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SEC. GATES: Good afternoon. First, I'd like to extend my sympathies and commiserate with the secretary of state, with her fractured elbow. Having broken my right arm as secretary of defense, and had the left arm operated on, I think I can truthfully say, I feel her pain. But I wish her a speedy recovery.
As you know, last week, I attended the NATO ministerial in Brussels, along with a meeting of allies and partners who are contributing troops to RC South and Afghanistan. In Brussels, I was pleased to introduce General McChrystal, the new ISAF commander, to the NATO defense ministers and to our troop-contributing partners. He is now, obviously, on the job and in the midst of a 60-day review of our operations there. He'll bring unparalleled energy and determination, as well as substantial counterinsurgency experience and expertise, to the international military effort in Afghanistan. I look forward to the results of his review, which should represent a more comprehensive and effective civil-military approach.
One of the key takeaways from Brussels was an agreement in principle to stand up a new ISAF command structure, including a new operational headquarters. On that front, I look forward to the North Atlantic Council's approval of the new command organization next month and to the Senate's confirmation of Lieutenant General David Rodriguez who, with NAC approval, would assume command of the day-to-day military operations of this intermediate headquarters.
Another important takeaway from last week, and one of the highest priorities for General McChrystal, is a commitment from NATO to do everything possible to prevent civilian casualties during ISAF military operations. It is clear that we need to do much more to overcome what I believe is one of our greatest strategic vulnerabilities. The Afghan people must be reassured that U.S. and NATO forces are there as friends, partners and, along with Afghan security forces, they're protectors as well.
With a comprehensive new civil, military and diplomatic strategy, a great new leadership team, I think the United States, our allies and partners, and above all the Afghan people, will be able to achieve the goal of an Afghanistan that does not provide a sanctuary for al Qaeda, rejects the rule of the Taliban and has an elected government that is working to provide for the needs and security of the Afghan people.
And with that, we'd be happy to take your questions.
Q Question for both of you: Why has the report into the May 4th-5th Farah incident in Afghanistan not been released? Do either of you oppose its release? And does the fact that it hasn't yet been released, after word that it would be, sort of play into the idea that the United States has something to hide?
SEC. GATES: No, we -- there's -- first of all, we do not oppose its release, and I don't think anybody else in the administration does either. And I expect that the report will be released in the next day or two.
What we have here is -- this is the first major situation where there were potentially a number of civilian casualties since the new administration came into office and since the development of the new Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy. And what we've been trying to do is to give our colleagues in the interagency the opportunity to become familiar with this report and -- and then go ahead and release it. And as I say, we expect it to -- I expect it to be released in the next day or two.
ADM. MULLEN: I would only add that I thought this was important enough to review with the Joint Chiefs, which we just recently did at the beginning of this week. In fact, it's -- it's a report that I discussed with the combatant commanders who are in town for one of our major conferences, and that it is -- as the secretary said, it is a strategic vulnerability that we've got to get right and get the lessons from it both understood and then embedded in our training and in our execution.
And it is also -- the whole area of civilian casualties is something that General McChrystal has made very clear he's going to review very -- very quickly while he's there. But again, there's -- there's support for releasing it, and it will be out here very shortly.
SEC. GATES: This is -- I made a point at the NATO meeting last week that I think is important, because dealing with this problem is not just a U.S. military challenge.
Somewhere between 40 and 45 percent of the close air support missions that are flown are flown in support of our allies and partners. And so it also is going to involve a much greater degree of integration of military operations by General McChrystal and presumably, soon, General Rodriguez, to avoid getting into situations that -- where -- as much as we possibly can -- involving not only our troops but the troops of the other contributing nations where we have civilian casualties.
Q What did the investigation find? Did it find that civilians were killed? And were American forces responsible in any way?
ADM. MULLEN: I think there certainly is responsibility. I thought Ambassador Eikenberry, weeks ago, said that it would -- it is going to be -- we may never know how many. And certainly, as I've looked at the investigation, there are some estimates, but I agree with what he said: I don't think we ever will really know how many. There were command-and-control challenges, chain-of-command challenges, some training issues that we've got to address, as well as -- you may remember there were changes that General McKiernan made in January as a result of incidents last year.
And we've evolved through those changes, and there are additional changes that I think that we're going to clearly have to make to ensure that we do absolutely everything to make sure civilian casualties are eliminated, if possible, or certainly minimized in every situation.
Q "Command-and-control challenges" -- does that mean mistakes were made?
ADM. MULLEN: One of the things that we've been challenged with in Afghanistan for a considerable period of time is the whole chain-of-command issue. And there were some -- there were -- and those -- we've made adjustments in that regard by changes that have been made in the chain of command, as -- last year with U.S. 4A and ISAF -- the combination at the commanders level.
But there are others that down through the chain of command that we're -- that we think we need to address as well. And I know that General McChrystal, who had seen this investigation as well, is going to address those as he takes over.
SEC. GATES: I think one of the reasons that the allies so readily supported the creation of this intermediate headquarters was the recognition of the need for a tactical day-to-day commander who had purview over all of the regional command areas of Afghanistan to get at this chain-of-command issue. Tony?
Q A couple airplane questions. You've got two looming here.
What is the status of your decisions on the tanker program in terms of when a re-competition will start?
Two, what's your reaction to the House Armed Services Committee's markup yesterday that put in money to continue the F-22 line? How much --how hard will you fight that? And is that potential veto material if in fact it remains in the final bills?
SEC. GATES: First of all, on the tanker, I have -- I'm probably within a few days of making a decision on the structure of how we're going to go about the process and who will be the acquisition authority and so on. And I still am hoping that we can get an RFP out midsummer or thereabouts.
With respect to the House mark, I would say it's a big problem. I have a big problem with it.
Q Why?
SEC. GATES: Well, because it continues the F-22 program, which is contrary to the recommendations I made to the president and that the president sent to the Congress in his budget. That's why it's a problem.
Q Is it veto material?
SEC. GATES: I'm not going to go that far at this point. I think describing it as a big problem suggests where I am on it.
Q Admiral Mullen, Secretary Gates, currently the U.S. military is tracking a North Korean-flagged ship, the Kang Nam, which is suspected of proliferating either weaponry, nuclear materials or missile parts. What are your options n terms of enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874? Are you prepared to board the ship at this time?
ADM. MULLEN: Without going into specific details, clearly we're -- we intend to vigorously enforce the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874, to include -- options to include certainly a hail and query. There are -- part of the UNSCR is to, if a vessel like this is queried and doesn't allow a permissive search, to direct it to go into a port, and the country of that port would, as required to, inspect the vessel, and to also keep the United Nations informed, obviously, if a vessel like this would refuse to comply.
But the United Nations Security Council resolution does not include an option for an opposed boarding or a noncompliant boarding with respect to that. And if we get to that point with a vessel that we suspect has material which is counter to -- unauthorized in accordance with UNSCR, that's a report that goes back to the United Nations as well.
Q What do you think is on board this ship? What has made you suspicious that the military's tracking it?
ADM. MULLEN: Well, I wouldn't go into any kind of details, at this particular point in time, except to say that it's very clear that the resolution prohibits North Korea from shipping these kinds of materials, the kinds of weapons that were laid out, in the material, from conventional weapons up to fissile material or nuclear weapons.
And we expect compliance. And I've gone through the steps that we would take.
Q The north has said that they would take that, any sort of interdiction, as an act of war. Would that prevent you from pursuing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874?
ADM. MULLEN: Well, I think, it's important that this is a U.N. resolution. This is an international commitment. It's not just the United States. It's a lot of other countries as well. And the North taking steps to further isolate itself, to further non-comply with international guidance and regulations, in the long-run, puts them in a more difficult position.
Q Dr. Gates, I wondered what you thought about the report that North Korea might shoot a ballistic missile toward Hawaii, if you thought there was any accuracy to that. And if that was to occur, would that be a situation where the U.S. would use its missile defense system, to eliminate that test?
SEC. GATES: Well, we're obviously watching the situation in the North, with respect to missile launches, very closely. And we do have some concerns, if they were to launch a missile to the [sic - east], in the direction of Hawaii.
I've directed the deployment again of THAAD missiles to Hawaii. And the SBX Radar has deployed, away from Hawaii, to provide support. Based on my visit to Fort Greely, the ground-based interceptors are clearly in a position to take action.
So without telegraphing what we will do, I would just say, we are -- I think we are in a good position, should it become necessary to protect American territory.
Q With regards to Farah, Mr. Secretary, is there evidence in the report that the mistakes or the problems that you both mentioned contributed directly to the civilian casualties? And does it rise to the level where there needs to be any accountability or disciplinary action?
SEC. GATES: Let me ask the admiral.
ADM. MULLEN: Again without going into the specific details of this, this was a lengthy firefight, a number of hours, on the order of about seven or eight hours. It was very intense. It was by the -- handled very well, by the young captain on the ground, who essentially -- who was in charge of it. And at least in my review, I found nothing that would lead to the need to do -- to take any specific action, along the lines of what you're asking.
A tough fight. What he was mostly concerned about was defending his people. There were some injuries. There was a MEDEVAC involved in this. And I thought what he did with the capability that he had, certainly was supportive of the overall requirements at the time. It went from day to night. It was a very complex operation, sustained, et cetera.
So -- and were there some issues with -- along the lines of what I talked about that we've got to adjust? Absolutely, and we'll do that.
SEC. GATES: I think it is worth making the point that there should be doubt in no one's mind that we will do what is necessary to protect our troops. The question is, how do we carry out our operations in a way to minimize the need for the use of close air support? And I think those are the kinds of things that General McChrystal is going to be looking at.
ADM. MULLEN: And there have been suggestions that close air support would be somehow in jeopardy in terms of using that capability. And I just don't see that. It's got to be used very carefully, so it meets the standard that the secretary just described.
Q Are you satisfied, sir, that the air forces that were involved were sufficiently sure of their targets and that civilians would not be injured when they released their ordnance?
ADM. MULLEN: Yes, I am.
SEC. GATES: Barbara.
Q Mr. Secretary, I'm sure both of you have watched this week the use of social networking unfold on the streets of Iran, and I want to ask you about that, not from the standpoint of the politics going on in Iran, but social networking as a tool. Given your -- some of your previous government jobs in the information business, what do you think about all of this? I mean, certainly -- it certainly must strike you that social networking, regardless of the mechanism, impacts decision-making speed, national security. A lot of people say that it's something to be considered these days.
SEC. GATES: I think one of the more -- maybe more significant developments in the last 20 years or so has been the advance of communications technology in the hands of average citizens around the world. There is no question but that the easy availability or the easy access to Western communications and media played a part in the collapse of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Eastern Europe.
It is increasingly difficult for an authoritarian government to maintain control of all the means of communication that are available to its citizens, and especially when -- I mean, you either have economic stagnation and backwardness, or you allow modern communications.
And it makes the control of communications, by a government, extremely difficult.
And frankly I think it's -- you know, it's a huge win for freedom, around the world, because this monopoly of information is no longer in the hands of the government.
Q So when you look at a country like Iran and the government there right now, which is clearly trying to control modern communications, what is it -- will they succeed, do you think? And how do you think about this, in terms of U.S. national security? Is it something that we need to take into account, in this country?
SEC. GATES: Well, I think, frankly the freedom of communication and the nature of it is a huge strategic asset for the United States. And without being specific about Iran, there are clearly a number of governments, around the world, that try to control these communications --that try to control the Internet and so on.
And I would just say, I think, their efforts, while successful in some respects, they just can't draw the net tight enough to stop everything. And you know, if you can't text, then you Twitter. And you know, my guess is, in some of these countries, that the leadership is kind of like me. They don't have a clue what it's about. (Laughs.)
Q Well, I want to ask you both that because, I mean, I mean this with all respect. Do you both -- do either of you have a Facebook page? Do either of you actually Twitter yourselves? Or does your staff Twitter for you?
SEC. GATES: Absolutely not.
ADM. MULLEN: Well, actually I do. (Laughter.)
SEC. GATES: He's more technologically advanced.
ADM. MULLEN: But let me -- let me just see if I can take a crack at part of what you asked about, which is the speed issue, because I think the speed of communications and information for -- in lots of domains, but let me talk about security, creates a flexibility and an adaptability. It meets needs for flexibility and adaptability, which we have to have in our forces, first of all.
Secondly I think our force, whose average age is 20ish, 20-21, you know, they -- this is how they live. It's what they've grown up on. And so for leaders -- I mean, I'll take myself in particular -- I think, it's really important to be connected to that and understand it, certainly not be as facile as they are on it, but to understand because I think communicating that way and moving information around that way, whether it's administrative information or information in warfare, is absolutely critical.
SEC. GATES: I would just add -- I would just add one point. What Admiral Mullen just said, I think, is absolutely critical.
So what I have been saying in terms of our hiring a new assistant secretary for public affairs in the Department of Defense -- and when I have talked to people and when I interviewed Price Floyd, the key issue that I have been after is, we have 2 million people, most of them around the -- in uniform, most of them around the age that Admiral Mullen described. And how do we communicate better with them? How do we -- how do we get reactions from them to things that we're doing? How do we get better plugged in with what they're thinking?
Also, in terms of our strategic communications, that's the age, or -- if not younger, of many of the people around the world we are trying to reach. And how do we reach them in a way that they understand? And this department, I think, is way behind the power curve in this, and it's an area where I think we have a lot of room for improvement.
Q Well, what do you think as to how the people of Iran are doing it --
Q Have you -- has either you or Admiral Mullen or anyone else in this building been stepping up your communication with the Chinese, the South Koreans, the Japanese about interdicting North Korean ships? And if so, are you sensing more of a willingness, particularly on the part of the Chinese, to monitor and, if necessary, to interdict North Korean ships?
SEC. GATES: I'll just say that when I was in Singapore I had bilateral meetings with both my South Korean and Japanese counterparts, and then we had the first-ever trilateral meeting of the defense ministers of the three countries. And our focus was on how do we improve our defensive capabilities together in response to what's going on in North Korea. I'm not aware of -- I certainly have not had any communications with the Chinese in terms of the North Koreans.
ADM. MULLEN: No, I haven't, although I know Admiral Keating has, as a combatant commander in the Pacific -- has engaged both Japanese and Korean -- my counterparts in Japan and Korea. And I'm not aware of any contact with the Chinese.
SEC. GATES: Tom?
Q If I could just follow up briefly -- you've periodically said that, in the case of Pakistan, there was a shift where, after a long time of paying lip service, Pakistan now takes the Taliban as an existential threat. There was a shift in how it saw the Taliban.
Is there a shift in the way that the Chinese see North Korea? I mean, is there -- have they hit a -- crossed a Rubicon where they now, perhaps, are more amenable to the thought that North Korea is a problem for them as well, not just a problem for the U.S.?
SEC. GATES: I think that remains to be seen. Communicating that message was clearly one of the purposes of the delegation led by Jim Steinberg, deputy secretary of State, to China a week or two ago.
It was that, yes, we understand your concern about instability in North Korea and its implications for you, but you need also to be concerned about the implications of instability in Northeast Asia created by the behavior of North Korea. And since that visit was relatively recently, I think it just remains to be seen whether it had any impact. Tom?
Q Thank you, sir. Coming to the question about Iran and communications, the Obama administration has recently announced a new cyber-initiative. We're standing by perhaps for the announcement of the cyber command here. So is the Pentagon watching what Iran is doing, the government, in trying to control, monitor, shut down cyber-communications internally, to draw lessons for what they might do offensively against this nation?
SEC. GATES: To be honest, I'm not aware of analysis going on along those lines. But you know, there are 3 million people in this department, so somebody may be doing that, but not to my knowledge.
Q But do you see their capabilities to try to shut down these networks, try to control dissent as an offensive capability that could be used against the U.S., its allies and its interests?
SEC. GATES: I suppose so. But you know, that would be true of all the governments that try and shut down the Internet. It's not unique to Iran by any means.
Q Mr. Secretary, the department is engaged in the Quadrennial Defense Review, department-wide review of strategy, weapons systems. And I take it from your public comments in recent months that the framework is that the U.S. should be focusing, at least right now, on the current conflicts it's engaged in, conflicts of the irregular type that could last into the foreseeable future.
There are officers in the military who at least privately express some reservations that large numbers of conventional forces for an open-ended commitment in a place like Afghanistan or -- perhaps less so -- Iraq is the way the United States should be looking at the world in terms of its defenses.
If you do this review, will that construct itself be under review? In other words, will you analyze whether or not this type of operation is what the U.S. should be focusing on for the next decade?
SEC. GATES: Those who believe that is what we are trying to do, and that that's what I believe, do not understand what we are trying to do or what I believe.
The reality is, the vast preponderance of the Defense Department procurement budget will still be for large systems used and sophisticated systems useable against near peers and that will continue to give us a technological edge for the next 20 to 25 years.
What I am trying to do is simply get a place at the table, when resources are passed out, for those who are fighting today's wars, and to institutionalize what we've learned about counterinsurgency, so that we don't forget it like we did after Vietnam.
So this notion that I'm tilting the scale dramatically against conventional capabilities, in order to fight irregular or whatever, asymmetric wars or whatever you want to call it, is just not accurate.
You know, $1 trillion for the Joint Strike Fighter, a fifth generation fighter that has some capabilities the F-22 does not, is not a trivial investment in the future. Neither is -- I have hardly read about the fact that we're initiating the replacements for the Ohio-class SSBN with this budget.
So the notion that we are not taking seriously the range of potential future conflicts, I think, frankly is just a misunderstanding of what we're trying to do. It derives from my view that the old way, of looking at irregular warfare as being one kind of conflict and conventional warfare as a discreet kind of warfare, is an outdated concept.
And my belief, that conflict in the future will slide up and down a scale, both in scope or scale and in lethality. And we have to procure the kinds of things that give us -- the kinds of equipment and weapons that give us the maximum flexibility, across the widest range of that spectrum of conflict.
And frankly I think that there is broad agreement, on the part of the senior military leadership, that that kind of a construct going forward is what we ought to be looking at. If there is one major aspect of the QDR that I have insisted that we try and get away from, it is this construct that we've had, for such a long time, that we size our forces to be able to fight two major combat operations.
I think that is not a realistic view of the world. We are already in two major conflicts. So what if we have a third one or a fourth one or a fifth one? And how do you -- along that spectrum, how do you -- where do you characterize a Hezbollah that has more missiles and rockets than most countries or a violent extremist group that may acquire a weapon of mass destruction?
So it's this -- it's the versatility of our force and our ability to be able to respond, to a wide range of conflict, that we're trying -- that I think is important, in trying to build the programs for this department, for the future. But there is a huge investment in trying to protect our technological edge for the future. And frankly, to be blunt about it, the notion that not buying 60 more F-22s imperils the national security of the United States I find completely nonsense.
But mark me down as undecided. (Laughter.)
Q Yesterday in President Obama's announcement on federal worker benefits for gay employees -- in this building there's a whole lot of civilians alongside military personnel. Did you or do you have concerns about any type of a double-standard, and with reports this morning even of possibility of a high-ranking official named Bill White from the Intrepid Foundation possibly being nominated for a high civilian position?
But also, before that announcement yesterday, there seemed to be a bit of back and forth between the White House and Congress over who should be or is taking the lead on "don't ask, don't tell." Without allowing them to speak over your heads, who should be taking the lead, do you think, from this department?
SEC. GATES: This department's position is dictated by the fact there is a law. And the law only applies to people in uniform. So on the civilian side, we will absolutely comply and implement everything the president announced yesterday. But until the law is changed, our ability to change the policy is extremely limited, if not non-existent.
Q Sir, it's been some weeks since you removed David McKiernan from Afghanistan. There continues to be head-scratching, though, about the way in which it was handled. Recognizing that what's done is done, do you have any regrets at all about the way it was done?
SEC. GATES: I think that -- I think I probably could have framed it better when I announced it, and particularly in terms of the desirability of, just as we installed a new commander in Iraq when we initiated a new strategy, the belief that it was important to have a new commander in Afghanistan as we initiated and began to execute a new strategy, and in particular to have one -- to have a commander who could be there for a prolonged period of time in the implementation of that strategy, for a year, 18 months or more.
Q At the beginning?
SEC. GATES: Whatever period of time. And so, in all honesty, in retrospect, I would have done General McKiernan a better service to have described it that way.
Q Have you reached out to him since?
SEC. GATES: No. Jim?
Q You had said earlier that in the event where collateral damage and civilians are killed in Afghanistan, that the U.S. should be as up-front as quickly as possible.
Are you at all concerned that by this investigation being dragged out, that America's credibility in Afghanistan is being undermined and -- or do you think that in this particular case in Farah, the battle for the hearts and minds of the Afghanistan people is already lost?
SEC. GATES: No, I don't think that battle's lost at all. But I think that, you know, I -- what I have said in the past is that where we believe there may have been civilian casualties -- what I've said months ago was we should immediately express regret if there were indeed innocent civilian casualties; if necessary and appropriate, make amends; and then investigate; because the truth is, the way we do investigations, which is to say thoroughly, takes time. And that's the problem.
In the past, we have not taken the first two steps until we finished the third step. And so the changes that General McKiernan put in place months ago -- put more emphasis on doing the expression of regret and making amends, if necessary, and then carrying out the investigation. So I don't think the length of time of the investigation itself is an issue. I think what we do in the immediate aftermath of one of these tragedies is what's important.
I don't know if you want to add any more?
ADM. MULLEN: No, sir.
Q And you said that there was a training issue? After the priority, Mr. Secretary, that you, and you Admiral, gave to this issue, how could there possibly be a lack of adequate training in regard to avoiding civilian casualties in Afghanistan?
ADM. MULLEN: Very, very complex environment for an extended period of time -- complex change of platforms involved in the fight, and it exposed some deficiencies from a training standpoint that we have to back all the way up in to our schools here, and then make sure that that's trained to in our rehearsal exercises, et cetera.
And we -- you know, as the fighting changes over time, you know, we constantly adapt. And what we've found from this investigation very thoroughly is there were some things -- there's an awful lot of things that went well. There are some things from a training perspective that we've got to fix.
Q Was there excessive force in this case?
ADM. MULLEN: I won't go into that.
Thank you.


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1. Season the filets mignons with salt and pepper; set aside. In a small bowl, combine the demi-glace and water; set aside.
2. In a large skillet over medium heat, melt a third of the truffle butter with the oil and quickly fry the slices of bread until lightly browned on both sides; remove and set aside. Add another third of the truffle butter to the skillet, and sauté the filets mignons over high heat for 4 minutes a side for rare or 5 minutes a side for medium-rare. Remove the filets from the skillet, set aside and keep warm.
3. Using the same skillet and high heat, sauté the foie gras tourchon slices 90 seconds on each side and put 1 slice on each of the filets.
4. Discard all fat from the skillet. While the skillet is still hot, add the Madeira, scraping the bottom of the pan. Add the veal stock mixture, bring to a quick boil, then remove from heat and stir in the remaining truffle butter to make a silky sauce. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
5. On each of two plates, place the croutons in the center and top with the filet mignon and foie gras. Garnish with a slice of truffle on the top. Spoon the sauce over and around. Serve hot.

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Ukraine's 10-Month Budget Deficit Narrows, Finance Ministry Says
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Ukraine's 10-month state budget deficit declined to 12.353 billion hryvnia ($1.54 billion) after tax revenue rose and the government cut spending, according to the Finance Ministry.
The gap is 4.6 times less than the shortfall in the first 10 months of 2010, the Kiev, Ukraine-based ministry said today in a statement on its website. Tax revenue rose more than 65 percent to 209.67 billion hryvnia from January through October, the ministry said.
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Is the Barack Obama of "There is not a black America and a white America . . . but the United States of America" back? On Wednesday, 10 members of the Black Caucus boycotted a key House committee vote on financial regulations to pressure their fellow members and the White House to focus more attention on targeting assistance to blacks and other minority businesses in the recession. But the president refused to be mau-maued by the caucus. In an interview with USA Today, President Obama said in response to a question about why he is not doing more to help blacks specifically:
The most important thing I can do for the African-American community is the same thing I can do for the American community, period, and that is get the economy going again and get people hiring again.
He may not have much of a clue about how best to do that, but at least he's not turning the recession into a racial issue. Putting distance between himself and Maxine Waters or Jesse Jackson (whom I recently debated on "The Color of Recession" before a D.C. audience) is not only good politics; it's also good policy.


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Posted by annabellac on 08/21/2010
Went here the other night with a pal I hadn't seen in a while. I had read the reviews here and everyone was right. The food was delicious but the portions were miniscule. Dave's Pizza was tasty but literally it was a round pizza the size of a Thomas' English Muffin and $17 to boot! Same thing with the eggplant bruschetta-one piece of toast about 5 inches long and 2 inches wide. We shared 6 mini-starters. I had a good time talking to my friend. And luckily, he had 3 glasses of wine so he was not cranky about the size of the portions But when I came home I was hungry and had to eat a real meal. I would have been even more dismayed if I had paid the bill-it was definitely up around $130! I think the owner/chef is trying to go for an upscale cuisine with the tiny portions. But that is not the way to go. One other complaint:the specials board listed interesting options but no prices. When I asked the waiter what things cost, he didn't know. had to go ask, and implied I was a cheapskate for asking! Then it turned out that every item on the unpriced chalkboard was more costly than other items on the starters menu. Good food but not good value for the money.
Posted by Robin M on 07/13/2010
We were looking forward to trying this Israeli inspired menu. However, although the food was very tasty the portions were outrageously small! Also they served our food out of order. We asked for the "small plates first" as they are listed on the menu and they brought them second, after the "appetizers". We were shocked! They should have known better. The place is hip and new and they are trying BUT for the prices.... they should be doing better!
Posted by anonymous on 06/14/2010
Food was really delicious and unique but portions very small. I was dissapointed that the staff was not more warm and friendly..they were polite enough but I did not feel incredibly welcome...can't really describe it - that was just my sense.
Posted by Hodgemeyer on 05/13/2010
good location. nice atmosphere. food is very good. would recommend making your meal up on smaller plates and splitting one entree size (scallops are especially good).
Posted by Bambina13 on 05/04/2010
What a great place! I went here the other night with a friend and from beginning to end, it was a great dinner. The host was very personable and friendly even though my friend was a little late for our reservation. We shared an appetizer, which was Dave's pizza and it was really delicious. Light and flavorful. Then we both ordered the entree of Sea Bass, which was cooked perfectly and delicious. The accompanying vegetables were crisp and so good! The food preperation was simple yet interesting and very fresh. I have to say that our waiter was also very sweet and friendly and all the food came out in a timely manner. I can't wait until they open for brunch!
Posted by Anonymous on 04/17/2010
I heard about balaboosta through some friends that have been there and loved it, so I decided to give it a try myself. myself and another 8 friends :-) we all absolutly loved it! I love sharing, and trying many different dishes in one meal, and this is the perfect place for that! Even the menu suggests it with the first section of the smaller appetizers being called "shared plates". So we all decided to share a "few" (ended up ordering almost every starter on the menu) starters, and we devoured them!! My favourites we're the cauliflower, eggplant bruschetta, chicken liver mousse- which I'm normally not a big fan of, but here it's amazing!! It needs to come with more toast though, especially when it's a group of 9 sharing it... The pickles are homemade and delishes, and the soup is unbelivable! The falafel meat balls are also great though they need to come with more green sauce (tahini?) another thing I really loved that everything just felt so light and healthy- and for, a health lover, it was fun going out for dinner and not feeling like I have to punish myself with 5 hours of sweating at the gym the next day.. The waitress also mentioned that most of the ingredients they use are organic- so even better!! As for the mains, I shared a whole fish with a friend that was perfect. Fresh, juicy, simple, and again yum!! Unfortunatly I was too stuffed by that point to try anyone else's main, but it seemed like everyone was loving it! As for drinks, we started with some white sangeria which was really good, and then we moved on to a nice bottle- actually a nice few bottles of white wine. The atmosphere was great, we ate slowly, drank, enjoyed, and after espressos and desserts, everyone was happy, full, typsy, and happy to go home and come back to balaboosta as soon as possible :-)
Posted by ef on 03/31/2010
My fiancé and I were so excited to try balaboosta. We though the space looked great, very cozy and we love the open kitchen. We decided to order a many appetizers instead of entrees. However once the food began to come, we were definitely disappointed. For the most part, everything was tasty—however for the price they charge the portions are INCREIDBLY small. For example, the Falafel Wrapped Albondigas for $9 features three very small meatballs. That is #$ a meatball…so not worth it. I would expect about 5 or 6 bite sized meatballs for that price. And $11 for the merguez?? it again was 3 small pieces. And the eggplant brushcetta was $9---for one small piece of bruschetta. The prices and portions just don't fit the ambiance. It has a homey comfortable feel—and homey food with a gourmet twist—but seriously, she needs to double her portions if she wants repeat customers. We were there on opening night—I would like to go back in a month or so, to see how she adjust the portions/menu!


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text: Tool 5: How To Conduct a Postdischarge Followup Phone Call Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit Purpose of This ToolThe Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) aims to effectively prepare patients and families for discharge from the hospital, improve patient and family satisfaction, and decrease hospital readmission rates. The postdischarge followup phone call, the 12th component of the RED, is an essential part of supporting the patient from the time of discharge until his or her first appointment for followup care. Tool 2, "How To Begin Implementing the RED," discusses the options for assigning staff to conduct the call.All RED patients should be called 2 to 3 days after discharge by a member of the clinical staff. This postdischarge followup phone call allows the patient's actions, questions, and misunderstandings, including discrepancies in the discharge plan, to be identified and addressed, as well as any concerns from caregivers or family members. Callers review each patient's:Health status.Medicines.Appointments.Home services.Plan for what to do if a problem arises.This tool addresses the person who will make the followup phone call. After reading this tool, you will:Know how prepare for the phone call.Be proficient in completing a postdischarge followup phone call.Be able to conduct appropriate postcall actions."We found out during the followup phone call that a patient wasn't taking her diuretic because the bathroom was on the other side of her house. We got her a commode and averted a readmission."—RED Hospital in Pennsylvania Preparing for the Phone Call Ensure Continuity of CareIf you are the discharge educator (DE) who provided the in-hospital RED components, you will be familiar with the patient. This will help you maintain continuity between the inpatient stay and the followup call. Still, you need to recognize that your patient is now in a different setting and you may need to tailor your communication style to the patient's current needs.If your hospital has chosen to use a different person to provide the in-hospital RED components and to complete the call, you should:Communicate with the DE in order to have a smooth handoff and obtain important information about the patient and family that the DE has learned while working with the patient.Familiarize yourself with the patient by reviewing the information about the hospital stay thoroughly. (Go to Review Health History and Discharge Plans below.)The remainder of this tool will instruct you as if you are not the DE. Learn How To Confirm UnderstandingThroughout the followup call, you will need to confirm that the person you are speaking with understands what you are discussing. One of the easiest ways to close the communication gap between patients and educators is to use the "teach-back" method. Teach-back is a way to confirm that you have explained to the patient what he or she needs to know in a manner that the patient understands. Patient understanding is confirmed when he or she explains the information back to you in his or her own words. Lack of understanding and errors can then be rectified with further directed teaching and reevaluation of comprehension.A video demonstration of the teach-back method is available at: http://www.nchealthliteracy.org/teachingaids.html . Some points to keep in mind include:This is not a test of the patient's knowledge; it is a test of how well you explained the concepts.Be sure to use this technique with all your patients, including those who you think understand as well as those you think are struggling with understanding.If your patients cannot remember or accurately repeat what you asked them, clarify the information that you presented and allow them to teach back again. Do this until the patient can correctly describe your directions in his or her own words. Review Health History and Discharge PlansBefore the phone call, obtain the patient's hospital discharge summary, the after hospital care plan (AHCP), and the DE's notes. If the discharge summary is not complete or if an AHCP was not generated for the patient, you will need to collect this information from other sources. These may include the hospital medical record, notes from the clinician who discharged the patient, the inpatient clinicians who cared for the patient, and the ambulatory medical record.You will need to be familiar with the patient's health history and discharge plan before you make the followup phone call. Review the discharge summary and AHCP to find out about:Diagnosis and condition at discharge. You will ask the patient about his or her health status and discuss symptoms.Personal information, usual daily routines, relevant cultural practices, involvement of family, and relevant stressors and supports. This will help you make the call patient centered.Followup appointments. You will find out whether appointments have been completed and plans for future appointments.Home services and equipment. You will confirm that home services and equipment have been delivered as expected and discuss the need for additional home services. Check Accuracy and Safety of Medicine ListsWhile the patient was in the hospital, the DE should have completed medication reconciliation. The goal of inpatient medication reconciliation is to produce a correct and consistent list for the patient and clinicians, where the medication lists are identical in the discharge summary, inpatient medical record, AHCP, and, if possible, the ambulatory medical record.In certain cases, however, this may not have happened (e.g., patient leaves against medical advice or sooner than expected, patient is discharged at a time when a DE was not available).To check whether the patient has been given an accurate medicine list, compare the list of medicines on the hospital discharge summary with the medicines listed in the AHCP. If medication reconciliation was done correctly at discharge, these lists should match. If they do not match, resolve the issue before the followup phone call by talking to the hospital team (starting with the DE) and/or primary care provider (PCP),i depending on the nature of the inconsistencies or errors identified.Doublecheck the medicine list for potentially harmful drug interactions. This should have been done as part of the in-hospital medication reconciliation process but may not have been completed for the reasons discussed above. If you identify any drug interactions, speak with the hospital team (starting with the discharging physician) to get clarification and make any necessary changes to the patient's medicines. Identify Problems Patients Could Have With MedicinesChanges in medicine regimens can be particularly confusing to patients returning home. Note changes such as discontinuation of medicine taken prior to the hospital stay or a change in the dose. Any medicine with complicated instructions can also be a source of confusion. Pay special attention to medicines for which the adverse consequences of taking them incorrectly are severe.Familiarize yourself with commonly known drug-food interactions and side effects prior to the call. This will enable you to actively elicit this information from the patient, as well as educate him or her on possible side effects. Arrange for Interpreter ServicesThe DE should have noted on the contact sheet (go to the Contact Sheet) whether an interpreter is needed for the phone call. If an interpreter is needed and your hospital has not documented that you are proficient in the language, arrange for interpreter services before the call. You can use a qualified hospital interpreter by using a speakerphone in a private location or a three-way phone system. You may also use a telephone interpreter that your hospital contracts with. Notify your interpreter services department in advance of when you will need an interpreter, for how long, and in what language.You may have an unanticipated need for interpreter services. This can happen if a patient or caregiver's English skills are sufficient for in-person communication but not for telephone communication, or if the need for interpreter services was not accurately recorded. Know the procedure to access immediate interpreter services.More detailed information about using an interpreter, developing cultural and linguistic competence, and reducing disparities in health care communication is described in Tool 4, "How To Deliver the RED to Diverse Populations at Your Hospital." Conducting the Phone Call Whom and When To CallBefore discharge, the DE will have collected contact information from the patient to facilitate reaching the patient or caregiver via phone within 72 hours of discharge. This information is found in the Contact Sheet. It includes:Patient's desire to have a legal proxy or caregiver receive the phone call, if applicable.Preferred language and need for interpreter (for person receiving the call).Contact information for patient, proxy, and caregivers.Ideal time of day and day of the week to reach patient, proxy, and caregivers.When you plan your calls for the day, note that calls will vary in length, from approximately 20 to 60 minutes. The type of patient population you target can affect the length of calls. Patients taking more medicines will require longer calls.Start your calls 48 hours after discharge. If the patient has delegated the phone call to his or her legal proxy (the person with legal authority to act on behalf of the patient) or his or her caregiver, call that person first.Call the patient or legal proxy or caregiver designated to receive the call at the time of day listed as the best.If you cannot reach this person the first time, make several attempts over the next few days.If you still cannot reach this person, call the next contact on the list. If you cannot reach or do not get useful information from the contacts on the list, check the information on file at the hospital for additional contact numbers. What To SayThe followup phone call consists of five components:Assessment of health status.Medicine check.Clarification of clinician appointments and lab tests.Coordination of postdischarge home services.Review of what to do if a health or medical problem arises.This toolkit contains a patient call script developed by the RED team to provide guidance for completing the call. Some hospitals, however, have found the call script too time consuming. Adapting the call script for your hospital and your RED patient population will focus the call and make efficient use of your time. A data collection sheet for documenting the call also is available.The script is just a guide. The phone calls will require flexibility and creativity. You will problem solve with patients and caregivers and refer any issues that require further intervention to the appropriate clinical team member. This toolkit portrays a fictionalized followup phone call, in which Brian, a nurse at the hospital, speaks with Mrs. Smith, a patient with congestive heart failure. This script, designed to be used at a training session for staff performing followup phone calls, gives you a sense of how a conversation might go.Verify Availability To Talk and Need for Interpreter ServicesAfter introducing yourself, ask if it is a good time to talk. If it is not, get a precise time when you can call back. If the person says he or she only has a limited amount of time available, try to prioritize and tailor the call to meet the needs of that person.Even if the contact sheet indicates that an interpreter is not necessary, you should independently assess the need for an interpreter. The DE may have assumed that people who could speak English without an interpreter at the hospital could comfortably complete the phone call in English. The telephone, however, presents another hurdle as it removes context, body language, and lip movement.If you have any sense that the patient or caregiver is not proficient in English and you are not documented as proficient in the preferred language, let him or her know that you would like to use an interpreter. If an interpreter is not immediately available, schedule a time to call back.Try to establish an open communication style so patients or caregivers share their hesitations or problems they are having with the discharge plan. Ask them to locate and bring the AHCP and all medicines, supplements, and traditional remedies to the phone.Assess Health StatusYou will ask about the patient's:Comprehension of the reason for his orher hospital visit.Perception of any change in health status since discharge.Understanding of how to manage any medical changes or whether he or she needs to seek medical care for any concerns (either relating to the primary discharge diagnosis or any new problems).If the patient's health status has deteriorated, a plan of action may be needed. Interventions for patients reporting feeling worse since discharge due to primary discharge diagnosis, adverse drug event, or other symptoms may include:Providing patient education.Checking whether the patient is taking medicine as directed.Checking labs and reviewing medicine list for cause of complaint.Advising the patient to attend an upcoming scheduled appointment with his or her PCP.Recommending patient action (e.g., take a medicine that was prescribed to take as needed, limit activity).Advising the patient to call his or her DE, PCP, or specialist.Advising the patient to go to urgent care or the emergency department.Consulting with the DE, inpatient physician/team, or pharmacy.Alerting the PCP.Arranging a same-day sick appointment.Determining the family's perception of the patient's status.Check MedicinesThe medicine check involves making sure patients or caregivers understand what the patients' medicines are for and how to take them. This part of the phone call can be lengthy, since each medicine needs to be reviewed: name, when they take it, how much they take, how they take it, why they take it, and any problems or side effects.There are many potential barriers to adherence. Your job is to encourage the patient to share the most accurate information regarding what interferes with his or her willingness or ability to take the medicine. You might find it helpful to think about three sources of nonadherence:Intentional nonadherence.Inadvertent nonadherence.System/provider error.Intentional nonadherence. When a patient has chosen not to take a medicine that is part of the discharge plan or insists on taking medicine in a manner other than prescribed or that is contraindicated. Reasons for patient's intentional nonadherence include:Personal, family, or cultural concerns regarding medicine.Concern regarding actual or feared side effects; andDifficulty filling prescriptions, including access to the pharmacy, insurance issues, and financial problems.Inadvertent nonadherence. When a patient is not following the treatment plan due to difficulty understanding the plan or an inability to execute it. Examples of inadvertent nonadherence include:Failure to remove discontinued medicine from a pillbox.Inability to pay for or pick up medicines.Inability to understand instructions such as "take on an empty stomach" or "do not take with dairy products."System/provider error. When the hospital did not do something it was supposed to. Examples of system/provider errors include:Conflicting information (e.g., the AHCP lists one type of antibiotic while the prescription was issued for another).Missing information (e.g., AHCP did not list when patient should take medicine).Missing pieces of the discharge plan (e.g., prescription was not issued at discharge).Some nonadherence problems can be solved by providing education to fill in knowledge gaps. Others may require your contacting the patient's pharmacy, PCP, or DE or the inpatient physician who discharged the patient if there are any discrepancies between the discharge summary/AHCP and what the patient reports. If clarifying misunderstandings does not work with patients who are intentionally nonadherent, try enlisting the assistance of family members and spiritual leaders or traditional healers. Go to Tool 4, "How To Deliver the RED to Diverse Populations," for more on the family and community's role in patient treatment.Once discrepancies are resolved, you will probably have to follow up with the patient with an additional phone call. Always conduct teach-back to confirm that the patient or caregiver understands how to take medicines. The box below illustrates how postdischarge phone calls can expose and resolve cases of intentional nonadherence.The Case of Hypertension BeliefsBackground: The patient, an African American woman, has been prescribed an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor for hypertension.Call: The patient has not filled her prescription and is not taking the ACE inhibitor because she does not think it will do any good. The caller discovers that the patient considers the appropriate treatment for her hypertension to be mitigation of stress and emotional excitement, not medicine or diet.Action: The caller clarifies that the medicine is effective for her condition, gets the patient's agreement to take the medicine, and conducts teach-back to confirm that she understands how to take it. The caller alerts the PCP to the patient's health beliefs.Clarify AppointmentsCheck that the patient or caregiver knows about all followup appointments (e.g., primary care followup, lab test, specialist) and their dates, times, and locations; the purpose of the appointments; and that the patient can make it to the appointments. For example, if the patient has identified a support person to assist with transportation and other logistics, find out if the patient has sought and is receiving help from that person. You will need to problem solve with the patient if there are barriers to keeping appointments.Coordinate Postdischarge Home ServicesCheck whether the patient has received home services and durable medical equipment that are scheduled and listed on the AHCP. You will need to intervene if services or equipment have not been received on time. Also check that caregivers have been available as expected. If a caregiver has not been available, explore alternatives, such as someone else who could help out or services available in the community (e.g., Meals on Wheels; spiritual leaders, clergy, or congregants).Discuss What To Do If a Problem ArisesAlways end the call by reviewing what the patient or caregiver should do if a problem arises at any time (any hour and day of the week). Make sure patients and caregivers understand:What types of emergency and nonemergency situations they may encounter.What to do in case of an emergency.How to call the patient's PCP, including after hours. Documenting Your CallYou will need to document your calls, both for the patient's medical record and to allow hospital management to monitor the information for quality improvement purposes. For example, your hospital may identify common errors patients make and use this information to improve teaching to other patients with similar regimens or conditions. More detail for this process is included in Tool 6, "How To Monitor RED Implementation and Outcomes."Documentation includes:Call attempts.Patient's health status.Problems with medicines.Appointment status.Patient's postdischarge actions.Followup actions you take.This toolkit contains a sample of a data collection form you can use to document your followup phone calls. Communicating With the Primary Care ProviderAfter you have completed a call, you may need to communicate with the patient's PCP. You can do this in a number of ways, such as via secure Email, flag in the electronic medical record (if the PCP is part of your hospital system), fax, or phone. If you call and cannot speak directly to a medical staff person within the PCP's office, you will need to follow up with another form of communication. Commonly, secure electronic communication is the most efficient means to transmit patient information. Below are two examples of Emails to alert providers.Communication 1: Email to ProviderDr. Jones,Your patient Aaron Smith was discharged from Good Care Hospital on September 17, 2012. I spoke to Mr. Smith on September 20, 2012, in order to discuss his condition and medicines.Your patient is using two eye drops that are not listed in the discharge summary or in the outpatient medicine list. They are:Cosopt (Dorzolamide-Timolol): 1 eye drop twice daily.Xalatan (Latanoprost): 1 drop into the left eye qhs.Your patient is scheduled to see you on September 27, 2012. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.Thank you,Barbara Sanchez, PharmDGood Care Hospital Department of email@example.com: 567-555-1234Communication 2: Email to ProviderDr. Doe,Your patient Martin Suarez was recently admitted to University Hospital. While at the hospital Mr. Suarez revealed (through a medical interpreter) that he uses a healer who considers the atorvastatin prescribed to lower his cholesterol to be harmful. A family meeting was held and the patient and his brother agreed to pass along the doctor's recommendation to continue his use of atorvastatin to the healer.Mr. Suarez was discharged on October 19, 2012, and a nurse practitioner spoke to him on October 22, 2012, to discuss his medicines. During the call Mr. Suarez reported that he had stopped taking atorvastatin due to experiencing side effects, which to him confirmed the healer's warnings. He also reported experiencing fatigue.Mr. Suarez is scheduled to see you on November 3, 2012. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.Thank you,Roger Smith, NPUniversity email@example.com: 212-555-1234i. In this toolkit we use the term PCP to refer to the clinician who has main responsibility for the patient, although specialists or other clinicians may be in charge of the patient's care. Page last reviewed March 2013 Internet Citation: Tool 5: How To Conduct a Postdischarge Followup Phone Call: Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit. March 2013. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/hospital/red/toolkit/redtool5.html


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Professor Pamela Karlan takes part in a panel at the Harvard Law Review Forum on the Supreme Court case Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co:
The Harvard Law Review is usually the leading predictor of the actions of the Supreme Court, but this time John Grisham beat it to the punch. Grisham's latest legal thriller, The Appeal, borrowed its story of a judge captured by a wealthy local businessman from the facts of the case of Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., which recently made its way from the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States.
So when the Law Review held its forum on December 7th, it could only hope that the legal experts it had assembled would provide a scholarly addendum to the recent Supreme Court decision. The panel included Prof. Adrian Vermeule '93, who wrote a forward for the volume titled "System Effects and the Constitution," Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Prof. Pamela S. Karlan of Stanford Law School, and Prof. Penny J. White of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who was formerly a Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Professor Richard Fallon, who moderated the panel, questioned whether it would be appropriate for a principled individual to change their vote to offset the vote of anothermember of a panel who was known to be biased. Prof. Vermeule said that this would fall under the rubric of what philosophers call a tragic choice, giving up objectivity and yet hoping for a miracle of aggregation to lead to the virtuous result. Prof. Karlan suggested that in this situation a judge should rely on the norm of sincerity and follow the position that their objective faculties show to be the correct one. Prof. Lessig expressed doubt as to whether the norm of sincerity has any real force in the decisions of a court. For Vermeule, this domain involves difficult questions of role morality, since if one member of a court has notably departed from the norm of sincerity and displayed bias, it has the capacity to influence the actions of the other members and the morality of the choices they make.
For Professor Karlan, the case was rightly decided not only because it was the correct application of the law, but also because once the Court granted certiorari it was put in a position of needing to take a moral stand against impropriety. The assertion of power by the Supreme Court to intervene in setting the standards for the conduct of judicial elections can serve as an important check against state legislatures, said Karlan. To Karlan, the standards for judicial elections have become so watered down that the people should reject them and adopt an alternative method of selecting judges. It seems that in the wake of Caperton the important legal and political questions revolving around judicial elections have become only more unsettled and yet more pressing and relevant.


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Sony Global Solutions, Inc., runs the "MUSHA" program as a one-year transfer assignment for young employees in the information systems field. Participants work at sales subsidiaries in emerging economies, which are positioned as particularly important within Sony's sales and marketing strategy. In fiscal year 2013, a total of three employees took part, undertaking assignments in Indonesia (Jakarta), Russia (Moscow) and India (Delhi), respectively. The participants worked as local staff, receiving supervision from local managers while contributing to sales and marketing business operations. Through this program, Sony aims to not only nurture IT solutions capabilities but also cultivate human resources capable of understanding the operations of sales subsidiaries, and thereby support the realization of Sony's business strategy.


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The Fair Labor Standards Act: Changes Made by the 101st Congress and Their Implications
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Whittaker, William G.
Description: Initially, in the 101st Congress, a measure to increase federal minimum wage (and to make numerous other changes in the FLSA) was passed by both the House and the Senate but, in June 1989, it was vetoed by President Bush. An effort by the House to override the President's veto was unsuccessful. Later, new legislation was introduced and approved both by the House and the Senate. On November 17, 1989, President Bush signed the bill (P.L. 101-107).
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Iraq-Kuwait: U.N. Security Council Resolutions -- Texts and Votes
Date: November 1, 1990
Creator: Browne, Marjorie Ann
Description: The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 1-2, 1990, set into motion a series of actions by the United Nations Security Council. Between August 2 and December 4, 1990, the Council adopted 12 resolutions. The numbers and votes of those resolutions are listed and the full text of each resolution is included in the this report.
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Date: March 6, 1990
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The Endangered Species Act and Private Property
Date: March 7, 1993
Creator: Meltz, Robert
Description: If the 103rd Congress embarks upon an effort to reauthorize the Endangered Species Act (ESA), it will run into an old acquaintance: the property rights issue. As now written, the ESA has at least the potential to curtail property rights (whatever its actual impact as implemented may be). This report explores the legal repercussions of those impacts, especially whether they constitute takings of property under the fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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Basic Questions on U.S. Citizenship and Naturalization
Date: March 3, 1992
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Description: U.S. citizenship is conferred at birth under the principle of jus soli (nationality of place of birth) and the principle of jus sanguinis (nationality of parents). The U.S. Constitution states as a fundamental rule of jus soli citizenship that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." The exceptions to universal citizenship comprehended by the requirement that a person be born "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" include: (1) children born to a foreign sovereign or accredited diplomatic official; (2) children born on a foreign public vessel, such as a warship; (3) children born to an alien enemy in hostile occupation; and (4) native Indians.
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Plant Closings, Mass Layoffs, and Worker Dislocations: Data Issues
Date: March 29, 1993
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Description: For at least 15 years Members of Congress have continued to ask: How many U.S. manufacturing plants have closed? For at least 15 years they have continued to ask: How many U.S. manufacturing plants have relocated abroad, and where have they gone? For at least 15 years the answer has been: For the most part, those questions can't be answered, based on Government data. How many plants are moving to Mexico? What industries and what States are the plants from? How many U.S. workers are losing their jobs as a result? It appears that still, after two legislative attempts to mandate collection of these data, the Government publishes no counts of U.S. plant closings, and almost no information on plant relocations. Options for strengthening the data systems include addressing three main weaknesses: inadequate data program design, a plant closing definition that misses its mark, and publication of partial instead of complete survey results.
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The "Son of Sam" Case: Legislative Implications
Date: November 30, 1998
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Description: In Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of the new York State Crime Victims Board, the U.S. Supreme Court held that New York State's "Son of Sam" law was inconsistent with the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech and press. This report examines the Supreme Court decision and then considers whether its rationale renders the federal law unconstitutional. Concluding that it likely does, the report considers whether it would be possible to enact a constitutional Son-of-Sam statute. Finally, the report takes note of some state Son-of-Sam statutes that have been enacted since the Supreme Court decision.
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Iraq-Kuwait: United Nations Security Council Resolutions Test and Votes -- 1991
Date: October 25, 1991
Creator: Browne, Marjorie Ann
Description: This report lists the 12 adopted United Nations Security Council resolutions relating to the Iraq-Kuwait situation through October 1991. The texts of these resolutions, along with the votes by members of the Council, are included in this report.
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I am pretty new to java/mysql/jpa project.
My mysql server is version 5.0. I use eclipse, have configured a connector with mysql-connector-java-5.0.8.jar. On the database side, I have a with about 10 tables with all of them connected to each other somehow (means directly or indirectly).
On a JPA project if I do JPA Tools→Generate Entities From tables option, during the creation process, it picks up all the tables (and I select them all), if I press next it picks up 'some' of the relationships, for the sake of testing, if I press next, in the 'Tables and Columns' field it would claim that it would create classes for all the tables and if I press 'Finish' at this point, it will take some time to generate the classes. Once finished if I go into the package there are few classes missing. And it is always the same set of classes that go missing. I tried it on both Linux and Windows. Additionally, all the classes (that were supposed to be created, including those missing ones) are correctly added to the persistance.xml.
I know the question may appear very vague. It is mainly because, I am pretty new to this kind of project. Please let me know if you need more information in this regard.


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Wednesday's meeting of the Washington County Commission's Budget Committee produced some interesting comments about Johnson City's potential future annexation in the Suncrest corridor, as well as a continued call for better communication between city and county officials.
With the county's school system facing a potential $460,000 shortfall at the end of this fiscal year, due mainly to sagging tax revenue, Director of Schools Ron Dykes gave a brief update this week on the school system's attendance, saying it had not yet been affected by Johnson City's annexations.
But that set the tone for a "what if" discussion, including the fate of Boones Creek Middle and Elementary schools.
"I submit that we're really serving the same constituents, so there's really an incentive for both sides to get together," said Budget Committee member Mitch Meredith. "The middle school is partly in the city limits, and the elementary school is surrounded by the city limits. Based on conversations I've had with our Board of Education, there is a sense of urgency."
Both City Manager Pete Peterson and Johnson City Board of Education Chairwoman Kathy Hall said Thursday that the county of late has expressed no interest in holding an emergency powwow.
"I've heard no talk of annexations of any county schools," Hall said. "The annexation part is really a City Commission issue. We are not predicting to meet our expectations on sales tax either."
Meanwhile, state Rep. Micah Van Huss R-Jonesborough, has introduced a bill supported by the County Commission's representatives from the 3rd District, which includes Gray. The bill also is widely supported by County Commission members.
If passed, the bill (HB0590) would require approval of a majority vote of qualified voters in the territory proposed for annexation prior to a municipality annexing within its urban growth boundary.
"Both Mr. Van Huss and (state Rep. Matthew Hill, R-Jones-borough) represent constituents in Johnson City, and both have introduced bills that will be negative to the city," Peterson said. "At this point, we have not had an opportunity to discuss these bills with them personally, but an invitation has been extended."
County Mayor Dan Eldridge said at Wednesday's meeting that although county school population is relatively flat at this time, there still is a need to communicate with the city.
"Their schools are full," he said. "The county taxpayer funds the city school system by and large, and that's why we've got to get on the same page. If the city did a $50 million bond to build more schools, where do they build? On the Suncrest corridor, and that definitely will affect us. Are we facing the possibility of duplicating facilities? The city is choosing to annex only where there are roads and utilities. If they choose to annex large chunks of land in north Johnson City, that could have very serious effects."
Dykes said he did not want the county to prepare to renovate or construct new schools without "true exposure" — a look at where each entity intends to build or expand.
"We truly thought years ago that Boones Creek Elementary would be taken," he said.
The subject of school consolidation also came up — an issue that hasn't been publicly discussed since May, when county representatives on the City/County Liaison Committee threw the matter on the table. That conversation, and any further serious consideration of school consolidation has been dropped for now, though smatterings can be heard in short bursts at various meetings from time to time.
Peterson said no one from the county has inquired with him about school consolidation since that time. He also said the county keeps 54 percent of the portion of total sales tax revenue generated in the city which, by law, goes toward education.
"The city schools have adopted a resolution against school consolidation," he said. "I think that's being lost in the conversation here. And as far as annexation — yes, the city's recent growth pattern is toward Gray. Future annexations may or may not impact attendance at county schools. But these schools will remain county schools, even if they were completely encircled by Johnson City's jurisdiction."
As far as capacity, he said Johnson City schools are not full.
"Capacity will not be an issue for probably the next 5 to 10 years," he said.


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- Promote the Democratic Party
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Dear Maker, do have the 3d donkey head model I could use for this project? If not, do you know where can I get one and how exactly would I use it? Sorry, I'm new at 3D printing...
Do you make these makes for sale? This is the BEST one that I have seen and I, too, would love one for a production of Midsummer.
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One piece of info I'd like to have details about: can you tell us more about the elastic to close the mouth automatically, what type is it, and how does it relate to the face and the fur?
And do you sew it on the fur, or glue it?
This would be a much appreciated update to the Instructable.
Don't forget the World of Sports, for using this one...
Clay. ^^
I live in Southern Thailand, so the leading beer here, and one of my personal favorites, is Beer Chang, or elephant beer as most expats call it, since the Thai term for "Elephant," is "Chang." It's quite potent, at a whopping 6.4% on the Liqtor scale. So, what would be the correct conversion, in Liqtor units, as to how many brewskies this project would require.
Note: While I am originally from the U.S., I realize most NORMAL people refer to metric when computing complicated calculations such as these important formulas, as one too many Chang's could easily put one to sleep whilst still holding onto a hot glue gun....
Mr. Jeeem
Awesome work on the head, now can you do an instructable on sewing together a full suit? xP


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GREENWOOD, S.C. -- Authorities say the bodies of two women who were shot to death have been found in a motel in Greenwood.
Police say a maintenance worker discovered the bodies at around 5 p.m. Wednesday in a room at the Extended Stay Motel. The worker told authorities the door to the room was partially open.
Greenwood County Coroner Sonny Cox has identified the women as 33-year-old Elizabeth Brooke Bourne of Greenwood and 38-year-old Danielle Quinn Graham of Ware Shoals.
Autopsies were planned Thursday. Cox has not said how the women knew each other or if they were related. Authorities are investigating the deaths as a double homicide and say they do not have any suspects.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Alice Faye Mitchener Lee, 69, of Cross, SC, died Wednesday morning, August 28, 2013 at her residence.
Surviving are, two daughters, Eva Jean Lee, of Summerville and Barbara Rose Lee Giron-Leon, of Cross, SC; two sons, Mark Lamont Lee of Ridgeville and Antony Nabil Lee of Cross, SC; a sister, Doris Postell of Zebulon, NC; two brothers, Bill Mitchener and Johnny Mitchener, both of Zebulon, NC; three grandchildren; and one great grandchild.
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A smattering of "oldie" alternative from Urge Overkill! One of the hardest-rocking albums that I can recall from my high school days, upped here for your listening pleasure! Enjoy, comment and seed!
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When they hit the major labels, Urge Overkill followed through on their promise with the blistering Saturation. It's stadium rock by clever post-punkers who are smart enough to not let their carefully crafted image interfere with the music. Every one of the 12 songs is a killer, from the outlandish menace of "Stalker" to the moving ballad "Back on Me," as well as the tongue-in-cheek "Woman 2 Woman" and the radio hit "Sister Havana."
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If you play the Wii game Epic Mickey and are frustrated by the way the game's unpolished camera system obscures your view of the hero and obstacles, developer Warren Spector — the industry giant behind Deus Ex and System Shock — has a message for you: It's your own fault because you don't understand what he and his team were trying to do. [More]
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With Sony releasing 3D-capable games for the PS3 and Nintendo readying its 3DS, it would seem the video game world is trying something new and innovative. Not so. As those with long memories of pathetic game products from the past will remember, the industry has danced with the third dimension for decades. [More]
This May Be The World's Least Competent Geek Squad Outpost
Cyndi writes that she has had her HP computer for just about 20 months, and a two-year extended warranty with Geek Squad along with it. From the very first months that she owned the computer, things have gone wrong with the computer, but things have gone even more terribly wrong with Geek Squad's repairs. Raise your hand if you're surprised. [More]
Sony Takes "Play" Out Of PlayStation 3 With Global Outage
Remember when all you had to do to get a glitchy video game working was pull the cartridge out of the Atari, blow into it, and re-insert? Well, not so much anymore. Millions of PlayStation 3 owners around the world are justifiably irate at the moment because an outage of Sony's PlayStation Network isn't just preventing users from playing online; it's also keeping them from playing offline. [More]
T-Mobile: We Won't Swap Out Your Sidekick For A Different Phone
Amber is a pre-paid Sidekick owner who has been a T-Mobile customer for 7 years. After the recent T-Mobile data disaster, she doesn't intend to get burned again. She wants to switch to a different phone, and she wants T-Mobile to buy back her Sidekick since they can't deliver the data security they promised. Initially T-Mobile agreed, but then they pulled a Sidekick Data Outage on their promise and it disappeared forever.
T-Mobile Sidekick Data Outage Turns Into Epic Customer Data Fail
This time last week, we thought of the T-Mobile Sidekick data outage as a mere inconvenient outage, but a temporary one. We grossly misunderstimated how badly T-Mobile and Danger/Microsoft could screw things up.
FDIC Low On Funds After Record Bank Failures In 2009
Given how many banks have failed and been taken over by the FDIC this year (84, including three yesterday), it's not one bit surprising that the FDIC isn't doing too well, funds-wise. It's down to $22 billion, the lowest the failed bank fund has been since the savings and loan crisis of the early '90s, when it needed to borrow money from the Treasury Department to keep going.
Xbox 360 Failure Rate is 54.2 Percent, Game Informer Finds
The Xbox 360 breaks five times as often as its closest failure-prone competitor, the PlayStation 3, a print edition-only Game Informer survey found.
You Can't Bend Your Knee? Here, We're Bumping You To Coach
What does it take for an airline to retain customers these days? Here's a tip: given the graying of America, try not treating elderly people with medical emergencies like crap. Livejournal user urzepatriz details how American Airlines added insult to his or her grandfather's injury. Literally. By bumping him to coach on a cross-country flight after an injury sustained during the trip required major surgery and left him unable to bend his knee.
Commerce Bank/Metro Bank Shows How Not To Handle A Bank Changeover
Commerce Bank in central Pennsylvania is changing its name. Former Commerce Banks in that area will now be called Metro Bank. Yawn, right? Banks merge and change names all the time. What they don't normally do is cancel ATM cards with no notice, and lock customers out of their accounts due to those changes. Maybe this is a new trend.


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Arcade Fire have released a short trailer for their upcoming new album, whose first single and/or title is expected to be 'Reflektor'.
As with some other snippets of information which have been released online by the band , the video points to September 9th as a date to keep in your diary, though it remains unconfirmed as to what will be unveiled on that day. The trailer, which also shows footage of the band at work in the studio, can be seen below.
Arcade Fire have been working on the successor to 2010's hugely successful 'The Suburbs' with several studio guests, one of whom, James Murphy, recently described his time with the group during an interview with NME.
"They're all so phenomenally talented and full of ideas so songs keep on coming," he enthused. "The last time I dared think it was finished I came back to the studio three days later to mix and they'd written two new songs for the album! So it was like, uh, 'Let's record these too!' But it sounds awesome."
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