through, even here, where people are seeing lights and hearing bells in ways they never had before, and reminding themselves which gifts are truly most precious.
The outpouring of caring that followed the tragedy has been an especially treasured gift. The weekly Newtown Bee's special edition on the shootings gave two full pages to sympathetic, prayerful notes from across the U.S., from Britain, South Africa and many other places, including Norway, which lost 77 innocents in a massacre last year.
From Alberta, Canada, truck driver David Lenzi wrote of pulling off the road, overcome, when he heard of the tragedy. He sent condolences to the town, and added: "I have heard media reports of people taking down Christmas decorations. I request that this stop happening." Instead, he suggested, let Christmas be a celebration of the lives lost and "a beginning of ... healing."
Right after the shootings, many did choose to turn off lighting displays that had glowed with holiday joy in their yards since early December.
The row of light-up candy canes and strings of icicle lights at Jos� Marin's house went dark, and the reindeer, snowman and circus train remained unlit for five days after the tragedy, which hit close to home. One of the children who died was on the same swim team as his daughter.
But words he heard at St. Rose of Lima Church helped convince Marin to turn the lights back on. "The priest said it was not fair to the other kids," he said.
And then his niece begged to see the twinkling display. She's just 3, too young, of course, to understand how horror could intrude on the holiday.
The lights became a theme for clergy; they spoke of light in darkness, noting the guiding star at the center of the Christmas story and the candles at the heart of Hanukkah.
Banks of candles glowed in each of the dozens of impromptu shrines around town, their light falling on teddy bears and other toys, symbolic gifts for the lost children, and on uncounted notes.
Yet if the tragedy's intrusion cannot be denied here, neither can Christmas.
Mike Zilinek, a 72-year-old retired deputy fire marshal who has lived in Newtown since 1946, choked up acknowledging the grief that "still comes in waves." Nonetheless, he can't wait for his sons and their families to arrive for Christmas.
"We're not giving up," he said. "We have to continue on."
There'll be 12 around his table, and thoughts about many more: "We'll have a prayer and a moment of silence."
"We can't lose Christmas too," said Lisa Terifay, who has two children at Sandy Hook Elementary who survived. Her son is in first grade. "The class he sat next to at lunch," she said through tears, "they're all gone."
How to grieve and still carry on?
"You feel so torn because you don't want to move on in your life and leave others behind," Terifay said. "We're not ever going to leave any of those families behind. They're our families forever."
Chrissy Hadgraft is also torn. Her son, who is in the U.S. Air Force in Germany, is coming home for Christmas to mourn and help his town heal. "I'm so happy to be seeing him but I feel so guilty because he gets to come home, and there's 20 houses, their kids aren't coming home, or their mother or the girlfriend or their sister," she said sobbing.
This year, she said, it was an effort just to pick up some stocking stuffers, but "you really need to push forward and go on."
And many say the stocking stuffers or other purchased things are not the real gifts anyway.
Donations, of course, are everywhere: bottled water dropped off at a firehouse ... pies baked with love ... songs sung by a gospel choir that came from Alabama.
At the Newtown General Store, owner Peter Leone acknowledged that "in many people's minds Christmas is not going to happen this year." And yet as gifts of every kind have flowed in — among them cupcakes sent from Beverly Hills and a jeweler's pendants for victims' families — people feel hints of the normal Christmas spirit. "It kind of pulls back that feeling of anguish."
Intangible gifts help in even deeper ways.
A group called Pets on Wheels left Maryland at 3 a.m. Friday to reach Newtown in time to bring their therapy dogs for the ringing of church bells exactly one week after the shootings. Standing in a cold rain just after the ceremony at town hall, holding the leash of Hero, a German Shepherd mix who was getting and giving lots of attention, volunteer Jennifer Devorak said maybe the dogs' presence could offer "one moment of quiet" for those still hurting deeply.
"The gift is unconditional love," she said. "We like to call it 'licking loneliness."'
Others saw an immeasurable gift to the surviving schoolchildren and their families in the painstaking recreation of the Sandy Hook school at a previously mothballed school in the neighboring town of Monroe.
Hundreds of people were involved in the replication effort. Photographs of the old classrooms were used to determine wall paint colors, placement of bookshelves and cubby holes, and the configuration of desks for reassembly as exactly as possible to how they were before. If a box of crayons was left on a desk, it should be there when the students enter the new classrooms after the holiday break, Monroe First Selectman Stephen Vavrek said.
"A miracle," he called the effort.
And a gift: Not of toys, but of comfort, surely.
While many holiday events were scaled back or called off, others went forward, if only because Christmas is for children.
Jean Sander, 72, was remembering the Christmas-decorated storefront windows of her father's bakery when she was a girl and an idea struck her about the Sandy Hook survivors. "I was trying to think," she said, "How can I help these children who are still with us, thank God?"
"They need their Christmas, in spite of all," she said.
From her father she developed a love of big, bright Christmas displays. He crafted papier mache mountains through which trains would steam, and children would press their noses against the bakery windows for a look. She, in turn, has collected whole villages of antique miniature houses, figures and tiny trees.
Any other year, it's just a charming display for her children and grandchildren; this year, she put up notices inviting any and all to stop in her house on Saturday for a look and for hot cocoa.
So, Christmas goes on here — like always and like never before, with gifts, lights and bells.
During a silent night at last along Newtown's Main Street, where police sirens have halted traffic for so many funeral processions, Christmas Eve will turn into Christmas Day as 12 chimes tell the hour. But the familiar bells tolling from the town hall cupola will also say what they've always seemed to say to folks here — that there can be order, that there can be peace, that this place can go on.


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'Galloping Grandfather' Hailed
Harry de Leyer, "the Galloping Grandfather" who is now a great-grandfather as well, spent four hours here at East End Stables Saturday afternoon signing copies of Elizabeth Letts's best seller about him and his Cinderella show-jumper, Snowman, an event that enabled many of his former students to reconnect with their teacher, who has lived in Dyke, Va., for a number of years.
The story of Snowman, a former plow horse de Leyer rescued from the glue factory in 1956, and with whom he went on to win national show-jumping championships, is one of sport's most compelling. The long gray gelding for whom the sky seemed to be the limit when scaling fences was show-jumping's equivalent to Seabiscuit.
Ms. Letts, who lives in Baltimore, was there that day too, and said she got the idea for "The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation" when, quite by accident, she saw on the Internet a black-and-white photograph of Snowman jumping over another of de Leyer's horses, Lady Gray.
She wrote de Leyer a letter, she said, and so began a collaboration that resulted in a very well-written book, published by Ballantine Books, that debuted at around the time of the Hampton Classic at number 10 on The New York Times best-seller list for hardcover nonfiction.
Suzanne Wolfson, who had interviewed the 84-year-old de Leyer on radio station WBAZ the day before, said she remembered having been fascinated by Snowman and de Leyer's story when she read the children's book about them in the 1960s. Later, she rode at East End Stables, which is owned by Andre de Leyer, one of Harry's sons, and his wife, Christine.
Andre and his sister Harriet de Leyer, who in the book is credited with giving Snowman his name, taught her, said Ms. Wolfson, who still rides there. As for the interviewee, she said, "He was so much fun."
In a long line of people waiting for their books to be signed, Carol Kurzig, a former student of de Leyer's, recalled that while she'd started riding late, "he made me jump in my first lesson."
Mark Goldstein said that de Leyer had "taught me and my whole family. . . . He sold me a horse named Twiggy and told me not to interfere when we approached a four-and-a-half-foot wall. He said the horse would jump it, and he did! Harry gave us a lot of confidence . . . and he made it fun. He enriched all of our lives."
During his first lesson at East End, de Leyer asked Jerry Schwabe, if he'd ever jumped a fence. Schwabe had ridden at the Claremont stables in New York City, but had only jumped cross rail fences that he said, bending close to the ground, were "this high."
"The ones he had me jump the first day were much higher," Schwabe said. "He'd be running and waving his hat to get the horse to go over."
He and his wife subsequently bought horses. "We'd go in the evenings," he said wistfully, looking away from the barn over the fields, "down there, bareback, no reins, no nothing. . . . I have good feelings about Harry."
Asked what it was like to jump, Barbara Sansone, Schwabe's wife, said, "It's like flying in heaven."
"I didn't know if he was alive," Letts said, when asked to continue the story of how she'd come to meet de Leyer, who is to present trophies and ribbons at the Washington International Horse Show at end of this month. "He called me . . . it was in 2008 . . . He really helped me set the story within its historical context. In 1956 I wasn't born yet! Snowman was more of a story of my parents' generation."
Given the success of her book, and should a film of "The Eight-Dollar Champion" be made, it will also become a story of this one.
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WikiLeaks has just released a rather disturbing document. The leaked document comes from the CIA, and it details how the manipulation of public opinion should be used to bolster support for our war in Afghanistan. The CIA is apparently concerned with the possibility of a "Dutch-style debate" in other NATO countries, "notably France and Germany." The Dutch, of course, made news last month after their government collapsed amid debates as to whether the country should keep its troops in Afghanistan or not. The Dutch will pull their troops out by August.
Naturally, the U.S. government is very concerned about this. If a "Dutch-style debate" spreads to other countries, the mission in Afghanistan could be jeopardized. They know this because they know their war in Afghanistan is overwhelmingly opposed by the public. (You can read my post on why I think the Afghanistan War is fundamentally wrong here.) The CIA acknowledges, "Berlin and Paris currently maintain the third and fourth highest ISAF troop levels, despite the opposition of 80 percent of German and French respondents to increased ISAF deployments, according to INR polling in fall 2009."
I believe this has something to do with one of the conclusions I came to in a post about the way democracy in the United States functions: the public is supposed to be marginalized and its opinion ignored. I don't pretend this is limited to the United States. The CIA readily admits "French and German leaders" have been able to "disregard popular opposition and steadily increase their troop contributions to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)." The CIA notes that Germany and France "have counted on public apathy about Afghanistan to increase their contributions to the mission." But if a "Dutch-style debate" spreads to these countries, they may not be able to rely on apathy any longer to continue their involvement in Afghanistan. Apathy could quickly "turn into active and politically potent hostility," and worsening conditions "could become a tipping point in converting passive opposition into active calls for immediate withdrawal." This is bad news because the CIA fears "politicians elsewhere might cite a precedent for 'listening to the voters.'" We can't have politicians listening to voters…
Thus, the report recommends the United States government be involved in a campaign to alter the public's opinion, or what has been referred to as "the manufacture of consent." In normal parlance we might refer to this as propaganda. The report mentions, "Western European publics might be better prepared to tolerate a spring and summer of greater military and civilian casualties if they perceive clear connections between outcomes in Afghanistan and their own priorities." Therefore, there is a need for "A consistent and iterative strategic communication program" that would give "tailored messages" to the public, in order to get them "to support a good and necessary cause despite casualties." The report suggests the U.S. government "could leverage French (and other European) guilt." If we monger fear, particularly about "the Taliban rolling back hard-won progress" and "a refugee crisis," we could "provoke French indignation."
One of the key resources we have in doing this is President Obama. It's fairly hard for anyone to ignore how muted the subject of war has become, particularly in left and Democratic circles, after the election of President Obama. Him being a Democrat has helped the hawks in calming the anti-war movement, which has a strong core of Democrats and leftists (though there are also many right-libertarians as well). The CIA recognizes this fact. The CIA is quick to boast about the "confidence of the French and German publics in President Obama's ability to handle foreign affairs in general and Afghanistan in particular." They suggest there is a "significant sensitivity to disappointing a president seen as broadly in sync with European concerns." Therefore, President Obama is a wonderful asset for the U.S. government to sell the war.
If our government being involved in the manipulation of opinion in other countries doesn't unsettle you in the slightest, perhaps it would be even harder to not be disturbed by how it is actively going after Web sites like WikiLeaks that expose secrets of corrupt governments and corporations. WikiLeaks.org has been described as a "controversial but essential example of what the web does best," that "takes power away from the powerful and hands it to citizens." This is precisely what has the U.S. government concerned. Writes The New York Times, "To the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States, the Pentagon has added WikiLeaks.org, a tiny online source of information and documents that governments and corporations around the world would prefer to keep secret." This is following WikiLeak's release of a document prepared by the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Center that discusses how it sees WikiLeaks as being a threat to the national government.
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The 2014 Central Connecticut women's lacrosse season opens with a visit from the Explorers of La Salle on Saturday, February 22. The Explorers earned and 8-7 overtime victory in last season's meeting in Philadelphia. Saturday's contest is the first trip to New Britain for the Explorers and the second meeting in the all-time series between these programs.
CCSU and La Salle are scheduled for a 4:30 p.m. start on Arute Field, admission is free for all CCSU women's lacrosse contests. Fans can also watch every home game on NECFrontRow.com
Women's Lacrosse Season Preview
The Blue Devils return eight starters from the 2013 squad that reached the Northeast Conference Tournament. Included in those eight are First Team All-NEC selection Amanda Toke, Second Team All-NEC selection Morgan Tullar and NEC All-Rookie selection Elyse Malecki.
The season opener will be the first under new head coach Laura Campbell who assumed control of the program in August. Prior to CCSU, Campbell has had stints as the head coach of Marist, American and Post University. At Marist Campbell led the Red Foxes to their first NCAA Tournament Appearance.
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Another loss for the Eagles has led to another termination.
This week, defensive line coach Jim Washburn has been, according to the team, "relieved of his duties." The move comes only hours after the completion of the team's eighth straight loss, to the Cowboys.
"Jim is a fine football coach and we appreciate the efforts he gave to this team over the past two years," coach Andy Reid said. "However, I determined that it was in the team's best interest that we move in a different direction in terms of trying to maximize the production of that position group. We look forward to having Tommy Brasher back on board to work with the defensive line."
Yes, Tommy Brasher. The team's defensive line coach in 1985 and from 1999 through 2005.
Washburn's departure potentially was driven in part by report that Washburn disagreed with the recent release of defensive end Jason Babin, whom Washburn reportedly called the most recent scapegoat for the Philly free fall. Though Washburn said nothing publicly, he's not known to be a guy who bites his tongue privately.
Hired in 2011 before the Eagles hired a new defensive coordinator, Washburn brought to town his "wide nine" defensive line, which glorifies sacks at the expense of run defense. Washburn's presence arguably limited Reid's options at defensive coordinator, since whoever took the job would be saddled with a predetermined system.
At least the ongoing stream of pink slips is creating some interest in the final days of the Reid regime. After each game, it'll be time to conduct an office pool as to which player or coach will be the next to go.


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Instead of alignment being used to shackle a player's actions on the penalty of stiff punishment, shouldn't it be used more for thier general attitude?
I think true neutral is a farce. How can somebody be true neutral on everything. Even Spock chose sides.
Neutral may work!Just realized something:QuoteI think true neutral is a farce. How can somebody be true neutral on everything. Even Spock chose sides.Neutrals do not choose either side...But who says there are only two sides, and you have to decide for one?.......Thus, it is not true neutrals don't have a side, it is just hard to convince them to join some.
Wanted:A True Neutral!Dead or Alive!Unbelievable reward offered!
If moss grew on it or worms lived under it then it wasn't a choice that the rock made, it is just who it is.
NeutralFirst of all, there is no such thing as an absolute or true neutral. All people tend toward good, evil or self-gratification. An absolute true neutral could not make a decision, go on an adventure, kill, or take any action of any kind without leaning towards good, evil or self-gratification. It is humanly impossible and is, therefore, eliminated in the context of this game.
Good AlignmentsBecause someone is of a good alignment it doesn't make him a saint. Good people can be just as irritating, abnoxious, arrogant, even prejudiced, and full of quirks. However, life and freedom are of the highest priority. Such people can always be trusted in life and death situations.PrincipledPrincipled people are generally strong moral characters. They have the highest regard for others' lives, well being, truth and honor. Boy Scout or Palladin.Principled characters...1- Always keep their word.2- Avoid lies.3- Never kill or attack an unarmed foe.4- Never harm an innocent.5- Never torture for any reason.6- Never kill for pleasure.7- Always help others.8- Work well in a group.9- Respect authority, law, self-discipline and honor.10- Never betray a friend.ScrupulousScrupulous people have a high regard for life and freedom. They work for the greater good of the people, beyond the law, yet for the law. Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson. Not vicious or vindictive, but are driven to right an injustice.Scrupulous characters...1- Keep their word to any other good persons.2- Lie only to people of selfish and evil alignments.3- Never kill or attack an unarmed foe.4- Never harm an innocent.5- Never torture for pleasure.6- Never kill for pleasure.7- Help others.8- Work with groups, but dislike confining laws and restrictions.9- Distrust authority.10- Never betray a friend.Selfish AlignmentsBeing selfish is no crime and it is different from being evil. Selfish people can associate with good and evil characters depending on their needs.UnprincipledUnprincipled characters are basically good people who generally tend to put their personal freedom and welfare above almost everything else. Han Solo. Looking for the best deal, good or evil, and tempted to lie and cheat and hates himself for being loyal and helping others.Unprincipled characters...1- Have a high regard for life and freedom.2- Keep their word of honor.3- Lie and cheat if necessary.4- Will not kill an unarmed foe but can take advantage of one.5- Help those in need.6- Do not use torture unless absolutely necessary.7- Work with a group, especially if profitable.8- Never harm an innocent.9- Never kill for pleasure.10- Dislike authority.11- Never betray a friend.AnarchistAnarchist characters indulge themselves in everything. They are generally intrigued by power, glory and wealth and are continually teetering between good and evil, rebelling, bending the laws to fit their needs. Mercenaries and thieves often fall in this catagory.Anarchist characters...1- May keep their word.2- Lie and cheat if they feel it necessary.3- Are not likely to kill an unarmed foe but will certainly take advantage of one.4- Will not kill innocent people unless necessary.5- Are not likely to help others without some ulterior motives.6- Seldom kill for pleasure.7- Will use torture only to extract information.8- Do not work well in groups.9- Have little respect for self-discipline and authority.10- May betray a friend.Evil AlignmentsAll evil characters are not all bent on universal genocide or domination over all living creatures. They are ruthless individuals who are willing to say or do anything to achieve their goals. Evil alignments are a step beyond the self-gratification of the selfish alignments.MiscreantThese people are generally self-serving, unscrupulous characters, out only for themselves. It matters not who get caught in the middle as long as they come out with what they want. They do not actively seek to injure innocents.Miscreant characters...1- Will not necessarily keep their word to anyone.2- Lie and cheat anyone.3- Will most definitely attack an unarmed foe.4- Use or harm innocent people.5- May kill for sheer pleasure.6- Use torture for extracting information and pleasure.7- Feel no compulsion to help without some sort of tangible reward.8- Work with others if it will help them attain their goals.9- Will kill an unarmed foe.10- Has no respect for law and authority, but will work within the law if they must.11- Will betray friends if it serves their needs.AberrantAberrant characters are people who are driven to attain their goals through force, power, and intimidation. Yet they will stand apart from the norm with their own personal code of ethics. WIll always keep his word of honor and uphold any bargains and will define his terms and live by them whether anybody else likes it or not.Aberrant characters...1- Always keep their word of honor.2- Lie and cheat only to those not worthy of their respect.3- May or may not kill an unarmed foe.4- Do not kill innocent people without a good reason.5- Never kill for pleasure.6- Do not resort to inhumane treatment of prisonners but may torture to extract information.7- May or may not help someone in need.8- Work with others to attain their goals.9- Respect honor and self-discipline.10- Never betray a friend.DiabolicThis is the category where megalomaniac, violent, and most despicable characters fall. Diabolic people will crush anyone or anything that gets in their way.Diabolic characters...1- Rarely keep their word.2- Lie and cheat anyone.3- Will most certainly attack and kill an unarmed foe.4- Use, hurt and kill innocent people without second thoughts.5- Use torture for pleasure and information.6- Kill for sheer pleasure.7- Are likely to help someone only to kill and rob him after.8- Do not work well in groups.9- Despise honor, authority, and self-discipline.10- Betray friends.
Why not just simplify it into Good and Evil? If you're good, you're good. If you're evil, you're evil.
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John Kerry's Phony Climate War
Secretary of State John Kerry is reporting for duty in the war against climate change. In a speech in Jakarta, Indonesia, he declared climate change "another weapon of mass destruction." Indeed, in what might be news to the 50-megaton hydrogen bomb, he declared it "perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction."
If climate change does not consider itself duly warned, it has only itself to blame. John Kerry has proven himself fully capable of supporting hostilities against dangerous enemies of the United States (that he then regrets, and campaigns against—but that's another story).
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The Obama administration's latest foray on climate change—clearly setting the predicate for a regulatory offensive on the issue—is notable for its cheap argumentation heedless of logic or the actual state of the evidence. The same people who congratulate themselves for taking climate science so seriously trample all over the science as a matter of routine.
On climate change, they can't handle the truth, because it is too nuanced and complicated to support a scare-mongering push for expensive, economically harmful action right away.
Nothing so annoys the alarmists about climate change née global warming as when conservatives talk as if a cold snap or snowstorm falsifies the phenomenon. Weather, they explain, rolling their eyes, isn't climate. You dummies.
Or that used to be the mantra. Now, every bit of spectacular weather is presumed to be part of the grand, threatening mosaic of climate change.
"Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science," President Obama intoned in his second inaugural, "but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms."
"This isn't something around the corner," Kerry said in his WMD speech. "This is happening now." He cited California, "where millions of people are now experiencing the 13th month of the worst drought the state has seen in 500 years."
This sounds dire and about what you would expect of a weapon of mass destruction. But scientists aren't so quick to point their fingers at climate change. "I'm pretty sure the severity of this thing is due to natural variability," climate scientist Richard Seager told the New York Times, that famous denialist rag.
California experienced a very similar drought in the late 1970s. That event had the same proximate cause as this one, a ridge of high pressure that sat off the California coast and diverted storms to the north. This isn't climate change so much as climate redux. The more the climate changes, apparently, the more it stays the same.
Obama administration "science czar" John Holdren explained in a briefing, "Scientifically, no single episode of extreme weather, no storm, no flood, no drought can be said to have been caused by global climate change. But the global climate has now been so extensively impacted by the human-caused buildup of greenhouse gases that weather practically everywhere is being influenced by climate change."
So there you have it, weather is climate. In this construct, climate change is completely non-falsifible.
The California drought is blamed on climate change, even though, as the New York Times report noted, "the most recent computer projections suggest that as the world warms, California should get wetter, not drier in the winter, when the state gets the bulk of its precipitation."


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LOS ANGELES (AP) Blake Griffin scored 16 points, Chris Paul had 15 points and eight assists and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Atlanta Hawks 89-76 on Sunday.
Jamal Crawford, who won the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year award in 2010 while playing for Atlanta, had 11 points after coming in with a team-high 21.8 average - tops among the league's reserves. Fifth-year center DeAndre Jordan, coming off the first back-to-back 20-point games of his NBA career, finished with eight points.
Josh Smith had a team-high 13 points for the Hawks, who shot 41.7 percent from the field in the opener of a four-game road trip. Atlanta also committed 22 turnovers that were converted into 24 Clippers points.


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The Jets have made it widely known that they'll be using the Wildcat this year. But what if they actually won't be using it at all?
They've hired former Dolphins coach Tony Sparano, who four years ago bedeviled the Patriots with the surprise unveiling of the NFL's version of the alternative attack, which works best when the players in the base offense remain on the field. In September 2008, the Dolphins slapped it together in the week preceding a game in New England — and they scored four touchdowns on six plays with Ronnie Brown taking the snap in shotgun formation, Ricky Williams lining up as a flanker who would come in motion and either get the ball on a handoff or (in that specific game) not get the ball on a handoff, and quarterback Chad Pennington split wide as a receiver.
Since then, it's been used by several other teams, even though there has been a sense in more recent seasons that the Wildcat has run its course. In other incarnations, the Wildcat entailed actually removing the starting quarterback from the field and using a different signal-caller. The Eagles did it with Mike Vick (to the chagrin of Donovan McNabb). The Jets did it with Brad Smith. Even the Dolphins did it with Pat White, a second-round draft bust taken only months after Miami's starting-quarterback-stays-on-the-field Wildcat wowed the league.
Tebow has worked with a similar, but different, approach during his two seasons in Denver, lining up in shotgun with a tailback to his side. The base play is a simple read-option, with the ball going to the running back if the defensive end on the side of the tailback comes wide or staying in Tebow's hands, with the quarterback running to where the defensive end was if he bites on the handoff and crashes toward what would have been the point of attack.
From that basic look, Tebow can also pass after faking the handoff, as he did on the only play from scrimmage in overtime against the Steelers in January.
If that's what the Jets will be using, it's not the Wildcat. So what will the Jets be using?
There's a reason, in our view, for the Jets to be so secretive about their practices entailing what they're calling the "Wildcat." There's a reason, in our view, for the Jets to have not even broken out the Wildcat (or, as the case may be, the "TeBone") in preseason games. And there's a reason, in our view, for the Jets to be spending so much time talking about how preparing for the Wildcat will suck time away from preparing for the base offense.
We (and, really, for something potentially as harebrained as this I should say, "I") think that, when the Jets host the Bills on September 9, what they use as the "Wildcat" package will neither be the Wildcat nor the Tebow read-option base offense.
Consider this. The Bills new quarterbacks coach is David Lee. He's the same David Lee who was the quarterbacks coach in Miami in (yep) 2008. Though Sparano gets the credit for the Miami version of the Wildcat, his offensive coordinator (Dan Henning) called the attack that accounted for 28 points in the 38-13 thrashing of the Pats "the David Lee Special." (That's straight from Tim Layden's Blood, Sweat and Chalk, easily the best modern compendium of football analysis.) It was Lee who had pitched the "Wild Hog" offense he'd used at Arkansas with Darren McFadden to Henning on the flight home from a 31-10 loss at Arizona only a week earlier.
And it's Lee who now is working for the team the Jets will face in Week One and Week 17.
Chances are that David Lee knows how to stop the David Lee Special. Chances are that the Jets won't be using it.
Last year, Pats coach Bill Belichick showed not once but twice that he knows how to shut down the Broncos TeBone offense. And, as always, the Jets play the Pats twice. Chances are that the Jets won't be using the attack Tebow ran in Denver.
Then there are the Dolphins, who have plenty of guys on defense who were on the team when Sparano ran the show and Lee coached the quarterbacks and the Dolphins used both the true Wildcat and the short-lived and ill-fated Pat White version of the read-option. Since the Jets also will face Miami twice per year, chances are that the Jets won't be giving the Dolphins any looks that they may have seen in practice over the past few seasons.
So if it's not the Wildcat or the TeBone per se, what will the Jets be using? Maybe it'll be the true single wing, a shell-game of an offense with a direct snap to Tebow and guys like Shonn Greene as the tailback and John Conner assuming the role of what was/is the "quarterback" in the offense, lined up not far behind the gap in the two tackles of the unbalanced line — and ready to blow up whomever stands between Tebow or Greene and the secondary.
Throw in Santonio Holmes as the single wingback in the "single wing," and Holmes can play the role of Demaryius Thomas getting single coverage, if/when Tebow fakes a handoff and musters a reasonably accurate throw.
The point is that the Jets are smart enough to know that the teams they'll face in six out of 16 games are smart enough to know how to defend the Wildcat and/or the TeBone. With Mark Sanchez leaving the field and Tebow entering from the sideline (unless the big secret is that the Jets plan to use Tebow as a fullback or tight end in the base offense), the Jets need a genuine element of surprise.
The surprise could be that, once Tebow enters the game, the offense that opposing defenses see will be nothing like what they expected to see.


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I was going through the aisles of my local box crafting store when I stumbled upon this paper witches hat. I knew I wanted to alter it, but it took me a few weeks to figure out what to do.
I am in LOVE, LOVE, LOVE with the Mocha Morning Specialty DSP. I knew I wanted to cover this hat with it, but...
I only had one piece of the black, flocked DSP left. ARGHHHHHH!
WHAT to do???!??!??!!?!?!? The ONLY thing that bothers me about Stampin' Up! is that because it's a mail-order company, you have to wait a week for your supplies to arrive. And with the start of my new teaching blog, and everything else going on in my life, I have been toooo busy to think about getting more paper. And now here we are, only a few days before the big day. SO, what to do.....???? Well I cleverly decided to get out my Basic Black ink pad and a sponge, and sponge over the Crumb Cake flocked pattern of this DSP. Let me tell you that it took a loooooonnnngggg time. BUT, I am really pleased with the final result. Check out all my photos, and you can see the different flocking patterns around the hat. The whispy floral image was sponged in, and the "fleur de lis" flourish, was always black.
Well, then I knew I needed ribbon to hide the joints between the paper, and I really wanted to make something interesting for the hat band, and the floral rosette.
The rosette was made by cutting the DSP to 1 1/2 inches and then scored at 1/4 inch all the way along (with the Simply Scored) and then folded like an accordian. After I creased all the folds, I added the strip of Basic Black Satin ribbon, along the back with Sticky Strip. Then I creased it all again so that the black ribbon added a nice edge to the rosette. Finally I used the 2 3/8" scallop circle punch and the Fancy Flower punch to punch out a few shapes. I then scrunched, and scrunched the paper, and then spritzed it with water. Finally I separated the paper into 2 strips. This gives it the faux suede look. Eventually I scrunched these 'faux suede' pieces into a shape I like, and let them dry. I popped an antique brad in the middle, and voila! a cute little rosette.
The hat band was a bit more difficult. I think I'm going to save that tutorial for another day. I have a project coming up with Craft Project Central in November, and I think I'll included a tutorial about the hat band in that project. Currently this hat is sitting amongst all my Halloween goodies in my little Halloween Vignette. I truly hope you all have a fabulous Halloween - especially those of you who have the magic of children to excite your day!


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Description: If your honey is a dad, consider Halter Ranch 2008 Ancestor (family-owned Halter Ranch is in Paso Robles, CA; http://www.halterranch.com). The wine is named for a Coast Live Oak (quercus agrifolia) on the property: estimated to be 550 years old, the "Ancestor Oak" is largest of its type on record, a witness to the ages, and speaks nicely to dad's role in the family. A seductive blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Merlot, Malbec, and Petit Verdot, the wine has aromas of ripe black fruits, cedar, and sweet vanilla, and pairs well with beef, lamb, and game.
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Slater Martin, 86, the defensive-minded Hall of Fame guard who won four NBA titles with the Minneapolis Lakers and one with the St. Louis Hawks, died Thursday at a skilled nursing facility in Houston after a sudden illness, his family said.
Martin was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982. He entered the University of Texas' Longhorn Hall of Honor in 1962, and the school retired his No. 15 in 2009.
"I think he's the best defensive guard that ever lived. That includes all the ones right now," said Sid Hartman, the 92-year-old sports columnist for the Star Tribune of Minneapolis who served as the de facto general manager of the Lakers.
"He was quick as a cat," Hartman said. "He wasn't a great shooter or a great scorer, but he was a fantastic point guard."
The 5-foot-10 Martin averaged 9.8 points and 4.2 assists in 745 NBA regular-season games with Minneapolis, New York and St. Louis from 1949-50 to 1959-60. He averaged 10 points and 3.2 assists in 92 playoff games, winning titles with Minneapolis in 1950, '52, '53 and '54 and St. Louis in 1958. He played in seven All-Star games.
Slater Nelson Martin was born Oct. 22, 1925, in Elmira, Texas, and grew up in Houston. He enrolled in college in the fall of 1943 and played four varsity games as a freshman. He went into the military in January 1944, and rejoined the Longhorns for the 1946-47 Final Four run that ended with a third-place finish. In his next-to-last game at Texas, he set a school record with 49 points in an 81-60 victory over Texas Christian University on Feb. 26, 1949.
Martin and five other Hall of Famers from the Minneapolis Lakers — George Mikan, Vern Mikkelsen, Clyde Lovellette, the late Jim Pollard and their coach, John Kundla — were honored in 2002 at Staples Center when a banner was raised to celebrate their achievements, 42 years after the team moved to Los Angeles.
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Talk:Can I become a distributor?
From Openmoko
This is an honest question, and many people want to know -- especially in countries that don't have the other FIC phone yet (GT118A) -- how to buy thousands of Neo1973s and redistribute them. Please, do not mark for deletion again. --Massa 11:37, 22 August 2007 (CEST)
- Right, this is a honest question, but I think that fits better in the FAQ or into another page instead of a single one. kresp0 16:17, 22 August 2007 (CEST)
- Well to be honest this is a question I've been wanting to ask and would really like an answer to, but don't want to disturb the devs during an obviously busy time for them. It probably does deserve to be fit into an FAQ of some sort, but I think FAQs generally contain answers to question, rather than questions without answers. Why don't we leave the page here until we find an answer, then move it into the FAQs? --Awrowe 19:17, 22 August 2007 (CEST)


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White House's shifting IRS account
The White House on Monday once again added to the list of people who knew about the IRS investigation into its targeting of conservative groups — saying White House chief of staff Denis McDonough had been informed about a month ago.
Press secretary Jay Carney said again that no one had told President Barack Obama ahead of the first news reports: not his top aide McDonough, nor his chief counsel Kathy Ruemmler, nor anyone from the Treasury Department.
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Monday's revelation amounts to the fifth iteration of the Obama administration's account of events, after initially saying that the White House had first learned of the controversy from the press.
( PHOTOS: 10 slams on the IRS)
Republicans said they were on the lookout for the next installment in the White House's ever-shifting narrative.
Here's how the White House account has evolved:
Friday, May 10: IRS official Lois Lerner disclosed at an American Bar Association conference that the agency had targeted non-profit applications from groups with tea party language in their name.
That afternoon, Carney said he didn't know when the White House first became aware of the investigation.
"I don't have an answer to that specifically," Carney said. "I know that when the IG began investigating it, that it's been investigating it for however long the IRS has said, but I don't have a specific answer to that."
( Also on POLITICO: Baucus and Hatch expand IRS probe)
Outside the White House, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said that he'd first learned of the details of the investigation from news reports.
Monday, May 13: Obama, during his press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, said he first learned about the IRS story from the press.
"I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this," Obama said. "I think it was on Friday."
Later in the day, Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One that White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler's office was told "in the week of April 22" that an inspector general's report was coming "involving the office in Cincinnati."
"But that's all they were informed as a normal sort of heads up," Carney said. "And we have never — we don't have access to, nor should we, the IG's report or any draft versions of it."
Tuesday, May 14: The inspector general's report was released, and Obama released a statement directing Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to "hold those responsible for these failures accountable."
Wednesday, May 15: Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller resigned at Obama's request.


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Friday, January 6, 2012
Sweet Treats For You MTME Sweet Peaks (Jan7th)
9 comments:
- Bonnie aka raduse said...
Love those cake pops!!
- January 7, 2012 at 1:55 AM
- Penny said...
This is so cute and such a lovely gift for someone!
- January 7, 2012 at 3:19 AM
- Kathryn B said...
Cake pops i've never heard of them but they sure do look yummy! I love the design of your treat box Monique! The design paper looks great along with your fabby hdart tag!
- January 7, 2012 at 5:50 AM
- bonnie said...
Hello sweetie....this is absolutely adorable...love the twine bows! Love the sweet colours and those cakepops look soooo yummy!:) Hugs x
- January 7, 2012 at 6:41 AM
- Nancy said...
Adorable samples, love the cake pops, I made them once & they were kinda clumsy, well maybe it was me. Anyhow would love to hear how you made your cake pops.
- January 7, 2012 at 6:56 AM
- Sherry said...
Another amazing project. I'm hoping to get another machine soon where I can do svg files. You are so talented. Feel free to send me some cake pops. LOL
I might be getting rid of some wilton cake pans. Let me know if you're interested.
- January 7, 2012 at 7:55 AM
- Kelly Schelske said...
How fun Monique!!
- January 7, 2012 at 1:26 PM
- Stella said...
Sweet and stunning! I think we all want this :)
- January 7, 2012 at 2:57 PM
- Crystal said...
Oh WOW what a fabulous project Monique, LOVE LOVE these colors and your design is AWESOME and so creative!!!!! Happy New Year hun!!!!!
- January 7, 2012 at 3:38 PM