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Robert Armstrong
Robert is a Senior Security Architect in the Product Strategy group for the Application Division at Oracle. Robert began working at PeopleSoft in 2003 and joined Oracle's Product Strategy Management team as part of the PeopleSoft acquisition in 2005. In his current role, Robert provides the over-arching security strategy direction, including analysis and vetting of customer requirement, industry challenges and emerging security technologies for all Oracle Application products including the next generation Fusion Application product family.
Robert holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Robert has 15+ years' experience in the Information Systems security industry, including the strategy, design, implementation and management of Secure Enterprise Architectures, and analysis and definition of strategic direction for security in enterprise class software applications Information Systems architectures.
Wardrobe for Opportunity is Robert's first service on a non-profit board. Prior to serving on the Board for WFO, Robert started his non-profit experience volunteering with Special Olympics as a coach and counselor as a teenager. Robert also severed as camp counselor for Exceptional Children's foundation and has been involved in numerous volunteer engagements supporting National Parks, Conservancy groups, education and health initiatives. Robert is currently serving as a volunteer tutor for the "Read Project" at the Livermore Library where he works with individual students to increase their English language comprehension skills. Robert is one of six siblings and lives with his wife Kristin in Livermore, CA with their two dogs and is passionate about helping people grow, nurture their passion and desire to contribute for the greater good of society.
Nate Thomas
As an Assistant Vice President-Branch Manager for US Bank, Nate Thomas excels at developing and maintaining teams, leaders, and solid business relationships. Raised in an Air Force family, Nate's parents encouraged him to always remember where he came from, instilling a strong sense of self, his position in society, and family. Nate is passionate about making sure everyone has at least the opportunity to be in the game, and this passion drives him to give back. His generosity is visible in his dealings with colleagues, subordinates, clients, his family, and the community. In the business world, Nate has over 15 years of managerial experience, earning him praise for his integrity and energetic business manner. At home, Nate is happily married to Claudia, and enjoys being a soccer and swim dad for his daughters, Aliya and Mya. As a family, the Thomas's regularly participate in charitable events such as the Food Bank food drive. As a community leader, he believes that giving back is more than just donating time; he regularly donates his time, knowledge, and skills to those in need of some assistance.
Cara Heilmann
Cara Heilmann is the Founder and President of Ready Reset Go - Career Coaching and is absolutely passionate about helping people find amazing careers – from personal marketing, to interview preparation, to keeping one's mojo after landing a career. She is known for her creativity, strategic thinking, and relentless pursuit of results. She brings over 20 years of HR experience and a strong analytical / financial background as a business owner and MBA. Cara launched the Business Leadership Network Hawaii Chapter where employers seek ways to hire individuals with disabilities. She is a strong supporter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the East Oakland Boxing Association, and Canine Companions for Independence. Wardrobe for Opportunity is a perfect extension of Cara's passion to help people find and build great careers.
Moiré L. Rasmussen
Board Member
Moiré Rasmussen is the Office of Diversity and Inclusion Leader for the Greater San Francisco market of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. She is responsible for leading the market's strategic initiatives to retain, develop, and advance women and minorities for the San Francisco and Sacramento offices. She is a certified coach and has the Strategic Professional Human Resource certification. She is a frequent public speaker on college campuses surrounding diversity challenges and serves as a panel expert for Diversity Best Practices, a not-for-profit organization. She has also worked with companies to assist them in their talent management on-boarding processes as well as help them review and build their diverse talent pipeline. Moiré is a graduate of California State University, Sacramento with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting. She is a Board Member of the Accounting Careers and Awareness Program (ACAP), a subsidiary branch of NABA Inc. She is a lifetime member NABA and is also a member of Ascend Inc. and ALPFA Inc.
Burnitta Nanton
Board Member
Burnitta Nanton is currently working as a Project Manager, Innovation at the J.M.Smucker Company. Prior to her current position, Burnitta was a Senior Engineer in the Packaging Systems Engineering, Centers for Excellence Organization at E&J Gallo since 2012. She lead product and package change management for the winery's new product launches for Premium and International business units.
Prior to Gallo, Burnitta worked for The Clorox Company for 5 years in Product Supply and before that for Kraft Foods/Nabisco for 7 years in Productivity and Packaging R&D in the company's Global organization.
Burnitta has a passion for strategy and enjoys creative technology solutions that promote collaboration and communication. A native of Newport News, VA; Burnitta holds a bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Hampton University; and an Executive MBA from the University of Georgia, Terry College of Business. Her MBA program enabled her to gain exposure to the international business market and culture in Istanbul, Turkey; Prague, Czech Republic; and in Beijing and Shanghai, China.
Burnitta finds professional enjoyment through the challenges of seeking ways to increase profitability by revamping processes; and that is where she has been told her smiles begin.
Dr. Vera Packard
Board Member
Dr. Vera Packard is the Executive Director of the HERS Breast Cancer Foundation. She has been with the organization for four years and absolutely loves her job. She's originally from Brazil. She earned her Master's in Medicine in Brazil, and specialized in breast disease, particularly in breast cancer in London, UK. She worked in private practice in addition to the University Hospital for 20 years. Her passion for training and teaching others is part of her personal mission of inspiring people to have a better life!
Vera has a deep commitment to women's health issues and was inspired to start a non-profit organization devoted to breast cancer awareness in 1997. Working for a breast cancer organization here in the United States has not only helped her to continue to be involved in the medical world, but also in the business side as well. It's a great opportunity to build a new career carrying over skills from her former medical career.
Vera served as president of her former Rotary club in Brazil. She was also an ambassador for the San Ramon Chamber of Commerce from 2006 to 2009 and a member ABWA (American Business Women Association) / Express to Success Network from 2005 to 2010, also serving as its chapter president. Vera has her own business with a health and wellness company called Arbonne International which has provided her with vast knowledge about nutrition, skin care and of course business practices and sales.
Wardrobe for Opportunity had its seed planted in Vera's heart in 2005 when she learned about their mission at a Rotary meeting. She now feels it's time to bring her non-profit management experience and her business expertise to this wonderful organization that helps so many men and woman gain success and confidence.
Esther Ray Le
Board Member
Esther is a Project Manager on the Environment, Policy & Social Initiatives team at Apple, where she is tasked with managing day-to-day operations and driving key strategies for growth and expansion for the Global Volunteer Program. Prior to this role, she worked at Adobe on the Sustainability + Social Impact teams for over 9 years, managing Adobe's global social impact initiatives that empower employees to give back to the community through hands-on and skills-based volunteering programs. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Political Economy from UC Berkeley, as well as an MBA from the Berkeley Haas School of Business.
A lifelong Bay Area resident, Esther is passionate about leveraging technology to solve societal challenges, especially injustice and poverty. She is eager to contribute to the creative efforts of organizations who are making a tangible impact in the community. Esther was attracted to Wardrobe for Opportunity's (WFO) mission to empower low-income individuals with the skills, resources and support they need to become economically self-sufficient. Her family upbringing, work experience, values and educational degrees have led to a wide involvement in volunteer service, local church leadership, and in her career in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). She admires WFO for giving their clients a chance at career success – the opportunity to become a thriving, self-fulfilled citizen and a provider for their families. WFO is Esther's first service on a non-profit board, and she could not be more proud to be working with an organization with such a noble and worthy cause.
Berkeley Board Fellows
Joan Mao
Joan Mao is a full-time MBA student at the UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business, graduating in 2017. During her time at Haas, she interned at Levi Strauss & Co., evaluating strategic initiatives for the wholesale e-commerce group. Prior to Levi's, she completed a marketing internship at ThirdLove, a lingerie e-commerce startup based in SF. Joan brings over 6 years of experience in strategy consulting and market research, primarily focusing on market entry and opportunity assessment projects. She holds a BS and MS from MIT in materials science and engineering.
Nolan Chao
Nolan is currently a full-time MBA candidate at UC-Berkeley's Haas School of Business, graduating in 2018. Prior to moving to the Bay Area, he worked as a Sourcing Manager for JPMorgan Chase in the Columbus, Ohio office, focusing on driving price negotiations with both suppliers and buyers through the use of online auctions. While in Ohio, he also volunteered at a local non-profit called MCS-TOUCH, helping to assist with the sales and logistics strategies for their online thrift store. He has a passion for internet technology and online marketplaces, and has experience with people operations, e-commerce, and procurement. He obtained his Bachelor's in Business Administration from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Advisory Board Members
Frank Jorden
Frank is a Senior Human Resources Consultant, Director of Departments and long time college professor. He is actively involved in professional, community, religious and civic organizations. Frank holds a MBA in Human Resources and B.A. in Sociology.
Caitlyn Greene
Caitlyn has been volunteering with Wardrobe for Opportunity since 2012 and joined the Advisory Board in 2016. She has been a sorter, stylist and works the client sales at the Oakland office. She has also been known to join the WFO booth at the annual Art and Soul Festival in Oakland. Caitlyn has a BA in Accounting from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri and currently works as an accountant in the mortgage insurance industry.
Sue Green
Advisory Board Member
Longtime volunteer and WFO supporter, Sue Green, passed away on May 6, 2017. Sue was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother and friend. She was a mission -centered volunteer, dedicated advisory board member and champion of WFO. WFO will always treasure Sue's unwavering support. We will sincerely miss Sue Green.
Sue retired in 1998 after a long retail career with Goldman's, owned by the Malnick family and based in Oakland. After seeing a story about WFO, she attended an orientation given by our founder, Jeri Foster and got 'forever hooked'. Helping people get ahead using motivation and retail experience has always been Sue's goal at Wardrobe. Over the years , she has seen the development of WFO from dressing people for job interviews to mentoring clients with incredible success programs and more! Thankfully, she is still able to actively volunteer after 17 years!
Linda Bennett
Advisory Board Member
Linda has been involved with Wardrobe for Opportunity for over 10 years, dedicating her time to being an attentive member of the Advisory Board since 2010. Linda regularly donates and consistently does outreach within her community, spreading the word about WFO. Linda owned her own business, Bennett & Co. Consulting for over 20 years, offering interview coaching and recruiting services to employers. Linda has a BA from University of Maine, Orono, in English Language and Literature.
Dave Olson
Advisory Board Member
Dave serves as Chair of the Advisory Board. He has been a dedicated volunteer to WFO since 2008. Dave has been a stylist and now coordinates the delivery of most of our deliveries, helping WFO build strong relationships with our donation drop-off locations. For over 25 years, Dave has been a wardrobe consultant at Tom James Company. He works with professional men and women, helping them to create appropriate and lasting first impressions. He specializes in helping busy people look and feel their very best in their clothing, specializing in wardrobe design and custom clothing. Dave has a degree from Pacific Lutheran University's School of Business.
Carolyn Rovner
Advisory Board Member
Carolyn Rovner has been changing lives with her business, C2 Style, since 2001. As a style consultant & personal shopper, Carolyn encourages men and women to communicate their individuality through a stylish and appropriate wardrobe. She has been a loyal supporter of WFO for 14 years, by donating clothing from her client's closets (as well as her own), and joining the Advisory Board in 2013. She is also a volunteer stylist at WFO's Oakland location, and she does it because she believes strongly that our clients can accomplish their goals when they have the confidence to take action. When a person looks their best, they feel their best, and they are ready to take on the future. Carolyn is grateful for the opportunity to meet such brave & inspiring individuals at WFO. She is married to Jeff, and has three young adult children.
Alicia Randolph-Bryan
Advisory Board Member
Alicia Bryan is an Advisory Board member and volunteer wardrobe stylist for Wardrobe for Opportunity (WFO). She derives great satisfaction from her work with WFO, helping in their efforts to assist low-income individuals Find a Job, Keep a Job, and Build a Career. She brings over 15 years of experience in Online/Mobile Payments, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Technology Product Management, Alliance Business Development, and Apparel/Accessory Product Development —for companies including Visa, Lish (a women's accessories company she founded), Excite@Home, Levi Strauss and Hewlett-Packard. Alicia holds a Bachelor of Science, MBA, and MFA (Apparel Design) degrees.
Vernon Robinson
Vernon Robinson has been a volunteer with Wardrobe For Opportunity since late 2009. He has successfully moved from volunteering, to Male Client of the Year 2013, to lead stylist in 2015 and joined the Advisory Board in 2016. He has successfully assisted with WFO's annual Spring to Success Soiree for the last four years. He is a current student at the National Speakers Academy, attending Laney College studying Public Speaking and Communications and plans to study Philosophy at UC Berkeley. In his own right, he is naturally an inspirational and motivational speaker.
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Time travel, as we all know, is (1) impossible in any real-life, non-quantum sense, and (2) irresistible to filmmakers. Rian Johnson's Toronto entry "Looper" asks us to accept it as a premise, and you know what? It's handled more realistically here than anything in the plots of the average superhero movie. One of the strengths of time travel is its demonstration that if we could travel through time and meet our parents or even ourselves at an earlier age, it could be an unbearably emotional experience.
So, we're having this wonderful discussion at Scanners about the moral dimensions of superhero movies -- mostly about "The Amazing Spider-Man," "Marvel's The Avengers" and "The Dark Knight." I was bringing up some things from 2008 and 2009 about how some see the Joker as a "nihilist" or an "agent of chaos" and how I see him figuring into the moral design of the movie, and somebody posted this comment:
I'm so confused. You've spent the better part of 4 years slamming the dark knight for not being a "good" film, even though you're now saying its chalked full of thematic material. So am I correct in assuming you like the themes it raises, it's that the execution was poorish? So it's ok to like the themes just not the way it's presented, or that they presented too obviously, sloppily. Please give me a straight answer. I want to understand your interpretation of the material once and for all.
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It seems appropriate that the first screening I attended for the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival should be a movie about stories and con games: "The Brothers Bloom," written and directed by Rian Johnson, maker of "Brick," one of my favorite movies of 2005.
Now look back at that sentence and you'll notice it's a setup for another story. (And con?)
I mean, of course it's going to make sense to me that the first movie I see in Toronto is going to be about storytelling as con artistry, in which stories themselves are the biggest cons of all -- because, then, seeing the movie becomes part of my story, and the lead (or "lede," if you prefer) for the story you're reading now, about my first TIFF 2008 screening. That's the way stories work, and the way we work stories.
How to plan my Toronto schedule when there are a few dozen movies screening every day and I want to keep from knowing much of anything about them before I see them, so that I can (as much as humanly possible) avoid preconceptions, false expectations, artificial festival "buzz," and other distractions that have little or nothing to do with what's on those screens? (See last year's accounting: "What did I know and when did I know it?")
The first thing I look for are the names of directors whose work I'm interested in following (or whose work I think I would like to follow). This year, for example, Danny Boyle, Kevin Smith, Rod Lurie and (as previously mentioned) Guy Ritchie all have films in this year's festival -- which, in my case, leaves more room to accommodate movies by directors I like. Not only for megastar filmmakers like the Dardennes and the Coens, but for Terence Davies ("The Long Day Closes"), Rian Johnson ("Brick"), Ramin Bahrani ("Chop Shop"), Katherine Bigelow ("Blue Steel"), Jerzy Skolimowski ("Deep End"), Kelly Reichardt ("Old Joy"), Michael Winterbottom ("A Cock and Bull Story" -- who makes two or three movies a year, it seems)... Those parenthetical titles, of course, are earlier films by these filmmakers. I don't even remember most of the titles from this year yet, because I haven't seen the movies. I've just been circling times and places on my screening schedule.
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Wines from Rioja welcomed over 600 members of the UK wine trade to its inaugural tasting on 9th October. The tasting marked the first occasion Rioja wineries had come together generically in the UK, and represented the biggest collection of Rioja wines ever shown under one roof in the UK.
Attendees were drawn from all sectors of the trade, with sommeliers, supermarket buyers, independent merchants, importers, agents, and press all strongly represented. A large delegation from the Spanish Embassy, including His Excellency Federico Trillo Figueroa, the Spanish Ambassador also attended the event at OXO2 on London's Southbank.
Key personnel from nearly 100 wineries already present in the UK and importers of Rioja wine hosted tables at the event, while in a separate "wineries without importers zone" buyers were connected with a further 19 wineries seeking representation in this market.
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Lottie West, senior account director for Wines from Rioja in the UK, and organiser of the event commented, "we were delighted with the success of the first Wines from Rioja trade tasting. The exceptionally high level of engagement from wineries, with 118 represented, reflects that there was a genuine appetite for bringing such an event to London, while the high turnout of visitors indicates the continued enthusiasm for the category amongst the UK trade. We are already looking forward to making the event even bigger and better in 2014!"
Jose Luis Lapuente, General Manager for the Consejo Regulador DOCa Rioja added; "The UK is our largest market and is of key strategic importance to us. Feedback on our inaugural trade tasting from exhibitors and visitors alike has been overwhelmingly positive, with numbers far exceeding our expectations, and demonstrating the importance of developing an annual focal point for the Rioja category."
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In total, 659 members of the UK wine trade were in attendance at the Wines from Rioja trade tasting on 9th October.
The full list of wineries represented at the tasting was as follows:
Adnams (Bodegas Bagordi)
Araex Rioja Alavesa (Baigorri & Altos de Rioja)
Araex Rioja Alavesa (Luis Cañas; Amaren & Bodegas y Viñedos Labastida)
Bancroft (Bodegas Altanza)
Bancroft (Bodegas Remírez de Ganuza)
Barón de Ley
Berkmann - Bodegas Valdemar
Bibendum (Criadores de Rioja)
Bibendum (Dinastía Vivanco & DSG Vineyards)
Bodega Abel Mendoza
Bodega Martínez Lacuesta
Bodegas Aldeanueva
Bodegas Amezola de la Mora
Bodegas Beronia
Bodegas Biurko Gorri S.A.L
Bodegas Campillo
Bodegas Corral - Don Jacobo Wines
Bodegas Covila
Bodegas Cuna De Reyes
Bodegas de los Herederos del Marqués de Riscal
Bodegas Eguía
Bodegas Faustino
Bodegas Fernández de Pierola
Bodegas Finca Allende
Bodegas Finca Nueva
Bodegas Franco Españoles
Bodegas Juan Carlos Sancha
Bodegas Landaluce
Bodegas Marqués de Cáceres
Bodegas Muriel
Bodegas Ostatu
Bodegas Paco García
Bodegas Patrocinio
Bodegas Ramon Bilbao
Bodegas Remelluri
Bodegas Riojanas
Bodegas Roda
Bodegas Santalba
Bodegas Solar Viejo
Bodegas Tarón
Bodegas Tobia
Bodegas Vinícola Real
Bodegas Zuazo Gaston
Boutinot (Bodegas Ontañón)
Boutinot (Valenciso)
Boutique Wine Company (Castillo de Sajazarra, Herederos Bello Berganzo & Bodegas Fin de Siglo)
BURRIDGES OF ARLINGTON ST (Bodegas Tobelas & Bodegas Urbina)
BURRIDGES OF ARLINGTON ST (Viña Eizaga & Bodegas del Medievo)
Campo Viejo
Domeco de Jarauta
Eguren Ugarte
Ehrmanns (Bodegas Ortubia & El Sacramento)
Ehrmanns (Paternina)
El Coto de Rioja
Familia Martínez Bujanda (Finca Valpiedra & Bujanda)
Finca Egomei
Haciendo y Viñedos Marqués del Atrio
Hallgarten & Druitt & Novum Wines (Bodegas Ondarre & Bodegas Martínez Lacuesta)
La Rioja Alta SA
Liberty Wine (Bodegas Izadi & Bodegas Orben)
Manzanos Wines
Marqués de Murrieta
Marqués de Vitoria
Pagos del Rey
Ramírez de la Piscina
Rioja Vega
Señorío de Librares
Stevens Garnier (Bodegas LAN & Sonsierra)
United Wineries (Berberana)
United Wineries (Marqués de la Concordia)
Vintae (Haciendo López de Haro & Palacio del Camino Real)
Viña Herminia
Viña Hermosa
Viña Ijalba
Viña Pomal
Viña Salceda
Viña Valoria
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Bodega Castillo de Mendoza
Bodega San Esteban
Bodega San Miguel
Bodegas Aldonia
Bodegas Benetakoa
Bodegas Bohedal
Bodegas Fuente Vieja
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Bodegas Murua
Bodegas Olartia
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Bodegas y Viñedos Pujanza
Dominio de Nobleza
Grupo Solar de Samaniego
Unzu Propiedad
Viña Olabarri
- The UK remains Rioja's largest export market, accounting for 34% of exports.
- 2.72m 9l cases of Rioja were sold over the period June 2012 – June 2013 (Nielsen MAT to 22.06.13) with a value of £197m; an increase of 4% in volume and 8% in value on the previous year.
- Rioja makes up 28% of all Spanish wine sales by volume in the UK and around 3% of the UK wine market as a whole (Nielsen MAT to w.e. 23.06.13)
- Rioja fetches a higher price (£6.04 per bottle) than the UK average bottle of wine (£5.08) and around 30% higher than the £4.66 average price per bottle of Spanish wine. Across all of Spain's winegrowing regions, Rioja commands the highest per bottle price (Nielsen MAT to 22.06.13).
- Rioja remains Spain's flagship premium wine, accounting for 36% of Spain's value against a volume share of 28%.
Wines from Rioja is the UK marketing arm of The Rioja Regulatory Council or Consejo Regulador de Rioja DOCa, the body responsible for the application and monitoring of legislation relating to the quality and standards of wines produced in the region, promotion of the image of Rioja wines and defence of interests of the sector.


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Before you buy a site or apply for planning approval, submit a pre-planning sewerage enquiry to Yorkshire Water and we can supply our views on the availability of the public sewer network and any restrictions.
Our Service
We've now implemented a flat fee structure for our pre-planning sewerage enquiries for each site, charging £190.72 (including VAT at 20%).
What you'll need to send us
1. An Ordnance Survey plan (scale 1/1250 or 1/2500), with the site clearly marked and a location map or six-figure O.S. grid reference for rural sites.
2. Payment, you can pay by debit or credit card using our secure payment line, please tick this option on your application form. Alternatively, you can pay the application fee by cheque. Please make the cheque payable to Yorkshire Water Services Limited.
3. Details of the type of proposed development, likely number of units and anticipated rates of discharge (in litres per second) of foul and surface water.
4. Extra Information such as: high and low points, watershed(s), the general direction(s) of fall, the preferred drainage outfall route(s) and proposed point(s) of access etc.
5. A topographical survey.
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What we'll do
We'll aim to respond to all pre-planning sewerage enquiries in writing within 21 days of receipt of payment with our views on the public sewer network, including comments on availability with a complementary extract of the Statutory Sewer Map.
Our comments will be made based on a 'desk top' study, so the more information we have the better informed our response will be.


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I'm a sucker for cookbooks with beautifully taken photos. If it didn't have colourful pictures in it, I'd not buy the book or even pick it up from the shelf. I was pleased that I had completed my mission in a short time and happily walked back to my office with the book under my arm.
My intent and purpose was I'd promised my husband that I'd bake him something that he'll enjoy, which obviously is a cheesecake. The funny man doesn't eat any of my cakes so I thought I'd better indulge him for once! I took the book home that evening and asked him to pick a recipe. I told him I'd bake it for him over the weekend. He ended up picking a strawberry cheesecake mousse which looked easy enough for me to prepare on Saturday evening. As the cheesecake will take overnight to set we'll only be able to taste it the next day.
The assembling took a while and I even got him to be my "assistant" by spreading the chocolate over the biscuit crust whilst I prepared the filing. The whipped cream topping could only be added on Sunday morning as the filing needed to set first. We had our first slice during tea time and may I say that it was delicious.
Strawberry Cheesecake Mousse
(makes one 23 cm cake)
Ingredients for the base:
110g unsalted butter, cubed
200g finely crushed digestive biscuit
2 Tsp firmly packed brown sugar
50g crushed cornflakes
60g dark chocolate melted with 2 Tsp milk
One layer of thin plain sponge cake
Ingredients for the filing:
500g cubed cream cheese
140g castor sugar
2 Tsp strained lemon juice
1 1/2 Tsp + 1 tsp powdered gelatine, dissolved in 100ml water
300g strawberry puree
400ml thickened cream
8 strawberries, halved
Ingredients for the whipped cream topping:
200ml whipped cream + 1 Tsp sugar
6 strawberries sliced
For the base:
1) Melt butter and sugar in pan over low heat. Pour melted butter over crushed biscuit crumbs and cornflakes. Mix well until combined.
2) Press mixture into a greased 23 cm springform cake pan with the back of a metal spoon.
3) Spread melted chocolate over the biscuit base.
4) Cover cake pan and refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.
5) Remove from fridge and place on top of the chocolate a thin layer of sponge cake.
For the filing:
1) Beat cream cheese, sugar and lemon juice until smooth. Pour in combined gelatine and strawberry puree and mix well. Blend in the cream.
2) Press strawberry halves around side of cake pan. Carefully sppon filing into pan.
3) Cover cake pan and refrigerate for at least 6 hours.
For the topping:
1) Top cake with a layer of whipped cream
2) Transfer cake to a serving plate. Arrange strawberry slices on cake. Chill before serving.


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Fundraising – doing it right. Only take 2 minutes!
January 16, 2011
Not a dry eye in the house on Saturday Nite January 15,2011
Liz and Jay Scott put on another fantastic event for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) which was the continued vision of the founder and creator, Alexandra "Alex" Scott. Reading heartfelt letters from families who benefit from funds raised by ALSF, moved every one attending the silent auction . With over 100 volunteers, and participation from major corporations this evening fundraiser does it right for a great start to the New Year and the vision "a cure for all children with cancer"
The most important message was that it all started with a lemonade stand and a vision. That little stand and little girl's vision turned into over $1,000,000. This organization continues today through her parents, friends, volunteers, community involvement and a bunch of little kids raising a lot of awareness. Alex would have been 15 on January 18, 2011.
Looking for a great organization to join or foundation to volunteer?
- GFWC Jr. Woman's Club of Springfield has been working with local and national charities. This organization has been around for over 50 years. This years chosen charity: Be The Change Foundation.
- Debbie Pieri Angel Foundation started by her children vision is to reach out to our local communities, individuals and families who have been affected by terminal disease or life-altering catastrophe.
- Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) - The vision " a cure for ALL children with cancer"
- St. Baldrick's Foundation - a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives. You don't have do be a shavee!
Feel Free to contact us for more information on these organizations.
Good luck and have a great Martin Luther King day! The Whisk and Spoon Team.


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- Discovery and excavation
- Studying the cauldrons
- Conservation
- An Iron Age landscape
- Cauldrons and feasting
Project team
- Alexandra Baldwin, conservator, metal and ceramic artefacts
- Jamie Hood, conservator, historic and archaeological metalwork
- Jody Joy, curator, British and European Iron Age Collections
- Dr Andrew Fitzpatrick,Wessex Archaeology
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Discovery and excavation
The Chiseldon cauldrons were discovered in 2004 by Peter Hyams, a metal detectorist. Initially it wasn't clear what the objects were or how old they might be, so they were left in the ground until a local historical society could conduct a small excavation. This revealed a vessel made from copper-alloy and iron, as well as copper-alloy from a second vessel.
The vessels were too large to be easily removed and there was still insufficient evidence for experts to identify and date the cauldrons so the find remained a puzzle. Analysis of a fragment of the vessel at Oxford University demonstrated that the object was probably prehistoric. This discovery was unexpected and in 2005 a small 'rescue excavation' by a team of specialists from the British Museum, the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Wessex Archaeology was organised.
These excavations found a minimum of 12 fragmentary Iron Age metal cauldrons deliberately buried together in a pit with two cow skulls. The cauldrons were stacked or placed in the pit whole and roughly half were upside down. The others were either the right way up or on their sides.
A small quantity of pottery was also discovered and dated to the Early or Middle Iron Age (800-100 BC), further confirming the dating suggested by metal analysis.
To ensure the objects were disturbed as little as possible, the cauldrons were lifted complete in soil blocks by British Museum conservators.
Further study
The cauldrons were acquired by the British Museum in May 2007 and remain in their lifted state. They are globular in shape and vary in size between approximately 60 and 80 cm wide at the rim. They are made from bands of iron and sheet copper-alloy with iron handles.
In 2008 one of the cauldrons was micro-excavated from the block of soil in which it was encased in the conservation lab at the British Museum.
The bowl of the excavated cauldron is formed of a single sheet of copper-alloy, less than one millimetre thick, hammered to shape. The depth is estimated at 34 cm.
The joins between the bands are secured using rivets and residue found between these joins could be some kind of resin used to make the them watertight. Soot on the bottom of the cauldron indicates that it was used before being put in the ground but it is difficult to determine how long it was used for or the intensity of usage. Possible evidence for repair, particularly on the iron rim may indicate that it was used for a period of time before it was deposited and suggests it was not manufactured especially for burial.


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Table of Contents
- Release Notes
- Dependencies and Pre-Requisites
- Fixed Issues
- Known Issues and Limitations
- Obtaining
- Installation
- Upgrade
- Help Resources
Release Notes
You can read the complete Azure Cloud Solution Provider Integration 3.1 Release Notes here: http://download.pa.parallels.com/poa/azurecsp/doc/87765.htm. Also, you can download the PDF version.
Dependencies and Pre-Requisites
The Azure Cloud Solution Provider application package requires:
- Odin Automation 6.0.8
- Billing Automation 6.0.8
- Azure CSP 3.0-x application version
Important: Azure CSP Integration version 3.0 is not compatible with Odin Automation 7.0. If you want to upgrade to Odin Automation 7.0, you must first upgrade Azure CSP Integration from version 3.0 to version 3.1.
Fixed Issues
APSA-16002 Need ability to change MPN ID of reseller after it has a customer
APSA-15924 More than one resource of type 'http://cloudblue.com/app/azure-csp/priceConfiguration/1.0' is found for variable 'priceConfig' (found: 2 resources)
APSA-16257 Azure Provisioning failure: Culture de-DE is not supported in country BE
APSA-16417 Request to CREST API which loads Price List fails with error "Invalid query specified. Please specify a valid api-version"
Known Issues and Limitations
- Azure CSP and Office 365 resources cannot be sold in the same service plan.
- There is a delay in usage reporting from Microsoft side: the delivery of usage reports for some services may take from 3 to 48 hours till the information is updated on the dashboard in CCP and in the usage reports.
- The creation of a subscription for the end-customer may take up to two hours due to the delay from Microsoft side.
- The task "Synchronize resource usage for instances of APS applications" processes resource instances with counters in the order they were created. As a result, all resource instances belonging to resellers are processed before resource instances of their customers. This might delay the real usage of resellers.
Contact your Odin support account manager to obtain the new versions of the Azure Cloud Solution Provider (Azure CSP) application package.
To install the Azure CSP application, use the instructions provided in the Azure Cloud Solution Provider Integration Provider's Guide.
Important: The upgrade to version 3.1 is supported from 3.0 package version only.
Unzip the application package
AzureCloudSolutionProvider-3.1-x.app.zip. The endpoint package (
AzureCSP-3.1.x.zipfile) contains 3 files:
- Copy them to the endpoint host. The upgrade is run by
- To start the upgrade of the endpoint default instance, which was installed to the default location for the unnamed instance (
"%ProgramFiles%\Odin\Azure CSP") using "Integrated Security" to connect to the database, run this file without any arguments. After the finishing, the console window will stay open.
- Login to Odin Automation as a provider, import new Azure CSP package and upgrade the application instance.
- After the upgrade to Azure CSP 3.1.1, update Odin Automation billing online store and CP customizations with https://kb.cloudblue.com/en/128935 and https://kb.cloudblue.com/en/129099.
The upgrade script can be run with the following command line arguments:
|Default Value
|Run in the silent mode. If set to "Yes", the console window will close on finishing the upgrade.
|It allows to specify the name of the instance to be upgraded, if it is installed in the default location for the named instances ("%ProgramFiles%\Odin\Azure CSP` (%INSTANCENAME%").
|It allows to specify the target directory where the upgrading instance is installed. You can use this setting if an instance was installed to a non-default location. If this setting is specified in the command line, then "INSTANCENAME" setting is ignored. "%ProgramFiles%\Odin\Azure CSP" for the default instance and "%ProgramFiles%\Odin\Azure CSP (%INSTANCENAME%)" for a named instance (if "INSTANCENAME" is passed via the command line).
|"%ProgramFiles%\Odin\Azure CSP" for the default instance and "%ProgramFiles%\Odin\Azure CSP (%INSTANCENAME%)" for a named instance (if "INSTANCENAME" is passed via the command line).
|DBLOGIN and DBPASSWORD
|Database administrator login and password. It allows to pass the login and password to access the database to make the upgrade of the database, if "Integrated security" is not used or a user running "update.bat" doesn't have an administrative permissions to the database.
|"sa" for DBLOGIN and empty for DBPASSWORD, which means "use the integrated security".
Note: If you have more than one instances of the back-end web site or the single instance is a non-default one, you have to upgrade each instance separately running update.bat with the proper value of the "INSTANCENAME" setting.
Help Resources
Azure Cloud Solution Provider Integration 3.1 guides are available here: http://download.pa.parallels.com/poa/azurecsp/3.1/.
All Azure Cloud Solution Provider Integration Release Notes
Supported APS Application Packages Versions in Odin Automation
Office 365 and Azure CSP Subdomain Form for Odin Automation billing Control Panel (Customization Files)
Office 365 and Azure CSP Subdomain Form for Odin Automation billing Online Store (Layout Template Customizations)


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Anthony Petrello has many roles at Nabors Industries. Besides being the board chairman, he is also the President and CEO. Nabors Industries is an oil and gas drilling and exploration company based in Hamilton, Bermuda. The company employs approximately 29,000 people. Anthony Petrello succeeded Eugene M. Isenberg in whose honor the University of Massachusets Amherst, Isenberg School of Business is named. Nabors Industries is involved in many philanthropic activities.The company supports the Komen Race for the Cure a breast cancer charity that works to provides education on breast cancer and raises money to help in fighting the disease. In 2012 Nabors Industries donated $20,000 becoming a Silver Sponsor. Nabors Industries also supports the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, United Way through a yearly pledging by its employees. It is involved in many other charitable courses including mentorship programs in Partnership with Aldine Independent School District.
Mr. Petrelo is has held the positions of Director and Member of the Executive Committee at Stewart & Stevenson, LLC, he has chaired the board at Nabors Industries since the year 2012, was the Director at MediaOnDemand.com and is a director at the Texas Children's Hospital. The Texas Children's Hospital is a not-for-profit Pediatric hospital founded in 1954. Anthony Petrello and his wife have made generous donations to the hospital to help in research to find cures for conditions such as Cerebral Palsy.Their interest is born of their experience with their 8year old daughter Carena. Carena was born prematurely at 24 weeks weighing 20 ounces. She was born with a neurological illness that is common in premature babies brought about by a lack of oxygen or blood flow to the brain. This results in cerebral palsy, delayed development and impairment of motor skills. At 8years Carena is working on talking and walking and her parents celebrate her every victory praising her strength and determination.
About Anthony Petrello
Anthony Petrello attended the Yale University where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Science degree from the Yale University. He got his J.D degree from the Harvard Law School. Mr. Petrello started his career in 1979 joining the Law Firm Baker & McKenzie and stayed with them till 1991. In 1991 he joined Nabors Industries as Chief Operations Officer.
Source of the article : http://people.equilar.com/bio/anthony-petrello-nbr/salary/503049#.WKHy57YrKRs


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It seems that currently, every second news report is covering the needs for Cyber Security or the downfall of those who do not have it. This is an online world now and a massive portion of most businesses are carried out digitally and if that chunk of our business is compromised, there may be irreversible consequences.
Here Are 3 Massive Reasons Your Marketing Company Needs Cyber Security
Cyber Crime Is Not Just a Hindrance
Most business owners believe that backing up their data is enough to hide from the threat of Cyber crime but they extremely mistaken. Those conduction cyber crimes are not particularly interested in giving you a peeve to deal with, they are interested in taking personal information for their own benefit. They steal personal identity information, rob bank accounts, file fraudulent tax returns. This is not what you want to be introduced with on a Monday morning!
You Could Be Waving Goodbye To Your Business – Get The Right Insurance!
Needless to say, your clients and business partners will have trusted you with their information and if it has been leaked or stolen – You are the one who is accountable! Of course, if the cyber thieves were caught they would also have an iron fist to deal with but you will also have you fair share of wrath to face.
Cyber Security Services are able to implement Privacy Policies which will protect you from the brunt of any attack and its effects. Naturally, small businesses hate forking out for things that interrupt the flow of their existing budget but then, one might argue, what if there wasn't even a business to even have a budget flow whatsoever. Weighing up these options should not in any case take very long.
Cyber Criminals Are Always Trying To Be Ahead Of The Curve
Hackers stole a total of £130bn from consumers in the UK in 2017. A ridiculous figure of 17 millions brits were victims of cyber crime last year. It is actually hard to conceptualise as it is so gigantic. To be "Frank", what this figure means is, if you have not yet been affected by by cyber crime then get ahead of the curve yourself with cyber security because what is absolute, cyber criminals will at some point target your business.
So What Can You Do To Protect Yourself
Well the most obvious and most effective is, turn to the professionals. Companies such as PGI provide Cyber Security Services that not only protect you from that which has been mentioned above, but also from the most complex corners of cyber crime. Professionals such as PGI will often carry out Penetration Testing which will give you a conclusive answer on the vulnerability of your web domain and online data.
Because of the increase in cyber crime there is more and more demand for cyber security and perhaps by default, less and less business owners are adopting the overview that it "won't happen to me", so please make a diligent effort to make sure it DOES NOT!
Check Out PGI on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin For More Information On Their Services.


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Dreams of Paradise:
Titanic Fanfiction: Version 1
Disclaimer: This site is for entertainment purposes only. Most characters: Jack, Rose, Ruth, Cal, Molly…they belong to James Cameron. If you need anything from this site, please ask permission first. email@example.com
Welcome to the original Dreams of Paradise, formerly Jeanita's Titanic Stories. This site is now home to all my completed Titanic Fanfiction stories and will remain up in case you want to read the stories, but it will not be updated. Only a few stories will be housed at the new site.
This site will not be updated, it's just an archive to hold all the past stories I have written. For newly written stories go here:http://www.raysofsunlight.net/titanic.htm
I hope that you will continue to enjoy the stories here and on the other site as wellJ If you'd like to know any new endeavors and updates on what the webmistress is up to go tohttp://www.raysofsunlight.net my personal website. There you will find updates on Titanic stories and new stories in other Fandoms that may interest you. ByeJ Completed Stories Short Stories Links New Home


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Aug. 19 (UPI) -- A Missouri school district said administrators censored lighthearted yearbook quotes by a pair of gay students celebrating their sexual orientation because they could have "offended" other students.
The students, Joey Slivinski and Thomas Swartz, each selected quotes expressing their sexual orientation to appear beneath their senior portraits.
The quote Slivinski submitted read: "Of course I dress well, I didn't spend all that time in the closet for nothing."
Swartz's quote was: "If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one deserves to live in the closet."
Despite the submissions, when the yearbooks were delivered recently, they found blank spaces beneath their pictures.
Administrators at the Kearney School District outside Kansas City said the quotes were pulled out of an abundance of caution.
"In an effort to protect our students, quotes that could potentially offend another student or groups of students are not published," the district said in a statement. "It is the school's practice to err on the side of caution. Doing so in this case had the unintentional consequence of offending the very students the practice was designed to protect. We sincerely apologize to those students."
Slivinski told KCTV-Kansas City he was "disappointed" at the school's decision.
"I'm comfortable in my own skin and with who I am," Slivinski said. "It felt like the district took that from me."
Both teens said they planned to have stickers made of their quotes to fill in the blank spots in friends' yearbooks.
In apologizing, the district said it would use the incident as a "learning opportunity to improve in the future."


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I took the opportunity to play with my Open Sea set again. I don't know what it is about this set, but I seem incapable of using any colour scheme apart from red, white and blue!
I inked up the ship using Not Quite Navy and Basic Black marker pens, stamping onto Whisper White. I cut it out in a circle shape and mounted onto Not Quite Navy and Real Red. I added brads in the four corners for a bit of interest. The quotation was found while smurfing the net:
I didn't add any patterned paper as I preferred to see the white base, even though there's a fair bit of layering. A length of twine around the top and card done.
Stamps: The Open Sea
Ink: Basic Black and Not Quite Navy marker pens
Card: Real Red, Not Quite Navy, Whisper White
Other: brads, Crop-a-dile, navy baker's twine, computer sentiment
Not long to go until the end of the Summer Catalogue, so if The Open Sea or anything else in there has caught your eye, you might want to think about getting your order in sooner rather than later. (During August, you can earn the delightful Reason to Smile stamp set in wood or clear mount for absolutely FREE if your order comes to £60.)
Seeing as this post is scheduled for midnight, I thought this cat picture was particularly apt for today:
See you later sticky beaks if you want a nosey at my desk! Thanks for visiting,


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If you haven't had the chance, you might enjoy all the comments that have come in through our facebook page (www.facebook.com/eriebenedictines) with the death of Sister Christine. There are some very nice things that come via facebook and this is certainly one of them.
See our community website for links to her obit et al.
My cousin, who fell in love and married a Canadian a number of years ago, lives about 3 hours from Erie now but comes back regularly to visit family and friends. She is naturally very funny and admitted to me last week at a Lighthouse Restaurant lunch we were sharing during her September visit, that her funniest story these days is telling everyone about her cousin, "the nun," down in the states whose community has a fleet of cars, asking them to guess what car is the most popular. Then she says, "They're KIA souls....a group of nuns all driving 'souls'!" Even I agreed that it is funny...but they are great cars for our need and lo and behold, last week we got a new one: here it is lime green. I guess it's probably # 8 or 9---we have white, black, grey, green, pumpkin orange and now lime green.
Some wild grapes along the Troupe Rd. woods between our place and Benetwood Apartments. The wooded lands throughout our property are full of end-of-summer and early fall "things" of every sort, color and type. If there was ever a time for a walk in the woods, it is now.


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August 29, 2012 Veterans History Project Recognizes Vietnam Veterans with Second Installment of Web Feature
Contact: Monica Mohindra (202) 707-1071, Megan Harris (202) 707-8205
In January, The Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP) launched a multi-year campaign to preserve the stories of the nation's 7 million living Vietnam War veterans. Emphasizing the importance of capturing the experiences of Vietnam veterans and making their stories more accessible, VHP has launched the latest installment in its Experiencing War website presentation, titled "Vietnam War: Looking Back, Part 2." This website feature is part of a year-long series that highlights the wartime stories of those who served during the Vietnam War. These remarkable and intriguing personal recollections are available on VHP's website, www.loc.gov/vets/.
The "Vietnam War: Looking Back" theme grew from the words of Vietnam veteran and University of Dayton law professor Tom Hagel, who spoke during a Library of Congress ceremony to launch the Vietnam War veterans iniative. "When we think of war, whether it's Vietnam or any other war, we think of it as a unitary subject … but there are millions of Vietnam Wars," he said.
"Vietnam veterans who share their stories today ensure that the universal, as well as individual, experience of those who served are not forgotten," said Veterans History Project Director Robert Patrick. "Interviewing the Vietnam veteran in your life or community for the Veterans History Project is an ideal way to honor both them, and those who can not be recorded, to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the Vietnam War."
The new feature includes the stories of former POWs Richard Lyman Bates, Thomas Nelson Moe and Floyd Harold Kushner. Each endured horrific conditions during their imprisonment, but they survived until the end of the war and continued their service in the military after their homecoming. Nurses Janis Alyce Nark and Mary Elizabeth Breed describe their personal ties to the patients they treated, while Navy veteran Michael Felker and Army veteran Joseph McHenry share the lasting effects of their Vietnam service on their lives after the war.
Congress created the Veterans History Project in 2000 to collect, preserve and make accessible the firsthand remembrances of America's war veterans from WWI through the current conflicts, so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. For more information, visit www.loc.gov/vets/ or call the toll-free message line at (888) 371-5848. Subscribe to the VHP RSS to receive periodic updates of VHP news.
Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. The Library seeks to advance the knowledge and creativity of the American people through its collections, programs and services. Many of the Library's rich resources can be accessed through its website at www.loc.gov.


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Kerry Addresses Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Aired September 3, 2013 - 15:30 ET
SEN. ROBERT MENENDEZ (D), SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE: I appreciate that. And I appreciate the response about chemical weapons and possibility of securing them in our national security interests as well as our allies, but I do think we'll have to work on language that makes it clear that this is an overriding issue, that I think that members as well as American people want to know. Let me ask you, what -- you mentioned it in your remarks. What do you think is the calculus of Iran or North Korea if we fail to act and of our allies if we fail to act? KERRY: If we fail to act, we'll have fewer allies and fewer people who count on us in the region. We have huge doubts right now, I hear them. I mean, I have the privilege of talking with many of the leaders of these countries with respect to what they may or may not be inclined to do. I've heard their warnings very clearly about what is at stake, not just for them but for us in the region. And I think that it's fair to say that our interests would be seriously set back in many respects if we are viewed as not capable or willing, most important, to follow through on the things that we say matter to us. As I said earlier in my testimony, this really is not President Obama's red line. The president drew a line that anyone should draw with respect to this convention that we have signed up to and which has been in place since the horrors of world war I and the truth is through all of world war ii and Vietnam and Korea, and both gulf wars and through Afghanistan, through Iraq, that the combatants in those efforts have never resorted to this use. So, I think that it's clear with those two prior usages that I referred to, that we would be opening Pandora's box with respect to a whole set of dangerous consequences as a result of t the United States not keeping its word. And it would be make our life very, very difficult with respect to North Korea and Iran. There's no question in my mind, that those countries are watching the mullahs and many others are watching what we're doing now with great interest. And that's why even the quality of this debate and nature of this debate are very important. MENENDEZ: Thank you. Senator Corker? SEN. BOB CORKER (R), RANKING MEMBER, FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for your testimony, again. I want to first thank you for bringing this to Congress. I think our foreign policy through the years has been far too focused on the administration. I don't think Congress has played the role that it should play in foreign poll I want to thank you for bringing it here and giving us the opportunity to have the debate in advance. I want to focus a little bit on our strategy with the vetted opposition. I don't know how anybody -- as a matter of fact, I know of no one who's been to the area and spent time with opposition that isn't incredibly dismayed at the lack of progress that is occurring there. I know there's a lot of capacity that has to be built. I know there are interagency discussions about whether we should move to industrial strength training, more away from the kind of activities that are taking place now to build capacity more quickly. I would like for which ever one wants to respond, to talk with us, those of us who have been to the region and do believe that Syria is important, who are watching what is happening in Iraq as this sectarian issues moves into there and into Lebanon and destabilized in Jordan, why have we been so slow, so inept in so many ways at helping build capacity of this opposition that we have said publicly that we support? KERRY: Well, Senator, it's a worthy and important question. I've had a number of different meetings with the opposition over the course of the months now since I came in February, beginning with a meeting in Rome and subsequently in Istanbul and Amman, Jordan. The opposition, one has to remember, as little as a year ago, there was no great clarity to the structure of that opposition or to who they were, and they certainly had had no experience in this kind of an endeavor. Over the course of that year, they have evolved, I would say significantly, are they where they need to be? Not completely but they have changed markedly over the last couple of months. At our insistence, when I say our insistence, the insistence of all our supporters, the so-called "London 11," they reached out and expanded significantly their base within Syria. They elected new leadership and brought in a much broader base of Syria representation, including women and minorities and Christians and others. They've built up a much more competent leadership -- CORKER: I've only got a few minutes. I'm very aware of those things. What I'm unaware of is why it is so slow and helping them with lethal support, why has that been so slow? KERRY: I think, Senator, we need to have that discussion tomorrow in classified session. We can talk about some components of that. Suffice it to say, I want General Dempsey to speak to this, maybe Secretary Hagel, that is increasing significantly. It has increased in its competency. I think it's made leaps and bounds over the course of the last few months. Secretary Hagel, do you -- or General do you want -- CHUCK HAGEL, U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: I would only add that it was June of this year that the president made a decision to support lethal assistance to the opposition. As you all know, we have been very supportive with hundreds of millions of dollars of nonlethal assistance, the vetting process as Secretary Kerry has noted has been significant. But I'll ask General Dempsey if he wants to add anything, but we, Department of Defense, have not been directly involved in this. This is, as you know, a covert action. And as Secretary Kerry noted, probably to go into much more detail would require a closed or classified hearing. General Dempsey? CORKER: As he's answering that, if you could be fairly brief. Is there anything about the authorization that you're asking that in any way takes away from our stated strategy of empowering the vetted opposition to have the capacity over time to join in with a transition government as we have stated from the beginning? There anything that supplements that? GENERAL MARTIN DEMPSEY, CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: To your question about the opposition, the path to the resolution of the Syrian conflict is through a developed capable, moderate opposition and we know how to do that. Secondly, there's nothing in this resolution that would limit what we're doing now but we're very focused on the response to the chemical weapons. I think that subsequent to that, we would probably return to have a discussion about what we might do with the moderate opposition in a more overt way. CORKER: I'm very sympathetic to the situation of wear warfare and what this means to the U.S. credibility and the fact that people are watching in the region and this will have an impact. I want to say, I'm not sympathetic regarding the lack of effort that is taking place in my opinion on the ground as it relates to the vetted opposition. And I hope the end state that you imagine here is something that while we'll be surgical, is something that enhances the strategy that we've already laid in place. I hope you'll answer that yes or no at this time. DEMPSEY: The answer to whether I support additional support for the moderate opposition is yes. CORKER: And this authorization will support those activities in addition to responding to the weapons of mass destruction. DEMPSEY: I don't know how the resolution will evolve, but I support -- CORKER: What you're seeking. What is it you're seeking. DEMPSEY: I can't answer that. KERRY: The action -- if it is authorized, the answer is as I said in my opening comments, that a consequence of degrading his chemical capacity, inevitably will also have downstream impact on his military capacity. CORKER: Is this authorization is only about weapons of mass destruction? KERRY: That's correct. This authorization is a limited targeted effort to focus on deterring and degrading the chemical weapons capacity of the Assad regime. CORKER: Is that against any other enemies other than the Assad regime? KERRY: No, Senator. CORKER: Is it to be utilized in any other country except inside Syria? KERRY: No, Senator. CORKER: I will say in response to your answer to Senator Menendez, I didn't find that a very appropriate response regarding boots on the ground. And I do want to say that that's an important element to me. and I hope that as we together work through this, we work through something that's much clearer than the answer that you gave. I don't think while we're all -- we all feel the actions by the Assad regime are reprehensible, I don't think there are any of us willing to support the possibility of having combat boots on the ground. And I do hope as we move through this the administration will be very clear. KERRY: Let me be very clear now because I don't want anything coming out of this hearing that leaves any door open to any possibility, so let's shut that down now as tight as we can. All I did was raise a hypothetical question about some possibility and I'm thinking out loud about how to protect America's interest, but if you want to know whether there's any -- the answer is, whatever prohibition clarifies it to Congress and American people, there will not be American boots on the ground with respect to the civil war. CORKER: Thank you. MENENDEZ: Thank you. Senator Boxer? SEN. BARBARA BOXER (D), CALIFORNIA: Mr. Chairman and Senator Corker, thank you so much for holding this hearing on a vote of conscience. I ask unanimous consent that my full statement be entered. MENENDEZ: Without objection. BOXER: I'll make a brief statement because a lot of people have been asking me on how I view this and then I'll ask questions about the intel, if I can. Mr. Chairman, thank you for showing us those images of children because even though it's really hard to look at, we have to look at it. Children gasping for air and young bodies lined up in a row should shock the world. And the failure to act, I think, gives license to the Syrian president to use these weapons again. And it sends a terrible signal to other brutal regimes like North Korea, and can I thank you, Secretary Hagel, for bringing up the issue of North Korea and Mr. Kerry for your bringing it up. How many of us have been there to the line where we see thousands of our troops standing there just a stone's throw away from North Korea? We need to think about it. Maybe it's because I'm from California I tend to look at Asia, but this is very serious. We've seen that danger up close when we go to that line. Now, since I came to the Senate, I voted against the Iraq war, but I did vote for the use of force against Osama bin Laden. I voted to support air strikes against Serbia but vocally opposed the military surge in Afghanistan. I approached this issue in the same way I approach those, with a very heavy heart and very independent mind. I've heard some of my colleagues compare President Obama's position on Syria to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. I thank Senator Kerry for discussing this because I believe it's a totally false comparison, and I know it's been mentioned before. You drew that line again. In Iraq the Bush administration prepared to invade an occupied country with well over a hundred thousand troops. In this case the president has been clear, no ground invasion, no occupation. We'll have that in our resolution. Why should we take any targeted action against Syria? Not only is it important to keep North Korea in mind, but also allowing the continued use of chemical weapons to go unanswered makes it much more likely that we'll see it used again in Syria, and we'll see it used maybe elsewhere. And terrorists could obtain those and use them on America or our allies or troops, use them, for example, against Israel and other friends. It makes it more likely, and this is key, that Iran will view us as a paper tiger when it comes to their nuclear program and that is dangerous, not only for us and our friends but for the world. Now, in 1997, the Senate supported a ban on chemical weapons by a vote of 74-26. Shouldn't an overwhelming vote like that mean something? Shouldn't the Senate stand behind its words and actions? And then in '03, we passed the Syria Accountability Act by a vote of 89-4. I wrote that bill with Senator Santorum. We had a huge vote in favor of it. This is what it says, "Acquisitions of weapons of mass destruction threaten the security of the Middle East and the national security of the United States." Shouldn't an overwhelming vote like that mean something? Shouldn't the Senate stand behind its words and its actions? So I believe as Secretary Kerry said and so I'll reiterate it, not only has our president drawn a line, a red line, on the use of chemical weapons and not only has the world done so, but we in the senate, we did so. Now, I know there's tremendous reluctance to get involved in another military effort. And sometimes the easiest thing to do is to walk away. Well, I believe we cannot close our eyes to this clear violation of longstanding international norms. I believe America's morality and reputation and America's credibility are on the line. I applaud this administration and our president for coming to Congress. I applaud those who asked him to come to Congress. It's the right thing to do. And I will support a targeted effort but not a blank check respond to Syria's unspeakable deeds to gas its own people to death. Now, my question involves the intel here. I don't know how much you can give us. I'm going to try to make this pretty broad so you can answer it, whoever feels more comfortable. A lot of people are fearful because of what happened in Iraq. That there might be disagreement between the intel agencies, and we have a lot of intelligence agencies, 17 in all, all over the place. I don't know how many were involved, whether it was four or six or eight. I don't know whether you can disclose that. My question is, was there any argument about this fact that they agree that there's high confidence that these weapons were used by the Assad regime? Was there any debate -- there was debate. Was there any dissension between the various agencies? KERRY: The intelligence community represented by DNI Clapper has released a public document, unclassified, available for all to see in which they make their judgment with high confidence that the facts are as they have set forth. You know, I think that speaks for itself. BOXER: I'm going to press just a little bit harder here, John, Mr. Secretary, if I can. Out of all of the different agencies, because I remember in Iraq, sure, eventually the word came down and everyone agreed, but then we found out there was disagreement. To your knowledge, did they all come to the same conclusion, the various intelligence agencies? KERRY: To my knowledge I have no knowledge of any agency that was a dissenter or any -- who had an alternate theory. They had a whole scenario to test the theory to see if they could come up with an alternative view and the answer was they cannot. BOXER: OK, last question on intel and Russia, I read -- and I don't know if it is true or false, but I read in one of the publications today that members of the Russian parliament are going to here to lobby colleagues here, to tell colleagues here that there is no such intelligence, that there is no proof. I myself met with the Russian ambassador several times on this matter, and I knew right away a long time ago they were going to do nothing to help us. But what are they clinging to here? How could they make that case, given what you've said? KERRY: I -- honestly, I don't know. I mean, there's no way for me to (inaudible) what it is. I think that I've had personal conversations with the foreign minister. They make an argument to some effect that we don't have evidence and that the opposition did it. No matter what you show, that's the argument they take. Now as to why they do that or what the rationale is, I'm not going to speculate. The president, as you know, is leaving this evening to go to St. Petersburg for the summit. He will have ample opportunity to hear firsthand from President Putin, and I'm confident they'll have a discussion about it. BOXER: Thank you. Thank you. MENENDEZ: Senator Risch? SEN. JAMES RISCH (R), IDAHO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. KERRY: Can I just say, I want to add, though, our Russian, you know, the Russians, I think it's important for us not to get into an unnecessary, struggle over some of this, for a lot of reasons. The Russians are working with us and cooperating on this effort to try to make is negotiated process this work, and I think they're serious about trying to find a way forward with that, number one. Number two, on major issues, like START, North Korea, Iran, the Russians are cooperating, so I think, you know, we have to sort of deal with this thoughtfully and let's hope that the summit might produce some change of heart, as the president makes the evidence available to president Putin. RISCH: Mr. Chairman, first of all, let me say that, I've seen the pictures of what happened and I've been seeing pictures for 14 months or more, two years, I guess, of what's going on over there, and you can't have an ounce of compassion in you and not be moved tremendously by what's happening there. It's awful. It's horrendous. There's been almost 100,000 people killed there. And we all know, I guess in an unclassified setting, we can say that these people have used gas on multiple occasions. But the deaths have only been in the hundreds and not in the thousands. But all of this is moving and there's no question about it. I do -- nonetheless, I am reluctant. If there was one American -- if this was an attack against any American, against any American interest, this would be a no-brainer for me, but I'm reluctant, at this point, and a part of it stems from where this is going to go, as to the limit that we're going to put on it. Secretary Kerry, you said you've met with your -- with the -- your counterpart, from Russian. And first of all, you say they're cooperating with us on all major issues. I view this as a major issue, and I don't view them as cooperating with us. They're printing their currency. They're providing them with information. They're providing them with technology. They've provided them with a tremendous amount of military power. And so the question I have is, what's your counterpart telling you as to what they're going to do when and if America pulls the trigger? KERRY: Senator, look, I understand anybody's reluctance about this, but, again, I would ask you the confront the greater reality about this if we don't do something. If you think it's bad today, what they're doing, just think about what happens if they confirm their suspicion that the United States isn't going to do anything. One of the reasons Assad has been using these materials is because they have, up until now, made the calculation that the West, writ large, and the United States, particularly, are not going to do anything about it. Impunity is already working to kill a lot of people and to make things more dangerous. Now, I guarantee you that is in their assessment, so, if we make it worse by not being willing to do something, those terrible images you see are going to be. But worse than that, our interests will be set back. Israel will be at greater risk. Jordan will be at greater risk. The longer that this conflict goes on and particularly with Assad's ability to be able to use chemical weapons, the more you will see the humanitarian crisis grow. We are already the largest contributor, thanks to the, you know, generosity to have the American people and the willingness of Congress to move, we're already the largest contributor to refugee camps on the borders. Many of you have been to them. You want to see them grow? You want to see Jordan, which is already fragile -- many of you have met with the king. You know king Abdullah's judgment is that he's at risk because of what is happening. So I believe the best way to curb that and reduce the threat is by acting. RISCH: And I don't disagree -- I don't disagree with anything you've said, but let's take that and try to expand on that. We need the credibility. There is no question about it, but are we really going to be giving them credibility if we go in with a limited strike, and the day after or the week after or the month after, Assad crawls out of his rat hole and says, look, I stood up to the strongest power on the face of this earth and I won, so now it's business as usual here. And he may say, by the way, I'm not going to use chemical weapons anymore, because I don't like what just happened, but I'm going to continue to use conventional weapons, and we're going to go on with business as usual and the refugees are going to continue and thousands are going to be killed. And our allies are going to say, what's the matter with the United States? You said you'd do something about this. You did a limited strike, but you didn't finish Assad off, and the problem is just as bad as it was. What does that do to our credibility? You know, that concerns me. KERRY: Well, Senator, let me speak to that. It's a good question. First of all, I think General Dempsey will tell you, Assad may be able to crawl out of the hole and say, look, I survived, but there's no way that with reality and other assessments, he's going to be able to say he's better off. There is no question that whatever choices are made by the president, that he and his military effort will not be better off, number one, and the opposition will know that and the people in Syria will know that. Already today, just with the threat that action may be taken, defections have gone up and people in Syria are reconsidering whether Assad is a long-term bet. Moreover, General Dempsey has made it clear and Secretary Hagel has made it clear and the president's made it clear that there will be additional support to the opposition, which is only now in its third month of receiving the overt support or about to receive, in fairness, Senator McCain and others know that there are other things that haven't gotten there yet, but that process the in place and that will increase. So I believe -- RISCH: My time's almost up, Senator Kerry. Let me -- I really want to get a handle on this. I think all of us feel strongly about this, and I need my -- I need to be reassured on this. The other thing that really troubles me about this is what happens if this things gets away from us? I mean, what happens -- you've been on the border between Israel and Lebanon, as I have. And since the last war, I mean, they have really -- Hezbollah has really beefed that up. What happens if they get into it with Israel? What's our response to that going to be? KERRY: Well, I talked with Prime Minister Netanyahu just yesterday, and he made it pretty clear to me that Israel feels very confident about Israel's ability to be able to deal, as they have previously, with a miscalculation by Assad. And the rest of the community, Turks, the Jordanians, the Saudis, the United States, France, others all have a capacity. So as I said in my statement, you all have to make a kind of calculation here, just as Assad does. If he's foolish enough to respond to the world's enforcement against his criminal activity, if he does, he will invite something far worse and, I believe, something absolutely unsustainable for him. That doesn't mean the United States of America is going to war. As I said in my comments, there are plenty of options here. Let me finish one other comment because it's important to the earlier question. Russian does not have an ideological commitment here. This is a geopolitical, transactional commitment, and our indications are that in many regards that that's the way we view it. There may be more weapons to sell as a result of weapons sold, but it's not going to illicit some type of major confrontation. Now, let me go further. They have condemned the use of chemical weapons, the Russians have. The Iranians have. And as the proof of the use becomes even more clear in the course of this debate, I think it is going to be very difficult for Iran or Russian to decide against all that evidence that there's something worth defending here. So this is the kind of calculation you have to make, but I'd measure that against the calculation of what happens if we don't respond. If we don't respond, we're going to be back here, asking you to respond to some greater confrontation, with greater potential for damage and danger, because somebody miscalculated as a result of believing the United States isn't good for what it says.


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